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Morning Watch WITH ' Edward Sachs W. Shakespeare once wrote a play in which a ierk from Denmark keeps asking, “To be or not to be ” Willi* didn’t know it of course but this morning that is Wil mington’s problem. We have a chance “To Be,” with a ciass B baseball club or “Not To Be” with a Class D circuit. This corner has listened to several meetings, discussion. ! and street corner conversations on the matter. It seems lhat baseball fans here are divided into two camps on the question . large segment says that this city can’t support the highw classification and that we belong in the fciwin and Whiteville class. Others say that Wilmington should take its position in this region s athletic circles as one of the North State’s lead ing cities and knock heads with Asheville, Charlotte and Knox ville. _ ! in break the oath of all sports writers to know everythin* about anything and say I don’t know which will be better fbr thf city. But I do know that the Tri-State is offering us a berth It i seems to be the type of league that is run by good business minds Each city that is m the league so far is of the stable tyne that should be able to support baseball in good style. yp l t I think, and I may be wrong, that the city will be makinr t mistake in passing up this chance to bring Class B ball here. : if we fail in Class B operations we can always sponsor ri»« D the following year. Or if Wilmington proves to be a poor city for baseball—which would be against all precedents set here ui the past—we might as well know it now so that we won’t be making the same type mistake in years to come. Money has to be raised in a hurry if we are to grab this chance and it can’t be done in a casual way. The Junior Chamber of Commerce has been asked to help and I hope that it does We will need a lot of leg work. A campaign not unlike that of a motion picture publicity campaign must be arranged—and in short order. We need $4,875 by Friday and we’ll ne’d a lot more than that by the time the season rolls around. There it is in nice figures. If we can’t raise that sum by Friday midnight then we don’t be long in Class B baseball or for that matter in baseball. I Dorothy Kirby Loses In Miami Women’s Golf MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30—tR—Teet ering on the brink of defeat—two down with six holes to play— Miami’s Mrs. George Wilcox made a gasp-provoking comeback to up set co-medalist Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga., 2 and 1, in a bitterly contested Helen Lee Doherty sec ond round golf match today. The tiny Miami Country club champion, scarcely taller than her woods, beat a good golfer who made few mistakes. But the At lantan couldn’t match Mrs. Wil cox's deadly pitching to the greens and accurate putting. Defending champion Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., dis posed of Mrs. Nick Melnyk, of Brunswick, Ga., 4 and 3, after be ing held to a one-hole lead on the first nine. Another second-round upset saw Mrs. Frank Fuller, Elgin, 111., city titleholder, trim Marjorie Row of Windsor, Canada, one up. Mrs. Fuller dropped six putts ranging from 10 to 20 feet in length. Mrs. jane urum uovington, Aberdeen, Md., golfer who shared medal honors with Miss Kirby, disposed of Mrs. Ruth May, New York city, 3 and 2. Peggy Kirk, of Findlay, Ohio, course record-holder after shoot ing a blistering 74 in a warm-up round Sunday, continued her way to the quarter-finals with a 3 and 2 triumph over Alice O’Neil, Rol lins college entry. Jean Hopkins, Cleveland’s shot maker, eliminated Miami’s Mrs. Charles Harting, 2 and 1, in a nip and tuck contest. Mrs. Marge Becker of Engle wood, N. J., turned back Mrs. J. C. Benedum, of Shreveport, La., 2 and 1 and Beverly Hanson of Fargo, N. D., defeated Virginia Bartock of Chicago, by the same margin. angsman with cards CHICAGO, Jan. 30— (U.R) —The Chicago Cardinals of the national football league have signed Elmer Angsman, star right halfback at Notre Dame for the last three years, it was announced today. ENGLISH GOLFERS, TURF AWAIT BOOM By JAMES R. CHAMBERS LONDON, Jan. 30 —(JP)— Britain is on the eve of its biggest and brightest golf and racing season in history. The Professional Golfers’ asso ciation, in conjunction with news papers and various business