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|| Cuff Notes By JACK STILLMAN I\^T0£ you may have wonder wtot the big league base {(U njayei's had on the ball that ta GI's on the other side would ‘“Interested in. Particularly when u “entertainers traveled with so J^a]1'a percentage of a full play .hey're baseball players, . h’r, strickly American. And n!j about nine out of every fVnf'our boys who are physically > enough to be in the armed *y ice? has played baseball at 5'p tjn>r- or another, naturally fl would be interested in seeing pvo of those men who love S'* game enough to make it theii Many servicemen have ."ver seen a big league baseball " e Baseball is strictly Yankee Cjj and the players probably of f‘ <j them the greatest touch ot ^ericanism they had in a long Manager Mel Ott probably nev ,'befor» realized just what kind el a master of ceremonies he nuiid make to a lot of home-sick Uiers until he took a crack at Pertaining them “by word of ' muh." figuratively speaking. And sneaking of a dampened irit Mel Ott likes to tell the ;.arn abou: Dizzy Dean, who was Ladcastir.g the game between lhe Giants and the Cardinals at Sj Louis, which took place in the !arlv davs of the war, when any mention of the weather on the air was taboo. . . 1 Ynny was just as capable at verbal pitching as he was accur ate with his mound capers. When the bottom dropped out and it be gan to rain, his predicament called for one of his fast verbal curves. How was he going to tell his vast unseen audience that the reason he was no longer talking about the game was because it was rain ing and all the players had duck ed inside. He just warbled some thing like this into the micro phone: When Mgl Ott was a private in the ranks of the Giants, one of his fellow outfielders was Ethan Allen who later became motion picture director of the National League and then a radio sports caster. The outfielder had very lit tle hair on his head in his playing days, and was using some hair lotion which had a slight resem blance of milk. This he applied on his dome religiously each day be fore he took to the field. He kept the bottle in his locker. One day Ott and another play er hung around the clubhouse un til Allen had departed. They emp tied the alleged hair grower and filled the bottle with milk. The following day Allen report ed for duty and got out his bottle of stuff for the daily application and after shaking it and removing the cap, he noticed a slight smell. Everybody else noticed it, too. The. milk had spoiled. However, Allen applied a dose to his shiny spot and trotted out on the field and didn’t realize the prank until later. I White Phantoms Prep To Engage All-Stars r; COLLEGE SJJEWCOACH Lyie Rich Of Chrleston, W. Va., Assigned Line Position I RALEIGH, March 14 —'Ah— Lyle Jl. Rich, director of athletics and physical education in the Charles ton, W. Va., high schools, has ac cepted a one-year contract as line coach at N. C. State College, it was announced today by Dr. H. A. Fisher chairman of the athletic council. Rich, who did undergraduate work at Yankton College in Yank ton, South Dakota, and earned his master’s degree in physical edu cation from the University of Michigan, will succeed Alfred W. Thomas, who resigned the State line coach position recently to re turn to his home near Knoxville, Tenn. Rich will begin his duties July 1. I Coach Rich, who is 39, began his coaching career in South Da kota schools and later moved to Nevada. He coached at Kingsport, Tenn. from 1934-38 and was ap pointed director of athletics and physical education at Charleston, W. Va., in 1939. Grid teams tutored by Rich have won 96 games, lost 10, and tied 6 in the past 11 years. A veteran track coach, Rich had coached track teams which have won five state championships, placed sec ond four times in state events, and captured third and fourth places once each. -V NEW HAMPSHIRE RACING CONCORD, N. H„ March 14—(U.R) -A bill to legalize dog racing in New' Hampshire was defeated 198 to 151 today in the State House of Representatives. K E M Miracle and Cruver Plastic j Playing Cards PICK ARDS l -W Market St. Dial 2-3224 St. Paul’s White Phantoms will be out after their 12th consecutive victory tonight when they clash with the Saturday night league All Stars at 8:15 oclock on the YMCA hardwood. Although the All-Stars will be the underdogs, they are expected to offer some stiff opposition to the favored Episcopalians. In the game Tuesday night with the Thursday night leaguers, the Saturday night cagemen overtook a half-time advantage of 1543 to win 35-26. Starters for the White Phantoms will be chosen from the following: Forwards, Norris Monk, “Foot ball” Smith and Jackie Godwin; center, Billy Lee; guards, Mollie Ayash and W. A. (Weinie) Brown. Starters for the All-Stars will be chosen from: Forwards, Eugene Stevenson, Ir vin Bobbitt and Alton Rourk and Eugene Stevenson; center, “Red” Dowd; guards, Lo.uis Potter, Ger ald Morton and Charlie Smith. -V Greater Wartime Ban On College Teams Seen WASHINGTON, March 14.