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HppIIMWIMlH, i iDf'f ymr 22 DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, April 12, 1946 on wo MacPhail Ques igers stoo CITY ACQUIRES YEAR 11. ROUND SPORTS SITE for Dollars May Cost Yanks Flag Long Tour Sets Box Office Mark, but Takes Sting Out of Stars' Bats Parks Department Ready to Take Over Redford Golf Club ment of Parks and Recreation will be running the course this summer," Considne said. "The club is in ('Deration as a public course at the present time and it wouldn't take long to convert it to our nse." Redford has been operated as a private, semi-private and public course since it was built in 1915. BECAUSE OF Its location, Redford is expected to be the best revenue-producing course in possession of the City. It is located in the densely populated Northwest section and easily reached by bus, street car or auto.

The Parks and Recreation Department, through Considine, asked the planning commission to acquire the course in January of last year. Court condemnation proceedings followed, ending Thursday. Considine pointed out that because of its rolling terrain, the course will be adaptable to winter sports. Unless the present owners file an appeal, the Department of Parks and Recreation will acquire Redford Golf Club. The City was awarded the course and five other parcels of ground in a condemnation suit in Recorders Court.

A jury awarded J172.700 to the owners of the property, which includes the area bounded by Grand River, Seven Mile, Lahser and Berg Roads. The golf club proper consists of 116 acres. COMMON COUNCIL recently appropriated $175,000 for the purchase of this property and Mack Park for sport sites. John J. Considine, general superintendent of the Department of Parks and Recreation, will present the case to the Parks and Recreation Commission next Tuesday.

The has already approved the purchase, and approval of the cost is expected. "Unless the present owners file an appeal within five days, the Depart NEW YORK (UP) The New York Yankees return to the big town Friday with spring record3 involving dollars, miles and customers and just about the weariest ball club ever to come off a spring training tour. If they win the American League pennant, even by one percentage point, the Yanks will have to be tabbed one of the great champions. President Larry MacPhail is vehement in his protests against the weariness charge, but nearly every writer with the. club reported the Yankees had begun to drag a week ago under the i Wayne Nine.

Links Sauad Ooen On Ailing List JL Problem: How to Use Three Catchers at I smwJ t- 5. ij j- i 4 j. t. iii" "Ww- A 1 -A 1 L-r vkzd '7 i L--r--- rrr I mmj Bwiiiiow.J This trio of catchers poses quite a problem for Coach John Kobs, of Michigan State College, since each is a better than average receiver and a heavy hitter. The group includes (left to right): Capt.

Ben Hudenko, of Wyandotte, who topped the Spar- tans in hitting last season and also on the recent southern tour; Pete Fornari, of Detroit, star slugger of the 1942 team, and Bucky Walsh, of Buffalo, N. who ranked third in batting during the nine-game spring trip. ed Rain, Cold Halt Game in Fifth Hitchcock's Error Beats Kretlow, 2-0 BY LYAIX SMITH Free Press Sport Editor RICHMOND, Ind. First It rained, then a cold wind whipped in from the north. Then it sleeted.

Then it snowed a little and finally 3,500 half -frozen fans and a couple dozen chilblained baseball players called it quit3 and hurried for a fireside. The score "after five innings was 2 to 0, In favor of the Cincinnati Reds over the Detroit Tierers. but when Umpire Larry Goetz of tne League called the game everyone was satisfied, including the fans who were viewing their first major league competition here since 1943. THE REDS picked up only two hits off Rookie Lou Kretlow in the abbreviated tussle and their two runs were strictly unearned, both coming in the third inning on a triple by Shortstop Eddie Miller. Joe Beggs, Kretlow's pitching opponent, opened the inning with an easy hopper towards Billy Hitchcock at second base.

He let the ball go through for his second error of the game. Daln Ulay walked before Lou picked off Lonnie Frey on a fly and struck out Grady Hatten. Miller then clouted his triple to the right center fence and the Reds had enough runs to win their fourth game in five meetings this spring with the Bengals. DETROIT also made two hits but although one was a lead off two-bagger in the second inning by Dick Wakefield they couldn't push a runner past second base. Dick dropped a windblown fly ball inside the left field line but was caught off second when Pat Mullin hit a sharp grounder back to the mound.

