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PAGE 20 THf PITTSBURGH PRESS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1950 ft I Stf Sff Dini 0D ft LKF rn2 IV (O it pl nnr 'miead Takes the Money but Hogan Gets the Gioiry i ii Long-Time Dispute (Which Team's Better) Due for Showdown By CARL. HUGHES The Army and Notre Dame football teams no longer are as sure as death and taxes, but it still is pretty safe to stick with Duquesne and West Virginia in basketball. That is, if you confine yourself to Tri-State quintets. The Dukes and Mountaineers for years have been -y 7 Wk NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP) Slammin' Sammy Snead was golfs Man of the Year again in 1950 but the glory went to a determined little fighting man from Texas named Ben Hogan.

Snead for the second year In a row led the pro money winners with $35,758, the most money ever won in one year, and copped the Vardon Trophy for the third time with a 69.23 average for 96 rounds. Yet the honors went to Bantam Ben, the little man they said- would never play golf again after his near-fatal auto accident in February, 1949. For the Mighty Mite made the most rousing comeback of the sporting year when he fought his way back to the National Open championship. And Hogan did it the hard way. His still-weak legs trem African wonder who had been, under American suspension for a year before his ultimate reinstatement by the PGA, showed that he still had one of the great games of the fairway as he held the British Open championship.

In women's golf, once again It was all Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The Belting Babe dominated the rising ranks of the Women's PGA, winning more than $14,000. Amateur golf honors "shared by Frank Stranahan, Toledo spark plug heir, and Sam Urzetta, now of Pittsburgh. Stranahan wony the British Amateur for the second Jime and went to the U. S.

finals where he was upset by the hard-hitting Urzetta. It without doubt, one of golfs greatest years. Dukes' Longmore SAM SNEAD Year's golf take: $38,758. MR. AND MRS.

BEX HOGAN After winning the National Open at the Merion Col Club. Village Smithy By CHESTER L. SMITH Sports Editor Notes copied from a reporter's cuff Al Lopez, one of the baseball guys Santa didn't forget, spent 18 years as a player in the National League He says he learned most of what he knows from four of his managers Uncle Wilbert Robinson, Casey Stengel, Bill McKech- fl I I Ty -it 1 Cf i nie and Frankie Frisch. Robbie, declares the Senor, was a genius at handling men And he worked in a way that made the players forget they were being bossed. Stengel taught Lopez to put baseball above everything else Live it on and off the field was the philosophy of the Ol' Perfesser.

To Lopez' way of thinking, McKechnie was one of the great, defensive masters of the gamel Frisch showed him how to generate an offense "Frank could get runs when he needed them like no other manager I ever met," Al declares. Now all the Spaniard has to do is blossom into a combination Robinson-Stengel-McKech-nie-Frisch and how can the Indians lose? Pitt's Frank Carver is dis MAPPING STRATECY for the pro title football bottle today at Cleveland are Los Angeles Rams Coach Joe Stydahar and Players Elroy Hirsch (left) and Glenn (Mr. Outside) Davis. The man in the mask at the left is Len Ford, Cleveland Browns end, who will wear the contraption to protect a fractured jaw suffered earlier in the season. (Story on Page 19.) Lions Ready for Soccer Bowl Test bling from the effort of playing 36 holes on the final day over Merion's man killing acres, Ben battled pain and par to a standstill as he staggered to a tie with lean Lloyd Man-grum and steady George Fazio.

That meant a playoff, and, nursing his strength carefully, he regained the wizardy which carried him to the Open and PGA in 1948 and. fired a blazinr 69 which bested Mangrum by four shots and left Fazio a fading six strokes back. The surprise big winner of the year was Chandler Harper of Portsmouth, who stroked his way out of obscurity to win the professional golfers crown-in an anticli-matic final with Henry Williams Jr. of Secane, Pa." Bobby Loftte, the South Debt Top Factor In Sale of Colts Stockholders Must Settle with President BALTIMORE, Dec. 23 (UP) The Baltimore Colts today had two new parties "strongly Inter ested" In operating the club next season provided they didn't have to assume responsibility for the club's financial obligations of the 1950 season.

