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Di Trout Si Report Hal 50,000 T4 DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday. January 29, 1848 Adams Plans if Pipe Line to As of TODAY Gehringcr Quits Baseball as Quietly as He Cam BY LYALL SMITH 19 Tigers Have Now Signed Up Newhouser Merely Says 'No Comment Indianapolis -J. i BY LYALL SMITH FrM PreM Sports Editor Paul (Diz) Trout, 30-year-old righthander, signed his 1946 Tiger contract Monday. At the same time, well-informed sources revealed that Hal Newhouser is a holdout for a reported salary of $50,000. Impotent Wings Due 1 for General Reshuffle BY JOHN N.

SABO There will be some commuting between Detroit and Indianapolis within the next 24 hours for several hockey plaj-ers. Manager Jack Adams, of the Red Wings, so indicated Monday when his team returned from New York after suffering a 5-2 defeat at the hands of the last-place Rangers. "I'm going to talk the situation over with Earl Seibert (Indianapolis coach) and decide then which players we will call up and which we will send to Adams said. He would not enlarge on this statement, but admitted that his Wings, who now have lost three straight games, turned in a ragged Winner of 18 games last sum mer, Trout stated that ne naa signed his new contract for what he called "a good boost over 1945." Meanwhile the rumors' persist that Newhouser. who won 25 i games last year and led American League hurlers for the second straight summer, is insistent on the $50,000 figure.

"No comment," Hal said when asked if he was a holdout. 1 I 3 "HE LEFT THE GAME like he entered it and like he played it," said Wish Egan. "Quietly gracefully gentlemanly." Egan was describing a little scene in the front offices of the Tigers. It was a tableau that passed unnoticed in the rush of newsmen to report the signing of new players, the return from tervice of others, the readying of the Tigers to leave for spring training. It was the farewell visit to Briggs Stadium of Charley Gehringer.

He came to sign his name on a formal-looking piece of paper. It is called: Application for Voluntary Retirement from Organized Baseball. It meant that Charley Gehringer officially is through with the game in which he starred for 17 years as a Tiger. "It meant a lump right here to me," said Egan. And he tapped his throat.

Gehringer, taciturn but friendly, played his last game for the Tigers in 1941. Then he serv ed one season as a coach be-fore he voluntarily enlisted in the Navy. Had he so desired, he could have returned this year to the Tigers in some capacity. Practically any capacity he wished. Now he's on the list that says he is through with baseball.

But baseball can't easily forget Charley Gehringer, of the Detroit Tigers. He was signed at 21 fresh from Fowlerville on the recommendation of the late Bobby Veach. That was in 1924. Ty Cobb was manager. Charley Rales with All-Time Greats HE CAME into the game quietly and efficiently.

He was farmed out for two seasons, recalled in 1925 to roll away to 17 superlative seasons, three World Series, six All-Star games. Nap Lajoie, Frankie Frisch, Eddie Collins, Rogers Hornsby their names are in the record books as the peers of second basemen. So is Gehringer's. Lajoie, Frisch, Collins, Hornsby they were the "color" boys. They made the headlines with their ability, kept themselves in those headlines with their explosive actions, their fights, their headlong slides and their penchant for pleasing fans who like their baseball heroes to play like heroes.

"WHEN ARE you going to Lakeland?" he was asked. performance in pew York. "Our forwards just can't hit the net," he said, "and our defense wasn't anything to brag. about." "Not until I sign my contract," he grinned. HAL NEWHOUSER DIZ TROUT Diz Is back in the Tiger fold for the eighth time; Hal is rumored holding out for $50,000.

ADAMS INTENDS to have a special meeting of the Red Wings Tuesday morning. At the time he is due to announce a general juc- General Manager George M. Trautman had this to say: "We don't recognize snch a word as a holdout until a player falls to report on the opening game of the season." lie had no specific comment on the Newhouser report. Trout became the nineteenth 9,596 See Autoists Regain Lead gling of the squad. Tiger to agree to terms for the Although Adams mentioned no names.