—(^P)— Colleges were credited today with having already cut down on their athletic team travels and with planning even greater wartime re ductions. Schedules in all sports are be ing localized and intersectional travel pared to a minimum, said Asa Bushnell, spokesman for Eastern Colleges. At the same time, the ODT dis closed that business men seeking hotel accommodations in Cham paign and Urbana, 111., today com plained that facilities there were jammed by high school basketball teams attending tournaments. -V GOLFERS El IMINATED SEBRING, Fla., March 14 —(U.R>— Two upsets featured first round matches of the lith annual win ter amateur senior golf tournament today when medalist Duane Tower, Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Charles R. Jennings, Miami Beach, four times winner of the event, were eliminated. _ fl ** •'* >'*•'">" 'tS Pint *1-88 , BW.‘3;0<'« IRISH GRIDIRON COACH ACCEPTS CLEVELAND POST Notre Dame Loses Second Football Coach In Less Than A Month SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 14.' —(U.R)—Adam Walsh, 43-year-old line coach at Notre Dame, today signed a five-year constract as head coach of the Cleveland Rams of the National Football league and will assume his new udties immediately. Charles (Chile) Walsh, Adam’s brother and general manager ol the Cleveland Rams, signed the veteran line coach unexpectedly here and Notre Dame lost its sec ond football coach in less than a month. Ed McKeever, former ath letic director end head football coach at Notre Dame, resigned February 7th to accept the head coaching job at Cornell Univers ity. No salary terms were announced, although Chile Walsh said his brother “is to receive a very high salary." Walsh was slated to be line coach at Notre Dame this fall un der Acting Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Hugh Devore. He joined the Notre Dame staff in June, 1944. Ad^m was captain of Notre Dame’s famed “four horsemen’’ team in 1924 when he was an all-American center. He then became head coach and ath letic director of Santa Clara from 1925-1928. From 1929 to 1933, he served as line coach at Yale, and the next year he was line coach at Har vard. He took over as head coach of Bowdoin College in 1935 and his teams won or tied for the Maine Intercollegiate football championship seven out of eight years. He was given a leave of absence in 1944 to join the Notre Dame staff. ALLEN HAS NEW HARDWOOD IDEAS Kansas University Mentor Proposes To Abolish Free Throwing KANSAS CITY, March 14.-<P) —Hell for leather basketball in tentional fouling and bumping are giving basketball a bad name and spectators and players bad hearts, says Phog Allen, who has just what the doctor ordered to quell the riot. Phog—Dr. F. C. Allen, basket ball coach at Kansas University— said today the race-horse trend started with elimination of the center jump. ‘‘I propose a rule that after all personal fouls the ball be giv en out of bounds to the free-throw ig team at mid-court, whether the shot is made or missed,” said Allen whose , ideas about basket ball run from 12-foot high goals to a nation-wide czar to rule the game. < This new rule would provide a lull in the now pell-mell game, explained the Jayhawker coach. Not only would the “rigamaroie” of lining up for free throws be eliminated but intentional fouling would go by the boards. There would be no point in it because the offending team couldn’t gam ble on retrieving the ball after a missed free throw, Allen said. Neither would there be the sky scraper player waiting under the basket to retrieve a missed foul shot and dunk it in for a two point field goaol. Fiery Phog said coaches and athletic directors should use pres ent basketball tournaments as a research ground to envision how the proposed rule would work. Most of the research recently has been a diligent search for more 7-foot basketball players, ac cording to Allen, who still thinks 12-foot baskets are the answer to the stratospheric advantage to tall men. "I hop'e they find 7 1-2-footers,” mused Phog today. “Then, if we get enough of them out there doing this ridiculous dunking, they’ll see the merit of 12-foot baskets.” Training Camp Briefs ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 14.—(U.R)—With more men on hand than at the corresponding stage of the 1944 spring training season, the New York Yankees were sent through a long outdoor workout today. The squad numbered 17 with the arrival of Pitcher Joe Page. Pitchers Atley Donald, a vet eran, and Kenneth Holcombe, a rookie from Newark, were espe cially sharp in a hurling workout. Manager Joe McCarthy tried Joe Buzas, rookie infielder at short stop, and announced that he later will be given a trial at first base. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 14.— (U.P.)