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ay a- ww a- SiiititiiEi nim With the Athletes Comic! Dlciibnsr STOMACH A waist basket lOopjnrifMl 1SM.J FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1954. BY SEC TAYLOS WHY THE LONG DELAY? ONH of the thing! that causes me to ponder Is why the boxing commis sions of New t. 11f mm II Sale of A's Blow to Earle Mack '4 ur. Kiiu iui- nois waited all this time to bar Frank (Blinky) Palermo and lighters he manages from participating In bouts in their Holland Thinks Western Ends Its Home Season To Keep Same 8 Teams In Parents' Day Game By Btaory White. Drake started its football season against a tough By Frank Haraway.

(Spatial Cormpondwt) COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO, -i'john Holland, general manager of the Des Moines Bruins, voiced the opinion of most Western League officials meeting here Big Seven team and it finishes the horn part of the schedule under the same circumstances here tonight rnr in favor of "looking to the cast Cedar Rapids, for example ACKEB, FASOHAIa quarterback Roger LaBrasca, who has been waging see-saw starting battle with Ron Died rich. i S( 4 1 'I 'f I 1 states. The- recent revelations of the underworld connections and domination 'and TAILOR, direction of boxing is and has been well known for several years. It may be that commissions' hands are tied through big city and state politicians, who re-quently get instructions by pipe line the Palermos, the Carbos and others. I HAVE been told and have also read that Carbo holds almost daily meetings in a Manhattan cafe, where matches are made and are handed along to the International Boxing Club.

But I couldn't prove it I doubt if anyone could. Another thing that is puzzling, Is that James D. Norrls, a millionaire with many business interests, and who is head of the B. would have any dealings with the characters who now control the leading boxers. Norris, Incidentally, is a member of a syndicate, which also Includes Del Webb, half owner of the Yankees, Art Wertz of Chicago and Arnold Johnson, who is trying to move the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City.

This group Joins forces in many enterprises. Johnson, however, has announced that the three others are not with him in the Athletics deal, but there will always be the suspicion that they are. PERHAPS some good will come out of that Philadelphia decision whereby Johnny Saxton, managed by Palermo, was handed the middleweight championship in a recent televised bout. It was that scrap that' precipitated the disclosures now being printed, although there is nothing new in them. WHY "THE TTTB3LE in a pondering YY mood, and with the homecoming at Iowa City at hand, why is it that Iowa athletes are so often referred to these days as "Hawks" when their real and original nickname is and was They were called "Hawkeyes" for the famous Indian chieftain, just as the state of Iowa was named for him and called the 'Hawkeys State." So far as I can see, the hawk Is a bird that has few of any noble qualities, so why apply the name to Iowa athletes? They're still "Hawkeyes" in my book.

IF THE Nebraska football team should go to the Orange Bowl, which is a possibility, the Cornhuskers will be the most traveled squad in. the nation. They will fly to Honolulu for a. game with the University of Hawaii on Nov. 26.

Honolulu to Lincoln to Miami is a "fur piece." CORNHUSKERS end Andy Loehr was picked as the "Ugliest Man on Campus" at Nebraska last week, but it's a SITTIN' IN Continued on Page Eighteen, Earle Mack, son of Connie Mack, and one of the owners of the Philadelphia Athletics, holds back tears as he leaves his father's apartment in Philadelphia after sale of the club Thursday to Arnold Johnson, Chicago businessman, who plans to move the club to Kansas City. Earle was a leader fat the movement to keep the A's in Philadelphia, where they had been for 54 years. i Next Question Will A. L. Owners O.

K. Leased Wiree to The Register. PHILADELPHIA, PENN. Arnold Johnson ft nally bought the Athletics Thursday, but the next big question in this year's most lantastio sports story is instead of south" if a Vacancy develops in the league. At any rate, there was no sentiment on the part of any director to lower the classification from A ball if Denver or Omaha is lost.

