w in, Lose, or Draw
By FRANCIS 1 STANN
Star Staff Carraipandant
Williams and Blackwell Are Show-Stoppers
TAMPA, Fla., April 8.—Ted Williams is the only hitter in baseball
who stops the practice of enemy ball players when he walks into the
batting cage. The pepper games and the play-catch routine come to
a pause. But now Williams has a rival. When Ewell Blackwell is pitch
ing batting practice or warming up to work a
game he is as much of an attraction as Williams.
Ewell Blackwell is 6. feet 5 inches and 195 pounds
of the meanest pitcher to hit in all baseball. This
Includes Feller, Newhouser, Spahn, Trucks, Saip,
Trout and all the rest. He has a blazing fast ball, a
crackling curve and, most of all, a wicked delivery.
He doesn’t throw the ball, really. He whips it. His
long right arm is like a piece of rubber hose as it
writhes behind his back and lashes out in a pure
sidearm delivery.
To right-handed hitters he's plain murder.
They don’t take toe-holds against Blackwell. Not
when that ball roars at them at better than 100
miles an hour, stitches screaming in the wind. Not
when it looks as if Blackwell is throwing from 30
feet away instead of 60 feet 6 inches.
I asked two of the oldest pitchers in the business the question
so many people ask when they see Blackwell, or The Whip, as his
Cincinnati teammates call him. "How long can his arm take that
punishment?” it was asked of Bucky Walters of the Reds.
"Hard to say,” replied Walters, “but this much I know—Blackie’s
really got it. He’s a great pitcher.” 4
Can't Afford a Sore Arm, Says Rowe
He was great in 1947, his second season in,the majors and his
third in professional baseball. He won 22 and lost 8 for a fifth-place
club. He won 16 straight, including a no-hitter over the Braves.
/ "You can’t tell how long a pitcher’s arm will last,” said School
boy Rowe of the Phillies, supporting Walters. "My own arm went bad
prematurely and I throw easy, overhead and three-quarters, with a lot
of body behind it. That flamingo, Blackwell, throws all with his arm
and wrist.”
Blackie was throwing batting practice. Even his own teammates
ara loose at the plate. The ball was high-balling to the catcher as
Blackwell threw curves, fast balls and even a knuckler. The right
hand hitters softly cursed him, but not in sincerity. They have him
working for them in real competition.
“One thing he can’t afford,” said Rowe, "is to have a sore arm.
If he gets one—bang, his career is over.”
"How’s that?”
"Because he can pitch only sidearm. Most pitchers are overhand
or they throw from three-quarters. When they get sore arms they
can drop down to Sidearm and use a new set of muscles. But Blackie
can’t drop down any more. And he can’t pitch overhand.” „
But the Reds aren’t worried. Their guy is loose, young and strong.
He’ll make a lot of hitters moan before he gets a sore arm, they say.
How They'll Finish—Giants, Fourth * 1
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New York's Power Still Offset
By Acute Pitching Shortage
■y a Staff Corraipandant of Th# Star
TAMPA, Fla.. April 5.—A year
ago there was a tendency to pick
the Giants for the cellar in the
National League. They finished
fourth after leading the circuit
at the end of
May.
One big pitcher
—Ewell Black
well or a Johnny
Sain or a War
ren S p a h n—
might have won
the pennant for
the Giants
They wrung 21
victories from
Rookie Larry
Jansen, but the
rest of the staff
was Incredibly
,weak.
Giant pitchers **' ot*>
had a powerhouse going for them
in every game, a team that blasted
a record 221 home runs. Over one
stretch of 16 consecutive games Mel
Ott’s team belted 37 homers, also a
record. Johnny Mize, the big first
baseman, hit 51; Catcher Walker
Cooper contributed 35, Willard Mar
shall banged 36. Bob Thomson
socked 29 and Sid Gordon kicked
in with 13. Among them, Mize,
Cooper and Marshall batted in 367
runs. Yet the Giants won only eight
more games than they lost.
Inasmuch as the Polo Grounders
had a certain amount of defensive
skill—as witness Shortstop John
Kerr s feat of playing 68 consecutive
games and handling 383 chances
without error—the lack of pitching
directly was responsible for the
waste of power and fielding finesse.
The question now is: What have the
Giants got in the way of hurling
for 1948?
