Sports Roundup
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR
NEW YORK, Dec. 23,-UV-The
Metropolitan Intercollegiate Bas
ketball committee recently gave
$500 to the National Association of
Basketball Coaches and Prexy Ned
Irisl of Madison Square matched
{he donation. . - The dough was
eiven to the association ‘for use
at its discretion in furthering the
development of the game. • • •
Nothing was said about buying si
lencers for noisy referees. . . This
dept, hastens to call that move to
the attention of college baseball
coaches who still seem hesitant
about organizing to further the de
velopment if their own game . . .
Tom Taylor, who was voted the
year's best soccer coach by his
fellow tutors, is reported about
ready to call it quits after a quar
ter century of coaching Navy
teams. . . Marine Pvt. Ray “Whit
ey” Kurowski, now a regular on
Princeton’s basketball team, never
was more than a high school ath
lete before he turned up at Penn
State after four years in service.
Now he's a three-sport man at two
colleges.
TODAY’S GUEST STAR
Les Goates, Salt Lake City Des
ert News: “Judge Landis left an
estate valued at $100,000, says
news item. With all due reverence
you might say he was just a (100)
grand guy.”
ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Joe Stanowicz, Army's great foot
ball guard, never played on a team
that lost a game in his senior
year. He enjoyed perfect seasons
his last two years of Hackettstown
>1 J , high school Che was a full
back) and another at Blair Acade
my before entering West Point. . .
All-star high school soccer teams
representing New York and Phila
delphia will clash here New Year’s
day. . . Bert Bell, who shifted his
pro football interests from Phila
delphia to Pittsburgh a few years
ago. still holds the lease on Shibe
Park and sublets it to the Eagles
for their home games. . . Back in
1903. Cy Seymour, star National
league outfielder, was reported to
have "an aversion to high places’’
that made it necessary for him to
sleep in a lower berth on trains.
Wonder why some rookie hasn’t re
vived that one to escape from an
upper?
SERVICE DEPT.
Admiral Jonas Ingram, new
commander in chief of the Atlantic
Fleet, maintains that his son,
“Navy Bill, 2nd” now executive of
ficer on a destroyer, was the best
football player in the family, which
includes the father and his brother,
the original "Navy Bill.” . . . Be
sides playing football at Annapolis,
Admiral Ingram also stroked the
crew and ran the mile and half
mile. . . When the "Sandstorm
League” football season opened in
the Middle East, Tackle Bill Willis
of Monticello, Ind., played a stellar
game. That night some of the GI’s
listened to the Ohio State-Michigan
broadcast, which mentioned Bill
Willis rather frequently. . . The sol
dier Willis couldn’t quite figure it
out when his pals accused him of
playing two games the same day.
NAVY GRID STAR
IS SET FOR SEA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23— UP) —
Another of Navy’s one-time foot
ball greats, Commander Frank
Wickhorst, is going to sea.
The Navy Department said to
day that “Wick," tackle and Cap
tain of one of Annapolis’ great
est elevens, 1926, has been assign
ed to carrier duty in the Pacific
shortly after the first of the year.
For the past 18 months, Wick
horst has been head of Naval Avia
tion’s world-wide physical train
ing organization.
Under him, this program has
been put into effect upon every
carrier in the fleet with flight
and hanger decks sometimes look
ing like gymnasiums as the fliers
keep in shape for combat mis
sions.
The Nevy estimates tht approxi
mately 100,000 fliers have taken
the “pre-flight” course, as the
training program became known
When organized early in 1942.
Commander Tom Hamilton,
teammate of Wickhorst on the
1926 Navy team, organized the
training program and headed it
until he went to sea in June,
1943, when “Wick" took charge.
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‘UNBIASED’ LAW GROUP
ASHEBORO. Dec. 23. — <£>) —
A. I. Ferree, Republican candidate
for the U. S. Senate in the Novem
ber general election, said today he
had written to the two candidates
for speaker of the House asking
them to appoint an “unbiased”
election law committee for the next
general assembly.
Lady Grappler
Ann Miller, attractive brunet
wrestler who will appear again
on Bert Causey’s card Thursday
night when she tangles with Nell
Stewart at Thalian Hall.