Saul Silberman and Ralph de Chiaro, Baltimore contractors and operators of the Randall (O.) race track, said they would be willing to operate the club 1951 because they wanted "keep professional football Baltimore." Up to Stockholders in to in They added, however, that the stockholders problem of squar ing accounts with Club President Abe Watner must be settled be fore they would be willing to take over. Watner has announced that he paid out some $80,000 in the last year in underwriting the club's expenses and that he will expect to be reimbursed on Dec. 31. Un der the terms of an agreement set up last season, Watner must be reimbursed for his losses or control of the club will revert to him. Reply Due Dec 31 Silberman and De Chiaro said they would not take over the club unless the obligations to Watner are cleared up.

Watner also has an offer from the Colts' stockholders to operate the. club for another two years, but has announced he will not give a definite reply to the offer until Dec 31. Detroit's Choice EAST LANSING, Dec. 23 Michigan State's Biggie Munn was named Football-Coach-of-the-Year by the Detroit Quar terbacks Club for winning with a green club. 1 i I K-.

I Trent's Nomination May Break Custom Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma, Don Faurot of Missouri, Eddie Erdelatz of Navy. Lynn Waldorf of California and Blair Cherry of Texas lead In the early balloting for the Football Writers Assns- Man-of-the-Year But the writers may the kingpins of district basket ball. This season seems no ex ception, with both unconquered after six starts. This is not to discount the loud howls heard annually from New Wilmington about this time. The Towering Titans and their al ways rabid backers insist that Westminster rates on a par with Duquesne and West Virginia.

Test Comes Tuesday This season they have a chance to prove it. The issue always has stayed in trie argumentative stage De- cause the Titans never played many clubs of national prominence nor did they meet the Dukes or Mountaineers. This week Westminster has the opportunity to put up or shut up. The Titans are scheduled for their first post-war meet ing with Duquesne, the crucial clash being Tuesday night at The Gardens. Then on Saturday theyll engage highly-rated Detroit at Far-relL Detroit Here Thursday Detroit, also known as the Titans, visits here first lor a meeting Thursday with Du quesne.

The events of this week could completely shuffle the current Tri-State floor rankings, here with presented: 1 Duquesne; 2 West Virginia; 3 Westminster; 4 Wash-Jeff; 5 Pitt; 6 Penn State; 7 St. Francis; 8 Waynesburg; 9 Carnegie Tech; 10 Youngstown. Besides the important Du quesne-Westminster meet ing. and the scrap each club has with Detroit, the Titans sandwich in a contest with potent Youngs town on Thursday at New Castle. Arizona at West Virginia, West Virginia has a rugged engagement at home Saturday, hosting Arizona.

The Wildcats were Border Conference champs last season and made the Nation al Invitation Tournament. Penn State could lose caste If it fails badly In the Spartan Tournament at East Lansing, Mich. The Lions drew Michigan State and Ohio State as their foes In that tourney next weekend. Pitt, meanwhile, finishes up its disastrous western tour. The Panthers stop at San Francis co Tuesday for a game with Call fornia, move to Los Angeles for a date with UCLA Thursday and wind up the trek Saturday at Iowa.

College Basketball Games This Week TTXSDAT DUQVZSKZ vs. Wextmlnster. D. The PITT at California. Fenn at Toumrtown.

THCRSDAY DUQUESXZ ra. Detroit. B. The Gardens. PITT at UCLA.

Westminster Yoonestovn. Kew Castle. FRIDAT Penn State v. Michlnn State at Spartan Toumamect. East Larmnc.

Mica. SATTKDAY PITT at Iowa. Weat minster vs. Detroit. Parrell.

Arizona at West Virginia. Perm State vs. Ohio State at Spartan Tournament, East La tint. Mich. Davidson Beats Geneva, 79-68 BEAVER FALLS, Dec.

23 (Special) Davidson College defeated Geneva. 79-6S, here to night. C. F. TP.

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.31 IT 79 Totals. .35 18 68 Kansas Favored KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23 Kansas appeared the choice tonight to win the 1950 Big Seven re-season basketball tourna ment which will be played here Dec. 27-30. Basketball Scores COLLEGE niSTICT Davidson 79 68 EAST Dmnkln Pml Q.

