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Major Leagues Threatened With Shortage Of Players
Managers Confident
Of AnotherSeason!
Twice As Many Big League
Players Inducted As
Discharged
NEW YORK Dec. 14.—(£!—TwiC!
as many big league ball players
have been inducted into the Army
and Navy since the end of the 1944
season as have Tieen discharged,
but club owners today look ahead
with confidence to another came
paign and a rosy post-war futura.
The trickle of returning servicas
j men has yielded Van Mungo of tha
Giants, Mickey Livingston an<t
Harry “Peanuts” Lowrey of thf
Cubs and Les Mueller and A1 Beflj*
ton of the Tigers? [
Dick Wakefield, who almost sll>
gle-handedly slugged the Tigers to
the American league flag. head|
the outgoing list that include!
Thurman Tucker of the White Sox,
Hal Epps of the Athletics, Fred
Schmidt of the Cards, A1 Zarilla,
Paul Dean and Bill Seinsoth of
the Birowns, Jim Tabor and Roy
j Partee of the Red Sox and Bob
i Malloy of the Reds among the bet*
ter known.
Although increased drafting o]
the 26-37 age group and reviewa
of well-known servicemen before
discharge are expected to tighten
the manpower situation, thb
leagues have made provisions fop
taking care of the Army of nation*
al defense list players when and
if they come back.
The American league has 239
men in the service and the ra
tional 231 but the minors with 3409
on their defense lists present th*
big problem. Just for example, the
latest list shows Toledo of the
American Association with 144 on
the defense list, Hartford, Conn., of
the Eastern league with 115 and
Lynchburg, Va. of the Class B
Piedmont league with 87.
Action at the major and minop
meetings in New York and Buf
falo clears up the situation some
what. The big leagues have boost
ed their player limits to 48 and
their active lists during the play
ing season to 30, both increased
on a ratio of one returning serv
iceman to each five men original
ly allowed. The minors have voted
to add one defense man for each
third regular on the player limit
and one to each five on 1he active
list, a start but not a solution.
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YORK Dec. 14.— W —
>*“ u get the information di
the horse itself, y o u
f\. ,aV it must be right, so
W* (he roach of the Randolph
^ football team, one of the star
^drf a„d a scout for an op
P-, 'team all say the Ramblers
> «0od. they must be good'
tLl Randolph Field squad flew
(„r its Bond Bowl game with
* Lund Air Force team at the
' Grounds Saturday, arriving
f5i£\ nf the train-traveling Super
^Lrs However. Lt. Dan Stav
f1 assistant coach for the Sec
»■ Air Force and former line
■ at the University of Denver,
(!SC us our first information on
tdolph Field. He scouted the
•gjflblcrs.
say Randolph Field is bet
. than the '■hiladelphia Eagle
®; team I aw,” the handsome
Tutenant said. “Maybe n o t as
Lh deception. They just knock
a d0V;n and nave plenty of speed
•% Dudley a’d Layden and the"
Lrc They us a “T’’ formation.
,g into the old Notre Dame
Lt Frank Tritico, Randolph
toach and perhaps the most anony
mous tutor a major team ever
y was the next to give his opin
io Lt. Tritico is a very quiet,
drawling, moon-faced Louisiana
product, whose coaching expen
se before joining the Army was
confined to six years at La Grange
high school, Lake Charles, La.
•TH say 1 never saw a better
team than ours,” he admitted.
"Of course we might meet one
Saturday. Our toughest game was
with the Third Air Force, which
we defeated 19-0. Yes, I run about
half our plays from the “T” and
half from the Box.”
Lt Bill Dudley, star Randolph
. . halft>ack and former Vir
ginia star and a star in the Na
tional pro league, gave his ideas
next.
“If the team was kept together
and had plenty of time to prac
tice I’d say it would make a pretty
good pro team,” the trim flying
instructor who looks even smaller
than his 5-10 and 172 pounds, said.
“I think the pro game is tougher
than the service competition, as
y°u face a good man in every
position when you meet the pros.
“It’s hard to get keyed up for
these service games, althougn we
really wanted to win that Third
Air Force game, and this one Sat
urday too. By that 1 mean you
can’t get enthused much before
the game. After you start play,
of course, it’s just like a college
or a pro or any other kind of a
game. You do your best.”
