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at etirement cott into arciano DIRECTORS VOTE APPROVAL mm Oj Left Wat M. 1 5 KO's in Round Li Wednesday, September 24, 1952 23 The directors asked Gehringer to continue his front-office role for at least another season. He immediately accepted the bid to stay on. The directors action and Gehringer's acceptance of their The former All-Star second baseman and member of the "Hall of Fame" was given r. unanimous vote of confidence at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Baseball Co.

Tuesday night. BY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor Charlie Gehringer will con-i tinue as general manager of the Detroit Tigers during the 1953 baseball season. Rocky Champ 13 th Comes Off Canvas to End Joe's Career Continued from Page One on Joe's left shoulder that Mar-ciano claimed got into his eyes and caused him to blink. Marciano's manager, Al Weill, complained bitterly about the alleged medication at the end of the round to Referee Daggert. But Daggert told him to go back to the corner and stop making so much noise.

In the 11th round it seemed that Marciano, the 184-pound son of a Brockton (Mass.) shoemaker, would bo knocked out himself. Walcott, of Camden, N. 196 pounds, staggered his lighter but younger rival with a right to the body that jack-knifed him CHARLIE GEHRLXGER Accepts 1953 contract As of TODAY Short Payoff Sprints That's McAuliffe Forte BY LYALL SMITH v. Sox Reduce Cleveland White to Flicker, 10-1 offer put an end tox long circulated reports that he would step out as a result of the Tigers' miserable showing this season. THE 1952 DETROIT club is certain to finish in the American League cellar, the first time a Tiger club ever ended in eighth place.

The current Tiger team also has lost more games than any other outfit in Detroit's history. By the decision to retain Gehringer, the Board of Directors, however, indicated it was not placing the blame for the sorry showing and low finish on Gehringer made tw major trades with the approval of former Tiger Manager Red Rolfe an" engineered one swap after Freddie Hutchinson took over the field direction of the club. None of the three transactions proved favorable to Tiger fortunes. Two were with the St. Louis Browns and the other with the Boston Red Sox.

was named to the general manager's post last July as the successor to the veteran Billy Evans. EVANS HAD been sternly critized for a "stand pat" policy which the club had followed during most of his regime. The front-office position with the Tigers was the first executive baseball role Gehringer ever filled. After concluding his active playing career and serving a short hitch as a Tiger coach, Gehringer became a partner of Ray Forsyth in a lucrative manufacturers' agent operation. Gehringer was reluctant to leave the business position when offered the Tiger job.

However, the late Walter O. Briggs- finally persuaded him to accept it. The past season was a losing one for the Tigers not only on the field, but at the gate as well. Despite a home draw in excess of 1,000,000 fans, the Tigers will lose money. LET THE FOOTBALL take its fimny bounce this weekend at Ann Arbor.

If it does, it's because these fancy facts and figures have been pumped into it. The average life of the canvas blocking dummies used by; Michigan is just four seasons. It takes that long to knock the stuffings out of them. No freshman rule, you know. They say that End Paul Dekker of MSC will have a tough job filling the shoes of the departed All-American, Bob Carey.

But what about the poor guy who tries to fill Dekker's next year? He wears size 14 brogans, biggest on the entire Spartan squad. Halfback Don McAuliffe of MSC isn't dubbed "the workhorse" for nothing. He scored nine touchdowns last year to lead the scoring parade but his longest plunge was only 11 yards. Here they are, in exact order: one yard, one yard, three, 11, eight, one, four, two and three. When the pre-season predictors call the Spartans a "seasoned team," Coach Biggie Munn objects.

Here's why: the only players in his starting offensive lineup against Michigan who were starters one year ago in the same game will be McAuliffe and Halfback Vince Pisano. There's Hope for Fans REMEMBER THAT 55-0 drubbing that Michigan handed Munn in his first game as Spartan coach back in the 1947 opener? His teams have played 45 games since then. They haven't failed to score in any. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan did not have one of those point-a-minute teams last year but he did have a point-a-minute player almost. Russ Rescorla, of Grand Haven, played only 27 minutes all year.

