Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 19

i i 1 1 n1 i wim i CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Tups March 19 1057 3B Bonnies Tigers Triumph in NIT riFO BIT PIECES By LOUIS ANDERSON Caller-TtniM Sport Edltot NEW YORK March 18 Ub-St Bona venture paced by Brendan McCann and Larry Weise ran Seattle into a state of sophomoric ern ECAC Holiday Tournament here at Christmas time saw an early eight point lead fade before Memphis State's constant rustling Will New Rules Affect Tlie Clippers? How are the new baseball ruleej ter within 20 seconds after he re- Bahle' relv the ball Last year the pit-going to affect the Big State cher was supposed to deliver the League? frustration tonight and eliminated and tlie rebounding of Win Wilfong the top-seeded basketball toam of Puxiro lo and Bob Swander from the National Invitation Tour-of Yorktown Ind a couple of nament 85-68 I high jumpers who act a tot taller Memphis State whipped Manhat- than they are Manhattan hustled tan 85-73 in the opening game of a pretty well too but was har-quarter-final double header before: rassed by the aggressive defense a Madison Square Garden crowd and the Jaspers were unable to of 10461 gain the lead after falling behind Four of Seattle's starters and six' at half time of their 10 players were sopho-! Wilfong Swander and Jack Memphis State pulled up eves after being eight points down Wilfong Hits Wilfong bottled up earlier In the game began hitting from the out side and Memphis State pulled into a 42-35 lead at half time Manhattan never was able to cut into this margin to any Important extent When Hockaday began to connect and Ron Ragan matched his shooting for a couple of minutes Memphis built its lead to 14 points Angelo Lombardo Manhattan's sharp-shooting center helped whittle this to five points a couple of minutes before the game ended But Memphis pulled away again on a series of free throws at the finish Lombardo and Gerry Paulson of Manhattan were the games top scorers with 22 and 21 points Five Memphis State players scored in double figures with Wilfong and Butcher getting 17 points each The new rules which fans will bal1 within 20 cond after he notice the most are- toed the rubber This year if the If a ball is in the strike zone' baI1 delivered within 20 sec-when it touciies a batter it shall ond the unlpire calls a ball be called a strke whether or not The rule involving the batter the batter tried to avoid the ball and the box will stop a A batter cannot leave his posi-jlot of this nonsensical time wash tton in the batter's box after the' big by the batter How many pitcher comes to a -set position times have you seen during the or starts his windup If the pit- course of a game a batter wait cher pitches the umpire shall call until the pitcher starts his wind-ball or strike as the case might1 up then step from the be box quickly ostensibly to knock The third change provides that: Irritating dirt from his shoes or a pitcher with nobody on base to wipe an imaginary gnat from must deliver tlie ball to the bat-: his eyes? 20 Seconds and You Gotta Throw Activttm by the batter always 'old rule few pitchers took more have caused great irritation to than nine seconds to throw the both fan and pitcher Now if he ball to the catcher Before how-steps out and the pitcher throws 'ever he might take a minute he Butcher little Memphis floor general all were eharged with their fourth personal fouls within 61 minutes after the second half started That put the Tigers at a srriuus disadvantage but Jim Hockaday's shooting overcame it Some wretched foul shooting by Manhattan contributed to the change of fortune in the first half At one stage the Jaspers missed five free throws in succession as FROM RED SOX fore toeing the rubber Think how much time can be added to a game's lengfh if a pitcher fools around only 30 seconds between pitches The rules now say the catcher promptly throws the ball back to the pitcher who must deliver it within 20 seconds after it is delivered to him by the catcher or some other player What a whale of a difference it is going to make me down the middle it will be called a strike And any pitcher can throw one across the middle waist high it he knows there isn't anyone up there trying to murder it Most hitters don't like to waste a strike either even when the manager signals them to the next pitch The 20 second pitching rule should help things along too because it eliminates fiddling Indians Reject Offer of Million For Herb Score THANKS FOB THE LIFT Jim Hockaday (16) of Memphis State gets a lift from teammate Win Wilfong (22) as they fight for a rebound in the NIT game with Manhattan Forward Gerry Paulson (right) of Manhattan tries to get into the action (AP Wirephoto) OCU Official Continue Chamberlain Argument around the pitcher could do underl To find out how the new regula last year's regulation Then thejtions will affect the nippers and pitcher could take all the time hei the Big State League we went to wanted until he toed the rubber Ian