SPORTS SHELBY DAILY STAR HARRY ROBINSON, Sports Editor Sports Scene NEW YORK, May 10—(/Ph-'The University of Oklahoma's 40-year old high school baseball tourna ment, starting today, drew 55 en tries this year, far more than any peacetime year . . . The kids will use eight diamonds for the three day event . . . The Portland Coast league Beavers have just learned that the fence around their ball ♦ park, which closes a street, has been illegal for two years. Wonder if they’ll have to toss out all hom ers knocked over it? . . . Before starting their regular season, the teams of the All-American Girls’ Baseball league will tour the 15 army camps of the Sixth Service command . . . Now that permis sion to resume horse racing has been granted, would you say it was G-G day? TODAY’S GUEST STAR James E. Doyle, Cleveland Plain Dealer: "If Coach Carroll Widdoes of Ohio State should enter that contest to hit on a name for coach Paul Browns new Cleveland foot ball professionals. I suppose he'd call them the Ohio State Raiders." SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES George Binks, the Senators' rookie outfielder, owes his job in organised baseball to Red Smith, the bulky Cub coach . . . When Milwaukee needed a first baseman last season Red remembered that Binks had retired after a few sea sons in the lower Minors and was working in Chicago. The Brewers him lin anH Wn ahinotrm bought him . . . Les Elgart, a southpaw pitcher and trumpeter who fashioned a no-hit same for Pompton Lakes, N. J„ high school a couple years ago. has branched out with his own band. Les hopes he never has anothrr no-hit per formance . . . Football tips: Next fall keep your eyes on Mike Schu mchyk, who went from Center Moriche*. L. I. to Arkansas U„ and George <Dreadnaught i Bollas of Ohio State. Schumchvk never played football until lan year but wa* All-8outhwest conference end. Bollas, 1# years old and 335 pound*, Is the biggest athlete Ohio State ever had. IT'S A SHIN The weeks best explanation comes from Alex Robb of the Thoroughbred Racing associations, who writes: Pericles, unraced three-year-old which, as a yearl ing, coat William Helis $66,000. is at Belmont Park with bucked ahins. If you’ve played tennis on a cement court after a long lay off. you'll know what bucked shins are." SERVICE DEPT. Ens Rowan "Tubby* Crawford, who competed in five sports in nine months at Penn State, says hia postwar ambition is to be a aports-broadcaster If he can talk, he should have the qualifications . . . Don Budge and F'rankie Par ker are representing the army in Interservice tennis matches in Ha waii against the navy's It. Don McNeill and Ens. Bob Kimbrell . . . Hugh East, former Giants pitcher and Sid West, who play ed a little Minor-league ball, are Major League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Olmo, Brooklyn, .396; Ott, New York, .390. Runs—Ott, \New York, 22; Hol mes, Boston, 18. Runs Batted In—Lambardl, New York, 21; Nieman, Boston, and El liott, Pittsburgh, 17. Hits—Holmes, Boston, and Ruck er, New York, 28. Doubles—Kurowski, St. Louis 7; Holmes and Nieman, Boston, and Rucker, New York, 6. Triples—Walker, Brooklyn, and Gustine, Pittsburgh, 2. Home Runs—Lombardi and Ott New York, 5; Weintraub, New York, and Nieman and Workman Boston, 4. Stolen Bases—McCormick, Cin cinnati, 5; Barrett, Pittsburgh, 4. Pitching—Voiselle and Feldman New York, 4-0; Heusser, Cincin nati, 3-0. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting — Cuccinello, Chicago .370; Stephens, St. Louis, .350. Runs—Case, Washington. 15; Stirnweiss, New York, and Myatt, Washington, 13. Runs Batted In—Derry, New York, 15; Etten, New York, and Blnks, Washington, 13. Hits—Case and Binks, Washing ton. 22, Doubles—Moses. Chicago, 8; Garnett, Cleveland, 7. Triples—Ten players tied with 2. Home Runs—Derry. New York, 4; Hayes, Philadelphia, Johnson, Boston, and Stephens, St. Louis, 3. oioien oases—C/Bse, wasningion, 10; Myatt, Washington, 6. Pitching—Borowy. New York, and Benton, Detroit, 4-0. Rudy York, Tigers—Hit two dou bles and single for perfect day at plate, driving in one run of 4-1 margin over Yanks. Paul ODea. Indians—Broke up game with pinch single in ninth inning for 2-1 edge over Boston Thornton Lee, White Sox—Earn ed third victory at Athletics' ex pense. 6-4. contributed single tc 10-blow attack on Don Black. Dixie Walker. Dodgers—Unload ed triple and double, batting home half of Brooklyn's scores in 6-4 verdict over St. Louis Cards. Vince DiMaggio, Phillies — Lee Philadelphia to 5-2 win over Chi cago Cubs with single and two run homer. Tommy O'Brien. Pirates—Started Pittsburgh off to 9-5 romp ovei Braves with bases loaded double in fourth frame. Mel Ott. Giants—Tied late Lot Gehrig's lifetime home run mark with No 494 as New York trounc ed Cincinnati 6-1. teammates on the Balnbridgc navj team. Surely they must meet or the bench. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE TO Industrial Plants Farmers and Others IN CLEVELAND AND ADJOINING COUNTIES • DRAG LINE SHOVEL • TRUCKS • DUMP TRUCKS • BULL-DOZERS • CATERPILLAR MOTOR GRADERS NO. 12 PROMPT AND SATISFACTORY WORK Contact WILL G. AREY, Shelby, N. C. Phone 764 For Further Information HOBBS-PEABODY I BOX 3217 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Racing Centers To Resume Operations Detroit Within Half-Game Of Pacemaking White Sox As Trout Licks Yankees By JACK HAND (Associated Press Sports Writer) Detroit was breathing on the necks, of the first place i Chicago White Sox today only a half game behind because j Dizzy Trout still had the hex on the Nejw York Yankees. ror me sevenm ume since au | gust 24, 1943, the colorful right ; hander from the Indiana farm country had turned back Joe Mc Carthy’s club. Trout’s fourth success of the year, coming at the opening of the Yankees’ first western trip, serv ed to accentuate the positive value of the Tigers’ three-star mound staff. It was the dizzy one's fifth complete game of four for A1 Ben ton and two for Hal Newhouser, a total of 11 in 15 contests. All last season, Detroit was , the big stumbling block to the ' Yankees’ quest for a fourth straight flag. Every other club In the league managed to beat Trout at least once but h* tumbled New York six straight times. Newhouser also beat them six games but lost two. As the Bengal* elbowed past New York into second place it was beginning to look like the same old story all over again. One had three-run fifth Inning cost Rookie A1 Gettel his first | defeat, 4-1. Mel Ott's 494th Major league ; homer in the New York Giants’ night game 6-1 nod over Cincin | nati before 23.303, tied Ottie with I the late Lou Gehrig for third place in the all-time home run derby. Only Babe Ruth with 714 and Jim , my Foxx with 527 were ahead. Ott's homer was incidental to the Giants' victory in their first intersectional test as a four-run ' first inning attack on Arnie Car i ter was the rlinrhrr Harrv T^elri i man had little troulble notching . his fourth . traight by scattering seven blows. Johnny Rucker. New York cen 1 terfielder, stretched his consecu j tive hitting strfeak to 18 games, i tops in the Majors but long re ' moved from Joe DiMaggios 56. Brooklyn earned a 6-4 verdict over the world champion St. Louis Cardinate, for their fifth successive triumph. Rookie Vic Lombardi tightened up in the clutches to minimize 10 Card hits as Dixie Walker bashed a triple and double to doom Harry Brecheen. Paul Derringer saw his four , game streak go up in smoke as he 1 and the Chicago Cubs bowed to the Phillies, 5-2. Manager Fred dy Fitzsimmons used his two new infielders, acquired from the Cards ; in the deal for Buster Adams. John Antonelli was at third base ! and Glenn Crawford at shortstop and eachhit safely. Bill Lee was the winner over his old mates. Tommy O'Brien's double with ; the bases loaded started Pitts ; burRh offg to a 9-5 edge over the Boston Braves and a decision for Preacher Roe over Jim Tobin. Cleveland shaded the Red Sox, ; 2-1, on a pinch single by Paul 6 - ! Dea with the sacks choked in the i last of the ninth to give Allie Rey nolds the edge in a tight duel with Jim Wilson. The season's smallest crowd. 941, j saw the White Sox triumph 6-4 over Philadelphia on Thornton Lee's effective chucking. St. Louis was rained out of a home night game with Washington. CLUB STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York . .. 13 Brooklyn _ ..10 Chicago . . * i St. Louis . 8 | Cincinnati _ ............ 6 1 Boston. 7 i Pittsburgh . 7 .763 .625 .533 .533 .423 9 .400 9 .400 Philadelphia. 4 13 .235 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Chicago . 10 4 .714 Detroit ..10 5 .667 New York .10 6 .625 Washington . 9 9 .500 St. Louis. 6 8 .429 Philadelphia . 7 10 .412 Boston . .. 