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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
RANGERS HAVE WON
l6 HOCKEY GAMES
Patrick Thinks Reason For
Win Streak Is Good Farm
System Of Club

NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Up AS
manager of the first-place New
York Rangers of the National Hook,
ey League, Lester Patrick is inordi,
nately proud of the fact his club
has come through its last 16 games
without defeat. Since they are only
three games away from setting a
new N. H. l.. record for a non
losing streak, he may be even proud
er after that 10Th game.
But the silver fox is proudest of
all because, with two exceptions,
the players who make up this years
squad are trueblue products of the
Ranger development system.
Seven of them have taken the COM
plete course, from Winnipeg training
school through amateur New York
Rovers, through minor-league Phila.
delphia Ramblers to Parent Rang
ers. Four others got their prelimi-
nary training with the Ramblers.
Patrick's oldest son, Lynn, made the
big jump from training school to
Rangers without intermediate steps.
Defense man OFT Heller was groom.
ed on the old Springfield (Mass.)
farm before the present system was
set up.
Only goalie Dave Kerr and defense
man and captain Art Coulter saw
their first big-league service in the
livery of rival teams. Even Kerr
would be one of the first to admit
that he owes much of his present
high rank to the coaching he got
from Boss Patrick.
1--WE were pioneers in establish
ing a farm system in hockey" Pat
rick said today, But it was as
much a matter of necessity as any
thing.
with the Cooks and Frank
Boucher as the NUCLEUS, we had good
teams from the day we started in
1926. But eventually that club
started to d~isintegrate. Though we
had the money and were willing to
buy players. we couldn't get them.
Therefore we decided to develop our
From u scouts, we get the pre-
liminary line on good prospects.
The best of these we bring to Win
nipeg each September, entirely at
u expense. The best ones then
start moving up the three-R ladder,
until today we have replaced each
of the worn.out parts with a new
one and have a machine which I
would rate the best-balanced Of all
Ranger teams and the best since
15-man squads were instituted"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

only a month after the American
league prohibited the Yanks from
making trades in their own circuit.
Slapnicka said he has tried to OBJ
tain more than 300 players al the
waiver price since he became the
Tribes front office chief in 1885,
and got only n - Pitcher George
Blaeholder. Clubs can withdraw a
player from the waiver list when he
is claimed, so the process may go
on and on until everybody slips
away.
"Grissom had to be waived out of
the National league and also waived
by seven American league clubs be-
fore the Yankees could get him."
Slapnicka said. His name was on a
list Of 20 or more sent out by the
Reds.
I myself have asked waivers on
as many as "a players at a time.
Not that I wanted to sell all or any
Of them at $500. I just wanted to
discover what clubs were interested
in them" e.
Grissom, an in-and-out left-hander,
may be what the doctor ordered to
bolster the Yankee southpaw staff
Of Lefty Gomez and Marius Russo.
Highlander Beggs, Yankee farm
hand at Newark, wasn't able to win
consistently in two trips to the big
time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
CONGRESSIONAL
STUDY OF BUDGET
NEEDS FAVORED

CONTINUED From Page One)
Harrison proposal. Although i'm
pressed, in some cases, they
were inclined to fall back OH the
plea that the origination of
taxes and appropriations is a
house prerogative, not to be
shared with the senate. The
house is additionally touchy on
such points.
LII addition, they were reluc-
tant to break into a carefully
prepared schedule which calls
for shooting one appropriation
bill after another through to
enactment, so that an orderly
and early adjournment may be
possible.
Representative Martin of Mass
achusetts, the house republic
can leader, said that he would
welcome a fiscal study and hoped
that additional taxes could be
avoided, although he declined to
comment on details of Harri-
sons plan for the time being.
House minority members will
hold a conference next week.
The republicans of the senate
met for nearly two hours and
discussed a number of questions
raised by President Roosevelt's
two messages of the week. Sem
ator McNary of Oregon, the
minority Leader. drew up u pen-
ciled resolution which was
adopted, and then the members
left. many of them carrying un-
abridged copies of the budget,
a volume of the approximate
size of a large city telephone
directory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Pills Head Says Yanks
Deal Looks Third Rate

PHILADELPHIA, jan. 81 Up -
The baseball bombshell that sent
Lee Grissom, Cincinnati Red south
paw, to the world champion New
York Yankees for Pitcher Joe Beggs
of Newark, Yankee farm club. is
Just a dud as far as Gerald Nugent,
president of National League Phil
lies, is concerned.
Just as seven National league
clubs waived on Grissom, seven
American league clubs waived on
Beggs, so the deal looks third rate
to me-" Nugent commented.
Nugent predicted the Reds
wouldn't repeat their title and tab
bed the St. Louis Cards as the like
ly National league winner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
FaporedhK. orc. Track Meet Tonight
ALSO
AMONG FAV0RITES
Yves Wallace Is Choice For
500 Yard Event; Meet To
Open Indoor Track Season

