European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 05, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse 1948 the stars and stripes Page 9 Laer blames officials san Francisco March 4 up in heavyweight Champion Max Baer amed boxing officials and Quick ugh for recent ring deaths. The deaths Are due to in com tence of referees incompetence id neglect on the part of boxing Jap emissions and failure of a a tinted officials to do their jobs a charged. J Baer also criticized american fight roads who scream for the kill jeer injured boxers As quit the one time ring Clown Appa i gently thinking about Boxer Frankie Campbell who died of a brain a Merrhage. After being knocked out to Baer said fight physicians could event Many deaths he called re fight physical examinations a 12 the doctor examines a fighter ind if his heart is beating he passes � and goes into the ring Baer de ared. Or / and Many managers Don t care they want is some Quick f is. Be take frown Job Remetha yen March 4� is is. Be earned the right to re resent the enclave in the Neucom part Hern regional company Leve Lampion ships by registering its icon straight Victory Over the civilians 30-21.the victors led throughput As the Lujans could Muster but one Stening offensive that coming the third Quarter and cutting Lead to three Points. Etc Slavicz connected for i. Jor the winners while Al 50bs 12 was High for the yes pet already been in England hockey prexy hints barring of players Detroit March 4 a National hockey league president Clarence s. Campbell wound up the Michigan end of his investigation into reported player gambling. Tight lipped on any new results of his inquiry the nil head pre pared to visit three other circuit cities before returning to Michigan. London museum plans Wax statue of scoff London March 4 a a likeness of pretty Canadian Barbara Ann Scott world figure skating Champion will appear soon in Madame Tussaud s Wax museum in London. She is to be measured for a life size statue today. Tonight miss Scott will skate an exhibition at. Wembley Arena completing a tour in which she won european olym Pic and world titles. Zaslofsky transplants Fulks Raa s scoring Leader Ransom takes Golf tourney Palm Beach fla., March 4 up Henry Ransom smooth swinging Veteran from Ravinia 111. Today boasted his first major Victory of the Winter Golf circuit after Captur ing the $ 10,000 pro Amateur tournament at the Seminole country club with a Classy 36-Hole total of 138. Sammy Snead of hot Springs a and Amateur George t. Mccarthy jr., won the partnership event with a Best Ball 127. Ransom with a Brilliant five under Par 67 in the final round finished one stroke ahead of Claude Harmon the Home pro and skip Alexander of Southern Pines. N. C. A three Way tie existed for third place with Bobby Locke of South Africa Jimmy Demaret of Ojai Calif and. Jim furrier of san Francisco All shooting 140 s. Denver five in Naib Denver March 4 a Denver University announced it has accepted an invitation to Send its basketball team to the Naib tournament at Kansas City open ing monday. Zaslofsky Steps into Baa scoring Lead new York March 4 up Max Zaslofsky of the Chicago Stags took Over the scoring leadership of the basketball association of America during the past week official league standings disclosed. Including games played March 2, Zaslofsky garnered 813 Points on 305. Field goals and 203 fouls. Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia warriors defending Cham Pion who led the circuit in scoring for most of the season was tied for second with de Sadowski of Boston. Each had 793 Points. Bob Feerick of Washington was Joe Fulks fourth with 658 Points and Stan Miasek of Chicago fifth with 609 Points. -.-. Fulks however still boasted the Best average with 21.4 Points per game in 42" contests. Between now and next monday Campbell planned to visit Chicago new York and Boston in an Extension of his investigation. He voiced belief after conferences tuesday with gov. Kim Sig Ler and other Michigan officials that the evidence warrants 1 expulsion of unnamed players on National league teams. They were implicated in gambling of a limited nature Campbell said. The investigation hinges on re ported talks of hockey players with James Tamer m i c h re a n Gambler and convict while the latter was free on parole from a Bank robbery sentence. Tamer is now Back in prison. I take full responsibility 1 he said and i want it clearly under stood too that the club owners have none of this this was a reference to the confidential information Given him by Detroit police commissioner Harry s. Toy on Sigler s orders. That the Way it will stand throughout Campbell added. Campbell planned to leave for Chicago his first Stop. He already had exonerated the Chicago Black Hawks. There is "nothing1 in the evidence to implicate the Hawks he grand die sin 20th year won 31 Kentucky Derby Lexington ky., March 