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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 13

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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952 PAGE THIRTEEN Irai SI atei 1111 tCOMD STBFET gun Christmas Gift So Owners Claim Moomaw Is Battle Natchitoches Here; Bruinettes Try Pinevilie Baseball Sets Joint Survey On TV Effect Bonus Babies Must Be Good UP Lineman Of Year On Grid v. fcsf I p( "I I To Draw Big Pay in Future Bolton High School basketball teams will play their first official PHOENIX, Arizona UP NEW YORK UP Donn Moomaw of UCLA, a games in the brand new Brame Memorial Gymnasium Tuesday majors and the minors nrnh- PHOENIX, Arizona UP go out and scout who would be wfll- rarity among modern college football centers in that he was a star "hu iionuuuLiits anu iiiioiue luu oliiuuib uuc iu luiuiau ucpusiwuu gjy jjj closer accord than they1 for local boys' and girls' teams. k0- i Anv kid who can Set un to $73,000 in ff tn Kipn for for le mnnpv Mrs. Marvin Brister's Bruinettes wiU try the Pinevilie sextet in prepared for joint survey on the1 the opener at 7 o'clock. A 'B team game between girls will vtKtAt.Jjtlx:l'l both on offense and defense, Mon- or $100,000 from now on to sign a yet still become just as good or bet-day was chosen the 1952 United, major league contract will have to ter ball players.

We could gambit rress lineman oi me year. be practically another Babe them making a few mistakes." 6 p.m. against Natchitoches. Bob Hale Ul 1Cfluc Da5e" General Manager Frank Lane of A nation-wide poll of 254 sports club owners agreed Monday as they the White Sox said he felt that the bonus rule now would make the itwiui v. vio.511 vi ii ic tiling wili UC at mc jyirut nnu wuuu; m- will come off at 8 o'clock between! dor and George Voight at guard.

Coach Hans Leis Bolton Bears and Hale and Tudor are the only two bonus figure a maximum Instead writers and radio broadcasters vot- i entered into a new era of dealing ed Moomaw the award by a talentel youngsters, margin. The 220-pound, six-foot-! The consensus was that the rule, four star received 67 votes, more in because something was need-than double that of his closest riv- to large scale spending, al. offensive center Tom ratlin of will be an experiment. It can be Coach Tom Elkins' Natchitoches returnees from last year's squad of a minimum. who saw much action, "The psychology of it Is wrong, Red Devils.

It will be the first game of the season for both boys' he said. "Every kid now approach A teams. ed will want every penny he can Oklahoma. I repealed in a year or so if it doesn't Reviewing their respective clubs' get up to the amount that makes Catlin attracted 28 votes, was regarded as ex fMri. Tiirv MndT.ia,cH tremely doubtful that many young chances in the first games of the season here, both Leis and Mrs.

land had 23. and linebacker Taking their cue from George Trautman, head of the minors, and Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, president of the Western League, who warned that the majors might threaten the entire structure of baseball if there wasn't closer cooperation, the majors voted to form a committee to study the situation. Johnson had presented a resolution to the joint major league meeting asking that a share of television and radio receipts be divided among the minors.

He pointed out that attendance had dropped from a high of 43,700,000 In 1949 to in 1952. Big Ltcgu Attendance However, a major league spokes Bnster talked with their fingers James Higgins Is New Lamar Grid Mentor BEAUMONT, Tex. (Special) Tamburo of Michigan State and BOOTS HATS LEVI'S BELTS I I 'it ft. 1 crossed. Both coaches face a tough problem of rebuilding after highly successful seasons last time out.

California 18 each House. The restrictions are too great After a successful campaign and so is the risk Involved. Bill Veeck, the boss of the St with a record that listed only one James B. Higgins, Lamar Tech's new head football coach, comes from the same family tree that loss, and that at the state tourna ment. Bolton's Bruinettes start Louis Browns, said he was sorry this particular rule passed, even though he acknowledged the need for some kind of bonus legislation.

Moomaw, tabbed "an all-American in every way" by his coach, Henry (Red) Sanders, played 250 minutes during the course of UCLA's tough nine-game schedule an average of nearly three-quarters of every game. Toward the end of the season, Sanders tried to save Moomaw primarily for defensive duties, but every time UCLA needed some ex 8 produced such immortals as "Pinky" "Ox" and Jimmy and their non-Irish cousin, Austin Griffith. Tech's Higgins is a cousin to all him a bonus player for his category. We won't be signing kids up for $500 now they'll want 10 times that much." Dodgtrs Back Rulo Buzzy Buvasi of the Dodgers, whose club supported the measure all the way, said they never had been for big bonuses and now perhaps the money which had been spent in the past would go into the backbone of baseball itself the minor leagues. "The $4 million or more that went to bonus kids last year went out of baseball forever," he said.

