The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

January 30, 1957

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The Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

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Wednesday, January 30, 1957

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8

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SPORTS THE SPRINGIELD DAILY NEWS SPRINGIELD MASS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 1957 SPORTS Holy amily Meets St Thomas in Catholic League Tomorrow Night VOm 4V impressive victories last night EDDIE MACHEN KENNY LANE MOVES UP IN 8 5 TO DOWN RING RATINGS RANK RY to make its row left to right Bill Mezzelte Phil Quinn Jim Tremble Dame Division of AIC Hoopmen Continue Ride Hard Luck Streak night vs Ludlow and TEAMS 6 A Pts 9 0 fea 2 6 9 1 1 6 ESSO HEATING OIL in injured last 6 0 5 3 6 0 8 with 8 1 12 1 Wallace 4 PARADYNE H04 0 16! Kulirk 6 22 8 Mnnaanto Pts Gives greater economy 8 0 4 ST super clean burning 4R ESSO STANDARD Ssso OIL COMPANY BOB KING I 1 trouble before aggra 2 3 0 1 Although un full 1955 sea nevertheless of the Am the basis of it at 0 6 fi 4 terrible no way money for the Johnny with 15 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 6 Jacoli 0 R'MIIIpf fj (Hidden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Rjt Tarninan 6 6 0 0 over high the spotlight 8 8 9 25 Holy amily St Patrick's (T'VHIp) Kady of Hope Holy amily St Thomas Aquinas Lady of Sacred Heart ST 0 0 0 0 Txjng lyers 431 American International College just seem to shake off losing streak The Aces lost their fourth straight toughie Isist Let OU Heat Servlet guard your heating comfort KffdAAton Slattery GB 0 I 3 5 3'2 5 3'Z 7 5'z Cleary Napoieitan Roberts Blowers 0 2 83 6 STANDINGS THE Jt IS DIVISION 5 41 4'j has told died in the Boston Jan 30 HP) Light footed Bobby Seaman of UCLA is the best bet to break Wes 4:038 Hunter Mile record in the Boston Athletic Association track meet slated for the Garden Sat urday nierht Seaman 21 year old senior has twice turned in 4:014 clockings for the mile run and has been under the four minute eight second mark five times in the past year a Leo Cathedral Holy Name St (alls) Si Cecilia's St Holy Cross GAMES TOMORROW NIGHT 630 Holy amily vs St Thomas 730 MIoly Name vs St Patrick's fC) 8 3D Lady of Hope vs St Pat 3 fraternity He is the son of Mr and Mrs John King of 20 Summer St Westfield a sub four minute chief competition KT 8 T4rion Morrisey Dwin ilal'ski James Madison Kleczek oley Hcore at half time Wet field 30 Hamp den 25 3 3 5 3 3 3 2 Yl 3 2 alcon? Manzi Mitchell Chi Phi will be the representatives of the judiciary of this area Executives of newspapers of this section who have been invit ed are William Dwight Paul Craig Walter A Graham and rank II Kelly Also from the newspapers will be George Kelleher Victor Wall William Keating Joseph A Larose Stephen Lemanis Richard Murphy James O'Connell James Regan and Raymond itzgerald Arthur Roberts coach of the Holyoke High School football team and Harry Gafney who coached Holyoke Catholic High football teams for the past three years will be among the guests William Dean director of the Holyoke Trade High School The Youth Activities Commit tee of the Elks headed by Paul A Donoghue is sponsoring the program details of which have been arranged by a large com mittee headed by Edwin Hur ley American League umpire Michael McCarthy ront Tom Sheehan ran Earhart Back row same order co captain Jerry Callahan Jim White Jack Callahan Jerry Burke Bill O'Connell and Coach Mac Donnelly Don arr of the held to a season points hut Ed Ed Kleczek took Trzcienski scored 16 Harvey Weiss SKATES SHARPENED While Yoh Wait THE SAW CENTER 3 TS 89H ire Marine orbes Wallacc NE Pattern Strathmore Buxton Shawinlgan United Engineers Milton Bradley GAMES TOMORROW NIGHT 700 Buxton vs NE Pattern ire Marine vs Strath more A Pts 2 4 8 Springfield Brack Monsanto Bigelow Sanford Mass Mutual DIVISION STANDINGS I GB CAI BASKETBALL LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS orbes Wallace HI Shawini gai 58 Breck Monsanto 36 DIVISION A STANDINGS 6 UCLA Senior Best Bet to Eclipse 4:038 Mark in Hunter Mile Saturday Tabori and Delany Not to Compete Conner sr I fill TotnU Two of Top Middleweights Clash Tonight at Norfolk In TV Bout JUNIOR HOCKEY SCHEDULE 11 16 DIVISION 8 Amvt Post 152 vs Rushville Tigers 83' Blunt Park Rifles vs Post 4o 9 American Legion Post 20" vs Chic opee Kails Braves 9 mi Longmeadow