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'i 1 -t THIRTY THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 194S IPPSiWI Luby Is Named Pilot Of Pels Rollie Hemsley To Manage Yols Unbeaten Steelers Face Laurel Quint Birminghams Steelers, unbeaten jin three professional basketball league starts, will seek their fourth straight victory tonight when they Jackie the Laurel Sports at Laurel, Miss. Steeler starters will probably Bob and John Murphy at forwards, Joe Parker at center, and Darrell Lorance and Lloyd Spitzer at guards. In a single molecule of the human blood, there are an estimated atoms. NASHVILLE Dec. 8 (P) -Rollie Hemsley, former major league catcher, will manage the Announcement of Lubys appointment came as something of a surprise here, since it had been generally expected a new manager would be chosen from the Pittsburgh Pirates organization with which the Pelicans are affiliated.

Luby succeeds Jimmy Brown as Pel manager. Brown was here only during the 1948 season. His contract was not renewed. I 1S8 WE WILL LEND YOU MONEY FOIL CHRISTMAS NEW ORLEANS. Dec.

8 UP) Hugh M. Luby, former infielder with the New York Giants and Atlanta Crackers, will manage the New Orleans Pelicans in the next Southern Association campaign. His appointment was announced by Pelican General Manager Vincent Rizzo by telephone from Minneapolis, where Rizzo is attending the annual meeting of the minor leagues. Rizzo said Luby, who has played the last three season with San Francisco in the Pacific Coast League, will be a playing manager here. Luby is 34 years old and bats right-handed.

His home is in Oakland, Calif. Rizzo said Luby was highly recommended by Lefty O'Doui, former Giant outfield star and now manager of the San Francisco club. LUBY PLAYED SECOND base for Atlanta in the Southern Association in 1937, batting .320. Since then, except for one year with the Giants and one in the service, he had been in the Pacific Coast League. Last season he played in 175 games, hitting .286, knocking in 86 runs and slamming 11 homers.

His fielding average at second base was .986. After leaving Atlanta, he went to Oakland, where he played for six years. He went to the Giants in 1944 and appeared in 65 games, hitting .254. He entered the service in 1945, and went to San Francisco after his discharge in 1946. Southern Association Nashville Vols Baseball Club in 1949, The Nashville Banner said today.

In a dispatch from Minneapolis, Sports Editor Fred Russell, who is attending the annual baseball meeting there, said Hemsley had agreed on terms with Larry Gilbert, vice president and former manager of the club. HEMSLEY. RUSSELL said, will come to Nashville in January or February to begin mapping plans for the Vols, for whom he expects i to catch 50 or more games. The 41-year-old catcher who served with seven major league clubs between 1928 and 1947 acted as a free agent in dealing with Gilbert. He obtained his release from Seattle in the Pacific Coast League at the end of last season.

He played in 82 games and batted .268. HEMSLEY STARTED with the Frederick, club in 1925 at the age of 18. He served with the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati, the St. Louis! Browns, Cleveland, the New York; Yankee and finally the Philadelphia Phillies before signing with Seattle' in 1947. Gilbert, whom he succeeds, retired at the end of the last season I after 25 seasons as a Southern Association manager.

He came to Nash-iville from New Orleans in 1939. He retired as manager to devote his time to the business office as vice president. Title Games On This Week Delayed by rainy weather, two Y. M. C.

A. football championships will be decided this week. In the 100-pound division, the Woodlawn Blues meet West Hills tomorrow afternoon at Avondale Park starting at 4:30. Woodlawn Blues and Ensley battle Saturday for the title in the 85-pound class. The game will be played at Woodlawn Stadium starting at 9:30 a.m.

EAST LAKE LIONS HONOR COLONELS East Lake Lions Club last night honored Woodlawn High School football squad in its annual banquet at Roebuck Club. In the picture above are Woodlawn school officials and coaches and Lions Club representatives. Left to right they are Kenny Morgan, head coach; Prof. Ralph Martin, principal; Hugh Smith, line coach; Gerald Smith bandleader; Homer L. Thomas, director of athletics, city schools; Joseph Barnard, chairman, Lions Club boys and girls committee; Glenn Riddle, Lions Club president, and J.

O. Simmons, coach of ends and centers. TO REPLACE HAMILTON ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 8 Capt. Henry Howard Caldwell (above) will succeed Capt.

Tom Hamilton as Navy athletic director, the Naval Academy announced yesterday. Hamilton is scheduled to retire Feb. 1 to become athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh. (Associated Press wirephoto.) Don't let a lack of monoy slow down your Christmas shopping. If you need money for Christmas, medical expenses, scattered bills or any other purpose, see us.

Furniture, automobile or endorsers may be used to secure a loan here. ALABAMA ACCEPTANCE CONFIDENTIAL tors. His present contract expires in February. The 1948 Bearcats won three games, lost six and tied one. SAMMY BAUGH yesterday signed a contract for the 1949 season, his 13th as a member of the Washington Redskins.

