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Browns Sign 11 Young Playersilt;Won't Report To Farms Until Next YearInSt. Louis (Special)baseball and basketball in higbIbuildthe continuing effort to re school and played Legion ball dur-the St. Louis Browns from mg the summer. McNeal hit1.465top to bottom, Bill \ eeck today an- in his senior vear at Center Point nounced the sienino of eleven I High School and ran a consecutive1Isigning\oungsters to minor league farm club hitting streak of 1 3 games.contiacts for the 1953 season. TheseThe quartet of hurlers and Clar-1and other baseball prospects are be- ence B. Arment, *a five-foot southing garnered by hundreds of paw from Grinnell, Iowa; MarshallBrowns’ scouts scattered all over the L. Ernd, Jr. a 6-2 lefty Irom Chi-United States and in many foreign cago; Kichard L. Niesvto, a 6-2 righthander, also from Chicago; and1count ires.iOf the 11 whose contracts u ereannounced today, four are pitchers.Harold G. Woods, a 6-0 right-hander from Barrett, West Ya.* Woods is| three are first basemen, two are 17. years old, Ernd 18, Arment 19 third basemen and one is a cather and N icsvto 20.iand one an outfielder.All four youngsters establishediOne of the outstanding prospects outstanding high school and sandlotsigned was Aaron Fenster of Uni- records. Ernd hurled a no-hit, noversitv City, a 6-0, 195-pound catcher who was a 12-letter man at theUniversity City High school, fromrun game early this year at Herch Junior College, while Niesvto threw ano-hitter in high school and hurlwhich he graduated in 1951. Fenster was awarded a football scholarship at Illinois a vear ago and heed four one hit games. Woods intwo years of high school and Legionbaseball posted 47 victories againstplaved junior varsitv ball last vear. only five defeats, averaging 16In high school Fenster was the re- strikeouts a game, iceiver for Bud Black, the Browns Ilarvev R. Tavlor, a 17-vear-highlv promising right hander now' old 6-0 outfield prospect, also tromstarring at San Antonio.Chicago, established a tremendousFenster, 19, has pla\ed consider- reputation as a hitter in high school able Munv League and Legion ball’and on sandlots of Chicago. Fiein this area. Fie alreadv has report-won the Chicago Herald-Americaned to the Browns’ York, Pennsyl- batting championship in 1950 withfarm club in the Class B a 533 mark and in 1951 withvaniaaInter-State League.The three first sackersMidwesterners. Thev.583 mark. His four-vearAtrence R. Herold a 6-2 18-vear-oldhighare all'school average was .494. Extreme-1Law- ly fast of foot, I aylor pilfered 90school,1951.wbasesinhighincluding ainleft - handed first sacker from Spill-1record 46the youngville. Iowa; Leslie P. Konicki, 21-hisAmong bov stole home!vearCliffordold. a 6-2 Chicagoan; and 25 times in his four-year high schoolL. Mansfield, a 6-2 19- j career.vear-old southpaw’, also from Chi- All the plavers will report to thecago.AllBrowns’ farm club training centerthree boys starred in foot- next spring and be assigned to min-ball and basketball as w ell as base- or league clubs in the Browns’ grow-ball and played sandlot and Legion ing farm system, ball in their areas.i 4The third basemen are Rov D.MlMiHHflilllllM1’ gj*EADS TUCKPOINTING CO.Mickey’’ McNeal of Center Point,Waterproofing and WindowIowa, and George Feuerschwengerof Chicago. Both hot corner guardians are right-handers and are 18CalkingStaining Pointing a SpecialtyUNION TUCKP0INTERSvears of age. Both boys starred in1011 ElizabethCarbondalePhone 1324Y
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Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Sat, Aug 09, 1952
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