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THE SUNDAY TTLEGSAM, ROCKY MOUNT. NORTH CAROLINA AGE SEVSK-A Notre Dame's Leon Hart Named Athlete Of The Year SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY IS. 1953 Crazy Day MTAMT SHa -tan 1 4 (OA All-America End Gets Big Margin Tommy Bridges' Life Threatened Tropical Park today. Two horses ran a ceaa'neat ior me a any double, Bolo Mack won the feature ana uia Armed got uie applause.

By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK. Jan. llPi HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14 (JP) oagn.aw statues neaaicaa won A man was booked today on sus Leon Hart, Notre Dame's "huge' the tost race' dropped dead on the picion of assault with intent to murder Tommy Bridges, former Detroit Tigers pitching star now with the San Francisao Seals. Verle L.

Penney, 41, a Portland, trucking contractor, was arrested after an affray which officers said involved him, his former wife. Iona, 39. and Bridges, 43. Krfinnt an trace near tne cuweuse turn ana and brilliant All-America end. to- paid 6 40 for $2 day was named Male Athlete of- Two horses finished in a dead the-Year for 1949 by an over- heat to win the second race, caus-whelming margin in the Assort- jJJ ao-way pay0" toe daUy tfted Press year-end poll.

Hamanasa, owned by E. Dibe Of 98 sportswrlters and sports- and ridden by Jockey Joe Cul-casters who cast ballots in' the mcoe, acid J. Lobianco's Power 19th annual competition. 37 chose gi JSf flnS' the great co-captain of the unde- line. feated Irish as the year's out- F.

Wall's Halcyon Air look standing figure in the entire field "DSJS pool was split according to the of sport, amateur or professional. nmh t.iir hw nn th Bridges was quoted by Detective E. M. Gosseo as saying: "I went into the drugstore (where Mrs. Penney is employed) to pick lone up (late Friday night) and Penney approached me with his hand in his right pocket as we started toward the car.

Penney said he wanted to talk to me in the alley and the three of us started for the aUey. Par behind Hart. Jackie Robin- two combinations. Halcyon Air son. famed Negro second-base- and Hamanasa paid $99.90, while lan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Alr Rnd Druk placed second by a narrow mar- The win and place pools were gin over Sammy Snead, the year's combined to pay off ticketholders outstanding golfer, with Ted Wil- the Kama of th Boston Red Sox ftnsa paying $5.50, $5.10 and pit.

her of the New York Yankees, heat of Illtn, fha incin Trnnial Part season "Suddenly Penney puUed out a gun, stuck it in my ribs and said. this is it." Then he struck me on the head three times with it." Official 1950 Schedule For Coastal Plain League At At At At At At At At. Reclcy Alount Tarboro Goldsboro Wilson Greenville Rapids Kinston New Bern April 23 April 24 May 1. 12. 18 May 2.

17. 22 AP" My 159 24 FrU 02(50 May 5, 27 May 11, 20 3J June 4. 14, 29 ln May 7, 30d May 9, 28 ROCKY MOUNT June 8, 20 June 22 July 24 JTT June 6. 24 14 June 2. 17 rOll On July 6 19 July 9 21 27 August 18 July 8.

16 July 4a. 12. 30 12 July 3, 17. 25 August 7. 20.

28 August 8. 25 Sept. 3 August 4, 17. 30 August 10, 26 septl August 15. 23 April 22 MPavU14825 April -27 AprU 20, May 2.

17. 22 April 25 May 4 26 Mr 4 25 2g 6 30n May 1Q May 12. 19 TARBORO June 9, 21 jSV 1 13 June 3, 16 June 7. 25 June 1,23 jnfv 24 31 July 5. 20 I n8 iSui'j 13 July 2.

18. 26 July 4d. 11. 29 8' 16 July 10, 22, 28 ZJSl1 August 6. 21.

29 se 2 August 14, 22 August 11, 27 August 4. 17. 30 August 9. 24 19 April 25 Ma1?" 24 m1 April 27 May 1, 13. 18 April 23 May 2, 17.

22 May 10. 21 I 30 3f. May 8 29 June 4. 14. 29 May 5.

27 juoe 10, 27 GOLDSBORO June 1. 23 JuJ b03Sial June 3- 16 July 24 June 8. 20 Ju, 8 16 July 10. 22. 28 YSL3 12 July 2, 18, 26 August 1.

