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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
Miss Sandra Saunders
At Kings Tavern

CINCINNATI, Ohio - Sandra
Saunders is rounding out a success
full four week booking at Kings
Tavern here through the Rollo S.
Vest Enterprises Of Detroit.
Kings is cocktail lounge featur-
ing cocktail music Teaming with
Miss Saunders is Eggie Wright who
was set by the Jules Kline office.
Miss Saunders next stop will be in
Pittsburgh at the Celebrity Cafe as
a feature in the floor show presenta-
tons.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
Dancing Feature In
CallOway's Review

MILWAUKEE-Cholly and Dotty,
Americas No, boy and girl dance
team, Is here this week as the
dancing feature of Cab Calloway's
Cotton Club Revue.
This act, under the personal man.
agement OF the Rollo S. Vest En-
terprises, are in their fourth week
with the Galloway and -are
iustifying their claim as Americas
No. l mixed dance duo. Chicago's
Regal theatre, Pittsburgh's Stanley
and Detroits Paradise theatre fol-
low this date.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
FRANTIC BLUES

If It wasn't for powder
And store bought hair
The chicks around town
Wouldn't be no where, no where.
They got to get a man
And get him anyway they can
Poor Chicks
tWomen are saying)
Got the frantic blues
Just as blue as | can be,
Cause the wolves around town
Just won't let me be
Poor Me.
II it wasn't for coin
And boots with lace
The Cats around town
Wouldn't get no place, no place.
They got 10 have a chick
And do it double quick
Poor Cats
"
tMen are saying9
Got the frantic blues
Just as blue as l can be,
Cause the chicks around town
Are getting the best Of me
Poor Me.
Chism
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
Payne In 3rd Week
At AIS Show Bar

Horace Payne is in his third con-
secutive week a. AIS Show Bar
here on a return engagement He
came direct from six weeks at the
Club Zombie and three weeks at
Pittsburgh's Celebrity Cafe.
AIS has a weekly show changing
policy although Payne was set by
the Rollo S. Vest Enterprises on a
five week contract. Payne is receiv-
ing more money than any act play
ing this spot has ever been con.
tracted for AIS Show Bar is in
the downtown loop section.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-11-14
Celebrity Cafe
Has Warren Banks

PITTSBURGH-Warren Banks is
in his second week at the Celebrity
Cafe and has a show which is
drawing raves" from the local
critics and patrons. Included in the
show are Ginger Neal, Monette
Moore and Della Virgins. Banks
and Ginger were set by the Rollo S.
Vest Enterprises.
This show will run until Novem-
Der % at which time a new lineup
will be presented. Banks will re-
main at this spot until January 3,
1913 before his contract terminates.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
'Bama's Leeth Leads
AN-Southeast Loop
Court Selections
Four Senior Busketers,
One Soph Are Voted
Places on Team
BY the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March "A
hustling, battling, ball-hawking out
flt-four seniors and spectacular
sophomore, representing four schools
that's the 1912 Southeastern Con-
frence an-star team.
Selected annually by coaches,
sports writer's and officials after the
conference tournament, the team
this year drew talent from each of
the semifinalists. Here's how the
boys would line up:
At forwards-Ermal Allen of Ken
lucky and Dick Mehen of Tennessee.
At center - Wheeler Leeth Of
Alabama.
At guards - Shag Hawkins Of
Auburn and Louis Adair of Alabama.
Ballots for all-star selections put
these five far ahead of all other
players in the conference. The
second team would include Bobby
Moore of Georgia, Bernie Mehen
and Mike Balitsaris of Tennessee,
and Jim King and Marvin Akers of
Kentucky.
Alabama's blond Wheeler Leeth,
who fought like four men to help
put his team in the championship
final, topped the list as No. player
of the year. Described by coaches
as the best rebound man in collegiate
basket ball. he out-hawked even
Towering Dick Mehen of Tennessee
to gain possession Of the ball. He is
an able marksman and cool-headed,
both on offense and defense.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Vass Heads Skaters
In Winter Clubs
Figure Tests
He Passes Three Grades
As 28 Earn Honors at
Chevy Chase Rink

