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Five High Nines Scrap
For Three Title Round
Playoff Berths
By Bill Fuchs
Public high schools were to clear
their baseball muddle today by
playing oft three postponements
front last Friday. At least one of
the teams was expected to bow out
of championship contention.
Already eliminated from a spot
in the double-knockout playoff be
ginning next Monday at Griffith
Stadium are Western and. Roose
velt. tailenders in the eight-team
race. Central, considered a playoff
certainty at the season’s start but
barely hanging on, was to be host
to Coolidge today, and a victory for
the visitors would assure them a
tie for third place with the loser
of the Tech-Wilson game scheduled
at Tech. Roosevelt is playing at
Anacostia.
Eastern has a playoff berth all
wrapped up after beating Western
Friday In the only game not de
layed by wet weather. The Ram
blers have won six straight series
tilts, and play their final tomorrow
at Tech. Tech could latch on to
a tie tor the top spot by beating
Wilson today and Eastern tomorrow.
Other games tomorrow have
Roosevelt at Western, Anacostia at
Central and Wilson at Coolidge.
The present situation has five
team* —Tech, Wilson, Coolidge,
Anacostia and Central—desperately
battling for three places. Tech, with
one of the largest pitching staffs
in the city, and Wilson, labeled the
dark horse of the league, look al
most certain to make the grade.
Which would leave Coolidge. Ana
costla and Central to battle for the
remaining post.
Coolidge. green compared to lastj
year’s championship nine, dropped;
its first two series games, but has]
come back to bid for recognition.;
A win over Central today would!
go a long way toward strengthening
that bid.
Here are the standings up to ]
today:
Eastern 01-0). Tech (4-1), Wil
son <4-l). Coolidge (3-2), Anacostia
(2-3), Central (1-4), Western (1-5)
and Roosevelt (0-5).
Loop Title tor Terps
Up to V. M. I. Game
All of a sudden Maryland’s base
ball team finds Itself In position to
win the Southern Conference cham
pionship. All the Terps have to do
is take their remaining loop game,
that against Virginia Military Insti
tute at College Park Friday. The
Keydets are in 15th place in the
loop and already have dropped a
15-3 decision to Maryland.
A Friday win would give the Terps
a record of five wins and a single
loss In the league. North Carolina,
leader most of the season, went to
the well-once or twice too often re
cently and now has a record of 11
wins and 3 losses. Maryland's only
Conference defeat came from
George Washington, which it also
beat. A scheduled game against the
Tar H#els vfas rained away as were
two loop games against Richmond ,
and one against Washington and
chance are North Carolina, Wash-1
ington and Lee (9-4) and George
Washington (6-3). Cleftison, last
year’s whiner, is out of the running.
Maryland will warm up for Fri
day’s game by playing West Vir
ginia, at College Park tomorrow.
Another feature of local college
baseball this week is tomorrow's
game at Georgetown between the
Hoyaa and Catholie University. The
Cardinals tossed a big upset into the
record* by beating the Hoyas earlier
this month and Georgetown has
been doing nothing since except (
wait for tomorrow.
Lee.
Sh
on
iss by losing |
with a
Bears' Job Helped Cifers Forget Skins' Ouster
Firing Gave Him Boost, but Business May Take Ed Off Pro Grid
By Lewis r. Atchison
"It was a shock when the
Redskins said I was through,
that I’d have to make way for
the younger boys they'd brought
in,” the big fellow was saying.
"But what a lift it was when the
Bears picked me up. And I
started about 8 of 11 games for
them, too.”
Ed Cifers struck a match and
relighted his cigar. Thirty years
old now and nearing the end of
his athletic career, big Ed can
hang up his game pads with a
satisfied smile, now that he’s
proved he wasn’t through last
season. He doesn't know whether
he'll play another year, but
would have been fighting for a
chance to put on a suit next
autumn if the Bears hadn’t
signed him. They’ve sent him a
1948 contract, but he doesn’t
know whether he'll be able to
spare the time from his flour
ishing warehouse business.
"I found the Bears a lot dif
ferent than I expected.” he went
on. "Somehow the impression
got around the league that they
were tough characters who hung
out on street comers, couldn’t
speak good English and would
slit your throat for a dime. But
I found them to be college men
like the Redskins and other
players in the league.
"They play nara, rough 1001
ball, but they want to win. Heck,
I want to win, too. I figure any
body who doesn’t isn’t worth his
salt. They play hard to win, but
I never saw them use their fists
or play dirty like other teams
sav they do."
In the heat of battle, of course,
they may get a little rougher
than ordinary, Ed explained.
Like the day he was thrown out
of the Los Angeles game for al
legedly taking a punch at Jerry
Cowhig. Cifers wasn’t convinced
he was in the wrong until the
motion pictures showed him tak
ing undue liberty with his oppo
nent’s jaw.
“The day we played Green Bay,
Fred Davis—and he’s the best
tackle in the league for my
money—said to me, ‘Ed, you’re
gonna be in the hardest, rough
est football game you ever played
in your life today.’ I said I
didn’t know why, because I'd
played some pretty rough ones.
But Fred was right. I'd never
been hit as hard in all my life as
that afternoon, and I never put
out so much myself. The Green
Bay-Baer rivalry is the roughest
football any place in the world.’’
As for George Halas, owner
and head coach of the club,
Cifers is a hundred per cent
booster.
“He knows his stuff, but he
Art Shires in Politics
DALLAS, May 17 Art Shires,
41, the What-A-Man Shires of one
of baseball's most hectic careers. Is
making hfs political debut this sum
mer. He has announced that he
will be a candidate for the Texas
Legislature.
