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Smoke Rings Weather O. K. By SAM RAGAN Picking the daisies of a lackadaisical sports week end and we chorus the chant of some 16 major league club owners and their associates along with a million or so baseball fans to the tune of “rain, rain, go away"—Tues day, at least. ... The big boys of baseball are all lined up m a huddle, ready to spring out with all the stuff they have for the year 1940 and we wonder if someone will spring a sur prise package to throw a little more life into the old machine. _ Race Is un The weatherman, a kindly sou that wouldn’t even harm a tres passing groundhog, has issued 2 manifesto calling on all raincloud: to abscond and has called to the colors all the sunbeams necessary for a bright and warm day Tues day. So, ladies and gentlemen, it’s baseball time again. The race is on and seven Ameri can league clubs are hoping that the best man won . v in. This Week This week in Wilmington is crammed fail of local sports. Ii you care for a list here they are (1) The Cape Fear Baseball as Eociation opened with colors flying and despite the coed banged around the b-'d in mid-season form. u) The men's spring goif tourna ment opened at the Cape Fear Country club. (3) Mew Hanover's ‘Wildcats, cur rency in third place in the Eastern conference, have a chance to climb a noccii by trouncing Durham here Friday. They practice for the till tomorrow against Kinston. (i) The Phac.com Aces, five game winners, play Raleigh and also get a chance to demonstrate their stuff in the scate tournament at Chape' Kid. They lock good enough to re take the eastern tide. (5) Mew Hanover's track team opens up in the southeastern invi tati-cr.ai meet at Goldsboro and then goes on :c flash its wares at Chapel Hill ir. cice scale high school meet. < -.) Scft'cai; teams in the city— ar.d there ore more than enough to go around—make final plans for their respective league openings. Ar.d if tic .t isnt' enough you may geo', a fishing po.e ar.d follow the trail of the finny denizens of the deep.; you may bowl or just loaf. But ii you v.ant excitement see Ginger mice growls with Mick Elitch at Legion stadium Tuesday night or if you v. ar.t to hear it grab your xavoc.ce armchair axed listen to th* basebaii openers. Cubs Defeat White ,v x In City Series Opener CHICAGO, April 14_(IP) —The Chicago Cubs and White Sox made their 1940 bow at home today, the National leaguers winning, 9 to 5, behind the steady pitching of Larry French, Vance Page and Julio Bo netti. The Cubs posted two runs in the first and stayed in front all the way, clinching the decision with four runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Hank Lieber led the at tack on three Sox pitchers with a double and two singles, driving in three runs. Joe Kuhel and Taft Wright hit homers for the Sox. Valiie Eaves, Sox rookie, was im pressive in the last three innings, holding the Cubs hitless after Bill Dietrich and Jack Knott had al lowed 10 hits in six frames. K. OF C. TO MEET WASHINGTON, April 14.—(IP)— The supreme board of directors of the Knights of Columbus, meeting here today, voted to hold the organi zation’s 58th annual convention at Indianapolis the week beginning Aug. 18. -+■ The Baseball Front Bt'CS WIN EVANSVILLE, Ind.. April 14 — UP)—The Pittsburgh Pirates today defeated the Evansville Bees of the Three Eye league 11-6 in the final exhibition game for the National league club before the season's opener Tuesday against the Cardi nals at St. Louis. Long Johnny Gee, the Pirates' ; $7:,000 pitching recruit, started but ran into difficulties in the second . when the Bees bunched five blows :o score five runs. Lloyd Dietz -.vent to the rescue and allowed only i one run, in the eighth. POWELL IMPROVING ASHLAND, Ky„ April 14.—(3*>— 1 Jake Powell. New York Yankee out fielder who suffered a brain con cussion in an exhibition ball game here last week, is "getting along nicely,” Dr. C. B. Daniels reported today. Daniels said the ball player is "well out of danger,” but added he will not be permitted to receive ' visitors during his stay at the hos | pital. The physician said Powell prob ably would be dismissed in about 10 days. PHILS BEAT AS ! LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14.—UP) . —The Phillies found their batting ; eyes today and pounded out an 8 to 3 victory over their Philadelphia city rivals, the Athletics. The game : was called in the ninth to enable j both teams to catch a train for j Philadelphia. ! While Hugh Mulcahy held the ; a’s in check the Phils jumped on ! George Caster for three runs in the i first inning aided by Chuck Klein's : triple, Merrill May’s double and Morrie Arnovich’s single. They landed on Ed Heusser for four more tallies in the sixth. BROWNS WHIP CARDS ST. LOUIS, April 14.