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Odds Beam on Yankees
To Take World Series
Cardinals Losing Face as Favorites;
Yanks Pick Up Momentum, Cards Slow
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Bporti Writer
A month ago the St. Louis
Cardinal wore being talked o( ai
probable favorite In the world
ierlei, but If the nnmiul classic
wero opening now the Nevj York
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BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y.,
Aug. 31 (V) II you don't think
' it'i appropriate thut bean should
be n Important topic ot conver
sation up hore where Hie Liiums
and Dodger are getting ready
tor the pro lootbull season, you
hould hnvo ct-n Stove Owen In
cage with a couple ot them ye-
. 1 Q, ....,. Uttit U
idea that it would be a natural
Qkup for picture Bear
fountain and the Giants' exhibi
tion against those big bad Chi
cago Heart at Buffalo Sunday.
Get It? . . . Anyway, Steve and
TuMy Lcemans, who's Spherical
Steve only assistant this sea
eon, contented to pone with a
couple of roly-poly black bear
cub. , . . "They're cute llttlo
fella," Owen admitted a he
came out with hi not inconsider
able area of skin undamaged. . . .
And he and Tuffy agreed the
Giant wilt be lucky to do a
wall Sunday.
BEAR FACTS
Consensu around the two
football camp Is that tho Bear
nd the Green Bay Packer, as
usual, will be the teams to beat
the National league this season
aid that Washington' Redskins
on't be so troublesome unless
Sammy Baugh't pitching form
improve over hi All-Star game
showing, . . . "We have a better
team than last year," comment
ad Leemans.
Hugh ''yjtfZl
rulUrton, Jr. - ijf f.J
I Ward Cuff, In hi seventh pro
I taason (till ona of. the Giants'
beat back, brought hi wlfo and
I two email girl about three or
$ four yean old to camp with
'. him. . . . After watching them In
1 action for a while Owen decided
that. If worst came to worst, he
; could put them In against the
; Bear and It. wouldn't take long
to wear down that Chicago line,
i ...
' PROGRAM NOTES
The Dodger, who started late
nd without very bright pros
pect, got quite a lift yesterday
G'hen Ben Kish and George Cafc
h, a couple of better than aver
age veteran backs, reported un
expectedly .... Both have been
discharged from tho army for
physical disabilities that won't
prevent their playing pro foot
ball ... Up to that time Bruiser
Klnard had been virtually the
only veteran In camp. . . . Pete
Cawthon, new Dodger coach,
probably la the loudest tutor In
the league. He never seem to
top for breath as he works his
players Bnd by work Pete
mean just that.
...
TRAVEL NOTE
In case any of the pro teams
think travel Is tough -this year,
they should ask Halfback Babe
Webb, who is expected momen
tarily in the Green Bay camp . .
Babe played In tho Hawaiian
Senior league two years ago and
yas signed by the Packers last
ar. , . Ho couldn't make the
lp In time for the season
trip
This year he started out to trav
el by clipper plane but his pas
sage was cancelled and he had to
take a boat instead. , . . There'll
be no complaint If he has to ride
in coach seat occasionally.
Bend High Grid
Men Get Uniforms;
Practice Tomorrow
BEND, Aug. 31 (Pi Bend
high school football team candi
dates were Issued uniforms to
day and told to report for initial
practice, tomorrow.
The opening game against
Burns, scheduled for September
7, has been cancelled as Burns
popped football, but contests
Mre lined up with Salem, The
Dalles, Klamath Falls and Med
ford. '
When in Mtdford
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PAGE SEVEN
Yankoos almost certainly would
be odds-on choice.
They probably will be when
the world aerie open in Oc
tober, too.
, The Yankees have been pick
ing up momentum on the home
stretch while the Cardinal have
been slowing down. The dif
ference between them was shown
again yesterday when tho Yan
kee heat the Boston Red Sox
3- 1 while St. Loui split dou
blchcadrr with the Pittsburgh
Pirate In the only game played
In the major league.
The Pirate won the opener,
4- 3, but tho Cardinal came back
with an 8-3 triumph.
At New York Rookie Charley
Wensloff pitched four-hit ball
and Roy (Stormy) Weatherly
punchod the winning ticket with
a two-run homer, his third in
two day.
This gave the Yank their 13th
consecutive series and record
of having won 42 out of 89
games since the streak started
on July B.
They now' have plenty of
power and good fielding along
with the best pitching in the
major leagues with staff led by
Spud Chandler, Ernie Bonham
and Wensloff.
The Cardinals have their
spectacular speed and (harp hit
ting, but their fielding ha falt
ered and their pitching ha be
come uncertain.
In losing four of their last six
games they have made 11 errors,
five yesterday and at least one
in every contest.
They made 11 hit in tho ten
inning first game with the Pir
ates and 13 in the nightcap, but
Rookie Alpha Brazle, who had
not been beaten in any of hi
previous National league starts.
gave Pittsburgh a dozen blow
in the opener and his teammates
made three critical error.
