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John Upon, who set the Michigan
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Frank Overmiro front Muskegon;
Masters
from Winston-Salem and Clarence
champion New
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Joel about Anril :9. three davs before
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Stiteler Mentioned
As Waco Mentor
nil his life,
possibilities
Kirkwood Explains
Tourney Failures
handed hitters except McClaren,
McHale and Moore.
waiting for him at the desk, most
of them condemning him for his
decision.
yes-
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year
U nser.
he thought his duty was to take
care of his mother, pay a large
income tax, invest heaviy in de-
fense bonds and help keep base-
ball going as President Roosevelt
suggested.
"This was probably the toughest
decision I've ever had to make,”
Ted said.
When Williams walked in the
hotel lobby Red Sox players. fans
‘Tigers and then batted .300, and
Hoot Evers who hit .275.
against another Ohio squad, the
Reds, whom they knocked down,
ft to 3, nt St. Petersburg.
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open
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' partners and trainer. His actual
ended his holdout, the Cleveland !
ndians prepared to meet'the St.
Vare, Howe Favorites
In Belleair Tourney
MIR
bout with Abe Simon will be hand-
ed over to the Army. He gets $21
a month.
but injured his arm and shifted
I to the outfield. His t rm isn’t too
He rot. es at 10 p.m. and is up
at 6 am. He,does road work first
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SPOILER PASTOR PUTSSlUG ON "ANOTHER JOE LOUIS"—Lem Franklin gets face out of resin, but
that’s about all as he is knocked out in eighth "ound by Bob Pastor in Cleveland. Joe Sedley tolls count writing finis to an-
other "another Joe Louis." Pastor specializes in ruining hopes of potential Negro challengers of champion.
fact, except a strong arm.
Stan started out in the Cardi-
nal chain as a southpaw pitcher,
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Although both
overlooked in th-
mound Ed Weiland, from Water-
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LAKELAND, Ela. (UP) —Lyn-
V id Rowe and Earl Cook today
were booked for their first com-
erated on last year. They are now
trying to build her up for another
operation. The draft board has a
complete file on her health and |
neiser urvu eug’u p . He has speed, f elding ability and
2 holes during yesterday 8 semi I baseball instinct everything, in
13 to 33; Central Missouri’s State
Teachers of Warrensburg ran
n way from the Kentucky State
missile 227 feet 9 inches, five
[yards over the previous record.
don’t think anyone would try to
rrucify me. But I am not asking
Er any special consideration now
# at any time. My record is
right there in the files.” ‘
person- ' surroundings under
loo, la.. of the Three-Eye League;
Orval Grove, from Shreveport of
The second round schedule, be
ginning at 12:30 p.m. with four
games in the afternoon and four
more tonight:
Indiana State, Terre Haute, vs.
Simpson College, Indianola, la.
Southwestern College, Winfield,
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Keiser-Harper
UpsetFavorites
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (UP)-
An all dark-horse quartet tees
off tgday in the final round ol
the $5,000 International Four-
Ball golf championship.
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AVALON, Cal. (UP)
for stardom.
He looks and bats something
like Williams of the Red Sox. He's
a natural hitter with a keen eye.
of his buddies who happened to
be off duty. The soldiers sat in
stands along the wall They were
not permitted to smoke, to offer
cpmment or to applaud before a
round ended They were so quiet j
that the entire scene seemed un-
Stiteler, now coaching at Cor- '
pus Christi, was being considered
and batted
eason although his average was
row morning to journey back to
the mainland for their opening
exhibition game with the Chicago
White Sox Friday.
like a movie minus the
presidential appeal board.
"I didn’t do anything wrong."
Williams said. "My conscience is
clear and I think I am doing the
right thing for my mother, my
country and myself. If the true
larious and somher or
season.
. J. P. Wood, the holdover—who
came here from Rice Institute last
p m he goes to the
the Michigan State Lengue and
the Georgia-Florida loop.
Catchers trying out are
record mark at Philadelphia. He
pitched the -regulation 21-ounce
how much Ive contributed to her j George MeQuin Signs
support." | DELAND, Ela. (UP)
one day in Orlando and was laid
up for a month, That ended his
Joseph Langston .. .
ape, Fla.; Ben Franklin
League afire with his bat last
facts of the case were known I j meet the world
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Henderson Bail News .
