The sporting news 02 24 1944

VOLUME 117, NUMBER 3

ST. LOUIS, FEBRUARY 24, 1544

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USE MINORS’ $300,000 FOR SCHOOLS ’-ZELLER Warming Up fo r Spring

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Would Hire Old Players for 'Crews’ D e tro it Official F ears F arm s W ill C o rn e r T a le n t Unless H om e O w n ership Steps In B y H . G . SA LSIN G ER D ETRO IT. M ich.

A fte r re a d in g th e v ario u s a n d v a rie d criticism s o f his plan fo r p o stw a r baseball. J o h n A. Z eller, g en e ra l m an ag er o f th e D e tro it b aseb all clu b , confined his a n sw e r to one w o rd : “Cam ouflage.” T h s p la n , a s h e a n ­ nounced in th e first place, w as su b m itte d t o t h e p o stw a r com m ittee fo r an aly sis a n d V ia- - * c a re fu l consid­ eratio n , a n d no t fo r im m e­ d ia te consum p­ tio n a n d hasty c o n c I u . - ... sions. T h e c ritJeekXetUr icism s th a t follow ed w e re d e liv ­ e red b efo re th e p la n h ad b een discussed a t a ll a n d w e re based on a hasty read in g . ’The critics of the plan will agre* with at least most of th* suggestion* after they study the various angles in­ volved," said Zeller.

Under the proposed plan the major league dubs that own minor leagu* franchises could keep them and send their optioned players to their own clubs, but the remaining player* on their roster* would be subject to draft by other major league clubs.

“After all," said Zeller, “a major league d u b should be concerned only with winning a pennant in a major league. There is no reason why it should be concerned with winning pen­ nants in various minor leagues. Sev­ eral major league clubs are today a* "much concerned with winning minor league pennants as they are with win­ ning major league championships.”

Clubs' Money “Lying Idle" His chief concern is with baseball ma­ terial in the future. He doesn’t be­ lieve much la being don* to develop it. He contends that many possibili­ ties are being neglected.

“Th* function of th* National Asso­ ciation is to secure players and develop them," said Zeller,

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W ar V eterans W on’t Be Satisfied W ith 'Sissy’ T ype o f Bal!, R eds’ G eneral M anager T ells F an Assem blage; A lexander R elates H ighlights o f C areer

Almost-a-Buyer M eyer

Fun Like Date Bureau; A. L. Chart Next Week From confusion to simplicity— that's the promise for fans working this week on th eir income ta x re ­ turns. F o r n ex t week a new, easyto-read, simple form o f American League schedule for UM , fo r ready reference to teams and dates, will appear in Tux Srosrmc News. Th* National League chart w ill appear in th* following issue.

These schedules w ill not be re ­ peated. In order to be sure of your copy, it would be well to reserve the issue of n ex t week and of th* following week with y o u r news­ dealer, as newsprint restrictions lim ­ it th* num ber of available copies, o r take advantage o f th* offer on Page 19 of this week’s issue.

By TOM SW OPE , *lax M ever> k n o w n In B ro o k ­ CIN CIN N A TI. O. lyn purlieus as a “p o il m o ich an t,” G en e ra l M an ag er W arren C. G iles of th e R eds last w eek becam e No. 267 o n th e m ad e th e c o u n try ’s h ead lin es la st w eek w ith a nst of alm ost-purcbasers” o f th e speech d eliv ered a t Otis city ’s “O ld-T im ers’ ” g a th ­ brooklyn Dodg­ erin g , th e second a n n u a l d in n e r o f B all P layers ers. o f Y esterd ay a t th e N e d e rla n d P laza H o tel’s H all More people o f M irro rs th e n ig h t of F e b ru a ry 16. G iles m ade “ a v e “a lm o s t” th e h ead lin es because o f th e vigorous w ay in w hich bought the h e ad v o cated th a t “b aseb all r e tu r n to th e p a tte rn Dodgers t h a n i t follow ed in th e good o ld days, w h en m any of th e h a v e actually o ld fello w s am o n g th e m em bers o f th is org an iza­ Purchased t h e tio n p lay ed ro c k -’em. sock-’em ball. gam es filled ■ B r o o k l v n w ith re d -h o t arg u m en ts.” he said . “M odern b ase­ ‘Bridge. H o w ­ b a ll c a n w ell afford to ta k e a le a f o u t of th e book Warren C M i ever. Mr. M ey­ o f th e old-tim ers. er. who m an u ­ “ O v er th e y ears, th e gam e has com e to be policed too m uch, factures R ichefro m th e m en in b lu e—th e um pires— on u p to C om m issioner L a n ­ J t e u P earls in dis,” G iles continued. “M obbing o f um pires, etc., h elp ed cause th is his local facto ry o v er-p o licin g o f th e gam e. T he* —they’re as big C om m issioner’s office h as b eco m e' ball last y ear by campaigning fo r rn Max Mtyar J? your eye— *«lively ball. I lost on that. md come close. N ow th a t th e d ea l a po lice d e p a rtm e n t o f th e gam e “O ur servicemen will be returning to because of the infractions of the play­ the grandstands, bleachers and playing A ir Lanes sS tp H 0Cn-* 2 e d a w a y- i t can be ers, m anagers and. yes, die general g ated w ith a u th o rity th a t th e

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not* indeed cannot, be rn** v’sihm th e n ex t few months, or ln f looser. The "other purchasers."

S 2 J raS U5ly “i^ h o n e d b y the press woen Meyer withdrew, ju s t w in not r 5t base' Financial bottlenecks wu transaction, tfcl vf* fu^ Uy caus«d the collapse of _ »toyer deal brought a w elter of con-

fields one of these days and they w on't be satisfied w ith a sissy game—not after what they have gone through and will go through. And w* m ust sta rt pre­ paring to give them th* sort of base­ ball which will appeal to th eir steppedup emotions by swinging into a more vigorous tempo this season. The sort of baseball m any of you old-timers played

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managers, fellows like myself.

“I t s necessary' that the gam# be po­ liced, but, despite this, we still can have and we need hard, rugged base­ ball, argumentative baseball. I do no t m ean abuse of the umpires, b u t a m ore competitive spirit, th* sort of baseball w hich will excite the emotions of the spectators. It can be all of that and still not be rowdy.

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Pag* ll Baseball Dinners 5 Basketball — 17-18 Bill K le m 6 Caught on FIy_12 Editorials ______ 8 Emery Hresko — 7 G rins .________ IO Diamond Thrill™ 9 H arry Cross ll

Page Hockey _____17-18 In the Service_10 In This. Comer_18 Johnny Gottseligl7 L efty Gomez — 0 M ajor Notes ___ 16 Mickey B urnett. 4 Over the Fence... 8 Press Box ll Red Sox Roster— 6

but w hat is th* National Associa­ tion doing in that direction? The Na­ tional Association has 1300,000 in It* t r e a s u r y . This m oney waa paid in by various clubs, It is lying idle.

Two years ago It was proposed to re ­ tu rn half of it to W. G. BramhoM the clubs that had paid th* money into the treasury. Wil­ liam G. B ram ham, president of the Na­ tional Association, made an awful fusa about th* suggestion. He bitterly op­ posed It, b u t w hat has Bramham don* to advance baseball?

“Since Bramham is interested In tl>* welfare of the m inor leagues, why doesn’t he start baseball schools for the development o f talent? He could engage five or six crew* to go about the hinterlands, digging up talent, coaching tile youngsters, and providing m aterial for leagues of B and C classi­ fication. The crew* would be com(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, CO L L>

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NATIO N A L LEAGUE (F igures in b lack circles) 1—C ard in als. C airo. HI2—Reds, Bloom ington. Ind. 3—Dodgers. B ear M’tain. N. Y. 4—P irates. -Muncie. Ind. 5— C u b s . F ren c h L ic k , In d .

6—B raves. W allingford, Conn.

7—P hils. W ilm ington, Del. 8—G ian ts, L akew ood, N. J .

S c h o o ls N i l l e d , 8 3 0 0 , 0 0 0

W o u ld Pay fo r S y s te m ,

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IT im e a t H and fo r Relaxing . Som e P o lice Powers,’ H e T ells Fans

A M E R IC A S LEAGUE (Figures In o u tlin ed circles) 1—Y ankees, A tlantic C ity. N. J .

2—S enators, C ollege P a rk , M d.

3—Indians, L afay ette, Ind. 4—W hite Sox, F ren c h Lick, Ind. 5—T igers. E vansville, Ind. 6—R ed S ox. M edford, M ass.

7—Brow ns, C ape G irard eau . Mo. 3—A thletics, F red e ric k , M d.

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in y o u r d a y is th e sort of baseball I posed of th ree m en each and th e m e m ­ m ean . Y ou k n o w w hat it-is, and so A. bers w ould be retired m ajor league hall a ll e x c e p t th e youngest of the fans. players, for w hom th e youngsters would “I n m y opinion, baseball is not hove the required respect. Team s in O 'sp e c ta to r sp o rt,’ even though hum AA a n d A -I m inor leagues would do Z p erso n s so re g a rd i t I regard aff split, th eir own scouting, g athering ta le n t i ta to rs a s co m petitors because practically £ fro rn sem i-pro and high school leagues.” ; OC a ll o f th e m a re , b o th emotionally a d Zeller, referrin g to his proposed plan. > 0 m e n ta lly , l f th ey w ere not. th*, CL declared; w o u ld n ’t b e in tile stan d s and bleach­ I/) “ I t w ould enable m a jo r league clubs N. CA R. T E N N , ers.

T h e y re g a rd th e home team ai IM to get seasoned players. T hey w ould I 'th u ic e ir’ u te iwam jij,, u su ally to the Ute point uuhcrt h en >e tutored until they a re ready.

1 »- would produce m ore scientific baseball PHE?ABING TO OPEN (heir second se a so n of n o rth ern tra in in g , m ajo r le a g u e clubs w ill I!jey. thir'lc ,of lhcm5^ ves « a part ct b etter baseball. in n )c d r ioesig c i/’Trrrrtf’r Th#» rca nm m a np n show s on n ly n l v tht re h re & o team te*rtrsn fi I .. C a n '* ?*y Opinion, th a t m ake assem ble n ext m onth a t th e spots n atedi rarbhon vv ep . The m np m th e m co m p etito rs.’ “ H ere is the curse of th e present sit­ R ev iew in g h is speech th e next day uation: M ajor league clubs w ith e x ten ­ shitting th eir b a se s from 2943, th e Y ankees m oving to A tla n tic C ity, N. J., in s te a d of A sbury Park, a n d the P hillies going to W ilm ington.

P e l., w here they w ill re p la c e the A thletics, w ho G iles said h e d id n o t then, or at die sive farm system s keep th e ir players tim e h e d e liv e re d it, regard tile talk ss in the m inor leagues until they have w ill condition a t Frederick, Md. Most cam ps w ill b e o p en e d a ro u n d M arch 25. a v e rb a l sla p a t Commissioner Landis 9 place fo r them on the p a re n t club. o r a n y o th e r official of th e game.

F req u e n tly they keep them after th e y ” 1 re fe rre d to th e Umpires and ti* a re ready for th e m ajor leagues ant OU Leads War Bond Poll C om m issioner because th ey a re the sym­ th ey deny them Ore privileges o f earn­ b o ls o f th e g am e's authority,” he said in g a m ajo r league salary. O ther d u b s , W ith Spurt on Final Day “W e m u st h a v e policing to keep the w ith o u t extensive farm holdings, a re NEW YORK. N. Y .I n the final b o u se in o rd e r, b u t I th in k i t has beta com pelled to bring u p players before h o u rs o f th e sp o rts p o p u larity con­ o v erd o n e a n d th e tim e is a t hand for they a re ready fo r big league com peti­ te st in th e F o u rth W ar L oan d riv e. tion. som e re la x in g o f t , e police powers to B ill D ickey m ade a valiant effort Cires B(q u to -Priddy C a v p ro v id e th e A m erican public with more fo r h is old pal, L ou G ehrig. B ut “Til give you a case in point. The o f a n em otional o u tle t through baseball.

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By J. G . TAYLOR SPINK D ickey, back in L ittle Rock. A rk., C ity club. T hey had P hil Rizzuto play­ fa sh io n ed 'bustling* on every play in rushed u p W ar B ond receip ts w hich in g th o rt a n d G erald P riddy playing e v ery gam e. -T hey d o n 't have to become CONTINUED FROM PAGE I.) v --------------show ed th e su m o f 56.000 h a d been second. We needed « keystone com ­ a b u siv e to w a rd th e um pires or disre­ given to tile Com m ercial N ational bination a n d w ere read y to pay th e ‘Mississippi R unt’ Label g a rd c o n stitu te d a u th o rity .” je c tu rc in th e F la tb u sh press. .M eyer, B an k in th a t c ity . D ickey h ad sp en t Y ankees $250,000 cash fo r Rizzuto and O th e r p o in ts G iles m ade in his speech, an no u n cin g th a t h e a n d h is hackers Wounded Louisiana Mel $3,750 a n d a friend. W ilton R. S tep h ­ P riddy. T h at w as in th e fall of 1933. th e p rin cip al ta lk of the evening before (H erm an K ah n , p re sid en t o f Consoli­ ens. h ad sp en t $2,250. a n d a ll th e W e w ere told th at they w ere n o t for U m pire B ill K lem once called a a n assem b lage o f a b o u t 7OO men and d ated P ro d u cts a n d lik e M ey er a lo n g votes w ere cast fo r G ehrig. sale and that n o proposition w ould be couple o f close s trik e s a g a in st M el w om en, m a n y of them representing iht J tim e E b b ets F ield h ab itu e, w as the H ow ever, in th e la st 24 h o u rs o f I No. I m an) h a d n o t b een p re p a red to entertained, even a cosh bid of $250.O tt o f tile G ian ts a n d set th e s lu g ­ o ld er g en eratio n of players and players’ th e contest. T oots Shoe, close frie n d OOQ. T he Y ankees k ep t Rizzuto and g er to grow ling, re la te s A r th u r P a t­ I face th e “ ad d itio n al financial b u rd e n s” o f O tt, le d a v io len t a ssa u lt on th e P rid d y in K ansas C ity a n o th er y ear terson o f th e N e w Y o r k H e ra ld th a t tu rn e d u p a t th e last m in u te, G ehrig stro n g h o ld and th e m an ag er before bringing them up. They k ep t T rib u n e . T h en O tt fanned.- A s h e evoked a s h a rp rep ly from G eorge V. How Canliilon Cut Short o f t/ie G ian ts eased in. G eh rig w as th em fro m earn in g m a jo r league pay le ft fo r th e d u g o u t, K lem called M cL aughlin, h ead of Hie B rooklyn second.

C a tc h e rs Umpiring Beef in 1940. a fte r him : T ru s t Co., a n d one o f th e clu b d irectors N ext in o rd e r w ere W ard Cuff "This is n o t an isolated case; th ere ‘‘I told you you c o u ld n 't lilt 'em I disposed to scil.

U m p ire L a r r y G oetz o f the Na­ o f Use New Y ork football G iants, • r e m any others like it. If the p a re n t w ith o u t sw inging a t 'em , y o u M is­ “ M r. M ey er h a d a full a n d com plete tio n a l L e a g u e w a s a speaker a t the B abe R u th , J im B raddock. S id L u c k c lu b h a s a s ta r shortstop, fo r instance. sissippi r u n t.”

I p ic tu re e arly in th e negotiations,’’ said second a n n u a l d in n e r o f Ball Play­ m an. C h risty M athew son, Jac k o r a c rack th ird basem an, w h a t cllance “ Now. th a t hui-t m e.” M el said I M cLaughlin. e rs o f Y e ste rd a y in his home town D em psey, J o e L ouis a n d Bobby h a s a first-class shortstop o r th ird base­ la te r, re c a llin g th e in cid en t. “ E v ery ­ • • * o f C in c in n ati, F e b ru a ry 16.

Jones. m an on one o f th e ir farm clubs of get­ one o u g h t to k n o w I com e from “ W hen I w a s u m piring in the Max Learns Facts of Life A to tal of $2,634,675 w orth o f bonds tin g into th e b ig leagues? T he Y an­ L o u isian a.”

A m e ric an A ssociation, th e late Joe k e es have been criticized fo r lettin g w as purch ased b y v o te rs in th e poll, Stanley F rank, w riting in the C an tilio n w as r o u n d i n g out rn w h ich ra n fo r fo u r w eeks.

H an k G reenberg get aw ay from them New York Post, in sizing up the le n g th y baseball c a re e r as super­ w hen h e w as bom a n d re a red a few failure of the syndicate to acquire N egotiations w ith th e B ro o k ly n T r u s t v iso r o f tile c irc u it’s um pires,” said blocks from Die Y an k ee Stadium , but Ia 7 5 per cent interest in the Dodg­ Co. h a d progressed fa r en o u g h to lead G oetz. w h a t chanco w ould G rcctibdrg have had in g season a n d asked w h e th e r h e ers, „ related & winv a OVU4V story th a t Doc in sid ers to b elieve M ey er could have ‘•Joe w a s p re se n t a t a game I um­ ©f breaking Into th e N ew Y ork lineup w o u ld n ’t b rin g h is team to A tlan ta to R o c k w e l l , t h e o l d v a u d e v i l l i a n , b a d 50 p e r c e n t m ore o f th e sto ck fo r p ire d in C olum bus o n e day in which w ith Lou G ehrig continuing his ru n of p lay th e G eorgia T ech v a rsity . T y look­ w a s f o n d o f t e l l i n g . $750,000. .m a k in g a total o u tlay of th e v isitin g te a m ’s catch er made consecutive gam es? W hat w ould have ed a t h is schedule, found an open date, I t s e e m s t h a t R o c k w e l l w a s e n ­ $1,010,000 fo r 75 p e r cen t o f th e stock. h im se lf so obnoxious I found it becom e of Greenberg?*' a n d said th a t h e w ould. H e took Ids te rta in in g a t a p riv a te p a rty in W ash­ T h e o th e r 25 p e r c en t o f the stock, con­ necessary to e jec t him from die Z eller says th a i if th e p resen t /a n n squad to A tlan ta, p lay ed a gam e w ith ington fo r h is u su al fee, p lu s expenses. trolled b y M r. a n d M rs. Ja m e s M ulvcy, gam e. system continues, it w on't be m any y e ars the Georgia T ech v a rsity , a n d re tu rn e d H e w a s w a rn e d , h ow ever, t h a t th e m an w a s n o t fo r sale. “ H is c lu b le ft fo r Toledo that eve­ before th re e or four clubs have rig h ts to A ugusta.- Soon afterw ard , th e Jute w h o checked th e ex p en se acco u n t w as • • * n in g a n d C antiU on took the same to all Ute desirable ball p lay ers in the F ra n k J ^ N a v in , then p re sid en t o f the n o t a lo v er o f fiction. tra m .

T h e c a tc h e r sought to get a co u n try . ‘'Even today they have forced D etro it club, w as told th a t h e h ad been Scoops Own Press Agent R ockw ell accordingly item ized h is m e a s u re o f re v e n g e on m e shortly tile scouts of riv al clubs to go into fined $1,500 fo r in frin g in g on S o u th ern M e y e r, a fa n fro m a w a y b a c k , e x p en d itu res painstakingly, a s follows: a fte r th e y b o a rd e d th e train. He th e sem i-professional ran k s a n d high A ssociation te rrito ry , since G eorgia le a r n e d a lo t o f th in g s a b o u t th e T rain fare, $9.80; lu n ch .

63c; tip fo r p o r­ s a t d o w n beside CantiU on and slatt­ school fields to bid against them for Tech w a s w ith in 40 m iles o f th e A t­ te r, 25c; w ashroom . Iflc; cab to hotel, n e w s p a p e r s in t h e b r i e f t i m e h e ed; ta le n t If you w an t replacem ents you la n ta clu b ’s citadel. f l i r t e d w i t h t h e D o d g e r s to c k . H e 40c; bellhop, 25c; M ISCELLANEOUS, “ ‘Y ou can go dow n in th e Sally h a v e to b u y them from one o f the clubs H ere we h a v e one o f th e odd tw ists, $600. l) a d n e v e r s u s p e c t e d , p r o b a b l y , L e ag u e a n d g e t b e tte r umpires w ith far-flung farm system s a n d you o r tu rn s, of baseball legislation. De­ t h a t b a s e b a ll o w n e rs h ip c o u ld b e T lie “m iscellaneous” gim m ick in tho th a n y o u ’v e g o t on y o u r staff in can w ager th a t th e y 're n o t going to tro it h a d to p ay $1,5W> cash fo r accom ­ s o c o m p l i c a t e d .

B a s i c a l l y , h e is a tra n sfe r o f the D odgers to M eyer, it w as th is circu it* sell y o u anybody who m ig h t help them . m odating a u n iv ersity w ith in 40 m ites fa n , a n d h a s b e e n fro m th e d a y s rep o rted , w as on item called o u tsta n d ­ ‘“ C atch e rs, too.’ rep lied J«>c. and T hey will scil y o u only m aterial th a t o f die citadel o f a m in o r leag u e clu b , j w h e n 'h e used to p lay fo r $5 a S u n d ay in g obligations a n d debts.

I t included th a t e n d ed t h a t beef.”

SWOPE. could n o t possibly be o f any u s c ^ i b u t a club from Die riv al m a jo r league u e ^D irecto rs Jam Jamcess AA. on W illie K eeler’s te am s (th e y w ent to th em and die chances a re th a t m a­ establishes a baseball school w ith in ’ 25 b ack ^salaries ddue, rccfo,n; rniles o f th e citadel of th e D etro it clu b M ulveY ai,d Jo sep h A. C iH caudeau. th e the sam e p a rish c h u rch a t L ew is and terial won’t h e lp you m uch, cith er.

W illoughby av en u es, B rooklyn) and "B aseball schools, backed by th e N a­ w ith th e avow ed purpose o f lu rin g a w a y ^ ctJVe. hu5^a " ds ,o f J * ia (c . Slevc since h e w en t on a diam ond ja u n t to w iv es, in c lu d e d th is re fe re n c e to the o u tlo o k fo r 1944: tional Association, w ith its cash bal­ a n y lik ely m aterial w ithin a radius o f (N c K e e v c r* a n d C h arley E b b ets d au g b J a p a n w ith M cG raw a n d Stengel, w hom “ I w o u ld h a v e to b e a cvysial-gw a ance of $300,000, w ould help.

40 m iles o f th e aforem entioned citadel, *ers: , a. nofe ,h eId b y a P en n sy lv an ia h e has ju s t a b o u t w orshipped e v e r since. o p re v ie w b aseb all in 1944. I’m not « " lf such a crew cam e to D etroit, we and nothing can b e done a b o u t it b an k ' 11 ,s lh csc U,,° ^ a,one M e y e rs re p re se n ta tiv e called a press c ry sta l-g a z e r, so I ju s t can t do it. We, w ould tu rn o v e r Briggs S tad iu m to W hat d ie m in o r leagues need m ost i0 m on; tJ,a n ,1,aIf • * m uch a 8 ain conference fo r noon.

F e b ru a ry 15, to w ho a re c h a rg e d w ith d ie responsibility th em a n d ex ten d alf possible help and o f a ll is d ecen t ball pparks.” a rte .” ad d ed Z Zcl c l- I of 0,0 quotod P u^ h a s e P™ *. ex p lain w h y d ie d eal w as off.

M eyer, o f c arry in g on th e gam e, w ill do tbt P M guessed o u t lo u d th a t (h e u n ­ w e d id n 't do th a t last y e a r w hen the le r, b u t h e m ight h a v e ad d ed th at a B rooklyn Dodgers set u p a baseball few m ajo r league cities liave a sim i­ p aid salaries o f c ertain D odger d ire c - it is said , th en proceeded to scoop Jus h est w e c a n , W h en w e dine o u t these school a t Pontiac. W e k ep t a ll likely la r n eed . W ashington is o ne a n d St. tors, allow ed to pile u p fo r"m an y y e a rs ow n re p re se n ta tiv e , callin g th re e n e w s­ d a y s. a ll o f u s. w e seldom "g et as good L ouis is another. in deference to sto ck h o ld ers w ho p ap ers (N ew s, H erald - T rib u n e a n d food o r a s good service- a s ive used tx. ta le n t Dway from them .”

C est T igers $1,500 f o r D ay a t School Sportsm an’s P a rk in St. L ouis is grim w eren ’t collecting (dividends) eith e r, Tim es) th e p reced in g n ig h t. H e d id n o t get. I t's a ll a p a r t of th e tiling we hate P o n tiac is a city o f 65.626 (according a n d d irty , b u t even so it does n o t m atch w as (lie h id d en reason fo r th e n ew as­ caff th e M irro r, n o r did h e cai! the —•war. I h o p e y o u w ill h a v e the sam* lo the 1940 census) som e 25 m ites to G riffith S tad iu m , a n d Sam B rcadon, p e ct w h ich collapsed th e deaL T h e d i­ B rooklyn Eagle, w h ich n u d e b o th of co n sid eratio n fo r b a se b a ll as for the th e no rth of D etroit. The D odgers p resid en t of th e C ardinals, can n o t be recto rs w ould h a v e to b e paid off pronto those sh eets v e ry m ad. I t seem s th a t e a tin g p la c e s in re sp e c t to less quality h is re p re se n ta tiv e w as n o t v e ry hap p y , a n d serv ice. B e a r w ith u s a n d you may opened a baseball school there. Had blam ed fo r its condition, o r lack o f if new m oney e n te re d th e p ictu re, th e y played an exhibition gam e, w ith ­ condition. B rcadon ow ns x few bali F ritz H ow ell, a w rite r from th e A P , eith e r, w hen M eyer le ft n o th in g fo r find th e g am e’s service to th e public ii o u t d ie express perm ission of tile De­ p ark s b u l th ey a re in th e m in o r leagues. lik en ed th e w hole th in g to a m an w ho h im to tell h is luncheon guests. b e tte r th a n y o u anticipate."

W ell. M eyer did n o t pick u p th at tro it club, th e y w ould h a v e been liable H e does n o t o w n o ne in S t L ouis. H e h a d enough m oney to b u y a n au to m o ­ G ro v e r C lev elan d A lexander, the only to a stiff fine. b u t opening a baseball re n ts o ne from Hie P h il B all estate. bile, b u t n o t en o u g h to pay fo r the 5260,000 option, b u t a t least h is a g e n t person p re s e n t a t th e d in n e r who is school fo r th e purjw se of sn atch in g ta l­ A fte r th e w a r, d ie governm ent will plates, gas a n d garage. Meyers* re p re ­ p icked u p th e lu n ch eo n check. And liste d in th e gam e's H all of Fam e, hew e n t from D etroit’s hom e field, they w ere p ro b ab ly rev iv e d ie W PA in force. It sentative. n a tu ra lly , d id n ’t say th a t h is now . M over can go back to h is p u rlie u s th e cro w d 's in te re s t fo r nearly half an a n d h is pearls, a n d h e can s it dow n to h o u r w ith a c ap ab ly d elivered talk on “ im m une from prosecution,” as the will likely build, o r help cities build, clients w ere in su ch a position. n ew spapers say. p ark s for recreatio n . B aseball p arks M eyer h a d obtained a n o p tio n fro m d in n e r w ith h is fam ily in B rooklyn. som e o f th e h ig h lig h ts of his pitching T his rem in d s u s of som ething that will be constructed w ith fed eral fu n d s S tev e R yan. a d irecto r w ho rep resen ts w ith o u t h av in g h a lf a dozen new s- career. T h ese included his recollec­ happened some y e a rs ago. w hen Ty and St. L ouis m ay h a v e a decent m a jo r 25 p e r c en t o f th e D odger stock: h e h u n g ry re p o rte rs p o king th e ir h ead s tio n s o f how h e s tru c k o u t Tony La2* Cobb w as m anaging th e D etroit team league p a rk th e n . and so will m any could h a v e h a d th is stock fo r $260,000. o u t from u n d e r h is table a n d ask in g zeri w ith th e bases fu ll in th e s e v e re and th e squad train ed a t A ugusta. G a. m in o r league cities, l i t is die ferv en t h u n w h en h e w as going to b u y the in n in g o f th e sev e n th gam e of die 132$ T h e athletic d irecto r o f G eorgia Tech hope of m any th a t som e of th e fu n d s • • Dodgers. Peace, if * w onderful! B u t a W orld's S e rie s a n d w e n t on to pitch called u p T y one day d u rin g th e tra tn - will b e used in b u ild in g o ne in W ash­ piece o f th e D odgers w o u ld h a v e been th e C ard in als to a v ic to ry over th* “Drop In F o r T ea’* ington.) pretty g ran d . too. M ey er says. w ryly.

Y ankees a n d th e S t. L ouis team 's first P ut M onahan. C ardinal scout, re ­ Tom M eany, in com m enting in PM w o rld cham pionship.

