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Cleveland May Option Luke Easter to Tribe

THERE IS a strong possibility that the Indianapolis Indians will have another new first baseman ere long . . . none other than Luke Easter, the giant Negro who has been benched off and on recently by the parent Cleveland club.

The big fellow is in a batting slump that threatens ¢ to |

become chronic . . , His batting average last week was but .203 although he had hit nine home runs and driven in 30 runs . , « But Cleveland President Ellis ‘Ryan, who is also president of the Indianapolis club, said last night that Easter must improve soon or be shipped out to start all over again. , . . If that happens, Jaok for huge Luke to show up at Victory Field as a member of the Hoosier Red- |, #% skins , .'. Indianapolis is Cleveland's lone Luscious Luke Triple-A farm team and can well use a long-ball hitting first sacker . , . Ben Taylor, the incumbent, isn’t batting any better than Herb Conyers, who was released . . . Taylor is hitting only .222 . . . Last year Easter hit .270 for Cleveland, collected 27 homers and batted in 103 runs + » + Although hampered by a knee injury he managed to play in 128 games. , . . In 1950, in 140 games, the giant lefthanded swinger batted .280, smacked 28 homers and batted in 107 runs. Luscious Luke pounded the ball for an average of .363 with San Diego in the Pacific Coast League in 1949 . , . He posted the amazing record of batting in 92 runs in 80 games in the then Triple-A circuit . . . Easter, who will be 31 in August, stands 6-4 and weighs 235 . . . He is a righthanded thrower , . . If President Ryan eventually decides that Luke needs to start oll over again in the high minors, it will be oll right with Indianapolis fans if the big boy ‘is sent here

to occupy the cleanup spot in Gene Desautels’ batting order.

» . » 8 . » » Bargain-hunting baseball fans, who dote on doubleheaders because they usually guarantee four or five hours of entertainment, will have all they want of it at Indianapolis’ Victory Field. + + « Beginning today, the Indians play four twin bills in a row. «+ « But the twin bill addicts would have been disappointed when the Yankees and the Browns ployed a doubleheader in 1926, . The teams completed the two games in 2 hours 7 minutes of actual playing time . . . Nowadays that's just about the time of day or night the teams are starting the ninth inning of the FIRST game. ! so. » ¥ ” » " COLLEGE BASEBALL achieved a comeback this year, which ‘is at least one healthy sign for the national pastime, . . . You wouldn't want a better national tournament, won by Holy Cross last week, and the paid attendance of 38,731 shattered all past records for the event, « + « It bettered last year’s attendance by nearly 11,000, |

thus assuring the financial success of the tourney, held |

in Omaha. Omahans are to be congratulated for the successful sponsorship. , , . College baseball players are not subsidized like many of their brethren in football and basketball. , . , They play the game because they enjoy it and some do wind up with lucrative league contracts as a reward for their efforts, if they choose to become professionals. College baseball players also are spared the rugged physical grind that football and basketball players are forced to endure. , =» . » ~ » This is the season of the year when star football, basketball and baseball high school graduating seniors are sitting atop the world . , . The paid and unpaid agents who recruit athletes for colleges have not abandoned the practice despite the past winter's double talk protestations against proselyting made by many top educators throughout the land . , . It is said the bidding for the muscle boys, especially football players, is at a

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14 Straight Twin Bills Face Tribe

Having swept one series, split three and lost one by a sweep, the Indians return to

(their. Victory Field wigwam |

ltoday to begin a five-day, nine{game stand that calls for four | consecutive doubleheaders, First twin attraction comes {this afternoon, vs. Rollie |ley's Toledo Mud Hens, . (action starting at 1:30. This may or may not be the {last time Indianapolis: fans will| {be watching Toledo as an American Association team. The Mud

being transferred to Charleston, W. Va.

