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Georgetown Basketers Need Triumphs Over Navy and DePaul for50-50 Showing ——-— A._ ___-______ _ At Annapolis Today, Entertain Chicago Quint Tomorrow A. U. Has Play Off Spot At Stake in Opposing Terrors Here Tonight Still striving to keep their heads above the .500 mark, Georgetown's Hoyas open a strenuous homestetch drive against Navy this afternoon at Annapolis, following up with a duel with DePaul of Chicago to morrow night at Riverside. Locally. American University tan gles with Western Maryland at 8 o'clock in a game that may decide whether the Eagles will get a berth in the Mason-Dixon Conference playoffs or be left out in the cold. Navy has beaten some good teams and lost some tough games this year, and while not as formid able as Navy teams of the past still seems too fast and rugged for the Hoyas. The Midshipmen trounced Maryland not so long ago and the Terps, you may recall, handed Georgetown a fancy shellacking. DePaul Is Real Barrier. • DePaul also figures to be a high barrier for the District team. The Chicagoans meet Duquesne in Pitts burgh tonight and may be somewhat travel-weary tomorrow, but Ripley's men aren't counting on that. They saw DePaul play earlier in the sea son and were particularly impressed by a 6-foot 5-inch center by the name of Frank Wicsons, around whom the offense is fashioned. Wicsons' tremendous height gives him the advantage on the back board. and it probably will be neces sary to put two men on him. Capt. Bob Wozny, an eagle-eyed, pot-shot; Jim Cominsky, Cliff Lind and Dick Starzyk round out the first team. All are supposed to be crack court men. De Paul’s record isn’t impressive. The Demons have won only 8 of their 16 games, but one of their victims was Long Island, probably the No. 1 team of the East. Terrors Are Seeking Revenge. American could be troublesome for the Terrors if Bing Byham continues his hot streak. The big center has been the ringleader in the Eagles' stretch drive, having his heart set on a conference berth, and has been pouring leather through the hoop with amazing consistency. Western Maryland comes here seeking revenge for the 1-point set- , back suffered at A. U.’s hands last Saturday on its home court, and a repetition of that game would almost be asking too much. Lions Need Win Over New Haven in Fight For Third Place Tied for third place in the East ern division of the American Hockey League, the Washington Lions will ; take the ice tomorrow night at Uline's Arena determined to stay 1 abreast of the Providence Reds who are giving them a tussle for the third spot. Providence pulled into a tie at 39 points with the Lions last night when they played the Indianapolis j Copitals to a 1-1 tie in an overtime game at the Hoosier capital. A victory tonight in the Smoky City over the lowly Pittsburgh club | would put the Reds two points in j front of the Lions, but in that case , the Lions can square accounts Jo morrow with a win over the second place New Haven team. The big blowoff in the tight scrap for third place will come Sunday night at Uline's when the Lions pntertain Providence. Tomorrow's game, as usual, starts at 8:30 p.m. Fights Last Night By the Associated Pres*. CLEVELAND.—Bob Pastor. 1R1. New York, stopped Lem Franklin. lOTVs. Cleveland (8) NEW YORK—Tami Mauriello 184. New York, stopped Buddy Knox. J93Va. Columbus. Ohio (1). BROOKLYN. N Y.—Eddie Lander. 13'2. Chicago, outpointed Terry Young. 135. New York <8>. WHITE PLAINS. N Y.—George Kochan. 157Va, Akron. Ohio, and Augie Areilano, 180. Mexico City, drew (8). LOS ANGELES.—Jackie Wlson. 144*4. Los Angeles, outpointed Ceferino Garcia. 158, Los Angeles (10). THAT’S RIGHT, YOU’RE WRONG!—Plain scared is what Joe Krulitz (left) appears to be in the course of his bout with Carl Wart in the Golden Gloves tourney at Chicago last night. But that the expression on his pan is misleading was proved by the fact that he was the winner on a decision. —A. P. Wirephoto. Eagles Bolster Fourth-Place Grip by Routing Rovers, 7-1 Likely to Finish Campaign in That Position; 2,600 at Game; Courteau Gets Prexy's 0. K. By now even the frenzied hockey addicts who invade Riverside Stadium Tuesday and Friday nights know the Washington Eagles, 1941 champions of the Eastern Amateur League, are not going to win any pennant this year. With only seven games remaining on the regular schedule be- ; fore the playoffs start March 10, the Eagles are comfortably ensconced in fourth place, and the tip is out that fourth place is wnere tney are going to ena. mat1! is. unless they run into a losing streak, and Baltimore, in fifth place seven points back, starts to win. But the addicts, despite the com paratively lowly position of the Eagles, continue to turn out to see Courteau, Burrage, McLenahan and company. They like to see the Eagles win, but they can take it any way. More than 2,600 turned out last night to see the Eagles overwhelm the high flying New York Rovers. 