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Fishing will hit the airways today at 1 o’clock when Thurston Watkins, president of the New Hanover Fishing club, appears on the Star-Newsreel program over WMFD to discuss what fishing has meant to this-area. Watkins will appear with a group of other sportsmen each of whom will represent a particular phase of the sports world; Appearing on the Mike Views of Sports broadcast with Watkins— Ben McDonald narrator-will be E L. White, yachting; Louis Orfell. golfing; and a member of_the New Hanover High school coaching staff jnd co-captams, Jnnmy Piner and Buddy Bridges. Other immuni ties will be represented to round out the southeastern North Carolina gr°UP LARGE BLACK DRUM Fish Lines hates to do this but the black drum caught bv J. J. Robinson at Carolina Beach last week did not set a New HandVer county record. ' f onown is a 71-pound specimen f caught Dec. 2, 1942. According to a clipping from the Wilmington News of the following 'day it hap pened like this. “The catching of two large black drum at Kure’s Peach was reported yesterday. The largest of the fish was a 71 pounder caught by Billy Toms. It iVas admitted by Toms that the fish put up quite a struggle before being landed, after about 30 min utes of battling. John Killiam re ported he had also landed a large fish. His monster weighed *9 pounds; measured three, feet nine inches in length and was 32 inches in circumference. The reason Toms’ catch was not being carried in the New Hanover Fishing club’s annual. Officials say, was due to the fact that the club’s 1946 annual was the first published since the catch was made and that the entry of the fish had been over looked through error. MANY BEING CAUGHT Black drum and Virginia mullets have been running in large schools off the coast during the past week with many, large catches being re ported from the piers. Johnny :--- iuciuct ui uic Auauwv » TOMS' CATCH Wrightsville Beach said catches of from 10 to 200 fish were taken from his quay. Proof of the pudding 1* contained in a picture elsewhere in the column which shows Mrs. J, J. Branch, left, and her daughter Virginia with some 40 mullets caught from,Cure’s pier Thursday. The couple live at 404 A Vance street. Maffit Village, and according to the daughter Mrs. Branch is an ift* veterate fisherman. She' formerly fished in the Lumberton river at Lumberton but has caught the salt-water fever since moving nearer the coast, Virginia says. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER FISHING TEAM MRS. J. J. BRANCH AND DAUGHTER VIRGINIA Although many fish are being taken from the Ft. Fisher pier, Ihe old timers still talk about the trout which were taken from the facility before the ‘‘big storm.” It is the hope of this corner that Page and Fisher will rebuild the pier to its former status that the trout car. once again be added to the mid-winter creel. THE FEMALE ANGLER The catch as reported by Mrs. Branch and her .daughter brings to mind a statement made to the writer by an old fresh water fisher man “teach your wife -to fish and she will want to go fishing when you want to stay home and get caught up on household chores. - It is like gambling, he added, once they throw a hook into the water they are curious enough to want to find out what might strike it. All joking aside, there are more and more women .taking to rod and reel activity every year. It is one of the few sports--—shootmg and bowling are exceptions—where she can compete on almost equal terms with the male member of the family. GIVE HER A ROD AND REEL , Prizes are won each year in fishing contests by the so-called weaker sex” and she has proven her prowess in the angling field. Perhaps the woman who has not been initiated into the use of rod and feel is only waiting for the chance. A good idea mtght be to give her* rod, reel and l;ne for Christmas then watch her antics as she await* the first nice day to try out her new equipment. . . CHANNEL BASS ■ There seems to be a decided difference of opinion among the fishing fraternity on just how a drum will hit. Some claim the fis Jill pick up the bait and move off slowly—that being the reason for ~e fish finder rig”—others say that Is not true and that drum feed in a school will strike hard before the fisherman has a chance *°,tlle fis*r mouth the bait. This much we know is true, they will hit both ways and often jhey will run towards you with the bait making it important NOT to keep a slack line. WHEN TO CATCH ’EM The last two hours of the ebb tide and the first three hours of the lood tide are the best times to fish for channel bass according to ■snermen who