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wptfhesday. Ma reft 23, 1330 DETROIT FhcE Irfcggg 0 Go Toronto etroit (8T8 Reds Hammer They Shall Not Pass The Wings Didn't S9 Howe TT jljl It louiLiieiiiaii Hurt in Lopsided Cup Opener Leafs Extend Playoff Jinx over Wings to 12 BY MARSHALL DANN When it came down to real i i to 7 to in Li- 5 if (H1 -H as business, the Red Wings just Vv 'TlillMW Jt jRip Art for 10 Runs; Triple Play Hurts Tigers BY LYALL SMITH LAKELAND, Fla. The winds blew for the second straight day, but only the Cincinnati Reds liked it. They poled out 18 hits to win an easy 12-7 decision from the Tigers as they continued to dominate Grapefruit League standings with a record of 11 victories and four defeats. Jt I 3i SJV "i 1 Free Press Dhoto by Rav Glonka ing to the side.

Shown qre: (left to right) Ted Lindsay, of Detroit; McCormack, Broda, and Bill Barilko (all of Toronto); Red Kelly and Joe Carveth, of the Wings. Toronto rolled to its fifth straight playoff victory over the Wings, 5-0. Goalie Turk Broda, of Toronto, put on one of his most dazzling exhibitions to stop the Wings cold in the Cup series opener. He received plenty of assistance from his mates as this picture shows. Broda was pulled out of the nets but John McCormack was on the spot to help send the shot carom- HOSPITAL REPORTS DISCOURAGING OSS Team Physician Dr.

C. L. Tomsu, and Harper Hospital, were discouraging. The preliminary examination showed Howe to have suffered a deep cut in his right eyeball, a fractured nose, a possible fractured cheekbone and a fractured skull according to Manager Jack Adams. Not Vvings ornes owe Howe Finds Goal Mouth Closed didn't have it.

Detroit's much-hailed National Hockey League champions were trounced, humiliated and outscored in their first 1950 venture into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Their most hated rivals, the To ronto Maple Leafs, breezed to a 5-0 rout, and they rubbed it in besides. SOME 13,659 unbelieving fans at Olympia saw their heroes take their worst physical and psychological beating this season right on home ice. Maybe it was the much dis- cussed Toronto jinx Detroit now has lost 12 straight playoff games to the Leafs. But more likely it was Toronto's harder hitting, better shooting, superior skating plus a great show in the nets by Goalie Turk Broda.

Much as expected, the first period was devoted to feeling each other out, and was scoreless. The Leafs apparently liked what they found in the probe, lor they thrived heartily on it. THEY CRASHED through with Joe Klukay's goal just 10 seconds after the second session opened. They followed up with tallies by Bill Barilko and John McCormack in the next 11 minutes. With a 3-0 lead, Toronto could have coasted.

Instead the pressure was continued in the brutal third period, Cal Gardner tallying before Klukay added his second goal of the evening. Olympia ice was no place for the timid, for Referee George Gravel kept busy, calling 21 penalties and breaking up five earnest fist fights. It was the sort of thing that usually happens when Toronto and Detroit, the most rugged teams in hockey, collide. The reversal may have been doubly costly. Gordie Howe, the Wings leading scorer this season, was crashed to the ice in the third period by Ted Kennedy and was carried off bleeding on a stretcher.

A report from the dressing room stated that Howe suffered a serious eye injury and was rushed to Harper Hospital. AFTER THAT, finesse if there ever was any was aban-" doned completely. There was no effort to score by the Wings, bitter over the defeat, Howe's injury and the failure of Kennedy to get a penalty. It was hit hit hit, and the Leafs were willing to mix it. Toronton had the edge in play, outshooting Detroit, 31 to 20.

Broda was credited with 20 saves but only three were tough ones. Two of those were on Howe, one on Ted Linfisay, while Steve Black hit the post in the early minutes on the best chance. THE VAUNTED Lindsay-Howe-Sid Abel combo, which produced 92 goals in fche season, was held well in check by Toronto's line of Gardner. Harry Watson and Howie Meeker. Harry Lumley couldn't stop the avalanche alone.

