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Cuff Notes
' By JACK STILLMAN_
Buddy Scott, champion of the
Southern ring, wrote Promoter
“Kid” Ellis the other day that he
i* defiantely interested in meeting
Sgt. Lee Croft, Camp Mackall par
atrooper, in the Thalian Hall arena.
Although Croft has been lifting
the eyes of fight managers and
promoters throughout the South
lately, his manager, John Allen,
has told Ellis that he wants his
boy to get a few more fights under
his belt before he tackles Scott.
Since then, Croft has won two fights
bv quick KO’s, and “Kid Ellis
thinks that possibly Allen will re
consider the match. At any rate,
Wilmington fans will be looking for
ward to the match, for the remote
possibility of such a fight here isn’t
too distant to think about.
In his last appearance in Wil
mington, Croft won over Frankie
Ryan by a KO early in the third
round, ar.d last Wednesday night
at Charlotte he defeated K. O. Lev
ey of Brooklyn, N. Y., within one
minute and ten seconds after the
first bell sounded. Nevertheless,
Manager Allen wants the sergeant
to be in top shape when he tackles
Buddy Scott.
"I’m sorry there wasn’t much
competition for me there on your
last program,” Scott wrote Ellis,
"but if you can arange for me
to meet Croft, that is what I’m
looking for.”
It has been reported in local
fight circles that Ellis has been
dickering to get Croft to sign to
meet Jim Bowden, if the sergeant’s
manager doesn’t allow him to meet
Soctt.
Bowden is the fighter who held
Scott to a ten-round draw in Jack
sonville, Fla., recently, and this
looks pretty rugged for Croft, no
matter which of these opponents
he picks—if either.
Although Ellis doesn’t want to
come right out and predict, he
feels relatively sure that Croft may
consider a fight with Scott at Tha
lian Hall.
Sgt. Croft was scheduled to meet
Whizzer White, of the U. S. Marine
Corps, in the USO hall at Norfolk,
Va., last Monady, but the bout was
cancelled at White’s request, be
cause of Marine Corps duties.
Training Camp Briefs
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. March
23.— (U P)—Infielder Oscar Grimes,
who batted .279 for the New York
Yankees last year, was ordered
by his Lakewood, O., draft board
today to appear at Cleveland for
a physical examination next Wed
nesday. Grimes, upon whom the
Yankees were counting heavily
this season, was classified 1-A just
before reporting to camp and had
asked his board for permission to
take the physical at Camden, N.
J. Grimes was at first, Snuffy
Stimweiss at second, Joe Buzas
at short andDo n Savage at third
in today’s workout.
WILMINGTON. Del., March 23.
— (U.R)—Bitsy Mott, 5-foot, 8-inch
shortstop with Utica of the east
ern league last year, arrived at
the Philadelphia Phillies camp to
day, bringing the contingent to 30.
Mott, who was at the camp last
spring, hit .285 -with Utica, but was
rated as cne of the best shortstops
in the circuit.
COLLAGE PARK. Md., March
23.—(U.R)—Jos e Zardon. Cuban out
fielder, has temporarily won the
Washington Senators’ center field
berth, but it remains to be seen
whether he can hit. His defensive
show today, in which he had a
perfect score in cutting off base
runners, drew high praise from
Manager Ossie Bluege.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 23.
-—HJ.R)—Outfit ider Tommy Holmes.
.309 batter wun the Boston Braves
in 1944. hit a two-run homer on
fcis second day in camp today to
feature a nine-inning intra-squad
game. Outfielder Wright arriv
ed. bringing the contingent to 22
players, but Infieider Tommy Nel
son was cut of action, because of
a
LA2TB"OOD N. J.. March 22.
— LF —Marager Mel Ott today
-,s — &d Be_ VpiseGe. L-cm Bain and
Brsmc Basso to handle the New
Tori Giants' pitching chores in
abeon •opening exhibition game
aaa.hnr. me Bainbridge. Md., Na
t-z- pnaining case tomorrow.
Bvm-eu major leaguers Hugh
Bam Daman Harris and A1 Ly
®e* will hurl for the Navy team.
The Giants got in a batting drill
before leaving for a five-day game
tour at Br.inbridge and Curtis Bay.
BEAR MOUNTAIN. N. Y,
March 23.—(U.Ri—Manager Leo Dur
ocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers and
Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray
kissed and made up today. “It
was a trivial matter, a tempest
in a teapot, and is now forgotten,”
Durocher said of their verbal row
yesterday. “I was to blame be
cause I popped off,” Bordagaray
said.
