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Evening star., 1951-03-18
Richards Vaults
81 In. Higher
Than Ever Before
Now Less Than Four
Behind Wurmerdom::
Gehrmunn Beats Will
BY the Associated Press


CHICAGO, Mar. 1.-THE Rev.
Bob Richards. former Illinois pole
vaulting star, moved nearly four
inches closer to Cornelius War;
Imerdam's world record when he
cleared the bar at IS feet, 434
inches tonight in the Chicago Re-
lays before 10000 at Chicago Sta
dium.
Warmerdam holds the record at
Is feet 812 inches, set in this same
stadium in 1943. Until the vault
ing clergyman from La Verne,
Calf. went to Isl in the Millrose
Games at New York January 27,
Warmerdam was the only one who
had done Is feet or better. War
merdam during his career topped
that figure 43 times, and Richards
did it for the sixth time tonight.
Gehrmann Comes Back.
Another feature of tonight's
meet came when Don Gehrmann,
after three straight defeats, un-
.corked blazing finish for a five
yard win over his arch-rival, Fred
Wilt. in the Bankers Mile. His
time was 4:o9.7 as he won the
Bankers event for the fourth
straight time.
Gehrmann ran we'll pacec
race. Stewart Ray of the New
York Athletic Club set the early
pace in the four-man field, with
Wilt moving into the lead on thu
eighth lap of the 11-lap race
Gerhmann stayed right behinC
him and turned on his patented
sprint on the backstretch of the
last lap and won with a driving
finish. Denis Johannsson, Purdue
freshman from Finland. placed
third and the tiring Ray was
fourth and last.
Tries for New Record.
In the pole vault. Richard tried
for a new world mark with the
bar set at IS feet. 87s inches. but
failed to come close in three tries.
Richards had the vaulting spot
light to himself tonight as Don
Laz of Illinois missed at ISL after
clearing at 14-6. A week ago, Laz
2ecame the first collegian to pass
Is feet when he tied with Rich
ards at ISL in the Knights of
Columbus Games at Columbus.
That ISL height was the best
Richards had done until tonight,
and in going all the way to 15-424
he cut deeply into the big bulge
Warmerdam holds over him.
Richards had done ISL on two
other occasions, at the Millrose
meet January 27 and at the Ma
tional AAU championships in New
York February II. His other
vaults over Is feet were Is feet,
IS inch at the Knights of Colum-
bus meet in New York March 8,
and IS feet 3s inch at the Mil
waukee Journal meet a week ago.
Nal Whitfield Wins.
Sergt. Nal Whitfield, double
winner in the recent Pan-Ameri-
can Games, Hoped to an easy 600
yard win in 1:11.6, beating Jack
Carroll, University of Michigan
freshman. by yards. Third was
the early pace setter, brakes Jim
Lavery.
! In the 1.00O-yard run, Ohio
States Len Truck and Lawton
Lamb of Illinois made it a two
man race. with the former Big
Ten mile and half-mile champion
(See RICHARDS, Page BAD
Evening star., 1951-03-18
picture on Page BID.
BY The Associoted Prss,