18 July 5. 20 8' 16, 9r August 9, 24 septl August 10. 26 August 14, 22 Sept. 3 August 7, 20, 28 August 4. 17.

30 May is! 19 MayeSOn 25 April 24 May 3, 16, 23 April 22 SSTSti" SSSei" June725 Plain SStS Aist ig July 3. 17. 25 July 4d. 11, 29 XuLt 2 13 July 9. 21, 27 C7'" July 6.

19 Se 4 Auiiist 15. 23 August 11, 27 August 2, 13 ajuW 8. 85 August 5, 16. 31 August 6. 21.

29 3 1B AprU 21 April 26 April 29 April 23 May 1, 13, 18 AprU 24 i MUOd May 9. 28 May 15 24 May 5. 27 June 5, 15. 28 May 11 20. 31 GREENVILLE I June 6 24 June 2.

17 June 12. 18. ieaera June 8. 20 July 23 June 22 qreenviule jujs July 3, 17, 25 J.ulyl LBagUB July 6. 19 August 1, 18 July 9, 21 27 August 5, 16, 31 August 10.

26 August 15, 23 August 3, 12 August 7. 20, 28 Sept. 3 August 8. 25 o6pt, 1 April 30 Anril 25 Anril 22 April 27 ffw'-a April 20 May 3. 16.

23 May 12. 19 AprU 25 April 2 2 May 29 May 14 25 R. RAPIDS May 6. 30n June 11, 26 June 5, 15. 28 jl 23 June 9 21 ThfAIIffh June 3, 16 June 7, 25 7 15 July 23, 31 J.

2 ,8 jb 20 UllOUgil Juiy 2. 18, 26 JAuly AugJt 5. 16, 31 ffiV' jSofle" jSAgll.29 Aulust 14, 22 August 2. 13 April 28 April 24 April 22 May 2, 17. 22 tPJ 1 iw, 43 W'1 Cet-li June10-27 jr244 34i29 The ta KINSTON Mv i une22, TnW fi 19 JKV 8, 16 53, J1 July 3, 17.

25 1 July 4d, 11. 29 SJkSu JSWllT 29 August 4. 17.30 gK" August 15! 23 Aust 11. 27 Sept 2 Mav 1. 18 2, AprU 25 April 29 April 21 May 8 29 June 5, 15, 28 May 3.

16. 23 MP May 10, 21 fay 15 24 May 7. 30d TaIom9ih NEW BERN jSSe i. 1 JUly 23 June 11. 26 20 June 1.

23 jX 14 June 6. 24 TelBgraH July 2, 18, 26 August 1, 18 July 7, 15 July 5' 20 July 10 22j 28 August 3. 12 July 4n, 12, 30 August 14, 22 Sept. 3 August 5. 16; 31 August 7, 20, 28 'August 9, 24 'sept.

1 August 10, 26 'Home and home games wlU be played on May 30 and July 4. designates night games. designates day games. All games to be played at night except holiday and Sunday games as designated. Rocky Mount home games ln municipal stadium.

Night 7:45. Sunday singles 3:00. doubleheaders 1:30 and 3:00 Goossen said Penney was sub nninf haaic rhrep for ft I dued by passers-by. Bridges, who is a bowling equipment salesman during the off-season, told officers he had been going with Mrs. Penney since last September.

Air Racers Set Penney said he came down from Vlft first place vote, two for second and one for third Hart piled up st landslide margin of 104 to 55 over Robinson. The runner-up, Ovho previously was voted the National League's most valuable player, received only eight first nlapA vntPJt his home in Portland to effect a reconciliation with his ex-wife. For Finals Today Goossen reported. Bridges pitched for Portland untU his recent sale to San Francisco. Goossen said he was told the Penneys were married to 1929 and were divorced last August.

They have two chUdren. Verle Different Besult By JAMES F. FOWLER The result was far different MIAMI Jan. 14 (W) A rtLagrindInS former Wisconsin school teacher to wd a California Lockheed Air- gLnts wer Bb craft employe became chief cons'? decathlSn Anders for top money in the Mathias, tlw Olympic decathlon continental Motors trochv 19, and David, 15. champion-156-149.

