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| The yiorning Watch WITH ; * j Edward Sachs petticoat Baseball r We were looking through one of our old baseball score hooks the other day, trying to find put what all those little lfarks meant, when we got to thinking about those happy £ when we were covering the American Girls Profes i„al softball league. While we know you are not interested n girls playmg softball—especially, if you are in your ri ht bear with us. Besides what do you want for a nickel forever Amber? _ We found that female softball differed from baseball in many wa>'s- °£ »there wasn’t a catcher in the loop who could throw the ball as far as second base. A big rally !:t lummer consisted of a babe getting walked, stealing second and *ftd and coming in on an outfield fly. rrw also had some blood thirsty ideas about umpires. Your „rjf« maic ball player will not vote for an umpire as the man likely to become United States, commissioner but on the whole j®0:. adverse to the idea of committing meyhem on the jerk because calls balls and strikes. Your girl player however, figures that with Gening of the softball year it is open season on all umpires. They Luld have little tricks like letting their bats slip just as he dusted the plate. They loved to let go of wild throws during infield practice ...the general direction of any umpire. As a result we had a bis turnover in umpires. _ Toward the press, the ladies of the basepath took a very humane m>w-they would never hit you when you were writing a story. This ; !ner took great pleasure one summer in pointing out that the third ^eman of Racine—although a very nifty blonde—still couldn’t play Shall it a Pair o£ nylon. stockings depended on it, let alone her life. retaliated by dropping cigarettes, roaches, and old magazines, chopped up into little bits into our pre-game beer(s). However the scribe that irked the gals the most was our good pal «nd gin-rummy sucker, Jim O’Brien of the Racine Journal-Times. Besides being stupid by nature, Jim couldn’t see very well and wore vsrv thick glasses. He had the unhappy job of being official scorer one crucial Milwaukee-Racine series and repeatedly called hits, errors; fielder's choices, hits; and stolen bases, errors on the catcher. The night before the last game, one of the Milwaukee players ad vsnced on the press box with bashing O’Brien as her object. He put ' his glasses so she couldn’t swing. She reached over, took them off, slugged him on the jaw, reached back, put on his glasses and walked off without saying a word. _ Then the birds and the bees would start to work and one of the girls would get, of all things, married. This upset several of our bet. tin# rnnnK. As you know, pitching is about 75 per cent of softball. One Wek, South Bend waltzed into town and O’Brien and this corn figured that to bet on the outcome of the game would be foolish Indeed I as South Bend had one of the best pitchers in the league, a young lady, «’ll call Burke. However, as we read the program we could find no Burke listed and Reilly, a name we had never heard of was listed as the only pitcher on the South Bend squad. Figuring that Burke had been kicked cut of the league for smuggling lipstick Into the dressing room, we laid our collective bankrolls on Racine. The game started and Burke strode out on the mound. Even O'Brien could see her. We looked up the middlemen In the transaction and said that we had been robbed. They smiled and pointed out, "That pitcher's name is not Burke, it is Reilly.” They inferred that we were losing our grip. That did not stop us because we knew Burke when we saw Burke and as the game progressed, we saw too much of her. She pitched a two-hitter and our money was as good as a martini made with orange crush. After the game we hustled over to Reilly end fn chorus asked her name. "Reilly”, she answered. “But you probably knew me before I got married. Then it was Burke.” You can see what pitfalls have been avoided in Wilmington by keeping the women in the home end letting the Tobacco State league represent the city. Brooklyn Dodgers Have Father-Son Combination JUNIOR BASEBALL DRILLS UNDERWAY Ninth Street Sluggers To Begin Work For City League Season The Ninth Street Sluggers be came the first member of the City Junior Baseball League to begin practice drils for the 1946 season, aj the young players went through extension workouts at Robert r»ge Park yesterday evening. City Recreation Department ® furnish equipment for all eams in the Junior Loop which • d Lake Forest, Tabernacle, va"ce Building, Raleigh Building, ■ / and Castle, and Ninth street he league last season. In the Slugger’s practice the long ‘stance slugging of Carl Warren, .."'