Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                I sunday february 22, 1959 texan builds Plush Park for class d club Alpine Tex. Up although this Long prominent semipro base Ball town makes the jump into the organized minors for the first time this season there la be Noth ing Bush league about the opera Tion. The reason for that is Herbert l. Kokernot jr., fifty ish rancher banker with a devout love of base Ball and the wealth to make a Success of his Hobby. Kokernot is a Short Salt and Pepper haired texan with a Broad Grin encased in a face tanned by years of personal supervision of his cattle spread that stretches Over a half million acres of rugged mountainous terrain. Kokernot got into baseball by being a Good Samaritan to a financially stricken town team in the fading Days of world War ii. He s been in it Ever since and his efforts have put Alpine on the map baseball Wise. Up to now he a been Content to Field a semipro outfit that has spawned several big league players and been a contender in the National semipro tournament year in and year out although never quite winning the National title at wich Ita Kan. This year Alpine makes its pro debut in the class d Sophomore league and will be one of the smallest towns pop. 5,500 in organized baseball. The club will perform in one of. The Plush est Home Fields in base Ball majors or minors. I Kokernot Field in t the largest in the nation by any Means. But / it is one of the finest. Baseball men from All Over the nation have visited the layout and term it Witt out a peer on a comparative basis. The grandstand has theater Type seats with Box seats Down in front and bleachers stretch Down each foul line to the fences. The Light ing system is one of the Best Avail Able consisting of 10 Banks atop 90 foot standards to provide even 100-Watt seconds of Light through out the Park with no hot spots or Glare. Despite the lavish spending on his Hobby Kokernot is a reserved publicity shy Man who prefers to Wear his ranch clothes and work with his thousands of White faced cattle rather than Don his trim banker s suit and work behind desk. Colts be t two ends Baltimore up the Balti More Colts have signed a pair of ends former los Angeles ram Jesse Arnelle and Jerry Richard son Wofford College. The stars and stripes Bock to school for my chomps Page 21 ill Bradenton Fla. A manager Fred Haney of the Milwaukee braves said Friday his defending National league champions will receive a refresher course in the a a is of baseball during Spring train ing. Baseball is no different from any other business Haney said. The big things always take care of themselves but the Little things can Cost you. You be got to sow the seed in Spring training so it develops when the season opens. If you Don t players tend to  Haney s outdoor classrooms will include courses in Bunting taking the extra base rundown plays Pickoff plays and throwing to the Correct base. Last year weather conditions prevented us from following our regular routine Haney continued. It was t obvious to the average fan but it showed up through the entire year. We never did get really Sharp i fundamentals. Two years ago we got a lot of work done Down Here and it paid off. I still say we won the Pennant Haney that year in Spring training. If we can do As much this Spring i la be  at other Camps cardinals concentrated on butting drills after coach Howie pallet advised against working pitchers too hard and too Early to avoid muscle injuries. Dodgers Pitcher Clem Labino injured his ankle when hit by stray throw. Pitcher de Roebuck on voluntary retired list last sea son pitched batting practice. Yankees Pitcher Ryne Duro joined first drills. Pirates held special batting drills for pitchers under the tute Lage of instructor George Sisler. Hall of Fame first baseman claims a Good hitting Pitcher like braves Warren Spahn can make the Dif Ference in three or four victories a year. Reds concentrated on lumbering up exercises. Rookie outfielder Prospect Vada pins i joined in Light Drill. Tigers pitchers and catchers engaged in first workout. Senators Light calisthenic and running Fea tured morning Drill. Deaf Cage Star holds 41-Point game average Columbus Ohio up Young Emil Hartman threatens to set the Al time Ohio High school Basket Ball scoring record this season with his More than 41 Points per Gam average. Yet the 18-year-old Sharpshooter never has heard a word of Praise Lor his accomplishments. He s never Icard the fans cheer. Even More amazing he s never heard a word of instruction from his coach. Emil Hartman is deaf. But this has t stopped the Ohio school of deaf player from popping baskets with the regularity of machine. Through 17 games this season Slartman scored 710 Points better no his Mark of 559 set last season 16 games. Hartman s single game High for he year is 67 Points. It s a bad night for the 5-foot, 11-Inch player when he s held to less than 40. Hartman s principal Ray s. Nil son considers the Young Star one of the most outstanding Young men at the school. He s a Good team player very modest and unassuming Chap nil son said. He is a member of the football and baseball teams in addition to basketball and also takes an Active interest in the explorer scouts and is a member of the Iky watchers a group interested n astronomy and a member of the Cey club sponsored by the  official scorer s ruling costs Bathgate assist in nil race Andy Bathgate one lean than figured Montreal up new York Ranger Star Andy Bathgate who has All the trouble he can handle from rival National hockey league sharpshooters lost further ground Friday because of a belated correction by the official scorer at Madi son Square Garden. National hockey league head quarters disclosed that Lemie Cro vat the Garden s official scorer has taken an assist away from Bathgate and awarded it to team mate Bill Gadsby. The