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Open Crown In Westby Tournament Resume Action In Snowflake Meet Sunday WESTBY, Win. (Spacial)- Htprh rids Id down the length of here Saturday the Wisconsin Open championships -t fit-t pha'p of the annual Snowflake Ski Club tournament were run off at Anderson Hill before approximately 2.000 people. A much larger crowd is exacted Sunday when the annual snowflake Club meet, sanctioned bv the I Central Ski Association, nm of? beginning at 1:30 pm. Club officials said the chilly Heather of Saturday was not felt the spectators standing at the foot of the hill as much as it was the contestants who had to buck the wind coming off the scaffold. A cia! feature of Sundav's Competition will be the crowning of the 1955 ski Queen, Bonnie Abed, a 17-year-old high school nt from Viola, Wis.

Miss A licit will bf' crowned In ceremonies commencing at I rn. ihd the Jumping SCttVttW WITT begin following the ceremonies. 4 4 Road and parking conditions were good, Snowflake Club officials said, and they as.sured tutors planning on attending Sun competition then- would is plenty of hot coffee and refresh Dwnts available on the grounds. Clarence Hill, the veteran from Ishpeming, becoming the Badger open champion by taking Class A honors in the unofficial rom Its announc ed at the hill following the Judges were exported to have the official results Compiled by late Saturday night. Hill had the longest jump of the d.iv, a 100-foot effort in his second attempt, after leaping 177 feet the first time.

Another veteran, Ralph Blet! I a of Ishpeming, finished second to Hill with jumps of 175 and 17s feet. Finishing third In the class A competition Saturday was Rob Beeman of Madison. Leeman leaped 168 feet and 181 feet. Champion in was Jack Braula, brother of the runnerup in cla-s A. Jack Rietila had Jump of 171 feet and 1G6 let I to pace tile class field.

ii ti ii Gordie Sundgaurd of St. a took second place honors in clos with 149 and 143-foot, jumps Jack Hooper, an Iron Mountain, entrant, jumped 160 (rd and 155 feet to tim third in class In Order for of the first three plac es in Sour events of the two-day ski jumping program of the Westby Snowflake Ski Club. Howard Johnson (left), president of the club, does the honors. The others, from left, are: Clarence HIU, Ishpeming, first: Ralph- Hietila, Ishpeming, second; and Rob Leeman, Madison, third. The annual event closes late Sunday afternoon.

Photo Jerry Lewis of Duluth, Minn Won the competition In jumping 161 feet and I'd feet. He Wo- followed by Stive Minneapolis, who Jumped 153 feet and 149 feet. An Eau Claire rider, ll a Hamms, rounded out the Class leaders by taking third place on Jumps of 143 and 143 feet. Lloyd Severude, the veteran from Eau Claire, was the I of the senior class riders. Severude cl.limed first in this division with Jump- of 148 and 151 feet.

Trailing liehind Severude were: Herb Feddick, Duluth, 14 4 and 14s; and Bob Motteststadt, Eau Claire. 143 feet and 146 feet. Winners of competition will receive numerous awards, including merchandize prizes, phic- and medals. The cross country phase of the two day tournament was post po'iod Saturday and rescheduled for Sunday morning. Will Ile Taken from Coulee Region folks to relate es and frinds in Norway bv Mr.

and Mrs. Johan Haugen, Llllehammer, Norway, wiio will be at a stand marked by a Norwegian flag at program of the Westby Snowflake Ski Club. The 11 an pons will return to Norway within a few days, promising to con. i me-sages to residents in the Lllleharnrner, Tynset and Lorn areas. They are shown with Arthur Tokle (center), Chicago, who competed in Saturday's events at Tribune Chou NCAA Group Maps Video Grid Program By AULEA AMMERL UN CHICAGO oft The newly-named television committee next week ill gin tackling the k-j Hah problem of mapping a 1935 football video program agreeable I to all, especially the Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences.

The 12-tnan group will hold the first of an expected aeries of meetings Tuesday and Wednesday (in Chicago. Four steps will be taken at the 'organization session) I development of a permanent administrative organization: kit of a chairman and other of fliers, of a timetable for developing the 1955 plan; 4-discussion rf the 1955 plan. OOO Never before has an NCAA TYj faced with such a thorny and potentially explosive issue. The powerful Big Ten and Pacific Coast conferences are solidly aligned for nationally controlled regional television. They have served notice they will not participate in any plan patterned on the restricted national of the week" program In effect the last foul years and threaten to go It alone lf the dei lines to liberalize its policy.

