Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio • 14

Bradley Says: "If Baseball's Bad, Close Parks" News Sp rts I'D UK TEEN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1944 3 Fishlers Brought Back From Fronts To Take l6 Part In Boxing Tournament Finals At Algiers Cleveland Owner Doesn't Want Game To Be Farce BY LEROY SMITH CLEVELAND, Feb. 2. Wl President Alva Bradley of the Cleveland Indiana declared today he would close hia park if he couldnt present high-class baseball thia year. "Ifa too grand a game to be l-mgs tinned as probable winners in Harmon Convinced Hale-To-Lose lessons lie Learned In Sports lirought Hint Back To Tell Tale I turned into a farce and that'a wnai -By "Si" Burick- Preliminaries have been going on for two mouths aa enlisted personnel of all ranks have been whaling the daylights out of each other in rings from Italy to Casablanca. The competition haa spread even to the front linea and wlnnera or preliminaries in those sectors are being withdrawn so that they may battle for the greater glory of the mob of Algiers' "Cauliflower Row." The itinera receive a week's tuning up at a special three-ring rest camp near Algiera.

In (il rirclea the names of two American Negro fighters, graduates of (iolden Gloves competition, frequently are men- Greek and Arab boners who are camouflaged under French colors, Jack Sharkey, the Boston squire who once held the heavyweight championship, and Fidel La Burha, former flyweight king, hut now a corporal In the ulled States army, will referee the finals. Thousands of jeering end cheering (M's are expected to every square inch of seating space in an Algiers stadium where the bouts will be held under national intercollegiate boxing rules and under the sponsorship of the special service section of the North African theater of operations. BY C.EOKCK Tt'CKCR ALLIKI) II KADtjUAIM'KItS, ALGIERS, Feb. 2. ill The greatest mass exhibition of cauliflower ears, skinned knuckles and bloodied noses ever witnessed in Africa will take place during the six dsya from Feb.

14 to Feb. ltt. inclusive. During that time the finalist from mora than 1000 allied leather pushers, including 700 Americana, climb through the ropes to determine the amateur and professional boxing championships of the North Africa theater of operations, Wilh lite Americana will he 250 British and about 5(1 French title aspirants, including a doi- their amateur classes. One ia I'fc.

Sylvester Smith, 190-pound slugger, who easily won both hia preliminary bouta by knockouts. The other la Pvt. Simon Williams, 145-pounder, who ia a master boxer. Both Smith and Williams are products of Lincoln university at St. Louis and have yet to lose a bout.

Among professionals expected to compete in the finals are Marcel Cerdan, known to American fight fane aa the welterweight champion of Europe; Car-ria Lluch, Spanish middleweight king, and Omar houdri, topflight African welterweight, fighting under French culora. $50,000 Golf ronrnaiiients Next Hogan AAA will happen if we insist on operating whether or not wc ve got big league ball players to operate with," the club owner explained. "I for one have too much respect for the dignity of baseball to stand for that. If 1 can't prresnt baseball of high quulity I'll close my park." Elaborating on his stand, Bradley said he is determined to prevent SINCE coming home to Ann Arbor from the China war theater, Lt. Tom Harmon, the Michigan football great, has been besieged by interviewers.

And of all his statements, the most significant, it seems to me, was his insistence that he would love nothing better than a debate with that well-known navy man, Comdr. Gene Tunney. Maybe you'll recall Tunney a the hit-and-run heavyweight who won (he championship of the world from Jack Dempsey, and who in a return bout got up off the floor after a count of from 10 to 17 second to win a second time. A a fighter. Tunney.

whether you liked him then, or whether you like him now, was a great competitor. It's true that the "Ion count" wan a tremendoua break for him, but he was a badly hurt fighter when he finally truggled to his feet after taking seven Dempsey punchea on the way down, and there mn hn would have oossessed the competitive heart to FORT WORTH. Feb. 2 game from becoming Wi-Ben Hogan, the mighty atom 1 would not consent to a make-of golfdom, sees $50,000 touma-. shift team auch as a pitcher at Tipp City Red Devils Have Record Of 11 Straight Wins ments after the war but with lesi second bane and a catcher in the of the carnival atmosphere.

