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SHIPYARD TIES PEPSI-COLA FOR LOOP LEAD X ★ ★ 4r XXX i _ i * * * Beaver Will Meet Tiny Taylor In Boxing Match Here Friday Sports Hodge-Podge BY CARLE HODGE If any one sport can be tabbed as one in which anybody can take part, that game is bowling. And the almost count ies millions of Americans who regularly knock down the pin's place it second only to fishing in numbers of active participants. Here in Wilmington, an amazing number of bowlers— variously estimated at around 25,000 to include men from nearby service bases—keep three alleys crowded to capacity. They range from four and five-year olds to a man in his 80’s. A one-armed man patronizes one pin center frequently. Men and women alike are among the en thusiasts. Second street could well be termed Wilmington’? Bowl ing Boulevard. For all three alleys — Cape Fear, Recrea tion and Brigade — are all on that thoroughfare. Fast league play has been an important factor in de veloping the sport here. Two Civic loops recently ended competition at the Brigade lanes. A women’s league will continue play through the summer, and is to meet at the Recreation Friday night to completion organization. At Carolina and Wrightsville Beaches are a half-dozen alleys which mainly cater to the summer tourist trade. Some are rather shabby jerry-built establishments—others boast the latest in equipment. Especially right now, when physical fitness for victory is stressed, is bowlin'- popular. Fact that the government has that very idea, points out Jimmy Jett of the Cape Fear alleys, is evidently the reason WPB hasn’t extended its priority ban to bowling equipment. Some say the Dutch originated the game of knock ing down pins. But the person probably most respon sible for its present acclaim is a Chicago alley equip ment manufacturer. The Chicagoan had the bright idea ot taking bowling lanes out of the low-brow class. He suggested to the alley operators that they install soda fountains and powder rooms, make a play for female fans. Then things started happening. Today there are al most as many women bowling as are men. Tournaments draw huge crowds, J. 31. Shinn, Jr’s. Recreation alleys boast a unique form of bowling. Besides duck and ten pins, Mr. Shinn has the only candle pins south of Boston. Candle pins, just as the name implies, are fat and straight. The average Wilmington bowler, alley operators here will tell you, is a little better than the run-of-the-mill bowler ;n most other towns. Records at the Recreation, for instance: Charles Jewell with 296 and a Mrs. Phelps with 212 hold the h'gh marks for ten pins. Jim Fennell has rolled the high duck score, 173. And Miss Kitty Bass bowled 146 to set a new high for women with dunks. With the summer beach season coming on and armed forces in this area being increased, bowling should reach a new high in Wilmington. The humming of hard rubber balls down the hardwood and the staccato sound of wooden pins falling will be an other suite in the symphony of a busy city. Wilmington Horses Make Good Showing In Rocky Mount Show ROCKY MOUUNT, May 3.— Wilmington horses made a good ihowing here today in the final lay of the fifth annual Gallopade dorse Show held here the last two lays. In the free for all class for •onies, Joe Morrison took second •lace with Mercer Lady. Billy Sutton won second prize in the special children’s horsemanship •lass on Flazy Pea vine. Miss •'era iDehl took third in the same Hassification on American Victory. _ Morrison was third in the three •aiied pony class on Mercer Lady. DINE — dance THE plantation Minimum Charge Only Carolina Beach Road m-AL COUNTY llfi-4602 FOB RESERVATION Tfln 1 V at leading THEATRES ERNST ^ LUBITSCH’S 1°yous Comedy - Romance! Carole Lombard, , Jack Benny — In TO BE OR NOT tO BE” Shows 1:00 2:59 5:02 7:05 9:08 a ■ A HELD OVER! ? LAST DAY! “THE COURTSHIP OF I ANDY HARDY” ft 'th Mickey Rooney, Lewis ^ ‘ i°ne and Ann Rutherford la Shows 1 2:35 4:44 6:53 9:02 __ _ A Sensational Spv Story! H,Y BY NIGHT" " hh Nancy Kelly \ A,‘d Richard Carlson ^ Shows 11 12:40 2:30 4:20 Ik 0:10 8 9:50 ^-, EAST > DAY! Cary Grant and •Joan Fontaine — In Her Academy Award Bole, L s U S P I c I O N” Shows 11:05 12:44 2:48 4:52 6:56 9:00 O. T. Fowler of Winston-Salem won the walking horse championship stake on Dr. Roy Ed Daniel’s won the Corinthain over the outside course on Norwood which is owned by C. V. Henkel, Jr., of States ville. -V Latin-American Volunteer Force Asked By Artucio NEW YORK, May 3—UR—Hugo Fernandez Artucio, Uruguayan philosophy professor, today urged that a Latin-American expeditionary force of a half million volunteers be formed to fight under the command of the United Nations and declared that the governments of Latin American countries would not have the slightest difficulty In mobilizing such a force. -V DURHAM WINS ASHEVILLE, May 3.