Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 9

KINGSPORT TIMES-NEW3 Sunday April IMS Tribe Infielders Outfielders To Report 1948 Mountain States League Schedule MincyPlans Squad Clashes This Week By ROY ELKIN ft Time -News bports Editor After a week of workouts limited to catchers and pitchers and affected to a noticeable degree by foul weather Cherokee spring training tomorrow swings into high gear as around 20 to 25 infield and outfield candidates report to Manager Red Mincy at Fred Johnson Park The new candidates' workouts as in the case of the first group reporting last week will be on the "soft- side for the first omen Golf Tournament Starts Monday couple of days but by Wednesday or Thursday Mincy and his assistant Chlaox Scout Joe O'Rourke plan to begin lengthened daily practice sessions which will Include several innings of regulation competition Officially 20 new players are Schedule For Lee Baseball Loop Revealed St Charles Va (SpL The Lee County High School Baeebail Conference opened Us 1948 season Friday with aeven of tha county's eight major schools participating All eight schools however wVU participate In the big field day program at tha conclusion of tha conference and school year on May 29 at Pennington Cap Schools participating in tha baseball conference are Thomas Walker Jonesvlils Flatwoods Pena Ington Cap Drydea St Charles and Keokes lacker ate did not enter because ef Inadequate facilities and not enough boys to compose a strong competitive ulna All teams will plsy one game week which will be scheduled on afternoons each Friday Title Game Set The field day attractions will In elude the championship baseball ball game which will be played between the two top teams of the conference standing Also there will be a full program of outstanding track events starting which will Include discus shot put 100 220 and 410 yard dashea a mile race broad jump high jump 80 yard dash for girls throw for girls and boys and many other events with medals going to first sad second places In each event The winning baseball team In the championship game will receive a county championship pennant for IMS The conference schedule: Friday April 18 JonecviHe at Keokee St Charles at Flatwoods Pennington at Dryden Friday April 23 Thomas Walker at Jonetvllle: Dryden at SC Charles Pennington at Keokee Friday April 30 St Charles at Jonesvllle: Keokee at Thomas Walker Flatwoods at Dryden Friday May Flatwoods at JonesrUle Thomas Walker at Pennington Drydea at Keokee Friday May 14 Jonesvllle at Pennington SC Charles at Thomas Walker Keokee at Flatwoods Fridsy May 21 Jonesvllle at Dryden Thomas Walker at Flat-woode Pennington at SC Charles My Is Winner hir: Jamaica New York JF Jockey EJ2I a Arcaro requested Bea WhitsJt sta My Request to run Saturday -eind the result was a smashing TSvw length victory ever ecvea tther Kentucky Derby eligible la tha experimental handicap Na Lst Jamaica It was tha second stralgtt Tht-urday that tha three yesrald chestnut son ef Requested smothered his field and left tha flashy colt one to be reckoned with ta the classics to come A crowd of 48083 mads My Request the even money favorite and be never disappointed his backers -as he turned on tha beat leaving tha back stretch and fairly romped to the wire tiro lengths in-tha via My Request definitely sbeveaj skeptics that he could travel T-e-tanee and still win aomethtag ha couldn't do an a two-ysar-oid--TWa experimental was a mile aadbne sixteenth and My Request handed it la 1:48 1-3 Ha paid and $179 across tha board Long Shet Xs Second -Z Just as a long shot came along to grab second money last week another did this time wbeaSal Price Headleys Pennon feikotd My Request trader tha wire Ffa-non a flop la his California waster season where be eras sixth to wru-liam Hells Salmagundi la boCLlha Saa Vincente and Santa A tn Derby paid hla few admirers 'at Jamaica $33439 to piece Joe Brown's Rtverlana tho $1769 piano colt last Saturday eras third two lengths back of Pennon and cue-half length before AL Jaeobeon's Big Dud Salmagundi who went off at threo to one shocked hla admirers by running seventh meet of tha way then dropping back to dead last My Request who collected! $1-000 Saturday after banking $14-400 la tha first experimental must be regarded as a serious Derby contender Pinehurst JP The 4th annual North and South womens golf tournament opens a five-day stand here Monday At least four of the seven members of the Curtis Cup team that will invade England late next month will be among the entries Louise Suggs of Li this Springs Ga National Champion and her Cup teammate Grace Lenczyk Newington Conn Estelle Lawson Page Chapel Hill and veteran captain Mrs Edwin Vare Jr Marion Pa tha former Gienna Collett head tha list of early an trants Other Cup squad members Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta Polly Riley Fort Worth Tex and Dorothy Kielty of Los Angeles may be added starters Louise Suggs Favored In the absence of tbe 1947 eh am plon Babe Dldrikson Zaharies sines turned professional Miss Suggs has been installed- as favorite She won here In 1948 and 42 beating Mrs Page 1 up each time Mrs Page has taken this event