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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
TRACKMEN READY
FOR INDOOR CAME,
Annual Event at Chapel Hin
Today Draws the Largest
List in History
BY w. JOYNEs MacFAR1,v

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 2l.-A-
The largest entry list in the hi,
tory of the event warmed I'm TO-DAY
for the 18th annual Southern rnr
ference indoor games here tomor.
row.
There were entrants on han3
from most of the 40 educatior,r
institutions which filed teams ,ict,
and ats individuals were renro.
sented on the record list Of 81
teams entered in the four div.
sions.
The first event will start al LIN
in the afternoon but the big show
a regular four-ring circus, viii,
start in huge Woollen gymnasium
at the University of North Carr.
lima at Z o'clock.
Most of the afternoon events ara
preliminaries, though there are f,
nails in some field competitions
but the night show includes das,
trials and finals in % events 81
that every minute has its attrac,
ton until after 10 o'clock.
Coach Robert A. Fetzer, games
director and veteran director Of
athletics at the university, who
was largely responsible for esta5,
lishment of the annual affair u
years ago. looked over the entries
today and forecast that perhan
as many as eight new records
would be set.
North Carolina is slated 10 re.
peat as champion of the COME.
ence division. Navy will be back
to fight Tor the non-conference {.
tie it took last year, the frosh d.
vision has plenty of strong oppp
sition for Virginia's defending
champs, and 81 scholastic teams
will be seeking to unseat Wash,
ington-Lee High of Arlington, Va,
the defending champ. Maryland
has a powerful conference division
entry list, and Duke has a small
but Well-balanced team.
Top individual entrants, on the
basis of past performances, are.
Jimmy Davis and Dick van Wag
oner of North Carolina, Tommy
Fields of Maryland, and Henri
P%rofenius of Duke, all in the We'll
mile; Duke Alexander of Mary
land, freshman who set the schr
lastic high jump record last year
higher than any previous jump IN
the meet in any of its divisions.
Dave Morrison of North Carolina.
in the half-mile: and Hall Hanti
of N. C. State and Matty CraW'
ford of William and Mary, in the
pole vault.
Teams entered come from UNI
versities, colleges, prep schools
and high schools in North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Virginia
Maryland. Georgia, District of 70
lumbia, Tennessee and Pennsly'
vania.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Wake Forest Clinches
Place in Cage Tourney

WAKE FOREST, Feb. 24.-tR-
Wake Forest clinched a place in the
Southern conference basketball tour.
nament, to be held in Raleigh next
week, by defeating South Carolina
5S-43 here tonight.
The Deacons, who now have seven
wins against five losses in the con-
ference, have only one more game to
play-against Virginia Military Insti-
|tute here tomorrow highland thus
are certain to finish above the 500
percentage mark. Their closest pur-
suers cannot reach this mark.
The eight top ranking conference
teams which will be invited to play
in the tournament r Wake Forest,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Washington and Lee, Richmond, Will
liam and Mary, V.M.I., and Duke.
Results of conference games between
now and Sunday, when the basket
ball committee will meet in Raleigh
to fix the tournament pairings, will
not GUST any of those teams from
the top eight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Draft Board Denies
Thai Greenberg Is
Seeking Deferment

DETROIT, Feb. 21.-R-Lo-
cal Draft Board No. %, placing
the Hank Greenberg incident in
the tempest in a teapot" cate.
CORY, formally denied today the
reports that the Detroit Tiger
baseball star was seeking "occu-
pational deferment."
Board Chairman Ben O.. Shep-
herd, who made an inquiry to.
day, announced also that the rec.
ords failed to show that Green.
berg was applying for deferment
on any other grounds.
The, board chairman made
plain that he thought there was
nc point in bringing up the mat
ter at all.
There's been an awful lot of
noise made about nothing"
Shepherd said. There's no occa-
sion for any fuss since there's
nothing going on. Greenberg just
filed his QUESTIONABLE and that's
all there is to it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Indoor Track Season Reaches
Peak At Champs Meet Tonight
By BILL BONI

