THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 29, "M - -MIC I-A -IL.TU'.A . JULY |||...| ||!||||||.M eveal Formation of Third Major League Five Cities in New Continental League, leven Others Show Interest in Circuit NEW YORK (IP--A third major baseball league was formed yes- terday to operate in 1961 with five foundin gcities - New York, Houston, Toronto, Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul. At least three more will be added later. William Shea, chairman of Mayor Wagner's New York Base- ball Committee, announced at a press conference the founding of the circuit, to be known as the Continental League. Shea said there will be a mini- mum of eight cities, and perhaps more, in the league which will play a 154-game schedule. He listed 11 additional cities that had expressed interest. They were Buffalo, Montreal, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Indianapolis, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Diego, Portland, Seattle and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new league hopes to have two or more franchises definitely lined up by Aug. 18 when .the founders meet with Commissioner Ford Prick's seven-man commit- tee from the existing majors. Expects Cooperation "I look forward to the fullest cboperation of the National and American leagues and expect a program will be initiated at our Aug. 18 meeting to bring the Con- tinental League into the structure of major league baseball," said Shea. "We are therefore proceed- ing on the basis of complete and unqualified cooperation of the two existing major leagues." Prick in his Radio City office said he had been aware that the founders were meeting. "We are going to sit down and M1iajor League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Chicago 56 40 .582 -a Cleveland 56 40 .582 - Baltimore 50 49 .505 7% New York 48 49 .495 8% Kansas City 47 49 .490 9 Detroit 48 52 .480 10 Washington 43 55 .439 14 Boston 41 55 .427 15 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Kansas City 7, Washington 6 Boston 4, Cleveland 0 Baltimore 5, Detroit 3. TODAY'S GAMES Washington at Kansas City (N) New York at Chicago (N), Boston at Cleveland (2-N) Baltimore at Detroit (N) talk with them," he said. "At that time we will discuss the whole situation. Apparently they now have set up their organization." Met ThreeTimes Frick said he had met with Shea three times and talked to him several times on the phone. In additio nto Frick, the com- mittee includes President Warren Giles of the National League, President Joe Cronin of the American League, National League owners Lou Perini of Milwaukee, and Bob Carpenter of Philadel- phia and American League owners Tom Yawkey of Boston and Ar- nold Johnson of Kansas City. The Continental League met for the last three days, adopting a constitution and setting up pro- cedures for screening and quali- fying other cities for membership. Credit Shea As Big Man Behind Loop NEW YORK (') - Bill Shea, the driving power behind the em- bryo third major league, is a dy- namic, highly-articulate 52-year- old with a jutting, you-bet-I-will jaw and a convincing manner. A native New Yorker, he was graduated from Georgetown Uni- versity in the 1930 class. He min- imizes his athletic accomplish- ments there, but modestly admits he played football and basketball. Since his graduation he has be- come a markedly successful law- yer, and he's now a senior partner in the firm of Manning, Hollinger, and Shea. His choice for the job of head- ing the committee appointed by Mayor Robert Wagner of New York to bring another major league club to the city was a nat- ural, although he did not promot- ing himself in that direction. Interested in Sports "I always was interested in sports, and particularly baseball," he says. "My firm was attorney for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Brooklyn Trust Company, and we also handled the bid for George McLaughlin, Brooklyn financier, when he tried to buy the New York Giants." Shea says that his efforts to form a new league are strictly a labor of love. "I haven't received a cent of; expenses," he says. "I've paid all my traveling expenses, everything. "I got to thinking that a city, such as New York should have, more than one major league club. Then I realized that there were many other cities over the coun- try that deserved major league baseball and were in a position to handle such franchises."l It also made plans to comply with the request from Senator Ke- fauver to appear before an anti- trust subcommittee in Washing- ton July 31. Each founding, city put up $50,000 and reportedly is prepared to invest as much as $2,- 500,000. Result of Demand "The Continental League is the