Outfielder Louis Olmo and
Catcher Stan Andrews clouted
home runs in a six-inning game
in which the Durochers whipped
the Betzels, 4-2.
EVANSVILLE, Ind„ March 23,
—flt.Rj—Three more players, includ
ing hard-hitting Rudy York, are
expected to arrive here by this
weekend, General Manager Jack
Zeller of the Detroit Tigers an
nounced today.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 23.—
(U.R)—Three of the Cleveland Indi
ans first-string pitchers — Allie
Reynolds, Jim Bagby and A1
Smith—tasted competition for the
first time this spring in today’s
intra-sqaud game.
No official box score was kept,
but Smith, veteran southpaw,
turned in the best job. He gave no
runs and only one hit in six in
nings he pitched. The righhanded
strikeout see, who was bothered
by a sore arm last year, issued
six bases on balls and allowed t\o
runs on two hits.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March
23.—(U.R)—The addition of infielders
Floyd Baker and Vic Austin to
day boosted the Chicago White Sox
infield roster to eight and the en
tire squad to 24.
Baker, who was acquired from
the St. Louis Browns last fal!, is
a strong candidate for s/cond
base or shortstop. In a six-inning
intra-squad test which wound up
today’s four-hour drill, the Mule
Haases defeated the Bing Millers,
11-10. The Haases’ victory came
on John Nadvornik’s home run
with the bases full in the final in
ning.
BRADLEY REVIEWS
FRONT SITUATION
(Continued from Page One)
through” and said American losses
had been relatively light. At the
same time he cautioned "I don’t
think we should write too glaring
headlines that the war is over or
anything like that.”
Bradley, whose command also
embraces the new 15th Army, said
that force probably would be in an
active role ‘before too long.” (The
Germans in a recent broadcast had
said the 15th already was operat
ing in the east Rhine bridgehead).
The general said the First Ar
my’s east Rhine salient had been
“purposely held back from its full
est exploitation until the operations
of the Third and Seventh Armies
below the Moselle could be com
pleted.”
“The whole operation of clearing
the Rhine land has gone faster
than we dared hope,” he said.
Bradley said Allied Armies cap
tured 203,010 Germans in the
Rhineland, not including some 30,
000 reported captured by the Third
Army and not yet processed
through prison enclosures. This
figure included 52,381 taken by
Field Marshal Montgomery’s 21st
Army Group in the north between
February 8 and March 9.
He said that on Wednesday alone,
the First and Third Armies seiz
ed 12,600 Germans at a cost of 81
American lives.
While not announcing American
casulaties on the Western Front,
the general said the greatest num
ber of First and Third Army men
killed on any one day between Feb
ruary 22 and March 21 Was 269 on
February 28 when the two armies
captured 3,101 Germans. The low-1
| est number of Americans killed on
any one day was BO on March 11
when 3,996 prisoners were taken.
He said that on six days American
dead in both armies was less than
100 daily.
The War Department has said
that from D-Day to March 1, Amer
ican casualties included 70,414 kill
ed, 297,547 wounded and 57,056 mis
sing.
In his caution against “glaring
headlines that the war is over or
anything like that,” Bradley said
“it may be almost over. It may
last a long time to come. The fact
is we have destroyed a lot of for
ces. How much resistance he (the
enemy) can put up yet remains
to be seen.
“I think we have to strike a bal
ance on our description of this
thing, or else we are liable to go
wrong.
“You may have remembered
somebody made the reipark when
the Germans attacked here (indi
cating the Ardennes) that our coun
teroffensive to clear the Germans
out would be necessarily delayed
from three to six months. I will
leave it to you how far that was
wrong.
| “So we have to be careful
how we make toe optimistic or tcx
1 pessimistic statements ”
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THREE TEAMS WIN
HARDWOOD TITLES
IN YMCA TOURNEY
Comets, Hawks Take
Championship Game
Into Two Over-Times
Going into two over-time periods,
the ‘Y’ Comets won the city and
county championships in the YMCA
Invitational Basketball tournament
in the 105 pound division last night
on the YMCA court by defeating
the *Y’ Hawks 24-22.
