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MIZE MISSES THE GAME BASEBALL'S NOT QUITE THE SAME WITH BIG JAWN OUT were few ball players in any year since baseball's beginnings who made the act of striking a baseball with a bat easier. He made it seem as if he had all the advantages, as if only an accident could get him out. On the trains Mize talked about hitting as if he were a professor discussing some important topic. He was never pompous but he defined what he did and gave reasons why he was suecessful, so that anyone listening would be satisfied that he had an edge on all those who tried to get a baseball past him. It wasn't bragging, either- -just a man discussing a trade at which he excelled.

In those seasons, I figured he would be the perfect batting coach: he had the knowledge of his craft and he could explain it. But they allowed him to drift out of baseball and now he is growing oranges in DeLand, but I got the impression he would like to be back, teaching kids to do what he did so well. "Why," I asked. "aren't you in baseball?" "No one ever asked me," he said. Jack Leonard, the comedian, a devout baseball buff, arose to with Mize as Danny showed him to his table.

"You know," said Leonard, "You shouldn't have quit. I'll bet you could still pinch hit. You look like you're still in shape." "I don't know," said Mize. "Why didy you quit?" Leonard asked. "You had a couple of years left." "I needed one more pinch hit to break a Mize said.

"We clinched the pennant early. I figured Casey Stengel would get me in Kentucky Swamps Ohio State, 95-76 West Virginia Rolls Over Oklahoma State, 67-49 LEXINGTON, Ky. (P) 95-76 victory over Ohio classed Oklahoma State 67-49 Friday night in the Kentucky The Mountaineers from West Virginia meet Kentucky in Saturday night's finals after. Ohio State and Oklahoma State play for third place. Coach Adolph Rupp's unbeaten Wildcats took over at when ing hook st shots and led rest Johnny Cox hit one of area sweepof the way holding a 52-32 halftime margin.

Two Kentucky regulars, 6-foot 6 Don Mills and sophomore Billy Ray Lickert were hospitalized about an hour before the start of the game with virus infections. Despite their Don and Blassie Get No-Contest By JIMMY North American NEW YORK-The ice ters of the streets in small bizarre metropolitan. jewelry, The snowflakes, falling in a slanted sprinkle, were red in the glow of the neons. But there was summer in Johnny Mize's face as he came into Danny's Hide a way on this mean winter night. Mize takes the CANNON Newspaper Alliance hardened in the gutgleaming clots like JOHNNY MIZE summer around Returning To Baseball? with him, as if this were his personal season because this is the climate of his youth and of his famous time when he played ball in the big cities.

But he belonged in New York and he never seemed to be a transient, as all ball players must be, when he was with the Giants and the Yankees. There was a time when big John was one of the sights of the city and he appeared to be permanent and everlasting, a guy who would be walking up to the plate forever, taking his bat with him, to swing i it at a pitched ball in that graceful way, He is a man of pleasant nature who laughs quickly, but there was a majesty in his style when he came up to hit. There Kentucky rolled to an easy State and West Virginia outin their first round games Invitational tournament. Niehaus 10 Parsons Nourse 4 Hughes Barker Cedagren 0 Dardeen 00 4 Robinson -0000 Ferrell Totals 31 14 25 761 Totals 34 27 14 95 Ohio State 32 44 -76 Kentucky 52 43-95 Free Throws Missed: Ohio State- -Furry 3, Huston, Niehaus, Cedagren. KentuckyCox, Jennings 2, 4, Coffman 2, Parsons, Robinson.

absence, the Kentuckians piled up the highest point total ever recorded in the six invitational tournaments here. Rupp used every available man on his bench as the Wildcats hit 75 from the floor for a respectable 45.3 per cent average. Richard Furry led the game scoring with 25 points for the Buckeyes. Larry Siegfried chipped in 16. OHIO STATE KENTUCKY Furry 11 25 Cox Huston Jennings Roberts 3 Slusher 10 Carlson Cohen Hoyt 2 Johnson Siegfried 16 Coffman 0 OKLAHOMA ST.

