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TUESDAY, JUNE 19,

The Press Box—

Life With the Bonus Rookies

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By LARRY STILLERMAN LIFE MAGAZINE'S coming out with a “big picture

story on bonus rookies.

They're going to show how much the majors are put-

ting out for boys like Billy J know).

Life sent a crew down to Terre Haute the other day.

They were profiling a likely looking shortstop named Ted Kazanski.

This Kazanski’s from Detroit. He's just 17, a big boy. He was signed for -$80,000-up by Bob Carpenter of the Philadelphia Phils the day after Ted was graduated from high school. The big green stuff comes in equally clipped tufts over five years. Down for seasoning with the Phils of Class B ball, Theodore Stanley gets $400 a month from Terre Haute. That makes his take about $18,000 a year for, at least, the next five. Whew. td s -

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» . - | HAVING Ted around didn't (bother Skeeter Newsome ohe bit. “I like him,” said Skeet. “He's got the stuff. Batted .415 in De{troit amateur ball this spring. {Been playing since he was 10.” | Skeet’s a good shortstop, too. He's played for 22 years and was with the A’s, Phils and Bosox in the majors. He can teach Ted the keystone tricks. That's good for Kazanski. If he’s got anything he can move right up with the Phillies. Incidentally, that's Ted's reason for signing with Carpenter. Figures he can move up faster in the Phillies farm system than with any other major club.

HOW MUCH would players like Joe DiMaggio or Stan]

Musial or Ted Williams get if) they were starting out today? Ione day and Ted came the next,”

leagues put a ceiling on bonuses. | last season, hitting in the .450’s His top would be $50,000 a year| . .

“because by that time, if the boy proves his ability, he will be| worth that much—but not be-| fore.”

2 ” = THIS “make good” bonus idea, the top story in the baseball bible, | sounds reasonable. After all, look what's happening to Paul . .. what was his last

“800g” smiled. “Maybe I can ride the

“Sure, I'm glad he's here,” Skeet

bench now, “Y'know, my family moved here

Skeet continued. Life, too.” Sit down, Skeet. You, too, Life.

“ 2 8 Southport’s Tom Paddock going up to Niles, Mich., to try out for a Chicago Cubs’ contract, The flashy centerfielder had his “worst” year at the plate

“All this and |

« yet. In his junior year, he slugged 615, snapping a 26-year Southport record established by Chuck Klein. And you know what happened to Chuck Klein.

Takes Leave {0f the Bench

Monte Irvin

Giant Outfielder Makes Cards Sad

By United Press NEW YORK, June 19—It is|

hard te keep the team’s number one run producer on the bench at the expense of a .226 hitter, which explained today why Monte Irvin was a last ditch hero for Leo Durocher’s oncoming Giants. Irvin gave the Giants a 5 to 4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the 12th inning last night with a bases-loaded single for his 38th run-batted-in for the season—tops for the team.

It was no coincidence that Irvin was playing left field from the start in place of the fleet but perpetually slumping Bobby Thomson, , who lost his job in center field when Rookie Willie Mays joined the club, now apparently is out of left field, too, at least until he can oust the

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LITTLE SPORT

Today's Sportrait—

By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press Sports Writer Bill DeWitt laughs and kids around like a guy who just has swapped all his Browns for Yankees rather than somebody who soon may part with his treasured St. Louis ball club. The buoyant president of the Browns may have learned front office baseball at the knee of Branch Rickey, but it is doubtful if the Mahatma could teach his apprentice how to take old man worry fn stride. That just came naturally. At the same time, DeWitt is the most serious Brown rooter

muscular Irvin and his hig bat from the lineup. | 5!; Behidd Bums The victory put the second | place Giants 5}; games behind] the idle first place Dodgers. { Sal Maglie, the top victory] man in the majors, won his 11th | game in a relief assignment, yielding one run in three innings, | and striking out two batters at climactic moments,

Bob Feller, with some airtight!

help. from Lou Brissie, won his|

and his sixth straight, 9 to 7, at|

{Boston, where he suffered that {one loss previously.

