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Cuff Notes By JACK STILLMAN » - Tales of physically handicapped athletes are not new to the wrest ling profession, although those o: baseball are beginning to tak« their place in recent news. When ‘'Kid” Ellis, the Dry Pond Dreadnought from Wilming. ton, lost one of his legs, he was counted out of the wrestling pic ture for good—that is, counted out by almost everyon ebut Ellis, himself. Ellis has held the middleweight championships for the Army, Navy and Marine corps, during World War I, and from 1922 to 1920 he held the world's title. Ellis was considered one of the *o$st sensational wrestlers of his mny. Fans turned out by the thousands to see the one-legged champion in action. They want ed to see just what kind of re sistance a one-legged wrestler #ould. offer. Ellis had his own formula. Perhaps it was because no grappler had ever before been called upon to put up resistance to a wrestler with one leg, and were not prepared for defense against such attacks by an abbre. viated leg—in the face and chest. Ellis knew how to take advantage of his "handicap”, and turned it into an asset. The “Kid" recalls a 15-minut« exhibition match in front of the grand stand at the annual Coasta: Fair at the American Legior stadium here a few years ago. A long and bitter rivalry be tween the greatest two wrestlers ever to come out of Wilmington— Fritz Hanson and “Kid" Ellis— was billed as an exhibition match. Hanson was 48 and Ellis was 45. After 15 minutes, neither was able to pin the other. Ellis made excellent use of his shortened leg, planting himself on the floor time and time again to prevent Han son, former world welterweight champion, from pinning him. Several times Hanson seemed almost to have Ellis pinned to the mat, but always that nubbin ot a leg tame to the rescue. The shortened limb also proved to good advantage when pushed into Hanson’s face, as the latter strug gled to get a hold on thj slippery Ellis. The crowd seemed to enjoy the exhibition to the utmost, and near the end of the match, Hanson was about to complete a hammerlock on Ellis, but the final whistle made the bout a draw._ VIRGINIA TEAM GETS FRANCHISE BURLINGTON, March 30.—OP)— Directors of the Carolina Basebal League tonight awarded the Rockj Mount franchise to the Philadel phia Athletics to be operated a Martinsville, Va., this season. Irs Thomas, chief scout of the A’s claimed the franchise. Rocky Mount surrendered it: place in the loop some time age through its president, Frank Walk er, by reason of the transporta tion problem, and Martinsville irrr mediately made a bid for it. Directors authorized Dr. Tom S Wilson of Draper, league presi dent, to release the schedule on or before April 10. A few minoi changes are now being effected ir it. All teams were represented and they agreed to accept public tran sportation during the coming sea son, or work out their own plans. Most of the teams will open spring training next week. The sea son opens April 26 with Greensboro at Winston-Salem; Durham at Bur lington Raleigh at Danville, and Martinsville at Leaksville. -V NAZI SUB YARDS POUNDED BY U. S. (Continued from Page One) the government naval dockyard where the Nazi battleship Tirpitz was built. Some groups of fortresses in to day’s attacks were jumped by a dozen enemy jet planes, attacking singly or in pairs, or as many as five abreast. Mustang escorts shot down at least six and destroyed five other enemy planes on the ground. Sub building yards struck in cluded the Blohm and Voss and the Deutsche Werft yards at Ham burg, both working on 50-ton pre fabricated plastic U-boats; the Deschimag works at Bremen; a vast new concrete structure near Farge, 16 miles downstream from Bremen, believed to be for the construction of prefabricated U boats, and the naval dockyard at Wilhelmshaven, an important sub base. “At Hamburg where most of the bombing was done through clouds, columns of heavy oil and smoke boiled up,’’ said an Eighth far Fcrc« statement. “At Bremen and the other objectives, where the weather permitted visual bomb ing, generally good results were reported.’’ -V Tungsten puts a stiff backbone in softer metals, is anti-acid, and resists corrosion. .r WILLIE PEP GETS ARMY DISCHARGE HARTFORD, Conn., March 30— OD—Skinny, spindle-shanked Willie Pep who is in a class by himself as a featherweight boxer, today entered a fairly exclusive class of World War II veterans. Pep, who signs his checks "Wil liam Papaleo,” received a medical discharge from the Army, author ities at Fort Devens, Mass., an nounced today, and that made him a double war veteran, beca;^ he left the Navy in the same manner in February, 1944, after seven months of service. Certainly Willie is the only big name sport figure, and one of a few individuals, who holds a dis charge from two branches of the armed forces in the same war. Pep’s induction into the Army last January, 11 months after the Navy had discharged him because of a punctured ear drum, surpris ed the sports world. After V/ilJie said good-bye to the Navy he picked up where he left off as world’s champion, boxing rings around the best feather weights promoters could dig up, and the fans and Pep himself thought that Uncle Sam had finish ed with him. The bare announcement from Fort Devens did not disclose the reason for the discharge, but sim ply said Pep entered the hospital there March 20 and would have release to go home ‘in a few days.” Pep's manager, Lou Viscusi, said it was no surprise to him, however. "I thought they’d let him go after they checked on that perforated ear,” he commented to reporters who brought him the news. Viscusi wouldn’t discuss any plans for Pep’s future before ha has an opportunity to talk with the boxer, but nobody feared Wil lie would suffer from unemploy ment. ! -V MANPOWER BILL FACING DEFEAT (Continued from Page One) came today, both sides were at tempting to rally absent members. Meanwhile, the debate went on. . and on . . . Senator Brooks (R-lll) opened to day with a charge the measure is “another unwarranted grab for power.” He said he did not question the strategy of the military and naval leaders, but added “they are not trained professional men as ex perts in the art of labor and man agement cooperation.’1 “The heads and leaders of a!l branches of labor and management throughout America not only ask us not to pass this bill,” he said, “but warn us that its passage will re tard our unprecedented production and casue confusion and chaos that may prolong the war.” He declared the measure would “place in one man’s hands the power to shackle and bind both labor and industrial management to future Government edict.” He was followed by Senator Lan ger (R-NDl who had announced a three-hour speech. Langer said the Government al ready has taken a lot of Ameri can boys "and now they’re going to draft women and children and send them where they want to.” How about drafting capital as well as the bodies of young men, he said, suggesting a capital tax over and above income taxes. Gunder Haegg Is En Route To Buffalo Races By J. ROBERT SHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent BUFFALO, March 30.— (U.R) — Gunder Haegg, Sweden’s swift est distance runner, was reported in an impromptu race against air plane schedules and priorities to night en route here from Cali fornia to fill the final date of his second American tour. | Haegg was expected to run in an invitation mile match at Buf falo’s 74th armory tomorrow night in conjunction with the AAU Wo. men’s National Championships. However, AAU officials reported the Swedish star somewhere be tween San Francisco and New York. The latest report set his arrival here for sometime late tomorrow afternoon. Haegg had gone to California to visit his fiance, Miss Dorothy Nor tier, following a race at Cleveland last Saturday. His plans for re turn were disrupted by priority trouble. AAU officials said he had been unable to leave the west coast until this afternoon. Officials indicated Haegg would give the best performance of his current tour if he is able to fill his date here. The armory track ia an eight lap, flat surface with lots of spring. Eight American indoor records have been set up in the oval, five of them dating back to 1913. Haegg’s opposition will include Jimmy Rafferty, diminutive New York miler. who has whipped the Swedish speedster in three of his four races this month. Haegg s only victory of his current visit was registered at Cleveland wi Rafferty absent. ... Rafferty promised to break « i in tomorrow night’s r*ce that warned Haegg must bett*r time “if he plans to beat m • The track record, set by Finland’s Paavo Nurmi in 1925, is 4-12. In other invitation races at the AAU meet, Haakon Lidman, Swed ish hurdling champion and travel ing companion of Haegg, will run in the 70 and loo yard high hurdles. Opposition will be by ml^dJ3ugger’ Dayton, O., for Ca<!