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Team to Work With Meridian For Players BY FRANK PERICOLA CRESTVIEW Pap Williams, 'veteran first baseman of the Meridian, ball club, has been named manager of the Crestview team of the Alabama Florida, league. of Crestview Club Sports Slants Andqlusia Only Club Minus a New Manager By FRANK PERICOLA News-Herald Sports Editor Selection of Pap Williams to manage Crestview's ball club leaves Andalusia as the only team still pilotless. George Weed, Williams will be a playing man- Andalusia banker, and his aides have been busy raising money Andalusia and PP to finance the clubs and they will pay to knock the cover off the ball in the class D. league. He always was a hard hitter, Crestview will work with the Meridian team, which won the peannant in the class cotton States league last season.

R. J. Reinke is president of the Crestview team, which has been busy lining up stock purchasers to Insure a good financial season. Crestview will play 63 games at home and 63 on the road. Its arch rival will be its neighboring Okaloosa county rival, Fort Walton Beach.

Andalusia is now the only club In the league which has not yet selected its manager. Andalusia will play part of its games in neighboring Opp, Ala. Roy Sinquefield succeeds Chase Kiddle at Panama City and John Streza, Ray Wilson and Holt (Cat) Milner will return at Fort Walton Beac, Dothan and Graceville, respectively. attention to player personnel. Georgia, Gators To Clash Tonight GAINESVILLE (Special) Florida and Georgia will close out their basketball seasons Saturday night with a final meeting in Athens.

clubs have met twice before this season, with a split decision being carried into the weekend encounter Meeting for the first time in the Gator Bowl Tournament in Jacksonville, the Bulldogs were hotter than a ten cent cigar and defeated Tlonda 72-84 before going on to "win the tournament. Four days later they clashed on Florida's court and the Gators triumphed 76-64. RYAN SIGNS HAMILTON, Ont, March 5 UPl -The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the a a i a Big Four Football League announced the signing today of John (Rocky) Ryan, former University of Illinois star and OLD AND NEW--The No. 7 uniform of the Brooklyn Dodgers, formerly sported by Charley Dressen, Is worn by rookie Vic Marasco before the discerning eye of new skipper Walter Alston. (NEA) Okay Television BIRMINGHAM, March 5 Southeastern Conference Commissioner Berme Moore today announced the conference has approved requests of Nashville and No.

2 draft choice of the Philadel- Louisville televisions stations to phia Eagles of the National Foot- televise the Kentucky Louisiana League. i state playoff game if it is held. We have seen Williams in action many times when he played with Meridian, Miss in the Southeastern league. Pap is older now but he can still hit and play first base. Too, Meridian's class Cotton States league team, which won the 1953 pennant, will work with Crestview and send a lot of rookies down that Speaking- of baseball, Tyndall operate an eight-club amateur league, with five teams from the air base, two from Panama City and one from the Navy mines countermeasure station.

There will be no TyndaU varsity team. Tyndall resumes fights Monday night when West Palm Beach Navy sends a team here The sceaps are slated to begin at 8.30 at the NCO Club. Gardner Dickinson, has been invited to participate hi the $25,000 ninth annual Colonial National Invitation golf tournament at Fort Worth, May 26-30 Only a select field will tee off in this event, and it is considered real honor to get an invitation. Sunday, May 2, has been set as the date for the Chattahoochee Apalachicola rivercade is planning an invitational basketball tournament March Territory in the Panama City Soap Box Derby Saturday, July 3, includes all of Noithwest Florida, the state of Alabama and southeastern Tennessee. Boys of this area who desire to try for a trip to the nationals at Akion, must compete in Panama City Chipola Junior Colleg-e of Marianna won consolation honors in the region 8 basketball championship, beating Jacksonville, 110-65.

Brewton Parker, beat Pensacola to win the right to represent this region in the national tournament at Hutchinson, Kan. The Sports Patrol By STEVE SNIDER NEW YORK. March 5 (UP) -Sports of all sorts: New York basketball scouts warn all hands to beware of North Carolina's Tar Heels in the next few years for nearly a dozen of New York's leading high school stars are heading that way to play for Frank McGuire, St. John's coach. Among the big city phenoms is much sought John Brennan.

six foot, seven mcher from Saint Augustine of Brooklyn. Phil Cavarretta of the Cubs faces an almost hopeless task finding a fleet center-fielder to play between Ralph Kiner and big Hank Sauer. "What we need is someone who can hit a long ball and run like Jesse Owens," says Phil Boxing oddity: Madison Square Garden has been the goal of fighters for years yet light heavyweight champion Archie Mooie hasn't fought there even once. Of course, he's only 37. George Halas of the Chicago Bears calls Georgia's Zeke Bratkowski the finest passer in college football last year--bar none.

