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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
HANDBALL MEET
IS PLANNED AT Y
Is Members Are Expected To
Enter Meet Which Opens
On Y Court Monday

Y. M. G. A. h~andballers are pre-
pairing for the opening rounds OF the
handball tournament which VIII!
open on the Y court Monday night.
Approximately Is members are
expected to enter the lists which
will close Friday night at Z O'Clock,
at which time pairing of the players
will take place. Unusual interest
has been shown by members in the
approaching event, which offers a
6-inch championship trophy to the
winner and an individual award to
the lei The 'Y's' n four
wall handball court continues crowd
ed as the entries round into condi'
ton for the opening matches.
Rules for the tourney will be an
nounced Friday night when the
drawing for positions on h e
brackets will take place at the wv,
handball Chairman Harry Dosh er
announced yesterday. He urged all
participants to be sure to sign up
before the deadline in order that
they might be certain of inclusion
in the sixteen" bracket which is
being prepared.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
BETHESDA GIVEN
CAGE MEET BID
Maryland School Takes Place
Vacated By Runnelstown,
Mississippi, Cagers

DURHAM, March 10 up Be
thesda-Chevy Chase high school OF
Bethesda, Md, was today invited to
participate in the Duke-Durham
southern high school basketball
tournament to be held at Duke Fri
day and Saturday replacing Run.
nelstown, Miss, high.
The Mississippi outfit was forced
to withdraw due to local complica,
lions and Bethesda-Chevy Chase
the alternate team of the tourney
accepted the bid to replace them.
Bethesda will replace Runnels
town in the pairings being slated te
meet Lanier high Of Macon, Ca, ir
a first round game Friday at one
o'clock.
The tourney will open with Roose
welt high of Washington meeting
H~arrodsburg, KY, at $50 O'Clock
and at 10 o'clock Parker high O.
Greenville, S. c., meets High Poin-
high.
At 11:30, the feature game of thu
morning, between Durham high.
defending champions and Lynch
burg's Virginia State champs will
be played and it will be followed b,
the Lanier- Bethesda contest.
The semi-finals will be played Fri
day night, the first game between
the Roosevelt : Harrodsburg an
Parker-High Point winners at 7:3l
o'clock, the second between the Dur
MANUFACTURING and Lanier- Bethes
Ida winners at nine o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
San Diego Wins Over
Appalachian In Meet

KANSAS CITY, March 13-R-
Basketeers of San Diego (Calif.)
State eliminated Appalachian State
Teachers college Of Boone, N. c.,
from the National intercollegiate
Basketball Association tournament
tonight, 48 to 46, in a second round
battle.
1t was the toughest game of the
1910 tourney.
Milton (Milky) Phelps spu n
around the Carolina guards for 20
points. A total of AZ personals were
called. 26 of them charged against
the winners. Three San Diego play
ers were banished because OF the
dement's. Danny Miller, the Noun
taineer forward, slapped in Fl.
San Diego, runnerup to South
western of Kansas, for the 1888
championship, had gained the second
round with a 1875 victory over East
Central State of Ada, Okla, last
night. Appalachian won it's first
round match 43-34 over Bemidj
(Minn.) Teachers Monday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
DRILLS CONTINUE
FOR BOXING MEET
Requests For Entry Blanks
Received From Raleigh
And Rockingham

Local negro boxers confined
their fast training pace last Isl:
as workouts We're held in the Go,'en
Gloves gymnasium on North From.
street in preparation for the frs:
annual Eastern Carolinas 4. A., [.
tournament to be staged at Legj-A
stadium on March 20. q and -
Sponsors of the meet also ar
nounced requests for additional
entry blanks from Rockingham ant
Raleigh. Invitations to participate
in the meet were also mailed fight
ers in Charlotte and Durham.
Standout performances were turn
ed in last night by Buster COBB ana
Starkey Mccullough.
Topping the training last n'9h
was a knock-down and -fas''i,
ARRAY between Elijah Walker ami
Edward Fulton, 112-pound coh'ea''
ers, who staged a three-round eN
hibition match at the gymnasium
Entries for the tournament Sl'u'
be mailed to H.. Carl MoullI4e d.
the Cape Fear Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
|SERAFlN, ALLAN
LEAD GOLF MEET
PrO-Amateur Team Cards 1923
To Qualify For Ma
tiOnal Match Play

