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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFO RDk.TRIBUNI Central Point Gains Bedford Softball Loop Toga; Mobilgas Third The regular schedule of the . girl's softball league conclud es Thursday at the Medford senior high stadium with the ". Crater Babes facing Central Point at 7:30 p.m. and Eagle : Point meeting Butte Falls. Central Point today held the Medford Softball association championship and on Thursday Baseball Films At Y Thursday; Public Welcome ' The first two in a series of four baseball instructional films will be shown at the YMCA Thursday at 11:15 a.m.,. it was announced today by Bob Jones, Y secretary. Anyone interested in seeing the films ,' is., invited, Jones said. The films, of 20 minutes dura tion each, are "Pitching Stars," showing methods used by major leaguers, and "Umpires in Base ball," showing techniques in umpiring. The films are being obtained through cooperation of the local YMCA and the Brooklyn Dodg ers baseball team of the Nation al league. Wenatchee Shortstop Suffers Broken Leg By UNITED PRESS An injury, two insults and a big inning featured play Tues day night in the Western Inter national league. The injury happened to Wen atchee Shortstop Ernie Velas quez, who broke his left leg when he collided with Len Tran of Vancouver on a play at sec ond, base. Vancouver took the ball game at Vancouver 5-4 on John Ritchey's pinch single in the ninth which drove home the winning tally. incn1t weren t ver- inc i w bal, of course, but they occurred at Kennewick and Victoria. At Kennewick; tne iewisiun T,i.ritv 17-4 and at Vic- IUUICU toria the Victoria Tyees trounc- . -?- 1 H 1 Q ed the YaKima ueus xi--- Standings COAST LEAGUE W. I.. .:73 55 72 55 ' J71 56 Pet. G.B. .570 .567 'i .559 1V2 .508 8 .504 8-b .496 9,i .422 19 .375 25 Oakland . Hollywood San Diego Portland 64 62 a AnrolcMt 6o 64 Seattle ... 61 62 San Francisco 54 4 Sacramento 48 80 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 63 43 Cleveland 59 47 Boston 55 46 - Washington 54 49 Philadelphia 51 43 Chicago 54 52 St. Louis 44 63 Detroit ....36 68 NATIONAL LEAGUE w. I. Brooklyn 66 31 New York 61 37 St Louis 59 44 Philadelphia 54 47 Chicago 51 51 Boston 42 58 Cincinnati 43 61 Pittsburgh 30 77 Pet. .594 .557 .545 .524 .513 .509 .411 .346 G.B. 4 5 '2 7i 81i 9 19 '.'2 26 Pet. .680 .622 373 335 .500 .420 .413 .280 G.B. 5V2 10 14 17 'i 25 26 i 41 WESTERN INTERNATIONAL W. I.. Pet. G.B. Victoria Spokane Vancouver Salem Lewlston Yakima .71 35 .61 49 33 48 -.52 54 -.52 56 -.49 61 .670 .554 325 .490 .482 .445 .428 12 15 i 19 '20 24- 27 Tri.City ..45 60 Wenatchee 44' 63 .411 Strong tidal currents prevent the deposition of mud and sand in the bottom of the Golden Gate at San Francisco. JUST LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS! GREAT STRAIGHT BOURBON 1M Sill II II I M t:i a STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 MAII. TRIBUNE will open a two-out-of-three play-off with the Grants Pass Elks for the District No. 8 toga. The Pointers edged out the hustling Andy's Jewelers 2 to 0 last night in the league play-off finale. Mobilgas grabbed . third spot in the men's loop by top ping Camp White 9 to 8 in last night's prelim. Vern Collins, pitcher for Cen tral Point, was credited with his third no-hitter of the season in the titular tussle and Ted Land ers, ehucker for the Jewelers, gave up only two bingles, both doubles into the far away stands by Ralph Pettit. Pitchers Iron Men Both pitchers were doing iron man duty. They had, gone the full nine inning route in play off, openers the previous night. And Collins is expected to hurl Thursday at Grants Pass in the district championship opener. Central Point's runs were scored on close plays at home plate. Jack Dougherty got on base on an error in the second stanza. Collins got him to sec ond by sacrificing and Dough erty slid home after Darrell Copeland had grounded out. In the fifth frame Pettit got to sec ond base on his second ground rule two-bagger. He gained third after Lee Flink fouled out and scored after Dougherty's flyout to right field. The Jewelers got more than one man on base only in the first and ninth innings. In the hectic ninth they had runners on second and third with two