European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes february Macphail refutes Rickey claims against baseball Cony rips St Josephs owls win 22 City College of now York kept alive its chances for a postseason tourney bid by defeating in the Nightcap of seasons final basketball double header at convention Hall before in the Temple solved Penn states zone defense 10 win in gaining its 15th Vic tory in 18 dashed up and Down the floor at Breakneck the new yorkers jumped off to a 145 Lead at the outset and gradually boosted the advantage to 3723 at after inter Nat Holmans club broke Loose to a 5028 and Here the Hawks tried to close the but with two and a half minutes to play Josephs could not rut its deficit to less than nine Points and City had its Hilton Shapiro topped Cony with 13 Paul Senesky led St Josephs with in recording its 12th Triumph in 19 Temple had to overcome the famed zone defense taught by John in the first half the owls wore Noi too successful in working Rte Ball for openings and Only tabbed six Field after intermission it was another As they cracked the state defense to away to an easy once again it was Nelson Bobb who sparked the Temple he reeled off 23 Points on seen Field goals and nine foul conver Eddie the other owl broke temples Al time individual scoring Standard with his eight this feat boosted his career total to 664 to eclipse the 861 record held by Mike Bloom in the late Jack Biery topped Penn state with 14 As the Kittany Lions lost their eighth game in 16 Cli Arleis to title 22 father of Sam Baroudi sympathetically and without rancor told the Man whose fists felled Baroudi six fours before he died to go in and win the Light heavyweight Sam Akron Ohio company arrived to claim the body of 20yearolj Baroudi and met Ezzard Charles of with dad tells alleges dodger lied on negro 33rd Faga ins la ure is in Cage Loop 22 with Doc Launi hitting the Basket for eight Field goals and one Charity the 33rd a clinched the second half title of the basketball league by defeating 1st the 33rd will meet 1st Winner of the first in a championship playoff tilt at bad Launi shot three baskets in the first Quarter As the 33rd took a 125 made several at tempts to close the but Launis Fine net and floor play kept the artillerymen while Launi topped the artillery men with 17 Leonard Summa Buck eted 18 for in the 3rd 26th came from behind in the fourth period to Over 1st 26th Juan Sostre led the winners netting 18 in the evenings third and final contest 2nd 26th downed the 5th fades Pite the 25point Effort of the los ers Ray Heidelberg stages by a bouts 22 special the Heidelberg my Gya boxers Defeated the Schwabish Hall Gya in Gya Benefit matches at the stardust it has been announced that these matches will continue at the stardust on the second monday of every thought i had it whose fight Crandall son ended tragically at the Chicago stadium Friday Crandall told the worried and obviously saddened Charles this was just a terrible but our family bears no bitterness at All toward dont give up your keep on and win the Grandall said there was bitter irony in the fact that his dead son also had caused the death of an other in the he was referring to a match at North Adams in which Baroudi fatally injured Glenn Newton like died from a brain Charles expressed deep regret Lor his fatal knockout of Baroudi in the 10th and final round of their feature bout and pledged All receipts of a family Benefit fight Here against any opponent Selec Ive got to think this said the highly rated in not even sure if i want to fight any a coroners jury inquest into the death of the 20yearold negro fighter from new York disclosed that Baroudi received bleeding head injuries against a fighter named major Jones in Kansas Illinois state athletic examining physician for the said he was unaware of the Kansas City and if he had known about it i doubt if i would have approved Baroudi for his fight with after a three and a half hour session the jury adjourned until next and who was booked on a technical charge of was released on Bond to appear in court next Coroner Brody instructed the jurors to make a thorough investigation and to Call members of the Illinois state athletic commis Sion for southpaws Roe sign dodger contracts 22 i Brooklyn dodgers signed Joe hat ten and preacher a pair of left handed and sold Catcher Stew