Former Giant Would Go to Mexico Again
By ED FITE
Austin, Tex. —(U.P.)-Little George Hausmann, first of the Mexican "jumpers" to scamper back into organized baseball after the Pasquale-lured players were reinstalled, still has no qualms about his 1946 foray south-of-the-border.
"I have no regrets for going south of the border." Hausmann said as he got ready to open spring training for his Austin Pioneers club in the class-B Big State baseball league.
Hausmann, who faded out of the majors only a few weeks after he rejoined the Giants in 1949 because he was out of condition, doesn't hold that against Leo Durocher—the man who let him go—and it hasn't dampened his intense love of baseball.
The dapper, former New York Giant, infielder said he wouldn't hesitate to take the same step again, "circumstances being the same."
"We were treated fine in Mexico," he said. "They offered us more money than we could make in the states—and after all, a man has to live."
"We had been playing only three games a week at Nuevo Laredo when Commissioner (Happy) Chandler issued the reinstatement order in June of 1949." Hausmann said. "I was out of shape."
It was shortly after this, that Durocher came to Hausmann and told him he didn't fit into the Giants' plans for 1950. "He (Leo) didn't beat around the bush about it, like some managers would have done." Hausmann said. "I admired that."
"I tried desperately in the brief chance I had after rejoining the Giants, but during a 13-game streak I hit only 131. That was a far cry from my usual 280 pace."
After two years in the Texas league at Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, the St. Louis Brownies offered the enthusiastic St. Louisborn Hausmann a chance at managing.
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FOUL BALL—John Handley watches an attempted hit go foul and catcher Don Aungst prepares to go after it as the Jayhawkers prepare for the season opener April 5 with Arkansas university at Favetteville.
Alston to Get First Shot At World Champions Today
By UNITED PRESS
Rookie Manager Walter Alston was on the spot today as the Brooklyn Dodgers resumed their World Series rivalry with the New York Yankees in the opener of an eight-game Grapefruit league series.
The series marks Alston's first opportunity to beat the Yankees—the job he was hired to do once the "routine" of a 154-game National league schedule is ended. Spring training games aren't supposed to count but Brooklyn fans will ask the obvious question if the Yankees exert their customary mesmerizing influence over the Dodgers:
8 K-State Gridders To Try Baseball
Manhattan — (U.P.)— With spring football workouts out of the way, eight Kansas State gridders swapped their cleats for spikes today to try out with the Wildcat baseball squad.
Among the two-sport candidates were three football quarterbacks, two linemen, a pair of halfbacks and a fullback.
Quarterback Jim Logsdon, Kansas City, halfbacks Kenny Long, Manhattan, and Gerry Cashman, Holton; and center Jim Furey, Newark, N.J.; are looking for outfield assignments.
◊ “If he can't beat 'em in March,
how can he beat 'em in October?”
So far, Alston has been proceeding smoothly. He's been getting fine results from young pitchers in exhibition games, resting the key veterans and winning games. The Dodgers reeled off their eighth straight victory by beating the Chicago White Sox, 5-1, yesterday and begin the series with an 8-3 record in Grapefruit league play.
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The Yankees, meanwhile, suffered their seventh straight defeat and their eighth in 11 games when the unbeaten Philadelphia Athletics scored a 5-3 triumph. Whitey Ford, an 18-game winner last season, yielded four runs in five innings and the Athletics added another run in the eighth inning at the expense of Stoe Kraly.
Today's opener is scheduled for Vero Beach, Fla., with three weekend games carded for Miami, Fla. The teams meet again at St. Petersburg, Fla., on March 26 and wind up their spring series in New York April 9-11.
Bob Buhl increased his gaudy spring record to one run yielded in 15 innings as the Milwaukee Braves shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0. Buhl, a 13-game winner last season, yielded one run in four innings against the Dodgers and shut out the Yankees for five innings in his previous outings this spring.
Ralph Kiner's conditioning was interrupted when the Chicago Cubs big slugger was found to be suffering with a bruised left heel and advised to "take it easy" for several days. Kiner was unworried because the aliment had nothing to do with Achilles tendon which bothered him last season.
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Around the camps: Harry Agganis delivered a key double as the Boston Red Sox snapped a five-game losing streak with a 10-6 triumph over the Washington Senators. The Senators have lost eight straight.
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Light Heavyweight Andrews Feels Crown Will Be His
Chicago —U.P. claimed eventual light heavyweight sweptstakes today decision loss over Harold Johnson las
Paul Andrews victory in the
championship despite his split 10 rounds to night.
And his manager, Marshall Miles, who long ago piloted Joe Louis to the heavyweight crown, was even more optimistic.
"He's a great fighter," Miles said. "Sure, he lost, but he looked good. And five or six more fights, there isn't anybody going to beat him."
Andrews, a 24-year-old ex-paratrooper who now has lost three times in 26 pro battles, was nearly as pleased but for different reasons.
"I never fought a guy so fast on his feet," he said. "But I learned a lot. He had quite a few tricks, and he never hurt me. But I'd sure like to fight him again. Next fight, I don't know whether I will, because that's up to my manager."
Utah Team Upsets Seeded AAU Five
The collegians, who as amateurs have a perfect right to play for the independent team, dumped the National Industrial basketball league club, 79-76, leading most of the way and beating back a fourth period rally. Bart Johnson and Boyd Adams each scored 23 points for Associated Grocers.
Denver — (U.P.) — A crew of Utah State university players muscled into tonight's quarter-finals of the National AAU basketball tournament, but the records said it was the Ogden, Utah, Associated Growers who upset third-seeded Akron Goodwear david.
A strong Kirby Shoes team from Los Angeles dropped Milwaukee's Allen-Bradley NIBL team, among the top eight pre-tourney picks, 72-65. Tuesday night. And last night Fort Sill, Okla, eliminated another seeded team, Seattle's Buchan Bakers, by a resounding 93-72 score.
The other second round games yesterday saw Grihalva Motors of San Diego coast paste Warren Air Force base, Wyo., 70-52; San Francisco Young Men's Institute thump the Artesia, N.M., Travelers, 78-58; Denver Central Bank defeat Fort Leonard Wood. Mo., 85-73 despite a third period lapse in which the soldiers scored 18 points to the Bankers' one; Phillips Oilers swamp Carpworm of Cleveland, 90-37, and defending champion Peoria Caterpillars limber up its whole roster with an 82-44 lesson to Indianapolis Towne House.
The best match in tonight's quarter-finals promises to be the the biggest win. Cairo Haiyah Motors, panked fifth tourney officials, at 7 p.m. MST.
The Ogden Associated Grocers will test their highly-educated recruits against the Fort Sill, Okla. Commanders, who rely on the point-making wizardry of diminutive George Mcuga (5"") and Bill Locke (5"') at 10 p.m.
"But losing this one didn't hurt me."
Andrews landed the most solid blow of the bout, a left hook which put Johnson on the canvas in the first round. Johnson admitted it dazed him, and even called it a right cross.
Johnson, 25, and rated the No.1 challenger for Archie Moore's 175 pound title, figured he didn't lose any prestige against his less experienced foe.
"I heard the referee when he said four." Johnson said, "but I was all right at eight when they let us go again."
"He had a good reach on me," he said. "I had to get in under him or go over. And I hit him a few times with my right."
It was Johnson's 48th win in 52 pro fights and, though it was supposed to guarantee him a chance at Moore in his next bout, he wasn't certain the fight would come through.
"They haven't said anything to me about it," he said.
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