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Baseball Doings-
Cards Buy Raschi In Surprise Deal
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St. Petersburg, Fla.—(U.P.)—Manager Eddie Stanky hailed the acquisition of Vic Raschi as filling the St. Louis Cardinals' "desperate need for pitching" today while owner August Busch said the $100,000 deal gave the Redbirds "more than an outside chance to win the pennant."
New York—(U.P.)-NCAA basketball tournament officials, last night added Notre Dame, Navy, and Fordham to their post-season carnival and will try today to pick their last two eastern independents from a field of 15 eligibles.
ThreeMoreTeams Get NCAA Berths
The five-man selection committee, it was learned, was scheduled to confer by round-robin telephone today to make its final picks. It was also learned that the NCAA berth reserved for the New England conference champion will go to the winner of Saturday's game between Holy Cross (20-1) and Connecticut (19-2).
Notre Dame, (17-2), Navy (16-6) and Fordham (17-4) all were selected as eastern "members at large," that is, independent teams from east of the Mississippi.
Notre Dame will join Toledo and two "at large" teams in first-round play at Fort Wayne, Ind. March 9. Navy and Fordham will join La Salle and the Holy Cross-Connecticut winner in other first-round games at a site yet to be selected but reported to be Buffalo, N.Y. Pairings in each city will be determined by a flip of a coin, said Athletic Director Doug Mills of Illinois, chairman of the selection committee.
Last night Rice and Texas, tied for the lead in the Southwest loop, both suffered upsets to remain dead-locked, each with two more league games to play. Baylor scored 12 points in an overtime period, eight of them by Murray Bailey, to beat Rice, 76-73, at Waco, Texas, although Rice's Don Lance led all scorers with 23 points. Southern Methodist handed Texas its worst beating of the year, 90-63, at Dallas, as five Mustangs hit in double figures with Derrrell Murphy tops at 24 points.
Bevo Francis suffered a badly-sprained muscle in his left foot in the final quarter at Ashland, Ohio, after tallying 54 points to lead Rio Grande to a 121-81 victory over Ashland college. It was not known whether the injury would keep Francis from playing in the NAIB tournament next week in Cleveland.
Frank Selvy of Furman scored 58 points in a 117-73 win over Wofford and ran his total of free throws this season to 327-five short of the all-time major-college single-season mark of 332 held by Johnny O'Brien of Seattle.
In other leading games last night; George Washington, regular season Southern conference champ, avenged its sole setback in 20 games by trouncing Maryland, 70-51, as Colonial star Cory Devkin outscored Maryland ace Gene Shue, 27-23; Niagara, bound for the National Invitation tournament, swept to its eighth straight win, 80-45, over Brockport, N.Y.; St. Francis (N.Y.), also NIT bound, scored its 13th straight victory, 82-49, over Brooklyn college; and Washington State beat Idaho, 56-44, in the Pacific Coast conference.
The Oklahoma Aggies (21-2 with a 7-0 league record) will try to clinch the Missouri Valley conference championship and NCAA berth tonight by beating second-place Wichita (23-3 with a 6-2 league mark) at Stillwater, Okla.
Porterhouse Runs Today
ArCADIA, Calif. (U.P.)-Porterhouse,
voted the champion two-year-old
thoroughbred of 1953, is slated to
make his first start as a three-year-
old today in the $6,000 Rosemont
Purse at Santa Anita.
- "I'll be satisfied if Raschi wins from 12 to 16 games," Stanky chortled. "We were desperate for pitchers with only Gerry Staley and Harvey Haddix. This was a great deal for us."
The 35-year-old Raschi was sold to the Cardinals by the world champion New York Yankees in a deal that took the baseball world by complete surprise. Although Raschi compiled a modest 13-6 record last season, he won 120 games and lost only 50 in seven campaigns with the Yankees and was regarded as one of their most dependable money pitchers.
Stanky left no doubt that Raschi's combative attitude and ability to win "the big game" were key factors in acquiring him. And he broadly hinted that the big, hard-throwing right-hander would be used consistently against the Brooklyn Dodgers and Milwaukee Braves—the league's chief contenders.
Busch added that he is withdrawing an offer to trade infielder Solly Hemus to the Philadelphia Phillies for Jim Konstanty because of the acquisition of Raschi. The Cardinals had been dickering with the Phillies since hard-throwing left Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell was drafted.
Konstanty (14-10) and Bob Miller (8-9), meanwhile, came to terms leaving 23-game winner Robin Roberts the only unsigned Philly veteran pitcher. Roberts is scheduled to have a fourth salary conference with club president Bob Carpenter before the end of the week.
Dick Wakefield, one-time $52,000 bonus beauty, turned up at the Washington Senators' Orlando, Fla., training base and will work out at his own expense in an attempt at a comeback. Manager Bucky Harris said he approved of the experiment because he feels his outfield is shallow.
