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Baseball Golf On This Week PAGE 5-C 1IAMI I Section Classified Sports Miami, Fla.t Sunday, February 8, 1959 THE EWS Trips To Cuba, Puerto Rico Give Marlins Latin Flavor Famine Ended I a.a,: Now Hear This Trautman 22-Gamc Exliiljitioii Slate Set George Trautman squinted out over Biscayne Bay from his imaginary wagon seat in a suite at the McAllister Hotel. For a second there he imagined he could sec a lush resting or was it a mirage? Trautman, you know, is the chief of baseball's minor leagues. Since he took over in 1947. the minor leagues have i -r- gone from post-war days of numerical glory to two dozen hardy Trautman must have had days when he felt like the mule-train driver losing one mule after another and getting deeper into the desert with every crack of the whip. The red hair has turned to gray, and the days have not been easy.

But Trautman thinks the end of the skid has i i If. Trips to Cuba and Puerto Rico add Latin American tinge to the 22-game spring exhibition schedule announced today for the Miami Marlins. General manager Joe Ryan has scheduled three games against Havana in Moron, an inland Cuba city where the Sugar Kings train, and three against the U. S. Air Force team in Puerto Rico.

"We figure we can help our Latin American relations as well as get some good competition down there," said Ryan, who earlier had announced he had a scout probing the Latin America area for talent. the Marlins open the schedule at their home training base, Flamingo Park, against the Baltimore Orioles' team. It Is the first of nine home games. The rest of the schedule: March 22-Dallas at Pompand. Lauderdale.

March 24 Dallas at Pompano. March 25-Dallas at Miami. come. HALE I "I am more optimistic as we start into this season than 1 was last year," he said, amost prayerfully. "We have a good many fewer leagues than when I started, L.u u4au tko ka(nr We'll Viava at Aaaaclated Frttt Wirtpholo 1Uk fit UUIV LIL1V limOJ UICIII least as many leagues as the 24 last year, and maybe one or -twe more.

"More Important, I think the level of minor league bane-' ball Is better. The calibre of play Is professional to the limits of every level And the front office people are more capable today thai at any time I can remember. "I am for a lot of leagues, If the playing talent is there. Not every league had enough talent to play up to a professional level Just after the war. 1 Eddie Sawyer, manager of the Phila- ball hopefuls reporting to the Phillies' additional rookies will report at a.

later delphia Phillies, gives an earful to base- instructional school at Clearwater. Three date. FANS EXCITED OVER MIAMI 0 Holes Bring In The Baltimore Orioles' spring stay at Miami Stadium, starting next will be popular among area people who make a living off the tourist dollars. It is a matter of fresh money, Oriole general manager Lee MacPhail says, In form of several big migrations of Baltimore fans to Miami. "The people here are very much excited over the club being in Miami, which is so much closer to them than our old a louay, ury arc an placing piuicsaiuiicu auuiuoiua, uu that is the most important object, I believe." Pay TV No Threat Surprisingly, the minor leagues czar isn't frightened by pay television, such as the Los Angeles and San Francisco clubs are supposed to be ready to try this summer.

"Pay TV might be eur salvation," Trautmaa said. But (here's a big "IT to it. "The hope we have is that the minor league team, into whose territory big league games are sent on a pay basis, will share in the profits." Trautman also quietly hopes that local pay TV! will some day knock off the network video that allows fans from Walla-Walla to Key West to see the Yankees from an easy ehair. "I'm in favor of the trial." Trautman wound up. "Pay TV doesn't deny people their rights to free TV.

And they can still choose to pay to see a ball game or not. Maybe this thing won't work. But it should get a trial." Like the grain market, basketball people operate in futures. instance, Bruce Hale is following the advice of the revi alist and "looking ahead, brother." He's LEWIS BLASTS FRICK March 25 Memphis at Fort Lauderdale. March 27 Indianapolis at Miami.

March 28 Baltimore at Miami. March 29 Dallas at Miami. March 30 Memphis at MiamL March 31 Dallas at. MiamL April 1 Indianapolis at Hollywood. April 2 Indianapolis at Hollywood.

