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PROBLEM AT RIGHT HALF LoUngclcgCfmcgi sept. 3, 1955-Partm 3 UCLA, SC GRIDDERS CRONIN'S CORNER By NED CRONIN Five Trojans Battle for Vacancy BRUINS' CURETON SHIFTED TO TACKLE the other four will show such Hickman, numeral winner with the 1952 frosh and more BY BR A YEN DYER Among the problems, not traceable to the heat, con standout ability that Hickman can be moved. Don alternated with Jim Decker at tail recently out of Uncle Sam's Army. Brown played' 60 minutes last fall but most of this was back on the "52 frosh, is the fronting Jess Hill at Bovard Field these days is what to do about the right halfback position on his Trojan varsity. fastest of the five right half at fullback.

He had two pret 1 partially provoked by the ac jtions of Don Shinnick, the con-I verted fullback, who has been 'playing behind Cureton at Iguard. "That boy," said San-jders, "is going to harass some-lone before the season is over." i Meanwhile, Sanders also backs and with this asset most likely will make the best Graduation of Lindon Crow ty goods days against btan-ford and Oregon State from this position. BY DICK HYLAND Capt. Hardiman Cureton, UCLA's All-America guard candidate, has been shifted to left tackle in an effort to bolster the Bruin line. Other line positions also were in-V0i'ed in the shake-up.

This was the word received yesterday from Coach Red Sanders, who said, "We may and Ron Calabria leaves SC without a really experienced Merle missed spring prac player at this spot. In 1954 Crow played more minutes than any other back. 402. announced that secrecy will be the keynote of Bruin drills and no longer will visitors be permitted at workouts. Only as well do it now as later.

We defensive successor to the talented Crow. Low Hurdler Hickman was a low hurdler in high school and a good one, so you know he can run with the ball. Brown is versatile enough to fill in at left half, right half or full, if called on. Merk, probably, is the toughest but he is more the Dlueeine tvne and less likelv certainly could not go through the season as we were." while Calabria got in 169. That amounts to 571 minutes out of a possible 720 for the season, so you know that the guys who followed Crow and Calabria didn't put in enough time to get up a decent sweat.

Smith Switched In other shifts Hal Smith, 19-year-old sophomore from tice because of low grades. He played 86 minutes last fall, all of it at right half; considerable against Notre Dame. "The position is wide open," said Hill yesterday. "We will make a decision as to the best man within the next 10 days. I may even shift one of the five to left halfback by the middle of next week, depending on what the others show." The two positions, left and right half, are tied into this problem because there is no experienced, capable replacement for Jon Arnett at the tailback spot.

Hill is hopeful that one of the press escapes the ban. Tailback Injured The Bruins were hurt yes terday in a position where they're well stocked. Ed Griffin, sophomore tailback from Oakland, will probably be out of action for four or five weeks. rays revealed that Griffin broke a finger of Five Candidates Currently there ar fivo Reseda, has been moved from tackle to end. Right Guard to break away than either candidates huffinz and nnffinp BILL MASON UCLA Position Right half on offense and left half on defense Hickman or Brown.

Agapay has been handi-canDed this week bv the loss in an effort to win Crow's old berth. Jim Brown becomes a left guard; Tom Thaxter has been switched from left guard to right guard and Gil McCuth-eon is working at left guard rather than left tackle. Thev include Ron Brown Weight 172; height, 5 feet and Ernie Merk, both letter- 11 inches. his right hand in two places Thursday while intercepting a pass. Griffin had shown of two wisdom teeth, which caused him to drop eight pounds and watch yesterday's drill as a sweatsuit sidehner.

men; Sophomores Ron Kranz Class Sophomore. Age and Joe Agapay, and Don The Cureton switch was promise as a passer. 19. High school Oxnard. Junior college Ventura.

Experience Varsity squad member last year but didn't see action. OLQ) TOLE IFTFS If tha New York Yankees manage to flop across the American League finish line for the 1955 blind staggers championship, Manager Casey Stengel deserves a life membership in the Magicians' Guild. Stengel somehow has managed to defy the laws of gravity and has kept the Yanks at the top, or thereabout, without visible means of support. His tools have been a spray gun pitching staff and an offense that blows hot, lukewarm and cold. In the days when the New Yorkers were a legitimate baseball power, all the club needed was a slight edge and school was automatically out.

Recently, the Yankees had a four-run lead over lowly Washington. Hank Bauer had to hit a homer in the ninth to pull the game out of the fire. MANTLE TIGER TO PUSSYCAT Later, a five-run lead over Cleveland failed to stand up and New York lost what could well be the most important game of the stretch drive. All things considered, what Stengel has gone through would make an old man out of Audie Murphy, who is not exactly unfamiliar with distressing ordeals. If nothing else, this season has just about determined that Mickey Mantle will never make the grade as one of baseball's big guns.

When he first joined the Yankees, the fleet-footed Mickey was supposed to be the greatest thing since bottled' beer. The one man who could replace Joe DiMaggio both in the field and at bat. The switch-hitting Mantle will hit a 450-foot home run right-handed, follow it with another one left-handed for an eruption of headlines. Then comes an abrupt metamorphosis that changes him from a tiger to a pussycat. For consistency of performance Mantle is to DiMaggio what a fungo bat is to a Louisville slugger.

Against Cleveland in the game the Yanks needed so desperately Mickey struck out three straight times. With the bases loaded and one out he hit into an easy double play that retired the side. On his fifth try, he hit a weak pop foul with the tying run on first. The next day he overran third base with the tying run against Chicago and was tagged out. CASEY MAY GET HEEBIE-JEEBIES Much more of that stuff and Stengel is going to have a tough time giving signals while wearing a strait jacket.

