The Wilmington morning star. [volume], February 03, 1946, FINAL EDITION, Page 10-A, Image 10

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Morning watch
| WITH
I Edward Sachs
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Asheville’s city council has authorized the use jof
McCormick field in that city by Hugh C. Taylor of the
Asheville baseball club for seven years • • ■ Tayl?{ f
the park at a rental of $1,200 a year and has said that
he would agree to expend an amount not exceeding
$8,400 on permanent improvement. . . Asheville will
play in the Tri-State league this summer . .. Til-State
feague, sounds familiar, doesn’t it?. . When Raleigh
stopped Goldsboro the other night, the game s leading
scorer was Jimmy Crosby, Caps’ guard who totaled 14
points ... While Durham was led in its Wilson defeat
by Forward McDonald with seven points . . . Other
Durham scoring totals include Forwards King and Reed,
four and two points; Stokes at center, three points;
! • Penny and Cobb, guards, three and four points .. .Sam
Allen promoter of the Tobacco State league must be
Betting'a little on the eager side . . . January 30th he extended
fn invitation to Wilmington to join his league at a meeting in
Irwhi Last Saturday night he told the Star-News that the Tobacco
State league was “very anxious’’ to have us in the circuit, and
yesterday the Raleigh man again extended an invitation t? that
citv Okeh, Sam, we hear you . . . Although he had an inferi
or record of 12 wins against 13 losses, the New York Giant pitcher
Harry Feldman has been given a salary raise over his: 194o con
' tract Feldman, a native of Ft. Smith, Ark., had the lowest
earned-run average of any New York flinger ... A smooth 3.26
figure Herb Pennock of the Phils is reported to have offered
the Card’s $250,000 for Whitey Kurowski and Slats Marion ... Of
all the major league clubs the New York Yankees seem to be the
least interested in player deals, either selling or buying . . .
Newest outfield contender on the New York Giants roster
Is Willard Pike, who among other things, once played with
the House of David . . . The Giant’s outer garden should be
well cluttered up with such gentlemen as Sid Gordon, Ott, Max
Marshall and Babe Barna drawing their checks ... No
shortage of professional football players . . . The National
league has 309 players signed Tor the coming season and 80
or 90 more are ready to sign . . . Georgia’s All-American in
1931 Catfish Smith, is headed for the end coaching job at
South Carolina while Swanee plunges into football next season
with W. C. White as head coach . . . WTiite is a former line
coach at Tennessee . . . Add wounded veterans, Howard Krist
and John Grodzicki, St. Louis pitchers . . . Krist added an
other worry to Eddie Dyer’s problems by cracking up in his
automobile after recovering from his war wound . . .
Tobacco State Circuit
Again Offers City Team
Sam Allen, Raleigh promoter of
the Class D Tobacco State league
yesterday made his third overture
to the city for a team in that cir
cuit during the coming year.
Like a rubber ball that bounces
each time it is dropped, the base
ball issue 'here has refused to die
although it has several near-fatal
developments.
Alien made his first offer to the
city It a meeting of “interested
parties” of the league in Erwin,
WednMday, Jan. 23. Last Sunday
he repeated the offer to the Star
News to relay to J. E. L. Wade,
chairman of the local ball com
mittee. Yesterday he sent a tele
gram to Wade stating “Wilming
ton invited to join Tobacco State
league.”
A check will be made today by
Wade of funds pledged to the base
ball funds to see if the needed
money is available for Class D
operations. While Class D opera
tions are by Wade “less expen
sive then Class B,” a majority
of the pledges made to the com
mittee for baseball operations
were made with the provision that
they be used for Class B nego
tiations alone. Wade will have to
see if enough of this money will
bef released for the Tobacco State
league to warrent entertaining the
proposal.
The councilmen said yesterday
that still another meeting of the
Citizen’s committee may be neces
sary bfore he leaves for Clinton
and the league meeting there in
a jfew weeks.
present Tobacco State league
plfcns call for Wilmington to be
a Imember along with such small
er; cities as Erwin, Sanford, Smith
ficld, Fuquay, Angier and Clinton.
.The action taken by. the Wil
mington committee in rejecting the
Tri-State invitation has had reper
cussions throughout the state. Char
lotte, which was waiting for the
citizen's committee apimoval of a
Wilmington club in that circuit to
join is again wavering on the side
lines.
