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Buddy Lewis Paces Nats To Twin Win Over Bosox; Trail Tigers By Vi Game By JOE REICHLER Auoclated Press SporH Writer Buddy Lewis today appeared woll on his way to completing hlj 369lh mission successfully. The former army air force captain, who flew 368 mis sions ovor "the hump" In India, was the brightest star In baseball yoslorclay as tho Washington Senotors moved to within a half aame of first place in the American league by sweeping both ends of a double heador from tho Boston Red Sox 5-4 and 5-1 , , Tho 29.year-old outfield aco figures mission 369 will hit the mark If he makes a successful comeback and guides tho Sonators to their first ponnant In a dozen years. Nats Close In Since roolnlng his malos, 10 triumphs In their last 13 on mo loaguo-luading Uotroit I Lewis' Mill liinlnu simile drove in Cioiirge Myall with Ihc wlnnlnii run In yesterday's opener und hli three iiii folio plus two runs scored woro tlir inn In fai'tnm In ciplnii the duke In Ihn flmilti. Buddy also contributed Ijrllllunl work In the field, li in 10 putouls In tho twin bill, Inchidlnu u brlllliint eiituli which started n double piny, being Instrumental In notching wlm No. 10 for Pitcher Mickey llnrfner nnd No. 13 for Iloger Wolff. Chicago's While 8ox added to Detroit's misery by belling Ihc BoiikuU twice 12 8 mid 3-2, win n I nil the nluhtciip with n three run rally In the ninth, The dou ble win nuidn It four In a row for Chlcimo over the Tiger, Trailing 0-2, the Chlnox knocked Dlitiy Trout off the mound with a pnlr of four-run f rumen to nnm-x the (lint, Wally Mourn' run produced single climaxed the lint IniiliiK rally agulnsl Lea Mueller In the after piece, ending the Tiger rookie's string or 24 coiuocullvo score In (lining. Cub Down Reds Chicago' growling Cuba claw ed Cincinnati twice, 12 5 and 2-1, to stretch their first place lead In the National league to ix game over the econd place St. Loul Card. Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler aw the Cub make ll 17 out oi 18 ainlntt the Rhlnelandvr. Fritz Oalermueller. milking hi initial tarl for Pittsburgh alnca hi discharge from the army, wa credited with hi flml victory of the eann a the Pirate split with the card. lied Barrett won hi ISlh for the Redblrds In the opener 10-3 with a Bucaneer seven-run up rising aiding Oatermuellrr in a 12 ft win. Philadelphia's last place ath letics stunned the New York Yankee twice 6-3 and 4-3 to end their 10-camo losing streak. Dick Slebert drove in four Mackmen with a double and ' triple In the opener and started three-run rally with a single In the nightcap. For the second time In three day, a Brooklyn pitcher held the Boston Brave tittles for even Innings aa Bed Herring blanked the Huhmen In the opener 7-0. The Braves, led by Tommy Holmes and Joe Med wlck, who made four hits apiece, won the nightcap how ever, 10-3. Bostonlan Charley Workman assumed the league's leadership In homers by clout ing his llh. New York' Giants dumped the Philadelphia Phillies twice, 1 4-5 and 4-2 in 13 innings, with Danny Gardella'i homer decid ing the nightcap. Cleveland and St. Louis' Browns split. Jeff Heath's three-run homer in tho ninth won the opener 8-3 for the Indian, with the Sewellmen eking out a 10-0 verdict in the finale. For every thousand feet of lumber produced, $18.20 In la bor ha been expended. Every largo tree burned In a forest fire mean about $100 lot In wage. That' why It pay to Keep Ore gon Cirecn. Who Was CLEVELAND, Aug. 8 W) With Toledo' Byron Nelson burning up golfdom' tourna ment trail and winning a bale of war bonds that big, the boys who pound out nieces for the sports pages are beginning to ask: "Who was the bettor golfer Nelson or Bobby Jones?" Only last Saturday Nelson won tho $10,000 Canadian Open golf championship nt To ronto, finishing with a 72-hole scoro of 280, four strokes