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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956
Skowron May Develop Into
Second Gehrig For Yankees
By OSCAR FRALEY
United press Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UP) Life looks
good this spring to the man who,
at long last, may prove to be the
'new Lou Gehrig."
That would be Bill (The Moose
Ekowron, a hulking young fellow
with tremendous power and bona
tide promise.. He has everything to
fill the first base gap the Yankees
have known since the ' I r 0 n
Horse" rusted away.
And, alter two bitter disappoint
ments, Skowron is giving it the
big try which finally may pay olf.
The first of his black moments
came after he had been In the
Yankee chain three years. A foot
ball star at Purdue, the Polish
boy from Chicago bad left his col
leglates aspirations behind him for
$20,000 bonus.
His rise was swift. In 1051, the
Moose led the Piedmont League
with 33 average and the fol
lowing season he was the Minor
League player of the Year as he
hit .341 at Kansas City, leading
the American Assn. with 31 hom
ers and 134 runs batted in.
HIGH HOPKS
But the next spring, he was one
of the first players cut from the
VfnkK roster. Skowron, who
headed south with high hopes, let
Jt get him down. His play at Kan
sas City suffered and he batted
"only" .318 in 1853.
Getting back on the ball, he
made the Yankees the next year
and hit .340 in 87 games. The
Yankees finally figured that Moose
was "it."
In the years since Gehrig
stepped down, first base always
has been a big problem with the
Bombers. As season followed sea
son, they tried a total of more
than 30 different players at the
position. None lasted very long or
did the old Gehrig job.
Last spring the club was con
vinced that, finally, the situation
was solved with long-awaited brilliancy.
Vnr ihm Unica wan TianffinGT tht
ball like one of those ancient deni
sens of Murderers Row. He even
looked the part, being a 200-pound
six footer of the old mold.
Through the spring and Into the
start of the regular season, Skow
ron was tremendous. Then, on
April 27, when he was leading the
American League In hitting and
In runs batted in, it happened.
PULLS MUSCLE
Running out a triple, he pulled
a thigh muscle and was out five
weeks.
It worried him. For the first
time In a busy athletic career he
hari hn lnlured. And when he
came back he was over anxious.
He pressed, lost tne strike tone
and began to swing at bad pitches.
cintultr Mm vprao'A r.nllfinspri And
he wound up the season batting
.319 In JU5 Barnes.
Fresno State
Runner Sees
New Records
FRESNO, Calif. Wl Mike
Agostlnl of Trinidad, latest claim
ant of the world's fastest human
label after his record-setting
30.1 second for 220 yards, pre
dicts he may run a 9-flat 100 be
fore the Olympic Games In No
vember. The 21-year-old Fresno State Col
lege sophomore confidently says:
"I can run faster."
In two weeks he has topped Mel
Patton's 20.2 world clocking In the
220 and has two 0.4 centuries. The
100 record Is 0.3, owned by Pat
ton, Hector Hogan and Jim Oolll
day. AKOstlnl, who transferred to
Fresno State in 1055 after one se
mester at Vtllanova, flashed his
20.1 furlong In a triangular meet
at Bakerstleld, Calif., Saturday.
He said he got a perfect start
and felt good all the way.
Veteran observers aald the 6
foot 7'4-lnch sprinter ran at full
speed all the way. Most sprinters
require a floating stage, 20 or 30
yards, before a final burst at the
finish. Mike said he had little trou
ble ataytng ahead of Alex Burl,
former Colorado A&M runner, and
Jim Lea, ex-Southern California,
Who pressed him.
'The two 9.4s I have run the
past two weeks have been ho easy
I know I have more left." he said.
"After some complicated figuring,
I have concluded that with the
same start and under the same
conditions as the record 220, I
could run the loo in 0.1.
"After all," he says, referring to
a possible 9-flat, "a tenth of a
second Is not much."
Mike, who probably will be a
one-man Trinidad team In the
Olympics, has done little speed
work this year. "I'm bound to Im
prove with work," he says.
Sports
World
Shorts
But this spring It's different
This Is the old Skowron of the
liquid power swing and eagle eye,
a man chock full of confidence.
Last week, for example, he bit
.470 In seven games.
Only the Grapefruit League,
you'll say. But Casey Stengel sums
it up:
"He's a feller full uh muicles
and It's nice to see him using
them all again."
Small wonder the Yankees think
this finally could be "it!"
LOS ANGELES (UP) Chuck
Weeks, former University of
Southern California tackle, and
Mickey Lakos, ex-Vanderbt.t de
fensive back, were signed today
by the Los Angeles Rams.
TORONTO (UP) The Ontario
Jockey Club announced today that
the value of Its Gold Cup turf
prize has been raised from J 10,000
to $50,000. The race will be run
at the new Woodbine Track In Tor
onto next fal.
WASHINGTON (UP) End Paul
Dekker signed with the Washing
ton Redskins Tuesday to bring the
number of players under contract
to 22.
CLEVELAND (UP) Babe Paril-
11. former Kentucky T-formation
star and regarded as the successor
to Otto Graham, signed Tuesday
with the Cleveland Browns for an
estimated $12,500. Discharged from
the air force last week. Parilli
was acquired from the Green Bay
Packers two yearn ago in ex
change for Stanford's Bob Garrett.
