The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 12

APRIL ll, 1950 Curtis Faces in Challenge I Bout At Arena Here Tonight Cologne. Wolfe Billed As The ex-light heavyweight king nnnonto 'n Qpmi Fmol then put in requests that the match ponents bemi-hmal h.ive no time limit and that the Mat Scramble phantom be turfed to unmask if beaten. Here the Phantom balked Jack Curtis and "Black Phan- so match was signed as a 90- tom" get top billing at Gus Kallio's minute time limit aff.ui, vvinner- Arena here tonight when the hooded tike all. it beaten, the lan om grappler squares off against the "i'll not be forced to un mas former light heavyweight cham- George Cologne, New Orleans, pion to "show him ho ain't so hoi and Jot Wolfe. Columbus, have The Phantom, irked at Curtis for been matched in the semi-final what he termed "popping off" by ex ent Opening the show at.

8 o'clock, the Vicksburg flash, Challenged the The semi-final xxiii have an hour ex-champ during last week's five time limit txxo falls to xx in. man royal show at Kallio's Dave Silver- tein, district has been doing a lot of ling eommm-ioner, yesteiday ad- popping off," the masked matman vised Promoter Radio against the told Kallio. want a chance to sale of ringside tickets to children. show him how to wrestle just to The eommi -loners inquest did- i show him he ain' so sjjy hildren not br Curtis accepted the challenge allowed in any of the ringside readily, but the Phantom said an chairs, but he did ask that the kids oral agreement was not enough, be barred rom seats "too close to "Sign him to a contract or run the ring out on me," He said there is danger of chil- Curtis declared he has never ran Aren being hurt In-wrestlers falling Lorn a challenge yet or bein1 thrown out of the ring. The Phantom thin that it Kallio said he xxiii comply xxdh the he a xx inner-take-all match.

Curtis request, drawing the line a1 chil- again agreed dren under 12 yeais old. THI PAGE TWELVE Jackson of Camp LeJeune, and George Boddle of Dayton. Ohio, punched out a second round kayo of Dommie Ward, Tulsa, Okla Then Gil Turner of Philadelphia stopped Charlie Lincoln, Portland. with another first-round kayo. All these bouts except Turner were second round trials.

The other three drew byes in the first round hen Turner won a decision. In the 112-pound class Sherman Nelson of Philadelphia and Johnny Jackson of St. Ixmis won convincing first round decisions. Joe Dixon of Youngstown. Ohio, appeared the best of iho early contending iighl heavyweights xxdh his second round knockout victory of biddie Ross of Last St.

Louis, the only one in the class. Karl Williams of the Hawaiian team, a naxy sailor from Atlanta Ga and Wvliie Curtis forged to the front in the light weight claye. Williams proved a good boxer and Curtis' knockout victory as gained bx heavy punching. Organized Baseball Wants El Paso OPENING SEASON Club Owner To Stay Out Of Courts JfXAS LEAGUE Corbett Says He'll File Suit Against Trautman Ruling Today Few Unsung Scrappers Off To Good Start In NAAU Battles Dallas Shooting For New Minor League Attendance Record xx ho In es in Ohio. reed planning to sell ball club, but keep irk of the corpora) prc-s his suit.

The L. mp 3 Tex Monday the club with- id left for his home. 0 club owner says 1 or ales now pl iso. a party to the Ramirez wants to ier Felipe Hernan- By Joseph B. Kelley I BOSTON, April ll Four I pre-tournament favorites, txxo of I them recently crowned National Golden Glove titleholders.

and a few unsung yourn: boxers forged to the front Monday night in trial bouts of the 62nd National A A.I’. I Championship Boxing Tournament. I Richard Anderson of Cleveland, Ohio, recent xx inner of the National 1 Golden Gloves welterweight championship. appeared headed for a title in this three-dav competition. too.

He knocked ouf his np- poncm and xx on fey default from a second. I Anderson looked as if he had too I much and poxver for the rest of the field. So did a pair of heavyweights. another National Golden Gloves champion from I Washington, D. and Stan How- Met? of Madison.

