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Boro Sandlotters Reap $22,000 Harvest IB TOMMY HOLMES Hank Hasn't Easy Task in Pittsburgh The smount, $22,238 to be exact. Brooklyn and Long Island American Legion; Howard Anderson. Y. M. C.

Joseph Milgrtm, Boys' Clubs, and I. A. Mann, Nas ipanded. and the remainder wou'd 'be used for setting up clinics for i umpires, team managers and scorers land administration and emer in youth welfare. Attending the organisation meeting last night at the Brooklyn Eagle were John Crane of the Catholic Youth Organization; Lt.

John J. Jones, Police Athletic League: Carl Haas. Kiwanla Boys Baseball Federation; Hank Basel, Queens-Nassau League; John Flynn, Bay Ridge League; Arthur Bellone. Parade Grounds League; Comm. Tom Callahan, Kings County Post.

Long Island's present amateur baseball program. More places to play it Brooklyn grestesl problem and It is the intention of the foundation to hire whstever fields are available and place them at the disposal of tha members of the foundation without charge. In Nassau and Queens there are plenty of playing fields avL-able but equipment is needed. represents the gross receipts of the Brooklyn Against the World three-game series at Ebbets Field last August. Those games- were made possible through a fund donated by the Brooklyn Eale and the Dodgers.

To distribute the fund it was deckled to' organize this foundation with 10 participating members representing groups vitally interested RUTH AND OTHERS Far be It from this corner to sau County League. It was decided that $12,000 would be allocated for the purchase of equipment for distribution among ths participating organizations. Another $2,500 would be spent in renting fields so that some of the Brooklyn programs might be ex- temper the enthusiasm of Pittsburgh fans for the belated present that Santa Claus left in the Pirate clubhouse but if Hank Greenberg riffles as trenchant a bat in the National League as he did for the Detroit Tigers he will have suo amateur baseball teams started to reap a harvest of more than $22,000 today following the formation of the Brooklyn Amateur Baseball Foundation through the Joint efforts of the Brooklyn Eagle and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Basket Room By GEORGE COLEMAN for Game Has Shorts Robinson May Spear Flock First Base Job j'img maHff -v ry-gt itpfmrmtr wnmm jt "The days of the small man in basketball are gone." For years we've been hearing that line. Red Auerbach, coach of the champlonshlp-bound Washington Capitols of the Basketball Association of America, was the last court expert to tell us how the giants were forcing the average-sized cagers, even a great performer such as Ken; Sailors, to the bench.

GUARANTEED But on every good team there ap- 5Q0-MILE RACE i ceeded where most ball players in a similar spot have failed. There have been a number of these hairy-legged Arner- lean League slugging stars who have tried to take the. National League In stride as their pace downhill accelerated. Few had any success to speak of. The most illustrious example, of course, was that mighty man.

George Herman Ruth. Every one knew the Babe was slipping when the Yankees let him go to the Boston Braves In 1935. But a surprisingly large number of people felt that hew surroundings and a set of opposing pitchers who didn't know him too well would give Ruth what Ring Lardner rsed to call a "new least of lif BUT BABE WAS OLDER It didn't work out that way. The Babe did have his moments in the National League. On Opening Day, he crashed a home run that brought the Braves a spectacular 1 to 0 victory.

There was the afternoon at Forbes Field on which he clouted three tremendous homers. But those were the last home runs the Babe ever socked in major league competition. When he quit the Braves in June, he had batted only .181 for 28 games. But the Babe was a cool 40 at the time of that fioble experiment and far further over the hill than the 36-year-old Greenberg, who last year was good enough to lead both major leagues in home runs and the American League In run batted in. And so, perhaps the comparison is not particularly apropos.

FOXX AND SIMMONS There is Jimmy Foxx. "The Beast" was 35 in 1942 when he tried it with the Chicago Cubs after long years of wearing out the American League baseball. And Foxx had a horrible time. He got into 70 games that season and batted a mere .205. But again there were circumstances in Jimmy's case which do not apply to Hank.

