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Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 12

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Votes On Rules vep YctEis 7 1 GDoti TTDtkb RcnxiDff v- With Bob Phillips MARCH '261933 Long Shots-Score InUncolHshireS- LINCOLN England Mareh 25jWP) Twig shots dominated the Lincolnshire Handicap today when a 1004 horse won another 10M placed and a 50-1 shot ilnfched third V'v The order of finish' is England's first big betting race the -flat season was: Sailing Light Fastnet Rock and Magic Circle French-trained Nahar owned by the Aly Khan failed fe did Kara Tepe the second 0-1 favorite' i'-vA Sailing the winner ts -a veav-oid owned by Mrs A 4-year-old Continued From Pago' 10 Just fificed and Norms The Sport Jim Busby bad been intentionally walked Mickey Vernon bounced to Ted Lepdo for what-appeared a double play throw pulled Harry Agganis far off first base however Then Wood an ex-Red Socker unloaded his long homer over the left wall 1 Bob Porterfield and Moreno com-1 lined to blank the Sox and stretch Boston's scoreless streak through 22 innings The Sox gathered three of their nine hits in the 10th but left the uses filled when Stephens skied to center WlltlutM Ul MW MW (MS 4-4 wta U) MW MW MW 4-4 (IS kaluat PwtetfteK Iiiw (Si nl Giiimi I IHm Flavrri III ul WMte i Frank Sedgman who's bringing his pro tennis bout with Jack Kramer to Birmingham next Tuesday night is one of those rare athletes who excel at whatever they set their mind and hand to The newest of the many fine tennis players Australia has produced is adept at cricket football and basketbalk They say he would be a star in almost any sport Sedgman started his tennis career early at the age of eight and he was winning major events Fast In Open Field when he was 14 under Bob Woodruff widely publicized and Defenders of the plan that the horse and dog are not required to hold program and 2 the are not given to the football but to the college for scholarship purposes The head of Univarsity alumni in Jacksonville form letters to his members they patronize the Club's scholarship night Four rule changes and a proposed high school All-Star basketball game will be taken up by the Legislative Council 'of the Alabama High School Athletic Assn when it meets at noon today in the Holton Hotel This is the annual meeting of the group The Council is made up of the three officers of each of the eight athletic districts In the association Cliff Harper executive secretary last night outlined the four constitutional amendments and All-Star proposal as follows: On the agenda are the following items 1 An amendment to Rule 1 Section 4-b to read: Attendance covering a period of 15 days shall be regarded as a semester 2 Amend Rule 1 Section 1L exception 1: to read: a pupil who has been attending a school with less than the required number of years of unit work may upon completion of the highest grade taught in that school become eligible at once to engage in athletics at any high school that serves the area in which he lives if fully filling all other requirements 3 Amend Rule 3 Section 10: To limit the number of basketball games a team may play to 24 games if they do not play football and 20 games if they do play football And these games do not include approved tournament play 4 A proposal to prohibit Spring football practice A suggestion has been made that the Alabama High School Athletic Assn sponsor and all-star basketball game similar to the all star football game This will be discussed and decided upon today Ping Ponger Helped NEW YORK March 25 CCNY students look up a collection today to send Lima Flam year-old freshman to Kansas City for the National Table Tennis Tourney this week-end She placed second to Mrs Leah Thall Neuber-ger also of New York last year and twice has beaten the champion in recent weeks Farr i AvI KB nw wn t' CROSS-COll NTCY SIRVId Rant Nan Um It Than BIRMINGHAM TRAILER CO 4-4IZ7 Raw Material for mortgages either on: homo business construction is Ready Money immediately avoHohlem Wo have it TENNIS Yvonne Richard is the first tennis sponsor of queen to jjbe selected for next Tues-y day night's pro tennis match at City Auditorium featur- ing Jack Kramer and Frank Sedgman Miss Richard was selected by the Phillips High School tennis squad Athletic Test Set At Five Points The second annual Athletic Achievement Contest for Boys will start at 2:30 pin today at the Five Points YMCA'with teams entered from the following branch YMCAs: Ensley Pratt City Downtown and Five Points The boys are classified according to weight height and age The contest will include basketball throw standing broad Jump potato race target throw and pull-ups on the horizontal bar A baseball league for boys 11 years old and under will be organized at the Five Points YMCA Monday at 4 JO pm All boys on the Southside in that age group interested in baseball are invited to attend For full Information about the league call Felix IX King 3-193L STOCK CAB RACES SUNDAY 2 PJM FAIRGROUNDS COACH OF Branch McCracken oach Indiana's NCAA- championship cage teapn has been named Coach of the Year by the Philadelphia Basketball Writers I Assn 'McCracken's team had a 23-3 record and defeated Kansas in the NCAA finals 69-68 Mortgage Co A Hvliap Compmm A 2024 First Avenue Australians support their tennis players in the grand manner You may remember the furor lo