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^he Moming Watch WITH Edward Sachs clAPSTICK COMEDY CHARLOTTE Feb. 6.—If the decision of the executive com mittee of the NCHSAA hadn t such a serious effect on athletics L New Hanover High school, the proceedings in Chapel Hill Tues day night might be humorous. However, since the judgment of Sfg committee seems out of proportion to the charges, the affair it very serious. ... jfot only did the executive committee allow Lee Stone Ra lefeh Caps’ coach, to sit in on the proceedings, according to our "formation after New Hanover High representatives and Dur ham. the school making the protest on the eligibility of Johnnie McKoy, had been excused, but the committee refused to divulge ; to the press just wnat Stone ^said in the meeting. In fact, the NCHSAA seemed to think what occurred in the meeting was a matter of no concern to the public and that it !!},» wasn’t any of our business. JU5L • * * | To this T, T. Hamilton and H. M. Roland are in strict oppo sition They have said that the matter is not closed and that a nrotest will be made. These columns will be open to both gentle , vm(Tl for r full discussion of the ^meeting. Because the story broke so close to the time of our leaving for Charlotte nothing more than a skeleton of the affair could be written. * • . From conversation* with Hamilton, after reading the entire correspondence from C. E. McIntosh, secretary of the NCHSAA to Kew Hanover officials, and after considering the eligibility rules ‘j the Eastern conference there didn’t seem to us to be any in fractions of the rules incurred. Then, too, the comments of Paul Sykes of Durham and Lee jtone of Raleigh to their home town papers . . . “it i* the only thing to do ... If we have rules we will have to live up to them ” And other ambiguous hunks of nothing. • • • • • • The affair is not closed and on my return to Wilmington Wed nesday night, I hope to contact Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Roland for the first of an entire series of stories explaining the McKoy fiasco and the why of the protest. | Yankees Jump Gun Today On Major League Clubs I MVrS HEAD COACH I ORDERED TO DUTY AT I ACADEMY BY MARCH 1 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. &— (U.R) — P Navy’s new football coaching staff ■f took shape tonight with disclosure that E. E. (Rip) Miller has signed l contract to remain as line coach led that Cmdr. Louis A. Bryan has been assigned to the academy : as an assistant. Meanwhile, official orders went out for Capt. Thomas J. (Tom) Hamilton to report to Annapolis "hot later, than March 1”—the date Navy spring practice is scheduled to begin. Hamilton’s return as Navy head coach was announced two weeks ago. Miller's retention had been ex pected. Elt was understood that Bryan will serve as assistant line coach. HORSE SHOES AT TOUR WffiB! 114 MARKET •UNDID WHISKEY • 86 PROOF [ 101 CRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS CUMMINS-COLLINS DISTILLERIES t; INCSRFSRATSR LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MEN! f | Fin* Quality I L 100% All Wool I IsUITS f Are Plentiful At I NATHAN'S I 22 S. Front Street I | WILMINGTON, N. C. I NEW YORK, Feb. 6—(U.R)— A party of 13 New York Yankees and Manager Joe McCarthy leave by train for Miami tomorrow on the first leg of an elaborate train ing tour that will take the team to Panama, back to Florida and eventually through Texas. On the eve of their departure it was learned that Mel Queen, promising right-hand pitcher who won six games and lost three for the Yankees in 1944, will soon re join the team. Now awaiting his discharge at Ft. Dix, N. J., Queen is expected to be one of the main stays of the 1946 Yankees’ mound staff. The party leaving at 10:05 num bers 20 with the addition of writ ers who will cover the trek for New York newspapers. At Miami, the New York contin gent will be joined by 19 players, Coach John Schulte and Trainer Ed. Froelich. The combined party will leave by two planes Feb. 9 for the Canal Zone where a series of 11 games has been arranged with U. S. army and local profes sional teams. Wednesday Night Loop Gets Off To Big Start The new Wednesday Night Bas ketball league got oft to a good start at the Y. M. C. A., last night with two good games being racked up for the pleasure of a good crowd of fans. The Kingoff five ended up the evening with a victory over the Lane Drugs quintet by a score of 16 to 10, while Green’s copped a fast game from Kress by 32 to 17. B. Powell was high man for Kingoffs with 12 points, while B. Crowley chalked up six for Lane Drugs. Bradford and Futrelle split scoring honors for Green’s with 10 points each, while Holland, Hill and Stone had four each for the losers. In another game played on the “Y” court last night, the Y. M. C. A. five lost a nip-and-tuck battle to the Hewes building team by 30 28. > tt;.