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By WHITNEY MARTIN
’ NEW YORK, March 17.- 'fl—
Somehow it seems like trying to
I paint the lily to laud Bill Dickey.
The big guy needs no more eulogy j
than a million dollars. That is, his j
value to baseball, as an example
to the youth of the nation and as
an all-around man, is too apparent
to need any polishing.
This isn’t written because he is
going into the Navy, although that
t provides a good excuse. After all,
he had nothing to say about his
going into the service, and for go
‘ ing in deserves no more praise
than a ribbon clerk or water me
ter reader. His number just came
. up, that’s all. II is a tribute to
I the care he has taken .of himself,
though, that at 36. with 16 ma-j°r
league seasons behind him in the
toughest job on the field, he is
1-A physically.
Dickey would be the last to be
moan the fate that is taking him
from a career he never can re
sume, except in a field or^ front
office executive capacity. He s just
about run out his string as a play- J
er, regardless of the fact last year
was one of his best years. One
■ or two or three more years at
the most might have been judged
his life expectancy as an active
player. It’s the younger fellows
just coming into their own as ma
jor leaguers who are hit the hard
‘ est. . , ,,
The game has been good to the
lanky Arkansan just as he has
been good for 1he game. A top
flight cather and the first-strimer
for 15 of his 16 years with the
Yankees, he has drawn down good ■
monOy. Just how much, we
couldn’t say, but he’s been m the
j higher brackets as baseball play
ers’ salaries go and it is reported
: that his wage for the season a
counle of years ago was around
) $23,000.
On toD of that, he’s been with
a winner or near winner all the
time. The Yankees won the pen
nant nine times, finished second
five times and third twice in the
: jfi years he was with them, and
’ his world series cut for the win
ning seasons alone totaled slight
. ly more than 150.000. We under
J stand the frugal Bill socked this
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dough in the bank where it is
sprouting.
From a financial standpoint, he
had nearly cashed in to the limit
as a player when accepted for
service. And he holds enough
catching records although there is
one which he would have liked to
have had and which he undoubt
edly would have attained this year
had he not beer, called.
That is the record for total
games caught in the American
league. Ray Schalk holds it at
1,721, and Dickey needed just 52
more contests to better that mark.
That is actual games caught, and
not counting appearances as a
pinch hitter.
But if Bill Dickey will miss base
ball, he probably won’t miss it
any more than the fans will miss
Biil Dickey. And the Yankees too,
for that matter He’s one guy you
iked to see out there, making his
job seem easy. If you had to write
a baseball epitaph for him you
;ouldn’t do much better than this.
He was a Yankee.
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MFLE MEET WON
BY 0. A. THOMAS
O. A. Thomas, averaging 94 x
tOO points over the two-stage in
juor gallery match, took first place
n the weekly small arms training
’ompptition of the Lake Forest
itifln Club officails announced yes
erday.
Eleven of the trainees have fin
shed the qualification scores re
luirrd for the marksman rating,
lrd are now on the first target
;tages ci the sharpshooter rating,
or which expertness in various
hooting positions is demanded.
The men are coached by Ed
mund McLaurin certified marks
manship instructor, small bore
md service rifles, of the National
iliflo Association and War Depart
ment, who has told his trainees
hat re will not be satisfied with
individual ability “until every man
n the club averages 90 or better,
ind likewise completes the course
)f five for the accredited sharp
shooter rating.” To date, eight
irainees have averaged 90 or bet
ter, with at least a dozen more on
the borderline of the minimum
average which has been set by the
club, instructor.
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NEW YORK, March 17.—(IP)
Beau Jack, the bounding boot
black from Augusta, Ga., beat
hard-punching A1 “Bummy”
Davis at his own game to
night. battering the Brooklyn
bad boy all over the Madison
Square Garden ring to win a
10-round decision by a country
mile The Beau weighed 138 to
Davis' 142 1-2.
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Ranking Featherweights
Clash At Arena Tonight
the revival of boxing In Wilming
ton receive* * hearty boost to
ttijH a: S:SO when some of the na
tions outstanding fistic lumlnar
!es perform on s six-bout card at
the American Legion Indoor Arena.
