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Newspaper Page TextPACE EICHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON TUESDAY, AUC. 12, 1947 Cards Slide Inch Closer To Brooklyn Dodgers (die While Redbirds Moke Hay Over Chicago Cubs Br the Associated Press If you can predict when the cur rently clawless Chicago Cubs will occupy Uie role of victims or villains, you might be able to get an Idea of which learn will win the National league pennant. Charlie Grimm's second division Cubs, going nowhere themselves, nevertheless have played an im portant p-rt In the fortunes of the two top contenders, the front run ning Brooklyn Dodgers and runner up St. Louis Cardinals. Early in the season, Brooklyn won 13 of 15 Innings with the Cubs, who In turn smacked down Su Louis in seven out of ten clashes. Later with the Dodgers carrying a 10-game win streak. Chicago took the Brooks three straight, but when SU Louis showed up. promptly lost their bite and succumbed meekly eight straight times the latest being last night when they bowed 3-1 to the southpaw slant of Harry 'The Cat l Brecheen. Brecheen's victory, his fourth over the Cubs this season, enabled the Redbirds to reduce the Idle Dodgers lead to three games. Bucky Walters, Cincinnati right hander. twirled a neat eight-hit 8-i virtorv over the Pittsburgh Pirates, his sixth of the season and 196th of his big league career, to send the Reds past the Cubs into fifth place. Dave Koslo handcuffed the Phil lies 3-0 on five hits in a night game In Philadelphia to register his 14th victory against seven defeats. The win left the Giants six games off the pace. The Boston Red Sox moved within games of the New York Yankees in the American league pennant race by winning a 1-0 thriller from Wash, melon in Boston while the Philadel phia Athletics were taking a 3-2 de- - cision from the league leauers. " Rookie Bill McCahan made it two in a row over the Yankees and Bobo Newsom, limiting the Bronx Bombers to seven hits In cluding a triple by Joe DiMaggio, who returned to the Yankee line up after a week's layoff due to ripped muscle between the shoul der and neck. Virgil Trucks limited the Cleveland Indians to nine hits as the Detroit Tigers, with only six safeties, won 3-1 In Cleveland. Rudy York hit a homer In each game to raise his season's total to 18 as the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns divided a double header in Chicago. The Sox. helped by York's first homer, won the opener 5-2 but the Browns bounced back to win the second game 1-4. SarcasticGoose Lays Ho I low Eggs I ars rP Nrwsfcalurci MIAMI, H. "Mo miner' is seven-foot areallo goose which lays fool -Ion egg thai run menu only unhappineiis for hi least nine men. Momruer is the produce of James O. Tier, a Miami Tech high school teacher with an ability to construct and a love of baseball. Mummer's duty Is to lay a roosc egg on the line score of a visiting baseball team. At the end of each inning if the opposition hasn't scored accompanied by cackles. Mo turner waddles across a S'-I-foot scoreboard and drops a foot hit h iero into the proper slot. She works for the Miami Tourists' of the Florida International league. On occasion she misses the proper slot, and In that event her 30-Inch high offering conies ex citedly out and picks up the misplaced goose egg and returns it to thr correct slot. Tier, a rabid baseball fan, lias long wondered why when the visiting team got a iero at the end of the Inning a goose didn't deliver the unhappy score. He rut "Momnter" from a seven-foot piece of fiber board and mounted her on a cable. Lou Krlllry, a Tech student, la Montmrr's mode of operation on her mission. A recording on an amplifier system provides the proper sound effects. SALT WILL FLY WHEN COBB TRIES FOR 400 NEW YORK. Aug. 12 John R. is being sanctioned by the American Cobb, wealthy British sportsman and Automobile association contest board fur broker, will be forced to step his and is under sponsorship of the Utah three-ton racing car up to a speed J Centennial commission, of almost seven miles a minute if he ! In preparation for Cobb's attempt Furgol Hot In Practice At Portland 12 To 2 Rout LA Manager Booed For Holding Back His Ace Pitchers By the Associated Press The Los Anuclra Anuria finally got their come-uppaiut last night as all-stura from the Const circuit's other seven tenms pulverized the league leaders. 