W hen they conic to b u ild in g ball p o rts th a t a frie n d o f h is called th e on Ute chances o f a n y new p u rc h a s­ p ark s iii m in o r league cities th e clubs T h e R ev. M ichael H inssen. chaplain of m an ag er o f an em ploym ent b u reau ers com ing fo rw ard , said th ey w ere th e V eteran s’ hom e a t D ayton, O., who th a t a re ow ned by m a jo r le ag u e m em ­ Trade M ark Registered a n d ask ed fo r a good cook fo r his dubious. "B y th e tim e a n o th er b u y e r f o r y e a rs w as p a sto r of C atholic church­ v !? S P i DV B A B L E S C. S P IN K bers w ill go begging. T h e governm ent c o u n try house. He th en overheard is interested.'* rep o rted Meant* in his es in C in c in n ati, to ld how m uch it ''w k ly by THE SPORTING NEWS will n o t b u ild p a rk s fo r m a jo r league i.llL 'J blok.

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Manager o f Braves Contends Paying Big Bonuses lo Collegians Is U nfair to Sandlotters; He Believes Stress on Youth H as H u rt Quality o f Pastim e

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By DAN DANIEL

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S te n g e l h a s b e e n v e r y m u c h i n t h e b a s e b a ll .M. g . n e w s r e c e n t l y . O n t h e w a y e a s t f r o m G le n d a le , C a lif., h e a n n o u n c e d h is r e s ig n a tio n as m a n a g e r of the B raves, w h e n h e l e a r n e d t h a t t h e c o n tr o llin g in te r e s t i n th e Boston club h a d c h a n g e d h a n d s . H e w a n t e d to g iv e t h e t h r e e m a ­ jority sto c k h o ld e rs a f r e e h a n d i n t h e s e le c tio n o f a m a n a g e r . A n d ■few days lifter his arrival here, Casey w as being mentioned as a possibility for mother crock a t the m anagem ent of th e Brooklyn Dodgers.

The latter development came about through the efforts of Max Meyer, a Brooklyn manufacturing jew eler, w ho recently sold ou t Ins interest in the Braves, to acquire control of th e Dodgers. M eyer is a close friend of Stengel. tad the dope was th at Stengel w as a member of th e syndicate organized fay the Brooklyn m anufacturer in an attem pt to buy into the Flatbush d u b .

Stengel it was reliably reported, w as prepared to go into the Brooklyn deal with 5100,000 worth of stock. However, the deal fell through w hen Meyer an. pounced that he and his associates "found th a t if we had acquired th e Brooklyn stock and met all obligations, w e w ould no t have had a comfortable working capital."

Discussing Meyer’s efforts to gain control of the Brooklyn d u b , Stengel said: "Max is a real friend, a grand guy, a genuine fan. H is lifelong ambition had been to buy the Dodgers. He w e n t in for a b it of dough w ith me in Boston. sort of apprenticeship. I had m ore money in the club than anybody else, I (mea. I had more than any of the th ree m en who now own the control.

"Well, I did not w ant to m ake things too tough fo r Bob Quinn, so I got out.

ALTHOUGH HE DECENTLY RESIGNED a s m a n a g e r of the "Nov,-, let me get something straightened out. The people who sold out vita me in Boston did no t retire because they w ere no t willing or able to pu t Braves, C asey S tengel d ec la res: "I h a v e a few iro n s in the up more dough. B u t they would p u t it up only if Casey stuck, and said i t lite. I w o n 't b e out of b a s e b a ll th is y e a r." S ten g el is re a d y to was okay. b ack his ex p erien ce a n d fa ith in th e g am e w ith h is ow n m oney.

"There was no internal fight. T hree m inority stockholders decided to buy od anybody who would sell. and a ll o f us felt it w as fo r the best interests of I know that when I took hold of the Braves, w e had barely enough men to get the dub, and Bob Q uinn, if ju s t th ree m en owned the control, an d not a lot of ou t a roster. When I left, w e controlled 121 players. ta. It is simpler to do things w ith only three. And those three have dough.

"Rickey has a n important slant when he says the chain Idea is a tre ­ Not only that, but they have good ideas. They are contractors, and w ill do mendous thing for clubs which otherwise cannot hope to cope w ith big things with Braves Field, w hich is in need of repairs. J don’t think there is a financial problems, because they can’t get the attendance possible in cities chance the club will move into Fenw ay Bark. like New York and Chicago.

"Well, when Quipu said _ _____________________ the Braves needed m ore dough, I had 550.000 more I t seems to me th at there are a lot of things to take into consideration. of ray o v a money to throw in. T here w ere others, w ith another 5100,000. Yes.I They talk about the so-called good old days. 'Well, the good old days w ill never bt, in Boston, in January, 1944, tins was. Folks w ith 5150,000 to throw in to )come back. And, in most cases,that’s fine.” the Braves—if I gave th e word. You should read the letters stockholders •eat me after they had sold o u t Listen, I am no t a softie. No siree. B ut It Takes a College Rep to Gel a Bonus when I read those letters I feel like I w ant to cry. Guys w ith all the confidence in the world in me. They tre a t m e like Joe McCarthy. You’d think I had won Did Mr. Stengel have anything to add to the • world championship, and m ade a bundle of money for all of them. fund of suggestions for after-w ar legislation? “I a . • a have no suggestions, but I have some of m y own X

ideas,” he replied. “F or many years I have given a lot of thought to the situation o f the kid whom we get from the sandlots. I have been considering th at kid as against the highly advertised boy out of a college.

“The collegian gets $40,000 w orth of education.

The kid from the sandlots gets no such break. The collegian gets a fancy bonus. They say th a t Wake­ field boy got as much os $51,000. The sandlotter can’t get as much as 51 cents.

“I maintain, we have to wipe out th a t inequal­ ity. Perhaps it would be best if the college players Wofcefwrf were plr-ced in a special group, and w ere made subject to draft. The football people do. th at. They don't go around bidding their heads off for the college stars. There are no fancy bonuses. The football folks can’t afford i t

Majors for Play; M inors for Investm ent I won’t be out of baseball this year, even though we missed getting the Dodgers. You see, I have a strange 6lant on the game. I have a p riv ate angle on base­ ball jobs. F or one thing, I am one form er player who is willing to back up m y confidence in baseball hJJve own rf011#*5' AU the dough I

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“ I have a few irons o n th e fire.

4 iL. " S ere s is w rong w ith th e game. They wifc about chain stores against independent owner­ ship in the minors. T hat \v6uld solve itself if old players went into th e m inors, w ith their own money. ‘‘A player stays in th e m ajors, say 15 years, Branch Rick*? and collects a sizable fortune out of the game, then he is finished as a player and looks around for a spot where ne can manage, or m aybe coach, lf he has to get out of baseball, ne doesn’t go into the gam e as a business. He has spent his best years learning about baseball, about leagues and clubs and management. But fa® he uon won’tt invest in baseball. bnvhnll Ha He U wM ill H go or%into intn something cnmntVmff he bp knows nothing 8about,

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Two Men for One Position!

Bob E lliott aud Lee Handley Both Signed by Pirates; H ike for T h ird Sacker

By CHARLES J. DOYLE PITTSBURGH, Pa. Tile Pittsburgh sports writers* din­ n e r and roundup honoring Connie M a c k , John JC. Tenet and Honus W agner threw everything of a sportive n atu re in­ to an eclipse in this Workshop of the World, faut t h « a lert Pirate offl^ rials did find time ta * tiff#* In between to get some business done.

For one thing, they signed Bob Elliott and Lee Handley and thus set up a new problem for Frankie Frisch, who has the hardest-hitting third sacker of base­ ball in. a spot w here Big Bob may bo asked to retu rn to the outfield to make room for Peppery Jeep, the sprinter, who apparently has found the use o f his right arm again.

Bill Benswangcr, president o f the P i­ rates, w ent to California on a business trip th a t included a side trip to San Diego, where he found Plaster City Bob at work in a w ar plant. The rangy athlete, who was far and away the best clouter among the Buccos in 1943, signed .

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‘'Johnny Jones, out of S m ash College, w ithout professional experience, comes u p to the big leagues and gets, let us say, $5,000. Some scout thinks Jones Is sure-fire.

"Jim m y Smith, o u t of gram m ar school, w ith three years o f professional experience, a .330 hitter in a Class A league, cames up to die m ajors and doesn’t get a dime. He never got a dime when he was signed originally, three years •ad chances are. lose his dough.

I back. Sure, he was baseball educated and all that. He shouldn't be rewarded "Another thing. T he big leaguer does no t like to go down again. His for ambition. B ul is it right, on the other hand, to create a condition by pride is involved. He knows so m any nice folks in N ew "York or St. Louis I pampering the collegian? I can tell you th at the Wakefield thing raised hell or Boston. He thinks ne w ould demean himself if he went to Los Angeles or in the m ajor leagues. o:oux City.

I “I think w e should not be able to withdraw requests for waivers in the a 1944 contract at 0 figure representing *He forZris that Los Angeles or Sioux City could be built into a tremendous I big leagues. And the waiver price should be 512.500. wjng. He forgets that, to build a company of loyal friends, he doesn’t need "There might be more extended drafting from the minors. The draft a substantial advance in poy. It is no secret that Bob was the best third base­ MWJOOO to 6.000.000 people, ju s t three or six. He keeps looking at the m ajors J price from Double A into the m ajors should be increased to $12,500. man in the game when you stop to con­ and sneers at big chances to step back w here he came from. That’s w liat’s J “As for sales to majors, it m ight be a good idea to place a limit on prices, "rang. He refuses to step down and pu t in his dough. If he w on't show “The quality of baseball in the m inors has been h u rt a Utile by tho sider that he was only one o f three confidence in his own game, how can he expect the butcher, the baker and the snubbing of the older player, and the desire to build up as many kids os possible, National leaguers to drive in IOO rim s banker, strange to baseball and its organization, to go in w ith th eir money?"

The m inors used to strike a happy balance between veterans and k id s-a n d I o r more, Bill Nicholson o f the Cubs and Billy Hermon of the Dodgers being w* suggested that the perhaps had turned too serious for M r. I think the kids learned a lot from the older men U t e Lconversation y j j v t yv"In regard to the proposal to give a war veteran a 30-day trial on his return, Hie two others. alenge]. Likely he wanted to get funny.

I say it takes a player who has not gone to war 30 days to train himself Into Elliott’s fourth full season with the . 0t I lu st haven’t felt funny lately/-* Casey replied. ‘T h ere are too many serious things to discuss. Besides. I find that in certain places they think Casey shape The w ar veteran should have 60 days. lf h e has been playing ball, he Pirates proved bis “banner year. He handled more d a n c e s than any other will not require the whole GO. U a«X°^C3lcr’ an^ not serious enough about baseball.

"I find chain store players have more spirit than those from independent hot com er tender in d ie league and his ”e r: >s a time for fun, and it doesn't look as if it was right now'. I have ' tvwL COnsidering baseball from all angles lately, and I have been reading about m inor clubs. T he chain boys arc being watched all the time. They ore sw at m ark of J317 included 30 doubles, offered easy m eans of promotion."

12 triples and seven homers. Moreover, ~ S r,,pilan5, ai>° ut legislation to help the b o y s coming back from the war.

We tried to shift the final phase of the talk into reminiscence.

Casey he made comparatively few errors when . those kids deserve all the aid baseball can offer them . All, and then * little bit more. talked about the biggest kick ol his life, the 1922 World’s Series in which he it is considered that he played in 156 cm a\ QUt the .chain store debate, Rickey on one side, Weiss w ith him, hit two homers against the Yankees, winning the opener in the ninth. That games. Big Bob is a happy-go-lucky singer of songs who keeps everybody Hie other side Zeller and Bramham and 2 don’t know who else. A m an who drive w as inside the park.

In tile third game, Casey won w ith a wallop out o f th e park, and as he in a good hum or and, students of the ftnt S?<ln\ . s? mucb tim e close to the field and the play era m aybe should stay Tan around he thum bed b is nose at Pitcher Sam Jones of the Yanks. Jake sport figure, he has not reached his ox political and adm inistrative discussion.

But you stand by and you get angles. I can see how the chain idea could ftuppert reported Casey to Judge Landis. B ut the Ju d g e hod a sense of peak at 26. In view o f his beautiful fielding around third, Frisch may finally away w ith itself. On the other hand, if you w ait fo r private dough to humor. Jake had none whatsoever. decide to keep him a t the Pie T reynor A guy like Stengel, w ith baseball brains, experience and 0 desire to invest •JSanize lower classification leagues, the bus w ill go by, and you will be waitmg to eternity. h is Sough in the game, won’t be out of the diamond picture long. Even spot, inasmuch aa Handley m ight be necessity, J m ust have th e m anager’s angle on chains. The man who though, the Dodger deal fell through, there ore other spots w here his ability— able to hold down one of th e other ln {field positions.

C-u^ w ants handy sources for replacements. H e is all for a lo t of farms. and his coin—can be used to the adva ntage o f the sport.

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F o r y ears an d years, baseball people have know n C harles D illon (Casey) Stengel as a funny man. H e has bu Ut up a reputation as the w it of wits. A keen sense of hum or, a high skill in n ar­ ration. speed on the trigger—all have built him Into an en tertain er p a r excellence.

B u t Casey is something m ore th an just a funny guy. We decided to invite Stengel to deviate from his custom ary fun, and give some serious slants on th e game o f baseball, and its current problems.

The re su lt of this invitation is the first serious interview y et obtained from Stengel.

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In Casey Stengel’s lexicon there are only two kinds of boll players, good ones o r "professionals" and bad ones or "ribbon clerks/’ reports A r­ th u r Daley, In his breezy sports column in the New York Times.

When the professor was managing the Dodgers, many years ago. he sent in a pinch runner in the twentyfirst inning of one of those mara­ thons in which the Brooks always seem to become involved, recalls Daley.

The youngster had not expected to get into lite fray, and neglected to wear his spikes. Carrying the winning run. the youthful hero rounded third base under a full head of steam, fell down at Casey’s feet and was tagged out. The flab­ bergasted professor delivered only one remark. “G et up, you ribbon clerk.” he said scathingly aud Walk­ ed away.

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By UAM GKEENE W h a t’s a ll th is t a l k a b o u t R ed S c h o e n d ie n st, f r o m R o c h e s te r, DETROIT. Mich. a n d E m il V c rb a n . fro m C o lu m b u s , b e in g s u re -s h o i^ to r e p la c e th e In their effort* d i e t e d M a rty M a rio n a n d L<ou K le in a s t h e in S e ld co ra D in atio n HI to replace pitchers o n th e S t L o u is C a r d in a ls t h is se a so n ? T h a t’s w h a t f a n s h e re who have gone to a r c a sk in g — a n d in t h e sa m e b r e a th th e y in q u ir e : " H a v e t h e C a rd s war, the T i g e r * h a v e approached fo r g o tte n th e y h a v e M ic k e y B u r n e tt c o m in g u p f o r a t r ia i th is t h e cxlreraca of sorinc^^* b a y i n g s h o r ts to p f o r th e S c io n s l a s t se aso n , B u r n e tt r a n k e d p youtii and age. A AC few week* ago, the t h ir d in T h e S p o r tin c N e w s p o ll to d e te r m in e th e m o s t v a lu a b le o C o a st L e a g u e . S p o r ts w r ite r s in P C L p r e c in c ts club acquired If- p la y e r in th e Patrific A. -_______________^TD ust h a v e s e e n s o m e th in g e x ­ to year-old E m e r y t r a o r d i n a r y in t h e w o r k o f B u r ­ WI Hresko, product of n e tt to h a v e r a n k e d h im s o h ig h — un American LeX particularly when it is remembered th at, Ipoa Junior I^eague he Was playiog shortstop for a S ao x in flin t, M i c h . mento team which finished 69 games Whee be arrive* behind the first-place Los Angeles An­ WelOr Beck at (he EvaosviUe gels. A a inspectioD of his record m ight training Camp, he Will find a rival can­ provide the answer. didate in 3&'ycar-oId Walter (Boom Mickey (Ora Escal, if you dare) fin­ Boom) Beck, Ute the Philadelphia And Joseph Nuxhall, Lefty ished the season w ith a batting m ark NatiooaU. of .278. second among the Solon reg u ­ Z elltr announced the addition of Beck Signed by Liney, Weighs lars. Hi* is? hits a ^ six home runs last week, A t the same time it was were bigb-water m arks for the punchdisclosed that DefroiC had regained title 195 and Still Growing less Sacramcntoans. Although B urnett io Joe Hare, another pitcher. Both batted in the No. 2 slot, he w as third are rigbthandei;* who hod become free in runs driven in, w ith 42, n o t many •ten ts.

By TOM s w o r e until you peruse figures which show "We expect to use them mostly for CTNCDWA’n , O. his club crossed the plate ^ y 422 relief work,’* said Steve O’Neill, who times during the season.

Cincinnati** Red* may spring a 15had come to Briggs Stadium from his year-old pitcher on rh r^ National B ut the best is y e t to come. The short­ Cleveland home to check the Tigers^ League teams next sea.soti. l f so, he legged Bmmett, despite the fact that personnel and prospects with ZcUer. >robably will be the youngest player he was plagued by a Charley horse for Beck, a astive of Decatur. XU., has ever to appear in a m ajor league cham­ most of the campaign, r o m p ^ off with been in Organized Ball since 192X when Oi« EScal (MiciteY) Bnni«tt the Pacific Coast League base-stealing pionship gatpe. he received a trial with the St. Louis The younipter is Joseph Henry N ux- title with 36 thefts to his c re d it He Browns. I t wa* his lot to travel ex­ lall of Hamilton, 0 ., whom Bill Mc- stole home n o few er than four tupes tensively in the minor leagues before Jimmy Collins in Speaker’s Corry of the Reds' office sg n ed to a —twice against HoUirwuod in !!'« same he befan a five-year term with the Cincinnati contract February 18. The afternoon. And this, despite a gimpy Role Eight Times in Week PhUUes in 1939. ta a l iummer, the Fhiillcs sent Beck boy, a lefthanded flisger, will no t be leg.

Playing double-headers is noth­ Tribute o f Rival .Manager to Knoxville in the Southern Associa­ 16 years old until next July 23, b u t he ing new fo r a baseball pla>*ing m an­ tion. His outright reiease by that club already stands rix feet three inches, Bill Sweeney, m anager of th e rival ager. B ut d o u sin g u p os an afterwas accepted generally as the end of weighs 195 pounds and is still growing. Angels, called B urnett '’the best hustler dinner ^»eaker is. sometbing new Young Nuxhall is not a stranger to a in baseball,** a title he welt deserves. the v e te r ^ ’a caretf, and it probably for bim. would have been certain fo r him, un­ Cm dnoati uniform, but he never has Mickey was out there battling for nine T hat's artist Jam es (Rip) ColUos d er normal conditioos. The Tigers per­ appeared in a game w ith the Reds. He's innings every day, Ignoring his club’s did the other nlgbt when h e a p ­ suaded him to give them a lift in the pitched in Knothole leagues imd for his inevitable cellar finish. peared at two riiurch iathers-andbtgh school team a t nearby Hamilton, cfnergcnqy.

90os dinners in Albany, lf. V. Things became tough in the last week Detroit will be Beck’s fourth stop starting when he was nine y e a n old, c f the season when the Solans, with The R i i ^ r , who is to begin his on the big league trail. Besides the and last season pitched two no-hit games only five able-bodied p i t i e r s , were third season as manager o f th e PhiUiok he pitched fo r the Browns ip and two one-blUers ou t of six starts for called upon to face Oakland in double­ Senators, is m aking his hom e in his Clavy AA Knothole team. headers on live successive days.

Man­ Albany and between try m g to line ■ ■ Throujri) hi* fitoothole associations, he ager Ken Penner was forced to ask for u p players, filling his w inter duties A Soldier With an Idea learned the Reds were to conduct a one- mound volunteers and B urnett was No, as a salesman, preparing two week­ DCTBOir, Mkh.-—In the personal day tryout comp at.Croslcy Field late I in line. Although his record In O. B. ly radio broadcasts and aR er-dlnpostwar plans of Jimmy Bloodwocth in August, so be showed u p H is size, fails to show any previous pitching ex­ Her ^Making, h e is a btisy fellow. is an ambition for a catching career. age and a b illa so impressed Manager perience, Mickey, in order to help out H e made e i ^ t public appear­ Now in the A rm y a t f t Leonard BUI McKechnie th at Nuxhall was taken th# club, hurled twice that week. He ances in the ro le of ^ a k e r last . Wood. Mo., the Detroit second base­ on a trip to St. Louis by the Cincin­ limited the Acorns to three hits (and week. H e was the h it of th e first m an of the last two aeasm s asked nati team when the Reds played there lost) in his debut, and also did an en­ fathers-and-sons d in rm o f th e T ^ y the advice of Steve O'NeiU before September 3, 4 and 5. tirely creditable job in the second, alLodge of Elks in IVqy, N. Y., Feb­ deciding to work behind the bat in Reared Youngrter to Be Player thoujgh again beaten, J to 2. ru ary XI. aenrica games by way of prepara­ Young N uxhali’s lath er was a semi­ B urnett's fielding average probably tion for a new podUon after the pro player and when the stork brought didn't inspire too much c<mfidence on w ar. him e aoQ. he derided the boy should the part of the (Cardinals. However, a **1 told him It WOS a ^ o o d idea,** become a big leaguer and started train ­ lot of his bobbles can be charged to said. *’Ue has a strong arm ing him for the diamond as soon as the fact that he was "over-hustling.'* to use and he isn 't quite fast enough in lad was big enough to handle a basc- a term supplied b y Sweeney. In other going to his right to ba a first class balL His dither started him playing a t words; M idtcy. surrounded by infield­ Infleldcr.** the age of nine and he has coached the e rs w ithout ^ 9 «ed, was attempting boy ev er rioce. r n — .---------------------------------------------- ■ to cover too m uch ground.

BRISTOL. Tcna.-Va.—T he New York Basel»U is no t the youngster’s only Working w ith a 17-year-old second Giants have selected Bristol a s th e site all o r parts of three and for Brooklyn In 1933 and 1934. In his lour athletic accoropliriunenL He’s been a baseman. Nippy Jones, who had never o f a mass try o u t camp for young play­ of thQ xninorr . Boom Boom saw je rv k e basketball star fo r Wilson Junior High played the pivot bag before. B urnett ers who are gunning this season fo r w ith Bloomington. BJ.. Palestine, Tex.. of Wamili.in, avcragmg better than 20 ranked second lo the league in starting places on the G ia n ^ three Class D clubs, Carl Hubbell, field director, 'an­ Tulsa and Milwaukee before he was 20 points a game this season. H is team double plays. played its final game of the season, B u rn e tt o f L idi-D utcb descent, first nounced after ho and other G iant offi­ years d d . Later, he toiled for Buf­ falo, Louisville^ Chattanooga and mov­ February 17, and it wasn’t until th at saw the light o f day in Eureka Springs, cials nod visited Shaw F lrid and con­ contest was out of the way th at N ux- Ark., October 6, 1918. Although not a ferred with directors of the local Twins, ed from there to Brooklyn. hall and his tother would sign a base­ big fdlow —he stands five feet nine February 39.

Knows m s G«ocrapliy--«nd Bow! After his Dodger experiences, Beck ball contract, and thus close out his indMs and weighs ISS today—he won Hubbell was accompanied h ere by pitched fo r Albany of the ^ten iatio n al am ateur standing. Had it not been for letters In b a s o id , football, basketball Jack Schwarz, office m anager of the l,eague and for the San Francisco Mis­ h i ^ school basketball, he would have and boxing a t Richmond. . High Giants, and F ran k Hickey an d Hank Scbool. captaining the baseball and Imx- DeBerry, veteran scouts. sions and Hollywood of the Pacific Coast accepted the Itods* offer last fa ll The boy will not report to the Reds ing team c drculU From Hollywood he advanced The tryout camp will be launched to the Phillies to rem ain for a five- until his school closes In June. Whether Son o f a Fire Chief on Friday. April 34, and w ill be under he stay** with the big league team or is year period.

Son of a fire chief and a kid whose the supervision o f Hubbell, Rickey and " B e ^ assured us that his arm is sent to lls Southern Association farm most beloved pets were the horses DeBerry. Assisting them will be B al In good aliope,*’ said Eelier. ’T here’s a t Birmingham depends upon dcvclop- which pulled the bright red fire wagon, G ruber, who is expected to skipper no doubt that he knows how to pitch. nxnls. But he’s a big leaguer now, at Mickey broke into O. B. in 1937 with Bristol in the Appalachian League least on paper, and McKcchnlc. a great Grand Zriand in th e Nebraska State again this season, and th e m anagers of I figure Joe Hare will. help us, too.** Hare was in the Detroit organization judge of pitching ability, thinks the time League. The following season found the Giants’ two other Class D clubs— once before. He was one of the play­ is not far distant when he wUl be a him with Paducah in th e Kitty.

Erie. P a , of the Pony League and e rs declared a tree agent lo 1940 when big leaguer In reality, boca use the Dea­ A fter one season w ith Pocatello in Springfield, O., o f the Ohio State cir­ Commissioner K , M. I jn d ly crorikcd con detected the makings of a top- the Pioneer, AL'ricey was sent to Mobile cuit.down on the Tigers fo r what he de­ notcher in the huricy 15-ycar-rid's in the Southeastern League in 1940, About 75 young p b y c rs a re expected creed were Ulcgal farm operations. The actions as soon as he laid eyes on him. remaining there as his d u b swept to here for Uyouts and H ubbell stated th at Dctcuit club was required to pay the pennant the following year. those sbowlog the m ort promise would $1,500. The pitcher took the money and His play a t Mobile won BumcU ad­ be offered contracts w ith the CHass D w ent into retirem ent a t Bcamnoal, Tex. vancement to Rochester in the Inter­ clubs. Players selected by Bristol w ill A t Last ta Sit in Stands H e told Z ^ c r th ai h e hod been play­ national League in 1942. However, in rem ain here after the tryout camp, CINCINNATI, O .-O n e of the real ing independent ball for th e last three midseason, he was transferred to Sac- while those chosen by E rie and Spring­ veterans of the CUzminnati Red or­ seasons. He is 33 years old. ramcnto and thus was on hand when field will be sent to the training camps ganization has notified the d u b b# The addition of and Beck gave the Solons waHoped Los Angeles five of those clubs which w ill ‘ be in the has derided to retire and will not th e Tigers l l pitchers, "Witb Tommy straight in the f i r ^ week of the season home cities. be available for 1944.

Bridges, Hoi WMte and V lr^ l 'Trucks to win the Padfic Coost L ^ g u c cham­ Schwarz, commenting on the pros­ The 'retiring veteran is Henry having gone into the service since the pionship. pects for 1944, voiced the opinion that Wolfson. ticket taker of the Crosley close o f last season, th is departznsnt Something which ^lould prove es­ “barring a ‘work o r fight* order, base­ Field bleachers the past 42 seasons. had been particularly hard hit. The pecially interesting to the Cardinals, in ball can't miss.

His brother, t<ouls WolDoc, m an­ shortstop position is now a source of view of the n^aspourer shortage, is the ‘T h e fans ^ o w e d last y e a r that they ned the local pass gate for 42 years concern. Joe Hoover has passed his fact th at B urnett can do a workmanlike will suK>ort the game as a m orale before retiring about 15 years ago. pie-induction examination a t Los A n­ job in the outfield. H e was used there by booster in time of war,'* h e continued, H eiuy W olfim seldom has seen geles and Joe Orcngo has indicated Rochester, b u t was pressed into duty "and our boj's in camps and across the a complete ball game played by tho anew that h e intends to rem ain in a as shortstop w hen no other player teas seas have asked that go on. I t Reds. This year h e itians to cit in defeckse plant in San Ftoncisco. Two available fo r th a t spot bere last spring. is a p art of the America they have a l­ the grandsUuul and watch t>w*n pcrof the remaining infielders, Don Ross As evidence of h is bustle an d desire fonn. ways known—and a p a rt o f the th{npg and Rudy Totk, have been ted a sifle d to ^ p in shape, Mickey has been tkey are fighting for.** playing ball i s Cuba this winter.

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HomeTrai Ding Crops Into New Boston Plans P lay ers May Be Instmctedi to W ork on T h e ir Own Before Going to Camp

By JACK MALANEY BOSTON, He*.

E ddie Collins' original p l a n s provided for the R ed Sox lo start spring condition­ ing w ork March 15 a1 th e indoor bokseball cage a t T ufts College at Medford, M a s s ., ju s t a few miles outside o f Bos­ ton. A nd after a two weeks* stay Cream there. T aw key's b ited bands were to l& o u t for Baltimore and. on K sta rt a two weeks* stay in which H t o hoped plenty of outdoor work be passible. There is a riwnce so* th at a change may be mode in thme plans.

Nothbig definite bas been said oa tto subject and n o announcement has ben made, b u t i t w ould appear that aaamon sense would deem it smarter.icr m en whose homes are in warm cUsaesa stay in their home vicinities and wad outdoors until i t is time to report *t Baltimore.

T he Sox started their work at Tofif indoor cage last spring and also had a sh o rt stay s t Baltimore. Of course lag w inter w as an unusually tough sad told one and conditions such as existed lag M arch and April may not be digdt* ca led fo r m any years. But it was es s e c e t that Skipper Joe Cronin was fa; from satisfied o r happy about cooditioai a s they were in 3943.

