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$800 A Week For This! 4C Akron Beacon Journal SunJor, Jus 4, 1950 NFL Okays Los Angeles Bowl Game REJECTS $5,000,000 BID FOR LONG-TERM PACT Shaw Brakes TV Drive On Speedway All-Stars Play In January gate the day before last Me- haired 23-year-old wound up but the race won't be televised unless Speedway General Manager Wilbur Shaw change bis mind. Shaw has put his foot dowa on video. Although the Speedway has been offered 11,000,000 a year for five years from a sponsoring firm, Shaw believes nationwide telecasting of the event would eventually be the ruination of the gigantic Speedway crowds. He may have something there, Judging by the license plates seen in the lineup outside the By BOB SHAFF.B If you've been entertaining thoughts of seeing the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race by television next year, forget them. True, the coaxial cable will be through to the Hooaier capital Jolly Jack Onslow, fired as manager of the Chicago White Sox, relaxes at his home in Acton, while puttering with a fishing rod and reel.

He makes no secret of the fact that he's still on the White Sox pay roll up to Jan. 1951 and plans to stick around home taking in an occasional ball game. AP Wirephoto. NEW SOUND SYSTEM 'Little Sir Echo' Feature Of Regatta MARIETTA, 0. (INS) The Ohio Valley will play a "Little Sir Echo" game June 17 when an intricate communications system will be operating for the 48th Annual Championship Regatta of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association.

Cholly Still Keeps 'Em Laughing 15th in the "S0O" this year. But he almott didn't get in the race at all, for two reasons. The first was that he cracked up during a practice run the day before qualifications rpened. The other was that, after he finally had qualified two we ks later the car underwent a complete overhaul and wasn't ready until just minutes before the cars were called to the starting line. CONCERNING his crackup in the test run, Troy wearing a scar on the back of his head as a reminder had this to ay: "I made a mistake.

I was going too fast faster than I should have been with that chassis. But a man that never makes a mistake never does anything. Does he? I'm not like a lot of guys. Some blame it on the cross-wind, others on the car. It was strictly my fault." Ruttman, 6 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 215 pounds, started his brilliant career four years ago in the roadsters.

A resident of Lynwood, he played football and competed in track at Chaffee Junior College. He's the father of a seven-month-old girl, 'Toddie." WALT FAULKNER, the little man who did such big things by setting his car on the pole and breaking two Speedway qualifying records, will have a new car to drive at Indianapolis come next year. J. C. Agajanian, owner of the Grant Special in which Faulkner set the marks and later drove to eighth place In the "500," said, following the event, that he would build a completely new car for the 5-foot, 4-inch, 120-pound Faulkner, whose first love always seems to be big cigars.

Agajanian, incidentally, can't be missed around the Speedway, or any track for that matter. The swarthy Armenian a hog-raiser by trade usually is decked out in a tan, 10-gallon Stetson and anything else that is loud. HIS TUE, for instance, might consist of several colors light green, dark green, orange and yellow; his sport coat tan with maroon and blue lines running through it. The San Pedro, hog-peddler has been in racing for 14 years and once headed the West ern Racing Association, a big car outfit oneratinsr on the coast. His car has run at Indianapolis the last three years with Johnny Manti driving It there before Faulkner.

Agajanian is high in praise of Faulkner. "He was pretty wild a couple years ago but he had three bad accidents that really did a lot to tame him down," says the car-owner. "He's a sensible guy and he has a lot of skill. He won the job in my car in April when he drove a beautiful race at Pomona. He's a good boy." Jockey Critical Following Spill WILMINGTON, Del.

