SPORTS
SHELBY DAILY STAR
j Sports Roundup
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—iJ5)—A few
firsts for January first . . . The
first baseball pitcher to strike out
four men in one inning was Robf
ert Matthews of the Athletics on
Sept. 30, 1385 . . . His catcher, Mil
ligan, missed not just one but two
third strikes. (That one isn't in the
record books yeti . . . Although
runs batted in weren't made an
official part of baseball records
until 1920, they were first recorded
in 1876 when a St. Louis man of
fered a weekly prize to the player
who drove in the most runs from
third base . . . Leo Houch, who
fought over 200 professional bouts,
received 50c and a pair of boxing
gloves as his first purse in 1907.
His biggest was $1,600 and expenses
for fighting Harry Lewis in Paris
four years later . . . Ten years
after that—in 1921—Jack Demp
sey and Georges Carpentier drew
the first million dollar gate . .
First sports question of 1945: How
much sport will we have?
DOUBLE TROUBLE
After Oklahoma U. closed its
football season, Coach Snorter Lus
ter spent ten days on the Texas
gulf recovering from flu ... Re
turning health and well browned
by the sunshine, Snorter reported
"That's two tannings we got in
Texas this year.'' iEd's note: Texas
U. 20, Oklahoma 0>,
BOWL SERIAL
The Sugar bpwl is the only
howl game that hands out no
Annie Oakleys. Even the 37
members of the New Orleans
mid-winter sports association
have to buy their own tickets
. . . . Although Texas Christ
ian is undeddog in today's
Cotton bowl game against Ok
lahoma Aggies, the Horned
Frogs have the Southwest con
ferences best won-lost record
•inee they joined liie loop In
1913 . . . Tulsa's Hrnry Frnka.
with a 35-5 record in regular
aeason games as a~ college
roach, needs to win today's
Orange bowl tussle with Geor
gia Tech to break even in post
season tussle* with Southeast
ern conference dubs.
MONDAY MATINir.
Henry Conor., the Br.
Is toying with the irien of. own.ng
his own club after "he war If )
buys one, Henrv will give ii>) i
teaching but play ir. big money
tournam&nts . . . Despite the M.a
cess of Dizzy Trout and Ha! V -
houser, only 28 of 83 Ah. riran
You’ll li ;e
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
as
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David O. Selznick’s
l\n> pictur* tincs "Go"» With The Wind"
and "Sebacca"
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league pitchers won more games
than they lost last season and only
seven won 15 or more games . . .
Since Ed McKeever's visit here
last week, local fans are more con
vinced than ever that Ed will come
to Fordham as coach when Frank
Leahy returns to Notre Dame.
SERVICE DEPT.
Coach of fhe Shick hospital bas
ketball team in Illinois is Lt. Col.
Andrew J. Boe, a chaplain . . . .
Another army triumph: Reports
from overseas say Carl Hubbell,
the silent man of the Giants, has
become quite a "barber" since he
has been touring the Middle East
with a USO baseball troupe . . . .
Gwyn Williams, the R. A. F. para
chute instructor who recently
whipped British Lightweight Cham
! pion Ronnie James, keeps in shape
by making 20 jumps a week with
his pupils. Please don't call them
dives.
SELLOUT CROWD
IN ROSE BOWL
PASADENA. Calif.. Jan. 1.—i7P>—
The only two undefeated football
teams of the 1944 season to face
each other in a New Year's day
bowl game, the University of Ten
nessee and the University Of Sou
thern California, provided the juicy
, gridiron menu today for a sellout
crowd of some 90,000 in the 29th
: renewal of the Rose Bowl classic.
The Southern California Tro
1 jans. representing the west and
installed by some experts as 17
point favorites, are in quest of th»ir
eighth victory in eight Rase Bowl
starts.
The Tennesese Volunteers, win
ners of seven games this season
and tied only once, by Alabama,
are out to ruin the Trojan record
with a powerful running attack
led by Buster Stephens.
The Southern California eleven
ha- a strong weight advantage.
The promise of fair skies was a
break for &C whose T formation
is hampered by slippery sod.