==assa Old Town CANOES NOW IN STOCK PICKARD’S 24)9 Market St. Dial £4224 Pilot Turns Boxer —— Bo* Beckwith -U.N.C You’d never guess it, but this typical college freshman and box ing star at North Carolina piloted a B-17 over Europe on 35 missions lust before and after D-Day, and had his wings and motors shot up several times. TAR HEEL BOXING STAR HAD RECORD AS FORT PILOT Bo Beckwith Expected To Rejoin Team For Match With Army Saturday CHAPEL HILL, Feb. His name is Boworth C. Beckwith from Raleigh, but don’t let that deceive you. "Just call me Bos,” he says, and it’s a good idea, too. For "Bos” packs a heavyweight wallop for the University of North Carolina boxing team. And before that he just flew 35 missions over Europe in a Flying Fortress'. The undefeated 175-pound ring star, who was State High school champion once at 108 pounds and again at 155, was on the ailing list for last week’s meet with Vir ginia’s Dixie leaders, to which Carolina barely lost 5 to 3 after forfeiting the heavyweight. How ever, Coach Jule Medwin hopes to have him back for the big meet with Army’s national contenders up at West Point Saturday. You’d nevar guess it to^ look at him, but this quiet, clean-cut, handsome, easy-going, typical col lege freshman had his wings shot up like Swiss cheese. He had one motor knocked out several time.s, and once he limped home to an emergency field with two motors gone. Yet he carried off all 35 of his missions successfully and brought his ship safely home each time without losing a single mem ber of his crew! “I guess it was more luck than anything,” Beckwith modestly re called today. ‘‘The first few mis sions were a big lark for most of us youngsters. After that, things got "tougher and tougher each time. And those last few missions be fore the Magic No. 35 we came home on—well, anybody who’s honest is bound to admit he could not help being afraid.” Pilot Beckwith won his B-17 and arrived: in England in May, 1944. That was just a few weeks before the invasion, on June 6, and things began popping thick and fast. The first few mission! he flew were mainly the strategic type—against oil, aircraft, and as sembly plants and launching ramps for buzz bombs. When D Day came, the Air Force quickly switched to tactical bombing of German-held bridges, railroads, and highways in support of the invasion. Although Beckwith who started in the infantry, transferred to the Paratroops and then the Air Force spent almost four yeais before he became a full-fledged B-17 pilot, he put in his required 35 missions over Europe and was ready to come home less than four months after he landed. ‘‘That was because we were av eraging a mission every other day about that time,” he recalls. ‘‘For a short time before and after D Day we flew two-a-day. That was almost 24 hours at a stretch, and boy, was that tough!” Back in the States, Beckwith served as a B-17 instructor for over a year. He wasn’t discharged until December 2, 1345, but Janu ary 3, found him back at Carolina to resume the education which thr war interrupted five years ago, ‘‘It is a little tough getting bach to the books,” he wisecracks, ‘‘bui this being a freshman has its good side, too.” High Jump Stars Enter Nation Senior AAU Meel NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-(£>)-Ker Wiesner of Marquette and Sgt. Joshua Williamson of Camj Flauche, La., who tied for the high jump title in the 1945 meet, have entered the National AAU senioi indoor track and field champion ships to be held Feb. 23 at Madi son Square Garden. Another defending ehampior slated to compete at the Garder is Charles Beaudry, a Marquette graduate now teaching at Mar quette High school who won the Decathlon crown. He will restric: his competition to the 60-yard dash and 60-yard low hurdles. N HHS Basketball Future I n Doubt; Wilmington Loses Tri-State Spot SHELBY GRANTED FRANCHISE OVER PORT CITY TEAM Circuit Moguls Leave Way Open For City If Seven th Club Is Found BULLETIN RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 6— (ff)—Promotor Sam Allen of Raleigh said tonight that Wil mington would join the new class D Tobacco State Baseball League and would post its fee at a meeting tomorrow night at Clinton. Wilmington had a representa tive at the tri-state league meeting today in Charlotte. Allen said he could not re veal the identity of the Wil mington backers at this time. By EDWARD SACHS Star Sports Editor CHARLOTTE, Feb. 6.