The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 27

FACE VAL-U-WAY FIVE Tigers In Full Scale Drills Monday TIMES HERALD1 Detroit Lions Cagers Headed Here For Exhibition Game Five Still Not In Fold, Hutch Is Concerned A Detroit lions off-season basketball team which only Friday Sunday, February 28, 1954 has the inside track at second By The Associated Fres) Gromek and Branca, I Lakeland, Feb. 27 After jHutch knows the Tigers are most base. night defeated a Pontiac quintet, 59-45, is coming to Port Huron to Midgets Head 1 test the strength of al-U-Way, i r. Tigers have sliced bis salary "bat not the full 25 per cent" says general manager Muddy Ruel. Hutch also has problems at other positions notably in the sscond base, catching and right 'n 'swing io un scale practice Mon-jhands on deck Monday.

l-H! PI; RIGHT FIELD would appear to be wide open. Don Lund played the position last year but youngsters Al Kaline and Bill Turtle day when their training camp of- Tt'c rwcciKU that fJrnmlr and ficially opens. Rranra will atrrp tn tArnns hpffrt High Gym. ti ii rAj. are expected to make a strong statP.tAnrina ApJ plyer by the the deadline.

Both are in Lakeland 11 1 1 1 tf itir i.i if Li dif-Miui wif -ii i ji field departments. There are at bid to nail the job. u'ifi rv I a 5swi as 9 nn mrviir nn m-nWi! whoii a m.i uumu uu wltn their families and are re a Hutchinson plans once-a-day ported near settlement with the Saturday live Tigers remained out pions are such topnotch gndders. the folL They were pitchers as Sherm Gandee, Dome Dibble, Ga steve Gromek and toe former pass-snaring Michigan Branca and infieiders St.tet.C?!- Johnny Pesky and Buddy Hicks, and hard-hitting Lou Creekmur.j leasi iwo canuiuaies ior eacn position but none a truly proven major leaguer. Veteran Matt Batts to battle with bonus baby Frank House for the No.

1 catching job. Fred Hatfield, who performed well at the close of last season, workouts, with evening "skull" sessions in the new Florida Hotel, The Tiger headquarters. They'll play their first exhibition game Saturday, traveling to Clearwater, to meet he Philadelphia Phillies. Tiger management. Garver is another question.

The baby-faced righthander, an 11-11 hurler last season, is in his home in Ney, Ohio, balking at a salary cut. The MANAGER FRED Hutchinson A preliminary game is also linorf iit 1 1 1 rr IPTt A acyainct Sparlingville Wrestling Show A slam-bang wrestling show featuring the mighty midgets and popular TV exponents of the grunt and groan trade is ay set for Thursday, March 10, at Kimball High School Gym. The three-match, six-man tag card is sponsored by the Sparlingville Lions club. The proceeds are earmarked for use in the club's welfare program. Salie Halasie and Fuzzy Cupid are the midgets who will tumble around the ring.

Popular Bert Ruby will meet "bad man" Ted Perva in one bojit while Maurice Vachon and Dynamite Gates trade holds in another. particularly concerned with is improved imiay uny spanans. They'll meet at 7 p.m. Proceeds will be donated to the Port Huron High PH club. Tickets are on sale at all Val-U-Way stores, Plaza Billiards, 529 Water street and at Radio Station WTTH.

fj City Rec Cage Playoffs To Open Monday The annual City Recreation basketball tournament gets off to a fast start Monday with a pair of games at Washington Junior High Gym. 5 Santee Missed His Bid For World Mark 1 Tickets are on sale at the Plaza 'Billiards, 629 Water street, Harry Crake Market, South Park; Karl's I Steak House, 1721 Pine Grove and from members of the Lions Club. 1 ALAS IE CREEK.MLR Kansas City, Feb. 27 AP 'Wes Santee of Kansas missed his for a new world indoor board; jmile record in the Big Seven meet! Saturday night but still blazed the; 12-lap spruce boards in 4:06.5 I SKIPPERS BOW TO JACKSON ON FREE TOSS First round pairings send regular season champion Val-U-Way, unbeaten in 11 straight games, into action against Naval Reserve. The game will start at 7 p.m.