Injuries To Hinder
TCU In Cotton Bowl
n.\I.I AS. Jan. 1.-'T -Accorded
a . nance ot victory only by possibly
.» Pw c.lowe friends and relatives.
Texas Christian's Horned Frogs
inert the Oklahoma Aggies today
as champions of the under dogs in
Cotton Bowl history.
Already carrying the longest odds
of any team to play here in the
nine years of the gridiron classic
T.C.U. stock skidded even more
with events; of the past three days
which saw tlie regular center taken
ill and both starting ends hobbling
about with injuries.
All threes—Center Jim Cooper and
Ends Merle Gibson and Harry Mul
lins— have recovered sufficiently tc
>fart the game against an Okla
homa A, and M. team enjoying its
best record of all time but Coach
Clutch Merer of the Christians saic
■*T don't know how long they will
stay in there."
The Aggies, in top shape anc
spearheaded by All-American Bot
Fenimorc, the boy who is luring
most of the customers to the big
saucer, were rated from 14 to 21
points better than T. C. U. by those
who make the betting odds.
But naked divers, who must go
deep to get raw materials in waters
where diving machines are ban
ned. suffer eventual paralysis be
cause of repeated changes in pres
sure. And in the : tops workers
face a new affliction resembling
silicosis, believed to be caused by
particles of shell and grinding
wheels which' enter the lungs.
i About one in every ten tons ol
coal mined in the United States is
shipped via th" Great Lakes.
UNIVERSITY OF
KENTUCKY HAS
TOP CAGE TEAM
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—UP)—The
University of Kentucky still ap
pears to be about the best basket
I bail team in the nation, but three
other quintets, St. John's of Brook
lyn. Iowa and Muhlenberg have
I risen up during the week to chal
j lenge the Southeastern Conference
champions Jor top' honors.
All four outfits remained in
j the exclusive ranks of the un
beaten as Kentucky shaded
Temple at Philadelphia 45-44,
St. John's walloped Dartmouth
53-38 in New York, Iowa
swamped Michigan State 67-31
on its home court and Muhlen
berg topped Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia, 42-38.
Kentucky, invading Madison
Square Garden tonight to bat
tle Long Island university, had
to come from behind to over
take the Owls as Alex Groza,
its brilliant center, sank a field
goal in the last minute of play.
Groza, who leaves soon for the
1 armed service, racked up 27
^ points.
St. John's, for the first time this
I season, looked like the team that
'won the national invitation cham
: pionship last year, as they defeat
’ ed the Big Green, Ivy League ti
tlists for the last seven years, with ;
ease. It was the Redmen's seventh 1
‘ straight victory. ■
Iowa romped to its sixth conse- 1
cutive win, maintaining it more
than 60 points per game average,'
although Dick Ives, the Hawkeyes’ j
1 brilliant forward had an off night, j
' being held to five points.
1 Muhlenberg from Allentown, Pa.,|
stretched its winning streak to nine
straight and looked like a well
rounded outfit in stopping the
Quakers.
Outstanding games for the week
are:
Monday, Brooklyn vs. Texas
Christian and Kentucky vs. Long
Island U. at New York; Tempie
vs. Wyoming and St. Joseph's vs, (
Puerto Rico at Philadelphia.
Notre Dame meets Purdue again
Tuesday, as does Oklahoma vs.
Kansas state! On Wednesday Muh
lenberg meets Swarthmore, N. Y
U. vs. Cornell, St. John's renews
its rivalry with City College.
Friday's card brings forth Mary
land at Duke. S. Carolina at N.
Carolina, Indiana at. Michigan.
Georgia Tech-Tulsa
Game WiU Be Close
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 1—«P)—Every
body else figured that Georgia
Tech would have to connect with
a lot of passes today or else lose
the Orange Bowl football game—
but Tulsa Coach Henry Frnka
wasn't so sure.
• Tech's got not only a fine pass
ing team but a good running at
tack also," Frnka insisted.
The betting odds which favored
Georgia Tech by as much as' 2 to
1 last week were lowered by time
the 26.000 ticket holders began
trickling into - the gaily-bedecked
Orange Bowl stadium, and there
were some reports that those who
wanted to back Tulsa had to give
a slight edge.