The Tufts cage is a fine ooc, and the Sox w ere afforded every coxirte^ by ti# college officials. There is just rooa enough w ithin the cage for an infield and nets ore draped from the top ti perm it batting practice. Around fix infield is a ^cinder running track.

Handtoflp fo r F ltchen, Batters Alikt Pitching indoors is vastly diffeitBt from tw irling o u t in the optsi spactx T here is a lack of wind resstaact

Champion E ater Rejected The A rm y lost a champion wheo P in k y Woods was rejected in bb physical. T here are some good cat­ e rs in th e arm ed forces, but the best o f them w ould have been forced to th e lim it if th ey had to contoid vntb Pinky. This young man, who stand* w ell over tax feet toll and wri^to about 220, probably was the biggest an d best cater in baseball last sea­ son. H e gave an exHbltion as a gourm et to the sailors a t NorioU^ Va., last sum m er which won’t bt forgotten by the g a l l ^ crew whidt w itn c s e d an d bad th e gobs wide­ eyed as they saw the food disappear.

■ -■ which m akes th e pitches seem extr* fast and tru e. T he batters thus bm trouble following the ballr p a rU c u l^ as the background they were looki&l into did no t aid them. While writing tu rn s a t bat, th ere w as little riuoce for the players to keep b u ^ except st pepper games on the cinder track.

A n im portant and principal part a1 spring training is running, for the p i t ^ Cts, especially. The cinder trade w n o t help o u t because it was almost m ete hard.

The stay a t the cage loosened up the players, b u t the two weeks p u t in there were n o t considered as faaving been w orth while. Men who lived in V a Angeles, for instance, would have been better off had they stayed a t hoM and conditioned themselves os also would have been the men whose b o i ^ a re in th e South.

Accordingly, the suggestion bas be® m ade th at m en who have good work­ ing conditions a t th eir homes get a start on th eir own conditioning and report a t Baltimore, hlarch 26.

A few m ore rigned contracts have been announced by the local learns A p air of local residents. Tony Lupt® and Jim Tabor, paid visits to Fenuay Park, signed u p and left the document* w ith Eddie Collins. W ord came frco Greensboro. N. C., th a t good old Ma« Brown had signed and forwarded M contract an d then the m ails brought rn the signature o f George (Pinky) Woods, giant young righthanded p i t c h e r hm nght up during last season frcffl Louisville. To B raves Field came tte Jo h n Hancock of Clyde Kluttz, the hard-hitting catcher. O f this grouts K luttz and Woods a re clasafied 4-P i® the d r a f t Boh Q uinn le ft Boston February » fo r a week’s vacation in New Jersey*

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N. J , can produce enough sun to bake cwt Jc^mny's wing for regular carty sea­ son sen'icc. "ll* Polo Grounders* hole card of cwne. is Ace Adams.

Seward IVIalched Big Paul bPward, a stylish righthander, hurled a 2 to 2 nine-inning tie against P aul Dwtioger last September. Big Paul W W that game, for it represented Ms twchhundredth win. He got i t when A > ^ Pafko and Ed Sauer Anally reach­ ed Seward in tho tenth round.

VoUdle has pttched five games for Giants and never tw irled a bad ace. They included two successive Jw -hitters and a I lo 0 defeat, caused ■?,*?

Jersey City, h e won l l ^ with a 321 cam ed-run aver?*■ 31. has been pitching around Jan Antonjo. Toledo and other S t Louis amwzis diggings since 193S. and K en T rinU e. from City, are in the service. Al SiWeds. Ainerico PoUi and are J . c . h b ld o v m and IVC^ Polo Grounds.

• ^ rte U . 36, has been reclassified t-A by his Alameda, Calif., d ra ft board, , *l«dvick. in business a t Saping^ Mo, and George Hausm ann, one of lr addiUons m ade to ™ w ants Since th e season dosed, have « g e d contracu Last y e a r w as the ^ ^ Medwidc ever failed to clear game in He batted .278 and w as a good ft ’«^mning player w ith th e Giants, t t a u a n ^ , drafted from New Orleans, h itto perform er and a good B j ^ i c k and P ete Hoffman led a scribes on an ing)ection p S Of the Lakewood traim ag layout on A r u ^ 17. Besides around 27 Giants S? 7 Carl HubbeU wBI have S r '^l^oh m eans there . Players in camp. Hubbell wd BnsloL Tenn., last week and ^or the Q a ss D hopefuls to fo®cn up there en m a se .

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NEW YORK, K. Y. T h e r e w as n o demonstration b y the dU zenry w hen Eddie B razuick a n ­ nounced last week that Bill Voiselle.

Ewald I ^ l e and F rank Sew ard had signed w ith the Giants.

B udsess w ent on as calmly as usual in Wall Street. B u t the event is likely to deep significance, for these gents inake or break the pitching staff.

Tbae are only ten. names on the (itimg roster, one of the smallest Afft in the majors. The Reds and (iidiM.‘s haven't many, either, b u t they bothhold aces. On the Giants, however. ' Toiselie. who spent last sum m er, until Sfjjteosber. in Jersey City, and Pyle, wbo-was with MmneapoUs m ost of th e , are likely to be among Mel Ott'r first five string of starters. Sew­ ed, pitdoed for Springfield In the tadwTi League, is the dark horse. Cliff Kdion and Johnny Wittig. regular jsae-opmets last year, won 14 and lost a pmes between them and need plenty ot help. Cliff was ju st over an operaS a sod Carl Hubbell predicts h e will be aucb improved. Ken Chase, another itarter. pitched some good h a ll bu t wound up with «n1y four w.*ins and a iaasi on the chin.

Rube Fischer proved a w inner when he was in form and H arry Feldm an ^w ed he can pitdi when he won e r a and lost one in HM2, bu t until Robe demonstrates that he has con­ quered his back ^ m e n t and Feldman npins stienglh from five m onths’ ill­ ness, they cannot be counted on. Johnny Allen, who reached the thirty-eighth milestone during the off-season, could

NEW YORK. N. Y .-V ice-P residtot Leo J. Boody and Secretary Edward T. Brannick, tired business men of the Giants* office, deported for Miami, Fla., on F ebruary 18 to ^ up for the rigors of spring train ­ ing. whidi starts a t Lakewood. N. L March 22. They left President Sfoneham a i hom e to attend to the vice-presidentmg and ffccretaiying.

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Frisch Entertains Fans at Columbus COLUMBUS. 0 .—“I don't think we can do enough fo r those fellows up there in Alaska and the Aleutians. Do you know w hat they want most of all?

They w ant to get this thing over and et back home. They w a n t sport to continue, sure, bu t the thing they want m ost is to get back to their home folks.”

Those statements highlighted Frankie Frisch's cntettaining speech, feature of the local Old Time Ball Flayers* Asso­ ciation banquet, February 17. The Pittsiiurgh Pirate manager, attracting a ca­ pacity 4S0 crowd, scored heavily with his interesting stories of past diamond events, bu t his message concerning his recent visit to the armed forces in Alaska and the Aleutians struck the high n o te for th e evening.

Frisch w as accompanied by Dr. Char­ les Jorgensen, Pirate trainer and for­ m er Columbus resident, and the enter­ taining L uke Barnett, the professional “insulter" frnm P i t t s b u r g who pu t on bis act, O ther g u e ^ Included Billy South­ w orth and Dr. Harrison Weaver of the S t Louis Cardinals; Biff Hinchman, P irate scout: President George M. T rautnian of th e American Association; President Al Banister and Manager Nick CuUop of the local Junior World's Series champions; Cy Perkins, fonoer Philadelphia catcher, Al <Kipl Sclbach, form er Washington and New York G iant outfielder; Pitcher Owen Sohce tx of the Milwaukee Brewers; Shortstop Bill W ictclmann of the Boston Braves; Bob Klino. form er American League pitcher, and M ajor B ank Gowdy, who r e t u r n ^ home th a t evening on a tenday furlough from F t Benning. Ga. It is expected th a t the local d u b soon w ill announce th at Terre Haute, Ind., has been selected as a trainm g site. The Rochester International L e a ^ e d u b also is expected to train there.

BOB HOOEY.

BufTalo Eagles Fly High to Honor Bucky Harris BUFFALO. N. Y .- A record tu rn ­ out of 2.000 attended the welcom­ ing party given here in honor of B ucJ^ Harris, ncvr manager of the Bisons, by the Fraternal O rder of Eagles, F ebruary 15. Manager Joe M cCarthy of the New York Yan­ kees, shared honors w ith Harris.

M ayor Joseph J. Kelly headed th e delegation of city officials.

By CD MeAULCY VI CLEVELAND, O. W ith the opening o f the* troim ng sea­ son less th an three weeks away, offi­ cials of the Q e v eland Indians still are far from having a ball team »gncd-b u t the encouraging symptoms are devel­ oping.

A t this date it ap­ pears that, in spite of the withdrawal o f Second Baseman ^ Ray Mack In favor o f tea r work, the TVibe will have an infield as capable as most that the d raft boards and the factories are likely to leave in the najoiii.

Michael (Mickey) Rocco, the swarthy Minnesotan who last season gave the club the fanciest protection it has had at first base in more than a decade, failed to pass his A rm y pbyrical last week.

Jim m y Grant, bought from Chicago last season os a utility man, long ago was given a 4-F rnting. Boudreau him ­ self, so ta r a s is known bere. has not yet been reclassified, b u t it is believed tiiat when he is called for induction, the combination o f a lump in his side aud a p air o f shaky ankles will send him r l ^ t back to the Wipwam, ‘ Nothbig has been heard officially from Ken Kcltner. ti e AR-Stor third baseman, b u l t h e 'w riter's Milwaukee a ^ t reports th at Ken to satisfied w ith his contract and intends to sign i t I f ROCCO, Boudreau, G rant and K eltn er are available, the Indiana wQ2 have a starting infield which, by w artim e standards, m ust be rated in the upper

SOO Rochester Fans Give S e n d o f f to Oliver French ROCHESTER. N. Y .-W ith Branchi Rickey. Frank Shaughnessy. presi­ dent, and officials of the Internatio n d League in the audience, more than 300 fans of Rochester paid trib ­ ute, on the night of F ebruary 21, to Oliver French, president of the Red Wings, who recently resignedI^ench was given a chest of silver at the dinner, arranged by M att Jackson and Elliott Cushitig. sports editors of the Times-Uolon and Democrat and Chronicle, w ith the assisIan cc of the three Rod\estcr radio stations and baseball writer^.

French was the redpient of lauda­ tory rem arks from B ran d i Rickey, boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers and “discoverer'* of French. Shaughn.essy and a galaxy o f baseball men.

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Scranton Sender, Reardon Receiver SCRANTON, Pa.—probably because they didn't desire to leave the kligbtcst inference that anyone was anxious to see him go, Joe Reardon's lc ^ o n of well-wishers refra’ined from p re­ senting him w ith a traveling bag a t a huge testimonial. F ebruary 17, to cele­ brate th e Thin Man’a selection as chief of the Plullies* farm B ut this was the otdy thing (besides th e silver­ ware) th at the guest of honor failed to c a n y cdf, including the speaking hon­ orsIn all. Reardon received a W ar Bond from bis form er employers, the Scran­ ton Mixters; a handsome watch from the civic group which ^ n s o r c d the stupendous affair; a plaque on behalf of the Eastern iJrague "for mcrltorrous service,” and a n engraved desk ML via his fd lo w members of the Nativity Social Club, a neighborhood organicaUoa. Then there w as a private gift from h b friend and colleague. Gen­ eral Manager Herb P e n n o ^ which Pennodc chose to present to th e Thin Man far removed from th e sp o ffi^ t. and 550 eager pairs of eyes. And. of course, Joe received m any accolades.

B ut the extra-base h it was Reardon*s response. Normally reticent, the Thin Man was hardly expected to say more than a doren words. Inslead, be cov­ ered more grcmnd than T erry Moore and did so w ith the grace o t a big leaguer.

CHIC FELDMAN.

SOO in Twin Cities Hail Blades, Ryan ST. PAUL. M*uin.—Hands across the river dripped such extreme cordiality th at fans began to wonder if the trad i­ tionally b itter Minncapolis-Bt. Paul dia­ mond rivalry m ight devdop into p'mk tea w ith wafers—u n til Old Stubblebeard Burleigh Grimes needled the principals back into normalcy.

Burleigh, m anager of Toronto, was a neutral in the triple unveiling of Double A skippers a t the annual St. Paul Old T im ei^ Hot Stove League dinner, a t­ tended by 502 bere. F ebruary 16. Ray Blades, new m anager of the Saints, and Rosy Ryan, new Minneapolis pilot, were introduced to the gathering in th eir new capacities. Grimes came down from Yellow Lake, Wis., and stole the show w ith h is sharo wit.

W alter S e tte r and Mike Kelley. S t Paul and Minneapolis owners respectiv d y , broke bread together, as did th eir g e n » ^ man.igcrs. Bob Tarleton and P a rk e CarrolL A significant indication o f fan in­ terest for the coming season w as the scU-out attendance. From a small be­ ginning four yeaxa ago, the diziner bas become a h ig h li^ t of the oS-seasoD. M ayor John McDonough, w h o s e efforts w ere largely re^xm stbte fo r sav­ ing the Double A franchise here a year ago, was perhaps m ost pleased of alk The m ajor leagues w ere represented by F irst Basemen Howie S cbultt of Brook­ lyn and M idiey Rocco of Cleveland, and C atcher Angelo GiuUam o f Wash­ ington. A il live in St, PauL GORDON GILMORE. ■ ■

Sheriff Russ Van A tta Boosts Game as Career PATERSON. N. J . — "Baseball ^ u M toke steps to create Interest in the game among young boys."

RUSS Van A tta. form er m ajor league pitcher and now sheriff of .Sussex County, declared a t the annual OldTimers* dinner here, February 15. *The game presents unm atdied op­ portunities,” Van Atta continuw i “W here else could a boy like IKck Lajcskie of Passaic pick up a glP.OOO bonus ju s t Tor rigning a contract?”

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CLEVELAND. O.—A routine re­ lease from Commissioner Landis* office discloses th a t Charles (Red) Embrce, promislng-looking right­ hander who stayed o u t of baseball last summer to w ork on his farm in California, had been reinstated on the Indians* active list. Inquiry a t League Park. however, revealed th at th o d u b m erely is trying to m ake Embrce available for option to a Coast league team, fo r w hidi he could pitch a t nighl without neglecting fils pastoral cl/ores. c ru s t I t will be still better if Russ Peters decides to leave his Dayton w ar jo b and report for training. In the only comrounkatitm Peters ad­ dressed to Cleveland, h e said nothing directly about retiring for the dura­ tion. but indicated that he was c o t look­ ing forward to 1644 w ith his customary z e st Indians In Ko Ilu fty to Sign Vice-President Roger Pcck'mpaugh rem ains calm in the la c e -of th e fact t)iat his Tribesmen are in no h urry to retu rn the contracts w hich they re­ ceived alntost a m onth ago. The vet­ eran Joe Hcving to the only member of th e club who has signed so fa r this year. Boudreau and Oris Rockett ara bound by holdover documents, **The boys ace waiting until the last possible m inute to see if there is any ch w g e in conditions,** is Peqkto a n Olj'sto.

N ot waiting w ere Jim Bagby and Al­ be Reynolds, both of whom returned the Tribal bids unsigned. Bagby did not >Tite to Pcckinpaugh, b u t in an Inter­ view in Atlanta, Ga., his w inter home, be was quoted as demanding more money—o r d se . According to this dis­ patch. Bagby said be would give u p baseball before he would play a t th e salary offered by the Indians, although be added that be would play for leas money II the T ribe traded him.

Reynolds, a fre^im on sensation In 1643. said the club’s first offer was "far b e l c ^ th e figure which would interest him.

Catcher Buddy Rosar late last week joined Mel H arder on the list of those who haven't derided yet w hat they’re going to do about th e coming season.

Denying a Buffalo report th at he al­ ready delrrm m cd to keep his job at the Buffalo /jrtn s Co., Rosar said there is plenty of tim e lo make his de­ cision between now and March 13. If Rosar dropped out o f Ihti roster, th e Indians’ only catchers wduM be Jim McDonnell and Jim Devlin, both rook­ ies from the Tribe’s Class A farm a l ■Wilkes-Barre.

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The feud started long before the trip began. John McGraw and Bill Klem had been bitter foemen on the playing field for many years previously, al­ though they never carried their hate off the diamond, ll would have interfered too much with their occasional friendly din­ ners together after the day's work was done. On general principles, however, any um­ pire, even the lovable Old A r­ bitrator, was completely ana­ thema to the Little Napoleon of the diamond.

It was 30 years ago that Mc­ Graw’* Giants and Charlie Comiskey’s White Sox embark­ ed on an around-thc-world tour. As necessary evils they took along two arbiters, Klem and Jack Sheridan. But John J. started fighting with them from the moment they left Cincinnati or* preliminary stopoffs throughout the U n i t e d States before embarking from San Francisco for the Philip­ pines, Japan, China, Australia, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Italy, France and England.

The athletes traveled by pri­ vate train across the continent, pausing a t whistlc-stops en route. Every night there was a rather high-priced poker game in operation, with Chris­ ty Mathewson running the play.

By the time they had reached California, K l e m had won $1,000 and Sheridan some $500.

And Germany Schaefer, among others, had gone to the clean­ ers. stripped completely of all ready cash.

In the first exhibition played on the Coast, McGraw, irate at a Klem decision, fired away with: “How much money did you make last night? It’s no wonder you bums can't see straight, staying up all night playing poker!" To Jaw n’s

Bill Klein ut Business Suit. great indignation, W i l l i a m thumbed him out promptly, but he decided then and there that umpiring and poker playing, no m atter how profitable, didn’t

Troops Eager for Sport News, Says Gomez, Back From Africa So S cared R u n n in g f o r R aid

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By JO E KING OI the New York W orld-Telcgram NEW YORK, N. Y. A lean and hardy looking 33-year-old athlete o f s i x f e e t o n e in c h and 175 p o u n d s is back in town. H e is o n e of th e most famous of Y ankee h u rlers and w ould seem prime bait for a Stadium appearance flus year. B u t Ed Barrow m ight es well stay aw ay from his door.

Because Lefty Com er is absolutely, posi­ tively, through w ith tw irling.

Gomez has Just retu rn ed from b tour of North Africa' and Europe w ith F red Corcoran, Am erican Golfers’ Association secretary, an d ex-heavyw eight champ Jack Sharkey. They entertained the soldiers, mostly die invalids in the hospitals. H is tw o m a t e s stayed there, b u t E l Goofy is back to resum e duties at Norden Bombsight Co. and live iii Hew G ardens w ith h is wife and two kids.

He tipped the scales a t l90 when ho q u it baseball, b u t a strep throat took m uch of die tonnage off.

“I am delighted to be bock.” said Hie mon w ho once stopped a W orld's Se­ ries in Hic Stadium to look nt an a ir­ plane. “A nyone who says h e isn’t frightened by on a ir raid is crazy. I w as so scared running for a shelter th a t I thought I w as standing it, th e same place, u n til I noticed I w asn’t losing any on those in fro n t of mc.”

L efty says th e soldiers, practically all of them. w ant m ore and fresher sports news. “Zcke B onum is doing a great job." .said Gomez. “Everybody loves him. H ie typical story about Zcke, w hich you hear all over, is this one: Zeke w ent to call on th e general. The general was out. ‘O kay/ replied Bonura, ‘ju st tell him Zcke was in to see him , and tell him to give m e a ring.' ” T he traveling trio w orked w ith m ov­ ies. a Byron Nelson short, a newsreel collection of fam ous fights, and the 1S43 World s Series.

"W e couldn’t answ er ail th e ques­ tions," adm itted Gomez, "w hich touched alm ost every sport. .

“We had one .thrilling experience which I w on't forget. I t was a fte r a

“ You w ere too quick w ith y o u r de­ cision today," said Schaefer, bellig­ erently. "I was not!' roared Kiem.

B y instinct, th e Old A rbiter knew th a t M cGraw w as th e d a rk g en tle­ m an in tlie woodpile. He had prod­ ded Schaefer into tossing th e h a r­ poon into BUL “H ere's 5500 w hich says you w ere w ro n g " said G erm any carelessly. as he flashed a roH. T h at convinced Bill his suspicions w ere c o rre c t Schaefer had been broke some 10.000 miles previously. WiUiam said n o t a word, b u t stalked aw ay, He w ent to his cabin, exhum ed tw o m oney orders for 5500 apiece from th e bot­ tom of h is tru n k an d dug out his tru sty ru le book. Not u n til then did he re h im .

"Now. Schaef,” h e asked sooth­ ingly, "w hat w as th a t bet?”

"Y our decision w as too quick," re­ peated G erm any. " P u t up y o u r dough," boomed W illiam. “H ere’s my 5500, an d here’s another 5500 more.” W ith th a t he * flung down h is oth er m oney order.

Thereupon, Schaefer exposed th e plot b y turn in g quickly to M cGraw and dem anding: “How about another five?" Sportsm an th a t he was, Mc­ G raw covered th e rem ainder of the wager.

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Vernon (Lefty) Gomez rum or th a t ou r Arm y had to r e tre a t We w ere traveling in a car, bucking a stream of ou r trucks coming lh* other way, and w e got m ore anxious m inute by m inute. Finally Corcoran stopped tile car. ‘M aybe we arc retreating.’ he explained, 'and I don’t believe in get­ ting anyw here before th e Army.’ ” M ost amazing sight to L efty were the A rab kids ploying soccer in bare fe e t and booting the ball hard. The soldiers go fo r basketball tournam ents, outdoors an d indoors. Funniest sight w ere th e begowned A rabs riding their tiny burros, w ith gargantuan bundles on their heads. “I t was like R uth sit­ ting on P hil Rizzuto and carrying G ehrig on his dome.” said Lefty.

T he kids in th e hospital w ards loved to play pranks on the visitors, and Go­ mez had m any laughs there. B u t also his m ost touching moment. “ We had entertained in a w a r d a n d one of the boys colled me over." added Gomez.

“One of his arm s had been blown off and th e other was in a cast. H e said: ’I didn’t applaud, b u t it wasn’t because I didn t w an t to / T h at m ade m e feel better, higher in spirits, than I had been anyw here over there, and very sad, to o ."

The Old A rbiter Goes Fishing in Florida.

Red Sox. w as selected a s th e referee of the dispute. K lem han d ed him the ru le book and departed fo r a w alk aro u n d th e deck. O ne com ­ plete circu it and h e peeked- inside.

T he arg u m en t w as ju s t a s h o t an d heavy as i t had been in th e begin­ ning. So he took one m ore lap aro u n d th e deck. a n d strode firm ly w ithin.

"W ell, judge," h e asked, in a voice w hich rattled every w indow in th e cabin, “ who w ins the m oney?"

“It’s a one-sided argum ent," said McAIeer. “T he um pire w ins all th e money.”

B ill’s hand gleefully clam ped dow n on the 52.000. He fondled it m om en­ tarily, th en pried loose 5500. “H ere’s y o u r dough back!" he shouted a t th e startled Schaefer. “A nd h e r e s yours!” he boomed to tile even m ore startled M cGraw as he retu rn ed th e o th er 5500. “R em em ber this, John,” he added, “y o u 'll n e v e r get fa t

arguing ru le s w ith th e Old Arbi­ tra to r.”

I t w as th e n e x t sum m er in Boston th a t M cG raw cam e storm ing out of th e dug o u t to dem and th a t a halk be called against Dick Rudolph, w hose pitching delivery was so tric k y th a t a balk w as not easy to detect.

‘T h e sam e old K l em!" howled Mc­ G raw in suprem e d isg u st profiting n o th in g from experience. “When arc y o u ev er going to learn th* ru les?"

“I learn ed you th e ru les last win­ ter,” re to rte d B ill. * “A nd it’s ab o u t tim e you got to k n o w som ething ab o u t gram m ar* snapped M cG raw . “ You can’t learn an y th in g to a n y o n e You can teach him , b u t y o u can’t le a rn him." “ M ister M cG raw ," said William, sadly, “it begins to look as though I can n e ith e r learn you n o r teach y o u . Y ou’re ju s t hopeless."

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T h e C ardinals w ill come h e re from their training camp a t Cairo, IIL. and the F errying G roup w ill play them a re tu rn game a t Cairo on th e following Sunday.

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VOICE SL FAN E d i to r o f T b s S p o r t i n g N e w s :

I re a d th e letters, published recently, from E d ito r T ay lo r Spink to Harold P arro tt, B rooklyn’s secretary, and Par­ ro tt’s le tte r to Spink, an d finally wise­ cracking E ddie B rannick’s letter to you ab o u t P a r r o t t I w ould like to know how th e secretary of a last-place teain, whose nam e I can rem em ber, can call M r. P a rro tt unorig in al fo r w earing bow tics lik e P resid en t B ranch Rickey dc**?

W hether M r. B ran n ick know s it or not, bow tics w e re in existence bef or* B rannick w as b o m .

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W H O RC/UXV OWr\S B A S E B A L V T And it came to poss that all the people interested in the great game of base­ ball decided to orgaoiie a fact-finding commission. o A. to ascertain ju st who did «/> own the pastime. They M met in a soundproof room X and the firing s t a r t e d H forthwith“Bcfore any of you osiers gel started -with your heresies, X w ant to say for myself and m y colleagues that we own baseball ” one of the mag­ nates opened.

“The club in which I have the m ajority stock has a vast organization.

We have a team in the majors. We have clubs in the minors. Wherever baseball is played, we are omnipotent.

“There are many other organizations like the one I represent I say, we, Ute club o w n e r s , own basebaU." Up spoke an official of a league: “It is quite true "We Have Ae Sfefce" th at the magnates, with big financial investments, have a tremendous stake in baseball. But w here would they be if. we w ere not around to guide their actions?

Where would they be lf we did not tell them what to do?'* This brought a minor league chieftain to his fe e t “Ail very, very Interesting,'* he shouted, growing choleric. “How about the men In the great organization which is known as the minor le a g i^ ?

Who develops the talent? Who sends up the replacements? The m inor leagues own bamban.*’ -This aroused one of the Fourth Estate. “You men r i ^ t in­ side the game believe that because you have money invested in . financial adventures which have to do w ith the diamond, you own th e whole ^ b a n g /* the newspaperman orated.

“How many-fans would you get into your parks if it w eren't for tis? We, who w rite about the game, raise the halo over the head of your hero. paint the dramatic picture of stirring achievements, lure the paying gitest past the turnstiles w ith the agility of our typewriters. We own fc^seball.'* , “Wait a minute,'* chuckled the owner of a newspaper. “You men who w rite about the game are merely employes of the papers which print your stuff. B ^ b a i l Is a form of entertainm ent. As a professional game, it Is a finandal enterprise. Yet baseball's adver­ tising expense is chimcrjcal. We give the space, tlie w hite paper on which the popularity of the game is founded. We own baseball.** A veteran club owner then took the floor. “The true owners of baseball are those who ^ the eyes of the general public are the establisbod spokesmen for the game,** he shouted. “In tim es like these, this distinction is of tremendous importance. We, who are ordained to represent the game and announce its decisions, own base­ ball. AU others arc not to make any statements. That is forbidden.** A tired, puzzled young man arose and said: “I am only a ball player. I am in the majors. I came here to be enlightened. I thought maybe we owned l^sebail. But I now we players w ere wrong. I see we players must not speak up for ourselves and we must shout down anybody who trUis to make out our case for us.)

Gentlemen. I am convinced now, we are the ham in the sandwich.”

Then there came a knock on Die door. The portal was opened and a youngster of not more than a dozen years walked in. lie carried a bat, wore a glove. He held fast to a dirtied, taped baseb a it His uniform was tom . but his smiJe was brilliant. ' ‘Gentlemen. I hear you are trying to find out who owns base­ ball.** he laughed. “The U ds on our team don't care who owns base­ ball. But we believe we ARE bascbaU. "We haven’t a dime invested in the game—except the cost ct our uniforms and the ball, bats and gloves. And, when you consider th at I have to get up around five in the morning to cover a news­ paper route, the money I put into baseball maybe is m ore im portant than the money some of you rich men invest in it. I am not in Hie game for profit in dollars and cents.

“We kids of the Hercules A. C. don't make any big decisions.

We don't w rite for the papers. We merely play the game.

“No, we don't own baseball. B ut somehow we feel we have the most im portant slake in St. “All we know is this—l^ c b a ll *^15 tile greatest game* in the world. U grew right here in the greatest country in the world, and we want lo make sure nothing happens to it.

“We think Blat lf anybody has anyUving to say for the benefit of the game and its players, let him stand up and say i t I don’t th in k any of us in baseball should be afraid to say his piece.

“X wish we kids of the Hercules A. C.. and other lads of the American Legion tournament, of the sandlots of America, of the school teams, had the ability to get up and talk. We would go right to Washington and toll the President himself. And nobody could stop us. Because we think we are baseball.** The door again opened—a bit timidly. A hesitant figure stepped Into th e room. It was Gus H. Fan. “I, too, feel that I have an im ­ portant stake in bascbaU,” said Gus. “Who makes possible the players' salaries, the owners' profits? Whose money built the ball parks and pays for their upkeep? Yes, I have a sU ke In baseball. * However,” continued Gus H. Fan. “I recognize th at the m a­ jority stoctoolder Is young Hercules. And together we form a sort OI trusteeship for another stocJcholdcr, who was once a kid, and still Is a fan. hut who is unable to be present. He is the American serviceman, who is fighting to protect the investment of all of us.”