“/Burlington, Billy Smith, _ Robert Brown reatured the uons. These four will probably lineujf gUnS in tbe nine’s batting Otnef boys on the team are Jim Melton°e vniniTe’ Herbe-1 John on8® 6rS’ E' G' Britt- Eddi* Doujjia,’ c3nUd Junior Walters, si/ Sessoms has been select an assistant manager. powerful1'® said to have the most ly 3aw g^P, porportionate insects or animals. TIME To Dress-Up THE BOAT see us for ~pa,n^ar™e "Varnishes rm'NG COMPOUND "oILGE SOLVENT pA, ALSO «°AT accessories Enterprise1 SPORTS SHOP “ ,South Front St. ^ 'll0np - . . 2-1830 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 5—(JP)—Brooklyn ha* a unique fa ther and *on story this spring in Rookie outfielder John "Jack” Cor rlden, Jr., and his 59-year-old dad coach, Johnny Corriden, Sr., of managed Leo Durocher’s board of strategy. Red-faced Johnny Sr., is getting one of the biggest thrills of his 38 years in baseball from his son’s fight for a job with the Brooklyn ball club, yet he remains strictly neutral — or as neutral as a father ever can be about his own son. It was all planned years ago, for when the elder Corriden was man aging and coaching around the minor leagues after his playing days were over. Jack was always out at the park shagging balls in the outfield or playing catch with the players. Ball players, knowing about such things, sized him up as one of their own and taught him some of the tricks of the trade. That was in places like Minneapolis and In dianapolis and later in Chicago where John, Sr., was a coach from 1931 through 1940. “When he was eight years old we used to go to the ball games," the father reminisced. “I have two other sons. One was more interest ed in art and another in mechanical things, but Jack always wanted to play. I’ll confess I didn’t discour age him. “Out in Chicago when Gabby Hartnett had the club, Jack would work out with the team. One day, while he was still going to Indiana University, he asked me what I thought he should do. I told him to get his education first and then follow the same profession I did. ’ LIKES INDOOR SPORT NEW YORK, March 5—(AP)—Mar cel Hansenne, the French runner who winds up his American tour in the Frank A. Brennan Colum bian mile at the Knights of Colum bus games in Madison Square Gar den Saturday night, will confine hi* future participation to outdoor tracks, he said today. COCHRANE 8UED NEW YORK, March 3—(U.R)— Bobby Quinn, former business man ager of Fritzie Zivic, today began action in the state supreme court against Freddie (Red) Cochane for $30,000 or 23 percent of his earnings after he won the welterweight championship from Zivic. Wildcats Meet Camp Lejeune Quintet FEATURE TONIGHT OF YMCA TOURNEY Lost Battalion Quintet From Marine Base, Foe For ’Cats The High school Wildcats will play the Camp Lejeune Lost Battalion five in a Senior division game in the YMCA tournament, Adam Smith, physical director of the “Y” announced last night. Smith said that the “Y” Leaders will play the “Y” Crows at 7:30 and the Junior Varsity will meet the Unknowns at 8:30 in tourna ment play proceeding the final game. In action yesterday the YMCA Varsity met the Hewes building and won 31 to 16, the “Y” Comets defeated the “Y” Wildcats, 18 to 15 and the Long Creek Grady quint dropped a close one to the “Y” All-Stars 29 to 28. Grissom of the “Y” All-Stars turned in one of the best perform ances 0* the tournament as he dropped in 10 points on eight baskets and three free throws. Play will continue today and Thursday in the tournament with the final rounds of the various divisions being scheduled for the weekend. TILDEN RAPPED BY DON BUDGE No Love-Set For Net Rivals As Red-Head Slams