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City Softball Titular Play-off Opens Tonight at Prep Stadium MEDFORD SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION STANDINGS Hen's Loop (Final) W. Central Point 7 Camp White 6 Mobilgas , Andy's Jewelers .... 5 National Guard 4 Eagle Point 3 YMCA 3 Crater Lions 1 Trowbridge and Flynn 1 Women's Leagn w. 4 4 2 0 L. 1 1 3 5 Pet Crater Babes . Eagle Point Central Point Butte Falls .800 .800 .400 .000 Fiercest rivalry fa the circuit this season is expected tonight and Tuesday when the top lour teams scuffle for the Medford . Softball association champion ship and the right to compete for the district toga. Central Point, which finished the regular nine game slate at the top of the men s league heap, will meet Camp White in the play-off inaugural at 7:30 o clock tonight at the high school sta dium. Mobilgas and Andy's Jew elers square off in the second game of the evening. Winners of tonight's contests will collide on Tuesday for the association mantle. The game will follow a conflict at 7:30 p.m between the Monday losers. Best at Best Each team and every player will be going all out for victory in the scrambles tonight and in the titular fracas on Tuesday, And, if all goes as it should, fans can anticipate seeing the best 6f the league at their best. Central Point will go into the play-offs at least slightly favor ed. The Pointers, with two fine hurlers in Vern Collins and Lee Flink, went through the regular slate with only one setback, a 4 to 0 licking by Mobilgas. The Gasmen, however, were victim ized by both Camp White and the torrid Andy's Jewelers whiz kids. The jewelers came back with surprising potency after a slow start but their surge to a first division spot was marred by an 8 to 0 loss to Central Point District Play Set Two of the pitchers in action during the play-offs have chuck ed non-hitters. Collins has tossed two and Bill Singler of Mobilgas one. Winner of the Medford cham pionship will open a two-out-of- three District No. 8 pennant play-off on Thursday with the Grants Pass Elks. The Thursday mix will be at Grants Pass and the Friday fray at Medford. A Saturday tangle, if required, will be contested at Medford. Titlist in this district will go to Klamath Falls on Tuesday, August 12 for the first mix in a two-out-of-three series with the District No. 9 champ. The Wed nesday game will be at Medford. If a third game is required, the flip of a coin will determine the site. The team that triumphs in the regional, or interdistrict series, will get a trip to the state tour ney at Mill City. Opening date of the tournament is August 16, Final scheduled games in the women's loop are set for .Thurs day with the Crater Babes play ing Central Point and Eagle Point facing Butte Falls, If the tussles are won by the BabeS and Eagle Point, the two clubs will have to play off for the crown. They are lied now for the loop lead. " ' Men's regular loop action con eluded Friday when Andy's thumped National Guard 16 to 5. On Thursday National Guard beat YMCA 13 to 5 and Camp White topped Crater Lions 9 to 3. In a Friday girl's hassle Eagle Point edged Central Point 6 to 4. McKENDRICK LEADS Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Bob McKendrick, 30-year-old Portland professional golfer, was top man Monday in the third an nual Eoyal Oaks open golf tournament being held here. McKendrick shot an. amazing 33-31 64 Sunday to take a three- stroke lead at the halfway point. He racked up eight birdies and an eagle and only one bogey as he set a new course record. Second in the field was Dick Yost, Portland, the defending champion. Yost, who won here last year with a score of 283, had nines of 34 and 33 against par figues of 36-36 72. Standings COAST LEAGUE W. -.72 -73 70 63 -63 ..60 L. 53 54 56 62 64 62 73 79 Pet 376 .575 .55 S .504 .496 .492 .425 .378 G.B. Hollywood . Oakland San Diego Portland Los Angeles 214 9 10 10.i 19 25 statue San Francisco 54 Sacramento 48 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. ..66 30 ..60 37 .58 44 ..54 47 51 50 Pet .688 .619 .569 335 505 .420 .408 .283 G.B. 8i 11 14'i 17i 26 27 i 41 Brooklyn New York St. Louis Philadelphia Chicago Boston -.42 58 Cincinnati Pittsburgh 42 61 -30 76 AMERICAN LEAGUE G.B. New York Cleveland . Boston Washington Philadelphia Clucago St Louis Detroit WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Victoria