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1 f KlEDFOMV LZSf SIBMR Kg tdrsen Signs tit Same Pay Despite 21 Losses in 1954 By MILTON RICHMAN United Pxms Sports Writer , Dos (Long John) Larsen; lost more games than any pitcher in the majors last season but he didn't lose a nickel in salary to day Jay signing a 1955 contract with the Yankees calling for the same $10,000 he received with the Orioles in 1954. Larsen, a promising 25-year-old .iastballer who reads comic books, cuts bis own hair and takes in two or three movies a day, lost 21 games and won only three last year but was thought so highly of by the Yankees that they insisted he be included in last November's deal with Bal timore. He came to the Yankees with pitcher - Bob Turley and short stop Billy Hunter, in exchange for Gene Woodling, Harry Byrd, Jim. McDonald Willie Miranda, Hal Smith and Gus Triandos. First baseman Dick Kryhoski, another ex-Oriole who came to the . Yankees in the second-half of that same deal, also signed his .contract. making a total of 22 Yankee players who have agreed to terms for 1955. Batted .260 in 1954 Kryhoski, alternating at first base . with Ed Waitkus, batted .260 last season after suffering a fractured wrist in. spring train ing. .-.' , , . v ... .Three players, including one who wrote a letter saying it was "good to be with Pittsburgh," signed their contracts with the Pirates. They were outfielder Dick Hall and pitchers Ben Wade and Laurin Pepper. Wade, acquired in a trade for Paul La 'Palme from St. Louis recently. enclosed a latter with his pact which stated he was happy with the deal. Four Dodger players agreed 4o terms, including left-handed pitching hopefuls Tom LaSorda and : Ken;'; Lehman. The others who signed were second string catcher Al (Rube) Walker and rookie first baseman Norm Larker, up from Mobile of the Southern association where he hit .326. -." Catcher Del Crandall became the 28th member of the Milwau kee Braves- to sign a contract for 1955. The 24-year-old team captain, was . believed to , have agreed to a pact calling for be tween $17,000 and $18,000, give or take a few cents. Athletics Sign Two Outfielder Vic Power and rookie pitcher Art Ceccare.lli okayed their contracts wjth the Kansas City Athletics. Power batted .255 for the Philadelphia Athletics last season while Cec carelli posted a 15-12 record with Birmingham of the South ern association. Despite his rela tive inexperience, Ceccarelli is given a good chance to make the Athletics'- staff by Manager. Lou Boudreau. A - Relief pitcher Ray Herbert was the 19th Detroit player-to sign for 1955. Herbert won three games and lost six last season.; Washington announced the signing of William Robert Alli son, a University of Kansas out- tieiaer who will be , given a chance to win a major league berth ; in spring training even though he was signed to a con tract with the Senators' Class B Hagerstown, Md., farm club, LaSatle Coach Says Dispute Is a 'Ridiculous Situation' - Philadelphia . (U.R) Coach Ken Loeffler . of LaSalle said today, that a , dispute between him and Referee Phil Fox has brought into the open a "ridicu lous : situation" exisiting in the Atlantic Coast Basketball Con- ' ference. -The fiery coach of the NCAA champions, a professor of busi ness law at LaSalle, added that he would "enjoy it" if Fox took him to court and said he would "act arhis cwrr attorney. The hassle between Loeffler and Fox was disclosed Monday when Fox said . in Washington that he was turning over to his attorney a letter ? he received from Loeffler prior to last Sat urday's LaSalle-North ' Carolina State game. Fox was an official , of the game despite Loeffler's ' objections to conference offi cials. - - Xoeffler, when contacted here, released the letter which he said contained nothing -nasty or filthy" that 'hef Fox ' seems to Young Slated For Return Go With Bobo Olson New York (U.R) Saddle-nos ed Paddy Young of New York was slated tentatively today for a return non-title fight with middleweight champion Bobo Olsojn next month because of his kayo victory over Tony John son. . . '.. :: -j.-. Young, 168'4 pounds, stopped 170-pound Johnson at 1:05 of the fifth round Monday night in Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Arena. And Johnson almost stopped Referee Ray Miller with a right to the chin as the referee intervened. - The scheduled 10-rounder was widely televised.: ' " :': t : .