Foxx's vision was fading. If there is anything wrong with Greenberg's peepers, nobody else knows about it. Al Simmons was 36 Greenberg's present age when he tried it in the National League. "The Duke" didn't prosper. He started the 1939 campaign with the Boston Braves, then released on waivers to the Cincinnati Reds.

At the end of the season, Simmons had a .274 batting average for 102 games. Cincinnati gave him his unconditional release that Winter and he re-appeared in the American League for a couple of seasons of pinch-hitting before settling down as a coach for Connie Mack. REDS TRIED TWO Earlier, Cincinnati had invested In a couple of other American League muscle men. In 1930, Sidney Weill, an inveterate baseball investor, brought Harry Hellmann and Bob Meusel to what was then known as Red-land Field. And the Reds finished in seventh place.

gencies. The members of the foundation have been active in amateur baseball circles for many years and lt was the general opinion that addi tional equipment and playing fields I were absolutely necessary to expand appropriate during the week of Garden and this evening it's 1 Played a Few Games at Sack For Montreal By HAROLD C. BURR The Dodgers may have a sixth first baseman this year and his name isn't Elble Fletcher. Everybody is saying Jackie Robinson around the Brooklyn club offices these days and yesterday ne was mentioned for a new baseball chore the guardian of the Dodgers' Initial sack, as the old-fashioned reporters used to say. President Branch Rickey says of Robinson that he possesses the adaptable quality.

Babe Ruth had it when he left the pitcher's mound for the outfield. You would have tnought he had been a picket man all his life on the Baltimore Orphan's first day out amid the four-leaf clovers. Jackie had never played a game at second until he went to the midway for Montreal last year, but he covered th bag like a veteran. He even was In a few games at first for the Royals and wasn't In the least awkward there, either. But Lou Ruchser is still the Flock first-sacker of the future.

The Long Island product had his ups and downs at Fort Worth last seascn. He started blasting Texas League pitching, but bogged down unexpectedly and the best he could do was to wind up with a .244 average. Tragedy stalked the boy. He was badly broken up by the death of his mother. The site for the park at Fort Worth wasn't chosen by a lefthander.

The winds of Texas perversely blow in from right field to hamper a southpaw swinger. The Texas heat was another factor that whittled him down and he was 20 pounds under weight at the finish. Bring tTp Ruchser The Dodgers gave out a bit of news that shows -they are planning to bring up Ruchser. They are send ing Les Berge to their Lone Star 'a to replace Manager Ray Hay Red Priest Fails To Win Friends, Influence People By RALPH TROST Of course they paid their money ($29,605 to be exact) and that entitled the Madison Square Garden customers to some expression of thought on the Al (Red) Priest- Cowboy) Rueben Shank 10-rounder last night. But they shouldn't have said the things they did.

Al and the cowboy really tried. For the whole 10 rounds. They were truly a couple of weary guys when lt was all over. The fault for this dull and dreary star bout should have been heaped upon Nat Rogers, the match-maker. Their styles never made for anything but a ptinchless Pier six piece with vigorous grappling.

222 low (more or less actual count) blows to the pants, the back of the vest, and the ceiling. Doubtless Rogers figured if Priest, a sllmmtsh red-head with badly beaten brows, could draw $60,000 in Boston where they don't give up easily, he must be good. If so, lt was bad figuring. Priest is an in-flghter with no evident punch, except an uppercut. If he had a jab he'd have stabbed the rollicking cowboy cockeyed.

If he had a cross, he'd have removed at least a good piece of Shank's chin for the wild-swinging Colorado boy left himself as wide open as the plains after he let go with his roundhouse right to Priest's dorsal fins. But Jabbing Shank away, or crossing him with his right, was not in Priest's book. He likes to get Inside and work. But with a rolling, free-swinging, free-wheeling, free-slipping buckeroo like the cowboy, lt didn't work at all-Priest, at least, knew how to protect himself at least from Shank. How he got those busted up brows is another matter.