13-2. Home -run King Max West or San Diego started the swat test will, n two-run rtnnuit upper in the first and the till stars wound up with a trio of homers in n six-run 'splurgo in me ninth inning. It was such a rout that the 10, 707 Wngley field partisans booed lustily when Angel Manager Hill Kelly finally derricked Pitcher Hob McCall after the latter had been expects to raise the world land speed record to 400 miles an hour on the Bonneville. Utah, salt flats Friday. This will be the first assault on the record since the war. The run Soft Circuit Finishes Off Slated Play to go 400 miles an hour, the most modern airport construction equip ment has been used to prepare the surface of the 14 mile salt bed straightaway. The 200-pound Cobb is very fafiiliar with the course. In 1939 he set all kinds of records. He traveled 369.74 miles an hour in 1 what was then called the Railton I Red Lion Special. I His car haJ been rebuilt at terrific 'cost and Is known as the Railton : Mobile Special. It is powered by two i 12-cyhnder 1230 horsepower super- charted N'aoier Lion engines. The This season's soft ball compeii- , . ,M. - , ... UMLIUUC ia miiiiut iiTt sung. lion was ended last night toi . au , wlwn ym cons,der tna Rttlph out tour 01 uic : Hepburn new lit miles all hour last teams with the final games of the , du Mw 0( U)e w0 aMd a second round being played under ha,f mif Illdlanapolls Spifeaway the arcs at Modoc field. k bb , b , , . Opening the schedule last eve- ( ds ning. the Four Star Merchant ; lmjes playing the first of two ch;"P , Why ta Cobb trying to oieak his tilts, handed the Bureau of Recla- I cord, mm a 17-2 drubbing, while the " c ' Elks battled their way to n. "-:, DreMgt Ior Ulc motur industry win over tneir arcn-m. w.e accessory business. ' Moose. Buck Ferguson chucked lor ul.unaiely the Merchants and Brownie Mers ,,,, ,, ,.. JL covered the slab for the Elks. ! , d h nrlv... Their wills last night put tne : Merchants up m third place with es'timated the Railton cost five wins and two losses and the , ,- ..., ,,. .,a. Elks in sixth place with four w'ruj J ; 5traimlme bodJ. TL"le h h r,J ZJ, r ; built of aluminum alloy and is so ished the second round in seventh ' place with two wins against seven ( from th(, chassis by M) mechanics in about five minutes. A 75-gallon water tank in which ice PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 12 t.4 Marty Furgol of Los Angeles fired a 20 to tie a course record while prac ticing oil the Portland club course I first nine yesterday and start the ' blasted for six straight hits in the field of arriving entries for the $10,- ! closing debacle. 000 Portland open talking scores ! The boocs. It was plain, were re in the club house. served for Kelly who al.so drew The tournament starts Thursday. swrtwr iters' criticism for holdmg ! Furgol carded six birdies In trim- I bar his pitchers, and firing nung par 35 bv half a dozen strokes. ! wll Bl11 Hlem.ii. McCall and Don i which was better than Ben Hogan Osbom. who were niaccd for 16 j posted in 1M5 on the same lavout ' 5tt'etlM- when he set a PGA record of 261 . Tlw " "wrs were, as he captured the 72-hole title he b,ll u Dam Clay. San Diego: will defend this week. I Neill Sheridan. San Francisco, and j rrauK is.enener. Mouywooti tne last ; PGA Champion Jim Ferrier. who , has competed twice here, played ; only a few holes yesterday as he ' started the warm-up for Thursday's opening. Ferrier commented that : the "greens couldn't be better," and added, "it will take a 275 or better to win this tournament." two in succession. Lou Stringer. Angel second sack- i er. drove in both of the lasers runs 1 with a homer and a