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Wildcats Beat Raleigh Caps, 40 To 25 The Morning Watch WITH Edward Sachs Babe In The Woods The last time we saw Beattie Feathers, he \*as going that-a ,-av at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It was during Beattie’s term as halfback for Halas U.—better known as the Chicago Bears— l and the young back from Tennessee was one of the best in the j pay circuit. . As we nave mentioned Deiore Beattie rang up a record in 1334 that withstood the onslaughts of such smooth runners as Tuffy Leemans, Cliff Battles, George McAfee and Bill Shepherd to men tion just a few, for 12 years. In 1934, he gained li004 yards for an average journey of 8.5 yards-per-try. When yop figure what it means to a team to have a back who can go ibr almost a first down everytime, you can get an estimate of his value to the t Bssrs True, there were several snide remarks that with Bronk Nagurski running Interference, Aunt Martha ciould have done as well, but we have always chosen to overOook these com ments. As most of them have come from Green Bay, Wash ington and New York, we have always considered them tinged with prejudice. Since the days of his professional rambling^ Beattie has be come a fun f. edged coach. A lot of people have informed us that the Tennessee graduate is in over his head at State trying to com pete with such canny gentlemen as Wallace “Rase Bowl or Bust” Wade and Carl “Justice Reigns Supreme” Smavely. But after watching Beattie bounce such gentlemen as Ken Strong, Don Hut- ' son, and Dutch Clark around, we are sure that babe in the woods or not. he can take care of himself in any angke or side-street of football. — Tonight we’ll see Beattie in another light, guest speaker. The occasion will be the dinner meeting at the American Legion home of the N. C. State grads of New Hanover county. We’ll be listening but ten-to-one we’H be thinking of the last time we saw Beattie. It was ten above xero, the Packers were playing the Bears at Chicago, there was a stiff wind blowing from Lake Michigan and the Tennessee Rambler was running hard and far. _ SPORTS SHORTS . . , Durham will again hold its invitational basketball tournament for high school quints after the regular I season . . Wonder if the Cubans, nine in number, who were shift ed to Charlotte from Chattanooga last week will jump to that Mexican league? ... It could be . . . For the “biggest city in the state” Charlotte is certainly having a lot of trouble getting set in baseball ... To all those fans who called the Star, Saturday eve ning and were told that the score of the Carohna-Duke game was 52 to 44 instead of 54 to 44, here is how it happened . . . Just as the whistle blew, Dick Whiting of Duke fouled Jim White . . White sunk both of his free throws but by the time the crowd was cleared from the floor, the incorrect score was filed on the wire. , . . Dick Culler, Boston Brave shortstop and High Point sporting goods store owner, was one of the officials and did, from all re ports, a very good job ... If North Carolina can win the con ference tournament in Raleigh it is a cinch for an invitation to one of the New York cage tournaments . . . Duke might not be as welcome after the rout at the hands of Temple . . . Harvard has, ef all things, a pretty good basketball team . . The boys from Boston have won 13 and lost one ... In answer to a phone call, North Carolina and South Carolina do not meet in football next year . . . Another Duke man may join Eric Tipton with the Cincinnati Reds this season ... He is Eddie Shokes who played first base for the Devils a couple of seasons back . . . You could get together a pretty good backfield from the major leagues with Tipton, Sam Chapman of the Athletics (California All-American), Snuffy Stirnweiss (North Carolina) and Spud Chandler (Georgia) filling the bill . . . Les MacMitchell Aims For AAU Indoor Crown BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR NEW YORK, Feb. 19. — (JP) — Leslie MacMitchell, postwar king of the milers, was named the out standing GI performer in last Sat urday night’s New York Athletic club games today as he began pointing for the one goal that al ways has escaped him—the Na tional AAU indoor championship. The former New York University star and exnaval officer isn’t mak in any predictions about his chan ces in the National AAU meet at Madison Square Garden this week end but his record of four triumphs in as many starts this season stamps him as the logtical choice in tire mile. MacMitchell appeared confident and promised his best possible performance after accepting the handsome three-foot trophy award ed at the weekly meeting of Metro politan Track Writers today by the NY AC post of the American Le gion. he was selected as the fore f ~ — "—i Old Town CANOES NOW IN STOCK PICKARD’S 