"Now, with these curbs on why would it not be better to put it into minor league baseball for the development of franchises and players down there?" Other owners commented off the record that they favored the rule because something had to be done but that they still did not know how it might work. this season with an altogether different outlook on the results ahead. Mrs. Brister has the crying towel all ready to haul out with only two man said the major league turnstile count had fallen off on a com four. And he already has made a players returning from last year's crack squad.

Shirley Carathers, first string guard, and Alice Holy, good start toward maintaining tne family name. Pinky made his mark in the 1 g'j-feBi tra offensive push in the middle of second stringer, are the only baseball world The present man two girls back. the line, the coach sent in big Donn. In all, 40 players received consideration in the voting. After the Htlp Small Clubs "This was a rule that was strictly for the time and wealthy club owners," he said.

"They may have up to $250,000 to spend while a club like ours would have only $50,000." "Okay, under the old system with no bonus restrictions in effect, tlyy might. go out and spend their 250 grand on maybe 10 players. That would leave a few more fo rus to Mrs. Brister was undecided on top five, guard Steve Eisenhauer of a definite first team, but Tuesday BALL HAWK Easy Ed Mac-auley, right, of the Boston Celtics, found the defense rugged trying to shoot up and over Mel Hutchins, Milwaukee's net-tending star. The Hawks won the National Basketball Association game, 90-73.

(NEA) parable basis. Trautman set the tempo with a plea in which he asked: "Give us a little help before you destroy us." The majors listened and agreed. As they headed for home following the momentus week-long meeting, the baseball executives could look back on these decisions of importance: Approval of the bonus rule that will help not only the majors, but the minors, too. High School Curb Approval of the high school rule that allows scouts to talk to high night against the Rebelettes, the Navy had 17 votes; linebacker George Morris of Georgia Tech had starting sextet should have Captain Still! 15 seven, while end Bernie Flowers of June lcNeal, from St. Francis-ville, Alice Holy and freshman Carolyn Zachary on offense and Co-Captain Shirley Carathers.

Sophomore Adine Bonial and eighth-grader Betty Ann Billbray on the defensive end of the court. Purdue and handyman Steve Meil-inger of Kentucky each drew six. Guards John Michels of Tennessee and Harley Sewell of Texas, and tackle Ed Meadows of Duke TIES ager of the Louisville Colonels in the American Association went to the big leagues directly from the University of Texas campus and spent 20 years with Philadelphia's Athletics, Detroit and the Boston Red Sox. Ox is an ex-captain and great tackle for the Longhorns in the late 1920's. He is now president of the CSC Sporting Goods Company.

Jimmy is one of the leading officials in the SFOA. He worked in just about every "Game of the Week" during the 1952 grid season and annually draws a bowl assignment. Griffith was one of TCU's finest Sparring Mates had five votes each. Ol Awn school athletes but not sign ft A iafll Other newcomers to the squad Bulldog Quint Goes To Texas For Cage Set LAFAYETTE, La. (Special) squad in the Gulf States conference.

The Bulldog centers, Dallas Wolf and Charles Taylor were held in check by Lamar and managed to score but 8 points between them. However, with their initial college basketball game behind them, Wolf and Taylor came up with 8 and 15 points respectively n( llULb I tl! Ill APTO Ends Tom Stolhandske of Texas and Frank McPhee of Princeton, tackle Doug Atkins of Tennessee and guard Jim Alessandrini of Notre Dame had four each. are: Kegina uewitt, cnariotte Blottner, Kitty Brown, Ann Hollis, all from local grammar schools and girls making their bid for This brough the co-operaion right OQV lYlOOre Will down from the majors, through the minors to the amateurs. AA VJ A new option rule to protect the IVGTGQT IVlQAllTI minors. This one eliminated the 24-hour recall and made it mandatory ST.

LOUIS, UP If places on the squad for the first time are: Mary Amerson, Bobbie After breaking even in their open OtlO GLOVES against Southern. Wolf, who usual- fullbacks. He played under Francis Schmidt on the Froes' first ing two games, the Southwestern ly gets the nod at the pivot post Sue Craft, Mackie Collins, Marlene Jenkins, Joy McNeal, Linda Wat championship team. One of his Duquesne Expects Toughest Contest PITTSBURGH UP The son and Joan Williams. Louisiana Institute basketball is an ex-service man while Taylor squad will journey to Texas for a is a Junior coUege transfer- for a player optioned to the minors! you poll the sparring partners, to stay there at least 10 days.

those clay pigeons of the boxing As is usual in a healthy organ-' game, Archie Moore will be a ization, the majors had their squab-; knockout winner over light-heavy-j bles. The biggest one was in TV, I weight champion Joey Maxim in where the St. Louis clubs demand-their title fight here Dec. 17. teammates was Stan Lambert.