'lby-winning ioni not receive a vote in the present al 45PJ- nro mnn. American Air Maneuvers. Snead, who won 1 te more mon 25 30 mile an nour than any other oUer and steye wittman of awarded the nv" oshkosh, easUy won the as the year's top linksman. re- semi.final heat he whipped his midget racing OIIC Swimmers Soundly Beaten CHAPEL HELL, Jan. 14" JP- Coach Mike Peppe and his Ohio State swimmers took first to eight out of nine events and seconds to aU but one to swamp North Carolina 62-13 today in Bowman Gray pool before some 500 spectators.

Norm Sper was the sole Tar Heel to take top honors during the afternoon. His victory came in the 150-yard backstroke event where he raced home ahead of Buckeye Gordon Leaf. The 220 and 440-yard freestyle distance races proved the most thrilling of the day as Ohio's Charlie Stephanos nosed out Tar Heel Jimmy Thomas in the 220 fewer poIr-52 to Jackie's tZe VwttotBtEJg" miles per hour- 7t "withe tot Slorenson of La Crescent, fourth cho ce with three nrst of fWng place atoirers and aces to capture $450 in prize mon tage fty hose relief ex race nf toe Vploits helped carry toe Yang to heat with an average a pennant and a World Sterles Athlete Of Year victory over Brooklyn, scoreo rKTne estimated 7,500 spectators firsts and 35 points. mnmentarilv stunned when Atlanta. Long Independent.

Becomes Braves Affiliate Coastal Plain Pennant Race Finds Leafs Here April 20 Then came George 34-year-old former ering star paratrooper, was slammed into Lakers of the National Basketball wind Association, sixth wnn pum. from ATLANTA, Jan. 14 Once The Ionic run for the Coastal and Jack Kramer giant demonitrating while Buckeye Jack Taylor won Plain League pennant will start Battle, Wilkinson the 440. here on April 20, a scant three Coach Dick Jamerson's charges professional buub "V' jungie rescue technique, was re with 16. Mathias.

who gave Boud- suffered a con xeau such a grapp for the 48 the richest and certainly one of the most proudly independent of aU baseball clubs, Atlanta now is a chain team after a fight which Penn State Ace Sets Hew Hark were completely outclassed by the months off, when the Roanoke Jays come to town for opening tlHt W1U1 13 POiniS. powerhouse from the Big Ten Win YfJCA Games conference, last year' NCAA went to a finish. game. Atfter that, the eight clubs wfll batle through four months champions. A thick web of baseball lawsi in reoresentinK Wittman, aeienumg In all.

40 athletes Wjesenwng continental race for mid- almost every sport except Kelly 190.cume mch pig. -to the balloting. Twents -seven oi rf six contestants ln to- Battle and Wilkinson schools and custom surrounded the Class AA Southern Association Crack WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 UP) each won doubleheaders in Jim Gehrdes of Perm State set a the YMCA Grammar School them were, dav's heat. ana 140 games to determine who'll take the flag.

The schedule, released yester dav shows that whUe the Leafs ers for three and a half years. Finally this faU those laws hounded Atlanta into an affiliation nf nilots this morning League yesterday. opinion, wormy 01 A meetta a iriAetintr new meet record to the Washing Battle boys beat Bassett boys, ton Evening Star games tonight entertain the Jays on opening The summary: 300-yard medley relay: Ohio State (Sonner, Balmoris, Dooley). Winning time. 2:57.5 (new meet record, old record of 2:58.5 by UNC.

1949). 220-yard freestyle: Stephanos (OSU), Taylor (OSU). Thomas (UNC). Winning time: 2:12.8. 50-yard freestyle: Kobayashl (OSU).

Ccngelliere (OSU). WU- with a major league club the at basketbaU, 28 to 22. Wilkinson ruled Wittman out as the winner of an initial heat yesterday. He was first disqualified for cut as he flashed over the 70-yard Boston Braves. boys whipped Braswell, 35-15.

aay, ouier games wm una wu-son at Goldsboro, Tarboro a'. Greenville, and Kinston at New high hurdles to 8.4 seconds. Atlanta's scrap against losing On the girls side, Battle knock' ting a pylon, later remstaiea and today he The record he broke was the ed off Bassett at volleybaU by 25 to 9, ad Wilkinson squeaked Bern. its independence and against the recently re-affirmed bonus rule, is good home study work for club r.riieniiaiiftfri for Drize mon accoiaae. The dearth of amateurs among tiie top glamor boys of sport was wflectedta the fact that all of the first seven vote-getters wim the exception of Hart exert their talents for cash.

