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The Sports Trail By Whitney Martin % NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—(JP)—The fight mob is pretty proud these days. The gents along Jacobs’ Beach had rea son to be proud before, with most of the champions and leading contenders in Uncle Sam’s service. But 'now they are fairly popping their vest buttons. Of course they knew Barney Ross had the makings of a hero. They had seen enough of the sturdy little warrior during the 10 years of his spectacular ring career to know he wasn’t afraid of man or beast, and that he would carry on in the face of whining bullets and shrapnel’s deadly spray as long as there was a breath of life in him. So they weren’t exactly surprised he had been recom mended for the Distinguished Service Cross. Just proud that one of their own had received public recognition for his feats. They knew he would carry on when fighting instinct alone re mained. They had seen him do it, that night in San Francisco in 1935 when Ceferino Garcia landed a bolo punch flush on Barney’s chin in the first round,-and Barney came back to his comer fou • rounds later waiting to know what town he was in. For four rounds he had fought by sheer instinct, but he came back to win the de cision. They knew he would carry on when his cause was utterly hope less. The. had seen him do it, that balmy late-May night in .938 in the T.ong Islam’ city bowl when Henry Armstrong battered him to a pitiful pulp in taking Barney’" prized welterweight championship. They’ll never forget that night. How the fading little warrior, re alizing he was at the end of his string, threw his isual caution to the Wind and went in there swm. - ing from bell to bell until, after seven rounds, he was spent and at he mercy of his great little op onent. And how Armstrong, in tnoute to his gam° foe, coasted through the final rounds and re fused to km him out. They knew he would carry on ur -r a: mstances. They ha seen him do it in stirring bat-' t ' c with such great little men as Tony Canzoner1, and Jimmy tecLarnin, and Billy Petrolle, and J nny Dato, and Bat Battalino. We never knew Barney, unfor ately. Never even saw him f.ght. When he was climbing to fame we ere cached in the mid west, away from his sceifes of a- tion. 3ut we heard about him, even ore ' won his first champion ship. Tommy Grogan^ a capable "ht weight in Omaha, returned froom a Chicago bout much the worse fo wear, and instead of whining with the usual alibis of a beaten fighter, said emphati cally: “He’s the next champion, marK my wo ds. He’s a great fighter.” And he was the next lightweight champion. That sarm year, four months later, he defeated Tony C---o eri for the title, the first of hree 1 •* was to acquire. Probably no 'ittle man of recent years met as many good, “name” fighters as did Ross during his decade f ring warfare; a decade during which the little men held r •' their share of the spot light. T decade of the Canzo neris, and the McLarnins, and the Petrolles, and the Frankie Xlic'"'. Of Goldi' Hess, and Johnny Dato, and Yount Terry, and Babe Ruth. He not only met them. He de feated them. During that decade he knew he was through; when Henry Armstrong made im re alize he was at trail’s end, he was through de'initely. Never again did he fight . Not with his fists, that is. When the time came for the bigger fight Barney Ross was ready. And the boys along Jacobs’ Beach aren’t surprised. They’d seen the brave little guy in tight spots too often not to '-now he would come through as a hero. -V TOBACCO QUOTAS WASHINGTON, Dec. 7— UP) — The Agriculture Department said today the 1943 marketing quota acreage for flue-cured tobacco was 841,000 acres instead of the 767, 000 acres it announced November 30. Recreational Gifts Sporting Goods SNEEDEN CYCLE CO. 114 Market St. FOR MEN EXCLUSIVELY IN WILMINGTON AT CINDERELLA ROOTERIE SCHOOL STUDENTS HEAR NAVY TALKS (Continued From Page One) people. He said that the reason for their attitude today, is that for the last fifty years their leaders have been breaking down and de stroying every peaceful aim of the nation. “We have a big job ahead of us,” he added, “We will lose many men, but