men but. liurton Williams struck out to retire the side. Error Given Roger Wilcox got on base for Andy's in the final frame on a rap down the third base line that many, observers thought should have been called a hit. However, Catcher Lee Flink, who fell while trying to field and throw the ball, was charged with an error. Collins whiffed 19 batters and walked five. Landers struck out two and walked, two. Mobilgas got off to a quick start in its hassle with four runs in the first canto on two hits, two walks ; and an error. The Gasmen picked up another run in the second frame on a hit, stolen base, error and ground- out. ' . Margin Sliced Camp White cut the margin to 5 to 3 in the third inning with runs on three hits a walk and an error. Mobilgas pushed over two more tallies in the third for a 7 to 3 count. One hit and three errors figured in the scoring. Picking up single runs each in the fourth, fifth and sixth in nings, Camp White reduced the gap to 7 to 6. But Mobilgas gain ed padding with two runs in the sixth on three hits and a miscue. Camp White scored twice in the eighth on two hits a walk and three errors. Second game of the district play - off between Grants Pass and Central Point will be on Fri day evening at the Medford sen ior high stadium and a third ruckus, if. required, will be in Medford, also. It will be on Sat urday night. LINESCORES: Camp White ..003 111 0208 10 7 Mobilgas 412 002 OOx 9 10 6 Har. Rickman. Ray Singler (4) and McKecknie; B. Singler and Darland. Andy's Jewelers 000 000 0000 0 2 Central Point 010 001 OOx 2 2 3 T. Landers and Steele; Collins and Flink. One PROOF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION. NEW YORK, N. Y, Wednesday, August 6, 1952 Padre Crew Closes Gap On Leaders San Francisco (U.R) While Hollywood and Oakland made like Alphonse and Gaston, the San Diego Padres are braz enly trying to regain command of the Pacific Coast league. Lefty O'Doul's bordertown band was given up for lost a month ago when it slipped out of first place. But because Holly wood and Oakland seem allergic to the lead, the Pads are once more a prominent factor in the race for the flag. Oakland was stopped, 1-0, by Portland and Red Adam's seven-hitter Tuesday night. And Les Peden's two-tally homer got Los Angeles a 3-2 victory over Hollywood Seals Beaten Third-place San Diego, mean while, knocked over ' the San Francisco Seals, 4-1, to get with in a game and a half of Oak land's top spot. For O'Doul, who managed the Seals for 17 years, the victory was his 17th in 22 engagements with his former em ployers. The unwilling Seals, more than any other team, are keeping O'Doul's Padres in con tention. ' A homer by Nanny Fernan dez and two doubles by Catcher Bob Wilson led Seattle to a 7-3 win from last-place Sacramento. About 800 saw the game. Sloppy Play Hurts Portland got five hits off star ter" Roger Bowman and none off relief hurler Milo Candini. But wildness and sloppy play cost the Oaks the game. The Bevos scored in the fourth when Eddie Barr shot a single to right, was bunted to second, moved to third on Bowman's wild pitch, and romped home as shortstop Johnny Bero bobbled Jim Russel's grounder. Hollywood had a 2-1 lead in the fourth, but Peden, a good hitter, changed that. After Max West doubled the thick-legged Angel catcher unloaded the pay off four-master that got Los Ang eles its second straight from the Stars. THE LINESCORES: San Diego 010 300 000 4 7 0 San Francisco 100 000 000 1 3 1 Henry and Summers; Clough. Brad ford (4) and Orteig. . Hollywood 001 100 00O ? ? ? Los Angeles ..100 200 OOx 3 8 1 Queen and Sandlock; Chandler and Peden. Seattle 010 001 0417 11 1 Sacramento ....010 000 002 3 9 2 Del Duca, Schanz (8) and Wilson; Elliott. Palica (9) and Smith, Mc Keegan (9). Oakland 000 000 000 0 1 1 Portland 000 100 00x 1 5 0 Bowman. Candini (7) and Noble; Adams and Gladd. Linksmen Await World Tourney Chicago (U.R) A field of 80 pro golfers, including all the acknowledged best except Ben Hogan and Bobby Locke, fin ished practice rounds Wednesday for the opening Thursday of Tarn O'Shanter's 72-hole "world" tournament for a $25,000 first prize. Heading the favorites, was Slamming Sam Snead, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., who last Sunday posted