authority General Manager to start his motion Under the 'Bob Hamric of the nippers Big State Will Try To Speed Things Up doubt that we will do much ball because people have less and about those new regulations In 'less time to give to more and more this llamric said "I do: things available to occupy their not know how the umpires will leisure time A few baseball fans work it although I do know that would like to see a game last five the majors can enforce the rules hours but the average watcher mores and they apparently suffered an attack of Garden Jitters It was the second surprise victory for the swift-slick-passing Bonnies who beat Cincinnati Saturday gladly Disorganised Seattle winner of 22 of its 24 regular season games became a badly disorganized team as the smaller more mobile Bonnies applied constant pressure The Chieftains made seven field goals in the first half four by high scoring sojdi Elgin Baylor who fouled out with five mniutes to go after scoring 23 points McCann stuck so close to Baylor that the Seattle star committed three fouls all on offense within the first nine minutes Weise able to connect from outside or maneuver under the basket for shots kept the Seattle defense off bal lance and scored 16 points Tonight's winners will meet in one semifinal game Thursday The semifinal bracket will be filled by the winners of tomorrow's second-seeded Bradley vs Xavier Ohio and Dayton vs Temple games The Bonnies suffered a blow iien Don Newhook a mainstay injured a leg driving in toward the basket in the second half and had to be carried off the court Scores IS McCann scored 13 points mostly on free throws Time after time he intercepted Seattle passes to set 'up St Bonaventure shots Seattle jumped into a 1(M lead but St Bonaventure soon tied it up and by the 10-minute mark the Bonnies were ahead to stay They had a 40-31 lead at half time and before the second halt was five minutes old they were 14 points in front From there on it was just a matter of protecting their lead and avoiding fouls that might have put their top players out McCann was on the bench for several minutes after making Ms fourth foul but came back to finish when Newhook was hurt St Bonaventure had too much speed and mobility for the Chieftains who had a height advantage with two 6-7 players and the 66 Baylor The Bonnies varied attack bewildered Seattle Looked Put Baylor touted as one of the top players looked the part at times and was the high scorer for the game Dick Stricklin Seattle's only senior was next with 20 points For St Bonaventure Weise was high man with 16 Mike Sch-rauth with 15 and Newhook with right behind him Manhattan winner of the East- to Lakeland tomorrow to see the Detroit Tigers Offer Confirmed Cronin confirmed the offer tried to make a deal with he said been able to work anything out I said to Greenberg! 'There's only one thing I can fi That is to offer you a million dollar for Herb Score Take that back to your board of directors' In reply to the suggestion that Cronin might be able to buy the entire Cleveland club for three million dollars he said: I don't want to belittle the ball club but maybe Save is worth one-third of the Score a lefthanded strikeout whiz joined the Indians in 1955 He set a major league strikeout record of 245 for rookies Last year he struck out 263 batters while compiling a 20-9 record because they have four umpires working each game We have two we are going to do won't come back if an ordinary cohtest lasts over two and a half hours Cal Hubbard American League everything as in the past to umpire supervisor whacked the speed up the games I believe we nail on the head with: just TAMPA Fla March 18 Die Cleveland Indians today turned down an offer of a million 'dollars cash by the Boston Red Sox for their ace pitcher Herb Score Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg said that the offer came up In a cqpversalion he had with Joe Cronin the Red Sox general manager "We had just a short related Greenberg it concerned the possibilities of a trade told me that what the Red Sox needed was a good first-line pitcher and that Score would probably be worth a million dollar to the Red Sox "Then I said to him: mean you'd really give a million dollars for said he Not Available Greenberg said he told Cronin that he was interested in building a ball club not selling one and that Score was not available Greenberg was asked If the offer was on the level He grinned and replied: "Why sure Do you think the Yanks have all the good players" Greenberg added that the offer by the Red Sox was not the first big me for Score "Why even before he got to the Indians in 1955 we had an offer of 5400000 for hint from Cincinnati This was a bona fide offer by the Red Sox but it just wouldn't be good for us" Greenberg said that he thought they could work out some sort of a trade soon and that he was going had good luck last year because our games were shorter than in previous seasons We are going to eliminate as much time-wasting as we possibly The new regulations