April 3 U.S.A.F. at Puerto Rico. April at Puerto Rico. April at Puerto Rico. April 7 Memphis at Miami.

April 8 Indianapolis at M-ami. April 9 Indianapolis at Hollywood. April 10 Havana at Moron. April 11-Havana at Moron. April 12 Havana at Moron.

y- X- i i I i j. i.si it fe -w Pension Dispute In IL Target For Unionism? waiting for people like NYU transfer Julie base at Scottsdale, Mac-Fhail enthused over long distance yesterday. MORE EXPECTED "They all seem to want to get down to Miami to, see the club. At least, two migrations have been organized and the enthusiasm indicates there will be more. "I think it will create more interest at home, too, with so many more people getting a chance to see the club at Miami than in Scottsdale." MacPhail had just put his equipment manager Whitey Dis-kin, on a Miami-bound plane.

BROWN IS HERE "The suits and all other equipment is on the way by train. Our groundskeeper, Joe Brown, has been at Miami Stadium for several months. "Our rookies and manager Paul Richards will report at Miami a week from Sunday. The pitchers and catcher come in Feb. 23, the same time as I'll get there.

The entire squad will be here the 26th." The first of 14 Oriole games at the Stadium is March 8 when they play Kansas City. They head north after meeting Kansas City in the finale, April 5. Anderson Cohen and Northwestern refugee Mike Mc Coy to become eligible. Put them with the flock of sophomores already doing well enough and Hale figures the big tournaments are within range. Th Auortatod Prmn NEW YORK, Feb.

7-The atotrney for the International League Players Association which has been feuding with clubowners over their refusal to grant a pension plan says the dispute could lead to unionism. 1 Cincinnati has a 6-11 center from Tennessee who will pay Mutt to Oscar Robertson's Jeff next year. The Bearcats i R1GNEY J. Norman Lewis, who also players, said the IL players already is counsel for the major league had been approached by a union. think It might be a national championship combination.

1 And at Ohio State, they are freely boasting of two, perhaps three, NCAA championships in the next three years when a 10 freshman named Jerry Lucas gets eligible. Florida State Track Team Defends Title Lucas tore up Ohio high schools for three years at a place called Middletown, which turns out some of the country's best basketball teams. He played on only one losing team, averaged elosc to 40 points a game and has a near-A average in his grades. It used to happen only in Brooklyn. Now it haDDens every place but there this "Wait 'til next year." IN BRIEF Willie (The Beard) Gilzenberg, who spends a good deal of his hibernation these parts, was honored for meritorius I'nIM Trnt International TALLAHASSEE, Feb.

7-Florida State will defend its Coliseum Indoor Relays Championship at Montgomery, Feb. 15. Coach Mike Long's Seminole track team, undefeated last year in dual competition, will run into Nap Lajoie Victim Of Pneumonia 7 the complaint of the owners that they had no money for a pension plan, that, on the contrary, there was money in the till not only for the IL but for the other two triple-a leagues as well. The Pacific Coast and the American Association. ON THE RECORD "The majors have to take care of the minors," he said.

"That's on the record in congressional hearings. "The majors signed a new World Series contract, starting with the 1957 series. The old contract was for $1,200,000. All that money was used for the pension fund. The new contract is for $3,250,000 a year of which 60 per cent, $1,900,000, went to the pension fund and -the rest to the clubs.

"They never had that money before. That's the money which could used to help save the minors." some of the south finest talent. The Seminoles lost sprinter service to New Jersey boxing the other night He was in gSod company, too The Joisey fight writers also honored Jimmy Braddock and rising Ace Armstrong. 1 Bill Rigney, charging some National League pitchers with throwing spitballs, dredges up a few quotes that brightened oth- cr days Birdie Tebbetts also accused Lew Burdette of Juicing up the ball When films the Cincinnati team look of Burdette tJack Terwilliger, distance ace Mike Conley and javelin special ist Jerry Henderson from last year's championship squad. Canadian Skier Dies After Fall United Preii International GARMISCH PARTENKIRCH-EN, Germany, Feb.