Hofferth to signing of a stubborn holdout last and Roe left the Brooks with Only eight unsigned Peewee de Bruce Carl Furillo and Arky Vaughan Are the Only name i players outside the once again Larry Macphail comes out of retirement to new 22 Macphail and Branch Rickey embroiled today in a sizzling concerning the negro players into major league former new York Yankee said Rickey was lying if he claimed 15 big league clubs had negroes into the president of the Lyn replied that hails released in contained truths and officials of t tonal sport remained Laie the grandstand watching and ing for the final contacted had no it All began last monday when Rickey addressed the football dinner of fired opening blast the dodger Boss told Listene Afif the Ohio negro University Fig after had signed Jackie son a joint major league mee1 adopted a report declaring of negro players would hazards la the physical properties of based the meeting was in Chicago fall of Macphail was chairman of be joint major league policy at the he said that loan baseball associates Felt he reply to the dodger presi Daf in View of the fact that Bleb has charged every official in major leagues except Rickey i am glad to Macphail contentions listed in his Miami Beach states Macphail said was lying if and wac he said the committee recommend that negro players be barred 61 major league was lying if and we he said that 15 major league Diall except Brooklyn voted prove any such recommendation took any action of any kind prevent Rickey or any other a owner from signing negro Plaj Brooklyn Branch Rickey a verbal spanking on his speech i basketball Temple Penn state 44 Northwestern Indiana 22 Miami Florida 49 Maryland South Carolina 53 Bowling Green Marquette 55 Iowa Wisconsin 40 Columbia Harvard 41 Georgetown George Washington 38 Michigan Minnesota 45 Penn Navy 53 Villanova Francis 47 Fordham Hofstra 37 Santa Barbara Fresno state 47 us Stanford 40 Rutgers Colgate 79 Williams Amherst 41 army Lehigh 28 Illinois Purdue 54 Buffalo Renselaer poly 52 Georgia Auburn 3ff Ohio state Michigan state 50 Tennessee Vanderbilt 53 Oregon state Oregon 45 California Urcla 39 Washington state Washington 58 Pepperdine Nevada 51 Depaul Bradley 18 san Diego state poly 42 10 teams remain in fight for co Stab Cage crowns no you says Hay Wehde left of Iowa state As he the Ball from the hands of pleasant Missouri univer sity the states surprised the to Tumble them out of firs place in he big 22 the cons tabs two hoop Al ready wide open were even More so today As six teams had a shot at the Eastern league Crown and four were in the running for Western league in the former circuit the 6th tightened its hold on the top rung by defeating the 2nd As George Hederer paced the Way with 16 the loss dropped the 2nd into a five Way tie for the runner up other league tilts resulted in the defeat of the 53rd by the 94th the 2nd 10027 thumping of the 25th with Tommy Walsh hitting the nets for 37 Points and the 42nd 7542 Victory Over the 63th so in the Western Loop the 1st and 97th racked up victories that enabled them to share the top which had been one of the three was forced Back Ritto a second place tie with the 22nd which Defeated in an overtime George Russell tossed in 31 Points to Lead the 1st to an 8738 Triumph Over the 28th while the 97th had an easy Fame with the 6th in the Only other league encounters the 15th edged the 14th and the 1st downed the 14th was lying if and i he said that copies of the mittens report were collected i destroy evidence of some Rea mentation or proposal having to with the participation of negroes the major the erstwhile Yankee or and who sold his d holdings after the yanks won 1947 world said that a originally a Refl and As is and been in my Macphail said that in m45 and Rickey had been appointed Ujj study the negro he ducked the and we submitted any any kind to either major Macphail Rickey apparently was not bothering charge supported in spite of the fact that if accepted an appointment major leagues to study this Lem and report his double crossed his his own personal Ras the negro and took ers without adequately compels ing them for the players Tom owner of the pm City negro Macphail was Correct when cleared Rickey took players of negro leagues without we never got a dime for Bob son from Baird he has refused to answer the letters we wrote asking a