He made eight excellent saves among his 26 and couldn't be blamed heavily for any of the five which got by. The Leafss stern devotees of heavy practices simply had too much speed for the Wings, who were awkward as well as slow. Their playoff rest in Toledo hadn't helped a bit. They looked as if they needed more hard work. They were ill prepared for anything so tough as this.

LACK OF SPEED in the defense was responsible for two goals, and laxness in clearing the puck from the Wings' own end cost two others. Toronto gathered its opening tally from the second-period face-off. Max Bentley passed to Barilko, whose relay put Klukay in the clear after he had swept around Jack Stewart. Klukay drilled in a neat 12-foot backhander. The Wings were a man short, Lindsay being off, when the second came.

Detroit was unable to clear a loose puck from beside its net, and Barilko picked it up and swooped in to fire a five-footer. McCormack's goal came while Detroit had a man edge but was pinned in its own zone by aggressive forechecking. Vic Lvnn set up the play for McCormack's delivery into an empty net. HOWIE MEEKER sped around Lee Fogolin and offered Gardner a perfect passout. Lumley was all alone, a siting duck for the hard 10-foot blast.

While toying with the Wings in the final period. Klukay and Ray Timgren collaborated on an easy passing play for No. 5. TORONTO DETROIT Lumley Mortfton KrllT Thomson Stewart KliikaT Centura Timcren Black Toronto spare Watson. Boetch.

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Black. 5- game started out as a circus but then settled down after the fifth inning when both starters, Art Houtteman ai.d Ewell Blackwell, left the premises in favor of Ray Herbert anil Johnny Hetki. IT PRODUCED a triple play by the Reds in the first frame and then saw a decision by Umpire Lou Jorda that resulted in Red Rolfe being chased from a game for the first time in his managerial career. The Reds belted out three home runs. Johnny Upon opened the game with one for the Tigers, who were held to just eight hits, despite the high winds blowing toward the convenient left-field wall.

Houtteman allowed 15 hits and 10 runs in the five innings he labored while Herbert was untouchable until his last frame, when Ron Northey hit a home run with a mate on base. Herbert, who like Houtteman is a Catholic Central High School product, now has allowed three runs and eight hits in 10 innings of Grapefruit League competition. THE REDS, who now have won six straight games, opened up on Houtteman with a bang. Grady Hatton led off with a double, Johnny Wyrostek chased him home with a triple and Danny Litwhiler followed with a home run before the scant gathering of 824 fans had settled down. Detroit had Blackwell in just as much trouble in its half of the first inning.

Lipon opened with his homer and George Kell and Jerry Priddy followed with singles. When Vic Wertz walked, the bases were loaded with no outs. Hoot Evers was plunked in the back with a Blackwell side arm curve ball, a happening to be duplicated three innings later. That act forced in one run, and Blackie walked Johnny Groth to force in a second one. DICK KRYIIOSKI laid his bat on a fast ball and whistled a low liner toward left center field.

But Shortstop Virgil Stallcup speared the drive off his shoetops. He stepped on second to double Evers and then threw the ball to First Baseman Ted Kluszewski in plenty of time to catch Groth, who also had left base with Kryhoski's swing. triple play, first of the season here, broke Detroit's back, A rank decision by Jorda in the second inning didn't help. After Blackwell had walked the first two batters to face him, Lipon laid down a bunt. Hatton's throw was wide of first base, and Kluszewski left the bag to keep the ball from going into r5ght-field foul territory.

Jorda, a National League veteran, called Lipon out and was the only person in the park who thought so. Even Kluszewski wore a sheepish grin, but Jorda proceeded to kick Rolfe out of the game for protesting. Then he chased Outfielder George Lerchen from the bench for questioning his eyesight. THE REDS added four more runs on as many hits in the third, including a triple by Kluszewski and a homer by Catcher Walker Cooper. They added -three more on six hits in the fifth, including two doubles.

