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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
SHUTE PLANNING
GOLF COMEBACK
Wrist Operation May Bring
Former PEA Champ Back
To Forefront Of Game

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.-(R-Lit-
orally speaking, Golf Master Denny
Shute is kicking the ball around on
a comeback to links fame.
The two-time winner of the Pro-
fessional Golf association champion
ship, beset by hard luck and two
operations in 1910, is driving the ball
with the aid of a new right wrist"
in which a piece of his own shin
bone, about the size an dshape of a
silver dollar, was grated.
Kept out of action for six months
by the wrist operation last year,
the Cleveland-born professional got
back on his game by midsummer in
time to qualify with a 36-hole score
Of ISL for the PEA. tournament.
But it looked like Denny wasn't
supposed to play in that toprua-
ment," declared his attractive young
wife, a former Ohio State college c.
ed, because the night he qualified
found him on the operating table at
Hershey for an appendectomy.
"The year before, you remember,
they tried to keep Denny out of the
P.G.A. championship because his en-
try card was a day late"
Remember? Most every golf fan in
the country remembers the furore
raised when the P.G.A. front office
sternlyv banned Denny from playing
and then yielded when Shute's fellow
pros banded together and threatened
a "strike'' if he wasn't permitted to
compete.
Denny was just about to tee off
today in the final round of the Los
Angeles open when Mrs. Shute was
reviewing her husbands golf career.
The two were married soon after
Denny won this same Los Angeles
tournament in 1880. They have a
home in Coral Gables, Fla, and
spend the entire year travelling
around the country.
Denny is something of an ambas-
sador of good will for golf" Mrs.
Shute continued.
Shute is the last American to win
the British open, a feat he turned in
1888. In 1896 and 1887 he cap
tured the. P.G.A. crown. Rated one
of the best putters in the business,
the quiet even tempered Shute has
been a name-golfer for many of his
So years.
Eyes, I'm darn glad 1910 is over
and I hope it v comes back"
he smiled. This is a new year. I
hope it's a good one"
He did start it off we'll. His sensa-
tional round of sc put. him toward
the top and he went into the last
round of the present tournament a
bare two strokes off the pace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
N. e. DRY FORCES
TO FIGHT FOR VOTE
ON LIQUOR ISSUE
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ed that he had SO votes denitely in
the bag for the speakership, and
he generally was conceded the in
side track. His opponent, George
Uzzell of Rowan, claimed 81 votes.
Admittedly a close race was the
contest for president-pro-tem of
the senate, with John D. Larkins,
Jr., of Jones claiming 26 votes and
Archie Gay Of Northampton q.
The democratic caucuses will be
held at 8 o'clock tomorrow night,
and the legislature will convene at
noon Wednesday to elect the
p ty's nominees. Governor
Broughton will be inaugurated at
about l o'clock Thursday.
In general, legislators declined
to discuss specific bills which have
been suggested, pending the ap-
pointment of committees either late
this week or early next week.
Various organizations, however.
were busy distributing copies of
their legislative programs and ex-
planning features of those programs
to the legislators.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
CATSSTART WORK
FOR WILSON CAME
Early Morning Practice Elk
pected To See Team In Bet
ter Shape This Time

The New Hanover High school
basketball team started off on the
slogan of "early to bed, early to
rise yesterday by opening prac-
tice for the game Thursday night
with the Wilson cagers on the
Y. M. c. A. court.
The Cats suffered from lack OF
practice and also the new style
backboards in the Fayetteville gym
last Friday night and helped the
Bulldogs to the top of the confer
ence heap by a Is to II loss.
Little is known of the strength
of the Wilson team, but their squad
of last year was highly rated and
finished high up in the standings
at the end of the 1910 season. The
'Coons have always been fast on
the hardwood, but the Wildcats
can match some of this speed with
the fast travelling Bill Bowen and
his sharpshooting co-guard Billy
Pieper. The locals are blessed this
year with a few tall lads with Burt
Nisbett topping over six feet and
Leonard McKoy a few inches tall
than Nisbett. Cliff Owensby and
Vernon Morrison also add to The
yardage and also are very fine
shots. Carl Mathis and Demming
are two experienced players
who have reported for regular
work and are also rangy and good
The conference is destined to be
more of a wide-open race this year
than in the past three Or four years
when the Durham Bulls ruled the
roost. The Wake Forest Frosh stop
ped the Bulls winning streak last
week after the champions had won
u straight games.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
GRID OFFICIATING
GOOD THIS SEASON
In Southern, South
east Loops Say It's Salts
factory In Most Games