The chairman of th e meeting got to his feet. “GcnOemen. after w hat we have beard, to continue this fact-finding commission would S®..

Slily,” he announced. Before you could say “Babe i\uth» the room was vacant.

And so the mocUog reitUy did discover who owns baseball.

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Things I Could V eiy Easily D o W ithout I am not a very gozd hater. B u t I am a la ir disliker. Tho* an quite a few things in this game of baseball w ith which I could di»> pense without any qualms, w ithout th e b a t o f an eye. If I may pardoned the liberty. I w ill tr y to catalog a few of those d la li^ details those im wanted m em orabilia of th e G reat National Pastime.

I dislike strongly the player who thinks h e carries his dub, I especially dislike th e player of th e unsuccessful team who thinks be is being forced to live fa r beneath his station, and it Is a shame be cannot land w ith an organization w hich would locate him In mon stylish surroundings, w ith a t least one m ore hero of his gigantte CcUibcr* I dislike the ball player w ith th e S ecret Grievance. He giva you th at M alevolent Eye. You don't know w hat h e Is beefing about, and wish he would come clean. B ut h e won't. He Just stands off

ore and bellows: “That blind um­ pire. Joe Puokus, beat us out of ainoOier game today.” So Junior, quite loj'ally, takes up the cry: “Kill the umpirel” That's not right, says George. Joe Pm ikus w asn't given a fair shake, o r a O H V A I3 U M » ...V A ••W O P .* H O W A/PVV LlSSen, chance to tell his side of the story. ;C A J2B > fO U K E E F C6M?. I P A L O O K A / V A Barr isn't complaining. He en­ ?_ p iN N eaw A rrv N c cS uSnY ' CUCHNA fAV joys his work, is proud of being rT^V^TTTur-i t>birt a big league umpire, and before (he w ar interfered, be had his o'wn w inter umpire academy.

“Umpires have it so much bet­ te r than in the past,** said George.

“We still hear tales around the league of what some of the old­ timers had to put up with. I ’ve heard one about how they turned some Russian wolf-hounds loose in Washington on Toifi Lynch, the form er National lieague presi­ and gives you the Pish Eye, the Frozen M itt, th e Cold Storage Glaze. dent. when he was an umpire. Somewhere sometime, you w rote tw o lines be did not like. Tbosa We don’t have to contend w ith two lines, in his lim ited m entality, outw eigh the columns and columna »/ tliat today—we get wolves in the of praise you have w itte n about him . He is a S tinker.

I dislike the player, m anager or m agnate w h o -tells you thiop stands, but not wolf-hounds, and regardless of reports to the con­ w ithout specification as to th eir being off. th e record; without any trary, umpires have friends. I h in t th at w hat he tells you should be off th e record; and when ha glimpses his words in cold type, yam m ers; “B roken confidence’.” *> have plenty of them. / I dislike, intensely, th e Fair W eather Fan. Six days a week ba “When baseball started as the national sport, picking on the um­ w ill holler his head off fo r his favorite hero, b u t on th e seventh d*y, pire became part of the psychol­ le t that hero boot one in the clatch, and the F a ir W eather Fan will let > ogy of the game. I don’t know loose a flood of vituperation. H e is a S tinker, too.

• • • why. We’re a fair-m inded na­ 0 • tion, and w hen you see how we T he Player Who W aots lo Be R ated O ver His Claw h a o ^ c Jap prisoners, compared to the deviltry of the Nips. I I dislike the ball player who, endowed by God and N a t u r e . ^ guess we can p at ourselves on the second-rate skills, thinks you should praise him ' as a star-of atan^ b a ^ as pretty good sportsmen. and sulks because you w on't stultify your judgm ent.

But. our grandpappies used to I have no use for the fan who spends his afternoon heckiiB| thirfir it was fun to make the um­ some player. Go hom e w ith the heckler and. ten to one, you w pire the goat for all th at went find that he is a brow-beaten, nagged husband, o r some other i r m i l ^ wrong w ith th eir ball team. And, hom bre who goes to th e ball p a rk m erely to let off steam. He Is a all he did was to try to ru n the Freudian museum piece. game, and call plays as he saw W ait a second. I do HATE! I h a te th e read er who, because you them. do not a ^ e e w ith him , or he does not agree w ith you, w rites y o ^ *.*The old practice still holds nasty letter in which be says h e knows you are th e paid press agert over. Often, it is thousands against of P layer Bokes, o r the subsidized publicity m an for the b a ll^ Jb . one or two men. who are as neces­ He thinks the three, five or 15 cents h e spends fo r th e publicatioa sary to the game as the players. or* the paper entitle him to a license to insult you. ^, D o ^ that come under fair play?”

I dislike autograph hunters who carry th e ir hobby to r id ic u le “Three Rocks (or a Nickel” ' limits, and m ake dow nright pests of them selves. I dislike, veb^ George may philosophize co mently. the player who shakes off a ll autograph seekers, who resets how th e abuse of um pires start­ all o v ^ u r c s a t friendliness off tile field. B ut I m ust sympathize ed. but he hasn’t lost his sense of w ith those who are harassed beyond all endurance. humor.

• • • “I’ve seen some darbs in my T h e P ilch er W ho Takes All Dayw day,” be related, “but the best came in my early days of um­ There is ullerly no love in me fo r die pitcher who dillies and tben^ dallier piring, when I was with the West­ and takes three hours to w ork a nine-inning game. H e b n o t necessarily rfow ern Association. F o rt Smith. Ark., of action and indolent by nature. H e is not essentially slow of mental m o ^ was in the league, and there then. rn en t Very likely h e is a of exhibitionist who be classed uno« was a law against Sunday ball in the heading of Spotlight Swipe.

Arkansas, so the Fort Smith club By the same token. I dislike the batter who keeps stepping out of t h e b ^ played its Sabbath games in Mof­ I d i s ^ e those contests between slow pitchers a n d dilatory battera. Ttk* fat, Okla., on the opposite bank of things get unfunny after a while. the Arkansas River.

I arn n o t disposed to cheer fo r the um pire w h o 'thinks there are fans ro> “The Fort Smith fans used to ’ pay their way into the park ju st to see bim w ork. I do n o t believe that ax i w alk over a bridge to the Okla-' big league game, fans ever have come out ju s t to see an y umpire in action. boma side. There they would be I dislike the um pire w ith rab b it ears, looking for a p retex t to * greeted wiUi boys w ith buckets player. And I dislike the m anager o r player who w ill m ake a deliberate w o n fuU of rocks.' "Three rodcs for a to discredit a n umpire, to arouse the rabble and p u t on a row dy show. nickel: throw ’em a t the umpires,* hate the m anager o r player who w ill repudiate a story. T he number cf the ambitious young v e n d o r s suchI culprits few. B u t they do exist. They say: “Joe SnuUi Is a would yell a t the fans. IVbat’s second b o r n aisn .”veryYou say: “Is th a t for publTcation?’* They soy: “Why noli more, business wasn't bad.” w hen called, they shout: “I iiever said a w ord of it.’’ They are Stinker* The um pire Is never supposed Then, I dislike the magnate o r official who w ill n o t come clean. Usually be isttw to m ake a mistake, but then is m an who. a t a dinner, will get up on the dais an d shout: “I love the bawbau everyone in baseball letter-per­ writers. fect? TbaVs what George wants w ith me."I love their sense of honor. Never has one of them broken a coofidenet to know.

• • a y “I recall when Gabby Street was m an ag er' of the Cardinals, Ae for the Guy W ho Defl, D eliberately Ethan Allen hit an inside-the-park.

I b ate the who lies, w ith malice aforethought, w ith d ^ b e ra tio n , with home ru n in St. Louis, but i t ’ didn't count because he had bat­ motive. The higher his station in baseball, th e m ore do I h a te himI disb'ke the official who says: •‘This is the lowdown, an d I am telling ted out of turn. Gabby had else,” but proceeds to give the fu ller story to one o f your ri\’al scribes. Iw U changed Allen's position on his a Super-Phony. ^ , own lineup but not on the one I dislike to h ear the baseball w riters referred to as *The News Boys.

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Ethan then flied out. Instead of dislike the man—usually h e is from th e outside—who, having seen th e m o v :^ hitting a homer, he contributed thinks ail w riters a re booxebounds,.and that b e can buy them for a quart of . two outs. Was Gabby’s face red? Scotch. A t current prices—a p in t I hale the ball club th at is so luggard/y it will n o t furnish common eomfora “I said: 'Well, that's one tlicy c a n t hang on mc.* in its press box, and w on't ^ v e you th e chance to BUY a sandwich betvre® ’'A fter Frisch succeeded S treet games of a double-header. Heaven knows, no w riter is after free lunch. as m anager of the Cards, one day I hate the railroad m an who says; “You guys have no rig h t to squawk about F rankie h it a long double with your riding accommodations. You are lucky to be ort this t p i n a t aU." George W atkins on first base. W at­ I dislike rooming with a fellow scribe who throws newspapers on the fi®** kins was beld a t third, but some­ sets fire to his bed clothes, eats most of his m eals in the room and tosses towds how F ran k got the idea he had all over the bathroom. scorer!. He ran dowm to third on I dislike talking shop with strangers. A fter a long day of baseball on tW the next pitch, only to find Wat­ field and a t the typew riter. I'd m uch rath er talk Dickens o r th e incidence o* kins there. I was the umpire on twins in families minus tw'in histories. third base, and had to m ake the I dislike players who set u p reputations a* ideal Fanulw Men and turn om decision, calling him out. to be philanderers. I dislike play*ers with acute reputations as Don Juans who “F rank said most apologetical­ (urn out to be Clean Family M ea ' „ ly: 'George, Til never say another I hate small hotel rooms. I dislike getting a v n rt: “Your story ran too thing to an umpire aa long as I 1 am not daffy over night ball, b u t know thousands a re crazy about it, and live.’ can see why, “But,” chuckled Barr, “ the good And^ that, It would seem, are enough dislikes for the tim e being. My bk*®? resolution didn’t last very long. They will hold for another day.

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Ob tile afternoon of Septem ber 4. 1935, one of the players had jost finished pounding a few nails into his favorite b at before leav^ the clubhouse for th e playing field. I picked up the hammer and diore one nail sideways into th e sole of m y rig h t shoe. That aflerm a we won from Philadelphia. 8 to 3. back of L arry French. We ^ ________ a *>went on from there to win 20 m ore games. Before each of those games I pounded an extra nail mto my right shoe. Maybe it didn't help, but I wam't going' to stop driving nails as long as we won. We made it U in a row and took the league cham­ pionship.

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LON WABNEKC, -who tossed a two-hitter at the Cardinals lo best Paul Dean, I to 0.

Giants* $100,000 F lange On Dave B ancroft N ext hi 1912. when tho G iants w ere fltKindtering in seventh place. P resi­ dent Charles Stoneham, a t the in ­ sistence of Manager John McGraw, called President WiUiam J . B aker of the PhUlies and oficrcd $100,000 and tw i players for Shortstop Dave fiancrafL The incredulous Baker could not believe his ov>*n cars. The iaadc story of this historic deal. and its results, will be related m the next issue by Frederidc C. Lieb.

Ben Chapman P u t in Limited Service RICHMOND. V a .-T lic Colts will bc^ training April 12. with Ben Chap­ man. cx-oujor leaguer, a t th e helm. but he may n o t be around long.

Chapman. 16. voluntarily app en tw at his Montgomery, Ala., d raft board, Februar/ 7. and took a ptc-induction physical exam. A knee injury, sufiercd in (ootbali some years ago. caused nim to be gh-en a limited service classificatioD. Bon expects it w ill b e about $0 days before he is called.

Owner Eddie Mooers said Chapman would star: as team pilot and w as hope­ ful he might be able to rem ain w ith the team all season.

Chapman succeeds L a rry K inrer. Colt shortiiop. who also has been reclassi­ fied 1-A. Kinrer pinch-hit Inst scnson while Chapman w as serving a wspens-.an for striking a n um pire. I ' he is jtili around when Chapman is called. .Mooers likely will call upon Larry again.

Piedmont League directors w ill here on February 27. to adopt a sched­ ule and discuss other m atter? in con­ nection **'ith the coming season.

WILBUR JENNINGS.

There w ere m any outstanding per* formances in that long winning stretch, bu t the game written most indelibly in m y m ind Is th e one that Ic o n ic WarD ^ c , the Arkansas Humming Bird, won in S t Louis on the afternoon of Sep­ tem ber 25 over Paul Dean by a I to 0 c o u n t T h at was a thriU, gentlemen.

T h at game was the first of|ja series of five. We needed one victory to clinch a tie for first place w ith the Cardinals, who w ere coming down the stretch like a pack of* thoroughbreds. Phil O v a rretta clinched m atters for us that mem­ orable Septem ber afternoon by tutting a home ru n oft Paul Dean for the only run. It was the biggest tally we had scored th a t season, I guess, because it helped us get into the World’s Series.

Odds Were Against Cabs Tho odds were against us when w*e started th at game. Paul Dean had whipped th e Cubs five times up to that time. H is m ates had won 22 out of 17 starts from us, b u t those detcrmmcd, fighting players of m ine were not to be denied on this day.

Right from the start, the Cubs showed they were going to be tough to beat by m aking some of the most sqiarkllng plays I ever saw. My secondbase twins, the two BUls~Jurges and Horraan—w ere sizzling hot afield.

T hree plays, in particular, helped W omekc hold the Cardinals to tw’o hits, a single by Lyim King in Hic fourth irining and a double by Rip blUns in the eighth Inning. The game was Lon’s twentieth victoiy* of the season.

In the fourth inning. Angie Galan made the first daring fielding play by nabbing Frankie Frisch's smoking drive.

Angie caught the ball in deep left leld after a long ru n and then turned it-in to a double play w ith a throw to herman, who relayed to Cavarretta at first, erasing a runner a t that coruer. lo the fifth inning, Frank Demaree. another one of my outfielders, repeated

Grimm’s Bi? Game The game th at Grimm w ill never forget. It was played in Si- Louis, Septem ber 25, 1933. and virtually clinched the pennant.

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In the eighth inning, with the tying run Day-by-Day Drive on third base. Galan came up w ith his H ere is the 21-garac winning second spectacular fielding play of the streak which carried C h a r l i e day. He took Leo Durocber's terrific Grimm's 193S Chicago Cubs from drive of! the Icft-center field fence. I third place to the^National League can see Augie now reach up vdth both pennant: I hands and nab the bali directly in t Winning front of an ice cream advertisement S ^ re Pitcher Sept. Opp. on the fence. Boy. I appreciated my ice 8-3 French 4—P h ilo . cream dessert (Editor’s note—Come 3-2(11 In.) Root 5—P b » a ., 6—P h ita .

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4>0 Lee that n ig h t The 19,000 fans. I guess, got 9 -> B o sto n 5-1 Carleton ju st os m uch of a thrill out of Galan’s ^..'Boston 2-1 Frenctx t o —B o s to n 4-0 Root catch as I did, because they gave Augie J I —B o s to n 15-3 Lee a tremendous hand.

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4-1 French Getting back to Wamcke, I remember ]4 — B ro o k .

18-14 ‘Hoot he pitched to only ZI Cardinal hitters 13—B r o o k .

6-3 Lee in the first seven irmings.

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5-3 French Joe Mcdwick. the twenD'-second hit­ 1&-N.V. 15-3 Root ter to face Loo. started the eighth in­ Ift-N .Y .

5-1 Lee 4-1 lUcnsiuw 21—P itts . ning with an o u t Collins, who had 22—P itts .

2-0 French been deprived of a hit on a previous 1-0 Wameke 23—S t . l ^ trip when Demaree speared his drive.

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Henshau* and second, and final bingle off Wameke XowoJik finished. that ritcm oon. Dclancey's infield out tRcUevcd by Wameke in ninth. p u t the Ripper on Ih ird w ith the tying tRelicved Root In seventh. run. Then came Durochcr. He ra n the count to three and two. The next pitch sailed far and high to deep left ice cream cd—and caught the ball to field. Galan and Freddie Lindstrom end the inning and the last Cardinal both set sail for the bali. Galon w’as threat of the afternoon. the first to reach the wall—under th at The entire Cub club w ent daffy as Galan came trotting in to th e bench.

They pounded him on the back, pushed him ^ over the place an d finally got him into the dugout, where they con­ tinued to punch and pound him.

Paul Dean was ju st as great as Warneke that afternoon. H e had pitched great ball after Cavarrctta's home run.

In the eighth. Paul had a close call when the Cubs made two of their seven hits. b u t we lacked the scoring punch. I remember young Dean farmed three of our hitters in the first inning. He was as fast as a subway express. *33 Cubs Had Winning Spirit In m y 20 years as a big league play­ e r and m anager I w'as associated with some really great fellovn—Max Carey, Rabbit MarsnviUe, George Culshaw, Carson Btgbce, Ham HyatL Reb Russell, all during m y stretch w ith the Pitts­ burgh Pirates, and many, m any others.

B ut those lads of 1935 were differcnL They bad th a t winning sp irit If they were on the short end b y a ru n or two in th e eighth o r o io th inning, they were never discouraged. That’s why, I guess. w e ran u p th at 21-game w inning streak in the late season.

I rem ember the day Hal Schumaclier and the New York Giants had u s 3 to 0 in the seventh inning. Suddenly Hal's arm rebelled and B ill T erry took hire o u t of th e game. We hopped on the AUGIE GALAN made two reliel pitcher in the eighth and won. spectacular outfield catches to T h at w as a very big game and It m eant a lot to m y crew to win, because the save Waineke's game.

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Cardinals came* up witli a doubleheader victory that afternoon.

J urges And Hesman took o u r pitchers out of trouble practically every inning.

Lindstrom played great ball in center field th at year. T here may h w e been better teams than my 1S3S outfit, b u t I doubt If any had the winning spirit my champions flashed. They had to show that spirit to carry them through 21 victories In a row.

Of course, luck was on our side. It had to be. We got the breaks, but. like w’inning club^ w e made our own breaks, too. We were lucky to have two pitchers like Roy Henshaw and Tex Carleton, who had two cousins in Pittsburgh and Boston. In a four-game scries w ith those teams, Roy and Tex could be used twice and depended on to win twice. Besides, the superb re ­ lief pitching of H e n ^ w , Jack Russell and Kowalik helped to carry us through th at 21-game ^ e l c h .

It was (he easiest d u b lo manage be­ cause the fellows all pulled together.

Anybody could have n m that o u ^ t and it would have won the championship.

2 had a great pitching staff, which in­ cluded W ameke, French. Root and Lee. They wanted to pitch all the lime.

The team talked baseball all the time, which was a healthy sign. That’s why I have always listed the Chicago C uta of 1935 as my nU-time dream club. « • •

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FHIL CAVAaOCTTA, vhone homer provided tho only run in the important 1935 Cub victory.

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M ickey H a rris P o sts F o u rth S h u to u t in Cana! L eague

SHOALS STARS IN PACIFIC PLAY E O ' <MUSCLE) SHOALS, former Cardinal farmhand who was a first baseman with Monessen. New Iberia. Albuquerque. Johnson City.

Tyler. El Dorado and Marshall, was re ­ cently voted the most valuable player of his Army division serving in the South Faeific—but us a pitcher, instead of a first sacker. An accident, followed by a subsequent abdominal operation, nearly terminated Shoals’ diamond ca­ reer some years ago. before he entered the service. However, many months of foot-soldiering have put Leo in tip­ top physical ilia pc. and his pitching against GI teams, whose ranks are well stocked with former pro. semi-pro and college stars, gained him No. I rank­ ing in a divisional polL

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Sgt. Joe Marty, former outfielder with the Cubs and Phillies, has returned to duty after a 44-day sojourn in the hos­ pital at Mather Field. Calif- the result j of a Christmas Eve auto accident LL Alfred DeRem*, former mi­ nor league outfielder, recently was wounded in action to Italy. A Chi­ cagoan. DeBenne played with Jean- . nett#, Hutchinson, Savannah, Gads­ den and Pine Bluff.

Reazlcy N am es New Son A fte r Two C ard M ates NASHVILLE, Term.—Meet the lat­ est Cardinal-—Terry Morton Beazley.

He’s the scven-and-a-half-pound son of Lieut. Johnny Beazley. stationed at Berry Field, and Mrs. John Beaz­ ley. and arrived at S t Thomas Hos­ pital, February 20. Young Beazley gets his first name from Terry Moore, captain and great center fielder of the 1942 Cardinal World's Champions, while his middle name, Morton, is after Morton Cooper, Johnny’s co-pitching star on that championship team. And Johnny, who chalked up 20 victories in his freshman year and followed up with two World'* Scries victories over the Yankees, supplies the Beazley.

BASTLEY AT’INFANTRY SCHOOL IEUT. BOYD O. BARTLEY, former Brooklyn Dodger shortstop, recent­ ly was assigned to the First Stu­ dent Training Regiment a t the In­ fantry School a t Fort Benning, Ga. Fol­ lowing his graduation in 1943 from the University of Illinois, where he cap­ tained the baseball team in his senior year, Bartley joined the Dodgers, play­ ed in several games and then was sent to Montreal of the International League.

Shortly afterward, he was called to m ilitary service.

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PANAMA CANAL ZONE—Mak­ ing his fifth start of the season.

Soldier Mickey Harris, former Bos­ ton Red Sox southpaw, chalked up his fifth straight victory and his fourth shutout. February 9. when he pitched the Balboa Brewers to a 9 to 0 decision over Diablo, allow­ ing five hits.

Including games of February 13, Cristobal was on top with a onegame lead over Balboa, followed by Diablo Heights and Colon.

In a twLn-bill, February 33. Jim McGlothin pitched Colon to a 2 to 0 victory over Al Jarlett of Balboa, Mel Harputer’s first-inning homer with a mate aboard representing the only inns. In the nightcap, Joe Gatto and Bud McPherson also ap­ plied the whitewash to the Brewers, Colon winning, 4 to 0. Terry Moore, former Cardinal outfielder, homer cd for Colon in the second game for his second round-tripper of the season.

On the some day, Frank Sansosti* on the mound for Cristobal, scattered l l Diablo hits so effectively that he was returned a 4 to I victor over Andy Hawthorne, who yielded five blows. Sansosti has won five games and lost two. LEO J. EBERENZ. TEBBETTS LINING UP NEW TEAM i e u t , g e o r g e ( b i r d i e ) TEB­ BETTS, pilot of the Waco A rm y A ir Field team that won 52 out of 62 game*, including the Houston Post and Texas state semi-pro tourna­ ments last year, will issue a call for players late in March. Among the hold­ overs counted on by Tebbetis are L ie u t Buster Mills, ex-m ajor league outfielder; Sergt. Sid Hudson, erstwhile Washington flinger; S e rg t Hoot Evers, Detroit rookie, and P v t Nick Popovich, a pitcher owned by the White Sox and last with Waterloo in the Three-I League. Hudson and Popovich split 36 victories evenly last year. while Hud­ son was losing one and Popovich five.

Because of a 25-mile travel lim it on A ir forces team, the WAAF will play a majority of its games in K aty Park, where the’ Waco club once performed, Sunday afternoons and Thursday nights.

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Elbie Fletcher, former first baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now in the Navy, was assigned last week to the physical instructors’ school at the Bain­ bridge (Md.) Naval Training Station.

On completion of the course, he will Jim McLeod, coach and veteran third be eligible for * specialist’s rating. baseman of the Baltimore International League club, passed his Army physical SEEK WINGS AT FOSTER FIELD and was inducted February 14, HREE former minor leaguers are Freddie Frnnkhouse, former Na­ in training for their pilot’* wings tional League pitcher, recently was a1 Foster Field, Tex... the ad­ promoted to the rank of captain. vanced single-engine school of the He is athletic director at Fort Ham­ AAT Training Command. They are ilton, N. Y. Lieut. Dick Mulligan, property of the Phillies, who was a southpaw pitcher w ith Trenton; Cadet Dale Lean, who With such players as Mike McCor­ caught for London, Auburn, Bristol and mick, ex-Cincinnati outfielder; Gerald Bluefield, and now ia owned by Mem- *riddy, former Washington infielder; plus. and Cadet Lou Bush, former “Sa­ 'e rn s Fain, first baseman for the San Schoolboy Bowe. Phillies’ pitcher, vannah hurler, who is the property of 'rancisco Seals for several seasons; was sworn into the Navy a t Little Charlie Silvers, who caught for Wells­ Atlanta.

Bock, A rk , February 18, and will ville in the Pony League in 1942, and be assigned to duty either at Great Ted Williams, erstwhile Bed Sox Carl DeRosc. pitcher from Amsterdam Lakes, IU., or the Farragut, Idaho, outfielder, Is reported to have had a of the Canadian-American League, ap­ • training station. dose call the other day when he pearing in the lineup regularly, the took off from Pensacola, Fltu, with 95th Air Base Squadron basketball Orville J . Williams, form er minor his plane's wing Daps down. How­ cam finished the season with no de­ ever, an Instructor came to Ted’s feats to capture the post championship league pitcher, now a draftsman at Foster Field, Tex., recently was a d ­ rescue and prevented a crash. at McClellan Field, Sacramento. vanced from corporal to sergeant Wil­ Ray French, outfielder with Wells­ liams, who played w ith Lewiston and “Wilfred (Bill) Leonard, former catch­ ville and Lockport, Is an appren­ Salem of the Western International and e r for San Francisco and Oakland of tice seaman in the Coast Guard, Twin Falls of tile Pioneer circuit, en­ the Pacific Coast League, has been as­ stationed at Government Island, tered the Army in March, 1942. signed to McClellan Field. Sacramento, Alameda, Calif. following induction into the Army at STEPHENS BAGS ANOTHER PLANE Son Francisco.

Caph Francis X. Reagan, former Uni­ APT. ROBERT W. STEPHENS, versity of Pennsylvania All-America erstwhile pitcher in the Boston ootbalier and a member of the Lan­ Braves’ system and last with caster Inter-State League club when he Evansville in the Three-I League, entered the service in May, 1942. is accounted for his third German plane now commanding officer of a Marine in the February 20 raid on airplane detachment aboard a warship.. factories in the Reich. He shot down two in a previous tour over Germany.

ALBROOK FLYERS LEADING Stephens recently was promoted from HE season is drawing to a close a lieutenancy.

In the Army leagues in the Pan­ ama Canal Zone. In the National Jim McPartland, former S t Mary's League. Major C arneys Albrook College athlete and Texas League Flyers had won 12 without a defeat to pitcher, whose contract is held by hold a three-game lead over Col. Mountthe Chicago Cubs, Is attending m ar­ ford’s team up to February 14. Carneys itime school in Alameda, C alit team includes Terry Moore. Stan Patton, Vem Gilchrist, Leg Rock. Charlie Pow­ Stanley Pasierbiak, who pitched for ers and Bob Ganss. all formerly in Or­ Hamilton in the Pony League in 1939, ganized Baff. In the American League, is serving with the Army Medical Colonel Metzger’s team held a half-game Corps in Europe. He spent some time lead over Col. Griffith's team. Mickey in North Africa in the e a rly days of Harris and Frank Bush are members the Allied landing and has been on of Griffith’s team. Aguadulce was lead­ duty with the European invasion forces ing the four-team Jungle League by since early last fall. two games. The winning teams of the three leagues will start the Pacific Side Bob Addis, Binghamton rookie re­ round robin early in March. The win­ called from Wellsville, is now serving ning team from the Atlantic Side will in the Navy. Only 18 last November, he play the winner of the series for the had been living in Barberton, O., this Panama Canal Department champion­ winter. ship.

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b a s e b a ll c a p g iv en th em b y a m em b e r of th e St. Louis Confr rials, m em bers of M ajor G re g o ry B o y in g to n 's M arine Cmpi) "B lack S h eep " S q u a d ro n re c e iv e d 20 of th e h e a d g e a r from tho R edbirds. The M arin es m ore th a n m a d e goo d on th e promiifc d o w n in g 48 p la n e s, a c c o rd in g to th e la te s t reported counL The ca p s a re tra d itio n a lly w o rn b y p ilo ts in th e South Pacific; First Lieut. C h risto p h er M ag e e of C h ic a g o is seen recti* in g h is cap- a n d " M e a tb a ll" stick ers from th e skipper. Major B oyington (rig h t). The lie u te n a n t h a s se v e n p la n e s to his credit a n d M ajor B oyington, sin c e re p o rte d m issin g in action, had-'ll a s a M arine p ilo t a n d six a s a m em b er of th e F ly in g Tigerg.'Tt'i

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By HALSEY HALL Minneapolis S tar Journal The Milwaukee Brewers were ploy­ ing Minneapolis in the M illers' Nicollet P ark and Sam (Journal) Levy and Red (Sentinel) Thisted were touring with the Brewers, as usual.

