* SPORTS
j SHELBY DAILY STAR
i HARRY ROBINSON, Sports Editor
j Sports Roundup
NEW YORK, Jan. 20—(/P)—The
“March of Dimes” sports program
for the infantile paralysis foun
dation will wind up Jan. 31 with a
baseball game ... In case that
makes you shiver, it’ll be at San
Juan, Puerto Rico|
TODAY’S GUEST STAR
Art McGinley, Hartford, Conn.,
Times; “The weather man surely
is giving the Hartford auditorium
a rough time. Might be a good
idea to put him on the next fight
card down there and have him
kayoed.”
SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES
Hot tip from the midwest
•ays Fritz Crisler is first choice
of the western conference ath
letic directors who’ll choose a
successor tp the late John L.
Griffith today. Tug Wilson is
No. 2 . . . Joe Hutton, Ham
line's basketball coach, main
tains that Dodger Howie
Schultz is the best basketball
player he ever coached—and
Joe has had some good ones
. . . Outrider Lucas Dupps still
keeps busy at . Hialeah Park
directing traffic among the
horses being exercised. That’s
one occupation the WLB for
got to list for men thrown out
of work by the racing ban—
traffic cop.
JUST A SUGGESTION
Reese Hart of The Raleigh, N.
C., Times promises: "Why not
take all the Pari-Mutuel machines
and use them in war plants to bet
on how many planes, guns, tanks
or shells would be produced each
day?” . . . We’d call it a swell idea
if they’d pay off only on a daily
doubled production.
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
The following excerpts from a
letter written by a Camp Bland
ing, Fla., sergeant who enlisted
in both world wars speak for
themselves: . . . “Have discussed
the question with a great number
of GI's and practically everyone
would like to sec baseball and foot
ball continue, but horse racing—
no ... A Philadelphia draft board
deferred Danny Litwhiler on the
grounds that baseball was an es
sential occupation ... It is actions
of that kind and others, such as
Sammy Baugh flying from Texas
each week to play with the Red
skins <we could use that seat on
the plane for furloughs), or John
ny Hopp's Jrlck knee that never
gave way or Mort Cooper's (2 hit)
bad back and any number of oth
ers declared unfit for military
service that we can’t understand.”
BYRON NELSON
AND SAM SNEAD
MEET IN SPRING
Bv FRANK PITMAN
TUCSON, Arlz., Jan. 20.—OP) A
72-hole challenge golf battle will
match Byron Nelson, top pro shot
maker of 1944, and Sammy Snead,
current leader, on a New York City
links this spring, Fred Corcoran,
Professional Golf association tour
nament director, announced at the
Tucson open here today.
He anticipates the match might
raise 100,000 for the PGA rehabili
tation program for wounded sol
^ tilers.
™ Slated after the close of the
winter tour at Atlanta, Ga . early
/in April, it will consist of 36 holes
medal play and 36 holes match play
on a course yet to be selected, Cor
coran said.
Meanwhile, 24 of the 44 traveling
pros fired 70 or better in yester
day’s first round of the $5,000 Tuc
son open, but Corcoran declared
the fine scores, including leader
Joe Zarhardt's 65. won’t go into
PGA records because the El Rio
course does not meet PGA yard
age standards for 72 holes.
Several of the visiting golfers
t,uestioned accuracy of the 6,402
yards listed as the El Rio length.
Five of the club swingers were
bunched a stroke back of Zar
hardt. Norristown, Pa., holder of
the Philadelphia open champion
ship. at the start of today's 18 hole
second round.
They were Leonard Dodson, Kan
sas City, Mo., Claude Harmon,
Lochmoor, Mich., Bruce Coltart,
Atlantic City. N. J.. Leland Gibson.
Randolph Field, Tex., and Jim
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Fights Last Night
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Freddie Archer,
146, Newark, outpointed Ralph
Zanelli. 147 1-4, Providence, 10.
