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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-19
Minor Leagues Shrink
For Seventh Year in Row

COLUMBUS. Ohio, April 10
ICPl.-Minor league baseball is
starting the 1856 campaign with
I27 leagues and 209 clubs in OPP
Grafton, the seventh straight
year a decided drop has occurred
in each category.
Since the 1855 season. six
leagues made up of 38 teams
have disbanded--two after being
in operation a half century Two
others merged into a single
league. and a new one was
formed.
/ Back in 1943. in the midst OF
the war. only 10 leagues and sc
teams were in the minor league
fold. After the war the boom
started, and by l949 the peak
was reached with SO leagues anc
444 clubs scattered all over the
country.
Then came the decline. II
1850 there were So leagues. The
total dropped to so in 1851. tc
43 in 1852, to 38 in 1858. to 81
in 1854. and SO lest season. This
years six-league loss is the
greatest since seven dropped out
between the 1851 and 1852 sea-
sons.
The Kitty League, first elias;
D circuit in the country wher
it was organized in 1908. wa.
among this years casualties. al
was the class c Cotton States
League which had been in exist.
ence around so years. Other.
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tossing in the towel were thu
class D Appalachian. the class {
Provincial. and the class B Pied
mont and Tri-State.
The 38 teams in those leagues
attracted a total of 1902, 039
fans last season, an average OF
only 39,527, which George M
Trautman. president of the Ma
tional Association of Professions
al Baseball Leagues, said "just
isn't enough"
Trautman estimated a Glass
D club should attract $4,000
Glass c $4,000 to $4,000. ano
Class B at least $4,000 to sur
vive-but said concessions, ad-
vertising and aid on optioned
players would be necessary to
make a venture successful, even
with the higher attendance.
Back in l949. when the mi
nors hit their peak. 4l,872, 762
fans made the turnstiles click
Then attendance started to drop
and the 1865 total for regular
season, all-star, playoff and in.
ter-league series games was dowr
TO l9.042,825.
In addition to the six leagues
which folded this year, the Glass
B Texas-New Mexico League
and the Glass c Longhorr
merged their l6 teams into the
new eight-club Glass B south.
western circuit. The newcomer
Is the Class c Central League
Of Mexico. a
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'Bdn1a Players
Settling Dispute

TUSCALOOSA. Ala. April 1S
up. University OF Alabama Off
Icials have agreed to most of the
demands of go athletes who
Threatened to leave their teams
if rigid dormitory regulations
were not eased, one of their lead
ers said today.
The leader was a member of q
committee representing the ath-
letes who met with Athletic Di-
rector Hank Crisp yesterday and
drew up compromise plan. The
protesting group was to vote on
the compromise later today.
The athletes had charged that
they had been treated like chill
dren."
After the meeting, Crisp said
I'VE settled things like I knew we
could when We sat down to-
gether. The whole thing was
mostly a misunderstanding"
One of the major issues-the
reported dismissal of a football
player. Roy Vickery, for break
ing curfew = apparently was
dropped as a misunderstanding
The committee member said the
athletes had learned he had beer
put on probation instead of be-
ing booted from the squad.
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|Ex-D Dartmouth Stors
To Oppose Suntee
In military Mile

NORFOLK, Va, April 10 A).
Miller Yves Santee, who's had
difficulty lining up competition
since his lifetime suspension by
the AAU, will have plenty when
he tries to run a four-minute
mile in the special military
mile" of the third annual Vir-
Iginian-Pilot Relays here April %.
Walt Clarkson, former Dart
mouth College track star, has
accepted an invitation to run
against Americas foremost miller.
Clarkson now completes for the
Camp Lejeune Marines.
Another former Dartmouth
distance runner also has filed
his entry in the military mile. .
He's 1t. Bill Gilges of the USS
Henley who graduated from
Dartmouth in 1854 and ran with
Clarkson on the cross-country
team.
At least four other entries are
Expected to oppose Santee. &C.
Icording to Relays officials.
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Bustien WrestIeS
Won Hess TONIGHT

