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| The Sports Trail
j BY WHITNEY' MAKTIN
JfEW YORK, Jan. 19—<fP)—"Why
don’t you write a piece about the
| Cardinals being above the .500
‘ m&rk for the first time in more
than 40 years,” Bill Btaandt sug
gested, ahd as it was the* first time
we were aware of that, and' it
would give us a chance to get away
from stories about the 1*-F-F-F s
for a day, we’ll do it.
Considering the fortunes of the
Si Louis National League .blub m
recent years it’s almost unbeliev
able that, until early last year,
tljeir over-all percentage of gtames
■won and lost since 1901 was’ less
than .500.
When the Cards finished the 1943
season their victory percentage
i,toe .41 h. nnd their irst ».
brought the mark above .500. At
the end of last season they had
boosted their average to .504.
It was a long, tough climb for
the Red Birds,' who lately have
been winning pennants with such
tpse they get little credit and less
•Jrmpathy. It took eight pemnants
tnd the "feat of being the only Na
tional League team to win more
than 100 games three straight;
years to rer.ch their present .504
mark.
■ They started out on the wrong
foot in 1900 by losing 75 while win
ning only 65, but they brought their
two-year average above .500 the
niext year by winning 76 while los
ing 64.
"Then came the famine, and,
among other disastrous seasons,
there were two straight years when
they lost more than 100 games
each year. In fact, in only three of
the first 17 years did they finish
ibove .500 and there were 12
straight years they finished in the
second division. And it’s Cardinals
we’re talking *bcut, not the Phils.
Anyway, considering the agonies
the St. Louis fans must have suf
fered through those early years
they should not be begrudged what
satisfaction they can get out of the
current status of their team. After
all, a club whcee victory average
is 504. for 44 years can’t be ac
cused of being a glutton, except
for punishment.
Bill Brandt, who doesn’t care
how often you mention the Cardi
nals, or any other club as long as
it is in the National League, the
National League being his ration'
hook in his role of publicity man,
als® has another item concerning
the St. Louis team.
This one isn’t too surprising. It
just points out the fact the Cards
were one of the two National
League teams to hit more home
runs on their home lot than their
opponents did last season.
Of 53 home runs hit at Sports
man’s Park, the Cards hit 39, or
.736 per cent of them. Boston ac
counted for 61 of 95 hit at Braves
field for a .537 mark, but all the
other clubs were out-hit in the
home run department by the visi
tors. The Reds made the poorest
showing at home, making only 14
of the 37 circuit drives at Crosley
Field. .
As might be expected, consider
ing the telephone booth dimensions,
the Polo Grounds were the happy
hunting grounds for stickmen, see
ing 161 balls go into or over the
stands. The Giants got only 75 of
them, which is understandable.
They weren’t batting against theif
own pitchers.
LEJEUNE MARINES
; DEFEAT FLIERS
IN LAST MINUTES
CAMP LEJEUNE, Jan. 19.—A
list minute foul toss by little John
Thompson gave the Camp Lejeune
Marines a 40-39 victory over the
Seymour Johnson Field basketeers
there Friday night.
Led by Elden Eckman, former
Santa Clara star Seymour Johnson
Overcame a 10 point lead to tie the
score with only 60 seconds to go.
Until then, Lejeune had coasted
along on the sensational shooting of
Jack Maddox. He tallied 23 points.
Lineups:
Camp Lejeune forwards Maddox,
Mulvihill 4; centers Port, Berg;
guards Thompson 4, Sylvestri 1,
Erehmer 2, Carroll, Kopea.
• Seymour John forwards Herman
8, Poppe 9; center Bartos 7; guards
Jamison 4. Echman 11.
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British Athletic Group
Pushing Plans To Help
Track Stars Visit U. S.
. LONDON, Jan. 19— (UP) —The
British Amateur Athletic Associa
tion “is doing all it can” to facili
tate the trip of Gunder Haegg and
Haakon Lidman, SwedisTr track
stars, to the United States for an
indoor tour, President E. J. Holt
announced today.
Holt revealed that, he had re
ceived a letter from Haegg asking
for the association's aid in arrang
ing transportation.
“If they cannot get transporta
tion soon it appears that they sim
ply wil1 have to call it off,’’ Holt
said
Haegg at Stockholm yesterday
said “this sitting around is getting
on my nerves’’ and that he “didn’t
care a hang for the trip if I don’t
receive definite news in a few
days.”