An Associated Press dispatch
said yesterday, "the decision last
night of Wilmington citizens not
to enter the Tri-State league meant
that Charlotte which was ready to
enter the new league along with
Wilmington to bring the circuit
roster up to six clubs, must await
further developments.”
But Charlotte wasn’t the only
North Carolina city “to have its
immediate baseball future cloud
ed,” by the local action.
Asheville is known to have been
'banking on the Wilmington entry
as one of the strongest arguments
for the Tri-State league. With the
city out and Charlotte wavering
in a baseball no-man’s land, the
western North State city is faced
with being the only North Carolina
entry in the Tri-State.
C. M. Llewellyn, president of the
league has not made any com
ment on the city’s refusal but he
is known to have placed a great
deal of faith in this city joining
the league. In conversations and
negotiations with various news
papers and wire associations dur
ing the entire negotiations he was
always optimistic about Wilming
ton joining.
In fact he stalled two other cities,
Gastonia and Greenwood, S. C.,
until the last minute which was
Friday midnight, in a hope that
Wilmington would join the circuit.
However, Class B baseball is a
dead issue in Wilmington now and
the pressing baseball problem this
morning facing Wade and his com
mittee is whether a city of our size
will accept Class D baseball.
SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
NEW YORK, Feb. S—(/P)—The
Amateur Softball association tcfciy
awarded the international champi
onships to Cleveland for the next
‘five years. It will be held this year
in the middle of September. The
exact dates will be announced
later. The eight regional tourneys
will be over the Labor Day week
end and include the following
places: Central-Atlantic — Ports
mouth, Va.; Southern—St. Peters
burg, Fla.
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Hanover Cagers Rout Quakes, 46 To 13
Duke. North Carolina Fives Win * Tilts
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LEAGUE LEADING
WILMINGTON FIVE
IN EASY VICTORY
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
W L
Wilmington .6 0
Durham . 4 l
Fayetteville .. £ 2
Wilson . 4 2
Raleigh . 4 3
Goldsboro . 0 7
Rocky Mount . 0 8
GOLDSBORO, Feb. 2—(Special)
—A weary Goldsboro High school
team defeated by Raleigh last night
and facing a contest with Rocky
Mount Tuesday night proved to be
no match for the speedy Wilming
ton New Hanover High school
cagers this evening as the boys
from the eastern part of the state
romped to a 45 to 13 Eastern Con
ference victory.
The win was the sixth of the sea
son without defeat for the Wildcats
as compared to the next best record
of four and one of the Durham
Bulldogs.
racing me winners mnignt was
a lanky center, Johnnie McKoy who
dropped in eight baskets and a free
throw for a total of 18 points. How
ever the real difference between
the two squads was the speed and
driving ability of the Wilmington
five.
Lee, Collie, Brown and Fennell
kept a constant pressure on the
Goldsboro players—who are still
looking for their first conference
game after seven starts.
The tiny Brown was very effec
tive in breaking up the Quake of
fense while Lee, Fennell and Collie
dropped difficult shots every time
the Quakes showed any signs of
life.
The Cats jumped off to an early
first period lead of 15 to 5, in
creased their margin to 29 to 8 at
halftime and were leading 33 to 8
after holding Goldsboro scoreless
during the third period to coast to
their final margin of victory.
The game was played in the
Goldsboro community house as fire
recently demolished the Quakes
gymnasium.
Box Score:
New Hanover
FG FT TP
Lee. f .4 1 9
Smith, f . 1 o 2
Collie, f . 2 0 4
Tuttle, f . 0 0 0
McKoy, c . 8 1 17
Hyatt, c . 0 0 0
Brown, g . 3 17
Rogers, g . 0 0 0
Towles, g .0 0 0
Fennell, g .3 l ^
Crowly . 0 0 0
21 4 46
Goldsboro
FG FT TP
Shumate, f . 1 0 2
Bizzell, f . 1 l 3
Klutz, c . 0 0 0
Wiggs, g . 0 1 0
Rose, g. 2 1 5
4 3 11
MARCEL HANSENNE
IS 3RD IN DEBUT
NEW YORK, Feb. 2—bP)—Leslie
MacMitchell scored an easy, clear
cut victdfty in the Wanamaker mile
at the 39th annual Millrose games
in Madison Square Garden tonight
as France’s Marcel Hansenne ran
third in the four-man field.
Fred Sickinger of Manhattan col
lege won the 880-yard run, recap
turing the title he held in 1942 and
1943 before entering the Army.
