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1 1 SWITCHED TO FOOTBALL AFTER CAGE SNAFU Bk Toy ch 2i mse BY TOMMY DEVI.NE A Southwest basketball empire that was wrecked by a clash of coaching personalities and campus politics served to turn Cloyce Box's athletic talents into a football channel. The six foot four Inch Detroit Lion end who ranks aa one of the great receivers in National Football League history has a career with story-book touch, "Do you know never saw a game of football until I was 18 years old?" he asks. CLOYCE, who is one of the headline who will be in action against the Cleveland Browns In the Free Press Fresh Air Fund game Sept. 4, started his sports career as part of a twin brother act in basketball. "We played in our home town "West Texas wm billed as basketball's Tallest Team," Box says.

"The team averaged six feet six Inches. The regular combination was composed of Charlie Halbert (he was seven feet); Trice Brookfleld, who made every All-American team of the time; Jack Mad-dox and Bill and Frank Stork-man. Five freshmen, Including myself and brother Boyce formed the second team. Then as sophomores we moved Into regular berths." After the Brothers Box had helped Weet Texas to a Border Conference championship, Cloyce was called into military service with the Marines. He served with distinction in China.

"When I came out of service," he recalls, "thing had changed. Baggett was snarled In a political tangle and basketball slumped, I lost interest and so decided to try my hand at So the pea-green youngster IV THE SUMMER between his Junior and senior years. Box spent a month in the Redskins' training camp. "They still had Sammy Baugh and Harry Gilmer," he laughs, I didn't have much of chance. I decided to bark and play another year in college." After he finished at West Turn to Page 2, Column 2 r.f InA.Kf, h.

antra "Tht population was only 200. We didn't have enough kids to play football. Basketball was the game." In this period a talented coach named Al Baggett was building a national cage reputation for West Texas. turned from a great basketball forward into a novice forma-1 tion quarterback. He did well! enough to attract the immediate attention of the Washington Redskins.

CL0YCE BOX iNats Hand Tigers 7th Loss in Row SECTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1953 -A i SLa1 I 1 Behirid Bo jStdry IFoinni Arthurs Marches to NABF Title Porteriield 7-2 Victor On 7-Hittcr Want Ads Dearborn Ups and Downs of Sports Hi1 la I5 I I5 I7 9 pn "II 15 ill ie IIP'24 25 11 8 III 52 5 "m- 57 3d 'i "rr --t Mali iiiiiiiir in mi mwtt (f as Tribesman Larry Doby waves to Westlake to hit the dirt, Cleveland won, 6-0 to sweep the three-game series from the leaders. WOES PILE LP on New York Yankees as Outfielder IVally Westlake, of Cleveland, scored from second on George Strickland's single. Catcher Y'ogi Berra takes CopjT.iht 195.1, The Miami Herald ACROSS niMaicilo, star centerflrldrr. Jeaydrn. one of 4 ilorsamen, Nhuk, a jockey, Hnnforii, another Jorkey.

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Title, atar I.Stl naHier, The Manama Mauler. EARLY LEAD HOLDS UP Triple Play Aids Chisox Helps Stop Bosox In Ninth, 5 to 1 CHICAGO The Chicago wmte kox put down a ninth inning Boston uprising with triple play Saturday to defeat the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 1, be fore 15,253 at Comiskey Park. The final play of the game was the rally ending triple play. With Floyd Baker on second after a single; Al Zarllla on first after a walk, pinch-batter Karl Olson lined to Ferris Fain at first. Fain touched first and rifled the ball to second for the rare triple killing.

It was only the third triple play of the season in the American League, the Washington Senators and New York Yankees previously pulling off one apiece. BOSTON CHICAGO Faulk Tops Riley For Women's Title Bau Takes Over With 4 Winners Dead Heat in Hazel Park Mile Nets Sweep of 3 Features BY AL COFFMAN Hazel Park's thrilling three-way jockey race became a Beaten in Final, 42 Detroiters Drop First Game, 4-2 BY HAL SCIIRAM Free Presi Staff Writer ALTOONA, Pa. Arthur's of Detroit and the Dearborn Optimists traded 4-2 victories here Saturday, but it was the Clothiers' who picked up the pay-off laurels. With Marvin I i i pitching a brilliant three hitter in the nightcap, the Detroiters swept to the National Amateur Baseball Federation Junior championship. It was Arthur's first national title in 22 years as a baseball sponsor.

