The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 24

January 2 1 9 13 (79riburte 8 Sunday Morning Browns Select ILack of Catchers Looms rin Giant Contracts Hornsby Raps Pessimi4s Mailed to In Texas Baseball Loop All 33 Players Harold Ratliff Sisler Move Recalls lid Baseball Feud Missouri City As Tiges' Big Problem 23 YORK Jan By FORT WORTH Texas Jan 23 Hornsby had a few unkind words Saturday for those whcwould bury baseball without even the' benefit of a funeral New York Giants announced 1 urday that they had mailed out Fitrht Over Young College Star Nearly Broke Up Major Leagues DETROIT Jan 23 (JP)--It would probably be a last-word commentary on the man power shortage in baseball if Manager Steve O'Neill hero of the 1920 world series appeared behind the plate for his Detroit Tigers next season Until a year or so ago Steve took his turn with the other catch- ers in batting practice and if any- aner to Quit body could stage a big league comeback at 51 he might be the Illaying Ball one to do so But he hasn't back- Waner to Quit Playing Ball baseball if Manager er behind the For Camp Site ST LOUIS Jan 23 unLeavini the world champion Cardinals the only major league team atilt bunting for a spring training site the St Louis Browns Saturday selected Cape Girardeau Mo home of Southeast Missouri State Teachers' college Cape Girardeau is only 40 miles from Cairo Ill which is being inspected by the Cardinals The Browns will start train In March 15 contracts to all 33 players this week with an accompanying letter asking them to begin light training at once The note to the players signed by President Horace Stoneham said "We would appreciate your beginning light training at once so as to be in condition to go at top speed as soon as camp opens You are to plan to report in New York Sunday March 13 and go to Lakewood the following day to be ready to start practice on March 15" The Giants are the first club in the major leagues to mail out their contracts Others have held up on the advice of the presidents of the American and National leagues to await a ruling from the director of economic stabilization concerning the effect of salary freezing on baseball contracts However the Giants are proceeding on the basis of approval received from the regional offices of the war labor board and the treasury department here "Hell thia is no time to quit" snapped the ex-big leaguer often this year will be a toughtne for called the greatest right-hand hit- baseball Why the peot will ter in the game walk -to the field to see asebtll The people need baseball and games They did that beire we the government wants It And we had automobiles didn't Mt?" can have it If we'll quit hanging Hornsby said Fort Worrs club crepe and do a little boosting" was almost ready to go rilt now While others have been predict- the infield and itching ing the 54-year-old Texas league ataff were set and that a'atcher would not be able to open this year and two outfielders woul malce the Rajah as general manager of the Cats tough to take 1ost of the Fort Worth Cats has been his players he revealed rere in peddling tickets for two weeks 3-A and in no great dager of "I have sold twice as many leaving for service during le sea-tickets as I did for the same time son last year" said Hornsby "The The Texas league will decide people here want baseball and I whether it is to continueat the want to give It to them annual meeting Februaryt3 and "When the going gets tough is 14 in Shreveport home of he de- the time to do your hardest fight fending champion- ing Anybody can sail along when there's nothing to interfere and EUGENE Ore Jan 23t-ri everything Is bright and sunshiny The Washington Huskies oertook What if we do lose some money the Oregon Webfoots in ts closIt won't be the first time But ing minutes Friday night I seors we ought to keep the game going a 52-to-48 northern divisio Coast "However I'm not convinced that conference basketball victcy: By Tribune Leased Wire NEW YORK Jan Sisler and Branch Rickey are back together again With the announcement of Sisicr's appointment to the Brooklyn Dodgers' coaching staff it is recalled that his first association with Rickey in 1915 made them the storm center of one of baseball's greatest feuds They were one of the main reasons for Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis becoming baseball commissioner About them revolved a raging fight between the big leagues as So They well as within each involving tuch historic figures as Ban Johnson then president of the American a league Charles Comiskey owner of the Chicago White Sox and Barney Dreyfuss owner of the canttfd From Preceding Page) Pittsburgh Pirates rt went so heTittling the work of Director far that the White Sox New York and Boston Red Sox were Ross Leonard who took over the Ya on the verge of withdrawing from five months