The featured fracas of the eve
ning will be a 10 round affair
bringing together Irish Johnny Me
Guirk and Andy Krobath. Me
Guirk. a Hartford. Connecticut
ring wairiro- is a veteran of 247
battles and has encountered such
noted pugilists as Henry Arm
strong, Willie Pep and Little Mon
tane?
Krobath, who began his swat
ting career in the local mining
town of Tioga, Pennsylvania, has
not had the ring experience that
McGuirk has had but is regarded ;
as ane of the country’s promising
featherweights. Both of the boys
are expected to weigh in around
127 pounds.
Bev Saunders, clever 16-year-old
local clouter, engages the most
formidable foe of his short leath
er slinging career as he hooks
up with Jimmy Curran in the se
mi-final event. Curran is an ag
gressive fighter who carries a
hefty punch in both hands.
A special four round bout with
Lee Quijada and Sixto Morales on
he punch tossing ends will offer
he local fans another affray pit
ing two top featherweights. Qui
ada will probably be the craftiest
lighter to appear in Wilmington
r. recent years. Although ndt a
ievastating hitter, the clever lit
le Mexican possesses an abun
ianrc- of knowledge concerning the
’love game.
The preliminary bouts on the
snappy show will be in the hands
~.f some of Wilmington’s youthful
?u.
Hu>:k Liles, former fighter and
tow a popular referee, will be the
shird man in the ring for the
scraps.
City Briefs
A recreational and fellow
ship program for service men
and women and local church
young people will be-held from
5 to 10 o’clock today in the So
cial Hall of the First Christian
church, S. Third and Ann
streets. Facilities are available
for games, reading, writing
and general informal social
fellowship, and a buffet supper
is given for all present by
the ladies of the church at
6:30. All service men and wo
men are invited.
HOUR OF SONG
A Sunday Evening Hour of
Song will be presented at the
regular evening service in the
First Christian church Sunday
at 8:00 p. m. as one of the
special musical programs be
ing given during week during
the month of March. The Serv
ice will be an informal render
ing of old familiar hymns by
the congregation, the choir and
a quartette. Visitors are Cor
dially invited.
DEMONSTRATION MEET
The Wrightsboro Home
Demonstration club will meet
at the club house Tuesday at
2:30 p.m.
VISITING REVEREND
The Rev. W. D. Pridgen, re
tired of Mullins, will spend the
weekend with his son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Pridgen at Sunset Park.
The Rev. Pridgen will speak
at the morning and evening
service at Sunset Park Baptist
church Sunday.
CALLED TO OHIO
George H. West, director of
vocational education for New
Hanover High school, has been
called to Ohio by the death of
his father, early Friday morn
ing.
CLASS TO MEET
The Men’s Bible class of the
First Baptist church will meet
Sunday morning at 9:45 o’clock
with Dr. Foster, pastor emeri
tus of the church, as teacher.
A full program, including sev
eral selections by a quartet,
has been arranged. All men of
the community are invited to
attend.
UNITED TRAVELERS
The United Commercial Tra
velers, Cape Fear Council, 374,
will meet Saturday at 8 p.m. In
the office of C. C. Holmes in
the Trust Building for the elec
tion of officers. All members > :
are urged to attend. i
FIRE
The Wilmington Fire Depart
ment reported that a fire
broke out in the boiler room
of Broodfoot Iron Works, Sur
ry and Church streets, Friday
at 3:30. Damage is not knows.
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HAL TROSKY MAY
HELP WHITE SOX
FRENCHLICK, Ind.. March 17.
--(/P)— Jimmy Dykes, the man be
hind the cigar, was in high spi
rits today as his Chicago White
Sox pitched camp and started
twice a-day workouts with a brisk
hike through the budding land
scape.
The reclassification of Big Hal
Trosky to 4-F by his Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, draft board was the main
reason Dykes was chirping like
the robins. And this is what the
peppery manager thinks of the
iirst baseman.
-He 3 the fellow to give us the
long punch we’ve needed for sev
eral years. If he is OK again we
may be able to develop into a team
which would be in the pennant
race. ’
There is still some doubt, how
ever, if Trosky fully recovered
from the chronic migraine head
ache.-' which caused his retire
ment while with Cleveland three
years ago.
