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jirsrtr'r: -v 7 -v i r.y79T-7. 7 v- 'v Vi -v -7 ,7 rV'wV'O'y XVVV-V -MffiH, 7 if Tai UT l. M(D)(0)JiOe9 Was First Big League Start V'T. COACH CARL PFEIFFER of Cambria checks the grip on Eugene Bobholzs fast ball while Catcher Delwin Helmer looks on. Cambria goes after its sixth straight victory Friday against Rio at Cambria under the lights.

Tosses Three No-Hitters After pitching a no-hit, no-run game In his first major league start, Alva Bobo Holloman (center) shows his teammates, catcher Les Moss, (left) and shortstop Bill Hunter, his pitching grip. Hunter'1 played a sparkling defensive game and won praises from Holloman as helping him turn in his great? feat. Holloman was the winner over the Philadelphia Athletics by a 6-0 score. (United Press-Capital Times Telephoto). Farm Boy Hurler Is Prep Sensation '5 li CAPITAL TDM Race On Potomac THE NEW PITCHING STAR ON THE WISCONSIN prep horizon Is Eugene Bobholz, Cambria's ace righthander.

Hes shown above as he warmed up Wednesday. (Capital Times Staff Photos) MADISON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953 Mob Unke to BASEBALL is getting a bad break from the weather man, but the performances of Mickey Mantle, pitcher Alva Hollman, who hurled a no-hitter Wednesday for the Browns in his first start and the hurling and batting of Ned Garver of Detroit have kept interest at a fever pitch. Then the play of the Milwaukee Braves is packing them in when the weatherman relents. Maybe baseball is staging a slight return to former days. There is a growing suspicion that the Phillies are the team to beat in the National League race.

Both the Dodgers and Giants are becoming more and more certain that the Phils are the team to beat. Steve ONeill took over from Eddie Sawyer last season and the Phils had the best record in the league, 50 won and 30 lost. Theyre picking up from there. ONeills strategy is simple. He overworks Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons now in order to build a cushion to withstand the shock of the twin bills in the middle of the season.

He does not have the pitching staff to handle Hie crowded part of the schedule. If he can keep the club reasonably dose through the trying time then he should have the favorite going into September. Face Meet Illini In 2 on Saturday Dig 10 Standings Pet. West Rated Favorite 6 Track Stars to 'IS- I hfc- i ki iM 1 1 rt I 1 I i Defend Titles in City Meet Friday By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns pitched himself a no-hitter in hi first major league start last night and the big test now will be whether he can survive it.

Holloman, a fun-loving Georgian nicknamed after the last Brownie hurler to pitch a no-hitter jumped from low man in the bullpen to pitching glory in nine hitless innings against the Philadelphia Athletics. He faced 31 men. Three of them walked and one reached first on the pitchers own error. St. Louis won, 6-0.

The big right-hander now will have to whip the jinx that befell the last pitcher who opened his major league starting career with a hitless performance. In' 1892, far enough back that baseball historians dont recognize it as modern times, Charley Jones broke in with Cincinnati with a no-hitter against Pittsburgh, although Pittsburgh scored one run. Jones won only one other league game and was out of the big leagues by 1894. In addition to this king-sized jinx, consider the pressure Holloman will face the next time he pitches: A rookie Is on the spot every time he starts a game. A rookie with a buildup is on more of a spot.

no-hit pitcher often gets into trouble his next couple of games. Virgil Trucks, now of the Browns, pitched two no-hitters for Detroit last year but his record for the season was a poor 5-19. A rookie, such as Holloman, who pitched a no-hitter in his first start will have all of these things going against him the rest of the season. Hollomans performance overshadowed the rest of the major league activity yesterday but for the record Detroit defeated Washington, and Chicago stopped Boston, 6-2, in the American League, and Brooklyn whipped St. Louis, 7-3, and New York whipped Chicago, 8-5, in National League games.