Promotions CHICAGO, March 5—(tfl—Big Bill Tilden Is a “bust” as a professional tennis promoter, red-haired Don Budge asserted today, declaring the game needs better guidance to achieve the success of professional ; golf. * Budge, here to open a 25-match tour against Bobby Riggs at the ' Chicago Stadium Saturday night, : admitted Tilden, now over 50, still ; is a “terrific court personality,” . but said he is unqualified to give tennis pros the proper organization leadership. Tilden recently organized a ten- ' nis group comparable to the Pro- ( fessional Golf Association with plans for three major tournaments yearly. “The organization never will suc ceed as long as Tilden insists on hnth nlavini? and running the whole show,” Budge declared. ‘‘The idea needs careful planning and Tilden is too unpredictable.” Budge, top ranked amateur from 1936 through 1938, said he planned to play five or six more years and then would enter tjie promotional end of the game. “I won’t be as sociated with Tilden, though, on that you can bet,” he added. "You don’t see Corcoran (Fred J. Corcoran, PGA tournament manager) dabbling around ts a player, his job is to promote pro fessional golf and he sticks to it.” MAFFITT CAGERS WIN Maffitt Village’s cagettes Mon day evening took a return en gagement from the Women Reserve of Camp Lejeune eag er*, 33 to 27. It marked the second time that the Cagettes had defeated the lady marines and it gave them a season’s mirk of six wins in six games. _-The Whole Year Through y - get down to business in April and May m&m*i •■come down the stretch in August end September.. I,,. i “fight for the title in fictober. 1J A. -and still squawk %4 ' because the football ? folks crowd their < fe- schedule! Hj Senators Workouts Sparked By Rookies (Compiled From The Wire* Of AP and UP) Two rookie outfielders, Gil Coan ind Roy Goolsby set the pace In Vashington Senators workouts yes erday . . . Goolsby hit two long lome runs while Coan shone at bat md In the field . . . Hugh Mulcahy, ’hilly pitcher, who was the first najor leaguer to enter the service s trying for a comeback with the Juaker City nine after five years, iaid yesterday that his arm “feels veak’’ . . . Jorge Pasquel, presi lent of the Mexican baseball loop •aid yesterday that he offered Joe Medwick $10,000 a year to play jaseball south of the border but Medwick signed instead with the 3rowns for $5,000 . . . The most extensive night game schedule in najor league baseball history will le played this year . . . The Vmerican league has carded 130 right contests alone . . . Pitcher loe Dobson, just out of service ap peared in the Red Sox lineup for ;he first time this year and retired line straight batters . . . Catcher Frank Hayes, Indian holdout, smoked the peace pipe with the ;ribe . . . The Athletics in an intra : e a m battle confirmed Connie Mack’s suspicions that they were veak at bat by making only six lits—three to a side—in nine in lings . . . The Braves pulled a fast me on Butch Nieman . . . The out fielder held out all year and was iigned by the Braves last night . . Ten minutes later they had op ;ioned him to Indianapolis . . . rlarry Walker was signed by the ffards . . . Tuck Stainback of the Sfanks was another holdout to show ;he white flag yesterday . . . Er vin Austin, a rookie outfielder, got ;he longest hit of the day in Giant vorkouts when he lashed a foul-line double into leftfield . , . Johnny Corriden’s son Jonnie, Jr. drove in the winning run in the Dodger’s 4 to 3 victory over Montreal yester day . . . His father is a Dodger coach . . . Gene Thompson, Joe Beggs and Millard Howell gave tight-wad pitching to the Reds regulars as the Yannigans won 10 to 1 . . . Howell has the same name as Alabama’s All-American grid star but is no relation . . . Pet Mullin, who was hitting .345 for the Tigers when a shoulder injury cut short his major league career in 1941, put all his power into a dozen pegs from right field today and said he felt no pain . . . Ray Sand ers refused to pose for pictures with his rival Diclf Sisler yester day . . . Both are out for the Card’s first base job. Durham, Greensboro Win Cage Playoff Contests WIN Durham High from the Eastern