have made a study of their habits. Big fish will move ® with the flood tide to feed in the sloughs and around the edge* of . flats. On a near full flood tide they can be caught in the "sude 1 few feet from shore. , _ About this time of the year the drum start their southward ^ration and from now through December they should be found mov they leave the northern PROFESSIONAL BOXING Indoor Arena Legion Stadium WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DEC. 4th Cl T - - p.m. . ... TICKETS ON SALE AT: Jewel Box Foy, Roe Saunders Kid Ellis Lunqh OUT OF TOWN FANS WRITE P. O. BOX 847 FOR RESERVATIONS CADETS NOSE OUT MIDDIES, 21-18 BLANCHARD, DAVIS FINISH CAREERS MUNICIPAL STADIUM, Phila delphia, Nov. 30 — (fly— Army’s careening Cadets wound up their three-year run unbeaten today, but only by the squeaky margin of three extra points, as the Navy picked itself off the floor from its worst season in history to battle the mightiest gridiron machine of generation to a standstill. The score was 21 to 18, and the only reason the impossible didn’t happen was because the “monster and his play-mate”—Doc Blanch ard and Glenn Davis—set off all their sizzling fireworks in the first half, and the middie kicking toes couldn’t hit the bullseye. From the start of the second half it was Navy’s ball game, as the lip-fo-now meek middies, maul e.d and manhandled in seven straight starts up to today, gave the; Cadets the fight of their lives before they were able to come home with that bare three point edge. It was a slashing, smashing battle these fiercely fighting fu ture admirals put up—a fight that saw them dig in on Army’s five yafd line and still rolling when the clock ran out of time to put an end to what appeared the makings of one of the most amazing upsets this game of moleskin mayhem has ever seen. Jack ftay, the Texan with the thread - a - needle toe, booted the point after each one of these tal lies, and that did the trick. That was enough to put this third unbeaten season of the 'black knights on ice, a string that saw the Army banners flying ever since they lost die 1943 Navy game, 13 0'. lit, that startling stretch, they piled'up 27 victories in 28 trips to the post, with only their score less standoff with Notre Dame three weeks ago marring the run. But it never came closer to be ing broken than it was on this cripst sunshiny afternoon, and the faithful-^some of whom had paid ticket speculators as high as $50 a-pieee for the privilege of sitting in on it—will never forget it. Be fore it started, there had been nothing to recommend this as a red-hot brawl, what with a Navy team that hadn’t won a game since it nosed out Villanova in its season opener and a 32-point un derdog among the betting boys today. They drove 82 yards between Army^a first and second touch downs for one of their own, that put them behind only 7-6, with the second quarter started. Then they clawed and dug and inched their way 78 yards more in the third per iod, and finally, capitalizing on a queer quarterbacking stunt by the usually errorless Arnold Tucker late in the third period, they click ed for 35 yards in a hurry for their last marker early in the fourth. TTieir fierce front-line blocking, with center Dick Scott, a 60-minute man from Highland Falls, N. Y., and Jim Carrington, a 196-pound block ©f cement from Riverside, Conn., leading the attack, took charge of Army’s rarely-bent front wall time after time. And in Reaves (Base) Baysinger, I tall, slim Syracuse, N. Y., quarter back who never did any signal calling before the Notre Dame clash three weeks ago, and Bill Hawkins of Richmond, Va., fresh off the bosiptal list, they had the scoring punch. Base scored the first marker on a one-yard sneak through the line, and Hawkins hit the jackpot for the second one, from two yards out. And for the final one, for which they got the opportunity when Tucker called for a fourth-down rush well in his own territory and Blanchard failed to make the dis tance they unfurled Bill Earl, a tiny 160-pound pitcher from Arling ton, Va. Bill tossed a short one which Leon Bramlett, the Navy captain from Clarksdale, Miss., caught in the end zone. After the first touchdown, Bob Van Summern’s place-kick was blocked. Hawkins tried the other two but he was wide on one and had the other partly blocked. I Here *s Bowl Lineups NEW YORK, Nov. 30.