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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-03

Wendell WILKES new book,
"One World" il credited with
stimulating the demand for
globes, as people check up on
their rusty geography. They
are finding out where Tim
buktu il.
However. most Americans still
>can be trapped on questions con-
rerning geography of their own
country. Did you know that
Reno Is west of Los Angeles:
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Wings Likely
10 Pass Mark
Home Attendance
Record Peviled
BY The AMociated Press

Detroit's second-place r d
Wings scored a gratifying 5-34
victory over third-place Toronto
last night to boost their national
hockey league second place mar
gin over the Maple Leafs to 212
games, but it was the jingle at
the Olympia boxoffice that stole
the limelight.
The crowd was an overflow
13,649 which ran Detroit home
attendance to 196,865 in ID
games, we'll above last seasons
total attendance and within easy
reach of the all-time record of
219,913 established at Olympia
two years ago.
The Wings slammed home
three goals in less than eight
minutes of the second period to
take the decision. They spotted
the LeafS a first period goal by
Lorn Carr, then opened a fast
attack that produced quick
scores by Les Douglas, Joe Car
veth and Sgd Howe.
Toronto came back in the last
period with Sweeney Schriner's
goal on a solo dash, but Carl Lis
combe and Don Crosse scored
for Detroit before Me Hill
bagged Toronto's final market
just before the game ended.
The standings.
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Fifth Skating Crown
Won BY Vince bozich

DETROIT, Feb. 8-(P)-Vince
Bozich of Detroit won his fifth
major speed skating title of the
winter and Dorothy JOHNS of
Saginaw her third when they
captured the senior mems and
women's Michigan gold cup
championships Sunday at Wy
andotte.
Although he scored 140 points,
Bozich couldn't clinch the VIC
tory from Jim Thomson, defend
ing champion, until the final
event, the two-mile. Thomson
finished second to Bozich in
four races and gained another
second in the 440-yard dash, in
which Bozich fell and went un,
placed. Trailing by ten points,
Thomson made a strong bid in
the finale, but again trailed b.
zich, who finished second in the
event TO take the crown.
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The Monitor-Leader
MONDAY FEBRUARY l943 PAGE
Rice Selects
Oliver Hunter
as Successor

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 - (P) -
Although Greg Rice, throbbing
tendon and all pounded through
the two-mile run at the Millrose
games for his 57th consecutive
tarck triumph the former Notre
Dame star already has picked
his successor as the United
States premier distance runner.
Rice predicts that when he re-
tires his niche will be taken over
by Oliver Hunter. presently an
undergraduate at the same
South Bend, Ind, school and al
ready good enough to finish Sc
cond to the champ Saturday
night.
Il knew how good Ollie was
because l worked out with him
at South Beno before l moved to
New York" Rice said, "but the
Improvement he has shown since
then is amazing. Wait until he
gets some experience on the
boards and he will be very hard
10 take"
The youngster finished a full
60 yards to the rear of Rice in
the 9:022 race Saturday night.
However, he stayed with the
barrel-chested veteran for most
of the journey and actually set
the pace for three trips around
the 11-lap track late in the duel.
Rice was one of the few favor
ties TO triumph in the 18th an
nual Millrose games, escaping
the jinx that fell on all the fav-
orites with the exception of him
self, Cornelius Warmerdam in
the pole vault and Fred Sickin-
ger in the half-mile run.
Earl Mitchell, given little
chance TO defeat Gil Dodds in
the classic Wanamaker cup mile.
tore loose with a terrific sprint
in the final yards TO beat the
Boston Divinity student in 4:08.-
6. The Big Ten ace from Indi-
ana University ran in third place
most of the way but then
romped home with the meets
biggest upset.
Warmerdam sailed over the
15-foot mark for the 9th time
TO create a new meet mark at Is
feet liz inches while Hugh
Short of Georgetown. equalled
the world indoor record for 600
yards by reaching the tape in
1:10.2.
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Weekend Sports
in a Nutshell

