Sports
Roundup
By GALE TALBOT
(For Hugh Fullerton, Jr.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19—(JP)—Capt.
James J. Braddock probably
should be listened to when he
picks Billy Conn to outpoint Louis
easily in their second meeting
next June. He thinks that Joe, i
at 32, will have gone over the hill; !
He warns, however, that “If Billy
tries to outpunch Joe he will run j
Into trouble.” . . . Col. Edward R.
Bjradley, who observed his 86th
birthday last week, is reported
ready to quit the racing game be
cause Of ill health and to have
placed his famous Idle Hour farm
In Kentucky on the block.
LEAGUE WAR
Arch Ward, who promoted
the new All-America football
conference from a faint idea
In his own noggin to its pres
ent opulent state, declares that
the mere formation of the cir
cuit already has cost the rival
National league more than
$100,000 in additional salaries
to its players as insurance
against their jumping the
traces. Arch conceded it's go
ing to be a tough war, but he
ig eool and confident. "Any
one of aeveral of our teams has
more money behind it than the
entire National league,” he
say# serenely, brushing a cou
ple of million out of his trous
er cuff. |
BOWL EXCITEMENT
go loot M Blanchard and Davit
art mowed in up at Wait Point
it ip a little difficult to |tt ex
cited about any of the Bowl
games. However, we will say that
somebody did a smart bit of pro
moting for the Sugar Bowl In
bringing together Bob Penimore,
the ©Juahoir.a Aggie antelope, and
Herman Wedemeyer of St. Mary s.'
both All-America backs. Hank
Ibe. coaeh of the Aggie basketball
team, was in town last weefc toll-1
lng everyone who would listen
that Penimore not only wts the
greatest back in the country, but j
the fastest, and that he could
trim Davis in a 100-yard dash
by five yards, at least. That we
Would have to see.
ALL THIS
Ben Bloodworth of the De
catur (Ala.) Dally, a fearless
contributor, aavs as follows:
•‘Note to Southern Cel : Ala
bama's Crimson Tide not only
was Harry Gilmer and Vaughn
Mancha, but all this 4nd Low
ell Tew."
NOTE ON WADE
Wallace Wade. who put Alaba
ma and than Duka on the football
map- h*a the inside track on the
Kentucky eoachlng job. sayi Buck
Weaver nt the Louisville Weav
er*. "And. should he accept, the
word is that his choice of first as
sistant la naaia ether than Sling
inf Sammy Baugh. A more per-,
feet set-up hardly could be feund.
And, hay ah bey. would they pull
the atnr athelete* into Stoll field!"
anultp the roundest Weaver, fairly
drooling at the thought.
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elglm cleaning fluid with only a 10
per cent less.
IN NORTH CAROLINA
More people drink Atlantic Ale and Beer than any other.
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Army Named Outstanding Sports Team Of Year
SHELBY DAILY STAR I
SPORTS
JAMES GREENE, Sports Editor
Legion Juniors Must
File Birth Records
A note of spring was sounded today, as James S. Le
Gette, Legion athletic officer, announced qualifications for
juniors who expect to try out for the Shelby American
Legion junior baseball team next spring.
In order to be eligible for the
team, a junior must first have
®een born in the year 1929 or
thereafter. No boy born before 1929
frill be eligible. A Legion Junior
player cannot be more than 17
years of age.
Another eligibility rule requires j
that all boys who expect to try
tmt for the team have their birth
certificates on file in the Bureau of
Wtal Statistics at Raleigh before
January 1, 1949. As this deadline
a only a short time &tl, prospec
tive players are urged by Mr. Le
3ette to check immediately with
the bureau and find out if their
certificates are on file, unless they
pave already done so. Mr. LeGette ;
will be glad to assist any junior
»'ho does not understand the pro
cess of caring for this matter.
Parents also may be of valuable
issiatanee in helping their sons
flit their certificates. Prospective
players are sometimes ruled lneli
Sijcle because their certificates were
not on file, as they had believed
through error.
COUNTY BOYS
AH county boys who fall in
the age group are eligible to
try out for the*. team. This
does not apply to boys who live
inside the city of Kings Moun
tain.
When the local juniors head In
to another season next spring, they
will find themselves the defending
champions of the world, having
copped the ‘'little world series” ti
tle from the Trenton, N. J., team
in the series finals ending at
Charlotte on last September 1.
A number of veteran players will
ae expected to return for action
is well as new ones. 8everal are
reported ineligible for further par
ticipation, Including Charlie Hut
chins, Harry McKee. Boots Kent,
Mae Boston, Harvey ^wen and
Ley Paige.
