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The Austin American from Austin, Texas • Page 42

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DILURD, REARMAN OPEN FOREIGN TRACKS TOURS 16 NEW YORK April Dillard, crack and Pearman, middle distance runner from New York University, will open this year's foreign invasion by US track and field stars next week. Accompanied by Coach Joe Yancey of the New York Pioneer Club the two are scheduled to leave by plane Tuesday for British Guiana on first of four tours involving least 70 American athletes. Dillard and Pearman will compete in Georgetown. British Guiana. April 16.

17 and 18. Dillard also Saddlsr, Bonetti Paired PHILADELPHIA. April Saddler of New York, for-i mer world featherweight champion, was matched for a 10 round bout here, April 18, against Erminlo Bonetti of Italy. may participate In a meet at Port of Spain. Trinidad, April 23.

Pearman will return to run for NYU in the Seton Hall Relays April 22 and 23. Dillard, holder of all the world hurdle records at standard distances and winner of the 1948 Olympic sprint title, will compete in both his specialties. Pearman will run the quarter and half mile. The AAU track and field committee, which sponsors the tours, also is selecting four or five athletes for a visit to Bermuda in May and a nine-man team to go to England, Ireland and Scotland in June. After the National AAU championships at Fresno.

June 24-25, a 55-man US squad will be picked for the inaugural United States-Scandinavia duel meet in Oslo July 27-29 and tours through a dozen other European countries. TNI AUSTIN AMItlCAN, AUSTIN, TfXAS HOLLMIG, SIMMONS, RO BERTS Mdoy, April 1 Bonus Players Problem Kids to Phils YOUNG, MISTOVICH FIGHT NEW YORK, April Mistovich of Youngstown, Ohio, will attempt to square accounts with Paddy Young. New York wel- in a 10 -round feature boxing bout at the St. Nicholas arena Friday night. CLEARYATER.

April i Five bonus players multiply Eddie problems in trying to prove on last sixth-place; finish by his Philadelphia Phillies, Starting his first full season in! the big leagues. Sawyer must find places for Otufielders Stan Hollmig and Jack Mayo and Pitchers Charley Bicknell. Curt Simmons and Robin Roberts. Roberts and Simmons fit neatly into the pitching picture but the others present headaches. They must be kept in the big league un- less the Phils want to risk losing them at the waiver price.

All ex-, cept Mayo represent sizeable bonus payments. Despite his dilemma. Sawyer is optimistic. He makes no predictions and hopes for no miracles. do better than a lot of people says Sawyer.

do better than last Winter trades strengthened the attack. Bill Nicholson and Eddie Waitkus. Chicago Cub regulars, were acquired. Pitchers Hank Borowy and Russ Meyer also were obtained from the Cubs and relief man Ken Trinkle from the New York Giants. The Phils gave up veteran hurler Dutch Leonard and Monk Dubiel to the Cubs.

Outfielder Harry Walker also passed to Chicago in the series of swaps between the two clubs. Sawyer is taking his time about making decisions. He prefers to let two men fight for every job. Going into spring training he announced that only one rookie was (Puddinhead) Jones at third base. Actually, Jones is the only infielder on the rofter without big league experience for at least one season.

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The veteran Eddie Miller, shifted to second after years at shortstop, has the edge over Buddy Blattner. ex-Giant who I was drafted from Jersey City. Nicholson in right field gives the club more home run potential although bat has not boomed in its old style since 1944. Richie Ashburn. sensational rookie of 1948 with a .333 average, has the center field job sewed up.

Del Ennis will be left with Johnny Blatnik. another holdover, the extra man. Sawyer must make a decision on Hollmig and Mayo. Andy Seminick, who caught 125 games last year but slumped to .225, is getting stiff competition for the No. 1 job from Stan Lopata, husky Toronto grad with a .285 average.

Ken Silvestri, drafted from Newark, end Hal Wagner, ex- Detroit and Boston Red Sox, are battling for the third spot Borewy, Meyer. Roberta and probably Simmona are the regular starting pitchers. Letfy Ken Heintzelman and Schoolboy Rowe will be used for spot duty against certain clubs. and Jim Konstanty. be-; reliefer from Toronto with a 10-10 record, will share the 1 bull pen work.

Then there is Bick -1 nell. the bonus man. Lou Possehl, up from Toronto' where he had an 11-11 season, and! Lefty John Thompson, another I Toronto product with a 12-6 rec-. ord, may wind up with starting jobs if the front line falters. Legion Baseball Meetings Slated Second of a aeries of Legion Junior Baseball meetings will be held in four Texas cities; April 12-15 inclusive.

Richard M. Cummins, department direc -1 tor of youth activities, announced: Thursday. Dates and sites for the baseball' meetings are. Gaineesville, at the chamber of commerce building, Tuesday, April 12; Mount Pleasant at the American Legion Home, Wednesday, Ajwril 13: Kilgore, at the American Legion Hwne. Thursday.

April 14, and Hillsboro, at the American Legion Home. Friday. AprU 15. Each of the meetings will be held starting at 8 o'clock in the eve-! ning. Accompanying Cummins to the four baseball meetings will be Leighton Cornett.

Paris attorney, and a member of the state junior baseball committee of the American Legion. Also on the trip will be Zach Brown of Dallas, district junior baseball representative of the Ford Motor Company. The 1949 program of the American Legion Junior Baseball season which opens in June will be discussed, and emphasis given to the rules and certification requirements. Junior baseball films will be shown. Southern Relays Slated Saturday BIRMINGHAM.

April iifV-Oklahoma whcih dominated the Texas Relays last week, is figured for the No. 1 spot in the fledging Southern Relays here Saturday. Notre Dame is expected to give the Aggies some stiff competition but railbirds today put the Irish down for the runnerup role. These two are rated well ahead of the rest of the field. East Texas State Xouisiana State and Tulane follow.

More than 200 athletes from 19 colleges and universities are entered. Other college teams entered are Alabama. Auburn. Georgia. Mississippi State.

University of Mississippi, Miami Emory. Missis- I sippi College, Tennessee Polytechnic. Sewanee. Southwestern Howard (Ala Clemson and Uni- versity of Louisville. I Auburn was the leading scorer in the first Southern Relays last year.

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