Dudley “thinks he is the pro
perty of the Pittsburgh dub” of
the National pro league. That’s
his understanding, anyway, and if
the war ends soon enough he’d
like to take one more fling at the
pro game for a year.
Lt. Tritico, despite h i s abrupt
elevation to head coach of one of
the Nation’s major undefeated
teams, has no dreams of becom
ing a famed college coach after
the war.
“All I want is to get back to
Louisiana, to Lake Charles, he
said. “I’ve made plans to go into
business. I’ve had enough of
coaching.”
Tag Team Bouts Set
For Thalian Matches
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Don Lee. 275-pound grappler
fjom the Louisiana canebrakes,
was once a protege of the late
Huey Long. Perhaps this is one
reason why he is so disliked by
local fans, however, he is teamed
with a new-comer in the person of
Johnny Turner from Memphis,
Tenn, in tonight’s wrestling show
at Thalian hall, and the outcome is
anybody's guess. This is parti
cularly true as their opponents are
the popular "Texas Jack” O’Brien
ar.d Johnny Long, of Baltimore.
Don Lee" was formerly a star
fullback on the Louisiana univer
sity varsity. His unpopularity
among local fans doesn’t seem to
bother him, although he takes
quite a bit of punishment before
getting the referee’s decision.
Jack O'Brien is seemingly as
unpopular as Lee, but he can be
admirec for his talent on the mat.
Pet Managoff, of Charlotte, re
turns to the Thalian Hall arena to
night and will be pitted against
Jack De Vault of Kn.-;ville, Tenn.,
in the opening bout. Bob Redmon
again will referee the scraps, and
Promoter Bert Causey said last
night that a few ringside seats are
available at the Orton hotel.
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PROFOI BALLERS
SET « If RECORD
(Special To The Star)
CHICAGO, Dec. 14. — National
Football league teams wound up
their regular schedule with a new
major league record for number
pf plays. In fifty contests, the ten
:lubs of the league averaged 158
plays per game, two more than
the previous high set in 1P43.
Other team records set in the 50
game schedule included:
A new high of .568 in passing, set
oy the Washington Redskins on 170
:ompletions in 299 attempts. The
Redskins set the old record in 1943
with a mark of .547 on 139 com
pletions in 254 attempts.
The Card-Pitt combine, which
failed to win a game, got in on the
record breaking when it had 41
passes intercepted, two more than
the Cardinals’ record high last
year.
The Chicago Bears rang up new
marks for penalties with 121 in ten
games and also for yards penal
ized when they were set back 1025
yards.
Philadelphia’s Eagles provided
the fifth record performance when
they recovered on four of their op
ponents’ 25 fumbles. This was iwo
less than the mark hung up by
Brooklyn in 1939 and tied by the
Bears last year.
Green Bay, the New York Giants’
opponent in the world champion
ship game next week, further re
wrote the record bn fumbles when
it miscued only eleven times dur
ing the season.
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YANKS ADVANCE
IN MED FINALS
By SID FEDER
ROME, Dec. 14.— W —The Fifth
Army’s defending championship
team put two more men into the
finals of the second annual Medi
terranean inter - Allied boxing
tournament this afternoon to boost
its total to six finalists and to take
a commanding lead over he North
African and Adriatic zone squads,
which loom as the chief threats.
Cpl. Leroy Jeffrey of Kansas City
and Corp. Melvin Pullen of Day
ton, O., reached the finals in the
short afternoon session, joining Pvt.
Ezzard Charles, Cincinnati profes
sional middleweight, Pvt. Milton
Glass of Akron, O., Sgt. Adolph
Labrecque of Holyoke, Mass., and
Pvt. Adolph Barlow of Philadelphia.
Jeffrey, a long, lean M.P., came
off the floor after suffering a first
round knockdown to outpoint Har
old Sammis, New York sailor, in
the amateur light heavyweight
semi - f»nal. Pullen, an amateur
bantam - weight, became the first
boxer in the tournament to chalk
up two knockouts when he flatten
ed Pvt. Claude McLaughlin of
Rockville Center, Long Island. Mc
Laughlin was hurried down from
the fighting front to compete in
the tournament after being located
in a line outfit and appea-ed to be
out of condition as a result.