6 11 .353 Cleveland .5 10 .333 GAME RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 1. Detroit 4, Boston 1, Cleveland 2. Philadelphia 4, Chicago 6. Washington at St. Louis (night postponed rain and cold weather). NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 6. Cincinnati 1. St. Louis 4, Brooklyn 6. Pittsburgh A, Boston 8. Chicago 2, Philadelphia 5. Sgt. Everett* White Home From Overseos Sgt. Everette B. White, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. White of 608 Oakley St„ has arrived In Shelby to spend a 15-day furlough with his parents, after serving two years overseas in the Army. He partici pated in the Invasions of North Africa, and Sicily, and was in many of the campaigns in France. Sgt. White enterec the Army in Novem ber. 1942, and received his training at Keesler Field, Miss., and Maxton Air Base, N. C„ before going over GASTONIA AND SHELBY CLASH HERE TONIGHT Tonight in a game beginning at j 8:00 o'clock in the Shelby baseball | 'park, the Gastonia Green Wave and the Shelby Lions clash in a non-conference baseball game, that promises to be one of the best tilts of the year. Earlier in the sea son the two rivals tangled in the Gastonia park and the Lions were defeated in a nip and tuck ball game by a score of 4 to 3. Shelby High school's base ball team has played five games away from home and the home coming tilt tonight will probably bring out a ca pacity crowd to witness the game with Gastonia. All of the other home games have been played in the afternoon, but beginning tonight the remain ing tilts will be played at night in the Shelby park. With a string of eight victories and two losses to its credit the lo cal team will be out to revenge its previous loss to the Green Wave. "Boots'’ Kent will prob nuxy Bian vu uic inuuuu aui by and so far this season has an undefeated record, winning the five games he has pitched, but he will have to be in top form tonight when he hurls against the hard hitting Oastonla team. LINE-UPS The line-up for tonight's tilt will probably be for Shel by: Kent pitching. Bridges catching, Lane at first, Allen at second, Washburn at short, McKee at third, Cheek in left field, Paige in centerfield, and Bailey in rightfield; for Gastonia: Torrence or Frye, pitching, Runyan catching, Frye at first, Davis at second, Pearson at short, Queen at third, Purkey in leftfieid, Har key in centerfield, and Chris tenbury in rightfield. Friday night Shelby plays host to Newton's Red Devils In a con ference tilt, and next week winds up the season with Forest lAty playing here Tuesday night, and Hickory will play the Lions here on the following Friday night. All of the night tilts will begin promptly at 8:00 o'clock. Local sports fans have been un able to attend the afternoon games in the past, but tonight s game be tween the two evenly matched ri vals should draw a large crowd to the local park to witness the tilt. Conviction Of Rosen And Stemmer Closes Basketball Scandal NEW YORK. May 10—(TP)—The Brooklyn college basketball scan dal was closed today with the con viction of Harvey Stemmer and Henry Rosen, who were accused of conspiracy to defraud the pub lic in bribing five players to "throw” a game. Judge Louis Goldstein last night sentenced Stemmer to one year in the penitentiary and a $500 fine. Clemency for Rosen was recom mended by the Kings county court jury, which deliberated several hours, and Goldstein postponed sentencing him until May 16 in order to investigate his back ground. Stemmer and Rosen, in testi mony given by the five former players, were accused of paying a $1,000 down payment on a $3,000 bribe to "throw” a game with Ak ron (Ohio) university last Jan uary. Tommy Bell Gets TKO In Drive For Title CLEVELAND, May 10—(A?)—Lar ruping Tommy Bell was one up and one to go today in his drive for a crack at welterweight Cham pion Freddy Cochrane’s title. The 146-pound youngstown slugger hammered a technical knockout over Cleveland's Chuck Hunter last night, winning the opener of Matchmaker Larry At kins' tournament to select an op ponent for Cochrane. Hunter weighed 146 1-2. Bell is to meet Jimmy Doyle of Los Angeles here June 7 in the finals. Referee Jackie Davis stopped the slaughter last night in the fifth round after Bell knocked the Clevelander flat as a flounder fil let for the third time in the set. The 7,362 fans all but raised the arena roof as Hunter, game but helpless, struggled to his feet just before Davis callc' halt. seas in May, 1943. At the end of his furlough he will report to Camp Davis for reassignment. SHELBY HURLERS—"Boots” Kent, left, and Harry McKee, right, are the two hurlers for the Lions that have pitched Shelby into eight con ference wins in the 1945 baseball season. Kent has an undefeated record, winning five tilts, and McKee has three wins and one loss in conference competition. Both of the local right handers are veterans on the mound for Shelby as each have past records in high school and American Legion baseball. Kent will probably start on the mound to night against Gastonia in a non-conference tilt, and McKee will pro bably pitch against Newton here Friday night. When Kent is pitching, McKee plays third base, and when McKee is on the mound, Kent takes over the hot corner. Both of the local hurlers are eligible for Legion ball