conference and Greens boro from the Western last night won the playoffs of their respective leagues. At Chapel Hill, the Greens boro entry turned back High Point, 18 to 13 in a low scor ing affair. At Wake Forest, Durham and Wilson played a 31 to 25 con test with Durham coming out on top. PELLICLE WINS DERBY NEW ORLEANS, March 5—OT— Pellicle won the $15,000-added Louisiana Derby today in the clos ing program of the Fair Grounds winter meeting. Large Turnout Of UNC Alumni Hears Coach Snavely, Saunders TOURNAMENT BID TO PHANTOM FIVE Will Play Against NYU, Harvard, Mulenberg For Eastern Championship CHARLOTTE, March The University of North Carolina got the bid late today to represent district three in the Eastern play offs of the National Collegiate Ath. letic association basketball tourna ment in Madison Square garden, March 21-23, it was announced by Norman Shepard, district chair man. Four Eastern teams—NYU, Har vard, Muhlenberg and North Caro lina— will compete in the garden tournament for the right to repre sent the East in the finals against the Western winner, on the same floor March 26. The Western play, offs will be held at Kansas City. wioice lor tne aisxrict xeam my between North Carolina and Duke. Members of the committee, in addition to Shepard, are Gus Te bell of the University of Virginia and Adolph Rupp of the University of Kentucky. In announcing that North Caro lina had accepted the bid, Shep ard said that the selection commit tee believed it had fulfilled its responsibility of picking the best team from this section to compete in the tournament. Of the North Carolina defeats only one was at the hands of a collegiate opponent, the overtime loss to Duke, which was later avenged. The other losses were to Greensboro, Ord and the sea son's finale against the Little Creek, Va., Naval amphibious team. The Ord setback was wiped out handsomely in a return en gagement. The Little Creek game was played with conference scor ing champion John Dillon and Star Center Bones McKinney on the sick list. In taking regular season confer ence laurels the men of Lt. Ben Carnevale won 13 out of 14. Their most notable achievements of the year were away from home triumphs over N.V.U., the only loss for the Violets, and Navy un beaten until it ran into North Carolina. LEJEUNE SEEDED ATLANTA, March 5—(£>)—Mid and City, Mich., Camp Atterbury, Ind., Camp Lejeune, and Wood River, 111., have seeded in that or der for the American Basketball Congress’ national tournament which starts here Saturday. The Greensboro, overseas re placement depot and Fort Ben ning’s Snipers are rated as dark horses. FIRST PUPPY DRUM The first salt-water catch of the season was reported yesterday to the New Hanover Fishing club when John Murray brought in a catch of four puppy drums. Murray was fishing from the shore at Fort Fisher when he made his strikes. The largest of his catch weighed two and a half pounds, not large enough for consideration in the club’s prize list but indicative that the salt-water season is open. Various plans for a Panama canal date from 1523. Basement-Bogged Phils Ready To Move Up By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor MIAMI BEACH, March 5.-(NEA) —Nobody knows everybody else on the Phillies, but the perennial Na tional league doormats definitely are headed in the right direction. With nine minor league farms, 11 full-time scouts and the rich est owner in the history of base ball in enthusiatsic Robert R. M Carpenter, Jr., this Philadelphia club scarcely can miss. Bob Carpenter, a duPont, and at 28 the youngest major league proprietor in the annals of the game, has spent $200,000 for talent since last season. Returned Vet Orphans of the storm at Fla mingo Park here are 14 athletes returned from the armed forces —pitchers Tommy Hughes, Hugh Mulcahy, Ike Pearson, Frank Hoerst, Schoolboy Rowe, Si John son and a kid, Dale Jones; catch ers Benny Culp and Bill Peter man; infielders Danny Murtaugh, Heinie Mueller and Pinkey May; and outfielders Ron Northey and Joe Marty. Hie Phillies have changed own ership twice and managers and coaches thrice since they departed. Ben Chapman has the nucleus of a corking pitching staff in