Red Bastien and Karl Vor
Hess mix it up tonight at the
Capitol Arena in what may turn
out to be the best wrestling bout
Of the season. The feature
match is a two-out-of-three-
falls, Commute time limit.
Both contestants have the
reputation of being about the
toughest irf the business. par
ticularly Won Hess, who forced
two opponents to quit because
of injuries.
A team match pairs the Gal
lagher brothers, Doc and Mike
against Mike Paidousis anC
Johnny Heidman.
Tinker Todd clashes with Jack
Wentworth in a supporting bout
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fastest marathon ever recorded
for an American.
Finland. which has placed five
of its eight participants third or
better over the past decade, has
two runners on hand-Eino Ok
sanen and Anti Viskari. Ok
sanen is the world record holder
for 20 miles-1:45:28.
However, in this Olympic year
American runners have their
best chance to win since Johnny
Kelley the elder last brought a
domestic victory in the event
back in 1945.
The BAA is the first of two
Olympic trials-the other will be
in Yonkers. N. Y. in September
Costes, 28-year-old Natick
Schoolteacher following a meth
odical and rigorous training pro-
gram he learned from Luxem-
bourg's Josy Barthel and Is
iyear-old Johnny Kelley tn e
younger (no relation, are the
most likely winners for the
United States.
Beyond owning Ross of
woodbury., N. j.. 31-year-old
veteran campaigner, the inter-
esting American entries include
Fred Wilt, the FBI man. and
the plucky Californian, Robert
Cons.
Wilt. known as a mile and q
mile runner who twice made the
United States Olympic team in
the 10,O00-meter event, will be
trying for the spot this time as
a marathoner.
Cons, who almost lost his left
leg as a result of machine-gun
fire in Korea. has won five of the
six marathons he has run, in
GLIDING the last three in a row
in the western Hemisphere
Marathon. His best time is
2:32;46 but it has been pointed
out he's never been pushed in
his triumphs.
Rudolfo Mendez of the New
York Pioneer Club. who finished
eighth last year. and George
Terry also bear watching.
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Olson in Exhibition
IOn Coast Saturday

LOS ANGELES, April 10 (P.-
Matchmaker Jack Leonard an
nounced yesterday that Bobo Oh
son, who will try to regain the
world middleweight champion
ship from Sugar Ray Robinson
at Wrigley Field May 10, will box
a around exhibition at Legion
Stadium Saturday night.
Bobo will spar with either Err
ME Greer of Oakland Or Sonny
Gill of Los Angeles.
The main event will be be-
tween Charlie Sawyer and Neal
Rivers, both of Los Angeles, for
the State middleweight title.
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Field of 165 Contestants
Starts Boston Marathon

BOSTON. April 10 GA
field of 1865 contestants left the
mark at noon today as gun
barked to start the 6Oth Boston
A.A. Marathon run over the 2t
miles and 1886 yards from Hop
kinton to Boston.
| All had been pronounced fl
by doctors before being admitted
to the starting line on a winding
country road.
The oldest entrant, at 81, was
the veteran Clovis Bourdelais OF
Brockton.
| A total of 2l1 had filed en-
tries. Some were ruled unfit, but
most of the n-starters just
didn't appear. Among those who
failed to show was Turkeys
MuStafa Renal Bulvari.
The sky was partly cloudy and
a light wind was blowing. The
temperature lowered near SO de-
grees.
Heaviest starter at 2O8 pounds
was Jimmy Montague of the
Washington ID. c. Track and
Field Club. Dwarfed in COM
parison, was 114-pound Sylvester
Villa of Los Angeles.
Some veteran track fans lik-
ened this event to a stopwatch
exercise. The marathon is still
no cinch. mind you. but the
strategy now is to run 26 con-
secutive miles in $40 and then
stage a sprint for the remaining
yardage.
Though the AsianS are missing
this trip, Hideo Hamammura OF
Japan lowered the course mark
to 2:18.22 last year and looked
ready to jog another 26 at the
finish line.
Finland'S Veikko Karvonen
won in 2:20:39 in 81 and Keizo
Yamada of Japan got the pre-
vious best effort of 2:18.51 two
years ago.
| Even last years third place
man. Nick Costes of Natick
Mass. was clicked in 2:19:57-
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BOWLING

