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OR T S v 5 BROKE, TIED f BAT RECORDS c . ; d Total Years Of In Home Runs To ! r<>r New Mark Dec. 14.—IJP)—One of s of the 1940 sports the failure of the New ■s to retain their Arner championship. but the r bats is reflected in circuit averages of lea broken and tied rlur . campaign. stretched their total lending in home runs a new major league . iso made it 19 years - v have made 100 or s a season—16 of them They also played a new league record for -S3, raised the total in five straight con : nd set another mark j circuit blows over a e consecutive games. r. me bccibuii w ct b falling off in records, were 64 records brok by the league and in . re 46. The 1940 season circuit marks broken nr total of three home inning' for the league to 28. The season also \ ere hitting 20 or more a new mark. The pen- ; a Detroit Tigers hit: : 17 straight games, dur . they totaled 26 circuit v mark of most extra v. . .ns* hits was set at 5.842, : u has 2g extra bases ■.its Sept. 24 for a new ,.:e mark. Frank Pvtlak, ■ contly by Cleveland to a major league record r.rch.t chances without an 5 Shaw Opposes Fink In Pinehurst Polo PINEHURST, Dec. 14.—(/B_ Pinehurst’s two polo aces, Earl Shaw and Merrill Fink, will op pose each other in a match here tomorrow (3 p. m.) Shaw will lead the Blind Brook four team from the number three position and Fink will play num ber three for Pinehurst. CAPE FEAR OPENS ITS FA L TOURNEY First Round Scheduled Today, Tomorrow And Tuesday At Club The annual fall tourney of the Cape Fear Country club will open today with Julian W. Morton de fending his title won last year. The first round will be played today, tomorrow and Tuesday. The second round will be played Dec. 18, 19 and 20. the third round Dec. 21 and the finals Dec. 22. The pairings: rnisi mgni—i. j. is.iaa, Jr., vs. Alex Sprunt: Louis B. Orrell vs. W. D. MacMillan; Tom Cobb vs. H. T. New lour': E. frisk vs. D. H. Crenshaw; James I. Metts vs. Fred E. Little: Walker Taylor vs. L. E. Woodbury: Jack Smith vs. R. J. Doss; E. W. Carr vs. J. C. Wil liams Second flight—W. C. Curtis vs. R. M. Williams, Jr.; W. A. Eon vielle vs. J. M. Snow; W. I. Cor bett vs. Mosley Fonvielle; B. K. Myers vs. Rogers Thomas; Earl Napier vs. W. L. Bozeman; Fred Willetts vs. C, E. White; Hooper Johnson vs. R. F. Meier; C. L. Meister vs. L. S. Whaley. Third flight—Dr. A. J. Barton vs. F. A. Mathes, Jr.; J. C. Wes sell. bye: Robert Bell, bye; W D. McCaig, bye: J. R. Thomas, bye; G. F. Palmer, bye; Col, W. V. Ochs, bye; E. T. Jones bye. 5 ^ ^ ^ * Fall Of Yankees Termed No. 1 Sports Disappointment Of 194u by GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—(iP)—Thi tumble of the mighty Yankees intt third place in the American ieagut race after they had been made odds on favorites in the winter book ha: been voted tlie outstanding disap pointment of 1940 by the nation’ sports editors. Of 72 editors who participated it '■he Associated Press poll. 40 put tin finger on the world champions wht flopped from the start and only bj a sensational late season drive es raped from the second division. Runner-up for this dubious dis tinction was the Notre Danje foot ball team, which started the pas season with a display of firework: marvelous to behold and then sud denlv sputtered out, leaving its wild eyed supporters thoroughly con fused. The Yankees, with their 40 firs place votes and a smattering o sedonds and thirds, polled a total o 123 votes. Notre Dame, chosen tin champion flop by eight editors, hat 30 points, only one more than wa given the Ohio State Buckeyes, whi were regarded as Big Nine chair pionship timber when the footba] season opened and wound up losins their shirts. The Cleveland Indians grabbec fourth honors,, partly because they ilet a handsome lead over the Ameri can league slip away from them in ! the closing weeks and partly be cause the electorate thought they were disappointing personally in -their spat with Manager Oscar Vitt. ! The Cornell gridders came next, witli 12 losses, the result of late season losses to Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, while Johnny Pay 'chek, the Des Moines heavyweight, scored 11 points for getting knocked ' out by Joe Louis in the second round. In all, baseball contributed nine disappointments