7 to 1, | here for one of their rare victories over the Gothamites, who have won six out of ten from the Eagles this year. New York is tied for the league lead with Johnstown. Best of the news to the rabid Eagle fans was the word that Paul' Courteau is solid with the league bosses, and won’t absorb any serious penalties unless he goes back to swinging with his fists. President Tom Lockhart of the Eastern League thinks Paul is O. K. He said so ; today as he attended a luncheon of hockey men and writers. But Redvers MacKenzie, Eagles coach, won’t make the mistake l of not telling the referee that Paul is under a S50 peace bond. Referee Wilkin didn’t know it last Friday when Cy Beigler of Boston took some wallops at Paul and Cour teau didn’t return ’em, but drew a misconduct penalty just the same. The Eagles moved into the .500 percentage mark with that hearten ing win last night, having won 24 games against the same number of losses, with five ties. Their big scor ing splurge came in the final period, when Marty Madore and Ken Ullyot, who previously had bellied the net cords, connived with Les Hickey. Art Thompson and Ernie Munday to ring up five counters. The local lads scored first, at 3:41 of the opening period, and led, 2 to 1, at the end of that stanza. The second period, marked by the only OUTDOORS With BILL ACKERMAN J_arge Spring Flight of Fowl in Prospect; Ducks Unlimited Getting Results During the seasons of 1934-5 our duck population reached an all-time low—estimated by the Wildlife Service at only a littl# more than 30,000,000 birds, and less than a third of the number coming down the four major flyways at the turn of the century. The creation of the “dust bowl’ •: bv the unwise use of land during the first World War contributed in part to this great decrease. Drained marshes in the United States and drouth in the Canadian nesting grounds, did their part, too. Add the eelgrass blight along the At lantic Coast and the consequent near extinction of our brant to the annual hunter's kill and the wonder is even 3,000,000 wild waterfowl remained. 75,238,000 in 1941 Flight. According to Ducks Unlimited there were approximately 75.238.000 ducks on the flvways during the last spason, which was double the number in 1938 when their first census was made, and only 6.17 per cent more than the estimated flight of 70.861,000 in 1940. which showed a 20 per cent increase over the 1939 crop. A prolonged summer and Decem ber weather unexperienced in many years resulted in a kill comparable to those of the lean years along the Atlantic flyway. Abnormal rains flooding long-dry areas in the Middle West caused a wide dispersal of birds there. The result was a small number on the Mississippi flyway. Added together it means a larger spring flight North than at any time during the last 40 years. The Migratory Bird Treaty with Canada saved the nucleus from which the present flights sprung, but it wasn’t the stringent regula tions alone which increased their ►-— numbers nearly threefold in the intervening seven years. American sportsmen did their full share by contributing their dollars and time to correct impossible con ditions existing on the Canadian nesting grounds. In Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta the so-called duck factory provinces, drainage projects and short rainfalls, coupled with an in crease of predators, contributed to the high mortality of ducklings and often of the brood stock because the paired birds stayed in the dried up potholes so long with their young it was too late for them to find water and food in their weakened condi tion. Beyond U. S. Control. Over these Canadian nesting areas the United States had no control. Aside from biologists surveying the prospective flights so that the regu lations might be set according to the crop there was nothing to be done and it was into this gap that sportsmen stepped to better condi tions on the nesting grounds. Working with the Canadian au thorities Ducks Unlimited has been responsible through predator con trol and the reflooding of great areas, in increasing materially the size of the average