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THE WYANDOTTE . NEWS - HERALD
PAGE TWELVE
T oday *s
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY. Unifed Dress Sports Writer ■ ..■—i
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—(U R)—A flaming feud, inherent stubborness
and a weapon in the form of a rival football league brought Frankie
Filchock to the New York Giants today-eight years late.
Frankie is a husky young man of some 30 disputed summers who
proved at the University of Indiana that he had a penchant for
flinging footballs. A busy telephone wire was all that kept him
from adding to that glory back in 1938.
Thai was the year when the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted
Filchock and then, in mid-season, told him to the Washington
Redskins. Ever since that time, Frankie has fretted impatiently
In the shadow of the Mighty Slingin' Sammy Baugh—and he
couldn't do a thing about it because there was only one profes
sional football league.
It came to a head yesterday when white-haired Tim Mara, presi
dent of the Giants, announced that Filchock had been obtained in a
player trade.
“Filchock has signed a three-year contract,” Mara said. “I’m
glad we finally got him, because we should have had him in 1938.
At that time I called the Steelers to buy him but the line was busy.
A few minutes later I called again and they told me Washington
had just made a deal for him.”
But Mara’s talk about this “trade” has more behind it than
just a business deaL
Frankie, it’s easy to see is not modest to a fault. But you have
to remember that when Baugh was injured in this fall’s playoffs
against Cleveland it "was Filchock w'hose two touchdown passes left
the Redskins only one point shy in a 15-14 loss.
TTie square-cut quarterback admits to being 29, and league
records show him to have been 30 last October. But there’s one
item both he and the Giants agree on—he has enough time left to
dish out a bit of woe to G. P. Marshall and the Redskins. Not only
that, he's going to live in Washington just to do his gloating at
close range.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1946
Ol r Soi Mars Winter Sports Program
Bears Resume
Cage Tilts
With Fordson
With a pre-holiday record of two
wins out of three starts behind them,
the Roosevelt Bears resume cage
play on their home court tomorrow
when they battle the Fordson Trac
tors.
Play begins at 8 P. M., Immediate
ly after the Roosevelt and Ford
son Reserves complete their
scheduled tilt. Game time for the
juniors is set for 6:30 .
Roosevelt's clawing Bears have
compiled an impressive record in
the season’s first three tilts by
knocking over Ecorse 28 to 26,
Royal Oak 46 to 25 and emerging
on the dark side of a close 30 to
28 score against Grosse Fointe.
Roosevelt and Fordson divided
last season’s 2-game schedule with
one win a piece. Tomorrow will be
their first meeting cf the season
and it’s a chance for the hometown
yokels to take a commanding step
in-the-right-direction. Standing In
their way will be a bunch of tall,
rangy scrappy Tractormen who will
depend chiefly on Tomascinie and
Keman to dull the Bear claws.
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With years of experience at
Detroit’s famed LOBSTER
KING Grill, Pete Waraway
prepares sea food that can’t be
beat anywhere.
Caiisthentics? He Loves 'Em
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Wyandotte's middleweight contender Jimmy McGrath currently
getting in shape at the Alkali Club under the pugilistic direction of
Art Decker and Doc Casey.
Ex Cl McGrath Coes
To Work; Objective—
Middleweight Title
By ERNIE EPPS
Most returning veterans, sick and
tired of endless days of misery and
fighting, have turned their civilian
aims toward simple and peaceful
occupations. ... No “more sleep
less nights in soggy fox-holes. . . .
No more 15-mile marches, calis
thenics, special diets. ... No,
MOST veterans are searching for
an escape ... an escape from the
hell and fury of combat to the
comparative Eden of being a civ
ilian. . . . That’s what most of ’em
intend to pursue.
But these are NOT the peace
time goals of pugilistic Mr. Mc-
Grath . . . Oh, NO . . . Mr. Mc
, McGrath refuses to quit fightin’.
... Os course, his future oppo
nents won't be Japs or Krauts
and there won’t be any C-rations
and fox-holes to contend with
. . . but the fury and the hell
will be there. . . . AND THE
CALISTHENICS.
Having little else to do except
lay out a few thousand ads late
yesterday afternoon, your News-
Herald reporter nonchalantly
strolled into the Michigan Alkali
gym in an endeavor to discover
why in the hell anyone would be
firing a .30 caliber machine gun.
in Wyandotte. . . . Obviously
enough. ... It wasn’t a .30 cal-
■ iber machine gun. ... It was Jim
my McGrath. To all appearances,
Jimmy was trying to determine the
endurance of one genuine Spaulding
punching bag. . . . Believe me . . .
