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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
0UINT HAS WON
SIX LOOP TILTS
White PhantOms Meet Wake
Forest, Clemson This Week;
Duke In Second Spot

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 2S.-1R-
The examination deadlock on South
ern conference basketball courts
will lift partially this week for ten
family games, including two stiff
tests for the undefeated University
of North Carolina club.
Cardinals White Phantoms have
rolled up thirteen victories In a
row, including six decisions over
loop rivals. The record against Cir
cult foes shows 1926 points, an aver
age of 54.3 per game, to 224 points
for opponents of the sh~arpshooting
Chapel Hill squad.
Wake Forests Deacons will toss
the first threat at this perfect slate
on Tuesday and on Saturday North
Carolina travels to Clemson for a
meeting with the defending cham
pions Of the conference.
Duke slipped into second place in
the standings last week by downing
Wake Forest while Maryland was
losing to Clemson. Duke has a 81
record in the loop and Washington
and Lee ranks third with three
wins against one defeat.
MARYLAND and Clemson are tied
for the fourth spot with five tri-
umphs each in seven games. The
eight leading teams at the close of
the season will participate in the
annual title tournament at Raleigh.
N. c.. Other squads in the top
bracket today r Richmond, Wake
Forest and The Citadel.
Maryland's travelling team meets
South Carolina Monday night and
Duke on Tuesday. The Terrapins
have broken even on their current
trip defeating N. c.. State Friday
but losing to Clemson 1880 on Sat-
urday. Another scrap tomorrow
night will find William and Mary,
beaten by a total Of three points
by Richmond and The Citadel, play
ing at Furman.
N. C. State meets Duke on Thurs
day and The Citadel plays at South
Carolina and Virginia Tech goes to
Richmond on Friday. Saturday
games will bring together The Cita-
del and Davidson and Virginia Tech
and William and Mary. Duke leaves
the conference for an i~ntersectional
battle against Penn in Philadelphia.
Southern conference standings:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Oliver Captures Crosby
Open With Score Of 135
HOrnelI Pro Wins First Major
Golf Prize; Ghezzi Finishes
In Second Place

DEL MAR, Calf, Jan. 2S.-B
Husky Ed (Porky) Oliver of Hor-
nell, n. Y, captured his first maj
or golf prize today-the fourth an
nual $4,000 Bing Crosby Open with
a 36-hole score of 6S-67-135.
Rolling in ahead of a fog that
blanketed the Rancho Sante Fe
course and the largest gallery in
the history of the tournament, the
23-year-old, 20o-pound professional
ended the tour nine strokes under
par 70 and collected top money OF
$500.
Tie former Rhode Island shot
maker finished three strokes in
front of Vic Ghezzi, Deal, N. j.,
and four shots ahead of Ben Ho-
gar, White Plains, N. Y, and
Harold McSpaden, Winchester,
Mass.
oliver entered the final round
tied with McSpaden and National
Amateur Champion Marvin (Bud)
Ward, Spokane, Wash, with 6S,
and with eleven pros pressing one
stroke behind, but he signalled
his triumph on the first nine holes
with a 33, three under par, and
came on in with "a.
Ward fell back with an individ-
ual IA for 142, and Bruce McCor.
mick, Los Angeles former national
public links champion. took anna
teur medal honors with 72-6S-140.
1t was a rough day for many OF
the tournament stars. National
Open Champion Byron Nelson did
not turn in his card. o did Cliff
Spencer, Washington, D. c., pro
who led the first half of the field
Friday with a 60.
In the pro-amateur best bal
competition, Johnny GeertCen,
young Salt Lake City pro and
Amateur Russell Osgood of San
Diego won with a of 66-63-
1923. The score brought Geertsen
$500. One stroke behind were Ky
Laffoon, Chicago pro, and Pat
Abbott, Pasadena amateur and for
mer national public links ruler.
Featured teams included Ty
Cobb and Benny Hogan of White
Plains, N. Y. The two had a best.
ball of 70-66-136 and Hogan an
individual 71-6S-139.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
WILMER, LEVER
TO BATTLE HERE
Grapplers To Don Boxing
Gloves For Round Bout
At Stadium Tuesday Night

