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PAGE EIGHT BLYTHEVTLLE COURIER NEWi BTAWB 9MI Luxora Team Shines In Osceola Mitt Event OSCEOLA Luxora's untried boxing team furnished the surprise of I iirst night in the AAU invitational boxing tournament'here last night scoring the only two knockouts. Lloyd. Bassett, over Owen, Bur- And the Luxora mittmen of Coach) The following fiKhts were awnrd- Charlcy Johnson also looked shaip ed on default: in other bouts. They did not. enter the NEA Golden Gloves and got their team In shape for this tournament where they show more promise than normally would be expected.

C. Cunningham, 147-pounder. tame forth with first-round TKO of Hugh Mahoney of Joiner, who weighed in at 141. Charley Bennett, Luxaifi. supplied 'the second TKO two fights later when he stopped Orville Stanfield in the first round.

Stan- lield is from Burdette. Both Bennett and Cunningham impressed the Osceola gymnasium crowd with their punching power. Auguusta brought eight boys to dette: Hodge, Joiner, over Sampson, Burdette, and Kyle. Osceola, over Stanfield, Burdette. Mays Remains Gl; Hank Sauer Okay By OLA.V AP Sports Writer It still was Pvt.

Willie Jlays today and that's not good news for the New York Giants. The 21-year-old Negro outfielder had his application lasTnighT's fights and lot only one for discharge from the Army on dependency grounds turned victory over Mississippi County fighters. Tonight's bouts get started at 8 o'clock and tomorrow night's action probably will wind the affair up. Winners will get their expenses paid to the state AAU tournament in Hot Springs. Tonight's fights follow: 61-15 Brawley, Osceola, vs.

Lloyd, Bassett; Kyle, Osceola, vs. Hodge, Join- 76-85 Houston. Burdette, vs. Baker Osceola; Porter, Osceola. vs.

Laird Joiner. 86-95 Ellis, Osceola. vs. MacFatridge, Bassett; Cato, Augusta, vs. Manrv Osceola.

105-112 Brown, Augusta, vs. Jones, Bur- detie. 112-HR Murrell. Osceola. vs.

Mills. Trumann. Moore, Osceola, vs. Hollinger, Luxora. 127-135 Johnson.

West Memphis, vs. Stewart. Trumann; Clark, Luxora, Pankey, McCormick. 136-147 Cunningham. Luxora, vs.

Bowman. Missco; Lowery, Luxora, vs. Bennett, Luxora. 148-160 Hall, Missco, vs. R.

Tale. Luxora; Gentry. Luxora, vs. Bell, Luxora. Last night's results follow: Laird, Joiner, decisioned Angelo, Augusta; Porter, Osceola, decisioned Brooks.

Joiner; Baker. Osceola, de- cisioned Garner, Wilson; Mann, Osceola. decisioued Ashburn, Joiner; Pankey. McCormick. decisioned Williams, Missco; Clark, Luxora, won by default over Aired, Miss- co; Stewart.

Trumann, decisioned Owens. Missco; Crlsco, Luxora. decisioned Wallace. Augusta; MacFatridge, Bassett, decisioned Baker, Augusta; Cato, Augusta, decisioned Jenkins. Joiner; Bell.

Missco, decisioned Sims, Augusta: Johnson, West Memphis, decisioned Hollingsworth, Augusta; Holliner. Luxora, deci- sioned Parker, Augusta: Cooper, Augusta, decisioned Bagley, Joiner. down yesterday. Mays said he was the sole suppor of his mother, step-father, three brothers and six sisters. The Giants had been hoping have him back in time for the opening; of the National League season next month.

His availability in center field would have assured the of Bobby Thomson to third base. More Changes Manager Leo Durocher Is currently playing Hank Thompson in center but the shift-conscious skipper is expected to make further experiments before deciding who will open the season In that spot. Thomson played center field after Mays went into service last year. A spokesman at the Second Army headquarters, Ft. Mende, which reviewed Willie's case, said, "Dependency did not to a degree to warrant a discharge." To add to the day's misfortunes, the Giants learned that Thomson would be sidelined for two weeks as a result of a blow he received the right wrist Sunday when struck by one of Mike Garcia'B pitches.