Taking the championship in the
90 pound class, the Leland Light
weights beat the ‘Y’ Junior Leader*
16-5 and the YMCA Stars licked
the ‘Y’ Seniors 56-32 to win the
championship in the 150 pound divi
sion.
In the over-time game, the score
was tied at 19-all at the end of the
fourth quarter, while the first over
time period produced a 21-21 tie.
Each player shot one foul shot, the
Comets sinking three and the
Hawks making one good.
High scorer for the Comets was
Miller, forward, with 15 points,
while Sloan, Hawk guard, made a
total of 11 points.
In the 90 pound division contest,
Clark, Leland forward, was high
with 12, while Reville and Caudill
made two each for the Junior
Leaders.
D. Hyatt, Jr., center for the ‘Y’
Seniors, amassed a total of 19
points, followed by Lee, Star center
with 18.
Tonight, play-offs for the cham
pionship of the 135 pound division
will be held when the Dry Pond
basketeers meet the Junior Varsity
quint of New Hanover High school
at 7 p. m. The Four-Foot Wonders
will meet the Tileston Reds for the
play-off in the 120 pound group at
8 p. m., and the ‘Y’ Dormitory five
will engage the White Phantoms at
9 p. m.
The boxes:
Y’ Comets FG FT TP
MiUer, f. 6 3 15
Leith, f - 0 0 0
Padrick, c —.— 0 0 0
Thomas, g - 10 2
Glover, g - 3 17
Wright, g . 0 0 0
Totals . 10 4 24
‘Y’ Hawks FG FT TP
Hunter, f .. 2 0 4
Croom, f _ 0 0 0
Ellison, c_ 3 17
Sloan, g- 4 3 11
Mintz, g__ 0 0 0
Totals. 9 4 22
Leland Lightweights FG FT TP
Clark, f . 6 0 12
Hayes, f--— 0 2 2
Sue, c_ 10 2
Lynch, g _ 0 0 0
Skipper, g _ 0 0 0
Long, g__ 0 0 0
Totals .. 7 2 16
‘Y’ Jr. Leaders FG FT TP
RevUle, f.. 10 2
Walters, i_ Oil
CaudiU. c . 0 2 2
R. Clark, g_ 0 0 0
Rus Clark, g_ 0 0 0
Totals- 13 5
‘Y’ Stars FG FT TP
R. Smith, f ... 6 113
Ayash, f_ 5 i 11
Lee, c .. 8 2 18
Morton, g__ 4 2 10
HUburn, g_ 2 0 4
_ _ _
Totals .. 25 6 56
‘Y’ Seniors FG FT TP
T. Smith, f_ 12 4
Sharpe, f. 2 0 4
D. Hyatt, c . 9 1 . 19
Harrell, g. 0 0 0
Stevens, g . 1 0 2
Grisson _ 113
Totals . 14 4 32
Y T
Pitcher Henry Wyse
Gets First Workout
FRENCH LICK, Ind., March 23.
—(U.R)—Pitcher Henry Wyse took
his first workout with the Chicago
Cubs today and Manager Charley
Grimm promptly predicted that
the 27-year-old righthander would
win 20 games this season.
Grimm based his prediction on
Wyse’s two years of major league
experience and the overall slump
in major league talent. Wyse top
ped the Cub staff in victories last
year when he won 16 and lost 15
games. Although he injured his
back in a war plant accident last
•January, he appeared in good
shape today as he pitched batting
practice.
-V
PHILLIES’ SHORTSTOP SET
WILMINGTON, Del., March 23.—
(£>>—Shortstop Bitsy Mott arrived
in the Philadelphia Phillies camp
today from his Tampa, Fla., home
bringing the Phils infield com
plement to full strength.
Last year at Utica, Mott pair
ed with econd Baseman Fred Dan
iels in what was recognized as
the smoothest keystone combina
tion in the Eastern League.
THIS IS SPRING TRAINING
_______ i. ..i. i. ■ iti n ..r—•. ■,
Eddie Holly hitting, Pete Venedicktow catching as kids open spring training just like the big fellows
in New York's Central Park.____
LEJEUNE MARINES
GET NEW MENTOR
CHERRY POINT, March 23 —
Capi. K. G. Lancaster, USMCR,
who for the past 14 months has
been recreation officer for the
first and second Marine air wings
in the South Pacific, has taken
over his new assignment in the
recreation office at the Marine
Air Station here, succeeding Capt.
