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The guessing games referred to have driven more than one Negro into the narcotics ward, the madhouse, or the river.

Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from St. Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games.

-- A Texas halfback who doesn't even know the team's plays, Eldon Moritz, ranks fourth in Southwest Conference scoring after three games.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

I never did miss one in a playoff game -- I kicked about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years ''.

In their first three games, the Longhorns have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times, or 40 per cent ; ;

their total passing yardage in three games, 447 on 30 completions in 56 attempts, is only 22 yards short of their total passing yardage in 1959, when they made 469 on 37 completions in 86 tries.

he now has 273 yards in 22 tries during three games.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Jensen got only six hits in 46 at-bats for a batting average in the first 12 games.

The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

The owners would like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other division.

Manager Hemus, eager to end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games on the current home stand, moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting assignment.

Those Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game lead by May 8.

( 3 ) the Milwaukee Braves tied a major-league record with fourteen home runs in three games and lost two of them ; ;

After 108 games in 1927, Ruth had 35 home runs.

After 108 games in 1961, Mickey Mantle has 43, Roger Maris 41.

Extend Mantle's and Maris's present paces over the full 1961 schedule of 162 games, and, mathematically, each will hit more than 60 home runs.

In Ruth's day -- and until this year -- the schedule was 154 games.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.

It's really quite fun -- as long as you like games.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.