WASHINGTON - ODT Di-
rector Joseph Eastman recon-
mended that the Kentucky Der
by should not be run this year
because of the heavy demand it
would place on the nations al
ready strained transportation IA
cilities.
NEW YORK Commissioners
K. M. Lands abrogated the sec
ond Brooklyn player deal with
in a week, this time ordering
Babe Dahlgren returned to the
Dodgers from Indianapolis. Lam
dis ruled the veteran infielder
had been sold for less than the
waiver price. Earlier, Lands had
ordered Steve Mesner, also an
infielder, returned to the Reds.
SAN DIEGO, Calf. - James
(Sunny JIM Coffroth, 20, dean
of American boxing promoters
and one-time operator of the Tia
Juana race track died after a
short illness.
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Lieut.. Gehringer
Completes Naval
Indoctrinotion

CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. Feb. 8
-(P)-Several sports luminaries
have just completed their naval
indoctrination at the pre-flight
school here as VS. instructors.
Among them are: Lieut.. Char
ley Gehringer, former Detroit
Tiger second baseman, who has
been assigned to the pre-flight
school at St. Mary's Calf; Lieut..
Hal Schumacher, former New
York Giant pitcher, assigned TO
ing station; Ensign Dick Todd,
the Memphis, Tenn, naval train
formerly of the Washington
Redskins professional football
team. who goes to the pre-flight
school at Iowa City, Ia; and
Ensign Ed Cfers, also a former
Redskin, and Ensign Ray Bray,
ex-Chicago Bear star, both to
report to the new pre-flight unit
at Del Monte, Calf.
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Flyers Score
14th Triumph
Dow Metal Proves
Easy for SeIfrid9e

Selfridge Field Flyers boosted
their fourteenth basketball vic
tory of the season today, adding
Dow Metal of Bay City to their
list of victims in a game at Sell
fridge Saturday night. The Fly
ers all but toyed with the visi-
tors as they chalked up a 1928
triumph.
At one time in the first half
the Flyers held a 1874 advan-
tage, winding up with a 28-13
lead as the intermission arrived.
Ed Borowski and Sam Lieber-
man, alternating at center, paced
Selfridge's offensive with II and
IL points respectively.
The Flyers are scheduled to
make their next appearance at
Dearborn on Feb. 10, opposing
Dearborn Naval Training Sta
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Indiana, I||ini
Stake Records
Big Ten Co-Leoders
Remain Unbeoten

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 - (P) -
Indiana, little curious as to
whether its firewagon offensive
is slowing down, and Illinois,
still rolling along in the 60-point
victory bracket, tonight will try
to maintain their undefeated sta
tus in the Big Ten basketball
race against the same opposition
they encountered Saturd y
night.
The Hoosiers, whitfield down
to scant 1924 winning margin
by a tenacious Michigan quintet
Saturday, Will 60 after triumph
No. 8 tonight while the Illini, so
to 48 winners over Ohio State,
seek No. 7 in the second game Of
their weekend double-header
with the Buckeyes.
Indiana hit an all-time often
sive low for a branch McCrack-
en-coached team Saturday and
its scoring star, Ralph Nation,
was held to seven points by the
Wolverines. The teams played 20
a 14-14 halftime tic and il was
only because Johnny Logan
came up with IL points and
Ward Williams tied Hamilton
for second honors with seven
more that the Hoosiers had
enough added punch to win.
The Illini, too, found things
tough for awhile, trailing the
Bucks at one point 22-13 and
managing a mere 1927 haltime
edge. Andy Phillip, Illinois all
conference player of last year,
ran his 1913 scoring total TO l26
points in six games-an average
of 81 a game-by pouring in 10
more agains 1.-THE Buckeyes.
In Saturdays other action
Northwestern ran over Purdue,
81 to 40, Minnesota slapped Chi
cago, AZ TO 25, Great Lakes
downed Wisconsin, 5 TO AZ, and
Iowa whipped Knox, 81 to 40.
Big Ten standings:
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Baseball Isn't Going to Die--Landis
Junior Quints
Resume Play
3 Comes Corded
at High School

