The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-12

NNLO I11CC CAAS r.
ketball teams in many a sea
Duke Favored
The latter part of this month the
Southern conference tourney will
come off in Raleigh and the cage
picture has changed SO that now
Duke is rated the favorite instead
of tie White Phantoms Of Chapel
Hill.
And right here at home this week
is the highlight of the New a
over Wildcats winter campaign.
The Cats have three games Oil tap
this week. They play Durham here
Tuesday night, meet Raleigh there
Friday and Durham again Satur-
day night. Next week will about
wind up the season for the local
cagers, who broke into the confer
ence win margin with a victory
over Rocky Mount last week.
Anyway from now until the mid
die of March, the cage sport will
demand most of the headlines and
VIC dlS PlSulSsii5 JILL
results before it's all over.
Cinderella Man
Bookings famous "Cinderella
Man"-James j. Braddock, former
heavyweight champion of the world,
will be in Wilmington tomorrow
night to referee tie American Le-
gion's mat program. And his ap-
pearance here is bound to attract
attention, for Braddock's rise to
fame and fortune makes a hero of
the Horatio AIger caliber a small
fry.
The New Jersey Irishman had
campaigned up and down, mostly
down, for four years until at the
end Of 1888 he was on the WPA e.
lief rolls, with a wife and children
to support. During the four pre-.
vious years he had won a one
round knockout over Jack Roper
but had lost to about everybody
else in the business.
Braddock was 80 years old. He
couldn't get any fights for he was
definitely headed down hill. But
about this time Corn Griffin was
coming up. The Georgia boy looked
like a champion and needed only a
set-up to get a crack at the cham.
pionship held by Max Baer. About
the same time Braddock got a
leave of absence to fight John
Henry Lewis for bread-'n-butter.
Well, as you know, he won a TO-
round decision from Lewis and SO
he vas cast to fight Griffin in a
bout that would send the Georgian
against Baer. Well, again Brad
docks good left and powerful right
hand ended the career of Griffin
in the third round.
A lack of challengers for the
heavyweight crown gave Braddock
a crack at the championship in
1884. Old Man Braddock was a
1o-1 shot to beat Baer but he did
and with the victory the New
Irishman was the worlds
champion, a year after he was on
the relief rolls. He held the crown
until 1897 when Joe Louis took the
title after eight rounds ct very
tough scrapping.
This And That
Phil Buchheit and Father James
A. Manley left here yesterday
morning for Atlanta, Ca, very con-
that Friday morning they will
be heading back with at least three
Golden Gloves champions of the
southeastern United States tourna-
ment with them We shall see
49,. Whlteville has won the basket
ball championship in the second dis.
trlct of Eastern Class B ball
BeulaVille holds the Class C CHAM
p1onship in the second district
Wake Forest will face Davidson.
State and Duke on the hardwoods
this week -. North Carolina has
three more conference games-State
this week and next week Clemson
ana Duke -. Just about everybody
we have asked says that Arturo
Godoy should have at least gotten a
draw with Joe Louis last week
Experts, like the judges. were divid.
ed on the issue-some giving the
decision to Louis and about an
equal number to the Chilean, who
will probably fight the chamrion