- Officials of the International Boxing Club had promised 26- year-old Young an over -the weight match . with ; champion Olson at the Chicago Stadium Feb. 16, if he beat Johnson im pressively. ,- ,i -y" :-, av Selvy, Pettit NBA Top Men. New York (U.Rl--Frank. : Sel vy and Bob Pettit, those -marvel ous Milwaukee rookies, not only held their scoring lead in the National Basketball Association today but each took-over. 'the league lead in another depart ment as well. Selvy, former record-smasher from Furman, remained atop the total points f race -with a grand sum of 915, -followed by Pettit with 875. - It's the third straight week that the two newcomers have topped the list and these are the only occasions -in history that the NBA has been led by two players on . a . last place team. ' Selvy seized the - league lead on a basis of average points per game. He's notched 21.3 points per game while defending scor ing champion Neil Johnston of Philadelphia, who has been lead ing steadily on this basis, drop ped behind at 21.2. : , , want to be implied." Fox ! said the letter contained statements that were Vnot very complimen tary." ;..,:;.. : ; The" letter concerned .- a year old fevid between the two which stemmed from last year's La Salle - North Carolina State game, which Fox also worked as j-eferee. . Loeffler '. . "down graded" . Fox . on the coaches' card because he said he thought Fox was biased toward 'l North Carolina State. '.r ' ; ' Loeffler' said his attempts to oppose Fox for last Saturday's game pointed up the "ridiculous Halas Chooses 1940 Game as V Best of Career Chicago (U.PJ George Halas, marked for retirement after 30 years as a football coach in which he racked up more wins than any other; mentor,- picked out today the one game that stood out among the 495 contests his teams played. ? . . "It has to be that 73 to 0 game against Washington :. in 940,"itt saidJ: tNotf just "for the score or what it meant. - But because it showed what can hap pen in football. That was the T formation1 atT "its' 4 best and that- game started the spread of n . :.t - - 4' mm t " - A' ' A BETTER MOUSE TRAP - Photographer Ray Bright of the Indianapolis Times became irked because a mouse kept .chewing labels off canned goods stored in his pantry. To catch the culprit in the act. Bright rigged up a snaptrap photoplasn combination. Above Mr.. Mouse is about to pay for his crime as the camera catches the spring wire in midair. . - Ivp Jima Inlnd lan Village A Phoenix, ; Ariz. U.R) Expo sure, and too much alcohol was blamed, today for the death of Ira Hayes, one' of six ' Marines who raised I the United : States flag atop Iwo Jima's Mt. Suri bachi during World War II. : . ..The body, of .the. 32-year-old Pima Indian was found yester day lying on the ground in the village of Bapchule on the Gila River Indian reservation- where he had worked prior to his death. . : U Dr. John Parks, physician on the reservation, said the mili tary hero apparently had died from exposure : in f r e e z i n g weather and over consumption of alcohol. "-"'" The death of Hayes leaves alive only two of the six Ma rines who took part in the his toric flag .raising that was im mortalized in the famous photo graph taken by Joe Rosenthal in the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. A monument depicting . the dramatic hoisting of the -stars and stripes recently was erect ed in Washington, D.C. Parks said Hayes"' apparently had been ' drinking with six companions during the nignt and had wandered off by him self into the desert. Parks said there was no indication of foul play. - , :: :: In San Francisco, Rosenthal expressed grief upon learning of the tragic death of the Arizona Indian boy on the reservation where he had lived since , his discharge from the Marine Corps. : i ;-;j";.:,.,r- . '5 "He didn't want' to be a grandstander," ;. said . Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer prize for his memorable photograph atop Mt. Suribachi. "I feel terrible. He was a great guy. A quiet-' spoken- guy." : . .; - - v ?-.