Cpl. Jim McDonald, husky east
St. Louis, 111., Negro representing
the continental team from southern
France, pounded out a one - sided
win over T-5 Richard Duckworth
of Poplar Bluff, Mo., to reach the
amateur heavyweight finals. Mc
Donald’s skill in fighting and
blocking punches as well as his of
fensive class led one ringsider to
remark, “He’s the best educated
amateur I ever saw.”
The fourth doughboy to win this
I afternoon scored the second knock
out of the day. T-5 Joseph Dimar
tino, big - shouldered Bridgeport,
Conn., por welterweight, clouted
Albert Wrght of Yorkshire, Eng
land, with a pair of right hand ar
tillery shells in the second round
and Wright took the full count of
ten on his back.
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MIAMI GRIDDERS
PLAN ‘COMEBACK’
By CHICK HOSCH
ATLANTA, Dec. 14.—<A—Uni
versity of Miami, whose 1944 foot
ball team failed to score in the
first four games and wound up
with one victory, one tie and sev
en losses, is laying plans for a
“comback” next season.
Coach Eddie Dunn says that
games already have been arrang
ed with Michigan State and Au
burn on successive November
weekends at Miami, and that Tul
sa and Wake Forest will likely be
dropped. Tentative plans are for
the Hurricanes to open against
University of Chattanooga at Chat
tanooga is among those resuming
play next season.
Dunn says other games being
sought are with South Carolina,
Clemson and Miami (Ohio) uni
versity. “Miami” would be a cinch
to win that one.
A. F. Pierson, Dunn’s assistant,
plans to return to his former job
as coach at Fresno State college
in California. Fresno is also pplan
ning resumption of football in 1945.
Dutch Harrison, the Army ser
geant who won the recent Miami
open, started golf as a lefthander
but switched after two years. . .
with four holes to play and the
title at stake, Harrison was ad
vised that Henry Picard had fin
ished with275 and that he needed
four 4s to earn a tie. He came in
with 43-44, to win by astroke.
Picard had wound up 43-53.
After the Texas Aggies—Miami
game, someone phoned Sports Edi
tor Jimmy Burns of the Miami
Herald for the score. “70 to 14,*
he replied. Burns nearly fell out
of the chair when the guy shot
back, “In whose favor?” Later,
Burns mumbled to himself.
| “Musta been a stranger”
une or raws ireaK grid piays
involved Curtis Kuykendall. Au
burn’s star tailback. With fourth
down and ten to go at midfield 1»
the Georgia Tech game, Kuyken
dall’s punt was blcoked. The ball
bounced right back into Kuyken
dall's arms and he lit out, lacking
two yards of makin« a first down.
. . . Coach Homer Norton of Texas
A. & M., whose teams played four
bowl games in the last five years,
picks Tulsa to beat Georgia Tech
in the Orange Bowl after a high
scoring duel. . . Major Vernon
“Catfish” Smith, Georgia’s all
America end in 1931 and later as
sistant coach at Mississippi, is sta
tioned in Iceland . . . Bob Suf
fridge, all-America guard at Ten
nesse in 1940, is home on leave
after south seas service. . . Lt.
Col. Bill Britton, Tennessee line
coach on leave, is now in England.
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Duke Alumni To Honor
Football Team Tonight
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DURHAM. Dec. 14. — (fP) —
Durham almuni of Duke University
will honor the Blue Devil football
squad and coaching staff at a meet
ing at Four Acres tomorrow night
at seven o’clock. Engraved bill
foldsi will be presented the entire
squad and coaching staff by the
association. Captain C. P. McFea
thers, commandant of the Duke
Naval unit, will be principal speak
er. Alumni officers for the coming
year will be selected.
.Grate Stuff
Don Grate, Ohio State forward, makes himself at home in the
basket where he hopes to put many a goal in hoisting the Buckeyes
"*■ to the Big Ten basketball championship. •
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Jimmy Walkup Sets Pace
In Richmond Golf Open
RICHMOND, Calif., Dec. 14.—(/P)
—Shaving three strokes off par in
a tough wind, Jimmy Walkup, Jr.,
Sam Antonio, Texas, took over tem
porary leadership in the 72-hole
Richmond open golf tournament
today with a first round 68.