M. J. (Clipper! Smith, USMCR,
who led Cherry Point’s Flying
Leathernecks to football glory,
during the last two years.
Captain Smith has been trans
ferred to Washington to attend
the special services school direct
ed by Col. E. E. (Swede! Larsen,
of football coaching fame at An
napolis. He joined the Marine
Corps April 25, 1943, after more
than a score of his football pro
teges had entered the service.
In 1917, Clipper became one of
the late Knute Rockne’s gridiron
squads at Notre Dame. He was a
letterman in track and basketball,
as well as football, and also took
a law degree and played baseball
at Notre Dame.
In the football coaching field he
won fame at Oregon’s Columbia
University, Gonzaga, Santa Clara
and Villanova. During 1937 and
1938 his teams at Villanova won
23 straight games without losing
one.
From Villanova the “Clipper”
followed many of his “boys” into
the Marine Corps. He came into
the service as a captain, but he
knows the rigors of train'ng pre
scribed for the enlisted men. Af
ter taking indoctrination courses
at Camp Elliott, he attended the
Camp Pendleton combat condition
ing school under Dick Hanley,
gridiron star now in the Marines.
He then became commanding of
ficer of the school, before assign
ed to Marine aviation and Cherry
Point.
-V
NAGUILIAN FALLS
TO YANK TROOPS
(Continued from Page One)
Naguilian after wading across the
river. Japanese, heavily attacked
by artillery, had blasted a bridge
before fleeing. Engineers com
manded by Lt. Col. Francis P.
Kane, of Chicago, immediately be
gan repairing the 250-yard span.
A pitched battle at Bauang, four
miles northwest of Naguilian, pre
ceded capture of the town. Troops
under i.t. Col. Ernest D. Jessup,
Manhattan, Kas., took a heavy
toll of Japanese and captured en
emy supplies and equipment.
In the Cagayan Valley, on north
eastern Luzon, 25th and 32nd Di
vision troops smashed four Japa
nese counterattack-s with heavy
loss to the enemy and continued
the reduction of strongpoints as
they advanced on Balete Pass.
MacArthur gave no indication of
the size of the attacking Nippon
ese forces.
These ground operations were
supported strongly by fighter
planes which at minimum altitude
attacked enemy installations, caus
ing fires and explosions.
Probing the sea lanes to harrass
the enemy’s attempts to supply
his homeland, Army bombers
smashed three convoys.
Off Indo-China, medium Mitch
ell bombers sank two 2,000-ton
freighters, two destroyers and a
minesweeper of a seven-ship con
voy. One U. S. bomber was lost
as the attackers fought off eight
to 10 Japanese interceptors but
four Japanese fighters were de
stroyed and two probably downed.
In the Wenchow sector of China,
patrol planes sank or damaged
a 6,000-t.on freighter, four small
freighters and two luggers. In a
night attack off Swatow, another
search plane discovered a freigh
ter unloading. It sank 10 or 50
junk? unloading from the cargo
vessel, which may have been dam
aged by near misses.
Handicap loumament
Set For Local Course
A spring handicap golf tourna
ment will be played at the muni
cipal golf course May 5 and 6, spon
sored by the City Recreation De
partment in cooperation with the
Municipal Golf Committee, it was
announced yesterday.
Tournament play-offs, consisting
of 7 holes, must be completed
and cards forwarded to the Rec
reation Department offices, 23
Princess street, by April 30, Vance
Chadwick, of the department, an
nounced.
Final scores of the four rounds
will be averaged, and figured on
a par plus two handicap, which is
not to exceed 37 strokes.
The tournament will be a 36-hole
medal contest, and any entrant
must play one round on Saturday
and the last round the following
day, or if a player should be “in a
hurry,” he must play all 36 holes
on either of the two days, it was
pointed out.
All ties will be played together,
or grouped by the committee Sun
day afternoon, May 13.
Vance Chadwick disclosed that
the Recreation Department is at
tempting to establish an annual
handicap tournament, followed by
a flight tournament each fall.
Additional information on the
tournament will be released from
the Recreation Department, as
plans are completed.
NORTON MAY GET
USLA ASSIGNMENT
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.,
March 23.— (if) —Homer Norton,
head man 6t Texas A. and M.
football for more than a decade,
isn't talking other than that he’s
“perfectly satisfied" with his pres
ent job, but there are strong indi
cations he’ll turn up as head
coach of University of California
at Los Angeles next fall.
