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Santee Will Run In Drake Relays But Landy Won't
Des Moines, Ia.… Tommy Deckard,
Drake Relays director, said today
there is little chance that John
Landy, Australia's great miler, will
run in the 1954 relays but added
that Wes Santee, rated among the
first milers in the world, definitely
will compete. Deckard revealed that
Landy has expressed no desire to
run in the United States this spring.
Baltimore, Md.: Vice President Richard Nixon today accepted an invitation to throw out the first ball when the Baltimore Orioles open the American League season against the Chicago White Sox here, April 15.
Invited by Clarence Miles, president of the Orioles, Nixon said, "I am delighted to accept. I have always been a baseball fan and am particularly glad to see baseball return to Baltimore."
Ormond Beach, Fla.: Mrs. Grace DeMoss Smith, the Coral Gables, Fla., housewife who is making a habit of winning medalist honors in Florida tournaments, faces Maureen Riley of McKeesport, Pa., today in the first round of match play in the South Atlantic Women's Amateur Golf tournament.
Mrs. Smith took the medal for the third time on the Florida winter tour yesterday when she clipped five strokes off women's par at the Elinor Village course with a 72.
Chicago: The Chicago Golden Gloves team, making its strongest showing in a number of years, led the way into the quarter final round of the 27th annual boxing meet today with six boxers still left in competition.
The Chicago contingent was tied with Detroit and St. Louis in the race for the team trophy with 12 points apiece but only Detroit and Chicago had six boxers left in the running.
Corpus Christi. Texas: Five-foot, six-inch Pancho Segura of Ecuador, who has the knack of playing his best game when the most money is on the line, took over today as the money-earning leader of the Jack Kramer professional tennis tour.
Segura stands only third among the four singles players on the tour in the matter of number of one-night tournaments won, but the little senor who belts the ball with a two-handed grip is first in line at the pay window with earnings of $25.525.
Six-foot, three-inch Pancho Gonzales of Los Angeles, who has won exactly half, 17, of the 34 tournaments played so far, ranks second.
Arcadia, Calif.: Rejected, winner of the $143,000 Santa Anita Handicap, has been assigned 126 pounds for the $100,000 added San Juan Capistrano Stakes at Santa Anita. Rejected, who never has run over the grass course, shares top weight with Thirteen of Diamonds, who set a new American mark of 2:00 for a mile and one-quarter in winning the Washington's Birthday handicap on grass.
Cincinnati: Hein Ten Hoff of Germany, former European heavyweight champion, scored a technical knockout over Ralph Schneider of Miami last night in the fifth round of their scheduled 10-round bout.
Referee Dennis Millillo stopped the bout at 2:46 of the fifth round after Ten Hoff floored his opponent with a hard right to the jaw. Ten Hoff weighed 218 pounds while Schneider scaled 227.
Manhattan: Kansas State gridders headed into a spring practice wind-up today, with an intra-squad game set for Saturday.
Coach Bill Meek gave the Wildcats a stiff workout yesterday, despite below freezing temperatures and a strong north wind.
Rejoining the Cats for his first day of spring drills was trackman Corkey Taylor. Meek coupled the junior halfback star with Eldon Zeller, a Kansas Citian, and rounded out the backfield with Jim Logsdon, Kansas City sophomore, and Ken Habig, 215-pound Marysville freshman.
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Detroit: Holly Mims, eighth ranking middleweight contender, ruled a slight favorite today to turn back upset-minded Moses Ward of Detroit in their 10-round tonight at Olympia.
It will be the first fight for Mims in three months, a fight that the Baltimore boxer can't afford to lose since Ward is a virtual unknown in fistic circles.
Miami Beach: Walter Cartier of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., pounded out a unanimous 10-round decision over Billy Kilogre of Miami last night before 2,970 fans in Miami Beach auditorium.
The hard-punching Cartier came on in the late rounds with a two-fisted attack to the head and body to defeat the veteran Miami boxer.
Senior Star: Allen Kelley, little 5-11 McCune speedster, is one of the main reasons Kansas is on top in the Big Seven basketball race. The senior co-captain has shaken off an early-season slump and lately has been providing the same spark he provided as a member of last year's NCAA runners-up.