or ganizations, has drawn up a pro gram of 13 major tournaments and three open championships to be played between April and No vember. Numerous overseas stars, includ ing Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen and the South -African, Bobby Locke, are expected to compete in the British open at St. Andrews in July in pursuit of the title now held by Dick Burton, who won it on the same links in 1939. British professionals are looking forward once more to matching their skill against the best from the United State* after six years of war during which the only real golf played was for the benefit of war charities. Most of the courses were ploughed up to grow food or were used as. testing grounds for artillery. Racing is set to come back with a rush. The program for the first half of the flat racing season pro vides sport for the turf fans on every day from April until the end of June, except for four Mon rTn v« Figures just released disclose that a total of approximately $28, 570,000 at current exchange rates was bet through the totalisator at British tracks last year, during much of which the country still was at war. This took no account of the sums wagered with book makers at the tracks. The figure was set on only 170 racing days, on many of which flying bombs and rockets still were falling, and it illustrates the tre mendously increased, interest in racing in Britain. The highest pre war figure was $36,374,000 in 535 racing days in 1938. Some of the profit made by the "tote” will be thrown back into racing, with $800,000 to be divided oetween helping to rehabilitate courses which were taken over by the government during the war, as added prize money and in help ing to defray the cost of transport ing horses from course to course. Here in this country, where it still is difficult to get feed for race horses, enthusiasts already are envisaging international turf clashes in which horses will be Clown from France and the Unit ed States to compete in such clas sics as the Ascot Gold cup. Not this season, perhaps. But hey say it is bound to come. PHIL’S STAR RELEASED PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30—OP)— Tommy Hughes, one of baseball’s most promising pitchers, notified the Philadelphia Phillies today he has been discharged from the army. Tri-State Offers City League Spot; Demands Answer By Friday Midnight ' " ' " -- I- . ■ I ■ I ± Card Manager Waiting For Rookie Prospects — ■ LEGAL RSTICUFFS WON’T STOP PUGS FROM FRIDAY BOUT NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—(ff)—No one except Willie (The Beard) Gilzenberg was taking Willie’s threat to pull welterweight cham pion Red Cochrane out of Friday night’s title fight with Marty Ser vo very seriously today—and prob ably even Willie wasn’t too serious about it, what with Red’s purse figuring to be between $30,000 and £50,000, Willie, who manages Red, made the threat yesterday as a result of an action brought in New York supreme court by Bobby Quinn, sometime business manager for Fritzie Zivic, to obtain 25 per cent of Red’s earnings on a contract Red signed shortly before he won Zivic’s title in July 1941. If Red wins Friday night’s tus sle, he’ll receive about $30,000 or 37 1-2 per cent of the gate. If Red loses, Servo takes 60 per cent of the gate and gives Red a flat $50, 000 under a private agreement. Willie wants promoter Mike Jacobs to put up Red’s estimated end of the gate in advance with a mutually agreeable third party, so it can not be attached by law at the fight Friday. In fact, if Mike’s agreeable, Willie is will ing to be the “mutually” agree able third party. Willie was still muttering today that unless Mike did that, Red wouldn’t fight. Mike just shrugged it off and said he hadn’t contact ed the beard about it yet and wasn’t intending to and that he wasn\ aping to get excited about the whole rhubarb. “All I know,” he said, “is that that $50,000 is a pretty good touch —and even $30,000 ain’t hay.” LEJEUNE MARINES DOWN P. 1,70-53 CAMP LEJEUNE, Jan, 39.