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The Morning Watch WITH Edward Sachs -------- From The Mailbag Nothing like the mailman to help out on a damp dirtv dav First of all we received a communication from Pete Moore, Guul ford allege publicity director, reminding Us that the Guilford eager; 1 ad selected Warren Burns of Catawba and Entzi of Lenoir Rhyne as forwards on the Quakers All-Opponent team. Harlan Gudger f Catawba was named at center, Lombardy and McGin nis of Catawba at the guard* . . Art Bluethenthal of Wilmington 1 d the University of North Carolina wrestling team will b* one of the three Tar Heel grapplers to be sent from Chapel Hill t0 the National Intercollegiate tournament at Oklahoma A &. M, March 21 to 23 . . . Art, a, 155-pounder, is undefeated this ' ar ... As you probably know, Art was pilot of a B-17 on 35 Lssions over Europe before he returned to the university . . . aiSo from Chapel Hill is a communication that Ben Carnevale, basketball coach has selected an All-Opponent team . ... He named Tannenbanm, NYU, and Carroll, Navy at the forwards, Koffenberger of Duke at center, Mangiapane, ajyF, and Seward, Puke, guards . . . Ben limited his picks to collegiate performers but he also obliged with an all ■ervioe pick as follows: Mass, Camp Lee and Spencer, Greensboro, forwards; Robeson, Little Creek, center; and Mullen, Camp Pickett, and Poja, Greensboro, guards . . . A letter from Camp Lejeune reminds us that the “scoringest duo” In modern day service and college basketball in Frank Carswell of Rice and John Kelly; of Notre Dame . . . The twosome has averaged 33 points between them per contest Kelly claims the lead in the nation’s individual scoring ‘ ’ j by virtue of having plunked 639 points this season for an average of 19 points per contest. , . Carswell, while playing with Rice in the Texas school’s ]941 Madison Square Garden appearance was selected on the All-Garden team of that year . . . Local basketball fans will have ? . Chance to see their favorite sport this weekend as the YMCA tournament gets underway Friday afternoon . . . Thirty-four teams have entered the various divisions- of the tourney . . . This corner , certainly getting the oyster eating underway in better than half ihell fashion . . . Last night it was the New Hanover Fishing club’s roast at Wrightsville, tonight the Wildlife federation will be serv ing at the Blue Top lodge and the next meeting of the Tobacco State league will be a unowhat here in Wilmington . . . That benefit game at New Hanover High school should, bring back memories to 1928-29 basketball fans as such eager* Earl Beal, Harold May and Dan Jones trot out on the floor We would like to see some of the eager* of 28-29 Friday ‘’ in£r They should be stiffer than a bunch of bums after Tcan of Sterno ... The rifle club exhibit at that USO hobby •how was by far the top attraction for local sports fans . . . From announced programs of both local gun clubs, the coming "son should be one of the best in the history of the city for rifle fans . . . Plans tor a Monday morning quarterback Vub are being formed . . . While everything pertaining to the or ranlzation is still in the embryo stage, R should be operating by the time football’s start rolling at American Legion stadi \ “m * "qc. Lillis King, supervising fish biologist of the North Carolina division of Game and Inland fisheries announced this f week that the shad and herring season in inland waters of coastal ! counties opens tomorrow and runs through May 10 . . . Fishing is i restricted to Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a provision that skim or gill nets with bars one and one-half inches or longer may be used . . . Counties open to shad and herring fishing fronv March 1 are , , . Brunswick, New Hanover, Onslow and Pender; Chapel Kill will be the scene of the eligibility hearing on Saturday . . - While the NCHSAA executive committee will prob ably abide bv the eligibility committee’s decision to bar New Hanover High school from basketball play . . . With the season over it would not make any difference now anyway ... we do hope’that the meeting will focus the attention of the state group to their constitution and its improvement . Bob Femmore, Oklahoma A & M All-American has been accepted by draft board officials and is now waiting for his greetings . . . Lumberton s Taft Wright seems sure of one outfield post with the Chicago White Sox this summer . . . Taft will probably be paired with Thurman Tucker and Wally Moses in the Chicago outer garden . . ._ Tournament Play Starts At *Y* Friday Afternoon Teams entered -in the YMCA basketball tournament, will start play at the “Y” floor at 4 p. m. Friday, Adam Smith, physical di rector of the organization announc ed last night. Smith said that 34 teams have netted the various divisions of play in the tournament. They include ir ihe 90 pound class: Winter Park Flashers, “Y” Pirates, “Y” Bull dogs. Sunset Park Panthers, “Y” Wilcats, “Y” Comets, “Y” Storks; 105 pound class: Chestnut Bears “Y” Sharks, Catlett Lions, “Y’ Crusaders, Beavers, Hi Black hawks, Lucky Seven; 120 poun< class: "Y” Leaders, “Y” Crows Winter Park, Tileston; 135 pounc class, “Y” All-Stars, White Sox Long Greek Grady, White Eagles “Y” Hawks, First Presbyterian 150 pound class: Beachcombers Atkinson, Unknows, Junior Varsi ty; Unlimited Class: YMCA Var sity, War Dogs of Camp Lejeune Southern Conference Fives Play Today WHITE PHANTOMS FAVORED TO WIN RALEIGH TOURNEY Duke Blue Devils Rate As Only Five Dangerous To Tar Heels RALEIGH, Feb. 27. — (ff) — The cream of the Southern Confer ence’s basketball crop will open their annual tournament here be fore a sell-out crowd in Memorial Auditorium tomorrow, with the University of North Carolina well favored to retain the crown. The opening game, at 2 pi m., will pit V.P.I against George Washington, followed by N.C. State versus Duke University at 4 p. m. First Seeded University of North Carolina will meet Maryland at 7:30 p. m., and at 9:30 p. m., Wil liam and Mary will play Wake Forest. The winner of the North Caro lina-Maryland game will meet the winner of the William and Mary Wake Forest game at 7:30 p. m., Frdiay, and the winner of the V.P. l. -George Washington game will meet the N.C. State-Duke winner at 9 p.m. The championship game will be played at 8 p. m., Saturday. While North Carolina is the heavy favorite, an upset could well be in the cards, for only once in the last six years has the number one rated outfit been able to stand the pressure. That was Duke in 1942. The other five years an un derling had roared to the cham pionship. Yet the tar heels will take the floor with a couple of All-South erns in their lineup. Horace (Bones) McKinney, who made the mythical five while at N.C. State before he entered the service, will be at center; and Jim Jordan, who placed on the 1945 team, will be at a guard post. Bubber Sew ard, the Duke goal expert, will be trying for a repeat spot after a two-year layoff. All five choices for the 1945 sec ond team will be on hand. They are John Dillon and Bob Paxton of' North Carolina; Ed Koffen berger of Duke; Jack Flynn of Maryland; and Stan Magdziak of William and Mary. Oddly enough, not a South Car olina team placed in the pairings. The conference basketball commit tee meeting last Sunday, dis counted Furman’s bid on the grounds that it played only two games outside of South Carolina and four of its games were with with Davidson. Only two teams were seeded— North Carolina and Duke. No oth ers were seeded because of the comparatively small marginal dif ferences in won and lost records. In fact, the committee said, the standings were as close as any in tournament history. Memorial auditorium will be jammed for the contests. The 4,000 seats have been sold for weeks and’ J. L. von Glahn busi ness manager of the tournament, has accepted no orders since Feb ruary 2. Hundreds of applicants have been turned down. Adding to the problem ts the, room short age here. Many fans have reserved accommodations in nearby towns. Tlie slave trade began in 1503, when Portuguese landed the first shipment of Negroes at Santo Domingo.•_ Vance Building, Lost Battalion of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Shipyarders, and Hi Wildcats. The schedule for the first two days of the tournament which will end Friday, March 1, is as follows: Tomorrow: Winter Park Flashes vs. “Y” Pirates, 4 p. m.; “Y” Comets vs. "Y” Storks, 5 p. m. ; Hi 31ackhawks vs. Lucky Seven, 7 p. m.; “Y” All-Stars vs. White Sox, 8 p. m.; “Y” Hawks vs. First Presbyterian. Saturday; Tileston vs. Winter Park, 2 p. m.; “Y” Bulldogs vs. Sunset Panthers, 3 p. m.; Catlett Lions vs. “Y” Crusaders, 4 p. m.; Chestnut I Bears vs. “Y” Sharks, 5 p. m.; Shipyard vs. Lost Battalion, 7:30 p. m.; “Y” Varsity vs. Camp Le jeune War Dogs, 9 p. m. Cadet Grid Careers Sliced At West Point WEST POINT, N. Y„ Feb. 27— (iP)—Felix (Doc) Blanchard and Glenn Davis, All-America backs, and at least nine other members of Army’s powerful 1945 football squad will play their last season for the U. S. military academy next fall, ail hough they still have two years of eligibility. This was disclosed today by Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, academy superintendent, who announced the division of the present sophomore class into two sections, one of which will be graduated in the spring of 1947. The division, which becomes ef fective next June 5, was made in connection with plans to reconvert the academy from a wartime to peacetime basis, General Taylor said , In addition to Blanchard and Davis, football players now listed as sophomores who will jump into the senior class after June 5 are: Arnold Tucker, first string quarterback; Herschel Fuson and James Enos, centers; Jack Ray and Shelton Biles, guards; Harold Tavzel, tackle; Barney Poole and Tom Hayes, ends, and William West, back. Immediately after Taylor’s an nouncement, the football squad met and elected Davis and Blanchard as co-captains for 1946. The election had been postponed because of the impending division. Traditionally, the army grid cap tain comes from the first (senior) class. It will be the first time in the history of the academy for the cadets to be led by co-captains. Davis, who comes from Clare mont, Calif., and was appointed to the academy by Rep. Jerry Voor his (D-Calif), is the outstanding all-around athlete at West Point. Blanchard, from Bishopville,. S. C., was a private in the army air forces before his appointment