a 7-under-par 65 in the rain to win the "All American" Open and first prize of $3,420 with a 72-hole total of 271. ' Snead's score was only two off the record of 269 set in 1945 by Byron Nelson, He finished nine strokes ahead of Tommy Bolt, Durham, N. C. SAVIT FACES TEST South Orange N. J. (U.R) Top-seeded Dick Savitt, Orange N.J., tennis star whose temper matches his 'blazing service, faces his first stiff test in the Eastern grass court champion ships Wednesday when he meets 17-year-old- Ken Rosewall of Australia in the third round. The Hydrographic Bulletin, is sued by the Hydrographic Office of the U. S. Navy, publishes items of timely interest to mari ners. 45 QT. of America's top-selling Ccnfa bourbons. ..amm sinct 1883 Bobby Shantz Chucks Giants Nudge Dodg By UNITED PRESS The astonishing New York Giants, who wrote the "little miracle" in 1951, appeared fully equipped Wednesday to battle the Dodgers down the National league stretch run and add a "big miracle" as a spectacular post-script ' to one of the most heart-warming stories in sports history. They proved that Tuesday night when they came from be hind four times to defeat the Dodgers 7 to 6 , in a gruelling, spectacular five - hour struggle Globetrotters Here Thursday; Pilot Said Excellent Strategist One reason why the Harlem Globetrotters are regarded so highly in all baseball circles is the man who will lead them into action against the Medford T - . t TO APPEAR HERE Madison (Slugger) Slade, above, is slated to have the patching chores Thursday for the Harlem Globe trotters when they scrap with the Medford Cheney Studs at 8 p.m. at the fairgrounds ball park here. Medford Cubs Now Deadlocked For First Spot The Medford Cub baseball nine was in a four-way tie for the second half laurels of the Southern Oregon Junior Base ball Isague last night after beat ing Phoenix 5 to 3 on the Med ford high diamond. Others knotted with Medford with five wins and two losses each are Grants Pass, Ashland and Talent. Grants Pass won the first half title. Medford got only one hit last night but' was helped along by 10 walks. Phoenix also drew two walks and all four of its hits were poked out by Pitcher Har old Waldron. LINESCORE: Phoenix Ill 000" 0 3 4 2 Medford 021 020 x 5 1 1 H. Waldron and Garner; Piland, Mc Laughlin (5) and Meunier. Johnson Favored Over Satterfield Chicago (U.R) Odds-makers figured Wednesday Harold John son of Philadelphia would beat Bob Satterfield of Chicago in Wednesday night's 10-round tele vision fight in the Chicago Sta dium, but they were even more certain that the battle would end in a knockout. Johnson, who whipped Clar ence Henry, a highly regarded heavyweight prospect, in his last fight, was listed as the 5 to 2 choice to set back Satterfield. Satterfield usually either wins with a paralyzing blow or he gets put to sleep quietly by his opponent. TOLSON SOLD Portland (U.R) Omer Tolson, 27-year-old outfielder acquired by the Portland Beavers from San Antonio of the Texas league last month, has been sold to Wichita of the Western league, club officials said Wednesday. Tolson, who was hitting only .171 appeared, in only a few games for the Beavers. Ny HOW'S THE TIME Don't go thru the summer suf- U QT Vf " fering from the heat. We can " ' .If make your home 1 5 cooler AND -NO FUSS OR MUSS In Your A jn just 2 hours. $6.30 PER MONTH H0USe? No Down Payment which opened their make-or-break series with 'the league leaders. Shocked when Gil Hodges ex ploded a grand-slam homer to put Brooklyn in front 4 to 0, they battled back" to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. The Dodgers surged ahead in the 14th on a homer by Andy Pafko but Bob Elliott pinch-hit a hom er with two out in the bottom of the l'4th to tie it again. Curfew Law With the New York curfew law proclaiming the 15th to be Cheney Studs on Thursday at 8 p.m. at the fairgrounds ball park here. He is Winfield Scott Welch, manager of the team and held bv manv to be the outstanding pilot in Negro baseball. Welch is a fine diamond strategist and an excellent handler of men. He knows talent and the exception ally attactive array of newcom ers on the club is a tribute to his ability to spot promising ma terial. If ball clubs under his direc tion also are long on