— (Special To The Star)—Camp Le jeune jumped oft to an early 16-2 lead over the fast Parris Island Marine quint during the first four minutes of the season by easily downing the spunky South Carolina Marines by the one-sided score of 70-53 in a game played on the Lejeune court Tuesday evening. It was the fifth set-back of the season for the PI agregation ^ho went into the contest rated as the 10th best service quintet in the nation. Led by John Kelly and Rube Lieske, the winning Leather necks rolled up a convincing half time lead of 37-21. At the third period the score was 51-37 then both clubs settled down to a nip and tuck battle for the last stanza. Kelly led the scoring for the winners with 16 points, with Lieske and Carswell trailing with 12. Craig King was the Parris Island leader with 18 markers. FITZ INJURED NEW YORK, Jan. 30—(^—Fred die Fitzsimmons, former major league pitcher and manager and now business manager of the Brook lyn Football Dodgers, was injured today in a head-on automobile col lision in Brooklyn. The 44-year-old athlete was taken to a Brooklyn hospital with fractured ribs and bruises. Police said the accident occurred when both cars skidded on wet trolley rails and the drivers lost control. Claims Catcher Joe Gargi ola Will Make St. Louis Forget Walker Cooper By BEN PHLEGAR ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30—(tf)—Manag er Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals promises that he has a young catcher who will make the fans forget Walker Cooper by the time he has played 25 games. The youngster is Joe Garagiola, a St. Louis boy now in the army in the Pacific. The way Dyer put it today in an interview Garagiola is short on experience, long on ability. He entered the service in 1944 after being second string catcher at Columbus during the 1943 season. He is still on the Columbus national defense list. “The kid has everything,” Dyer said enthusiastically. “He’s a powerful left-handed hitter, has a wonderful arm and is a smart receiver. He’s bound to make a few mistakes at first because he’ll naturally be nervous. But give him a little time, nbout 25 or 30 big league games, and the fans will forget all about any loss we may have suffered *n the sale of Cooper to the Giants.” Dyer said Garagiola probably will be discharged by mid-season under a recent War department ruling which calls for the discharge of all men with two years service by June 30, and “my catching worries will be over then.” Del Wilbur, another rookie catcher who comes hiehlv recom mended by Enos Slaughter and Howie Poliet, is due for an army discharge nejct. week. Left over from last year’s catching depart ment are Ken O’Dea, Del Rice and Gene Crumbling. "I saw Wilber play only one game,” Dyer said, “and that was at Randolph Field where he managed the team which included Slanghter and Poliet. He looked fine.” Another rookie, this time a pitch er, came in for a lot of praise from the Red Bird boss. “I’m counting plenty on Johnny Grod zicki. I know he has the stuff to become one of the top pitchers in the business if he can overcome a leg wound he suffered as a paratrooper in Germany. “Grodzicki was the best pitcher in minor league baseball in 1941 in my opinion,” Dyer continued. “And that was the year that Fred die Martin and Poliet were burn ing up the Texas league for me at Houston.” CHURCH SQUAD BEATS JAYVEES A scheduled double-header featuring New Hanover High school basketball teams was cancelled last night when a team of former High school stars from Morehead City were unable to appear because of transportation difficulties. However, the scheduled game between the Tabernacle Baptists and the JayVee squad was played with the church team winning 36 to 26 as Heath made 18 points. AGGIES WIN Oklahoma A and M playing in the Naw Hanover High school in tramural league yesterday defeat ed Army, 29 to 11 as Goodwin net ted 10 points for the winners and Snow three for the losers. The Phantoms were given a forfeit victory when the Wake Forest quint didn’t show. $4,875 Needed For Class “B” Baseball Tearn Invitation Comes After Piedmont Directors Vote Six Club Circuit, Closing Only Other Class B Diamond Franchise By EDWARD SACHS Star Sports Editor Wilmington was given its last chance for Class B base ball in 1946 last night when C. M. Llewellyn, Tri-State president, offered this city a franchise in the league. The move climaxed a day of baseball developments which saw the Piedmont league close the door in Char lotte’s and Wilmington’s collective faces, Charlotte make direct application for membership in the Tri-State ,and the question of Class B