It Is known that he has been far from satisfied with the work of Bill Hollett, Carl LIs-combe, Syd Howe and Joe Car-veth. Hollett and Liscombe did not play Sunday. Another player who may find 1946 season and he immediately predicted he would make it a winning one. "Diz" just returned from Hot Spitfires NoMatch Springs, where he and Catcher Bob Swift steamed off a few excess pounds acquired since himself being sent back to Indian the close of the 1945 campaign. apolis is Roland Rossignol, who was with the Capitols early in the '-V' NN.

--t "I LOST seven pounds," Trout In the matter of defensemen. the player most liketly to be recalled reported. "That brings me down to 211 and I expect to lose those extra 11 by the time we open the "Charley was as great or greater," declared Egan, who for for Them Goodyear Triumphs in Other Game, 9-5 BY TOM LOBATJGH is Hugh Millar. He has been ham pered by a knee injury this season, season. Those 43 exhibition games should help." out Adams still believes he has the making of a major leaguer.

The loquacious righthander also reported that the troublesome back which bothered him much of last year seemed Auto Club zoomed back into the leadership of the International JIM COXACHER and Les Dour- Amateur Hockey League by las are the Indianapolis forwards 45 years has seen stars blossom and wither away. "He never was put out of a game for arguing with an umpire. He didn't give out fancy stories to the reporters. He never harangued about his pay or tried to get more salary by carrying his stories to the papers. "Gehringer was a ballplayer's ballplayer," Egan said, "ne was a manager's player, too.

No clowning. No showboat stnff. But he could stop any ball that Frisch or Lajoie or Hornsby could stop. He was a gentleman on the field and off it. He always was in shape." ing the Spitfires, 5 to 3, in the most likely to find themselves corn- second game of a doubie-neaaer mg back to the Wings.

"I played golf seven days down there in Arkansas and it never ac uiympia. in me urst game, Bright Goodyear upset the Got- bothered me at all," he said. fredson Club, 9 to 5. Adams said that he still hasn't given up hope of swinging a trade with some other IS'HL squad. "I'm still he said, "and perhaps one of the A crowd of 9,596, including 1.000 members of the Boys Safety Patrol, TROUT'S 18 VICTORIES last summer made him No.

2 among the Tigers to Newhouser for the i AnconaPut on Olympia Fight Card Tony Pitted Against Logan in 5-Rounder BY J.3IES ZERrLLI Tony Ancona, the former Detroit Free Press Golden Gloves featherweight and lightweight champion who scored a four-round knockout victory in his first start since leaving the Army several months ago, has a spot on the Olympia boxing card Friday. He Is scheduled against Flush Logan in a five-rounder. Matchmaker Nick Londes has arranged a double windup, featuring Fritzie Zivic against O'Neill Bell and Bill Eddy against Ace Miller in ten-rouders. LOXDES ALSO announced the rest of his show. In a four-rounder, Al Ellis will meet Joe Nelson.

In a five-rounder, Bert Dowdell will face Langford Green, and in a six-rounder, Willie Watkins will take on Sparky Reynolds. Zivic definitely is not the two-fisted battler he was a few years ago when he ruled the Nation's welterweights. But in gymnasium workouts here he has shown capacity crowds that he still can take care of himself and deal out punishment. who were the guests of Olympia, saw the two games. three teams with which I talked might bo interested." second straight season.

In 1944, they won 56 games between them. The record books tell the story of Gehringer's greatness in cold hard figures. In 17 seasons he hit .321 He made only 309 errors in 2,278 games He led the league's batters with a .371 average in 1937. He was the leading second baseman in 1929, '30, '35, '36, TH'n KARLY fiOALS rave Soit- The Wings will not Dlav azain firM a loAri in the first period, hut until Saturday, but they'll face no the Auto Club tied the score and easy task over the week-end. Their went ahead in the second period, two-game opponents then will be Joe Levine and Jimmy Baudino the Montreal Canadiens, defending '37, '39 and even in 1941, his last season.

