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WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WIS.) DAILY TRIIHJNI? Friday, April 28, 19r0 Pagt Scvtn Outdoors In Wisconsin ooking Em Lakes Often Ruined by People Who Can Bear Thought of Losing Them WITH New Pro Cage! Loop Planned Sheboygan A four-team nurlcuH of a new professional basketball league was reported set today. The teams, each of which hag posted as an "entry fee," are Sheboygan, Waterloo Denver and Oshkosh, all one-time members of the old National basketball league which combined a year ago with the Basketball Association of America to form tho National Basketball Association. REAUTIFUL RASERALL WEATHER Some fellow at Madisonville, asked mo the other day why so many of these organized baseball leagues opened the season so late. "Or," he said, "is it that the others are opening too early. Well, this year it looks as though he hit the nail on the head with that last statement.

With the unusually cold weather overspreading large sections of the country, it looks as though baseball in many leagues is getting off to a poor start. While in Madisonville it was natural to follow the progress of the farm clubs in the White Sox system. The parent Sox have now had four straight games postponed, three of them in Chicago. Wet grounds, rain and cold weather have been the factors. Memphis bus been okay, playing their gnmes as scheduled in the deep south, ('(dorado Springs bad some games postponed, and their opener was played in weather under 40 degrees.

Waterloo had its first game postponed, and probably has had fit f2 1 JF i 1 vi rr fit Mr fix IIOMF-RI TOCCH Ralph Kincr of the Pirates utrengthrnii hla fingers for his all-out attack on Babe Hulh' major Icugue seaitonal home-run record of tit). Figure Laz Or Carroll To Lower Vault Record BANGS AM) BAIT Marilyn Hal-, let, 14, of La Grange, is hold-1 11 II ing a new real shiner minnow en-1 LOltCC LJttSCuClll cased in plastic. The bait comes in'(OUK(K IIAMKBAII three sizes, can be used for casting, rM lul spinning or trolling. ith side fins V( s(hi 4. it's a spinner, with bent tail a ymk.r I we going to find another representative group that will speak of an opposite view From the past record, the answer probably will be yes.

Hut George. Sprcrher, assistant director of the department, left the door open. "Put on a good educational program down here until next September 15 and then come before the commission backed by widespread support and make your request." That puts Urn burden on public opinion. And public opinion ran bo a deadly thing, as unselective in some cases as a sawed off scatter gun. On the other hand, though, it can have a backlash like a cent ret-.

That's what thi boys who want to bring back the great dayB of 11120' are counting on. Midweek Stop The lineup of big spring sports shows is rounded out next week at Fond du Lac with the Fox River Valley sports and outdoor exhibition. It's a three day run, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds park, in the exhibits building. Feature attractions include Cherry II aus halter, the Campbellsport trainer, with his Golden Retrievers, and Fond du Lac's hometown archery champions, Will and Isabel Rossey. The conservation department also is showing its widely known wildlife exhibit.

Sponsoring it is the Fond du Lac Junior Chamber of Commerce. Short Casts Something of a surprise dept: A sample survey of Douglas county sportsmen conducted by the county fish and game league has shown morn of the boys favor an any-deer season this year than any other type. President Bob Banks gave these results: any deer 138 votes; forked horn bucks 104; antlerless season three. Oh yes, and seven voted for a closed season. By the way, the late snow up there probably killed more deer than all the rest of the winter, coming as it did at a critical time.

Just before it came along, the starvation rate lunged upward after spring tarried on the way The state's pheasant farmers, who produce about 100,000 birds commercially each year, are having a market problem. The postwar private stocking boom seems to be over, and the farm operators would like to have the conservation department soak up the surplus by taking about half the crop off their hands. They say they can produce birds cheaper than the state game farm at I'oynette. Minnesota foresters are optimistic about spring forest fire hazards, what with the heavy snowfall and late floods soaking cover. A breather is due, after last year's plague of blazes.