by Rep. John L. McMillan (D-S.C.) Both Davis and Blanchard were All-America selections the past two years, Davis at halfback and Blanchard at fullback. Athletic ability did not figure in the basis for the division, the academy’s’ announcement said. The four factors in the selection were: 1—Scholarship, leadership and long range potentialities to the service; 2—the individual’s choice; 3—that the class be equally divided to place a like number of grad uates in the Army in 1947 and 1948; 4—in the event that all other SOUTHERN SCORING ACES IN TOURNEY RICHMOND, Va.. Feb. 27—(^P)— Eleven of the first 15 scoring lead ers in the southern conference will be on hand at the league’s annual basketball classic which opens at Raleigh Thursday. The No. 1 point-maker as far as points are concerned is North Caro lina’s John Dillon, whose 193 points lead Ed Koffenberger, Duke center, who is in second with 164. Both have played in 14 loop contests, giving Dillon ah average of 13.8 and Koffenberger, 11.7. Considering averages, however, the conference’s most potent basket pitcher—the University of Rich mond’s Freddie Gantt—will be sit ting out the tourney. Gantt dumped in 154 points in 10 games for an average of 15.4. Of course, if you look at the rec ords of players who participated in only part of the campaign. Barry Kreisberg, George Washington pivot man, will average a bit better than Gantt. Kreisberg ioined the Colonials early in February, played in only four conference games, but he made 63 points—not enough to put him among the leading scor ers, but goodenough for an ever age of 15.8 points. There’s another gentleman, too, who undoubtedly will have a lot to say before the fire dies away on the 1946 tournament Saturday night even if he didn’t make enough points to rank among the leaders. He’s Big Bones McKinney, North Carolina’s ace center, who played'in only nine games for the Tar Heels to make 89 points—a 9.9 point average. factors were equal, the more ma ture cadet was placed in the higher class. At Annapolis the Naval academy classes returned to a peacetime basis last June, and only one major football player—Fullback Joe Bartos—was affected. The Navy divided classes on an aca demic basis, and Bartos found himself in an upper group. Big Joe, from Lorain, Ohio, will have one more year of football. FISHING CLUB OFFICERS MEET AT WRIGHTSVILLE Plans For Coming Year Discussed At Business Meeting Of Officials President Truman and Gov ernor Cherry last night joined a local organization—although neither gentleman is as yet aware of the fact. Both were made honorary members of the New Hanover Fishing club, largest organization of its k'nd in the country, by an action of the group's officers and mem bers of ihe board of directors at an oyster roast-business meeting at Wrightsville Beach. After a prolonged discussion H was decided to- allow all members participating in the club’s membersh'p «drive a chance to win the two and a half horsepower motor given to the man selling the most tickets to new members with the exception of the donors of the motor. , The group also voted to have a prize list valued at S1.500 this year. Bert Blake, chairmen of the scales committee was com mended by the group for his work in iining up additional weighing stat’ons for the com ing season, and George Canady received a vote of thanks from the organization for his work during the war years,” ... he was instrumental in keeping the club together,” President Watkins observed. Plans for the coming annual were discussed with various members reporting on . adver tis'ng sales. It was voted to have a first printing of the an nual of 1,500 copies. VAN HORN WINS PRO NET CROWN MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 27— (JP)—Welby Van Horn, of Atlanta,! Ga., today defeated Frankie Ko vacs, of Oakland, Calif., in straight sets to win the $5,000 Evans cup professional singles tennis meet. Van Horn employed a deceptive drop shot and displayed a superior net game to turn back the cocky California, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Van Horn took top money of $850, with second money of $550 going to Kovacs. ■ Fred Perry defeated Big Bill Tilden, 8-6, 1-6, 6-0, for third money Van Horn and Kovacs won the doubles finals from Perry and Tilden, 8-10, 6-3, 6-0. First money for the doubles was $800. Tilden and Perry divided $600 for second place. VPI Football Coach Resigns For Pro Job BLASKSBURG, Va„ Feb. 27— (JP)—MaCauley McEver, formerly an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina, today tendered his resignation as backfield coach o; the Virginia Polytechnic insti tute football team. He left to accept the pos.’