Some fast and fancy sluggine is
expected to be injected into, the
weekly sports program at Legion
stadium tomorrow night when Dick
Lever, of Nashville, Tenn, and Ray
Wilmer, of st. Louis, don boxing
gloves for a ten-round set-to in the
ring.
The two grapplers who fought to
q bitter end last week, with Lever
winning by decisions, decided to try
the boxing method in an attempt to
settle the much-discussed contro-
yersy as to who is the better man
In the ring.
Both men are handy with their
dukes as has been shown in ring
performances before and in fact be-
fore they turned to the mat game
both seriously considered entering
the ranks of professional boxing as
a career.
Lever, as in previous mat battles
will be in the role of the villain.
and Wilmer will again be the fair.
haired boy. Last week the fans al.
most chased Lever from the build.
ing, claiming that he fouled Wilmer.
Dave Cone is expected to referee
the bout.
The wrestling program will pit
hefty John Grandovitch, southern
heavyweight champion, against Ar
thur Marshall, a newcomer, from
Chicago, Ill.
Mike Miller, promoter Of the
bouts, has announced that no wres'
Ting matches will he held next
week because of the staging Of the
Golden Gloves tournament.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
MlLLR0SE GAMES
MAY SHOW UPSET
Cunningham's Defeat, Other
Factors Point To Wide Open
Indoor Track Season

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-GP-What
further proof was needed that this
is to be a wide-open indoor track
season was driven home time and
again by the flying feet which
pounded the board tracks of Boston
and Brooklyn last night.
Included in the results of Bos-
tons Prout games and the Metro
politan A. A. u. championships
were Glenn Cunningham's second
defeat of the winter at one miie; a
humping licking for Don Lash at
two miles; the emergence of Sanford
(the Flying Ffreman) Goldberg as
a major contender at $50 and 1000
yards, and added evidence that
Johnny Quigley, Manhattan college
freshman, definitely belongs in the
400 to 600-yard upper crust.
Two major indoor miles have been
run, and Cunningham has been beat
en- in both. The fact that Gene
Venzke beat him the first time and
Chuck Fenske the second makes
the big miles still to come even
more Of a gamble.
Venzke, whipped by Goldberg in
the Met" 1000 in meet record
time, and Fenske, whose 4:10.3 was
the second-fastest mile ever run in
Boston, will be on the line against
Cunningham next Saturday night
in the Wanamaker mile of the Mill
rose games that open the Madison
Square Garden season. With them
will be Archie San Romani. Sugar
Bowl winner who was third in Bos.
ton; CALIFORNIA; Lou Zamperini, No.
1 man outdoors in 1889 who needs
time to get used to the boards. and
Les MacMitchell, New York U.
sophomore who will take his first
crack at the big Shots
AS far as favorites are concerned,
the two-mile field will be in a SINH
lar state of confusion, created by
the thoroughness with which Notre
Danes Greg Rice whipped Lash
last night in time bare seconds
slower than the Indiana cops in
door record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Roads
Advocated In Virginia

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 2S.-tR-
Senator Aubrey G. Weaver, one of
the patrons of the bill providing for
a new setup Of the state highway
systems, said today a provision
would be added to the measure
calling for the expenditure of not
less than 81, 0 900 each fiscal year
on the farm-to-market roads.
This provision, Senator Weaver
said, would assure the various
counties that their roads will re-
ceive at least the amount they are
now receiving" The minimum
amount would he 81, 900, 900, but a
larger sum could be expended on
the farm-to-market. OF secondary
roads, if required.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
APPALACHIAN TOPS
NORTH STATE LOOP.
Elon Cagers In Second Spot
With High Point RELOCATED
To Third Place

