UNC In Running For Garden Tournament Sports Trail DUKE, PHANTOMS GIANTS LACKING IN PITCHING, SPEED AND BALANCE \ By LIKELY CHOICES ★ ★★★ *** Whitney Martin Thus Club's Heavy Artillery Becomes Ineffective National Invitational Tour* First of a series from the major who No wonder Mel Ott views the Fla., March inch, 200-pound right-hander 3-UB-We blinked a with a face! '-^TTeTERSBURG, couple of Set For March league training camps. looks like a pitcher, is the big prospect wry we saw the tall, alim guy walk from ney when the 18th green of By HARRY GRAYSON hope. Drafted from Seattle in When Horace Stoneham paid the ti®'!. Golf course, as the last time we saw Lloyd sunset Manerum 21 To 23 NEA Sports Editor he shook a sacroiliac condi- Cardinals $175,000 for Walker Coop, amid the mirrored splendor of the St. Cloud 1942, ?awa seated clubh^ MIAMI, Fla., March 3.—(NEA) tion that necessitated a brace, de- er he should have gone a little he wap.sris last August after winning a GI tournament. By TED MEIER —*Ihe Giants, lopsided in into a star at Bainbridge farther and lined up for he was nonchalantly announcing he had shot a 84 power, veloped somebody ^Vet here for the with he of the St. Petersburg open. Upon NEW YORK, March 3—(£>)—'With yet rather dismal prospects, Naval Training Station, where the man from Missouri to catch. „ t round considering -the war- ilf St. Cloud course, though his 64 here only two major conference cham- strikingly illustrate why a major won nine in a row, and in the With no reflection on Cooper, e ted might have been ”eg Sunset course to him who is but a ,?od for the must have been driving onto pions left to be decided—the Big league player must do considerably Pacific. anything trailing arbu- after of more is a expf .trh Of good pavement miles rutted roads Seven and the Pacific Coast con- than swat the sphere for Back from the armed forces are tus, it sad commentary on the » were over what he *inroved as they was used to, conditions for ference—the lineups of the annual magnificent distances. Giants’ speed when you say that of the St. meet round Petersburg might have been better post-season college basketball With all their strength at the ftiMawssstoe&sssBiisemssm the big backstop, who definitely had a couple of of She district had days what might charitably be tournaments at New York and plate, the New York Nationals will be out of the Navy April 1, heavy dew, and the sand had extremely traps become water Kansas City are virtually deter- aren’t going anywhere in probably will be the fastest man ^Ued the fair-ways dotted with uncharted particu- £ !ards and little lakes. Occasion- mined. lar, which is additional evidence in the batting order. hear a splash near you like the of the hn„ vou’d launching Queen This is the at that pitching is from 75 to 90 per The only others who can run are turn to see some hapless entrant standing in water above tourney setup pre- and sent. cent of baseball. center fielder a in a traP’ *° blast tile ball out with a sand Johnny Rucker, 1! snides ^ying wedge The Polo Grounders have no and a ° Madison Garden invita- substitute, Buddy Kerr, who u « he neeucu V. Square a waI™ inside tion at pitcher who can be counted on for some strange reason been gave you feeling to see the familiar faces in the New York March 14-16-18- has wheIt for 15 victories. field, as made you realize how rapidly golf is returning to 20; Kentucky, Muhlenberg, Bowling relegated to the second squad de- with stars who had There is a member fact nrewar level been in the service back and Green, St. Pohn’s of Brooklyn, not of staff spite the that he improved '55 ently as Sood as ever. West Virginia and Syracuse have who has pitched 15 complete games at shortstop the past two cam- Mangrum, of course. in ,P?TTiere was Lloyd And there was Ed “Porky” accepted bids. Two teams are still a season, Bill Voiselle being the paigns. at a telegram hi was the new of a to be named. kick with 14. >■ Oliver, elated announcing papa top Cooper will be backed up by So it is feared that Iron Man Schnozzola Lombardi 135 Eastern NCAA at Madison Square «« « and Clyde was Ben Hogan, pounds of concentrated ■ mmmmsmm .. ^There energy, playing Garden, New York, March 21-23; Ace Adams will have to pick up Kluttz, making the catching de- old skill and as unassuming in attire and demeanor as Hal Schumacher Mel Ott- ,;th his your District One—no team