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Wednesday, Aptn lwt) The Manhattan Meraciy 5 But Won 't Field It A 's Infield May Have Rookies On One Side of right now we are not close to Stuart Loves To Hit Ball a This is a sad situation for Kan FORT MYERS Fla. (NEA) sas City fans who have suffered from poor baseball for five years. For the first time since the team Ask him about the approachine -WEST PALM BEACH Fla. (AP) Unless the Kansas City Athletics pick up infield reinforcements In a trade they'll open the American League baseball season with rookies at third base and shortstop. General Manager Parke Carroll said Tuesday there's little chance of the A's making such a trade.

campaign and he says "I want to I -j-" I mmwrv hi I Jr" far moved to Kansas City from Phila delphia it appears on the verge of respectability. "Look at our club right now" "We've talked with every club said Carroll. "Our outfield is good enough for a contender. Our catching is the best we've ever lcr (the batting coach) into letting him take five extra minutes of swinging and catcher Danny Kra-vitz into throwing to him. Peppery Dick Schofield atands by and glowers "You ain't the only hitter on this team." Stuart uncoils his bat and the ball hums over the infield and keeps rising.

A kid beyond the fence in left field is chasing it in the weeds. All the players stop to watch for no one swings a bat with more grace and power. The feeling persists that It could be this season when the rangy Californian now 27 reaches maturity as a player and generates the type of excitement commanded only by a Ted Williams. Stuart is not unaware of what they expect of him. He's memorized all the platitudes about wanting to help the team.

He has another big hope for 1960. He might get to meet Williams. Dick Stuart is preparing for the day by tucking his pants in around his ankles just like Ted. In the league" he said "but as hit more homers." Home runs pervade his talk and his thoughts. He fights with Pittsburgh teammates to get In the batting cage for extra licks.

The club plays its exhibition games at Terry Park In Fort Myers. As quickly as the pre-game drill is finished and the visiting club takeg the field he runs over to adjoining practice field. There Stuart talks George Sis- Mickey Vernon the coaeh shook hig head from the dugout watching the limber kid around first base wave his glove with impetuous disdain as the grounder sneaked under his one-hand stab. "He don't want to field" mused Vernon. "He don't want to do anything but hit." Dick Stuart comes in from the workout sweat dripping from his face that seems wrapped in a scowl and tells you how he's just had 100 grounders hit to him and things are going real good except that "Lcan't field the easy ones." had and our pitching looks better.

"Now everyone Is saying, "If we just had one more Well maybe sometimes we get too greedy." Ken Hamlin who hit a weaK ,259 but starred In the field for. BIG STICK(LER) Chilly Lineup New One irnPT MVF.RS Fla. fAPi Tiie Columbus in triple-A ball last season is slated for shortston. The trouble is that Hamlin has failed In a corner Danny Murtaugh the manager of the Pirates fondles a fist of tobacco between his thumb and forefingers, pops it in his mouth and chews thoughtfully. Off MOT PtffATt WALkCOPF miserably in spring training as a fielder.

that "At times last year" says Dan PLAH Lou Klimchock the rookie at third base was a great minor league hitter and in a 17-game trial' with the A's last season he ny "he was not a real good first baseman." I -C Yo Kii OUT Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates was out at the plate when Catcher Bob Oldis grounded to the Chicago White Sox' Gene Freeze at Payne Park in Sarasota, Fla. The ball ricocheted off the third baseman's body and shortstop Luis Aparicio recovered it and threw to Sherman Lollar. Umpire Joe Paparella makes the decision emphatic. Danny is a gentle guy. Every Philadelphia Phillies opening day lineup announced by Manager Eddie Sawyer includes one 1959 regular.

In announcing his starters for next Tuesday's National League nnoner Cincinnati Sawyer said drove in 13 runs. He's being paid body else calls Stuart a butcher. to hit and he is at best merely adequateafield. So if the A's keen Klinchock at third it fol But whether he butchers pitched or batted balls Stuart has got to be the most important guy Danny No Equals lows that the shortstop must be Tuesday he is pinning his hopes and probably risking his job on has. exceptionally good with a' glove.