Squires vs Ludlow Blackhawks to East Longmeadow Jets vs Turner Aces Holyoke Jan 30 Representa tives of the clergy leaders of the state city and county govern ments and a large number of newspaper executives and sports writers will be among the guests of the Holyoke Lodge of Elks at its first program to be held in the War Memorial Auditorium Wednesday Now Listed as No 2 Chal lenger in Heavyweight Division Both Overshadowed in Own Conference Races Make Bid for Glory With Impressive Victories Over Oklahoma A and Duke 1 2 ono 10 2 4 io Totals string catcher and one of the long ball hitters lie is treasurer of Breck rtsl i i Brown St Onge 8 Ilea son Holy amily now in third place in the Notre the Catholic Junior Basketball League Mill try for win No 4 when they meet St Thomas at the Holy Name court tomorrow night Pictured above are members of the Holy amily 11 squad hfOastelli 9 Rosenbeck i 1 1 Perowski 2 1 12 1 I ln K1OX Chicopee Kails Braves vs Lud low Rangers lllo Turner Rears vs MYAA Jrs 1140 East Longmeadow Redwings vs 16 Acres Wasps 12 1U Westfield Moose vs Ludlow Pan thers Amherst Jan 30 The highest football award given at Amherst College the Ash ley Trophy has been awarded to senior Bob King of West field captain of the 1956 team Has Qualifications The trophy given annually to the retiring member of the team who best "played Ihe was presented King by President Charles Cole The trophy winner is determined by a commit tee composed of the football coach manager and captain elect In making the presentation President Cole cited King as a player who "certainly ful fills all the qualifications" tor the trophy able to play the son King was elected captain herst team on his leadership potential Last fall despite a number of in juries King was a sparkplug and a standout center and linebacker In addition to football King has been a member of the varsity baseball team Last year he was first CATHOLIC LEAGUE 5OTRE DAME DIVISION 3 3 2 3 1 0 10 DIMS ION 1256 Longmeadow Tinkers vs East Longmeadow Rockets 120 Ludlow Indians vs East Long meadou Elvers UCT vs Westfield Moose 22'1 borest Park Panthers Bruins New York Jan SO HP) St Louis and Wake orest two mighty good teams that have been forced to play so far in their own leagues launched twin drives today for a bigger share of basketball glory Both notched Excellent Records The Si Ixiuis Billikens ranked Kith nationally but overshadowed in the Missouri Valley Confer ence by Uth ranked Bradley racked up an important 49 45 vic tory over the Oklahoma Aggies last night at Stillwater Okla to shove their season record to an excellent 12 5 Wake orest ranked 14th na tionally but faced with the tough task of heating top ranked North Carolina notched an "impressive 77 59 victory over Duke at Win ston saiem nc record 13 3 These victories ranked foes stole last night from Louisville the na No 6 team which wal loped Loyola of the South 79 53 for its ninth straight victory and also a 13 3 record The St Louis victory moved the Billikens into a second place tie with Wichita in the Missouri Val ley League at 5 1 only one game behind Bradley And St Louis and Bradley still are scheduled to meet twice next month on eb 13 and 23 Oklahoma ranked 20th rallied from a 15 point deficit with five minutes left to score nine straight points Then they battled on even terms point for point until Roy Carberry of the Aggies scored at the end to cut the final margin to four points Jack Mim Jitz and Harold Alcorn hadj points each for St Louis but six six Henry Kemple had 13 for the Aggies Duke ranked 19th but minus the services of ace Bucky Allen who was injured trailed almost all the way against Wake orest Jim Gilley had 21 points and Jack Williams 16 for Wake orest and Bob Vernon tallied 16 for Duke Iri Whip Indians Iziuisville was held to a 29 28 halftime lead by Loyola but scored 17 at the start of the second half before Loyola hit a basket to blow the game wide open Six eight Charley Tyra of Louisville took scoring honors with 24 points In other leading games last night John McCarthy scored 35 points and Tom Hawkins 30 to lead Notre Dame to a 94 82 vic tory over Indiana as Archie Dees led the losers with 24 North Carolina State romped to an 80 63 win over Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference despite 19 points by Virginia's Bob Hardy: Okla homa City trounced New Mexico 107 86 as Lindon Lee scored 29 Hubert Reed 26 and Leon Grif nipped Texas the Southwest 'Mexico (Tempe) St of Brooklj