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NBA May Adopt w= Searing Sy elo cowumngn

By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer MONTREAL, 8ept. 9-To

future fatalities

CHICAGO. Sept. 9 (U. P)

Bertelli and Bob Hoernschmeyer a DOBns traded from Brooklyf® to the Dons sent Bertelll to Chicago for Hoernpre= schmeyer. - No cash was involved and’ The experts failed to see how the National Hoernschmeyer could help Brooklyn more than Dobbs

vent ring “punch drunkenness,” Boxing association was expected to adopt today a resolution that would The former Indiana and Annapmake the N. B. A. Washington olis football great was expected headquarters a clearing house for '0 be a conference. sensation last: information on the records-and in- {all when -he first joined the juries of all fighters in N. B. A. ter- Rockets, Instead he was a mediocre ritory, player on a mediocre. team : This year he was outranked as The resolution also Youd lores the first string fleld géneral on each boxér to carry an official car Jimmy “Crowley's combination by listing the festrita: of- his last 101 Alten Dékdebrun, a youthful sherp fights. When that card disclosed 10 shooter from Cornell ‘whit came to Straight defeats or t00 many knook- | gic in a trade this season with outs, the fighter would be retired by | Buffalo. the N. B. A. for six months, at least. This protective plan was intro-| duced late yesterday’by Andrew Hoernschme yer got into Gi fru Cleveland commissioner, Rockets’ first game, a losing effor

Beams at Prospect

inst the Los Angeles Dons, but ng the opening session of the "8% g Pen ng at) the played only part of the first

thalf as Dekdebrun's substitute {Then he spent the rest of the night on the bench and it was announced The convention also was expected he had suffered a shoulder separato adopt a measure that would pro- Hon vide for the establishment of a Since then he sparked the Rockfund, or funds, to prevent fighters ets In another losing game against from becoming objects of public Dan Topping's New York Yankees, charity after they have hung up and the official statements have thelr gloves. said his shoulder was “all right.” The convention was prepared to Yesterday, Crowley, beaming at adopt a unified fight scoring sys- the prospect of bringing Angelo tem to be used throughout N. B. A, Bertelll, fhe former Notre Dame territory. Abe J. Greene, president S!AT, back before Midwest audiences, of the N. B. A and commissioner dismissed Hunchy's injury as ‘just for New Jersey, proposed unified * futse scoring yesterday. When his pro- -Another posal was received with enthusiasm S¢r'bed the by the delegates, Greene appointed a committee to arrange and present a system today The convention adopted a resoli-

tion recommending that referees Seeded P| ers undergo physical examinations Before’ each fight show, and that they. Due for Discard

have a thorough check-up once each NEW YORK, Sept

%.. higgest convention, here the Mount Royal hotel

Unified Scoring

Rotket spokesman deHoosler's injury as a split shoulder.” The triple-trade was made on a ‘buyer-beware” basis, so Brooklyn

year. Tt: suggested also that at least two referees he appointed to handle a full card of bouts on each! 9 (U. P).—The show

parade of seeded pilavers

through

the U. 8. tennis championships was

Tag-Team Bouts due for an

abrupt halt today as they began to square away against Top Mat Program each other with most of the weak-

Tag-team grapplers will be In the lings seeded out in the spotlight on the weekly outdoor rounds wrestling card at Sports Arena to-! With form prevailing for * three night. {straight days in the 66th grind for Appearing in the main pvent will the two national singles titles, only

first two

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and Billy Raborn of Atlanta, going —but three more were a cinch to against Gil La Cross and - Pavo 80 today

Ketonen, both of Boston. Tt is for! The first marked for a quick two falls out of three, or 90 min- exit was Enrique Morea of Argenutes tina, who meets U. 8. singles chamRg

All four are widely-known in the Plon Jack Kramer of Los Angeles Junior heavyweight division, with. Another will have to go when La Cross and Ketonen touted as 12thigseeded Jim Brink of ‘Seattle matmen of the gough and tumble plays Vladimir Cernik of Czechdstyle Raborn has won seven of slovakia, seeded eighth in .the foreight bouts here this season, while eign list, and one more will fall in Weaver 18 undefeated in three a match between Torsten Johans starts son of Sweden, fifth seeded forThe shaw opens at 8:30 when eigner. and Seymour Greenberg “of Benny Truedell of Windsor, Ont. Chicago, seeded 11th in the U. 8 opposes Billy Weidner “of. Colum- list ’ bus, O.- It is for one fall Nine

third-round matches were a : — (put on the schedule in an effort to Indians Buy Hurler bring up most of the field to Bab CLEVELAND, Sept. 9 (U. P.).- PFalkenburg of Hollywood and Colin The Cleveland \ Indians today’ an- Long of Australia, who drove into nounced. purchase of Calvin Dorsett, the fourth round vesterday under a righthanded pitcher from Oklahoma speed-up schedule City of the Texas league. Dorsett as Lg of Sept. 2 had a record of 12 wins Two More : and 11 losses.