— <-R — Durham won the series opener here today from the Asheville Tourists, 5-1. Tom Hamill, big portsider, limited Asheville to four hits, one a 400 foot homer by Bill Ramsey. -V The Assyrian Sabbath is on Wed nesday. __ RODS and REELS Complete Equipment for the Surf Fisherman PICKARD* 209 Market St Dial 3224 *7A€ y*ah'>un*nd. ^ MONDAY - TUESDAY BUD LOU ABBOTT and COSTELLO "KEEP 'EM FLYING'" With MARTHA RAYE_ Feature at: 11:22 - 1:25 • 3:28 5:31 - 7:34 - 9:37 LATEST NEWS EVENTS -—..k Boston Redlegs Snap Cleveland Wins, 8-4 1 Browns And Nats Split Doubleheader; Tigers, A’s Divide Twin Bill (Condensed From AP Reports) Boston’s Red Sox, aided by some jittery work afield and by the op position, snapped Cleveland’s 13 game winning streak Sunday, de feating the league-leading Indians in the Hub City, 8-4 for Charlie Wagner’s third straight victory. T^he Sox grabbed a pair of un earned runs’ in the first with two out. After Ted Williams walked, Jeff Heath, who is nursing a sore right hand, muffed a pair of line drives off the bats of Jimmy Foxx and Jim Tabor to allow the pair of counters to cross the plate. Boston piled up six more in the fifth: With one away Johnny Pesky singled, Ted Williams beat out a hit to Lou Boudreau in de^p short and Foxx was hit by a pitched ball to load the bases. Hollingsworth Wins Southpaw A1 Hollingsworth hurl ed effectively in the pinches to give St. Louis a 5-1 win over Washing TRIPLE THREAT WOMEN’S TEAM CAPTURES MEET Helen Rains, Gloria Callen And Marilyn Sahner Dominate Swimmers NEW YORK, May 3.— UPI—Helene Rains, Gloria Callen and Marilyn Sahner—the New York Women’s swimming Association’s ‘‘Triple Threat” water team—so complete ly dominated the national indoor championships the last two days that there was nothing left but the. ‘‘leavings” for the visiting girls. With Miss Rams capturing two individual events, Miss Sahner winning another and the three com bining to run off with the relay, the Hostess Club piled up a total of 34 points in the six events of the week-end. The Dragon Club of Brooklyn placed second with 9 points, while the Watchung Lake Swimming Club of Plainfield, N.J., and the Clark Recreation teanj from Cleveland each scored 7. Betty Bemis, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, kept the W.S.C. girls from making a clean sweep of to day’s events with a victory in the 220-yard free style, beating Miss Sahner to the tape by more than a yard and dethroning Dorothy Leonard of Worcester, Mass., who could finish no better than fourth. Miss Bemis also holds the National 400-meter outdoor title. But that was all the visiting las sies got. Miss Rains, who set a national record of 3:59.1 in winning the 300-yard individual medley on the first day, proved a repeater in taking the 220-yard breast stroke today, and then she and her two comrades, Sahner and Callen, ran completely away with the 300-yard medley relay. Miss Callen, who has movie as pirations, started it off with a great job of backstroking that gave Miss Rains a 12-yard lead over the Lancaster, Pa., team to start the second 100-yards. Miss Rains, the breast stroker, increas ed her team’s advantage to about 15 yards at the 200, and with that lead Miss Sahner crawled the final lap without drawing a deep breath. The three stars barely missed setting a new record, their time of 3:28.7 being only a tenth of a second slower than the national mark set by another W.S.C. team two years ago. The W.S.C. “B ’ team of Carol Daily, Lorraine Fischer and Mildred O’Donnell fur ther made it a family affair by taking second honors today, a split second ahead of the Clark Rec reation trio from Cleveland. The Lancaster, Pa., Swimming Club was fourth, and the Olneyville