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Show PAGE 2 FltOVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH MONDAY. APRIL 3. 1941 Big White Sox Club Looking To Pennant BY BOB MEYER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. April 3 (U.E) Starting Start-ing his 11th season as Chicago White Sox manager. Jimmy Dykes is puffing his big cigar with added satisfaction in antici-pation antici-pation of producing the highest finisher of his career and a possible pos-sible American league champion. Hit where it hurts by the loss of shortstop Luke Appling, league batting king, and veteran pitcher Ted Lyons, the White Sox nevertheless never-theless present a distinct threat to inherit the pennant loft fluttering haplessly by the disintegrated 'cw York Yankee. The four flags captured by the White Sox all came before 1921, when the team hit the skids for 15 years of second-division role3. Since Dykes took over the reins in 1931. he has finished in the upper up-per bracket six out of 10 years, but never has come closer than third place in his long quest for the pennant. If that dream is to be realized r n I " this season, the chances will hingelVCiy, rUCIGI VjOmSF chiefly on Dvkes' roster that in-, . . . eludes 14 4-F's. four men 3is-jNCltlOnCll DOUDIGS charged from the service and one! limited service player pitcher j Din rtinmr7AnrUirk Bill Dietrich. fZ SJ V , , . ! The Sox look particularly strong in the infield and pitching depart-, nicnts. The greatest shot in The greatest shot in the ' arm came when Hal Trotsky, who was forced to retire from the 1941 Cleveland Indians suffering from migraine headaches, returned to his first base position with a 4-F rating, but his worth is yet to be tested. Jimmy Webb. 4-F. utility in-fielder in-fielder last year, is Appling's shortstop replacement, and Tony Cuccineuo it-F is waging a battle for second base spot with 1 LeRoy Schalk, from the Little-rock Little-rock team. Grey Clarke, who batted bat-ted .346 for Milwaukee last year, has a strangle-hold on third base.;garae match. but the army has a similar hold!8 ria wmm.m , on him. I Buck Ross. Orval Grove, Ed Lopat. Bob Mistele and Al Witt-mer Witt-mer are 4-F pitchers. Together with Thornton Lee and Johnny Humphries, 1-A's, they will aid Dykes in opening the season with t l9st iv trtinc Vmrlers r- o Three out of four Sox catchers! a r . Mil,. t,v, aJ for army induction soon Tommy Turner has the inside rail for the1', Pu?' one, by Da were starting role, with Vince Castino UC1UW w "mrK-and "mrK-and Junior Thaxton for relief. j Although the regular outfield -r a LiT) li from last season is back for ac- rSanUHTlWeiffnt 15elt tion. Dynes nromems increase f; when he looks past the infield Guv Curtright, Thurman Tucke and Wally Moses, the regulars, arej top canonate ior a siarung spot. also is 1-A. However. Myn Hoag.- the former i anKee, is Darn rrom the army with a medical discharge. and Hall Qualman is 4-F. Johnny Dickshot 4-Ft and ua.t"b" lr-V"1" Lne,cal training director for the port Oarr.ett fl-Al. two hard-hitting 'edu,crwclSnl cnam- secllritv forcr of the coast guard rookies, add to the Sox available P1"" V line Pep to the ring. )in Nev. York, said he got more talent for the outfield. Pep. recently discharged from personal satisfaction out of the Dykes can se plenty of ques- the navy, opposes Leo Francis atjmarmcr jn which the men res-tion res-tion marks in this set-up. but he Hartford. Conn., Tuesday night iponded to his teaching than he is two or three players deep in in a non-title Red Cross benefit I ever did in anv rimr victorv almost every position. Ex-Champ Jess Willard, Alltime Ring Great Now Performing In Los Angeles Freak Show By KOBE JIT WEIDE United IVess Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES. April 3 'IP tm It seemed pitiful the other da 'stumble across Jess Willard rer - forming in a downtown freak I But the nigged ex-champ still show. i knows his oats when you talk What a comedown it was for'about