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Newspaper Page TextBlow Up in Sixth Gives Rainiers Third Ploca Beavers Lom . To Hollywood, 4-1; Podroi . , Tog Seals for 4 to 3 Win Br Th Associated Press A sixth-Inning explosion that netted six runs after there were two men out clinched an 8 to 1 victory for the fourth place Seat tle Rainiers in the opening game of their Pacific Coast Baseball league series with seventh place 1 Oakland last nigm. The blast, started with a triple by Len Gabrlelson and a double from the bat of Hal Sucme drove Jack Lott from the Acorn mound. . He was replaced by Italo Chelini, who was touched for a double and four singles before retiring the side. Oakland scored its loan tally in the fourth. Third place Portland opened the other northern series by los ing a 4 to 1 decision to the Holly wood Stars and dropping down to below .800 in the percentage column, leaving Los Angeles and San Francisco alone above the 80 per cent line. Ronnie Smith held the Beav ers to five hits, while the Stars were nicking Jack Wilson and Earl Cook for 11 blows. The game was tied 1 to 1 at the end of the seventh, but the Stars clicked for two in the eighth and another in the ninth. In the only other league game Sacramento reversed its season long jinx of one-run losses and tagged the second place San Francisco Seals with a 4 to 3 victory when Bill Ramsey sin gled in the final run in the ninth inning. The other league series will open in Los Angeles today with a double header between the An gels and the San Diego Padres. Russ Peters Plays Shortstop for Cleveland Indians NEW YORK. July 27 W) Russ Peters was at shortstop to day for the Cleveland Indians as they opened their series with the New York Yankees. Manager Lou Boudreau, In dians' regular short fielder, suf fered a bicep bruise in his throwing arm in a collision with Outfielder Henry Edwards last night in Washington and de- ciueu w kivq uie wing a rest. PERMANENT JOBS STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Bob Rutherford Sr., is the oldest coach at Perm State in point of service. He has coached Lion golf teams since 1921. He pre . ceded Leo Houck, boxing coach. by only a year. Andy Pafko Presses 100 Mark in Runs Brought In LOS ANGELES, July 28 (JP) Andy Pafko, sensational Los Angeles rookie outfielder, is pressing the 100-mark in runs driven in, Pacific Coast league records up to Monday disclose. - Andy is still showing the way to batters with a mark of .380, but Hollywood's Johnny Dick- Individual batting (regular Player and Club O AB H HH RBI Pet. Pafko, Los Angeles ..: 103 413 157 14 92 .380 Dickshot, Hollywood .104 390 146 11 75 .374 E. Mallory, Los Angeles 38 126 46 2 13 .365 Hughes, Los Angeles 73 298 103 1 29 .346 Ecarsella, Oakland 103 396 134 3 58 .338 Herman, Hollywood 55 123 41 1 14 .333 English, Los Angeles 103 398 132 14 71 .332 McDonald, San Diego 73 259 84 0 27 .324 Dobbins, Hollywood-Seattle .... 62 215 69 0 34 .321 Carnett, Seattle 67 203 63 1 17 .310 Uhalt, San Francisco 91 341 105 0 25 .308 Luby, Oakland 101 391 120 3 45 .307 Mailho, Oakland 103 399 122 2 31 .306 Gill, Portland 74 242 74 1 36 .306 Detore, San Diego 60 131 40 1 18 .305 Clements, Hollywood 102 401 122 0 40 .304 C. Peterson, San Francisco ..... 84 291 87 0 30 - .299 Enos, San Francisco .... 57 157 47 3 23 .299 Gabrielson, Seattle 86 281 81 0 40 .298 Ostrowski, Los Angeles 88 293 87 15 51 .297 Knickerbocker, Hollywood .... 61 217 64 0 23 .295 Moran, Hollywood :....102 398 117 3 45 .294 Moore, Los Angeles 63 198 58 1 29 .293 Eteinbacher, San Francisco....l01 368 107 0 70 .291 Jones, Sacramento 99 357 104 4 28 .291 Gyselman, Seattle 98 350 101 0 . 24 .289 We are determined, with your cooperation, to make it possible for the duration fTS- j-. ' for you to continue to M For Generations A Great Kentucky Whiskey Nations! Diililleri Products Corp., N, Y, 90.4 Proof - ft Bear s 'v;-: yxi " ' '.''IS-- ' C Arbi Coplin and Forest Alford. Klamath residents, pot proudly with the bear they killed at Lake o' the Woods after it had been treed by a utile cocker spaniel. The spaniel, blind in one eye. met an untimely end the following evening when it was killed by an auto. The bear was the second taken since the opening Red Ruffing Ks First No-Hit. No-Run Game LONG BEACH, Calif., July 28 (P) Pvt. Red Ruffing, former New York Yankee pitching star, now has to his credit the first no-hit, no-run game of his career. And he struck out nine bat ters, including his former team mate, the great Joe Di Maggio, to win for the sixth ferrying group, Army Air Transport Command. 