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UliX ■ ■ _ _ _ _ _ ‘CAT, WHITEVILLE BOXERS CLASH TONIGHT JUVENILE CHAMPS PLAN EXHIBITIONS Coach Greer Is Expected to Bring Large Squad to Send Against High The New Hanover High school box ing- team and the hard hitting White ville High school mittmen will clash at 8 o’clock tonight in the local ring. Several fine bouts are expected .to be offered the fans with Coach Lee Greer, of Whiteville, bringing a large squad. Some of Porter Davis’s Juvenile champions of the Golden Gloves wi’l stage exhibitions with a number of Whiteville boys from 65 to 80 pounds before the regular card is opened. Coach Greer will present the fol lowing regular fighters: Ralph Stan ley, 87 pounds. Billy Cook, 99, Jack Inman, .103, Stephens, 110, Thomas. 123, H. Williamson, 126, Wayne Cook, 136, B. Williamson, 150, Evans, 78, Henderson, 76, Avant, 81, M. Wil liamson, 125, A. Williamson, 140, Wooten, 145, Tyree, 116. Coach Howard McDonald will se lect his squad from a long list of fine fighters including T. C. Hunt, 26, Sammy. Doxey, 99, Phelps, 102, Billy Mead, 110. Roland Cooper, 123, J. P. .Jenrette, 126, Harold Jeter, 136, Bill Bowen, 150, Mitchell Saleeby, 105, Tommy Hughes, 112, Alton Fowl er, 118, John Goins, 137, Squeaky Gibbs, 135, Norman Davis, 112. Ken neth Davis, 135, Billy Haas, ISO, Her bert Holt, 160, Wetzel Holt, 165. Jack Nall, 135, Garev, 130, Raymond Me shetv. 120. Bill Rhodes will referee and judges will be Mike Hall, Captain Frank Folk and Captain William Coit. John Glisson will time. PELLETERI GIVEN HOWARD’S ‘LUCK’ ^fr,co That Was Bought for §1,500 Wins Richest Race In the World By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES, March 2.—OP)— They dropped the “Lucky” from Charles S. Howard’s title today, and gave ii to popular Tony Pelleteri of New Orleans. Any man who can lose three $100, 000 purses in three horse races by the combined margin of four feet or less doesn’t deserve to be called “Lucky.” And any man who can take a horse which has been kicked around from piliar to post* and which was bought for a mere $1,500—and see him win the richest horse race in the world—well, he’s the lucky one. “Lucky” Charlie Howard, the San Francisco automobile magnate, saw his crack Micland beaten by Pelle teri’s unsung, unnoticed and pre viously unsought after Bay View in the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap. It was sad news for Howard, but it was no novelty. Back in 1937 his noble Seabiscuit, the hottest thing in the betting ring, was beaten in the “hundred grander” by Rosemont. The distance? A head. In 193S the same Seabiscuit, once again the favorite, went to bat for the $100,000 purse, and once again Howard saw the prize and the honor fade away—by a head. Stagehand, a strapping young colt who was to do nothing else in the racing world, through no fault of his own, of course—captured that race. And yesterday it was Mioland, by a neck: The big purse, or the win ner’s share of $89,360, and the glory, ■went to Bay View. Few tears were shed around the race track for Howard, because he doesn’t need the money and he has ■won two of these rich handicaps. Kayak II took it in 1939 and Sea biscuit finally came through last year in his third and most coura geous try. In addition, Howard had already won something like $100,000 in the Santa Anita meeting of this year to date. But any man who can lose three $100,000 handicaps by the margin of a head, a head arid a neck isn’t lucky. Bay View’s win was popular solely because of his owner. While the horse is registered in Mrs. Pelleteri’s name, Tony is the boss and the hard luck trainer. He’s Been campaigning a big string of horses here for the past six years, and all around the country for many years before. Un til this season, the New Orleans horseman had never collected a ma jor purse here. His Andy K won the Arlington Futurity two years ago, and then went bad. He’s picked Up a stake here and a stake there, but nothing exceptional until yester day. Richard S. Tufts Wins Tin Whistle Tournament i PINEHURST, March 2.