'Whether he is good or bad" young players. The only 1959 regular who will nods Murtaugh "will have a tremendous bearing on the success of the team. He's the only consis be in the lineup is first Baseman Ed Bouchee, who led the Phillies Palmer 6-1 Pick In Masters With Souchak Second tent long-ball hitter we have. Ruth's Name Is Blasphemed It's an odd situation for Stuart in hitting last year with a .285 average. aiH Bnhhv Del Greco carrying a club because until this year he was never sure of a whom he called the standout of job despite his tremendous home- run potential.

He still hasn't play the camp will play regularly in center field while the right and SCOTTSDALE Ariz. (NEA) ed a full season as a regular in Practically every time some kid the major leagues. The big chance left field positions will ne pia tnnnprf. T)p1 Greco ud from Buf AUGUSTA Ga. (AP)-Golf's grandest extravaganza the Masters opens here Thursday with a leather-tough young pro named Arnold Palmer the 6-1 favorite and strong support building up for ex footballer Mike Souchak.

is that the heat is off him as a hits a long foul these days he's called a budding Babe Ruth. Frank Howard of the Dodgers pop-off personality and on him as falo of the International League has failed in four previous major league trials. or Ben Hogan when he was on his game with a week-end golfer. When Casey Stengel becomes exasperated with Mickey Mantle the old professor gays "He's trying to be a Babe Ruth and he isn't." lThey were matching Mantle's progress against Ruth's record pace of 1927 while the Yankees' is still learning how to play base a player. Stuart knows exactly how many games it took Joe Baumann to hit Palmer, the year's' leading mon ball yet the Bunyanesque refu vp 72 homers (most ever in organiz ey winner with more than $26,000 in earnings himself places the barrel-chested Souchak at the gee from basketball cracked magazines because he "hits the ball ed baseball) what year what farther than Ruth." league and his batting average.

strong boy was manufacturing 52 home rung in 1956 and as usual this turned out to be an auto matic nemesis. Ruth hit 17 home runs in September when he set his mark and that has killed a lot of tremendous swatters who attempted to out-Bab Ruth. So let's quit comparing the Kil head of the half-dozen or so whom he regards as players to beat for the title. "I figure the men who are tough on the tour will be toughest here" said the 30-year-old Ligonier Pa. professional Winner in 1958- and loser by two strokes last year.

"I have to go with fellows like Souchak, Ken Venturi, Dow Fin-sterwald and Gene Littler." Bookmakers have a slightly differing and a more definite view of the outcome of the four-day 72-hole medal play over the Augusta National course. Johnny Callison a 21-year-old rookie obtained in a trade with the Chicago White Sox and Bobby Gene Smith, 25, obtained from the St. Louis Cardinals, will alternate in left field. The right fiela duties will be shared by Kenny Walters, 26, a right-handed hitter up from Fort Worth and left-hander Tony Curry the Eastern League's most valuable player last year. Veteran Al Dark picked up in a trade will be at third.

Joe Eoppe wno finished last season at short will remain there. Rookie Pancho Herrera, the 25-year-old Buffalo sensation who led the International League in virtually all departments and was voted the league's most valuable player, will be at second, replacing the weak-hitting Sparky Anderson. Ti nl 1J lebrews even the Mantles with Ruth. Why saddle them with' so much weight? acnooiea observers who saw Ruth say he would smakc 70 home runs with present-day equipment. The Babe hit balls out of the Nine-tenths of a pound of coal 1 They have made Palmer the Oil industry research scientists patented about 8,000 inventions during the past decade.

catcher glove with a 10-ounce bat later a 48. The slender stick has not come in when he was is icquueu vu yiuuuwe uus jjuuuu of paper. Application To Replace Birds Due the biggest box office magnet and most glamorous figure in the his tory of the game. Ted Williams catcher who hit .287 with Buffalo last year, will do the catching. Fashions Thaf Go Like 60 For Easter This Year solid favorite at 6-1 followed by Venturi who blew the championship as an amateur in 1956 at 8-1.

Cary Middlecoff and three-time winner Sam Snead are bracketed at 10-1. Then comes an out-of-shape Ben Hogan and Souchak 12-1 and Finsterwald and South Africa's Gary Player 15-1. Other prices range from 20-1 to 100-1. swishes a 36-ounce bat for exam pie. Eisenman Injury Key To 0-State, Nebraska Dual STILLWATER The condition of Oklahoma State's distance ace Miles Eisenman, who is suffering an injury to a leg tendon, may decide the outcome in State's dual track encounter with Nebraska, Saturday in Stillwater's Lewis Field at 1:30 p.m.