2 to 0, in a game yesterday with the Santa Ana, Calif., Army Air- base team. Di Maggio popped out on his two other tiroes at bat. Ruffing allowed only one Santa Ana bat ter to reach first base, and that was on an error. WARTIME PROBLEMS NEW YORK, July 28 W) The wartime problems of col lege athletics, ranging from how to persuade the army to change its attitude toward competition to the advisability of playing Sunday football, will be discuss ed in the two-day meeting . of sports directors of colleges af filiated with the central office for eastern intercollegiate ath letics starting this afternoon. shot remains close behind with .374. Pafko has lifted 14 home runs of the ball parks to 11 by Dickshot, but the leader in this department is another Los An geles newcomer, Johnny Os- trowski, with 15. Los Angeles, setting a torrid pace in the standing, also leads in team batting with .288 players in 33 or more games): Whin bufint bourbon ask for Old Hermilagl . by namt 3 3 Hunters and Their ot ine season. PAGE EIGHT Phillies "Boot" Harris; Fitzsimmons Hew Chief Brooklyn's Fat Freddie Gets Job in First Managerial Change of Season PHILADELPHIA. July 28 (JP) I Easy going Freddy Fitzsimmons took over direction of the slump ing Philadelphia Phillies today in place of Stanley R. (Bucky) Harris, who described himself as shocked by the first man agerial change of the major league season. - To Fat Freddie," who broke into' organized baseball the same year and with the same team as Harris in 1916 with Muskegon, Mich., of the old Central league his first major league man agership came as a 42nd birth day gift. - "I consider it a great honor, naturally, to become a major league manager and I believe the Philadelphia club has great pos sibilities," the veteran Brooklyn pitcher-coach said after the Phillies' board of directors an nounced he would take over "in the best interests of the success ful operation of the club." Harris, who was named man ager of the Phillies after Wil liam D. Cox acquired the club in a deal with the National league last spring, said at St. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York . 53 33 Detroit 44 41 Washington 46 45 Pet .616! 5j8j '505 1 Cleveland 43 43 .500 Chicago 43 43 .500 St. Louis 41 44 .482 Boston 41' 46 .471 Philadelphia 37 53 .411 Results Yesterday New York 4, Cleveland 3. St. Louis 8, Philadelphia 4. Chicago 6, Washington 4. (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. St. Louis 59 28 .678 Brooklyn 52 40 .565 Pittsburgh 49 39 .557 Cincinnati 45 44 .506 Chicago 41 47 .466 Boston 36 48 .429 Philadelphia 39 53 .424 New York 34 56 .378 . Results Yesterday St. Louis 6-5, Philadelphia 2-2. Boston 6, Cincinnati 2. Pittsburgh 8, New York 5. ' (Only games scheduled.) COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Los Angeles 74 27 .733 San .Francisco 61 . 40 .604 Portland 50 51 .495 Seattle 48 53 .475 Hollywood . 48 55 .466 San Diego 47 55 .481 Oakland 45 57 .433 Sacramento 33 68 .327 ' Yesterday's Results Sacramento 4. San Francisco 1. Hollywood 4, Portland 1. Seattle 8, Oakland 1. .(Only games scheduled.)' When in Medford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anne Earley Proprietors . Kill July 28. 1943 Louis that he had not been In formed he was being replaced. "This is the most shocking thing that has happened to me in my entire life, said the form er manager of the Washington Senators. I have not talked with Bill Cox and this Is all a surprise to me. I have nothing to say." Fitzsimmons said the Phila delphia offer "came as a big surprise." Although he had seen Branch Rickey, president of the Dodgers, last Saturday "and his conversation apparently was to find out if I would be available for the job." Then on Monday, he said, "I was ap proached in New York by Cox." All Stars From War Industries to Play Portland Beavers PORTLAND, July 28 (IP) A Portland War Industries league all-star team will play the Port land Pacific Coast league team next Monday night here. Johnny Harkins, manager of the Marine Electric, will pilot the All-Stars. The All-Star pitching staff will include Johnny Lewis, formerly of Spokane in the WIL; Larry Jansen, former coast leaguer for San Francisco, and George Windsor, former WIL and coast leaguer. . FIGHTS By The Associated Press BROOKLYN Sal Bartolo, 128, Boston, knocked out Jose Rozo, 132, Columbia (1). NEW YORK Vinnie Vines, 1531, Schenectady, N. Y out pointed Pvt. Marvin