Ball Players Pension Plan May Be Dropped
Atlanta, Ga. (U.P.)—Big league ball players, who can retire now at the age of 50 with a lifetime pension of $100 a month, were faced today with losing that security because they decided to ask for more.
Frick's warning was the outgrowth of a day of wrangling in which the player representatives, one from each major league team, voted to boycott a meeting Frick called to discuss the pension plan because their lawyer, J. Norman Lewis was not allowed to attend.
"I knew that the club owners had prepared legislation to dissolve the pension plan." Frick said. "And I wanted to explain to the players in a friendly and informal meeting before the major league sessions next week just what was in the wind."
Commissioner Ford Frick warned them last night that their pension plan was in jeopardy because of a resolution by the major league executive council to cancel the entire program.
The player representatives, flown in from various parts of the nation at the expense of the commissioner's office, held a meeting and demanded that their lawyer be permitted to sit in with them when they convened with Frick and the two league presidents, Will Harridge and Warren Giles.
Allie-Reynolds of the Yanks and Ralph Kiner of the Cubs, the two league player representatives, presented their ultimatum to Frick early yesterday. And he quickly turned them down.
"I told them no," he said. "I said that if that was the way the boys felt about it—God bless them but there could be no meeting. And I felt very badly about it. Because I favor this pension plan. I think it is one of the finest things we have in baseball and that it would be a shame if they were shelved."
Frick said both Kiner and Reynolds knew of the resolution of the club owners because it was proposed at a council meeting on Sept. 29 which the two players were permitted to attend.
The commissioner said that the players at the Sept. 29 meeting proposed drastic increases in the benefits of the pension plan.
"They wanted to increase the amount of benefits from the present range of $50 to $100 a month to a new scale of $80 to $150 a month and to reduce the age at which the pension starts from 50 to 45 years," he said.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Auen, who is in his 44th year of coaching at Kansas, has a rival within the state for coaching longevity. Pittsburg State's John Lance has been in the business 36 years. He is also the fifth "winning-est" coach in the nation, having chalked up 489 wins and 252 losses.
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Sikes Mum on A&M Position
J. V. Sikes, who resigned Nov. 21 as head Jayhawker football coach, yesterday said he knows nothing about rumors that he will take over the head coaching reins at Texas A&M. his alma mater.
A Texas publisher, Fred Hartman of the Baytown, Tex., Sun, wrote Tuesday that Ray George would be ousted at A&M and that Sikes would be hired in his place.
Hartman also said Sikes had been offered that position "several years ago," but declined. "It's different now," he wrote. He's out of a job." Sikes said of the story, "It's nothing I know of. I haven't heard a thing about it."
Sikes also said he did not yet know what his next job will be and said the fate of his assistants at KU would be "determined by the new coach."
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"I don't know what my staff here will do," the ex-coach said, "and I don't think they do either."
He declined comment on the previous job offer by Texas A&M, but it is fairly well known here that he was approached by the Aggies three years ago, just after he had signed a new 3-year pact at Kansas.
Sikes played at Texas A&M under Dana X. Bible, former Nebraska coach, now athletic director at the University of Texas. He was freshman coach there in 1935-36 and is considered to be one of A&M's all-time football greats.
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Tiger Defense Holds Key to Hoop Success
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Coach Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcup, starting his eighth campaign as head basketball coach at Missouri, is building this year's Tiger team around a 6-8 beanpole center and nine lettermen but the genial coach insists that defense will hold the key to this year's team.
And Stalcup is driving his charges to attain that goal before Monday's opener with the Drake Bulldogs, who are a superior prior to the Big Seven tournament.
"Our defense definitely has to improve if we're to be any kind of a threat this year," Stalcup says.
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still wincing about last year's team giving up an average of 67.1 points a game.
Outstanding prospects up from the freshman team are Charley Denney, a 6-5 sharpshooter; Kent Henson, 5-10 speed demon, and Redford Reichert, a 6-1 southpaw.
Other top-rated candidates are Bill Holst, Wynne Casteel, Caron Hughes, and Bob Schoonmaker. Holst is a 6-3 veteran, Castelei scales 6-1 and is also a letterman, Hughes is a 6-0 letterman, and Schoonmaker is the 5-11 Tiger handyman who holds letters in football, basketball, and baseball.
Stalcup manages a wry grin though, when the subject of returning lettermen pops up. Nine men from last year's aggregation which forged to a 12-9 record are back to form the nucleus for this year's team.
Bob Reiter, 6-8 center and leading scorer for the Tigers last year, is returning with the job of shouldering the brunt of the scoring load. He marked up 277 points last year for an average of 13.2 per game.
Park, Elmore, Filbert, and Fowler are lettermen and along with the above pair of newcomers, appear to have the inside track for starting berths.
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Pesky Aggies At It Again
New York — (U,P)— Those pesky Oklahoma Aggies are back bidding for national basketball honors again in the same old-fashioned way—throttling their opponents with the nation's best defense.
In a performance typical of Agyteams coached by Hark Iba,which have marked up the country's best defensive average in an amazing 14 of the last 19 years,the Aggies scored their second victory in as many nights last night by turning back a strong Texas university team,54 to 37.
Since they won their opening game from Hardin-Simmons on Tuesday night, 80-40, the current Aggies have permitted only 38.5 points per game—far better than the 53.8 points allowed-per-game average which won them the national crown last season.
Texas had absolutely no luck with the Iba-built defense as the Aggies, defending champions of the Missouri Valley conference, drove to their 23rd straight home court victory.
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