Boys’ Club from Providence, fifth. Miss Callen set such a hot pace in her leg of the relay that she smashed a backstroke reord that had stood for 11 years. She clip ped off the first 50 yards in 31.6 seconds to knock two-tenths off Eleanor Holm’s former mark of 31.8. She failed, how'ever, to equal Eleanor’s record of 1:07.5 for the 100. Miss Rains’ victory in the 220 breast stroke was not as impres sive as it might have been, for Betty Aspinall of Indianapolis, the 1941 champion and record - holder was prevented by a sore throat from competing. Miss Rains win ning time was 3:12, compared to Betty’s record of 3:07.8 set a year ago. The 220-yard free style was the day’s thriller. Miss Bemis, Miss Sahner and Patsy McWhorter of the Watchung Lacke Club raced almost as a team for the first 150 yards and it was only in the final lap that the Indianapolis girl was able to move clear of her rivals. Miss Bemis’ winning time of 2:32.6 was nearly two seconds slower than the record held by Brenda Hesler of Portland, Ore. I___ ton in the nightcap of a double header in the Capital after the Browns had dropped the opener, 9-8. St. Louis clinched the nightcap in the fifth inning when two walks, a pair of infield rollers, Rick Fer rell’s single and George McQuinn’s triple produced three runs. After winning the first game, 8 to 7, the Detroit Tigers made only two hits off Phil Marchildon and lost the second half of a double header to the Athletics, 1 to 0, for a split of the twin bill. A1 Ben ton and Hal Newhouser yielded only three hits in losing the night cap. Rudy York made two home runs on successive times at bat, his third and fourth circuit blows in two straight games, to help the Ti gers win the opener. His second roundtripper scored three runs and tied the score in the seventh in ning. After a homer by Bob John son put the A’s ahead, Pinky Hig gins doubled home the tying and winning runs in the ninth. Yanks Win Two The New York Yankees took both ends of a doubleheader from the Chicago White Sox in New York today, winning the first game, 6-4, and the second, 3-1, to move within half a game of sec ond-place Detroit and push the Sox deeper into the American league cellar. Atley Donald went all the way in the nightcap to earn his first tri umph of the year, although he yielded seven hits, one more than Bill Dietrich of Chicago. -V- — Major League Standings $ YESTERDAY’S RESULTS: National League New York 5; Cincinnati 4. Philadelphia 1-8; Chicago 9-1. Boston 2-12; Pittsburgh 6-3. Brooklyn 10-2; St. Louis 14-4. American League Chicago 4-1; New York 6-3. St. Louis 8-5; Washington 9.1. Cleveland 4; Boston 8. Detroit 8-0; Philadelphia 7-1. STANDINGS: National League Won Lost Pet. Brooklyn _ 14 6 .700 Pittsburgh _ 12 7 .632 St. Louis _ 10 8 .556 New York - 10 9 .526 Boston _11 10 .524 Chicago _ 9 11 .450 Cincinnati _ 7 11 .387 Philadelphia _ 5 15 .250 American League Won Lost Pet. Cleveland _ 14 4 .778 Detroit _ 14 8 .636 New York _ 12 7 .632 Boston -11 7 .611 Washington _ 10 11 .476 St. Louis _ 9 13 .400 Philadelphia_ 7 14 .333 Chicago - 4 15 .210 TODAY’S GAMES: NEW YORK, May 3.—(£>)—Probable pitchers in the Major leagues tomorrow (won-lost records in parentheses): American League St. Louis at Washington—Harris (1-3) vs. Wynn (2-1). Detroit at Philadelphia—Fuchs (2-1) vs. Besse (0-2). Chicago at New York—Humphries (0-2) vs. Chandler (2-1). Cleveland at Boston—Milnar (1-0) vs. Newsome (3.0). National League New York at Cincinnati—McGee (1-1) vs. Starr (1-0). Boston at Pittsburgh—Tobin (3-2) vs. Klinger (0-0). (Only games scheduled). -V British Raid Axis Mediterranean Bases CAIRO, Egypt, May 3.—Ufl—The important Axis submarine base at Porto Laki bay on Lero island near Turkey and airdromes on nearby Rhodes and in occupied Greece were hit hard by the RAF Friday night, The British an nounced today. The airdromes at Menidi, near Athens and Piraeus, and at Ma ritza on Rhodes were attacked, a communique said. Both Lero and I Rhodes are in the Italian Dode canese group where the Axis is reported to have prepared air fields and concentrated air craft for possible Mediterranean blows. The communique gave no details of the attacks, which were de scribed as “effective”, but it was known that six squadrons took part in the assault on the Lero base. WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, May 3.