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WILDCATS DEFEAT WILSON HIGH TEAM. 2-1 Sports Hodge-Podge BY CARLE HODGE One of the biggest, question marks in sportdom today js the effect that athletics at the naval flight schools being 6et up at universities over the county—North Carolina, for instance—will have on intercollegiate sports at the schools. It's a very logical question and one that only time can solve. ... Just imagine what will happen when a thousand or so healthy young Americans are suddenly set down on a cam pus to use the same dormitory facilities, dining halls and identical athletic facilities as the collegians. That would probably mean the pre-flight trainees will utilize the university’s tracks and fields and gyms. Of course, they’ll have their own coaches. And teams wont, be affiliated—except possibly for practice games. Will the service sports nose out the colleges so far as fan support is concerned ? Most of those-who-know seem to think so. During World War I, Rose Bowl contests were between service teams, and there’s already talk about a similar game on New Year’s day, 1942. Sports, like everything else, face a big change within the next few years. It’s only a matter of time. The New Hanover High Wildcats made a pretty good showing in their conference opener here yester day afternoon. Still a few stiff joints, maybe. But the boys showed potential championship stuff. A little more work and some support from the fans may mean the Cats will go a long way in the Eastern loop this season. Fans who like it tough are looking forward to Bert Causey's card at Thalian hall tonight. When wrestlers put on gloves, that’s really something. Abe Yourist and Chief Little Beaver, for many moons arch enemies, plan to beat the tar out of one another. Last week they interrupted the mat program to generally tear one another apart. The police had to step in. Thus, the gloves. Don’t Distrust Alsab, Says Jim Fitzsimmons - w A! Sabbath Horse And Re quested Are Ones To Watch In Derby NEW YORK, Apr. 2— bP —In the spring, a turf fan’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Ken tucky and this leads you right to Sunny J im Fitzsimmons’ front d or. because around and about, Mr. Fitz often is referred to as "Mr Derby.’’ himself. And Nlr. Fitz’s message to the toys and girls on this year’s run t.ir.g of the big heat on May 2 is it' don't start pooh-poohing Alsab off his winter races—they weren’t i bad and (2) Alsab and Re ouesled right now look like the horses to beat for the jackpot. "A few of the other good two year-olds cf last year,” Sunny Jim Iponted out today, ‘‘like Mrs. Whit ney's Devil Diver and those two Ben Jones' has Sun Again and Some Chance—and Walter Chrys ler's Ramillies, which had a lot of speed, are big threats. But When you come right down to it, Alsab and Requested did s o me pretty fair running in Florida as three-year-olds this winter, an d you have to go to them right Dow. Unless something else comes out of the rough to change things, they’re the ones to beat.” Mr. Fitz is back from Florida ind out at Aqueduct, the pleasant acing layout on the way to Rock tway Beach on Long Island, and s going about the business of get ing a horse ready, himself, _ for he derby. He wouldn’t mind it a >it if his Apache should wind up is his fourth derby winner. As for Alsab, Sunny Jim can’t tuite figure out why the folks are abbing him as a bust, or pretty ■lose to it. "Just look at his races,” Fitz immons points out. ‘‘The first >me out. in the Bahamas handi rOA?TAl I CAB 1 Dial 4464 Dial cap, he packed 128 pounds n d gave 14 to the winner, American Wolf. American Wolf ran the seven furjongs in 1:24 3-5 that day and the first six horses were bunched in five lengths. That means, Alsab, running five lengths back, cover ed the distance in 1:25 2-5. That’s not bad. , “His next out, he carried 126 in an overnight race. It was run out of the new mile chute and Alsab had to start from the out side, which is plenty tough. Bright Willie, carrying only 118, got a. break with an inside post position and were. Alsab never had chance starting from the outer lane, and finished fourth. “Then came the Flamingo. Al sab had to spot four pounds to Requested in this one. And the race was strictly Eddie Arcaro’s ability to siide through those other horses. Alsab came around on the outside and finished a good third, although he couldn’t catch Requested. “In the Widener, he ran a real nice race against those older horses and finished fifth. He picked up quite a few horses from the mile in to the wire, and all of ’em were older handicap horses. So after that record, how can some of those fellows figure he’s no ’count?” Sunny Jim did notice that Alsab hadn’t filled out and grown up as much as might be expected be tween his two and three year old seasons. Of course, Fitz, himself, likes ’em big, like his Gallant Fox, Omaha and Johnstown, the three handsome gallopers he sent out to win the derby in Paris years. