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TARBORO YOUTH PACES JUNIOR GOLF MEET ___■ ___* -____ Sports Hodge-Podge BY CARLE HODGE Every day and everywhere we go, talk on sports is the same. “There’ll be no more sports before long,” someone will say. “Why, baseball probably won’t even finish this season.” Are the sidewalk strategists correct ? Well, we took the trouble to find out just exactly what has happened to American baseball, as a representative sport, in other times of war. Our findings: The game not only didn’t succumb to war hysteria, but actually thrived — even made progress — on the full pocketbooks and recreation-starved public of bat tletime. Records show that the great pastime has actually ad vanced in rules and playing conditions during United States wars. In World War 1, for instance, major league schedules were shortened to September 2. But the World series was played and club owners granted 11 of 17 requests made by the Player’s fraternity. Service benefit contests then, as now, were the vogue. It was the other way around during the Spanish-Amer ican war. In 1898, the National league stretched out its schedule to 154 games. A balk rule was made requiring pitchers to throw to first base if the toss was started. Baseball the Infant made its first long steps while the Civil war was in progress. Many of the present rules came into the formative stage, including dimensions of diamonds and equipment. Regular scoring systems and the compiling of aver ages were introducecd. The game saw its first enclosure on May 15, 1862, when Brooklyn’s Union grounds were opened. If baseball folds because of the present conflict, it will be something new. Naturally shortages of transportation facilities will af fect attendance. More minor circuits will probably suspend for the duration. But the game — certainly helpful to the needed morale and the necssary diversion of Americans — stands a good chance to continue. It’ll take a lot to call three strikes on baseball. Sports Carbon Here’s another one by the Dodger’s self-styled poet laureate, Dan Parker of the New York Mirror, We couldn’t pass it up. MUTINY IN BROOKLYN I bumped into a friend of mine on Moitle Avenoo. Dis drip was filled with sadness and gives me the brusheroo. I toined and faced him squarely in da good old Brooklyn way. And when I ast him why he wept, dese woids I hoid him say: “Dey ain’t no fun in goin out to Ebbets field no more. Dem Dodgers don’t do nuttin’ now to get a fellow sore. No flies bounce off deir skulls to win dem everlasting fame. Babe Hoiman’s outa harness and de old pawk ain’t da same. “Dis team is filled with sissies wot won’t guzzle rye or gin. And never shoot an umpire. All dey want is win and win. Say—as far as I’m cosoined, chum, why da good old days was sweller. When MacPhail was incrognito and da Dums wuz in da cellar.” Connie Ryan has been exiled to Jersey City. But the little fellow from the Louisiana bayous will be back with the Giants yet. He can make the grade. Despite his good showing with the Atlanta Crack ers last year and the build-up when he went to the majors, Ryan still lacks one important thing — self confidence. The scribes say that before being farmed out to the New Jersey club, the youngster was making error after error — all because he was too tense. He still has a good chance, though, to go far in the big leagues. Watch Connie Ryan. BE SURE WITH CENTURY ClUlh STUISIT ItlHIOH WHISKEY CCRTtfRYiOl^tlttlNa.COMRANY • PEORIA. ILLINOIS FOR CORRECT FISHING INFORMATION CALL 9489 ATLANTIC VIEW FISHING PIER Wrightsville Beach BAIT — TACKLE FOR SALE OR RENT Major League Standings YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 10; Boston 2. New York 3; Cincinnati 1. (Only games scheduled). Brooklyn at St. Louis, postponed. American League Boston 7; St. Louis 4. New York 