LAKELAND, Fla, Mar. II. -
The Boston Braves cuffed Ted
Gray for two three-run rallies to-
day to hand the Tigers 6-1 loss,
their third straight setback.
Hal Newhouser. making his
first appearance of the Spring
training campaign, blanked the
with two hits through the
first four innings as Detroit led
10.
Sam Jethroe's home run and a
two-run triple by Sid Gordon
employed as a pinch-hitter, were
the big wallops for the Braves
who also cashed in on Gray:
wlldness.
Johnny Sain and Vern Bick.
ford stilled the Detroit bats ex.
cept for that Of Hal Daugherty
rookie third baseman who got
two singles and drove in the only
run for the Tigers.
BOSToN (N - 900 O0a n3o-6
DETROIT (Al - Ol0 900 O00-I i
san, Bickford t6I and Cooper: New.
houser. Gray t5l and House
Evening star., 1951-03-18
BY the Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Mar. IT,
John Marshall, Yale's great swim
mer from Australia. bettered his
own worlds record for the 44C-
yard free-Style tonight as he
became a triple winner in the
18th annual individual champion
ships of the Eastern Intercollegi-
ate League.
The 20-year-old from Melbourne
clipped two-tenths of a second
off his mark of 4:31.2 while de-
feating teammate, Wayne
Moore, by II yards. In the after
noon trial, Marshall-who holds
eight worlds record-was timed
in 4.33.8 while winning by so
yards.
Marshall earlier had won the
1,500 meters and the 220-yard
free style, both in times faster
than college records.
North Carolina's Ace Star.
Although Yale's powerful squad
dominated the competition, North
Cardinals ace-Jim Thomas of
Baltimore-also took three firsts.
Thomas came back to win the
final from Yale's Dick Thoman
after Thoman had clipped the
college standard in the trials of
the 100-yard backstroke. Thoman
spiashed to a 584 clocking, which
was six tenths of a second under
the record made by Bill Sonner of
Ohio State last year.
The North Carolina speedster
also added the 150-yard individu-
al medley crown to the 200-yard
backstroke title he copped last
night. Thoman again was second
in the medley as Thomas finished
in 1913.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Aussie Swimmer, BoItimoreon
Triple Winners at Ivy Meet

Don Shelf, Yale's sprint star
raced home first in the 1O0-yard
free-style in the closest race OF
the night. He nosed out his cap
tain, Ray Reid. The judges took
Is minutes to select the winner.
Princeton's Bob Brawner was q
double victor, adding the 100-yard
breast stroke to the 200-yarc
breast stroke championship gained
last night. The worlds record
holder in the 200, Brawner was
pushed by Yale's Stanton Smith
as he covered the 100 in 1:01.2.
The big San Franciscan from
Princeton got off late in the 10(
but poured on the power in the
second half of the route. Thirc
went to Aaron Kurtzman o1
Seton Hall.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Ferrier, Shields Tied
In Jacksonville Golf;
Worsham Shoots IA
BY the Associated P-ess


JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Mar. IT.
Jim Ferrier, tournament golf
veteran, and Jack Shields, tourna-
ment novice from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, shot their second straight
four -under-par 68 for the 36-hole
lead in the $4,000 Jacksonville
Open today.
Ferrier, the big husky Austria
lian who plays out of San Fran
cisco, had 1896 for his 68. Shields
did it with 34-34.
Their 1856 totals put them four
strokes out front of two young
Sters-Bob Toski of Northampton,
Mass, and Milon MaruSic of AL
bany, N. Y. Toski and MaruSic
each added COS to opening round
lis over the 6,508-yard Hyde Park
course for 140.
WorSham Has 141.
Lew Worsham of Oakmont. Pa,
first round leader with ST. needed
"A blows today and had total
of 141.
Art Doering of Richmond, Va,
matched yesterdays Ii ana s,ocd
at 142. The former Stanford
University golfers round today
was just the opposite of his first
in spite of the Identical total
Yesterday it was 33 on the front
nine and 38 on the back nine
today it was 80 on the front and
80 on the back.
Eddie johnson, 18-year- old Flor
ida State University freshman
from Tallahassee, also had a 63
today. He was tied with a group
of professionals at 143, and took
over as leading amateur. Hobart
Manley. jr., of Savannah. Ga,
whose II topped the amateurs
yesterday, added II for 149.
The pros tied with johnson at
143 were Jimmy Clark of Laguna
Beach. Calf; Max Evans OF De-
troit; Ed Oliver of Seattle; Art
Wall. jr, of BronXville. N. Y;
Jackson Bradley of Chicago; Mar
ty Furgol of Long Beach, Calf:
Joe KirkWood. jr., of Hollywood,
and Dave Douglas of Newark, Del.
M:ddlecoff Quits.
Cary Middlecof of Memphis,
Tenn, winner of the tournament
for the last two years, quit in his
second round. After shooting a
10 yesterday and a 81 on the
front nine today, Middlecoff three
putted a couple of greens and
slammed his ball off the 14th.
I'm just tired Of golf" he
commented afterwards in the
locker room. Il three-putted
from about five feet three times
and decided that was enough"
A score of 1872 over par
qualified the low 94 players for
tomorroW's third round. The best
/ 80 of them will go into Mondays
final 18 holes in the battle for
$4,000.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Won Cromm Tops Sovitt
In Egypt Net Match
BY the Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Mar. II.
The Veteran Gottfried Won
Cramm beat Dick Savitt of Or
ange, N. j., 81, ST, 6-3 in a Visi-
tors Tennis Cup match today.
In another match of this side
show to Alexandria, Internation-
al Tournament, Bulge Patty of
Los Angeles defeated Sven David
son of Swedsen, Ga. Ga.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Connie Mack 1.-THE Sd,
That Isl Out to Make
Penn Baseball Team
BY the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. IT.
Connie Mack is a candidate
for the University of Penn
sylvapia baseball team.
Now don't get the impress
sion Coach Howie Dallmar is
planning to use an octogena-
rian in the Penn infield.
The Connie Mack trying to
make the Penn team is 20
year-old Cornelius Alexander
McGillicuddy, III, grandson of
the baseball patriarch who
managed the Athletics for so
years.
Young Connie is the son of
Roy Mack, executive vice pres
ident and treasurer of the AS.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

