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The Sports Trail
By WHITNEY MARTIN
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MEW YORK, April 30.— UTi —Our
ever-bubbling friend, Little Bill
Miller of Tulsa, pranced into town
the other day, fresh from new tri
umphs south of the border.
Little Bill is the exponent of re
laxation and body control, and his
varied personal history is dotted
with such activities as coaching
championship basketball teams,
writing books and giving football
and baseball team? courses in his
system.
This time he had been invited
down to Mexico city by Dr. Al
fonso Goana, president of the
Mexican National Amateur Feder
ation of Basketball, and Lt. Col.
Clark Flores, president of the
Federal District Association, to
apjend three months as sort of a
gifest instructor.
^‘They’re. enthusiastic about
sports down there, with basketball
the No. 1 activity,” he said. "Why,
I -saw a line a block and a half
Iqpg, and discovered everybody
w«s waiting for a sporting goods
sfore to open that was going to
have a sale.
“I worked primarily with three
teams, the Transmissiones, a class
A club; the Goanes Regalos, class
B, and the Politas, a girls’ class
A team.
“I found the Mexican athletes
apt pupils, they are naturally fast,
and good ball handlers. I don’t
think any of our teams can beat
them on the fast break.
“After five weeks of working
with the Transmissiones, the team
took two out of three games from
a very good Fort Sam Houston
team of Texas. The Mexican team
averaged only about 5-feet-10,
while the Houston team was about
six-two.
"The Politas took two out of
three from the Dallas Dr. Pep
pers, and one out of three from
the Dallas Hornets.
“The fans are just as enthusi
astic about the game as the play
ers. At the big games there are
more fans outside the arenas than
can get in, and a series of five
games played by the touring 20th
Century Fox quintet grossed $10,
000, American money.
“They definitely are planning’
arenas down there to seat 15,000
to 17,000 people. Now the largest
holds only about 6,000.”
Opticans, Engineers
Win In Softball Play
| In the first game of last night s
Municiple Softball league play, the
City Optical ten triumphed over
the Prisoner of War Guards, 3-0.
However, the POWG's protested the
game on the grounds that Hodges
failed to report to the umpire or the
storekeeper upon entering the
fjie game during the fifth frame,
f City Optical scored their first
pnarker in the third frame when
Smith reached first on an error,
Went to second on another error,
and scored on Robert Shipp’s dou
ble.
The other two Glassmaker tallies
£ame in the fifth when Hodges
Singled and scored on Smith's
triple. Smith scored a moment
later on Shipp’s base blow.
Robert Shipp was given the
credit for the win, while Young of
the POWG’s was charged with the
loss. In the second affray, the
Steam Engineers edged out the
Crashboats, 7-6.
The Shipyarders scored the tieing
and winning runs in the sixth,
When Hare reached the initial sack
gn an error, went to third on Sam
gowan’s single, pnd took advan
3©ge of Aylor’s wild pitch to score,
ftowan, who had advanced to third
Bn the wild pitch, counted when
(Thompson threw wild over second,
trying to out Stanley, who had
walked and was attempting to steal.
Tonight's games Will feature the
Medics of Bluethenthal pitted
against the Dow ten at 7:30 p. m.,
with the POWG’s clashing with the
Air Base in the nightcap at 8:30. All
games are played on the Robert
Strange diamond.
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YMCA Swimming Meet
Slated For Tomorrow
Four of the YMCA classes will
get their first chance to boast
their wares in-so-far as swimming
is concerned when the swimming
meet gets underway at 4:00 p.m.
Adam Smith, ‘Y’ physical direc
tor, said that in order to insure
fairness to the boys of all ages,
it would be necessary to run the
matches in four divisions, Cadet
at 4:00, Junior at 5:00, Older and
High School at 7:00.
The events will include 100 yard
free style, 60 yards breast stroke,
60 yard American crawl, 60 yard
back stroke, and 16 yard American
crawl.
The menu will also be highlight
ed by a program of fancy dives,
consisting of half twist, front som
ersault, back somersault, and the
backward jack-knife.