The committee also must labor against a backdrop of political pressure points. Resolutions are pending the legislatures of Pennsylvania a 1 aryls? Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio and oihe. states demanding Blore freedom of tax- supported universities to televise football. 4 4 4 Two mrmbei of the NT AA committee charged with carrying on The fight for regional TV are athletic directors Mills of Illinois and Harvey C. Candil of the; University of Washington.

Casslll was chairman ot the 1951 group and has announced he will yield that position. A pair of so-called middle-of-the- road committee members are Earl S. Fulibook, University of Nebraska faculty representative and a good bet to become chairman, and Walter Byers, NCAA executive director. Heading the campaign in the committee for retention of essentially the same national limited program is Asa S. Bushnell, commissioner of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, made up of JOI members.

A Bad Spill was the misfortune of Ralph BieMa, Ishpeming, in Class A events of the Westby ski championships. Hill are shown hurrying who escaped injury. i toward the Michigan man, -Tribe ne Archie Hahn, Ex-Olympic Star, Dies Ameche-Led Cagers Play Ziehmes Here Bartholomew Wins Mile To lets i Record Lead In State Skate Event CHARLOTTESVILLE. of- Archie Hahn, former U.S. Olympic sprint star and coach of the University of Virginia track team 22 years until his retirement in 1951, died late Friday night at his home here.

He was 74. Death came after a long Illness of the of Michigan track great who reached the peak of his fame in the 1904 Olympics at St. Louis, when he won three sprint championships. Hahn, a law graduate who never practiced law a day in his life, came to the University of Virginia as track coach in 1929 and gave the university some of its finest teams before retiring. He as graduated from Michigan I in HMH and that same year swept the 60, IOO and 200-meter sprigs tin the Ob.

mpio games. In I Olympics gt Athens he copped I only sprint event held, the luO meters. In I competition. Hahn the Rig Ten splint champion in 1901-02-0 04. He was national sprint champion in Re won the Canadian sprint title in 1903.

NEW YORK The veteran! Lebnir said Mulloy acknowledged Probably best known il aru nar Mu boy of Miami. The irregularities in the conduct compllshment was his feat of out- was handed a suspension for ama- Miami tournament. However running a race horse in a 50-yard tour violations Sturday and the penalty was viewed as a token qash at a fair in Wisconsin in 1910, Pacific Coast took a dominant since it does not prevent the came when he was a pro- role in the annual meeting of the Florida player from competing in fusional during the decade fob Danny And His New Bride, the former Veronica Sharkey. were married In Montclair Saint Church Saturday. They are shown in an automobile following the ceremony.

onnell is the No. I second baseman of the Milwaukee Braves. Gardnar Mulloy Suspended By U.S. Lawn Tennis Association MILWAUKEE Lf National! Juvenile boys 22b I Zichm.s ba ketbali Lam of the 1 hampion Ken Bartholomew of tile Weisel, Whitefish Bay, 2. city Classic hague xxiii entertain lot horn club, Minneapolis, won Tim Brady, St.

Paul; J. Dennis the Wisconsin Seniors, one mile event Saturday he Minneapolis ,21.8. Alan (The Horse) Ame che, here the lead in the senior mens, 4 4 4 Mom lay. Fell. 7.

of the Great lathes skating The contest will played at Central high school gymnasium. Bartholomew covered the-mile in outfit is of minutes to defeat Stan Fall other Wisconsin Los Angeles, runnerup, and Dick Kotos, Whitefish Bay, WU tholomew now has a total of (joints while Fall has in the meet which ends Sunday. 4 4 4 Pat Gibson of the host West club was leading the senior womens apolis. .45.1. team is scheduled also with BO points.

She! Juvenile girls another appearance in this area won both the 440 and 880 events Raimann, West I ln II OXX (iary i grid and Paul Morrow, the Badger basketball center, iddition to Ameche and Mortice Badger squad includes Measlier, captain of the 1954 squad; Bob Gingrass, Clary Midget boys 40-1. Don Reno, Champagne, 2. Dennis Dolan, St. Paul; 3. Bob Bus se, Madison.

.47.1. Intermediate girl- 44u 1. Br.dt and WU The same on. ishful.Sunday* Jan. 30, playing the gor Old Styles at Galesville un- Boston Red Sox Will Put Williams On Spring Roster BOSTON lift It may bo xx thinking, but slugging outfielder Ted Williams was among the 45 players lifted by the Boston Red Sox Saturday to report for the opening of baseball spring training Marquette To Switch March I at Sarasota, Fla.

i Williams has affirmed repeatedly Detroit Tilt To Arena I MILWAUKEE Oft find ing out at Marquette (that it possible to show a little from an athletic team. For the first time in its history par. in :54.6, bettering the Karen Smith, Minneapolis; 2. Carol American record set last Hklund 3, Barbara pen Meyer, St Paul. .44.6.