Cleveland and New York werent scheduled in the American League while rain halted the other two National League games. Philadelphia was leading Cincinnati, 2-0, when the game was canceled after 2 innings. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh were tied, 1-1, after three innings. A cozy gathering of 2,473, including Hollomans wife Nan and his 6-year-old son Gary Lee, witnessed the St. Louis spectacle and will be able to come back to see another game free.

Owner Bill Veeck told the small crowd he was grateful they had defied threatening weather to come out and issued an invitation for them to use their rain checks to come back again sometime. Bobo Newsom was the last Brownie hurler to pitch nine nohit innings but he lost the game against the Red Sox in 1934. He gave up a safety in the 10th and got beaten, 2-1. The last St. Louis pitcher to win a no-hitter was Robert Groom again the Chicago White Sox.

Hollomans epic came 36 years to the day after Grooms. Holloman, whose given name Is Alva, came up to the Browns this season after winning 16 and losing seven for Syracuse of the International League in 1952 and pitching Santurce of the Puerto Rican League to the Caribbean championship this winter. Billy Pierce of the White Sox, one of two American League pitchers to hurl a one-hitter this season, won his fourth game of the year as he set down the Red Sox on six hits. A pinch-hit. home run by Del Wilber with a runner on base cost him a shutout.

Ned Garver won his second straight for Detroit after three early-season setbacks, scattering 10 Washington hits and driving in two of the Tigers' eight runs on a homer in the eighth innings Brooklyn, where rhubarb was first applied to a baseball argument, had another one last night. St. Louis finished the game under protest after a sixth-inning set-to during which Cardinal Manager Eddie Stanky and catcher Del Rice were chased from the park. They were ousted for arguing with Umpire Jocko Conlan, who had waved Jackie Robinson home from third base after a collision with Cardinal shortstop Solly He-mus. Hemus sprawled head first in the baseline, diving for a drive off the bat of Roy Campanella, Robinson, running from second, collided with him and fell down, Conlan ruled Hemus had obstruct ed the base runner.

Duke Snider and Gil Hodges hit home runs for the Dodgers. Rookie Ray Jablonski hit two for the Cards, who got only five hits off Carl Erskine. The Giants battered six Chicago pitchers for 15 hits as they handed the Cubs their seventh straight loss. The victory moved the Giants up to sixth place and pushed the Cubs down to seventh. SPORTS MIRROR (By Tbe Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO The Cleveland Indians defeated the New York Yankees, 12-5, to sweep a three-game series.

After the first three Innings, didnt even notice it And if it wasnt for Martys (Manager Marty Marion) faith in me, I never would have gotten to start at all. My record in relief this season wasnt too hot you know. All I know is that I made a beeline for Billy Hunter as soon as the last out was in Vics glove, dont remember exactly what said to Billy. I must have babbled like a crazy man. But all I was trying to say was thanks." I didnt make much sense but I hope Billy understood.

THE DODGERS and Giants have only fear for a Philly club in the race in the last month of the season because the Phillies would be almost invincible. ONeill could travel again on Roberts and Simmons, and need little more on the mound, because the schedule thins out in the final month, unless there are extraordinary postponements. The Phils are booked for only 21 games in 27 days in September. The two star hurlers could appear in 15 of these games as starters or relief workers. 1 It may be silly, but the Giants havent much interest in the race as of now.

Theyd better straighten out rapidly or the second division will continue to grow more and more certain. Theyre in a hitting slump and injuries havent helped. Nor do the Brooks look too hot. A HARNESS FAN, formerly of Madison, writes that the crowds at Yonkers Raceway are flourishing. Two nights in a row they had 17.

W. Grads In East to Honor Crew By Esther Van Wagoner Tufty WASHINGTON Wisconsin-in-Washington folk are making big plans to welcome the first Wisconsin crew to row in a regatta on the Potomac. A total of 32 crews from 13 universities will compete in the 8th annual championship regatta on May 16. Harvard, Boston, Colum 1 Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT, Yale, Naval Academy, Pennsylvan i Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Wisconsin crews will start one mile downstream from the famous Lincoln Memorial. All races will be over a 2000-meter course and rowed along the west seawall of beautiful Hains Point.

