ROCKPORT, Mass., April 3—Your homesick reporter
went fishing today in the Wilmington of Massachusetts,
and is happy to inform doubting Thomases, that the folks
at home, and their hungry neighbors dined on a variety of
bluefish, mackerel, haddock, etc., and the cat is happily
asleep now after consuming the best part of a sand shark.
We motored back to Boston as darkness approach
ed with a car fidl of briny creatures, plus the wife,
. who from now on will let us rub elbow's with other
anglers alone, and not tag along.
Rockport is in G'oucester, and is not a pretty place, but
Jg positively a fishing paradise. The old houses and streets
play second fiddle to the party boats and schooners that
dot nearly every backyard. And the kids in Gloucester
learn to love fishing at an early age, or they get sent to
some awful place, like Harvard or Yale, for instance.
We arrived after an absence of six years, fully ex
pecting someone on the piers to recognize us, but no
such luck, and we had to pay full price. A 30-foot craft
takes the incoming throngs out to a schooner that is
•; anchored some la miles off the coast right over a
school of pollock (blues.)
The schooner of course, has been out there tor most
©f the night and at 9:30 A. M. when we arrived there were
about 100 anglers hauling up the prize catches as fast as
they could pull in their lines.
The scuttle-run boat removes anyone who has had
“ enough, or has run out of beer, and returns to the
~ mainland to pick up some more folks who have laid
~ down their three bucks.
We remained aboard the schooner until noon, and quit
with several hundred pounds of fish . . . fanciest haul being
£ 10 pound mackerel. The tackle, which costs an additional
dol'ar, consists of a line, sinker, and hook. No pole or reel,
Because the darned fish are too plentiful. That seems to
be the only fault with the waters here.
There is really no sport, for a wait of 10 minutes
~ between strikes is unusually long. The schooner skip
— per, a colorful old sea-man by the name of Cutty Sark
3 (no relation to the Scotch) admitted that his lieuten
~ ants occassionally anchored over a school so large that
- all sport was lost. ,
~ “It s not too good tor business, reopie uxe iu ngm, a
Mttle for their fish,” he said. “But, in another month the
iuna will be here, and there’ll be plenty of sport.
Actually, everyone here seemed to feel that April
" was one of the poorest times to fish off the New Eng
Z land coast, yet no one had less than 10 good looking
~ specimen at his feet,
I “It seems to be even better in January, through the
tice,” Sark said, as he flung a chunk of squib at the squeam
ish wife (ours) for bait. “Sometimes we arrive this far out
it dawn, and there doesn’t seem to be a blasted bit of life
under the surface. But, for an hour we’ll toss food out,
while we wait for the first gang to be brought aboard, and
fcy that time, they’re biting.” , .
We asked him about tuna, with the thoughts of
“ Wilmington and the tuna drive down there, and the
*■- picturesque captain said the big boys would be off the
I Mass, coast late this montK. From what this writer
- had heard, they were expected to pass the Carolinas in
<* May, enroute north, and we said so. ,
Z “Sonny, I ain’t arguing with you,” Sark growled sar
castically, “But 1 caught one myself last April 22, and he
was ovfer 300 pounds. So he either got by the North
Carolina coast before May, or he came over from Norway.
Sark (that isn’t his real name, but everyone aboard
t calls him that, and he signs his name that way) listen
- ed while we told him about the SENCBA fishing rodeo
Z this year with its $15,000 prize list.
~ “I’ve never Wished below Cape Hatteras, save for one
fling at Miami waters,” he told us. “But I heard of the
Sodeo last year in Wilmington, and you certainly should
{Jraw some crowds, for ’tis a fine idea.”
Sark became busy when someone sighted another
Z schooner nearby. He began to curse, and as the wife s
-- ears picked up in interest for the first time, we chased
T her onto the taxi-craft, and took leave of the fishing
throngs.
Home now, after spreading our deep sea fortunes
among the neighbors, it’s still easy to see the story-book
type captain aboard his beloved schooner. Incidentally, we
took the liberty of inviting him to visit Wilmington at
rodeo time, but since he’s never done it before it’s doubt
ful if he’ll journey south this summer, or fall.
But, this we can say. If there were 500 folks
1 Z fishing aboard the large schooner, 350 heard about
- Wilmington, the sport fishing, and the rodeo. And not
1 a few were mighty interested.