single. Kelly and his clipped seraphs re- ! sumer regular maneuvers tonight crosstown at Hollywood, honing to ! wide ii their riirrenf H Itmri Herman Reiser, who Jusl captured ovfr Ult Ses Sa p,,K.1Nrn 11(l j the Esmeralda tournament at Spo- Oakland will hook up in another kane. nursed a sore wrist that has of ,10M. By donnvbrooks. so uouirim nun since uic iiiuii rouim chances are good the Angels might of the Washington tournament, but ! fatten up said he would be ready for the piny, j other series this week pit Sacra-' memo at Seattle unci Sun Dlrgo al AMKKICA.V LKAGl'K New York 70 38 .648 Boston 57 48 .543 Detroit 55 47 .53H Philadelphia 58 5'.' .519 Cleveland 49 52 48i Chicago 50 59 .459 Washington 46 56 .451 St. Louis ' 38 69 .355 Portland. It II K All Stars oo 100 Uil- lj 6 1 Los Angeles thai 100 Olll 3 7 0 I Melton. Woods 4. Seats i7'. Ou blel i9i and Pltwrnld. Heimlrv : Kerr iTi: Fleming. McCnll S Cborn i9i and Mulone. Gillespie '4', Suml 8. Sampson Is Going Up lly UAL: KCAKIIKOlltill I'hll SampHou. llt-yrar-old Me-Icau-ludlaii lad who la the like liest welterweight IhuIuk proipeet In the and a good many more parts. In all probability will ap pear In another main event bout here nct Tuesday. Samptioii haa only one main to. plun two prelim, to hl ledger iu ear hi professional fighting here, but already li thr second most popular fighter hatched by the armory ring. In his three tlihts. billed for a tutal of 20 rounds. Sampson has had to travel slightly less than seven heats, lie does more than that every Slight In workouts down at thr gym. lie scored one knock out In thr second round, another In the first anil capped It off by settling Ihianr lloag In four, . Iteferrlug to Sampson as. the "second most popular fighter" leaves room for I'rsal (Ciiuger) Suapp, the Merrill prlsr middle weight who always packs the arm or arena to the rafters when he Is In town. Suapp Ims been running In a rut of hard luck In his recent outiui. Last Hirer tights resulted in Iho lours to fcnirry Jackson and a draw with Pedro Jim lues, l-'hcht fans stho have seen them both say Jlmlnei Is better than Jackwu. titngrr has been fighting every two necks, regular as clockwork, but this streak has him and his manager, Hoy Drake, worried a bit. So Suapp Is going to take It easy fr bout a month and try to grt back on thr winnliif side. It's doubtful whrn he'll fight here again. . W ill, Sampson tabbed for thr i'rt main event fifht, against an opponent not yet located. Montr John West Qualifies For Oregon Coast Links Play CIKAUIIAUT, Aug. IU il'H-Mcdiillsl honors fur the Xtrcl ininunl Oregon IMiiKt golf toiirniiinrnl were shared by four entries In ihe thro divisions lialiiy ns iiiallllei'H oiieumt first round piny. A record field of 'JH7 competed yesterday. Dancers Take Semi-Pro Title PORTLAND. Aug. i'J 1'l Mi'KI rny's bullrtHiiu won the Oregon semi-pro baseball chiimplnnMlIp In a 14-lnniiig duel Willi VuKcta here lur.1 iilghl. a bum by Walt Kliscll siiiiggliig Iho t In 4 victory. McKlroy's bunged In four runs In the third (o take Ihe lend, but Vul sets milled to score two In Ihe fifth, which put Virgil llutler off the lllolilld for McKlroy's. The up state leain then renched Hill Ma- nuuska .lor two In. the sixth . He Ihe count nl four all. lull Scliuiiel pitched all Ihe way for Vnlsela. Klrschs bunt which wen! for a single enme Willi the buses limited unci sent Itny oberst strenklug home Ilom third. Mob Hteiiliens, ex-Alorla eartdjr now of Porllnud, surprised the un-iler-iige-ii'J iliisa Willi a Iwo-iinrirr-pur 70. flnlNhliiK one stroke ahead of six ilvnl- Incliidliig delendlng Clinniploll llenil Hplvey of Tilt I Hid li s. Dr. Mlllutd Itosenblnll, Tualatin club, mid It. J. Nichols, Astoria, shared Ihe aa-yeiir-and-over honors uitll 7l's mid Mrs. J. C. Holt, lmg view, Wnsli., piisletl 77 to lead III women's division. 'Iwo strokes behind Mrs. Holt wsa Miss llrace De Moss, Corvallls, who hnd Just aim the Portluud city women's crown. Her 79 looked muctl better, however, than the third pUia 83 scored by llarbnra Hmlth, Port Innd, winner of Inst week's Wa.iD tllgtoll state women's title. Those quullfylug In Ihe llnder.3 dlvlhUiu Incliiiled Paul Wnlgren, Cor vnllls. 