result of increasing demand of cities in this country and Canada for major league baseball," said Shea in a mimeographed state- ment. "Not only New York, since los- ing the Giants and Dodgers, but many other cities have done everything in their power to ob- tain franchises in the two exist- ing major leagues without success.! By trial and error it developed that the only way to provide ma- jor league baseball for an increas- ing number of communities on this continent was to form a new major league." The chief backers of the new New York franchise already had been identified as Mrs. Joan W. Payson, sister of John Hay Whit-1 ney, American ambassador to Great Britain; Mrs. Dorothy Kil- lam of Montreal and Dwight Da- vis, son of the donor of tennis' Davis Cup. Associated with the principal backers are G. Herbert Walker, Jr., William Simpson and Donald Grant. Mrs. Payson owns a sub- stantial amount of stock in the San Francisco Giants. Grant, her representative, is a director of the Giants. The Houston backers were list- ed *s the Houston Sports Asso- ciation with Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. as chairman. Toronto was repre- sented by Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Maple Leafs of the International League. Denver's backer was Robert L. Howsam, owner of the Denver club of the American Association. The Min- neapolis-St. Paul joint operation was represented by Wheelock Whitney, Jr. Civilians Enter Pistol Contest SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (P)--Three civilians entered in the National Pentathlon Championships being held here, took the top three places in the pistol shooting event yes- terday. Rogert Miller, a Seattle, Wash., school teacher firing his .22 caliber pistol at turning silhouett targets, garnered 197 of a possible 200. Only three points from a perfect score, Miller was warded 1040 points to win the third of five pentathlon events. Miller moved into the top posi- tion in overall ratings with 3032 points, while Pvt. Paul Pesthy, Sunday's leader after 41 bounts of epee fencing, was dropped to fourthI place. Casey.Alters Star Game AL Hurlers BOSTON (P) - Casey Stengel apparently is determined to pre- vent another American League de- feat when the All-Stars of both circuits meet again in Los Angeles next Monday. The Yankee pilot has replaced three pitchers and added three outfielders to the American League squad announced yesterday by league president Joe Cronin. Named to the pitching staff for the second game are Billy O'Dell of Baltimore, Cal McLish of Cleve- land and Camilo Pascual of Wash- ington. They replace Whitey Ford of Stengel's Yankees, Jim Bunning of Detroit and Billy Pierce of Chi- cago. The three dropped hurlers were used in the first all-star game at Pittsburgh July 7 which the Na- tionals won 5-4 with a ninth in- ning outburst climaxed by a mighty triple by Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants. Squad Limit Raised With the squad limit raised to 28 players from 25, Stengel.has added these uy chasers, Gene Woodling of Baltimore, Roger Maris of Kan- sas City and Bob Allison of Wash- ington. The rest of the squad is the same that appeared in Pittsburgh with pitchers Bud Daley of Kansas City, Early Wynn of Chicago, Ryne Duren of New York and knuckle- bailer Hoyt Wilhelm of, Baltimore rounding out the hurling stay. They were on the Pittsburgh game squad. The infielders are Harmon Kille- brew and Roy Sievers of Washing- ton; Luis Aparicio and Nellie Fox, Chicago; Pete Runnels and Frank Malzone, Boston; Vic Power, Cleve- land; Gil McDougald, New York. Bill Skowron of New York was named on the original list of in- fielders but is out of action for at least 30 days because of a broken wrist suffered Saturday in Detroit. No replacement has been an- nounced for Skowron. Williams in 15th Game Veteran slugger Ted Williams of Boston, on an All-Star squad for the 15th year, is on the outfield list with Harvey Kuenn and Al Ka- line of Detroit, Mickey Mantle of New York, and Rocky Colavito and Minnie Minoso of Cleveland. Behind-the-plate duties will be handled by catchers Sherm Lollar, Chicago; Yogi Berra, New York, and Gus Triandos, Baltimore. Stengel's new. set of coaches will be Harry Lavagetto of Wash-. ington and Frank Crosetti of the Yankees. BY ONE STROKE: Rawls Wins Top Honors In Mount Prospect Open 'A -Daily-Peter Anderson REPAIR FIELDHOUSE ROOF - Workmen are repairing the gaping hole in Michigan's Yost Fieldhouse caused by the May 11 storm. The repairs are slated for completion in mid-September. Hickey Appointed Coach To Replace NC's Tatum MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (P) - Betsy Rawls yesterday won the $20,000 Mount Prospect Women's Open Golf Tournament by one stroke over her roommate on the ladies PGA circuit, Mickey Wright. Miss Wright, 24-year-old National Open champion from Bonita, Calif., blew a chance to tie on the final hole when her second shot, a pitch from the rough, went into a trap. She exploded out to the fringe of the green. Her putt from there: hit the cup 15 feet away and bounced out. The bogey five gave her a final round of 35-37-72 for a 292 total.