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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

PITTSBURGH, May IA Up -
Nothing works for frankie Frisch
and his last-place Pirates.
Fordham frankie has tried al
most everything except hiring a
magician to find a winning COM
bination. Of 10 games the Pirates
have won five.
Most of the trades have Topped.
or nearly so-the browning blow
coming in failure of the invisible
$3.50, 900 battery"-Pitcher John Gee
and Catcher Ray Mueller. Cash
paid for these two, plus the half
dozen players thrown in with the
deals, reputedly adds UP to that
figure. Both are back in the minors
now on option.
No Pirate team has worked any
harder in spring training than this
1910 entry in the National league
race. Since the season started,
hrisch has gone the limit in ex-
perimenting. In n game he used
"a men-a league record
He's been forced to use four or
five pitchers several times, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Girls At High School
Hold Sports Day Event

The First Annual Sports Day of
the girls physical education de-
partment of the New Hanover High
school under the direction Of Miss
Dorothy Tyson, was held several
days ago.
The competitors wer divided in
to two teams, Orange and Black,
and activities were enjoyed in
vclleyball, softball, soccer, base
ball, badminton, ping-pong and
tennis.
Participation in the events was
left entirely to the student and the
sports day was held as a culmina-
ton of all the activities taken dur
ing the year in physical education
in the high school.
The program this year has been
most successful and the instructor
hopes to branch out next year to
include all students in the High
school who wish to take the course
This year the classes were open
only to freshmen and sophomores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
DEFINING ALLOWS
BUT THREE HITS
Tar Heels 13 Game Victory
Streak Halted; Deacons
Collect IL Safeties

WAKE FOREST, May 13.-R-
Paced by Jim Denning's three-hit
pitching, Wake Forest defeated
North Carolina, 6-3, in a baseball
game here today, swapping the
Tar Heels winning streak at IL
games.
Cheered by a crowd of $500,
largest of the season at Groves
field, the Deacons lambasted Hor'
ace (Red) Benton's offerings for
II hits. Denning frequently was
in trouble-he Issued five walks
but his mates helped him along by
pulling three double plays.
Wake Forest used a trio Of
doubles, by John Polanski, Bill
Sweet and John Fletcher, to score
two runs in the second frame and
take a lead which never was re-
linquished.
Cardinals three runs came In
the fifth, with one away. Mathes
singled; Rich walked; Myers was
safe on error, and Mathes scored;
Benton hit to the infield, advanc'
ing the runners; Rich scored or
scoring Myers.
Byrne, Wake Forests ace pitch
er. who was on the mound las
Saturday when the Deacons defeat
ed Duke, patrolled right field ane
led the home teams attack, wit
a double and two singles in foul
tries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
q HITS MARK IA
INNING CONTEST
Johnny Mize Hits Three Home
Runs; Werber Ties Record
With Four Doubles

CINCINNATI, May 13-R-Start-
ing late because no umpires had
been assigned to the game, the
Reds and the Cards battled to a
14-inning 8 to 8 tie today before
darkness cut short a st. Louis hit
ting attack featuring three home
runs by Johnny Mize and one by
Joe Orengo.
Four Cardinal hur1ers and five
Cincinnati pitchers took part in the
27-hit marathon which, delayed %
minutes until Umpire Larry Goetz
could be called from a day off at
home, continued 3 hours and 30
minutes.
Mize clouted his first homer in
the second and a two-run blow in
the third off Johnny VanderMeer,
on the mound for the first time
this year. He hit his third-and
ninth of the season-off Relief Hur-
Ter Mil Shoffner in the thirteenth
to give his mates a momentary
advantage.
The Reds came right back in
their half with a pinch-hit double
and a single, to tie the game in its
final knot.
Young Johnny Hutchings relieved
Vandy in the fourth after the
double no-hit star fed another cir
cult smash to Orengo and a single
to his opposing moundsman, starter
Mort Cooper. Meanwhile, the Reds
scored twice on third-inning singles
by Eddie Joost and VanderMee1
and the first of Bill Werber's four
doubles. In the fourth, singles by
Frank Mccormick, Ernie lombard
and a two batter by Harry Graft
netted two more
The Reds drove Cooper from the
mound in the fifth with Werber's
second double, a sacrifice, an out
field fly, a hit batsman and Frank
McCormick's tWo-run single. and
made it 7 to 5 as Ernie Lombard
doubled for his third straight hit,
to score his first sacker.
The Cards routed Relief Hurler
Elmer Riddle in the sixth with a
three-hit attack good for two runs,
and the game stayed right there
behind Mil Shoffner's and Shoun's
excellent mound work until dark
ness win.
Both clubs Clipped in to alleviate
the shortage of umpires, the Reds
coach, Jimmy Wilson, taking over
first base and Long Lon Warneke,
Gard hurler, a position at third.
Werber's four doubles tied q
modern major league record helc
by himself and 16 others.
In all, 107 men were credited
with official times at bat, 81 Of
them Reds.
All figures on the game, except
the final score, go into the records
books. The game itself, will be re-
played as part of a double header
here Aug. IL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Dur0cher Leads DODGERS
To 60 Win Over Pills
Tamulis Turns In Fine Pitch.
ing Performance; Brook.
Ign Makes IL Hits

