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The Sports Trail " rV WHITNEY MARTIN YORK. Feb. 2—W-It’s im . , point, but we like that p0 l,pmlo£ scoring prize fights. That s' Lrfer the point system over is' L ,-nimd-by-round system now 10 'ffect in New York, although it in "Luted that no system that |S L be devised would be fool ^ because all systems have one common basic ingredient— per S°ffleomicaiiy. at least, boxing is "t,, to anv other contest that fLivided into periods of action, IS,to determine the winner by alW . ... er of rounds in which he ’L "the advantage would be the w as determining the winner of baseball game by counting the Lints credited to each team. fcVoll can't imagine the Phils be considered the winner over the ‘"L, because the Phils scored one i each of four innings while ;t Car(js scored in only two in * but scored 10 rounds. For L* matter, you can’t imagine the Phils beating the Cards, but that’s neither there nor here. It a the over-all picture of the contest that should be considered d nm. except in the case of a knockout in boxing, what happened in aiiv particular inning. Veil admit there can Joe just as bad decisions under the point sys as under the round system, as personal opinion is the governing factor in both cases, but there ,l; id n,,e liable to be as many. jVr example, in a 10-round boui one fighter wins six rounds by very slight margins, being a powder puff sort of fancy dan. The other man wins the other four rounds bv overwhelming margins, scoring knockdowns In every round. On the round system of judgin'* the powder-puff guy takes the ver dict by virtue of his edge in the six rounds. Were the bout judged on points with, say, 12 points allowed to a round, and the powder-puff guy lost the four rounds by a margin of 10 points to two, and won his six rounds by seven to five margins, his point lotal would be 50. His op ponent would be credited with 70 points, and be the winner. He could get a couple of nice steaks for his black eyes with those points. Anyway, as long as boxing is the game it is, with no definite way of figuring the score such as runs or touchdowns or baskets, there will be differences of opinion. All of us have seen fights that we thought were judged by men sitting down in the furnace room somewhere, the decisions, in our opinions, be ing that ridiculous. But it’s every man for himself in watching a fight, and where you sit, your possibly unintentional fa voring of one man or the other, and the tendency to forget earlier rounds when one man makes a stirring finish all tend to influence the opinion. So whether the point system is used or the bout is judged by the number of times one of the fighters blinks, the system is not infallible. About the only way to avoid an argument is to arrange for the bout to end in a clean knockout. Former National Tennis Champ Dies In Air Crash _ w VOLLEYBALL CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEET The first in a series of regular monthly suoper meetings was held bv the' Senior YMCA Volleyball Club at the ‘Y’ Thursday night after regular league play, when it was decided to play a match of four games in the second half of the league, to begin next Thurs day. Rules covering second-half play were discussed in an attempt to clarify misunderstandings. The first half of the league play offs will end next Tuesday, when the Massachusetts Mutual team meets the Tide Water team on the Y' court at 7:15 p. m., to deter mine first-half winners. The Pen der Furniture men engage the Woolworth aggregation at 6:15 to determine third place winners. STANDARDS Team W L Tide Water _16 8 Mass. Mutual _13 11 Pender Furn. __10 14 F. W. Woolworth_ 9 15 -V— ELECTRICS BEAT WELDERS, 37-22 The Electricians continued their winning ways in the Shipyard League last night by defeating the Welders 37 to 22. J. F. McCall was high scorer with 12. and Wiles led the Welders with 7. The box: Electricians FG FT TP Kaylor. f _ 2 3 7 McCall, f _ 6 0 12 Jeffries, f_ 0 0 0 Cockerham. c _ 3 4 10 Spain, c __ _ 0 0 0 McKeithan, g _ 0 0 0 Williams, g _ 0 0 0 Edens, g _ 4 0 8 Totals 15 7 37 Welders FG FT TP MeLemore. f _ 0 2 2 Brooks, f __. 2 15 Smith, c . 2 2 6 Wiles, g . 