—Wilming ton lost the sixth spot franchise in the Tri-State League today when the executive committee voted to grant the franchise to Shelby, county seat of Cleveland county. The decision was made. Judge C. M. Llewellyn, league president, told The Star, because of 'mile age distances and Shelby gives the Tri-State a more campact circuit of operations.” However the league president assured The Star that the league is still hoping to have Wilmington as a member this year. He said that if Wilmington could arrange the necessary financing for a Class B league, the loop would plan an eight-club cir cuit with Gastonia or Rock Hill as the eighth member. Shelby was promised an 'outside operator, in return for which the city agreed to furnish the park, pay the light bill and place a deposit of $1,000 with tiie league. The Shel by presentation, backed by repre sentation from that city’s Chamber of Commerce, hinged on the city’s past record of Class D operation which though no financial struc ture was Indicated, was regarded as in proximity to other loop cen ters. Another point In the Shelby argu ment which seemed to impress the league was the nearness cvf the ball park to the business section of the city. Wilmington’s case was presented by Jay Jenkins, Wilmington News reporter acting as personal repre sentative of J. E. L. Wade, chair man of the Citizen’s Committee. Jenkins stressed city’s growth in population and pointed out that the subscription of Wilmington fans to a proposed baseball club, exceed ed the Shelby total by almost three times. Jenkins also pointed out to the committee, ‘‘that it was harder for a city like Wilmington to prepare for organized baseball after sev eral years of going without, than a city like Charlotte which has had baseball all through recent years. TRI-STATE SEASON TO OPEN APRIL 24 CHARLOTTE, Feb. 6.—(.*)—'Tri State Baseball League directors, meeting here today, voted to optti their season on April 24 after wel coming into their ranks Charlotte and Shelby to present a six-team front for the 140-game campaign. The opening day schedule sends Charlotte to Shelby, Spartanburg, S. C., to Anderson, S. C., and Ashe ville to Knoxville, Tenn. C. Manley Llewellyn of Concord, president of the Class B circuit, was also named secretary-treas urer with Calvin Griffith of the Charlotte club vice-president. Following the Sept. 11 close ol the regular season the circuit wil stage Shaughnessy playoffs involv ing the first four clubs. A $3,000 salary limit was agreec on exclusive of managers. Th< limit will be 16 players, except tha 27 will be allowed the first 20 day: of the season and six extra the last 20. An all-star game was set foi July 15, The July 4 leader to play a team composed of players frorr the other five clubs. With Sunday baseball not per mitted at Anderson and Spartan burg, the league voted to have al Sunday “home” games in those two cities transferred to their op ponents parks, with all receipt: above expenses going to the clut in which the game was originally scheduled. The next meeting will be held ir Asheville Feb. 17. Wilmington, which last weel turned down an offer to enter the circuit, was represented at the session and Llewellyn announcec that if Wilmington still wished t( come in “we will consider the ap plication and try to make it ai eight-club 1 e a g u e.” However chances of lining up an eighth clue at this late date appeared slim. Two clubs are already set wit. manager?, Spartanburg having Tec Petoskey and Knoxville playing un der Dale Alexander. All six parks are equipped witr lights. —hHHurerSt ont atstartETAOI : basketbaliTscores Davidson 44, Clemson 33. Texas A. & M. 50, Texas 44. West Virginia 65, Army 63. Wake Forest 59, William anc Mary 51. BLUE DOLPHINS SET FOUR NEW RECORDS IN MEET WITH DIXIE CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 6—Setting four new Southern conference rec cords and sweeping every first place, North Carolina’s flying Blue Dolphins sank Duke, today, 66 to 9, to retain their state and South ern Conference laurels. The 43rd dual meet Victory in its last 47 starts, this was also the most decisive victory Carolina ever scored over its arch rivals. Dick Twining, who won three first places and set five new marks at the Carolinas AAU champion ships, Saturday, competed in only one event but set a new confer ence and pool mark of 2 minutes 14.1 for the 220. The other three new conference marks: Mike Morrow, 54.9 seconds for the 100-yard free style, Jack Zimmerman, 2 minutes 35.2 for the 200-yard: breast stroke and eo Captain Snooky Proctor, 5 