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School Board S3 Should Check CSS uIkLI Edison Case It 13 tune the reign of the "Little Caesars" of high school athletics in metropolitan Miami is ended. Let their empire building be halted terminate their lop-sided power. Do it promptly and emphatically. Maybe the move is long overdue but certainly there should no longer be a delay in restor bw-H Sf--W)V'islh rfm tiW- m'-, i -r i ing a semmance ot balance to the sports program and giving to every athlete a freedom of choice regarding his participation. The sad situation Is spotlighted by the threatened dismissal of 33-year-old Carl Eagle, the talented and successful Edison High basketball coach, because of a "policy disagreement" with hlusforv FOWLE i Miami News Photos by Toby Maasey Pictures And Souvenirs Of The Great Days Gone By Max Carey Relaxes In Den Of His Miami Beach Home Haywood Fowle, the football coach and athletic director.

Fowle and many of his counterparts in metropolitan high schools feel football and football alone deserves a place in the athletic program. It is the peak revenue sport and commands greater public attention. So, with a warped philosophy of their own importance, and a distorted sense of values, they, are blinded to the benefits of other athletic activities and seek to shove them into minor roles. First Call On Talent Fowle apparently feels he has the first call on the time and talent of every athlete at Edison. The current dispute stems, in part, from a "Play Football or Else" ultimatum.

The two players who are the central figures in the controversy are Comes True, Carey Reac 'Hall' lies Chlravo TrHinn Pr.g K.rv1r NEW YORK, Paying a long overdue tribute to two of the dead ball era's greatest stars, National League outfielders Max Carey and Billy Hamilton yesterday were voted into baseball's Hall Of Fame. The move was made in the unanimous ballot of a special old timers committee of the Baseball Writers Association meeting here. During a 22-year career in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, Carey established the modern National League record for stolen bases with 738. In 14 seasons, with Kansas City, Philadelphia and Boston, the late Hamilton get all-time major league marks of 115 thefts in one season and 937 for a career. They'll be inducted Into the Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in July.

I EAGLE Kenny Sanders and Ernie Garcia, outstanding members of the current Edison team. Garcia, bothered by a calcium deposit on his thigh, decided to give up football and concentrate on basketball. Sanders was a member of Fowle's football squad part of last season. He felt he was a far better basketball player, however, and not wanting to fall behind in practice, gave up football. Fowle looked upon the action of the two youngsters with disfavor.

He charged Eagle was encouraging basketball at the expense of football. jv The Miami News li? I 1... IK 5 Monday, January 30, 1961 2C Duncan "And if you feel that way about the sports," Eagle said Fowle told him, "then you don't belong in our system." A Testimony Of Ability Eagle has been coachine for nine vears since By TOMMY FITZGERALD Until yesterday, Max Carey, who carries his 71 years in a strong and sturdy manner and his adversities cheerfully, had a much greater record chasing fly balls than he has had chasing rainbows. Finally after a string of balloting disappointments one of Max's dreams came true. He reached up and pulled down a vote to Baseball's Hall of Fame.

Maybe his luck has changed. "If I hadn't made it this time, I would have just about given up," said the delighted Max. who two years ago received more votes than anybody else for the Hall of Fame but not the required 75 per cent of the ballots. Just missing, though, has been the fate of the National League's all-time greatest base-stealer and fly grabber since he end- -'il A Carey gesture swept his physical surroundings to indicate the extend of his worldly possessions. Short Tenure As A Manager "'This house (3700 Sheridan Avenue) and social security are all I have," he said.

"And baseball didn't get me this house. Minut Rub did. Some country druggist in Illinois concocted it and I stayed out of baseball in 1931 after a year as a coach to put it on the market and develop it. We later sold it to Myers. I got enough out of it for my part to build this home 26 years ago." Baseball, the sport he had served so illustriously, never gave Max much of a chance to show his skill as manager, coach or scout.

Impressed by an article on baseball Max wrote for a magazine, a director of the financially-troubled Brooklyn Dodgers hired him to return to baseball in 1932 as Dodger manager. In guiding this outfit to third place, he was credited with the performance of a Continued on Page 4C, Col. 3 rr his graduation from Eastern Kentucky College. where he played under the brilliant Paul McBrayeri fj' This is his third season at Edison. The Edison record is a testimony of his coaching ability.

He took his team to the state finals a year ago. Eagle, quite rightfully, pleads "guilty" to en-couraging basketball and attempting to build it. "But I never said anything against the football program or ed, in 1929, a glorious 20-year baseball career in the National League with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. Crash In 1929 Left Him Broke His fielding record at chasing rainbows hasn't been very good. Bad luck and bad breaks have tripped him up and life's pot of gold has gone over his head, beyond his Teach.

"I don't have a nickel I made in baseball," said Miami Beach's illustrious baseball citizen. His life-time baseball savings an estimated $100,000 be had accumulated from investments in the stock market were wiped out in the stock market crash in 1929. "It was my last year in baseball as a player and it's November and I'm driving from the way the market crashes and when I arrive, I'm busted. I had nothing to show from 20 years in baseball." Carey surveyed the walls of his office-den gazing wistfully at old pictures of his playing days and other baseball mementoes. Top Salary Was $16,000 "Casey Stengel said baseball should provide some sort of pension fund for old time ballplayers who played in the days before salaries were high and who antedated the present pension plan," Max remarked.

"The biggest salary I ever drew was $16,000 the season after we won the pennant at Pittsburgh in 1925 and I hit .343. Today? What would I get paid today if I were in my playing prime. Oh, $50,000 $75,000." MAX IN PITTSBUKGII HEY-DAY 3Iajor Leajrue Average Of .28. Baskets Hard To Ge attempted to get a boy to give up football," Eagle said. "The ones who elected to get out of football for basketball, did it on their own." The lot of a basketball coach at Edison at the best isn't an easy one.