— —Here’s the lineup of the post-season bowl football games: January 1, 1947 Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif.: Illinois vs UCLA. Sugar Bowl, at New Orleans: Georgia vs North Carolina. Orange Bowl, at Miami: Tennessee vs Rice. Cotton Bowl, at Dallas: Arkansas vs Louisiana State. . „ Cigar Bowl, at Tampa, Fla.: Delaware vs Rollins. Alamo Bowl, at San Antonio, Tex.: Hardin-Simons vs Denver. Will Rogers Bowl, at Oklahoma City: Pepperdine vs Miami. Ohio. Sun Bowl, at El Paso, Tex,: Neither team selected. Gator Bowl, at Jacksonville, Fla.: Neither team selected. Raisin Bowl, at San Jose, Calif.: San Jose State vs opponent to be designated. December 21. Optimist Bowl, at Houston, Tex.: College of the Pacific vs North Texas State. December 14 Tobacco Bowl, at Lexington, Ky.: St. Bonaventure vs Muhlenberg. December 7 Glass Bowl, at Toledo: Toledo Universitv vs Bates. Little Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif.: Kilgore, Tex., Junior College vs Compton, Calif., Junior College. A ww . ******' College Quintet Annexes Scrap GOLDEN GLOVES IS SANCTIONED According to L. J. Fisher, of High Point who is president of the Carolina AAU, the Southeastern North Carolina Golden Gloves tour ney has- received official sanc tion. This event, which is being spon sored by the Wilmington V. F. W. post, is being directed by Neil V. (Red) Beard and the dates have been set on January 15-18. How evermits was said that these dates are subject to change. Site of the Golden Gloves is that Armory, which is located at 812 Market Street. Tourney winners in the Wilming ton four-day show will be given trophies in addition to expense paid trips to the Charlotte and Greenville finals for the Carolinas. Boxers from these counties will be eligible to complete in the South eastern tourney here: New Han over, Brunswick, Bladen, Carterert. Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Jones, Lenior, Onslow, Pender, Roberson, Sampson and Wayne. lsd'defeTts TULANE, 41-27 BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 30— (U.R)—T. A. Tittle’s sure^shot arm today pitched Louisiana State to a sensational 41-to-27 win over Tulane here today to bolster bowl hopes before a sellout throng of 46,000. Tittle’s amazing accuracy the first six times he passed—he con nected each time—was directly responsible for three LSU touch downs in the first half and set up two more. One of Tittle’s shots was a 43-yard scoring pitch to Mel Lyle. LSU led 28 to 7 at the half. Hollie Heard kicked four extra points for LSU in the first two periods. Judge Bramham Quits LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30—OP)— Judge W. G. Bramhan*. a pillar of organized baseball for nearly 50 years announced today that he expected to retire as president of the national association of pro fessional baseball leagues. The 72-year-old head of the minor leagues said in an inter view: “They are talking of my retire ment on the condition of my health. I suppose that is what it will re sult in. Definitely I expect to re tire.” UCLA Triumphs LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30—(U.R)— UCLA tucked away its first unde feated season today, barging like a champion through the Big Six’s Nebraska Cornhuskers, 18 to 0, be fore 52,508 fans and a scattering of Illinois Rose Bowl scouts at Memorial Coliseum. Rice Beats Baylor HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 30—(U.R)— Rice institute’s Orange Bowl-bound football team won the co-cham pionship of the Southwest confer ence today with a big 38 to 6 victory over hard-luck Baylor uni versity. OKLAHOMA WINS STILLWATER, Okla., Nov. 30— (U.R)—Steamrolling along at a clip of better than a point a minute for 10 touchdowns and as many extra points—with a field goal thrown in for good measure—Oklahoma to day smothered its arch state rival, Oklahoma A. and M., 73 to 12 in their 41st annual football meeting. Football Scores Army 21; Navy 18. ^Southern Methodist 30, Texas Christian North Carolina 49; Virginia 14. Alabama 24; Mississippi State 7. , Tennessee 7. Vanderbilt 6. Notre Dame 26; Southern California North Carolina State 28; Maryland 7. Michigan State 26, Washington State 20. Auburn 47; Florida 12. Georgia 35; Georgia Tech T. Holy Cross 13; Boston College 8. University of South 13; Kenyon 8. Louisiana State 41; Tulane 27. Hardin-Simmons 21; Texas Tech 8. Oklahoma 73; Oklahoma A & M 12. Rice 38 Baylor 8. Northwestern Louisiana 27; Stephen Austin 6. College of Idaho 31: Lewis and Clark 0. College of Pacific if- San mtfo State 13. Shrine Bowl Squads Out; Classic Is Set On Dec. 7 CHARLOTTE, Nov. 30.