In the fourth, Hitchcock lined a single over second as an opening gesture but the Tigers, unaccustomed as they were to such a chilly reception, could do nothing about advancing him. The second Cincinnati hit was an infield single by Frey with two away the same inning, but it caused no damage either. ALTHOUGH THE thermometer had crawled down to the 30's the game went on when it was dis covered that tickets for every seat in the park had been sold for days The stands looked like a midwinter football game as some fans huddled under blankets and braver ones stomped around and clapped their mlttened hands to try to keep warm. There were four errors In the game with Hitchcock being charged with two, Anse Moore, Tiger third sacker with another and Miller of the Reds with the fourth. But there could have been 20 and no one would have been surprised.

ANOTHER GAME is scheduled for Friday between the same teams at Dayton, providing the weatherman eases up a bit. The Tigers will pitch Al Ben ton, Hal Newhouser and Tommy Bridges while the Redlegs will counter with Clyde Shoun. DETROIT CINCINNATI AB A AB A I.akcss 1 3 riar.If 1 1 3 3 trm.vtt 3 1 1 2 a llatton.3 2 'I 4 Miller. 3 14 1 2 1 1 Uorbitt Mullin. rf 2 Lihkt.rf 3 Moore.Sb 3 3 3 2 4 Haat.lb 1 5 1 Kretlow.

1 1 2 1 Bckcs.d 2 0 0 1 Totals 17 2 1ft 6 Totals 192 157 Ran for Miller in fifth. DETROIT Cincinnati 2 2 Clay. Bees. Hltcheork. Moore.

Miller. RBI Miller 2. 2B Wakefield. MB Miller. VP Frey.

Miller and Haas. SO Kretlow Bee 1. BB Kretlow 4. PB Richards. 1.B Detroit 2.

Cin-cincinnati Davis Nips Palmer in Billiard Match Although he had a high run of eight. Ray Palmer dropped his State Amateur three-cushion billiard match to Frank Davis, 49 to 50. Davis put together a string of seven. Friday's match will pit Charles Ward against Joe Perf ecto. -4 A 1L One Time! Bisons Rout Barons, 6-1, in 5th Game BUFFALO (U.R) The rejuvenated Buffalo Bisons swarmed all over the Cleveland Barons, beating them, 6 to 1, before 9,460 Memorial Auditorium fans to get back into the thick of contention for the American Hockey League Calder Cup trophy.

The victory was the Bisons second in the live games that have been played in the best-of-seven playoff series. Buffalo tallied its first two counters in less than five minutes of the opening period. Paul Mundrick beat Cleveland Goalie Harvey Teno on a wide angle shot at 1:08 and then Tommy Cooper slapped a rebound into the net to make it 2-0. Several minutes later Les Cunningham fired a shot past Goalie Connie Dion from 15 feet out for Cleveland's lone marker. EARLY IN the second period Roger Leger, of the Bisons, pushed a pass up to Freddie Hunt, who promptly drilled a long shot into the cage.

At the midway mark Len Hal-derson added another Bison marker from directly in front of the Cleveland net, while the Barons were short a man. Shortly afterwards, Murdo McKay pushed another one In to make the score 5 to 1. Jackie Adams scored the last tally at 5:25 of the final period in which seven penalties were called. The teams renew their series in Cleveland Saturday night, with a seventh game, if necessary, the following evening in Buffalo. As of TODAY Majors9 Rule to Help GIs Works Hardship on Moore BY LYALL SMITH Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, of the New York Yankees, is out of the lineup with a stiff neck.

Joe was ordered to a Baltimore hospital to have a swollen neck gland examined. It was diagnosed as a bronchial cleft and probably will be removed at the end of season. He is expected to return to action within a few days. All-America Cuts Field Only College Men Eligible to Play LOS ANGELES All-America Football Conference club owners adopted rules limiting player eligibility to collegians, and preferably college graduates. Conference officials approved a rule similar to that of the National League: No college student shall be eligible to play in the conference until his graduation or until the class with which he enrolled has graduated.