Dearborn forced the final play off into an extra game by win ning Saturday's opener in iden tical 4-2 fashion. PETE OLSEN, six-foot-five University of Wisconsin sopho more and former Dearborn High star, turned in a seven hitter for the Optimists. In the second game, Wisntew-skl had a one-hitter working until the ninth. In the first eight innings, he faced only 26 batters two over the possible minimum. Dearborn scored an unearned run In the fourth, the result of successive errors by Money Benedict and Paul Petro.

Only hit off the University of Michigan southpaw prior to the ninth, was a harmless scratch single by catcher Dick Clements In the fifth Inning. Dearborn rallied for its other run in the ninth. Pinch hitter Dick Schmidt drew a base on balls, took second on Jack Sample's infield hit and scored on Larry McDonald's single to ieii. WITH SAMPLE on second and McDonald on first, and one out, Arthur's pulled Wisniewski out of the jam with a game-ending aouDie play. wisniewsKl struck out seven and walked one, while facing 31 men in his masterpiece.

A 16-year-old Dearborn High senior, relief pitcher Jerry Stifler, turned in a terrific bit of pitching himself for the Optimists. After Arthur's had rocked starter Jerry Mattson for three singles and one run at the outset, Stifler came in with one run across, two men on and one out in the first inning. A throwing error on a base line run-down by third baseman Pat McAvoy, a hit batsman and a base on balls permitted Ar thur's to add two more unearned runs and take a 3-0 lead. BUT STIFLER settled down thereafter and faced only 25 batters in the final seven innings. He retired 11 Arthur hitters in a row at one stretch.

Arthur's picked up its last Turn to Page 2, Column 5 85; 42 .669 1 Brooklyn 12 9T HI. Milu'bM 6 6 6 6 8 7 6 6 7: 6 74 53 583 11 St. Louis 171 58.570 15 jPhlladeL 64 66 .492 22i Xew York 51; 78! .402 34 Cincinnati 45 82; J54 40 Chicago 45 84 .349 41 Plttsb'eh a is BARRINGTON, R. I. (U.R) Former Georgia champion Mary Lena Faulk captured the Nationar Women's Amateur golf crown Saturday, defeating Curtis Cupper Polly Riley of Fort Worth, 3 and 2.

Hoeft Routed; Boone Clouts 21st Homer BY HAL MIDDLESWORTII Bob Porterfield's masterful pitching and another Washington batting spree tumbled the Tigers to their seventh Straight defeat Saturday. Porterficld scattered seven hits and refused to walk a man in gaining a 7-2 verdict before 4,201 Briggs Stadium fans. It was the 17th victory against 10 defeats for the Senator's right-hander who once toiled for the New York Yankees. COMPLETING A sweep of the series, the Nats pounded South paw Billy Hoeft for 11 hits and all seven runs in innings then got only three more safeties the rest of the way off Dick Marlowe, Ray Scarborough and Manager Fred Hutchinson. That gave Washington a three game total of 44 hits off 11 De troit pitchers.

It was the sixth straight contest in which the Tigers' starting pitcher has been kayoed and the 15th time Hoeft has failed In 23 starts. The 21-year-old left-hander now has lost 12 of 20 decisions. Porterficld, enjoying the best season of his five-year career, had an almost perfect game for 4 innings. Only Tiger to reach base in that interval was Ray Boone, who was safe when Left Fielder Clyde Vollmer dropped his fourth-inning fly for an error. THE TIGERS then proceeded to wipe out Porterfield's bid for his ninth shutout of the year by putting together three straight Singles in the filth.

Don Lund, Matt Batts and Pinch Hitter Pat Mullin delivered them, and the Bengals got their only other run in the sixth when Boone hit his second home run in two days, his 21st of the season, with the bases empty. Only other extra-base blow off Torterficld was a one-out triple by Harvey Kuenn in the eighth which went to waste. All three of the strikeouts credited to the 29-year-old Washington right-hander were called by Plate Umpire Charley Berry, who ejected Tiger Coach Ted Lyons for questioning one of them in the seventh inning. Eddie Yost got three of the Senators' 14 hits, giving him nine for the series and Mickey Vernon's pair of singles boosted his league-leading total to 172 hits for a .331 average. BUT THE BIG wallop was Jackie Jensen's two-run homer, his ninth four-bagger of the year, eff Hoeft in the third inning.

The Nats were leading, 1 to 0, when the Senators' young outfielder collected the 21st home run Hoeft has granted this year. They added two more runs in the fourth, Mickey Grasso driving home Jim Busby and Wayne Terwilllger, who had singled and doubled. The final Washington counters came in the fifth when Hoeft made his departure. With one out, he hit Vernon, committed a wild pitch and delivered a run-scoring single to Jensen. Clyde Vollmer followed with another single and Marlowe replaced Hoeft.