Stanton Callender of New York
university was third and Hubert
Gates of the Warianco Athletic club
was fourth on the 11-laps-to-the
mile board track before a capac
ity crowd of 15,000.
Milton Padway, Wisconsin law
student, and Howard Jensen, com
peting unattached, tied for first in
the pole vault at 13 feet, 6 inches,
the same height attained by Pad
way in winning the event last year.
Peter Harwood of Harvard was
third and Dick Ganslen of the Shore
Athletic club at Long Branch N.
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Louise Suggs Wins
Womens’ Golf Play
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 2—OF)—Little
Louise Suggs, of Lithia Springs,
Ga., won the Helen Lee Doherty
women’s golf tournament today by
defeating Peggy Kirk, of Findlay,
Ohio, 1 up, in a gruelling 36-hole
match.
• -Fighting an up-hill battle most of
the way, Miss Suggs twice came
from behind to win her second
straight Helen Doherty title. The
Georgian trimmed Miss Kirk 4 and
3 for the cup last year.
Not until the 29th hole did Miss
Suggs take the lead, but once in
possession, she never relinquished
it. Adding an afternoon 78 to her
earlier 79, Miss Suggs finished one
over par figures while Miss Kirk
put together a pair of 79s, two over
regulation figures.
Sir Francis Drake claimed Cali
fornia for England in 1579.
GEN. NEYLAND BACK IN U. S.
HI
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Brig. Gen. Robert R. Neyland (right), former head football
coach at the University of Tennessee, leaves an ATC plane at
Fairfield, Calif., upon his arrival back in the United States from
war duties. He is enroute to Knoxville to take up on the gridiron
where he left off when called for military duty early in the war.
Durham, Wildcat Games
Highlight Cage Week
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By GENE WARREN
Star Sports Writer
The Eastern A Conference
reaches its climax this week with
the four top teams in the loop, bat
tling it out for the loop crown.
Wilmington, the current basket
ball capital of the eastern part of
North Carolina, will send their un
defeated High school cagers to
Durham, where the ‘game of the
season’ is expected to be fought.
Durham, unbeatable on their home
court in seven years, risks a
brilliant record against the Wild
cats, who have found little trouble
in toppling the opposition out of
town.
“If Wilmington beats Durham on
that Durham floor, they deserve
the championship,’’ said Cari
Mason, a former ‘Cat basketeers,
yesterday evening when the sub
ject was brought up in a conversa
tion.
“They play on a stage up there,
and it’s so small, no team can get
near the net, because of the zone
defense the Bulldogs throw to
cover the space. No team has
been able to beat them up there
because they had the zone per
fectly executed.”
Whether Carl's statement holds
true in the Wilmington-Durham
game Tuesday or not remains to
be seen, but in Friday's return
fracas here, the Locals have an
even chance.
Wilson, who have caught on fire
in their last two tilts, upsetting
both Fayetteville and Durham,
will attempt to continue to climb
the scale by beating the Fayette
ville five, which hold a tight grasp
on third place at present. Raleigh,
also running on a win streak,
takes on tough opposition in the
Soldier City lads also, Friday.
The two cellar clubs also will
have a chance tn win a camp
when Goldsboro plays Rocky
Mount. The Earthquakes haven’t
won a tilt in six starts, while the
Blackbirds are further in the
dumps, losing eight straight.
Coach Leon Brodgen, who has
coached his players exceptionally
well this season, will receive even
higher laurels if his first Wilming
ton basketball team wins their
initial championship in 17 years.
The NHHS five has dropped Dur
ham into a runnerup spot, a posi
tion unfamiliar to the proud Bull
dogs. They have a chance to take
a championship award, which Dur
ham’s quintet have monopolized
for the past decade. Next week
may^indeed supply the answer to
the flag question.
Livingston College
Answers Series Of
Strikes By Closing
SALISBURY, Feb. 2 — fgp)—Liv
ingstone college officially closed its
doors here today in the college ad
ministration’s answer to a series of
student protests and strikes in
progress since Jan. 21.
Students wishing to return for a
new semester beginning Feb 10
were instructed by W. J Trent
pfsirfnt* of the A.M.E. Zion
church educational institution, to
^on To T °nS for re-admis
sion. In the meantime, Trent de
campus do so in defiance of the
college s order to vacate.
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Aerobatics Program
Slated For Afternoon
At Carolina Sky Ways
Featuring a program of aero
batics by Fred Baun, chief
instructor of Carolina Sky
Ways, an air show will be pre
sented at 2:30 p. m. today at
the company’s airport on the
new Wrightsvillc Beach high
way near Seagate.
