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Show PROVO- "(UTAH) DAILY -HERALD;" FRIDAY APRIL'' 3, 1942 PAGE FIVE C THE Cardinals Boast Good Pitching; Speed, And Spirit of Champions (Editor's Note: -Following, Is the eleventh of a series sizing Tip the major league clubs.) By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 3 OLE) For the past three years the St. Louis Cardinals have been winning the pennant In the spring and winding up second and third in the fall. But - this : time the Cards may really , hit the jackpot jack-pot ' in October. They have the pitching, defense, speed and the old-time flaming spirit. . What can stop the Cards? Two things 1. Lack of long distance punch and 2 Lady Luck. The Cards have half a dozen potential .300 hitters topped by Slaughter, Moore, Musial, and Brown but they have no game-breaker-upper or home run hitter since Johnny Mize was passed on to the Giants. Even so, Manager Billy Southworth says the Cards will not miss Mize and that the club's superb pitcning, defense and spirit will payoff. Last season tne Cards were riddled rid-dled with injuries which possibly cost them the pennant. It may be that the Cards are naturally a fragile group of athletes or that their helMor-leather type of play always will incur an abnormal number of accidents. Even allowing allow-ing for more t'nan the average number of injuries they'll be better bet-ter off than a year ago because they now have perhaps the best second line of players in the majors. The Cardinals have an excellent excel-lent pitching staff. They have so many bright looking youngsters tnat Southworth is having difficulty diffi-culty trimming down from his present 15 to the necessary io. The bast looking spring pitcher in Florida this year was Morton Cooper, who seems beaded for a ffl.gQiti: iciniilng. vtvar n . the 19 nmnes he's worked thus far he s allowed only one run. The other two top rig'hthanders are likely to be Lon Warneke, the Arkansas Arkan-sas hamming bird, and Harry Gumbert, who is expected to do big things in the spring and fall. Southworth believes the hot weather in mid-summer is to blame for his ineffectiveness during dur-ing that period. Clubs that can't hit southpaws are going to yell murder when they face the Cards. They'll have the best southpaw corps anywhere, any-where, 4ieaded by Ernie White, Howie Pollet, Max Lanier and either Clyde Shoun or little Har-ray Har-ray Brecheen, who won 16 games at Columbus last year. Pollet, who came up late last fall to win five games and lose two seems primed to pick up right where he left off. Howie Krist, who had the fancy fan-cy record of 10 wins and no defeats, de-feats, is in line for the No. 1 relief job. Murry Dickson, who won 21 games for Columbus last year and was the strikeout king of the American association, seems likely to stick. That leaves Bill Lohrman, obtained from the Giants in the Mize deal, and three good-looking rookies unaccounted for John Beazley, Al Jurisich, and George Munger. The cards will start the season with two rookies in the lineup Stan Musial in left field and Ray Sanders at first. Musial is the youngster who batted .426 in 12 games with the Cards last September. Sep-tember. Many critics regard him as the outstanding young player to come up this season. Sander, despite a weak throwing throw-ing arm, has shown power at the plate, and will start the season In Mize's place. Johnny Hopp, who batted .313 last season play- 'OOO Do You Know That WINGS SHIRTS Are Still f Only Stocfc Up Today! Exclusive at , Taylor Bros. Co, WANTED ALL RINDS OF HIDES! Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FURS -and dead or useless animals. Pelt prices for dead and useless rbeep. Prompt Bertie UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. 1 Phone 88 miles west of Spanish Fork HERAL D ing left field and subbing for Mize, will be on the bench. 