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Baseball Probers
Seek Clarification Of Expansion Plans
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Congressional baseball inves-| tigators focused attention today on the “farm system” for) ; developing big leaguers and on the Pacific Coast League’s| & fight for major league status. i |
Leslie M. O'Connor, Pacific League counsel, was called for . ; . | day-long questioning by a House tate monopoly subcommittee. The Indiana, Ohio S group is studying organized baseball's request for exemption from
Eye Farm
By FRANK
And Hearty
ANDERSON
Times Sports Writer
PIKEVILLE, Ky., Oct.
16—The Rochester Royals
are surprised by the Indianapolis Olympians’ success.
And Bruce Hale, Olympian
Bruce and the Olymps pulled into this mining community today, hoping to mine something more than coal. Ag the Indianapolis pros filed into their hotel, Bruce was mumbling something about his
guard, is floored by it.
RICHMC The Red letic ladder t rung right nc
Superintende is one reason.
a second reaso
LRAT NERA ERT
LS
- league, 8 move which O'Connor
‘Meade’s License
anti-trust laws, H t TV H 1 Rep. Patrick J. Hillings = ime “aching back.” 1), sub itt , + ¥ : : : Ca - rey yg establish Bruce wasn't kidding, either. His clearly the major leagues’ “atti- Nn A ur dy HIGH-FLYING CARDINALS—Southport's unbeaten Cardinals will be seeking to keep a clean slate Friday when they meet Ca. | shoulder blades still smarted from conis ‘toward Spanon in the thedral's Irish. The Cards are undefeated in seven starts this season. Cathedral will be facing (left to right, front row) Joe Hawthorne, | tact with the floor in Hazard, Ky., last x ave hosesall rele privi- Corus Ji 16--Ohie Bob Weddle, Mike Sweeney, Dick Weddle, Phil George, Richard Ashman, Bill Winkelmeier, Dave Haviland, Don Jones; (back row) | night. The floor, plus the congratulatory lege.” Siste makes TE BIE Lime televh Coach Jack Morgan, Shorty Lasiter, Ed Staab, Lee Graham, Dick Carter, Dave Kress, Jack Wilson, Jim Baker, Delbert Willsey, Wayne slapping of his teammates gave Bruce Frank Anderson
. na sion debut. here Saturday against
HILLINGS was miffed by tes: [ndiana University, “a team that timony yesterday of Clark Grif- wij] pe all right when it cures its fith, Washington Senators’ presi- s.mplitis.” dent who said the West Coast : won't be ready for major league Indianapolis football fans baseball in the near future. | will be able to see the game Hillings said he wanted to over WFBM-TV. Game Hime is know whether it's true that the . 12:45. major leagues in a compromise move. last week offered to exARTUR their. * ‘araft” until they've prayed seven years on the West Coast
Tribe Buys
Clyde Smith's Hoosiers “have By BILL EGGERT “been good between the 20:vard: IF. THERE js any strength in Red RI TR RR RT eda TRA PE ARATE ede too many penallies from there to dans already: are--conlenders-ior
05 the goal line. Scout Esco Sark- 1952 American Association
the
circuit. They now are draftable Xi told t f pn. pennant. J after four years. Xinen told reporters after Walth-|' vy. Tribe Jatched on to its The reported compromise, if ing the Hoosiers play thrée games 32d player today with the out-
in which they won only one, Sarkkinen briefed newsmen on Ohio State's first “must opponent” after Coach Woody Hayes said that he was “disappointed but not
true, would help quell anger of Pacific fans who've —been unhappy over forced sale of their stars to the big leagues, Hillings said, and would be a first step
right purchase of Shortstop Dan Mallott from Wilkes-Barre of the Eastern League. Mallott is the lad, who several vears ago informed Ellis Ryan,
toward major league status for discouraged” with the Buckeyes i : leveland club sident, : the Pacific circuit. in their first three games. Chron Sun Dt a on = =» ~ ~ el om ss Nn “OUR defense will be hetter plans when Lou Band
With Wilkes-T~-
HILLINGS said, however, that rollott It arn. ordinary. 21%. 18
he thinks it would be “much bet-
because we play five consecutive games in which the opnorsnts use
ter" to transfer a major league similar offensives,” Hayes said in \o- SAmes scoring franchise to Ban Francisco and reviewing the Buckeves victory : rR Los Angeles than to elevate the over Southern Methodist, Inss to MEANWHILE, Indiana olis
has informed Coach Russ Peters that he has been released outright. These announcements were ‘made yesterday at a press meeting by Ownie Bush. Tribe presiident; Chuck French, Tribe general- A and Ted Sullivan,
Pacific -League toa third major Michigan State, and tie with Wis-
consin. | Hayes said that Indiana. Towa Hillings said the latter move Northwestern, Pittsburgh. and 1Istill wouldn't bring the New York jingis would use an offensive that|
Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodg-|was basically a T formati ers out to the West Coast during y mation. "Our
favors.