Ill xx hose pcr- form arces pleaded 3.783 Boston I Garden spectators. I Lee easily outclassed Bunn Pitts I of Atlanta, in winning his first trial bout by a two-round knockout Hewlett also punched with tre- 1 mendous poxxer in gaining a one- round knockout victory. A third heavyweight who could mix up the dope is Louis Packer, a husky puncher who also registered a two- i round knockout. I Carl Miih, an army private from Fort Lewis, seemed capable of winning honors in the weight class, unless Sonny Ingram of North Little Rock. can show a stronger punch, Mills, who won an army title in I Japan, won his first txxo bouts by knockout.

Ingram shoxxed enough class in gaining a split decision in his first trial that he remains a I contender. He won his second by I default. Hawaii's switch-punching Charlie Kauhame, a losing finalist in 1948 who remained out of the sport last year, outpointed Walter Rawles of Norfolk, in a torrid fight in the 118-pound division and appeared a likely' prospect for the title. Rawles was a finalist last year. The 147-poand class became hotter as the night on Gene Fullmer of Salt Lake City.

touted for several days as the eventual winner, demonstrated he has the punch to do it with a first round knockout of John Melker of Baton Rouge, in I 56. However, unsung Bill Connerton, a Fort Bragg. N. paratrooper I representing the Carolinas dix ision i or the ANI also won by a first round knockout over Pvt. Frank By Harold V.

Ratliff DALLAS, It It looks like a minor league record for opening day attendance might he set here Tuesday night xx hen Dallas opens its Texas league season against Tulsa. More than 50,000 tickets for the game have already been sold and Dallas Owner Dick Burnett was hopeful of an all-time record for professional baseball Jersey City sold 61,164 tickets for opening game in 1941 to set the record. The huge Cotton Boxx! that seats 75,000 has been ren'ed for the gamp and nine former major league stars are being brought in to form the starting Dallas Une-up. Elsewhere Oklahoma tty xx ii! be at Fort Worth, Houston at Shrex eport and San Antonio at Beaumont as the Texas League starts its fifty fifth campaign Those three games will draw around 23.000 if good weather prevails. Thus a new opening day attendance record for the league is virtually certain.

The record is 70,424 made in eight games This year four games are due to bring in more than that. The all-time record opening at tendance for one club in organized baseball is 73,163 set at Cleveland in 1948 Burnett hopes to break this mark here, declaring that if Dallas can do it this city Will be making a strong hid fur a major league berth in the near future. Contributing mightily to Dallas' advance sale of more than 50 OOO tickets was a purchase of 13,000 I tickets today by the first National Bank of Dallas. The blink Will give tickets to every junior and senior high school student in Dallas. Old-timers who will appear the game and form the Dallas starting line-up until the first Tulsa better is disposed of or gets on base were arrixing today.

Kii'-1 to reach Dallas were Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane. Travis Jackson and Charlie Gehringer. Tomorrow' Home Run Baker, Dizv Dean, Duffy Lewis and Tris Speaker I come to town. Charlie Grimm the other former big leaguer who wo ll appear in the line-up, is a1- I ready here. He's manager of the Dallas club.

All of the old-'imers will be at a luncheon Tuesday noon. The opening ceremony Tuesday, night will include a speech by Goxemor Allan Shivers of Texas and a show by the Kilgore College Rangerettes. a galaxy of ca-' Texas beauties. The Kilgore Col lege band will play. Dizzy Dean will be the Dallas starting pitcher but as soon as he xxorks to one batter, Tom Finger.

a left-hander with a 4-6 record last year, will take the mound for the Eagles. Walter Cress, er who won 35 games last year at Tulsa, will open for the defending Texas League champions. At Fort Worth LeRoyT Wheat, a righthander who had an 18-9 record at Dayton, last season, will toe the hill for Oklahoma City. Chris van Cuyk. giant hander who won 14 at Fort Worth, will hurl for the Cans Bob Turley, righthander with a 23-5 record at Aberdeen.

S. in 1949, will start for San Antonio against Beaumont which will call on Clarence lott, veteran southpaw' who won five and lost nine last sea.xon Shreveport xxiii call on hander Andy Bush, who had an 8-5 record with Buffalo and Nashville last year, to oppose Joe Presko. righthander who won 14 and lost nine at Omaha. las said suit will bond be posted for le f1 Paso dub for any might suffer. Grant Easily Wins In River Oaks Play HOLSTON.

