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Joannes Honored; Pack Will Never Leave Bay "8 tttK oil Past President Is Given Plaque At Directors' Meet Br ART DALEY The past, present and future of ha Press -Gazette the Green Bay Packeri looked extremely bright at the Beaumont i I hotel Thursday night. The occasion was the annual meeting of the board of directors of Green Bay Packers, at which three unusual items of 4 buslnesi were conducted as mn tm( i)i(iwv 1 I 1 i si 8 i i ay- i A (1) Presentation of an elaborate Green Bay, Friday Evening, April 23, 1948 4 0 Temperature Near 80 As Bluejays WorkOut 250 Entered in Hutson Sweeps $2,500 Prize Melon in Seventh Event; $500 Goes to First Placer 4 7 i 4t 1 I i it .1 vf I I II 9 in i it I Jf 'jJitm The inscription on the plaque in the top picture tells today's picture story recognition of Leland H. Joannes for his service to the Green Bay Packers. Below, Joannes is shown at the left with Emil R. Fischer, Packer president, and Coach and General Manager Curly Lambeau shortly after the surprise presentation was made at the Beaumont hotel Monday night.

The figures on the plaque, carved out of wood, show Arnie Hcrbcr, the passer, and Don Hutson, the receiver. The wording is cut in bronze. East Trackmen Meeti stered, North Here Saturday Roxie Challenges Burlington Pilot For Camp Title By RICHARD COX UNION CITY, Tenn. With the temperature riding near 80, Roxie Lawson and his Green Bay Blue-jays held one of their longest workouts of the spring training season Thursday at Union City's Turner field. The Jays went through a long batting drill followed by a fast infield workout and all the while Playgrounds To Open on June 8 14 To Have Supervision; Swimming, Baseball and Tennis Instruction Set The Recreation department's playground season will open for the summer Tuesday morning, June 8, Director Vernon Krieser announced today, adding that recreation personnel will report for a general staff meeting Monday June 7.

According to plans, 14 play grounds will have supervision They are Astor, St. John, Hoberg, Joannes, Whitney, Nicolet, tort Howard, Tank, Seymour, Tower. Norwood, Fisk, Marquette and Eastman. Most of them also will be open evenings. Krieser also announced that swimming, made possible through the use of the Vocational school pool, will again be part of the program.

There will be mstruc tions, by qualified instructore, for boys and girls on alternate morn ings and afternoons without charge. In the evening, the pro gram will be restricted to adults and high school students. Teen-Age Dances He said the teen-age dances will be held at Bay beach during the summer instead of at Fort Howard school, beginning May 21. They will be held on Friday evenings until school closes, when the night will be changed to Wednesday. The Square Dance club also will have its program during the summer at Bay Beach pavilion.

In addition to the softball pro gram for boys and men, the department will sponsor the boys' twilight baseball and the Municipal baseball league, plus a baseball school for boys at which fun damentals will be taught. The tennis program also will be improved, according to Krieser, who said that a regular instructor will be provided to teach the game to boys and girls and also to conduct regular league competition throughout the city. 3 NEW Athletes Win Major Letters at UW MADISON. Wis. Three north eastern Wisconsin athletes were in erouD of 49 maior letter win ners in winter sports at the Uni versity of Wisconsin announced todav by Athletic Director Harry Stuhldreher.

The area men were Stan Kozusek, Peshtigo, and Steve Gremban, Goodman, who lettered in boxing, and Joe Peterson, Sturgeon Bay, who won a monogram in wrestling. the moundsmen were running in the outfield. Lawson is feeling pretty good with the way his Bluejays squad is looking and has already started a "rhubarb" with Paul O'Dea of the Burlington Indians as to which one has the better ball club. For a while the Indians were knocking aside all opposition in the camp games but Terre Haute of the Three-I loop bumped the Indians three games in a row and Lawson has challenged O'Dea for a game to decide the camp championship. The game will be played Saturday afternoon and on Sunday afternoon the Jays will meet the Union City Greyhounds.

