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1951 American League Schedule 1951 CHICAGO. tXlUlS ashington hila NEW AT CHICAGO April 25, 26 May i.TOif June 30 July If Sept 22. 23 21.22 June Sept. I May 13t July 3 17. II, Sept May 3.4*, 5 June 6.

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26 Sept 16. 17 June 17 July Sept 15 April May (30If July 8 Sept, .10 May lo June July 14 Aug 23, a May 2 June 9 lot July 19 at April 16 April 21. 22 June a 15 Sept 1 2 May 13. 14 July 3 IB Sept 25. 27 AT PHILADELPHIA May June 17f July Aug Sept 15 May June 2.1, 24f July Sept let May 19 June 21 July 21, at Sept 11.19 May June 1.1*.

Aug 5t Sept April 19 July It Sept Sept 21f May 12, 13t July lat, Sept (311 April 21. at July 14 Sept 8. 9 AT NEW YORK May 18, June 31 July 28. at Sept May June 12. 13.

14 3 4. 5t Sept May 23 24 June 18. 17 July 1. 2 Sept 13.14.15 May 18 17 June 23, 24 July 24 25. 26 Sept 16.17 April 31, a July I.

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22 a AP Two May Frhniofv in. lO'l fiMiUN SI Wesleyan Players Miss Doane Game tDoi Moltdayi In All Star July 10. 1951 With 1 riurial u.iitii'- two tough Noltiask.i I'olli'gi' ri'ii- foroiuc lUilts on iioxt Nr- braskii VVpslr.v.in iitiiv tt.i- kothall slate, t'oaih In retiM-oii loda.v was f.uorl with one of biggest probienis of the cuirent season. The Wesley.in mentor S.itui day night revealed that his miin- ber one barricader and pl.iy-mak- ei. Wiwtd, of and Wood's able replacement, Hollie Wtegers of Western, probably will miss Monday night's tii.ssle with Doane ftie two g.ime series with (Tiadron State Wed nesday and Ttmrsihiy Wood has been bothered wilti fallen arches, Coach re and was used only sp.it- ingly against Wayne State Frida.i night.

Wiegeis received a severe ankle Rpr.tin in the Wayne game PKTKRSON indicated that Willis Heim, the Humtioldt junioi may be moved up from the junior varsity oi that he may call the gu.iids on Hob (lentry, in order to keep l.ron l.ehr and l.rRoy a big boy the game at one of a pair of formrr Northeast high pi thi Mclhodisl hurk relMMindine thev'll nr eri the tall iNi.ine I III INI KII lim Ite heim I igers in ,1 the llethndisls their -teriiesl suue 17 dele it the Lite I inii.ii RDl.I.li: .1 stilhhies tiave eaeh seen considerable actinii in re rent hut Lick the heleht San Antonio Solon to Ask But Says To AH Blue iVo Holdout For Calumet ARCADI.A, Calif. (AP). The Calumet Farm's All Blue stepped In as a pinchhilter for the more esteemed members of his stable Saturday and raced to a close but ronvincing triumph in the San Antonio Handicap. The four-year-old Bull Lea colt, taking the play from the iupposed big horse of the field, and his other illu.stri- tius running mate, the sidelined Ponder, led the procession of flying horses under the wire by three quarters o( a length in front of Clifford surprising Sudan. Alfred G.

filly, Next Move, was third. A CROWD of 45,000 witnessed the 13th running of the San Antonio, final major battle before the handicap horses head into the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap March 3. The time for the mile and one-eighth was 1:49 2-5, and the Calumet youngster, the favored entry of the race with the great Coaltown, paid $5.10 to win. The winner was ably handled by Wee Willie Shoemaker, co- I iding champion of the nation last year. letic uirecior uick.

ijmimiis, a The victory was worth $44,850 screening committee, the athletic net to the Calumet people out of President Howard L. a gross of $68,450, It marked the CHICAGO. Andy Pafko, the Chicago outfield ace. has rejected two contracta but Insists still don't to be a Wid Itlatthews. the Cubs' personnel director, said Pafko may prove difficult In coming to terms.

Pafko said he had received a pay hike but did not consider It sufficient in view of his play in 1950. fie slammed 36 homers, drove In 92 runs and averaged .304. Trustees May Same Buekeye Coach Sunday COLUMBUS, Slate university's trustees meet Sunday to name a football coach. the only item on the special agenda. Only one nomination, that of 38-year-old Wayne Woodrow Hayes, is up for consideration.