that is the only way for us to preserve life, liber tl, and the pursuit of happiness.” This speech was ended with a few words of recognition for the work that the men in the U. S. Navy have done in the battles all ovei the world. The next speech was by Major O. C. Tigner, commander of the Wilmington Information Filter Cen ter. His subject was the foundation of the Germany army since the first world war.” In his talk, Major Tigner re ferred to the treaty of Versailles, where Germany’s possessions were taken and divided among the al lied nations. “Since that time,” he said, “the Germans have been se cretly building a strong army through ROTC units in the schools. They have been constructing a powerful fleet of both merchant and fighting ships, against the rules of the treaty, and very few of us outsiders took notice until the Germans, under the rule of Hitler, marched out on their con quest.” Major Tigner listed several me thods which would help greatly in the war effort. Points listed were stay clean, preserve clothing, save everything that may be of some use to the government, and last of all, he urged the buying of war stamps and bonds. Following this talk by Major Tig ner the entire audience rose and joined in the singing of “Ameri ca.” The last item on the program was a report from the Naval Re cruiting office by Chief Boat swains’ Mate R. L. De Loach. Ac cording to the report, 700,000 re cruits have enlisted in the last twelve months, making a Navy total close to one million men. Of these, 14,900 were enlisted in North Carolina, and of this number 1,173 have been enlisted through the Wilmington office, DeLoach said. The Wilmington station now ranks fifth in the number of en listments among the eight Navy recruiting offices in North Caro line. Total enlisting here during this year exceeds all during the past seven years, he stated. The largest aggregate enlistment was 200 men in August, with 79 entering the Na val service on August 8, Southeas tern North Carolina Day. Enlistments by months are as follows: Dec. 7, 1941 to Jan. 1, 1942, 71; January 58; February 46; March 52 April 46; May 39; June 107; July 100; August 200; September 158; October 157; November 113; and De cember 113: and Dec. 1 to 7, 26. While President Roosevelt Satur day told the Navy to get its re cruits henceforth through the Se lective Service system, DteLoach said the Wilmington recruiting office will remain open as far as is known now but on a reduced per sonnel scale. At present, the recruiting station is staffed by DeLoach, chief boat swain’s mate in charge of South eastern Nortli Carolina recruiting; J. C. Johnson, Jr., chief specialist; J. W. Gaither, yeoman, second ciass, and H. J. Davis, yeoman, third class, recruiter. The station will continue its re cruiting of 17-year-old youths, how ever proor must ^ provided of the birthday. It may also continue to receive enlistments of various spe cialists above 38 years. DeLoach pointed out that orders have not been received here, out lining the duties of this station. A Public announcement will be made as soon as it is learned. The sta tion was notified Sunday to stop re<4u1*tins to 38-year-old men. accepted here through Jf, '^5ay have been enlisted, , PeLoach, although two men tun - °, Fla,eiSh Saturday were re turn here Sunday. Th< Remember Last December” sponsored by the Navy .. ln5 station to commemorate f ^ anniversary of the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor, went off on schedule at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Lieutenant Commander O. P. Coo per, TJSN retired, was principal speaker at the ceremony, in which one minute of complete silenfce was observed at 2:25 o’clock in re menjfirance of Americana that have SINKWICH JOINS THE DEVIL-DOGS Leaves For Leatherneck Training Upon Grad uation In March NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—W—Nat tily attired in a brand new Marine Corps uniform, Georgia’s All America Frankie Sinkwich arrived in the big city today to receive one of football’s highest awards the Heisman Memorial trophy. The trophy, annually awarded by the Downtown Athletic club to the athlete selected as the out standing football player