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-4H-
Glenn Cunningham, Yves WalIac.
and Don Lash will attempt to start
off the new indoor track season
just as they opened the last ono
with victories-in the annual mee,
of the Columbus Council X, If
C. at the 18th regiment armory.
Brookly-., tomorrow night.
Cunningham and Wallace will ba
among tn favorites, and Lash ths
definite choice, in three of the fopr
invitation events. Kansas Glenn
will run $50 yards against Gene
Venzke, John Woodruff and Jim
Kehoe of Maryland, among Others.
Wallace's 500-yard rivals will in.
clude Johnny Quigley, brilliant
Manhattan college freshman quar-,
ter-miler, and veterans Jim Her.
bert, Harold eagle and Lou Burns.
Lash will run two miles against
New York US Les Mac Mitchell,
Tommy Deckard, Joe McCluskey
and Luigi Beccali, former Olympic
1,500-meter champion.
A sprint series at 50, 80 and loo
yards is the other speciol on the
12-event card. National Indoor
Champion Herbert Thompson, Bob
Rodenkirchen, the New York A. c,
giant, and Eulace Peacock and
Thomas Flagg of the Shore A. C.,
Elberon, N. j., should be the chief
contenders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Apostolic Wins Close
Decision From Bettina

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-R-Ex-
middleweight champion Fred Apos-
toll won a close decision over Melio
Bettina in Madison Square Garden
tonight, in his debut as a light
heavyweight. But after they had
staggered through IL rounds they
left the impression that the cur
rent ITS pound king, Billy Conn,
could whip both of them on the
same night. Apostoli weighed 1863
3-5; Bettina 174.
Through the last four rounds
there was more clinching than
fighting and Referee Johnny Nc
Avoy was doing most of the work
breaking them. Time after time he
warned Bettina, who held the light
heavyweight championship until
Conn came along, for holding in the
clinches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
First Half Championship Tilt
Fast With Tabernacle Vic
tOrious, 10 To 10

The Tabernacle cagers won the
first half championship in the Fri.
day intermediate church school loop
last night by defeating the Calvary
quint 1910 in a fast and furious
game played on the Y. M. C. A.
court.
Defensive play stood out for most
Of the game with scoring at a premi.
UNI and most of the points yer
tailed on a spectacular type of
, shooting.
Almost a full quarter elapsed be-
fore either teams was able to chalk
up a score; then Casteen led off for
Tabernacle with a pretty shot from
n corner. Hunter retaliated with a
looping ringer from mid-floor at the
opening Of the second period but
this was quickly annulled as Taber-
F; nacle got hot and rang up 10 points
: In this period to lead by 1874 at the
intermission.
It was late in the third period be-
fore Calvary found the range ald
tailed three times from the field in
rapid succession, McKoy left-hand.
ing one, Johnson twisting in a
second and Hunter popping away
with his second long n of the eve.
ming. Meantime, Tabernacle was
scoreless during the entire quarter
but returned the compliment in the
final canto, scoring six points while
banking the Calvaryites.
4 Evans led the scoring of both
teams with four field goals. Hunter
and McKoy Of Calvary and Casteen
and Shepard Of Tabernacle scored
four points each.
In the opening game of the eve.
ming, Southside came through to
whip the revived st. Andrews quint
by the narrow margin Of S points in
a 22-17 game. Southside led by 49,
3 at half time and ran in their subs
for the opening of their third period.
st. Andrews took advantage of this
to go on a scoring spree that the
regulars found impossible to stop
when they came back In the final
period. Oliphant led the victorious
Southsiders with IL points, while
Craig and Mathis made six apiece
for st. Andrews.
The third and final game Of the
evening lacked the spectacular play
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Elon Quint Wins Over
Deacon AN-Stars, 72-32