LAKE WALES, Fla, Jan. 6.-LPl
officiating in the South.
ern and Southeastern Conferences
last season was satisfactory or bet.
ter, to coaches of both sides in 90
ner cent of all games, Secretary A.
R. Hutchens of the Southern Foot.
ball Officials Association said today.
In a report for the year, Hutchens
said the great majority of games
were well handled, but a few drew
censure.
Coaches" he reported Grated IS
per cent of the years officiating as
good very good,' or excellent
which Of course is praiseworthy and
brings out the not unimportant point
that the great majority of the games
were well handled. 1t Is the 9TH
err end Of the scale, the low-rated
work which the coaches loosely de-
scribe as satisfactory or fair which
must be watched"
Hutchens diagnosed the basic
trouble as mot one of situations mis-
ruled, but it certainly is one OF sltu'
ations mis-handled.
"Mis-rulings on established fact
were, as always, small in number,
but i~ncontestably correct rulings ar
rived at only after much fumblina
and fumbling by seemingly vague
and uncertain officials were many.
And the. one is as bad as the other
as far as building or destroying con-
fidence in officiating is concerned
Hutchens reported a decrease in
most penalties, but an increase IN
roughness, piling on, delay OF games
and off-side mis-plays. The average
time for all games was 2 hours n
Is minutes - three minutes longer
than last year.
The central booking office here
provided S75 officials for 219 games,
an increase of II games and A ofti-
Gals over a year ago.. Average pay
of officials in the Southern Confer
ence was $53.71 a game; in the South
eastern Conference $57.96 a game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
HOME GUARD PLANS
ARE APPROVED HERE
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the Wilmington unit are to be ap-
pointed by the governor.
Officers will enlist members of
the unit between the ages of 10
and As years Cup to so mem, ex-
cepting men between the ages of
81 and SO years, unless one is not
subject to call to federal service
because of dependents or such rea-
son, from the citizenship at large
and not to confine enlistments to
any one group or organization.
Service will be voluntary on the
part of both officers and enlisted
men. The state will provide funds
to defray rental where necessary
and for general expenses of the
local unit, Chairman Hewlett was
advised by Adjutant General
Nets.
The war department will furnish
rifles, bayonets, and scabbards.
Probably belts and ammunition
will be purchased. The local unit
is expected to provide it's own uni
forms, with the assistance of the
city and county, not to exceed
$500. The unit will be expected to
drill at least one and a half hour
periods weekly and more often if
considered necessary by the Off
GERS.
Hewlett said the home guard unit
in Wilmington will be subject to
the call Of the Governor in case
Of lawlessness and in aid to civil
authorities in emergencies neces-
stating their services.
The city and county boards also
accepted the resignation of Harold
H. Jeter as a local staff member
of the surplus foods setup and ap-
proved the appointment of A. B.
McNair as his successor.
The two boards also approved
the re-appointment of the board of
managers for the Community hos
pital for the coming year, with
the exception Of H. B. Shaw who
was replaced by DR.. F. w. Avant.
Chairman Hewlett urged a full re-
presentation Of the two boards at
a joint meeting of the officials of
New Hanover, Fender, and Onslow
counties at l o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon in Jacksonville. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
Says No Accident
In Minnesota Being At Top

among the first ten and defeated
them. Stanford met only one of
these.
IT believe Michigan was a lot
stronger than Nebraska. 7 would al
so place Northwestern and Ohio
above them"
Then, when confronted with the
question he could have expected in
this land of the Sugar Bowl-was
Minnesota better than Boston College
or Tennessee, the two squads which
met here New Years Day-Bierman
said:
"Well, T don't think I'd be shaking
at the knees very much if I had to
play either team. But I might be
surprised"
Bierman said he doubted" the pos
sibility Of a tie.up between the Pa
cific and Big Ten conferences for an
annual Rose Bowl game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6.-LR-
Coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota
told New Orleans Monday Quarter
backs club today it was no accident
that his Gophers landed on top of
the football pile in the season just
ended"
This years team probably had
more offensive than any I've coach
ed" he said. "At times the defense
looked bad but when the boys want
ed to put on the pressure, they
usually did.
1--WE had to be lucky too often to
come from behind seven times"
Unawed by the prestige Of the
teams that played in the Sugar Bowl
and Rose Bowl games, the white
haired coach declared when asked
to compare his team with Stanford:
1--WE played a stronger schedule
against stronger opposition than
Stanford. We met four teams rated
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
TAR HEEL GOLFER
POSTS 2Sl SCORE
Wood Finishes Second; Heat
ner Ties For Third Place
With Score Of 2S4
BY ROBERT MYERS