the boys thought worth mentioning. Others included Joe Medwiek's poor showing after his ballyhooed sale to Brooklyn; the .Giants’ drop to sixth place in the National league, and Schoolboy Rowe’s disastrous attempts to pitch I ■for Detroit in the World Series. Other sport's were represented by , Bimelec-h, the wonder hoss that fail led in the Kentucky Derby; Pat Co smiskey and Tony Galcnto, both pol )ished off by the veteran Max Baer, -and Welby van Horn, who reached ltlie finals of the 1039 national ten : nis championships and then .got beat by everybody except Alice Marble j during the past season. Parker Is Excused From Coast Contest RICHMOND, Va„ Dec. 14—UP)— Clarence (Ace) Parker was in formed today by Dan Topping, owner of the Brooklyn foqtball Dodgers, that he had been ex cused from participation in the Chicago Bears-All Stars game in Los Angeles,' Dec. 28', and said to night he would play in benefit games at Norfolk tomorrow and at Richmond January 1. “I’m happy that things turned out as they did,’’ Parker said to night. “I wanted to fulfill my pledge of playing here and in Nor folk. I don’t know what Topping did to get me out of the coast t*80.-'GSi'taXi- tgi..»«,.»*..*"L.. w*..**«..**.... game, but I’m grateful to him for it.” And that's the present status of the business which went some thing like this: The Brooklyn Dodger backfield performer, selected as a member of the National league All-Stars to play the Chicago Bears, advised league President Carl Storck he would not play. Storck advised Parker he would be expelled from the league if he didn’t play. Parker advised Storck he could go ahead with the expulsion, that the Ace had had enough football for one season, from which he emerged with an injured ankle and a separation in one shoulder, and that he had no intention of playing in the coast game. s*. .. ..vwv.. ..vy* ..V CHRISTMAS GIFT • 1 ■ h*L_v ** BICYCLES I s i CHIEFTAIN | FOR BOYS S ?! Made So look and run well | Deluxe Boys' Model | Now $33.75 | as i Models low as_$22.50 | f CHIEFTAIN | FOR GIRLS 1 S: ■ I 5s V-. 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CHURCH LOOP NOW IN FOUR-WAY TIE Two Torrid Contests At Y Give Each Team Two Wins, Two Losses In two torrid contests on the Y. M. C. A. gym yesterday after toon. Church school teams made ;i real race out of the Saturday afternoon flag race by tying up he league standings, each team adding a record of two wins and ,wo losses. In a free scoring affair, the Hi Y .earn won its second successive victory by trimming the First Presbyterian quintet by 35-32, while the First Baptist cagers ?ked out a 22-21 win over the Covenant crew. First Presbyterian was off to a slow start, trailing by 8-5 at the first quarter but got going in a big way in the second canto by chalk ing up 13 points to the Hi-Y 7 and leading at the intermission by 18 la. Early in the third period, the Presbyterians ran their advant age to 7 points in rapid fire order but saw the ’winners narrow the margin to three again as the third period closed. In the final period, me m-y detense tightened to hold their opponents to a mere 4 points and won going away. First Baptist almost faded oul in the final period after leading during most of the game but man aged to hang on to a one-point victory margin. Covenant led ir the first period by 7-5, but trailec 12-9 at half-time. The Baptists racked up 6 points in the thirc period to hold an apparently saft margin of seven points, going inti the final quarter. Covenant tiec it up with about a minute to plaj saw the victory vanish in the clos ing seconds, on Fussell’s and Mid dleton’s free conversions: The line-up: Hi-Y (35) First Presbyterian (3) Green (2> .Walters (6: Dunlea (11) .T. Jackson (21 Mathis (11) .G. Crowley (61 Carter (5) .N. Jackson (4) Smith (4) .Walfe (12) Sub: Shain (2) . .Sub. Midgett (2) First Baptist (22) Covenant (21) zqldoSl..R3ja.shrdlu shrdlu shrr Williams (3) .B. Auld (2) Daniels (2) .Watts (12) Oldenbuttel (11) .Nisbet (7) Middleton (3) Griffith Fussell (1) Robinson Sub: Sneeden (2) ..Sub: Mcllwair Referee Vernon Morriion. FISHING CONTESTS TO BECONTINUEE Membership Cards Are Gooc Through Jan. 31, Sneeden Points Out Members of the New Hanove] Fishing club were reminded las: night by Bob Sneeden, chairmar of the contest committee, that