— UP) — The belittled St. Louis Browns had things pretty much their own way today as they romped over the Cardinals, 7 to 3, in the final exhi bition for each club prior to opening of the season Tuesday. They played a 2-2 tie Saturday. The Browns cashed in two runs I before the Cards had a chance to | bat and increased the lead to 4-0 , with two more off Max Lanier in the fifth inning. They tacked on three in the seventh, including home runs by George McQuinn and ! Harlond Clift, off Murry Dickson. The* Cards were helpless for six ; innings as both Vernon Kennedy j and Southpay Howard Mills per formed brilliantly, each yielding but one hit ;n this three-inning term. STILL SNOW CLEVELAND, April 4. — UP) — j Snow that forestalled the Cleveland j Indians' last two exhibition games J with the New York Giants still I covered the outfield at League park today, but the Tribe went through a light workout on the canvas-pro tected infield. The Indians leave tomorrow night for Chicago where they meet the ! VVhite Sox in the season’s opener Tuesday. Archie Henderson Wins North-South Net Meet PINEHURST, April 14. — GP) — Archie Henderson of Chapel Hill defeated Charles Rider of Mal verne, L. l., in straight decisive sets today and won the North and South tennis championship 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Rider, serving in eleven games, won only once when he took the sixth game of the final set. Hen derson was especially strong with his volleys, forcing forehand and backhand drives. In the doubles finals, Henderson and Alex Guerry of Sewanee, Tenn., were defeated by Harris Everett and Martin Buxby of Miami, Fla., 5-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 10-8. Movie Stunt Man Plans To Enter Auto Classic INDIANAPOLIS, April 14.—UP)— Cliff Bergere, Hollywood, Calif., movie stunt man, will enter the 500 miie Memorial Day automobile race with the car in which the late Floyd Roberts of .Van Nuys, Calif., set winning and qualification records in 1038. Owner Lou Moore of Indianapolis announced today he had signed the 42-year-old Bergere to pilot the speedster, powered by a 270-cubic inch OffenhauBer motor. Roberts net a. qualification record of 125.72 miles an hour with the car and won with an average of 117.2 miles an hour. He was killed in the 1930 race. Archery, Tennis, Badminton Vou can now enjoy these popular spring sports at reasonable prices. PICKARDS 309 Market St. Phone 862 l CAPE FEAR CIRCUIT OPENS PL A V _ a A A a A A - A _ _A_ ^ ^ ^ RC NINE, KAPPAS HAVE CLOSE CALL Leland Triumphs Over Mason boro; Pepsi Club Rolls Over Purol Nine An assortment of heavy hitting and air-tight pitching cropped up in the Cape Fear Baseball association yesterday as the league unpacked ita wares for the 1940 season on four diamonds in the city and county. The results were: Royal Crown 7; Southern Athletic club 6. Hi-Kappas 9: Jackson-Bell 8. Leland 14; Masonboro 3. Pepsi-Cola 17; Purol 0. And there you have two close ones and two not-so-close, with the clubs that were strong last season still looking good. Rally In Ninth The Crownmen had to come from behind in the ninth inning to beat the Athletics at Robert Strange park. The lead changed several times with the entire tilt being a battle between Hendricks and Wil liams on the mound. Hendricks was touched for 10 safeties and struck out nine batters. Williams gave up only seven hits and fanned four. Hendricks also led the RC's at bat with two for four. A. B. Stokelev topped the A's batting attack with three hits out of four attempts. L. E. Sikes, vice-president of the league, opened the game with a short talk and tossed out the first ball. Kappas Have Close tall A hectic eighth inning rally that netted four runs enabled the Kap pas to come out in front of the Bell men. The fra nine piled up a good lead in the early sages of the game but the visitors kept pecking away at big Jim Bullock to bring them selves to the front S to 5 at the be ginning of the eighth. The eighth inning rally was started by Shine Bradshaw, a hit batter and another safety by Hobbs. Although hit freely Bullock was tight in the pinches. He allowed 14 hits, walked one and struck out 16. Fletcher Piner went the routs for Jackson-Bell and gave up nine base blows and fanned eight. Hobbs collected two for four to pace the Kappa attack. Stubby Deal with four for five and Beatty with three for four led the Printers. Judge Alton A. Lennon opened the game at Hilton with a short talk. Brew Stars Lefty P.ay Brew’ scattered seven hits while his mates pounded out 11 as Leland whipped the