77. Jack Carter Back Again Australian Jack Carter, who ap parently is jinxed by tile local squared circle, will try again Friday night in the semt-windup wrestling match at the armory. Carter lost and was injured in his first scrap here tome weeks ago, but probably figures hit luck it getting better because in his second showing he Just lost without getting hurt. Carter will go to the mat with the Oriental grappler, undefeated at yet, 6ugi Hayamaka, in a five rounder. Tony Ross and Al Sza&z are paired for the three round opener, while Tex Hager gets another chance at Leo Kirilenko In the main spot. Last week Kirilenko defeated Hager without too much trouble and re mains undefeated himself. Classified Ada Bring Results. For A Complete Selection of Fishing, Outing and Hunting Supplies, It's POOLE'S Bicycles & Sporting Goods 222 So. 7th setbacks and the Moose ended up in last place with one win and eight The second series of tilts saw the "V , Merchants, in their second game of cooling ssiem. the evening, take an 8-1 win from the VFW, while the Gun Store PCL DirrtorI edged the Rickys Jewelers, 14-13..' "" Everett Buck pitched this contest! Aclr Mm III it ft tor the Merchants, and a new- swrv iw -- comer, Louie Bpinettl, hurled tori lor NOELE3. Aug. 12 lP Pa- the Vets. cific Ccist league directors drew up 1 Rickvs gave the Gunners some-! a resolution vesterdav demanding what of a scare in the fifth Inning that the major leagues eliminate the I Brooklyn when they pulled ahead two runs, draft of PCL Dlavers. St. Louis 62 but the final Innings saw the Oreen- Th rviaxt leAmie executives also : New York .17 Clads pull away from the Rickys oreDared olans for the visit Aug. 28 ! Boston 58 lads, who became somewhat un- I 0f the Chundler committee which I Cincinnati 53 strung from a hotly disputed um- will study the league's facilities and , Chicago 50 plre's decision. request for preferred status, with I Pittsburgh 45 The Vets and Rickys came out an eye to ultimate major league Philadelphia 41 Yesterday's Iteaulls Chicago 9-4. St. Louis L'-B Boston 1, Washington 0 i night . Philadelphia 3. New York might), Detroit 3. Clevelnnd 1 inight. League Leaders Butting Kell. Detroit. .337; Bou dreau. Clevelnnd, ;33ti. Runs butted in- Walker Tops Hit Parade 75; Doerr. Boston 74. Home runs Williams, Boston 25 Heath. St. Louis 21. Pitching Shea, New York .733. NKW YORK. Aug 15 ' V Hurry "Little Dixie'' Walker of the Phila delphia Phillies continues to enjoy a comfortable first place margin in the National league baiting derby today while Lou Boudreuu of Cleve land and George Kell of Detroit are virtually tied for the top inn in the Williams. Boston American league's race fur Individ- 1-4 I Montgomery probably will fall heir to Ihe senil-wltiilup .put again. I.lllltttclglil Munle Is another elrau-llviiig kid who train. o rrliimli ami with io much vim It even wears out Ihe apcrtatur,. Ills semifinal malrh will be a slx ruuiuler. (.riling hark In Samp.un, Ihe h" held three different llolden I'lote aright diii.ion titles In Nrvaiij. the 1 IK and 128 In two tears, anil the 1.15 In an over- I Height malrh with lr (,nve. j rhsnip of that .erllon. I He mm weighs 137 pounds. ! Manila 5 feel 7. Ilrfore coming here anil turning pro. I'hll hail 23 I amateur bouts, winning 19 bv kayue.. three bv decisions anil luMiig only nine on a TKO by "y of a rut over hit eye. The i onlv light he ever loil. I'hll uril In iiluv a hit uf r.,i. lull for llrnii high, and wna all alale left hulllm, H l,i ,,4r. )ul he's In t ,ia ,,, mm. Inlenils to atlck with It. FOOTBALL SHOES HYDE 12.95 SPALDING 14.95 rtic GUN STORE 0D NO I fMffAq nm iHOtt OA bVftM UttAtlM I TUC Ofc-OVtOY o And we con prove it! Nor will you "brur thr rwt" at lrKC uvrrltrnd rKri..irs whrn you trndr with un. We ct Klv you timlity rrriiw at iriiii intiin price. Give iw a try. W hmi riirry it cotiilrtP line of