showman ship, that can be attributed to his winter-months association with the famed Harlem Globe trotters of basketball, whom he serves as road manager. Inci dentally, Abe Saperstein, owner of the celebrated magicians of basketball, also is boss of the baseball Globetrotters and the combination of the two men has done wonders in developing the team into a top drawing card. Welch's record is marked by the numerous championships his clubs have won. Teams he has led are the New Orleans Cres cent Stars, Birmingham Black Barons, Cincinnati Crescents, Detroit Stars, New York Cuban Giants and the American Giants. Winning Pilot He has been the winning man ager in the big Negro East ver sus West baseball classic held at Comiskey park, and the list of outstanding Negro players he has helped develop is long and imposing. Among them are Satchel Paige, Luke Easter, Artie Wilson, Orestes Minoso, Ed Steele, Piper Davis, Jimmy Newberry, Felix McLaurin and others. Terry Maddox, ex-Medford high school ace who has won a regular spot on the Studs' pitch ing staff, is expected to hurl against the Trotters. The Studs will be after their ninth straight win. They won the seventh and eighth at Brookings last week end with a 10-man squad. The Studs came up with five double plays in the series. Manager Hoosier Hoff ard. played the sec ond game for the Studs. The hoped for fray between Medford and the Central Point Millers on Sunday is out. Busi ness Manager Bill Askwith re ported that the Studs players plan a holiday. Medford draws a bye in the Southwestern Ore gon league this week-end. Nine Oregonians Gold Qualifiers Portland (U.R) Coos Bay's Dick Hanen and Portland's Dick Yost led nine Oregon qualifiers Wednesday for berths in the na tional amateur golf tournament to be held in Seattle this month. Hanen and Yost fired 144's in Tuesday's 36 - hole qualifying rounds. 1 . Other qualifiers and their scores included Roy Wiggins, Portland, 146; Lynn Creason, Hershey, Pa., 146; Harold Wes ton, Portland,-147; Ralph Dich ter, Astoria; 147; Verne Perry Jr., Portland, 147; Dick Estey, Portland, 148, and George Beechler, Medford, 148. The Declaration of Independ ence and the Constitution of the United States are permanently preserved in individual glass capsules filled with helium, with protective light filters. . Use Mail Tribune Want Ads 20th Win; in 15th the last inning, the Dodgers again went ahead when they pushed over a run. Bobby Hoffman doubled with one out. Henry Thompson flied out and the Giants had one out left to them. . Rookie Jim Rhodes hit a rou tine grounder to Jackie Robin son but the second-baseman muf fed it. The Giants had life. Bob by Thompson, the hero of '51, then tied the score with a single. Don Mueller, next up, hit a chopper over the mound and beat it out for a single as Rhodes scored all the way from second base with the winning run. The Dodgers still led the NL by 5V2 games but what is- that to a team that was I2M "games behind at about this time a year ago? It appears to be a lot on paper but the Dodgers know it is a slender margin as long as the Giant have that one out left to them. -Center of Stage Except for those Giants, little Bobby Shantz would occupy center stage alone today. For the 142-pound southpaw stylist be came the major league's first 20 game winner of the season when he beat the Red Sox 5 to 3, for the Athletics in . a ' rain-soaked game Tuesday night. Shantz, who now has beaten every team in the AL at least once, struck out four and limit ed the Red Sox to seven hits. In other American league games, the Yankees beat the Senators 3 to 2, the Browns downed the Tigers 5 to 1, and the Indians beat the White Sox 6 to 0 in their opener only to drop the nightcap, 6 to 3. In the National league, the Cardinals beat the Pirates 4 to 3 in 12 innings and the Reds de feated the Cubs 4 to 0. Phila delphia and Boston were rained out. Number 20 Comes Hard, Hurler Says Philadelphia (U.R) Number 20 was the hardest. The little fellow said so him self. And who is better to judge? Bitsy Bobby Shantz, the first major league pitcher of the year to win 20 games, sprawled on his stool in the dressing room and looked back at Tuesday night's 5-3 conquest of the Boston Red Sox. It was the first time he faced the Red