Then they voted to sign no non-collegians without permission of Commissioner James Crowley. THE RULES were not made retroactive, so several previously- signed players with only high school and service grid experience will not be affected. The commissioner, It was announced, may waive the four-year college rule only in extreme cases where war-time service may have interfered with a player's collegiate career. Accelerated three-year courses will not be considered as a basis for figuring a player's college class, it was agreed. Class Pin Lead Changes Morris Garage moved into first place in Class of the city bowling tournament at Dearborn Recreation.

Paced by Ray Hison's 632 the Morris team rolled 2822, or 359 pins over average. The Fenders five from the Fisher Body League took over third place, with 2632, a mark of 259 over average. John Goll sparked the team with 608. In Class the Rydholm team grabbed third place by bettering its average 285 pins with a 2529 series. Samuel Karpinski, with 548, was high man.

on Road 21 Players in Baseball Tour to Ohio Golfers Invade South for Three Dual Meets Wayne University's baseball and golf teams will leave Friday afternoon on tours that will open the Tartar season in both sports. A twenty-one-man baseball squad, including 17 returned servicemen, will make the trip with Coach Joe Truskowski. The Tartars play Saturday and Monday at the Univeristy of Cincinnati and Tuesday at Miami University, Oxford, O. Four varsity lettermen are available for Truskowski's 1946 nine. They are Myron Urdea at third base.

Catcher Bill Collins, Pitcher-Outfielder Ralph Chapman and Utility Infielder Jim Neubacher. JOE RZEPKA, a football letter-man, is second-baseman and lead-ofi man. Len Sesko, Wilbur Wright product, is shortstop and bats second. Urdea is No. 3 and Collins is the clean-up hitter.

Charley Ross, who won two letters at University of Detroit, plays right field and bats fifth. Chapman has the regular lef t-fiald assignment and bats sixth. Bill Fagenson, a Central High graduate, will play first base and Bob Gurstein will roam center-field. Jack Hooven, another Wilbur Wright star, and Don Brown, former Redford High hurler, will handle most of the pitching chores. Other players making the trip are Pitchers Louis Anschultz, Vince Hudie, Lou Rzepka and Jack Salvadore; Catchers Bill Cravens and Don Torres; Infielders Neubach and George Shuk, and Outfielders Chuck Clarke, Harry Rabinowitz and Al Kofender.

Student Manager Rufus Wilson will accompany the squad. COACH LAURENCE E. Russell has selected a five-man team to represent Wayne on the links in the week-long trip through eight states. Three dual matches and a triangular meet are scheduled. The Tartar golfers open against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Monday.

On Wednesday they tackle Georgia Tech at Atlanta, and Thursday the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. The triangular contest will pit the Tartars against Ohio State and the University of Cincinnati Saturday morning at Columbus. Following elimination playoffs at the Warren Valley course. Russell named William Balkwell, Frank Jawor, Leslie Lemak, Lawrence Opalka and Stanley Setera as the five-man iuad. In Eagles' Fold PHILADELPHIA (JF) The Philadelphia Eagles announced signing of John Bezemes, former Holy Cross halfback.

Bezemes played on the 1941 and '42 Holy Cross elevens and later played with Army teams at Camp Davis, N. and Camp Lee, Va. Chicago, where he plans to reenter the fight game. Edward McCuan, 63, owner and trainer of race horses, died in a St. Louis hospitaL Born in Kentucky, he had lived near Edwarda-ville, 111., for the past 16 years.

Frankie Albert, former Stanford University quarterback, suffered a severe leg cut when a power saw slipped while he was operating it at his home in Glendale. Calif. It was not believed the injury would affect his football playing. William Kyne, general manager of Bay Meadows Race Track at San Francisco, said he would bid as high as $2,700,000 to purchase the Suffolk Downs track in Boston, which will be auctioned off on May 1. Arthur's Clothes, last year's Class A DBF champions, will meet the University of Michigan baseball team at Ann Arbor Saturday in an exhibition game.