<iJUftS Pollege star- and owen 0f ^ Columbia Mid shipmen s school. min ^ AAU events. National Wo- i h? -i-K*ampion* wiU be stake i m ei/»ht events. i Holy Cross Gridder Missing In Action I SCRANTON. Pa.. March 80.— | (U.R)—Capt. Edward J. O'Mealia, : Holy Cross University football captain and all-American end in 1938, has been missing in ac tion in Germany since March 15, his wife learned in a War De partment telegram today. O’Mealia, 30. was inducted into the Army in 1941 and was sent overseas last October. He received a masters degree from Boston University. DODGER MANAGER WARNS DUROCHER BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y„ March 30.—(U.R)—President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers today warned Manager Leo Duro cher that he must decide once and for all whether he prefers a baseball-career or the bright lights. Angered when he wanted to con fer with Durocher last night and learned that he had gone to New York City to rehearse for a part he has in a radio program Sunday, Rickey called his manager on the carpet today. “Leo and I are not in disagree ment,” Rickey said after a two minute conference with Durocher. “However, his baseball job must come first and his outside inter ests must be incidental—or else.” Although Rickey earlier had Illaac it Licax uiai lie nvui» V* der Durocher to give up his radio interests when they made it nec essary for him to be absent from his baseball duties, he added that he would allow him to appear on Sunday. Durocher has a role in the coast-to-coast Hall of Fame program from New York at 6 p.m. Sunday. The Dodgers are scheduled to play an exhibition game here at 2 p.m., hardly leaving Durocher enough time to arrive in time for radio show without missing a por tion of the game. Rickey indicat ed that previously Durocher had missed parts of practice sessions without his permission to attend radio rehearsals. Durocher, apparently not eager to give up his radio work, pointed out to newspapermen prior to the conference that he would receive $1,500 for the broadcast and two previous appearances netted him "an easy $2,000. The Rickey-Durocher disagree ment on radio appearances flared open as early as last fall. When Durocher’s contract was renewed for a year, Rickey said he wanted his manager to be free to negotiate for any other job he wanted, wheth er it be in "baseball, radio or Hol lywood." ENEMY PUSHING INTO LAOHOKOW (Continued from Page One; 1,000 Japanese in fighting around the former Chinese stronghold of Nanyang. and several hundred more in attacks on enemy mecha nized forces along the Honan-Shen si highway. In support of Chinese attempts to stem these drives west of the Peiping-Hankow railway, bombers and fighter-bombers of the 14th Air Force struck at Japanese rolling stock and railway yards and bomb ed a number of enemy-held towns including Chungsiang, 120 miles from Hankow. The air force also ranged over Kiangsi province, where counter-attacking Chinese were reported within a mile of Kanhsien, former American air base, and destroyed three nemy planes on the ground at Amoy. A Chinese army spokesman said the Japanese were busy building up their forces in Shanghai and other ports farther south against the chance of an American landing, while also strengthening their “west w'all”—between Manchuria and Indo China—to meet the ex pected Chinese counter-offensive. He said enemy attempts to repair portions of the Canton-Hankow rail road were under effective harras sing attacks by mobile Chinese units. -V Pirate Manager Rests Under Opiate Influence NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March 30.