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The
Morning Watch
WITH
Edward Sachs
Let s Cut Throats
One of the nicest things about sports in general, is
the frequency which parties of the first part try to put
things over on parties of the second part. Every time
you turn around, someone is slipping a knife in your
hack. However, as long as he doesn’t draw blood, you
laugh and say “It’s all part of the game.”
For example, Charlie Justice goes to North Carolina after
South Carolina had him padlocked. Picture the next meeting be
tween Carl Snavely and any member of the USC coaching staff
Chilly? Bud, it will be just like John’s Other Wife meeting John’s
Other Wife.
Then we have the Mexicans importing American baseball
players with great regularity. While they havn’t persuaded
such gentlemen as Ted Williams or Bob Feller to head Souse
of the Border, Luis Olmo of Brooklyn and Danny Gardella both
are headed for the land of the Samba and the money they will
draw down there is a lot freer than then kind they could get
In the land of Uncle Samba.
For instance, Olmo, an outfielder of some note with Brook
lyn was offered $7,500 by Branch • Riskey, country gentleman
de-luxe and general manager of the Dodgers. Olmo sat on the
beach of his native Puerto Rico and waited till an emissary of the
Mexican league paddled out waving a check for $13,500. Olmo
will probably take same and at that, $13,500 will buy a lot of en
chaladas.
Then we have the NBA and MikeJacobs doing a version
0f “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie.” Every Saturday, just in
time to catch those fat Sunday sports’ pages, the NBA sounds
off about Jacobs and his fight monopoly. Jacobs, in the mean
while, goes out to Pompton Lakes and looks over such proper
ties as Sugar Rbinson, Joe Louis and Billy Conn. Every once
in a while he answers the NBA but as he has all the marbles
it is not a very Interesting fight.
Of course no discussion of the knife-insertions would be com
plete without mention of the two pro grid leagues. Some sort of
1 low-water mark was reached when the Cleveland All-Americans
swiped the Cleveland Natibnals’ press agent. Press agents corn
ing a dime a dozen, this move was pure malice. However, the
Nationals got even when they moved all the way to California
where you can get press agents for a dime a hundred.
Every sport has its version of the pat-on-the-back-with a sting.
A returning pro golfer, after several seasons with the Army,
yelled copper last month claiming that he had to use war balls
while his competitors were using prewar bubbles. However, we
think that Byron Nelson could use your kid sister’s jacks and still
beat the present crop of linksmen, so the yell well probably die
a-borning.
I Herman Hickman is supposed to be a great man at this
sport. Herman, 285 pounds of sweetness and light, is line coach
for West Point. On one of his recent trips through Carolina,
he is supposed to have persuaded a young man of Catawba
to come up and see him some time, which brought howls from
Catawba’s coach that Herman was a vermin. Much of the
same was echoed when Doc Blanchard, the Army’s answer to
the Panzer unit, moved his other pair of socks from Chapel
Hill to West Point.
SPORTS SHORTS . . . Taft Wright of Lumberton left yes
terday for Pasadena and the Chicago White Sox training camp.
. . . Taft is heading for his fifth year of major-league ball ... He
spent three years with the Sox and one with the Senators before
getting his greetings . . . Add tall basketball eagers . . . Seven
one Em Morgenthaler of New Mexico Aggies, 6-10 George Kok
of Arkansas, 6-9 Milt Schoon of Valparasio, 6-8 Bill Henry of
Rice, Rod Rocha of Oregon State and Vince Hanson of Wash
ington State . . . Pete Moore, director of public relations at Guil
ford writes but nothing new on that proposed conference . . .
Carl Snavely couldn’t get a ticket to the Duke-North Carolina
basketball game . . . What, no Justice? ... Why basketball in
the South continues to lag behind the rest of the country . . .