theii 1940 membership cards are gooc through Jan. 31, 1941, due to the addition of prizes for the month! of December and January. The new membership cards wil become effective Feb. 1, he said Special prizes for the months oJ December and January were listec as follows: First and second prizes on the following species of fish-Channei Bass. Bluefish, Salt-water trout, Va. Mullet, Rock or Striped Bass and Fresh-water Bass. The prizes will be - $5 rod or reel for first and $2.50 worth ol tackle for second prizes, for Salt water. For Fresh-water. - $4.00 rod oi reel for first and $2.00 for second prizes. Sneeden also requested that all prize winners who have not called lor prizes won during the year call for them immediately. George Canady, secretary of the club, urged that all ticket sellers who have not turned in their lists do so before Christmas. 5 DUKE TO EXPAND SPEN (PLANT Decision To Spend $3,000,000 Immediately Is An nounced CHARLOTTE, Dec. 11. — <iP> — Charles I. Burkholder of Charlotte, chief engineer and vice president n charge of Duke Power company op erations, said today his company would construct a $3,000,000 second addition to its Spencer plant. The addition will have a productive capacity of 40,000 kilowatts and is scheduled for operations by August 1, 1942. The company already is construct ing an 80.000 kilowatt addition at the plant and that is expected to be fin ished by next July 1. The two additions will represent an investment of about $9,000,000 and will boost the plant’s capacity to 190,000 kilowatts, making it the larg ?st of the Duke system in the Caro linas. IRREPLACEABLE HAGERSTOWN. Md. UP)—Park lommissioners still have faint lopes that three cannon balls vill be returned. They issued an ippeal. pointing out the things just iren’t being made any more. lj Three White Couples Get Marriage Permits Three white couples secured marriage permits during the past week at the office of Adrian B. Rhodes, register of deeds, as fol lows, Arthur R. Perry, 29. and Miss Louise Allen, 22, both of Wilming ton. A. K. Cooper. 25, and Miss Nancy Ann Campbell, 21, both of Wilmington. Ernest Hofbauer, 32, and Miss Annette Bear, 27, both of Wilming ton. . . 3 OFF THE RECORD MILAN, Italy (TP)—Since bronze is available only for armaments, new churches in Milan don’t have belfries. But the bells still toll. A phonograph recording and loud speakers on the roof take care of the matter. Both the suicide and homicide rate in the United States declined in 1940. EARLY KAYO SEEN IN MONDAY’S BOUT Man In The Street Plans To Get To Louis-McCoy Fight Early BOSTON, Dec. 14.—(®—Boston and New England fistic fans arc all steamed up about Monday’s heavyweight title bout at Boston Garden between Champion Joe Louis and Challenger A1 McCoy but the consensus from the man in the street is that he’ll have to get there early. About the only ones who don’t figure the Brown Bomber to pact: his opponent away in one of the early rounds are McCoy himself and his manager. Bill Brennan, who thinks so much of his charge’s chances against the champions that he has money bet on the challenger to win. Louis wound up his boxing drills today while McCoy topped his preparation with a little road work and some drilling in the gym. Both plan to take things easy tomorrow and meet for the first time Monday at the weighing in ceremonies. The champion, who •-eldom poth ers to look over an opponent until he gets in the ring with him, had no comment on Monday’s bout ex* cept the brief statement: “I’m ready.” McCoy, who has worked harder than ever before to prepare for his shot at the champion, promises to be throwing punches right from the start. “I never felt better than I do for this one,” McCoy said tonight. “I’ve got a hunch I can beat this boy and I’ll be in there pitching all the way. You won’t see me run ning any footrace.” 1 HOLE IN ONE PINEHURST, Dec. 14.—— William Eldris of Seattle, Wash., hit a four iron shot off the 18th tee of the No. 1 course here and saw the ball roll into the cup for a hole-in-one. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Plainview (Tex.) 0; Xavier 13. CHRISTMASl BELLS and CHRISTMAS BILLS / Congratulations to Radio Station WMFD On Their Affiliation With the National Broadcasting Co. 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