Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 16

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HORNER MOTOR COMPANY Inc 4 i I i rw'' WINTER RED CROWN'S AST IRING ORMULA PASSES TESTS AT PELOW ZERO AT MOORHEADMINN CHEVROLET the Air orce at Westover Mass Robert Des Rouches catcher from Charleston Dick head ttandard fluipmtnt and trim lllutfraltd it dapandant on availability at malarial) the 140 1 MORE CHEVROLET TRUCKS IN USE THAN ANY OTHER MAKE I Johnson said the judge brings in a decision we will know what we can and do in restricting baseball broadcasts and telecasts Of course JOURNAL AND COURIER LAAYETTE IND switchboard eral anti trust suit against the Na Christmas tional ootbal league CHICAGO The Chicago Cubs had 25 players under con tract for the coming season yes terday with the signing of Pitch ers Omar (Turk) Lown Johnny Klippstein and red Richards rookie first sacker is a graduate from the Des Moines club in the Western league He batted 289 in 126 games for Des Moines last season we have to be extremely careful so as not to be involved in any con spiracy to restrain CLEVELAND The Cleve land Indians yesterday the signing of four more players to 1953 contracts Pitcher Bob Hooper and Outfielders Herbie Adams Jim ridley and Al Smith Quits Grid Job DUBUQUE la (AP) riend resigned yesterday as football coach at Loras college ef fective June 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) Carlos Bernier 24 year old rookie out fielder returned his signed 1953 contract yesterday to the Pitts burgh Pirates Bernier a native of Mayaguez Porto Rico hit 301 for Hollywood and led the Pacific Coast league in stolen bases last year with 65 Returning from a western tour Pirate Vice President Branch Rickey Jr expressed satisfaction over his talks with such Buc players as home run king Ralph Kiner even though Kiner said as much about a request to cut his salary Jose Calif vice the Santa Clara system testified station KSJO lost Wins 4th Straight I NEW1 YORK Trio consistent Do Report made It four straight this winter when he de feated nine other crack sprinters in the $4500 thoroughbred purse one of the main events at Hialeah park yesterday The 4 year rold son of Priam 2nd Nuafa blazed over the six furlongs in 1:11 45 in scoring by 2 lengths rrom wayne Kancns 20 chance Corfel and paid $1400 $850 and $470 Corfel paid $1570 and Lauds Card Choice DALLAS (AP) Hampton Pool who succeeded Joe Stydahar as coach of the Los Angeles Rams after a dispute with Jumbo Joe yesterday said the Chicago Cardi nals had picked an outstanding coach when they hired Stydahar selection of Stydahar gives the Cards a really outstanding coach for the first time in recant Pool said here between planes Stydahar told Los Angeles owner Dan Reeves to choose between him and his assistant Pool after the two coaches had a dispute Reeves took Poors side and paid off dahar Heavier stronger more dur able frames increase rigid ity add to ruggedness and stamina of 1953 Chevrolet trucks Seeks Match BERLIN (AP) German promot er Joachim Goettert said yesterday he hoped to match featherweight champion Sandy Saddler now a Army private against a Ger man for a Berlin fight March 20 Goettert left for Wuerzburg in the American zone where the New York Negro is stationed to ask Sandy to meet Werner Handke German light and welterweight champion New stamina plus extra gaso line economy in heavy duty models with Loadmaster en gine reduces hauling costs per ton mile i CLEVELAND Left ield er Dale Mitchell yesterday became the first high paid star for the Cleveland Indians to return his signed contract While ojher on the Indians like Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia argued for more contract came in calling for what is reported to be $35000 This is a few thousand more than he is believed to have received last year Outside of the pitching staff that probably makes Mitchell the highest paid player on the team With a 317 lifetime average Mitch ell has the highest batting mark of any other active player in the American league The Indians now have signed 21 Here is a list of some of the un signed: Lemon Garcia Early Wynn Lou Brissie Luke Easter Larry Doby Bob Avila and Bob eller PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Athletics announced yesterday receipt of the signed contract of veteran uatener Astroth Astroth who has been with club since 1949 batted 249 in games last season and had 36 runs batted in contract was announc ed by General Manager Art Ehlers who also took occasion to deny a report current here that a trade with the Cleveland Indians for HORNER Vice President SIXTH and COLUMBIA STS PH 2 0194 aster starts from fast firing molecules When the spark hits the fast firing molecules of Winter Red Crown win ter ready cars start like a flash! Saved in refriger ated tanks in warm weather these highly vol atile molecules are added to Winter Red Crown in just the right amount to get