—(fP)— A member of Frankie Frisch’s household told newsmen that the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates was getting his first sleep in 60 hours today under the influ ence of an opiate. Frisch missed the start of spring conditioning by his club, regarded as a top contender for the 1945 pennant, because of an old knee injury which became painful short ly after Frisch returned from a USO tour of the European war the ater. That was followed by arth ritis. Seeks Assignment In Orient Marine Second Lieutenant Helen Marlowe, tennis star, who would like to revisit the Orient, where she is defending champion of the All Commers’ Championship Title of China, Siam, the Philippines—and Japan. However, just now she is busy as commanding officer of the women Marines, who form the permanent staff of the Women’s Re serve Schools at Camp Lejeune. The Sports Trail Dodger Club Resembles Teams Of Past Seasons By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, March 30. — (A>) — The Brooklyn Dodger score cards this year should carry a notation to the effect that any resemblance to the Bums of other year is strict ly coincidental, and Mr. Rickey will take care of such a situation ift due time. Branch Rickey and Uncle Sam have been doing a strip tease with the Brooklyn roster, until today it bears but a hazy resemblance to what it was in the glory days when the borough of Brooklyn was just one big baseball park as far as enthusiasm was concerned. Now Whitlow Wyatt has joined the list of Camillis and Mewicks and Vaughans and Hermans and Reisers as gone but not forgotten heroes. Wyatt has been sold down the river to the Phillies, a fate that at one time would have been considered worse than baseball death, although this year it could even be a break. Who knows, the Phillies might win the pennant. Anyway, the sale of Wyatt eith er indicates that Rickey is con vinced the 36-vear-old pitcher is through, or that he's getting rid of him under his policy of youth, which he carried to something of an extreme last year. Wyatt was of little help except to opposing teams last year, and if he came back with a sound arm this year it would be something of a miracle. The decline of Wyatt from a high ly-paid star of 1941 and 1942 to his present status of a property oi little assessed value again dem onstrates the fragile and fleeting qualities of a pro baseball career. Just four years ago he was a major factor in the Dodgers’ march to the pennant, and he was as independent as a mouse in a cheese factory when it came to talking 1942 contract. He held out until March 22, 1942, and signed for a reported $17,500. He had another good year in 1942, so he didn’t sign his next con tract until March 12, 1943. In 1943 he won 14 while losing five, but last year he was an almost total loss, with the result that this year, if he decides to play, he’ll probably play for what amounts to peanuts, four years from the top to the bottom. The departure of the Georgian leaves just four active players on the 1941 championship club still on the roster. They are Dixie Walk er. Mickey Owen. Curt Davis and Augie Galan. Of these only Davis has reported. So time is marching on in Brook lyn. aided by a few well-placed kicks by Mr. Rickey. The fans who have been absent in the serv ive since 1941 or 1942 will recog nize their beloved bums only by their uniforms when they return. And. judging from the night game uniforms they wore last year, there might be a little difficulty in identification there. U.S. Troops Cross Eder WithoutNazi Opposition (Continued from Page One) ed across the Eder and entered Fritzlar, 182 miles * southwest of Berlin and 16 miles from Kassel. Simultaneously, the Sixth Armor ed Division of the Third Army roared 21 miles along the same general route to the vicinity of Treysa, 15 miles to the south which the First Army’s Ninth Ar mored Division already had reached. It was the Ninth which captured the Rhine bridge at Re magen. The German radio said the Third Army’s Fourth Armored Di vision, which earlier in the day captured Lauterbach, had pushed on nearly 13 miles to near Fulda within 192 miles of Berlin in a drive that was severing Germany at the waist. By this account, the Third Ar my would be 242 miles from the Russian lines, and Gen: Omar N. Bradley’s headquarters earlier had placed them but 245 miles apart. North-bound forces of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ First Army dashed another 10 miles north during the day through Paderborn, big railway and highway center and air base, where German par achutists took off in the enemy’s winter offensive in the Ardennes. A front dispatch said Paderborn had been reached during the morning and that the massive ar mored cavalcade was rolling on toward the north German plain with nothing to stop it but the prob lem of supply. Paderborn virtually sealed the fate of the German defenders of the outflanked