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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS,, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PACE TEN Cleveland. St. Louis Fear Donald Yank Hurler Tops Indians For Third Straight Time; Buei Regain Second Spot " : By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer It Joe McCarthy ever gets those New York Yankees up for a fourth straight American league pennant, Swampy Don ald's black magic over Cleveland and St. Louis will come in for a lion's share of the credit. -Thn-lean rishthanded screw- ball artist from Louisiana's swamp lands is just another Eiteher against most of the clubs ut he has beaten the Indians 12 of 13 starts since hitting the big show and drubbed the Brownies 11 of 14 tries. , With the help of homers by Snuffy Stirnweiss and Oscar Grimes, Donald topped Cleve land for the third straight time by a 6-3 score. Six war fund games yesterday. including the Cleveland night fray and tuts m (JMcago, &t. Louis, New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, upped the major league war contribution for 1944 to 5445,093.71. . Boston and Detroit were halt ed by rain in the eighth for a 1-1 tie-between Hal Newhouser and Pinky Woods and Chicago staged a two-run spurt in the last of the ninth to top Washington, 4-3. Pittsburgh took over second place in the national's most ex citing race by trimming the Gi ants 6-5. Brooklyn took over sole occu pancy of the cellar by losing to Chicago's Bill Fleming 4-1, as Boston beat Bucky Walters 9-2 in the first game. Cincinnati grabbed the nightcap from the Braves, 8-5, for Harry Gumbert's eighth triumph. Danny Litwhiler was the hero of St. Louis' 8-6 nod over the Phils by clouting a three-run homer in the eighth and scoring the winning run in the tenth. Steps Taken to Halt Shibe Park Baseball Gambling . ' PHILADELPHIA, July 27 UP) A full report of the steps being taken to halt gambling at Shibe Park, has been filed with Base ball .Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis by Herb Pennock, gener al manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, said last night. ''-'A- similar report is believed to have been asked of Connie Mack, now in St. Louis, after the arrest of five men for making bets in a recent Philadelphia Boston National lejgue game. . Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland SeatUe Hollywood . Portland Sacramento . ban Slego COAST LEAGUE W. , L. -J3 .-51 50 52 54 ' 56 58 56 57 61 Pet! .545 .527 .495 .491 .482 .455 iniciuij Bcores Seattle 4-5. Portland - 3-p list game 12 Innings, 2nd 8. curfew). -Hollywood 8, Oakland 2. ' - Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 1. Sacramento 3, San Diego 2 (16 In--lungsiv St. Louis NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pittsburgh .. .loujinBU -. New York Chicago - Philadelphia .-37. Brooklyn arf Yesterday's Results Boston 8-5, Cincinnati 2-8. Chicago-4, Brooklyn 1. Pittsburgh 6, New York S. : St Louis 8, Philadelphia 6. 24 37 39 48 47 49 53 53 . AMERICAN LEAGUE . . . W. L: New York Boston Cleveland Detroit ' ' Chicago Waihlnfftnh Philadelphia " -48 ...48 ,-48 ...42 Yesterday's B,,nlfi ' St Louis 4, Philadelphia 2. .New -York -6. Cleveland 3. Boston 1, Detroit 1. Chicago 4, Washington 3. 41 42 44 . 46 47 45 50 53 Pet .724 .565 .562 .467 ..440 -.430 .411 .404 Pet .568 ' .533 .522 .511 .495 Sports Briefs Br Hugh Fullorton, Jr. ajnnii,i!s By FRITZ HOWELL : (Pinch-hitting-for Hugh Fullerton. Jr.) NEW YORK, July 27 (if) The armed services are taking pretty 'good care of the ' four freedoms. Mr. Fullerton, for whom we re subbing, is enjoy ing a fifth (vacationing at Free dom, N. H.), and today as the hazy, lazy dog-days approach, we're declaring a sixth freedom the right to construct a col umn by clipping amps from our colleagues. Maybe they 11 duo us tne thief of "bad-gag" for stealing their stuff, but we're too tired to worry., were are tne guest stars, and their star jests: . . TOPS AND BOTTOMS John E. Wray, St. Louis Post- Dispatchr Our Browns are 'sev enth in; team hitting, sixth -in team fielding, and below par in other departments of -play ... In fact the only thing they're first in, is the American loop. Lynn -C. Doyle, Philadelphia Bulletin: Twenty-five pounds of scrap paper was-the admission fee to Brooklyn's ball park the other day . . . A small order for flatbush fans with the fore sight to- save clippings of the critical analyses of the Dodger losing streak and the Rickey system jf or - rebuilding a ball club. - BASEBALL QUIZ No. 1 What nlayer-won; the batting championship in both majors? - No. 2 What player pitcneo a no-hit ;game. in both majors? (Answers at end, after our guests leave). FULLY EQUIPPED - George Herrick,- San Diego Tribune - Sun: George Zaharias is all set for his opening pro football game with the Los An geles Mustangs here for . Sep tember 3, except . , , tie has no team, no: coach, no. name- for the club,- and no place to play." Bill Harvey, -paterson, jn. j.. Morning Call: Ray- -Starr --.has pitched professionally -:f o r 17 different clubs in bis'. 19 years of baseball.-TJie Pirate mounds- man boasts . he gets at least two hits annually -One in the spring before, the pitchers -get warmed up, ana one in tne tail after they cool off.. He- thinks a great liitter- is-a guy who can hit a- bird . .shot with a buggy whip. " -- ANSWERS TO QUIZ ' No. 1 Ed Delehanty, .408 in 1899 in National,-'370 an -isoz in American. - No. 2 Cy Young, Boston vs. Philadelphia (American, . iau; and Cleveland vs. Cincinnati (National) -1897. Insure your car with :- Hans Norland. -New phone .number 6060. 