I outfield. "Golf is going to be great Bradley believes the ma.iora will more plavers and tremendous i start the season but he isn't certain purees Raid the man who topped they'll finish. "For two years peo-the game's money winners before pie have been offering to bet me entering the armed service. Hogan that the game wouldn't survive the now is a lieutenant in the athletic season but thia time I'm not taking 'Hawks Play Toledo Team At Coliseum office of Fort Worth army air anv beta of that kind. The tribal nrexy added a predic field, 'I And where, he was sfked.

would those $50,000 purses come from? "From the businesses that go in big for national advertising." said tion of "less and less optimism among the club owners as the winter wears along. The manpower pinch is just beginning to be felt." AHhnnuh hn emnhttsizps "it'g BO" EDNESDAY night at the Coll- little Hen. "Why, or even leum, the Wright Field Kitty hawks will attempt to avenge one $100,000 is no more than a drop in jff t0 be damned tough to oper-the advertising bucket to them. 1 1 ate tne executive J' J-V I near a nan aozen are reauy. as I maintain the game should continue soon as the war is over to see what I if the caiiDer of play doesn't fall can be done along that line too low.

of their four defeats, sustained this season, The Hockets of Toledo university are the team who will fare the Kittyhawka thia evening. Last month, the Toledoans scored a five-point victory over the Hawks in a well-contested game, which But he thinks the trend will be away from carnivBlized golf tour "1 thins baseball has something real to contribute in wartime and naments. I won't consider quitting until "Practically all of the name Yl. 'J" -i. 1 mere uvik-i wjuio; i'" But common sense tells me that nMW Will mm ill no time may come whether I like it or not." players wnu iiuiwmuiioi game and make the tournaments," he laid, "have no appetite for the wild hurdy-gurdy tournamenta and thai? wnn't ntav In them if them Is was plaved at Toledo.

This time fans will see a much superior Wright Field team than the outfit that lout to Toledo early In January. A new coach has taken the reigns, and two new players have been added who have made the starting five. Lewis Dale, former professional plaver from Pittsburgh, will hold money to be made at other places. Tv.t Oust The kind of tournament they lovei j.HC CI is the masters; hich Bobby Jones started at Augusta. Ga.

It was run lK.il I with restraint that golf has to have TOUIIJU II US I to be perfect Even the people who came out to watch the matches! CINCINNATI, Feb. 2. Uf- carry on to atand up, fight and think hla way out of the situation and (hen call on hia reserve atamina to win. That's why Tunney'a navy philosophy of athletice the theory that caliathenica will do aa much for man aa competition haa been auch a ahock to the eporta-mlnded. That'a why It la remembered and la still discussed.

And that'a why It ranklca. Tunney ahould know better. So, to get hark to Ffarmnn and hla desire to debate Tunney, which I call significant. Said Tom: "I know I'd never have gotten out of either of my big adventures without my football training." And to this, he added: "Sports competition gives anyone a haired of losing." Athletic training, he emphasized, too, la the greatest asset a man going into battle ran carry with him. Let's grant that when Tunney aaya that calisthenics Is enough to prepare a man physically for battle, he has a point.

If a msn becomes musrularly hard, he has a start on the fellow who isn't. There's no argument on that point. Rut the "hatred of losing" the refusal to give up In the fare of adversity the inexorable "we-aren't-licked-yet spirit how can those things be developed In ralislhenira? That's where Sailor Tunney missed the boat. As one who's been through it, Tommy Harmon certainly ought to know, 4 Why Dutch Bergman Quit' AN old friend of ours and, for that matter, of many Daytonians quietly dropped out of a coaching job that should be one of the best in football, the other day. Arthur C.

(Dutch) Bergman, one-time backfield coach at the University of Datynn announced that he was resigning as mentor of the professional Washington Redskins after one season on the job. "Pressure of business," the Dutchman eiplained. It aeems he's interested in a contracting business. And it seems he has a regular aporta broadcast over Washington radio station. He'll continue to scout or help out the Washington club In any way he can, he said.

But as for head-coaching, that waa out. The Dutchman insisted he doesn't have the time. Anyone who knowe Bergman must realise that hia "resignation" doesn't ring true. In the first place, like most coachea, Bergman wouldn't trade his kind of job for any in all the world. Fool hall la like a disease with a man who makes teaching it his profession, lt la simply part of him.