and will see a lot of action for the Shelby team this summer. Burlington Bees Win Two From Danville In The Carolina League RALEIGH. May 10 — (&)— The Danville Leafs, who ran up a string of ten straight wins before bumping into serious opposition, last night suffered their second straight defeat at the hands of the Burlington Bees who swept the two-game series with the league leaders. The score was 7-3. Aurie Lohbeck. on the mound for the Bees, allowed but five hit*. Erwin Wilson’s triple in the fifth with two aboard, was the victory punch. Ralph (Cy) Perkins, former Major league catcher, took over management of the Bees. Martinsville cruised to a 9 to 1 victory over Greensboro as Pitch er Bellinger turned in the pitching feat of the day, giving up but one hit. It was a triple by Gayle. Meanwhile, Martinsville slammed out 12 safeties to run up the core. The Raleigh Capitals took an 11-1 decision from the Durham Bulls as Charlie Timm pitched air tight ball and allowed but four hits, to ring up his second straight victory. The Caps, held in check for the last three racks, went on a rampage and hammered out 13 hits. In a contest marred by nine er rors, Leaksvtlle won from the Winston-Salem Twins 9 to 5. Taft, Leaksville shortstop, led the at tack with four hits in five times at the plate. Tonight's operations find Greens boro at Danville, Raleigh at Win stcn-Salem, Leaksville at Durham and Burlington at Martinsville. Race Tracks Banned To Baseball Players LEXINGTON. KY„ May 10—(VP) 1 —Baseball Commissioner “Happy1' i Chandler drew the ire of horse-1 men when he declared race tracks1 off-limits to baseball players. But when racing is resumed ] Kentuckian Chandler will have a1 namesake running the ovals —! Happy C, a two-year-old now training under the colors of P. A.' B. Widener at Belmont Park. The tw’o-year-old s name Is *offi- [ dally registered in honor of the j commissioner. Paul Neal New School Head At Belmont BELMONT. — Paul H. Neal, counselor and member of the fa- j culty of Belmont High school was, at a meeting of the local school board Saturday, elected to succeed Superintendent H. C. Sisk, who re cently resigned to accept the super intendency of the schools at Lenoir. Superintendent - Elect Neal has been prominent in the educational! field for a number of years. He, came to Belmont in 1931 as a class-1 room teacher of English speech and I director of dramatics. Having prev-1 lously graduated from Berea col- j lege. Berea, K.v. .Later, he became principal of Belmont High school, | a position he held until aoon after Pearl Harbor when he enlisted in the Navy. Hospital To Build Home For Manager Bids are .being asked by the Shelby hcspital for a home for the superintendent or administra tor. Plans call for a brick resi dence with three bed rooms, living room, dining room, kitchen and two baths to be located north of the hospital on Crawford street. Permission has been granted for the erection of the new home by the War Production board. Mr. Bethune, new administrator of the institution has been living in a trailer on the hospital grounds since coming to Shelby. He has a wife and two children and has been unable to secure a home since taking up residence here. Never dry clean your rubberized raincoat, although dry cleaning fluid ; may be used to remove oil and grease. ■ GARDNER-WEBB LICKS GROVER Gardner-Webb College baseball team defeated Grover high school Tuesday afternoon at Gardner Webb by a score of 14 to 4. Sam Greene, Jr., pitching for the Bull dogs, struck out 15 Grover batters and allowed only two hits in the 1 tilt. The two teams clashed last week in Grover and the Bulldogs emerg ed victorious over the Grover nine by a score of 9 to 2. This afternoon the college team plays the Cliff side High school team in Cliff - side and hope to keep the unde feated record they have so far this season. The college team touched Gene Turner, pitching for Grover, for 10 safeties, that resulted in many of the runs made by the Bulldogs. The only tw'O hits collected off Greene were singles by Turner and Harry, Sam Greene, Jr., had the Grover lads well under control, as he struck out 15 batsmen, gave up two hits and allowed only five bases on bells. His opponent, Gene Turner Crover hurler, fanned six Gardner Webb hitters and walked eight Turner and Harry collected the only two hits off Greene, and lead ing the hitting for the Bulldog; was Sam Greene, who had three hits to his credit in five times at bat, followed by Hamrick and Da meron who had two hits to their credit. R H E Grover _ 012 100 0— 4 2 1 G.