you started fast the the and the Cleveland Browns 24 17 to win the world pro crown In the midst of reported dissen tion Stydahar quit the Ram organi zation early last fall and hooked up aa a scout and part time assistant coach with the Green Bay Packers Wolfner said the Cardinals sug gested one assistant to Stydahar who was not identified The pos sibility that the new coach might acquire a former Ram aide Line Coach Ray Richards was squelched today NL Commissioner Bert Bell said that Richards who left the Rams when Stydahar quit was under verbal contract to the new Baltimore entry in the league Stydahar conversed with Bell today in an effort to clear the status of Richards During his two seasons as top man for the Rams won 17 and lost seven games Stydahar inherits a Cardinal team which had a 4 8 record last season finishing in a divisional tie for last with the Washington Redskins At Los Angeles Stydahar said his immediate concern was to develop a good formation quarterback Last season the Cards had little success with Charley Trippi a fine all around back and Don Panciera alternating at quarterback under Kuharich's formation In the recent NL draft the Cards came up with Ronnie Morris of Tulsa Jim Root of Miami (Ohio) Dale Samuels of Purdue and Jim Lear of Missis sippi as quarterbacks avor Martinez NEW YORK Vince Mar tinez "Rookie of the in 1952 opens campaign for a first ten ranking in tonight when he takes on hard punching but wide open Carmine iore Of Brooklyn at Madison Square Gar den The handsome 23 year old Pater 4 son puncher is a 4 to 1 favorite to make the 23 year old iore his 13th straight victim in the welterweight ten rounder The 5 9 (CST) scrap will be tele 1 cast (NBC) and broadcast (ABC) 108 hp Loadmastcr engine on 5000 and 6000 Scries heavy duty and for ward control models op tional on 4000 Series heavy duty trucks 4 powerful reasons why you get more of what you want HORNER President 12th and MAIN STS PHONE 2 0194 Jockey Killed in all AVith Mount OLDSMAR la (AP) Jockey Edward Danhauer died yesterday a few minutes after his mount broke a leg fell and roled over him in the fifth race at Sunshine park Danhauer was riding White Boots in the six furlong race The acci dent occurred near the 5 furlong pole The 24 year old jockey was rushed to Mease hospital at nearby Dune din where he died He never re gained consciousness He received a broken neck multiple skull frac tures and a broken arm His father Alton Danhauer of Orleans was at the bedside when the young rider died mount was fifth in the 10 horse field when he broke hi left leg All entries were close ly bunched at the time Get Ready ridden by Leroy Pierce also fell in the same acci dent stumbling over White Boots Pierce was only shaken by the fall Danhauer had ridden two winners this season at Sunshine park which opened its season Jan 15 Danhauer was always among the top riders at Sunshine until last year when bad luck dogged him He was the third leading rider at the track in 1951 Memorial services for the New Orleans jockey will be held at Sun shine today In the feature race Tony De Spirito who set a new riding record of 390 wins in a single year drove home again for his only winning mount in seven times up The James Carr mount won by six length Considers Post CHAPEL HILL (AP) Carl Wise head football coach Washington and Lee university visited here yesterday and took under consideration an opportunity to join the University of North Carolina staff as backfield coach George Barclay newly appointed head coach of the Tar Heels was in consultation with Wise during most of the day Predicts Knockout SUMMIT (UP) Welter weight champion Kid Gavilan of Cuba predicted confidently Thurs day he would knock out southpaw Chuck Davey at the Chicago sta dium on eb 11 in the or eighth and then shoot for the middleweight title The 27 year old champion figures that Davey will try to make a and fight of It at Chicago But he said the challenger runs the champion have to run after Gavilan said Davey might sur prise him and last more than eight rounds but if be does the Kid believes can take him out in any round after the Gavilan training here at camp said he scaled only 149 pounds and woujjfr have no diffi culty whatever getting down to the 147 pound limit by eb 11 Gavilan said he wanted to step out of the welterweight division after the Davey defense because he had lost interest in the class He said there was only Johnny Saxton left in the 147 pound divi sion to give him Interesting com petition or to draw money after he disposes of Davey However the middleweight divi sion is packed with talent and with drawing cards he pointed out and it is commanding most attention because of the vacant 160 pound crown Gavilan believes he can beat anyone in the tournament includ ing the top contenders Randy Tur pin of England and Carl (Bobo) Olson of Hawaii Gavilan explained that he had already defeated prominent middle weight