Braun last night said that
he would use a Stearr • PT
17, a former Army lary
trainer in giving the ' ition
which he said would elude
tailspins, snap and slow rolls,
loops and chandelles.
The 1946 Aeronca champion
will be on display during the
afternoon, he said.
Aviation Included In
Post-war Marine Reserve
WASHINGTON, Feb. .2— (/P) —
The post-war organized reserve of
the Marine Corps will include avia
tion as well as infantry and support
ing arms.
The corps outlined plans for its
peacetime reserve establishment
today, announcing it would be made
up of a ready unit and a stand by
component. Units of the organized
reserve will be located in as many
areas "us are consistent with oth
er military considerations,”' Gen.
A. A. Vandegrift, Marine command
ant, said.
Training of the reserves will be
integrated with the Fleet Marine
force to make it possible for all
mn to keep abreast of new devlop
ments.
Lumberton High Teams
Defeat Hamlet Squads
LUMBERTON, Feb. 2—(Special) 1
—The Lumberton High school bas
ketball teams this week continued ;
their winning ways. In action Fri
day evening the Girl’s squad re
mained unbeaten by downing the
Hamlet cagers, 37 to 11 while the I
local boys avenged the only defeat 1
an their record by trouncing the 1
Hamlet Boy’s, 44 to 27. Ashe was 1
the high scorer for the Lumberton ]
3irl’s while Noble sparked the t
Boy’s. t
BEAT STATE FOES
BY WIDE MARGINS
IN LEAGUE GAMES
Duke Whips State, 56 To
33; UNO Drops Deacs,
61 To 32
CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 2.—Uft
With almost every man in its line
up getting at least one field goal,
the University oi North Carolina’s
White Phantoms tamed Wake For
est’s Demon Deacons for the sec
ond time in a week tonight, 61-32.
With lanky John Dillon setting
the pace, the Tar Heels jumped to
a 5-4 lead after four minutes of
play and scored 33 points before
the intermission to roll up a lead
which never came near being
threaten.
The Deacons, behind 38 to 13 at
the half-way mark, played the de
fending Southern Conference
champs on even terms during the
last half, scoring point for point
until the final minute of play, when
Guard Don Anderson sank three
field goals to give the Phantoms
a 23-19 advantage in the last half
millm rt
The Tar Heels whipped the Dea
cons 70 to 47 in a game played at
Wake Forest Monday night.
Big Joe Hinerman, Deacon
guard, was the high scorer to
night, colling 17 points on shots
from all angles. Dillon got an
even dozen points for the Tar
Heels. The remainder of the Tar
Heel scoring was well distributed
among 11 players, all but two of
whom got at least one field goal.
DURHAM, Feb. 2.—UR—Duke’s
Blue Devils pulled away from N.
C. State’s Red Terrors in the sec
ond half here tonight to rack up a
56-33 Southern Conference victory.
It was Duke’s 10th loop triumph
against a lone setback at the hands
of Marland.
After sparring around for a few
minutes, the Blue Devils broke
a 5-5 deadlock and ran up 12
points while holding State score
less. Trailing by 17-5, the Terrors
went to work and almost caught
Duke at halftime. Stan Kohler
pumped in seven consecutive points
and State was beh'nd only 26-18 at
intermission.
After the rest period, Duke
stretched its lead to 27-18 after
three minutes and never was
headed. Seven minutes later, the ,
Blue Devils had a 41-23 advantage.
Ed Koffenherger, All-Southern .
conference center, poured in 18
points to waljc.. off with individual 1
scoring honors. , J
Kohler’s nine tallies topped
State. . , ,
Amo* Stagg Will Return i
To Scene Of Grid Glory
CHICAGO, Feb. 2—(U.R)— The (
‘Old Tdan” is coming back for one ^
last fling at gridiron glory in the
sector where he played a leading .
part in the development of foot
trail history for 41 years.
The “Old Man” is Amos Alortzo
Stagg, who will bring his College I
3f the Pacific team here October
26v for a game with Northwestern
in suburban Evanston.
It was at the University of Chi
cago that the 83-year-old Stagg
served for 41 seasons and helped
change football from a helter
skelter game featuring brawn into
its present day refinement of
athletic skill. /
BEARS SIGN END
CHICAGO, Feb. 2 George
Wilson, veteran Chicago Bears' end
;oday signed a 1946 contract and
■eported a recent operation m/id
id a knee injury which hampered
urn most of last season. Wilson,
;ix-feet, one-inch and weighing 210,
ilayed on three league champion
;hip Bear teams, 1940-41-43.