Also on the debit side, the Giants dropped a 4-3 exhibition decision the Chicago White Sox at Los Angeles. A couple of errors gave I the Sox three unearned runs in the fourth inning off southpaw Max Lanier. gauer OK Another injury, at first thought to be a damaging one. cropped up as the Chicago Cubs defeated Los Angeles, 6-3, at Fullericui, Calif. Hank Sauer, the National League's most valuable player in 1952, jammed his right index finger while sliding buck to first base.

Trainer Al Scheuneman said last night the Injury was not serious and that there was only a little swelling. In other games. Dave Philley'fi single with the bases loaded and two out gave Ihe Philadelphia Athletics a 2-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bobby Shnntz started for Philadelphia' nnd lowed only The Cincinnati Reds pounded out 17 hits, including Gus Bell's home run, as (hey trounced the New York Yankees. 11-2, Bubba Church and Eddie Erautt limited the Yankees to seven hits.

At Bradenton. the Boston Red Sox scored three runs in the ninth Inning to whip the Boston Braves, 8-0. The Washington Senators walloped two Detroit pitchers for six homers and an 11-4 win over the Tigers. Rookie Bill Hunter's triple and single which accounted for four runs led the St. Louis Browns to a 9-4 triumph over the Cleveland Indians.

Home runs by Del Ennis and Earl Torgeson were the big blows the Philadelphia Phillies out- slugged the St. Louis Cardinals. 11-9. At Havana, the Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Cuban All-Stars, 9-2. CUB the poise of a professional, little Georgia Pumeruy, nine, gives the Chicago Cubs' Spring training scene something of a western flavor as Bob Rush gives her a lesson on hurling.

(NEAJ Holland, Hodge With Ark-Mo Independents With two former Chicknsaw basketball B. Hodge nnd Montroe for action, Arkansas Missouri Power Company's Blue Fljiine Boys journey to We.st Memphis tonight to compete in the Junior Chamber oT Commerce Invitational tournament there. Other members of the team include Wnyne Burnham, Marvin Ross, Don Kcrbough, Homer Smith and Jiuncs VVestbrook. They will meet team from Wynne, at 9 o'clock in the West, Memphis High School yym- nasium. Sports Roundup Marion Can Worry About Baseball Now By GAVLE TALBOT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.

(AP) From here on, Manager Marty Marion of the Browns will at least know Where the band of athletes assembled here are to play their home games, which is that much more than he knew yesterday afternoon. It represents progress. Going into his opening exhibition against a big league club, the Cleveland Indians, Marty was wondering whether, in the event the transfer to Baltimore went through, his Inds should continue io wear their old uniforms with the big Browns" across the front or should perhaps be equipped with spnce suits pending a mnjor tailor- ng job. Such problems as that can worry any manager, and it is well known that a man managing the Browns should not have to shoulder outside worries. Now that he has received the word from Tampa.

Marty can settle down and order his seed catalogues with some assurance and worry exclusively about I his pitching nnd hitting. Better Fielding "We're going to be a much finer fielding club than we were last year," said the former great shortstop. "Therefore I think we'll be a better club than the one that finished seventh. Mnybe it's because I was a fielder first and a hitter second, but. I think the thing you've got to concentrate on first is supporting your pitchers.

"Our biggest improvement is at shortstop. This Bill Hunter is re- tinucd. "He's spray hitter with not too much power. But I don't care whether he hits or not as long as he goes and; gets those balls for me. We'll win a lot of those close ones we kicked away last year.

We haven't even heard from our other shortstop (Guillermo) Miranda, and I don't care if we never do. He's probably still playing winter ball. Hunter is my shortstop." Hal Newhouser of the Detroit nl BC hflS Wtm 2 gnmes and lost going to show you something, one hit the five I 147 in 14 years pitching against nm-' Innings he worked. jor league opposition. This May be Giants' Year B.V BOB MVEKS 11 i ANGraLES Ap Baseball pennant races are dangerous things to to foretell, but it is safe to say that there will be great surprise and consternation if the New York Uianta fail to be strong contenders for the National League championship They missed out for a repeat triumph last year, finishing Just four and one-half games behind Brooklyn.