Coach Ralph Higgins withdrew his tireless little distance hand from the Texas Relays last week when it became apparent that Eisenman couldn't give a top notch performance. Eisenman's absence would put additional strain on Higgins overworked re-lay crews and give the Huskers a helping hand in the long races. "It will really hurt us if Miles can't run," Higgins admits, "but if he's able to go, I feel we have a 50-50 chance of beating Nebraska." Sophomore Billy Stone and Vet-eran Tom Burch, both halfmilers by trade, were strong runners for OSU at Austin, Stone anchored the sprint medley in 1:52.0 and it took a brilliant 1:48.5 by the Michigan anchor to nudge the Pokes out of first. Burch quartered the sprint medley and mile relay teams in identical 48.4, and Higgins figured that 'the 3:15.2 mile relay time under the windy Austin con- "Impatience derailed him from a chance at many more home runs maybe even Ruth's magical 60 that so many have sought" reads a story about Harmon Kille-brew the Senators' first-year wonder. Writing of his favorite character Johnny Orlando the Red Sox' former equipment manager reveals how badly Ted Williams wanted to be another Ruth.

After 21 years of trying Williams knows just how much doing that requires. Players still stop to watch Williams take his cuts 'in the batting cage and seeing the major leagues' last .400 hitter at Scotls-dale Stadium preparing for what undoubtedly is his last time around made you think of how loosely the great Ruth's name is tossed, around by people who never saw him. Bucky Harris the Boston general manager spoke of this as we ankled down the main stem of story-book Scottsdale, the spanking new replica of a pioneer desert town hard by Phoenix. "Ruth invented the home run" recalled Harris who saw altogether too much of the Bambino during Bucky's nine years as a combatant with the Senators. "A home run was phenomenal until he came along and remember that he originally broke the record hitting the old dead ball." Any oldtimer will tell you that bracketing Ruth with even a formidable power hitter is like comparing Homer with a poetaster Jack Dempsey with Nino Valdes Ruth would have thought the umpires were going out if any body talked about the strike zone.

"Babe just hit what he liked" Application for replacement of upland game birds should be turned in as soon ag possible according to Wallace Ferrell, district game protector for the Kansas Forestry Fish and Game department, recollected Bucky Harris. "No body who ever saw the Babe can forget him the right (forward) foot pigeon-toed almost facing the Fort Welcomes Olympian Back catcher to give him the extra lev erage his rear end almost facing the pitcher. Then the last second twist df the wrists to turn the Headquarters Troop of the 4thJ end of the bat toward the pitch er to give him more than a 45 degree arc in lacing the ball." num an was not ttiat of a perfectionist but of a natural hit ter and a champion. Forever is a long time but tak tavairy ort Kiley recently welcomed back Specialist 4 Rodney Paavola a defenseman on the United States Olympic Ice Hockey Team. Specialist Paavola said he played every game at the Olympics.

He further stated that the game with the USSR was the most interesting and exciting one. Paavola was formerly a member of the 1959 American Ice Hockey Team which toured the United States and Europe and participated in the world championships at Prague Czechoslovakia where the United States fin ing him as a king-size package there will never be another Babe Waketield Tops Riley In Meet (Special to The Mercury) WAKEFIELD Wakefield defeated Riley County 84 16 to 47 56 in a dual track and field meet here. Sharp of Wakefield, in the high hurdles and low hurdles; Norris of Riley, in the 440 and discus; W. Harrison of Wakefield, in the 220 and 100; and Kent of Wakefield, in the broad jump and pole vault, were double winners. -Results: High Hurdles Sharp (W), R.

Harrison (W), Brougher (W) 17.4. 100 Yd. Dash W. Harrison (W), Zur- mely (W), Walter (K) 10:9. Shot Put Myers (W).

Stone (R), SetcheU (W) 43-4. Mile Run White (R), Cullip (W), Rickley (W) 5:16.3. 880 Yd. Relay Wakefield (Zurmely, W. Harrison, Sharp, Kent) 1 :43.5.

440 Yd. Dash Norris (R), Lawson (R), Gustin (W) 62.1 Discuss Norris (R), Olson (R), Zel-ler, Jack R) Low Hurdles Sharp (W), Brougher (W), R. Harrison (W) 22.2. 880 Yd. Run John (R), Set-chell (W), Tyson (R 2:16.2.