They would have made more but for a great throw by Evers to catch a runner at third base and a pickoff play at second by Houtteman. THAT GAVE the Redlegs 10 runs and the Tigers couldn catch them as they dropped their fourth game in five tussles with the Cincinnatians, who are the hottest thing in the training season. CINCINNATI NL) DETROIT (ALI AB II A AB II A 4 1 I.iimn.sK 2 4 4 5 3 a 5 'i 0 0 3 0 Kell. Mb 5 2 3 l.itwTr.lf 4 2 3 Wertz.rf 3 0 3 I 1 Evcrs.lf 2 1 Artwork. I 3 14 1 of 4 1 NnrthVv.rf 5 3 2 0 Kr.vh'ki.l 4 Cooper.c 3 2 1 3 1 2 1 I 8 5 llnnell.r 2 1 1 lli.nt'inn 1 ft I Stallcun.s 5 15 2 allnuse 1 Kleln.2li 5 113 Herbert.

1 3 1 1 Hetki. 1 1 Totals 42 18 27 8 Totals 32 8 27 IT a(irounded to Klein for Houtteman in fifth. Cincinnati 304 030 00 2 12 DETROIT 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 7 Wtrostek 2. Litwhiler S. Kluszew-ski.

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UP Priddy. Lipon and Kryhoski. TP stallcnp and Kluszewski. LB Cincinnati 5. Detroit 8.

BB Blackwell C. Hetki 1. Herbert 2. SO Blackwell 1. Hetki 1.

Houtteman 5. II Blackwell 8 in A. Hetki in 1. Houtteman 15 in 5. Herbert 3 in 4.

WP Blackwell. LP Houtteman. MSG Netted CHAPEL HILL, N. (P) The University of North Carolina tennis team turned back Michigan State, 9 to 1, for their second straight victory over the Spartans. This game started Lost to Wings 1 -1 Jt Cordis Howe, Detroit's sensational forward, won't see any more action tliis season.

Howe was seriously injured in Tuesday's opening game when jammed against the boards. The youthful scoring star suffered a fractured skull, brain concussion, fractured nose, cut in the right eye and a possible fracture of "ffie jaw. Gophers Set Job Parley Candidates for Sports Boss to Be Sifted MINNEAPOLIS (JP) A selection committee will meet next Monday to discuss several "prospects" for the athletic directorship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. J.

L. Morrill, university president, indicated that no more candidates would be brought in for interview in the hunt for a successor to Frank McCormick, who recently resigned as athletic director. THE NEXT regular meeting of the university board of regents is scheduled for April 14. Final approval of a candidate for the post will be up to the regents. While several outsiders have met with university officials regarding the appointment, Bernie Hierman, head football coach, and Ed Haislet, director of alumni relations at the Gopher school, are considered still in the running.

Both have alumni backing. Those interviewed included Phil Bengtson, assistant coach at Stanford; Walter Hargesheimer. assistant coach at Southern California; Ike Armstrong, athletic director and head football coach at Utah, and Gordon Fisher, track Coach at Indiana. HEAD PIN BLUES 8 Splits Really Hurt Having your bowling troubles? If you are they probably can't compare with what happened to H. Lloyd Clawson, a 160-aver-age.

kegler in the Red Run Golf and Bowling League Tuesday at Red Run Lanes. Clawson ran into eight splits In a single game. His score 85! Kocsis Heads WGA List Chuck Kocsis, of Red Run, heads a list of nine golfers appointed associate directors of the Western Golf Association. The others are Fred Kammer, of Country Club; Jim Phelan, of Meadowbrook; Bill Reno, of Grosse lie; Cass Miller, of Orchard Lake; George Golanty, of Franklin Hills; C. C.