Jansen is back, of course, along
with Dave Koslo (15-10), Ken
Trenkle (8-4), Clint Hartung (9-7)
and Joe Beggs. Montia Kennedy and
Ray Poat, holdovers who more or
less blasphemed the power behind
them last season. In the newcomer
department, 26-year-old Sheldon
Jones from Jersey City, where he
won 13 and lost three, and Earl Mc
Gowan from Minneapolis, a 17-11
pitcher, apparently are standouts.
Jones is righthanded, McGowan is
a southpaw.
Barring injury to Cooper, the
Giants have the best catcher In the
National League, if not in all base
ball. Mize at first base heads a
corps of good inflelders consisting
of Buddy Blattner, Kerr, Gordon,
Jack Lohrke. Bill Rigney, Mickey
Witek, Lou Stringer, Jack Conway
and Rookie Rhawn. The outfield is
equally impressive. If anything;, it
may be stronger with the return of
Carroll Lockman, a 1947 training
camp casualty. Considered a regu
lar until he broke a leg, Lockman
played only two games. Along with
Marshall, Thomson, Lloyd Gearhart
and Gordon, if the last named is
not used in the infield, Lockman
gives the Giants a fast, young and
hard-hitting outfield.
If it weren’t for the shortage of
pitching the Giants very logically
could be picked to win.—STANN.
New York Gipnts Official Roster, 1948
Mel Ott, Manager. Ralph Kress, Travis Jackson, Hank Gowdy, Coaches.
PITCHERS.
Throws. Bats. Age. W. L. ERA. 1947 Club.
Hubert Andrews_R R 26 0 0 6.00 Giants
13 6 3.28 Jersey City
William Ayers _R R 29 0 3 8.23 Giants
7 4 4.04 Jersey City
Joseph Beggs _R R 35 0 3 5.34 Reds
3 3 4.23 Giants
John Carden ..R R 26 1 4 6.51 Sioux City
3 1 3.77 Trenton
Clinton Hartung-R R 26 9 7 4.57 Giants
Jack Hallett .R R 34 10 11 3.79 Indianapolis
Andrew Hansen.R R 24 1 5 4.39 Giants
Lawrence Jansen_R R 28 21 5 3.16 Giants
Sheldon Jones .R R 26 . 13 3 3.20 Jersey City
2 2 3.86 Giants
Montia Kennedy _L R 26 9 12 4.86 Giants
David Koslo .L L 28 15 10 4.40 Giants
Louis Lombardo _L L 20 13 5 3.02 Manchester
Earl McGowan_L L 27 17 11 3.95 Minneapolis
Mario Picone _R R 22 2 8 4.19 Jersey City
0 0 7.71 Giants
Raymond Poat.R R 31 11 7 2.44 Baltimore
4 3 2.55 Giants
George Spencer.R R 22 (Free agent—no record.)
Kenneth Trinkle_R R 29 8 4 3.73 Giants
CATCHERS..
Bats. Thws. Age. G. H. RBI. Avg. 1947 Club.
Walker Cooper.R R 33 140 157 122 .305 Giants
jafoes Gladd. R R 26 86 63 33 .252 San Francisco
Newton Grasso .. R R 27 117 104 52 .268 Jersey City
Thompson Livingston R R 34 19 7 3 .212 Cubs
5 1 0 .167 Giants
Ben Warren _R R 36 3 1 0 .200 Giants
Wesley Westrum ... R R 26 134 117 87 .294 Minneapolis
6 5 2 .417 Giants
Sal Yvars.R R 24 80 61 43 .293 Jersey City
1 1 ' 0 .200 Giants
INFIELDERS.
Jaime Almendro_R R 21 135 193 84 .350 Danville
Robert Blattner_R R 28 55 40 13 .261 Giants
Jack Conway .R R 29 34 9 5 .180 Cleveland
6idney Gordon_R R 30 130 119 57 .273 Giants
Johnny Kerr_R R 26 138 157 49 .287 Giants
Jack Lohrke.R R 24 112 79 35 .240 Giants
John Mize ..L R 35 154 177 138 .302 Giants
Robert Rhawn.R R 29 140 152 90 .302 Minneapolis
13 14 3 .311 Giants
William Rigney *_R R 29 130 142 69 .267 Giants
Louis Stringer_R R 30 161 160 72 .293 Los Angeles
Nicholas Witek.R R 33 51 35 17 .219 Giants
OUTFIELDERS.