118 North 7th St. Ducks Two Timed by Rainiers . Seattle Snaps Lose Streak With Double Win Over Bevos; Solont Trim Padres Bv The Aisociittd Press The Seattle Rainiers snapped their five-game losing streak last night with a 4 to 3 victory over the Portland Beavers in a 12-inning contest that had been scheduled as the seven-inning opener of a doubleheader. Then the Rainiers went on to shut out the Beavers, S to 0, in the n i g h t c a D and gam a fourth place tie in the stand ings with the Hollywood stars. . Never more than one run was scored by either team in an in ning, in the drawn-out first game ana Seattle came irom behind to tie the score in the third; seventh and ninth innings before they finally scored the winning run on a pair of sin gles in the twelfth. ' Marino Pieretti cost Portland the game in the ninth inning when he walked in the tying run giving Seattle a new lease on life. . . In the second game, cut to eicht , innings because of the league's midnight curfew regu lation, Carl nscner snaciuea thn Beavers with four hits while his teammates were collecting nine for three runs in the fourtn and two more in the seventh. In another marathon game the Sacramento Solons, who only got out of the cellar last Sundav. drove the San Diego Padres' deeper in by taking a 16-innine affair 3 to a. me score had been tied from the eighth on. .Los "Angeles widened its mar gin over the second-place Seals by defeating the San Francisco team 5 to l, wniie noiiywooa trimmed third-place Oakland 9 to .2 "with Frank Kelleher get- tine a' homer, a double, a single and two bases on balls In his five trips to the plate. Wingers Advance In Oregon Semi-. Pro Tournament -. PORTLAND, July 27 (if) The Marine Wingers from Cor vallis air base defeated Ander son's Market, Vancouver, Wash., 9-5, in the eighth inning of a scheduled seven-inning game last night. The marines pushed over four runs on two hits and two errors in the extra inning to climb to the second round of the annual Oregon semi-pro baseball tour ney. . When In Medford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern '' Joe and Ann Earloy -Proprietors DANCE Saturday Nite DANCELAND , . . . .; (Formerly Skateland) 515 Klamath Music by . Pappy. Gordon's Oregon' Hill Billies "Sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Walk A ' - Excitement! Thrills! Take a friend SEATS- Phone or Call at -Klamath Billiards, Ph. 9167 Waldorf, Ph; 6811 Castleberry, Ph. 3333 for Reservations Unlimited Night Baseball Flashes Caution Signal NEW YORK,' July 27 (P) Un limited night -baseball, legalized at the Pittsburgh meetings twp weeks ago, appeared todny to have flashed a caution sign in- Golfers tc Shoot at Bud Ward Records SPOKANE, July 27 (if) When the National Professional Golfers association players line out for their annual $20,000 tournament August 14-20 over the Manito course here they will be shooting at course rec ords set by Lt. Bud Ward, dura t i o n national amateur cham pion. Ward, now with the air forces in New Guinea, likewise is secretary of the Athletic Round Table, sponsors of the tournament. Ward's records include a 9-under-par; 63, and a 6-undcr-par 30 for the back nine, both non-competitive. Two years ago in the western amateur, Ward set the course competitive record at 68, four under par. His 141 for 36 holes, set in the qualifying rounds that year, is the record for that distance. COACH CHOSEN Portland; July 27 wi Oliver E. Raikko, former Oregon State college and Monmouth bas ketball star, has been appointed head athletic coach at Parkrose school here. He coached at Bend in 1941. stiid of a' green light to big luuguc club owners. Although the SI. Louis Browns ami; i-iuniums, ursiii-'niiw boxWfk-si lure, pushed tho plan mid adopted schedules culling for almost continuous owl bull ac tion ut .Sportsman's park, only ;w games nave ucen ii'st-iicmin-u from dny to night in both leagues. The Now York Giants, Brook lyn. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, ull equipped for after dark activ ity, nave nociacci to siuim piu on their original night schedules, us luivo tho Cleveland Indians in the American. President Bill Benswanger of the Pirates summed up the gen eral uttilucle of lho.se contented Willi a 14-giuuc quota wm'ii in said, "I see no reason for a change in, our schedule, allliough I have an open mind cm the mut ter as it concerns other clubs in this topsy-turvy war year." Base Stealer Wins Feature 75-Yard Dash CHICAGO," July 27 (tV) George Case, the American league's champion base stealer, is speedy on -a straight course, too. . The flee BWashlngton out fielder won a-' 75-yard dash at Comiskey park lost night in the feature of a series of field events preceding tho (White Sox-Senators war fund game. Ho was timed in :07.8, and bent Chi cago's Thurmah Tucker by a yard. Johnny Sullivan of Wash ington was third. Washington ,also won first place in other events. Two Sons of Idaho Mentor Fall in Battle MOSCOW, Idn July 27 University of Idaho Track Coach Mike Hyun said today ho had learned that two of his fivo fighting Hyim family" sons Captains Paul and Bernard Ijv;, fell - under Japuncso guns within a few days of each other during tho taking of bul- '" The war department had re ported last wcok that. Capt.' Piml Hyan was killed on Juno 17 Now It has Informed tho widely-known track coach that Co pi. Bernard Ryan was seri ously wounded June 22.i The i two men had been to gether In the sumo reglmonl through 34 months in tho South rucific. SHAD SEEN IN ROGUE GRANTS PASS, July 27 W A school of shad hus been sight ed far up Rogue river, at tho base of Rulney fulls, Joo Wharton, local sportsman, sold today. This Is the first time this species of fish has mounted so far up the river, Wharton sold. SEALS SIGN RIPPLE SAN FRANCISCO. 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