BROOKLYN, May 13.-B-u
fective relief pitching by I,et,v
Vito Tamulis and a boistero1s h.,
ting exhibition led by MANAGE,
Leo Durrocher with four hi.
brought the Brooklyn Dodgers
6 to 3 triumph over the phj]ado.
phia Phillies today in the decid.
ing contest of their three.gam.
series.
The Dodgers punched out |, hi,
off Ike Pearson and took charss
of the game in the last of tSs
fifth with three runs on DIR.
rocher's double, a walk, Diyia
Walkers single and Babe pbelnS'
triple. They had tailed once in
the first on a double by Charley
Gilbert and a single by WslEer
and added runs in the sixth am
eighth.
Hugh Casey started on the mound
for Brooklyn and held the Pills
scoreless until the fifth when tbey
punched three runs on Pearson's
double, a fielder's choice that mis-.
fired, a single by Art Mahan, a
fly by Chuck Klein ana a double
by Emmett Mueller.
Tamulis then held the phils
scoreless for the last four frames
and got credit for his first decision
Of the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Willis Hudlin Given
Release By Indians

CLEVELAND, May 13.-P-The
Cleveland Indians today gave Willis
H ud1in, 34-year-old right-handed
pitcher, his release. AS a 10-year
man, Hudlin could not be sent to
the minors. He is free to join an
other major league club.
Hudlin joined the Indians in 1926
after leaving high school. He won
nine games last year against 10 de-
1eats and this season had won two
and lost me-. ;
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Aces, Queens Will Play
GreenVille Here TODAY
Matches Will Be Played At
Robert Strange; Girls Wind
Up Play For Title

New Hanover High schools cham.
pion tennis teams will attempt to
stop the challenge of the Greenville
High school METERS on the Robert
Strange courts this afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Coach Glenward Blomme's brilliant
Queens will open the match with
four singles and two doubles against
the bid of the Greenville lassies and
are expected to come through with
their fourth win of the season and
another successful defense Of their
six-year championship.
Captain Mary Johnson will close
her local high school tennis career
this afternoon, but will play again
against Goldsboro next week in the
Wayne capital. Miss johnson has
been on the team for four years and
has a brilliant record to her credit.
She has ruled the number one post
in the state for two years and last
year won the high school singles
championship which she is now de-
Tending.
Jane Lewis in the number three
position will also play for the last
time before a local audience. Jane
has been on the squad for three
years, but not until this year did
she find time from her numerous
other high school duties to play on
the varsity anG she has come through
in great style. Jane is a cousin to
Betty Lewis, former star Of the
Queens for the last four years and
Miriam Lewis, who played for four
years from 1934.37. There will not
be another member of the Lewis
|family on the team for several years
is a star on the grammar school club
and will be in high school in a few
years.
Norma Henderson, former basket
ball star, playing in the number four
position, is the other senio. who will
play her farewell match this after
noon. Norma, with basketball her
first love until interscholastic bali
for girls was abandoned at the school
this year, has proven most valuable
to the drive of the Queens to their
title. Norma did not take her ten
mis- seriously until this season, but
she plays a fine game and can al
ways be depended upon for a point.
A good sportsman and a clean at
lete, Norma will be greatly missed
next season.
Captain Harold Hinnant, number
five, is the only member Of the first
six to graduate from the Aces.
Harold has been a fine leader this
year and although handicapped by a
pulled muscle in his leg he has come
through in great style for his team.
Harold has been a member of the
Aces for two years and his place
will be hard to fill.
John Evans, number nine, won his
letter fol- the first time this year.
John has played beautiful tennis to
go undefeated in team competition
and when he graduates this month
will leave a big gap to be filled in
the lineup.
Both teams have played brilliantly
this season and should they drop a
match before the curtain falls their
record will stand out as the finest
ever made by an athletic team of
New Hanover High. The hardest
schedule ever played by a tennis
team of the high school has included
Porter Military of Charleston, Cita-
del Frosh, Wilson, Goldsboro. Green
vile, Fayetteville, Southern Pines,
Franklin, Marion, s.. c., and Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
MARBLE WINS

