Show IFour Teams Ready for NCAA Court Finals r N Illinois Kansas Sania Clara And St Johns Bid for Olympic Playoff Positions Pilots Seconds On 'Hoodlum' List in Boxing Sukeforth Belittles Dodger's Power Coach Clyde Sukeforth finds fault with his mates in the issue of Look Magazine out today By JACK CUDDY former YORK (UP)—More than charging the Brooks blew the 1951 pennant because their 20 NEW and seconds are on the managers New York State Boxing commisbig sluggers "weren't so hot" in the clutches " sion's hoodlum list an Sukey who quit the Dodgers Ex-Dodg- er er "so-calle- d" I! "kick-out- during the winter to join the Pi-- 4 tales as a coach also denies in the article that a "strained situation" forced his resignation He refers atspecifically to the widespreadDres-sentention given Manager Chuck remark after Ralph Branca had tossed the disastrous home run ball to Bobby Thomson in the fiplaynal game of the off Asked later why the Branca had been called on in such a crucial spot Dressen replied: "Sukey said he was ready to go" This waa taken in some quarters as a rap at Sukeforth How-av's Giant-Dodg- er highly-emotion- al er Clyde aays in Look that the press "pat the wrong interpretation" oo the remark Insisting that Dressen was not "try ing to pass the back" Sukeforth WKfm Chuck "always placed foil confidence in me" and claims mm it waa natural" for him to say what he did Although admitting he had the idea "they might not want me a back" in '52 when he'd still heard nothing from the Brooklyn management following the world se- rjea he says both Walter OMalley and Buz Bavasi president and of the Dodgers respect ively "as well as Dressen" asked him to reconsider his resignation But he told them ha "wanted to He says go with Mr Rickey" Branch had previously asked him if he was free to talk business As to why the Dodgers collapsed disSukey scoffs at charges ofmuchsension and even defends the staff Brooklyn pitching r malignedthe blame squarely on the I He puts hitters "The pitching would have been good enough to keep us in front" he states "if the hitters had come as often through in the big clutches as some baseball men seem to think they did" Clyde agrees that the Brookof some nwr "window breakers the time" But against the N L's better pitchers he aays "they weren't so hot In close ball games with the vital run on base our big guns were spiked too often Sukeforth singles out but two Robinson Dodger regulars— Jackie and Pee Wee Reese — as the only ones who "really knew the strike zone" He says all the others "are bad-bahitters — some of them - vice-preside- nt ' so-call- ed ll chronic" Sukey offers statistics in Look designed to show that the Flock was not a clutch ball club The for team's overall record was 0 87-6- a 618 percentage "But in games decided by a margin of less than three runs" he points out' "the Dodgers won SI and lost 43 only 500 percenteight garnet over age He also gives Branca a boost a the big righthander mat "g good pitcher" with "a better fast ball than most people think" he flarr i that "Ralp's about the only young pitcher I can think of on a big league team today who's got a chance to win 200 games" Branca has won 76 Concerning the unfortunate gopher pitch to Thomson Sukey Branca after whipping over a quick strike was trying too hard to make Bobby go after a bad bail "Unconsciously he let up a little" Sukeforth tells Look He adds however: "Maybe I'd Ft i! be with the Dodgers if Branca had got more stuff on that second c picth to Thomson Sports lid Bits Baseball teams of region one started spring conditioning drills indoors The storm early today today made it impossible to drill outdoors Unless the weather breaks quickly the scholastic candidates will have to drill indoors for a number of days More than 6000 fans watched the final games of the Utah class A basketball tournament at Salt r ! I aVp laat KatiirHav mrM Thia was perhaps the largest single a sion crdwd in Utah scholastic bas-!'cc- ketball history University of Wyoming hoopsters jumped into a 14-- lead over Santa Clara in the far west N C A A playoffs at Corvallis lat Saturday night but finally suffered a 56 to S3 setback lead Coach Ev Shel-to- n With a of Wyoming sent in his second something he has feaplatoon tured most of