Lloyd Gearhart.R L 25 73 44 17 .246 Giants
Joseph Lafata.L L 27 62 21 18 .221 Giants
Carroll Lockman ...L R 22 2 1 1 .500 Giants
Willard Marshall ... L R 27 155 171 107 .291 Giants
Robert Thomson_R R 25 138 154 85 .283 Giants
Printers to Practice
The Union Printers’ baseball team
will hold its first practice tomor
row on Taft Field, Twentieth and
Otis streets N.E., at S pm. Journey
men, apprentice boys and sons of
printers are eligible for the team.
They will practice Wednesday at
Turkey Thicket, Tenth street and
Michigan avenue N.E., and Friday
at Bosedala Playground.
4
Stevens Gets Polio Post
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 5 <JP).
—Dr. Marvin L. (Mai) Stevens,
former Yale, New York University
and Brooklyn Dodger football coach,
has been named to take charge of
the Sister Kenny treatments at the
Jersey City Medical Center.
Today a year ago—Ohio State
won the national AAU swim
ming title frtth 64 points.
Graziano 3-1 Choice in Battle With Horne Tonight
- t---r—-----—
Big Crowd Expected
To See Champ Fight
At Ulme's for $1
By George Huber
Middleweight Champion Rocky
Graziano will receive exactly $1,
win. lose or draw,'for his nontitle
10-round battle tonight with Sonny
Home at Uline Arena and it prom
ises to be the hardest-earned dollar
in modern boxing history.
Barred from the rings of his home
State of New York for failing to
report an attempted bribe, and from ■
14 other States because he was dis
charged from the Army for going
AWOL, Graziano will turn over to
charity his share of tonight's purse,
a sum reported to be $15,000.
His opponent, a clever boxer who
never has been knocked out, fought
Graziano to a standstill two years
How They Compare
GRAZIANO. HORNS.
26 ye»rs _ Ale _ 24 ye»r»
161 pounds_Weight_183 pounds
ft ft. 814 ins_Height-ft ft. 10 ins.
68*/i Ins.._ Reach _70’.» ins.
38V« ins. Chest (normal) — 38 ins.
404; ins_Chest (expanded)_AO'/* ins.
33Va ins_ Waist_3234 ins.
13Va ins._Biceps_— 13 ins.
16 ins._Neck_ 18 ins.
7 ins. _,_Wrist_63. ins.
143; ins_-_Calf_ 14 ins.
R3» ins. .2_Ankle_DHt ins.
21 Vi ins_Thigh.*._21 ',4 ins.
n ins _ Fist 83/4 ins.
HD Ins..,._Forearm-.-.liy« ins.
ago, only to lose on a close decision,
but the champion rules a 3-1 favor
ite. He can ill afford to lose, if only
•for the reason that a $120,000 offer
has been made for the defense of
his title against the former champ,
Tony Zale, at Newark, N, J., June 9,
and a triumph for Horns would mar
this attraction.
G-Man Hoover Inspires Him.
Inspiring Graziano will be a kind
ly word from FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover, who pointed out that Rocky
had "paid his debt to society" and
wished him well.
Despite a heavy advance sale.
Promoter Goldie Ahearn said today
that a number of reserved seats are
available at $6 and $10 and that gen
eral admissions scaled at $3 would be
on sale al the arena today at
6 o’clock. The arena has been ar
ranged to seat 8,200 and few vacant
chairs are expected.
One question that will be an
swered tonight is whether a layoff
since last July has hurt Graziano.
Rocky is down to 159 pounds and
claims he never was better, in spite
of having at one time during the
layoff shot up to 172 pounds.
Rocky's Timing Is Off.
In his two workouts at Liberty
A. C. here his timing appeared a
bit off. His wind and legs seemed
okay. \
In the Liberty A. C. sessions the
champ wasn't Able to tag, his
sparring partner as often as he de
sired. But then, this particular
sparmate, Jimmy Taylor, has worked
with Rocky many times before and
is used to his style.
Four six-rounders, first starting at
8:30, are on the supporting card.