He is positive that Zeke would been the National League's bonus pick this year instead of Stanford's Bob Garrett except for one item, the Bears a i the year before. A golf ball manufacturer has produced a new one said to add at least 10 more yards off the tee. It has diamond cover markings designed to give it a fraction of a second more flying time or the equivalent of 10 yards. Furthermore, they say, its legal President Walter O'Malley of the Dodgers, who longs for the days when the Bums were slap-happy characters, would like to see Roy Campanella keep his mustache and easy-going Gil Hodges in a real argument with an umpire. Both are 100 to 1 shots.

The Babe Ruth League for kiddies is having home run trouble. The youngsters weie so homer- happy last year the league's national headquaiters increased the outfield dimensions to cut down four-base production to a reasonable quota. The Yankees must be slipping When Joe Collins arrived for the opening of spimg training he discovered only three inals for his first base job instead of the usual dozen or so This time it's Eddie Robinson, Bill Skowion and Frank Leja. For the record' The Dodgers were shut out only once last year and it took a record performance to do it Allan Woithington, Giant rookie who hurled a shutout the week before, plastered the Bums thus becoming the first modern rookie to pitch shutouts in his first two major league starts Pauline Sasnett of Bonifay High girls' team scored 48 points as her team beat Bethlehem, 75-34, in a first round game of the Holmes County basketball tournament Kiner Due to Set Record NEW YORK, Maich 1 (UP)-National League fact sheet- Ralph Kiner of the Cubs, out to regain his home run ciown from young Eddie Mathews of Milwaukee, will set a new National League record with his next bases-loaded homer. Riflin' Ralph and Rogers Hornsby currently are tied at 12 each for lifetime output National League's use as a power league was spectacular last season NL sluggers not only set a new record of 1,197 homers (breaking old one of 1,100) but for the first time in history the mns- batted-m leader on each club topped 100 RBI's and if Pittsburgh had produced just one more homei it would have marked the first time ever all clubs had socked 100 or more homers in a single year.

Dodgers led with 208 Somebody had to suffei Wairen Hacker of the Cubs pitched the most home run balls (35t with Cardinal Geriy Staley runnerup at 31. Biooklyn, bent on licking the BREWTON Eng. Co. Super Readymbc Concrete Drives Foundations and ill types of Concrete jobs. Superock blocki SMid Drain for 3 beauty strength permanency cfr lowest cost Call ton Engineering Co.

SU 5-4374 Yankees in a World Series, have another lecoid to beat first- The Bums clinched the pennant last vear on Sept 12, eaihest in history. With Don Newcombe back, the goal is Sept 10--at least Red Schoendienst of the Caids, who missed the batting crown by just two percentage points would like to swing at Cub pitching in Chicago all year Red clipped" the Cubs for 28 hits 51 bats for 549 at Wngley Field Stan Musial of the Cards, with 345, tops the league in lifetime batting aveiage Harvey Haddix of the Cards led the league with six shutouts last year but Warren Spahn of the Braves leads with 32 on a lifetime basis. Don Mueller of the Giants, who struck out only 13 times last season, has the leagues shaipest eve in the strike zone The Detioit Tigeis will plav 32 spring training exhibition games, all against major leasue "teams In seven the Tigers play American League clubs and 25 they face National League opposition PANAMA CITY NEWS Saturday, March 6, 1954 WDLP--590 on Your Dial Youth Move Is Stressed By Bed Sox By UNITED PRESS Manager Lou Boudreau's youth movement was flashed the green light today when the Boston Red Sex passed up a chance to obtain American League batting champion Mickey Vernon. The decision means the Red Sox will open the season with a first- string lineup averaging 26 years of age--at least three years younger than any of the three other pennant contenders. Boston's average includes the 35-year old Ted Williams Boudreau's cnly concession to the graybeards.

Boudreau's hkely lineup features 25-year old catcher Sam White; an infield of Dick Gernert, 24, Milt Boiling, 23, Billy Goodman, 28, and George Kell, 31; and an outfield of Jackie Jensen, 26, and Jim Pier- sail, 24. in addition to Williams. The New York Yankees, meanwhile, are expected to start the season with a lineup averaging 29 years with 35-year old Phil Rizzuto the "eld man" and 22-year old Mickey Mantle the "babv." The Chicago White Sox's tentative starting array also averages 29 years while the Cleveland Indians' first-string alignment averages 30. Boudreau and General Manager Joe Cromn admitted they gave serious thought to making a major deal for Vernon but decided against it on the theory he would be a one-year gamble Vernon batted .337 for the Washington Senators last season but will be 36 years Ola on April 22. At Oilando, indications were that Vernon and Clark Griffith, the Senators' 84-year old owner would reach a salary agreement for a compromise figure of about $30,000.