Tough Figuring It took a corps of CPA's to figure the wlner. Referee Arthur oDnovan called it a draw. Joe Agniello, one of the Judges, called it even on rounds with Priest getting eight ,0 8lx' baDiy for lnavln(f some defense. Jack Sullivan two even. 'Sullivan's tipped the scales in Priests favor, I lie g.oiB attendees got one rug gea doui out, ot me cara oi inree tens, a six and two fours.

That was the Billy Arnold-Danny Rosati affair. These middleweight went at it hammer and tongs for the full 10 with Arnold getting the decision. In the third and fifth, Arnold had Rosati the smart money's boy-down for a count of nine. But he couldn't keep him down. Which Is probably a black mark in the Arnold books for Billy used to hit 'em for keeps.

The other 10 rounder was a mess. The Califomlan-Mexiean, Alejandro Vaja, didn't rate the bout with Irving Palrtsky. a Bronx welter. 1 I. I i pears to De room ior a ic nvrrusc-sized cagers and even one 'midget." Take for Instance the twin bill that has Colgate meeting New York U.

and Western Kentucky facing St. John U. at the Garden tonight. No one can deny that Don Forman and Dan Buckley don't belong on the court with the six-footers and the giant Violets and Redmen, no more than they can deny that Forman and Buckley are over 5-foot-9 Then after Feb. 1 there's another to ar rive on the basketball scene, Edaie Gard of Long Island U.

Even when the giant is none otner than Coach Joe Lapchick he can't push Buckley out of the Indians' lineup. Following the brilliant per formance- by the s-ioot-8 uucKiey in his Initial full game, the City College-St. John's classic, Lapchick remarked: "I've got to get Buckley out of there. He's not only too small but he doesn't score." But as Coach Bob Davies of Seton Hall College said at the Metropolitan Basketball Writers' luncheon yesterday, "I've a bunch of shorties over at seton Han. uui meyre smart ana inuia yicinjr ui ncigni.

Buckley stays In there against tne biggest in the land by using his wits and speed. If one wishes to get his moneys worth at the Garden tonight, try following Buckley instead of the game. Watch every move he makes and it will be seen that there's never a wasted motion. At all times he knows, and what's more important does what is supposed to be done. He's a smartie if there ever was one.

He cuts the big fellows down to his own size by outsmarting them for the entire 40 minutes. Watching him stop a six-and-a-half foot giant on the pivot is, lesson in basketball. Team of Giants In itself, a Western Kentucky, with victories over Canisius. Bowling Green, Louis- vilie, Nebraska, Havana and others,) has a team of veteran performers, the tallest over-all height of any squad visiting the Garden this sea son. There's 6-foot-5 Don Ray, high-scoring 6-foot-4 Sleepy Spears, 6-foot-3 Oran McKtnney, 6-foot Chalmers Embry and Dee Gibson, backed by an array of tall Ken-tuckians.

Although Buckley is slated to start, after Lapchick sees the array of giants from Western Kentucky he may think it wise to replace the i BORO CAGE ACE Waiter Kaplowitz, captain of the Pratt Institute quintet, is now the highest scoring player in the city with 175 points tallied in 10 games. He reached that' total on 72 field goals and 31 foul shots. SCANLON-GALLIE GO TOPS B'WAY CARD It mleht have been more March 17 but anyway these past two boxing weeks belong to Warren occuoied the SDOt- i 1 fh om'v Oraham at the Garden. Red because they want a playing Indlanapolis, Jan. 21 (UP) A guaranteed pure of $75,000 for the 1947 Memorial Day 500-mile rare was announced today by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indicating the total priir may exceed last year' record, $115,450.

The speedway contributed the same amount last year, although originally only $61,500 was offered. The difference is made up by accessory prize offered by manufacturers of automotive equipment. Wilbur Shaw, three-lime winner of the rare and now general manager of the speedway, announced that entries would rlose April 15 Instead of the customary May 1. Easlment Sees Intense Rivalry Ahead on Track "you haven't seen the half of It, G-or. MVS.

