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PAGE TEN THE RECORD-ARGUS GREENVILLE, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 SPORT SCENE JACK McKEE: This is supposed to be one of the cheerful corners in The Record- Argus. Here are no reports of auto deaths, fires, wars, murders, crook- oj politicians, fifth amendment labor leaders or any of the rest of the miseries that appear elsewhere. But, unlike some of my brother writers, I just don't feel happy every day. Today is one of those days. So, rather than conceal this saddened state of mind, allow me to spread a little rain inside.

Misery loves company, so come along and be miserable together! What is more depressing than a month of stinking rain. Here it is -baseball season. Who's Thiel was outside one "day. One lousy day of honest-to- goodness practice. Perm High hasn't even been on the infield yet and the fir-st game is scheduled next week.

"And the rain keeps on raining. A little boy asked his granddad once during a rain, if it would ever quit. The old gentleman replied, "It always has." It may be good philosophy, but even old granddad would admit that he's all wet now. Want to know it i will never quit. We have entered that' period in the history of universe known as the Seven-Year Monsoons.

From now until 1964 will be nothing but rain, mud, goo, dirty windshields, sloppy kitchens and short tempers. When old. Rover comes in the house and does his little rumba, he will splatter everything from I the kitchen sink to Susie's new dress. Let's face it, life is just one 'cotton pickin' rain after another. There will be no more storms, a steady continous drizzle i tfiat will send trickles of water your back, make puddles to get your feet wet in and keep destructive little angels in tile house to slowly drive Mother Triad.

There are a few cheerful dians around who will tell you that these April showers are just a guarantee that we will have May flowers. You can have the flowers, this is too great a price. Incidentally, don't be fooled by I (jjjese smiling hypocrits. They are members of that small but vicious band that would lead you to be; lieve every cloud has a silver lining. What they don't tell you is that you'll get good and soaked looking for that lining.

The sun may'shine once in a Brown-Packer JjDeal Involves Bobby Garrett CLEVELAND Th Cleveland Browns last night traded six players to the Green Bay packers for quarterback Bobby Garrett nnd linebacker Roger Zatkoff. Gaing to Green Bay are quarterback Babe Parilli, for whom the Browns traded Garrett to Green Bay to 1954, defensive halfbacks John Pettibon ancl Billy Kinard, A'' I "Wi "hfe t'l while, but that is worse than never. It's like giving a child one lick on fin all-day lollipop. If he hadn't tasted it. in the firet place he wouldn't know what he was missing when it was taken away from him.

If this is spring, it's for the birds. (I read that somewhere). So is this column. HAPPY EASTER. "Everything for the Work ingrnon" 141 MAIN ST.

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"We always did wonder what we could have done with Garrett, and now we will have the chance to find out. He is'a smart young man and has a strong arm." Zatkoff, Green Bay captain and National B'ootball League standout the past two seasons, is only 26 but.ha.T announced to the Packers he intends to retire. "We fee) confident ho will cha.nge his mind when he hears our proposition," said Brown. "We think very highly of him, and under no circumstances do we plan to make another deal involving him. At Michigan it is known they still try to mold their linebackers in the pattern established by Za'tkoff.

Ho could turn out to be one of our real leaders." Paving the way for the trade to acquire the 24-year-old Garrett, a 1952-53 star at Stanford, was today's signing of. a Green Bay contract by Tobin Rote. There had been talk that Rote, 20, might retire after seven seasons in which ho has became one of the NFL's all-time great quarterbacks. The Packers got Notre Dame's Paul Hornung as a draft bonus choice and have another promising quarterback in Bart Starr, a rookie last year. Since Otto Graham retired at the end of the 1955 season, the Browns have 'needed quarterback material sorely.

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Righthander Ray Narleski, hurling the last three innings for the Indians, was credited with the victory. The defeat was charged to Al Aber, the first of five pitchers used by the Tigers. It was the Tigers' third consecutive defeat without a victory. BUY SAVINGS BOND3 No Other Car In Its Price Range Can Equal RAM For Quality and Craftsmanship GET OUR DEAL NOW. WE NEED USED CARS.