} Seventh Tourney Win Miss Rawls, the 31-year-old LPGA champion from Spartan- burg, S. C., captured her seventh Australians impressed By Jap Meet SYDNEY (A)-The fast swims of Japanese and American stars in meets in Japan the past two weeks have. greatly impressed Australia, rated the world's top swimming nation. The Sydney Daily Mirror made the overseas swimming perform- ance its page one lead story under the heading: "Threat to our swim stars." It said: "New world record times by Japanese and American swimmers have ended Australian dominance of the sport. During the past 14 days both Americans and Japanese have set up phe- nomenal times." Australian swimming c o a c h Frank Guthrie said that on times there was not one men's event Australia was certain of winning at next year's Olympic Games in Rome. The Sydney Sun reported the weekend swims of Japanese Tsu- yoshi Yamanaka under the head- ing: "World record- swim orgy." It added: "Improvement by the Japanese will give Australia's top swimmers every incentive to train harder next summer to insure they retain supremacy at. Rome. Japan has a great reserve of good swimmers." CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (IP) - The University of North Carolina yes- terday appointed genial assistant coach Jim Hickey as head football coach under a three-year contract. Hickey, a proven head coach in his own right before moving to North Carolina three years ago, succeeds Jim Tatum, who died last Thursday night from an over- whelming virus infection. The three-year contract calling for an annual salary of $12,000 came as a surprise to most ob- servers who figured the school to name an interim coach, tlen select a name coach. Appreciates Opportunity "Of course I appreciate this op- portunity," Hickey said. "It is one I have always wanted. My only regret is the circumstances under which it has come about." Referring to Tatum, Hickey con- tinued, "We have lost a guy who perhaps cannot be replaced." Hickey, noting that Tatum had mapped extensive plans for the 1959 season before his death, said he planned no change in the coaching personnel or in Tatum's plans. Sees Good Team Hickey agreed with this yester- day. He said, "I think we have got the best team we've had since I've been at North Carolina. It cer- tournament of the season with a finishing 34-38-72 for 291, five strokes under 37-37-74 par for the 72-hole distance on the com- pact 6,421-yard Mount Prospect course. The winning award of $6,500 - biggest prize ever presented in a women's tournament - gave Miss Rawls a total of $19,654 for the year. It put her within easy reach of the all-time money-winning high of $20,235 set by Marlene Hagge in 1956. Runner-up money was $2,100, boosting Miss Wright's booty to $14,582. Fay Crocker, 45, Montevideo, Uruguay, three-putted the 17th hole for a bogey five and finished with 34-38-72 and 293. Third place money was $1,400. Suggs Takes Fourth Fourth place and $1;100 went to Louise Suggs who fired a 35 and then slipped to a 40 for 75 and 295. At 296, worth $920, was Bev- erly Hanson. She and Miss Rawls were tied for the lead after 54 holes with 219, but Miss Hanson faltered with a 36-41-77. Miss Wright, who started the final round with a 220 tally, drew abreast of Miss Rawls on the 12th hole. Betsy was short of the green ,and took three taps from the edge for a bogey six. Mickey birdied by chipping three feet from the cup. Mickey parred the next two holes, then birdied the 14th with another fine approach. Mean- while, Betsy missed a 4-foot putt and took a bogey four on the 13th. Fith four holes to play, Mickey let Betsy by two strokes. Betsy birdied the 15th and parred the next three. Mickey parred the 15th and bogied the 16th because of a trap - leaving her needing to par the last two holes to tie. She got her regulation four on the 17th, then blew her chance with trap trouble on the 18th* Settle Claims, Champ States GOTEBORG, Sweden (W)-Ed- win Ahlquist, advisor of heavy. weight champion Ingemar Jo- hansson, said last night there will be no negotiations about a world title rematch until all questions are fully settled about the income of the last Johansson-Patterson fight. Ahlquist, at a press conference said promoter Bill Rosentohn is going back to the United States today