Twenty-eight figure skaters from
the Washington area are a step
nearer the top today after passing
tests conducted by the Winter Club
yesterday at the Chevy Chase Ice
Palace. There were 80 candidates
for promotion:
Richard Vass. 17-year-old Chevy
Chase (Md) youth, set record
when he successfully passed the sill
yer and bronze dance tests and
the third figure skating test yes
terday, adding these to the first and
second tests recently passed. Thi!
brings his total to five for the
season.
Sixteen-year-old Barbara Philips
also passed silver and bronze dance
tests to add to honors already earned
this year.
Other candidates who earned the
bronze award in dancing are Clar-
ence B. Hereshoff. Carleton Hoffner
Edith johnson, Marjorie Low, DON
aid Macmillan. Robert Mclaughlin,
Mrs. w. S. Mosman. DR.. w. E.
Omundson and Mrs. Ralph J. Duerr
Skaters who passed the second
test in figures are Vernon F. Duck
EFT and Hereshoff. Winners of
awards in the first figure test are
Hal Clapper, Miss Low, Macmillan,
MacLoughlin, Ralph Magee. Betty
10 Manfuso, Janet MoSman and DR..
Omundson. The preliminary test
was passed by Grace Cook, Fern
Fletcher, j. B. Lockwood and Miss
Mosman.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Top D. {. Cage Rating
Earned by Florists
INN. A. Title Win

Jacobsen Florists basket ball team
rates as the outstanding amateur
quint in this area after winning the
Middle Atlantic tournament cham
pionship last night in a hot final
against Senate Beer, SAL. Senate
was first-half champion in the Heu-
rich League and Jacobsen took the
second-half title and these two have
yet to meet in a three-game series
for that loop crown.
The two inalists earned their
chance at the title as jacobsen
topped Hot Shoppe, 1874. and Sen
ate won over F. B. l.. 1858.
The championship game was
close and hard-fought all the way
with Jacobsen able to get a COM
Portable edge only in the closing
minutes. Pacing the attack were
Bob Custer, Lenny Mills and Don
Cross. all former Washington high
school stars, with. 13. IL and II
points, respectively. Harry Bassin
was best for the losers with II.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

ratio Alger. Roy couldn't make
Roosevelt High Schools second team
a few years ago, but at @. w. he
blossomed into a top-flight per-
former.
Balancing the scales, Georgetown
also loses two other men, Don Mar
tin, its most consistent player, and
Dick Dieckelman, robust reserve
guard, who has seen only limited
amount Of service.
G. w. Faces w. & NJ. in Meet.
George Washington, second in the
final standings its first year in
Southern Conference competition
and co-favorite with Duke in the
championship tournament beginning
Thursday at Raleigh, N c.. would
like to regard tonight's game as a
Warm-up for the tourney. But if
1t is merely warm it may end up on
the short side of the count for
Georgetown figures to be red hot
after a season of haphazard action.
Whether the Hoyas have enough on
the ball to upset the downtown
dribblers is conjectural, but they
certainly should not lack enthusi-
asm or energy.
George Washington has drawn
William and Mary for its opening
round opponent in the conference
playof. 1t is bracketed with North
Carolina and Wake Forest. both
strong teams who have fighting
chances to bag the laurels.
L. r. A.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

Due to a well-nigh perfect pocket
hit that spilled nine pins on the
roll-off of a last-box spare, Mike
Avon of the Anacostia Spillway
Major League today, owned first
money in the third annual Mems
Brookland Near-Star Tournament.
He had a one-pin margin over Cliff
Holndge Of the Methodist Church
League after the latter had counted
only six pins on the last-box strike.
Rolling ahead Of Avon as the
5-game event got under way yester-
day at the Brookland Recreation,
Hollidge loomed the winner with a
score Of 657. His games were 119.
104, 157, IA and 1873. He counted
SO pins in the last three boxes Of his
final game with two spares and a
strike.
Avon, after strings of 142, $50, 116,
119, capped his final effort of 131
Evening star., 1942-03-02
{. IT,, A. u;Fives Draw
Tough Mason-Dixon
Starting Foes