PAGE TWO------------------WEDNESDAY, MAR. 11, 1942
noisy, depending n i
classified in 3A, shifted to
and then reclassified in 3A by the
C4s
Sr4
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the early rankings, : DIMaggio, Williams and Reiser,
Hormen Keiser of1 but the kid has every qualification
: "Where are my bats?” Williams I Johnny Allen out.of uniform to-
querries of clubhouse man, Johnny day for allegedly breaking club
rlando I rules while the team was train-
Manager Joe (’ronin then came
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same as
Exporter outfit for which they
had to plea and “shell out" in
advance ticket sales.
Akron, 0., and Chandler Harper |
of Portsmouth, V a., were favored
because of their "giant-killing”
His hired hands tossed lefts at i
I him and hit him ofterner than he were employed in auto, auto body
hit them Ry next week, things , and parts factories in the United
will be different. , ~ l States.
Tos,
Sr
previous turbu-
petitive pitchin, in the third and
last camp game of the Detroit T-
gettrainihnr season. Manager
Del Baker picked Rowe and Cook.
Virgil Truc’.s and Hal White for
mound duty.
Jeff Heath in Fold
CLEARWATER, Fla. (UP) —
Cheered by the ews that hard-
hitting outfielder Jeff Heath has
Ralston Bayer New
Aggie Cage Captain
COLLEGE STATION (UP)—
boys who played outfield
v ith Winston-Salem last year—
Dick Wakefield who got $1,000
bad; it just doesn’t measure up
to his ther assets.
Few players ever made the
jump Musial has. He was a pitcher
for Daytona Beach in the Florida
in the center of Fort Dix
tandems were
state class "C" League in 1940. 6
On his off-days from pitching,™
the Daytona beach manager used
Musial in the outfield because of
his hitting. He hurt his arm mak-
ing a diving eateh in-eenter field
Williams, who weighs 178, the , Presi’ent Eill DeWitt of the St.
‛ Louis Browns today was clearing |
the docks for action Saturday
land, Miss.,
With this savage heaye. Marine
Staff'S rgl. Everett R. Aikman,
hurled a hand grenade to a new
pressive records Inst year.
The Exporter^ Wilf leave Lake-
land training quarters into this
month for Texas, arri ing here
the Natiopal Intercollegiae
kethall Tournament today.’
Promised City
By Jack Zeller
(This is the second in a series
ou: lining Texas League base-
ball prospects.)
BEAUMONT (UP) —Beaumont
baseball fans, apathetic toward
a tail-end club, today were pre-
pared to watch a reorganized
Harper.
Jack Grout of West Pittston.
Pa., and Ben Loving of Long
Meadow, Mass., won 1 up over
Jimmy Hines of New York and
Willie Goggin, White Plains,
N. Y., for the other finalist berth.
lent career included service with
the Browns, Indians and Yankees,
faces a possible fine and suspen-
sion. .
The continued absence of holds'
out pitcher Whit Wyatt and the
uncertain draft status of Pete
Reiser, Don Padgett, Lew Riggs
NEW YORK Trick shot nrtit
.295, and Al
THORSHEIMf
yard shot to a green from a (food
fairway, this is not the type of
shot I’ve practiced. I’m sunk—-
just as all golfers who experiment
with everything and perfect noth-
, ing are."
Decorah, la., slid past the
Allen, whose
At 1:30 |
field House.
Cards PIa Cleyeland
CLEARWATER, Fl/ (UP)
was discharged by the
hoard Monday night.
Ray Jarrett, Stephenville, was
awarded the Lipscomb-Munnerlvn
trophy for the most valuable
player. Capt. Bill Henderson held
the trophy during the 1941-42
season. ,
"When Craig Wood, for
4. ’’ v"?
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All the regulars
W
only .290, battles Bob Henny, a
holdover, for the shortstop as-
signment.
Upon led the Michigan circuit
in total bases, extra base hits
CHICAGO — Bernie Jefferson,
negro halfback at Northwestern
from 1936 to ’38, and now a
Dix and it is a pretty big place
There "Are thousands upon thous-
ands of young men living there
and most of them are being read-
ied for a more important fight
when his team opens its exhibition
season. DeWitt has signed First
Baseman George McQuinn and ex-
pects to see Catcher Rick Ferrell
! and Outfielder. Roy Culleabine.