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 most athlete among present and former servic* men—including rep resentatives of the military and naval academies—by a committee of 11 newspapermen, polling seven first-place and three second-place voters for 44 points on a 5-3-1 basis. Fred Sickinger of Manhattan, who won the Halpin 880 for his fourth straight half-mile victory, placed second in the voting with 21 points. Tom Carey of the New York Pioneer club, 60-ard dash winner, was third with 15 points. A similar award for veterans will be made at all future NYAC meets. Both indoor and outdoor, it was anounceti. MacMitchell’s opponents in the AAU mile Saturday will be Tom my Quinn of the NYAC, who was been his runner-up all season and pushed him to his best postwar time last week; Ed Walsh of Man hattan, Henry Eckert of NYU, Dave Williams of Camp Campbell, Ky., Frank Cassidy of Tufts, Joe McCluskey of the New London (Conn.) sub base and Marcel Han senne, the Frenchman. Thirteen of the 16 winners in the 1945 meet will be back' to defend their titles. A 30-rnan field is entered in the 1 three-mile run, headed by Forest Efaw of tillwater, Okla., the de fending champion. < I 1 : 1 1 i Bkiitob Whiskey Blended Whiskey 86.8 Proof —65% Gram Neutral Spirits GLEN.MORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Incorporated LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY I , The Season is Official! Hews Item JEFF HEATH, perennial HOLDOUT WHEN WITH CLEVELAND HOW"MOVES HIS CELEBRATED "I WOHT SIGH" Routine to WASHINSToL •AH' I'LL srr right HERE TILL I GET MAT'S | COMM' A rMBf ^ TF MS MOM'CLAW fa/OU-BUDGE) GRIFFITH. TH/S CAM LAST WELL WTO SEPTSM8EZ? Wounded GIAttempting Major League Comeback I - GOTHAM AWAITS PH NTOM CAGERS BY CHIP ROYAL AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor NEW YORK — The best basket ball players in the world are com ing to town March 14 for the In vitation tournament at Madisor Square Garden. Great scorers like Bob Carroll o: West Virginia, Bob Kurland o: Oklahoma A. & M., George Mikar of DePaul, Harry Boykoff of St John’s University and John Dillor of North Carolina will have plentj of competition. Kurland, Mikan and Boykofi nave won wide publicity as cen iers but there are a couple of fel ows named Horace and Don whc nay outshine the big three in the :op court event of the year. The first gent is better knowr as Bones McKinney, the pivol nan of that surprising North Caro ina five, the first team to knocl iff Navy. The second threat tc Kurland, Mikan and Boykoff is Don Otten, the giant who playec i big part in upsetting the Aggies, McKinney pla; 2d at North Caro ina State before the war, lead n the Southern Conference scorers md making All-Conference as a >oph in 1942. After starrnig foi Fort Bragg and Camp Butner, he :ransferred to Carolina where he s performing better than ever. Otten, who is captain of Bowlin? Dreen, Ohio team, tower? six feet 11 1-2 inches and weighs 245 pounds. His agility and perfect shooting make him one of the top pivol men and tough to stop. Former Duke Gridder Signs With Cleveland CLEVELAND, Feb 19— (U.R) — iVilson (Bud) Schwenk, who play id for Washington University (St. ..ouis) and the Chicago Cardinals, ind three rookies were signed to lay by the Cleveland Browns of he All-America football confer mce. The rookies, all Cleveland resi lents, are Chet Mutryn who at ended Xavier university. Bob Colesar of Michigan and Cliff ..ewis, who went to Duke. Schwenk established a new col egiate record for total yardage vith a figure of 1,628 at Washi ngton in 1941. His home is St. jouis. By JACK HAND ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 19. — (A5) — Johnny Grodzicki, an ex paratrooper with a steel brace on his right leg, is making a gallant comeback fight with the St. Louis Cardinals. Five years ago Grodzicki was rated “the best pitcher in the minor leagues” by Eddie Dyer, now man ager of the F cd' Birds. He had completed an amazingly successful season for the Columbus Farm club and was rated ripe for the big ' time Four years of army life including a parachute jump to the west bank of the Rhine in the thick of the main American offensive, left him with shrapnel wounds in his leg, a pair of crutches and a question mark for the future. This husky young hurler was born 29 years ago of Polish parents at Luzerne, Pa. He didn’t have to be a paratrooper—didn’t have to go overseas—but he turned down a chance to be an instructor and in sisted on both steps. Grod; -ki had been knocking around Sam Breadon’s chain gang since 1936 when he decided to win ter in Panama in 1940. He came back^to 1941 spring training with enough of a jump on the others to startle the camp, holding the mighty New York Yankees to one hit over a nine-inning stretch on three different games. When the regular season got started