But he scored 15 points. Color will be the keynote at haf time when the football bands of the two schools go into their act. 4 For the first time, MSC will putfit its rooters, tooters and drum-beaters in bright new green and white uniforms, replacing the olive-drab attire of the past. If Wolverine partisans are looking for any hope-rays on the gridiron horizon for Saturday's battle, here's one. MSC's streak of 15 victories ties the longest skein in the school's football history.

The teams of 1912, 1913 and 1914 racked up an identical record before trying to make Michigan its 16th consecutive victim. Result: Michigan 3, MSC 0. Slight Difference in Crowds JUST 40 YEARS AGO, there were 8,000 fans on hand to gee if Mopes ROCKY HAD ROUGH GOING Jersey Joe stands Dod erg Tops Phils, i. Is DOWN FOR SHORT COUNT to start counting TTT I I1 "HI I I 'I 'I J1 littHUffiiri.ttHlH I Ranger Sold CALGARY, Alta. (JP) The Calgary stampeders, of the Western Hockey League, Tuesday purchased Defenseman Joe Levan-doski from New York Rangers, of the National Hockey League.

the Michigan-MSC game. Saturday, there'll be a sellout of Turn to Next Page, Col. 1 Flag Idle Yanks Lead by lit Games A's Edge Nats, 4-3, but Lose Shantz Trrr Press Wire Services The New York Yankees reached the "magic four" circle Tuesday in their drive for a fourth straight American League championship. The front-running Yanks were rained out of their game with, the Boston Red Sox, but the second- place Cleveland Indians tumbled a game and a half off the pace by losing, 10 to 1, to the Chicago White Sox. And Bobby Shantz, Philadelphia's mighty little southpaw who was scheduled to pitch against the Yanks in the final game of the season Sunday, was knocked out of action for the rest of the year.

SHANTZ WAS cliipped on the wrist by a pitched ball in the second inning as the A's downed the Washington Senators, 4 to 3. Any combination of four Yankee victories andor Indian losses this week would give New York the pennant. The Yanks have six games to play, the Indians only three' in five days. The White Sox ripped off 14 hits to crush the Indians, battering Mike Garcia, the Tribe's ace, for five runs In the first inning. That was enough to give Joe Dobson his 14th victory of the year, and he responded with a neat six-hitter.

After falling on Garcia in the opening inning, the Pale Hose picked up a pair of runs off Ted Wilks in the fifth and added three more in the seventh, with Steve Gromek on the mound. The Indians scored their only run in the third on a pair of singles and an infield out. THE ATHLETICS tightened their grip on fourth place with their victory over the Senators, but the loss of Shantz, a 24-game winner, hurt their chances of overtaking the third-place White Sox, l'i games ahead. The little left-hander's pitching wrist was broken when he took one of Walt Masterson's pitches on it. The A's were leading, 3 to 0, at the time, but Shantz couldn't get credit for the victory and Bo-Bo Newsom was the eventual winner.

Gus Zernial's 28th homer, following a walk and a single, gave the A's their 3-0 lead in the first inning. The other run came in the fifth on a single, double and grounder. The Nats got their runs In the ninth, one on a hit batsman with the bases loaded, another on a walk with the bases still loaded and the third on. a long fly. Two New Arrivals for Fall! Donegal Sports Shirts in Your Exact Sleeve Length HI men Jf 11 and then a left-right-left series to the head that knocked him back on his heels.

Walcott kept after him and gashed the right brow, but Rocky was still on his feet at the end of the session. The Massachusetts Italian rallied to fight on even terms with confident Walcott in the 12th round. In the 13th session Rocky forced the oldest defender of the championship in history to the ropes and there landed the finishing left hook. MARCIANO BECAME the ftrst white heavyweight champion In 15 years. And he became the first heavyweight champion to win the tide while boasting a perfect record.

It was his 38th knockout in 43 consecutive victories. A crowd of 40,379 contributed a gross gate of $504,645. The Brockton slugger, who has been compared to Jack Dempsey because of his persistent aggressiveness, achieved his notable victory just 26 years after Dempsey lost the crown to Gene Tunney In this same Municipal Stadium before 120,757 fan who paid $1,895,733. WALCOTT, THE punch-and-prayer "Brown Cinderella Man," lost the championship which he had won by knocking out Ezzard Charles in the seventh round at Pittsburgh on July 18, 1951. His only defense was in the return bout with Charles last June 5.