—(d5)—Weather Bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m„ in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville _ 83 53 0.00 Atlantic City_ 80 55 0.00 Boston _ 85 53 0.00 Burlington _ 82 60 0.00 Cleveland _ 84 61 0.00 Denver_ 60 31 0.00 Duluth _ 42 35 0.00 Fort Worth _ 74 64 0.00 Kansas City_ 50 44 0.00 Louisville' _ 83 63 0.18 Miami _ 81 71 0.00 Mobile _ 80 60 0.00 New York __ 84 52 . 0.00 Pittsburgh _ 87 63 0.00 Richmond ___ 89 60 0.00 San Antonio__ 80 71 0.93 Tampa _ 86 64 0.00 Washington_ 87 63 0.00 Wilmington_ 80 44 0.00 BOUT SCHEDULED FOR TEN ROUNDS; ACTION IS SEEN Hill And McCoy Will Meet On The Mat In A Re turn Engagement Chief Little Beaver, -the Cherokee Indian wrestler, is going to have an opportunity to show his ability at fistcuffs against a boxer in the ring at Thalian hall here Friday night. The Bad t\Pan of the mat, who has donned the gloves here before, but against another wrestler, has been matched with Tiny Taylor, for mer Wilmington Golden Gloves heavyweight boxer. The match is scheduled for ten rounds, and according to Bert Causey, promoter, it will afford plenty of opposition for the wrestler, Taylor having made a rather im pressive ring record since turning professional several months ago. Taylor W’ill carry 258 pounds of brawn into the ring against Beaver’s 240, and with the adversaries gunning for one another the bout should be one of the most action packed affairs ever witnessed here. promoter Causey said Beaver has been angling for a boxing match for several weeks and it was not until the last week-end that it was pos sible for him to match him, Taylor finally accepting his challenge. The boxing match will be the ad ded attraction of the Friday card. In the first event, a wrestling match w'ill be offered, featuring Sailor Barto Hill and Bibber McCoy in a return match. The affair is set for the best two out of three falls with a ninety minute time limit. Doors at Thalian hall will open at 7:15 o’clock with the first event go ing on at 8:40 o’clock. PREAKNESSPLANS ARE SHAPING UP Derby Winner Will Partici pate In $50,000 Clas sic At Baltimore By MASON BRUNSON BALTIMORE, May 3.—UP)— As Shut Out, the Kentucky Derby win ner. and others in the Blue Grass classic headed for Pimlico today, the 52nd running of the $50,000 added Preakness stakes here Sat urday was shaping up as one of the richest in the history of Mary land’s premier horse race. Indications were that at least seven or eight of the three-year olds that ate Shut Out’s dust in the Derby would face him in the mile and three-sixteenths Preak ness, with two fresh starters, War ren Wright’s Sun Again and R. Sterling Clark’s Colchis joining the party. Shut Out and Devil Diver, from Mrs. Payne Whitney’s stable; Al bert Sabath’s Alsab, second in the Derby; Emerson F. Woodward’s Valdina Orphan, third; Mrs. Bar clay Douglas’ Fair Call; William Woodward’s Apache; Ben F. Whit aker’s Requested and William Du Pont, Jr.’s Fairy Manah from the Derby field were tabbed as vir tually certain Preakness starters. Sun Again, scratched from the Derby because Trainer Ben Jones thought he wasn’t quite ready for such a test, and Colchis, twice conqueror of Alsab in recent weeks are also sure to go in the big race that forms ihe second jewel in the “Triple Crown.” On the doubtful list are Valdina Orphan’s stablemate, Hollywood, Walter P. Chrysler’s Bleu D’Or, second in the Wood Memorial, Mrs. Alice F. Sherman’s Americaii Wolf and Hal Price Headley’s Air Cur rent. At least ten of these are expect ed to go postward, which would give the Preakness its largest field since Bold Venture whipped ten others in 1936. It also would boost the Preakness pot to $78,310 of which the winner would get be tween $56,000 and $58,000—the rich est prize since Victorian picked up the record amount of $60,000 for H. P. Whitney in 1928. Shut Out, Devil Diver, A 1 s a b, Apache, Fair Call and Sun Again are expected to arrive from Louis ville tomorrow morning, with the others following later. Colchis, at Belmont Park since running out of the money in the Wood Memorial, worked out there today, going a mile and an eighth in the snappy time of 1.52 2-5, in dicating that the Maryland-foaled gelding is ready for a smart