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¥ ~ an ans Ss SEN---- January 26, 1955 °° rr ------------------ ---- 4 TUE DAILY TIMESGATETTE, Webnedar ¥ an Hh 2 U.S. PRO FOOTBALL MEN Bert Bell, commissioner of the fives ol Canadian 2 our Subs , ell' ce a adelphia, National Football League Ba (clockwise) are for to (centre) discusses a proposed right: Ted Workman, Montreal; noraiding pact with representa- NO MORE GREY CUP BIDS? DISCUSS NO - RAID PACT Ralph Cooper, Bib Four presi- dent; Bell, Eddie Emerson, Ot- tawa; Ted Punchard, Toronto and Jack Gaudaur, Hamilton, (CP from AP) Old Ontario Rugby Football Union Gets "Brush - Off" From Big Leagues representatives, In 1953, the ORFU | winners wére Invited west to meet | the WIFU champions, | The Big Four and WIFU then agreed to alternate the semi-final and try to boost interest in the playoff, WAS A SUCCESS | The 1953 semi-final proved such | a financial success that the West | took it over again in 1954. The | alternating agreement, Big Four | officials say, called for the West | to handle it again this year with | Jeased their 1955 schedules, which | the Big Four taking it in '56, | carry the clubs to within a week Last November Kitchener-| of the Grey Cup game and virtu-| Waterloo Dutchmen and Edmonton ally rule out any chance of a cup | Eskimos played to only about 8,000 | semi-final with an ORFU team. | customers at Edmonton, with Esks | Although there is nothing official | winning 38-6. There were hard The Canadian Press sounded out| feelings between the clubs, al- cub officials across the cbuntry | though Dutchmen were Eskimo | dnd generally got this answer: No- | farmhands, Fights broke out. Star | body except the ORFU, wants the | halfback Rollie Miles of Edmonton ORFU mixing in the Grey Cup| was injured. feture Moe Lieberman, president of Es- | "DYING TO GET RID OF IT kimos, said Monday night that the | By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Ontario Rugby Football Union, which once claimed some of Canada's greatest athletes, ap- sears to be washed up in big-time vothall The two top professional leagues apparently have nudged the ORFU out of the Grey Cup picture, 21 years after the Ontario league last won the classic This became apparent when the Big Four Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union re- haven't heard a thing from the WIFU yet. I'm not going to do anything until I do." Cooper said the agreement calls for the West to take the semi-final this season, Jack Gaudaur, president of Ham- fliton Tiger-Cats, figured the 'whole thing should be worked out by the team executives." NOT PRACTICAL Obeck felt that "too many of the ORFU teams have been, 'and will continue to be, pretty well farm teams for the other leagues. On that basis it doesn't look very prac- cal Harold Bailey, secretary of the ORFU, declined comment. He sald ORFU team officials will meet in "about a week" to talk things 4 Rowand sald the WIFU {is not considering asking for an amend- ment to the CRU constitution that the West be relieved of playing the ORFU in alternate years. Commissioner Thinks Sugar Ray Should Quit NEW YORK (AP) -- Commis sioner Abe Green of the National Boxing Association says he thinks Sugar Ra¥ Robinson ought to quit a Italy's Hockey Now Features Canadian Boys MILAN, Italy (AP)--Canadians or Americans attending an Jce hockey game in Italy feel they never left home, Players shout to one another in English and their play is North American. This is not surprising, however, when you look at the ros- ter of the Italian national hockey team, Sixteen of the stars are North Americans, Under Italian sports regulations, anyone of Italian descent is con- sidered Italian even i! his parents emigrated. Most of the players are Canadians, but there are a couple of Americans, LESS VIOLENT Bill Thompson of Pittsburgh, who is studying law here after playing four years on the Colorado college team, says he likes the Italian game, 'It's less violent,' he ob- serves, The team shouts its signals in English, Italian fans are some- times mystified to hear their na- tional players shouting "Quick, quick," or "Go, go," as the game rogresses, Itallan reporters find hey have to speak English to cover the team, Al this came about when aly great ambition, decided to recruit some Nort The National League's top Americans after placing last in the | hitter has a burning desire to 1948 winter Olympic competition. | wind up his brilliant career with In 1962, Italy had such a weak|3,000 major league hits, That is team it didn't even enter. an achievemennt attained only by = | the elite-seven to be exact. Pro Football Clubs | acide "ina "sugges estimates To Ask U.S. Court To Dismiss Suit will take him three Joan to join the 3,000-hit club of Ty Cobb, Tris PHILADELPHIA (AP)---Lawyers for the National Football League Speaker, Hans Wagner, Eddie Col- lins, Napoleon Lajoie, Adrian An- son and Paul Waner. He'll begin his 14th active big league season next April with 2,418 hits, 582 shy and nine NFL clubs sued: by the | of the coveted 3,000, That means defunct Liberty Broadcasting Sys-| he, must average 104 hits for the tem for $2,100,000 filed notice Mon- day that they will ask U.S, District Court Feb, 28 to dismiss the suit, Cornelius C. O'Brien, Jr., who filed the motion, said the football next three years. He collected 105 last year, clubs were "not engaged in trade or commerce within the meaning of the anti-trust laws and that pro- fessional football is a sport and not trade or commerce and broadcast- dy ing and telecasting of the football Ry. Eveting News hat wou first games played by the defendants | for 'the best story on the Inter- was merely incidental thereto. national Baseball League. The suit, filed last Sept, 27, al- ST The award was announced to- logos that the NFL "has lle Rally | 4oy through IL headquarters here pted, and maintained, through- | {UY 1" webb: f the Rochest out the United States of America. Ny PA e aon e or Jen od a system of authoring the broad. (ft ane W Ho Rhys