4; Detroit 1. Philadelphia 2: Chicago 0. Cleveland 7; Washington 6. Piedmont League Asheville 12; Norfolk 1. Richmond 8; Charlotte 6^ Portsmouth at Winston-Salem, post poned. Greensboro at Durham, postponed. THE STANDINGS National League Won Lost Pet.. Brooklyn _ 37 14 .725 St. Louis _ 29 20 .592 Cincinnati _ 28 25 .528 New York _ 27 26 .509 Boston _ 26 31 .456 Pittsburgh _ 24 28 4.62 Chicago _ 23 30 .434 Philadelphia _ 16 36 .308 jrieamoni league Won Lost Pet. Charlotte _ 24 15 .615 Portsmouth _ 24 15 .615 Greensboro _ 25 17 .595 Richmond _ 21 18 .538 Asheville _ 21 20 .512 Norfolk _ 20 24 .455 Durham _ 15 27 .357 Winston-Salem ._ 15 29 .314 American League Won Lost Pet. New Ycrk _ 38 12 .760 Boston _ 27 23 .540 Detroit _ 30 27 .526 Cleveland _ 28 25 .528 St. Louis _ 28 27 .509 Washington _ 21 32 .396 Philadelphia _ 22 35 .386 Chicago _ 19 32 .373 BASEBALL’S BIG SIX BATTING Three Leaders In Each League Player, Club G Ab R H Pet. Doerr. Red Sox _ 43 172 22 67 .390 Gordon, YanJ^es- 47 181 27 70 .387 Phelps, Pirates - 33 85 10 32 .376 Reiser, Dodgers _ 42 167 38 61 .365 Dickey, Yankees_ 31 113 11 39 .345 Lombardi, Braves_ 42 125 16 42 .336 HOME RUNS American League Williams. Red Sox -15 York, Tigers -I3 DiMaggio, Yankees -10 Doerr, Red Sox -1° National League F. McCormick, Reds-5 Marshall, Giants - £ Camilli, Dodgers - 8 RUNS BATTED IN American League Williams, Red Sox -57 Doerr. Red Sox - DiMaggio, Yankees - National League Mize, Giants -*1 Medwick, Dodgers-"" Marshall, Giants -JB TODAY’S GAMES Probable pitchers in the major leagues today. (Won-lost records in parenthe ses): National League Brooklyn at St. Louis—Wyatt (5-1) or French (4-0) vs. White (2.2). New York at Cincinnati (night)—Schu macher (2-4) vs. Vander Meer (6-3). Boston at Pittsburgh (night)—Tobin (5-8) vs. Klinger (2-1). Philadelphia at Chicago — Podgajny 12-4) vs. Lee (7-4). American League Detroit at New York—Benton (2-5) vs. Breuer (2-4). St. Louis at Boston—Niggeling (5-3) vs. Hughson (3-2). . Av Cleveland at Washington (night)—Dean (4-2 > vs. Newsom (5.8). Chicago at Philadelphia—Ross (0-2) vs. Christopher (2-2). Bob Doerr Paces Bosox To Win Over Brownies BOSTON, June 9.— (ff)—Bobby Doerr collected four hits, including a homer and a double, out of four tries today when the Boston Red Sox regained second place by drub bing the fast-traveling St. Louis Browns, 7-4, in the series’ opener. And to add to the Sockers’ joy, they collected eight of their nine hits and all of their tallies against Elden Auker, one of their many troublesome discards. Doerr’s perfect performance boosted his batting average to .389 and also ac counted for five of the Boston runs, including two he scored himself. St. Louis _ 001 002 001—4 8 1 Boston - 211 021 00*—7 9 1 Runs battel in Stephens. 2;; McQuinn, McQuillen, Doerr, 3: Lupien, 2; Pesky, Conroy. Two base hits: XtfMaggio. Doerr. Three base hits: McQuillen. Home runs Stephens, Doerr, Conroy. Sacrifice: Lu pien. Double plays: McQuinn, Clift and Stephens; Clift, Gutteridge and McQuinn; Pesky, Doerr and Lupien. Left on bases: St. Louis, 5; Boston, 7. Bases on balls: Off Auger, 4; off Caster, 2; off Judd 2. Struck out: by Caster, 1; by Judd, 8. Hits: off Auked 8 in 6 innings; off Caster, 1 in 2 innings. Passed ball: Hayes Losing pitcher: Auker. Umpires: Quinn, Basil, Stewart. Time: 1:57. Attendance: 4,686. Why Gordon Is Great Player The Yonkees’ phenomenal second baseman, Joe Gordon, zoomed his batting aver age from .276 last season to .395 this year. Photos above prove he reaches far in all directions, isn’t afraid to hit the dirt, excels on double plays and throws from any r 'on and hits a long ball. __ MTOY PLANS NOVEL HOLD FOR LONDOS Sibber To Spring New Tac tic On Greek Wrestler In Bout Here Friday » Boston’s “Ball of Fire,” likable Bibber McCoy, will spring his mys terious new hold on Jim