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Louis Says Seven Negroes to Play in Phoenix San Diego, Calif (U.PJ Joe Louis revealed today that seven Negroes will enter the Phoenix open golf tournament the first PGA competition ever to wel come Negro professionals. Louis himself cracked the color ban in the San Diego tour nament here last week. But Ne gro professionals were not per mitted to play along with him. Saturday the PGA changed its rules to permit Negroes to play if invited by the local sponsors, and Louis said seven would take advantage of it at Phoenix. They'll compete against the top stars of the game, including Ted Kroll, deadpan New Hart ford, N.Y., pro who shot a last- round 70 yesterday to win the San Diego open with 276. Jimmy Demaret shot a 69 yesterday to finish second with 279. The big news was the end of the Negro ban, however, and the announcement that the Phoenix tournament would welcome them, Louis will lead the influx. "We plan to arrive in Phoenix early enough today to get in a practice round or two prior to Ttee qualifying," he said before departing for the Arizona sun capital last night. Two top Negro pros are in cluded in the group, Bill Spiller of Los Angeles and Ted Rhodes of Nashville, Tenn. Other Ne groes making the Phoenix junket are Leonard Reed, Louis secre tary and a good amateur golfer; and Eural Clark, Charlie Cecil and Bill Phillips. In the few previous non PGA co - sponsored tourna ments in which they have competed against the top white pros, the Negro stars haven't done too well. Occasionally they have finished in the lip Sets New Record Rev. Illinois with pole vault of 15 feet, 3 inches during the Inquirer Charities track meet at Philadelphia. Rev. Richards broke his own record of 15 feet, 2 inches and set a new track meet record for the pole vault. (Telephoto) Gunderson Wins Ski Jump Event Everett, Wash. (U.R) William Gunderson, Seattle, won the class A event in the Pacific Northwest Ski association's first annual Snohomish county Sno fair jumping tournament held here yesterday. Gunderson scored 210.2 points to win the event. He was fol lowed by Ola Giestrud, We natchee; Wilmer Hampton, Leavenworth Ski club; Olav Ulland, Seattle, and Hans Wold, revelstoke. . Jim Henninger, Vancouver, B. C, Ski club, won class B top honors. Rignar Ulland, Se attle, was second; Kjell Bakke, University of Washington, third, and Per Skugerund, Vancouver, B. C, fourth. Senior class laurels went to Elof Wold, Totem Ski club, Ta coma, with 197.6 points. Wold was followed by Nor dahl Kaldahl, Vancouver, B. C; Hermond Badde, Leavenworth Ski club; Gunar Gunarson, Rev elstoke Ski club; and Nick Ny land, Pilchuck Ski club. Some 123, thousand tons of crushed ice were used to take the place of real snow for the event. Charley Comiskey Gets Job Offers Chicago, Jan; 21 (U.R) Charley Comiskey s attorney said the for mer vice president and secretary of the Chicago White Sox has re ceived several job offers since his resignation Friday. "Charley won t make any sudden decisions, thought he'll take his time be fore accepting anything," said At torney Byron Getzoff. Getzoff said that 26-yera-old Comiskey's resignation from the family owned White Sox was a dosed money, winning a few hun dred dollars but never doing well enough to threaten the leaders. Actually, the PGA has dump ed its racial problem into the laps of the sponsoring organiza tions which, in Phoenix, is the Tony Trabert Says Seixas Deserves Honor Bainbridge, Md., Jan. 21 U.R) Tony Trabert, dethroned as the nation's number 1 tennis player, admitted today that Vic Seixas was the man who really rated the honor. Tentatively ranked first for the 1952 season in mid-Decem ber, the 21-year-old Trabert suddenly was dropped to third place by the U. S. Lawn Tennis association over the weekend while Seixas was moved to the top. "Naturally, I was disappoint ed, said the freckle-faced Tra bert, a seaman recruit at the naval training station here, but Seixas really earned the right to be at the top." The USLTA, which revised its rankings amid an exchange of bitter opinions at its 71st annual meeting in New York, explained the only motivation was the players' performances in Australian competition and the Davis cup matches. Dick Savitt of Orange, N. J., Wimbledon champion and win ner of the 1951 Australian sin gles, moved from third place to second during the session which usually is given over to merely "approving" the ranking com mittee's recommendations. Robert Richards, representing Athletic club, clears the bar Dates for AAU Senior Swim Meet Announced Portland (iP) Oregon's an nual AAU Senior Swimming meet will be held at the Mult nomah club here Jan. 26-27, of ficials reported Saturday. Teams already entered include those from Oregon State, Oregon, the It costs so