—I®— Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst won the Tin Whistle club championship for 1941 today when he played the final round in a 77 for a 36-hole total of 147. George T. Dunlap, Jr., of Free port, L. I., former national ama teur titlist and frequent winner of the Tin Whistle, finished second with a 75-78-153. Howard Ken woithy of Youngstown, Ohio, was third with 73-81-154, 5 Little And Demaret Ousted From Coral Gables Four-Ball Meet +-——★_——.—-_★ CAGEBALL SEASON IS NEARING CLOSE --- Championships of All But Four of Outstanding Loops Have Been Decided BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK, March 2—<£>)—1The schedule shows basketball games between colleges of “major” stand ing nearly every day during the coming week and a few even later, but in most of the big circuits the regular season might as well be declared finished. The championships of all but four of the ten outstanding court leagues have been decided, most of them during the past week, and what’s left doesn’t offer much for fans who thrive on close pennant races. The titles already have been awarded to Wisconsin in the Big Ten, Arkansas in the southwest. Duke in the Southern conference, Tennessee in the Southeastern, Stanford in the Pacific coast South ern division and Washington State in the northern division. The Big Six and Big Seven races also are at the point of being decided for good and the eastern league offers nothing better than a long stern chase after Dartmouth’s Indians. That leaves only the tradition ally torrid Missouri valley confer ence to carry on its battle to the finish. Indications point to a tie there, for Creighton is only a half game ahead of Oklahoma A. and M. and neither figures to lose its remaining games. The order of the leading "inde pendent” teams also is pretty well settled with Seton Hall, winner ot 19 straight this season and 42 since its last defeat in 1939 getting the call over all'others despite sched ule differences that leave room for all sorts of arguments. Taking the teams by sections, here are the current developments: East— Dartmouth stretched its league record to eight victories in nine starts by whipping Penn sylvania 65-57 in a game that set a" season’s scoring record for the loop. Columbia (6-2) is the only real contender with Cornell (7-3) bare ly in* the running. Columbia, win ner over Yale and Harvard last week, has to beat Princeton and Penn while Dartmouth encounters Harvard this week to make a real contest of it when the two top teams meet March 1C. Among the independents, Du quesne seems to rank a close sec ond to Seton Hall, which won three games last week and wound up its season with a disputed 45 44 decision over Baltimore, the last team to which the Setonians lost. Duquesne has lost two of 19 games, both to mid-western teams. Long Island (22-2), Rhode Island State (20-2), Baltimore (15-2). George Washington (17-3) and Loyola of Baltimore (12-3) also have notable records and among the smaller schools Westminster (18-1) and Panzer (14-1( are stand outs. Big Ten—Wisconsin won its first undisputed conference title since 1918 by beating Minnesota 43-32 last Saturday. The Badgers, after losing to Minnesota at the start, won 11 straight games and set a scoring record on 536 points for their league. Indiana, last year’s N.C.A.A. champions, again are bound to finish second regardless of the outcome of tomorrow’s clos ing game against Chicago. The Hoosiers made it 9-2 by beating Purdue 47-29 after losing last Mon day’s decisive game to Wisconsin 38-30. Big S'ix—Kansas, holding off a last minute Nebraska rally to win 55-53 Saturday, clinched at least a tie for the title with seven victories in eight games. Iowa State, with six wins and three losses, can re main in the cunning only by beating the Jayhawks tomorrow. Even then Kansas would have another shot at its ninth Big Six title in 13 years against Oklahoma Friday. Missouri Valley — Creighton won its eighth conference victory against three losses by beating Drake 65-57 in a game that set a new Valley single-game scoring record. The Blue Jays wind up Friday against Washburn. Meanwhile Oklahora A. and M., with Lonnie Eggleston back in the lineup, is moving at a ter rific clip. The Aggies have won seven and lost three and end their season against Tulsa Tuesday and Drake Friday. Midwest Independents—The defla tion of Notre Dame through losses to Butler and