SELLOUT EXPECTED
RALEIGH, Feb. 2—(U.R1—Al
hough the second meeting of once
leaten Duke and North Carolina is
wo weeks away, enthusiasm in
he basketball contest is at top
litch and will draw a capacity j
hrong of over 9,0Q0, officials said
might.
Operation Russo
Marius Russo is confident pitch
in* arm. swathed in bandages, is
okeh following operation for re
moval of chipped bones in elbow.
Discharged from Army after 23
months, Yankee southpaw who
edged Cardinals in key game of
1943 world series is at his Elmont,
Long Island, home.
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DEMARET TUCSON
OPEN PACEMAKERS
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 2 — (JP) —
Jimmy Demaret of Houston, Tex.,
not only retained his lead at the
end of the third round of the Tuc
son opening golf tournament to
day, but picked up an extra stroke
by carding a 68 for a total of 199.
Defending champion Ray Man
grum of Los Angeles was firmly
entrenched in second place with
201, two strokes ahead of the five
tied in the third place slot.
Going into the final round with
208’s, four strokes behind the pace
maker were the favorite. Ben Ho
gan, Hershey, Pa., Harold (Jug)
VfcSpaden, Sanford, Me., who im
proved his position today with a
leat 66. Dick Metz, Arkansas City,
£as., who led the first round, Leon
ird Dodson, Kansas City, Mo.,
.vhose 64 was the best round of
;he day, and George Schneiter, :
salt Lake City, Utah.
One stroke back of them wess
rim Ferrier, Chicago, former Aus
;ralian open champ, and Lawson ;
-.ittle, Monterey, Calif. ,
Frank Stranahan, Toledo, Ohio, i
ed the amateurs and many of the j
>ros with 205, three strokes ahead ,
>f Max Evans of Detroit. ,
The pros were using regulation
:hampionship rules under summer (
:onditions, playing the ball as it ,
ies.
WOLF GETS THERE
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 2—
J.R)—Ray (Bear) Wolf arrived
lere today to take over his post as
lead coach at the University of
riorida and named his first ap
lointment to assist him with the
Gators.
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BASEBALL BONUS
DEALS CURBED BY
MAJORS’ ACTION
Circuits Disagree Over Ui,
Of Parks By Pro Foot
ball Teams
NEW YORK, Feb.~2-V-M.
jor league baseball took steps to!
day at a joint meeting 0(
American and National leagues to
check the growing practice of pav.
ing huge bonuses to free agen,
when they voted to prohibit” tht
player’s assignment or sale to',
lower league withoirt asking lvaiv.
ers which cannot be withdrawn!'
Although a club still can pST
$50,000 to a future Dick WakelM
or even $15,000 to a Dick Callahan
it now must be reasonably ,ujj
he will make the grade, Th(
athlete henceforth will be labelea
a “bonus player” and as such,
any manipulation of his contract
will be subiect to rtrattir,
tions.
Even if a big league team con
tacts a promising youngster, slips
him a good-sized cash payment
and hands nim a farm club con
tract, he will be open to unrestrict
ed draft by any club in any league
throughout his career.
The moguls also took pains to i
provide for any subterfuge by rul
ing .that the first year salary shall
not be over a certain limit $6,000
for the majors, $4,000 for triple
A and 150 per cent of the salary
level in the other minors.) They
insisted that sum also must in- l.
elude any promises of future cash
or any payments to any persons
associated with the players such
as a coach.
Putting teeth into their legisla
tion, the leagues set a $2,000 tine
for a major league club violating
rule, $1,000 for a minor league
team and $500 for any employe,
fn addition, the player shall be
declared a free agent and tne of
fending club shall not be permitted
to do business with him for three
years.
There is only one catch to the
entire picture. The minors must
approve before any of the bonus
aws become effective. As the
ninors do not meet formally un
it December, their action proba
bly will be taken in a mail vote
rom the office of President Wil
iam G. Bramham of the National
issociaAon.
The "bonus player” was defined
is a free agent who had been paid
tr promised a bonus for signing.
And the word “bonus” itself ap
died to any money or anything
ilse of value over the regular
alary
Commissioner A. B. (Happy)
lhandler won out in his battle over
he promotion setup when the
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