1 II l-i i i "''J'v 1 wvw a i appearance until tomorrow, th final day of the meet. Seven final events in the university und college divisions were oo the opening day program. Final Events Today They were the university four-milo relay; university sprint medley; college half-mile relay, college distance medley, a new event here; two-mile run; broad jump and discus. Kansas, given good weather, was figured to lower the 17:29.6 mark in the four mile event. The Jaw-hawks have done 17:20.9.

A wide open fight loomed In tha sprint medley. Oklahoma, Oklahoma A. Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio State arrd Northwestern were prominently mentioned. The Drake also tho world mark, is 3:23. Oklahoma, the record holder, posted 3:24 for a victory at Kansas.

A flock of preliminaries for tha university and college entries and a series -nf Iowa High school events also were on today a program. Yes sir, skilled mechanics at our body shop are experts in straightening fenders, bumping out dents and are real artists in fixin wrecks. Become a Meimber of Our Satisfied Customer Club, OUR SPECIAL $0 COMPLETE, PAINT JOB RELIABLE AUTO BODY SERVICE 2521 W. Grand Ave. Ph.

914R i i 1 I nr .1 P- 1 WE-MEND-EM! At OshkoHh, it was reported that Darling, veteran pro cage own ci-muFiHger, nan necn granted a franchise- in the new loop. Where ho planned to locate the team, if not at Oshkosh, was not disclosed. Darling handled the Oshkosh All-Stats for 17 years, but was not a member of the NIIA when the, loop was reorganized. Sheboygan, Waterloo and Denver, lopped off the NHA roster at a weekend reorganization meeting in i-nicago, tooK steps then to form a new league. A committee, with a representative from each club, named Doxie Moore as commissioner.

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"I want to break sharply with the custom of using the freshman team as opposition for the varsity," declared Blackbourn. "It is not fair to the boys to jump them from system to system each week, as they attempt to learn sketchily the style of play of the coming opposition." The Marquette frosh mentor believes it more profitable to drill day after day on Marquette's system of attack and defense, and with their own coaches. Gulfstream Jockies Had Blood Lines Hallandalc, Fla. Not all the blood lines at Gulfstream Park were confined to thoroughbreds. The Hallandalc, seaside, track had four sets of brothers hanking their tack daily in the jockey's room.

Regularly accepting mounts were William and Lois Cook, the Cuban combine of A. J. and F. Fernandez, the McMullen trio of Leo, George and Eddie and the Argentine brothers, Mike and Al Gomez. Fee Klaus President Of Packer Alumni Green Bay Fee Klaus, Packer center of 30 years ago, has been turning in an excellent job as pres- ident of the Alumni club, an or- i ganization of former gridders who played "cash and carry" football for 1 Green Bay.

i He was recently elected presi- dent of the group for his second term. Fee is a native Green Bayian and is employed by Olson Transpor- tation Co. Klaus and Cal Hubbard, the big league baseball umpire who 1 played tackle for the Packers in 1 1'J29-'31, have been the closest of friends for many seasons. BY L. SKFLLF.Y i DeH Moines, la.

A crack I array of track and field athletes set out today in quest of Drake relays championships. The field of 200 teams from 29 universities and 52 colleges from 19 states was pronounced tho best in the 41-year history of the carnival. The Drake publicity bureau's brochure listed nine "probable" records. One of the nine "probables" was the pole vault. Since 1941 Borne of the country's top vaulters have been gunning for the Drake mark of 14 feet 11(j inch, but no one has lived up to expectations.

That new record just didn't materialize. But Drake officials insist this is the year the record by Beefus Bryan of Texas will tumble. They've done everything they can to make the going easier. They relocated the vaulting pit so that competitors will have a 150-feet cinder approach from either side. They restricted junior high school relays youngsters to a lane at least 16 feet from the runway.