LOS ANGELES. Jan. g. R -
Johnny Bulla, a North Carolina
boy who made good in the big
city of Chicago, came from behind
today and won his first tournament
in four years of major competi-
tion-the $40, 900 Los Angeles open.
The former Greensboro shotmak-
er blasted out a sub par round Of
So, two under for the 7,000-yard Ri
viera country club course, over
hauled long-hitting Jimmy Thorn
son and outdistanced the rest of
the field to post a 72-hole score
of 71-66-75-69-281.
The victory, worth So, 500 to- the
26-year-old Bulla, was cheered to
the echo by a crowd of patrols who
had! installed him as the popular
'favorite after a tWo-stroke penalty
for playing the wrong ball had set
him behind Thomson in yester-
days third round.
Craig Wood, the big blond from
Mamaroneck, N. Y, sneaked into
second place and 81. 700 of tn e
rich purse with a SO today for 283,
while the pace-setting Thomson
faded with a IA for 285-one stroke
back of Clayton Heather of Lin
vile, N. c., who had a, 70, and
Benny Hogan, White Plains, N. Y,
who also had q IN
Bulla, the poor mans golfer"
he uses golf balls that cost IS
cents-went into the last r o l. n d
trailing Thomson by one stroke.
Still irked by that two-stroke pen
atty imposed for playing Jug Nc
Spaden's ball yesterday, he toured
the first nine holes in "a, one I'm
par for IS on the way home.
Thomson needed SO blows to get
around the first nine, and six blows
to get untrapped and down on the
tenth. His game became uncertain
as the weather, which turned from
sunshine to rain and back to sun
shine from noon on to dusk.
Willie Goggin of Miami. Fla, fin
ished in a tie with Thomson, while
another perennial gallery favorite,
Horton Smith, of Oak Park, ILL.,,
turned on the heat with his putte1
and posted a SO for a 286.
Denny Shute, now of Coral Ca
bles, Fla, ran into hard luck but
came out with a "a and 287 while
National Open Champion Lawson
Little and 1910 winner of h i S
cent, had a 70 for 1888; former
open king Ralph Guldahl rs for
295 and Jimmy Demaret, Houston,
Texas, still another pre-tourna-
ment favorite, 72-296 and S a m
Snead, 1926.
Byron Nelson of Toledo finished
one of his worst u holes; he had
a 70 for 3O2.
Bulla and Sam Snead together
first ventured to CALIFORNIA; Win
ter tournament trail four years
ago, and both have come back
each year. Snead, meantime, had
become a national figure. Bulla's
only fame was in leading the field
going into the last round of the
1889 National Open at Philadelphia.
He blew up and Byron Nelson
emerged the champion. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
Boston College Offers
New Contract To Leahy

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6.-R-
Frank Leahy, Boston college foot
ball coach, was on his way to F1ori-
da tonight, accompanied by Mrs.
Leahy, and a stillunsigned, five.year
contract rendered him by Boston col
lege authorities before the Sugar
Bowl game here.
Leahy admitted that the contract
was not yet signed but refused to
discuss it further.
Were going down to Florida for
a brief vacation" Leahy said, "but
will be back in Boston for the foot
ball banquet on January IT,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
MINORS ASK VOICE
IN NAMING CHIEF
Trautman Says Committee 10
Submit Proposal On Com
missioner To Majors

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. CIR
The minor leagues, which hold a
numerical superiority over the
major leagues by about 43 to 2,
are going to ask the majors to
grant them a voice in selecting
future high commissioners OF
baseball.
This was announced today by
Chairman George Trautman after
his nine-member minor league
hearing on suggestions for changes
when a new major-minor league
working agreement is negotiated
this year.
Trautman, president of tn e
American association, made. II
clear the proposal was directed at
future commissioners and moi
the present one-Judge KenesaW
Mountain Lands, who recently
was elected to a term to expire
in 1916.
Not since the major leagues first
named a high commissioner In
1921 have the minors had any
voice in the matter although they
must submit to his decisions.
Judge Lands has held the post
since it was created following the
BLACK Sox" scandal in 1919.
Trautman said the proposal con-
corning selection of future" COM
missioners was the most import
ant change the minors r~ould seek
when they submit their version of
the agreement to a major league
committee about Feb. l.
He declined to discuss what
other proposed revisions would ne
asked. The present major-minor
agreement, first adopted in 1921
and twice revised "a 7-year inter
walls, expires Jan. II, 1912.
Trautman expressed belief in a
terse report of the hearings that
the majors would grant the COM
missioner-selection request a n d
that it would not be opposed by
Judge Lands.
AS soon as lrautmanS commit
tee completes a draft Of the agree.
ment it will submit to the majors,
the job of supporting it will fall
on the shoulders of four men
Judge William G. Bramham, presi-
dent of the National Association OF
Professional Baseball leagues;
Trammell Scott, president o f
the Southern Association; DR.. E.
M. Wilder, president of the South
Atlantic league, and Trautman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
.$87,76O,O93 Worth OF
Arms Contracts Awarded