Legal Liquor Sales
Show Increase ,
RALEIGH. Dee. 19—Sale* of leg
al liquor in Abe State s wet eounties
lur.n* Novenper totalled *2.891.829 -
70. compared with *2,111.258.55 in
November, 1944, the State ABC
aoard reported today.
Durham county led the list with
sales totaling *358.040 65. followed
by Wake with *277,737.60, and New
Hanover with *271,889.45.
Other counties:
Beaufort *77,31.70; Bertie *89.•
293.10; Carteret *51.38765; Chowan
*41,184.70; Craven *82,701.95; Cum
berland *229,393; Dare *11.248.65;
Edgecombe *127,860.05; Greene
*22,288.70; Halifax *140,818 40; Le
noir *148.967.35; Martin *66,151.90;
Moore *99,768 45; Nash *115,818.40;
Onslow *68,357.80; Pasquotank *71,
318.80; Pitt *153.49490; Tyrrell
19,344; Vance *105.226.05; Warren
►50.609.55; Washington *30,391.50;
»nd Wilson *191,215.50.
Luisetti Is Navy Coach
ANNAPOLIS, MO, Dec. 19—(A*.
-Capt. C. O. Humphries, navy
ithletie director, announced today
hat Lt. Angelo (Hank) Luisetti,
JSNR, San Francisco, would
lerve as assistant varsity basket -
tail coach this season. The head
each is Johnny Wilson.
The world's first oil well was
trilled in 1859.
Deacs Drop Tilt,
Marines Take One
By The Associated Press
Bad weather reduced ail alre^y
abbreviated State basketball
schedule to a bare two games last
night, only one of them involving
a collegiate team.
'Wake Forest dropped a 45-38'
decision to the strong Hanes Hos
iery mill team at Winston-Salem.
At Camp LeJeune, the North ■
Carolina Marine outfit turned i
back Camp Peary, Va., 60-56.
Games scheduled Jast night but j
canceled or postponed included'
Guilford and McCrary Eagles at
Asheboro, Fort Bragg Glider In- i
fantry and the Greensboro Ord
team on the latter's hpme Court,:
and a Chapel Hill struggle between
North Carolina and Camp Mac
kail.
No games are scheduled tonight.
Shintoism Directive
Strips Emperor
Of His Divinity
TOKYO. Dec. 19—OP)—Chief of
the Bureau of School Education
in the education ministry, told
Kyoto news aeencv that General
MacArthur's directive abolishing
state Shintoism strips the emper
or of his divinity but permits the
Japanese to regard him as "the ob
ject of reverence as a sovereign
ruler.”
Hereafter, he said, school child
ren no longer will be tolH to re- ;
gard the Emperor as a divinity.
Japanese history as now being
taught also should be reexamined,
he proposed.
Cotton Manufacturers
Ask Removal Of
All Price Controls
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 19—fAWThe
American Cotton Manufacturers
Association announced It has ap
pealed for removal of all price
controls from the cotton textile
industry.
The appeal was made by the
associations president, Charles A.
Cannon of Concord, to Reconver
sion Director John W. Snyder.
Similar appeals have been filed
with the Civilian Production Ad
ministration and various congress
ional committees.
Australia Seeks To
Keep GI’s There
States war veterans who served in
the Southwest Pacific are being
encouraged by the Australian gov
ernment to settle in this country,
Minister for Immigration Arthur
Calwell said today.
He explained that he was inves
tigating the possibility of reduc
ing the shipping fares of veterans
who wish to move here, and that j
he had already approved the ap<- ;
plications of many service men
who wish to be discharged in
Australia.
DETROIT TIGERS
SELECTED FOR
SECOND PUCE
Shelby Legion Juniors Get
Outstanding Sports
Team Votes
RAMS IN 3RD SPOT
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—(£>)
—It will come as no surprise
to the nine teams that got in
the way of the Army steam
roller that the mighty West
Point football combination
has been named the outstand
ing sports team of the year.
The oig speedy, invincible Ca
dets from the banks of the Hud
son won the annual Associated
Press poll in about the same
manner in which they flattened
their opponents.
Of the 74 votes cast by the na
tion's sports experts, 71 of 76 first
place nominations were awarded
to Army. In the other five cases
the national collegiate football
kingpins drew second place bal
lots. All told the Cadets piled up
a total of 223 points on a basis of
three for first, two for second and
one for third.
The 1944 Army eleven won last
year's team of the year honors
but not by so wide a margin as
the current edition although both
squads swept all nine games. Last
year Earl Blaik’s men captured 67
of the 104 first place votes.