Bryant, 158, Dallas, Tex., (8). NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Al Costa, 148, Woonsocket, R. I., outpointed Freddie Graham, 152, New York (10). HARTFORD, Conn. Joe Red- dick, 156, Paterson, N. J., out pointed Joe Bennett, 153, New York, (8). Bit's TONITE Cfll-ORE TAVRfl S3 HIGHWAY fOUTH Sports JpSsJ Briefs V Hugh FulUrton. Jr. jJ NEW YORK, July 38 (If) Just wondering , . . Joo Dey, the U. S. Golf association, hus heard from so many army camps that need golf equipment to keep their driving ranges, pitch-putt courses, etc., going that no's be ginning to wonder Just how many outfits have golf facilities, . . . Also, whether the war will produce a new generation of lung-driving golfers who learned to sock 'cm on the camp driving ranges. . . And Nat Fleischer, the ring magazine editor, wonders how able-bodied sports stars In general are . . . Nut's records show 17 first-flight boxers of the past two years have been dis charged from tho services for various injuries " that weren't noted during boxing commission examinations . . . The common est cause for rejecting athletes busted eardrums. SCRAP COLLECTION Hal Peck, who blew a chance to become a major league out fielder when he accidentally shot two toes off his left foot, thinks he'll be ready to try again in 1944 ... Hal has sold his col lection of guns. . . . Gunder Hacgg has promised to send Gil Dodds three pairs of those light weight running shoes with needle spikes as soon as he gets back to Sweden . . . Seabiscuit has eleven foals of racing age, seven of them three-year-olds, but Sea Frolic Is the only one who ever has started a race. TODAY'S GUEST STAR Tommy Fitzgerald. Louisville Courier-Journal: "An umpire worked the Dodgers-White Sox exhibition game at Cooperstown carrying a taxicab ad on his cheat protector. He no doubt was depending on the company's regulations to keep more than five fans from riding him at the same time." SERVICE DEPT. Ray Robinson, the "uncrowned welterweight champ," has quali fied as a marksman at Mitchell field, L. I. . . . And just to show what a "break" a big.ihot boxer gets in the army, Ray had to put in a full day on the target range Sunday then put in an eight hour tour of guard duty that night in order to get some time off Monday to attend the funeral of Murray Lewin, the boxing writer. Gas Rationing Offers Problem In Antelope Hunt SACRAMENTO, July 27 (JP) Five hundred Californians are going to get permits to hunt antelope August 13, when the second state antelope lottery is held here, but how are they going to get the gas to go a hunting providing they are lucky in the draw? That question was posed to day as it became apparent that the state s first antelope season under gas rationing offers more problems than appear at first blush. The season is scheduled from September 11 to 20 and is con fined to Modoc and Lassen, two of the northernmost counties in the state. Yet of the approxi mate 3100 applications for ante lope permits so far received by the state fish and game com mission,' the majority are from persons living in central and southern California much far ther away than the pleasure driving distances allowed under rationing. James Boyle, OPA director In the Sacramento office, said his office is notifying "B" and "C" hunters and anglers they must explain to their ration boards if they are out of their pleasure driving radius. UNION CITY, N. J. Coast guardsman Johnny Caruso, 150, Jersey City, outpointed Leon Anthony, 1561, New York (8), DANCE Malm Broadway Hall Sat., July 31 Music by y' Betty Gants Orchestra . . ( Admission Gents 75c Tax Inc. Ladies 25c Tax Inc. Card Win Streak, Harris Ousting Overshadows Start Of Second War Relief Da? By TED MEIER Associated Press Sports Writer Clubhouse friction was roll ably reported today to bo tho main reason why Bucky Harris was dismissed last night as man ager ot the National loague Phil lies In a movo that astonished tho baseball world, Coming on tho heels of tho Phils' doublo defeat at the hands of the first place St. Louis Card inals, who stretched their win ning streak to 11 in a row, tho news of Harris' ousting and tho announcement of Freddy Fitz simmons, Brooklyn pitcher coach, as his suaccssor, surprised most diamond followers. .Tills latest twist to "what's-gonna-happen-next" season over shadowed tho Cards' winning streak, longest ot the season, and virtually shoved out of sight the fact that today is the second war relief day of tho season for Uio major leagues. Back