THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1954
Sports Parade
I 4 By OfiCAtt FRALEY
Uattcd Prwa Sporta Writer
NEW YORK <W’ Reaction ranged from raised eye
fjbrows to outright guffaws todays over a potent pitching
; prediction made by Fresco Thompson, Brooklyn Dodger
Vice president in charge of hits, runs and fewer errors.
* Fresco didn’t quiver an eyelash when he asserted
that Dodgers Cart Ersklne and Don Newcombe would
f “win eight or 10 more games” this season than the Phil
's Bes’ Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons. This disregards
the accepted theory that Roberts and Simmons are the
.National League’s greatest one-two punch.
•But it’s just possible that friend Fresco may have
the final chuckle.
You need go no farther back than last season for sub
stantiating figures. And supporting them are statistics
Culled during the current spring training season.
Leading Winner
’ i Last season, for instance, Roberts was the leading
winner in the league with 23 victories against 16 defeats.
Simmons had 16 wins against 13 losses. That’s a 39-29
Ootal.
Meanwhile, Erskine started to live up to expectations
with a league-leading percentage of .769 on 20 triumphs
and only six defeats. To get a 39-29 total, Newcombe
would have needed a 19-23 record and if he ever noes
to the pitching post 42 times you can bet your bottom
bob that he’ll get more than 20 wins.
Big Newk comes marching back to Dodgertown this
season after two years in service. His last time out, in
1951, he was a 20-game winner and reports are that he
looks better than ever. This is supported partially by
spring training appearances in which he has given up
wily four hits in 10 innings.
* Yet the big man of the duo could be a “new” Erskine.
This is Indiana Carl’s fourth full season in a Brook
lyn uniform but it is the first time in which he has been
•able to relax from worry and admit that he is a reg
jUlar. It has helped a great deal.
Ordinarily the collar ad kid has had to knock him
tself out every spring in an attempt to win a job. By the
■time the campaign get Under way he was worn to a nerv
ous nubbin and all season long was burdened by that in
; Itial handicap.
This year he has it “made” after that 20 - game sea
son of 1953 and a new World Series strikeout mark of 14
ip one game. It has made a big difference.
Erskine this time is bringing himself along slowly
and carefully, working patiently on his control. Without
’hearing down he has been the first pitcher to go nine
. full innings and in 19' innings of work has permitted on-
Jy three rims. His nine innings performance, a 10-2 win
yhich could have been a shutout, was over the A’s, who
;f)av been the red-hot terror of the Grapefruit League,
jgfe “I didn’t cut loose against them either,” he beamed,
I I still need plenty of work.”
I &hich means that the quiet, modest 27-year-old ex-
AM to get much better. With his “restful” start, he
U' ' JBad have a terrific year. And, if Newcombe comes
trough as he should, It well may make a faultless seer
- df Fresco.
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Caravan
BY JAKE WADE
OMAPBL HILL There was
something wholesome, down to
earth and definitely from the heart
in Dr. Foy Robeson's talk to the
University of North Carolina bas
ketball squad the other night.
Dr. Roberson is from the old
school of athletes. He was captain
of the 1906 Tar Heel football team.
For many years thereafter he was
a member of the University Athle
tic Council. Now he is a disting
uished Durham surgeon, raises cat
tle on his farm between Durham
and Chapel Hill, attends Carolina
sports events as an old grad with
the fervor of his youth.
He reminisced in his talk about
the way of life ,in his undergradu
ate days. In those times, he point
ed out, a student ol "ringer” could
skip from one school to another
for the purpose of bolstering ath
letic fortunes. There were no scho
lastic requirements except that a
fellow pass enough work to stay in
college. There were, indeed, no re
strictions. May those who pine for
the good old days never forget It.
All that has been changed now,
Dr. Foy pointed out, and for the
better. In these days of college ath
letics are strictly supervised—def
initely in the hands of the fac
ulty and college administration, ru
mors to the contrary notwithstand
ing —and, therefore, he could not
understand why campus editors and
even some members of the faculty
peerage are distraught and leaders
of crusades to liquidate what ■ to
him is something rather fine and
wonderful.
SO DO WE ALL!—At this meet
ing Foy Roberson Jr., memorial
award for “contribution to team
play and general excellence” Was
voted to Skippy Winstead, the thin
man from Roxboro, a University
senior. This is the school's high
est basketball award, donated by
Dr. and Mrs. Roberson in memory
of their son, a Carolina basketball
player lost while serving in the
armed forces during World War 11.