Laz Or Carroll? And who is going to deliver the new vault record? They'll tell you it will be Don Laz of Illinois or Bill Carroll of Oklahoma. Maybe both. Carroll soared 14-5 last week at Kansas games for a record. Tha previous record of 14-2 incidentally, was by this same fellow Bryan. Laz narrowly missed Bryan's Drake record last year when he went 14 feet for a first place tie with Harry Cooper of Minnesota.

The latter has been hampered by a wrist injury this season. The vaulters won't maks their MARTIN TO REDSKINS Los Angeles The pro football Hams turned over Jack Martin, a 240-pound center, to the Washington Redskins Thursday. In return they will get an as yet undetermined player one of tho 'Skins better drafters. PHONE 797 Save Money by Installing Flint and Walling Water Systems Any Size Pump or Tank Complete Water System Installation GEORGE FEDERWITZ Odds and Ends Repair Service Ph. 797 131 12th St.

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S-10; B. John-Hou 4-7-10. Phils Trade Blatnik For Pitcher Johnson Philadelphia (.11 Ken Johnson, a fast balling left handed pitcher, joined the Philadelphia Phillies today after being traded by the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Johnny Blatnik. The 27-year-old Johnson won two and lost one for the Cards in the past two years while appearing mostly in relief.

Blatnik divided his time last year between the Phillies and Toronto of the International league. He hit .125, in six games in the National league and in the minor loop for 131 games. Hank Marino has scored more 300 games in American Bowling Congress sanctioned play than any other kegler 11. Baseball I BOWLING Over ED HANSON GIANT HOPK First Baseman Jack Harshman hit 40 home runs for Minneapolis, is the New York Giants' hope for long hall hitter. New York -4JT) Dumb Dan Morgan, half asleep in his chair in the lliC publicity office, opened one eye and asked: "Want to see what the boxing game looks like? Just look at me." And he closed the eye again Hut in the next room there was a little guy who may have it in his power to rouse the game again bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz Manny is flying to South Africa to defend his title against Vic To wee 1, the British Empire, champ, next month A little matter of is' involved, so it isn't surprising that Ortiz annoyed London Promoter Jack Solomons by backing out of a $15,000 affray, an act which put him on the National Boxing Association's suspended list If he wins, Ortiz likely will come right back for a New York fight If not and no less an authority than Nat Fleischer predicts he won't there may be a lot of action among the little guys.

Flaying The Field Toweel, who has been fighting only a year and a half, is a wade-in fighter with plenty of endurance Then there's Luis Romero of Spain, the European champion, who can knock tht'ni out Kit her would he more than welcome here if he had a title to lay on the line And the old-timers hopefully point out that there was a sudden revival of interest in the little guys after Jimmy Wilde, another puncher, came over in 1920 Such fighters as Joe Lynch, Pete Herman, Johnny Huff, Pancbo Villa, Frankie Ge-naro and Fidel Labarba came along and helped keep things lively for nearly a decade Of course, that was a lively decade, though none of their fights appear on the "big gates" list Maybe Dumb Dan was more accurate in his second remark: "The trouble with boxing is that the fighters get too much money." Dean of Pitching When Dizzy Dean visited Ford-ham the other day as part of his good-will and tutoring tour of the DOUBIE RICH KENTUCKY WHISKEY A BLEND. i. i i-- A if 3 tjjj By Hugh A i WJ. HY DION I1F.NHF.KSON Associated Press Outdoor F.ditor You may not have thought of it this way, but lakes often are ruined by people who can't bear the thought of losing them. Luke Koshkonong, Wisconsin's second largest body of inland water, is a case in point.

Koshkonong, within the lifetime, of many slightly bald fellows, was a fabulous wildlife renterboth in game, fish and migratory waterfowl. It died of a common disease: carp. It was brought back to life several times, but suffered quick relapses. At a meeting recently, Jefferson county sportsmen talked the problem over with the conservation commission and the department's top brass. The concensus was that Koshkonong, immensely fertile even now, could come back again in only a year or two.

