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A Flyer Takes Off Tall Glenn Dobbs. Tulsa All-America of a year ago, is back in a bowl again — Dallas Cotton Bowl this trip as Randolph Field’s triple threat against Texas, Jan. 1..__ Able tddie rrokop Makes Georgia Tech Eleven Tick 4P Features ATLANTA. — If Georgia Tech •cold only harness Eddie Prokop rri the law of averages, there’d no doubt who’d '>vin the Sugar Eovl ga.ne New Year's Day. How per. unbeaten Tulsa ill have its hards full. The Cleveland Cannoneer threw the ball this season on the average of every other play—and he com pleted every o'her pass for an av enge gain of 12.2 yards. On al ternate plays he plowed up oppos ing lines at the rate of 4.6 yards i Back. succeeded Castleberry It was Prokop’s big year. He ia-s to Georgia Tech from Chat i Imp's football - conscious Bay I toSaol with a gold-plated rep 'nation as a runner and passer. As a freshman he ran over every m in sight, blit his sophomore season—his first with the varsity ~-.ound him playing second string wile a wiU-o’-the-whisp freshman, wni Castleberry, shot Tech into f headlines. His passing was Wept, bat a knee injury hindered Ais running gnme. Meanwhile Castleberry joined lie Anny Air Forces rp^prvp anH Prokop signed with the Navy V-12 program. Came spring, and Castleberry was called for active service. Prokop also was put in uniform, but the Navy re-assigned him to Georgia Tech to complete his engineering studies. It was Kddie's chance, and he made the mosr of it. In the off season he underwent a knee oper ation which restored his superla tive running skill. When Coach Bill Alexander called practice July 20, Prokop was on deck. AU | through the broiling summer he practiced passing, place - kicking, blocking and ball-handling includ ing swift break-away runs which were to delight fab fans. When September came Prokop was ready. He started slowly but picked up speed and precision along the line. He reached his season’s peak at New Orleans Nov. 13 when he completed 11 successive passes in the second half. Steady Workhorse In 10 regular games he failed only once to gain 100 or more yards. That was against Clemson when he and the entire first team was withdrawn after six minutes of play to prevent a complete rout. Against mighty Notre Dame he handled the ball 35 times gaining 132 yards. In season’s play he ranked sec ond only to Inaianas Bob Hoern schemeyer among the nations ground-gainers. His 10-game work sheet credited him with 1440 yards on 269 running and passing plays. He ranked No. 3 nationally (be hind Georgias Johnny Cook and Hoernschemeyer) in forward pass ing offerse completing 66 out of 133 for 306 yards. Only 17 of his pitches were intercepted. He was lith in rushing offense gaining 634 yards in 136 carries. He kicked off frequently and at tempted Tech’s points after touch downs when the first team was in the game converting 24 out of 30. DAVIS COMPLETES TOUCH GRID PLAY Officer’s Team Wins Crown With Victory Over Enlisted Group CAMP DAVIS Dec. 15. — In a special post-season game between the enlisted and officers champions in the Anti - aircraft Artillery Schools touch-football league the Student Brigade Bird-Dogs nosed out the 117ths enlisted squad 18 to 12 after playing a fifth quarter by mutual consent when the game ended in a tie score 12-12. Scoring first in the first quarter on a long pass from Hyatt to Ho gan the Bird-Dogs missed several scoring opportunities when fleet footed 117th linemen blocked pass attempts. The 117th scored in the second quarter but trailed in the final 45 seconds of the game 12-6. A long pass from Norm Castine to A1 Nebelke tied up the game as the gun sounded. Both teams agreed to play off the tie and the Bird-Dogs made the final score on a pass from Hyatt to Hogan whc crossed over from the 25-yard line. The game concluded the season of touch-football games played in the AAA School which were ar ranged by the AAAS Special Ser ice Office. BERT CAUSEY 5 Presents Wrestling FRIDAY NIGHT 8:3(1 F. M. THAU AN _ hall •'0 TIME LIMIT WTTRALL I vs STEINBORN | RETURN jj NO TIME LIMIT ■ MANNAGOFF VS MASSEY I hemstock I tamp Davis | REFEREE! j $1.20 I Tickets Thil' ,’5 °n Sa,B GET YOUR WAGONS AT PICKARDS 309 Market Street Ma jors Expected To Be Dominated By Few STAR PAUL WANER FORECASTS GOOD DIAMOND SEASON Brooklyn Player Believes There Will Be Some Outstanding Men SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 15.