ago they're op- the A and the entire baseball rlT posed to the set-up which they i511 conducive to proper structure might have toppled ex- foth and game manarement in cept for the arbitration of Trusty Landis the work of Director Ross Leonard who took over the job five months ego they're opposed to the set-up which they claim isn't condueive to proper foth game management in foth game Muscle Expert May Cure Batting Woes OKLAHOMA CITY Jan 23 (P) Waner the "little poison" of major league baseball paused in his work at a gasoline station Saturday to declare that "unless my feet begin to itch" he definite- ly would not report to the Phila- delphia Phi Is this season Wanet 36 said several factors including his legs and the housing situation in Philadelphia had in- fluenced his tentative decision to hang up his diamond togs for keeps About his I Waner who played in 100 games last year said that "at times I felt as if I were running on stilts" ti-17tt there is no centralization of thPre la no stopped regularly since 1934 Steve is the third former catcher in a row to manage the Tigers and the club has otherwise favored the gnarled-fingered fraternity in passing out key nonplaying jobs So it's somewhat of a wartime paradox that Detroit's foremost 1943 problem is a search for someone who can get in there behind the plate and stop them in competition Yet that is just the case The Tigers listing the first portion of their new playing roster officially named three catchers Saturday as candidates for the berth vacated last summer by George (Birdie) Tebbetts who is now in the army and only one of the three Ls well known to Briggs stadium patrons He is Edward (Dixie) Parsons once the pride of Detroit's farm system and the man who relieved Tebbetts in the first-string job last August The others are Paul Richards and Albert Unser Neither is exactly a youngster and both are well -traveled on the professional circuits but until now Briggs stadium has seldom provided a backdrop for their activities Righards who is 34 managed Atlanta to two Southern association pennants in five years and batted 272 from his catching job He has also been the property of Brooklyn and New York in the National league and of St Louis and Philadelphia in the American leafrue as well as others Unser 27-year-old veteran of 10 years in the game was Detroit's bullpen catcher part of 1942 but finished the season managing the Winston-Salem farm club in the Piedmont league Since 1933 he has moved 18 times MI 'EOM 4t And their argument appears sound Leonard a graduate of about a decade ago is a reel out-of-door- enthusiast in addition to being qualified educationally to hold the job A descendant of some of the hardiest pioneer stock of Carbon and Emery counties and a native of Huntington he is vrfectly at home tith nature Ile has the ambition of youth a- well the patience and judgment of in Administration of the department is no easy everyone in the state has a different idea concerning how it should be done entire stock fall winter quality clothes reduced 4rdqP' CINCINNATI Jan 23 UM--The Clacinnati Reds whose hitting last year relaxed thern to fourth place in the National league think maybe their hitters didn't relax so they've hired a specialist in buck fever That's 1407pound "Little Bill" Miller described variously aR "muscle magician" a body flow expert and the man who loosened up boys about to be washed out of the army air forces because they "froze the stick" when learning to fly Miller a former Tulsa Okla oil man of means will hold daily classes at the Reds' spring camp at Bloomington Ind He will put the Reds through exercises definitely not calisthenics designed to keep the boys from popping their favorite pitch to the infield with the bases loaded or throwing double-play hoppers into the upper boxes "All the mannerisms you see in a player" says Traveling Secretary Gabe Paul "are a part of his own system of relaxation Maybe he taps the bat on the plate every time he comes up or shifts his gum So Miller might teach him an easier way "Miller's not going to teach any eosmic punches' or give us big muscles He's just going to try to fix the boys so that all their muscles are working for the same thing at the same time" Gabe admits the whole thing is experimental but pointed to Miller's achievements with other athletes individually and with a number rii r7 11 Behind It All Behind it all was Rickey's shrewd maneuvering He was legally within his rights but according to baseball ethics he may have been out of bounds Sisler was a highly desired college star at Michigan in those days Dreyfuss apparently had the inside track to his services He negotiated with George himself but overlooked the important fact that he (Sisler) was a minor legally incapable of signing a contract Rickey meanwhile negotiated with Sisler's father and persuaded