Michigan State left Toledo (20-2) in the front rank of the unaffiliated Mid-Western teams. Toledo goes east this w’eek to play L<5hg Island and La Salle, two teams that should really test the Rockets’ calibre. Bradley (15-4) appears the next best. Southwest—Arkansas, its confer ence title already clinched, wound up its season by whipping Southern Methodist to make it 12 straight wins in the loop. The Razorbacks haven’t lost to a college team this season and are looking ahead to the N. C. A. A. title. Southern Conference—Duke’s Blue Devils, whose regular-season show ing wasn’t good enough to earn them a seeding in the conference tournament, walked off with the championship by whipping North Carolina, regular-season leader, 38-37 Training Camp Briefs like archie ORLANDO, Fla., March 2.—<-3?)— President Clark Griffith and Man ager Bucky Harris expressed great satisfaction today at the initial showing of George Archie, the Sen ators’ rookie first-sacker from the Coast league. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 2.— UP) —Irked by steady rains that have fallen since last Friday, fiery Frankie Frisch of the Pittsburgh Pirates stormed today: ‘‘My pitchers and catchers will work out if they have to wear bath ing suits.” MAPS TRAINING TAMPA, Fla., March 2— UR — Manager Bill McKechnie mapped the second week of training for the Cincinnati Reds today while the world champion baseball players put in the cff-day fishing and golf ing. YANKEES REST ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 2—(iP)—The New York Yankees en joyed a day of rest today—their last Sunday off uni.il October—and welcomed Outfielders Tom Henrich and Mike Chartak into camp. This left holdout Joe DiMaggio and three other players absent on the eve of the first workout for the full squad. Frank Crosetti may arrive tomorrow, Bill Dickey is expected Wednesday and Red Ruffing about the end of the week after the com pletion of some dental work. UNLIMBER ARTILLERY SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 2. —UtI—Veterans Max West, Chet Ross and Sibby Sisti unlimbered their heavy artillery today as man ager Casey Stengel sent his Bos ton Bees through their initial bat ting and fielding dril of the train ing season. 5 FT. MYERS, Fla., March 2.— UR—The Indians’ regulars, aided by Clarence Campbell’s home run, took the first six-inning practice game of the training season today from the Yannigans, 3 to 0. 5 McNAIR INJURED LAKELAND, Fla., March 2.—UP) —Detroit’s champion Tigers opened their spring training here today and within two hours had acquired their first casualty when Eric (Boob) McNair, candidate for shortstop, turned an ankle in a leap for a throw. 5 HAVANA, March 2.—(3—Catcher Mickey Owen, who had been a long-distance holdout against the Brooklyn Dodgers, came to term6 today after a 15-minute consulta tion with President Larry Mac Phail, who was believed to have compromised on a bonus contract. Owen wanted $10,000 and possibly more, but it was understood he signed for a base pay of about $8,000 with an arrangement dial would give him the amount he wanted provided he became the Dodgers’ regular catcher and ap peared in 100 games 5 HAVANA, March 2.— UP) —Billy Jurges, the shortstop who is the key to the success of the New York Giants in the National League this year suffered a return of dizziness today and did not participate in his club’s exhibition game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The veteran infielder who was beaned accidentally by Bucky Wal ters last June and had to remain out of action for the remainder of the season because of severe head aches, had played in the first two games of the exhibition series with no ill effects. PASADENA, Calif., March 2.