Springville Herald | 1954-12-09 | Page 10 | Sports Corner

I ..-n-iir, --- - "" """" " '( 1 1 f This an' That The United States Olympic Association As-sociation says a delegation of 231 men and 47 women will be sent to the Pan-American games at Mexico City, March 12-26. The largest single unit will be that of the track team, numbering thirty, followed by the rowers, numbering twenty-seven. The women's team will consist of 16 swimmers . . . Clarence (Abe) Parker returned a punt 105 yards for Duke against the University of North Carolina in 1936 . . . The Boston Red Sox have purchased Owen Friend, 27-year-old shortstop who played with the pennant-winning Indianapolis Indian-apolis team of the American Association As-sociation . . The Cincinnati Red-legs Red-legs purchased left-handed Bill Wehrle from Louisville. The 32-year-old former Red Sox and Pirates pitcher won six straight games in American Association play-offs, bad seven wins and four losses in regular season play . . . Ezzard Charles, former heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion, was recently re-cently appointed honorary deputy athletic commissioner of Indiana . . . The Philadelphia Phillies recently re-cently signed Bill Yancey, the first Negro scout in the history of the club. Formerly with Milwaukee, Yancey is credited with signing ' Bill Bruton for the Braves. I . . BUYS A's . . . Arnold M. Johnson John-son of Chicago bought Philadelphia Philadel-phia Athletics baseball club from Mack family for $3,375,000; and American League owners voted 6-2 favoring moving A's to Kansas Kan-sas City. Mo.