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PAGE SIX DANDY OF THE DONS - - By Alan M«yfff - OIL IE ■ZSAN B f=RA SCI SCO °** THt ifP*' '~~who'S oor -rp no* ' .sm. ’• * M i ZZSWAy mth /9s/ #usri/NG mom or s / A j jff / /wBI lamed Sports Writer Jack Cuddy's Goodbye To Louis BY JACK CUDDY •(United Press Sports Writer) NEW YORK. (IB This is my fjrfewell to Joe Louis, who I know Will never fight again. <Th> 37-year-old Brown Bomber will announce his retirement from the " ring during or after this month’s charity exhibition tour of Japan. Leaving for Chicago today. Louis ants-his handlers still insisted he had not made up his mind about tossing his mittens into the closet. In fact. Joe issued an appeal soy the public “to bear with me while I think out my future plans.” He made that statement of inde cision because of the confusion re sulting from varied reports publish ed since he was stopped last Fri day night by Rocky Marciano in Madison Square Oarden. Nevertheless, Joe will never fight again. When he returns from Japan or wherever else his tour may take him, he will go back to work for the International Boxing Club at a salary of $15,000 a year. Whether he will assume his old title "director of boxing” for the JBIT - or become an ambassador of good will for that organization, was stUl uncertain. ’ ‘ffAS REASON FOR DELAY . Joe is delaying his retirement an nouncement for commendable rea sons, which will not be disclosed Sere. • Because of those very good seasons for delay. Joe found him : NATIONAL FOOTBALL RATINGS $ < Including games of Sunday, Nov. 4. 1951) ?■ $ ■y WAITER 1. JOHNS, Centra! Press Sports Edit* \ ? ;U- > —-—-—a „ .Tram. W. L. T. Pet. P.B. O.P. N.R. Taarn. W. L. T. Pei, P.SL o p. HX olatnois S • 0 1000 131 S 3 552 Ml* State 3 3 O SOO 4S U W • Utah. 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Nekraaka 0 5 1 883 88 148 495 . Wnsf.’n-Lae 8 2 O 714 221 107 061 N. T. U. 1 5 8 187 72 358 375 . WJWm-Mary 5 2 e 714 130 154 856 Kansas Mate 8 8 1 871 38 174 373 l Tim pie 5 3 O 714 131 94 644 . » W—woo; L—tost; T—Ued; Pet—per cant: PS—poiate eceetd; . , OP—opponents' points; NR—oattonel rasing. . ; Distributed by King restores Syndicate. Walcott's Manager Suggests February Jout vs. Marciano WALCOTT’S MANAOER ; NEW YORK —OB— Jersey Joe Walcott’s manager proposed that ■the heavyweight champion de fend his crown against young Rocky Marciano in February, in stead of against former champion Ezza*d Charles. , Felix Bocchicchio, pilot of the champion from Camden, N. J., al so Jfcggested that the winner of a WtJpDtt-Marciano bout defend the title against Charles in June. - Bocchicchio made his proposal in to a suggestion by promoter Jim Norris of the International box* tag Club that Walcott defend Sgaiast Charles to February at Mi- self on a spot. Friends, sports writers and boxing commissions were becoming alarmed over his apparent intention to continue (fighting, despite hia battering by the Brockton slugger. To ease the minds of his well wishers, Joe’s appeal to the public gave this assurance: "I shall not let them down.” And he will not let them down. He’ll retire. ALL-TIME BOXING GREAT Thus ends the fighting career of a man who has been the biggest “name” in boxing for nearly 17 years —a man who must be rank ed among the all-time “greata" of pugilism. He knocked out SS of his 71 professional opponents. And as a champion he set records for hold ing the heavy crown neau-ly 12 years and defending It 25 times. His ring earnings befote mana gerial and tax cuts were more than $4,500,000. A clean man, in and out of the Ting, he symbolized the best in boxing. But the years have caught up with him, and we must say w|th regret: “Goodbye Joe.” FIVE OFFICIALS DURHAM, N. C. Five officials will be available for the Duke* Wake Forest game here. Saturday. In addition to the four regular In fraction callers, there’ll be a "base field judge” on hand. NAVY TO SHOW HURHAM, N. C. The U. S. Navy's Aviation Cadet program will have charge of halftime activities at the Duke-Wake Forest game here Saturday. The Pensacola, Fla., Naval Air Cadets will present lte crack drill team, while the Nor* folk Air Station is sending a small aircraft carrier mounted on an au tomobile chassis. ami, Fla., with that winner to meet Marciano to June. The Walcott camp had originally intended that he wait until June to make his first defense, against the former champion. Norris said he reminded Bocchio chio that Charles war guaranteed a return bout against Walcott, and Norris added that he would not at tempt to by-pasa Charles to order to give the first chance to Manila ano, recent knockout cooqutror of MJmL, >■ - Av-ci Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra Is Chosen AL s "Most Valuable" Ned Garver Gives Him Tight Battle By FRED DOWN (United Frees Sports Writer) NEW YORK. 4B Catcher Yogi Berra of the New York Yan kees, the butt of countless dugout jokes, had the last laugh today when he was voted the Ameracan League's “Most Valuable Player” for IS6I by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The squat, homely but heavy hitting catcher won the coveted award after a close battle