One of the two top contenders for the vacant heavyweight throne Floyd Patterson. 22. of Brooklyn signs contract for a June it bout
with Tommy (iiurricanet'.fackson in a 12-round elimination match
to be staged in Madison Square retired champion Rocky Marciano.
I PATTERSON SIGNS” CONTACT M
LOOK 'EoR REPEAT PEREaRMANcE
mains g knock out Carl
San Francisco and hang on to his- world 'T”' tonight.
But discussion Thursday scmbled that of six months ago in Chicago.
it runs: Robinson
EDMONTON i('P) Nannie Kwong. the China Clipper who wast voted Canada's outstanding athlete? of i955 in the Canadian Pressl poll. has signed his contract wlthl Edmonton Eskimos for the l955' Western Interprovincial Footballl Union season. the club snnouiiced Thursday.
Garden. New York. Seated are t from left) Jim Norris. head of the IBC: Llppy Breibart. Jackson's manager. and Julius Helfand.cbair man of the New York Boxing commission. The fight will be one of the most important in the series
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Kwong. laid to be the highest paid Canadian player in football first came to Eskimos in mm. Terms of his new contract were not made public.
The Calgary-born fullback had his greatest season in 1958. estab- lishing three conference records in rushing and being named the out- standing Canadian player of 1955. He has see action in five Grey
The Charlottetown Guardian, Friday, May 18, 1956 1
Cup games and has been a mem- ber of three champions-once with
IN THIS CORNER Ted Williams For President?
Consider this question. if Theo- dore tTedl Williams had the know
how and the popularity of one D. D. Eisenhower why wouldn't,
year.
when tine stops to consider the various aspects of this situation
it is a little startling for no mat-
ter how valuable Tom Yawke!
deems Williams to be to the Red
go; it is a minor thing indeed when compared to the duties involved as Chief Executive ot one of. it not the most. influent- .isl country in the world;
he run for the presidency of the Unit- ed States of America? The answer In short is that he would have to take s 825.000 plus salary cut per
Calgary and twice with Edmonton. His over-all offensive record in five years with Edmonton shows
Ealgarygigns Defensive End
CALGARY ICP)-John Alderton six-foot-two, 15-yelr-old defensive end. has signed with Calgary
ary for the Splinter..But when we hear of a ballplayer bellyaching about low salaries. hard working conditions etc.. the time has come to take a good look at America's national game and consider the sorry plight of these slaves.
'There's no doubt about it a baseball player's life is a hard
one. especially in the major lea-
gucs. He works 2 or three hours
a day during the week and on
Sundays he is asked to give his
all from time to time for about
8 hours. Usually over and above
the time spent in playing in
earnest he practices for awhile
shagging fly balls and is forced. to swing a 5 pound bat at thrown
baseballs.
provincial Football Union. eral manager Bob Mssterson an-l
Bill Virclon To
he has carried the bail (.404 yards
Stampeders of the Western inter-, geiI- Y
pounced Thursday. i
Ray Robinson Favorite In Olson Title Bout-Tonight
L05 ANGELES (AP! -- Sugar Bobo away early or Olson's climb into the Ray Robinson of New York re- younger years and stamina will the general favorite to make a difference in the last five IBobot Olson oflor six rounds and he could well
give Robinson a sound whipping.
weight chsmpionshipi Robinson in Chicago played his 1 with deadly precision .He re- . knocked Bobo cold iiatwo rounds.
role
LOOK FOR REPEAT
Most of the expertsllook for a must stow repeat performance when the two
Normie Kwong Signs Eskie Contract For 1956 Season
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at 1,. NORMIE KWONG
St. Louis Cardinals-Deal
Pittsburgh
Williams earns his 5100.000 plus salary by belting baseballs against walls. over fences or somewhere else out of the reach of the opposit- ion. Mr. Eisenhower's duties are somewhat more complicated. His job is probably the most taxing of any known to man and it might be reasonably said that he holds the fate of the entire world in the palm of his hand.
This seems slightly incongru- ous: especially so in a country where the yardstick of success seems to be a dollar bill. A log- cal assumption on this basis is that the American people teal that the entertainment provided
All in all he works about eight months per year. Part of this time is spent in Florida where it is unbearably hot and where at the end of a working day the ball- piayer is so fatigued that he can hardly drag himself to a nearby beach to cool off. Sometimes he is even forced to stay at his living quarters which could be a motel or hotel or private home. some of these residences are really low class affairs. having only one lousy swimming pool.