(INS) Dick Rozelle, 22-year-old jockey, is still in poor condition at Delaware Hospital today ss a result of a spill from his mount during the feature race at Delaware Park Friday. The Oswego, N. jockey underwent a delicate brain operation Friday night. Surgeons said he suffered a depressed skull fracture and internal injuries when the accident occurred during a jam. Track attendants said Rozelle was trampled upon when he was dumped from his horse, Raise You, owned by the Happy Hills Farms.

through the highlight of his act while signaling a base-runner to slide. Right, he signals "foul," the one serious expression in his routine, as he watches the ball go into the stands. AP Wirephoto. Charlie Grimm, former manager of the Chicago Cubs, is caught in the midst of some of his unpredictable antics at Dallas, where he now manages that city's Texas League entry. Left, he knocks out a few grounders.

Center, he goes THIRD 'JEWEL' AT STAKE Middleground, 'Prince Face 'Rubber' Meeting PHILADELPHIA (UP) The National Football League closed its two-day summer session Saturday after approving an ell-star bowl game for Los Angeles next January. The game will bring together all-star gclectiona from the league's two conferences, and will be staged by the Los Angeles Kewspaper Publishers' Association, one of three bidders for the post-season attraction. THE FUBLJSHLRS are privileged to co-promote the game ith Al Malikah Shrine Temple, which also made overtures for the extravaganza. If the West Coast promoters can't agree on the joint staging of the game, the publishers have the inside track. A bid of Millionaire Oilman Glenn McCarthy for the game at Houston, Texas, was sidetracked.

Id its closing session, the league decided to let the ticklihh television problem stand unchanged in its present form, but subject to recommendations by a committee representing eastern and western teams. Under present league rules, both the home and visiting teams must consent to TV, and at the same time not infringe on another team's territory. The committee will study the TV problem and report in October. IX GIVING the Los Angeles publishers first opportunity at the ell-star game, Commissioner Bert Bell said the league was paying In part a debt to the Los Angeles Times for its pre-war all-star promotions. The Times' games were discontinued by war-time travel restric tions.

Bell said the NFL was "morally obligated" to let the Times, in conjunction with the ether publishers, pick up the postwar promotion. The game probably will be played the second Saturday or Sunday In the Los Angeles Coliseum. The league will direct selection cf the players, each of whom will receive $500. The winning coaches In each division will pilot the all-stari, Bell said. The league would not sanction its championship team playing In the bowl game.

ASK I LOBY By 4i cr TITUS B. National Sportt Official Loby "With a runner on third base and two down the batter hit a ground ball to the pitcher. The pitcher threw to the catcher to try for the runner from third but he was safe at home. The catcher then threw the ball to the first baseman in time to get the batter for the third out. Does the run scored from third, count?" C.W.B.

No. A run cannot be scored on the third out in which the batter falls to reach first base. "THERE ARE three men on base and none out when the batter swings at a low ball for his third strike. The catcher misses the ball, the runner on third scoring snd the batter running to first base. Is the batter safe or out?" S.

P. The batter is out. When the catcher drops or misses a third strike, with first base occupied and less than two down, the batter is always out, THE BATTER hit a line drive which hit a runner going from second to third. The ball was then fielded by the shortstop who threw the batter out at first. Are both the base-runner and the batter cut on this play?" K.

S. T. No. The runner who was hit by the batted ball Is out. The ball Is dead and no play ran he made.

The batter is safe at first. "JUST AS a long hit baU was about to go over the fence for a homerun the fielder threw his glove at the ball, hit It and prevented the ball from clearing the fence. What is the correct decision on this W. When a player hits a hatted ball with his glove detached from his person, all runners advance three bases. If the batter was beyond first base when the ball was hit by the fielder's glove, he scores and is credited with a homerun.

monal Day's race. TROY RUTTMAN, the West Coast speedster who more and more is being likened to the late Rex Mays, ia as honest as they come. The handsome, curly- Hail Galif a As Army's Top Athlete WEST POINT (INS) Cadet Arnold Galiffa of Donora, took top honors Saturday as West Point's outstanding athlete. He won the Army Athletic Association tro phy awarded annually to the Cadet who has rendered the most valuable service to athletics during his career. During his four years as a Cadet, Galiffa garnered 11 major letters in football, basketball and baseball.