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean,” he added, “that a horse is no good. Some of the little fel lows could go, too.” COLLEGE BASEBALL Norfolk Navy Sta. 4; Wm-Mary 1. Drexel 8; Pennsylvania 1. Ohio U. 7; Va. Tech 6 (10 inn ings). Wheaton 3; Chicago 1. Trinity 7; Princeton 4. Oglethorpe 7; Auburn 5. Richmond 15; Maryland 11. ' FINE QUALITY-LOW PRICE MHHHI ■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ Smoking Marvels, I have learned: “A penny saved ^Is a penny earned** mnRvas TheXigarefte of.Quality for less money '.ITIPHAN 0 BRQTH£ RS. PHILA. P4b V 1 HANOVER NINE TAKES OPE I ciRcun i Williamson And Barlow Score As Locals Nose Out Coons In Contest Here By CARLE HODGE. An error and a two-base hit Thursday afternoon gave Coach Paul Severin’s Wilmington Wildcat nine a too-close-for-comfort 2-1 win over Wilson at Legion stadium. It was the first conference game this season for the locals. Homerun Harold Horton and Hugh Barlow set the ’Cat batting pace with two hits apiece, and it was Horton who struck the double that sent Tommy Williamson scampering to home base. New Hanover High chalked up nine hits in 30 times at bat, while the Wilson squad made five with 29 chances. Tall Murphy Scoggins, who hurled the entire game for Wil mington, held the visitors virtually hitiess in the early part of the game but allowed a half-dozen bases on balls. There was no scoring in the first inning. Scoggins struck out three straight Wilson battejs. The Wild cats made two hits, hut failed to advance. In the second, the ’Cat pitcher walked four opponents, scoring Davis, Wilson first baseman. Wil son was retired by a double play— Shortstop Sammy Tyler to William son to Horton. Barlow and Horton made doubles in the fourth frame, but a ’Coon double play—Laughinhouse to Lyles —drowned scoring hopes. William son singled in the sixtli and was sent to second when Barlow sacri ficed. Horton made a two-base hit, sending Williamson in. In the seventh, Tyler and Mc.Il wain singled, Scoggins made firsl through an error by the Wilson f.rsl sacker and Tyler went home on a error by Third Baseman Davis. Good fielding was the big thing in the tilt. And Big Red McCabe who was all hands in the 'Cat centerfield, was outstanding. Although the Wilson encountei was the first in Eastern loop com petition for the Wildcats, the Wil mingtonians have defeated White ville twice. They lock horns witl the Bulldogs at- Durham on Apri 17. The box score: Wilson Ab H R f Kirkland, cf _ 4 0 0 ( Aycock, c_ 4 10 1 Lyles, 2b —. 3 1 0 ( Davis, lb _ 4 111 Felton, rf - 3 0 0 ( Clark, If _ 3 0 0 ( Lucas, 3b--- 3 1 0 C Lahghin house, ss- 3 10 0 Thorne, p - 3 0 0 C Davis, x _— 0 0 0 C TOTALS _ 29 5 1 1 New Hanover Al> H R t Horton, lb - 4 2 0 C Williamson. 2b -- 4 1 1 C Barlowe, 3b - 3 2 0 tj Tyler, ss -— 3 111 Kelly, If_ 3 10 0 McCabe, cf_ 4 0 0 0 Mcllwain, rf _ 3 10 0 Watts, c _ 3 10 1 Scoggins, p - 3 0 0 0 TOTALS .. 30 9 2 2 k— Ran for Feltan in 9th. Score by innings: Wilson _ 010 000 000—1 Wilmington _ 000 001 10X 2 Runs batter in: Horton, Mcll wain. Sacrifice hits: Barlowe. Stoler bases: Davis, Feltan. Bases o balls: Off Thorne 0; off Scoggh.s 6. Struck out: By Thorne 3; by Scoggins 6, Hits: Off Thorne 9 in 8; off Scog gins 5 in 9. 2 base hits: Barlowe, Horton 2. Three base hits: Watts Winning pitcher: Scoggins; losing pitcher: Thorne. DOT KTRBY WINS CHAMP’S MEET Atlanta Woman Retains Titleholder’s Event Crown By Beating Stulb AUGUSTA, Ga., April 2.