of it at the
plate with his
S i n g in 6 and
c o n V e rsation,
devised a few
m o m ents of
h e C ic post
game action for
Michaels today
with the Coop
Grafton of West
Palm B e a c h
police.
Upton plant
ed a bottle of
moonShine in
iMinhae1c' acIIin-
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Pitcher Connie Marrero of the
Mats has perfected one of Come
dian Jackie Prices tricks
He bunts with the knob of his
bat in practice AS a sample
of some of the rockies Dykes has
in camp. there's Arnold Porto
carrero. who won 9 and lost II
with West Palm Beach; Harry
Byrd, who won 4 and lost 9 with
Buffalo; Walter Kellner, Alexis
brother, who won 3 and lost II
with Lincoln; Bob Wellman, who
batted .245 with Buffalo, and Tom
Davis, 1862 hitter with Seattle.
Among Mats who have batted at
least 17~times in five exhibition
games, Eddie Yost is the leading
hitter with .421 Sherry
Robertson is batting 1888, Mickey
Vernon 1868, Irv Noren .348, Sam
Dente ,316 and Cass Michaels .305
Gil Coan, taking it easy with a
pulled leg muscle, took part in
batting practice today but didn't
get in the game Catcher
Frank Sacka has recovered from
an attack of flu and figures to get
more work shortly.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