Shortstop Gets Battle A real scrap has developed for two of the infield berths. Kenny Powell, a rookie who has been doing most of the work on shortstop, is getting a real battle on his hand3 from Dick Ackerman, young Chicago kid who was cut loose from the Union City squad. And from all Indications Acker-man will be the boy in the slot when the Wisconsin State league opens. On third base Powell is having a little trouble holding down the hot corner as Harold Hudack from the Burlington club is putting up a stiff fight. Earl Hochstatter on first and Ken Paulus on second have the other infield spots sewed up.

The Jay outfield is pretty well set with Chuck Kuwer in left. Jug Girard in center and Bob Samaras in right. Joe Jones will be carried on the roster as utility outfielder while Girard will be ithe extra infielder in case of accident. Pitching Looks Good Andy Smith, the veteran catcher, is tiU in sick bay with mumps and Ray Gaffke and Kjellenburg are fighting it out for the second spring catching job. Pitching in the Bluejay camp has been looking pretty good with Lawson especially pleased with Rookies Chet Ostrazewski and Ralph Jo-hanson.

The latter named righthander was obtained from Burlington which is overstocked on chunkers. Lawson is trying to land another southpaw. Power hitting has played a big part in the success of the Bluejays in the camp games but Law-son says he has too many batters who swing from the left side of the plate. H. B.

(Buzz) Wetzel, head man of the Cleveland Indians' farm club, joined the local camp this week and will supervise the final lineups of the various clubs in training here. Two-Pin Span Among Three NS Major Keglers Three keglers Bernie Destache, Carl Joppe and Joe Schuette are separated by just two pins as the North Side Major resumes action tonight. Destache, who follows leader Don Mikol's 217-53, holds a 211-70 mark. Joppe has 210-41 and Schuette 209-71. Behind this quartette are Ed Fonferek 205-67; George Piron 205-1; Al Durand 204-82; Harold (Bud) Deviley 204-36; Stanley Darle 203-90; Wilbur (Smiley) Schaut 203-18; Clarence (Shorty) Sorenson 20223; John Proski 201-19; Bob Monard 00-44; Ralph Geyer 200-12; and Ray Mihm 200-7.

The schedule: GMC Trucks vs. WTAQ; Stiefel's vs. Gateway; Golden Inn vs. Devroy's; East River vs. Black-stone; Hoberg's vs.

Zeller's; North Side vs. Pabst; and Gateway vs. Zeller's (at 9 o'clock). projector with colored slides to boy whose car is best uphol and a new prize this year Handee tool kit, the gift of the Shell Oil company, to the boy whose car is best constructed. The national champion and the second, third and fourth place winners also will be awarded a Chevrolet gold-finish trophy and a medal.

These finals prizes are, it might be added, in addition to the Nicholas Dreystadt plaque and the gold wrist watch to be awarded to each local champion by Chevrolet for winning his local race. And even if they don't reach the finals, Green Bay contestants will have a nuraber of attractive awards to shoot at for the local prize committee is already laying plans to provide prizes for every individual heat winner, in addition to the divisional and grand champions. Entry blanks and rule books for derby contestants are now available at the Bogda Motor company so that boys may start work on their racers at any time. This year, it has been pointed out, the Green Bay winner will go direct to the nationals at Akron instead of to a state elimination, as was the case last year when Homer Lannoye finished second at Milwaukee. Don't Drop That Hanky; plaque to Leland H.

Joannes for hi outstanding service with the Packers 25 yean as a director nd 17 yean as president; (2) a convincing talk by Coach and General Manager Curly Lambeau that the Packeri will never leave Green Bay; and (3) showing of Packer High Lights of 1947 a film which summed up the thrills and chills in nine of the 12 league games. The plaque was presented to Joannes by Emil R. Fischer, Packers' fifth president who succeeded Joannes last July. Made by the Swoboda Church Furniture company of Kewaunee, the plaque perfectly exemplified the vital services Joannes performed during the ups and downs of the Packers. The inscription tells the story.