—1^1— Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta retained her titleholders’ golf championship today with a 54-hole total of 239. but was challenged all the way by the obld pitching and putting of 19-year-old Eileen Stulb of Au gusta. An eight over women’s par 83 on the final round of the medal competition turned the trick for the lanky Atlanta girl after the gangling Augusta entry, who had not been reckoned with in the pre-tournament gossip, crept to within two shots of overhauling Miss Kirby shortly after they made the turn. But four three-putt greens on the final six holes netted Miss Stulb an 80 and a 54-hole total of 244, five shots off the pace. She had nines of 37-43 as com pared with Miss Kirby’s 41-42. Two shots out of second place, at 246, came Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., present North and South champion, who never succeeded in keeping her tee shots down the middle. Her final day 85 was made up of nines of 43-42. Helen Hicks Harb, of Washing ton, D. C., a former national cham pion, and Georgia Tainter of Far go, N. D., were deadlocked for fourth place with a 247 total. Mrs. Harb shot a final round 85, while Miss Tainter fired the best golf of the day with a 79, ' * * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ ★ * * ★ * * Yourist And Beaver Battle Here Tonight FIGHTS HERE TONIGHT Chief Little Beaver, Cherokee Indian, who will don the gloves in a ten-round boxing match here tonight against his arch rival, Abe Yourist, who pounced upon the chief during their wrestling match here last week. Both grapplers are confident of winning via a knockout. CAPE COD IS ROWE WINNER G. C. Greer Entry Takes Race As Maryland Season Opens By MASON BRUNSON. BOWIE, Md.. April 2.—UP)—Run ning the second fastest six furlongs in the history of the stake, G. C. Greer’s Cape Cod scored a brilliant victory in the Rowe Memorial handi cap today as the Maryland and Eastern racing seasons opened un der auspicious conditions. Cape Cod’s front-running triumph under Jockey George Woolf was registered before an outpouring of approximately 12,000 persons, a crowd that was generous with its money and exceeded last year's opening-day attendance by 4.000. Three and a half lengths behind Cape Cod came the 80 to 1 long shot, H. C. Richards’ Designator. Victor Emanuel’s Omission, last year’s Rowe winner and the 9 to 5 favorite today, was third, another half-length back in the field of ten. Breaking from the gate like a shot and turning back every effort to head him off over the three quar ters of a mile, Cape Cod, four-year old son of Bostonian and Little Lie reported to the wire in the smart time of 1:12 3-5. This performance, turned out over a track labeled good, was only four fifths of a second over Honey Cloud’s record for the stake. Omission, ridden by Don Meade and making his first start of the year, made a game effort but could not overcome the trouble he en countered In the early stages. He was away slowly and was shuffled back, then shut off when Meade tried to sneak through on the rail approaching the first turn. Designator and • Liberty Franc both essayed to overhaul Cape Cod but the closest either got was half a length away. Liberty Franc was through after half a mile, w'hile Cape Cod steadily drew away from Designator in the stretch. Omissioit made up a lot of ground in the stretch after finding racing room and beat Riding Light by a length and a half for third place. Cape Cod, picking up a purse ot $4,600 for his owner, a Bel Air, Md., transportation man, returned $9.10, $5.10 and S3.20 across the board. The long shot Designator paid $5G.90 and $15.70 and Omission $2.90. HORNETNETTERS BEAT IMP TEAM Kalamazoo College Tennis Squad Defeats Duke Court Group, 5-4 DURHAM, April 2— UP)—Playing in a gusty wind which made it dif ficult to place shots, Michigan’s Kalamazoo college nosesd out Duke’s Blue Devils, 5-4, in a tennis match played on the Duke courts this aft ernoon. Each team won three of the six singles events, but the Hornets proved too much for the Blue Devils to handle in the doubles. The boys from Michigan took two of the three matches to down Duke by one point. The feature of the afternoon was the No. 2 singles battle between DUke’s Ray Nasher and Eric Pratt, a former Michigan interscholastsic title holder. The contest went three sets before Pratt emerged victorious. 6-4, 5-7. 6-4, _j Dixie Sport Huddle By ROMNEY WHEELER ATLANTA, April 2.