Entries for the fiftieth annual Boston AA Marathon April 20 have been swelled to 59. ceaseless travel. MacPhail'a scramble for every loose dollar on a trail from Panama to Florida to Texas, through the Midwest and back to New York, was, however, a tremendous financial success. Some small change may nave escaped nere aim mcic, but it was strictly turnaway stuff. THE YANKEES, a 7-5 betting choice 'for the flag, open a three-game series with.

the Dodgers at Brooklyn Friday and with that attendance Included, the and: teams will have played before rn estimated 225,000 spectators this spring. Nearly a week ago the club had a box office net of $100,000, better by $34,000 than the previ-V- ous all-time record set in the boom spring of 1929 with the "SZ Dodgers series included. In order to maintain box office appeal, Manager Joe McCarthy kept his stars in the line-up day in and day out with rarely more than a twenty-four-hour break in the schedule. QUITE PROPERLY, McCarthy remained a square-shooter with the exhibition spectators by presenting Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Tommy Henrich and the "pothers for full stretches of nine innings on days when a rest for some of them might have been beneficial. Nobody complained, least of all the three outfielders, although after the Dodgers blanked the Yankees, 2 to 0, on Tuesday in the thirty-eighth game of the squad tour, DiMaggio was heard to remark: "Whew, that's almost a third of a season already!" Both DiMaggio and Keller slumped badly at bat in the last stages of the trip, each putting in a week around the .200 mark.

BASEBALL EXTRA Tigers on Air Before Opener Manager Steve O'Neill and Detroit Tiger players will be interviewed by Harry Heilmann in a special broadcast at 10:30 p. m. Monday over Station WXYZ and the Michigan Network. Lyall Smith, Free Press sports editor, will also appear on the program. O'Neill will announce his starting line-up for Tuesday's Opening Day game, and Heilmann will comment on American League pennant prospects.

Keller finally was given a few days off to visit his family at Frederick, and arrange for their move to New York for the season. MacPIIAIL'S theory is that a sure buck in the till in the spring is as good as a possible World Series dollar in the fall and why not have them both? As a precedent that tropical spring training does not take too much out of a major leaguer, MacPhail cites his 1941 Dodgers, who won the National League pennant after training in Cuba. He credited their showing to "ideal training conditions" and would have returned except for the war. The status of McCarthy's pitching staff, despite excellent showings occasionally by his rookies, indicates there will be little rest down the 154-game stretch for his leading run-producers. The known pitching strength begins and ends with Spurgeon (Spud) Chandler, who came out of the Amy' late last season and won two while losing one.

Lefty Joe Page, who won six and lost three in 1945, has pitched impressively this spring and probably will be considerable help as No. 2 pitcher. Report Conn's Hand Injured GREENWOOD LAKES. N. U.R) Billy Conn took a day off in his training for his June 19 bout with Joe Louis for the heavyweight but his handlers refused to comment on a report that the "day off" would grow into a week's rest because of a cut hand.

A spokesman at the training camp said only that "Conn worked Wednesday but he's not training Thursday. A Pittsburgh newspaper published the report of the hand injury. Plan Tag Team Bout at Arena Arena Gardens will feature an Australian tag team bout Monday night when "Bull" Ourrv and "The Great" Balbo meet the "Bull" Montana-Masked Marvel team. Walter Roxy and Miguel Torres meet in the semi-final. RICHMOND, Ind.

THERE'S A SPECIAL rule in the baseball code dealing with the treatment of players returning from the war. In part, and in every-day language, it reads like this: He must be retained by the club that owns his contract for at least SO days after he rejoins the team. Then, even though he never has played in the major leagues, he must be passed by all other major-league clubs before he can be optioned (loaned) to- a minor league for seasoning. The rule was put in the books strictly for the protection of the players and at first glance that's what it would seem to accomplish. But consider the case of Anse Moore, Tiger outfielder-infielder-slugger.

Moore played at Beaumont for Steve O'Neill in 1942, when the present Detroit manager was the skipper of that Tiger farm club. Anse" was one-third of a championship outfield which also listed Dick Wakefield and Hoot Evers. Then Moore went into the Army, missed three full seasons, was discharged and joined the Tigers, who owned his contract. He reported at Lakeland and found that there was no place for him in the outfield. SINCE HE ONCE had played third base, Anse was moved over to that spot, where his opposition was the veteran Pinky Higgins, Billy Hitchcock and Jimmy Out- British Star Invited to Play Nelson NEW YORK (rP) Fred Corcoran.

