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General manager Frank Lane watches Herb Score throw his first pitch-a snowball-after sign. lng his 1958 contract with the Cleveland Indians. The Fireball hurler-whose career was nearly ended last season by a line drive that struck him below his right

I HERB “SCORE ITCHES

eye--signed for the same figure (approximately $20,000) he re- ceived in 1957. The injury, which occurred on May 7th, sidelined Score for the remainder of the season. Now completely mended, Herb is anxious to get back on the mound. '

Congressmen Promise To Protect Minor Clubs From TV

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of -Congress said Tues- day they will do all they can within the U.S. anti - monopoly has to prevent major league tel-

fan harming baseball’s minor le es.

1: the two, Representative Emanuel Celler (Dem. N.Y.) and Keineth Keating (Rep. N.Y.), made clear they would prefer th ‘ major league clubs, act in- de ndently to protect the minors.

Her, chairman of the House of, epresentatives anti-trust sub- co _ Aittee, and Keating con-

_ on baseba1l’s TV dilemma wi Commissioner Ford Frick

_a trio of major league offi-

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Baseball leaders requested the meeting when the minors de- clafed a TV network's plan to beam a major league game of the-, week every Sunday threat- «had them with destruction.

, ter the closed meeting Celler

, ‘Keating issued a statement mug they were “deeply sym- ll_athetic” and would be “as help-

Durelle Is {Coming Along Fine

MONCTON (CP) — Yvon Dur- elle, whose trek towards the world light heavyweight boxing championship was interrupted by a pad shrimp, is “coming along line,” manager Chris Shaban said Monday night.’ 4

Durelle, originally billed to meet Tony Anthony of Detroit in»

_ New York Jan. 11, resumes train-

ing: next week after recovering

. from ptomaine poisoning doctors

said resulted from bad shrims he atqfour days before the fight. He meets Anthony Jan. 31.

Shaban said Durelle still felt id little dizzy at times but is regain- ing his full strength.

Durelle will do a little brush

‘ up,.work with brothers Bimbo and

Plaeide Durelle at his native Bale Ste. Anne, N.B., and then come here to resume his traiining with Maritime welterweight champion Norman Gautreau and middleweight Nick Kovac.

Shaban said he and Durelle will leave Jan. 25 for New York where Yvon will put the finishing touches to his training.

file Anthony fight is considered thgkey to Durelle’s bid to chal- lenge champion Archie Moore. Anthony was defeated by Moore 0H'=’§a technical knockout last Sep- ielhber.

Durelle now is ranked the No. ?€ontender by the National Box- 11}! Association behind Harold 30 ston.

urelle held Anthony to a draw In Detroit before Anthony met Moore. -

sol. Finals In Tennis Tourney

PERTH, Australia (AP)- 3a1‘.i‘Y MacKay of Dayton, Ohio

WI Ron Holnberg of Brooklyn,_

-Y.. gained the finals of the 9st Australia tennis champion- ‘IEIPS Wednesday along with Aus- ms Neale Fraser and Mal Ander-

aser meets Holmberg and M ‘K337 faces Anderson in Fri- ? S_ semi-finals.

Leafs Ball Team Signs N. B. Man

TORONTO (CP) — Toronto M3016 Leafs of the International dlmeball League announced Mon- 3! the’ signing of Jackie Bowes.

» H native of Saint John, N.B.,

“W: living in Bismark, N.B. .WeS. a leflhanded pitcher.

' played semi-pm last year. He

‘tailed his career in the Cleve- . Indians‘ farm system, turn- R Professional with Cedar T391115. Iowa, of the class B ,1. Eye League in 1952, where

W011 nine and lost 14.

-1953. with the class C Sher- W Que, team, he won 17

ful as possible within the law." They added they “will reserve d_ecls1on_as to any remedy for the tune belng.". They hoped to pro- pose a' solution in another week or so. After talking with Frick for an

the minors‘ case from George Trautman, president of the mi- nors; Frank Shaunghessy, head of the International League, and Frank J. Horton, president of R0- chester Red/Wings of the Inter- national. '

Frick has supported the minors in their complaint against the Columbia Broadcasting System’s plan to televise Sunday games next season. Both CBS and NBC televised s e p a r a t e Saturday games last year and intend to continue those programs in 1958.