—(rP)—Plenty of ball clubs have given holdout players the silent treatment, but Pensacola (Fla.) has one which is giving the club a dose from Jhe same bottle . . . He is Hal Lee, Flier outfielder, meditating in terrific silence at his home in Tacoma (Wash.) . . . the club has sent two contracts without even getting him to say “boo!” . . . Class D baseball is hoping to survive the season with few player losses . . . reason: most of its rosters list kid under 20 . . . If you have an agile imagination, help Rocky Mount (N. C.) think up a new name ... A shift from Coas tal Plain league to the Bi-State loop forces the club to yield its nickname “Leafs.” Minute meditations: Fop Kelehner, veteran camp director for tile St. Louis Cardinals, watched a batch of baseball hopefuls galloping toward break fast at Albany (Ga.) . . . “There,” he said, “is one plate none of the fellas ever back away from.” Cuff Stuff: Soldiers at Camp Lee (Va.) are seeking 1,000 used golf balls for their new sports center . . . The University of Alabama’s rifle team, recent winner of the Southeastern intercollegiate crown, is unbeaten for five years in shoulder-to-shoulder competition . . . Fort Bragg’s 9th Infantry division has an all-star adjutant—Lieutenant Cary Cox, regimental adjutant of the 60th Infantry, who was captain and all-star center of Alabama’s 1939 football team. Short thought: “Let's hope,” suggests Buddy Atkinson of the Louisville (Ky.) Times, “That Cripps has more luck with the Indians than Boudreau is going to have.” Late mail: Down in South Geor gia, on the muddy Ocmulgee, they’re catching fish by sound . . . receding water is leaving hundreds of carp and other fish trapped in the swamps . . . Boatmen find them, say they’re guided to the spot by the splashing finnies which “make about as much fuss as a drove of hogs.” . . . One group came home with GG7 carp, some weighing as much as 22. pounds . . . Moultrie (Ga.) believes it has suffered the unkindest crack of all . . . A Col quitt county farmer passed the baseball park, noted its condition and inquired: “Are they gonna plant peanuts there this season?” -V Ex-Asheville Mentor Gets Florida Position ASHEVILLE, April 2. — (A3) — J. Price Leeper, insurance man and former athletic director at Lee H. Edwards High school, has been named athletic coach at Plant City High school in Tampa, Fla., it was learned here today. Leeper headed the Asheville High school athletic program from the fall of 1931 to March, 1937. During that time, his football team won j 38 games, lost 17 and tied five; his basketball fives won 108 victories | and suffered 32 defeats, and his j baseball teams, which he handled; for two years, won 28 engagements and lost eight. Leeper, 38 years old, was gradu ated from Luke university in 1927. At old Trinity college and at Duke, he played on the football and bas ketball teams. BOTH GRAPPLERS SAY THEY WILL WIN VIA A K. 0. Arch Rivals Agree To Don Gloves As Means Of Set tling Grudge Here Abe Yourist and Chief Little Beaver, the bad boys of the mat who socked one another once too often in their wrestling engage ments here, are set for their sched uled ten round boxing match to night in the ring at Thalian Hall, it was announced Thursday by Bert Causey, promoter. “I’m ready and rarin’ to go,” growled Chief Little Beaver on his arrival in the city, still smart ing from the bgre-fist pasting he took in the face from Yourist here last week when their sched uled wrestling match ended in a slugfest. Younst, also here, expressed confidence in his ability to beat Beaver, declaring “I can beat that fellow at anything, even marbles, and I’m certain I'll stop him in the fight tonight. I’ve been train ing hard for the bout and my Punch has more steam than when I socked the Indian here last week.” The fight, according to Promot er Causey, will be strictly accord ing to boxing rules. Each fighter must weigh in by 4 o'clock and be examined by a physician to show his fitness to enter the ring. Each will be allowed two seconds in the ring. Yourist picked Billy West, popu lar military policeman at the Wil mington Air Base, and Dave Co hen, local sportsman, as his sec onds. Beaver said. “Just get me anybodv because I’ll make ouick work of that Cute Hebrew.” Caus ey promptly secured Bill Johnson, popular negro fighter, and Jimmy Peavv, local scrapper, to second the Chief. Declaring action should prevail from beginning to end.f Causey said that as a supporting event he is offering a wrestling match between Stanley Pinto, formidable Lithuanian, and Chief Lone Wolf. Oklahoma Indian, who is making his initial appearance in the local rin g. Causey said, that the advance sale of tickets, which have been going at a lively pace, indicates that the. program will be witnessed by a capacity crowd. Doors at Thalian hall will open at 7:15 o’clock with the first event going on at 8:40 o’clock. Dance Will Be Held At Wilson Hut Tonight Soldiers of the 20th Interceptor Control squadron were entertained at a dance at the Woodrow Wilson hut, Fourth and Princess streets, Thursday night. Hostesses were Mrs. Ethyl Powers and Mrs. Laura McCrimmon. A “record” dance will be held at the hut Friday night, and club officials have requested girls who attend to bring recordings. Wayne Sabin To Enter North And South Net Tourney At Pinehurst PINEHl'RST, April 2.