DeWolf, of Birmingham; Roy Pero, of Western, and John J. Danhoff, of Lochmoor. Hockey STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF (Best four out of seven) SERIES A GF GA Toronto 10 0 5 DETROIT 0 10 0 TUESDAY'S RESULTS Toronto 5, DETROIT 0. THURSDAY'S GAME Toronto at DETROIT. SERIES WEDNESDAY'S GAME Montreal at New York.

Best four of seven games.) GORDIE HOWE GOES IN ALL ALONE ON A BREAKAWAY IN FIRST PERIOD But Turk Broda moved out in front and successfully smothered the shot asne The great Detroit forward was hurt at 8:37 of the third period. HOW HE WAS hurt brought forth a wave of conflicting stories. The version depended on whom you talked to. There was only one point in which all parties wjre in agree 4l Ut ft 4 at. 4" THROUGH the championship but Wolcott?" asked Bocchicchio.

"I'm sorry Charles has been injured after twice successfully defending his title after deci-sioning Walcott in his match for the NBA title," Felix said. "But if Charles is to be retired because of an injury, then Walcott should fall heir to the title." Bocchicchio said Walcott is the only heavyweight to go the distance against Charles and since has knocked out his last four opponents. Bocchicchio said he has wired NBA Commissioner Abe Greene that "we are laying claim to the title providing Charles definitely is out of boxing." AT TIDS SAME time, Bocchic- La Motta Scores TKO over Hunter CLEVELAND (JP) Middleweight Champion Jake La Motta scored a technical knockout over Chuck Hunter at 59 seconds of the sixth round after administering a severe beating to the Cleveland fighter in a scheduled 10-round, non-title bout. Farrell Captures Slim Cue Victory Jerry Farrell defeated Leonard Chapman, 44 to 42, in 75 innings in a three-cushion handicap billiard match at Detroit Recreation. him and saw Howe coming in to check me.

"I stepped aside and Howe crashed headlong into the boards. I'll take an oath that to the best of my knowledge my stick never touched Howe. I'd never want to see a thing like that happen to anyone. I skated over to the Detroit bench and told Coach Tommy Ivan that." Here's Ivan's version: "If he didn't hit Howe with his stick, why would he skate over and apologize I am not saying it was deliberate but it was a check made with the butt end of Kennedy's stick. He isn't the only player in the league who checks with the butt.

Lots of them do." Capt. Sid Abel: "How ii the dickens can he he didn't hit Gordie?" Goalie Harry Lumley: "Kennedy is a liar." "I have my own idea of what happened, but I'm keeping it to myself. I plan no protest to League President Clarence Campbell. The referee didn't even call a penalty on the play, so what could we do." Toronto Manager Conn Hmythe: "Ihad a perfect view of the play, although it happened on the other side of the ice from where I was sitting. Kennedy's stick never touched Howe.

Jack Stewart crashed into him after he hit the boards." RED WING Manager Tommy Ivan was too shaken to figure out what he'd do for the second game Thursday in view of Howe's injury. "We won't know until we get the X-rays and a com-i plete examination just how to figure. Right now you'd have to feel that Gordie would be out for the entire playoffs. "He was bleeding so badly when they carried him out that it was hard to make the early examination here. The fear of a skull fracture arises from the fact that his head hit the ice after the crash into the boards." "The loss of Howe for the entire cup series would be a staggering blow." "I haven't even had time to think who I'd put on the line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay.

It could be any right winger on the squad." WHILE THE worry over Howe was paramount with Ivan, he expressed keen disappointment over Detroit's play in the opener. "We were very bad that's all there is to it," he said. "We were definitely down. It was one of those nights when we couldn't untrack ourselves." Ivan thought that the turning point of the game was when Leaf Goalie Turk Broda beat Howe at close range in the first period while the score was 0-0. "If we'd got that one," the Wing coach continued, "it would have made a tremendous difference." THE TORONTO dressing room, in contrast, was noisy.