contenders like Paddy Young Walter Cartier Laurent Dauthuille and Eugene Hairston Robert Ville main of rance won a disputeddecision over the Kid but Gavilan said really beat Says Way Clear for Shift of Brownies MILWAUKEE Sports Ed itor Lynch of the Milwaukee Journal said in fe signed story yes terday that conviction of red Saigh St Louis Cardinal owner on income tax evasion charges "might produce a major league club Milwaukee" Saigh was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment Wednesday in ed eral court at St Louis after plead ing no defense to two counts of a tax evasion indictment situation has been brewing In St Louis for some time and the" sentencing of Saigh could bring it to a boil at the New York meeting of the two big leagues this week said Lynch may decide that the ex pected sale of the Cardinals makes this a good time to solve the St Louis problem by moving one club to another city That would be the Browns because the Cardinals have had much better patronage" Lynch said that rederick Mil? ler president of a brewery here indicated that he was not inter ested when Cardinals and the rest of the Saigh baseball holdings were offered him for also rejected recently a proposition whereby he could have brought the Browns to Milwaukee ujr uver opurusiuani par ownersnip of which virtually ties them to St Lynch said "The baseball moguls (at the New York meeting) could arrange for the new Cardinal owners to take over the ball park and leave the Browns free to Miller was en route to his winter home in Phoenix Ariz yesterday by automobile and could not be reached for comment DETROIT (AP) The Detroit TigerM announced yesterday the signing of eight rookies including a Western Michigan college stu dent to Tiger farm club contracts The student is Robert Payne an 18 year old left handed pitcher from Kecgo Harbor Mich who worked out at the Tigers tryout camp at Briggs stadium last sum mer Others are: John Joseph Locke 18 of River side Conn a catcher Robert John Shaw 19 a righthander from Gar den City Long Island and a 1950 graduate of Kimball Union academy Maurice Milton Kelley 21 a righthander of Greenwood Miss who was recently discharged rrom ield 19 a Also Roy A McKay 18 a left hander from London Ontario James Johnson 18 of Rich mond Calif who caught for res no State college in California and rancis Dale of Ventnor City NJ a 23 year old lefthanded pitch er who spent two years at Duke university before he entered the Army for service in Germany He was discharged recently BOSTON (AP) Centerfielder Sam Jethroe yesterday signed his 1953 contract with the Boston Braves and then returned to his home in Erie Pa General Manager John Quinn said Jethroe made a special trip here to sign SAYS TV COULD DESTROY MINORS President of Western Loop Cites Dangers of Unre stricted Video NEW YORK Sen Edwin Johnson (D Colo) said Thursday major league baseball had created a situation through unrestricted radio and television broadcasts that completely destroy the minor leagues" Johnson president of the Western league spoke before the major minor league committee which has been set up to investigate the ef fects of radio and television on baseball attendance in general The committee met for the first time since it was appointed last month in Phoenix Ariz by ord rick commissioner of baseball work today is exploratory" said rank Shaughnessy president of the International league and chainman of the committee "We want to hear from Sen Johnson and from various others in both the majors and minors and then we want to study our findings and report back to the mid summer baseball meetings which will be held imBoston next Johnson who has submitted a resolution on behalf of the minors asking that they be financially reimbursed for losses suffered through major league radio and television broadcasts said en tire matter could get completely out of hand if we do something "The ederal Communications commission right now has applica tions for more than 1000 new tele vision Johnson said you imagine how baseball would be affected in the future if these stations were permitted to hook up with major leagues and broadcast into our Johnson said that the committee had two preliminary problems first to determine the legality of any future course and then to establish what policy can be taken within the law "Regarding the matter of legal ity that is being threshed out in Philadelphia right now in the fed missioner Bert Bell as saying $10 000 would be "more Herbert Stewart now an official of a Tampa la broadcasting company said he was testifying to events which occurred in 1950 when he was general manager of the Erie station Stewart under cross examination acknowledged he made the offer of $2500 to telecast the 1950 title game between Cleveland and Los Angeles on behalf of the Admiral Corp of Chicago makers of tele vision equipment He pointed out that Erie is 90 miles from Cleveland where the game was