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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 20

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dr sv w'warmr wnrnnri wray vrrl 4B CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Tur Feb IP Negotiate for Extra THE SPORTSMAN Pay Players Told Buffalo Hits Another Car By ROY SWAN Outdoor Editor PHILADELPHIA Feb 18 which llu players should share in non-league cities Commissioner Bert Bell says that proportionately Scatle' Akron how two learns drew SIjOUOO for Ohio if National Football League play-i i la pre-season gnme and the poor eri want pay for pre-season games got nothing Rut how they should negotiate It In their about the games in which the re-j smaller crowds and gates 'individual contracts jceipts barely cover the expenses I Bell contends "all that glitters player negotiates his hp wo trams? Nobody writes1 js not gold Remember" ha says about those" 1 "15 percent comes oft the top for The commissioner refuses tftjmit expenses run at least $7500 discuss gate receipts of various and then there is travel And do games on the grounds such busi- you know lhat in more than 50 ness strictly is for individual own- prr rent of our pre-season games for pre-season games' Bell said to handlf: A "jhle charity also takes off the top? Hnhiita nav fnp avhihi iowevpr' ronIirmed the receipts or -We re not crying wolf believe The debate over pay for exhiblith( a trance involved in some'm( at 0ilt 0 of our lcani! made lions is one of the highlights of of last year's exhibitions moIMy (Philadelphia and the Car- the current rhubarb between play-1 Largest Exhibition dinals lost) But you never get era and owners and is one of the or example the Los Angeles ph-h in sports The Giants finally principle objectives of the Play- wnn championship last year ers' Association Bell says Whitin' but from hmuRh "like baseball we contract for an al1 hlbltlon club lost JtOOOdO Stocks and Of the toplOgntesi had to (o things coins It will take more than one winning season to re- ii icveiano was involved in 5 San eludes pre-season games I Francisco 4 and Los Angeles 3 Old Joe the buffalo still is king of the lonely Alas kan highways For the fifth time in recent years Old Joe has disputed the right-of-way with an automobile and has come nut the winner the Fish and Wildlife Service re-' ports from Alaska Lv irmly resenting the inva- pared with 1173 in 1955 The ii'n hv mim of his territory Old slate keeps close track because Joe has taken mailer into his the amount of venison involved' hands on several nvctsions over would feed quite a few if sal-a Mrrtch of ears He has wreck- aged and in 1956 there were rd hexond lurther use five auto- 730 animals salvaged mohilea Tlie fifth one showed he isn't There was talk of noiim fine particular about his victims lie rodfish being found down Laguna succeeded against a Territorial Madre way yesterday with sov-! polii-c-i-tiKi and evidently con- eral anglers finding fish ranging tent with battering the car into from seven to 15 pounds each complete submission Joe just Otherwise thorp was little brag-! snort led defiance at the being done along the Coastal wreckage and ambled away the Bend report said At the Intracoastal Canal Red Motorists probably take more Dot Bait Stand said no one from than the usual care when driving there found 'em though drum the Alcan Highway because they from five to 35 pounds showed never know when Old Joe will' up Sunday afternoon in big feel like try ing his immovable bunches object tactics once again The "Quite a few fishermen waited Fish and Wildlife Service along on the drum today i Mondavi but with certain members of the Ter- they haven't showed the ritorial Police can vouch for his port said ruggedness Port AraHMU fishing was i Rookie Problem iThry ranged upward from $76000 The commissioner said he could jOf the 10 only three were played understand the problem of rook-1 its or other players dropped dur- WFLCOMF TO THE