Vernon originally demanded $40,000, causing Griffith to put him on the block, but the slender first baseman has been reducing his demands steadily. Ned Garver, another stubborn holdout, finally reached an agreement with the Detroit Tigers for an estimated $22,000. Garver, who had an 11-11 record last season, was resisting a 25 per cent cut fiom $25,000. Infielders Johnny and Buddy Hicks remain unsigned. Manager Leo Durocher designated Don Mueller as the New York Giants No.

3 hitter and placed Willie Mays in the No. 5 slot, thus surrounding cleanup man Monte Irvin with a consistent hitter who doesn't hit the long ball and a long-ball hitter who doesn't hit consistently. Most drastic innovation, howevei, was dropping first-baseman Whitey Lockman to seventh. Black Is Through With Experimental Pitching Jitney Jungle Wins From Elks Jitney Jungle defeated the Elks in the only game night at the Bay High gym in the City basketball league. was 48-37.

Lineups Jitney Jungle Bright, Kelley. 8, Ward 8, Goff 7, Gay, Bailey 8, Ferguson 9, Thorn- ion, Bellew Elks Cockran 8, Gilbert 4, Wilkinson, O'Connell, Conrad, Sulivan 1, Kelley 9, Locker 4, Sexton 6. VERO BEACH, Fla. (UP)--Joe Black cf the Brooklyn Dodgers looked on the 1954 season today "as a challenge." "It will prove whether I'm major league pitcher or not," he said. The Negro righthander, who admitted he did not see eye to eye with Chuck Dressen, the Dodger manager last season, declared that he was through experimenting with pitches.

"I'm just going to rely on my fastball and my crazy curve," he added. "That's what I got the batters out with in my rcokie year in 1952, and that's how I'm going to try to get them out this coming season." He explained his "crazy curve" as one that "didn't curve enough to be called a curve, and curved too much to be called a slider." Whatever it was, it and his fastball and fine control did the job in 1952 when he won 15 games and lost only four, in addition to saving 15 other games for Brooklyn hurlers. It was a different story in 1953. Dressen had Black experiment with new pitches, such as a screwball and sinker, and the result -was he lost his control and was used sparingly by Dressen, who didn't speak to him the last four months of the season. Black wound up with a 6-3 record.

When the new pitches didn't work out for Black last season, he tried to go back to his fastball and "crazy curve" only to discover that he no longer could control them And he admitted that he tried "to be a little too cute, too "Instead of trying to get the batters out with the same pitches I did in 1952, I tried to fool them and it didn't work," he said. "Now I'm determined to go back to my old style. And if I get a batter out on a fastball, I'll keep on throwing him fastballs until he starts hitting them off me. When that happens, I'll try something else. Why try out new pitches when the old ones are good enough'" Black realizes that he has to win a job on the Brooklyn staff for with big Don Newcombe back from service, the Dodgers promise to be loaded with pitching.

In addition to Newcombe they have such established hurlers as Carl Erskine, Billy Loes, Russ Meyer, Preacher Roe, Clem Labine, Erv Palica, Johnny Podres and Jim Hughes. "And with these 1 fine looking pitchers in camp, I realize I face a tough fight to make the staff," Black declared. "That's why I figure this year is a real challenge. "First cf all to make the team and after that to prove I'm still a major league pitcher." Blackweil Has Retired Again ST PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP) -Lanky Ewell Blackweil, attempting a comeback with the New York Yankees, suddenly announced his retirement "today due to recurrence of an arm injury.