A fisticuffer who aspires to become a titleholder in his division is shooting the course in par. For a fighter to take dead aim at two championships gives him an for effort and a leg on the ambition trophy. The kid who has designs on a pair of boxing crowns, for which he will need two heads, is Don Jordan, who is going to take a crack at Woody Winslow tonight at the Hollywood Legion Stadium. He might make it, too, although it is an uncommonly big order. Jordan is State lightweight champion, but has been campaigning in the welterweight department for a .500 batting average.

He blew one to Art Aragon, in which he had the tarnished Golden Boy on the deck -but didn't have the experience to polish him off. DON'S THE LOGICAL OPPONENT His second trip to the post as a welter was a little more than two weeks ago when he scored an impressive, clean-cut victory over Joe Miceli, the New Yorker who made a basket case out of Wallace (Bud) Smith will risk his lightweight bauble against Jimmy Carter in the near future. Both are anxious to fight in Los Angeles, in which case Jordan would be the logical opponent. Carmen Basilio, a more formidable titleholder than those fn the lightweight department, has expressed a desire to make an appearance in this neck of the woods. Again Jordan is the most desirable adversary.

Although he is a more formidable opponent, the Basilio of the other night's nontitle bunny hug with Italo Scorti-chini in New York shouldn't cause Jordan to lose much sleep V) Prices Slashed to Clear Away Our Remaining Stock of DON HICKMAN SC Position Right halfback. Weight 170; height, 5 feet 10 inches. Class Sophomore. Age 22. High school Keppel, Al-hambra.

Experience 1952 Frosh; service returnee. Roberts Hurls 22nd Triumph PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 Roy Smalley's pinch-hit double drove home two runs in the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie and give the Phila Snider's 41st Home Run in 6th Beats Bucs, 2-0 delphia Phillies a 5-3 victory over the New York Giants tonight in the battle for third BROOKLYN. Sent. 2 W) up his second straight on a four-hitter.

Only once, when the last-place Bucs loaded the bases in the fifth, was the place in the National League. Trailing 3-1 as they came to bat in the last of the eighth, young southpaw in trouble while gaining his seventh vie tory against five defeats, Duke Snider's 41st home run, a two-run clout in the sixth inning, broke up a brilliant pitching duel between Brooklyn's Karl Spooner and Pittsburgh's Dick Hall tonight as the Dodgers defeated the Pirates, 2-0. Spooner, who hurled his first complete game of the year his last time out, picked the Phillies socked Windy Mc-Call for three doubles and a triple to give Robin Roberts his 22nd victory of the season against 10 defeats. The PIHiburali HBO Allroakly. E.

4 0 0 OUlllUm.lt ABHOA 3 0 3 1 4 112 4 10 FrM.3r 3 2 4 0 victory gave the third-place 4 0 1 3 0 1 3 3 SO llRnblnaon 3 1 0 0 0 HrKkm.lri 2 1 6 47.imm.r,2b 2 0 8 SiSiHMOll.t 2 0 0 11 3 1 8 0 3 0 10 3 0 12 2 0 1 3 0 4 2 1112 TTiomas.lf flhepard.a Ward.lli Cola OBrlan.Sb Grcat.as Hill, o-l, SafMl Phillies a two-game bulge over the fourth-place Giants. The Giants not only lost 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ol the game but also the services of their captain and short Totals 29 4 24 111 Total! 26 I 37 10 riammt doubled for Hall ut Stn. Raffall ran tor Clam-ma In Sth. Cola itnick put tor Ward in 9th. stop, Alvin Dark.

Dark tripped over the first-base bag after he singled in the sixth and is believed to have suffered a possible shoulder Plttibwa.il 00ft 000 0000 Irtaklyt) 000 002 OOx 2 RBI Snider, 2. 2B Ommtf, Rpoonar. nTtRnliier. DP Ward to Groat: flfoat to J. separation.

He was sent back to New York for X-ray Brim to Ward. 2: Gilliam to Zimmer; Rw to Bimmar to Hortwi. LOB Pittsburgh, Brooklyn. 3. BB Ball, Bwmtisr.

4. 80 Hall. Hurkont, 1: Spooner. 3. Bile Otf Hall 4 in 7 innmca: Surkont, 1 in 1.

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4k SI 1 9 Q.n,n,k 2 0 10 Katt.o Banks Sets Homer Mark, Clouts No. 40 CHICAGO. Sept. 2 Ernie Banks set a new major league home-run mark for shortstops today with his 40th circuit blow of the year as the Chicago Cubs hung a 12-2 defeat on the St. Louis Cardinals.

Thus Banks, playing his second full season in the majors, broke Vern Stephens' major league mark of 39 homers set in 1949 as a member of the Boston Red Sox. Banks, who was homer-less for 18 games after hitting his 39th on Aug. 11, connected the second time up during the Chicagoans' eight-run second inning. After singling to open this spurt, the Cubs' biggest of the year, Ernie connected with two mates aboard the second time he batted with two out. 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 Roberta.p-W liBmallar 0 Uf jar.p 110 0 0 0 0 0 Lackman Totala 37 10 24 13 Total! 31 11 27 10 Amalfilano ran for Dark In Ath.

Smaller doubled for Bobarta in Ath. Lorkman svalkod for in SCORIC BT INNINGS Klu Gets 44th as Reds Win MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2 UP) Home runs by Ted Kluszew-ski and Rocky Bridges gave the Cincinnati Redlegs a 2-0 victory over the Milwaukee Braves before 22,105 fans tonight. Art Fowler pitched six-hit ball to win a tight duel from Warren Spahn. It was big Klu's 44th of the season.

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