The Detroit Tigers took second
place in the voting, receiving one
top nomination but plenty of sec
onds and thirds to accumulate 66
points. The world series winners
finished 27 points ahead of an
other championship football ag
gregation—the Cleveland Rams of
the National Football league. The
Rams scored 39 points but at
tracted two first place votes.
Of the other first place
votes, Alabama’s Rose Bowl
football team and the Fort
Wayne (Ind.) Zollner Pistons,
a crack pro basketball outfit,
each received one. The Pis
tons finished in a tie for sixth
while Alabama wound up tied
for eighth.
The Oklahoma A. & M. basket
ball team, which won the national
collegiate title, annexed fourth
place with 16 points and Indiana’s
big ten football champions took
fifth with 13.
Football also figures in the big
gest sports surprise of the year
poll, the experts voting the Great
Lakes 39-7 defeat of Notre Dame
as the top eyebrow lifter.
OUTSTANDING GRID TEAM
The outstanding teams, determ
ined on a basis of three points
for each first plaee vote, two for
second and one for third: (First
plaee votes in parenthesis).
Army football (71) _ 223
Detroit baseball (1) 66
Cleveland pro football (2) 39
Oklahoma AdcM basketball 16
Indian football .. 13
Fort Wayne pro basketball
(1) - -. 12
Montreal hockey _ 12
DePaul basketball . 11
Iowa basketball . 11
Alabama football (1) _ 11
SHELBY NOMINATED
Others nominated: Fleet
City football S; Army basket
ball 4; Washington pro foot
ball 4; Navy football 4; Tor
onto hockey 2; St. Louis Car
dinals baseball 2; SHELBY,
N. C., AMERICAN LEGION
BASEIBALL 2; Ohio State, golf
2; Michigan football 1; Louise
Brough-Margaret Osborne, ten
nis 1; Illinois track 1; St.
Mary’s football 1; Phillips 66,
basketball 1; Indianapolis girl
swimmers 1; Columbia foot
ball 1.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
NEW YORK, Dec. 18—UP)—Pre- ;
violin winners In the Associated
Press annual poll to pick the team
of the year:
1931— Southern California, foot
ball.
1932— New York Yankees, base
ball.
1933— New York Giants, base
ball.
1934— St. Louis Cardinals, base
bail.
1935— Detroit Tigers, baseball.
1936— Yankees.
1937— Yankees.
1938— Yankees. v
1939— Yankees.
1940— Cincinnati Reels, baseball.
1941— Yankees.
1942— Cardinal*.
1943— Yankees.
1944— Army, football.
Wildlife Area
To Revert To State
RALEIGH, Dec. 19 —(JP)— The
Sandhills game management area,
composed of 64,000 acres, will revert
to the state in the near future,
the state was advised by the
Federal Fish and Wildlife service.
The entire area was taken over
by the federal government as a part
of Camp Mackall during the war.
That camp now is being deactivat
ed.
The area, when under state di
rection, was chiefly for small game,
deer and fish. Renewed emphasis
will be placed on it when the army
relinquishes possession, Commission
er John Findlay of the division of
game and inland fisheries said.
Seek To Have ‘Doping’
Rule Declared In valid
BALTIMORE, Dec. 18.—{IP)—The growing controversy
between horsemen and racing commission officials over the
enforcement of rules against the giving of stimulants to
thoroughbreds was slated today for what is believed will be
its first civil court airing.
Two horsemen and #ieir train
ers, suspended by the Maryland
commission on charges of stimu
lating horses which ran under
their silks, filed a suit in circuit
court yesterday seeking to have
the commission's rule against
“doping” declared invalid.
^The suit also seeks to bar the
racing commission from holding
further hearings on the stimula
tion charges except by court or
der.
It was filed by W. L. Brann
and Sylvester W. Labrot, jr., own
ers, and E. A. Christmas and Clay
Sutphin, their respective trainers, j
Hearings for Christmas, Sutphin
and three other trainers were held i
last week after chemists reported
that saliva tests taken from six
horses which ran at Pimlico in
November showed presence of mor
phine. They were continued for a
week.
SIGNS ORDER
Judge Joseph Sherbow signed an
order giving George p. Mahoney, ]
commission chairman, and H.
Courtenay Jenifer and Prank
Small, jr., the other members, until
Sunday to show cause why the
complainants’ petition should not
be granted.
The commissioners arranged to
meet today with Maryland Attor
ney General William Curran and
members of his staff to discuss I
the matter.
The rule against the use of
stimulants reads, in part, that
“the fact that the analysis
shows the presence of a drug
shall be conclusive evidence
either that there waa knowl
edge of the fact on the part of
the trainer or that he was
guilty of carelessness in per
mitting it to be adminlster
• ed.”