2 3 7 Howard, g_ _ ] 0 2 Totals 7 8 ,22 STANDINGS Tram Won Lost Electricians.. _ 4 0 Welders _ 2 1 Warehouse Dept. .1 3 Navy _ 0 3 -V CHAIG WOOD TAKES FIRST ROUND LEAD IN TEXAS TOURNEY CORPUS CHR1STI, Tex., Feb, 2. *^~Blond Craig Wood got that •ttayed putting touch back into the today as he rolled in with a •lx-under-par 64 to take the first Joimd lead in the $5,000 Corpus Christi open. The 43-vear-old duration Nation , ar,d Canadian Open champion ®'d down a half-dozen birdies, four °f them coming on the last nine ™en Craig really started rolling them in, Tn close pursuit of the Mamaro he" , N Y.. professional, were ■cold (Jug) McSpaden of San r'td. Maine. Leonard Dodson of p11 Francisco, Mike Barbato of -ai°n Rouge. La.: Sam Byrd oi “e;roit and tall Fred Haas, New r ear|s amateur, each with a 65. BONDS AND STAMPS wanted” second hand bicycles *M> TRICYCLES I’M'KAROS 1 Market St._Dial 2-3224 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 2.— (UP) —Naval Lt. Joseph E. Hunt, 26, 1943 national men’s sin gles tennis cRampion was killed this morning when his single seat er fig,,ting plane crashed 19 miles at sea east of here during a rou tine gunnery practice flight. Naval officials reported that Hunt's F6F Grumman Hellcat went into a spin from 10.000 feet while h® was making a “run” on a target being towed by another plane. Hunt never pulled out of the 'pin and his plane crashed and sunk immediately. Rescue and crash boats were im mediately dispatched to the scene, but the plane went under long be fore they reached the vicinity of the crash. Parts of the plane have been recovered. Hunt is survived by his wife of three years, Mrs. Jacque Carolyn Hunt, who lived at Port Orange, Fla., a few miles south of here, with the former tennis star. He is also survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hunt of Los Angeles. Hunt, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Anna polis, Md., had transferred to the Naval air arm after serving a year on destroyer duty in the Pacific theatre and a year in the Atlantic. He was near the end of his avia tion training when he was killed. The blond, toussled-haired ath lete was born in San Francisco on February 17. 1919. but received most of is tennis training in Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the University of South ern California before entering An napolis. He won his first tennis crown in 1934. when he took the national boys’ singles championship and shared the doubles crown. Other crowns he won were the national unior title in 1937, nation al intercollegiate in 1941. and na tional men's singles in 1943, when he defeated Jack Kramer. -V YMCA CAGE LOOPS TO MEET TODAY St. Paul’s Episcopal basket bailers face the Leland Baptist quint in what will decide the lead er in the Senior Sunday School league tonight at 7 p. m. on the YMCA hardwood. • Also scheduled is a fray between St Andrews-Covenant and the Trinity Methodist aggregations, and Grace Methodist and Maffitt Village Baptist basketeers. Scheduled for this afternoon are three ‘Y’ Cadet Sunday School league tilts. Grace Methodist meets Winter Park Baptists at 12 o’clock, Trinity Methodist meets First Presbyter ian, and Leland Baptist engage the Y’ Leaders. STANDINGS Team w St. Paul’s -* « Leland Baptist -* Grace Methodist . 6 } St. Andrews -J Trinity -- „ \ Maffitt Village . 0 4 -V j Cigar Production Drop Expected For This Year NEW YORK, Feb. 2.— <.*> - There won’t be quite as manj cigars this years as there were ir 1944, the Cigar Institute of Amencj said today but the shortage shouldn’t get much worse. Civilian cigar sales for last yeai were 8.5 per cent under 1943. the Institute said, but the decline is leveling off. Most hopeful sign, l said is apparent stabilization o employment at about 34,600 work ers. Final figures for last year shov 4 786, 126,827 tax-p a i d cigar: against 5,228 312,882 the year be fore This total, however, exclude: about 700,000,000 which went tax free to the armed services in 1944 1 the Institute added. JUNIOR AAU SWIM MEET SET TODAY AT CHAPEL HILL Tech, Tar Heel-Clash, AAU Junior Championships Planned CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 2 — CP) — Bowman Gray Memorial Pool at Chapel Hill will be a busy place Saturday when the Georgia Tech swimmers meet North Carolina’s great tank outfit in the afternoon, and the Carolinas and National Junior A. A. U. championships are held there that night at 7 p. m. The Tar Heels defeated the En gineers, 47 to 23, in a match at the Emory University pool in Atlanta early in January and the