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ESIriitie JfFV Tfc' -4-- Three Appalachian League Teams Start Spring Training Appalachian Official Schedule LS Horse Johnson City Favored In Steeplechase Elizabeth ton9 Bristol Commence BRISTOL Va-Tenn March 30 (P) Spring training is the byword in the Class' Appalachian League this week as three clubs have already opened pre-season work and the remaining three are making preparations to get the ball rolling Johnson City Elizabethton and Bristol are already working and looking forward to intra-camp games are Welch Blue-field and Kingsport which will open up April 9 and after The clubs will continue at south- ern bases until just before the LONDON March 31 An American-owned horse appears almost certain to be the favorite for i the Grand National Steeplechase next Saturday for the first time since 1929 The public's choice is big well-bred Arctic Gold the proud six-year-old possession of New York millionaire Jock Whitney Some 40 to 45 other horses will be in the field of the hazardous Aintree Course of four miles 856 yards over 30 of the most treacherous jumps ever built They will include two former winners Freebooter from 1950 and Russian Hero from 1949 Only four other possible runners Rowland Roy Lucky Purchase Roimond and Revealed ever have completed the course Twenty-two years ago it was another Whitney horse Easter Hero which the public liked for this Crown Jewel of the jumping races Easter Hero win He spread a plate cut his foreleg and finished second to Gregalach a 100 to 1 shot which was sup- posed to have been scratched but I the letter never arrived Easter Hero tried again in 1931 His jockey was knocked off in a three-way collision five fences I from home The British call him the best horse that never won the national season gets underway Johnson City started first with Manager Ben Catchings putting his Cardinals through their first workout March 25 at Albany Ga Elizabethton now a farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies met Manager Johnny Davenport at Lauinburg NC March 27 Bristol Twins held their first workout under Skipper Russ Wein Friday March 30 at the New York Giant training base at Sanford La 800 Entered In Duck Pin Tournament BALTIMORE March 31 A month of flying balls and pint starts tomorrow with a record-breaking number of entries in- the 21st annual national duck pin bowling tournament Eight hundred teams will participate every day until April 29 for $20000 in prizes The previous record for team entries was 752 in 1949 at Norfolk Va Canadian bowlers including a strong team from the Windsor Club in Montreal is competing in the tourney for the first time Represented in the championships are 93 cities in the heart of the duekpin sport from Maine to Georgia When the firing is over champions will be crowned in team doubles singles and all-events There will also be prizes for men's and booster team and a new division for mixed teams In all 4000 bowlers will take clubs to open The report to Travis appointee to a April 9 at Myrtle Welch Miners now with Cincinnati start Mike Blazo April 10 SC and then under Manager arrive in St April 11 City with 29 players the opening bell is into shape and first intra-squad game Manager Catchings is a club made up newcomers to the circuit He has three trom the club which Hurling Corps Is Problem Oak Ridge Downs KHS Track Team the remaining Blue-Grays Jack-son latest managerial post Beach SC hooked-up things under at Columbia Kingsport Cherokees Jack Crosswhite Augustine Fla PLAY GAME Johnson answering already rounding planned its Sunday working with mostly of Appalachian returning finished third in the pennant their whacks at the small pins chase last year They are Gary represent Massachusetts Blaylock Jack Hepler and Jerry Connecticut Rhode Island Penn-Tollar all pitchers sylvania Maryland District of Co- lumbia Virginia West Virginia Elizabethton has a new set-up XT Georgia and North and South all the way through from the carojna source of players to the business end The Phillies are expected to flnm On give the newest addition to their Dai UCS JT ttl 4 THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Sunday April 1 1951 West All-Stars Defeat By Decisive 7 5-59 Score Skyline Conference Missouri Valley Big Seven and Pacific Coast Conference who cAnposed the West team simply had too much finesse and shooting ability for the east At one stage the East failed to score a field goal for nine THE OLD PROS Joe DiMaggio left and Johnny Mize right are being counted upon by Manager Cakey Stengel to lead the Yankee hit parade Their goal? Another pennant and another championship chain a pennant contender with some of the high priced players they have