THIS
WORLD j
OF !
SPORTS
Someday it might be more cenfusin 1
than amusin’ playing with the Pittsburg i
Pirates,, Prospective teammates of the j
Pirate O’Brien twins are the Emaar twins !
—Butch and Joe—signed from Ftt,Lee,Va., j
for Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh farm club j
• . oAnything con happen in the world of !
Sports now that Carol Heiss has taken a j
spill on the ice, It happened while the j
pretty lS-year-old was winning her sece- !
nd national skating championship, her \
first tumble in comperition since 1952, I
Joe Bayne, Dodger property, is a mou- I
nd staff returnee to the WACom Rhines in j
Germany, Last year, Joe had a 6-0, 1,86 j
ERA, record with the Rhines, :
Quote- of the Week-, „ .By Roy Robinson !
when he didn’t knock out Carmen Basillio,;
who fought one-eyed for 10 rounds: ’’How;
do you stop a freight train?”
Navy Boxing Champs Invited to Chicago: ;
New York (AFPS) -The 1958 All-Navy j
Boxing Champions have been invited to j
meet the Chicago Catholic ^outh Organiz- j
ation Champions in a charity smoker in j
Chicago on April 24.
Proceeds from the bouts will go to j
the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Fund, The Chicago stable is coached by
former middleweight champion Tony Zale.
Pacific Coast League Round-up
(United Press)
I - The Pacific Coast League, a wobbly
j veteran of 55 years of battling for sur
jvival, goes into a new phase of life on
jTuesday when it opens another season
i with three band-new cities viewing for
I attention. They are Phoenix, Lriz.,Salt
; Lake City, Utah, and Spokane, Wash*
The outlook, according to Predident
i Leslie O’Connor is ’’Good,” but there are
i some breath-holding tactics going on in
j some of the cities — Sacramento in par
]• ticular; and possibly San Diego.
General Manager Ralph Kiner of the
| Fardes predicts that the clubs will do
; better than last year, despite the prox
i (Con’t top of next col.)
imity to the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
But at Sacramento the outlook is blue, I
Outside of Jim Greengrass, the solons j
have little in the way of triple-A tal- !
ent; and the fact that the club is only !
100 miles from the San Francisco Giants j
is worrying some of the executives.
Salt Lake City and Spokane are look- \
ing for big seasons. The Utah Capital, j
has been in the PCL before-back in the j
days before the airplane was an accepted ;
standard of travel. The team always - j
drew well then, but was dropped from the j
league because of the railroad travel- !
expenses* This year it is only an hour j
or two by plane from most of the other
cities. ™
Spokane, which set national attendance j
records when it was playing in^the - old I
class B Western International eague, is j
tied up with the Los Angles Dodgers, lit
is expected that the Indians also will - j
be in the thick of contention for the j
championship. j
New York,, NY, April 13 -(UP)- The New
York Yankees ore "even money” to win the
American League Pennant and the Milwau -
kee Braves are 7-5 choices to win the ;
National League Flag with the New York ;
odds makers o The Chicago White Sox are j
listed as 3-1 second pick in the A.L. j
Louis Cardinals are 2-1 in^|
while the St
the National
The odds:
NATIONAL
Milwaukee
St0 Louis
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
7- 5
2-1
4-1
8- 1
15-1
San Francisco 30-1
Pittsburgh
Chicago
50-1
80-1
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Baltimore
Cleveland
Kansas City100-1
Washington 100-1
EVEN
3-1
6-1
8-1
20-1
30-1
Finishing second to the New York Yan- j
kees is a habit in the American League, j
unbroken in the 1950s except by Clevel- j
and in 1954* When October 1958 rollsJ
around the majority of baseball experts j
are. looking for the Yankees and Braves toj
again meet in the battle for the world - j
series championshipe(Con*t on page 7*)