It will be a tough race. The Navy crew won over all competitors last year, then went to Helsinki and won the Olympic Championship for top world honors. The event will also mark the 101st annual meeting of the crews of Yale and Harvard, the oldest collegiate competitors in America. An alumni village is to be set up on Hains Point with headquarters for each of the 32 crews colleges represented. Oscar Teckemeyer, 26, is the U.

of W. representative in the Washington Rowing Association. Earl Godfred 50 is Mr. Wisconsin at the Alumni Village. Itll be an all day affair.

After the race, a buffet supper will be given in honor of the crew and coaches with Frank Orth, 28 in charge of arrangements. This is a major event in the sprint rowing season of colleges and civic and governmental officials are cooperating. Even the Navy band has been secured to provide music during the contests. Riley Scores TKO Over Gallardo WASHINGTON UP) Chillin Charley Riley of St. Louis punched highly-rated Dave Gallardo silly Wednesday night and propelled himself into the muddled featherweight title picture.

Promoter Goldie Ahearn said after the fight that he was going to try to arrange a meeting between Riley and Percey Bassett, the interim featherweight champ, this summer, Charley scored a technical knockout over Gallardo in the seventh round of a scheduled 10-rounder at Turners Arena. A mere 712 were on hand to watch the show, but millions more saw it on television. Riley weighed in at 132, Gallardo at 129. For the first six rounds, it was anybodys fight, but Riley landed a right cross on Gallardos jaw at the start of the seventh and Gallardo was Referee Ray Bowen stopped the mauling at 1:07. Honor Siefert Charles Siefert, voted the most valuable player on the Wisconsin basketball team last season, was named the outstanding graduate commerce student in extra-curricular activities Wednesday night.

Siefert, Madison, was one of 31 commerce students honored at senior send-off festivities. By LEW J. CORNELIUS (Of The Capital Times Sports Staff) CAMBRIA, Wis. An 18-year-old farm boy who almost missed going to high school is setting the prep baseball batters down in almost perfect order these days. Hes Eugene Bobholz, a righthander, standing 5-11 and weighing 170 pounds.

Blessed with a strong arm and an easy motion, Bobholz has fire-balled his way through the opposition this spring to the tune of three no-hit seven inning prep games and has struck out 70 batters in 30 innings. His control has been so good that he has walked but four batters in that stretch. It took a second turn of events besides his deciding to go to high school to give this good student his pitching chance. A year ago Bobholz caught but Coach Carl Pfeiffer was impressed by his good arm and decided to have him pitch this spring. That switch has paid off handsomely.

Besides it gives Genes first cousin, Delwin Helmer, a chance to be on the receiving end of the battery. Professional scouts are expected to start beating a path to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Bob-holx in the little hamlet of Friesland most any day now. The Bobholz farm Is on the edge of Friesland.

The mailing address is Cambria, Rt. 2, just in case some scout should read this. The rest of the Cambria clan has been playing excellent ball behind Bobholz and as a result the team is undefeated so far. Rio invades Cambria for a night game Friday and the game is expected to draw a record-breaking throng. Besides Rio and Randolph are just about as keen rivals as any team could have and Cambria would like to go all the way to the Dual County title.

When Cambria goes out after some runs, Bobholz hits in the cleanup slot and is currently tagging the apple at a .438 clip. Helmer, who bats fifth, is hitting .333. Bobholz hits em like he pitches from the right side but Helmer switch hits on occasion. Coach Pfeiffer, in his second year at Cambria since graduating from Oshkosh State College, feels his ace has the best arm of any youngster hes ever seen pitch. Both Pfeiffer and Bobholz have not worried about a curve ball nor much of a change of pace and heres little doubt but what the Cambria flash has what baseball men look for first a good fast )all with a hop and good control.