7 John Semmelink, a Canadian skier, died in a Munich hospital today after a heavy fall in the men's downhill race at the Arlberg Kandahar meet. Semmelink, whizzing down the steep and treacherous track, crashed on the slope's most dangerous section "The Hell." His face was smashed against a stone after he sommersaulted through the air. Semmelink was flown to nearby Munich in a helicopter in a futile BUTTS He declined to name it, but he said Jt was a white-collar union. Lewis also blasted baseball Commissioner Ford Frick for declining to intervene. THROUGH CHANNELS Frick has told the players to go through channels, first bringing their problem to the minor league czar, then to the major league executive committee.

After that, Frick said, the case could be taken to the commissioner. "I see no reason to depart from established baseball procedure on the case," Frick added. Lewis told The New York Herald Tribune the players were not looking for a showdown. "What we're looking for is a compromise," he said, "something other than the shutting of the door in our faces with a 'We have no money. MARCH 1 DEADLINE In answer to the claim of IL President Frank (Shag) Shaugn-essy that the players were signing their contracts despite orders from the association not to sign, Lewis, snorted: "How can he say they are signing when they are not even supposed to have receivedt heir contracts?" Two weeks ago Shaugnessy said the contracts would go out on March 1.

Lewis also said In answer to Quartermiler Jim Casteel, mid fallen1 ta nrnva anviiilnff. RlrnMa refuted (a viva nn "11 dle distance standouts Doyle Ruff and Charlie Nye, and pole vaulter Dick Elwood are back in the fold, however. ft'-v he doesn't throw a spltter," Tebbetts griped, "He's missing a. helluva chance" "What do you think of the spitter?" the boys asked Hank Aaron Frank Hank allowed that he "just waited and hit it Florida State opens st 1 dual track schedule against Miami at Coral Gables March 7 before meeting Louisiana State Southeastern Conference speedsters at Baton Rouge March 14. Th Auoclated Trt DAYTONA BEACH, Feb.

7 A relapse in a bout with pneumonia claimed the life today of Napoleon (Nap) Lajoie, a major league baseball great of the early 1900s. He was 83. Lajoie, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947, was stricken last month. He appeared to be recovering and was due for discharge from a hospital this week when his condition suddenly grew worse and he was placed on the critical list. Born in Woonsocket, R.

Sept. 5, 1875, Lajoie finished his 21-year major league career with a lifetime batting average of .339. Lajoie, a rawboned man of French-Canadian descent, had lived quietly in this area for many years. He was retiring and reticent about publicity although at one time a major league club was nicknamed for him. Since 1954 a nephew and niece Dolor and Lillian Lamoureaux had stayed with Lajoie at his home in nearby Holly Hill.

1 ine ary siae uuKe Miaer looked aghast when asked the same question "I wish you gentlemen would quote me," he said loftily, "when I tell you I think it's very unsanitary When a guy transmits Information out of the race by Morse code, as some of the space-age operators have been caught do- ing, does he get paid by the hour (union- Vx $145 Double Bradley, $5.20 favorite in the first race, and Ellen $26.20 outsider in the second, were responsible for a $145.90 daily double yesterday at Hialeah. attempt to save his life. He died despite the efforts of doctors in .11 li 1 III II' 1 the U. S. Army's Perlacher Fogst aijir; ii raico unc neiiern union, ky the word? Hospital.

Bud Werner of Steamboat Bill Hartack sent Bradley to Althca Foot-Faulter I'nltrd Pith International NEW YORK The only flaw in top ranked Althea Gibson'i otherwise perfect game is her tendency to foot-fault for which the New Yorker was penalized in the finals of the Women's singles" at Wimbledon and Forest Hills, N.Y., this year. Springs, also fell during the race which was won by Austria's Karl Schranz. Werner was limp If you like to look ahead, put down Georgia as a home football opponent for U-Miami in 1961 Wally Butts has told Atlanta newsmen it is a two-year series, starting in' 1960 Jack Harding peeks in his book and says Wally is mistaken Just the one game i LA the front at the start and he never was threatened, winning by six lengths in 2:33 3-5 for a mile and a half over a good track. Segui-don was third. ing when he reached the finishing line walking.

He broke a ski when he fell. CARPENTER.