Riding the crest of three
game winning streak, Captain
Johnny Respects Wacks tonight
try to add more luster to their
basketball record in the Depart
ment of Recreation Juvenile
League.
The undefeated Wacks take
on the beaten Streaks in
the second game of three
game program at Mount Glenn
ems High School gym. Defeat of
the Wacks would go down as the
seasons biggest upset to date.
The Wacks' closest rival,
Sharps, collide with the Eagles
in the opening game starting at
O'Clock, while the nightcap
pits the Sticks against the Tro-
jams. The latter two have each
lost two out of three games. The
Sharps will be shooting for
their third victory against the
Eagles.
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NEW YORK, Feb. - All wars come to an
end and when the last shot is fired in this one,
Freddie Mills of the Royal Air Force will board
the first boat or plane to America with an open
challenge to Sgt. Joe Louis.
The castanets that are Mike Jacobs store
teeth click Happy Days Are Here Again when
the old Broadway ticket scalper contemplates
the arrival of the most magnetic attraction in
British boxing history.
Promoter Jacobs visions the return of the
million dollar gate with this newest dash Of in
ternational flavor. The boom will be on.
MILLS GETS FIRST CHANCE
A Mills-Louis match would be the counter
part of the Jack Dempsey George Carpenter en-
gagement which followed World War l, and
brought out the first million dollar gate-S1,-
789 238 to be exact.
Louis came close to the mllion-dollar brack-
ct in stopping Make Baer Sept, 25, 1885, but it
took the radio and motion picture receipts to
swell the gross to that figure.
Cpl Billy Conn will, of course, be waiting
for Sergeant Louis when their military duties are
Tami Mauriello perhaps will have
come along sufficiently by then to be in posi-
ton to demand a chance but the claim Of Mills
will supersede the others.
Mills can't miss getting the big one Conn
had his chance. Mills would be the attraction.
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Fittingly, Mills is in the same service in
which Carpenter served France in the last war
the Air Force
There is wide difference between them,
however, for Carpenter too small for Demp-
sey, and, save for right-han punch, Gorgeous
Georges wasn't too well equipped.
Mills, not yet fully developed at %, is al
ready big enough He stands feet 10 inches and
weighs 1872 pounds.
He has managed to keep free of ring rust
while serving with the Raj. He has done every
thing asked of him. He hasn't lost except once
on a foul, since June, 1889 and nobody has gone
very far with him since August, 1941
MAKES OWN DECISIONS
Mills, who is likened to Mickey Walker, Is
not a decision fighter. He makes his own de-
cisions by flattening the other bloke.
Schooled boxing men who have seen him
definitely give the curly, raven-haired Mills
chance with Louis especially a heavyweight
champion kept out of competition by cavalry
duties.
Ted Broadribb who has developed more
fighters in all classes than any other man in
British boxing annals, calls Mills the greatest
fighter he ever saw. And Broadribb handled
Tommy Farr against Louis
Freddie Mills will do considerable toward
solving Sgt Joe Louis income tax and other
financial problems.
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Flint bowIers
in the Money
Changes Toks Piece
in Stote Tourney
in Stote Tourney

PORT HURON, Mich, Feb. 8
-(P)-They couldn't dislodge
the first-placers, but Flint bowl
ers grabbed severl places among
the top ten in various divisions
of the 40th annual Michigan
Bowling Association tournament
in the sixth weekend of COM
petition.
Senter Deacey did best with a
SOB, good for second place in
the singles, a division still top
ped by Joe Buehler of Owosso
with TOT. Winnie Frechette, also
of Flint, took eighth place with
688.
Hilton Hobson and Harold
Jewett of Flint took sixth in
doubles with 1919, 81 pins below
the total that keeps Potoski and
Berlin of Detroit on top.
Emil Wizards 1861 placed him
eighth in the all-events, which
is led by Ed Berlin of Detroit
with 1884.
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Denmorsh OF Form
but Halves Match