test. Traveling from Louisville with Sun Again is his famous stable mate, Whirlaway, coming to keep his engagement in the $$20,000-ad ded Dixie handicap Wednesday, when he’ll tangle for the first time with Challedon and Mioland. This meeting of the big three of the handicap division makes the Dixie shape up as one of the sea son’s outstanding races. It also probably will draw such runners as Market Wise, Best Seller, Air Master, Attention, Century Note, Pictor, Alaking and Impound. -V There are 72,721 4-H clubs in the United States. Cards Take Weird Games From Dodgers * Pirates Beat Braves To Boost Victories; Giants Win In National (Condensed from <#> Reports) “Dem Bums” from Brooklyn bust ed into the St. Louis Gas House Gang’s bailiwick Sunday and in two typical ‘‘other side of the railroad track” games limped out on the short end of 14-10 and 4-2 scores, the latter being called at the end of five and one-half innings because of darkness. The first game lasted 3 hours and 6 minutes. Just an inkling of what 23,871 strictly partisan fans wit nessed in this first clash of the 1942 season between the Dodgers and the Cardinals: Five men, including both manag ers, tossed from the field during the two games; fourteen extra base blows, including three home runs and a triple: a parade of 10 pitch ers in both games, and a murderous hitting attack by Cardinal Catcher Ken O’Dea that accounted for seven runs. Bosses Banished Manager Leo Durocher and fat Freddy Fitzsimmons were banished from the first game for continuing an argument with the umpires from the bench, and Manager Billy South DR. TAYLOR WINS GOLF TOURNEY His Total Of 155 Better By Ten Strokes Than Nearest Competitor GREENSBORO, May 3.—(m—Dr. W. R. Taylor, a professor of Wo man’s college, here, added an 80 to day to his first round score of 75 to win low gross honors and the championship in the annual tourney of the Mid-South Seniors Golf asso ciation which opened Friday at Starmount Forest Country club. His total of 155 was 10 strokes better than the card turned in by his near est rival, an 83-82—165, bagged by J. M. Brantley, also of Greensboro, and a former champion himself. Dr. Taylor also tbok top honors in Class D, the age group in which he was participating. Low net honors for the tourna ment were won by J. W. Woollen, of High Point, who had a 144. Dr. R. B. Lawson, of Chapel Hill, who was elected to a second term as president of the organization at the business meeting Saturday night, won low gross honors in Class A. Thomas J. Gold, of High Point, took the prize in Class B, and H. B. Clark, of Reidsville, was low man in Class C. Trailing Brantley as third low man in the tournament was Woollen who had a total of 168 which also brought him low net honors. Today’s finishers: Class A: Dr. R. B. Lawson, Chapel Hill, 92-86—178; Dr. J. K. Pepper, Jr., Winston-Salem, 95-97—192; Homer Wheeler, High, Point, 95-97—195: Ralph Coit, Greensboro, 102-98—200. Low net to Wheeler wdth 159. Class B: Thomas Gold, High Point, 92-89— 181; W. P. Hazelwood, High Point, 95-91—185 ; Charles Yates, Greens boro, 89-81—170. Low net to Yates with 161. Class C: S. E. Leavitt, Chapel Hill, 105 100—205; C. B. Scoggins, Greens boro, 90-85—175; H. B. Clark, Reids ville, SB-85—169; H. H. Hallenbeck, High Point, 102-10t—203; O. A. Hamilton, Chapel Hill, 93-95—188; Oscar Coffin, Chapel Hill, 95-96— 191; W. F. Hayworth, Greensboro, 86-85—171; G, L. Dawson, High Point, 81-87—178; George Clark, High Point, 100-109—229; A. C. Moore, Greensboro, 90-86—176. Low net to Scoggins with 151. Class D ' Dr. W. R. Taylor, Greensboro, 75 80—155; J. M. Brantley, Greensboro, 83-82—165; J. W. Woollen, High Point, 83-85—168; Charles Blake, Greensboro, 82-88—170; W. N. Dyer, Greensboro, 98-93—191; J. S. Zapft, Greensboro, ' 90-85—175; Allen Me bane, Greensboro, 98-93—191; Bill Pugh, Chapel Hill. 9796—193; B. C. Siske, Pleasant Garden, 95-94—189; R. I. Harris. High Point, 93-94—197. Low net to Woollen with 144. DANISHPREMIER DIES OF INJURY (Continued from Face One) American effort was a war of cap italists. Movement of American armed forces to join the British occupa tion of Iceland last summer he de scribed as “regrettable from the Danish and European viewpoint.” “Iceland,” he said, “belongs to the Northern states and, through