Broad Jump Kent (W), Walters (R), Zurmely (Wt 17' Medley Relay Wakefield (Sharp, W. Harrison, Kent, Yarrow) 4:13. Pole Vault Kent (W), Koerner (W), tie White (R) Gustin (W), Carlson (W)-9 220 Yd. Dash Harrison (W), on (R), Zeller, John (R) 26.4. Mile Relay Riley (Stone, John Zeller, Jahkne) 4:12.9.

High Jump Brougher (W), Gustin (W); tie Olson (R) Koerner (IM) Javelin Luthi (W), Norris tL), Koerner (W) 156-5. represented better showing than the 3:13.5 under near perfect con Ruth. Heavy snow this winter caused many quail and' pheasants to starve. The degree of damage can't immediately be estimated due to wet weather but when conditions permit observations a surveys will be carried out said Mr. Ferrell.

Applications should be sent to y6ur area game protector. Fort Riley, Marshall, Washington and Clay counties applications are taken by Mr. Ferrell, Marysville, Kansas. The Kansas Forestry Fish and Game hatchery will send birds to district protectors. The protector will distribute the birds within his area where observations and surveys show a need provided applications from these needy areas have been made gaid Mr.

Ferrell. It is important that applications be made as soon as possible. The number of birds is limited and applications will be filled in the order they are received said Mr. Ferrell. ditions at the Cowboy Preview Relays.

"We need some excellent per Missouri, Cowpokes formances to match the middle distance and distance strength of ished third. In Weekend Twin-Bill Higgins claims, "we might shuffle Stone and Burch around a little this week just to I I Plolc nature's 1 own tone! I Hart If Soiiaffner Marx I Jp see what we, can do. ton. "Pitching looked okav Last year State nipped NU, 72- 63 in the outdoor dual following a Husker indoor triumph at Lin The son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ruben Paavola of Milwaukee Wis. Paavola returned to the 4th Cavalry in time to participate in "Operation Big Move" the 4th Cav's movement from the Custer Hill area to Camp Funston on Post. Last Wednesday Headquarters Troop gave a "welcome home" party for Spec. Paavola. Cake and coffee were served as the troop heralded its cavalier of the ice.

Lieutenant Pnlnnol Raraai-J coln, Earlier this season Nebraska dumped OSU in an indoor dual at Lincoln, 66-56. DEPEND ON STILLWATER Potent Missouri, always a front running team in Big Eight baseball, and Oklahoma State's conference newcomers, feel out each other Friday and Saturday in three games at Columbia. There will be a dou-bleheader on Saturday. Mizzou made off with the Big Eight championship year before last, with coach Toby Green's Cowboys second in State's first season of Big Eight baseball. Last year the Pokes tripped the Tigers in two sparkling games, 1-0 and 2-1, to cinch the Big Eight, then went on to the national crown.

State took two last week from Rice, the early Southwest conference leader, then split a pair with Missouri Valley power, Hous- wv.vuv. IIHIU Brenman Commanding Officer of the Texans," coach Greene noted, "but out hitting left a lot to be desired and we are a long way from ready." Dick Soergel, only pitching veteran returning at OSU, picked up two victories, giving one- earned run in 10 innings worked, fanning 14, walking two. Mike Mulvihill got a victory in relief Poke hurl-ers walked ,10 and fanned 29 Rice and Houston batters. Sophomore shortstop Don Wallace of Sapulpa is setting the early pace at bat for the Cowboys with .416, followed by centerfield-er Ben Bancroft who is .400, Bruce Andrew, second baseman, at .333 and rightfielder Bob Andrew at .285. 4 letf Dodge City Juco Coach With Mertes for every point fob me unit presented Paavola with letters of appreciation from himself Major General T.

W. Parker Commanding General of Fort Riley and the 1st Inf. Division Lieutenant General William H. Arnold Commanding General of the Fifth U. S.

Army and General L. L. Lemnitzer Chief of Staff United States Army. All of the letters praised Spec. Paavola for hi i Indoors or outdoors I in the Uniier" States Ice Hockey There's a colorful, top quality Dutch Boy paint, enamel or varnish for every painting job around your home Como in and choose yours today! DES MOINES (AP)-Jack Wallace head coach at Dodge City j(Kas.) Junior College was named today as an assistant to Bus Mertes new head football coach at Drake University.

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