Always the First to Sign Contract In his seven previous summers with the Tigers, Trout won 98 games while losing 85. His best year was In 1944 when he wound up with a 27-14 mark In the Tiger drive for a pennant that fizzled out on the final day of the season when "Diz" lost to "Dutch" Leonard and the last-place Senators. teamed up for three Auto Club cnampions. The first game goals. wiu oe in Saturday and the next at Olympia Sunday.

HE PLAYED in the World Series of 1934, '35 and '40. Always consistent in his play and conduct, it doesn't even seem strange RED WING SCORING still -fill Iff l-MXl Over the last three seasons he that the .321 batting average he compiled in those classics was exactly the same as his average for his 17 seasons in the big Adam Brown Gord Ilaldy started the Spitfire scoring at 2:52 in the first period, but Levine tied the score at 5:54. Harry Marchand then put the junior club ahead again. In the second period Baudino has won 63 games against 41 de Joe Carvfth Ed Brunetraa Murray Armttronc HarrT Watson feats with the respected New York Yankees being his softest touch. Starting with a triumph over the Syd Howe t'arl l.lwnmh.

tied the score, and Lou Brunell Mud Brunrtraa Bill Hollrtt leagues. He was selected as second baseman for the All-Star games from 1933 through 1938. In those six games he never made an error and batted a powerful .500. "Charley was always the first Tiger to sign his contract, Bronx Bombers late in 1943, "Diz" beat them 10 times in the next 11 sent the Automen ahead. Pen.

In A Pt. Min. 14 i 23 21 it 11 2J 11 8 20 11 4 11 IS 2 5 14 2 4 7 11 9 8 2 10 2 6 4 lO 2 36 0 9 9 44 5 3 8 4 3 8 8 6 3 4 1 1H 14 6 2 3 3 Si 12 3 4 3 3 18 112 2 1 1 11 1 1 a Jack Stewart games he faced them. Bill Quarkenbuah Ted Lindsay Jerry Couture remand (laathier Accompanied by his wife and two sons, he wilt leave for Spring training camp when he returns from a speaking engagement in TWO FLURRIES of fists enlivened the At 13:48, Baudino and Carl Evon, Spitfire left Egan said. "He'd drop into the office, say what he thought he was worth and get it.

He never argued. Never said much. He didn't Hal ark son Roland Rmwifnol Karl Seibert Jim t'onarher Albany, N. next week. He ex wing, drew two-minutes penalties have to.

His actions said more." Done Met air Jerry Brown It is a known fact that Gehringer could have stayed in the for roughing. Three minutes later, Baudino was tripped by Louis Pao-latto, Spitfire defenseman, and a free-for-all threatened to develop. Eddy, State lightweight champion, was outpointed by Miller sev HEAD COACH, NOW Associated Pres Wirephoto IT'S ALL IRISH A team that controls the ball usually winds up a winner in basketball. The above picture explains why Notre Dame downed the once-beaten Kentucky University cagers recently. Two Irish players.

Dee (3) and Gilhooley (8), fight for the ball while Kentucky's Wilbur Schu (36) is an interested spectator. eral months ago in an eight-round When the officials and cooler play- er Saginaw. On the basis of that victory Miller will probably far-flung Tiger organization forever, had he desired. "Both Frank Navin (former Tiger owner) and Mr. Briggs actually loved him like a son," Egan continued.

"They both told me and Charley that he never would be traded or sold. And Charley never took advantage of that fact either. ers managed to untangle the melee, 1 Baudino and Al.Dutchuk, of theOCIlfJCSfflfCl pects to, report at Lakeland by Feb. 10. exactly 10 days in advance of the opening date set for batterymen.