Z Meanwhile, we’re ready for Cowie anytime._
New Maryland Hoop
Coach Is Appointed
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 5.
—Flucie Stewart, developer
•{^outstanding teams among small
•olleges at Appalachian State col
lege, today was named succeed
JS: Burton Shipley as coach of the
University of Maryland basketball
team.
Athletic director Jim Tatum
made the appointment two days
after the resignation of Shipley
who had coached old liner cage
teams for 24 years. Shipley con
tinues as head baseball coach.
Stewart was athletic director,
football and basketball coach at
Appalachian for the second time
last year an^ his five won the
North State conference title with
a record of 18 win* in 23 starts.
FIELDERS SOLD
MOBILE, Ala., April 5.— (U.fi) —
Sale of inffielder Frank Gibbs and
Outfielder Bob Chapman by the
Movile Bears to Kammon in the
Evangeline League was announced
today.
Star-News Sponsoring
Golf Tournament
JIMMY DEMARET
CAPTURES LEAD
IN GOLF TOURNEY
By CHICK HOSCH
AUGUSTA. Ga., April 5.— (IP) —
Jimmy Demaret, the year’s lead
I ing money winner, overcame a
stiff wind and erratic shots off the
tee today to post a two-under par
70 for a three-stroke lead in the
$10,000 masters golf tournament.
He had a 54-hole total of 210 to re
main at the top of the heap.
The singing ex-Texas, who cap
tured the 1940 masters title by four
strokes—biggest margain in, any
of the previous ten events—had
five birdies but was one over par
on three other holes.
Tied for second with 213 were
the original gold dust twins, Har
old McSpaden of Sanford, Me., and
Byron Nelson of Roanoke, Texas.,
who won the event here in 1937
and 1942. McSpaden had a 70 to
day. Nelson shot a 72, making a
marvelous recovery on the back
nine after going out in a 39.
Deadlocked with 214 were Ben
Hogan of Hershey, Pa., the run
nerup in 1941 and last year, CHICK
Harbert of Detroit, and Jim Fer
rier of Chicago. Harbert and Ho
gan posted 71 today. Fer
rier slipped to 38 on the back
nine after going out in 35 to take
73.
A 35 on each nine, one under
par in each case, enabled Dema
ret to shake off Cary Middlecoff,
the sensational young Memphis
dentist who shared the lead with
the Ojai, Calif., pro at the halfway
mark.
Middlecoff remained in the run
ning with a brilliant recovery on
the back nine after a poor 40, go
ing out. He had a 36 coming in
for 76 and a 216 total.
Middlecoff, 26, the youngest pro
entered here and who turned pro
fessional last month on a two-year
trial basis, was even par on the
first six holes but went one over
on the 7th, two over on the 8th
with a seven, and one over on the
9th anj tenth. He recovered with
some brilliant iron shots to Birdie
to 13th and 15th holes and par the
rest until he came to the 18tb
where he lost another stroke. He
missed a four-foot putt at 17 to
take a par.
uemarei was wuu on me iees,
but his accurate irons got him out
of trouble in a majority of the
cases. However, except for his 15
foot putt on the 8th hole, he made
no others of importance.
Claude Harmon of Mamaroneck,
N. Y., had an ace on the 155-yard
12th hole. Chandler Harper
of Portsmouth, Va., shot the first
nine in 32 — lowest for this tourna
ment — to take a 68. That tied
the round of Lloyd Mangrum of
Chicago, who posted a 68 today
for a 217 total, the same as Har
per.
Bracketed at 215 were Frank
Stranahan of Toledo, O., who took
the lead among the amateurs from
Dick Chapman of Pinehurst, N. C.,
and Henry Picard of Cleveland. Pi
card played around in regulation
figures today while Stranahan
carded a 70, with a 33 on the back
nine.
Chapman, with 74 today, Tied
Mangrum and Harper at 21, as did
Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. C.,
Fred Haas of New Orleans, and
Lew Worsham of Wasington, D. C.
Palmer and Haais had 73 today and
Worsham shot a 71.
A stroke behind them at 216 and
tied with Middlecoff were Herman
Barron of White Plains, N. Y., Ed
Oliver of Wilmington, Del., Tony
Penna of Cincinnati, and Dick Metz
of Arkansas City, Kans. Metz had
72, his third straight round of par
figures; Penna had 75 and Oliver
and Barron had 74.