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EUROPE IS DEALT
BIG DOUBLE BLOW
(Continued from Page One)
their targets today the Amerirfan
air command announced that a to
tal of 125 Nazi planes were shot
down in Thursday’s spectacular
battles over Germany* and that
the targets were the industrial, ci
ties of aim and Friedrichshafen.
I Cor. 12th and Market
FREDERICK, r.Id., March 17 —
Connie Math said today that I
Bobo Newsom would pitch the
Philadelphia Athletics’ season
ipener against the Washington
senators, indicating there was
nothing serious in Newsom’s vague
,alk about going into business in- ,
dead of playing baseball this sea
son.
Mack said Newsom was getting
nto shape at White Sulphur
•Iprings, W Va., and had assured
lirr. he v/ould be ready to go
jjainst his former teammates
Mack’s tentative complete li.ie
jp foe- the opener: Frank Hayes,
ratrher; Newsom, pitcher; Dick
Siefcert, first base; Edgar Such,
.tioiid base; Irv Hall, shortstop;
George Kell, third base; J i.To
White, center field; Bill B irgo,
left field; Lew Flick, right ’eld.
CHICAGO, March 17.— UP— Third
Baseman Stan Hack, captain of
the Chicago Cubs last year, has
signed his 1944 contract, General
Manager Jim Gallagher said to
day, but has decided to remain
on his Oregon ranch and nas for
mally applied for voluntary retire
ment.
No. 1 candidate for the job Hack
las held for 12 seasons is Pete
Elko of Nashville, Tenn.
At least 12 Cubs and possibly
LOCALS DEFEAT
CHECKER CHAMP
On Tuesday, March 14th at the
2nd & Orange USO, Mr. E. R.
Pickard, 209 Market street and
Mr. William Eubank, Jr., Sunset
Park, took a game each from Mr.
Millard Hopper, the Checker
King. Mr. Roger Hewlett, 116
South 9th Street and Mr. R. C.
Grant, 1111 So. 3rd street played
dim to a draw game.
Mr. Hopper during the period
from 8 to 11 played approximately
forty people, both civilian and
nilitary. In fact the matches be
:ame so involved and interesting
hat some of the checker fans re
named until 1:30 to see who would
finally out-play the other.
Following is a list of the civi
ions participating in the exhibi- '
ion games:
Messrs. A. L. Shumaker, J. Bar- I
day Lodor, M. Loewenthal, P. L.
Dresser, S. F. Highsmith, F. P.
D’Crowley, R. W. Shumaker, John
2. Platt, Sr., J. M. Teachey, D.
V. Lossiler, O. L. Hoock, N. A.
\.very, Brooks Barclift, and Miss
:s Maxine Morgan and Maureen
D’Crowley.
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RED CROSS DRIVE
PUNS ARE MADE
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;nd praised the work of the or
ganisation for the men in the fox
aoles.
It was the opinion of Mr. O’
Crov/ley, that when ‘this pack
?f wolves ” speaking of the cam
paigners, ‘is turned loose on the
smaller businesses, who will be
given the opportunity to make
their contributions to the Red
C-oss drive, no one need offer a
smaller contribution than can be
afforded.”
Seventy-seven of the fighters, one
more than announced Thursday,
were shot down by the American
fighters, and 48 by the Fortresses
and Liberators.
.7 will leave foi their French Lick,
ind., training camp Sunday.
ST. LOUIS, March 17.—UP)—1The
jaseball team of the fourth ferry
ng group of Memphis, which in
dudes former Cardinal Captain
limmy Brown, will play exhibi
;ion games with the Cardinals at
heir spring training camp in
Hairo, 111., March 26 and April 2.
LAKEWOOD, N. J., March 17.
—(J>)—Johnny fiucker, regular cen
ter fielder, and Bruce Sloan, rook
ie outfielder whose contract was
acquired this week, arrived in the
New York Giar.l training camp to
day about the same time that
Catcher Ernie Lombardi informed
Manager Mel Ott he would arrive
next week.
Lombardi wrote from his Oak
land, Calif., home that personal
affairs detained him.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March
17.— UP1—Showers forced the New
York Yankees indoors today and
Manager Joe McCarthy spent the
time with the infield candidates
ivhile Coach Art Fletcher knocked
grounders to the outfielders.
Told that second baseman Joe
Gordon had been inducted in Ore
gon, McCarthy scowled for a mo
ment and then sai^ “Of course,
we will carry on.”
