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Vv vv -y -v -v 20 THE KANSAS CITY TDIES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1951. Yankees in Off-Season Baseball News. ANEWBILLMEYER Golden Gate Race Card Can-celedPoor Visibility. Albany, Dec.

lands will be In charge of arrangements and hospitality. Season tickets for the 3-day tournament are on sale at a half dozen locations in the two Kansas Citys, and advance sales have been brisk, according to Moreland. Former Blues Pilot Smug After Renewal of Contract as Pirate Skipper. MAY DO BETTER IN 1952 Youngsters on Pittsburgh Roster Bring Back Memories of the Youthful. Teams Here.

MANTLE GETS A BOOT Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee outfielder, tries on a weighted boot in the brace shop of New Yorks Lenox Hill hospital yesterday which is designed to aid his recovery from an injury suffered to his right knee in the second game of the world series. Adjusting the boot is Paul Schumacher of the hospital staff WHAT DID YOU SAY, HANK? We dont know what Casey Stengel (left), Yankee manager, and Hank Greenberg, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, are talking about but judging from Stengels expression, it might mean a deal for a star player. The two were caught in this pose at the minor league meeting in Columbus yesterday (Wirephoto). To Receive Grid Letter. Heisman Award Will Go to Dick Kazmaier as Outstanding: CoU lege Football Player.

A VOL BACK IS SECOND There Is No Contest, However, as Tiger Ace Rolls Up Highest Total in History. New York, Dec. Dick Kazmaier, Princetons ace tailback, today was named winner of the Heisman award, given annually by the New York Downtown Athletic club to the outstanding college football player in the country. Kazmaier received 1,777 points, the highest total ever harvested by a player in the seventeen years of the competi tion. A tribunal of experts votes in the contest.

Parilli Is Third. Hank Lauricella, Tennessee tailback, was second with 424 votes and (Babe) Parilli of Kentucky, was third with 344 I Kazmaier, a senior, will re eive his award at a banquet on December 11. Kazmaier already has been named football player of the year by the Robert W. Max well club of Philadelphia. The slim, 170-pounder is the heir apparent to the.

national title of total offense leader with 827 yards. The figures will be released later this week but Kazmaier was in first place prior to the games of last Satur day. Tops in All Sections. Kazmaier, who is 20 and is not interested in pro football, dominated the voting in every section Adds Another Laurel Dick Kazmaier, Princeton Back, Was Named Heisman Award Winner Yesterday (Wirephoto). of the country.

In the Heisman voting, the country is divided Into five sections and Kazmaier was No. 1 in each. The point table (each first place vote counts three points, two for second, one for third). Plaver. ollge.

Kazmaier. Princetoi Lauricella. Tennes st Farilli. Kentucky 32 McColl, Stanford Bright. Drake Karras.

Illinois IsbeU. Bavlor 29 McEIhennv. 19 Matson. San Francisco Racing at Golden Gate fields today was called off when the jockeys refused to ride because of poor visibility caused by driving wind and rain. Bert Thompson, western representative of the jockeys guild, presided over a meeting at which a great majority of the some thirty jockeys on hand voted not to ride.

Thompson emphasized that the decision was reached due to the weather, not the condition of the track. The racing strip has a good bottom he stated, but the riders cannot see when a strong wind is driving rain into their laces. Also horses are unable to see and are inclined to pull themselves up. up by the Yankees for a brief trial last season. They told me he hit the lefthanders and couldnt hit the right-handers, he explained.

think its the other way around. I think the guy can hit the righthanders better than he can the lefties. Not Worried About First. After all, he continued, why should the Yankees deal for Ferris Fain, first sacker of the As? Ive got a very much underrated first baseman in Joe Collins. Great fielder and my third best base runner.

So why am I worried about first base. Casey wanted to know about Andy Carey, who will be a Yankee fixture in a few years, he believes. He asked about Kal Segrist and Jackie Jensen, mentioning that he had a heart to heart talk with Jensen a short time. Could Mickey Mantle play cen-terfield? Was center Jensen's best spot? Casey said hed have to know because he wasnt certain that Joe DiMaggio was coming back and even if the big fellow could be lured for one more year he would see limited service. SrEED CAGE MEET PLANS.

Thirty-Two Committeemen Are Named for N. A. I. B. Tourney.

Plans continued to progress rapidly yesterday for the pre-Christmas N. A. I. B. cage jamboree which starts December 13 as C.