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 1a
-R-Dovetailing their shots per
fectly, Felix Serafin, Scranton, Pa.
professional, and his amateur part
ner, Frank Allan of West Pittston
Pa, shot a brilliant 1923 today and
won medalist honors in the 36-hole
qualifying round of the National
Winter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Match
Play Golf tournament here.
Bagging 10 brides and adding an
eagle on the last hole, the medalist
team clipped Is strokes from par in
the best-ball test and won one OF
the 10 places in the championship
division at stake today. They had
rounds of 66 and SO.
Thirteen other teams, including
those with Ryder Cup players, were
exempt from the qualifying round
and automatically advanced to the
first match play round starting to
morrow.
The Serafin-Allan scoring feat
was made one the easier by a stiff
wind and heavy fog sweeping ir
from the Atlantic ocean across the
6,345-yard st. Augustine course.
Three teams were tied for runner
up honors with cards of 131. The,
were Frank Moore, Reading, Pa.
and Oscar Evers, Jacksonville, Fla.
63-68; Jimmy McHale, Saranat
Lake, N. Y, and Powell Crichton
Bronxville, N. Y, 1855; and Chand
Ter Harper, Portsmouth,, Pa, and A
Dollins, Roanoke, Va, $685..
1t took a par-shattering 139 O.
better to qualify.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
'FLINCHUM MOVES
UP JOCKEY RANKS
Sensational Rider AS Appren'
tice Hopes To Become
Better AS Senior

MIAMI, Fla, March 13-R-Roy
Jack Flinchum, a tiny lad with a
frank, open face who can ride a
horse like a centaur, rode for the
last time as an apprentice Jockey
today.
Hes lost his 'bug'!" was the way
fellow thoroughbred pilots expressed
it. and they keenly awaited a demon
stration of the sensational young
Miamisburg, O., riders ability as
senior.
Losing the "bug" simply means
removal of the asterisk which de
notes the apprentice from before the
Jockeys printed name. Tomorrow,
the first anniversary of Flinchum's
first victory as a rider, he automa-
tically becomes a senior.
The important thing about losing
the bug is that he no longer can
claim the five-pound apprentice al
lowance. So important is this step
that many promising young fellows
are little heard of thereafter.
In every race, horses entered are
Handicapped" OF required to carry
a certain weight. In some events,
like the Kentucky Derby, all entries
carry identical weights. But in day
III day out racing, like that at Tro2-
ical park, entries are assigned
weights according to their records.
The plan is to handicap 50 that at
the start all the horses have an
equal chance to win. The difference
in the Jockeys and the assigned
weights is made up in bags Of lead
pellets.
An apprentice is given a 5-pound
allowance because he is considered
to have less experience than a
senior. The lifting of five pounds
from horses carrying apprentices
with the ability of young Flinchum
sometimes results in sensational
rides.
And Flinchum has been sensation
al. Far and away the leading jockey
of the Florida winter meet, he has
booted 81 winners home at Tropical
and Hialeah park, IA victories ahead
of the next high rider, Eddie Arcaro,
a top-ranking veteran.
Will he be able to maintain the
pace?
81 think So" he rejoined d,
modestly.
Under the management of his
father, Roy Jack Flinchum, ST., the
youth is making plans for a busy
summer. He expects to ride Wool.
ford FARMS Prompt Pay in the Ken.
lucky Derby.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
20 HORSES NAMED
FOR DERBY EVENT
Despite Rating Of Bimelech
Owners Fill Brackets With
Tough Competition

NEW YORK, March 13-CP-You
may not believe it, from the way
Bimelech is being touted from the
housetops all the way between here
and Louisville, but there really are
a few other bosses expecting to
show up against Big Bimmie when
he goes after the Triple Crown"
this spring.
They've made Col. E. r. Bradley's
classy colt the shortest priced fu-
ture book favorite in history, not
only for the Kentucky Derby, but
for the three-crown stunt as we'll.
Trainers of other gallopers in one
or the other Of the races even over
look their own hopefuls to point the
finger at Black Toney's boy.
Yet, a comparison of the lists of
nominations for the Derby, the
Preakness and the Belmont shows
16 owners have overcome their fears
sufficiently to name a total Of 10
other horses to run after the three
way three-year old championship
which has been won by only four
other thoroughbreds in history. A
dozen others, already among the
eligibles for the Derby and Belmont,
are expected to be entered as sup.
Elementary nominees for the Freak.
ness - at $1,000 per supplementary
crack, incidentally.
Even Col. Bradley, who is luckicr
than most with a fellow like Bimmie
going for him, has another candi-
date, Bashful Duck, listed among
the 20 already named for all three
starts. While Bimelech is definite.
ly the n to beat, there are several
more among the 20 "crowndidates''
as it has been aptly put by Dave
(The Whizzer) Woods, ALT Wander.
bits right-hand man at Pimlico
and Belmont who might make
Bimmie step for it.
Tops among these is Andy K,
from the Millsdale Stable of M. l..
Emerich and Tony Pelleteri. This
little fellow had all the speed in the
world as a two-year-old last year,
but just couldn't run straight. He's
been learning over the winter and
the word is he has finally found out
where he's going. He's on the list
of anticipated supplementaries for
the Preakness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
DEAN CALLS HALT TO H0LD0UT
DIZZY ACCEPTS
CHICAGO TERMS
One-Time Great To Report
Sunday; Says He's dead
Serious" This Year
By E l. r. MCKNIGHT

