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Show 4 t Rickey Admits Plans For Football Team Y" J T l 4 !J jwuuger doss Vyoniiaeni caseoau w in nave Players For Fall-Scale Operations BY GLEN PERKINS NEW YORK, Jan. 4 tUJPS ! President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers brought his post-war professional football plans more or less out into the open today and with minimum . of his usual verbal fencinsr Indi r cated that he would hare a team ready for one of the new leagues. The boss of the Dodgers thus " became the first baseball execu-- live to indicate definitely that he would resolve the "feud" with xooioau magnates with a counter - measure by starting a team himself. him-self. -. Rickey said that he would tro- vide Capt Dan Topping, owner ox tne Brooklyn Tigers of the National Na-tional Professional league with a one year contract to operate at Ebbets field through next eeason, but emphasized that he would "not commit the use of. the field beyond that" He said he doubted whether any of the new professional circuits would.be able to 'put through tneir contemplated plans, for oper , ation next year because , of the - acute shortage of -athletic manpower man-power which makes even the op eration ox the established na tional circuit problematical. - The Dodge boas would not reveal re-veal whichof the new three pro loops he was considering, al though it has been reported that he has-been approached by promoters pro-moters of each of them. He said he would stand by and "await developments. Discussing the baseball situation, he said that he was confident the major leagues would have enough players for full scale operations in 1945 but that he hoped before the season began the sport would receive another "green light" from President Roosevelt. However, he said that three more of his own players. Pitcher Frank (Rube) Melton, Shortstop Eddie Mlksiu, and First Baseman 'Jack BoUlnc. had been inducted recently and that there were ptos-ig Illy Smith Dron cects that others mirht so aoonX"J 011111,11 1,ruHs He also revealed that there was little chance of persuading In-fielder In-fielder Arky Vaughan to leave his Potter Valley, Cel., ranch next summer to play with the club. Vaughan remained out of baseball base-ball in 1944 to operate his holdings hold-ings and has indicated he will do the same this year, Rickey said. Rickey left after the press conference con-ference for Chicago where he will meet with the major league committee com-mittee formulating a new agreement agree-ment under 'which the successor to baseball's high commissioner, -the late Judge Kenesaw M. Lan-dls, Lan-dls, will be chosen. He said he was in favor of the immediate appointment of a new commissioner commis-sioner so that public confidence in the sport will not be undermined. under-mined. Fight Results BY UNITED PRESS OAKLAND, CaL Billy Smith. Oakland, 170, decisioned Jack Chase, Denver, 165 (10); Bob Blevins, Oakland, 185, decisioned Al Sheridan, San Francisco, 180, (8); Smiley Burnett, 183, San Francisco, decisioned Chas. Waters, Wa-ters, 184, New York (4); P. Perry, 135, Oakland, decisioned Pat Ho-gan, Ho-gan, 140, Chicago (4). Advocates of National Lottery Overlook Turnover In Calculations By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (U.R) One of the aftermaths of the forced cessation of racing was a concerted con-certed urging of a national lottery. lot-tery. This it's advocates declared, would be a panacea for tax payers, pay-ers, would cut down aye, even pay off in jig time the national debt and prove a general boon to everybody. They reason thusly: The American Amer-ican public bet $1,126,308,645 at race tracks alone during the first 11 months of 1944. Therefore the government could realize an estimated esti-mated $3,000,-000,000 or more from a lottery. Horsefeathers! Apparently those who are bleating for a national lottery think only superficially. As a matter of fact the American Amer-ican public did not wager more than a billion at the 'race tracks. That figure represents the turnover' turn-over' which made a one way passage pas-sage through the pari - mutuel windows. But approximately 87 went back in winnings, to be returned re-turned in the next race in bets, and so on through the seven or eight races daily at the track. So the same money was being used over and over again. Actually, therefore, r oughly about $200,000,000 was bet In mo- - bile cash. And of course, because of the method of percentaging and breakage, most of this went to the government, State and Federal, the tracks and