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tino KLVfJ EAGLE Franz Fordham Cruet Hope Agamsr msco Rookie Leads East in Passing, Total Offense By BEX GOULD Greatest of all pianist-composers, as any music lover will Congress Frowns On TV Blackouts For Minor Loops 'tell you. was a gent named Franz Lizst. And up at Rose Hill, where Fordham football fans are start ing to rave about another "key" LOU NJSS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1951 19 Washington, Oct. 17 (U.R) Congress today cold-shouldered a proposal that it approve television "blackouts" of major league ball games in minor league territory. The proposal was made by Leslie M.

O'Connor, Pacific Coast League counsel, who told a House monopoly subcommittee vpet orrl av fViat tplpvicinn tlirpat- i a Vil Jl VVr-g ens to destroy minor league baseball. O'Connor recommended legislation to allow baseball to control radio and television ''to the extent necessary to permit man namea rranz. mey im you that sophomore Roger Franz may become the greatest of all Ram touchdown-producers. This six-foot, two-inch soph from Norwood, Ohio, has become one of the reason's sensational rookies. The stalwart 190-pounder who mans the rudder in the Ram attack today leads the East in passing and in total offense.

Having completed 40 passes in 78 attempts for a 51.3 mark (385 yards), Franz is the sine qua non of the Fordham fense. Not only has he replaced Dick Doheny but he has also outshone his predecessor. Franz' superb passing talents will undergo a stern test Saturday at Randalls Island when the Rams meet high-powered San Francisco in one of the East' i standout games. For the Dons, unbeaten in four games, have been quite stingy in doling out iTDs. They've permitted only O'Doul May Return To Coach Dodgers minor league baseball to survive." He admitted that the chances of getting such legislation were "dubious," and the House baseball investigators agreed with that.

The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Kmanuel Celler, N.Y.) has no plans for even considering the matter. It has purposely steered clear of this question during hearings to decide whether baseball should be exempted from anti-trust laws. Phil Wrigley, president of the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Angels, was the lead- off witness today. Also schedu two runners to cross their last white line while rolling up 135 points.

Weak On Defense Fordham, on the other hand, WINNING COMBINATION Cornell's football team has a winning combination in Rocco Calva (leftl, who throws game-winning passes to teammate Dick Cliggott (right), who catches 'em. Both grid stacs will be on hand for this Saturday's Cornell-Yale game in New Haven. led to testify were Bonneau Peters, owner of the Shreve- ART CROSS, one of many stars who will race in National AAA midget -auto championship Friday night at Freeport Stadium. Most of country's leading drivers will vie in 100-lap event. ort (La.) Shippers of the Texas League and Roger P.i Doulens, a Washington base-i ball fan.

Loes May Bolster wrigiey was expected to De questioned about another state Price of Giants Leads Pro Loop has been more lax in the defensive department. They've had 99 markers recorded against them, 54 from Holy Cross alone. It is conceivable that Fordham, if It hurdles 'Frisco, will go the rest of the way unbeaten. Certainly Syracuse, Temple, Rutgers and N. Y.

U. don't figure to be as tough. As a matter of fact, S. F. has had Dodger Hill Staff Russell Chosen Coach of Week ment made by O'Connor that the Pacific Coast's population still is too small to support a major league but will be big enough "in another generation." Conflicting Stories O'Connor disputed a statement made by Vincent X.

DELAYED ANNOUNCEMENT Still no word out of Montague St. definite word, that is on whether Charley Dressen will be retained to manage the Dodgers in 1H52. Meanwhile, Dressen was around to say his good-byes. He and his wife left for California this morning. He'll be back, all right.

The reasons why no official announcement has been made seem somewhat obscure. Evidently, Walter O'Malley, commander-in-chief of Dodger brass, feels it wiser to let the tumult and the shouting over the disaster that overtook the Brooklyn team in the late, lamented stages of the pennant race die. down. This is considered good from a' public relations point of view. Personally, if I were in Mr.

O'Malley's shoes, I think I should prefer to absorb the brickbats all at once. However, that's his business. Meanwhile, business as usual is beginning to resume on Montague St. The fellows over there have succeeded in digging themselves out of the figurative debris of defeat, are beginning to lose that shell-shocked look. MEDITATIONS OF BAVASI "Remember the night I saw you at the Waldorf?" asked Buzzy Bavasi.