R. Moreland, N. A. I. B.

tournament chairman for the Junior Chamber of Commerce, named thirty-two committeemen to assist ixt working out final details. The pre-holiday affair has been expanded to include eight teams this year for the first time, all other tourneys having been limited to four, and officials are expecting one of the best previews of the annual championship meet in March as a result. Hamline university, which won the pre-holiday tourney last year and then returned to cap ture the national championship in March, will be back and is expected to be one of the favorites. The other teams are Emporia State, Regis, Eastern Illinois. Southwest Mis sour' State.

Washburn, Kearney State and Southeastern Oklahoma. Moreland named the following men to the general committee Roy Snedden, Duvall Fitz, Bill Van Auken. Zeno Yates, Gene Gray, Cliff Whitfield, Tom Hendrix, I. I. Ozar, Bruce Bathurst, Frank Caywood.

Lee Triggs, John McDermott, Ward Clark, Jack Fate, Tom Cox, Tom Alexander, Moulton Green, Duncan McIntyre, Jack Sampson and Bill Brewer, The committee in charge of ticket promotion is composed of Bill Mullens, George Aldridge, Mark Crew, Jim Conrow, Jerry Ford, Bill Lobb, Matt Zimmer-: man, Larkin de Shazer, Dick ONeill and Jay Dee Lindsay. Gordon Pickup and Hubert Row-: A 9-GAME ARMY SLATE. Three Sjw Opponents Added in 1952-53 Grid Schedule. West Point, N. Dec.

Armys 1952 football team will play a 9-game schedule which includes trips to Southern California and Georgia Tech. The Cadets will meet U. S. C. in Los Angeles on October 4, and will journey to Atlanta to face Georgia Tech on November 15.

Three new foes were added. South Carolina replaces Villa-nova the opening game, Pitts- burgh fills in for Harvard and Virginia Military Institute takes over for the Citadel. All three games will be played at West Point. The annual clash with Navy will be held again in Philadelphias huge Municipal stadium on December 29. September 27.

South Carolina. October 4. Southern California at Los Angeles: 11. Dartmouth; 17. Pittsburgh; 25, Columbia at New York.

November 1, Virginia Military Institute; 8. Georgia Tech at Atlanta; 15, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia: 22. permanently open; 29, Navy at Philadelphia. EAST GRID SET. Tw Tackles Complete Team for Shrine Game.

San Francisco, Dec. The 24-man Eastern squad for the annual Shrine East-West football game here December 29 was completed today with the acceptance of invitations by Tackles Jerry Smith. Wisconsin, and Walter Gragg, Navy. Smith is from Dayton, and Gragg from Detroit. The complete East roster will be announced in a day or so.

Jim Weatherall, star' tackle from the University of Oklahoma, has accepted an invitation to play for the West. Orin E. (Babe) Hollingbery, head of the selection committee, also announced the acceptances of Bill Howton, all Southwest conference end from Rice Institute, Frank Gifford, halfback, By Ernest Mehl. (The Star's Sports Editor.) Columbus, Dec. 4.

Smug, is the name for Bill Meyer, at this annual conclave of baseball men. In his long career as player and manager the'former skipper of the Blues has experienced virtually all the emotions, but this is the first time he is smug and he doesnt care who knows it. Contrary to Reports. The feeling exists because Bill has been retained as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates even though the report that he was through was common property. No Sooner was Branch Rickey and his expensive entourage es tablished in Pittsburgh a year ago then predictions dripped out of the corners of mouths.

Bills contract still had a year to run but they said hed never finish the 1951 season with Uncle Branch holding the whip. And even if he did it was an absolute certainty there would be no renewal to the contract. The boys forgot that unpredictable is the word for Rickey and it appears he and Meyer are hitting it off very well and Branch in no sense censures Bill for the manner in which the Pirates performed last season. There was, however, a time when Bill was on the verge of quitting. Nothing he was able to arrange in the way of managerial finesse seemed to work, largely because the athletes he had couldnt make the routine plays.

In this particular game the Pirates were leading in the ninth, 2 to 1. The opposition had runners on first and third with one out. A grounder was hit to the first baseman who passed up an almost certain out at the plate which would have prevented the tj'ing run from scoring. Instead he threw to second. Debates With Himself.

In the clubhouse after that contest Bill debated with himself. Was' it worth while? Rickey called him into the office. Dont see how you take it. Bill, he said. I canget in my plane and go someplace else and forget but you have to be out there every day.