other official of-ficial divvies. See how it works? Just for instance in-stance well say you bet $20 on each race and win every time except ex-cept the last, with your horse paying even money. You win, getting back your twenty. At the end of the day you've invested only $20, (plus the percentage, of course), but the turnover shows you bet $140 on the seven race card and that $140 fcLthe amount taxed. Sounds complicated but it's quite simple. Extravagant claims are made as to the amount our people spent annually on foreign lotteries. True they did toss in plenty of coin, but not a tithe of what the lottery idea boosters figure. Countries where national lotteries lot-teries are in operation present a picture of a wealthy class who are xich, and a poor class who are 'poverty-stricken. There . is no great middle class, well-to-do. One objection to a public lot x 1 11 WTT211 TT One-Armed Fielder Yins Round table Athletic Award SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. A (U.R) Pete Gray, one-armed fielder for the Memphis Chicks who be came the first player with such a handicap to enter major league baseball when he was signed last fall by the St Louis Browns, today to-day was named winner of the Spokane Atheltic Round Table's sixth annual sportsmanship award a siooo war bond. Gray was selected by a national poll of sports editors and re ceived more votes than such out standing athletes as Emil (Dutch) Leonard, baseball star, and Les Horvath, Ohio State ail-American who won the Heisman and Big Ten tropues as tne greatest foot ball player of the year. "The sports editors in selecting Gray," said Virgil A. Warren, chairman of the round table awards committee, "saw in him the year's best inspiration to those physically handicapped in life." Gray, who lost his arm in an automobile accident when he was six, is regarded as a first class player despite the handicap. He hit over .300 in the Southern association as-sociation last year and is an expert ex-pert at fielding:, fly balls. He catches the ball with his mitt. tosses it into the air, jerks his hand free of the glove and catches it again all seemingly in one motion. mo-tion. Last year's round table sports manship award winner was Mort Cooper who pitched a victory for tne st. Lroua Cardinals in the world series shortly after he learned of his father's death. Favored Jack Chase OAKLAND. Calif.. Jan. 4 (U.R) Surprising Billy Smith. Oak- lana, puncned out an upset decision de-cision over heavily-favored Jack Chase. Denver. Colo., California's light-heavyweight champion, in a non-title fight in the Oakland auditorium last night. Leadins all the wav th hnm. town negro ca me off the floor irrl we xourtn to drop Chase for a nine count and sent the champion from the ring at the last bell with a completely closed left eye and partially closed right eye. Case was given only one round, and was tottering badly in the eighth. j College Scores BY UNITED PRESS New York U. 52. Cornell 30. City College of New York 42, St John's 41. St Thomas 58, North Dakota 43. Oklahoma 44, Nebraska 37. Pittsburgh 49, Geneva 45. Camp Lee 31, Virginia 33. Columbia 43, Yale 41. Princeton 47, Princeton Naval 42. Brown 70. Harvard 41. Olathe, Kan., Naval 32, Topeka, Kan., AAF 19. tery is that it tends to make people peo-ple lazy and unambitious. All you get for nothing is nothing. Everybody can't get rich gam bling. There are always more losers than winners. I've been in countries where it appeared that everybody you met on the street was selling, or try-. uig to sell lottery tickets, instead of doing useful productive work. And, believe it or not, a major ity of these sellers had patches on their trousers or skirts, according ac-cording to sex. What we get we ve got to work and fight for. That's why I'm for the work or fight order. Fisherman's Luck 58 'At Ernest L. Rhodes was disappointed now bucket for forthcoming fishing trip. His granddaughter. Virginia Vir-ginia Hall, wrote to the President, explaining Cramp's predicament FDR forwarded letter to WPB, which sent name of firm that still had a. few such buckets on hand and everything was hunky-dory. Now Gramps and Virginia are both pleased. PAGE 4 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH THURSDAY.. JANUARY 4, JfrM LookirV 'Em' Over uMptge must V r pemszr PASS P&fStCAL. yjuMQ JQ6 BACK tAJJ y test Zivic To Have Bashed Beezer Lifted BY JACK CUDDY NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (U.fO The sweet corporals Billy Conn and Fritzie Zivic are the best fight ers to come banging out of Pitts burgh