Hughes, Mulcahy, Charley Schanb, relief worker Anton Karl and the left-handed Frank Hoerst, Ken Raf fensberger and Oscar Judd. Ex-Card A1 Jurisich, a six-foot two-inch right-hander purchased from the Cardinals three weeks ago, is a potential star. Then there are Schoolboy Rowe, southpaw Jack Kraus and 18 others with still more to come. Like all other big league clubs this erstwhile poor relation never had so many candidates in its 65 years. The Phils, of all people, are four and five deep at every position, and still in the market. The catching may not be as weak as it appears. Manager Chapman and his coaches, Cy Perkins and Benny Bengough think a lot of little burly, baldheaded, 25-year-old Andy Serr.inick, who got in 80 games last year after playing the outfield in the Southern association and Inter national league. He swats a long ball. Hal Spindel is the more accom plished receiver, however, and an other aspirant is 25-year-old Bill Peterman, who had a brief whirl with the aggregation in 1942. Infield Set First and third bases are set with Frank McCormick and Jim Tabor, respectively . If Whitey Kurowski is obtained from the Cardinals, Tabor will be traded. Ray Hamrick is out of the Army, and undoubtedly will be the short stop. A Philadelphia club that was going surprisingly well lost 15 in a row when he was inducted in 1944. At second base, Danny Murtaugh was a big leaguer batting .273 when Uncle Sam called in 1943. He led the league in stolen bases in 1942. Skeeter Newsome and Roy b >_ chapman launching his first full season as big time manager, gives ^ his Phillies pep talk at training camp in Miami, Fla. Hughes are better than green hands who are adequate at either short) second or third. Johnny O’Neill, a shortstop pur chased from the Portland club, fields and throws well enough, but is a little thin kid who seems to lack power, although he batted .315 in the Pacific Coast league. The outfield right now is Jimmy Wasdell, equally at home at first base, Vince DiMaggio and Hon Northey, who batted in 104 runs in 1944 and is valued at $100,000. Lou Novikoff will have to take care of himself and buckle down to crash this outfield, which is backed up by the veteran Coaker Triplett and Johnny Wyrostek, pur chased from the Cardinals. With the newly-acquired hands and returning war veterans, Ben Chapman, launching his first full season as a big time manager, has rounded out the Phils and the Na tional league race at the same time. The Phils have quantity, if not all quality, and the urge of the moneyed young Bob Carpenter, seconded by the old foxcatcher Serb Pennock. There have been vorse combinations. At long last the Phils can buy jlayers and afford to keep them. Certainly, no longer will Shibe Park be an oasis, where other Na ;ional clubs can rest and doctor heir wounds. CIGARETTE LIGHTERS — All Typea — PICKARD’S 809 Market St. Dial UtM ‘Football Prospects At Uni versity Uncertain/ Snavely Carl Snavely, head football coach of the University of North Carolina, described the football picture at the Chapel Hill school as “uncer tain due to the draft and' the slow* down of service discharges.’* Speaking at the gathering of Wil mington alumni of the university, Snavely refrained from making any concrete observations on football prospects at Chapel Hill next fall. Instead he gave a “pep talk” for greater alumni support of the school. Both Snavely and Alumni Secre tary J. M. Saunders, UNC alumni secretary, complimented the group on its attendence which filled the St. Paul’s Lutheran church parish house. Saunders in his remarks brought up the old story of wage scales at the university for its teaching staff and reviewed the Morehead dona tion of a building for the campus. He also told the alumni that the Carolina school quotas on entering students have been established to toxvc WOiV. **.v,w*.w* ““‘“O number of entering students. These quotas are raised on an out-of state and native basis with special consideration for returning vet erans. The pictures of the North Caro lina-Virginia football which were to have been shown were not because as Snavely explained, “Lou Little (Columbia University) has not re turned them.” In their place