reason, Miss Siegel has not Jared
well heretofore. The 409 lifted
her average to 1928, close to
ll3. as compared with the aver
age of nearly 100 she carries in
the District Minor.
The pennant race in the Cap
ital Major remained status quo
when the three top teams all
scored sweeps. It's virtually a
three-team scrap, among Chat
terbar. Rays Bar and william
C.. Weight, with Chatterbar's
Ifour-game margin looking mighty
formidable.
With Alice Goldman starring
as a sub. at 140-379, Chatterbar
chased Bethesda Forty. Miss
lSiegeps 400 was too much for
Kirby's Sales and Betty Hum
mer's ISL. for a medal. and 1868
were a big help, as was Agnes
Belas' 144-359, in the Weights
victory over the King Pins.
Up-and-coming Frances Will
son rolled 1851 to help Pabst Blue
Ribbons to an edge over Jim
Comber's Restaurant, for whom
Phyllis Jones rolled 347.
The standings: Chatterbar, ST.
IS9; Rays, 53-43; Voight, 52-44;
Bethesda. 49-47; Pabst. 1850:
Comber's ASP; Kirby's 42-54;
King Pin, 4l-55.
= i s. i
1t was a sizzling night in the
Men District Minor League, with
10 bowlers beating 400. jenkins
Sheet Metal bolstered it's lead
to three games by banking Bill
himer Ford.
! Gerry Stair of Roma Restau-
rant not only was high at
161-42S, but pulled probably the
outstanding shot of the evening.
He struck in the ninth and
needed a mark in the 10th to
beat MerrilPS Pizza House. He
got the spare and it was q dilly.
The sticks were Nos. 6, 7 and 8.
A count of eight gave his team
margin of two pins.
Others in the 400 class were:
Charley Evans, Bethesda, 169-
426; Danny Pessango, Bank Of
Maryland, AIS; John Gardner
and Tom Powell, Central Insur-
ance, each with Ala; Nick Cam
PAMELA, Wheaton Paint, 404;
Sonny Weldon, Harrison Roofers,
400; Ben Simmons, Briggs Ice
Cream, Alp, and Dick Dunaj,
Briggs, 169-400.
Clarence Appler's 160-387 for
American Valet was poison to
runnerup Chatterbar, which lost
two important games.
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Hoyo Tennis Team
Whips Mt. St. Mory's

Georgetown U. downed Mount
st. Mary's. u. in a tennis
match yesterday. The match
opened with Tony Valenti win
ming two love sets from Joe Was
ser of the Mounts.
Valenti has not lost a match
this season.
In the best match of the cold,
windy afternoon, Pat Flanagan. a
Mount st. Mary's sophomore,
beat GeorgetoWn's Pete O'Con-
mel, Ga, Ga.
Georgetown now has a %
season record while Mount St.
Mary'S has a tie and four losses.
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hurdle race over a mile and a
half course. Stephen C. Clark.
jr.'s. Arrius, who ran close
second on the fiat a week ago,
is among the entries as is James
F. McHugh's 3-year-old Hot and
Cold. who made a good showing
over hurdles last week
The entries and weights, where
available.
FIRST .RAcE--The Wanquepin, hur.
aieS; Tor 3;year.olds and up which have
oae mile a sSO rsse pTIif Mama S5S05 aU9s
Beaufort 80; Planned 1870: Last Look
,3O; kingale, lao; Ares. li5; Narcissu,
Reae con- R TsSts VAT I s H H AZ
Hot and Cola iS3. I nSS M,nc s6d a.
Eponbnsh, $40: Ripshot. 1873 Dominate
~; Breakfront. 1873; Fox Blow. i4I
Mahatma, 80: Blessineton. 1875; Arrius
1fI Junior Chief. 1906 Big Profit, 1870
Resist l39, Mummer's Knot. 1870; Ele.
SECOND RACE-The Gerald Webb
u Memorial hurdle handicap for 3
year.olds and up; purse. 5000. abou
"a miles, Homestake. Policeman Day
TTnSSnty Eyes Chn;Sm6ouse,. Arcs. Eyian
Windsor, Downpatriek. Breakers Ahead
lndienant md, Amy Robsart
THIRD RACE-The Benton; for Q
is es,rno5as Gnd Up purse 500 about
Dominate - Privilege. l4a. Narc!ssu
md; ~ Par Amour. lta; Courtin
Asan. ~ Violinmaker 1876 Nydia. IN
Rose Fetc, $50; Keet, i53: Colony AKRON
~: Hish Nisht, 49, Arctic Fox. l42
Mummer's Knot, 1870 Brackneli. i46
Quick Now 1874 Mr.. Tur-Tcli l4i.
FOURTH RAcE--The Dresden steeple
chase for 4-year-olds and up which hat
never won over brush, purse, 5000
9 bSnt,ns mics pssc monAres as Kipgaie i 2
lis Phosphor. las: Beacon Reign .i? IS
/ red's War. 40: Downpatrick 1875 Nor
SUD. l3S; Blessineton. 1876. Amik. 1870
Bots Windsor As. Nordame, l3S Sere
a. rs Resist 1873
FIFTH RACE = The Mary Mellol
Steeplechase ~ 600 added steepechas
handicap for 4-year .olds and up ahou
Irish Well. ralajs. Ares, Goose Bay
croonins Wind curley Joe. Amy Rob
/ SIXTH RAcE--The Covert. for 3.year
Odds and up. purse. 5000. about / mile
Par Amour, 1895 Prince Resent, iS6
Rip Shot l4l Sea Hero ll3; Worth
Enort: l43; Nareissus end 1871 Cit
Hsth Ia Rose Fst.' f4e S x,nSs ADp pUs
ISL sun Ruler end. | so; Bellamy. isl
Evian. lh9 Tfavaneore. 1876 Anemone
Prels. ice Mummer't Knot i3e, Bi
FRONT, le7 Amy Robsart. 1871
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With ROD THOMAS