'If either Musial or Sanders falters Hopp will take over. - The rest of the Cardinal infield in-field is the same with Creepy Crespi at second, Slats Marion at short and Jimmy Brown at Third. The infield replacements at second and short and George Kurowski from Columbus the hot corner sub. Terry Moore will patrol center again and Country Slaughter will play right and hit cleanup. Estel Crabtree and Coaker Triplett, together to-gether with Hopp, will be the reserve outfielders although Erv Dusak, 4 a likely looking hitter, may stick despite the fact that his 1-A draft rating is due for call in June. The catching staff of Gus Mancuso, Walter Cooper and Ken O'Dea is one of the best." 24,400 Fans See Opening Contests In Coast League By UNITED PRESS The Pacific Coast league opened open-ed its 1942 season yesterday in fancy fashion with nearly 24,000 fans attending -despite the fear of army bans on crowds above 5,000 persons. San Francisco, Portland, Hollywood Holly-wood and Seattle came through with opening wins. Dick (Kewpie) Barrett of Seattle turned in the outstanding pitching performance a three-hitter against Sacramento. Sacra-mento. San Francisco's Seals displayed dis-played the most potent batting clouting three Los Angeles pitchers pitch-ers for 15 hits. Seattle, in thumping--Sacra men - to 7 to 2. made short work of Tiny Tony Freitas, driving him to cover in the sixth inning after four runs had scored. Hollywood scored a 3 to 2 win over Oakland behind the steady pitching of Charley Root, but "had to come from behind to win. Portland, customarily the league lea-gue doormat, beat out San D'iego 4 to 2 with a two-run rally in the eighth featured by Ted Mor-bert's Mor-bert's homer. Ad Liska limited the Padres to seven hits while Wally Hebert, 22-game winner last year, was giving up eight. The turnout was 4,500. San Francisco's Seals clouted Ray Prim, Hugh Dobernic and Lefty Raffensberger all over the lot to beat Los Angeles 10 to 6. Fish Planting Slated in Utah SALT LAKE CITY, April 3 M. J. Madsen, assistant in charge of fisheries management, returned from a field trip this week and reported that spring runoff has started in most streams through out the state and that traps were being set to catch the spawners. The fish are caught, the spawn taken from them .and the eggs placed in a hatchery, he explained. Meanwhile, his department is preparing to plant about 25,000,-000 25,000,-000 fish in Utah streams this spring. Sportsmen throughout Utah have . made application for the fish and in most cases their requests will be granted. The fisTi will be carried to the streams In a truck equipped with an oxygen pump. They will be planted under the supervision of the game department and sports organizations. "Fastest Human" Enters Marines BERKELEY. Calif., April 3 U.P) If Harold Davis, world's fastest fast-est white human, breaks the 220-yard 220-yard dash record this year, he may do it for Uncle Sam. Davis enlisted yesterday in the United States marine corps. Davis ran the 220 in an inter-class inter-class meet last week in 20.6 seconds, sec-onds, and experts look to see him crack the seven-year mark of 20.3 held by Jesse Owens. He did 20.5 last year, and holds the national na-tional AAU mark of 10.2 seconds for the 100-meter. The sprinter will continue through the present year of school at University of California before being called to service. St Joseph i ASPIRIN1 ' WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT i Basketing 'a Title 4--iV ( V v " !V'' ins' Vl'f J ft :fe Paced by Howie Dallmar, tipping one In at right, Stanford' Ir.dlans banded band-ed Dartmoutn a 53 to 38 defeat to win the national collegiate basketball , championship t Kansas City, Mo. Dallmar scored 15 points of the In- dians' total. ( FOUR SET PAGE IN GOLF JOUST ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 3 (U.R Ben Hogan remained the gallery favorite today but Byron Nelson. Lawson Little, Jimmy Hines and Herman Barron were the actual leaders with two-under-par 69's as the $5,000 Land of the Sky open golf tournament went into its second round. Hogan, winner of !ie past Land of the Sky meets, wound up with a par 71. After an outgoing out-going 34 yesterday, he needed 37 strokes to come home. Bill Nary, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; Tony Penna, Dayton, O.: Ky Laffoon, Tulsa, Okla., and Willie Goggins, White I'iains, N. Y., came just behind the leaders with 70's. PIPERS CLINCH-CASABA CLINCH-CASABA CROWN Pacific Pipers were crowned champions of the Scera Recreation league, following their final round victory over Lincoln faculty, 56-53 Thursday night. The Pipers, with Don Whipple oiling in 20 points, edged out the strong faculty quint in a thrill-packed thrill-packed game for their fifth straight triumph against