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Pace 8 Thursday st. gazette 1 May 2, 1946 tllloseph Tom Official Western Association srccrsrinx ioxk Tk. u.u i. a. Schedule i for 1946 i Bferin an Exp ected to Draw Starting Mundssignment By GEORGE "Player-Pilot Bob Stantot puts his St.

Joseph Cardinal baseball team through Its first real test tonight in. the club's Western Association opener against the Leavenworth Braves at Leavenworth, Kan. The tiff-4nugurates the. first of a five-gams series between the clubs 11 1 British Champ to Test Nelson NEW May Dick British Open golf champion, has accepted an invitation to meet Byron Nelson, P. champion, in a special 38-iole match during the Goodalt Tournament at.

the Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N. May 30 to June 2. Burton won hfs title In 1939. The tflrst IS holes of the match, according to today's announcement, will be played May 29 snd th second the 'fottowlng day. seiBrnDnaBsrieaaa fims' Al A A 7 A Al At I', At SAUNA HUTCHINSON ST.

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Tonight against the Braves andV'Obably will come back with Rlght-Hander Ray Glaser In the home, opener tomori row night. Cool Under Pressure Brennan, husky redhead, gained considerable notice during the club's spring workouts at Albany, by the ool, collected manner In which be worked when under Stanton will have a full squad of 23 hopefuls from which to select starting nine, but. already satisfied with bis pitchers outfield. He expects carry eight pitchers all season, although, under existing rules, the squad roster will have' to be trimmed from 234o IS players by! midnight, Msy 31. Frank Celona; small but scrappy shortstop who seems secure for the season In that position, will lead off for the Cardinals tonight Hollowed by eHher Gene Drewek Feller Really Deserved No-Hit, Game his seems and -i By MVhitney Martin YORK, May 1.

(AP) THE SPORTS, WRITERS vere sitting around in'the press room talking of this and that as they waited for the National Football League club 'owners; io com'e4'ut of their meeting: and announce they had nothiritr to announce. It was late afternoon and U)e conversatlonjagged, so someone rssually turned on the radio. It was the Ncfw York Yankee-Cleveland Indian baseball game and It took a little while for the announcer's -oe John Bakav. left fielders. wuld "atrongely de- NEW YORK, May 1.

N8 Promoter Mike who had been noticeably coy about it, broke down today and confided the exact time wben be will consent to begin accepting the 3 million 'dollars he expects to take la at the Louis-Conn heavyelght championship fight. June 19. i-: t. He announced that tickets will era on sale Msv 9. but-failed to add that 1 million dollars In advance orders is reported as already on hand.

The price scale strikes just tli; proper note In rich simplicity: $10, 20, $30, $50 and $1001 O'NEILL REBUKES SCRIBE 'AGENTS' WASHINGTON, May Frank (Buck) O'Neill, president of the Baseball Writers' Association, declared tonight that bis or- nounce any member who used his influence to attempt to entlde major league players into the Mexican League. O'Neill's statement came as the result of reports1 from New York that a 'member of the association In that city Invaded the Yankee ctubttouse in an effort to get Shortstop Phil Rlzzuto to "go Mexican." O'Neill declared: association and its president would denounce any attempt to sabotage American baseball, and" would always do so.T However, O'Neill, a member of the staff of the Times-Herald, said that he knew of, no instance where a member of the- assoclatlon or any other baseball writer had worked In behalf' of trje.MexIcan League. Seat Covers Only 7.95 STORE 22d and Olive Phone 4-1111 i 'Wn. WOMEN'S PIN EVENT OPENS KANSAS CTTY, kay l.W-rc Kanaat City Botxitf teama optnd play In the 26ttt Women's Interna-tlonal-Bowling Conaresa World's Championship Tournament here tonight that has an entry lint of more than me 3f-oy affair. vMayor William Kemp of Kansas aty wss to roll the first ball.

Mrs. Jeannett Knepprsth of MliwauKte, Wis, W.NL B. president, and Mrs. EmmiiWialer of Columbus, Ohla sfcretarj participated In the brief opening ceremonies. nve women.

teairKcompetftton vAll get under way tomtfrrpw night at 7:30 o'clock -with another all-Kansas City field, followed bysUi first mixed "five woman team aqu4, feuding two hours later. Two; Milwaukee teams, Hubert Company a ltd Bob O'FerreM Recreation, are regarded as the best teams In the first mixed roll. Sallv Twyford, all-event champion In I9IHK33 and will lead the Bally Twyford Comets of Indianapolis. regarded as one oC.the outstanding teams of the 1 Into action Saturday nljjht. Jlna Van Camp, defending all- events champion, who won the honor while leading Logan Square Bulcks or Chicago to the five woman title In 1942, wilt play with' thf Hoosler Coal and Oil Company ot-Indianapolis Monday, lagan 8(ruare Is not enter In the The tournament here la the first sine war interrupted the congress' classic In 1942, Swim Meet Slated Tonight The second meeting In two A '4 1 i 1 i i i i Discussing SMoseph Team Staff Photographer Dick Jones catches StIoseph Cardinal Business Manager Forrest Cook (right) anokSt.