"
DALLAS, Tex, March 13.-P-
The Great Dir Dean, strangely mel
low after a wordy holdout, accepted
Chicago Cub terms today and said
he would join his mates Sunday in
California.
Nervous as a rookie packing for
his first training camp, Dean hur'
ried in from his nearby farm and
gleefully confirmed he had reached
"a happy understanding" with the
Cubs and was darn glad about the
whole thing"
or Dir wouldn't talk of such ugly
matters as contracts or specific
amounts, but the feeling was that he
had finally descended to Owner Phil
K. Wrigley's original offer of $1O,-
600. The big Highlander had de-
manded SIS, 000-until last night.
Then, he admitted, he telephoned
Clarence Rowland Of the Cub staff
at Avalon, Calf.
every fair" said Dean Of Row.
land. I'm happy to sign. We both
agreed on every point and I'll be
with those Cubs Sunday. We agreed
not to discuss the terms or anything
else about our conversation.
"Just say I'm happy and feel like
I'll have a good year.
"And say boy, that farm work
has made me feel like a million. I'm
way below 200 pounds and my arm
is feeling swell. I've give it a good
workout between digging wells, put
ting up fences, getting my ground
ready and getting that peach or
chard started"
So, on Friday the big fellow boards
a train for a trip that will put one
of the finest pitching arms the
game has known to it's final test.
The past two years have seen Dean
decline steadily after throwing his
arm away to get a string of vic.
tories that made him n of the best
pitchers of modern times.
Dean said he threw "a few over
at my baseball school in Jackson,
Miss" several days ago and his arm
felt normal.
Never has Dean looked trimmer.
He weighs about 1875 pounds, is deep
brown from working in the sun.
I'm dead serious about this bust.
ness" said Dir. I've got to make
it this year"
Not long ago Dean said that this
was his last fling at baseball. If
his arm fails to respond, he'll fall
back on his farm, a palatial sort
Of place about eight miles from Dial.
las-tucked away in rolling hills.
Earlier in the day Rowland,
speaking from Avalon, had denied
talking with Dean-saying:
at sounds like another n of
those Dean things. No one has heard
from Dean over here"
Dir had the explanation. Both had
agreed to keep things quiet, he said.
MY contract will be waiting for
when I get there. And 1 believe
I'm in a hurry to get there"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Hare Defeats Copic In
Beueair Golf Tourney

BELLEAIR, Fla, March 13.-CP-
Naomi Copic of TOLEDO, O., bowed out
of the Belleair women's golf tourna.
ment today before the superior strok-
ing of Glenna Collett Ware of Merton,
Pa, 6 and 5.
Mrs. Ware, Who won here last year
and is former national women's
champion, advanced to the semi-fin-
ais along with Dorothy Kirby of At
ianta, her opponent tomorrow. and
Betty Jameson of San Antonio, Tex,
present national champion. and Jane
Cothran of Greenville, S. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
SohbaH Loops To Ask City For Lights
TEAMS DISCUSS
PLANS At MEET
independent And Commer.i,,
Leagues Suggest Roher,
Strange Park Be Used

Representatives Of the
ent and Commercial so.,tsr ~
met at the Y. VI. c. A las.
and appointed a committee "-''
lore the board of city com,of.
with the request that the 49,,
vide lights for a softbau 5,, '''
Fl. A. Harris Of H.
quit team vas named 9''-9'
the committee ''"" man Of
Tho motion
ouest IN tho oit, '.-s-'I l1f'r Ge'
was ,,odo h,. 7Yn'lH-ns t-ag1
Etbvl.Dow +oon NN'7''s. Of lie
vie,r of ~ fal, Ni'' s.'lei tAat n
were nubli nron s.,.,. l"e ''3ms0is
themselves n,,tS; anu We're n
oitr sho,,1, aC pluJ'tlS tIat lie
+bo fio1ds 1"e H7-..as u
l0'eil 9tlahSe playground VS.
'osSes,eo as tle lleId to he li2h,al.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Harris Gives O. K. To
Pofahps Throwing Arm