Ruhr, the best Hit ler has left in the west, since through it funnels the best roads and railways for escape. Fifty-seven miles to the north east lies Hannover, 43 miles to the west is Hamm—the eastern ex it of the Ruhr—and 185 miles to the east are the ruins of Berlin. The German High Command was trying desperately to reform the shattered armies for a new line, and so hard-pressed was the enemy that some troops were thrown into the battle without weapons. The First Army was overrun ning vast stores of ammunition and had captured two German trains and a plane factory in its slashing drive 85 miles east of the Rhine. Infantry moved up swiftly be hind the miles-long columns of tanks, taking 11,266 prisoners or the rull equivalent of a German division on the First Army front Thursday. The tank columns were moving so fast communications could not keep pace, and the troops were moving off the maps of command headquarters, just as the Ameri cans were doing on the Ninth Ar my Front. Censorship permitted disclosure for the first time that the plung ing armored columns are being led by the famed Third Armored Division of Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, which broke the Roer riv er line in the drive to the Rhine. Following close behind the Third was Maj. Gen. Terry Al len’s 104th Infantry Division, and the Seventh Armored Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert W. Hasbrouck. — --- I Whiteville Defeats Wilmington Nine, 8-1 New Hanover High school’* baseball team was downed in the 1945 opener yesterday after noon by the Whiteville horse hiders 8-1, at the Thirteenth and Ann street field. t Although the game was fee first of the season, it was not a conference contest. In the last game with White ville, the Wilmington aggrea tion emered with a 3-2 victory. PACIFIC LEAGUE TO BEGIN TODAY By RUSS NEWLAND LOS ANGELES, March 30.— (/P) —Bolstered by the recent War Manpower Commission’s ruling releasing players from essential jobs, the Pacific Coast League swings into action tomorrow in its 3d season, its fourth under war time conditions, with the pros pects of playing before the largest total attendance in its history. With no competition from horse racing, chief rival for the Satur day crowds, the Coast Class AA baseball loop, expects the fans to corne trooping through the turnstiles throughout the season. Last year’s tremendous overall turnout, 2,343,266, only the 1924 attendance exceeded it, surprised even the most optimistic directors of the league. With a Government nod of approval this year to back them up, they look for bigger and better gate receipts. Concededly not up to the peace time variety, the brand of ball to be dished up this season, never theless, should be not too far away from double “A” class. Some ot the big league clubs have fulfilled commitments by shipping out players from the international league and others will be on the way before long. The league’s schedule has been extended two weeks, opening a week earlier and closing a week later, September 17. Los Angeles won the 1944 pen nant, its second in a row, and figures to be in a race for the flag this season with the veteran-man ned Seattle club. The latter has a solid club, an infield strength ened by the acquisition of First Sacker George McDonald from San Diego. The northern team’s pitching staff is crammed with oldsters and the only question is whether their aging arms will be come pliable early in the season. Colorful veteran returning to the league after a two-year ab sence is Pepper Martin, who will pilot the San Diego Padres—to where he doesn't know at this time. He led Sacramento to the pennant three years ago but hasn’t the swell material now he had then. r r BUCKEYES LEAD SWIMMING MEET ANN ARBOR. Mich.. March 3D. —MP)—Ohio State University surg ed to a seven-point lead in the opening session of the 22nd Na tional Collegiate Athletic Associa tion swimming meet tonight with a total of 30 points at the end of six events. The Buckeyes scored firsts in two events—with Freshman Sey mour Schlanger copping the 1500 meter race and Hobert Billingsley winning the one-meter diving—to round the half way mark ahead of Michigan’s favored Wolverines, who piled up 23 points. Cornell had 11 points for third, followed by Columbia whose Gene Rogers successively defended his 220-vard free style title, with 10; Minnesota