The Nicollet press coop happened to be crowded, the regular attendant be­ ing off and his substitute being u n ­ willing to stem the flow of radio and press friends and visitors who flocked to the roof. Levy was pounding dili­ gently away on his typew riter, listing

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LIEUT. FRANK M. LEONARD. so n -in -law of Lt.-Col. H arold G. Hoffman, form er governor of New Jersey a n d former p re si­ d en t of th e In ter-S tato League, w a s reported m issing in actio n o v er G erm any, J a n u a ry 30.

Lieut. Leonard, a bom ber pilot w h o h a d b een in E n g lan d since D ecem ber, 1943, h a d com pleted five o r six m issions over enem y territory. A g ra d u a te of St. Pe­ te r's C ollege. Jersey C ity, he w a s a b a sk e tb a ll a n d track sta r. He w as m arried to A da Holfm an, eld est d a u g h te r of form er G overnor Hoffman, in 1940. They h a v e a 2 Vi -y earold son, Frank, Jr.

Leo Bohnnon. who formerly played in the Pacific Const Piedmont and oth­ er minor leagues, reports he is serving somewhere overseas “in the wilds of the land of mystery and intrigue." He adds: “We are all hoping we will be able to sec Lew Fonseca’s pictures of the 1943 World’s Series."

Oscar Hair. on outfielder of Gore.

Okla., scheduled for a trial with the Olean Pony League club next sea­ son. after playing semi-pro ball, will play for Uncle Sam. Instead, having recently joined the Navy.

Outfielder Johnny Moore of Pitts­ burgh. Pa., property of the Boston Red Sox, recently was called to service as an Army aviation cadet and reported to Camp Meade, Md., for classification.

He played with Erwin of the Appala­ chian League last season.

H a rry W alker S eriously 111 ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Pvt. Harry Walker, center fielder of last sea­ son’s Cardinals, is seriously ill at the post hospital at Fort Riley, Kan. The officer of the day said he could not disclose the malady from which Walker is suffering.

Walker, 25, form erly was a winter policeman in Leeds, A b., and was Inducted into the Army shortly after the 1943 World’s Series.

Word also has come from Green­ ville. S. C.. that M arty Marion, great shortstop of the Redbirds, will get another physical examina­ tion at Fort Jackson. Columbia. S. CL, February 24. Following an ear­ lier examination a month ago. Mar­ lon was accepted by the Army for limited service. rn

notes as the game wore along and he also was becoming increasingly indig­ nant over tile antics of the ‘’kibitzers.’’

Filled w ith curiosity, the visitors were leaning over Sam’s shoulder, denting his hat, impeding his typing progress, as they strove to see what the visiting journalist \vas reporting.

All of a sudden, after a spell of quiet, there was a quick exodus from the Levy vicinity. Folks crowded into com ers o r left the box to go out on the roof. Some were m uttering.

The reason?

At the top of a fresh page o f copy paper Sam had inserted in his type­ writer, he had written the note: "The Minneapolis press box was w ell filled with nosey pests.” Only Levy didn’t say “pests.”

By CLINTON ll. HOARD Co-Editor ‘T h e Dodgers” In the era of Uncle Robbie, Ivy Ol­ sen. Zach Wheat, Burleigh Grimes and the rest of the Brooklyn Robins, one of the recruits was a green country b d .

The club spent the usual six weeks in a training camp in the South and then began the long trek back to Brooklyn. The second day out, the stop was Birmingham, Ala. A group of players were sitting on the hotel veranda, prior to leaving for the field.

Suddenly the recruit turned to Olsen

Hailed as tile scourge of th# Nazis, the 10.000-ton light cruiser Philadelphia has been p hellion in th e A tlantic since the start of hos­ tilities and has earned two fighting nicknam es—the “Galloping Ghost of the Sicilian Coast,’’ and "Little Spitfire." The story of the gallant cruiser w as made public by th# N avy recently.

Commanding a turret—two sixinch guns and 52 men—on the Phil­ adelphia is L ieut <j. g.) W. C. Mac­ Phail, son of L ieut-C ol. Larry Mac­ Phail. form er president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and he has been firing them for all they are worth since the African landings.

The nicknam e of “G a l l o p i n g G host" w as earned in action off the Sicilian coast in 1943. when the Germ an high command erroneously announced the ship sunk, following a dive bom ber attack. The name “L ittle Spitfire” came from her deeds in the African, Sicilian and Salerno campaigns. Standing off th e N orth African coast, substituting fo r artillery, the Philadelphia de­ stroyed thousands of pieces of en­ em y equipm ent b y her accurate fire. Many Axis gun emplacements w ere knocked out in the Sicilian campaign. Batteries, tanks, trucks and troops were destroyed by her fire in the Salerno struggle. She blasted num erous German planes to bits, including three out of eight in one attacking group of bombers.

Steaming up and down the Sicil­ ian coast, continually running the gauntlet of the Luftwaffe, the “Galloping Ghost" immobilized Axis guns, prevented the* enemy from planting m ines in their retreat to­ w ard Messina and disrupting their communications. F o r 21 days, the Philadelphia roamed the north coast of Sicily as the U. S. Seventh Army fought its way across the island. and asked: “W hat town are we in.

“Don’t you know what town vou’rt in?" asked Olsen. “You better not let Robbie hear you say that."

“Who’s Robbie?” was the astonish­ ing reply, and Olsen fell off the ve­ randa.

By JACK CORBETT Form er Syracuse Club Owner When I was a t Anderson of lh* old Carolina League, the president of the club was F urm an Smith, who abo was a leader in a choir. In the coo* of the evenings he would bleak out with a hym n o r even harmonize with players suffering under the cclusaois they could sing.

On the hotel porch one n ig h t the conversation drifted to players Smith was offered when he first acquired the franchise.

“I could have had Rube Benton, Joe Jackson and Amos Strunk, all three ca them, and fo r a song,” he said.

“That,” spoke u p one of the Ander­ son players, “is the only time there ever was an excuse for y o u r singing-

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To Toss Tributes Toward CrossI “ THE SPORTING NEWS, FEBRUARY 24, 1944

M IO ! LEAGUE OFFICIALS joined New York baseball writers in honoring H arry Cross of the Herald-Tribune in a dinner given for the veteran

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restricted to IOO. Cross, a New York sports w riter for 35 years, devotes much of his attention to base­ ball an d travels w ith the Giants.

‘P aper Peppier T han P-38,’ W rites Soldier in Pacific “Y our new sy baseball tabloid has been reaching m e regularly, an d to u se a battered phrase, 'i f s like a le tte r from home,’ ” w rites L t C harles A . Ross, serving in the A rm y somew here in tho Southw est Pacific.

“Being an ex-new spaperm an, I cannot help b u t laud y o u r efforts in m aking y o u r new spaper better th an ever and peppier th an a P-38.

T he boys really te a r y o u r paper to bits to see w ho’s who Lr th e base­ ball world from th e m ajors to the sm allest m inors.”

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MACK. TENER, WAGNER FETED * 1TTSBURGH, P a.—T hree national­ STAFFORD SIGNED FOR 52 WEEKS Cochrane Gets Itch ly-know n men, representing 25C a le S ta f­ Ed Cochrane, form er executive Harry Cross D inner, G iven y ears of honest living on this tro u f o r d , De­ sports editor of th e H ears! papers lcd earth , alm ost all of these years troit Free in Chicago, who recently retired,

by Fellow N.Y. Scribes, being devoted to baseball—two octo­ is looking around in Southern Cali­ .

Press sports genarians an d a bow-legged Dutchman fornia for a newspaper he can buy editor, has been Draws IOO Guests ju s t arriv in g a t thrce-scorc-and-ten— and operate. signed to ' a 52stood u p in succession the nig h t of week radio con­ F eb ru ary 20. and. as th ey spoke, held rn tract b y Dossing

By DANIEL ML DANIEL 800 guests of th e P ittsburgh sports w as in his h e a rt about his P ittsburgh F ood Products, w rite rs in am azem ent by recitals of friends, b u t the words he w anted w ere * NEW YORK, N . Y. bottlers of Pepsi­ In addition to their b ig a n n u a l d in - such tr u th and hum ility as would have not in th e pockets in w h ich bis hands Cola . over Station r.erf which is a fixture each first S u n - pleased two oth er great F eb ru ary im­ fum bled for them . Eventually, he de­ W JR. T he time of day in February', the baseball w rite rs m ortals—W ashington a n d Lincoln. nied the rem ark of th e toastm aster D u rin g th e ir addresses and afte r they that he was “bom loo soon”—m ean­ P ioneer L eague scorer and sports ed­ th e sports program of New York have established an o th e r had finished, th e reaction of the audi­ ing th at h e had appeared on th e d ia­ itor of th e Idaho F alls Post-Register, rem ains the ■same. affair. It became an an n u a l event, th e ence w as deeply impressive. M any a m ond scene too early to share in the now is battin g o u t copy as editor of 12:05 a. rn. (EWT), M e Stafford night of February 15, a t Toots Shoe s, listener wiped aw ay a tear, and one em olum ents given la te r stars.

F ro n t an d C enter, cam p new spaper at b u t it w ill now be when the New Y ork ch ap ter th re w a diana: for H arry Cross, v eteran o f th e w as heard to rem ark: “I ’ve never told tills in public be­ Fairfield, Cal. Before being transferred heard six nights weekly, instead o f five. “ W asn't th a t something? M aybe if fore, b u t it is the tru th .” said W ag­ to th e A ir T ransport Comm and in C al­ Stafford started w ifh his fo rm er spon­ Herald-Tribune sports staff. T h e e v en t was so successful an d th e w rite rs had oil statesm en and leaders the world ner. “Connie Mack will b ear m e o u t ifornia. Sergt. Blenk!e w as editor of sor, th e Tool Shop Sporting Goods Com­ such a grand time, w ith S h o r’s help. over w ere as honest as Connie Mack, when I say th a t I could have m ade the Alpena Bugle, A rm y publication at pany, in A pril, IW3. Baseball gossisp continues to be an im p o rtan t p a rt of they voted to have one of those things J o h n T en er a n d Hon us W agner, there plenty of money if I had listened to Alpena, Mich. w ould be no T ara was, no foxholes, no a big offer th at came from Cleveland th e nightly chat w ith sports fans. every year.

Richard Conners, correspondent of when th e American L eague w as or­ Cross, "Who w rote baseball w h e n xnos starvation and suffering children.’* T h s S p o r t in g N e w s a t A lbany, N. Y „ Howard Lew is Emich, form erly of M ack, showing th e buoyancy of one ganizing. One im portant ow ner, who of the current crop o f w rite rs w ere in w ho now is in th e A rm y, is w aiting of his fam ed A thletics, w as the picture th e new s staff of WEBM. Chicago. still is in the game, cam e to Carnegie their swaddling clothes, received a tre ­ of hum ble eloquence as he responded one cold w inter night in 1901. There a t Cam p U pton, L. I., for assignm ent Is a new m em ber of th e sports staff mendous ovation, an d a silver cig arette of WJR, D etro it case. He also received an o th er aw are. to a n unusual trib u te to his manage­ w as a snowstorm and I had th e best Tom Swope, baseball w riter of the ria l genius paid him by the toastm aster. horses and sleigh in town.

In the This was made b y D an D aniel. T h e C incinnati Post and correspondent LINKS LINCOLN WITH GAME case was given to H arry b y R e d P a t­ H is unspectacled eyes tw inkled as he darkness I almost ran down th e big for THE SPORTING NEWS, packed began: baseball m an from th e A m e r i c a n terson, chairman of th e N ew Y ork UTLINING the history o f baseball, bis fishing tackle and left early “Thanks, indeed, for those kind words, League who was on m y trail. I put chapter. Sid M ercer w a s th e custom ­ w hich originated in Cooperstown, this week on his vacation, heading a n d I hope you will pardon m e if I,; him in th e sleigh and took him for ary wow as toastmaster.

N. Y., in 1939, Rowan D. Spraker, for Ed Hughes’ Fishing Camp o n say you forgot to m ention th at Con­ Jr., m anaging editor of T he Free­ The dinner w as open on ly to m em bers n ie Mack’s team s finished last m ore a real ride. In the candlelight in my L ake H errington, K y. m an’s Jo u rn al of Cooperstown, told a of the New Y ork ch ap ter a n d a v ery often th an those of any other m an­ home, he drew out 20 Sl.000 bills, which w ere to be m ine if I would jum p. And few guests, who included Jo h n A. Francis X . (Red) O'Donnell, form er WOY, Schenectady, N. Y.. radio au d i­ ager." th at was to be m ine ju s t fo r signing; ence th a t “Abraham Lincoln w as prob­ Heydler, Ford F rick . F ra n k S h au g h T en er T hrills Audience it did not include th e salary I could sports w rite r for th e N ashville Tennes­ ably th e first occupant o f th e W hite nessy, Branch Rickey, Horace S tone­ T here was a hush on th e m ultitude sean and contributor to T n t Sporting ham, George Weiss. A rth u r J . F ly n n as tow ering John Tener, also past 80, have asked for and got. B u t I p re­ N e w s , now is taking his boot training House to be a baseball enthusiast.” ferred to slay in P ittsburgh. and Leo Bundy. A dded s ta rte rs w ere ro se to speak. H ere w as a n Irish emi­ as a M arine. He would like to hear S praker, interview ed w ith his father, “ And I still don't th in k I w as born cditor-presidcnt of th e Jo u rn al, on Commander Gene T u nney a n d F ran k g ran t boy w ho came w ith nine other too early,” concluded W agner. “I was from friends in lire game, w ho can “E xtra, E xtra.” over th e Schenectady Craven, the actor.

T en er children and a widowed m other contented in P ittsb u rg h —and sm art w rite him a t P lat. 59. Rec. Bin. 5, M a­ station, stated th a t w hen the com m ittee Guests Lim ited to IOO to th e shores of a lan d of opportunity, people don’t trad e co n ten tm en t” rin e B arracks, P a rris Island, S. C. called on Lincoln to notify him of his There were IOO m en in attendance. an d rose to be th e governor of P en n ­ Bill M cKcchnie and F ran k Frisch, nom ination for president, "he w as out John P. Carm ichael, sports editor Had the dinner been open, i t w ould sylvania, a U nited States Congress­ m anagers of the Reds and Pirates, re ­ on the commons playing baseball.” Lin­ o f th e Chicago Daily S e w s, who have drawn more th a n 500. H ow ever, m an, president of th e National League spectively, also responded to toasts. coln, according to S praker. said to the has been In Hot Springs. A rk- will the writers w ant th is affair each y ear an d a crack p itch er fo r Pop A nson’s Stan M usial. th e National League's most messenger who cam e for him: “Tell the be back on th e job, M arch J, afte r a to be personal, intim ate, a s lim ited as fam ed W hite Stockings which toured valuable player; Jim m y Russell of the possible. gentlem en I am glad to know of their long vacation. th e w orld back in the ’80s. Through­ Pirates; Joe Beggs of the Reds. and coming, but th c y ll have to w ait a few The Pittsburgh ch ap ter se n t a check o u t the speech his tone rang w ith scores of oth er m inor an d m ajor league \V02 W illiam Parsley of the R. C. A. F.. m inutes till I m ake another base hit.” for S3 for the purchase of a case of gratefulness for the blessings of a figures w ere in th e audience. >, „ , - . . ..

Of A bner Doublcday, a West Point ca­ beer for H arry. T h e St. L ouis ch ap ter ong life and praise for his pals and e t a * S h y n e s s ; . U niversity of I b« U « r . of A l P o rtly , box b a l l w a te r sent its felicitations. , rivals of th e diamond. o l the M ontreal H erald, w as reported as det, au d the founding o f baseball, the P ittsb u rg h football coach, m ade a short The hit of th e evening w a s C ross Then arose th e Flying D utchm an. ad^re 5S. C hester L. Sm ith w as toast­ m issing a fte r his th irty -fifth bom ber Cooperstown editor reported: “In 183$ he devised the baseball diam ond and drew operation over G erm any, January 22. reply to the series of k n ockouts h e hailed as “th e greatest p layer in the m aster.

CHARLES J . DOYLE. up a set of playing rules. He went suffered a t the tongues o f th e speak­ Jtistory of th e gam e.” Perhaps it was O w en Griffith, fo r m a n y y ears a base­ am ong th e boys o f Cooperstown e x ­ ers. who dug u p p len ty o n th e guest th e fa c t th a t it w as th e w eek in which W ilmer Crewm an of th e Norristown of honor. fie celebrated his seventieth birthday; (Pa.) Tim es Herald w as re-elected presi­ ball, basketball an d hockey expect on plaining tlie game, inducing th e boys Cross came to Now Y o rk as a sports o r m aybe it w as because the two dent of the Philadelphia Suburban the M ontreal H erald an d th e M ontreal lo try it. T he game didn’t im m ediately writer in 1909 from W aterbury. Conn., g reat veterans who preceded him had Sports W riters’ Association, recently. G azette, recently joined th e sports staff achieve popularity, although in 1842 a sad worked for th e T im es a n d E ve­ m oved th e audience, b u t W agner, who H erbert Good of th e Philadelphia Record of th e H artford, Conn., C ourant. G rill group o f New Y o rk 'sports' began play­ ning Post before joining th e H erald - usually is as fu n n y on his feet as was renam ed vice-president and Hugh w as given a w arm sendoff by his M ont- j ing in a very gentlem anly fashion. even w earing th e ir straw hats. T heir Tribune. He w as th e pioneer o f a long th e la te W ill Rogers, k ep t to th e mood M cDcvilt of th e W est C hester Daily real pals an d sports figures. baseball diam ond w as on T w enty-sev­ line of W aterbury sports w rite rs w ho se t b y M ack a n d Tenor.

H onus Local News, treasurer. enth street on the site w hich later Con H dTem an. form er baseball w riter have come to N ew Y ork, including started w ith some ch atter th a t brought housed the old Madison Square G ar­ Dan Parker, sports ed ito r o f the D aily some roars, b u t fo r once he became Sergt. Joseph A. B lcnkle, form er cor­ of th e A lbany <N. Y.) Tim es-U nion, now den.”

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Z New Orleans; Guy Pietcher. Richmond a and Rabeti H HaU. Nick T. Goulish, John Menley Atid Edward Wagner, gen H eral list £teriy went into voluntary retirement and Hall, {rom Mount Airy.

Coultsh and Menley from MaySeld am v« Wagner from Norfolk. Neb^ became free agents, as their original clubs are X not operating.

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Nemo Leibold signed. February IS. to manage the Scranton Eastern League club for the sixth consecutive season. fie indicated the Miners would show few familiar faces this year, with only George Savino. JBjrron LaForcst Doc Cobb. Al LaValley and Austin Lepine as holdovers.

The bank account of Frank J, Sliaugbnessy. president of tbe Intematkmal League, b S3.#il Urger, as tbe restilt of a bonos gtvcn biol by the league.

The San Francisco Coast league club signed Joe Futemick, local semi-pro indelder, FetKuary 14. In 1937, Futernick pbyed for Albuquerque. ''

'Baseball F an s' Bomber’ Produced by Bond Drive A fleet of « heavy bombers, one of them named “Baseball Fans* fiomber,** will S y over tbe fighting fronts as the ressult of tbe New Vork Sports War Bond Committee’s activ­ ities in the Fourth W ar Jjoaa aas* paigA. The committee’s efforts were directly responrible for the sale of SlZ^lSiTS worth of bonds from v»r»ous sports events.

As one bomber can be named for each 3300.000. the War Finance Com­ mittee for Mew York is subnzituog 40 names, with at least one for each sport vriiich took p art in tbe drive.

Tbus. one will be named “Baseball Fans’ Bomber.'* another “Football Fans’ Bomber.” etc.

Other names sent to WashingloQ for approval include “Boy f^ o t" <MeI Oft). “Iron Horse * 0 » « Gehr­ ig. “The Bambino'* (Babe Ruth).

"Big S ix" (Christy Mathewson). All n n k c d among (he first (en in a War Bond 9 orts popularitj' poll.

The Sports Commiuee. headed b y Stanley Woodward as chairman and Crantland Rice as honorary’ chair­ man. now is turning its attention to the Red Cross campaign.

CARDS SIGN CAB DRIVER o m a n b r u n s w i c t c ; a 19-yearold cab driver from Greenville. O., who pitched in the National S ^ P ra Touniameot a t Wichita, Kau.. as(^ summer, has been signed by Jack tydn. St. Louis Cardinal scout, for ddfveiy to Lynchburg oi the Piedmont ..eague. Brunstvick, who is six I M a1); weighs 190 and is 4-F. hurled* the Sharpsburg Speeds lo the Indiana state semi-pro title in 190. \

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T be schedule meettug of the Southern Assodatlon, w l ^ h was to have been beld in NashvlUe. Feb­ ruary 23. was postponed by Prestdri/t Billy E rans to 3Iarcb J, because of the illness of hls^ fathcr-ln-Iaw 111 i M i a i n l . i Fred Reinhart, recency given a mcdk a l discharge after a year in the serv­ ice. has signed with the Toledo Americin Association .Mud Hens. A third baseman-outficldcr. Reinhart a prod­ uct of the University of Illinois, uvts last in the su.«:pendcd Southeastern League.

C iurlic Grimm, manager of the Milw^iukce American Association Brewers.

Was in Pittsburgh this week, vlriting with relatives of Mrs. Grimm.

Game. Is Safe lh Hands of Kids, Sisler. Mainfalns ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The future of the national pastime is safe in the tu u d s of *'thc kids,** in (lie opinion o f George Sisler, former first base­ man and malinger of the Browns and now scout of the Dodgers, who h.is been reappointed by the Na­ tional Baseball Congres!« as semi­ pro commissioner of- tbe Umted States for the seventh consecutive year.

Tile eagerness of Ute j’oungstcis ta play (\a» demonstrated to Sis­ ler there is ju st as much cntbusiosm for tile game as in his'own boyhood days. However, he fe d s there are no 16 and 17-ycar-olds who are able lo fill the shoes of the players going into m ilitary service.

Stars of other years arc no better than those of today, George bi'ltei’es.

They ju st played harder. “Pitchers went ni.no inmng.s because they were c.xpccled to do a ebmplelo job.

It could be done todaj-, if pres­ ent pitching p.'^-cholojo^ were not w rong” maintains SjsJer. “The pitchers nowad.iy.s have the equip­ ment. but the?’ are in fn ‘.Al]y halftuilers. starting out on a mUe n m "

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tO ST FOB A YEAB, tbe laler-S tate League's playoff tro­ phy finally w a s retrieved an d President Arthur Shiers (left) m ade a trip to L a n c a s t e r to present the aw ard to bfoiman Mc­ Clain, Bed Hoses' owner (center), and Business M anager Bill CowdricJc (right). The cup disappeared after H arrisburg won it in 1941 and was found to have been tenderly cherished by an enthusiastic H arrisburg fan. The trophy now is on display in Lancaster.

“JJET IUDS P L A ir-V A N C E v e n U the player shortage forces the m aiois to use youths of IS and ie. “i m still be bascbaU.” phijasophiies Dazzy Vance, lo n n er speed»11 hurler of the Brooklyn Dodgers, now operating a fishing resort a t Hom­ osassa Springs. Fla. The Sage of Hom­ osassa, who will be SI OO March 4, has OO Illusions about returTiing to the gsrae. “I realized after I had been out a couple of years th at you can’t come back,” said Vance. “It’s ju st like talk about the spitball relum ing. It would be all right for some of tbe young kids to throw it, b u t U would ruin some promising arms. Baseball ought to for­ get about the old fellows and let the kids play the game.’*

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Curtis Deward Jrrfinson. 26-year-oId pitd ier of the Richmond Piedmont League club, will be available to the Colts the coming season. He was re ­ jected by his draft board, February 17. A head injury, received in a game JO E BIRD TO BOSS TBCNrOK in 3W7. was said to be resporwble for OE BIRO, form er catcher, will m an­ h’ls rejection. age Trenton in the Intcr-State League the coming season, suc­ Catcher Nick Bonarigo has noti­ ceeding George Ferrell, who was fied (he Seattle Pacific Coast League selected to pilot Lynchburg in tile Rainicrs he will not be back Ute Piedmont. Bird, who w as rigoed by coming season, having derided to Baltimore in 1922 out of S t Joseph's irtnain on hts automotive repair College, played with a numlxir of minor jots in Los Angeles. league club.« before being given a Dial by the Pirates in 1931 and has managed The HoUywood Stars of the Pacific Cooleemee, 'iVinston-Salem and Lexing­ Coast League have signed Lc.sl>e ( B u s ) ton.

Barnes. IT-ycar-old Alhambra. Calif., high school infielder, and Robert Rod­ Vernon Lcw'is. an J6-year-oId high riquez. a 23-year-old pitcher wdio was school player of Los Angeles, was \\*ith THicson and Twin IblD. signed by tile Pirntes [or AlbM y of the Eastern League.

A^UTEUB FEDERATION TO .’HEET h e National A m ateur Baseball Fed­ The Newark Xntcrnalionol League eration will m eet in New Vork City Bears have purchased Pitcher B'lU Suck>* on February 26 to elect oiBccrs and Infielder George Motto from Nor­ and pick its 1944 tournam ent site. folk of the Piedmont League. Sucl:y, The last three tournaments have been a 23-year-old 4-F from &iginaw, Mich., won (ca games aud lost nioe with a h d d a t youngstown, 0 „ w ith Brook226 eam cd-run average a t Norfolk last Lm winning tbe 1943 title from a field year. Motto, a 27-j-ear-oId pre-Pearl of 16 icatns. The organization is 30 Harbor father from Statesville. N. C„ years old and last year m ore than was the leading third baseman in tbe SOG (cams were cinroUod, Detroit lead­ Piedmont loop. ing with 130. President Tom Pem ­ berton. Youngstown, declared that the N. A. B. F . progrrun and that of Ray Dumont’s National Baseball Congress did not conflict'and that there was no rivalry between the organizations. O th­ er officers arc Virgil E. Zettcrlin. Dc‘4iro lt first vice-president; Henry D, Schubert. Dearborn, Mich., second vicepresidcnl; William S. Haddock. Pitts­ burgh. Pa., third vice-president; Frank PEB. 24 TO MARCH I. INCLUSIVE P 24~Honus Wagner, coach, PinKcs. . Novajio. Cleveland. O.. secretoryUea.'vurcr: Ben Hudson. Da>'ton. 6 .; lS7i George Moron. Detroit; A. T. Stumpf.

25~HoIlmgsworth, B r o w n s , 1910; Baltimore.

Md.; Judge F. W. Ito w cll Weatherly, V.tnkecs, MIS; Palko, Cubs.

Dayton, and Pemberton, directors. The 1921. comnxi^OQors are WiUiant T. Ouggan.

26~Conroy, Red Sox. 191S; Roc, P i­ Clevriand: Judge llowell O C. rates, ISIS. Brewer, Detroit.

Sr„ o\^mcr, Tigers, 1577; R. Melton. Dodgers. ISH; Hanski.

The L ittle Rock Southern Associa­ white Sox. ISIS; Ryan, Braves, 1320; tion club's mound staff was increased Slwrp. B’hlto Sox. 1921. by two with tho signing of Lieut. P at 2S—Alva Btadley. oamer. Indians. Beasley, fom arr Okbhom a City Texas 18S4: Krist, Carduials, 1916.

League hurler, and the return to the 2-SDinccvich, Pirates, 1916: Wi*se, active list of Joe C allabaa Beasley, Cobs, ISIS. now stationed a i Hattiesburg. Miss., is

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Now after 27 years of active and ad venturous use, it has alreadY had a you o f serx’ice in the second Xt'orld War, sc^ a faithful and reliable tim epiece...aa. old and valued frieod. lr is to untold thousartds of s ia t^ experiences that Longines Watches oat their priceless reputation for keeping good time for a long, long time. To tbe prescfvddoo o f this reputation the makes o f Longines Watches scrive with a tklB b om of 77 years of fine wscchmakini experience. LongineS'Witmauer Watch C o., Inc.. New York, Montreal. CJencca; also maker* o f the W'ittnaucr Watch a companion product o f unusual mcrh.

LANCASTER, P a .-W ith th e In terState League's championship Dophy in his possession, after the cup had been “Jost” for a year, and declaring himself unconcerned over an impending law­ suit in Philadelphia, Norman McClain, owner of the Lancaster Red Roses, is going ahead willt his plans to operate in the Inter-State League again next season.

At present, these plans do not include any tieup with a. m ajor league club, McClain declaring that unless h e can make a suitable deal between now and the opening of the season, he will op­ erate independently, as he did whMX he negotiated for last year’s champion­ ship outfit. “l f I can get a working agreem ent with a club which I feel Sure can pro­ vide us with players. I ’ll sign,’' McClain commented, “b u t unless s u ^ a club is available. I'll go on independently, boping for help from any m ajor league club that has help to offer.”

Last season, the Roses won tbe league's regular campaign and then u.’e n t on to beat Wilmington and York in the Shaughncss>* playoffs.

The mammoth trophy which they finally received was donated by form er Governor Harold Hoffman of New J e r­ sey and was p u t into competitioow’hen the circuit was organized in 1939.