Denmarsh Hotel, in the thick
of the championship contentin'
of the South Macomb Travelling
League, was far off form Satur-
day night as it halved a match
with Beck's Feed of Roseville
at Center Line Recreation. Den
marsh lost two of three games,
but picked up a second point by
outscoring Beck's, 2486 to 2450.
The only Denmarsh bowlers
over 500 were John Hickman
who closed with 235 in $40 and
Harry Gahlau who had 500.
George Noteboom had 493, Mart
Murphy 453 and Eddie Thinner
man 452. Denmarsh rolled games
of 748-833-905 against Beck's
8O5-687- 958.
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Grond Ropids Women
Lead at Jackson

JACKSON, Mich, Feb. 8-R
Grand Rapids entrants cap
tured leadership in three divis-
ions of the Michigan Women's
Bowling Association tourna-
ment yesterday in the second
weekend of competition.
Bert Lee hit 594, with a 225
high game, to take first in class
A singles and then teamed with
Marion Ludwig to score I'LL for
first in class A doubles. Flo Vid-
70, also of Grand Rapids, took
the class B single lead with $50,
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Bowling
GoebeI Men Reilly
to Defect Women

A strong finish by Goebel
mems team enabled the team to
defeat Goebel women, 2411 to
1852, in match game Sunday
at Bowl-O-Drome. The women,
spotted 100 pins in each game,
won the first two games with
gross scores of 815 and 1913
against the mems net scores of
773 and ITO. The men finished
with 1858 against TAO.
Bob Elso was high for the
men with 500, followed by Sam
Krause with 5l2. Sandy Freder-
ick's SIS was high for the wom-
en-. She opened with 1911.
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Mount Clemens Team
Winner over Utieo

Closing with a 1850 game af-
ter earlier counts of 901 and 995,
picked Mount Clemens team
defeated Utica Merchants easily
in match game Sunday at Bowl
O-Drome, 2946 TO 2698. Mount
Clemens won each game, Utica's
best effort being 975 closing
game.
Les Frederick and Hank La
Croix set the pace for Mount
Clemens with 624 and Gil re-
spcctively. Frederick had 242
closing game, while Hank had
199-208-204. Norman LaCroix
furnished SOL, Reube Dunlap
$50 and Emmett Quinn $40.
Harold Huemiller's $40 was tops
for Utica.
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1000 Umpires Sought
bv Sondlot BosebolI

WICHITA, Kas., Feb, 8-(P)-
Sandlot baseball needs 1000 UNI
pires by April /, George Sisler,
high commissioner of the Ma
tional Semi-Pro Baseball Con-
gress, declares. He said the con-
gress is launching national
canvass TO find veteran impires
or men who want to learn the
profession.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 8 - (P)-
Barring decision to freeze the
basketball rules for the dlra-
ton, the folks who stepped up
the speed of the game to its pre-
sent pace may get around to
changing the four-fouls-and-out
rule this year. There's been
. lot of talk about allowing five
or even three in each half
and two more voices recently
added to the clamor are those of
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Louis Becomes Father Of Girl

CHICAGO Feb. 8 - L40 - Heavyweight champion Joe
Louis became father today The fighters wife birth to
weighing pounds five at GOA at Prov
ident Hospital here The attending physician Dr. William w.
Gibbs said Mrs Louis would decide for the child
he known in the is stationed at Fort Riley
Kansas
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RELIC OF TRAFALGAR