with nine: Princeton with six: Indiana, Michigan State and Northwestern with four each: Purdue with three: Canisius with two and Iowa ith one. Michigan’s strong combination on the closing 300-yard medley relay race by a scant margin over Cornell's trio in 3:05.4. As expected. Ohio State scored heavily in the diving as the Buck eyes picked up 12 points on Bil lingsley’s first and a second by Ted Chrlstakos and a fourth by Bob Stone. Billingsley copped the low meter event with a total of 853.4 points. Mert Church of Michigan churn ed to an easy victory in the 50 free style. The Wolverines picked up 10 points in the sprint event as Gor don Pulford finished third behind Gene Rogers of Columbia, and Bill Breen was fifth behind Ray Grode of Ohio State. Church's time was 23.3 seconds, considerably slower than the meet record. The 150-yard back stroke went to stellar Jim Shand of Princeton by a five yard margin over Bob White of Indiana. Shand took the lead at the start and set his ow'd pace to finish in 1 minute 41.8 sec onds. Russ Potter of Michigan was third, followed by Bob Dennis of Ohio State and Don Iseman of Cor nell. --- Nazis Preparing For Third Conflict In Century State Department Says (Continued from Page One) low cost, in foreign schools and firms where they will have “ex cellent opportunity to design and perfect new weapons.” 8. . .Propaganda intended first to soften up the Allies through “a subtle plea for fair treatment of Hermans,” later giving "rebirth to ill Nazi doctrines and futhering Herman ambitions for world dom nation.” Toney Penna Leads Durham Golf Open I STATE DEFEATS POINTERS, 11-9 RALEIGH, March 30. — UP) — N. C. State’s batsmen exploded for five runs in the eighth inning here today to trip the Cherry Point Marines, 11 to 9, as Coach Beattie Feathers’ Collegians open ed their regular baseball season. The Collegians, showing power at the bat, pounded four Marine pitchers for 12 hits. At the same time, a quartet of State pitchers held the Leathernecks to five bin gles. Three of the Marine hits were off Riggan, State rihthander, whc worked the fifth and sixth stanzas. One each were off Potras, whc worked four and Gibson who work ed one. The big eighth saw the State bat ters, headed by Gibson, then work ing left field, pound out four hits and capitalize on two errors tc overcome a 9-6 lead racked up b> the Marines in the early innings. State will open its Ration leagut schedule with Carolina Pre-Fiigh' on Doak Field here Monday. Today’s game replaced one sche duled only yesterday with Camf Butner. Cherry Point originallj was scheduled to pay here yester day but the game was cancelled at the request of the Marines. How ever, when the Leatherncks show ed up today Camp Butner with drew. -V JOE BAKSI WINS OVER LOU NOVA By TED MEIER NEW YORK, March 30. -(#) Joe Baksi, a 14 to 5 favorite, knock ed Lou Nova down for a nine coun' in the fourth round and staggered him in several other rounds to wit a unanimous 10-round decision ovei the Alameda, Cal., heavyweighi before 14,004 fans at Madisor Square Garden tonight. Baksi’s savage attack in the last two rounds, when he opened a bad cutover Nova’s right eye won him the decision. This came after Nova had ap parently wiped out the disadvan tage of going down in the foprtl and pulled up to where, if he t^ol the last two rounds, he might win Baksi came rushing out to star the ninth and caught Nova witl three hard lefts and rights to thf head. Nova hung on. but anothei Baksi left started the blood spurt ing like Referee Ruby Golasteir might stop it. Nova was permitted to continue however. In the tenth he took an other bad beating about the heac as Baksi tried for a kayo, but the Californian fought back gamely and at the end made Baksi give ground with a right cross. Botl boys were given an ovation at the end. Baksi weighed 210 1-2, Nova 20( 1-2. Nova’s jabs and right crosse; kept the former coal miner fron Kulpmont, Pa., at bay on many occasions, but the ex-yogi mar gave ground whenever Baksi made one of his bull-like rushes. It was one of these rushes thai sent Nova down in the fourth. As Nova stepped backward, Baks: landed a hard right to the body and followed throueh' with a harri shove. The punch and the shove combined to throw Nova half-way through the ropes. He got to one knee and took the nine count as his new manager. Jimmy Johnston hollered