But there is a distinct atmosphere of confidence in optimism in the Giant fold this spring. Manager Leo Durocher does not make flat predictions. He does say that the talent on hand Is perhaps the best since he look charge of the club in 1948. Naturally he feels Brooklyn Is the team to beat, but he stresses the position that the Bums aren't the only team to whip. Seven Clubs "There are seven clubs for us to handle and Brooklyn is one," was way Durocher put it The established Giant star? such as Sal Maglie, Alvin Dark, Wiiitey Lofknian.

Monty Irvin, and Bobby Thomson, form the nucleus of a team that boasts excellent hilling, sound defense and potentially fine pitching. Durocher has problems or course. Pitcher Larry Jansen and ins hampering back trouble, for instance. Jansen could help greatly il he could get back in shape. Irvin Sound There are bright spots too.

Irvin is in perfect condition. The leg he broke at Denver last spring seems sound and the big fellow is physically capable of returning to the .312 of 1951. Maglie, an 18 game winner last season; Jim Hearn. 14-7, relief star Hoyt.Wiihelm, 15-3; possibly Jansen and two other veterans, Monti Kennedy and Dave Koslo are back for regular hurling duties. Maybe Max Lanier and George Spencer, who were disappointments last year, will regain the form they showed in 1951.

There are several who may well blossom Into stardom. One is Bill and lost 10 Connelly, who won 10 with Minneapolis and then hung up five straight victories against no defeats for the Giants last year. Lockmnn at first; Hank Thompson at third; Dark, the key man around the keystone position; Irvin; Thomson; Don Mueller, all fixtures in the outfield, and Wes Westrum, the number one catcher, all IB PROOF BOTTLID IN BOND 'ELIOW5TONE lOUISVM I K' comprise well balanced ability. The vetrenns plus some of Ilie new men on the squad may possibly brine Joy to the Polo this year. We were lousy at short last year, but with this boy in there we'll have as tight an infield as there Is in the league.

He and Bobby Young at second will give us a real double play combination too." Hunter's Experience Hunter, one of the spring's most heralded rookies, is another product of the Brooklyn system. He hit .284 for Ft. Worth last season and drove in 75 runs. He set Bill Veeck back 590,000 cash and five players. It was suspected at the time that Veeck made the grand gesture partly to show up the Cleveland organization, which Is dying for want of a good shortstop.

Whatever his motives, Bill made a great friend of his manager. "I don't know whplher he will 'hit big league pitching," Marty con- Winter Golf Tour Toughest A Xewsfeaturcs SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Take It from Lloyd Mangrum, golf's top winner, the winter tour is the toughest. The dog days of July and August don't, compare with the competition of January and February. One reason: the courses are not in good shape, most of them are small.

"A bogey will kill you there," says Mangrum. "On the longer courses, such as you play in summer, you can recover easily." Weather, of course, has much to do with making the winter courses bad to play on. But the poorer courses aren't the main reason for the stronger competition, Mangrum declares. There are more players on the winter tour since so many of the professionals work at their clubs in the summer and make the tour In the winter. "That's why you find a new winner almost every week, 1 Mangrum observes.

"That's the Indication of how tough it is." There ave more than 200 on the winter tour this most in history. Mangrum says there's a potential winner in every batch. The horse with the most unusual marking at Hialeah this season was the two-year old colt, Loyal Sir. The bay colt has a silver tail. in your nearest Griesedteck Bros.

Cardinal Network Station Veto of Brown Move Finds Frick Pleased By JACK HAND and JOE REICIILER TAMPA, Fla. (AP) One of the surest things in the history of baseball boomerang ed into one of the biggest surprises in the game since the turn of the century when Bil Veeck was refused permission to transfer the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore. For almost a week, unofficial polls of the owners indicated that mere formalities were involved in the proposed switch. But when they met here yesterday, they sent Veeck back to St.