One factor was the reported fail
i tire of Dinky Bowen, the spearhead
of the Engineers’ running attack,
to snap back from a late season
injury.
Pays Em Back
KANSAS CITY— (/Ft —Lt.
William E. McGonigle, 24, likes
to take his chest full of med-?
als past the navy recruiting of
fice here so the sailors’ service
can see what it missed.
Home from 66 missions in
Africa. Italy and the China
India - 'Burma theatre. the
much decorated army airman
recalls that four years ago
when he tried to get in the
navy, he was told:
"You had better go home,
son. The navy needs men.”
It’s the Quality of leadership
that makes Leaders
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are the Leaders
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TULSA PLAYERS REACH MIAMI FOR ORANGE BOWL GAME—The first group of Tulsa university foot
ball players, who will meet Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl New Year’s Day, arrive in Miami, and are
driven to their hotel in a horse-drawn wagon. Twas dme as a gasoline-saving measure. Other Tulsa players
followed next day.
DUKE FAVORED
OVER ALABAMA
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. li
lt's Alabama's air attack versus t-lie
Duke Blue Devils’ power in the
efeventh renewal of the Sugar Bowl
football classic here today.
A sellout of the 70,000 available
seats, including 25,000 "guest" tick
ets to service men and women, as
sured the ’Bama Crimson Tide and
Blue Devils of the first full Sugar
Bowl house since Pearl Harbor.
Alabama's chances of a win over
the two-touchdown favored Duke
team hinged on the accurate right
arm of freshman passer Harry
Gilmer and the running of Rookie
Wingback Lowell Tew.
The Blue Devils, Southern' Con
ference champions after losing four
non-league games, entered the game
with a powerful line led by Guard
Ernest Knotts and able scoring
threats in Fullback Tom Davis anc
Halfbacks Gcorgie Clark and Gor
don Carver.
YULE VISITORS
AT BEAK MILL
Several Families (Set To
gather For Holiday
Dinner Parties
BEAMS MILL — Christmas Da'
| dinner. guests of Mrs. J. Y. Elliot
1 and Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwel
were: Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Elliot
land Betty of Shelby. Mr. and Mrs
, Dathia Elliott and Packard of Sha.
! ron. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Beam o
: Gastonia, Mr. and Mrs. Sloan El
! liott and Gene of Fallston, Rev
| and Mrs. Sylvester Elliott, Edwan
! and William, of Cherryville, Mi
|and Mrs. Sylvanus Greene am
I Mary Elizabeth of Shelby, Dr. am
1 Mrs. W. F. Elliott and Billy, o
Lincolnton, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. El
liott, Dorothy and Donald, Mis
Johnny Beam Crawford, of Arlirig
ton, Va., Miss Virginia Elliott o
Durham and Mr. and Mrs. Sher
man Costner of St. Paul.
Mrs. Woodrow Hendrick an
Charles spent Monday night wit]
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Hamrick of Ross Grove. On Tues
day Mrs. Hendrick and Charles am
Mr. and Mrs. Hamrick were guest
at a turkey dinner at the home o
Mrs. W. L. Lucas in Shelby.
Misses Ruth Wright of Shelby
Jewel Wright and Juanita Hen
drick spent Monday with thei
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. F
Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gardnei
Charles and Mickey, of Washing
ton, D. C., spent the holidays wit]
his father. V. A. Gardner. Othe
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Claud
McCraw of Columbia, S. C , an
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Beam an
Rebecca of Fallston.
SUNDAY VISITORS
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mr!
Cleophas Wright and family wer
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Pell of Win
ston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Bi
Hamrick of Shelby, Mr. and Mr:
Paul Hamrick and sons and Mr;
Lois Lattimorc of Roanoke, Va.
Miss Doris Wright and brothe:
| Ralph, spent Monday with Mr
Bill Hamrick of Shelby.
Pvt. William A. (Billy)) Hen
drick has been transferred fror
Fort Jackson, S. C., to Cam
Wheeler, Ga.