The gymns are too small . . . When Catawba plays North Caro
lina in Salisbury, 300 fans will be all that can be squeezed into
the Indian’s gym . . . And here in Wilmington, 1,000 fans were
turned away from a recent basketball game . . . Three spots are
still open in the Southern Conference tournament . . . North Caro
lina, Duke, Wake Forest, Maryland and Virginia Tech are al
ready in . . . If the tournament were being played at College Park
instead of Raleigh, the Terps could do a lot of damage . . . How
much do you want to bet that the Reds will finish last in the Na
tional league? . . . Speaking of the Reds if Johnnie Vander Meer
has really gained control over his fast ball he should be one of
the better lefties in baseball . . . But seeing is believing ... If
Shelby baseball plans fall through, Charlotte will have to leave
the Tri-State . . . And the last thing we heard a Charlotte sports
writer say was ‘Florida, here I come.” . . . Oh, well there is
always softball . . . Speaking of tall basketball players; the tallest ■'
tennis player we ever saw was the Irish Davis Cupper, Rogers who
wen’ up to 6-8 1-2 .. . The tallest gridder playing may be Jim
Benton who jumped the Rams . . . Jim stands 6-6 . . . Maybe you
know of a taller one . . .
PREP ATHLETES
TO HEAR COACH
State College alumni of New
Hanover rounty will be joined by
the leading se ic athletes of this
region and their coaches Wednes
day evening at their meeting at the
American Legion home.
Featured speaker at the meeting
will be Beattie Feathers, head
football coach of the Wolfpack*
£ ■. • —
His grid assistants will also be in
attendance.
While the topic of Feathers’ talk
has not been announced, it will
probably contain a report of foot
ball prospects at the Raleigh school
for 1946 and a review of Feathers’
past year at State.
All State college alumni have
been invited to attend and are
asked to contact Secretary George
Parham, Equitable Life Insurance,
7128 or 2-8148 or President Robert
Ashworth, Jr.
Also scheduled for the meeting
is an election of officers for the
coming years. A nominating com
mittee of T. J. Hewitt, Thomas B.
Lilly, and A. E. Baggett has been
named.
Military and lend-lease requir
ments in the past year took 17
per cent of the nation’s ctirui
crop.
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Wildcats Face Raleigh Caps Tonight
HANOVER CAGERS
IN SECOND GAME *
WITHCAP FIVE
First Meeting Resulted In
63-23 Route Of Coach
Lee Stone’s Quintet
By EDWARD SACHS
Star Sports Editor
Lee Stone, coach of the Raleigh
Caps, will have a chance to see
one of his favorite conversation
pieces in action, tonight when his
charges meet the New Hanover
Wildcats at Raleigh.
Stone was instrumental in bring
ing charges of ineligibility against
Johnnie McKoy, towering Wildcat
center, by the North Carolina High
School Athletic association two
weeks ag-. Following the charges,
the Cat cagers who were leading
the Eastern conference, were
evicted from the basketball race.
Stone was quoted in Raleigh
newspaper accounts as protesting
the use of McKoy soon after his
team took a 63 to 23 pasting at
the hands of the Cats here.
Soon after Durham High school,
•which since has ' en defeated by
the Cats, entered a formal protest
to the NCHSAA.
The meeting tonight will bring
together two contrasting teams.
The C’ps in 10 conference games
have won four and lost six and are
just a shadow of their former cage
greatness.
Lacking neight and reserves
their most dependable player has
been burly Sam Cothran a for
ward'. In their Wilmington ap
pearance, the raps were never in
the ball-game and their hap-hazard
passing attach disintergrated un
der the pressure of Lee,.Collie
Brown and compa -j.
However, since that game the
Caps have improved and with the
usual five-point advantage for
playing in their own gymnasium
may be ready to spring an upset on
the Brogden Boys, who have im
pressed cage experts all season
with their better-than-high-school
precision.
The usual starting five, Lee,
Cbllie, Fennell, McKoy, and Brown
will probably be aided by three
reserves who have been seeing in
creasing action, Charlie Smith,
Don Hyitt, and Jack Tuttle.