" ~ » FINANCIAL difficulties have plagued the Toledo club since the Detroit Tigers abandoned the franchise following the 1951 season, and Danny Menendez, president, hopes to salvage at least

his luck in dnother city. The decision to transfer the

| board of directors. But the cur-| jrent Mud Hens, although last in| ithe league, do ¢ome np with potent hitting and good pitching| {now and then and are not to be; {dismissed as easy to turn back] | by the seventh-place Indians. 2 ” » | | THE INDIANS are to play the Mud Hens four games in two! |days, two this afternoon, two to-| | morrow" ‘hight. Tomorrow's twin, bill, starting at 6:30, will be a | ladies’ night attraetion. | So far Tribesters and “Hens| {have met seven times this sea-| ison with the Redskins holding | | five decisions. i Papish are slated to piteh for the home boys today. The Indians came in off their) long road trip with a pretty good record for them. They won as maxy as they lost, five and five.| The trek started in Louisville, where the Tribesters won a two-/ game series,

in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Mil-| waukee and then bowed twice to the power-laden Blues in Kansas

date yesterday because of

Tribe Manager Gene Desautels {has been going along with an eight-man staff and al pitchers i

doubleheaders at hand. Bill Aber|nathie, righthander, whose appen|dix acted up out on the road, isi jexpected to be all Hg shortly,

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to follow the Mud Hens to Vie-| tory Field for twin bills Tuesday | and Wednesday and a single game Thursday, after which the; Tribesters will shove off again) for a swing through Columbus| and Toledo before returning to| Victory Field for a three-game holiday series with Louisville, |

Day, in a twilight-night program.

THEY SPLIT two-game aries)

{Cary Middlecoff,

City. The Indians had an open SINE dentist from Memphis, was the installed as the solid favorite in| long jump from Kawtown to In-/the PGA championships today by| dianapolis, and the rest afforded the 16 survivors fretting over a members of the battered mound day's delay caused by torrential | staff a chance to come. up for air. rains,

are a cinch to be called upon to Golf Club, work overtime during the four almost unanimously that because | of comparative youth, ment experience and a hot scor-

Hema ;

Hen franchise is on the verge of] |

part of his investment by trying| A

| franchise rests with the league's|

LINKS STARLETS—AIl five of Indianapolis’ promising young links lovelies Jhon above can't win the 1952 city women's golf this week but they'll grace the greens at Meridian Hills with their share of talent and charm. Shown above (left to right) are Misses Marcia Manley, Hillcrest; Mary Jane Bannerman, Indianapolis Country Club; Judy Keeslin for 18 holes of quakl

| George Zuverink and Frank| and Jean Mack, Meridian Hills, Tee time tomorrow is 8:30 a. m.

Indian Lake; Barbara Bremerman, Meridian Hills, jeaviom for match play Tuesday. (Story, Page 13.)

Times photos by William A, Ostes Jr,

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Stobbs Holds Champions To 6 Hits

CHICAGO, June 21 (UP) == Chuck Stobbs pitched the Chis cago White Sox to a 5 to 1

victory over the New York Yankees today, their second win over the New Yorkers in little over 15 hours and cut the Yanks’ American League lead to a game and a half over the Boston Red Sox.

The Chisox are two games behind. They dropped their first seven games with. the Yanks this year. The White Sox mixed a double by 8am Mele and a single by Leo Thomas, their new third baseman, with a walk and two Yankee-er-rors for four runs off Ed Lopat in the fourth inning to swing the tide of a southpaw pitching duel, Stobbs, in winning his fourth victory, and first complete game of the year, held the champions to six hits. The Sox made seven

PHIL RIZZUTO'S fumble of Minnie Minoso's twisting grounder started the Sox on their 4-run uprising in the fourth. Mele lined a double to center and after Eddie Robinson had fouled out, Sherm Lollar was handed an intentional pass. Thomas then singled to center, scoring Minoso and Mele, and when Mantle fumbled the ball, Lollar also scored and Thomas raced to third from where he scored on a squeeze bunt by Ed Stewart. i

A walk to Gil MeDougald and a double by Billy Martin gave the Yankees a run in the fifth but the Sox matched it when Nellie Fox singled, Minoso was hit by. a pitch and

By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. June 21—|

As the third round play was |

nundated sections of Big Spring!

ng streak the slender Tenn n

{was the man to beat in the] {tournament which now will end | THE Columbus Red Birds are Wednesday.

But there also was strong support for Freddie Haas, the New Orleans veteran who was considered to have the easiest path to the semifinals, and Roberto De Vicenzo, the longdriving Argentine Shamplog,

The road trip, which ended in Indians pushed back to the sev-| sociation race, after once soaring to fifth place. The fact they dropped the last it

hurdle them by three percentage] points. E. A.