the score was tied at A. Eddie
Yost and Mickey Vernon, who had
walked and singled, respectively.
both scored on the hit. The Mats
added insurance in the ninth
when walk to Yost and Sam
Mele's double produced another
run.
The Washington batterS accu-
mulated 10 hits. including five
doubles. off Lou Brissie and Hoo
per, with Mele getting two doubles
and single and Noren and
Pitcher Julio Moreno two hits
each.
Moreno and gangling Jim
Pearce gave the Philadelphians
only nine hits, but both owe deep
bows to the fossy fielding and
accurate throwing of their sup
porting cast.
Sharp Fielding Helps.
Len Okrie whipped out Wally
Moses attempting to steal in the
first inning and Ferris Fain tried
to stretch a double in the second
but lost decision to Noren's
throw and Sam Denies relay to
Yost. Fain also tried to go from
second to third in the fourth
inning after Billy Hitchcock flied
out, but become the victim Of
Vernon's cutoff and crisp, accu-
rate throw to Yost.
In addition, Mele contributed
a diving stab Of Eddie Joost's
looper in the third inning.
Pearce worked four innings and
yielded only one hit, but Jim's
pitching was more supported than
sensational. He took command Of
a 4-2 lead in the sixth and
promptly let it evaporate when
he walked Fain and Hitchcock.
and Tom Davis rammed a double
to center
Yost Nullifies Walks.
Pearce opened the AS seventh
by walking Bob Stewart and Wally
Moses, but Yost hauled him out
of trouble by taking Bob Well
mans well-kissed grounder and
starting double-play by way
Of Cass Michaels at second.
The Mats gave Moreno a 40
lead in the first two innings, with
the aid of Brissie's wildness and
the AS shoddy fielding. Mele and
Noren got windblown singles in
the first inning and the Athletics
towering lefthander then walked
Sherry Robertson and Michaels
to force across a run.
With one out in the second,
Moreno, 30-year-old Cuban right
handler, doubled to center. Yost
was safe when Third Baseman
Davis bobbled his grounder, and
Mele slashed a double to left
center which scored Moreno,
Vernon grounded to Fain, but
Catcher Joe Astroth dropped
Fain's throw to the plate. enabling
Yost to score. Mele took third on
the play and scored after Noren
flied to Moses.
Finale With AS Today.
Sam Chapman's single and
Fain's double gave Philadelphia a
run in the fourth and the Ath-
leticS cut their deficit to AZ in the
fifth when Astroth doubled and
came around on Joost's single.
Connie Marrero. AL Sima and
Carlos PaScual will pitch for the
Mats tomorrow when they COM
plete their exhibition slate with
the AS. Dick Fowler, who is at
tempting comeback after nurs-
ing a sore arm all last season, and
Alex Kellner will pitch for Phila-
delphia.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Sports Results
COLLEGE Basketball.
n tinnaI TathnISc

National Catholic Tournament,
lie Mayne 63 Mount st. Mary's 81
st. Francis cBr'kl7nP lPs 53 Seattle -
National Invitation Tournament
St. Johns (Brookiyn1 20 Seton Hall 6s
(TwO Overtimes)
Final
NAIB TOURNAMENT FINAL.
Finals.
Consolation. '"'" vi
Baldwin Wallace 82 ReKis 7s
High School Basketball. ''S 20
MARYLAND Glass Tournament Final.
barton o" Ocean City 45
:, MARYLAND Class A Tournament Final.
hdHsserstoWn ES WicOmicO %
College Baseball ID
Brooke Army Medical 8 Ohio State =
southern Illinois 3 Northwestern La. o
College Fencing.
Wayne IL Ohio SAT- i io
Ohio State Is ---------- --niO pet4oft staof lS 9
Triangular meeD ="
N,;o.; College Gymnastics.
College Hockey. ''''"''" 40
NCAA Consolation.
Boston U. Colorado COLLEGE 4
n College Sailing.
Penn - Georsc, Washington II
Michigan 81 Wavna n>
College Track.
Solorado 3: New Mexico 3S
MIGhlgah Normal 81 Marquette IL
iaie ~ ~ Cornell - 1/3
COLLEGE BOXING
oouth Carolina 6is Quantico Marines IL
PRO BASKETBALL
National Association
indianapolis 81 Baltimore OF
RocheSter III Boston 80
Minneapolis 92 fO'time) Tri Cities 9I
PRO HOCKEY
American League
Hershey g ------------.-P Providence 4
Pittsburgh 3 - Cleveland 2
Springfield India napOlis <
Eastern Amateur League
Atlantic City Boston 3
Eastern League PIayoff
JOhnstown New York 1
National League
Montreal Boston /
Toronto b -------------- New York i
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Exhibition Baseball
Games Today.