Burl Charity, 147 1-2, Youngstown,
outpointed Tommy Mills, 142, Val
ley Stream, N. Y. 6.
CHICAGO—George ‘‘Sugar” Cost
ner, 147 3-4, Cincinnati, knocked
out Richard ‘‘Sheik” Rangel, 149,
Fresno, Calif. 1. Charley Parham,
145, Milwaukee, T.K.O. Dave Riley j
146. St. Louis, 4.
PHILADELPHIA—Danny Devlin, j
177, Allentown. Pa. outpointed Leon
Saymurski, 169, Chester. Pa. 8.
Jlggs Donahue, 150, Philadelphia,;
T.K.O. Norman Rahn, 150, Phil
adelphia. 4.
DETROIT—Sampson Powell, 164
1-, Cleveland, knocked out Vern
Escoe, 174, Toronto, 5. Vern Mit
chell, 184, Detroit, knocked out Ed
Mevers, 178, Dayton. 2.
WEST PALM BEACH—Norman
‘‘Hi-Ho’’ Silvers, 139, New York,
T.K.O. Lee Monteneiro, 134,
Washington, 7.
Gauntt, Ardmore. Okla.
Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Va,
and Byron Nelson, Toledo, Ohio,
the co-favorites, were sharing a
fourway third place tie at 67 with
Harold McSpaden, Sanford, Maine,
and Jack Gage, Long Beach, Cal.
Craig Wood, Mamaroneck, N. Y.,
who scored 69 yesterday, holds the
PGA record of 264 strokes for 72
holes. He registered the remark
able 20 under par over the Forest
Hill Field club, Bloomfield, N. J„
in the 1940 Metropolitan open
championship. His rounds were 64
66-68-66.
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Shelby Lions Divide Twin Bill With Hill Toppers
Duke Sends High-Scoring
Aces Against Phantoms
DURHAM, Jan. 19.—Duke will send its one-two-three
punch of Bill Sap, Bob Roellke and Ed Koffenberger against
North Carolina’s White Phantoms at Chapel Hill tonight
when the Blue Devils go after their third straight Southern
conference victory of the season.
Sapp, the team’s leading
manufacturer with 119 to his
credit In the 11 games played
to date, has a big lead over
runner-up Roelike and Kof
fenberger, who are deadlocked
with 86 apiece. Sapp comes
from Augusta, Kans., while
Roelike is from Maplewood, N.
J., and Koffenberger’s home is
Wilmington, Del.; “Hoff” Is
six-feet-three, the others, six
one.
There’s one favorable note on
the Blue Devil’s side as the two
teams prepare for their first meet
ing of the basketball season. Car
olina doesn’t know how to try st,o
stop. Although Sapp leads the
scoring race, he got only one point
against Norfolk Naval Air Station
Fliers the other night, while
Koffenberger burned the nets for
19 points. When the others cool
off, it’s Roelike’s ringing long
shots that spark Duke’s offensive
fireworks.
Gordon Carver, Durham boy who
has been busy with the football
team, reported late but he is los
ing no time finding his batting
eye. He got nine points as Duke
lost to Norfolk Air Station. Carv
er led Duke in scoring for the past
two seasons.
Either Dick Van Sholk, from
Columbus, O., or Dan Buckley,
from New York City, will round
out Coach Gerry Gerard’s start
ing five.
If comparative scores mean
anything, there’s nothing to
choose between Duke and Car
olina. Each beat Wake For
est by about the same margin,
while each lost one-sided
games to Norfolk Air Station.
It stacks up as one of the
tightest free-for-all battles in
the long history between the
two basketball teams. Some
give Duke the edge, while oth
ers think the Phantoms
should be favored.
MARINE CAGERS
IN SPOTLIGHT
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CAMP LEJEUNE, Jan. 20.—With
the Camp Lejeune squad forging
into the national spotlight during
its first year of play, basketball
fever has gripped the Marines.