"That was the crisis for me. I'd been in a daze since Thomson hit that home run and my spirits were growing steadily worse. The only other time I can remember feeling anything like that was in Italy during the war. 'I was in a shell-hole and it was raining hard and I could do nothing except stay there. I had nothing to think about, but myself and the past.

I had been lucky. My folks always had a car for me to drive, they sent me to the best schools, I had had fun and here I was drowning in mud. This couldn't happen to me. Finally, I began to laugh. That probably saved me from blowing my top.

"This couldn't happen to me or rather, to us either. But it did." Bavasi is the Dodger veep in charge of restoring the tissues of the Dodgers for "next year," those perennial magic words in the lexicon of Brooklyn baseball fans. So far, nothing of importance has transpired. But Buzzy has been busy, trying this idea on for size, discarding that one, studying the intensive reports of Allen Roth in the hope that a great light will dawn, weighing the advice of this man or that one. "What would you think of Frank Frisch a coach?" he asked suddenly.

"He'd add some life," was the answer. "Are you going after him?" HAROLD (YBl'RR In Yardage Dept.1: The first news on the 1Po2 Dodger pitching staff is thatitrouble booking Conference Hilly Loes is to receive his di-charge from the Armv and w'U teams on the West Coast for a Philadelphia. Oct. 17 (U.R) resume his big league career at the Brooklyn training camp in' number of years because its On Irish Upset Flaherty, sports columnist of the Los Angeles Examiner. thatiEddie Price, the New York I the Spring at Yero Beach.

Not that the Bryant hero luoiiia snown ll-el1 100 "ol 10 ninuie. The Dons, who arrive in Wrigley was willing to sell his Giants sophomore sensation in the manager's plans for next year. Los Angeles franchise in their rr i Hut Iip Hp Inn in t.n the the National Special preparations? He from Tulane, led town tomorrow, return to the.e parts with virtually the same squad which dropped at 2114 doesn't believe in them. The usual routine was good enough. Football League in ground gain-Jer Flatbush set and anybody POLO GROUNDS NOT ing today but Vern Lilly white, who shows up with a toeplate pQR SALE-STONEHAM verdict to the Rams a year ago.

event that somebody wants to move a major league team to that city. O'Connor said Wrigley had told him he would sell the Chicago Cubs before selling Los Angeles. Only one member of that team ot han rrancisco was oniy tive on nis snoe isn i going to oe is missing. yards behind. Price, playing his second season in the league, gained San Francisco boasts one of the best fullbacks in the coun treated lightly.

You never know from whence; manna will fall. It was said! Hard work? He doesn't believe in that either. Football ought to be fun for the boys. Fiery pep talks? They'd be a waste of time coming from a grandfather with a soft Texas Flaherty also said, in a letter try in Ollie Matson, and one of that owner Bill Yeeck of in 50 attempts for an St. Louis Browns would move! average of 1.8 yards per try.

his team to Los Angeles im- Lillywhite had a better per-try vt" i (mediately, if he could. average, 7.8 yards, gaining 23 1 that the Dodger farms were barren of hurling prospects. Then a grinning kid, with a chip on his shoulder, a newly-found sldcarm curve and a vet-ei an's control was brought in 'from St. Paul. Everv Flatbush fan knows Bob tricks of his trade, he directed! addition to opposing the yards In 30 attempts.

elevation of the Pacific Coast IHoernschmeyer of Detroit was his team to a smashing defeat the best lines, led by Burl 1 oler and Gino Marchetti, anywhere. Matson, the 203 pound, 6-2 gro flash, is second in the nation in rushing with liS4 yards in 96 tries for a 7.1 average. After football, he intends to try out for Uncle Sam's 1952 Olympic team. The Dons will undoubtedly concentrate on rushing Franz. Notre Dame on Saturday.

"laJ'or as third with 1JW yards, followed of called iui ity pieviuus uv oiif i iii.ui nuwdiu, i in tv He the United Press Coach of Horace Ktoneham, president of the New York Giants, denied laM night that negotiations for the sale of the Polo Grounds were under way. Such reports were published last night. "We have a term lease on the site of the Polo Grounds," Slonrhain said. "The Coo. gans own Ihe properly.

