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1 EX-WOLVERINE IKOLA STARS IN NETS Yank Sextet Stuns Canada, 4-1 f. 1 I nesota who scored three times, and Goalie Willard Ikola, a 23-year-old Air Force navigator, who starred for the University of Michigan, thwarted desperate Canadian drives time after time. CORTINA, Italy The United States came crashing back into the Olympic picture Tuesday when Uncle Sam's hockey team scored one of the biggest upsets in the history of the games, turning back defending sich's two goals in the first Jack McKenzie hit for the Canadian tally, but then in the final period the Americans notched two more tallies. Mayasich completed his hat trick at Wel-don Olson, former Michigan State co-captain from Marquette, got 1 1 Dartmouth College student representing Japan, had gone off course. The protest was disallowed.

But the American hockey team shoved all other action of the day Into the background. It was only the second time in Olympic history that the Canadians have been beaten. The two big architects of the reversal were John Mayasich, a four-time All-America from Min She stayed ahead of her 16-year old American teammate, Carol Heiss, in the race for top honors. THE UNITED STATES also was in the middle of a bitter rhubarb involving a protest in the men's slalom, which was won by Austria's daring Toni Sailer. The "heated protest was by United States Coach Robert Shee-han, of Middlebury, who maintained that second-place finisher Chiharu (Chick) Igaya, a THE UNITED STATES was in the fourth goal a few minutes command all the way.

The champion Canada, 4 to 1. Coupled with the brilliant showing of the Yank puckmen, was the courageous performance of Tenley Albright, who ignored stabbing leg pains to take the lead in the women's figure skating competition. time the Canadians scored was in the second period, and by that time they were behind, 2 to 0, as a result of eagle-eye Maya- j'l I Before the game the assembled experts wouldn't have given the Yanks a ghost of a chance. They were outshot by the fast-skating Canadians, but they made their shots count. And when they were on defense Ikola was magnificent.

JOHNNY MAYASICH Hats off to him The 5-8, 155-nounder. Spike Briggs Blasts Players' Attorney 'He Should Be Investigated? Tiger President Declares BY HAL MIDDLESWORTH President Spike Briggs, of the Detroit Tigers, suggested Tuesday that "someone should investigate" J. Norman Lewis, (ft f523b --I '-i goal-tending for Michigan frustrated Minnesota's Mayasich and Dick Daugherty and left the Gophers runnersup in the 1953-54 NCAA championships, easily wa3 the individual standout in the upset. He kicked out 47 shots, compared to Canadian Goalie Denis Brodeur'6 25. WITH THE United States' success the championship chase now is wide-open, with Friday's game between the United States and Russia the apparent pivotal clash.

The United States earlier defeated Poland and Germany, following a 4-3 loss to Czechoslovakia. The Americans play Sweden Thursday and the" Czechs again Saturday, in addition to the game with Russia. The Russians bowled over a SPIKE BRIGGS 'Union troubles him J. NORMAN LEWIS Tactics irk Tiger prexy attorney for major league WHAT A 'SAVE'! Black Sox Infielder Dies at 64 Free Press Photo by WALLT STEIGER PLEASANT DREAMS June in January thoughts envelop Bucky Harris (left), Tiger manager, and Muddy Ruel, Detroit general manager, as they look out on snow-covered Briggs Stadium. Both have hopes of a hot American League race to go with the summer's weather.

Puckmen Do 'Splits' PENTICTON, B. C.0J.R) Players on the PenUcton V's world champion amateur hockey team, took their second salary cut Tuesday to try to let the club finish the campaign. Club President Jack Newton said the only way the club could operate and recover some of its $10,000 deficit was through good attendance at the remaining six home games. baseball players. Briggs took issue with Lewis in his battle to obtain permanent possession of a sizable percentage of World Series television receipts for the players' pension fund.

The attorney claims 60 per cent of the money was handed over to the players in an oral agreement. The clubowners deny it, saying they agreed to supply the money for pensions but can furnish it from any source they choose. The owners consider the television cash theirs and the pension contributions a gift. German squad, 8 to 0, Tuesday, while Sweden upset the Czechs, 5 to 0. The protest by the United-States in the eki competition marked the first big "rhubarb" of the seventh edition of the Winter Games.

SHEEHAN INSISTED that Igaya missed a gate on his second run down the icy course and should have been penalized the customary five seconds. The American coach was backed up by Bibo Nordenskjoeld, the skiing coach of Sweden. -L 1 As of TODAY Bucky Beams Approval Of Tiger Mound Staff CHICAGO George (Buck) Weaver, famous third baseman for the Chicago White Sox from 1912 through the Black Sox scandal of 1920, died Tuesday, apparently of a heart ailment. He was 64. Weaver was stricken on a South Side street and was ound there by police.