But likely it won't. At least, past experience in the whole field of human selfishness doesn't promise much. Department Director Ernest Swift told the local boys that carp clearance would have to be done by state crews, taking up where the commercial crews leave off. It would have to be extensive and continuous for a year anyway. And it would have to be repealed at four to five year intervals.

That meant ALL the carp, not just the big ones ready for profitable harvest. Koshkonong wouldn't be operated by the state as a carp farm. Forbid Seining Just how revolutionary this would be locally can he seen by the five-year agreement wangled out of the department in 1048 by Jefferson and Hock county residents, which forbids seining on the lake between June 1 and the end of the duck season each year. That was because the seining crews would disturb fishermen and duck hunters. Boh Schneider of Johnson Creek, a member of the committee that worked out the agreement, said ruefully that the locals "might have been wrong," and added the agreement could be set aside to make way for a clearing project.

However, the commission and department boys have been through this thing before. As Chairman Art Molstad said, "You're speaking for yourselves. But how about repercussions from other sportsmen? Are local colleges, a would-be pitcher asked how to hold the horsehide to throw a fast ball Replied Dizzy: "Son, if you ain't got a fast one, it don't make any matter how you hold the ball." One-Minute Sports Page Hot report from the southwest tells of a publicized footballer who ignored his books and tutors so effectively that the athletic dept. finally coaxed him to "drop out" of school so he could be eligible on reentering next fall Connie Mack has been chosen "Champion Sportsman of the Month" for April a title he deserves with or without the "commercial." And a Red Sox fan argues that Boston censors should bar the Yankees because they have an "objectionable Page." Jorgensen Shoots 386 KT For New Rifle High A new high for the Wisconsin Rapids Rifle club was posted this week by V. Jorgensen when he turned in a score of 38(i to finish far in front in the week's firing.

C. Hin-ners was second with 375. Individual scores: PR SI KN OH C. Johnson 91 92 88 74 348 C. Hinners 90 95 95 8ti L.

Foley 95 90 81 74 310 G. Timm 9(i 88 82 62 32S F. Rohmeyer 92 89 91 71 313 H. Andraska 94 92 87 77 350 L. Stillman 93 83 77 70 323 V.

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Copr. 1930, Schnly Diit. Fronkloit, Ky. ft others called otf. All of which means that the old double headers are piling up pretty fast, localise those games have to be made up.

Especially does it look bad for teams in the Western league, where Colorado Springs plays. This Clas9 A circuit plays 154 games this season, and it is still winter in Denver and Colorado Springs. So they can probably look forward to many a twin-bill between now and next September when the season is scheduled to close, our own season had opened the lime the majors did, we would Tdssibly have been able lo get in three games by now. Other nights the weather was just too cold to play ball, and it wouldn't have been comfortable for any of those nights. We will feel ourselves lucky here if we don't have too many cold weather postponement after the season gels under way next Thursday night.

And Superior is worse off than we are here. They had 11 inches of snow on the field on Wednesday morning. A TOUCH LKAGL'K It looks as though this old state league is going to be plenty toutfh this season if one is to believe the optimistic notes coming from other camps. Our own White Sox are definitely stronger than they were when they opened the season last year, and if these rookie pitchers who look fo good in training camp, can come through in championship competition, the Sox might be tougher than we think, counting on a little help from the upper strata. Hut papers all around the circuit, yiih the possible exception of Wau-sau, have hit optimistic notes this Hiring, Janesville expects to be much better, with several of their better players from last year back for another whirl at the Badgerland loop.

Sheboygan reportedly is getting Lowell Grosskopf, a no-hit spinner twice in 1948, back on their roster for 1950. And one really good pitch- Ccan keep a club up there. Fond Lac is optimistic, and the Vanes will likely give them a good team as there was some dissatisfaction with the clubs of the past two years. Manager Dave Garcia of Oshkosh has boen quoted as saying, "Oshkosh rhould have a first division team, and another pennant is not just a remote possibility." That indicates Garcia must be fairly well satisfied with his chances. Appleton looks to Joe Skurski to field a strong club in Lis first year as manager, and the Browns might field a strong team there.