brood of duck lings. The many hundreds of thou sands of dollars it has poured into dams and water control is the real reason for the increase of out winter waterfowl population and the work of Ducks Unlimited after five years just has started. penalty of the game, was scorless. Altogether it was the most satisfy ing and cleanest game of the season by the Eagles. Standing out was the performance of Goalie Craig McClelland, who stopped all but one of a barrage of shots aimed at him by the hard skating Rovers. In previous games McClelland has been something less than impervious to enemy attack, but last night he was a rock-ribbed defense man. Booed by the crowd a month ago McClelland was ap plauded when he took the ice start ing the final chukker. Johnstown trounced River Vale. 6 to 4. at Johnstown last night to slide into & league-leading tie with New York. Seventh Rec League Win in Row Scored By Hyattsville Seven straight victories is the rec ord streak owned by Hyattsville basket ball team in the Recreation League after it turned back War Department T. and C.t 44-14, in last night's feature game at Roose velt. In other Roosevelt tilts War Department Reserves nosed out A. G. O., 27-26, and the Vulcans topped O. P. A., 30-14. Three games also were played at Central. Weather Bureau won over Thumbs Up, 36-29: A. G. O. defeated Shollls, 30-20, and St. Charles defeated Navy, 34-28. One close game was played at Macfarland. with the Henderson* nosing out Internal Revenue, 16-15. while at Eastern B. & B. Farm’ topped National Electric, 35-20. and the Joe Boyles downed City Post Office, 28-21. Bladensburg Girls Ahead Bladensburg High girls’ basket ball team invaded Maryland Park yesterday to take a 27-14 victory,! with Goldie Malakaltis pacing the winning attack with 14 point*. Baltimore and Rosslyn Stars In Maple Battle Tomorrow An intercity match between the j Stadium All-Stars of Baltimore and , the Rosslyn All-Stars will be an added feature tomorrow night at the Rosslyn Bowling Center when Manager Galt Davis plays host for j the second time to metropolitan rollers in the weekly Rosslyn Handicap. Jimmy Libertini, Howard Parsons, j Nova Hamilton, Don Almony and Nick Almony, five of Baltimore s finest, will be on the firing line against Astor Clarke. Bill Krauss. J Whip Litchfield, Ed Blakeney and Billy Stalcup when action starts in the intercity fray at 9:30. Leon Fleisher. cutting quite a figure in Arlington bowling circles tips season, will strive for his second victory when the Rosslyn Handicap gets underway at 10:30. With an 8-pin handicap, the diminutive Arlington Bowling Center star posted a 3-game score of 414 to triumph j as the afTair was inaugurated last week. Contestants can enter as late as 12:30. Entrance fee is $1.60. A two- i third handicap will be given based : on a scratch of 125. Bill Hughes of Central with 141 and Kenny Pewell of Brightwood No. 1 with 356 were tops in the i Letter Carriers' League at Brookland. j The Ben Franklin Castoffs swamped Cleveland Park No. 1 with a high I Of 1,642. ! Two veteran women rollers shone in the Women's Country Club League at Silver Spring when Emily Nell posted 121 to give Manor No. 1 j top score of 511 and Pauline Ford | marked up 332 to aid Kenwood No. l's 1,444 aggregate. Perce Wolfe fired 424 to chalk up his sixth 400-set of the season in the Hyattsville Commercial League while Chet Lilley marked up top single of 159. Community Market, led with scores of 635 and 1,882 Other highs for the evening at the Hyattsville Recreation were Tim Skinner s 414, Keller's 392 and Ray Funk's 384. Billhimer & Palmer, league leaders, swept the Romeos while the Lanahans moved to second place with a 3-0 win from GaUiher St Huguely. Hal Keisel. former star center on one of George Washington's best basket ball combinations, had plenty on a bowling ball when he fired a season record of 429 in the Income Tax League at Hi-Skor. His excellence enabled Miscellaneous Tax No. 1 to post a high of 1,748. Eddie Rhine shared the spotlight with top single of 155 to lead Rev enue Agents’ high of 608. Lucy Rose was top roller with 417 as the second-place Arlington Trust trimmed Regal Neon Sign, 2-1, in the Rosslyn Independent League. Despite Ernie Hauser's 412, the pace-setting Goss Co. swept the champion Shaffer Flower Shop to increase Its lead to three games. Tom Goss climaxed a 375 count with a double-header strike to pace the winners. Bub Geuthler was best for the Neon rollers with 391. George Clark’s 390 was the big poke as O’Meara’s Tile whitewashed Ellis