Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1950 — Page 30

: Mw: Pinch Homer Drops ~ Mud Hens, 63

LaPalme Retires Tied at 5-All in oth By EDDIE ASH ~ Times Spore Editor Having won their iast three games at home and two of them the hard way, the resurging Indians were in Co-

lumbus today to begin a four. | _ day, six-game | trek on foreign :

The trip calls for three tiits in Columbus and three in- Toledo,

through Sunday, after which the Redskins will return to Victory "Field for a long stand. y . 1t was a happy bunch of Tribe~ sters. who boarded a train for _. Columbus late last night, ...... They had just won a thriller the Toledo Mud Hens, in 10 6 to 5, in a contest so it had the ladies’ night of 5000 on the verge of exhaustion. Sots deadlocked at je innings, Paul La-

southpaw, retired 300 currantly. 8 in order in the top ”

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With an 11 p. m. time limit set on the game, since both clubs had|Federoft, 3b a train, Tribe Manager| Somobell 1b did some rapid calousiy.. nen

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It was Pitcher LaPalme’'s turn Js. oi to lead off at bat in the home| premming. » . 10th. Lopez looked at the clock, then looked at “Old Man” Frank Sloat Kalin, warming the bench. Lopez never played a better hunch: Kalin picked out

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favorite i of artillery and paEakernoeker walked fof Premming in

Sloat ran for Knickerbocker in ninth, INDIANAPOLIR AR

marched to the plate, pinch hit-/ ting for

Culley Rikard (loH) and Tom Saffel are a Bick in ful haroews with the Indianapolis Indians once again after following divergent ai Rilard 1Stumed " from hitehws ith San # Fre and Kansas a eli depa m Pitts the 1948 championship team of the Indians. Rikard is hitting above

Both were with

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|Tt has been 30 years since a

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eye on

ANTS

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ish in the 165-man field and the first to break par. Until he came in the best score was a 71 by Loddie P. Kempa, a lefthander from Kansas City, Mo,

ARDMORE, Pa., June 8

foreigner won the U, 8. Open championship but Norman von Nida, a pint-sized Australian with a scorching put- First Round Scores fer considered -his chances very; Bioware FL Alexander, Knoxfine as they teed off today Ing. si, P. Kemps, Kansas, Mo. 36-85-71 | America’s greatest golfing classic.) E. ak 3 eum) 1 Harrison, St, .

The open was inaugurated in Welter Burkeme, Franklin, Mich. 35-37-73 18904 and until 1911 it was con-

ae . 87-30-18 stantly in the hands of profes-|, .. tront, Bye, N. ¥. .... 87-38-18 sionals from Scotland and Eng-/aNes a Jos ¥. N.Y. ... 87-36-18

land who had come to the United States to teach the game. The one exception was 1900, when the! ndary Harry Vardon teok it|

Clarence Bhresman, Cheltenham, 39-35-74 Nema Von “Nida, Australis EN

41-35-78 Ewing Pomeroy, Columbia, Tenn, 43-33-76, Frank Moors, 86, Louls .......: 40-88-78

‘Not Me, It Was

*My Bay Window,’

» Hutchings Says

| Jack Fleck, Davenpor 39-40-19

legendary a back to England. Robert N. Babbish, Reval om.

Jimmy ‘MeDermott was the 1, ye Jr. Pacifie Veins | first American homebred to crash "I i. a OM.” a through, winning the coveted cup Bt one —— :

in 1911 and repeating in 1912. And! s = = since that time, only Ted Ray of| um England has been able to take it

3 Tribe President Owen J. Bush o/And Business Manager Ted Bullis van today went to bat for jovial Johnny Hutchings, rotund relief ? pitcher.

o The heavy hand of Bruce Dud-

‘ley, American Association presi2 dent, apparently is too Heavy, in {the opinion of Messrs. Bush and Sullivan, For a minor incident that oe{curred at Victory Field Monday