Spokane Vancouver Salem Lewiston Yakima W. . L. Pet 61 43 .587 .53 46 .558 3 55 45 .550 4 54 47 .535 5,j 50 48 .510 8 sa si mn a 43 63 .406 19 36 67 .350 24 ft W. I Pet G.B. 70 34 .673 60 49 .552 12 V2 r 51 48 .505 1614 52 53 .496 18,i 51 56 .477 20 i 48 60 .444 24 45 59 .433 25 u .pet MEDTOSD.SJriUBUNS 1 75 Millette Captures Club Link Diadem Harry Millette. an out-of-town member, was crowned club golf champ Of Rogue Valley Country club during the week-end. The Yreka Californian defeat ed Harvey Woods Jr., Ashland, 4 and 3 in the 36-hole finals of the tournament. Playing even par golf with a 71, Millette gained a 6 up lead over woods in the first 18 noies The promising young Ashland high athlete stroked a 77. Both golfers were off their first lap pace in the second 18 of the championship match. The veteran Millette spilled Eddie Simmons 2 up in an earl Millers Tip Butte Falls Nine in RVL ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. Pet ..10 1 .909 .9 1 .900 . 6 4 .600 4 5 .444 -5 7 .417 - 3 7 .300 - 0 11 .000 Cave Junction Grants Pass Ashland Glendale Central Point Butte Falls Prospect Two Rogue Valley league base ball games were halted by storms and a third scheduled game was presumably forfeited. Central Point rose into fifth place and enhanced a chance for fourth spot by dumping Butte Falls 6 to 1 at Central Point. The game was called in the sixth in ning because of rain. At Ashland the Cave Junction nine maintained lirst place in the standings by humbling the Lithians 3 to 0. The Cave Jpnc- tion crew had tallied three runs in the seventh inning but the scores did not count since the fray was called at that point and the official count reverted to the status at the end ot six innings Prospect reported to Grants Pass late last week that it could not field a team on Sunday and that game was figured as a for feit to the Merchants. Glendale was not scheduled to play. Joe Pizzuto and Jack Burns paced Central Point at bat. Piz zuto socked a triple and single for a nerfect day and Burns swatted three for four. Dick Kid well pitched one-hit ball for the Millers. Butte 1 alls scored us run in the first inning. -Central Point pushed over marker in the second, two in the third, two in the fifth and one more in the sixth. The Millers are now idle until the rest of the league finishes. If Glendale loses two of its three remaining tie games, the Central Pointers will be tied for fourth. Salem Cops Legion Toga Salem (U.R) Valley Mo tors of Salem held the Oregon state junior American Legion baseball title Monday following a double victory over Eugene's Pitchford Motors Sunday by scores of 8-5 and 5-4. BASEBALL SUNDAY'S RESULTS: Coast League Hollywood 14-3. san rranciseo o- Oakland 41, Los Angeles 3-6 Seattle 10-4. Portland 6-8 San Diego 2-6. Sacramento 1-4 National League Pittsburgh 7. New xorK o usi Pittsburgh 10. New York 8 (2nd, 6 innings, darkness). Brooklyn 3, Chicago - iisi) Brooklyn 7. Chicago 1 (2nd) . , Boston 9. Cincinnati 4 (1st) Cincinnati 4, Boston 0 (2nd) Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 0. American League New York 6, St Louis 1 (1st) New York 6, St. Louis 4 (2nd) Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 1 (1st) Philadelphia 9. Cleveland 2 (2nd) Detroit 6, Boston 0 Washington 0, Chicago 0 (1st 8 In nings, rain) Washington at Chicago (2nd, rain). Western International Spokane 5, Vancouver 4 Victoria. 1-4, Lewiston 0-13 Wena tehee 5-2. Salem 3-3 Tri-City 6-2. Yakima 5-3 This Is A Special For People With a Budget and No Garden ARE YOU HAVING FOOD COST TROUBLES? CUT YOUR FOOD COSTS 30 WITH THE SELCO FOOD-FREEZER PLAN 3536 N. Pacific Highway Phone 2-2849 ier match to gain the finals while Woods got by Bayard Getchell 3 and 2 in a semi final encounter. Other Flights Contested In first flight play last week Vern Robinson beat Justin Smith Jr. 1 up on the 19th hole, Dr. William Miller beat Dr. Rob ert Sleeter by default, George Stacy beat Del Berg 2 and 1 and Abby Green beat Jack Creager 2 up. Second flight matches saw Jack Lewis down Bill Kalibak 6 and 5 and Jack Walker beat Stan Stark 6 and 4. In thr sec ond flight consolation Frank Dancer won from Harvey Pavlat by default. Brad Broyles advanced by de fault in the third flight and Bill Van Dyke defeated Tom Mac leod 4 and 3. Then Broyles beat Van Dyke 8 and 7. In the third flight consolation Frank Roe landt beat Art Peters 