International beat Wofford If nmpden fin 25 Arkansas Christian 62 58 in Conference New' downed Arizona 95 80 St rancis edged American 71 69: and urman 89 74 in the Southern Conference North Carolina ends its mid year exam "vacation" tonight and seeks to extend its perfect record to 16 0 against little West ren Carolina Kentucky the na tion's No 3 team can gam un disputed possession of first place in the Southeastern Conference by heating Georgia in another ture 2 MCA 4 10 12 OlVl'ION 4 eb start at 730 will feature the ap pearance of Paul Hornung Notre Dame University All American football player Special Reception The invited guests will be ep tertained at a reception and din ner to precede the auditorium program this to be held at Kel Lobster House Members of the clergy invited to attend are NIost Rev Christo pher Weldon DD Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield: Rt Rev Msgr James itzgibbon Rev Phil otheos Ahladas Rev Lee James Beynon Jr Rev Dr Oliver Black Rev Alan Carlsten Rev Norman ar num Jr Rev Pierre Gau thier Rev Eugene Guerin Rev Janies Hanrahan Rev Daniel Hennessey Rabbi Marvin Lu nan Rev Rabbi Dr Hugo Mantel Rev Andrew A Martin Rev Walter Menzel Jr Rev Dr Ross Milley Rev Rolande Nadeau Rev Carl Nugent Rev Ray mond O'Brien Rev Leonard Pakulski Rev Andrew Sul livan Rev Daniel A Thurston Rev Roland Young and Rev Stephen Zajac Gov oster urcolo Mayor Edwin A Seibel and William Stapleton will head the represen tatives of the state city and county governments along with Senator Maurice A Donahue Judge William Nolen of the Holyoke District Court and Judge Daniel Keyes Jr of Chicopee ED HURLEY (Co chairman) The program will MORENO KO'S MONGIA El Paso Tex Jan 30 iP) Pajarito Moreno 127 of Mexico City scored his 31st knockout of his ring carder here last night kayoing Jesse1 Mongia 128 Angeles in 1:28 of the second round ASSUMPTION ALUMNI ANSWERS CALLAHAN Bob Graveline of Palmer excntive sc crelary of the Western Mass chapter of As sumption College Alumni has issued the following state ment to Thfe Springfield Un ion in regard to the remarks of AIC basketball coach Bill Callahan in reference to his recent loss to Assump tion wish to take exception io the unfortunate statements made in the press by Mr Cal lahan basketbail coach ofNIC We believe these to be a poor display of sportsman ship and ungentlemanly con duct unbecoming the leader ot a group of college students to whom he is supposed to set a good example "Mr Callahan has tried to find every excuse possible for his team losing to a superior group In one newspaper edi tion he is quoted as blaming first the Assumption gym nasium then the crowxl In another he blames the offi cials when the truth of the matter is his team was beat en by two other teams which Assumption has previously downed conclude that Mr Cal lahan is a poor CLASSICAL HIGH SWIMMERS WIN Classical High swimming team nosed out Northampton High 29 28 in the Trinity pool here yester day afternoon Grant second victory of the day in the 100 yard freestyle event won the meet for Classical HOLYOKE JUNIOR RESCHEDULES TILT Holyoke Jan 30 The basket ball game between Holyoke Jun ior College and the University of Waterbury Exten sion scheduled for last night at the high school has been post poned because of bad traveling conditions The game has been rescheduled for eb 11 Post 430 Ludlow Blackhawks Blunt Park Rifles MY A A Srs Amvetn 152 Rushville Tigers Pot 2'7 Ludlow Lions Agawam YMCA East 1 ong Jets Chicopee Kails Braves Longmeadow Squires 16 Acres Hornets East Lone Rangers Turner Aces orest Park Cards Chicopee alls Chiefs Six Corners A A Westfield Moose ramington Rr 12 14 DIVISION 3 Now York Jan 30 (INS) Ed die Machen the undefeated young heavyweight from Red ding Cal was raised today to the position of No 2 challenger to the throne held by champion loyd Patterson Moore Slumps Maohen victorious in all 20 of his fights and the recent con queror of Joey Maxim also was named "fighter of the month" in the latest ratings issued by Ring Magazine The 24 year old battler re placed the idle Archie Moore as the runner up challenger to Tom my (Hurricane) Jackson Moore dropped to fourth and Harold Carter victor over Bob Baker advanced to third New Willie Pastrano fell from third to fifth With Gene ullmer the newly crowned champ of the middle weights former titlist Ray Rob inson took over the position as top challenger Mexican welterweight Gaspar Ortega advanced to the second post in that division by beating Tony