Nobody on; nobody OULY BOOS mira i... RBA sen the huge Hutohings yester- ~ relléfer, Kalin|Stevens, 1h ........ $ 1-311 0 indefinitely. swing at the O'Connell, as ...... £9 3°33 ol ” and it it sailed high Jie Ff oo el 173.37 8 THIS PENALTY was challenged "for left field wal ef 1 1 4s o8nd protested by the Tribe exec- : 1 Pte Gerald, & ...... 2 0 0 3 0 ojutives fore departing for Cowl looked a ous dhe Hal Dulesandrs Sakisin £0 3.0 90 o lumbus last night, Manager Al Si and To : A : : 3 9 Lopez said Dudley was clear out : o a 0 3 o° line by imposing a fine and ho! for alPlerro 0 0 oo o olSuspension over a mild run-in beagain te bricks ping Lal 0 o 0 a oftween Hutchings and Umpire Jim ~ “The Big Lift’ JI ; FETT 4 disputed, close play at frst he Spiers ba Bad just ray id for Pita Goraid 1m Base led to the rhubarb. over, that ls. The g game was over, Lint rn for Dallessandro in eighth, claimed Hutchings Jost) ed” him, momentthe fans Sanco tn Lh. Tm te, : fshed him from the game. : and Frank's mates adi Toledo... urs hein i 8 BUT EE - evrything | but: kiss Him after he "EIANAPOLIS....s...... 008 010 022 1-4 : ; ns batted In—O'Connell, Lerchen 2. the bases Saffell, Dallessandro, Federoff, Campbell Two-base hits—Barnacle,

Tounded Indians once again out-|3 Plats. Nalin. Ty o-base hil : , ndro, Platt. homered the Mud lem. a hat Shaves 3. RISB 3. Dal andre a To O'Connell, Lérchen. Kalin, Ssorifices— home half of the fifth. Not &/Restaine, Baseall. Double Slays—Basgall single Tribestér reached base onlte Stevens. Baro to Pedsroff. Left on Ken Fremming the first four In-{Maat-—Telade ., Indanapslls 3. Base nings. Is—Oft Riddla a 1, Hastert 1 The lanky curve baller had the| Herbert arash, wi-ie. Ridge 3. Fanning 4 Redskins completely baffled and/ninss (and te 1 man in ninth): Plerre Elmer Riddle was also going! '® %: LaPaime 1 in 1%: Premming #

In 8; Herbert 4 in 1 (and to 1 man in great on the Tribe mound. 10th), Winning —pitcher—LaPalme: los-

scales groan at about 300 pounds,

truding against the Jacket. AA Prexy Dudley based his de-

umpire’s

tact.”

has been playing professional ball since 1935 and it was the first time he was thumbed out of a game.

Danny O'Connell, first up for|ing pitcher—Herbort. Umpires—Cless, Apthe Indians in the fifth, swung Pl*hans and Gould. Time—12.10. and missed Fremming's first curve. On the next pitch, 0'Con-| Indians o Bat ih nell connected and blasted a line connen hi 88

i > drive homer over the left field|xmm . n hE - barrier. It was the Tribe's first Rikerd ........ 18 8 § 4 0 nl hit. Backman sense 128 26° 38 20 0 304 Lerchen Powers Ons Bb Cyetarien Rp an He * Riddle maintained his mastery 3 1a.4 0 Mn over the visitors until the sev-imumee: 11 3 13 3 Oo enth, when he weakened and the|mits Gerald ... 71 13 15 16 Hens annexed the lead. Bill Bar-|Sattell .....,. CWT Ny nacle singled and George Lerchen Dalishnidre ae u at’ i : 3 an powered the ball over the righti,,, "a peters 1, Bockman 4, Ballinger

field wall for his 10th homer of|3, Kalin 3: Pits Gerald 3, Stevens 3, Rikard,

the season. Score: Hens 2, In-| Dallessandro.

dians 1. - 4 Basgall 2. Platt, Saftell The Hens got two more singles xan. : .

in that seventh but no more runs, The Hens filled the bases in the! 4. O'Connell 3, Dailessandro 3, Kalin eighth on a double, an intention. Seffell.

gil ville and St. Paul, the first divi“J%/ning last night to keep the status

| Thres-base hiteiO'Connell 4, Bockman/10-T. It was the Millers’ eighth Dallessandro, | victory in their last nine games.

Home runs— Bockman §, Basgall 8, Pty

AX’s Top Teams Keep on Winning

Fans who read the American Association standings today could say “This is where we came in.” Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Louis-

sion quartet, kept right on win-

quo, The Millers of Minneapolis stayed one-half game on top by downing the Milwaukee Brewers,