baseball for Wilmington reach a point where a direct reply from this city is needed to insure base ball operations in the coming season. The Tri-State’s proposal was broached in a telegram to J. E. L. Wade, chairman of Wilmington’s citizen’s base ball committee. It was signed by the president of the Tri State league, C. M. Llewellyn of Concord and read as fol lows: Tri-State league will operate this year. Charlotte rwin ue in league inov. b. spot now open. Will definitely give it to Wilmington if proper as surance is given before mid night Friday by you.” In Other words, the city will have to raise before Friday mid night, the money needed to pay the initial costs of operating a base ball team in a class B league . . . $6,575, of which $1,700 has been raised by baseball fans in the com munity through the sale of stock certificates in the proposed club. The figure $6,575 includes a bond of $5,000 to insure this city’s good faith in the venture and $1,500 bond with the president of the Na tional Minor league association, Judge W. G. Bramham. An added $75 is paid outright to the league to guarantee a league’s city priority on baseball operations in its trade area. Present plans for the Tri-State league call for a six-team unit composed of Asheville, Knoxville, Tenn., Spartanburg, S. C., Ander son, S. C., Charlotte and Wilming ton. Llewellyn however, informed the Star last night that Gastonia and Greenwood, S. C. have both made tentative moves to join the circuit and it may be increased to eight clubs at the league meet ing in Charlotte, Feb. 6. Charlotte made its move after the Piedmont league in meeting at Portsmouth, Va., again voted to 1r/SA_ 1 C\AO -i-_J._ail IT! ““ «'***>i*^ au #ui-»u ■ ginia affair. The Hornets were given the status of a suspended club during 1946, acting president Frank Lawrence of Charlotte said with the privilege of playing in any other league it desires. Meanwhile, Charlotte made its application to the Tri-State league. The Piedmont league may con sider Wilmington for 1947, it indi cated by leaving the door open to the Charlotte franchise, owned by the Washington Senators. An Associated Press story said, “Piedmont officials will attempt to get another club to go along with Charlotte in 1947. making way for the expansion of the loop from a six-team to eight team circuit.” Present Piedmont league fran chise owners are Norfolk, Ports mouth, Newport News, Richmond Roanoke and Lynchburg. Last night's developments came on the heels of an action by the Citizen’s committee Tuesday eve ning in the form of a motion by William McIntyre requesting the Junior Chamber of Commerce to assist in the raising in funds to bring professional baseball to Wil mington. The JayCees will in turn, consider the motion at the next meeting of the board of directors of the group. In a telephone conversation with Llewellyn, last night the Star learn ed that the league will probably vote to allow home teams to keep their gate proceeds rather than work on a split basis with the visit ing team. (J.E.L. Wade has esti mated that to make Class B base ball in Wilmington pay, the local club will have to average 1,500 paid attendance each night of its sea son.) Llewellyn said that each club will probably carry a player roster of 16 to 18 players and that manager’s salaries will run from $300 to $500 a month. All cities iu the league orbit so far, with the exception of Char lotte, are independently owned, the league president said but he indicated that several of the cities may make working agreements with major league organizations. These and other matters will be discussed at the league meeting Wednesday in Charlotte. SOX SIGN 20 BOSTON, Jan. 30—CJV-The Bos ton Bed Sox files contained 20 signed 1946 player contracts today with the receipt of those from in fielders Eddie Pellagrini and Ben Steiner and outfielder Johnny Lazor. . Rocky Mount Ace Currently starring on the N. C. State basketball team, Howard Tur ner of Rocky Mount also has a great football future. The former Eastern conference standout was picked on most All-Southern grid teams last season. BASKETBALL SCORES Wright Field 65, N. C. State 43. Furman 49, Davidson 46. Army 46, Penn State 45. Tufts 72, Northeastern 47. Virginia 89, Norfolk Naval Train ing Station 41. Indiana State Teachers 58, Cen tral Normal 