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Sunday, October 9, 1955. Yankees Start Trip To Orient Casey Stengel Making Plans For Next Year To Shortstop. The Terre Haute Tribune-Star. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.

The New York Yankees set out today on the tirst leg of a trip to the Orient which Manager Casey Sten- gel says help me a lot in making plans for The party of 64 players, club ex- ecutives and wives, flew to San Francisco today and then departs for Honolulu. After five games in Honolulu, the main body of the squad will go on to Manila and Japan. going to play Billy Martin at Stengel said before the departure. had a lot ol trouble at shortstop this year and I want to find out whether Martin can play it for us next season have a lot of fun on the trip, but going to be a lot of Stengel concluded. Weiss With Stengel, Aboard the plane when it left New York was General Manager George Weiss, with whom Stengel has been discussing the possibility of winter trades since the last putout of the World Series last Tuesday.

Martin, who returned to Camp Carson, after the series to be formally discharged from the SETS I FIRST O.S.U. Jerry Harkrader set up Ohio first score in the first perM uafn i. sweep left was enod for 35 yard, Sa.urd., o.l. Melvin Baies .44) br.uiht him down on the visitor's Ik. the next play went 18 to score standing up, swinging around end.

Illinois scored fir Cassady on initial period and Ohio State got even 40 seconds later. (A.P. Wirephoto) BALTIMORE CONSIDERS SULLIVAN CLUB WILL TAKE TRIPLE-A AGREEMENT ARROWS TO GAME AT I. I. SULLIVAN, Oct.

Campbell Scores Pair In DePaU BALTIMORE, Oct. suiiivan Golden Arrows again will GREENCASTLE, Oct. Baltimore Orioles said today they attend the annual High School Day stroke which gave him the leaa. Right back of Stranahan was tne Miami Group After Tigers MIAMI BEACH, Oct. Levy, and insurance nia.i here said today he and a of associates are ready to offer $2,600,000 for the Detroit Tigers baseball club.

Levy said the trustees of the estate of the late Walter O. Briggs, former owner, are to meet Oct. 27, and it is his understanding that Walter O. Briggs Jr. will bid for the club at that time.

Briggs operates the club for the trustees. If under trustee laws in Michigan offer is declined, the club will be up for sale Jan. 1, said Levy. His bid will be made then, or sooner if circumstances permit, he said. Levy did not name his associates.

Frank Stranahan Is Eastern Open Leader BALTIMORE, Oct. 8. OP Frank Stranahan, the Toledo strongboy who joined the pro golf ranks less than a year ago, posted a two under par 70 for a total of 209 Saturday to take over first place in the Eastern Open. Stranahan got away to a shaky start but evened matters with a nifty side-hill putt on the ninth hole and made the turn in par 36. He picked up a stroke on the 12th with a birdie and then wound up with a flourish by dropping an eight-footer on the 18th for the Campbell and Dick Hack- pvnluring the possibility of at Indiana University on Saturday, Army, was scheduled to join the enberi, each scored twice Saturday makinc a agreement'with Oct.

15 as guests of the Sullivan veteran Porkyj Lenv Nail Gains Surprise Victory In Futurity NEW YORK, Oct. Anson Nail won the $125,125 Futurity Stakes for two- year-olds down the i straightaway today at Belmont Park C. V. Head Man was second and Barclay Stable Jet finished third. Fifteen two-year-olds started in the second-richest "uturity and jockey Hedley Woodhouse rode Nail, who picked up the winners sljare of $100,425.

Nail traveled the 6 furlongs in the slop in and paid $16 10, $9.00 and $5.60. Head Men, who ran as an entry with Career Boy, paid $4.30 and $3.00. The Whitney entry went off the 5 to 2 favorite. Jet paid $6.50 to show. Nail never had won a stakes race before and until this afternoon his earnings amounted to only $7,100.

SPARROW IS APTLY NAMED. GARDEN CITY. N. Sparrow is aptly named. As soon as he finished playing baseball for Lake Charles, in the Class Evangeline League he joined the New York Knickerbockers for the National Basketball Assn.

campaign. a 6 foot 5 forward who averaged 23 points a the University of Detroit last season The Knicks made him their No. 1 draft choice. MEET BILL RIGNEY, the new manager of the New York Giants. Rigney replaces Leo Durocher, who has called it quits.

The new manager, a former all-around infield star with the Giants, has been manager of the Minneapolis club. Rigney, a native of Alameda, is 35 years old and began his career at Spokane in 1938, OLYMPIC TRIPS PLANNED. joining the Giants in 1946. party in San Francisco, along with pace to an easy 41-13 infielder Andy Carey and his bride, home-coming win over Oberlin, actress Lucy Marlow. Carey and The Tigers, racking up their second win in four starts, tallied in every period.