—(JP)—A star-studded squad of 24 high school seniors, representing 16 South Car olina schools, will come here to morrow to begin practice sessions for the. 10th annual Shrine Bov/1 football game, the event that de cides the Mythical All-Star cham pionship of the Carolinas. The game will be played in Charlotte's Memorial stadium on Dec. 7. Names of the players, who were selected by the Palmetto State eoaching staff on recommendation of coaches throughout the state, were released here tonight by Shrine Bowl officials, i Coach Walter Jenkins of Rock Hill, whose class "A” champion bearcats look proudly to 20 con secutive triumphs, will head the South Carolina coaching staff. As sisting him will be Jack Shivers of Florence and Gilbert Cox of Spar tanburg. Jenkins will have two of his Rock Hill charges to call on as the South Carolinians seek to avenge last year’s north state victory. Big Bill Estes, the state’s outstanding line man, will perform at tackle, while Frank Carothers, whose deadly blocking paved the way for many a bearcat touchdown, will see back field service. Spartanburg high will furnish two of the squad’s four guards in the persons of James Brown and Rob ert Harly. Roy Skinner of Sumter and Jimmy Day of Chester com plete the selections for this posi tion. The coaching staff will be hard pressed in deciding the starter at center. Both Jake Brunson of Sum ter and Ed Taffer of Parker, Greensboro, are rate tops in that post. Joining Estes, who probably will play opposite all-southern candidate W. A. “Pug” Pearman of Harding High, Charlotte, at tackle on the squad are Willard Hudson, North Charleston, Jack Kaneftt, Colum bia, and Marion Campbell, Chester. Major Summerford, Florence’s outstanding pass receiver, Bruce Evans of North Charleston, Pratt Shaw of Charleston and Jack Ow ens of Easley, will perform as ends. Running the plays from a single wing formation behind this for ward wall aveaging in the 180’s will be a host of 10 backfield aces whose play during the past season have placed their teams high on the championship lists of their res pective classes. Selected as backs are Ben Jones of Ware Shoals, Lewis Brunson of Florence, Bishop Strickland of Mul lins, A. L. Curtis of Gaffney, Jim my Gallivan of Greenville, Jim Morelli of Charleston, Sonny Hor ton of Greenwood, Jimmie Brown of Union, Osborne Ballew of Par ker and Carothers of Rock Hill. , Probably the game’s most cheer, ful performer will be Ballew ol Parker. He’ll be playing for a cause he knows is worthy. Unable to walk during the early period ol his life, he was a patient for six years in the Shrine hospital in Greenville — the institution which will get the proceeds from Satur day’s gate. The North Carolina squad has 23 seniors from 16 high schools, most ly in the western part of the state. Two men each were placed by Cen tral and Harding of Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville, Mount Airy, Mineral Springs and Durham. Mount Airy's Bill Cox is leading scorer in the Tar Heel State with 24 touchdowns and six extra points. He led his team to an undefeated season and the state class A cham pionship. ■North Carolina coaches are Fred Emerson of Durham, Price Leeper of Gastonia and Ray Shelton of Wadesboro. They plan to have their boys begin workouts here tomor row. NORTH CAROLINA SQUAD Player. School Wt. tat. ENDS Larry Dempsey, Greensboro 180 8-3 Johnny Gruble, Mt. Airy 192 g-5 Dick Whiteheart, Mineral Springs 192 6-4 Nick Long, Burlington 185 5-11 TACKLES Perry Pearman, Charlotte 320 S-0 James Staton, Greensboro 315 6-3 Red Beaver. Asheville 190 6-1 Robert Donaldson, Albemarle 306 6-0 GUARDS Bob Dobbins, Gastonia 160 5-g Billy Huntley. Wadesboro 170 5-9 Bill Ellis Salisbury 185 5-11 Claude White, Morganton 320 5-9 CENTERS Joe Qhurch. Charlotte 180 6-1 John Hooper, High Point — — Fred Potts Waehlngton 205 6-4 BACKS Henry Bullock, Durham 175 6-1 Bobby Rosa, Durham 140 5-10 Bill COx Mt. Airy 185 6-3 Jack Mitchell, Asheville 170 5-16 Leland Helms, Charlotte 170 5-80 Ocho Mickey. Mineral Springs 190 6-0 □wight Maples Rockingham 180 5-10 Dick Foard. Charlotte MS 5-11 GEORGIA TAKES TECH AST PI SHINES, 35 TO 7 ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 30—W— Charlie Trippi defeated Georgia Tech here today 35-7, with so :e occasional he’,? from his Georgia teammates to earn the Bulldogs a nod of approval for the Sugar Bowl classic. Trippi thrilled the capacity crowd of 55,000 with three touch downs one on a 66-yard dash after Tech’s lone score, and with a touchdown heave to Johnny Rauch. The victory gave the Bulldogs their first perfect season since 1896 when t'- frmed Pop Warner steered them through four games. Between them, Trippi and Rauch completed 15 of 21 passes, two of Rauch’s being for touchdowns, while Tech completed nine of 19. Georgia made 263 yards rushing and 168 passing, while Tech netted 169 on the ground and 115 on passes The surprise of e 41st meeting between the arch rivals was the valiant