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Show porm iteps up PAGE 6 'Z-itl A?g$r,: VAB DAILY HERALD Athletics Hoping To Climb From Last Place To Pennant NEW YORK, April 6 UE) The Philadelphia . Athletics had prospects pros-pects today of turning from stum-blebum stum-blebum to star in one hectic year. From eighth place to first place Is the dream of venerable Connie Mack, their 82-year-old pilot, and It would seem like a nightmare for a club that has been In the second sec-ond division since 1934, finished last in seven of the past 10 years, and last season tied an American league record by losing 21 consecutive con-secutive games. But in a season in which every team has been shaken by the draft and players retiring to jobs In essential industry. Mack has a comparatively strong squad, well-Reasoned well-Reasoned with veteran 4-F's. And he's higher on its chances than of any club since his championship champion-ship years of 1929, '30 and 31. Never since those golden days has Connie felt strongly enough about his chances to talk optimistically, opti-mistically, being content merely to "hope for one more pennant." But now he admits that "This might be the year.'' And, in comparison with the other clubs, it might be. His pitching staff shapes up as one xof the best in the league, with seven experienced starters. Added Ad-ded strength is found in Buck Newsom, obtained from Washington Washing-ton in a winter deal, and Luke (Hot Potato) Hamlin, up from Toronto in the international league. Newsom scored nine wins for Brooklyn last season before being traded and wound up the season with a 13-13 mark. Hamlin, who has pitched for Detroit, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, won 21 for Toronto Toron-to in 193. The A's also have holdovers hold-overs in 4F-s Talmadge Aberna-thy Aberna-thy and Rues Christopher and 1-A's Don Black, Luman Harris and Jesse Flores. Four catchers are on hand, with Frankie Hayes and Bill Mills in 4-F, Hal Wagner In 2-B and Lou Parisse the only 1-A. Joyner (Jo-Jo) White and Bob Estella, are back in the outfield out-field with Jo-Jo a 4AF and Es-talella Es-talella expecting a mid-sumtier army call. Two capable replacements, however, how-ever, are Bill Burgo and Elwood Wheaton, minor leaguers from whom Mack expects much. Then, too, there is veteran Al Simmons. "Old Bucketfoot," the perennial youngster, has made his usual spring college try and will be 'available for relief duty and pinch hitting. All in all, the A's shape up as a much stronger club than In 1943 and against much weaker opposition. oppo-sition. And even if they don't win the pennant they should be a strong challenger and a cinch to land somewhere in the first division di-vision for the first time in a decade. The Albatross has a wingspread of 12 feet; the humming bird three inches. Men's Banquet To Honor National Basketball Champs SALT LAKE CITY, April . . (U.D Nearly BOO Utah sports enthusi asts will attend the "U ' men s club banquet here tonight In hon or of the University of Utah's wonder kids basketball team. Attending the banquet with 1944 National hoop kings will be seven members of Utah's first na tlonal champions, the AAU team of 1916. The other members of the 1916 championship squad are out of town. Gov. Herbert B. Maw, Mayor Earl J. Glade, Gus P. Backman executive secretary of the Salt Lake chamber of Commerce, Roy Thatcher, chairman of the University Uni-versity board of regents, Ellis Barker, president of the alumni association, and Coaches Vadal Peterson and Pete Couch will speak to the group. Highlights of the entertainment will be a moving picture of the Utah's games with Dartmouth and St. Johns. The tournament awards also will be formally presented during the dinner. The "Cinderella Boys" will be feted at another banquet, spons ored by the Exchange club to morrow noon. Other celebrations for the boys were planned for next week by the Chi Omego sorority and the Ogden Civic clubs. A Mouthful """""" fi First Baseman Frank McCormick .8 as surprised as flsh on catching (lis first large-mouth bass in lake near Bloomington, Ind., where C Cincinnati Reds are training.' Gamble's THREE TAB AND HEX SHINGLES MUST GIVE 17 YEARS' WEAR! YES, OUR THREE TAB AND HEX SHINGLES ARE WARRANTED TO WEAR 17 YEARS! That means 68 seasons during which hail, rain, sun rays, piercing winds and heavy snow will not affect these shingles. shin-gles. Three tab or hex shingles are made of finest saturated felt, pure asphalt coating and top quality slate granules. Each shingle has the approval of the Underwriter's Laboratory. FREE ESTIMATE Ovt sffkWM and covrtsen Ham Strvics In-ginMft In-ginMft will stimote your particular Job; fwr-nish fwr-nish alt matriol and carry tkrovah a emplt instaHatioo at tfcs lwJt pries pooibta. Comranfaitt Ttnrn H Dsfrf 3 cooped r yops-.n6 hit ij5c jn uwsrso J2&iL&T season 5scor P School Meeting Inaugurates Hew Prepster System " With the official advent of the 1944 prep baseball season Tuesday Tues-day evening when school diamond moguls met to lay plana for the coming season, the new state high school league setup got tinder way. Under the new system, legislative legislat-ive districts will be made up of Alpine as No. 1,- B. Y. high, Tlntlc and Juab as No. 8, and the Nebo district as No. 9. Officials elected to serve on the region legislative committee are Lehl Principal Lloyd B. Adamson, No. 7 for a three-year term, Provo Superintendent Superin-tendent Dr. J. C. Moffit, No. 8 for a two-year term, and Nebo Superintendent Owen L. Barnett, No. 