Half of the starting field had
checked in when Walkup racked
up his 35-33 against the par 36-35—
71 Richmond course,
Qn the first nine he dropped a
ten-footer for a birdie on the sec
ond and a three-footer for a birdie
on the fourth. He missed a four
footer for a bogey on the eighth.
He sank three-footers for birdies
on the 10th and 18th and a 15-foot
er for another on the 14th. He miss
ed a four-footer on the 12th taking
a bogey.
Slammin’ Sam Snead, the golfing
powerhouse from Hot Springs, Va.,
posted a 36-34—70.
Ernie Pieper, Jr., San Jose, Calif,
amateur, needed 8 two over par
38 on his first nine but came home
with a nifty 33 for an even par
round of 71.
Among other early finishers,
scores of 72 were chalked up by
Jimmy Gauntt, Ardmore, Okla.,
38-34, and George Schneiter, Salt
Lake City, 36-36.
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Negro Benefit Fights
Planned For Tonight
Refereeing tonight’s all-Negro
fights at the Legion stadium spon
sored by the Negro employes of
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, for the benefit of the
Fannie Norwood Memorial home
for aged Negroes in New Hanover
county, will be James J. Johnson,
former sparing partner of Joe
Louis, Promoter Huck Liles an
nounced last night.
The main bout of ten rounds will
feature Bill Johnson, 175-pounds,
against E. B. Turner, 180-pound
boxer of Shaw university, at Ra
eigh.
The semi-finals will pitt George
Davis, 155 pounds, of Wilmington,
against Willie Simon, 157 pounds,
of Durham.
A six-round bout between 157
pound Monroe Council of Wilming
ton and 155-pound Stanley Mosley,
Brooklyn fighter, has also been an
nounced.
Also signed to fight tonight are
Haywood Pollock, 140 pounds, and
Willie James, 145 pounds.
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Weatherman Suts
Duke Drill Short
DURHAM, Dec. 14. —(IP)— The
weatherman threw a damper on
Duke’s Sugar Bowl plans this af
ternoon when Coach Eddie Cam
eron cut short the drill due to the
cold and windy weather.
“It was just too cold to do any
good,” commented the Blue Devil
mentor, “so we made it short and
snappy.”
There was no rough work. A
brief passing drill launched the
session and the squad ran through
a light signal drill before calling
it a day.
The biggest news was the an
nouncement that Gene Wilhoite,
substitute tackle, had suffered a
painful ankle injury in yesterday’s
drill and may be lost to the team
for the Sugar Bowl game with
Alabama on New Year’s day.
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DEGAULLE IN CAIRO
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 —LP)—Gen.
Charles deGaulle has arrived by
plane in Cairo in his return trip
from Moscow, the American
broadcasting station in Europe re
ported tonight in a broadcast
heard by the Blue network.
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BASKETBALL RESULTS
MERCHANT LEAGUE
Team Won Lost
Todd Furniture .. 2 0
Grocerteria _ 1 1
Pickard’s store _ 1 1
Blake Electric _ 0 2
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Pickards 33, Grocerteria 28.
Blake Electric 24, Todd Furni
ture 59.
The boxes:
PICKARD’S
Players fg ft tp
Willis, f_ 10 2
Rusy, f ... 2 0 4
Maner, c _ 2 15
Croom, g . 6 0 12
Sell, g _- 5 0 10
Total 16 1 33
GROCERTERIA
Players fg ft tp
Moshowitz, f _ 3 0 6
Stefanadis, f _ 0 0 0
Tuttle, c —. 3 17
Newbold, g _ 2 15
Collie, g .. 5 0 10
Dur, f . 0 0 0
Total 13 2 28
BLAKE ELECTRIC
Players fg ft tp
Collie, f _ 2 2 6
Haroed, f_ 12 4
Babson, c_ 2 15
Kelly, g .. 113
Must, g _’- 3 0 6
Total 9 6 24
TODD FURNITURE
Players fg ft tp
Brown, f _ 10 0 2C
Ayash, f -- 7 1 15
Lee, c _ 5 0 10
Moore, g - 3 0 6
Howell, g . 4 0 8
Total 29 1 59
Agua Caliente Track
Ownership Argument
Goes Into New Phase
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 14.