Taylor, Graziano’s stablemate, meets
Roy Miller of. Kansas City; Joe
Ganon, local middleweight, tangles
with Sidney Miller; Young Lee Q.
Murray goes against Bobby Bell, and
Harold Meredith boxes Al La Barba.
Olympic Berths Eyed
By 8 College Boxers
ly tht Associated Press
MADISON. Wis., April 5.—The
eight best college boxers in the
country hope to represent the
United States in the Olympics.
The top ringmen from colleges
won their championships in the
NCAA meet here Saturday night
and qualified automatically for the
United States Olympic tryouts,
scheduled June 28-29 at Boston.
University of Wisconsin boxers
again monopolized the NCAA
awards, winning the team title for
the fourth straight year and taking
half of the championships.
Wisconsin fighters won 17 of their
20 tournament bouts for a total of
45 points. Michigan State was a
poor second with 19.
Lightweight Charley Davey of
Michigan State and Middleweight
Herb* Carlson of Idaho were the
only champions to repeat from last
year.
Davey won his third title when
be whipped Wisconsin’s Bob Apper
son, and Carlson took a split decis
ion from Eddie Rieder of Maryland.
Other champions named Saturday
are: Ernie Charboneau of Michigan
State, flyweight; Doug Ellwood of
Louisiana State, Featherweight;
and four Badgers—Bantamweight
Steve Gremban, welterweight Don
Dickerson, Lightweight Cal Vernon
and Heavyweight Vito Paris!.
Two defending champions—
Middleweight John Lendenski of
Wisconsin and Bantamweight Gerry
Auclaire of Syracuse—were elimin
ated in semifinal bouts.
Citation Does Half in 0:49
At Graw; Fit, Trainer Says
ly th« Associated Press •
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April
5.—For the first time since his ar
rival here Wednesday, Citation was
asked to show some speed yesterday,
and the Kentucky Derby favorite’s
response had Trainer Jimmy Jones
smiling broadly.
The Calumet Farms’ 3-year-old
zipped off a half mile in the good
time of 49 seconds. At that the
powerful son of Bull Lea worked
easily.
Jones expressed hflnself well
pleased with the colt’s condition
after a racing layoff and shipment
from Florida.
The trainer said the workout
showed Citation was ready for the
campaign laid out for him. This
calls for him to start in the Chesa
peake Trial on opening day here,
April 12, and to come back the
same week in the Chesapeake
Stakes.
The Calumet comet will go to
Kentucky for the May 1 Derby, in
which he is likely to be one of the
shortest-odd favorites in history.
\
ROCKY GRAZIANO.
SONNY-HORNE.
D.C. Colleges Given 3
Mason-Dixon Meets;
Loop Is Expanded
Three Mason-Dixon Conference
championship tournaments were
awarded District colleges at a meet
ing of the circuit yesterday at Bal
timore, with Catholic University
getting two.
The Cardinals will take over the
outdoor track and field title games
next month, replacing as host Amer
ican University, which was forced
to withdraw its invitation because
its track is not ready, and also were
assigned next winter’s basket ball
tournament.
Gallaudet College again was
named as the scene of the annual
cross-country run in November.
Three new colleges, Lynchburg
and Roanoke of Virginia and Bal
timore University were voted mem
berships at yesterday’s meeting,
making the Mason-Dixon one of
the largest athletic organizations of
its kind in the country. At the
same time the circuit voted tb di
vide its baseball teams into northern
and southern divisions this season
with the top-ranking teams in each
to meet in a championship game.
William J. McClure, director of
athletics at Gallaudet and conference
president, said the increased mem
bership “rounded out” the organiza
tion and that no more applications
were expected. He said the idea of
a two-division organization in other
sports, with winners ineeting In title
playoffs, was discussed, but dropped
when members expressed a prefer
ence for playing every team in the
league.
The addition of Roanoke and
Lynchburg will give other Virginia
schools more opportunity for play
ing the required number of con
ference games to be eligible for the
championship tournament. "*
All three Washington colleges,
Galludet, Catholic U. and American
U„ were placed in the southern
division along with Roanoke. Lynch
burg, Hampden-Sydney, Randolph
Macon and Bridgewater. The north
ern division will include Johns Hop
kins,' Loyola, Western Maryland,
Mount St. Mary’s, Washington Col-”
lege, Deleware University, Balti
more and Towson State Teachers.