OameS Today.
Washington (Al VS.. Philadelphia (A)
at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Chicago (A VS.. st. Louis (A) at Bur-
cleyeland a VS.. san Diego (PcD at
San Diego, Calf
, New York (A) VS.. Los Angeles PcL> at
Los Angeles
Philadelphia M) VS.. St. Louis (N) at
st. Petersburg, Fla.
New York (N) VS.. Brooklyn (D at
Boston GA) VS. Cincinnati (N at Tampa,
Fla.
Detroit (A> VS.. Boston cN) at Braden-
chicago (ND VS. San Francisco (PcD
at San Francisco fa.m.(
Chicago (Nt VS. Oakland PCL) at
Oakland. Clafi. (nishU.
Pittsburgh (N) VS.. Oakland (PCL) at
Oakland. Calf. (amD.
Pittsburgh (N) vs.. San Francisco PcL)
at San Francisco (nighO.
Yesterdays Results
Washington. z; Philadelphia CA. 4.
Philadelphia CN), 6; Cincinnati, 5.
Boston (N). 6; Detroit. /.
New York (A): q: Los Angeles {PCL). 8.
Chicago (N. z: San Francisco tPCL), 5.
Chicago "a. Il. St. Louis (A.- 6, II
Oakland (PCLl. 10; Pittsburgh. g.,
St. Louis Cincinnati
innings.
Evening star., 1951-03-18

seventh -innin 6
double with two
on base which
was the ilnpor-
tant thump in
a IA defeat of
the Athletics.
Noren, whose
seventh = inning
homer gave the
Mats a 5-4 tri-
umph over De-
troit Thursday,
clouted a long
blast to center
off Bob Hooper
at a time when
Evening star., 1951-03-18

ment sachel. He also arranged for
police to pick up Cass as he left
the ball park and question him
concerning non-payment of tax
on the liquor The authorities
carted Cass off to headquarters,
but Bucky Harris and Jimmy
Dykes, in on the gag. arranged
for his release after a few anxious
Evening star., 1951-03-18

only right-felder I ever saw make putout at
home plate. 1t was during a long rundown
between home and third base. When the run
ner euded the infielders and catcher and slid
toward the plate, Ross had the ball and tagged
him out. He had sprinted all the way from the
outf1eld."
It's been 10 years since the Cardinals
traded John Mize who probably will be the
Yankees regular first baseman this season,
and during the decade the Redbrds have tried
12 different players on the bag The 43-day
meeting at Sunshine Park, which ended today,
WAS by far the most successful in the tracks
Evening star., 1951-03-18

Walked Tor Hooper IN 9th.
WASHINGTON -.------ 100 900 coli
Philadelphia 900 H. 0O0-4
(2), Michaels, Mele (2l, Noren go. Two
base hits-Moreno, Mele (2), Okre, Noren,
Fain C2), Astroth ca, Davis. Double plays
Yost; Yost to Michaels to Vernon; Joost
to Hitchcock to Fain. Left on bases
Washington, :; Philadelphia, Z. Bases on
halls-Brissie C21. Hooper -, Moreno 81.
off Brissie for runs in innings;
Pearce, L for 2 runs in 4 innings; Hooper.
for 8 runs in 4 innings; Moreno. 8 for 2
runs IN , innings. Winnins pitcher
Pearce. Losing pitcher. Hooper. UmpireS
Duffy. Stevens, Paparella. Time-2:04.
Attendance-1,l3S.
Evening star., 1951-03-18
Sevenfh-|nninu
Double Does Il;
Me|eHits Hard
Sharp Fielding Helps
Moreno and Peurce at
West Palm Beach
BY Burton Howkins
StcF Stoff CoYrexnondent

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Mar. 17.-Irv Noren, part-time
Swedish pastry baker. delivered a
sweet blow for the Mats today. a
Evening star., 1951-03-18
||,!zIi5H >laz Hz>1eA!sERALL
'.'r#SEz e. BEk
= j. Zte~lE55Z- By BURTON HAWKINS
By BURTON HAWKINS

