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Smoke Rings It Can’t Happen Here By SAM RAGAN i 11 _*_ __3 Looping the week-end sporis loop aim um — oiiirks of the weather brings up the question of how many rnhin<5 dnps one need to make a spring. Sometimes the fates take a hand and change things about a bit but we’ll bet the Greensboro chamber of^ com merce Is right now red-facedly trying to explain a three-, “owfl.i, on Eager of all th.n^that caused^ C GoS“ourlment. AndVt crack by Gene Saracen when he was informed it was time to tee up— You m Si up, don’t you”—must have burned up _th^cmc minaea. Touchy About It Southerners who have learned tc sell the commodity of winter sun shine and balmy temperatures are a little touchy about the weather subject—especially when it snows In spring when everyone had said that such a thing was unheard ot. But the second 18 holes will he played today and the boys on the so-called winter circuit will sweep through the final round tomorrow provided old man weather is kind Clayton Heafner, whose popular Ity runs high in Wilmington, al most in proportion to that of Char lotte where mere mention of his name is cause for a special edition, is currently tied with little P-en Hogan for the lead. He was hot when play ended Saturday and we wonder if his game cooled off along with the weather. The Twins Everyone who has followed the destinies of the Piedmont league for the past two years is well ac quaintea wun me ^ *... Winston-Salem Twins in that cir cuit. And being aware of that, one can sympathize with Nady Cates, sports editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, who despite the fact that he must be unbiased in news pres entation must uphold the family honor by ,putting in a good word for the Twins now and then. Brother Cates comments on 1940 possibilities for the Twins as fol lows : “Sports writers are a skeptical lot. Thanks to flamboyant press agentry, which frequently must be taken with a grain of salt, men who edit the sports pages, as a class, are unbelievers by habit and tradition. “The scribes ran true to form In forecasting the outcome of the 1940 Piedmont league race. Although Manager Cal Griffith of the Char lotte Bees stepped out and predict ed that Winston-Salem would show the most improvement of all the clubs in the circuit, baseball writ ers picked the xwins to wina uj on the bottom, where they have been for the past three seasons. “Far be it from me to take issue with my honored contemporaries, I, too, have learned from bitter ex perience to have a keen respect foi the old adage, ‘history repeats.’ "The Twins may contrive to du plicate this season their miserable record of the past three years. But I assure you it won’t be easy. It takes an effort to be that lousay, as the French would say.” Odds and Ends New Hanover’s Wildcats w'ill meet Rocky Mount Friday in the first game of the season in Eastern Class A conference play. . . The Blackbirds are an unknown quan tity so far as strength is concerned but the boys from the city that straddles the Kash-Edgl-combe line are always known for making a strong bid in any race they enter. . . . Robert Jordan, the Whiteville gridiron flash, is no mean shakes on a baseball diamond either. . . In a game last week he struck out 15 men and allowed but two safe ties. . . John (L-efy) Cheslre, the Wilmington boy who has one of the best curve balls Chapel Hill ha: coon T*ri 11 t Vi mnnnH fnr tVif Carolina nine against the Univer *Ity of Pennsylvania team this aft ernoon. . . The meeting of those two teams this afternoon will re mind many of an October day o! last fall when the Carolina foot ball team rolled over the Quakei eleven 30-6, for on the Penn tean will be Frank Reagan, Harlan Gus tafson and Billy Koepsell, leadini luminaries on the Penn grid team and on the Carolina nine will h George Stirnweiss, Jim Mallory am George Radman, who played sucl a vital part in spanking the Penn sylvania lads last fall. . . Milo Stein born who will wrestle here tomoi row night, at one time travele' with a circus exhibiting his biceps inaianapoiis 1 riumphs 