At the same affair the Catring
ton Smith trophy to the team's
‘most valuable” player was award
ed to Jerry Vayda, the scintillating
Tar Heel sophomore who led the
team In scoring this year.
It was a pleasant and festive
party at which Kay Kyser, the old
maestro, put In his appearance and
spoke eloquently and convincingly
to the young 1 men present. AJI
hands.voiced optimism for the fu
ture. Coaches Frank McGuire and
Buck Freeman were sure that bas
ketball at Chapel Hill 1$ on the
way up, after something that might
be called a relapse. A good time
was had by all.
The sinners would wonder only at
the reminder, through Dr. Rober
son’s remarks, that in the opinion
of the crusading Dally Tar Heel,
the campus newspaper, there is
something evil and out of line about
college sports as conducted by th>
University of North Carolina and
its colleagues in the Atlantic Coast
Conference aiid the nation —en-
veloping stern and conscientious
St. Uuis Cardinals
Out To Wia Pennant
St. Petersburg, Fla (IP)
The St. , Louis Cardinals are going
all out to win the 1954 National
League • pennant, but Manager Ed
die Stanky is afraid that he might
not have enough pitching to do it.
Otherwise, he feels his club will
"be a top contender all the way.
“Pitching will tell our story in
1954,” Stanky said. “Right now
means I'm going to have to come
up with a lot of pitching strength
and I frankly don't know whether
the talent is there.”
It may be that the Cardinals
will try to deal for a hurler before
the season opens for Stanky could
wall be loaded with good trading
material if two rookies come
through for him-Tom Alston at
first base and Alex Grammas at
short. That would mean he could
deal such player* as Solly Henan,
: who la' betag sought by several
clubs, and Steve Bilko. the heavy
hitting but poor fielding first base- I
man.
aS'i^ss.Man®
who won If Mot season, and Vic
Raachi, the gIIOOO purchase from
the aging southpaw. A1 Braile, the
itataky i* that Stu Millu,
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~ TUB MtLI RECORD, MEN, N. C.
Benefit Basketball
Game Is Scheduled
A benefit basketball game, with t
amusing half time stunts, will be if
played on Friday, March 36 at 7:30 c
p. m. in the Lining ton High School c
gymnasium. 1
All funds realized from the r
night’s entertainment will go to- t
ward the Finer Carolines Contest
fund. The Harnett County seat Is c
now engaged in a series of civic lm- r
provements which it hopes will win t
for the town a top prize in the I
Carolina Power and Light Com- i
pany’s civic Improvement contest In t
the two Carolinas. i
Co-operation and strict adherence (
to an over-all planning program i
are the keys Ltllington expects to f
give the town a good showing bi 1
the contest. This applies to finances
as well as projects. All funds, con- i
tributes or raised by public en
ter ainment, will be funnelled
through the contest steering com
mittee headed by John R. Black
mon.
The steering committee has es
timated that 11,700 cash is needed
Naitkmal Collegiate Athletic Assoc
iation.
WONDERFUL YOUTH!—Every
one was noticeably moved by Dr.
Roberson's stirring talk. We ex
perience a similar reaction day af
ter day when Dr. W. P. Jacocks,
also of the medical profession but
retired, a fine Carolina football
player of the same vintage as Dr.
Roberson, attends practice sessions
of virtually all Carolina sports
teams and shows more Interest and
enthusiasm than even the college's
cheerleaders.
Dr. Roberson spoke for the old
school, the middle age school, and,
we feel sure, even the bulk of the
undergraduates, excluding only the
crusading idealistic "intellectuals.”
He spoke for .the human and the
realistic with the wisdom of age if
not the sharpness of youth.
The editor of the DTH recently
assailed our literacy with a smart
lead editorial challenging that we
did not know the meaning of the
very commonplace word “prosaic.”
This cam* about because we used
the word somewhat loosely in ap
; pending the adjective to such as
Dr. Roberson, Dr. Jacocks and oth
ers who have been through the
college athletic min and now, as al
umni, oddly view constant beatings
i by Duke, State, etc., with distaste
I and occasionally would like to win
l auch teams.
r The editor, of course, was only
1 being* a cutie. He Is completely
■ award that we are fully acquaint-
I ed with the definition of "prosaic.”
