JUNE 25, 1949 THE KMICHIGAN T]JI07 PAGE the MORNING REPORT by Merle Levin, Sports Editor MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE officials have announced their deci sion to withdraw their request for reconsideration of the grossl unjust and somewhat daffy ruling by Western Conference official banning four Spartan baseball players from further varsity competi tion for having played in the semi-pro Northern Vermont league las summer and I, for one, am sorry to hear it. The Spartans, newest members of the Big Ten and still trying to make friends and influence people after an unsavory rhubarb with the Michigan athletic department last winter, have an- nounced that since Ed Sobczak and Dan Urbanik have graduated and Frank Bagdon and Buz Bowers are turning pro they see no further need for reconsideration. As I said, I'm sorry to hear this because for once the Conference officials were dead wrong and as a result four athletes have ende their college careers with a blot on their records. It is true that the Western Conference has officially an- nounced its disapproval of participation in the Northern Vermont League by Conference members, but what the unpredictable offi- cials seemed to overlook was the fact that Sobczak, Bowers, Urbanik and Bagdon played in the semi-pro loop LAST SUMMER when they had no more idea that the Spartans would become members of the Big Ten than the man in the moon. Why should this Conference ruling become retroactive, affecting four boys who were doing absolutely no wrong (Michigan State di not object to participation in the league) when the Conference coul not see their way clear to include the Spartans in next year's schedule The Spartans, it seems, have become eligible for everything bu Immediate participation in athletics now that they are members o the Conference. Things, somehow, don't sound quite kosher. JERSEY JOE WALCOTT seems bent on leaving a bad taste in th mouths of fight fans before he heads for home and his six kiddie for good. The ancient ring veteran made some pretty nasty cracks on the subject of the boxing ability of one Joe Louis after his first bout with the former heavyweight champ but since it was quite apparent to everyone but a couple of New York state boxing judges that Walcott wuz robbed most people were inclined to pass the remarks off with a low 'task, tsk.' But the Jersey Joe reached a new iow after Wednesday night's stinkeroo which saw Ezzard Charles crowned heavyweight cham- pion of a good portion of the world. Among the remarks attributed to the venerable Walcott afte the fight were the observations that Charles was "a sneaky punche who hit while breaking from the clinches, (b.) a dirty fighter wh( hit low on several occasions and (c.) not a very good fighter althougl fairly clever." Joe was certain he could win a rematch. Charles did lose one round because of low punching which only served to lessen the margin by which the "mediocre fighter" out-distanced the obviously superior Walcott but on the subject of hitting on the breaks, Referee Davis Miller emphatically stated that the two fighters broke very cleanly especially for heavy- weights who are sometimes not prone to said actions. Somebody must be mistaken., Walcott also announced triumphantly that he was not a bi tired as the fight ended. Yet Sports Editor Whitey Lewis of the Cleveland Press says: "... in those final seven or eight rounds Walcott was a tired old man. He couldn't hold up his arms, his legs wouldn't move and his reflexes were so slow he couldn't plant a solid punch on Charles." Again somebody must be mistaken. Neither Charles nor Walcott was a resonable facsimile of a Joe Eouis in the ring Wednesday night. But Joe has retired and there had to be a new champ crowned eventually. As long as it had t be I'm glad it was Charles. He talks a little like Louis anyhow. Red Sox Wal i- PANTIES'N ALL: Chinese Dancer Bests 5tloran at Wimbledon LONDON--(P)-Gertrude "Gor- tee expressed concern at British geaus Gusie"tMoranl of Santapress treatment of Bob Falken- Monica, Calif., the darling of the burg of Beverly Hills, Calif., Wimbledon Tennis Champion- the defending men's singles ships, bowed out of the women's chmpions e singles event yesterday in the first champion. d week's greatest upset. Some of the newsmen have Her red-ribboned pigtails bob- bounced Bob because he with- bing, the fourth seeded Miss Mor- drew from mixed doubles, refused an went down to Gem Hoehing, a interviews, and rested through tiny Chinese ballet dancer from.two sets Thursday in beating Jo- Hong Kong, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, in the sef Asboth of Hungary. third round. * FEARING THAT Americans SHE WILL BE missed from the might take offense, a senior Wim- singles. With her beauty and lace- bledon official yesterday asked trimmed panties she brought a newsmen to let the champ get on g definite spice to Wimbledon. with his task in his own sweet d way. d Behind the scenes, the Wim- Falkenburg appeared once. He ? bledon Championship Commit- and Jaroslav Drobny of Czecho- it slovakia eliminated Pierre Geel- f 1 e hand and Jacques Peten of Bel- oaches Pick ngium, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, in the sec- ond round of men's doubles. aers To The top-seeded doubles team e Ted Schroeder of La Crescenta. s Calif., and Gardnar Mulloy of! U st Regatta Miami, Fla., played two matches and won both in straight sets, ad-! POUGHKEEPSIE, U.Y.