ELO1! COLLEGE, Jan. 5.-R-
Elon's basketball lads proved
Twice as good as the Wake Forest
stars here tonight if the scores
can be used as the basis of iudg-
ment, the All Stars going down
to defeat in a high scoring game
u to 80.
In spite Of the defeat, however,
Waller, the fast All Star forward,
led the field with Is points, or -
better than any of his team mates.
Whitley and Gardner, Elon for
wards, had IA points each, while
n Elon center, Hogson chalked
up 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

one of the largest high schools In
the state, can't be lacking in ma
terial for athletic teams. Neither
do we think it is lacking in coach
ing, for the coaching, we feel, Is as
good as could be obtained.
But what is really lacking is
that certain something-you might
call it spirit-and the initiative to
go ahead and do something instead
of talking about 1t. The boys and
girls of the high schools have not
acquired a sufficient amount of
the spirit of playa very neces-
sary item both in ordinary living
or producing athletic teams.
Hop. Scotch
Jimmy Swami, the only member
of the Wilmington Golden Gloves
contingent t win out in the finals
at Atlanta last winter, is planning
to go back to Georgia in a few
weeks and take the title again
The little flyweight who fights in
the Of a buzz-saw, has
been working out daily and his
trainers say that even now he is
in condition for the tournament to
be staged here on February 5-6-7.
/. New Hanover high school
cagers will resume where they left
off just before Christmas by meet
ing the Clinton quint in the Samp-
son capital --1onday night The
high school finds that it lacks the
number of basketball games that
it would like to have on it's sched-
ule this winter. . . Jim Lalanne,
North Cardinals ace passing back.
will be working overtime next
summer and this time he will
really have to pass to be able to
play football for the Tar Heels
next fall. . Bob Madry, North
Cardinals able publicity director,
deserves the orchids for his fine
act of courtesy in withholding an
elaborate story on the opening of
the winter sports program in Wool.
len gym and the Bowman Gray
pool at Chapel Hill. Bob modestly
said that it might take something
from Dukes formal opening Of its
new gymnasium tonight That
is a spirit we like to see Lo-
cal observers say that the Firms
have pulled the biggest upset of
the season and when you think of
a little nation of three million
whipping a giant of 1870, 900, 900,
well, they rate No. l in anybody's
poll.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
'WEHRLE LEADSL SANGELESOPE
Y0UNCSTER CARDS
FIRST ROUND g.
Dutra, Kruger Trail In Sec
ond Place; Heather Has
II In Golf Tourney

LOS ANGELES, Jan. s. - F -
Young Milford Wehrle, an amateur,
outshot the best professionals in the
country today by chalking up a 81
in the first round of the annual Los
Angeles open golf tournament.
Playing over the same tough
course of the Los Angeles Country
Club, where he won the western
amateur title in 1897, Wehrle put
together a 34-33 for the par 35-35-
10 course and goes into the second
round tomorrow with a n stroke
lead over E. J.. (Dutch) Harrison
Of Little Rock, Ark, and Jimmy
Hines Of New York.
The 25-year.old amateur, who
formerly lived in Racine, Wis, but
calls Chicago his home now, played
almost flawless golf. Only four bird
les marked his card, but he went
over par only once
Three shots back Of Wehrle were
Olin Dutra, Los Angeles, and AL
Crueger of Beloit, Wis, while down
in the 70's was a young squad of
champions and ex-champions. List.
ed there were national open king
Byron Nelson; national amateur
champion Marvin (Bud) Ward; de-
Tending champion Jimmy Demaret
of Houston, Tex, and Ralph Gull
dahl, former open title holder.
Clear skies prevailed all day but
the fairways were still heavy, parti-
cularly for the early starters in the
field of al, from yesterdays rain.
Eleven players were listed in the
It's, nine in the 72's, eleven in the
73's and the 74's were bullying with
21, with Dick Metz Of Oak Park,
ILL.,, and John Montague, Beverly
Hills, Calf, the last to make this
non.select group. 1t became appar-
ent that it would be a tight fight
to get in the list Of 80 who will
continue in the tournament after
tomorrow's 10 holes.
Heading the also-rans in the anna.
teur ranks were Ellsworth Vines,
the tennis champion. who came in
with a II, and Bruce Mccormick, of
Los Angeles, former national pub
lie links champion.
Included in the us, too, were
numerous dangerous ~contenders,
among them Clayton Heather, of
North Carolina, Vic Ghezzi of Deal,
N. J., Craig Wood, M~amoroneck,
N. y, and Ben Hogan of White
Plains, N. Y.
Others in the II bracket were
Chuck Kocsis, Detroit; Bill William
son, Los Angeles; Ted Longworth,
Portland, Ore; Ben Coltrin, San
Francisco, and Stanley Horne, Mon
treal, Can.
Jimmy Hines won the tournament
over this course in 1886 and Ghezzi
preceded him by one year as the
%titleholder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

