Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1953 — Page 7

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American loop | Rejects Shift I .1- ■ . : . . p To Baltimore I BULLETIN Vd TAMPA, Fla-i UP — Bill || Veeck put the St. Louis H Browns up for sale today. ? Veeck feels he no longer can operate the team in St. Louis. || this is expected to be his last venture in base-ife' ba "' , ' i . ; J TAMPA. Fla. UP — Basebal) r en who winqed at Bill VeecW \ “stunts' for ye|irs apparently copll ined in an effort to bust thp «ol4i| Jul promoter -from baseball. f|| That was tire interpretation .’i|i circles today of the A me h i*an League club -owpers’ rejection of Veeck’g . proposal to mott the Brown' from St. Louis to Baltimore. The rejection panied by bristling from beginning at the top,with Co&ipjssioner Ford Frickj As a\ result bf the' vote, Veeck’ is to be forced to operate’ .the browns in Stj Louis —a city which he has stated cannot support twci teams and in 4hich he host %400;t 000 last season.: In addition,-Veeck himself admitted, “I •~BBven’t won any fans in St. Louisj 6r apparently/[anywhere else the world these past four days.’’ .[ Frick called Veeck’s action . 14 “hasty and haphazard” and said; Uhe present -wak a “lousy” tirrte tJ ■ wake the proposal even before tlre| wai taken.' Tpther bitter comment came from;! pl Gjeorge president of tire® minor leagues,, and Frank Shaugh-1 nessy, president [of the Internatkm-1 al League. Trautman charged that f Veeck did not follow correct b‘ase-t| A ball procedure [and Shaughnessy claimed Veeck misled owners when v he told them six clubs in the Inter-, I; national League supported thef’ move. ft “I knew' that,-to be false,” U 'J- i. y llfe, ..-.A ■ iL

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Shaughnessy said. “I knew I had five votes against him myself.” Will Harrldge. president of the league, added that to have “let this go through at this time might have meant a bad dame, for baseball.” \ V And, eyen more bitter off-the-record comments blistering Veeck were heard from i owners and league officials Monday; night.' The sum total of the comment seemed tp add up to this: | “We stood by while be introduced fireworks and midgets. He often has showed little regard fbr normal baseball protocol. Noiv, suddenly,, he watts to rearrange the baseball map which has remained the same for 50 years Moreover,\ he wants to high pres- • sur'e us into doing it oply a mont)h before the season ‘opens without proper reflection. This Ms where we must put our feet down. We’ve had enough of him.” y NBA Playoff Series Will Open Tonight NEW’ YORK (UP) — The New York Knickerbockers meet the Baltimore Bullets at Madison Square Garden tonight in the opening game of the National Basketball Association ; playoffs, while the Syracuse Nats entertain the Boston Celtics iff a clash to decide second place in the Eastern Division. [ -'New York was favored by 10 points over Baltimore in the opener of their best-of-three series. The second gdme is scheduled for Baltimore, Friday night, with the third, it, niecessary, I in New' York bn Saturday. . Boston tied Syracuse’ for second [ place ab the end of regular season [ play when It beat Baltimore, 9'2-78, [ Monday night at Worcester, Mass. [lf the Celtics win tonight, the secJond vs. third place playoff will be LMarteh IB or 19, 21 and opening ’in Boston. ■ \ 1 . [ The \Uniiersity of South Caro- ■ pina was chartered at Columbia in 1801. First; glasses were held in The campus, covering 47.5 acres in downtown Columbia, is the'smallest of any state university in the South. t*

