The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 13

IS THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL TliunJay July 10 1958 Players Defend enate Hear in Top A SHOEMAKER WASHINGTON July 9 Stengel took an hour off lor discourse with US Senators today and told them conduct is impeccable Stengel the noted banker oil-conversationalist and man- Why Kefauver wanted to know did baseball magnates want this bill passed if the Supreme Court already has held the sport immune from antitrust laws? Stengel said I imagine to keep committee has heard numerous witnesses refuse to talk for fear of incrimination themselves Stengel did not take the Fifth Amendment He talked at length hitting into all fields at once ager of the New York Yankees say exactly that In testimony that never trapped him between bases the gravelvoiced winner of American League pennants declared baseball is run better than ever man who goes out has Close baseball going as high as baseball is as a sport they have gone Into baseball and from the baseball Kefauver turned the questioning over to another senator Stengel also made it partly clear that: The Yankees win games we have the spirit of to put into the ball Other teams may hate the Yankees but the Yankees help them break attendance records Baseball is much better off than when he made 3135 a month playing for a bush league outfit (He now takes in something like 580000 a year) Baseball is the most honest profession there is Minor league baseball has outgrown itself but good minor leaguers always have a chance to rise to the majors tiyvh crttw times by club another He is a very clear Carroll observed Going over his own 48 years in baseball the Yankee raconteur referred to the time he drew 5135 a month in the minors thought it was amazing enough money to go to dental Baseball however seemed more profitable than dentistry so he returned to the diamond And speaking of the big money now available to promising young players Stengel said he visited recently with a group of businessmen on a holiday told them all while they were drinking they ought to go home and be raising more children because clubs now give you a 5100000 bonus for a Stengel said Mrs Stengel and I have any children I wish we had eight and put them in on that bonus Fischer Arrives BELGRADE July 9 CT US chess champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn arrived here today to prepare for the world chess tournament in Portoroz North Yugoslavia He plans to remain in Yugoslavia until then playing against Yugoslav masters in warmup matches Peter Roberts of Lake Forest El is an active table tennis player at 83 a better home than when he went Stengel said in one of his more direct statements The 70-year-old Yankee pilot appeared before the Senate anti-monopoly subcommittee which is considering a House-passed bill to give pro baseball football basketball and hockey sweeping exemption from anti-trust laws Stengel was only one of an illustrious lineup of witnesses Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox Mickey Mantle of the Yanks and Stan Musial of the St Louis Cards came over from All Star game in Baltimore to put in a plug for reserve clause its draft and other practices that some lawmakers have termed monopolistic Robin Roberts of the Phillies and Eddie Yost of the Washington Senators chief spokesmen for major league players in their dealings with club owners also testified Mantle was asked whether he thought there should be any limit on the reserve clause that ties a player to a particular club think about these things he said Both Williams and Musial testified that if they were starting their baseball careers all over they would do exactly as they have done The men are happy and satisfied with the way baseball is Williams said The baseballers drew the larg est audience within memory to the subcommittee headed by Sen Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) More than 300 men women and autograph-seeking children overflowed into the hallway outside the same hearing room in which the Senate rackets investigating one or once discharged himself In Japan are trying to play baseball over there with small Sen Joseph (D-Wyo) said many fans are earning to believe organized baseball straight down the middle and putting with deadly accuracy fired a third-round 77 today to win the Tennessee Jaycees Junior golf tournament The 16-year-old from Jackson carded a 39-38 over the par 36- rather them being wholesome en- Okeena golf course to win by two strokes over 12-year-old Mike Malarkey of Chattanooga score for the 54-hole tourney was 76-77-77 230 Malar-key posted a John Pepin of Memphis also finished with 232 but lost second tertainment a gigantic com mercial enterprise that want to be regulated by the laws of But as to manager Stengel commented: is the best entertainment we have had here for a long Mantle homer-hitting muscleman stopped the subcommittee short when he announced his views just about the same as Kefauver said he would be I happy for Mantle to define Cas- CASEY TALKS BALL PLAYERS SIGN AUTOGRAPHS Casey Stengel manager of the New York Yankees yesterday testifies before a Senate subcommittee considering a bill to exempt professional sports from anti-trust laws Meanwhile a group of youngsters ignore words to collect auto- graphs from ball players Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox is behind Stengel' Stan Musial of the St Louis Cardinals is signing a card next row (AP Wirephoto) 1 MOVE IT YOURSELF Rent a TRUCK from place to Malarkey in a sudden death playoff Gibby Gilbert of Chattanooga won fourth place with a score of 81-74-80 235 The top four finishers will compete in the nationals at Tucson Aug 18-23 Fh 2-5825 or 3-6005 I xJ In CLUB VICTORIA THUNDERBIRD GNGtMB Jam Ed