signed Bristol probably has the longest list of returning players in the league However many of these will get a crack at higher ball and still others may drop out of baseball for different reasons Among those greeting Russ Wein in the opening workout yesterday were Larry Barry and Dutch Van-dervliet pitchers A1 Majelik shortstop Joe Borrelli first base and Don Russell catcher who is a rookie but was in a Bristol uniform a few days last season Others slated tp return are Bill Wins Lincolnshire LINCOLN England March 31 'VP Barnes Park a rank outsider which hadn't won a race in almost two years captured the one-mile Lincolnshire handicap first big race of the English flat racing season today The five-year-old chestnut horse by Nasrullah out of a Battlestown paid 33 to 1 He beat Newton Heath a 40 to 1 shot by half a length with Streatley at 66 to 1 two lengths away French owned Aslromonte the 9 to 2 favorite never showed a thing and finished next to last in NEW YORK March 31 The West routed the East 75 to 59 tonight in the sixth annual collegiate all-star basketball game for the benefit of the Herald-Tribune fresh air fund It was the most decisive margin of victory in the six games and enabled the west to tie the series at three games apiece A Madison Square Garden crowd of 10431 saw the West coached by Phog Allen of Kansas take a 24-12 lead in the first ten minutes of play and dominate the game the rest of the way The players frcm the Big Ten Central Adds woOpponents To Grid Slate Two opponents Were added to the Central High School schedule for its 1951 footballers Virginia High of Bristol and Seviervllle were signed last week Coach Ed Osborne announced One open date remains on the slate Coach Osborne is seeking a foe for Oct 5 He intends to leave the Sept 7 date open The schedule: Aug 31 Bearden home Sept Open Sept 14 Virginia High there Sept 21 Sevierville home Sept 28 Oak Ridge home Oct 5 Game wanted Oct 12 Rule home Oct 19 Open Oct 26 Fulton at Evans-Collins Nov 9 East High home Nov 16 Open Nov 23 Young there Young and Harry Smith outfiled- the 35horse fieid ers Jean Desrochers Richie Lean- Tjme for the race on the soft dor and Whitey Rosier pitchers turf track was 150 15 and Roy Neill catcher THREE HOLDOVERS Bluefield will start with only three holdovers only one of whom Grklf Grant saw much action last year on the pennant winning club Don Baity Olid was struck in the head This might be Porterfield's season Joe Page the relief hurler so instrumental in the 1949 title drive but only a 3-7 performer last sen-son may be the pitching link the Yanks can regain this season got to do says Casey hopefully HOW MANAGER STENGEL SEES HIS YANKEES Pitching Need strength to win Catching Very Strong Infield Steady Outfield SU-ong Good Enough 1-2-3 Rookies getting the most early notice are Tom Morgan with Birmingham last season and Max Peterson whom the Yanks dratted from Toronto Either could make the grade Experienced pitchers who may hold the Yankee answer include Tom Ferrick who came to the club from the St Louis Browns last season to win eight while losing four- and Fred Sanford a 5-4 performer in 1950 There could be others The Yanks are carrying a long string of pitchers on their early spring roster By JACK STEVENSON AP N'cwilutlirti PHOENIX Ariz Chances of the New York Yankees taking their third straight world baseball title this season depend a lot on the men behind the front throwing line got to get some good pitching to win We have the power some of the other teams savs manager Casev Sten-! gel He worried about his first line flingers Vic Rascfii Ed Lopat Allie Reynolds and Tommy Byrne It is supplemental I help that could rrean the difference between fourth and first in the American League just tell about the pitch-I ing until the spring training is Stengel remarked Lost White Ford to the Army and rough to lose a man like that He won nine while losing only one after coming up from Kansas 1 City Then Stengel added a note to show that all was not pessimism He said if some of the others do show up well the team could be off than last The veteran pilot ran down a lengthy list ranging from a pair of rookies to the 35-year-old Bob Muncrief coming back to the ma-i jors after a year at Los Angeles where he won 15 and lost 17 A man who could make the difference is Bob Porterfield He looked great when called up in 1948 but developed elbow trouble the following year and last season MERIDEN Conn March 31 fP) Funeral services for Jerome Travers 64 one of the great names in golf will be held here Monday Travers a four-time winner of the National Amateur Tournament and once victor in the US Open died yesterday at his home in East Hartford In recent years he hid been an inspector