of the year, will be presented to the Youngstown, O., star tomorrow night. Although somewhat taken back by the size and fuss of the recep tion committee, Frankie was not long in telling how proud he is to be wearing the blue and red uniform of the United States’ Leathernecks. “I don’t feel at home yet in it,” said Frankie, “but I certainly am proud to wear it. I only hope I can be a credit to it.” Sinkwich, a member of the Ma rine Corps reserve, will be called up for active duty following his graduation early in March. TT Y.M.C1. TROUNCES COAST GUARDSMEN - ■ i City Basketball League Gets Underway With Fast Contest Here The Y. M. C. A. City Basketball League got underway in the local gymnasium last night with the ini tial contest between the Y. M. C. A. senior team and the U. S. Coast Guard quintet. The fast action and high caliber 7>]av may be indicative of the quali ty basketball to be expected from the City League this season. Tom North and Bill Pieper were superb for the winners and Har lan and Lawhorn were outstand ing for the losers. Jimmy Copeland, a former Wil mington athlete, coaches the Coast Guard outfit. He is now a petty of ficer stationed in Wilmington. U. S. Coast Guard Player F.G. F.T. T.P. Harlan __ 12 1 13 Welborne _ 2 2 Mills - Grady _ McMahon ___ Reid_ 1 1 Lawhorn _ 6 1 7 Totals —. 20 * 23 Y. M. C. A. Player F.G. F.T. T.P. North _ 16 1 17 Williams __ 8 8 Wadsworth —_ 4 4 Davenport _ 2 13 Pogleman _ 2 2 Bowen _ 2 18 Deal - 2 2 Pieper - 12 6 18 Totals - 48 9 57 The score at half-time was: T. M. C. A., 35, U. S. Coast Guard 14. Ref eree was Frank Kelly, scorer, Jim my Austin, timekeeper, W. Ghol son. Tonight’s schedule calls for 803 Signal Corps, U. S. Army, to play the North Carolina Shipyard at 7:30 — and the 104 Infantry, U. S. Army, to take on the Naval Section Base, Southport at 8:30 p. m. UNC Loses Basketball Captain To Paratroops ■ 1 — i CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 7.— (fl) — Captain George Paine has dropped basketball to join the paratroops, it was announced on the eve of Carolina’s final pre - Christmas practice game. Dick Hartley, sophomore south paw, and Toad McCachren, speedy reserve, will take over at forward against the big, sharpshooting Fort Bragg quintet, which comes here ‘omorrow night. The dual announcement was made tonight by Coach Bill Lange, who has led the Tar Heels to one state and one conference title in his three-year tenure, but who must re-build from the ground up this season. given their lives during this first year of war. Othev speakers were Mayor Ed gar L. Yow, Mayor Oscar C. Tlgner, commander of Wilmington Air De fense Region, and DeLoach. The program was concluded by the playing of the “Stars Spangled Banner.” The High School band, under the direction of Lt. Lacock, furnished the music for the occasion. The following 26 men have been enlisted in the Navy this month: Ralph L. Chahoc, 202 Meares street; Ralph D. Johnson, Rose bore ; Glen wood E. McDowell, Bo livia; Lewis E. Howard, Hamp stead William L. Mead, 211 South Sixth street; David L. Troutman, 308 South Seventeenth: Charles R. Owen, Roseboro; Leroy McCant, 1319 North Eighth street Hilliard F. Morgan, Loris, S. C.; Bryan Lan caster, Tab' r City; James T. Watts, 40 Spofford Hill; Ray A. Dosher, Southport; James E. Reaves, 713 South Fifth street; Willie Hosley, 603 Taylor street; Richard Evans. 1307 Church street; Lloyd L. Terry, RFD 2; Stanley C. Walker, Wil lard Lewis C. Porter, Ivanhoe; Johnny M. Thornton, Erwin; Wal ter A. Carter, Advance; Alexander Underwood, Jr., Clinton; George T. Pridgen, Clinton; Joshua C. Chad wick, Leland; Edwin Ivey, Fayette ville; Deknon I. Jones, Turkey; and Bennus L. Boyette, Lumbeqtpn. Vols’ Slater Hopes For An other Coming Out Party Head Coach John Barnhill (left), of the Tennessee Vols, hears his star Junior tailback, Walter Slater, seated next to him, tell how he hopes to have “another coming out party” against Tulsa in New Orleans Sugar Bowl. Holding a big photo of his first party a re teammates, left to right, ('.apt. AI Hust, end; Bill N'owling, fullback; Jim Mayers, guard; Jim Gaffney, halfback, and O. C. Price. The first party was the Vols’ smashing defeat of