— (ffl — The Chicago White Sox today rounded out their first week at spring training camp with a day of rest. Eddie Smith, portly southpaw however, was kept indoors by a cold, which forced him to miss Saturday’s drill. Smith probably will be absent from drills until Wednesday. Lou Novikoff Reaches Agreement With Cubs AVALON, Calif., March 2,—UP)— Slugging Lou Novikoff reached a salary agreement with the Chicago Cubs as a rookie outfielder to day. A few minutes later, he put on a uniform and hit the first ball pitched to him, in batting prac tice. Novikoff was said to have been asking $8,000 for his first big lea gue tryout but was believed to have settled for $6,000 and a prom ise of a bonus if he delivers at the plate as expected. As a Los Angeles player, Novik off led Pacific coast league batting last year with a'.363, including 41 home runs and 171 runs batted in. 5 Oliver Due to Report For Year in U. S. Army CORAL GABLES, Fla., March 2. —UP—Officials who are conduct ing the $5,000 international four ball golf tournament at the Bilt more hotel are trying to make way for Ed Oliver to leave sudden ly for Wilmington, Del., if he is called in the draft. Oliver played in the first round today and said he would not go home unless he received official confirmation of published reports that he was due to report tomor row for army training. L. Suffern Taylor, chairman of the tournament committee, an nounced that, if Oliver leaves, nis partner, Clayton Heafner of Lin ville, N. C., will be permitted to pick himself an alternate, provid ing all the remaining 15 players agree 5 in the first round, William and Mary 58-42 in the second and second seeded South Carolina 53-30 in the final. Southeastern Conference — Ken tucky, which finished the regular season strongly to top the stand ings, went to the ‘ournament final before bowing out to Tennessee, 36-33. Tennessee also conquered Mis sissippi State, Georgia and Florida in tournament play to earn its title fairly. Big Seven—Wyoming’s 50-32 vic tory over Utah State after beating Colorado State earned at least a tie for the title with a chance to clinch it against the 1940 champion, Colo rado, next Friday. Utah State put Colorado out of the running, 37-29, but still has to win two games to keep its chance for a share of the clinching the Southern Sectional title championship. Pacific Coast — Stanford, after split a pair of games with California to wind up with ten victories and two losses (21-3 against all oppon ents). Meanwhile Washington State finally clinched the northern crown by beating Idaho 37-35 after Oregon State had lost to Oregon. The two sectiohal champions will meet in a three-game championship series at Pullman, Wash., March 14, 15 and 17. According to records, Monte zuma, Aztec ruler, drank 50 pitch ers of chocolate, flavored with va nilla, daily, S K. C. TRACK MEET WINDS UP SEASON Brennan Switches the Feature Event from One to Two Mile Run ■ By BILL BONI NEW YORK, March 2-— tat — Frank Brennan, who promotes thr Knights of Columbus Track meet that each winter winds up the Madi son Square Garden season, is a hard man to discourage. A year ago at this time Brennan was proclaiming that the Columbian mile would be run in 4 minutes 3 seconds, which would have made it the fastest ever, and that big John Btrican would be the human rabbit wuose pace would bring the milers through such a sensational whirl As it turned out the milers didn’t pay any attention to Borican, who ran himself out in a badly-judged first quarter, and Chuck Fenske won today, but has switched from the in a modest 4:13.2. Breennan.is back at the old stand mile to the’ two-mile as his "piece de resistance.’’ Greg Rice, says Brennan, will run the latter distance in 8 minutes 50 seconds flat next Saturda night to shatter all records for this event. Fortunately for Brennan, this is an entirely different proposition. The chesty little guy from South Bend (Ind.) already has shown he needs no pace-maker in setting world indoor records for two, two and a half, two and three-quarter and three miles, and, the night he haul ed the two-mile time dow'n to 8:53.4 he looked as if he very well could have done it several seconds faster. Supporting the distance feature will be, among others, the shot put and the mile. The former will be a major attraction because of the presence of A1 Blozis, who cannoned the shot to a new record of 56 feet 6 inches in winning the Intercol legiate title a second time last night. The mile will bring together for the last time this winter Mac Mitchell, also an I. C. 4-A repeater with a meet record 4:12, and Walter Mehl of Madison, Wis., who chased the New York U. Junior to a record equalling 4:07.4 the last time they met and was caught in the same time himself. The K. of C. also is bringing >ack Fred Wolcott of Rice institute, who set three hurdles marks and tied one in four earlier meets. He’ll be up against Allan Tolmich of Detroit, who won the National A. A. U. in door title eight days ago when Wol cott was home in Texas. Most of the A. A. U. winners, as well as several of last night’s I. C. 4-A champions, also will be in the meet. The I. C. 4-A team title was won by Fordham, its first victory, as the Rams ran to eight straight the string of metropolitan college victories in the team battle. MAY CALL FELLER CLEVELAND, March 2.