encouragement from his corner. Nova made Baksi retreat the rest of the fourth round, and won the fifth easily'. Baksi twice staggered Nova in the sixth with lefts and rights to the head, but lost ground in the eighth as Nova made his best showing. He swarmed over Baksi with jabs, right crosses and body punches with hardly a return. At the end Judge Frank Forbes gave Baksi seven rounds. Nova two and called one even. Judge Bill Cohen aalled it 6-3-1 and Re feree Ruby Goldstein 5-32. The Associated Press had it 7-3. The gross receipts w'ere $46,394 of which 10 per cent w>as donated to the Red Cross. -V SUNRISE SERVICE The annual Sunrise praver service of the First Pentecos tal Holiness church, North Fourth and Campbell streets, will be held aster Sunday at 6 a.m. Special music has been arraned. L __ Dayton Pro Fire* On, Under Par On Each Nine In First Rounds By FRITZ LITTLEJOHN * DURHAM. March 30 r Toney Penna, diminutive pro{' sional from Dayton. Ohio, took .1* 66fi n T *2 round of the is. 666 Durham Open Golf tourn, ment today, firing a 63 over ^ sun-baked Hope Valley Count™ Club course. y The say little man in the v»i low beret recorded 34-34 ore tin der par for each nine of the « 6/0-yard layout. He had three b drns with putts of six and 10 fee! °n No. 6 and 11. and by chippir, close on the par-five 15th. and on. ly one bogey, on No. in he overshot the green. He bad 7 baU out of bounds on the third hole but still got his pa- fo„„ . 0ne shot back of the wise-crack! ing Penna. came another of golf » less w-ell known shotmakers Le onard Dodson of San Francisco' Dodson fired a 33-34. Hope Valley’s par defied *, rest of the field, including all the big name players. Bracketed at even par 70 were Defending Champion Craig Wood Sam Byrd of Detroit. We Bobb! Cruickshank of Richmond Va and Gene Kunes of Hollywood! Fla. ' * Wood, the duration National Open champion, had steady nines of 35-35 beginning defense of the first title he has won since he cap. tured the national open in 1941 Six players were deadlocked at 71. including the two pre-tourns! ment favorites, Byron Nelson and Sammy Senad. Nelson, going after his thi-d straight title in the Carolina swing and seventh of the winter tour, bogied the first hole when his ball bounced off the green and rolled out of bounds. He then card'd 17 straight pars in what he called the most unsatisfactory round he had played in years. It was tbs : first time this winter he had plav. ed 18 holes without a single bird. Others with 71’s, were Harold Jug McSoaden of Sanford, Me., V., Ed Furgol, the ace amateur who now is registering from Uti ca, N. y., and Joe Zarhardt of Norristown. Pa. -V- I Dr. Theron D. Price Of Yale University To Speak At Temple Temple Baptist church will have as its guest speaker Easter Sunday, Dr. Theron D. Price of Yale University. Dr. Price serv ed as interim pastor of Temple during tne illness of its pastor, the late Dr, A"thur J. Barton. Dr. Price is a native of Arkan sas. having graduated from Oua chita College of that state. Be fore going to Yale to continue his ( studies, he received his Master's Degree in theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Sem inary in Louisville, and served as pastor of the Buechel Baptist church, Buechel. Kentucky. Anticipating an overflow crowd at the Easter services, amplifiers have been installed in several Sunday School rooms and also in the church annex in order that everyone might hear the speaker. A final report of the results of the New Building Fund Drive will be given at the Sunday evening service. -V Film Of Sugar Bowl Game Will Be Shown Motion pictures of the Duke Alabama Sugar Bowl game wiL be shown in the YMCA gymna sium at 8 p. m., April 9. it was announced last night by G. Beverly, secretary of the Duke Alumnae Association, aponsors li the event. Beverly pointed out that, a play by-play description of the game would be given, and Duke s.-m nae and friends are invited to e - tend. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMP* kTm Miracle and Crtiver Playin* Cards PKKARnS 209 Maraet St. P‘ai ^The Jewel Box GIFT SHOP Bwllminfton'i Only Bownstalii Headquarters For ■ fine gifts ■ Come In and Make Tow Selections! Located Downstairs ■THE JEWEL BOX B 109 North Front St TENNIS SHOES — Not Rationed — SWEDEN'S CYCLE CO. 114 Market Street
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