Later in the day, two more pitchers Bill Pierce and Art Houtteman dropped in on Trautman and added their names to the Tiger roster. Both are products of Detroit's sandlots, are 18 years old each and aw limited duty with the club last summer. De xavored to do it again. Spitfires, were given major pen WINS PLAYOFF BY 2 STROKES alties for fighting and Paolatto Promotes sat out his tripping penalty. No Bob McQuillar Halts Art Price's Streak "I was in the office the day he signed his first Tiger contract scoring developed while the teams Wickhorst in 1924," Wish said quietly.

"I was in the office the other day Hogan Cards 68 to Edge hen he signed his retirement paper. Art Price, of Detroit, bidding for his sixth consecutive victory, was SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Frank "He's still the same. Yes, he left the game like he entered it, were snort-handed. Levine fired his second goal shortly after the final period opened. Evon tallied for the Spitfires, but Herb Jones flipped in another Auto Club goal just before the final gun.

Reiser for Phoenix Title 200 Detroiters Will Skate in H. Wickhorst, California line coach Quietly gracefully gentlemanly." beaten by Bob McQuillar, Port Huron lightweight, in the ten- from 1931 to 1942 when he went Into the service, was named head round headliner at Arena Gardens, The decision was unanimous. par-three thirteenth when he sank PHOENIX. Ariz. CP) Little I football coach of the Univresity ten-footer, tne nrst one longer In the first game Bill Russ and 01 aiirorma.

Other results: John Macklom AlpenaEvent Bennie Hogan, 137 pounds of golfing ice from Hershey, went around the last nine holes in 33 than two feet he had managed to sink all day. beat Pat O'Brien, four rounds: xuiiiuijf jaqueB iea uie unt jEvans, general manager, Iowa Topples Gophers; Moves into Top Place scoring paraae witn two goals and speaking for the associated stu- Luther Burgess won from Cedric Slourney, four rounds: Chuck uiree assists each. George Tessier, dents executive committee, said to fashion a three-under-par 68 and defeat Herman Keiser, of Akron, in an 18-hole playoff for the Phoenix Open golf uotrredson right wing, put his Wickhorst was granted a three- Rouselle beat Les Tennessee, four rounds; Bob Amos outpointed team temporarily in the lead with year contract at an undisclosed three goals in quick succession in salary. The executive committee uie inira period, but a five-goal action was unanimous and they The victory moved Hogan into first place among the money winners on the 1946 tour with $4,675 in prize money. Byron Nelson, of Toledo, leading money winner last year, Is second with $4,250.

Nelson, who dropped out of the winter tour at the Richmond (Calif.) tourney, is expected to rejoin the pros at the San Antonio (Tex.) meet Feb. 7-10. More than 100 Detroit skaters are expected to take part In the Northwest Outdoor Speed Skating championships at Alpena Saturday and Sunday. The skating meet will climax Alpena's Snow Frolic Week, which began last Friday with an interscholastic skating meet and the selection of Northeast ern Michigan's Snow Queen from girls of St. Anne's, St.

Bernard's, and Alpena High acted on the unanimous recommendation of the athletic advisorv isngnt Darrage in the last 10 min utes decided the game. aonny Boy Taylor, four rounds. 3 Big League Stars Honored board. Hogan won the $1,500 first money and Keiser, who registered a 70 his worst round of the tournament which started last Friday got $1,000. Sunday at the end of the tournament, the pair were tied with 273 for the 73-hole route.

After they had each carded a RUSS, Benny Federwick. and Northicestern Beaten by Late OSU Rally COLUMBUS, O. Ohio State's Bucks kept their Western Conference title hopes alive with a last-half surge which produced a 47-41 victory over Northwestern before 2,100 fans. It was Ohio State's sixth victory in eight conference games and for Northwestern the defeat, its third, virtually wiped out all Big Al Chadwick scored for Bright in the first period, while Keith Cross- bySemipros man tallied one for Windsor. The 2 Share Medal IT IS EXPECTED that he will announce his assistants within a week or two.

He will take up his duties immediately. He is now on terminal leave from the Navy, where as a commander he was in charge of the Naval Preflight Physical Training program and later served aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. teams traded points in the second period, Russ scoring for Bright WICHITA, Kas. (JP) Three IOWA CITY, la. (P) Iowa moved into first place in the Big Ten Conference basketball race trimming Minnesota, 63 to 61, in a thrilling overtime game.