—(A*)—A selective service official said tonight that Bob Feller, ace pitcher of the Cleveland Indians, may be called ir to the Army by Sept. 1. Feller’s local craft number is 2,857. There are 3,816 registrants in his district. DUKE PLACES TWO ON TOURNEY TEAM Rose, Westmoreland, Holley, Valasek and Sotnyk Are Named Meet’s Stars BY FRANK B. GILBRETH RALEIGH, March 2—UP)—Duke’s Blue Devils, the giant-killer who knocked off two top-seeded teams and won the Southern conference basketball tournament which end ed here last night, placed two men on the tournament’s All-Star team. The All-Stars, "picked for the As sociated Press by tournament coaches and officials, follow: Pos. School Player Votes F—N..C.—Bob Rose . 14 F—S. C.—Pres, Westmoreland 15 C—Duke—Chuck Holley . 19 G—Duke—Cy Valasek . 20 G—VMI—Emil Sotnyk . 14 Three of the All-Stars— Holley, Valasek and Sotnyk—grew up to gether in Ford City, Pa., and learned their basketball together on the high school team there. Westmoreland comes from Green ville, S. C., and Rose from Smith field, N. C. Holley and Valasek are seniors; Westmoreland and Rose are jun iors; and Sotnyk is a spohomore. All three of the tournament offi cials and seven of the eight coach es named candidates for first and second All-Star teams. The eighth coach, Mac Pitt of Richmond, left Raleigh before the close of the tournament, but wired in his se lections for a first team. Each first-team candidate re ceived two votes, and each second team candidate one vote. On the basis of 11 first teams and 10 sec ond teams, the votes totaled 160. Valasek, Duke’s dead-eye guard, ranks as captain of the All-Stars, since he led with 20 votes. All but two of the selectors put him on their first team, and those two named him on their second team. Holley, who did a fine job of guarding North Carolina’s George Glamack in the tournament open er, was placed on nine first teams and one second team. In some cases. Holley was picked at a for ward. and Glamack was named at center. It was largely Holley’s work, to gether with a fine defense which Coach Eddie Cameron of Duke de signed to stop Glamack, that gave the unseeded Blue Devils a one point victory over North Caro lina’s top-ranking White Phantoms in the opener. Several of the coaches and oth icials explained that they believed Glamack was a better center than Holley, but that Holley belonged on the first team solely on the basis of tournament play. The gist of their remarks went something like this: “If this were an All-Southern conference team, based on play through the entire season. Gla mack would get my vote. Since it’s a tournament All-Star team, and since Glamack was pretty well tied up in the only game which his team played, my vote goes to Hol ley.” Westmoreland, who was person aly responsible for the Game cock’s semi-final victory over V. M. I.—his shots in the closing min utes won the ball game—received five first-place spots and five sec ond-place. He amassed 41 points during the tournament, to top Holley by two points for scoring honors. Rose landed on five first teams and two seconds. Glamack and Ed Stumpf of V. M. I., tied with 12 votes each, and may be considered co-captains of the second All-Star team. The sec ond-stringers shape up this way: Pos. School Player Votes F—VMI—Ed Stumpf . 12 E—Duke—Ray Spuhler . 10 C—N. C.—George Glamack_ 12 G—S. C.—Lanny Lofdahl . 10 G—VMI—Bob Foster . 