De Marco who slipped to third Art Aragon was removed from the ratings pending the out come of difficulties with the California Boxing Commission The retirement of Sandy Sad dler as featherweight king has thrown that division open to an elimination series among the four top contenders who are in this order Cher if I lamia Kid Bassey' of Nigeria Miguel Berrios of Puerto Rico and New York's Carmelo Costa Potvin Hockey Club Walker Sports armington Rec Ludlow Wildcat Longmeadow Jugglers Blunt Park Rangers Chicopee alls Braves Post East Long Wings Ludlow Rangers Westfield Moose Panthers Hoad will not play tennis for myaa Jrs crovro ii'Anl Acres Wasps Avuro UUIUC1II turner Bea he will be fit to begin his over Agawam seas tour in March when he is scheduled to leave for South Af rica Bob King Wins Top Amherst Grid Award D0LD00R1 AN NAMED HEAD GRID MENTOR AT NORTHBRIDGE HIGH John Dokloorian former American International Col lege baseball and football captain and a member of the grid coaching staff for one year has been name41 head football coach at Northbridge High School Doldoorian graduate succeeds Smith who ended 20 years of coaching football at the Cen tral Mass school Doldoorian has been assistant at North bridge for the past twft years Seaman Is Major Threat Set BA A Mile Record ORBES AND BRECK POST LEAGUE WINS Breck defeated Monsanto 52 36 and orbes and Wallace turned back Shawinigan 64 58 last night in a CAI League doublcheader at the YMCA Summaries: orbes Wallace Shawinigan Pu 2 8 1 15 61 PAGE BLVD ST JAMES AVE SPRINGIELD i REPUBLIC 4 7357 or your authorized esso heating oil distributor 4 1 YOU CANNOT BUY A BETTER HEATING OIL than the new premium quality Esso Heating Oil with PARADYNE H04 This amazing another development of Esso research now malces Esso Heat ing Oil super clean burning and allows oil burners to operate more efficiently giving more heat and more economical heat! 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Total Scare st 18 RAfAfpp Mik umpire rnkn THREE LENGTH WINNER Miami la Jan 30 Iron Liege ($280) scored by three lengths in the Driftwood Purse yesterday at Hialeah Park Trit a I 28 A nre at half Hme nrbAs 35 Shawinigan 27 Raferp SlRaarnko umpire MnnaRntn Pt? 6 Ifi Agfps Blades Westfield Moose Agawam YMCA Cubs Ludlow Indians Tu ner Cubs East Long Rockets armington Re' Longmeadow Tinkers 1 Chicopee alls Brave Agawam Tigers Ludlow Bruins orest Park Panthers St Louis Wake orest Seek Hoop Recognition Much Competition The first West Coast miler in the meet since 1940 Seaman will have plenty of competition from Phil Coleman 25 ycar old Olym pic stceplechastcr Burr Grimm University of Maryland senior and Johnny Kopil former nation al scholastic mile champion from Villanova Missing however from the mile run during the meeting's 46th renew'al will be both Hun garian expatriate Laszlo Tabori and Villanova's Ron Delany Tabori who was' defeated in his American debut 10 days ago by red Dwyer in the Knights of Columbus meet's two mile run is taking a rest after three in door meets Delany the Hunter Mile's defending champion is underweight and has been ad vised to build himself up before competing this season red the Glen Ridge greeting card salesman who stunned of spectators with his amazing finish in wan ning the Larivee two mile is fa vored in the Billings two mile run Dwyer the best miler in the nation will be tuning up for an assault on mile Bis should come from BI man Hor ace Ashenf citer who has won the event the past four years Double Olympic gold medalists Charley Jenkins of Villanova and former ordham star Tom Court ney pair off in a natural in the 600 Jenkins' 1:099 meet record stands as the second sub 110 clocking ever recorded on an in door track The 45 yard high hurdles will find Olympic winners Lee Cal houn and Milt Campbell in their second Boston duel of the year Calhoun winning the of hurdles by a whisker over the big Plainfield sailor Other leading performers in elude Arnie Sowell listed as a prohibitive favorite in the 1000: high jumper Phil Reavisof Villanova and Don Bragg of Vil i lanova and Bob Gutowski of Oc cidental in the pole vault HARRIS iSCORESTKO WIN OVER CHAPMAN Houston Tex Jan 30 (fi Roy Harris 190 pound Conroe Tex slugger his usual hit and run tactics last rjight to score a bloody eighth round TKO over Claude Chapman 195 of New York Harris had piled up a wide load with a slashing two fisted attack before be floored Chapman for a nine count late in the eighth Chapman jumped to