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S Y R A C U S E I I K K A L D - J O U H N A L M o n d a y
, A p r i l 11 , 1956
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Nats Ru le
C ourt A fter N ine- Y ear C lim b
Basketeers
Bring Title
To
S yracuse
King s Foul Shot
S inks For t Wayne
F r o m P a ge O ne
w o u l d have had my hands on
the bal l , bu t
o n c e
I
felt
i t in my
h a n d s I n e a r l y squeezed the a
ir
r ight out of
it—I Joiew
it
meant
we w o u l d win."
Th e
Nats insist today
that
"there's no p lace l ike home." All
fou r Syracuse v ic tor ies
in the
t i t u l a r series were recorded at
th e
Wa r
M e m o r i a l , w h e re Fort
W a y n e ha s never won.
'
IT IXK)KED for a while as
t h o u g h th e
P i s t o n s w o u l d ce r t a i n r
ly
b re a k th e j i n x y e s t e rd a y
in
the b igges t
g a m e
of
t h e m
all.
With t h re e m i n u t e s a n d 4 6 sec-
onds
of the second period gone
the vis i to rs were in f r o n t , 41-24,
But the Nats began to peck
a w a y
at the
l e a d
as
Fort W a y n e
resorted
to a
f o u l i n g
st rategy
t h a t
b a c k f i r e d ,
-Aided by e ight
penal ty shots f rom the f ree
throw l ine, Syracuse fought back
to a
49-47 deficit
just 38
sec-
onds before
th e
ha l f ended.
It
w as t h e n a n i p a n d t u ck b a t t l
e
right down to the wire .
H O W E V E R , the e n t i r e 83-
garne
season ac t ua l l y
resolved it-
self
i n t o a one-min ute bat t le af te r
th e
c l u b s
f o u n d
themselves t ied
at 91 each w ith 61 seconds to
play .
S y ra cu s e h a d th e f i rs t chance
to
ease the tension but Earl
Lloyd's shot bounced around the
FORT WAYSHB
SYRACUSE
B. P.T.I B. P.T.
6
1
l3 Schares
2 2 € Rocha
H u t c h i n s
M e i n e k e
Y a
idler
Rcsenthal
F o us t
H o ur o r eg s
Phillip
Z a s l o f s ky
B r i a n
Walther
3
1
3
2
3
0
3
0
3 9
(
L l o y d
0 2 i K e r r
8 2 4 S ey m o ur
1 o l K i n E
4 10'Parley
0 O i K e n v W e
3
19 Ost€rkoni
3 3
4
1
4
4
4
6
0
3
0
S Y R A C U S E
Player:
Schayes 7
Kerr 7
R o c h a
1
S e y m o u r 7
Kins
7
Lloyd
7
K e n v i l l e 7
Farley 7
O s t e r k o r n 7
Tucker
5
Totals
5 13
9 11
4 12
5 13
3 11
3 15
15
2 2
F O R T W A Y N E
Player:
JT \J Jv * * • • * • 4• * » * * b * ••
P L A N T CITY—It's u n l i k e l y t h a t an
y c ra sh i n Wi l -
m i n g t o n ,
Del . ,
e ve r
b e fo r e w a s
f e l t
i n S y rae usp . But w he n
R i c h i e A s h b u r n a n d D e l E n n i s c o l l i
d e d t h e r e t h e o t h e r
d a y t h e r e v e r b e r a t i o n s w e r e f e l t h e r e
a n d i n S y r a c u s e .
Ye s t e r d ay m o r n i n g w h e n th e C
h i ef s went to the club-
h o u s e
to
dress t h ey
f o u n d
B o b b y B o w m a n ' s l o c k e r e m p t
y .
It
w as t he f i r s t t h e y k n e w
that
th e Chief c e n t e r
f ie ld e r
ha d
been
r e c a l l e d t o P h i l a d e l p h i a . A n d
M a n a g e r S k e e t e r
Ne w so me d i d n ' t k n o w a t h i ng a b
ou t i t u n t i l h e got t o
L a k e W a l e s j u s t
be f o re th e
g a m e w i t h D e n v e r B e a r s .