Those words comforted Bill to the point where he decided to stay on. He had grown to like his new boss and had come to admire his organizational genius. A lot of money was being sunk in youngsters and even though the Pirates had drawn a million at the gate the owners had lost 8600.000. The youngsters were in and leagues and still far removed from the majors. And there-would be a retrenching period this next year.

Such vast sums could not be expended season after season. But weve got some good kids and maybe we can do something in 1952, Bill believes. There is far more tension on the major league player than the minor leaguer and the boys may get the buck. But I can remember back in Kansas City in 1939 when we started with kids and how they came through for us. Recalls 1947 Blues.

Bill harkened back to a 1947 season in Kansas City, too, and he wished he might have that sdme team of Cliff Mapes, Bud Souehock, Odie Strain, Jerry Coleman, Frank Hiller, Biil Wight, Tommy Bryne, Gus; Niarhos, Ken Silvestri and the others. That team would breeze through the National league as it is today, he said. In the meantime he glories in being smug. No telephone calls at his home in Knoxville from those who have heard fresh reports of his being fired. Just peace and quiet and faith in Uncle Branch.

31 AY SIGNED AS TILOT. Columbus, Dec. 4. (API Merrill (Pinky) May, former Philadelphia Philly third-sacker, signed today as nonplaying manager of the Spartansburg. S.

Peaches, of the class Tri-State league for 1952. A GRID FOLLOWER DIES. New Brunswick, N. Dec. 4.

(AP) Arthur L. Evans, lifelong football devotee and the executive secretary of the National Football Hall of Fame, died at his home today after a brief illness. He was 71. TO MANAGE BOSOX FARM. Boston, Dec.

The Boston Red Sox today named Irving (Jack) Burns, manager of the Albany Senators, Bostons farm in the class A Eastern league. Burns managed Scranton in the same circuit until the Sox sold that club and then signed a working agreement with Albany, Our sun is probably not the only one with a family of planets racing around it. ADVKKTISEMKNT. THIS IS DYNAMITE Tarzan Kowalski Battles Cowboy Graham in Memorial Hall Mat Featura Tomorrow Night, PLUS FOUR TERRIFIC MIDGET STARS IN A TAG TEAM MATCH! Tarzan Kowalski the giant of the wrestling world wHl pit his superhuman strength and rugged mat offensive against Cowboy Roy Graham. the king of the Texas rough-era, In tomorrow night's featured heavyweight battle In the Memorial Hall ring, Kansas City.

Kansas. The showdown battle of brute strength between Kowalski and Graham is expected to develop Into one of the most ferocious battles ever held la Kansas City. Four of the nation's most outstanding Midget Wrest le rs will also be featured on the sens a-tlonal 4-m a li card. Prince Salie Halasie, Negro midget star, and I r. Pee Wee James will stack up i sZNj against Sky Low- bp? Low (the Little A 1 la .) prvwe Satie Balasia Cubas Vltorio Gonzales in the Midget tag team match.

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Raccoon Wins First Round but Loses Decision. Wapello, Dec. While hunting, Virgil Hall, 25, and his companions treed a raccoon. The excited coon then left, the tree, ran up Halls pant leg and began biting him. Hall drew his pistol and in trying to shoot the raccoon he shot himself in the leg.

fhe animal then scrambled out of the pant leg and was shot by Halls companions. NO ROUGH STUFF AT K.U CLEANLINESS OF PLAY MARKED ENTIRE SEASON, SIKES SAYS. Jayhawk Coach Reports Not Single Player Was Put Out of a Game Defends the Aggies. As far as J. V.

Sikes, the Kansas head football coach, Is concerned, the season that just closed was marked by cleanliness of play, despite the prevailing ideas that roughness is on the upswing and the fact that the sport in general is being harpooned. In the ten games we played, Sikes told the K. U. Quarterback club at its final session here yesterday, not a single player was put out of the contest and at no time did players square off as if to do battle. The tall Texan explained that his Jayhawks met plenty of situations In which trouble could have occurred.

He had reference to the fact that Kansas was home-coming guest a couple of times and opened the league season for two other teams. In those, he pointed out, the home teams are always fired up to high pitch. Nothing Out of Line. Ive studied the movies of all our games carefully, he went on, and I havent seen anything out of line. I have no criticism of any team or any official, and I dont believe any team has criticized us.

I just hope that we have been a credit to the university." Asked specifically about the report of rough play on the part of Oklahoma Aggies against the Jayhawks, Sikes said that his study of the film showed nothing to support such a case. We came out of that game without a scratch, and no player said anything to me about illegal tactics, Sikes said. The Kt U. headman added that he thought it was high time the football coaches, athletic direc tors, school officials and friends of football rally to the aid of the sport. Reviews M.