seven times one more than Mrs Vare whose last victory came in 193a In addition to the cup performers nationally known players entered include Carol Diringer Tlf fin Ohio: Jean Hopkins Cleveland Peggy Kirk Findlay Ohio Mar jorie Lindsay Decatur I1L Ruth Woodward Fall River Mass and Mrs riatt Jr formerly of Dayton who has been playing very well since coming to Pinehurst some time ago Match Flay Tuesday After Mondays 18-hole qualifying play the field will move Into match play Tuesday with the IS-hole final act for Friday Should the size of the field warrant the top 32 will qualify for match play making for two rounds Tuesday to get down to quarter-finals Wednesday Otherwlss the top 18 only will move into Tuesdays first round match competition expected in uniform tomorrow but the group may be swelled by the addition of a few local performers Outfielders to join the squad include Tom Arvanltls of Chicago Colin Boyd of Virden 111 Jack Beuknecht of Saginaw Mich George Gavella of Kingston Pa Fred Moeller of Muskegon Heights Mich William Mullen of Cardale Pa Francis O'Shaughnessy of Philadelphia and Richard Stand-aert of Chicago Maler Not Expected Infielders expected are Louis Fuoco of Chicago Tom Guinta of Chicago Ivan Hominky of Dunbar Pa Richard Isenhour of Lebanon Ind Paul Kahlcr off Nazareth Pa William Mead of Oak Park III Mayford Nelson Edward Packamovltch of Kingston Pa Kenneth Sampson of Elmwood Park 111 Gerald Wizorek of ilonla Mich and Reed Maler of Arlington Va Maier is a holdover from last season He originally reported last Monday a week early but de dared he had decided not to play this season It is considered un likely that he will return Nelson is the only first baseman included in the group but one area player Charles Ford of Gray's St tion has -been working out the past few with the squad and plays that position Ford has experience with San Diego Naval Station Ilurlers Looking Good Four of the Inficldero are second basemen four are shortstops and only one William Mead is a third baseman Paul Lucas former Sullivan atar is a likely third base candidate however So far Mlncya would-be pitchers have been showing up well With 18 tossers in camp the red head must devote much time to watching in order to pick youths with the best stuff Few of the mound prospects have been permitted to show anything yet but with the opening of general drills Mincy is expected to turn bis tossers loose Only four or five of the lingers had worked out previously to reporting here and consequently those have made the most progress Olenlcxok Is Fast Particularly impressive have been Roman Oleniczak Jim Collins Bill Smith and Gene Howell Collins and Smith were signed by Mincy at Hot Springs Howell is a hold over with spring training in Florida as a Chattanooga Lookout while Oleniczak is a Milwaukee product who managed to limber up his flip- Fitz Spares Injured Horse Gets Good One New York (NEA) "Thats my broken-legged horse" says Jim Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct Tha bay colt by Snark named Buoyancy broke hie leg last spring He pulled up lame after a workouc An X-ray showed a fracture of the big bone high la the hind leg I hste to destroy a horse" ex- plained Sunny Jim Fltzriomees so era rigged trp a sling Tha boys around tha barn spent a lot ef time nursing him Ha wea ta the ssg for almost threo months but ho was a good patient and he's all right now When Buoyancy start a It wQ bo In the allks of Mr Fits himself Wheatley Stable made him a gift of the horse after he had saved him Denotes Sundays Four Clubs Of New League To Open Practice By VIRGIL QWACKS St Charles Va Another hundred potential bis leaguers will ramble to the training fields throughout tne Mountain States League Monday as the curtain rises on spring rehearsals in four of the six league cities Newport Morristown Oak Ridge and Pennington Gap will inaugu- rate spring training while Jenkins will raise the curtain on Thursday April 15th Harlan however has riot named a definite opening date because of constant delays in the construction of its new playing field They will likely get started by next week end however even If training must be done on a foreign field Newport and Morristown have named their managers for the year John Toncoss of Palatka Florida who was purchased from the Flor- Ida State League will pilot the I Newport Canners as a playing man ager He is a catcher Texas League Product Griggs of Dallas Texas has been secured to pilot the Morris town' club Griggs halls from the Texas League and is a catcher Oak Ridge Harlan Pennington Gap and Jenkins named their pilots several weeks ago Newport has done some light workouts this week but will get into hjgh gear Monday with from 10 to 15 men reporting Morristown will have about twen- ty men on the field and Penning ton Gap plana to have from 15 to 20 to start off on the opening day Bob Broome of Oak Ridge says he will have from 20 to 25 good pros pects on Club some MtUmarnTnlcent the field Monday morning rifle CLUB WINS GUN MEET Here are the members of the Rifle and Pistol Club which won the recent shoot at Greensboro Left td right George Pierce Barnes Ted Frits Hodges A Sine Smith