—— Elimination Tonight Two more teams face elimination tonight in the annual “Sweet 16" softball tournament at Municipal stadium. The meet is'a double-de-

J {IA IL] feat elimination affair. V5 A0 | Kramer Corp. plays U. S. Tires & |at 8:15 and ‘West Lafayette meets Kingan ‘Packers at 9:30 in tourna-

ment. games. Each team has one { 108s. i

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Football Resumed

| GREENFIELD, Ind, Sept. 9.{Football will be resumed at Green- | {field high school ‘this year after a lapse of 14 seasons and a squad of '40 boys has been working under .di-! [rection of Coach Walter Stiers. Six games have been scheduled, two at ‘¥ hortie and four on the road.

Char-Leo eliminated

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Warren Betty (left), senior quard, Al in a Tiger erotics session. Crispus Attucks plays Sacred Heart at Manual | Friday following tonight's opener at Anderson.

Protective Plan Hunchy, Bertelli, Dobbs Figure in Triple Trade

—~Professional grid experts pondered today what prompted a three-way trade involving Glenn Dobbs,

{Rockets and Los Angeles Dons of the All Americ a. Football conference. TTHEHORL valTable prayer in the

after a court fight with the Boston

| ball league, to arrive tomorrow.

be Buck: Weaver of Terre Haute !hree seeded players were bounced i

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Cleveland Fire Fireballer Becomes Most Feared Hurler in League

Ninth-Inning Relief Job Strands Yank Runners; Brooklyn in Chicago Today

By JOHN GRIFFIN, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Bept. 9.—The most feared pitcher in the American | league—making a “comeback” from winning 26 games last year<is| Bobby Feller, - : ow |

own town, you'd think the Cleveland fireball ace had suddenly turned ino a scatterarm slinger who couldn't win a game. But he is leading the league with 18 victories and, {from the way he is influencing bat-| ich walked Wily dhe Baines Joaged [ters, hell be winning back most of "0 Score the second in ® Secon [those grandstand “friends” before! Bobo Newsom was e losing long. pitcher, his 10th defeat. George The runaway New York Yankees McQuinn hit his 1ith and. 12th | were treated to a sample of “the {new” Feller's old tricks at Yankee oe witendunoe, 5310], Jui ine | stadium last night when his relief bir) 0 Oe " Hp with [pitching saved a 4-to-3 victory for pi on straight season {Cleveland. 2,023, i the Side The New York Giants, scoring { + Retires the | (nthe S€VeD runs in the eighth and three ing hia Hint OR n o> in the ninth, won yesterday's only nn nINAg, e » 8, day game from the Pirates, 10 to need only eight wins to take the The Giants’ only homer, by pennant, put men on first and third, 4 Gearheart with one man with i ous Rguingl Bow Lemon: on in the ninth, provided the winIs poin "eller a ning runs. from the bull pen and retired the Clyde Kuttz made three of the side without a ‘score. He. got Bill pirates nine hits. Ken Trinkle, Johnson ona pop-up, Aaron Robin-|qeiy Giant pitcher, was the winner

[son on a high bouncer in front of ,rn4 Jim Bagby, second Pittsburgh! [the plate, and struck out Phil Riz- twirler, was the loser.

Crispus Attucks letterman

zuto Brooklyn at Chicago The win belonged to, Lemon, his “There was no other action in the eighth, and the starting pitcher. ‘major leagues yesterday.

earned it by driving in what proved, The Card-Dodger feud for the! to be the winning run with a single National league pennant resumes in the eighth in all its fury today as the Dodgers, His hit followed a pinch-hit dou- begin their invasion of the west | THE HET PEE RTE Grove TT THE Wiel oR SiHgTe FAME RRainat CHiCARY. hy third Indian run. Cleveland's first. The Cardihals, five-and-a- half] run in the first was knocked in by games behind, play host to the! is taking a chance just as the lou Boudreay and George Metko- Philadelphia Phils in a night game. Rockets and the .Dons. Bertelli, og a» a | ° 2 too, was injured this season, hurt- A. A | i 1 ¥ | 0 ing his leg in a pre-season exhibi- og n erna iona pen | tion clash, and he was out of the Dons-Rockets season opener. Crowley and his associates sure that - the former Irish was in good condition, and Jimmy sald that Bertelll falled to play