Sox this season, and in winning, his sixth victory in a row he completed the cycle of beating every American league team this year. Rain Delays He took stock of two hours and 29 minutes of ball, with a rain delay of one hour and 11 min utes in the first inning, and de cided that it was the lack of his knuckler- which gave -him -his bad moments as he pitched his 21st complete game in 23 starts. He's lost three games. "I didn't have a good knuckler all night," the 130-pound mound magician said. "I couldn't get it over the plate, and boy, that made it rough." "This was the one I was wor rying about, too," Bobby said, dwarfed by big Bobo Newsom, who was explaining to everyone within earshot that Shantz was just as "mah-v'luss" a pitcher anyone ever saw. k BASEBALL TUESDAY'S RESULTS Coast League Los Angeles 3, Hollywood 3 PorUand 1, Oakland 0 San Diego 4. San Francisco 1 Seattle 7, Sacramento 3 American League Philadelphia 5. Boston 3 New York 3. Washington 2 (called at the end of 7 innings, rain) Elbert Bingham Farm - Bingham Road JUDGING -1 0 A.M. SHOWMANSHIP -1:00 P.M. LUNCH SERVED AT NOON HUBBARD-WRAY CO., Inc. 25 South Riverside Sport flK y&f OSCAR FRALEY Parade SlSSr united?.. yC Sport Writer Helsinki (U.R) American athletes waiting to fly home from the Olympic Games took aj turn at Finnish baseball Tues day and the general agreement was that Yankee Stadium was never like this. Two deductions may be drawn by anyone who watches "P esa pallo,' as the game is known to the sluggers of Suomi. 1. It will never replace fire house pinochle. 2. Pitchers like Allie Rey nolds and Company would need unemployment relief if they liv ed in Finland. Like A's and Browns Because the Finnish game is based on a theory of all hits-all-runs and in general is regarded as a wonder contest if it re semble a Browns-Athletic game when the pitchers are having a day. A horrible thought, certain ly, to the American mind. But such a thing as a pitchers battle is impossible. This is mainly due to the fact that the pitcher stands beside the batter and lobs the ball into the air much as a fungo hitter. He then steps swiftly aside so the batter can swing. Pitchers who have two left feet do not become 10-year men. For when a guy is knocked out of the box here, Bub, they ain't kidding. American baseball did not seem worth while to be adopt ed,"- explained an official of the Finnish Baseball league, com pletely ignoring the feelings of Commissioner Ford Frick. "The cornerstone of American baseball is pitching," he added "No Finn could get fascinated or even reconciled to a game of no-hit, no-run play. We ; want more running, more hitting and more fielding so our players can demonstrate their ability." Naturally, with this theory, the Finns wouldn't give 15 Finn St. Louis 5, Detroit 1 Cleveland 6. Chicago 0 (1st) Chicago 6, Cleveland 3 (2nd) New York 7, Brooklyn 6 (15 innings) St Louis 4. Pittsburgh 3 (12 innings) Cincinnati 4. Chicago 0 Philadelphia at Boston 2 (postponed, rain). Western International Vancouver 5. Wentachee 4 Victoria 17, Yakima 13 Spokane 9. Salem 6 Lewiston 17, Tri-City 4 ROGUE VALLEY 11th and Fir FOR A NOMINAL FEE iiv ISSv marks for a Bob Feller. But a guy like Willie KepTpr would wind up as a bigger man man t-aavo JNurmi. Finnish baseball rlirln't roaii get started until 1947 and so there are still some vague phas es, ine ruie book, for instance, insists on use of th "rff;;i ball," but admits that there are two distinct sizes of "official ball." This probably takes care of one for the home team and one for the visitors. The diamond has its nrnhlome too. A base runner must make like Red Grange doing a Roy Riegels because first has i halfway to what would be our tnird, second is where our first base is located and third base is where it ought to be even in Fin land. The traffic when some body singles with a man on third is like Helsinki's main drag on Saturday night. Rules Sound Same The official rule book sounds, however, much like ours. It out lines that a "coach shall be per mitted to direct discreetly the playing of his team from neutral ground." Which will be good news to Leo Durocher. But it adds that "uncalled use of the voice during the game is for bidden." 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