U. Game. He reviewed briefly the Kan sas-Missouri game, movies of which were shown to the thin crowd of about fifty. I thought Missouri played a good game, Sikes said, and we did well although we didnt look good early because of our tackling. We had planned to concentrate on the spread pass ing and we werent getting in there quick enough to hit them, especially when Cox and Hook elected to run.

In the second half we changed our defense and we improved. Sikes observed that any time a team is throwing a long pass its going to score some touchdowns. Missouri was up for the game and played well and hard. The season as a whole (Kansas finished with an 8-2 record) was pleasing, Sikes said. And in one respect it was unusual we received only one anonymous letter, and that was before the season opened.

Had to Use Youngsters. Early in the season, the coach said, so many young boys had to be used that the Jayhawks were never able to make that critical defensive play. The absence of Galen Fiss, line-backer, in three games and Dave Schmidt in the Colorado tilt were blows. Then, too, Charlie Hoag was injured most of the year. -From a week before the first game, Charlie never was able to go at top speed, Sikes said, "yet I think that under the circumstances he had a great year.

Turning to 1952, the Jayhawk leader observed that if we dont lose too many because of the draft or other reasons, the team will be better than this years, although it might not have any better record. -On the motion of John Bell, an alumnus, the club will forward a letter to proper authorities, urging salary hike for fCoach Sikes. BOB GOODE IN STRIDE N. F. L.

GROUND GAINING LED BY REDSKIN BACK. Dan Towler, Los Angeles, Is 44 Yards Behind at 692 Van Brocklin Still Leads Passers. Philadelphia, Dec. Young Bob Goode is finally producing in the manner expected of the former Texas A. and M.

crusher when the Washington Redskins drafted him for pro football duty. Goode has hurled his 220-pound frame into opposing National Football league team lines 163 times for 736 yards to lead the league in ground gaining. Goode gained an even 100 yards Sunday as his team lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. He now holds a 44-yard advantage over Deacon Dan Towler of Los Angeles. Towlers 692 'yar3s on 96 carries rates him ahead of Eddie Price of the New York Giants (662-214), John.

Dottley, Chicago Bears (610-116), and Bob (Hunchy) Hoernschemeyer, Detroit (602-105). Tobin Rote of Green Bay is the leagues ninth leading ground gainer, but has the best average of 8.8 yards. Rote has gained 451 yards on 51 attempts. Norman Van Brocklin of the Rams led the passers for the eighth straight week. Last years passing champion.

Van Brocklin now has gained 1,525 yards on 84 completions for a 9.3 average He has thrown 13 touchdown passes. Otto Graham, Clevelands master formation director, is second with an 8.7 average. He has completed 124 for 1,917 yards and 14 touchdowns. Bob Water-field of the league leading Rams jumped from sixth to third place in the pass ratings on the basis of his great performance against the Chicago Bears last Sunday. Waterfield, who shares passing duties with Van Brocklin, has completed 72 for 1,263 yards and 8 scores.

Elroy, Hirsch, Los Angeles pass receiver, set a new league record for yardage gained receiving passes. His 54 catches for 1,268 yards surpassed the 9-year-old record of 1,211 set by Green Bays all time pro great, Don Hutson. Bob Walston, Philadelphias freshman end, tied Detroits Doak Walker for the scoring lead. Each has 86 points. Walston has 7 touchdowns, 26 con versions, and 6 field goals; Walker.

5 t.d.s. 38 conversions and 5 field goals. Hirsch is third with 84 points. In other departments, Horace Gillom of Cleveland still tops the punters with a 45-yard average; Jack Christiansen of Detroit continues to lead in punt returns with 16 for 335 yards and a 20.9 average; Lynn Chandnois of Pittsbuurgh-has a 36.6 average to top the kickoff return men; Otto Sehnellbacher of the Giants heads the pass interceptors with 9 for 178 yards. SNAYELY TO STAY AT N.

C. Rumors Had Tar Heel Coach on Way Out. Durham, N. Dec. Carl Snavely will remain as head football coach at the University of North Carolina in 1952.

W. D. Carmichael, comptroller of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, told a meeting of the Durham Tar Heel club last night: I have been notified by Chancellor R. B. House that there will be no change in the duties of Coach Snavely next year.