defense will be able to congeal bus
the regular season and would be 5.4 ne tou siness managzer and director of i gher from now on,” he TE Some I rie said. PTS Jodo se completes the The House investigators re- Tre Hoosiers are due {0 begin disappearing act Tort this year's
clicking, Sarkkinen said. He said that they had averaged more than 200 yards rushing per game on the ground as they lost to Notre Dame, 48-6, and Michigan, 33-14, and beat Pittsburgh, 13-6.
garded O'Connor as an expert on the “farm system” because of his work years ago in drafting for former baseball czar Kenesaw M. Landis a 10-point plan for elimi-| nating farm clubs. Although he was the mast powerful commissioner baseball ever had, Landis never succeeded in getting owners to eliminate the farm system which he opposed. !
THE SUBCOMMITTEE was told vesterday by a former player and an ousted umpire that mod-ern-day commissioners, like Landis. should have more power to dictate to the owners. Ford Frick, new commissioner, like his predecessor A. B. (Happy) Chandler, can’t change rules adopted by the owners. Seymour (Cy) Block, former major and minor league player now in the insurance business in New York, complained that minor league players are paid poorly ($2200 a year is average) and have no security whatever from being dropped from the payroll at any time. He said this threat-
of letters who never knows
“Every time I look up.” said
the harried, intellectually minded first baseman recently, “I'm either catching a train for Chicago or missing one out of Los Angeles.” { Connors is used to shuttling, though. He made at least three trips between Brooklyn and Mon- " (treal while in the Dodger farm system and has bounced between L. A. and the Windy City an equal number of times since entering the Chicago organization.
ens to cause a future shortage of THE six-foot-five inch New baseball stars for "the major be Yorker, who majored in psycholleagues. _ ? ,0gy at Seton Hall, began the 1951 He said he was confident Frick 3 season with the Cubs. Chicago could, and would, help correct sent him to Los Angeles of the
this, if he had the power. Ernest Stewart, Los Angeles hardware merchant who was ousted as Ameritan League um-
Indianapolis Caps open their and after he hit .327 there. back home Coliseum. season Thurs- he came to the Cubs last July 6. day night at right wing on the Connors batted .239 in 66 games
pire two years ago in a squabble No. | line will be Bert Hirsch. With Chie I ns up pe Ses over a move to boost umpires pay. son, so ba oes again to % pay. feld (above). Hirschfeld skated | Angeles. He received no
said umpires are subject much “pressure” from owners because they are hired and fired by league presidents. He said they should. be under pupérvision of a commissioner with real power,
for Cincinnati last season. A free rules clinic and introduction of players will be held in the Coliseum tomorrow night.
called by Chicago this spring.
Refused Again
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UP)—| Don Meade's application for a license to ride in New York was denied by the State Racing Com-!| mission. The fiery-tempered jnckey
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immediately said he would “fight! the decision in the courts.” | The commission said that] Meade's participation in racing|
“would not be consistent with the public interest or with the best interests of racing generally.” They| refused to permit him to resume! the brilliant career interrupted five years ago when Meade ran! afoul of racing authorities in Mexico,
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Chicago-LA Scenery Familiar to Connors
By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 16—Baffled Chuck Connors, a man
was assigned by the Chicago Cubs to Los Angeles today for at least the umpteenth time.
guarantee that he will not ha re-
The Cubs also sent right-handed —- Pitcher Doyle Lade to Los An- Continned on age 19—Col. 8
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MILLION PHILLIES ARE DAY
Baker, Roger Black, Clifford Griesemer.