Miss Uray Hendrick spent tl:
holidays with a girl friend 1
Statesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gardm
and sons, V. A. Gardner, Mr. an
Mrs. Carl Gardner and sons an
Mr. and Mrs. Claude McCraw wei
Monday dinner guests of Mr. an
Mrs. Herman Beam of Fallston.
Miss Dorothy Elliott spent Mor
day night with Miss Betty Ellio
of Shelby.
Mr. and .vu's. Columbus Beai
and Edwin have moved into th
community from the St. Paul con
muhity.
Mrs. C. A. Wright, Mrs. Tomm
Pell, Mrs. Lois Lattimore, Bi
Hamrick and Mrs. J. D. Hamric
and children spent Monday wit
Unhappy Birthday For Top
Horses Due To Racing Ban
By WILBUR JENNINGS
MIAMI, Fla., ian. 1.—(/P)—New Year’s day ordinarily
i sa time for hope and happiness around a racing satble, but
there’s only gloom today.
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thoroughbreds, all horses becoming
a year older on Jan. 1 under rac
ing rules.
No birthday, was ever less wel
comed because the government
racing ban is effective after tomor
row and the outlook for.the turf's
darlings is just as black as for the
cheap platers.
There's no certainty now that
there’ll be a Kentucky derby, Preak
ness or Belmont stakes for the
new class of three-year-olds, and
it is just as doubtful that there'll
be any rich handicaps for the
older perlormers.
I Twilight Tear, 1944's horse of
the year, was brought to Florida
this winter to go after Top Flight’s
money winning record for fillies of
$275.9^0 but now Calumet Farm
Trainer Ben Jones is doubtful that
she'll reach the mark. Her present
winnings, total $202,000.
The Tear was four years old to
: day, and Jones explained that “We
plan to retire her after this year.
■ She isn’t worrying much about her
birthday as we are. She's good and
| sound, runs well and wfe will con
j tinue to gallop her to keep her in
j .— ---r---1
. J. D. Hamrick in the Black Moun
tain Sanatorium.
Friday supper guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Bonnie Elliott and Betty of
! Shelby and Mr. and Mrs. Sloan
Elliott and Gene of Fallston.
Massacre Investigated
LONDON.— OP) —London
newspapers today quoted su
preme allied headquarters as
' saying that a preliminary in
* vestigalion showed that two
f German tanks poured a hail of
machinegun bullets into 130 de
5 fenseless captured Americans
after they had been searched
1 for valuables and lined up in
an open field.
The dispatches said that the
1 men. massacred in cold blood
1 on Dee. 17. mostly were from
- i a field artillery unit captured
■ I near Malmedy, Belgium.
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f Mask Not Enough
SALT LAKE CITY.—(A3)—A
mask over the eyes wasn’t
j enough.
,. Victims of a holdup report
ed a bandit wore a burlap sack
over his head, with holes cut
out for his eves and mouth.
You’ll WARM to
.“V ♦*?*
David O. Selznick
first piclurs sinca "Gone With Tho Wind"
ond "Rsbacca"
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shape, but, the supension probably
will ruin her chances at the money
mark.”
Possibly the hardest hit by the
ban are the former juveniles which
are entering tlicir all-important
three-year-old year.
Among the horses which may
miss their chance for fame are
such beauties as Walter M. Jef
ford's Pavot, unbeaten in eight
starts as a two-ycar-old winner of
$179,040, and William Helis’ Peri
cles, which ” cost $66,000 at the
yearling sales.- Pericles has great
breeding and is one of the best
prospects today but has never run
a race.
While Twilight Tear heads the
new four-year-olds there are other
such top-thoroughbreds as By Jim
my, Whirlabout, Bounding Home,
: Lucky Draw and Greentree farm’s
! Stir up.
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GREMLIN STAR
SPARKS GRAYS
IN TO SCORES
By LEROY SIMS
MONTGOMERY, Ala.'. Dec. 30.—
WP)—Sgt. Charley Trippi, the for- j
mcr Georgia star and current pride ;
of the Third Air Force eleven, was
the chief contributor today in a i
24 to 7 victory of the South All
Stars over their Northern oppon
ents in the annual Blue-Gray con
test.