Ve own the plant. We have signed a lease and, I'm sure, as president of the National Exhibition Company, that the Coogans would let me know whether or not any negotiations were under way for the sale of the property. I'p to now we have heard nothing." Edgar Feeley, attorney for the Giants, said that the story was a lot of "wild talk." O'Connor also opposed! Giants. HU yards, anrl Collie nesses, of the week. Rusty Russell Clem Labine did pitching the Dodgers into the play breaking up the P.

C. L. to in- Totli, of the Yanks. yards. Southern Methodist.

''We didn't feel we had the elude two or three of its teams Norm Van Brocklin of the offs with his four straight power to run over 'em like we in the majors. The attorney said, 'if we are just content to i.os nngeies nams. hs am oul tnP champion last year, was out toGi.llUs Bn)okvn hl your did Missouri, so naturally we wait a few years, we will have.retain his i-iouu, ltMunig ui--fnv, n-hnrmh stressed pasting. But there jnot only because he poses the i greatest threat, but also iFordham's major weakness lips in a comparatively Inexperienced line that may split under I a charging wall such as S. F.

preparations, he says. Our league with 11 0 yards per at- the series, tempt His tj, pass attempts, Loes was no bal of flre gained ,3, yards and eight he was olt of hish touchdowns. Urlmnl fnr 9 Hon hmins. Hut scout reports were excellent but they did not show any glaring weakness in the Notre Dame a territory out there which will unquestionably support major league ball." O'Connor's TV proposal came on the heels of a recent deci-1 sion by the major leagues to abandon their plan to black-out major league television where necessary to stop out-of-town Cleveland's brilliant a vnw thp JUst Graham was second in the pass defense." hoy has grown older. He's the boasts.

Inasmuch as Saturday's game njarks the Rams' seasonal debut at Randalls Island, a crowd of some 15.000 is expected. Ford-ham's only other metropolitan Decide to Pass phlegmatic type, with not too much imagination that's often has been Carl Erskine, the gen-fatal to a rookie. Itleman from Indiana. Erskine S. M.

U. did pass. Fred Ben- Tn racked up 16 wins and if the; aDoearance falls on ing field, throwing G. passes for 57U yards, two touchdowns and a nine-yard average. Frank Tripucka of, the Chicago Cardinals was third, Bob Water-field of Los Angeles was fourth and Tobin Rote of Green Bay, fifth.

Best Receiver Into nf thp trnditional X. Y. U. He picked up experience had. lasted a i tv, longer would have been ners threw 44 passes and com-jtelecasts from interfering with pleted 22 for 320 yards and four home game attendance.

In view touchdowns in the 27-20 the Justice Department's timph. But Russell wasn't sure'anti trust suit against the Na-he'd use that aerial Football Lea'gue for ar-until the first plav of the game, ranging TV "blackouts," the 8un" Li-ch Aftpr four names on 'he ll 1 I i i. ui Ul. 1 haps he still hasn't got enoughjnl" fi Jroad-ranging from 200 to 1.100 Loes has vet to notch his first. miles from home, the Rams look make it, but his last year, W'th the Dodgers he was used 'If we hadn run the leagues decided to let indi- National League verdict and Labine won five and lost one.

i fin to a subway jaunt to their home precincts. This year ine leagues top receiver was. in oniv inning: back to our 30 from the goal, jvidi'al clubs handle TV arrange- RC'lSOll 1)0- luuiu uccouie a mur iui- mrscii of Los Angeles, ht. must )e kept a our plans probably would have ments without league arrange- been different from the start." iments. he explains.

"If we'd been on Mlnors in Danger our goal line, we would have! "i don't think minor loamiPs cause he goes on the National Defense I Kt providing he has the stuff. He Hillv has become of voUK ot a great chance to get in on afiei. He has been in lncle Sam's the rebuilding of the mound de-exacting school where boys be- PJment. Dr. Brown Signs Wedding Contract wno caugni aerials ior 3hh yards.

His teammates. Tom Fears, last ypar's record-holder, and Fran Polsfoot of the Cards, were second, snaring 16 passes each. Fears gained 2S1 yards and Polsfoot 190. put runners in there instead survive if their areas are Benners. However, as it worked Iblanketed with the telpvisinsr of ccme men.