are going to help the grand game of base- trying to cut out senseless waste of Everything these days end times Is being streamlined If it isn't It won't continue to exist in a fast-moving complex age Baseball Is no exception He hit at Lightner's statement that OCU was trying deliberately to foul Chamberlain and Maurce King another Negro player and Lightner's comment that real trouble seemed to be that Chamberlain and King were dark-skinned I didn't intend going 2000 miles to fight the Civil War all over Nall in A statement today said: "How ridiculous for him to make such a statement about racial prejudice This man came to Dallas as a crusader not as an official He has admitted without a doubt that Chamberlain was protected How low can you go to protect your mistakes or narrow Lightner said after the game that Abb Curtis Southwest Conference supervisor of officials told him "he had not seen such a display of unethical basketball in yearshe told us that under the circumstances with which the game was played by Oklahoma City we did a good At Dallas Curtis said may Lemons said today that he has written phamberlain a letter explaining "how ridiculous" Light-ner's charges were "We out to geUZhamber-lain and we never mentioned his race" Lemons said he wrote the Kansas center told him that our only strategy was to block the middle of the court so he would have to go around us and our Hub Reed 6 foot 10 inch center) are good friends and after the game Saturday night they got together and had a long bull session You can ask any member of our squad I never mentioned his race at "I don't think I owe an apology to Lightner said today from Salem where he is sports editor of the Oregon Statesman don't know whether there is racial prejudice there (OCU) or Lightner said Have He said that after Lemons told him about Chamberlain "I told him that was not a good attitude but he was not interested I told OKLAHOMA CITY March 18 (ft Oklahoma City University officials hotly denied today that any racial overtones were involved in OCU's unsuccessful effort to beat Kansas in last Saturday night's regional NCAA basketball final at Dallas Abe Lemons OCU coach had charged that the officials were trying to protect Wilt Chamberlain Khnsas' 7-foot Negro center but said at no time did he order his team to "deliberately dump' Chamberlain or call him Ed Nall athletic business manager demanded an apology from one official for what he termed stirring up racial trouble and pointed out OCU had Negro students including same on the baseball team Official Backs Stead At Salem Ore the official AI Lightner reiterated his charges that before the game Lemons told him that if Chamberlain were to go up to stuff the ball in the basket and "if that big nigger comes down on any of my boys going to beat him" Nats Trim Warriors SPORTS BUTLER WINS IN HEADLINE BOUT By JOE IIF1IJNO I with a brief but lethal series of Brash Billy Joe Butler exhibit- blows to the head and body But-ing the skill that vaulted him tojler's decision was unanimous tlie Western Golden Gloves semi-1 Both weighed 117 finals decisioncd Amartn Carrillo Griffin Staggered in the feature hour of the ama-j GnnzaI stagKerH Griffini 122 teur taxing show last night at eary but hi swarmingi lwofirt Town Hall Arena ed assault didn't pay off until the second round The Austin comer asked for the fight to be halted As in recent months it was the University of Corpus Christi Johnstown Won By Getthere Jack $175000 Offer Made For Royals ROCHESTER March 18 (It Robert Siegel head of a Cincinnati syndicate tonight telegraphed an offer to buy the Rochester Royals for 9175000 But the move was shrugged off by Jack Harrison part-owner of the National Basketball Association team SYRACUSE NY March 18 IB The Syracuse Nationals eliminated the defending champion Philadelphia Warriors 91-80 in the first round of the Eastern Division playoffs in the National Basketball Association tonight It was the Nats' second straight victory in the best-of-three soles Led by John Kerr who scored 22 points the Nats came from behind in the second half and spurted through the lasl six minutes to wrap up the decision Dolph Schayes with 19 prints grabbed 20 rebounds Kerr had 18 retrieves The Warriors used Paul Ariziii for only three minutes at the atari of the game before discovering that the league coring' champion move well because of an Injured thigh Joe Graboskl and Ned Johnston carried the principal burden for the warriors They got 16 and 13 points respectively Philadelphia led 37-35 at half time The Warriors took their biggest lead 43-37 early in the third period Kerr led the rally which put pracuse on top by 58-53 at the three-quarter mark In the fourth period the Warriors came within one print The win qualified Syracuse for the best-of-five easterd divisional finals against Boston with the first game to be played la Boston Thursday The second game will be the nationally televised contest here Saturday afternoon another official what was said and nh1ive 'e that' 1U added I