—— Paul Waner believes a handful of players will dominate major league baseball next year, the third season under wartime con ditions. “There should be several out standing pitchers and a few high ly-successful hitters,” forecast the 40-year-old outfiplder who himself is one of the game’s great batters. The general level is down, he explained, making it possible for players with above - the average ability to show ic more advantage than ever befoie. “The pitching last season wasn’t even close to normal,” Waner continued. “And it would have shown up even worse had not there teen a dead ball. ‘The batting was inferior, too. Remember that a lot of the good hitters are gone. “It evens up, and keeps the game interesting “But there should be several outstanding pitchers and a few highly-successful hitters. “The fellows still left who have something on the ball should have an exceptional season.” The year just ending was a ban ner one for Waner, who now plays the outfield for the Brooklyn Dod gers. He got his 3,000th National league base hit and his 1,00,0th base on balls, and won a place in the tiny group of hitters which in cludes only immortals like Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner. Waner hopes to keep adding to his impressive totals in 1944, but he has no illusions about being as good as ever. “You can compare me to a rub ber ball which ycu keep bouncing against the side of the house,” he said. “After 20 years of bouncing the ball doesn’t fly back as far and ycu have to step up to catch it. "That’s the way I am. I’m just not as fast as I was. "Yet I don’t ihink I am through yet. I’ve still got some baseball in my system." As usual, Waner is spending the winter at his home here. -V Fort Jackson Cage Team To Meet Carolina Quint COLUMBIA. S. C.. Dec. 15.—— The Fori Jackson Reception Cen ter Red Raiders who have been burning up the service leagues in this neighborhood with a basket ball team undefeated in 14 starts will get the first stiff test of their vaunted strength Saturday when they tangle with the University of North Carolinas potent Phantoms at Chapel Hill N. C Staffed with former college stars and coached by Pfc. Bill Lufler Presbyterian cage mentor for the past seven years the Raiders are making time while theres still some left to them for their re ception center is to be closed Jan uary 1. The team one of 40-odd operat ing in service leaguer at the huge infantry training center has trim med everything in sight with ease. --V CONVICTED MUSCATINE, la., Dec. 15—— Clarence Secnst, Muscatine flor ist. was convicted of petty lar ceny and fined S100 by Justice J. C. Coster today as the result of a complaint accusing him of stealing floral wreaths from ceme tery graves and re-selling them. K -«- - Track Wet Doing his best to cover up nature’s reply to Chamber of Com merce is this lone soul vainly trying to de-rain Los Angeles Coliseum track in preparation for March Field-College of Pacific football game. Field is all right, and Flyers found it so in smacking Tigers 19-0. Battle Of Kiev Bulge Has Strategic Impact (Continued from Page One) cast bank of the Tetereu river to secure the added protection of its waters and banks against Nazi tanks. No Russian wilhdrawal from the Malin sector, 25 miles due north, is reported. At that point Soviet forces are still west of the Teterev and astride three roads converg ing southward on Radomysl. The impression is that the Nazi thrust to Radomysl is on a dan gerously narrow front and obvi ously open to Russian flank at tacks from the north. To exploit it in a deeper drive at Kiev itself, 55 miles eastward, the German at tack must turn either northeast ward down river to reach the Kiev Korosten railroad or southeastward down river to reach the Kiev-Ko to reach the Kievzhitomir rail road after forcing the Teterev riv er line. Unless the Nazi commander can promptly expand his front, the Radomysl dent could become a trap for his advance forces. It ap pears to have been yielded by the Russians because it was more vul nerable to tank attack than posi tions along the east bank of the Teterev. Moscow reports stressed that there had been no Russian back-tracking above that point. The power massed by the Nazis against the critical face of the Kiev bulge tends to confirm the impression that it is the key to the whole Russian front in the eyes of the German high oommand. London estimates that at least one third of all Nazi armored forces in Russia have been concentrated in the attempt to retake Kiev and thus unhinge the vchole Russian attack front west of the Dnieper above Kiev. German thrusts at Kiev must tend to defer the expected Rus sian winter offensive campaign farther north. Short of an immedi ate and decisive break-through in the vicinity of Kiev, however, there seems small prospect that the resurgent Nazi bulge offensive can materially relieve pressure in the Dnieper bend in time to avert a further German retreat on a wide front there. Lane