he was shunted back to Columbus for more work. Ax ?n 4 Vi rv flora nf wanv nfhpr athletes, the war stepped in just when big John was getting ready to cash in on six years of toil in the farm system. The army took Grodzicki In Jan uary 1942 and, after three years at Ft. Knox, his outfit, the 11th Air borne, was sent across. “We hit Germany at Witze] about the time the boys broke across the bridge,” Grodzicki recalled vividly. “I landed fine, right out in an open field with plenty of Jerries around. They didn’t get me then but five days later I was wounded by shrapnel.” Johnny was flown to England and still had to use crutches when he came home Oct. 29,1945. A short time later he shifted to a cane and finally discarded that. The doctors insisted on the foot-long steel brace because the sciatic nerve had been injured. Although he had trouble walking he went to Panama and pitched two complete games. Down in this building sunshine city, Grodzicki is working slowly He said the leg is loosening up and it’s only a question of getting the unused muscles back into action. HANOVER SPREE IN LAST PERIOD NEEDED FOR WIN Losers Lead At The End Of First Quarter Before Local Offense Clicks By GENE WARREN Star Sports Writer RALEIGH, Feb. 19—New Han over High’s Wildcats, put on a last period spurt here tonight to defeat the Raleigh Caps, 40 to 25. The game was much closer than the score would indicate. At the end of the first quarter the Cats were trailing the Caps 11 to 9. At halftime the Brogden coached Wilmington five had pull ed into a 16-16 tie and at the end of the third stanza were leading the Caps, who they defeated in an earlier meeting by the adding ma chine score of 63-23, 25 to 23. Collie sunk a set shot to start off the last period spree. After the Caps blew three chances at free throws, Charlie Smith was good on a hook shot followed by a set shot by Toddy Fennell, who had returned to the game after a bad fall in the early part of the second half. Billy Lee was good on a rebound and Pnlli** snnlr a nucVt cVw-\f TirV,i1« ! the Caps fell farther behind, 37 to 23. W. A. Brown kept the streak going when he made a long and Collie a free throw. The Caps dropped their only field goal of the last period just before the final whistle when reserve Bowles made a long one-hander. In other action on the high school front last night, Durham High turned back Fayetteville 46 to 40. The Cats will be host to Fayetteville Friday night at the NHHS floor. Billy Lee edged Louis Collie for scoring honors sinking 11 points to Collie’s 10. Pacemaker for the Caps was Sam Cothran who made four baskets and a free throw for nine points Box score: New Hanover FG FT TP Lee, f _ 5 1 11 Smith, f__ 10 2 Collie, f.. 3 4 10 Tuttle, f _ 0 0 0 McKoy, c _ 10 2 Hyatt, c _ 0 11 Fennell, g_ 3 17 Crowley, g - 10 2 Brown, g_ 2 0 4 Rogers, g_ Oil TOTAL . 16 8 40 Raleigh FG FT TP Cothran, f _*_ 4 19 T'l __ a A A A JJUlgCOO, J.-—---— V V V Ferrell, f _ 0 0 0 Lesane, f _ 0 0 0 Person, c_ 2 2 6 Baise, g- 12 4 James, g -_ 0 0 0 Crowley, g - 12 4 Bowles, g - 10 2 TOTAL __.. 9 7 25 Beattie Feathers Speaks Here Tonight At Dinner New Hanover county alumni of North Carolina State college will hear head football coach Beattie Feathers tonight at their meeting at the American Legion Home. The group has invited leading athletes and coaches of this vicinity to at tend the meeting. LIONS GET TWO DETROIT, Feb. 19. — (U.R) — George Speth, former Murray State Teachers college tackle, and Joe Stringfellow, and end from Mississipoi Southern college, were signed tc 1946 contracts tod-y by the Detroit Lions. Both men still are in service but expect to be discharged soon. Britain More Favorable To Giving Ruhr To France LONDON, Feb. 19—(U.R)—Inform, ed diplomatic quarters said Tues day that Great Britain, veering to the French point of view, regarded separation of the Ruhr from Ger many with growing favor and that French circles in London were in creasingly optimistic. Dial 23311 for Newspaper Service _ — ■ ——— - ■■ ■ Phantoms Rate With Nation’s Best CHAPEL HILL, Feb. i9—(iP)— Down Dixie way sports critics rate Morth Carolina’s White Phantoms, jaced by skinny, 6-foot-5 Horace [Bones) McKinney, along with the jest southern basketball teams of jther years. The Phantoms have won more »ames (25) than any other major jollege quintet this year. And they’ve lost only two, walloping those in return engagements. Averaging better than 50 points i game, North Carolina leads the southern Conference, rules a big favorite in the loop tourney start ing in Raleigh Feb. 28 and expect* to create quite a noise in the later lational tournaments. The Phan toms knocked off then unbeaten Mew York University (the only set jack for the Violets) and Navy in jaunts outside their conference area. The Phantoms really began click ing with the mid-January arrival of