ahead of Herman Barron of White Plains, N. Y., and five ahead of Ed Furgol from Utlca, N. Y. It wa his tonlh straight tournament victory. Nelson earned $2000 for first place money and he now ha earned $47,200 in war When In Medford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Jo and Ann Earley Proprietor HARFORD Aaeldeet aad Indemnity Company INSURANCE LB. WAITERS General Inturance Agency FIRE . . . AUTOMOBILE 615 Main St. Phone 4193 Lowis has sparked the Nats to gomes to gain five full games igers Florists Win Legion Ball Crown PORTLAND. Aug. 6 lP) MndPomcrv Flortut handed Challenge Creameries a 2-0 shutout yeali-rdii y lo win the stale American Legion Junior banehnll title. Winning Pitcher Don Hagen who handed Rnlem a shattering 10-5 defeat Thursday, allowed Challenge only 7 hits. The Klor 1st committed four errors llirco by Shortstop Ccno Tan' icill, nul none was costly. Llnd-Pomcroy scored In tho second Inning when Hagen was Walked, rrnsnr singled, and Thoman was walked to fill the bases. Bob Hoscnfcld hit a looi er Into right to score Hiigcn and Primer. Chiillenge Hurler Frank Lulnl gave up only five hits- unfortunately bunched with the walk. Challenge threatened twlci In the second when McLean and Urban singled, and In the eighth when McLean again singled and Urban ent a double lo right-center. Second Baseman Bob Thoman threw McLean out at the plate. The winner will travel lo Boise August 11-13 to play In the regional tourney againsi champs from California, Idaho and rtasmnglon. Harry Givan Cops Amateur Golf Crown TACOMA, Aug. 8 111 Harry Glvan of Seattle, won the Wash Ington state amateur golf title yesterday with a 214 for the 82 holes over the Taconin Country ana uou ciuo course, Glvan closed with a 88, four under oar. Charles D. Hunter of Tacoma, pressed Glvan Satur day and early Sunday but took a 70 In the final round and wound up In a fourth place tie at 225 with Harry Andrews, Tacoma; James Shrlver, Spokane, and Wilfred O'Brien, Seattle. Harry Umbinetll of Seattle, winner of the meet two years ago, was nlno strokes behind Glvan with 223 for second place. Arnold Levcnhagen of Tacoma took third with 224. Arne Andersson Wins Mile Race At London LONDON, Aug. 8 () Arne Andersson, Swedish school teacher, today won tho one-mile raco at the British-American army track meet In White City stadium in 4:08.8: He broke tho tape four yards ahead of Sidney Woodorson, English mller, who once held the world record. The Best Golfer Nelson Or Bobby Jones? bonds while winning 13 of 19 tournaments this year. Down at Dayton a couple of weeks Bgo when Nelson made a shambles of the professional field In winning the PGA championship, we asked that same question of the one fel low who should have the an swer . . . O. D. Keller, veteran golf writer for the Atlanta, Ga Journal. "Oboe," as he la affection ately known by one and all, saw Jones, the "Gorgeous Georgian," win all of his 13 national championships in this country and in England, and was on hand when his home town boy rounded out his ca rcer with the grand slam in 1030. He ha seen, all told, 60 na ENJOY A VACATION AT FISH LAKE f FISH LAKE SID BLOOD, tfPORTtf U Roundup vj Br Frank Ktnesson (Pinch Hitting for Hugh fuller- ton Jr.) DETROIT. Aug. fl (Pi Base ball's statistic hound who still can't underMand why the De troit Tiger are leading th American league by plenty with a run production that rank sixth In the league can take a look lit big Al Benton s pitching record a a pointed 'T'r In stance," Bunion, tho navy dischargee with a 0.1)0 earned run average, started 14 times and stayod through 10 complete games while winning 10 and losing two. In hi 111 Inning opponents have made 7fl hit (ID of thorn the Infield variety) and scored Just 14 run (three of them un earned). Working tlie equivalent of 12 full games, Hen ton has given only nine extra-huso hits, losing 1-0 to