BOONE, Jan. 28.-P)-Appalach-
ian's basketball team stopped High
Point colleges 12-game winning
streak last night with a 62-43 vic
tory that sent the Mountaineers
ahead in the Nort.- State confer
ence race with six victories and
no defeats.
Meanwhile the Elon Christians
slid into the second slot by doubl'
ing the score over Western Caro-
lima Sc to %. The High Point Pan
theirs, longtime loop defenders,
settled into third place.
The games this week:
Elon vs.. Atlantic Christian at
Wilson tomorrow and Tuesday
nights; Guilford VS.. Catawba at
Salisbury Tuesday night; Elon VS..
High Point at Elon Thursday; APP
palachian VS.. Guilford at Boone
Thursday; Guilford vs.. Western
Carolina at Cullowhee Friday; APP.
palachian VS.. High Point at Boone
Saturday, and Guilford VS.. Lenoir.
Rhyme at Guilford Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
CAGE LEADERS POP
UP OVER NATION
All Loops Except Southern
And Southeastern Have One
Team Away Out Front

NEW YORK, Jan. 2SoP-Like
a man on a tight-rope, they may
not be up there very long, but COL
lege basketball leaders popped up
like mushrooms in almost every
sector Of the country in a week
when there wasn't much of a sche-
dule.
Practically everywhere but in the
throat-cutting Southern and South
eastern conferences where anything
still can happen, the ace becomes
a chase as mid-year examinations
cut down the play enough to clarity
the basketball, as well as the
academic, picture.
In the Southwest and the Mis-
souri, Valley, Texas and Oklahoma
Aggies both used an idle week to
strengthen their titular claims as
DuSy OppOllCillS idd lllCIl us
further marred with defeats. But
in the rest of the regions it wasn't
quite that simple.
Princeton has played and won
one game and leads the Ivy league,
but must play second place Dart
mouth and third place Yale this
week. Super-heated excitement also
looms in the Southern conference
where North Carolina, winner of
13 straight has a vicious schedule
with Wake Forest and Clemson's
1889 champions this week, and in
the nearby Southeastern loop where
Mississippi State has to get rolling
or be swamped by fast-moving Ala
bama and Tennessee.
Missouri in the Big Six, like Utah
State in the Rocky Mountain Big
Seven, can e trouble ahead,
though temporarily on top. Okla
homa still has title aspirations and
plays Missouri Monday and in the
Rockies Utah State seems to have
another week Of grace, but had
better watch out for Colorado and
possibly Utah.
Both U. S. C. and Oregon State
on the Pacific coast appear to
have enough power to win breezing.
In independent circles, New York
university stayed atop the Metro
polltan heap by winning it's eighth
IN a row, Long Island stopped
Michigan State for it's 14th win in
ID tries, Pa-lzer of East Orange,
N. j., boasts a 81 game winning
streak, ana Notre Dame looms as
a great threat after that 1927 de-
cision over Northwestern.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Rice Named OUTSTANDING
Runner In Prout Meet

BOSTON, Jan. 2S-lP-Although
additional proof that the younger
generation of tracksters is eclipsing
the long reigning stars appears
s~uperfluous, Boston track writers
provided it today by voting Gregory
Rice of Notre Dame the outstanding
competitor in the annual Prout
meet. He Won the Larrivee two
mile in 9:01.7 last night.
In their balloting for the Fritz
gerald Memorial Trophy, the writ
ers considered only two men-Rice
who out-distanced Don Lash. the
indoor world record holder. and
Chuck Fenske Of Wisconsin. who
subjected the great Glenn Cunning
ham to his second Boston setback
in two weeks.
Rice's margin over Fenske in the
poll was only a single vote, S 1-2
to 4 - n it was, the first time
that the experts ignored Cunning
n Lash in their selections
this award.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Carolina Holds Lead In Southern Cage Loop
Landis' Ruling Cause
For Big Baseball Row
Marshburn Wins Prize
For Largest Bluefish