4 up Twenty grand Winner of the Ken Tucky Derby and the Belmont stakes in 1931, died in his stall at Greentree farms at the age of 20, it was Learned today. Death of the famed son of St. Germans Bonus was attributed to a twisted intes Tirie. Since retiring from racing he had been stabled at Greentree where he was unsuccessfully tried at stud. Ridden by Charley Kurtsinger Twenty grand captured the 31 Derby in the sensational time of 2 014/s for the mile and a Quarter. In the Preakness he finished second to mate who had run third in the Derby and thus lost his Chance at the triple Crown of a. S. Racing. Again Ridden by Kurtsinger he came Back to win the Belmont stakes in 2 29 for the mile and a half. After running unplaced in the 1935 Santa Anita Handicap he was retired to the Greentree farm near Lexington with lifetime winnings of 261,790. 2nd Brig toppled by 6th so. Quintet Coburg March 4 special the 6th so. Defeated the 2nd brig., 55-44, in the opener of a Best two out of three series to decide the co Stab Eastern league s representative to the Neucom Southern regional. The victors led All the Way hold ing slim margins of 12-8 and 21-17 in the first two quarters and in creasing the Lead to 38-29 at the three Quarter Mark. Dennis Gill starred for the 6th, potting 17 markers. Tommy Walsh accounted for 23 Points for the losers. Big Bob Fitch turns Down an olympic trip in order to become a football coach Fitch to forsake olympics for football coaching Post Sioux Falls s. D., March 4 a Bob Fitch will be among the missing when american athletes vie in the olympic games in London this summer. The recognized world discus Champion is through with Amat euring. I am Liet finitely a pro Fitch said at augustan College where he is head football coach. I am through with any thought of com Peting in the games. This Amateur stuff is of for a Young fellow. In fact i think it is a marvelous thing. But for a mar ried Man. It just does t work. A fellow has to Start some place some time getting settled for life. I am going to school this sum Mer to add to my qualifications As a coach. No financial offers it Cost me $200 to go to Europe last summer with the olympic track stars. That s with expenses paid. You still have to spend Money on those trips. It even Cost me to com Pete in Omaha at the aau. Meet. I get Crank letters All the time asking me Why i Haven t got the patriotism to compete Lor the country in London. No one has offered to pay me several Hundred a month for washing dishes to pay my Way yet. Besides who wants to go to England. I be Iveea there. Moreover a fellow loses interest. Discus throwing must be worked at. I Don t think the u. S. Has any thing to worry about in the olym pics with Fortune Gordien in there. I m sure he can break the discus record. It s just a matter of get Ting the right Gordien does Well Fitch is working under a verbal contract at augustan. But he con siders it binding and says he knows fully that he is and wants to be a professional. Fitch threw the discus Iso feet 2% inches in the aau meet in Minneapolis in "1946. The Mark has been approved As the world record. Gordien of whom Fitch spoke is a senior at the University of Minne Sota. His Best Mark in Competition is 174 feet 1% inches made in the National aau meet in Lincoln neb last july 5. He had a throw of 179 feet 3 inches while touring Scandinavia with a group of All Star trackman later in the summer. He also is a shot Putter and won the Mcaa meeting in Salt Lake City last year with a toss of 54 feet 2% inches. No state tops scoring race new York March 4 a for the first time in 10 years a team other than Rhode Island state appears headed for National High scoring honors. Continuing their 77.1 Point Pace North Carolina state s tournament bound cagers topped the National collegiate athletic Bureau s major College list for the second straight week. Including games of feb. .28, the Wolf pack had piled up 2,159. Points in 28 contests As against Rhode Island s 1,582 in 21. R. I s average is 75.3. Bowling Green Ohio is trailing in third with a 70.5 average having racked up 2,184 markers in 31. Contests. Lawrence tech is fourth at 70.1 and Western Kentucky fifth with 69.4. As expected Oklahoma a & a b a revisionists Lead the Way in de sense. The aggie Missouri Valley champions have held their opposition to 31.6 Points per game. Alabama is second with 39.7, Wyom ing third with 40.1, Creighton fourth with 40.8, and Tulane fifth with 41.7. Nurnberg sextet defeats Munich in 8-3 fracas Nurnberg March 4 special the Nurnberg a p hockey team avenged an wry season defeat from the hands of Munich by defeating the wings 8-3, in game highlighted by a third period swinging of fisticuffs. Nurnberg tallied three goals a each of the first two periods while Munich scored one in each Frame. It was the second Victory in a Row for Nurnberg having Defeated the 14th co Stab. Regt., 9-6
