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JOHN R. HEMBY Cincinnati...
...attracted contract-clutching scouts from 14 major league teams. But he turned down substantial bonus offers and entered Notre Dame instead. Not until sophomore year did he finally decide to play professional baseball. The scouts were as anxious as ever. Yastrzemski refused a $100,000 offer from the Cincinnati Reds, also got a special tryout from the Milwaukee Braves. He collected 23 hits in 24 trips to the plate, and the drooling Braves offered $115,000. They were turned down too. Milwaukee, Carl decided, was too far from Bridgehampton. The snooty New York Yankees were crossed off Yastrzemski...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
...year's most startling upsets, the hustling University of Cincinnati beat Ohio State's defending champions in the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament in Kansas City by the score of 70-65. to snap the Buckeyes' winning streak at 32. Meanwhile. Providence won the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden by beating St. Louis...
...says Spokane's Father Triesch. The help has not saved Spokane from dropping the first grade in at least three schools, planning to drop second grade in one. and starting a "parish loyalty" screening system that gives priority to parents who dig deepest. In suburban Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, Rosary Parish school is also dropping first grade in the face of doubled enrollment, the loss of five lay teachers and "almost insufferable financial problems...