But, it's a funny thing how no
one likes to read about baseball.
The game is all right to watch,
but like golfing, hockey, tennis
and a few other sports, it is rath-
err dry to read about. And that
brings up a discussion of sports
the two kinds Of sports. The kind
you play and the kind you watch.
You don't participate in football,
baseball or boxing but they are
very keen to watch and make
some Of the best reading in the
English language. Aside from two
or three big events Of the year,
golfing, basketball, tennis, bowling,
ct cetera-the games you play
lack the color that goes with a
crisp, fall day, bands, color and a
football game.
Once upon a time you could rely
on two or three good boxing
matches to take you through the
months of January and February
when the sports world is hibernat-
ing, and occasionally there were
some big baseball deals, or some
thing else, to brighten up the life
Of the sports fan. But apparently
they are no more, Is evidenced
over the big ruckus caused when
the Yankees acquired Lee Grissom
from the Reds, in a deal that
would have caused hardly any
comment a few years ago. But
the trade has been the biggest
news from the baseball front all
winter.
There are other sports, at that.
But it would be asking too much
of Wilmington fandom to get en-
thusiastic over the fact that the
New York Rangers have won 16
straight hockey games.
All in all, what we are trying
to get at is that SO far as any,
thing really exciting in the realm
of sports, there are not any.
Talking a Title
One of the most serious indict-
ments of the New Hanover high
school athletic situation which we
have heard, so far, was the COM
ment of an observer not SO long
ago..
"They talk and talk about a lot
of things they are going to do but
never do it.. Each year a cham.
pionship is promised but it always
falls through"
That is the way he expressed it
and the words sum up a lot in
fairly innocent fashion. The school,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Race Boss Against Tracks
Taking Big Cut From Bets

NEW YORK, Jan. s. Up Her.
bert Bayard Swope, chairman of the
State Racing commission, today said
he was decidedly opposed to the pro-
posal the tracks take as much as
six per cent plus the breakage from
the pari-mutuel pools at the New
York race tracks.
Some of the points made by the
associations are worth considering
but one point they make I am COM
pletely opposed to-" said Swops. 1T
is their desire for a take" of six
percent for themselves plus the
breakage to a dime. But as the
breakage amounts to 1 s-4 percent
Of the total handle they would be
getting Z 3.4 percent - much too
much. Racing should not be made
a 'get-rich-quick' game either for
the track owners or for the state"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Generals To Play Duke
Cagers In New Gym

LEXINGTON, Va, Jan. g. Up -
r. A. Smith, Washington and Lee
athletic director, announced today
the W. G. L.-Duke university basket
ball game scheduled for Feb. II
would be played at Dukes new field
house.
Smith said N. G. State agreed to-
day to cancel its Jan. 8 game with
". & L. at Raleigh which will per-
NIT the Generals to go to Durham
on Feb. II. If the N. c. State game
had not been cancelled, Duke would
have met w. & L. at Roanoke on
Feb. II.
Washington and Lee meets Wake
Forest at Danville tomorrow night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Lieut.. Governor Horton
Pays $50 Filing Fee

RALEIGH, Jan. S. - (P Lieut.
Gov. w. P. Horton of Pittsboro pau
a $3.50 filing fee today to u in tR0
democratic primaries for governor
Horton, who was the first canol'
date to announce for governor, aIso
was the first gubernatorial asplraD'
to file. He presented his cheek |.
Raymond c.. Maxwell, secretary u
state board of elections.
Two other democrats have aH
nounced their candidates. for COVER
nor They are A. ]. Maxwell, con'
missioner of revenue, and j. Nj
Broughton, Raleigh attorney.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Interest In Horse Shows
Increasing In Country

NEW YORK, Jan. 5-R-Adrian
Van Sinderen, president of the
American Horse Shows association,
today reported "a constantly grow
ing interest," in the sport Of showing
horses-and In the activities Of the
association.
At the annual meeting, Van Sin.
deren said that there were 1877
shows in 1888. or 10 more than in
the previous year, although he said
Our budget is still out of balance"
Headlining a list of 1905 tenta.
tive dates, Is the National Show, to
be held in Madison Square Garden,
New York, Nov. 5-13.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Scouts To Participate
In Old Christmas Fete

David L. Lilies, Scout executive.
reported yesterday that about 200
Boy Scouts from the Wilmington
district will participate in the OBJ
servance of Old Christmas at Penn
broke Jones park tonight at 7"I
o'clock.
Boy Scouts will take part in the
program and will assist in the
handling Of the large crowd that IS
expected to be present.
All white Boy Scouts of the dis
trict are requested to be present
and in uniform not later than 7:45
o'clock tomorrow evening, Lilies
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
SMOKE RINGS
The Dry Season
By SAM Raglan