Track Button, the world figure akating champion who recently wceived the Sullivan Memorial Bard as the athlete, who carried one he himself set here last year through against Brasweu girls, ey in the first race but made Between now and AprU 20, the Rocky Mount Leafs have a lot of trainine to eo throueh. but 8.5 seconds. liamson (UNC). Winning time: 24.3. owners who hope to stay out of 22-20.

eligible for lurtner compewuou. pviti cinifflpv QainesvUle. Running scond to Gehrdes was major league farm systems. San For Battle, Ed Pennington led Diving: Marino (OSU) BUlings- plans are already set up. Bob Morrow of North Carolina.

in points scorea with 14. Jim (winner of the first race to the ley (OSU). Wlchard (UNC). 127.7. Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Dallas and Sacramento should take Kea Benton, manager and star nitaher.

will takp t.ho olnh Manning helped him out with BiUy MitcheU of Georgetown initial heat yesterday, aiso was rpinstated and re note. to Titnsvillf Fla in train mlth came in third. nine, Roy Highsmith, seven, and Joe Raynor, six, did best for the 1 disqua'ified for the same offense. the parent club, Raleigh of the BUI Fleming of Notre Dame, loo-yara freestyle: White (OSU), Webber (OSU). (UNC).

Winning time: 54.8. 150-yard backstroke: Sper (UNC). Leaf (OSU), Prata (OSU). losers. uiass a Carolina League.

Some At volleyball, the Battle girls who won the 120-yard high hurdles in the Sugar Bowl, ran Marlene Bauer (above), 15, Los Angeles girl golfer, who compiled a brilliant string of victories last summer, has been voted "Female Athlete of the Tear" in ihe annual Associated Press poU. make the trip to the Florida trainine rairra. leavlno- Ralolirh Robert Downey, wmnici, Calif placed second to the first race of the semi-final heat with an average speed of 180.167. third at 174.364. BUI were led by Woodcock, seven points, to their win.

Lane and into hard luck tonight. Winning time: 1:37.7. the amateur torcn iub" 1949. was granted only one thlrd-. place vote fy the Associated Press fWltn Hart'e victory, six footbaU players now have been named AUdete-of-the Year.

BasebaU has been honored five times; goU ree; tennis and track each twice, and boxing once-Joe Louis- Athlete-of- March 14. He was right with Gehrdes go Joyner had two each. Benton, a veteran nf nara. ing into the last hurdle but he naknsh. winner As the farm system grew, the Crackers held to independence with defiance and pride.

Atlanta could afford to buck the current the club was owned by the Coca-Cola company. During those days more money was behind Atlanta than any big league team. However, as big league teams lined up chain systems and appointed scouts to cover every county, Atlanta began to feel a Half-time scores were 16-9 and Una League play, recently signed 200-yard breastroke: Balmoris (OSU), Ratels (OSU). Bartlett (UNC). Winning time: 2:21.6 (new meet record.

Old record of 2:31.4 16-3. in 1948, was fourth, at 174.056; failed to clear it and was so thrown off his stride he couldn't to lead the fnr another Wilkinson had an easy time year. In 1948 he led them to the Golf Association with BrasweU in their boys bas finish among the first three. set by OSU. 1949).

ketbaU contest. Harold Winslow The meet is only three years old, so record performances tfSoUrVSh- first place Luther C. jonnson, urwuniwu, was fifth at 166.570. and Noel Cessna, Wooster, Ohio, was last at 166.362. Earl Ortman, Deland, de- i a trouble and sank 14 points for the winners and Theo Pitt put in seven for league cnampionship, after taking over from Pepper Martin in midseason.

During the season he won 13, lost six. He completed 14 games, walked 32. struck out 103. 440-yard freestyle: Taylor (OSU). Thomas (UNC), Stephanos (OSU).

Winning time: 4:48.9. 400-yard freestyle relay: Ohio weren't too unusual, but 17-year' rotes in parenthesis: (points on basis.) Asks Better Turf BrasweU. old Henry Thresher of Mercers- pinch. Cracker scouts didn't find too much trouble outbidding for Searcy and Spain each scored was forced to land at the end of Points burg, Pa. academy, put on a performance that was out of the State (Sonner, Dooley Kobayashi.

young talent. It was a case of Before coming to Municipal four times for Wilkinson in the girls' voUeybaU game. Jones, for COLUMBUS, Jan. 14 having to beat too many other 164 55 ordinary. The Leaders Athlete, Sport Leon Hart, football Jackie Robinson BB Bammie Snead.

golf Stadium TOT the nnpnor the CongeUiere). Winning time. 3:30.3 (new meet record. Old record 3:34.4 set by UNC, 1949). scouts to the talent.