Mason-Dixon Conference officials
did neither American University nor
Catholic University any favors in
drawing their first round opponents
of the championship tournament
opening Thursday night at Loyola
gym in Baltimore.
American, which concluded its
regular season last Saturday night
by drubbing the Cards the second
time this season, has been paired
with a much improved Mount st.
Mary's quintet while Catholic will
make its bow against Randolph
Macon. Both will be tall hurdles for
the District teams.
The third game of the opening
program will bring together Western
Maryland, defending champion, and
Delaware. Loyola, pre-tourney IA
vorite, will meet the winner of to-
morrow nights playoff between
Washington College and Johns Hop
kins, which tied for eighth place and
the final tourney berth with five
victories against seven defeats each.
The tournament will be run of
in three nights with the title game
scheduled Saturday.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

around with semi-pro baseball
for three years after pitching for
Mineola Gong Island) High
School. On Saturdays and Sum-
days he pitched batting practice
for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who
said they'd farm him out but
never did.
At Kinston he achieved 16 vic
tories against 9 defeats, enough
to warrant his recommendation
to the Washington club by Denny
Southern, the Kinston manager
who had been a crack Capital
sandlot player before serving a
stretch as a National League out
fielder.
He was here last year, too, but
was farmed to Greenville, S. c.,
where he won II games and lost
IA. In the process Of compiling
that record Bill struck out 149
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Parsons Pours 1t on Old Pals
ToWin Sherbohn Pin Event

Howard (Ghost) Parsons of Balti-
more, who lately has taken delight
in topping the efforts of his former
Washington bowling pals, reveled
again today as the winner of the
eighth annual Dutch Sherbahn
tournament with a score of 987
rolled at Takoma Recreation.
One of the first to roll in the rec
ord field of LOG stars and near-starS
who paid tribute to the veteran Ia
koma pin-spiller as the 7-game
event opened Saturday, the erst-
while phantom" of the Capital
maple lanes fired 936 from scratch
and added a 51-pin handicap to
cop top prize of $l25.
After finishing third in the first
Clarendon Bowling Center tourna-
ment, Parsons nosed out Lou Jen-
kins in Baltimore's Franklin Open
to gain his first major victory of
the season.
Jimmy Smith of Takoma and a
leading bowler in the Electrical
League, fell only five pins short of
victory in the final days rolling yes
Evening star., 1942-03-02

The final will get under way at 8
o'clock Saturday night.
These seedlings and pairings were
arranged at a meeting Of the South
ern Conference Basket Ball Com
mittee here yesterday.
The committee announced that
the same set of referees who OFF,
ciated at last years tournament will
be in charge of the games this year
They are Merrill P. (Footsie) Knight
Of Durham, Paul Mention of Balti-
more, Md, and Gummy Proctor OF
Richmond, Va.
G. w. Proves Duke Vulnerable.
The tournament should produce
some of the hardest-fought battles
ever seen in the conference tourney
Although the Blue Devils are heavy
favorites because of their regular
season record of Is victories and
one defeat, six Of the seven other
teams are good enough to give them
a hard fight, and George Washing
ton defeated them several days ago
to prove that it could be done.
Wake Forests Deacons and North
Carolina's White Phantorns met
twice during the regular season.
North Carolina won the first game
51-30, and Wake Forest won the
second, 1920. N. c. State won its
seeded position with a 64-54 victory
over South Carolina Saturday night.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Tar Heel Mckinney
Tops Conference
In Court Points
Totals 200 in Is Games;
Knox of Gumecocks
Hos Best Average
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, March 2-Horace
(Bones) Mckinney, North Carolina
States sharpshooter, won high scor-
ing honors for the 1912 Southern
Conference basket ball season by
rolling up an even 200 points in 13
family games.
He tailed II points against Vir-
ginia Tech and poured 80 more
through the hoops against South
Carolina last week to go ahead of
William and Marys idle Glenn
Knox, leader for most of the cam
paign.
Knox had a better average, how
ever, scoring 191 points in IL loop
contests. This gave him 159 points
game as compared with 1874 points
game for Mckinney.
Mckinney, sophomore, halls
from Durham, N. C. He stands 6
feet 6. His total is considerably
under the loop record Of 306 points
in IS games set last season by North
Carolinas George Glamack.
Herb Cline, Wake Forest center,
was the runner-up this season,
tallying 1876 points in 18 games.
The 10 high scorers:
Evening star., 1942-03-02

ana unless CTle Sure-1OOCeQ feIlQ-
sylvanian looses a leg or arm early
in the evening he probably will duck
out with an 18-gun salute. A great
shot, q greater competitor and a
money player who shines brightest
when the going is toughest, zunic
has q well-suited backdrop for his
parting performance.
Georgetown has nothing to gain
by tripping its neighbor, aside from
going one up in their seven games
and atoning for the drubbing it got
from the Colonials In January. The
Hoyas are not great and their rec
ord doesn't compare with that of
G. W., but you can't count them out
of contention against the Colonials
until the final whistle has blown
and all the points are counted.
Last Game for O'Grady.
A pretty good little Hilltopper
also is taking a powder from COL
legiate activity tonight in the person
of Buddy O'Grady. The Hilltoppers
think as much of him as the Co.
lonials do of Zunic. And If G. w
fans want to see Matt go out in a
blaze of glory, the neighboring clan
wants O'Grady to wind up his career
in nothing short Of a conflagration.
Ending their careers with Zunic
at Georgetown are Bobby Gilham.
a player less spectacular than Matt.
but an invaluable cog in Bill Rein
hart's machine, and Roy Mcneil
turkey-legged forward whose court
saga reads like page from Ho-
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Beers Trip Met Cogers
For Weekend Sweep