The nightcap pits Peerless Cement and JC Gold at 8 p.m., Two games are slated for Wednesday with Rossie meeting MERA at 7 p.m. and South Park going against JC Blues at 8 p.m. The championship round will be played at Port Huron High Gym at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 11, and will be preceded by a I The wildly cheering crowd 01 9,000 was about the only help San-Itee got as he finished a full lap Ohio's Konno Belters World Freestyle Mark As UM Falls, 5241 ahead of the field and broke his of 4:08.3 A tree throw by center am own Big reCord Fitrh in th last eight seconds set last year here. battle for third place involving Columbus, Ohio, Feb.

27 AP Ohio State's Ford Konno bettered the world's 220-yard freestyle the two semi-final losers. Team trophies and player But when he passed the half gave Jackson JC a 60-59 decision mile at 2:02 flat it was evi- Saturday night over Port Huron dent he would not touch Dodd's 4:05.3 record set at Madison JC Skippers a Michigan J-n- sqUare Garden in 1948. ior College Athletic conference Big Seven coaches co-operated see-saw basketball game, tied 20 eliminating their "also-rans" to cut the field to eight starters. times- Santee was timed unofficially in The teams were locked in a eo seconds for the first quarter. 32 tie at the half time whistle.

But he used 62 seconds in the sec- sl 1 record for the second time in two awards will be presented to the champion and runner up. A sportsmanship award will be given to the playfr voted the tourney's outstanding star. weeks Saturday, as the Ohio State swimming team defeated! Michigan, 52-41. Konno swam the distance in 2:04.7, knocking one-tenth of a NO MORE LETTERS LIKE THESE Jockeys Ted Atkinson (right) and Conn McCreary (center), who had received a series of threatening letters from a man who wanted race tips signaled to him, look over copies of the letters with Jack Loome of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau at his office. Atkinson and McCreary rode in the $100,000 Flamingo Stakes, in which Atkinson placed third on Maharajah.

The FBI arrested a man named Robert Hugh Lonsford in connection with the case. (AP Wire photo). Buck Fox of Port Huron was ond ad tpvd He won almost without competi- man with 25 while' nidu wiiii wmic high iruuiL i Lee Dick tossed in 19 to lead the teammate Art Dalzell, the second Jackson team to victory. place man. In Dutch Clark's Contract Ends Midnight Sunday Detroit, Feb.

27 AP The University of Detroit will be without an official athletic direc second off his own unofficial record established two weeks ago. The official record of 2:04.5 was set by John Marshall of Yal in 1950. KONNO AND Ohio State! two other Hawaiians, Dick Cleveland' and Yoshi Oyakawa, won five of the meet's 10 first places. Oyakawa, whose own time of :56.1 for the 100-yard backstroke is the applied-for world record, swam his leg in :55.7 as Ohio won the 300-yard medley relay. In winning the 220-yard freestyle, Konno was clocked 2:03.9 at the 200-meter mark.

Marshall holds the record for 200 meters with 2:04.6. OHIO STATE won the meet' first event the 300-yard medley relay. From there on, the two teams stayed nearly even. It was Ohio 38, Michigan 34, going into the ninth event, the 440-yard Konno, setting a new Dohoney Agrees To Terms With Chicago Cards Chicago, Feb. 27 AP All Ex-Convict Thwarted Plot Against Jockeys IOWA, 1LL1N1 KEEP PACE Indiana Wins Share Of Big 10 Title; U-M' MSC Lose tor at midnight, Sunday.

That's when Dutch Clark's contract expires. Clark had resigned the dual Sought Easy Money On Race Tips post of head football coach and Indiana's battling Hoosiersj McCoy with 16 points and Iowa clinched at least a tie for the Big guard Bill Seaberg with 15. 10 basketball championship Sat-i RtatA wac trailing Miami, Feb. 27 AP A least expected it. In one letter athletic director in January, but continued in the latter capacity until the contract ran out.