played and therefore outside the 75 mile radius from the site of the game When the station failed to carry the game Stewart said his sta tclephone lighted up a with calls from irate faqs "In my opinion that price ($10 000) was fantastic to single he testified NEW YORK The world champion New York Yankees who lead in the pennant races but trail in the contract signing derby got Catcher Yogi signature on a 1953 contract yesterday But Allie Reynolds the big chief of the Yankee pitching staff sign anything although he dropped into the office to talk things over with assistant general man ager Roy Harney That left the Yanks with an un imposing list of three regulars and two rookies under contract only a little more than three weeks before they open training camp at St Petersburg la Nobody seemed worried about the situation Hamey who revealed that Berra had received slight over the estimated $35 000 salary he received last year said: "We signed six in lorida last Hamey said no salary offer had yet been made to Reynolds add ing: always likes to come in and talk over his contract instead of trying to do it by mail I imag ine want a pretty good STYDAHAR NEW CARDINAL COACH ormer Bdss of Bams Gets Thre Year Contract Re placing CHICAGO Big Joe Sty dahar HO who the1 Los Angeles Rams to a world pro foot ball title in 1951 yesterday wasr named head coach of the Chicago Cardinals' I In a comedy of miscalculated an Lnouncements the Cardinals dis closed at ja noon press conference that Stydahar was givgn athree year contract to succeed Joe Kuharich fired as Cardinal coach Wednesday Stydahar earlier had announced at Los Angeles that ho had accepted the Cardinal' post and that sent club officials hustling: to back up Jumbo JoeLs statement Walter Wolfner Cardinal man aging director confirmed Styda appointment but said a con tract will not be signed formally until the 280 pound new coach ap pears here a week from today Wolfner said Stydahar would get a salary than Ku harich who was paid off a re ported $14000 for the one year left in his two year contract Stydahar is an old pro both as a player and a coach He performed as a brilliant National ootball league tackle for the Chicago Bears from 1936 through 1946 and then took over as head coach of Rams in 1950 The Rams won NL divisional title in 1950 1951 and in 1951 defeated Catcher Jim Hegan and Outfielder Larry Doby is on the fire BOSTON General Man ager John Quinn of the Boston Braves reported Walker Cooper catcher and captain of the club and Third Baseman Ed Mathews signed their 1953 contracts yes terday Mathews hit 25 home runs last season the most hit by any Na tional league rookie since 1930 He also was the first rookie in Na tional league history to hit three home runs in one game Trucks up to 4000 Series Mawa heavy duty models have brakes Se braking power! rics 4000 and above use brakes in front in rear 'Missed by a Mile' But Damages Were Costly PHILADELPHIA The president of a television station 74 miles from Philadelphia testified at the anti trust trial of the National ootball league yesterday that he was forced to cancel telecasts of five NL games because his station lies one mile inside the league's black out limit Clair McCollough president general manager of WGAb Tv Lancaster Pa told ederal Dis trict Judge Alan Grim he was informed by Philadelphia Eagles football officials that nothing could be done about the difficult situation In which he was placed by the ban of game tele casts within a 75 mile radius Appearing at the fourth day of the anti trust suit trial against the league McCol lough testified that his station was damaged "to the extent that a television station deals with the public has respect and con fidence In a said McCol lough you betray that con fidence you lose listeners and once you lose listeners you are out of At that point NL attorney Harry Shapiro requested that the trial attorney for the Department of Justice Perry Epes ask McCollough he is still in busi still in McCol lough replied still suffering from the troubles of 1949" Another witness Charles Mal lory of San president of broadcasting that his radio $6000 during the 1950 foot ball season because it was denied permission to broadcast NL games Mallory said he offered Tony Morabito president of the San rancisco 49ers club $1000 for the privilege of broadcasting each 49er game plus certain broadcasting before the games adver tising ticket sales Mallory claimed Morabito wanted $5000 a game with restrictions on the type of sponsors and wanted the games tape recorded for de layed broadcasts several hours after the games were ended The counter offer later was withdrawn Mallory testified A former official of station i on' WICU TV at Eric Pa who pre viously testified he unsuccessfully offered $2500 for permission to televise a single game returned' yesterday and quoted NL Com Red Crown KING SIZE GAS BUY! 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