.ion as president and head coach of the Richmond Arrows, of the Dixie Professional football league. McEver, a graduate of VPI, serv ed as freshman coach at Tech from 1930 to 1935 in football, baseball and basketball and the following year was promoted to varsity backfield coach. He served in that capacity until 1942 when he was named co-coach with Sumner Til son when Coach Jimmy Kitts en tered the service. In 1944 he moved to North Carolina to assist his brother, Gene, with the Tar Heels. BASKETBALL TONIGHT The 1928-29 New Hanover High school state championship basketball team will try to turn back the clock several years tonight when they meet the current edition of the school’s basketball teams in a contest at the NHHS floor. The game will be a benefit. ^ Tops North State Si,.. . i;3BH---i-- *.J Irie Leonard, Guilford college forward from Greensboro is at present ieading the North State conference scoring race as that conference goes into its final weel: of play. Optimistic Davidson Eyes Football Season DAVIDSON, Feb. 27. — (tP) — Rounding out its second week of winter football practice, Davidson College today had a roster of 41 hopefuls and new Head Coach Bill Storey, late of Granby High School of Norfolk, Va., was anything but pessimistic over his material. Davidson’s 1946 gridiron edition, which will be the first Wildcat entry into the varsity field in two years, is still an unknown quan tity comprising returned war vet erans, former Davidson football stars and a number of collegiate beginners. Starting virtually from scratch with a new coach, Storey, and new assistant, Charley Jamerson, for merly coach of Memphis State Teachers college and later an as sistant to North Carolina’s Carl Snavely, Davidson today had these 1946 prospects: Six of Storey’s former Granby High stars who helped run up his string of 21 straight victories there, three standouts from the 1946 freshman squad, 10 former Wild cat members lately returned from he service. Chief of the returned war vet erans is George Peters, twin bro ther of Tommy Peters, who wag killed last April on the European , front. As a passing duo, Peters jto-Peters made local gridiron his tory back in 1942 and 1943, Others who have doffed military | uniforms for football togs include: Earl “Red” Bethea, blocking back of 1941-42; Art Roach, tailback who [was one of Davidson’s leading jground-gainers in 1942; and Ed I White, scrappy 155-pound back. Writer Remembers Days Of Jeffries’ Glory £y WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Feb. 27—(AV-Jlin Jeffries is in the news again. Sadly this time, for the 70-year-old ex champion, one of the last survivors of the fabulous era of prize fighting around the turn of the century, is seriously ill. Jeffries’ name always brings that “Ah, there was a man” gleam to the eyes of oldtime fans. Along with lengthy discourse on the glor ious days of Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Corbett, Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey and John L. Sullivan. The link to the bare-knuckle era, was a little before Jeffries’ time but he is associated with the era through the medium of common opponents. We only saw Jeffries once. That was about a dozen years ago in Omaha. We found a huge bear of a man, soft spoken and kindly and showing no visible effects of his ring career. It was easy to see he did not think much of the crop of heavyweights current at the time, and he blamed this deterioration to a disinclination to train properly, particularly in respect to road work. The boys just weren’t in condition, in other words. Many an old timer still rates big Jim as the class of all heavy weights. A man of tremendous strength, standing 6 feet 1 1-2 inches and weighing 225 pounds. He had a tremendous punch, stone wall stamina and a skill which often was overlooked in a summation of his talents. Oddly enough, he had only 21 bouts in his entire fighting career, whereas a fighter nowadays still is considered a comparative novice with only that much experience. Joe Louis has defended his title just that number of times. He won the heavyweight cham pionship in his 11th fight, when he was 24, knocking out Bob Fitzsim mons in the 11th round of their bout at Coney Island. Later he knocked out Ruby Rob again, and also Corbett, whom Fitzsimmons had defeated for the title. Gentle man Jim, the master boxer, went 23 rounds before bowing t sheer power and stamina of Jef fries, who really took a boxing les son that day. When the big guy had disposed ^ all the opposition in sight he de elded toP retire, naming Marvin Hart and Jack Root a^ the l®a^ing contenders. Hart knooked out Root and Jeffries acknowledged him as champion. Tommy Burns then de feated Hart, and Burns retained the title until stopped by Jack John son in 1908. Johnson seemed invincible, and Jeffries was lured from retirement to try to regain his relinquished crown. We have a hazy recollection of events with that bout. We recall seeing pictures of big Jeff in train ing, roughing it, chopping wood and otherwise working to melt away the suet brought by five years of ease and idleness. We recall one picture bearing the caption, “Jef fries splits first bottle of beer since starting training.” It showed a fat tish, baldish man. a far cry from anything resembling a well-train ed athlete. We also recall pictures of that fight, with a grinning Johnson, one of the ring’s master defensive boxers, toying with a tired old man and finally winning as Big Jeff went down from sheer exhaustion as much as from the cruel punish ment he had been taking. But he apparently was a great man when he had it, a rock-ribbed, iron-jawed, dynamite-fisted war rior. Never did a man earn such a lasting reputation and become al | most a legendary figure with so I few fights on his re’cord. 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