Winners in each of the divisions
will be awarded YMCA gym
shirts.
Smith also requested that all
churches wishing to put teams in
the Sunday School Softball loop
send a representative to the ‘Y1
tonight at 8:15.
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Painters, Electricians
Win In Bowling League
In the play offs of the Shipyard
Bowling loop, the Painters manag
ed to cop three points from the
Pipe Shop kegglers, ending with
a total of 468 against the Paint
ers 2203 .
In the second series, the Weld
ers salvaged only one point, while
dropping two to the General Elec
trics, both teams ending with :
total of 2551.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
George Thompson,
UNC
George Thompson, University of
North Carolina second baseman,
has been playing bang-up ball for
the Tar Heels so far this season.
The Raleigh, N. C. boy was lead
off man for the Carolina nine
against the Wolfpack yesterday.
JAY-VEES TO PLAY
HALLSBORO TODAY
Coach Don Freeman’* New Han
over High Junior-varsity will be
seeking sweet revenge this after
noon at 3 45 when they encounter
the Hallsboro nine at the Thirteenth
and Ann street diamond.
In the last Kitten-Hallsboro en
counter, the Hallsboro outfit was
held to six hits in twelve innings
by Hurler Weiner Brown, but broke
up the ball game in the dozenth
when the first baseman, Ray Cook,
rapped out a four bagger.
The Jay-Vees have shown steady
improvement since the first of the
season, clouding up to rain on
Elizabethtown last week, 9-1.
The Hallsboro outfit is sparked
by three members of the White
ville American Legion club, Cook
being the heavy hitter.
The Jay-Vees more or less
showed the Varsity up by being the
first to win a baseball game, but
since their elders broke a jinx and
finally won one, the Kittens will
be expected to keep on the victory
road.
Twirler Brown is all set for
mound duty, with Leroy Towles
scheduled to handle the backstop
slot. „
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Snead, Nelson To Play
Golf Match May 26, 27
NEW YORK, April 30—<.T>)—The
Professional Golfers’ Association
today announced plans to make
the dates of the Sam Snsad-Byron
Nelson golf match—May 26 and 27
—national “rehabilitation” days
for all clubs, with proceeds of
exhibitions and tournaments going
toward the association fund to pro
vide golf facilities for service hos
pitals.
Snead and Nelson will play 36
holes of their challenge match at
the Fresh Meadow Club on Long
Island, and thb second 36 on the
Essex City course in New Jer
sey, with all proceeds going to the
fund. Other clubs throughout the
country will be asked to arrange
exhibitions or tournaments among
members, with the hope that up
wards of a million golfers will do
their bit in boosting the fund.
CORRECTION
It was reported in last Satur
day’s Star that Ben McGhee, Ne
gro, of 903 Queen street, was ar
rested and placed under $300 bond
on charges of disorderly conduct
and assault of a female at a Ne
gro night club.
Appearing at the Star office on
Monday, McGhee said he was ar
rested and placed under $300 bond
as stated, but that he was not
in the Negro night club and con
sequently was not identified with
the alleged crime in any way, nor
did he throw a woman from a
second-story window. The Star
has learned there is no evidence
at police headquarters that he had
any part in the affair and takes
this occasion to correct its previous
report.
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Florida’s private savings now
amount to more than four billions
of dollars, or almost three times
the total 1942 income of its citi-'
zens.
TERRORS WALLOP
TAR HEELS, 6-0
IN RATION PLAY
Lefty Bill Riggan Allows
Carolina Only Tw.o
Hits; Fans Eight
RALEIGH, April 30.—(A>)—Lefty
Bill Riggan enabled N. C. State’s
Red Terrors to break a five-year
jinx by blanking Carolina’s Tar
Heels, 6-0, in a Ration League
game on Doak Field today.
The Macon southpaw allowed
only two hits' and three walks
to clinch his fourth victory in five
loop starts. Riggan was superb in
the clinches, leaving eight men
stranded and fanning a like num
ber.