named where he left off last trip, when cidedly better than adequate. foursome. There was yet and Bob Tin a weekend Jimmy Demaret, the Lefty he was rushed to the rescue on 65 bespectacled blubbery the in although Harvard, 16-1, is expect- For nonce the Giants have of the troupe keeping spirits at a nigh level, wearing a who can’t in the ¥'mCz Carpenter, pitch — could only be four ed to get the bid. District Two— occasions. an entire new infield Johnny „„dv hat that spotted holes away. Dave Koslo, a left-hand- 8 Lawson New York District Voiselle bagged 21 as a fresh- heat, and Mize, Bill was stocky Little, and Dick Metz and a university. Bobby Blattner, Rig- There dapper er with a sinker. Johnny Palmer of Three—no selection yet. Duke, man two years ago, but went to ney and too heavy- voung fellow named Badin, N. C., whom we wrote Mickey Witek, last season after seven Harry Feldman invariably winds four years ago as one of the real stars of the North Carolina, Navy and Louis- pot copping footed for second but two-bagger- about coming game. one more than missions over since iana State are as straight, wound fined up losing he wins. ish to The HC’S flown 32 Japan then, and is back to take regarded leading up being $500 enough look after third. for to Rube Fischer did not complete a r where he left off. contenders. District Four—Ohio failing follow instructions ancient and honorable Dick Bar- Ape Adams »« x looks like he’ll do plenty of rescue work, V took in 1845. Screwballer Jack Naturally the gallery off after Byron Nelson in the first State in pitching to Johnny Hopp, when game tell is still among those present the man to but he Brewer has too bad round He's still beat, realizes the steadily increas- Western NCAA at Kansas City, the St. Louis fly-chaser broke up many pitching and accounted for. Kerr undoubt- and that the war-time is re- habits, one of which is off then pressure honeymoon over. He never March 22-23; District Fivd—Okla- a game. The fine was later tipping edly will break into the picture shortstop—and some—provid- The poke represented by Mar- worry about what anybody else was doing. Now he’ll ask his curve. Bob Joyce and his soft ed he hits a lick, and the hunch is used to homa Aggies or Kansas. District scinded. somewhere, most likely at second shall, Ott, Mize, Cooper, Lombardi doing?’’ or Demaret or some other hot We stuff accounted for 31 in the Paci- that the Californian 'how’s Hogan player. District Seven— The old pros are Van Lingle base, for there is some reason to angular will. Young and Gordon should account him on a practice Six—Baylor. caught tee, something practically unheard of fic Coast League last season, more and muscular Sid Gor- for a lot also Wyoming or Colorado. District Mungo and Hal Schumacher. Mun- suspect that “good field, no hit,” Squatty of runs, especially when than 20 in each of the last in left field belts a ball. Eight—Idaho or California. go completed sr.ven games in 1945. four, yet will be a thumbnail of don long they shoot down the Polo Grounds’ The pros were supposed to stfcy on a house boat, but, as Nelson description Schumacher captured only 12 in no big league outfit wanted the Bud Blattner, the So does Babe Young in center, but friendly foul lines In 77 games. it, "our ship never came in,” so the players are scattered like National athletic intercollegiate obtained from put 1942, and did no pitching in three 31-year-old right-hander until Mel Cards before he wer( he can’t throw. Ditto Willard The Giants lack speed handbills around town. invitation at Kansas City, March 11 to bat for pitching, in the which makes Ott took him in desperation. Uncle Sam. Marshall, who is expected to re- and and The ball situation has some of the men worried. Nelson said he through March 16; twelve teams to yearg Navy, balance, however, they ball That about wraps the pitch- Manager Ott in right field to understands they will start making the old balls, or the new balls, iate have accepted bids. They are him unique among players up The bespectacled Rigney, pur- place happen be highly important in- and it’s a the Marine around June 1. Right now he’s down to one new ball a round, and NTjw Orleans Loyola, winner, last who answered the country’s call. ing hardly prize pack- chased from Oakland and who de- when discharged by gredients which render the heaviest reach the where he’ll have to six-foot three- age.