He was an All-America quarterback, captain of the basketball team and first baseman on the Cadet baseball nine. FOR HIS competition in sports, Galiffa won, in addition to the all around award, the Hughes Trophy for the most valuable football player, the Eber Simpson Memorial Trophy for the outgoing basketball captain and the award from members of the basketball team. Among other major award-winners were: John G. Trent, Memphis, Tennessee, Edgerton Trophy for outgoing football captain; Pete C. Monfore, Springfield, South Dakota, the Colonel Davis Marcus Memorial award for the outstanding boxer; James W.

Smily, Wal-t'erboro, the class of 1923 award to the outstanding swimmer in the graduating class. Philo Lange, DuBuque, Iowa, the W. P. Fickel Memorial Trophy for the outgoing lacrosse captain; C. L.

Brunson, Allendale, S. the Pierce Courrier Foster Memorial trophy for gymnastics; John Matthews, Kingston, N. the Fran ces Bcebe trophy for excellence in foils. Reverse Decision In Trucks Case CLEVELAND UP) The Court of Appeals ruled Saturday that Virgil Trucks, Detroit Tiger pitch' er, must stand trial again in a $32,000 damage suit filed by Charles F. Heidler, Statler Hotel official.

This reversed the decision of Common Pleas Court a year ago. Heidler accused Trucks of beating him when the ball player was asked to have a girl leave his hotel room. THRILLS GALORE! STOCK CAR AUTO RACES Plui Clan Midgeri Vcn WCU. JUNE 7 BARBERTON SPEEDWAY CLARK MILL ROAD Off Routs 224 srberton ADDED FEATURE! "POLE CLIMBING CEREMONY" R4 Naraut, lrr tht uel nitch with tht "Mnikc4 Midmtn," will (ItaBk th tlphn pl Wti-Mtr niffct, faiteoilnf rtaslB loft th MUr racing mmoh. NEW YORK (UP) Hill i'rince and Middleground, the leading members of the turf's current three-year-old division, are ready to renew their "duel for the jewels" in next Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

Middleground copped the first jewel in the "Triple Crown" with his victory in the Kentucky Derby, but Hill Prince evened matters by winning the Preakness. So the Belmont now shapes up as the rubber-match for the famed diadem. ACTUALLY, Hill Prince is out In front of Middleground in their over-all season rivalry. In two other meetings with Middleground in the Wood Memorial and the Withers Mile Hill Prince emerged the winner both times. Seven other three-year-olds may join Hill Prince and Middleground In the mile-and-a-half Belmont, They are C.

V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble, Brand) wine Stable's Texas Drops Temple, Adds LSU On Grid AUSTIN, Tex. O) Louisiana State has been added to the University of Texas 1950 football schedule and a previously-scheduled clash with Temple postponed indefintely. Athletic Director Dana X.

Bible announced the LSU game was set for Dec. 9 at Austin and that the Oct. 7 date originally set for the Temple game would now be an open date. Bible said Texas asked for a postponement of the Temple game when an opportunity arosa to extend a three-year contract with LSU to four years. Texas was required to drop the Temple game because of a South west Conference rule prommting more than 10-game seasons.

Bible said that because the two schools have filled their schedules through 1953, the meeting probably would be delayed until 1953, 1955 or 1956. Black, IVIiami Ace, Signed By Chisox OXFORD, O. Bob Black, of New Paris, 21-year-old right handed pitcher for Miami university, said Saturday he had signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox. Black, who won 13 games and lost six in three seasons of collegiate pitching, said Sox officials told him he would be farmed out to a class club, probably Superior, Wis. Black said he was paid $6,000 to sign with the Sox, $5,100 of which was a bonus.

He will be graduated from Miami June 12. CUSTOM Corriden Also Is Heir To Managerial Ulcers A complete description of the colorful rowing pageant will be provided through the sound system. THE THOUSANDS of specta-ters who will follow the rates in an observation train and the many more who will watch from the river banks, will get the details Via two separate amplifying sound systems. A short-wave radio setup Is planned for official communications. The U.