0 for a one-year term. Louis A. Bates, Payson high principal, was elected to represent repre-sent region three on the board of directors of the new setup, called cal-led the Utah High School Actlvi-ties Actlvi-ties association. At present he Is chairman of the region, and becomes be-comes representative for the Nebo Ne-bo school district on the regional board of managers, for A three-year three-year term. Also on this board of managers manag-ers are Bert Crane from the Provo Pro-vo district, C. laVoir Jensen of B.Y. high and J. M. Walker of American Fork high of the Alpine Al-pine district, LeRoy Bishop of the Tlntlc district, and Ralph Nielsen Niel-sen ofthe Juab district. The new setup goes into effect 'July 1. Training Camp Briefs Football Practice Under Way Despite Wartime Troubles SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 (U.E) What was once called "spring practice" in what waa once called "college conference" football be gan Tuesday amid predictions from five coaches within punting distance of San Francisco that: 1. The balance of competition between college and service elevens thrown slightly out of whack last fall by the navy's Eshmonts, Smiths and Halls, would be better bet-ter this fall. 2. Santa Clara might be back in the running this year. 3. The army, which compared to the navy has practically Ignored football, would have a change of heart this fall. There were only two certain ties : 1. There will be no change in the 17-year-old, 4-F makeup of college squads, unless for the worse, and 2. Stanford once more will not have a varsity. Jimmy Phelan, fielding for spring practice what can be char acterized these days as a ' strong St. Mary s aquad of 30, was morose. "We won't be as strong this year. Jack Valiquette comes back at tackle. He's our veteran nucleus. But the service teams won't be as strong either. They've used up their reservoir of experi enced boys." Service Troubles Fifty Alameda coastguardemen trotted around the Sea Lion's field in track suits before Lieut. Joe Verducci. "We are losing good men faster than we are getting them," he said. "We have become a replacement center instead of a training station and only have the boys few months." California's Stub Allison, who expects a Golden Bear squad of 100, but "not until July," said he thought the "army -will see the light and let trainees play football. foot-ball. I think they realize what a morale builder they'e been missing. miss-ing. I'd like to see Camp Roberts in some conference. They d probably prob-ably have a hell of a good team." j Buck Shaw characterized as j "pure scuttlebutt" the preduc-tions preduc-tions by Allison that Santa Clara will be playing ball next fall. "We can't tell yet," he said. "All we have for sure are 17-year-olds. The farms will get the 4-F's. We'd like to play, but what with?" Lieut. Cmdr. George (Potsy) Clark, former coach and manager of the Detroit Lions and Brooklyn Brook-lyn Dodgers and now athletic di rector at St. Mary's pre-flight, stated through his mouthpiece, Lieut. Al Wesson, "we havn't even got a coach yet. But we'll be playing varsity, ball next fall." Wesson said "the cadets are here only three months and the navy is running low on good experienced material to draw on." Stanford's Al Masters said Stanford Stan-ford would not play this year. Coach Al Tassi, University of San Francisco, could not be reached reach-ed for comment. His secretary said he had gone to see his draft board. Top Jockeys Get Track Blessings CORAL GABLES. Fla., April 6 (UJ Three of the top jockeys at the Tropical Park race track, Johnny Adams, leading winner of 1943, Wendell Eads. and Porter Roberts have been reinstated and will be permitted to ride in the three final days of the meeting, track stewards said today. The Jockeys drew suspensions for rough riding. , Coast League Exhibitions -The By UNITED PRESS LONG BEACH, Cal. Los Angeles Angels, playing their final practice game leaving leav-ing for Sacramento and their Pacific Coast league opener with the Solons Saturday, Were blanked 7-0 yesterday by Red Ruffing's sixth ferrying ferry-ing group nine. Ray Pitter handcuffed the Angels with five-hit pitching, and struck out 12 batters. HOLLYWOOD Infielder Ray Olsen's 370-foot home run in the eighth Inning squeezed the Hollywood Star through to a 6-5 win over the Port Hueneme Seabees yesterday at Gilmore stadium. SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Seals, victorious victori-ous 8-2 over Shoemaker field in their final practice game, today were set for their Pacific Pa-cific coast league opening game against Portland here Saturday. By United Preas BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. T. Manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgeri probably will return to the team's starung line up at second base as a steadying influence to 18-year-old Gene Mauch, promising "kid" shortstop, but he stressed today that the arrangement waa likely to be a temporary one. ATLETICS FREDERICK, Md. The Phil adelphia Athletics tood atop the major league eprlng exhibition baseball standings today with six tralsrht victories, their latest a & to 1 conauest of the world champion New York Yankee in a game ca el after eignt tn ninga because of a snow storm here yesterday. Russ cnnsiopn er. Don Black, and Luman Har ria held the Yankees to four scattered hits. While the A's were settine 13 off veteran Atley Don aid and rookie Emerson Roser, who worked for the Yankees. GIANTS LAKEWOOD. N. J. Steve Fllipowici, former backfleld star