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I Tennesseans Practice At Pasadena*For Rose Bowl
Members of the Tennessee football team pose d for this picture during a practice session at
Pasadena, Calif., in preparation for their Rose Bo wl engagement with Southern California New Year’s
Day. Coach John Barnhill indicated this is the line-up he would start against the Trojans. Line, left
to right: Buddy Pike, Bo Stewart, Bob Dobelstein, Russell Morrow, E. J. Asbury, Russ Dobelstein,
and Charles Wildman. Backfield, left to right: Billy Bevis, Buster Stephens, Mark Major, and Casey
Stephenson. _
LADY WRESTLERS
BOOKED N
Causey Changes Bouts To
Thursday Night This
Week
The lady wrestlers made such a
hit last Friday night at Thalian
Hall that Promoter Bert Causey
has rematched two of the best of
the arena stars in the main event
this coming week.
An important announcement
made last night by the promoter
was that starting this week and
continuing indefinitely, the wrest
ling matches will be staged every
Thursday night at-8:30 p. m. in
stead of Fridays, because of a
change of schedule that will per
mit the talent to be better than
ever before.
Ann Miller, pretty brunette con
tender for the title of world's cham
pion lady gjappler, who substitut
ed for the missing Nell Stewart
on Friday night’s program when
the latter, because of transporta
tion troubles, was unable to ap
pear, and who defeated Mae Young,
husky gal from Sand Springs, Okla
homa in two straight heats, this
time will meet Miss Stewart, in
the main event, a best two out of
three falls contest, sixty minutes
time limit. Miss Stewart has wired
a cash bond of $100 to insure her
positive appearance against the
Miller girl and fans have some
thing to look forward to when they
tangle this coming Thursday night
in tho feature event.
A real grudge match is scheduled
for the semi-final this week when
“Texas” Jack O'Brien, the hard
boiled hombre from the Rio Grande
meets Johnny Long of Baltimore in
the semi final. Former team mates
in tag team matches. O’Brien and
Long have a private feud to settle
this time and there will be plenty
Of excitement and fireworks, says
Causey, with winner take all of
the purse.
Johnny Turner, the hillbilly with
the whiskers from the Ozarks will
meet popular Jack De Vault of
Knoxville, Tenn., in the opening
preliminary match, a one fall con
test, forty-five minutes time limit.
This card should meet with the
approval of the wrestling fans and
provide plenty of action.
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Y. M. C. A. STANDINGS
JUNIOR MERCHANT
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
STANDINGS
Team Won Lost
Green’s Dept. Store ..3 1
Kingoff's _ 1 2
Toms Drug _ 1 2
Shoemakers_ 1 2
Shoemakers, winners of the first
half will play the second half
champs, Greens Dept. Store, on
Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
CADET MERCHANT
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
STANDINGS
Team Won Lost
Sneedens _ 3 0
Spirittine _ 2 1
Penny’s _ 1 2
Barrell _ 0 3
The playoff series between Pen
ney’s Store, first half flag win
Duke Blue Devils Ready
For Sugar Bowl Classic
DURHAM. Dec. 23.— (/P) —With
most of the hard work behind them
the Blue Devil footballers of Duke
university will take a holiday from
practice tomorrow and Christmas
before resuming drills next Tues
day afternoon for their all-import
ant clash with University of Ala
bama in the Sugar Bowl.
Today’s practice session under
the direction of Coach Eddie
Cameron and assistants climaxed
another week of preparations for
the forthcoming New Year’s day
encounter in New Orleans, and tne
Blue Devils now have only three
more home workouts calendared
before shoving off for New Orleans.
The squad will stage final polish
ing sessions Tuesday, Wednesday
nd Thurday, being scheduled to
depart Friday in three different
groups. To avoid congestion on
trains and carrying out the wishes
of the Office of Defense Trans
portation, two Blue Devil parties
will leave from Greensboro and
one from Raleigh.
They will not arrive in New
Orleans in time for a workout the
next day, so Coach Cameron plans
to call a brief limbering and polish
ing drill for Sunday afternoon in
the Sugar Bowl Stadium, scene of
the next day’s battle between two
of Dixie’s topnotch football teams.