—(/P)— Wayne Sabin will make his first Pinehurst appearance as a pro fessional in the fifth annual North and South professional tennis tournament here starting April 13. • Sabin turned pro a few days before the money players start ed a Florida circuit and won three of the four singles events. The Pinehurst tournament is the only one of the professional scheduled for this spring, and a strong field is expected to par ticipate. Richard S. Tufts, president of Pinehurst, Inc., said eh already had entries from Sabin, Dick Sheen, Gene Bus bee, Welby Van Horn, Bruce Barnes, Bob Harmon and Ed Stillman. Skeen won the sin gles event at the West Palin Beach, Fla. NAKAMABREAKS SWIM RECORDS Ohio Freshman Shatters Tank Mark; Yale And Dallas A. C. Lead By LOU BLACK NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 2.— CP)—A human fish from Hawaii, Kiyoshi Nakama. stroked a spec tacular 1500-meter race today and sent the three-day National A.A.U. swimming champions off in a foam of Coords. Nakama, dark-haired, Ohio State freshman, pacing himself beautifully throughout his 30 laps, whipped Rene Chouteau of St. Louis, Yale’s national collegiate champion, by al most the length of the Eli's 25-meter tank, and lapped the rest of the competition. The victor’s 19:33.4 for the event, swum for the first time as an A.A.U. title race, established American long course indoor and meet marks and shattered the tank record of 20.15.S made by Hal Stanhope of Ohio State in 1940. And, although Chouteau trailed the 133-pound Nakama by some 20 meters, he, too, broke the pool standard by more than four seconds. That’s how scorching was the Ha waiian's tempo. Danny Green of the D'allas A.C. and Dick Peters of Yale were far behind Chouteau, but managed to annex the other two prizes. The other heat, the first of two, was won by Joseph Lucas of the New York A. C., employed on the night shift at a Bridgeport muni tions plant, but all he got out of it was a bath. The long grind, added with an eye toward the Pan-American games, was the sole event today, and left Yale, highly favored to win the team title for the first time, in front with four points. The Dallas A.C. was sec ond with two. The five points earned by Nakama were wasted since he officially was competing as unattached. Five crowns are to lie settled to morrow and a similar number on Saturday. CHAMPIONS TO DEFEND TITLE IN GOLF MATCH Mrs. Parmele And ft. M. Williams, Jr. Will Defend Crown In Tourney Mrs. C. B. Parmele and R. M. Williams. Jr., will defend their championship Monday when the Cape Fear Country club’s third annual Easter Monday two-ball mixed foursomes tournament is played. More than a dozen teams. Club Pro Kirik Boehm said Thursday, are expected to vie for the rotat ing B. B. Cameron trophy, which becomes the permanent possession of the pair winning it the third time. Herbert Bluethenthal and Mrs. Harris Newman, who won the match in 1940, are also expected to compete again next week. CAROUNADOWNS CORNELL NINE Tar Heel Tennis Team Eas ily Defeats Visiting Net Aggregation, 8-1 CHAPEL HILL, April 2. — (/Pi — The University of North Carolina got off to another good start In ten nis here today by easily defeating Cornell 8 to 1. The victory marked the 52nd con secutive triumph turned in by the Tar Heels. Carolina’s last defeat ’n tennis came in May, 1938. The J939, 1940 and 1941 teams all enjoyed per fect records in dual meet competi tion. Today’s match was Cornell’s sec ond in as many days. The Big Red team blanked N. C. State 9 to 0 in its first start yesterday. Cornell’s lone victory came in the No. 2 doubles w>i(h Jack Slater and Dick Fricke defeating Moyer Hen drix and Cliff Tuttle in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. Only one match went into extra sets. Jack Markham, Durham boy and No. 4 Carolina player, was pushed to three sets by Bill Shaugh nessy before winning by scores of 7-5, 4-6. 6-4. 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