Somehow we didn't get around to making a New
Years resolution, but if we had it would have been zone
with a wish-a wish that the mld-Wlnter sports season
would be given a little ray of sunshine. For 1ranKly' thls
seasonal lul has got us stymled.
Of course, we could still write about the bowl games,
but everyone, including Tennessee, has heard about enough
of that for the time being anyway. This is the season Tor
indoor sports, such as basketball, bowling and a NUMBER
of others that would go in the hot air category.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
PAPA CARNERA

TRIESTE, Jan. 5.-LR-The wife
OF Primo Camera, former worlds
heavyweight boxing champion,
gave birth to an 1l-poun6 son to-
DAY at their homo in the nearby
village OF Sequals. Camera. who
vas delighted, said the boy would
be christened Umberto.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
X ITALY'S POLICY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-R)-The
ltai1an ambassador to the United
States. Don Ascanio Del Principi
Colonna, said after a White House
visit anday that president Roose.
welt hkcs Italy's policy" toward the
wars in Europe
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Rosehiu Cagers Whip
Iuanhoe Quint, $3.50

IVANHOE, Jan. 5. - The Rose
hill Eagles handed the Ivanhoe
Independents their second defeat Of
the season last night, winning $500
M. Teachey was high scorer for
Rosehill, tallying 16 points. G.. Cor
bett led the Independents with Il
points.
The Independents would like to
secure games in this section in the
coming weeks. Interested teams are
asked to write P. l.. Brown, at Ivan.
hoe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
CATS RI.AMED

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.--lR~
Cats, romping on a kitchen range'
bumped open a gas jet and releas'
ed a flow blamed for ore OF toui
deaths ascribed to asphyxiation III
Philadelphia today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

The Soviet Ukraine produces
more than half of Russia's coal,
half of it's salt, three-fifths its pig
iron, half it's steel, two-thirds it's
agricultural machinery and two
thirds it's sugar.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

Japan has been the largest buyer
OF scrap metal in the United States
every year for 10 years except 1881.
mat year, Canada headed the list.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06
Tabernacle Wins Title
With Win Over Calvary

of the Calvary-Tabernacle tilt but
was closely played all the way, Ep-
worth finally winning out by 2S-22
after trailing by 1910 at half time.
The game was somewhat slow due
to repeated substitutions by both
teams. Eason and Bland led the ED.
worth scoring with 8 points each.
Bell, Raynor and Edwards tailed 6
each for the losers.
Second half play will open next
Friday at 8 o.. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-06

Roughly three-fourths of Algeria
is desert.
Evening star., 1940-03-25
Bible Class to Sponsor
Secret Service Movie

+. The Everyman's Bible Glass of the
Woodside Mdo Methodist Church
will sponsor a showing of = sound
motion picture, know Your Money"
made by personnel of the United
States Secret Service, 1t was an
nounced today by Herbert J. How
land of Silver Spring.
The picture will be shown In the
church tomorrow at 8 pm, and the
class has invited local police, en-
ployes of banks, fraternal organiza-
tions and civic groups to attend. The
picture deals with activities of the
Secret Service in apprehending
counterfeiters and Government
check forgers.
Evening star., 1940-03-25
STAR, WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY MARCH 25 1go
Broadcast to Honor
Pun-Americun Union

A Latin American review consist
ing Of 80 minutes Of Latin Amer
ican music by the United States
Navy Band and 80 minutes Of dram
atization Of the history Of Latin
America will feature = special radio
broadcast April is at 2 pm. over the
National Broadcasting Network in
honor Of the 50th anniversary Of the
Pan-American Union.
The program is under the joint
sponsorship Of the United States
Once of Edcation, the Pan-Amer-
ican Union, and the broadcasting
company. ~
Evening star., 1940-03-25
Alberto Vote Count
Delayed by Weather
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
EDMONTON, March 25.-Snow-
blocked roads and the intricacies Of
Alberta's vote counting system today
still delayed the result of last Thurs
days election.
Last night the election Of two
Social Credit candidates and one
independent was announced, giving
the government of Premier William
Aberhart q lead with 20 members
elected to the independents II. In
addition. Social Credit candidates
were leading In II races, the inde-
pendents in i've and labor in one.
Evening star., 1940-03-25
Resentment Believed
Brewing Among Nazi
Brown Shirt 'Toughs'
Slow to Change Tactics,
They Can't Grasp Ideo
Behind Soviet Alliance

This Is the sepenth of 10 ar
ttcles by w. L. White, Uritten
from extensive notes made inside
Germany and brought to Copen-
hagen for preparation to aouid
Nasi censorship.