min utes 6.2 for the 440. Carolina invades Georgia Tech Saturday and swims in the South Eastern AAU championships in Atlanta, Saturday. TABOR CITY WINS, LOSES TO “PACK” WHITEVILLE, Feb. 8 — The Whiteville-Tabor City boy-girl bas ketball double-header was a neat split yesterday as the Whiteville girls trounced the Tabor City girls 40-18 and the Tabor City boys bounced the Whiteville boys 48-23. Mooney, Whiteville, and Wright, Tabor City, were high point "men” in the girls’ game with 16 and 12 points respectively. In the boys’ game, Soles scored 16 points for the Tabor City Red Devils and Taylor was high man for the los ing Whiteville Wolf Pack with 11 points. The lineups: GIRLS Whiteville, 40 Tabor City, 18 Mooney, f . Reynolds, 1 Rogers, f - Ward, 1 Caswell, f _ Wright, f Powell, f .- Strickland, 1 Byrd, f . Putnam, g Jordan, f .-- Busskin, g Scbdit, f .- Turberville, g Beasley, f . Soles, g Bruton, f ..- Cox, g McRackan, 1 Fore, g McGirt, g Jones, g Inman, g Hodges, g Hooks, g Schulken, g Bowill, g BOYS Tabor City, 48 Whiteville, 23 Soles, f ..- Davis, f Herring, f . Rushing, f Spivey, f - Page, f Stanley, f . Horton, f Wright, c . Lennon, f Long, c . Taylor, c Ward, g - Paramorg, c Strickland, g-Cox, g Fipps, g . Garrell, g Fowler, g JAYVEES WIN FAST GAME FROM TEMPLE BAPTIST HOOPSTERS Even though the New Hanover High School Varsity was having their ups and downs, the Jayvees of Coach Wallace West kept the basketball picture interesting by trimming the Temple Baptist quint, 33 to 28, yesterday evening at the NHHS gym. Led by fiery Homer Ellis, a freshman, who is a good all-around eager, the Junior Varsity made uj slightly for their defeat at Cami Lejeune, Tuesday. Ellis dropped 12 points into the basket to pact the Jayvee scorers, but was fol lowed closely by Mike Austin wit! 9. Once again top man for th< Temple team was Linwood Oris som, who bagged 18 markers plus playing his usually fine passing game. Box Score: __ JAYVEES FG FT TF Austin, f - * J * Penny, f-- 1 ? ^ J. Hilburn, f - 0 * i ’ Maultsby, f ——.- 0 “ , Warren, f - 1 « r ! C. Hilburn, c - 0 ? « Parker, c - 2 „ ^ Ellis, g . 6 a West, g - ® ® , Gregg, g - 1 ® I Kelly, g -J° _ TOTAL .15 3 33 TEMPLE BAPTIST FT TP Grissom, f _ ® 3 Mullinix, f _ 0 % , Howell, f - 2 * Jenkins, c - ® ; Sharpe, c ...- 8 | Begore, g - ® , . Patrick, g _ TOTAL . 13 2 28 ROYALISTS ACCUSED LONDON, Feb. 5—MV-The Mos cow radio, commenting on reports that the current visit of Don Juan, Spanish pretender, to Portugal was in preparation for restoration of th< Spanish monarchy, accused Spanisl royalists today of attempting ”t< save the Franco regime.” Old ‘King Of Swat’ Cuts l Cake On 52ndBirthday — 1 '■ ..... 11 r Ftfr,Fitancf52 With blow-up of himself in his heyday as backdrop, Babe Ruth cuts cake in celebration of 52nd birthday in his> Riverside Drive \ggartment, New_Yorly GRIDIRON BRUTES TO WEAR NLYONS NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—(IP)—Amer ica’s women will be shocked to learn that in the very near future they’ll be sharing their nylons with the brawny brutes who cavort each fall Saturday on the football fields of the nation. This startling prediction develop ed today at the annual convention of the National Sporting Goods as sociation, where the coming foot ball uniform was pictured as a fancy but durable creation made almost entirely of nylon. One manufacturer, who smiled at the thought of sheathing the grid iron Goliaths in the same shim mering substance now used main ly in the adornment of feminine underpinnings, described such uni forms as “light as a feather but tougher than leather.’’ “Not only will pants, jerseys and socks be made of nylon material, but the time will come when it will go into helmets and shoes,” he said. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service Babe Ruth, Down Now To 238, Has Dreams Of Manager Job NEW YORK, Feb. tfV-Babe Ruth stuffed his 238 pound* into a camel hair coat and set off for a day’s bowling on his 52nd birthday anniversary today still dreaming of becoming a big league man ager. It doesn’t look a« though the Babe’s managerial days are very close and, down deep, he probably knows that it may never happen but the man who was once paid $80,000 per year by the New York Yankees still has hopes. For a fellow Who doesn’t go to the ball games very often any more, Ruth has kept close to the diamond scene. He agrees that wartime baseball was a “poor dish” but warns against expecting too much from the returning vet erans. Ruth doesn’t share the popular belief that a discharge slip and a few spring training games can reconvert the big league of 1942. "It all