latter will be out for revenge when they meet this time. The Tar Heels will be minus their team captain, Jesse Greenbaum, who had to undergo an operation and was lost for the remainder of the season. Nine different teams with more than 100 participating members had sent their entries in by late tonight for the sixth annual Caro linas A. A. U. open swimming meet and the National Junior A. A. U. men’s 200 meter free style and 400 meter free style relay championships. These include Duke, with 22, North Carolina Pre flight, with 23, Georgia Tech, with IP, North Carolina, with 26. Golds boro Swimming Association, with 12, N. C. State, Staunton Military Academy, Shoreham Club, Wash ington, D. C., and the Charlotte “Y.” • Additional entries are expected from Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point, Emory University, and the Atlan ta Swimming Association before closing time for entries. The two feature events are the National Junior 200-meter free style, and the National Junior 400 meter free style relay. Outstand ing entrants in the former event are Billy Adams, of Duke; Dick Twining, of North Carolina, and Bob Merrick, of Charlotte “Y.” In the relay leading teams entered are: Duke (Adams, Saturday, Bronson, and Wilson); North Car olina (Bill Ward, Twining, Zim merman, and Pritchard); Georgia Tech: (Hiles, Smoot, Martin, and Coons.) North Carolina’s Tar Heels, minus the services of Captain Greenbaum, will be defending the team championship in this meet. The North Carolina varsity has won this meet every year since swimming was organized here, with the exception of one, and the North Carolina frosh won it that time. -V MAJORS ANNOUNCE SPRING SCHEDULE CHICAGO, Feb. When and if the spring baseball season gets underway next month, Amer ican league clubs will play 94 exhibition games, an increase of 16 over the junior circuit’s 1944 pre-season card. The American league service bu reau disclosed today that loop clubs will have 54 warm-up battles with the National league rivals, 15 in tra-league contests, 15 with service clubs and 10 with minor league foes. The league's spring campaign begins Saturday. March 24, with the Chicago White Sox meeting Detroit at Evansville, Ind., and the Boston Braves facing the Phil adelphia Athletics at Frederick, Md. An eight-game program winds up the spring festivities on Sunday, April 15. The championship race opens April 17. one day after the tradi tional solo opener at Washington. Outstanding inter-league spring feuds include a three-game series between the Championship Browns and the Chicago Cubs at Cape Gir ardeau. Mo., and a pair of three game sets between the New Yrv-k Yankees and the Brooklyn Dod gers at Atlantic City and Ebbetts Field. The service described as a fea ture of the schedule a six-game series between Washington and the Norfolk Naval Training Station at Norfolk. Va., starting April 1. Washington and New York top ped the American league spring standings last year, The Senators copping seven of nine major league contests and the Yankees taking nine of 12. The majors’ third season of spring training north of the ‘‘Lan dis-Eastman line” finds the follow ing American league camp sites and approximate reporting dates: Boston, Pleasantville. N. ,1., March 1 (Red Sox to live in At lantic City); Chicago, Terre Haute, Ind., March 10: Cleve’and, La Fay ette, Ind., March 12: Detroit, Evansville. Ind., March 1; New York, Atlantic City, N. J., March 11; Philadelphia, Frederick, Md., March 12; St. Louis, Cape Girar deau, Mo., March 12; Washington, College Park, Md., March 7-14. _rr_ Five - Alarm Fire Rages On New Haven Waterfront NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 2.— (UP)—A five-alarm fire broke out on the waterfront here to night sweeping through huge piles of coal and oil at the Seaboard Coal ; Co., with flames reported soari** 150 to 200 feet in the air. More than 20 pieces of fire-fight ing equipment already had reached the scene along with several ambu 1 lances, althrough no casualties ■ had been reported. : It also was reported, that gasb ■ line stocks were stored near the scene of the fire but this had not been verified 4 New Pre-Flight Coach Lt. Comdr. Paul W. Bryant (top), former Alabama football star, has been named to head the football training course at the Navy Pre Flight School at Chapel Hill, N. C. He succeeds Lt. Comdr. W. Glenn Killinger (bottom) who has been detached for duty at a naval air station in Florida. fiveIrook MEN SUS DED — NEW YORK, Feb. 2 —(UP) — President Harry D. Gideonse of Brooklyn College announced today that he had expelled the five bas ketball players who admitted ac cepting a bribe to throw a basket ball game against Akron Univer sity. The expulsion was effective yes terday. The action was recommen ded by Frederick W. Maroney, dean of men, afid the faculty-stu dent committe on athletics. Capt. Bob Leder, one of the five players, was a student member of the com mittee. The players—Leder, Larry Pearl stein, Bernard Barnett, Stanley Si mon and Jerry Green—had been dropped from the basketball squad and barred from further intercol legiate athletic competition. They admitted receiving $1,000 of a promised $3,000 from Harvey Stem mer and Harry Rosen to lose the game which had been scheduled against Akron at Boston last Wed nesday night. The game was can celled. The five players, waiting in an anteroom opposite the presi dent’s office, when the expulsion was announced, had no comment. Dr. Gideonse pointed out that un der the by-laws of the board of higher education the players had a right to appeal. The players were understood to have pleaded with Maroney soon after they confessed the bribe that they be permitted to continue their studies. Three are discharged ser vice men. -V Goli’s Promotion Man Wants Overseas Tour CORPUS CHRIST!, Tex., Feb. 2. —(fP)—Baseball, says Fred Corcor an, golfs promotion man. is a fine sport and the soldiers and sailors like it, but why not an overseas tour by the links stars too. “A baseball overseas jaunt is just getting back and I think it would be a great thing if we showed them golf, declared Cor coran, tournament manager of the P. G. A. here with the professional troupe appearing in the Corpus Cbristi open. Eight College, Service Quints Clash In State CHARLOTTE. Feb. 2.— f.T) — Eight contests involving North Carolina college or service cagers are on Saturday's schedule which promises some of the year's keen est competition. High Point is host to a pair of offerings, Elon meeting High Point in a North State Conference tilt in the opener of a double header, Duke engaging Wake Forest in the Southern Conference nightcap. Elon and Wake Forest are de cided underdogs, both having failed to win a circuit start, Elon drop ping seven and the Deacons three, while High Point has won three out of five and Duke four straight. The North State Conference’s top game to date is carded for Salisbury where the loop's No. 1 and 2 teams get together, both undefeated. Catawba has won six straight while its opposition, Le noir Rhyne, has taken three in a row, two from hapless Elon. Catawba has been on a rampage this week, routing Elon, 48-13, and Guilford. 40-12. Coach Gordon Kirk land’s charges held their oppon ents to a total of five baskets, Guilford making only one. Davidson concludes a two-game invasion of South Carolina with a Southern Conference tilt at the Citadel. The surprising Citadel club has won four out of five, its only loss being a 59-51 affair with South Carolina. Milligan is at Appalachian, seek ing to repeat its one-sided truimph at home a month ago. The University of North Caro lina travels to Norfolk for a meet ing with the power-packed Naval Air Station quintet. The Sailors routed the collegians, 59-22, at Chapel Hill three weeks ago, but the Tar Heels have hit their stride since then and figure to make things closer this time. In their last five games the Carolinians have rolled up 342 points, an aver age of 68.4 per outing. Two other attractive service games round out the card, unde feated Greenville Army Air Base showing at Morris Field and the Jacksonville team seeking to avenge a recent loss at Chapel Hill against N. C. Preflight. \ Consideration Of Baseball Czar Hits Snag At Major League Meet; NHHS Beats Rocky Mount, 56-51 - ^ Legislative T e c h n icality Blocks Election Of New Boss NEW YORK. Feb. 2.