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-R)-The
indoor track season climbs it's mid
season peak tomorrow night in the
J3rd National championships at
Madison Square Garden.
Thirteen defending champions will
be trying o repeat, and at least two
of them are such standouts they'd
have to be odds-on in any betting
book. One is Greg Rice in the three
mile run. an event for which he
holds the indoor world record and
in which he's quite capable of set
ting a new one. The ether is AL
Blozls, Georgetown's football tackle
who upDed the shot put record to
80 it. S ga in. In this meet a year
ago ard already has come within
three inches of that mark.
Rice, his last time out, hauled the
tWo-mile indoor record down to an
almost unbelievable 1884 and was
at least a quarter of a lap better
than the field in doing so. Don
Lash comes back to challenge him
again after six straight defeats, but
even though Lash has had an extra
weeks rest and should be favored
by the longer distance, there's no
cause to believe Rice's winning
streak will come to an untimely end.
Blozis at his best is almost five
feet stronger than any other shot
putter in indoor competition. In
two meets this winter he has set
as many meet records and, barring
an unforeseen collapse, probably
will be flirting with another tomor-
row. The streamlined Georgetown
giant may hit 81 feet most any night
he sets his mind to it.
The mile, lacking this winters
sensation, Les MacMitchell and last
winters champion, Chuck Fenske.
is likely to be Of secondary interest.
The race figures to be a duel be-
tween Walter Mehl of Madison, Wis,
ana Mel Trutt Of Des Moines. a..
whose close pursuit for all but the
last quarter helped Rice to his two
mile record last Saturday.
The presence of MacMitcbeu
Luigi Beccali, Andy Neidnig of
Manhattan, and Frank Leary of
fordham, as anchor milers in the
distance medley promises to make
thls the most exciting of the -four
relay race There's a possibility of
d Worlo record here, to better the
I:27'5 returned three years ago by
.he Rldeout and Brown twins of
North Texas State Teachers
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Added Flamingo Stakes
Slated at Hialeqh Toda,

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 21.-RAThe
best double feature race program
OF the season-the $40, 900 added
flamlngo stakes and Bimelech's
ls4I debut--will pack 'em in at
Hlaleah Park tomorrow.
o11lc1als hope for a crowd push
ing the $4,000 mark by the time
E: X. Bradley's 1910 top money
winner goes to the post to show
what he can do as a four-year-old.
IN the next race, IA three-year-
olds will break from the starting
gate in the Flamingo-annual Ken
lucky derby preview.
The big race is the kind to make
bettors scratch their heads. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
WANTS MORE

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 81 "a
Merrill May, the Pills star third
baseman, said today he isn't a
holdout, but that he simply wants
about 81, 500 more than President
Gerald Nugent has offered. In a
telephone conversation from his
home in Elizabeth, Ind, May said
'.Nugent is trying to get me for
his figure and I'm trying to get
I think I'm worth"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Baseball and Arms Plans
Clash at Ashland. XIV

ASHLAND, KY, Feb. 21- Up -
National defense construction
threatens to blast the Glass D Ash
land Colonies right out OF the Noun
tain States baseball league. A, S.
600, 600 blast furnace is to be con
structed on Armco Field, home of
the Colonies. Unless club officials
can locate a new field. by Sunday,
the team will not be able to post
its franchise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
AGATATOR WINS

P~INEHURST, Feb. 21.-R-Aga-
tator, white and k pointer
owned by Raymond Hoagland of
Gainesville, Ca, won first place
in the open derby of the Pinehurst
Field Trial clubs field trials here
today. Sassy Jane, owned by STAN
ley Bayly of Pomonoke City, Md,
was second and Stein City Shad,
a pointer owned by R. M. Gates
of Spartanburg, S. c., was third. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Strafaci Will Attempt
To Win Dixie Amateur

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 81. - Up -
Frank Strafaci, former national pub
lie links golf champion from Brook
Ign, will try tomorrow to win the
Dixie Amateur tournament for the
second straight year.
His opponent in the 36-hole finals
will be Arnold .Minkley, Chicago goIf
ball salesman.
Coming from behind today, Strafaci
ousted Jimmy Frisini of Taylorville,
ILL.,, 3 and 2. Minkley whipped Dick
Ciuci of New York 2 and 1.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
Webb Stops Tucker In 9
Rounds For Title Shot
Curly Haired Walloper Opens
Up His Big Guns in the
Seventh Stanza

