Minneapolis Daily Times from Minneapolis, Minnesota • 10

I i-w-wn- -j -f f--- txHfmrF vwT5r' t- i Av sr -fX'- Ni 'i' ds st Hortung Rat a Blind Spot But Only Onv Under baseball law there Is' no appeal from Chandler's decision But MacFhsll who did mode than any other man to get Chandler the job and Rickey generally acknowledged as the smartest operator la the game today might cany plenty of weight write Durocher out of baseball Hell be back-end It could be with the Yankees Jackie Wins Again Mew People often talk about reading between the Unee Well maybe there la aoraethlng between these: Larry MscPhall president of the New York Yankeedi quoting what Leo Durocher hair to aay to him In the public prlnta not long ago: course 111 she MacPhaU a good friend of mine Why ahouldn't I aee him? Mac-Phail la one of the greateot men I know" (And MaoPhaO added for hlmaelf: reciprocate that -Branch Rickey president of the Brooklyn Dodgers speaking Is difficult for me to believe that Mr Chandler (B ban Commissioner A Chandler) will Insist upon imposing that penalty on leo (Chandler suspended him for the 1947 season) I may not name a new manager until the season is well under way1? Demaret Paces Pinch urst Play Jackie Burke Grand Rapids boy now fighting ia Tommy stable won his twenty-fourth victory in fights last night when he de-dsioned Harvey Dube Windsor Ont in six-round preliminary at the Chicago stadium After driving Dubs into the ropes with a series of rights and lefts in the fifth round Burke dropped the Canadian boy to the canvas with a right Dubs stayed down for a nine-count and hung on for the remainder of the round Georgie Abrams won the main event by dedslonlog Anton Rhe-dlk in 10 rounds Ptnehurst (UP) Jimmy Demaret newly-crowned Masters ehampion and Uoyd National open champion teamed yesterday to beat Sammy Snead and Bobby Locke up In an exhibition golf match Individual aret 69 Snead 72 Locke 78 Could It be that MheFhall and Blckey are going to get ind See what do for Dumber? On to Nicollet For Tookie Vern Gagne Don Olson Leave 'U1 posited from earning! In sport Minneapolis win aee him the afternoon of April 21 when the On-to-Nicollet committee honors the equad at lta luncheon at the Nloollet another long day In the outfield at first and at the plats In the history of tporta then has bean only one 17-jrear-old who could writ a check for fSOjOOO off a bank account do- Gilbert is to travel Minneapolis and then la to ba sent to Fort Smith Ark- for Ma first season of balL He observed his 18 th birthday anntverauy April 4 by spending Columbus Manager Tom Sheehan promise that Harold (Tookie) Gilbert win be given a pinch-hitting assignment at Minneapolis -or whether he'll play -an inning or two at first but Minneapolis fans will at A least get ajJw closeup of the rfftnP kid who already Vern Gagne Big Nine wre tling champion and football end and Don Qlson center on the football team have withdrawn i from- Minnesota because of1 scholastic difficulties Both boys however hope tq gpt hack in school and become eligible for football in the fall THIYU DO IT 6VIRY TIMI AT U0N6 LAST! MY BEGONIA! MY geranium! My SLIMMER SQUASH! By EDDIE JONES CMumhuff It was natural that the New York Giants who jntimrf the Millers the other day would be eomered for 'lengthy session on what goes on for and against the National league dub that will attempt to climb from the basement this season Natamt took that tha first name mentioned was that of Hartung the incredible young man from Hondo Texas who may bring abont change In the rule covering mnxhmun fences la mnjor lengne pnrks First and last on the stand was the all-around athlete from Dothan Ala the southpaw who feels ho Is quits capable of utng the Milleri as they continue to move out of the Association wilderness McGowan was first to testify and the last because he testified eo entertainingly that the party broke up only an hour and half before game time Evtr Hit o' Single? A fellow who had been reading the reams of copy turned out on this young and always punctuated with homers and triples that fly as far as 500 wanted to know if brother Hartung ever had been guilty of bitting a mere single eouklnt tell you" grinned the Alabaman Td be satisfied to hold him to a single I never saw him hit one but seen him hit over a 425-foot wall on the fly and it seemed as the ball disappeared that it had just' deckled then going over the fence that it Would take a ride His ball just a home rim what should be called a lost