Muncie Evening Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 25

Marts fe THE SCORE BOARD PHOENIX, March 31. (JP) The New York Giants appear almost a sure thing to be named the year's most unpredictable major league team. Trampled 22-9 by the lowly St. Louis Browns on Tuesday, the Polo Grounders vented their ire Lefty Ed Lopat worked what normally is a full game. He gave way after nine innings to Clarence Marshall who received credit for the victory when the Yanks whipped the Reds, 7-6, in 11 innings.

The Yanks moved to Braden-ton today to meet the Boston Braves. assignment against the San Antonio club of the Texas League. Ralph Branca went all the way yesterday against- Beaumont, another Texas League outfit, as the Dodgers posted a 14-2 decision on a muddy field. He gave up four hits including a home run to Keith Thomas. He struck out one and walked six.

ORLANDO, Fla March 31. UP Owner' Clark Griffith today predicted his Washington Senators would finish the American League season in first division. "I don't see four clubs good enough to keep us cut of it," he said. The Senators finished seventh last year. The Senators lost their seventh ST.

PETERSBURG, Fla, March 31 OP) Things were looking tip today for the New York Yankees. The ailing Joe DiMaggio has played his first game; a pitcher had gone nine innings and a four-game losing streak was broken. DiMaggio played six innings against Cincinnati yesterday. game in 12 exhibition starts yesterday, 7-4, to the Philadelphia Phils. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 31.

(JP) For the next two weeks Brooklyn pitchers will go as far as the other teams will let them, Manager Burt Shotten said today. Lefty Joe Hatten drew today's Official Ohio-Indiana League Schedule, 1949 tune of 11-4." The loss was the first in 11 games for the Pirates and only their fourth in 18 starts during the exhibition season. Even more encouraging than their attack which included three home runs, was the Giants' pitching. Clint fiartung, who worked seven innings, was the winner. TAMPA, March 31.

(JPh-The Cincinnati Reds returned here for a four-game stand today after bowing to the New York Yankees 7-6 yesterday in 11 innings. Manager Bucky Walters named Walked Cress and Frank. Fanovich to pitch against Washington today. Walters still is undecided on an outfield. His latest plan was to use Rookie Lloyd Merriman as regular centerfielder with Hank Sauer and Danny Litwhiler holding down left and right, respec tively, against southpaw pitchers, and Johnny Wyrostek and Frank Baumholtz working against right handers.

TUCSON, March 31. (JP) Joe (Flash) Gordon, the Cleve land Indians' star second baseman has been ordered to rest-a sore throwing arm after examination disclosed strained ligaments. Johnny Berading replaced Gordon against the Chicago White Sox yesterday and smashed three singles in four trips as the Tribe beat the Pale Hose 8 to 4. The Tribe will meet the Sox again today. LAKELAND, March St.

(JP) Detroit Tiger Manager Red Rolfe is just about ready to plunk for a rule barring extra-inning baseball games. The Tigers went 12 innings yesterday in Sarasota with the Boston Red Sox, adhered strictly to the script and lost 1 to 0 when Vera (Junior) Stephens clouted a game-wrecking homer with two men out in the third extra frame That makes four times this spring Detroit has played overtime in the Grapefruit League without winning. The Tigers tied one game. BRADENTON, March 31. (JP) Boston's defending National League champion Braves are expected to sign a contract today.

agreeing to return here next spring. Tribal officials conferred yesterday with Mayor A. Sterling Hall and have another huddle listed for today. The close prox imity of other big league clubs' training grounds is expected to sway the warriors away from Miami which, its bright lights, has been wooing the Boston club. SARASOTA, March 31.

(JP) The Boston Red Sox will leave four of their top players Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr. Dom Di- (Contlnued on Page Twenty-seven) AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT SPRINGFIELD PORTSMOUTH RICHMOND MUNCIE MARION LIMA NEWARK ZANESVTLLE May (30, 30) May 3.4 Mayl0.ll May 12, 13 nr an June 18, 19, 20 June 14, 15 June 16, 17 May 31, June 1 June 2, June 9, 10 June 11, 12, 12 SPRINGFIELD KCA1I Aug. 11, 12 July 19, 20 July 16, 17, 18 June 30, July 1 July 2 3 July 12, 13 July 14, 15 Aug. 27, 28, 28 Sept. 2, 3, 4 Aug.

30731, Sept. 1 Aug. 7, 7, 8, 9 Aug. 3, 4, 5, 6 Aug. 19, 20, 21, 23 Aug.