So coachea don't walk out of jobs for more lucrative fields, just like that. Our guess ia that Bergman, strong-willed, strong-minded man, aimple could not stomach a coaching job under George I'reston Marshall, the laundry man who owns the "Washing-done" club. Marshall Is one of those quaint individuals who show tip in sport a man with a sense of showmanship for hia team -phi sense down the right guard position. understood and appreciated the 1 Faced with the prospect ol no loot- Dale has an exceptional aet shot and pluvs a smart defensive game. ball teams to coach for the dura The other newcomer who haa tion, Joseph A.

Meyer, head foot proven his ability ia Larry Mc hull roflch at the University ef HERE'S the unbeaten Tipp City basketball team: Front row (left to right) Don Stockslager. Harold Welbaum. Dane Vincent, fa ill Miller, Tom Wenzlau and Don Peters. Back row, Coach J. R.

Bram- Neal, a native of Dayton ana a former Roosevelt athlete. McNeal is a good scorer, adept ball handler and is one of the best defensive mer, Don Fair, Jack Whitmer, J. M. Day, Dick Cooper and Don Knife, manager. a Cincinnati since 1138, resigned hit position late yesterday.

In a letter to the university directors, Meyer said "under these circumstances it seems to me that the obvious thinir was to resign and game. Ben never plays any more except on Sundays, and then only if the weather is favorable, but he isn't worried about his game. "Nothing matters now except smashing the Germans and Japs," said Hogan. "After that I'll worry about my golf game. It'll come around all right with practice and Play." tt Racing Notes tilaven on the Bound.

Scouting the field for talent, Lt. Deibert, Wright coach, has found two more playera who he feels may help the Kittyhawka to a great extent. One of these boys in a local athlete who played for Fairview for three years and then played a portion of a aeason with devote mvself in some other effort." President Raymond Walters, accepting the resignation, praised Myer's work as coach and declared "football status of the university advanced in a gratifying measure and reached a level proportionate to the size of the institution and its standards in intellectual, music and dramatic Jemas Bats In Tipp Missed In '43; Aims For State Title This Year BY TOM CARROLL 44FIASKETBALL, like horse racing, or for that matter any other aport, is wholly unpredictable. A team may go through most of Its season without losing a ball game, and then suddenly drop one on a night when it is least expected. A horse may win the Kentucky Derby and make a miserable showing in its next run.

A pitcher may pitch a no-hit baseball game and then turn right around and last but one inning the next time. That's why, even though we've won 11 in a row, we're not corky about our next five games." The speaker was Coach R. J. Jack' 'Army Bou Ring Dates Shuffled JWEW YORK, Feb. 2.UPI Because Beau Jack has been reclassified 1-A by his August, draft board, Promoter Mike Jacobs has switched the dates of the two shows involving Jack, Bob Montgomery and Sammy Angott leading to an undisputed lightweight champion.

As it stands now Jack and Montgomery will meet March 3, instead of March 31, with the winner fighting Angott, the NBA champion, on March 24 instead of May 26. Jack has a February date in Cleveland with Maxie Bergen. Angott has a March 8 booking in Los Angeles with Juan Zurita. Feature Races BV THE ASSOCIATED PIIE88 COLUMBUS, Feb. will contribute about $1,000,000 to the Fourth War loan, Henry V.

King, chairman of the racing subcommittee of the war bond sports nmmlltM. cnirl trxlnv. The Sara can your scaip I PASS THE I FINGERNAIL TEST?" 1 wa. toga Racing association, which subscribed $300,000, has been the major contributor, King said. Brammer of the Tipp City cage team.

Brammer, who has been coaching basketball for the last 14 years, knows the ins and outs of the game well and certainly knows how to handle a group of young high school athletes. Last year Tipp City finished its season with a record of 19 wins and four losses. The Red Devils went all the way into the state finals, but lost out to Yorkville. Five players on the squad this year are seniors who participated in the tough tournament competition a year ago, but the two regular forwards, Welbaum and Bill Bailey tops the jockeys at New Orleans in the number of firsts, but Nick Jemas teems at taking the feature race. He or show-or for himself.

To him, professional football la hla great outlet for ahowineaR. He parades before and during a game ao that to those who the Washington games, hie face and raccoon-coat-draped figure are as well known as the players themselves. Moreover, he insists on having something to say about how the team should be operated on the field. He has a phone in his box in Washington, I'm told, which la connected to the bench. It ia nothing for him to call the coach during the heat of battle and suggest a substitution, or that a certain play be tried.