Talk of A-l. In fact, it was learned that the directors discussed advancing the classification to A-L one step above Class A. It was believed, that if the current members remain the same, the league wiU be boosted to A-l. There were only two official actionsvtaken Thursday: Awarding the 1954 Western League trophy to Denver for winning the pennant, and adopting the use of the Spalding baseball in 1955 for the ninth straight year. It was not announced officially, but there was some discussion of selling cut-rate season tickets at Wichita for next year and reportedly was approved, over some opposition, for Wichita only.

Work on the1955 schedule was the last order of business Thursday night, with the directors planning to continue their meeting at Houston, during minor league meeting Nov. 29 to Dec. 3. Believes Denver To Be Drafted LOUISVILLE, KY. CPV-Pree-ident Ed Doherty of the American Association indicated Thursday that Denver may be the draft choice of the league if the Philadelphia Athletics are moved to Kansas City.

He said the association directors will meet "not later than the middle of next week" to consider the problem. Until I hear from the American League that Kansas City is being drafted, we can't do anything definite," Doherty added. He said that Denver, in the Class A Western League, offers the best territory for Association realignment. "And Denver is the best baseball city In its circuit." Disciplined Texan Back on First Team AUSTIN, TEX Texas tackle Herb Gray, demoted last week in disciplinary action, has regained a starting berth in Saturday's game with Baylor, Coach Ed Price said Thursday. Gray, a.pre-season all-America candidate, was one of the nine Longhorns ousted from the Athletic dormitory for violating training rules after Texas had dropped its second Southwest Conference game in losing to Rice.

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Harrldge declined comment on whether the Chicago industrialist would be asked to relinquish his position as landlord of the Yankees. The price of 3 million for the A's is reached by adding a $1,200,000 mortgage and other debts of approximately $800,000 to the price of the Mack stock. Johnson said one million dollars more will be set aside to help buUd the last place Athletics into a first-division team. Really True? In Kansas City, where the hopes, of citizens for major league baseball had been raised and dashed less than a month ago, the man on the street bombarded radio stations and newspapers with the questions, "Is it really true this time? Is it really City Manager L. P.

Cooking-ham said it was "just wonderful" and added: "We've voted 57 million dol-Iars worth of bonds, annexed 48.1 square miles of territory, ars building two bridges across the Missouri river, a new 26-million dollar airport, and have the biggest construction program in the city's history. It Is a fitting climax to Kansas City's greatest year." for 35 yeors Xl! CURLY'S for Freeman Men's Shoes Brawn Cflfukln, FrM Canitrattiaa A starting at 8 o'clock. Kansas State, a team which still has a chance to go to the Orange Bowl and likes the idea very much, la favored heavily as It goes after victory No. In eight starts. The Wildcats, coached by Bill Meek, have much more talent and depth than the Bulldogs can handle.

Meek has alternated two teams by quarters this sea son, and the units are well matched. Corky Taylor, 185-pound co- captain, is consistently the most outstanding K-State back and has proved hard-for every foe to handle. Strong In Air, Too. A year ago, when K-State opened with a 51-0 conquest of the Bulldogs, Taylor scored twice. That was the first time Drake had lost to the Kansans, beating them In two earlier games.

Strong on the ground, the Wildcats are efficient enough through the air. Quarterback PROBABLE LINEUPS. KAV, STATE. DRAKE, Runner. 198 I B.

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Hrnn, 190 Kbrrt, 314 R. K.K Nawdl, 190 WbltrbaaS, ISO 4. B. laRrurs, 1HO Taylor, 180 L. H.

Duncan, 188 rtahnks, 170 R. H. Acker, 180 Boethcr, 185 B. RmdjU, 218 ATerata wmtht Kaniaa Hiatal Una, 207, haekfleM, I71 Draiul Unr. 192, kackflfM, 188.

Tlnw an place 8 a. at Drake Stadium. Broadarata KSO and KWDM, ma hoiomi aav. Jim Logsdon of the No. 2 unit completed three of five passes last week all three completions going for touchdowns.