Junior gills 44.) I. Novak, Cine ago; 2. Sandra Eave, Alii- Minneap'iis 3. Liz Brindley United States Lawn Tennis Asso-'major uition. These were other major develop- Mullov was set down until March rnents in a stormy, four-hour ses- 24 for practices in a Miami tennis boon, tournament last February.

Jhe sus-j The west coast pension, covering six months but showed unexpected voting strength much of it retroactive, was de-1 and forced a change in the pro- COLUMBUS, Ohio UPL- An filled by Harold A. Lebair, chair- posi'd date of the national tennis State swimming team Saturday set of amateur rules at Forest Hills. a new world record for the mittee. as the stiffest penalty ii: making them run consecutively yard medley relay, clipping memory. seconds from the 3:52 record set 41-year-old Mulloy, a- direc- bv a Soviet team last year.

The of the Miami tournament, was Buckeye medley relay team did it of paying some contes- in 3-48 at an AAU meet here. tanla more than the promised fee Another record was set as cutting others below the ex Wiggins, Buckeye sophomore, promised. alone in an exhibition Be originally was suspended, ef- did the 100-yard butterfly Sept, 24. by the previous amateur rules committee and this year by was upheld by the executive lowing his last Olympic victory, Hahn was born in Dodgeville, Vt Sept. 13, 188o.

Funeral services will be held at delegation. lllt, presbyter! an church here at 3 30 p.m. Sunday Monticello Memorial Park. Survivors include the widow, one son and two daughters, with the Davis Cup chaUenKJ gut his start in coaching at round tentatively set for Aug College, Monmouth, 111. 28.

The dates are Aug 29-Sept. 8,80 Uved fur 8 limP in 2. San Francisco bid for I1! and got the 1936 meeting of the USLT.V re for the first time the convention! xviii have been held on the Pacific! Cincy Paper Says Baarcke of North Carolina. time was :57.3. Wiggins was a nu mber of lite record-setting medley team, swimming the butterfly in :56 for that event.

Ticket Demand Forces 44(i 1. Gloria Allis; 2. Pat Saturday. St. Paul; 3.

Sharyl Yarwood, Tied for third place with 20 points i Minneapolis. .50.9. each in senior Womens were Joan! Midget girls 440 I. Sandra Guild of St. Louis, Mary Maland Kittoe, West Allis; 2.

Anne Neale. I of Minneapolis and Karen Mattson Whitefish Box; 3. Chen Brill decision to quit base ball. But speculation has been plentiful most of It suggesting Ted, a of fast changing moods and a flair for the dramatic, would be back. St.

Paul, Minn. Summaries: Senior men 220 West Allis, WL; 2. University Chicago; 3. Ken Minneapolis. 2.02.

Whitefish Bay. .56. 2. Kansas State Fails To Name Football Coach committee of the USLTA in meeting Friday night. Mulloy.

who is studying the oil business In Denver, flew in to pre- ent his case but left this morning, apparently after reaching a with the tennis of- Floris fie i a Is. Coast. Dates will be fixed later. 3. Gilbert Shea of Presidio.

Calif. I TlSn Assistant was raised from No. 15 to No. 1 a i in the national singles VJGt rOSlflOn a ings, dropping Herbert Flam of! CINCINNATI tft -The Cincinnati Beverly Hills, to lith andlTimes Star said Saturday that all others in between one notch. George Dickson, an assistant at 4.

Other rankings remained fixed Notre Dame, will be with Victor Seixas of named head football coach at topping the division and I Xavier University. The job has Hart ut Coral Gables, Fla been open Rd Kluska heading the women's singles. signed several weeks ago. Recreation Standings I. Bill Ca row.

Dick Webbank, Bartholomew. Senior men 3 4 mile I. Stan JAM Vt League Team WonLost PXH Sport Shop IO I bos 5-Mlle House 8 a 800! 7 ichme'g 8 3 ,727 Crosse Rubber Mills 7 3.700' Peter Nelson Son 4 600 6 4 .600 Trane Co. 8 I Strike Pontiac 55500 Arent Shoe Co.5ft .455 8 .333 DeMolax 3 7 300 I IO no Mickey a Chieta0 ii lire-Blee League al Lo(an Team WonLostPet St-r 3 0 I OOO I.833 Fire 3 2 HOO Oooae Green 3 a .600 wrestlers 3 a SOO Ferris' Belate 2.500 Shot-Rods 2 2 .500 Chetter-BoiesI 3 400 Hoosiers23400 Rum Losers I 4 200 Isotope sI4.200 Hum a a OOO Coing Shanty league al Central TeamWonLostPet 0 op Shots 6 0 I OOO The Unholy rise ft I 5 2714 s.oppera5 3 714 I 5280 The Hole a 280 Rink y-Dtnka I .167 a a .167 the metropolitan Milwaukee school is moving a scheduled game into larger quarters to take care of the heavy ticket demand. The reason, of course, is the Warrior basketball squad, currently riding a 13-game winning streak which tops the nation, ranked lath in the sociated Press poll.