fighting. He foresees a gol-one gol-one of the ring's alltime greats. !den cra of g greats following who copped the heawweight ; the present mediocre boxing age. crown from Dusky Jack Johnson At least, a period of great box-under box-under a scorching hot sun in Ha-Icrs lf hey train, vara, Cuba exactly 29 years ago ! Jcss says that is why the ring That bout went 26 rounds, lasted has produced so many second-rat-one hour and 44 minutes and was prs in th past 15 years no-the no-the last title match to go ovcr'bod' trains. "Men like Schmeling, 15 rounds. Baer and Braddock. among oth- Several vears later the 6 foot 7 ers- would have been used for inch giant, then 36 years old. lost his title to the Manassa lauler Jack Denpsey, lard's seconds when one of Wil- tossed in a towel before the fourth canto got underway. un-derway. Later he tried an unsuccessful comeback against the savage South American boxer, Louis Fir-po. Fir-po. who belted him all over the ring. In 1923 Willard hung up his gloves for good. After a short hitch in a traveling travel-ing circus show replete with Indians In-dians and cowboys, Willard drifted drift-ed around the country handling leases for oil companies. For a short while he was in the food "business, but today Willard is back on exhibition, along with his former rival, Johnson, as the stellar stel-lar attractions in a showcase of physically abnormal human beings. be-ings. You feel sorry for the strapping strapp-ing ex-Kansas farmer when he gets up to reminisce about the days when heavyweight bouts were endurance contests. The morbidly curious, who have come (IBM TTXT3 P I i lUSlD 1 '4 u 1 iramJ 7 OTTS DAILY HERALD Sucker Grappling Dates Announced The state fish and came commission has announced that suckers may be taken by grappling hooks in thin area between April 1 and May 20, subject to the following conditions : Only in the Provo river between be-tween Utah lake and the state road bridge northwest of Provo, in the Spanish Fork river between the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad bridge across said river and Utah lake, and In Hobble Creek between Main street in Springvllle city and Utah lake, and in the Sevier river below the Sevier bridge reservoir. res-ervoir. II III VIIMIIIIWIIJIII ST. LOUIS. April 3 f.P Ned iceived by men in the armed serv Day Qf Wegt A1. andlices win h?1P them to smft -. , . ifrnm uniform to civilian life with ' . uie .iiLioiiai viaicn uanie oowi-i"" ing doubles title from Nelson Burton and Frank Mataya of St. Louis, 29 S points to 25 li, last night despite a brilliant high-scoring high-scoring rally by Burton and Mataya Ma-taya in the last series. n m . . .. i ,mnL na.Jne:!rPonsibilitv. self reliance and fLTrf; Z e,d .fn..m."!alertness-through boxing. registering a game below 206 Burton's lowest score in the ser- iai tarn 901 anrl im tta1 r 1 TAT gave h.m an average of 250 Wrr! the series and 227.1 for the 42 " Vu. Z " ::',naePenac.n.1 ,. ''' erage for the three-week meet petit- was the highest of the com ora, wmiea low lor mc iinailWnen tne war is over. roxmB " 1,1 series with a low game of 195 and j make our fighting men better citi-, a high of 290. Maytaya's average for the, match was 226-1, while ....J 1M . . t. ' o0 Out of the 28 games bowled, i? th fi"al 0"l'rce' two On Block Tuesday YORK April 3 t:P .. .... . . ri-f.. ' ncrir t,,o ;,, s An?el Tuday night in the headhner of a week s boxm bout. to see the fat woman and the sword swallower, pay little at-! tention to the grcving. 60-year-;. 'st - ory ; sparring partners 25 years ago,' he said. ln inose days you had to be j Dempsey, there's nothing left to-smart, to-smart, too. Why. if day but memories, and the admis- tougn-- ana you'd lead with your riirht like all those monkeys do today. you SEE THE MODERN WAY OF DISPLAYING WaiflfljpaipeE3 Priced from 10c per Single Roll to $3.00 per Single Roll ALL PAPER STOCKED IN PROVO BENNETT'S 272 WEST CENTER Zurita Loses 1 IP llll. .