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Show - Weather Concern I Baseball Managers Br CARL LTJNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent i NEW YORK. Mar! U OIJD Everything looked fine for base ball 'when the government gave a "green light" for 1949, but no one reckoned with the weather man, who baa been flashing "stop aiffnala" ever, since, i Managers made Ad secret of their concern today over the post ponements. Last year 1st this time only s games naa Been rwncu out, 16 in each league. To date In 1945, there nave Deen b posi-txmements. posi-txmements. 24 in each league. The American has played only 64 games to date and the National 63 for a little more! than one- enth of the 616 that must be o laved in each league on the basis of a 154-eame schedule for each team. Yet the: season is about one-seventh- j completed, which means that about one game in three has been postponed. l)uring all of 1934 there were only 35 games postponed in the American and 64 in the National because of the weather. Each earn called off now means mora work later on for short Pitching staffs, tiring veter ans and rookies. And under wartime schedules whereby each team makes only three trips a season sea-son to an opponents park, there will be frequently as many as three or four double : headers in a row with overnight travel trips Most postponed games will be made up on the second trips to prevent heavy accumulation of extra games late in the season when the weather again becomes rainy. That means the big strain will be during hot days in late June, July, and . August when players are at low ebb: physically. The Chicago White Sox have had the most postponements in the American, 10, and the Boston Braves in the National, nine. Other American league postponements post-ponements are Cleveland eight, St Louis and Detroit seven, and Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, four each. Phila delphia and Cincinnati have One of the very best buys in the clothing field today is the Hart Schaflher & Marx Pan American Suit. It's loomed of the choicest South American wools . i . and tailored right here in the U. S. A. And it's just another one of the many proofs that Hart Schaffner & Marx have not relaxed their high standards of quality, despite the war You will find Pan American to be, stitch for stitch, every bit as good'. . . if not better . . . thn its pre-war counterpart! And Tib seven each in the National, New York and Brooklyn six, Chicago and Pittsburgh five, and St. Louis three. Another bad factor now is that the "Florida-like" northern spring training weather put the players in excellent condition, but the sieee of rain since then has caused many to complain about losing their fine edge. There was more of the same kind of weather yesterday, causing caus-ing seven postponements in the two leagues. in the only game played, a night contest at St Louis, the Browns made it two straight over Washington, winning, 10 to 2, on Jack Kramer s five-hit pitching, The American league champions clinched the issue in the first inning, scoring three runs on a single by George McQuinn and an error by Gil Torres.; The Browns made 15 hits off Marino Pieretti and Armando Roche, including in-cluding a homer by Vera Stephens, Steph-ens, his fourth. Yesterday's Star Mike Kree- vich, veteran outfielder, who paced the Browns to a 10 to 2 victory over Washington with three singles and a double. Tennis Players Are Cleared of Charges NEW YORK, May 11 (U.R) Billy Talbert of Indianapolis and Francisco Segura of Ecuador, the second and third-ranking tennis players in the nation, stood clear ed today of charges that they ac cepted excess expenses for Flor ida tournaments. Holcombe, U. S. Lawn Tennis association president, said he had fully investigated the charges by Edward Stillman, editor of a pro fessional tennis magazine, and that the two players had been shown to have received proper expense money for exhibitions at Palm Beach and Pompano. Stillman apologized to Talbert and Segura and to the USLTA. pah adgrhcaw sunns by Hart Schaffncr &Vr1ai-2t look at Pan-American 's modest price HER iTimpsToeOpen Against na Next Provo ' Timps will open the home baseball season: Sunday" at 2:30 p. m. against magna, an old and honored rival, and ceremonies that were to have Inducted the opus last Sunday, will go on as scheduled. - - Mayor Maurice -Harding will throw the opening ball across the plate, where Commissioner Joseph H. Swapp will attempt to lift one over the east fence. In the event Commissioner Swapp doesn't sock the apple. Commissioner Blake D. Palfreyman will be waiting for the Dut-out. Flag raising ceremonies by the sea scouts and a serenade by the Dixon Junior high band, along with introduction of officers and players of both teams will high light the occasion. Manager Overly will probably start Bill Harrigan. Leif Ericson will take the mound lor the Magna Millers. Uncle Sam Thinks Don Overly is Good Physical Specimen "Well, Don. It was nice having yon as manager of the Timps even though for such a short time, and we think you started out to do a swell Job." Those words will probably be said to Manager Don Overly Over-ly of the Provo Timps many, many times soon. Reason? Manager Overly visited Ft Douglas Thursday at the request re-quest of his draft board and was found to be a fine physical physi-cal specimen. He Is likely to be called Into the service In 21 to 90 days. Members of the team, according ac-cording to Pete Olsen, secretary secre-tary of Timps, hope that "Choc" wUl be able to stay with his team for at least 60 days. In that time the first half title will have been decided de-cided and Provo has a good chance to cop the flag. $40 Mag Sunday 1 . DAILY HERALD Soldier Smkwich o Q F r a n k i e Sinkwlch. discharged from marines and maritime serv ice because of flat feet, arrives at Fort Lewis, Wash., after being ac cepted by army. Former Georgia u. All-America starred with De troit Lions. HOW THEY mm AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. 