Washington Bears, colored pro
basket ball team, now boast a string
Of l8 victories after a busy week
end that saw them winning in
Rochester, N. Y, and on the local
floor at Turner's Arena.
Saturday night at Rochester they
tripped the previously undefeated
Seagrams and after an all-night
train ride home downed the Balti-
more Nets, 64-49. yesterday after
noon. Slow at the start and trail
ing, 1922. going into the last period.
the Bears were led in their late squirt
by Sidat- Singh, Dolly King and
Johnny Isaacs. King was high
scorer for the afternoon with 80
points.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Biq Count in Last Box Wins
'BrookIond Event for Avon

with his all-important nine-pin
spare count. First place was worth
$75 and second, $40.
Other prize winners were A. w.
Webb, Silver Spring, 635 $3.50;
Johnny Zurlo, Brooklyn Merchants,
634 (s25); Jack Mooney, Brookland
Merchants, 633 ($20); E. Ross, Spill
way, $50 SID; w. r. Rapp, Brook
land, 629 ($15); Lynwood Bazelle,
Middleburg, Va, 613 $40; Jack
Quaranto, Baltimore, Gil (s6); AL
Bichell, Ice Palace, GIL l$6). Paul
Harrison, once one Of the city's lead
ing duckpinners, copped the consola-
ton high game award of $3.50 with
156.
A field of 101 bowlers with aver
ages of lis or under competed.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Central Atlantic Mark BowIed
By PohI in Rec Meet Victory

Pete Sneak, little-known Oriole
roller, turned in 970 to land second
place. while Howard Parsons of Bal
timore in a great bowling streak
finished third with 962.
Washington placed three rollers
among the major prize winners as
Ed Blakeney gained fourth place
with $50, while Bill King tied with
Nick Pave of Baltimore for fifth
place with 954 and Bob Miciotto
finished 18th with 929. Tony San
TIM, another of the Capitals 18 con-
testants, bagged a consolation prize
with a game of 173.
Others in the money were Ed
Podolsky, 936; George Young, 934;
Howard Henderson, 932; Ed Clem,
$50; Red Schrieber, 329; Earl Camp
bell, 926, and Bob Fisher 926.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Toxic on Cracked Ski
Leaps 289 Feet for
New u. :. Mark
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich, March
2.-Gathered for what probably was
the last major ski meet of the war,
an all-star field of the Nations top
riders shattered every mems jump
ing mark in the United States
record book yesterday of the icy
chute of towering Pine Mountain.
The mass assault on records was
led by Torger Toxic, the flying Nor
wegian carpenter from Brooklyn,
N. Y, who using one cracked ski,
scared off Pine Mountains largest
artificial ski slide in the world for
a new class A record-289 feet-one
foot better than the previous record
he established last year at Snoqual-
mie Ski Bowl near Seattle.
A crowd of 10000 saw Toxic, for
mer national ski champion and
rated by experts as the country's
most powerful jumper, also win
honors as the most graceful rider.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Friqid Weather Shoves Zinser Into Nat Berth
Takes Up Baseball After He Is Frozen Out of Job

batters in 205 innings, one of the
reasons he is being scrutinized
carefully by Manager Bucky
Harris.
Catcher AL Evans, who was
married a year ago, hasn't been
classified in the draft. AIS selec-
tive service number was in the
clouds and he feels he'll be de-
ferred because he contributes to
the support of his parents.
Outfielder Stan Spence's slant
eyes and sallow complexion have
brought him the nickname of
"Chinaman."
Pitcher Jack Wilson, who owns
neat table tennis forehand and
is one of the worlds worst 10
pin bowlers, works In . Portland,
Oreg- shipyard In the Of season.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Record Game Of 1888
Wins Pin Triumph
ForMrs. Hauser
Hangs Up Mark Of 726
To Outscore 56 in
Young Tourney