70 New York U. 87 Vanderbllt 58 iT.w in St. Jaa7ti's 57 Wagner 78. Union 89 MIDWEST Tom an 83 Loyola Chl. 88..

Ohio Wesleyan 80 Minnesota 49... oeianoma Ohio U. 53. State 48 pi-riii Butler 59 Toledo 83 K. Ky.

State 63 Wayne 61. Ontario 4 PROFESSIONAL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Boston 87 Indianapolis 87...... 81 79 Philadelphia 79 New York- 89 Rochester 77. Wayne 85 HIGH SCHOOL CATHOLIC LEAOt'E Stf Ceorf 43 St. Mary'f (ML) 31 INDEPENDENT INIVEBSAL IXAGVE YMHA 58........

Aspinwall 33 KXTSTONS LEAGUE YMHA Midget 38 K. X. FlaytOT 33 YOCXQ BOTS UAQVK BM Top 65........ Salvation to Was Dangerous Ranked 4th in Nation In Kickoff Returns If you felt an Irresistible urge fumble during the past football season, there wasn't a bet ter team to do lt against than Duquesne. The Dukes recovered fewer, opponents' fumbles than any major college team in the nation seven in nine games.

That was one of the more interesting facts revealed in the final statistics of the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau. On the brighter side as far as the Dukes are concerned, then-speedy Ralph Longmore ranked fourth In the land in kickoff returns. He averaged 21.2 yards per carry in toting 19 kickoff for 402 yards. Seventh In that department was Bill Lohr of West Virginia. Missed One That Counted Pitt may find some consolation from its one-point (21-20) set back by Penn State in the fact that Nick Bolkovac was the coun try's third best 225-pound tackle missed only one of 14 tries.

Of course, ironically enough, that was the one that cost a tie with the Lions. Tiny Gene Simmons, West Virginia's 140-pound drop-kick artist, placed one notch ahead of Bolkovac He also had one miss but made 21 good to rank No. 2. West Virginia also had a statistical standout in End Paul Bischoff of Beaver Falls. The lanky terminal ranked first in the East and 12th in the nation In pass receiving, with 35 catches.

Only district passer to crack the top ranks was Pirfs Bob Bestwick, whose 54.4 completion average placed him 38th. Lion Defense Marks Most of Penn State's marks were provided by the often-forgotten defensive platoon. The Lions rated seventh In pass defense, allowing a stingy 74.6 yards per foe. They were eighth in interceptions, hauling in 12.8 per cent of the enemy flings, and second in kickoff return defense. Rip Engle's lads gave up an average of only 12.7 yards on each kickoff, a tribute to the defensive ends.

The Blue and White offensive platoon, however, could point out that it rated ninth In kickoff returns. Its average runback was 21.7 yards. Pitt had one Individual high among the statistical leaders. Bill Reynolds was eighth in intercep tions, having pilfered seven enemy flings. Reynolds also did most of the punt return work for the Panthers, a department in which they ranked fifth with 163-yard runback average.

16 Teams Enter Hi-Y Tourney Sixteen teams will compete for the Allegheny County Hi-Y basketball championship Tuesday and Wednesday at the Allegheny and North Boroughs YMCAs. Oliver, Carrick, Bridgeville, enn Twp. Gold, Shaler, Brent wood, Perry, and Penn Twp. Red win play at the Allegheny while West View. Homestead.

Avalon, Peabody, Emsworth and Carnegie meet at the North Bors. oughs Y. The championship game will be played at the Allegheny on Wednesday afternoon. HOCIEY SUMMARY AMERICAN LEAGUE BXSCLTS LAST NIGHT Indianapolis 3........... PITTSBURGH 2 7..

Louis 3 Bunaio 7 Sprlnrfieid 4 STANDINGS Westers Division w. L. t. pt. on.

Cleveland 19 9 3 41 133 90 Cincinnati 18 9 5 3T 100 84 PITTSBfRGH. 14 11 4 33 87 81 Indianapolis 13 17 3 36 108 131 St. 11 17 3 34 95 113 Eastern Division w. l. t.

p. n. a. Buffalo 18 9 3 38 144 98 Hershey 18 11 1 37 113 108 Providence 13 14 3 37 109 118 Sprlngneld 13 17 3 28 121 128 New Haven 5 33 10 74 154 Withdrew. GAMES THIS WEEK Tonight Hershey at St.