There just isn’t any place
to put all the Leathernecks
who want to see the games,
according to Captain R. M.
(Mel) Port, camp athletic offi
cer who performs with the
team.
More than 1,000 people stood
Saturday — the stands being
jammed—to see Lejeune de
feat the Cherry Point Marines,
rated eighth in the south and
•outhwest. It was the largest
crowd ever to attend an in
door sporting event at Camp
Lejeune.
Then, with Balnbridge Navy
scheduled to play here twice, Jack
sonville Navy once, and another
visit from Cherry Point likely,
fans probably will have to eat
supper In the gymnasium to in
sure themselves seats. Balnbridge
and Jacksonville are ranked among
the country’s first five quintets.
Newton Memorial, Center
Put Under Construction
NEWTON.—The Newton Memo
rial center on the American Le
gion grounds is becoming a reality
with construction work already be
gun on the foundation for the
public museum and library build
ing, which • will be the restoration
of Catawba county’s first court
house building. The building was
moved to Newton last year from
the original site about two miles
east of Newton.
Work is going forward rapidly
on the library, the first part of the
plan that will be completed. Con
tract has also been let for the
erection of the war memorial of
marble granite. A plaque will be
attached to the monument and
will have the names of all service
people in Catawba county who have
given their lives in this war.
Liquor Cargo Is
Seized In Burke
MORQANTON—A cargo of 125
gallons of “sugarhead” liquor and
a 1936-model Ford auto were seiz
ed this week on a muddy road on
Sol Hildebrand mountain in Love
lady township, southeast of Val
dese.
County officers and a State
highway patrolman made the cap
ture which destroyed the output
of a mountain distillery operated
in the same furnace where two
earlier stills were raided and where
120 gallons of liquor were seized
during the Christmas season.
ROWAN MILLS GET “E”
SALISBURY, Jan. 20.—</P)—The
Rowan Mills will be presented the
Army-Navy “E" pennant for excel
lence in production today. MaJ.
Gen. C. L. Corbin will make the
award.
COLLEGE HEADS
MAKE MOVE TO
STOP GAMBLING
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 20
— (fl5) — The slam-the-door-in-the
face treatment that professional
gambling allegedly received last
spring from Vadal Peterson, Utah
University basketball coach, may
become a nationwide collegiate
mode of reception under a plan of
anti-gambling action being consid
ered by the American College Pub
licity Association.
W. Henry Johnston, vice-presi
dent of the ASPCA’s sports divi
sion, announced today that the
association’s 439 members would
launch an all-out effort to keep
large-scale gambling out of colle
giate athletics.
Admitting that minor gambling
on big games would be virtually
impossible to stop and leaving the
moral issue to others, Johnston
said the executive committee of
the ASPCA has called upon all
members to Join in an organized
campaign to stifle big-time betting
on college contests by refusing in
formation to the gamblers.
"With the closing of the
country’s race tracks and with
days of easy money still ahead,”
Johnston said, “we feel that
the college field may be the
No. 1 objective of the syndi
cate men. We intend to do all
we can to discourage that.”
First step in the campaign, he
said, would be the removal of all
doubtful persons from the mailing
lists of college and university
sports publicity departments. This
would prevent the operators of
dope sheets” from getting informa
tion helpful in establishing odds
on top games.
Johnston lauded the action' of
Peterson, who reportedly closed the
door in the face of a gambler who
approached him just before the
NCAA cage finals -last' spring.
“A continuation of such ac
tion,” Johnston said, “plus an
organised refusal by college
public relations men, coaches
and players to supply infor
mation to nefarious persons, will
certainly discourage the en
croachment of professional
gambling on the college games.”
MOUNTAINEERS
DIVIDE GAMES
Kings Mountain cagers divided
a doubleheader with the Bessemer
City basketball teams last night as
the girls were victims of a 30-29
score and the mountaineer boys
team continued to roll over all
competition by licking the Besse
mer City lads 52 to 8.