Dave Hoecker scored both Oberlin touchdowns. were married Thursday night. Johnny Kucks and nrst- Ed Robinson, who also were married on Thursday, had their brides aboard. The bachelors princETON SCORES SOGGY making the trip are Bob Grim, Don Larsen, Frank Leja, Bob Wesler and Martin. PHILADELPHIA, Oct.

8 a triple-A baseball club. The highest ranking club in the farm system is the double-A San Antonio club, in the Texas League. The Orioles gave no indication where they were doing their I Jack Dunn III, assistant general 7-0 VICTORY OVER PENN manager 0f the American League Downtown Quarterback Club. Vil-1 111., who wound up with a 70 after lanova will plav 1. U.

scheduled making the turn three under par tor afternoon for Then came Art Wa" of Plans are being made by the Poeonc, Manor, and Billy Max- club members to transport and well of Odessa, with 2. accompany the football squad and coaches, as has been their annual custom in sponsoring the trip. Final arrangements will be made at their regular meeting Tuesday RICH HANOVER STAKE WON BY PICK baseman, expected to see con- sophomore halfback, sparked siderable action during the tour He has shown improvement in special drills with Coach Bill Dickey, but probably will be farmed out to a high minor league next sea- of son. The Mainichi newspapers Tokyo, are sponsoring the trip, which has the approval of the U. S.

state department and the Japanese government. TEXAS AGGIES PROVE TOO Princeton to a soggy 7-0 victory over Pennsylvania today to extend losing streak to 12 games. It was a heartbreaking setback for the battered Pennsylvanians, who had an 85-yard touchdown run nullified in the opening period by a penalty and who marched 68 yards in the final period only to be stopped at door. With regular tailback Royce club, said feel that the ball night. I players in our farm system have The boys will be privileged to where we would like some playing by high school band performances, in triple-A LEXINGTON, Oct.

Pick, owned by J. E. and C. E. Armstrong of Brampton, On- Uia.

a 19-year-old bonus first-1 Morris, a third trime a Daseumi This bands from Saturday as the Jim McLaughlin, director ot the alphabetically listed from Adams Orioles farm system, said through Lawrence, have been move was a indication of vited to join with the newly-um- thc growth of our player devel- formed I. U. Marching Hundred opment in pre-game, half-time and i game apperaances. MONTANA POOR MATCH FOR PIONEERS (International) ASK WAIVERS ON GORDON. NEW YORK, Oct.

.8 ilPi The New York Giants have asked waivers on 37-year-old Sid Gordon MISSOULA, Oct. Denver shattered de-, fense today with an aerial attack vete5.at?.ir![lc„„ that netted five first-half touch er-outjielder his unconditional Gordon, who originally played for the Giants between 1941 and 1949, was purchased by them in June this year from the Pittsburgh Pirates. AIR FORCE EASY WINNER OVER DENVER FRESHMEN JOHNNY PODRES HONORED BY HOME TOWN FRIENDS DENVER, Oct. U. S.

tvTTHFRRFF Oet 8 (JB fwjn on the Air Force Academy made its foot- friends and FORCEFUL FOR NEBRASKA knee and with debut today with a nej on 0 y. cashed bration today for Johnny Podres, the third period with a gashed of Denver freshmen. Pick won the first heat, lost the second to stablemate Amber Rodney and won the raceoff. The $11,500 Lexington 2-year-old third while blanking Montana. Nei- trot went in straight heats to Lull- ther club tallied in the final quar- water Victory, owned by Walter ter.

4 T. Candler, Decatur, Ga. The rnNiwrrrq KMH 115 Tennessee 2-year-old pace also s- D- downs, then backs ran wild in the third to pile up a 61-13 Skyline Conference football win. The visiting Pioneers, aiming for a chance at the conference crown, outplayed the Grizzlies in all departments. Only once, PROVIDENCE, R.

Oct. period, was Ught. -Vince Martinez of Paterson, the half. N. the Denver added 26 points in the Weight, will meet Lester Felton MARTINEZ GETS FELTON.

MELBOURNE. UD Australian and overseas airlines are combining to arrange for the transportation of visitors to this country for the Olympic Games next year. The Olympic Games Air Transport Co-ordination Committee said there will be no reduction of fares between Australia and Europe or North America during the Games. NO JINX FOR JOCKEY. OCEANPORT, N.

13 is no jinx for jockey Sammy Boulmetis. He won his 13th stakes race of 1955 when he piloted scope to victory in the richest running of the Monmouth Handicap at Monmouth Park. share of the gross $83.500 take was $5,640. NASHUA TO RACE AT I. Detroit in the featured 10-round bout at the Rhode Island Auditorium on Oct, 17.