S. Nav al and Marine units will provide this service. The 14th Marine Reserve Communications Company of New York will string battle communications along the three-mile course. Observers will be stationed at half, mile intervals to report the progress of the races. SPECTATORS in the bleachers at the finish line will get reports either from sound trucks or Navy landing craft equipped with the "bullhorns" used during the war.

On the train, a walkie-talkie system will inform the observers of the race details. The Electronic Warfare Company 0-185 of the U. S. Naval Reserve will man six short-wave transmitter-receivers. The Park-ersburg, W.

Electronic Warfare Company will give an assist in this plan. All the seats on the observation train have been taken. Only seats in the bleachers at the finish line still are available. Sluggers Two Frank Bormet and Joe "Pap'' Lupica accounted for 13 runs be tween them with three home runs and two doubles as the Rempel Deegies handed the East Akron Cavaliers a 26-4 trouncing in a YMCA Class B. Softball League game.

ccnmA- mm (330(330 BU252 I UNIT CVflr Wilt Loses To Holmbers In MMe Run PELHAM MANOR, N. Y. (I'J!) Sweden's Alf Holmberg, now a student at the University of Tennessee, outsped F. B. I.

Agent Fred Wilt by five yards Saturday to win the invitation mile run at the New York A. C. track meet in a disappointing 4:15.1. Browning Ross of Villanova was third in the race over the slow track at Travers Island, made even slower than usual by a fine drizzle of rain which started an hour before the feature race. Irish Champion John Joe Barry was fourth.

HOLMBERG WAS leading as they neared the fourth and final quarter-mile but Wilt surged past him, Going into the backstretch, the slightly built 21-year-old Swede whipped past Wilt and out-kicked him. The Swede posted a brilliant 57.5 seconds for the last lap. In the other Invitation event on the program, James McKenna, of thn host club, caught Morris Cu-rotta, a Scton Hall freshman 10 yards from the tape and went on to post a half-yard victory in the 600-yard run. The winning time was 1:12.4. Jim Fuchs, of Yale took first place with a mark of 56 feet, 5 5-8 inches, about two inches short of his 16-pound shot put record.

Sam Felton of the New York A. C. set a new meet mark in the 36-pound hammer event with a heave of 187 feet, 7 inches. Vic Frank of Yale eclipsed his own meet mark in the discus. He hurled the platter 168 feet, 4,4 inches, bettering his 1949 toss of 167 feet, 7 Inches.

Stock Races Washed Out All-day rains washed Saturday night'g stock car racing program down the Rubber Bowl drains. The stocks will return to the Bowl next Saturday night for a combination show with Jimmie Lynch's Death Dodgers who feature a girl crash driver. Continued from Tags 1-C behind him, could look forward to a better 1950 than in their present environment. ON THE other hand it Is pretty certain that the Reds will have to battle to stay out of the cellar even with Blackwell, Weh-meier and Fox taking turns, whereas they can benefit, by trade, from the surplus talent which Branch Rickey, the Dodger maestro, has in bountiful cumbers. Morgan, who was a shortstop at Montreal in '49, has played third for Brooklyn where Mlk-sis, a capable performer, has been unable to break Into the lineup as a regular because of a plethora of Inflelders.

Cincinnati is said to be holding out for Banta as a starting replacement and is high on Be-lardi who is cluttering up the Dodger bench as a bonus kid. The Reds are said to have 'given up on Shortstop Virgil rs I AU70 SEAT Greek Song, Mrs. Andy Schut-tlnger's Ferb, Brookmeade Stable's Greek Ship, Clifford Moore's Haw-ley, George Wldener's Lights Up and Mrs. William Labrot's Balkan. In his last start on Memorial Day, Hill Prince finished third while running against older horses in the Suburban Handicap.