Trippi, a member of the 1942 Rose
Bowl eleven at Georgia, passed and
ran the Blue lads into defeat be
fore the game was many minutes
old, pacing two drives for touch
downs in the first 18 minutes.
Thereafter he and such stand
outs as Jack Russell, the ex-Bay
lor ace; center Tex Warrington,
the Auburn all-America, and Mar
tin Ruby, former Texas A. and M.
tackle, were out of the game for
long periods, but the work had
been done.
ATTACK HALTED
So great was the superiority of
the South's line that Blue run
ning plays gained only 18 yards.
Bob Hoernscemeyer of Indiana al
most passed the losers back into
the running, however, with an even;
dozen completed tosses, most of
them to Columbia’s Jack Kelleher.
Tire South drove for a score with
the opening kickoff, Trippi driv
ing over from the one to end a 65
yard march. The Gray clads had
gotten to the North 24 as the first
period ended, and Pete Layden,
Texas fullback, rammed it over
four minutes later.
Still another South score came
before the end of the half on a
24-yard pass from Yam Tittle of
Louisiana State to Bob McCain of
Mississippi.
PASSES PAY
The final South marker was on
the opening play of the final quar
ter, when Tittle went through the
line for the final six yards of a 40
yard drive begun in the third per
iod.
Homschemeyer went to work,
completing four out of five passes
to get most of the yardage in the
North’s 80-yard march for a score.
The pay off toss was to Erne Bon
elli, who took it just short of the
goal and stepped across.
The North threatened again
when Bob Ravenberg of Indiana in
tercepted a pass from Tittle and
was pulled down on the South eight,
but Warrington, Ruby and Russell
went back into the game and the
South took the ball on downs and
had gotten beyond midfield at the
“The First And Last”
Spagheti Bowl Game
Held Today In Italy
By SID FEDER
SPAGHETTI BOWL HEAD
QUARTERS, Italy, Jan. 1 .—UP>—
In a modern stadium that would
make a lot of graduate manager*
back home green with n ’7, the
fifth army “Krautcloters and
the 12th airforce "Brldgebuiter*"
today tangle in what l* billed a*
“The First and Last'' Spaghetti
bowl game.
The name of this town where
between 25,000 and 35,000 as
sorted soldiers and WACs are
going to hold down benches is
“unmentionable” because Jerry
hasn't been invited—and isn't
wanted.
The Bridgebusters coach, Major
George Miller, one time Indiana
performer, said his oufit is “ready
to go and we have a good team.”
Capt. Lou Bush, who was once
Massachusetts State high scorer,
was fiving the crying towel a last
minute workout because of the epi
demic of injuries to his “Kraut
clouters.”
P\C Pfc. Frances Rudman of St.
Louis, one of the cheerleaders, ad
mits she borrowed the yells 'from
her alma mammy Soldan hig**,
school.
A metal bowl filled with paper
spaghetti goes to the winning team
as well as little brass medals to the
individuals. There'll even be coffee
and doughtnuts, courtesy of the
Red Cross and two bowl queens
who'll arrive in jeeps as a pair of
56-piece bands prowl around at
halftime. However, cognac will
have to take the place of the us
ual flasks of ice tea back home,
distilleries being what they are in
these parts.
final whistle.
It was a great day for the Third
Air Force team, which contributed
nine players to the squads. Trippi,
of course, was the big noise for
the South and Bonelli and Kelle
her, who took passes from Charley
during the regular season, distin
guished themselves for the Blue
cause. Tackle Frank Lopp and
Guard Tony Russelll and Nick
Rodls, in the Blue starting, lineup,
were also Gremlins. Earl Brown,
another Grem guard, was a start
er for the South, and Center A1
Brandau relieved Tex Warrington
for the Confederates.
End Ted. Cook of Alabama and
the Third Air Force, Trippi’s favor
ite passing partner, was in the
Gray squad but did not get into
the game because of an injury.
The Romans cultivated large
numbers of plums.
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Effective January 1, 194S
Calls Within
Shelby City Limits $3.00
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