in an aircraft plant there OAK RlDGE March Oak Ridge High School rolled over Knoxville state track team on Blankenship Field this afternoon routing the Trojans 75 V4 to 568 The victory was surprisingly easy for Ben Martin's Wildcats who outdid Knoxville in the mile and 880 runs the mile and two-mile relays high jump pole vault broad jump and javelin Outstanding trackmen for the Ridgers were Hal Blalock Gene Gardner Doug Howell Jack Horton Don Lynch and Bob Parsons George Christensen of Knoxville High garnered IIV4 points to take individual scoring honors Knoxville and Oak Ridge have both entered teams in next Knoxville Relays at Evans-Collins Field TRACK EVENTS High Hhea 'K' Cruse K) Walker 1 OR 172 100-vard Christensen K' Gnl- fith (OR Jameson 'K 10 5 Blalock 'OR' Gamble I Kyi Rfccc 1 OR 4:555 WMM-elay Knoxville Jameson Taylor Christensen' 1:358 Gardner (OR1 Taylor Ki 53 8 Low hurdles '180 Rhea IK' 1 Moss OR' Cruze iK' 528 880 run Horton 'OR Parsons (OR Humphries 'Ki 2:11 "20 dash Christensen 'K1 Jameson (Hi High I OR' 236 Mile Oak Ridge by defaut Two-mile relay Oak Ridge Blalock Knoivlie Hodges Oak Ridge 54 Pole Parsons 'OR' 1 feet Cornet 'OR' 9' Roach Mc- Cowan 'Ki tied for third 9 Broad Lynch and Moss lORJ tied for first Vemer 'OB' third 17 3 Lynch 'OR' 133 feet two inches: Jameson 'K 130 feet -four lnshot: u-Hra)lK'K' 42 feet ten inches Spears 'OR' 40 feet Phillips tOR' 37 feet seven inches Heffner 'Ki 115 feef six and Yol Baseball Team On Road For 4 Games BIRMINGHAM March 3 1 "University of Tennessee tennis team after dropping the first two matches roared from behind to defeat Birmingham Southern 4-3 here this afternoon The Vol netmen began their upsurge after John Cullum had been defeated by Jack Chapman and Bill Davis had fallen before Wade Herron the sixthranking amateur The results: SINGLES Wade Herron (BS) beat Bill Davis 6-1 3-6 6-4 Jack Chapman (BS)) beat John Cullum 6-0 8-6 Cavin Gentry (T) beat West Noves 8-6 7-9 6-2 Tom Bartlett (T) beat Jim Pop-well 6-1 6-0 Charles Tarver (T) beat Fred Rock 6-1 6-1 DOUBLES Davis-Cullum (T) beat Herron-Popwell 6-1 8-6 6-4 Chapman-Noyes (BS) beat Bart-lett-Gentry 8-6 7-5 4- Teams Advowee In Handball Meet Quarter-final matches in the city handball tournament were heid last night at the YMCA The semi-finals are set for Wednesday and the finals will be held Saturday Last ryght's results: Clapp and Tate beat Shanton and Murray 21-6 21-7 Cantor and Akard beat Canger and Macey 21-15 20-21 21-9 Geisler and AndYe beat Spitzer and Kirby 21-13 21-13 Wins The YMCA volleyball team defeated Atlas Boot Co Cookeville last night 15-8 15-8 5-15 15-6 16-14 15-8 Reds Have Good Boxers Swede Says STOCKHOLM March 31 No other nation can match Russia in smart and efficient training of amateur boxers a well known Swedish boxing instructor told the Associated Press today Arthur Koch veteran international ring referee and trainer of Sweden's National Boxing Team thought the Russians could win three or four titles if they appear at the European championships tournament in Milan May 14-20 years of experience in the world of fistic sports never gave me more thrilling proofs of physically well-shaped boxers than a tour of the International Russian Boxing Team in Sweden last Koch said Rusians were extremely fast and hard-hitting From the first tiOW until the 10-and-out for their opponents most of the lights ended that way the pace was set by the Russians The Swedes managed to win only two 1 of a long row of matches in several Swedish Koch con-j tinued training seldom duces such strangeth and speed Amateur boxers simply never can afford the sort of long-time training you need to that end Only professionals can spend months building the body for a fight a matter of fact 1 doubt the Russians should be called ama-i teurs My opinion is that these boxers probably spend most of their time in a gymnasium not in a factory to earn their living TMI Defeats Baylor At Track SWETWATER March Bill Standeffer led the TMI track team in winning their first meet i of the season over Baylor at TMI today The score was 65 (2 to 568 Standeffer was high for TMI 1 racking up 16 points by taking first place in the hundred yard dash 220 dash 440 dash and on the winning relay team Malcolm Duncan was high point for Baylor with a total of 21 points TMI goes to Chattanooga April 7 for the Baylor relays 1 1 mi dith Standeffer iTMII Geedlew 18) 8-8 Standeffer (TMI) Geedlew (El Wright (TMI) 440 Standeffer (TML Daria B) Gandy 555 Kxti Tweed (TMI) Patterson Weldon Mile Carson (TMI) Patterson (B Dasher (TMI) Cow Voraa (B) Scott Meal J78 High Hurdles tie Duncan (B and Kelly B) tie third Veras (B) Stillion 'shot -Smith (TMI) Haygood Rolle (B) IS ft 5 in Smith (TMI) Price (TMI) Trantham 