The track meet will be held May
14-15 at C. U. The golf tournament
will be held May 11 at Baltimore
and the baseball playoff probably
will be held May 31 or 33 at a site
to be selected.
New Girl Swim Stars
Found in AAU Meet
ly *ha Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April S.
—Some promising talent was un
covered in the AAU Women’s Na
tional indoor swimming meet, says
Ray Daughters of Seattle, who will
coach the United States women’s
swimming team in the Olympics.
Daughters mentioned especially
Carol Pence of Webster Grove, Mo.,
who won the 100-yard breaststroke
yesterday, and Marie Corridon of
Norwalk, Conn., who defeated Ann
Curtis of San Francisco in the 100
yard freestyle.
The unexpectedly good perform
ance by Mrs. Vicky Manolo Draves
of Lo6 Angeles in one-meter and
three-meter springboard diving also
pleased Daughters. He said Mrs.
Draves is a platform specialist and
is being counted on in the 10-meter
platform diving.
Below-par (for her) swimming by
Miss Curtis was no shock to Daugh
ters. That’s as it should be, he said,
for it is her place to come along
gradually and not rush past her peak
before the Olympics.
Miss Curtis didn’t set any new
records and lost to Miss Corridon in
the 100-yard freestyle, but she was
high individual scorer of the meet.
Successfully defending her titles in
the 220-yard and 440-yard freestyle
events and taking second in the
hundred, Miss Curtis scored 13
points.
^I
Toil of Last Year Pays Off for Yost
Third Sacker Who Exhausted Self Now Clinching Nat Job
By Burton Hawkins
Star Staff Correspond«nt
ORLANDO, Fla.. April 5.—Ed
die Tost, the Nats’ trim third
baseman, who exhausted himself
late last season in a feverish
effort to polish his performances,
seemingly is achieving that am
bition. He has beaten off chal
lengers for his position with
has amounted to no con
test, for Yost is hitting convinc
inly and Manager Joe Kuhel be
comes lyrical when chatting
about Eddie’s fielding.
A comparative infant among
the Nats’ generally young regu
lars, the 21-year-old Yost has
belted exhibition game pitching
at a .375 clip, and among his
18 hits have been four doubles
and a triple. It has been a high
ly satisfactory spring for the
lithe, alert inflelder.
That ‘375 average isn’t mislead
ing, for it represents Eddie’s
mark in all games, against ma
jor and minor league pitching.
Strictly against major league
hurling Yost has compiled a .382
average, with 13 hits in 34 at
tempts, which is proof he hasn’t
fattened his stick figures at the
expense of raw minor leaguers.
Yost now is hitting; in the sev
enth slot but If his current con
duct continues Kuhel may make
adjustments. Eddie isn’t being
fooled these days. He's not
tempted to nibble at pitches
which aren’t in the vicinity of
the plate, for he has lured 12
bases on balls from major league
pitchers. He was walked twice
yesterday when it was no par
ticular distinction, sinee Phil
Marchildon and Alex Kellner
issued 11 walks as Washington
defeated the Philadelphia Ath
letics, 7-5. •
Eddie called the shot on his
hitting when he reported for
training last month. “I wore
myself out last year,” claimed
Eddie. “I was doing all right
until I got tired by overworking,
I’m not going to be that foolish
this year and I, think I’ll hit.”
Yost’s hitting has given a lift
to the Nats’ attack and it comes
as a pleasant surprise. Eddie
EDDIE YOST.
joined the club fresh from semi
pro ranks in 1944, played seven
games and batted an unimpres
sive .143. When he emerged
from the service in 1946 to play
eight games with Washington,
Yost swatted a meager .087.
He was with the Nats last year
by direction of Baseball Com
missioner Happy Chandler, who
refused to permit the Washing
ton team to farm Yost. Under
the GI Bill of Rights Yost was
entitled to stick with Washing
ton until July and Chandler
wasn’t swayed by letters from
Yost and President Clark Grif
fith of the Nats requesting per
mission for Eddie to be sent to
Chattanooga.
Events turned out happily for
Yost, for when Cecil Travis’ legs
buckled under him Eddie moved
in at third base. He batted a
mere .238 last season, but under
the direction of Ossie Bluege he
developed rapidly as a fielder
and now is recognized as one of
baseball’s smoothest third base
men—the best on scooping up
slow rollers with his bare hand 1
and nailing the runner at first
base.