Hoosier All-Stars

Kansas City Friday, found me Saints’ Oser enth spot in the American As Downs Millers, 3- 1]

ST. PAUL, June 21 (UP)—In'

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“YOU bv to rate Middlecoff | Milwaukee

| Chicago ....

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washed out by a downpour which |

the players agreed |

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he only game played in the Am-| Bos

The Twin Cities rivals now are

ictories apiece, Hugh Oser, who

three starts enabled Columbus tolerican Association today, the St. |

{Paul Saints downed the Minneap-|

olis Millers under the lights at Lexington Park, 3 to 1.

| Jrashington .

| Phitadeinhis or even on season clashes to date, 5) Detroit ras . 1

well, I'm not letting anybody get away. "” Such survivors as Ted Kroll of New Hartford, N, Y.; Vie

i Ghezzi of Inwood, N. Y,; Beb

Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., and De Vicenzo agreed Middlecoff was the one to beat for the | crown,

Youth played a large part in Burke tourna- their

consideration for, on the

whole, it was a bunch of golfing/the youngest at 29. Middlecof{

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 0 20 Kansas City

July 3 and 4, with two games, | as the one with the best chance,” |& Paul .... plus fireworks, on Independence said little. Jim Turnesa of Briar- Louisville

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| Brooklyn New York ..

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. Chicago * Cleveland

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Middlecoff Favored is As Rain Postpones Third Round

cliff Manor, N. Y., PC for|gaffers left in this tough match “Of course, I'm play marathon.. playing well and if I ever get|18-hole the divot- dig-| three up in the finals, like I did/match play yesterday took care |against Sam Snead back then, of most of the Besoes,

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WIPED out on a “black Friday” {were Defending Champion Sam {Snead, Medalist Dutch Harrison, {ex-Open Champions Lloyd Mangrum, Lew Worsham and Lawson Little, former PGA kings Jim] Ferrier and Chandler Harper, Champion Claude Har-

mon and tournament aces Jackie

PCA Play

and Frank Champ of Houston are 31, Kroll and Walter Burkemo of Detroit are 33; Milton Marusic of Herkimer, N. Y., and Henry Williams of Kutztown, Pa, are 36; Haas and Bob Hamilton

Harbert are 37; Turnesa and Jack Isaacs of Langley, Va., are 38; Ghezzi 1s 39; Ray Honsberger of Clarkston, Wash., is 42, and

N.Y, is 43.

Snead, when he won last year at 38, was the oldest winner in

Al Smith of Daiare 3 and| BUI

Clarence Doser of Hartsdale, Ls.

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RUNS_MeDougald, Fox, Minese, Mele, Lellar, ERRORS ~ Martin, Thomas, Riszute,

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and Dave Douglas, Of those left, De Vicenzo was |

RESULTS YESTERDAY

AMERICAN LEAGUE Poston 3, Cleveland 1.

, Washington 3. Philadelphia at Detroit, (called end 3% innings, rain).

NATIONAL LEAGUE CB

Louis ton 0. Brook yn i4. Pittsbur, gh at Phil dia postponed,

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Paul 3 Minneapolis 1,

{ PGA history. EJ . =» | WHEN play is resumed tomor- , row, Kroll, a 3-time Purple Heart| winner, tees off first: against Honsberger. Middlecoff, making his first PGA start, attempts to move into the. quarter-finals against Smith. De Vicenzo tackles Turnesa and Doser goes against Isaacs. In the other half of the draw, Haas, meets Marusic; Williams, 1950 runnerup to Harper, tackles Harbert, a finalist against Ferrier in 1947; Champ plays Burkemo, runnerup to Snead last year, and two former champs who won the crown by beating Byron Nelson— to knock each other out as the 36-hole matches get under way.

Welsh Rare Bits

| (Won: and i records in 1 kad TONAL LEA | Pittsbureh (Friend (3- 2) at Brooklyn | (Roe 6-0). | Chicago (Rush 9-3 and Kelly 1-4) at| {New York (Hearn srl and ‘Jansen 6-3]

| capitals of the 48 states. And

By JACK WELSH

Boho Newsom, baseball's traveling man, can reel off the

no wonder, he's played in all of them. »