W. VIRGINIA Ikard Gordon 000 West Akers 3 3 Clark 8 5 1 21 Clousson 0 ONe Heffingtn Smith 7 2 Hollinswth 1 Retton 3 Clarahan 0 Ritchie Wade 31 Visnic Deuendorf 5 Goode Miller Patrone Soregel Schrzinger Posch 17 15 14 491 Totals 28 11 22 Bolyard 14 Oklahoma State 18 31-49 West Virginia 38 29--67 Free throws missed -Gordon 5. Clark. Heffington 3, Hollingsworth, Clarahan, Soregel 2, Akers, West 2, Smith 2, Goode. 4.

4 10 5 NED JENNINGS (4) SCORES Johnny Cox Screens Ohio The Freddie Blassie and Don McIntyre wrestling bout ended in a "no contest" decision at the City Auditorium Friday night. Bennie Matta and Chief Little Eagle drew with Jack O'Brien and Ali Bey in the tag team event. Ray Gunkel and The Bruiser wrestled to a 30-minute draw in the semi-final event, and Matta defeated O'Brien in the opener. STATE MEET JAN. 22-24 Bishop Looks for Best GG Field By AL THOMY In a few days young fighters will hang calorie charts, beat dust from their tools of combat and begin activating muscles hidden behind layers of Christmas excesses.

It's Golden Gloves preparation time. First comes the training grind, then regional eliminations leading up to the Georgia State championships at Marietta Jan. 22-24. State director Al Bishop Friday announced dates for the 1959 tournament and at the same time indicated he expected at least 13 team entries. He listed them thusly, with in parenthesis: Atmanagers, Club (Carter Morgan), South Fulton Boys Club (Rudy Perkins), Lakewood Boys Club (Jack Stephens), South Columbus Boys Club (Dickie Davis), Macon YMCA (Ray Stewart), Griffin Recreation Dept.

(Ronnie Kelley), Acworth Jaycees (H. L. Walker), Douglasville (Howard Head), Rome (James Clanton), Hapeville (Robert C. Shellnut), Cartersville (M. C.

Martin), Ath- College Belt Hapeville College Park High's boys won their fifth basketball game in a row by defeating Hapeville, 61- 41, Friday night. College Park also won the girls' game, 40-25, as Claudia Hutcheson scored 21 points. Northside Divides Special to The Constitution CUMMING Northside set back Cumming, 74-45, here Fri day night. Northside's Ray Coskery dropped in 24 points, and Sonny Rollins racked up 34 for the home team. Forsyth girls defeated the Northside lassies, 58-27, Giants Slim Choice To Topple Browns A there to break the record.

Casey was always saying he had to get me ready--for the series. But I only got one shot at the pinch hit record. I was only up there once. So I figured, if that's the way it is. I ought to quit.

So I did." "Why did Casey do that?" asked Leonard. "I don't know," said Mize. "We're still good friends. I never had any trouble with. Casey.

But I never asked him. You don't ask a manager a thing like that." In 1950, Mize thought he was going to end up with Detroit. He had hurt his elbow and the Yankees sent him down to Kansas City. They brought him back but they were going to send him out, because Stengel intended to play Joe Di Maggio at first base. The experiment didn't work.

There was a conference between lonesome George Weiss, the Yankee general manager, and Mize. "He said I would have to go out again," Mize said. "He asked me if I wanted to go back to the American Association. I said no, I've seen that league. He said what about the International League.

I said I've seen that, too. He said how about San Francisco in the Coast League. I said I'd like a place with a shorter right-field wall. We left it at that when one of the newspapermen told me Detroit was after me. I was going to ask Weiss for a release, so I could do my own dealing.

But before I could, Hank Bauer got hurt and I was back playing first." He had a hell of a year. In 90 games he hit 25 home runs and drove in 72 runs. "They had cut, my salary 25 per cent the year before," Mize said. "They wanted me to take the same amount. 1 said I'm going to get a raise fit's only a dollar.

