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BROWNS AREN'T GOOD BUTiTHEY ARE SURELY BETTEROnly Established Big Leaguers Are PitcKer Ned Garver and Veteran Shortstop Marty Marion—And, ofCourse, 01' Satch Paige.11lt;C1By Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz., March 28—The new St. Louis Browns will hardly attain the heights some have predicted for them this year, but it is safe to say they have a far be t-1 r»r ball club than they’ve had inmany yearsThey have undergone a general overhauling, or reconditioning, thanks to the go-getting ideas of president Bill Veeck.And they have survived a rigorous, exacting spring training program, due to an ex'acting gentleman named Rogers Hornsby, who is back in the major leagues after a 14-year absence.The established star of the Browns is their big righthander, Ned Garver. He fashioned 20 wins last year, something a pitcher hadn’t accomplished for a lastplace club in 14 years.Far less established are the candidates for most of the other berths on the club, with the exceptions of Marty Marion at short and Bobby Young at second base.Centerfielder Jim Rivera, the Pacific coast league’s most valuable player last year,.a .352 hitter a terrific fly hawk and a Hornsby-type base runner, hasn’t hit anywhere near .352 this spring.Still shooting for regular wm^ in the outfield are George Schi^^S a .328 batter from Hollywood on the coast; Bob Nieman, a whiz with Oklahoma City in the- Texas League last year; Earl J?*pp, Jimmy Delsing and a couple of others.Dick Kryhoski, from De troit, is still getting the firstshot at first base. Somethink Hank Arft, a holdover, will have the place when the lessen gets going.Much the same battle goes on at third between Leo Thomas, up from Portland, Fred Marsh, a holdover, and another aspirant or so.The Browns got Clint Courtney from the Yankees’ Kansas City club to catch. Courtney played for Hornsby at Beaumont in 1950. If the kid fails to measure up, they still have a reliable man in Les Moss for the job.Supporting Garver, if all goes well, will be a cast including Tommy Byrne, the ex-Yankee star; Bob Cain, an acquisition from Detroit, southpaw Gene Bearden, star on the 1948 championship team at Cleveland, and Cliff Fannin.«**•The Browns also have the most ancient man in baseball, pitcher Satchel Page.siSoftball LeagueHeaded by Sinks;FrntPlay Opens May 72Vern Sinks was elected president of the Mt. Vernon Softball Association last night as managers met to discuss plans for the 1952 summer season at the city park diamond.At the session at city hall, conducted by Secretary Pete Satterfield, a decision was made to begin league play under the lights on the night of May 12.Other officials elected last night included;Announcer—Bob De throw.Umpire—Lee Boswell. Groundkeeper—Earl Yates.A deadline for teams to enter the league—both senior and junior clubs—was set at April IT.Teams entered to date are: Senior League—Auto-Lite, Pressed Steel Car Co.. Stove Co. and colored American Legion; Junior League—Woodlawn, Eagles and Logan Street.Applications for one umpire imposition and for the refreshment stand concession at the ball park will be received at the next meeting. to be held at the city hall next Thursday night, April 3.ffPbtJt(t:oiifivtlt(PisFirst 700 Seriestl\vg-aisirrrrViIn ABC TourneyrraMILWAUKEE, March 28 — A darkhorse” from Fort Atkinson, Wis., and a team from Marseilles, 111., furnished the highlights in shooting yesterday in the American Bowling Congress Tqurna-afinlt;7’2(aiwtlGiants End 5-YOf the Fab“Hondo Hurricane” Was Most War Years—But He Just VBy Associated PressPHOENIX, Ariz., March 28 — The New York Giants announced the outright release today of Clint Hartung — sold for an undisclosed sum to Minneapolis — thus adding what may be a final chapter in the big league career of one of the games’s most publicized rookies.President Horace Stoneham made the announcement which ended Hartung’s five-year trial with the Giants.Hartung slipped way from thehall nark hpfnre vpstprriav’s gameblhiGbe
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Mt Vernon Register News
Mt Vernon, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 28, 1952
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