Here it is: "Presented te Leland H. Joannes by the board of directors of Green Bay Packers, representing the citizens of Green Bay in appreciation of his unselfish public service over a period of twenty-five yean as a director and seventeen yean as president of the corporation. "Under his leadership the Packers, six times champions of ths National Football learue, have attained their greatest successes and gained for Green Bay a national prominence unique In the history of American sports. "Dated at Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 12, 1947." Joannes retired last July 23 as the corporation's fourth president. He gave as his reason his complete occupation with the development of the Grocers Equipment Service corporation.

There have been only four presidents of the Packer corporation since it was organized originally between the 1922-23 seasons. In 1923, after a group of Green Bay businessmen had become interested in making the Packen a community success, A. B. Turnbull accepted the presidency and continued in office until 1927. R.

E. Evrard was the second president serving through 1928 and he was succeeded by Dr. W. W. Kelly in 1929.

Joannes was elected for 1930 and has been reelected annually until he retired. Opponents Want Green Bay Looking back over the 17 yean, directon are most proud of Joannes' record particularly during the dark depression yean when Joannes led the fight to keep the club above water. In his acceptance speech, Joannes gave credit for the success of the Packers to Lambeau for keeping that team winning those games" and members of the board who gave "me their undivided efforts." In his talk following the dinner, Lambeau asserted that "Green Bay will never be out of the National Football league." His reason for such statement was simple: "The other clubs want us to remain in the league: our opponents would lose money if we left the league; George Hal-as (Bear Coach) said if it hadn't been for the Packer game in Chicago last fall he would have lort money." Another reason was this: "We have no park worries; we can play early at home when the weather is Ideal and then invade the large cities to help their gate," Lambeau declared. Much of Lambeau's talk was prompted by remarks written by Shirley Povlch, a Washington Post columnist, who stated that Green Bay cannot support the Packers. Lambeau fired back that oprjonents coming into Green Bay will get $5,000 more this year than they did in previous years.

Best Backfield In History In fact, Lambeau said, the av erage visitors' share of gate receipts at home was approximately $20,000. This was more than Detroit ($19,000) and Boston ($10,000) and almost even with New York ($21,000) and Los Angeles he explained. Regarding the team, Lambeau said he expects to have the best backfield in history. He expects the line to be as good as last year and "better if the newcomers stick." George A. Strickler, assistant general manager, spoke briefly outlining his first year with the organization.

The pictures were highly entertaining and showed, close up, the important scoring plays by the Packen and their opponents. The pictures will be used for club and school groups throughout Wisconsin. Double in Ninth Wins for Brewers By the Associated Press Damon Phillips' ninth inning double broke up a 4-4 tie and helped give the Milwaukee Brew-; ers a 6-4 victory over Louisville Thursday night. i Elsewhere in ihe American as-! sociation, Indianapolis climbed into a first place tie with St. Paul by beating the Saints, 5-2; Columbus beat Minneapolis, 5-3, and Kansas City rallied with four runs in the ninth to beat Toledo, 9-8.

Milwaukee 1(M AOO 212 14 1 Lotiiiville 000 400 0OO4 7 Elliott, Bilker (7), Trlnrr and Srhleutcr; Toolion, Junglei (S) and Aulds. i Young Boxer's Death Ruled 'Accidental' Ly tell Is Cleared In Darthard Mishap MILWAUKEE (P) The tragic death of young Jackie Darthard was a dark mark on boxing's bloody history today. It went down in the books as "accidental" Thursday when an investigation cleared Bert Lytell, the highly rated middleweight whose blows caused the 18 year old young to suffer a fatal brain hemorrhage. Dist. Atty William J.