several shots of various Tar Heel games last sea son were shown. Snavely did comment on the rec ord made by New Hanover High school athletic teams in the past year and expressed the desire to see many of the members of the team enrolled in the university. Members of the NHHS coaching staff headed by Leon Brogder. and athletes of the school were special guests of the alumni group. YOUNG NAMED CULLOWHEE, March 5. — W— Western Carolina Teachers college President H. T- Hunter today an nounced that Tom Young, head football coach at the University of North Carolina in 1943, has ac cepted the position of head coach in football and baseball and in structor in physical education at the college. Recently discharged from the navy. Young, will report for duty Monday. Young played football and base ball at North Carolina from 1925 to 1928. Later he coached at Smith field', Pembrooke and Monroe and was at Lexington High from 1930 through 1941. At Lexington his football teams won 92 games out nf inn He has been assisting Car] Snaye ly with winter football practice at Chapel Hill. OFFICER APPOINTED ST. ANDREWS, Scotland. March 5—(iP)—A 38-year-old Royal Naval officer, commander J. A. Storer Carson, today was appointed secre tary of the famed St. Andrews golf club. Carson, who expects to be demobilized soon, was named from more than 150 applications for the post. He will be responsible for arrangement of int e r n a t i o n a 1 matches, championship competi tions and rules revision. He suc ceeds the late Henry Cullen. GALS PLAY TEACHERS The Girl’s team of the New Hanover High school will take on the teachers of the Wilming ton school in a basketball game starting at 8 p. m. tonight at the high school floor. V • • . • GR1DDERS REPORT FOR NHHS TRACK Neal Patrick, Charlie Smith And Jim Gibson Out For Sprints Coach L. M. Harkins made Ms first move toward starting a New Haqover High School track team yesterday morning in the NHHS auditorium when he gathered the Wilmington boys together and showed them a movie concerning the star track players. In a preliminary talk to the lads, Harkins announced that the Ameri can Legion Stadium will be the site for practice and even thnueh th» track is made of sand, he said “it will slow our opponents up just as much as the Wildcats.” Three speedsters are expected to try their talent at the cinder game. They are Neal Partrick, Charlie Smith, and Jim Gibson, who are all fast runners, especially Partrick, winner of the ROTC fifty yard dash. Harkins asserted “I am setting our goal at the state champion ship, because I feel that with such a tough goal we will work harder to attain it." Harkins managed a Junior Var sity football team this season, btrt track is his major sport. H'j asked the boys interested to please re port in the afternoon so they could go over the picture and point out the best points. Man Breaks Picket Line With Butt Of Shotgun GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 5. —(JP)—Lawrence Squires, 29 year-old war veteran, was charged with felonious assault and held un der $500 bond Tuesday after police asserted he had fought his way through a picket line at the Michi gan Wheel co. plant with the butt of a shoteun. The pickets l.ad attempted to disarm Squires when he levelled the gun at fellow workers and de clared “I’m going to work.” Squires later told police the gun was not loaded. Sham Battles Planned By Reds In Manchuria CHUNGKING, March B— (ff) — ‘ The Chinese Central news agency said Tuesday that Soviet authori ties in Manchuria announced they will conduct sham battle* at Changchun, Harbin, Dairen and other Soviet garrisoned areas soon. The dispatch from Changchun, the Manchurian capital, said the Soviets had notified the Chinese military delegation there of the maneuvers, but did not specify dates. MULLOY-TALBERT TEAM NEW YORK, March 5— (A5) — Gardnar Mulloy of Miami, and William F. Talbert, now of Wil mington, Del., the tandem that won the U. S. Outdoor tennis doubles crown in 1942, will team together again ir. the 1946 indoor matches which start Saturday, it was announced today. TENNIS SHOES GIRLS AND BOYS 114 MARKET ?-lit- " .
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