Radio, while Brad Mandley’s 390 gave Cooke Press a 2-1 edge over Arlington Tires. Odell Gantt was high for the losers with 389. Although on the losing side as A. L. Kelly St Son swept C. St C. Restau rant, Eddie Keith showed up in time to Are 272 for two games, which boosted his top average to 125-19 for 71 games. ATTENTION! Oldsmobile Owners For the BEST in Service Factory-Trained Mechanics Modern Equipment All Parts and Accessories Repairs on All Cars OUR SHOP OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY ' HIGHEST ALLOWANCE ON YOUR OLD CAR IN TRADE Senior Boxers Given Last Call to Enter A. A. U. Tourney Must Weigh in Tonight For Action on Friday; 2T Already Listed A last call for seniors in the Dis trict A. A. U. boxing tournament, currently in progress at Turner’s Arena, wUl be sounded tonight when the last few stragglers will be weighed In and examined at the District Boxing Commission offices between 6 and 9 a.m. Twenty-one filed their entry blanks and passed the physical tests last week and these will not be required to report again. At least a dozen youngsters are expected to sign up tonight, paving the way for the completion of Friday night’s pro gram. Thirteen novice bouts already are scheduled and at least four senior duels will be added. Hopes for Better Crowd. Billy Blake, chairman of the A. A. U. Boxing Committee, was disappointed with last week’s turn out, but hopes for a better at tendance Friday. While all novice cards, such as last week's, necessarily are without name fighters they gen erally stir up a lot of excitement and the inaugural was no exception. One of the most promising young sters to show his wares was Harry Reid, rugged 147-pounder, who dis patched Dan Robson of Brookland in one of the two knockouts reg istered. Reid’s performance stamped him as one of the leading con tenders for the outstanding novice trophy and this week he'll have ample opportunity to further prove his ability at the expense of Johnny Atkisson. Atkisaon Is Hard Puncher. _ Atkisson is the widely publicized youngster from the stable of Matt Twomey. who calls him the stillest righthand puncher he ever has seen ; in amateur ranks. Johnny won his debut, too, outpointing Milton Hurley J of National Training School. Atkis son was not overly impressive in that fight, but he'll have to fight— 1 or else, this time, and Twomey is confident he'll come through. Seniors already in line include Grover Davis, former 118-pound ( novice champion, who is essaying a comeback in senior ranks Davis I ; must dispute the claims of such formidable leatherpushers as Danny Petro, who is gunning for revenge for his loss of Pete Cilinski in the Golden Gloves, Gene Miller. John iCotton i Corbin and Daryl Smith | son. Novel Dog Race Victor Would Show in East B: the AxsoeiAted Press. ASHTON. Idaho. Peb. 25 —Everett ' Heseman wants to bring his string of staghound-Irish setters East to prove his unorthodox method of dog racing is as successful as hi$ record \ indicates. Heseman has won nine firsts over snow-packed Western courses since 1935. Instead of hitching the dogs. ‘ three sets of two each with a lead dog in front, he staggers them along a single pull line so that no two run side-by-side. I Deffinbaugh Snares Sherbahn Tourney Paid-Up Entry Rolls 160-414 in Prelim; Arbough Shoots 159; Beatty Fires 405 The paidup entry list In the eighth annual Dutch Sherbahn tournament to be rolled at Talcoma Recreation Saturday and Sunday was given an other boost last night when Mounts Deffinbaugh of Willis Builders fired 414 with 160 his top single to win a Sliver Spring American League pre liminary. Hugh Arbaugh, Silver Spring bowling proprietor, was only a pin shy with 159 of tying for the night's top game In the regular league matches. The Sandfords and State Loan rollers divided team highs with respective counts of 615 and 1,748. Set Arlington Records. Two records were posted in the Arlington Village Mixed League i when Rose Reinhart paced the ; Chestnuts to a 3-0 victory over the Hazelnuts with 327 and Leona Dwyer of the losers posted 125. Tops among the male rollers. George Blakeslee led the Maplenuts to a 2-1 win from the Beechnuts with | 354. Capt. Charley Miller's 337 was best as the league-leading Team No. 3, won the rubber game from team No. 4 In the Methodist Protestant Church League of Alexandria at Arlington Bowling Center. B. Har ris of the losers was tops with 124. Bill Beatty High Man. Bill Beatty was the star with 160—405 as the Kronheims trimmed the second-place Jernigan Cleaners, 2-1, in