Angelo

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for Bertelli,

last season was and the Dodgers then

" Playoff Battles Tonight |

star: By UNITED PRESS The International. league's top.

four teams will begin the 15th Gov-ianhual ‘playoffs open In Kansas! Sunday hgainst San Francisco “be- ernors’ cup playoff serfes tonight City and Louisville tonight with cause that was part of the deal.” with the. pennant-winning Jersgy third-place Milwaukee engaging the They expected Bertelli, one of the City Giants playing host to the! champion Blues and Minneapolis All-America's proudest Buffalo Bisons and the Montreal tackling the runner-up Colonels. Royals ~cs4lsing "the Syracuse, All of the playoff sets will be vanks of the rival National Foot. | Chiefs. best-four-in-seven affairs with the Wiriners of the seven-game &emi- final winner going against the In“He'll practice with us tomorrow finals will meet for the trophy. The ternational league victor in the and we plan to put in extra hours PIAYOfl champion will represent the Little World series. with him,” Crowley said. “He'll be International league-in the Junlor| The Brewers play in Kansas City able to play for us Sunday against World series against the American tonight and. tomorrow, travel on Buffalo.” association's winner. Thursday and resume play Friday Redeemed Reputation | Under a new ruling, five-twelfths in Milwaukee for three games. The On thé surface the Dons came ©f the $21,000 prize money will go|clubs return to Kansas City if the out of the deal with the traditional '0 the pennant winner, one-sixth to sixth and seventh games are necessuccess of the “let's look at the the runner-up, one-fourth to the sary. teeth” horse-trader playoff winner and one-sixth to the Since Minneapolis from the westDobbs was the first man signed to playoff runner-up. ern sector is furnishing the oépposian All-America contract, and he re- Uphill Battle tion at Louisville, the clubs will play deemed that reputation last year, The Giants, who finished last in three straight nights® there, then when he led the league in just about 1946, ¢' maxed a season-long uphill move to the Millers’ park to wind every department of individual sta- battlecon the final day of the regu- up the semi-final set tistics except rushing lar season and took the pennant| President Frank C. Lane said In addition he was vod most from Montreal by two percentage that there is afi excellent possibility valuable player in the circuit, end points by beating Baltimore while of a new playoff- attendance record.; came back this fall rated as enough the Royals were splitting a double- past year's total of 134,199 for 16 to “make” the Brooklyn team. header with Toronto. Syracuse fin- games broke the previous all-time Coach CIiff Battles of Brooklyn ished third and Buffalo fourth. mark of 109910 established in 1944

Times Special Service

acquisitions

complained that his “generalship”| Jersey City will be making its over 17 games. left something lacking, but the Dons fourth appearance in the playoffs Joe Serafin, John Stevens and by acquiring Dobbs, practically ac- but never has captured the cup. Harry King were the umpires as-

quired the league

best punting in the Syracuse has: won the cup three signed to Kansas City. Lane sent and a good shot at the best times in six playoff tries, while Charley Moore, John Mullen and Montreal and Buffalo each have Art Meier to Louisville. been in seven series and each has The Little World series will open taken the cup twice. this year in the park of the InterThe Newark Bears, four times national league winner. Montreal winner of the trophy, are out of the defeated Louisville last year. playoffs for the first time since

Governors’ cup play started in 1933 Racing Schedule

Cloves Prevue’ At PM PEW U. S. Is Carded Here

52 and Kitley, midget cars. Followers of amateur boxing will

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TOMORROW NIGHT At Muncie Veldrome, midget cars. FRIDAY NIGHT : At Indianapolis Speedrome. | At Terre Haute, midget cars. |

{see tomorrow night at the South| SATURDAY |Side Community center what| At New Castle, stock cars. SUNDAY

| Trainer Gene Bland terms as the | “Golden Gloves prevue." |.-Bland has arranged a series of |Intra-city scraps with the Douglas Community center fighters. Ten three-rounders and a battle

At Kokomo, midget cars. At Salem, big cars, At Alexandria, midget cars.