Haegg and Lidman agreed to go
to the U. S. by boat when the war
situatior in Europe cancelled air
plane transportation which had
been arranged.
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Eagle Star Halfback
Rejected For Draft
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19.—(iT)—
Relatives of big Steve Van Buren,
Philadelphia Eagles halfback and
a former Louisiana State univer
sity grid star, said here today
that ‘ 'Steve has been rejected
again by his Selective Service
board medical examiners because
of impaired vision.”
The examination, it was said,
was made January 4 and Van
Buren returned to LSU where he
is enrolled in a graduate course.
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Ray Mack Ordered
For Army Physical
CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.—MT—Ray
Mack, 28, second baseman for the
Cleveland Indians, took his Army
physical examination today, a
spokesman at the induction cen
ter reported. Married and the
father of two children, Mack will
leave for camp tonight if he pass
es, the officer said. Mack was
previously accepted for limited
service by the Army last summer,
but not called. He had been em
ployed in a Cleveland war plant
Learn to Fly
In Only 8 Hrs. Instruction At
PEIFFER FIELD
5 Miles Out On
New Wrightsville Highway
CAROLINA
SKYWAYS
Basketball Results
by united press
Lakehurst, N. J., Naval 52, Rider
41.
Iowa 29, Michigan 27.
Wiley 49, Arkansas State 30.
Bishop 46, Texas College 41.
Wiley 32, Prairie View 24.
Bishop 49, Southern University
48.
Florida A. & M. 36, Morris Brown
35.
LAKE FORESTERS
LICK HEMENWAY
QUINTET, 53-6
A Lake Forest quintet took to
the floor in the Midget Municipal
basketball league to squelch a
fighting Hemenway outfit 27-6 yes
terday afternoon.
Cecil Heath made 13 baskets for
high score of 26 for the Lake For
est aggregation, while Robert My
ers led the Hemenway scoring
with four points.
The lineups:
Lake Forest fg ft tp
Dinkins -- 10 2
Kennell . 0 0 0
Steuber --- 10 2
Cox _ 2 0 4
Cashwell _ 7 1 15
Cole . 2 0 4
Totals 13 1 27
Hemenway fg ft tp
McDonald _ 0 0 0
Page _-_-_- 0 0 0
Myers _ 2 0 4
Dowdy - 0 0 0
Carroll _- 0 2 2
Totals 2 2 6
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Manager Luke Sewell
Home After War Tour
AKRON, O,, Jan. 19.— (UP) —
Manage* Luke Sewell of the St.
Louis Erowns, back at his Akron
home after an eight weeks tour of
the Chin a-Burma-India war thea
ter, urged today that baseball be
permitted to continue during war
time because “the boys over there
would hate to see any sport fold
up.”
‘‘They don’t get much news from
the states, but they really gobble
up any little sports item that
reachas them,” he said.
Sewell added, however, that ‘‘if
closing down baseball is necessary
to provide men and materials for
the armed forces, then I say close
the parks. Everything is secondary
to the war effort.”
Sewell was accompanied on the
35,000-mile tour by outfielders Fred
(Dixie) Walker of *hf Brooklyn
Dodgers and Paul Wanger of the
New York Yankees and Arthur
Patterson, baseball writer for the
New York Herald Tribune.
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Machaj Signs Contract
To Pitch For Yankees
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 19.—
(UP)—Ed Machaj, brilliant young
right-handed pitcher for the Yale
university Bulldogs, reported to
day that he had signed a contract
with the New York Yankees with
a $5,000 bonus clause, and will re
port to the team’s Newarn, N. J.,
farm club for spring training.
Machaj, who is 4-F, has a record
of 18 victories and five defeats in
three years at Yale. He will be
gradutaed next month.
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Chinquapin Five Beats
Beulahville Quintet
The Chinquapin girl basketeers
defeated the Beulaville All-Stars
21-16 in their last game, with Mag
gie Rackley taking nigh scoring
honors for the Chinquapin team.
The Beulaville boys licked th«
Chinquapin male aggregation 54-11
L. H. Thomas took high scoring
honors for the Beulaville outfit.