switch left Bathgate with 30 goals and 35 assists for 65 Points and Only a Point Lead Over three other marksmen Dickie Moore and Bernie Geoffrion Montreal and Eddie Litzenberger Chicago. The assist gives Gadsby a total of 38, six less than the league record for defens Emen held by Montreal s Doug Harvey. Loss of the Point could prove costly to Bathgate. The scoring title carries a $1,000 prize. Another award Amos Alonzo Stagg 96, football grand old Man will receive the great living american award of the . Chamber of com Merce. Still Active he s on the Stockton pc staff. A photo Wuerzburg laces Augsburg twice Wuerzburg Germany Spe Cial still unbeaten after 10 games the Wuerzburg wolves swept a two game series from the Augsburg apaches 54-41 and 59 29, Here this weekend in usar eur class b High school con Ference action. Dave Mccarl topped the wolves with 21 counters in saturday s tilt As Wuerzburg raced to a 30-9 half time Lead. Pete Slyman added 15more. In the first game Bob coving ton was High for the wolves with 20, while Slyman scored 13. For the losers who have a 7-5 Mark Jim Carle dumped in 13 and Larry Bitow followed on 11 Points. Former Colt Girlder faces burglary charge los Angeles up Melvin Embree 32, former pro football player for the Baltimore Colts and the Winnipeg Blue bombers was booked on suspicion of burglary Embree now a bar owner was arrested sitting in a car about a Block from an internal Revenue office where an employee of his was caught climbing out of window. Braves sign Pitcher Milwaukee a the Mil Waukee braves have signed Robert Ritacco 23-year-old right handed Pitcher from Hope Valley r.i., to a 1959 contract with their Mccook farm team in the class d Nebraska state league. Torger Tokle named to ski Hall of Fame Ishpeming. Mich. A Tho Chelate Torger Tokle one of world s great ski jumpers was elected Friday to the . Ski Hall of Fame with five other prominent skiing figures. From the time he came to this country As a 19-year-old immigrant until he died in action with the . Army in Italy six years later Tokle won 42 out of 48 jumping meets he entered in the . He broke 24 Hill records including one at Hyak wash., where he leaped 288 feet and another at Iron Mountain mich., where he jumped 289 feet. Others named Tokle died while going into action against a German detachment in the italian mountains in 1945. Named to the ski Hall of Fame located Here were Alf Engen Salt Lake City a ski jump ing contemporary of Tokles barn by Mclean Denver a top All around skier of the 40s Charles Proctor Yosemite calif., skiing official author and former competitor Alexander Bright Cambridge mass., former . Olympic com Mittee member and the late or. Raymond Elmer Bellows Falls vt., a top skiing Leader in the 1920sand 30s. The Hall of Fame is maintained by the National ski association which conducted the balloting. Nineteen persons were nominated. . Athletics Start stressing 1960 olympics by Steve so Der new York up _ a major buildup of american athletic Power is underway with one goal in mind the 1960 olympics. Fever begins to Rise in every pre olympic year but 1959 promises to be the Best yet with at least four major events coming up that line never previously been scheduled inthe . The big four on the docket Are the pan american games at Chi Cago Tho .-Russia dual track meet at Phi Udolphia a .-Russia rowing showdown at Washington and an International track meet at Pittsburgh As part of that City s Bicentennial Celebration. Need the boost we be never had anything like this said Dan Ferris of the National aau. And it. Could t have come at a better time to create Advance interest in the olympic games. We need All he boost we can get to keep Pace with the advancement made by Oiler nations particularly  in addition two . Girl swim mers now Are competing in the land of the champs Australia. . Weightlifting team will com Pete in the world championships at Warsaw. A . Wrestling team will be sent to Russia for a dual meet. The . Swimming Tea will tour Japan. Another major track meet pit Ting the . Against Poland a re peat of a similar match last year at Warsaw still is in the works though with Only a slim Chance oncoming off. Sought triangular meet originally we hoped to have a triangular meet with Russia Poland and the . After the . Russia dual meet at Philadelphia july 17-18," said Ferris. The rus sians then said their schedule was too heavy to permit a second meet. We re still trying to get together however with  Chicago Host to the pan Ameri can games starting aug. 27, was sounded out unsuccessfully As a possible sponsor of the polish-. Track meet because of the City s Large number of residents of polish extraction. The pressure of a pre olympic year already is being Felt during the Eastern indoor track season in which there has been a world rec Ord performance in every meet sofar. Leading the Way Are pole vaulter Don Bragg High jumper John Thomas and two Miler Bill Bellin Ger. That Ferris believes is Only the beginning. Kubek fined $20 for speeding May lose Driver s License Edison . Up new York Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek has been fined $20 for speeding 80 Mph on the new Jersey Turnpike. Kubek 22, pleaded guilty to speeding feb. 7 on his Way Back to it. Monmouth where he is Tak ing a 10-week course in photo graphic Laboratory techniques As part of a six month tour of Active duty in the army reserves. Kubek enlisted last oct. 19. He is expected to join the Yankees sometime in april. The clerk of the township court said he would Forward the Case to the state division of motor vehicles for determination of procedures to follow in enforcing new Jersey s License revocation  state suspends Drivers licenses of motorists caught Speed ing faster than 70 Mph on the turn Pike. Kubek a resident of Milwaukee has a Wisconsin Driver s License. Tony Kubek. In a hurry