7 Pepsi-Cola Team Reenters Cape Fear League For 1941 The Pepsi-Cola baseball club, a member of the Cape Fear as sociation until the middle of last season, has returned to the league and named Skeet James, former manager of the Royal Crown team, as piiot during the coming season. The Crownmen won every game during the second half last sea son and copped the southeastern tournament sponsored bv Bert File skipper of the Pirates. .The Cape Fear league is plan ning an ambitious season this year and is anticipating several night games a week in addition to con tinuing its Sunday afternoon sched ule. This league will probably be composed of six teams, with two franchise positions being left open °ra club ^d an entry from Camp Davis. The two latter clubs will hardly be ready for plav until well into the season, but re* gular loop play will likely begin about the middle of April. * g" James said last night he expect ed to have the best semi-pro ball club in Eastern Carolina and is counting on such stars of last sea son as the following: Snag Allen, of the Pepsi-Colas, pitcher and infielder; Burney Cov ington, eccentric catcher; Lin 'wood Rowan, who played stellar ball for the Crownmen and for the Pirates at shortstop; Johnny Edens, former high school star and former Royal Crown third sacker and pitcher. Also Norman Farmer, high jumping first baseman; Jennings Edwards, infielder; C. Clark, form er Leland infielder; Charles Edens, star footballer now attending Fur man college; Yates Hawkins, hard hitting infieider who played for James the past two seasons; and many others of outstanding ability on the diamond. All in all, a great season is ex pected by all teams in the league who have scouted plenty of old and new material for a first class cir cuit, J ames said. Saturday's Sports In Brief (By The Associated Press) RACING LOS ANGELES: Mrs. Anthony Pelleteri’s little-known four-year old Bay View upsets great gobs of dope to beat Charles fc'. How ard’s even-money favorite, Miol and, in turf’s richest stake. $100, 000 Santa Anita handicap; Bay View’s amazing victory paid $118.40 for $2; Challedon trailed for behind. MIAMI: Big Pebble, cast-off from E. R. Bradley stable, wins $50,000 Widener cup race, with Bimelech, pride and joy of Bradley barn, finishing fourth; Get Off was sec ond and Haltal third; Big Pebble, sold a year ago to Mr. and Mrs. Ed S. Moore of Sheridan, Wyo„ for $5,000, returned $51,000 on the investment. TRACK AND FIELD NEW YORK: Fordham wins 1. C. 4-A indoor track title for first time as Georgetown’s A1 Blozis sets world record of 65 feet, six inches in shot put and New York U’s Les MacMitchell wins mile in meet record time of 4 minutes, 12 seconds. SWIMMING LINCOLN: With four new marks featuring two-day meet, Iowa State wins Big Six swimming champi onship for fourth consecutive year. BLACKSBURG, Va.: U. of North Carolina is new Southern confer ence swimming champion, winning not only team trophy but the lion’s share of individual medals. COLLEGE BOXING COLUMBIA, S. C.: The Citadel, with 17 points, wins Southern con ference boxing championship; Warren Wilson, Clemson, knocks out Gates Kimball, North Caro lina, in heavyweight feature. COLLEGE WRESTLING CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Princeton captures Big Three championship, defeating Harvard, 23-13. Prince ton previously had beaten Yale. COLLEGE PARK, Md.: Wash ington and Lee’s grapplers win four individual crowns and team championship in Southern confer ence tournament. BASKETBALL LOUISVILLE: University of Tennessee defeats Kentucky, de fending champion 36-33 to win Southeastern conference title. RALEIGH, N. C.: Duke univer sity takes Southern conference championship by handing 53-30 de feat to South Carolina Gamecocks in tournament final. SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.: Seton Hall college’s sensational basket eers ring up their 42nd consecu tive victory by beating U. of Balti more, 45-44. MISCELLANEOUS KANSAS CITY: Big Six faculty representatives discuss naming an athletic commissioner, but defer action until spring meeting. ORMOND BEACH. Fla.: Jane Cothran of Greenville. S. C., wins South Atlantic Women’s Golf title, beating Mary Agnes Wall of Meno ! minee, Mich., 5 and 4. J( SON, SHARPE I D YACHT RACE Good News and Gulf Stream Virtually Even 85 Miles From Havana ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March 1.