Spaulding punching bags are all
| right . . . Any bag that could
: stand the rapid fire punches of
Jimmy McGrath is some bag.
Through the combined efforts of
Art Decker, Doc Casey and myself,
we rescued the bag from the un
merciful pounding it was receiving
and herded Jimmy over to the
dressing table.
Art Decker made the necessary
introductions and I made the
mistake of offering my hand to
the stocky little middleweight.
I can still hear the bones crunch
ing from the iron-like grasp he
clamped on my right paw. Being
a versatile sort of person, I took
my pencil in my left hand and
jotted down the following notes
. . . for those who would like to
know somethin' about Wyan
dotte's most promising boxer.
Probably the most noticeable fea
ture of this particular interview
was the marked intelligence shown
by Jimmy. ... I undersand that
an intelligent boxer who can say
something besides “I’ll moider the
• bum" is as rare as a Wednesday
night off for News-Herald report
ers. ... If that’s so, McOrath is
indeed a jewel in the game of can
vass waltzers.
The 160-pound middleweight
simply stated that “I’ve had my
rest after doing my hitch and
now I’m going to work. I’ve boxed
ever since I was old enough to
keep gloves tied to my hands and
there’s nothing like it." Simple,
isn’t it?
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Freak Weather
Threatens Meet
By Ernie Epps
A couple of weeks ago, Just about
everybody remotely connected with
this city’s winter sports program
went on record to aver that “1946
will be a highly successful season
for winter sports.”
The local seers pointed out that
with the return of many service
men to the ice, the city’s expendi
tures for hockey facilities and the
wholehearted support bolstering the
annual speed skating meet “we
couldn’t miss.”
The self-made prophets failed to
consult their ouija boards on the
most valuable ssset to any winter
sports program—cold weather. Last
week’s near-July temperatures
turned local rinks into swimming
pools and unless the mercury de
cides to sink by Saturday the an
nual Gold Cup races scheduled
Sunday at Boat Club bay will be
postponed.
The newly formed hockey league’s
schedules have become so compli
cated by incessant postponement
that If the full program Is carried
out the play-offs will come off
some time in June.
News-Herald Five
Bests Fiat Rock
The News-Herald basketball quin
tet bounced back from last week’s
Coca-Cola defeat to eke out a 30-27
win over Flat Rock last night.
In a rather drab game the local
boys gained advantage in the open
ing events of play and managed to
stay tw’o Jumps ahead of the sixth
place Flat Rock cagers. Smith’s 10
points were sufficient to earn him
the distinction of the night’s high
scorer for Wyandotte.
The victory was the News-Her
ald’s second in five starts and gave
them undsiputed possession of
fourth place.
DOG MASCOT STRUTS
STUFF FOR USO SHOW
INDIANAPOLIS (U.PJ Smokle,
champion dog mascot of the South
Pacific, put on a show for service
men at an Indianapolis USO re
cently.
She was found In a foxhole in
I New Guinea two years ago. Her
master, Cpl. William Wynne of
Cleveland, 0., has taught her to
ride a scooter, w’alk a tight rope
! blindfolded, go down slides, spell
1 out her name and sing,
j In addition to these achieve
ments, she has 13 combat missions
to her credit, has traveled some
35,000 miles by ship, plane and
train, and has been in Australia,
Korea, Japan, Philippines, Nether
lands East Indies and Okinawa.
CLASS “A” BASKETBALL
STANDINGS
Team W L
Wyandotte Cab 4 0
Coca-Cola 3 1
Allen Park 3 1
News-Herald 2 3
Flat Rock 1 4
Lincoln Park 0 4
Then without dropping a bead of
perspiration, the young boxer went
on to say . . . ‘Army life kept me
in pretty fair condition, but after
laying around following my dis
charge, I got a little soft. That’s
what I’m trying to remedy now.
. . . Three or four weeks of this
and I’ll be all set to go again.”
Your News-Herald reporter cau
tiously interrupted with “and where
are you going?”
“Detroit’s my first stop and from
there I’m headin’ for New York
and the World's Middleweight
Championship.”
With that he Yieaded for the
punching bag and the rattle of his
fists against the leather, convinced
me he was serious . . . and thank
ful that I make a livin' poundin’ a
typewriter.
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