since the days of Harry Creb. Although the corporals have much in common. Conn is known as "the profile" because of choir-boy face; and Zivic is called call-ed "the map" because of his battered bat-tered beezer. Despite their topographical dis similitude and their cordial dis like for each other, heavyweight Conn and former welterweight champion Zivic are probably the most popular white fighters in the world today. Their current abilities may be uncertain, due to the years and the vicissitudes of war; but their popularity is alive and large because of their blazing ring-courage and past achievements, and because of their good-fellowship. Corporal Conn is in the European Euro-pean war zone Paris last week. Corporal Zivic is in New York, on furlough from Normoyle Field, Tex."The map" is here to fight Billy Bil-ly Arnold, Philadelphia's sensa tional high-school-boy knockout artist, at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. And "the map" has astounded cauliflower canyon shaken mayhem alley to ' its grisly foundations by announcing announc-ing that he will have his battered bat-tered beezer beautified, after the Arnold bout Inhabitants of tin-ear terrace are incredulous over the announcement, an-nouncement, which the last of the five fighting Zivics delivered in his usual machine-gun fashion late yesterday at the 20th Century club. For them, Fritzie's bashed beezer has epitomized perfectly what a pug should look like. It has been a symbol of the profes sion. Beautifying the Pittsburgh Croatian' nose would be almost as momentous a change, for them, as removing the statue of liberty from New York harbor or discov w t 1 "in. mji 7 r - A v - "4 f 1 r when he failed to find a min DAILY HERALD ering that Mike Jacobs had grown a set of new teeth. The announcement must have been particularly shocking in Pittsburgh, causing a social temb lor that jittered the tea cups in patrician fingers. We understand that the smokey city differs from Gaul in that it is divided into but two parts pro-Zivics and pro-Conns. pro-Conns. Unquestionably, Fritzie's sudden yen for the plastic sure eon's bayonet must have been a bitter blow to the Zivic half of the steel town. This amazing de sire leaves open the door to insinuations in-sinuations that "the map" will try to have himself fixed up to look like Conn, "the profile." Such insinuations would be fighting words to any pro-Zivics. Zivic says, "I been intendin' a Ions time to get my nose xtxea I'll do it aftetf the Arnold fight because that s my last fight . I'm gonna ault then honest And when the war is over, an I get outta the army. I m gonna be a manager; an' I want to look pre sentable. A manager should be presentable. None of the .reporters mention ed "the profile" during the dis cussion, since none were wearing hcadguards. Horses Sold At 'Bargain Basement' Prices At Orleans NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 4 (U.R) A "bargain ba&ement" sale of top flight thoroughbreds enabled a number of small operators to get out of the defunct racing business today, with breeding farms and large stables purchasing most of the horses Involved. Julius C. Reeder. racing sec retary of the fair grounds assocl ation, said that 'quite a number of horses have been sold in the past few days." The breeders and the larger operators, financially able to weather a long blackout in racing took advantage of the auctions in which many of the horses sold at comparatively low prices. Sugar Robinson To Meet Tommy Bell CLEVELAND. Jan. 4 (U.R) Ray (Sugar) Robinson. New York welterweight will meet Tommy Bell of Youngstown. O., here in a 10-round bout on Jan. 16, Pro moter Bob Brickman said today. Robinson has won five straight fights since his medical discharge from the army last year. He will be up against one of the outstanding opponents ox nis career in Bell, who has won 39 consecutive bouts, 27 of them by knockouts. CHIP OFF OLD BLOCK AMARILLO. Tex. 0J.R) 'Scotch' is the name of a dog owned by Sgt Tim Ready of Boston, who is in the physical training department depart-ment at Amarillo army air field. While "Scotch's" ancestry is a little dubious, he is carrying on a great tradition. His mother's name was "Whisky" and his father's name was "Soda." WAR'S MEMORY STAYS NEW YORK U Although actual fighting has ceased in Russia, Rus-sia, the memory of war's ravages continues, not only in the visible scars on the countryside, but in its art Russia War Relief reveals. At a recent exhibition of 300 paintings in Moscow the sole theme was the heartbreak of war. One of the prize winners was a 14-year-old boy, a war orpnan. 