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Would Abolish Farm Systems Proposes Legislation To Regulate Baseball By TED SMITS NEW YORK A. Johnson today came forward with a proposal under which baseball could operate within the law and still keep its famous reserve clause. Johnson, a New York constitutional lawyer whose arguments in the Gardella case in 1949 first dented baseball's legal shell, said he would like to see Congress pass a law under which: 1. The present baseball farm system would be abolished, perhaps over a period of years. 2.

A team could have only 40 players under contract, 25 of which would be its major league squad, and the other 15 would be in the minors. 3. All players under ctintract to a team would have pension rights, whether in the majors or minors. At present the pension applies only to the majors. Ever since antitrust actions involved professional football and the International Boxing Club there has been talk in Congress of passing a law bringing baseball under regulation.

The Supreme Court in a recent decision hinted that such a law would be acceptable. Johnson proposed in an interview that include in the legislation tihe statement that baseball is subject to the'Anti- trust Sherman Act and; that the reserve clause is reasonable providing that no player may be reserved directly or indirectly unless assured of pension rights. Under the reserve clause the club that owns a the exclusive right to re-employ him for the following season. The only bargaining power a player has is to go on a sitdown strike. Baseball contends that if the reserve clause did not exist, a few rich clubs would buy up all the stars in open bidding and competition in the big leagues would collapse.

Johnson said that under the revision of baseball's structure that he has in mind, outstanding players suoh as Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, or Stan Musial might be paid partly by their club and part- AUTORACING, INC. SANCTIONS TRACK Four area race tracks will be operated under the sanction of Auto Racing, during the coming season. Starting dates for three of the tracks have been set and a fourth is preparing for a season opener about mid-May. Sharon Speedway has set Apt-il 28 as the date for its first presentation. It will be followed by a May 3 opener at the Jefferson Speedway and a May 4 kickoff at the Mercer Speedway.

Plans for racing at the Meadville Fairgrounds are as yet incomplete pending completion of renovation work now underway. The track is expected to be ready about the middle of May. The organization is made up of ai-ea racing officials, drivers and car owners from the Pennsylvania-Ohio area with Ralph Quarterson as president. It is confined to stock car racing. Headquarters for the organization are located on Long View Road near West Middlesex.

Among the drivers who will operate at Auto Racing, Inc. tracks this summer are Ron Crash, George Somber, Dale Johnson, Ted Wise, Gib Orr, Red Landon, Emil Smolnik, Chuck Garrett and Bud Cochran. ly by the entire league. He also forecast three or even four major leagues. AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet.

Behind Chicago 2 New York 2 Kansas City 2 Boston Cleveland Baltimore Washington Detroit 1.000 1.000 .607 .500 .500 .333 .333 .000 1 1 Today's Giimcs No games scheduled. Yesterday's Results Chicago 6, Kansas City 2 Cleveland 8, Detroit 3, 11 innings New York 3, Boston 2 Washington 6, Baltimore 4 Tomorrow's Schedule Baltimore at Washington. Cleveland at Detroit New York at Boston. NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pot. Behind Brooklyn Milwaukee Chicago New York Pittsburgh St.

Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .000 .000 Today's Games No games scheduled. Yesterday's Results Brooklyn 6, Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 10, St. Louis 2 Milwaukee 1, Cincinnati 0 New York 6, Philadelphia 2 Tomorrow's Schedule Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Chicago at St. Louis.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee. Philadelphia at New York. Sports In Brief FOOTBALL CLEVELAND The Cleveland Browns of the NFL traded six players to the Green Bay Packers for Quarterback Bobby Garrett and linebacker Roger Zatkoff. SWIMMING BEVERLY HILLS, Ramey of Seattle set a world's record of 1:01.9 in the 100-yard butterfly at the National AAU Senior's Women's Championships. TRACK DALLAS- Olympic sprint champion Morrow unofficially equalled the world's record of 9.3 in the 100-yard dash in the Dallas invitational meet.

DASKETRAI.L CINCINNATI Harlem Globetrotters ended their 1957 tour, with the College All-Stars by winning 77-66 for a 15-4 edge in 19 games. RACING MIAMI Stratmat ($8.70) the fifth winner of the day for jockey Harrel Boli, took the Seville Purse at Gulf stream. NEW YORK Kingmaker ($14.10) won the Woodside Handicap at Jamaica. Tebbetts Burning After 1-0 Defeat By ED WILKS The Associated Press Here we go again. Lew Burdette says he doesn't throw a spitter.