Londos, the Greek Adonis, when he wres tles the five-times champion at rhalian Hall Friday night. The bout, which highlights Bert Causey’s mat card, will give the young Massachusetts fighter a pot shot at wrestling fame. And he intends doing plenty about it. After a series of victories in ■his section — the climax coming with his nod over the hooded Black Panther here last week—McCoy’s “Irish” will really be up for Lon los. For the “All-Star” program’s supporting match, it’ll be the old game of cowboys and Indians— Chief Osley Bird Saunooke grap pling the Texas buckaroo, Cowboy Luttrall. The bout will be for two straight falls within an hour. Tickets for what Promoter Causey yesterday termed his ‘most expensive” program are re portedly selling fast, -V Vile Run Is Feature Of NCAA Track Meet; MacMitchell Defender LINCOLN, Neb., June 9.—Iff) The mile run, always a thrill er in a national track megt, looms as a top attraction at the National Collegiate Athletic association’s track champion ship finals here Saturday, with New York university’s sensational Les MacMitchell, defending champion, definitely a marked man. Last year at Stanford Mac Mitchell beat Leroy Weed of Southern California by two feet. Now Weed, according to advance word from Dean Cromwell, the Trojan coach, is concentrating on evening the score. Weed is also entered in the two mile but Cromwell in dicated he would not be called upon to make that race. Home-town rivalry enters the picture through Bobby Ginn, Nebraska’s mite of a distance runner, who did 4:10.1 last year in a dual meet against California. Yanks Rally To Whip Detroit Tigers, 4 To 1 New York’s Right-Handed Hank Borowy Limits Op ponents To Four Hits NEW YORK, June 9.— (&)—One of the New York Yankees’ streaks was broken but two stood up today as the World Champions came from behind to whip the Detroit Ti gers 4 to 1. Hank Borowy, rookie right-hand er not long out of Fordham uni versity, limited the Tigers to, four hits, only one of which was for ex tra bases, in chalking up his fourth victory of the season without a defeat. Joe Gordon connected with a single off Dizzy Trout in the second inning to run his hitting string to 26 successive games but Buddy Hassett’s streak expired after reaching 20 games when he failed to connect safely in four trips to the plate. The first hit given up by Borowy was Rudy York’s triple in the sec ond and it led to the Tiger’s only run when the slugging first bass man came home ,as Don Ross hit into a double play. The Yanks tied it up m the fourth with Charlie Keller driv ing a triple past Roger Cramer and then scoring on Gordon’s fly. Tom my Henrich’s seventh homer ol the season broke the deadlock in 1he sixth, when the Yanks got another run on a pass to Gordon, a steal and Bill Dickey’s single. Henrich also drove in the champs last run with a single in the sev enth. The defeat coupled with Bos ton’s victory over St. Louis drop ped the Tigers out of the runner up spot, which was taken over by the Red Sox. The score by innings Detroit _ 010 000 000—1 4 1 New York _ 000 102 10!—4 10 0 Runs batted in: Gordon, Henrich, 2: Dickey. Three base hits: York, Keller. Home runs: Henrich. Stolen base: Gor don. Sacrifices: Franklin, Corsetti. Dou ble plays: Crosetti, Gordon and Kass ctt; Blood worth and York. Left on bas6s: New York, 7: Detroit, 6. Bases on balls, off Borow. 4: off Trout, 1. Struck out: by Borow, 5; by Trout, 3. Umpires: Hub bard, McGowan and Passarella. Time: 1:36. Attendance: 9.690 paid. -V OLD TRUNK REFURBISHED An old trunk, colorfully painted, can be made acceptable in t h e bedroom, for holding clothes or blankets, or in the cnildren’s room, for holding toys. One such trunk was painted dead white and. when dry, antiqued. This was followed by painting bright flowers along the reinforcement bands about the trunk and painting the hinges black. 