The former track coach, now at Mannaiian uonege, coiiarea so many firsts for the Jaspers, in- eluding its first Metropolitan A. A. U. team championship, that his head must be swimming. "With so many youngsters on the upgrade, so many GIs back and an Olympic year lust another season 'beyond it's going to be dog eat dog.

The competit.on is going to be ter rific. Last Satiirdav night's cham pioaships. good as they were, won't hold a candle to the fiery stuff yet to rome," Eastment added. Little wonder the clamor for tickets for the big track meets and the sellout of practically all reserved ta for the Milliose games this early. The GIs, as Eastment pointed out, are a particularly interesting proposition, particularly John Quigley, who was away from competition for all of five years.

"Quigley wasn't too sure of himself, which was understandable. But he should be now with that 1:13 5 600-yard victory be- 'hind him. Of course, Quigley had big lift," says George, i To the suggestion that Quigley'si time, far below Maurice Calender's i.mi i repnea. ine um was guua. bui A uuu ULlltN wuiKJt-J if in ma jraft, i no a ccii stivsic iuimiii uii this 26-year-old." Another interesting figure was N.

Y. Warren Halliburton, who equalled the meet record of 0:8.3 for the 70-yard low hurdles. Halliburton wasn't out for any five years. But he was away. A Richmond him no end.

The Gl-studed Fordham two-mile relay team was another gem repol-lshed. With no opposition to speak of, John O'Hare, Frank Leary, Ed Carney and Jerry Connolly turned in a 7:50.2 Job that chawed off virtually 23 seconds off N. Y. last year's winning mark. With Joe No-wicki, another GI to turn a leg on the relay, nothing in the country, aside from Michigan, seems in Fordham's class.

TROST. Bucknell Five Wins i S-toot-8 eager with the taller Ken train -d well. But the proof of the Pressman or Frank Plantamura. But pudding is the race. That he could one can count on Buckley being in lead a good field from start to fin-there, ish and never be threatened was a Meusel had been a junior partner behind Ruth in that great Yankee team known as Murderers' Row.

He was extremely young only 32 to be a cast-off, but his moody temperament and desire to lead his own life off the field caused the Yankees to let him go. He hit a fair .289 for 113 games but wasn't impressive enough to be kept the following season. He drifted into the Pacific Coast League and never came back. Hellmann, who had been a four-time American League batting champion, was an older man 36 and a Cincinnati success as far as he went. He batted .333 in 142 games for the Reds and that closed out his major league career.

At th end of the season, Harry developed arthritis, which settled in his wrists. He never was able to play ball again. Heinle Manush, like Hellmann, who had been his teammate at Detroit, was a former American League batting champion. And, like Hellmann, he was a good one-year performer In the National League. Manush signed with our "Dodgers after receiving his unconditional release from the Boston Red Sox and, in 1937 at the age of 36, hit a creditable .333 in 132 games for Burleigh Grimes.

But that was the last shot in the barrel for Heinie. He slipped badly the next season and was released. DIXIE'S CASE DIFFERED And don't go bringing our Mr. Dixie Walker into.this discussion because our guy doesn't rightfully belong there. Walker was not an established star in the American League.

In his early years, he had an unfortunate proclivity for gathering broken bones here and there. As a result, he was shipped from the Yankees to the White Sox to the Tigers. The Tigers asked waivers on him and the Dodgers, in 1939, were able to buy Dixie for $15,000. That turned out to be the grandest deal Larry MacPhall ever made. When Dixie arrived In Flatbush he was just beginning to come into his own as a ball player and comparative freedom from Injuries and a developing confidence made him a hummer.