For a year the Dophy w as out of circulation, the result of a decision b y the Harrisburg c lu ^ 1911 winner, to donate it to the scrap drive. I t m ight have been melted into M*ar weapons; except that an enthusiastic fan from Steelton heard about il»e deal. m ade a hid Oft tho cup and carried it off to his place of business. Recently, the fan was persuaded to relinquish the trophy and it was presented to McC/aia by dtscharse from the Navy after three A rthur Ehlers, league president. years of service, has been s ig a ^ br GEORGE KIRCHNER, Nashville o f the Southern Association.

He is 23 years old. six feet tft’O laches an’alting a medical -discharge from the tall and weig'ns IK) pounds.

Army and Callahan u returning to the game Mtcr working in a Boston shipMel Queen, pitcher of the Kansar yaid last year.

Citj* American Association Blues, bad his tonsils removed in .*« operation al Bill Ulrich, oumcr o f the Spokane Binghamton, N. February 12. franchise in the suspended Western In ­ ternational League, is in the Sacred DUCKY HOLMES A CANDIDATE Heart Hospital at Spokane, W adi., with o w a r d e . ( d u c k y ) h o lm e s . a broken pelvic bone. He was injured who has headed Dayton’s Middle when a Duck .rideswiped a bus in which Atlantic League teams for yeaJ^ jw w as Tiding, while lo tu m in g from , h as succumbed to the lure of pol­ M ont\na Hot Springy where he had | itics.

Tho venerable boss of the tW ' gone for a r e s t operating Ducks has fiJed a n o m o u t^ petition to run in th e primaries w Wallace Jakow czjk. a 20-year-old clerk of courts, on the Demecrattf outfielder, was signed from the tidcet. tm. fat*. .

F lin t Mich., s a n d lo t i... by the^ PhiiUcs for the Utica Eastern League club. He Jo e Katnich. an iS-year-old baited A33 for the East Side team that from Loyola University who is 4- J* brought Flint its jCrst Michigan Recre­ the d r a f t was signed by the Los As* • ation Association championship last geies Pacific Coast League Angels* year. Jakowczyk stands five feet nine inches tall and weighs 175 pounds.

The Newark International Leagw Bears w ill visit Mttchel Field. A p ^ Jim Kirklin, a righthanded pitcher IS. (or an exhibition game with th* who recently received an honorable least there.

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Victor Cuffed Jo e In to D efeat in 2 8 th Round § § f Fierce Fight o n B arge U nder Blazing Sun; Devised D eadly Blow to G uard Digits B y FBANK C. MENKE ■jaejeft hook, one of the most devastating punches in the prize I created in a tragic emergency by Gentleman Jim Corbett fpledfay many as the most scientific boxer of all time. ^Corbett, who was Irish was born fend reared in the same San faiiicn neighborhood as Joe Choynski, the terrific hitting Hebrew PBIB?their boyhood, they became rivals for fistic honors which loafed in many bare fist fights in vacant lots. Corbett invariably .gArthey grew to young manhood. Corbett went to college and Ijkrbecame a clerks in the Wells-Fargo bank. Choynski meanwhile toned-.pro pugilist ^and gained -_ —

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James J . Corbett turned profes­ was a denvand for a m eetsional after his barge fight with >far betireeo these enemies of boyhood* Joe Choynski, and his first oppo­ •fa t'ilo c i.-tine Corbett resisted the nent, as a professional, was none inosurt, eying he did not want to beother than Choynski. Jim outpoint­ *cnce a pro by fighting Choynski. Proed Joe in a four-round bout. i'caic*, sensing a grand clean-up if Corbett then whipped Dave Camp­ ithey could get the men together, offer­ bell in ten rounds, but the official e d various guarantees, one reaching result -w a s given as a draw, the ■JIOJXM record for those days. agreement being that if be failed ‘ I t can be on the Winncr-take-all to knock out Campbell, it was to be [-basis, or'® to.the winner and 40 to the called a draw. later, or iplit it any way you fellows 'Corbett’s big test came in 1890, choose,” propositioned the promoter. ^ when he easily outpointed Jake K ilCbynski.' being in the sport for the „ rain in six, winning a $3,500 purse.

I aj®ey it would bring, was w ildly eager He whipped Dominick McCaffrey lor the .-fight Corbett turned down in a four-rounder, then went 61 the proposition and the fight w as out rounds with Peter Jackson, the great J'until Choynski began to heckle Corbett colored ringmau. This w as the through the newspaper columns. battle that "made” Corbett, as John Cctett'f No-Parse Challenge L . Sullivan, the champion, had duck­ j. Corbett went to his father, who had ed meeting Jackson ‘‘because I draw nude him promise not to go pro, and the color line.* told his dad that he couldn't stand the The Corbett-Jackson bout was pffng any longer—that he w ould start called "no contest” by the referee, a fight on the street the first tim e be who thus saved the bookmakers Punching Power Made m w ChpynskL The father o f Corbett from a terrific beating. They had Joe Choynski Popular smoothed down Jim’s ruffled feathers. offered odds against Corbett last­ I' “I don’t know if Choynski wants to Joe Choynski had little luck ing ten rounds, then against 20, fight just for the money tliat m ight be against Jim Corbett, but he was one and Corbett’s backers stood to win in it, or to prove he’s the better man,” of the most feared ringmen of his a fortune. The referee, after an­ .said Father Corbett "What you w ill do time, because of his terrific punch­ nouncing it was "no contest," also is ten the newspapers you won't meet ing power. H e was a crowd-pleasruled that "all bets are off” Cfcqynski for money, but that y5u w ill tr. In most of his fights, it was a Corbett’s next important fight fight him to prove which of you is betw as on September I, 1892, when he case of knock out, or get knocked ■ter. ‘No purse, no side b e t Under­ o u t Joe never' was a fancy rugknocked out Sullivan in the twentyload?” • cutter. He liked to trade pile-driver first round and became champion punches, and let it be survival of the ' Corbett promptly blasted Choynski of the world. and said that if Joe wasn’t just a pub­ st, h i fitte licity seeker he would agree to fight Choynski continued in the ring 1just for the glory in it. Choynski’s Corbett "He knew I had hurt my right until his retirement in 1905.

I reputation" being under attack, he thumb in our first meeting and that I _ promptly agreed to meet Corbett "any would be handicapped without gloves. r n I objected to fighting bare fists, but I order about the seventeenth. It was in lime, anywhere.” the twenty-third or twenty-fourth, I lh the hope of getting som e "pay” said to Joe: " l f you don’t want to use gloves guess, when I nailed Joe with that left for fighting, Choynski bet heavily on himself to defeat Corbett in the finish it’s all right with me. I’m using gloves/ —and broke t^ree knuckles.

"My seconds insisted Choynski had to battle agreed upon.

“If Joe Choynski had one good punch ‘ The. Ian was on "prize fighting” in use gloves. There wasn’t an extra pair left, he could have beaten m e after those days. Therefore, whenever a handy, as Joe right w ell knew. The th a t But Joe wasn't a puncher any match was made, scouts were sent squabble was adjusted when one of the more. H is hands were all right. But around to find a spot where police inter­ spectators tossed out a pair of driving his legs were weary. Iris arms were like ference was unlikely. The group lo­ gloves for Joe to use. I accepted their sashwcights and the punching h e had fted a bam on a farm near Fairfax, use, and was mighty sorry afterward. taken, plus the sizzle of the sun, made Calif, and Corbett and Choynski went Those gloves had hard ribs, and when a wreck out of him, too. they skated around on m y face the alo action there on May 30, 1889.

"We went stumbling through tire mid­ result was as if Joe was grinding dle twenties, two of the goriest fighters • As the Cftil round was getting under that ever amounted to anytiring after­ way, the police came dashing along. The around w ith a file.”

Handicapped by Blisters Breaking ward. Joe knew that if be could nail referee and the handlers of the men RM COBBETT (top left)* who devised the deadly left hook Corbett regretted another prefight a ct me just once he’d have me out—or promptly halted proceedings. They told "I put on a pair of canvas shoes with mighty close to it. I knew the same as the result of sm ashing bin' hands in his 28-round barge the men to go to their homes, advising rijbber soles,” he said. "I had some fool thing. that they would be notified as to the light w ith foe Choynski, who is show n closeup a t top right, idea they would add to my springiness. time and place for resumption of the "I tried to push Joe down in tire a n d below in fighting pose. bout But before the bout had gone ten twenty-seventh, but he was too smart rounds, the friction of the rubber on the for me. We couldn’t keep going or.

Ate Steak Broiled on Bonfire On the afternoon 6f June 4, Corbett furnace-like deck of that barge raised like th a t The terrific fighting in tire Corbett told the follow ing story about Dempsey vs. Carpenter— was told to get into a cab so that he a succession o f blisters that broke, form­ early rounds, tire terrible sunshine and that: "It was three days before I could ed again, broke boce more and soon my could be taken to the scene o f battle then our weakness from loss o f blood The Winner, Tex Rickard ret for the next day. He was driven ow n blood from the soles and heels of had taken its toll. I knew that one of move out o f a Turkish bath place,” he The No. I ballyhoo fight of all to a cottage on the shore o f Benicia m y feet kept filling those shoes.” ta soon—very soon—wouldn't be able said. "It was two weeks before I dared go out of the bouse.

The marks time; the bout when both of tho The barge fight in Benicia Bay is to answer the bell.

Bay, Calif. There he spent the n igh t of the battle remained for three months. rival managers asked for too lit­ At dawn, he was awakened and told to one of the epics of pugilism. For dura­ "I didn't know who it would be. but It was much longer before I was able tle— and got It; the "Battle of The be ready to be rowed to a barge in the tion of savagery, it perhaps never had I decided to make one last effort for to resume boxing and the only thing Century,” at Boyle's Thirty Acres, Bay, where the battle could be contin­ an equal. It began about 10:30 in the myself.

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I then attempted was punching the ued without fear of police interference. morning, continued until afternoon.

"We got out in mid-ring some ’way, light bag. But I found thai although I In which Jack Dempsey knocked "Memory o f it comes drifting back to somehow, for that twenty-eighth, i "I figured I ought to have some b leak ­ out Georges Carpenticr and climb­ could hit lightly with my right hand, it est before we got into action,” Corbett me like a m ist,” declared Corbett closed in toward Joe. Then, summon­ ed to the heights in fistic fans' ac­ was im posable to jab with the left. related some years later. "But nobody "Nothing quite clear. So much that is ing the very last ounce of energy in claim, after entering the rink un­ "The knuckles o f that hand hadn't bad thought about the breakfast thing blurred. In fact, the one definite re­ my body, I let loose for his chin. I der a "Slacker'’ brand to oppose healed rapidly.

Rather than suffer pain except ong fellow who had brought membrance is that of my third day after knew that if I missed Td topple over France's war hero, w ill be describ­ by jabbing at the hag with straight alang a big steak. We broiled it, as the fight when I became sure, while in from weakness. ed next week by John Z. Wray, lefts, I began to hook with the hand. best we could, over a bonfire, and a a Turkish bath where they had carried sp irts editor of the S t Louis Post"No, I didn’t aim with a fist. Both That saved the ajjonlzing concussion. few pieces of that sooty half-done steak m e right after the fight, that I would were broken, bleeding, swollen to twice Dispatch. vms my complete breakfast. A t that go on living and not die of a thousand their size. I aimed to hit Joe a cuffing As I kept on punching that way, I began to realize the possible value of rn I was better off than several o f m y pals, agonizing hurts.” . punch with my right wrist. I suc­ such a punch against an opponent. Up Corbett's ailing right thumb became who had nothing at all to eat until they with left hooks on their jaws, when ceed ed . Joe pitched back a little as I Cot back to San Francisco that n igh t” dislocated in the eleventh round. In j landed, swayed for a moment—went to then w e used only straight lefts, they were expecting a jab on the nose, rights and an occasional uppercut.

There was some delay-in getting the the thirteenth, in a desperate effort to down. that, made all the difference in the “■When my left hand healed complete­ fighters started for the barge, and the put away Choynski, he h it him a right­ j "All I could do was stand over him, ly , I began to alternate w ith the jab and world.

"They asked mc what I called the towboats didn't got under way until 9 hander, flush on the chin. t tottering. The referee reached ’ten' the hook- I let them loose with tire “B ut I was favoring the thumb when a- ^ Crossing over, Corbett noticed punch. I named it a ’hook.’ They ’ and my seconds rushed out and hauled that one of Choynski's handlers tossed I let loose." he said. “A s a result, I I me to my comer. If a count of *15’ same motion. When I look up sparring wanted me to explain it and demon­ * anal! bundle into the Bay. When didn’t hit cleanly, I smashed the knuck­ j bad been necessary, J couldn't have again, I unleashed a few hooks. My strate it, which I did. And so the left '-boynski climbed aboard the barge, he i les o f the hand, and from then on it stood upright fruit long. I’d have fallen partners, expecting only a jab, started hook was added to the attacking equip­ off by not paying much attention to my ment in boxing warfare.”

•“id he had lost his gloves and advo- •. was useless and only tortured me.. I frigh t.on top of Joe Choynski.”

T u t t o o much work left leads. B ut when I floored a few tated a* bare fist tight. fight.

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The new rivalry may take .the form of a pop­ ularity duel between two handsome pin-up boys, Lou Novikoff of the Cubs and Johnny Dickshot of £ WI i the White Sox. ' , .

IAI The two lads have sim ilar backgrounds' for a Z - wonderful personality race. Both have been fence I** destroyers in assorted minors, and fadeouts in their Lou Novikoff earlier m ajor league careers, but with enough ta l­ ent to w arrant the hoise that either is likely to bust forth in a great display of power and skill this season. ___ If%

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Guiding a m ajor league club should be a comparatively easy task fo r Bob Coleman of th e Braves, after his blood and til un der experi­ ences while piloting m inor league outfits. Genial Bob has been in the thick of two serious riots, one at Moline, HL, when he was m anager of the T erre Haute club, and the other at Waterloo, la., when he was Evansville’s generalissimo. In each case fans rushed an the field, some armed w ith knives, and th e only reason his players -weren't mobbed was because they protected them ­ selves w ith bats. An umpire was crippled for life in the Moline melee.

I t will be a far cry from those lusty days to Boston of the present em, w here there is police protection for. all participants and the coaches on the first and th ird -base chalkmarks are not allowed to step outside the lines.

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L o s A n g e le s a n d H o lly w o o d . E a c h ‘Game Must Continue,* h a s a c e r ta in ru g g e d c h a rm o f fa c e and figure, the lady fans aver* and Declares John K. Tener each is a personable, fun-loving leiPITTSBURGH, P a .—The game low. able to canvass votes in their should go on, despite wartime prob­ leisure hours away from the ball park. lems and without expecting fa­ While no one is trying to build up a vors, In the opinion of John Kinley parallel to the Bing Crosby-Frank Sin­ atra rivalry, many can see that the Tener, president of the National League during World War I and Cubs, in Lou, will continue to have color,'and the White Sox, w ith Dicknow 80 year* old. “I think base Irail definitely should be continued," h e * shot, will add some color of a type of which they have not had enough. Of stated* here. “I don't see-''w hy course, a fat batting average will be something th at is asked fo r all over of considerable .value to each in the tho world, and in which every Impending pin-up boy battle.

American particularly is interested, ' Name Something l ik e Big Shot should no t carry on, in spite of dif­ . Dickshot, despite his visits here with ficulties." tjie Pirate*, probably is not as well There is no question in the mind* known in Chicago as Lou. B ut he has of men w ith whom he talked, in ­ the advantage of being a Waukegan, cluding some d u b owner*, who have :11L, boy. Waukegan!keeps-good tab* on been hard h it by the loss of player* its sons, who include Jack Benny of to the armed force* and w ar in­ the radio, Bob O'Farrell of baseball dustries, th at baseball should con­ fame, and the mcye recent brilliant tinue and .he sees no reason for a llro u n d collegiate'atar. Otto Graham. adopting any other attitude.

Johnny was runner-up to the Coast Tener, the only player to become league batting champion, Andy Pafko, a m ajor league president and who who also anil be in the Chicago pic­ has retained a keen interest in the ture. B ut A ndy, doesn’t qualify aa • game ever since he performed on the rival to Lou and Johnny for a pin-up diamond, w as rn m em ber of Con­ boy race. For one thing, he batted as gress and governor of Pennsylvm ia. well in the National League a t the rn dose o f the season as he did in the ■ — : Pacific Coast League. and scored IOO runs fo r Hollywood last Dickshot is enjoying a b it of bally­ season, so f a r has been kept a virtual hoo eclipse of the kind that may have secret hereabouts. lied m uch to do w ith NovikofTs major In other places they are worrying league miseries. H alf of the Sox fans, about color, even to the point of com­ perhaps, aren't even aware of Dick- paring Eddie Brannick's jacket; w ith shot's presence on the White Sox ros­ Harold Parrott’s ties. T he Chicago ter. O r lf they are, they are not ex- teams have colorful secretaries, too. cited about his .352 .mark in the Coast I B ut they also have Jiovikoff and Dickleague last year. That h e made 205 hits J shot, glamor boys p ar excellence.'

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By SHIRLEY POVICH - WASHINGTON, D. C. Y ou'll have to pardon th e Spanish accent of the Washington club’s 39m an squad th at reports for training a t the University of Maryland, M arch 12.

I f s the manpower shortage, no d o u b t Anyway, C lark Griffith has corralled an even dozen Spanish-speaking Cubans, Mexicans and one Venezuelan fo r pres­ entation to M anager Ossie Bluege.

Members of the N ats’ L atin legion a re wonderfully d raft-exem pt which m ay be one reason . why they were signed in such num bers, b u t Scout Joe Tarabria, who flushed them o u t o f the hinterlands, speaks glowingly of such fellows as Epitacio Torres, hard-hit­ ting outfielder; G ilbert) Torres, a pitch­ er, who is no relation; Olivrio Ortiz, six-foot 190-pound Cuban who is an outfielder, and Luis Suarez, a sec­ ond baseman.

Epitacio Torres is no Cuban, b u t rn Mexican. Cambria scouted him in the Cuban W inter League and was attract­ ed to him even before ha was voted the outstanding player in th e league.

A t the tim e Cambria signed the lad to a Washington contract h e w as h it­ ting .348 in a league that contained few JOO hitters.

Bed Book Scoops Scribes T hree Cuban outfielccrs whom Clark Griffith d id n 't take the trouble to a n ­ nounce he had signed are now the property of the Nats, it was revealed by th e American League’s Red Book for 1944, which lists them as A rm and Val­ des, Jose Santonio Sanchez and Reglio Rojas. There is no eth er data about the trio, except th at they are all hefty lads who bat righthanded.

I t w as the Red Book th a t revealed, too, that tho Nats owned an outfielder named Jo h n Bucek, from Detroit, and another lad named W alter Michie of New York. They are both sandlotters w ithout previous professional experi­ ence, b u t this is a y ear w hen the clubs are compromising w ith quality and thus are not too particular.

The fact is th at the 39-man squad Manager Bluege w ill take into train ­ ing is the largest in the league, with the exception of the W hile Sox, whose roster contains 40 names. It is in high contrast w ith the 28-man squad of the Red Sox aud the m ere 30 play­ ers th at Connie Mack has been able to corral for training.

There is a rookie pitcher, fresh from tho sandlots, who is intriguing Man­ ager Bluege no little. He is Bobby Al­ bertson, a hot article around the De­ troit lots last summer, who is 4-F in the d raft and whom the Nats went to great expense to sign, despite his m ea­ ger experience. Bluege was fascinated by the lad’s fast ball, poise and con­ trol.

Void Postwar Franchises Awarded by In ter-S tate DURHAM, N. C —Action o f tile Inter-State League in granting fran­ chises to Connie Mack at Reading, Pa., and to B’llly J urges at Freeport, L. L, has been disapproved by Pres­ ident W. G. B ram ham o f the N a­ tional Association, he announced February* 21.

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The 52-page volume is packed w ith useful information on Am erican League players, history, records and general information. Obviously, m any players listed on Hilligan’s rosters y?ill be in the service o r w a r plants w hen the season opens, A pril 18, as it is difficult to keep track of players u n d er present circumstances. B u t HHligan's list of active player* show* substantially the same m en who w ere w ith the eight clubs w hen the 1943 race ended early last October.

No less than 16 pages of the book a re devoted to new players, m any being veteran m inor leaguers w ith several children. C lark Griffith’s newcomers in Washington include te n Cubans, a Mexican and a Venezuelan. The Red Book also gives th e honor roles of each pf th e d u b s, listing .th e m en in the arm ed services. The Athletics and Tigers lead w ith 33 fo r each d u b .

A new feature of the book is the league’s official attendance records.

The all-tim e record w as 1940, th e year of the great th ree-cornered race among the Tigers, Indians and Yankees, when the league played to 5,433,791 paid ad­ missions.

I t w ill surprise m any fans to learn that the all-tim e attendance record for one d u b w as established by the Y an­ kees in 1920, a year before they won their first pennant and three years before the opening of Yankee Stadium.

While still playing a t the Polo Grounds, the 1920 Yankees played to 1,289,422 persons. I t was th e first year Babe Ruth w as w ith the Yanks, an d he electrified New York, as well as the entire country, b y advancing his for­ m er home* ru n record from 29 to 54.

The league's greatest attendance for a single game was in Cleveland on Sunday, Ju ly 31, 1932, when 73,592 paid th eir w ay into the first ball game a t Cleveland's new Municipal Stadium, w ith the Athletics as the opposition.

A t th e tune, the Cleveland club gave out its official paid attendance as 76,979, which, w ith 3,005 invitations, supposed­ ly brought the crowd up to 80,284.

The league’s largest double-header crowd was Boston vs. Yankees in New York, on Decoration Day, 1938, when 81J41 paid their w ay into Y an­ kee Stadium. The loop's greatest night crowd was in Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium, when a nocturnal contest with the Yankees on Thursday, Ju ly 17.1941, drew 63J46 paid.

FRED LIEB. STORY OF EARLY ANSON GAME The Palimpset. issued m onthly b y the State Historical Society of Iowa and devoted to the dissemination of the state’s history, in a recent num ber de­ votes a chapter to baseball and Cap Anson, as of Ju n e 27. 1867. It brings out the interesting fact th at the pitcher Anson faced in Waterloo, la., th a t day

JACKSONVILLE, Fla^-Diada*. , e d from th e aim ed force*, lh* Baseman Michael Schemer, v im th e New Y ork Giants brought t? fro m Jacksonville of the suspended Sally League, along with others ear* ly in 1943, w ill n o t bo with fit O ttinen the coming reason. He v* given h is free agency by Commosi oner Iran dis, who stated that Giant* h ad failed to tender him • contract a t th e proper time.

Schemer w as transferred to th* G iants’ roster. February 8, 1943, aal m ade th e training trip .with them H e entered the service in May, bd w as recently discharged.

Participating in 75 game* will Jacksonville, Schemer had a batting average of -334 and fielded J R Standing six feet, weighing BS pounds and celebrating his twentysix th birthday, November 20, tit lefthanded first baseman wa* aidered a good prospect He v a first signed by Fort Smith iii IS* an d subsequently was with Salis­ b u ry an d Clinton before going * Jacksonville early in 1942. * -;\i EDITOR’S NOTE — TnM m Horace Stoneham of the G W * t conferred early this week Commissioner Landis In b u t it is n o t k n o w n th e ir d i s c u s s i o n related i n Schemer. However, there speculation w hether the fixwS baseman’s release would aet J • precedent in the handling * ( service m en returning to other*, th an th eir original dubs. was Theodore N. Vail, who eventing became president of the American Tel­ ephone and Telegraph Company. - J "Although V ail reached the pinmo* of success in th e business world. lim pset reveals, "he always remaster* ed w ith pleasure and a tinge of nssui* gia th e happy days of his youth v to baseball held his in terest In a lens w ritten in 1917, he recalled the go* w ith M arshalltown when ‘Anson, anc* w ards th e fam ous baseball player, va captain of the team .’ ’’ The gam* th a t Ju n e da^in_Watrnoi w as n o t one th a t would have entrance present-day fans. Marshalltown won K a score of 76 to 29 over the Empire eau of Waterloo, according to the ated box score published by the Bah®?" s e t Anson scored eight runs, but two of his team m ates made ten each *n th ree others nine.

Vail pitched the entire game for■ losers and Anson played cen ter.na1 for M arshalltown. A curious bit o sportsmanship is revealed, for c->cr. ' game the Em pire players gave'tare cheer* fo r the trium phant Marsttus who reciprocated, and “then both teasjoined in a cheer for the umpire, of respect for the impartiality of his®* cisions." .

Anson w as born in Marshalltown the publication relates that “as a • he liked games" and that “appar*™ his baseball career began in lS57.*Jr w hich his career is traced to Roden** in 1871 and the Chicago White S t r ­ ings in 1876.

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M a riu s R usso, le fth a n d e r, is lo st to th e Y ankees fo r th e d u ra tio n o f th e w a r . B u t S p u rg e o n C hand­ le r, P itc h e r o f th e Y e a r f o r 1943, is w ith th e m fo r a n in d efin ite p e rio d , a l t e r a n ex a m in a tio n b y A rm y doctors in G eo rg ia. T h u s th e b alan ce b tip p ed so m ew h at in th e w o rld champions* fav o r, a fte r th e loss o f E n sig n C h a rlie K e lle r.

Russo h a s b e e n in d u c te d in to th e A rm y a n d h as h ead ed fo r C am p U p to n o n L ong Islan d . T h e loss of th e so u th p a w w a s n o t u n ex p ected . H ow ever, d ev elo p m en ts in h is case cam e fast.

Som e tim e ago. b is d r a f t b o a rd in Ozone P a rk , N ew Y o rk C ity . a n n o u n c ed th a t b ecause Russo w as Mate KMM an e x p e d ite r in th e R e p u b lic A irp la n e W orks a t 'anoiagdale. L . L, h e h ad b e e n d e fe rre d . B u t th e b o ard n o te d th a t BUSSO went ou t o f th e fa c to ry , h e w o u ld go b ack to 1-A. T here a report th a t th e b o a rd m ig h t g iv e R usso p erm issio n to plteh ugh the season a n d th e n gO A « t to Republic. B efo re th is* * coaid traced down, th e re cam e When Bob Ripley Fails,

By STAN BAUMGARTNER PHILADELPHIA, Pa. We are about to coin a new nick­ name for B u c k Newsom in Phila­ delphia. Unless the b i g righthanded pitcher p u ts in an a p p e a r a n c e at Shibe Park within the next few days, this chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of Am­ erica is going to call him Raffles Newsom. Back in the old days—Ihe'days when they had fivecent b w and free lunch, "Mr. Raffles" was one of those m>-steriaus guys who walked about tou*n with a price on his head—a price of SIDO to be out by a ne'Ai’spaper to the reader who could app ro a ^ Raffles and say. "You are Mr. Raffles.” Of course, to collect the one hundred bucks, the successful sleuth had to have in his possession a copy of the newspaper offering the prize.

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Two-Fisled Guys n e r goes back toMhird.

Next two Wift Chandler safe, for the tim e be At a recent W ar Bond rally in batters go ou t the same way. This big anyway. Joe McCarthy certainly Wilmington. DcL. General Man­ is repeated for the nine innings.” is die envy, more than ever, of his ager Herb Pennock of the Phillies Several members of the Albany fdhw pilots in the American League. sat next to former Lightweight B ot Stove League argued about it, BASEBALL E Q U IP M E N T Cutting BUSSO off the list, Marse Joe Champion Benny Leonard. contending the runner from third bas OO fewer than 16 hurling avail”1 have always wanted to meet would be out. How did they get ibld Ihcfe are nine holdovers and you,” said Leonard to Pennock. n S W IL SO M i o O A Y IN SPORTS EQUIPMENT that way? Well, here’s Section 15 Kwn rookies, as follows: Veterans-* "I have always wanted to m eet a of Rule 9 (When Base Runners Are Spargean Chandler, Ernest Bonham, fellow who could pitch w ith both O ut): ”l f w ith one out. or none out, 3 a k Borowy, John M urphy, Charley hands," replied Herb. an d a base runner on third base, WeBdo^'221 Zuber. Jim l ^ m e r . A lley th e batsman interfere with a play Donald and li&rvin Breuer. Rookies— Judi^fijig of Puzzles Awaits being m ade at home plate.’* limes tile sqribes have been tipped off Walter Dubiel. Johnny Johnson. Willis Entries of Overseas Men CHARLES E. YOUNG. "He’s up in Connie’s office now. . . .

Baker, Floyd Bevens, Emerson Boser, He’ll be in early tomorrow morning.

Judging of entries in T n t Srom xo J k Page and Al Lyons.

News’ crossword puzzle contest, It b CQoeeivable that not all seven son. B ut the way things shape up, , . . He’s a t the Bellevue-Siratford Ho­ LITTLE ROCK. A rk .-M ak in g his based on selections for the 1943 AUof those newcomers vrill be able to ru n McCarthy will greet IS pitdters at A t­ tel under an assumed name.” first public appearance since he re­ Star m ajor leogue team, has been So the scribes, suffering from a dearth iht draft gauntlet into the league sca- lantic C ity on Monday, M ardi l l ceived the Player of the Year award delayed to perm it arrival of entries of a real bit p f baseball news since the at the annual dinner of the New York The pitching looks okay, and that is from ser\'icemen overseas. announcement of the sale of the Emilies chapter of the baseball writers. W il­ very important.