COMPLAINT
The four complainants contend
ed in the petition that the rule
"adopts a conclusive presumption
of guilt,” is unconstitutional, and
that it permits a trainer to be
punished even though he proves
himself innocent and that the !
horse was drugged by some other i
person.
The suit also claimed:
1— Mahoney “has prejudged” the 1
cases against the owners and
trainers and that he "is or should j
be disqualified from conducting
further hearings on the charges
against the complainants."
2— That the horsemen had been
forced to a quick hearing without
proper preparation and that they
were denied a fair trial.
8—That the doping rule forbids
the person charged to offer a de- j
fense.
Finally, the trainers and owners j
entered an express denial that!
they had administered or permit
ted anyone else to administer
"any drug” to their horses "or \
any other horse in any way at
any time within 48 hours of the
time of any race.”
Mahoney declined comment pend
ing the commissioners’ meeting
with the attorney general.
SON OF BRITISH
LEADER HANGED
FOR TREASON
LONDON, Dec. 19 —OP)— John
Amery, son of a prominent Brit
ish statesman, was hanged at 9
a.m. (4 a.m. Eastern Standard |
Time) today for high treason to
his king and country.
Led'from a cell next to that
of William (Lord Haw Haw) Joyce,
who is awaiting death on the gal
lows for the same offense, Amery
was executed under a clearing sky
after a night of drizzling rain.
The 33-year-old son of L. S
Amery, former secretary of state
for India and one-time first lord
of the admiralty, was convicted
of broadcasting Nazi propaganda
from Europe during the war. Wit- !
nesses testified at his trial that
he had been selected by the Ger
mans to be the British Quisling.
Amery’s getress wife, Una Wing, j
and his toother left the prison
about an hour before the hang
ing. His parents visited the pri
bon last night.
Amery was living on the Riviera
when the war started and, al
though he had shown no previous
Interest in Nazism or politics,
soon was heard broadcasting from
Prance, Germany, Italy and other
countries.
He declared the German army
was defending European civiliza
tion, apd urged Britain to sur
render.
New Recreation Head
At Kings Mountain
KINGS MOUNTAIN, Dec. 19—
W—Earl B. Ruth of Charlotte,
former University of North Caro
lina basketball star, has been en
gaged as city recreation supervi
sor here.
Recently discharged from the
navy, he will begin his new duties
Jan. 1.
Oil was found ia California m
1866.
BROWNS SIGN
DANIEL, OF
CHICAGO BEARS
NEW YORK, Dec. 19—CAP)—The
professional football season is over
but the all-out war between the
established National League and
the young All-American conference
is apt to keep the gridders in the
news until another campaign rolls
around.
Among the latest developments
in the feud was the announce
ment of the AA’s Cleveland Browns
that they had signed Tackle Jim
Daniel of the Chicago Bears and
offered a contract to Riley Mathe
son, all-league guard of the Na
tional’s Champion Cleveland Rams.
Matheson said he was consid
ering entering the coaching field
or playing in the All-America con
ference. He disclosed he had been
paid $375 a game plus $25 per for
expenses but Chile Walsh, general
manager of the Rams, said Mathe
son would receive $4,939 from the
club this season and added that a
contract for a two-year period was
signed at the player's suggestion.
John Brickies, acting manager of
the Browns, admitted he had con
tacted Matheson and made him a
"nice offer."
UNDERSTUDY
In Washington, Frank FHchock,
the 29-year-old Redskin passer who
has been acting as an understudy
to Slingin’ Sammy Baugh for the
last six years, revealed he had re
ceived “feelers” from" the rival
league. Filchock, who completed
two touchdown passes in the losing
title clash with Cleveland, added
that he certainly would like to
"get a crack" at a regular assign
ment before his career ended.
The conference also came up
with the news that Slip Madigan,
one-time head coach of St. Mary’s
Galloping Gaels, had signed as
general manager of the Los An
geles club and that the Francisco
club had selected a name—“The
49’ers’’—and had signed John Kuz
man, a strapping former Fordham
tackle, and Garland Gregory,
Louisiana Tech guard.
In China, more than 500 years
ago, a treatise on carbon black
manufacture was published.
Gene Wike To Join
Game, Fish Division
RALEIGH, Dec. 19 —{Jp)— Gene
Wike, recently placed on Inactive
service by the Navy, and formerly
connected with Appalachian State
Teachers College, will become pub
lic relations director for the divis
ion of game and inland fisheries on
January 1, Commissioner John D.
Findlay announced today.
Wike handled press relations and
taught some classes while he was
associated with Appalachian. His
salary will be $3,000 a year.
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