the season When the regulars returned to action they were cold as a block of ice Ticket far the m Colored Ghosts basketball jcame at Ogl£n high Saturday nirht will ga an sale Tuesday at The Mint The Mecca and Frank and Bay's Grill Popular prices will prevail The Intermountain A A U boxing tournament gets underway at the Utah coliseum in Salt Lake City tonight Harold McNeil enair- ganmin charge reports a neid oi SM boxers including many of the tats of the recent Golden Gloves in Ogden 3 14-- 3 All-Sta- rs employe disclosed Tuesday as the commission moved its headquarters from down near the Bowety up into the "heart" of Manhattan Meanwhile New York Chairman Bob Christenberry was signing in Chicago a working agreement with the Illinois Athletic Commission that should help his drive to clean up the "kick-outsport " The list contains the names of managers and seconds who are suspected of being hoodlums or haying hoodlums connections None of them now has a license to manage or second a fighter in New York state However their licenses have merely expired and—they have not applied for renewal as yet On the record-car- d of each of the "more than 20" suspects in the commission files is this notation: "Do not renew without a special The Chiei and His Brave Rape vJlVUB aJUJll fstffrc SlCTTI Ed-H- ie right-hand- er jn m ran- ii a w sat tt- - no-ru- AAU Champs Sal Maglie Turns in Unusual To Bid for Hound Performance Olympic Post Cardinals Wallop Johnson DENVER (UP) — The newly crowned national A AU basketball champion Caterpillar Diesels of Peoria Ill had their eyes on a title The Diesels and three other A A U teams meet in Olympic playoffs Saturday with each team aiming for the chance to carry the U S banner in this summer s competition at Helsinki The Diesels who ran fourth in the National Industrial Basketball league race won the AAU- title by upsetting favored Phillips Oil3 ers of Bartlesville Okla last Saturday The Olympic playoffs get underway this Saturday in Kansas City Mo and New York The champion Diesels play third place Air Force All Stars of Tinker Field Okla in New York while runnerup Philplace Fibber lips takes on fourth McGee and Molly of Hollywood In Kansas City Bob Kurland the Oilers seven loot center who made the AAU this year for the sixth consecutive season will be aiming for his second Olympic team berth Kurland was a member of the U S Olympics team in - 66-5- -- still 20-ga- ' hanrier who had a record last year- pitched seven more scoreless innings yesterday as the Giants 0 blanked the Oakland Oaks Maglie retired the first 17 batters to face him before Tommy Munoz Oakland first baseman singled sixth inning In the 20 exhibitoin innings he has pitched Maglie has not issued a base on balls Lefty Roger Bowman pitched the last two innings for the Giants y Hank Thompson's home run featured New York's it attack The Giants have an y today before leaving for their Phoenix Ariz training 23-- 6 - 5-- in-th- e bases-empt- 10-h- off-da- camp TAMPA Fla (UP) — As far as southpaw Pitcher Ken Johnson is concerned the answer is "Yes old acquaintances should be forgot" Johnson made his debut as a Detroit Tiger pitcher yesterday 1948 against his former —teammates the St Louis Cardinals and was hammered for 10 runs in the first two innings had acquired JohnPhiladelphia (A) 3 Washington sonTheforTigers the waiver price $10000 2 (A) The (A 2 from the Cardinals on Friday Brooklyn (N) 14 Boston won the game 12-- 1 as Philadelphia (N 4 New York Cardinals Del Rice Wally Westlake and (A 0 (12 innings Cincinnati N 5 Boston (N) 41 Steve Bilko hit home runs St Louis (N 12 Detroit (A Pittsburgh (N) 7 Chicago (A 63 Adopts Plan SARASOTA Fla (UP) — Ted Chicago N 7 Cleveland iA) St Louis (A) 13 San Francisco Williams mapped out a plan to5 (1st game) day which will keep him with the (PCD St Louis (A) 2 San Francisco Boston Red Sox as long as posin(P C L) 0 (2nd game seven sible despite the fact that he must report for a nings) Oakland physical New York (N) 5 examination into the ma0? CL 0 rines' air corps April 2j "B" 10 Los AnPittsburgh (N) Williams will not leave the Red 7 Sox until after their game in geles (PCL) 10 Cincinnati (N) Memphis Term next Monday Tulsa (Tex) and -B" 5 promised he would rejoin the team "as soon as