Louis for at least one more year by astounding one and all with a 5-2 vote against the switch. Only Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Box reportedly sided with Veeck. How About Braves As officials talked it over today, they were not so certain the Boston Braves would receive permission to transfer the National League franchise to Milwaukee. This move also had been thought to be all set except for the official voting In St. Petersburg tomorrow.

All the National League club would have been up to our necks in lawsuits." Veeck, who said he lost 1400,000 in-St. Louis last year, was disappointed at the turn of events. "None of the other owners would be a bit unhappy if I sold out," he said. Support? He's on Ihe spot and whether the St. Louis fans will support the Browns is a question.

They know he Is being forced to operate there, and that the team probably will move out before long, perhaps by next year. But. he said, he has no intention of selling the least not at the present. "However, I may change my mind two days from now," he com mented. "I've been known to change my mind on two days tide.

I still think my intended movt, was a wise one. And I still thlnl it's a wise move for Boston to shift to Milwaukee." Although Veeck complained the other owners wanted to see hin leave the baseball picture, Presl dent Will Harridge of the Ameri can League said several factor led to the turndown. Among them he listed television commitments schedules, ticket sales, possibility of law suits and the general un certainty of leaving a city that has been in' the league 50 years. owners must approve if the switch is to be made, and at least one- Walter O'Malley of the Brooklyn he might not vote for the change. Although he was not available, it was reported that Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants wai against the move.

Another thing that might influ ence the action of the National League moguls as the attitude of Commissioner Ford Prick. He ob viously was pleased that the Browns will be forced to remain in St. Louis. "I'm in favor of transferring the franchise, but not at this late time." he said, referring to the Browns. "It would have been nonsensical to make the move so close to the start of the season.

We MAN ON the same tenacity and combativeness that won him American League batting championships at Boston. Marine Capt. Ted Williams climbs into another Panther jet fighter-bomber on the Korean front after only the day before enemy flak struck his first plane forcing a St. Louis Fans But Irked at Veeck ST. LOUIS The jubilation which greeted news that the Browns will remain in St.

Louis, at least foi the 1953 season, was mixed with resentment against owner Bill Veeck for trying to transfer the club to Baltimore. Many St. Louis fans, already convinced the club was lost to them, were almost unbelieving wehn word of the league's unexpected action spread quickly through late yesterday. An attorney said three suits against Veeck and the Browns, filed in an effort to prevent transfer of the Browns, will be pressed despite the league's action. Suit Filed Veeck, who said In Tampa, yesterday that he planned to fly here today, will find upon his arrival a Circuit Court order directing him to appear Thursday to answer a suit in which seven minority stockholders are seeking to have a temporary receiver appointed for the club.

James Ford, a stock salesman, voiced the sentiments of many diehard Brownie fans: "We took Veeck in as a friend. People sold him their stock because he promised to give St. Louis a good ball club and keep It here. Veeck May Sell "He forgot he had a moral responsibility to the people who gave up their stock. I believe the moral Utah Hunting Good SALT LAKE CITY 87,000 deer and about 1.3CO elk were killed in Utah during the 1952 hunting season.

More than 110,000 hunters went after the big game, the Utah Fish and Game Comniission estimated. It figured the bag was 10 per cent be- that of the preceding year. For 1953 the commission planned to process about 28 million trout at the 12 state fish hatcheries. The Cleveland Indians made the jest showing In extra-inning games durirjg the American League's 1952 season. The Tribe won nine and lost overtime games.

aspect had a lot to do with the way the (American League) club officials voted. "The least he can do now is di sell the club back to St. Louis interests." The Globe-Democrat, hi a patch from Tampa, reported Veeck was ready to sell the club, "lock stock and barrel." The newspaper quoted Veeck saying he was "open to bids from St. Louisans." BALLHEADED Basketball has really gone to tfcis young man's head. In a high school game at Atlanta, a camera snapped the rare picture as the player leaped to in- terceot a uass.

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