Over on the Bruin side of things. Stan turned the Lamar Tech football coaching reigns over to B. last week and will devote full, Coach Hans Leis has announced that he will porbably start Jim three-game set, meeting Lamar ycm wno "oia aow the forward slot opposite "Easy" Tech in Beaumont Saturday and; Mrraipv with it Meeks and Ranton at forwards performance of forward Dick Rickets provided some balm for Dudey Moore's anxiety, but the Duquesne university basketball coach glumly ed a share of the receipts from ra- The word from the battlers' dio and TV when on the road. dressing rooms Monday was that Sam Houston in Huntsville Mon markers in the two non-conference frays and was an important factor day and Tuesday. St.

Louis has no regular TV pro- Moore will alter his status as 'in- in both games with his rebounding. time to directing the college's athletic program and academic work in physical education. J. who spurns the nickname Jimmy because he doesn't want to trade on his famous cousin's The Bulldogs opened their sea grams. This battle hasn been set- crowned champ in the 15-round admitted ne still has "a lot of worrying to do" when his team Gilbert Dozier, playing behind bout at the arena and make it of tied yet and probably won't be for son by dropping a close contest DON'T MONKEY AROUND Ryckman, shook the stage fright ficial.

some time. to Lamar Tech 62-58. However. meets St. Francis (Pa.) College Monday night.

HUNTING BETTER PRICES! they came back the next night to One of these animated puncning name, piayea tor univer "I caught a look at St. Francis a) spurs HERE ARE THE LOWEST! down a highly-ranked Mississippi sity and earned all-conference hon Western Kentucky bags Toxie Hall, a promising young Chicago heavyweight and late in the season last year and they looked tough." Moore said. ors three season. Eioumern quintet 73-74. sli was paced in both contests by their he showed against Lamar, to raclt up 6 points in the Southern battle.

At the guard positions, Garland Parish and Prentice McKellar produced sterling defensive play in both contests. McKellar hit for 8 against Lamar and 10 against Moore sparmate went overboard "And the way they went at the Wins Refrigerator He later played pro ball for the Chicago Cardinals before entering for his boss: sensational forward Eddie Mc- Quantico Marines last week proves Cauley. McCauley, who is but "Can that boy hit? Whoo-ee!" he the Marines where he attained the sophomore in college and stands Bowl Game, 34-19 EVANSVILLE, Indiana, UP uiey naven lec up any." The solemn Moore, chosen as the "coach of the year" last season by rank of Major. He is commanding officer of the 33rd Special Infantry only 5 feet 10 inches tall, drove, shot and hooked past Lamar and Southern for 28 and 32 points, re Western Kentucky's Hilltoppers Company here. He served as Lam bert's assistant for four season.

said, touching his swollen face gingerly. "Archie's never been sharper. He'll stop Maxim in the sixth or seventh round." Clint Bacon, a light-heavyweight and also from Chicago, was just as emphatic. "Archie has no problem." he SKIRTS CHAPS VESTS made their first college football bowl appearance a success Sunday HONESTY PAYS $1 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. UP me unitea vress coaches board, guided the Dukes to a 72 to 47 victory over Geneva College last Sat spectively.

Head basketball coach J. C. J. B. is faced with a tremendous building job.

With about a dozen When Robert Lytell, a former lettermen returning, he is planning Massachusets resident now living when they rolled over defending champion Arkansas State 34 to 19 to win the fifth annual refrigerator bowl game. urday nignt in the season opener. Big Ten Officials "Dutch" Remhardt stated that the improvement shown in the see-in the world and that if his boys to switch from the wing to the vt split next fall. said. "Lots of people overlook the fact that he's a good boxer along with his punching power.

Mixing passes by Jim Feix with balanched rushing attack, the in the world andthat if his boys continue gaining experience and in Paris, France, mailed a $1 check to district court here to cover an old parking violation, Judge Louis L. Green returned the money with a letter congratulating Lytell on his honesty. Study TV Problem "Maxim is a nreat defensive man confidence at such a fast rate they would be capable of defeating any Kentuckians scored twice each in the second and third period and once in the fourth. 0000 SIZES il2 71 CHICAGO UP Televi but I look for him to wind up on the canvas within 12 rounds." Greenies Seeking Third Cage Sweep In Game Tonight sion of football games, long a sore Feix, who completed 16 of 25 subject with many colleges in the passes for 182 yards, also won the nation, came in for a good share most valuable player award. of attention at the recent winter NEW ORLEANS, UP With The Hilltoppers won the statistics meeting of the Big Ten athletic di two easy victories to their SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SET LONDON UP) Some 400,000 visitors are expected at the coronation year Shakespeare festival at atrat-ford-on-Avon.