-(P) - vancing to the quarter finals. Wisconsin gained support as the They ousted Britishers A. L. crew that might supply the drama Della Prta and H. Watkins ingthe47thdannualCPoughk eepsie 6-1, 6-0, 6-4, in the second round Regatta today but California and and turned their hot rackets Washingtonruledfion M. Matous of Czechoslova- voriteson ru irmly as fa- kia and Franjo Puncec of Yugo- Decisive victor over Navy, and slavia for a 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 triumph barely nosed out by mighty Wash- in the third round r ington, Wisconsin was tagged in Pancho Gonzales and Frankie an informal poll of a half dozen Parker, bth of Los Angeles, gain- varsity coaches as third best in ed the third round by downing o the record field of 12, with a Drago Mitic and Josip Palada, h chance for an upset, the Yugoslav Davis Cup team that The East's chief hope is Prince- is in the European Zone semi- ton, which has defeated every finals, 8-6, 6-2, 6-3. other Eastern entry. IN WOMEN'S singles, Louise After weeks of serene weather,B thunder showers threatened to Brough of Beverly Hills, and Mrs. Margaret DuPont of Bellevue, Del., cleared easy third round Deadline for entries in the hurdles in their jog to an almost I-M summer softball league is inevitable final July 2. today at noon. Teams desiring Louise drubbed Mrs. Mary t to enter should contact Don Halford, former British Wight- Robinson at the Intramural man Cup player, 6-1, 6-0. Mrs. Building, 8109. DuPont eliminated Mrs. R. F. Chandler of Britain 6-1, 6-1. ruffle the broad blue Hudson Miss Brough lost only three River. points in the second set. The rivalry of the Western crew Mrs. DuPont and her mixed giants, almost of grudge propor- doubles partner, Billy Sidwell of e tions, overshadows the race. Australia, slaughtered Erik Bjerre In the space of a year California and Miss E. M. Fog of Denmark, h as twice humiliatedsWashington 6-2, 6-1. o in a way that hurts. Last year_ Washington won all three races at Poughkeepsie and looked confi- dently to the Olympics but Caii- a or ea g fornia won the eight-oared trials and captured the Olympic Cham- pionship for the United States. NATIONAL LEAGUE Then this spring Washington led W L Pct. GB California 150 feet from the finish St. Louis ....37 24 .607 in their race at Seattle when a Brooklyn . ... 37 25 .596 y Washington oarsman missed a Philadelphia 36 28 .563 2 stroke and the crew became con- Boston ......35 29 .547 3% fused, losing by a few feet. New York ... 30 31 .492 7 Cincinnati ..25 35 .417 11% I-M Play Slated Pittsburgh . .25 37 .404 12 Chicago.....23 39 .371 14%! - Late Next Week YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Men's intramural sports will get hittgburgh 4 Broklyn 2. into full swing probably in the Stt Luish8, Boon 2. middle of next week after the St. Los Boston 2. deadline for applications next Philadelphia at Cincinnati, Monday and Tuesday, announced rain. Rod Grambeau, director of indivi- PROBABLE PITCHERS dual sports in the I-M depart- Brooklyn at Pittsburgh - ment. Grambeau has called a meeting Branca (8-1) vs. Werle (4-4). of all individuals interested in Philadelphia at Cincinnati- basketball for 5 p.m. Monday in Meyer (6-4) vs. Fox (4-5). the Intramural Building. Indivi- New York at Chicago-Ken- dual or team entries may be maden at this meeting. A similar meeting nedy (5-5) vs. Rush (4-9). will be held Tuesday for those in- Boston at St. Lois-(nght) terested in softball. -Sain (4-8) vs. Brecheen (5-4). Proudly Presents Its SUMMER SCHEDULE July 1-2 TORMENT 7:30 & 9:30 Architecture Aud. July 8-9 PYGMALION 8:30 P.M. Rackham Aud. July 15-16 STAR IS BORN Architecture Aud. 7:30 & 9:30 L..1)1 1 Crippled Browns, 21-2 i KellWell? Well, Almost DETROIT- iP'-George Kell, the American League's top hitter, got word yesterday he'd be back in the Detroit Tigers lineup sooner than expected- probably within 10 days. A small bone was broken in Kell's foot during the game with the Red Sox in Boston last Wednesday. Tiger general manager Billy Evans said he planned to send Kell to Cleveland with the team June 28 although the third baseman will not be allowed to play. The announcement fol- lowed an examination of the foot by Dr. C. L. Mitchell. Kell was briefly hospitalized after the injury. Since then he has been under treatment at home. Willicms' Homers Lead Iosox Attach; Page, B3err~a Help Yanks Edge Tigers 'S. Veech Willing ToSell Tribe For Right Price CLEVELAND -(A')- President Bill Veeck says his Cleveland In- dians baseball club, 1948 World Champs, can be bought, but that no one has made him an offer or approached him about making one. Sports Editor Gordon Cobble- dick wrote in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer that a syndicate of businessmen is forming to buy the Indians and would "be ready in the near future to make a for- mal offer of approximately $2,- 000,000." Cobbledick said George Creadon, president of the Stan- dard Brewing Co. headed the syn- dicate. * * * CREADON, now a stockholder in the Cleveland Baseball Corp., said the newspaper story was "news to me." Veeck, reached on a speech- making visit in Columbus, O., said he has received rumors of the reported syndicate offer for about two weeks. He called it "conversation which is likely to remain conversation." Wednesday marked three years since Veeck acquired the Indians. He is believed to have paid $1,- 500,000 for the club and to own about one-third of its stock. Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE By The Associated Press BOSTON-Ted Williams paced a 25-hit attack with his 18th and 19th homers yesterday as the Bos- ton Red Sox crushed the injury- riddled St. Louis Browns, 21-2. The lanky slugger, who drove in seven runs to boost his 62- game total to 77, sewed up the game against Joe Ostrowski in the first inning by driving into the centerfield stand after Dom DiMaggio had singled and Johnny Pesky doubled. Williams' second four-bagger of the day came while leading off in the seventh against Ray Shore, the last of three victims of the savage onslaught. Ellis Kinder held the Browns to five hits, including homers by Whitey Platt and Andy Anderson. NEW YORK - Clutch hitting and pitching by Tommy Henrich and Lefty Joe Page respectively, earned the American League's pace-setting New York Yankees a 5-4 decision over the Detroit Tig- ers yesterday. Yogi Berra drove in four of the Yanks' runs with a double and homer. Henrich singled home Charley Keller from second with the winning run in the seventh in- ning after the Tigers had snarled the countrat 4-4 in their half with a three run rally. Page, who snuffed out the Tig- er uprising, blanked the Bengals over the final two frames. The Tigers loaded the bases in the ninth with two down but Page got rookie Johnny Groth to pop out to second sacker Gerry Cole- man to end the game. * * * CHICAGO-The last place Chi- cago Cubs slapped down the slid- ing New York Giants, 6-2, today with big Hank Sauer supplying the punch with a three-run homer. Sauer unloaded his eighth four- bagger of the season in the first inning off Larry Jansen following singles by Emil Verban and Hank Edwards. The Cubs cemented the deci- sion and chased Jansen in the third with another three run drive. Hal Jeffcoat singled home one run and Gene Mauch two. Rookie Warren Hacker, al- though tapped for 13 hits, the same number the Cubs culled off five Giant pitchers, went all the way for Chicago. WASHINGTON - Bob Feller won his third straight game and his fourth of the year last night, limiting Washington to seven hits as Cleveland captured an 8-2 de- cision before a crowd of 23,018. Bob Kennedy's third homer with Larry Doby on base in the seventh featured the Indians' 9-hit attack against Joe Haynes, Dick Welteroth and Lloyd Hit- tle. Haynes was belted from the mound in the fifth inning and was charged with his third de- feat. He has won one. Feller's triple gave the Indians a run in the sixth. PITTSBURGH -Ralph Kiner's first - inning homer with two aboard and his eighth inning sin- gle were the ronly safeties Pitts- burgh could get off Brooklyn pit- chers last night but they were enough to defeat the league lead- ers, 4-2. A crowd of 34,670 saw big Ernie Bonham go the route to register his third win against two defeats. Rex Barney was charged with the loss to give him a 3-5 record. Bonham was in fine form as he scattered seven hits. Carl Furillo of the season over the Philadel- phiaAthletics last night, a 2-1 victory, as Randy Gumpert went the distance to hang up his sixth American League pitching tri- umph. The loss pushed the A's deeper into second, 5 games out of first. It was a tough defeat for Carl Scheib who gave up only four hits. Philadelphia's only run off Gumpert was unearned and it came with one out in the sev- enth when shortstop Bobby Rhawn, who took over for vet- eran Luke Appling, dropped a ball at second on a perfect double play setup. This miscue allowed Nelson Fox, who had singled and pulled up second on another hit, to cross the plate when the ball rolled into left field. Chicago's two tallies were made in the top half of the seventh. Charley Kress opened the inning with a double and Scheib walked George Metkovich. Then Schieb tossed Cass Michaels scratch hit to third wildly trying for a force out at that bag, allowing Kress to score. Metkovich romped home with the eventual winning tally on an infield out. ST. LOUIS-The on-rushing St. Louis Redbirds took over the top perch of the National League for the first time this season last night when they downed the Bos- ton Braves, 8 to 4, while 'the Brooklyn Dodgers were taking the count at Pittsburgh. Two home runs by Lou Klein and another by Tommy Glaviano were the big blows in the victory which de- lighted 18,000 fans. TED WILLIAMS - . . . leads slaughter * * * got to him for a homer in second. the Mickey Owen, former Brook- lyn Dodger who jumped to the Mexican League, rejoined his mates before the contest and watched the game from the bench. Owen's suspension, along with other players who had been ban- ned from organized baseball for five years, was lifted recently by Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler. * * * PHILADELPHIA-The Chicago White Sox scored their second win ., / j_ Doors Open 1 :15 P.M. Matinee 25c Nights 35c TODAY ONLY MYEN ML l LEX BARKER K" BRENDA JOYCE y° at 3:40-6:20-8:55 at 1:30-4:50-7:25-10:00 Coming Sunday! "ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN" KEEP A-HEAD OF YOUR HAIR!! We specialize in Personality and collegiate hair styles-try our Workmanship, Service and Personnel. Plenty of Barbers- no waiting. Fan-cooled. 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