The occasion was a club banquet honoring the football squad and the North Carolina coaching staff. Snavely attended, but made no comment. Reports have circulated for weeks that alumni pressure would force Snavely out at the end of his second straight losing season. ROBINSON BOUT POSTPONED. Bobo Olson Wiil Meet 160-Ponnd Champion January 17.

San Francisco, Dec. Ray Robinsons 10-round nontitle fight with Carl (Bobo) Olson of Honolulu for the Damon Runyan Cancer fund has been set over to January 17, Promoter William P. Kyne announced to day. The charity event here, from which Robinson will contribute his entire purse except for $1, originally had been scheduled for December 20. It was post poned because of a back injury suffered by the champion to training recently.

(By The Star's Own Service. Salina, Dec. 4. Sergt. Tom Jones of Kansas City is one of seventeen students at St.

Johns military school who will receive football letters for the 1951 season. The letter winners were announced by Lieut. Jim Elmborg, coach. and Pat Cannamela, guard, from Southern California; Ed Brown, quarterback, University of San Francisco, and Don Robison, halfback, and Charles Harris, center, California. ANNOUNCE 154-GAME SLATE.

Western Baseball League to Start Play April 16. Columbus, Dec. Directors of the Western league today adopted a 154-game schedule for 1952 with the season due to open April 16 and close September 11. Senator E. C.

Johnson, league president, said there would be no 4-game series next year. All will be two and 3-game visits. Johnson said he had been authorized to name an executive vice-president and secretary treasurer of the league and that the appointment would be made before he leaves here thft week. He also declared no overtures were made to move Lincolns franchise to St. Joseph, Mo.

Any talk along those lines, he declared, were just rumors. It had been reported a group from St. Joseph would seek the franchise. SEEK TO FREE LIVINGSTON. Columbus, Dec.

The Brooklyn Dodgers today asked waivers on Catcher Mickey Livingston for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release so he may accept the job as manager of the Shreveport club in the Texas league. show, and last year returned to baseball at Eugene, where he upped the clubs attendance. JOE BECKER, the sage of Joplin, Larry Goetz, rated per haps the best umpire in the National league, and Johnny Johnson, a former Association umpire, were reminiscing. Johnson and Goetz were working the 1929 junior world series between the Blues and Rochester and Becker offered to drive them out to the ball park. On the way he was stopped for running a red light.

The officer asked me where I lived and I told him Joplin, Becker related. He gave me a sad look and said that explained everything and told me to drive on Bruno Betzel, manager at Syracuse, had a left-handed pitcher by the name of Bill Miller who was sold to the Yankees. Its quite likely that Miller will wind up with the Blues. Hes screwy, Bruno said, but hes great on the mound, he can win for the Blues or for any other club. Hes fast and he's got a great curve.

JEMEMBER Mike Milose- vich, who played second for the Blues several years ago? He leased the Americus, club last season and went broke. Had the team in first place for a solid two months and eight days but the attendance averaged 750 per game and he needed 1,000 to break even. He decided to sell 15,000 tickets at a reduced rate from 75 to 50 cents and with the cheaper price the attendance dropped to 700 a game. Mike says in the last two years as owner and manager in class he has learned considerable With Hopper now gone to Portland, George Selkirk will manage the Association All-Stars who play the Milwaukee Brewers at Kissimmee, March 25... Dixie Walker, the Atlanta manager, buzzing around after a hectic season during which he was suspended for thirty days.

Dixie laughs about the incident now but it wasnt fun then, he agrees Dutch Zwilling, who managed Quincy for the Yankees last year, is out of the Yankee organization, causing Tom Sheehan, scout for the Giants, to quip: "Last year the Yanks made managers out of all their scouts and this year theyre hiring new scouts. And speaking of scouts all on the Cincinnati pay roll have quit. the uj mysle'3h Oh what fin, To ride and Save The Greyhound way! I 1 i 't I i. LI hi Coieman. Michigan State and Ward.

Marxian Weathers TO HOOR GEM. M' ARTHUR, The New York Touchdown Club Award to Be Given. New York, Dec. General of the Army Douglas Mac-Arthur wiil receive the 1951 award of the New York Touchdown club at a dinner Thursday night, it was announced today by Capt. J.

J. McEwan, president of the club. MacArthur, who was chairman of the U. S. Olympic com mittee in 1928, introduced intramural football to the U.

S. Military academy when he became superintendent in 1919. It is be lieved to. be the basis for the intramural sports programs now in many U. S.

colleges. The award goes annually to the man who has done the most for football over a period of years. Last year it went to Ad miral William (Bull) Halsey, onetime player at the naval academy. QUITS AS GRID COACH. Duke Jacobs Held Fresno State Post Two Seasons.