The company will be headed by such English favor $1795 rectors and faculty representatives. credit but a stiff game coming up, too. They piled up 320 yards rushing against 208 for Arkansas State, The conference officials voted to Tulane's Greenies meet the Pen- and 182 passing against 77. sacola Naval Air Station Goslings petition the NCAA to abandon Its present plan of televising one game ites as Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Redgrave, Marius Goring, Yvonne Arkansas Indians scored first, driving 80 yards downfield from at luiane gymnasium at 8:15 p.m Monday. a week on a national network and substitute a system of regional tele Mitchell and Harry Andrews.

While the Navy is expected to BENJAMIN AIR RIFLES HUB CITY HARDWARE CO. the opening kickoff, but they were stopped then until the final period when they racked up two more vision. give me ureenies a mucn more Better Head For strenuous workout than did Birm The athletic directors made it clear, however, that they actually touchdowns. The 33-week season opening March 17 will see the presentation of "The Merchant of "Richard "Antony and "The Taming of the Shrew" ingham Southern or Southwestern of Memphis earlier this season, the favor no television at all, but hint FOR VAiH ALL 4ff ed they didn't think their hopes Goslings probably still will be reel 1 1 I acGUND STREET Ed 4477 Laird Sells Pontiac. Phone Mo-We-Fr and "King Lear." would be fulfilled.

ing from the 107-59 drubbing given them by Louisiana State Univer sity Saturday. "-f EIUS CUT RATE LIQUORS 2130 LEE ST. Thursday night, Tulane Coach Cliff Wells' ambitious young crew meets with Kansas' defending Mellow as inlaa Kingpins, in a tilt that is ex pected to fill the Tulane gym and give the Wave its stiffest competi tion of tne season. KY. TAVERN James Lloyd is the playing coach of the Navy team, which again meets the Greenies in a re Moonlight 83 4" p.3 Vift.l turn contest Saturday night in Pen sacola.

st 111 V5 1114 4 t. i 4 Ike Utr- FINE ARTS GIN Loyola Wolfpack Takes On Initial Big Team Tonight NEW ORLEANS UP 7 rv-, ii (Potstill) 2" Fifth Loyola Wolves meet their first "name" school at 8 p.m. Monday Carioca or Merito now any younntr who wouldn't Ym bi(-vfH nd hrwthlrt" the when they battle the Badgers of RUM tight o( Acme Owbny Boot on Wisconsin in Loyola auditorium. Coach Tom Haggerty's pack has scored three straight victories so rtirwbnM mnrrtinB? It's tb they xpct an bwintible 3 Imitation to aten rinht into Fifth tor. Western atylol Come in now and pick mt thHr Acme Cowboy lar, wnn wins over Northeastern Louisiana, Sam Houston State and Troy State of Alabama.

The Badgers have played only one game in their 1952-53 program, easily defeating Marquette. They CELEBRATING ITS 82nd CHRISTMAS OF OLD-FASH'N' GOODNESS and only CASCADE, gives you the light mellow richness of the George A. Dtckel 1870 formula! Crawford's Roott tat ChrwUnn' I I ceoa.dickel'1 liilM; i Imported Scotch had a good season last year, defeating Illinois and Iowa, cham Fifth pion ana runnerup in the Big Ten. They also were victorious over the St. Louis Billikens, Sugar Bowl champs last year.

Coach Haggerty has his Wolf- OLD LOG CABIN MM fvT SAMXf VffsA nvri pack on the ball for its Wisconsin 4 Years Old meeting Monday night. The Badg crs defeated the Wolves last year but Loyola's current team is ex JJ19 Fifth pectcd to turn in banner perform V- vl JCMT BOURBON lbH FjIISKY 15 lira AMCtKA'S HWI OVitAlt SlNCIttT I IW, ances and Haggerty expects them to "give a good account of (Pricti Are Cash I Carry) HOKUS POKUS Clothespins that have been in strong salt water will tint KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON en ouu nt t. to a is vi in. utatfwcuy it moot imiti i nm on 2130 LEE STREET "FROM THE LIFE AND Vim OF THE GRAIN" freeze to the clothes in wintry wea- uier. 4.

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