no defeats. de-feats. Lincoln faculty was paced by Bob Foutin with 17" points, Don Dixon with 14 and Lee Brooks with 14. Orem Merchants won second place in the league by trouncing Daily Herald, 5-20. Chipman paced the winners with 18 points. Paul Fillmore and Dick Dabling were top scorers for the Herald. Whipple of the Pipers was the season's top scorer with 76 points. Brooks was second with o3. Don Dixon and Byron Nelson each had 52. Provo High Net Joust Advances Provo high school's annual spring tennis tournament has advanced ad-vanced to the third round, with Kent Tolboe, Bill Huisn, Bruce Llddiard, and Dan Lambert winning win-ning easy second-round matches to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-final matches Tolboe Tol-boe plays Huish and Llddiard PROTECTED FROM THEFT BY OUR NEW PROCESS! Name or Initials Have your name or initials branded on each of your, tires inside and out for quick identification and as a stop , theft . protection. .... At the same time we will change the rotation of each tire, check thoroughly and inflate to -proper pressure to Insure maximum mileage. r Homer Baridley TEXACO SERVICE " 3rd West 'and Center PROVO: Today's - Sport 'v, 'By JACK GCENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent " NEW YORK. April '3 UE Louis Norman (Bo bo andor Buck) Newsom, the Marco Polo of tne major leagues, has completed another an-other sleeper jump on an itinerary itiner-ary long enough to keep the office of-fice of facts and figures busy for a month, but apparently lie has been side-tracked a station short of his Inevitable destiny. It seems Bobo may not be Brooklyn-bound Brooklyn-bound at all. -.v. t For the past three days'i&r since Bobo discarded his Detroit uniform for that of Washington, all baseball has nervously been awaiting the happy tidings that J the trade was but a preliminary to matters vastly more Intriguing. Intrigu-ing. Rumor has it Larry Mac-Phail Mac-Phail had the trap nicely baited. Once it was sprung, Bobo would emerge as a full blown Dodger.. ; Now rumor can keep It. The right-banded pitcher seems doomed doom-ed to labor in relative obscurity at the capital, thereby posing major problems for both the housing administrations and "the ear specialists. No matter . bow you regard Bobo as a man r mouse Hill must admit ne is (a) big, and (b), loud. Could be that for MacPhail he is too much, of both for comfort. As a detective I'm neither Dick Tracy nor the Thin Man but I do know clues when I see them and I do see them. With their aid, I have prepared two answers to the riddle that is L Affaire Newsom. Either MacPhail is determined de-termined to maintain his monopoly monop-oly on all Dodger activities bordering bor-dering on the eccentric, or he once again is needling the camp followers. fol-lowers. Obviously, Newsom would bolster bol-ster a Brooklyn pitching staff which in one word may be characterized char-acterized as Dubois. MacPhail and Leo D'urocher could make good use of him. But Bobo loves the lead in all melodramas to which he is a party. He wants no truck with supporting roles. His record as a traveler one which makes Mrs. Roosevelt look like a stay-at-"home proves that. The old Brooklyn management would have greeted Bobo with open arms, - loud cheer and unabated un-abated adulation. Bobo didn't click at Ebbets Field ' before. It Is true, but at that tlrse he was Bulldogs Shun Post Parade Idea; Players Feted at Banquet f rovo nign scnooi oasReieers, third place winners in the recent state prep tournament, will not engage in a! past-season game with Pocatcllo high, Idaho state champ. Coach Glen Simmons said today. Pocatello, Monday night" plays Davis high, Utah state champ, in a war relief game at Salt Lake City and members of the Provp junior chamber of commerce had been discussing possibilities of having the Pocatelloans come to Provo if possible to meet the Bulldogs Bull-dogs in another benefit tilt. Mr. Simmons said be had contacted con-tacted Dr. J. C. Moffitt, superintendent super-intendent of schools, and K. E. Weight, Provo high school principal, princi-pal, and both shared his view that the basketball season should not be resurrected here. The Provo players hung up the hoop togs following the state tourney and are now engaged in track or tennis activities. The Provo hoop squad was banqueted