When a young player makes the big tlmc he starts off at a
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Ptts- The acquisition of Virdon gives burgh Pirates Thursday traded the Pirates sorely needed lett- outfielder Bobby Del Greco andlhanded batting power. Vtrdon has southpaw Dick Littlefield to Stibeen used chiefly as a ptnchhltter Louis Cardinals for outfielder Bllllthis season. hitting only .206 in 60 Virdon. i955 rookie of the year in times at bat. Last year he hit .281 the National League. No cash was and belted in homers. involved in the player swap. 1 Littlefieid. who was obtained by
it was the second major base;thg Pirates from Baltimore to ball trade between the Pirates and 1951. has had no I956 decisions. the Cardinals within a week and Last year he won five and lost 11. the third for the Cardinals in six;Del Gracn. who cam! HP from days. with general manager Franklkiollywood of the Pacific Coast Lane juggling 11 players in tbatbeagua for another crack in the transactions. majors. is batting .200.
TIPS ON GOLFING
ring at Wrigley Field and the bell rings at about 7 pm. tli p.m. ADT.t
Thirteen thousand fans are ex- pected.
Las Vegas gambling people quoted Robinson as a 7-5 favorite. with not too much interest evident in the actual betting marts
There was plenty of activity is the box office. Matchmaker Jackie Leonard stayed with his estimate of a 5175.000 gate.
There were Indications the fig- ure, mllht. approach or pass the California record of 3106.720 which Rocky Marciano and Don Cockell drew in San Francisco last year in their heavyweight title clash. UP FROM POVERTY
The contest marks another chap- ter in the lives of a couple of guys who fought. their way out of POVQN-ymsnllbllisllll from the slums of Harlem, Bobo from the back- aireets of Honolulu.
Each will collect in per cm: of the net gate and the 375,000 (gig. visionl rights. and each will be limb llll against possible oblivion in the fight game.
Robinson first won in. mi. in 1951 from Jake La Motto He lost the crown and won it back the same year in matches with Randy Turpin of England, and in Decem- ber 195!, he retired.
Olson took undlspulcd claim to the crown when he Whipped Tm-. pin in New York in 195.1.
Then sugar Ray. after .'ll months on the sidelines, started s comp. back.
The climax came in the smash. tog win over Olson lost her. p ''I fulfilled my niission that night." Robinson says.
TALE or TAPE
LOS ANGELES APi..'1';,1. ,,r the tape for tonight's middleweight championship fight between cham-
i
BAI.'lil.'ll(lIilC 'APi .. A zallop by The normally cantanker- nus Xcctlli-.x loft his gang happily rcattv for S at ui'ri ii;-': sitionoo Prcal-iii-st and win 0"ll' one of the seven other prob-
bius.
Both lwtorc and after the innody phccrili-s SIllli'('lI good in m -, this .rauiP of Fabiiis was mentioned l”"lllP"lli by lhrt-P of the person most C4mi'l'l'ilPt'l with Needles- l"3'""T limzh Fintalne, jockey ”"il'i' Fill and co-owner Bonnie
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New York Giants found nnlh-i Tillllllb ls Knlnr. in be tough," lug wrong with the pitching ai-in.-Wltl ll"-dill lllliltt watching Needles of Brooklyn righthander csri.W' "" "" 3 ”'i"l-V sum-.d.v wurk- Erskina when he hurled the sei--i”"'- I"'llc's going in be hard to ond no-hitter of his career inilltal beating Giants, 3-0. The 29 year-T Iirb said he had to whip Needles old Erskine has been fighting an.li;irricr tlmn evcr before to pass arm injury that lhrc;-iicncri in-Faluu: in the sirr-ti-h and win the close out his career after an un- spectacular 11-8 record last year. He has been using a steel ball to exercise his pitching arm and. says It "feels a lot better how."
FIGHT FACTS
LOB ANGELE6 MP) - Facts and figures for tonight's Sugar Ray Robinson-Carl tflobnl Olson built: Principals---t-liampion Sugar flay Robinson. New York, vs (tart iBobol Olson, San Francisco. Title at Stake middleweight championship of the world. Place-Wrigley Field, Los Ange- Ies. rain or shine.
Time-7 p.m.. Pacific ilayliizlit time (11 p.m. AI)T.l Distance-15 rounds. Purses-each fighter so per cent of net gate receipts lROI)ln50lI privilege of 375.000 guarantee or 30 per centv. 30 per cent of radio and television revenue.
Television and radio rlghis- crit- mated 375.000.
