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Of Publicity for West

| y ! ‘sock , calmly stated: ; id his or-|the announced 8p. m. Others used Iz tg 11 pt SOCK "em game, C Mission, But Eagan tons d the 7:59, 7:58, etc.”One guess was as joopyn! § 3 Sowenst 6 12 “Im no good as a fighter. And In Row F Indian fall. They're both free-wheeling NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP)—-: ganization could not affor ie! oY, {ad guess wa Gelle, _5/Norton. 0 01 the. fight i in n W_rrom inaians : luxury of a press agent, even if 800d as another. Hust 3 3 Jrchersere 43 dheS de, the fight game Is" going ; ; teams unbeaten this season, al- George Rhoden, the' National. ® such an employee were needed. . No. one knows exactly what Anderfon.s 1 3 Bustiers © As 3 10 the. dogs. ah Ten Lh | SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 23|though each was tied once. Both| AAU 400-meter and NCAA quér- . The boxing writers figured it time young West died; but every- Nena = 0 0 iTurner| BE PROMOTER : > IKE tana [TUM The Buitalo Bisons Sook|ties were surprises, Miami by Lou- ter-mile champion from Morgan, | , iLynn.c E, ¢ - t stra | , y zl would be better for all concerned one connected with boxing in New Jie, § § dpyane | 8 8 Jf PROMOTER CrMED. Sant: e isville and Clemson by South Car- State College, plans to run in the

3 i ! that in front of a newspaper- { Buffalo took advantage of PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 23 (UP) 3 ——- {alliance with the International ; rs " ] 8 : : 5 SE aBY ically {Club THatona tical lise Ogden, Wichita; Don Man. post erative fight being apa inst {Springfield penalties and scored —DeWitt Gibson of Northwestern PEDIGO’S po p of . IElser, Notre Dame. | “What'll TI say,” asked Joe. | rich he received $1000 {three times while the ‘Indians|University has been named to re-| 6 4 » i . . . . (raising his eyebrows in a puzzled A graduate of the Golden / Were shorthanded. Yet Spring- place Ohio University's E. C.|{} Wi. Your South Sige H t i P n h Hit f St MN k I Tust J Gloves, Sgro is 28 years old,|field was unable to score during Krieger as umpire at the 1951)" = SULOVA Deine usc Ings inc S TOr . iC |, ‘Just say ‘I've had enough and | OVeS. "ETO 8 CO Years two the eight times Buffalo players Rose Bowl game, it was an- | DIAMONDS. WATCHES-- JEWELRY ETC tr ci : i'm going ‘to. guit' or something Married and the. fatler of two| th ty box. ~ | nounced today. PEDIGO’S . § children. - jwere n the penalty box. | : » 1EWELRY as a like that. wo ir Ci a ; ; Krieger's business prevented 1048 Virginia Aw. Mm 5400 | “OK.” shrugged Joe, “I've had . a {him coming here, 3 CANT, PI. Sa. enough and I'm going to quit” Coast League Club. Colgate Players Score ummm NMA = sy = = E BUT HE WANTS to regain the BUYs Don Carlsen | SSAMILTON, N. Y. Dee 23

: 3 gi a : dha 7 i J6E mv oul TIMES — = ; “x * G n G ters Take Two-Day ‘H - f. - | “| #9 Entry List Indicates 7 “+74 Keen Competitionin All Weight Classes *

Times-Legion Tourney Open to All Amateurs 16 Years of Age or Older By JIM HREYROCK Christmas holidays will mean only a two--day breathing spell for Golden Gloves entrants now in training in gyms ‘throughout the city. ’ | The youthful sluggers, each of whom wants to become the champion in his class and weight division, hung up their ‘gloves last night until Tuesday. And trainers have warned r= itheir eager charges about 'stuffing themselves with too 3 Bears Given much turkey and trimmings | 1 Pp 3 $ N d |Christmas. i : ih =-oin Oo | When the fighters return to their gyms after Christmas, only

Over Wolves {116 days will remain to get them{selves in shape for the action. The NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP) - tourney opens Jan. 16 and runs California, Oklahoma, Texas, Over five successive Friday nights, Miami and Wyoming were estab- Tickets for all tournament seslished the favorites today as the Sions will be placed on sale at bowl football teams paused briefly Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co., 209

/ Novice fighters Andy Watkins, Belphia Bowens, Bob Johnson and Don Johnson (left to right), William Sylvia (right), punches the speed bag work out with the medicine ball during Golden Gloves training. , i Martin, 112-pound Open Class.