Masonboro P.amblers 14 to 3. Johnny Hines and J. Carter were the Masonboro moundsmen. P. Clark was the Le land receiver and Buck Tyre caught for the losers. J. Dalla; Orrell threw’ out the first ball to start the play at Masonboro. Walkway ane rrepsi-o-oia nine, me isos champions, walked away with ease over the Purol Bluebirds. The vic tors slammed out 15 hits while Victor Gore handcuffed the losers with four safeties. With the High school stars dominating the Pepsi lineup, the champs started their attack in the initial frame and never once let up. Johnnie Smidt, with two for four, and Curley Shands, with three for seven, led the winners at bat. Two home runs featured the attack. Shanda hit for the circuit with three o.i in the sixth and Carl Paige homered with the bases full in the eighth. Three Purol pitchers were used to halt the drive of the Pepsis. The Cape Fear board of directors plans to meet tonight at the court house and review tfc* opening games. ACES FACE TOUGH SLATE THIS WEEK New Hanover Tennis Team Plays Raleigh Wednesday; To Enter State Tourney The Phantom Aces of the New Hanover High school tennis club face the hardest week of the season this week. Wednesday night the Aces will go to Chapel Hill to play Thursday and Friday in the state singles and doubles tournament and Saturday morning will play either the Chapel Hill or Durham High school team in a match. The singles and doubles tourney will have no bearing on the stand ing of the state team championship which will be settled in May with the eastern team winner playing the winner of the Western conference. Charlotte is now leading in the West with the New Hanover High lads streaking away at the head ot the Eastern section with five straight wins under their belts. Coach Blomme will take five play ers and Manager Billy Boney on the trip. Lionel Johnson will play the singles in the state meet with Nel so.i Taylor and Charles Boney play ing the doubles. Jerould Robinson and Charles Edwards will play the four and five positions in the team matches. Defeated last year by the Phan tom Queens, the University of North Carolina Co-eds have cancelled their match with the local girls because of lack of material. So far this season the locals have been able to arrange only three girls’ matches and are hunting for teams to play them. 7T w « XXX * * ^ " Weather Favors Majors Opening Tuesday 150,000 FANS MAY ' SEE FIRST GAMES Yankees-Athletics Tilt Takes Spotlight Along With Reds-Cubs Contest By JL’DSON BAILEY NEW YORK. April 14. — (JP) — Their wrath at the weather about exhausted from unseasonable train ing conditions, the major league clubs waited hopefully today for a breath of spring to bless Tuesday’s eight-game opening program. There was reason to believe they might get it. In contrast to the persistent rains that washed out most of the con tests scheduled for the first three or four days last year, dry condi tions prevailed throughout the east and midwest and forecasters said warm winds would give tempera tures in the big league towns a boost before Tuesday. If the weather man can be shaken out of his pernicious habits, the inaugural will include these games: American League Boston at Washington New York at Philadelphia Cleveland at Chicago St. Louis at Detroit National League Chicago at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at St. Louis k Brooklyn at Boston Philadelphia at New York These attractions should bring a first-day turnout of more than 150, 000 fans, possibly as many as 200, 000. President Roosevelt will continue the presidential custom of throw ing out the first ball in the capital and various mayors and other dig nitaries will perform this ceremon ial function ft- other openers. The presence at Philadelphia of the New York Yankees, bent on achieving their fifth consecutive American league and world cham pionships, will give the Athletics' debut a share in the spotlight while National league attention will be focussed on the pennant defending Reds’ getaway against the Cubs. As always Cincinnati's park will be crammed. The Reds usually lose their first game, but the town, is the greatest opening day com munity in baseball and all reserved seats for Tuesday’s affair have been sold since December. Seasoned pitchers are due to get the call in each of the openers. The Yankees will rely on Charley (Red) Ruffing, a 21-game winner last season, and the Athletics will counter with Chubby Dean on the shopworn theory that the cham pions are not impregnable against southpaw shooting. j^eity Lriove lias me v.n.11 Red Sox againrt Dutch Leonard in Washington; Bob Feller will be on the firing line for Cleveland with Lefty Ed Smith hurling for the