The Red Terrors picked up all
of their runs in the fifth and sixth
innings. Sleepy Perry's single
drove Earl Pickett and Riggan
home, and Bob Wood singled to
drive Perry in after Perry went
to second on an error. Wood came
home on a wild pitch by Tommy
Andrew, the losing pitcher. Both
Stan Kohler and Paul ibs.on 'scored
on errors by second baseman
Thompson to account for State’s
two runs in the sixth frame.
Leading the State attack were
John Evans, Jimmy Wilson, Perry,
and Kohler. Evans and Wilson
doubled. Perry drove in two runs,
and Kohler got one for two, being
walked and hit by the pitcher on
his other two trips to the plate.'
Todays victory was State fifth
win in eight league starts, and
Carolina’s first setback in three
attempts.
State will play Duke’s Blue
Devils, who are pacing the league
by virtue of their win over the
Red Terrors on Saturday, in Dur
ham on Wednesday.
Score by innings:
Carolina __ 000 000 000—0
N C. State.— 000 042 OOx—6
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YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
American League
No games schr 7uled.
National League
No games scheduled.
STANDINGS
American League
Team W L Pet,
Chicago --5 2 .711
Detroit _6 3 .66'
New York_7 4 .63(
Washington .-6 5 .543
Philadelphia -6 5 .545
St. Louis_..-4 5 .44^
Boston _3 8 .273
Cleveland -2 7 .222
National League
New York.8 4 .66’
Chicago .....-7 4 ,63f
St. Louis ..._5 4 .55<
Boston _6 5 .54!
Brooklyn _5 5 .5«
Cincinnati _5 6 .45!
Pittsburgh _4 7 .361
Philadelphia _3 8 .273
PROBABLE PITCHERS
NEW YORK, April 30— UP) -
Probable pitchers for tomorrow’;
major league games. (Won ant
lost records in parenthesis).
National League
St. Louis at Pittsburgh — Bre
cheen (1-0) vs Sewell (1-2).
Boston at Brooklyn — Andrew:
(11) vs Chapman (0-2).
New York at Philadelphia—Feld
man (2-0) vs Lee (0-1).
(Only games scheduled.)
American League
Cleveland at St. Louis (night)—
Reynolds (0-1) vs Pottes (1-1).
Philadelphia- at New York -
Christopher (3-0) vs Dubiel (1-1)
Washington , at Boston — Nig
geling (1-0) vs Driesewerd (0-1)
Chicago at Detroit — Grove (1
0) vs Wilson (0-0) or Mueller (0-0)
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Tabernacle Nine Scores
15-8 Victory Over Vance
The Tabernacle nine captured
their second tilt in the Municiple
Junior Baseball loop yesterday af
ternoon on the Maffitt Village
diamond when they triumphed
over the Vance Building nine, 15-8.
Duvall handled the hill for the
Baptists, while Williams did the
catching.
Frazier and suggs were the
pitcher and catcher for the villag
ers, respectively.
The Tabernacle outfit will at
tempt to keep their undefeated
record unblemished when they
go up against the YMCA dia
mondmen Friday afternoon at the
Robert Strange Playground.
Jim Coffield To Meet
Sailor Simms Saturday
Sonny Meyers, “favorite son” of
the ma tfans will be back in ac
tion again Saturday night at Thali
an Hall.
It was “rumored” that his neck
was broken, and here of late "ru
mors" do get around. After a
thorough examination, Sonny was
given the okay. His shoulder and
neck received a terrific strain, but
was brought around all right with
applying heat treatments to loas
en the mucles.
Meyers will meet George
Brockman in the opening match
Saturday night, Meyers weighing
in at 214 pounds, and Brockman
at 205. Brockman was over-match
ed last week. Both Meyers and
Brockman, on the scientific side,
should deliver a fast and inter
esting match.
Coffield declared himself Iasi
week, “I’ll take on anyone yoi
can get”, is what he growled a1
Promoter Causey. Having heart
of Sailor Simms and read a lot
■about his achievements in wres
tling and also about his past iec
ord in the Navy, Promoter Causey
contacted and signed the big sail
or for the match, with Mr. Jarr.es
Whitefield Coffield for the main
go next Saturday night.