—General Manager Bucky Harris of the Buffalo Bisons of the International ■ League an nounced today that 21 players had signed and were ready to report at the club’s Hershey, Pa., train ing base. Six players have not been heard from, including Eddie Kobesky, league home run king in 1944 whose 4-F status has been referred to Washington. FREDERICK, Md., March 14. —(U.R)—Connie Majtk, veteran man ager of the Philadelphia Athletics arrived for the. spring training season today with a prediction that his team would finish in the first division this year and had “a fighting chance” for the pen nant. Mack, who was not on hand to open training camp Monday be cause of his long stay in Cali fornia, said he was satisfied with his infield, pitching and catching but he could .use another out fielder. He picked the St. Louis Browns, 1944 winners, and Detroit as the teams to beat for the 1945 pen nant and added: “Of course, the Yankees always are dangerous.” Mack arrived too late to direct the Athletics in their drill today. COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 14.— (U.R) —Mnager Ossie Bluege today sent out an S.O.S. for young batting practice pitchers as five more players arrived in the camp of the Washington Senators. Late arrivals were George My att, Fred Beihl, George Case, Joe Kuhel and Hillis Layne but Bluege still had but a half dozen hurlers on hand and none ready to bear down in batting practice. LAKEWOOD, N. J„ March 14. —(U.R)—Ernie Lombardi, New York Giant catcher, sent, storm warn ings to the National League pit chers today by slamming drives all over the outfield in a two and a half hour batting drill. Lumbardo and husky Nap Reyes paced the Giant batting punch as two dozen squad members work ed through a long drill. Infieider Roy Nichols, up from the Jersey City farm team, reported and Pitcher Harry Feldman arrived in New York and is expected to morrow. WaTCHOTT! Winter Ills are prevalent. If yon are constipated you may be sure yon are more susceptible to certain of them, and von should do something about it right away. And while you are about it why not do a THOROUGH job by taking a Calotab tonight? Nothing acts just like good old Calotabs to re lieve temporary constipation and help sweep out virus-laden mucus and other putrefactive waste matter. lie* wily as directed, (adv) /Memories The Sports Trail Cincinnati Gets Staff Of Well Seasoned Men BY WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, March 14—UR—Bill McKechnie likes his baseball play ers well seasoned, so it’s only na tural the Cincinnati Red pilot would be the one to come up with two pitchers who have had so many seasons they’re practically the salt of the earth. Quite a bit of pepper for their years, too. These young sprouts are Guy Bush and Horace Lisenbee. Why Lisenbee is coming back to the majors is open to question, but Bush possibly was influenced when he heard major league ball would be bush league this year. Or is that too punny? Anyway, everj'thing considered, these 42-year-old relics of the gild ed 20’s should do all right, even if they have to take a running start to get the ball from the mound to the plate. Afer all, men who have faced fellows like Ty Cobb Eddie Collins, Harry Heilman, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler and Tris Speaker shouldn’t have too much trouble with the fuzzy-cheeks who will be in the batter’s box this year. Lisenbee has been playing pro fessional baseball since 1924, when he broke in with Brookhaven in the Cotton States League. Bush broke in with Greenville, also in the Cotton States league, in 1923. If there is any major league pitching left in the arms of Lis enbee and Bush, McKechnie will extract it. Heis reputed to be just about tops when it comes to get ting the most out of a mound staff, and can take old timers who have been knocking around in the minors and get winning perfor mances out of them. Ed Heusser is just one example. Ed is crowding 36, and until Mc Kechnie picked him up in 1943 he had had more -addresses than a telephone book. He started playing pro ball in 1929 and before he join ed the Reds had played on 14 clubs ranging from coast to coast and Danville to Elmira. He played re turn engagements at some of the towni and popped up with major league clubs on three occasions, only to pop right back. Last year his won and lost rec ord wasn’t so much, but his 2.38 earned run average was the best in the national league, and his ancient arm was good for 198 inn ings. McKechnie apparently is round ing up a mound staff that will feature know-how instead of the zip and wildness and the jitters of youth, figuring that the old gaffers with their Savvy will be able to bamboozle youthful hittere. He also probably realizes the old boys are less likely to be called into the service. Anyway, it will be interesting to watch how Bush and Lisenbee make out in their race with father time. Lisenbee apparently is a work horse, as he pitched 249 inn