possible' The Red Sox will be in Fort Worth next Wednesday and in Dallas on Thursday After Sixth Win TUCSON Ariz (UP) — The Chicago Cubs with the longest winning streak of the spring training season sought their sixth straight trumph today' as they met the Cleveland Indians an pre-inducti- on yileCaniocre finwin Miner Mike: of pcoptt? ?orrf realize flow closety we wotk together That's right They Jo n't appreciate the fact that Utah mines supply the metals that go into the equipment chat A lot yourTireffo Klanzana Wallpopcr malces our farms the most productive in history Clearr fmmm: Yes and we grow the food that miners and their families eat And because it's grown sight here in Utah gf able at lower prices Miner Mike: And taxes come I MM iITLI TV n 1 1 A r J 2440 Wmhinglen Blvd 0 T A H oo rts both 230 Value LIMITED Ii to' air 74-5- TIME 81-4- son McGuire explained that the first time the Redmen had tried to "run with Kentucky' but it didn't work so this time they played "possession—waiting for the 'sure shots and driving past them" The result was that Center Bob (Zeke) Zawqluk clicked for 32 points one more than the old tournament ' record That Zawoluk performence stood as a new record — for about 30 minutes until Clyda Lovellette tallied 44 points for Kan6-f- nght-hande- rj 4-- 205-pound- er 15-h- 5-- 4: Bing-hamt- McGuire said that he had a couple of scouts watching Illinois on Saturday "but I don't know as much about them as I'd like to" Coach Harry Combes of Illinois said he hadn't scouted St John's at alL The St John's scouts must have had plenty to tell McGuire about Jim Bredar the ni sparkplug who tallied 14 of his 16 points in the second half to break Duquesne's back Though most experts were picking the Illini to beat St John's there was a large dissenting vote from Coach Donald (Dudey) Moore of defeated Duquesne" Zawoluk is better than either of the Illinois centers" said Moore "St John's should beat them eas- on 5-- 4-- 3-- 6: 3-- ily" Broncos Surprise Casaba World Santa Clara invade Seattle today to role iiry xo repeat tneir giant-killagainst the powerful Kansas Jay- nawkers Tuesday m the N C A A basketball finals They call them the for more reasons than wonderboys one The coach and the whole Santa Clara team— to say nothing of spectators — are still wonderine how they happened to knock out u c L A and Wyoming last Fri day and Saturday in Corvallis "It's amazing It's unbelievable" the Feerick said following the stupendous double up" T set The boys from the little independent Jesuit school in northern California were given little or no chance to whip U C L A's Pacific Coast conference champs They confounded the experts by winning by a comfortable 9 edge They were given less chance Saturday night when they went up against the veteran Waromlhg Cowboys the Skyline cnamps But tohen the final score was in it was Santa Clara 56 to 53 Feerick gave much of the credit or his team's stunning upset to Ken Sears a six foot seven inch towhead from Watson-vilt- e Calif whose baskets and excellent backboard hawking provided the spark for both of the Bronco victories er 14-5- NOW HA' LovKansas and record-wreckellette loomed a heavy choice Santa Clara for the other against semi-fintomorrow night Even Coach Bob Feerick of Santa Clara admitted that he would be "amazed if his team should win But then the Broncos have astounded the experts twice already U C L A and by upsetting first Feerick then Wyoming pointed out gloomily that the burden of the work against Wyoming waa borne by three freshmen and two "sophomores and he called the win by such a green group "unbeliever al SEATTLE Wash (UP) —Coach Bob Feerick and his skinny-leeee- d iwonderboys from the University of 00 68-5- er g B-li- 10-in- yesterday appeared a good bet today to win a starting job on the St i Louis Browns' pitching staff this season A bunt single by Shortstop Ray Hamrick in the sixth inning was the only hit Sleater allowed as the Browns beat the San Francisco Seals 0 in the second game Good of a double-headafter winning SAN FRANCISCO CUP)— Lefty the opener" 13--5 Lefty TommyLou Sleater who barely missed a Bryne pitched the full nine inexhibition nings in winning the first game seven-innin- ch sas 5-- able': Kansas Coach Forrest (Phog Allen