Parents' Day. Against this Impressive gang of visitors, Coach Warren Gaer will field his freshmen-dominated squad which has won only once in seven tries, but has re-tamed a keen enthusiasm for football. As an added inducement, it will be Parents' day and many of the Bulldogs will have sup port Trom home. Five seniors are winding up home careers, too, although only four will play, Guard Jim Hanahan, reli able and steady guard for three years, will miss the game altogether because of a knee Injury. The other seniors tackle Ray Brown, guard Dick Paschal, center Lloyd Wasmer and back Floyd Acker are all expected to start, although Paschal may not last long.

Back Injury, This former East Des Moines star, who mads a sterling comeback this year after missing last season with injury, hurt his back last week against Iowa Stats and is not in top form. Passing and the power run ning of 210-pound fullback Gene Hendrix have been Drake's best gainers so far. Both teams in this game will use the split-T. Don Sanservino, 180-pound junior, Is expectedjo take over Hanahan's regular position. Jim Peterson, 205-pound freshman, is the logical choice to take over if Paschal'a back doesn't hold up.

LaBrasca May Start. Two other boys who didn't start against ths Cyclones may gst the call tonight. One is PUT TORO TO WORK FOR YOU! Qaick.SUrtiai 2 Elfin 0 Caramlar HaaUr Stopi Ickf Tkrowi Snow Is Rifkt sr Uft For Information call or write TURF DEPARTMENT RataU Stor Thursday when he said: "It's my private opinion that the American Association won't take any city from the Western League." The whole tone and under current of the meeting revolved around the future of Denver and Omaha, the league's, two largest cities. after the Phil adelphia A h- letics franchise! i seemed headed id jvansas wiy at last. HOLLAND.

Arnold Johnson, the Chicago real estate millionaire, purchased the A's Thursday. All that remains for the Kansas City shift is American League approval. Bad News. When informed that Johnson had completed the deal Thursday, another Johnson, Colorado Governor-Elect Edwin C. who is president of the Western League, commented: "That's very bad news.

The situation has already created a great deal of confusion in the Western League and In baseball generally. "I want to emphasize that we have nothing to go on yet but rumors, and any official action from the Western League' will have to await official action by the American League and the American Association." But in informal discussion, most other Western League officials agreed with Holland that more than likely the Class A circuit would remain intact. Point to Memphis. Some pointed to the fact that Memphis of the Class AA Southern Association is one of the foremost cities being mentioned to fill Kansas City vacancy if the American League approves the A's shift. The league's directors' were not going along blindly with this assumption, however." They're beginning to lay the ground work should Denver or Omaha be drafted and thus leave them with a big void to fill.

The general opinion of the directors seemed to be that if Denver or Omaha goes to the American Association, the Western League will try at least one more year in Class A. Some said they'd be in favor of reducing to a six-team circuit, while others felt the addition of another city and continuing with eight teams would be better. Cedar Rapids. One city mentioned in the informal talk was Cedar Rapids, O'Neal Hobbs, Pueblo- general manager, said he would be Moines East leaped upward in the Class I rating. Davenport.

(8-1), which has a season's closer against Rock Island, 111., tonight, remained in second place. Carroll Slips. -But CarroU (9-0), Midwest champ which finished up Wednesday night by whipping. Jefferson, 34-0, after previously trouncing Sac City, 41-7, slid from third to a sixth-place tie with Little Six champion Burlington. In Carroll's place zoomed Sioux City's Black Raiders (11-0-l)which beat a ranking Nebraska outfit, Lincoln's Northeast, 33-0, last week.