If he musters a majority vote, the coach of Miami univer- Redskins will move from Oxford and grab the Buckeye i reins in time for spring practice. Hayes has the backing of Athletic Director Dick Larkins, a first big purse for the stable since still another hero of the string. Citation, won at Golden Fields at San Francisco last June 3. Paddy Young Loss Honest, Goldstein Says NEW YORK. Referee Ruby in the country.

Looks simple, eh? Well, last Monday Hayes had that same backing and the seven-man board of trustees, with only four members present, decided to postpione action until Sunday. So the election may not prove to be a rubber stamp affair, es- jiecially in view of the surging tides and turmoil which have swept across the campus since Armistice day when charges soared to No. 1 ranking Televising Games OMAHA. (UP). Sen.

Charles Tvrdik, Omaha, said Saturday he will ask the slate legislature to take action so that University of Nebraska home football games will be televised next season. Tvrdik said he didn't think "TV will hurt attendance one bit in this Nebraska went along with other members of the National Collegiate Athletic a.ssociation in voting to ban TV next year. BUT TVRDIK said Comhusker; games should be televised because "the stadium hold the number of persons who want to He said there were many Nebraskans who get to every home game and "they be telecasts. Cornhusker games have been televised for the past two years by station WOW-TV in Omaha. At Lincoln, Athletic Director George CUrk Mid the nnivenlty wm to carry out the policy of the NCAA vote at DallM recently.

Clark said he didnt "think the legislature is going to put up the money to keep us going if TV sells us The NU athletic chief pointed out that the policy of banning telecasting of games is "in line" with that voted by the National 'Collegiate Athletic association at their last meeting. He said only seven of 116 schools voted to allow live telecasts. Clark said the aUnd was to help schools In "paying our own in athletics. LIV ('oarh Says Broke, Theu Apoloffizes to Ref NEW YORK. LP).

Threatened with a law Coaeh Clalr I Bee of Long laland I haaketball team iMoed a formal apology Saturday to the referee whom he accused of giving him a In a game at Turson, last month. In a rolum he writes for the New York Journal American, the Llll coach apolngixed to W. K. Kisner, for anv quotation attributed to him which might lead anyone to believe the referee was or "guilty of Ariiona defeated LIU at Tucson on Jsn. 29, 62 to 61.

Afterward Bee sharply crittclsed what he called "bad and alngled Kisner out for special censure. The LIU coach said Saturday he had been asked by Kisner to make a public apology through the press and radio or "legal action may he necessary to bring the matter to a satisfactory Asaerting he is as the average basketball Bee then went on to give a formal apology. Sports Sent Servicemen By Armed Forces Radio HOLLYWOGl) (INS). H.iscb.ill is around the and every Donnlas Arthur on le.xt the largest sjKuts netwoik in Ifu' wot Id ill bring tbcin the best in baseball The netwoik is that of the Armed Radio S('rvuc whi(h beams 1,777 bouis oi variety, musie.al. news, education and sports programs eveiy month to men in the armed forces overseas.

The AFRS operation now in! eludes the greatest number of I features and play-by-play broadcasts ever covered by a single network. TODAY the GI's are being piped the scores of practically every college basketball game played in the United States with broadcasts of important clashes. The same with golf, tennis and other similar sijorl.s. But come and the emphasis is on baseball, from the led the general to kld- dingly a.sk an AFRS m.in: "Say. whv you carry a New York t'itants game some The AFHS, oper.ding of Hollywood uses si'vcn short wave ti.in indlei to rates sports features The n.iv> Is represented by t'hlrf Alfred Spanier, who covers tiires.

Tlici! )oh is a one. hceau 31) ol shot opei.dion is now dc'Oteil Hi llivlir the he (Kn.ih.» (iiKvi'iMtv mil the (door siiui-ik une I rid.IV will ike IIS on" Petersun slid ''ilnr- IL III, ri VV iK tl- .1 tl U'dp i N( ,1 i men, i Ftdircov 'e 1- l.md a M.it. i- ri hv II beam its program to m- to Ho! if. made httle tall.itioiu and tlie Koie.m battle- ttie bigged names front Thcie aie four ti.msmit- spoils the l.dtci eto'ei tels on the east eo.ist used by fuliv give their time to g(t headipiarteied New front of AFHS miKe for tlie a'ciitr game I'h a. Ill infiai of 'tie games were she' Old Sprmidiel I eneounter iimther the rah ng 'he H.

r- Over the w'hole situation is a big brown by Paul E. Brown. The former Buck editor, now coach of the professional Cleveland Browms, has firm forces fighting for his return. Importance of the decision, winding up more than two months of candidate screening, is shown by the fact that Sen. John W.