TIGERS-Shortstop Harvey Kuenn (right) of Detroit has a chat with infielder Jim Finigan acquired from the Kansas City Athletics after they tried out uniforms in the Tiger clubhouse at Lakeland Fla their spring training base (AP Wirephoto) ing the exhibition season HORNETS TO why wa agreed at the recent I league meeting to allow players1 ttNU jfiljUlV draw $50 a game against their salaries during the training season That way a man is compensated for the games he plays! Solomon Cole closes its basketball season tonight in Victoria against coup Best Interests The commissioner insists that the league has the best interests of the players at heart "We find them off-sesson jobs lend them money tor businesses apd homes wager there isn't a team which hasn't lent better than $20000 ta its players before it even goes to training camp "Some players rail me a com-jpany man It's ridiculous and I'm hurt Why should I be a company jman? I have a nine-year contract I at $40000 a year At my age with a nine year contract I don't have to court anyone I battle for the players when they're Aussies Believe Players Can "Withstand US Clip Challenge in Bell disagrees with the belief in some quarters that tho exhibition game receipts are a bonanza ini With highways becoming big- trading a very few anglers with SYDNEY Feb IS Austral- in the maybe (he four best big titles of 1357 Australian ger and wider and faster and big drum the main drawing card ians believe their craftsmen of the These are Lew Hoad Ashley 'french Wimbledon and United eii'TD ifTc reaching more and more into' La Quinta Pier near Gregory tennis courts will be good enough Cooper Neale Fraser and Mai- siate Volin i tmni writer 1 IStates Colin Long tennis writer out Gross High The Green Hornets ended their home and District 4AAA season last Friday with a loss to Kemp of Bryan their sixth without a victory probable starting lineup will have Preston Watson at center John Carrington and Richard Taylor at guards Matthew Taylor and Jack Bell at forwards Carringon the only senior In the starting lineup will be playing his last game for the Hornets Phils Sign NEW! COMPREHENSIVE DWELLING POLICY wildlife areas game technicians said there were a few fishermen to withstand tlie challenge of the colm Anderson 'and former player said today the! are finding that the automoblie'out but no fish caught The water United States or anyone else And there's some difference of 20-vear-old Victorian has quite a can be added to the list of lethal was muddy near shore but dear the Davis Cup of 1957 opinion whether Hoad or Cooper chance of doing so Instruments in the harvest of at the end of the pier Ken Rosewall's switch to the should be listed first game birds and animals Oso Pier repeated the Intra-j professional isn't worrying any-j Cooper having won the Austral- Cold winters in the northern coastal report Drum that show- one Australia it's argued here ian singles title in Jamiaiy is the nfTmntrhrt vrv h- states and our own drought sit- ed up Sunday afternoon weren't still has the three best amateurs 'only player possible to win all fv nation make the automobile even to be found the second day hl worst heJ 1 'bad For some weeks Hoad has been having back trouble and! that slowed him in the Australian more important Winter is a bad time along highways and rail-1 i oe iouna me sc con a aay Solunar Tables 'AUSTRALIA PLACES Elmer Valo For 1957 INSURANCE Saves Yew Money CARROLL JONES CO ITS IMS Ir TrVUM roads in the snowy states be-1 cause both offer easy migration routes and often live-giving veg-1 etatinn Dew from the highways of this state causes grass to remain plentiful along the ditches and therrhy attracts some birds 'and animals PHILADELPHIA Feb 18 Ufl national titles when Fraser bcati UD AT AT VAT T1YTA CTUI? him in four sets in a semifinal Plmpr' a'SVahles OA1 1 Vfl 1 UUil Vju 1 HilVO But Hoad says he's about riRht Valo the onetime American in vuuf dy to ttat yuu'witf mointi again now and will be ready for