and Frank Cannoy On the desk are the trophies brought back from Greensboro (Staff Photo by Ellis Binkley) ffM-BMES mM Rifle Pistol Club Winner Of Event per on his own time before coming here Oleniczak has been drawing the most attention He posseses a dazzling fast ball and Is one of thoes performers so dearly loved by managers a portsider None of the catchers have stood out so far but It must be remembered that they have yet to do anything other than catch pitching practice They've done little hitting so far Jock Sutherland Undergoes Emergency Brain Operation Pittsburgh Dr John (Jock) Sutherland famed football coach Saturday underwent an emergency brain operation described by physicists as so serious anything could happen coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers The surgery was ordered as the Localed Hex! To TriCilies Airport Sunday April 11 2:30 The Kingsport Rifle and Pistol has added a couple of new trophies to its collection thanks to accurate shooting at the re- Greensboro small bore of the National Football League suffered a physical expanding lesion in the brain and Monday afternoon who will be -ready to show manager Hobe Brum-mitt their talents Pittsburgh Dr John Sutherland famed football coach was reported In extremely critical condition hut night after submitting to his second brain operation of the day Dr Sutherlands condition Is grave said one of the attending physicians He added that Dr Sutherland has a brain tumor discovered in a preliminary operation late Saturday afternoon A Cool Pair! competition Two big trophies were won while more than a score smaller medals were retired by the members as Hobe Plays Tribe (they swept to victory in the big Oak Ridge has three exhibition event games scheduled with Appalachian The Kingsport team defeated League Clubs Oak Ridge will play Norfolk Va to win the team title Elizabetbton at Elirabethton on and the Phipps Trophy Kingsports April 25 the Kingsport Cherokees score was 2890x3200 while Nor at Kingsport April 27 and will meet folk's score was just one point less Kingsport at Oak Ridge April 28 The Sarles Trophy which is Pennington Gap has two exhibi- awarded to teams composed of four tions They win play the Kingsport members was won by Brown Cherokees at Pennington Gap April A Sine Hodge and 21 and return the game to Kings Barnes The Phipps award went to port the following night Brown with 57 consecutive Jenkins is very busy reconstruc- ios ting its park and playing field and More than 60 gun fans partial so far has some tentative schedules pated in the Greensboro event an with semi-pro clubs They how-1 annual affair BRAXB SUMMER WORSTEDS His condition was diagnosed after the 59-year-old grid tutor was flown here from Paducah Ky Dr William Weaber attending psysl cian said: Dr Sutherland is desperately 11L The situation Is very serious Steeler football officials were told to remain in town because of Dr Sutherlands serious condition A Steeler spokesman said: When we asked the doctors just exactly how bad Jocks condition was they told us wa were lucky to get him back to Pittsburgh alive" Found In Countryside Dr Grunnagle performed the operation here assisted by Dra Floyd Bragdon and Harold Mitchell Dr Sutherland's sister-in-law Mrs William Sutherland was surgical nurse (See COACH Page 8-A) Trophies are held for a year then put back into competition Members of the meet-winning Kingsport team were George Pierce Hodges Kenneth Smith Stacii Brown A Sine Ted Fritz Barnes Charles Palmer and Frank Cannoy TOOK HIM LITERALLY New York When Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers complained about his fountain pen while riding a bus Pete Reiser tossed it out the ever will be in full swing for the opener on May 1 Spending $40000 Harlan is busy spending $40000 on a new stadium on Skidmore field on the highway to Lee County four miles east of the city of Harlan They are installing lights at a cost rof $10500 A $17000 steel stand and bleachers a fence and by the time it is completed they will have on of the finest fields In Class ball Every club In the league la spending considerable money on the complete reconstruction of their playing fields to meet with neces-1 1 sary requirements in pro baseball The Pennington Miners who have fifteen players signed have added another Conn Holman fireball semi-pro pitcher has signed with 'manager Joe Santomaure and has already reported for operations Much interest is evident through-1 out the entire circuit The league will open official play Saturday May (EPEE Like the cool gentlemen above you too can give Heat tbe air this Bummer and be smartly-clad at tbe same time Get inside a Botany lightweight worsted At once youll ee and feel tbe difference it m3ce in your appearance and comfort Its crisp air-conditioned fabric is skilfully tailored to bold its lines from tunup to sun -down all adding up to a summerful of satisfaction 'Why not come in at once Fowr dt prvlJ wide rani rM 700 I 4700 rfm Capacity I Vi In coif Iron Ir pi hag vlth Jacob koyloti chVck (2 WOM BUILDERS plan now tor Iron Fireman bin ted stoker No coal ban-eilna praUtlon control! 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