PHILADELPHIA (UP) Hal
Reinfeld, Temple co-captaln who
is recovering from a back injury,
is expected to see action Thurs
day night when the Owls play Iowa
in the scmi-nnai round oi me
NCAA Basketball Tournament at
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ROCHESTER. N Y. W A Syra
cuse, N.Y., team hold the lead in
the team division of the Ameri
can Bowling Congress tournament
Wednesday.
The Meade Floor Covering team
rolled a 2,897 to better by ' a pins
the score posted last week by
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Frank Fabrlzlo sparked his
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Fabrlzlo, a 182-avernge kegler,
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He rolled nine strikes before
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ball.
Alcins Meets
Hec Constance
ST. LOUIS Wl Sixth-ranked
Virgil IHoneybear) Akins can
land a brut with -welterweight
champion Johnny Saxton If he
overcomes a habit of missing his
big chances and defeats Hector
Constance in a 10-round fight
Wednesday night.
Saxton is looking around for op
ponents before he gives Carmen
Basilio a return crack at the
title.
Aklns has all the equipment to
make a champion. He Is a good
boxer and good hitter, but oltcn
has Jacked fire.
The St. Louis fighter also has
a hometown Jinx to overcome. Al
most all of his best showings have
been away from here.
' Constance; of the British Island
of Trinidad, is fast and holds vic
tories over Kid Cavilan and Ralph
(Tiger) Jones.
The event will be televised nationally.
Angels
Said PCL
Contender
LOS ANGELES (UP) If Los
Angeles can get the rest of Its
team to play up to the abilities of
Its hitters, the Angels think they
will be tough this year.
Bob Schelfing is starting his
first full season as manager and
the former Cub coach thinks he
will have a contending ball club
that could prove better than the
1!)55 team which finished In the
first division.
In Steve Bilko, Buzz Clarkson.
George Freese, Bob Coats and
Gene Mauch he has a "murderers'
row'" that should make opposing
pitchers tremble.
"But we need some help on the
motmd ourselves," Schefting said
as he drilled his squad at Wrigley
Field. "You can't lose three pitch
ers like George Brosnan, Don
Elston and Turk Lown without it
hurting. We hope the Cubs can
provide that help."
WELL EQUIPPED
But aside from pitching help and
another catcher, Los Angeles ap
pears well equipped for the com
ing season. Some of that help al
ready has been assigned to Los
Angeles in Dick Droit and Bob
Anderson, both up from the Cub
farm organization. Holdover pitch
ers who might Improve last year's
performances are Ray Bauer, Hy
Cohen and Dave Hillman, while
Harry Perkowskl is down from the
Cubs.
But Scheffing has only Sam
Mauny and John Sweich as catch
ers, both up from lower classifica
tion farms and he can use an
experienced backstop.
It is In the infield that Los
Angeles shows most of its
strength. There It has Bilko at
first after having led the league
in homers with 37 last year.
Clarkson was going great guns in
1955 until .he broke his leg, but he
hopes to be up to his best again.
Freese was drafted by the Angels,
who think he could prove their
best all-around player capable of
working both tlie infield and out
field, as he did at Hollywood.
Casey Wise has been Impressing
Scheffing at shortstop and Gene
Mauch has second base sewed up.
FREE AGENT
In the outfield the Angels have
Jim Bolgcr from Chicago; Coats,
George Haas and Prentlse Browne
to start with. UCLA football star
Sam Brown also Is trying for an
outfield berth, while Tom Loprete
was signed as a free agent.
"We should get off to a good
start." Scheffing says. "The out
look Is better than it was last
year. But so is the competition
this year in the league. We've got
a better bench this time and if
we get the help we need, we'll
be right up there."
Sporrs Cont'd
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DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. (UP)
The Houston Buffs of the Texas
League rallied for four runs in
the fifth Inning yesterday to defeat
the San Francisco Seals, 4 to 3,
ir. a chilly, wind-swept exhibition
game.
General Manager Joe Cronin of
the Boston Red Sox was on hand
to see his club's newest farm team
in action, but the Seals were lim
ited to four hits all of them
singles.
PASADENA, Calif. (UP)
EiBht Hollywood errors paved the
way yesterday for Sacramento to
score a 13-4 exhibition game vic
tory over the Stars.
The Stars committed five errors
in the third inning as the Solons
scored six times to wrap up the
game. Russ Rosburg homered for
the Solons.
Rookie outfielder Joe Christoph
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wood, getting three hits including
two triples.
PASADENA, Calif. (UP) The
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The Angels slammed out 21 hits.
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Buzs Clarkson got one. One of
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PALM SPRINGS. Calif. (UP)
Outfielder Harry Elliott's three
run double highlighted a six-run
rally In the fifth inning which
gave the San Diego Padres an
8-5 exhibition game win yesterday
over Vancouver.
Vancouver took an early three
run lead when Dino Restelli hom
ered -in the first inning with two
mates on the bases. It was the
Padres' second win over Vancouver.
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