34. Fairmont, W. Va., Teachers 55, West Virginia 32. Illinois of Tech. 59, Chicago Teachers 32. Yale 58, Columbia 45. Virginia Univ. 72, Geneva 45. Princeton 44, Villanova 36. Muhlenberg 73, Lehigh 37. Ohio State 43, Pittsburgh 33. Virginia Poly 48, Virginia Mili tary Inst. 24. Cornell 64, Colgate 53. University of Vermont 56, St. Michael’s 24. Virginia Tech 48, VMI 24. New York City’s Department of Sanitation has 3,500 pieces of motor equipment. UNDER GALENTO MANAGEMENT Gridder Eyes Fight Career By WILLIAM TUCKER United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 30 —(U.R)— A real college fan but fearful that his campus connections may suf fer if schoolboy Freddie Cochrane loses the welter title Friday night, Willie Gilzenberg has latched onto a Miami U. grid star as possible future heavyweight champ. In this connection, the bluebeard of boxing managers (strictly from the hirsute angle) has enlisted the collaboration of. Two-Ton Tony Galento, the original beer-barrel poker who has grown to great sta ture (sideways) as an Orange, N. J., tavern owner. Gilzenberg and Galento exhibited their new white hope, 195 pound Ed die Cameron, at the Seton Hall college clambake for Cochrane preparatory to the latter’s first de fense of his title against Marty Servo Friday. __ While about 1,000 of Cochrane’s Seton Hall classmates cheered his exhibition workout in the school’s big gym, the two “G-men’’ intro duced Cameron around. The big red-haired guy was a terrific guard on the University of Miami’s football team that edged Holy Cross in the recent Orange Bowl game, 13 to 6. Wearing a big grin and a gleaming orange “M” on his white sweater, he looked like a fellow plenty capable of taking care of his dukes as well as opposing linemen. Now 27, a bit old for an untried boxer, he hails from Newark, hard by both Seton Hall (in South Orange) and Gal ento’s domain. “Nothing has been signed yet, you understand,” said Willie the Beard, who had shaved five times in five hours for this event. “But Tony and I are definitely inter ested in this kid and we want to build him up for the heavyweight scramble and the big money.” “Sure,” echoed Galento, pulveriz ing a big cigar in the scarred cor ner of his mouth. “Why this kid used to come up to my gym and work out with some of the fellows who, like him, were pure ama teurs. I saw him hit, and I said some day that kid will be a champ and I will be his manager.” Cameron owes his emergence into a college football star so late in life to the fact that he served three years in the Navy before he returned to Miami last season. — Prior to going to war, he was a football and boxing performer at Miami and while there kayoed two collegiate champions — Verdayne Jahn of Wisconsin and Louis Camp bell of Southwestern Louisiana in stitute. His wife, Janice, was Miss Miami of 1940 and they have a son, Ed die, Jr. Cameron graduates in the class of June but he expects to announce his entry into the pro fessional boxing ranks shortly aft er he returns to Miami from his ■ current mid-term leave. He is also considering various professional offers, having been mentioned on several little All-American selec tions. “We’ll have some big news for you, maybe in a few days or weeks,” said Galento, stopping to scrawl what passes for his auto graph on a Seton Hall prep kid’s baseball. “Eddie has everything a great heavyweight, early training, his college experience and his size. Remember he was a war hero, too. He was an instructor of the Pep sicola Naval air station—you know, that place in Florida.” S' Red Terrors Toppled By Service Five, 65-43 -.— 1 Wright Field Rebounds From Duke Defeat With Brilliant Exhibition RALEIGH, Jan. 30—(/P)—Lead ing all the way, Wright Field’s Kitty Hawks took the measure of N. C. State here tonight, winning 65-43 and staging a brilliant ex hibition of passing and shooting. The Hawks were paced by Bruce Hale, a former All-American from Santa Clara, who rang up 20 points. Dwight Eddlertian, an Illi nois boy, was right behind him with 19. Howard Turner paced Leroy Jay’s Red Terrors with 12 points. The visitors scored a field goal on the opening tipoff and piled up an 8-0 lead in the first two minutes. They were ahead at the half, 33-12. John Mahnken, lanky center for the Hawks, was one of the stars of the game, using- his six feet eight