From a student body of approximately 2,800 only 12 reported for basketball. MRS. ROBERTS ouisvilie ains New York to Peoria, 111., to visit my brother," he recalled. "On By TOMMY FITZGERALD It's a superstitious as well as super University of Louisville basketball team that will offer University of Miami its most je "Instead of being forced to scratch and fight every inch of the way, I should be getting so many boys reporting for basketball at a school cf this size, that it would be necessary to make 'cuts' in order to handle the squad," Eagle said. Fowle's arrogance and flagrant abuse of authority in the case are bad enough.

More vT astounding, however, is the reaction of William B. Duncan, the Edison principal. Duncan said Fowle could recommend Eagle's dismissal and he "would have no alternative but to pass the recommendation on to the school board." District 8 Tourney At Winds Stop Inboard Race CAPE CORAL (AP) Rough water forced postponement of the inboard races of the Cape Coral Regatta yesterday and hydro drivers headed for St. Petersburg and the Southland Sweepstakes to be contested Sunday. Winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour swept the Caloosahatchee River course and race chairman Ray Derome said it would be impossible to run without endangering lives of drivers.

The boats will return here for another try on Feb. 12. ml be in for a rude Fowle and Duncan may awakening on that point. a string of eight and with a necklace of 11 triumphs over the last two seasons, has averaged 88.6 points a game at home. Miami has won at home on offense.

That offense, however, has not met such a defense as Louisville's tall, experienced crew will offer tonight. MUST REVERSE ROLE So, it looks as if Miami with its offense somewhat curbed will have to play a great defensive game reversing its usual home role to win tonight and to do this and get their hard-driving, fast-break offense going they're going to have to contrive some way of controlling the boards. That advantage seems to belong to Louisville on paper with its three experienced inside men averaging 6-8. There are 6-11 Fred Sawyer, 6-5 John Turner, also the club's leading scorer Continued on Page 3C, Col. 5 Miami High By JACK HOUGIITELIXG For the second year in a row Coaching Only Assignment Mrs.

Lyle Roberts, Chairman of the Dade 5 County Board of Education, makes that clear. f4 'jr Miami High's gym will be the site of the Class AA District 8 high school basketball tournament, March 1-4. 11 A DM. 50 i I uk NO MINORS r. exacting test as well as its greatest opportunity of the season at 8:13 tonight at Miami Beach Convention Hall.

They think it's bad luck to do such things as change socks during a winning streak, get a haircut the day of a game or let the other team score a basket. This latter peculiarity of theirs an eccentricity indeed to U-M followers who are accustomed to seeing games in which offense more or less runs wild most likely will determine tonight's game in their favor. 62 POINTS FOR FOES U-L has the strongest defensive club the Hurricanes have "been called on to face on their home floor this year. They've held their opposition to- an average of 62 points a game. And that opposition has been of high Although Coach Peck Hickman, who brought his charges to town late yesterday afternoon, won't admit it for publication, camp followers report the coaches feel this U-L team is more talented than the one that captured the National Invitation Tournament in 1956.

WRITER PRAISES ABILITY "It's got more ability but probably not as smart," said John Carrico, the noted Louisville journalist. "It's by far Peck's best defensive club. Peck was so fed up with the club's poor defensive play last year, "Fowle hasn't the authority to recommend anyone's dismissal," Mrs. Roberts said. "If Duncan makes such a recommendation, then it will have to be in writing to the Superintendent of Schools.

Bear in mind coaching is only an assignment. It is not a primary duty." The eight schools involved in the tournament voted 6-2 this morning for the MHS, (16 inches to a person) gym with 4 director for Dade John Prance, personnel County schools, said: Miami Jackson the other school under consideration. ftA A meeting will be held Feb. 25 to Vote on the seeding of the teams. CHAMPIONS OF 77 NATIONS! The coaches selected Bob Con- arroe of Miami High as tourna DELUXE CLUBHOUSE HEATED GRANDSTAND HOME OF MARATHON RACING NATIONALLY FAMOUS RACING CHAMPIONS DOUBLE 1st 2nd RACES FOR BOX SEATS CALL MIAMI FR 3-140S ment director; Cliff Murrell, head of the South Florida Basketball Officials Association, scorer, and Fred Darwick, timer.

OR HOLLYWOOD WA 2-3704 Game officials for the four- "Dissatisfaction with coaching ability is not a basis for dismissal. How well he teaches, not how well he coaches, is the determining factor." Eagle carries a full academic load teaching five classes daily in American history. Board of Education meets Wednesday. I think it the Board's responsibility to take a long look and begin an intensive survey of the high school athletic programs and how they are conducted. Let them question principals and athletic directors as to why there is total emphasis on football and the back-of-the-hand treatment for other sports.

i QUOTE UNQUOTE: "Since Carl Eagle has not been tn the school system long enough to have a con--Winning contract, there is no legal basis for demanding hearing. However, should he ask jor one, I feel cer---tam rygt vruld grant the request." MRS. LYLE ROBERTS. 7. night tournament will be Harold Fields, Harold Orin Schroeder and Ed Lantz.

Doc Schwartz was named as an alter nate official. 77 RESERVATIONS: NE 3-3201 Sorry, no minor With Palmetto competing as a AA school for the first time, that he worked on nothing but defense the first three weeks of practice. Defense has made this club." Miami, whh is unbeaten on its home courts this season with schools in the met include MHS, Edison, Jackson. Hialeah, South west, CoraP Gables, Miami Beach and Palmetto..