That fielding finesse wasn't
achieved without hard labor.
For weeks last year Eddie re
ported at Griffith Stadium at S
o’clock on the afternoon of night
games and had private fielding
practice with anybody he could
persuade to slap grounders at
him. Bluege finally called a halt
when he realized Yost was wear
ing himself to a frazzle.
The Nats walked to victory
yesterday, five of their runs be
ing forced across when Marchil
don and Kellner issued bases on
balls with the/bases jammed. Six
of those walks came in the eighth
inning, with the Nats injecting
only three singles into the pro
ceedings to produce their cluster
of runs.
Philadelphia clipped Walter
Masterson for three runs in the
first inning on three walks and
singles by Barney McCosky, El
mer Valo and Buddy Rosar.
The A’s boosted their advan
tage to 4-0 in the sixth, scoring
an unearned run off Milo Cand
dini when Rudy York and Hank
Majeyki singled successively,
York taking third on Tom Mc
Bride’s fumble of Majeski’s blow
and scoring when Rosar drilled
into a double-pcay.
Washington picked up its first
run in the seventh off March
ildon when Y06t walked. Jake
Early singled and Candini and
Sullivan walked, but the Ath
letics bounced back with a run
in the eighth when York walked
with two out and Majeski and
Rosar singled. ,
Mickey Vernon, Larry Drake
and McBride opened the Nat’s
eighth with singles, Vernon scor
ing on McBride's drive. Drake
scored' when Early grounded out
and Mark Christman batted for
Candini and fouled to Rosar.
Then came the succession of
walks. Sullivan walked and when
A1 Kozar also walked, Kellner
was summoned to the mound.
He represented no improvement
for he walked Sherry Robertson,
Vernon and Drake before Mc
Bride flied to Sam Chapman in
center. Ray Garcia, making his
second appearance for the Nats,
set down the As in order in the
ninth.
Around the Grapefruit Circuit
Series Edge Over Yanks Salve
To Cards in Bad Spring Season
By th« Associated Pros*
ST. PETERSBURG, Pla., April 5.
—The St. Louis Cardinal exhibition
record is far from impressive, but
the Redbirds have the satisfaction
of winning their spring series from
the World Champion New York
Yankees, five games to four. They
had to overcome a seven-run deficit
to take the final game yesterday,
8-7. Stan Musial’s 427-foot, two
run homer in the ninth was the
decisive blow.
The Cards have sent three players
to their minor league clubs. The
players are Bemie Creger, 21-year
old shortstop, who was assigned to
Rochester at his own request; Mike
Natasin, 31-year-old first baseman,
who goes back to Columbus, and
Outfielder Harold Rice, 34, who was
also sent to Rochester. Creger was
with the Cards last season. The
other two joined the team this
spring.
Meanwhile, the Yanks also have
started pruning their roster. Pitcher
Charley Marshall, Infielder Jim
Dyck and Catcher Ralph Houk were
sent to Kansas City and Pitcher
Don Johnson and First Sacker Joe
Collins to Newark.
TAMPA. Fla.—Granville Hamner,
the Philadelphia Phillies’ promising
young shortstop, today was en route
to Wilmington, Del., where he will
undergo a tonsillectomy.
Hamner is expected to rejoin the
team sometime next week.
Meanwhile, Charley Wensloff,
righthander acquired from the New
York Yankees recently, has agreed
to terms and is expected to report
within a few days.
TUCSON, Arte.—An outbreak of
mild dysentery put seven members
of the Cleveland Indians on the
sick list today. Stricken are Pitch
ers Edgar Jones, Lyman Linde, Er
nie Groth and Les Webber; Infield
ers A1 Rosen, Joe Gordon, and
Catcher Ray Boone. They are ex
pected to be ready for duty tomor
row when the Indians meet the
New York Giants here.
EL PASO, Tex.—The Chicago White
Sox arrived here today for their
Harbert Is Best
In Practice for
Masters Golf~
ly rit* Auttieted Pratt
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 5.—A select
field of the world’s leading golfers—
including Bobby Locke of South Af
rica and Henry Cotton of England
continued practice today for the 12th
annual Masters Tournament start
ing Thursday.