—(/P)—The 10-year-old litigation for
possession of the $3,000,000 Agua
Caliente racetrack entered a new
phase today with spokesmen for
two groups of hers claiming it.
Yesterday, Mexican government
officials seized the track and Au
gustine Silveyra was given mater
ial possession as receiver for the
Arguello family heirs.
Today, S. P. Barrish, Los Ange
les real estate broker, told the
San Diego Trbune-Sun, that he
represented 95.6 per cent of the
rightful heirs, and that the froup
which took over the track repre
sented only 4.4 per cent.
The Tribune-Sun reported Bar
rish in‘ended to file suit in Ti
juana, Mex., asking possession for
the “majority group.”
Whether racing would continue,
as usual, Sunday was uncertain.
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City Sunday School
League Has Meeting
A meeting of interested persons
in the Y. M. C. A. Sunday school
basketball league was held last
night at the Y. M. C. A., and dis
cussion for formation of the new
league was discussed.
The second meeting of represen
tatives of Sunday schools through
out the ciiy will be held Tuesday,
it was announced, for the pur
pose of electing officers. Also to
be talked is practice times in the
Y. M. C A. gym for teams enter
ing the league, and the purchase
of uniform*.
GIA BACKFIELD
( LY STANDOUT
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—(*—'The
Ne.w York football Giants aren't
outstanding stars, says their
coach, stout Steve Owen, but “they
are boys who can do one thing
and do it well.” That’s why they
won the eastern division champi
onship of the national football
league and stand a good chance in
their tussle with the Green Bay
Packers for the league title next
Sunday.
The nearest thing to a standout
in the Giant backfield is Bill Pas
chal, who carries the ball so well
that he has just won the ground
gaining crown for *he second year
in succession. But Bill comes right
out of there when the Giants go
on defense and Howie Livingston
usually goes in. The last time the
Giants met the Packers, Howie
did such a good job of covering
Don Hutson on passes that the
Packer star, who achieved fame
by doing one thing superlatively
well, couldn’t make one of his
touchdown catches.
Then there’s ancient Arnie Her
ber, a long-pass specialist; Ken
Strong, who came back to do noth
ing but kick; Len Younce, an able
guard who drops back to do the
punting and missed the league
championship because of one bad
boot last week, and John Weiss,
strictly a defensive end. Strong
and Livingston won league cham
pionships this year in their speci
alties, field goals and pass-inter
ceptions.
Perhaps the best all-around per
former in the Giant backfield is
Ward Cuff, who was regarded only
as a blocking back up to a couple
of years ago. Besides blocking and
calling signals, Cuff averaged 5.6
yards for 76 times he carried the
ball this season.
Because of the uncertainty about
Paschal’s ankle, sprained last Sun
day, Owen may change some of
those special assignments this
week. Livingston, Keith Beebe and
Carl Liebel, the club’s best pass
receiver, was dropped back from
end to defensive left halfback.
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DUKESTERS PLAN
HARDWOOD SPURT
:
(Special To The Star)
DURHAM, Dec. 14. —(JP)—Duke’s
young and green Blue Devils of
the hardwood give promise of
making a noise in the forthcoming
Southern Conference basketball
race despite their two losses in
as many starts to more experienc
ed service quints.
Faced with the job of building
from the ground up with every
single player from last year’s
Southern Conference champions
gone, Coach Gerry Gerard has
been pushing his charges hard in
practice drills in an effort to
develop a well-knit, potent teams.
After losing the opener to Rich
mond Army Air Base by 42-32 de
spite a last half Blue Devil spurt,
the Duke basketeers dropped a
heartbreaking 50-49 decision to
a strong Camp Butner team Tues
day night when a last half rally
fell one point short of overtaking
the soldiers.
Coach Gerard isn’t disappointed
in the way his team is shaping up
despite the losses. Faced with the
biggest rebuilding job ever left
a Duke basketball coach, Gerard
has brought the green but prom
ising youngsters along fast despite
their inexperience and he has high
hopes the pre-Christmas warmup
games will help polish his charg
es for the State and Conference
schedules ahead.