It was the first time in two years he had won| a game in tight little Fenway] Park, and it looked as if he might| blow this one too, when Boston made three runs in the ninth as|

Dinghy, Dinghy The dinghy dope from Cam{bridge, Mass., lists Purdue as a| | ‘big threat” to crews from Cali-

both he and Mike Garcia failed to | stem the tide. |

Brissie Is Fireman But Brissie came in and struck]

{fornia, Harvard and Princeton in| 2? » { | Ha rales or 2h whiz Fettit. the national races tomorrow on|0ut Billy Goodman, then got

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now down with New Orleans for “more seasoning,” his second trip to the Southern Association. The desire to make good | harms many of these boys. | Pettit’'s a good case. Then take Kazanski.. He hasn't touched razor to cheek yet, but! he’s being handled like a big busi-| ness man with a new mousetrap.| = = 2 EVERYTIME the boy scuffed]

his toes or smiled shyly at Terre! Haute Manager Lamar Newsome,

{sonville, O.

the Charles River Basin, {Johnny Pesky on an infield out|

Could it be the wind in the

Cincinnati. She’s listed as one of the mates in the 14-foot boat race. But Carolyn’ isn’t alone as a woman competitor. Ohio State has three gals, Margaret Trainer and Patricia Ress of Columbus, O., and Melcha Thomas from Jeffer-

Well, swish fellas, your powder dry.

and keep,

& y Life’s photographer, Ralph Crane, Follow the Sum

popped away with one of the three! cameras draped around his neck. After all, the youngster had to perform before 16 other young men, his teammates. He hadn’t really made the team yet. “And, gee whiz,” he told me, “all this publicity bothers a little.”

So Ben Hogan, the comeback

| kid, lost his pro golf job at Her-

shey, Pa. Well, weep no more.

{Slam-bang Ben picks up $1000/the winner. Sid Gordon hit a Bos‘every time he plays an exhibition.|ton homer. There were no other games scheduled in the majors yesterday.

{And he has a long summer pro{gram starting tomorrow at Jackison, Mich.

with the bases loaded to end the

sails for the Lafayette crews orig- Same. At one time Cleveland led, | |inates with Miss Carolyn Reiff of

8 to 0, and Feller apparently! coasted a little too much. Al Rosen, Ike Boone, and Sam Chapman hit Cleveland homers and Pesky connected for one for the Red Sox. The Cubs pulled out a ninth inning victory over the Braves, 5 to 4, at Chicago when Bob Borkow-| ski singled to drive home new Chicago catcher, Bruce Edwards. Edwards, a ball of fire since leaving Brooklyn, had doubled to start the rally. Johnny Klippstein, who struck out two batters and got the third on a force out, was

Charlie, the team’s vice president, is not. » = 8 “FOLLOWING the Browns calls for sterner stuff,” DeWitt said today. “No, I'm not trying to be funny. The Cardinal fans come out knowing they'll sit in on their percentage of victories, But it's more of a moral issue with us. When we win, we get a bigger bang than Card fans ever willl know.” Professor Rickey and star pupil have known better days. Rickey, once the brains behind

of cigar smoke in Pittsburgh while the Pirates fumble around in the cellar. : DeWitt is standing up against a. blinding assortment of sales rumors that keep breaking up around his jovial chin. Some club owners might want to back out for a second. Not big-eyed William. No matter how tough the sledding, he still can make with a fast wisecrack and cap it off] with his sharp “ha, ha, ha!” |

Rites to Be Thursday For DiMaggios' Mother

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19)

celebrated Thursday for Mrs. Rose DiMaggio, mother of the three famous baseball players, who died at her home yesterday after a lingering illness. She was 72. At her bedside when she died were four sons and ‘four daughters. The mourners included Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees, who arrived just before she died, and Vince DiMaggio, formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates and other major league

clubs. | Dominic, Boston Red Sox out\fielder, arrived a half-hour her death. '

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DeWitt Can Take Roughing; After All, He Owns Browns

in the Mound City—if Brother|entered night .school to

(UP)—A requiem mass will bell

BILL AGREED he'd laugh decided to try and move in on Walter Briggs and the Detroit Tigers. A lot of experts are making the suggestion bdt Walter has quite a moat laid out around

the town.

DeWitt was crashing buckets of soda pop along the alsles of Sportsman's Park in 1915 when he caught on with the Browns as Rickey’'s office boy. Rickey, then general manager, hired him at $3.50 1 week—just what DeWitt got working the stands. At Rickey's suggestion, DeWitt learn stenography. DeWitt didn’t stop! going to school until he had passed the bar exam and even was elected student body presi dent at St. Louis U. in 1830. |

IN THE MEANTIME, Rigkey had moved over to the Cardinals office in 1917 and taken DeWift! with him. Bill returned to his first! love, the last place Browns, in! 1936 when Don Barnes bought, the club from the Phil Ball es-| tate, | Then Bill and brother Charlie] laid out plenty to huy the club) from Richard Muckerman in! 1049. Is a tireless—and tieless—! young executive next to take] over? - | Maybe, but the DeWitt loyalty | to the Browns seems as tough to uproot as some of those piles in the great river that sweeps past the city.

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