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alK-- Cello -t4614WhNwilwirsn 0061ftWadWirr100441ww THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Friday May 23 1958 1-D FATHER WENT PLOWING filwaukee Signs Clo i inger For Record $100000 Price 1 cry when they told me it was over I was so proud that my baby has such a good future and so sad that he will have to go so far away I hope the airplane ride won't make him sick" Father Carl refused to let all the commotion disturb him lie was "down in the bottom" breaking up a corn patch with a team of mules when Tony officially made himself a member of the Milwaukee baseball family When the details were relay ed to him in the field he confided to a newsman "I'm satisfied if my boy is I know how much he loves baseball Ile's been playing it all his life But I'll tell you with all this rain a farmer don't have much time to think about anything but getting his fields in shape" At twilight Thursday the storm had passed and peace had returned to the modest frame house at Route I Iron Station Mother Cloninger returned to her locking chair on the front porch le's But rain ime ace iest Lron on the fastest kid righthander I ever saw" Cloninger who first began conferring with scouts Tuesday morning (he was graduated from Rock Springs High Monday night) said "I am well satisfied with the contract I received I got a very good bonus and a good proposition" Only big league clubs which did not make a pitch for him were Los Angeles Philadelphia Phillies and St Louis Cards All members of the Cloninger family with the exception of father Carl were obviously relieved when Tony chose the Braves and the ordeal ended Marion lefthander drew $60000 for placing his signature on a Cleveland contract eight years ago Cloninger conferred with representatives of 13 major league clubs in what he termed "three nerve-wracking days" was signed to a Class AA contract (Austin Tex) and immediately optioned to a Claire Wisconsin the Class Northern League He will report late next week English elated over his victory in the bargaining war termed Cloninger "the most outstanding baseball prospect I've seen in 12 years of scouting with the possible exception of Billy Joe Davidson" 1- 'kt 25 $4 1 414 44 i 4 rifttlit io 1 i 1 i i 4- tit A i 4: 4:: -f4 4 '''''1-: 4 4 ::::1 4 "''''''1- :) S''''' i 0 i'' 4: -) ii': II: 1' :1: 4 i if 1' 'A 4 t-' '1 4 :4: i i4 1trr i fr li 4 ''''1 '( 9 414 I' 1: t): e''''" 1'45' St 4 1 :::4 ''''t 'i :) :4 4 ":1 -4 0 'I r'-' 4 1::: ''i 1 4'A': 4 tf 11 i' 44 A i': 7 i 4 '4: 14' ''f' '1 0 f' '''i: -1'f4t:" 40:4 'i ''1 7 ''4 7S :1: 4 0 4 4ip5? 'f 4:: 4 4 44k4 '0 'f ''4 ereOr 4- 4: "5 -fW A Ii3 4: '3 f' 1' 1'''' 'ii' --4 l' 4': iAh'A 5- ''f''i' 11 By HERMAN HELMS Observer Sports Writer DENVER Tony Cloninger 17-year-old Rock Springs High School pitching sensation signed a contract with the Milwaukee Braves Thursday for what is believed to be the largest bonus ever paid a North Carolina baseball player While neither Cloninger nor veteran Braves scout Gil English who signed him would reveal the price the strong-armed righthander was understood to have received approximately $100000 A represensative of another bit league club said Thursday night "I dropped out when the bidding passed $75- 000" "I know the final figure would not miss $100000 more than $10000 either way" he added Until Cloninger cast his lot with the Braves Billy Joe Davidson had enjoyed the distinction of receiving the highest bonus paid to a Tar Heel The LPY1 $1 A :41 5 (1 LARRY I i 4lott i i- i'' 1 -4 It: k- 'He has ideal temperament and that was a big factor in my decision to go so high in the price war" What sort of pitcher is Cloninger? "Ile has a good curve but the fast ball is his money pitch" said English "Tony is ARDING Observer Sports Writer Deacon Andy Griffith Tells 'What It Was Was Baseball' Andy Griffith won't be around this afternoon when his Mt Airy alma mater invades Griffith Park to do battle with Myers Park's Mustangs his pith po MONIED MUSCLE: Tony Cloninger and $100000 Flipper 1 (I I ic ir 251 14-3 --3 tem -(- e--- 00'777-''51t71' :4 -0- t-----t 4 se IP41 l'1- 1'! t- o' :::1: '1 114 i 4 1 53-ep 1 4 43 i- 47 -)''''' 4'73 11 e0- 'k sok 7 4 i 4 ---4v04 3 1 11 all '''''01 f( 04 tOP 'Tfr 15 if: I i 1- '--U I However if Deacon Andy ever gave an account of the goings-on it'd probably read something like this "The thing wuz we WUZ in Charlotte to see that ther big Collyseum when this feller tells me how he red in the papers we wuz playing baseball