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Schedule Listed For Catholic Conference A 12-ga‘me baseball schedule for the recently formed Central %- diana Catholic conference was announced today. •Members of the conference, which was organized at a meeting here a short time ago. are Decatur Catholic, . Huntington Catholic, St. Paul’s of Marion and St. Mary’s of Addersan. The 12-game schedule will, open April 21 and close May 13. ! Ail league games are scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. The , Decatur Commodores will play their home games again this year at McMillen field. The schedule follows: April 21 —Marion St. Paul’s at Huntington Catholic. April 22 —Decatur Catholic at Anderson St. Mary’s. April 24—Anderson St. Mary’s at Marion St. Paul’s. April 2S—Huntington Catholic at Decatur Catholic.. April 30 —Anderson St. Mary’s at Huntington Catholic. May I—Marion1 —Marion St. Paul’s at Decatur Catholif. j , May\6—Marion §t. Paul’s at Anderson St. Mary’s. May 7-r-Decatur Catholic at Huntington Catholic. May 12—(Huntington Catholic at Anderson ISt. Mary’s. ' \ May IQ —Decatur Catholic at Marion St. Paul’s. May 18 St. Mary's at Decatur Catholic. \ . May 19—Huntington Catholic' at Marion St. Paul’s. * Decatur Team Bowls i In State Tourney The Smith Insurance, team bowled in the state meet last weekend but their 2667 total is not expected to finish in the money, but some of the minor 1 event totals may, „ A Marion Hoagland rolled a fine 1807 total in the all-events, including a good 672 in doubles, for fourth place? Bill Tutewi'ler had a GSO jn the singles, including a big 269, for fifth place, and a 1768 all-events total. Other scores were: doubles. Hoagland-Bayles,. 1117: Ahr-Ladd, ,1102; Tutewiler-Mutschler, 1«17. Singles: Ahr, 582; Mutschler, 573; Ladd. 562; Bayles, 537. All-events Ladd, 1694; Ahr, 1676: Bayles 1405. ft , ■ l ' Exhibition Baseball St* Couis (A); 9; Cleveland (A) 4. Cincinnati (N T j .11, New York (A) 2. Washington (A) 11. Detroit (A) 4. Boston (A) 8; Boston (N) 6., Philadelphia <[A) 2, Brooklyn (N> 1. Philadelphia (N) 11. St. Louis (N) 9. r Chicago (A) 4, New York <N) 3. Chicago (N) 6, (PCL) 3 - L ■! ' - ' ' Pittsburgh 9, Cuban All-Stars 2.

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Per ni Expects Approval For Boston Shift TAMiU. Fla.. UP —Despite the stunniiLf repudiation ot .811 l Veeok. Lou W ini c onfidence today |tiat the National league will ahjjlrove his proposed shift of the Bcfefpn Braves to Milwaukee. In contrast to the bitter and atinosphere which accompaih£d thie American league’s •meetiosj yvhich rejected Veeck's proposed shift of the St. Ixiuis Browns; |o Baltimore, tlfe National league l<|jwners , seemed ready to meet a calm and sober atmosphere [lift St. Petersburg, ,Fla.» Wednesday. Alth6ii|jh there was sentiment that thialinove might >bp inadvisable at tais time, most Os the owners initiated a willingness' to listen to and none: claimed the Braves’* president ‘ was “trying to ram something down pur throats.’’ Althiiigh Perini shid he was "very of gaining the nfecbsßaiyi unanimous vote. George Trautrmun president of the, minor league, that the National leagtjtf would follow the American’s Ui|cj(l and reject the proposal and Walter O’Malley, president of the Brooklyn. Dodgers, hinted he miy the one disapproving votle required to rejek-t the proposal ifMer National league rules. Peritif tiaid he had talked to five of the w 1 ren other dub owners and that ail|tive assured him they will voth fqii ihe move. Hie said that Philip N. JiVrigley of the Cnbs ami John GfUbifeath of the IHrates were the oniftii presidents be has not In Lew Angeles. Horace Stoneham of She Giants announced that he for the move but the president; of the RedH. Cardinals and Phi,|ijes all declined to reveal their hlwoval or disapproval. ' 'hint that he may disapprove jthe. proposal was contained in a.f<|rmal statement in whi“h the Dockers’ president said he favored National Association’s rtilq thiif? mo fran hise could be moved biejibre next Oct. 1 and expressing reonfidence that such a rule be adopted hy the major leagfoH at their nefct meeting. It w-djsji hlso pointed out in infOnned mi alters that Ij’erini s original inte'fciior. was to wait another year ’ind'Hoston before attempting to movK It was said that thie Braves’ ;»fesideni was forced iifto his prohdsal for the move now bo-au.-c of [ill a pressure built up by VeeckHn’ Milwaukee. That }p|essure. seemed to put Pqrini ilFilhe position of denying major Iqi'tiie status to Milwaukee although" jhe repeatedliy insisted that was|not his intention. One source. sjho preferred to remain anonymous, stated Monday night that Perini “wo.uld not be too unhappy proposal is rejected and'thej* agree to reconsider, It next -yea|.?/ ■ Taxing i Family Mass. UP -v- For 17 years,j b,. H. Warner has been lax coilecitifMt of this western Massachusett»i itown. He’s announced that Retire this'year — but 'the name ;C. H. Warner probably will conftlhue on tax bills. His namesake-son is a candidate for the job', 'i I ' ’v'

