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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
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.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
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' 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. . -
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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.
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Switchboard Installer Jihi Bailey, left, has worked on most every telephone job
at United Air Lines' San Francisco office. The people there say they've become so used to
Jim's good work and quick smile that they thinof him as one of their group. As a result,
they recently .awarded him one of their 20-year employees' service pins. We believe Jim's .
pretty typical of aH telephone installers. ; For your 'Telephone Man" works to do the best
possible job, to bring you the good low-cost service you like . . . and does it with a smile.
Pacific Telephone works to make your telephone a bigger value every day.
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