3 and 2 and Frank Van Dyke topped Jim Dunlevy 2 up. Bud Judy trip ped George Schuler 1 up in the fourth flight. A mixed two-ball foursome is set for August 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. Stars, Oaks Said Lucky To Be at Top San Francisco (U.R) Fred Haney and Mel Ott are the luck iest guys in baseball. Haney's Hollywood Stars and Otts Oakland Acorns are in a virtual tie for the Pacific Coast league lead, but, after their showing at San Francisco and Los Angeles, they haven't much right to be. Each club Is fortunate the oth er did so poorly. Hollywod, perhaps, is luckier than Oakland; for the Seals had less right to win six of seven from the Stars than the Angels had to take five from the Oaks At any rate, Haney's Stars have a .001 edge over Ott's Oak- landers.. Padres Profit San Diego, winning six from Sacramento, profited most by the Hollywood-Acorn troubles ine third-place Fads are now only 2V games out of first. The Seals, riding on the long est winning streak (seven) of a three-year period, were tram pled by Hollywood, 14-5, in the opener Sunday. But Len Ratto's single got them a 4-3 take in the nightcap. Piper Davis' pinch-hit single batted home two runs and Hank Schenz' squeeze bunt sent home a third in Oakland s 4-3 take from the Angels. But left Joe Hetten pitched a two-hitter in the second game and Los An geles won, 6-1. The solid Portland Beavers, who won six of eight from SeaWe, split. The Suds captured the opener, 10-6, but the Bevos got back, 8-4. San Diego using the home-run play to capture a pair from Sac ramento, 2-1 and 6-4. BE SURE TO Wednesday,, August 6th APPLEGATE SCHOOL HUBBARD-WRAY CO., Inc. 25 South Riverside Dodgers Aim To Smother Giants' Hope By UNITED PRESS Bring on the Giants! That was the cry of the Dodg ers Monday and It was loud enough to echo over the Brook lyn bridge and into the precinct of the ex-miracle men of the Polo grounds, who might have been better off if they had spent Sunday afternoon playing polo instead of baseball. Actually, no one is going. to bring on the Giants the Dodg ers will have to' go out after them in a four-game road trip over that same Brooklyn bridge starting Tuesday night and it could be the complete crusher to New York's hopes of achieving second straight stretch run pennant. But that makes no dif ference to them now. Bums Jubilant The Dodgers were jubilant and justifiably so. For they had just won two from the Cubs, to 2 and 9 to 1, the first in a driving ninth-inning finish to halt a general slump among the hitters" and the pitchers, the sec ond with an old-fashioned home run barrage. Meanwhile, the Giants were being humbled twice by the last-place Pirates, 7 to 0 and 10 to 8. Roy Campanella singled with the bases loaded to give Brook lyn its opening victory over the Cubs after Hank Sauer had hit his 27th homer to tie the count in the top of the ninth. 14 Bingles In the second game the Brooks made 14 hits including three doubles, two homers and a triple to make it easy for John Rutherford to score his first vic tory as a starter. He yielded seven hits. Carl Erskine won his 11th game in the opener, doling out six hits. Duke Snider hit a homer and triple in the second game and Jackie Robinson hom ered in each game. Pittsburgh put on a five-run third-inning rally and Ralph La- Palme and Murry' Dickson col laborated to keep the Giants scoreless in the opener, Dickson winning his ninth game in a re lief role after choking off a one- out bases loaded threat by the Giants in the third. In the second game, Pitts burgh took a 10 to 1 lead, but the Giants almost caught up by scoring seven runs in the sixth inning, in which Davey Williams hit a three-run homer. Whitey Dage Racing Star Whitey Dage, Roseburg, took top honors Sunday in stock car races .at the Medford airport speedway. He tied for first with Dick Mills, Grants Pass, in the 20 lap race, and took firsts innne 1 lap event and one heat race. Lew Kurz was third in the 20 lapper. In the 12 lap run Jim Haskins was second and "Bob Williams third. Bud Kennedy grabbed the trophy dash. Williams was second in the heat won by Dage and Glen Condon, Ashland, was third. Haskins took the second heat with Kurz second and Elden Sisemore, Ashland, third. Lee Skaggs ' had best time for the better than half-mile track, 29.3 seconds. OUTFIELDER SIGNED Portland (U.R) Outfielder Mike McCormick has been sign ed by the Portland Beavers to give added strength to the gar den crew in the club's drive to ward the top of the Pacific Coast league. McCormick, a vet eran of several seasons in the big leagues, played with Sacramento earlier this season. 