for Fordham ana a memoer oi the New York Olant of the National Na-tional orofessional football league gave up his gridiron career today in favor or a oeitn in me oui-field oui-field with the New York Giants SltAVES WALLlNOFOnr. Conn, The Boston Braves, driven Indoors aarain by a snow storm, may be unable to condition a pitcher who is able to go the route y tne time the season opens. Manager Bob Coleman indicated today. The workhorse Of the staff. A! Javery. has develoned a sore arm and may not be In action for another week. CUBS FRENCH LICK. Ind. The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox will try once more to open their spring exhibition series if the weather is not too wet or cold. Both managers, Jimmy Wil son of the Cubs and Jimmy DyKer High Jimmy f f - T v 4 V Ollie Oop Too Late For Classification VOH SALK MIS(ELI.A!MEOt9 1000 yards oll flirt. Vrjr good for lawns and flower gardens. & days only. 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Elmei Riddle, who was hit hard tn Ma first appearance for the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Reds, was named to start on the mound in today's exhibition exhib-ition contest against ths Indianapolis Indian-apolis Indians of the American association. The Red's game with the cubs here yesterday wu called off because of cold weather. weath-er. BROWNS CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo., 0n Moore, who had a pinch hitting average- of more than .650 with the Washington Senators last season, found his batting eye sharp after reporting to the St. Louis Browns yesterday. Moore came to the Browns in the deal that sent catcher Rick Ferrell to Washington. CARDINALS CAIRO, 111. -The St. Louis Cardinals showed better batting aptitude today after a two-hour outdoor workout and intrft-ftqnsxl Came yesterday In which hitting nit stressed. Manager Billy Southworth was sidelined with m cold. PIRATES MTJNCIE. Ind. The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indiana were scheduled to play an exhibition ex-hibition game here today Weather Weath-er permitting. Yesterday's game between the team was called off because of cold weather. Pitcher Arthur Cuccurullo of the Pirates was relected for military service, the fifth player on the hurling staff to be classified 4-F. SENATORS-COLLEGE SENATORS-COLLEGE PARK. Md. The hardest working pitcher on the Washington Senators staff today was Early Wynn, 18-game winner last season, who is batting to keep his waist line down. Despite near freezing weather, he pitched for nearly an hour yesterday tllle the rest of the squad took It easy. Organized Baseball nnnort Interest Of Prep Athletes CHICAGO, April 6 Organized Organ-ized baseball joined with high schools today to re-activate interest in-terest in the national game among prep athletes. The National Federation of State High School Athletic associations asso-ciations announced that a new program of cooperative activity had resulted from a meeting here, attended by Warren Giles, general gener-al manager of the Cincinnati Reds who represented the National league; Jack Zeller, general manager man-ager of the Detroit Tigers representing repre-senting the American league; George Trautman, president of the American association, representing repre-senting the minor leagues; H. V. Porter, executive secretary of the National Federation, and four state high school association of ficers. The group agreed that its program pro-gram to revive active interest in basebau among teen-age athletes should simultaneously curb any tendency to infringe on establish ed eligibility rules among the high schools. This was in keeping with a re cent edict issued by Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of baseball, specifying heavy penalties to major ma-jor league teams who try to "pirate" "pi-rate" talent of American Legion Le-gion junior baseball clubs. The plans provide that major leaguers offer talent and materials ma-terials in helping high school coaches interest youths in playing baseball by means of motion pic tures, lectures and publications oi baseball literature. Armstrong Slated For Army Service In April Draft LOS ANGELES. April 6 (TIP) Henry Armstrong, only triple-champion triple-champion in boxing history, has passed his physical and will be in the army within three weeks, his manager said today. His induction will cancel a fight with Willie Joyce or Izzy Janazzo April 28 in Chicaro. Manager George Moore said. The speedy little Negro, Intent on a comback, also had planned a return go with Beau Jack, former lightweight champion, New York version. Armstrong recently returned from a tour of the east in which he scored six knockouts and two decisions In eight bouts. Giants To Stage Blimp Exhibition LAKEHURST, N. J., April 6 r.E A baseball "bombing" from a blimp in which players on the New York Giants and their Jersey Jer-sey City farm club will attempt to snag flies dropped by crew members from a level of 300 feet will highlight an exhibition game between the teams at the U. S. naval training station today. Players on both teams have volunteered to try to catch the baseballs, which will be traveling at a rate of 121.6 feet per second, sec-ond, or roughly 74 miles per hour when they reach the ground. There are about 150,000 refugees in Great Britain. war iasw. hi STROUT Greatest advert lsr ( cma-trr cma-trr aroaertr. Haa mmi aver 72,000 aalra of Homes Farma Aerease. Bayers from all are tae WarlS. Fraa oaea Ilattac E. A. 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