Senior Star: B. H. Born, 6-9 Medicine Lodge senior, is leading < the Kansas basketball team in scoring and ranks fourth in the league in the same department. He'll have an opportunity to go against the league's 3. 0 man, Bob Reiter, Tuesday night when Kansas tackles Missouri at Columbia, Burdette Haldorson of Colorado is the Big Seven's top score, Bill Johnson of Nebraska is second, and Reiter third. Born held Haldorson to five points Monday night and will be out to do that well again when the Jayhawks and Tigers clash.
Dodger Star Will Retire
Vero Beach, Fla. —(U.P.) Jackie Robinson said today he hopes this will be his last year in baseball because "At 35, it's just getting too tough to go on."
The Brooklyn Dodger star, who smashed the color line in the major leagues seven years ago, said that quitting is his wish "No matter how good a year I have." An important factor in the final decision will be whether he can land a good paying radio or television job.
Jackie, his dark hair now generously sprinkled with gray, said he thinks that "By punishing myself I might have another year or two left."
"But I've reached the stage where it's just too tough to keep on going," said Robinson. "Actually, I'm in the best shape this spring that I have been for several years. But it meant that I had to diet all winter long. And my legs and body are starting to feel the wear and tear of my years."
Jackie emphasized that he doesn't think his advancing age will bother him this season. In fact, he sees no reason why this "Shouldn't be one of my better years and why the Dodgers shouldn't win again."
Robinson said he would leave baseball "With sincere regret, for baseball has been mighty good to me."
Texas Tech Wins Berth In NCAA Cage Tourney
New York—(U.P.)-Texas Tech moved into the NCAA tournament today as the newly-crowned Border Conference basketball champion, but Rice and Texas wound up in a tie for the Southwest conference title and faced a playoff for a tourney berth.
High-seoring Tech clinched its crown in its season finale last night with an 84-71 victory over second-place West Texas State, thus qualifying to meet Santa Clara in a first-round game March 8 or 9 at a site to be selected.
Rice and Texas each won its final game of the season last night. Rice leading almost all the way to beat SMU, 90-64, and Texas doing the same thing to whip Texas Christian, 68-59. The two teams each have a final league record of 9-3 and will meet in a best-two-of-three play-off.
The first game in that playoff series will be on Rice's court at Houston Friday, the second on Texas' court at Austin Monday, and third, if necessary, on a neutral court at Waco, Texas, on Tuesday.
It was learned that the leading candidates for the last remaining NIT berth now are Cincinnati, Villanova, and Brigham Young.
It was believed that the deadlock in the Southwest conference race eliminated both Rice and Texas from consideration for a bid to the National Invitation tournament. The NIT was considering inviting the league's runner-up, but now cannot wait for the outcome of the playoffs since the tourney starts on Saturday night.
The Oklahoma Aggies clinched a lie a tie for first place in the Mist
souri Valley conference last night by defeating Tulsa, 77-46. The easy win, paused by Bob Mattick's 23 points, led the 600th in the coaching career of Hank Iba. The Aggies now need to win their finale on Saturday against St. Louis to nose out Wichita for the league title.
Seven tourney bound teams also are slated for action tonight with Manhattan (NIT) meeting Fordham (NCAA) in one of the night's top games. Connecticut (NCAA) meets Columbia; Bradley (NCAA) faces St. Louis; Louisville (NIT) plays Eastern Kentucky; Wichita (NIT) plays Oklahoma City; and St. Francis, (NIT) meets Siena.
In other leading games last night; Niagara, bound for the NIT rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat Colgate, 65-57, on eight straight points by Ed Fleming in the last two minutes of play; Holy Cross, also NIT bound, followed a 30-point performance by Togo Palazzi to an 85-73 win over Temple; George Washington beat Georgetown, 79-67; and Yale defeated Rhode Island, 89-83.
The clipper Sea Witch in 1850 broke the then record of 100 days from New York to the Golden Gate—making the trip in 97 days—a run which far exceeded the speed of any steamship of her day, the Marine Historical Association reports.
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