V1 Oet Tptas A Vm mixed a sprinkling face, young Morris, a long-legged crowd 0f 17.785, perhaps fhe nf limelv passes with a bruising runner, came off the bench to load ever to pay to witness a 1 smothvr a 59-vard touchdown drive the frosh contest, turned out to see third period ground game today to Nebraska. 27-0, in an intersection- football game played before a stadium-bulging crowd of nearly 40 'WO. After a couple of false starts early in the contest, the Texas Aggies poured on the heat in a three-touchdown second quarter, then added a good measure tally I with 15 seconds of game time remaining. The win gave the Aggies of the Southwestern Conference a three- won, one-lost record for the season and avenged a 13-0 loss the Aggies suffered in their only prior meeting with Nebraska 25 years ago. Nebraska now holds a 1-3 record for the year.

BOSTON COLLEGE RALLIES TO CONQUER VILLANOVA BOSTON. Oct. 8 Burly Emiddio Petrarca, a speedv, brusing fullback, crashed over for two third period touchdowns today as a stumbling Boston College football team erupted in the second half to over power Villanova 28-14 in rainsoaked Fenway Park. Petrarca turned in a tremendous running performance to spark the powerful Eagles after the visiting Wildcats had battled on even i terms throughout she first half. Quarterback Billy Do 1 a sneaked one yard for the opening B.C.

tally in the first period and then bucked a foot for the final score in the fourth quarter. touchdowns were scored by End Van Injaian on a pass from John Lammers in the opening period, and by Halfback Dave Parr on a 29-yard run in the final quarter. made the young Brooklyn Dodger lefty who shut out the New York Yankees in. the final game of the World Series. Marchers set out at noon from went in straight heats to Noble Adios, owned by Paul Wixom of Chicago.

It was the first Grand Circuit win for Noble Adios, at $34,000 highest priced pacing yearling of 1954. BIRTH CONTROL TEST GEORGIA GAINS VICTORY. PIERRE, S. Dakota fish biologists arc engaging in a fish birth control experiment. first objective as a 4-year-old will be the $100,000 Widener Handicap to he run February 18.

After two fall months at the Belair Farm in Maryland he will be stabled at Hialeah for the winter. I tradition born and history as the three-months-old academy off both its blue-clad Ca- the 23-year-old pitcher home in det Corns on parade and its foot- this Adirondack hamlet a pa- ball team in public for the first rade to neighboring Mineville, where Johnny went to high school. The Falcons drove to victory I Proudest of all the home folk after watching the university were the family, Mr. and freshmen score a touchdown on Mrs. Joseph Podres, and the first play.

ST. LOUIS WASHINGTON IS WALLOPED BY DRAKE sister and three brothers: Mary, 17; Walter, 15; Tom, 8, and Jim, 6. TAYLOR TROJANS GAIN EDGE OVER MANCHESTER STATE P.G.A. WINDUP IS DELAYED BY WEATHER ATHENS, Oct. No.

1 passing Dick Young to Jimmy twice for touchdowns Saturday and The experiment is aimed at re- Georgia rolled on to a 28-7 victory tal of 131 points were scored in ducing the number of carp, a spe- 0Ver a fumbling, stumbling North football games between Mississippi cies of rough fish, in the Ft. Ran- Carolina team before 25,000 fans, and Georgia in the 1940. 1941 and DELAYED SCORING. UNIVERSITY, on the Missouri dall reservoir River. The biologists believe the experi- INDIANAPOLIS, Oct.

ment wiU be surcessful. If it is. it 36-hole championship match of the shouid mean better fishing in the annual Indiana P.G.A. golf tourna- pgggrvoir. ment, sending Jim Guinnup of La-j pisb control involves the fayette against Ken White, who jowering 0f the level of the reser- succeeded him as pro at Craws-1 vojr juring the periods when the fordsvilles Country Club, will be spawn Lowering of the water played Monday at Highland Golf exposcs the eggs to air, killing NICE GOING COACH.

DURHAM, N. C. UP! When asked about the prospects of his 1955 Duke football team, Coach Bill Murray said: success of your own team depends on the strength of your TORONTO SIGNS ITUCKI. 1942. Yet neither team could tally in the first quarter.

GREEN BECOMES WHITE. ST. LOUIS. Oct. 8 by upland, Oct.

pair nf slick quarterbacks log trojans turned a pass inter- Labrasca and Ron Diedric ceptjon jnto the winning touch- Drake Bulldogs gained air an (jQWn t0 edge Manches- by ground with equal ter, 12-6, in a Hoosier College Conin a 39-19 romp over Carl Snavely Washington Bears. Labrasea fled 48 yards with an intercepted pass to set up Drake's first touchdown and passed 24 yards to Gary Newell in the end zone the second. He directed a 73-vard drive for the third, work ference game. John Lantz plunged two yards for the tally and Walt Chernenko smashed over from the four about five minutes later. The game-winning tally was set up by an interception on Man- and Country Club It was rained out Friday and there was so much surface water officials decided on the two-day postponement.