136 Golfers Turn Up For 'Angeles Open LOS ANGELES. Jam 4 0MD A field of US of the nation's top golfers prepared cor a anal tune-up tune-up today before the first round of the $13,333 Los Angeles open tournment which opens tomorrow Pre-tournament favorites Sam my Snead, winner of the Portland and Richmond opens and "Lord" Byron Nelson, titust at the San Francisco open, were expected to be on hand for the opening gun of the three-day tourney. Other big names included Ellsworth vines, national open king, Craig Wood, Jug McSpaden and Olin Dutra. . Bruce Coltart, a freckle-faced youngster from Atlantic City, set a torrid pace in the qualifying rounds posting a 67-70 137 to lead the field. He was followed by Young Jimmy Jim-my Walkup, San Antonio, who duplicated Coltart's mo r nl n g round of 67, but slumped to 72 in the afternoon. Mystery Man John! Montague shot m sizzling 64 In the afternoon for the day's lowest score to offset off-set an unimpressive 74 In the morning session, which put htm in the third qualifying spot with i Mildred (Babe) Didrickson Za-harias, Za-harias, western women's champion cham-pion and one of the two female hopefuls in the preliminaries made the grade with a 152 on a pair of 76'. Alice Bauer. Long Beach, found the competition too tough, however, and was eliminated elimin-ated in the early rounds. Nelson estimated that a 285 would be enough to win on the tough 6,900-yard Riviera Country club course. Horvath Wins Captain Cup LOS ANGELES. Jan. 4 (U K Les Horvath, Ohio State's great half-back todav was the noaseaor of the all-America football board captain's cup. After receiving it from receiving winner Lt Tommy Tom-my Harmon last night. Horvath was honored by the Southern California football 'frat ernity' at a dinner sponsored by uunsty waisn, round of the all-Americas all-Americas football board. Gridiron celebrities Included Jeff Cravath coach of the University of Southern South-ern California Trojans. And Bill Hackett, Horvath team mate on the undefeated 1944 Buckeve squad. The other cantata whan nam appears on the cup is Nile Kin- nicx xormer lowa u n lversity powerhouse, killed in action. Montana Bobcats Beat Utah State BOZEMAN. Mont. Jan. 4 (U.R) Montana State College Bobcats cnaucea up their first victory of the basketball season last night when they brought down a Utah State five by a narrow one-point margin of 42-41 after a see-sawing score kept .the outcome doubtful doubt-ful until the last minutes of play. Makanishi, Montana's star, took the spotlight for the major part of the game, scoring four points in a last unbalanced two minutes of play. Utah State rallied In the second sec-ond half, building up a lead of seven , points, until the Bobcats, with five minutes of play remaining, remain-ing, returned the rally with the fast offensive of Leteilier and De-tonancour, De-tonancour, narrowly boosti n g their score' as the event ended. Bowling MAJOR BOWLING LEAGUE W. L. Pet Bullock's Billiards . . 38 Lawrence's Studio . . 31 Larry's Coin 27 22 .633 29 .917 33 .450 36 .400 Madsen Cleaning ... 24 Madsen Cleaning Co., bowlers tipped the leading Bullock's Billiard Bil-liard bowling team, 3 to 1 in the week's major league matches. Lawrence Studio and Larry's Coin split a match 2 to 2. The Studio team bowled high team series score with 2479 pins and also high team score, 921. Heber Done was high man, with scores of 597 and 228, series and game score, respectively. Hollywood May Sign Up Horvath SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (U.R) (U.R) Les Horvath, Ohio State's player of the year." and one of the stars in the East's team at Sunday's Shrine game, was in Hollywood today, reportedly Interested In-terested in signing a movie contract, con-tract, but faced with a probable draft call in the near future. Horvath said he had "not been approached officially," but had been informed by Francis J. Powers, Pow-ers, sports editor of the Chicago Daily News, that he would be when he arrived in the cinema capital. Powers and Horvath's teammate, Bill Hackett, accompanied accom-panied the grid star south. MUSIAL EXPECTS CALL FROM DRAFT BOARD DONORA. Pa., Jaq. 3 0J.R) Stan Muslal, hard - hitting St Lauia Cardinal outfielder and Na tional league batting chaplon and most valuable player in 1943, expects ex-pects a call from his draft board late this month, it was learned today. 50 ast 1st North 4wwTSE2SSSS5Saaaaa Easy to use. Easy to apply. Keep up your home on your own! 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