23, 24, 25 May 28. 29, 29 May 17, 18 May 3, 4 May 12, IS May 10, 11 July (4, 4) TUC June 14, 15 May 31, June 1 June 9, 10 PORTSMOUTH lilt July 16, 17. 18 July 19, 20 July 2, 3 June SO, July 1 July 14, 15 July 11, 12, IS Sept. (5, 5) Aug. 30, 31, Sept.

1 Sept. 2, 3, 4 Aug. 3, 4, 5, 6 Aug. 7, 8, 9, 10 Aug. 23, 24, 25, 26 Aug.

21. 21. 22 May 19, 20 May 21, 22, 23 May 28, 29, 29 May 10, 11 May 12, 13 May 3, 4 June 21, 22 June, 23, 24 DDECC July (4, 4) June 9, 10 June 11, 12 May 31, June 1 June 2,3 RICHMOND July 23, 24, 24, 25 July 21, 22 rnLdO Aug. 10, 11 July 12, 13 July 14, 15 June 30, July 1 July 2, 3. 8 Sept.

7, 8 Sept. 9, 10, 11 Aug. 27,28, 28 Aug. 19, 20, 21, 21 Aug. 23, 24, 25, 26 Aug.

6, 7, 8, 9 Aug. 3, 4, 5 May 21, 22. 22 May (30,30) May 10, 11 June 23, 24 June 2122 June 18, 19, 20 EftD June 11, 12, 12 June 9, 10 June 2, 3 May 31, June 1 MUNCTS July 21, 23 July 23, 24 24. 25 July 9, 10. 11 Mill July 14, 15 July 12, 13 July, 2, 8 June SO, July 1 Sept.

10, 11, 11 Sept. 7, 8 Sept. (5,5) Aug. 23, 24, 25 Aug. 19, 20, 21, 22 Aug.

2, 3, 4, 5 Aug. 6, 7, 7, 8 May 5, 6 May.7,8,8 April 26, 27 April 28, 29 May (t3-0A May 21, 22. 23 May 19, 20 June 7, 8 May 26, 27 May 24, 25 TUC June 23, 24 June 21, 23 MARION jy St 6 juiy 7f june 25, 26, 27 June 28, 29 (4N) 9 10 11 July 21, 22 July 23, 24. 24. 25 Aug.

16, 17, 18 Aug. 13, 14. 15 July 28, 29 July 30, 31, 31 Aug. 1 AnS; Sept. 9, 10, 11 Sept.

7, 8 Sept. (5A) May 7, 8. 8 May 5, 6 April 28, 29 April 26, 27 May 28, 29, 29, (SON) May 19, 20 May 21, 22. 22 June 7, 8 June 4, 5, 5 May 26, 27 a ii i I ATCCT June 21, 22 June 23, 24 July 7, 8 July 5, 6 June 28, 29 June 25, 26, 20 a LA I CO I July 23, 24, 25, 26 July 21, 23 Aug. 13, 14, 14 i Aug.

16, 17, 18 July SO, 31(Aug. 1, 2 July 27, 28, 29 Sept. (5N) Sept. 7, 8 Sept. 10, 11.

11 April 26, 27 April 28, 29 May 5, 6 May 7, 8. 8, May 17, 18 May 15, 16 Jtmel9AN' May 24, 25 June 4, 5, 6 June 7, 8 June 16, 17 June 13, 14, 15 DflRT (4N 10A NEWARK June 25, 26. 26 June 28, 29 July 5, 6 July 7, 8 July 16, 17, 17 9 July 19, 20 IUHI JnJ 5 iv July 27, 28, 29 July 30, 31, 31. Aug. 1 Aug.

16, 17, 18 Aug. IS, 14. 15 Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 1 Sept.

2, 3, 4 Sept (5A) 1 May 29A. (30N) April 28, 29 April 26, 27 May 7, 8. 9 May 5, 6 May 14, 15, 13 May 17, 18 May 24, 25 June 7, 8 July (4A) 10N IJFWC ZANESVILLE June 28, 29 June 25, 26. 26 July 7, 8 July 5, 6 July 19, 20 July 16,17. 18 Aug 11 27 28A July 30, 31, 31, Aug.