White Sox and Vernon Kennedy, a 20-game loser in 1939, will head the Browns against Tommy Bridg ets or Buck Newsom in Detroit. Naturally enough, Paul Derrin ger will be on the mound for Cin cinnati and Bill Lee for the Cubs; the Giants will use King Carl Hub bell against Kirby Higbe of the Phillies; Bob Klinger of the Pirates is slated to oppose Curt Davis on Lon Warneke of the Cards and Whitlow Wyatt is Brooklyn’s choice to oppose Bill Posedel of the Bees. With the exception of the Yan kees, every club in the two leagues is planning to start one or more rookies and with these untested parts figuring in the fate of each club, there is a great deal of un certainty surrounding the season’s prospects. The National league is bound to have its usual dogfight. Although the Reds again have all the im portant figures of their 1939 pen nant drive, they are depending on two newcomers. Mike McCormick and Vince Di.Maggio, for outfield duty and the new spark they'll need to repeat. The Cardinals, who almost suc ceeded in making a dead heat out of last year’s race, are trusting in Rookie Martin Marion at short to solve their infield problem. The Brooklyn Dodgers have an entirely new outfield; the Giants’ two rookie infielders and an outfielder, and so on down the line. In the American league tne ran kees, too, have added recruits, but only' to the pitching staff and the chances are the champs could keep out in front if none of the new men ever won a game. Every member of last year's lineup look ed as good or better than ever in the spring warm-up games. However, the Red Sox, who were runners up last year, have strength ened themselves and should at least be able to narrow the gap if some other club, like the Cleveland In dians, for instance, hasn’t done an even better job of winter building. Boston replaced the veteran Joe Vosmik in the outfield with a freshman, Dominic DiMaggio of the famous San Francisco family, and came up with some promising pitching material. Cleveland ironed out its infield problem with Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack around second base and added the experienced Roy (Beau) Bell in the outfield. Beyond these three clubs the American league isn’t much more stable than the backwash of the senior circuit. Detroit, .Washington, Grunt And Groan Grizzly_ The leading lady in the “Man vs. Heast” drama that will be pre | sented at Legion stadium Tuesday night will be Ginger, the 350-pound j black Canadian bear, shown above in characteristic wrestling pose. Her opponent tomorrow night will be the bounding Yugoslav, Nick Elitch. Other attractions on the four-ply card include a match be tween Milo Steinborn and Jack Hader in the finals and between John nie Marrs and Tommie Marvin in the semi-finals. The Edwards Family will present an acrobatic exhibition as a curtain-raiser. ’CATS TRACK TEAM ENTER WAYNE MEET Morse Star Of New Hanover Squad; To Enter State Meet Thursday Coach Relmon Robinson will leave Tuesday morning for Goldsboro to place a few of his trackmen in the Southeastern Invitation track meet v hich will be held in the Wayne county capital Tuesday morning and afternoon. The track team has been workin out for several weeks and some very good material has presented itseif to the coach, but the mentor has had trouble arranging meets for his speed merchants. With Jimmy Morse leading the pack in the sprints the Wildcats will journey to Chapel Hill Thursday afternoon to enter the state meet which will be held at the University of North Carolina Friday as an ad ded attraction to the High school week which is held at the university each year. The strength of the team this year is unknown, but Coach Robinson be lieves he has found a real sprinter in Morse and has built his enti team around the blond speedster. TATS WILL PLAY KINSTON TU DAY New Hanover Nine To Resume Loop Play Against Dur ham Here Friday The New Hanover High baseball outfit will play two games this week—one will be a conference game and the other will be a rank outsider. Tuesday afternoon at Legion field the Wildcats will tangle with Kinston High in a return engage ment. The local diamond artists defeated this' squad several days ago by a 15 to 3 score. Friday afternoon at the same place the NHHS team will listen to the growl of the Durham Bull dogs as they attempt to keep up their pace amid fast company. The Bulls boast a hard and fast team and are shooting for the loop championship. Commercial Softball Teams Meet Tonight Softball teams in the Commercial league will meet at the Y. M. C. A. tonight at 8 o’clock for final steps in the preparations for opening of the schedule on April 29. As now constituted, the loop is composed of five teams, the Ameri can Bakeries, defending champions, Spofford Mills, Brigade Boys’ club, Sunshine Laundry and Company A. The Sunshine Laundry is the new comer this season, the other four clubs having been members of the 1939 league. The strength of the new team is unknown but the other foil are known to be even stronger than last year, when every game was a battle. Plans For Scalzo-Perrin Battle Are Abandoned NEW ORLEANS, April 14.