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f I. fi iV a THE r 1 1 , .,, 1 :A I By J. G.T. SPINK f THl STOITIN NEWS Lopes He's Last te Leave CLEVELAND. Oo Mel Hard er, the Indians coach, remembers that when Al Lopez was with the Tribe in 1947. he'd hoist himself onto a trunk in" the clubhouse alter each fame, fully uniformed. and needle the players who dressed hurried' lr for a' quick I departure. He'd : holler. "Hey, where you young fellas go ing? Let's sit around and talk a little baseball.' Alfonso Ram' on Lopez, now I the manager - of J.G.T. spik the, Indians, laughs pleasantly and smiles a handsome smile when reminded of this. That's right," he admits. "Course as manager I cant nee die the boys as much, but IU still walk into the clubhouse and shoot the breeze. I know 111 have an office of my own, as I did at In- dlanaDolis. but m be In tne play ers' locker room as much as I ever was. . More than HI be in xny-office. tnafs ior sure. "In fact, .one of my ambitions is to get the players to stick around the clubhouse, too. 1 11 al wars be the last to leave. Want to get 'em all to think about baseball all the time. Want to get 'em to know each other real well and pull for each other real wen. But in other ways, Lopez' life has changed. "As a played I used to play cards a lot with the xel lows." he recollects. "Now I hard ly play cards anymore. It isn't good for manager to play cards with his players and at Indiana polis I had only one coach. So I cut out most of the card playing. Started going to the movies, instead. "In the last two or three years rve been going to a show just about every afternoon, especially on the road. I find If s a good way to relax before our night games. I'm crazy about shows, mainly westerns. Give me a good shoot-em-up movie. They're the most relaxing." Has His SHerstiUu As . a manager, Lopez has be come much more superstitious. had a couple of superstitions as a player." he reflects. "Like using the same bat each day. "But now, when things are go ing right, I even eat the same things." - -: He then recalled, with a chuc kle, "Last season I was on a lamb chop diet for five days when we won five in a row. After we lost I tried a new menu. When we're winning I even wear the same clothes. A fellow does most any thing to try to keep his luck going." And the sleeping isn't as good. "When I was a player I used to sleep like a baby, Al said. "Now I cant sleep much during the sea son. I keep thinking about those tough games. After a rough one I take lots of newspapers to bed with me and try to read myself to dreamland." Lopez considers himself lucky that in his 19-year major league career he was educated by four outstanding managers Wilbert Robinson, Casey Stengel, Bill Mc- Kechnie and Frank Frisch. "They all taught me something," he points out. Lopez' parents were born in Madrid, Spain. They came to the United States, settled in Tampa, Xia- and reared a family of sev en boys and two girls. Al became Interested In baseball through his brother Emilio, who was two years older. "He was a good catcher.' says Al, "and I learned much. by following him around the sand- lots. I tagged along wherever he went. Then I made the Sacred Heart School team." He quit school in the tenth grade to turn pro with the Tarn Da club of the Florida State League. "Got $150 a month. That was a lot of money," he explains. - "My dad was crazy about base ball. He watched me play every fame in Tampa. The next year, 928. he died." Of his large fam ily, Al has only two sisters and ThcyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo YZj BEFORE I WAS ELECTED X I PROMISE? M CONSTITUENTS A OVER MUD CRZEK-TUAT BR1PSE HAS L0M5 BEEN COMPLETED- I PROMISE? A LOWER T4X RATE FT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED I PROMlSEPAMAPPmoM TO THE SCHCOL-TUAT AK1P ALL MY PROMISES RAVE BEEhJ FATTWFUUy FULFILLED G LcoK-rr's UWCLE WlLLy 6EE-WE PROMISED ME A BIKE TWO CWR1STMASE5 460, WO I'M STILL WELL PONT HOLD VOUR BREATH till you (set m ELMO-VOU CANT VOTE! HE PROMISED MY SSTER A LOT OF THINGS BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED AHD ALL SHE SOT WAS HIM 'S . WS LAST WEEK HE BOAT INTERESTS THAT HE'D TEAR DOWN THE MUD CREEK BRIDGE HE SWORE TO EMMA UEfD BE HOME EARLY BUT ONCE HE STARTS TAU0M6. TWATS ANOTHER PROMISE THAT WOrfT BE KEPT JjlSTEKJlNQ TO THE FXmClAtf OF TH FAMILY m AW ACCOUHT OF HIS STEWARDSHIP- TUanx to 1 A.W. KAUFMAfl t COR0Nlt4A,MlCH. Cardinals vs. Greys Junior High Grid Title Clash Today at dinger The all-Parrish argument for the City Junior high football cham pionship takes, place today on dinger field, with kickoff tabbed for 3 p.m. The game was at first scheduled for last weekend, but was postponed due to bad