The corner fervently hopes that Greenberg's success more nearly parallels Walker's than that of some of the others. Pittsburgh baseball could stand a shot in the arm and Hank could do the entire National League a lot of good because he's a grand guy and a colorful performer. But there Is no use blinking your eyes to the fact that Greenberg's age and his diminishing speed, which never was great, present formidable barriers to the unqualified success of the Pirate venture. The Kentucky outfit Is another tough nut for the Redmen to crack hut. tf thv nlnv th camp tvno of but if they play the same type of heforeiKesslpr' clc0 shanks and PaUy in His with Kessler in priest last night again at the Irish Pat Scftnion at the Broadwayi Arena This Is Pat's first fight this season at Max Joss' Pagoda of Punch on Halsey but it won't be his last if he wins.

He faces Cyril Gallie, the young English lightweight who hails from Cardiff, Wales. In the eight-round feature. Gallie being as English as fish and chips and Scanlon as Irish as the blarney stone, it Isn't difficult to see where the fur will fly this evening. Scanlon figures to be the favorite, but Gallie has impressed in victories over Bobby Williams, Raul Zenit and Artie DiPeltro since arriving on these shores five months ago. Pat rollK, TJ.ihv Brandino.

go Ebbets Field last season was one of Jhe season's highlights The eight-round semi-final pits Tommy Monty of South Brooklyn against Leo Labrun of the Bronx. Monty licked Benny May at the Garden last Friday in an Impressive display of walloping. A special six brings together Sammy Chernoff and Joe Bamby. Three fours round out the card. In them Johnny Smith tests Abe Hopes, Charley Zack meets Al Hirsch and Joe Jordan goes to bat against Ted Wilson, With the Garden eclipsed by glamorous Sonja Henie, small clubs steal the ring limelight for the next few weeks and they are taking ad vantage of their heyday.

Pat Scanlan ball they showed City College. Man-, winning mark of 1:15.2 last year, hattan and Temple, the DeGray Iand within shouting distance of the Tribe should have no trouble send-Met's 1:11.7 mark set by Jim Herbert ing Coach Ed Dibble's cagers back 0n the banked, six-lap Bronx Coli-to their Kentucky home to stay. wum track, were amaaing, Eastment has had a phenomenal run at the been coming up through the organl-Grove where lie defeated Billy nation very fast from his start on 11 I rt a tamA irruia Try anr Vner TI another club of more than average vullUv, sized cagers. It was against Ernest Vandeweghe and his Colgnte five that Frank Mangiapane twice stole the ball in the closing 20 seconds last season to score and hand the Violets a victory by a lone double. Vandeweghe, from Oceanside, foat no cnt a had rut ine-nn' Referee Mark Conn stopped the In the six" rounder.

Joe Aponte Torres, a Puerto Rican, 128, whipped Lorenzo Safora, 128 of Mexico. Jerry Heminger, 165, of Toronto, McQueen of Harlem via at nnic in hurt frtiir Softballert Score The 92d St. Y. M. H.

A. aoftball team defeated the Seagate A. C. 40, for their 107th straight victory. COLLEGE CAGE RESULTS SS 7)1 Knturhv 43 Furknfll Si Purdu Mlchican SUtr Grorcla Trrh 47 N.

Y. State Maritime S7 Iowa 4G ft7 Virlinia Statu Collrce Hnward 4 Murry Ttachtra Kalrrn Ky. 4 Marshall Concord 47 A2 Jamr MilliRln Carbondal? TrbM. 47 47 Ofttmburf Coll. F.

M. 4(1 64 l.ora St. JfliFph' 41 l.otn.iina Sta( Loyola (South) 7S John Marihall Bfrrfn I C. fi'i Carroll Lake Forrat 53 Macomb Teacher Jick.on.11le UII 1 Collne SI SI Pllthonh Ohio Slate 41 Cornell Dartmouth 3S HI Iowa Slate Nebraska 44 S5 Arkansas' L'nlyersity of Meiico'S7 Sfl Goniaia Pacific Lutheran 87 A3 Lastcrn Washington J. V.

C.ontaia 1, V. 2 "pflf 'rom Uie retormra soutnpaw beiore, Walker, Larry Fontana, Johnny Ryan and others. He is Tami Mauriello's stablemate. Lomax is a Binghamton middleweight making his New York debut. Salary Too High, Nais Spurned Hank Orlando, Jan.