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Browns Whip Nats, 7-3

ST. LOUIS, June 21 (UP)—The St. Louis Browns exploded with six runs in the sixth inning today and Ned Garver went on to post his third straight victory as the Browns whipped the Washington Senators 7-3. Held to one hit by Walt Masterson in-the first five innings, the Browns broke loose after one was out. Bobby Young singled and Jim Rivera tripled to tie the score. Rivera then tallied on Jim Delsing’s long fly. A walk and Dick Kryhoski's sixth homer of the season made it 4-1 and then three straight walks loaded the bases. Don Johnson relieved Masterson at this point and Garver singled two more runs across. Garver who dropped six straight decisions at one stage of

GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All Doubleheaders) | Toledo at INDIANAPOLIS, 1:30 p. m, St. Louls (Brazile 4-1 and Brecheen

Columbus at Louisville. at Boston (Bickford 2Minneapolis at Milwaukee. ~32 games. ekiord I and Spay

Tourney site of the PGA in

started the season with Minneap- L.ouinvilie} try Stub LHOuisville Is ® cou

olis, was on the 8t. Paul mound and kept nine Miller hits scattered. The Saints collected 11]

the season, gave up seven hits, five of them in the last two innings. WASHINGTON

new high and just as brisk as ever. The high school baseball players don’t receive the bonus sugar from the colleges . , , It comes from the major league

ADT i (Parkom Ski I ncinnati (Perkows 5 -4 J leg 4 {at_Philadelphia (Simmons 5- i Dre 2-7)—2 games

Whip Kentucky

A 5-basket blitzkrieg in thé 5-|

5) ws ) minute overtime period gave the] !

0-3 6-6 yesterdays rainout golfers

S&T. LOUIS

ball clubs and this, too, has reached a new high, with promising young pitchers receiving the top contracts . . . Frank Bauman, the 18-year-old St. Louis southpaw, who is supposed to have received a bonus of $125,000 from the Boston Red Sox, has been assigned to the Louisville Colonels, Red Sox farm . .. The Colonels will be in Indianapolis to play the Indians July 3 and 4.

- » » ” » » UNDER OLYMPIC rules a boxing referee must be

an amateur; that is, he cannot have accepted pay for |

working as third man in the roped arena. , . . Virtually

all the competent fistic referees in America are, by |

Olympic standards, pros. . .. Very few have not at some time or other been paid fer officiating. . . . As a result, incompetent officiating in Olympic Games boxing has occurred. . . « The referees too often have not had the ‘benefit of enough actual ring experience. Boxers have to make weight on the nose and they get only one opportunity to step on the official scales. «++ In the U. S. Olympic finals tournament held in Kansas City, Mo., last week, boxers had to weigh in every day as long as they remained in the running. The American Olympic boxing committee reasoned that since the U. S. winners, when competing in Helsinki, will have to observe every international amateur rule, they called upon the boys competing in the Kansas City title bouts to follow instructions to the letter. The referees working in the U. S. finals tourney and the boxers themselves, were briefed on the Olympic rules in pre-bout clinics . . . As. a result, the minimum of difficulty was experienced and the tournament developed into one of the greatest amateur boxing presentations on record . .. The U. S. A. hasn't had an Olympic boxing champion since 1932 but judging from the coliber of the Yankee champs who were crowned in Kansas City lost week, amor nef be |;

the duvrvuionel compton is yea:

‘Isle.

victory over Kentucky's senior high school basketball tal-|

night. A crpwd of 9372 paid admissions saw Indiana shackle the

iblows off two hurlers, i 11Indiana All-Stars a torrid 85-82 Fox and Andy Tomasie.

Norman

A. 2-run: third-inning put the

lent in the Butler Fieldhouse last SI ahead and Oser protected e lead.

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Paul 102 000 Baa] omasie (7) and Katt; Oser and,

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at Kansas City, AMERICAN LEAGUE (All_Doubleheaders) - New York at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Brooklyn Chicago at New York (two). St. uis at Boston (two) Cincinnati at Philadelphia (two),

{Kentucky stars for the 10th time lof the Star's annual charity clasIt was the first overtime [game of the series. A pair of fast-break field goals [by Tech’s Joe Sexson, The Times’ (1951-52 Athlete of The Year {award winner, and field goals by |Kokomo’s Junior Phipps and Madlison’s. Maurice Lorenz “Star of Stars” award winner iced the contest for the Hoosiers in the extra) period.