4 Kenneth Wooten Named As Surf Boat Teacher For Red Cross School Kenneth Wooten, Wilmington postoffiee employe, is in Bre vard, where beginning today he will serve as water safety and surf boating instructor for the annual 10-day southern Red Cross Acquatics school. More than 250 students from six states are expected for the water clinic. Wooten is one of the few North Carolinians on the school faculty, which has included such swimming stars as Katherine Rawls Thompson, A1 Gorden and Marion Shelton. SHIPYARD TEN BEATS MAROONS Boatmen Defeat Appren tice Softballers; Senior Frat, Firemen To Play The Shipyard softball team de feated the Apprentice Maroons, 5 to 3, in a Victory league game st Robert Strange park last night. Tonight Senior Frat will meet the Firemen in a Hanover loop contest at 6:30 o’clock and City Optical and Moldloft will clash at 8:30 in the Victory league. MAROONS— Ab R H Evely, lb _ 3 11 Huey, 2b -1 3 0 1 Bell, rf - 3 0 0 Collier, sf _ 3 0 1 Shepherd, cf_I 0 0 0 Sebastion, cf _ 3 0 0 King. If - 3 0 1 Smith, 3b - 3 0 0 Wheeley, ss _ 3 0 1 Rosseau, c _ 3 2 3 Scruggs, p - 3 0 0 Totals - 30 3 3 SHIPBUILDERS— Ab R II Bohannon, H., cf _ 4 0 2 Hulman, sf_ _ 4 0 2 Hodges, lb - 4 0 0 Brittion, c _ 4 11 Bohannon, E., 3b _ 3 11 Neilson, 2b _ 3 0 2 Sokol, ss - 3 0 0 Smith, If __ 110 Livsey. If - 110 Keith, rf _ 3 11 Kennell, p - 3 0 1 Totals -,- 33 5 10 The score by fnnings: Shipbuilders -001 101 2—5 Maroons - 001 020 0—3 Runs batted in: H. Bohannon, 1; Huf man, 1: E. Bohannon, 1; Neilson, 1; Keith, 1; Huey, 1. Two base hits: Whee ley, Rosseau, Keith. Home run: E. Bo hannon. Base on balls: Off Kennell, 0; off Scruggs, 1. Struck out: By Kenneil, 3; by Scruggs, 2. Umpires: Sandlin Powell. Horse Track Folk Are All Making Money — Except Those Parking Lot Fellows By SID FEDER NEW YORK, June 9.—(.$>)— About the only guy around the race tracks these days with a legitimate squawk over what the war has done to his business is - the poor parking lot attendant. The rfest of them, particularly the track operators, are too busy looking over some of the fanciest financial figures the turf has ever seen — or ever expected to ! A “HOLLOW GROUND” ( Blade for your ) regular safety razor / I HM see, for that matter. While those gallons of gaso line and those tires you can’t get have cut heavily into the number of cars going to tracks like Belmont, Aqueduct, Suf folk and Delaware — sometimes close to 50 percent — attei^lance hasn’t fallen off nearly so much, if at all. The parking conces sionaire’s tips “ain’t what they used to be,” but everything else is doing very nicely, thank you. What’s more with plenty of the “fresh” around these days, much of it from new jobs in de fense plants and such, betting has skyrocketed uhtil it looks like this may be racing’s biggest year. At Belmont, 436,966 fans bet a total of $27,773,297 for the just-concluded 24-day meeting^ compared with the 405,126 who wagered $22,311,349 a year ago. On the way to these gaudy goings-on, a new world record for one day's betting ($2,176,071) was set May 30. So was the world high for the average daily handle over a i meeting—$1,157,221. The previ ous one-day tops for Delaware and Suffolk plants also have been smashed this spring. Aque duct opened its current meeting on a “blue Monday” this week aiyl drew 13,797 fans, compared with the 13,150 for opening day last year. They fed $869,469 to the hungry iron men, while the 1941 first-day turnout contribut ed only $695,872. But the worst is yet to come in the New York area. For after the Aqueduct meeting comes Empire City and Saratoga, and their transportation problems are much tougher. Empire is up in Westchester county, and in the past has relied to a con siderable extent on special buses. Since these have been put on the "no-no” list there’s no tell ing