Bob Nieman made a spectacular catch of Busby's liner high on the left-field screen, but Jensen, who had moved to third on a stolen base and Voll-mer's single, scored after the catch. Marlowe and Scarborough, relieving for the third time in four days, escaped without further damage, and Hutchinson finished It with a flourish by getting Jerry Snyder on a called third strike and fanning Vernon. WASHINGTON Mi DETROIT AH Ft ft 1 3 Kurnn.n fntdrr.h ft Nirmnn.tf Drono, lb I. tl rid. Hallve Mnrlft, Mullin I.If.kT i 1 1 A prmtn.

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161. A 1,931. one-man show Saturday. Robert Lee Baird, who lost the riding championship at the Detroit Race Course through a suspension earlier this summer, took charge with four big winners. I Thriving on the hot weather, AB AB .1 I 1 Car'inurl.

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lnitiRlit of Harry fiilmar'a eoflrre. Answer on Pajfe the tiny Texan swept ail three feature races, pausing only to divide the laurels with L. C. Cook in the $10,000 Hazel Park Mile. FAVORITES OR long shots, they were all Baird's meat Saturday.

He started his spree with Cracklette, a 10-1 shot in the fourth race, and-then strung together a few favorites Sub Factor in the $5,000 First Graders Purse, Bated Breath in the $10,000 Mile and Black Racer in the $5,000 Wayne Purse. Baird rode brilliantly in every race, but Cookie outdid him with Whiffenpoof to earn a dead heat with Bated Breath. Most of the 17,594 people at the track would have bet that Bated Breath won by a good none. But when the Judges looked at the photo of the finish, they saw Whiffenpoof making like Pinocchio to put his none on the wire all even with Bated Breath. Nobody was happy about the dead heat as boos resounded throughout the stands.

The dead heat gave Cook and Owner-Trainer M. H. Van Berg their third winner of the afternoon, a good showing, but still short of Baird's achievement. BOBBY WAS fortunate that he had a top two-year-old in Sub 'Factor, Grace Kosiba's stout hearted colt. Carrying top weight of 121 pounds and forced very wide on the first turn.

Sub Factor had enough heart and speed to catch Make A Note by a neck in the drive near the wire. But if the crowd thought they had seen a horse race, they didn't realize what was yet to come. The next race, the Harel Park Mile, turned out to be the best of the meeting. Baird had to come from the extreme outside with Bated Breath, hut he got the mare off with the leaders as Whiffenpoof sped ahead from the No. 4 post.

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Birch Hill Ace The 160-yard third-hole at Birch Hill Golf Club is ace high with Ted Andrus, 14838 Belmont, Allen Park. Andrus shot a hole- in-one there, using a 7 iron. Lemon Applies Squee Rosen Belts No. 35 In Series Sweep CLEVELAND (U.R) Looking anything other than a team headed for a fifth straight' World Series, the New York Yankees dropped their third straight to the Cleveland Indians Saturday, 6 to 0. Bob Lemon bounced back after a weary month to pitch a three-hitter for his 18th victory and third shutout of the season.

Lemon thus tied Virgil Trucks of the White Sox for the league lead in victories. The triumph completed the Tribe's third series sweep of the year over the champions. Cleveland now has won 10 of its last 12 from New York and six straight at home. The Indians thus became the first team to take the season lead over the leaders, 10 to 9. CASEY STENGEL gave rookie Steve Kraly his second start and the youngster lasted only 4 innings.

The Indians got three runs in the fourth, which Al Rosen opened with his 35th home run, tying him with Gus Zernial for the league lead. Mickey Mantle, back In the Yankee starting line-up for the first time since he was hurt Aug. 8, got one of the singles off Lemon. Irv Noren and Hank Bauer made the others. Lemon also walked three, but only in the ninth did a Yankee get past first base.

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A 21.59L. Weic Evidence9 Is Claimed for Doping Case A bearing by Racing Commissioner James II. Inglis will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Wolverine Raceways In connection with the recent doping case Involving the Castleton Farm's Abbasong. The hearing, originally set for last week, was postponed at the request of Abbasong's owner, Fred Van Lermep, to permit him to conduct a private Investigation of the case.