Picked up by MpIi thew'umJI IT 55 vnfh (oflnSI MELBOURNE Feb 18 The ter the Italian tournament if he the big tournaments in England Phils last season to strengthen WtaSTJISi Australian Lawn Tennis Associa- wished Kurope and the United State this! the elub at the plate imi iior YjaiTy Vw tion today banned its power The association simultaneously! summrr- i cvS nt Minnr I Jack Crawford former Wimble- hre nd City announced 0335033 There's ome sort of record on mMitir'ahg(trj packed corps of rising young ten- that Australian woman nurqfifttl 1 don champion and a top Austral- 11 -23 Phil last season His hat helped the team PM ik 'ar rom comPein6 in the star Mrs Thelma Long would tenni ia anther who fj Italian Championships in May not receive further expenses on Sieves Cooper might be Aus- climb into fifth place in the waning Ij (: There was no immediate an- her current European tour with- 'traiia's No 1 singles player in the months of the 1956 season I si i Sill I nouncement on the reason for theout aPPrwal johailenge at kooyong at the end While Sox 1 11 19 4:3 11 1:9 3 A AS iiii the big game such as moose and Old Joe if for no other reason rtWdT than that they constitute a traf-? fcffiSSy lie hazard sj BUR One of the three big white-taBed deer atates Wisconsin finds an-5? other reason It recorded 2137 Mann road-killed deer last year com- A Saturday It ruled that he would not yer- ban but it was learned that it1 any case receive approval after! "Coeper has says 11 13:11 I would not ect Davi aee March 13 Crawford "Today he would go on CHICAGO Feb 18 The Chi- MA AA VinilfD In Lewis Hoad Mnlyn- Rose and Don Candy the court against Lew White Sox said today that SAVE ALMOST flOiOO DRIVE The 21-year-old blond dynamo two nthrr Australian players stars inking he could win A while: Rotcnberry an all-state high of Australian tennis is touring pri- pretent touring the United he would he certain he would school catcher in Arkansas in 1955 'vatcly until the Wimbledon Cham- states will also be told they must! he beaten and just try to make 1956 had signed a contract' NO ACTION TAKEN it with the Duquesne Iowa farm trlub in the Class Midwest Amer- League Rotenberry 18 is from Mountainburg Ark (Q) 7iretone BRAKE JOB Here's What We Do pionships He would be free to en- npply to the association for tournament expenses after March 10 1i rp The association also turned 1- IMLlllOlt lOP down an application by Australian Called Monopoly Move rnnj-intoFnr 1 play in the Italian Championships 1 villlUllltllL A Hi Cooper won the Australian title -a 1 month defeating fellow Aus- Mldhlrni1 I oh tralian Neale Fraser who had £3 earlier disposed of an ailing Hoad Cbmmump-'Sltcanm hr Sets Program BALTIMORE Feb 18 UB-Don-ta accomplishing it in 1952 Lillis president of Bowie The year before Laurel and today that a proposal to eo had bought and closed Havre Pimlico is a move by Laurel De Grace another mile track monopolize Maryland horse rac-1 "He owned Laurel had a stantial interest in Pimlico an op as many games as possible so wouldn't look too Crawford says the young loans Myron Franks Mike Green and Sammy Giammalva play some beautiful tennis but he does not think they can hit the big time this year Charles Comiskey White Sox vice president announced Orestes Minoso Sox outfielder I agreed today to play with the club during the coming season His salary will exceed the $32 500 Minoso was paid last season Comiskey said He i the 33nd Sox to cme to terms leaving seven unsigned Minoso wlm will he playing his 18 (ff seventh year with the Sox led the aid Pimli-charged close to sub-tng 1 Remove Front Wheels and Inspect Brake Drums and lining 2 Clean Inspect and Repack Front Wheel Bearing 3 Inspect Grease Seals 4 Check and Add Brake Fluid If Needed 5 Adjust Brake Shoes te Secure Full Contact With Drums 6 Carefully Test Brakes He said he is unalterably op- tion on some Bowie stock and was hackfield coaching jnh after Don cpw at(r thjs posed to the request that Pimli- seeking