8lp FlilR jSS5 ir" Nfc ' .-CG RETAINING TITLE he first won four years ago In London, Major Sammy Lee (center) of San Francisco, Joins other two high flyers (left and right) P. J. Capllla of Mexico who finished second, and G. Haase of Germany, third, at presentation of gold medals for high diving. (International) Tumult and Shouting Die; Pageantry Ends Olympics Helsinki (U.R) The tumult and the shouting died Monday and the fifteenth Olympic Games of modern times went into the history books an unequalled carnival of record - breaking featured by America's inspired uphill climb to the team champ ionship. All that remained Monday was for the weary athletes to bid farewell to their new friends from other nations and to begin their trek back to their homes all over the world They could all proudly reflect that they were part of perhaps the most fantastic sports show of all time, Uie show that saw Russia emerge from behind the Iron Curtain and almost, but not quite, beat the U.S. for the- team tuie, ano the snow tnat saw world and Olympic records bro ken 176 times in track and field alone. First Since 1912 The Soviets appearance for the first time since 1912, was, of course, the biggest thing at these games which were formally con eluded Sunday amid colorful pageantry. The world long had wondered just how good Russian athletes were whether they really were as mighty as Russian newspapers and broadcasts made them out to be. The world got the an swer in two hectic weeks the Russians turned out to be just fair in the major events of the Olympics, track and swimming. and all-powerful in such events as gymnastics and wrestling. Minor Event Strength That strength in minor events was so great that the Soviets led the unofficial team compet ition right down to the very last big day, when aroused American athletes reeled off 110 points to defend successfully the crown they won in 1948 at London. - According to the generally ac cepted but unofficial system of scoring points 10-5-4-3-2-1 for the first six finishers in each event, the Yanks won the title by 614 points to 553 V. for Rus sia. The Soviets had a different scoring system alloting only seven points for first place, a move that cut down U.S. points. But even by that system, the U. S. won 494 to 446V. The Americans won 40 first- place gold medals, 15 of them in Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) Second-seeded Emery Neale of Portland, Ore., was defeated Sat urday night by top-seeded Harry Likas of San Francisco, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 m the men s singles final of the Western Canada lawn tennis championships. ATTEND THE Applegate Medford, Oregon Monday, August. 4, 1952 track and field, compared to 37 in the 1948 games. Russia won 23' gold medals. cyst 117 S. CENTRAL WORK CLOTHING Mens Rugged Styles at New BOUT SLATED New York (U.R) Billy Gra ham risks his chance for a sho at the welterweight champion ship Monday night when he meets Joey Giardello of Phila delphia in a 10-round battle at the Eastern Parkway arena. 22c STURDY ARMY (a) (D Of durable, carded cotton Army type twill. Sanforized, colorfast. All sizes. Pants 2.98 QD Shirt 2.49 SANFORIZED CHAMBRAY SHIRT (c) Long-wearing medium-heavyweight I Q O with triple main seams. Neat collar. All sizes. I.0 7 (D) Covert Work Shirt 1.49 HEAVY-DUTY (e) Split leather at palm and finger-tips. Elastic at wrist for snug fit. 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In the initial test the Studs took a 7 to 4 lead but Brookings knotted the count in the eighth. Paul Gehrman tossed the first game for Medford and Maddox pitched the second. The Studs draw a bye in play next week-end but will see ac tion on Thursday, August 7, against the famed Harlem Globetrotters. This fray will be at the fairgrounds ball park. Over a period of years the Trot ters have gained a reputation for their color in both baseball and basketball and their visit is always a treat. The team bristles, with power and hustle and makes a hit everywhere it goes. PHONE 2-6241 SALE Low Prices TWILL OUTFIT 5.47 Set WORK GLOVES 89c 22 rr fL rJl illllfllH Tri-City Wena tclie 44 1 .419 26 ii