with 20-game winner Ned Carver of the last-place St. Louis Browns and team-mate Allied Reynolds. All received six first-place votes but Berra was named on 23 Os the 34 ballots while Oarver was named on 20 and Reynolds only 12. Berra is the first catcher to win the AL sward since Mickey Coch rane in 1934. Catcher Roy Campa nella of the Brooklyn Dodgers was named the Natlonall League’s "Most Valuable Player" a week i ago so for the first time in history j catchers won the award in both leagues. A committee of 24 baseball writ ers cast ballots wiht 14 points awarded for a first-place vote, | nine for a second, eight for a third and so on down to one for a 10th. 1 CLOSEST VOTE EVER The vote was one of the closest in history with a total of 33 players named on the 24 ballots. Berra finished with a total of 104 points, followed bv Oarver with 157, Rey nolds with 125. rookies Orestes Minoso of the Chicago White Sox with 120. 22-game winner Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians with 118 and AL batting king Ferris Fain of the Philadelphia Athletics with 103. They were the only players to Son Francisco Back Loads Grid Scoring NEW YORK (IB—©Hie Matson. San Francisco's burly fullback, has a strangle-hold on the nation’s in dividual football scoring leadership. B y scoring three touchdowns against Santa Clara Sunday, Mat son increased his total to 103 points, 18 more than his closest rival, ac cording to National Collegiate Ath letic Association statistics. Jn addition to leading in scoring. Matson is the number one man in rushing with a total of 1,378 yards gained, 352 yards more than his nearest competitor. Johnny Bright of Drake, who played with a protective face guard to protect his broken jaw last Sat urday. ranks seedhd to Matson In ball caryylng with 827 yards. Gavilan TKO's Tony Janiro DETROIT <Ol Welterweight champion Kid Osyilah probably ruined Tony Janlro's chanee fbr a bout with Britton's, Cinderella man Rdndy Turpbi. • Givilan also ruined a’ftw other thinks last night. as he pounded Janiro relentlessly id • bloody fourth round of their IQ-round bout to win a technical knockout over the 34-year-old Youngstown, 0., battler. The International Boxing Club had promised Janiro a bout with Turpin, who won and then lost sugar Ray Robinson's middle weight title, 1f he could beat OavUan. But the Cuban never gave him a chance to get organized. He started pelting hi mwith rights and lefts from the first bell, knocking him down in the first round, and finally dropping him twice in the fatal fourth. After first missing with his well-known bolo punch, OavUan bored in unmercifully, slamming Janiro with three overhand rights that sent him to the canvas. Janiro bounced up again quickly, but two lefts spUled him a second time. Referee Clarence Rosen stop ped it at the 2:41 mark of the round. This Wook's Choice By KEN OBGNDERCATE Daily Record Predictor Top games of the week: Southern Cal over Stanford IlUnots over lowa Wake Forest over Duke Texas over Baylor CorneU over Michigan (upset) Mich Bt. over Notre Dame Maryland over Navy Texas AiiiH over 8. M. U. Other big games: Auburn over Mississippi California over Washington N. Carolina over Virginia Arkanaas over Rice Nebraska over lowa St. Tennessee over V ft L Columbia over Dartmouth Army over The Citadel Cincinnati over Boston U. Georgia over Florida Georgia Tech over V. H. I. Marquette over Holy Cross Indiana over Minnesota Kentucky over Tulane Vandy over L. S. XT. N. C. State over Davidson Northwestern over Purue Northwestern over Purdue Oklahoma over Missiourt Princeton over Hervart; 8 .Carolina over W. Vir. U. C. L. A. over ..Oregon St. VUUnuva over Detroit IJJklEovwV. P. L ifS EULT gwQxx. Pro, IT. a receive 100 or more votes. In addition to the top three, pitcher' Ellis Kinder of the Boston Red Sox received two first-place votes and Minoso, Fain, shortstop Phil Rlzzuto and pitcher Ed Lopat, both of the Yankees, received one each. No player was named on all 34 baUots and threee top stars were not named at all. IGNORED! IN VOTING They were shortstop Chico Car rasquel, who General Manager Frank Lane of the White Sox says he would not trade for Ted Wil liams; Joe DlMagglo and pitcher Bob Lemon of the Indians. Car rasquel received honorable men tion on six baUots, DlMagglo on four and Lemon on one. It was the third time In five years that a Yankee won the award. Rlzzuto won It last year and DlMagglo won it in 1947. Berra was the Yankees' “big stick” all year as they drove to the third consecutive world cham pionship under Casey Stengel al though the statistics were not too Imposing. He caught in 141 games, batted .394, knocked in 88 runs and Hit 37 homers. Tar Htel Unknown Tokos Open Load In North-South PINEHURST, (IB Dark horse Julius Boros was out in front as the field in the 49th an nual North and South Open golf tournament swung Into the second round, but the gallery had its eyes on big-name players Cary Middle coff and Sammy Snead. Boros, from nearby Southern Pines, cliffed par by four strokes with a 68 in the opening round yesterday. That gave him a two stroke lead over veteran Henry Picard of Cleveland and Tommy