The Blue Devils came out of this
Peek's stiff practice sessions with
plenty of bruises but only Gene
Wilhoite, substitute tackle, is be
ing counted out of the approaching
New Year's tilt.
Wilhoite suffered a broken ankle
last week.
The rest of the team's cripples,
all of them reserves, are expected
to be ready for action by game
time.
“The boys have been coming
along nicely.” Coach Cameron com
mented today, “and we have been
working hard for this game. We
are trying our best to be ready for
it. We know Alabama has a tough
ball club and J just hope we can
be as tough as they are when we
play each other.”
Thirty-eight players and two stu
dent managers are on the Duke
Sugar Bowl-traveling list, accord
ing to announcement made at the
athletic office today.
Thunderbolts Beat
Shipyard, 40 To 25
An All-Star team from the local
shipyards gave the Air Base Team
a great big scare, before going
down in defeat. With the Thunder
bolts running up a 7 to 0 lead in
the opening minutes of the game
the fighting Shipyard five came
back to tie the score at 12 all.
Just before the half ended the
Bolts brought the score to 14 to
12. In the second half the reserve
power of the Air Base began to
tel! on the tiring shipyard quintet
and the Bolts ran up a convincing
lead to win the game.
For the winners it was Lollar
the high scoring guard who drop
ped the ball thru the hoop With
the most consistency to lead the
scoring parade with 16 points.
White, the flashy forward, was
next with 9 points of which 7
were foul shots. The Air Base
team made good in 12 free throws
out of 15 tries. Van Derw vden. the
tall center played a bang up game
on the bank boards and follow ups.
Makow the short but fast forward
played a terrific floor game set
ting up numerous plays.
For the losers it was Kelly with
11 points and Kaylor with 9 who
were high.
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Track, Swimming Meet
Begins Tuesday Morning
The Track meet, Swimming
meet and Tournament of the Y. M.
C. A. will begin Tuesday morn
ing at 6:30. All members of the
boys’ classes are eligible to par
ticipate in the event.
There will be awards given for
first, second and third place, in
each of the three divisions of the
tournament. A large attendence
is expected and both the boys and
the staff are looking forward to
a fine week of fellowship and fun.
ners and Sneeden Cycle Co., sec
ond half victors will be played
Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
Dog Racing Hit By
Byrnes’ Directive
MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 23.—UP)—Nine
Florieia dog tracks, where a tota
of $50,614,142 was bet last year
felt today the blow of a govern
ment request that all animal rac
ing cease Jan. 3.
Apparently the only establish
ment in Florida not affected bj
war mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes’ action is the Jai Ala
Fronton.
In the Fronton, where a Basque
game similar to softball is played
betting last season totaled $2,612,
764.
One dog track already in opera
tion in the Miami area and anothei
which opened tonight planned t(
continue racing through toight, am
probably until Jan. 3.
West Flagler Kennel club, which
opened Nov. 1, has been enjoyinj
its most successful season. The
Hollywood track was scheduled t<
open tonight.
Already in operation also wa:
the St. Petersburg track.
Other tracks, most of them
scheduled to get under way Christ
mas night, are the Jacksonvilh
Kennel club, the Sam'ord-Orlandc
Kennel club, the Associated out
door clubs at Tampa. Miam
Beach. Biscaync of Miami and the
Palm Beach Kennel club.
No statements were immediate
ly forthcoming from the operators.
Fishing Club Announces
Season Prize Winners
George B. Canady, secretary of
the New Hanover Fishing Club,
the largest club in this section of
the country, last night announced
its annual prize winners for 1944.
The winners are as follows:
ZONE A
Channel Bass—1st prize, 35 lbs.,
T. H. kipper. Jr.; 2nd prize, 14 1-2
lbs., Harold Abrams.
Blue fish—1st prize, 3 lbs. 2 oz..
R. S. Farrow; 2nd prize, 2 lbs. 13
oz., R. S. Farrow
Mullet—1st prize, 2 lbs., J. M.
Myers; 2nd prize, 2 lbs., J. M.