108 ft 3 in Pole Vault Dunean (B) Stallion I (TMI) tie Kelley (B) Patterson (B) i 10 ft in Javelin Tweed (TMI) Dunean (B) Walker 140 It in High Jump Duncan (B) Stallion (TMD Barks 5 ft 3 dn Broad Jump tie Stallion (1MI) Dunean (B) Weldon (TMI) 880 TMI (team: Wright Jenkiaa Dyer Standeffer) Cubs 11 5 Indians 8 UtSvN Ariz iviarcll 31 (VP) Four Chicago Cub home runs made the difference in a slugging contest the Cubs won today from the Cleveland Indians 11-8 Carmen Mauro broke an 8-8 deadlock in the seventh with an inside-the-park homer Then in the eighth the Cubs got two more round-trippers from reliefer Jesse Flores First baseman Dee Fondy pounded one over left field and left fielder Hank Sauer hit his second of the game first homer came off Bob Feller who yielded eight runs on 11 hits in six innings That homer accounted for three of five runs Sauer knocked in during the afternoon Outfielder Harry Simpson with a double and two singles and four runs batted in paced the Tribe attack along with Dale Mitchell who got three singles in four trips Braves Fall Before Atlanta 4-0 ATLANTA March 31 UP) A pair of rookie righthanders fresh from the Class Interstate League pitched the Atlanta Crackers to a five-hit 4-0 victory over the parent Boston Braves team tonight Howard Anderson and Joe Reardon fashioned the shutout with Anderson going seven innings The Southern Association Crackers collected all their runs off Charley Gorin and Art Fowler former teammates They broke the ice in the fifth inning on outfielder Frosty single an infield out and a double by catcher A1 Aucoin Fowler was clipped for a run 1 in the sixth on a successful bunt a walk and an error by Braves shortstop Buddy Kerr The Crackers then got to him for two earned markers in the seventh Bob two doubles were about all the big leaguers accomplished during the event Ike Williams Fights Pruden CHICAGO March 31 Lightweight champion Ike Williams will substitute for ailing Billy Graham in a 10-rounder against welterweight Fitzie Pruden at the Chicago Stadium April 11 the International Boxing Club announced today The Illinois State Athletic Commission approved the revamped bout after IBC President Jim Nor-i ris completed signing of Williams at Montreal where Detroit Red Wings' are facing the Montreal Canadians in the Stanley Cup I hockey playoffs Graham has been sidelined by an attack of virus pneumonia the IBC announced yesterday Pruden is a promising welter contender after recent wins over Tony Ja-niro Beau Jack and Jim Carter Williams and Pruden previously had been booked to fight at New York March 16 but the bout was postponed until March 23 and then cancelled because of a series of mishaps catcher is the only returning regular Others who weer in a Blue-Gray uniform a year ago and will report to Skipper Jackson are Roger Carver second-string backstop and Clarence Hrabos in-filder who played in 10 games Welch working with the Cincinnati Reds this year after being left out by the Philadelphia Athletics will possibly have only one regular from last year wearing a Miner suit Kemball Umbaek first sacker is still listed on the roster which opens at Columbia Jack Crosswhite is going all-out to give Kingsport a flag winner and will find seven holdovers from last season riding the bus to St Augustine with him These are Ned Jilton and Billy Johnson pitchers: Jim Watkins Don Williamson and Tommy Valdez infielders Powell King outfielder who for the past two seasons has broken a leg in the early stages and been out for the remainder of the games and Art Billie ity infielder apd outfielder MANY VETERANS Then the Cherokees will have Paul Musselman and Hugh Ham-mel both from last Elizabethton club: Leo (Muscle) Shoals former Appalachian League home run king and Johnny Roatche ex-Bristol player who hit 348 in his last season 1948 Crosswhite has also picked up several players Yqung Jockey Injured In Spill LINCOLN England March 31 (VP) Fifteen year old Lester Pig-gott widely hailed as England's best young jockey suffered a fractured collar bone in a fall at the Lincoln Race Course today from the Tobacco States League of last year With all the reports coming in from the already opened camps and similar stories concerning the possibilities of the clubs yet to start work it looks like the Ap-plachian will be well-balanced An interesting note is that all the managers in the circuit are expreinced although only two have been in the league before this season Davenport piloted the Salina Club in the Western Association last year Catchings at Johnson City is starting his third season at that post Crosswhite has been at New River and Elizabethton before going to Kingsport this Vear Win at Bristol has been at Ogdensburg in the Border