here "Now if thar's one thing I'm partial to it's my home town so I was all fer it so long as it liarn't like that football game I seed once I'd had enuff of that seeing these big gints tearing up this purty cow paster and a stopmin' and a rippin' each other to pieces "But this feller says no It ain't like that This is a civilized game 'vented by Abner Double Day when he was cold sober I said okay long as they wuzn't to be no blood lettin' "Well we druv and druv and Is nally cum upon this big wooden fence thet had this big barn with seats on one side and a passel of folks satin' under thar yellin' ther heads off sitev1 Nipi the her the ay (e Dr Lat )ay Bees Return Giants' Perry For 'Loafing' By DICK PIERCE Sports It titer Bob Perry the Hornets' leading slugger has been returned to the New York Giants' Springfield club The move which had been contemplated by General Manager Phil llowser And- Field Manager Gene Verble for several weeks was taken after Perry committed two errors in a lackadaisical performance against Knoxville Wednesday night TONY AND DAD: The Worry "Well 111 tell you frens they sounded a mighty lot like them people at that football game and I wuzn't too keen 'bout going in The feller with me 'sisted tho' so I went in reluekantly "And folks you'll never believe it but there right before my eyes was this big cow pasture just like that football field I told you 'bout Only here somebody hed took and plowed the grass off half it and strowed sand around and flung three hog feed sacks out there There was nine men out there a wearin' knickers which seemed odd 'cause they aira been in style in mighty near a whole just hollerin' their heads off i'A(si: --804 4s- NA1 11Ki 'Dodgers Win Election Or Leave LA! This Outhouse 141:1114 Tony a six-foot 210-pound outdoorsman revealed that he and older brother Ray who at in on the bargaining sessions "took off and went coon hunting Tuesday night Just to ease our minds" His mother still a little damp-eyed Thursday afternoon confessed that "I had a good Just Begins Giles of great importance to the national league and as you know to Los Angeles" Giles said "It is more than the Chavez Ravine issue To me it will be an expression by the people of Los Angeles as to whether they want major league baseball" President Walter O'Malley of the Dodgers apparently caught in the middle of the Giles-antiChavez Ravine factions issued this statement: "The Dodgers want to stay out of politics and we wish politics were not involved with baseball at this time We have our hands full now with many problems on and off the field" John Holland the city councilman who leads opposition to giving the Dodgers land for their park in Chavez Ravine read Giles' removal threat and quickly fired back: "This in my opinion is the last desperate threat of a frightened group of greedy men "If the people of Los Angeles bow to this threat it will be to the everlasting shame of our city" Todav's Games AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at Cleveland (N )--Ramos (32) vs McLish t0-1) Baltimore at Chicago (N)--Harshman (5-D vs Wynn (1-2) New York at Detroit (N)--Turley 160) vs Hoeft (3-3) Boston at Kansas City 10-0 vs Maas (1-3) NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Philadelphia (N)--Hobbie (24) vs Semproch (43) St Louis at Pittsburgh (N)--Jackson (2-1) vs Law (5-2) Los Angeles at Cincinnati combe (0-3) vs Purkey (4-I) San Tgrancisco at Milwaukee (3-3) vs Spahr (6-0) Sally League Augusta 021 100 001 00--5 IA I Macon 000 000 050 01-4 1 1 Ut Innints) Sheppard Carey (81 Simmons (9) Pehaniek )81 and Feller White For aythe (9) Vargas (9) and Napoli Jacksonville Ole 000 090-4 8 Savannah Ian 000 000-1 4 3 Carter and Mack ley: M'alsom Guttman Olt Moorhead (9) and Bush Lacy Hurls NoIlit John Lacy hurled a no-hitter as Wilmont Baptist Church defeated West Side 8-2 in a Royal Ambassador League game Thursday Sigmon paced the Wilmont attack with a pair of doubles Ei 4 7e'-? 