___Fight, Team, Fight—In Spaghetti Bowl !
.i'Sk. —.bbos:.i.- ^
Wielding megaphones with gusto, pretty WACs lead cheering for 5th Army as it beats 12th Air Force,
20-0, before 25,000 GIs in first and last football game in Florence Spaghetti Bowl. Left to right: T-4 Eunice
Onsbud of Madison, T-5 Hanna Worten of Pawhuska, Okla., and Sgt. Eleanor Johnston of Columbus, O.
British Tommies Take
To Yank’s Basketball
BY CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN
LONDON, Jan. 19.— (AP)—Basketball is the top sport in
Great Britain these days with more than 25,000 American
servicemen competing in the greatest overseas program
ever organized in wartime.
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SENIOR LEAGUES
TO CLASH TONIGHT
ON Y. M. C. A. FLOOR
Trinity Methodist basketeers are
scheduled to meet the Maffitt Vil
lage hardwooders at 7 p.m tonight
in the Senior Sunday School League
at the YMCA followed by two ad
ditional contests.
The St Andrew’s aggregation
will meet St. Paul’s Episcopal
cagemen at 8 o’clock, and the Le
land Baptist team will tangle with
the Grace Methodist five at 9 o’
clock.
STANDINGS
Team Won Lost
Leland Baptist. 2 0
St. Paul’s _ 2 0
Grace Methodist_ 1
St. Andrewis - 1 1
Maffitt Village - C 2
Trinity Methodist - 0 2
Y. M. C. A. ORGANIZES
CADET SUNDAY SCHOOL
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Adam Smith, physical director
of the YMCA announced last night
that plans have been completed to
organize a Cadet Sunday school
basketball league to play each Sat
urday for boys between the ages
12 and 15, and the first practice
session is scheduled for this af
ternoon from noon until 3 p.m.
Those teams participating are
Grace Methodist, Trinity Metho
dist, First Presbyterian. Temple
Baptist, Winter Park Baptist, Win
ter Park Methodist, St. James Ep
iscopal and the First Baptist.
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Rumors On MacPhail
As Sports Executive
Revived In Capital
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.— (UP) —
Rumors that Col. Larry MacPhail,
former head of the Brooklyn Dod
gers, might be named national
wartime sports coordinator in
Washington were revived tonight
when it was learned that he took an
Army physical examination here
this week.
MacPhail’s name has been men
tioned on several occasions in con
nection with the proposed post,
which would place the problems
of sports manpower, transportation,
and curtailment if necessary, in
the hands of one man.
Friends of MacPhail, at the time
he took the examination, a pre
requisite for re-assignment, said
they understood he was to be given
“an important new post in Wash
ington.’’
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Churchill Government
Wins Confidence Vote
(Continued from Page One)
his aggressive tactics yesterday,
:n one of the greatest speeches
of his career, and to the almost
unanimous hatred among members
of Parliament of the hostage sys
tem now being used by the left
wing EAM forces in Greece. The
Prime Minister’s popularity ap
peared stronger after today’s vote
than it had been since the begin
ning of the Greek cirisis.
Eden told the House he thought
the debate had done a real and
much needed national service and
he again urged closer inter-Allied
cooperation on the political plane.
“We are not fully satisfied with
the existing machinery for inter
national cooperation on the politi
cal plane,’’ he said. “We have
been rather troubled about this for
some time.
“It is we who more than a year
ago at the Moscow conference first
suggested the need for some fur
ther machinery, first proposed set
ting up what has now become the
European Advisory Commission.
The Commission has done invalu
able work and the fruits of that
work will be seen after the defeat
of the enemy and the satellite
countries when these problems
have been dealt with. But the Com
mission has neither the authority
nor the representation sufficient to
deal with many of the big prob
lems that confront us.”
vvimci league liiielixxpiuiis, sur*
vivors of approximately 2,000 orig
inal teams, will compete for dis
trict and base titles to determine
the quintets to compete for the
United Kingdom championship
March 7-9 in London.
Site of the final tournament will
te Albert Hall with its red plush
seats—a situation roughly compar
able to holding the NCAA finals in
Carnegie Hall.
Baskets have been turned out
n spare time by England’s small
arms factories and British cloth
ers have produced uniforms con
sisting of pants resembling boxing
runks.
Teams compete in gyms, hang
srs, municipal produce markets,
tome guard drill halls or any
place two hoops can be hung.