CLINTON, S. c., May 1872
Alice Marble, worlds No. i woman
singles player, defeated Lykes Boy
kin, captain of the Presbyterian
college team, Ga, go, here this aft
ernoon at a special women's tennis
Institutional exhibition under the
auspices of the Southern Lawn Ten
mis- association.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Latimer, Weinberg Land
Three Large Drum Here

H. G. Latimer, Jr., and Albert
Weinberg landed three fine drum,
n weighing SO pounds, while fish
ing off the coast yesterday.
The fish will be on display at Bob
.Sneeden's, at ia Market street, this
morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

Durham.
Bear Stories
But even with these scare stories,
there are also "bear" stories arls-
ing over the state. According to
rumors which have been denied to
some extent, scholastic difficulties
and offenses may keep several
players out of the Carolina lineup
next fall. This may be true, but
even at that we believe the Tar
Heels will be about the best OFT
they've been in years so lar as
e material is concerned.
Duke may play a more open"
game this year, but Carolina will
nlay a better defensive game, we
think. And taking everything into
consideration, both Duke and Caro-
lima will have to do some tall play
ing to beat their records of last
year.
Davidson is almost sure to lose
the two players who were shipped
and ~dissension among the ranks at
Wake Forest will not help the Dea-
ons any too much.
But football is still several
months off and the main problem
right now is keeping the Yanks in
the cellar.
Tennis AS A Sport
Tennis has for many years been
a sport that captured public fancy.
It was and still is to a certain ex-
tent, a "gentleman's game" In
this sport a young man or woman
can be developed to a higher de-
gree of near perfection than in
many other sports.
There is one thing about the
game that attracts youngsters to
play. No better example car be
offered than the way the boys and
girls in the New Hanover schools
work for places on the teams. Glen
ward Blomme has done a very fine
job in training the boys and girls
and his record of 80 consecutive
victories since 1887 speaks enough
for his work.
Coach Blomme's secret to de-
.veloping championship teams lies
in building them from away back.
The boys and girls who are to be-
come members of the New Han
over High school teams start train
ing for those positions back in the
grades. That early training is tell
ing the tale.
+, The boys have already sewed up
another Eastern championship and
the girls need only a victory over
Greenville today to make theirs Of
fetal. Perhaps with a bit of luck
the locals may take Charlotte for
the state title come Saturday.
Odds And Ends
AS someone said it appears that
Winter and Summer put the old
squeeze play on to Spring . For
search as we might we haven't
been able to find the so-called
balmy days -. The bearded beau.
ties of the House of David are sche-
duled to cavort on Legion diamond
tomorrow night Friday night
the Pirates will play the Golden
Belt club Of Durham and next week
the BUGS take on the Eastern Caro-
lima Teachers college nine . The
experts who picked the Yanks to
run wild again and the Cards to
f. beat out the Reds are a little Sheep
ish about it all now Most of
them,. however, are still standing
beside their guns with the comment
of "Wait Until summer
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

Errors: Coscarart, Arnovich, Lava
getto. Runs bated in: Mahan, Klein,
Mueller. Walker 2, Phelps ., TamuliS,
Two base hits: Mueller 2, Pearson,
Klein. Gilbert, Durocher, Coscarart
Three base hits: Phelps. Sacrifices
Martin. Casey, Walker. Double plays;
Camilli (unassisted) Tamulis, Duroch,
er and Camilli; Mueller, Bragan and
Mahan. Left on bases: Philadelphia s.;
Brooklyn s. Bases on balls off: Casey
8, Tamulis 1, Pearson 3. Strikeonts
by: Casey 2. Tamulis 3, Pearson g. Hits
off: Casey 5 in 5 innings; Tamulis 2
in 4 innings. Wild pitch: Pearson.
Winning pitcher: Tamulis. UmpiTes:
Barr, Magerkurth and Stewart. Time;
2:10. Attendance: 5,337.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
SLUGGERs WIN

The Sunset Sluggers defeated the
Masonboro Clamdiggers, II to ID,
in a game played at Masonboro yes
terday afternoon. The undefeated
Sluggers will play the Clamdiggers
again Friday afternoon at Sunset
Park.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
SMOKE RINGS
Gridiron Gossip
By SAM Raglan

You can't keep good choice morsels OF grldlron Cos
sin from bobbinq No even at baseball times like these, but
already, it seems, the other teams in this section are
quaking in their boots at the heavy list OF football 1moer
that's Looping about the Duke campus: LILLIAN
grid talent this year than ever before and many tnlnk
that the 1910 edition of the Blue Devils will be about the
best ever turned out by Wallace Wade since he came to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
TOURISTS WIN