UCLA's athletic council is due
to select a mentor March 28 to
succeed the resigned Babe Horrell.
Norton, reported to have been
offered the position, said, “I pick
ed A. and M. 11 years ago and
have been happy here. I’d hate to
leave Texas and the southwest.
I have a contract for five years.”
But from Los Angeles comes the
report that Norton has asked for
$2,000 more a year than the re
ported $12,500 paid Horrell. The
reason is obvious. Norton’s salary
here is $10,000. It is indicated that
bonuses from bowl games would
bring his salary to around the
figure paid Horrell. The Aggies
have been in four bowl games in
the past six years.
Norton’s present contract expires
in September. The board of di
rectors recently voted a new five
year contract. But it isn’t believed
the board would want to hold him
to it if he had a better opportun
ity elsewhere.
-V-—
NYU, Ohio State Teams
Favored In NCAA Meet
NEW YORK, March 23.—(U.R)—
New York University and Ohio
State were rated even choices to
day for their meeting in the NCAA
eastern basketball championships
at Madison Square Garden tomor
row night.
NU, which finished the regular
season with 13 victories and seven
defeats, lost some prestige in de
feating lowly-rated Tufts College
by 15 points in the semi-finals last
night, big Arnold Risen again was
expected to be the big gun in the
Buckeye offensive. Ohio State had
a record of 14 and four in season
play.
Tufts meets Kentucky, beaten
by Ohio State last night, for third
place in the eastern NCAA divi
sion.
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Tar Heel Boxing Coach
Is Inducted Into Navy
CHAPEL HILL, March 23. —(/P)
—Joe Murnick, University of North
Carolina boxing coach, who re
ported for possible Army induction
at Fort Bragg Tuesday, has been
assigned to the Navy and will
report immediately at Bainbridge,
Md., Naval Training Station, the
University announced tonight.
A former Tar Heel boxing sta,
Mumick coached here the past
three years, his teams losing only
one match in the past two seasons.
His charges won the Southern Con
ference title this year.
FIRST CHANNEL
BASS IS CAUGHT
John A. .Killian, 718 North
Fourth street, caught the first
channel bass of the season in local
waters yesterday afternoon, ac
cording to an announcement by
George Canady, secretary of the
New Hanover Fishing Club.
Killian’s catch, hooked from the
Mira Mar pier at Wrights ville
beach, weighed seven pounds and
one ounce. As he arrived in the
city too late to have the fish
weighed in officially at the head
quarters of the fishing club, it will
be weighed in this morning.
The fisherman reported that
trout were biting at the resort yes
terday, but none were being
caught.
Killian's catch, when approved
by committee of the New Hanov
er Fishing Club, entitles him to a
prize of $5 worth of merchandise,
awarded each year by the club for
the first channel bass caught af
te March 1, weighing more than
five pounds.
Remaining prizes to be award
ed are the women’s entry for thp
first charnel bass, and the men’s
and women’s first catches of blue
fish, weighing more than three
pounds.
* r
ABE YOURIST WINS
OVER JACK CARTER
Abe Yourist, national junior
wrestling champion, defeated Jack
Carter by two straight falls in
the Thalian Hall arena last night,
taking the first in 29 minutes by!
a reverse arm and leg lock, and
wihning the second in 20 minutes.
In the Levin-O'Brie . match,
O’Brien was disqualified within
31 minutes for unnecessary rough
ness and in the second fall, Levin
won in one nainute flat.
“Kid” Ellis refereed the first
bout, while Abe Yourist refereed
the second match.
BOWLING
CIVIC LEAGUE
(Results Thursday Night)
Civitans 1st 2nd 3rd Totla
Barnhill — 125 182 307
Fox . 151 128 279
Raney — 158 128 152 438
Jackson — 161 142 142 445
Lawther _ 130 148 154 432
Cofer . 147 141 :288
Totals 725 689 771 2185
Senior Frat 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Everett .... 143 110 180 433
Ruark _ 191 135 196 522
Sandlin _ 164 184 328
Jordan _ 188 127 144 459 (
Keen _ 166 135 145 446 (
Miller . 163 163
Total 844 691 928 2363 <
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Michigan gas wells produced 2,
872,120,000 cubic feet of gas in
January, the highest production \
on record. j
Baseball Will Continue To Make The Bases
By BUS HAM
WASHINGTON, March 23.—(^P)—
Baseball today apparently was in
a position to circle the bases
steadily in the 1945 season, a check
of Government departments re
vealed.