Most priced individual titles
among Washington duckpinners
are those of the Mems District
Major League and the Women's
Capital Major. In these are
grouped all of the areas stars,
both roll on a circuit and the
winners usually are recognized
as the class of the Capitals crop.
There may be notable ex-
ception this year in the instance
of Virginia Siegel. a sensation
in the Women's District Minor.
In many past years. the
champions of the two major
leagues were apparent at this
stage, with only a few weeks to
go. But not this time.
Bobby Lockhart, the mems
leader, is only eight sticks ahead
of Billy Stalcup. runnerup.
And a new leader popped up
last night in the women's. Ann
Habercom of the William C.
Weight team displaced Olive
fBoots) Petit of Bethesda Forty
Alleys. the PAGER for many weeks.
Mrs. Habercom, with a set OF
345, barely held her average. and
backed into the lead when Miss
Petit rolled sos, one of her
poorest performances of the sea-
son. Mrs. Habercoms average
now stands at 1856 and Miss
Pettit's 115-47, a difference OF
nine pins. Each has rolled SO
games with only nine to go.
The mems league, too, is near
ing its finish and the chances
are that both of the big titles will
be settled on the final night.
X X x
Mrs. Habercom's ascension to
the top was the most important
development in the Capital
Major. but irrepressible Miss
Siegel was the evenings brightest
star. She rolled 4O9, with a
medal game of 1855, for RAYS
Bar and Grill team. And this
was at the Culmore Bowling
Center where, for an indefinahle
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'CCNY Names PoIunsky
AS Stund-in for Holman

NEW YORK. April 10 (P.-
Dave Polansky yesterday was
named head basketball coach at
City College of New York to sue
coed Nat Holman, who is taking
"a one-year sabbatical leave.
Holman has served as coach
Iat CCNY since 1919, excepting
"a two-year period in 1852 and
1858 when he was under sus-
Ip ension.
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LAUREL NOTES

laxity, noting that blame for the
mishap should be placed m
Feltner's own employees.
One Throw was reported to
have been injured Intentionally
early on the morning of April
6 by an intruder who struck the
horse on the leg with a blunt
instrument, after removing a
protective bandage and leather
boot. He had to be scratched
out of a race at Bowie that day
4 y x x
Hartack's absence may or may
not have been responsible for
War Ages defeat yesterday. but
it would have been hard to con-
Vince the opening day crowd of
10,021 otherwise as the colt fin
Iished a poor sixth in the seven
horse field. War Age recently
equalled a Bowie track record
for six furlongs and was expected
to be a strong contender in the
Capitol.
Rain and continued cold
weather helped hold down the
crowd, which wagered a disap-
pointing $751; $50. This was well
under the opening day handle of
I$943,l4l last spring.
The day was far from a total
loss for Mrs. Cohen, wife of the
IPimlico official, as her Broad
caster suddenly found his run
ming shoes for the first victory
of his career in the second race
Completely overlooked because
lof his unimpressive record
lBroadcaster paid $137.40 and
completed a l-6 daily double
worth $276.20.
One of four favorites to click
at Laurel yesterday was Closed
Door from the Jaclyn Stable
who won the first grass event OF
the season in impressive fashion
CLOSED Door won the United Ma
ton Handicap at Atlantic City
lin 1854 and descended into
Iclaiming company for the first
time as he registered his first
triumph since suffering an in
jury in winning the New Jersey
stakes.
Trainer Oscar White provided
two other winning choices, send
ing out Numbers Game, a 3.
lyear-old f1lly by Priam II, and
Baggage, 2-year-old filly by
IDjeddah, who took the third
event.
Six television sets beaming out
the races at Laurel via a closed
circuit were well received by fans
yesterday who preferred to keer
out of the showers which fell in
termittently.
All eight races were televised
from the roof and the six sets
were located in the grandstand
and clubhouse. The jockeys also
watched races on a monitor in
their quarters.
Quite a number of fans ex-
pressed surprise at removal OF
the teletimer from the infielo
board. The teletimer was dropped
by Laurel last fall repeatedly be-
cause the track management
could not reach an agreement
with the teletimer company on
the rental cost of the apparatus
Both Bowie and Pimlico make
use of the teletimer, which pro-
vides fractional times in lights
Ion the infield board.
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Air Force VoIIeybuII
Continues at BoIIino