Don’t forget the change of
nights for this week only, because
the Thalian’s play “Kind Lady”,
will be held on Thursday and Fri
day nights at Thalian Hall. The
matches are slated for '8:30 p.m.
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“Happy” Chandler
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Baseball’s new High Commis
sioner, Senator A. B. Chandler,
has just returned from a 60,000
mile tour of the war fronts. The
Kentucky solon says that while
he was on his tour the boys told
him that they wanted baseball to
stay just as it always was, and
he intends to see that the condi
tion remains unchanged.
CZAR WILL MEET
COMMITTEE TODAY
CHICAGO, April 30 —IS’)— New
baseball commissioner A. B. (Hap
py) Chandler will have his first
pow-wow with the two Western
Ynembers of the major league ad
visory committee at St. Lou r to
morrow.
They are President Will Harridge
of the American League and Leslie
M. O’Connor, secretary to the late
commissioner, K. M. Landis, who
will leave tonight for the St. Louis
Browns’ flag-raising ceremony
which also will be attended by
Chandler.
It was expected baseball’s new
boss would discuss problems of his
office with Harridge and O’Con
nor as he did with President Ford
Frick of the National League at
Washington last week.
A reception for the new com
missioner is planned by Donald L.
Barnes, president of the American
League Champions, before a dedi
catory night game between tht
Browns and the Cleveland In
dians.
It previously w'as indicated tha
Chandler would confer with O’Con
nor in Chicago Wednesday on th<
latter’s continuance as secretary
but Landis’ former right-hand mar
said “I’m not sure Mr. Chandlei
is coming here.”
Wildcat Nine Splits Twin
Bill With Goldsboro Club
LOCALS CAPTURE
SECOND GAME, 3-2
New Hanover High's Wildcat
horsehiders captured their first
conference tilt of the season yes
terday when they split a double
header with Coach Norris Jeffreys'
Goldsboro Earthquakes.
The Goldbugs whitewashed the
locals in the opener, 6-0 but were
served a four-hit 3-2 loss in the
nightcap by Billy Hardison, fresh
man moundsman.
Kenneth Rogers went the route
for the Hanoverians in the opener,
yielding eight blows, the ’Quakes
ganging up in the fifth inning to
parlay four hits and a Wildcat
error into four runs. i
The only chance that the ’Cats
had to score in the opener was in
the sixth when Jimmy Smith led
off the inning with a triple, but
he muffed the chance when he was
caught napping by Pitcher Malpass
anu unovvij uui.
In the second tilt the Earth
quakes managed to push one tally
across the platter in the initial
frame, but their lead was short
lived when Tinky Rogers came
up in the latter half , of the same
frame, with a single, stole second
advanced to third on a sacrifice,
and scored on Hardison's long
single.
The locals drove Davis from the
hill in the second when Symmes
singled, stole second, and scored
on J. C. Price’s double. Prity ad
vanced to third on a wild pitch,
and took advantage of Rose’s error
to score what proved to be the
winning run.
Hardison ran into trouble in the
fourth when he had men on se
cond and third with none away,
but he settled down, catching the
man on third base on a squeeze
play, striking out the next batter,
and retiring the side by causing the
fifth batter to pop up to the right
fielder.
The locals out-hit the Earth
quakes, 6-4, but were outhil in the
opener. 8-5.
The high school will go into ac
tion again Wednesday when they
journey to Whiteville to encountei
the Whiteville High outfit.
BAN ON GERMANS
WASHINGTON, April 30.—i*—
A 25-year ban on German citizens
becoming naturalized American
citizens after the war's end was
proposed today in a bill introduced
by Rep. McMillan (D.-S.C.).
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Day by day the Nazi eagle
more closely resembles just a
plain, ordinary plucked chicken.