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-R-
Contract awards amounting to $751;.
70o'osa, including a 1867 $50 order
for airplane engines from the stude-
BAKER Corporation, South Bend, Ind,
and a $31,5o7,63 contract with Vel
low Truck and Coach Manufacturing
company, Pontiac, Mich, for trucks,
were announced today by the war
department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07

Become A Fixture
B~asketball-a game that is a hun
3dred years old-has certainly become
IL fixture in the American sports life.
1T doesn't draw down as many big
headlines as football or baseball, its
PLAYERS don't become the national
heroes that the boys of the gridiron
ARE and the gate receipts barely pay
expenses in some cases.
However, it's a game that most
boys can play-the long ones, the
short ones, the fat ones, the skinny.
ITS a gam that people like to
watch. And basketball will remain
in America.
Scoring Record E.
And while we are on the subject
we'd like to tell you about the game
in Goldsboro last Friday night when
the Goldshoro All-Stars beat the Will
mington Y. M. C. A. varsity cagers
s113.68. That was asrecord for Colds
sboro and a scoring spree to get any
basketball enthusiast dizzy.
f.. Wilmipgton's Tommy North was
the scoring star of the game with
80 points, this equaling the record
set in Goldsboro this season by.
George Lautares. 1t was the third
straight game in which the Colds
boro cagers have scored more than
100 points in a game.
And Charlie Bond, sports editor
of the Goldsboro News-Argus, re-
counts that the All-Stars have won
10 games to date, losing none, have
scored 1,O56 points for the 10 games
or an average of 81 points per game.
Sloppy We'll, manager of the Colds
iboro quint, pointed out to Brother
Bond that numerology had something
to do with the game Friday with
Wilmington. It vas January 8, the
18th game of the season, the home
team scored 113 points, the paid
admission totaled So and the differ
ence in the SIG guarantee left the
Club S13 in the hole.
e But that 1S1 points in one game
is too much for us. And it all came
in exactly 40 minutes of playing
time.
This And That
The Hartford, Conn, Class A club
of the Eastern league will do its
spring training at Goldsboro this
yea, And the Phillies of the Ma
stional league will play the Washing
ton Senators at Goldsboro on April
10 in an exhibition game Re
organization seems to be h theme
In, the Coastal Plain league, with
Goldsboro fans meeting last night
to, discuss "to be or not to be" in
Baseball for this year -. The present
owners of the club have announced
that they definitely will not operate
-in:1941 -. University of North Caro-
Tina alumni will hear Coach Ray
Wolf and Jim Lalanne talk at a
gridiron banquet in G%oldsboro Jan
tuary % Pictures of the Duke
carolina football game will be shown
g.. The average pay for a football
Yofficial in the Southern conference
the past year was $53.71 per game
:. Note to amateur boxers: Send
in your entries for the fifth annual
Star-News-Brigade Golden Gloves
tournament, to be held February H.
IA, now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
REDS, TURKS MAY
RESIST GERMANS
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Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff and
King Boris, but this was not con-
firmed.
Last Visit Recalled
1t was recalled, however, that the
last visit Of a high Soviet official
to Sofia was followed quickly by
the Kings talk with Adolf Hitler
and was populary credited with
having kept Bulgaria from joining
the Axis.
1t was the Greek Orthodox
church's Christmas Eve in Bull
garia and also the 63rd anniver-
sary of the freeing" of Sofia from
Turkish domination.
Bulgars in Sofia attended cere-
monies h%onoring the Russian dead
in the battle which won Sofia and
turned them into a prayer that the
Soviet would use it's weight now to
keep the Germans on the Ruman.
ian side Of the Danube.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
Hoppe Takes Lead In
Title Billiard Match