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piny the shot the same way he
Sens After Third Win
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP)
The Wnshington Senators, on
top of the grapefruit league with
two victories in just as many tries,
and Joe ’
w/seoring record set by Pet* Fogo
school ' of George Pepperdine College, I
j Los Angeles, who rang up 38
--- । points. His effort wasn’t enough, I
29,
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39-35; Southeastern
Durant, Okla., beat
Williams Joins Yankees Qrooming
Sox; Prepared Priddy for 3d Base
For Fan Abuse To Replace Rolfe
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY M *
nd fielding while slugging
homers, Henny batted .247
1 1 1 games for Beaumont
Texas League,
and yet not late very high as a
tournament player:
ns on two University of Mich-
Another Muskegon
The Detroit Tigers, parent last season.
club, announced last fall that fhe second base job is a con-
they were moving Beaumont's test between Joe Wessing, a
Texas League franchise elsewhere I holdover who batted .234 in 152
because of a losing proposition. I Kames, and Adam Bengoechea,
but relented on insistence of fan- who hit •283 for Muskegon.
here.
The Tigers said Beaumont fans
would have to buy 50,000 ad-
vance tickets in order to save the
With me, five or six
ger Jimmy Wilson scheduled n
prolonged batting practice today
for the Chicago Cubs’ final work-
.. . ,, ,, . .c.. i ou at (‘ntnlina Island. 'Hie play-
thusiastically. He found 63 letters W"
•- - • ers will board water taxis tomor-
sound trac k.
When Louis came out Of the |
i dressing room there was an M.P.
on cach side of him. He boxed
i four rounds with four different
■ spar mates and since he was 10
J pounds overweight at 215 he was !
j slow and his timing was poor I
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Louis camp. and, brother, it is . work is don in a new and magni
military all the way. " ......
There are no odd characters away. ....... ...................
here There is no hilarity There I titvities, he is strictly the soldier,
is no horseplay It is a fight camp [ 1 - - --
and at 10:30 a m he reparts to J Teachers of Morehead, 53 to 29.
In Use -yenr 516,000 peopte
memamummaem. auaw. vwg Exporter officials mailed on‛v sigi
RECORD BREANNG KUKEER 1 27 contracts this spring, an all-
time low. They sold Steve Carter,
I though, and the coast team lost
| to Missouri Valley of Marshall,
I Mo., 53 to 68.
Texas Tech's Raiders came 1
through, 59 to 47, past Louisiana
Tech; Hamline, Minn., University
I blasted the New Mexico State
last final play, eliminating defending
champions Ben Hogan and Gene ,
Sarazen;—5 and 4. It was the l
third “big name" team eliminated
in as many days by Keiser and j
Hinh Point, N. C., College.
Missouri Valley, Marshall, Mo.,
vs;, Stout Institute, Menominee,
Wis.
Evansville, Ind., College vs.
East Central State, Ada, Okla.
terday, along with Imost
for signing a contract with the
in name only because at Fort Dix 1
Joe Louis is heavyweight champ- j
ion in name only. At Fort Dix he i
is a soldier working in military
San Diego State’s defending
Tc Pittsburgh Pirates : champion led a parcel of sixteen
■ . their exhibition series । foams into the second round of
Neknstrsncettih, kndhayepMth the Natiopai Intercollegiae Bas-
•My mother is 50... op- Flpenlenyrndinnsytotpropmnante "■ rockie probably sharing mound
.My « the tax,, . /is mw. ulat ....... mrn super The torporai gnnds him th. Wouk
I have seen a number of^se using everv move he makes when Manual of Arms, marching. I
camps and thought that 1 had he ian t boxing. gas mask instruction, military
wi nessedust A 211 j had Hor instance a reporter needs courtesy orders mid the other es- Joe Kirkwood explains why he can
to offer. Today I found hat I was a military pass to see him. No’sentials, his mates are learning .....
wrong, very wrong. Unmistake- pass, no admittance. Louis is not ’ --
ably wrong For today I saw the on furlongh. He is on detached
'fight camp to end all fight cnmps, service after licing transferred
—the training site within a train- from his basic, training comer
ing site where Private J L Bar- Camp t’pton for two weeks Hr
row is preparing fm his 21st wns transferred because every
heavyweight title, defense ;, ent he carns from his March 27
The name of this camp is Fort
I
Kan,, vs. Hamline U., St. Paul.