to res lL ii 88 ; ; for Christmas before delving into W. Washington St.; Bush-Calla~ \ ® y ® ’ § 4 s ZS E final preparation for their New hen Sporting Goods Co. 136 E, Y we | @ p Year's Day games. ‘Washington St., and Sportsman's rl er aps ung Ing { = ) Ft The latest odds favored Cali- Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St. : fornia.by one point over Michigan: Ticket prices will be the same

| % in the Rose Bowl, Oklahoma by as last year, $2 ringside and first ; ia ; : : os 8 " six and one-half points over Ken- row balcony; $1.50 reserved; $1 eo ; : ry rt Se Ti —— —Ttucky-in-the Sugar Bowl, Texas hy general admission; —and-50-cents—— |

seven points over Tennessee in the for children under 12 for the first {Cotton Bowl, Miami by one point two nights of fighting. over Clemson in the Orange Bowl! With the abundance of early land Wyoming by seven points entries this year, it looks like over Washington and Lee in the competition will be extremely I'Gator Bowl, keen in all weight” divisions. In addition, the East is six and Cites Age Limit .ione-half points over the West for|

ithe Shrine game at San Fran- amateur 16 years old and over. cisco next Saturday, and the,Gray| pights will be three two-minute six and one-half over the Blue for rounds with American Athletic Wr {that All-Star game at Montgom-|{nion rules prevailing. The 3 ery, Ala, the same day. The iyurnament, sponsored by The [Eioveh South game at Miami 1ndianapolis Times and the Robiristmas night was an even bet. son-Ragsdale Post of thé Ameri Lull Before Storm can Legion, will be fought in two The Christmas pause was a classes, Novice for those with {lull before the storm. The Cali-{limited experience and Open for {fornia Bears, driven from North-| more: experienced fighters. lern California to the South by| A new ruling, however, has {incessant rains, broke camp to-{been put into effect this year. |day for the holiday. The team!|All Novices, regardless of ex-. # [gets back to work Tuesday, and perience, must be under 20 years. i [Coach Lynn Waldorf says his y Bp. hose oid that age will | boys “have a long way to go” : : then. Jie Wants to develop a bet- able Iraining omer Ht Bc {ter passing attack. » | Michigan remains on the scene PS is Eugene (Tiny) Bland’s box{at Pasadena and will swing into ing Gym in. the Transportation secret afternoon sessions, They, building, South and New Jersey -iare secret for western newspaper- o a hambi 4 {men, anyway; the home-town pa- a wee pen tO hr aDone: 3 pers can still look in. Coach Ben-| Wno ; re oF i 3 nie Oosterbaan said he is “satis-|N¢Wal of the tourney, are in

Hits Boxing Commission for Relying On IBC to Handle Press Releases

By JACK CUDDY, United Press Sports Writer { NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP)—When the New York State Athletic Commission has to depend upon the International Boxing Club to handle the Commission's press releases on the ring-death of a tighter, Commission Chairman Eddie Eagan should move immediate- | ly to eliminate that unhealthy and unethical dependence. The Commission-IBC publicity combination would be unwholesome even if it worked well, but

when it functions with such The salary would De. better {spent,” the writers figured. | ghastly Inefficiency as it did In Nevertheless, the Commission | the case of the late Alfred (Son- still has'no public-relations Joan. | | 38

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ny Boy) West, it verges on an!And this week, the International outrage. ’ |Club handled the West Case. We |

! i We have never heard of a Ais.) at emphasize here that the in-

flicient trict attorney asking a possible wet ana dispen BIE on Ihe] murder suspect to handle pub-irayt of the International Club, | licity on.a. homicide in ‘which he which has an excell | | cellent press) might be involved. But the Inter-| agent in Murray Goodman, and national Club-—which staged the, formerly top-flight publicist in| _

fatal fight between West and|y rry Mark -} Percy Bassett-—took over the rea. arkson, its managing ai

press relations in the West case. | However, the public-relations! West was the young Negro {machine br } ne Sung egr] oke down in the West

case because neither Goodman juries Thursday night, nearly 23 p,r Markson, nor any other memhours after having been knocked her of the International Club out at St. Nicholas Arena bYinag any control over Commission | Featherweight Bassett, Philadel- physicians or hospital attendants. |

i { Yes : {on the Open Team, which repre-' when he failed to revive afterithan 15 minut ' . | Wildcats Find New Attack | ois Indianapolis in the Chicago the seventh-round knockout. official announcement somectea J KIANIOMA 49-42 Aft & Hi A Ad er Son Ips 0 I _ |. The Kentucky team has oper-| Tournament. of Champions each Moreover, when unconscious,/the death notice. West was still] y er a ng fi . jated almost wholly on Babe year, for the third tfme. He will *

: {Parilli's passes this , b | NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP)—I1 passes season, butihe defending his Indianapolis

