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page SixteenTHE DAILY REPUBLIC, Mitchell, S. DDWU Homecoming Caps BusyHome Slate For Local TeamsDakota Wesleyan plays In the last of Mitchell’s homecoming games Saturday, climaxing a football • packed weekend In which all three clubs have home games.Notre Dame's Comets get things tolling with a 3 p.m. Friday contest against the Chamberlain Cubs on the Dakota Wesleyan field. The game -winds up the season for Glen Dralsey’s men.Friday night Don Reshetar's Kernels return to action after a week's layoff and take on an unpredictable Brookings team in a 7:30 ESD game at Kernel Stadium. Mitchell High will have only one more game, going to Watertown next week to face the unbeaten leaders of the Eastern conference.Don Plnhey and hia Wesleyan Tigers will have their work cut out for them in their 2:30 p.m. Blue and White Day game at Kerne! Stadium where they meet the General Beadle Trojans who are undefeated and tied with Huron for the Intercollegiate conference lead.Reshetar said two of his men apparently are out for the season. Guard Roger Giese suffered a broken ankle and tackle Art Wilson has a knee injury. The two were among the few experienced grid-ders back at Mitchell High this year and Wilson was one of the half dozen lettermen.Starting for the Kernels will probably be Ken Lorenz and Leon Klr-kie at the ends, Herb Whetstein and Dave Andersen at the tackles, Dick Uptagrafft, Bob Barrin g e r, Guy Hoff or Dick Jacobs at the guards, Pete Fuller at center, Mick Flynn at quarterback, Jim Myers at fullback, Curt Berger and Doug Metcalf at halfbacks with Jerry Eppel playing defense as well as some offensive halfback,Wesleyan’s offensive lineup will have Jerry Hoffman and RalphEichten at ends. Walt Nedved andJerry Ferris at tackles, Jack Jones and probably Steve Dale at guards. John Jucht at center, Cherrel Thayer at quarterback, Roger Game and Jerry Miller or Norm An-dersh at halfbacks with Harold Koch starting at fullback and Dick Whitman spelling him.Defensively, Hoffman and Eichten will be at ends again, Jerry Renken and Bob Custer, 240 and 269 pounds respectively, with Gary Golder playing middle guard. Don Ztngler, Ken Carroll and Jim Carter will be the linebackers, Kent Millard and Doug Flynn the halfbacks and Koch the safety.Marlitt Halstead will be used at a defensive end to spell Hoffman and Eichten.Most of the Injured are ready for action, but some may not be ready for full - time duty. Sickness has Iso hampered the Tigers. Dale and Ted Safranski have both missed practices because of illness,The Notre Dame Comets will be going after their sixth win of the season and have a three - game winning streak going.Draisey will be starting his regular unit for this final game. They include Jim Sllvernail and Larry Kirsch at ends, Bill Hendricks and Mel Pibal at tackles, Pat Coyne and Tony Johnson at the guardStoneham Expected ToBill Rignev AsSAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Horace Stoneham names his San Francisco Giants manager for 1960 today, and It’s expected to be Bill Rigney, Giant boss the past four years.Stoneham, Giant president, was noncommittal. But he indicated he’d spring no surprises at the flews conference.He is to meet newsmen at 3 p.m. Pacific standard Time.Rigney, 41, in four campaigns has led the Giants to sixth place twice and third twice,His two-year contract expired with the end of the 1959 season. It’s expected the new pact will be for one year,A switch Is not impossible, but it’s highly improbable. Leo Du* rocher. who Rigney replaced, was mentioned. Stoneham said Leo wasn’t on his list. Charley Dress-en’s name cropped up. The Los Angeles Dodger coach said no one had contacted him about the job.Giants led the National Leagueby two games going into the final eight this season. Then, with a five-man pitching staff tiring and with an erratic defense, the club collapsed, losing seven of the last eight.Stoneham declared, you can’t blame Rigney,” and stood behind his lean, gray-haired manager. Still he delayed announcement of his plans for 1960. He took an Arizona vacation, and the guessing began.A product of the San Francisco Bay area—born in Alameda and now living in Walnut Creek—Rigney joined the Giants as an infielder in 1946 after three years Navy duty in World War II. He was a member of the 1951 championship club.He became manager of the Giants farm club at Minneapolis in 1954. In 1955 he was named minor league manager of the year. He succeeded Durocher as manager of the Giants in New York the next year.mammmmmmmmGene Conley Named 'ComebackPlayer Of Year/ Moon SecondWynn Is NamedNEW YORK (AP) —Gene Conley's basketball team won the world’s professional championship last season. His baseball club finished in the cellar.Today, the lanky Philadelphia pitcher himself came out on top in the voting for the National League comeback player of the year. He received 58 of the 168 votes cast by members of tfta Baseball Writers' Assn. of America. Wally Moon of the Los Angeles Dodgers was second with 45 votes followed by Duke Snider, another member of the world fhampions, with 22.Conley, who plays for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Assn., switched baseball uniforms last March 31 when the Phillies acquired him from MU*Continental ToBuild AroundNew NY StadiumAL ComebackPlayer Of Year'HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) -Branch Rickey says the baseball stadium New York proposes to build in Flushing Meadows will antiquate Yankee Stadium within 24 hours.