BY virtue of a game OF 1888, the
highest ever rolled by a Washington
woman bowler under championship
conditions, Corinne Hauser, captain
of King Pins strong Ladies' Distric,
League team, today boasted q signal
triumph in the sixth annual Lucille
Young Near-Star tournament over q
field Of 56 other local and out-of-
town fair rollers who sport averages
Of 104 and under. Mrs. Hauser's 726
for six games set a tournament
mark.
Of to an inconspicuous start at
Chevy Chase Ice Palace with 80,
Mrs. Hauser soon was the center at
traction when she cut loose with
her sensational score in the second
game.
Makes Six Marks In Row.
After strike on a spare and two
fiat boxes, she marked all the way
out in the next six frames, with a
strike, two spares, a double header
strike, and on a last-box spare
counted nine. Her score by boxes
was 20, 80. 4S. 5s, 7s, 95, lis, IA, 1854
1873.
Frances Larrow of Hartford
Conn, with 1877 rolled in the 1888
Lorraine GULL tournament at Con-
vention Hall, Is the offlcial high
game record-holder for the District
Freda 10y, 19-year-old c. g. P
telephone operator who rolled 211
at Hi-Skor 10 days ago for the
highest game ever posted by fair
bowler, Is the city's unofficial
record holder.
Helen Roberts Second.
Tapering off with los to post
378 for the first 3-game block, Mrs.
Hauser fired 348 in the final round
to win by a markin of 16 pins over
Helen Roberts of Clarendon who
posted ITO. The winner received
$50 and the Ice Palace trophy.
Second place was worth $35.
Alma Sticking Of Silver Spring was
third, with 703; Louise Littlepage of
Baltimore, fourth, 500; Ruby Mac
kenzie, Baltimore, fifth, 639; Aline
Fairchild, Clarendon, sixth, 691:
Helen Spindler, Baltimore, seventh,
6S4; Marian Citizen, Washington,
eighth, 662.
Consolation blocks prizes fot high
game and high set went to Pat
Smith, Colonial Village, $50; Efie
Dodd. Laurel, Md. 149; E. Langley,
Bethesda, 346, and Helen Munich
Baltimore, 345.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

Friday and Saturday, the Blue
Devils were lucky in the draw yes
terday and got themselves a first
round battle with Washington and
Lee, generally regarded as the weak
sister of the tourney.
With seven wins and seven losses
in regular season play, the Generals
were eighth in conference stand
ings-only the the top eight teams
are invited to the tournament. The
Blue Devils, incidentally, were re-
sponsible for two of those seven
losses, by lopsided scores of 1884
and 63-38.
Colonials Draw w. and NJ.
Top-seeded Duke will play Wash
ington and Lee at 2:30 pm. Thurs
day in the tourney opener, fourth
seeded N. C. State will tackle South
Carolina at pm, third-seeded
Wake Forest will meet North Caro-
lima at pm, and second-seeded
George Washington will play Will
liam and Mary at $50 pm.
The winner of the Duke-Washing-
ton and Lee game will play the win
ner of the Wake Forest-North Caro-
lima game at 8 pm. Friday and the
winner of the N. C. State-South
Carolina game will tackle the win
ner of the George Washington
William and Mary game at $50 IN.
Friday.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
North American Ice
Titles 10 Van Putten
And Mrs. Gordon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 2-Holland-
born Herman Van Putten, 32-year-
old New York City bridge painter,
and Mrs. Elaine Bogda Gordon,
Chicago housewife. are the new
North American indoor ice speed
skating champions
The two seized the titles in the
last events of the two-day tourna-
ment last night at Olympia. home
of the Red Wings of the National
Hockey League. with sparse crowd
thrilled in a dizzying finish.
Illinois entries won five champion
ships and New York Staters three,
while two titles went to Winnipeg
skaters.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
AIl-Stors WoIIop Navy
For Second Win on Ice

Chet Adair's All-Star hockey
team have two victories in a row to
their credit now. After topping
Catholic University two weeks ago,
they continued last night by down.
ing Navy Department stickmen, 12-
2, before $500 at Riverside Stadium.
Navy was without two star players
Unexpectedly called away, but it is
doubtful If their presence would
have stayed defeat. The All-Stars
practically clinched the victory
when they rammed home S goals in
the first period, with scoring honors
for the evening being divided be-
tween Vic Boutin and Bob Lilly, who
accounted for goals each.