It was the Gophers' first conference loss. A capacity crowd of 14,400 saw little, red-headed Murray Weir swish in a hook shot in the final four seconds of play to tie the count at 59-all and send the contest into an extra five minutes. A tip-in by Center Noble Jorgen-sen and a long shot by Guard Herb Wilkinson gave Iowa a 63 to 59 edge after 2i minutes of the overtime period. Guard Ed Kernan tiropped in a field goal for Minnesota, but the Gophers couldn't score again although they controlled the baU all of the last minute. birdie two on the 130-yard second hole, the erame developed into a Schools.

The queen will be crowned at 7 p. Saturday, at the Winter Sports Park, 12 miles west of Alpena. and Coach Len Loree for Gotfred- former major league baseball play son. duel between Kogan's long, straight drives and Keiser's putt ers Pete Reiser, Herman Besse Honors in Golf Meet at Miami Tessier staged his show at the and Cecil Travis have been picked by the National Baseball Congress Ten championship hopes. N'WESTERN OHIO STATE (47 tp or tp ing ability.

Keiser finished the first nine in two-under-par 34, one better than the Mighty Mite, but his putter failed him on the way home. start of the third period, scoring two goals in less than a minute and another three minutes later, as the outstanding performers in MIAMI (IP) Mrs. Jane Crum non-professional competition dur ing World War II. Ben Silverberg Gets Spot on to put the Windsor club ahead. Less than a minute later, Jaques Covington, wife of an Array captain stationed at Aberdeen, sank two chip shots on the final two holes to tie Dorothy Kirby, of Atlanta, for medal honors in Reiser, former member of the Brooklyn Dodgers who had a .421 tied it up with a side shot and then HOGAN, battling his putter all the way, as he did throughout most of the tournament, finally made the club obey him on the Mickey Drouillard, Bright's play batting average in the 1943 National Semipro tournament at the fourteenth annual Helen Do- Morrli.f 4 4 13 Rown.f 3 4 8 iHtfcrrn.r 10 8 Mnvrirr.f 3 Worthnctn.f WOO Wrllo.f A A Klok.r A A 17 I ndrrmna.e A 3 1U Tntirrk.e 2 A 4 Hiihtnn.c 3 1S Whrtlrr.r IAS Aniline 3 3 9 0 4 Carters OOO Total 16 9 41 Total 1A15 47 Ilairtlmr score Northwestern 25.

Ohio State SI. Second-Half Rally Wins for Purdue LAFAYETTE, Ind. W5) Pur TWO CARAVANS of Greyhound busses, chartered by the Alpena-Detroit Club, will take an expected 1,000 Detroiters to the last two days of the carnival. One group of busses will leave Detroit at 9:55 p. m.

Friday, arriving in Alpena at 5 a. m. Saturday. A second group will leave Detroit at 7:30 a. m.

Saturday, arriving at Alpena at 2 p. m. The entire caravan will leave Alpena Sunday night. 3 Hawks to Face Assault Charges MINNESOTA 6I Falcon Staff IOWA t3t tp Tr herty Women's golf tournament. Wichita, was selected as the lead 1 13 Flaying through showers that ing hitter; Besse, of the Philadel made the greens slow and the fair phia Athletics, the outstanding 4 16 1 7 4 8 19 Urm.t a 1 CarlMtn.f Hiutnrr.t 14 Jros.f M.rr.f 4 A 14 -Mrlntrr 0 Atax.c jircrnrn.e 3 8 krrnan.s II Uilktn.a.c A 10 Brrlri.f rntrU.c 1 8 A pitcher, and Travis, erstwhile star Early Bowling Leaders Stand ways soggy, they toured the championship layout in 79 strokes to lead the field of 94 players.

with the Washington American League entry, the top infielder. due's Boilermakers gave Acting Total S.f 13 63 ToiaT SI 13 61 Score at half: Iowa Sti. Minnesota 30. Besse won four straight games and saved a fifth for Sherman They will clash later In the week in a playoff for the medal. DEFENDING Champion Louise Suggs, of Lithia Springs, carded a 37 on the outgoinsr nine Coach Mel Taube his first Western Conference basketball victory as they came from behind in the second half to whip 59 to 46.