Predicted gate receipts a 3175.-
000. Potential gale receipts -e 8340,-
000. Probable lilPilt'I3iIl'P- l.1.0fl0.
Capacity of house--3I.000
Price of seats-I25. 820. U5. 810. 8! and 3.1.50. HAMILTON tCPt-Pilots taking part next Wednesday in the sev- enth snnual all-women's interna- tional air race between Hamilton and Havana. Cuba. arrived here
pion Ray Robinson and Carl tBobot Olson:
Robinson Olgnn 35 Age 27 :5?) lgqiskt 'lti0 -' eg I. ;,1 i we Reach 7'" U " MM Chest fnorma.” an
38 Chest (expanded) 42 was Waist gg lav. Thigh 3; 133's Calf 1311, IP6 Biceps 14 1016 Forearm 11
I5 Neck jg
by WiIiiams' crashing bat is of store value work performed by the best known golfer in the world. who also happens to be the leader of the Republican party and the country's President.
Now we are not inaugurating a drive for a higher salary for the
F. sident nor one for a lower sai
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them than the
peon's wage of about 56.000 dollars. If he stays up there for awhile his wages steadily climb and if he is
good enough to stick for 10 years
his salary should hover about the
320.000 mark for the last 5 years
anyway. If he is exceptionally
lood he can expect between I40.-
000 or 350.000 and if he is a super
star like Williams. Joe Dimag-
gio or step Musisl there is pract- ically no limit to what he can
make. over and above his Iai- ary for baseball he can make
many. many thousands more en-
dorsing goods or taking winter
jobs where his name is more im-
portant than his brains.
DY ALEX MORRISON i Golf Columnist
The ambition of every golfer is to hit some shot. a certain way. He may want to hit s drive a mile down the fairway. giving hist hall enough overspln to make it: roll another mile. His burning de- sire may be fixed on fancy ap-. pi-nach shots or the sinking of long. putts. But as soon as any of his de- sires are realized he automatic- ally experiences another ambition. This is to keep on repeating his success. In every case he could do a better job of realizing both de-, sires if he made it. a habit to con- tinually check on his execution of swing essentials.
This constant check is neces-'; sary owing to the character of the jiysicai process producing the most successful golf swing.
This correct process is quite foreign to all of the physical -pro- cesses you already know and fol- low when doing other things. It is a sequence of itions and movements which you have to ac- quire through the proper training. Nobody is born to them and the extent of their strangeness makes it unlikely for, you ever to per- form them completely by nature or automatically. Therefore you must continually check your ex-
It's true enough that pls carn- lng life is limited to about I0 or 12 years but in that time he makes about as much cash as the aver- age Joe makes in a lifetime. Also a ballplayeri can usually get pret- ty falr jobs on his name alone and in this day and age most of them are set. for life at the end or their playing career. On top of that n i0-year man draws a 5100 per month pension-for life.
If at the end of a playing car- eer a hallplayer hasn't salted away a tidy sum for those rainy days and hasn't got some pretty good prospects from a pasi-car- eer living he has no one to blame but himself. No one can live on 340.000 dollars per year if they live like they were making 850.- 000.
W08” lllal Ml'- P"'5"l9"l7 cciition of the more Important poa- You wish you had taken up bsse- mom Md mnvemenm hall? Who doesn't? --ea----a---u
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Verdi Out For About Ten Days
COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP)-Frank Verdi. Columbus .Iets' second base man who sprained his ankle slid- ing home in the ninth inning of the opener of a international League twin bill Wednesday night against Montreal. will be lost to the Jets for seven to to days, the team physician said Thursday. Verdi. however. will make the Jet.a' southern trip in the hope hot weather will speed his recovery.
Tennis Ass'n criticised for lack of Diplomacy
VANCOUVER (Cr)-The Cana- dian Lawn Tennis Association has been criticised for lack of diplom- acy ln a letter written to the Van- couver rrovtnce by touring Cana- dian gsysrs Psal wills: and Larry arclay.
"They are tor-mar inessbers et the Canadian Davis
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Realizing Golf Ambitions
Briefly some at these are. a firm hold with your left little ting- er at all times, steady head pos- ition; standing erect as possible; having ease gin your inidsection before starting back-swing: focus- sing attention and chin on back cover of the ball before swinging: starting with left hand. arm and side firm while right. side is easy; shifting weight at start of back- swing: holding upper arms close to your body at start and during backswing: having freedom in wrists and keeping head steady until well after impact.
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Durocher Back As A Spectator
NEW YORK (AP -- Len Dur- uclier is back with the Giants - but as a spectator.
The former New York iiiaitiisi-r, in town on personal business. xaui he planned to attend one of the games in the Milwaukee series, which ill .icd Thursday night at the Polo Grounds.
He sent Bill Riuiiey. his iilt'('r'ta' sor. a wire which said: ”i.ct's uin ID in a row."
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