“I can form my Continental League with any seven cities as long as I have Flushing Meadows,” Rickey said. It will have everything, including high rent,”The president of the new Continental said some of the frills being planned confuse him but that the location, esclators and parking facilities will be crowdpi easers.The new stadium Is to be the home of New York’s entry In the Continental.The rent figures out at about $750,000 a year but it will be worth it,” he said.Rickey said this is quite a con'Si:KeiAnwaukee in a slx-player transaction.The change worked wonders for the 29-year-old right-hander, He collected at least one victory against each club in the league, finishing with a 12-7 record and a 3,00 earned run average. He developed a sore arm in mid-August and did not pitch the rest of the year. With the Braves the previous season, Conley did not win a game and lost six, compiling a 4.88 ERA. Gene's best big league mark was 14-9 with the Braves in 1954.Other ballots cast were 11 each for Don Newcombe of Cincinnati and Gil Hodges of Los Angeles: 10 for Gus Bell of Cincinnati; 5 for Harvey Haddix of Pittsburgh; 2 for Gtno Cimoli, who hit .279 for St.'Louis; and leach for Ed Mathews and Johnny Logan of Milwaukee, Sam Jones of San Francisco and Vada Pinson of Cincinnati.Oldest PlayersMeet In SeniorsAssetSyra footba Sizes this g of twt Fordhi ite am —will But avera? that t Syraci other Play, advers tops t 98.0topped on thlt; This harm Floyd defeat to 34.! ents t Gtia: wartzi man usedguard halfba used IMaurj Aga last w 7, the, rushin Navy, Co* a did e\Maryl the gi ThisusedThe (yardsNavy,PINEHURST, N, C. (AP) - A meeting between the two oldestplayers in the field headed today’s quarter-final pairings in the North and South Senior Golf Tournament.P. C, Jarboe, 70-year-old Cape Elizabeth, Maine entry, met 68-year-old Tom Robbins of Fine-hurst.The next oldest pair also was down for head-to-head combat. Paul Dunkel, 65, of Hackensack. N. J„ was paired against Vincent Fitzgerald of New York City, two years his junior.Col. C. D. McAllister, retired Air Force officer from Orlando, Fla., who Is 60, drew W. E, Nor-vell of Signal Mountain, Tenn.,58-year-old investment banker, in aNEW YORK CAP)—There were a few laughs last spring when Manager Al Lopez said his Chicago White Sox would win the Amrican League pennant and he’d settle for 15 or 16 victories from Early Wynn.”These seemed like tough targets, but Wynn Wednesday was namd the AL’s comeback player of the year in the annual Associated Press poll for his 22 victories— most in the majors—while helping the Sox to their first pennant in 49 years.The right • handed veteran, who at 39 put away his fifth 20-victorytrasfc with Buffalo, whioh he In- rematch. Norveli beat McAllisterspots and Jim Breck at center. Edseason after winning only 14 inWolf will be the fullback with Tom Schmitz and Nick Steifel1957 and again in 1958, received 61 votes among the 168 cast byin the halfback slots and J e r r y members of the Baseball Writers Carey at quarterback. Assn. of America.Ranaers SeekinaTito Francona was next with 52 votes followed by Hoyt Wilhelm of Baltimore, 21, and Gene Woodling,alsn nf ihp OHnlPsdicated is a cinch to join founding members New York, Houston, Toronto, Denver, and Mnneapolis-St, Paul in the Continental.The three remaining members, he said, would be selected from among Buffalo, Montreal, Atlanta, and Fort Worth-Dallas,Buffalo is a wonderful opportunity. to make a lot of money,” he said. They already have the stadium. It is a special situation but the rent there will be onlyabout $5,000.”Buffalo backers, he said, probably will complete within a,week arrangements for ' underwriting the $2,500,000 required by the Continental.Rickey expressed most concern over Houston, where plans for a 20 million dollar county stadium project are lagging.Sout play t the la oltna’e are ir Ohlcplans Matte Wisco son tlt; back prepa: Browr Full Texas of an terbat nounc game,'PaSel3 and 2 two weeks ago in the U.S. Golf Assn. senior quarter-finals at Memphis, Tenn.The baby” of the field, 58-year-old attorney Walter Pease of Plainfield, N. J., met George Frick, a 59-year-old Pittsburgh steel executive, in the other match.NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday Result Toronto 3, New York 2 Thursday Schedule Chicago at Montreal Boston at DetroitFIGHT RESULTS Miami Beach, Fla. — Luis Manuel Rodriguez, 145%, Cuba, outpointed Isaac Logart, 149%, NewYork, 10.SPEgameSouth Teach as fat ers vcelleg The halfti: a spe The h collegeially Foi: a cofi Kenn» will i 1959 f direci chanDetTS.T n • J TTXJ
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