Ro y
H a m e y ca l l ed G e n e M a r t i n a b o u t 1 0 P.
M . S a t u rd a y n i g h t
and to ld him that the Phi l l ies
needed
B o w m a n a n d t h a t h e s h o u l d
be in P h i l a d e l p h i a b y t o m o r ro
w . M a r t i n l o ca t e d B o w m a n , w h o ,
with his wife , Joyce , was stay ing in the same
mote l wi th the
M a r t i n ,
H a s k e ,
R e d d y a n d
T o m p k i n s families.
B o b a n d h i s
w i f e
p a c k e d a l l
their
gear that night an d
al l that r e m a i n e d f o r h i m t o d o
w a s pick u p h i s s tu f f f r o m
t h e c l u b h o u s e a n d
take
off for Philadelphia.
J o h n B l a t n i k , F r a n k C a l o , E d
Mi e r k o w i c z
a n d E d Z i n k e r
rode to
L a k f c
Wales wi th me for the game with the Bears and
e n ro u t e B l a t n i k observed, "This m i
g h t j u s t be the break
B o w m a n ,
needed. He might get hot and we ' l l never get another look at
him
in a
Chief
u n i f o rm . " That's the bal l players ' and the
manage-
ment ' s feel ing about i t though they
w i l l
s o re l y m i s s B o w m a n .
C h a t t i n g w i t h
S teve Kraly before the game I m e n t
i o n e d to
him abou t the Phi ll ies recal l ing Bow man. S teve
echoed
Blatn ik ' s
Vciy
w o rd s w h e n
he said, "This
m i g h t
be the
b re a k
B o w m a n
needed."
SETH
MO K E H E A D was t o have started
yesterday 's ball
game. But the l ikeable lad f rom Louisiana wai ted in
Plant Ci ty
t o d r i v e L a r ry N o v a k , J i m m y C o m m a n d
a na
1
B e n T o m p k i n s , w h o
were a t tend ing a late churc h service. As a resul t , he got
there
j u s t b e f o re t h e g a m e a n d B o b C o n l e y a
l r e a d y h a d w a rm e d u p .
Had Morehead been pi tching , the game
cou ld
have been a
highly In terest ing one instead of the
d r e a r y ,
long affair that i t
was.
But it
worked
out
well.
Seth
went into
the gams in the
third inn ing
an d
pi tched remarkably -well.
Frank
Calo said
on the
w a y b a ck ,
"That
M o re h e a d threw a co u p l e
of fast balls
that
ac t ua l l y
h o p p e d . An d h e s t ru ck o u t M a rv T h o rn e
b e r ry o n a
curved bal l that
ha d
Thorneberry cussing
a l l t h e w a y
b a ck
to
the bench. He
really
showed me something out there today."
It
was
the
longest
any Chief has pitched this
spring.
A nd
it was the best job , too. t p r o b
a b l y m a r k e d M o r e h e a d
as the first pitcher to go
nine innings and probably locked
up
a pitching job for the youngster with the
Syracuse
team.
FOREST
WOODY
SMITH
nas
made up his mind. He
accepted the coaching posi t ion the Yankees
offered
h i m a n d h e
is now car r ied on the
Denver roster
as a
p l a y e r - co a ch.
It is the
f i rs t s tep in the grooming of the young
infielder
f o r a m a n a g e r i a l
posi t ion in the Yankee chain .
N at ur a l l y , Smith ca rne in for a
ro u n d of r i b b i n g a t the h a n
d s
of
his o ld Syracuse teammates. But Woody 's up to a verbal
joust
a n d h e w a s still grinn ing when the day ended.
He said that h e w a s
an
h o n e sM o - Pe t e coach with
a
l i t t le black
n o t e b o o k
an d
penci l .
But the f i rs t n ight he went to shower, some teammate wrote
a
nasty note in i t and the second
night
somebody sto le i t on him,
"Now I don ' t have anything to s h o
w t h a t I'm a coach." he
complained .