- Stale Chambers Aid In Cenferinial Fund Portland Every chamber of commerce in western Oregon so far personally contacted for fi nancial support; of the Gover nor's Oregon Centennial commit tee has pledged assistance, ac cording to James A. Mount, tem porary chairman of the newly formed centennial celebration organization; " - ---.t 5 v ' Tentative quotas, -based ; on population, location and other factors range from $500 to $1, 000, and it is expected to raise $10,000 from upstate counties.' Multnomah county centennial members plan to raise $20,000 of the total $30,000 budget in Port land. ; 1 ! This sum will finance a survey to be made by the Stanford Re search Institute to determine the feasibility of the planning and conducting a fair in Oregon in 1959 on a ; national or interna tional basis. The final phases of the survey . include a. complete program of exposition planning, organization, . construction and operation. - 1. the T formation all over. Halas Monday . revealed that he would quit as-the coach of the Chicago Bears, the team he organized in 1922 as the out growth pf his Decatur,1 111., Sta leys, at:the end of the 1955 sea son.. I ' Pilots Union, Airline Agree on Flying Time Chicago (U.PJ The heads of American Airlines and the AFL Air Line Pilots Association have announced the settlement of a disputed overbuying time for pilots on non-stop cross-country flights. The issue erupted in a 25-day strike by members of the ALPA against the company last - Sep tember. ' American's president, C. R. Smith, and Clarence N..Sayen, president of the umohV , an nounced the agreement in a joint statement last night. Under its terms, transcontin ental flights will continue, with pilots on them receiving flight pay . and -flight time credit at a rate of one-and-a-half times for all time over eight hours. ion , Portland U.R) The State Board of Higher Education dis closed, today it had been given $61,363- in gifts and grants for its eight campuses. : . ' Largest donation was a $13, 038 bequest, from the estate of Mrs. Verle Fawcett of Portland.. She specified the money be used for cancer research at the Ore gon Medical School.' ' . Federal " grants' totalled $19, 631, the largest from the Atomic Energy Commission, to the Uni versity chemistry department: 1 1 - The Army has only 345 offi cers and enlisted men in its worldwide military attache sys tem. , ? Tuttday, January 25. "1158 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRI3U1TS EV!ST It Vest Germany 6 Washingto" fl (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, will accept a bronze statue ' today from the token of gratitude for " the ' as sistance that nation -. "received from . the American .: people - in the years after 1945.''. -- - . " : - Heinz1 L. Krekeler, ambassa dor of ; the Federal,: Republic, will make the 'presentation at a ceremony: at Smithsonian In stitution. He will also give Mr. Eisenhower ; a personal . letter front - the -President of - the .; Re public, Theodor Heuss. ' The life-size ; statue,Vi "Labor-i ing Youth," is the work " of the late Herman1 Bluniental, one of ' Germany's - foremost sculp-1 iyes Appreciation Ste, Ssini RiVer Rccccbs; K Leaves Much Dirmsae : sible by m fund, publicly; sub scribed by the German people. OSC Given Go-Aheacl To Seek Million Dollars 1 ,r Portland (U.R) Oregon . State college had a go-ahead today to see $1,000,000 from the. Legisla ture to remodel the Memorial Union building on the campus. . The finance cbmmittee of the State Board of Higher! Educa tion recommended the remodel ing at its meeting ; here yester day' and authorized '.the school to seek the money. rajl Use Mail Tnbun Want Ada Paris U.R) The river "Seine receided today from7 its highest 3' level in 10 years! leaving an'e's- - timated $1,000,000 . worth' - of damage in its wake. . ''' ; : . Reports from ! other 1 parts ' of -France .indicated other swollen f " rivers ' also .were dropping from - the week; end peaks although the downstream towns of Rouen " and Nantes still were menaced.! The i Seine, : which - reached a '" crest of 23 feet five inches in : Parisi "dropped seven inches but . ; officials said it would be some ' time' 'before' the 'damage could be cleared.' ' ; -svt -s , SATURATED , Knoxville, Tenn, (U.R)--John Lockhart, : 30, charged : with drunken driving demanded to take a'drunkometer test. He set a new high percentage record by registering .56 per cent al coholic content in the blood. V f III IIIIWjMgBjBSjm " s&mmsPa - --I ' " 4- -' &:-kA - 4' v - -I - - y -nw -: ft--- ' Telephone man gets 20-year service pin from air line. Since 1931, Pacific -Telephone Switchboard Installer Jihi Bailey, left, has worked on most every telephone job at United Air Lines' San Francisco office. 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