depends on whether they’ve learns! to walk on their heels," the Babe pointed out. “It’s those muscles in the back of the leg. Once they tighten up, you’re finished. I rememDer Ernie Shore, a fel low I thought was going to be the best pitcher in baseball. He went away to the last war and came back a year later with a dead arm. Of course there’s one big differ ence this time. Most of the guys had a chance to play some ball in the service.” The Bambino thinks the Yanks have too much for the rest of the American League this year, if the returning vets are okay. Neither Detroit nor Boston figures to be too much trouble in his book and he likes the St. Louis Cardinals in the National. “What did 1 think of that $175, 000 Walker Cooper deal?” The Babe repeated a question. “I’ve noticed that fellow in St. Louis (Sam Breadon) has been pretty lucky on his deals. Dizzy Dean wasn’t much good after he sold him. I hope for Horace Stone ham’s sake that isn’t true with Cooper.” Since his release as coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938, Ruth has been connected with various organizations outside organized baseball. He gave up refereeing wrestling as “too tough on the feet.” More recently he has been giving bowl ing exhibitions in the New York area and making numerous visits to veterans’ hospitals. He talks proudly about his 185 bowling av erage as if it were another 60-home run season. Ruth claimed he had pared down from 278 pounds a year ago to 238 pounds by simply “taking care of myself.” He said he bowled five ,or six times a week and played ai dittle golf. His golf has been re stricted because he has had trouble pivoting on his right leg since an operation in 1944. RULING ON MCKO)f MAY END SEASON FOR 1945 QUINT School Officials Plan Pro* test Over Eligibility Group Findings Future status of varsity basket ball in Wilmington remained in doubt last night after the New Hanover High Wildcats were fuled out of further conference competi tion for the current season by a decision of the Eligibility commit tee of the North Carolina High School Athletic association on Tuesday night at Chapel Hill. The committee decreed that New Hanover liad illegally played its star center, Johnny McKoy, in a conference game against Raleigh on Jan. 18—four days before Me Koy was eligible for league play. Whether the NHHS varsity would disband for the balance of this year, or whether it would attempt to negotiate an independent sched ule could not be ascertained «s Principal T. T. Hamilton, Jr., and Coach Leon Brogden could not be contacted last night. Rumors about the High school, yesterdayt however, said that the varsity probably would be dis banded' for the balance of the year. The McKoy issue, smouldering in Raleigh since Raleigh High school’s coach protested the pre sence of the New Hanover center in a conference game here on Jan. 18, was taken up by the NCHSAA Tuesday night following the Dur ham-New Hanover game. The Eligibility committee de creed that McKoy was not eligible on Jan. 18, hence, under confer ence rules, New Hanover forfeited all of its conference games—wins and losses—and that any confer ence games it might play for the balance of the season would not be official. The ruling, Secretary C. E. Mc Intosh said yesterday, was almost identical to the one which decreed thgt a Raleigh High school foot ball player, Joe Jordan, was in eligible during the season of 1944, and on which Raleigh was com pelled to forfeit its conference standing for that football season. “It must be understood,” McIn tosh informed the Star by tele phone from Chapel Hill, yester day, “that the committee’s action was no reflection against McKoy, nor was a reflection against the in tegrity of Mr. Hamilton or Coach Brogden. They acted in good faith. It was simply a technicality —but a violation of the rules, nonetheless.” The whole issue revolved around an interpretation of when the New Hanover High school Fall semester ended and the Spring semester began. McKoy, not eligi ble to play conference games in the fall term, passed his examina tions and on Jan. 17 was certified.' by the NCHSAA for conference competition on the ground that he had satisfied scholastic require ments for the "preceding semes ter.” The straight whiskies in tEis product are five years or more old, twenty-seven and one-half percent straight whiskies, seventy-two and one-half percent grain neutral spirits —five percent straight whiskies si* years old, twenty-two and one-half percent straight whiskies five years and three months old, 86.8 Proof. Seagram-Distillers Corp„ New York, New York # Seagram’s 5 Croton ; BLENDED WHISKEY