Capt. Ralph Ifft of Akron, Ohio,
United Kindgom athletic director
and former minor league pitcher,
s enthusiastic about the progress
of the game.
“Basketball is sweeping the
country,” he enthuses. “The Brit
ish always played netball, a form
of the game, but now the Tommies
go all out for the American style.
Sometimes it’s hard to get courts
for our boys with British teams
wanting to use them so much.”
Among the standout teams are
She Troop Carrier Pipers, who are
favored to win the championship
Dehind sharp shooting Cpl. Glen
Brown of Calvin Coolege. Grand
Rapids, Mich. The Pipers took the
Dase crown in Sicily and have won
128 in 135 starts in three states
iwo years ago are Sgt. Homer Lun
line, Kansas City, Mo: Sgt.
Ceorge Morris, Beckley, W. Va.:
3gt. Joe Stanko. Pittsburgh: and
Sgt. Eddie Gardiner, Hammong,
ind.
Bill’s boys of the Second Bomb
Division have tallied 1112 points
winning 19 straight with Pvt. Man
ny Kaplan of Brooklyn College,
showing the way.
Other leading clubs are Quarter
master Double-Clutchers, led by
Sgt. Cliff Mobey of Wayne Uni
versity; Frank’s Yanks, piloted by
Cpl. Dick Gray of Villanova: Para
chute Infantry Spiders, sparked by
Harmon Walters of Rice and the
Liberator Ducklings spearheaded
by Sgt. Dick Baldwon of University
Df Rochester.
Lt. Jim Weir of Wyoming center,
and Sid Glickman of NYU also are
top scorers.
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R. W. MARYE IS NAMED
GENERAL MANAGER OF
C. & W. C. RY. FIRM
At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Charleston &
Western Carolina Railway Co., held
at New York, January 17, R. W.
Marye was elected General Man
ager of that company, with office
at Augusta, Ga., effective Febru
ary 1, 1945.
At present Mr. Marye is Chief
Engineer of the Charleston &
Western Carolina Railway, and also
Chief Engineer of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad, which posi
tions he held at the time of his
advancement to position of Gen
eral Manager, Charleston & West
ern Railway.
Mr. Marye entered railroad serv
ice with Atlantic Coast Line as
rodman December 5, 1912, having
successively held various positions
in the Engineering Department,
and was appointed Chief Engineer,
January 1, 1942.
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C. E. White Lumber Firm
Incorporation Approved
Stock of $20,000 has been au
thorized by Thad Eure, secretary
of state, with subscribed stock of
$10,000 for a lumber business to be
known as C. E. White, Inc., with
offices in the Murchison building.
White disclosed last night that
incorporation included C. E. White
Jr., and Mrs. Nell White.
REPORTS DENIED
PITTSBURGH Jan. 19. — M>) _
Officials of the Pittsburgh Steelers
of the national professional football
league today denied reports that
Coach Walter Keisling and his as
sistant, Jim Leonard, have been
.dismissed.
DOBSON, HARMON
TAKE EARLY LEAD
IN TUCSON FRAY
BY FRANK PITMAN
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 19.—(/P)
_The early leadership in the
first round of the $5,000 Tucson
Golf open was taken today by
Leonard Dodson, Kansas City,
Mo., and Claude Harmon, Loch
moor, Mich.
They both scored 66—four
under par—over the 18-hole El
Rio Country Club course.
Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Va.,
co-favorite with Byron Nelson,
Toledo, O., came with 67. Nel
son was a late starter.
Early finishers in the 68
bracket include Harry Bassler,
Los Angeles, Jimmy Hines, New
York Ciy and Denny Shute,
Akron, Ohio.
DOSHER DESCRIBES
REDISTRIBUTION AT
AAF HOSPITAL CAMP
Postmaster Wilbur Dosher was
guest speaker at the Exchange
Club yesterday, and spoke on new
activity at Camp Davis in relation
to the Army personnel to be sent
there for redistribution and as
patients of the convalescent hos
pital.
His remarks were aimed at Wil
mington citizens, who will be giv
en the opportunity to cooperate
with the Army rehabilitation pro
gram in making it pleasant for
those who will visit the city.
The club decided to stage a
membership outing soon, and fur
ther details will be announced
later.
It was decided that a trophy
would be presented to the bowling
champions competing in the inter
club bowling leaguge.