— (UP) — Major league baseball owners will be unable to elect a new commis sioner at their emergency meet ing because of a legislative techni cality requiring unanimous action of the 16 owners to circumvent, the United Press learned tonight. Although the owners were in ses sion behind closed doors, it was learned from an unimpeachable t source that they had brought up the j question of a new commissioner : and were informed by their legis lative committee that there could be no vote on the matter unless each of the 16 clubs was in favor of naming one immediately. This situation developed because of the failure, through an over sight, to submit the topic of nam ing a new commissioner 15 days prior to the meeting. This was in accord with the old major league agreement under which the late high commissioner, Judge K. M. Landis ruled with an iron hand. According to the source, several clubs dissented promptly and the matter of naming a commissioner, number one topic on the agenda of the meeting, was tabled until an indefinite later date. The action was a break favoring the minority anti-Ford Frick group, which has opposed election of the National League president to the post. Frick, who had counted on from 10 to 13 votes from sup porters in both his own' and the American League, had encounter ed no organized opposition though a boom for an outsider re portedly was gaining headway. Had the topic been submitted in routine form prior to the rneeti'.*;. a commissioner could have beA elected by a three-fourths vote ot the club owners, or 12 out of 16. Earlier the major league com mittee of 10, which is rewriting the old agreement under which Landis operated, completed i^s draft of the document and will sub mit it to the owners for ratifica tion tomorrow. A boom for former Postmaster General James A. Farley for the commissionership was reported de veloping as the committee complet Farley and former Gov. John T. Bricker of Ohio were injected into the picture by Branch Rickey, pres ident of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who said that if baseball was going outside its own ranks for the next commissioner, they had the quali fications necessary. President Ford Frick of the Na tional League still was regarded as the leading candidate, but should a deadlock develop, both Farley and Bricker were considerable probable choices. The 10-man committee appoint ed at the December baseball meet ings to draw up the new agreement went into session shortly before 5 p. m., EWT. The meeting had been delayed for four hours by the late arrival of the St. Louis, Cin cinnati and Cleveland delegations. The train on which they came to New York was six hours late. Because of the late start, the scheduled separate meetings of the National and American leagues were postponed until 10:3u a. m. tomorrow. At those meetings the leagues will ratify the new agree ment and decide whether to try to operate in 1945 with the man power available. The agreement committee was expected to work until late tonight amid increasing indications that no action will be taken at the present sessions toward selecting Landis’ successor. President William Harridge of the American league reiterated what he told the United Press at Chicago earlier in the week that he doubted whether there even would be discussion of. a new com missioner at the meetings. He pointed out that to permit discussion, the move must have the unanimous consent of the 16 club owners, at least four of whom are opposed to immediate action on the issue. North Carolina Forward One of the big guns in the attack of the University of North Caro lina’s White Phantoms this season has been Ira Norfolk (abovel, six foot, two-inch, 195-pound forward who has poured 142 points through the buckets. Norfolk is a good floor man and handles the ball well. He is from Baltimore, Md., and played for Baltimore Poly before coming to the University of North Carolina. _ Ruffin Takes Decision From Greco In Round 10 *— -----— JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 2. — (UP) — Game Bobby Ruffin rose from the canvas tonight to even his profi table welterweight series with Johnny Greco, by winning a unani mous 10-round decision in their their third meeting before more than 17.000 fans at Madison Square Garden. Ruffin who lost a decision in the first engagement November 17, and held Greco to a draw on Dec ember 15, indicated that Promoter Mike Jacobs might stage a fourth “rubber” match because of to pight's result and the gate, esti mated at more than $100,000. Ruffin, who had gone into the ring a 7-5 underdog in the betting, was almost knocked out in the sixth round when a short right hook to the chin sent him reeling into the ropes and buckled his knees until one almost touched the