ban-queted at the high school building Thursday night. All members ot the squad were present, as weU as school officials. meets Lambert for the finalist posts. Tolboe, tourney director, announced an-nounced that the doubles tournament tourna-ment will begin Monday. All entries en-tries are to be handed in by Friday Fri-day night. Selection of the PHS net squad will be 'determined by results of the tournaments. First round results: Kent Tolboe Tol-boe defeated Dex Alger 6-1, 3-6, 6-2; Kent Taylor defeated Gay-Ion Gay-Ion Dahlquist 6-3, 6-4; Russell Taylor defeated Richard Anderson Ander-son 6-2, 6-1; Bill Huish defeated Jack Gallup 1-6, 8-0, 6-1; Norman Harris defeated Devoe Wallace 6-0, 6-1; Bruce Llddiard defeated SMITTIE'S TEXACO SERVICE 16 North Main St. spmngvuxe Newsom May Yet End Up With Dodger Nine young and couldn't win. At heart; he has always been a Dodger, But the old days when Dodgers were Individualists are gone and today Bobo's front office recep tion might be coolish. Under MacPhail the Brooks have gone normal with a bang- bang.-Durocher is permitted his whimsical moments, but after all he is the manager. The Hamlina, the Mungos and the Phelps are gone. ; Dodgers today are hard workers who actually "haven't much color. Whether Bobo could survive In such drab surroundings is a poser, but don't give up on him too quickly. There is every chance that Newsom still may open the season sea-son with Brooklyn. I say this because Bobo has proven he can win and MacPhail is fond of winners. win-ners. Bobo won 20 games for a seventh place St. Louis Browns club in 1939 and he won 20 and 12 in the next two years for Detroit. With the Brooklyn power back of him he could easily win 20 again in 1942. . Why, then, hasn't MacPhail reached for the check book and gone to work? Answer MacPhail doesn't transact business in that manner. He builds up all routine functions to four star hits and emerges as the borough hero. In almost every big trade, he never moves until the Dodger followers are on the verge of exploding right there on the spot. Remember the Higbe deal? Or the year the flock spent clamoring clamor-ing for the management to purchase pur-chase Medwick? Or the six months of hectic argument which preceded the transfer of Vaughan from Pittsburgh? Or even the. juggling of Dixie Walker In tne outfield? AU these maneuvers were deliberately calculated to keep the fans in uproarious excitement. ex-citement. Uproars and excitement are the fuel on which box-office" flames are fed. Who knows that better than MacPhail? Didn't he pay off $500,000 In Dodger debts in just two years? He is a smart operator, smart enough to share his warm spotlight with big, loud Bobo If he is given a world championship cham-pionship in return. And that is exactly what Bobo could give him. ; Stand by for a further announcement. an-nouncement. - Season Game Coach Simmons and his playera were lauded for their outstanding play and sportsmanship. The Bulldogs' made a gallant bid at the tournev in an attempt to defend de-fend the championship they won in 1941. After the serving of dinner, Coach Glenn Simmons gave a snort talk, praising his sauad for their cooperation and effort -during last year's successful . campaign. Special guests were: Dr. J. C. Moffitt. superintendent of schools. K. E. Weight, principal of Provo high, Clinton Wiest, student presi dent, Jerrv Storrs. student manager, man-ager, and Kent Tolboe. sports editor edi-tor of the school publication. Members who were feted at the banquet were: Captain Mahlon Rasmuson, Rand Clark, Harry Suker, Duane Mecham, Garth Ford, Junior Walker, Kenneth Weight Jr., Max Evans, Verl Perry, Per-ry, Bill Huish and Roy Halladay. Rasmuson, Ford and Clark won all-state recognition from many of the state metropolitan newspapers news-papers and radio stations. Robert Hatch 6-1. 6-1; Jack Scho-field. Scho-field. defeated Mack Swain 6-4 6-1; Dan Lambert defeated Robert Rob-ert Nelson 6-1. 6-1. Second round results: Kent Tolboe Tol-boe defeated 'Kent Taylor 6-2, 6-3; Bill Huish defeated Russell Taylor 6-0, 6-2; Bruce Llddiard defeated Norman Harris 6-2, 6-1; Dan Lambert defeated Jack Scho-field Scho-field 6-1, 7-5. LET'S GO FISHING! Sucker Season April 1 - May 20 CATFISH Are Biting! 1942 EVINRUDE MOTORS On Display! 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