Birdie Tebetts insists he does. "A cheating spitballer," says the Cincinnati manager. But Warren Giles says "you have to prove it to me." Whatever Burdette, Milwaukee's shutout ace, does when he spins his stuff for the Braves, old Satch Paige had a term for "outpsychologizin' the hitter." That's what Burdette had in mind when he said "It's the best pitch I've I don't in reply to Tebbetts' renewed cry after the Redlegs lost to the big righthander 1-0 yesterday. It was the eighth successive 'time Burdette, who led the National League with six shutouts midst similar 'spitter" charges last season, has whipped Cincinnati and Tebbetts is "pretty tired of him getting away with murder." Lodges Protest Birdie, who insists Burdette "went to his mouth before every pitch," chirped so loud his boss, General Manager Gabe Paul, decided to lodge an official protest today and ask Giles, the league president, for a clarification of rule 8:02, which states a pitcher cannot "apply a foreign substance of any kind to the ball" under penalty of a 10-day suspension. "Until someone the umpires or someone presents evidence that Burdette is using the spitter, I'll do nothing about it," said Giles, adding that "a lot of pitchers make a hitter they're throwing a spitter, but there's nothing illegal about it." Legal or not, Burdette's victory, fashioned on Hank Aaron's first home run of the year in the sixth inning off loser Hall Jeffcoat, handed the winless Redlegs a second defeat and left the Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers the only unbeaten clubs in the league.

The Dodgers, with Sal Maglie throwing a four-hitter, knocked off Pittsburgh 6-1. The Chicago Cubs cracked 15 hits to deTearthe St. Louis Cardinals 10-2. And the New York Giants kept Philadelphia winless 6-2. Tigers Drop Third In the American, the winless Detroit Tigers lost their third in a row, this time to Cleveland, 8-3, in 11 innings.

York Yankees again had to rally in the ninth, beating Boston 3-2. Chica- i go's White Sox handed Kansas i City its first defeat, 6-2, behind Jack Harshman's four-hitter. And Washington finally became, a winner with a 6-1 job on Baltimore. Maglie, who will be 40 a week from today, struck out five and walked three while gaining a 23-5 lifetime record against the Pirates in his 200th major league start. The lone Pirate run was unearned.

Duke Snider, the NL's defending home run king, smacked his first of the year and Gil Hodges hit his second for the Brooks, who cracked southpaw Luis Arroyo and three reliefers for 14 hits. Young Moe Drabowsky, the Cubs' bonus righthander, permitted just four hits in whipping the Cards. Gene Baker led the assault on Murry Dickson and four Card relief pitchers, driving in four runs with a triple, double and single. Stan Musial, his back in shape, played his 776th consecutive game, but was hitless. Simmons Loser Ruben Gomez, backed up by Hank Sauer's 250th home run, and a three-run homer by Gail Harris, beat the Phils and Curt Simmons with an eight-hitter.

Rookie Roger Maris made his first major league home run the major's first grand slammer of the season, capping a five-run Uth for the Tribe. Bobby A Vila's sacrifice fly scorod the run that bro.ki a tie. Ray Narleski won it with Al Aber the loser, both in relief. Pete Ramons gave up only three hits in 6 1-3 relief innings to win for the Senators. Ray Moore, who walked 10, was the loser.

The Yankees needed a pop-fly RBI triple by Gil McDougald and Elston Howard's single for two ninth-inning runs in edging the Red Sox and Frank Sullivan, who retired 19 in a row at one point. Bob Grim won in relief. Harshman rode in one back-to- back homers by Minnie Minoso and Sherm Lollar, good for three seventh-inning runs and a solo shot of his own in the eighth. Loser Alex Kellner Joe De- Maestri homered for the A's. Critics Eat Words, Sauer Finds Range NEW YORK They laughed when the New York Giants signed 38-year-old Hank Sauer and called him a faded shadow of the man who was voted Most Valuable Player in the National League back in 1952.