Even the umpires have begun making remarks about his superb control. Cambria has won five games to date with Gene getting credit for four of the victories. Pfeiffer feels the current team is a fine unit straight down the batting order. (Continued on 2nd sports page) Picks Walcott CHICAGO UR Bill Tate, a leading heavyweight from 1909 to 1928, watched Jersey Joe Walcott box four rounds Wednesday and predicted he will regain his heavyweight crown from Rocky Marciano May 15. I think this time Walcott is going to be more careful all the way, said Tate, 61.

I dont think Marciano can box with Joe. I give Walcott a fine chance to regain the title. Coach Quits VALDERS, Wis. V-C. E.

Bray, head basketball coach at Valders High School for the past five years, resigned Wednesday, but will re main on the faculty as supervising principal. His assistant, Tom Berge, will take over the basketball team. Without, those eight guys behind me last night, my name would have been mud. Im thinking of cutting all of. them in for equal shares of my no-hitter.

Take Jim Dyck. He made a catch out there in left field during the second inning that I still cant get over. The ball was hit by Gus Zernial and had two bases written all over it. And how about Billy Hunter? I never saw a shortstop make the play he did in the eighth on Joe Astroths blue dart. If that wasnt a hit, I never saw one.

Do you think I would have had a no-hitter without Billy out there? Not on almost 60,000. The trotting operators, because their venture was launched in the beginning with strong support in the legislature, keep 10 per cent of the handle. The horse parks, with a far greater overhead, are allotted only 4 per cent. Those who took a flyer in Yonkers stock when it went begging about 10 years ago, have made a small fortune. Its sad to go into Sam and Louiss grocery street on West Main st.

They have a pleasant clerk. Perry, but the weather is wonderful outside. Perry took all comers that the Chicago Cubs would finish at least fifth, but Perry had illusions of a higher finish, he even dreamed of a pennant. The fellow workers tried to prepare Perry for a shock, but to no avail. Alas and alack.

Perrys Cubs have lost seven straight and for Perry the world is dark and dreary. A TED JAMIESON, Milwaukee fight referee, has resigned his commission. We havent seen Jamieson work as a referee in years, but he was a fine lightheavyweight boxer in World War One and the favorite of the 32nd Division. The fans didnt care for Teds decision in halting the bout earlier in the week. He awarded the match to Dan Bucceroni in the seventh over Wes Bascom.

We werent present at the fight, but if Jamieson erred it was on the side of safety and he didnt deserve the verbal bombast. Milwaukee is currently tied for third in the National League. Many fathers on the East Side are going to take their sons along on next Sundays excursion and its a big day for the kids and a bigger day for the fathers. OB 4Ref Resigns After Row Over Bout MILWAUKEE (J) Ted Jamieson, veteran Milwaukee boxing referee, who was booed out of the ring here Monday night after stopping a fight between Dan Bucceroni and Wes Bascom, turned in his license Wednesday to the state athletic commission. If they want mayhem in the ring, I want no part of it, Jamieson said as he handed his resigna tion to Fred Saddy, commission secretary.

1 Jamieson, 58, awarded the fight to Bucceroni on a technical knockout in the seventh round of a scheduled 10-round match before 4,500 fans at the Arena. The Phila delphia heavyweight, who at 191 pounts had a 17-pound advantage over Bascom, was ahead on points at the time. Bascom, burst into tears when Jamieson separated the two men during a flurry of blows in the seventh round and flung himself on the ring floor. Jamiesons decision was booed so loudly and long that the announcer was unable to give the time to the crowd. In his dressing room a few minutes later, Jamieson told the Associated Press he stopped the fight because he was afraid Bascom would be injured internally and permanently.

The East St. Louis light heavyweight was bleeding from the mouth, but a later examination showed only a minor cut. I was in a better position to see what his condition was than a doctor, Jamieson said Wednesday. I didnt want him to be hurt and it looked to me as though he was so I stopped it. Jamieson has been a licensed referee in Wisconsin since 1926, working many of the major fights here in that period.