Says Water Rate Hike Should Be Delayed In a statement Wednesday night. Ronald Lane, city councilman said that he is not in favor of raising water rates until the new plant has been in operation long enough to determine whether or not an in crease is necessary. Lane stated he felt it might be possible that a raise in price would not be necessary as the new plant should be cheaper to operate than the old one. and that other savings might be possible. The city council considered Mon day morning that it might be ne cessary to increase the depart ment’s over-all income to make the water and sewer units self supporting. Lane says that he agrees with the principle that the water de partment should be self-supporting make it impossible to determine make it imossible to determine what the cost should be. GIRAUD'S SON READY FOR INVASION THE FIGHTING SON of Gen. Henri Giraud trains for the battle that will i Lance of the Nazis. He is Lt. Bernard Giraud, member of a French 1 Irrnnred division being trained in North Africa in the use of American • .diriment Perched on his tank, he receives instruction from Col. C. j strayhorn, !#ss., in charge of the base (International) BYRD IS FAVORED IN MIAMI MATCH Former Baseball Star Works Hard To Win Big Link Event MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 15.—(A5)—Late entries sent the field for the $5,000 Miami Open Golf Tournament over the hundred mark on the eve of the first round today, and Chairman H. H Arnold struck the keynote for the war-time event with the observation: “Usually you can pick out five names and know you’ve got the winner among them. This year well, here’s the list. You can take your choice.’’ War and transportation diffi culties eliminated most of the out standing players, he pointed out, hut the situation enhanced the chances of the in-and-outers. The players’ choice, Sammy Byrd of Detroit, was the hardest working golfer on the course as he struggled earnestly in practice to get his chipper into working cider for the four rounds of mon ey play. ne was anxious vuiuiuuc me judgment of fellow professionals who gave him a slight edge over National Open Champion Craig Wood, of Mamaioneck, N. Y., and Ecb Hamilton, putting expert of Evansville, Ind. “It’s a special trick to make the ball stick on the small greens at the Miami Springs course,” Byrd explained, “and that’s going to tell the story.” Byrd, the. former major league baseball player, has three reasons fr.r wanting to win the tourna ment—he needs the $1,000 first money, he is 1-A in the draft and may not get to play again for the duration, and ne has tried three times in the Miami Open without vanning more than $25 on any oc casion. Gene Sarazen and Willie Mac Farlane. former National Open champions. * represent the old guard in the starting field, while Ens. Willie Turnosa, former Unit ed States amateur titleh older, is the hope of the play-for-fun crew. Johnny Bulla o! Atlanta, a for mer touring professional who is playing here during a vacation from his duties as a pilot for East ern Air Lines, laughed over his inclusion by some pickers among the 10 players most likely to win. “I’m just getting some of the high altitude out of my system,” he said. BEARS, STEAGLES LEAD PRO LEAGUE Two Powerful Clubs Domi nate Offensive And Defensive Play in rushing defense, New York grabbing second with 100.6 yards allowed each foe on the ground, and Green Bay, the Chicago Car dinals and Detroit beating out the Bears. The Green Bay Packers trailed +he Chicagoans across the finish line in total defense, with 335.1 yards a game, and in passing of fense with 100.9 yards a contest. The defending champion Wash ington team was not out in the cold, however, for Sammy Baugh passed the Redskins to a new league record in aerial efficiency of 139 completions in 254 attempts, an average of .547 successful throws. This mark will stand as it now reads, for Sunday’s play off statistics will not count in the season figures. The final team marks: Total yards gained per game— Chicago Bears 404.5; Green Bay 335.1. Yards rushing per game—Phil Pitt 173; Chict^o Bears 165.1. Yards passing per game—Chi cago Bears 239.4. Green Bay 190.9. Per cent of passing completed —Washington .547; Chicago Bears .511, Opponents’ yards per game— Chicago Bears 226.2; Phil - Pitt, 23d. 1. Opponents' yards by rushing per game—Phil-Pitt 79.3; New York, 100.6. Opponents’ yards by passing per MannagoffToMeetMassey In No Time Limit Affray There will be a great contrast between the weather and the ac tion at Thalian Hall Friday night, lit may be frigid on the outside, out the grappling performances to take place on the inside are cer tain to be of a torrid nature. The two