League for the past three years Jackson of Bluefield has been in baseball since 1922 and Blazo comes to Welch from Muncie of the Ohio-Indiana loop 4 Your Life Spared Alabama Downs Ole Miss 4-0 OXFORD Miss March 31 (UP) Alabama crashed the Southeastern Conference win column today with a 4 to 0 baseball victory over University of Mississippi The Tide called on the airtight pitching of A1 Worthington and Bill Dunn to hand Ole Miss its first defeat in five games and revenge loss Mike Mizeranyand Earl Martin were credited with driving in all four Alabama runs Score By Innings: Alabama 101 101 9 1 Ole Miss 000 000 5 2 Worthington Dunn (8t and Napoli: Dupuy Switzer (5) and Ott: winning pitcher Worthington: losing pitcher Dupuy Irish To Play Detroit Gridders DETROIT March 31 lP Notre Dame signed today for what is be-i lieved to be its first night football 1 game as it agreed to play the I University of Detroit here on Fri-j day October 5 The game one of the athletic features of 250th birthday celebration this year will be played at either of Stadium or Briggs Stadium of Athletic Director Earl (Dutch) Clark said Briggs Stadjum would be used unless the game conflicts with World Series dates of the Detroit Tigers win the American League pennant ARCADIA Calif March 31 r-'P) Everyone it seemed including the horse seemed happy today that Your Host had been given an indefinite stay of execution Condemned to die by one group of veterinarians who said the horse was a hopeless cripple suffering intense pain the high priced California four year old was spared by the edict of others who stoutly maintain that he is not suffering unduly and that he can be saved to reproduce his I kind The horse's right front leg i was broken in a bad spill Jan 13 of London which held a $250000 insurance policy and the owner wealthy movie executive William Goetz agreed to terms by which will pay Goetz $250000 and take possession of the horse FBI WUl Enter Search For Hill DETROIT March 31 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to look for David Jonathon Hill University of Michi-j gan football player from Ypsilanti Mich as a draft evader Hill a Negro halfback was accused by Selective Service officials of ignoring three notices from his draft board Hill was left behind when the University of Michigan football team went to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl game and expressed bitter disappointment He vanished after telling his parents he was going to Pasadena to watch the game but is known to have visited relatives in Montreal Jan 3 The company insisting he can be brought around for stud plan to remove Your Host from his 1 barn at Santa Anita Park within the next few days shipping him to a ranch for further treatment In agreeing however Goetz and the company still disagreed Dr Frank noted veterinarian and head of this branch at Kansas State College in his recommendation to said that while Your Host is in some pain it is sufficient at this time to warrant He said he believes he can be cured for stud purposes Gehrmann 9 Wilt To Renew Feud LAWRENCE Kas March 31 (VP) i Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt currently the two top milers will renew their xunning feud in I the 26th Kansas relays here April 21 Meet Director Bill Caston said Wilt former Indiana ace now serv-i ing with the FBI in New York had accepted in writing Gehrmann the erstwhile Wisconsin star has given verbal assurance he will compete The pair will be matched in the Glenn Cunningham mile the relays feature Gehrmann has copped this race twice in a row tying the record in 1949 with a 4:101 per formance Last year he outran a five-man field in 4:164 North Texas Blaine rideout is the co-holder of the meet mark If Gehrmann wins this year he will be the first to cop three in a row at the relays NOTICE WE ARE MOVING TO OUR New Temporary Location AND WILL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL AT OUR NEW TEMPORARY LOCATION 307 SOUTH GAY STREET Monday April 2nd IS ASD SEE THE WONDERFUL Clothing Store 213 SOUTH GAY STREET Image Wins At Lincoln LINCOLN I March 31 Sickle's Image Clarence three year old filly came home a length and a half ahead of Mt Desert Klimie today to win the $1800 Hope Valley Purse before 25000 at Lincoln I Downs Show went to I Beaming Light a nose back of Klimie Image paid $260 $240 and $220 and her time for the five furlongs was 100 15 Klimie returned $580 and $460 with Beaming Light paying $540 Image took the lead at the start and fought off an early challenge by Beaming Light The filly was forced again in the run to the finish as Klimie came up fast The daily double paid $4820 to 1238 ticket holders combining Dave 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