"They're desperate, grabbing at straws," the critics charged. "They're trying to plug a hole with a name. They know he's finished." The big man made them eat their words yesterday at the Polo Grounds. Many thought Manager Billy Rigney would have done better to start Whitey Lockman, an old Giant favorite, in left field instead of the craggy-faced veteran who was making his probably with a National League team. But when it was over Sauer's single had tied the score at 1-1 in the fourth inning and his 250th home run, off Curt Simmons with one on in the sixth, had knocked out the Phillies' ace left-hander.

Sauer's hitting plus a three-run homer by Gail Harris was more than enough for a 6-2 victory. "Did your 250th homer mean anything to you?" a fellow asked Sauer in the clubhouse. "I didn't even know I had 249 until somebody told me last winter," he said. "But now that I've got it, my next drive is to 300. No use stopping now.

Two good years ought to do it." Although Sauer hit only five homers last season in 75 games with St. Louis, he is No. 6 among the active major leaguers with 250. Only Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges and Del Ennis have more. HOLLY MIMS HAS FAVORITE'S ROLE MIAMI BEACH, Pla.

Holly Mims, Washington, D.C., middleweight veteran, ends a five-month ring layoff tonight in the unusual role of a favorite when he meets Jimmy Beecham of Miami in a 10-round television bout. Mims was figured about 8-5 to gain his 43rd victory in 63 fights. Beecham, who says his own natural fighting weight is the welter division, was an upset decision victim of Mims in their previous meeting here last November. Mims, 28, hasn't fought since his unanimous decision over Beecham. His victories in 10 years include 12 knockouts, most of them scored with long right smashes.

Beecham's handlers said their 22- year-old will "throw the punches" tonight. Beecham said it would be his last middleweight fight. NBC will broadcast and telecast at 10 p.m., EST. Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Richmond 4, Rochester 3 (10 ins) Buffalo 4, Columbus 0 Other games postponed AMERICAN ASSN. Wichita 6, Minneapolis 4 St.

Paul 6, Indianapolis 2 Charleston 2, Denver 1 Omaha 6, Louisville 5 FLYING Mazeroski, Pittsburgh Pirate second baseman, flies into air as he was hit by sliding New York Giants Gail Harris in second inning of April 16 game in Pittsburgh. Harris was forced, but Mazeroski's throw to first failed to double up Andre Rodgers. Pirates won their season opener 9-2. (AP Wirephoto). Players Association Wins NBA Approva ST.

LOUIS Basketball Assn. players and owners met yesterday in an almost friction- iess conference resulting in initial recognition of the Players' Association. Both Maurice Podoloff, NBA president, and Ed Macauley, spokesman for the players group, described the closed meeting as harmonious. The 66-year-old Podoloff said he saw an expansion of the league's franchises within a few years. Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were listed by Podoloff as cities where NBA teams may one day perform.

"The only bottleneck preventing expansion is the obtaining of good personnel," Podoloff said. "We must get good players who won't dilute the quality of the rest of the league." Podoloff said he thought television had helped in "merchandising" the game and bringing in more fans. Along with recognition of the Players Association and an agreement to meet annually with it, the NBA Board of Governors and the players' representatives introduced a method of arbitration. Under it, a player who believes he has a grievance not covered in his contract may take it to Podoloff for settlement. If he's denied, the player may then appeal to a three-man committee made up of members of the Board of Governors chosen by the player involved.

A majority decides. By DON ROTH Fights Last Night By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS McMurtry, 186, Tacoma, outpointed Edgardo Romero, 248, Argentina, 10. LOS Palazzola, 163, Los Angeles, stopped Chester Mieszala, 153, Chicago, 5. YUMA, Folley, 195, Chandler, knocked out I.W. (Sporty) Harvey, 197, Los Angeles, 4.

Swiden, 191, Pittsburgh, outpointed Buddy Turman, 186, Fort Worth, 10. REVERE, Mass. 8 Jackson Brown, 151, Boston, outpointed Yvon Turenee, 154, Montreal, 8. Macauley cited three NBA players as providing the spade work in former years leading to yesterday's recognition. They were Bob Cousy of Boston, Dolph Schayes of Syracuse and Jim Pollard, formerly of the Minneapolis Lakers and one of the league's greatest all-time performers.

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