-J- 111 LI. I- .. Ill o h , ... - NEA Tele photo) Beau Jack (left) catches a hard right from Juan ZUrita. Mexican lightweight light-weight champion, during early moments of Zurita's Madison Square 3arden debut, but went on to hammer out a unanimous 10-round non-title non-title decision before 18,000 enthusiastic light fans. Champ Says Boxing To Help Transition Of Returning Troops ' BY JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent pril 3 (U.I!) NEW YORK. Ap Coast Guardsman Gus I world light heavyweight champion u -ii ii. . w : a : i believes the boxing training re - Ut iwiM.nM. i In a statement released today through th public relations sec - tion of the coast guard, Lesnevich emnha-sized that "dcod e who worry about or boys being less after the war ' forget that the men in uniform are being taught 1 1 in i hi uiiiiuL in ai c k" -n'fc The -year-old champion. .peaking for publication for the 'first time since entering the coast years ago. American soldiers, sailors. OO.IU .marines ina coui V. wt J being made mto self-reliant alert they are the same qualities which make for good citizenship Izens later." ' Lesnevich. who became undis-i useljputed 175-pound king by victories over Anton Chnstoronais ana Tami Mauriello in 1911, praised boxing's contributions to the war effort. He said: Really Delivering "Boxing is really delivering in the service. Not only are fighters making a great record for the pro fession, but our service men are;n' learning the competitive spirit and are being conditioned better. than ever before in history. A great measure of this record must ; go to boxing. The spirit of the, fighter is the spirit that men need' on the front. Ar.d if you don't, ithink it's paving off ask. the j the receiving end." now h j. I "It's good to know that these 'would have been murdered.'" Hp didn't think much of the , millions, Jack Dempsey. ' Why do they always talk about that Tunney long count : ny oon t tney say some- - h , V v . , . tr P y- Z r 6 sccunuary SIOOQ verv Close to the sports writers after being knock-. iine as we converted. ed through the rope, in that wild; Wayne Brenkert. who played first round at Madison Square ,n the quarterback slot for us. and; Garden in 1923. Willard quer- I made up a word signal. "Make! ied- the klck goodr and practiced a Luckily, the gigantic Jess still ;pass out into the flat. retains a robust sense of humor.' Because Greasy Neal knew I'd, Without that, he says, he'd have been lost long ago. For a one-time hero who was paid $100,000 for getting licked by sions tourists pay to see his mus- cles. to Beau Jack jboys can handle themselves under any conditions, when they leave' ihere ." he exnlairwl "Some nf tho Lesnevich.lbovs I've had are pn cutters and!'8 willinnM to play poker any transports around the world ' . Though assigned to port security I - , temporarily. tne men x traln may 'jbe sent overseas at any time." - t ...n..ri H . "Vk". 'V 1 "I" " . "iT"; in - ini; v.oi. jumu tuvnu ,ers when he entered service a fewe neia say ne is one of the best 'weeks after Pearl Harbor, but his 'tending the wounded under fire, superiors thought he would be of more value to the service in con law-.ditioning othel? men to fight Meanwhile, what about his title? 'Oh. I've put that away until after the war ;he said. When it's) - i- nvpr, maypp i u lane un jut uniis. if he'll hnve me. I don't know how I'd do against Louis. You can vTro lthenl w, t h "IZ von re in the ring with him. " The champion, whose home is in an infant son. Gus. Jr. His son r may bccome a profesalonal, "but he ll be able to handle him- "se,f al, r ht jf . e was able!er wounded. Then he began the tQ dQ that maybe we wouidn t long walk back, through the sat- have had a war today" v i IIF.KB KOPE Manhatten Athletic Director At the end of the half at the p0lo Grounds jn 1922. Lafayette, unbeaten for two vears. led the Washington and Jefferson varsity for which 1 called signals from I end. 13-0 Swede Eriokson got away on a clerks throughout the nation in-Statue