CHARLOTTE, May 10. - B -
Bunching its hits, Asheville's Tour
lists won the first game Of a double.
header from the Charlotte Hornets
}here tonight, 10 to 6
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

y Aotn ~ "a" -
Boston ------------- 900 40 OOO- 5
Errors: Scarsella. Rowell, Whitehead.
Runs batted in: Demaree 8. OFT, Jur-
ges 3. Vandenberg, Young 3, Mast, Mill
er. Loane. Rowell, Scarsella. Two base
hit: Young. Three base hit: urges.
Home run: Demaree. Stolen base
Whitehead. Double plays: Gumbert.
urges and Young; Rowell, Miller and
Scarsella. Left on bases: New York
10; Boston S. Bases on balls off: Gum
bert 1, Vandenberg 1, Lamanna 3, ia
very l. Callahan T.. S%trikeouts by
Vandenberg 2, Gumbert l.. Hits off
Vandenberg 9 in 4 1-3 innings; Gum
bert % in 4 2-3: Sullivan 2 in 1: Lam
anna 3 i 2; Javery 2 in 1; Callahan ]
in 3 2-3; Barnicle. none in 1-3: Farley
2 in 1. Winning pitcher: Gumbert.
Losing pitcher: Sullivan. Umpires
Jorda. Sears ad Dunn. Time: 2:17. At
tendance: 1,416.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

Cincinnati ------- OO2 2oO UGO OOu III
fGame called; d%arkness).
Errors: Delaney, Werber. Runs bat
ted in: Medwick 2. Mize 4, Orengo 2
Werber 2, Goodman, lombard, Craft
M. Mccormick 2. Two base hits: Med
wick, Orengo, Werber 4, Lombard
Craft, Hershberger. Home n Miz'
8, Orengo. Sacrifices: J. Brown, slaugh.
ter, Frey. Double plays: Cooper anf
orengo; Brown, Mize and Brown. Left
on bases: st. Louis n; Cincinnati 9
Bases on balls off: Cooper 1. Davis 2
Wander Nicer 5. Hutchings 2. Riddle !
Shoffner 1. Strikeouts by: Cooper l
Shoun 5. Wander Nicer 8, Hutchings 1
Shoffner 8. Hits off: Cooper s in 4 2;
innings; Davis 8 in 1-3 (none out il
6th) Shoun 2 in 7 2-3; Russell 1 in
1-3; Wander Nicer 5 in 8 (none out il
4th) H%utchings 1 in 2: Riddle 3 in 1-3
Shoffner 3 in Z 2-3; Beggs ! in 1. Hi
by pitcher by: Cooper IF. McCormick)
Wild pitches: Cooper, Hutchings. I'm
pires: Goetz. Jim Wilson and Lon War
neke. Time: 3:35. Attendance: $500
paid; 9,370 women.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Y Wins Fifth Straight
. By Defeating Phalanx

The Y. M. c. A. softball team
marked up it's fifth consecutive vic.
tory with no defeats in the Hanover
league yesterday with a 10 to 5 tri-
umph owe the Phalanx fraternity
in a same at ROTC field.
King, with two hits out of three
atterpt paced the winners at bal
and Duncan, with three for four, led
the losers at the plate. King and
johnson made up the Y battery
while Johnson and Whitakers com
prised the losing battery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

z-Batted for Joost in 18th.
zz-Ran for Hershberger in 18th.
zzz-Batted for Hutchings in 9Th.
NM Batted for Shoffner in 18th.
st. Louis -------- O12 112 900 600 10
Cincinnati - OO2 23O 0OO 900 10
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
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THE BANKERS WORRIES

Banks, to the average citizen, look
like big money" Most of them are
housed in imposing buildings. The tellers
sit in their cages surrounded by piles of
money. The banks annual statements
deal with large figures.
The banker, like the rest of us, has his
problems in making both ends meet-and
in recent years those problems have grown
more acute.
Some figures recently issued by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are
highly Illuminating. In the year 1888, in
terest-principal source of bank profit
received by the nations 1855 insured
commercial banks, totaled S1.235, 100000.
This represented 1924 per 500 of assets
in other words, little more than per
cent You could hardly call that excess
sive, or even adequate.
Reason for the banks modest returns
is the decline in interest rates. Between
1928 and 1887, the average yield on COM
mercial paper dropped from 4.6 per cent
to less than l per cent. Rates on loans to
bank customers dropped from almost 5
per cent to 2.7 per cent in New York City,
and suffered big drops in other sections.
Government bond interest shrank from 38
per cent to 2.7 per cent Return on
Treasury notes and certificates went down
from 3.5 per cent to practically nothing
2l10 of per cent.
Banks have taken a beating from
trends and governmental policies which
have reduced earnings and interest rates
to the vanishing point. Yes, the banker
has his worries.
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RIBBENTROP TELLS WELLEs