BrasweU, helped her cause with Leafs wUl play a dozen exhibi He won the 70-yard dash in 7.1 seconds, breaking the 7.2 second the first lap. In the second semi-final race Eddy Custer of North HoUywood, was ruimer-up to Soren-son at an average speed of 173.963 to inn Van NUVS. Then, in 1946, the bonus rule 3) seven points, and cianc naa tions, une wm be with tho went into effect. In less than a mark held Jointly by BUI Machis eight. Brooklyn Dodcers Kahoh Tea vvuunum.

year the fruits of Atlanta recruit of Illinois and Marceuus Boston Half-time scores of the Wilkin- one with the Wake Forest club. 52 40 35 24 16 13 12 ing were cut to about one-twen of Iowa. son-Braswell games were 15-6 was third at 173.615. The trio made up the J. E.

Smith entry, ineyii also take on the local high' school team. tieth. President Earl Mann asks, And he won the 80-yard dash and 13-7. "Why would a kid sign our contract for $3,000 when he could au iiying uoujjv The Coastal Plain schedule is reproduced nn tha in record time, too, breezing home in 7.9 se nds, breaking the mark of eight seconds flat set by Joe r-ionMahpila of Manhattan to William f. mitt, 12 wu WUV l.

joe Page, on G. Mikan, basketball djaet Kramer tennis 3 Bob Mathias, track 3) Bteve Van Buren, FB Alex Groza, basketbaU 1 PhU Rizzuto, BB Kyle Rote, football Cary Middlecoff. golf -tl' The Southern Golf Association moved to-day to ante up a year to help erase one of the regions toughest handicaps ragged greens and fairways. Vice President A. PoUack Boyd of Chattanooga, speaking for the SGA, caUed on member clubs to chip in this amount to aid in the development of a super duper golf course grass.

The new strain, for want of a more descriptive rame, has been caUed "Tifton 57 Turf Bermuda." sign a big league paper for $6,000 fmirtvi at 171.023 ana uane looav. it. xincno nn was Bonus Ballplayer Breaks Training or a Triple-A contract for 11 4 with Wilson here. After that the first four finishers wiU en Any player paid more than ua WW last at ,162.268 Chest- 9 Results to the third annual those figures became a bonus man and had either to remain gage in tne usual playoffs for 9 Washington Evening Star games ORLANDA, Fla. Jan.

14 (IP) Joe Stripp said today that Joe Baltimore Colts Net Seeking Hari BALTTORE, Jan. 14 (JP) The Baltimore Colts said today they won't seek Notre Dame's Leon Hart because they "don't think he's interested to playing pro baU." The Colts had made the 250-pound AU-America end their first draft choice in the AU-America conference and the Detroit Lione held the same tab on Hart to the National League before the two loops consolidated. Abraham Watner, Colt president, said today he had notified Detroit it wiU not contest the wic vnampionsnip. on the team's roster or be subject er Black, enaser neitsi.u.. was forced to drop out et Uie beginning of the second lap because of motor trouble.

tnnicht! to draft by another club. 70-vard hieh hurdles: First Andrews, young Massachusetts catcher-outfielder for whom the Top Women Golfers Class AA independents ooni St. Louis Cards heat 1. William MitcheU, Georgetown: 2. Lester Scott, Morgan Rodney F.

joceiyn, areobatic have room on rosters for unpre dictable kids in their first year Set For Tournament Boston Braves had reportedly paid over $40,000 to sign, had been dismissed from his school of base State. Time 8.5 seconds. compeUtions and Miss Betty Skel- of professional ball. Seat heat: 1. Bob Morrow, The name tells only part of the story, for the grass is a cross of several typs bred to retain die best quaUties of each.

TAMPA, Jan, 14 UPi baU for a training infraction. Last February the bonus rule Agree To Terms ton. Tampa, wm-- the men pUots for the first time, was second ln the field of eight North Carolina: 2. Jim Gehrdes Penn State. Time 8.6 seconds.

Andrews. Stripp said, missed The fourth annual Tampa. Wom was relaxed to auow uiass aa the 10:30 p. m. bed check Friday teams to pay $6,000.