A' OAsA, 1SD. iii
my Webb, a fighting young Irish
clouter from out of the west,
punched his way to a shot at the
worlds light heavyweight champi.
onship tonight by stopping Tommy
Tucker in nine rounds before a
coy gathering in Madison Square
Garden. Webb weighed 1863 IA;
Tucker 173 1-2.
Held even for half a dozen rounds
the curly-haired walloper from St
Louis and Dallas opened up his
big guns in the seventh, had the
local larruper hanging on in the
eighth, and then polished him of
with a tWo-fisted assortment of
bombs at 1877 On the ninth rouno
OF the l5-round tussle.
Referee Frank Fullam halted the
battle after Tucker had been floor.
ed once for a nine-count with a
tWo-handed barrage and was wal.
lowing around in his w corner
helpless, from some more of the
same.
BY his victory, Webb not only
handed his bride of a few months
a late wedding present in the form
of a title shot, but qualified as
Angel of Peace" VINO may finally
bring the squabbling New York
state athletic commission and ma
tional boxing association together.
Several weeks ago, the N. B. A.
took Billy Conn's light heavyweight
crown away and awarded it to An
ton Cristoforidis, the aggressive
Greek, for defeating Melio Bettina.
The New York's fstic fathers still
recognize Billy Conn as the head
man. Some weeks ago, Abe Greene
New Jersey commissioner and N.
B. A., vice-president, suggested a
series of eliminations to end the
feud.
T%onight's was the first of this
series, and Webb satisfied all of the
6,085 customers in the house that
he qualified to go on. The second
of the set is slated for May 2 here
between Cristoforidis and Gus Les.
nevich of Cliffside, N. j..
Webb will meet the winner OF
that get-together. For five rounds
tonight, Webb couldn't seem to
solve the style of the son of a
Long Island dentist, and Tucker
held the westerner to a standoff
with a sharp body attack. In the
second round, however, Webb
drew blood from Tommy's nose
with a last-second right hand crack
and he kept the crimson dripping
the rest of the evening.
Beginning with the sixth, Webb
began to punch way out of close
quarters and toss a few shots at
the "tummy" himself. In the sew
enth, a Highlander that hummed
through the air, landed smack on
fuckers left ear and some more
blood spouted.
BY the middle of the eighth, the
23-year-old w%esterner, who first
entered the ring because his moth
err thought he was too skinny
and figured boxing might help him,
was beating Tommy to the punch
every time, and in the ninth it
was obvious that Jimmy was trot-
ting his Sunday punches" to
make an early nights workout of
it and repeat a decision he won
over Tommy some months ago.
The turn : out tonight was the
smallest in the Garden in nearly a
year and a half and Promoter Mike
Jacobs counted only 81, 955.16 as
the total gate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
BATTISTA, PI0MB0
COACHING GATORS
Men Who Finished Their Ca.
reers Last Fall Help With
Spring Practice
BY

ATLANTA. Feb. 21.-GP-Bowser
Chest of Nashville (Tenn.), who has
seen some tough ones, says the
toughest game he ever saw was the
recent Tennessee-Georgia game in
Athens. eff those teams meet
again in the Southeastern confer.
ence tournament" said Chest, one
of the officials, II want to be sure
we all understand each other before
we go on the court" Mush Bat
tista and John Piombo, who finished
their careers as Gator gridders last
fall, r helping to coach Florida's
spring practice.
Bob Phillips birmingham Age
Herald) says that from a glance at
the sports pages of other sectors
0 realizes more and more the
Southeastern conferences ur g e n t
need for a liason officer to explain
the workings of the conference ex-
ecutive committee to the press" {.
He cites headlines of foreign news
papers as the reason. He says
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch three
columned Conference Limits Re
cruiting to This Planet-Cash Only
for Work." Sub heads on the ar
ticle included southeastern Schools
Lose Privilege of Giving Jobs To
Athletes Uncles and Aunts'' and
The Horizons the Limit"
From Tommy Fitzgerald Houis-
vile, Courier-Jonrnal: "a Pennsyl-
vania state senator charges there
was a frameup in the Louis-Dorazio
fight. 1t looked like a frame down to
us with the only frame up being
Joe's."
The Tampa Tribune's Pete Norton
is abed with the flu, but his con-
ditiOn is not serious. The Geor-
gia legislature has completed action
on a bill to legalize Sunday baseball
and football in Atlanta. . Sunday
baseball has been played here for
many years, with a portion of the
proceeds going to charity. The cur
rent measure is now before the gov
n . Auburn's basketball team
has cashed in on 28O field goals in
S52 tries at the basket in winning 10
of IT games.
1t is reported the Nashville Vols
are seeking Packy Rogers from Mon
treal to play third base, left vacant
by the departure of Bob Boken to
Buffalo. Tom Anderson (Knox-
vile Journal says the present fresh
man basketball team at Tennessee
probably has completed the greatest
record ever hung up by a group OF
UT fledglings. :. Boys high school
(Atlanta) has a 15-year old, 263
pound guard-tackle who is called Leo
1.-THE Lion) Doyle. A certain
Southeastern conference coach is re-
norted ticketed for Texas Tech.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22
CYCLONE VARSITY
TRIUMPHS, 54-27
Wilmington J Junior Varsity
Takes Opening Encounter
To Tune of 27-24