Ralston Haver, Houston will rap. 1 Southeastern State, Durant,
tain the Texas A. A M. basket-1 OkJ"' Vs. Texas Tech, Lubbock.
h.1 , । Kansas State Teachers, Pitts-
q nd next season. ; burg, vs. Luther College, Decorah,
Bayers selection by his team- la.
mates was announced at an Warrensburg, Mo., Teachers vs.
annual basketball banquet last *
night. '
outfielder, to Hartford of the
Eastern League and sent George
Sturdivant. first baseman, to
Oakland, Calif.
The armed services called
pitchers Lemuel Bumpers, Zeb
Faton, Robert Gillespie end Dennv
Horton; out fielders Bill Hnnac
end Harold Hirshon, and catcher
Burl Storie.
Only eight players who finished
the 1941 season with Benumont
are returning. The other 19 of-
fered contracts plaved with Win-
ston-Salem of the Piedmont Lea-
gue, the Cotton States circuit.
| .ample, steps up to a ball,” says
i the veteran, "he has one way to
handers—are Roy
। N. J., a team that had won 46
I straight games.
Biggest news of the tourna- !
ment, however, was the new
Frnutt who hit .290 for Wineton- 'ho onenine game with Houston. [ of Belleair, who eliminated Mrs. Dizzy Dean, Joe Medwick. Rin
Salem : Albert Snhervillo, 2.79 for Thev will play a dozen games on Robert F. Reid, Cleveland, 0., Collins, Jim Bottomley. Paul Der- 6
Texarkana in the Cotton States, route. 1.2 mid 2. I ringer, or Chick Hafey. "
T— , —--, —_________— -
Louis Cardinals here today.
Heath signed for an estimated
$15,000 plus a bonus provision. j ”
! Tech Triumphs
Sacramento Solons again today _ __ ' ,
after edging out the Pacific Coast AFM nneAA sh-uu
of 1941 with .310, will contest
for third base. Wood held it last
year.
Anse Moore, who batted .272
in 152 games here in 1941, re-
turned to the outfield, as did
James Matthews, who had a mere
.194 in 30 contests. Charles Metro
was called from Texarkana where
base to compete with John Mc-
Hale, a .280 hitter for Muskegon
Bemidji, Minn., Teachers, vs.
San Diego State.
San Diego landed in the bracket
with the doughty Bemidji, Minn.,
Teachers after eliminating Neb- |
raska State of Chadron, 36 to 29, I
in last night’s first round play.
Bemidji hung out the hurricane
warnings by eliminating the Pan-
i zer College five of East Orange
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United Press Staff
SARASOTA, Fla. (UP) Steel-
Musial looms
As Golden Boy
Of '42 Season
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP)
. Speaking of brilliant rookies,
the American League had its Jo
DiMaggio in 1936 and Ted Wil.
hams in '39, but the national cir-
cuit may catch up quickly with
its Pete Reiser of '41. Stan Musial
should be the "golden boy" of '42.
DiMaggio, Williams and Reiser
already have clicked, but Musial
must live up to advance noticr d
during the coming 154-game cam™
paign. r
Fans who never have seen
Musial in action may regard it as
preposterous to put this 21-year
old outfielder of the St. Louis
| the Dodgers ordered Pitcher
Ed W ciland to Hurl
PASADENA, Cal. (UP)
Three of the Chicago White Sox
rookie pitchers will get a chance
nro right-
bat he drove straight to the Red |
Box clubhouse, 100 yards from the I Allen Breaks Training
Club's hotel, and rushed to his DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (UP)
locker. The clubhouse wns empty 1 President Larry MacPhail of
Clark and
fit is training with the Timers at
Lakeland, Fla., under a new man
ager, Steve O’Neill who was Del
Baker’s head coach at Detroit
last season and is a former major
j league catcher and manager of
| the Cleveland Indians.
O'Neill succeeds Gordon Hinkle
who quit baseball after Beau-
mont’s disastrous 1941 season and
now is working for a Beaumont
utilities firm.