Louis Cardinal Business Representative Bill Walsinghajn in an informal pose at the City were on hand to witness the local club's initial practice session, on tthe home The team officially opens -itsxseason tonight against the Leavenworth Braves at'Leavewrth, Kan. meaning to seep in, as he was doing was on the verge of a no-hit game many words and thus putting the within three outs of 4 or "There have, been seven hits land has made all of them." Well sir, sports writers as a comes to spectacular athletics feats, as indifferent as they would be to body said much you could sense the tension and anyone who so much as rustled a paper got a reproachful glance. Those three remaining outs seemed to take ages and you had a chance to think back on the career of BPbby Feller and you realized that the no-hit game was no more surprising than it would be to find a watermelon on a watermelon vine, as one Of bis games Is the logical place to looK for such a performance, It was novccldent, either, for never did a pitcher work and slave and sweat more over', -a long period to prepare him- self so that every game he pitched might be -We recalled that, even this springy although no player in the trainings camps reported in better condition, he labored harder than anyone to Improve that putting himself a series Spartan exesclses Which required a supplenessand agUlty Which few ball players Tbokst And you thought of Bob's earlier days with the Indians, the Oscar Vltt days when the youthful Iowalvj una a tyiie biiui. iut auu uv- tlc else and the batters would wait htm out for walks or steal the buttons off his shirt once they got on base. i He realized bis shortcomings.

and spent hour after tedious hour ana sprm uuur mucr ifuiuua uvu. the made whole Fairweather Lauds City Bas eballFans i 4 fa By JIM CHEMI "St. Joseph is a city of fair-minded baseball fans," Presi TRACTOR TIRES Western Association remarked the annual luncheon meeting vastd time weeks will 'held tonight at the T. M. C.

A. of the "YJ' swlm- mlng committee, it was announced by Paul Rice, chairman. The greup extects to make final plans fot (he spring record setting meet to be held soon In the pool. The committee members to at- tend tonight are Vlneent Abbott, Sam Swartz, Bob Brlcker, Bill Pollock, Bill Hrsog; Bob Glen. -HDtrk Oarlichs.

Franklin Russell, Oorg, Levrtn, George Marktey and' Jim Cheml. The committee was Just recently named by H. h. Dannen, president th nd endeavoring to get competitive swimming correcting them. He'd practice sliding.

That might give him life on a base some day. He'd practice mean a ball game. He'd warm up were men on bases and giving almost would believe there were. Other pitchers would do only Ernest Woods, light fielder. Seltenrelch at Cleanup j.

Batting cleanup will be capable John Seltenrelch, who has shown substantial ability to comfortably "powder the ball" lo-reeent practice sessions. Seltenrelch be followed by versatile Safin who will handle the hot corner chores during the Illness of -regular Third Baseman Dick. Seltx Seltz Is suffering from recurrent malaria contracted while In the arnied forces but he Is expected to be able to play in the club's home opener here tomorrow night. The rest of the batting lineup, in Order of thefr appearance, prob ably will be Catcher Ken Graham, Second Baseman Stanton, "First Baseman Walt Mosby and Pitcher Brenpan. Other Western Assoctstlon openers tonight find the heralded Topeka Owls coming up against the equally highly regarded Joplln club at Joplln; Fort Smith traveling to Muskogee, and Hutchinson opening at Sallna.

Pickets Disrupt Race tiack Woik PAWTUCKET, R. May l. UP) With picket lines at Its gates. Narrsgansett Park bad to revlseJ lis norse racing program loaay, but 450 parl-mutuel department employes, the cause of jurisdictional dispute between, unions, worked at top speed while dispos ing of $1,058,044 worth of ticket to a 19,000 crowd. Refusing to cross the lines were such organised track employes as truck drivers, maintenance crews, bartenders.

and waitresses. Taxi drivers refused to, unload at the track gates and bus drivers dropped track-bound riders a half mile away, The lines were.posted after Ray mond -J. Jamlesoh of Providence. president of Office Employes In ternational ixicai io (A. r.

ui, charged that the Mutuel Clerks' Guild, an independent union, was "not a bonaftde labor organiza tion and was allowed to function merely as- weapon to combat our organization." We're Tire Experts! Good Tires Make lor Safe Driving Drive IrT Today! LEO ROBERTSON SEIBERLmG, DEALER 1S0S Frederick Thone 2-4492 ALL OVt HVTTUNO lO. or ST. JOSEM RECAP 1 hls'Jpst to say that Bobby Feller actually putting it In so whammy on the Tribe ace. hail of fameTHie would say, la this ball game, and Cleve are a pretty blase lot when It but in this case they were about a raise In pay; and although no- Bob Feller bunting. A well-placed bunt might with a catcher, pretending, there sucn a realistic perrormancesyou what they were ordered to do.