them, to Europe . . . .But in this place I want to express my con viction that historice developments will confirm the solemn promises of the American government (to withdraw after the war.)” worth was thumbed off the field for protesting the calling of a ball. Dolph Camilli and Whitlow Wyatt were jerked to the showers during the second game for arguing with an umpire. It was O'Dea’a big bat that decided the first contest. He homered off Wyatt in the first inning with the bases loaded. With the count knot ted at 10-all in the seventh and the bases loaded on an error and two walks, the man with the big stick cleared the deck for three runs by slamming out a mighty double. Ernie White earlier the same inning crossed the plate when Bill Her man’s throw home of Enos Slaugh ter’s grounder was wide. Higbe Wild In the second encounter the Red birds gained all their runs in a big fourth inning. Kirby Higbe’s wild ness placed three men on base on walks and they were brought all the way home on Jimmy Brown's mighty triple The latter scored on Stan Musial’s outfield fly. Brooklyn scored in the second on two hits and a long line drive, and tallied for the last time in the sixth on a hit. walk, outfield fly and an other hit. The Pittsburgh Pirates ran a winning streak to three straight to day by cuffing the Boston Braves 6-2 in the opener of a doubleheader but the roof fell in on them in the second game as the Braves romped to a 12-3 victory before 29,030 fans. The Braves were docile enough in the opener as big Max Butcher scattered seven singles effectively while the Bucs pecked away at Alva Javery, scoring runs singly in the first, third and fifth, adding two in the seventh and one more in the eighth. Pete Coscarart with two doubles and Stu Martin with three singles were the Pirate hitting he roes. In the nightcap, halted alter eight innings by Pennsylvania’s Sunday law, the Braves unloosed a 14-hit at tack which drove Rip Sewell to cover after five innings and unmercifully thumped two other Buc pitchers. Mel Ott’s New York Giants took their first game of the season with the Cincinnati Reds 5-4, driving Bucky Walters from the mound to make all their runs in the first two innings and then holding off a ninth inning Redieg threat. Bill Werber, Redieg third baseman last year, tripled on the first ball pitched and scored when a throw by Bert Haas hit him in the back. ’ Cubs And Phils Split In Chicago the Cubs and Phillies divided honors in a double header, the Chicago team winning the first game, 9 to 1, and losing the second, 8 to 1. The Cubs blasted four Philadel phia pitchers for a total of 14 hits in, the first game while Bill Lee, who turned in his third victory of the season, limited the Phils to six hits. The Phil pitchers who suffered were Tom Hughes, Walter Beck, Sam Nahem and Paul Masterson. EARLYJAPANESE'DRIVE FOR MORESBY IS SEEN (Continued from Page One) all of th'em were considerably dam aged. “The attack on Salamaua lasted about 10 seconds. We were just leaving when I saw some Japa nese Zeros about 4,000 feet up. They were split up in sections and had about the same number we did. We assembled and they came after it. “Three or four of our boys in the rear said ‘let’s have a crack at them’ and peeled off and went at them. It was a dozen Japs against the three or four. So the rest of us came back and then for the first time in my life I saw a mass dogfight something like you see in the movies. ‘We fought for 25 minutes up and down 30 miles of coastline from right over the water up to 1,000 feet. Planes every where were tumbling around in all sorts of maneuvers. “You’d see a gang of them go past and in a few minutes here they’d come back again, Still rolling round in steep turns and dives. “My three Japs went into the sea. The three of them were burn ing when they fell. Our losses were light and the pilots are all okay. None of the Japanese bailed out —in fact I’ve never heard of any Japanese bailing out. They don’t want to be captured.” Wagner went along on this squadron’s mission as something like a “guest conductor” as a side job while away from his regular duties. One thing the squadron leader has learned, he said, “was to have a good respect for the Japanese Zero fighters because they are good planes. As for the personal reactions