RALEIGH, Jan. 29.-(R-B.
M. Short of Detroit, Mich, won
the statewide first prize-a
punch bowl, serving tray and
10 cups-for the largest chan
mel bass caught in the North
Carolina surf casting tourna-
ment, the department Of con
servation and development an.
nounced today.
Paul T. Marshburn of Will
mington won first prize-an ice
bowl, sandwich tray, IL glasses
and IL coasters-for the larg-
est bluefish.
The prize winning channel
bass was caught in the surf at
Hatteras inlet, and weighed 46
pounds. The bluefish was
caught off Mason's inlet and
weighed two pounds and IA
ounces.
Other prize winners follow:
j. A. Sailing of Wilmington;
L. G. Godfrey, of Wilmington;
George q. Canady, of Whining
ton; William j. Klys, of Al
bany, N. Y; Robah Dean, of
Colfax, and the Rev. Paul G.
Kenny, of Kannapolis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Fishing Club To Meet
In Courthouse Tonight

The New Hanover Fishing
club, the largest in America,
will hold its annual meeting IN
the recorders courtroom at the
courthouse tonight at 7:45
O'Clock, at which time officers
for the coming year will be
elected and plans for the 1910
season will be made.
Albert keels, president, will
preside over the meeting, and
refreshments will be served.
Prizes awarded by the club
and the state department OF
conservation and development
will be awarded at the meeting.
Paul T. Marshburn, winner OF
the prize for the largest blue
fish caught in 1889, will re-
ceive the award at that time,
The club has more than 1,OOU
members from every point in
the country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
City Of Savannah Is
Towed Into New York

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-R-Bat'
tered by heavy seas for 26 hours in
an S5-mile an hour gale and with
her rudder post smashed, the City
of Savannah, %5,426-ton coastwise
vessel, was towed into port today.
She left Savannah Jan. % for
New York and Boston and the fol-
lowing morning the storm struck.
After her rudder post was broken
the morning of Jan. "a, she floun-
dered until help arrived, Capt. Ray
anond G. Kent said. There were nc
injuries among the crew of 46.
1t was planned to put the vessel
into dry dock here for repairs. She
is owned by the Savannah line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
GG BOXERS START FINAL DRILLS
FIGHTERS APPEAR
IN TOP CONDITION
Seven Teams To Be Entered
In Meet Which Opens Next
Monday Night

Wilmington's boxing contingent
will begin it's week of tapering OFT
drills at it's gym tonight in prepara-
ton for the opening Of the annual
Star-News-Brigade Golden Gloves
tournament at the New Hanover
high school gymnasium next Mon
day night.
Team trainers report that a ma
jority of the local boxers who will
vie for the team trophy in the tour.
ney are already in top condition.
The open and novice division
teams of Wilmington will be COM
peting with teams from the follow
ing places for the trophy: the Bel
mont Abbey team, the Lumberton
group, White Lake CCC camp, Col
lie Ostwalt's wild Indians" of
Belmont. the Red Shield club OF
Charlotte, and Tiny Taylor's team
from Chapel Hill.
Chief among the local fighters
who will have a hard road to travel
this week in making his weight Is
Henry Gilliken, who apparently
seems destined to fight In the
welterweight class.
Ed Flora is already down to his
weight as a lightweight and Red
Club is in peak form for the light
heavy class. Jimmy Swami, the fly
weight, is ready for the gong now
his trainers report.
Walter Hulak will have to work
off a pound or two this week to
make his weight, but the remainder
of the team members seem to be
about ready for the meet to pegln'
The team trophy will be ware
ed to the boxing team placing the
most men on the Atlanta team. Ii
two teams tie in this, the team that
has the most second place fighters
will receive the trophy.
Golden Gloves officials have esti
mated that close to 80 fighters Will
participate in the three'oay touriia
ment, with bouts in every weight
division promised.
Officials said that the tournament
will open with some class fighting
and continue for its duration
All members of the tourney com
mittee claim that this years meet
will be the fastest and best evel
staged here.
Tickets for the tournament are
selling rapidly and present lndlca'
tons are that all but general ad
mission tickets will be sold by the
opening of the first nights fish
cuffs. Tickets may be secured from
any member of the Senior Frater'
nity or at the Star-News office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