Bullard,
Trout—1st prize, 4 lbs., R. W.
Bell; 2nd prize, 3 lbs. 2 oz., Mrs.
L. M. Foushee.
Channel buss—1st prize, 31 lbs.
4 oz., Joe Stone; 2nd prize? 28
lbs. 9 oz., Fred Futchs.
Blue fish—1st prize, 2 lbs. 4 oz.,
M. J. Davis; 2nd prize, 2 lbs. 3
• oz., Dan Carry.
Trout—1st prize, 4 lbs. 6 oz,
George B. Canady; 2nd prize, no
entry.
SALT WATER ZONE A ONLY
Black drum—1st prize, 2 lbs. 10
ozs,. Mrs. Ethel G. Shepard.
Flounder—1st prize, 8 1-2 lbs.,
B. H. Bridgers.
FRESH WATER DIVISION
Rock—1st prize, 12 lbs. 10 ozs.,
B. H. Bridgers and S. B. Hoy (tie);
2nd prize, 7 lbs. 12 ozs.. G L
Whitehead
Black bass—1st prize, 6 lbs. 1
oz., L. A. McLeod; 2nd prize, 6
lbs’., L. A. McLeod.
G^ggleye—1st prize, T lb 4 ozs.
W. E. Bunn.
Gray Head—1st prize, 15 ozs.. E.
A. Jones.
The winners are asked to call
by the Wilmington Cycle company
to claim their prizes
RacingOf f icialsQuickT oFall
In Line With Byrnes' Request
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Directive Means Tem
porary End Of Million
Dollar Business
By ORLO ROBERTSON
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — (IP) —
Racing was quick to fall in line
today with War Mobilization Direc
tor James F. Byrnes’ request that
all tracks close by Jan. 3, 1945.
Even though the directive means
the temporary ena of a sport that
yielded $55,171,232.87 in revenue to
17 states and brought in close-to
$16,000,000 in charity during 1944,
threatens a breeding industry in
whic’n millions of dollars are in
vested and figures to throw sev
eral thousand men out of their
present employment, there was not
a racing official who declined to
cooperate to the fullest extent.
Herbert Bayard Swope, chair
man of the New York state racing
commission, questioned the advis
ability of making the edict na
tion-wide but said:
“Racing everywhere will comply
instantly with regulations which
Washington autbirities regard as
being helpful to winning the war.
That is our only business.”
Col. Matt Winn, head of Chur
chill Downs, Empire City and Lin
coln Fields, likewise expressed the
general sentiment when he said:
“There is only one thing to do.
Obey the boss.”
As to the future of his own Ken
tucky Derby, the Colonel declined
to make a prediction.
“It will not be run until early in
'ay and the situation may change
by that time, s<-iu Winn.
Officials cf tracks in Florida,
where Gulfstream closed today and
Tropical Park opens Monday with
Hialeah to follo.v in January; New
Orleans, where a 75-day session
opened today ar.d California, where
several fall meetings were to be
followed by the re-opening of San
ta Anita Dec. 30, were surprised by
Byrnes’ order but immediately
made plans to close.
jerry orauy, uu ector or nailing
at Tropical, said it is possible thfT
Coral Gables track would run until
Jan. 3 in order to help the stranded
horsemen. Some 2,000 horses are
quartered in the Miami area.
The Los Angeles turf club, which
operates Santa Anita, indicated it
would operate for three days for
the same reason. Between 1,200 and
I, 300 thoroughbreds are stabled at
the California track.
Julius Reeder, Racing secretary
at New Orleans’ fairgrounds, said
plans had beeii made for a big
season but “we’ve always cooperat
ed with the government and will
continue to do su.”
Severs! horsemen pointed out
that if the suspension of racing
lasts any length of time it will
Ideal a hard blow to the breeding
'farms, since there will be little or
11 no market for horses.
Swope said he was surprised at
the breadth of the order.
“It is evident that it was ani
| mated by labor conditions, more
jthan by any other single factor,’’
said the New York racing head.
“Yet New York, Florida, Massa
chusetts and other eastern states
are not in an acute labor area.