ings for Syracuse last year Incidentally, the Reds also have signed Gene Hinrichs, a 38-year old southpaw who hasn’t played since 1941 because of Army serv ice. . Ken Keltner Quits Job To Play With Indians LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 14— —Ken Keltner again has left a war plant job to play ball with the Cleveland Indians. Although declining comment on his action, the perennial third base man for the American league all star team repeated his move of last year, when he said: “base ball is my business. If the Army wants me, it will find me working at it.” Yesterday President Roosevelt said he favored baseball as long as it did not require perfectly healthy people who could be doing more useful war work. The infielder left a job in a Mil waukee war plant to report to training camp last year. He promptly was reclassified 1-A and was accepted for the Navy after passing his physical 'examination. He was not called, however, and after several months had passed he was given a 2-A classification. Presumably this was changed to 2-B when he returned to his factory job at the close of last year’s cam paign. With the exception of 35-year-old catcher-coach George Susce, Kelt ner is the first Indian not posses sing a 4-F rating or discharge pa pers to arrive in camp. -V Puerto Rican GG Team Outpoints Final Bouts NEW YORK, March 14— (£>) — Summaries of the finals of the 1945 Golden Gloves tournament ol champions at Madison Square Garden: 112-pound class: Francisco Gar cia, Puerto Rico, outpointed Wil lian Simon, New York, (3). 118-pound class: Adolo Calderon, Puerto Rico, outpointed Sal Puzzo, Newark, (3). 126-pound class: Rafael Reveron, Puerto Rico, outpointed Nick Pop po, Buffalo, (3). HEAD GOLFERS CONTINUE MOVE TO CHARLOTTE Leading Money-Makers Prepare For 72-Hole War Bond Open CHARLOTTE, March 14 —1*1— The golfing caravan continued to move on this $10,000 war bond oasis tonight in preparation for the four day, 72-hole Charlotte open tour nament which gets under way Fri day- t , Thirty-five teams are expected to compete in tomorrow’s pro-am ateur tuneup test. Arrivals today included Mike and Joe Turnesa PGA champaion Bob Hamilton and Denny Shute. All but Shute played a practice round over the Myers Park course which was pronounced in “great shape” by the PGA tourney di rector, Fred Cohcoran. He predict ed last year’s winning 275 would be about right. Sgt. Dutch Harri son is not expected to be on hand to defend his laurels. Corcoran looks for a field of 100. Others slated to check in late tonight include Sam Snead. Craig Wood, Ed Dudley, PGA president, Toney Penna, Sam Byrd, Byron Nelson, Claude Harmon and Jim my Thomson. Corcoran said he did not believe Thomson, recently dis charged from the Coast Guard, would compete because of an ailing arm. Snead, who came out of the Na vy to give Nelson a battle for top money-winning honors, showed yesterday that he is right on his game when he fired a record 63 at Aiken. S. C. teaming up with Byrd to defeat Nelson and Wood in a Red Corss benefit match. _v_ SWEDISH RUNNER SKIPS ROMANCE Haegg Refuses To Discuss Proposed Marriage With Reporters CHICAGO, March 14.— (/PI— Gun der Haegg, the Swedish long dis tance runner, dismissed romance in a decidedly unromantic manner today when he arrived to compete Saturday in the Chicago relays. Immediately after his plane landed reporters asked him about his plans for marrying Miss Doro thy Nortier, 21, of Oakland, Calif., who was in Chicago supposedly to discuss the projected marriage of was not at the airport. Haegg said through an interpret er that he didn’t want to discuss the matter at all because it was “my private affair,” and when the reporters asked if he intended to see Miss Nortier in Chicago he said No, I don’t think so.” Haegg and his athletic traveling companion, Kaakan Lidman, the hurlder, had quarters reserved at the same hotel where Miss Nor tier arrived Monday night. She has been secluded from most interviewers but the Chicago Daily News quoted her as saying they have been engaged since Septem ber 3, 1943, the day before he left for Europe after his first Ameri can visit. Her mother, Mrs. Esther No tier, said in Oakland that the couple planned to discuss the mar riage in Chicago, as well as pos sibilities of her returning to Swe den with Haegg, and that it was expected they would be married in Oakland. Today Haegg declined to tell re porters whether he intended to be married at all. He said he expected to spend the rest of today sleep ing and resting and would forego a planned workout. He was met by a large delega tion representing the Swedish com munity, including Swedish socie ties and the office of Gosta Olden burg, Swedish consul general. -V LEFT BEHIND BOSTON, March 14—(U.R)—High scoring Bill Cowley and Goalie Harvey Bennett remained behind tonight when the Boston Bruins entrained for Chicago for their all-important National Hockey League tilt with the Blackhawks tomorrow. — .1 i ' i —. . 