—UP)—Robert W. Johnson’s 63 foot yawl Good News, the 1940 winner, and Dudley Sharpe's 70 foot yawl Gulf Stream set a fast pace tonight as they entered the final leg of the St. Petersburg to Havana yacht race. Checked by a coast guard plane at 6 p. m., the two big yawls were virtually even, 85 miles north-north W'est of Havana Harbor but follow ing courses eight miles apart. It is at this stage of the race that rival skippers are permitted to choose optional courses, sailing west ward of Dry Tortugas or due south through Rebecca Shoals. Good News took the westward course with Wil liam Labrot’s yawl Stormy Weather from Annapolis, Md., following her about 35 miles back. Gulf Stream sailed through the shoals, followed by Howard Baxter’s 71 foot black-hulled yawl chartered by David Sloss of Detroit was 15 miles behind Gulf Stream and follow ing the same course. The Joseph Conrad, United States maritime serv ice three masted Square-Rigger and the little Cuban cutter Bicho Malo II were far back, the cutter esti mated to be at least 20 miles north of the shoals and 110 miles off shore. Ted Leonard's schooner Admate from Bradenton was unreported. The coast guard patrol had been unable to locate her position since 6 p. m. Sat urday but no alarm was felt and yachtsmen conjectured the craft probably was following a course close to the shoreline. East winds prevailed throughout today’s racing and the yachts main tained an average 9 knots most of the time, which pace, if continued will mean a record breaking run and a finish somewhere around midnight. It is south of Rebecca and Tortugas. however, that the most difficult sail ing conditions of the course are en countered. Record time for the race is 37 hours, 16 minutes, 43 seconds estab lished last year by Good News. Pro vided this years winner finishes be fore 1:37 a. m. Monday the record will be broken. At noon, the Gulf Stream was re ported less than 100 miles from Havana. Glennon’s Wild Goose Leading Auerbach Race MIAMI, Fla., March 2.—M— Tommy Glennon’s Wild Goose from Lancaster, Pa., today took the point lead in the $5,000 Judge Emil S. Auerbach trophy race in the first day of the Biscayne Bay re gatta. Wild Goose led the pack in the second heat, after “Wild Bill” Can trell of Louisville, was forced out with his worry due to motor trou ole, after copping the first heat. The veteran hydroplane, Miss Miami Beach, owned by Charles Grafflin, was next in point stand ing and was second in both heats. WILDCAT BASEBALL SQUAD WILL DRILL Locals Prep for Season Open er With Clinton Here On March 18 Coach Floyd Bumgarner will give the New Hanover High school base ball squad another workout this aft ernoon, if favorable weather condi tions permit. If the weather is too cold, the Wild cat squad will be given an indoor practice session in the new gymna sium. The locals will have about two weeks to get ready for the opening game of the season with Clinton here on March 18 and then a return game in Clinton on March 25. The coach is looking for material to fill in the gap left in the outfield by the loss of Curly Shands who has signed with Danville, Virginia, and will report there April 1. There is also a vacancy around shortstop left open by the graduation of Johnny Smidt, who is now trying for the Frosh team at Wake Forest. Pitch ers and plenty of them are needed badly for the locals lost two fine throwers last season in the gradua tion of Roy Lamb and Alison Aider man. Bobby Edwards is the only regular chunker back in the lineup although Billy Pieper did some toss ing. but is undecided what position to try for this season. Cliff Chvens by, basketball star, is reported to have quite a bit of stuff on the ball and is out for a try as is Robert Gibbs, left-hander from Los Angeles, California. The locals will open the confer ence season with Rocky Mount in Wilmington March 28. April 4 will find the ’Cats in Wilson and April 11 in Rocky Mount. Durham comes to town on April 18 and the Wild cats play Raleigh April 22 in Wil mington. Durham is played on their Held April 25 and Wilson here April 29. May 6 in Raleigh, ends the con ference season. Pauline Betz Captures Southeastern Net Meet JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 2. —(JP)—Pauline Betz of Rollins col lege enhanced her prospects of win ning tho National Women’s Tennis championship next summer by de feating fellow-student