America end Don Dohoney of Michigan State College's Rose, Bowl champions Saturday was! signed by the Chicago Cardinals; of the National Football League. Dohoney, 22, a 6-1, 200-pound resident of Ann Arbor, was the fifth draft choice of the Cardinals. Joe Stydahar, head Cardinal Coach, described Dohoney as "the best defensive end developed in college ball in a great many! years. He rushes the passer real; good, plays the running gamej The football job was immedi mild-mannered unemployed construction worker, was seized by the FBI and charged with attempting to extort $6,000 from jockeys Conn McCreary and Ted Atkinson. he threatened to chop off my hands so I'd never be able to ride again." Atkinson said "this fellow ap uroay nigm coonng on a W1th four minutes to go but balding ex-convict from Balti-upset-minded Ohio State was the closest the Spartans imore was jailed Saturday in a 8468- jcame to closing up.

Iowa wasjfantastic plot involving threats 49-46 but two minutes andon the lives of two famous MEANTIME Iowa came to lifei4 seconds left and from -there on shortly before they were after a sluggish first half and played a deliberate, ball ride in the $100ooo added ately filled with the appointment of Wally Fromhart but no one has yet been named to succeed parently operated on the theory that all races are fixed. He said, Clark as athletic director. intercollegiate mark, won it 4:29:4 to clinch the meet. He holds the officials record of 4:30. Bumpy Jones, Michigan junior, won two events the 150-yard In we knew which horses were "Several candidates have ap plied for the job," said the Rev went on to defeat Michigan iroi game.

iFlamingo Stakes at Hialeah1 McCREARY SAID letters sent 60-48. Illinois stayed in the thick! Iowa has won 10 and lost three jPark. I to him contained threats "to of the conference race with a 79-Jin the Big 10. Michigan State has; Robert Hugh Lonsford, 46, a'shoot Ted and myself when we 61 triumph over Michigan. jonly three wins against "nine; The Hoosier victory kept themUosses.

MANTI A I rt IKI out in front in the conference I Lu ALjU I IN dividual medley in 1:31.6 and the well and is one of the most rug ged players we've seen." Celestin J. Steiner, S.J., president of the University. "We are hoping to have a man very soon." Clark, meanwhile, has offered his services to the school to remain in the capacity of athletic director until a new one is named. going to win. He also said he knevr we were betting against our own mounts and that he wanted in on the good things." Lonsford, blinking his eyes nervously behind rimless glasses, was arraigned before U.S.

Commissioner Roger Edward Davis who ordered him held for trial in $10,000 bond. "You have indicated you will Gardens Goner held their positions, second and Pittsburgh, Feb. 27 AP UU I fUV-1 4f ICf Bosox Regulars Whip Pitchers; Evers Impressive Sarasota, Feb. 27 AP third, respectively. Greensberg Gardens 'a home Reprimand, Gets Pay Hike Michigan State, a lowly eighth run paradise for National League in the Western conference stand-j sluggers but a hades for pitchers ings compared to the Iowa second i is gone from Fbes Field, home FAN FARE DITZF Karl Olson's bases-loaded single 200-yard breastroke in 2:20.7.

U-M Sweeps Triangular Track Meet Ann Arbor, Feb. 27 AP Michigan lost only one event and was held to a tie in another Saturday in overwhelming Ohio State and Michigan Normal in a triangular track meet. The Wolverines piled -up 103'J points in the lop-sided affair. Michigan Normal was second 111 nnn4ip anil Alitn Ct.ln St. Petersburg, Feb.

27 pay. Mantle agreed to terms via place position, was ahead 17-11 at of the Pittsburgh Pirates. ignited a five-run first inning plead guilty," Davis said during AP Pitcher Whitey Ford and telephone and will receive an es- the end of the first quarter andj rally Saturday as the Boston Red Crews completed wrecking thej timated $20,000. That's a arraignment held in his law 28-21 at the half. barrier Saturday it was ereciedi a iraise over his salarv of last sea- COTTER.