Washington and 2-1 to Philadelphia. Pitching' still the answer. BE IT EVER 80 HUMBLE Tho Tigers, flirting with a ,500 percentage on the road, owe their current success to an ex ceptional homo average of .674, a clip that swelled the Brlggs stadium attendance total to 073,502 paid for 48 game. BIG BITE The University of Michigan, taking on both Army and Navy in football next fall in addition lo a stiff Big Ten schedule, has only two regulars Center Jack Watts and Quarterback Joe Pon sctto from a 1044 eleven that lost Just twice, to Indiana and Ohio SUito. TODAY'S GUEST STAR Lyall Smith, Detroit Free Press: "The fellow who raised tho stentorian shout 'Break up tho Yankees' In 1938-30 may soon be yelling "Break up Byron Nelson,' golf's $43,000 bread winner of the tournament trail." CLEANING THE CUFF Detroit's Lions of the national professional football league camp August ih at Windsor, Out., five minute from down town Detroit . . . With their one- man gang, Frankic Sinkwich, In the army the Lions can be expected lo go Into the new season more like lambs . . . Mich igan State college which lost only to Missouri in seven foot ball games last fall, touts its star fullback, Trlple-Threater Jack Breslln, as a prospective All-America for the future book . . . Detroit baseball faai are pulling for a duplicate of the World scries of 10 years ago when tho 1035 Tigers took the big prize from the Chicago uuos in a inrill-pacKca sixin game. Pauline Betz Meets Osborn In Net Finals WILMINGTON, Del.. Aug. 6 (PlPaullne Betz, national cham- plon. Lo Angeles, Calif., and Margaret useorne, ban ran cisco, Calif., are scheduled to meet today in the finals of the Delaware state women's grass court tournament at nearby Bet levuc hall. Miss Betz gained the finals yesterday by defeating Mrs Sarah Palfrey Cooke, of Boston Mass., 4-6, 8-6, 6-2. Miss Os borne, the defending champion, defeated her doubles partner, Louise Brough, Beverly Hills, Calif, 0-7, 8-1 in the other semi final. The men's Invitation cham- nlnnshtn. a Roeclal weekend event, went to Billy Talbert, of Wilmington, runnerup for last year's national crown, Talbert was hard pressed by his poren nlal rival. Francisco (Pancho) Segura, but rallied to beat the Ecuadorian, 0-0, 8-2, e-2. tional championships Includ ing those In which Nelson, the "torrid Toledlan" finished in tho top spot. Keelcr'a answer to the Jones vs. Nelson question was: "There's no way in the world to compare them. Each was tho best of his era, and you can't get away from that, but you'll never be able to decide which was the better. "The reason you can't com pare 'em is this: Jones never swung a steel-shafted club in competition, and Nelson never swung a hickory-shafted one. And the mechanics of the swings demanded by the two shafts are far more different than you would Imagine. "Tho old hickory shaft had a lot of torque, which means 45 Mile From Klamath Falls BOATS MOTORS CABIN STORE FISHING TACKLE RESORT Proprietor Davidites' Sultans Of Swat ' Thrat power hlttari comprising the Bearded DaYldlUs' Murderer's Row" at from left to rl"hti Vine Fauci, shortitopi Joe Vandetta. thlrd-sackeri and Jo with baard and bats these thraa terror Into any pitcher's heart. when they tangle with the spectacular Harlem Globetrotters on the gala "Sports Jamborea" program at Recreation park. "Just Susan" Will Gallop Against Owens Wednesday By PAUL HAINES It's first come, first (trred, at the big "sports Jamboree" Wednesday at 5:30 p. m. at Recreation park with a spec tacular program on deck for Klamath Falls railblrds. Du cats for the big-time show are now Oh the block at Dick Reeder's, Matt Finnlgan's, Klamath Billiard', and The Herald and News. Proceeds from this gala athletic attraction will go to ward financing American Le gion Junior baseball her with the colossal erent being spon sored by The Herald and News. "Just Susan," a 4-year-old illly owned by Pat Hogue, will run against Jesse Owens, great negro track star, as a spocial added attraction. The speedy filly has run five fur loughs In a minute flat at Gresham and can do the first Marines Wax Ashland Nine In Twin Bill, 22-0. 