Quarter-finals of the North
east Area Conference Air Force
Base volleyball tournament will
be held today at Boiling ALB.
In opening play yesterday
Sampson defeated National Air.
port. l5-1l. 1873: Newcastle won
over Greater Pittsburgh, 1872
$50; Andrews took care OF
Mitchell, 1916. 1871; Lajes de-
Ifeated Plattsburg. 15-4. 15-5,
and Westover got by Loring, Is
II, 1915, 1910.
Dow won by default over
Pressure Isle.
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Last Saturdays Winners
Run Again at MiddIeburq

, MIDDLEBURG. Va, April le
(SpeclaD Winners of races ir
last Saturdays opening program
will run again Saturday in The
second day Of brush and hurdle
racing. sponsored by the Middle
burg Hunt Association on the
Glenwood course near here. Post
time is 2:30 pm. and the six
race card has drawn a big entry
list Of 104.
Featured is the Mary Mellon
Steeplechase for two miles over
brush. The $4,000 added purse
makes this one of the richest
offered at the hunt meetings.
Among the entries is Mrs. A
j. Smithwick's Crag. who wor
the William Skinner Memoria
over brush last week under Joe.
key Paddy Smithwick, snc
Rokeby Stables Grooming Wind
who was second in that race
Grooming Wind. a l0-year-olc
gelding, is returning to the race!
after an absence OF four years
Cofcature is the Gerald 3
Webb, IT.. Memorial at a mil,
and three quarters over hurdles
Among the IA entries is K. K
Melons Chambourg. who woi
the Panther Skin over hurdle
last Saturday with Monty Hoey
the Irish jockey, aboard. 7. M
Durant's Evian. winner of tn
Sunny Bank on the fiat las
Saturday. is also entered
There will be no timber race
but two steeplechases are catded
the Mary Mellon and the ORES
den. two-mile event for .lald
ems. Mrs. George p. Greenhalgh
jr.'s, Dancing Beacon. winner o
the Carolina Cup over timbe
at C"mden. S. c.. will make hi
Initial start over brush in tn
Dresden.
Twenty-six entries were re
1eeived for the Wanouepins
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BY JOSEPH B. KELLY
Star Racing Editor


Racing stewards at Laurel
planned to call Jockey Willie
Hartack on the carpet today to
explain his absence yesterday
when the slim and highly sue
ceSsful rider failed to appear to
handle Mrs. Ben CohenS favored
War Age in the $10.000-added
Capitol Handicap.
Joseph Flanagan. steward rep
resenting the Maryland Racing
Commission, ordered Hartack' s
three mounts on today's eight
race card Cancelled pending q
hearing. The veteran official
said Hartack will not be per-
mitted to ride at Laurel until he
offers a satisfactory explanation
for not fulfilling his agreement
with various horsemen, as we'll
as disappointing the public.
Chick Lang. Hartack's agent
said Willie was unable to get
a plane from Miami. where he
had gone after riding at Keene-
land. and couldn't get to Laurel
in time for yesterdays program
If the rider has convincing
story he is expected to be back
in action tomorrow, remaining
for the rest of the 17-day
meeting.
4 X
After Hartack gets squared
away with the stewards, he must
decide whether to remain at
Laurel and ride Henry Hecht'S
Beau Fond in the Chesapeake
Stakes Saturday. OF go to Keene-
land to handle Hasty House
Farms Sea o. Erin in the Ben
Ali Handicap.
The Chesapeake, at a mile and
one-sixteenth, carried a purse of
$4,000 added, while the Ben
Ali is a $4,000 race. The Ken
lucky assignment. however,
might offer many future bene-
fits for Hartack and it seemed
probable today that he would
accept the mount on Sea O
Erin. He rode the horse to
victory in the Phoenix Handicap
at Keeneland last Saturday.
Meanwhile. three Chesapeake
candidates had their final seri-
Gus tune-ups for the race yes
terday. Companas Stables Be-
somer. who nosed out Decathlon
in the $4,000 Governors Gold
Cup at six furlongs at Bowie last
Saturday, worked a mile. The
colt, with Jockey Nick Shuk up
showed late speed as checkers
caught him in 1:4125.
Kingmaker, who was distant
third in the Gold Cup, was a
second slower over the same dis
lance. Roman Battle was caught
in 1:1645 for an easy six-furlong
drill.
In another official act, the
Racing Commission cracked
down hard on Trainer Claude
Feltner. 1t bluntly called his
story of a night providers attack
on the horse One Throw pure
fabrication" and warned that III
the future similar charges would
have to be supported by SOUND
evidence.
The commission abSolved the
Laurel tracks Waterman of any