ol A 0 casting of Jrofessional football gue's . $400 ato. games in suc manner as to re- ritzer received e Krnes 0 strain trade unlawfully in broad-|Lanigan award of $100 for his casting and to maintain a monopoly | story on Buffalo Bisons pitcher of the broadcasting" in the home Frank Lary"s 8 23 inning no- tter, "That was one retirement 1 thought would stick, I would have bet you anything that Ray would never come back." Discussing Sugar Ray's dismal showing and defeat by Ralph (Ti ger) Jones last week, he said: "As soon as the fight was over 1 wired his manager, George Gain- ford paying: " 't let Sugar tarnish a g up -please.' "I hope he does. He's had it." Stan Musial Has His Goal 3,000 Hits NEW YORK (AP)---Stan Musial, 34, who can't quite comprehend why Ted Williams wants to quit while he's still one of baseball's op stars, plans to retire himself ~but not until he achieves one Buffalo Baseball Writer Wins Intern'l. Award MONTREAL (CP)--Cy Kritzer, baseball writer with the Buffalo, orfous past, Hang 'em | #00 In the words of Jack Rowand of Regina, president of the WIFU: "Ihe West is dying to get rid of the Grey Cup semifinal, just as the East was dying to get rid of it in former years | "The East has had It for years and it's really their baby, We would do anything if we could get rid of it." Said Vie Obeck, vice-president of the Big Four Montreal Alouettes: The Big Four didn't want to play them (the ORF'U champions) and neither did the western league. We hope something can be worked out at the next Canadian Rugb; Union meeting, If it can't, we def initely don't want to play off with the ORFU, No one thinks the semi- WIFU is not planning to play the ORFU this year, Saskatchewan Roughriders, his club dosen't want to ORFU team this year | win the western title, As far as| ais defeated Regina 20-12, The Four, E Since 1927 and excluding war years, ORFU teams have been in sald the Grey Cup five times and won slay the | four of them, although one was by Riders default, An ORFU team last won erS | the cup in 1934, when Sarnia Im- Dr. Beattie Martin, president of Riders are concerned, he said, | J , "4 [Imps took it by default in 1936, they're handing it back to the Big | Since t he war, however, ORFU | clubs have been clobbered in the AST RESPONSIBILITY semi-finals, At Winnipeg, Karl Slocomb, past president of the Bombers and now vice-president of the WIFU, said "we now feel that it is the re- sponsibility of the East to look af- |... 4 Ave ter that playoff," rean boys were killed Monday Ralph Cooper, Big Four presi.' When an anti-tank hand grenade dent, said "It's up to the West, I they were playing with exoloded, KILILED BY BLAST PUSAN, Korea AP)-Nine Ko- territories of NFL clubs, Toronto Argos Sign Two More U.S. Pro Stars By WILF GRUSON C n Press Staff Writer TORONTO (CP)--Toronto Argo- nauts, reiterating their defiance the Big Four Football Union's offi- cial stand on the signing of Na- tonal League layers, Tues. day announced t tackle Gil Mains of Detroit Lions and guard Bill Albright of New York Slants have been signed for the 1955 sea- The announcement by team man- ager Harry Sonshine that the two Players had jum their NFL ams. to play with Ar, came only three days after Four officials and NFL comm Bert Bell met in Philadelphia in an attempt to work out a no-raid- ing. bact. e Argos blocked an agreement by refus to approve any Just that would prevent them from sigiiug eight of the NFL players with whom they have been negoti- ating, FIRGT SIGNED Mains and Albright are the first United Sitios players signed by the Toronto (fam, eviously had been reported unofficially that they were two of the players ap- proached by Argos in Heit cam- paign to sign establl NF! stars, Their plans led to the Big Four deciding at its annual meeting, with Argonauts dissenting, to re- spect nlayer options and contracts of NFL teams, The Toronto club agrees in principle to a no-ralding agreement but opposes any move to make it retroactive in the case of the players they have signed or offered contracts, Neither Mains nor Albright had signed 1055 contracts with their NFL teams but both were under option for another Loar. 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A of the t 's trus- of ws ein of Lhe ovhya us. the offs for the newly-established cup, but no ision has been an- nounced, With each team playing 10 in the trophy series, games y y e remain only six regularly sched- uled before the playoffs, | headers Trois-Rivieres Flambeaux meet St, Catharines TeePees today in the Ontario So Toronto goes against Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks three days later and then returns home to take on Montreal junior Cana- loner | diens Jan, 30, The Canadiens go to St. Cath- arines Feb. 1, then St, Catharines play Xitchents rd 4 The seties winds up wi ontreal against Quebec R rotenacs Feb, 9 The standings, including games up to Jan, 23: Montreal told Toronto newspaper men they signed with Argos because they could make more money playing in Canada. They sald also Argos d them a ch to make pr m p money in other fields, Western Union Changes Style Their Schedule, CALGARY (CP)~With an eye to helping the average fan and same time home tendance, the Western cial Football Union has a new-style 16-game schedule the 1955 season, which won the ap- ix Saturda; Sy cha and tw $ ur J 0 holiday pi Cal, Stam, Mindy home ay 3 Eskimos and Cancouver Lions, four Saturday and four Monday mes; Winnipeg Blue Bombers ree Saturday and five Monday home contests, The 11-week schedule starts Aug. 20, and closes Oct, 29. The play. offs, if they go the limit, fin- ish Nov. 19, one week before the Grey Cup final, D. MORGAN'S FATHER DEAD HOLLYWOOD (AP)--Frank E. Morner, 76, father of screen actor Dennis Morgan, died Saturday fol- lowing a short illness. Morner, a native of Providence, R, I. had 15 years, man- lived here for the last He had acted as busi ager for his son, FREE DISHES With Every 6 Gal. of Gas or More. 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