Marciano forced the fighting in nearly every round as he advanced bulldoggedly, bobbing and weaving toward the heavier champion, who had a reach advantage of 74 inches to 67 inches over the short-armed challenger. That reach, plus Jersey Joe's 12-pound weight margin, made Walcott a dangerous opponent despite his years as he backed away shifting from side to side and sh'ooting punches suddenly out of nowhere. Marciano gave Walcott severe body punishment in many of the rounds but was knocked back onto his own heels several times by left hooks and looping straight rights to the head. THE GATE figure did not take into account the theater television and motion picture receipts. The television guarantee alone was $120,000 with Walcott receiving 40 per cent of the net and Marciano 20 per cent.

Joe Retiring-Bo cchicchio But Manager Admits Walcott Is Reluctant FHILADE LPHI A (U.R) Manager Felix Bocchicchio announced Tuesday night that Jersey Joe Walcott was retiring from the ring. Bocchicchio kept newspapermen waiting for 10 minutes when Walcott returned to his dressing room and then came out and announced: "Walcott is retiring as of tonight." "Rather than take a chance on him getting hurt, I am retiring him," Bocchicchio said. "IF HE GOES on it will be without me," his manager added. Asked "What does Joe have to say about it," Bocchicchio replied: "Joe doesn't approve of it." That left the question of whether there would be a return match with the new heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, up in the air. But Bocchicchio left no doubt that if there should be a return bout lie would not be handling Walcott.

"He's got money, he's got his right mind and he's too nice a guy to go on fighting and get seriously hurt," Bocchicchio said. WALCOTT, WHO had been ahead on the official scorecards when he was knocked unconscious by a terrific left hook to the chin, later agreed after some hesitation to go along with his manager's advice. "If he says I'm through, I'm through," Walcott said. Ladies Go East Ladies Major League bowls at 8 p. m.

Wednesday over the (Chandler Tark Recreation lanes. Free Tress Wire Service The Brooklyn Dodgers won their first National League since 1949 Tuesday night. They nailed down the pennant in the first game of a twi- IX FIRST WHEN HE WENT over him as referee gets ready iaa 1 TO Philadelphia Phillies, 5 to 4. 1 to 0, 12 innings but it The first-game victory gave the Dodgers a 6 -game lead over the second-place New York Giants, whose double-header with the Boston Braves was rained out. The Giants have only six games to play, which makes it impossible for them to overhaul the Dodgers.

John Rutherford, a little righthander who wasn't even on the Dodger roster last spring, pitched the pennant clincher, Brooklyn's ninth since 1890. He was cuffed around in the early innings but steadied to gain his seventh victory against the same number of losses. The Dodgers' winning run came in the fifth, which Gil Hodges started with a single. Rutherford sacrificed and was safe on First Baseman Ed Waitkus' error. Pee Wee Reese drove Rutherford home with a single and Duke Snider followed with a game-winning double which scored two runs and was worth $100,000 to the Dodgers.

IN THE NIGHTCAP, Curt Simmons won his 14th decision of the year, against eight setbacks. The Dodgers regulars started the game but most of them disappeared, along with Manager Chuck Dres-sen, before the game was over to celebrate their pennant victory in the Ebbetts Field club house. Stan Musial gave the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds with a double in the 10th which scored Red Schoen-dienst with the winning run. Cards Sign Young Pitcher Special to the Free FreM PORT HURON Harold De-Chane, 19-year-old right-handed pitcher, has been signed by the St.

Louis Cardinals. DeChane has been playing in the Huron County League since returning from a hitch in the Navy. He was signed by Fred Lamline, a Cardinal scout, and will report next spring to Paducah in the Kitty League. HQ Uy 4-3, mw fill iwll tt "w0i night double-header by edging The Phils won the second game, Rochester Takes 3-1 Playoff Lead ROCHESTER, N. Y.

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