weather. Athletic Director Vern Gilmore says the finale will be played today come rain, snow or flood. Coaches Bob Metzger of the Cardinals and Caley Egleston of the Greys intend sticking with the starting lineups announced last week. For the Cards it will be Chuck Walters and Paul Beck at ends, Howard Pingle and Fritz Collett at tackles, John Gilmore and Jim Friese at guards, Tom Pickens at center and Ron Whit- f tw'u eras what I 1 Yt?,THATJS I 1 i&XXkV&rj one brother left. He lost two bro thers in the past two years; one was Emilio, who died of a heart attack. . . Al, himself, stays In fine physi cal condition. He's five-eleven and weights about 190. . He appears physically able to go behind the plate today. "Those days are over," he insisted. "Ill manage from the dugout, or maybe from the third-base coaching box, but not from behind the bat." He was still putting on the mask and mitt at the age of 40, catching over SO games in his first year as manager at Indianapolis. "Despite the tragedies in his family Al says he doesn't worry about his health. "I eat all kinds of food and like all kinds," he says. "My stomach doesn't bother me. Oh, since I became - a man ager I get a few butterflies down there now and then, but not enough to worry about." Married a Shew Girl Al married an Irish colleen, Evelyn Kearney, 11 years ago. "Met her when I was with Brook lyn," says AL "She was in show business, doing specialty numbers. I met her after an All-Star game. She was at the game and we were introduced later." They now have a son, AL Jr. age nine. Both mama and boy are baseball bugs. Mrs. Lopez goes to every home game. Young Al plays regularly, but he doesn't want to be a catcher. He likes shortstop, smiles daddy. "He says in catch ing you've got to work too hard. "He's right. But if I had it to do all over again I'd still be a catcher." For relaxation In the off-season. Al plays a lot of golf, shooting in the low 80s. He likes to fish and hunt He enjoys talking about the day he and a partner caught 100 speckled trout, wno wouidn t- In all his baseball years, two thrills stand out "The first was when I broke in to the majors in 1930. I wasn't anything special,' he recollects. "Jt was Just that the Dodgers were playing the Giants. McGraw was managing the Giants and there really was red hot rivalry between the two teams. There still Is. I was just an excited kid. 21 years old. Just the idea of breaking in against McGraw thrilled me. We won four our of five in that series. "My second thrill? You guessed it. Being made manager of a ma jor league club, the Indians." Lopez is well-fixed financially. He admits, "I could retire if 1 wanted." In 1936, another ball player. Randy. Moore, invited Al to invest in some Texas oil leases. The wells began to "produce pret ty good." "I'm no oil baron," says AL "but everything panned out all right rve got a fair income. But couldnt stay away from basebalL Baseball Is my life." ' And baseball's glad Al feels that way. taker, Eddie Costello, Ray Taylor and Doyle Porter at backs. Greys: Wayne Carr and Ron Mather at ends. Ron Renaud and Bob Goddard, tackles, Larry Mar tin and Don Pence, guards. Bill Holmquist. center, and Dave Tom. Junior Pierce. Herb Triplett and JJick AlcGuire, backs. After tieing with the Leslie Blues at the end of the regular season, tne Cards gained the play off finale via victories over the West Salem Giants and Leslie Golds. The Greys finished third in regular play but then gained the finale via a 7-6 upset victory over the Blues in the first round. Cage Campaign Occupies SHA With. 40 asDirants In hit turn. out Coach Don Vandervort of Sac red Heart AradpmT i ptt!nv th Cards in shape for the upcoming DasxeiDau campaign, uone are such veteran SHA performers as Jim Colleran, Dick Staudinger, Ed Jirges. Jerry Weger and Clark Mker. uut vandervort hoDes to fashion a winning combination from Terry Cooney, Vern Dan iels. Dave Mock. Virgil Weber. John Hoy, Dick DeRosier, Ted Rienwald, Jim Dimpewolf, Paul .tuiey ana Jim wiemais. The Cards open with Woodburn December 3 at Woodburn. Vandervort led the Cards foot ballers to the Marion-Polk league championship during the season just finished. SHA won five, lost two and tied one for the entire campaign. A banquet honoring the team has been scheduled for November 29, seven o'clock, at the Catholic center. Hal Moe, Oregon State Rooks coach will be principal speaker at the banquet and movies of , an Oregon State game will be shown. Oscar Buchenhorst, Penn State's athletic equipment manager, re cently had a day. The coaches went to his farm and painted his house. Sooner Team Lands on Ton i (Cont. from Prec. Page) 16th ranked Nebraska Saturday. the Soon ers wind up with