73-6 The barracks' baseball squad, riding high on a long 6tring of victories, lucked two more un der their belts Sunday afternoon when Iheji. took both games of a double header from Ashland, 22 0 and 13-0. These wins boosted the marines' winning streak to 14 straight and gave both Chapin and West, Leatherneck mounds men, additional wins on their pitching record. Jlmmlo West, Klamath south paw, blanked the Ashland team in the first gnme, allowing only five scattered hits while his teammates were picking up 22 runs and 15 sate blows against three Ashland hurlcrs, Douglas, Jone and Hartman. It was a typical vlugfest for the Pacific veterans with every one getting a share of the day's spoils. First'Baseman Jack Bran ham, leading marine hitter, in creased hi batting percentage to Med ford Golfers Top Reames In Dual Match Medford golfers nosed out Reames Sunday, 48 to 31. In a golf match played at Reames. A total of 54 divot-diggers com peted In the dual match. The tourney was played on the Nassau system, allowing one point for the first nine, one for the second nine, and one for the 18-hole route. This victory gives Medford a clean sweep over Reames In competition this year. PLANS RING CLINICS STATE COLLEGE, Fa. Aug. 6 lP) Leo Houck, Penn State boxing coach, is charting the program of ring clinics he will conduct next fall for schoolboy officials and coaches of Penn sylvania. that It would twist In propor tion to the speed of the down swing, thus throwing the club head out of line. The torque was different for each club, BARN DANCE Tuesday, Aug. 7, 9:00 p. m. Silver Dome Wocus 4 Miles North of Town On Bend Highway Modern and Old-Time Music By SUNSET SERENADERS Special Prize Cigarettes HAY RIDE Hone and Wagon Leave Sunset Riding Stable at 8:00 p. m. for Dance. Hoynlckl, left-fielder. Armad (tickmen are enough to strike They will all be here Wednesday quarter In 23 seconds. Over the three-quarter of a mil route she has been clocked at 1.14. "Shorty" Prrv. a pro fessional Jockey, will be up when the race takes place. The ball game between the Bearded Davidites and the Harlem Globetrotters will be an event for sports fans lo remember a long, long time. These ar two oi the most spectacular baseball clubs In the entire country and both are renowned for their tricks and for their high standard of ball. Ducat prices for thla super dooper attraction are $1.20, tax included, for civilian adults, and 60 cents, tax in cluded for servicemen and children. W suggest that you purchase your pasteboards early for the clambake Wed nesday and avoid the incon venience and probable line-up at the ball park. .412 by clouting out seven hits in ll trips to tne plate. In the second game on the Ashland diamond, Sutton started for the marines and gave up five runs and 10 hits beiore tie was relieved by the reliable "Hy" Chapin who chucked hitless ball for the remainder of the game. Chapin came out with his ninth win oi the season. The score was tied when Cha pin went in, and in spite of his able throwing, the Ashland man came in with two more runs, one on a couple of free passes and the other on an error. When the Leathernecks started to hit, however, the question was never in doubt and eight more runs crossed the plate before the game was over. R H E Marines 22 15 2 Ashland .-. 