Wtaknogg? Just Ont Does Clint have weakness? Just one and that Isn't enough hit high Inside said McGowan international put In Johnny McCarthy the high inside pitch plus the low outside everlet anyone ted answered the in a pleasant drawl studded with a warm grin and sparkling teeth "that the low pitch is a weakness with this guy Fve seen him hit them off the ground His Mind spot la up and he drew hip left-hand across his shoulders and to his shirt that on weakness enough A pitcher cut throw up them all the time Takes marvelous control you know and best put a lot of stuff on it too A Md with Mi talent will leant to Mt that one too or get some bans called told kirn the other day if he'd lengthen his stride on that pitch and duck just a little the umpa would call a The thhddng it over Earl admitted Oat might not have been eneh smart advice 1 might have to pitch against him soma Pitdian Bear Down Major league pitchers have been giving him the works but he's the same Clint Hartung Mike Kelley saw in Hondo that afternoon spoiled at an" said McGowan -Just good kid trying to get along and doing one fine job of it ntehers sears him I don't think he knows pitching instance we played the Indians a couple of weeks ago and Feller pitched Bob was giving him all he had and Clint hit one to Boudreau Next time ho went to bat he said he gumsed ham to hit it closer to Feller which ho did He hammered one through the box that miesril ear by an inch No one or two in baseball could have got that one A A Boars on Ont "Scared? Never I saw Paul Erickson throw one back of his ear one day and down went Hartung Know what ha did on the next pitch? Four bases Thera wasn't i fence but it must have been picking up speed at the SOKfoot mark Caldwell of tha Sox threw him two good atrikaa and thought he might get him out with the same pitch He threw the third and that one went onty485 fret Pratty hud to fool him" Etc etc ete ThnfB the 1606 Md Hike Kelley saw In Tens and sold for $tA606 And the Gianta eoold sell him now for qnartar Augsburg Opens Against Redmen has l0000 base-k ball dollars in Gilbert the bank without so much as pulling on a sock for competition in organized ball Augsburg and St kick off the 1947 State College conference baseball race next Saturday with a game at Winona One non-conference game next Friday has Macalester playing at Carleton college LEGG-ING IT Battered Teams Renew Stanley Play At the height of a spectacular Jump is Harris Legg speedster of the Its Follies of 1947 which opens at the Arena next Wednesday and continues through Monday May 5 WOMAN CHAMPION DIES Los Angeles (UP) Mar-eeline Vaughan 26 world's champion woman billiards player died today Miss Vaughan known in billiarcs circles as Miss Billie Billiards suffered from anemia th sh sr an to sh tnc th at of Ni so lsi fe Al 1 it Cl sr oi th A- ft ki In le ui di qv cY or VC aP Oil in SI in si 1 Bi th ta oi ti el gi ft si h- Si tl fi tl i MSID HARTMAN Toronto LP) Two bruised and battered teams will take the ice here tonight when the Montreal Canadlena and the Toronto Maple Leafa renew their squabble toe the coveted Stanley Cup The two sextets still are recuperating from Thursday rough game at the Montreal Forum which the Leafs won 4-0 to snarl the best -of-seven series at a game apiece During that fast moving battle Vic Lynn and Wild Bill Bd-nicki of the Leafs suffered painful injuries in the second period from the stick of Maurice (The Rocket) Richard of Montreal for which the high scoring right winger was banished for the remainder of the game and suspended from conflict and fined $350 by National league president Clarence Camp-' bell Is Hockey Rough? Ask Mariucci Mill City Girfs Third in WIBC Derby Entrants Run Test Today MUHA SIGNS Philadelphia UP) Joe Muha fullback has signed a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National football league ROUGH Grand Rapids The International Bowling Congress Tournament team event saw Miller Jewelers of Battle Creek tally 2619 to take first pines last night Air Co of Minneapolis Is third New Nine Kentucky Derby entrants and a nan-eligible filly go to the poet at Jamaica today and the stock for the Louisville gallop will get a big boost All 10 atartere are rated among the beet 8-yesr-olds in ae-tlon The poet-time favorite ia Bay Colt Pha lanx who will be making hia first start in the east Phalanx will carry top weight id 122 pounds in the mile and a sixteenth $20000 race Parker Stumped All Gets Job New York (UP) Nobody knew the