J. B. Edwards presided in the
absence of President Ranald
OICWCU U
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Camp Davis Civilians
May Regain Old Jobs
Former civilian employes at
Camp Davis still on their terminal
leaves in the vicinity may be re
instated in their old jobs, where
needed, or in other Civil Service
positions at the re-activated post
without re-processing, it was an
nounced last night.
Word of this originated in the
Fort Bragg branch office of the
U. S. Service Commission and was
relayed by newly arrived Army
Air Forces officials at Davis.
Military and civilian departmen
tal heads of the camp’s medical,
special service, food service, mili
tary personnel, civilian personnel.
Air Corps supply, ordnance supply,
management and control branches
will arrive at the installation Tues
day, it was announced.
They will confer at Camp Davis
with their departmental counter
parts from Fourth Service Com
mand Headquarters, Atlanta, Ga.,
concerning the transfer of facilities
to the Air Forces Redistribution
Command, which was awarded the
camp for use as a redistribution
center and convalescent hospital
facility early this week by the War
Department.
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STETTINIUS PLANS
TO ATTEND PARLEY
OF THE BIG HREE
(Continued from Page One)
said ask them, the President re
plied.
Stettinius authorized this state
ment for quotation:
"The President invited me sev
eral weeks ago to accompany him
on his forthcoming trip.”
The time and place cf the meet
ing are still secret but reports from
abroad suggest that it will be some
where In the Middle East.
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HODGES HONORED
U. S. 1ST ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Jan. 18. —(UP)—Lt. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, commander of
the 12th Army Group, today pre
sented the Oak Leaf Cluster to the
Distinguished Service Medal to Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges( First
Army commander, and praised his
men for the “way this fight was
handled.”
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RECUPERATING
Rodney K. Smith of Kelly, is
recuperating following an ap
pendectomy on Tuesday.
’Cats Defeated 31 To 29
By Last-Second Goal
Saunders Knocks Out
Best In Fourth Round
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NAVY ACCEPTS
STAN MUSIAL,
CARD PITCHER
Heavy Hitter’s Average
Figures In Two World
Championships
By FRANK K. NOLL
United Press Staff Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19.—(UP)—
Stan Musial, whose heavy hitting
has been a major factor in the
three national league pennants and
the two world championships
which the St. Louis Cardinals have
won in the past three years, was
accepted for Navy service today
after passing his induction physi
Ca,The 24-year-old outfielder will be
assigned to camp Monday after
noon and will leave for the service
that night. .
“I’m glad I made it in the Na
vy,” Musial said. “A lot of my
friends are in the Navy and like
it. I know I will, too.”
Musial was accepted before re
sults- of his blood test were avail
able. Several hours after he other
wise qualified, it was announced
that he also had passed the blood
test.
One of the hardest hitting out
fielders in the majors, Musial. who
lives in nearby Donora, is the
father of two children — Richard.
3, and Geraldine, six weeks.
He won the major league bat
ting championship in 1943 with an
average of .357 and was selected
as the national league’s most val
uable player. Last year he was
runner-up to outfielder Fred (Dix
ie) Walker of Brooklyn for the Na
tional league batting crown, hitting
.347, 10 points less than the Dodg
er star.
Musial joined the Cardinals to
ward the close of the 1941 season,
participating in 12 games, after
playing in the minors less than
two years. In 1942, his first full
season with the Cardinals, the left
handed hitter batted .315.
He was the third Cardinal regu
lar to be lost since the team de
feated the St. Liuis Browns in the
1944 world series. The others were
Max Lanier, ace southpaw pitcher,
and Fred Schmidt, another hurl
er.
ANTI-EXTENSION
CLIQUE FOILED
(Continued from Page One)
upon passage of the bill. Provision
is made, it was explained, to elect
a City Council just before the vot
ing of extension, so that the same
council membership will both as
sume and discharge the bill's
promise immediately to commence
fire and police department service
and the building of sewer and
water facilities.
Mr. Emory’s calculations of
savings to citizens of the Sunset
Park, Woodlawn and Riverside
sections of money expended on
garbage disposal, water supply
and sewage were sharply disput
ed by Capt. J. L. Gholson, oper
ator of the Sunset Park water and
garbage facilities, and by an un
identified objector who volunteer
ed the opinion that many resi
dents of the area preferred to dis
pose of their own garbage pri
vately.