WILSON, Feb. 21-New Hanover
High of Wilmington and the
Charles L. Coon High of Wilson
split a double header basketball
contest here tonight as the locals
ended their 1871 cage season.
The Junior teams of the two
schools took the floor first and Will
mington won 27-24. The Varsity
quints then tied up and the Cy-
clones blew the Wilmington quint
off the court to the tune of 54-27.
Led by their captain, Billie
Brooks, the Cyclones scored almost
at will in the Varsity game. Brooks
chalked up IA of the 81 tallies his
team made while Keither Kelly
scored Is. Mckay was the high
scorer for Wilmington with IL.
Taking a 1877 lead in the first
quarter there never was any doubt
as to the outcome of the game. The
locals led 25-17 at the half and 49,
Is at the end of the third quarter.
In the Junior contest Wilson took
an early lead at the end of the
first quarter 1917 but the visitors
took a 1913 advantage in the half
time and increased this to 24-19 at
the third quarter time.
Watts, Wilmington center, led his
team with II points while Davis
paced the Cyclone Juniors with 10.
Line ups: Varsity game:
Pos.-Wilson (54) Wilmington (27)
F Brooks Q4) ...... Mckay 02>
F Noules (5) ........ Nesbitt az
C Kelly 15) ...... Morrison (2)
G Herring "a ...... Pieper 90
G Sackas 60 ........ Bowen %
Substitutes-Wilson, Switzer %.
Fulghum, Barbee a., Hackney 2);
Wilmington - johnson CD. D..
Smith. E. C. Herring, ]. Edwards
90. Officials, Ashe UNC), Hayes
(ACCL.)
Line ups: Junior game:
Pos. Wilson (24) Wilmington CIV
F Davis (12) .......... Aud ca
F Worley C) ........ Collie I'D
C Morton (2) ...... Watts CID
G Barnes (> ........ Kelly (2}
G Morgan az ..... Herring co.
Substitutes Wilson. Overman.
Saleeby, Dempsey. Brooks, Hayes
90. officials Ashe UNC), Hayes
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22

Saleeby. Dempsey. Brooks, Hayes
90. officials Ashe (UNC), Hayes
(ACCl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-22

From Tommy Fitzgerald (Louis.
vile. Courier-Journal: "a Pennsyl
vania state senator charges there
was a frameup in the Louis orazio
fight. 1t looked like a frame down to
us with the only frame up being
Joe's."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-22

official poll revealed that 15 of the 25 members of the House foreign affairs committee favor the British aid bill. Nine oppose it and one is undecided. The present division al- most is entirely along party lines with 13 Democrats and two Repub- licans supporting it and eight Re- publicans and one Democrat oppoS- ing it.
 Shortly after Thomas went before the House committee, Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate foreign relations committee con- vened his group to consider pro- cedure of the bill. George favors starting hearings this week. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenburg, R., Mich., opposition leader in. the committee, wants to delay consideration until the House has acted on the meas ure.
 That bill Shoulc be introduced at all at the request of the popular leader, President Roosevelt, on the eve of his inauguration, after an election campaign in which he gave not the slightest hint of asking such powers, is a technique com pletely at variance with proper Democratic procedure" Thomas de- clared.
 He charged that not only could MT. Roosevelt ignore the Johnson and neutrality acts under the bill, but he could ignore all labor laws, insofar as they appned to the pro- duction of defense articles"
 Thomas said the bill could net be justified by any event sinc' the November election.
 No New Event
 Any statesman should have been as well aware of England's need then as now" he said. "The only unexpected event since the elec- tion is the magnitude of British and Greek victories over the Ital- ianS.
 The president cannot possibly argue that he received popular mandate for this measure. Not even MT. Willkie's hearty support, with qualifications, which he never mentioned when he addressed mill lions of people through the Town Hall of the Air on Thursday, con- stitutes a popular mandate"
 Thomas said that cabinet mem bers' statements to the committee in favor of the bill had virtually nothing to do with the pending measure.
 Their arguments he said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-22
Rumanian Rebels Are
 Subdued By Premier
Continued from Page 1O