the rest whieh I houcht" Robinson resigned today yroland chairman of the' CAMDEN NJ Fpb co's40 days of racing he trans- Lillis said tliiott assistant roarh at Iowa aMOCjafjon's itinerary committee Garden State Park today an- dub in hitting in l'Li7 with a ferxed to Laurel Monopoly Alms and a former Michigan star halt- rnmmPn(pd today It would be nounced a spring program includ- average His lifetime major league He-also told the Maryland Rar- Janon Fisher Maryland horse hack was registered at a Detroit imprarticahl ins pight atakes carrying $21l)nno average is 306 lng Commission that he had re- breeder agreed with Lillis that hotel and reportedly conferred jn yiian Italian lawn tennis of- in added money The meeting! the proposed closing of Pimlico with Afh 1 1 1 Director lonight shrugged off the open May 4 and runs for 25 days Orioles to join in the arrangement or con- was a movement by Schapiro "to 'Fritz Crisler and Coach Bennie npwg that the Australians had aider "junking of Bowie" so that concentrate racing at Laurel" He Oosterbaan about the vacancy been barred (from the Italian Robinson who had been on the championships all of the state's 130 major racing said that the monopoly alms of Walter Donovan executive vice prsident announced that during tin spring meeting the track BALTIMORE Feb 18 -Leo Burke 22-year-old former Virginia nus0 WHEEL ALIGNMENT Hero's What We Do staff ainco Oosterbaan became head coach in 1948 quit to enter the insurance business in Detroit Like Elliott he is a one-time Michigan back playing in the 1941-42-46 seasons Elliott reportedly also would become assistant athletic director at Michigan If he should accept the dual post he probably would become first in line for a jump to Ciro Aldo Toluiso president of the Italian federation said he had not yet received official news of the but Indicated privately it wouldn't break any hearts over here The Australian were missing from the tournament last year too presumably because of schedule arrangements Tolusso said he had no official Tech athlete who hit over 300 in all four years of college baseball I has been signed by the Baltimore Orioles the club announced today Terms of the right-hand hitting contract were not disclosed The Orioles said however Burke was not a bonus player and could he assigned to a minor league club i To make room for Burke the Orioles assigned outright to Van-j couver of the Pacific Coast League the contract of lefthanded pitcher Fred Besana Schapiro be Fisher said he was a director of Pimlico when Havre De Grace was closed know how it was bought and it wasn't he said He declared Schapiro was selling Havre De Grace" Lillis said he comment on Pimlico's reasons for closing because it lacked space to expand But he said If it is dosed then its 40 days should be equally divided between Laurel and Bowie Otherwise he said "Bowie days would be held at LaureL 5 Aetiaa Laurel and Pimlico officials made tho merger proposal over file week end and the commission called a hearing for today It took no immediate action on the pro-posal Lillis New York investment banker who bought control of Bowie in 1952 said the proposal meant to him that John Schapiro president of Laurel hasn't "given up his idea of monopolizing Mary 1 land racing would distribute approximately $850000 for overnight events an average of close to $34000 dally Highlight of the spring session will be the $50000 added Jersey Stakes a mile and a furlong event for 3-year-olds on May 25 The $30000 Camden Handicap at a mile and a furlong Is the closing day feature June 1 Other features include the Valley Forge Handicap $25000 added 3-year olds and up mile and 70 yards May 4 Delaware Valley Stakes $15000 added 5 furlongs 2-year-old fillies May 15 Betsy Ross Stakes $25000 added 3-year-old fillies 6 furlongs May 18 Cherry Hill Stakes $15000 added 2-year-olds five furlongs May 22 and the Colonial Handicap $25-000 added 3-ycar-olds and up fil- REGULAR COST 1 Correct Cottar 2 Correct Cambor 