him to sign George's services to the St Louis Browns Dreyfuss raised all kinds of trouble when he discovered Rickey had beaten him and the Pirates to the No 1 college star of the country He kicked up such a commotion that the case finally went to baseball's national council then consisting of Ban Johnson A president John Heydler president and Gary Hermann owner of the Cincinnati Reds who acted as chairman It was decided then that neither league president was eligible to vote on the case because of prejudice This left the decision to Hermann who scorned his own league and awarded Sister to Rickey's Browns and the A Condemned Decision '1 ttXt Oi I Allies Favored Iii Big Series 1 regular 2975 to 8000 Hare and house of representatives of the state legislature has approved by a 51-7 vote a bill providing that the elk and pheasant hunting and fishing seasons open on Saturday ttough the decision of the 1943 PInneer league baseball season ii to be made in about three 'seeks there is a pessimistic dearth of news from official quarters Murtaugh (Idaho) Red Devils took 55 shots to -smash" ifollister on their home floor Tuesday The score-12 to 7 rx-Utah Aggie Rex lIunsaker has a classy team at Rupert Idaho this year The Pirates recently tripped the Nampa Bulldrgs 17-15 rt Every suit is from our regular stock and included are such famous names as Kuppenheimer Michaels Stern Don Richards and Louis Roth At this sensational reduction they're unbeatable values you can't afford to miss o7o Group No 2' Men's Suits Reduced Giles Puts BioPaul on Block Tribune Leased 'Ire NEW YORK Jan St Louis Browns or Cleveland Indians will win the American league pennant this year predicted Joe Cronin manager of the Roston Red Sox in a special broadcast from Hawaii heard here over the Columbia broadcasting system Saturday afternoon In seeing no hope for the New York Yankees who have won the flag in six of the lest seven years Cronin counted his club among the also ran too "because the loss of Ted Williams Dom Di Maggio and Johnny Pesky to the armed forces will be too much to overcome" Cronin sees a repetition of the Cards-Dodgers dogfight in the other major loop On special assignments from the American Red Cross to manage overseas teams Cretin said he found army sports well organized and service men everywhere "very sports minded" He'finished: "The allied nations will win the world series this most important series anywhere" Fine qualify suits expertly tailored of durable all-wool fabrics Taken from our regular stocks They'll go fast so hurry down first thing tomorrow! ii1Z1 i THE COMPLETE STOCKS OF REMAINING SPORTS CLOTHES TUXEDOS SUITS AND OVERCOATS 1 Barons Send Out Contracts REDUCED 5 All other remaining stocks of cloth- REI ing not included in the first two groups to go at this special reduction This includes slacks sport jackets and our newest andfinest suits Only this week so hurry A i Small Cflarge fr r-siTPreitinns ZCMI MEN SICRE-STREET FLOOR By Tribune Lead -Wire CHICAGO Jan Derringer may not know 1 but his bosses are still aiming to have him fitted to one of those fancy vestee types of Chicago Cubs uniforma for next summer's wear The big right-hander who for many years has been bowling all scrts of baffling pitches up to the plate in behalf of the Reds came dangerously close to being measured for new work clothes while the big leagues were assembled here last month The idea blew up but has since been renewed through the initiative of Warren Giles the Cincinnati general manager If he can't talk the Cubs Into it in the near future he'll keep after them during spring training heving had a double purpose in r- king Bloomington as a crnp site The Cubs Will be just rot nd the corner making it simple tnr Gilen to stay close on the heels of General Manager James GAnagher Feeling that Derringer has been In one place long enough the Reds are more than willing to peddle his services Jim Wilson the Cub manager wants the veteran feeling that for at least another season he'll turn out more high class work The hitch in the negotiations thus far is what the Cubs can give The Reds' crying need a left-handed hitting outfieldefof which the Cubs have none to spare Ihiut if the thing goes along this might be overcome A Even this didn't atop ber of air force student pilots He had pamphlets printed con- whom he saved from washing cut demningthe decision He accused of trainingschools Hermann of being under the influence of Johnson This rekindled the long-standing feud between gemipros Draw Comiskey and Johnson Comiskey threatened ot take his White Sox out of Johnson's league The ourney Plans Yanks and the Red Sox supported him This was the situation into which NEW YORK Jan 23 Judge Landis was ushered He had The National Semipro Baseball already been involved in baseball congress Saturday announced a having arbitrated several