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oorrm wtr 1 i I 1 I i to: CO ia Droj) Flag 70-57 Redd Stars Pokes Could Be Plenty TougK Tucson Cowboys Will ry Two Negro Players iUzkiA 1" and averaged 320 in batting Walker Is a pitcher 22 years old weighs 180 pounds and stands six feet -Walker has played with the Kansas City Royals an outstanding Negro semi-professional team He has pitched one three-hit game and two one-hitters The two players will report to spring training with the Cow--boys Spring training is expected to be conducted in some California city not yet named Training will open sometime in March Two Negro' baseball player have been signed by the Tncson Cowboys Richards Cowboy president announced this morning The two Negroes Leroy Pettos and Zeb Walker were signed by Manager Don Jameson in Reading Calif If the players make the grade they will be the first colored ball players to ever play for Tncson Pettus is a catcher 20 years old weighs ISO ponnds and stands 5-11 He has played two years in the Canadian league JANUARY 14 1952 PAGE Study Matesic SCase Today He entered the staffe '-college here as a frgsbpian last aft Coach Siemering who has 'just returned from the NCAA meet-' in Cincinnati Ohio termed the situation "one of those unfortunate things that joraetime occur under freshmaneligibility Last season freshman were eligible for varsity (-competition iff the Border conference The coach said 1 if such a rqle had not been in force Matesic would have had to play freshman football and would not have clouded quarter before Arizona could pull away to a safe margin Freghman Forward Hadie Redd showing how he Impressed eastern and mldwestern fans jammed in 18 points to lead scoring parade Guard Roger Johnson cono-sistent as ever followed close behind Redd with 17 tallies Buddy Islas led Flagstaff with 19 counters as the freshman from Nogales hit with great accuracy on a two-handed Jump shot Redd played a sensational game off the backboards getting 18 rebounds At times Redd was almost parallel with the Iron ring as he soared high to capture the bounding ball Allan Stanton played a fine game canning 11 'points and added a much needed spark to the Arizona team With four minutes and 30 seconds remaining In the third period Flagstaff cut the count to 45-43 on Luke 25-foot push shot At this juncture Arizona began Its winning push Fielders by BUI Kemmeries a pair by Jerry DUlon and another by Stanton while the i Jest Flag could do was a charity toss by Buddy Islas and longie byi Bab Madole gave UA a 53-46 third quarter margins By the way this kid Madole 1 played an outstanding game He was a steady floor man plus get ting 13 tallies Kemmeries who had scratched only a free toss in the first half ignited third period spurt as the Junior forward crammed in nine points In curtain raiser fine frosh team defeated -Coach Frank" jaybees 6860- Bill Stephens made 27 points for the visitors while Jackson Eddy cracked the net for 23 for UA team was weakened by the loss of Eli Lazovich who was promoted to the varsity With Lazovich gone the rebound play was practically nil 1 ARIZONA (70) fga torn pf tp Kemmeriea 10 4 2 2 3 10 Radd 31 7 6 Dillon 16 4 4 2 2 11 Four Champs Fight At i SC Tonight By SKIBO McKAY I Four novice champions of the recent Arizona" Golden Gloves tournament at Phoenix will headline Promoter Bill first amateur boxing card starting at 8:30 pm today at the! Tucson Sports center The exact pairings for the scheduled eight to IQ bouts will noj be known until shortly be-' fore the opening-fight since many of the contestants of various weight1 divisions are arrivirig from the Phoenix area However heavy By RAY McNALLY Coach Fred University of Arizona basketball team will not have to wait long to find I out how good its chances are of repeating as Border 'conference champions Tonight the felines host Hardin-Simmons and Thursday night entertain Texas Tech In the dressing room after he UA-Flagstaff contest Coach George Gregg was asked how he thought Arizona stacked up with Texas Tech and West Texas Flag hid lost to both teafns stack up replied the ex-Missouri star who Is In his third coaching year at flag now we played our "best road game of the season against Arizona and Enke's