T H E B E AR S b r e ak ca m p t o m o r ro w a n d
o p e n i n T o l e d o o n
T h ur sd ay . It's
a fine
bal l t eam.
It
is
a far cry
f r o m
the
o ld-type
Kansas City clubs, wi th power bursting out all
over it.
This
on ^
Isvery fast and is except ional ly s t rong on the
defense.
The second
b ase m an , a youngster just up
f r o m
B i n g h a m t o n , B o b b y R i ch a rd -
son,
is a
real gem.
A nd
the i r thi rd basem an,
B u d d y
C a r t e r ,
is
also
a f i rst- rate
bal l player.
S m i t h told me that he thinks the
Toronto M a p l e
Leafs,
w h o m
the Bears hare
p l a y e d
and were to
play
a g a i n t o d a y ,
will
be the club to
beat
in the Internat ional League. It is
exactly the same ball t e a m less only
Elson Howard. And
Smith
bel ieves that
the
Yankees
are
g o i n g
to l o a n the
Loafs
Lou
Bcrberet. He's a
good catcher
and a
pretty potent
boy
w i t h a bat. He f o r m e r l y p
l a y e d guard for Santa Clara,
WHEN
CY KRITZER was in
Plant
City with the Buffalo
Bisons the o ther day he re lated that the
n i g h t
of Sept . 23 is
g o i n g
to be a pre t ty explosive one in Syracu se. He had
just
visited h is old f r i e n d . R ed
D a w s o n .
Re d was t he co a ch of the ;
\vay wo did i t . Syracuse ha d
luck
m
M
.
? Mc
Co-mi
U n i v e r s i t y of
P i t t s b u r g h ' s
footba l l
t e a m u n t i l
a
h e a r t
c o n d i t i o n i ^ i t h
t h e m
all the
wa y C o n s i d e r -
wou](
j
n
."
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S T E A L S B A L L . G e o r g e
K i n g o f
Syra c u se s t o l e t h e b a l l f ro m A n d y P
h i l-
l i p of Fort "Wayne, b eh i n d h i m , i n t
h e
f i n a l sec onds of g a m e w i t
h P i s t ons h ere
y e s t e r d a y to give t he N a t s p
ossess i on as
t ime closed o u t a n d I n d i a n a
team's
h op es f a ded .
Playoff Statistics
O S M i n F G A F G
FTA
FT
218
221
22 G
252
2C4
225
1C S
116
59
32
97
99
70
93
65
70
43
34
23
12
606
38
34
26
26
26
24
14
9
f
4
207
68
34
41
25
25
22
42
18
15
5
57
18
31
23
17
17
31
12
12
4
R c b A P F
TP Ave
83 21 30 133 19.00
79
11 20 86 12.29
42
8 26 83
11.86
24
42 11 75 10.71
26 32 19 67
957
43 20 25 65 929
22 30 15 59 843
12 20 17 30 429
17 7 8 26
3-71
7
1 9 12 240
295 222 355 172 180 636 90 87
Gs Mn FGA FG FTA FT
26
40 92
53.
Totals 33 25 91 Totals
Score at
H a l f - t i m e
— Fort
Syracuse 47.
Free t h r o w s
missed—
Fort Wayne:
( 9 ) :
Hutchins 2. Tardley 2. Foust 3, Hour-
brees.
Phillip. Syracuse
( 9 1 :
Schayes.
Rocha, Lloyd.
Kerr.
Seymour, Kenviile
4.
A t t e n d a n c e—
6,697.
r im and fe ll off w ith 42 seconds
r e m a i n i n g .
The Zol lners ca l led
fo r a t ime o u t b u t w h e n p l a
y
r e s u m e d
with IS
s ec o n d s r e m a i n -
ing George Y a r d l e y w a s detec ted
p a l m i n g the ball and the Nats
t o o k possession.
Frank
Brian,
ac tual ly the
spark
that
k e p t Fort W a y n e in
the
ser ies,
but the goat of the
f i n a l two games here, then
fou led
King.