Brlcker (R-Ohio) will fly from Albuquerque. N. to cast a vote, and one of the leading sclentlats, Charles F. Kettering, will fly from Miami. to do the same.

Both missed meeting. The seventh trustee, Warner Pomerene, Is In Cuba and probably will remain there. The Bucks hit the national heights Nov. 11 with a win over Wisconsin. Then they fell from nnnt ii ne uas the peak losing both the Big make about the Ten and national championships r.oldstein said Saturday he was of the sincerity of Paddy knock- tn Gene Hairston in Madison Square Garden Friday scrap which set tongues wagging from this town to the farthest extremity of the television cable.

firmly convinced he was knocked said Goldstein, a top-notch official. i statement put an of- ficial end to the episode. EDDIE EAGAN, chairman of the state athletic commission, who was a ringside spectator, said "I have no information this was iinything bu' an honest bout. If there is any information that it was not, the commission certainly Will look into it. The referee was in charge of the bout.

If he has any report to conduct ol the fighters, the com- pussion certainly will hear Goldstein said Eagan had called him Saturday morning and that he had given him his version of the affair. The referee said he also Intended to make out a written report to Eagan since he (Goldstein) was leaving for Seattle Sunday. Another report was given to Kagan by Dan Dowd, executive secretary ol the commission. Dowd questioned all principals right alter a chorus of boos from the 6,154 fans greeted the sudden ending of the bout by Goldstein. Ruby stopped the fight at 2:57 of the second round after Young went down for the fifth time in the bout and for the third time in the second frame.

New York rules require the referee to stop tl non-title fight if a boxer is lloored three times in one round LEARN A Hoosier Hot-Shot, Miranda CHICAGO. LT). Little Sam Miranda, brilliant junior guard, is one of the dead- lyiest mark.smen in Big Ten basketball circles this sea.son. At the mid-season mark Sam was hitting his field goal shots at a remarkable .438 average and also his free throws at an .875 clip. Miranda, five feet ten inches tall and weighing 180 pounds, comes from Collinsville, 111.

He is a phenomenal dribbler and a deadly two-hand set shot. For his first five Western conference games, the little Hoosier averaged 11.2 points per game. He hit on 21 of 48 field goals. rack Gambling Hit By Florida Ban i MIAMI, Fla. The State Racing commission Saturday or! dered a 20-minute delay in transmission of race results from all Florida racetracks in a move intended to curb off-the-track i bookmaking.

The delaying of result.s, approved unanimously by the com- I mission, is effective Monday. Under the new rule, no result of any race, except the last on each program 8ind the fea- ture race on each Saturday pro- gram, may be transmitted from the track until 20 minutes after the official results are posted. York fiii Kuropeaii msl.dial inn And according to mi'iit estimate.s, theie are 90 million people foreign countnes who tune in nn the AFR.S radui stations to get the news, pro- giams and the of A melica has to offci So when "Dem In HriMiklyn raise one over the stands. It's a cinch some native on a south sea Island or a Burmese or a Chinese behind the red curtain is joining In on the If a (iiant fan. Tw'o civilians and an aimy and navy man head up the sec- major leagues down through the tion at Hollywood headquarters minors, starting with the spring of AFHS.

hnvs ovet H('d fcicd .1 ncii.dtv ad ('f .11 (if- training camps. A favorite story they like to tell in the sports section of AFRS Is the time they discovered Gen. Douglas MarArthur was a New York Giants fan. Seems AFRS was concentrating for a time on play-by-play from the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hal Berger, a civilian, is chief of the section.