8 To 4 Over Clevelaw FORT MYERS, Fla., March 24. UP)—The Cleveland Indians collecte nine hits today, their second lar; est total this spring, but Indiana! oils of the American association di feated the Tribe, 8 to 4, with a flvi run attack on Rookie Mike Na> mick. A1 Mllnar allowed the associatio team three hits and two runs in tt first four innings and Ken Junge: supplanting Naymick in the la; two frames, yielded only one hit. Indianapolis scored twice in tt first inning, got another run, ui earned, off Naymick in the sixtl then made its five-run assault i the seventh. The Indians reached Balas fc three hits in three innings, Loga for five in four, and Oil for one i two innings. Training Camp Briefs RED SOX WINS SARASOTA, Fla., March 24.—UP) Held hitless for the last six innings ! by Jim Bagby, the New York Giants : were beaten 4 to 3 today by the Bos j ton Red Sox. It was their fourth ! consecutive loss by one run. : The Giants solved the easy offer ings of Lefty Grove for all their runs in the second inning and then were shut off by the entrance of Bagby. 1 A rookie named George Lacy also took a hand in Boston’s triumph. In the fifth he smashed a liner through the pitcher's box that split Bill Lohrman’s right thumbnail and in me S1AL11 xie oxxjfticci Uiic winning runs across. A’s WHIP BL’CS OAKLAND, Calif., March 24.—(JP) Philadelphia romped over the Pitts burgh Pirates, 8 to 4, in an exhibi- f tion baseball game played in drizz ling rain this morning. A second game, scheduled between the two in the afternoon at San Francisco, was cancelled because of rain. The Athletics scored early and took an 8-run lead before the Pi rates came to life in the last half of the seventh. Chapman and Gantenbein were the outstanding batters, each get ting three hits out of four times up. BROWNS TRIUMPH SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 24.— OP)—The St. Louis Browns won their fourth straight victory over Toledo of the American association, by a score of 4 to 3 here this afternoon. Again excellent pitching featured the Brownie victory, with the work of Emil Bildilli being especially bril liant. He was nicked for only three hits in five innings. * Johnny Lucadello, recruit infield er, came up with three errors at second in the eighth inning to Dave the way for all three Toledo runs. A game at Seguln, Tex., between the St. Louis “B” squad and Tulsa was called off because of cold weather. NATS SHUTOUT LAKELAND, Fla., March 24.—(jP) The Detroit Tigers, hitting hard be hind the brilliant pitching of Rookie Dick Conger and Freddie Hutchin son, shut out the Washington Sen ators, 12 to 0, in a Grapefruit league game here today. Conger, a youngster off the cam pus of the University of California at Los Angeles, ran his string of scoreless innings to 14 as he lim ited the Senators to three hits in five innings. Hutchinson yielded four blows in the final four frames. The Tigers hammered Alejandro Carrasquel, Gilberto Torres and Walter Masterson for 14 hits, in cluding the home runs by Hank Greenberg and Tebbets Parsons. Wesf Hits Three Homers As Bees Beat Brooklyn CLEARWATER, Fla., March 24. — (JP) — Max West clouted three home runs and drove in five tallies today as the Boston Bees outscored the Brooklyn Dodgers, 11 to 10. His first four bagger started a five run rally in the first inning. Les Scarselia and Eddie Miller also hit for the circuit as the Bees hnilt lin a lonrl Vtio- pnfnip'h milH ' fy a seven-run Brooklyn outburst . in the ninth, while Joe Vosmik, Dolf Camllll and Roy Cullenblne contributed homers for the Dodg ers. Brooklyn batted around in the ninth inning before Manager Casey j Stengel of the Bees pulled Tom Earley off the hill and sent in Joe Sullivani whe retired Bert Haas on a pop fly for the last out. I Snow Will Delay Start Of North-South Meet a PINEHURST, March 24.—OT—An . all-day snowfall which lasted Into the night covered th# greens and fairways of this golfing resort and . made it appear unlikely that the 38th annual North and South Worn n en’s golf tournament could get p started before Tuesday. The IS s hole qualifying round was to have t been played tomorrow. Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page ol g Chapel Hill, a former National ,. champion, will defend her title in a , field of more than one hundred n golfers including such notables as Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga. r Jean Bauer of Providence, R. I, n Jane Cothran of Greenville, S. C. n and the 16-year-old Bloomington (111.) star, Jeane Cline. REDS TIE CUBANS HAVANA, March 24.— (A’l—The expedition of the Cincinnati Reds into Cuba ended in a deadlock to day as the third and deciding gams of their series with the Cuban All Stars was called in the tenth In ning with the score 4 to 4 so ths Reds could catch their boat. HIGH ART CLOTHES ★ J. C. ANDERSON & SONS Front at Princess ’CATS OPEN TENNIS PLAY TO IAY t t k - A ~ -i. - ^ - - A a JOHNSON STARTS IN TOP POSITION Defending State Champions To Meet Fayetteville Rac quet Club In Opener The Phantom Aces of New Han over High school will take to the courts this morning at 10 o’clock, at Robert Strange playground, meeting the Fayetteville Racquet club in the locals’ first tennis match of the season. Coach Glenward Blomme will throw Lionel Johnson, junior into the number one spot in an effort to stop the. visitors’ ace. Johnson is playing a hard-hitting game this season and from his practice ses sions looks like a champion, but even champions can be beaten so the local ace is not forecasting any thing before the match. Lionel will depend largely upon his smashing service and accurate forehand for his points. Nelson Taylor, junior, will follow +r»omrmtP in the second space. Nelson depends upon a steady fore hand and nice net game and the ability to retrieve almost unbeliev atle shots to down opponents. Play ing in the number one and two spots last year Taylor dropped only one match out of thirteen and his singles and doubles play was a big factor in the locals’ winning of the state championship. Occupying the number three berth for the second year is Charles Boney, sophomore, former grammar school champion who did not lose a match last year. Charley is small in stature but packs a wallop in both his drives and service. Bringing up the number four position is Captain Harold Hinnant, senior, and playing his second year on the varsity. Harold is handi capped by a short right leg, but op ponents have been unable to stop him yet. The captain of the Aces did not drop a match all last season and is out to protect his record this year. Sporting a terrific service and deadly volleying game Hinnant all but sweeps his opponents from the court. Jerould Robinson, junior, a new comer to the squad, will play the number five. Occupied last year by Captain Steve Peck, lost by graduation, this position is one of the most important on the team and the coaches expect Jerould to more than hold his own with the opposition this year. Robinson has a very fine service and exception ally strong forehand and will be counted on to fill the shoes of Peck as a doubles partner for Johnson. John Evans, senior, also a new comer to the squad, rounds out the first six and is working hard to fill the capable shoes of the gradu ated Jerry Newbold. John has worked hard this season in practice and has steadily shown improve ment in all his strokes. Weak on service he makes up for it in a deadly forehand drive and underspiu volley at the net. Phillies Blank Chiefs Behind Good Pitching MIAMI BEACH. Fla., March 24.— CT) — Three-hit pitching by Walter Beck and Syl Johnson of the Phil lies’ mound staff shut out the Sy racuse Chiefs in an exhibition game today and the Phils won, G-0. Beck allowed the Internationa] leaguers only one hit in his five inning service. The only extra-base blow among the Phillies’ dozen hits was a three-bagger by Hershel Mar tin, fii-st man up in the first inning. Martin scored a few minutes later on Ed Levy’s roller to short. I— Snow Halts Play In Greensboro Golf FENSKE’S VICTORY * PLEASESMENTOR Coach Tom Jones, Of Wiscon sin, Happiest Man On Scene Of Chuck’s Triumph MADISON, Wis., March 24.