Objection in general was led by
W. C. Weeks, who said, “We don't
need Wilmington and Wilmington
doesn’t need our taxes,” among
numerous other offerings. Also
prominent among the anti-inclu
sionists was the self-appointed
chairman of the meeting, Otto
Pridgen, who barred planning
board member Dr. W. H. Moore
from the floor in favor of the pre
mature motion to call a vote of
opposition to the bill before the
discussion had fairly begun.
Mr. Emory's calculations of sav
ings, taken from a pamphlet pre
pared by the planning board, indi
cated that the average Sunset Park
resident would pay approximately
$30 per year less under City gov
ernment for his waste removal,
water, sewage, and in his insurance
premia, than he does at present, in
addition to receiving street lights,
police protection, file protection
and street maintenance
tr
LlfiE IS RETURNING
TO RUINED WARSAW
(Continued from Page One)
lace of Art, and historical monu
ments are gone, dispatches report
ed.
The cathedral of St. Jan Lies is
razed. Warsaw’s tallest building,
the 17-story Prudential Life As
surance building, was badly dam
aged. The Church of St. Anne, the
King’s palace and the city’s mu
seum are flattened.
But on many a blackened wall
is scrawled in white chalk the
determination of the Poles that
their capital will never die. Said
one inscription:
“Warsaw, we will restore you.”
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS |
Two clean knockouts and a TKO
were the features of last night’s
bouts in the Thalian Hall arena,
with Babe Saunders taking the
scheduled ten-round main event
from Buddy Best in the fourth
round when he knocked him out.
Best went down for the count of
nine in the second and third
rounds, and failed to get up on the
third trip around.
The “Babe” was pitted against
his old-time foe in what turned out
to be a grudge bout. Saunders de
feated Best in the last encounter in
Raleigh with a TKO in the eighth
round.
In the semi-final bout, Johnny
Edens, local battler of high school
fame, belted Leroy Hooks, former
wrestler, cold in the first round
with a clean knockout. Hooks was
no match for the aggressive Edens,
and was lustily “booed” by the
fans when he climbed out of the
ring.
War Saunders, brother of the
“Babe,” won the opening match
of his scheduled four-rounder,
when he took a TKO from Bill
Hurst exactly one minute and 20
seconds in the third round.
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ROOSEVELT SET
FOR INAUGURAL
(Continued from Page One)
show. He takes the oath as Vice
President before the President is
sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan
Stone.
Truman is Mr. Roosevelt’s third
vice presidential mate. John Nance
Garner served the first two terms;
Henry Wallace, the third.
Close by the President when he
raises his right hand tomorrow
will be only two of his original
“New Deal’’” cabinet of depression
dark 1932. They are Interior Sec
retary Ickes and Labor Secretary
Perkins. And, Mr. Roosevelt told
reporters, they were thinking only
recently about this fourth term
just as he was—wondering "where
do we go from here.” He surmised
they felt like he did. that for them
also the first 12 years were the
hardest.
While all the attention focused
on 1600 Pensylvania avenue, all
Washington got into a holiday
mood even thougn skies were over
cast and the Weather Bureau dark
ly predicted rain tomorrow.
Flags went up all along the av
enue — route of inauguration
parades of the past as though all
were reluctant to give up this time
honored custom.
The hotels, whose crowded con
ditions have become a wearisome
joke, got more crowded if that
were possible. They reported that
even the few visitors allowed by
invitation were just enough to al
most be the proverbial straw on
the camel’s back.
The forecast of rain surprises
nobody; inaugurations have been
attended by some of the worst
weather imaginable, especially the
deluge of 1937 and the 24-hour
blizzard of 1909. It will be no fun
for the visitors on the lawn. Um
brellas are forbidden.
Outside the White House grounds
any spectators may carry unbre
Uas though it will hardly be worth
the effort for the fence is fully 200
voTrlc -f-rrkm nr»rr»Vi anH fho TVTi 1 _
itary Police don’t like to see tele
scopes or anyting like that train
ed on the Commander-in-Chief’s
house.
The President will be facing per
haps the most beautiful view in
all Washington as he swears to up
hold the Constitution, an oath he
can pretty nearly say backwards
by this time. Directly ahead will
be the looming 555-foot Washington
Monument and oft to the right, the
majestic pure whiteness of the Jef
ferson Memorial rising out of the
Tidal Basin.