McKinney, former North Caro lina State college All-Southern who starred on the Fort Bragg and Camp Butner teams while in mili tary service. Previously, they had won nine and lost two. Greensboro’s Over seas Replacement depot copped a one-pointer, 64-63, and Duke took an extra period thriller, 51-46. But the McKinney-strengthened club has since won 16 straight, crushing O.R.D. .74-39 and thrashing Duke last Saturday 54-44. The Phantoms, coached by form er N Y U. player and now navy lieutenant Ben Carnevale, have four regulars from their last year s conference champions, pUs Center McKinney. These include All Southern Forward Jim Jordan; Forward John Dillon, leading scor er with 372 points in 27 games, and Guard Bob Paxton. All are crack shots, likely to break up a ball game at any time. But the club’s success lies in bril liant teamwork. If McKinney and Dillon are hot, as they were against Duke, the others feed them the ball. Or if Paxton and Jordan are hitting—Jordan went on a 32 point splurge recently—Dillon and Bones lay back and let them fire away. , The fifth regular is Jim White, ex-B-24 pilot over Italy who played here in 1942. Don Anderson and ; Taylor Thorne split time with the i starters and roundout the top i seven. The quintet has team speed i and height, ranging from White at < 5 feet to McKinney at 6-feet-five. < ,Wanna Make Sumpin* of It? fcfttihi-a*aniiiiiyr'"""' > ■a Hobbyhorne C i n t o r s o n , 11 months-old American-bred bull dog, looks part winning first Prize at Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. He is property of Mrs. Hobert S. Horne of New Bruns wick, N.J DIMAGGIO S LONG H E RUN (Compiled From The Wires of AP and UP) Joe DiMaggio, Yank slugger, showed that he can still hit a long one yesterday when he connected for a 410-foot homerun in Yankee spring practice . . . Also standing out in the New Yorkers’ drills in Panama was young Bill Majaski, rookie third sacker who slugged two homers, a single and knocked in four runs . . . Luis Olmo, Brooklyn outfielder announced from his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico that he was leaving for Mexi co, March 4 and will play with the Vera Cruz club ... A returned veteran from Holland, Michigan, last night was signed by the St. Louis ... He is George Zuverink, . . . He will report to Houston of the Card’s chain after a series of letters from Vic Trratreault, former Piedmont league player and scout to Card owner Sam Breadon about the 1 a d’s effectiveness against army teams in the Philip pines had paved the way ... Ed Wright, young right handed pitcher who won eight and lost three for the Boston Braves last year became the first spring training casualty of the season when he sprained his left foot after stepping on a base ball. . . He was taken to a hospital for X-rays . . . Utility man Ervin Dusak reported to the Cards yes leiaay m ume to near Manager Eddie Dyer claim that Brooklyn was the team to beat in the Nation al league race . . . “They will be tough and so will the giants,” said the Cards’ new boss, who isn’t fooling anyone with his predictions . . . The Cards have been named the best team in the National League by the other seven manag ers .. . Tommy Bridgers of the Tigers is not going to coach that club but will join the club as a member of the pitching staff, it was announced yesterday ... He needs eight more wins to become a mem ber of the 200 club . . . Pitchers who have won 200 games in maor league competition . . . Bobo New some is only 20 games away and may do the trick this summer . Catcher Ernie Lombardi is on his way to the Giant’s training camp at Miami his wife informed Man ager Mel Ott yesterday . . . The Giants signed a brother of Lee Grissom of the Phils yesterday on the recommendations of Slugger Johnnie Mize who saw the kid pitch while both were in service Catcher Ray Berres who played winter ball in Cuba phoned Ott that he would join the club as soon as he could get an airplane reser vation as would Pitcher Sal Mag lie . . Vardaman Confirmation Hits Snag In Committee WASHINGTON, Feb 19.— (u.R) — President Truman’s nomination of his Naval aide, Commodore James K. Vardaman, Jr., of St. Louis, to a 14-year term on the Federal Re serve Board, ran afoul of new wncii a senate subcommittee decided to inquire more deeply into his qualifications Chairman George L. Radcliffe (O-Md.) of the Senate Banking sub committee, said after a closed ses sion that 26 persons, suggested by Sen. Forrest C. Donnell, CR-Mo ) are being queried by telegram whether they have information bearing on Vardaman’s business background. Coroner Reports Finding Of Degnan Child’s Arms CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—OP)—Coron er A L. Brodie reported the arms >f a child found Tuesday in a north iide alley sewer “positively” were hose of the kidnaped, slain