Jack Zeller, general manager
of the Tigers, has promised Beau-
mont a winning club, despite the
hard blow at his farm system
from which Commissioner Kene-
saw Mountain Landis purged 93
plavers in 1940.
club. Only 30,000 were pledged.
: but Detroit said Beaumont was
! a good basehall town and it was
i enough.
As result, a new Exporter out-
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Gann, a holdover. None had im-
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STorg -
and Harvey Riebe, .198 with
Muskegon of the Michigan State
League.
Bill McClaren, who batted .261
for Beaumont, will return to first
of Morion, Pa., and Mrs. Edward pitching career » m i
L. Howe, Princeton, N. J., were Things looked dark for Musial
strong favorites to win their "hen he reported to the Cardinals
quarter-final matches today and ( rookie camp at Columbus, Ga
eventually meet in the finals for i last spring. Branch Rickey and
the Belleair women’s golf cham- i Burt Shotton, the columbus man-
»ionship ager, were there looking over the
n -i. Mrs Vare won by default ves. i Cardinal prospects. They told
all right- tmdav from Nrb Aex Diek,stan to take batting practice with
Clearwater, Fla., and Mrs. S. D. the pitchers. In a few days Rickey
rom"iaLI Benson, Tampa, in the round ofand1 Shotton made UPptheir minds
Hom -uahas- cight. Mrs, Benson reached the —Musial was an outfielder.
ouarter finals with a one up They were right. He hit .379
victory over Mrs. Sylvia Henrotin, ; for Springfield, Mo.; .326 for Ro-
Sarasota, Fla. Chester, and .426 for the Cardinals
The other tourney favorite, all in the season of 1941. He was
Mrs. Howe, defeated' Mrs. John so hot nobody could stop him. No
O. Tucker, Wheeling, W. Va., other player in Cardinal history
6 and 4 and nlays Dorothy Low, I advanced so rapidly — not even
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BY JACK GI ENTHER
U’nited Press Staff
FORT DIX N. J HTI In the
course of their work- sports
writers see many strange things
Some nt the strangest arc fight
camps places like Lakewood or
Madam Bevs or Pompton Lakes.
They are peopled by odd chrrac-
. ters and they are alternately hi-
into giect Williams with a
"Hello Kid.”
They shook hands and Williams
asked, "what time does hitting
~ practice start?"
. Then came the first of many
ordeals for Williams an inquisi-
physical education teacher here, to prove their worth against the
passed the physical and mental j team's city rivals, the Chicago
examinations for the Army Air Cubs, Manager Jimmy Dykes said
Corps with an exceptionally high today
score. | Dykes said he vould send to the
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One ^rs' Ne,,
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‛SHip
tion by the newspapermen about
his strange case which saw him | and Peewee ncese worried the
’ Brooklyn Dodgers hoard of strat-
egy.
BELLEAIR, Fla. (U ) — Co-
Medalists Glenna Collett \ arc,
ST. PETERSBURG, Ela. (UP)—Manager Joe McCarthy
— I begins intensive schooling of Gerry Priddy as the New York
ingushirm the nanon's "fans' be- ; Yankees regular third baseman today. Priddy is expected to [ j
cause Of his draft deferment. Ted replace the veteran Red Rolle.
Williams, ninth 400 hitter in Mize ovt or Aetion
American League history, today MIAMI, Fla. UP) The ques-
began training with the Bostontionahle condition of Johnny
Red Sox to defend his crown as Mize’s riglit arm made first base
baseball's batting champion. I the New york ciants’ chief prob-
When he arrived last night . lem again today. Mize's faulty I
After a 1700-mile automobile trip । tendon slipped out of place yes-
from Minneapolis. Williams was terday and he will be out of ac-
bo anxious to get his hands on a tion for some time.
KANSAS CITY, Mo (UP)—
present themselves, none of which
is as reliable ns a standardized
shot. In trap , through trees or
around the corner of a barn, I
do all riaht. Those are like trick (
shots. But when I have a 180-
WACO (I'P)—Harry Stiteler
today was being mentioned as
Ilie next Waco high school foot-
ball coach.
So were a dozen others.
fRNs .
Co,
M4ke . "‛g
As 4 hampinn Louis ia n val-
uable asset to the nrmy and he is
being guarded accordinrly He is
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