Fordham, in which Slater starred. Enough Thrills This Year To Last Grid Customers For The Duration i - Mobley Retains Crown Against Bragaw Threat By R. J. POWELL Delmar Mobley, the durable Wallace boxer, retained his ship yard middleweight title last night in the Thalian ring as he floored gallant Billy Bragaw five times in six rounds of the action-packed championship bout that stood out on the weekly puglistic show. After being met by fierce oppo sition that almost got him in the opening chapter, Mobley came back strong in the other five rounds to turn in one of his best efforts as he employed an effec tive left jab with a healthy right cross to bring the Southport blond breeze to almost a complete stand still. In fairness to Bragaw, it might be noted that he too tried hard, even in defeat. This was Mobley’s last fight locally for some time as he joins Uncle Sam’s forces soon. Huck Liles, who was scheduled to meet Bill Wilson for the ship yard heavyweight championship, was unable to fight. Mooring an nounced that plans were underway to bring a formidable opponent for Hickory Bomber in a match to be staged in the near future. Billy Johnson, the good little middleweight and Stocky McCul lough, the crafty heavyweight vet eran biffed and banged away to a six-round stalemate verdict in the feature colored mixup of the night. Johnson, the shipway shuff ler, found a big but constantly protected target in the East Wil mington darkie, and at times the ancient Thalian ring fairly rocked with the resounding blows ex changed by the hard-working war riors. The biggest disappointment of the entire show came in the much anticipated Buddy O’Sullivan-Jack Inman return dish in which the one-time whirlwind fighters looked way off form as they waltzed to a booed draw decision in a three set love match. Much activity but little real damage was produced by the popular featherweights, who in past performances had featured a slam-bang style of battling. Joe Smith, 160 pound East Wil mington negro lost his second fight in as many starts in the Thalian ring when he tangled with hard hitting “T” Model Ford of White ville in a three rounder. Ford was the master all the way, tagging the covering up Smith plenty at every turn. Blackout Fergerson, the 135 pound Wilmington negro tossed a lot of cowhide as he outpointed George Willet in the first colored 1 scrap on the program. Three white flyweight bouts opened the show. Jack Canfield pasted Eugene Ganey, Jack Ben son swamped Billy Garrison and James Ganey fought a draw with Willie Best. Charles Hornday was the ref eree and Bill Rhodes handled the announcing. k ODT Wants No *Followers’ To Travel To Bowl Games WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—(^—Jo seph B. Eastman, defense trans portation director, made It clear today he wants no “team follow ers” to travel to bowl football games Jan. 1. Telegraphing sponsors of the Rose Bowl at Pasadena and the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, East man said that supplying of tickets to competing teams for sale in their home communities would run counter to his request that admissions be distributed only lo cally. Eastman’s telegram to Robert McCurdy, president of the Tourna ment of Roses, said he understood McCurdy had expressed doubt whether the travel curtailment re quest meant exclusion of a dele gation from the University of Geor gia, one of the Rose Bowl teams. “We must discourage enthusi asts and team followers from mak ing these trips this season,” East man said. “Hope that travel from 1 Georgia may be limited to essen-1 tial players and coaching staff.” j Cream of the Soph Crop In Southern PIWBffiwrriw—-i- ----- lie s wearing a broad and friendly gnn, is this 200-pound hnskv and no wonder. For he’s Chan Highsinith, the University of North PaT olina’s sophomore center, who made it so tough for the opposition that lie earned the Associated Press nomination as the Southern Pnnfa»i.