Mc-Cauley said his investigation showed Dartha d's death was "purely an ac cident." Lytell "As long as you have boxing, you're bound to have something like this some time," McCauley said. Gov. Oscar Rennebohm declar ed it was up to the public to de cide whether it wants professional boxing to continue as a legal sport. "There can be no doubt that the end objective in professional box ing is to punish and inflict injury, beat as severely as possible. The citizens of this state legal' ized professional boxing, and it's up to the citizens to decide whether or not it is to continue to be legal." Darthard died Thursday morn ing, less than 12 hours after he collapsed in the ring in the Mil waukee Auditorium at the end of the sixth round of his match with Lytell.

While Lytell was the nation's fourth ranking middleweight, he was not regarded as an overmatch for the youngster. Darthard had gained draw with Lytell in Kansas City several months ago and was regarded as one of the most promising fighters in his division. A terrific puncher, Darthard had an impressive record of 38 victories and only two losses since he turned professional In 1946. Darthard stopped 21 of his oppo nents, 16 of them in less than five rounds. Vianna, With Drop Kicks, Wins at LT Assaulting her opponent with assorted drop kicks in a most un- lady-like manner, Miss Violet Vianna of Kansas City disposed of Wanita Kaufman, who substituted for Nell Stewart, with a Boston crab in 23 minutes at the Labor Temple Thursday night.

Miss Kaufman, rated second only to women's world champion Mildred Burke, replaced Miss Stewart when the latter was taken ill Wednesday night. In the semi-windup, marked by tactics peculiar to boxing, Tasha Kodiak leveled Jimmy Howard, Iowa state light-heavyweight champion. Kodiak, utilizing an Irish whip to provide the clincher, took the first fall in 11 minutes. Howard won the second in 16 on a series of lefts and rights to the body and jaw of Kodiak and a body press. Encouraged by the crowd's sympathy, Kodiak came back to win the third fall in 23 minutes, ignoring Howard's blows and strangle holds to punish the Iowan with some Judo.

Einar 01-sen beat Carl Myers in the opener, taking the first and last falls in and 27 minute, hotVi on emplane spins, while Myers took the middle test with a series of head locks and a body press in 19 minutes. Hard Luck Still Dogs Billy Reed Hard luck continues to dog Billy Reed, the former Shawano High flash and Green Bay Blue-jay shortstop. Last year with Evans-ville in the Three Eye league, Reed was out of the lineup for a month with an injured side. Now, in practice with the Hartford, Class a team in Wilmington, Reed Reed sprained ankle. The ankle has been placed in a cast, and he'll be out for about three weeks.

Opening shots in Don Hutson's seventh annual men's individual bowling sweepstakes will be fired at the Packer Playdium on the 7 o'clock shift Saturday night.Tip-py Anderson, manager of the Playdium alleys, announced today. In all, approximately 250 Green Bay, northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan keglers are expected to shoot for $2,500 in prize money during the three week ends of the event, which will be continued May 1-2 and ends May 8-9. Entries will, according to Anderson, be accepted through tonight. Grand prize for the tourney is $500. Dr.

A. H. Brusky, Ray Geigel and the Playdium five, including Bob Monard, Harry Masse, Al Duran, Eddie Carew and Eert Smits, will be on the opening shift Saturday night, along with a number of New Holstein pin-smiths. Shifts Sunday will be a. 3 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon and at 9 at night.

Among others on the first week end schedule is Charley Polish of Caspian, a former sweepstakes winner, while John (Butch) Richter, another ex-champion, and such Green Bay standouts as Don Mikol. author of an 836 national nigh and 12 700-plus series, Bernie Destache, Carl Joppe, John and Wally Proski, Jake Miller, Francis Thomas, Al Timmerman, and Clarence (Shorty) Sorenson are slated for the 9 o'clock shift Sunday night. The defending champion is Romy Frieder of Manitowoc, who recorded an 1131 to capture the 1947 title. Harry Rhyner of Oshkosh was second with 1092. While the Hutson event is petting under way, the 24th state Lutheran tournament will finish at the North Side over the week end.