Manager Smythe shouted as the Leafs trooped in: 'Great going, gang. Only seven more to go." Smythe had praise for all the Leafs, but singled out Broda. Cal Gardner and his rookie. Johnny McCormack. 29 on Ice There are 29 professional ice hockey teams, representing an equal number of cities, in the UnitedBtates.

ment. That was: Teeder Kennedy of the Maple Leafs had possession of the puck at the Red line when Howe came up to check him. From there tn the descriptions vary widely. Here's what Kennedy says: "I had the puck right about center ice when I saw Sid Smith ahead of me. I passed ahead to chio announced that he expects to complete, by Friday, a much discussed match between Walcott and Hein Ten Hoff, German heavyweight champion, at Man-heim, Germany, May 7.

Said Bocchicchio: "I understand the money we asked to be posted in, this country has arrived in California and will be brought here Thursday by Benny Baum, my United States representative." Walcott demanded a $15,000 guarantee plus $3,500 traveling expenses and $2,500 training expenses. The money was to be deposited in Walcott's Camden bank. JOE WALCOTT Places claim for Charles' title i ''v. -J BY tommy devixe The loss of their first Stanley Cup playoff was the secondary cause of the funereal gloom of the Detroit Red Wings dressing room. The chief concern of every Detroit player was the serious injury to Gordie Howe, their brilliant right-winger.

They forgot their miserable opening game performance as the Toronto Maple Leafs cake-walked to a 5-0 victory. They made no attempts to bolster each other's morale with a "We'll get them in the next game gang." IT WAS HOWE who was on every mind. And the early reports from Miller Out of Majors All Waive Eddie After Phils Cut Him CLEARWATER, Fla. The Philadelphia Phillies gave Eddie Miller his unconditional release. Owner Bob Carpenter announced the release of the man who once was one of the top shortstops in baseball.

Carpenter said all 15 other big league clubs had passed Miller on the waiver list. Eddie has been one of baseball's most colorful figures for many seasons. The shortstop made headlines in 1947 when he was playing for Cincinnati and lashed out at the club's management in a public address. MILLER WAS discarded by Cincinnati shortly after that in a trade to the Phillies that sent Outfielder Johnny Wyrostek to the Reds. In 1948, his first full season with the Phils, Miller played in 130 games, hit 14 home runs and batted .246.

His legs went back on him last year and he appeared in only 85 games. Miller was replaced as shortstop by youthful Granville Ham-ner, rated one of the most promising youngsters in baseball. Writers had figured that Miller would be a first-line replacement this season. But Carpenter has been sold on the qualifications of young Ralph (Putzl) Caballero, who played for Toronto last season. Miller has been in the major leagues 13 seasons.

For years an annual battle raged over whether Miller or the St. Louis Cardinals' Marty Marion was the best shortstop in the National League. Carpenter said he understands Miller will make a deal for himself with a Pacific Coast League team. Finished? EDDIE MDLLER Veteran waived out of majort IF EZZARD IS Walcott Claims Heavy Crown CAMDEN, Jersey Joe Walcott, through his manager, Felix Bocchicchio, claimed the world heavyweight boxing title providing Ezzard Charles is unable to fight again. Charles was forced to cancel his title bout with Freddie Be-shore, scheduled for Wednesday night, because of an injury.

Bocchicchio said he is claiming the title in the belief that Joe Louis will remain in retirement and that NBA Champion Charles has suffered an injury to a heart muscle which also may force him into permanent retirement. "WHO ELSE IS there to claim 4 of 5 Injured Canadiens Set for Rangers MONTREAL (U.R) Four of the five injured Montreal Cana-dien players will be in action in Wednesday night's first game of the Stanley Cup playoff semifinal against the New York Rangers at New York. Club officials announced that Cal Mackay, Billy Reay, Butch Bouchard and Ken Mosdell had been given the green light to play by club physicians. Deenseman Hal Laycoe will stay out of action because of a broken nose. The team went through a sharp workout at the Montreal Forum.

The confident Canadiens boarded an overnight train for New York Tuesday night. i nnvw ft 'ii' rf- I 1 i.