in-Statue of Liberty play for 6?!structed by the Office of Defense yards for us in Herb Kopf - passing as well kicking. When we tied Carneirie Tech two weeks before the Lafay - VUe ame- I snoticed the Skibo ne closely watched. I had not; caught a pass all afternoon i against Lafayette. Dr. Jock Sutherland of Laf ay-i as kicking. The ball was placedjright defensive halfback, coming on the five-yard line then, so aup so close that ne could touch his team was taking a considerable ! tackle chance in running, but until this j So shouted: "Brenk, make day no team had run or passed. the kick e-ood:" and started call- IP-. , mwrTT ..j -fc- v,Av1v.'.A.v4wj:.vi-.y,vt:Wi,w. v.-.-.-.v.v. '.v.-.-:-- ' : - "... .." 5 PROVO FLYING SERVICE Gives plight Instructions To Anyone Special Introductory Course $105 Applicants for Air Corps Cadets should investigate PHONt 508-R - PROVO AIR PORT Grayson's Scoreboard By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor PRIZE COATCH: The quest for professional baseball and football talent leads up some queer paths these days, and on one of them the Philadelphia Eagles found a chap who certainly Is the most 4-F of all 4-F,ers. He writes that he has an honorable discharge "because I have only one eye, a few bad teeth, a bad nose and knee and flat feet." Naturally has name can't be mentioned. You know how things get around these days, and Greasy Neale and the front office do not want all the other clubs bidding. WAIVES ALL CLAIM: Xen McNair has left Tropical Park for his home in Gary, Ind., a sad der and wiser horseman. The McNair bad luck the past winter became almost legendary. Owner McNair had a claim In for Cabinisl for $2500 and' saw the horse break a leg in the back-stretch. back-stretch. More recently McNair entered en-tered a claim for Snow Apple for $1500, and that runner broke down badly during the running. Xen McNair returned home for fresh scratch. TOO BIG TO CARRY: Poker Bill is out of action following 22 months in the Southwest Pacific. Poker Bill is Lt. William B. Kint-zing, Kint-zing, a young Navy surgeon attached at-tached to the famous Marine regiment regi-ment which spearheaded the Guad alcanal campaign and took Cape G1l'che,stef 8 airdromes . 2ln Six-foot-six Lieutenant Kint- won his nickname through Jine CorPs combat correspondent. iiicn uii uib iruni lines Know him, and he laughs when they say he's a good man to hide behind. Surgeons who worked with him in iwvs on ine spoi. "After Guadalcanal, Poker Bill revealed another talent oil painting. His portraits decorated many an officers' mess. He found time to decorate the chaplain's al :f "Lieutenant Kintzinr nAvnoA with Marines at Kt.mn TJtt I tn 1 half'm break through the t, n. t. if aP""f .L1"?" A.mor,Ur htU ing men. Wounded in six places. Poker Bill refused medical attention atten-tion from corpsmen assisting oth- tered jungle, across the river and swamps the way the Marines had come. "Stretcher bearers stopped him. I " 'I'm too big to carry,' grunted j Poker Bill. The huge frame that played basketball at Wicklnson staggered the last 300 yarda through tangled undergrowth to! ..- j j me coinmajia posi ana surgery. Derby Restricted to Louisvillians WASHINGTON. April 3 (C.P The 1944 Kentucky Derby defi nitely was established as a home folks affair today, with railroad 'Transportation to sell no advance the third per-' reservations to Louisville-ior the iod. was downed : period of May 1 to 6, the week on the one-yard preceding the classic. j line, and we! Putting teeth into its pro-scored. pro-scored. A pass nouncement that the annual clas- to a substitute Isic must not attract out of town; end tied the; visitors, the ODT ruled that no count in the Reservations to Louisville for Der-final Der-final stanza. ibv wecV and returning from That was the, there May 6 to 8, be sold before first year in May 1. which a team1 could convert ette 8,nt 5n four fresh iinemen, following a and tno stands belched "Block touchdown b y,that kick!" as we