0 5 7 Batteries: 1st game: Marines: West and Pitts. Ashland: Douglas, Jones, Hartman and Larson. R H E Marines 13 18 1 Ashland 7 10 4 2nd game: Marines: Sutton, Chapin and Bogarski. Ashland: Zitter and Larson. Rowland To Witness Bevo-Rainier Series PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 6 m The Pacific Coast league's presi dent, Clarence H. Rowland, will arrive here Wednesday for the Portland-Seattle series. He notified William Kleoner, the Beavers' general manager, that Umpire Jack Powell will be sent here to work with Um pires Leo Edwards and Lee Dempsey in the seven-game series. and if you didn't get the club head through just right you found yourself knee deep In the daisies after a hook or slice. Bevos Drop Stars Twice;! Lead lipped Seattle Take Both End Of Twin Bill Over Seals; Sac Capture Doubleheader By PAUL WELLS Associated frets bports Writer 1'ortlanu's Beavers, viriuany hanuea tne Pacific coast league pennuru at nouywooa last ween, neaded home today for a final scries with the runner-up Seat tle ttaimers, wno are training tuelr northwest rivals by eignt games. The hapless Stars dropped three straignt to tne circuit lead ers over the weekend to give the Beavers a 7-1 edge in the series. The movietown club lost 3-6 Sat urday and 4-7, 5-14 Sunday for its 13th defeat in the last 14 games with Portland and 24th out of 29 for the season. Suds Cop Twin Bill Seattle salvaged a series with the San Francisco Seals by win ning both ends of a Sunday twin bill 17-4 and 8-3 after dropping Saturday's encounter 7-8 to make it five out of eight for the week. Sacramento brought further woe to southern California rep resentatives in the league by overwhelming the Los Angeles Angels with an 8-1 series vic tory, winning 3-1 Saturday and 5-3, 3-2 Sunday. The Solon are now firmly situated in third place, four tilts ahead of the Seals and Oakland Acorns. The Oaks moved into a tie with San Francisco for fourth by beating the San Diego Padres six out of nine, sweeping the week end contests 13-5 Saturday and 4-2, 8-3 yesterday. Bevos Hammer Hurler The Beavers hammered five Hollywood Ditchers for 28 hits Sunday. Ad Liska, aging sub mariner, held the Stars to eight safeties in the curtain raiser for his 17th win of the season. Lefty Wandel Mosser turned in a seven-hit Job to cop the night cap. Portland's stay at the movie capital may have proved costly, however. Larry Barton, ace first basemen, suffered a possible an kle fracture in the first game and was carried from the field. Seattle went the Beavers one better in the matter of hits, rat tling out 30 yesterday with 21 registered in the 17-4 opener. Hal Turpin won No. 11 and his second of the week in the lone ly played tilt that saw the Seals commit six errors. Joe Demoran tossed tne Kalnlers to victory in the 6-3 aftemiece. Both losses were charged to Frank Seward, vho was shelled from the mound in tne tirst game and came back to pitch the seven-inning wind up. ' Diamond Lake To Be Filmed MEDFORD. Aug. 6 (P canyoi. Passage," pioneer story by Ernest Haycox, will be filmed in technicolor near Dia mond lake, with many scenes photographed in Jacksonville, Wanger Pictures, Inc., has ad vised officials here. A series of pictures of Crater Lake National park to be print ed in a 1946 issue will be taken the week of August 15 by photo graphers of National Geographic magazine. BALL PARK BURNS WOODBURN, Aug. 6 OP) The Woodburn ball park was razed in an $11,000 fire yesterday only an hour and a half after a game in which the Woodburn Legion team of Portland defeat ed Woodburn 3-2. Insurance cov erage was only $1600. The blaze was blamed on an unextin guished cigarette. If it's a "frozen" article you need, advertise for a used one In the classified. Spori's Jamboree Wed., August 8 5:30 p. m. Recreation Park (Just Off East Main In Mills Add'n.) BASEBALL Harlem Globetrotters Bearded Davidites featuring JESSE OWENS Former Olympic Track Champion Owens Will Race "Just Susan," 4-year-old filly, owned by Pat Hogue BENEFIT KLAMATH AMERICAN LEGION JUNIOR BASEBALL PROGRAM Monday, Aug. 8, 194S Busher Looms Filly In Racing CHICAGO. Aug. 8 MP) A sleek little chestnut-colored race horse, daughter of War Admiral and