international tennis circles last year when Sedgman announced his wedding engagement Tennis fans "Down Under" encouraged by a leading newspaper1 raised a cash wedding gift of more than S1L000 That would have ruined his amateur standing in this country but it was all right under Australian interpretation of the amateur code Sedgman took tho gift and soon forsook amateur ranks to accept Kramer's offer to become his foe in the 1953 pro tennis show Sedgman has been unbeatable in Davis Cup play winning six singles and three doubles match-es Not Like Kramer Sedgman trailing Kramer by a good many matches in a series that began in Los Angeles in January bas not had the success Kramer had in his pro debut Jack joined Bobby Riggs' pro tour in 1947 and proceeded to mop up tho diminutive impresario He won 69 of 89 matches (Sedgman is making it much much closer) and has bad no trouble keeping his No 1 professional ranking since that time Kramer at 32 is still tha magnet that draws tho crowds Ho is tho composite of what the ambitious young netman would like to bo having a powerful serve a great overhead game and lots of power in his smashes Sedgman-luckily is plenty expert enough to make him battle for the points and that takes tho matches above the class of tho average exhibition Kramer was thrown into Davis Cup competition while still in his teens but it was not until 1946 when he was 25 that he hit the top That year he won tho singles title and in 1947 he won both tho and Wimbledon singles Some Say Unsavory While at Ocala we ran into some publicity for Florida colleges that might be considered unsavory in some circles It was on the occasion of- Night" at the Jacksonville Kennel Club The "race track money" that base blows but they come at the right time The losers used Tom Tyson Len Ifatarrazzo and Mike Kume but the trio managed to fool none of the International League batten Tyson was charged with the loss Hitting star for the winners was Stan Jok third baseman who played last season for the Ah farm club at Ottawa MW MW Wll 1 SIS 4 (SI i TtaHMI Dm (SI sat Lw- wr aibmi lp t- Nats Score In 10th Blank Bosox 4 To 0 SARASOTA Fla- March 25 Ken Wood's long three run homer was merely so much frosting on the cake today as the Washington Nats blanked the Boston Red Sox 4-0 in 10 innings The Nats counted their first tally when Shortstop Johnny Upon threw wide to first while trying to complete a double play which would have ended the inning Rookie Ben Flowers walked Mickey Grasso and hit Floyd Baker with' a wide pitch to start this inning After Julio Moreno had aae- Douglas Leads Pros In Aiken Tourney AIKEN March 25 () Lean Dave Douglas clipped three strokes off par on the back nine of the 6676-yard par 71 Palmetto Golf Club course today to chalk up a and lead the individual pro contingent of the club's annual Pro-Amateur Tournament Winners in the pro-am division the feature of this colorful one-day golfing festival were Pro Johnny Palmer and Amateur Laugh-lin Palmer's 68 and Laughlin'a 11-stroke handicap were the big factors in fashioning a best-ball of 6L individual ran lfaoess Daa Daaclaa 17 (MSB) Jriaai ralaar Sill I trial (tea Saraira Ml I trial Ska Btraal IIM Itirai OraUla WkHa MW Itltai damn Daaiar HMUI Nartoa SaHh I IMtMI -II nsi Lav Warafeaa IMt-U lMilll At BaaaaHak (SKIII -Jarrr Barfear It II (SStll) Urn Haaaa lUMI lMSll) Kart Stewart Jr IMt-il (Mfll) Jar awrrt Zk-M-11 lMfll) Transfer Of Braves Cosfs Bucs 12000 PITTSBURGH March 25 M5) The transfer of the Boston Braves franchise to Milwaukee resulted in a S12000 bonfire at Forbes Field today After the transfer the Pirates took over the Braves' schedule and Milwaukee will play the schedule originally assigned to Pittsburgh As a consequence the tickets the Pirates had on hand were worthless And it cost 512000 to print them Pirate officials took 750400 tickets out into left field today and burned them'" MARINE HERO Capt William Taylor of -Birmingham and Wedowee who rolled up a hero's record in Korea as a Marine is now stationed at Parris Island (Ah Wn4 Dodgers Win Third Shutout In A Row VERO BEACH Fla March 25 VP) Brooklyn Dodgers registered their third straight shutout today as Bob Milliken and Joe Black limited the Milwaukee Braves to six hits for a 1-0 victory Each gave up three hits with the rookie righthander pitching six innings and Black three The lone run was scored by Billy Cox at the expense of Jim Wilson in the third inning when throw hit Duke Snider in the back the latter tried to beat out bunt Cox opened the inning with a single took second on a sacrifice and third on an infielder ground out Wilson allowed four hits in five nnings and Dick Donovan two In two StankN (N) MO 4M 444 4 Braaklra INI 441 WHaaa Paaaaaa (41 Craaa aa4 ClalraiMKIikaa Mack (41 hI Camaaaail MiUikao WMae Ciisox Trip Giants Rogovin Wilson Homer PHOENIX Ariz March 25 Saul Rogovin and Harry Dorish limited the Giants to four hits today as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New Yorkers 4-3 It was the final meeting of the Spring between the two clubs with the Giants winning the series three games to two The Giants did all their hitting off Rogovin who went the first four innings and gave up two runs in the first They sewed another in the third off Dorish who went the last five and held the Giants hitless Thf veteran right hander fanned four and gave up only two walks Home runs by Rogovin and Red Wilson off