PAGE SIX
Sports Parade
" « By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
pEW YORK (IP) Winding up spring training a bit
nearly, Fearless Fraley can tell you today that it figures to
be the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees in
the World Series again next fall.
JVith this kiss of death, you should be let in on a lit-
I haven’t seen a baseball player in action since Billy
Martin broke up the Worm Series last fall. My spring
trailing was done on the Bear Mountain ski slope with
orange juice hot toddies. And the first time I get in the
sun jl’ll peel quicker than a 52nd Street stripper.
;But you could live two miles from the Goose Bay Air
port, which is a close to nowhere as possible, and see this
much with your eyes closed. Barring failure to show up,
the Yanks and Dodgers are “in.”
’srhe Brooks should win in a' Gowanus gallop, prob
ably as easy as their 13-game margin of last season. On
the other hand, it’s difficult to see how the Yankees can
make it six in a row or to find anybody to stop ’em.
League By League
■ r League by league, here’s how the end stacks up from
here:
National League: 1, Brooklyn; 2, St. Louis; 3, Mil
waukee; 4, Giants; 5, Phillies; 6, Cincinnati; 7, Cubs, and
8, Pittsburgh.
American League: 1, Yankees; 2, Cleveland; 3, White
Sox; 4, Red Sox; 5, Washington; 6, Athletics; 7, Detroit,
and 8, Baltimore.
Sure, you’re tired of seeing the Yankees and Dodgers
win. So is everybody else but the Yanks and Dodgers. Yet
the balance of power has not been disturbed appreciably.
The Yanks may not make it by their BV2 game margin of
last season, still that too is quite a gap to close.
; In the National League, the Cardinals appear to have
the pitching to oust Milwaukee from second place. The
sudsy surprises of ’53 worked on all cylinders last season
and if a few things go wrong they may have to hustle to
hofd off the resurging Giants. The Giants “may” go pret
ty; good.
Anybody’s Race
From there it’s anybody’s boat race in the second di
vision with the Phils challenging for the first division. I
aid unimpressed by Cincinnati claims that it could go “all
thg-way.” The gentlemen who made that statement un
doS&tedly insinuating that they’ll appear for all 154 ball
ga)B£s. The Cubs and the Pirates are, well, the Cubs and
Pirates.
““Cleveland, Chicago and Boston all should make val
iant runs at the Yankees during the season. But once the
shakedown cruise is over they figure to trail on home in
thjt order.
■-Downstairs, Washington will be passing, punting and
prlying that it beats out the hopeful Athletics for fifth
place. Detroit has no delusions and Baltimore will discov
er dhat enthusiasm is no substitute for a well-rounded ball
eli#>.
h . It’s a sports truism that you can’t win ’em all. But
Jofc Louis, the Cleveland Browns, Native Dancer and a lot
of other champs have proved that you can make an amaz
ing number of winning passes before you blow the dice.
» ;; Until somebody stops them,.that’s the way it is with
the Yanks and Dodgers.
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ATLANTA (1?) Nashville Man
ager Hugh Polland feels that eco
nomy is a fine thing but he would
rather see his Vols splurge a little
when it comes to basehits. Nash
ville collected all of six hits In
beating Sioux City 6-2 at Mel
bourne, Fla., yesterday. That aver
ages out to a hit for each run
scored—not bad while it lasts, but
how long can it. last?
Michigan State's touring Spar
tans hoped to even their series with
Atlanltic Coast Conference teams
as they met North Carolina State
today in Raleigh in the season open
er for the Wolfpack. The Spartans
bowed to North Carolina 6-2 yes
terday and now have a record of
one win and two losses against ACC
competition. Michigan State split a
pair of games last week at Dur
ham.
ATLANTA (IP Georgia Tech
football coach Bobby Dodd was ex
pected to name a new end coach
today to replace Melvin Sam Lyle
who has accepted a position on the
Oklahoma coaching stall. Lyle, the
second Tech assistant to leave this
year—freshman coach Bo Hagan
resigned to take the backfleld post
at Southern Methodist—will Join
the Sooners next week after helping
Dodd through Tech’s first week of
spring practice. *
CHICAGO (ID Phil Cavaretta's
prospects for 1964 were described
as fellows in the official “year book”
of the Chicago Cubs: “For the first
time in 20 years the name of Phil
Cavaretta will not appear in a
Chicago Cub box score. Yet the
Cavaretta influence on Cub teams
probably will be more pronounced
than ever before as. the all-time
Chicago baseball great begins his
first season as manager of the Cube
rid of playing cares.”