and lismembered Suzanne Degnan, 6. Coroner Brodie said identifica ion was made by comparing the trms with impressions taken from he shoulder sockets, which he ad led, "fitted perfectly.” He said the lismemberment was done by some me “with much experience in ither butchery or surgery/' BOB FELLER PLANS OPERATING LEAGUE IN WESTERN TOWNS Class A Circuit Would In elude Denver, Omaha, Lincoln; Other Cities CHICAGO. Feb. 19—MV-Bob Feller, Cleveland fireball pitch er who jumped from an Iowa farm into the American league at the age of 17 back in 1936, tonight announced he is back ing organization of a Class A team in Denver, Colo., for 1947. Feller, just returned from Clearwater, Fla., where he con ducted a baseball school, said he hopes the old Western league, that once included Den ver and Pueblo, Colo., could be reorganized and added: ‘‘It would be impossible to go ahead with the new league this year, but we are hopeful to get it going next year.” “I’m not planning to quit pitching for Cleveland,” he said in a telephone interview from his home at Waukegan, 111. ‘‘I am just backing the organization of a club. There are other men with me in the organization, and we have a setup complete except for a suitable ball park. “That may be built this year, either by the city or other in terested persons, so that Den ver can have a good ball team in 1947.” DENVER, Feb. 19—(fP)—Bob Fel ler, Cleveland Indian pitcher, tolc the Denver Post today that hi planned to operate a Denver base ball club in a proposed Class / league including five other west ern cities but that “I have nt place to play.” In a phone conversation from hi: Clearwater, Fla., training camp Feller said he had been inform ed by one of two owners of Mer chants’ Park, old Western leagui home, that the site had been sole for industrial purposes. In Denver, Fred Anfenger, oni owner, said several offers had beei received but the park had not beet sold. He added Feller mquirec about using the park in 1947 The Post quoted Feller as say ing, “I am all lined up with Oma ha, Lincoln, Wichita, Pueblo anc Sioux City to play Class A base ball this summer.” New Hanover Cagers Play Clarkton Hen Clarkton High school basketbal teams will invade the New Hanovei gymnasium tonight for a double header with the NHHS Girls anc the Junior Varsity five of Coact Wallace West. First game starts al 7:30 p. m. ' BUFFALO SIGNS TWO BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 19—(U.R)— End Bill Daddio and Halfback Bill Duttonn two former University oi Pittsburgh stars, were signed to day by the Buffalo entry in the All-America football conference. JENKINS ENLISTS BALTIMORE, Feb. 19— (U.R) - Lew Jenkins, former world light weight champion from Brownwood, Tex., went back into the Army to day for his second peacetime hitch. Dial 23311 for Newspaper Service GAS LANTERNS AT TOUR WffiER 114 MARKET «Best-in-Show Handler Jake Terhune proudly exhibits wire terrier Hether-I ington Model Rhythm, chosen best dog of more than 3000 paraded in Westminster Ken Club show at Madison Squara Garden- • HEWES FIVE PLAYS Y CAGERS TONIGHT -- *j Varsity cagers of the YMCA will have a chance for revenge tonight when they meet the Hewes Build ing quintet tonight at the “Y” in a game scheduled to begin at 8:30. In an earlier meeting between the two squads, the Hewee Build ing won by two points, i In other news from the YMCA, Adam Smith, physical director of ; the organization announced that trophies for the basketball tourna ment planned by the “Y” for ■ March first to the eighth will be : on display in the windows of the 1 Men’s Quality shop next to the Bailey theater. Smith also released the standings i of the Senior Volley Ball league showing the Eagles in first place trailed in order by the Cards, the Hawks and Owls. The schedule for the eoming round shows the Eagles meeting the Hawks tonight; the Cards and the Owls, Thursday; the Eagles and the Cards, Monday; the Hawkk and the Owls, Tuesday; the Eagles and the Owls a week from today and the Hawks and the Cards on , Feb. 28. DAVIDSON WINS DAVIDSON, Feb. 19 —(AP)— Pil ing up an 18-point first half lead, Davidson coasted to a 52-39 basket ball victory over Appalachian here tonight. White bagged 16 points to lead the victorious Wildcats, while matt and tsrooks each tossed m 21 to pace the apps. NEW LIFE FOR QUEEN JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Feb. 19. —(U.R)—The ‘‘Carib Queen” will be ready in four months to begin an invasion far different from that for which she was originally designed —landing tourists in Havana in* stead of supporting the storming of enemy shores. SKATE WHEELS 25c each —BOAT PAINTS— Old Salem yacht finishes and Varnishes. Stripendec, in many colors. Jersey City. The finest copper paint. Also special small boat paints. 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