.! California is. Tnat state is the
, center of war time production
I which isn’t true of some of the oth
er regions.
“I doubt if war labor will be
substantially recruited from race
■ tracks, for there the majority of
1 the employees are old men or un
1 der-sized boys. The sport, or busi
ness, has a clean record in this
i respect.
“It is interesting that racing has
been continued in England. France,
Belgium and even in Germany un
til last summer. However, there
is only one thought that animates
all of us. If racing or anything else
interferes with the war, out it
must go. ”
Donald P. Ross, acting president
of Delaware state park while Col.
J. Simpson Dean is with the Army
'in France, said that, “oiy park, a
non-profit organization, can always
be depended upon to co-operate
with the war effort.”
He pointed out that the park was
closed all during 1943 and re-open
ed in 1944 at the request of the
Delaware governor to produce re
venue for the state.
RACING COMMENT
BYRNE’S URGES TRACK
CLOSING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.— f/P) —
Acting with Presidential approval,
Janies F. Byrnes, War Mobiliza
tion director, today urged manage
ments of all horse racing tracks to
close their establishments by Jan.
3, 1945.
Byrnes said the existing war
situation demanded manpower and
transportation now being used for
pacing meets.
He said he was urging the man
agements to refrain from resuming
racing “at all tracks until war con
ditions permit.”
OAKLAWN PARK TO CLOSE
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. 23.—
CP)—The Oaklawn Jockey Club will
cancel its 30-day horse racing meet
scheduled to start at Oaklawn Park
here Feb. 26 if War Mobilization
Director Byrnes’ request for clos
ing of tracks is still in effect then,
Leo P. McLaughlin, club attorney,
said today.
tion director',
directive. rac»g"
HAVANA’S SEASON oprv.
HAVANA. Dec 23 y f:KNS
Oriental Park reopened today"?1
a seven-month, three-time ai 0r
horse racing schedule win, „ *
that the quality of • „„hopes
might be improved as a restf^J
he request to close United 5 °!
tracks within the next i0
Racing men were slow to 5 '
what effect this act
on Cuban racing, but thev haVe
enviously the crear 0> U,'5'*
stake racers stabied a! a*'3"
Miami’s three winter tracks ^
'LEAN WINTER’
MIAMI. Fla.. Do 23-iP v
body starved, but horsemen Cf
lean winter in. Miami an 1943 * ’
the pleasredriving ban caused
shutdown of racing. “d
The news today that the gove™
ment urged discontinuance ofT
sport ruined Christmas lor
hundreds of owners, •
.jockeys, grooms and stable '■
tendants.
There are about 2,000 horses no*
stabled at the three Miami track
while in 1943 the number was b«
tween 1.200 and 1,500.
The b!g stables sue!, a, Calume*
and Greentree will go am,
their routine training activities m.
worried by the financial pinch, but
tight times are ahead for oihe
Miami tracks and some of rie
well-to-do horsemen lent a
band to the stranded racing folk
Some of the larger stables shin,
ped to New Orleans, where
fairgrounds track continued to
operate.
But this winter apparently no
track will be racing after Jan. 3,
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Extended Us This Year Prompis
Us To Express
SINCERE THANKS
and
OUR BEST WISHES
for Your
holiday season
Wishing
You A
Merry
Christmas
and
Happy New Year
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TROPICAL PARK TO
COOPERATE
MIAMI, Fla,. Dec. 23.— </P) —
Jerry Brady, director of racing at
Tropical Park, said today that if
closing race tracks will help the
war effort, “then of course we want
to cooperate.”
He said there would be no im
mediate decision as to whether
Tropical will open a scheduled
meeting Monday in view of War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes’ request that all tracks be
closed Jan. 3.
WILL “ABIDE”
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.—tL
Julius Reeder, general manager of
the fair grounds corporation, said
here today that his organization
j will “abide” by the war mobiliza
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may wear your Florsheim size too
Occasionally you may find us temporarily out o
your size in your favorite Florsheim style — hat
please remember it will be in soon. Leather is one
of the seven vital materials of war ... and the p 1
of shoes you have to wait for—the extra pair }|)U
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