By The Associated Press '
AMERICAN LEAOUE
W. L. Pet,
New York 77 46 .626
Washington ...69 58 .543
Cleveland L. 68 57 , .533
Detroit 63 58 .521
Chicago 64 80 .518
Boston 59 67 .468
St. Loul 56 66 .459
Philadelphia 41 82 .333
Results Yesterday
New York 3, Boston 1.
Only game scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 79 43 .648i
Cincinnati 68 53 .562
Pittsburgh ...67 60 .828
Brooklyn 64 88 .825
Chicago 59 63 .484!
Boston ........S3 65 .449
Philadelphia ....... 54 69 .439
New York 44 77 .3641
Results YesterdaT
Pittsburgh 4-3, St. Louis 3-8.
only games scheduled.
Pacific Coast league un
changed. One-Armed Chick
Outfielder Shows
His Appreciation .
MEMPHIS, Aug. SI (JP). It
was "Pete Gray Day" at the
Memphis Baseball park Sun
day, and the one-armed chick
outfielder showed hit apprecia
tion to southern association fans
by:
Rapping out five hits in seven
times at bat;
Handling seven chances afield
without a bobble;
Stealing base,
And pulling an unassisted
double play.
The double play came when
Gray caught line drive in short
center, jogged to second base
to double the runner who had
rounded third.
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Klamath high' footballer
la advance of the first squad
boys' setting their outfits. Left
Wilson.
Tulane Gridmen Return to Old
"Punt, Pass, Prayer" Game
By MAX PATRICK
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 !P
Tulane university's Green Wave
promises to return the old "punt,
pass and prayer" game to its for
mer prcstlga this full.
Coach Claude "Little Monk"
Simons has it all doped out
whereby hi kids will make few
er mistakes with this system and
at the same time contribute more
to the entertainment of the cash
customers.
One of the two Returning Tu
lone letter winners. Tailback Joe
Renfroe, Is an excellent punter
and the Greenles picked up a
pair of Rood booters via the na
val V-12 program. Day Wogner,
of Schreiner Institute, and James
Jackson, freshman fullback at
Baylor last year, are getting en
couraging distance with their
kicks.
Numerically, the manpower
situation is improved in the
Greenle camp. The squad has
grown from 48 men to about 80
In the past three weeks. Buddy
Gatewood, all-southwest center
Appling Takes .
Control of Bat
Averages Again
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 UP)
After several weeks of battling
Dick Wakefield of Detroit for
the American league batting
lead, Luke Appling of the Chi
cago White Sox has taken con
trol with a comfortable margin
again.
The Tiger rookie was on top a
week ago with a .330 average,
but since then has dropped five
points while the veteran short
stop of the Whit Sox has spurt
ed upward from .329 to .337.
This pair apparently has the
hitting race in the Junior circuit
strictly between themselves be
cause not another regular In the
entire league is above .300 level.
Stan Muslal of the St. Louis
Cardinals continued to set an un
approachable pace In the Nation
al league with a .353 average.
California Grid
Candidates Turn
Out- -Navy, Too
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 31
(flsjThe University of Califor
nia's football candidates un
tried and experienced, naval and
civilian turned out today to
sign their names to the list from
which Head Coach Leonard
"Stub" Allison will, mold the
1943 Golden Bear football vars
ity. As one of the schools in the
navy reservist training program,
California will have consider
able veteran football . material
upon which to draw, but Allison
emphasized that an opportunity
for a place on the team would be
open to everyone.
The Bears expect to play ten
games, not all of which have
I been scheduled.
Equipment Doled Out to Pelicans
i Jrrjfjl v ' "V ' S 1 JF. A t
received equipment at the Modoc field house Monday afternoon
masting and practice on Tuesday. This picture shows tome of the
to right! Wilbur Welch. Dick Pope, Deaa Fitzgerald and BUI
at Baylor last season, Is the only
letterman among the "transfer
students, however. Renfroe and
Howard McAfee, a second string
tackle last year, are the return
ing Greenle letter-men.
- Simons rates Georgia Tech is
the strongest team in the South
eastern conference, but says Tu-
Weather Halts
Legion Junior
Baseball Series
MILES CITY, Mont., Aug. 31
(JP) Unable to complete their
game last night because of
conditions, the New Orleans Jax
and the Richflelds of Minne
apolis will meet at 2:30 p. m.
(MWT today In the American
Legion junior baseball world
series.
Winner of the game will play
the Springfield, Ohio, club to
night to decide the national
championship.
The game last night was called
at the end of the fourth. Neither
team hos scored. -.
In yesterday afternoon's con
test, the Richfield's took Spring
field into camp by score of 9
to 3 in the double-elimination
tournament.
Overseas Exhibition
Games Proposed For
Coast Ball Teams
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 m
A series of post-season exhibi
tion baseball games for men of
the armed services In the South
Pacific area, which would be
played by Pacific Coast league
and possibly Major league stars,
has been proposed by Oscar
Reichow, business manager for
the Hollywood club.