This is the third time Mr. Roose
velt takes the oath in January.
The traditional March 4 date was
shelved at the expiration of his
first term.
This inaugural sets the stage for
great events to come. A confer
ence of Roosevelt. Churchill and
Stalin had been put off until the
American leader was inducted and
worked out. •
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30-DAY FURLOUGH
George A. Fowler, ARM 3c,
2018 Barnett avenue, has re
turned home for a 30-day fur
lough after serving for 11
months in the Central Pacific
theater, where he received the
Distinguished Flying Medal for
meritorious acts in the Philip- ,
pines.
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Raleigh Serves New Han
over Fourth Confer,
ence Defeat
Raleigh, Jan. 19.-A last-second
basket by the Raleigh Capitals £
feated an underdog Wildcat aggro"
gation last night 31-23. making the
fourth conference setback for ;-P
New Hanover quintet.
Leading the Caps all the way the
Wilmington five lost the game
the last 30 seconds of play
would have tied if Billy Mat -
had made his two foul shots, which
he missed in the last 40 seconds'o'*
the game.
The score at the end of the firs
quarter was in favor of Wilmi-m
ton, 8-5. The half-time score, jv,
in favor of the 'Cats, was l3.;o
and 25-18 at the end of the third'
with the New Hanoverians well
ahead.
High scorer for the Wilmington
aggregation was Jim Croom. who
tallied nine, with Billy Mason t
close second with eight.
For Raleigh, Billy Hawk,ns wss
high scorer with 12, while Jordon
scored eight.
The line-ups:
Wilmington fg f,
Mason, Billy, f . 3 o »
Collie, f - 3 0 j
Marcus, f . 0 0 n
Mason., Karl, c .. I o .
Tuttle, c .. 0 0 o
Croom, g . 3 3 9
Fennell, g .. 2 o t
Totals 12 5 29
Raleigh fg ft tp
Pickett, f .. I o 3
Ferrell, f . 1 0 ?
Geogljegan, f . 0 0 5
Hawkins, c . 5 313
Gordon, c -. fl ft (i
Cothran, g . (1 3 3
Jordon, g .. 3 2 8
Baise, g .—. 1 1 3
Totals 11 8 3'
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BRIGADE QUINTET
DEFEATS NESBITT
COURTERS, 45-5
The Brigade Boys’ Club basket
ball team defeated a highly de
classed Nesbitt Court aggregation
45-6 yesterday afternoon in the
municipal league conferences.
Boys’ Brigade tg II Ip
Scott . 1 0 1
Hayes _ 0 0 9
Merril_ 0 0 I)
McClean . 1 0 2
Croom_ 2 0 4
l>rrington . 3 1 1
Crowley . 7 0 14
Hayes ->- 0 0 0
Moore _ 8 0 18
Totals 22 1 <5
Nesbitt Court fgfttp
Preston _ 8 1 1
Skipper ..- 8 A (1
Hillburn ..-1—- 8 (I 0
Bordeux _.113
Simmons - 8 0 8
Sellers _ 1 8 3
Totals 2 2 8
Coach Back At Cornell |
As Head Fencing Coach
ITHACA. N. Y.. Jan. 19.-iUP>
Lieut. Georges L. Cointe. former
Cornell fencing coach who hit
been with the free French Army
since July. 1943, has been given
an honorable discharge for berg
over age and has returned to Cor
nell as a physical instructor.
Cointe. a veteran of the IT
World War who* had earned the
Croix de Guerre at Verdun, served
as a liaison officer in the Nora
African campaign ai Casablanca.
Oran and Tunisia. He later was at
Free French Headquarters in Lon- y
don and was In the Normandy in
vasion. In his last job he worked
with the U. S. Third and Firs
Armies through SHAEF.
-(JP)
Bill Hulse Gets Leave
To Compete In Millros*
MIAMI, Fla. Jan. IF-fUF
Ensign Bill Hulse. Americas w- |
bet against Gunder Haegg of S-' e _ |
en in the distance runs, today •*«
given a two-dav leave to compl
in the Millrose games in New
February 3. ,
Hulse hoped to get into -haPc 6' ;
fore he leaves here by air He
considered the best American '
ner over the mile and tvo-m
distances since the re* ierr>v- • ■
Gil Dodds in favor of the .3
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