The meet, which ran concurrently with the Legion tournament which ended last week, began Feb. 8. A total of 144 five-man and doubles teams are scheduled for the final action, the bulk of them from Milwaukee. The Cream City will send 73 duos and 33-five man units, while other represent atives will be from Manitowoc and Neenah, plus four tandems and two teams from Green Bay. It's Illegal to dip from a bridge, shore, boat and even from the city hall steps if you wish, it's illegal to drop even a handkerchief in fast water at Dc Pere.

Reason or better cause for the new ruling, which came out of Madison in a package deal revealing early season fishing dates on the Wolf and other streams, is perfectly obvious to the fathers and grandfathers of the present short-changed generation of dip-netters. Walleye pike also frequent the waters here in the spring and one occasionally became entangled in a smelt or sucker fisherman's net. It's hard for a fisherman, let alone a conservation warden, to tell a pike from a sucker in the dark. As a result, many an old glass alley eye was slipped into the sack with the rest of the catch. Conservation wardens were never able to sell De Pere fishermen on the idea that walleyes belonged exclusively to the commercial fihermen and sportsmen at summer camps in far-away Michigan.

Nets have been ron-fiscated here in years gone by; fines have been imposed for tpk-ing the pike illegally, and wardens in droves have patrolled the area all to little avail. This season th drastic Mfdison ruling of no netting whatsoever, puts the conservation commission representatives in a more favorable position. But to protect the pike, they are also issuing round-trip tickets to visiting smelt, suckers and other not-so-game fish below the dam. It looks like the wardens have won the last round here and what was once a playground and recreation center for past generations of De Pere youngsters will revert back to the railroad company for the exclusive use of their puffy little engines. i ff tufjtfj Planning a Vacation? Goto Nova Scotia To Hunt Deer With Arrow HALIFAX, N.

S. (JP) Archery enthusiasts are welcome to hunt deer in Nova Scotia but they will have to pay the same $25 license fee as other hunters. The legislature Thursday defeated 14-9 a motion to insert into a Lands and Forest bill a clause which would reduce the fee for bow-and-arrow tourist hunters to $5. Prizes Tempting In 'Box' Derby College Scholarship, Car Grand Award; Entry Blanks Made Available A tempting list of awards for winners in the Ail-American Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio goal of entrants in the Green Bay district derby July 18 has been announced by Myron E. Scott, general manager of the Derby.

Grand prizes are the four-year college scholarship and a Chevrolet automobile. These prizes will be given to the winners in the final race at Akron, Aug. 15, in which the champions from each of the 150 sponsoring communities will compete for national and international honors. In all, seven prizes and eight trophies will be awarded to the various winners in he Derby finals, most of them the gift of the Chevrolet Motor divisions, which co-sponsors the race with leading American newspapers. The Green Bay derby Is sponsored by the Press-Gazette, in cooperation with the Bogda Motor company and the Junior Chamber of Com merce.

Car to Second-Placer Aside from the grand prizes the national champion will receive a four-year scholarship to the col lege of his choice and the second place winner will be awarded the Chevrolet all of the lesser prizes for national honors are worth the efforts of any Green Bay or area boy. For example, the prize for third place is a Natco portable 1(1-millimeter sound motion picture projector and a copy of the 1948 Soap Box Derby film, while for fourth it will be a radio-phono graph combination, and for fifth a 4 5 speed graphic camera with case and flash attachment. Besides these handsome awards, there will be special prizes such as the Chevrolet trophy for the best brakes and the fastest heat; the C. F. Kettering trophy for the! best-designed car, and a special i trophy for the Canadian champion.