—VP)— Plans for a featherweight title fight m New Orleans between Petey Scal and Chicago have shuffled last >ear s regiments in seeking a new dea’ zo and Jimmy Perrin were aban doned today when Scalzo’s manager demanded a $5,000 guarantee for a bout here in Perrin’s home town. Pete Reilly, Scalzo’s manager, said his man was willing to fight Perrin “in neutral teri'itoi'y” for 25 per cent of the gate to decide ownership of the crown which the National Boxing association stripped last month fi-om Joey Archibald. Lew Raymond, matchmaker for the Auditorium Boxing association which already had signed Perrin for the bout May S, said the fight was definitely off after a telephone con versation with Reilly in New York. Each fighter had been offered 25 per cent of the gate. I Men’s Spring Golf Meet Opens At Country Club » ——— - NEW YORK DOWNS DODGERS, 5 TO 3 Charley Keller Leads Ten-Hit Attack With Single, Dou ble And Triple BROOKLYN, April 14.—UP!—The world champion Yankees closed the spring preparation for their cam paign for a fifth straight pennant today by defeating Brooklyn's Dodg ers 5 to 3 in an air-cooled game at Ebbets field. Charley Keller led a ten-hit at tack with a sing:e, double and triple and Fteve Sundra, Marv Breuer and Soud Chandler prevent ed the Dodgers from catching up after a sustained assault netted the champs three runs in the first in ning. The one anxious moment for the Yankees came in the ninth when Joe DiMaggio, sliding for second on his looping double to center, caught his spikes in the bag and spi’ained his right knee. Tommy Henrieh ran for him and finished in center field but the injury was believed not serious enough to make DiMag gio miss the opening of the Ameri can league season. Medals, Trophies Given To Oak Ridge Rifle Team GREENSBORO, April 14.— (iP> — Ten medals and two trophies were presented to rifle teams of Oak Ridge Military institute during their first dress parade of the season this afternoon in recognition of their victories in the William Randolph Hearst Intercollegiate rifle matches. Oak Ridge’s team won first place in the competition in the Fourth corps area and their second team took third place. The awards were presented by Col. Edgar H. Bain, president of the North Carolina Reserve Officers’ association. A crowd estimated at 7,500 witnessed the parade and presentation of medals and trophies. Jones Defeats Carr In Fourth Flight; Finals Slated April 25-28 One match was played yp-,. „ as the first round of tl.e ; spring golf tournament at the y. Fear Country club got. under v.av E. T. Jones defeated James Cr one up in 18 holes in fourth pairings. Pairings for the opening r play are as follows: First flight—J. p. Herring, jr„ fending champion, vs. M. Snow j Holmes Davis, Jr., vs. Joe Fox j. J. W. Morton vs, James 1. Tom Kidd, Jr., vs. Walker Tay Jr. Second flight—L. L. Doss vs, pnj Willetts; Fred Little vs. jj . Marks; Clark Bellamy vs ;.. Donald Koonce Dr. Junius , vs. Carol Koonce; Clark James h W. L. Bozeman; Tom Grainger B. K. Myers; Tom Cobb vs. \v, • MacMillan; W. A. Fonvielle vs, [; B. Gwathemy. Third flight—Dr. S. C. Marks •.■< Earl Napier; E. W. Mange vs. I;, ... Thomas, Jr.; M. C. Brown vs. Br. Broadfoot; R. M. Williams vs. v , ren Johnson; J. C. Williams vs. tv. I. Corbett; H. T. Newland vs. p Matthes, Jr.; Hooper Johnson vs '. E. White; H. L. Taylor vs. B F, Southerland. Fourth flight—Dr. A. J. Bar rs. E. T. Jones; Mosley p. vs. Richard Rogers: T. D. Love v«. Jack Potter; Dr. James Smithy Henry Rehder. Play in the first round will c-. tinue through April 17. S.w round play will be held April h 20; third round play April 21 tt .; with the finals to be held A::::r to 28. 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Bill Sullivan and Conger drove in Higgins and Bartel!. A chilled crowd of 2.800 saw De troit sluggers get to Bucky Walters for three hits in two innings and then pounce on a parade of Cincin nati hurlers for eight more safeties with Johnny Yander Meer, Whitey Moore, Elmer Riddle and Charley Barrett facing the bombardment. Schoolboy Rowe and Harold New houser held the Reds to a single run until the eighth when Mike McCormick and Myers started the attempt to rally.
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