North-South Champion
Wins For Her Husband
CHAPEL HILL, May 1. — UP)—
You’d think that Mrs. Estelle Law
son Page, who recently set a new
record by winning her seventh
North-South championship at Pine
hurst, would wtfnt to forget the
game for a,few days after such
a performance
But not her. The next day after
she got home from Pinehurst she
was right out on the little Chapel
Hill Country Club course playing a
practice round and polishing up
her game. Why polishing it up then?
Just for her own satisfaction.
The reason for this is a great
love for the sport. She likes to play
because she gets a lot of fun out
of it. And that’s the main reason
why today she is turning in the
best golf of her career. Even bet
ter than when she nosed out Patty
Berg for the Women’s National
Amateur championship at Memphis
in 10.77
And it’s this love for the sport
that explains why Mrs. Page pre
fers to remain an amateur instead
of turning professional.
“I prefer to be an amateur,” she
says, ‘‘and I always will be. I find
that it’s rrtore fun playing golf as
an amateur than as a professional.
I think that golf is a game, and I
always like to play it that way. I
owe so much to golf: My friends,
travel, fun, and good health. All
of my friends are in the spcjrt,
and while many women go to tea
parties to meet their friends, I
meet mine when I go to the tourna
ments.”
In tuning up for the Pinehurst
event this year Mrs. Page shot a
58 over the small Chapel Kill
course, and then went down to
Pinehurst and shot a 66 in a prac
tice round before the tournament.
This broke her own record she had
set at Sedgefield in 1941 when she
got a blistering 67.
Mrs. Page’s husband. S-Sgt. Ju
lius A. Page, Jr., was recently
awarded the Croix De Guerre with
Bronze Star through the order of
General De Gaulle, and is now in
a hospital in England recovering
from wounds received in France.
Recently she wrote him that she
was undecided as to whether to
enter the North-South tournament
or not, and he told her that he
would like for her to enter. ‘‘And
for that reason I was particularly
anxious to win the tournament,”
Mrs. Page says, ‘‘because I knew
it would pep him up to know that
I had won. Friends have sent him
enough clippings to keep him busy
reading for a month."
Her father, Dr. R. B. Lawson is
professor of gymnastics at th*
University.
In high school she played on a
state championship basketball team
for three years and a state cham
pionship tennis team four veals
She was graduated from the Uni
versity with honors in 1923,
In the spring of 1931 she became
interested in golf. At that time t ie
Chapel Hill Country Club was
threatened with foreclosure, so Dr
Lawson was asked to take charre
of the course.
Dr. Lawson didn't play golf. s0
he decided to learn, and Estelle
followed after her Dad.
Her progress was remarkable,
and in 1935 she won her first North
South championship, and has been
beaten in that tournament 0nlv
twice since.
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Wietelmann Back Playing
After Finger Amputation
BOSTON. April 30.— </P)—A little
thing like an amputation can't keep
Whitey Wietelmann, Braves second
baseman, out ol the game.
A rjhysici'-r. bad hardly -input;-,t.
ed the badly fractured little digit
of Wielelmann’s left hand before
he was contriving to get back in
the lineup.
Wietelmann had a leather con
traption made to fit over the finger
which Waa amputated below the
second knuckle, to protect the re
maining tinder portion of the digit.
Despite tne fact that the injury
occurred only 17 days ago, Wietei
mnr.n has played in the last two
games.
A line unve fractured the finger
while he was pitching daring bat
ting practice.
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Pulpwood is one of our most serious war-time
shortages. The need for more manpower to meet
this critical shortage is especially great now that
the Supreme Command is appealing to the
American people to increase the flow of supplies.
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"Critical" War-Time Jobs The Future of Pulpwood
Pulpwood has found n^any war uses.
From it are made explosives, tow
lines for gliders, plastic plane parts,
shipping containers and thousands
of other things. Pulpwood work
rates with the most essential war
industries. But it is work that will
continue after the war.
The many war-time developments in
the use of pulpwood have opened the
way for equally great peace-time uses.
The pulp and paper industry —the
nation’s 6th largest — looks forward to
even greater expansion. It’ll be a good
business for you to be in after the war
as well as today.
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