European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Page12 the stars and stripes saturday april for 19ft 4 or a j1" i x3 nil is -i�?di., Volle Baix champions the 5th tic Vav det Sale French Morocco a unit of the 5th air r i won the North african sports conference volleyball tournament. The team includes left to right Back Row James Hoffman William Thompson Bill Howard Curtis Peterson Ted Rothwell and m. E. Keel. Left to right front Row bad Preston Gene Foppiano f. T. Beasley Ana h. J. Honta. Of photo 5 More cars enter c500 Indianapolis april Joe Rich cents entered a second car without naming a Driver. Driver for his earlier entry is Johnnie Par sons 1950 Winner. M. A Walker also entered a car without naming a Driver. Harbert scores 68 for masters Lead cont wed from Paga 11 but after a bogey . 1 he Sank a 35-foot putt to Birdie the "555-Yard second Hole. He sent his Long Iron shot on the third with in three feet of the cup to pick up Jaho her 1 Irdie. Then1 he boomed his third shot of the Long eighth within two feet and got Down there easily. He birdied. Nine with a four footer after laying up close again. A trap Cost him a bogey on the 10th but he birdied the 13lh and 14th. On the 14th he had to come Back with a so foot putt after his Ball hit a Oliver the Beefy Veteran of 12 years tournament campaigning Sank two 10-foot putts and a 14 footer to ome in. With 69. He missed the greens Only once to make Ilis Lone bogey against four Birds. " ". Sportsman s Park St. Louis april 10 a in their first big Money move under new ownership the St Louis cardinals yesterday purchased sports Man s Park from the St Louis Browns for 5800,000 a hunk of Money reportedly necessary to keep the Browns in business. The new owners wealthy Ann Heuser Busch brewery also erased the name sportsman s Park and christened the 30,808-seat Ball Park Budweiser stadium. The cardinals purchased by the few fans Greet Veeck s Browns on Home arrival St. Louis april 10 up Italy a handful of Faris were on hand to Greet the so Louis Browns at Union station Here last night As they returned for their Spring training exhibition Lour. Owner Bill Veeck who sought m o v e the ise last franch month shrugged and said Well that s what i Veeck there was no demonstration of any kind. Most of the players had left the train at suburban stations Leav ing Only a few still aboard when the train pulled into Union station the Browns won 23 and lost 16 on their Spring tour. 7784th Sig so co cops Orleans volleyball title Orleans. France april 10 special the 7784th Sig so co took the 1953 Orleans area com Mand volleyball championship by defeating the 102d pm bakery co 15-9, 2-15, 15-12, in the finals of the double elimination tournament. The winners copped the seven team meet without dropping a set. Both teams Advance to the com 2. Championship tourney at Fontaine Bleau May 13-15, brewery last february had a lease on the Park running through 1969 at,$35,000 annual rent. The Redbird ,. Organization also paid half the maintenance costs and last year s to a Tal payment in eluding rent estimated at $140,000.august a Busch new Cardinal president and Busch head of the brewery said the Browns " have signed a five year lease for use of the Park. Need operating funds the Browns Busch said told him they were heavily in debt. There was. Serious doubt he said that the. Browns could even Complete another full season unless operating funds were found from some source. And we cowed not see our Way Clear Busch explained to pay maintenance expenses for years to come on property which we not added that consulting Engi neers had told him the Park had not been improved for Many years and that it now needed consider Able rehabilitation. Waco a Golf tryouts Wiesbaden april 10 special tryouts for the Western area com Mand Waco Golf team will be held april 16 and april 20 on the Wiesbaden Golf course. Interested personnel should turn in their names to their special services officer. Lakers need big one with reeling kicks to Clinch Aba title new York april 10 a the Minneapolis lakers need at on More game to repeat As National basketball association champions and they aim to get it tonight. I they play the reeling new York knickerbockers at the 69th regt armory. If the lakers win the professional basketball season is Over. If the kicks hang on the series moves to Minneapolis or the final Twa games if necessary sunday ind wednesday �. Down 3-1 after losing their trial straight at the armory wednesday night 71-69, the kicks Hopes by a tattered thread. Their abject pessimism i Lombard off critical list under watch Oakland calif., april 10 up