lined up against running or th mic-htv Leonards for the rav- off kick, V noticed Mike Gazella. u. i 1 t uu.rA !,; jout Gazella. We brushed shoulders he "charged in Ftrenkert a rironkirker nav he never saw me He barelv had time ZSic"e where he suspected I'd be before he was snowed under by ferocious forwards intent on only one thing. niv eyes popped out when I saw the "ball. I dove for it, caught it in the corner of the end zone while sliding on an elbow, it was my greatest thrill as a player. Baseball Training By UNITED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. The New York Yankees may not be the Bronx Bombers of old but long distance hitting has given them two victories over National league teams and Manager Joe McCarthy Indicated today he was more than pleased with the "clutch punch. The Yankees defeated Brooklyn 4 to 3 yesterday with George Stirn- weiss, filling Joe Gordon s shoes at second base, getting a 520 foot home run to deep left. Don Sav age, third baseman, delivered a triple and scored the winning run in the 11th inning on Catcher Mike Garbark's single. John Lindell got a similar 520 foot inside-the-park homer in the Saturday victory over the Phillies and Stirnweiss blasted a long triple. Brav WALLINGFORD, Conn. Carl Lundquist, young right hander had an inside track for a regular pitching berth with the Boston Braves today because of his work in holding the Yannigans scoreless for six innings in the regulars' 2 to 0 victory at Bristol, Conn., yesterday. The hitting of outfielder out-fielder Elmer (Butch) Nieman also stood out. Senators COLLEGE PARK, Md. John Nlggcllng, one of the knuckle ball pitchers upon whom the Washington Senators Sen-ators are banking heavily this season, was touched for a three run rally by the soldiers of Camp Lee, Va., yesterday, forcing the American leaguers to come from behind to win an 8 to 4 victory. The game was called after six Innings because of rain. IlankHowak, former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, worked for the soldiers sol-diers and held Washington well at bay mW the fifth when the Senators scored six runs. Giants LAKEWOOD, N. J. Manager Mel Ott of the New York Giants said today that "everyone in camp who can pitch will be asked to take a turn on the mouna in uie next two days of drilling, in order that the hitters can get sufficient work before the team's exhibition Plans Completed For Nationwide Pro Grid Circuit. PITTSBURGH, April S (reorganization (re-organization plans were completed today for a new coast-to-coast professional football league which is scheduled to begin operations in 195 with an eight and possibly pos-sibly 12-man circuit. Certificates of operation were issued yesterday to representatives representa-tives from Pittsburgh, New York, Washington, Baltimore, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Seattle, assuring them of league franchises whenever when-ever they complete arrangements for financial backing, playing sites and personnel. Roland D. Payne. Pittsburgh industrialist, in-dustrialist, who was elected acting act-ing president of the association, said negotiations were underway with Boston. Detroit, Chicago, Akron, Ak-ron, O., San Francisco and Los Angeles. An Akron representative representa-tive attended yesterday's meeting. meet-ing. The league, as yet unnamed, would be in competition with the established National Professional league, but Payne indicated that a football "world series" might be established as an annual affair af-fair between the winning teams of the two circuits. The league, if 12 teams are admitted, ad-mitted, will be divided into two six team divisions with the teams to travel by air. SED CARS .Hitler Would lGive a Hun-I Hun-I dred Soldiers i flirty... 