Morgan who captured a daylight bandit Tuesday on Magnolia Avenue said afterwards that the man apparently made no effort to escape 1 Maybe he recognized his pursuer and 1 realized that flight would be futile Morgan was one of the fastest smoothest-moving wingbacks the University of Tennessee has ever had As a member of the 1950-51-52 varsities he belonged to three bowl squads and the only national championship (1951) outfit the school has produced In 1950 sophomore season the Vols won 10 and lost one in the regular campaign and then defeated Texas 20-14 Anderson jn the Cotton After chalking up 10 vie tories in 1951 the Orange succumbed to Maryland in the Sugar 13-28 Throughout those two grinds Morgan served as Bert understudy A tragedy of outstanding team-success is that inevitably a few truly great performers have to take back seats to mates a little more gifted or more firmly established (Witness Babe Wood Joe Wallen Herky Payne et aL) Of the future criminal-catcher a 1952 appraisal said: Ed 22 6-1 190 senior offensive wingback from Hendersonville was understudy for the past two years has vastly improved his blocking very fast and shifty excellent reverse runner has an average of 71 yards per try last season capable of going all the way on every try adequate pass receiver will see plenty of action this vear runs the dashes on the track team Physical Education 1 The team was tied by Kentucky and beaten by Duke but received an invitation to return to the Cotton nonetheless There the Longhorns got revenge 16-0 That game ended college capering It also rang down the curtain on the career of one of the most famous and successful gridiron mentors ever Gen Ney-land Illness almost prevented Neyland from taking a driect hand in the Dallas spectacle and not long later he turned over the coaching reins to Harvey Robinson Memory insists that top single exploit came the afternoon he tore loose for 40-some-odd yards to set up a touchdown that conquered the then mighty Crimson Tide of Alabama His capture on Magnolia sounded infinitely easier The records show that after he departed from eligibility UT suffered several years of famine insofar as the wingback reverse was concerned Nobody could make it click As for the man who bowed out with Ed General Robert Reese hate to be a robber emerging from a bank just as he happened to be standing or walking within reaching range He used to pack a wallop that could spreadeagle an elephant Chances are that even today he could kayo a healthy young mule A letter: you wrote that probably for the first time in boxing history not a single championship is held by a white American Just who are the present Floyd Patterson heavyweight Archie Moore light heavyweight -Ray Robinson middleweight Virgil Akins welterweight Joe Brown lightweight Hogan Bassey featherweight Alphonse Halimi bantamweight and Pascual Perez flyweight Almost as many reasons have been advanced for the dearth of good pugilists as have been fingered as causing the gradual demise of bush league baseball I just thought of a new one In the olden days when there was an abundance of classy scrappers most of them were products of the squalid tenement sections of big cities 1 Many of our great Jewish and Irish boxers came from impoverished families in the jungles of New York and Chicago and San Francisco and New Orleans Today our slum urchins apparently regard fists as sissy weapons that do not permit a young bum properly to express his personality and prove that he is somebody The way go get ahead in is to make use of a zip-gun switch blade blackjack tire iron or sawed-off billiard cue From behind is the approved modus operandL irony in the fact that baseball is losing customers to such stuff as fishing bowling hunting swimming and Westerns John Tarleton students seem in for quite a shindig tomorrow night at the wrestling matches at Chilhowee Park Roy Brown of Bakery is baking a 20-pound birthday cake for Dick Beyer a principal in the main event The wrestler has invited the students to at tend the show as his guests and share with him the huge cake And Pat Roddy has promised to provide free Coca-Colas for the party sermon says it is from honest I like sack dresses i Because They hide most all of My flaws 1 mv A REQUIRED BE PRESENT MO MOT PURCHASE HAVE 1 YOU DO TO WIN DRIVE IN AND REGISTER OFTEN AT THESE Friday Mat Principal Holds Seventh Ranking ex a a ul a ln) rn UJ jj3 A AUEA I George Strickland the Seattle heavyweight make his Knoxville bow Friday night at Chilhowee Park is the seventh ranking contender for the championship Although about 30 and the veteran of a number of years in the ring this will be initial tour of this ter- ritory His serv- Ices have been In too great de- mand in the 1 larger cities I His opponent 1 here wiH be Chris Zaharias no tyro himself The youngest of the a a rias brothers is about 41 and STRICKLAND has won all seven of his local assignments Their struggle will be the semiwindup to a southern tag team championship rumble between the incumbents Len Rossi and Dick Beyer and the Gallagher brothers Doc and Mike The brothers are from Ireland They have packed arenas In other sections including New York Philadelphia and Baltimore Doc is billed as a licensed chiropractor That means sure to go in for nerve massaging and such tactics The opener wall pit Tito Romero against A1 Smith in a one-fall event 'I look for the biggest crowd of the outdoor said matchmaker John Cazana card promises action from start to Vol Football Ducats Ready University of Tennessee football season tickets are ready for delivery publicity director Gus Manning said yesterday Fans who have not made arrangements to have the tickets mailed may stop by the Athletic Department for them BRING 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