IRISH STAR LOST—Ernis

cL UN 8 Zalejski. an all-state back as a royal are on the Shelby st. arena rah PRESS 1 } 1 o ' § - ’ ‘ high school player from South docket starting at 8:30 o'clock to- G AB R H Av i \W chin } | : y Walker Phila 132 483 73 172 356 Bend Washinaton. will not play ‘morrow night Cavarretta, Chi. 114 422 53 135 .120 th eason at Not | Russ McKinney, 126-pound Soa Cincinnati ‘117, 367 58 117 319 ¥ 38A50n AT Notte Lame dus "| iden Gl Reiser, Brooklyn 97.348 65 110 .318 iso knoe Inlury. He ‘ed fer od & olden iloves champ, will meet Cooper, New York 121 448 71 140 313 : tts: of tha Init gy Charles Banks of Douglas in one AMERICAN LEAGUE i recurre of tha. iniumn ¢ T .: iry last fall ofthe headliners. Red Hassell of |... on 124 a5 1D 133 237 6 lu or Re and. will [the South Side team tackles George Mitchell, Cleve ~ 101 307 55 129 123 not be ad for fear of possible. Warner A ar McCosky, Philk” 117 485 68 151 .325 : POIHD Varner in the welterweight co- wiih cnicago 107 338 43 110 338 permanant disability, [feature DiMaggio, N. Y. 126 483 91 155 .321 ——— HOME RUNS , Mize, Giants 46 Cooper, Giants 30 Lea ue Standin S. Results Kiner, Pirates 41 ‘Williams, R. Sox 30 Marshall, Giants a5 of 4 ® N& BATTED Ini Mize, Gant 135! Eliott, Braves 102 AMERICAN LEAGUE Pet 5 RESULTS YESTERDAY Kiner, Pirates “100; Marshall, Giants 98 New York 2 Wi 3 818 NATIONAL LEAGUE Cooper, Giants 103 BOSEON .. vvcovr'vs bb 1 541 12 |New York . 000 073-10 12 3 RUNS DECIBIE . .veitrvnnness THe 63 337 121 Pittsburgh 103 010 300.8 “9 1 Mize, Giants 121) Kiner, Pirates 102 Cleveland arses 110 68 830 13'3 Jones, Beggs, Hansen, Trinkle and Coop-, Robinson, Dodg. 113 Kurowski, Cards. 101 Philadelphia . 62 88 511 16 er, Ostermueller, Baghy, Lyons and Klutts Williams, R. Sox 110 A Chicago as 62 13 49 23 (Only oa Aihely “Lea vE HITS WasHington 88 178 413 28 G Pesky, R. Box 177 Holmes, Braves 186 St. Louls 8 “88 358 36; Cleveland + 110 000 250 4 11 1 walker, Phillies 172 Gustine, Pirates 166 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 010 10 1 000 3 1 Baumholz, Reds 170) Ww 1 ot GB Lemo Feller and Hagan, Lopes, New. !

Pagé and Robinson $ (Only fame scheduled ) 76 61 585% Jb a

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Chick Catcher Sold - MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. § (U, P) ~Vince Plumbo, plump Memphis Chick catcher, has been sold to the Chicago, White Sox, officials of the Southern Association club have an-| nounced. Memphis team officials’ refused to disclose the ; sale price |

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Record Breaking At West Side Midget Racing Track

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TIGERS GROOM FOR OPENER — Assistant Coach Graham Martin watches as Cornelius Coward, junior end, smacks into a tackling dummy held by Thurman Washington, senior right half from Crispus Attucks high school. The Tigers launch their 1947 schedule tonight at Anderson. =u

Is Getting Costly

The management of the Indian- time after leading all the way. He| The fastest time in the elimina japolis Midget Speedway probably was pressed) hard by Breading and tion sprints was turned in by Kene {figures that _this record- setting | Mel Hansen of Alhambra, Cal, Who ny Eatofi of New Castle at 2:43.08, rfusiness. Js. getting to be quite a jbroke, across. \the line, in, that order with. Paul Russo. of Kenosha, Wis. . {in a blanket finish, Leroy Warriner second and Hansen third. ih Saturday night the track of IndianapoRs was fourth. The “Other eliminations were won by paid out $300 for‘a new single lap'time was 6:4376 compared to the Ronnie Householder of Highland, mark, then it dug down for another old mark of 6:49.60.~ \Ind,, Henry Banks of Glendals, | The track paid out a guaranteed Cal, and Breading. Johnny Parsons of Los Angeles purse of $2500 an 6238 paid admis-| The track management announced i that for the balance of the season The 15-lap semi-final went to a racing will be staged only on Mon=

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