1 July 27,28, 29 Aug. 13, 14, 15 Aug. 16, 17, 18 Sept. 3, 4, 4 Aug. 30, 31, Sept.

1 Sept (5N)' i 1 against the pennant-contending Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday to the Moving may file claim for the title through an elimination involving Freddy Mills. Bruce Woodcock and others How silly can the boxing racket get? BY HARRY GRAYSON. IT1AMPA, March 31. (NEA) Speaking at the Governor's Dinner for baseball people in Florida, Commissioner Happy Chandler added-another dramatic chapter to Vernon Stephens' flight from Mexico in the spring of 1946. Chandler had served notice that Mexican Jumping Beans who re turned to the fold by opening day would be restored to good stand ing.

When the panting Junior Ste phens reached the border and Laredo, Texas, at midnight, he immediately telephoned Chandler" at his old Kentucky home to make certain that this went for him. It did, and the Browns again had the shortstop and hitter who two years later helped Dick Muckerman get out of baseball hock through his sale to the affluent Red Sox. Had not Stephens got a belly full of the Mexican League early, or quicker than that, organized baseball no doubt now would have another suit on its hands. riTEPHENS, like Danny Gardella of the Giants, did not, in the strictest sense, break a contract. The Long Beach Lollapalooza was holding out when he went down Mexico way.

All he violated was the one-sided reserve clause, which for years has bound the peons to the same outfit season after season, regardless of conditions. Chandler spoke of a 1912 Supreme Court decision in the Baltimore case which read that baseball was nothing more than an exhibition producing nothing, and therefore wasn't involved in interstate commerce, even though' it operated across stattf lines. Times have changed. Larry MacPhail parlayed a comparatively small investment in the Yankees into nearly $2,000,000 in two years. Fred M.

Saigh helped Bob Hannegan finance the purchase of tha Cardinals, and the former Postmaster General got out with a lukewarm $1,000,000 in exactly one year, "TTTHIZ KIDS with th Phillies literally make them a grow- ing club. Curt Simmons, 19: Richie Ash burn, Granville Hammer and Robin Roberts, 22; Del Ennis, Puddin' Head Jones and Catcher Stan Lopata, 23, all are bigger than they were last fall, Outfielder Ashburn, the fastest thing in baseball shoes, is an inch- and-a-half, Southpaw Simmons an inch taller. Young Ashburn is an old-fashioned base-running ballplayer, and there is room for a lot more of them. Mostly anybody can hit a home run nowadays. It would be highly interesting to have a little more along the Ty Cobb line.

There is much more to baseball than muscle, although admittedly the latter helps. "TTTAITE HOYT, the old Yankee yy pitcher now ballcasting in Cincinnati, puts the better ballplayers in two classes constructive and sustaining. Center Fielder Johnny Groth of the Tigers, for example, appears to be the newest constructive player. As Red Rolfe points SUNDAY DATES STARRED. HOLIDAY DATES IN BRACKETS.

A AFTERNOON. Earth Will E7 EVENING MUNCI Even If No Champion Selected 6d If PACE 25 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949 ALLSTATE BATTERIES IPS CCeglers of Central West Leading Four ABC Tourney Events ATLANTIC CITY, N. March 31 (iP) It was apparent today rllf.V.l.'iida. Q033JB usw that the nation's best bowlers come from the Middlewest and the Middle Atlantic states. With just 10 days left in the 57-day American Bowling Congress tournament, the top spots in four events belonged to Middle Westerners.

Jimmie Smiths of South Bend, with a 3,027 score is the team leader. Bernard Busche of St. Bernard, Ohio, is in the singles No. 1 position with 716. John Small of Chicago is top man in all-events with 1,941.

The doubles lead belongs to two Wisconsin Bowlers, ALLSTATE Economy best Front End and Frame men in Indiana. We will give your car (any make) a COMPLETE FRONT END ALIGNMENT 7 flfl for the low price of UU Oliver Auto Body Co. 1827 East 12th St. Phone 5535 Guaranteed 12 Months fj 45 Reg. 8.45 Installed Live power for at least a year, priced to prove value! 39 heavy-duty plates, 80 amp.

hr. Repower your car now with that longer guaranteed ALLSTATE now. ALLSTATE Regular 5 75 Guaranteed 18 Months (Q) Reg. 9.75 Installed Quick, sure starting at lower cost! 45 heavy-duty plates, 90 amp. hr.

No-spill caps. Priced lower, guaranteed longer for its powerful performance. t. ALLSTATE 100 amp. hr.