I THAT VDOVE I GOT AUTOMATIC Pi Wr- sCA EUMWATEP ALL W0AAA4 in 1947 to aid Hank Greenberaito terms with the New York Sox regulars defeated an all-pitchers lineup, 8-3, in a six innings practice game. "Olson, Dick Gernert and Hoot Evers have done themselves a lot of good reporting as early as MSC scored 11 baskets from the floor during the half, five of them by forward Julius McCoy, to only five for Iowa. slam a few more home runs. Theihours after the young hurler restructure cut the 365 feet distance) rt dl received an ultimatum to from left field by 30 feet. The ,0 within 48 hours or be cut out (fence was IB feet hiffh in direct i 0 son.

Mantle is recovering from a recent knee operation at his home in Oklahoma. The day's two signings cut the Yankee unsigned block to two- But in the third period, Iowaileft and sloped to eight in the left of the club's plans for the coming they did," manager Lou Bou wiiii jv 2 yviuia aim nivy kiiaic mit in 1A ctfaicrrtf Trkirtc nofnrn 1 1 1 1 lacdauii. miro wun a. dreau said. "They've all improved their hitting.

And I'm espe Tt 5 hoHflvoH th Gene Woodling, who is ruv jvi uigui iii lo uvivi. Michigan State could manage a i Managers One Yost Field House record moundsman signed for $15,000, anjIfcted to sign before Monday, cially pleased with Evers. He c. iuc iianAcjrca uuloluicu; and infielder Billy Martin, re was set in the 300 yard run rbut that only because it was the fr ia.7 Hnrincr th miartor anHi ron xiuron utile ana rony increase of S4.000 over his 1953 never has played as well for the Red Sox." rrrv, baseball league managers will meet with president Fred A. Lam- lein at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, March KJlOYcS I OUmeV a ine luucs xiciam cuuuiiai rooms. insure the victory. Iowa started five sophomores and used them throughout the game without substitution. HIGH SCORERS were MSC's cently classified 1A by bis California draft board. The Yankees also announced the sale of Karl Segrist to their Kansas City Farm.

He is an infielder. The club also said that pitcher Tom Morgan would be discharged from the Army on April 27 but would report to the training camp here on March 15. Of Champions Opens Monday Girls Basketball Tl'ESDAT (Roosevelt Gym) 7:00 p.m. Briggs vs Barham 7:30 p.m., Churchill ts Wagner 8:10 p.m.. Gold Sklpperetta vs Local No.

647 1:00 p.m., Michigan Bell Seigrlst Motor Car ADDITIONAL SPORTS PAGE 2, THIRD SECTION first time the event had been run in competition in the building. The 300 yard event was one of three new ones added" to Big 10 competition this year. John Vallortigara of Michigan did the event in the good but unspectacular time of 31.6 seconds. Michigan monopolized all of the firsts except in the 880 yard run, won by Don Bartels of Ohio State, and the pole vault in which Mar-land Bluhm of Michigan Normal tied Michigan's Roger Maugh. office because federal courts are closed on Saturdays.

"That's right," said Lonsford. "It doesn't matter about the bond. I can't make it. anyhow." Newsmen asked him the reason for his actions. "I couldn't get work and tried to make some easy money," Lonsford explained.

"I thought I could make it this way. But it was all a hoax. I didn't intend to shoot anybody. I don't even have a gun." Edward J. Powers, special agent in charge of the FBI office at Miami, said the arrest ended a three week search for a man who threatened the two jockeys with torture and death if they did not comply with his demands.

Lonsford was picked up by FBI agents about midnight as he left a telephone booth at Hollywood, 15 miles north of Miami, after telephoning Mc-reary's home with' instructions on delivery of the in cash, Powers said THE TWO JOCKEYS and two FBI agents dressed women with a dummy package to represent the money were ready to go to the designated place to meet Lonsford. The man had demanded that the "jockey's wives accompany them, and the FBI men arrayed themselves in skirts and (St. Stephen Gym) 8:30 p.m., Kramer vs Haug 7:00 p.m.. Speed Demons vs Sinkers 7:30 p.m., Armstrong vs Foster 8:00 p.m., Teachout vs Kuhnlein Chicago, Feb. 27 AP Amateur boxing's biggest show, the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions, will open in Chicago Stadium Monday night with action going on in three rings at once.