Wright of Kingsport, Tejin. But the lanky Middlecoff. Mem phis, dentist who was 1050 U. S. Open champion, ires hitting the ball Impressively as he finished in a five-way tie at one-upder-par 71. He seemed to be in a good spot to challenge for the lead today, as did Snead, defending champion from White Sulpher Springs, W. Va.. who played steady golf to tie four others at par 73. You Think Tkings Arc Rongk? Cketk This Grid Record LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. up pity the sad pUght of the St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute football team it hu won only one game since 1940. It has scored only once in each of the last three seasons. Touchdowns are so rare that the player* weren’t even sure how to fine up for bn extra point try when tltt team made six points against Btuefteld, .V. Vs., State two weeks ago. , ' St; Paul’s Is an Episcopal Negro college of 40 students in this smaU Southern Virginia town of 3,335 per sons. Since 1940 the footbaU team has played more than 41 games. Hie results have been scores as high as 78 to 9 to favor of the other teams. Saturday the Tigers lost their 34th straight game, to little Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. The score was 40 to 0. A WIN AND A TIE The team's only viotory since 1940 was a 6 to 0 triumph over Miner Teachers College of Wash ington in 1947. That was a relative ly successful season for the Tigers. They also tied St. Augustine’s of Raleigh. N. C, 0-0. So far this year, the Tigers have lost 58 to 0 to St. Augustine's. 18 to , 0 to Johnson C. Smith of Charlotte, N. C., 14 to 0 to Delaware State of Dover. Del., 60 to 6 to Bluefleld State and 40 to 0 to Lincoln. They stUl have to face Virginia Union of Richmond, and the Winston-Salem, N. C., Teachers one of the two teams which ran up 78 to 0 counts last year. “You. can say one thing for us," Coach Russell Blount said. “At least we’re consistent." W * M, Maryland Namad As Oranga Bowl ChotCM MIAMI. (IB Announcement of one of the teams to play In the Orange Bowl football classic New Year's Day will probably be made “within the next ten days,” ac cording to Van C. Kussrow, head of the schedule committee. He said last night his committee Is considering Tennessee, Clemaon, Maryland. Georgia Tech. William and Mary. Holy Cross, Oklahoma. VUlanova. Kentucky. San Frisco and the College of the Pacific. Menlh faeitll 8 1— MOBILE. ALA. <o7—Paul Brown’, head coach of professional foot ball's Cleveland Browns, was nam ed today to succeed “Bo" McMillan as coach of the Northern squad In the Annual Senior Bowl AO-Star ggIQF. '-f . r t McMillan, who hu served on the Senior Bowl's staff for two years, underwent a major operation re cently and was forced to give up his duties u coach of the Phils- Haipffia. for the remainder wywvw tfwusw wane USW Benson Licks Deep River For Ist Win Benson High School played its final footbaU game of the season yesterday afternoon on the Benson home field, and the boys In red and blue won their first game of the season. Coach MltcheU Nance’s boys had given aU comers, with the exception of Angler, a pretty good battle, but the newly rebuilt team just couldn’t muster enough strength to win. Last season, Coach Nance push ed his boys through a successful season in winning five games and losing three. aU three to strong Is lington. But practicaUy aU of those boys graduated, and Nance had to rebuild for this season with mostly young boys. Yesterday, the young Benson team looked good as it rolled to a 19 to 0 win over a weak ueep River team from Lee County. 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Nash Motors, Division Nash-Kelvlnatat Corjonuldm, Jtontfr, AArAI V> '.• Vi' f f;, %' ;r -f’' -"/''w* /V , y BENSON DEFENSE SHINES IN FINALE—Here is an example es the fine defense that enabled Bensen to win its first time of ’sl yesterday a* shut Deep River 19-8. Rollins Jabnaan, shewn at the lower left in s prone position, has just slowed up a DR bock and Martin Porker is shown forcing the off-baUnced player to the turf. Ken Ivey is the boy that is rushinr up to assist Parker, and. Jack Lyles is the Benson player on the far right. The Deep River boys are net known. (Dally Reeor# 1 Photo by Lewis Studio). outplayed the visitors throughout most of the game. The Benson de fense was strong, and the offense clicked when the chips were down. LED THE WINNERS Jack Lyles and Robert Smith led the home team to victory with some fine running. Lyles set up the ' first score of the game in the open- [ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER S, IfSl mg quarter with some shifty and hard-charging runs and then took the ball across from the five stand nig up. The point was no good. Smith broke loose on a 50 yard run to score the second TD in the second quarter. Smith then passed ! to Ken Ivey for a point after. ! The only senior on the squad. Bryan Coats, made a swell pass catch on the six-inch line to set up the final Benson score in the last stanza, and then Lyles cracked through the middle for the TD. Robert Smith. Rollins Johnson, Ken Ivey, Harvey Johnson, and Martin Parker played a stiff de fensive game. m