Van Lennep Indicated Saturday his Investigation had been completed and he had new evidence to submit to Commissioner Inglis. SUNDAY. AUGUST SO, 1953 a 'J 03 8 10 12 14 13 19 I 88 40! .688 10 12 13 11 14 12 i 78 5lj .605 10V, i 9 12 13 8 16 70 56 1.556 17 9 Hi 8 15 14 .555 17 11 6 11 10 8 60 67 .472 9 6 7 8 14 56! 71 .441 31 "2 4 8 6 8 10 49 78 .386 10 41, vs. jo 50 a lz ifa The little 27-year-old Texan fought with back to the wall throughout the last 16 holes, but she never was able to overcome a six-hole lead taken by Miss Faulk in the first round of their 36-hole match Saturday morning. MISS FAULK, three-time Georgia champion, played a much slower game in the afternoon than during the first 18 holes.

However, the 27-vear-old bookkeeper from Thomasville, was still able to maintain at least a three-hole lead. The two finalists played beneath cloudless skies in better than 100-degree temperature. A crowd of more than 1,000 fol lowed them over the 74-par course. AT THE BEGINNING of the 36th hole contest, Miss Riley was smiling and laughing and Miss Faulk was nervous. Towards the end both were tired and grim.

Miss Riley, 1952 Southern champion, opened the final 18 holes with a blistering par offensive. She took the third, fifth and eighth holes without yielding a hole to Miss' Faulk. However, with the score three-up In her favor. Miss Faulk rallied to take the ninth with a birdie. The two women traded holes from the 10th through the 12th, halved the 13th, and traded the 14th and 15th.

But Miss Riley's gallant rally was too late. She halved the 16th and the tournament was over. Unknown Filly Wins in England At 403-1 Odds THIRSK, England OP) Glaisdale, a little known 2-year-old filly, romped to victory Saturday and paid off at the incredible odds of 403-1. She won the North Yorkshire Selling Plate an a first prize of $765. Holders of pari-mutuel tickets received tll2 for each 28 cents bet.

Bookmakers paid off only at 20-1 odds. After the race, the auctioneer sold the filly for JS8.20. The 403-1 odds are way below the tote's record pay-out. On Nov. 30, 1929, at Haydock Park, the tote paid out $954 for 28 cents odds of on Coole in a hurdle racf.

Major League Standings S2 1 i 2 1st is I i AL New York Chicago i 9 91 9 13 16 15 14 8 ilOlflll 814 12 Cleveland 10 7 1 511:15 11 15 Boston 5 5 11 11 1211 16 Wash'gton 6 7j 912 ill lO; 9 5 12 3 7 3 912 6j 7 9j 6 6 51 Si 8 8 121 Philadel. DETROIT St. Louis CLEAN BLAST from the aand helps Mary Lena Faulk, Thomasville, pile up an early lead over Folly Riley as she captured the National Women's Amateur golf crown. A's Kellner Breaks Fiimer ST. LOUIS (JP) Alex Kellner, southpaw hurler for the Philadelphia Athletics, broke the ring finger on his right hand during batting practice prior to Friday night's game with the St.

Louis Browns. Kellner will be out of action for about there weeks, it was reported from Jewish Hospital. He was hit on the finger by a line drive off the bat of Carmen Mauro. Caddies' Day The annual Detroit District caddie championship will be held Monday at Tarn O'Shanter. Players will tee off starting at 8:30 a.m.

SATURDAY'S RESULTS Washington 7. DETROIT 2. Cleveland 6, New York 0. Chicago 5, Boston 1. Only games scheduled.

SUNDAY'S GAMES Philadelphia at DETROIT (2) Newson (1-0) and Coleman (1-2) vs. Gromek (4-7) and Aber (3-3). New York at Chicago (2) Raschl (11-5) and McDonald (8-4) vs. Consuegra (7-3) and Pierce (16-9). Boston at Cleveland (2) Brown (11-4) and Flowers (1-2) vs.

Feller (7-6) and Houtte-man (3-6). Washington at St. Louis (2) Dixon (4-9) and Sima (1-3) vs. Brecheen (5-11) and Littlelield (7-11). SATURDAY'S RESULTS New York 4, Milwaukee 1.

Brooklyn 10, Cincinnati 3. St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4. Chicago 2, Philadelphia 0. SUNDAY'S GAMES Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (2) Antonelll (10-9) and Buhl (10-7) vs.

Lindell (5-15) and Lapalme (6-14). St. Louis at Brooklyn liaddlx (16-6) vs. Emkine (16-5). Chicago at New York (2) Rush (8-12) and Hacker (7-18) vs.

Worthington (2-6) and Grissom (2-1). Cincinnati at Philadelphia (2) Collum (7 8) and Raffenberger (7-11) vs. Miller (6-6) and Drews (7-9). Turn to Page 4, Columo 3.