little more to put California on your schedule! See San Francisco and go East via Reno and Salt Lake City ... or viBit Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego, too, then travel East via Grand Canyon or Carlsbad Caverns. Go on way, re torn another . . . stop over where and when you please. For ExampU: 1 vfo NEW YORK via San Francisco and Reno $59.80 via Los Angeles 62.20 DETROIT via San Francisco and Reno 50.90 via Los Angeles 53.25 MIAMI via Los Angeles 56.05 Return Trip 20 LE86....on Round-Trip TlekeU Plus Tti. Tsx J. L Weill, Agent 450 Ne. Church SI. Phone 2242S SoSRGVCuune . Open Thunderbirds, the special events organization of the Chamber of Commerce. Art Devlin Wins In First Leg of Trip to Norway Cary, 111. (u.R) Skier Art Dev lin took the Norge Ski Club championship with him today as he left on the first leg of his journey to the winter Olympics at Oslo, Norway. Devlin, 29, of Lake Placid, N. Y., looked in peak form yes terday as he won the 46th an nual Norge crown here with the longest jump of the meet a soaring 196 feet. He also scored a top 220.3 in form ratings for the winning jump and another of 195 feet on his second effort, Devlin and other American skiers will leave today for New York for a stop over before journeying to Oslo for the win ter games. The Olympics begin Feb. 1. Devlin's Olympic teammate, Wilbur Rasmussen of Ishpem ing, Mich., was second in class A competition with jumps of 187 and 190 feet and a form rat ing of 216.1. But four other members of the American Olympic ski team had little luck on the fast and tricky jump. Corsby Perry Smith and Keith Wegeman both of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; Billy Olson of Eau Claire, Wis. and Ralph Bietila of Istipeming all fell and failed to place. Clarence Hill of Ishpeming was third with 214 points, fol lowed by Clarence Rasmussen of Ishpeming and Karl Mar- titsch of Austria. Only acident of the champion ship, held at Fox River Grove, came when Art Hill of Ishpem ing broke his leg as he slipped on straw laid at the end of the run. Walt Nelson, Beloit, Wis., won the senior competition for men 32 years or older. He total ed 190.3 points and had a jump of 162 feet. Jim Severson of Eau Claire, Wis., won class B and Rudy Maki of Ishpeming was winner of Class C competi tion. watched. Bill Rigney Signs 1952 Giant Contract New York (U.R) The New York Giants announced yester day that reserve infielder Bill Rigney had signed his 1952 con tract, becoming the 10th mem ber of the National League champions to agree to terms. Rigney batted only .232 in 44 games for the giants last year but in their amazing drive to the National League pennant helped out with valuable pinch hits, Including two games ty ing home runs in contests which the Giants went on to win. Oregon Swimmers Win; OSC Swim Team Loses (By the Associated Press) The University of Oregon de feated a Portland swimming team adn Oregon State college was defeated by another Port land team in practice meets Sat urday. At Eugene Yosh Terada won two events to lead Oregon to a 49-26 win over Multnomah Athletic club. At Corvallis, a youthful Aero club team cap tured all but one event to defeat Oregon State 57-20. In his six years in the major leagues, Ralph Kiner has re ceived 661 bases on balls, 489 of them in the last four seasons. Portland Aero club, the Colum bia Athletic club, the Vancouver, Wash., Recreation association and two Portland area YMCAs. SJ : JiTl I 1 SaBUslspLjl fflj tW mPJLdm 31 IIUJiL ' FAN FARE ( WV coach,' nobody's WATCHING THE Qgyp -lHfcTKfc ALU WATCHINS Golfing Band Moves Out of Sunny (?) Cal. San Diego, Calif. W) The golfing band quit California this week, most of them with a sigh of relief. Monday a chosen few golfers head to neighboring Palm Springs for a two-day $5,000 pro- amateur event at the exclusive Thunderbird Golf club. All will assemble in Arizona for the $10,000 Phoenix Open next week-end. The newest celebrity in golf- and-recipient of a belated invita tion to the Thunderbird club par ty is Ted Kroll, a youngish looking man of 32, of Polish de scent, from New Hartford, N. Y. Kroll won the $10,000 San Di ego Open Sunday. He led at the start, with a spectacular 65, and he led at the finish, with a stub born, well deserved 70, with rounds of 69 and 72 in between The result gave the ex-caddie a 12 under par 276, $2,000 in cash. and his first major triumph. Jimmy Demaret, who collected $2,500 for winning the recent Beprxntt of i " . V A. AsCHV. Bing Crosby event, procketed $1,400. Just back of him, win ning $920 apiece, were Jim Fer rier of San Francisco and young Jay Hebert of Great Neck, N. Y., both at 282. Salem Academy Defeats Sacred Heart, 60-56 Salem Academy defeated Sa cred Heart Academy, 60-56, in the first meeting of the season between the two Capitol league teams from Salem Saturday night at Salom Academy. The ball game was a nip-and-tuck affair all the way. The score was tied at 48-48 near the game's end. Bob Johnson and Bob Broth erton dunked 25 and 23 points respectively to pace the Salem Academy victory. The Sacred Heart Jayvees won the preliminary. 