what’s going to happen there. Saratoga, more than 100 miles from New York' is keeping its fingers crossed on the mat ter of race trains and automo bile travel when its traditional August session arrives. But up to now, no one has been more surprised about de velopments around here than the track bosses themselves. When gas and tire rationing first was hinted, a lot of them started moaning low, because most racing plants are far enough away from the center of things to require automobiles or trains to get to them. The parking lot attendant at Belmont summed it up neatly on getaway aay last Saturday when he looked over the limous ines and jalopies and observed, “there ain’t as many coming, but them that came looked like buses when they got here.” What he meant was that no group of drivers has taken the government’s plea to “double up” on motoring as seriously as the society of two-buck bettors. We Carry Excellent Quality FISHING TACKLE Reasonable Prices. *■ Reel Repairing. SNEEDEN CYCLE CO. _ 111 Market St. Seagate Man Catches Giant Silver Tarpon Near Elmores Inlet A 35-pound silver tarpon, one of the few ever caught along the southeastern North Carolina coast, was bagged late Monday night in Banks channel at El mores inlet by Pete T. Peterson, Seagate farmer. Measured and weighed at Pickard’s sporting goods store here yesterday, the big fish was 55 inches long and 23 inches in the girth. Casting from the beach with rod and reel, Peterson used mul let as bait and a 36-pound test 300-yard line. “Catching tarpon is very rare around here,” said Contest Chairman J. R. Sneeden of the New Hanover Fishing club.” It has been at least sev eral years since one was land ed.” Peterson said the silverfish put qut quite a fight. “If my line had been shorter I wouldn’t have caught it,” he said. “It was about 10 o’clock. I’d just finished milking the cows and had been fishing about five minutes when the big fellow grabbed my line ... He jerked my line for about 20 minutes before I could pull him in. I thought it was a shark or some thing until I did.” W. C. Ruark was fishing with Peterson. The place whera the tarpon was caught is a favorite of Peterson. He bagged two drums, a 25-pound and 26-pound one, there last week. SEABOARD LOOP MEETS TONIGHT By R. J. POWELL The Seaboard Amateur Baseball league will hold it’s regular weekly meeting tonight at 7:30 in the court house with several important items scheduled to be reviewed. Among the matters on tonight's calendar is a report on the progress being made on the re-conditioning of old Bellamy Park, on which per mission to play was recently granted the young circuit by the park own ers. Wade Pierce, of the P & F team, is chairman of the Bellamy Park committee. According to previous league ac tion, tonight is the deadline for pay ment of the franchise entrance fee required by the by-laws. The board will also discuss it’s angle in the proposed tag day benefit game for Frank Hines and Mack Griffith, which was suggested by Rhodie Far row of the Cape Fear at a recent meeting. Jb ranchise and player contract forms will be the subject of further discussion tonight. Approved last week, the contract slips may be ready to distribute to the managers now. Upon the payment of the franchise fee, the franchise will be made out in the name of the payee or the sponsor as the case may be. Final approval on the tentative schedule that the league has been working on will complete tonight’s slate. The Seaboard is badly in need of qualified umpires and anyone in terested in helping the loop in this manner is requested to attend one of the meetings or contact a mem ber of the board. Too, many openings now exist on several of the teams and interested players may sign up upon meeting the league requirements. •-V Jimmy Dykes Is Fined For Stalling Contest CHICAGO, June 9.