Four players were tied for the
20th spot with 218. They were Har
mon, Sammy Snead of Hot Springs.
Va., Horton Smith of Detroit, and
Lawson Little of Cleveland, O.
Cleveland Indians
Beat Giants, 15-7
ALBUQUERQUE, $L M., April 5.
—(JP)—The Cleveland Indians set
back the New York Giants today,
15 to 7, bringing the count in their
series to 5-4 in favor of the New
Yorkers.
Clint Hartung, Giant right field
er, pole^ two home runs over the
right field fence at the 380-foot
mark.
The score by innings:
New York 021 001 103— 7 11 1
Cleveland (A)
430 161 OOx—15 13 0
Budnick, Hoover (4), Carpenter
(6), Hanson (8), and Cooper, War
ren; Wolff, Lemon (5), and Hegan,
Boone.
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Past Masters Of Augusta Masters Golf Tournament
■«»*»«... .
Seven of the eight previous winners of the August Masters Golf 'Tournament at Augusta,
Ga., line up during the current 11th annual tourney. Left to right: Horton Smith, winner in
1084 and repeater in 1986; Byran Nelson, winner in 1987 and 1942; Henry Picard, 1938; Jimmy
Demaret, 1940; Craig Wood, 1941; Gene Sarazen, 1935; Herman Keiser, 1946. (AP Photo).
GIANTS HOTTEST
OF BIG LEAGUES
NEW YORK, April 5 — (U.R) —
The New York Giants, sad sacks
of the cellar in last year’s oen
nant race, are the hottest of all
major league teams in training
camp play this spring, a United
Press survey showed today.
Based stricvly on games involv
ing major league teams, the
Giants have won 10 games and
lost four to compile a .71 per
centage, while everybody’6 fa
vorite, the St. Louis Cardinals rank
next with 13 wins and six losses
and a .684 percentage.
The American League champ
ion Boston Red Sox, who are fa
vored to repeat in their circuit,
lead the way in that loqp with a
nine and five record and a 643
percentage. Directly behind them
are the Washington Senators who
have a seven and four mark and
a .636 percentage.
The Giants, of course, are the
big surprise since they are rated
as a second division team by most
experts and are 30 to 1 long-shots
in the pre-season book of James
J. Carroll, St. Louis betting com
missioner.
The fine showing of the Giants
made no impression on Carroll
and he left them at 30 to 1 long
shots. In revised odds posted to
day, however, he made the Card
inals odds-on 7 to 10 choices in tne
National league whereas they had
been 3 to 4 previously. In the
American, the Red Sox went to
4- 5 from even money and the un
impressive showing of the New
York Yankees caused their price
to go up to 2 1-2 to 1 whereas
they had been 2 to 1 in the origin
al book.
Carroll's complete revised odds:
National — St. Louis 7-10, Brook
lyn 2 1-2-1, Boston and Chicago
5- 1, Cincinnati 15-1, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and New York 30-1.
American — Boston 4-5, New
York .2 1-2-1, Detroit 3-1, Cleve
land 6-1, St. Louis and Chicago
20-1, Washington 25-1, Philadel
phia 40-1.
Next to the imai snowing 01
the Giants and Senators in pre
season competition, the most sur
prising item was the advantage
the National enjoyed over the
American. The National League
teams won 48 games and lost 43
and although the advantage was
not great, it gave supporters of
the senior circuit a chance to get
it back a little at the Tormenters
who 'haven’t forgotten the 12 to
0 drubbing the Nationals took in
the 1946 All-Star game.
In overall competition including
games with minor league and
semi-pro clubs the Brooklyn Dodg
ers have by far the best mark
with 23 wins and eight defeats,
but those figures were no true
measure since most of the op
position consisted of semi-pro
teams from Cuba and Panama
when the Dodgers went against
major league teams they were
just so-so and had only a .’>00
mark witk five wins and five de
feats.
—
BUCS WIN 5-0
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., April 5.
(/P)—Hank ■ Greenberg’s smashing
double hit sparked a Pittsburgh
first inning drive that gave the
Bucs a 5-0 exhibition game victory
over the Philadelphia Athletics
here today.