But the other Briefly it is intended to provide Third heat: 1. BUI Fleming. ii six contestants. en upen uou tournament begins Thursday with probably the finest field of femininA o-nifero curat 14m. night.

Stripp last year dismissed fence remained high. JOCCIJU, mm SfcUiE Tcardinals nave more bv. fnr 1950 A Class AA team can control Lions for Hart at the organization meeting of the National Notre Dame; 2. Jack Gale, Vir ginia Tech. Time 8.8 seconds.

(AU six qualify for 37 players. Big league ciuos 4U a. c. and Marion the South with nearly year-round greens of a texture comparable to northern bents. Thus putting surfaces north and south would be nearly uniform and a barrier to competition from one region to American Football League nexT rSjustmetosident and Triple-A's 38.

ed up for a Florida event. AU three former winners Babe Zaharias. Betty Jameson and Berg have entered the 70-yard dash: l. Henry Cole. Kewanee.

HI, tomorrow to week in Philadelphia. Besides its 40, major leaguers Thresher Mercersburg Academy; 'We made Hart a salary offer 2. Robert Tyler, Morgan State wittman. Downey, Quigley, Tne six wcic ovw Rrhoendlenst. outfielder his own nephew for a similar infraction.

Andrews was not a regular member of the Stripp school, but came under the regulations of the school and was. quartered at Stripps' barracks. The Braves sent him hre so Braves Coach Jimmy Brown cculd observe his training. Brown and Braves first baseman Earl Torgeson are members of the instructors staff. 3.

James Fielding, Georgetown: control aUotments of each team owned in its farm system. That means such teams as Brooklyn may control as many as 500 play the other would be removed. The money wUl provide a need Brennand, Sorenson. Custer, and instead of giving us a reply he told us to see his agent," Watner reported. "It doesn't look uorrM fitamey and Pitchers tourney.

Louise Suggs, Women's National Open champion, wUl play. So wiU Marlene Bauer, 15-year-old standing U. S. woman athlete for Oeorge Munger. Alpha Brazle, Jim ed assistant and more money for 4.

Marcellus Boston, Iowa. seconds. (Breaks meet record of 7.2 held jointly by Boston and ones uu rin. Ithe finals of the Continental as if he wants to play pro ball, ers which are enougn to taue chances on doubtful quality train- Heara ana i-wju Bsigh said the veterans Schoen-rac. We aren't going to deal with any player through an agent." BUI Mathis, Illinois).

lata. In addition in Mi dlenst, Munger ana increases" under Prior to the merger, Hart had s. With its supply talent droop Harry Velllanfer vnuvt, UU1C1 high ranking amateurs entered ta the. new contract announced he would consider a year "as a starter" In pri ing. Earl Mann took sacks of cash First Loop Loss For East Carolina Jansen And Jones eniae urace Lenczyk, 1948 National Amateur nhomnim Rotter baU.

Honored By Pesn experiments for Dr. Glenn W. Burton, who evolved the new grass at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Ga. Already the Augusta National Club has contributed to the undertaking and other clubs smaUer amounts. Boyd said no difficulty was expected to raising the $10,000 annual quota the SGA decided upon.

The SGA voted to tighten up its qualifying rules by adopting the McKinnon, Peggy Polly A. Jan. 14 Sign With Giants on buymg trips but seiaom Dougnt anybody worth having. Few would swap or sell to Atlanta because most minor league teams are owned or affiliated with major leaguers. HICKORY, Jan.

14 VP The Scarborough Gels Lenoir Rhyne Bears tonight scor NEW YORK. Jan. 14 UP) Harry Wettlaufer. who came within a foot of being the man to wreck Army's foot uey, fat Devany, Jean Hopkins, Mrs. Betty Bush, Margaret Gun-ther and Mary Lena Faulk, Georgia champion.

ed a 70-58 basketball victory over The only iuuiu- are pitchers Howard Pouet. BUI Seeder sndErrEJwi: "teh-bt Del Rice and outfielder Harry Walker, a veteran who returned to thTRedbird roost to a trade that sentHon Nortbey and Lou tnel to Oncinnatl, traditionally Ss been slow signing and occas-Wly has been a holdout. Hew Mat Contract Righthanded mainstays Larry Jansen and Sheldon Jones signed East Carolina Teachers CoUege Atlanta won pennants in iaa baU winning streas. wut named the University of Penns ending the Pirates' perfect record WASHINGTON. Jan.