The Collins and Aikman company will award a Kodaslidc ,1 Hi' 4 i DePere Glum! Wardens Watch As Smelt Start Run in Ernest Event Scheduled In Morning; West Invades Sheboygan By LEE REMMEL East High, which has dominated the Fox River Valley conference track scene the last two years, will make its first cinder appearance of the season at City stadium Saturday morning when the Red Devils play host to Sheboygan North in a dual meet. Coach Al Reed's' squad is virtually untested. In its only competition to date, the East Side out-doorsmen rolled over West De Pere, 88-25, In a practice meet, i His hopes for victory Saturday morning rest on the shoulders of! eight veterans Leroy Collins in I the quarter mile; Wayne Holz and! Darwin Destache in the dashes; Dick Schoch and Dick Smits in the weights; Joe Leurquin in the hurdles and the pole vault; and Frank Clough and Ken Trinkner in the high jump. Little is known about the invad Ing Golden Raiders but Coach Marv Peterson annually has come up with strong squads, particularly since the advent of Richard Athan, his versatile point-winner. Athan, a 6-3, 200-pound giant who was wooed by practically every major college and university in the midwest is expected to help provide one of the biggest cinder moments of the season when he vies with Collins in the quarter mile.

The pair met twice last season prior to the conference meet, each winning once. In the conference event, the 440 was run in two sections. Athan stepped a 51.2 quarter in the first section to shatter the Valley record but Collins came right back to shave one-tenth of a second from Athan's time with a 51.1 performance to establish the current mark. While East and North are so engaged. Coach Ed Boguski's 29- man wesi traveling squad win encounter Central at Sheboygan in its second test of the year.

The Wildcats, weaker than they have been in years, lost their first meet of the season to Two Rivers, 75 13-37 23, here Tuesday. Boguski expects the worst for Central is rumored to have a powerful sqund. He will pin his hopes, for the most part, on Clayton Christensen and Ken Gustaf-son, who bore the brunt of the burden against I wo Rivers, plus George Kuske, Robin Wallace, Orland Fischer and Jim Peterson. The West golf team will also make the Sheboygan trip. Coach F.

L. (Frosty) Fcrzncca said he is definitely set on Jim Bottorf, Jerry Tolan and Carl Manns, with the remaining pair to be selected from a trio including Mike Van Lanen, Pat Coplier and Tom Leicht. Today, the West tennis team in-v- Oshkosh to inagurate the sports week end. An eight-i Vildcat squad made the trip. icluded Don Rondou, Blair Mathews, Jim Kramer, Jack Thomas, Joe Doran, Quinn Adams and Allan Wolfe' I CAN YOU USE Drastic Madison Ruling On No Dip-Netting Hurts; Round-Trip for Smelt By JACK LEE DE PERE A certain glumnoss hovers over the waterfront in this fair city, where only the govern ment dam prevents the migrating marine life of Green Bay and Lake Michigan from nesting in some farmer's straw stack up at Little Rapids The Fox river is full of fish mostly smelt, esteemed in some localities as the Carnival King.

Wednesday and Thursday nights, it is reported on good authority, the area between the railroad bridge and the dam was one huge sardine can as millions of finny travelers came to the end of the road. The smelt run at De Pere was on and it soon turned into a triangular track and field meet. Hot after the fish came the youngsters and right behind them were the conservation wardens. Under a new ruling emanating from Madison last month, dipnetting at De Pere is prohibited from the government dam to a point too far north. The 'off limits area includes the railroad bridge, stamping ground of De Pere dipnetting fans for generations.

Here the water is fast and shallow with a rock and gravel bottom, an ideal condition for dipping. Wednesday night, when the run started in ernest, a good many youhgsters, and some not so young any more, were not familiar with the new edict which is designed to save the smelt and other soe- cies from oblivion somewhere else. On the spot orientation courses are being conducted by the wardens. No arrests have been reported as yet. 'While some cities advertise their smelt run and invite visitors Vh TON 1940 CHEVROLET WITH 4-TON BOX Vi TON 1940 INTERNATIONAL WITH DUMP BODY AT LOW PRICES W.

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