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March
17.—(®—Manpower troubles are
making Ossie Bluege, the Wash
ington Senators’ manager, say
ouch.
Because he didn’t get an extra
infielder at the major leagues’
winter meetings, and because Har
lond Clift won’t be around to take
care of third base, Ossie has been
working overtime to get himself
in trim for part time duty.
"I wouldn’t admit this before,”
Bluege said, ‘but the situation is
such that I must get myself ready
to step into the infield anywhere
from second base to third perhaps
for two or three days a week in
:he early part of the season.”
The 43-year old manager is
pitching to batters in practice, tak
ng intensive infield workouts and
wen doing fly-snagging in the out
field. He’s getting the kinks out of
lis muscles but acquiring a few
lains in the process.
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Welders Win Bowling
Championship At Yard
The Welders defeated the Paint
ers bowling team two to one the
Last night of the shipbuilders
championship playoff on the Rec
reation Bowling Center alleys Fri
day night. The final score in games
was six to three.
High individual scoring honors
went to Breece of the Painters
with an aggregate of 1561 for nine
games. Messer, captain of the
Welders, was second with 1557
and third place was a tie between
Pound of the Welders and Jones
of tie Painters who scored 1501
each. Epps’ 601 was highest set
score.
Scores for Friday nights’ games:
vVelders 1st 2nd 3rdTotal
Messer _ 181 156 193 530
Duncan 193 192 132 517
Stratton -__ 180 157 139 476
Pound ___ 177 182 116 475
Epps . 230 191 180 601
961 878 760 2599
Painters 1st 2nd 3rdTotal
Mickey _ 170 192 182 544
Binder _ 155 181 223 559
Neill . 155 177 162 494
Jones . 175 167 222 564
Breece __ 234 136 217 587
889 853 1006 2758
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MANY EXHIBITS
IN HOBBY SHOW
(Continued from Page One)
Kiver, Bruzeyandle, and Miss Sue
Bonne.
The program, consisting of
music, dancing and drama, wai
as follows: Song, America; Value
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Higher Income Families
Are Mo ved F romProj ects
Approximately 35 families in the
Nesbitt Courts housing units and
66 tenants of the Robert Taylor
homes are being moved from
these projects because they have
advanced from the low-income
bracket, and the units will be
made available to families of low
er income, it was announced Fri
day by Henry R. Emory, execu
tive secretary of the Housing Au
thority of the City of Wilmington.
Mr. Emory disclosed that the
action was considered at a meet
ing of the commissioners of the
Housing Authority Thursday after
noon, and that further plans for
carrying out the changes are yet
to be developed.
Emory explained that housing
pressure here has largely been
removed and that the persons re
quested to leave the low-cost units
will be adequately taken care of
in other sections. Maffitt Village,
for instance, has units available
for shipyard workers.
The plan is going to enable a
number of the persons now living
of hobbies, Bobby West; Acrobatic
Sance, Ken D’Aubour, instructor;
Dramatization, “The Three Bears”
Rupert Cale, Jimmie Post, David
Benton and Gene Grover; Solo,
“Wait for Me Mary”, Nellie Jean
Smith; Stunt, “The Educated
Horse”, Clyde Neal, Keith Glover;
Dance exhibition, Gerhardt Whil
ien, Jessie May Carrol, and Lolita
Hayes.
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The first photograph in color
was printed In 1862.
in “sub-standard” homes through
out the community, especially ^
the slum areas that were pointed
out by City Building Inspector
Gilbert F. Morton in a recen*
Star-News story, to find homes -
the units vacated by the individ
uals who have advanced from low!
income status.
The Housing Authority works
hand-in-glove with the City of Wil.
mington on the housing problem'
When the Housing Authority opens
a new unit for occupancy, the city
agrees to condemn, either for re
pair or destruction, a sub-standard
dwelling considered hazardous
from the standpoint of safety and
sanitation.
Emory said the Housing Author,
ity stands ready to assist the city
in any post-war planning that will
help to eliminate the blighted
areas of the community.
He asserted the opinion that
some of the sub-standard houses
that deserve leveling should not
be rebuilt, but should leave space
for the development of muchly,
needed park areas, particularly
in the north section of the city
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