r Miller's Card
And to make things equal, Mike
Miller is offering a dual boxing
embarrassing match at Legion
q, .dium on the same night.
Just to make the program we'll
rounded the New Hanover Wild
cats will their conference
wars tomorrow night with a game
with Rocky Mount in the railroad
city. And here is a time you
shouldn't sell the Wildcats short,
as we believe they nave a good
chance of upsetting the Blackblrds'
These events are the standout
srorts events of the week and Will
serve to sharpen the ~appetites OF
the fans for the three big nights
of fist-slinging at the New Han
owe gym next week.
Will He Repeat?
One of the leading entrants In
the Golden Gloves tournament yes
terday was Jack Bryan, 16 years
OF age and weighing 100 pounds
the son of Tubby Bryan, Whining
ton fireman and one-time fighter
in the professional ranks from this
section.
Whether or not Jack can live up
10 the standards of his illustriou5
father in the ring is a question,
But with an old-timer who was
Father handy with his dukes CIV
INC him pointe.s, he should be bet.
Yer than average.
Jack will be entered in the novice
class and fans are warned to be on
The lookout for some fancy fist
work.
This and That
The Golden Gloves tournament
lost one of it's boxers via the ice
route this week Mack Penney,
Of Carolina Beach, slid on the ice
and cracked a brace of ribs on the
curb. . Banks McFadden, Glenn
sons All-American football player,
will be awarded the Lewis e.
league Memorial trophy at a ban
Duet in Charlotte tonight. Nc
Fadden was voted the most out
standing amateur athlete in the
Carolinas for the year 1889. .
Just received the handbook of the
American Legion's Junior baseball
program for 1910 and reminds u!
that Wilmington should be able tt
trot a right fair team on the fiele
this year. . . George Glamack
Cardinals six-foot, five-inch center
has scored 238 points in his first
10 games this season for an aver
age of 10 a night. And that
brings up the question of whether
Wake Forest or Clemson will be
able to halt his scoring this week
and end Cardinals long victory
streak. Winter Cor maybe they
call it spring. football drills will
get under way in several sections
this week. State teams may
wait until this sub-normal weather
clears before tossing the pigsklr
about. The Lands baseball rul-
fngs are going to leave a lot oil
minor league clubs out on the
we'll known limb this year because
of the recall of working agree
ments and manager and player
drafts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

Lake Ladoga, mentioned in Rus
>o-Finnish war dispatches, begins to
Nreeze as early as October. BY Janu-
airy 1, even the deeper sections are
frozen over. Temperature changes
and winds often raise ice walls as
high as so feet on Ladoga's shores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
SMOKE RINGS
Shorts This Week
BY SAM G

This weeks sport card for Wilmington carries several
bio events as a prelude to the opening of the Golden Gloves
tournament next Monday. And while the rest OF the sports
Tho Golden Glovers will be tapering off in their gym on
North Front street for their fist-slinging debut.
Tuesday night is the big night for this week. In TACT,
# is the one big night. The New Hanover boxers will
tang1e with the Whitevil]e pugs in a match that should be
q nood one 81 far as slamberoo is concerned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Battle Over Rule That Wonp
DO Away With Farm Svs,
tenn Looms On Front
By TOM SIlER