Krlly-Hpi iiiKf irkt I i r r and tulr. fit " ,H in a tie for fourth and fifth place standing. NATIONAL LEAGl'K 43 45 46 50 60 58 64 66 with five wins and four setbacks apiece, while the Gun Store ended up in a first and second place tie with Ashley Chevrolet. Teh semi-final round of play will be run off Wednesday night at Mo doc field, starting at 7:30 p. m. Dog Delegate To . Legion Conclave SIOUX CITY. la.. Aug. 12 i4. Miggs, a female Doberman Pinscher which served during the war in the K-9 corps, was registered today as delegate to the state American Legion convention and was checked in as a hotel guest. .The dog, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schwarz of Sibley. Ia., was hon orably discharged from the coast guard two years ago. Commissioner A. B. Chandler and other big league heads are slated to visit Los Angelej, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland. Seals Sign Rookie Yesterday's Results New York 3. Philadelphia St. Louis 3, Chicago 1. Cincinnati 8. Pittsburgh 3. Only games. League Leaders Batting ual batting honors. Walker, although his avcniKC dropped Ihree points during the span that includes games of last suiiaay. enjoys a ID point aclvun I tage over Walker Cooper of the New York Olnnts who trails Walker's .606 1 pace-setting .344 mark with a .325 H7Q ; avernirp .553 1 Boudreau. the Indians' plaver- i 'ltllst5 ,r"ni Bremerton, Wash., Port .537 manager, who was one point behind I""1"' or'- Bole. Idaho, and Miles .469 ieu a week ago leads the Tiger .463 ; third sackcr by only .006 of a point .413 today. Boudreau sports a .3401 mark .383 j while Kell is moving along at a .jjuo cup. Opponents Drawn LEWISTON. Idaho, Aug. 12 iv Junior American Legion bii.vehull City. Mont., will draw their regional tourney opponents at a pre-meet banquet here tomorrow night. The four-day meet will open Thursday. Out-Of-State Traffic Check Ollt-Of-Ktfllp Irnvl u-lll lw !,... Walker. Philadelphia i lated by traffic checkers Tuesday. OREGON CITY. Aug. 12 IA, Ronald "Rube'' Johnson, 17-year- ! 07. mi,-ii .... '.;' u """"'"II. i.l-w old catcher for the semi-pro base- ! ball team here, has been signed by tne san Francisco seals of the Pa cific Coast league. Johnson.- who reports to the Seals Aug. 23. has played in the annual all-star bene fit game in Portland for two years. j False Alarm Sends ; Firefighters In ' EASTON, Wash.. Aug. 12 0T I Seven fire fighters toiled for four : hours over tortuous trails to the location where a forest service look i out had excitedly reported a fire. I A red weather balloon parachute was flapping gently in the wind high atop a tree. .o. wpi-i. new io j2i. August 20. In order to ohinln n Runs batted In MUc. New York I basis on which to estimate the ' 1 value of tourist travel Inlo Ore- i be checked nome runs Mlze. New York 36: gon for 1047. Cars Marsnau. New York 23. . , on U. 3. highway No. 97 just south Pitching Blackwell. Cincinnati i of Klamath Falls. ib-a .7bj; jansen. New York 1.1-4 Wnritino iih n, i,.,m. .......... .765. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT NEW YORK Lee Savold. Paterson. N. J.. stopped Alberto Marchlonl, 191, Argentina (8i. BALTIMORE Curtis Sheppard. 194, Philadelphia, stopped Al Hart. 224. Washington 4i. SAN FRANCISCO Tony Bos nlch. 188. San Francisco, outpoint- , ed Harry Wills, 182. Los Angeles ' (10). i Turn those no-lnnirer-usert artlrlet i into casn nowi Herald and News I Want Ads are Inexpensive and bring oin oulck results. TRUCKS AND PICKUPS FOR RENT You Drive-Long. Short Trips Mot Yourself Save tt STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 Cast Main ARMORY j Get a Head Start on Winter! Srarr constructing your Concrete Walks and Driveways now and call on us for the high-grade Ready Mixed Concrete you need! We can supply you with whatever quantities you need . . . And you'll find that you can do a really first class job without hhe fuss and bother and woste of mixing on the job! Phone or come in to place your order! 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