It was
u n d o u b t e d l y
a log-
ical move for King has been
n o t e d
fo r
his ineffic iency
at the
chari ty s t r i p e . But this time he
stepped calmly
to the
l ine
an d
s c o r e d ,
THE
CLOCK showed that
12
s e c o n d s remain ed. Syracuse d idn ' t
d a re ch a n ce a p e r s o n a l
fou l—it
w o u l d be a two-shot ter s ince the
club
had used i t s limit of six in
on e period .
V e t e ra n An d y Phillip dribbled
the length of the f loor and the
Nats fe l t
i t was
e i ther
h e o r
Larry
Foust w ho w o u l d be given
the
f i n a l
opportun i ty . S e y m o u r
checked Phi l l ip close ly and when
K i n g saw he was
losing cont ro l
of
the bal l he double-teamed and
n e a t l y
took i t
awe y .
IT WAS ft heartbreaking loss
fo r
Fort
W a y n e .
T h e P i s t o n ?
n e t t e d
33
baskets
c o m p a r e d
to 26 ;
lor the
Nats,
but their
c o n t i n u a l ;
f o u l i n g
in the
s e c o n d
and
third
p e r i o d s was
costly.
The Syracusans
conver ted 40 of 49 g if t tosses com-
p a r e d to
only
25 of 34 by
W a y n e . |
C o a c h
C h a r l e y E ck m a n was
p a r t i c u l a r l y d i s a p p o i n t e d .
He
said:
Yardle-
7
H u t c h i n s „
T
P h i l l i p 7
Houbregs 7
M e i n e k c
7
Bosenthal 7
Za s i o l s k y 7
W a l t h e r 6
197
228
273
?57
280
135
IC O
103
57
34
Totals
94
100
S3
86
58
40
24
33
9
556
38
40
38
36
19
17
11
S
3
217
48
38
44
31
23
28
19
15
8
7
35
31
34
24
20
22
18
12
6
4
Reb
55
16
60
58
33
43
26
20
11
A
16
24
30
26
50
13
6
13
PF TP
Ate
26
111 15.86
21 111 15.86
23
110
1571
33 96
12.29
25 58 829
17 56 8.CO
15 40
556
20 28 '4.00
10 20 286
9 10
167
261 206 339 187 199 640 91.71
Syracuse used on ly n ine men in
the fina l f r a y
a n d s e v e n
of
them
were in do uble f igures in the
scoring co lumn. Bi l ly Kenvi l le ,
wh o in jected
l i fe
in to th e s q u a d
fo r the second st ra ight day with a
second period
sp ur t ,
tied with
King for high honors wi th 15
poin ts each. L a r r y F o u s t , w h o
net ted
10
p o i n t s
in the
f i rs t
tw o
a n d o n e - h a l f m i n u t e s , w o u n d u p
with 24 for
game
laurels.
CONSIDERING
the one point
difference
in the score it might
be said that Brian "kicked
the
Zollners right out of the c h a m -
pionship."
Incensed
over a three
point call
f a v o r i n g
the Nats,
Brian
kicked
the b a l l far i n t o the
stands
d u r i n g
the third
p e r i o d
re-
sulting in a t e c h n i c a l f o u l w h i c h
Paul
S e y m o u r
converted. The
f o u r
points
put the Nats in f r o n t
for
the first
time.
The game was
tied eight times,
seven
in the last h a l f . The
Nats
never
led u n t i l the
third
p e r i o d
w h e n they
assumed
a
60-59
ad-
vantage, and their largest mar-
gin
was f i v e p o i n t s at 68-63.
Yanks,
Cubs
'Champions
By_
International
News Service
B I G L E A G U E
exhib i t ion
schedule concluded Sunday with
th e Yankees tak ing
th e
Am e r i ca n
Austra l ians
Could Lose
'56
Olympics
( I N S ) — I n t e rn a -
t ional Olympic Commit tee presi-
d e n t
Av e ry B ru n d a g e w a rn e d
to -
TEARS ALSO F L O W
Nats Cap Celebration
t Champagne Party
By BUD VANDEE VEER
SELDOM HA S there been a happier
g ro u p
of
athletes than
tttJ
S y r ac use
Nat ionals , who
c u l m i n a t e d their post-game
ce lebrat ion
as
guests
of
c l u b p r e s i d e n t
D an
B i aso n e
at a
c h a m p a g n e p a r t y
S u n d a y n i g h t .