—(IP) —A sickly- lad trained conscien tiously for three years and when, in his last meet, he won the coveted emblem, the happiest man on the scene was Tom Jones, venerable University of Wisconsin track coach. “That - boy’s accomplishment,” Jones said, ' means as much to me as all the trophies and ribbons we have gathered here in 28 years.” Jones didn’t mention the boy’s name. It really didn’t matter, be cause he inferred that a host of anonymous figures were flitting through his mind—boys who to a greater or lesser degree attained their goals under his sympathetic guidance. It was characteristic of Jones that he disclaimed major credit for successes of the current “king of milers,” Charles (Chuck) Fer.ske, who studied under the Badger tutor for six years. "Chuck is a fine boy and did all the hard work himself,” Jones said. “I have given him more attention than some others, I suppose, but that probably was due to his own sincerity.” While Fenske and others came to the university with preliminary training, Jones’ ability to pick in experienced, awe-struck boys out of gym classes and develop them into letter winners has been a big factor in the production of strong track teams year after year at Wisconsin. During Jones’ tenure, the Badgers have won 11 Big Ten cross coun try championships and six indoor and three outdoor track and field conference titles. Entries For Harness Race Events Increase GOSHEX, N. Y., March 24—(®— The Trotting Horse Club of America announced today that the closing of the entry lists for the series of stakes it will sponsor next summer at the grand circuit race meetings at Indianaijolis, Goshen, Xarragan sett Park, R. I„ Syracuse, N. Y., Toledo and Delaware, O., revealed large lists of entries in every case. The second week of the Narragan sett meeting drew the biggest re sponse, 65 entries for the four divi sions of the trot and 60 for the four divisions of the pace. The world's fastest trotter, V. J. Baker’s Grey hound, is entered for the first divi sion trots at Indianapolis, Tolcd.o Xarrgansett, Syracuse and both weeks of the Goshen mile track meeting. First Reduction Made In Ranks Of Dodgers CLEARWATER, Fla.. March 24.— CP) — The first reduction in the ranks of the Brooklyn Dodgers was made today. Bill Crouch, righthand pitcher and Infielder Boze Berger were released outright to Montreal, the Dodgers’ International league farm, while Sam Nahem, another pitcher, was sent to Xashville of the Southern association under option. -- . IN THIS CORNER--BY ART KRENZ RED-HOT ROOKIES 'wfM&r \JoHH UP WITH NEW YORK G/ANTG JS EXPECTED To GO PAR BEFORE HANGING UP H/S BASEBALL SHOES ... HE HlT Mb WHILE PLAYING THE OUTFIELD FOR ATLANTA LAST YEAR... Rucker is A NEPHEW of NAP RUCKER WHO SOUTH PAWED 10 YEARS FOR BROOKLYN - BORN IN CRABAPPLE,GC, He IS CALLED THE CRABAPPLE Co MET FROM H/S SPEED AfooT BE CIRCLED THE BASES ••• IN 13 seconds last summer... /r&eiwz-----— . .-I* To Compete In Horse Show Here \ .I mi a I I.Mi ■WMBWHii WMHyHMHWWWWBMMHwMHHMMB8888wa8M8BB8HBg88a$Mw88B8wa!3Ssgi8jgiiSBafiBB&3w*Sa “Junebug” Tate and Billy Tate, of Pinehurst, up on “Top Thorn” and “Virginia Girl” will compete against seasoned show riders over the high jumps and tricky outside course at the third annual Cape Fear Horse Show on April 5 and 6. ’Cats Play Whiteville Here Tuesday Afternoon Cards Even Series With 6-3 Win Over Yankees ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 24.—UP)—The New York Yankees may be champions of the world, but they are only co-champions of / St. Petersburg, sharing the title with the St. Louis Cardinals. Tlie Cards thrashed Oral Hilde brand for nine hits and five runs in four innings to beat the Yanks 6 to 3 today in the sixth and final game of their local exhibition se ries. Each team won three. Curt Davis and Bob Bowman combined to check the Yankees’ vaunted attack, Davis working the first five innings with a four-hit gait that might have meant a shut out except for an error by Joe Orengo. The big gun in the Cards’ attack again was the recently acquired Morris Jones, who hit three singles. Joe Louis Will Battle Paychek Friday Night NEW YORK, March 