3 Correct Toa-ln and Toe-out (Above are chief causal of tiro waar) 4 Inspect Tighten Adjust Steering the head coaching job when i at this moment on the Oosterbaan retires han Elliott comes from a Blooming-1 1 III coaching family Ilis1 ton J50 brother Pete recently becamejTaft Faculty To head coach at California after one pi re head coach at Ne- I Iay arsity leant season as MOST CARS He claimed Schapiro missed "by couldn't stand the gaff It must he shoved into the background and Schapiro will have accomplished i braska Pete also was a Michigan his monopoly" back in the 1040's He said he didn't intend to in Maryland racing and run a sec in Maryland racing and run a 1 Beeville Holds Sweepstakes 1 Brakes $195 i Relined I TAFT fSp) The Taft high school faculty will play the vacuity basketball team here at 7:30 Tuesday for the benefit of the senior class fund Nvf Cta NEW BONDED ON LININGS CENTER TIRE SERVICE ISOI STAPLES TU4-SIIS BEEVILLE spl Beeville track" or "turn Bowie into' GCOrgC 3ISlCr juntry aub will sUge tts annual jnk and take a back FndsylBMt Ill Hospital The three-man racing commis- Cbuntry Grand Sweepstakes on Saturday and Sunday Feb 22nd PLUS 0 Tireofono WHEEL BALANCE Here's What We Do REGULAR COST A special intermiulon event 'lies and mares 8 furlongs May will bs a short basketball game! 3D senior girls between the senior girls and PITTSBURGH Feb 18 AP)- wnmfln nf ha Khool fac- George Sisler 63 Baseball HaU of l(v AdmlMon will 35 cents Fame first baseman was reported 1 in "very condition a today after undergoing abdominal Strtoa must be in hv Thurs-' will not deride day by 7 pm Entry fee $500 1 tt'Mhpr 'n wwnmend or disap-The following players ara Pmve he for at least a day eligible to compete having played! recommended it will have in at least ten sweepstakes sircei fke Maryland Legisia-Inst Febiuary Lt Adams which in 1W9 rejected an out-M Adair A1 Adair Joe Bam-'Sht merger of the two tracks hart John Beasley Lt Les Th ''me the proposal is that 1 Precision Dynamic Balance 2 Precision Static Balance 3 Install Necessary Weights Two-Way Radio Communications Te litter Serve Drillist Cen-f rector Oil Cempeaieb and the Oil Industry each management retain its idrnt-tity in name and operate atrictly separate meetings at Laurel surgery Saturday night A spokesman for the Pittsburgh rirates where Sisler now is special assistant to the field manager said doctors are "well with the recovery Sisler is making Sisler was chief scout for the Pirates until two months ago when he was named special assistant to help instruct players in batting Bromanoff Matched NEW YORK Feb 18 I-Ger-man heavyweight Willi Beamanoft will make his American debut at the St Nicholas Arena next Monday night Feb 25 Complete Oilfield Transportation Service Mator Graders lulldesnre 0 Trectore a Trucks A FIRESTONE UNDERCOAT Burton Edw Batierle Jim Burns Geo Brown Cdr Vince Duhl-strom Clewls Lawrence Du-Mars Loren Council Dougherty John Fenner Floyd Otia Fuller Cdr John Fair Viggo Gruy Joe Gruy Lt Roy Huval Bob Hollingsworth Hebert Jim Helland Clark Hardison Earl Hunt Bill Jaegli Paul Kuhncrt Frank Looker Allen Leshiker Fred Latcham Bob Negueira Bobby Richardaon Dr John Reagan Bob- Rodgers Roberts Jack Rowland John RomI Sr Denver Roberts Bill Sandcl Sapp Schneider Sen soman Fred Solomon Don Spoon Cdr A Smith Dave Smith Dick Stanford Joe Williamson Paul Wright Cdr Bob Whitehurst and A Ziek Tairings for all three days will he made Thuraday night Play will start each day at 1 pm and there will he team prizes each day In addition to individual prizes All players are urged to get their entries in early to the pro shop Heidi Bros TRUCKS 9 Prvaat Ruit Is Guaranteed For the Life of Your Car FOR LOW COST MOVING RENT A VAN DRIVMT YOURSELF mission-natYonal' TRUCK RENTALS $1895 Tlmfono Sullivan City Phone 2401 Alice Freer Phan 4-3436 Phaaa Z51 1 TU3-5491 STORE 501 Water TUJ-54S1 Dial 40 Wtr St in r--i 1- -t -r mmmm.

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