The Master And The Kibitzers
Bobby Jones (right) of Atlanta, the “grand slam” champion
of golf, lines up a putt at Augusuta, Ga., in a practice round on
the eve of the Masters Tournament which opened Thursd—^
Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen, and Ellsworth Vines ( left to rigm)
kibitz his form. (AP Wirephoto).
Waterfoul Hunting
May Be Curtailed
--* -
CANADIAN HORSES
TAKE TOP HONORS
SOUTHERN PINES, April 5 —
(>P)—Canadian entries from Vernon
Valley Farms, owned by Vernon
G. Cardy of Montgeal. and Re
nown, seven-year-old hunter owned
by Dwight W. Winkelman of Syra
cuse, N. Y., carried off major
honors in the Sandhills Horse Show
here today before a crowd of 2,
000.
The Montreal sportsman’s Jervis
Bay, grandson of Man O’War,
captured first place over nine
hunters in the class for middle
weights and up carrying 185
pounds and took another blue rib
bon in the model hunters class
with 16 entries. •
Another Cardy entry, Golden
Wood, a chestnut mare, was first
in the class for lightweights and
up carrying 165 pounds and first
in the qualified hunter* class.
Cardy’* flying colors captured
first place in the knock down and
out class with the bars raised to
five, and a half feet.
Renown, with Winkleman him
self up, toured the one mile swamp
fox hunting course to win first
place over a field of five in the
class for heavyweights carrying
185 pounds, one of the day s
featured event*. Claim agent, |
from the stable of C. V. Henhel.
J,r., of Turneralburg, with Ed
Daniels up. was second, and Times
Square, with Cardy up, was third.
First places iu the equitations
classes were won b.v Tilzn Suther
land of Southern Pines, in the
junior division, and by Charles
Shubcrl of Hickory, in the senior
division.
Arrangements Studied
For Baseball Tourney
CHICAGO. April 3—(A*)—Execu
tive machinery for the first na
tional collegiate baseball tourna
ment in June was completed to
day as Frank G. McCormick,
chairman of the N.C.A.A. baseball
committee, named a tournament
committee and selection units for
the eight N.C.A.A. districts.
A four-member tournament com
mittee includes Chairman McCor
mick, athletic director at the Uni
versity of Minnesota; James Ste
wart, executive secretary of the
Southwest Conference; John Kobs
of Michigan State College; Bl. D,
Barnes of Colgate Universitw and
Clinton Evans of the University ol
California.
Sites for the eastern and western
playoffs, scheduled June 20-21, and
I the championship series, June 20
27-28, will be selected by the
tournament committee Inter this
month.
The playoffe, patterned after the
N.C.A.A. basketball tourney, will
be on a "sudden death" basis and
the championship series will be n
best two out. of three gamrs show
down.
Three-member eomrnltteei, *p
pointed to Mrdrrl I npi nfatoilul Ivoci
from the Hulil dlnlilrla. ho In,1(1
Dlwtrlct III i Mou lli and ftntilh
eimtorm .1 v Nlltea, Oeni'gitf,
chairman; John W ('oomJisj, imita,
Billy Laval, New henry
WASHINGTON, April 5—.AV-Al
bert M. Day, director of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, said today it
probably will be necessary m cur
tail—but not close completely —
the waterfoul hunting season next
fall.
Day based his estimate on the
agency’s annual waterfoul inven
tory which placed the North Ameri
can population of ducks and geese
at 24,000.000. This is 26,000.000 less
than in January, 1946.
This is the greatest one-year de
cline in waterfoul population on
record, the agency’s first duck
count day told a reporter. In 1935
produced an estimate of 27.000,000
The total increased anually to a
peak in 1943 of 125,350,000;
“In spite of the fact that water
fowl numbers have fallen almost
to the 1939 total, I do not think it
will be necessary to establish a
complete closed seasdn for next
fall,” Day said.
“I think we will be able to rec
ommend some kind of an open sea
son, but what it will be depends
largely upon conditions in the
breeding grounds next summers.”
LETCHAS SIGNED
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Apiil 5.
(ll.R)—President Joe Engel today an
nounced the Chattanooga lookouts
had signed Charlie Letchas. an in
fielder, who was released by the
Philadelphia Phillies. Letchas play
fd for the Lookouts several years
ago.
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Event Will Be Open
To All Advertisers
The Wilmington Star-News last night announced
sponsorship of the “Star-News Advertisers Golf tourna
ment” to be played on the Wilmington Municipal course.