The annual show, sponsored by QOlTE WHAT V- sT sJ TvELL I MNt KNOW JUST HO (9 (Wesley Gym) 6:30 p.m., Scooters vs Dragons 7:00 p.m., Little Tuffies vs Wild Horses 7.: 30 p.m.. Wash. Bears vs Hot Rod! 8:00 p.m., Jerous vs Thomas the Chicago has drawn ADDITIONAL SPORTS PAGE 2, THIRD SECTION Kretlow Felled By Line Smash Yuma, Feb. 27 AP Lou Kretlow, right-handed pitcher, suffered a knee injury Saturday when struck by a batting practice line drive during the sixth spring training workout of the Baltimore Orioles pitchers and catchers here. Trainer Eddie Weidner said the injury was "not too although subsequent swelling might limit the hurler's activities for a while.

Rookie catcher Chuck Thomas hit the blow that felled Kretlow. 280 champions from elimination tournaments in 35 cities and 24 states. Monday's opening night is for fighters in the 112, 118, 126 and 147-pound classes. The heavier weights will take their turns Tuesday night. Survivors in all weight classes will battle through the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

The finals will be March 11. In all, about 280 bouts will be held the first three days. The eventual winners will be Sudden Finish wigs to look like women Mil Ion a team to represent Chicago We traced the phone call and I I 1 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb in the annual inter-city bouts at New York March 22 and in the AP-Robert Cohen of France 27 booth," said Powers. international competition with Stad- ADDITIONAL" SPORTS PAGE 2, THIRD SECTION Europe's best at Chicago ium, May 20. Advertisement For Bids THE ST.

CLAIR COUNTY-PORT HURON JOINT BUILDING AUTHORITY, City Hall Building, Port Huron, Michigan, will receive bids on the "Landscape Work" for the County-City Building and Jail and Garage Building, Port Huron, Michigan, until eleven (11:00) o'clock A.M., Eastern Standard Time, March 23, 1954 in the Council Chamber, City Hall Building, Port Huron, Michigan, ot which time and place bids will be opened. Proposed forms of contract documents, including plans and specifications, are on file at the. County Board of Auditors Office, City Hall Building, Port Huron, Michigan. Copies-of the documents may be obtained on or after March 1, 1954 by depositing $5.00 with the County Board of Auditors for each set of documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each person who returns the plans and documents in good condition within ten (10) day after the opening of bids.

The St. Clair County-Port Huron Joint Building Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informalties in bidding. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of ten (10) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of the St. Clair County-Port Huron Joint Building Authority. J.

M. Mactaggart, Sec'y ST. CLAIR COUNTY-PORT HURON JOINT BUILDING AUTHORITY City Hall Building Port Huron, Michigan invaded Ireland Saturday night and captured the European bantamweight title with a sensational three round knockout of John Kelly, the pride of Belfast. Each man weighed 117. The sudden ending shocked and saddened a sellout throng of nearly 20,000 who packed wing's hall in Belfast.

TV to IH Canadians Blank Rangers, 5-0 Montreal, Feb. 27 AP The Montreal Canadiens struck for four goals in the first period Saturday night and went on to blank the New York Rangers 5-0, giving sub-goalie Jacques Plante his third shutout in seven games. 16 Matches Set Detroit, Feb. 27 AP The University of Detroit golf team will play 16 matches this spring, starting at Indiana University April 9. Prof.

William Kelly Joyce will be starting his 0th year as of golf coach. ft" See the Terrific Selection That We Now Have In Stock Geo. Innes Men's Wear 30 Huron Ave. Purdue 71, Wisconsin 68 NotreDame 71. Loyola 65 Detroit Tech 78.

Ferris 75 Iowa 60 Michigan State 48 Illinois 79, Michigan 61 Brandei 76, Wayne 66 Indiana 84. Ohio State 68 DaTton 64. Duquesne 54 University of Detroit 80, Marquette 76 Minnesota 81, Northwestern 64 Albion 72, Adrian 60 PRIVACY WLNS FIRST RACE AT HIALEAH Living up to his name, Privacy, with Jess Higley in the saddle, wins easily in tta first rat at Hialeah Saturday. Privacy paid his backers 6.93 for 12. Second place went to War Pointer and Bfachs Admiral was third.

(AP Wirephoto).