wasn't 'going out on any prediction limbs observing that USt John's or Illinois or Santa Clara are all as tough as Ken- - tucky" But Allien was making no secret of his elation at the form shown by skyscraping Lovellette who playwill be the only er on view here Allen called Clyde's 44 points "the greatest game of his great career" and he added A1 never felt better in my life" Tomorrow's games will complete the field fqf the Olympic tryouts The other six places already have been occupied by La Salle winner of the national invitation tournament State Springfield teachers' college of Missouri winner °of the N A I B tournament and the top four teams inthe A HI A U tournament — the Peoria : Caterpillars the Phillips Oilers and the FibAir Force ber IcGees Play in the Olympic tryoute starts Saturday in New York and Kansas City ca - All-Sta- rs Oaks Beat Brownies OAKLAND Calif (AP) — Oakland produced a storm of trouble in the "fifth inning for Southpaw Gene Bearden in his season's debut Saturday as the Oaks defeated the St Louis Browns 6 to 3 - er no-hitt- er IffATERFIlL RECAP they increase purchasing power MINING ASSOCIATION 74-6- 6-- 3: AVE Money A Reg r 56-5- 6-- 2-- former Say f never ttmitgfit of that And then these are payrolls Isrrge 20-vict- Left-Hand- Miner Mike: BcaiVs mines mvt among the state's biggest taac papers And the benefits of those taxes are enjoyed by everyone in tne mine tastes help support state Schools roads welfare of Vtab depends so a Hank Sauer hit two home sjuns and Roy Smalley and Frank Baum-holt- z one each to drive in all 'the Cubs" runs in a 73 victory Over the Indians yesterday at Los An It was the Cubs' second geles straight triumph over the Tribe Roberts Geared ST PETERSBURG Fla fUP Robin Roberts of the Philadelphi I Phillies seemed geared today a quick start toward his goal of season a third straight alThe powerful lowed only one hit in six innings as the Phillies beat the New York Yankees 0 in 14 frames yesterThe performance gave him day a string of 12 consecutive innings against the world champions) in which he has allowed one run and i twq hits Howie Fox Jim Konstanty and Andy Hansen took over from Roberts and allowed only two hits the remainder of the way Philly pitching now has permitted the Yankees only one run and five hits in 21 innings this spring Inc Ball Hitter MIAMI Fla (UP) — First Baseman Gil Hodges' many extra duties this spring appear to have in no way affected his status as the Brooklyn Dodgers' No 1 long ball hitting threat The whqhas been ordered to learn to bunt hit to right field and understudy catcher Roy Campanella this spring led a it assault on three Boston Red Sox pitchers in the Dodgers' 14-- 2 victory yesterday with two long home runs over the left field fence Berra to Return $ BRADENTON Fla (UP)— Catcher Yogi Berra probably will be back in action with the New York Yankees within three days — and his big bat will be more than welcome to Manager Casey Stengel Berra the Yankees' big stick now that 4o DiMaggio has retired jogged around the outfield before the Yankees took on the Philadel-- J phia Phillies yesterday and said his injured ankle felt fine But Stengel couldn't have felt nearly as well as he watched the feeble Yankee attack make only loss three hits in a 0 to the National leaguers record-breakin- 64-5- 7-- 4-- i into this picture too do they mnd supply pvecnases (UP) — Wil lie Hoppe held his 11th world's championship three cushion billiard title today after defeating 7 Kin rev Matsuyama in 60 j innings Hoppe had to overcome an early lead held by Matsuyama in Saturday night's final match to win his sixth consecutive crown and the $2000 top prize money Matsuyama forged ahead in the early innings and held a three-poilead after three frames The lead changed hands several times but Hoppe virtually clinched the victory with four points in the 49th inning The champion had a high run of seven while Matsuyama had a high run of five Hoppe ended the tournament with a record of seven wins and two losses He was defeated earlier by Ray Kilgore San Francisco and Joe Procita Los Angeles of six Matsuyama had a and collected wins and three lossesynark $1000 second place money There was some speculation that Hoppe- - might retire from tournament play