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-tB- Willie
Hoppe, %54-year-old champion of three
cushion billiards, took a command
ing lead over. his challenger, Jake
schaefer of Cleveland, today in the
first legt OF their 4So. point title
.match. -
! Hoppe ran out his string of 60
points in 80 innings, while Schaefer,
playing far below his usual form,
scored only IS points.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
Duke Cagers Triumph
Ouer Davidson, 57-33

WINSTON-SALEM, Jan. ill.,
Dukes high-scoring quintet roul-
ed Davidson, 81 to SO in their first
conference game here tonight.
Glenn Price and Cy Valasek
paced the tidal wave of scoring
which swept Duke out in front 28-
Il at the half.
Jim Hogg carried the load for
Davidson, scoring II points and
playing a brilliant floor game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
RTLLA WINS LOS ANGELES MEET
Fnick Rates Reds No. I Team In National
CAGE SCORES

St. Joseph's AZ; North Caro-.
lima Al.
Illinois 40; Purdue "a.
Clemson 43; Furman 80.
N. C. State Sc; Atlantic
Christian 38.
Iowa State Al; Montana State
~.
Duke 81; Davidson 80.
Roanoke Al; Catawba 80.
Iowa 43; North Dakota 20.
Minnesota A; Wisconsin ~.
Notre Dame SO; Wabash SO.
West Virginia SO; Carnegie
Tech As.
South Carolina 48; Georgia
A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
Dempsey Named Sports
Editor OF Magazine

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-R)-Liberty
Magazine announced today it had
appointed former Heavyweight
Champion Jack Dempsey as sports
editor Of the publication.
The announcement said Dempsey
would write on timely sports topics
and will supervise other sports
stories for the magazine"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
MOLLISON KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
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Vienna, 1stanhul, Aleppo and Bagdad
on successive days. She reached In
ola ! n six days, two days under the
previous record, but damaged her
plane a. Rangoon and eventually ar.
rived at Port Darwin Australia in
20 days.
seven months later she tried to
reach Pe1ping via Siberia, but was
lorceo down near Warsaw. In six
n she was off again across
Russia, Siberia and China to Tokyo.
IN n day she covered 1850 miles,
establishing another new record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
CLEMSON WINS

CLEMSON, s. c., Jan. g. Up -
Clemson defeated Furman 43 to 80
in a Southern conference basketball
game today. The game was loosely
played and there was wild shooting
and passing by both teams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
MONEY WINNERS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.-R-
Money winners in the Los An
geles open: johnny Bulla, 3d.
500; Craig Wood, $1,700; Clayton
Heather and Ben Hogan $1,000
each; Jimmy Thompson and Will
lie Goggin, $500 each; Horton
Smith $3.50; Denny Shute, $500;
Lawson Little, $3.50; Lloyd Man.
grum, $3.50; Fred Wood and Har-
old McSpaden, sos each; Dutch
Harrison, Vic Ghezzi, limerick
Kocsis and AL Kruger, $45 each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
SMOKE RINGS
No. Sport
By SAM Raglan

\ According to all surveys the No. l sport OF the nation is
=hasketball-that is in the number of teams, players, games,
fans and general interest in all parts of the land. But the
game certainly is not a money-maker.
It would be hard to find a High school IN North Caro-.
lima. the south or the nation that doesn't have a basketball
team. Every college plays basketball and small rural schools
that are unable to support football turn practically all OF
+hnir attention TO the cage sport.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Jan 6-LRHWeather
bureau records Of temperature and rain
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07

Women's favorite color is red.
mems blue, psychologists declare.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-07

lhere r 1907 miles of railways
the boundaries Of Rumania.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
MORE FARM BENEFIT
RECEIVED

a consignment of % agricultural
conservation payment checks aggre-
eating S5l86l was received today at
the Itlcc OF j. w. Sanders, Vance
county farm agent, for distribution.
Payccs have been notified TO cell at
the office for their checks.
These payments bring to Sll2,-
55892 the total amount received thus
far aa agricultural conservation bene-
fit payments in this county for com
piianCc with the 1910 AAA pro
gram. y total of 1886 checks have
been received as payment on 1863
applications.
Only l6 applications are unpaid at
this time, it was stated at Mr.. Sand
CIS' office.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-05-30
Referendum


SINty-ntnc wheat growers of Vance
in the nationwide referendum to dc
dc the question of imposing mar
kCtlng quotas on the 1871 wheat
crop, and polls for the voting in thiS
c unity Will be open at Henderson and
Townsville from 9 o'clock in the
morning until 5 o'clock in the after
noon.
If tWo-thirds of the wheat produc-
erS of the nation who vote in the re