granddaughter of the all time great Man O' War, Is out to become the greatest money, winner of her sex In history, and by the looks of things only an accident can stop her. She's Busher, from the stable of Louis B. Mayer. Hollywood film executive. Busher proved Saturday that she fears no rival on race track, whether colts or Oregon Man Wins Utah Open Title SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. C MV-With a 10-under par 274 total, Harold West of Portland, Ore., is title-holder of the 20th annual Utah Open goU cham pionship. West took the lead in the sec ond round Friday, lost it in yes terday's opener with a one-over par 73 and bounced back In the final with a 68 to claim the meet. Earl Schneiter of Ogden, Utah, who finished second with 279, passed West during the morning round with a sizzling 66 but carded a feeble 74 on the second trip. In her first visit to the course, Mrs. Mildred (Babe) Zaharias turned in a 54-hole total of 226 as she paced the leaders in ex hibition flights. HOW THEY staVsasst a. a saw STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet J70 .963 Wiuhtngtcn New York Chicago Boston , Cleveland SL Louis .538 J16 .493 .489 .489 MO 48 47 S3 45 -J32 Philadelphia Yesterday's Games New York 3-3. Philadelphia 6-4. Boston 4-1. Washington 3-5. Cleveland 6-9. St. Louis 3-10. Detroit 8-2, Chicago 12-3. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Prt. .649 .384 .SHI .533 J05 .453 .448 .265 Chicago St. Louis Brooklyn -New York Pittsburgh Boston 43 Philadelphia Yesterday's Gsmes Chicago 12-3. Cincinnati 5-1. Brooklyn 7-1, Boston O-lo. SL Louis 10-5. Pittsburgh 3-12. Philadelphia 5-2, New York 14-4. FACiriC COAST T EAGUE . W. L. Pet .641 Portland 82 SeatUe 74 46 54 62 66 66 77 .578 Sacramento San Francisco ..68 S4 .323 .492 .492 .433 .419 .403 Oakland San Diego Los Angeles. . -.54 uoiiywooa 52 In.diT Scores Portland 7-14. Hollywood 4-3. SeatUe 17-6, San Francisco 4-3. Sacramento 3-3, Lot Angeles 3-1 game 10 lnnlngsi. Oakland 4-8, San Diego 2-3. (2nd 3056 vs. HERALD AND NEWS riVE As Greatest History other fllllos, as the romped In four-and-a-half length ahead of the field in the 53,480 Arllng. ion handicap at Washington park. That victory hef sixth In even starts this year, and Uth. in 14 starts over a two-year span boosted the pretty three-year old's winnings by $32,900 to total of $201,920. At the rate she has been going, a few more starts and she'll pass the all time record of $278,900 set by Top Flight. Right now she' only $245 off the mark of $202,165 set by Twilight Tenr, last year'l "horse of the year." That figure is next to the best for fillies. A total of 259,346 fans sent $11,859,432 through the mutuel machines at 11 tracks Saturday, topped by 39,918 and $3,560,818 at Jamaica. Garden State, with a $2,083,730 handle, and Ascot, with $135,856 set new track records. KatonenWill Meet Champ In Top Tiff ( Paavo Katoncn. the durable Finn, has been signed to tussle with Jack "Buck" Lipscomb, new Pacific coast junior heavy weight champ, in the main event on Promoter Mack - LIUard's crunch card Friday night. Katonen was successful last week in guzzling Antone Leone and will be out to do a repeat performance on the burly Lips comb. Ever since he lost tne light-heavyweight belt, Paavo has been seeking a title tiff for the junior crown and figures that if he downs Lipscomb here Friday a belt battle will be forthcoming. - Leone will appear In the semi windup scrap against an out standing opponent. Cum Laude Captures Longacres Handicap SEATTLE, Aug. 6 () Cum Laude, Canadian bred and own ed, won the $5000 British Co lumbia handicap, Longacres fea ture race, yesterday, just a nose ahead of Prince Ernest in a photo finish. Betty Glee was third. Cum Laude, owned by Dr. It, H. Appleby of Vancouver, B. C, paid $1.50, $6.10 and $4.30. Prince . 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