NCAA Semi-Finals On Tonight's Card Kansas CITY. Mo„ UP —Tonight’s NCAA i basketball semifinals offer three exceptionally strong contenders and a “wonder trum’’-- defending champion Kansas. Dr.' F. C. Phpg ABcn said he doesn’t know how ihis “scrawny kids* got in the championships. Bu ( st &hey are here along with IpWashington’s Huskies, and ■Louisiana State. \ ■ think Wednesday night’s finals W HI Washington, 29-2; adjust the speedy Indiana Hoo-siers'2l-3. ’ ! taking this showdown one .nighff M a time, Indiana must southeastern champion LSU tonight, and Washington mpsf. get Kansas (18-5). It’ll doing. 4h atever happens, a capacity cnp'wd of IC’.Ofh) persons will see it o®Bh[ night in Kansas City’s MuAuditorium. | Some 200 poaches attending the atipual convention of the National Caches Association say this one rapid be the greatest NCAA champfoships df them' all. !■ ■ ' — Byard Hey Is Named Coach At Concordia «tQRT WAYNU UP —Byard D. ?\f <v wa-, appointed head basketball o]f Concordia high school to(i.|>, ‘su|'ceeding lion (jirsmehl. jGersnichl resigned recently to (!<j|i-h the Concoirdia College basketball tcanV. Hey formerly attended; the- high school and Indiana ei.-i'y. He was released last moilth from the armed forces. ■ mDHE-' ■ J 1 [MB YCT CAPL, Manuel J. Fernandez, jr„ of Mjainl, Fla., grins happily in 1-Corea oyer attaining jet ace status, the 36th [of Korean war. He’s Sabrejet pilot ot sth Air Force’ll 4th interceptor wing. (InternationaLJ