Frick told reporters he did‘not expect new legislation would be introduced to settle the TV con- troversy. He said he thought ‘the next step would be to thresh out the question with the justice de- partment.

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and lost three with a 2.44 earned run average.

Bowes was 13-7, with Spartan- burg, N.C., in 1954 and 3-4 with the class A Reading, Pa., team in 1955.

He will report to Toronto in sFp1r-ing training at Fort Pierce,

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Chuvalo Offered A Title . Fight

TORONTO -(CP) — Tommy Mc- Beigh, manager of Toronto heavy- weight George Chuvalo, said ,Wed- nesday Chuvalo has been offered a title fight March 24 with British .Empire champion Joe -Erskine.

McBeigh said he will not de- cide on the offer until after Chu- valo’s fight here Jan. 27 against Julios Mederos of Cuba.

The offer was made by London promoter Jack Solomon last week. McBeigh said terms have not been discussed. He said his answer will depend on the out- come of the Mederos fight and on prospects of a bout with Yvon Durelle of Bale Ste. Anne, N.B., Canadian and British Empire light-heavyweight champion.

Score Signs New Contract

CLEVELAND (AP)—Southpaw Herb Score signed his 1958 con- tract witl) Cleveland Indians Wed- lnesday and said he is “feeling ifine and looking forward to en- joying a wonderful season.”

No salary was announced but the baseball club said the con- tract terms were “the same as he received last year."

A line drive off the hat of New York Yankee infielder Gil Mc- Dougald felled Score in a night game here last May 7. The retina {of his right eye was swollen by ‘lthe blow and through the re-

mainder of the season his vision ,was impaired.

U. K. Football

1 Ass’n Results

l LONDON (Reuters) —- Results

for Football Association Cup mat-

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United Kingdom: 1 Third Round lyork City 3 Birmingham C 0 ‘(winners at home to Bolton) - Third Round replays Charlton 1 Huddersfield 0 winners away to Fulham)

hour, Celler and Keating heard:

SPORT FORUM Heavyweigh

_ Sir-—The heavyweight lonshlp of the world is boxing’s crowning glory. the maker

-,Out of the thousands who have lf0UEht in the Heavyweight divis- ;_19" Only 19 have held the title since John L. Sullivan won the -last bare knuckles fight in 1889.

As for the rest, you could say lzthat some were not good enough, gothers, perhaps were not lucky tenough. But there was probably Only one man who never be- came champion because he was too good, his name was Sam [Langford.

' If ever this rugged leather - itossing profession had a real ,-“uncrowned king” it was the 5

X feet 7 inch Will-o-the Wisp, known

professionally as the “Boston Tar Baby”. Sam Langford, he

, White Hope.” Needless to

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Heads Boxers’ Ambitions

champ- Los Angeles Examiner.

“Beanie” wrote in his column of that if Flynn was ever to go on heroes and million dollar gates. to win the world title, he should have been picking better oppon- ents than Langford. The “Bos- ‘ton Tar Baby” couldn't read but his manager could and told Sam what Walker has written about

him.

Langford spotted Walker sitting at ringside, he manouvered Flynn to the corner and belted him a terriffic uppercut that carried the unfortunate “White Hope” through the ropes and in- to Walker’s lap, said Langford, “Mister Walker, here’s your say Mr. Walker never again wrote that Flynn was a better fighter than the great Sam Langford.

struck down many of the world's

he himself never weighed more that 160 pounds. Born in Way-

1880.

and trained by George "Budge”

. Byers of Charlottetown and ac-

bouts, although the

books say 250.

- , ‘Langford was 15 when he star-

ted boxing as a professional. but it was a tough road he had chos- ‘en to follow. he received only 5 or 10 dollars for a fight and often entered the ring with only a handful of doughnuts and a few glasses of water as nourish- ment.

The “Boston Tar Baby" made a habit of beating Champions yet he never won a world’s title. I-I_e thrived in an era when the big_ fellows were at the peak of their popularity and Sam miss- ed very few of the good ones, clever boxers, rugged sluggers, hard punchers, they were all alike to the hard hitting Nova Scotian.