Ld » » LORENZ was voted the “Star of Stars” award by sportswriters and casters for scoring 25 points. The hawking speedster canned 11 of 18 field goal attempts, fed ably by Phipps, who was a wheelhorse for the winners on the floor. Kentucky’s Bill Rollins pumped 28 points for the losers. Four consecutive field goals by Lafayette's Fitz Franz in the first period paced Indiana to a (21 to 20 first-quarter lead. Franz scored all his 10 points If that period. |

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substitu- |

|tions netted a 44-33 halftime lead |

IN ™e blistering fourthquarter, laren and Nast

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS WHY is the Indianapolis Olympian professional basketball team on the rocks? It's simple. The Olymps couldn't stretch a buck far

| enough. And they didn’t have

enough bucks per capita coming in from the crowds during the 1951-52 season. Here's the financial pieture: The Olymps netted only one-dollar per person after

Angie tax deductions

{ =the lowest of any team in the

league.

Traveling expenses amounted to $27,802.81, almost doubling those of Eastern pro teams in the National Basketball Asso-

ciation, The Olymps paid Butler University $20,308.80 for

32 home , or $634.65 a

THE Olymp season ticket sales amounted to 250 books until the Al Groza-Ralph Beard incident two weeks before the season last fall cut sharply the sale of season books for the 1951-52 Olymp games. If ticket prices had been the same as Ft. Wayne's—one of the lowest in the league—the Olympians would have made $32,688.26 more and would not have gone in the red $25,000 for admission¥and withholding tax. If ticket prices had been the same as Baltimore—highest in the league—the Olymps would have made $68,267.60 more last year and could have earned a net of at least $30,000. These facts have been ‘gleaned from research by . Olymp General Manager J. R, (Babe) Kimbrough: The Olymps will have to settle with Uncle

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Samm on those tax liens, but the

irony is apparent to the Olymps’ when comparative figures are

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AMERICAN LEAGUE New York (Kuzava 3-2 a’ Miller 1-2) at, Chicago (Plerce 7-5 and Grissom 4-3) | Boston (Nixon 32-1 and Trout 5-5) at (Garcia 9-4 and - Fr omex: 3-0 |

rifuden: hia (Zoldak 0-3 and Schéib troit (Stuart, 2-2 and Houtte-

man 3 ‘prey ame: Was (Gumpert - | |

and Por torfield at St. and soon n=a Tous” kin ¥ :

$1085; ‘ticket sellers, $2787.50; car parkers, $1280; ticket takers and guards, $2112; public address announcer and official scorers, $800; salaries of all members of the corporation, $67,700.59, and federal admission taxes, $23,423.10. That doesn’t include 5 per cent to the league, incidental operational costs, maintenande of downtown office, uniforms and other items. Kimbrough said the cost of operation during 1951-52 was about $170,000. At least two items helped keep the deficit to ’ a minimum. Traveling expenses | were cut more than $12,000 by rescheduling games. After Groza and Beard were taken off the payrolls, the Olymps paid only 10 players. It costs the Olymps almost $1000 a night to play a home basketball game, The Olymps rent Butler on a year-to-year arrangement on the basis of

| named Big Springs but after

were ‘calling it Big Muddy. ~ ” MM If Satchel Paige keeps getting involved in those long extra inning games, the Browns will be afraid to let him pitch. No doubt they're scared he'll give St. Louis fans insomnia.

Here's Why Olymps Are ‘Broke’

THE Olymps averaged 3300 paid admissions, slightly below 1950-51 ‘and considerably below their first year. Kimbrough ° estimated a paid attendance of 4000 was necessary to guard against a loss. The Olymps paid attendance was fifth highest in the league, After taxes, the Olymps averaged $1 per ticket. That's 31 cents below F't. Wayne, 59 cents less than Rochester and New York and 60 cents less than Baltimore. Minneapolis netted $1.43 per person. i The Olymps have approximately 9000 seats available at Butler for $1, 1004 seats at $1.50, and about 2500 seats at $2. Baltimore has a top of $3.30. At Rochester and New York it's $3. ” Ft. Wayne's is only $1.75 but the bottom is $1.25 and the middle is $1.50. North Side High School,

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WEST POINT, N. Y., June 21 (UP)—Hard-hitting Cornell University Junior Gilmore Rothrock upset top-seeded Tom Boys of william and Mary today, 1-6. 8-6, 6-4, 8-1, to win the 30th. Intercollegiate