Green looks for a fast ftart. The team is fast, we can say from observation. Art Daley of the Green Hay Press-Gazette, reports that the six limited servicemen listed on the Green Pay roster hit only a collective .235 last season, l'hil Seghi himself told me that his club was sadly lacking in power. But he will get good pitching and excellent fielding and speed could win pome games for the Jays, who will be in the thick of the fight. With all these optimistic notes, it iooks very much as though the 1950 season should prove an interesting one from the start.

And don't over, look what promises to be a real battle of the managers. There are no less than four real veterans in the managerial game in Hauser, Johnny Kerr, Kruno Haas and Joe Skurski. Add lo this the fact that Phil Seghi Dave (iarcia matched wits with rr state loop pilots last season that Matty Mafulis at Janesville is no novice in the field, and you see that these boys will be really matching wits. The only youngster at the helm will he Wayne Tucker at Fond du Lac, and he is regarded as a phrewd baseball man. It is entirely possible that in the early stages these battles of the managers will overshadow the play on the field.

We will get a good ex-umple of it right here in Wisconsin Itnpids when the season starts on May 4. Johnny Kerr and Joe Hauser mixed in many stirring battle in 194S and Kerr is looking forward to those meetings ngain in You can rest assured they will try fvery trick in the book in that, first frame or the first series each trying to get off to a winning start. And don't be at all surprised if tho Sox look at the slants of Grosskopf in that first game. The record for number of games played by a first baseman in a lifetime is still held by Jacob C. Fleck-ley.

He played from 1888 to 1907 games. Second is Lou Gehrig with 2143. BASEMENT DIGGING icavating and Trucking For Free Estimate Call Freeburg Trucking Wisconsin Rapids 1 195M Or Rudolph 701 Wisconsin's Trout and Panfish Season to Open Madison Second major swingout of Wisconsin's fishermen is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a. m. Trout and panfish seasons open in most state waters containing these species.

However, heavily ice sheeted waters in northern counties will necessitate changes in plans for many sportsmen. The ice fishing season ended March 15, and state regulations prohibit any fishing except in open waters. The trout season also begins in Michigan's upper peninsula, a favorite area for many Badgers, Saturday. Biggest concentration of trout fishermen is expected in Waushara and Winnebago counties, along the Kinnikinic liver in St. Croix county and Brule river in Douglas county, although wintry conditions may keep away a number of fishermen in the last two haunts.

Daily trout limit will be 10, with a size minimum of six inches. The season will end September 7. A catch limit of 25 will be effective for panfish in all counties. There is no size limitation. The season will extend until next March 15.

Opening day for walleyes and northern pike will be May 13, and for black bass June 20. Muskics will be legal game May 25. Opening of the pike, bass, crappies, suckers, sunfish, blucgills, smelt, bullheads, perch and catfish season in Wolf, Fox, Winnebago and other specified waters was April 15. George Sprecher, assistant conservation department director, reported that 1,000,000 legal size hatchery-reared trout were planted this spring, some of them up to three pounds. Sprecher estimated that close to 88,000 sportsmen would fish for trout, a particularly attractive target in spring, and at least twice that many would try their luck at catching panfish this weekend.

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Another reason to bay Celotex is because we sell it. NOW ON SAL! va "Opening Night" Tickets at Regular Prices Available at Many Wisconsin Rapids Business Places and from Various Individuals. Men 60 Students 25c Women 40 Children 9c (Grandstand 10c Ktra lO-damo Nooks: Men's, Women's $4 Regular Ticket Depots: Church's and Daly Drug Stores, I plow and Brig CKANDSTAM) SEASON RESERVED: $15 (Special Section With B.uk Rests) (All Admission Prices Listed Include Tax) Season Reserved Obtainable at Wisconsin Rapids Haseball Club Office in Hotel Dixon or bv Teleplioninji- 229 ECONOMY Lumber Supply Phone 915-W 1130 6th St. So..