The Kings Mountain girls drop
ped a thrilling contest in the final
minutes of play as the Bessemer
City girls, led by Margaret Sum
mette who scored 22 points for her
team, were holding a one point
lead as the game ended. Melba
George and Gloria Harkey led the
Kings Mountain team in scoring
as Gloria made nine points and
Melba had 10 to her credit. The
outstanding guard in the girls tilt
was Ray Humphries for the Moun
taineers.
The Kings Mountain boys, all
veterans from last year’s team who
have yet to be beaten in the cur
rent season, as they rolled over
the Bessemer City quintet by a
score of 52 to 8. The entire squad
of 17 players for the Mountain
eers saw action in last night’s
game. Black, one of the many
sharpshooters for Kings Moun
tain, led the scoring in this tilt
by making 16 points.
The high scoring Kings Moun
tain quintet have rolled up 235
points in five games and limited
their opponents to 68. They meet
the Shelby high school cagers in
a doubleheader to me played in
Shelby Tuesday night, that will
! be regular conference scheduled
1 games.
Hugh Dorsey Home
For Short Leave
Hugh Dorsey, PO 2/c, whose
ship docked in Boston last week
end for a brief stay, came home
to spend a few days with his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dorsey,
here. He returned to Boston Wed
nesday. This was his first visit
home in 18 months. He has been
serving in European waters.
Branded Duck Killed
On Broad River
GAFFNEY.—Vernon Pierce, who
lives near Dravo on Broad river on
route 1, has received from Jack
Miner of Kingsville, Ontario, Can.,
r ^knowledgement of a report of
killing a wild duck which was
wearing a Miner band on one leg
November 28 on Broad river. The
Lband was dated in the fall of 1939.
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WHIT GETS SELF (AND CALF) IN SHAPE—Whitlow Wyatt, Brooklyn
Dodgers’ pitching ace who spent most of last season on the bench with
a sore arm, is working the old flinger back into shape on his farm near
Buchanan, Ga., and hopes to be ready for a more active big league sea
son in 1945. Here, the six-foot right hander feeds milk to a balky calf
is mama cow looks on placidly. Whit, now 37 and married, went with
the Dodgers in 1939. In the 1941 World Series he won one and lost one.
He formerly played with the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox.
Gil Dobbs, Indoor
Mile Record-Holder
Running Final Race
BOSTON, Jan. 20.—f/P)—Indoor
mile record-holder Gil Dodds, who
is retiring from competitive track
in his prime, today will run his
farewell race on the same tiny
balcony where, as an unknown, he
gained his first triumph a half
dozen years ago.
His Theological studied complet
ed, Dodds, famed as the flying par
son, plans to set out for Los An
geles tomorrow to join a gospel
group. Nevermore, he predicts, will
he thrill packed thousands at the
major eastern indoor meets.
Unassuming and modest as ever,
Dodds has selected the annual
Boston Y. M. C. A. meet, which
actually is a schoolboy atfair, as
the stage for his valedictory per
formance — a two-mile handicap
event that has attracted a very
mediocre field.
In perfect physical trim, Dodds
is rated as “faster than ever” by
Jack Ryder, his veteran coach. "I’m
certain that Gil would cut at least
two seconds off his 4:06.4 indoor
world mile mark if he would com
pete this season,” Ryder said sadly.
Although Dodds' retirement was
not entirely unexpected, it stun
ned the promoters of next month’s
major meets in New York and
Boston. They had hoped he would
be available to resume his rivalry
with Guilder Haegg when that
Swedish sensation returns here to
try his flying feet on boards. But
Dodds warmed them repeatedly that
he would plunge, directly into his
ministerial career »s soon as he
completed his studies.