Shortstop MalloH,
Releases Coach Russ Peters
midair staff. Manager Don Gut-!port from the Cleveland club: feridge was-excuded last week, He. said it's no. secret that the pa Sa WE bY 7 QB EERE Wal EE Rx ER TRE Rupa coming concerning the 1952 man- nants put that he expects to get ager but our guess is that Billnelp in time from Manager Al Norman, Wilkes-Barre's success- Lopez of Cleveland. ful pilot the last two seasons. Will with an eye to more attendance, get The Frmetien. The Jatent after this past season dipped to Cleveland brass is toying w e idea “of moving the Wi ee-Barre 158,000, Srench said hs favors franchise to Reading, Pa. Despite two straight - Eastern League champions, Wilkes-Barre has used red ink at the end of the season. Red Ruffing, Cleveland coach
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weekly. But whether TV time will be available is another issue. There were hints that another or two additional TV stations may be in operation by next summer. ntioned previously as a prob- A 1-2-3 club, it was noted, never le Indianapolis manager, is ex- hurt. any team’s attendance. cted to become Cleveland's farm 2a :» 2 director succeeding Muddy Ruel, THE genial new businesswho probably will move.into the.manager also is spearheading a Tigers’ front office eventually baseball move to “twist Branch taking over Charlie Gehringer’s Rickey's tail. That ga rarity, but job as general- manager. the Indianapolis club may win a point in its protest against Rickey’s movement of. playefs he is only sure of two candidates, under the now-expired agreement who aren't in line for the Indian- between Pittsburgh and the Redapolis job—himself and Sullivan. SKins. French, as the new guiding MT. Frick's office has requested hand in the Indianapolis organi- Agreement papers on the sale of
zation. has pledged complete sup- Pitchers Forrest Main, Royce mm sie ee se int, Bob Curtis, Fred Strobel
and Catcher Jim Mangan to the Pirates. The Indians, in turn, were to receive first refusal on players moved from Pittsburgh to the minors. On Sept. 27. French says, Rickey moved four players off the Pirate roster without asking Indianapolis for a refusal.
r RE NCH Joked yesterday that
» = = OF the four players—Pitchers Vic Lombardi and Bob Chesnes and Infielders Danny Murtaugh and Monty Basgall—the Tride is interested only in Lombardi and $5000
where he'll receive his mail,
A asgall for the regular geles 3 and Fir st Baseman Fred ‘Riga ” . Richards to Springfield, Mass. of PFi¢® rR pe Dlayinge the Iniernational League. In re- managertol Mew Ur eans. lLom-
bardi and Basgall were headed for Hollywood while Chesnes was to be delivered to New Orleans. If the deal is nullified, there is a possibility that all the players
turn; they brought up southpaw Fred Eacsevskl, who won 12 and lost 10 for L. A. last season, and Pitcher Luvern Fear and veteran
Outfielder Jack Wallas (.2 from S ean 3 asm 2) will be returned to Indianapolis. I Bp 2 = = 2 = = BEFORE moving up as coach IN OTHER points along the this past season,’ Peters served as
utility infielder for the Tribe in 1949 and 1950. The 37-year-old veteran came here in the 1948
winter baseball trail, Marty Marion, St. Louis Cardinal manager, handed an unconditional release to Marty Marion, St. Louis Cardi-
1 Ino rds, the Nal shortstop. In other words, the , , deiphia, Cleveland and St.
lanky veteran will continue manf Amer e. aging, but he's all through play- Louis of the . ican Leagu
with Pitcher Chet Johnson.
ON NO. | LINE—When the pacific Coast League in March P&: L
Peasant Moments in sports
FIRST UNASSISTED TRIPLE PLAY IN THE MAJORS
Cardinal Catcher Bob Scheffing was given his unconditional release but it was explained he will remain with the club ih an undisclosed capacity. Veteran Harry Walker was installed as the new manager of the Rochester International League club, replacing Johnny Keane, but
Butler Stresses |
television one or two nights"
Defense for
St. Joseph Tilt
Suter Bulldogs make their second conference start of the 1951 season Saturday when they meet St. Joseph College on the Pumas’ home lot. Coach Tony Hinkle began stressing defense as he went over the errors committed in last Saturdav's victory over
Ball State. Although Valparaiso is virtually
yesterday
®nce championship, four teams are doing battle for runnerup laurels. ” » 2
A VICTORY over St. Joe Saturday would put the Bulldogs on their way toward a second place. Also runnerup contenders are Indiana State, Ball State a&#nd St. Joe. The Pumas can be stubborn. The Pumas accomplished an upset in 1941 and repeated in 1942. Butler has copped the other three contests Dayes.