Duke travels to Lynchburg, va.,
Saturday night to meet Univer
sity of Virginia’s Cavaliers in the
third game of the season for
Coach Gerard’s forces. It’s a non
conference contest since the Cava
liers are not members of the loop.
The Blue Devils play four more
outside rivals, all service quints,
before launching their Southern
Conference schedule by playing
host to University of Maryland
here January 6.
To date, diminutive Dan Buck
ley, swashbuckling ball-handler,
and big Bob Roellke, the latter a
civilian from Maplewood, N .J.,
have looked best of the guard
candidates for Duke. Buckley, a
New York City boy, played last
year for Jacksonville Naval Air
Station. Roellke dropped in 19 ,
points against Camp Butner.
A couple of six-footers, Bill Sapp
and George Brunner, are pacing
the centers. Neither has seen
previous college experience.
At forward. Ted Green, medical
transfer student from Princeton
has been leading the brigade com
prising A1 Nordin, Joe Brand, Ed
Koffenberger and Dick Van Schoik,
the latter quartet all high school
ers. Jim Pruitt, of Randolph-Ma
con, is a leading guard reserve.
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Alabama Holds Drill
For Sugar Bowl Tilt
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Dep. 14.—
(JP)—Coach Frank Thomas’ Ala
bama gridders concentrated on pre
cision work today in a campaign to
develop razor-sharp offensive plays
to throw at the Duke Blue Devils
in the Sugar Bowl game on New
Years’ day.
Running plays over and over,
the Tiders worked on timing and
speed in the line and in the back
field. Detailed practice was parti
cularly evident in the passing de
partment. The team divided up
into three units for its drills.
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RANDOLPH FLIERS
LEAVE GOLDSBORO
FOR BOND CONTEST
GOIJ3SBORO, Dec. 14.— —A
:onfdent bunch of Randolph Field
footballers left here today for New
fork where they will play the sec
ond Air Force Superbombers in a
war bond-Army Air Forces cham
pionship grid game Saturday.
The Ramblers arrived here from
Randolph Field, Tex., late Tues
day and remained over until to
day taking a well-earned rest. No
workouts were held but Coach
Frank Tritico sad a polishing-up
drill was planned for New York
tomorrow.
Tritico said he was confident his
team would take the Superbomb
ers. “For that matter, I believe
we could lick Army or Navy.
We’ve got a great football team
and any man would be proud to
coach them.”
animous in their choice of the
Members of the team were un
Thrd Air Force Gremlins ffrom
Charlotte as the toughest team
they faced this year.
“I believe we can take any team
in the country today, including Ar
my and Navy, but I doubt that
any of the teams would give us a
better game than Charlie Trippi
and the Third Air Force team.
Trippi is the fnest individual back
we’ve played against,” Tritico
said.
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Feminine Baseballers
Lose Original ‘Angel’
CHICAGO, Dec. 14 —UP)— The
six-club all-American girls’ profes
sional baseball league will operate
on its own next season, without
the help of its original “angel”—
P. K. Wrigley, president of the
Chicago Cubs.
Wrigley financed the feminine
circuit during the past two sea
sons in which attendance increas
ed from 178,000 in 1943 to 262,000
last year. League President Ken
Sells said Wrigley was turning con
trol of the league over to four
charter members. Rockford, 111.,
South Bend, Ind., and Kenosha and
Racine, Wis.
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BOWLING
CIVIC LEAGUE
(Results Last Night)
Civitans
Platt . 109 142 - 251
Barnhill _ 136 113 123 375
Lawther _ 137 107 133 377
Dummy __ 100 100 100 30C
Dummy _ 100 100 100 30C
Dummy _ 1Q0 100 100 30C
Total .. 582 562 556 170C
Senior Frat
Everett . 174 175 136 485
Ruark _ 136-161 297
Brinson _ 160 135 - 295
Sandlin _ 159 146 172 477
Keen . 138 177 138 453
Miller ..130 130
Padrick __ 141 - 141
Total . 767 774 737 2278
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