ORLANDO, Fla, March 13.-R)-
Manager Bucky Harris of the Sena.
tors today okehed the throwing arm
of Jimmy Pofah1, rookie shortstop.
"His arm will do" said Harris of
the $4,000 Minneapolis player. "He'll
be able to go to his right and still
throw out n because he gets
the ball away faster than most short.
stops"
Pofahl twice injured his arm al
Minneapolis last year and in early
practice it looked weak.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
McNAIR TO PITCH

PASADENA, Calf, March 49,
P-Manager Jimmy Dykes, enthusi.
astic about his Chicago White Sox
rookie prospects, was even more
delighted today to learn that the
veteran Eric McNair's lame arm has
responded to treatment and that the
third baseman would be available
for tomorrow's exhibition against
Chicago's Cubs.
Dykes will start three rookie
pitchers-Vallie. Eaves, Jess Dober.
mic and Orval Groce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
TELLER BEATEN

FORT MYERS, Fla, March 10
R)-Bob Teller was charged with a
2 to 0 defeat today in the young
speedball pitchers first mound ap.
%pearance of the training season. He
worked three frames of a Thinning
intra-squad game.
After banking the rockies with.
out a hit for two innings, Teller was
touched for two runs in the third
on two singles, a walk, and an in.
field out.
The Indian regulars were unable
to bunch hits off pitchers JOHNNY
Broaco and Cal Dorsett.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
SMOKE RINGS
Hello Sucker
BY SAM Raglan

Away back in pre-depression days when no We'll
dressed or1 was minus three ounces OF rouge on her
knees. Texas eul Guinan, a little girl with a big drawl, made
Hello Sucker" a popular phrase in good old Am M sana
Well, the phrase might have lost some OF us Po ~
denizens of these United States. And no better expla a
ion Of this than the way this country tumbled over Itself to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
PILLS WIN

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 10.
H-The Philadelphia Nationals
opened their exhibition baseball sea.
son today with a 5 to 3 decision over
the Syracuse Chiefs. Five Syracuse
errors contributed to the victory
The Phillies got first rate Mitch.
ing from Kirby Higbe, Ike Pearson
and Rookie Roy Bruner- who work.
ed three innings each and limited
the Chiefs to three hits. The Chiefs
scored all their runs in the fourth
on three walks and a single off
Pearson and a wild throw bv rooIia
First Baseman Ed Levy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
SUGGEST

BRADENToN, Fla, March 1s.-
R-The Boston Bees slugged AZ
well as the Detroit Tigers today. but
it was the visiting team which won
the Ga victory through the medi,,n.
of four unearned runs off Roolia a,
Javery in the second inning,
Javery pitched impressivelv .,d
a momentary letdown in his s,,nnor.
was enough to. give Detroit the adae
and hand Freddie Hutchinson the
credit for the victory. - A0
Les s%carsella led the Fee attack
with two doubles while Hank
(Greenberg's triple was the best M
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
ne Finnish cause.
GoaI-POst Gallants