Louis. Mondav PITTSBURGH at rndlanannll. Cleveland at Cincinnati. Springfield at Providence. Wednesday PITTSBURGH at St.

Louts. Sprincfleld at Cleveland. Buffalo at Cincin nati. Thursday Springfield At Hershey. Buffalo at Indianapolis.

Saturday St. Loula at PITTSBURGH. Buffalo at Providence; Indianapoua at Cleve land. Next Sunday Cleveland at Providence, Cincinnati at Indianapolis. Springfield at Bufialo; P1TTSBUKUH at St.

Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE BESLLT8 LAIT NIGHT Toronto 3. 3 Montreal 4..... Detroit 4 STANDINGS W. L.

T. Pts. O. OC Toronto 7 45 109 8 Detroit 18 6 8 43 99 6 Chicago 11 13 38 77 84 Montreal 10 18 7 37 70 88 Boston 9 18 33 71 95 New York 4 13 13 31 SS 94 GAME TONIGHT Chicago at Maw York. GAMES TOMOUOW Kew York at Pitirts, 1 --Y break a precedent and name Lt.

John Trent, the West Pointer who was killed in Korea while crawling from one foxhole to another to alert his weary men. Perm State publicist Jim Coogan memos: "Clearwater Beach is okay and so is mine host, Ed Yeckley" (Yeck-ley captained State's 1905 eleven.) "We're playing with the idea of taking in the Orange Bowl game," Coogan adds, and post-scrips that Phils' First-Sacker Eddie Waitkus has been vacationing at the beach this month. Die-hard National Football Leaguers will turn pale this afternoon if the Browns beat the Rams WTiy? It won't prove that the All-America Conference was the better circuit Only that the Brownies are a fine team in anybody's loop Which was known all along. Actually, play over the sea- patching Christmas thank-you notes to the press Telling the boys that while it was pretty bad with the Panthers the past Fall, it could have been worse and there were no loud bleats of complaint from any source With Len Casanova chiming in with his "You said it!" Rip Engle of Perm State also took time out to say he appreciated the treatment he received during his freshman year on ML Nittany. Athletic Director Legs Haw-ley of West Virginia and Branch Rickey are old pals Hawley was a talent scout for El Brancho during the years he spent at Marshall College.

Legs puts the familiar stamp on Rickey "When he says a boy can play baseball, he can; when he says he can't, he can't. I've never known the man to make a son suggested tnat the National was definitely the stronger wheel Only Cleveland showed itself to be a first-rate power, but even so, the Giants chilled them twice and they were far from being the cyclones of previous seasons If they win today, though, let's give 'era credit. What Owner Fred Saigh of the Cardinals meant was simply that there can be no player In his organization But he'll find out he has one if he trades Stan Musial to the right club. -rue TutUGS VWB SAlO to contribute Wonder who has the megaphone the marshal used to scare the daylights out of Bobby Jones during a national tournament here years ago. Football oddity: How frequently the All-America pickers overlooked Dave Kazmaier, whom many Princetonians regard as the greatest back in the school's history One selection that carries a lot of authority didn't bother to give him honorable mention.

Note. to trie Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Safety Men: The fair catch probably will go back Into the college football rules in 1951- By popular request The pros, who generally can give their collegiate brethern a hint or two as to what's right and wrong, never removed it from their code. Greenberg to Speak DALLAS, Dec. 23 Hank Greenberg, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, will be the principal speaker at a lunch eron here Jan. 11 Tris Speaker will be honored as the first athlete to be named to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Museum to House Golf Records, Relics Stanley Woodward (he's the one who wrote Army Coach Red Blaik into all that rhubarb over pro football being only a show) takes the basketball betting ring over his lap in the current issue of "Sport" Ifs a big and dangerous busi SOCCER BOWL PLANS are discussed between Coach Bill Jeffrey (left) and Star Forward Ron Coleman of the Penn State booters as they ready for their New Year's Day tussle with the Purdue Soccer Club at St.

Louis. Purdue Club Foe On New Year's Day STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Dec 23 (Special) Rated by Coach Bill Jeffrey as one of the best he has handled in his 25 years at Penn State, the Lion soccer team will make a second bid for national honors in the Soccer Bowl game In St. Louis on New Year's Day. Opposing the Penn Staters in this second annual affair will be the Purdue Soccer Club, sponsored by Purdue University students.