Coach Gene FarreU's No. 3 club will be in Spencer tonight. Behind this outfit In fourth place Is once-beaten East Des Moines, moving np from a previous sixth possibly on the strength of Its showing against Roosevelt Inst weekend. Coach Bob Savage's club has POLL Page Eighteen, AVE REPLACE fm Plskup Delivery See or Phone "BiH" today. UPTOWN UAnDVAtt 4116 University, Phone 5-8810 Open Sundays 0 a.

m. 'til Noon tj Vil Larry Duncan, 185-pound half back' from Monroe, has im pressed the Drake coaches in the last week and figures to get the nod over Warren Kinzel, for mer East High player. POISON IVY PUTS GRIDDER ON SIDELINE NEW HAVEN, CONN. UP) Add poison ivy to the hazardi of the football coaching profes sion, i Jess L. Dow, getting his New Haven Stats Teachers team ready for Saturday's homecom ing game against the Brockport (N.

Teachers, re ported Thursday that five of his regulars are sidelined including end Ralph DePonte, who came down with a bad case of poison Ivy. DePonte is one of several students who have been clearing away underbrush on the col- lege new campus. Cyclone Coach To Speak Here Vines DiFrancesca, Iowa State football coach, will be the speaker at the Leeman Index Cub's annual dinner for the East High football squad Nov. 17 at the East Des Moines club rooms. Lettermen of East High's teams through the years are invited.

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Wiener Issued a "Let's bleed boys" edict when the two heavies received their pre-fight physical. The commissioner is anxious to avert anything that even faintly resembles the fight In which Saxton won thi welterweight title from Gavlan. Slade, who has a 33-20-9 record in a 62-fight career, holds victories over Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson and Don Cockell, England's gift to the heavyweight ranks. Grid PqII Swede Injured, Won't Tour U. S.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN UP) Bengt Nilsson, Sweden's Eur-opean high Jump champion, said Thursday a sprained ankle will make it impossible for him to compete in the United States this winter. The 20-year-old Stockholm high Jump sensation injured his left ankle in an indoor meet at Goteborg in western Sweden Saturday. The injury turned out to be more serious than expected and after an X-ray examination his foot was put in a plaster cast. TRUSSES ft Surgical Belts Private Fitting Rooms GREENAWALT DRUG Im. Bk.

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ers must vote approval in order to move the franchise. Johnson naturally will cast one vote in favor of the shift. Two others who have said they are on his side are Dan Topping of the New York Yankees and Chuck Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox, General Manager Joe Cronln of the Boston Red Sox said he was undecided Thursday. Officials at Baltimore and Cleveland wouldn't comment on their positions. Owns Yankee Stadium.

Reports of some opposition to Johnson because of his Yankee Stadium ownership have prevailed throughout his struggle to buy out the Connie Mack family and move the A's. "Our attorneys have thoroughly checked Mr. Johnson's ownership of Yankee Stadium," Harrldge said. "This will be Football TONIGHT DRAKE vs. KANSAS' STATE PARENTS' CAME I Drake Stadium, 8 P.

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Roosevelt of Des Moines, which completed Its third, unbeaten campaign in history last week by beating powerful East Des Moines, 14-7, remained the state's No. 1 ranking Class 1 team in the eighth week of the Iowa Prep Football Poll, Figures tabulated Thursday also ranked Manson's unbeaten outfit (9-0) as the state's Class II leader for the second consecutive week following that club's closing 89-0 triumph over Rockwell City for the Twin Lakes title last weekend. As the eeasoH entered Its ninth and final week, the vot- Ing coaches grew In numbers, shuttling the previous rankings In both clusses with added support for some of the major outfits. Iowa City fell out of the leaders for the first time In two seasons. Both Sioux City East and Des AUTO PARTS Ksw-Ussd RtiaM Used Motors, Like New Fender Skirts Beat Covers Wheel Covers Dual Hits Mufflers Radios Clutch Units Springs Generators Starter Carburetors Brake Shoes Fuel Pumps Water Pumps Radiators Transmissions TED'S AUTO PARTS the "POP-COAT" by Berkray niLiun Zela-frsstsd for durable Water-.

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