"EoI PALM BEACH, Fla Mar When Sam Mele back
1-Catche Joe Upton OF the action today Harris him
Athletics who always sending him left field
Mats bad time instead of his customary lost in
Evening star., 1951-03-18
v Noren Delivers Pinch Again Senators Beat Athletics
Win, Lose, or Draw
By FRANCIS STANN
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

TAMPA, FLA MAR 17-If Ford Frck still were baseball
writer and eligible participate in the Hall of voting
he'd cast ballots RouSch the YoungS
Both great says the National League president Youngs
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-07-09
on
Norwegian
Americans
By A. BJERKESETH
AS THE YEARS WENT BY.
BY A. BJERKESETH

not noticed the actual changes
too much.
What really had happened was
that Norway like any other pro-
gressive country had taken mighty
steps forward and left the poor
emigrant with only mind
picture of the "old country. Gone
were many of the land marks that
he had longed to see again, gone
were the old swimming hole, the
trees that used to grow around
the old homestead, the old wharf
where he used to linger on a SUM-
day morning with a fishing pole
cut from the nearest tree or a line
with bent needle as hook. Gone
was practically everything that he
had treasured in his mind so many,
many years. Yes even the noun
tains seemed to have changed; -
they were there alright, but the
tiny man had left on them scars
and clefts and in some cases even
attempted to move them. The old
"s8ter" was long ago torn down,
and many, many other changes
had taken place-all to the worst
as far as he was concerned.
But most of all the people had
changed. Friends that he had left
young and happy wandered around
now with a certain dignity" that
the status of grand-fathers lend
to any man, and some of the girls
that he remembered with long,
yellow pigtails and eyes as blue
as the sky above, now carried
much more weight" than he had
expected and much of the blue in
their eyes was dimmed forever.
A new generation had grown
up, a modern generation with
ideas foreign to him and in many
cases not to be understood.
OF course, everybody was nice
to him, glad to see him and all
that, but somehow it was a let
down. He felt like a stranger.
He was disappointed or at least
disillusioned. 1t took him a long
time to get adjusted. and some
of the visitors" never made il.
They went back again to the
good old USA where changes dur
ing their 80 years or more had
been ten times more revolutionary
only they had been part of it and
taken them for granted.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-07-09
Housing Figures
Moscow-norWay

Arbeiderbladet, MAN org n of
the Norwegian Labor Party, notes
with interest that, according to the
Oslo communist paper Friheten,
total of SIS million square feet of
new dwelling units were finished
and occupied in Moscow last year.
Accepting the figure at its face
value, Arbeiderbladet goes on to
point out that Norway population
1926 million-last year built new
homes with a total floor space of
20.6S million square feet-or near
ly four times more than Moscow
with its prewar population of Al
million, now likely to be consider
ably larger.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-07-09

night had to leave because he didn't
show up until the following night,
when half of them returned to
see him. In addition to his two
books, History of the Swedish
Club" and Through Skrellbooms
Classes he has written film
manuscript for Sweden's famous
movie comedian, Edward Person.
Now approaching the sixties,
Skreliboom has a large following
among Northwesterners. Occasion
ally out-oftown people dropping
into his office will say they are
going over to the Swedish Club
to see Skrellboom. A person who is
not acquainted with him and only
knows him through his writings
thinks the non-smoking, nom
drinking Skrellboom must be a
fresh" character. Of course no
lie could be farther from the
truth (or ham in him).
Besides" this person said,
"Slrellboom is the funniest name
I've ever heard. What does it
mean ?"
Oh my, do we have to go through
all that again.
Oh yes, we forgot, it really
means John Nordeen.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-07-09
Norway Amends
Free Press Law

The Norwegian Parliament has
approved a law amendment, rec
commended by a majority of the
Justice Committee. granting ed
itors the right to protect their
sources of information.
According to the new law, the
editor of a publication can refuse
to answer questions concerning the
identity of the author of an article
or dispatch. The same applies to
others who have learned the iden-
tity of the author or source
through their work for the pub
Usher, newspaper, news agency or
printing shop concerned.