answers to the questions Dr Harold Parker of City College asked of prospective football coaches so today ha was -signed up himself as IS HOCKEY game? Let Johnny Mariucci former 'i sots hockey and football star and now a member of th Chicago 1 ackhawks of the National Hockey league an- er the question John says Msriurri but lists (he following Injuries he suffered during the past season: Pulled stomach muscle dislocated- shoulder aacro-illiac blopd poison in hand sprained ankle and wrist and 27 ucci fans love hockey in Chicago they go to see the sport played and particular where the Hawks Johnny played with nine ferent defensemen this year as the Hawks tried many combinations to break their losing ways He reports that Bill Tobin boss of the Hawks was willing to spend any amount of money for talent but the other clubs wouldn't part with good players -all have -money and want to strengthen the weak he said THE FORMER GOPHER end picks Montreal to win the Stanley cup over Toronto hag the team whlla of million GIRL GETS 18 Toots Eggerf a girl with 161 average had games of 288 202 and 172 last night in the City Women's league at Central alleys for a total of 612 HeW too good to bo sent down to the Miners but wouldn't It be a break? coach for the 1947-48 season Wa could an go out to ths park lineup and touch Dahls Put Two In City Finals Dahls monopolists of the citywide basketball tournament have two teams entered in finals at the armory At 1 midget team plays the Shamrcoks AC and at 4 Intermediate quint faces Ready Meats for the title Lest night Falldin defeated Wenell in the feature senior game 52-39 and Fabians beat with a last mlndFe rally 33-29 Hooker Jons tad was pacesetter with 18 points mz By LEO PETEB8EN IMMIMMIMr New It has bent prob After a season like that youj Toronto got up there on hustle would think the1 29-ycar-old gnd youth" surprised at Eveleth resident would want Mariucci -isn't gams waa played Little Rock beat Memphis $4 In 18 lnnlngi Dancing Master Arthur Murray offered 31000-a-week Job as a baseball commentator to Leo Durocher -Leo had not replied yet BASEBALL FIGHTS Robinson the first NegrO aver to play in tha majors probably was going to be brought up and Rickey had mads it plain that if anyone objeotedr-well there always wen places In the mipora for them AAA BASEBALL BITS: Cackle Robinson will probably not open the major league season at first for the Xlodgeis The experts the pressure would be too great and believe that Robbia should rRJBSfftaSP-- bltaa Cut fart At a IWuMnctas'AI on mown mi Woodcock Now iFavored to Defeat Baksi lem after problem for the Brooklyn Dodgers this spring and when they open the National league pennant race Tuesday their two -and latest-ones are going to take a lot of solving The first is how the Dodger Mayers are going to react to the suspension id their manager Letf Durocher-Just before the opened and the second how they are going to take to Negro Jackie Robinson ns a teammate both of a psychological nature mini (X) akw on nwn Tmlctitl MJrlnir NOBTHEAST PfEHlHBOXimOD (SHUfiRi ns) Hd Kids it Anthony Whls Kids St Anthony wmvm TdoCbci vs B- Jiot Parti Zcnhsrs Sundays oomplct yarnnes for CITYWIDE TOTAL 1 Plf-Wdict-Shamefca AC nDaUS Wdina Kaps vt Clvmnaa Jr1 I Drttkaimt Unmr Ksrarft Barvy Clt vs St Anthony Sharldana 4 pjcintrrmnusto Rudy fooata -va Dahl's I PK itnlor Falldins vs Fa bis ns COAST UASOS Brighton England be allowed to aoellmate himself Bruce Woodcock British hsavy- gfcvynr w- nnsMOl: -MH IK an Mata X-tkxas tuecs OMaSana CUy 1R Dallu welght champion today became the betting choice In his bout to conditions by sitting the first few games out The Dodgers the ease in which Kansas City is taking Omaha in the Hockey league playoffs in the National league with the exception of the Blackhawks have farm teams in the American Hockey league a 'result thole teams send their best players to the AHL farms and their USHL teams get the second rate players Since the Blackhawks any AHL team the best they farm out go direct to Kansas City and thus the Pla-Mors have an edge in talent bn the rest the ushl' this is a handicap to the Hawks The play- era who come up from Kansas City ready for big trague hockey The AHL league is a much stronger loop -'and thus the other tCRms'who bring players from' there have the superior to call it quits quit unti) they're tired of says John who is spending a few days in Minneapolis with his sister before returning to Chicago' ONLY TWO PLAYERS IN the National