to get a complete rundown on the income of the world title match in Yankee Stadium June 26. "Not until Rosensohn has re- turned with that account will we discuss the terms for a rematch," Ahlquist said. Ingemarm Johansson, sitting next to Ahlquist, replied to a question that he was ready to fight Patterson on September 22 "if a match is arranged for that date." The heavyweight champ said he would prepare for the next fight in much the same way as he did for the last one. iI i l 3. t NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G San Francisc* 55 43 .561 Milwaukee 52 43 ,547 Los Angeles 55 46 .545; Chicago 49 48 .505 Pittsburgh 49 50 .495 St.' Louis 47 '51 .480 Cincinnati 44 54 .449 1: Philadelphia 40 56 .417 1, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 3 Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 2 TODAY'S GAMES Philadelphia at San Francisco St. Louis at Cincinnati (N) Chicago at Milwaukee (N) Pittsburgh at Los Angeles (N) 1' 1V/ 1Y2 6 a S 11 14 (N) MAJOR LEAGUE ACTION: Oriole itter hips Jetroi45-2 tainly appeared so in spring prac- tice." Hickey; 39, was graduated in 1942 from William and Mary where he was a tailback. A native of Springfield, Pa., Hickey was head coach and athletic director at Hampden-Sydney College in Vir- ginia for five years before joining the North Carolina staff in 1956, the year Tatum left his successful reign at Maryland to"return to his alma mater. Shaughnessy Reprimands Maple Leafs MONTREAL (A') -International League President Frank Shaugh- nessy yesterday blasted players on the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team after a report they had voted unanimously against playing in Havana again. "I don't care what they said or did," Shaughnessy said, "we've got a schedule to play out and we're going to play it." The Toronto Telegram reported the Leaf players signed a petition refusing to play in Havana after a Rochester and a Havana player were shot and wounded there Sun- day during a celebration of Prime Minister Fidel Castro's July 26th revolutionary movement. Shaughnessy said he had no official word of the vote, which the Telegram says was taken in Richmond, Va., after a game be- tween the Leafs and Virginians Sunday. But, he said, the players "had no right to make any statements un- til they knew the facts and none of them was in Havana at the time." He said George Sisler, general manager of the Rochester Red Wings told him after the team re- turned from Havana that "it was a one - day celebration and he would not hesitate to return to Havana with his team if they were scheduled there." Fern Dubois, general manager of the Montreal Royals, declined to comment on the situation in Havana. "I'll want to talk to our man- ager Clay Bryant, about it," Du- bois said. "But I don't expect to have any comment for a couple of days." The Royals have been on the road for the past'two weeks, re- turning here for a game tonight. " I LAST STRA W SECOND: Apache Wins First Place In Ma ckinac Yacht Race. tJ: I MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (W) -Apache, Class B winner, yes- v I: By The Associated Press DETROIT - Gene Woodling, who will be 37 next month, drove in all of Baltimore's runs yester- day in a 5-2 victory over the De- troit Tigers. The Orioles' outfielder hit a bases-loaded homerun in the third inning and drove in another tally with an eighth inning single. The ageless slugger has dirven in his team's last nine scores. His offensive show yesterday pulled the Orioles out of a skid that had produced six defeats in seven games, and dealt the Tigers their second loss in the last seven games. Woodling's home run, his 13th, followed a pair of singles, a force- out and a walk. He hit it off Jim Bunning, who has made 27 goph- erball pitches this season and 87 over the last 22 seasons. Billy Loes made his 16th save, pitching three hitless innings in relief of starter Skinny Brown. Loes got into a seventh inning jam on two walks, but squirmed. out and retired the last eight bat- ters in succession. He struck out three in his brier stint. Barry Shetrone, a 21-year-old outfielder up from Vancouver, made his first major league ap- pearance, starting in centerfield for the Orioles. The youngster collected two hits in four trips and scored two of the Baltimore runs. ':. k 11 Washington took a 6-5 lead in the fifth on an exchange of grand- slam homers and held it until the eighth when Frank House and Joe Demaestri singled in the tying and winning runs. Roger Maris hit Kansas City's grandslammer in the third and Mary Throneberry equaled it in the fifth. Until the eighth it looked as if Harmon Killebrew's leadoff homer in the fourth would prove to be the winning margin. The Senators