Winner Alex Kontkowsk! and {Rellefer Ike Pearson were poundled for 18 hits by the Brewers, in-

leluding two homers by Bob Mon- 6—Alex Sm 1 single but| rrromvG ¢ g y on al walk and a short g WL IP MR ms stag and ong by Howle Moss, but hess wii gn Nile yi ron. ne Riddle pulled out of the hele. | Lint Akers hana 40 5 on 3 Minneapolis got the payoff blows. |] push } ela ise won in 5 , Daria Brown, 307 tals sy ia 403117 " 3| p Sa Anderson ‘18-hol o, In oe Joe Mghth, from he. Flee risiien 33 3 3 nm u Johnny Kropf led the Millers’ at. (on ed flea cont and’ Nei: 10 fara "Ruchiarlost See " | 8a e Indian Strobel ..........4 3 4 38 3 Nn 20| tack with two homers as Chet “hed. 1964, aa and hibit lied, 331; ndstson won” 4 sek Siar: | hind. A single by Whitey Platt, igiaaie ..... « 3 s0 7 4'3 | Nichols absorbed the loss. 154 Grona 1 Woon: Lithia 8 saan |° ny. a sacrifice by Monty Basgall, a IaREime 3319151 10 Colonels Salling fled, 2387; Little won Hf asof wie Smith, 313. ie by Tom Saffell and a double Muir 4 571 BM 3 4 an The India w od d Shute | Herd Gress ... 13 38 38 17 11 20 napolis win over To-| 1938--Nelso ed an ny o ros here 108 (my by Dom Dallessandro, batting for|Urese « ::ooro: 0 112 31 1s 13 sl ledo didn’t hurt third-place Louis- frst "nl Neon von A aor Gog | dl, 193 B®). | Ed Fitz Gerald, accounted for two yusenings ....... 00 5 1.-3 1 H ville: Louisville made it 10 out isi Rawk! i es ei “Dunn 3 defeated Willie Camo. | runs, giving the Tribesters the! {of 12\with a 4-1 triumph over the $31—Quid an}, 3ot. oe — : lead; 3 to 2. {leaping catch on ‘his screaming Columbus Red Birds. Bob Alex-| 1835—eem Paria Jt Rta "a LL Riddle Derricked [Hine Siive 10 the Suvents. batting] ander held the Red Birds to nine; {338—0a\ ay ooaman, a7 ; two shove anny's' DE hits and had a shutout until the i rT But the Mud Hens refused to average back-over the 400 mark. ninth as he. picked. up. his. ffth tiad. 383 pa Sazod: both : 35 Golfing Notes - render. John. Bero, first-up-ini~Royee Lint ts to araw the TFB win against two defeats. 140; ue ond 38-bole play urke we von, A Marioiie Kahi L Gafeated Miz B. 4 te ninth, singled and Riddle wasimound assignment In Columbus! The St. Paul Saints continued| 30- Sone and Al Eikimocs tied, 294; fi amp vaudits, got Tournesol -derricked.. He was relieved - by|tonight. He has been moved up|their mastery of the Kansas Cty| Jones won 36-Role playoff. 141 to 164 Tt nerds, Irving Linderman s) Bill Plerro, who got Don Lund on again from relief duty to starter.| Blues with a wil 8 vieto 928_Johnny Farrell and Jones fed. § First flight winner was Mrs. Louis Marks| n d 9- tory in 20%; Farrell won 36-hole playofl, 143 to| JIS! Mia Noiner Was are. 1 arks) a fly déep to Saffell in center. {In six clashes between the Indians! 10 innings. The Saints were 937—Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper | Tussday will be guest day at Broadmoor. | Austin Knickerbocker batted and Red Birds this season, :the! forced to put across four runs in [Sled 31; Armour won -Jg-hels PiayaY. jo acainal. es ray MALO for Fremming and worked Plerro record stands three victories the top of the 10th fining to 1936—Jones. in A gh + Ho YA grney yesterday. Ars. | for a walk and Dwain Sloat raniapiece, | win. The winning run was scored MacFarlane won S-nols Po ar ie Kix: Me = dr Whipple, 3317076, | for him. After Al Federoff sin-| Current road trip schedule: At off a balk by Frank Shea of the Mf, 924—Cvell Walker: Mrs. M. B. Johnston: on, 101-3516. aa _gled, scoring Bero. LaPalme re- Columbus, -one game tonight,| Blues. Jim Pendleton preceded| 1933 —Jones and B b7, Srutkgnank tied ‘leved Pierro. |double-header tomorrow night; atithe balk with a. bases-loaded iiss Sereon a a. EM-ROE SPECIALIZES IN Paulie Campbell it a high fiy {Toledo one game Saturday triple. It was the Saints’ fitth| }33i—games M. Barnes. RACKET RESTRINGING—

double far down the left field line, | (afternoon), double- header Sun-| the ball barely escaping Culley day afternoon, . Rikard’s clutches. The blow RL