Time and date of the event are yet to be announced.
in making the announcement R. B. Page, publisher of
the Star-News, said a rules committee would be appointed
from among advertisers of the paper and that full details
would be announced together with the naming of the com
mittee. „ , , .
Entrants will be guests of the paper during the tourna
ment and valuable prizes will be awarded winners, runners
ups and flight winners. There will be two 18-hole rounds
of match play, it was announced. _
The first round will determine handicaps while the
final play will determine flight winners.
Entrants will be given a week to qualify, starting on a
Sunday to be named, and finals will be run off the following
Sunday. „ , ,
Included in the list of entrants are expected to be
many of Wilmington’s top ranking golfers and business
men. The Tourament Committee will be chose from their
ran The “all on the house” event will be open to ad
vertisers of the national, local, classified and legal de
partments. ------
DEACONS DOWN
TEACHERS, 11-0
GREENVILLE, April 5.— (ff) —
Wake Forest’s demon deacons
broke loose with a 14-hit barrage
here this afternoon to completely
outclass ECTC, 11 to 0, in'a base
ball game marked by the slugging
of Deacon First Baseman George
Edwards.
Edwards collected a homer, a
double and two singles in five at,
tempts to lead his team at bat.
Whitener smacked out a homer
with none aboard in the sixth.
The Deacons big Inning was the
’second when they scored four runs
on as many hits. They picked up
one run in the third when Edwards
led off with a double and came
home on hooks single through
short. Three more were added in
the fourth when Red Corchon dou
bled home, Edmonds, who had sin
gled Cochran, came home a
rnomenut later when Edwards got
his third hit a single to center.
ECTC scorings bids were all
nipped as the Deacons racked up
three sobule plays, two of them
coming wTith the bases loaded. Ed
mon and holder were effective
throughout the game spacing six
ECTC hits along the route.
The fielding gem of the day came
when Sam Steel of ECTC, center
fielder, made a running one handed
catch of Whitener’s terrific drive to
right center in the fifth inning.
Cards Down Houston
For 16 to 6 Victory
_
HOUSTON. Tex., April 5.— (JP) —
The St. Louis Cardinals pounded
three Houston pitchers for 22 hits
and a 16 to 6 victory today. The
Cardinal attack included home
runs by Dick Sisler and Enos
Slaughter, the latter's with two
men on base, and three doubles by
Stan Musial. They scared nine runs
in the fourth inning, six of them
unearned.
St. Louis 100 911 022—16 22 4
Houston (Tex)
200 000 400— 6 11 1
Pollet. Wilks (6) and Gargiola,
Rice. Thierolf, Bemke (*), Schuch
mann (9) Ann Niedson.
Tryon Steeplechase
Winners Announced
TRYON, April 5.— iff; —Carte:
Wilkie and Austin A. Brown, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Cater C. Brown of
Tryon, won two of the three
steeplechase races run over the
block house course here this after
noon under the sponsorship of the
Tryon Riding and Hunt Club.
Rain threatened during the after
noon, but more than 1.00C specta
tors witnessed the races.
The March Hare run over timber
for two and a half miles, was won
by Carter Wilkie Brown, Riding
Dwight, in 4:20. Austin Brown, rid
ing War Pilot, was second, ’and
June C. Eaton on Taffy third. A
trophy went to the winning rider
and owner.
Austin Brown won the Block
House Steeplecase, two miles over
brush, he rode Bluish and won a
$100 cash prize by finishing eight
to 10 lengths ahead of Stony Run,
ridden by Salvin Houghland of
Nashville, Tenn., who was second.
Michael Walsh, Jr., of Southern
Pines, riding Miss Stoneybrook,
won the pacolate plate for riders
under 17 years of age. Julie San
ders, riding Lady, won second
place, and Audrey Lawrence, rid
nig Moonsheen, won third place.
Time for the quarter mile event
was 18.3 seconds.
Annual N. C. Air Show
Is Planned At Wilson
WILSON. April 5.— (U.R) -Cash
prizes totaling 1.000 will be award
ed contestants in the first annual
North Carolina air show here May
11, sponsors of the event an
nounced today.
Army, Navy. Marine and Coast
Guard flyers have been invited to
enter as well as all civilian pilot*
in the state.
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