24. —(S’) — Boxing's richest prize, the heavy weight championship, comes up for action on this week’s national pro gram, with Joe Louis defending his title for the tenth time since he won it in 1937. Louis takes on Johnny Paychek of Des Moines, la., for 15 rounds or less in Madison Square Garden Friday night. In Joe's last defense, on Feb. 9, Arturo Godoy, of Chile, gave him a lot of trouble crouching and weav ing, but the champion retained his crown on points. Indiana, tiansas 1 o rlay For National Cage Title KANSAS CITY, March 24—OP)— rwo point-a-minute quintets — In liana of the Big Ten, and Kansas of :he Big Six—tangle Saturday night 'or the National Collegiate Basket rail title already relinquished by dregon university. The Hoosiers, runnersup in the Western conference, crushed Du juesne Saturday night, 39 to 30, at Indianapolis, Ind., in the Easter. MCAA playoffs. Only a rally by the Iron Dukes midway in the second ralf kept Indiana from doubling the score. New Nazi Propaganda Campaign Is Opened PARIS, March 24.—up)—A vigor ous new German propaganda drive opened along the Rhine today, the French high command disclosed. German planes dropped propa ganda tracts on the French lines while loudspeakers boomed across the river. The French believed this might herald a German peace of tensive. The French replied with a word barrage and with scattered firing. West of the Vosges mountains French artillery were said to have Sispersed a group of German work men. DENIAL issued LONDON, March 24.— UP) —The British air ministry issued a denial tonight Of reports "published in petimark and Germany that one or more aircraft of the Royal Air f°r,c® 'iolate<: Danish neutrality ?Larch 33 an<i fire<3 on civilians." (Copenhagen dispatches yesterday quoted a party 0f hunters as say ing they were flred on from an al ,ane faring three concentric circles on its wings). Game To Be Last Before Con ference Opener Against Rocky Mount Friday Unbeaten in three starts this sea son, the New Hanover Wildcats will resume their diamond warfare Tues day afternoon here, meeting the Whiteville high school nine on Le gion field at 3:30 o’clock. The game will be the last before the Eastern Class A conference opener Friday afternoon in Rocky Mount when the ’Cats play the Blackbirds. Coaches of the locals said last night that the starting lineup for tomorrow’s game has not yet been decided. Either Alderman or Ed wards will probably get the nod as the starting hurler. Roy Lamb, who held the Edwards Military Institute team to a mini mum of three hits last week, will be held in reserve for the conference tilt against Rocky Mount. However, Lamb may enter tomorrow’s game in a relief role. Robert Jordan, star football per former for the Wolfpack, will prob ably be the starting pitcher for Whiteville. The ’Cats have won over Clinton, Kinston and E. M. I. in previous games this season. A workout will be held this afternoon if weather permits. War Takes First Toll Of England's Schools LONDON, March 24. — <-T>> — The war took its first toll of England’s public schools—private fee-support ed schools where well-to-do families sent their boys—with the closing of 77-year-old Weymouth college today. ±ne Bisnop oi sansnury, ur. r,. N. Lovett, in the school’s swan song voiced the fear that other public schools will "share the same fate." A steady fall in enrollment indi cated British parents, facing mount ing war taxes and living expenses, are unable to meet Weymouth’s fees—£123 ($500) yearly in college and £110 ($440) in the junior school. These are low. however, compared with England’s most expensive boys’ school, Eton, which charges £245 ($980) a year. Large taster Service Held At Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 24. —UP)—Approximately 30,000 persons gathered on the moonlit sands of Miami Beach before dawn today to participate in traditional Easter Sunrise rites. A trumpet blared as the first pink rays of the sun rose from the white-capped horizon, and a moment later thousands of voices joined in the hymn, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today.” British Trawler Sunk By Mine, Crew Rescued LONDON, March 24.