Dave Koslo gave Chicago three runs in the second Then in the eighth with the score tied 3-3 the Sox ripped into Frank Hiller for three more tallies In alt the Sox collected 13 hits off the two New York hurlers runt (At mm mm is 1 Nr Tark INI 31 MM 1 lirla Dartak (SI Ml Km la HUtar aa4 Xakte WP: 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Indians scored today in a 6-2 loss to the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League naraiaaA (At 14 MM 4 Saa Itiraa (PCX) Ml I Ml 4 1 1 BraairkT WHka 141 am4 Tiptaai Salva-a SmKS 111 aa4 Malkia WP Sateaaa LP GraMak BBS davtteiS Mrtrk 4: aa Dteta (PCL) SI Laaia (Kt tea SMI MM I CMrteaaU -B (Ml MM ta MM 4 14 1 Ranteaa Bakrtaiaaa Ik) a a Baa4i Raf faaafcarcrr JaSaa (4) aai Laadrttfe lap WP BakalMaa LP Laaia IN) Baneaa O5XD0 tha University of Florida has found useful in its football climb has boon criticized explain tracks the receipts team general of Florida sent urging Kennel One of the newspapers printed a picture of two ex-Gator stars Welcome Shearer and Bill Stark posing with a greyhound clad in a Gator football helmet Joe Livingston Jacksonville Journal sports editor giving tho special dog race card a boost in his column but predicted if tho University continued to move up in football tha clamor from the opposition would put stop to Scholarship Nights The University doesn't get all the receipts from these race one per year at track Florida State and Florida (for Negroes) also share in them Florida upsurge has added to the labors of Florida sports writers especially those In Jacksonville and Tampa Formerly they had only tho University to look after FSU got tho leavings Now they are having to devote almost as much space to FSU as to tho University SWC Follows SEC Southwest Conference has swung toward the Southeastern controversial grant-in-aid plan for putting football players through college SWC has voted for of intent" that commit tho high high school athlete to a certain college letters are signed by the boy and his parents not sooner than April 15 of his last year in high school They may be signed between April 15 and the September opening- SEC scholarships may be signed for as early as December of the senior year Otherwise the scholarships are about tho same as those of the SEC SWC disqualifies a boy for Spring sports- however if he signs a of intent" A college may not sign a Spring sports boy without obtaining the consent of his high school coach This disqualification anglo suggests that the high schools themselves feel a boy is becoming a sort of pro when ho signs a letter of in- tent SWC also bas put In a rule similar to the SECa Rule of 30 (freshmen signed to football scholarship) They are limiting the letter-of-intent crop to 22 incoming freshmen three Junior or senior college transfers who must put in a year of residence In 1941 recently was sworn into the Regulars Taylor who won two Silver Stars and a Purple Heart for gallantry in Korea was an organizer of famous Fourth 155 MM Howitzer Battalion in 1947 The Fourth" which had Medal of Honor winner Warrant Officer Harold Wilson Second Lt King Thatcnhurst and S-Sgt Cod Holman another Silver Star hero among others on its rolls was acUvated in August 1950 Shortly thereafter these men were to gain fame in Korea as one of the most decorated reserve outfits to be called into active duty A star gridder at Wedowee High shool in Wedowee Ala where his mother Mrs William Taylor now resides he migrated to Howard where he was to gain lasting fame as a football player Taylor began his Marine Corps career as an enlisted man in 1943 He went through boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego CaL He entered the Candidate Class in 1944 and earned the gold bars of a second lieutenant in November of that year He went to Okinawa in 1945 and from there to occupation duty in Japan before returning to the states in June 1946 for a discharge From 1946 until 1950- he worked for Railway Express in Birmingham He won his first Silver Star for gallantry during the famous breakout from the Chosen Reservoir in Korea in the Winter of 1950 After a short rest at Pusan Capt Taylor and the First Marine Division were in action again in February 1951 Later in what was to become known as Operation" during the Spring of 1951 Woody again displayed outstanding devotion to duty and won his second Stiver Star But he was wounded and returned to the United States for treatment SPECIAL Regular Price AIR CONDITIONER Regular $18 to $30 Value Saturday if I Woody Taylor Ex-Howard Grid Star Joins Marine Regulars "Hero'f What Wa I lnateR New Frateae Srake Lining an all Sheet 2 CleenJ Impact end Repack Freat Wkcal Bearingf 3 Inspect Greeie: Scab 4 Check bad Add Inks Fluid iff Full N1M BB00X SJOK 2702 bM 1 -STORE TL 51-1661 5 Adjust Brake Sheet to Secure Ceatectiwith Drams 6 Carefully Test Brakes BIRMINGHAM STORE Ate and 20th St 7-0304 ENSlfY tit KM it ROURBONl BY SGT JACK MANGUM USMC PARRIS ISLAND SC March 25 One of Howard College's all-time great athletes is on duty with the regular Marine Corps at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot here after serving 10 years in the reserves Capt William Taylor All-Dixie Conference tackle at Howard in 1940-41 andAU-American AEA CHOICE Freak Merrill ef the Cherceel Stock Home invites the teachers to comm hi mf try tho ootioo'a choico charccal 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