40-27. Sacred Ileirl (06) (60) Salem Academy Weber . ,F. . . ,.F... ..C... Thlessen Hacner 2 Mock 5 . i Hoy 9 ... Cooney 10 5 Johnson Brotherton 4 Schmidt a Mauer Keserves scoring: Sacred Heart Dan lels 3. Halftlme score: Salem Academy 36, Sacred Heart 21. Officials: Vandervort and IDeloretto. Then consider this: If you had started on January 1 in the year 1236 -two hundred' fifty six years before Columbus discovered America -and spent one million dollars every day throughout that year . . . . . . and if you had continued to spend one million dollars every day of every year in the 716 years that have elapsed since that time ... ... it would still take you until May 8, 1953, to spend as much money as the U. S. Government has collected in taxes since World War II ended. That's what the 262 billion tax dollars-which your Federal Government has collected and spent in the period from August, 1945, to January, 1952-amounts t5. Thaf s why $1.00 out of every $,J.OO you've earned in the last 6M years has gone for Federal taxes. That's why $1.00 out of every $4.00 youH earn this year is earmarked for Federal taxes. Thi b in addition to Mm Stat, Coonry and Local knees yom pay fruWfcpq yew Stat gcnoHn km. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA this advertisement art availabU on rtquttt. WrxU Offie tf On Premdeni, Union OH Btdg., Lot Angela ByWattDlrzen Louise Suggs Finally Wins In Tampa Open Tampa, Fla.. Jan. 21 (U.PJ-Aft er five straight years of frustra tion as runnerup, victory finally came to little Louise Suggs of Carrollton, Ga., in the Tampa Women's Open Golf tournament. The poker-faced Miss Suggs shot an even women's-par 74 on the final round yestreday to win the top prize of $1,000 with four-day total of 293 strokes. Her 72-hole score was three strokes below women's par. Five strokes behind Miss Suggs came Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who has beaten the tiny Georgia miss numerous times during the past few years. Mrs. Zaharias, who now plays out of Tampa, also shot a final round 74 for a 298 total that earned her $750. Barbara Romak of Sacramento, Calif., was the low amateur in the field, carding a fourth round 79 for a 309 total. Al Dorow, Michigan State's topnotch quarterback, estab lished nine new Spartan records during the grid season. Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., South Division Takes Time Off For Final Exams Los Angeles W) Southern Di vision Pacific Coast Conference basketball teams take time out for mid-term exams this week, and the amazing California Bears will have until Feb. 15. at least, to enjoy their position atop the standings. Conference hostilities resume then, with the teams opening the second half of their campaign, lortitied with a menu of inter- sectional contests starting Jan. California took the load river the week-end by twice upsetting UCLA. 61-59 and 54-51. behind alert work off the backboards and heads up play by the second string. Cal now has won 4 and Inst 2 in league competition. UCLA dropped into a second Dlace tie with the nennerv Trn. jans of Southern California, who Knocked off Stanford twice, 63 58 and 75-64. Counterpoint Wins Feature At Arcadia Arcadia, Calif. (U.R) Counter point, who nosed out Phil D. in the $23,600 San Fernando stakes Saturday, will be in even better shape for the Santa Anita ma turity a week from next Satur day, trainer Sylvester Veitch said today. "He wasn't as fit as I thought he was," Veitch said, "but he'll be a lot tighter for the next one." . The son of Count Fleet faces Monday, TanT 21, 195211 stiff competition In the estimated sidu.uuu maturity lor four-year-olds, including Hill Prinre and Interpretation of the K. T Pnt. ter ranch. Snowslide Traps Two Men at Sun Valley Mountain Sun Vallev. Ida. (U.R) Vet-rc - skiers faced blinding blizza i and threat of avalanche tnrlm recover the bodies of two in buried in a snow slide on ti ! ski slopes of 9,000-foot Bald mountain. A third man. 8kl Inatntr-tn- Victor Gottschalk, was taken alive from under the crushiru mass of snow, but he riler) short time later. The missing men were Arthur- Gardner. 39. New York Ctrv and George Fraser, 35, Ensena- aa, Mexico. The snow avalanche rnarerl down from the top of Baldy Saturday and funneled into th Broadway run ski course. The search Dartv was marie im of hand-n i c k e rl - nvnr.riAni.oii skiers, selected because nf their skill on the mountain slopes. CAR & TRUCK RENTALS 394 North Church Phone 3-9600 IT, California wfa now.