but he denied the reports pnd said "some day I might retire but it won't be right away" In an earlier match Kilgore defeated Jay Bozeman Vallejo Calif 4 in 58 innings Although Bozeman had the same record as Matsuyama six wins and three losses he was placed third because of less points scored during the overall tournament Final results: Winner — Willie Hoppe Drexel Hill Pa $2000 2 second — Kinrey Matsuyama Tokyo $1000 3 third — Jay Bozeman Valfourth — Ray lejo Calif $700 San Francesco $500 4 Kilgore fifth — Art Rubin Brooklyn $350 sixth — Irving Crane N Y $300 4 seventh— Masako Katsura Tokyo $250 5 eighth — Joe Procita Los Angeles $250 ninth — Joe Chamaco Mexico City $200 6 10 — Herb Hardt Chicago $2004-- 8 50-4- OAKLAND Calif (UP) — al (The Barber) Maglie mainstay of the New York Giants pitching staff sported a string of 19 straight shutout exhibition innings today and held out a promise of another season —p — The swarthy right-4- Exhibition Games tf aa g Kansas over Santa Clara for the western crown But you won't find many coaches or experts among those gathering here who are willing to make any predictions in view of what happened to the form sheet in the final round of regional elimination play on Saturday night Certainly no one expected St John's to oust defending chattel pion Kentucky the nations No 1 team by 7 at Raleigh N C That ranks as the "upset of the year irt the court sport But it was only a little more 3 surprising than Santa Clara's decision over Wyoming at Corvallis Ore The other twa- r gional finals followed the form as 8 at Illinois ousted Duquesne Chicago and Kansas ripped St 5 at Kansas City Louis Slowdown Tactics Coach Frank McGuire of St John's was receiving warm praise from his fellow coaches today for the clever "slowdown" strategy he devised to turn the tables on Kentucky which had beaten his team 0 by during the regular sea- nt no-h- it SALT LAKE CITY i (AP)—Salt Lake City's Pioneer league Bees have signed four more players for the coming season and Owner Leishman has indicated this just about wraps things up Newcomers are Val Hurst Bob Bandelier Frank Mataya and Charlie Hill Hurst is an outfielder from Tooele Utah Bandelier is a native of Phoenix Ariz and pitcher for four short weeks with Salt Lake City last season moving over to Klamath Falls of the Far West league for the remainder of the year He's a southpaw Mataya is a former Washington State college football star Hill a catcher is a younger brother of Marion Hill whom Salt Lake City took on from the 1951 Boise team title and 50-3- n Wahoo Alii© Reynolds Yankee pitcher who notched two games last season and his son work out together at the world champion's St Petersburg Florida training camp Unlike his father young Reynolds is a southpaw For New 'Race The way it shaped up now lib noise would be favored over St John's for the eastern N O A A Willie Hoppe Retains World Title SAN FRANCISCO And apparently those on the list have not applied because they have feared not only denials of their applications of those" denials in othervstates where similar action might be taken against them AH on the list have licenses in other states - sis? it 1 censes Points Different industries we re partners ""A A basketball tournament The employe did not reveal any names on the list but he did say "it includes some of the most prominent managers" It is the commission's policy not to disclose the names of objectionables unless they do apply for renewals of li- club yesterday at the national guard armory Others with high scores were 712 Bill Strebel 708 Connie Strebel 686: Bill Starley 692 and George Jim Strebel with 712! points shot Vitt 690 The Sunday shoots have the highest score at the weekly been discontinued pending furthmeet of the Mount Ogden Archery er notice officials said For MONDAY EVENING MARCH 24 1952 hearing" Jim Strebel Hits I SEATTLE Wash (UP)— Olympic tryout berths jwjll ba at stake in both ends of the double-headhere tomorrow when night surprising St John's and Santa Clara clash with — powerful Illinois and Kansas in the semi-fina-ls of the N C TIRE5 I KENTUCKY SttMTI Mtuow 1 MM J ia eukDEO WHfSKET ONLY 2300 Waihington Blvd Hmhm MIS 26 Washinqton Blvd Phone 2-46- 34 HMO ng MAIN I NEUTRAL SMUTS aaa ftaaler BstWtwy CaianliMMl |