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-lP-p,.
balls battle lines are bejno D1S9
up for one of the most spectac ",'
off-the-diamond conflicts in tho ,@
year old history Of the game !"
Many years ago basebalps r,..
tent Kenesaw Mountain o,|
told the clubs he did not like cb,.
store operations, contending .,', .'
a setup encouraged rules vjoIs,t.'
in handling players and that ,'
players We're not given an ey.,
break.
But when the commissioner -.
ed his voice against farm sysrs,.
it's adherents described them as fl.
Savior of minor league basab1r
They asked how the game cnI,
survive if the minors witbered
The venerable Lands ansvA,5
them three days ago-with a rey'
lutionary plan that still has IL
baseball talking and thirki,,
Briefly, the plan would do ana.
with farm systems by prohibitr,
a club from o%ptioning players ar
and by requiring them to obts,
players only by outright possession
1t also provided for annual subs
dies to class B, C, and D learn
clubs.
The reactions to his suggesto
have been many and varied. Son
have criticized it severely b,
enough others have praised it /
indicate they think highly of it an
would back Lands in an effort
install the system, an admitted
long and involved undertaking.
could not be established quickly h
doubtless would take several yea
of discussion, compromise and {
fort.
Lands has solid backing by maj
big league teams and probably mo
in the larger minor league outfit
Already seven major league Gu
Chicago White SoX and Cut
Philadelphia Phillies and Athleu,
Boston Red SoX, Cleveland and
Louis Browns-have okayed
idea.
w. C, futile, Pacific Coast leag
president, is one of his strong
supporters in the minors, IuS
said he Fundamentally favored t
aim of the Lands plan,' and a
ed:
II am in favor Of breaking up
chains. They too frequently Tree
young players and keep them
classifications below where ID
belong"
President Leo T. Miller Of
Indianapolis American Assocla''
| club said 1.-THE thing that dlsIou
it in my mind is that its opefa'
would be bound to meet Win "
ty of discord among lhaNl1
operators" He stated 1t We
socialize the B, C, and D leag
and remove initiative and enoea
from the majors and larger ni.-'
President Trammell Scott "
Southern Association SAID ne
nothing to be excited about;
Lands is going to get a j"
spread and sharp reaction anu
soon as he finds out what paSs
men think about the pan J.
iron it out-find a happy nieO'
that won't hurt baseball
Manager Tommy Thomas OF
Baltimore club and a spokeSn
for the Buffalo club, both IN
international league, sdIu IAe :
would give clubs a WIDER Se''''
of players.
President j. Alvin Gardner u
Texas league declined to comm
and President George Trautlla"
the American Association Was
available.
Ed Barrow, powerful presiueH'
the New York Yankees, an w.
cation which has developer -
practices to a high degree VI
cheney, has kept a discreet INV
since Lands announced Il ,
Branch Hickey, head OF '''
Louis Cards far-flun2 farm s'
however described the propos''
radical and too expensive ii
larger minor league outl!lS'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

Sound waves of violent cay"
sions travel much faster tildA ~.
NAL until they reach a cois,',
able distance, then they SLOW wv"
to a constant speed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-21

fcourse, but 49O have been assigned to the secondary or advanced course
 The primary course includes 7l hours of ground school instruction and from 35 to 45 hours in the air sufficient to qualify students for private pilots licenses. The secon- dary or advanced course deals with CAA regulations, aircraft engines meteorology, aerial navigation, m- tstruments and parachutes.
 The work was given last summer in 142 junior colleges, and last win ter in 109. l
 Contributions by the government for ground school work of $50 per student have amounted to approx imately a quarter of a million dollars to junior colleges during the past year, says Secretary Bells. In ad- dition $325 per student for flight in- struction has been paid to the CO., operating airports.
 This year the regulations have been modified so that it is more diff ficult for regular college students to qualify. Freshmen are not admitted and students must be 19 years oi age.' The entire program must be completed in one semester. All ap- plicants must pass the regular mili- tary physical examination. Tn ad- dition, those who complete the course successfully must promise to enter the military aviation service of the government.