Cross-Country Guaranteed 24 Months. Priced lower than i i .25 NIGHT. Continue change hands two or three times in each territory, without anybody having a clean cut claim on the thing. In the midst of all this England ALLSTATE THl tIGHT WAY TO SAY BATTERIES Oil Bottle and Spout 39c Quart size. Legal measure.

Metal screw spout. Will pour at any angle. Glass bottle. Barrel Faucet 89c For oil, gas or alcohol. Self-closing hand level operation.

All metal. A buy! Allstate Grease Gun 3.69 2 Lever type ac- tion. Universal, nozzle for hy- draulic or Zerk I fittings. A buy at Sears today! mm -anrrti. -i irtirf- he's the type you can build a club around.

Lonnie Frey typified the sus taining player. He played the same second base and hit the same way for a -first or seventh-place club He just kept the ball rollin'. He didn't help too much, and did no harm, but it's not good to have too many of his kind in the same party. Superior clubs throw four some times five, stickout hitters, or con structive athletes, into the bat ting order. The fourth or fifth one breaks the opposing pitcher's back.

The ballplayer who cannot be listed as either constructive or sustaining is pretty bad, and it is astonishing how many of them move in and out of the majors. OPEN TO VISITORS. MIAMI, March 31. Now that racing is over, Hialeah Park has been re-opened to sightseers. More than a half-million visitors are expected between race meet- Line Up WITH BEAR We believe that we have in ROBERT CARTER, one of the thctfc SHAVERS FOX fh Schkk Shavftt Action.

The handy automatic wall-holder for any Schick Electric Shaver. Shuts off current automatically. Zips up cord. Only $7.95 mint PRESS Probe Set on Fatality in Boxing Ring SAN JOSE, CaL, March 31. (INS) San Jose authorities and officials of the California Athletic Commission today were gathering information on a fatal boxing match injury in preparation for a formal hearing next Monday.

Investigation centered on the padding of the ring canvas where Billy Cornwell, 24, Des Moines, lightweight, fell Tuesday night. Cornwell was kayoed by a right to the jaw from his opponent, "Tote" Martinez of Stockton, and died yesterday without regain ing consciousness- Ringside observers agreed that neither boxer had suffered unusual punishment but all said that Cornwell's head struck the canvas wfth a resounding thud. ACCORDING TO California law the protective padding on the ring floor should be two inches thick. At least one witness to the fight, San Jose police chief Ray Black-more said the padding was only "about, one-inch" thick. Two inspectors for the athletic commission said, however, that the padding met regulations.

Col. David Tod Gilmore and John Horan, of the commission staff, said they inspected the ring before the fight and found it measured up to standards. Dr. Anthony G. Badami, commission physician and also a spectator, said that Cornwell suffered concussion and possible blood clot on the brain.

Death came nearly 12 hours after the boxer was knocked out. District Attorney N. J. Menard said no action would be taken against the dead fighter's op- ponent, Martinez, but promised a full investigation of the fight which ended in the ninth round. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT ST.

LOUIS Jackie Graves, lttVi, Austin, outpointed Teddy "Red Top" Dmvis, St. Louis, 10. PHOENIX. Ariz. Mtxie Docusen, 131.

New Orleans, knocked out Pedro Ramirez, i 129. Mexico City, 4. BINGHAMTON, N. T. Jimmy King.

151, i Wilkes-Barre, outpointed Bobby Mann, 153. Trenton N. 10. DES MOINES Bobby Carew, ISO, Des Moines, outpointed Gene Spencer, 131, Chi- i cago. 10.

JERSEY CITY, N. J. Joe Cheshul. Bayonne. outpointed Irisn Berne All OYtlERS OF BY LAVVTON CARVER.

NEW YORK, March 31. (INS) One of the most interesting aspects of the snarled up heavyweight situation is the conviction among some people that the world will quit spinning if another champion is not crowned before the summer is over. This even seems to be the view-; point of many persons who have nothing to win or to lose, whether there is or there isn't a reigning titleholder. The promoters, managers and others closely identified with boxing, of course, insist that a successor to Joe Louis be established at once because they have a stake in the proposition. HOWEVER, if no champion were to be crowned this summer or even next, it wouldn't make any appreciable difference, except to those directly interested.