I by a foreigner who was later cap tured. Severe measures were order ed. An investigation to discover the motive for the crime is under way"
 A communiaue of the council of ministers said:
 Tn order to improve internal or- der, for which new measures are required to terminate anarchy, Gen. Dimitru Popescu, military commaIl- der of Bucharest since last Septem- Der, has been appointed minister of interior"
 According to the communique, nine hours after the assassination the former minister of interior had done nothing to assure the German military mission the protection which it deserved.
 The Gazette announced the ap- pointment of Aurelian Pana as un- der-secretary of agriculture.
 1000 Reported Killed
 Budapest, Jan. 22- (UP) -Di- plomatic reports from Bucharest alleged without official confirmation today that possibly 1000 persons have been killed in the current out break in Rumania.
 The estimate of dead is far in excess of any reports received from any other quarter on the Rumanian outbreak.
 The disorders were said to have involved factions of the Iron Guard, the Rumanian army and Germany soldiers.
 Fighting still is going on at sev- eral places in the provinces, di- plomatic reports said, and it was understood that German soldiers had been dispatched to aid the Rumanian army ill restoring order.
 The unconflrmed diplomatic re- ports indicated the toll may be even higher before the disorders are quelled completely.
 A radio station at Brassov, re- portedly broadcast warning that there are many more Doerlngs to come
 GA major of the German general staff named Doering was aSSasSlnat- ed at Bucharest. The official Ger man D. NIB. News agency said he had been slain by a Greek upon the instigation of British secret agents.
 Near Anarchy
 There were reported that condi- tions approaching anarchy obtained in some parts ot the country and, as usually reliable Belgrade source put it, the Germans were virtually the only factors now able to main tain order in some trouble areas, A Budapest newspaper reported that iron guardists had captured the Bucharest radio and broadcast manifesto appealing to the army not to fire on its iron guard broth CTS"
 It was indicated, however, that though the iron guards might at one time have seized or attempted to seize the radio, the army was now in firm control of the capital.
 According to diplomatic dispatches fighting broke out in Bucharest when Gen. Ion Antonescu, the premier, dismissed iron guardists in the police department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-22

powers of Congress.
 My substitute or compromise bill could be rushed through Congress, '' he continued, whereas the presi- dents dictator bill will take months, and divide parties, families, and SOW the seeds = discard and disunity throughout the land."'
 Fish added that there can be no compromise unless the administra- tion bill is drastically amended. He said there was no desire on his part to delay or interfere with the speedy flow of war materials, munitions, planes and merchant ships to Great Britain, and that the responsibility for delay rests squarely on the pres ident for demanding dangerous, excessive and un-American dicta- torial powers"
 Kennedy's Remark
 Kennedy told the committee yes- terday that he thought Congress would "very definitely" have to sur- render some of its constitutional prerogatives to President Roosevelt OO uACCU V41C RAOoCAlV 6CA1NJ, bQV not to the extent proposed in the bill. He had no amendments to suggest.
 Kennedy said authorizing convoy of ships probably would lead the United States into war because of what would happen to public sem timent if an American ship was att tackled and destroyed.
 President Roosevelt said at his press conference late yesterday that the idea of using warships to con- voy vessels had not been considered in drafting of the bill. Advocates of the bill maintain that it does not carry the authority for conveys, but that the president has authority without it, to send the navy any, where.
 As to questions on the possibility of giving away" part of the navy, MT. Roosevelt said the idea was in the "cow jumped over the moon" and "Old Mother Hubbard" cate- gory.