Or, to rush down to the bench, and demand it in person. His ridiculously showy act of silting on the Chicago Beara' bench during the playoff game was typical of the gent. I cannot conceive of Dutch Bergman going for that for long. The Dutchman is smarts has a mind of his own, and certainly ignored any Marshall suggestion that did not mevt with hia approval. It wasn't business, or that radio broadcast, that brought about Bergman'a resignation, pals; it waa a atomarh full of the fellow who owna the club.

Sid Lucknian Selected As Pro Loop's Most Valuable CHAMBERLAIN clCApP Feb. 2. Sid Lucknian, master mind of the Chicago Beare famoug formation, today waa judged the National Foot- Wenzlau, with 73 and 60 points, respectively, in 11 games, have another year to play. Quite 'frankly, Tipp's veteran team is aiming to bring home the state Class crown this year, Brammer has seven, sometimes eight, men ready for the starting lineup and has two or three men ready who can take over in a did again yesterday with Alfios $4 in the Decatur purse. He turned in a double with Nf3 Quota $7.80.

Bailey also had two winners, Prince Chance $8.80 and Jay Kan $9.40. Harry Pratt, who rode four winners at Hialeah Monday, added two more yesterday, Don Chance $7 and Peto Gino $9.20. He has now ridden 16 winners in 22 days against 31 for Red Atkinson. Atkinson was shut out yesterday, Possibility Of 3-Way Tie Seen In Scholastic Loop BY RALPH FINN "TE game In particular will hold top billing this week-end in Big "Seven campaigning and that will come in the nightcap Friday night at the coliRoum, when the undefeated-in-citv play Stivers Timers go up against the Chaminade Eagles who are but one contest behind the it if rM Scratch jroat head and I ball game without having to worry about losing a good man because of fouls. The strict five-man first-string idea is taboo with him, as is the idea that one man should steal all the scoring honors.

1 igers. lirm of drynws ot looaa, og-ty dandruff All five of the other teams will Elray, a 48-to-l shot, surprised by winning the featured Sunniland niiwsd of Uiilooli Pirtrlon hv KrAVA 70a need new WildrootOaam-Oil-Form-ula. Groom relieves dryneaa, ramotaai kwaa dandruff) Two lizea, 604! and $1,01 "Its my idea that five men are ok Elray timed jn harder to watch than one," said and paid a juicy play. Four will participate in actual league games, but the game that the fans want to see this week is the Tiger-Eagle tiff, for this contest should definitely settle the city tltleholder if Stivers wins, or lead to three co-cham- against the Wilbur Wright Pilots in the nightcap Saturday night. By the way, the same Pilots who rooted on the sidelines for Chaminade when the Eagles beat Fairview to slip the Pilots in on a three-way football tie this past campaign, will once again be egging the Eagles on this time against Stivers.

For if the Eacles irnKutB mum ratuBUie player ior we J943 season, TOUR HAIR CAN LOOK ine awara crowned the five- 'f- I 1 pious if Stivers loses. Buster Adams Of Phils 4-F PHILADELPHIA. Feb. LIKE THIS WITH NEW WILDROOT CREAn-OIL i -A vira( tel. win, and the Pilots can top them later on without losing to any of LARRY McNEAL the other teams they must, face, the The Phillies management today was year pro football career of the former Columbia university college star who now is stationed at Bay, N.

aa an ensign in the merchant marine. Six players were considered In the balloting of a committee of 13 aporta writers from various cities represented in the league. But only Don Ilutson of the Green Bay Parkers, who won the award in 11)41 and 1942, came near to beating out the 27-year-old Bears field general. On the basis of five points for a first-place vote and two for a second, the final tabulation showed: Lucknian, ,16 points: Hut- touchdown passes, one game, most yards gained passing, one game, 433. Luckman Joins a list of previous most valuable winners which includes Hutsan, Ace Parker of Brooklyn, Parker Hall of Cleveland and Mel Hein of New York.

Recognited at one of the greatest quarterbacks in history, Luck-man rode to fame on his expert manipulation of the a job which he originally thought waa too big for him. When the Brooklyn hoy joined the college squad in 1939 for the annual All-Star game in Chicago, Brammer. "That's why Tipp City's points are distributed fairly well in any one ball game." To date Tipp City has played three Class A teams in its 11 games and has compiled a total of 347 points to its opponents' 233, a single game average of 31 points to 21, The veteran team has plenty of height, a lot of speed, an air-tight zone defense and with experience gained in last year's district, regional and state tournaments, Is fa'ored to go far in all competition this year. Five games remain on the Red Devils' schedule and all, with the exception of the alumni game on Feb. 10, will be played away.