team was probably a little off West Texas looked the best against us They i have a slick Texas loss to Texas Western was certainly an unexpected surprise for Arizona The Tech defeat is a good break for the Wildcats if they can capitalize on It From the way conference compe-t tition has opened it be a bit surprising to see the eventual champion drop from two to four games in official loop play The New Mexico Aggies a preseason favorite with Tech already has been dumped twice West Texas looks surprisingly tough in early loop contests Yowsah it looks as if the BC is going to be the widest open race iii some time Arizona Tempe Tech West Texas and New Mexico all have their eyes focused on a trip to the Western NCAA regional tournament in Kansas City next March 1 A SMELLY SITUATION The Matesic incident at Tempe came as no surprise to this corner Anyone who witnessed the Arizona-Tempe game and closely watched the play of Joe (alias Edward Andrew) could not help but wonder how a big guy like that could play such terrific football and still be classified as only a freshman It sense Matesic was heads and shoulders above everyone on the field that night He was without a doubt as good a tackle as there was in the Border conference even on par with Texas Jerrel Price After the game this writer remarked to Bill Rider KCNA sports-- caster: "That Matesic Good gosh- he was terrific Why he looked as if been playing for the past five years in fast competition He has too much on the ball to be a freshman Wonder how and where Tempe -ever got that The identical remark was made to Coach Bob Winslow several times later with Winslow agreeing that Matesic was quite 'a man Winslow gave no hint 'a to anything' being underhanded in case but (Pop) McKale indicated upon questioning that the University was checking on Matesic This whole thing is a sorry mess One observer to the football scene at Arizona remarked that local officials had known about Matesic for nearly two months 1 1 For some time Arizona coaches have been quite bitter about the differences In the academic setups between" the state university and Tempe Local coaches claim that the going for athletes at Tempe is made much easier than at Arizona and for that reason the job ef recruiting talent is a softer task Now that the Matesic incident has been made public Tempe undoubtedly will watch and check 1 transcripts more eruditiously Tempe has been hurt by this event Just what effect all this will have on future athletic policies will only be answered by time The -recent resignations of Larry football assistants the resignation of Don Kinzle as athletic director and possibly as track coach all have created an unsavory taste and unpleasant odor about the state Telnpe had better watch itself and its athletic department or it will be weakened to such an extent that Arizona may beat in football 1 Only Two! Gage Loops Play To Form NEW YORK VP) Except tot the Pacific Coast conference and the Ivy league1 the college basketball circuits have been -surprisingly very much according to form i On the Pacific coast Stanford the pre-season favorite is rising along In second place in the southern division with two beatings In: northern division Washington which waa figured as- the logical champion also is in second place with one defeat Oregon heads the northern section' and UCLA the (southern" In the Ivy league it appears that defending champion Columbia is going to find the going tough Penn was 'known to be the big threat to the Lions a't the start of he campaign and the Quakers hav6 been coming through in fine stylq tied with Princeton for the leadjach with i two triumphs and no losses 4 Identical Marks The Big Ten boasts two of the major unbeatens Illinois an4 Iowa the others 'are Kansas Duquesne and St Bonaventure and they of course share the league lead with marks of 3-0 Their Season's records also are identical" 10-0 The question buzzing in the Big Seven is: those Kansans ever going to At the moment the answer seems to be "no" Dr Phog oper atives have won 12 -ir a row two In the league Even the Southwest conference where they put the whammy 1 on the team tabbed the favorite things are very serepe indeed Texas Christian was rated the team to beat and sure enough