European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse February the stars and str pcs Lambeau named Chicago cards coach sky High dip pen Miner Ernie Vandeweghe of the new York knickerbockers leaps High in the air to toss a Long pass Down the court in a game against the Philadelphia warriors. The kicks lost the Aba fray 58-5$. Acme new York feb. 2 up Roy Hamey Pittsburgh general manager who closed a j 100,000 Deal Only 48 hours ago flexed Iris Fountain pen for More Box car figures today a be prepared to talk contract with Ruflin Ralph Kiner. Hamey in san Bernardino caltf., to inspect the pirates Spring training layout will trek to nearby los Angeles to Confer with Kiner who hit 54 Hoir 5 runs last season drove in 128 runs and batted .309 Lor the Best Over All record of his career. Last tuesday the energetic Hamey signed Paul Pettit a los Angeles Schoolboy Pitcher for a record $100,000 Bonus. While Kiner won t command that much the 28-Yctr of slugging outfielder is expected to receive a substantial boost Over the $35,000 he made last year Chison buy Masi the pirates were Busy on All fronts today. They sold Veteran Catcher Phil Masi to the Chicago White sox for Cash Well in excess of the 510,000 waiver Price. Mas a Veteran of 11 years in the National league batted .246 in 85 games last season with the piques after being obtained from the braves. He led National league catchers defensively in j949 with a .994 percentage. General manager Frank Lane of the White sox revealed that his club also had an Opportunity to acquire Walker Cooper of Cincin Nati or Gus , of the Yankees. Manager Jack Onslow he explained chose Masi. Rookie Royce lint a Southpaw Pitcher who won 14 games and lost three with Indianapolis of the american association last season signed his contract with Pittsburgh which is bringing him up for a trial this Spring. Cincinnati made some news of its continued on Page to norwegians sweep Placid ski meet Lake Placid n. Y., pc a. 2 ins Simon Slatt Vik of Norway 32-year-old locomotive Engineer suffering from a cold rocketed to Triumph yesterday in the jumping part of the world s nordic combined Tki championships. His dark Blue sweater nearly Black against the cold sky Slatt Vik Rode 209, 220 and 223 feet Down olympic Intervale Hill for top Suc Cess Halfway through the combined event. The other half will be the 18 Kilometre Cross country race at Rumford me., Friday. A crowd of 1,000 saw Norway s flying thunderbird score a tremendous sweep in the jumps. Behind Slatt Vik who had 231 Points in the judging that is based on distance and style came per Sannerud with 223.4 Oiler Ger Mun Shaug with 220, and Kettil Degroot takes Post As no coach Morgantown w. Va., feb. 2 up the Oft predicted departure of Dudley Degroot from the head football coaching Job at West Virginia University materialized to Day As he left to take the same Post at the University of new Mexico. The Only Surprise element in uie switch by the Veteran of 23 years of coaching was his destination. It was known that Degroot was con Der eng a change but reports indicated it might be to Washington slate Baylor or the proposed Buffalo professional learn. Consideration of s successor to Degroot at West Virginia will be made at a meeting of the Miniver athletic Council. Aardalen with 219.8norwegians All. In fifth place was a norwegian per Gjelten with 216.6 Points. The first non norwegian to crack this Happy Brood was Heikki Hasu of Finland who won the nordic combined championship in the 1948 olympics. He was sixth. Smith paces yanks the first american in the Bunch was Crosby Perry Smith a hand some Gunnison colo., rider who waa ninth in the Field of 24 of whom eight were americans. Smith was Given 212 Points on the basis of hid style and jumps of 207, 206 211 feet. However none of the True jump ing specialists was entered in the combined event today. They re in Lake Placid awaiting the grand world s special jumping Champion ship at Intervale sunday. They in clude olympic Champion Fetter hugsted fellow norwegians Arn finn Bergmann Torbjorn Falkanger and Hans Bornstad to Jure Lind Gren and Evert Karlssen of Sweden and Art Devlin Merrill Barber Art Tokle and Gordon Wren of the . Excellent ski conditions listed at dec resorts Nurnberg feb. 2 special excellent skiing conditions prevail at Garmisch and Berchtesgaden it was announced by Neucom up so today. While there has been no recent snowfall at Garmisch the predict ii Uhl in Berchtesgaden has an eight foot layer. Other Points re port a depth of one and oae half feet. All the ski lifts Are in opera Tion. Happy warns clubs to comply with training date_7 Cincinnati feb. 2 up major league clubs which begin Spring training Belo March 1 will face severe penalties baseball com missioner a. B. Chandler said yesterday in reply to insinuations by Branch Rickey president of the Brooklyn dodgers Fiat the new York Yankees and Chicago cubs were cutting no player shall be required to re port for training until March 1," Chandler the commissioner said. Nor shall players Don uniforms or engage in practice v Ith a Bat Ball or Glove at club s Spring training head quarters in j.1 March 1." he also warned that no exhibition games May be played until March 11, Rickey had raised the Point at a recent press conference of whether us Yankees and cubs were cutting Corners by organic continued on Page 10 sex Green Bay Mentor signs 2-year pact Chicago a Norman Calladine former Providence reds player set the Amer ican hockey league record for the two fastest successive goals when he scored twice in six seconds of play against Buffalo on feb. 12, 1942. Woodcock Savold bout set for june 6 London feb. 2 a promoter Jack Solomons today picked june 6 to stage la British version of the world heavyweight championship Bruce woo cock versus Lee Savold. He named the Dale after a hurried conference with Woodcock s Man Ager Tom Hurst who had just flown in from the . The bout was postponed twice last autumn because of injuries to Woodcock. The Winner will be world Cham Pion in England Wales Scotland and Northern Charles of Cincinnati is recognized As world Champion throughout America except in new York which Calls the title vacant. Solomons will stage the fight at Savold Woodcock the White City stadium a dog track which scats 50,000 for boxing. He had the place sold out last summer when the fight was supposed to be held on sept. 6. The stadium will be scaled to bring in about $224,000. Woodcock was Hurt last August when he drove a truck into a tree. The fight was set Back a month and then postponed until Spring. Neither Savold nor Woodcock has fought since december 1948, when Woodcock won on a foul from the american. Savold will be 34 years old next month. Woodcock is 29