disputes program to organize sandlot base-involving the old Federal league hall for a nation-wide tournament This time some of the neutral rnag- and estimated that by early June nates in the game suggested he the plan would have 750000 par be called in as a one-man jury- ticipants The detailed terms of the settle- President Ray Dumont said he ment are somewhat hazy The expected "a boom both in quantity main point was the fact that he and quality" due to teams represupported Hermann's decision in senting war plants and the armed favor of the Browns and at the services and named 24 commis-same time restored peace in the sioners to direct state tournaworld of baseball The judge then ments Directors for the rernain backed out of the game and re- ing states were to be named b3 mained submerged as far as base- April 1 ball was concerned until called in Appointments In the west In some years later (after the Black eluded John Morris Phoenix Sox scandal) to act as the supreme Ariz Howard Miller Pueblo czar Colo: Edward Montgomery It's a tremendous tribute to Sis- Reno Nev Rex Wilson El Paso let's talent that the case has been Texas (New Mexico) Ray Brooks almost forgotten and is virtually Portland Ore Ray Hutchinson unknown in general fan circles Everett Wash and Briesen Moat players would have gone den Worland Wyo through life with some kind of a label identifying them perpetually with the case But Sisler's talent Newark Bears Buy was so great his brilliance so bright that today he is a baseball Attusta Illoundstuen immortal strictly because of his rn deeds on the diamond NEWARK Jan 23 (UP His accomplishments Nv Newark Bears of the Inter many He was one of the few national league Saturday an players In history who stepped off flounced the purchase of PleCheri the college campus into major John Rager and Ed Harper fron league stardom without a day of Augusta of the Sally league an experience in the minors His 420 Second Baseman Ray Viers fron batting average in '22 still stands Montgomery of the Southeasterr as the highest ever made in the league A and his 41-game consecti- Rager a southpaw won 17 an( tive hitting' streak also set in '22 lost 16 for Augusta last season stood am the modern record until fanning 107 Harper a righ 41 when Joe DiMaggio created hander won four and lost 16 the new mark of 56 consecutive Viers 22 hit 282 for Montgomery games He led the league twice All three 'are in 3-A in the draft Repeats Victory SAN FRANCISCO Jan 23 Doug wnson 159 Carson City Nev repeated his recent victor3 over Frankie Marino 155 Sax Francisco winning a decision ix a hard fought eight-round contos at National hall Wilson won fivl of the rounds and one was even There were no knockdowns of air force student pilots whom he saved from washing cut of trainingschools NEW YORK Jan 23 The National Semipro Baseball congress Saturday announced a program to organize sandlot baseball for a nation-wide tournament and estimated that by early June the plan would have 750000 participants President Ray Dumont said he expected "a boom both in quantity and quality" due to teams representing war plants and the armed services and named 24 commissioners to direct state tournaments Directors for the rernaining states were to be named by April 1 Appointments In the west Included John Morris Phoenix Ariz Howard Miller Pueblo Colo: Edward Montgomery Reno Nev Rex Wilson El Paso Texas (New Mexico) Ray Brooks Portland Ore Ray Hutchinson Everett Wash and Briesenden Worland Wyo Newark Bears Buy Augusta Illoundstuen NEWARK Jan 23 (UP) Newark Bears of the International league Saturday announced the purchase of Pleehers John Rager and Ed Harper from Augusta of the Sally league and Second Baseman Ray Viers from Montgomery of the Southeastern league Rager a southpaw won 17 and lost 18 for Augusta last season fanning 107 Harper a right hander won four and lost 16 Viers 22 hit 282 for Montgomery All three 'are In 3-A In the draft Repeats Victory SAN FRANCISCO Jan 23 Dou Wilson 159 Carson City Nev repeated his recent victory over Frankie Marino 155 San Francisco winning a decision in a hard fought eight-round contest at National hall Wilson won five of the rounds and one was even There were no knockdowns sale! ski equil BIRMINGHAM Ala Jan 23 (INS) Baseball has not been handicapped more than any other endeavor by the war Paul Florence president of the BirminghniA Barons asserted Saturday in announcing that 1943 contracts had been mailed to 11 members of last season's squad Stating that he believed the fans would appreciate the restrictions under which baseball will be played this year Florence added there vvas sufficient players available and that it was "up to the club owner to carry on after the Interest shown in the game during the first war year" Birmingham has lost approximately 20 players to the armed services since Pearl