In Sunday practice rounds Chick
Harbert turned in the best card, a
four-under-par 68. Next best was
Byron Nelson, two-time winner of
the event, who scored a 69.
Ben Hogan, playing with Nelson,
Cotton and Gene Sarazen in» the
l day’s featured foursome, shot a spec
1 tacular eagle 3 on the 480-yard 13th.
Some of the game’s kingpins,
notably Locke, Sam Snead and Lloyd
Mangrum, missed yesterday’s open
ing of formal tuneup sessions for the
$10,000 meet due to exhibition
matches elsewhere, but most of the
starting field played the 6,800-yard
National Course. ;
game with the Pittsburgh Pirates
in Juarez, Mexico, tomorrow. The
game will be the first of nine with
the Pirates before the Sox return
home to face Detroit in the Amer
ican League opener April 20.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Bill Nich
olson and Phil Cavarretta insist
they are over their injuries and
ready for a bit of work. The Chi
cago Cubs may use them sparingly
today against the St. Louis Browns.
Hank Wyse and Paul Erickson were
nominated for the Chicago hurling
duties.
DALLAS, Tex.—Not content with
beating minor league opposition
with their bats, the Brooklyn
Dodgers are beginning to steal
games from minor opponents.
The Brooks' varsity scored its
18th win without a loss against a
minor league club yesterday when
Duke Snider swiped home with the
winning run in a 4-3 triumph. In
addition, Jackie Robinson stole sec
ond and Eddie Miksis purloined
third.
PHOENIX, Ariz.—The New York
Giants, who hit 221 home runs in
1947, a major league record, are
setting a good pace in that de
partment in their exhibition games.
The Giants have belted 31 four
baggers in 32 exhibition games with
Bob Thomson and Jack Lohrke
leading the way with five each
Johnny Mize, who contributed 51 ol
the Giants’ 221 homers last year,
has hit only two so far.
American League
Schedules Ready
Handy booklets containing the
full American League schedule
for this season now are available
at the business counter of The
Star, free of charge.
No regular patron of the
Washington club should be with*
out one and the booklet will be
particularly valuable to Capital
residents hailing from other
cities in the American League
who retain their home baseball
allegiance.
Exhibition Baseball
Sy th* Associated Prm
Games Today.
Philadelphia (A.) vs. St. Louis (N ).
Chicago IN.) vs. St. Louis >A.).
Louisville (A A.) vs. Boston IN.).
Brooklyn <N.) vs. Dallas IT. L.).
Detroit iA.) vs. Birmingham (S. A.).
New York (A.) vs. Newark (I. L).
Minneapolis (A. A.) vs. Washington iA.).
Results Yesterday.
Cincinnati iN.>. 3: Philadelphia <N.). X.
Boston (A.). 3; Boston (N.), 1.
St. Louis (N.), 8: New York (A.), 7.
Washington iA.), 7: Philadelphia (A.),
S.
Detroit (A). 3; New Orleans <8. A.), 0.
New York IN.). 9: Chicago (A.>. 7.
Brooklyn (N.), 4: Port Worth IT. L.), 3.
St. Louis (A.). 2: Chtcaao IN.). ).
Pittsburgh IN.). 6; Cleveland (A.), 2.
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Nats and Red Sox
Have Deal on Fire;
Due by Saturday
•y • Staff Correspondent af The Star
ORLANDO, Fla., April 5.—Gen
eral Manager Joe Cronin of the
Boston Red Sox has offered the
Nats a right-handed hitting out
fielder for a pitcher_If Cronin
tosses in an acceptable shortstop
the Nats will talk business. . . .
the Nats are likely to swing a big
deal before they break camp
Saturday morning.
Mickey Haefner and Tom Fer
rick were to face the Minneapolis
Millers here today. . . . The Nats
will battle Newark here tomor
row, then wind up their Orlando
exhibitions with games here with
Chattanooga on Wednesday and
Thursday. , . . Washington will
play seven games with the Phila
delphia Phillies, starting Satur
day at Valdosta, Ga., en route
home.
Walter Masterson made a nice
comeback after being shelled for
three runs in the first inning. ...