league took more penalties than Mariucci and as-- a result he gained the title of the Explaining the penalties John says: play hard and that combined With the fact that I now have a reputation for being rough results in ine spending a lot of time in the penalty1 box" John reports that he didn't aee a single' empty scat in national hockey league arenas 1 the-whole season The hawks' attracted 521000 de- spite the fact that they fin-- ished near the bottom Blackhawks will ah -ways draw- regardless of -where they mid Mari- XtfHM 4 Snow Puts Check On Golf Weekend sent Catcher Ferrell Anderson with Joe Baksi of Kulpmont to Fort Worth of the Texas on Tuesday because of the surprise appointment of Mi De Young as referee Prior -to the announcement of league Johnny Vuder Meer Ctoey wsst There that the year's fed of the -Dodgers chances tart fSPAyw jWMlaie Haas lMi HiaS Ma knaaM-aat Wfe lWrruCaE Durocher their there' is that the players battle harder thaa ever to bring the pennant to Ebbeta field as a tribute to their former tender Minneapolis golf pros expect-ing the heaviest play of the early spring Saturday and Sunday today were worrying about greens 8now blanketed most fairways jand greens pnmjsing soggy going for golfers this weekend and if-the aun gets in its licks lefty reports Ms arm In good eondWon again The New Yotfc Giants bent Ctevshnd 82 yesterday and today me the champions of the Grapefruit league agslnet major eompetlttoaThe Bed Bog beat the Braves yesterday hahtad Tex Hughson Bail Johnson and Tom Fine Rain dampened Southern league openings yesterday as only one Burned a Isilaaa paatsasaX SUIT Kwwldi Csm-i BASKETBALL nanu vmca a selection by the British boxing board of control yesterday Baksi had been quoted' 6-toA favorite but immediately after the announcement odds dropped to even money and finally began to tilt In favor A A A Bob Montgomery' recognised as New York-Pennsylvania lightweight ehampion has accepted a $20000 guarantee for a non-title bout in Mexico City in June against Nlek Moran of Los Angeles or Tony Mar oT Mexico RialaB ftiarnl 14 AMikk rraakitolaa Ul SlfafSasW President Branch Rickey worried about how the players in going to feel about Robinson The players knew that TENNIS sin muz-' -S Washiorton and Loo 1 I- 4 il iMfclhiliB sr CMBBfili U- wars aataat 1 1 la AMikk aru CaMMInB Oaafor City Superiority in Sports Puzzles St Paul tr SSF IB PRO BASKETBALL GOLF i- Passenger Pin Team Ha Meet Wlfit' ACj5Laagn schools except Central St Paul Johnson has no track of its own requiring the use 1 of nearby freight yards tor practice: Another school sends Its clndcrmen to1 Memorial By phil bronson The old school ties may spur teams to victory but you can't win track meets by practicing on railroad ties a point -advanced tqr -Gene Aldrich 8L Paul prep athletic been a wonderful asset to us in every possible Both'chlefs agree the greater enrollment In Minneapolis schools makes a difference The -fact that 8L Paul has $6 high schools including private and parochial while Minneapolis has but 12 gives the Mill SL Paul prepeters they both shrug itheir shoulders Why Minneapolis should retain a persistent edge football weight and basketball height is the enigma to crack- However Wells figures the -law of avenges should tain hold pretty soon In that Twin Cities prep sports AJ-drioh cites these examples of Inadequate athletic faculties which hamper' Bt Paul Jack Wells Minneapolis athletic director agrees that the better facilities 4vailable to his charges' may b4 aVontrib-pting factor -haqe an added advantage in that the university is no he notes -Its coaching staff has I PRO HOCKEY -ASrTAoTPSifosra al Tarasta itaaM-aaaao UMniuTwn imirali 'iorti at nib xa Lsioi't ruTnrrs NarlhwBil's Largigj Exduiivt Man'g Start Forty-five membera of the Milwaukee Passenger chib bowling teams win roll against Miimesp oils Passenger Traffic club members Sunday a' at Parkway alleys Following tour after the bowling match the visitors will be guests at a reception at the Hotel Nicollet laaA HanOar etadium but they must get there as best they can change boss consideration of Bt doth(g th bleachers and forego showers perennial weakness ixaaaaa Cl 17 laaAa City coaches a wider selection epeet rand that the time will of athletic in eons when inter-city competi JUSTER GR05 high school track r- L4ka all city conference ASMCtSTMNf tion win be waged on a strict-lyeven basis Seeking to find an answer Minneapolis domlnanca in A view As to ths lack of also among Ji.