drew first blood with a second inning run on Bob Allison's pop fly back of third, an error by Dick Williams who over- threw first on Jim Lemon's grounder and Clint Courtney's sacrifice fly. Red Sox 4, Indians 0 CLEVELAND - Jerry Casale gave only three hits in pitching the Boston Red Sox to a 4-0 vic- tory over the Cleveland Indians last night in the opener of a five- game series. The loss dropped the Indians to a tie with the idle Chicago White Sox for the American League lead. The victory, the seventh against six losses for the hard throwing right-hander, was the first for Boston on the current western trip and snapped a six-game los- ing streak. The Indians had won five straight. Casale struck out three batters and walked five. The only hits off' run in the second inning when Dick Gernert led off with a single, moved to third on two walks and scored on a force play at second base. They added another in the third on a single and a double and made it 3-0 on Jackie Jen- sen's leadoff homer into the left field stands in the fourth. Reds 8, Cards 3 CINCINNATI (A') - A three- run homer by skinny shortstop Johnny Temple headed an erup- tion of Cincinnati hitting last night that sank St. Louis' Cardin- als, 8-3. The Cards got to Bob Purkey for five hits and all three runs in the fifth inning. But otherwise,the moon-faced veteran had little trouble hold- ing sway over the Cards, striking out three men and walking two. Four Cardinal pitchers tried their luck, but were shelled by 11 hits, four of them for extra bases. Starter Wilmer Mizell, knocked out of the box for the second straight time by the Reds this season, took the loss. Former Redleg George Crowe led off the Cards' scoring with a double, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Hal Smith's single. Don Blasingame's following triple and Joe Cunnnigham's single drove in the next two markers. But the Redshstretched their lead to 7-3 in the home half of Joey Jay, the 6-4 right-hander, held the staggering Pirates to five hits as the Braves inched past the Los Angeles team by two percent- age points and to within a game and a half of first place San Francisco. Milwaukee, which had dropped eight of nine games before the ar- rival of Pittsburgh at County Sta- dium last Friday, has a 52-43 mark for a .547 percentage. Los Angeles, idle as was San Francisco, is 55-46 with a .545 mark. Stopped on three singles for six innings, the Braves jumped on right hander Ronnie Kline in the seventh to pull out the victory. Pittsburgh had gone out in front 2-0 with runs in the third and sixth innings. Wes Covington started the up- rising by lining a single to right for his second hit and advancing to third on a safety to center by rookie Lee Maye. Johnny Logan then worked his way aboard with a walk to fill the bases. Del Crandall, battling to shake off a batting slump, then smashed a drive off third baseman Don Hoak's glove, scoring Covington and Maye and sending Logan to third. Jay was called out on strikes and Crandall stole second as an attempted pickoff on Logan was too late. Bobby Avila, the Ameri- can League castoff, then tripled off the right field wall and scored terday was adjudged winner of the overall title in the annual Port Huron to Mackinac Island Yacht Race. The Apache, a 45-foot sloop owned by Wilfred Gmeiner, fin- ished the race with a corrected time of 39:43.11 for the 235 mile race up Lake Huron. Second in overall competition was Last Straw owned by Dr. Da- vid Holden of Chicago. Last Straw finished second to Apache in Class B with a corrected time of 39:50.19. Class C honors went to Vashti, a Detroit boat owned by John Detwiler. The 25-year-old boat finished with a corrected time of 43:41:41. Gypsy, a 54-foot sloop owned by Charles Kotovic won the Class A crown. Clayton Ewing's defend- ing champion Dyna was second in Class A with a corrected time of 41:48.02. Hilaria was third with 42:31.43. The Class D crown winner was to be announced later when the rest of the 85 boat starting fleet finished the race. Last Straw's skipper, Clarence (Moon) Baker, was responsible for Apache's victory. The judges originally had Last Straw timed at 44:28.18 and 39:40.19 but added 10 minutes to the times at Baker's insistence. "I'd like to win the race but not that way," Baker said. The hassle over the exact time the Last Straw finished developed shortly after she and the Apache crossed the finish line. Both Baker and Gmeiner contended the judges made a mistake in clocking the Last Straw and demanded that the times be changed. The judges at first declined to do so but then agreed at Baker's insistence. "We don't want anything we didn't earn," Baker said. 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