DALLAS, Tex. «l Phil Cav
aretta got his walking papers as
manager of the Chicago Cub* to
day ostensibly for failure to lilt
the team out of the second divis
ion, BUt he implied Stan Hack,
his successor, wouldn't do any bet-
Cubs Are Counting
On Rookies To Win
BY SCOTT BAILLIE
(UP Sports Writer)
MESA, Aril. BPI Phil Cavar
etta’s hopes of leading the Chi
cago Cubs out of seventh place
singe on a rookie second base com
bination, the expected long-ball hit
ting of Ralph Kiner and Hank
Sauer, and an uncertain pitching
staff.
And even with the Cubs drop
ping nine of their first 10 exhib
ition games, Cavarretta saw bet
ter times ahead.
“Our defense wrecked us almost
as much last season as injuries to
Kiner and Sauer,” Cavarretta said
today. “We trailed the league in
double plays, for instance. But I
think we'll get that strength down
the middle with Ernie Banks at
shortstop and Gene Baker at sec
ond.”
Both played with the club for
a brief period in the closing days
of the 1953 season after Baker, the
first Negro to sign a Cub contract,
was called up from Los Angeles
and Banks was purchased from the
Kansas City Monarchs of the Ne
gro American League.
Baker starred as a shortstop with
the Angels for four seasons but
Cavaretta is converting him into
a second baseman.
“And the kid looks better every
day,” Phil said.
Banks, who batted .380 with the
Monarchs last year while Baker
hit .284 at L. A., is rated by Cav
aretta as having the best chance
of staying around.
MIKSIS IN BACKGROUND
Meantime. Eddie Miksis of last
year’s second base combination has
ter. Hack was promoted from the
Cubs’ Los Angeles farm club in
the Pacific Coast League to be the
major league’s first spring training
managerial switch.
NEW YORK fIT! Handlers of
Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson,, box
ing’s sensational new slugging star,
laid plans today for a drive they
hope will carry him to the heavy
weight championship by Septem
ber. That’s mighty big dreaming for
a lad who only three months ago
was fighting in preliminary bouts,
but Monday night’s spectacular six
round technical knockout of Dan
Bucceroni gave Jackson’s pilots the
right to dream Just as big as they
want. |
CHICAGO (I?) Kid Gavilan's
theme song Frtday night will be
“Don’t Fence Me In.” To put the
song over, he will do his own drum
ming with left hooks aimed at Bob
Olson, the ring’s greatest corral
artist. During the 82 rounds wel
terweight champion Gavtlan has
sparred in preparation for Friday’s
shot at Olson’s middleweight crown,
he concentrated on tactics feat
uring the left hook to prevent stalk
er Olson from penning him in cor
ners or against the ropes.
CAMDEN, S. C. «P> Australia’s
Pete Thomson, who’s travelled the
pro circuit without success for lon
ger than he cares to admit, had
his first 1954 victory today, 'morn
son collected the winner’s share of
(500 Monday when he fired a flve
under-par 61 to win the second
annual one-day Pro-Am golf tour
nament at the Camden Country
Club.
LONDON (ID ln a baffling fluc
tuation of odds. Don Cockell, Brit
ish heavyweight champion, may en
ter the ring at Earls Court Arena
tonight an 11-10 favorite to beat
Roland LeStarza of New York in
their 10-round “world’s heavyweight
title elimination” bout. Oockeil, who
has been training vigorously for
the bout, was pronounced fit and
well conditioned by his handlers
Monday as he completed prepara
tions. Meanwhile. Britons have been
taking a dim view of LaStana’s
training which has consisted most
ly of short Jobs through Hyde Park
and brief workouts in Jack Solo
mon’s gymnasium.
me Minneapolis Lakers were be
ing quoted at top-heavy odds to-'
day to win the National Basket
ball Association playoffs against
the bady-crippled Syracuse Na
tionals. me best-of-seven games
series opens Wednesday with the
Lakers enjoying the added advan
tage of playing the first two games
in Minneapolis where they are vir
tually Invincible. The next three
games are scheduled for Syracuse
with the final two, if necessary,
at Minneapolis.