«l “Sophomore-of-the-kear.” His home is in Brunswick. g£ g ereuce * - NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—®—Often a headache but never a bore, the *942 football season produced enough thrills tc last the custom ers until the next campaign, even if they have to wait for it until after the war. Touchdown runs of 100 yards, game-winning kicks and electrify ing passes were recalled today in an Associated Press review of the season’s most spectacular plays, but the prize of the lot was en gineered by Frankie Sinkwich and George Poschner of Youngstown, O., and the University of Georgia. It was in the Alabama game that the Bulldogs trailed, 10-0, when the final period rolled around. Then Fireball Frankie opened up with his deadly passes and sparked two scoring drives, each ending with Poschner mak ing circus catches of the Sink wich aerials for touchdowns. Sink wich tossed 13 passes in that final period and completed nine of them. For nip-and-tuck action, Univer sity of Miami fans got their mon ey’s worth in the West Virginia game Miami, leading 7-6 with four minutes left, intercepted a pass on the enemy 30 and scored in two plays. That took only a minute and a half. Then Capt. Russ Coates of Miami returned the following kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown, making the score 21-13. In four minutes, the ball was carried 157 yards by Miami and 104 by West Virginia. The most daring stunt of the season was pulled by Bill Gray, Oregon State center, in the game with Washington State. Bob Ken nedy of Washington State dropped back to his 16 yard line to punt. Gray broke through and stole the ball off Kennedy’s toe, tucked It against his own tummy and scam pered across the goal line. Then there was the Minnesota Michigan game, when the Gophers had the ball with only a second remaining in the first half. Min nesota’s Bill Gamaas never had tried a drop-kick in a game, but there wasn’t time to set the ball for a place-kick. So Bill drop kicked the ball through the up rights and Minnesota won, 16-14. Although it was recorded offi cially as 97 yards, Blondy Black’s sprint against Duquesne probably was the longest touchdown run from scrimmage this year. With his ball on his own 3, the Miss. State back stood deep in the end zone as if to punt, but elected to run and went all the way. inere were several spectacular runs on pass interceptions. Jack Wink of Wisconsin snagged a Great Lakes pass in the end zone and went the distance to score. John ny Ziegler of Colorado pulled the same stunt against Colorado Mines. Other long runs resulting in scores on intercepted passes included 99 yards by Cullen Rog ers of Texas A and M. against Arkansas 96 yards by Win Wright of Cornell against Army and 95 yards by Clint Castleberry of Geor gia Tech against Navy. Sinkwich and his mates had no monopoly on the passing thrills although Frankie once hooked up with Lamar Davis on an 89-yard pass-run for perhaps the longest aerial scoring play of the year. Don Currivan of Boston College took a 15 yard pass from Mickey Connolly and sprinted 30 addition al yards for the touchdown that beat North Carolina Pre - Flight. Tim Hoopes of Yale, whose 52 yard scoring dash beat Princeton, also caught a 17-yard pass and ran 44 yards for the winning mark er against Harvard. RAILROAD INCOME WASHINGTON, Dee r— A billion dollar net income for the railroads this year was tele cast today by the Interstate Com merce Commission. For A Real Christinas Gift PHILCO RADIO. A Good selection now In stock. PICKARDS *09 Market St. Dial jjj* Several New Records Set In 1942 Sport Contests STRONBERG S CHEWCHI \Y ‘Ladies Night’ To Be Ob served At Thalian Hall Wrestling Show After failing to appear in time for his scheduled bout with Rudy Stronberg, Chief Chewchi, the mad gypsy, walked into Bert Causey’s headquarters late Thursday night full of apologies for his belated appearance. It seems that the chief was held up by transpor tation problems. Since the default obviously wasn’t the Chief’s fault, he has been rematched with Stronberg for this coming Friday night in a 75 minute time limit match. By popular demand, A1 Mills and the Purple Secret have been paired up again for a 75-minute time limit fracas. Due to the fact that many fans were disappointed by the mixup in fights last week, Causey feels that something should be done to give them a little added feature this week. So he has arranged for a special “ladies’ night” in