_ scored both Sloat and Federoff Golf Tilt | Tilt Entry

_ but when Campbell tried to get| ~g-triple-out of “ithe was tossed out. A fly by Bill Barnacle ended Deadline Near the rally. Stevens Starts Rally

That made it 5 to 3, Toledo. | Herbert took over the pitching

apolis Distrigt tournament. will

has reached 200, Secretary Clift,

for the visitors. After one out;/Wagoner has’ announced. Thus agter working out briefly with|

in the home ninth, Ed Stevensi/far 140 golfers have registered

doubled, O'Connell singled and|with Ww, E _ Platt doubled tying the score at wae wuilding. 1108 . Merchants five and five as Platt was left on base, Big Lift Kalin wrote the final chapter.

LaPalme received credit for the a. eo Wednesday at Speedway.

the sare. was st erbert. i bi stp x “an 6. Fi. C* ua ENTERTAINMENT

THE BAN-DEE

* GOOD FRIED CHICKEN FR-pAM

The tournament will ope

hits, atmos four. | He was

Entries for the 54-hole Indias

close tomorrow night if the lst

day at Meridian Hills, continue y at Broadmoor and con-

grass, and the greens are slick :

kings of the fairway can't handle i to Hutchings, the eroubls shots as was done in the only “body contact.” If any.qays of yore. They are too sewas his huge “bay window” pro-|oustomed to well-barbered courses |where the accent is on scoring.

and fast,” Von Nida added, “but tet Trane so-called “body con hey will have to admit that they

are very true”

but your American pro likes them wetted down, so those pitches to the green will stop on a dime and change. Like most visitors. Von Scorekeepers must keep their wits, Nida prefers the pitch and run/about them when the Krebs, N. D. method-—so0 this type of a course suits hin perfectly.

out of the country with his 1920 triumph.

Von Nida Confident

Von Nida, a sun-bronged little man who speaks in the clipped tones of the Anzac, thinks it is about time the big silver trophy went traveling. And he believes that he is the man to take it on a voyage. There has been much complain-

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hls deep, a closely woven)! blanket of clover and and fast. “That's as it should be,” Von Nida insisted. “This is the finest and fairest test of golf of any course I've ever played in championship competition. The rough is severe, and rightly, for that ) puts a penalty on wild shooters and a’ premium on intelligent| | shots rather than on length.” This supported the general inference of the old timers of the _trafls that _gurrent!.

“They say the greens are slick

Slammin’ Sammy ‘aa the fa- | vorite,

Prefer Pitch, Run Nobody has admitted that yet, Needed—Wits

the National Open

i (TOW,

| what he needs.”

100 to 1 for anyone in the rest of tha field.

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Second Choice

Most of Them Fear Lightning Fast Greens. at. Merion

By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor

ARDMORE, Pa., June 8— A jittery bunch of -golfers teed off in the first round of today, ‘skeptical of how they might do over the course chosen for, the golden anniversary of America’s biggest tournament. Practice rounds still left them

timorous about the 6694 yard par 70 layout of the Merion golf

“The Press

championship this year. coast to coast after his start

to the challenge, if he ever won the “500.”

_But the father, a former! vaudeville performer, was the first to break the promise. Before Parsons vould raise the question after winning the “grand prix" here May 30, the father told him to “forget the promise and keep on driving.” He said, “I suddenly figured when a man does the things he wants to do that’s success, I ‘coutdn’t “beak to” 88 TonnHy gilt] when he was successful.” . ~ » PARSONS, born on July 4, 1918, has 1000 points for his Trecent 500-Mile Race triumph and

omic ar Goes Unkept

Johnny Parsons Keeps Driving 500"

SOA eT nt aluiot kept Johnny Parsons from defending. his national driving

En A recs was gaining suscess fiom.

11 years ago, he he made a vow

to his father, H. O. Parsons, that he would turn a deaf ear

OTHER CHAMPIONSHIP races

scheduled Pa., Tine 25; "Springeld, 1 .. Aug. 19; Milwankee, Aug. 27; DuQuoin, 111, Sept, 2; 8 , N. Y., Sept. 9; Detroit, Bept. 10; Goshen, N. Y., Sept. 24; Sacramento, Cal, Oct, 8, and Phoenis: Ariz., Nov. 12, -” ” TOM PADDOCK is too young to be approached by major league base

School centerfielder, who will be

a senior next fall, has just fin~ ished his junior season with a

a 90-point drop from his 615 per<

i course, They feared the lightning| Will seek 200 more Sunday when formance in ’48,

(fast greens and the tough rough

of the championship east course.