He was pronounced dead upon arrival at a hospital. WEAVER WAS among eight Chicago players barred from baseball in 1920 when it was TOWER OF STRENGTH on defense was lllard Ikola, former University of Michigan star goalie, as the United States handed the Canadian Olympic hockey team a 4-1 defeat Tuesday in the biggest upset of the Winter Games. ran BY LYALL SMITH- But an infraction wasn't called SPEAKING AT a press conference, Briggs accused Lewis of "putting words in the players' mouths." "How about that statement attributed to Bob Feller that the players are giving their lives to baseball and not getting paid for it?" the Tiger president asked. "I've seen a lot of players get in the Cadillac, Imperial or Continental class who never would have been there if it hadn't been for baseball. Look at some of 23 Wednesday, February 1, 1956 established that the 1919 World by the judges and Igaya's clock IN FISHING DUEL Series between the White Sox ing was permitted to stand although the ski jury deliberated over the incidei.t for several hours.

WHAT DOC ORDERED their backgrounds." and Cincinnati was fixed. A jury in Chicago acquitted Weaver and seven other members of the Sox of charges of conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series for $100,000. However, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, then commissioner of baseball, barred all from the game. The others were Joe Jackson, Oscar Felsch, Eddie Cicotte, Claude Williams, Charles Ris-berg, Chick Gandil and Fred Mc-Mullen.

Weaver hit .324 in the 1919 series. In eight games he collected 11 hits in 34 times at bat and scored four runs. Red Wing 'Baby' 'Arrives' in Time BY MARSHALL DANN The "baby" of the National Hockey League, Larry Hillman is carrying a man-sized load for the Red Wings. Sam's Hooks Hang Up Ted WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (IP) Golfer Sam Snead and baseball star Ted Williams ended their widely publicized "fishing feud" Tuesday in the Silver Sailfish Derby with Snead the winner, 2-up.

Snead held a 2-to-l lead Monday and increased his margin when he brought to gaff and released three sails in three strikes Tuesday while Williams could get but two. THERE WAS A LITTLE LUNCHEON gathering of the sports clan at Briggs Stadium Tuesday noon a sort of get-together to talk with Manager Bucky Harris about the 1956 Tigers. Back in his office for a few days before shoving off to Florida to run a training camp for 50 rookie prospects, Harris grinned that he has put in a mild winter. "All I've been doing is taking a lot of walks around Washington," he declared. "Got to get my legs in shape.

He promptly shut off the obvious question. "Not for the reason you think," he hastily amended. "After looking over the list of players we have on the squad I don't think I'll have to make many walks to the mound to change pitchers this season." Harris will head a full complement of coaches and other aids at Tigertown on Feb. 14 to run a half-hundred of the best young chattels in the Detroit farm system through a two-week session. Fifteen of those players are on the parent roster of the squad he will lead into the new season.

The other 35 have been culled from the farm clubs scattered from here to there. The decision was important because ic affected the placing of America's Brooks Dodge, a 26-year-old engineer from Gor-ham, N.H., who would have moved up from fourth to third if the penalty had been imposed. It would have been America's first medal of any sort in the game's a bronze one. Sigge Ericsson, 26 year old Stockholm sporting goods dealer, won the 10,000 meter (6 Turn to Page 24, Column 2 Hillman, who will reach his 19th birthday in another week, still is the youngest player in the league despite being a veteran of almost a full season. REFERRING to the players' demand for a $7,200 minimum salary "instead of the current $6,000, Briggs said: "That's just another talking point for Mr.

Lewis. Someone should investigate him. "Let's see whether he's in favor of the United States or some other country." The Tiger president expressed skepticism over a proposal to "save the minors" by televising a major game weekly and sharing the proceeds with the minors. It is Hillman's play in an un. publicized role which has made possible the headlined switch of Red Kelly from defense to forward.

JACK ADAMS and Jimmy Skinner took a calculated risk in pulling Kelly off the defense "I'd say you would run into trouble with the government on that one," he said, referring to 7 Hold Key to '56 Finish ranks, but at the time it was more important to bolster the possible anti-trust action by the Justice Department. WHAT DOES BUCKY FEEL he really needs to push the 1956 Tigers into a contending role for the pennant? "That's a hard one to answer right now," he insisted. "A little more hitting, a little more of everything. But offense. Kelly has done a terrific job of that since converting to left wing.