Smith has developed into one ol
the most promising ragers on the
current roster. A well-built young
ster, he has the physical eqhip
ment for rebounding. Hyatt, first
string center on the football team
is one of the tallest boys on the
squad while Tuttle has worked
well under pressure in all of his
first team appearances.
Three Cage Tilts
Played At Y Gym
In play at the YMCA last night
the Kress Store were defeated by
Green Drugs', 9 to 7. The Barnhill
Crows submerged the Wilkins
Pirates 19 to 11,. and the Kingoff
Jewelers trounced the Lanes
Drugs, 23 to 17.
Box scores:
Lanes Drugs FG FT TF
Crowley, f - 3 0 6
Umphrey, f - 12 i c
McLean, g - 0 9 ®
naiisic^, 6 -—- - ” ”
: Collie, g - 0 0 0
TotAl, —- 8 1 17
Kingoff FG FT IF
B. Powell, f - 2 0 4
Williams, f - 2 0 4
Reynolds, c - 10 5
Nebar, g - 10 5
G. Stone, g- 1 1 '
Grisson - 4 0 8
Total _11 1 21
BaBrnhlll Crows FG FT 'll
Hansley, f - 3 1
B. Stone, f -- 3 0 I
Barmil, f - 1 0 :
Kelly, g —- 1 0 :
Tucker, g -1- 1 0 :
Total _ 9 1 II
Wilkins Pirates FG FT Tl
Wilkins, f _ 1 0
Stefinaos, f _ 1 0
Sanders, c _ 1 0
Glissons, g - 1 0
Dounaldson, g _ 1 1
Total _ 5 11
Kress Store FU FT Tl
Colley, f _ 0 0 I
Babson, £ _ 1 1 ;
Hill, f _\_ 10
Holland, g_j_ 0 0 1
Taylor, g _ 1 0
Boone, g _ 0 0 1
Total _ 3 1
Greens Drugs FG FT Tl
; Parker, £ _ 2 1
Sloan, f _ 0 1
Bowen, c _ 0 0 1
Glover, g _ 0 1
Cantwell, g__ 0 0 1
Padrick, g _ 1 0 :
Total _ 3 3
Dan Gardella
MEXICAN LEAGUE
STAGES RAID ON
MAJOR’S TALENT
Brooklyn’s Olmo Giants’
Gardella, Latest Ballplay
ers To Sign
NEW YORK, Feb. 18—(d5)—The
Mexican Professional baseball
league staged a double barrelled
raid on National League talent to
day and obtained two outfielders,
raising to seven the number of
major leaguers signed within the
past few days. •
Luis Olmo, a .313 slugger with
the Brooklyn Dodgers last year
where he played in both the out
field and at third base, signed to
play with the Vera Crus, club for
three years at a salary reported
to be $10,000 annually in addition
to living and traveling expenses
for himself and his wife.
Dan Gardella, an outfielder-first
baseman with the New York Giants
last year but in disfavor this
spring, announced at Miami that
he had agreed to a five-year con
tract. He did not mention the
salary.
Robert Jamis, who represented
the Mexican league in the negotia
tions, offered Dick Bartell. Giant
utility Infielder, $7,500 a year but
the veteran rejected it.
.uci iiai vavj anvj. iucuiu -*■
‘ wealthy Mexican baseball addicts,
have been doing most of the sign
ing of the layers.
Others who reportedly have ink
ed contracts are Nap Reyes, New
York Giant third baseman; Rene
Monteagudo, Philadelphia Phillies
outfielder; Roberto Etalella,
Philadelphia handy-man; Fermin
Guerra, Washington catcher, and
Adrian Zabala, Giant pitcher.
Adolf Luque, former Giant coach,
has agreed to manage one of the
Mexican teams and Pasquel broth
ers also have put Infielder Roland
Gladu, formerly of Boston in the
National League and last year at
Montreal, and Pitcher Jean Pierre
Roy. also of Montreal, under con
tract.