West was taken in an ambulance living, | ; . : to St. Clare's Hospital. His plight| Meanwhile, most of New York's Stages Second Half | ‘‘m Not Getting Anywhere Now,’ as developed a running game to/ championship in the lightweight

" lf i$ training there. But the possibility £ . y ission’s C Rumars Got: Out * . # to rightl’ all Novice Class | The tro Sugar Bavr loss re-10f these three gaining new hons Was Commission's Case As a result, there were wide-| Tommy Francis, Joe Belcher, Leonard Sheats, Robert Floyd, Charles Allen and Richard Edwards (left to rig t), all Novice Class | practice Wednesday after) Or next, Jnouth das been nar« Like every other fighter l- spread rumors throughout New| entrants, watch fight trainer Eugene (Tiny) Bland instruct Bob Taylor, Novice heavyweight, in punching the heavy bag, poi their Christmas’ rest; Oklahoma Toved di. nl Ey of many ‘censed in New York State, West York on Thursday forenoon that! VEAL a loess en ; = — lat Biloxi, Miss., and Kentucky at ions, © was under the Commission's su-|West had died. And shortly after . Fiaht Game's Shot— | Baton Rouge, La. Keftucky Defending Champion : pervision even before he entered!3 p, m, Thursday, an <n Minnesota U sets g ’ ; 4 ic y ve {worked at Mobile, Ala., before go-| - Walter (Hatchetman) Haythe ring. And he became the announcement of his death was % S bey e 4 Throu h { ling home for Christmas. (wood, will be trying for a spot : Commission’s particular ca Se made at St. Clare’s hospital. Less : gro ays 4

: : | The powerful, unbeaten Kentucky spice the -attack which will seek! div ’ E ais Sal iately- made him. the-object boxing writers -were- con re nay slerwei : prs ee fone ROWE I WR DOAREN SCINC LY SPice. the -attack. which. will. seek. givision. ; rig I A roIasilif WHLE'S Were headgnar., Uprising for Win | South Side Welterweight Declares Wildcats lived up to their repu-[to snap the Oklahoma victory| Willie Crawford will be defend: . all boxing countries. He was an- ters in the Madison Square Gar-| MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 23 (UP) By JIM HEYROCK tation as the nafio's No. 1 Son stk at sh Ing is toga in the 175-pound

- " ; lege basketball team tonight by Oklahoma's Coach Bud Wilkin-iclags. Bob Johnson leaves the Other BEhiep Jacke Hing death iden Bullding, They were there be-| Minnesota came from behind in! JOE SGRO WILL RETIRE from professional fighting, win lose or ae up fifth-ranked St.'son is free of one problem which Fn Vo wide open since ing city Millions ‘had heard. the ie es relcas a SnHoynced |e second half tonight to upset/or draw, after next Friday night's battle for the state welterweight yop p's slowed-down possession perplexed him last year as his he has grown to a bantamweight g 2 - =P gleases on ihe Wes tor. ttle. {game with a last-half spurt for team prepared to meet Louisiana for the coming tournament. fight on radio or seen it on tele- case will be made through our Oklahoma, 49 to 42, in an inter- |

: z g | The curly-haired South Sider had just finished a heavy workouti, 434,37 victory at Madison State in the Sugar Bowl. Then he] But there are others who will vision. publicity department. sectional basketball game here. [3¢ Bland’s Gym yesterday when he anounced that he would quit the Square Garden. \had a squad composed mostly of Sep OU of Tie Nori ioe id

Under those circumstances, why | Oklahoma abbed 27-to-19 “ » inst Andy And i ; eq1| TWo releases did come from the| ma. gr a ring “for good” after the coming fight against Andy Anderson in! 7. ¢.. (nanine game of the senfors. It was a blase bunch!try for Open honors. One is Phil did not the supposedly powerful ,pn "yo yihe rn (ontained any|lead late in the first half before tne Armory. ; double header, NYU toyed with which couldn't get worked up to| Horsely. Pe of the Noo

New York State Commission have, ou orthy information. Mean-| Minnesota got rolling. Maynard The once-potent puncher, who w.4ged vanderbilt for the first meet a thrice-beaten foe. This|featherweight title in the last 10 minutes, then pulled out the time the roster is laden with spir- tourney. Another is Bob Payne,