-W. _ 450 032 x—14 10 2 A person can freeze to death quicker in heavy wool dothing than in lighter, more porous garb, the Germans learned in their Russian campaigns. Horse Racing Ban Lifted Yesterday By Fred Vinson By FRED HAYDEN NEW Y'OItK, May 10.—(fP)—More than 10,000 thor oughbreds were “champing at the bit” today as the lifting of the first nation-wide ban on racing found virtually all racing centers in the country either ready to resume oper ations, or close to it. The racing blackout, which be ' gan last Jan. 3, was lifted yestcr i day by War Mobllizer Fred M. ! Vinson. Earliest opening dates plan ned were for Narrangansett, R. i I., and Sportsman Park, Chi cago, those tracks scheduling their inaugurals for Saturday. Other sectional openings either decided upon or desired are: May 16—Pimlico (Maryland joint meeting); Kenneland at Churchill Downs, Ky.; May 21 Jamaica, N. Y.; May 29—Dela ware Park, Wilmington; May 30—Cleveland district; June 23 —Longacres, Washington; July 13—Garden State Park, N. J. The California racing com mission will meet tomorow to allot dates for the state's tracks. Santa Anita said it hoped to open Monday. Beulah Park was expected to begin Ohio's season this month, and West Virginia’s Charlestown and Wheeling Downs may also get under way before the end of May. The War Manpower commission will remove its “zero” employment ceiling for tracks, a regulation which permitted hiring only essen tial maintenance workers. The ODT issued an order per mitting horse shipments, but re I- ut* iv^uuuo in t utimc i/iic wau will continue, meaning no special trains or extra equipment. In Chl j cago, Col. Matt Winn said the more j than 100 entries for the Kentucky Derby will be announced Saturday, when the date for the event prob ably wiil be announced—probably June 2 or 9. It originally was sche duled for May 5. The colonel' will consult heads of other tracks con cerning other big three year old stakes, such as the Preakness, which is expected to be run a w-eek after the Derby, and the Belmont stakes, likely to be offer ed another two weeks later. New York's May 21 opening date is contingent upon the state rac ing commission approving dates requested by the, five tracks here. The Detroit F&cing association is preparing to appeal a circuit court injunction making racing il legal at the fair grounds. The trotting horse season opens at Hamburg, N. Y., May 12 and j at Roosevelt Raceway, L. I., Mav ! 25. The $40,000 Hambletonian is J slated for Aug. 8 at Goshen, N. Y. Turf figures predict the sport and business will flour ish even beyond the peak at i tained in 1944. Wagering in-17 states hit $1, 209,973,122 over a full season last year, with some $56,000, 000 in revenue for those states. Total attendance was approxi mately 18,000,000. Since Pearl Harbor, racing contributed some $17,000,000 to war relief agen cies and more than $50,000,000 N. C, STATE LEAGUE SERIES OPENS TONIGHT SALISBURY, May 10—(*>)—'The impetus of V-E day spurring them on, eight North Carolina state baseball league clubs were set to launch a 112-game schedule to night, marking the class D cir cuit’s return to action after a lay off of three years. Home clubs tonight are Lexing ton, Statesville, Concord and Mooresville, entertaining, in that order, Thomasville, Hickory, Sal isbury and Landis. The circuit’s president, Judge C. Manley Lewellyn of Concord, looks for spirited competition, with youthful, aggressive performers making up with their scrap what they lack in polish and experi ence. umy L,anais nas no Major league connections, but the club has received Southern league sup port in lining up players. North Carolina now has two or ganized circuits in operation, the Class C Carolina league having opened two weeks ago. Tonight’s opponents will meet again tomorrow, reversing fields, however, while double headers are carded Saturday. Memorial Service At Patterson Springs An all-day Memorial service will be held at Patterson Springs Bap tist church Sunday, May 13. Sun day school will take place at 10 o'clock to be followed by an ad dress by President Phil Elliott, of Oardner-Webb college. Dinner will be served on the grounds at 12 o’ clock. Lake Stroup, of Gaffney, S. C. will conduct a song service in the afternoon. in war bonds were sold at tracks. In recent years; New York's wagering has comprised about 25 per cent of the na tional total. There will be fewer race pro grams this curtailed season, but they should be better ones, as all major stakes will be run in the time remaining. Tracks here, for instance, may have a virtual “stake-a-day” schedule. NeffTork usually has a 180-day regular sea son but a belated May 21 opening would mean a loss of six weeks on the front end. Phone 65 Shelby, N.C. 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