Selective Service and War De
partment persons said that no
thought is being given to altering
regulations now in effect govern
ing professional athletes, and the
' White House indicated a similar
attitude
Meanwhile, Branch Rickey, pres
ident of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
disclosed at his team s training
camp, Bear Mountain, N, Y., that
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes has indicated he will
make no ruling to embarrass the
game this season.
Rickey said he received a state
ment to this effect from Ford
Frick, national leaSu®J\ ®.d;
Byrnes’ office said that it “knows
Jiothing about” such^^ement.
Frick and Will Harridge, Ameri
can league president, once con
ferred with Byrnes on baseball’s
manpower problems.
Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower
director, this week helped baseball
over a big hurdle by ruling that
players may leave “off-season”
employment, such as war plants,
and return to their principal busi
ness of baseball without being sub
ject to the WMC's referral pro
gram.
Selective Service and the War
Department spiked reports that
baseball men have recently been
here to discuss the draft status
of professional athletes.
Both Selective Service and the
War Department said that whether
an athlete is put in 1-A or classi
fied 4-F, subject to final decision
by Washington officials, will con
tinue to be up tp army doctors at
induction centef';
Cardinals To Move
To Sportsmen’s Park
For Spring Training
CAIRO, 111., March 23.—(U.R)—
President Sam Breadon of the
St. Louis Cardinals arrived in
camp today and after one look
at the water-logged baseball
field announced that the World
Champions would withdraw to
St. Louis Monday.
Breadon conferred with Coach
Mike Conzalez, who is handling
the squad in Manager Billy
Southworth’s absence, and said
the Cardinals would work out
here tomorrow and Sunday and
then return to Sportsmen’s
Park in St. Louis to complete
their spring training program.
The Cards have been unable
to use the ball park here be
cause of its flooded condition.
Gonzalez held an outdoor work
out today on the grounds ad
joining the gym.
CROFT, MARVIN
TOF T HERE
Monday night’s card at Thalian
Hall should include the best fight
to be seen locally thus far when
Sgt. Lee Croft, of Camp Mackall,
heavyweight sensation, meets
Johnnie Marvin, heavyweight of
Washington, Promoter “Kid” Ellis
said today.
The match promises to be a real
test for Croft, who has won all
seven of his professional fights by
knockouts, as Marvin has defeated
such boxers as Tiny Taylor and
Bill Rinehart, both known locally,
and many other topnochers.
Ellis is trying to get a man who
can extend “Buddy’ Scott, fifth
ranking heavyweight of the world,
for a match here soon, and the
outcome of this fight may end his
search. If Croft can take it as
well as he dishes it out, he may
be the man.
The “Kid” said the supporting
card would be full of action and
intends to announce the entire
program Sunday.
ATHLETICS BEAT
CURTIS BAY NINE
BALTIMORE, Maxell 23.—fgPj—
The Philadelphia Athletics turned
back the Curtis Bay (Md.) Coast
Guard team today 14-13 in the first
game of the season for both.
The A’s came through with the
winning run in the eighth after
a slam bang seventh inning in
which 24 batters came to the plate.
Charley Metro, who is fighting for
a regular post with the Athletics,
turned in the best performance,
leading off the attack that clinch
ed the game.
He doubled to left in the eighth
with bases loaded, scoring two
runs. Jo'e Burns followed with a
single, bringing in Dick Siebert
and Metro.
Phila. (AL) 000 010 850—14 12 2
Coast Guard 200 110 900—13 12 3
Black, Knerr, (41 Horner. (7),
Conway, (7), and Hayes. Ronay,
Sipple. (6), Kerr, (7), and Tabac
heck, Reeves.
BRITISH AWAIT
KNOCKOUT BLOW
(Continued from Page One)
house of war material. In unceas
ing, endless convoys, implements
for carrying the fight across the
Rhine into the heart of Germany
are being brought to the forward
areas.
Roadsides, fields, woods, houses
and larger structures are cram
med with goods which spell the
end of Hitler. And facing the ene
my is a great array of artillery
which has been pounding him
ceaselessly along w’ith almost con
tinuous air bombardment.
What else? Much, much more.
Hundreds of tanks, tank destroy
ers *’and mortar guns and thou
sands of first-class^ eager, impa
tient troops.