OCCMlt.c out, we were in a position tolrrunor leaeue trames." O'Connor The Dodger cry is for pitcii-riwni rcjuli Dallas. Texas, Oct. 17 (U.R) pass from the start." jsai(j. Bob Mann of Green Bav and let this grandpappv from OOP snhrnmmiftPP ennrrp -1 ers. 11 tney uou i dcqiiiic it Albm rsn.

Bobbv lirown, eV Ofk tustn scoieo points eacii by or purchase Yankees third baseman, and Texas Is a hard-headed realist1 nrivntplv that the minnf loncrtiocl. "I'm just kicking an idea around," said Bavasi. "How about Lefty O'Doul?" A GOOD TEACHER O'Doul, the old Dodger who is now in Japan or headed there, is out of a baseball job after a dozen successful years as manager of the San Francisco Seals. "My thought on O'Doul," continued Buzzy, "is that he originally was a pitcher, Then he became a great hitter. He also has the reputation of being an excellent teacher.

Perhaps he could really help some of our young pitchers who have disappointed. Perhaps he could have helped fellows like Snider and Hodges, who slumped so badly during the stretch run." "If you sign either Frisch or O'Doul," was the observation, "people would say you're grooming someone to move into Dressen's spot at a moment's notice." "That can't be helped," said Bavasi. "But that's not the idea, if either one can help us, we want them." TRADING IS DIFFICULT Bavasi denied any inten-, tion of ripping the present team of Dodgers apart from stem to stern. Better ball players than we have except for the pitching staff just aren't available," he pointed out. "On the market, we couldn't possibly land anything better than Hodges, Robinson, Cox, Reese, Furillo, Snider, Pafko and Cam-panella.

"Sure, there is Stan Musial but any deal for him would be completely impractical. You've written that we need another left-handed hitter in our daily lineup, but, except ior Musial, what other left-handed hitter in the league i could win a regular job from the players we have? It looks as if whatever left-handed power we might add would have to be in the form of bench strength." PITCHING HELP Pitching, now that's different. "Perhaps we can make a deal for a pitcher," said Bavasi. "A good steady workman who can win 15 or 17 would make all the difference in the world. The fact of the matter is that we thought we made such a deal last June.

But Johnny Schmitz didn't help us a bit. "It's funny, but you look back and see obvious things that were overlooked at the time. For instance, there's no doubt in my mind now that our club was over its head when it was 13Vi games out in front. "Still, that's no excuse. Once that far in front, we should have won.

With 20 games to play, we'd have won the pennant by winning ten. We won nine, lost 11. With ten games to play, we could have clinched the flag by winning five. We won four, lost six. It's a sad story." true to the tradition Of the! would rln wpII not tn depend of Dallas WHITE PLAINS Mrf.ne.

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i. en. w7ere married in a quiet church Luiimi, the Winter they must look to their plantations for the raw-material. Perhaps Loes will turn out to be another Labine. west, its points, not passes, that win games, he points out.

i8 iu. iina year's leader, was third with fitviVARK- r.wr lmn. wnaL.M.v hero last flit. cutiKiii.trtl Humberio Slrra. 137 li.

npsiCM np.v....- to hv of The star infielder and his Tarr.p, Fla "A 30-yard pass from your op Pittsburgh with 26 and Ken'p orhnns IP WI li st Wear OUU i A 1 1 dfculonM Bin Mien, rreu.o oi HIP unci Carpenter Cleveland with 21 the seat of his pants in the bull-uo; lin Californla before he starts Horace Gillom of Cleveland FS, wK. fina, slx months of his ieu i lie punters wun an average The best or Dressen ponyiwi'fM at Southern ly is bent on "freedom" of the airways, and pointed to the Congressional outcry that arose when TV fans were blacked out of a recent telecast of a championship boxing match. O'Connor testified that organized baseball does not want "blanket exemption" from antitrust laws. ponents 30-yard line looks great. But a 30-yard pass from his is not so good.