Ernie Schnotz Lombardi lumber ing lovable Catcher w h o at tempted suicide wednesday night by slashing his Throat with a razor has been taken off the critical 1 list and is on the Road to recovery hos Pital spokesmen said yesterday the giant Back Stop i feet 3 inches 240 Pound who won the National Lea gue batting championship twice of several b 1 o o d s _ transfusions. tors said How Lombardi Ever they Are keeping a close watch on the 45-year-old sex athlete. Depressed lately Lombardi. Depressed in recent weeks attempted the suicide while in route to a Sanatorium for psychiatric treatment. He and his wife Bernice stopped at the Home of relatives in nearby san Leandro and while there Ernie had complained of not feeling he stepped into a bedroom and when his wife came in a few min utes later she found him with his Throat Cut bleeding profusely. When friends doctors and police attempted to help him later he became violent. Let me alone he screamed As he struggled with the attendants i want to ." Lombardi had been operating a liquor store in san Leandro since dropping out of baseball in 1949. Standings National hockey league x. Of a 3tontrr�i 1 Al 4 2boston, 1 5 4 american hockey league w 1 of a Pittsburgh i 3 77 alar army basketball Camp Riecken Riffe s4, it m on month eliminated All Navy basketball los Alamitos favat air station 81.great 6t Pacific coast league Affrie Hollywood Seattle Sacramento Portland san fran i to san Dirc Oakland w7 7 74 3 3 3 3 ret gb.778 .700 vim % .5w s?4.313 3m. .333 4.300 4 4 ,3w 41� Portland at Sacramento postponed a agile at san francises postponed Rains a Dicco 7. Seattle s Hollywood 13, Oakland 2 in this statement by their Couff Joe Lapchick. We re not dead yet. We re Jia breathing ". Prediction la Serene. It was Lapchick who came Home after splitting the first two game in Minneapolis and said his charge were confident they could take three straight from the lakers on the Friendly court. But it s the lakers who Are fulfilling Joe s pre diction. Gambling to stay alive Lapchick said he would Start Ernie Vaade Ive Ghe in place of the non scoring Dick. Mcguire in the fifth game tonight although Vande Wethe t defensive lapse caused wed Medaj night s defeat Whitey Skoog a 5-11 substitute broke through Ernie for an easy Layup which clinched the Verdot for the lakers. The Basket Pat the lakers ahead Al i. Connie so. Mons Sank two free throws if to fading seconds to boost Knick How but Harry Gallatin fumbled a pan and missed a Hook which Wootis have tied the game with six Senate to go. \ s 109th Colts Fursey split 2-game Seri As errors Tell tale Gablinger april 10 the Josh inf Colts and Fuerst Clr Feld Bruck eagles split a two Prat series Here. The Colts took tit opener 13-3, and the eagles tic finale 5-3, in 10 innings. With the eagles committing 1 errors in the curtain Raiser it Colts breezed to Victory on Mac five hits. All 16 runs were Maeax flt As the Colts blew three chalet of & the Field to account for the tallies. Whiffs nine both clubs used three each throwing three frames. Of car Alexander won yielding Teddy Sta Worth his Reh Fri nine batters in three John Biggs was charged loss. In the second game the cd hit the eagles 8-3, but Bugaboo popped up for Themi i qty. Inning giving the a " win Biggs won this games de Feldman was credited defeat Thoi me at Cpl is me or or a tube to to on 3 Cash Mario to fight Shirai san Francisco april 10 baby Moe Mario Reno a matched with world Champion Yoshio Shirai round non title fight in 18, Mario s manager. Billy i announced Here. Clarkson homers As Texas league Kopeij Dallas april 10 Cap Dalles Shreveport and Tulsa opened the 58th Texas league Campaign with victories last night with a three run Home run by Buzz Clarkson negro third baseman furnishing the big punch in Dallas Triumph Over fort Worth. Dallas edged their traditional foes the cats 5-4, Clarkson s Homer tied the score and Dallas won the game in the ninth. Shreveport upset Houston 3-1, and Tulsa beat Oklahoma i a 2-� the other two members of the league san Antonio and Beau Mont open the season tonight at Beaumont it will be the Only game. Harmon drives in two Hugh Sooter pitched Shreveport to its Victory Over Houston allow ing nine hits but tightening in the clinches. Charles Harmon first negro Ever to play baseball for Tulsa singled in both Oiler runs in the third inning of Dallas and Houston creases in attendance Over games last season Dallas More than 3,000 ahead of Houston 3,560, an increase than 1,000. At Tulsa out. The 22,658 was More i the attendance for the ing round last season five games to play be Fox ing round is completed