"If the Major leagues so de
sired they could send one team
of big leaguers to the South Pa
cific to oppose the Coast league
squad, or we could send a bif
enough group to form two teams
from our own loop," Reichow
said yesterday.
BACK TO FARM
FILER, Idaho, Aug. 81 (JP
The San Diego club of the Pa
cific Coast league will have to
make quick decision on Rookie
Harold Lutz.
The young hurler who has
averaged IS strikeouts per game
informed the club that he could
stay only two weeks for his
tryout.
He has to get back to the farm
for the beet harvest
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SIS Met PhWTMl
lane is a "cinch to finish among
the top four teams.
And Little Monk isn't kidding.
Besides his own team, only
Georgia Tech, Georgia and Lou
isiana State are continuing war
time football In the SEC.
Suds Making
Last Stand
For Second
By The Associated Press
Seattle will open its last des
perate bid for second place in
the Pacific Coast league today as
the Rainier go u asainst San
Francisco, In the runnerup posi
tion, in trie Itrst of 10-game j
series.
Carl Fisher will draw the
pitching assignment for the
Rainlers, with Bob Joyce the
probable choice of the Seals'
Lefty O'DouL
The only other game today
pits Sacramento against Holly
wood on' the Stars' field.
Los Angeles, . San Francisco
Seattle, In that order, virtually
have been conceded spots in the
league playoffs, but there's a
contest in sight for the fourth
niche, currently -occupied by
Portland. San Diego and Holly
wood have no uns uncountable
distance to make up and both
face easier opposition in series
opening this week.
The Beavers must stand off
league leading Los Angeles
while San Diego goes in against
seventh place Oakland end. the
Stars anticipate some overage
fattening tilts with the last place
Solons.
1944 CONCENTRATION
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 W) The
New York Giants and the Phila
delphia Athletics now can con
centrate on the 1944 campaigns.
The Giants have been mathe
matically eliminated from the
National league race by the St
Louis Cardinals and the New
York Yankees have applied the
crusher to the Athletics in the
American. ' -
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Foreigner May Replace Ted
Schroeder on Uncle Sam's
Tennis Throne After Meet
By HAROLD CLAASBElf
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 VP
There's every indication that for
the first time since 1938 a for
eigner will rule over Unci
Sam's tennis forces at comple
tion of the national meet which
opens in Forest Hills' West Side
ciub tomorrow.
Francisco (Pancho) Segura of
Ecuador, he of the two-handed
grip and the pigeon-toed stance.
is the choice to replace Ensign
Ted Schroeder on the throne.
Perhaps Segura' tennis,
which already has brought him
the title in all six of the tour
neys in which he has appeared
this summer, won't be on a car
with that displayed by the pipe-
smoking Fred Perry of England,
wno defeated Don Budge seven
years ago in the most recent
successful net invasion-
The war, however, ha made
that unnecessary. Some of Uncle
Sams best players won't be
able to appear and others, such
as Schroeder, won't be at their
best. Schroeder will play In the
afternoons of the streamlined,
six-day tourney but must stand
watches aboard his ship during
me morning and night.
Segura reached the semi-final
round last year before being
stopped By Frankie Parker, 8-1
6-1, 2-8, 6-2. Parker is back
again this year but his army
camouflage duties have given
him little time to sharpen his
game bus summer.
Although a Segura victory
would send the men's champion
ship south of the Rio Grande
for the first time, Anita Lizana
: at Chile was queen of the U. S.
: courts in 1937. .
Charles Hare, former English
uavis cupper but now a cor
poral in the U. S. srmv. and
Ladislav Hecht, once of Czecho
slovakia,- are other , foreign
tnreaw.
ARMY TENNIS MEN
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 OR
Representatives of the armed
services in the streamlined na
tional tennis tourney jumped to
seven Monday with the entires ol
Lt, Elwood Cooke and Gilbert
Hunt of the army air force tech
nical command. Only 32 men
will be permitted to compete In
the meet which starts Wednes
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RUFFING MEN WIN
ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 31 CP!
Red Ruffing, former New York
Yankee hurler, beat the team of
his ex-teammate, Joe DiMaggio.
Ruffing hurled the sixth army
ferrying group to a 2-0 triumph
yesterday over the Santa Ana
army air base. '
DiMaggio filed out twice, then
smacked a double off Red in
the seventh.
FIRST BOWL BID
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31
m- The first Bowl bid of the
1943 football season is- in or
perhaps underbid is the word.
Coach Mickey Oswald said his
Salt Lake City East high school
team has been invited to com
pete in the Lettuce Bowl at
Nampa, Idaho, October 13 with
the Nampa high squad.
Previously only college teams
have played in Lettuce Bowl
games.
WRIGHT REJECTED
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 m
Eddie Walker, manager of
Chalky Wright, said Monday the
former featherweight boxing
champion had been rejected for
military service because of
"physical disabilities." Wright'
home is in Los Angeles.
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