1 1 , BPent Away” '^jlj tte Cojbert il snnifer J^mes ■ pie, Lionel It :obt. Walker JM 1:55-5:00-8:10 /M after 5 p.m. B Starts^^Bj Today Memory! w No Stops! \l MONAHANS” I ring It nnor, Peggy M e, Ann Blytb f^k Song Hits! ___==-^B■ Today L- - ====== Only The Show Thrill of Your Lifetime! Walt Disney’s “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS” . In Technicolor Today ^^B W Saucy, Lovable Jane— Vl I! Singing. Dancing Her W*y 1 ||l Into Your Heart W Jane Withers In II lb “MY BEST GAL” M A. with Jimmy Lydon Frank Craven Still Pitching [' Lt.-Cmdr. George Earnshaw scans skies for more Jap planes to shoot down. Great righthander of champion Philadelphia Athletics of 1929-30-31 heads team of more than 1100 officers and men.in flat-top's gunnery department, won commen dation from Adm. Chester Nimitz when his crew downed three en emy planes near Truk. NHHS SWIMMERS HOLD SESSIONS 27 Tankmen Turn Out For Six Weekly Drills In YMCA Pool Twenty - seven swimmers from New Hanover High school are busy working out in the YMCA pool six times weekly in preparation for the tryouts for the team, Adam Smith, swimming instructor, repor ted yesterday. The high school swimmers use the YMCA pool Tuesday, Friday and Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Tuesday at 3 p.m. Smith will accept tryouts from grammar schools, he said. The swimming instructor disclos ed that plans would be completed soon for grammar school swim ming league. Smith pointed out that next week's tryouts from the grammar schools would not be con fined to city schools, but that the league would be of county-wide scope. ---v Cardinal’s Ace Hurler To Take G1 Examinations JEFFERSON BARRACKS, Mo., March 14—(JP)—Mort Cooper, ace righthander of the St. Louis Cardi nal pitching staff, entered the post hospital here today for a series of examinations to ascertain his phy sical fitness for military service. Capt. Kenneth Ray, public re lations officer, said probably three days will be required to complete the examinations. Cooper, has been classified 4-F. The adjutant’s office in Washing ton ordered reexaminations after the pitcher was rejected a second time for military service recently. —— — " I St. John’s Tavern 114 Orange Et. . Dial 2-8085 DELICIOUS FOOD Chicken In The Rough — Friday 1=! HANOVER - MAFF1TT VILLAGE LAST ~D AY GENE TIERNEY in "SUNDOWN" FRI. ONLY "Henry Aldrich Boy Seoul" 18 CAGE TEAMS SET TO ENTER YMCA TOURNEY Stars Slated To Meet At kinson’s No. 1 Team Monday Night Eighteen basketball teams will compete in the first YMCA area tournament which gets underway on the Wilmington ‘Y’ court Mon day at 7 p.m., when the Long Creek team meets> the Dry Pond quintet in the 135-pound class. In the second game Monday, the ‘Y’ Stars are slated to engage Atkinson's entry in the 150-pound division, and the Crash Boat five is scheduled to meet the White Phantoms of New Hanover High school in the final contest that iigru. The tournament has been divided into four sections. The second se ries has been arranged for Wed nesday night, the third will be played Friday night and the finals will be played Saturday. Wednesday night the Jay’vees of NHHS will tangle with the ‘Y’ Eagles in the 135-pound class, thei •Y’ Seniors will meet Atkinson’s Mo 2 team in the 153-pound di vision, and the Y’ Unknowns are silted to engage the'-’Y’ dormi tory five in the unlimited class. Leaders will meet the Leland basketeers in the 90-Lb. class, the ‘Y’ Comets engage the ‘Y* Haw'ks in the 105-pound class, and the {.lay-offs will be forthcoming in the 150-pound group. Staurday night the finals will be played in the 135-pound class at 7 p.m. Following this game the Fcur-Foot Wenders will meet the Tileston Red Terriors, and at 9 p. m. the finals in the unlimited di vision will be played. -v . - Report Says Vanderbilt May Sell Pimlico Stocks ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 14— (JP) — The possibility that Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, one of the heaviest stockholders in the con- ’ cern operating Pimlico racetrack, might drop his Maryland racing interest because of “political perse cution” of the sport, was report ed today. Harry Parr, III, president of the Maryland Jockey Club which operates Pimlico, said Vanderbilt, now a lieutenant in the Navy, had been on the verge of leaving Mary land racing and that recent devel opments in the Maryland general assembly might prove to be the “last straw,” JANES EDWARDS FORMERLY AT THE PALACE BARBER SHOP Is Now Employed At The ORTON BARBER SHOP 115 % N. Front St. Manor -DOUBLE FEATURE-. Dick Powell fTr!e ndPSin ^ Jack Oakie most thrilling __in_ man huntl 'll Happened "Tie Falcon Temenew" 0,“ W«‘" —with— —with— Tom Conway Linda Darnell Barbara Hale Late Show Fri.-Sat. 10:3# “Shake Hands With Murder” ON STAGE—FRI.-SAT. In Person I BANJO EDDY . 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