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been shoved into the background at
least temporarily.
Kiner and Sauer reported in tip
top shape. Ralph is bustling around
the camp like an eager rookie and
often heads for the sliding pits
during a lull, me strained Ach
illes tendon, which slowed him up
one week after he Joined the Cubs
from Pittsburgh last year, no long
er bothers him.
Sauer would Just as soon not talk
about 1953, in which he suffered
three hand fractures and slid far
down the ladder from his most val
uable player perch of the previous
season. He feels he is all set to
bounce back.
So with two of the league’s top
home run producers in the out
field, Cavaretta said he figured on
giving rookie Bob Talbot the nod
over Frankfe Baumholtz for cen
ter.
“Talbot is fast—and just what
I’ve been locking for to spot be
tween Kiner and Sauer,” Cavaretta
said. “His hitting is a question
mark but in this case I might sac
rifice some power for added de
fense."
Talbot also was brought up from
the Angels late last year where he
batted .287 and was generally con
sidered the best center fielder in
the Pacific Coast League for three
seasons.
Comes to pitching and Cavaretta
Just sighs.
“Let’s face itr-right now it’s not.
too good,” he said. However, he is
going right back with his 1953
starters: Warren Hacker, whose 19
losses topped the league last year;
Bob Rush, Johnny Klippstein and
either Bubba Church or Paul Min
ner.
“rm counting on Turk Lown to
do the some good job he did for
us last year in relief,’’ Cavaretta
said. And he may also figure on
using Bill Moisan, bespectacled
“junk’’ pitcher from Los Angeles
who also hits a long baU. me only
southpaw in the bunch is Minner.
At third will be either Randy
Jackson or Bill Serena, both vet
erans. Bruce Edwards, who made
an early season bid for third, may
be retained as a third-string catch
er because of his pinch-hitting.
Dee Fondy has first all to }iim
self for the third straight year. .
“There’s no depth at first at all,”
Phil said. “Maybe I could handle
75 games myself if an emergency
| came up but I want to run the club
from the bench.”
Veteran Joe Garagiola and Clyde
McCullough will be back catching
with a possibility that Hal Meek—
Up |from Springfield—might stay
around also.
“So we Rave very few new faces
this year,” Cavaretta said. “Where
will be finish? I’m not saying that
we’ll make the first division, but
if we can keep out front line sound
and get the pitchers working as
well as they should, we’ll do a
lot better than seventh.” i
Sgt. Banko Is
At Fort Bragg
FORT BRAGG, N. C. Army
MlSgt. Ignatius Banko. 38, whose
wife, Laura lives in Falcon, N. C., is
now at Fort Bragg N. C., prepar
ing for Exercise Flash Bum, large
scale training maneuver scheduled
for April and May.
Banko is a section chief in the
360th Ordnance Direct Automotive
Support Company, which will re
pair and maintain vehicles used by
the 80,000 men testing the Army’s
newest weapons and tactics during
the exercise.
me sergeant, a veteran of mare
than 19 years’ Army service, was
stationed with the 832 d Ordnance
Battalion Australia before his pre
sent assignment.
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Robert E. Lee
Dies In Toccoa
Robert E. Lee, 77, of Miami, Fla.,
formerly of. Dunn, died Tuesday
morning at 2:30 o’clock in Tocoa,
Georgia. He had been in ill health
for several months.
Funeral services will bi held at
the Culbreth Memorial Pentecos
tal Holiness Church in Falcon
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Burial will be in the Falcon ceme
tery.
Mr. Lee was a native of Harnett
County, son of the late Erasmus
and Lucinda Allen Lee. He was a
member of a pioneer family of this
section.
He had retired from business,
but was still active in the Pente
costal Church. He was a familiar
figure at the annual Falcon Camp
Meeting.
He moved to Miami after his re
tirement.