A total of 165 was entered with 18 holes scheduled today, 18 to-

morrow and the final 36 Satur-|

|day. Most of them from Sammy S8nead-—-favored at 3% to 1—on down, figured there were many more trouble holes than they, wished to play. But most differed) on which holes might cause the mest troubié. ‘Pretty Sharp’ > Ben Hogan, who thinks his game is “pretty sharp” and who| is second choice to Snead in the! betting at 4 to 1, figured this might be the greatest three putt!

.|tournament in history.

“We'll have to be satisfied to hit the edge of the green, for this is one course on which you can’t afford to take chances,” Hogan ~ His own chances, he felt, hinged on his physical stamina. single rounds today and tomorbut he expressed concern over the final 36 Saturday. Hogan's legs still are unsteady as result of an automobile accident. “But if I'm close to the leaders, that old competitive urge to

sald. Slow Play Likely “Play is likely to be slow,” explained long driving Jimmy Thomson,” so Hogan is likely to

J [find his chair Sane = Dest ‘weapon, He “figures: to get ia’ 1o§ | Austin, Tex., against strong chal- 30-lap feature with Foster Camp{lenger Bea McWayne of Provo,

of rest between shots and that's The golfing bookmakers figured

. {that only five players had a maa." ‘i Jor chance. Back of Snead and asad Hogan at 5 to 1, were Jimmy De- {the 20th annual Women's Transmaret, who never has won the Mississippi Golf Tournament toopen; Cary Middlecoff, last year’s dy. winner and Lloyd Mangrum, who won in 1946.

You could get from 10 to 1 to

In the 10-to-1 group were Her-

righ By Scorekeeper

“nine - cents) KREBS, N. D., June 8 (UP)=

baseball team is playing. The Krebs lineup includes) {Shortstop Mike Krebs, Catcher J. 8. Krebs, Left Fielder H. Krebs,|

The little man hits them straight down the middle, has the finesse to cope with trouble and putts with the best of them. meiqer T. Krebs and substitutes

“That's why I feel I have a really fine nee to win,” Von}" 2. Kets, A. P, Krebs and M. |

Nida asserted. The odds are against|, plicated when Krebs plays the little Aussie winning—but he (Regent, N. D. In the lineup for|

was smiling confidently as he Regent are L. Krebs at third base! walked out on the first tee. |and D. Krebs in right fleld. |

Past u. s. Open Champs |

RE Roem ance Ch record) | (Vide " fied:

straight Victory over the Blues.

Washington Senators Sign Fred Taylor

COLUMBUS, O., June 8 (UP) 3 —Fred Taylor, star first baseman on the Ohio State University Dae team, has been signed gf

Taylor sTgned” the mal

the club in Washington ty witn| J The six-foot, three-inch Zanesville, O., native, who also starred fon the Ohio State basketball team

Senators at St. Louis next Tues-| day. : :

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man Barron, Jim Ferrier and Norman: Von Nida, the only foreigner in the field. All were regarded as "threats "because all are superb putters. If the hot sun of the past three days continues to bake the!

shots on terfielder J. K. Krebs, Right| Which of the holes were the

The scorecard getseven more enth. He should know, for that

ithe fairway and fronts a postage

Meleod won 18-hole Plavott.

20. wa. UL. sus

already fast greens. the cham-!

pionship will be decided by putting. But they couldn't agree on

tougher, The veteran Gene Sara|zen, two-time winner of the title, selected the 378-yard par 4 elev-

hole cost him his third open title back in 1934 when he shot a {seven on it. Hogan was not too sure about the eleventh, where a brook splits stamp green. “It either is going a he an easy hele or an impos- " he said.

Open Facts, Figures Site—~Merion Golf Club. Yarda Par-—36-34-—70 Entries—165 ( 120 Professionals, 36 amateurs).

sible one,

win might keep me going,” he!

| Wisconsin prep baseball,

he drives the Granatelli-Sabourin Special in the 100-miler at Milwaukee. All 100-mile AAA races are worth 200 points to the winner. Other ranking places are worth 160, 140, 120, 100, 80, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and’ 10 points. s ” ” AT LEAST 50 cars that were entered in the Memorial Day race here, will be in Milwaukee Sunday. Only 18, however, can qualify. for the dirt race that carries la prize purse of $25,000. | Lou Rassey and Murrel Be{langer have entered two cars and George Tuffanelll has nominated {three Spider Webb and Bill Schindler will wheel Rassey's Auto Ship{pers Special .while Wait Brown, Mack Hellings. and Ted Duncan will drive the Tuffy Offys. Other drivers entered include Jackie Holnies, Gene Hartley, Fred Aga-

ibashian, Troy Ruttman, Duke!