Golden Gloves Program Opens at Hagerstown
The Golden Gloves season In Hagerstown, Ind. is off to an official start. The annual Golden Gloves pro-
gram, headed by Arch Hindman,
a member of the Indiana Athletic Commission, started last night with a dinner, a boxing exhibition; and movies. After a dinner in a downtown restaurant for members of Hindman's committee, a boxing exhibition was staged in the Golden Gloves gymnasium by Rusty Cleek and Jimmy Thompson, professional boxers from Indianapolis.
The Hagerstown tournament
opens the first part of December.
Alter Bears’ Kickoffs
Lawrence Central High School's three remaining home
next Tuesday, and Beech
31.
Ind., Grove Oct.
assured the confer-
football!
mid-season from Toledo along 8ames will be played at 7:30 p. m. He instead of 8 p. m. The Bears play
has seen major league action with Decatur Central Friday, Franklin,
a very aching back, indeed.’
everybody but the Royals. » ” THE CLOCK in spanking new Hazard Memorial gym-
| nasium showed one second to
play when Bruce elected to make an impression on the fans, the Royals the floor and the Stafsboae which read 733 HEY wrenched A PASS rom CR gyay Hépry’ Taen oe HERE floor, shot from the hip and watched the ball plop into the basket as the buzzer ended the game, 75-73. The Olymps and Royals dedicated the Hazard gym with a mixture of race-horse basketball, scoreboard gymnastics and sideline oratory delivered in the inimitable style of Royal Coach Less Harrison. The pure basketball kept the score close all the way with the Olymps having the better of it until the last three minutes. ‘That's when the Royals tied it up at 69-69 shortly thereafter Red Holzman made it 73-73 with a fadeaway shot from close. » ” - HALE'S heroics broke the tie and that was it. Everybody was happy in Hazard, a pro-Olymp town. Especially, did happiness reign in the counting rooms of the front office at the gym. A turnaway crowd of 2633 flooded the ticket window with pictures of presidents on green U. 8. mint paper. The presidents on the green paper wore sober expressions, far removed from the grins of Coach Harrison and Howard Clark, the Olymps’ man of money. Harrison was up and down like a runaway elevator all evening. He seemed to be in better shape for running than his team. But the Royals are getting better. They're forced to
OPENING GAM
You see, Bruce is a hero to
improve when they play the Olymps. It's a matter of seit
defense. » » LJ]
MINUTE details of the game won't emanate from this corner, Discuss anything but the lastsecond” shot of Hale and you ruin the sense of drama. ~ 1p we'll only mention
galloping that prevailed on both sides and ‘the electric scoreboard that refused t8. behave. That scoreboard was really an ally of the panting Royals. Just when they thought they had sweated their last drop, the scoreboard went on strike for an automatic time out. Its lights blinked on and off like Eddie Cantor's eyes until a repairman earned his salary during the half. » " » THE HERO, as we mentioned, was Hale; Pointwise the most productive Olymps were Alex Groza (13) and Ralph Beard (15). Groza, through no fault of his own, was passed in scoring by Jack Coleman of the Royals. Coleman piggybacked to 15 points. Coach Harrison left Hazard and went out into the dark night, his bag full of money and his heart full of hope. Another crack at the Olymps
awaits him tonight at Pikeville, Olympians (18)
bassix an The ag of Play, spirstedi =~
rabosk! 1 " Speirs. 1 5 3 g arnhorst, f 3 3 13J $ roza, ¢ . } 4 Coleman. ¢ i 0 Beard. & s 8! Davies. 5 3 5 alther, & 1 34W . 8 3 3 Joshed § 3 ih an. f 41 voy. f : } anaes, 1 } 3 } arker, f 3 1 3 Benke g i 1 ue 113 Lofgran. tf 0 1 0 Totals 301529 Totals nnn ~—B8eore by Quarters— IANAPOLIB L322 18 19 18-18 ochester . 13 | 17 ~N —1 THURS. 81 A ® OCT. 18 *
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SECOND GAME SUNDAY, OCT. 21, CLEVELAND
BY Bob Considine
IT WAS IN THE SECOND INNING of an important game with the Red Sox. The Sox, with no outs, had men on first and second. Neal leaped up to grab a screaming line drive. He touched second, retiring the first runner, and then ran down the other base-runner between first and second . . to retire the side with the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues.
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NEAL BALL was playing his first season with the Cleveland Indians in 1909. He was a good infielder, a good hitter— but no great star. And then one day, in ten breath-taking seconds, he leaped from obscurity into the Hall of Fame.
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