Friday Brammer's boys travel to New Carlisle, Feb. 8 to Vandalia, come home for the alumni game, then travel to Miamisburg Feb. 18 and wind up at West Carrollton on Feb. 25. Cincinnati university William Fricke who has been one of the most consistent scorers in the intramural league with a 21-point average for the season to date.

Fricke is expected to be in the lineup Wednesday. The other find is Dick Vacha, fi foot 2 inch former John Carroll football and basketball star. Dick starred at end for the Kittvhawks' football team Pilots can share the city crown. History might repeat itself in this case. Fairview will probably be without the services of Bob Gibiton, guard, in its tilt with Kiser, which has lost 10 straight, in the opener Saturday night, for Gibson will probably be in Detroit finishing up the necessary rigamarole while taking his physical exam for the naval V-5 training program.

Gib The jinx that has been clinging to the Tigers had apparently fallen from the shoulders of Skipper La Rue, Tiger cage mentor, hen it was announced that Al Clay-man, who had been ailing for weeks, would probably be able to go Friday evening, but now word comes that Bill Ginn, who has been carrying the extra burden, has been home nursing a cold along for two days in the hope of being able to play in the all-important tilt. Chf ninade, of course, will need the not only to stay in a position for a possible co-championship the league, but to maintain its p.estige which has already taken a big drop. The Eagles, who had won seven straight. assured of the services of another outfielder for the coming baseball season, following the rejection of Elvin C. (Buster) Adams for military service.

Herb Pennock, Phillies general manager, said Adams was classified 4-F because of a stomach ailment, and added "that's the first good news we've had in a long time." Adams, U7, married and a father, came to the Phillies along with Outfielder Coaker Triplett in the deal that sent Outfielder Danny Litwhiler to the St. Louis Cardinals last year. son probably won't be missed, for son, 33; Sammy Rnugh, Washing- ne spent two weeks with Luke ton Redskins, 1.1; Ward Cuff, New JohnsoB, then assistant Bears' York Giants, Charlie Brock, coach, going over his new assign the Hulldogs figure to take tnis game in a breeze to hand the Panthers loss No. 11. Parker Co-op will be the only Big Seven squad not seeing action in" leaeue competition this fejMMMWfcawrhria Hi rin.

lii mk aw ii nfrirnaaffiil. week, for the Beavers will enter-) tain Oakwood in the preliminary' 3 Gaines Booked On Sunday Card i'ackers, and Bill I'asehal, Giants, 2 apiece. The award is presented to the player who is considered to be most valuable to his team over the regular league season. During the 10-game schedule last fall, Luck-wan set four all-time league records: Most yards gained passing, one season, 2194; most touchdown passes, one season, 28; most last season. ln its most Tecent efforts, Toledo scored wins over Marshall and Ohio U.

The preliminary contest will bring together two teams from WriKht Field. The Wright Flyers, civilian team, who broke the winning streak of the Dayton university A. S. T. P.

team, and scored a decisive win over Air Sen-ice Command Headquarters last week, will meet the Intramural All-Stars. Added entertainment will be provided by the 4f2nd army band, beginning at 7 p. m. Preliminary contest will start at 7:15 and the main game at 8:15. Proceeds will go to recreation fund for the enlisted men.

Keeps your hair arefl ctxnhed aS day and without a trace of that look! And (-rooming without grease meant no mora (tamed hatband a. no graaay pillow lips? Yuur hail look gooi and I eel food! started a string in the wrong direction by dropping a pair of games over the past week-end, and unless something is done to remedy the record, they might slip out of top spot all the way around. Underclassmen will be under fire in the two coming carnivals this week-end, for the Roosevelt lineup will probably see several reserves getting plenty of action ment in the set-up. Luckman was not convinced that he could operate in the delicately timed alignment, and it was only after much grooming by Johnsos that he finally accepted the quarterback job with confidence. Since then he led the Bears Into four national championship playoffs and won three of them.

His five touchdown passes Dec. 26, when the Bears drubbed Washington 41-21 for the title, set a playoff record. Luckman plans to play one or two more years of pro ball with the Bears after the war. Joe Tinker Is Seriously 111 ORLANDO, Feb. Joe Tinker, who gained baseball fame as a member of the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double pjay combination of the old Chicago Cubs is seriously ill at Orlando's Orange General hospital.