thought we might have1'0 leaw 11 llke 11 lg' 11 Lightner pointed to his record of AC I KfL TifiT INDI IP 12 years officiating in the Pacific'11111' lULimOr Coast Conference six NCAA regional tournaments and (wo na tional championships as speaking "for itself We did a good honest Lemons said "I've never called a colored boy a nigger in my life We've been playing teams with Negroes for years and never had any trouble That is an unwarranted statement on his OCU was charged with 25 finds and Kansas 10 OCU the No 9 ranked team lost to Kansas the No 2 club 81-61 Calls Kansas Better Lemons said Kansas was the betjer team but "if you touch Chamberlain it's a foul but if he touches you it Isn't a Nall said that racial prejudice "does not at OCU 14 were A'Foot in the fifth and Kenny Sorber's in die Stanley in 1:10 The De a daily Getthere Jack paid 8990 8510 Ray Edges Cavaliers pitching yesterday Corpus the Cavalier of the Texans for the yielded of runs a clutch The Cavaliers in the Robert Belhausen on a final Ray was the than with two in the second Pfetureman fourth Vandanell in the Rose's Last in the eighth Commolark in the ninth Robertson rode Elmer Stanley to an easy 44-length victory over Air Flight featured seventh race Scar-boro Lass was third ran the six furlong don't recall ever saying we were 3-5 and paid $550 to win filing All these reports come crowd of 2826 bet J173671 from Other sources Music and Just were if we were considering the double combination worfirufe we would give first considers- Harrison secretary end attorney for the team said he had received telegram but added that captured most of the plaudits on the show In addition to Butler two other UCC battlers registered impressive wins Peaches Gonzales spotting his foe eight pounds at 114 stopped Joe Griffin of Austin in 1:20 of the second round on a technical knockout Bobhy Stokes was awarded a TKO over Willis Earls when the latter failed to answer the bell for the second round Butler Attracts Crowd But it was Butler making his Initial appearance aince returning from the Gloves wars the crowd turned out to watch Carrillo deciskmed by tlie UCC dandy in the regional meet circled Butler throughout the fight Ilia fancy footwork left him little time to launch a barrage of blows however and Butler merely waited for the necessary openings The crcw-cut mauler would rip home a right to the midsection one second and the next snap a rapierlike left jab or hook to tlie head Carrillo When the West Oso fighter geemed to solve this style of attack Butler would pummel him Earis 165 answered the opening bell full of confidence against Stokes 162 His aggressive mood failed to last long as the one-time Missouri scrapper repeatedly snapped Earls' head backwards with a smashing left Near the end of the opening round Earls was back-pedaling but unable to escape the furry of Stokes' flailing fists The program sponsored by the Texas National Guard was reduced to seven fights when three of the bouts were canceled David Saenz 132 of Alice landed often enough against hit-and-run Charlie Clark 132 of Austin to gain a unanimous decision in the night's opener Juan Perez 149 of West Oso put down Rainey Allen 149 for an antomalic eight count in the opening round but had to settle for a unanimous duke Allen Weathers Storm Allen weathered the sudden! storm and never presented sn 8core LU portunity for Perez' lightning blows to strike again Frank Cavitt won a tight duel from John Bockholt as Ray defeated Christi Academy 3-1 at field It was the fifth victory season for the unbeaten and the second straight righthanded Cavitt who just three singles Ray opened with a pair in the first inning on single by Butch Cone got one of them back bottom of the inning on Rincon's single In the sixth Freddy singled and later scored fielder's choice for the run Wilson of Ray only player to collect more one hit coming up singles Academy 100 000 8270 Mink ridden by WiL lie Boland was a $250 third The winner turned the six furlongs on the drying out track in 1:11 3-5 SPORTS RESULTS tion to local people We have discussed various possibilities and we have announced that we are going to explore at least four other Chicago Cincinnati Cleve-j land and Kansas City CowboVS BOW TO fart remains we haVe nothinfi h- expect to do i Baylor in Tennis hawtnH fh tvnlnratnrv if aim for beyond the exploratory stage for Jacques Wimpfheimer's Jocko's Walk third choice in the field won the 810000 St Patrick's Day Handicap at Lincoln Downs The ner of his previous Hialeah scored a head victory in the first start here just catching A Ryan's Big Paddy the favorite at the finish of the seven fur- ot his previous two starts St College Basketball (V 3-6-4 0-l-3-3j Cavitt and Wilson Cone (4) Bock-: Bowie After triumphing by a nose in the 85000 Warwick Purse at Bowie Browse Awhile was disqualified by the stewards and MfflJpM) Stair hi MaiUmUM SL Buna venture Seattle Baseball 25!" state (lennja 1 ap- IYethylerlau i 1 SlrtMn I Catawba I placed last for fouling the third long! Hi time