Two’sets of prizes w ill be awarded, 0 Robert R. M. Carpenter, Jr., by Bin liam Malcolm Dickey, ju st "Bill" to The catching is a different matter. one set for fans in this country and . the folks in Arkansas, was co-sponsor 'ox, have put on their best false mousT here is Bill Dickey, signed to a another for men serving abrood in of an infantile paralysis fund basketcontract a t J22500. B ut behind Bill, aches and gone hunting—all in vain. the armed forces. Both sets of en­ Now it appears that all reports have bal) benefit bere this week. there is indedrion and there is do u b t tries will be judged a l the sam* 3cen false alarm s and that even Con­ The vetetmi Yankee catcher is chair­ K en Sears is gone, into the Coast tim e and the results w ill be an­ nie Mack hasn’t seen or heard from the man of the sports div’ision of the in­ G uard. RoUie Hemsley is on h is farm nounced promptly in T ub Sroanxc >ig fellow. . . .

Any suggestion th a t he fantile paralysis campaign in Arkansas, a t Dixon, Mo., and nobody around Yan­ Nrws. might be holding out for m ore money and in that capacity inatorially aided kee headquarters knows ju st what the was quickly quashed by Mack him ­ ■ ■ the state in Its annual drive. veteran intends to do. self.

"I think he is well satisfied w ith Dickey sat through three glrl^ cage Hemsley will 37 in June, and is CCT William Phillips in particular are in a d e the m ilitary limit. Netvspapcr bis contract It calls fur the same money still busy e t work w ith the nam e and games and enjoyed them immensely. stories have had hint freezing to his he made last year,” said the president jnyignSp contest which comes to a close Admiring the ^ rts m o n s h lp of the ^ r m fo r the duration. B ut Ed Barrow of the Mackmcn. So the m ystery of on the twenty-seventh. More than 600 feminine basketcers. Bill said: "Th# has received no such report from the Baffles Newsom rem ains tmsolved. different names have been suggested. p art I like best is when all the girls center ofter the final Hayes Happy to Return player him selt Phillips is also deep in rester troubles, bunch in whistle and yell fo r each other." The l f RoUie decides to stay on the fam i, The only concrete news out of Shibe a m atter w hich he hopes lo clear up in feature game was rn meeting between i t v a il m ean the end of hts baseball Park during the past seven days tvas ten days. the Arkcuosas Motor Cooches, who re ­ career. H e w ill no t come back. And the annotmcemtfit th a t Frankie Hayes A few days ago. Herb Pennock, gen­ cently woo fo u r of five games in Mex­ lf h e sticks to the farm , the Yankees would be back behind the plate for the eral m anager of the club, closed his ico City, and a group of league allwill have to call in another catcher. A’s this summer. Hayes was secured eyes, dropped two m onths out of the T hat man, doubtless, would be Billy from the S t Louis Browns in exchange calendar and picked the lineup he hoped stars, Dickey shivered when someone men­ l^ e s d ie r, now listed with Newark- for Sam Zoldak, southpaw pitcher, and he would be able to open the season I t io n ^ spring training a t Atlantie Drescher Is a husky, b u t 4>F, as he is Bernie Lutz, lefthanded hitting out­ with. lh City.

"New Jersey Is a fa r cry frow fielder. Both came lo the Athletics a t Name by Name, Positkm by PoslUoo hard of hearing.

St. Petersburg a t that time of the VersatlUty on Roster Gives Yanks Edge the close of last season b y purchase H e placed Jim m y Wasdell a t first year," he said. "It ju st isn’t warm 15 Rounds 'for Going over the Yankee roster on a from Elmira of the Eastern League. base. C harley Letches a t second, Glenn enough there to g e t in proper shape.” visit here recently, McCarthy exulted Wiftfi Utktweighl CbiwRloniliii Ju st w hat the return of Hayes Stew art a t shortstop and Ford Mullen over the fact th at be had so many means is n o t apparent a t first glance. a t third, In the outfield It was Ron Modlae* S ^ a a n C erd en . . . N e w Ye»lt versatile players, an especially impor­ 'The best guess is that Mr. Mack is a bit N orlhey in right, Elvin Adams in cen­ J* Grove WillioK But Not Keen ta n t detail in current conditions. wary of w hat service officials m ay do ter and Coaker T riplett in left. Behind fifOodcasl BIow-by-Bfow Said Joe: ”£ d I,e\'y is listed as an to his catching staff within the next the bat he named Babe Phelps, Andy To Tty Mound Comeback Over MUTUAL outfielder, bu t could fill in a t first base few months and w ants to protect it. Seminick and Bob Finley. In the box, LONACONING, M d.-A Jthough be expertly. This new pitcher, Lyons, is H al W apier, ftrst-string backkop, is an Al Gerheauscr. Dick B arrett, Jadk f r id a y , m a r c h 3 is having a whale of a tuna in "re­ an outfielder and an infielder, as w*eU. A No. I machinist in a w ar plant and Kraus, K en Raffcnsberger, Charley . IO p.B). E etlem W ar Time tirement," running a farm and a ’‘rankle CrosetU could go a t third or young Buster Mills from Holy C ross Schantz. Al Verdel, Dale Malhewson, ♦ O -iti.C W .T . combination bowling aUey-billiard short, George Stimweiss a t second. may be called a t any momenL Bernard Musrill, John Donohue.

• a m. M. W. T. parlor and dabbling in am ateur short or third, and Don Savage a t third, Both Connie Mack and Hayes ap­ "Of course,” he said w ith a smile, “I photograj^y, woodworking and tool­ short, second, or in the outfield. peared pleased w ith the trade. "You may wake up from m y dream any day making, L efty . Grove, form er fixe"Oscar Grimes could play anywhere never appreciate how fine it Is to play and find two o r three of them In the baller of the Red Sox and Ath­ in the Infield, from first all the w*oy for Connie Mack and in Philadelphia ATmy." Aho, Fridoy, Februory 2 5fh on letics, would try a comeback on thft around to third. In a pindt, Johnny until you go some place cise,” said Chuck Klein, hard-hitting outfielder CilJeffe*, Covofcodo o f Sports mound, i f it was necessary to keej) Liadell. outfielder, could be called back Hayes. Equally complimentary was who has been a coach for two years, the game going. However, he hopes to pitching. And Tuck Slainback. out­ Connie Mack. *‘l am very happy to says he is ready to retu rn to active duty. that emergency won’t arise. fielder. could do a g o ^ job at third."

TAMI MAURIELLO have Frankie back and I am sure he During the week Herb Pennock look "There still is plenty of good m sThere was no question that MeCarlhy will be a big help this year,” said the trip to Scranton w here his assistant, VS. terial ju st over 38 and under 78 had the most versatile outfit in his boss.

Joe Reardon, was signally honored by and enough of the young ones :o league.

Hayes, a native o f Jamesburg, N. J.. I the fans. Jim m y Hagan, traveling sec­ JO E B A K SI keep the game going," Lefty sa’t l.

Bartow has not been s>x'amped with started his career with the Athletics ten retory, also w ent upstate for the festivi­ H e m am Uins Organized Ball a rd 10-Round H eo v y w eig h t Bout signed contracts, l a fact, at the most years ago and remained with the Mack- ties. . . . Connie Mack joined John other tporlM a re wartime necessi­ recent count, he had only five players mcn until he was traded to the Browns Tenor in honoring Honus W agner at M adison Sguoro G ordon ties and should not be ratio*iin the fold. They were Dickey, BoroM*y, during the 1942 season for Bob Swift Pittsburgh. . . . Scout Cy Morgan has ed, "even lf they have to call :js 5<*m« T i m e . . . Som e N etw ork Page. Grim es and Weatherly. The Jasf- and Bob Harris, The big backstop was recovered from an illness which put old fellowa back." B ut Grove ad­ n a m ^ recently was made 1-A and may unhappy in St. Louis and his work re ­ him in Temple Hospital for observation m its it would be a long, tough pull his pre-induction test before the flected his feelings. three weeks ago. . - . Robert Ceasr-y, ,for him, two years o u t of action. training season rolls around.

Temple University publicity director, H.iyes is the joint holder of two rec­ Tegey*. CHUne Blue After tho war, however, Bob Barrow also has announced the sign­ who doubled in brass as a iMseball re­ ords.

On Ju ly 2S. 1936, he tied the Grove's nome may h it the heodUnes ing of John Schulte, bullpen catcher, b lh# th e rp e ti, m ajor league m ark by hitting four porter for the Bulletin the past sum­ again.

Lieut. Robert G ardner Grove, end P aul Schreibcr, batting practice * * * ^ a l* « h e v |f » g o f i j dou’o les in one game. He Im’t bragging mer, under the nam e of R o tert Gray. his 22-year-old son, was a crack pitcher.

'•*»e«|.loiH ng b lad e has been inducted into the Navy and coUegi! piK hcr before entering the Page is a lefthanded pitcher from about the other record. He tied the will report for duty after a 21-day fu r­ American League m ark by hitting into gfedeetd. service.

Newark. With Russo gone, Joe and lough, . . . He is 37 years cid and the Johnny Johnson are the southpaw de­ 23 double plays three years ago.

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CA KOS RE-ELECT BREADON HE Cardinals* board of directors, meeting in St. Louis, February 16. re-elected Sam Breadon. who owns between 75 and 76 per cent of the club's stock, as president Other offi­ cers re-elected were: Vice-President A. M. Dietz and Secretary-Treasurer Ed­ ward Both. Directors of the d u b are Breaden. Dietz, Roth. William Walsingham. Sr.. L ie u t William Wolsingham.

Jr.. and Mrs. Sam Breadon. The elder Wnlsingham is Breadon's brother-inlaw, and young Walsmgham, now in the Navy. his nephew. A vacancy on the board, resulting from the recent death of Clarence Howard, Jr., was not filled. A dividend of S3 a share for 1943 was declared at the last meeting of the directors in tile fall.

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Cincinnati scouts.'who had Catcher Leonard Rice brought up from Syracuse of the International League for the Reds last year. won't recognize the youngster this spring. Down to 150 pounds lost fall, he has fared so well under the OPA rationing a t Oakland, Cal., this winter that he is up to 205 pounds.

With night bail hack on their schedule, tile Dodgers have added white silk uniforms to their play­ ing wardrobe for the 14 arc tilts at Efibct* Field.

4 The White Sox will have lo dig up a new batting practice ca teller this sea­ son. Ed McElroy, a volunteer who filled that role last year, recently was Inducted into the Army.

FONSECA TOURING CAMPS e w FONSECA, promotion director of tile American League, is taking the league official 1944 movie, ‘T he World's Series,'* on a six-week tour of military hospitals h i the South. Fon­ seca also is taking along four dozen bats autographed by famous American League players, six dozen baseballs a u ­ tographed by Babe R uth and 200 minia­ ture Babe Ruth bats, which will be dis­ tributed among hospitalized service­ men.

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The Dodgers added a rookie catcher . to their roster. February 19—Leroy Ja r­ vis. 17. an American Legion junior prod­ uct picked up in a tryout camp at Oklahoma City, O kla.. He is five.feet nine inches, weighs 160 pounds and bats and throws righthanded.

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Home and road games of the De­ troit Tigers will be broadcast this year with a brewing company ta sponsor.

Outfielder Joe Medwick, often a late signer with the Cardinals, quickly came to terms with Jibe Giants for this Ben­ son. His signed contract was tile first to reach Secretary Eddie Brannick’s desk. : Third Baseman Jim Tabor of the Bos­ ton Red Sox visited the club's offices, February 17, and signed . Ids contract for tile coming season.

Censor Suppresses What Brannlek Called His Spade Filling in for President Horace Stoneham, Vice-President Leo Boody and Farm Chief Carl Hubbell of tile Giants, Secretary Eddie Brannick guided a party of scribes to Lake­ wood, N. J., February 17, to in­ spect tile Giants' training quarters.

While there, Brannick was handed a spade to turn tile first shovelful of earth at Hubbell Field, adjacent training base for the Jersey City Giants.

“It was a t this juncture that Bran­ nick, trying to fill in fo r all th e ’ absent officials, broke down.” relates Tom Meany in his copyrighted col­ umn in New York's PM. "He grab­ bed the spade w ith an overlap­ ping grip, which made it painfully apparent to the suburbanites in the gallery that Eddie was no agrarian.

"Brannick’s second faux pas camb when he placed the sole of his right shoe on tho spade, instead of his left. Any digger knows you hold tile spade on your right side and push into the good earth w ith your left.

‘These lapses were excusable, con­ sidering the manifold duties piled upon Brannick and the num ber of years it has been since he has done any manual labor. When the Giants assemble for spring training, it m ightn't be a bad idea for Eddi® to go a few fast rounds with a spade. There is no telling what duties he may be called upon to perform this summer."

Cincy Adds Two 4-Fers From Birmingham Farm CINCINNATI. CX—Two more 4-F players were added to the Cincin­ nati Reds* roster through the eleva­ tion from the Birmingham Southern Association team of Shortstop Her­ bert Moore and Pitcher Robert Ferguson, a righthander. They will be tried out by Manager Bill McKechnic a t the Bloomington, Ind., training camp, starting March 13.

Ferguson won six and lost four for Birmingham last season, while Moore displayed good fielding ability and not m uch hitting strength for the same team, making him a mem­ ber of that large class of players whom Senor Mique Gonzalez aptly describes as “good field, no hit.”

T heir addition gave the Reds an active roster of 31 players, of whom l l are classified as 4-F.

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BROWNS RE-ELECT DIRECTORS HE annual meeting of the St. Louis American League club, postponed from January ll. was held in St. Louis. February 21, when the fol­ lowing directors were re-elected: Don­ ald L. Barnes, H erbert W. Waltke, Frank C. Rand, Ricliard C. Muckerman. H arry C. A rthur. Samuel C. McClunoy, Anthony A. Buford, Willard R. Cox, A- G. Curtiss and William O. De­ w itt. An eleventh directorship w as not filled. O I tile 250,000 shares of stock, IG9.625 were represented in person or by proxy. No dote was set for the elec­ tion of officers, but It will be held be­ fore the opening of the 1944 season.

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WASHINGTON. D. C - “Haven‘t they ever heard of Ty Cobb?” T hat was the query' °f Lu Blue, former Detroit first baseman, on hearing the result of the poll of sports w rit­ ers by the Associated Press that ranked the performances of Bobby Jones, the golfer, in 1930 as the _ greatest sports achievement.

“Those sports w riters who voted in the poll haven't got a memory any longer than a golf club,” was Blue's comment. “D idn't they ever hear of a fellow named Ty Cobb, a teammate of mine? I see he w asn't listed one-two-three in the result of the balloting. The voting was a joke.

"Bobby Jones had a great year in 1930, b u t look a t Cobb's record. He led the American League in h it­ ting 12 years, nine in a row. He h it .420 and .410 in two consecu­ tive seasons against that dead pum p­ kin ball they were using in 1911-12 against all kinds of pitching, includ­ ing the spitball and Hie shinebalL For 12 years he was the greatest ball player alive. Cobb was tops in the toughest competition we ever knew."

And ju st by way o f putting a clincher on his argument. Blue asks: "Who thrilled the most people, Bobby Jones o r Cobb?”

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DYKES HAS SEMI PRO SENSATION a r o l d e u g e n e QUALMAN, outfielder-catcher signed for a trial with the Chicago White Sox this spring, was one of the lead­ ing stickers in the Clinton, la., Indus­ trial League each of the past two years, batting .489 in 1942 and an even .400 last season He fanned only twice dur­ ing that span. Qualm an also topped the fast semi-pro circuit in hits, runs b a t­ ted in, extra-base hits and stolen bases last year. Twenty years old, he was offered a contract by a Cub ivory hunt­ e r just three days before accepting the Sox bid. He is employed as a power­ house operator at the Clinton du Pant Tony Ordenana, Cuban player who plant this winter. shortstopped for Portsmouth in the Piedmont League last season, returned Joe Page, Yankee rookie pitcher, is his signed contract to the Pittsburgh working a t an aluminum plant in New Pirates last week. The Pirates for­ Kensington, Pa., where he knocked off warded airplane and rail transportation 21 pounds of excess weight to get down to Ordenana, who will report a t the to 200 pounds, and will be ready lo play Muncie, Ind., camp in March. when he reports a t spring training camp.

George Metkovteh, Boston Red Sox outfielder, was rejected for mil­ Outfielder Don Ross of the Tigers has itary service lost week and classi­ been- given a 1-A classification by his fied 4-F because of the Improper draft board in Los Angeles. healing of a broken leg h e suffered several y e a n ago. He Is 23.

Although Bill Dickey signed his contract for $22500 with the Yan­ Vice-President Sam Walters of the kees, last week, the veteran catcher Pittsburgh Pirates went to Adrian. may not serve long with them. Bill Mich., last week, to attend the annual says he may be in the A rm y o r meeting of the board of trustees of Navy before Ju n e I. Ile had hoped Adrian College, of which he is a mem­ to qualify for an instructor’s post In ber. the Civilian A ir Patrol, but with that service abolished, he Is ready Mrs. Al Branca to, wife of the Anxiet­ to join the arm ed forces. He has ies* infielder now in the South Pacific, more than 300 hours in the air. recently won a 5500 prize in a Philadel­ phia bowling tournam ent Manager Leo Durocher will be bade in action as an infielder before the John Bucck, rookie outfielder of the season is over, in the opinion of Presi­ Senators from Detroit, Mich., recently dent Branch Rickey of the Dodgers. was drafted into the armed forces.

Branch said he was not going to ask Leo to play, b u t he was "sure Leo will jum p in and help us solve some of DECORATORS IN A. L. OFFICE HILE President William Harridge our infidd problems." of the American League is on RATES ED LO PAT REAL FIND vacation, decorators are going D LOP AT, southpaw' flinger pur­ over league headquarters In Chi­ chased by tile White Sox from Lit­ cago. His secretary. Miss Mary Ryan. tle Rock, is rated by Al (Mickey) also left on h er w inter vacation, Febru­ ary 12 K rcitner, Cubs’ rookie receiver from Nashville, as the best minor league pitcher he has ever seen. "Lopat is Although his three-week pre-induc­ tion furlough expired February 16, going to be the surprise of the Ameri­ Southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the can League." opined K rcitner. "He has Reds was still at his home in Wyck­ a three-quarter overhand delivery, a off, N. J , last week, awaiting a call to half-prvot and a moderately high leg active duty from tho Navy. kick. Along w ith it, he possesses great control. He can get th at breaking ball Shelton Keller, six-foot first baseman over with a 3-2 count- And is he rough for the Nazareth. Pa., High School team, on lefthanded hitters.” Last year, Lopat was signed by the Philadelphia Nation­ turned in the best earn cd-nm average als, February 19. Scout Cy Morgan of in tile Southern Association, 3.05, while the Phils said Keller would report to winning 19 decisions against ten set­ their Wilmington, D e l, farm d u b , fol­ backs. In addition, he passed only 62 lowing his school graduation n ex t June. in 245 innings, an average of only one Keller recently received a medical dis­ every four sessions. charge from the Army, following six weeks of service.

His health greatly improved. Pres­ ident Ed Barrow of the Yankees The Wanc r brother act will bo appeared at his office. February' IS, ro-cnactod on the Dodgers the com­ and is getting ready for spring ing vcasoa, Lloyd having decided to training.

• return after a year s absence, lie has been reinstated mid will be re­ Red Rolfe has no intention of re ­ united with brother Paul for the turning to the game tile coming sea­ Hist time since 1911, when they were son and w ill stick to his baseball and together in Boston. basketball coaching jo b a t Yale. He intimated as much, although he recent­ Don Bren nun. 17-year-old pitcher for ly had a long visit with Manager Joe the Aloysius-Jax American Legion McCarthy of the Yankees. team of New Orleans, La., last sum­ mer, was signed by tho New York Dick B art ell, 36-year-old New York Giants.

Giant infielder, w as reclassified 1-A by his d raft board a t Alameda, Calif., F eb­ Bill Voisellc, rookie hurler recalled ruary 14. No date was set for his p re­ by the Giants last fall from Jersey City, induction examination. BartelL who signed his 1944 contract w ith the Polo resides in Alameda w ith his wife and Grounders, February IS. Deafness two children, said he had n o t decided caused him to be classified 4-F in tho whether he would report for spring d ro it training w ith the Giants.

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When Bob Coleman was named to succeed Casey Stedgel as m ana­ ger of Hie Braves, he became the fifth m ajor league pilot for 1944 who lias worn Pittsburgh Pirate span­ gles. The others are Connie Mack of the Athletics. Joe Cronin o f tile Red Sox. Bill McKechnie of the Reds and Billy Southworth of the Cardinals.

Three Big League Pilots Subject to Military Draft F o u r of the 15 m en now listed as m ajor league managers are less than 38 years old, hence subject to mili­ ta ry selection. B ut one of these, M anager Leo Durocher of * the Brooklyn Dodgers, already has been rejected because of a punctured eardrum .

Mel O tt of th e New York Giants is 35, Joe Cronin o f tile Boston Red Sox w as 37 last October 12 and Lou Boudreau o f the Cleveland In­ dians is 27.

The oth er big league pilots range in age from 43 years to Connie Mack's 80.

SWOPE. to get a release from his job as captain of the Hammer Field, Calif., fire de­ p artm en t

C atcher Howard (Danny) D o y l e , brought up by the Red Sox from the Louisville American Association Colo­ nels I ast fall, says h e will not ret urn Jake Powell, veteran W ashington out­ his contract until he takes his Army fielder, reported at his Dayton, O., home physical examination, which he expects that he has signed his 1944 contract with before th e end of the month. the Senators. Powell plans to spend Chef Lanbs, outfielder of the some time w ith his parents in Silver Browns, is employed in the person­ Springs. Md., before he begins training nel departm ent o f a w ar plant at w ith the Nats a t nearby College Park, Detroit.

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YANKS GROOM SAVAGE FOR THIRD ITH the induction of Bill John­ son a t Camp McPherson, Don Savage, who played in the in­ field and outfield for Newark in the International League, w ill get a thorough trial a t th ird base w ith the Yankees. Previously, he had been listed

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The Boston Braves reported the re­ ceipt o f the signed contract of Catcher Clyde Kluttz, m ailed from Salisbury, N. C. K luttz has a 4-F classification.

Charles (Red) Lucas, veteran pitcher, is ready to come out of retirem ent, eith­ er as a player, m anager o r coach. Now 41, and form erly w ith tile Giants, Reds, Red Sox and Pirates, Red believes his arm and experience m ight help during Outfielder Tony Criscola, sent to To­ the m anpow er shortage. ledo early last season by the S t. Louu, Browns and now on the roster of the Cincinnati Reds, is employed as a brakem an on the Union Pacific Rail­ PLAYING MANAGER road this winter.

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Pitcher Monte Pearson, m ajor league veteran on Cincinnati’s retired list for the past two years, is reported to be flirting w ith the idea of a comeback in tho Pacific Coast League as a pitcher or outfielder. However, Monte, a civil­ ian employe of the Arm y, would have

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For 16 FearstWings Clipped in'R ehearsal’ Araonff Playoff Leaders For Cup Series

CHICAGO, IIL—W hen th e veteran Chicago Black H aw k, Jo h n n y G ottselig, placed h is nam e am ong th e N ational Bockey L eague all-lim e leading playoff scorers back in 193738, h e t o t t e d n in e points on five goals an d lo u r assists.

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By LLOYD MCGOWAN BUFFALO, N . Y. MONTREAL. Q u e Kever sell th e Iris h sho rt—e t least W ith th e team s in th e s tre id i ru n to j)ot Fighting Irish o f N otre Dam e. th e S tank}' C up playoffs, st is as ap ­ They said i t w ith th e ir h e a rts a s w ell p aren t as Jim m y .D u r u te 's schnozz that ss with th eir hands on S atu rd a y night, Dirft Irv in of th e M ontreal Canadiens Fetouary 19. in th e. Chicago S tadium . boasts th e only effective victory fonnula.

It was th e la st gam e fo r Coach E d Considered th e only m enace tt» the j ^ u s e . N avy'bound. G re a t L ak es Nav-> H abitants, th e D etroit Red W ings urere a1 T^ahiing Statical w as a IO to I fa ­ unequal to th e te st in th e ir hom e O lym ­ vorite because o f its 84 to victory pia w hen they w ere shade<i. 3 to 2. on oTcr the South B ends only a fo rtn ig h t F eb ru ary 17. F rom th is contcsU adver­ before. tised a s a playoff “rebcajaaL” young Yet, in th e biggest u p set o f th e w eek, M aurice R ichard em erged w ith one of perhaps of th e w hole season. N otre th e prize scoring feats r f th e season. ended G reat Lakes’ a - g a io e Richard w as kin g for a m g h t w ith his streak, and handed Coach K rau se a team ’s en tire th re e goals, actd all in the goiog*away p resen t in th e form of a fleeting space of tw o m inutes an d nine SI to SI victor)'. S ave for tw o brief seconds. secMid'half rallies, th e Irish w ere in l i t t l e Connie Dion, D etroit's A scoasoancL It w as the B lu e Jack ets bcstns K id. broke dow n in th e cord­ third loss In 31 games. ag e to r th e first tim e. Dion had been D ^ u l w hipped W estern K entucky th e p rim e reason for D etroit's rise toto is the second gam e of th e Chicago second place, b u t against th e Canadtcns. twi&.bill, 56 to 36. befoic 8.464 fa n s.. b e added w e i ^ t to Irv in 's assertion —Bob Mills In th e Cnicago Daily News.

G e o r^ M ita n . D ePatjJ’s g reat center, th a t b e be too sm all for Big Time lOHNNT GOTTSn.IC ■Veteran w ith new life fast anm nd the com er. who had 17 points; D ale H all of A rm y. goal-keeping.

X<eD KHcr o f N otre Dame, O tto G ra­ T h e O lym pia outpouring o f 13,175 saw ham, la te of N orthw estern and now Dion fan on two of lUchard’s shots in ol Colgate, a n d H erm B ru n ette o f C ath e th ird period ju s t a fte r the Wings had arsn# again p u t in strong bids fo r A llb u ilt u p a tw o-goal lead on taUies by Amecka h o n o rs by th e ir p la y d u rin g C arl Liscombe and A dam ■Brown in the week o f F e b ru a ry 14 to 19. K lier th e second. had IB points for. N otre D am e; Hall 23 W ith th e W ings sum m arily disposed poi&b in undefeated A rm y 's tw elfth of for th e nonce, th e Canadiens w ent straight victory, th is tim e o v er VlUafaoine to blast th e despondent New oora, 34 to 22; G raham , 15 points in C ellar C lubs T o p p le Barons^ Y ork Bangers, 5 to 2. This ran th r ir his eastern d e b u t fo r C o la te th a t help­

By K E IT H BREHM n n ^ I hom e u n b raten record to 19 games. AU ed the Red R aid ers d efeat 'N ew Yorit Hears; Hiiffalo O nly F o u r o r the Chicago D aily N ew s Cfnivcrsty, 53 to 49, im. th e first h a lf CHICAGO. IU. of the Buffalo d o u b le-h ead er before P o in ts F ro m T o p Natioiial Hockey L e a ^ e lf if s tru e th a t life begins a t 40. Johnny Gottselig. perennial 7JS3; while B ru n e tte w as th e big gun (Including games of F ebruary 20) as Caninus earned a bid to MaHigm youngster who is now in bis sixteenth season of play w ith the Chicago SQuare Garden b y defeating S t Jo h n ’s Black Hawks, won’t begin to live until Ju n e 24. Nevertheless, w hen

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W. L. T. Pts. C .O G . of Brooklyn. 48 to 43, afte r tw o over­ Johnny skates onto the ice a t the Stadium, he likely as not does as PROVIDENCE, H. L 7 63 171 M Montreal .3B 4 much to accomplish the defeat of b itter rivals as any of his mates. time periods, in th e nightcap.

9 45 IM 133 C rflaritcs a ll season lo long n g a n d a1-1 alDetroit _20 14 "We’U be in the Stanley Cup playoffs,** insists Johnny, “and we BiunoUe rn B eal H ero 4 42 175 146 .1 9 ie read y elim inated from th e title S ^ t , 4 36 134 146 .1 6 Brunotte ^ tark e d C anisius’ rally in may even finish in third place, ahead of the Toronto Maple I«afs. ie th e P ittsb u rg h H ornets an d th e P rovl-1 B o s t^ 4 36 175 197 -1 6 29 the last five m inutes o f th e gam e w hich O ur team has a l a i c a l H aw k f i s t i n g spirit and will come through.** 2 . 6 31 14 126 241 deuce Reds registered giant-killing I New York “Fighting s p irif' are ineanmgful w ords for Gottselig. B om in feats in A m erican Hockey L eague com­ ended a t 37-all, a n d h e tied i t u p a t F o t o r c G a m tf 42-all in th e la ri 14 seconds o f th e first Odessa. Russia, his folks came to Regina. Saskatchewan, Canada. petition last week.

February 24—T o r o n t o a t Montreal; extra period. H e also scored th e te ll­ w hen he was two months old.^ D etroit a t New York.