Many of them he met not once but often, his most exten- sive series was with Harry Wills. They fought twenty-two ,times. Other active “feuds” were thirteen with Joe Jeannette six _with Jack Blackburn. I I When Sam was 17 he defeat- ed Joe Gans, then Lieghtweight Champion of the world, three years later he fought\ 15 hectic rounds with Jack Johnson only ‘to lose by a close decision. That one fight was enough for John- son and for the 7 years he held the heavyweight title. He could never be lured into a return bout with Sam. Denied a chance at the title Langford listed in the Record Book, as a Welter- weight kept on in the hope that some champion would‘ someday ,agree to give him‘ a, crack at a world title, but fate wasn’t playimg a winning hand for the “Boston Tar Baby".

HIS OWN REFEREE On one or more occasions dur- ing the last few years, boxers have insisted on the adoption of their own referees before’ they would enter the ring.

told of Langford the negro had been matched to fight Lion Hague in London at the national Sporting Club as most v-isi-ting fighters made a great fuss about the selection of the third man. The promoter was somewhat suspicious. when Sam made no indication that he was even in- terested about the choice of a referee.

On the day of the contest the promoter said to Langford,

“Sam, you haven't made any inquiries as to who will referee the fight."

“What, said Sam, “I am not interested, I carry my own re- feree with me.”

“No, no, Sam you can not

This reminds one of the story

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ening. The Cyclone was making

a clinch,

step into them?"

one too many now."

Matthew reached forward grabbed the lo- cal man’s right glove and shook it heartily.

round."

“I ain’t making no mistake’ returned Sam, “it is the round for you."

A second later Cyclone Mat

In his next fight with Flynn

Rocket Returns To Ice Lclnes

MONTREAL (CP) — Maurice (Rocket) R-ichard went to an out- door rink Sunday and skated for the first time since a severe in- jury took him out of National Hockey League play last Nov. 13. The Rocket's return to the ice was as a referee. He handled a game between teams of young- sters on a park rink near his home. He was on the ice about an hour.

Rocket said he thinks it will be

a week or two before he can even

figure on returning to practices with Montreal Canadiens.

The 36-year-old star suffered a severely cut achilles tendon in an NHL game in Toronto. The final cast was not removed from his leg until around Christmas. He is taking regular treatments to help strengthen his leg muscles.

“The foot and leg right now aren't even 50 per cent good enough for hockey,” said Richard after the mild workout. “They felt stiff and I haven’t much strength in the tendon yet.”

“I expect to skate again to- morrow but I think it will be at least 10 days before I can rejoin the team for practice."

Gowan in The Evening News. “Turpin has always been a

Thurs, Jan, 16, 1958 The Guardian P610‘ !_

fighter who has produced his

best against boxers.”

“The board has implied that British champions are no good,” L. N. Bailey complained in The Star. “Turpin is experienced enough to look after himself." Gerard Walker argued in The News Chronicle that the question of Turpin’s fitness to oppose Pas- trano should have been decided in the ring. He called the board's decision “a panic measure" in

response to criticism of the figh‘

ers. Peter Wilson of The Daily, Mirror said it had faced its responsibilities “promptly and courageously.”

Daily Sketch: “Who but a sadist could have enjoyed the spectacle of the speedy Pastrano ripping Randy to pieces?"

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‘Gibson Voted Woman Athlete

NEW YORK (AP)——A1thea Gib-

best he“ , Sam was in Louisville on a ywelghts. even thoughmp through the South -when a lmatch was arranged for him to _ engage a colored local favour- mouth Falls. N.S. February 12.ltte known as Cyclone,Bill Mat- _ lthew, it was scheduled for six Durlng his 24 year career, herounds Matthew agreed to fight was managed by Joe Woodmanisam on the condition that he would remain upright for the six grounds. Langford agreed to let tually took part in more than 600‘ the local boy stay the limit. They recordawent into the fourth round with- out anything spectacular happ-

a good showing Langford dropped his -hands as they broke from immediately the cy- clone let-go a terriffic right that caught Sam on the jaw. At that instant the bell rang, Langford’s manager noticinghow his man was shaking up, turned to Sam when he came to his corner and said, “Sam, you don’t have to take that punch, why don’t you

Whereupon Sam looked at his manager and replied, “Mr. Wood man, I've already stepped into

