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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1949
Page
10
The North State conference adopted a progressive rule letting athletes play professional baseball and remain eligible in other sports. The piece argues this undermines amateurism and questions why pay should determine professionalism, urging major conferences to rethink current subsidies and eligibility rules.
New York April 6 Blue Peter the winter book favorite is out of the Kentucky Derby and attention shifts to two swift colts Olympia and Capot as favorites grow stronger remarks suggest.
In Houston April 6 Bill Rigney will sit out about a week with a knee sprain after a slide. Giants beat Indians 8-4 in Lubbock with Sid Gordon and Bobby Thomson homering. Jacksonville April 6 Vander Meer to start rotation for Reds against Braves. Satchel Paige to pitch last three innings for Indians in Cleveland Texas game, first Negro pitcher to face white players in the state.
Manager Casey Stengel believes five pitchers are ready for the Yankees rotation Allie Reynolds Tommy Byrne Vic Raschi Bob Porterfield and Ed Lopat. He notes disappointment with Fred Sanford from St Louis Browns. In a separate note Dodgers' Hermanski Brown Miksis and Ramazzotti are linked to Chicago Cubs with Hermanski deemed not for sale by Burt Shotten and Branch Rickey.
Detroit Tigers arrive in Birmingham Alabama for a twilight exhibition with the Southern association Birmingham club. Freddie Hutchinson was slated to pitch as Detroit seeks improved batting before the season while yesterday's game with Atlanta was rained out.
The St Louis Cardinals travel after dropping six in a row. They trailed 2 0 yesterday when rain halted the game with the Philadelphia Athletics in the third inning. Catcher Del Rice has had a cast removed from his right hand after a March 14 fracture.
Jacksonville on April 6 Lefty Warren Spahn will attempt to become the third Boston Braves pitcher to work nine full innings. He is slated to start against the Cincinnati Reds as National League champions and manager Billy Southworth plans to use outfielder Jim Russell.
High Point hosts Asheboro in a college baseball double header style stand at 3:15 this afternoon. The Purple Panthers seek a second win over the McCrary Eagles after last Saturday's 8 4 win paced by Powers and Swiggett. Coach Ralph James will split pitching duties among Pointer staff. After today, High Point plays Norfolk Navy and then opens conference play versus Lenoir Rhyne at Hickory.
Chicago reports the NCAA will convene a sanctions court next January to crack down on schools that pay athletes. Violators may be blackballed from schedules and expelled from the association at the 1950 annual meeting. The code targets erasing commercialism in sports and restricts unearned aid to need-based, campus agency approved aid, amid mixed views from Ivy League and New England schools. Ray Sanders and Earl Torgeson are mentioned with minor ailments.
The Pittsburgh Pirates will face the Chicago White Sox in a night game at San Antonio. The afternoon start was moved to honor Bill Osley, president of the San Antonio Baseball Club, who died Sunday and whose funeral is today.
Congress may act as umpire in the reserve clause dispute and determine if organized sports fall under interstate commerce rules. A House hearing on April 14 could hear testimony from top baseball figures and sports stars, with Gardella and other lawsuits in play.
Hi-Toms coach Jim Gruzdis shapes a lineup for the exhibition with House of David as third baseman race between Louis Owen and Walter Beauchamp. Beauchamp has the inside track. Bobby Brown at first. infield solid with Pete Williams and Vann Harrington. Harrington injured but likely back soon. Outfield competition centers on Horace Hubbard and three rookies including Charles Petters. Petters shows power and fielding promise.
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