At Vero Beach, Fla., rookie pilot Walt Alston indicated Clem Labine would be assigned to the bullpen but adopted a go-slow policy toward making major decisions with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Club president Walter O' Malley removed the possibility of one headache, meanwhile, when he rejected Rex Barney's request to work out with the Dodgers.
Around the camps: Hal Rice, Paul Smith, and rookie catcher Bill Hall signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates . . infielder Fred Hatfield came to terms with the Detroit Tigers. . Gus Zernial reported to the Philadelphia Athletics only a few pounds over his 216 playing weight. . Monte Irvin starred in the New York Giants' batting drill with two 400-foot homers to left field.
New York —(U.P.)— Promoter Jim Norris of the International Boxing club was scheduled to confer today with the managers of heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and former champion Ezzard Charles about a possible title fight in June.
Marciano, Charles May Fight in June
Coaches' Confab May Offer Many New Cage Rules
New York—(U.P.)—It's now certain that a carload of suggestions to change basketball rules will be offered next month when the coaches hold their annual pow-wow, but it's not at all certain that even one important change will be made.
By JACK CUDDY
And right now a preview of that meeting looks like it could be a retake of last year's—most of the coaches agreeing that they don't like the present rules too much, but not agreeing on how to change 'em.
The rules come up for possible revision when the National association of Collegiate Basketball coaches holds its annual meeting in Kansas City in conjunction with the NCAA tournament.
At a New York meeting of college court tutors the other day, for example, seven of the eight men present agreed that they wanted rules changes—and they suggested seven entirely different changes.
Among the most sweeping proposals made so far are those offered by coaches Ed Hickey of St. Louis, Howard Hobson of Yale, and Ken Norton of Manhattan. And those three top mentors don't come close to agreeing on what they want.
The mild-mannered, scholarly little Hickey, president of the coaches association, came up with perhaps the most radical and sweeping program yet devised. Hickey is out to erase the "one and one" foul rule, which gives a player another try if he misses a one-shot free throw. He's also against the three-minute rule, which gives a player two free throws on every foul in the last three minutes of a game.
Red-haired Norton also is deadset against the "one and one" rule. He agrees with Hickey that should be tossed out. But instead of wanting to keep a player in the game no matter how many fouls he commits, Norton wants to go back to the old rule of "four personal fouls and out" instead of the current five. The one-time Long Island university star, a member of the rules committee, says that would cut down on excess fouling by making each foul more "expensive" and making the players more careful. Also, he says, it will make the coaches "go back to teaching defense again."
Hickey says he'll offer these changes to the meeting: (1) Throw out these two rules; (2) Keep a player in the game no matter how many foules he commits; (3) For each foul after the third, make the penalty one free throw and two more if that's sunk or, if a player sinks a basket and is fouled, make it one free throw and another if he sinks it.
The gray-haired Hobson agrees with Norton that there are too many fouls, but he thinks the remedy would be to award two free throws for the whole 40 minutes—that is, making the "three minute rule" apply to the whole game. Hobson also wants to legislate against "stalling" by setting a time limit in which a team is required to shoot, and he wants a wider free throw lane to keep the giants from getting so many tin-in baskets.
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Norton disagrees; he thinks "stalling" is all right, because "freezing the ball is one of the game's finer points."
When last year's rules meeting broke up with few changes, Coach Bruce Drake of Oklahoma said most coaches were against the present set-up but there wasn't even a "fair-sized minority" that agreed on one proposal.
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Royal Takes Over Job At Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss. — (U.P.) — Darrell Royal, armed with T-formation trickery gleaned from Canada to Florida, plunked down a well-worn trunk at Mississippi State college today and hung out his shingle as the Southeastern conference's youngest head coach.
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Royal, 29, takes over his first college post from one of his exbosses, Murray Warmath, who left Dixie to become head coach at Minnesota.
State placed the accent on youth to go with its rejuvenated football program when Royal was hired. An earlier hitch as backfield coach of the Maroons impressed the school officials.
An ex-Oklahma T-master who helped the Sooners wrap up two Sugar Bowl wins, Royal moved his wife and three children onto the campus this week and started ironing out next season's problems.
A season on the Third Air Force team followed Royal's high school graduation. He took the hop to service football in Florida in stride.
His background reads uphill from high school football in Hollis, Okla, to Edmonton, Alberta, last season in the Canadian pro league where he coached the Eskimoes to a division title.
Jim Tatum was at Oklahoma in 1948 when Roy showed up as a freshman. Bud Wilkinson tutored Darrell three seasons and these were
the fruitful ones. Royal made all-America in 1949 as he engineered the Sooners to a national crown and a 35-0 licking of Louisiana State in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1, 1950. North Carolina was beaten 14-7 a year earlier in the same bowl.
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