canvas. But it was not a knock down. However, Ruffin hit the deck in the seventh round when floored by a low blow to the groin. He took a count of six but referee Johnny Burns took this round away from Greco because of a low left hook that brought thunderous booing from the 16.751 cash customers who had paid $96,237 to see the fight. Rufiin rose painfully in the sev enth, to treat the fans to a rare exhibition of gameness and ring craft. He scampered about the ring desperately evading Greco’s rushes, meanwhile, tearing in wild ly as if to make a fight of it, al though he was too weakened by the low blow to do any damage. He weathered that round and came back with a magnificent rally in the eighth to begin his “garrison finish” that wrapped up the fight. itUliill dJIia^fU UiC laiiis uy 61V ing Greco such a battering in the ninth that the Montreal Mauler collapsed to his knees in mid-ring and took a count of nine. He went down, not from any specific blow, but from the combination of a continuous barrage to the head and body and the nausea that ac companies it. He was so sick that his mouthpiece dropped from his foamy lips to the canvas. Ruffi of Astoria, N. Y., kept after Greco in the 10th, but the Canadian rallied to make a close fight in that session, which jolt ing Johnny lost by a narrow mar-; gin. In the dressing room after the bout, Greco said he had eaten some fish in the afternoon that apparently upset his stomach and brought on the nausea in the ninth. The United Press agreed with the three ring officials in giving Ruffin the bout, scoring six rounds for Bobby, three for Greco and one even. Greco had a weight advantage of 5 1-3 pounds, scaling 143 1-4 to Ruffin's 138. -V Prefiight Defeat* Jacksonville Fliers CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 2. — (IP) — Paced by Otto Graham’s 24 points, he North Carolina Preflight CloUd justers tonight repeated an earlier riumph over the Jacksonville Nfaval Air Station Fliers, defeating hem in a fast, spirited tilt befo:| .500 spectators 52 to 48. Each team had 20 goals for the ;vening, the margin of victory ioming on charity tosses. A total >f 27 fouls were called during the Duke Cagers Ready To Meet Deacs Tonight DURHAM, Feb. 2—John Crowd er, regular center of Duke’s Sugar Bowl football championship team and a reliable guard on the basket ball team will perform before the homefolks when the Blue Devils tackle Wake Forest’s Demon Dea cons in the High Point College gyn nasium tonight, in a Big Five and Southern Conference tilt. Crowder, a lariky six-foot-two, 187 pounder, got his start in athletics at High Point High School. He was a brilliant four-letterman in foot ball, baseball, basketball and track in high school. At Duke, he hs confined his sports to football and basketball, and he had been turn ing in standout performances in both. Although he isn’t likely to start before the homefolks tonight, Crowder is sure to see plenty of action since he has been improv ing with each game since reporting late because of the Sugar Bowl. He has been out for drills only two days when Coach Gerry Gerard rushed him into service in a relief role. JJuKe, aeiencung aouuieiu '-in ference champion, will be seeking its fifth consecutive loop victory of the season. Wake Forest, on the other hand, will be searching for its first tri umph in the conference. The Dea cons, who have been showing steady improvement after a slow start, got off to a bad start in their first game with Duke several weeks ago, and found themselves trailing by 39-11 at halftime. Duke scored 14 points before the Dea cons could break the scoring ice. In the second half, however, Wake Forest pulled itself together and outscored Duke by 24-21 on the sharpshooting^ of big Dave Harris, pass-snagging' end of the Deacon football team last Fall. Although Duke won by 60-35, Wake Forest has high hopes of get tings off to a better start in the clash at High Point. The Deacons are capable of giving Duke some anxious moments in the return meeting. Bill Sapp is leading the Duke scorers with 154 points. Harris is the leading point-maker for the De mon Deacons. In a preliminary at 7:15 o’clock, High Point College faces Elon Col lege in a North State Conference tussle. Duke and Wake Forest will square off in the night cap of the doubleheader beginning about 8:30 p.m. A large crowd is expected to turn out for the only