fracases offered on the snappy card are scraps that have all the makings of being Fie most exciting engagements to take place here in some while. All the underlying factors point toward both of them being packed with action from the first bell to the closing gong. The opening tiff is to be a meet ing of two of the most pupular grapplers of this section Lanky Pete Mannagoff and A1 Massey are slated to hook up in a no time limit affray. Both of these bone benders usually resort to scientific methods, but at t mes the versatile Massey makes use ; of his fists by sending thundering blows to his opponent’s frame. I Mannagoff is a most entertaining | wrestler to watc.i in action, as he i makes his long arms and legs fit ! perfectly into his style of attack. Numerous times an amazed grap pler finds himse'.t sprawled on the floor due to one of Pete’s power ful drop kicks. Milo Steinborn, the muscular former jveight-lifter, collides with rowdy Cowboy Luttrall in tne main event. Absolutely anything can MILO STEINBORN happen in this bout, as the two participants employ unique nieth | ods. Steinborn’s favorite hold is I the bear hug, and once the ! mighty man gets this hold grip j on a man, it’s usually the end of I the match. TROPICAL TRACK OPENS WITH BANG 8,862 Racing Fans Witness Opening Day Handicap jyi.iaj.vu, a., uec. id.— ur—An opening day crowd of 8,862 watch ed Allen T. Simmons’ five-year-old gelding Harvard Square hang on gamely today tr win the $2,500 first division of Tropical Park’s Inaugural Handicap. Despite the gasoline shortage ard other war-time problems, the attendance approached the record opening turnout of 9,381 in 1941. Jockey A1 Snider kept Harvard Square on the inside and turned him loose in a stirring stretch run to beat out Herbert M. Woolf’s favored Pig Tails by a bead. J. P. Partridge's Minee-Mo clos ed fast and almost caught up at the finish, ending up a head back of Pig Tails. The win price on Harvard Square was $14.10. M. F. Mannagh’s Liberty Flight, at $12 40 for $2, won the first race cf the 1943-4 season. The second division of the Inau gural Handicap, split into two sec tions because of the large entry game—Chicago Bears 98; Wash ington 102.6 Punting average — Washington 45.1 yards; Detroit 41.5 yards. list, went to Brolite Farm's Ro man Sox. at $15 SO to $2. K. Dorko was second by half a length, and Navy was another half length behind. The favorite, Max Wexler’s dis pose, ran last. -V Marty Marion's Mother Dies ABBEVILLE, S. C., Dec. 15 —Iff)—Mrs. J. W. Marion, 53, Uie mother of three widely known baseball players, died at her home here today after a long illness. She is survived by four sons, Martin Marion, infielder of the St. Louis Cardinals; John W., of the St. Paul club of the American Association, Boy C., of the Nashville club of the Southern Association, and Charles R., of the Navy Air Corps. The funeral will be held Fri day at 11 a. m., in Richburg, S. C. _ Just Received Shipment Grade 3 Tires and USED TUBES No certificate Needed For Used Tubes Wenberu Bros. Your U. S. Tire Dealer 3rd and Grace Sts. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—(.0—The Chicago Bears, who won the West ern division championship, and the Phil-Pitt Eagles, who missed out on a one-third share of the East ern crown by an eyelash walked off with every major offensive and defensive honor in the National Football league this season, the final official statistics showed to day. The Bears chalked up these firsts: Total offense (yards by rushing and passing). 404.5 yards a game. Passing offense, 239.4 yards a game. Total defense (yards to which opponents were held by rushing and passing), 266.2 yards a game. Passing defense, opponents lim ited to 98 yards a game. And these were the Phil - Pitt team’s laurels: Rushing defense, opponents lim ited to 79.3 yaras a game. Rushing offense, 173 yards a game. The Chicagoans, who will play in the National league’s champion ship game here Dec. 26 against the winner of next Sunday’s East ern playoff between the Washing ton Redskins and New York Giants took second place in the only of fensive department in which they failed to cop first honors, averag ing 165.1 yards rushing or about rj'ne yards less a game than Phil Pitt. Rut thpv wmind nn a nnnr fifth I "I AIN'T CRAZY, I JUST GOTTA SELL THESE!" TROPICAL WORSTED SUITS All Wool Tropicals Formerly $24.50 Now Every suit is guaranteed to be less than 7 months old. Only 50 Suits in Stock. j Since these suits are so below cost, there will be No Alterations. j A Few Sharkskin SLACK SUITS Formerly $9.95 Now $^.95 Summer TROUSERS Formerly $6.95 1 Now Szj.,00 ANDERSON’S Front and Princess Sts.
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