The an-! nouncement halted those rumors; that the old pass master Is about; to retire to his Texas ranch and1 take life easy. Cochran, Not Salem, Threw Touchdown Pass To Pierson Last Saturday Bob Cochran and not Ed Salem threw the 30-yard touchdown pass to Howard Pierson for Alabamas sixth touchdown against Auburn last Saturday it was officially learned today. The pass was good for 30 yards. It was the first touchdown pass thrown this year by Cochran and The Birmingham News regrets the error. Cochran is a member of a famous Huey-town football family.

Bob and Ralph are members of the Alabama squad while one brother, John, is a defensive star with the Chicago Cardinal pro team. 609 S. 21st St. Phone 54-7591 2101 2nd N. Two Phone 4-3503 Offices $5 to $300 PORTERS apparel makes fine EASY PAYMENT LOANS SIGNATURE FURNITURE CO-MAKERS CALL 54-0684 GIBBS FINANCE COMPANY 2231 First Avenue, North Doris Hart Loses MELBOURNE.

Australia. Dec. 8 UP) The American tennis player. Doris Hart, has suffered her first tournament defeat in Australia. Joyce Fitch and Claire Proctor defeated Miss Hart and Thelma Long.

6-4, 6-3. in the semi-finals of the Victorian women's doubles championship at the Kooyong; courts. Miss Hart remains in the 1 semi-finals of the women's singles and mixed doubles. 'stmas tree to hang on HI j6 WOODLAWN GRIDDERS VERSATILE Two football stars of Woodlawn High proved to members and guests at East Lake Lions Club banquet last night they could perform well in other activities. Shown above are a couple in a jive session.

Bobby Bowden, regular back, is hitting a high note -on his sliphorn while Ronald Nash, end and placement kicker, gives with the baritone. At the piano is Amos Hudson, director of boys activities at the school. The boys were on the program for numbers at the banquet. Woodlawn Football Team Honored By East Lake Lions i fits Auburn Signs Eleven More Prep Gridders AUBURN. Dec.

8 P) Eleven Alabama high school foot-hall players have signed athletic grants-in-aid at Auburn. Coach Earl Brown said the 11 are: Bill Humphries, Etowah High fullback; Lee Hayley, end, and Johnny Gibson, back, Ensley; Mort Vaserberg, Woodlawn, tackle; Ed Dupree. Talladega end; Bill McMur-ray, end, and Bennie Bradley, tackle, Fairfield; Hoot Gibson. Decatur, guard; Ripper Hughey. Lanett, guard; Lonnie Cowan, Geneva, tac-; kle, and Jimmy Maddox, Abbeville, I fullback.

Harry Heilmann, former Detroit Tiger baseball great, and now a ra-1 dio broadcaster on the Tiger games also assists in the airing of Detroit I i Lions football games. No Red Tape No Extras 5 ON NEW CARS 6 ON USED CARS Wf rS i tf I 2101 1ST AVENUE, N. Nash on stage for a baritone solo. Nash is an end and placekicker. Next he produced Bobby Bowden, back, in the role of a trombone player.

Both boys turned in an excellent performance. Amos Hudson accompanied them on the piano. Crippled Childrens Clinic game emblems were handed Coach Kenny Morgan, by Jerry Bryan, assistant sports editor of The News, to be distributed among the players. Homer L. Thomas, director of athletics in city schools, in making the principal talk reminisced on old-time football.

The players were Introduced to the Lions and guests by Capt. Freddie Mims. Woodlawn High's gridmen last night were given a good feed and words of praise as East Lake Lions Club honored them at their annual football banquet at Roebuck Club. Faced with a plate of excellent fried chicken the football players turned in a good job as speakers turned on the oratory. A bit of oratorical razzle-dazzle was pulled off when Lions President Glenn Riddle opened the session then lateralled to Joe Barnard, chairman of the clubs boys and girls committee, and he in turn passed to Principal Ralph Martin, of Woodlawn.

a SERVING AS toastmaster, Prof. Martin called signals on a couple of surprise plays. He sent Ronald Phone J-21U Spots Of Sports Rewritten From Local And AP Dispatches jFa 7 insey: Kentuckys All-American center, six-foot-seven Alex Groza, was elect-; ed basketball captain yesterday be-; I fore the squad departed for Louis-; ville and its encounter with De-Paul tonight. Groza is a senior from Martin's Ferry, Ohio. He was named the most valuable player in the National Collegiate tournament! last year.

Wes Livengood has been named the new playing manager of the Sumter Tri-State League baseball club. Livengood was a pitcher with the Little Rock club of the Southern Association last sea 'A to graphic swimming meet which was scheduled to take place today has been postponed until Jan. 14. The meet was set. back because of final scholastic examinations at Oregon.

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NAVY AND TULANE will meet next Fall for the first time in football. the Navy Academy announced today. The first game of a home-and-home series will be played al New Orleans on Nov. 5, 1949. Tu-lane will play Navy in Maryland on Nov.

11. 1950, either at Baltimore or Annapolis. The Central Park Community House Basketball League opens its 1948-49 season tonight. Three games are on schedule. Fairfield and Beco, lift the curtain at 7.

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