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Gerstmeyer’s Coach Says His j Quintet Ready By KURT FREUDENTHAL (United Pres* Sports Writer) INDIANAPOLIS. UP —Veteran Howard Sharpe has the sharpest ballclub in 13 years of Coaching, and he said today his Terre Haute Gerstmeyer Black Cats should hit their peak in the [lndiana high , school basketball tourney finals. The Wabash Valley champions, ranked third in the United Press “Big Ten,” collide with fourthrated Richmona in Saturday's afternoon headliner. “We know Richmond is rough and has a great player in Wayne Van Sickle,” Sharpe said. “They beat us 47 to 46 during the season.” But Sharpe said his club, with a sparkling 30-3 record,, is “getting better with every game.” y “The boys are gelling plenty of rest and if we play right, we shoulcl hit our peak Saturday." > Gerstmeyer reached the pay-off round with a terrific second-half comeback drive that spilled Evansville Central, 78 to 71. Gerstmeyer trailed by 16 points at the half. “All we need is Sight shots,” the players to)d Sharpe during the intermission,. And they w€nt out and got them. “I’ve never in my whole life seen such a determined bunch,” Sharpe said. “I knew the percentage was against us, but the boys didn’t give up. Sixteen points doesn’t mean anything to this' hair club.”' '' v In the finals for the first time, Sharpe said this crew is his finest in nine years at the Terre Haute school. The three publicized Andrews boys—twins Arley and Harley—and their uncle Harold and guards Bill Bolk and Jack Smith comprise Sharpe’s starting five. These boys hit 38.5 .percent of their shots during the season. Arley, who topped semi-final shooters with 43 points ii\ twp games, suffered a brain concussion in a fall when he was eight years pld. He missed a year’s school, but he’s as good as new now. “He’ll be as good or better thap Boibby Leonard,” Sharpe predicted. , Leonard, a Gerstmeyer star a few seasons back, now is the sparkplug of Indiana's Big Ten champions. A “Valley’’; champion never-htw-won the "statel’ the same and Sharpe blasted the theory of a jinx. “That’s just silly,” he said. “It used to ‘be that tpe Valley champion didn’t play a major schedule, but that's no more.” Gerstmeyer’s worst loss was at Evansville Reitz, t. 3 to 53. In the season \finale the Cats were upset by city fpe Garfield. 45 to 33, but they also licked such strong teams as Indianapolis Grispus Attucks, Hammond, La Porte, Gary Wallace, and Garfield. | Willie Mays Denied Dependency Discharge Ft. Eustis, Va. UP — The Army has turned ddwn, Willie Mays' pnetition for a depehdehey discharge, thus forcing the NjEw York Giants to play for tfee second straight season withpiit the young outfielder who sparked’their late surge to the 195 T National League penant. \ A board of officers at second army beadquarters rejected Mays' request for a “hardship” discharge Monday. He is due for discharge on May 28, 1954; under present selective service rules. He had asked for a discharge last[ month ph the grounds that he is the sole means of support for his mother and nine brothers and sisters. j Television Sponsor Forfeits Guarantee INDIANAPOLIS UP — The television sponsor of the Indianapolis high schdpl basketball tourney sessions today .forfeiied its slfi,ooo guarantee against possible financial loss at the turnstiles. Unsold tickets for the regional and semi-fidal tourneys totalled the of guarantee posted by the Indiana Bel} Telephone Co. -jand $328 besides. More than 6,600 season tickets wen| begging in the two tourneys. The sectionals were a complete Sellout, however.

ERV BULTEMEIER, of northwest of Decatur, recently rolled a 714 series, tops for the season at the Mies Recreation alleys. Brv. who has been bowling only three years, rolled his series of 226-821-267 in the Classic league. Mice Menace Forest y SACRAMENTp, Calif. UP — California’s largest virgin timber area is seriously threatened by mice. University of California zoologists say QyO per cent of seeds planted for reforestation of Doug-

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Pocket-Vetoes Bill As Political Move - J. [I ■ . ... One Measure Allowed To Die By Governor 11 INDIANAPOLIS UP 4 Governor [Craig said today he pocket-vetoed | A bill which would have allowed lElkhari and Delaware counties to abolish voter registration boards because it was "solely a political measure.” I "A tailor-made law to fit one locality is not the proper subject for legislation,” the governor said. The bill passed by the 1953 state legislature would have amended the state election code, raising population limits so the two counties could have county clerks handle . voter registration. Craig retained the bill without approval or official veto, thereby preventing it from becoming law. .\ 1 y_ "I see nothing wrong in having . both political parties represented on voter registration boards,” Craig said. Hf you’re going into the purity of elections, there is nothing safer than having one party watching the other.” las fir are often eaten by whitefooted mice the first night. Attempts to control the rodents by i poison have so far been-ineffective.