I got the raise." Mize, who came to the big leagues with St. Louis, worked for Branch Rickey and the late Sam Breadon who owned the St. Louis franchise. "Dealing with Weiss." I observed, have been a pleasure after Rickey and Breadon." "I got married when I was with the Cards," said Mize. "Breadon was a good friend of my father-in-law.

After the first game of a doubleheader, Sam leaned out of the box and gave me a check for $500. He told me that was my wedding present. I was getting around $9,000 a year then. When it came time for a new contract. I was dickering with Rickey.

He made me an offer and I told him it wasn't enough of a raise from $9,000. Rickey corrected me. He said your salary was $9,500. He said I forgot the $500 Breadon had given me. year I hit .364 for the Cards and 25 home runs.

Rickey told me I had a so-so year because I should have hit more homers. Couple of years later I hit 43 home runs. It's still a St. Louis club record. Rickey didn't say a word about that.

He said I had a bad year because my average dropped to .314. He didn't mention that I had driven in 137 We killed the evening talking about baseball. Mize didn't tell me, but it was clear by his glad references to the vanished years. that he wants to come back to the game which he ornamented. Baseball is a loser as long as Johnny Mize is out of it.

New York Will Rest Case On Charley Conerly's Arm NEW YORK (UPI) York Giants were 6-5 Cleveland Browns Sunday that could hit $200,000. These two teams clash in a death" playoff for the Eastern Division championship of the National Football League fore an expected crowd of 70,000 at Yankee Stadium and a national television audience (CBS) game time 2 p.m. (EST). The winner of the showdown earns the right to entertain Baltimore Colts, champions of the Western Division, for the world professional football title the following Sunday. With a sellout crowd in prospect for the championship game at either Municipal Stadium in Cleveland or Yankee Stadium, the winning player pool could reach a record $200,000.

That would make it about $5,000 for each member of Olmedo and Richardson Eye Doubles After Singles Wins Yanks Facing Tough Pair PERTH, Australia (P) Ham Richardson and Alex Olmedo, buoyed by opening singles victories, aimed for a doubles victory over Italy Saturday which would clinch the Davis Cup interzone final for the United States. The Yanks faced the experi enced Italian tandem of Nicola Pietrangeli and Oraldno Sirola, determined to avenge Friday's defeats. The Peruvian-born Olmedo rallied to down Pietrangeli, 5-7, 10-8, 6-0, 6-1, and then Richardson, exerting steady pressure, made it 2-0 by crushing Sirola, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5. A victory Saturday or in one of the final two singles matches Sunday would assure the Americans go at the Australians in the Challenge Round. That another, series is scheduled for Dec.

29-31 at Brisbane. The doubles match was scheduled for 2 p.m. (1 a.m., EST) on the Royal Kings Park Court. After his tennis forces had swept the first two singles matches, Perry Jones, non-playing American captain, predicted the doubles would be a much harder battle. "These fellows have played together a long time and they both have excellent services," said Jones.

"I look for the dog gone best fight you ever saw." The Italians from the first have felt their best chance of rocking the favored Americans was in the doubles match. Pietrangeli and Sirola have played together five years and during that period have lost only twice. Sylvan Tops Smith Doug Cooper led Sylvan to a hotly-contested 55-54 victory over Smith at the Sylvan gym Friday night. Cooper racked up 16 points. Smith's Sonny Patton accounted for 23 points.

Earlier Smith's lassies, led by Ann Page, who scored 14 points, nosed out Sylvan, 23-21 Sylvan's top scorer was Barbara Bramblett, with 16 points. Athens, Marietta Split Special to The Constitution ATHENS- Athens split a double-header with Marietta here Friday night, the boys winning, 66-53, and the girls losing, 50-44. Senior Ray Danner led the Trojans with 20 points, and Dinah Tumlin dropped in 35 for the Marietta girls. MACON SPORTS EDITOR, OFFICIAL HEART ATTACK FATAL TO GLASSMAN MACON -Sam Glassman, sports editor of the Macon Telegraph and a familiar figure in Georgia and Southeastern athletic circles for nearly 40 years, died of a heart ailment at 6:30 a.m. Friday.