\ algal on hand a competent press rela-| ,,, ineormation was trickling (Johnson, sharp-shooting Minne- hag turned down more than $5000 stops for an easy 87-to-56 victory ited sophomores who know once: who lost a close decision in the {before a crowd of 18,332, largest beaten Kentucky is no pushover. lightweight finals. He will De a

tions man of its own, Who couid|,, 4.,,e ang drops from the hos- Sota forward, started hitting at'worth of fights in other cities {of the season at the Garden. Vols Old-Fashioned welterweight for this tourney. Kentucky, content to play Tennessee takes an old-fashion- Making a bid for the 112-pound

take over authoritatively and ef-l,.,., "ong" orom persons -outside|that point and cut the lead to 29 over the past eight —menths, \“walking basketball” with the ed murder's row type of football/title will be Jimmy Martin, who Redmen until the seventh minute/t¢am to the Cotton Bowl. Bob|held the state American Legion

ficiently? Why was the news-dis-| { | " pensing job turned over to an out-| the hospital. Various stories ap-ito 25 at halftime. {startled his trainer and Indian 'of the second half, finally got the Neyland, the Tennessee coach. 85-pound championship for two /break for its game-winning spurt doesn’t go for razzle-dazzle stuff. years.

ve _|péared in print. They had the| Johnson, who led both teams in apolis promoter © Norb Updike fit that could have “white Je of West's operations rang- Scoring with 18 points, kept firing with the announcement. \when Zeke Zaweoluk, St. John’s|He plays that old mow-'em-down|” Three heavyweights are in |6-foot, 6-inch center, picked up/PoOWer football from the single/training at Bland’s. They are

washed” itself, in print at least, 4 } : {Ing from one to three. And they away at the start of the second Bo. Bad Been I RE iL ae pad him being kept alive by vari- half and sent Minnesota into a. “IM NOT getting anywhere. or jury + {ous resorts. llead which it never lost. {I'm getting worse all the time,” his fourth personal foul and was Wing, and it will be interesting to Garnett Holtzlider, 19, 198 pounds; removed from ithe game. The/Match it against the fling-and- Bob Taylor, 18, 182, and Darrell 8 Wildcats led, 23 to 22, at the time, [flit frenzy of Texas, the South-| perry, 19, 204.

Writers Suggested | West's death was announced at| Both teams used zone defenses said Sgro as the group in the gym | m—— west Conference champion.

Within the past four years, at the hospital Thursday night. The and played control games. The gathered around him to learn tf AR iLL Miami and Clemson could put dD : Buffalo Wins Fifth {on the wildest bowl game of them Will Run Race

announcing physician said: “He game got rough in the second half (Why he had decided to quit. du NE Crs ‘Nave gied al'S p. mv Reporters notoglond Dincscer Tost. Tous of its| Asked why he had made his that his Commission have a pub- that at the time of the announce- starters, and Oklahoma lost two, (decision, Sgro, whose Moe Funs licity man for the benefit of the ment their watches showed only on personal fouls. Sigil oc hip an Ihe “press, the public—and tke Com-| 7:57 P. fix Some- reporters used — Minnessia (8) Oklahoma (35) [2 erage in Pro-Iock-‘em and 1 ft pt!

if the Commission had a veteran York State .should realize now ithe Springfield Indians of the plina.

: : | ‘Totals 1715 231 Totals 14 14 23'0f his Florshiems. He grabbed | American Hockey League tonight Se ————— sports writer like Francis Alber- that it's high time the Commis-| t half—Okl : po) ! : tanti, Ed Van Every or: Ned sion hired its own publicity direc-ss> ~~ '' "*/—OFthoma 2 Minneiots Joe by the arm excitedly and, . ..... o total of $18,000 qur- BY & T-to-4 score before 4300 pace Bowl Umpire

Brown in place of one of the tor and ended its unhealthy press| Pree throws missed — Johnson. Skoog, SHOUted: Don’t say a thing lke, . "= otessional career, his fans at the Coliseum.

Joe Sgro

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training (UP)—The Hollywood club of the! Alton, Bill Dodd, Joe Stratton, 2 jirainin E Jara ae pelt. De Pacific Coast League today an- Dan Warren, Ted Stacy and Dex § ‘here two weeks ago. nounced the purchase of Pitcher Roberts—all have made at least ; | For reasons he refuses to ex-|Don Carlsen, righthander, from 40 per cent of their field goal tries § iz Mg he has turned down fights Nashville of the Southern Asso- 50 far this season. The Red Raidover the past few months in St.|ciation. ers will take part in the Dixie = {Nicholas Arena, New York: Den-| Carlsen saw only limited duty Tournament at Raleigh, N. C., : ver, Bt. Louis, Chicago, Kansas with Nashville last season after Dec. 28-30. : City, Milwaukee and Cleveland. undergoing an Operation On iS ge ————— —— Those close to Sgro estimate he arm. : j : A Very

‘ Golden Gloves Entry Blank i] Merry

National Guard Armory, Jan. 12, 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9

'(UP)-~The top six men on the : title Friday and retire in a blaze] HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 23 | Y *% lof glory. Although he has been | Colgate basketball team—Dave| APP aH

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