Kay Boone, 2 Others OK Contracts Any club losing the services o- an all-star defenseman like Kelly expects to be hurt. Yet the defense corps has carried along with the same strong play, Hillman being the key. The day Kelly went to for ward, Detroit was left with three Dress for Fun GET THE CLOTHES YOU NEED IN HUDSON'S RESORT SHOP Lunch on a patio! A moonlight cruise! What fun you'll have on your winter vacation under the sun! Choosing the right clothes has alot to do with it, too! Hudson's Men's Resort Shop is the place to find the right clothes easily, conveniently, quickly! ,1 f5 I'M I j. Signing of three more Tigers, including Third Baseman Ray Boone, was announced Tuesday. Boone, who tied for the 1955 American League RBI title with 116, was given a "substantial" regular defensemen Bob Gold-ham, Marcel.

Pronovost and Warren Godfrey. The fourth hand was young Bucky Holling- raise, according to General Man I worth, who was being given a year's education in playing technique but actually seeing Kaline Boone Hoeft Kuenn ager Muddy Ruel. While no figures were an little service. nounced, it was believed the Vet eran slugger will draw about $27,000 which would make him HILLMAN WAS hailed back from Buffalo, where he had been sent on loan a month before. the highest paid player on the roster.

Early in the season he had re ceived little work and the trip to the minors was arranged to Also signed Tuesday, giving the Tigers 16 signatures for a roster of 43, were Outfielder Charley Maxwell and Catcher Jay Porter. -v fit 'vfjV t- $Pi 2t' give him both action and con fidence. we should be better. We have a pretty good, nucleus to work with players who did a good job of finding themselves last year." Those players, seven of them, are the only ones carrying a no-trade tag. They are Al Kaline, Ray Boone, Harvey Kuenn, Billy Hoeft, Frank Lary, Bill Tuttle and Frank House.

"That's a pretty fat handful of talent," Bucky pointed out. "Most of them are young. All had a good year in 1955. If they show normal development, there's no telling how far we could go." There was no attempt by any of the Tigers' top brass at the luncheon to disguise the fact that efforts still are being made to swing a couple of trades before the April 17 opening date. "We had two deals all set at the major league meetings Ruel acknowledged that the At first it was planned to alternate Hollingworth and as the fourth regular, but Tigers are lagging behind other clubs in signing players but ex pressed no concern.

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Shirt, shorts. Each 6.95 last December," amended President Spike Briggs. "Each of "He was a different player from the day he got back from Buffalo," points out Skinner. "Steady playing there sharpened his play and he adjusted Turn to Page 25, Column 1 the other clubs cooled off on them after a night's sleep. But we have planted a few seeds.

They still could ripen before the epring ends." Offer Garver as Trade Bait Winter Ends Today for 31 Bosox Rookies Free Prrss-Ctaieaio Tribune Wire CHICAGO So you thought it was winter? Baseball's long spring training program starts Wednesday in Sarasota when WHILE NOBODY WOULD elaborate on the identity of the players involved in such suggested transactions, it is more 1 --pUV-M Hockey than a hasty guess that Pitcher Ned Garver was offered to the Kansas City Athletics in an exchange for Slugger Gus DOWNTOWN 2nd Grand River A NORTHLAND Second Level MftWrnr-'' Pts. GF GA SO 12 8 68 144 91 Montreal DETROIT New York Toronto Chicago Boston 21 IS 14 56 131 95 24 16 7 55 14S 117 17 25 7 41 108 130 14 27 9 37 113 159 IS 26 9 35 91 138 Zernial and Second Baseman Spook Jacobs who finished the year in a blaze at Columbus, O. The Athletics still are sitting on the proposition. It is certain to be revived when the powers get together in the weeks leading up to the start of the season. Exactly who was involved in the other suggested transaction definitely is a guess.

But it definitely was made to the New York Yankees from this end. And again it was fcuilt around the pitching of the right handed Garver. For the first time in recent seasons, there seems to be a definite feeling in the front office that pitching even without Garver isn't going to be too much of a Tiger problem this season. 31 youngsters owned by the Boston Red Sox pace the getaway for the 1956 season. Manager Mike Higgins and his staff of five coaches will be in charge of the group.

On Feb. 15 all batterymen are due to report at Sarasota. This also is the date that the advance contingent of the Detroit Tigers will report at Lakeland, Fla. By coincidence (or is these are the clubs which the Chicago White Sox must beat off when they're not wondering about how they'll ever finish ahead of the Yankees and Indians. WEDNESDAY'S GAME Toronto at New York.

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