14 of four victories ln the North The Washington Senators seal their 1950 New York Giant contracts today. Jansen and Jones each won 15 one-group plan of the U.S. Golf and 1946 but the effects of the bonus rule and chain system took over in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and the team fell into the second State Conference. ylvania l4 awiew year. Election of Wettlaufer was an Association, the Western and other top associations instead of In taking its third conference game to live starts, the Bears games for the fifth place Giants last year.

Jansen also dropped The tournament is a 72-hole medal play event, with 18 holes a day through Sunday. It wiU be Played over the par 70 Palma Ceia course, a layout noted for its traps. "The course is in good shape, but I don't expect women's course record of 68 to be broken," pro Henry Boles ta said. tne old three divisions. nounced by Dr.

E. Leroy Mercer. Dean of the Departoent of were never behind after overcome 16 while the hard working Jones All this left Atlanta in tne Deculiar spot of having plenty of tog a 2-0 lead to the first oiplo The change was announced by President James S. Tupper. It wUl be put into effect at the 44th an was charged with 12 setbacks.

Jansen, however, lost credit for of minutes. Physical isaucawou. Brldgeton. N. J- athlete as "tha member of the senior class who money, a fine basebaU plant and eager people to watch a piddling nual tournament at New Orleans June 19-24.

a victory when a game in which he was ahead by a large margin over the Philadeplhia PhlUies was most closely approaches tne Miss Here had a fift last m. High scorers for Lenoir Rhyne were Guard BiUy Wells with 20 points and Forward Tony Sellari with 18. For the Teachers, Guard a new contract to Ray 8c arbor ough their star pitcher today replace the one the North Carolinian tossed back at them Fri day. Vice president Calvin Griffith declined to disclose what amount the Nats are now offering thett ace righthander, but It is believes to stiU be below his salary of approximately $17,000, Scarborough, who won IS and lost 11 last season, became the club's first holdout when ha rejected a sizeable pay cut la the original contract sent htm this year. brand of sail.

After last season the Coca- ideal university 01 remisyivnu- Playing dates for the 1951 meet and Miss Jameson did the same forfeited to the Giants. in iua. will be set to New Orleans. Since Jansen was purchased by Cola company sold the club to a syndicate of Atlantans and a few Louis CoUle had 17. MJC Downed, C3-34, By AppalacHian Clsb BOONE Jan.

14-W-APPa-bewfn State's MounUtoeer, lashed a smart scoring attack to Sefeat AtSntic Christian CoUege. Swt to North state Conference game here tonight. The Mountaineers, with Causey and Martin leading the way. whipped away to a quick lead and were never headed, maintaining a 30-20 advantage at halftlme. The Appalachian defense suc- throttled the ACC at- weeks later Mann announced the ia athlete." Wettlaufer has been a star on Perm's footbaU and basketbaU teams for three years.

His most spectacular achievement came to the 1949 Army the Giants from San Francisco for the 1947 season he has won 54 games. Only Boston's Warren No basketbaU team to the northern division of the Pacific Coast Conference ever has compil Gaslonia Coach Qnifs Athletics GASTONLA. Jan 14 llPi Spahn and Johnny Sain have won school and at Plant City High at Tampa, Fla. A heart condition forced Leep-er to give up his position as head footbaU coach last fall, and with today's action he wUl withdraw from athletics entirely. ed a perfect record Washington's tie-up with the Braves.

Mann claims Boston- Is the best of aU b'3 leaguers because of "youth anJ progressive development of its new farm system." But vou teU Mann stUl wants same which Penn lost h-h. more games over the same period. Spahn has won 57 and Sain 55. that nme. Wettlaufer, an eud.

15-1 in 1944 is tops. Price Lee per resigned today as caught 10 passes and gained Wes FarreU hit nine home runs Yale has won the swimmtai atmetic director of Gastonia high school, effective at the end of the to run his club and trade for 139-yaros. nn tha loot nlar nt th first in 40 games for Cleveland to championship seven of the last was tackled to his tracks a foot from the goal line. Time ran out before Penn could line up "I shaU probably continue at Gastonia as a classroom teacher." players on a free and open mar- 1941, a major league xecord for 1 12 seasons to the Eastern Intel tack by limiting the visitors to half, he grabbed a 28-yard p8s Ion the Army one-yard line and iket. like the old das.

clouts by pitchers, collegiate League. he said. merly coached at AshvUle High Ifor another play. eaui ueia oauev..

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