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Page 22 OpeloLCsa, Louisiana, February 5,. 1954 Bryant To Coach At Texas HOUSTON. UP Paul (Bear) Bryant. Kentucky successful young football coach, will be named head Football coach and director of athletics at Texas it was reported here today by a Houston newspaper. Tulane-LSQD TFfori world Til Is latwdlay Vrn 1 1 imJ Aon nP' I (Daily World Photo) Frankie Lipari, Stanley Vige, Donald Gardiner, Gordon David; (rear row) Cecil Soileau, Richard Dejean, Bill Fadaol, Ronald David, and Malcolm Hargroder.

I Ten AIC let- J. Raymond's spring training Vic Barousse, NEW ORLEANS. UP The big game of the Southeastern Conference this week, and perhaps the closest one of the season, comes off Saturday night in Baton Rouge with Tulane's "hot potato kids" out to ignore Robert Lee Petti t. but stop cold the Tigers supporting cast. The game could blast the hopes of Nashville.

which is aching for a Kentucky LSU playoff at Vanderbilt gym that would possibly give Kentucky outright title to the SEC championship, as well as its current top spot in die nation. Tulane Coach Cliff Wells has a plan very secret. It is not, however, stopping Bob Petti t. -Don't care if he makes 60 points Wells said, "if w- can stop the other four and make 62 ourselves. Coach Harry Rabenhorst of Highest Paid Baseball Player, $70 Per Inning, Is Ho Star I ft "-JL-ri zt iftm i ill 1 WAVING GOODBYE at Boston are Tenlev Albright of New- ton, and Hayes Jenkins of Colorado Springs, Colo.

They left yesterday for Norway to defend their world figure-skating championships at Oslo Feb. 11 20. (United Press Telephoto). LSU doesn't need a plan just put Penit on the floor and play out the game. The Saturday night Baton Rouge game tips off at 7:45 pju.

Big Bob will stand next to Phil Wallace for the jump. From then on it will be Tulane's balanced teamwork holding down the other LSU starters if Coach Wells means what he says. They'll be. besides Petti t. Don Belcher and Ned Clark at forwards and Benny McArcQe and Norm Ma gee at guards.

Don Sebastlen, clutch player who salvaged a 53-52 victory over Ole Miss for the Tigers Monday, will be on the bench, ready at any time to take over if necessary. Wells' pre-game -statements blasted hopes of fans that he might hold Pettit down as Loyola and Ole Miss did. He got only 15 points in both those games. But LSU also won both. annual World's Series slice averages better than $5,000 per year.

I asked him if he would rather be catching for Some other club where he would see more action. "I'm 29 years old, been in the majors five years, played on five world championship ball -clubs," he answered. "Sure, I would like to do more catching. But would you give that up?" It is obvious that the blond the nation's leading collegiate A (UP) Fwrtur. RETURNING LETTERMEN termen will see action in Coach gridiron squad in 1954.

Out for yesterday were (front row) TONY TRABERT, national amateur tennis star, worked ouLl in the University of Cincinnati gym yesterday after his arrival from a 3 month tour of Hawaii and Davis Cup matches in Australia. Trabert, a member of the '50, '51 varsity Cincinnati basketball squad, will play in the remaining six games scheduled if he can regain his basketball legs (United Press Telephoto) young man is very happy where he is. There is a possibility that he realizes his own limitations when it comes to hitting. "I'm a slap hitter." he says. "I just try to meet the ball squarely and knock it out of the infield.

I hit about .280 last year while playing in about 40 games. However, my life-time major league average is above .300." In five years with the Yankees, Silvera figures he has appeared in between 150 and 200 games while understudying for the great Yogi Berra. To be conservative, say he has earned $60,000. including his World Series money, during that time. Some of the games he has appeared in only for an inning or two.

Say he played in 175 games, five innings per game during the five years. That's approximately $70 every inning he plays. Musial. at $80,000 per year, is expected to play the 12 games, nine innings per tilt or 1,368 innings. That pays off at about $60 per inning.

With this type of salary, you expect Silvera to be the happiest man in baseball. "But I would like to play a little more," he says wistfully. Motor vehicles In the United States traveled more than half a trillion miles in 1953. or a distance equal to 31 round trips to each of the eight other planets in our solai system. L.

By HAL WOOD SAN FRANCISCO, UP Quick, now! Who is the highest paid player in baseball? Ted Williams? Stan Musial? Wrong! It's Charley Silvera, second-string catcher for the world champion New York Yankees. Charley won't divulge his salary, but It is a good bet that he gets above $10,000 a year. On top of that his FURMAVS FRANK SELVY, STAN SERVES NOTICE By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK, (UP). Stan Musial, six-time batting champion of the1 National League, served notice today on rival hitters that he has at least three peak years left and is out to right his name indelibly into the record books. There wer pointed hints last season, as Musial labored dolorously at the plate, that the slugging star of the St.

Louis Cardinals' might be reaching the end of the trail. He disproved that with a blazing stretch run for a final average of .33.7, seven points back of league leader Carl Furillo. I "That's the best comeback I ever made," the fit Musial insisted as hej eagerly awaited spring training. "I won't have to make a late run like that again." The slender Musial, who still hopes, to surpass Honus Wagner's record eight batting titles as well as Rogers Hornsby's second place seven, admitted that he made a "mistake" last season. "I tried to ipull my way out of the he asserted.

"I didn't bunt of try to slap the ball to left field. I was stubborn. I think I only bunted once all year, land I could have gotten a lot of base hits if I'd been smart." Stan's disgust is evident as he recalls that hej was hitting only .180 at one stage last season 'The lowest I can ever remem- ber hitting' and on June 15, he was up to but 220 "I have no bxcuse," he said. i i "I ftad a good spring," hitting over .400 most of the time. Then we ran intp a lot of "bad weather and I believe that's what ruined me.

I just lost my edge and then couldn't get it back, although now I know I could have helped myself a lot by bunting or trying to slap to left. You can bet it won't happen again." Certainly Musial's comeback was sensational. It was a long, gruelling climb from the hitting depths to which he had sunk, yet at season's end his .337 was only seven points back of Furillo's winning .344 and five points back of second place Red Schoendienst. Two other times, Musial finished second in the batting race, else now he might already have tied the immortal Wagner with eight batting championships. His .347 in 1944 was 10 points back of Dixie Walker and his .338 in 1949 was only four points behind Jackie Robinson's winning.

342. "If I had won those two in which I finished second," Musial smiles "I'd be in good shape right now." Which, of course, he still is, particularly if, as he contends, he has three "peak" years left. In the realm of conjecture, had he won those two and not lost another of his promising years in service, Musial today still might have had hopes of matching or surpassing Ty Cobb's mark of 12 hitting crowns. As it is, Hornsby's seven and Wagner's eight are his targets and three "peak" years he could make it, too. scorer, skirts by defending Manhattan players to dunk a two-pointer during their game at New York yesterday.

Selvy added to his scoring laurels by racking cp 42 points, leading Furman to a 92-80 Victory over the Jaspers. (United Press Telephoto). it.