CHICAGO (JP) Standings of the 10 leaders in the Petersen Individual bowling tournament easily withstood the assaults of 32 players from seven states on Monday's Field in the 1944 tournament, and Travis played errorless ball in 16 games in the 1942, 1943 and 1944 ing coach, scored his first goal or the season. In quick succession Chadwick, Jaques and Gil Burford tallied to hand Gotfredson its third defeat in nine games. IN CONTRAST to the second game, in which 12 penalties were handed out, only three were given in the first game. The league has announced that three clubs will be certified for the playoffs, which begin Feb. 20.

The second and third-place teams will meet in a two-game total goal series, one game at Olympia, Feb. 20, and the other at Windsor Feb. 22. The final series will be two out of three games. The first game will be at Olympia, Feb.

15. the second in Windsor, Feb. 27, and the third. If necessary, will be in Wind- CHICAGO (jp) Three Chicago Blackhawks' hockey players and their trainer left for Boston where Tuesday they face assault charges brought by Evo Somentes, a spectator, as the outgrowth of a fight WISCONSIN (46 PCRDCE (5 but slipped to 44 coming home to first squad of the fifth day of TP TP Ben Silverberg, football coach and assistant basketball coach at Northern High School, has been added to the coaching staff of Northeastern High School, replacing Basketball Coach Norman Kutner, the Department of Health and Physical Education of the city schools has announced. Silverberg's transfer was made necessary by a reduction in the faculty at Northern, according to George Mead, assistant director of athletics for the schools.

Kutner will be given a post at one of the city's intermediate schools. With only two games left on the Falcon basketball schedule. Athletic Director Charles N. Jenks will take over the Northeastern cage squad. semipro competition.

All Even 4 8 1 A finish with 8L First-round match play in the 7 25 competition in the $52,000 classic. Walter Reppenhagen, of Detroit, won the $100 squad prize with a 0 Aaderaon.f A A A Hotrmaa.f A 1A Kitter.f-e 1 Mtllee.e A A Haat.t 4 A Mokfter.r 4 near the Blackhawk bench Jan. 12, championship flight of 32 will be A 10 PHILADELPHIA (JP) Ike Assumption Rally Beats St. Mary's, 43-27 Assumption College's basketball team overcame a four-point deficit in the second half to trim St Mary's of Orchard Lake, 43 to 27. St.

Mary's got off to a 17-13 ede in the first 20 minutes, but Forward Freddie Thomas and Guard Robert Wade went into action in the econd half to put the game on ice. Thomas scored 18 points and Wade had nine. A They are Defensemen Johnny Mariucci, Reg Hamilton and Joe Mentel.f trt.kler.f nok.f Klizi.f Si rot man. Wle. Hlor.e Haarleaw.4 Smith.

Rlirkrl.c Kncers.a' Ktooe.e Nlemath.e-c total of 1,538, but that figure was five pins less than the 1,543 Roland Fieldhouse, of Cleveland, Williams, the NBA lightweight champion, of Trenton (N. and Lawton.c 1 Cooper and Trainer Ed Froelich gin Tuesday with the thirty-six-hole finals scheduled for Saturday, BASKETBALL, TUESDAY'S RESULTS COLLEGE Blackhawk President Bill Tobin rolled to rank eleventh, and far accompanied the quartet. off the pace set the first day of Freddie Dawson, Chicago, fought to a disputed 10-round draw In a non-title scrap at the Arena before a "sell-out crowd of 9,519 who paid a gross of $27,136. Ohta State. 47 Northwestern 41 tunmntiiu 43 fit.

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