They also have made offers to
Pitcher Alex Carrasquel of the
Chicago White Sox; Infielder Gil
berto Torres, Washington third
baseman, and to Dick Sisler, son
of George Sisler who is the prop
erty of the St. Louis Cardinals.
: Back Charlie Justice
Enrolls At Carolina
CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 18— (JP) —
Charlie Justice, the Asheville High
school graduate who made a foot
| ball reputation for himself with
: Bainbridge Naval Training station.
| enrolled today at the University of
i North Carolina.
■ Under the regular program pro
vided for veterans, he will take
■ refresher courses until the new
i quarter begins March 22. Mrs. Jus
; tice, a pretty blonde who will also
. attend the university, will audit
1 courses until the new term begins
| and then will enroll for credit
* courses.
NATIONAL CHAMPS
RUN SATURDAY IN
CHAPEL HILL MEET
Several Southern Invita
tional Records Expect
ed To Fall
CHAPEL HILL, Feb. lS-W
The entries for Saturday’s annua!
Southern invitation indoor track
championships closed today wit!
a new record of 39 teams and 28(
stars, scattered' from Atlanta tc
Huntington, W. Va.
This is the largest field the big
meet has attracted since it wai
opened to service as well as col
lege stars f r years ago, Direc
tor R. A. Fetzer predicted somt
brilliant competition and, in al
probability, several new records.
Nineteen teams will go after th<
open division title and 20 after the
scholastic championship. Bott
fields are wide-open, as PreFlight,
which nose ' out North Carolina
and Cherry Point last year, has
since disbanded.
Other favorites include Caro
lina’s arch-rivals from Duke,
Georgia Tech’s perennial South
eastern leaders, and the Little
Creek sailors who are bringing two
Penn Relay winners and three
former National Interscholastic
These are Fortune Gordon from
Minnesota and Norman Wasser
from New ' .'orL University, in the
shot and Robert Quinlam, Harris
Ross, and Ed Migam, all in the dis
tance runs, which should produce
some great races.
Camp Peary is also sending Ted
Vogel, former national distance
champion. Vogel has run the two
mile in the sensational time of 9:24.
But Little Creek’s Morgan has
done it in 9:25.
Another famous star will be Lt.*
Comdr. Harry March from Nor
folk Naval Air station, an ace
pilot during the war, who won the
National Pentalon championship
while comp'ting here in 1941.
All nine of the leading Southern
Conference teams will be repre
sented', including Davidson, Duke,
Maryland, North Carolina, N. C.
State, South Carolina, V. M. I.,
Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.
HANOVERQUINTS
WIN OVER LELAND
LELAND, Feb. 18—The New
Hanover High School Junior var
sity edged out a tight 33 to 26 vic
tory over Leland High here tonight
in a game marked by excessive
fouling on both fives.
Wallace West’s cagers were
never ahead more than four-points
until the last few minutes of the
tilt, giving them their fifth triumph
in the last six games.
Mike Austin, big forward, once
more paced the Jayvees as he
dominated the rebounds and tossed
in 10 points for the night, using
mostly crip shots on rebounds.
The NHHS girls won the first
game .' the double-header, 25 to
8, as Lib Hellen paced the lassies
to their initial win.
JAYVEES EU n ir
Warren, f -1 * 2
J. Hilburn, f.4 0 n
Bradshaw, f -0 0 9
Austin, f -.4 2 10
C. Hilburn, c-2 0 4
Taylor, c — -^ i r
Gregg, g -.2 2 6
Maultsby, g -0 « n
Hickman, g---® 0 Jj
13 7 33
LELAND FG FT TF
Ganny, f .2 i n
Williams, f .0 0 ”
Rourk, c -® 3 n
Clark, g -.0 0 0
Potter, g -3 3 "
Klutz, g .—--0 1 *
Williams, g -0 0 0
9 8 26
INCREASED CADDY FEES
LONDON, Feb. 18. —(£>—British
golf professionals discussed two
proposals today on how to avoid
the $4 to $6 per round demand by
caddies. One was to carry their
own bags, the other that the clubs
organize and establish ‘‘a reason
able foe.” Cmdr. R. C. T. Roe,
secretary of the British PGA, said
that tournament rules, ignored in
some cases recently, permit a $2
caddy fee for a practice round and
$2.50 per round in competition.