Our travelling listening post, Mr..
Sumner Welles, was in Berlin last week,
where he heard Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop assert that Germany is
rendering a service to civilization by fight
ing to break Britain's "stranglehold on the
economic life of the world"
Herr Ribbentrop accused the British
of using economic strangulation to hold the
rest of the world in submission. Whether
this weapon is used By the British in times
of peace is open to argument but, in the
war with Germany, it cannot be denied
that the British are using sea power to
strangle Germany's economic breath, with
out which the Germans cannot endure a
long war effort.
Interesting is the idea that the first
six months of the war have convinced Ger
mans that Germany is unbeatable, that the
Allied blockade is ineffective and that
Berlin has no peace to offer, except upon
her own terms. These include guarantees
for her security from British interference,
which might be construed to mean almost
anything, from seizure of the British fleet
to making the English islands a protec-
torate of Germany.
Other demands that were advanced
by Won Ribbentrop as the price of peace
include the return CT war-lost colonies and
''free hand in the area that Germany
regards as her living space. This last item
could be construed, at a convenient time
to mean as much as Hitler and his regime
desire.
Significantly, Herr Won Ribbentrop,
according to the Associated Press, minced
no words concerning the state of German
American relations" We have no way of
knowing what this sentence covers but,
perhaps, the Germans are taking the
United States at face value, concerning
European affairs, and regard what they
do in Europe as none of our business.
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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING MORTGAGE

The Empire State building, monstrous
skyscraper in New York, was plastered
with a mortgage in the sum Of $27, 000,-
900, we believe, when it was completed.
Business wasn't as good as expected
and the corporation got in arrears in its
payments to the life insurance company
which made the loan. What hap
pened?
Well, the interest was scaled from
five to less than three per cent. the ar
rearages, we understand, were knocked
off, and the loan was scheduled so that
the corporation was given chance, at
low interest, for few years before being
required to pay the full rate of the obliga-
ton.
Now, we do not criticise the lending
company for making this adjustment. 1t
was probably the wise thing to do, under
the circumstances. Nevertheless. the in
cident illustrates the big advantage that
often accrues to a large company.
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Today's Birthdays
. . . . Q . . . Q . Q 0 0 .

Oswald Garrison Willard of
New York, journalist-author,
born in Germany, SO years ago.
DR.. Scale Harris of Birming-
ham, Ala, noted physician, born
at Cedartown, Ga, 70 years ago.
Maj. Albert w. Stevens, the
Army's noted stratosphere flier
and photographer, born at Bel
fast, Me-, 81 years ago.
DR.. Francis d. Farrell, presi-
dent of the Kansas State College,
born at Snlithfield, Utah, 81 years
ago.
Maj. Gen. Charles D. Heron,
U.S.A., born at Charlottesville,
Ind, SO years ago.
Spruille Braden of New York,
Ambassador to Colombia, born in
Elkhorn, Mont, 46 years ago.
Rt. Rev. William P. Reming-
ton, Pc. missionary bishop to
Oregon, born in Philadelphia, 81
years ago.
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TOMORROW
By L. S. NASH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

How often We say. Tomorrow
I'll do" this or that?
Why not do it right away
Tomorrow may not come your
way;
Then where will you be at?
The man who. is out of work
And down to his last dollar,
He's been ste every place in
: town.
All he got was. Come in tomor-
You visit friend to spend the
day,
Forget all cares and sorrow,
And when you start for home,
you say,
IN see you again tomorrow.
Tomorrow is sure to come, as it
must follow day,
But are we sure to be here
To see tomorrow's sun appear?
That is not for us to say, as we
live day by day.
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TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ
Can you answer seven of these
ten Tes. Questions? Turn TO
Page 4 for Answers

/. Where is the region known
as the Klondike?
2. Which is the highest noun
tain in Continental United
States?
8. Which is the finer thread,
No. 80 or No. so?
4. Who was the first President
to live in the White House?
S. What is the name for the hats
worn at college graduation
exercises?
6. When windows are broken
by an explosion outside the
building, are they blown
in or out?
7. Name the five smallest in
dependent countries in the
world.
8. Is the addressee obligated to
accept all mail addressed
> to him?
8. Which state is nicknamed
the Sunshine State?
10. With what card game is the
word "finesse" associated?