TCU right at the ton with 4-0 and 14-1 for the season Exceot for a' loss to Manhattan the Horned Frogs have been slaughtering ell opposition averaging 628 points per game Vandy Leads Cats In the Southern arid Southeastern the two perennial rulers North Carolina State and Kentucky respectively stand at the head of the class The Wildcats however are second to Vanderbilt which has a 3-0 mark to p-0 7-0 tops the Southern but West Virginia and North Carolina each with 5-1' yet thrown in the towel The Missouri Valley shapes up as a two-team race between St Louis and Oklahoma A and as usual The i BilliklnS have won their three loop starts andthe Aggies have won their only league game St Louis is 10-3 fori the season and Oklahoma Al and the defending champion 10-2 which is an indication of how evenly they are- matched Defending Champion Brigham Young of the Skyline looks to be out of luck even though it currently is tied with Wyoming each with a 2-0 mark Meanwhile two more unbeatens bit the dust Seton Hall bowed to Sienna 55-52 after winning 12 straight and Florida which had won 10 was trounced py Kentucky 99-52 i Redd Gains In Point Race i Roger Johnson continues to dominate the individual scoring statistics on the University of Arizona basketball team Roger added 17 more tallies Saturday in I the Flagstaff contest run! his total to 240 counters "for an average of 171 points a game Bill Kemmeries Is edging up on Jack Howell for second place while the most consistent gain is being made by Freshman Hadie Redd Redd hit for 18 against Flag placing him but six below Jerry Dillon and only three below the 100 mark i As a 1 team Arizona has averaged 662 1 points a game but its defense has been very weak The Cats have allowed foes to average 711 tallies an outing I fg f-fm tp Johnson -i Howell 8 Kemmrl 0 36-28 148 Dillon 37 53-29 103 Redd 34 46-29 97 Dunlap 23 29-17 73 Brunar JJ-' Leftault 21-17 29 IllM f9)akaaa I the good record he made with the varsity Siemering said rumors that the tackle had played college football before "were checked early in the season but he assumed -that everything" was all right when' tfie conference and the schoolreturrfed a clean" report!" Dr Gamiriage has announced the school fyould not protest! if the Border conference rules the Sun Devils must forfeit all the games it won last season when it finished in a second-place tie in the loop Matesic participated every game HARD LUCK FIGHTER Burt Singer (above) is the pride of Tucson amateur featherweight boxers who took the hard luck trophy In the recent Golden Gloves tourney He Is slated to fight on card here! NCAA Will Take It Easy CINCINNATI VP) Th colleges moved into the cleanup phase of their controversial athletic programs today wielding a whisk-broom instead of a pick-axe Out of the maelstrom of resolutions counter-resolutions and academic double-talk marking the 46th National Collegiate Athletic association convention last week these facts emerged crystal-clear: 1 The NCAA plans to attack the evils In its sports setup in a calculated unhysterical manner Ignoring the prod of a special committee to go in and chop away A study iwas prescribed for such issues as itwwl games and subsidization practices 2 All factions the NCAA 1 presidents and 'football coaches found one solid starting point for the cleanup program That is a national standard of entrance requirements and strict university control of all athletic policies 3 The NCAA emerged from the crises stronger than ever before strengthened by the support of the dissident Southern bloc which! a year ago perpetrated the death of the sanity code The South and Southwest backed the NCAA solidly in its refusal to be spurred into drastic action by the committee One year ago today The American conference all-stars defeated the Natlfenal conference allstars 28-27 in the first professional post-season bowl game Los Angeles Scoring by -quarter: I FLAGSTAFF IS 13 20 11 87 ARIZONA 16 15 21 17 78 Official: Judd Gregor and Elbort Brook UA FROSH (60) FLAGSTAFF (68) fg ft pf tp fg ft pf tp Eddyf 9 5 223 Alonof 5 4 4 14 Cordyf 1 0 4 2 Comptonf 3 5 8 11 Brown 2 10 8 Clay 2 8 12 Rountraog 115 3 Gomez 10 2 8 Broworg 5 3 3 13 8tephonag 13 1 1 27 Brown c-g 3 14 7 JaeotLf 10 4 8 Hartf 