Saddy said he had no choice but to accept the resignation. Little Interest? ST. LOUIS Manager Marty Marion posted a notice on the St, Louis Browns clubhouse bulletin board Wednesday saying one dollar fines will be for: Leaving a runner on third with one or less out Missing sign. Failing to bunt man over. Not running out any ball.

If a player fails to slide the fine runs $25. Something like this, Marion ays, helps create a little By LEW J. CORNELIUS (Of Tbe Capital Times Sports Staff) Six Madison track and field athletes will be back to defend city meet titles Friday when the annual test is run off at Camp Randall starting at 4:15 p.m. The six won a total of seven events last year. They are: Tom Miller, West, in the discus; Tom Schulz, West, in the shot put; Johnny Napper, West, in the 100 and 200 yard dashes; Dean Hewitt, East, in the 120 yard high hurdles; Woody Sorensen, West, in the 200 yard low hurdles; Jack Adams, West, in the mile run.

The meet is held earlier than usual this year to avoid conflicts with the WIAA sectional and state tests. Records for the city meet are at least two years old as not a single one was bettered last year as West won the meet hands down with points to runnerup Easts 5416. Central had 31 and Wisconsin High, with a few entries this year, did not compete a year back. West won eight of the 12 individual events and took the relay. Johnny Napper, however, did equal the 200 yard dash time, a year ago at 20.8 seconds to tie a mark set back in 1941 by Wests Deane Pdgc Napper is expected to break the dash record in at least one of the two shorter dashes.

He is Wests lone entry in the 200. Tom Schulz, Wests ace shot-putter, and defending city meet champion, is expected to break his older brother. Arts, record of 53 feet set back in 1949. West is again an overwhelming favorite to win the title while four of the top eight point makers a year ago are expected to he among the top point makers again Fri day. They include Napper, Schulz, Dean Hewitt of East and Don Adams of West Both hurdle races are expected to be high competitive affairs.

Records the boys are after go as far back as 1941 the 200 yard dash. Of the 13 records on the books one was set in 1941, another in 1944, four in 1946, one In 1947, and the rest of more recent vintage. Here are the records: 100 Yard Daub: Radcliffe Slog-gett. East 1948. Time 10 seconds.

200 yard dash: Deane Page, West 1941 and Jim Kuenning, West, 1942, and Johnny Napper, West, 1952. Time 20.8 seconds. 440 yard dash: Bob Mansfield, West 1946. Time 50 seconds. 880 yard dash: Tom Ripp, West, 1946.

Time 2.00.2. Mile run: Bob Burns, East, 1944. i 4.3Q 0 120 yard high hurdles: Leo Schil-linglaw. East 1950. Time 14.3 seconds.

220 yard low hurdles: A1 Dock- continued on second sports page FRIDAYS GAMES Northwestern at Illinois. Michigan State at Michigan. Wisconsin at Ohio State. Purdue at Iowa. Indiana at Minnesota.

SATURDAYS DOUBLEIIEADERS Northwestern at Ohio State. Michigan at Michigan State, Wisconsin at Illinois. 1 Indiana at Iowa. Purdue at Minnesota. Ron Unke, the ace righthander; will get the starting call on the mound Friday at Ohio State and southpaw Allan Suter and Hal Raether, a righthander from Lake Mills, will be the probablq moundsmen in a twinbill against Illinois Saturday in the Wisconsin baseball teams three-game Big Ten road series this weekend.

Coach Art Mansfield and his Badger baseballers will leave for Columbus, tonight with a 16-man traveling squad making the trip. Suter, 17th man on the road list, will not leave until Friday when he will go directly to Champaign, 111. Unke, unbeaten In four starts this spring and boasting of a no-hitter among his accomplishments? will go against the Buckeyes, and Paul Ebert in Friday afternoons single g-me. Suter, who also has a 4-0 record, will start Saturdays first game against the Illini and Raether will follow in' the nightcap. undefeated in iv9 games this season, is making the trip to Ohio State, however, just in case he is needed in relief, The Wisconsin traveling squad Includes Capt.