He was 58. Glassman had returned to full duties several weeks ago after a suffering a heart attack early in the fall. He worked his usual hours at the Telegraph Thursday night and was stricken at 21 his residence about 2 a.m. He was taken to Macon hospital where he died. Glassman been sports editor of the Telegraph since 1945, but before that for some 26 years he had officiated at basketball games and for 21 years at football games throughout the state, and he had been for 10 years high school and amateur editor of heroically inclined New favorites Friday to beat the for a Christmas jackpot the winning team and $3,000 for each loser.

For Sunday's windfall division playoff, the players will receive "game salary," which means approximately onetwelfth of their regular season pay. If the score Is tied at the end of the regulation 60 minutes of play, the teams will take a brief rest and then flip a coin to determine which will kick off for the "sudden death" overtime period. The first team which scores in overtime will be the winner. There never has been a "suddendeath" winner in the history of NFL playoff games. Warming temperature in the high 30s began thawing out the frozen Yankee Stadium turf on Thursday, but there was no way of telling in what condition the field might be by game time.

And therein rested an important factor in the outcome of the big game. The Browns were hoping for firm dry underfooting so that they might spring loose their speedy halfbacks and thus make the going easier for bulldozing fullback Jimmy Brown up the middle. A normally solid field also would be an advantage to Cleveland's Bobby Mitchell and Leroy Bolden or kickoff and punt returns. On a frozen field amid a light snowfall last Sunday, the Browns scored only one touchdown and were beaten, 13-10, when New York's Pat Summerall kicked a 49 yard field goal with 2:07 left to play. That kick left both clubs with 9-3 records for the regular season and forced Sunday's playoff.

A frozen gridiron or a muddy field resulting from a thaw aiso would hamper the Giants' running game However, Coach Jim Lee Howell's men do not rely on a running game as much as Cleveland does under normal circumstances. The Giants' hopes rested primarily on the clutch passing of 38-year-old Charley Conerly and a magnificent defense that has held the Browns scoreless during the second half of the last two games played between the two teams. Associated Press Wirephoto TWO FOR KENTUCKY State Defenders for Cats Partin Given MVP Award Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Partin was given the Most Valuable Player award at the Chamblee High School football banquet Thursday night. Georgia Tech assistant football coach Jack Griffin was the guest speaker at the banquet held at the school cafeteria. Their teammates voted Chester Womack, sophomore tackle, the best lineman on the squad and senior halfback Larry Berrong the best back.

Other trophies given were: junior tackle Steve Langford, best blocker; junior sideback Buddy Pettus, best defensive player; senior end Larry Matthews, most improved player, and senior halfback Tommy Pilcher was given the Best Sportsmanship award. man for a number of years, devoting most of his spare time to his sports activities. He was a charter member of the Southern Football Officials Association and the Southeastern Basketball Officials Association. He was a past president and director of the South Atlantic League Sports Writers Association. Glassman was present Monday night at a football banquet at Willingham High School at which a trophy bearing his name was presented to the Willingham Rams' most valuable player.

Glassman is survived by his wife, his son, a daughter, Mrs. Ida Ruth Chester of Macon; two grandsons, Jimmy Roland Chester and Chris Chester, both South Cobb Escapes Special to The Constitution AUSTELL- South Cobb's Eagles went into overtime to break a 51-all score and set back Campbell of Fairburn's Bears, 59-55, here Friday night. The Eagles' 6-6 center, Jack Miller, accounted for 21 points, and Collins Bomar racked up 13 for the Bears. Associated Press Wirephoto RICHARDSON SMASHES A BACKHAND RETURN Ham Beat Italian Sirola In Davis Cup Interzone Match Westminster And Decatur Reach Finals Decatur and Westminster Friday night advanced to the finals of the Avondale Invitational Basketball Tournament. With the 24-second possession rule in effect, Decatur rapped Chamblee, 53-47, and Westminster nipped the hosts, 50-49, Both losers were aided by the new rule and made fourth-quarter drives which almost caught the winners.