You're still five yards short of his goal like our Ohio State game which we lost when we completed a greater percentage of passes and gained more yardage than we did against Notre Dame." Hospital, San Fran- Pacific of 47.3 yards. Buddy Young of pitchers over a period of year the New York Yanks wa-i Brooklyn Fans Flock leading punt receiver with an average of 3H.7 yards: Geri topped the kickoff returners with a ot.O average and Ray Ramsey of the Cards was the top pass interceptor, grabbing five for no yards. CISCO. Brown said he is subject to Army call after completion of his medical training, but hopes to play a few more seasons with the Yanks before beginning his practice of medicine. The bride, a tall brunette, TIME OUT! To Cooperstown Hall By Jeff Keate it off if he so deVaduated from Sophie New- Cooperstown's National Base- bave wrung Cockell Retains European Crown rn IE All li ATHLETIC Umy UVl como l.ouegp.

last June. Brown met her while he was a student at Tulane. Brown's brother, Billy, was his best. man. Their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Brown of ball Hall of Fame holds an ap- Once a heckling fan, in ake- peal for Brooklyn fans un.siir- um tQ0 fyr and passed by others. According to.i:lin(.ho( lljm sfuisties compiled by F.rnest! But Martin's sensitive, too.

Lanigan hi.storian, more people' One night he sent a base run- I mil London, Oct. 17 (U.R)-The way was cleared today for re Francisco, also attended from this l.oro visited tne pav; wpnt awrv aml San through thp tagged (lUt ceremony. newal of negotiations for a time's shrine this year February title match between Aucust than from any other customers booed. And Martin world light-heavyweight cham-j locale in the nation. faced, walked off the field, fc.YEAR-OLD RIDER piun jury Aiaxim or leveiano; a total ot cut no returneu tne ncxi nigiu AT HUNTS MEETING Raj AVoolfe ihr I fi and British champion Don.v,;i(le the trip up.state.

Runner received an ovation. Corked. York Citv with Penn undders Ready for Lions Philadelphia, Oct. 17 (U.R) record to Franklin Field, while Coach George Munger, in nas dropped two llip nmiip of: yeaiMild uteeplrchasr rider. OCKP strengthened his while racu.se was third After 22 -easons as a challenger by successfully Augie Galan will not be seen with 1,330.

defending his and Euro- of in a box core next campaign. I'epper Martin, one of the The former Dodger outfielder, game's most colorful players 'a; 39, has quit. pean light-heavy titles last night by means of a seven- will he on hand for the United Hunt two-day meeting today and tomorrow. Making hi debut this past Hummer at Saratoga, the youngster wan not long In entering the winner's circle to stamp himself a real comer. HI saddle activities are not The Quakers lost their opener to California 350, bounced back to swamp Dartmouth, 39 to 14, and were edged out by Princeton 137.

round knockout victory overiv.ith thp St. Louis Gashouse Augie broke in with the Cubs Albert Finch at Harringay Gang, will manage Miami nextlhi 1:1:12 after performing at San Arena. Iyer for the fourth straight sea-! Francisco. He is eager to stay Cockell floored Finch for alson. This is another way of in the game as a coach or man-nine-count in the fourth round, saving that the Dodgers' Class A.

a plaver. It performed year at the helm of the University of Pennsylvania's football team, said his Quakers are "going all out to bounce back" against unbeaten Columbia here Saturday. Although Lou Little has never been able to beat a Mun-ger-coached squad in 22 years as Columbia coach, experts including Munger himself predict that on the record, this could be the year. and three times in the sixth fori A farm club figures to hit them every post but pitcher and interfering with his school or another, cab work, however. urrently in or another, cab counts of eight, nine and nine.

'headlines one way "Columbia stands the besti chance ever this Saturday," Munger said. "And I think we'll' have a busy day against Little's veterans. I'll need all I ever learned from him in my early coaching days to stop his team I this week." I advance of his clas In the Camden, S. high school, Ihe son of trainer Ray Woolfe has been excused from his lessons for a few days. In the seventh round, a joltingj Martin has a peculiar knack A bachelor, Galan Is finan-j right to the body dropped for getting into the news.

InVially independent. He is part; Finch for the full Vomit. he grabbed an umpire by'owner of several profitable kell weighed 171'i anil Finch the during a meat markets in California. 172, Pepper, a powerful gent, rouldl B. G.

"It'i 4:13, Sir; time for you to squirm about a Columbia brings spotless.