Pin Unknowns' Set Fast Pace BUFFALO, N. X. May 1. (INS)! A pair- of "unknown" bowlers from. Vlsaila, Cal- stood out in today's session of, the 43d annual American Bowling Congress when they netted 1.204 to pace the doubles.

Hap Griffin and Ernest Garber were the doubles standouts, while Johnny Olson of Salt Lake City tallied 658 to head the singles with the largest series ever recorded In this1 event by -a Salt Lake kegler. There were no changes in the stsndlngs; rraarfciM Bflllrrt rtrsI-lOLa -A; .4.:.. DRINfi.IT-.-c FOR SERVICE ir Ford Doalor and gasoline 3 Bob tried to improve himself voluntarily, and he dldi Soon the base runners were eying him skeptically before trying a steal. The batters were finding that If they waited for a walk It might be beck te the bench. Even this spring, possibly realizing his' fast ball wouldn't always be with him, he began to perfect other pitches, He" never quits in his quest for perfection, never loafs on the theory that he to "good enough." If ever a pitcher worked and planned for, a no-hltter, and if ever he deserved one, It Is Bob Feller.

You Get. pt-cZ' the Famous held at Hotel RoBldoux. Apologize to Ott ST. LOUIS, May lr-(INS) Mel QtJ manager of the New York Giants, said today that Pitcher Harry Feldman had telephoned from Hot Springs, to "apologize" for jumping to the Mexican Ott said: "Harry said he was sorry to leave the Giants. But he added that he Was going to Mexico as he'd planned." and the pace this year is going to be fast.

I suggest every fan keep a score card of all games, played, at St. Joseph during the season opening tomorrow. Then set bis cards aside for four years. He- will then find at least SO players that played In this city in 1946 on major league, class AAA and class A A clubs. That will be proof enough of the caliber of Western Association develop ing power." Umpires attending the annual meeting were Lee Stormer, St.

Louis; Frank Massara, St. Louis; Fred Spagnoll, Springfield, Lpuls Payor, Detroit; Bus Bailey, Duncan, Al Baer. Cross Plains, Richard Donohue. Davenport. Iowa, and Edward Fox.

Bt. Louis. Seven of the eight arbitrators are ex-servicemen. CRANE TEAM DRILLS Members of the Crane Softball team will hold a practice session tonight at South Park at o'clock. All players are urged to be present The team Will drill three nights next week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same site.

VG.A. Approved dent Tom Fairweather of the yesterday during a brief talk of the circuit's umpiring staff The colorful, white-haired prexy i- recalled the grand old grand old days of baseball in this city some 40 years ago. He was high In praise of fans. However, he also pc inted. out that In receht years the fame had received" "shabby treatment" and ruined the sporty President Fairweather said he feels that organized basebah will be successful In Its return this year, pointing out that the St.

Joseph Cardinals are business like, progressive and headed by competent and reliable? officials. W. L. (Bill) Hegarty Is president of the local Cards, who are mem bers of the St Louis Cardinal farm system. Mayer Allison Speaks Hi D.

Allison represented the city's official family at the confab and pledged support to organised "It means a great deal to our city to have a live-wire baseball team," the mayor remarked. Then In a lighter vein, he added, "I'm going to throw the first ball at. a good catcher Bill Hegarty-rnd had better cover tip. for me if the old arm Mr. Hegarty also spoke to the umpires-' and gave them "vote of confidence." The local club president noted the Increase of interest among hr women of this city.

"During the flrttractice session at the Stadium on Monday there were 72 fans watching the workouts and over 20 were women. needs the support ot our club appreciates thlrmuret," he concluded. Developing Mayiri'' Asked In an Interview his opinion of the Western Association's strength this season, President ralrweather atated, This association Is recognised through, out the country as one of the greatest leagues in baseball for developing players, Wa are the training ground IIIUJLWHO kSU-UUM mm it mm Una im, aaato what aw mum. ataualm. Owr Ml MUna KNlMMtN nnulm lava tmmt4f kM Ma SSU40N aV pmlM.

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