— (/P) _The admiralty announced tonight that the 210 ton British naval trawler, the Loch Assater, had been sunk by mine. All the crew members were rescued. The Loch Assater formerly was an Aberdeen fishing trawler. escapes injury DISNEY, Okla., March 24._(JP)_ Robert Griffith, a workman on the Grand river dam, slipped and bounc ed 92 feet down one of the dam’s slanting arches. Levi Lowder, a la bor inspector, found him uninjured calmly reading a newspaper. \ BEAVER TO MEET ! STEINBORN HERE Hader To Grapple Alan Eus tace In Semi-Finals Of Prp gram Tuesday Night Two wrestling bouts that promise action aplenty will be offered at Legion stadium tomorrow night, with Milo Steinborn, a former Ger man strong man exhibitionist, matching grunts and grapples with Chief Little Beaver, the Cherokee Indian, whose unethical tactics are well-known to mat fans here, meet ing in the top performance. The wrestling program was post poned last week due to the staging of the negro A. A. U. boxing tourna ment in the exhibit building at the stadium. If the main bout is not rough and tough enough, the American Legion, sponsors of the program, expect to ma :e up for it with the semi-finals match which will pit Jack Hader I against Alan Eustace. Both Steinborn and Eustace are newcomers to the local wrestling fold, but advance reputations are enough to assure some rough and tumble activity Tuesday night. Steinborn's reputation took a climb in this state last week when he unmasked the famed Furpie Flash, a task no other matman had been able to do. The Flash was re vealed as being none other than Ellis Bashara, former All-American lineman with the Oklahoma football team. Eustace is billed as being a v\ eran ring gladiator, who knows I Beafner, Hogan Ti d For Lead With Score Of 69; JfcSpa. den Among Leaders I5.v IMI l. 150X1 GREENSBORO. Man: •!_. „ itodney Snow was the fit st man ■ ee off today in the Ore ’ -T°lf tournament. By l0 a. m •as all over the course, three inche. leep, and the second is hole r. - )f the $:.000 Winter Tour tad been po.stpi ned until t ' Although the snow st rt 3 . .. his morning, an estii , ralleryites turned cut iy the y , he tournament officia - .. J ■vould be impossible to piny. Play will Vo resumed - f n. tomorrow. By then, it - will be possible to sweep Teens. The boys always cm, ■,! tp.in the fairways. j "I wouldn’t mind playing ;• \ay, said Jug McSpadc:;. t would be the same for c-ve. McSpaden will be right ip ■„ .he leaders when play js Hie Winchester (Mass.) pro . ;wo-over-par 73 yesterday wl: lim four strokes off the p; 0 set jointly by North and So th lion Ben Hogan and Cl; yton Heaf. ler, the “Candy Kid" from LinviUe* Vorth Carolina. A few players started out the postponement was made offiei :his morning. When they told Ge Sarazen it was his turn to tee uj the Connecticut squire cracked. ‘You mean ski up, don't y, Chicago Bowlers Hold Lead In National Meet DETROIT. March 24— (ffl -The Easter parade idea to >k hold at the American Bowling Coi pionships today with several Chi cagoans conducting a n. uvb to high spots in the standings. Nick De Grazia, Italian from Chicago’s west side, led the Keglers’ parade by sm - 68$ pins to take second in t -. it was Ear, however, from the leading 125 which Marty Cus.-io, Elizabeth, X. J., tailor, posted Saturday. De Grazia's score, from gat 247-204-237, dropped a '• w Chi cagoan, Charles Bunn, Nycur-cid electrical engineer, to third place, Earlier today Bunn had r led Cl 263-192 tor 6SC. Neither De Grazia nor Bunn did much in the dm ties and team event. just about all there is to know about wrestling. The referee for the not yet been named. The i will get under way at s o'clock Tennis Supplies See us for anything in the tennis line. Many racquets, balls, presses, cases anil shoes just received. 909 Market St. Phone 862 The testimonial of Mr. Mortensou (shown ab'rt • ■ of scores on file at Packard Motor ‘ For all-around thrift—pick PACKARD! OEE THIS big roomy Packard at your dealer s—today! 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