1---1 NeS r'- A4 4 0 14 1- ts i 147 0 i 0 1 4 raenrf 'T-- ::::04 r114-Y (20 -1: A lIe Wuz Swintrin' Big Tree Limb "AND THER wuz this feller standin1 ther with this big tree limb in his whittled down nice and lookin' square at this feller walkin' round on this knee-high hill "And behind this feller with the tree limb was this other one that I knowed right off must be skeered to death He was a wearin' this big stuffed apern 'round his stummick and this big mask with bars around his face and sompin on his legs I heard a old man next to me say they wuz chin guards but he had 'em tied on his legs shore as the wurld "Why shucks he shuldn't be feared none at all with that mess a stuff he had on Anyhow he was the bigges' feller out there "And behin' him was this other feller all dressed out in a purty blue Sunday suit with this same kinda mask on and I seed right off nobody liked him They kep' krill' and callin' him a bum and saying downrite awful things about how he was I knowed rite oft must be true since he kept a squattin' and staring reel hard at that feller on that little hill who couldn't a ben moren 20 yards away "Anyhow ever time this skinny feller on the hill throwed this round rock down close to this feller with the tree limb this feller nobody liked would jump up and shout real loud like he was tryin' to clear his throat and pint his fanger up in the air and then at the folks sittin' over in the barn which I thought was downrite pore manners BOB PERRY: Returned To Cants to the Giants and our expla nation to them is insubordina tion and loafing" explained Howser Perry missed a game in Jacksonville recently when he visited a nearby town and failed to get back in time He was reprimanded but not fined Then Wednesday night he gave a slovenly exhibition of fielding in making two ninth inning errors that helped Knoxville score four unearned runs for an 8-7 win In conjunction with Perry's dismisal Howser made these changes in the Hornet roster: (1) Returned outfielder Vince Magi a 288 hitter with four home runs to the active list (2) Placed catcher Joe Montalvo on the active list Montalvo who is being re turned by Chattanooga will join the team in Knoxville (3) Removed catcher Sam Mauney from the active list (4) Sent outfielder Jimmy Hall who has been on the disabled list to Knoxville with the team Hall will be placed on the active roster shortly Bees Refuse Charity Lose 71h Straight pitchers generously tried to break Charlotte's Sally League losing streak here Thursday night but the Bees wouldn't accept the charity bowing to the Smokies 11-10 in a three hour and thirteen minute endurance test The Hornets received a grand total of 18 bases on balls from five Knoxville throwers owned a 5-1 lead early in the combat but still stumbled to their seventh straight defeat CHARLOTTE KNOXVILLE Ab ft IL Ab Meets ss 4 I 0 Mtamry 2b 5 0 0 Rowe rf 2 2 0 Datres rf 5 0 1 Harris lb 4 I lb 3 2 0 Williams If 5 3 21avaliere 5 3 3 Montalvo 4 2 Orliurke cf 6 1 3 Sehmker cf 4 1 l'Murawski If 5 2 3 Warner lb 3 0 21TipperY 3b 4 1 2 Verble 3b 3 0 OlFerndez as 4 1 4 Furlow 3 0 IlDalkowski 1 0 0 Kearns 0 0 01Powell ra 0 0 0 eDavis 1 0 0 aRaehse 1 0 1 Rich 0 0 0affnes 0 0 0 bZupo 1 1 I Curl 000 Estrada 200 Totals 33 10 01 Totals 42 11 18 for Powell in 4th homered for Gaffney In 6th grounded out for Kearns In 6th two out when winning run scored Charlotte Mt 402 300-10 Knoxville 000 15t 031-11 Schoonmaker 2 War ner 2 Verb le 2 Burke Murawski 4 Tippers 2 Fernandez Raehae ZUPO 2 Lavalliere Rich Charlo4te 2641 Knoxville 276 211---Mu rawski Fernandez TionerY Warner Williams Murawaki Warner LOB Charlotte 16 Knoxville 13 ID hrrbhsn Dalkowskl 3 1 5 5 13 7 Powell 1 10000 Forlow 41 3 7 4 4 4 1 Curl 17 2 2 2 11 Keama 23 2 2 2 0 0 Estradad (w) 32 3 2 3 1 5 4 Birk (1) 323 8 3 4 2 4 Gaffney 1 00000 And Rows T-313 A-14129 The 64 190-pound Negro outfielder had swatted seven homers for the Hornets sad his 21 runs batted In led the club by six Shipped here on option In the deal that sent Washington-owned shortstop Jose Valdivielso to Phoenix of the Coast League Perry was hailed as potentially one of the top power hitters to perform here in several years "We're sending him back sending both will be ready to go this afternoon with Herring who took a 24 win over Mt Ho! ly last Saturday expected to be today's starter Farris who's batting away at a 355 clip will be in rightfield for the start of the contest Joining the pitcher-outfielder in forging an offensive will be catcher Ken Sands and third baseman Ralph Timmerman both hovering around the 400 mark "The boys have had a little trouble recently getting their hits" states Sink "but I look for them to break out any time And I can think of no better time than against Mt Airy" Anchoring the infield will be shortstop Perry Turnipseed whom Sink credits with "holding together our infield all season" Today's winner goes into the Western finals with the following step a chance to do battle for the state title against the Eastern champion WARREN GILES Warns LA would get Chavez Ravine acreage on which to build a proposed 12 