his feet blood streaming heavily from his face but Manager Al Weill stepped in the ring to give Harris the technical knockout at 2:54 NEW APPEAL MADE TO AID ART LARSON UND AS EXPENSES MOUNT New York Jan 30 IP) Medical expenses of Art Larsen former National Tennis Champion who is partially blind and paralyzed as a result of a highway accident continue to mount hnd an appeal was made today for "still more to help him Directors of the Alt Larsen Benefit Committee disclosed that the $22000 already raised "may not be nearly enough to defray continuing expenses Art still is in condition and we have of knowing how much eventually could be used to help him" said Gladys Heldman publisher of the World Tennis magazine and a member of the committee Miss Heldman said that the World War II Air orce hero from San Leandro Cal is ribly by his physi cal condition and friends "I wish I'd Larsen 31 November while tiding a motor scooter on a California highway WESTHELDTEACHERS RECORD EIGHTH WIN Westfield Jan 30 Westfield State Teachers with the help of a 20 for 36 last half buried Hamp den Pharmacy 78 48 at the Teachers' gym last night High scoring Teachers was low of eight Trzcienski and up the slack i 19 and Kleczek led the losers with 19 Westfield's record is now 8 6 Summary: leiq arr Holyoke Elks Invite Many Guests to Hear Hornung its night at the ield House 71 69 to St rancis of Loretta Pa and are now below the 500 mark Aces ollow Pattern The AIC defeats seem to be following the same pattern The Aces usually pull even with the opposition in the late moments and then suddenly fizzle out at the finish John Novalessi a rugged per former tapped in a basket with two seconds remaining to clinch the victory for the rankies Lucien Plante the top snooter was nign scorer AIC men with 20 points Jones and Jack Nehmer and 14 points followed University Massachusetts will face Boston College in a good attraction tonight in the Curry Hicks Gym Amherst The Red men hope to make the Eagles their 17th straight home victim BC with a 7 6 record has beaten University of Connecticut this season That victory alone should stamp the Eagles as a good hoop team University of Mass has been a streaky team all season but has always managed to win home regardless HOAD SUERS ONLY ACUTE BACK STRAIN Melbourne Jan 30 P) Wimble don tennis champion Lew Hoad is not suffering from a slipped spinal disc as feared earlier this week rays of his back today re vealed he is suffering only from "an acute strain in the lower Specialists said the might have cleared up this if it had not been vated by constant tennis Norfolk Va Jan 30 (81 Kenny Lane and rankie Ryff two of the nation's leading middle weights collide here tonight in i a nationally televised (ABC) fight with Lane in particular looking 1 to the battle as a possible stepping stone to a title bout It) Wins in How "If I get by this fight with fly ing colors" says Lane a south paw from Muskegon Mich who's rated the No 2 contender in the 135 pound division behind cham pion Joe Brown "I'll stand a good chance of a title Lane won his last 10 fights in a row and boasts an over all 45 5 record for his career will rule an 8 5 favorite when he climbs into the ring against Ryff the New York campaigner who has a 21 3 mark The two battled it out last Nov 14 in Miami with Lane hanging up a unanimous decision Should bout go the limit it will be scored on a point basis with the winner of a round receiving 10 points Managers of both fighters pro nounced their boys in top shape for the bout the feature of Nor 10th annual March of Dimes boxing show This will be the first start for both boxers since they tangled in Miami late last year Lane says he remembers Ryff as very shifty kid hard to catch up with and he has quick hands But he cuts easy Ryff a converted lefthander has been working out here this week against nothing but south paws to get ready The feature 10 rounder will be preceded by four preliminaries HUGHES DUPRES MAT DUO WIN AT ARENA Holyoke Jan Emil Dupres and Lenny (Cowboy) Hughes von over Gypsy Joe Gonzales and Wild Bull Curry in a tag team match last night at the Valley Arena In a semifinal Tiger Tas ker defeated Karl Von Eric while rank Cavanaugh beat Al Krieger in the opener NOW BETTER THAN EVER! 3 4 CHRISTOPHER DIVISION VV 1 1 3 (LfcrV 'S fey fhv fMMMin 1 jW Mw VV A rts 4 i 8 Ire 3 0 1 'y 3 13 3 3 1 15 8 6 3 10 11 4 fi 0 5 4 2 1112 4 5 2 10 7 8 4 1 1 1 1 2 8 7 4 1 112 3 4 1 2 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