Southern Con ference cage game to be played in the Piedmont section this year. -V Orchids grown from seed re quire from seven to 12 years to j reach the blossoming stage. f closely contested game, with the Busters making good on 12 of their chances and the fliers on eight. With the count 13-13 midway in the first period, the Cloudbusters began pulling away and held a 26-23 lead at the half. Trosper of the losers almost <ept pace with Graham, hitting the hoop for eight goals and three free shots for a total of 19. The Pre/lights trimmed the Fliers two weeks ago at Jacksonville 53-46. j Wildcats Upset Favored Bulldogs To Take First Loop Win New Hanover High school defeat ed a visiting Rocky Mount aggre gation 56-51 yesterday afternoon to take their first conference tilt thi? season. The Wildcats led the end of each period, except the half, when the score was tied at 32-all. Holding a 10-3 advantage in the first quarter, Rocky Mount found the mark and advanced the score to 10-7, before the quarter ended at 16-9, in favor of the locals. Landis, Rocky Mount forward, who found the first basket in the game, was high man with a total of 22, trailed by Billy Mason and McKoy, of the ’Cats with 14 each. At the end of the third period, Wilmington was ahead by six points—the score was 47-41. The Blackbirds faced the local quint with an impressive record last night, having lost one game this season to the league-leading Durham team, while Wilmington had lost five consecutive loop bat tles. Outstanding for the New Han over aggregation was McKoy, 'Cat guard, who played bang-up ball, setting a fast pace for the Bulldog quint, backed with precise playing of his teammates. The line-ups' Wilmington: Forwards, Mason, B. 14, Tuttle, Collie 4; centers, Mason, C. 6, McKoy 14; guards: Croom 9, Fennell 8, Marcus 1. Rocky Mount: Forwards, Landis, 22, Dawson 3, McDuffie 3: center: Fountain 8; guards: Allsbrook 7, Hooke 2, Thorne 6. _v_ SWEDISH STARS START FOR D. S. STOCKHOLM, Feb. 2. —(IP)— Gunder Haegg, star miler, and his Swedish countryman. Hurdler Haa kon Lidman, left today by airplane 'for England on the first leg of their journey to the United States. The departure of the famed run ners, whose trip had been in the off-on again category for the last month ,was delayed for several days because of inclement weather. They are expected to board an American Export Airlines plane in England for the final trip to the U. S. within a few days. They are to compete in U. S. indoor meets. It is the second trip for Haegg who toured America in the sum mer of 1943, but the first for Lil man. Both have been training hard, Haegg at Malmoe and Lid man at Gothenburg. Haegg re cently was called up for military training, but was given permission to first make the trip. -V BELGIAN PAKLIAIrlLNI PREPARES FOR TEST IN SOCIALIST FIGHT BRUSSELS, Feb. 2.—(UP)— A parliamentary test of Premie1- Hu bert Pierlot's Government is shap ing up against a background of discontent over Belgian food and fuel shortages. Pierlot plans to go before Par liament and fight a Socialist move lo overthrow the regime and he ex pects support even from Socialist polleagues in his cabinet, he told a press conference tonight. The whole question of govern ment policy is expected to be de oated in the House of Represen tatives next Tuesday and Wednes day. •■The government as a whole will answer and defend that policy,” the Premier said. Asked specifically whether he expected the, five Socialist minis ters to join in the defense, he .said “certainly.” The Socialists offer ed their resignations under party urders at an extraordinary cabinet meeting last night, but agreed to lay to remain in office until Tues day. -V-: SNAVELY TO SPEAK DURHAM, Feb. 2.— (JP) —Carl Inavely, new football coach at the University of North Carolina, will iddress the Durham county chap ;er of the Carolina Alumni Associa :ion Wednesday night. The dinner meeting will be held at the Wash ngton Duke Hotel starting at sev ;n o’clock. It will be Snavely’s :irst appearance since his return ,o North Carolina. WATCH REPAIRING Quick Service fl | We Teach Watches To Tell I The Truth The Jewel Box 100 N. Front | GIT AR ANTE ED fg IfMIHnW'IMIlTIHH ■—W —i nn Learn to Fly In Only 8 Krs. Instruction At PEIFFER FIELD 5 Miles Out On New Wrightsville Highway CAROLINA SKYWAYS Dealer in Aeronca Aircraft, America’s Finest Personal Plane \ f