Dorothy Bun dy, 6-4, 11-9, in a rousing finale to he Southeastern tournament here to day. Bobby Riggs of Chicago scored his third victory of the Florida winter circuit by taking a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, vic tory from William Talbert of Cincin nati in the men’s finals. Miss Betz, who hails from Los An geles although playing under the col ors of the Winter Park. Fla., college, appeared to have shaken off com pletely the effects of an injury suf fered several weeks ago while play ing basketball, and played a conserv ative, consistent game. DODSON, GOGGIN CAPTURE MATQ Spectacular Comeback Savt, Clayton Heafner and Ed ‘Porky’ Oliver By JOHN WILDS CORAL GABLES, Fla.. March! — OP) —National Open Chair' Lawson Little and sharpshco'V Jimmy Demaret bowed out 0( “' $5,000 International Four-Ball G> tournament today—the victims « 50 to 1 team—as golfs leading n-' fessionals show'ered the Miami e"' more course with birdies in thf > hole first round. ! Leonard Dodson, of Sprintf.) Mo., who boasts he never |'0!.' playoff, and Willie Govsin of jjjJ —conceded virtually no chance such a classy field—started br and Demaret with a burst of i !scoring on the afternoon round? won, 2 and 1. A spectacular comeback SiW Clayton Heafner of Linville, x r and Ed “Porky” Oliver of Wiltnir t-n, Del.,—three down after morning 18, they came hark square the match, and win jj l extra hole from Jimmy Thomsons Chicopee, Mass., and Harry coo:» of Chicago. The three-time winners - jet Picard of Hershey. P - . and John Revolta of Evanston. 111.. fferf mlnated by Johnny Bulla ofCfap and Lloyd Mangrum of Oak Park 111., 6 and 5 The 1940 winners—Billy Burke t! Cleveland, and Craig Wood o! J|j. maroneck, N. Y., -- had their hr; full in a match with Dennv Slip of West Newton, Mass., and E. ; Harrison of Chief "o, but won ti: up. Gene Sarazen, the farming mj; from Brookfield, Conn., and his pa: ner, little Ben Hogan of Purchas N. Y., defeated Johnny Farrell - Hollywood Beach, Fla., and WD MacFarlane of Miami Shores, one r; Biggest winning margin of ii> day was achieved by the well W .-.need duo of Sam Snead of Hen springs, Va„ and Ralph Guldai; former National Champion frm Chicago. They triumphed, 7 and 6, over Vie tor Ghezzi of Deal, N. J.. and Jimm; Hines of Greatneck. N. Y. The tournament lost its Intern tional complexion when the Arge tine team of Eduardo Blasi and Mar tin Pose, dropped out, one dow: after throwing a scare into the pc ennial finalists—Paul Runyan i White Plains, N. Y.. and Horns Smith of Oak Park, 111. One of the tightest matches of '.i day fell to Byron Na’son of Tolse Ohio, and Harold McSpaden of Chester, Mass., 3 and 2. They fas a seven-under-par 64 in the mnrnis yet led Ky Laffoon of Chicago, t’ Frank Walsh of Rumson, N. J only one hole. The lowest round; the day was the 62—on a par' course—carded by Dodson and Gtp gin in the afternoon. They were c. in 30—five under-par. STATE CARDS 15 BASEBALL CJB Nine Will Go Against Cornil Pittsburgh and Spring' field This Spring RALEIGH. March. 2.—Fi!» games are on the varsity base schedule of N. C. State collet which will be submitted to the A Ietic Council for approval, bus® manager John Vonglah. annoak1 today. Three of the contests are ' strong eastern foes—Cornell”' burgh and Springfield, while - fourth is with St. John's of At polis Md. All four will be pl«A here. The other eleven ?arnes' with Southern conference The schedule. , March 19—Springfield: Marc Cornell here. „ April 4—William and Mary «•; 5, Washington and Lee here-j Pittsburgh here; 14, Wake Fc here; 15 St. John’s here; 16. at Durham; 22, North Carolina.,. Chapel Hill; 24, Duke here. Davidson here. ,... May 3—Wake Forest, at "T Forest; 6, North Carolina here . Wake Forest here; 15, Daviaso-. Davidson. Belmont Stakes Will Be Staged on fonl NEW YORK, March Belmont stakes, New Yorks . 000 added jewel in the so triple crown of American „ . will be run Saturday. June " Belmont Park. ; The date for the big fea‘u‘ $ the Metropolitan season * ... nounced today along with “* . ^ gram of 20 stake events will be offered at Belmont s - meeting. . nd,c;! As usual the suburban j will be run on May 30. —^ JOHNSON SEA HORSES See Our Comply Lll,e 0 1941 Models. ^ PMKABDS 209 Market