Dinsmore, Henry Banks, Jack MoGrath, Myron Fohr and Walt Ader. Mel Hansen still holds the onelap Milwaukes record at 968 miles an hour.

He's a promising professional +haséball prospect and he wants to play as a pro. He's the only Southport player in the last 14 years to hit a home run over the Red Birds' left field wall, 385 feet, In 40 times at bat this year he banged out 21 hits, ine cluding five home runs. His avers age overshadows the city’s bests:

|.483 by Vie Mussio of Cathedral

and .483 by Dick Murray of Crispus -Attucks. vy » ” TRACK AND field athletes with any chance of record-breaking performances ghould enter the National AAU track and field show, June 23-24 at College Park, Md. That meet will serve as a qualifying . tryout for the 1951 Pan American’ Games and proe vide a basis for selecting five 10« to 15-man teams that will’ travel abroad this summer, = =

WALT FLOYD, Manual High School athletic director, won the 1023 state high school shot put for Manual with a heave of 47 feet 3% inches.

Betsy and Bea To Pit Wits

DALLAS, Tex., June 8 (UP)— The luck of the draw placed defending champion Betsy Rawlé of |~

{Utah, in one of the feature ‘matches of the second round of

Medalist Polly Riley of Ft. Worth, Tex., was not expected to] have any pushover in her second round foe, Pat Garner of Midland, Tex. playing in her first tournament. since graduating from Texas Christian University. Beverly Hanson of Indio, Cal, runner-up in medal play, met

. * Linden Wins Midget Feature Andy Linden of Denver, Colo. “hogged” the midget racing proe gram last night by winning three races, the first heat race, semifinal and feature event. . . Linden came home first in tHE

bell of Portland, Ore, trailing in the runnerup role. Andy's time for the race was 11:10.94. Art Cross of New York was third. Leroy Warriner, Indianapolis “{pilot who has been dominating the picture iii recent weeks had a inting evening. The local

third in the third heat race and his brakes went out on him dum

ture,

Schwartz. Selected

Bobby Dawson of Piedmont, Cal, iin a replay of their previous meet. | ing in the finals in the California|

{State and Southern California

tournaments in which Miss Han-| son won both times.

Young Mound Star ‘To Shop’ for Offers -

OSHKOSH, Wis., June 8 (UP) Bill Hoeft,.the hottest thing in! gradu- | ates from high school today and

offices. Hoeft ended a spectacular high| school career last Saturday by| pitching Oshkosh to a shutout! over Manitowoe, 6 to 0. He a ready - has pitched one -perfe game against Hartford this gen.

Hoeft himself is a rooter for

Defending champion and 1949 Schedule — 18 rounds each,

and ties play 38 holes Saturday. Weather forecast — Fair and

the Detroit Tigers in the American |

| score—Cary Middlecoff, 286. |League and for the Cubs in the| | National Jeague, 3

{| Thursday and Friday; low 50 |

Additional Sports |

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ALL-STAR LINEUP OF

SPALDING * WILSON * SLAZENGER * BANCROFT

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then, his coach said, he's going on| a shopping trip through big league this year at St. John's Academy, {Delafield, Wis., the new training

For Key Coaching Post

CHICAGO, June 8 (UP) — Marchmont = Schwartz, Stanford University football coach, will {represent the West Coast on the

{coaching staff for the College

All-Stars for the annual game {with the National Football League

: {champion Philadelphia Eagles

Aug. 11,

Eddie Anderson, former Iowa icoach and new mentor at Holy

|Cross, will be head coach for the

{All-Stars The coaching staff will report

{camp for the All-Stars, on July 19. Players were ‘expected to ar rive a day later.

"Freeman Hanover Cops

son, and has lost only one game) in his high school career, Santa Anita: Feature

ARCADIA, Cal, June 8 (UP)— A full-length victory in the Bake [ersfield Trot was worth $1500 yes{terday to Freeman Hanover in the Grand Circuit feature at | Santa Anita.

In the field of five standardbreds {Lord Steward was second and

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isappo \ driver failed to do any better than

ing the last 15 laps of the fea~

cinder squ awards:

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