Athletic director C. J. Jennings -aid Saturday night that Marquette's Feb. 14 game with the University of Detroit is being transferred from Lite school's 2.OOO- Ken capacity gymnasium to the seat downtown Arena. possibly handle the ticket requests at tho said have a full house at the NEW YORK UP phia Warriors went on a red hot 'hooting streak in the second and Fall, Los Angeles; 2.

Bartholomew; 3. Dick Rotas, Whitefish Bay 2.197. Senior men I mile I. Bartholomew; 2. Stan Fall; 3.

Rotas. 3.014. 4 4 4 Senior women 440 I. Pat Gibson. Wes Allis; 2.

Join Gadd, St. As- Ixjuis; 3. Mary Maland, St Paul 1.428. Senior women 880 I. Gibson 2.

Karen Mattson, St Paul; Mary Maland. 1.369. Senior men class rso Goetomskl, Wo-q Alii1- 2. George Williams, Allis; 3 Robert Schwan, Milwaukee 1.35. Intermediate boys 220 I.

Duane Riley, Madison, 2. Lee Thorsen, Minneapolis, 3. Dave Mars, St. Louis. 2.06.

Intermediate boys mile I Floyd Beddvry, St. Paul; 2. Lee Radtke. Minneapolis; 3 Andy Ro: Philadel- West Allis. 2.15 6.

Junior Boys 4to Dave Illinois Golfer In Three-Way Playoff In Georgia Tourney MANHATTAN, Ran. UP The! Kansas State College Athletic! Council adjourned a lengthy ses- -ion Saturday without naming a successor to head football coach SEA ISLAND, UP- Frank Bill Meek. Justin, a 62-year-old Harvard. 111., Part of the session devoted motor car dealer, sank a 15-foot to interviewing Bernard putt Saturday to in a three-way Merles, an ex-professlanal star anti playoff for the Sea Island Senior assistant to Meek the past two' Invitational Golf championship. Tournament seasons.

Friday the Council talked with Bob Blackman, head coach at JIM," finished nj, to. triple Eulott. assistant at a 154 with Prank hdwnMs. SS. oklahoma 11(lb Friedlund Spartanburg and freeman raubwh vniversitv Meek resigned earlier this week Justin jjosp'tl a tour ox it par 7b 1 1 to accept a 5-year contract at the to go with his 78 I- aday.

In a sudden-death playoff, Justin i fired a birdie three, Edwards a par four and Darby went one over par. harles Evans, oi who is now 64, shot an for a 165, well out of the running. Zaharias In Lead University of Houston. It was understood Friedlund was out of the picture and the Council will pick its man from the original three invited candidates- Blackman, Elliott and Mertes. The Council plans another session early next week.

third periods and then staved off Arend'. Cedar Rapids Iowa a fourth quarter rallv by the Bon Eikaas, Minneapolis; 3. Hnicks to defeat New York Minneapolis in a nationally televised NBAj Junior boys game Saturday. t2. Amids, 3.

38.b. 880 I. Eikaas; Ramie, 1 44 4, TAMPA, Fla, UP Babe Zaharias 'ouk a one-stroke margin Satur- 2 day after three rounds of the Bob Tampa Open golf tournament. Mrs. Zaharias had 221 to 222 for Louise Suggs and Beverly Hanson.

Perkowski, Tappe Sign With Cubs CHICAGO Lft -Two players obtained last fall from the Cincinnati Redlegs, pitcher Harry Perkowski and outfielder Ted Tappe, signed I 1955 contracts with the Chicago Cutis Saturday. CAR LOANS PROVE BEST When you see this emblem 'BANK- LOAN PLAN" it means that you can finance your new car at The National Bank with a loan that you can pay back out of income. You can ba assured of confidential, quick and friendly service at reasonable The NATIONAL BANK of LA CROSSE 114 North Fourth a Site Sunday Srilntnf Page 22 Sunday, January 23, 1955 Clarence Hill Captures Wisconsin.

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