4 5 6 10 8 10 11 10 Pet. .714 .667 .625 .474 .467 .412 .353 .333 2. Chicago 10 Detroit 10 New York 10 Washington 9 St. Louis 7 Philadelphia 7 Boston 6 Cleveland 5 Thursday's Results St. Louis 10, Washington (Other games postponed.) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. 4 6 7 "7 7 9 9 13 Pet. .750 .625 .533 .533 .462 .438 .438 .235 New York 12 Brooklyn ........... 10 Chicago 8 St. Louis ' 8 Cincinnati 6 Boston 7 Pittsburgh 7 Philadelphia ........ 4 Thursday's Results All games postponed. PACIFIC OOAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .658 .564 .553 .553 .487 .462 .436 Portland 25 San Diego 22 Oakland 21 Seattle 21 Sacramento ........ 19 Los Angeles 18 San Francisco 17 Hollywood 11 13 17 17 17 20 21 22 27 .289 Portland Southpaw Br UNITED PRESS Screwy southpaws) have been the butt of many a baseball joke but the San Diego Padres found nothing to laugh -roout last night when they met Mr. Roy Helser of the Portland Beavers. Cocky after two straight wins over the Pacific Coast League leaders, the Padres could touch Helser's lefthanded slants for only four hits as he pitched Portland Port-land to an 8-0 triumph. He racked up . eight strikeouts and had strong batting support from his teammates, including a homer by Frank Shone. The victory en- Labled the Beavers to stretch their first-place margin to four games. The Seattle Rainiers slipped into second place ahead of San Diego by downing the Sacramento Senators for the third time, 6-1. Veteran Carl Fischer limited the Sacs to five scattered blows. George McDonald, Rainier first sacker, clouted a four-bagger inside in-side the park. Catcher Hal Sueme 50 East First North it r J Ik WE NEED HELP! Qualified MACHINISTS BOILERMAKERS SHEETMETAL MEN BLACKSMITHS PIPEFITTERS CARMEN SIGNALMEN AND HELPERS BRAKEMEN AND SWITCHMEN CARPENTERS AND OTHERS MANY JOBS REQUIRE NO EXPERIENCE GOOD PAY - FREE TRANSPORTATION EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITIONS Work For UNION PACIFIC The Strategic Middle Route Apply RRB REPRESENTATIVE USES OFFICE PROVO, MAY 14 - 15 ALL HIRING IN CONFORMITY STABILIZATION PLAN PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH FRIDAY, MAY li. 1945 PAGE 5 Region 3 to Be At Tennis Meet Region three will be. repre sented by two singles players and two doubles teams in the. state high school tennis, tournament which will take place at the Uni versity of Utah Saturday. The meet, which-will get under way at 9 a. m. will see Tucker. crack singles man from Lincoln matched with Cooper of West high. The Lincoln doubles team of Cole and Halbersleben will meet Wilson and Kearsley of Og den. The Lincoln racqueteers swept all first places in the re gional matches. Ashby of American Fork will meet Miles of Carbon in another singles match and Allred and Meyers of Lehi will take on Da' vies and Wicker of Millard in doubles competition. Prep trackmen will compete Saturday afternoon for the 1945 track and field championship, which was won last year by Granite. Trials will be held at 10 a. m in the shot, discus, broad jump. javelin and 440, with pole vault ers and high jumpers slated to compete at 1:30 p. m. Ben Hogan To Play At Fort Douglas SALT LAKE CITY, May 11 (U.R) Lt. Ben Hogan, the nation's leading golf money winner in 1940, 1941, and 1942, reports at Camp Kearns, Utah, today on special spe-cial army assignment. - Hogan will play an 18-hole exhibition match at Ft Douglas Doug-las golf course Sunday afternoon. after-noon. He will team with professional pro-fessional Tee Branca, of the Salt Lake City Country Club, against Professional John Geertsen, of Fort Douglas, and George Schneiter in a best-ball match. The match will be Hogan's first in Utah. It will be directed by the Utah PGA association. Today Hogan meets with , several state golf leaders, including Utah Golf Association Associ-ation President Blaine Packard, Pack-ard, Vice President Brick Wood and former President Thornton D. Morris. "Since entering the army he has played in tournaments only on furloughs. He tied with' Harold McSpaden in the victory open at Chicago last year. BRADLEY DECIDES TO RETIRE AFTER DERBY PALM BEACH, Fla May 11 Col. E. R. Bradley, 86-year-old Lexington, Ky., dean of Amer ican horse breeders, ' has decided to retire after one more try for a fifth winner in the Kentucky derby, his friends here said to- day. Blanks Padres collected a double and two singles off two Solon moundsmen. 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