European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 9 counting up his birdies n a to Bantam Ben Hogan goes Over the score card that tolled a Totne underpay 63 Logan fires Itee Ord 63 or Florida Golf Lead 27 were pars for Ben Hogan St Petersburg open Golf tournament As he bounced around the in nine under lit gave him a four stroke Lead on the Field and set a new record round for this it also tied the Al time Mark for coach ejects Yale 27 1 coach Charles Bud Wil has rejected an offer to at Yale and said Here As head coach at the uni of tar of am very Happy to be Here at he i have no of breaking my contract reportedly very attract was made wednesday by a of the Yale alumni Board told like Young coach All he to do was say yes and the wag George Oklahoma was obviously Happy and at Wilkinsons has been very decent about be at a time when it the for coaches All Over entry to walk out on their Bud has made his Deci i to stay without requesting any or any other Yard Lakewood country club when the 167 entrants finished j firing the opening round about 30 other players had joined Hogan in sub Par the closest to the How was Gary Middlecoff of he had Bantam Ben did not find Par until the sixth he birdied the first five and the seventh for a six under Par 30 on the first his Only Over Par was the 367 Yard where he was on the apron with his second shot and chose to putt from it meant three More t behind Hogan and Middlecoff were five players bunched at 68 Lawson Little of Cleveland Johnny Palmer of Badin Jim Mil Ward of Northern ire Bobby South Africa and Eric Santa Monica in the third place arc five slated for Neucom finals 27 Amer ican Graves registration command in the present conditions of j basketball team will compete in the Neucom company level Tournai addition to his coaching Merit in army athletic offi Walcott signs for Louis bout investigations Mark nil fix scandal 27 full resources of Michigan officialdom today had been thrown behind an investigation of reported betting by National league hockey the touching off a much broader probe into the whole Detroit brought in governor Kim state attorney Black rally Atso is acting athletic oils have the arc which has an wanted Wilkinson to replace impressive string of victories who recently left to against local Power the University of was meet several huskies after Ralph pest French will dec zone teams in Paris before the tourney gets under Liu holds off pirate to 4038 new 27 a probable tournament bid at Long Island came through with a narrow 4038 Victory Over Seton Hall after staving off a late rally by the South Orange in the opener of the College Basket Ball doubleheader before Madison Square Garden City College won its 14th game in 18 starts this season by overwhelm ing it was a close Call for Long which apparently had the game in the bag until the final in front from the Start when big Herb Schurer dropped in a Pivot Liu enjoyed a 4032 bulge with five minutes but the also fighting for a postseason tourney came storming Back and just failed to tie the game in the final seconds when Center Harry reamers easy Layup shot rimmed the Basket and drop Ped the Triumph was the 15th for Liu against four Seton Halls record is now 18 triumphs and four big Jack French was High Man for the winners with 10 encountering surprisingly Strong opposition in the opening minutes City College found itself held even at 1010 after five it was not until late in the first half that City finally solved Brook Lyns zone with Morris Shapiro breaking through repeatedly for soft jump shots and Norman Mager hitting from the the beavers ran up a 3527 halftime Hernandes wins bout 27 Manuel Hernandes of Rhine main won the lightweight Novice Consolation bout in the Safe North Ern division bouts when Manuel Figueroa was Nahle to continue at the Start of the second it was previously reported that the latter handler pins 2nd Fine on Chison 27 go White sox and their Gen manager Leslie Oconnor were with another Fine by All commissioner Hap Chandler because they again the nigh school idler levied the Fine because sox kept William a from Saginaw in contract after be returned to baseball rules pro be signing of a Schoolboy whose class has not Oconnor immediately announced that the sox would pay the the clubs first offence came with the signing last november of George another before he had finished his High school classes at Oconnor said the sox had been advised by Buhl that he was through with school and that his class had As a the sox used the Pitcher last season on the Madisonville club in the Kitty league and at the end of the season moved him up to the Waterloo Iowa club in the three i Oconnor Buhl decided to go Back to school and the Fine was Chandler gave him a new prohibited from Ever signing with the sox or a sox owned or controlled was inked by the Chicago cubs general Eugene Black and numerous other state and City of at the governors troit police commissioner Harry toy took Over the statewide in a Short time later toy promised an attempt to tie in All the Loose ends before a conference in signers office next these Loose ends include that James convicted Bank and Well known had served As go Between in betting involving two still unnamed hockey possibility that Tamer might have information about the sensational unsolved murder three years ago of state senator Warren an informer in a state guard grand jury Case at the escape from prison last night of Alfred 26year old Tipoff Man in the Hooper who testified he had been offered to shoot the toy said the possibility that Tamer was out of prison at the time Hooper was slain cannot be burners escape in the midst of the inquiry cannot be considered a be the police commissioner said the governor wired him and the state Law enforcement agencies to Pool our information at the meeting in Clarence National hockey league was one of Many persons invited to at that time he May learn the names of the two tidied by toy As one member of the Boston Bruins and one of the new York Campbell conferred at the capital with governor he was Given All information available concerning the rumoured hockey he Munich schedules hoop tournament 27 Munich will stage a company level basketball tournament starting 29 to decide its representative coming Southern Neucom it will be an eight team double elimination with games in the afternoon and a 7773rd qualified to meet a 370th in the tourney by defeating John Obrien paced the win ners with 21 Points and Alex Hogg scored 19 markers for other first round contests will match the 604th pcs and the 116th signal 7773rd k 7822nd Sci 1st and old Dep 1773rd Falls to 63rd 27 the 63rd tripped the 1773rd corps in a com pan level police Gazette  to Jersey Joe 27 Jersey Joe Walcott announced that he had agreed to meet Champion Joe Louis in a return heavyweight title fight at Yankee stadium on june his announcement was made personally in the jammed convention Hall where the negro challenger was presented with a world heavy weight championship Belt by the police publisher of the police pointed out that his Magazine considered Walcott to be the Champion because the referee had voted for him and one judge had Given him the most Points in his 5 bout with Louis at Madi son Square Walcott will sign for the return bout today atthe 20th Century Headquarters in new he said he had agreed to accept the per cent of the motion picture profits that had been offered by the 20th Century he had been demanding 30 per cent of the movie in addition to agreeing to the 20th Century movie percentage Walcott also ended his fight against the 20th Century demand that he agree to a third bout in Case he wins the title from Louis on june and will accept 30 per cent of the third bouts net the same percentage that Louis will Walcott had been demanding 40 per cent for a third bout which would leave Only 20 per cent for when the third bout contract was proposed to Walcott last he rejected it so flatly that it angered at that the Champion declared that he would give Wal Cott a deadline of two weeks in which to sign or lose his Chance As challenger for the june Walcott told his audience of nearly admirers last night since Louis has served this two weeks ultimatum on there is nothing left for me to do but accept his the presentation in convention Hall followed a reception at the office of mayor George Brunner of Camden and a dinner for Jersey Joe at a downtown 90th maps top 58th 27 the 90th my led by Bob Wrights 13 walloped the 59th pc Wurzburg league Kelly Anderson Buck eted 16 for the future dodger i t Bud Philips to hurl in o dodger uniform the Brooklyn dodgers have announced the signing of 18ycarrold Homer Bod Memphis High school pitching