Fresno, Dec. Duke Jacobs, head football coach at Fresno State college the past two seasons, today announced his resignation effective next June. He wrote college President Arnold E. Joyal that a probable reduction in the schools athletic budget prompted his decision. Jacobs came to Fresno State from Oklahoma, where he was an assistant football cocah.

The team won two games, tied one and lost six in his first year. They won five and lost five this year. DEMES ALL GRID RUMORS. N. Peahead Walker Says State Has Made No Offer.

C. New Haven, Dec. 4. (AP) Told that rumors in Raleigh, N. were mentioning him as the new North Carolina State football coach, Douglas C.

(Peahead) Walker said today, thats what they may be writing about me down there, but theyre doing it without talking to me. Walker, who resigned as Wake Forest head coach to become Herman Hickmans assistant at Yale, wouldnt say whether or not he would be interested in succeeding Beattie Feathers at North Carolina State if he got an offer. He did emphasize, however, that he has received no offer. OAKLAND BUYS PETE MILNE Oakland, Dec. The Oakland baseball club announced today the outright pur chase of William (Pete) Milne, left-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, from Minneapolis of the American Association.

The price was not disclosed. By Ernest Mehl. I The Stars Sports Editor.) OLUMBUS, Dec. 4. Danny Menendez, business manager of the Blues in 1949 and an official of the Hollywood club for the last two seasons, will operate the only independent club in the American Association, Menendez, along with Oscar Salenger, who once hada piece of the Milwaukee Brewers, and others, purchased the Toledo franchise from the Detroit Tig ers.

To date they have eight play ers with two more coming from the Chicago White Sox and possibly two through the offices of Bill Veeck. The Philadelphia Athletics at the moment are en gaged in trying to buy the Newark ball park from the Yan kees and return this New Jersey city to the International league but the Yanks, the As say, want too much money and so if that deal falls through Toledo will get additional player help from Philadelphia. Menendez took over Toledo against the advice of several baseball men, including his friend, Frank Lane of the White Sox. Toledo, because of its proximity to Detroit and its outmoded park, is considered a tremendous risk. It has been a money loser for years.

But we bought in at such a price I dont see how we can lose, Menendez says. That is unless we operate at a loss. JOHNNY SCHULTE, who has been released as coach of the Blues, has the inside track at Indianapolis to succeed Don Gut-teridge and also has his hat in the ring for the Toledo managerial job. The new St. Paul manager to succeed Clay Hopper will come from within the Brooklyn organization and the new Minneapolis skipper to replace Tommy Heath will be supplied by the New York Giants Johnny Riddle, who once caught for the Blues, is in the tavern business in Indianapolis, but adds business is bad and hed like to return to baseball Walter Mails, the left-hander who was a member of the Kansas City team under E.

Lee Keyser and Tris Speaker in 1932, is the new business manager at Pocatello, Ida. Since leaving Kansas City, Walter has been a publicity director of the San Francisco Seals, served in the marines, made talks for the Red Cross, worked for the Ice Follies Well sir, said Casey Stengel as he stretched out in a com fortable chair in the Yankee headquarters In the Deshler Walliek hotel. I got to thinking the other night that we cant make any package deals for ball plaj-ers. Suppose, opined the manager of the world's champions, we traded four or five plajers for Ned Garver and suppose he came up with a sore arm. Wed be sunk.

Then the Browns would beat us with the players we sent them. Situation Has Changed. No sir. It dont look to me like we can make any big deals at all. A year ago I'd have taken Garver.

Allie Rejnolds had a bad arm then. We didnt know about him. But since then our situation has changed. Casey has been offered a deal by the Philadelphia Athletics but they wanted Hank Bauer and the manager didnt want to part with Bauer. He liked Hank's hustle and determination.

The skipper also said he had a warm spot in his heart for Ralph Houk, who did his bullpen catching last year. Hell make somebody a great manager some day, he mentioned. Then he said he must have been given the wrong information on Bob Ccrv, who was taken TO YLAND OPEN at MARSHALL AUTO Through and Express Service Choice of Scenic Routes Why dont YOU go Greyhound on your Holiday Trips 1 Its the FRIENDLY way to travel I DENVER $12.10 SALT LAKE CITY 22.30 LOS ANGELES 33.40 SAN FRANCISCO 33.60 PORTLAND, ORE. 35.40 ADD TAX GREYHOUND UNION TERMINAL Pickwick Natal 17 McGaa St. HA.

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