And his speciality' IS baseball. His civilian assistant Itv (ioiiiu; Awav MIAMI, FI.i Hrt.okmcad.* stables Going Aw.iv dopstc'is and handed Chicle 2nd Ills! tnri in Flonil.i by stre.iking In a length and h.df in the Miami handicap, inn on grass Hi.di'.ih p.aik. Cuoic was neck front of 2nd in the fn'ld of nine Going Awav was timed at 2 31 3 .5 tor the mile and a half test and returned $5 RO to in. HEAVY HAULING Phone 2-1273 Fred Hcssler handles footliall games, live basketball, tennis and golf coverage. Master Sgt.

Milton E. Ballinger of the army assists In football, golf matches and nar- r.li'Hii PROVIDENCK. The Providence Reds of the American Hockey aie thinking of throwing ont the pen.dty I mix hcv reientiv pLivcd three (on- UNION FREIGHTWAYS 145 South 8th Copple Geig Ready Newton Copple, 147-pound l.in- coln wrestler, i.s one of eight topflight grapplers from over the nation who will start training Monday at Bethlehem, for the Pan-American games at Buenos Aires, Agentina, Feb. 25 to March 7. Copple made the American by winning hi.s division in a recent elimination tourney.

Gun Club Holdg Shoot The Lincoln Gun club will hold the shoot at 2 m. Sunday at the grounds on No. 48th street. The shoot, which is a 50-target event, will be on a handicap basis. by dropping a close one to Illinois and being nipped by Michigan in the blizzard-bowl Fesler quit Dec.

9 in a surprise move while attending the Big Ten meeting at Chicago. (Since then become head football man.) More than 30 men applied for the job. A screening committee was set up to look over. Don Faurot of Missouri, Sid Gill man of Cincinnati and of whom applied for the among nine invited down for Interviews. Interviews also were held with Harry Strobel.

OSU freshman coach; Warren Gaer, Mls- rouri Yalley coach of the year from Drake; Charles Mather of Massillon high school; Faurot, Gillman, Hayes, and Jim McDonald of Springfield (O.) high. Baseball Holdouts Find Out, Beat the TRADE State Approved Auto Body Fender School Day or Night classes. This course or the one below Is available to Veterans under the G. Bill. or lor Kull UrUlU on Out Mnstor Svtntlon Mrrhnntea Srhool.

Dnx I'I mm Only. I ib Aviation Institute Union 6-2909 Is NEW "I can make more money staying out of I That usually is the retort of major league ball players when they are dissatisfied over contracts offered for the coming season. How many follow through with their threat to stay out of the game if their terms are not met? If the past is any criterion all athletes now balking will be on hand come opening day. Approximately seven players in the long history of the game have remained out of baseball for a season because of contract difficulties. O.NE WAS Pitcher Jim McCormick of the Chicago Nations way back before the turn of the century.

Jim stayed out for a year but came back the next season. In addition to salary, players have been known to balk for many other reasons. Some for instance have demanded a cut out of the gate receipts during spring ition games. Others stay out in order to duck as much of the spring training grind as possible. This was especially so before a ban was placed on the start of spring training.

Os.see Schrekengost, athletics catcher back in the early of the centur.y, once insisted that a cluu.se be inserted in his contract that would forbid his eccentric battery mate, Rube Waddell, from eating crackers in bed I'OUplON Tournament Tonight Open at 12 P.M Lincoln Bowling Parlors 237 No. 12 bowl mor Nabraska'e Finagtl Open Lanes Dsf MobSsx Bvmx Altenioon Fountalii St Lundi Oom (9ih A MS. Comer i Mnuiuutd uodj Hydra-Moltc now on oil Hudton ond Commodoro MaYBK HKARf) If! fabulous new IIudHon Hornet ha.s Miracle H-Fower lightning-like get-away surging energy that gives you a new corninaiul of the road! But have you heard that llii.s great sensational new 11-145 engine is so skillfully designinl it whispers while it works is smooth as cream? That and siiKKitliness will lie your hapjiy di.sroverv when you come in to try this tacular new car! learn, too, that this amazing 11-145 engine Is simple in so upkis-p costs are low and it Is in And discover the car it powers is a thrilling luxurious dtxsigned to bring you the and safest ride ever known! Visit us Make exciting by driving the fabulous new Hudson Hornet! fabulous new Important todoy psrhopi VITAL tomorrow All give high-compression I iL performance on REGULAR GAS! Tune in THt BILLY ROSt SHOW. Networx DSOR HOBNET HOMPES TIRE CO. 17th and Home of Hudson 2-6524.

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