Bu t the m e r r y m a k i n g
s t a r t e d ;
* -* •*
much earlier,
in
fact
the
minute
(jUtftCUU
(Wtt
the f inal
buzzer sounded. Once
the
t e am m an ag e d to w o r m its way
- w * r ff I J
to th e d re s s i n g ro o m t h e y re a l l y
f-*{\YlPTP fit
ft
w h o o p e d
it up. N o n e of them*
f vc/f
*il/l'Vf>
seemed
to m i n d
t h a t t h e re
w a s n o
hot water for showers. I l^v»iI*I r̂t
T ~̂
George King ,
the
hero
to his UOUOVS
jL/t/UU
mates, repeated over
an d
over:
" J
can ' t be l ieve
it yet
We' re w o r l d
ELmRA
.
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nntc
Rrnnv 9 n
League "crown"
and the
Cubs
c
^ ^^̂ ^ •^ ^H& ^H
^»
^
Girl M a t a d o r Kills
o p p i n g
the Nat ional League title.
Th e
Yankees, f in ishing
up
with
a
17-9 mark , topped
the
Dodgers ,
T -3
T
behind homers by Joe Col l ins
an d
Yogi
Berra.
T h e C u b s w o u n d
up
w i t h
the
best
N . Y .
re co rd
de -
spi te the fact they lost 9-7 to
the
White
Sox.
The Giants (17-13) beat the
Re d
Sox,
6-4,
the Braves
(16-13)
edged the Ind ians, 6-4, o n H a n k
Aa ro n ' s t w o - ru n h o m e r
in the
10th. Cleveland
w o u n d
up w i t h
a 16-16 r e c o r d .
Ba l t i m o r e
nosed ou t Pittsburgh,
4-3. Washington beat Cincinnat i ,
5-2 . S t . Louis outs lugged Det ro i t ,
10-9, and Kansas Ci ty clubbed
Phi ladelphia , 14-5, apparent ly just
to make the f ranchise shif t an
o ff ic ia l
ac t
j
Tw iceJndettcatelylBor yla Quits as
rTfc
^ -^
t
?
Pat M c C o r m i c k .
g ra t u l a t i o n s , A l, tell t he
boys
they
have a good team."
K i n g a n d S e y m o u r a l so d a s h e d
in to the Z o l l n e r d re s s i n g ro o
m to |d
M o r r i s o n
C o r t i a n d 737
t a l k
t o t h e Pis to ns a n d
l a t e r .
Me i n e k e v i s i t e d t h e N a t s t o s h
a k e
the hands of the winners.
T O M O R R O W th e S y ra cu s e p l a y -
er s
wi l l
start to
s e p a ra t e .
C e r v i J T .
at 155 Nichols av., pla ns to re
good
lose
its
r o l e
as
host
for the 1956
Olympics.
Br un d ag e sa i d
he is
u n h a p p y
a b o u t M e l b o ur n e ' s p r e p a r a t i o n s
fo r
the
Olympiad
an d
t h a t
tw o
or
th ree overseas c i t ies wou ld l ike
to
stage
the
Games.
He
dec l ined
to
name the c i t ies.
A s k e d
at a n e w s
c o n f e r e n c e
w h e t h e r t h e
q u e s t i o n
ha d
ar isen
as to whether
A u s t r a l i a w o u l d
lose the G a m e s , B r u n d a g e
replied:
" I h o p e n o t . b u t I'm not sure ."
B R UN 0 AG E , w h o a r r i v e d i n
Au s t r a l i a
last
week for an on-the-
spot s tudy of preparat ions and to
invest igate
reports
of d iff icult ies
and d issensions, cla imed he has
b e e n '
shunned by Me l b o u r n e ' s
Olympic
organ iz ing commit tee .