Avondale scored 23 points in the final frame, and Chamblee tallied 12. Bobby DeFoor and Terry Allen paced Decatur with 17 and 15 points. Westminster's high man was John Thompson with 10 points. Saturday night's lineup finds Avondale and Chamblee squaring away for third place at 7:30, with Decatur and Westminister going in the final at 9:00. North Fulton Rolls Carl Ritter fired 18 points to pace North Fulton to a convincing 67-33 victory over Tucker on the North Fulton court Friday night.

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2-6945 ens (George Sadler), Augusta (George McElveen). "That's just a partial adds Bishop. "We expect many we've had in the State tournamore; in a fact, the finest field Winners of the State advance to the Southern Regional at Nashville, Feb. 16-18, and if they survive there, to the Nationals at Chicago March 2-4. Georgia claimed three Southern championships in 1958.

Sonny Moore of Rockmart waded through the light -heavyweight field and Charles Harbour of Columbus slapped down the welterweights at Nashville. Heavyweight Red Mitchell, subbing for Rip Riddlehoover, won in his classification but was unable to make the Chicago trip. Harbour and Moore did well in the Nationals, though failto bring home a trophy. Other defending Open Division champions are: flyweight-Ray McLean, Atlanta Boys Club; bantam--James Barfield, South Columbus; feather--Ted Morgan, Atlanta Boys Club; light -Robert Hammock, South Columbus; middle-Perry Quinn, Atlanta Boys Club. Bishop enters his eighth year as tournament director.

Six of boxing extravaganzas have been sponsored by energetic Kennesaw Mountain Jaycees. The meet is open to any amateur boxer who meets requirements of Golden Gloves and the AAU. Bishop' can be reached at P.O. Box 305, Marietta. The Atlanta Journal, writing sports on a part-time basis.

Born Samuel Jackson Glassman Sept. 7, 1900 in Baltimore, he was the son of the late David B. Glassman and Mrs. Bessie Chite Glassman. Both his parents were born in Russia.

He moved to Atlanta in 1907 and attended Atlanta public elementary schools and Tech High school. He enlisted in the U.S. Army near the end of World War I and served for 11 months, being discharged as a sargeant. He was married to the former Miss Myrtis Greer of Atlanta on Nov. 22, 1920.

His son, Sam Glassman is sports editor of the Thomasville The Glassmans moved from Atlanta to Macon in 1937. Mr. Glassman worked as a sales- LOWEST HIGHEST PRICES QUALITY CAFETERIA ATLANTA Piedmont N. E. Broadview Plaza SATURDAY Lunch and Dinner Special BREADED VEAL CUTLET Tomato Sauce SUNDAY Lunch and Dinner Special CHICKEN DUMPLINGS Monday Lunch and Dinner Special Onion Sauce SALISBURY STEAK TUESDAY Lunch and Dinner Special Country Fried HAM and GRITS WEDNESDAY Lunch and Dinner Special Golden Brown FRIED CHICKEN THURSDAY Lunch and Dinner Special Closed for Christmas FRIDAY Lunch and Dinner Special and Sauce SALMON CROQUETTE Supreme of Macon; one granddaughter, Debbie Glassman of Thomasville: two brothers, Harry Glassman of Atlanta, and Fred Glassman of Savannah; two sisters, Mrs.

Joe Angel of Atlanta, and Mrs. Morris Cutler of Baltimore, Md. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Memorial Chapel in Macon. Active pallbearers will be Jim Chapman, Bill Ott, Sam Hopkins, Donald McDonald, John Raymond, all co-workers at the Telegraph, and Wallace Reid, sports editor of the Macon News.

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