Okla homa A and M. Army (8-0) plays Navy Dec. Z in its last game. Kentucky (10-0) tangles with ninth-ranked Tennessee (8-1) in Saturday's most important game. It will be Kentucky's finale but Tennessee also must play Van derbilt Dec. 2. Tennessee polish ed oil Mississippi, 35-0, last Sat urday to hold its ninth ranking. San Francisco threw quite a scare into California (9-0) before the California Bears finally won it 13-7. Stanford is the only bar rier in California's path to the Kose BowL Texas (7-1). a 21-7 winner over Texas Christian, has two to play Texas A. and M. Nov. 30 and Louisiana State Dec. 9. But they have already clinched the South west conference crown and a Cot ton Bowl appearance. Illinois' upset of Ohio State. 14 7, brought ; its season record to 7-1. Wisconsin was the only team to defeat Illinois, 7-6, in early season. Northwestern is the final opponent on the Illinl schedule. Unbeaten Princeton (8-0) nail ed down its fourth straight . big three title by whipping Yale. 47- 12. They finish their season with Dartmouth Saturday. Ohio State (6-2) needs a win over Michigan Saturday to be sure of the Western conference championship. Michigan State ended its sea son, bowling over Pittsburgh, 19' 0. - The University of Washington was rated 18th nationally. Look and Learn By A. C Gordon 1. Why is New York City often called Gotham? 2. What is the largest and most Important of the so-called duct less glands of the body? 3. In what famous story does tne Heroine wear tne letter "A1 embroidered on her dress as pun ishment? 4. What city's church architec ture is conceded to be the finest on the American continent? 5. What kind of riding breeches were named for a town in India? ANSWERS 1. Gotham was a village in England whose inhabitants were known for their follies. Wash ington Irving applied the name to New York. 2. The spleen. 3. "The Scarlet Letter," by Na thaniel Hawthorne. 4. Montreal, Canada. 5. Jodhpurs. siPdDiHnrsiLnapiffliriiEffii (Cont'd from preceding page) "come on in" after the party of the-first part had given Sol da t a sizeable kick when the latter, was thrown outside the ring. What ensued didnt last long despite the fact that the fan was rather a huge honk el man who boasted te all that he would be able to "take care f myself." Soldat tore InU the gvy and In abeat as much tune as it takes U spell Vlshinsky he had him ready for the stretcher. The man wound up In the hospital and la bad shape and thoroughly convinced he'll leave the rassling up to the rasslers from new en. We've warned here many times that those guys aren't to be fool ed with no matter how tough someone might think he is. The ring is their domain and anyone entering it has no comeback for what he might get during his visit Baum Has Size at Silverton, but! Silverton cage coach Milt Baum, another of the numerous ex WUlamette men now in the mentoring field, has what may be the tallest team in the Willamette Valley league, but is quick to add that "they really aren't very good." At any rate, and whether his league opponents will believe him or not Baum has a six-foot-fiver in Scott Douglas, two six-threes in Jim Cooper and Bob Brotherton, a six-two In Gary Carter, a six-one in George Johnson and a couple of even sixers in Bob Burr and JDave Finlay. Gary Gustafson, Gaylen Stolten berg, Larry Lincoln and Ed Montgomery are "runts" under the 6 foot leveL ... The other extreme is surely at Estacada where Truman Osburn'a tallest player is a rousing 5-feet, 9-inches! .... May Get Look at Kurland at Corvallis i Speaking ef height la basketbaU, if he's still with them this season cage fans of this area will have a chance to watch the great 7-footer. Bob Karland of the Phillips Oilers play. The Oil ers are booked at GUI Celiac am with Oregon State en Decem ber IS.... Bruce Barker's Falls City Mountaineers were eliminated in their bid for the state 6-man football title last weekend. But the team had one of the finest athletes in F-City history going down with it He's Ray Nairn, quarterback who directed the team to the league title and scored 74 points himself. Ray is a busy boy in other fields also, as he plays center for the basketball team, pitches for the baseball team and is an outstanding half miler in track. Pretty fair batch of athletic achievement for a 145-pounder, eh? .... - . . 1 Tho Stcdesmcnx Scdem, Orsw Tuesday' TTorembec 21 1 853 II V CAN WE FILL CXJf? W4TEP PISTOLS MG. BUMSTEAQ? THE GOCO GUVS BLONDE IV IMUW tM THE BAD GUVS COME ) IN AND FILL TWEIf? X If lr. Kt frn ir-.m. k.li w r maJslKVOU. S MP. BUMSTEAP J ft THE WORLD NEfiDS TVIlS OLD FELLOW, LORD. lis D DICK TRACT aSEDOO 1 UtS SIMPLE FAITH AND MOMELV. 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