April ll. Bryan (Bitsy) Grant had little trouble Monday in winning his first round match in the sixteenth annual River Oaks Country Club Invitational Tennis Tournament. The little man from Atlanta, was the only favorite to see action Monday. Others drew' first round byes. Grant defeated Glen Henderson, University of Texas, 6-1, 6-2.

Ted Schroeder. La Crescenta, starts defense of his singles title Tuesday by tackling Hugh Sxxeeney, University of Houston. feature match is expected between Bob Falkenburg. former Wimbledon champion, and Bobby Curtis, Denver, Colo. Monday he won from Edgar Smith, Houston, 6-3.

6-4. Other results Monday included Gilbert Shea, Angeles. Calif youngster, defeated Brasewell, San Antonio, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3, and Charles Nettleton, University of Texas, heat L.aborde, Baytown, 6-3, 7-5. Herbert Karren, Southern Methodist, defeated Arlen Wolpert, Minneapolis Minn 6-2, 6-2. J.

Gilbert Hall, East Orange, defeated Dick Sutton, Beaumont, 6-0, 6-3. ROUNDUP VNR NS Ga ll nixrisitx of Georgia has hnished prin fool ball practne, but some of the boys were out "on their vn And in a downtown restaurant Coach Wally Butts was explaining the situation in a wa ilia? resembled a country-boy version of his pal Frank famous weeping act. I like to how some of cooches get the boyg out ten or twelve weeks, draw led Vi ally. I couldn't persuade them to do it. VV had five weeks and now they're just running around in shoris Last week xx tried a split pi 'I hex learned a lot the first three weeks but after examination- and the spring holiday they had to get in shape all over and dirin learn a thing And do you know xx ha! Bobby Dodd (bes the Georgia Tech coach' He said with those coal trikes in Pennsylvania and Ohio my boys were too busy reading labor news to pay any attention to football." BULL Mac 1 1 paid $7500 for Whitney Bandolier, prize Aberdeen- Angus bull Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney staged an auction sale of this breed at Old Westbury, the first ever held rn the New York area.

MacPhail, former president of the Yankees, breeds cattle and running horses on bis Glen Angus Far rn, Bel Air. Md. it is only cont rued xx db one of the three players Trautman said he sigh. Ibis is Venture Morales, an outfielder. It was reported here that Paul Hurth, chairman of the association executive committee, had asked office for file the rase and planned to set an early date for the hearing.

One of the points the attorneys for the two club owners were re- Mr holes that work while you alk. Cucumbers? Eskimos? Frosted Juleps? Nothing is Tooler than a alk-Ov cr koolie. Tigers, Lions Will Clash On Diamond The Neville High School Tigers and toe Ouachita Parish High School Lions, Monroe institutions tnat opened athletic relations with a football game last fail and a basketball series during the winter, will meet in their first regularly scheduled baseball game here Saturday night at Legion Memorial Stadium. It was reported yesterday that the schools had obtained permission to use the new baseball park here for toe game. Neville and Ouachita nines last appeared together in a game in 1932 at the old Forsythe Park, now site of the Swayze Natatonum here, in a playoff game toward the state championship.

Neviile, district champions of that year, lost to Ouachita in the state playoff game which had originally been slated for a tournament at Baton Rouge but was ordered played here after rain messed up the Baton Rouge tourney pians. 15 Teams Entering Junior Legion Play It A Rough Business Expounding on his team 's Butts insists the schedule is too lough for the The opposition ranges from Boston in tho east to St Mary in the West and every game is hard. got to make money to support our entire sports program." sax Wally. We don't got any money from the unix erritv. I don knoxx how much make at St Mal I smarted to schedule that when Jimmy Phelan was there and now find going to have some competition.

And I hear talk of playing the Boston College game at night. Those boys up there are so big I think we ought to have daylight so we can see them and ge: out of the way. The boys have to he strong and willing to play in thi- league, especially the quarterback the way they ti eat him around here. got to put their heads down and go into that iuv we can't have them peeking around Incidentally. after the crying towel is sopped Wally admits his team max do fairly well if Mal Cook, a six-foot-four quarterback who looks more like a tackle, lives up to expectations.

