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Sport Parade oscar riuur Sports riter I f 3 New York (U.R) The kid knows today that he has made it all the way back. There were many times when Ted Wil liams had his doubts. Not whether he ev er would play baseball again, but whether 1 ' J 1 41. V'' IKU UC 1UVIVJ i ;s enougn o B4,'Ji come back Oscar FraJr from Korea in one piece. "Why not?" he asked with calm fatalism when he marched away early last year. "You ex pect to be killed. So many are." He hit a home run a couple of days ago, his first in more than lb frantic months. But by then, he tells his friends, he knew that he would be ready to step back regularly into the lineup of th2 Boston Red Sox as early as this coming week end. His was a swift transition, from Marine captain to ball player in less than two weeks. It was a period of triaL too. but not as bad as it might hare been because Williams always was a man proud of his phy sical fitness. "My hands gave me the most trouble," he said. "They were sore and blistered from swinging a bat." The Kid, as always, kept swinging. And, to help the hands, he obtained a half dozen golf gloves from Claude Harmon of Winged Foot Country Club. MOLALLA WINS Portland (U.R Molalla defeated Steinfelds 13-4 last night to win the last position in the Oregon ABC tournament. Tuesday night's tournament games pitted Forest Grove against Sweet Home and Mc Minnville against Verboort. CRASS FIRE The state forest patrol report ed a small grass fire near Talent yesterday. The fire burned about an acre before it was brought under control by a state fire fighting crew. The fire is be lieved to have been started by a careless smoker, patrolmen said. FLORISTS WIN Portland U.R) Erv Lind s Florists girl's Softball team blanked Seattle Air Flights, 4-0, here last night. tSf OA iflO -': i III llln. I i iTtfnn. mi. BATTING for second time since return irom Korea, Ted Wil liams clouts homer for Red Sox off Cleveland Pitcher Mike Garcia. (inUrnatwnaii So smooth 2fcl it leaves you i . breathless MjM cc te attaint t vuunft vt SO proof MakfrontOOftaraiamtnlsimaB, - KmSoinei Fit. lac. Huttod.CoM. When the bare hands were too sore, he wore the gloves. Through it all. the Kid kept smiling. Because tall Ted knows how lucky bo has boon. Twice his brilliant baseball career has been interrupted by his coun try's, call. The first time ha was out three years. Williams saw no combat then but was an instructor and when bo camo homo ho knew, at 27. that he still had time to make the demanding baseball grade. But when they called him again in May of 1932, the 34-year-old Williams figured his diamond career was ended. "If I miss more than two sea sons, I don't imagine I'll play baseball again," he said. There were times later, in the skies over Korea, that ho thought his worst fears were to be realised. Like the day on his third mission in a Panther Jet fighter-bomber when he made his strike and suddenly the plane was in flames. Ted nursed it all the way back to the Allied lines and crash landed it on its belly. Undemon strative, he writes that one off as a "hairy" experience. He had other troubles, such as pneumonia and, always, those nagging doubts that he'd ever make it home, let alone back to baseball. But he did and, as one Indian pitcher at least can testify, with all that old power in his bat Now he is ready to go again as t regular, and the future looks bright -5 GRAND OLD MAN That's Amos Alonzo Stagg, shown in Stockton, Calif., where be will celebrate his 91st birthday Aug. 18. Stagg has spent 63 of those years coaching football. The Grange Eagle Point Grange H.E.C. met July 29 at the home of Lot tie Van Scoy with Ida Kent as co-hostess. Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Dusenberry of Gold Hill, and Mrs. Edington of Live Oak Grange were guests. A committee appointed to fin ish the quilt whose top was do nated by Crete Carnal! included Rosa Smith, Gertrude Stanley and Winnie Brown. Roberta Hill announced that the display table for .the first meeting in August would be on favorite jam and jelly recipes and perhaps a sample of the fin ished product shown. The second meeting's display table would be on. somtmng that can be made from old sheets. Goldie Chamberlain stated she needs some one to knit afghans for the veterans at Camp White, Next meeting will be a pot- luck picnic at Sunset on the Rogue, August 26, starting at noon. Anyone going should take two main dishes, coffee will be served. Desperate Pair Seeks To Sell Eye Apiece To Aid Ail i no Son Tacoma (U.R) Mr. and Ms. Dean Booth, broke and desper ate, offered today to sell an eye apiece in exchange for ready cash to pay medical expenses for their young son. The curly-haired youngster. Japanese Passenger Liner Reaches Stales - Seattle (U.R) The first Japa nese passenger liner to arrive in the United States since the outbreak of World War II dock ed here yesterday. The Hikawa Mani, owned by the Nippon Yusen Kaizan ship ping company, tied up here after a 13-day trans-Pacific voyage from Yokohama. The sleek liner carried 192 passengers, among them 93 Japa nese Fulbright scholars, who will attend universities in this country. Elephant in Portland Zoo Seems Certainty Portland (U.R) It appeared today as though Portland may finally get an elephant for its zoo.' Herbert R. Retell, chairman of the elephant-for-the-zoo com mittee, said he has been inform ed by Austin Flegel that he is sending a 3000 pound pachydern from Thailand. He said it was being sent by boat and would arrive in Portland in about 60 days. Flegel, Portland federal offi cial in Thailand, has been hunt ing several months for an ele phant which he promised the city. Citizens have raised sev eral thousand dollars to house the animal. There is no town at Jametown, Va., site of the first permanent English settlement in North America. Randy Booth, 4, dying of lym phatic leukemia, told his nurse "If God can't make me well, I'm going to heaven where he can take care of me." No Markets Knows The Booths made their offer yesterday, - but admitted they knew of no markets for eyes. Randy, bedfast with swollen Joints, has already lived eight months longer than his doctor expected. But keeping their son alive has been expensive for the Booths. Doctor bills and medicine cost more than $3,000 since the ail ment was discovered more than a year ago. The Booths said they had pawned or sold nearly every thing they own. - The strain has ' broken the father's health and he has been unable to work since February. Both Willing "I have 20-20 vision," said Booth. "My wife and I have talked it over and she's as will ing as I am to. sell an eye." "Is there such a thing as an 'eye bank' where we might do business?" asked Booth. Tragedy is all too familiar to the Booths. A two-year-old daughter drowned before Randy was born and their 10-year-old daughter recently had a severe case of scarlet fever. Tuesday. August 11, 1933 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNEOTTO VeslGermsnsSend Packages to Britain Frankfurt U.F9 Well fed West Germans are sending food parcels to austerity plagued Britain, It was disclosed today; A spokesman for the CARE mission to West Germany at Bad Godesberg said that since Feb. 1 it has been possible for Ger mans to send CARE packages of food to Britain and that about 80 have been shipped so far. -Parcels available for ahtament from Germany include a package of mixed foodstuffs, a package of baby foods, a package of lard and a package of kosher food for orthodox Jews. Individual Germans also are reported shipping their own food packages to friends and relatives in Britain, German postal offi cials said. Postal officals esti mated they numbered "several hundred weekly." v Freightliner Plants Struck in Portland Portland (U.R) Two plants of the Freightliner corporation here were struck last night by Pickets were to be posted today at the two locations of the firm, subdivision of Consolidated Freightways. Freightliner employs about 80 machinists who are demanding a 12-cent-an-hour wage boost America's a Famous u d whisKevs uvmn YZ-Js? 0M0ioUWillII frUS WHISKEY IS FOUR YEARS OlO 86 PROOF C0O0ERHAM t WORTS Ufc PEORIA. A FLAMES FATAL Albany 0JJ9 Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Frank O. Schuck. 82, who died from burns suffered Saturday when his nightgown Ignited as he started an outdoor trash burner fire. if V East nor J EE the East at its ben! Enjoy the balmy days, crisp nights, die autumn beauty of tb countryside . . . Ntw York's fashionable shops ; i the enticement of new Broadway plays . i : famed art galleries. 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