■ If he doesn’t, then we’d like to get
! him in a scrabble game some time
t and spring “sax" on him. That
; means “a too) for trimming and
puncturing roofing slates.” We
t could give him * few others to de
■ slate his own literacy.
i He also knows that In our town
. there is no more vociferous pro
i ponent for free speech and opin
, ion, even among student editors,
; than this old gaffer. Whenever
l the offended express opposition to
1 such we go into something of a
tirade. After all. we, too. were once
is a crusading'student editor.
All in SO, the pitching picture
is apt bright, but so MR? as
owner Ous Busch keeps on pour
ing money in his ball dub there
is always the chance that they Will
strengthen that department
The ouMleM is all set with Star.
Musial in loft, Rip Reftulsta in
center and Enos Slaughter in
right. A rookie, Wally Moon, has
looked and tnif win the Vo. 1
utility spot with Peanuts Ldwrey
also in the picture. ' .'>%
Only Red sehoendienst at sac
and and' sophittore Ray Jablonsffl
at third are _Jgt in the infieV
Alston and Bilko are fighting far
the first base jab with Grammas
Hemus and Dick Schofield in the
battle for the shortstop poet. Scho
field is a bonus player who will
have to stay with the club. The
veteran Pete Castlgfione wih be
around for utility duty,.
Del Rice, one of the best de-
I fensive receivers in the business,
wiH be the No. 1 catcher, with
inside track for the No. 3- job
ahead of Sal Yvars and another
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to complete the series of beauti
fication projects the town has un
dertaken with the aid of every civic
organization. At present, 6700 is on
hand and the ball game Friday
night is expected to add substan
tially to this amount.
The sport contests set for Fri
day night are expected to yield
many a laugh rather than display
top flight athletic skill. A team of
LUlington Town Women will meet
the LUUngton high school girls
team. Majority of players will be
recruited by the Junior Woman’s
Club. Male all stars, a team spon
sored by the Rotary Club, will en
gage the Lllllngton High School
boys.
Well known Llllington business
men, C. G. Biggs, John Womble and
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SPORTS SHORTS
Jim Roberts will don feminine at
tire to Impersonate “Flappers of
The Twenties.” In other half time
entertainment Mrs. G. M. Norwood
Jr . and E.. R. Davis will dance the
Charleston, dance favorite of the
twenties.
Two, sisters. Mrs. Carl Kelly and
Mrs. M. D. Lanier wih take off
‘grandma and grandpa” and Andy
Yarborough will impersonate "Dig
ger,” the friendly undertaker of ra
dio fame.
Cheer leaders, clowns, fashion
model* and other surprises are
promised the audtenoe. loft drink*
will be told by the P. and P. W.
Club.
Meantime, resident* of the town
already are viewing with pride many
new shrubs planted on residential
properties, improvement* at the
school and teacherage ground*, new
walks at the community center and
a complete "face lifting" at the
courthouse square. J
OKICAOO Ml - Carl "Bobo" Ol
son figured today he would beet
welterweight champion Kid Gavi
land and retain bis middleweight
title April 2 (imply because “I fight
all the time." '.Oavilan,” he said,
“he's * now and then fighter. He
fight* for » while, then he back*
away and neat* far a while."
The Ryraeuae Nationals and the
Boston Celtics square off tonight in
the opening gamq* of their services
for the National Basketball Assoc
iation’s Eastern Division title, each
hoping to match the fast start made
by the Minneapolis Lakers. The
Laker*, defending league champ
ion*. opened the best-of-three aer
ies for the Western Division play
off title Wednesday night with an
Sg-7d conquest of the Rochester |
Royals at Minneapolis, as veterans
George Hikan and Jim Pollard led
the way.
The Montreal Oanadiens and De-
PAGE FIVE
I trait Red Wings are both heavily
favored to take commanding leads
In the Stanley Oup hockey semi
finals by scoring victories tonight,-
but the coaches of both squad*
Warned their men against over-con
fidence. The cup-dcfending Cana- .
diars were told by Coach Dick Irvin -
that they'll have to be “much im
proved" tonight at Montreal If they
want to dupl’cate their opening
game, 2-0 triumph over Boston’s
battling Bruins.
The Pittsburgh Hornets, 4-3 over
time victors over the Hershey Bears '
in the opening game of their best
of-five semi-final series, met the
Bears on home Ice tonight in a
- to strengthen their chances ”
for a final series berth in the Am
erican Hockey League's Calder Cup
playoffs. Willie Marshall’s goal at
17:38 of the overtime period on TUes
day night gave the Hornets a well
earned come-from-behind triumph
and a victory tonight would all but ,
eliminate the Bears, who finished ,
the regular season in second place.