The 33-year old right-hander called Arthur JPatterson, a Yankee official, from his home in nearby Tampa this morning before the team's regular workout and in- I formed him of his decision. TODAY'S SPORTS PARADE By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP)-- Prize fight managers went up a notch in my esteem today when I met a handsome young fellow named Bobby O'Loughlm Bobby is a square-jawed, broad- shouldered lad of 22 who moves with the soft, quick tread of the born outdooisman He has a five- dog sporting breed act currently appealing at the Philadelphia Sportsman's Show and which subsequently be seen in Columbus, Ohio, Utica, N.Y Milwaukee and Los Angeles But Bobby looks like he'd make a great heavyweight. And it strange that he isn't, considenng that his father is a gent named Tommy O'Loughlm who once managed, among others. a heavyweight challenger named Elmer (Violent) Ray. The only difficultv was that Tommy talked a better fight than Elmo ever 'oucht Elmer finally lost a few to guvs that Tommv his smiling Irish manager could have hipped himself and with one hand in a plaster cast So Tommv tossed in the owel and drifted into less frus- piomotional ventures Now the younger O'Loughlm comes smiling out of the west, Minneapolis to be exact, and vour SAY- ART Y-VJH AT KIND OF ACACi.

VOU THAT MUST BE NEW MAKE- NEVER. VOU NEVER. JUST TO N. ELL YOU- TOOK ADVICE AND MOVJ I'M "REMADE THEY TAVC.E ANO SUMMERFORD COX MOTOR first question is how he ever got away from the old man's fistic dreams of managing a heavyweight champion. "I went to the dogs too early," Bobby grins He did, at that.

Bobby was 15 years old and the proud possessor of a well-tuned jalopy when he started tinkering around the Hen- neprn Retrieving Club kennels. He took a liking to a pedigreed Chesapeake pup and soon the dog wouldn't "work' for anybody but him Finally, the kennel owner received a $500 offer for the dog and he gave Bobby the first chance to buy Bobby's father at the time broke because of feeding a stable of fighters who never lost a decision to a plate of steak and eggs. "I the dog so bad that I sold my jalopy to help pay for him," Bobby recalls. It was a combination all the wa. Bobby snd his dog.

Jack Pine, cleaned up in field trial competition throughout the Midwest. Finally, the young man came up with the idea of forming a retrieving act Now he has five and a whale of a show His performers include Jack Pme. for which he recently was offered $5 000 Blackie, a black Labiador worth $3.500, Ming, a yellow Labrador Skip, a springer spaniel, and D-Day Ike. an English pointer "The big thing it proves-to rne." sajs Bobln is that a dog is the Kieatest insurance in the world against juvenile delinquency I could mabe been in trouble as a boy, but fooling around with mv dog I never had time to get out of line He did have time to graduate from St Thomas College in St Paul. Mmn and right now he is uorkmg on his masters in education An officer in the Air Force reserve, Bobby wants to teach science Maybe Tommy did lose his last heavyweight prospect but I'm sure he'd admit the kid found a much better way of going to the dogs.

Tallahassee Golfers Coming Here for Sunday Tournament 107 WEST FOURTH ST. PHONES SU 5-8501 PANAMA ClTy GENERAL CONTRACTOR H. W. SPERRY PANAMA Cm Supply Cops Playoff Title Supply won the Tyndall Intramural basketball playoffs, beating A and 76-64, for its third playoff victory in a row without defeat. Supply meets a Bay High team next Tuesday and A and faces the Bay High lads next Thursday to end the cage season.

Rosen Not After Babe Ruth's Record TUCSON, Ariz. March 5 -Someone may break Babe Ruth's home run record someday, but it won't be Al Rosen, says Al Rosen. The Cleveland Indians slugging third baseman, who led the American League last year in homers, said the man who tops Ruth's 60 "will be a bigger, stronger man than I am." Parents Must Sign For Boys in Soap Box Derby Entrants in the Soap Box Derby to be staged here Saturday 3, must be accompanied by their 1 parents when they register and 3 must purchase the official wheels and axles at the time of tion, it was announced Registration is being taken at 1 Nelson Chevrolet Company. To be be 11 be Cameron Dropped From ROTC Program LOS ANGELES, March 5 UP) -All-America halfback Paul Cameron of UCLA is being dropped from the naval ROTC program at UCLA as a result of an item in the University of Southern California student paper referring to him as being married. From 30 to 50 men women golfers of Tallahassee Country Club will be here Sunday for a one-day team match with Panama Country I lonl TT raust De a Club members.

Play will start around noon. Local members desiring to play are asked to contact pro Woody Laffoon of Panama Country Club today. A spaghetti supper will be served to members and out of town guests at 6 p.m. Sunday. Reservations should be made by noon today.

Local male golfers won a recent match in Tallahassee but Panama City women were defeated. car in which he races and the exclusive of wheels and axle not exceed $10. The local derby winner will so to Akron, for the nationals with all expenses paid and is eligible for $15,000 in scholarships and other awards. There will a i 5o be local prizes. The Panama City Derby is sponsored by the News Herald Nel- ut Chevrolet Co.

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