0111 Van 0 0 0 0 Lockhart 12 14 Glodiae 0 0 0 8 Woodg 1 0 2 2 Taylorf 0 0ft Dupalofff 0 0 0 0 Total 23 14 22 60 Total 2812 20? Score by quarter: ARIZONA 17 14 14 15-66 FLAGSTAFF 8 23 17 Fra throw mlaaed: Arizona (8) Eddy 2 Cordy Brown 2 Rountroo Brown Hart Flagetaff lonao Compton Gomoz 2 Stephana 8 Jacott 2 Glodla Official: Slagl and Brofft ARIZONA Pm I H-IU Kammarlee (P2) Slmpaon Redd Cevert Dillon tl 68t4 (87) Qrean Howall (5M0) i Praaton Johnaan (310) Roberta Plata Bear Down gym Tima Varelty at 8:30 pm UA Froth agalnet Grand Canyon aollaga at 8:30 pm Broadcaat Ovar KTUC by 8tan Norman i By RAY McNALLY Hardin-Simmons a team that Juts compiled a H-5 full season record but an outfit still of relatively unknown strength cpmeg into Bear Down gym tonight to play Arizona in a Border conference Cage tussle The Abilene team coached by Bill Scott who is in his first year there is an unpredictable outfit Tipoff time for the varsity game is 8:30 pm The Arizona freshmen play Grand Canyon college of Prescott in the curtain raiser at 6:30 pm Tonight's game will be the 14th meeting between H-SU and Arizona bosketball teams Arizona holds a 9-4 edge qyer the Cowboys Last time Hardin-Simmons beat Arizona was in the first game of the twb played during the 1949-50 season when the Pokes eked out a 57-53 win UA has wpn three straight times since then The Cowboys have whipped Texas Western surprise conquerors of Texas Tech add have drubbed a strong North Texas state five No team has what you would call slaughtered the Pokes Thev played the SWC Southwest conference leader Texas Christian a close defensive struggle before bowing 49-37 Currently H-SU is resting in a fourth place tie in the BC with Texas Tech each team having a 2-1 conference mark Simmons has defeated several service teams in chalking up its good record during an extremely busy' schedule that calls for them to play 31 games before the season ends Full 8aon 3 6 3 7 11 7 3 3 Confarfenc TP DP 0 196 124 0 70 57 0 75 56 1 207 168 1 187 165 2 218 217 3 225 260 5 251 403 Wert Tx State 3 Arizona 3 1 Tampa 4 1 Texaa Tech 2 Hardin-Simmone 2 Agglaa 2 Texaa Western 1 Flagstaff 1 0 4 Thl Qamia Hardin-Simmona at Arizona Hardin-Simasen at Tampa 1 (Mesa Auditorium) Hardin-Simmona at Flag THURSDAY Texas Tech at Arizona FRIDAY Texas Tech at Tmpe (Maaa Auditorium) Texaa Tech at Flagstaff Wart Texas at Amarillo Air Base Hank Green is the workhorse for crew He Is 6-7 handles the center post and is a great rebounder plus being the leading scorer Against Flagstaff Green tallied" 21 times and added 18 in the' Texas Western win Leading point makers are Bill Preston and Joe Simpson Defense has been the big forte I In the last NCAB release aggregation ranked 23rd nationally limiting foes to 532 points a game in 13 outings The Pokes also rated 15th among the field goal percentage leaders hitting 38 per cent of their trie However competition has been rather thus the figures could be a trifle misleading-Arizona will be seeking its second straight BC win The Wildcats opened defense of their conference title Saturday night by whipping Arizona State College Of Flagstaff 70-57 The Cats were anything but impressive Coach Howard crew played good ball pressing the home i towners all the way It until midway in the final Indians Slice Squad To 37 CLEVELAND (JP) Eager for a pennant even before the first bat is unwrapped the Cleveland Indians today cut- their foster to 37 players signed Outfielder Harry Simpson to a contract and established a for i General Manager Hank Greenberg announced the roster trimming was accomplished by the sale of Pitcher Charley Harris and First Baseman Herb Conyers to AAA farm team the Indianapolis Indians of the American association Conyers after a brief trial with the Indians had trouble solving coast league pitching at San Diego then wound up with Dallas In midseason- Harris was purchased from the Philadelphia Athletics last summer and optioned to San Diego where he won one and lost three Simpson a right fielder had a 229 batting average last year and drove in only 24 runs (plugs rose bowl VP) Declaring that football bowl games come close to being the national pastime Dr George Stoddard president of the University of Illinois has taken a firm