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Spangler Shoots 22 Points
As Girls Win; Boys Lose
Shelby high school’s basketball teams battled the Ruth
erfordton high school cagers last night in the local gymnas
ium. The Shelby girls emerged victorious over the Hill Top
pers in the first game of the double-header by a score of
42 to 24 and the boys were defeated 30 to 18 by the Ruther
fordton quintet.
In the first few minutes of the
game the Rutherfordton sextet
scored point for point with the
Shelby team, but goals made by
A. McNeely and Patterson gave
Shelby the lead at the end of the
first quarter by a score of 10 to 4.
The second period found the Ru
therfordton lassies trailing by ten
points as the Shelby guards lim
ited them to only three field goals,
while Spangler, Patterson and A.
McNeely racked up points for
Shelby that gave them a 20 to 10
edge over the visiting team.
Dorothy Spangler took the spot
light in the third period as she
made 14 points for Shelby. The
combination of Blanton, McNeely
and Spangler made fast passes
that wound up in the hands of the
speedy forward ( who. breaking un
der the basket, tossed the goals.
In the final period the two teams
were evenly matched as Shelby
scored six and the Rutherfordton
girls made five points before the
game ended. The Shelby girls
were the victors by a score of 42
to 24, and boosting their stand
ing in the conference to three wins
and two losses.
Spangler had a total of 22 points
tor high scoring in the girls game,
and Yelton with 10 and Hardin
scoring eight led the Rutherford -
ton team.
Rutherfordton had plenty of
trouble in the first two quarters
with the Lions as the score at the
first quarter found them with only
a one point lead and Shelby was
still trailing by one point as the
half ended, the score being 14 to
13. It was not until the third
quarter that the Hill Toppers
opened up to go ahead in the ball
game as they held the local boys
to a mere three points. The fast
breaking, quick passing club from
Rutherfordton, led by Gilbert,
really shone in the final period
and held on to their lead, winning
the ball game by a score of 30-18.
Cheek making three field goals
and one free throw led the Shelby
team in scorng and Gilbert with
14 points took the scoring honors
for the Hill Toppers.
Shelby’s next game will be play
ed in the local gym Tuesday night
with the Kings Mountain basket
ball teams. The Mountaineer boys
team Is undefeated in the current
GIRLS’ GAME
Shelby Rutherford ton
Patterson. 6 . Yelton, 10
Blanton, 6 . Hardin, 8
A. McNeely, 8.B. Nanney, 6
B. McNeely . Bradham
Margaret Ellis . Collins
Marion Ellis .. Taylor
Subs. — Shelby: Spangler 22>.
Rutherfordton: C. Nanney, Liv
ingston, Peterson.
BOYS’ GAME
Shelby Rutherfordton
Allen, 1 - C. Sorrells, 2
Lane, 4 .. McDonald
Cheek. 7 . B. Sorells, 8
Reynolds, 2 . Hines, 6
Weaver .. Gilbert, 14
Subs.—Shelby: Roberts (3), Meg
ginson, Overton, Dudley, Johnson
Rutherfordton: Johnson, Yelton.
RefeTee: Roy Lee Connor.
WEATHER
CHARLOTTE, Jan. 20.—(/P)—Of
ficial weather bureau records of
the temperature and rainfall for
the 24 hours ending at 8:30 a.m.
Raln
Statlon H. L. fall
Asheville . 42 40 .02
Atlanta . 48 34 .02
Augusta . 51 44 .15
Birmingham . . 57 41 .00
Charleston. 62 48 .52
Charlotte . _ 43 39 .32
Columbia . .. 50 42 .82
Greensboro . .. 42 32 .00
Jacksonville . .. 76 55 .00
Little Rock.. 49 39 .00
Memphis . 48 39 .00
Mobile . 62 40 .00
Mt. Mitchell . 36 28 .17
New Orleans. 58 44 .00
New York . . 35 22 .00
Raleigh . 46 34 .11
Spartanburg . 42 40 .34
Tampa..._ 69 61 .00
Washington . 43 30 .11
Wilmington . 53 39 .66
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