million dollar baseball stadium "The June 3 referendum is Myers Park Takes They Stand On Mt Airy Today By LARRY HARDING Observer Sports Writer Jack Sink admits he has a fine ball and above the best he's fielded at Myers he cautions it'll take all the skill his Mustangs boast to handle today's opponent 1 CINCLNNATI If Los Angeles voters fail June 3 to approve a modern baseball stadium for the Dodgers National League president Warren Giles said Thursday he will recommend immediate steps be taken to remove the team from that city In a statement made to Los Angeles baseball writers and radio men traveling with the former Brooklyn club Giles said be appreciated the great fan turnout and wanted the club to stay in their city But he added the Coliseum home grounds of the Dodgers at present Is primarily a football field and was acceptable only on a temporary basis The question on the June 3 primary ballot is whether the contract between the Dodgers and the city of Los Angeles shall be approved Under the contract Walter O'Malley Dodgers president How NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pct GB San Francisco 23 12 657 Milwaukee 19 11 633 11i Pittsburgh 18 15 545 4 Chicago 17 19 472 6i Philadelphia 15 18 455 7 St Louis 14 17 452 7 Cincinnati 11 17 393 81i Los Angeles 13 21 382 91:4 AMERICAN Wew York 22 Kansas City 14 Baltimore 14 Cleveland 17 Boston 16 Washington 14 Chicago 12 Detroit 13 LEAGUE Pet GB 5 815 14 500 81i 14 17 17 17 18 20 500 81i 500 81 485 9 452 10 400 Wi 394 12 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Won Lost Pet GB ligusta 21 13 618 ivannah 18 12 600 1 teksonville 18 15 545 2' aeon 18 16 529 3 noxville 14 19 424 6' harlotte 9 23 281 11 Augusta Savannah Jacksonville Macon Knoxville Charlotte Today's Games IOCT1 ATLANTIC LEAGUE Chet lotto at Km) Irvine Jacksnrollit at Savannah Anatol' at Mates "Finally this feller with the stick swung at this smooth rock and missed and turned all round and folks honest -to-goodness he had Mustangs wrote on this shirt which wuz half-hanging out of them funny-looking knickers "And folks I knowed rite then and ther' them folks out ther warn't a holdin1 all their they wuz horses when it was plain as day they wuzn't and a wearin' masks and it ain't near Halloween and a swingin' sticks and a throwin' rocks for nigh onto 2 hours 'And those folks settin' up watchin' warn't much better always screamin' and yellin I 'dare it was enuff to disgust a if they wuz from the city Thursday's Results AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 5 Detroit 4 Chicago 5 Baltimore 1 Cleveland 3 Washington 1 Boston 8 Kansas City 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 7 Philadelphia 4 St Louis at Pittsburgh ppd rain Milwaukee 9 San Francisco 3 Los Angeles at Cincinnati ppd rain SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Knoxville 11 Charlotte 10 Macon 6 Augusta 5 (11 innings) Savannah 3-1 Jacksonville 0-4 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Havana 13 Columbus 3 Richmond 14 Miami 5 Buffalo at Montreal pp rain SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Atlanta IL Chattanooga Birmingham 3 Nashville 2 Little Bock 4 Mobile 3 Memphis 8 New Orleans 3 CAROLINA LEAGUE INVIVille 4 Burlington IL High Point-Thomasville 4 Raleigh 2 Durham 4 Greamsboro fl WthatonSalem I Mt Airy is the big test The Granite Bears invade Griffith Park at 3:45 this afternoon in the quarterfinal round of Class AA state play getting here the bard way They swatted Winston Salem Gray Wednesday something 18 previous opponents bad been unable to do shattering the Greyhosulds' unbeaten record and smacking them out of championship contention Myers Park seeking to give Charlotte its second consecutive state title North won in a breeze last year waded through tough Greater Charlotte loop practically unimpeded to gain its present place The Charlotteans' success can be traced directly to the fact that they boast two topnotch pitchers of near-equal ability in Buddy Herring and Ray Farris The two who've won a total of 12 games between them 9 'lien Hun Outta 'FINALLY after those nine men had run off to the edge of this paster eight or nine times to a little out house (which didn't hey no walls and doors) this feller which hed ben throwin' this rock fer them fellers which called theirselves Mustangs went back out to the little hill and throwed some more 'I heered some ole' lady say sumpin 'bout this bern' the last coding which was awful foolish cause if a thing's Continued on rage 41 Cols 14 et i 1111.