21 (U.R) Hank firepnherff's ifin 000 sftlnrv. which Reason wshing Senators' waivpd on the ma1or Virue home run king, owner Clark Griffith said today. Griffith said that was too much money to pay a 36-year-old player despite Greenberg's 44 home runs; and 127 runs batted In. The Senator leader added that he thought that! i L. who as a 17-year-old freshman Morcom, the New Hampshire lad, was named the outstanding player i seems to have shed his war years in the East-West struggle in the without the least harm to his broad Garaen last March, is again the 'jumping, high Jumping or vaulting, visitors top potntmaker and will; The one GI and ex-captains draw Sid Tanenbaum or little For- come lnto this category-track fans man as his guard.

Either should1 were particularly interested in, John take very good care of the 6-foot-3 wmrirnff rtiHn hn. Saturday night the Ridgewoodlmav lm tn thu Vandeweghe. They should cut hjs one showing. in trie Colgate ace down to about five- iCnlnmhns Council meet. riirnnvflcr.rf manager and Berge is a first baseman.

The other candidates for the portfolio on the Dodgers are the 1946 regulars at the bag, Ed Stevens and Howie Schulta, Oack Douglas and a versatile character by the name of Jack Paepke. Stevens and Schultz havent the .300 power it traditional that a big league first baseman should have, yet they were good enough between em for the Dodgers to lose the pennant only after a bitter fight that brought about a playoff with the Cardinals. Neither could keep pace with Stan Muslal. However, Schulta was substituted for Stevens against the lefties. Douglas is a left-hand hitter who batted .307 for St.

Paul last year and the American Association Is Just one step below the National League. Sailor Jack was a Dodger briefly a couple of years ago, but was handicapped by a bad leg. He's Max Carey Miami, Florida, East Coast League team, where he was a ball of fire. Paepke is the rookie Rickey has a hunch he can convert Into a first baseman. He was a Jack-of-all-trades at Fort Worth during the last campaign.

He pitched, did a trick in the outfield and appeared briefly at first base when Ruchser was out of the lineup. But Paepke didn't play enough to get a true line on, where he belones. With either Robinson or Ruchser nn fi.cr th n.i i pw RS Yt 2tr rt s.j uiiuu, LiLvtiuuijj uiav the Parade Grounds' graduate is dis- charged from the army In time. The way the first base situation sizes up at present is that Ruchser will have to dislodge Stevens and Schultz but Robinson might edge In ahead of all three with Douglas a 1" totigy after the English shut out the Yanks yesterday, 5 to 0. FIGHT RESULTS bostov iu i-Tommr wen, .134 rhwr.

h. oppi Jackie Hams. providence. m.anfiuiiia, ampneo. IMa.t UIOa, 1JB.

new BRrrAW Rom. us. V- CHICAOOcHir U.ter. 204 Cleve- WcKliey 19 wiron. KT.W NEW HAVEN, CONN Julie Koaon.

1J5 vauia. 137. Mexico City lot mass -sand saddier 132. New York cur. knocked oui George Brown, 13s, Philadelphia noi.

ST LOUIS MO Jim Hltcn e. 177 St. liramt o.h I 1 D1 I. ini. i Montreal Johnnv Oreeo.

us'i. Mon- lireni. Freddie Archer. 147 Newark. J.

101. NOW WITH FLOCK Grove recalls Joe Governale. always a local favorite, with Johnny Lomax in the main setto. The Jamaica Arena tomorrow night bills Tony LaBua and Danny Randl. a rival lightweight.