of the whole squadron suppose it could be summed up in the phrase “congenial hate” for tre Japanese.” AMOCO TROUNCES A. L. KING TEAM m 1ST VICTORY Much Interest Shown In Sunday Games Of Cape Fear League Teams By K. J. POWELL. The Shipyard Progressive basebat club yesterday afternoon advance* into a first place tie in the Cap* Fear by handing the once unbeaten Pepsi Cola boys a 15 to 2 shellack ing before a large turnout at the Legion stadium. In the other game of the day, Amoco came in the win column for the first time this season by up setting the A. L. King team, 4-0, at Hilton. At the stadium, it was the case of the much-feared Shipyard power finally exploding with the Beverage lads as the unfortunate victims. Manager Urbon personally showed his charges the way in the 15 long distant assault off three Cola chunk ers. The Shipyard skipper found the range for two long home runs, bringing in seven men ahead of him. Shortstop Bell had put the Shippers in the lead with his four base smash in the opening round. Hoggy Davis came in with his share of the batting glory by slapping out two doubles and one single in five trips to the pan. Snag Allen started on the alah for the Pepsi team and allowed four runs on five hits until he was re placed by Johnnie Edens in the fifth. Edens suffered w’orse than Allen and was yanked in favor of Shoaf in the sixth. The winners tallied four off Edens on four safeties and got the rest as a gift from Shoaf. Neather cutt and Edens shared the Pepsi catching. The Shipyard used twTo pitchers, Gaddy and Brosman, in halting the Cola victory parade. Both hurled ef fectively, Gaddy allowing one run on six bingles and Brosman the other marker on no hits. Newcomer Tay lor worked behind the bat for the Boatmen. Frank Clemmons’ Amoco Cannon eers made their first victory an im pressive one as they grouped eight hits in three innings to forge ahead of the Kingers who were kept away from the scoring section by the com bined pitching of starter Lefty Brew and relief hurler Headon Piner who took over in the sixth. The King team looked lost without the services of their star second saeker, Murphy Singletary', who was out of the game. The defensive play of Shands and Tatum of the home club and Tony Reynolds, late of the Kingers, and now wearing the Amoco uniform. Vic Gore went the route of the rubber for the losing outfit, pitch ing a steady game, but he needed the base hits his mates were unable to produce to win the contest. Only two Kingers were safe on hits, Flowers and Horton alone touched the Amoco flingers. Tatum caught for the Grocery gang and Sam West wore the mitt for the Cannoneers. In the hitting Carter, Shooter, and Turnage registered two apiece to share the batting honors for Amoco. One of Shooter’s went for two bases. The Cape Fear will hold Its reg ular weekly meeting tonight at 7:30 in the courthouse. The standings: W. L. Pet. Pepsi Cola_ 3 1 .750 S'hipyard _ 3 1 .750 A. L. King- 1 8 .250 Amoco _ 1 3 .250 -V Air Battle Fought In Iceland’s Skies REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May I — (iPI—The first air battle over the area of Iceland, the United States garrisoned base in the North Atlan tic, between a lone long-range Ger man bomber and Norse airmen was reported by American Army offi cials today. The German plane, although dam aged by a stream of bullets poured into its fuselage by the Norwegian plane, escaped into a cloud bank and its destruction was not confirmed. -V Nine British Fliers Interned In Sweden STOKHOLM, Sweden, May —Nine British pilots shot down In the heavy RAF raids on Trondheim, Norway, last Monday and Tuesday, have made their way to S'weden. Three arrived today at Storlien, Swedish border town 60 miles east of Trondheim. They reported they parachuted from their burning plane and walked across the difficult coun try from the Norwegian coast to the border. Two of the men sail they were Australian*. -V PORTSMOUTH WINS PORTSMOUTH, Va., May 3— UP> —The Portsmouth Cubs defeated Winston-Salem 6-1 in a Piedmont league game here today. We Fix Bicycles More Than Ever Tour Bicycle Deserves The Best Of Care SNEEDEN CYCLE CO. 114 Market St. Albert F. Perry INSUBANCE - BONDS Now In Onr New Office 230 Princess Street *
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