inches to good advantage in taking the rebounds. In the clos ing minutes of the game, however, he got tangled up under the basket with one of State’s players and in the collision lost four teeth. Columbus Travelers Play Cerro Gordo WHITEVILLE, Jan. 30— (Special to the Star)—The Columbus Travel ers will meet the Cerro Gor,rdo All-Stars at Cerro Gorrdo in a re turn match Monday night. The Travelers, an independent team composed of former High school players of the Whiteville area defeated the All-Stars last week 19-12 at Cerro Gorrdo. “Haunty” Taylor paced the Trav elers with eight points, followed by Williams and Smith with four each. Green and Hooks turned in impressive floor games for the vic tors. Keller with six points was high-man for Cerro Gorrdo. The Travelers would like to schedule games with teams with in a 50 mile radius of Whiteville. Interested teams are asked to con tact Jiggs Powers in Whiteville. Whiteville Cagers Play Clinton High WHITEVILLE, Jan. 30—(Special to the Star) — Whiteville High school’s basketball teams will meet the formidable cage squads of Clin ton High school in the Whiteville gymnasium, Friday evening. The Whiteville girls, boast an impressive record winning all but One of their 10 games. In a thriller the females were toppled by Lum berton 33 to 25. Two of the White ville Girl’s stars, “Lefty” Mooney and Peggy Inman are rated with the best players produced in this section. The Whiteville boys have been handicapped this season by lack of material but may upset a favored Clinton team. First game will start at 7. BILLY TALBERT WINS MATCH IN MIAMI TOURNEY MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30—CPI—Billy Talbert of Wilmington, Del., sec ond ranking U S. tennis player, swept into the quarter-final round of the University of Miami tennis championships today with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Tom Burke, National Intercollegiate doubles champion. DAVIDSON CAGERS LOSE TO FURMAN FOR SECOND TIME DAVIDSON, Jan. 30—(fP)—For the second successive night Furman overcame a first half Davidson lead to gain a nip and tuck South* ern Conference basketball victory, 49-46 here tonight. The South Carolinian* trailed throughout the first half which end* ed with Davidson ahead, 2-20. The winners shot out front at th# start of the final half and except for a few moments were on top there* after, although by never more than four points. Center Ernie Chamber* and for* ward Effie Evingston each had 14 points to pace Furman, while George Peters topped Davidson with 13. Tlie victory gave Furman a S*1 edge over Davidson for the sea* son’s play, the boys from the Pal» metto State having pulled out a 38-36 thriller here last night. CITY RIFLE CLUB MEMBERS HONORED Six members of the Cape Fear Rifle club were awarded special emblems at the club meeting last night by the National Rifle associa tion for “Special War Service.” The awards were issued to Rus sell A. Plymuale, C. R. McCrary, Walter C. Straghan, Edgar Wil liams, Jack Liles, and Edmund Laurin, coach of the organization. The emblems were given for the pre-induction training program sponsored by the War department with the aid of the nation’s r;Jle organizations. The club met last night so that their rifle range would be available for a “March of Dimes” event tonight. Hall Paces Foresters Over Sunset Park Cats Lake Forest Boy’* team won another victory yesterday as they tamed the Sunset Park Wildcats, 12 to 2. Bobby Hall, Forester for ward paced the winners with eight points. Box score: LAKE FOREST tg ft tp Fox, c, . 0 0 0 Austin, f.. 0 0 0 Hill, f, . 1 o 2 Hall, g, . 4 0 8 Tysinger, g. 10 2 Johnston, g,-;_ 0 0 0 Gentry, g-- 0 0 0 Total 6 0 12 SUNSET PARK tg ft tp Ingram, f, ___ 10 2 Davis, g, —-- 0 0 0 Dannenbaum, g, _ 0 0 0 Prescott, g__ 0 0 0 Hancock, c, _ 0 0 0 Thompson, f.. 0 0 0 Farrow, f, _...... 0 0 0 Total "l 6 '* Old Town CANOES NOW IN STOCK PICKARD’S 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 t * l™* Distributing Co. " ilmington, N. C. ^°oper Brewery, Phila., Pa. ADD TACKLE CHICAGO, Jan. 30— (ffl —Fred Hartman, former Rice Institute tackle and recently released from the navy after four year’s service, has signed a 1946 contract to play with the Chicago Bears. HORSE SHOES AT VO UR 114 MARKET
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