Sam was in bad shape as he stepped out for the fifth, but as approached him he

son, the first Negro to play at Wimbledon, Saturday was se- lected as the oustanding United States female athlete of 1957 by an overhwleming vote in The Al- sociated Press year-end poll. Miss Gibson, Wimbledon and United States womcu’s tennis champion, will receive two troph- ies: the Fraternal Order of the Eagles - Frederick C. Miller trophy won last year by Mrs. Pat Keller McCormick, the Olympic diving champion, and the Babe Didrikson Zaharias trophy, pre- sented in memory of the all- around athlete who was selected six times as the oustanding woman athlete in the AP poll. The 30-year-old New Yorker. who started out playing paddle tennis on sidewalks, received 420 out of a possible 516 points in the ballotting. Nearest to her was Pa-tty Berg, professional golfer and 1955 woman athlete ofthe year, with 95 points. Bowling champion Marion Ladewig came in third with 81. There was no question about

Miss Gibson's supremacy in her own game. She won two-of the world’s foremost tennis cham- pionships and lost her only sin-

gles match of the year in the final of a third. That was the Australian championship in Janu- ary, where she was beaten by Shirley Fry. Althea beat Dar- lene Hard, another American, in straight sets in the Wimble- don final and conequered Louise Brough in the final at Forest Hills.

Her other 1957 titles included the U.S. clay courts, Asian cham- pionships, Pacific southwest and Pacific coast.

It was a year of notable "firsts" for the Harlem girl who earlier had been the first Negro to play tennis on the courts at Wimbledon and Forest Hills. In 1957 she realized her long-stand- ing ambition -to become the first of her race to win the national championship.

Only a few years before, Althea had been discouraged and "ready to chuck it all.”

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last

thew was lying on the ring floor dead to the world from the ef- fects of a terriffic wallop on the

Turpin Wou-Id

By ED SIMON Canadian Press Staff Writer

LONDON (CP)-The burden of . the complaint against the ban by the British authorities of the pro- posed fight between Willie Pas- trano and Randy Turpin seems to be that Pastrano wouldn’t have hurt the British light-heavy- u-"eight champion too badly in the process of murdering"him.

chm‘ . I am Sin etc Addition-ally, critics of the _de- - w_0_ MCCLUSKEY cision by the British Boxing City_ Board of Control‘ offer convincing

evidence that a fight between

Patterson’ Tour

night hea

exhibitions here next March.

in time.”

Zulueta.

Of U. K._DeIayed

LONDON“ (AP) — Boxing pro- moter Harry Levene said Friday weight champion Floyd Pa-tt-er on will not come to Britain this month but may box

‘fl had hoped Patterson would appear in London next week in an 'exhibitoin,” said Levene. “But he and his manager C-us D’Amato have been unable to get a ship

Patterson was to box an exhi- bltion Tuesday on the same pro- gram as a 10-rounder‘ between Willie T o w e e l, South African holder of the British Empire light- weight crown and Cuban Orlando

Turpin and the world's fourth- ranking heavyweight would have drawn a capacity crowd.

If the loss of a sure-fire box office attraction weighed most heavily with the fight’s promot- ers, it. was the implied slur on the prestige of British boxing that brought an indignant outcry from most of «the sports writers. TRYING COMEBACK

At 29, Turpin is the only tive Briton who has ever he! a world title. But six years hart- gone by since he outpointed Rrr Robinson for the middleweight crown, only to be stopped by Robinson in a return match three months later.

Currently he is on a modest comeback campaign after suffer- ing knockouts at the hands of Italy's Tiberio Mitri in 1954 and Canada's Gordon Wallace the following year. He has never

James Will Play Hockey .,

have your own Referee.”

“Yes I can," said Langford. “Here it is” where upon he hois- ted his right fist, It was Sam knocked out Hague in jug time that night.

[of the word, he attended pretty

victim on the =chin and"remov'-: ing him from the picture with as

sible.

of Sam’s hated rivals and’ all because of a sports writer'|

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TORONTO (CP), Maple Leafs of the

Rochester next Thursday.

Leaf Coach Billy Reay said much to business and businesstchief scout Bob Davidson phoned susually consisted in hooking a,from Winnipeg to report James

is satisfied with terms.

James said he will ask officials little pain and commotion as pos- of Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Western Interprovincial Football Fireman Jim Flynn was one;Union to see whether they will