wat 35 and fourth-place finishers Profiting from the fouling in which she was not involved was Roy Hunt's Hoosier Honey who was declared the official winner of Jocko's Wslk paid 8880 and 8280 Big Paddy 8420 and 8260 after finishing length in front of the HE Lewis' Mayor Will some he said Siegel's telegram addressed to Harrison and his brother Lester president offered 8175000 for the club forward certified check for 810000 if offer the wire read in part The telegram said the offer would be open until noon Wednesday In Cincinnati today Siegel said he had made his offer in a registered letter containing a check 8400 returned a favorite The WACO March 18 Baylor beat Hardin-Simmoni 4-2 In tennis today In singles Don Gill of Baylor downed Jerry Goad of Hardin-Simmons 6-4 36 63 Tommy Goforth of Baylor defeated Wayne Miller 10-8 14 Bear Buddy Walk er beat Fred Kniffen 1-6 6-L 6-4 and Hal White of Baylor defeated Jacky Newton 6-2 6-3 In doubles Goad and Miller of Hardin-Simmons downed Walker and Goforth 5-7 6-3 9-7 and Kniffen Gill and In a free swinging affair George Matlock 155 decked Cop pus Christi' Joe Vancura 151 ii twice en route to a decision and IlClll 9tOPS the Austin crew's only victory of 1 the night Vancura took an eight count in the second and went down for nine In the final round VnnrlcMt inu' (wire in tlie second! John Whitt 148 of Alice re-round undefeated Stefan Redl roI-IK'01 GIow welterweight rhamp the annual All-American soap box ai dropped a unanimous decision lo derby at Akron Ohio Aug 18 It Sre a-SkWn in of Humberto Teres 149 of will be in addition to the S5000 holt and Nemec Awards Added DETROIT March 18 (It-Offi-cials of the sponsoring automobile company announced today a two-week tour of Europe is being added as the prize for the winner of Golf Florida 21 Alabama I Professional Basketball Srmtnnal Mavair yrwbla twit Mi 8yraru" moved into second and third positions respectively Oddly there the 6-furlong allowance race at 812 for 82 odd Painted Clown and Nereus who finished third and fourth were 1 ja(tcr ji gg 1 2nd and last ad CK2B Johnstown Oaklawn Park Charles Fritz's Ebony Beauty West Oso in the next to last bout first-place college scholarship for 810000 but Harrison said he easily defeated seveirrivais in the had not yet received the letter White of Baylor 7-5 6-4 and Newton defeated Local Umpires ESCOBAR 10TH CLIPPER Form Chapter TO SIGN 1957 CONTRACT LOOK allamerica was no foul claim in the race Browse Awhile claimed in her last start for 86000 was ridden by apprentice Carl Gambardella She drifted in badly through the stretch Impeding Painted Clown elation to be affiliated wi(h the causing the latter to interfere National Baseball Congress was ny pid 81200 8120 organized last night and 8300: Painted Clown 8340 and inihw1 thrd- lcnElh and halr Allen McCord was elected pie- 8280 and Nereus 8380 farther buck Mrs John Zitmk Mhiihkshs the indent with Kenneth Tlirailklil Sullshine pk favorite finished fifth viee president and Warren Boren Kairel Bolin rode five winner! The winner was tuned for the featured 82800 Walnut Ridge Pune at Oaklawn Park yesterday but had to survive a claim of foul Ebony Beauty went to the front' ZSttEeXsaoN eighth round of a rousing telcvl sion fight at St Nicholas Arena Real a Hungarian German now living In Passair NJ weighed 144 to Milone's 148' i It was the 24-yeatMild Redl's 13th victory and 10th knockout He was a 4-1 favorite After the second round it was no contest nx the strong well-conditioned Redl mrlhodienlly pound ed his 23-yrar-nld rival from corner lo miner Stelun floored tlioi rugged truck driver once in tlio seventh round for a nine-count and twice in tlie eighth for eight and nine before Referee Barney Fslix halted Uia bouL Rudy Escobar yesterday became the 10th player to sign a Clipper contract lie signed the document after a conference with General Manager Hub Hnmrir Escobar 28 is well known to ftirpus Christi fans having startl'd his career with McAllen in 1950 und later performed with Hsriingen with which club he hit All in 1954 He attended Miller High School For the past three seasons he has been playing with Corpus Christi semipro foams He la a left-handed outfielder CHICAGO March 18 (AP) Look Magazine today announced its 1956-57 All-America basketball team Ten players were named There was no differentiation whether they were on first or second trams Those named were Elgin Baylor Seattle: Wilt Uiamber-lain Kansas Chet Forte Columbia Frank Howard Ohio State Rod Hundley West Virginia: Jim Krebs Southern Methodist Guy Rodgers Temple: Len Rosenbluth North Carolina Gary Thompson Iowa State: and Charlie Tyra Louisville mile and a sixleenth over a slow track in 1:46 flat A second wagering choice Ebony Beauty paid 88 8160 and 8320 sccretary-treaKurer at Sunshine Park increasing his Another meeting will he held total victories fur the meeting to at 7:30 pm Monday at the city 1 36 The track's leading jockey the recreation department 1 young apprentice as aboard Just iAaaas i AasAA A A Ai A iwa A 4.