1 . ", — . I ■ ■ I
One Of The Best
. . . Was Pepper Martin, shown above in one r,f his characteristic poses. Pepper is gone now along
with the rest of the “Gas-House Gang’’ of Dean, Medwick, and Owen fame but the St. Louis Cards are
still the team to beat in the National league.
V e ter an Red Cochrane May Cure
Wake Forest Tailback Weakness
DEACS NEED STAR
TO REPLACE LOSS
OF ACE SACR1NTY
65 Candidates Report For
Opening Day Of Foot
ball Practice
WAKE FOREST. Feb. 18—{IP)—
Sixty-five candidates for the 1946
Wake Forest football team report
ed to Coach D. C. (Peahead) Walk
er today for the opening session
of winter practice.
Walker will try to fill five vacan
cies in his starting lineup. Gone
from the first team are Dave Har
ris, end; Buck Garrison, tackle;
Pride Ratterree, guard; Dick
Foreman, center, and Nick Sac
rinty, tailback.
Ordinarily, the loss of All-South
ern Sacrinty would be a tremend
ous blow, but John (Red) Coch
ran, tailback on the strong 1942
team and rated by Walker as one
of the best backs in the south,
has returned after three years in
the Army.
Prominent reserves of the 1945
squad who have been lost via selec
tive service are Jimy Garry, full
back; Wick Alford, guard; Bill Bul
lard, tailback; Fred Berman,
tackle; Clyde Parrish, end; and
Pee Wee Jones, back. Reserves
who have dropped out of school
a 13aU Cw,a4Ua„a ....VaUa aU. T_
ry Levine, center; Eddie Kensie,
end; and John Kinsey, back.
Harris, Garrison, and Ratteree
aren’t eligible next season but they
came out for the practice to help
Walker with the coaching.
Bobby Kellogg, new backfield
coach, and Pat Preston, who will
help coach the line, are the full
time assistant coaches on the staff.
DAVIDSON MEETS STOREY
DAVIDSON, Feb. 18—(JF)—Coach
Bill Storey, Davidson college’s
new head football mentor, announc
ed the beginning of winter foot
ball practice today, scheduled to
continue for the next six weeks.
About 60 candidates turned out to
meet the new coach.
Storey's announcement followed
the college’s first formal introduc
tion of the new head mentor and
his assistant, Charley Jamerson,
another coaching newcomer, to the
Davidson student body.
The head coach recently took
over his football duties here after
a highly successful record as grid
iron coach at Granby High school
in Norfolk, Va.
Jamerson joined the Davidson
coaching staff after a number of
years as football coach at Memphis
(Tenn.) State Teachers college.
Wyoming had a population of
only 55,000 in 1890, when admitted
to statehood.
Lombardi's Silence
Worries Manager Off
(Compiled From The Wires
Of AP and UP)
Ernie Lombardi, long one the
leading catchers of National league
baseball isn’t talking and his si
lence is worrying Manager Met Ott
of the New York Giants . . . The
beaked-nose slugger “won’t talk,”
said Ott . . . “We don’t even know
whether he’s dissatisfied or just
doesn’t want to begin training ear
ly.” . . . Dick Bartell. veteran
shortstop signed his New York con
tract yesterday . . . Hank Green
berg, who recently signed a con
tract with the Detroit Tigers for
$00,000 a year . . . Took himself a
bride yesterday . . . He married
Divorcee Caral Gimbel, the bru
nette daughter of a New York de
partment store millionaire . . .
They were welded at Sea Island,
Ga. . . . The bride’s pop said . . .
Rudy York, who visited Wilming
ton last fall for a hunting tour . . .