—(JP)—Jimmy Dykes, fiery manager of the Chi cago White Sox, must dig into his bank account for $250 to pay a limit fine imposed upon him today by President Will Harridge of the American league for his “conduct and deliberate stalling tactics” in the second game of a doublehead er at Boston, last Sunday. The fine was the heaviest ever levied against Dykes for his nu merous rows with umpires. He was allowed five days in which to pay it. COBB ADVANCES IN CAROLINAS BOYTTOURli Local Youth Continues 1, Second Flight Of Greens boro Golf Tourney GREENSBORO. June 9 _ , Sixteen-year-old Harvie WaTd '-" of Tarboro, N. C„ led the 143 through the opening roun4t day in the 16th annual Caro’i Junior Golf championships reeled off at Greensboro rn„»f3 club. Ward, medalist and defend, champion, disposed of Gre boro’s Robert Little 5 and u move into tomorrow’s quarter r nals opposite Freeman Jone< Charlotte 4 and 3 victor Greensboros’ Charlie Vance The quarter finals in aU ’ffieh** will be reeled off tomorrow ffiori, ing with the semi finals in ", flights tomorrow afternoon v championships wjj* be decided Thursday. Results included: In the second of 10 flights: Ton Cobb of Wilmington defeated RSv. mond Kivett of Burlington. 7 5. Cobb will be paired with jati Brantley of Greensboro todav --V-. Pirates Register Easy Victory Over Braves PITTSBURGH, June 9.—(JB-The Boston Braves dropped their eici - straight game today and gave ;p fifth place to the Pittsburgh Pirates who shelled out 13 hits to take n easy 10-2 decision behind Le'ty Ken. ny Heintzelman. Heintzelman gave up nine hits and was never in serious trou'ie after the Buc staked him to a run lead in the first inning. Singles by Bob Elliott and Al Lopez Ik!i with the bases full, accounted :. the markers. Boston - 10 1 000 000-2 9 3 Pittsburgh _ 401 000 05J-10131 Runs batted in: Cuccinello, Elliot:, r Lopez. 3; Lombardi, Van Robays, He. :• zelman, Anderson, Fletcher. Two ba>? hits: Lombardi, Lopez. Stolen base: An. derson. Sacrifice: Anderson. Double plays: Cuccinello, Sisti and Gemp: Ellio:: and Fletcher. Left on bases: Boston. 3: Pittsburgh, 6. Bases on balls: off Tor., 2; off Hutchings. 3: off Heintzelman, 2. Hits: off Tost 2 in 0 innings; off Hutch ings 9 in 7 2-3; off Wallace 2 in 1-3, Hit by pitcher: Hutchings (Fletcher, Losing pitcher: Tost. Umpires; D .: Sears and Stewart. Time: 2:01. Atten dance: 1,871. __v Giants Nip Red Drive By Winning lilt, 3-1 CINCINNATI, Jure 9-</B-T!i! Cincinnati Reds drive upwards the National league was brought tc a halt today after they had wor sit straight games when they bowed t: the New York Giants 8 to 1. Both teams got only five hits ear: but the Giants bunched two of t: ' blows with as many walks and nr error to score three runs in the firs' inning and chase Junior Thom;--' to the showers. Cincinnati _ 00 0 001 000-1 • New York _ 30 0 000 000—3 ‘ Runs batted in; Mize. Danning. La. ', na. Two base hits: Mize. Home r Lamanno. Stolen base: Werher. D ‘ plays: Lohrman and Mize; Danning an. Witek. Left on bases: New York- _• Cincinnati, 4. Bases on balls: offy.. hman, 1; off Thompson, 2. Struck o.. Lohrman, 2; by Shoun. 2. Hus • Thompson 1 in 1-3 inning; off — in 7 2-3 innings; off Bcggs 0 in i ing. Hit by pitcher: by Lohrman^' er) losing pitcher: Thompson. I r . . Conlan, Reardon and Goetz. Time. • Attendance 2,296. SAILORS BOW PHILS GREAT LAKES. 111., June S' UP) — Lieut. Mickey Cochran Great Lakes Naval Training =■■ tion Bluejackets took their -1 straight victory today with a - exhibition decision over Ph“aC: phia of the National league. __ CATALINA SWIM SUITS $2.50 up PH KAKIW 809 Market St. pl!tl PARK & T1LF0RD KENTUCKY BRED KRTUCKY STRUM BOURBOR WHIM* X^utitcd tit a [45JJ00 fi&lfe&Aotify/1 $135 $055 • PINT -^QlART vSoSt^ |J PARKSfT^ v ,#cKr% /*-*■* % 5Vea«0'«' J^pi
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