SPORTING
COMMENT
The hottest baseball ques
tion of the moment is whether
Del Webb and Dan Topping
are readv to sell the Yankees,
who just last year set an all
time record hy winning their
sixth straight pennant and
World Series.
The event which prompted
the latest speculation along
this line was the sale of right
hander Vic Raschi to the St.
Louis Cardinals. Raschi, long
the highest paid member of
the Yankees hurling corps,
had also long been eompari
tively overpaid by the Yan
kees.
Even when Allie Reynolds
won the pennant for the
Yanks a couple of seasons
back and saved the World
Series with sensational clutch
pitching, he came up next sea
son with a contract cal'ing for
less dinero than did Raschi.
The Springfield Rifle was a top
Yankee hurler, however, be
fore Reynolds was, and evi
dently felt that his past ser
/
' vices to the Yankees were
worth sometning.
! Still $40,000 is a lotof money
| for a hurler who wins thirteen
! games Vic should have taken
, a small cut. His past services
; to the club were a factor to be
considered, but when Eddie
Lopat signs for something like
$27,000 and Allie Reynolds
signs in the thirties. Vic
should have come down a
notch.
| Now it may be that Vic
1 would have, had he known of
plans to sell him to St. Louis.
And it may be that Del Webb
J and Topping are ready to sell
the Yanks. If they are, maybe
they didn’t try too hard to
negoiate with Vic. George
j Weiss was the man who told
' reporters Vic had refused to
| take a cut. He actually hand
les the contracts and is pro
bably the only man other then
j Raschi who knows the details,
j Webb is interested in West
I Coast baseball. Some think he
j would gladly sell his interests
' in the Yanks to buy into Los
j Angeles or San Francisco,
clubs in the PCL. If true
1 that might be behind the Ras
I chi deal. Or it couki be that
•the Yankees thought Raschi
was just too highly overpaid i
The next few months wil. j
answer the question.
If the Yanks dispose cf any
more of their big stars, it will
[certainly indicate dissolution
of one of the mightiest base
i ball empires ever assembled.
It’s hard to conceive but it
could happen.
Sports Quiz
[questions
1. For whon* does Yic Ras
chi pitch?
2. When is the title bout be
tween Middleweight Bobo Ol
son and Kid Gaviland?
3. What team does Casey
Stengal rate second in the
A. L. league?
4. With what team is Dick
Wakefield trying out?
5. How did Dick Kaufman
meet death recently ?
ANSWERS
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Vets Mail Bag
With 15 months elapsed
since the inauguration of the
education and training pro
gram for Korean veterans un
der Public Law 550, the num
ber of veterans in training has
increased from zero to 263,000
a study by Veterans Adminis
tration shows.
An additional 8,300 vete
rans receiving vocational re
habilitation under Public Law
894 (for the rehabilitation of
wounded and disabled) also
wer- in training by the end of
December, 1953. All these stu
dents represent slightly more
than 11 percent of all veterans
eligible for training under
these laws, VA sa;d.
More than one half of the
students are in colleges and
universities; one fourth are in
secondary school and the re
mainder in job or farm train
ing programs.
Of the 263,000 veterans in
training under PL 550 on De
cember 31, 1953, 145,000 were
in institutions of higher learn
ing. In the first 13 months of
the program (October, 1952 to
November 1953) VA issued
more than 1,576,000 checks
amounting to $156.6 million
Korean veteran trainees.
These checks met in part the
veterans’ expenses for sub?
sistence, tuition. supplies,
books and equipment.
Q. I’m a disabled Korean
veteran, and I’m running a
farm in partnership with an
other veteran, a fellow who
took on-the-t‘arm training un?
der the World War Two GI
Bill. Would I be allowed to en
roll in farm training under
Public Law 16, even though
the farm is not under my com
plete control?
A. Yes, it mightbe'possible
for you to take institutional
on-farm training under Public
Eaw 16, provided that you
meet the basic eligibility re?
quirements of the law; and
that your partnership agree
ment calls for equal manage
rial authority, and that your
farm is productive enough to
provide a livelihood for both
you and your partner. See
your nearest VA office for de
tails about your case.
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