Is the only holdout of the Eoston
Red Sox , . . The big Georgia boy
gained the distinction when George
Metkovich John Tobin, Emmett
O’Neill, Fred Walters and Howard
Doyle all signed Boston pacts last
night . , . The poor Yankees, swelt
ering in tropic Panama heard from
their President Larry MacPhail
yesterday and as usual the big
noise had a lot to say . . . First, he
informed the press that Ernie Bon
ham, George Stirnweiss, Joe
Buzas, Russ Derry and Tucker
Stainback were still unsigned . . .
“Bonham was cut plenty,” Big
Chief MacPhail said . . . Other tid
bits from the pride of Bel Air
Maryland were that Bill Johnson
third baseman, may be discharged
from the army by April 15 and
that Pitcher Mel Queen, was still
in the service contrary to reports
. . . Big Red Ruffing is training in
the states at his own expense, said
MacPhail. . .A 20-member Chicago
White Sox squad, composed most
ly of batterymen left Chicago yes
terday for the west coast where
Jimmy Dykes will open drills
Thursday.
FISHING CLUB MEETS
The Board of Directors of the
New Hanover Fishing club will
meet tonight at 8 at Gregg’s
Hardware store, club officials
announced last night. General
plans for the coming year will
be discussed, they said.
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Returning Veterans Replace Sens’ Latins
BY JACK HAND
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 18—Ossie
Bluege has thrown away his
Spanish book and most of Papa
Joe Cambria’s Cuban circus to
welcome back his ex-GI’s with
open arms at the Washington
Senators’ training camp.
Only Gilberto Torres, the regu
lar shortstop of last year, and
reserve catcher Fermin Gueira
figure in his 1946 plans although a
few assorted Latins will desert
the rhumba land to work with the
club before moving on to Chatta
nooga or Charlotte.
The contrast with last spring’s
scenes at College Park, Md., is
eye-opening. There will be no sigh
ing guitars or Spanish songs in the
moonlight under Orlendo's palms.
No temperamental athletes will
look daggers because they don”t
think their interpreters are telling
the truth.
Cambria, the chief scout for
Clark Griffith, had lured a crew
of Cubans, Venezuelans and Mexi
cans to the University of Maryland
campus a year ago. They lived in
one of the college dormitories dur
ing the spring vacation period,
forming a latin colony all their
own, about 20 strong.
Few made the grade but it was,
by far. the largest foreign con
tingent ever to invade a major
league spring training base
Bluege always was a little be
wildered by the Cambira circus
and his Spanish, a little rusty
since his school days, never got
beyond the “Si. Si’’ stage. Torres
and Guerra, who had played ball
in the states, acted as interpreters
between the boss and the latins.
“Those two fellows were so busy
translating English to Spanish and
back again that they never had
time to practice,” Bluege recalled
with a half smile. “Then the play
ers wouldn’t believe they were
telling the truth when I was a little
critical. No, no more of that. We
have plenty of boys coming back
from service and they’H get the
jobs. The war’s over and the honey
moon’s over for most of those fel
lows.”
Bluege counts Torres a valuable
squad member although he doesn’t
expect to play him at shortstop
again. Cecil Travis will play the
position if his leg muscles have
loosened up enough.
“Torres did a good job for us
last year,” the skipper said. “He
didn’ cuver too much ground be
cause his range isn’t very wide.
He let a ball get through there
once in a while but, after all, he
He’s a good man to have around,
was a former pitcher, you know,
can play anyplace and I have an
idea he might come in handy on
the pitching staff.”
Guerra appeared in 56 games
last year and the stocky receiver
developed into a fair hand at hand
ling those dipsy-doodle knucklers
the Washington Pitchers feature.
Alex Cerrasqual, the Venezue
lan, has been traded to Chicago
and the newcomers don’t figure
to stick around long. The only
other possibility is Pitcher Santi
ago Ullrich who hardly startled the
league with a 3-3 record for the
Nats in 1945.