Tom Cooper and? Carl Wagner, catchers; Unke, Raether, Arnie Campbell, Bob Burger and Larry Tuttle, pitch- ers; Ron Barbian, first Otto Puls, second bie; Ron Pav-, Ilk, shortstop; Dick Trotta and Jim Carter, third base; Gust? Vergetis. Jim Temp, Dave Moran and Stan Krysa, outfielders. Temp will be starting in center-field for the first time since he injured his ankle in the Badgers first game of thsir spring tour, Moran will start in left and Ver-getis in right. Wisconsin and Northwestern are currently tied for first place in the conference each with twd wins and no losses, but have had their title chances curtailed numerous rained out games. Ohio State has an impressive 5-1 Big Ten record and Illinois has' won four and lost two.

-H Unke and Barbian are leading Wisconsin batters in Big Ten play with marks of .500 and .375, re spectively. Unke, who has spent some time In the outfield when hft hasnt been working on the hill has three hits in six trips, whil4 Barbian has three for eight. According to league statistic (Continued on 2nd sports paae Semi-Pro Ball Meet Aug. 14-18 MILWAUKEE The fifteenth annual Semi-Pro Baseball Commission tournament will be held in the new Milwaukee County Stadium August 14-15-16-17-18, State Commissioner Dick Falk announced today. The tourney originally was scheduled for early in August but the shift of the Braves to Milwaukee necessitated new tourney dates.

District champions from all over the state will compete for the Wisconsin crown. Last year the teams shared prize money amounting to $7,313 and this year the amount is expected to be increased. Several new team and individual trophies ate being added to the list this year. The winner of the state tourna ment will represent Wisconsin in the national tournament at Wichita, Kansas, The Merrill Rangers won the championship in 1952. Shift Date MILWAUKEE (IP) Marquette University will play a football game with Boston University in Boston on Oct.

30, one day earlier than originally scheduled. Athletic Director Conrad Jennings said today. The rescheduling of the game brings to four the number of night games on the Hilltoppers 10-game 1953 schedule. Allen Posts 73 As West Wins Jackie' Allens two over par 73 at Nakoma Wednesday paced West to a triangular golf meet over Central and Beloit. West had a 404 stroke total.

Be? loit 477 and Central 492. Craig Lawrenz of West had a 76 and. Roll Vallem was third with a 79 for CentraL Summaries: WEST 404: Jackie Allen, 38-3573; Lowell Bakken, 40-40 80; Crai Lawrenz, 38-38 76; Tom Williams, 39-50 89; Harold Bakken 40-4086. BELOIT 477: Allan PodweU, 40-50 90; Tom Devine, 42-44 86; Norman Gharrity, 46-5096; Jim Ewinf, 57-47 104; Jack Carlson 51-59101. CENTRAL 492: Rollo VaUem, 39-39 78; Jerry uter 45-4792; Mike Stein 47-5097; Jim Johnson, 50-4797 Colon Webster, 60-68 128.

(Alva (Bobo) Holloman, 27-y a r-old St. Louis Browns rookie, became the first pitcher in modern history to hurl a nohit, no-run rame In his first major league starting assignment last night. He beat the Athletics, 6-0, and In the following dispatch he tells how he did it. EDITORS NOTE) By ALVA (BOBO) HOLLOMAN (As told to United Press) ST. LOUIS (U.R) There isnt a guy alive who ever pitched a no-hitter without help and that includes me.

eammates your life. Air the guys chipped in with help when I needed it. Harry (The Cat) Brecheen came out in the ninth inning to tell me I was beginning to throw off stride. Les Moss, who caught a whale of a game, by the way, settled me down when I was pitching to Eddie Robinson, the last hitter. Vic Wertz, out in right field, took care of the catch the final out that made me the happiest guy in the state of Missouri.

With support like that, how could I miss? The rain that fell throughout the game didnt bother me at all. vr,.