on June 30. a total of 134.578 fans paid $147,391 into tho treasury of National War Re lief, Inc. The clubs hope today's program, highlighted by Babo Ruth's return to tho Yankee stad ium as a one-day manager, will exceed that mark both in attend ance and dollars. The pitching of Murry Dick son and Howio Krist brought the Cardinals victories by 6 to 2 and 5 to 2 to boost their lead over the Idle Dodgers to 9t games. Tho most exciting game was In New York where the Yankees and Cleveland Indians battled 13 Innings before a single by Pinch Hitter Bill Dickey scored Bill Johnson from second base for a 4 to 3 Yankee triumph. Hank Borowy pitched all the way for tho Yanks. The only previous scoring came when Charley Kel ler blasted his 13th homer with two on In the sixth and Mickey Rucco duplicated the feat for Cleveland In the seventh to tie the score. Pittsburgh kept out of second place on Monday when Brook lyn's Arky Vaughn socked a grand slam homer, started a new drive for the runnerup spot by beating the New York Giants, 8 to 5. Tho Boston Braves moved over the Phillies into sixth place by defeating Cincinnati, 0 to 2, as Jib Tobln scattered seven hits in gaining his ninth win of the season. Catcher Phil Mast had a perfect day at bat with three hits and a baso on balls. Trailing by three runs going into the eighth the St. Louis Browns tied the score, then bunched four hits for four runs in the ninth to beat the Phila delphia Athletics, 8 to 4. The Chicago White Sox helped by Gordon Maltzberger's relief pitching, defeated Washington, o 10 o, in a night game. Tho Dodgers, Cubs, Red Sox and Tigeri were idle. DADDIES OF EM ALL CINCINNATI The Cincinnati Reds are the daddy team of the majors. Outfielders Max Mar shall and Gerald Walker each has four children. Inficlders Ed die Miller and Lonnle Frey each has three. -TENT LW : WUtf5t :- SPAR Gives Ellub.th Hicks, former women's national golf champion and new a SPAR, wrapt Injured knee of Patty Berg before round la All-American women's tournament on Tarn O'Shsnlor course la Chleaao. Mitt Btra won Women's western open following 18- monlh layoff forced upon Minneapolis redhead by automobile accident. 1 Little Hellships To Meet Wood burn In Champ Battle ALBANY. July 28 (VP) The Alblua Little Hrll.ililp tram, Portland Junior Legion cham pions, will meet Wondburn, and the Lincoln Wlncos, city runners up In Portland, will take on Al bany, In first round games of the state tournament August 7 at Woodburn, Stale Chairman Dad MrDnde announced last night. The first afternoons gamo will start at 1:30 and Sunday's final will start at I p. m. Michigan State Mass Meeting to Vote Grid Future EAST LANSING, Mich., July 28 (II Whether Michigan State college for years a; power In midwest football, lias a team this year to 'play Its 8-game schedule, will be decided at a mass meeting of its civilian malo students tomorrow night Coach Charles W. Bachmnn called the meeting after only 20 students reported to him In a two-day canvas of the college's war-depleted ranks of eligibles. DODGERS MOVE IN CHICAGO, July 28 (IT) Tho Brooklyn Dodgers of tho na tlonal league are going to move right into the backyard ot the Chicago Cubs and White Sox in their quest of new baseball talent. Dodger officials said today tryouts for players 16 to 21 years of age would be held at Gary, Ind., August 3-4-3 6. Yes ...You Can Still Rival First Aid awg- mm mm mmjj ,j ij, in i iiijj. Sparks Replaces Keene as Willamett Athletic Director SALEM. Ore., July 28 (7TW Leslie J. Spurks, Willamette unv verslty graduate mnitniirr and track and tennis coarh, is the new athletic director of the uni versity. JIc replaces Roy "Snec Kerne, who entered the navy as a lirutpnaiH-commawirr- The board of trustees, t nouncing the school will con tinue all sports If opponents can be found, elevated Spnrkt yes terday, and Indicated an n.ilt ant might be named shortly. : Holstead Resigns As Ouster Decision Reversed by Board ( MIAMI. Fla.. July 28 (41 Earlo llalstcad, former AnicrU can association umplro, who ordered a feltow umpire off the field and reversed his decision in a Dado county Victory lea gue game, resigned yesterday when tho league board rescind ed his action. . Board members said that so far as they knew, Halstead'a ouster of Dove Marcus, base umpire, was unprecedented in organized baseball. TRUCKS FOR RENT You Drive Move Yourself Save M Long and Short Trips STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 6304 1201 East Main Get Tents At Sears!