Harbor The Baron president said that spring training would start in Birmingham some time in March for the Southern association club He added that start of practice depended largely on the league's opening dates which will be set at the league's schedule meeting In Birmingham next month Contracts were mailed to Manager John Riddle and Al Just catchers Harry Matuzak Ed Huesser Bob Malloy and Buddy Lively pitchers Nick Polly Chuck Aleno Charley Suimby and Jodie Beeler infielders and Lee Gamble outfielder :4 ra DOWNHILL SKI- PANTS REGULAR 795 Strong rart-wool gabardine pants with button down pockets zipper fly strongly sewn to 6 td long wear In navy only TOP- QUALITY SKI BOOTS REGULAR 795 Extra heavy quality boots with wedge sole con- struction strong box toe instep sfraps both men's and iaciTes 40 Al IP -0 -0 RIDGETOP HICKORY SKIS Made of prime second growth hickory Shaped and finished to a perfect balance and to a flexibility and sturdiness that's unequalled Athletics Cut Exhibition Slate To 14 Games Five With Phi is REGULAR 995 (7) e7A A PROCL AM tTION in base stealing and for six year FUR BEARERS running ('17 to '22 inclusive) be wHEREAs after due investlga- tted 341 or better In 1921 he con it is deemed advisable to open th season to the trapping of music- hit 19 homers more than any rats only during the regular fur- player had ever hit before but was bearer season IIA prescribed by law robbed of recognition for the recNOW THXRLFORE we the Utah orcl because the same year Babe suit' Ftan and Game Commission under authority of Section 30-0-7 Ruth hit 25 and 30-0-8 First Special Session He spent 16 years in the ma-Laws of Utah 1941 do hereby pro- ors all but three of them with claim and declare that the spring trapping sertaon In Utah shall be the Browns In '31 he finally as ispecIfied by Section 30-0-49 slipped from the majors and Pula elpeclal Sesion Laws of Utah A uropped to Rorhester where his is-11 February 15 to April 1 1943 career approached its end with a Closed Area: strange touch of irony Through-PROVIDED FURTHER that it out 16 major league seasons he shall be unlawful to trap for fur- bearing animals on the state-owned had never been with a pennant winner But batting 303 with property known as Locomotive Springs la Box Elder County Clear Rochester in '31 when the sinus Lake in Millard County: Ogden Eay in Weber County Stewart Lake In trouble that ended his active oatiritah County and within tbe reer was bothering him he led dikes en Parmington Bay in Day the team not only to the InternaCounty and the Bullock Sloughs in Utah County as marked and tional league pennant but aim to posted on the ground victory over SL Paul in the little PROVIDED FURTHER that all Ott rid series ---7 of Utah Late in Utah County andl all of the ahore line for a ellaitikrIC 1 of Atte feet Irani the waters shad 114" closrci to all trepping of i CSC Wins Again fur-bearin animals P- UTAH STATE FISH LOS ANGELES Jan 23 (2P)-- GAME COMMISSION retained its 11-year mastery Newell Fret Chairman 'x Attest: Ross Leonard Director over As basketball team Sunacribed and sworn to before Friday night dealing its fortyxrie this 23rd day of January 1943 first cone-cutive defeat to I A CARR Notary Puelia Bruin eagers 60 49 49 in base stealing and for six years running ('17 to '22 inclusive) be batted 341 or better In 1921 he hit 19 homers more than any player had ever hit before but was robbed of recognition for the rec- orcl because the same year Babe Ruth hit 25 He spent 16 years in the ma- jars all but three of them with the Browns In '31 he finally slipped from the majors and dropped to Rochester where his career approached its end with a out 16 major league seasons he had never been with a pennant winner But batting 303 with Rochester in '31 when the sinus trouble that ended his active career was bothering him he 1E2 the team not only to the international league pennant but also to victory over SL Paul in the little world series CSC Wins Again LOS ANGELES Jan 23 retained its 11-year mostery over A's basketball teams Friday night dealing its forty-first conecutive defeat to th Bruin cagerz 60 'to 49 1 Vfi Zi I i ii 1 4 I 1 1 A I 1 RIDGETOPS Regular 7500 for 7200 7850 for 1495 t'1 I ZOMI SPO- RTING Flocii Wilmington Del at Wilmington at Milford at Wilmington 9-1T Coast Guard Curtis Bay Md (N) at Shiba park Washington at Fort Meade Md at Wilmington 14 (N) at Shibe park (N) at Wilmington at Wilmington 17-18 Philadelphia (N) at Shibe park PHMADELPHIA Jan 23 (R) The Philadelphia Athletics will play only 14 exhibition games this spring Connie Mack the club's president and manager announced Saturday Of the 14 games running from April 4 io 18 five will be played with the Phila Last year the Ai participated in 42 exhibition games their all-time high The schedule: April (INT) at i --J LJ AO 4 0 Aotow At0'4 normwmitowwww.