BASKETBALL STAR QUITS PRO BALL EAST LANSING, Mich. UP Michigan football team now uses white pants for all its games. Last year the Spartans wore green satins for road games. LOOKING FOR RING TALENT. them.

STEEPLECHASE TO CRAG LIGONIER, Oct. Crag, a 7-year-old bay gelding, scored a mild upset today bv turning on a burst of stretch speed to pass Uncle Joe and win the 18th running of the Rolling Rock International Gold Cup Handicap. TORONTO, Oct. Witucki, former Indiana University and Washington Redskins lineman, has signed with the Toronto Argonauts of Big Four League, was announced today. NEW Burston will visit France, Germany and Spain seeking boxing talent for bouts in this country under the International Boxing Club banner.

IRELAND TOPS SCOTLAND. ing the keep play well. Ron Lind choMei 34, 35 yards for the touchdown. Manchester lone T.D. came in When Diedrich replaced Lebras- the first period when quarterback ca, it made little difference.

He plunged over from a yard out for the fifth touchdown, capping a 67- vard march, then passed 30 yards to Rog Aceto for the last one. eight-yard plunge was the fourth Drake touchdown. Big en Standings Jim Easton completed a 79-yard pass play to halfback Ed Consolo. FORT WAYNE, Oct. Brian, former Louisiana State University star, today announced his retirement from professional basketball.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Brian, whose home is near defeated Scot- Coushatt, played with the 2-1. before a crowd of 50.000 Anderson Tri-Cities and the Fort at Windsor Park today. It was Wayne Pistons. Last year he first soccer victory over helped the Pistons win their first the Scots in eight years. Western Division championship in the National Basketball Associa i tion.

NfVFR SO MV4Y KATURES SUCH LOW PRICr ROSEWALL TO OFFER PONDER TO TURN PRO NEW YANKEE Meet Mrs. Andy Carey, bride of the New York third baseman. She is the former Lucy Marlow, Hollywood actress. The two were married in Hollywood. (International) Wisconsin Michican Ohio Purdue Michigan State Minnesota I Iowa i Northwestern lilinois Indiana SYDNEY, Oct.

Davis Cup star Ken Rosewall said on his return to Sydney today he would discuss with his parents an offer to return professional. He said American professional i ooo .500 .500 .500 27 7 27 24 Pet TP OP i ooo 46 14 tennis promoter Jack Kramer had i.ooo 14 hjm and his teammate, is Lewis Hoad, $50,000 each for a 14- international professional 43 tennis tour commencing in Decem- 18 ber. Rosewall said he is considering the offer and would discuss it further with Hoad after return with the rest of the Australian team next Thursday. .500 34 OOO 7 OOO 12 000 IS MEMPHIS CHICKS SELL ED McGHEE TO TORONTO QUICK AND EASY DESSERT. deli- MEMPHIS, Oct.

The Memphis Chicks today announced the sale of centerfielder Ed McGhee to Toronto of the International League. McGhee, who had trials with the Chicago White Sox and the old NEW cately-flavored, easy dessert, combine package of vanilla pudding mix with a 12-ounce can of apricot whole fruit nectar. Just before serving, fold in cup of whipped cream. THOMPSON JOINS CARDS. CHICAGO, Oct.

Thompson, the Chicago Cardin Philadelphia Athletics, hit .263 for newest lineman, is expected to join the pennant-winning season. Chicks last 27 40 BOEING will interview Eli GINEERS FOR- DESIGN RESEARCH PRODUCTION Interviews will be In TERRE HAUTE Oct. 9,10 and 11 Phone Mr. William Breen for Your Appointment CR-3341 Jim Doran, star defensive end for the Detroit Lions, is concentrating on offense at end this season. BOXERS STIFF.

LONDON, Oct. amateur boxers arrived in London today for their match against Britain Wednesday and immediately asked for a Turkish bath. boxers are a little Nikifonv Denisov, president of the Soviet Amateur Boxing Associa-1 tion said Turkish bath would be the team in time for game with the New York Giants The veteran guard was obtained on waivers from the Los Angeles Rams. BRITAIN WINS MATCH. SWINTON, England, Oct.

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ONE YARD back Jim Peters, 28, right) fights for a gain of one yard in the first guar- ter against Wisconsin. Wisconsin players are: back Chuck Thomas (34); tackle Johnny Dittrich and center Bill McNamara (51). (A.P. W'ire Photo) 655 CHERRY PHONE C-4676.

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