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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
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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.
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BATTING for second time since
return irom Korea, Ted Wil
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off Cleveland Pitcher Mike
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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
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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
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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.
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