stand for continuance of the Rose Bowl Stoddard whose school voted against the original Rose Bowl pact between the Big Ten and Pacific Coast conference thinks the present plan Is satisfactory Pirates was the praise Rickey heaped upon him despite the fact Del Greco is -unlisted on the Pirate roster With Salisbury in 1950 he batted 251 in 64 games He boosted that mark to 306 with Hutchinson In 1951 Back for another trial are outfielders Tom SaffelL who batted 320 in 42 games with Indianapolis and Ted Beard a -J273 hittfer in 117 games with (he same team Jimmy Mangan who hit 291 In 100 games with the Tnriiang faces a tough assignment He will try to dislodge either Joe Garagiola or Clyde McCullough for one of the two catching berths 1 Louis Erowns VP) Head vFootball Coach Larry Siemering and Dr Grady Gammage president of Arizoha State College at Tempe were jexpected to confer today in the case of an ineligible varsity lineman who played all last season for the Sun Devils He has been identified as Joseph Matesic who played under his name of Edwaji Andrew Matesic and won All-Border conference honors Matesic was a 235-pound 6-foot 4-inch lineman who played with the University of Indiana as a-sophomore in 1950 S-I Splits As Five Teams Withdraw PHOENIX VP) Five members of the Southwest International baseball league have announced with drawal from the sprawling 10-team set-up and said they planned to re-form the old Arizona-Texas loop The remaining five teams of the SWI termed the action illegal and said they would protest to George Trautman head of the National association of minor baseball leagues Trautman says he will pot be able to give a decision until after he gets a full written report on the situation Tncson In A-T Voting to withdraw and set up the A-T loop were Phoenix Tucson El Paso Blsbee-Dougls and Juarez Those teams still wanting to participate in a setup similar to that of 1 last year were Tijuana Mexicali El Centro Las Vegas and Yuma They all were members of the Sunset league before it merged with the A-T last year to form the Southwest International league Those teams voting to withdraw claimed the great mileage between entries made It financially unwise to continue the large league The SWI was a class circuit The teams asking continuation of the SWI "for another year main tain they will not be able to put baseball on a paying basis in their areas without continuation of the setup "If the eastern members fall to reconsider and request admission again into the Southwest International league we plan totreat the five seceded clubs at outlaws' Irvin Kahn attorney for the Tijuana club said This statement was clarified later to mean the five remaining members of the SWI would attempt to keep the Arizona-Texas group from playing baseball in an area they consider to be under SWI franchise unless they play in the SWL Elect Powers Prexy The former Sunset league entries held a caucus of their own 'following the split In meeting here and elected Les Powers of Santa Monica CalIf as their president pro-tem of the SWI Kahn and Powers were to take steps to protect the territorial rights of the southwest international league and to prohibit all persons formerly connecting with the retiring franchises 'from having further participation in organized baseball inasmuch as their conduct is considered detrimental to basebalL The Arizona-Texas jn embers called a meeting for next Sunday at noon in Tucson Possibilities of a-sixth team for the loop which operated as a six-club circuit in the post war years until formation of the SWI are Chihuahua Mex or Globe-Miami Slate City Loop Cage Games This City Recreational league basketball games include the following: 4 -Ochoa Canter Act oca vs Southern Pacific Ralls at Ochoa Center 30-40's vo Oury Park Rockets Oury Park Ochoa Hornets vs Santa Roaa i Wildcats Santa Roaa Park Hat Boon vs Carrillo Bravoa Carrillo Center Oury Park Chargers vs Ochoa Yellowjacketa Oury Park Carrillo Typhoons va Santa Roaa Bobcats Santa Rosa Park vs Horn at a Ochoa Canter Oury Park Paohucos vs Rockets Oury Park Wildcats va Rails Santa Roaa Park Aztecaa va Bravos Carrillo Center THURSDAY Yellow Jacket vs Typhoon Ochoa Canter Bobcats -vs Chargors Oury Park be a regular in A senior at