the Finnish cause.
Goal-Post Gallants
Now these same people are placeo
in the. situation of jumping into a
fight to aid the little fellow VINO
has already quit and shook hands
with his adversary.
Which speaks well for the Amerl-
can people in their desire to help'
but not so good in their waiting LUZ
long to offer their help.
Several weeks ago we cagily sug-
sested here that perhaps it wasn't
all swelling humanitarian carts
that caused the sports promoters to
lump on the Finnish band wagon
And the way some Of the affairs
have been staged suggests that IL
WIS a good way for some OF these
promoters to line their Owl purses
with a minimum of effort Wine
c%apitalizing on the soft hearts OF
the press and the public.
llllS uOESiI 1 iINdil LIloI We 49,
against the staging of ATHLETIC
events for charitable causes for we
think that this Tea of raising
funds for a worthy cause is one OF
the BEST to be found. But we are
against going overheard for some
slick scheme to make money for
some private individual just because
the affair carries the label of sweet
charity"
The Latin Way
It was "hasta manana" some
weeks ago for the Cincinnati Reds
who had been promised the prize
lot of four from Cuban sandiot and
semi-pro baseball fields. But ma
goes, for the National league
champs were double-crossed and a
willy Latin had steered the four
Cuban rockies into the camp of the
Washington Senators.
Last year an agreement a made
for the Reds to have exclusive
rights to young Cuban players ana
that government agreed to pay most
of the players expenses while they
were being groomed for big league
jobs. A few weeks ago the four
Cubans were to be delivered at Tam
pa and Jose Losado, Havana sports
writer, was to accompany them to
this country.
The gunboat which was to bring
them over finally showed up after
many delays. Losado was aboard
but not the four baseball players.
The Cuban scribe explained that Joe
Cambria, a Washington scout, who
knew the language had come down
and palled around with the boys and
when he returned home he had
their signed contracts in his pocket.
1--WE wuz robbed" Losado said in
his best Spanish.
ODDS And Ends
There will be three fellows who
will be trying, and 1 mean really
trying, in big league baseball this
SSol NY olt DlLLS DNollf CD
Ferrell and Vim Lingle Mungo -.
All three are former great pitchers,
but they and most everyone else
feels that they are sliding into the
has-been stage so to offset any
such thoughts all three will put
everything they have in the game
this year to try for a comeback
-. Personally, We hope each of
them will do the trick Raleigh,
like Wilmington, will open it's high
school baseball season Friday after.
noon Enough money has been
raised in Durham to send the cham
plon Bulldogs to the national tour,
nament in Glen Falls, n. w.. Not
a single All-America basketball.
player came from Indiana this year
-. This is odd because that state
has always been known as the ma.
tlon's cradle for basketball players.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
WRITER'S SON STARS

PHILADELPHIA John Dreo.
linger, Jr., Pennsylvania star miller
is the son of the president of the
New York Chapter of the Baseball
Writers association.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME

NEW YORK R-Sports writer's
have tagged two nicknames on Lee
Savold the -oung heavyweight
from Iowa. One is "Lethal Lee"
and the other is "Cornbelter."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
DODGERS LOSE

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
13.-P)-Led by Joe Gordon with a
home run and two singles, the New
York Yankees overpowered the
Brooklyn Dodgers 5 to 2 in an ex
hibition game today.
Both Dodger runs came in the
seventh after Rookie Charley Stan
ceau and Lefty Lee Grissom, max
ing his first appearance for the
worlds champions, had scattered
five hits in the first six innings.
Tex Carleton did just as well for
Brooklyn in his three inning trick,
tanning six and allowing only one
hit, but then the Yanks went to
work in the fourth and kept going.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
CUBS BREAK CAMP

AVALON, Calf, March 13.-P)-
Chicago's Cubs broke camp today
and headed for Los Angeles and
their opening exhibition game with
their city rival White Sox tomorrow.
This has been one of the best
spring camps in my memory" opin.
ed Manager Gabby Hartnett on de.
parting, and Gabby's memory GOV.
ers Is previous campaigns with the
Cubs. 1.-THE weather has been un-
usually good, we've put in a lot of
hard work and there isn't a sore arm
in our boatload-not even Clay Bry.
ants"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
REDS WIN

TAMPA, Fla, March 49, R -
Rookie Mike Mccormick, with two
triples and a double, led Cincinnati
to a 7 to l triumph over St. Louis
today, the Reds second straight win
from the Cardinals.
1t was McCormick's day. He scored
two runs and drove in one in five
times at bat. .
The game started as a hurting
duel, Lloyd Dietz holding Ray
Blades ere hitless three frames
while the Reds failed to reach long
Lon Warneke until the third.
Cincinnati turned on the heat in
the fourth for n run, got four
more in the sixth. and chalked up
one each in the seventh and eighth.
The Cards made their lone marker
in the fourth when Epp singled and
scored from second on a wild pitch
by Erickson.
Gene Thompson held the cards to
three hits ip the last three innings
while White and Barrett, in turn
succeeding Warneke on the mound,
yielded 10 safeties in the final five.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
RED SOX WIN

WINTER HAVEN, Fla, March
13.-P-Manny Salvo, the New
York Giants big highlander who
was walloped all-too frequently in
the National league last season, got
a going over by experts today as
the Boston Red Sox captured their
exhibition tussle 7 to g..
Salvo was battered for seven hits,
including a tremendous home run
by Jimmie Foxx, in the first three
innings and ever though the Sox
subsequently were tanned down, the
Giants never could catch up and
were shut out until the last inning.
Manager Joe Cronin of the SoS
remained at Sarasota with a cold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14
Training Camp Briefs

Detroit's hits. Hank did not look
impressive in the outfield, dropping
an easy fly to give the Bees their
only unearned run.