His condition was "poor" and rienty of basketball fireworks will be ignited Sunday afternoon at the Fairgrounds Coliseum, from the first preliminary through the main attraction. Another girls' game, between members of the Industrial league, will open the show at 1:45 p. m.f with N'. C. R.

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30. New Hat Dept. Second flow to the Mivers-Chammade tiff Friday night starting at 7:30. Stivers will see action again by traveling to match ability with West Carrollton on the latter's floor Saturday night. Dunbar has scheduled four more tilts, all of them with soldier squads, for the next three weeks.

Forte's boys play the Wilbcrforce ASTP team there Thursday night, returning home Friday night to play a combined soldier-civilian team from the Air Service Command. Two tilts remain to be plaved with the Dayton ASTP outfit, the first. Feb. 21, at V. D.

gym, and Feb. 26 at the Dunbar gym. Forte hopes that the extra games will prime his boys for the tournament. Cravath-To'Redjtkins Report Just A Rumor LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.

The rumors that Jeff Cravath might leave his football coaching post at tha University of Southern California to become head mentor for the Washington Redskins of the National Professional league, turned out yesterday to be just that rumors. Cravath admitted he talked Mon day with George P. Marshall, Redskins' owner, about football con onu preliminary win senu ine Moose Lodge against Johnson Tool. UN has lor been Moose has won 19 of 20 games this Jrscntd ot season, and its defeat was at oothinf aualitiea, the hands of these Toolmen, last bcu 'ir Wednesday night. tea.mbies oil of These teams have met twice in their Wednesday night league, the Crt.m-oi! ia METROPOLITAN Dr Moose winning by three points the nnifonnity.Nowonder Cincinnati North Collra Hill, Par.

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Mr. Zivic Turns To M. C. Job In Smoky City Chili HTTPRURGH, Feb. Zivic, the former welterweight champion, made hia debut as a night club master of ceremonies last night, commenting after his performance: the ring was never like this." The versatile Zivic, biding his time until a hand injured last month in a losing bout with Jake Lamotta at Detroit heals, has passed his navy physical and expects to enter the service soon.

Until then he will appear at a local nightery, drawing a salary, he says, "for being myself." His debut included recitation of some of his homespun verse. A sample: "I know I'm not a Crosby, Sinatra the rubber tilt in their series. The Acme-Akron game will stait at tha usual time, 3:30 p. m. De Paul's Mikan Is Still Growing Boy CHICAGO, Feb.

"He'a still just a growing boy," smiles Ray Meyer, basketball coach of De Paul university, looking upward to the man on Stilts, Center George Mikan. hard to believe, hut big George lias grown a naif inch since the season started," savs the coach. "'He's a little over 6 feet 9 inches tall now." Mikan says "Big guys are at a disadvantage. Tney can't get away with anything on the floor while the little guys can commit murder." AND WITH THE SHORTAGE The New York Yankees have a faculty of coming up with pitchers -who not only can throw that ba'l but also can hit it and two Yankee rookies coming up this spring seem to have that Yankee "know-how" at the tiigte. Joe Kntering the hospital six days ago suffering from influenxa, Tinker took a turn for the worse, his physician said, when a heart condition and diabetes aggravated his illness.

Tinker suffered from similar ailments five years, but recovered. Looking Into The Sports Mirror Today a Year Ago Baseball left untouched, except for groundkeep-ers. although war manpower commission orders 18-38 group in nonessential industry to transfer to war jobs or get into army. Three Years Ago Ken Bartho-lemew wins North American sneed far to th prepara- -J3 nont formtrljr nwd. Oath today from yont 'tut-n 4- barber of druriat.

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CQEflQ-OiL nut stay in this business lorg m-im 3f Valparaiso t'niier- all followed with "I didn't offer Carmeieta Landry takes women's; him anv contract." crown. I Marshall did not indicate whether 1 Five Years Ago Pitcher Jim! 'he bad seletted a to I Tnbin and Oil! fielder Lloyd Waner i 'Dutch Bergman, who resigned as 1 of 1'itts-rgh Pirates are listed as I lKd'nin faeh last week, i bb -Inuts, Page and Walter Duhiel, both upi a enouch. I tttTw v-, i i rum twirn, can nit a caa aj-I hope to get to know Garson, M. fT Mieridan or eam). waatuettn long ways..