Lock Haven teachers college the 23-year-old Port Matilda Pa lad batted 330 at Charleston in the class A Sally league last year i i Koshorek drafted from Toledo hit only 261 with Little Rock last season He Impressed Pirate officials with his brilliant fielding-and blinding speed He has stolen 150 bases in six seasons in organized basebalL Coogan is the 19-year-old youngster who made such a fine impression last season but was farmed out for further seasoning He returned to college last spring and played several montha yrith Kctc Orleans weight bout is definite John Lowry 208-pounder from the University i of Arizona football team meets Joe Hammond 200 of the Golden! Gate Settlement team at Phoenix 1 1 Local Champion The Golden Gloves novice champs are Flyweight Joe Mazon Bantamweight Fred Benton Welterweight Carl Watson and Middleweight George Greathouse Mazon hails from Tucson The remainder are members of the Golden Gate Settlement squad coached by Jimmy Shans whowas voted the out standing coach of the Golden Gloves tourney I Mazon is tentatively slated meet Lavem Williams Phoenix Mazon idecisioned Williams for his state title That victory and a knockout his previous fight earned Mazon the outstanding fighter trophy of the novice divisions classy featherweight Burt Singer will also fight tonight providing a suitable opponent is present He had been billed for the main event against Collier Cox Luke field but the airman has announced that he will not fight again until the Los Angeles Golden Gloves tourney 1 Trophy "Winner 1 I Singer was the recipient of the Golden Gloves! open class hard luck trophy after having lost to Cox In the semifinals and twice In ituneup bouts The semifinal verdict was unpopular with the crowd which bombarded the ring with seat cushions and detained progress of the program for 1 10 minutes In disagreement with the decision I Santos announces that other fighters will be Dick Jones Leo Barnett Tucson welters Albert Alvarez 154 Teddy Wellington 122 John Ruiz! 117 and Clemente Mol-donado 147 from the Ft school for boys I With reports that Phoenix will soon start weekly amateur boxing the goal of officials in Arizona is to a state association for future Golden Gloves tournaments Arizona is currently a member of i the Southwest Pacific association thus its tournament cham plans are compelled to compete the Los Angeles- tourney for chance to entei the Chicago Tournament of Champions An Arizona association would entitle lits state champs to go directly to the Chicago affair i 1 I Judge Named Judges for tonight are Judge Mercer Johnson Jack Rusnick and Referee Sonny Valdez Jewelers will present a wrist watch to the outstanding fighter John GibsonJ Tucson and Jim Drinkward Davis-Monthan air base will perform" on the program with a hand balancing act They won the state doubles hand balaftc-ing championship last year Gibson was voted "Mr and "Mr of 1950 and Drinkward was and last year in weightlifting tournaments Twenty i years ago Babe Ruth received his 1932 offer of $70000 which represented a $10000 cut but rejected it asking fora two-year contract or a one-year term at his present salary I- Demaret Wins Crosby! Open PEBBLE BEACH Calif Bing national pro-amateur golf tournament a $10000 event with a million dollar cast goes down in sports history as the battle of the big wind torrential rains and a fruitless struggle with par Colorful Jimmy Demaret the transplanted Texan now operating' out of Ojai Calif won Rich Races This Week At ARCADIA 4 Calif VP) Racing moves into high gear at Santa Anita this week with both Counterpoint 1951 horse' of the year and Hill Prince 1950 horse of the year slated to make their season debuts" race is Saturday's $20000 San Fernando Stakes at a mile and one-sixteenth for 4-year-olds the main stepping stone to the $200000 Maturity on Feb 2 Hill Prince is being primed for the co-feature on the card the $25000 San Carlos Handicap at seven furlongs and may "go coupled with Bryan G- PLAN TOURNEY TV CHICAGO VP) Indiana Iowa Ohio and Oklahoma plan to televise their state high school basketball tournaments 'this season Porter executive-secretary of the National Federation of state high school athletic associations currently holding its winter meeting