The Forum Thursday evening comes up with Lou Cas-slano and George Estrada. Governale is the Bensonhurst slugger who Blackbirds, who have one of their foot-6. Scouts Spotted Him While Playing for Falcons in Kiwanis was "outrighted" to Daytona Beach, then a farm in the Florida State loop. But Lennon was determined to Blackbirds Fly High As Bee Battles Germs was Tny imosi. ouier American flanf.

horse. League clubs allowed Greenberg to go from Detroit to the Pittsburgh U- Pirates of the National League. evert nOCKey Series Griffith said he saw nothing! Nattingham, England, Jan. 21 (U.fi) wrong with the waiver rule which between the English made the deal possible. jamateur hockey team an dthe tour- The rule is all right as it United States squad was squared and we don't object to it a bit," he ay at three victories each and one Coach Clair Bee of the Long Is ilUlU fOirts- IV i-M (lO IlllilO IJUIUl The Bucknell College basketball', e.o., -hoisons azo when the Yanks snirited OslDiK lUlltlli, lK1- UJ s-tllvT rllH-ll discover why he was so slow getting -T tne new Yoric btate th Brooklyn Pharmacy Collegelthey meet Canisius at Buffalo's; Pitcher Hank Borowy out of the away from the plate on hits and 'rLh my "if1, 'gymnasium last night when the; Memorial Hall.

The Griffins, al-jAmerican League and sold him to away from the bags on attempted in. rt fas Birds trounced Lawrence Tech, 80 i though never victorious over the: the Chicago Cubs for $100.000. steals. He visited specialists Koromnaz of the But there was no hitch, few! Lone Islanders, have always causedjUnder the rule, a player may be of- knew that "The oCach" was the Brooklynites plenty of trouble I fered and then withdrawn if the i nm'wiir Hnn't nr tn on th' advised him that an inactive gland in Lnp HLomacn waji lmnainntr nis ni. lam nursmir a at his up-state tarm a up nursing 1 in ineir last, lussie 11 was outpointed PranHi.

conn, cold. The L. I. U. team functioned; Rosenblatt, former Brooklyn College'iyf to go to the claiming club.

13a. Haverhiti. Mass. am. as well as it ever did.

eager, who handed the Blackbirds The Yankees said they didn't claim' Newark, v. -Jimmr Mandeii. m. Assistant coach Sam J. Picarietlo their edge when he threw three 0.

knew in charge. "Pic" had throng the iron ring In thel woman let, tnem nave mm. PILADfXPHiA Bob Montgomery. 13S, in uitrir isal Liissie it wh Dm freedom of motion. They prescribed 10 "a'ttne enQ 01 lne nau-needles and pills and Bob took the' cure.

jHOW GARDEN CAGERS Lo and behold, last year the LINE UP TONIGHT tn rriy n-nplrnl TIN Ttn art lu P.A.L. ACE Lennon Made Good On Class Daytona Beach Farm Club By PAUL GOl'LD (Twelfth of a series on the Dodger farm clubs and their stars.) The Kiwanis League and the O. Y. O. are not alone among the sandlot teams that first inspired Brooklyn youngsters to shoot for the Dodgers.

The Police Athletic League, that sprightly youngster among boro circuits, is also responsible for the rise to prominence of a member of the Flock chain. He's Bob Lennon, an 18-year-old outfielder who shares the distinction of having been signed at the same age and about the same time with Tom Brown. Like Tom, Bob was a member of the Kiwanis League, but he first began to play ball at 15 with the Athletics Jrs. in the P. A.

L. That was back in '44 and the team gained prominence by winning the city title. Bob did some fearsome slugging, pounding away at .512 and listing 11 homers among his get. Tne next season he moved up to the Falcons In the Kiwanis loop, a team destined to place second in its race. Here he slashed at .380 and caught the attention of the Dodgers' farm scouts.

It didn't require much palaver before Bob was Inked to a Thorn a-trille contract. He arrived at the Class crab In the North Carolina said. He objected bitterly two sea I Mills Flattens Foe In Strnnrt CtnnTn nnd 7 I.n IIIPI FvoHHwJ London. Jan. 21 (UP) -Fieddie i aiuix.

iikiii, iicavvwL-iKni cnampion heavvweieht rhamninn 01 ule urmsn t-mpire, KiiocKea out Willy Quentemeyer in the second round of their scheduled ten-round tii 1 L. non-title bout last night. Mills had nn H.nnnnH mWht iH. vantage, weighing 180': asainst 1 i i -5- ill arifcl Who l.lthortn To rrnv. Tech at Trov last week and there much the L.