T he H ornets won a n d then drew in F ebruary 28—Boston a t M ontreal; Chiing points in th e second e x tra period. Johnny attended St. John’s Col(WO m eetings w ith Che C leveland B ar­ CMO a t Ibronto.

Other im portant triu m p h s w ere M is­ lege in Edmonton, Canada, and it Lambeau Hits Expansion re b ru o iy 27—M ontreal a t Detroit: New ons, W estern division leaders, w hile souri’s 47 to 41 v k to iy o v er O lathe was t h m - t b a t h e learned to skate) Y ork a t Chicago.

NEW YORK, N. Y .-C u rly L am th e Reds notched a triu m p h over th e F ebruary 29—Toronto a t Boston.

Naval, ending a 20-game streak ; W ash­ rince th e O blate Fathers, who ra n the beau, boss of ^ e G reen Bay flic k ­ H ershey B eats, E astern dlvirion kingboys skate ington’s S3 to 40 u p set o v er Gonzaga, schooL insisted th a t all ers, is opposed to expanding the , I t h o u ^ M ontreal tram w ay operators the latter's second defeat; B ucknell's 39 d uring recess, som etim es in w eather N ational Football League beyond P ittsb u rg h h a d hom e Ice advantage ^ 5 s t a t o r s walked, to 3? win over M uhlenberg, w hich m ay 30 degrees below zero. e i ^ t team s a t th is tim e, because of rn both lls tests ag am rt th e m ighty hitch .h ik ad o r m otored to th e rin k .

Jo h n ’s folks objected to his playing cost the losers a G ard en b i ^ a n d P e n n 's th e m anpow er shortage. H e favors B arons A fte r being h eld lo a I to I Jo outclassing all other team s In scuttling o f th e N avy, 6 8 to 56, w hich hockey, b u t youngsters in C anada ju s t new team s, such as Bufitolo, Boston tie on F eb ru ary 16, th e U om eU Jeered hockey’s gtam our w h e e l th e Canadiens let a scoring record a t Convention H all n atu rally gravitate tow ard th e gam e and o r Cleveland, com bining w i ^ a sec­ a e to 2 victory, th ree nights later. T h e «tablJabed a club record w ith in Philadelphia, in th e second h alf o f soon Jo h n w as playing regularly. W h a ond-division clu b fo r th e duration.

Barons had w on 18 of th e ir last 2 0 153 points, th ree m ore th a n the world a twin-biU. Tem ple, also m u ch in th e b e le f t S t Jo h n ’s en d retu rn ed to Be* H e labelled as “nonsense” intim a­ jd x a a p lo n Canadiens of 1930-31. running for th e in v itatio n al to u rn a­ ^ n a h e jrfn e d a g ro u p of kids w ho tions th a t ow ners of m ajo r league T hougb h jd woo 0 ^ r f IOT 3 one-night stand, th# ment, stopped W ashington a n d Je ffer­ called them selves th e “Ragged P ants baseball parks m ight tr y . to invade e m t s h a d 1 ^ a r o ^ (c B n a d ie u th en shoved off to Modison Six.” A fter a tim e th ey w ere outfitted son in the first gam e, 56 to 4L th e realm of footbslL decisions, th e flashing S q u are G arden to w hip th e Broadway Ohio S tate h a s n o thing m ore lo fea r b y m erchants a n d A l R itrfue, still a r i w g ^ an a c k of ^ s ^ n , notched 7 to 2 , before 15.288 in cu rin the Big T en race. H aving finished scout fo r th e N ew Y ork Rangers, be­ a 3 to 2 V i c t o r y over H ershey, th e ir m ost ofrtimlsts the schedule w ith a p a ir o f w ins o v er cam e th e ir coach. T hey rfiangcd th e ir “AU righL Gottselig, w h a t have y o u got ® * “ A rg u m e n i-fo r F ourth to say now ?’* Illinois, th e B uckeyes a re ato p th e nam e to th e Regina I^ ts .

In 1925, they took o n all com ers and “I w as in m y underw ear,” recalls strn dings w ith ten w ins a n d tw o d e ­ feats, assuring them o f a t le a st a tie finally m et th e A u ra Lee club. T his Johnny, “a n d figured th e incident was p o i..,. PO W hod b « p w M .d,;d h . for the title. P u rd u e an d Iow a a re gam e h a d progressed only a short tim e over, b u t C huck cam e a t m e. J u s t then. race centers around the argum ent be­ deadloriced fo r second place w’ith eig h t w hen th e A u ra L ee boys took exception M ajor M dLaughlin. th e ow ner, cam e in. to th e r o u ^ ploy of th e R e ^ h a Pats. tw een th e Chicago Black H aw ks and H e pushed u s both into a s lo w e r and and two records. T h e schedule & vors American Hockey League A ll th e players on b o th team s drc^>ped Boston B ruins for fourth spot. This ta tu rn ed oa th e cold w ater.

T h a t cooled each one to capttire its tw o rem aining (Including games of F ib ru a ry 20) th e ir slicks a n d engaged In a free-forth e last ru n g of th e playoff ladder. De­ us off. tests and th is wouTd brin g ab o u t a alL said to be th e longest sustiuned tro it is well ensconced in second place, “G ardiner w as off form in th a t game,** three-way tie.

E A S T E R N D IV IS IO N fight in bockey history.

T h e P als recalls Gottselig. “an d I c a n .see now w ith Toronto in third.

Dick McQuade converted tw o free Team.

VV. L. T . P ts. G . (X:. won th e f i ^ t an d th e game. th a t h e w as beginning to ‘break up.'

T h e B ruins received a double setback Hershey 24 13 6 54 141 KB throws w ith 2 0 seconds rem aining a t T hey took him o u t of tow n th a t night.

Buffalo w hen w hipped, IO to 4, in Toronto on Comes B ack A fter R uptured K idney 2 0 U IO SO 140 124 Chanspaign. Bl., to give Ohio S ta te a Providence — 9 31 4 2 2 102 102 ITT F eb ru ary 19, and the n ex t night, 6 to 5. w e had a day 's re st before th e fourth T hey played th e M anitoba U niversity 54 to 53 victory o v er Illinois a n d a sw eep WESTERN DIVISION | q OetroiL r f the tW(>£ame s e t P u rd u e sh attered team in th e finals fo r th e w orld’s ju n io r game, b u t G ard in er cam e back an d M V ^ to th e Toronto gam e, 11,637 welcomed cham pionship. Gottsclig’s hockey ca­ played a helluva game, w ianing. I to 0 . r u iS ffn ri Wisconsin’s hopes fo r a piece of Indianapolis .^15 IS 13 4 3 116 119 back B ud Poile an d w atched the F o rt in overtim e, to take th e cup.

I t w as his Big Ten crown In a n overtim e dueL 52 r e e r n early ended w hen h e suffered a Pittsburgh II ZI 7 29 216 t ^ j w i m a m , O n t, w hiz score four times, la s t gam e.

H e died on J u n e 13.

I guess to SO, after th e re g u la r gam e en d ed a t ru p tu re d kidney early in th e gam e, b u t RESULTS I throe in sequence n e a r the finish. Poile a t th a t i t w-as a g reat w ay to bow out.'

M ichigan finished its Big T en his m ales w en t on to w in th e game F e b ru a ry 'iS P llt^ u r g b I. a m e la n d I . h a w ith th e Leafs leraporarliy while Jo hnny nam ed his personal all-tim e, •■son by dow ning N o rth w estern w ith - a n d th e title. Jo hnny w as In a hospital F ebruary 17—BuiTalo 8 . Providence 4, I* • * j g ^ u i rw all-league team an d G ardiner w as th e F ebruary 19-P llU bur*h 0. Clevelaod 2, reroustored from (he Royal Cacot Graham, 30 to 45, an d M innesota fo r over a m onth a n d n early died, b u t F e b n u ry 20—Providence 3. Hershey 2: nadian A ir Force to th e Arm y. T he h e recovered an d w ent back to play­ only H aw k p layer op the sextette. A t Cleveland a w e d Indiana. 48 to 47. defense h e chose Eddie Shore of Bos­ P ilisburgh 63.. Indianapolis 0; Buffalo 9, Leafs w ill have his services for three Dartmouth h as a lrea d y accepted a ing. weeks. Jackie Ham ilton scored three T he H aw ks acquired Jo hnny a n d sent ton and C hing Johnson of th e New York “ d t o the N. C, A . A tou rn ey . Tw o tim es fo r th e Leafs. *Jber probables f o r th is post-season h im to W innipeg, b u t b r o u ^ t him “ up” Bangers. A t center b e p u t Howie M or- b y th e up-and-com ing Buffalo Bisons.

A t D etroit, HerWe Caln, league-lead­ enz of th e M ontreal Canadiens an d a t T he Bisons staging a stirrin g stretch are A rm y an d N avy. K entucky, to Chicago in lo a i T he N ational Hock­ ing scorer, and Buzz Boll gave the th e wings h e placed B ill Cook of th e rally, won two m ore decisions 1^ week, Aggies an d U tah h av e agreed ey L eague h a d been organized in 1926.

B rain s th e jum p. T he Wings charged Rangers an d A uriel Jo liet of th e C ana­ an d DOW a rc in a fine spot to ov'crtakc to show in th e G arden invitational. D e- b u t i t w asn’t u n til 1934 th a t th e Haw ks back in th e second and th ird periods diens. th e floundering Bears.

Canisius, W estern M ichigan, M u h l- won th e ir first S tanley Cup title—they w ith M ud B runelcau scoring twice.

“W hat a team th a t would be Lo the One coaching change was m ade in Iowa S tate, N avy. A rm y. Rice. h ave n ev er won th e league diamiMon- league to d a y ” m used Gottselig. "M orFlash HoUcU, D etroit ,dcfcnseman* league ranks. Yank Boyd, v e t e r a n , Colgate a n d R ochester are ship. & w k fighting sp irit again flamed in en z w ould score over IOO points and forw ard, was given th e P rovidence jo b clashed fistically w ith his former Bes­ ^ in the ru n n in g fo r bids lo both th a t final series w ith th e D etroit Red B ill Cook w ould be good for IOO goab an d h is predecessor. Jo hnny M itch eU . ton team m ate. H u rte r Jackson. These toomaments. m oved u p to th e front office a s d ir e c - v ets a re rffl w u g h to know bettor, but Wings. T h e H aw ks b a d taken th e first himselL” t o r o f h o c k e y a t R . L A uditorium , w h id i 12.642 fan s.Jia d no compiami.

Jo hnny’s m ost rem em bered game? tw o gam es .and in th e th ird one. played Faced w ith th e loss r f h is k ey man. in Chicago, w ere tied a t two-alL w hen I t w as th e gam e a t M ontreal, Novem­ operates th e Reds. b e r 4,1937, w hen an a ll-sta r learn played Tom m y B urlington of C leveland r e I O il C lapper, to m ilitary servrce M o r e th e la te C harlie G ardiner. Haw*k goalie, the srfiedulc ends, the outlook is not a com bined M ontreal (Canadiens an d tained h is individual scoring lead with le t th ree scores get b y him . A fter the bright for Art Rons, Boston boss man.

M ontreal M aroons club in a Howie 67 points to his credit.

GRID GUIDES second D etroit score of th e third pcnod, 0 1 ^ ^ player in age and service in the M orenz M emorial contest. f f ^ ’TED— Spalding G uides o f G ottselig sk ated behind th e goal a s he league.

Clapper ha* beal accepted for “We h a d over |500,000 w orth of hockey beaded fo r th e bench an d yelled to Objects to Army Limit 19 1 9 , 1 9 1 8 , 1 9 1 6 , 1 9 1 5 , U. S. aervice, but will try to join the G ard in er (this is a m ild frauslationl: players on th a t a ll-s ta r team,” recnlied WU, 1 9 1 3 ,1 9 0 4 .1 9 0 2 aud 1 9 0 1 .

DENVER. Crfo.—I f s lim ited service R. C A r . . , , W hy d o n 't y o u m ake u s look lik e a Johnny. "W e w on th e game, 5 to 2.

Mike Karakas and Paul BibesuJt. ri­ fo r E a rl (D utch) C lark, form er a llH ow could w e lose w ith a team th a t State Price and Condition. lOckW team ?” val goalcra vrtien Toronto met the G anH ner took off after Gottselig and bad N orm Sm ith. T iny Thotnpsoc, Eddie A m erica gridder. as one eye didn’t Hawks in Chkago on February 20, a v a il a b l e — G uides o f 1 9 4 2 , m easure n p to stazfdaxd.

D isap p o in ted .. ^ — — ----- ---clim bed over th e boards to g et a t him Shote, B ed H om er, H ap D ay. Ebbie W Jl. 1 9 3 8 , 1 9 3 3 , 1 9 3 2 , 1 9 3 1 , C lark — Induct i on cen ter attaches: {reached th e peak in parsim ony w ith a OO tile bench. M anager Tom G orm an Goodfeliow, F ra n k B oucher. A r t Chap­ WW, 1 9 2 8 ,1 9 2 7 ,1 9 2 3 a n d 1 9 2 2 .

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Don’t I g et to deadlocked double s h u to u t The atasep arated th e p a ir w ith difficulty. L ater m an, C h arlie C onacher, M ush blarcb, ^ 36, T H I STORTING NEWS f l r t t ’ ” H e WBS told h e vmuld n o t be i son's rcecTrd crowd r f 18,534 was in m e in th e d r e s in g room G ard in er took off B u ib e r Jackson, m yself a n d several barred from go'ing overseas.

St. LMrit I , M o. ' Stadium an d witneased th e scorcleas tie. h is heavy m itts an d yelled a t Johnny: others?”

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by T o n y C a n zo n e t w hen he w on the lightweight title by slopping Al Singer in 66 seconds.

Montgomery came out in a crouch and as they fell into a clinch Davis ripped « h alf dozen left uppercuts lo th e Philadelphian’s body.

As Bob straightened up, Bummy hooked his left lo the jaw and the form er light­ weight champion w ent down for a count of four. A rig h t lo the body and left to the jaw settled it. and while M ont­ gomery was up a t nine. he was in no condition to continue. Referee Frankie F u lto n prom ptly stopped tile one-sided bout.

It was Davis* first fight in the G ar­ den in th ree years. He has been exiled from New _York .since th e night he fouled Fritzie Zivic and then kicked Referee Billy Cavanaugh. Reinstaled ainee his discharge from die Army. D a­ vis had conducted himself well and deserved the chance to redeem his reputation.

The crowd num bered 17.654 and die gross gate w as $58,325. Davis weighed 142Vi pounds and is not a contender for die lightweight tide. H e promptly accepted a m atch w ith Beau Jack and th e two will m eet at the Garden on M arch 17. for die benefit of the Red Cross. Montgomery, who scnlcd WJVi pounds, suffered th e first knockout of h is career.

• • • Beau Hangs Lim on Berger EAU JA C I^ w as active, too. He defeated Maxie Berger, Canadian welterweight, in a ten-round, nontitle bout a t th e Cleveland P u b ­ lic Hall on F ebruary IS. T he fact th at Berger went the lim it w as a m ild u p ­ set, Berger won d ie second and tenth rounds and the sixth was taken away from Beau for hitting in foul territory.

The nearest Jack came to rn kayo was In the seventh, w hen a left to tile body and a right to th e jaw spilled the Ca­ nadian for a count o f three.

T h e bo ut topped an infantile paraly­ sis show nod attracted 8.206 fans. The receipts w ere 530.040 and th e fund re ­ ceived 53.000.

Assuming th at he b eats' M ontgom­ ery, as he is now favored to do. Jack’s program calls for th ree fights in a m onth. Besides the Davis bout, h e will m eet Sanmiy Angott. National Boxing Association lightw eight champion, in n title bout in th e Garden, M arch 31.

I f Montgomery should beat Jack , Bob w ill face A ngott for d ie tide.

Angott, now in Hollywood, w here he boxes Ju a n Z urila on M arch 6. has been notified by his W ashington, Pu.. d ra ft board that he has been reclassi­ fied from 3-A to 1-A. A • • Bortolo Win* In Every Round AL BARTOLO’S victory over F ra n ­ kie Rubino a t the S t Nicholas Rink in N ew York, on Monday.

F ebruary H . is w orthy of note, as th e Boston featherw eight w as aw arded every one of the ten rounds on the cards o f all th ree officials. T his w as an infantile paralysis benefit and drew $3,961. A collection w as also token from th** crowd of 2,789 fans.

Battuto is now recognized as a lead­ ing contender for the featherw eight title, the New York version of which is held by Willie Pep. who. last week, received a medical discharge from tho Navy.

• • • B enny Leonard Debuts as Referee ENNY LEONARD, the f o r m e r lightw eight champion, now a lieu­ tenant in the M aritime Service. made his debut as a referee in New York when he worked in tile pre­ lim inaries to th e Dnvis-Montgomcry bout. . . . Phil Terranova, NBA feath­ erw eight champion, won a decision in a te n -round, n o n-title bout from Harold (Snooks' Lacey a t New Haven on Mon­ day. F ebruary 14. . . . C halky Wright. fo rm er featherw eight champion, has scored two knockouts in Panam a City and w ill box Young Finnegan there.

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Al Davis m ay change his first nam e if he will. b u t to Robert M ontgomery he’s ju s t B o m b / still. r n ---------------------------------------------- ■ moots and caught the first train west on being notified that his Los Angeles draft board had reclassified him 1-A. « « * FUTURE FIGHTS—Ike Williams vs. Ellis Phillips, Philadelphia, F eb­ ru ary 28; Jim m y Bivins vs. Lee Q. M urray, Cleveland, F ebruary 29; Jake LaMotto vs. Coley Welch. Bos­ ton, March J7; Alife Slob* vs. Tippy Larkin. N ew York. M arch 23; Lee Savold vs. Tanil M auricllo, Chicago, M arch 31 (tentative). * • + Short Jabs and Upper-Cuts A lbe Stolz, the New Y ork lightweight, defeated Bobby M ein tire, a second time in ten rounds a l Miami. Fla., February 14. . . . On the same date. G us D orado, veteran heavyw eight, outpointed D usty W ilkerson a t Philadelphia. . . . Fritzie Zivic. ex-w elterw eight champion, re ­ ports for induction into the arm ed serv­ ices. M arch IL . . . Tippy L arkin has been suspended by th e M assachusetts Commission for failing lo honor a con­ tract to box Izry Jannazzo a t Boston.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Comdr. Oscar (Swede) Hagberg, a versatile gridd er during his three years with Navy teams. 1928-30. officially has been appointed head football coach a t the United States Naval Acad­ emy to succeed CapL John E. (Billick) Whelcheb who has been as­ signed to sea duty. Hagberg recen t­ ly returned from active d u ty In the Pacific with th e submarines- He played fullback, end ond tackle for the Navy and also starred in bas­ ketball an d lacrosse. He served as assistant coach here in 1939 under Maj. Emory E. (Swede) Larson.

FTER Bob M ontgom ery, ch allen g er of B eau Jack , th e lightw eight cham pion recognized by th e N ew Y ork Commission, had been knocked out in record tim e by Al (B um m y) Davis. B rooklyn w elterw eight, a t M adison S quare G ard en on F rid ay , F eb ru ary 18 it w as decided by P ro m o ter M ike Jaco b s an d G eneral Jo h n J .

P helan, th e com mission chairm an, th a t Hie title bout betw een Ja c k and M ontgom ery w ould be fought as scheduled on M arch 3. ‘ This decision how ever, w as only incidental to th e ex citem en t caused by D avis' sudden an d unexpected triu m p h . Davis, a fivc-to-one outsider PHILADELPHIA. P a. —E ddie G ott­ in the betting, needed only 63 seconds to knock o u t M ontgomery'. It lieb’s Sphas virtually clinched th e sec­ w as the quickest kayo ev er scored * —________________________.— m ond-half crow n in the Am erican Bas­ in the G ard en a n d broke a record ketball League w ith two straig ht vic­

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tories last week. T he Sphas. last year's defending champions, beat th e ir old jinx, the Wilmington Bombers, 39 to 36, on the Broadwood Hotel floor here.

F ebruary 19, then nosed o u t th e T ren­ ton Tigers in the Jersey capital the next night, 52 to 51.

With six seconds left lo play, H er­ man K n apple, giant Philadelphia cen­ ter, ou tj urn ped M ike Bloom, the T ren­ ton pivot, and the Sphas gained th e ball. A pass to Inky Lautm an, v et­ eran guard, and his quick overhead shot scored the deciding goal.

Trenton is a game and one-half be­ hind the pace-setting Sphas as th e cam ­ paign enters its final week. The T i­ gers have o n ly o n e ’gam e rem aining— th a t w ith New York in T renton on F ebruary 26. T he Sphas have two con­ tests, one w ith New Y ork a t Philadel­ phia on F eb ru ary 25, and another against Wilmington in th e la tte r city th e n ex t afternoon.

M anager Gottlieb added some more strength to die Sphas w ith the ac­ quisition of six-foot A rt Hillhousc. B ar­ ney Sedran, W ilmington coach, also re ­ signed Steve Juengcr. dropped by the Bombers earlier in th e season.

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Cain Still Reigns as King of Scorers MONTREAL. Que.—H erbie Cairn v et­ eran left wing of the Boston B ruinst continued to pace th e scorers in Hie National Hockey League w ith 31 goals and 35 assists for 66 points. Lorne C arr of Toronto, had a com fortable m argin in- second place over D etroit's Jo e C arveth. idle w ith shoulder in ju r­ ies fo r over a m onth. Boston’s BUI Cow­ ley dropped from Hie big seven, his place being usurped by E lm er Loch o f M ontreal. Cowley's chances of re­ gaining his place w ere dimmed w hen he was forced o u t of play again on F eb ru ary IS. this time because of w a­ te r on d ie knee. T he leaders: G. A. Pts. Cain, Boston _____ 35 31 65 C arr, T o r o n to .__ 29 33 62 C arveth. D etroit _ 21 33 54 Bentley, Chicago _ 26 27 53 Mosienko, Chicago 25 28 53 Liscombe. D etroit 27 26 53 La ch. M ontreal __ 16 37 . 53

CHICAGO, DI.—T h e final w eek of play in Hie N ational Basketball League finds a red -h o t battle still u n d er way, even though th e positions of the team s for th e playoffs have been definitely settled. T he struggle w hich provided on added b it of interest is th at for individual scoring h o n o r s between “freshm en" Mel Riebc of th e lailcnd Cleveland qu in tette and veteran Bob­

by M cDermott of th e pace-setting F o rt W ayne Zollners.

Kiebe, one of th e m ost am azing po in t­ ro nkers ever lo enter pro ranks, had a total of 273 in 15 gam es a t last c o u n t McDermott, who is w ithout a peer when it comes to long-range shooting, had registered. 238 in 17 starts. Norm al­ Crescents Go in Eclipse ly it w ould se«un th a t Riebc h as clinch­ T hree Tim es in W eek ed tile crow n, b u t this isn’t so. Cleve­ land, because of travel difficulties, plays four few er games than F o rt Wayne.

NEW YORK. N. Y .-T h e Brooklyn Playoffs for the league championship Crescents w ent through a tough week sta rt M arch 2. w ith Oshkosh a t Sheboy­ in Eastern A m ateur Hockey League gan. T h e second of this setto w ill be play, dropping no less than three de­ cisions in as m any tim es out. H ie Falcons scored 20 goals ‘Clothes Make Man—’ * Philadelphia on them in tw o meetings, IO to 4 and PRATT, Kan.—Two A rm y air IO to 7, the latter trium ph at P h ila­ field teams w ere in the midst of a delphia m arked a new high in loop close gam e here on F eb ru ary 18. competition. when basketball uniform s for one The New Y ork Rovers also hung a of die com petitors arrived. Despite 3 to I setback on the Flatbushers, w hile the deadlocked score, play was the Boston Olympics, setting a fast halted so th e one club could don pace for the Boardwalk Cup. won, 3 its resplendent garb. Thus neatly to 0, over the Falcons. BEN GOULD. outfitted, the team th en played the pants o ff its opposition, winning.

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Mile-High Country Mile High On Skyscraping Utah Cagers B y JO H N MOONEY SALT LAKE CITY, U tah.

Th® big season basketball h a s been enjoying in th e Inter-m ountain coun­ try lias been clim axed w ith U tah 's ac­ ceptance of a bid to play in th e M etro­ politan invitational tourney a t Madison Square G arden In N ew Y ork late in M ardi.

T h e m ile-high country tokes its cas­ aba sport seriously, a n d belittling its favorites today is os serious as palm ­ ing an ace in th e days when th e West w as w ild.

Newcomers, lu re d h ere b y th e w ar plant booms, a re astounded a t th e transition o f this country betw een foot­ ball and basketball seasons. W hile even the m ost rabid booster adm its inter-m ountain football team s usually are outdassed when straying from th eir ow n bailiwick, a s soon as basketball starts, a new cockiness tak es over. And th e records prove Hie team s have “ put u p" w hen d ie “p u t u p o r sh u t up" dares have been hurled.

Colorado and W yoming have been frequent attractions a s fa r E ast as Madison S quare G arden, w ith Colorado w inning Hie M etropolitan invitational and Wyoming taking th e N. C. A. A. title. Brigham Young of Provo, U tah, has m ade tw o trips to the G arden, giving Long Island U. a d o se shave a y ear ago an d then upsetting C anid us on the Eastern sw ing th is year. U tah has confined its barnstorm ing to the M idwest an d boasts a good record.

U tah S tate prefers the Pacific Coast in its non-league contests an d also tops

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played a t Oshkosh two days later. On the n e x t night F o rt Wayne and Cleve­ land open on th e form er’s floor. The second game is M arch 7, a t Cleveland.

If a third game is needed in either series, it w ill be played M arch 7 in Sheboygan and M ardi 8 in Cleveland.

F ort W ayne Is th e first of th e N a­ tional League clubs to enter th e w orld's championship cage m eet. scheduled for the Chicago Stadium , M arch 20, 21, 22, 24 and 25. T he Hoosier en try w as tile fifth accepted fo r th e blue-ribbon, clas­ sic. O thers are Camp Campbell, Ky., Indianapolis, P ittsburgh and D etro it LEO FISCHER.

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T to c k iie of Y a le . I P r e s u m e ? ’ D uring a W ar Bond rally a1 the W aM orf-Astoria in New York City the other night. W alter O 'K eefe w as acting as m aster of cerem onies. He finally turned to the late K nute Kockne’s carcer for a sports story th a t rollicked tile gathering.

O’Keefe recalled Ole tim e he Introduced the great N otre Dame pigskin chieftain to the late tfeywood Broun. Hocknc had ju st tu rn ed o u t an u n ­ defeated football team a1 N otre Dame an d Broun w as a t th e height of his brilliant new spaper carcer on th e New York W orld-Telegram.

“Glad to know you." exclaim ed th e dynam ic Rock. “I n ev er m iss a line of y o u r stuff in th e Journal."

“T hank you. M r. Rockne." retorted Broun gravely. “ A nd le t m e tell you th a t I alw ays enjoy seeing y o u r Yale basketball team s in action.”

They Took ’Em AII On U tah ’s record to data includes tha follow ing resu lts: U tah 60. W eber College 25.

U ta h 45, Cam p K e a m s 35.

U tah 61. H ill F ield 26.

U ta h 64, W endover 28.

U ta h 41, F t D ouglas 25.

U tah 54, Idaho Southern 43.

U tah 46, E ck er Studio (A. A. U. cham ps), 44.

U ta h 48, Colorado College 31 U tah 55, F t Logan 38.

F t W arren Bl, U tah 59.

U tah 57. Cam p K e am s 37.

S a lt L ak e A ir Base 54, U tah 39. . U tah 78, B ushnell Hogs. 3L U tah 52, Idaho Southern 40. the JOO m ark on w ins and losses in th a t arca.

T h a t U ta h ’s B litz K ids have done • good jo b m ay b e gained from checking th e ir record o f 12-2 against the best com petition th e area offers. Utah has d raw n th e lin e a t n o opposition, even though th e school is one of the few n o n -m ilitary outfits in th e nation of­ ferin g intercollegiate athletics on a w inning basis.

T h e team is u n iq u e in m any ways.

F i r s t it is th e tallest team to represent th e U niversity of U tah in m any year* w ith th e first five averaging an even 6:3. F re d Sheffield, th e only letter­ m an, is a sophom ore and plays cen­ ter, although h e's the shortest man, six-foot-one. H erb W ilkinson, the only o th er upperclassm an on tile first team.j is a sophomore, b u t did n o t play basket ball last year. T h e o th er three freshm en.

O nly one player. M as Tatsuno. is fro: o u t of stole, being transferred hei from San Francisco b y the western de*' fense com m and som e m onths ago.

The team n o t only is proficient in basketball, b u t it ra n k s as one of tho sm artest scholastic o utfits in interm ountain history, w ith the 13-man squad boasting a B -p lu s scholastic m ark- T he average age of the squad is ju s t shy o f th e 18. w hich accounts for th e scarcity of d ra ft board worries for Coach V ad al P eterson.

Coach P eterson, in his seventeenth y e a r a t U tah, ra te s th is club as rn* b est po ten tial outfit h e h as ever coach* ft ed. b u t h e isn’t expecting miracles g to sp ro u t o u t o f th e N ew York Garden.

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