Seven Lion seniors will write finis to their college soccer careers. Headed by Harry Little, captain and All-American, they are: Goalie Ron Coder, Fullback Bill Yerkes, Inside-Left Joe Lane, Outside-Left Clarence Buss, Gus Bigott, a 33-year-old Venezuelan who returned to the campus after a 12-year lapse since winning All-American honors in 1938, and Jack Kurty of Ludlow, Mass. BIgott and Kurty are utility men. Coleman to Start Two juniors and four sophomores will round out Jeffrey's starting crew. Ron Coleman, who played the full 88 minutes last time In the 2-2 tie with Pacific Coast Champion San Francisco and George Emig are the juniors.

Sophomores listed for starting service and who were ineligible for varsity competition last Jan. 1 are: Fullback Jay Simmons, Halfbacks Fran Foll-mer and Kurt Klaus and Outside-Right Ed Smith. Little, a York County product, scored both goals against San Francisco, the second coming within the last minute of play to avert defeat for the Lions. Another Jeffrey Landmark This second annual invitation to the Soccer Bowl adds another palm to 57-year-old Jeffrey's unique career at Penn State. Floor Star Gets 64-Foot Goal PEORIA, I1L, Dec.

23 (Special) The only time on record that Bradley's brilliant dead-pan basketball player, Gene Melchiorre, ever smiled during a game came following a 64-foot field goal against Wichita last season. With two seconds left In the first half, the mighty midget fired at the hoop and slashed his face from ear to ear with'an uncontrollable grin as the ball swished through the net. The next day, he found the spot on the court and began practicing the same shot. In 15 minutes, he didn't even come dose. ness, he writes, and he's right It's as easy as reaching for the phone to get the "morning line" on every major game In the country.

-Golf House, the United States Golf museum for housing priceless records and relics of the game, opens in New York City soon after the new year The five-story building Is at 40 East 38th St. At least two Pittsburgh District clubs, Oakmont and Allegheny, may have mementoes of the Fowkes and Byers dynasties McKillop Bowls 287 Kenny McKillop, who leads the averages In the Eagle House League with 152, helped boost his percentage when he rolled a 287 game in the latest round of competition. Despite his high game, McKillop finished with a total of only. 539 FEELr Sam's doughboys In Italy in 1945; a job as coach of the 1950 U. S.

contending team in the Soccer Series at Rio de Janeiro where the U. S. team astonished with a 1-0 victory over England and, last year a citation by the National Soccer Coaches Assn for "outstanding work in promoting the game." This Fall, Penn State soccer alumni presented him handsome silver service In recognition of his 25 years of coaching. Orange Bowl Tickets Scalped MIAMI, Dec 23 (UP) An advertisement in the Miami Herald tipped detectives off to the first suspected case of Orange Bowl ticket scalping this year. Detectives saw the ad offering tickets for sale.

Then Detective R. L. Martin Said he bought two $6 tickets for $15 each from grocer Benjamin L. Rubenstein with marked money. liuDenstein, whose bond was set at $100, said he did not know it was against the law to re-sell tickets at marked-up prices, Starting with the 1926 season his teams have won 138 games, tied 24 and lost only 20.

In thirteen seasons the team went undefeated, In five it was unbeaten and untied and was undefeated In a string of 65 games from the last game of the 32 season to the fifth game In 41. Highlights of Jeffrey's career after going to Penn State Include a 1934 trip of Penn State booters to Scotland (his native land) and England; a World War II assignment to teach Uncle SPORTS ON TV WDTV TODAT 1:30 p. m. Loa AnrelM Ramt-Clevcland Brown playoff game for National football Laiu championship. TOMORROW 30 p.

tn. Pie Trajmor. Australian Jockey To Ride at Santa Anita LOS ANGELES, Dec 23 (UP) Australia's leading jockey, Nevjile Sellwood, was ready today to accept mounts at Santa Anita, where he will ride at least seven weeks 'before journeying to England. Tne 28-year-oid sellwood ar rived here yesterday at Inter national Airport with his wife, Aiwyn..