PARNELL TRIUMPHS GOODWOOD. Eng Vpril ll Parnell, of Britain drove a Mascrati to victory' for the second straight year Monday in the British Automobile Racing Club's Richmond Trophy event before a crowd of around 50,000. Parnell averaged 78.26 miles an hour for th" 27.5 mile event, raced in a gale and blinding rain. Morris Haas district thavirian of American Legion Junior baseball, last night said at least 55 teams within the Fifth District will compete for district honors this season. He announced the district will again be divided into two leagues The "South League will include Lake Providence.

Oak Grove, Delhi. Winnsboro, Ferriday, Jonesville, and Tallulah. In the North League will be Monroe. West Monroe. Farmerville, Ruston.

Bastrop Rayville, Columbia, and Jonesboro. Haas said any other Legion within the strict planning to field teams should communicate with nim immediately. The South League, he said. has already mapped plans to open its schedule on May 23 and play games twee a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until July 6 when playoffs begin. II.

MASUI A SOXS Longden Fails To Win On Four Mo; Mounts MELBOl RNE, April ll. -T Johnny Longden, crack American jockey, rode four more horses at the Caulfield course Monday but again failed to bring home a winner. None of the four even placed. Longden had four mounts Saturday. Only one of the eight, however, as rated a chance to xx in.

The little jockey plans to ride in Sydney Wednesday He will Shaughnessy, Albert Return To Help Stanford Gadders BRAND the whiskey that's as its Stanford's Head Coach Marehmont LMarchie Schwart. Albert, rated as the Stanford gridiron greatest grid alumnus and presently the on the proles," tonal San Francisco team, will advise Stanford quarterbacks during spring drill. Quote, Unquote Bucky Harris in a New Orleans newspaper Slaughter should be held up to every American boy as an ideal. His name should he school textbooks along in, this country heroes. He never quit.

He never will. He even let down. He is the greatest competitor ever to put on a big league The Columbia High School baseball team comes to Monroe today for a meeting with the Louisiana Training Institute Pelicans on the L.T.I. diamond at 3 Principal Kermit Youngblood said the battery will be LaGrange and Deese. It be the season opener for Columbia.

The Pelicans have played once, losing last week to Mer Rouge, ll to 3. FULLS OUT IRK April The Ind team withdrew im the National Basket- lation Maurice Podol- at, said owners of the a list of con- remaining in the pro- rcuit and the conditions do urn. No 11 who you now owe or where you live, see us about ducing your car ments, lending you more cosh, or BOTH. Ander sot Monday Hero Of Rose Bowl Games Joins Pro Eagles off, preside franchise for fessionai cl ere fume to PHILADELPHIA, April 11 JP) The Philadelphia Eagles announced Monday the signing of Jimmy Toe1 Hague, the Ohio state end whose dramatic last-minute field goal won the 1950 Rose Bowl Game. Hague booted a three-pointer to give Ohio State a 17-14 victory over Southern California at Pasadena on Jan.

2. His placekicks after touchdown had earned him the nickname "Golden long before the game-winning boot. Hag whose home is just outside Cleveland, is 21 years old. stand1- xix feet one and weighs 192 pounds. Monroe All-Stars Win Over Winnsboro Negroes Says Calvert Just ask for our Mr.

Dennis or Mr. Har- buck. Five private fices where we lend cash in IO minutes on almost anything of value! The 'onroe All-Stars opened their season Sunday with a IO to 9 victory over the Winnsboro Tigers at Casino Park here. Both Negro clubs showed room for improvement. however, and Manager Joe Gulledge of the All-Stars says looking for strength in pitching and more experience at first base.

The All-Stars will play the Alexandria Phillips here next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 clock at Casino Park. Come over on the SUNNY BROOK side! Every time I taste this whiskey, I realize what a wealth of Kentucky goodness is to be found "on the Sunny Brook Stop admiring that highball and drink it down- down- Jd Refusal Of License Is Upheld Stop Worrying About Skin Itch MOTORS SECURITIES COMPANY, INC brand BATON ROI GF. April District Court here Monday upheld the Louisiana Raxing Commission right to refuse a horse trainei request for a license. Di triot Judge Carlos Spaht ruled against Larry J. Getz of New Orican who had filed a suit seeking a court order to force the commission to issue him a license.

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