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Hanes Hosiery Advances o Semi-Finals of AAU Meet
St. Joseph, Mo.—(U.P.)—Hanes Hosiery of Winston-Salem, N.C., was only two games away tonight from its fourth straight Women's AAU Basketball championship.
Hanes worked smoothly last night to defeat the Davenport, Iowa, Brammerettes 50-40 to advance to the semi-finals of the meet.
The Winston - Salem sextet will meet the Kansas City Dons, 43-35 winners over St. Joseph's Goetz Girls, in one semi-final.
The other will match the second and third seeded teams—Wayland college of Plainview, Texas, and Denver, Colo., Viner Chevrolet. Wayland moved up with a 38-21 victory over Nashville, Tenn., Business College, while Viner nudged the Virginia Beach, Va., Snow Whites, 37-35.
Hanes beat Wayland last year for the title, while Viner took third.
In consolation play, Atlanta, Ga., Tombios beat Milwaukee Real Refrigeration, 58-33; Martin College of Pulaski, Tenn., trimmed Cleveland, Ohio, Schraders 54-40, and Kansas City Midland Jewelry nosed out Omaha, Neb., Commercial Extension, 22-20.
Seixas, Davidson Clash in Feature
Miami Beach, Fla. — (U.P.)—Top-seeded Vic Seixas of Philadelphia clashes with U.S. indoor champion Sven Davidson of Sweden today in the featured match of the quarterfinal round of the sixth annual Good Neighbor tennis tournament.
Seixas, the 1953 Wimbledon champion, has yet to approach his best game in this tourney but observers predicted he would have to find his touch to oust Davidson, who holds the Swedish championship as well as the American indoor title.
Seixas had to come from behind yesterday to beat one of Canada's most promising young players, Bob Bedard of Sherbrooke, Que., 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Bedard had threatened to score the tourney's first major upset when he took the opening set and then assumed a 4-2 lead in
the second set. Meanwhile, Davidson also had to rally to beat Sid Schwartz of Fort Lee, Va., 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
In other quarter-final matches today, second-seeded Art Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., met Tony Mottram, England's No. 1 player; third-seeded Kurt Nielsen, the Danish champion, faced Hal Burrows of Charlottesville, Va.; and veteran Gardnar Mullby of Miami faced Huwert Stewart of Los Angeles.
Harold Patterson, standout Kansas university athlete for the past two years, officially withdrew from school yesterday.
Patterson Quits School Yesterday
The 6-2 Rozel senior, one of the few athletes in Kansas history to win three letters in one year, presumably quit school to play professional baseball.
He was being counted upon as the Jayhawkers' No. 1 shortstop this spring and his loss seriously handicaps the baseball team. Coach Floyd Temple said he would now try Harold Bergsten and Bill Heitholt at that spot.
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Thomas Starting Fast In Home Run Derby
-Baseball Roundup
By UNITED PRESS
Pittsburgh's Frank Thomas, who needed a whirlwind finish in 1953 to wind up among the National league's leading home run hitters, was set today for an equally fast start that could enable him to dethrone Milwaukee's Ed Mathews in 1954.
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The 24-year-old, 205-pounder closed last season with a thunderous salvo of 12 homers in 28 games and has stepped up that pace with seven round-rippers in the Pirates' 13 Grapefruit league contests. That total is matched only by rookie Jim Fridley of the Baltimore Orioles, who have played three more games than the Pirates.
Thomas, who grew up in the shadow of Forbes field, clouded No. 7 yesterday as the surprising Pirates walloped the Philadelphia Athletics, 10-4, for their ninth victory of the spring. Thomas' 400-foot blow tied the score in the seventh inning and the Pirates went on to score five more runs for their triumph.
Thomas finished the 1953 campaign with a total of 30 homers but General Manager Branch Rickey believes he can increase that total to 40 this year and team with 35-year-old Sid Gordon to give Pittsburgh its best 1-2 batting punch since 1947 when Hank Greenberg and Ralph Kiner totaled 76 homers. Gordon hit 19 as a member of the Milwaukee Braves last year but predicts that he will hit at least 30 this year.
Fridley, a Cleveland castoff, continued to be Thomas "Arizona counterpart" yesterday when his ninth-inning homer gave the Orioles a 4-3 verdict over the New York Giants.
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"My putter won this one for me," said the beaming Oakmont, Pa., pro after shooting his second straight four-under-par 68 to take top prize of $1,800 in the pros-only part of the competition.
It was the first tourney triumph for Worsham since that memorable day last summer at Chicago's Tam
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