1, T,:rf- n X1 UI 11IC XII. CO On These: 1941 Buick Sedan-ette Sedan-ette 1941 Chev. Master Special 1941 Ford Super Deluxe 1941 Plymouth Special Deluxe 1941 Pontiac Se-danette Se-danette 60 OTHERS To Choose From! TELLURIDE MOTOR CO. USED CAR DEPT. 50 East First North Provo, Utah PHONE 1000 UUhs Oldest Automobile Dealer Cubs Bothered Too iwL, (Mm s- ?3 li.' I'9' t f Chicago Cubs take it on double along snowy road leading from Frencr Lick training field to warmth of hotel. Catalina was never like this game with the Boston Red Sox here. The Giants were rained out at Baltimore yesterday after defeating de-feating the International league Orioles there, 8 to 2 on Saturday. Cubs-Tiger - EVANS VILLE. Ind. The pitching pitch-ing of veterans Paul (Dizzy) Trout of Detroit and Paul Derringer of the Chicago Cubs stood out yesterday, yes-terday, in the 5 to 2 Tiger triumph tri-umph over their National league rivals. Trout, a 20-game winner last season, held the Cubs scoreless score-less from the fourth to the seventh sev-enth Innings. Derringer went three winnings without being scored on. The Cubs won the Saturday game 10 to 9. Keds-Indlans INDIANAPOLIS The Cincin nati Reds got all their runs in the fifth inning yesterday in a rally featured by home runs by ;Eric Tipton and Al Lakeman to aeieai tne Jieveiana maians oold I to 4. Lakeman got his drive with'men i a man on base, j Browns CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (The Toledo Mudhens of the American Amer-ican Association made nine runs Sin the last three innings yesterday to defeat their major league parent par-ent club, the St. Louis Browns 12 to 4, in an exhibition game. Bill Seinsoth was pounded for 10 hits in Toledo's uprising. Cardinals CAIRO, III The St. Louis Cardinals turned on their old teammate and world series star, Pitcher Johnny Beazley yesterday and scored four runs Byron Nelson Yins Knoxville Crown With Sub-Par Golf KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 3 (CJ!) Byron Nelson of Toledo, O., today to-day added the Knoxville open golf championship to his list of winter winnings, finishing with two sub-par sub-par rounds yesterday to compile a 72-hole total of 270, 10 under par and one stroke better than his most persistent rival, Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Philadelphia. McSpaden shot both rounds under un-der par himself yesterday and led Nelson at the beginning of the day's play, but the Ohio veteran was even sharper. Nelson had a I trL L " uiuiiiiiig .vuiiu anu I remained one stroke behind Mc-'Spaden, Mc-'Spaden, wl)o had a 67. On the i final 18, Nelson shot a 67 while McSpaden took a 69, failing to negotiate a birdie on the last hole : which would have gained a tie. c HAH in Prov Store Hours Beginning April 1 Store Hours Every Day, Mondays Through Saturdays OPEN 10:00 A. 11. CLOSE 6:00 P. M. The Need for Late Store Hours on Monday Nights Has Passed, it is Generally General-ly Felt by Provo Merchants. Mer-chants. Retail Merchants Committee of the PROVO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Briefs 1 sf tl off his familiar slants In their 5 to 4 victory over the Memphl Air Kerry command team in 10 innings. Bearley, starting for the Filers, yielded two runs and four hits in the first Inning and gave up two more runs on three hits la the fourth. Pirates LOUISVILLE, Ky. Truett (Rip) Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave his new "strawberrx pitch" a successful spring review yesterday, holding the Chicago White Sox scoreless for four innings in-nings in a 3 to 2 victory. Sewell, who devised the pitch while pick ling strawberries near his Plant City, Fla.. home, used it several times and the Sox could do little with it. Athletics WILMINGTON. Del Rain and weather forced postpone-of postpone-of the opener of the city series between the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies yesterday. Red Sox BALTIMORE, Md. More work in all departments and an urgent call to all players who have not yet reported to get to camp as soon as possible was the order of business today from Manager Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sos after Saturday's 23 to 16 defeat to the Curtis Bay Coast guard nine HD1TI& Co. tr ' i 1 |