That was the race in which the C. T. Chenery colt developed his now-famous bloody nose. RETURNING back the paddock after the Suburban, Hill Prince started to cough up what appeared to be blood. However, his trainer, Casey Hayes, subee-quenty denied that the bay charger bled.

"He just got dirt in his nostrils and coughed it out," Hayes explained. "He didn't actually bleed." The coughing spell notwithstanding, most turf fans are of the opinion that the Suburban race took its toll on Hill Prince. But again Hayes disagrees, claiming "He's all right, and we're going right along with him." "That game meant a lot to me and him. He got a lot of stuff, Enough to beat anybody. He already showed he could stop the Red Sox, Indians and Tigers and I wanted him to see for himself he could beat the world's cham pions just as easily." RED REACHED down to pull on his baseball sox, stopped sud denly and barked: "Know what I think of that kid? I'll tell you.

I wouldn't trade him even up for any pitcher in the game. Not even for Hal New- houser." Chappuis Through With Pro Football GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. UP) University of Michigan's great halfback of 1946-47, Bob Chappuis, is all through with professional football after playing two seasons. Visiting friends here, Chappuis said his ambition now "is to play golf with the boys on weekends, eat with the Rotary club on Thurs days, and live in some town close enough to Ann Arbor for those fall football games." MIDGIT DIGIT favorit ol light foefca vsars If you like to me small lures be sure you have this one it will catch fish when larger lures fail. The "Midgit Digit" is easy; to cast, darts, wiggles like mad, and is deadly for walleyes, bass, pike, trout and large panflsh.

Fifteen fish-getting colors to choose from. Sweeten your tackle box. Ask for "Midgit Digit" "River Runt" at your tackle Btore.Sendforfree tackle catalog. JAMES BBDDON'I SONS, 89 N. DOWAGUO, Mica Ill Reds, Bums Eye Major Swap? NEW YORK (INS) John "Red" Corriden, who fell heir to Jack Onslow's job as manager of the Chicago White Sox, also seems to have fallen heir to JackVulcers.

Red has been doing an excellent job of managing since taking over but, he admitted Saturday, he can't leave the game in the ball park. "I KNOW I should forget a game we've blown after it's over," said Jack, "but I just can't do it. I keep worrying about it all night. I was the same way as a ball player. I'd remember a ball I booted or a hit I failed to get in the clutch." He was particularly upset over blowing Wednesday night's game to the Yanks.

He said: "I wanted Bill Pierce, to win that In the worst way because I had a nice speech all ready to hand him. Stallcup and are hard-pressed for any kind of outfield talent, especially of the right-handed hitting type. 6A Pipe Dream? Says Reds' Boss Bwwa Jntul lerrlr CINCINNATI Warren Giles, president of the Cincinnati Reds, characterized a report that his club is about to make an eight-player deal with Brooklyn's Dodgers ss being "a pure pipe dream." "We've been dickering for possible deals with all opposing teams, including Brooklyn, and are no nearer making one than when we started," Giles said. "As for the report that we are about to trade Ewell Blackwell, Herman Wehmeier and Howard Fox to the Dodgers we would want at least 60 of Brooklyn's players in such a deal. Ja QQJG 167 E.

Market SI. wfacmu iSri Sr05 cusTowv-n i fit mA I 4 M.OPEl$VisgsSsgS VgsiT I WITTtM OUARANm WITH IvSPV A an "immediate edge," expressed the opinion that the Reds are virtually forced to take drastic steps to overcome the Miortage Of talent In their farm chain. Blackwell, a brilliant flinger Until sidelined by a kidney operation in 1948, has shown flash-cs of his old-time form this season and apparently has recovered much of his former stuff. WEHMEIER, generally rated as one of the National League's outstanding youngsters, hss been having off-and-on success this spring. He was whipped by the Cubs here Memorial Day and from all indications he incurred the managerial wrath of Manager Luke Sewell in so doing.

Fox, another right-hander, has been sought by the Braves and Is on the auction block. Any of these men, with the qpeed and power of the Dodgers r- mm.