PGA tourney manager, said Elmer Ward, sponsor of the Good-all Round-Robin Golf meet, cabled British Open Champion Richard Burton, inviting him to compete in the 1946 meet and oppose Byron Nelson in a special match. Burton recently was quoted as saying he doubted Nelson, top-money winner among United States pros last year, would be able to score in the mid-sixties on British links and offered to back his opinion "with $600 of my own money." AMERICAN GOLF addicts immediately raised approximately $160,000 to back Nelson but plans to match the pair fell through when Nelson currently vacationing in Virginia, cancelled his trip to South Africa and England. This year's Goodall Round-Robin will be played in the New York metropolitan area May 30 to June 2. The course has not yet been selected. Corcoran said the invitation promised to pay all of Burton's expenses and also would permit him to stay on this side of the ocean long enough to compete in the United States Open at Cleveland June 13 to 15.

IN A TELEPHONE conversation -with Corcoran, Nelson declared "I would be happy to meet Burton in this country." At the same time Corcoran said that there was a possibility a group of American pros might fly to England for the British Open, July 1 to 6. Ogden Resigns Post in Adrian Special to the Free Press ADRIAN W. J. Ogden, named City recreation director a few months ago, has resigned the position and returned to the public schools as football coach and physical education instructor. Ogden coached high school football teams for eight years until he resigned to take the recreation job.

Jack Brennan, former University of Michigan star, was signed for the football coaching job, but he resigned recently for a job with a Detroit radio concern. Ogden will continue as recreation director until a new man for the position is obtained. Drive on Bookies Slated at Omrchill LOUISVILLE, Safety Director Joseph A. Murphy said police assigned to gambling details would be doubled to make cer tain that bookies take a "vacation" during the Churchill Downs race meet, April 27 -May 18. Murphy said the city had too many bookies and that those who failed to close during the Downs meeting- would be forced out of business permanently.

law, who had played the position in capable i style half of last season and through seven f.V 1 4 4 World Series games. Anse showed real promise there but re- vealed that he needed at least one full summer of seasoning in a strong minor W-i i leaSTue before he was ready for a starting ssr. I berth in the Big Time. 1 Buffalo, of the International League, is a club with which Detroit has a working agreement, so the Tigers wanted to send Moore there to get the much-needed ex- Just a Little Wishful Thinking It's Brief And If 's News Moore perience. But he had to be put on the waiver list as required by the rule book, and when the deadline was reached he had been claimed by both the Chicago and Boston clubs.

Not wanting to let him go for the paltry $7,500 price tag which is automatically affixed to a player involved in such a deal, the Tigers withdrew his name from the list and he still is with the team. "All right," you say. "That's fine. It's a swell break for for Moore, and the kid deserves it." Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, has joined the newly formed United Negro and Allied Veterans of America, he announced at his training camp in West Baden Springs, Ind. Ignatius (Iggy) Konrad, 145-pound junior from Cleveland, was elected honorary captain of the Michigan State College wrestling team for the season which ended recently.

Hay and oats were delivered as usual to the Narragansett race track at Pawtucket, R. after the AFL Teamsters' Union reached a friendly understanding with the track management and withdrew the picket line. Dr. Clarence Cottam, a native of St. George.

Utah, has been appointed Assistant Director of the I Division of Wildlife Research of i the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of Interior at Washington, C. rromoter Orville Godfrey, who formerly staged boxing shows at the Arena Gardens, is reported in 1 i BUT WAIT A MINUTE. The facts are that Moore needs more experience before he will become a good major leaguer. He won't be able to get it with the Tigers, because the positions he plays are filled with capable players. That means hell languish on the Tiger bench and see action only occasionally and then chiefly in the role of plnch-hitter.

That's not helping Anse Moore become a big-league star with the right to demand a healthy pay check. Only one other course is open now and that is to trade him for another player. Yet here, too, there are difficulties. Although he is an excellent prospect, he has no great reputation and for that reason is not held in sufficiently high regard by other clubs to enable the Tigers to demand the sort of money he is worth. Free Pre Photo "If we only had you back, what we'd do to Army next fall," exclaimed Football Coach Fritz Crisler (right) as he greeted Bob Westfall, former All-America fullback at Michigan, to one of the spring workouts.

Westfall, star of the Detroit Lions, returned to the campus for a short visit to look over prospects for the '48 campaign..