He faced only nine batters in the
next three innings, yielding no
more hits.... The Athletics, who
once had Larry Drake for a
month, say he'll murder low
pitches but won't harm anything
else.
Pitcher Ray Garcia, the Nats’
no-speak-English Cuban right
hander, has worked six Innings in
spring training, all against the
Athletics. ... He has allowed two
scratch hits and walked only one.
. . . The Nats’ record against
major league foes now is six vic
tories, nine defeats.
Schoolboy Nines Tune
For title Campaign
Tomorrow is opening day for
several Washington area high
school nines. Two of the Disrtict
public highs will begin tuning for
the championship race with Wilson
traveling to St. Albans and Ana
costia playing host to Hyattsville.
Washington-Lee High will open
against a top opponent at Charlotte
Hall. The Hallmen knocked off
Bullis Saturday with Pitcher Mat
tingly chalked up a one-hitter.
Bethesda is getting a belated start.
The scheduled opener with Rockville
on Friday was postponed because
of wet grounds and the Barons will
start the season tomorrow at
Gaithersburg, while Bullis will try
to even its record when it plays host
to Fork Union.
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Hoya-Michigan Tussle
Opens Busy Week for
Met College Nines
College baseball fans should get
comparative ratings of metropolitan
teams after a busy week that bring#
all into action.
Joe Judge’s hot Georgetown nine
led off today against Michigan at
the Hilltop. The Hoyas have a date
with Villanova tomorrow and a
week-end series with Pordham that
may see them run their winning
streak to seven in a row. That is,
if Judge's meager supply of pitchers
lasts.
Michigan moves down to the El
lipse tomorrow to duel George
Washington, but any forecast on
that game, must await today’s de
velopments.
C. C, ill Debut Tomorrow.
Catholic University makes its
debut tomorrow against Gallaudet
and Coach Gene Augusterfer isn’t
sure the Cards are ready. He’ll al
ternate Bernie Claveloux and Scotty
Cranston on the mound with Cousey
behind the pl^te.
Maryland, with Bob Brewer doing
a job at shortstop that would make
old Honus Wagner straight-legged
with envy, still hasn’t found itself.
But by the time the Terps hit Yale
Wednesday at College Park Coach
Burt Shipley may have combed out
the bugs. Maryland’s record of one
win and two ties in five games should
be better.
American U. goes to Mount St.
Mary’s Friday and entertains Johns
Hopkins Saturday.
G. W. Nine Has Star*.
George# Washington would be in
good shape if Coach Otts Zahn had
material at all positions comparable
with big Joe Famulette, be-spec
tacled third sacker, and Chet Pietras
at short. They sparkled In their
debut and should give supporters of
the downtown school plenty to cheer
about this spring.
Georgetown's keystone combina
tion of A1 Naples at short and Joe
Connors at second still ranks No. 1
around town, however, and is on#
reason the Hoyas can afford tem
porary pitching letdowns.
American U.'s pitchers have been
betrayed by shoddy outflelding in
two games to date and there’ll be
some changes, made if the Eaglet
don't get on the ball. Bob Lamon'a
catching and the team’s hitting were
the only bright spots noted by Coach
Staff Cassell last week.
Collapse in Ring Costs
Negro Boxing License
fty tho Associottd Press
BOSTON. April 5—On recom
mendation of a physician the Mass
achusetts Boxing Commission today
revoked the license of Thompson
Harmon. New York Negro light
weight, who collapsed during a tax
ing bout at Holyoke, March 8.
The commission also suspended
three boxers on advice of doctors
and suspended a dozen other fight
ers and managers for disciplinary
reasons. Four who had been sus
pended were reinstated.
Harmon was held in a Holyoke
hospital for 24 hours after his col
lapse, which occurred a few sec
onds after his bout with Sandy
Sadler, top-ranking featherweight
contender, had been stopped in the
eighth round.
Virtually out on his feet, Har
mon was led to his corner, where
he collapsed. Revived, he again
passed out and was hospitalized.
In order to fight Sadler, who of
course was credited with a tech
nical knockout victory, Harmon had
| to boil off about 4 pounds, which
| reportedly reduced his resistance.
New Coach at Sampson
SAMPSON, N. Y., April 5 </P).—
Paul E. G. Bltgood, a former assist
ant grid coach at the University of
Rochester, is the new head football
coach at Sampson College.
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