play of Georgia’s lifte which had been rated inferior to Tech’s in pregame releases. It stopped Tech in crucia’ moments and helped Trippi j*ain 121 yards in 13 attempts, and complete six passes. Tech, in trying for its ninth straight win against an openng loss, threatened seriously only once except for its 74-yard scoring drive. The Jackets reached the Georgia six just a minute or so before the game ended, after start ing at their own 30. L. S. U. - Arkansas In Cotton Bowl Tiff DALLAS, Nov. 30. — IM — Jimmy Stewart, executive secretary of the Southwest Conference, an nounced here today that Louisiana State University and the University of Arkansas would meet in the Cotton Bowl here New Years day. Arkansas, as co-champion of the Southwest Conference, is the host team. It entered the Cotton Bowl last week when Rice, tied with Arkansas for first, withdrew any claim it might have had and ac cepted a bid to the Orange Bowl. The conference by unanimous vote today granted Rice permis sion to play in the Miami classic. Louisiana State today accepted the invitation as visiting team. L. S. U. won nine games and lost one—the lone defeat being to Georgia Tech 26-7. Among its victims was Rice which also lost to Arkansas. In fact, it was Arkan sas’ 7-0 win over Rice that gave the former a tie for the con ference title. Tickets Go On Sale For Boxing Feature Tickets were placed on sale yes terday for Plunk Mooring’s well rounded boxing show hero next Wednesday night at the Legiop stadium arena. Mooring announced that everything* is in complete readiness for the attraction, which will get underway at 8:30 o’clock. Tickets may be obtained at: Foy Roe, Saunders Drug Store, Kid Ellis’ Lunch, and the Jewel Box. Without Physical and Mental Suffering? 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The College Center five took the iniative when Batts made good a push-shot, followed closely by Doug Pridgen with a crip-shot. The locals took advantage of the quick lead and never relinquished it throughout the encounter. The highly -promising college quint, coached by Ai Chemeigo, ex hibited much co-ordination and promises to turn in a top-flight sea son this year. The locals’ chances are also expected to be greatly bolstered the first of January when Leonard (Legs) McKoy, another New Hanover all-time great, is ex pected to turn out. The local college cagemen are tentatively slated to travel to Dunn Erwin on Dec. 5 for a return en gagement. Coach Chemiego asserted that upon completion of the new bleach er arrangement in the high school gym, the locals will use that for their home court. NEW HANOVER DUNN-ERWIN Pridgen, g (4). Stanley, g Church, g (8) -Honeycutt, g Tsantes, c (12)-Denning, c Batts, f (14) - Lockamy, f Collie, f (17) - Barefoot, f Subs: New Hanover — Herrin, Johnson; Dunn-Erwin — Stephens’ Avery, Gunter, Hall, Daniels, Tay lor, Sandlin, Black. • CLASS B CHAMPS RAEFORD, Nov. 30.— (£>) — Boonville high school is the state class B football champion. They beat Raeford 27-7 here yes terday by racking up two touch downs each of the third and fourth quarters after spotting the home team a 7-0 first half lead. CRIMSON TIDE POCKETS 24 ■ 7 I D TRIUMPH TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Nov. SO.— (U.R) — Alabama flashed consistent power, abetted by an All Ameri can performance by slim Harry Gilmer, to humiliate favored Miss issippi State 24 to 7 before a home coming crowd of 25,000 today. The fast Alabama line tore into the heavier Mississippi State for ward wall and cut it to pieces for a fleet of hard driving backs who hadn’t heard of the Maroons power ful defensive team. Hairdine passing by the 160 pound Gilmer set up Alabama’s old fash oned field goal by little Hugh Morrow and two other touchdowns. Orlando Golf Field Paced By Tar Heel ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 30.—0J.fi)— Army Air forces veteran Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. C„ led the field today in the $10,000 Orlando Jaycee Open Golf tournament with his 204 for 54 holes. Palmer posted a par 71 today and was a single stroke In front of the field with 18 holes remaining in the tourney. Claude Harmon of Mamaroneck, N. Y., blazed a six-under-par 65, and was in second place with 205 at the three-quarter mark. Long-hitting Sammy Snead of Hot Springs, Va., carded a 66 today and held third place at 206. Fred Haas, Jr., of New Orleans, Bob Hamilton of Chicago and Harry Todd of Dallas were locked in a fourth-place tie with 54-hole scores of 207. Ed Oliver of Wilmington, Del., four strokes back of Palmer, was fifth with 208. 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