They won't be able to establish an undisputed champion or one likely to receive public acclaim with a Jersey Joe Walcott-Ezzard Charles match, as planned for Chicago in June. The winner of that will get Na tional Boxing Association recognition, but still will be merely a contender insofar as New York is concerned. The majority of boxing fans probably will want to know what happens in subse quent bouts before getting on that bandwagon. The winner must beat the rest of the field and he still won't be the kind of fighter generally on top of the heap. If that winner then gets rid of Lee Savold, Gus Lesnevich and a few more men in that category decisively we can agree that he is the best heavyweight in the business; at the moment and, therefore, the! champion.

i BUT ANY ONE of a half dozen 1 men may beat any of the rest at any time though the sheer mediocrity of the heavyweights currently in action. They can't settle anything with one fight and posibly not with two. they need a real elimination, which conceivably would eliminate everybody, and that should be all right, too. However, the thing has been set for one-fight test by the NBA, with the understanding that the cham-j pion then will meet the outstanding challenger in three months. Presumably, if the champion were to lose that one, the new! champion must then meet the out- standing within three months, and the result of this might be a set of four champions with in a year.

Daffy as tht it would be possible. Meantime the New; York Commission might come up with its champion or series of champions. It would be unique and confusing, but interesting if in a period of a year or so the title were to SPECIAL SALE! On items which we have discontinued distribution. Make your spray outfit. Bronze spray pumps equipped with tractor take-off or separate 2-cylinder gasoline engine.

15' aluminum booms and nozzles. Limited supply at bargain prices. Mid-Stafes Sales, Inc. 2415 S. Macedonia Ave.

Muncie, Ind. most batteries with shorter guarantees. Reg. 12.25 ALLSTATE 110 amy. hr.

Super Battery Guaranteed 30 Months. 51 plates for su- i r.25 per power. Life-wear rubber separators. 10 Reg. 16.25 Installed and your old battery.

Size for moit ear. GHHD QGBB 11 Installed SALE! Quality STATION Ph. 3-1411 Donald Van Boxel of Green Bay and Gene Bernhardt of Sturgeon Bay. MICHIGAN BOWLERS hold eight places in the first 10 of the four events. Illinois is a close second with seven places.

Indiana and Ohio have five places each. The Middle, Atlantic leader is Pennsylvania with six places. Other states represented in the lists are New York Wisconsin and Missouri, 2 each; and New Jersey, West Virginia and Texas, one each. Texas broke into the standings yesterday. For a while it looked as if Carl Richards and Jim Vaughn of Dallas would make a splash as big as their state.

They came up for their third game in doubles with a 451 and 490. A 400 score would have put them out in front by nine pins. But, they ran into splits four in a row and finished with 373 and a 1,314 total. That gave them second place in doubles. Pennsylvania gained its sixth place on a 1,283 doubles score that put Tom Marotta and Perry San- tilli of Philadelphia in sixth position.

The Standing: Donald Van Boxel. Green Bay-Gene Bernhardt, Sturgeon Bay, 1,332. Carl Richards-Jim Vaughn, Dallas, Texas, 1,314. Charles Carnegie-Ed Montgomery. Philadelphia, 1,306.

Frank Chismar-Wilson Hark-ness, North Braddock, 1,297. Johnny Small-C a 1 Bergern, Chicago, 1,294. Tom Marotta-Perry Santilli, Philadelphia, 1,283. Dewey Caskey-Harry Workman, Akron, Ohio, 1.2S1. Chester Bukowski-Louis Sielaff, Detroit, 1,275.

Robert Rack-Will rd Anderson, Chicago, 1,273. Bud Stroster-Morris Kallay, Detroit, 1,269. (No other changes). COACH AT PRINCETON TAKES MICHIGAN POST PRINCETON, 111., March SL OP) Al Lewis resigned yesterday as Princeton High School athletic coach and director to become football coach at Niles (Mich.) High School. The 32-year-old navy veteran said he will go to Niles the first week of June and will act as recreation director for the city during the summer.

He is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College. i SPRING OIL Allstate Premium Bulk Price )C Gal. Schick Just Friday and Saturday left, Only two more days in which you jean have a factory expert tune up your Schick Electric Shaver. So Hurry, hurry, hurry if you i want your Schick cleaned, adjusted and lubricated ab solutely free. The factory expert will fur nish genuine Schick parts, if necessary, at factory prices.

Get your Schick and get going before the factory expert is gone 6hverst-Trdemrk i Stuck, Inc. COSMETICS, Street Floor Ik 54-Gallon Drum 36.50 9 ways superior to regular oil in performance, it cools, less. Buy now and save! cleans, and clings to hot spots. Costs you decidedly "SattyacZto ft II DC SERVICE 15 S. High Mitchell, 188, Detroit, 10..