I. U. players' didn't know about the Visitors. th. Tsh Mcrer, I to Bee's basketball troubles and I "T.f I Is points each.

Buckne 1 eninved V. T. Forman Mol.autlllln 2 Dair II Vandrwrfha .11 Sullivan 10 Palatini K. F. C.

LO. R.O. DrRtinia Krhayra Tanrnbaum Lumpo III nm r.iTi ani rvm "'r. ncbbefi! nurnrni ainran 121 I. NEW YORK I'.

REStRVF.S Maher IS). I Dolhnn IAl Kollv ITI. nrArim iftl n-nanti ni, Ltcaat 114). connnr (Mi. '111.

Roll. i20, Bean tasurc i 122, wll I'Jrtt officials Mativ Beiorich and jerm Bannican. SECONB GAME No. W. Kenl'rkr Position St.

Jnhn'a .10 Sneare I Frasrrlla flA Rav R. P. Rurktrv MrKlnner C. BorkoH 11 Gibson LO. Portor 21 Embrr R.

G. MrGuire WEST. KENTtTKY RFSF Mftl, ParslM 121 Davenport 1411. Oldham 1421. Bohannnn hart (All.

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Prrsmaa (HI, OWham IISI, Dalton I1. Plantamora 'ii. an i I "i Hi lin i47i! ClOSing minUieS OI Diay. iniSlimei no Rosenblatt but there Is u- AM 'I' wi be an Eddie Gard. That's the re nw who sunnnsecl to nut, an r- 1.

The lineups: Lone Island U. Lawrence Tech r. 1 7 Hankiru 2 12 Bruck 0 Campoell 3 7 Hoimea 2 2 Devoli 1 3 Oterman 3 21 Khovry ft 2 Tabert ft 0 Car icMo 0 ft' Anpebalt 5 Hi Baetitn 0 0 0 a 0 4 8 Horn rlS? 1 3 0 0 2 10 2 2 Lenmaa iaeo verdescni 1 a i 31 IS SO Toll 21 11 67 Reterw Qunley and Bedin. 4 1 Kail 09mA Rlcrht mm imp sLaru numu llrtu iltLiCi. trouble hooking the ball through the net from the pivot, finally wind ina.nn ttith 1 mrker.t When ine-uo Jackie Goldsmith started to hit me I game was over as far as Lawrences 'chances of winning were concerned.

Both had great shot averages, HoIu I itvh oniy ineuea oags dui, getting away from the plate more quickly helped him bat .263, the result of 129 hits in 128 games. He hit four homers, 18 triples and 17 doubles. A power hitter, he bats lefty and pulls his blows to left. The Dodeers annraised him and found him moot aaHsfar-tn-v Branch fticKey jr. is reported 10 nave agreea with Daytona manager Johnny Sosh that for his years.

Bob was one of the best-looking prospects they had. His idol among the Dodgers is Gene Hermanski, whom he resembles tn build and in appearance. If Gene were a movie star, Bob would make a swell stand-in for him. Daytona Is not In the farm chain this year and Bob has been ticketed OT Johnstown Of the Middle Atlantic The lat for Quentemeyer. ter is a Dutchman.

scoring 9 doubles in 22 shots uoiasmitn conneciing live ior Li t.rifw. The other hit Bob Lennon State League late in the season and played sporadically In the final 12 games. Tne transition was great and Bob found the opposing pitchers far a meager .204 average. The department in which he appeared to need the most Improvement, how- the Sam averae whlle the Ka'( Lab-j Lawrence Tech lads couldn't believeiOi BaietM SPORTS TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1947 their eyes. It was the most uncanny 1 shooting the visitors have seen all! season.

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