Every type of assault boat that
can be used is ready to transport
troops and equipment across the
Rhine. They are there — hidden
behind a thick, swirling impene
trable smoke scteen which
stretches many miles.
All the troops — Canucks, Tom
mies and GI Joes—are anxious to
get started.
But perhaps the British have
just a little greater spur.
“Five and a half years I have
waited for this,” said one lad.
‘five and a half years during
which we were kicked in the teeth,
lunched in the belly and socked
m the head—but never knocked
>ut. It took a lot of punishment
ind a lot of patience awaiting the
lay of victory. But we haven't long
o wait.”
-V—-_
The United States contains less
han seven per cent of the world's
lopulation, and occupies only 5.9
>er cent of the world's land sur
ace.
REVOLTA TALLIES
THREE UNDER par
TO LEAD TOURNEY
NeUon and Byrd
s, Sam Snead Fin.
ishes With 72
GREENSBORO. March 23.—mk
—Johnny Revolta, veteran pr0(e|.
sional from Evanston, m snot
three under par 68 today',0 '
a two-stroke lead in the opemn,
round of the $7,500 Greensboro
open golf tournament
Driving accurately down the
long and dog-legged fairways 7,
the difficult starmount course .,,1
sinking his putts from all angle,
despite soggy greens. Rpvnl;'
dropped four birdies-three on th.
second nine-to turn m the be.t
card of the dav. e,t
Byron Nelson, the winter sea
son s top money winner, arri $al
Byrd, defending champion" her?
scored 70’s. A Raleigh N c
amateur, Avery Beck,' also'turn,
ed in a one under par 70.
Revolta, playing in a threesom.
with Nelson and Georgie Corcor*
an of Greensboro, stole the cheeri
of the gallery of more than l.ooo
persons as he refused to wilt m,
der pressure and got better as he
went along.
On tne 438-yard first hole, hi
took three strokes to reach the
green and two-putted for a bogev
five, but after that it was par or
better on every green.
“My putts were dropping better
than they have in a long time,'1
the veteran star grinning when it
was over. ‘If I keep on hitting
them the way I did today, I might
win this thing.”
It was on the greens that Be
volta made the shots that put him
ahead. He dropped long ones for
birdies on the 13th and 14th holes
and ended with a 25-foot putt tor
another birdie on the 453-yard,
dog-leg 18th.
Nelson had trouble with his
drives today, getting into it on
some of the long, water-trapped
fairways. His usual mastery on
the greens, however, kept him in
easy reach of the front running
Revolta.
One stroke back of Nelson and
Bryd were Mike Turnesa, White
Plains, N. Y., Jimmy Gauntt, o(
Ardmore, Okla., and Ky Laffoon,
Chicago, ait of whom carded per
n’s.
Sam Snead, tired from his gruel
ling double playoff with Nelson in
the Charlotte tournament earlier
this week, was badly off his
game, shooting a 72. Snead was
four over par on the first nine
with a 39 but came home with a
33 to keep him only four strokes
off Revolta's pace.
Also bunched at 72 were Tony
Penna. Dayton. 0.. Orville Whi'e,
Mamaroneck. N. Y., Joe Taylor
Johnson City. Tenn., and Chick
Rutan. Birmingham, Mich.
Grouped at 73 were Wes Ter
rell, Greensboro, Jim Gantt, An
dover, Mass., and Willie Goggin,
White Plains, N. Y.
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Rider of Many British
Race Horses Is Dead
LONDON, March 23. - <U.B -
Steve Donoghue, 60. one of the
greatest jockeys in British racing
history and rider of six winners
of the derby at Epsom Downs, died
today.
Donoghue scored his first der
by victory aboard Pommern in
1916 and came back the next year
atop Gay Crusader. He rode three
straight winners, a feat which has
been unequaled, bringing in Hu
morist in 1921, Captain Cuttle in
1922 and Papyrus in 1923. He also
scored with Manna in 1925.
—-V
Browns Win Exhibition
Game Over Toledo Nine
CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo.. March
23—(U.R)—Pitchers A1 Hollingsworth
and Tex Shirley held the Toledo
Mudhens of the American Associa
tion to six hits today as the -
Louis Browns won a 12-1 vic.c..
in a six-inning exhibition ,
Johnny Whitehead and ,
tkemeyer pitched for Toledo >•■
yielded 16 hits to the American
eague champions. Toledo manag
;d to score its only run in
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