He
said
he
hadn ' t been g iven
a
chance to present his views to the
commit tee .
"They
say al l the work can be
completed but I don ' t
k n o w ,"
the
IOC
head declared . "The w o r k
be
done un less al l
the
rival ries and bi t te rness are sub-
merged , a l l jea lous ies h a rm o n i z e d ,
obst ruct ions overcome and
per-
sonal i t ies fo rgot ten/
1
B r u n d a g e said he
Is
scheduled
to meet
w i t h Prime Mi n i s t e r R o b -
ert Me n z i e s tomorrow and t h a t
he
is
h o p e f u l
th e
m e e t i n g m i g h t
result
in
something d e f i n i t e .
BRUXDAGE,
who is scheduled
to give a f u l l r e p o r t on his t
rip
to the IOC meet ing in
Paris
in
June , said there still is a st rong
desi re in Europe to t ake the
Games away f rom Aust ral ia , even
at th is late date. . . . ,
He po in ted ou t that there have South
A f r i c a n h e a v y w e i g h t c h a m -
(
T . T _T . . _ --• I*«
_A •*«
4 b A vv̂ rw
been i n s t a n ce s in tne past w h e
n
the Games were "ind i r ect lv" taken
l» -
—
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T h u n d e r b o l t s , B r o n x
3153
Spades. D u n k i r k 3143
M i t i - H ud s o n s .
Poueakeepsic
3146
S I N G L E S
B i l l
L u 'c k .
Buffalo 731
St o w e l l ,
L a c o n a
724
D O U B L E S
Orchard Park
1952
'Joe M i n e l l a ,
Eochesier
"Tie
can't
s u m e hi s salesman's p o s t w i t h
a| _
_ A L L
E V E N T S
co n t ra c t o r e q u i p m e n t c o m p a n y
D i c k
Farley re t u rn s t o h i
at
Fort Wa'yne.
H e h as
school work to f in ish this summer.
King wi l l head to Charleston . W.
Va. , where he operates a sport ing
store . He is c o n s i d e r i n g a
rad io post . Rocha
wi l l
r e m a in
here. He has a salesman 's post in
the
state
for a tape co rp o ra t i o n .
Tucker needs
on e
m o re h o u r
to
complete
his science degree
stud ies at Duquesn e. Seymour is
b u i l d i n g
a n e w h o m e o n S ch o o l rd .
in Liverpool . L loyd plans to at -
Orange Nine
Opens
S late
G action
for
Syracuse
U n i v e r s i t y ' s
basebal l t eam was
s la ted
th is
a f t e rn o o n w i t h th e
tend summer school at West
V i r - j O r a n g e
tossers
fac ing
t h e Q u a n -
g in ia State. He is
c o m p l e t i n g a t i c o
M a r i n e s a t Q u a n t i co , V a .
physical educa t ion course . Oster-j The con test was the f i
rs t of
k o rn h a s t w o offers t o w o rk f o r ;
a
t h re e - g a m e ro a d t r i p f o r C o a ch
n a t i o n a l
concerns, but
wi l l main-1
Ted Kle inhan s ' n ine . To morrow ,
A _— r _
t a i n h i s h o m e i n Sr a cu s P.
:Syracuse wil l oppose Georgetown
Schayes also plans to s tay
h e re ; i n W a s h i n g t o n ,
a n d W e d n e s d a y ,
w h i l e
K e r r d e p a r t s f o r
h o m e j M t .
S t . Mary 's wi l l provide the
in
Chicago. He wi l l work for
t h e j o p p o s i t i o n
a t E m m i t s b u rg ,
Md .
Righthander Bi l l Cassidy , a
j u n i o r ,
was s lated to pi tch to-
d a y ' s o p e n e r w i t h s o p h o m o re Bil l
Will iams
an d
senior
Bert
Rich,
a
s o u t h p a w ,
p ro b a b l e m o u n d
c h o i c e s t o m o r r o w and Wednes-
s F o e
o f Charles
E D MO N T O N
( U P )
— Heavy-i^
weight
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