Jones Fighting Holtz
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J . May 17
(Special) .—Herbie (Bill) Jones,
Washington fD. C.) lightweight,
fights Eddie Holtz in the feature
10-round bout here on Thursday
night.
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ED CIFERS.
—Star Stafl Photo.
never gets so excited he doesn’t
know what he’s doing. And If
you goldbrick on him, or try to,
he doesn’t mind telling you off.
But make a good play for him f
and he’ll be the first to slap you
on the back. He ran half the
length of the field to shake hands
the day I Intercepted a sneak
throw by Bob Waterfleld and ran
25 yards for a touchdown against
the Rams.”
Cifers still thinks the Bears
should have won the title last
year, although he agrees they
still pay off on touchdowns and
the Cardinals made the most
six-pointers when the teams
clashed.
Ed’s been so busy at the ware
house he didn't know Clark
Shaughnessy had gone to the
Rams.
That man really knew his
offensive football,” he said. “And
he's a fine gentleman, too. He’s
the kind of a coach you’d like to
have your son play for.”
As for the Redskins, well. Ed
thought they made a mistake
letting him go and it did hurt
his pride.
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“But that'» a coach’s privilege.
It’s the only way the pro game
can operate and I’m not mad at
anybody. How could I be when
they sent me to the best club In
the league. And the Bears pay
good money—you can spend it
any place.”
Cifers wanted to know about
Baugh's future plans.
"I saw this Harry Gilmer play,"
he remarked. “Tall, skinny boy
who looks like he’ll be able to
play a lot of football for the
Skins, but not next year. Sam
will be around five more years if
they give him a little protection.
Mister, when you’ve seen that
gentleman kick and throw you’ve
seen the best.”
Outdoors
—With Bill Ueteh
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HIGH TIDES FOK CHESAPEAKE BAT POINTS.
Mar IT. Mar IS. Mar IS. Mar 20. Mar 21. Mar 22.
AM. — 1:4# 2:60 3:63 4:50 5:44 6:S2
P.M. ... 2:00 2:69 3:69 4:53 5:44 6:30
For points listed below, deduct from above table* the hours siren opposite
Annapolis (Severn River)_—2 hrs. Ferrr Bar (Eastern Bar)
Benedict. Md. (Patuxent R.>— —4 hrs.
Bloodr Point Light .. — —3 hrs.
Broome Island (Patuxent R.). —4(4 hrs.
Chesapeake Beach, Md-—3(4 hrs.
Choptank River Light-—3Vt hrs.
Mar 28.
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7:14
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Shadrside. Md. ....
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Solomons Island. Md.
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—2 hrs.
—3(4 hrs.
—2 hrs.
—4 hrs.
—5 hrs.
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8:01
8:15
8:43
AM. ... 2:55 4:00 5:04 5:58 0:48
P.M. ... 3:16 4:26 5:28 6:24 7:15
For points listed below, deduct from above tables the hours given opposite each point.
Aouia Creek (entrance)-—3 hrs. Piney Point, Md -—hrs.
Breton Bar _—6(4 hrs. Point Lookout. Md-—7(4 hrs.
Colonial Beach, Va_—6 hrs. Quantico Creek (entrance) — —2 hrs.
Gunston Cove (entrance)_—1 hr. Rock Point. Md--hr>»
Virginia s iroui swcung program
this year has been a most successful
one. Anglers are reporting satis
factory catches of fish, larger in size
than in past years. The State still
is holding 15,000 trout at its Monte
bello hatchery and 20,000 at Marion,
which will be placed in the streams
later to help summer fishing.
The bill permitting the transfer
of surplus Army lands to various
States now awaits the President’s
signature to make it law. This is a
signal step forward in the interest
of conservation and wildlife propaga
tion These lands, comprising mil
lions of acres, will be made available
to State game departments or to the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Latest reports from breeding
grounds of ducks and geese in
Canadian provinces augur well for
a successful breeding season. Water
conditions are excellent and the
numbers of wildfowl arriving are
considered more than ordinarily good
in widely separated regions of this
vast territory. While the potentials
for a good duck crop are most
promising, so many things can hap
pen between now and next fall when
the flights start south that it is too
soon to make any predictions.
Surf casters are keeping their eyes
peeled for the first of the new
Ashaway reels which are just ap
pearing on the market. Like the
bait casting model, the surf slip
caster cannot backlash. As a back
lash in surf casting usually means a
snapped line and lost terminal
tackle, the application of the prin
ciple of the spinning reel to a surf
casting reel should have tremendous
appeal to the beach fisherman be
yond the fact that it will permit the
average surf caster to reach offshore
sloughs and bars now only attainable
by the experts. _
Gardini, Sharkey Mixing
On Turner Mat Again
Stocky Benito Gardini gets an
other chance to establish himself
as a headliner here when he meets
Babe Sharkey, former wrestling
champion, in a return bout at Tur
ner's Arena Wednesday night.
Gardini lost to Sharkey here last
week. *
The card is topped by a twin bill
featuring four outstanding woman
wrestlers. Texan June Byers meets
Juanita Coffman, Pueblo, N. Mex.,
In one bout, and Mae Weston, Okla
homa City, takes on Elvira Snod
grass, Memphis, Tenn.
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Bevens Passes Up Tour
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>y tha Associated Press
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New York Yankees, wlU work out
iwith the Newark Bears of the In
ternational League whUe the Yan
j kees are making their swing through
I the West.
Spud Chandler, former crack
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year. The righthander, who under-1
went a chips removal operation dur
ing the off-season, had been re
leased by the Yanks. He came back
on his own for another try.
The Yankees yesterday asked
waivers on Utility Infielder Lonnie
Prey, 35, in order to give him his
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