which all ladies will be admitted free to the main floor with one paid adult admission. The card will be presented at 8:30 Friday night and doors at Thalian Hall will be open at 7 o’clock. Special prices will be ef fective for men in uniform. vr EXPANSION SEEN FOR BOND )UP (Continued From Page One) promoting the sale of government securities necessary in financing the war. At present the New Hanover county committee is composed of H. C. Rorison of the Security Na tional Bank, D. M. Darden of the People’s Savings Bank and Trust company, E. A. Laney of the Mor ris Plan Bank, Allen C. Ewing of Allen C. Ewing and company, and C. Van Leuven. Mr. Rogers said last night that he had already notified the mem bers of the new volunteer group, whose names wiil be announced later, and he expects to receive unanimous acceptances. When this group is assembled, Mr. Rogers said a meeting of the entire committee will be called for the purpose of receiving in structions and information from an area manager of the Victory Fund Committee. -V Wartime Boom Raises Attendance At Races On New Orleans Turf NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7.—W— The fair grounds winter racing i program isn’t ten days old yetj but it’s plain already that a war time boom is on in both attend ance and betting with promise of the greatest season since Colonel E. R. Bradley’s sponsorship in the golden twenties. Attendance and betting have in creased 55 per cent already over last winter’s program, and is up 100 per cent on Saturdays and holidays, and it is evident that with more than 1,000 horses quar tered at the track. Track officials expect one of the largest turnouts in the city’s rac ing history Saturday when Whirl away, leading money winner of all time, competes in the $15,000 added Louisiana handicap, Decem ber 12. j OLD OVERHOLT IS TOTAL RYE WHISKEY Established in isio ... distilled at Broad Ford, Pa., Old Overholt straight rye whiskey is bottled in bond at full 100 proof / under U. S. Government jm, supervision. ' ’ _ National Distillers Products Corporation A. Overholt & Co., Inc. New York / ’3.35 quart NEW YORK, Dec. : _ 5 hundred and 41 new A ords in swimming am ’•-''ar'rtc be written into the hGc. Cs,w® Amateur Athletic Union'tJ: the the report of Paul p ,dPot(i Indianapolis at its a.'r“.iCan « ing in Chicago. Dec. Ibn"''"1' Jordan, chairman of ords committee, will ,rec track and field marks en’s swimming and 33 ‘ ^0lr-' swimming. A number o< -he "?en'‘ aquatic figures ,...d tract-' standards will be pm ■ ' tl-‘» the International Fede^C'0 consideration as world ■ecJ/llr From fr- standpoint of nunt the leading record-breaker nt' year is Gloria Caller. - York back stroker who cLt!! 19 marks. Maria Link, b r. . stroke star from Brazil . ed the U. S. last winter. ls sw;r' with 11. secor-t Bill Smith, 18-vear-old Ha«a now a student at Ohio c'tat tops among the men with *;11 performances up for consid‘f tion. If passed bv trie \'A ~ his clocking of 4:39 6 for 440 and 9:54.0 for 880 along with * Nakama’s 20:29 for the n2 ,! Adolph Kiefer’s 1:02 ters and 1:32.7 for 150 yards ba7 stroke he turned over to7 International Federation. "e In addition, there are «,► clockings of 51 seconds flat t? 100 yards restyle to equal^ ny Wr teller s world standard They were made by son and Alan Ford of Yale art Bill Prew of the Detroit A r Yale swimmers also will have nine relay marks up for consideration, Top man a ong the track a'* ietes is Greg Rice of the fc York A. C. with eight dist? -e. running marks. John Borican o' Asbury Park, N. J„ has five and Cornelius Warmerdam, the onlv man ever to clear 15 feet in the pole vault, has four in his special, ty. The West coast school tearic boosted the indoor pole vault standard to 15 feet 7 1-4 iKhf; last winter and the outdoor man to 15 feet 7 3-4 inches. STOCKING FUND MUST HAVE i (Continued From Page One) Help your sick, handicappti neighbors to Christmas cheer! The fund total now: Previously Acknowledged ..S125.S A Friend . 1,1 A Friend.. 10.1 W H. M... i: Brick Layers Union No. 11 of N. C. ill Total .{l&l TfiafaoCtjO, twice m fob I A nicked blade means waste: steel. 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