said today that possibly more state cage meets will be telecast other than these four Rillito Races Rained Out Rillito race hbrse fans will see two straight days of racing starting Saturday i 10 race prograrp was postponed because of rain The same 10 races including the featured $500 -added Stallion Stakes will be run Saturday Another1 10 -event card is' on tap for the regular! Sunday schedule I 1 the abbreviated event yesterday With a 36-hole total of 145 It was a one-over-par figure Jimmy Damarat OJal Calif Art Ball San Francisco Doug Ford Harrison 75-70 14 -Jim Forrlar San Francisco 78-71 149 Al Breach Cardan City I 14 Bob oak I Northampton Mm Evorstt Goulard Burlingame Calif 77-73 150 John Barnum' Grand Rapids Mich Carl Stewart Jr Dallas Tax Lloyd Mangrum Nilas III -Al BaasaHnk Mount Clamant Mich I Vic Ghazzl Lang Island Harrison SL Andrews III Sherm Elworthy San Francisco Cary Middlacoff Memphis Ttnn John Revolts Evanston III Julius' Boros Mid Pines Marvin (Bud) Ward Grand Falla Mont Tod Krall Now Hartford -Smilsy Quick Los Angolas Byron Nelson Roanoke Tax HOGAN NEW FRO PALM SPRINGS Calif (ff) Appointment of Ben Hogan as golf professional at the new Tamarisk Country club here was announced last night by club President Anderson Pirates By- JOE RKICHLER NEW YORK VP) be Stir-prised if the Pittsburgh Pirates -open the 1952 season with a brand new rookie infield It would be Just like that old smoothie Branch Rickey to pull off such a stunt Remember 1951- when Rickey moved Ralph Kiner out of the outfield and installed him at first base? And he followed that tip by threatening to convert one Dale Long a first baseman Into a lefthanded catcher? So the opening day Pirate lineup next AprU should read something like-- this Dale Coogan first base Johnny Mer-toa second Just) JXcX SmltS 'New May Open With Combination 1 I for the Browns and Giants is back for another chance after capturing 21 games 'for St Petersburg in the class Florida inter- national league The Pirates believe they have a in 18-year-old center-fielder Bobby Del Grecoj a native Pittsburgher who spent two years in the Pirate farm systems Pel Greco opened the eyes of the top- brass in the special rookie camp in Deland Fla last October with his power at the plate and his strong arm and was immediately labeled "another Cart I 'boy Is the best center-field candidate in the Pittsburgh organization including tbs third base and Clem Koshorek shortstop you can mark it down as another bright" idea by the nimblest of all baseball brains Merson in particular appears certain to win a regular Job with the Pirates" Called up from Indianapolis last September and inserted the lineup a few hours after he reached Forbes the 24-year-old infioiripr Immediately impressed observers with his hitting and fielding In 13 games he batted 360 and committed but one error in 77 chances Smith also impressed in hla late season trial with the Blics s4 according to followed by two victories including a 2-0 one-hitter against Montgomery in the playoffs won him the promotion- i 1- I Other 1 hurlers include Royce Lint (11-11) Forrest Main (12-13)" Harry Fisher (6-9) Joe Muir (7-7) Fred Stroble (2-3) and Bob Curtis (2-3) all Indianapolis graduates Bill Koskl and Paul LaPalme who saw brief service with Pittsburgh last summer are back after further seasoning at New Orleans Paul Pettit the $100000 bonus baby is back for another look Pettit 'plagued by a -sore arm saw brief service with Charleston Clarence (Hooks) Iott the yeteran aoutbpour who pitched most poignant weakness last year undoubtedly was pitching! In 'an "effort to remedy this Rickey has brought up a dozen young hurlers The best of the group appear to be" Don Carlsen and Len Yochim both of whom received their baptism last September Carl-sen 24 won his first two starts for the Bucs1 He whipped the Cubs 4-2 and followed' with I a 3-2 win in 11 Innings over-the Phils Yochim 23-yearold lefthander made one start against the Braves last season and turned In a creditable performance A brilliant lid record with Charleston iii HIGH SCORING GUARD Joe Simpson Hardin-Simmons guard Is the second high scorer trailing captain Bill 149 points with 144 He stands 5 feet 11 inches and IS JUbiPfa' i i A iS rr- i a.