Surviving are h ! s wife, Mrs. Nel
lie Eckard Lee. of Miami; six sons,
Fred and Hobart Lee, both of Mi
ami; the Rev. William B. Lee of
Atlanta, Ga.: Joe K. Lee and Allie
Lee,both of Toccoa, Ga.; John Lee
of Greenville, S. C.. and the Rev.
Donner Lee of Mt. Gave; two
daughters. Mrs. Mildred Carrcil of
Toccoa and Mrs. Carolyn . Rozier
of Dillon, S. C.; one sister, Mrs. J.
Luther Davis of Dunn, also sev
eral grandchildren.
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inches in South Dakota and an
even foot at Wayne, Neb.
While northern states shivered,
moist warm air bathed Dixie and
kept temperatures high.
New England and New York en
joyed the same kind of springlike
weather Monday—until the fast
moving storm front slammed into
those areas. Lunchtime strollers
shed their coats and lolled in New
York parks soaking up sunshine
Monday afternoon as the mercury
hit a high of 66.1. The tempera
ture started dropping overnight,
bringing warning .of today’s fore
casted rain and sleet.
Wood Arrested
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Held On Saturday
Charles H. Strother, manager of
the s Lillington Theatre, was
called to Ashley Heights, nesr
Aberdeen, on Thursday moaning by
the deatb of his father, John
Wesley Strother, 77, who died at
his home following a long illness
The Lillington man is the young
est of 12 children who survive with
their mother, the former Winnie
Lou Long. Mr, Strother, who was a
native of Montgomery County, was
a prominent fanner of the Ashley
Heigths, community where he hail
lived for over 38 years. Funeral
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the cemetery there.
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Winnie Defends
111. S. Bomb Tests
LONDON (IP) Prime * Minister
Winston Churchill told angry La
borite critics today that an over
whelming build-up of United States
hydrogen-bomb strength "provides
the greatest possible deterrent
against the outbreak of a third
world war.”
Churchill, speaking in the House
of Commons, staunchly defended
U. S. hydrogen bomb tests In the
Pacific as an “essential part” of a
defense policy without which "Eu
rope would be in mortal peril.”
WASHINGTON (IPI Official
sources hinted today that the two
H-bomb tests in the Pacific this
month established that the cata
clysmic super-weapon can be made
both simpler and cheaper than had
been supposed.
BONN, Germany (TP) West Ger
man federal President Theodor He
nss today signed thre amendments
to the Bonn constitution which
legalize rearmament.
ATU agent C. S. Coats of Smith
field and State Patrolman Joe Whit
aker in a raid on the “honkytonk”
place he operates on Dunn, Route
2, in Johnston County.
Coats said they found two and a
hajf jars of moonshine at the
honkytonk, which is located near
the home of Minson Webb.
Commissioner Jackson fouhd pro
bable cause and ordered Wood held
for the next term of Federal Court
tat Raleigh under bond of SSOO.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH JO, 10S4
Mother Who Found
Daughter Intimate
Killed By Couple
NEW YORK (IP) A* first de
gree murder indictment wqi be
sought tomorrow against a young
Marine recruit and his 18-year-old
sweetheart who lived together for
two weeks with the body of the
girl’s mother, who they had killed
for discovering them in intimacy,
it was learned today.
The girl, Theresa Oresh, appear
ed at the district attorney’s office
for questioning today, chewing gum
and appaitsntly ' unconcerned until
she spotted photographers and pull
ed a white scarf over her face.
The Marine, PH. William D.
Byers, 17, was held at the Parris
•Island, S. C., Marine base, where
he yesterday confessed that he beat
- and stabbed Mrs. Anna Oresh, 43,
to death after the mother discov
ered him in bed With her daugh-i
ter. Byers said the girl handed him
the knife to finish the job.
Bryce Holt today planned to aak
Federal Judge Johnson J. Hayes to
dismiss a motion for a new trial
for Cager Lester of Leadsvllle. Les
ter is now serving a 15-year prison
sentence for his part in the $56,-
000 robbery of a Leaksville bank in
1952. Six other men, including Les
ter’s .brother, were also convicted
and are now in the federal peni
tentiary at Atlanta.
WASHINGTON IIP) President
Eisenhower sends a special mes
sage to Congress today recom
mending a liberalized foreign trade
program that calls for a sharp cut
in tariffs. The message, nearly tthe
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