the Rhode Island Avnue Businessmen's League at King Pin. Ed Nash gave Finn's Texaco a 2-1 edge over E. A. Merkle, Inc., with 147—402. National Beer increased its lead to four games with a 2-1 decision over Shamrocks, while Ed Hutchinson's single of 153, which climaxed a 375 set. gained Grey hound Liquor the odd game from Wilkins Coffee. Despite high scores of 500 and 1.394, the pacesetting Actuary quint dropped a 2-1 verdict to Branch for its third loss of the season in the Peoples Life Insurance with 111—308 while Laura Clagett's 116 and 307 were best for the losers. Branch moved to second place when In dustrial dropped two games to Ordinary. Quint in A. A. U. Event For 23d Straight Time By th» Asaociated Press. DENVER. Colo., Feb 25 —Officials of the national A. A. U. basket ball tournament figure they have a steady customer in little South western Tech of Weatherford. Okla. The Bulldogs have entered the March 15-21 meet—their 23d in as many years. College Sports BOXING The Citadel. 4‘i; Clemson. X'i Penn State Frosh. 5; Syracuse Frosh. S. WRESTLING. j Kansas State. ”6: Nebraska. 2. By PAUL J. MILLER. To his string of scalps indicative of kleiner meister chess prowess, Donald H. Mugridge has added another—his ninth—tha iH42 cluo championship of Washington Chess Divan. Mugridge still holds the club title of Capital City Chess Club, although he has left that organized tlon and now Is president of the Divan. A former District title hold er, he now is best known as probably the ‘ lightning chess” champion of the District. Mugridge swept a field including Kenneth Stubbs, L. Korsstrom, E. M. Schara, B. W. Holmes and Ben Goldberg. In the general tournament, C. H. Tallman defeated J. Launspach, A. Marmor won from William Lurie, F. W. F. Gleason scored over Conrad Willnich and Maud G. Sewall, while the Healey-Bass game stands ad journed. Wednesday at 8 pm. at 1838 I street N.W., Luis Neftali Ponce, sometime District champion, will op pose allcomers in a public simul taneous exhibition. Players must bring their own equipment. No admission charge. Some 40-odd fans enjoyed the entertaining lecture by Norval P. Wigginton on William E. Napier, former British chess champion. INDIAN DEFENSE. White Black White Black SeMnu. KtxP 38 R-RT mete Today* **me show* Herbert Seidmin. senior »t Brooklyn College winning the championship of Marshall Chess Club. 11-1. as he finished oft J. Rlchman Seidman won in game*, drew 2. loit none, to gain the title in the strongest chess club in the world. Capital City Chess Club conducted a dual tandem round-robin tourney last Saturday with these partner pairings: Martin 8tark-A. E. Wool sey, Howard Shelton-R. S Strugala, J. A. Kirby-W. H. Nicholas, J. V. Waits-P. G. Vosburgh in team No. 1, and W. H. Mutchler-V. L. Eaton, C. W. Stark-P. R. Eldridge. Dell Floyd-E. H. Hopkins and J. N. Mat-. kos-H. S. Guy In team No. 2. Saturday at 8 p.m. Capital City will conduct another public chess party at Hotel Gordon. Cheaa Problem No. 425. By ERCOLE DEL RIO. 18th Century. BLACK—7 MEN. WHITE—A MEN. Whit* t* Play and Mat* in F*ar Mat**. According to John Augustus Miles, au 1 thor of "Chess Oems1 (1STAI. today'* : problem reflects two of the greatest beau ! ties of atrategy " J. L. Hall—Am studying the record to 1 it* If there are errors. Problems ac knowledgments for this week to Allen A. Jenkins. William Garten. Jr.; Julius Rosen weld. 2d; Joseph L. Teser. Sherwood X. Tucker. Hal). Norman Le Roux li you wish rheas games by mail write Walter r. James. 4133 Tyler street, Sioux City. Iowa. W. C. Nelson. S20 Fbrty-fourth street NX., wishes to play some one a 1 game by mall. United States Title Tilts Callin' all stars! Aspirants to the United States chess championship should file their applications to play in the preliminaries with L. Walter Stephens, chairman of the United States Chess Federation’s executive committee in charge of the biennial title tournaments to begin April 10 or 11 in New York. His address is 279 E. Thirty-fourth street, Brook lyn. N. Y. Players seeded into the champion ship section who do not have to dis play their wares in the preliminaries are Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, I. A. Horowitz. X. I. Kashdan. F. J. Marshall, A. S. Kenker, A. C. Si monson. Sidney Bernstein, May Karfl and Mrs. Donald Belcher. (February 2ft, J942.) Police Defeat Marines Alexandria Police basket ball team made up for an earlier defeat by topping Quantico Marines, 39-29. in a cage game last night at Quantico. 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