One ship which took part in
the battle of Trafalgar in 1905
is still afloat. This only remnant
of the battle is the H. NJ. S. I'm
plscable, now used as a train
ing ship.
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annual eating and oratoricaI
contest of the writer's New York
chapter. The gags were over
and the laughs were finished
and the serious speech-makinl
got under way as the Judge
stepped up, his white hair wav'
ing in all directions, as usual
and his voice as heavy as the
heart of every baseball man over
the wartime threat to the ma
tional pastime.
Then il came.
"Unless," he said, and he
said it with all the authority
he has piled up in a quarter
century of making magnates
sit up and shiver, unless
some set rule is passed that
makes 1t impossible to put
some sort of nine men out on
a field for each side, baseball
is not dead. We haven't gone
to Washington to plead our
case, because we didn't want
any inference placed before
the 1870 million people in the
country that we are seeking
any favorable treatment in
time of war.
But no matter how feeble
are the nine men we'll put on
the field, l think they'll be
strong enough, without the
help of any lobby in Washing
ton, to survive"
That was just about all the !,
400 baseball men players
magnates, writer's, managers anC
plain guys named Joe who pa.
their way into the ball parks -
wanted to hear, after days o
listening to nothing but talk o
dark clouds about what might
or might not-happen durin,
this coming season.
SOLDIERS WANT GAME
And while there was nothing
official about what might still
pop up, the boys who tool
heart from the Judges wagginI
finger and wild hair and sin
cere remarks on the subject
didn't lose any hope when Elme
Davis, head of the Office of Wa
Information, came along witt
another fast BALI right be
hind baseball's high commits
sioner.
"We'll see some baseball
this summer" he said, land il
it isn't as good as it used to
be, it still will be good enough
to go to.
my brOadcasts include a
great deal of sports news, par
ticularly to my customers
overseas - a million and a
half in service. And they are
always asking for more. If
there's no baseball news next
summer, my customers over
seas are going to put up a
helluva squawk.''
Davis was extra careful I
point out that what he had t
say was strictly an opinion, nc
official - because II haven
cleared my remarks through tn
Office of Defense Transports
ton and the War Manpowe
Commission, and since they clea
their remarks through me,
figure l ought to do the sam
for them" But that didn't mat
ter to the biggest crowd that ha
ever urned out to jam the Hote
Commodore's grand ballroom I
the rafters. The keynote of tn
speech-making program was O
the better-than-bad chance for
baseball season next summer
beginning with Quentin Rey
holds, the magazine writer an
going down the list with Ian
dis, Davis, and even Eddi
Rickenbacker, who pointed on
that when there is no more rea
son for self-reliance in thi
country, then and then alon
| will there be no more reason fo
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Harry CraysOns
ScOrebOard
Baseball Trying Hard to Whip Up
Case for It's Continuance
Durinq Wartime
During Wartime
BY HARRY GRAYSON
.R COMMISSIONER McNUTT


playing from his lists OF essential and occupations
Bartenders make the category. Who whip
bartenders being vital TO morale but
anything baseball players because officially they aren't
anything
Commissioner McNutt lists occupation
heard baseball players few
fiddle with little jobs during the off but pr
marily they work at baseball.
they date they
thing that they Migrants and
should be put in jail And that not original with
idea.
Then, there the umpres
CLARK GRIFFITH of Washington and of the other
d-fashoned enough consider the business
essential however and how do like basebals offer to
promise with the VINO?
baseball all of the noble athletes not
for months each year. In
proposal the free
54 of baseball throughout the That
would give the boys full run starting in April.
When America commenced to grid for far too many OF
robust Not the least
this that they had much time sitting
munchng watching play Yet Mag
speaks baseball being healthul
Taxation.
srs American League competitive drill in 1913 That
a big help in the effort.
SUGGESTION yet made for baseball from
Respondent would combine the circuits into East
Leagues travel and
time.
Players would five week. play Saturdays, Sun
holidays The could in the fall in what
would pass for the World Series.
Baseball people speak of being played Russia and
England add that they played by soldiers and
workers.
up in professional baseball
ns-us simply will not
Only baseball would be dumb enough to attempt it,
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The Latin "pretiola," meaning
little reward" gave us our
word "pretzel." Originally, they
were given to children by monks
as a reward for learning their
prayers.
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NORTH CAROLINA'S DEER

North Carolina has more than
100000 acres under state and
federal control. devoted TO pro-
duction and conservation of
deer.
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Game Will Continue
During War; He Says
Elmer Davis, Rickenbacker
Also Give Game a Boost
BY SID FEEDER


hundred in the baseball writer's show this year put
the only real smile that today the Kenesaw NJ
Lands left the boys when baseball won't die during
the because we've got into the habit of living
Old Kenesaw Mountain often labelled mr. Base
ball. Himself during his running diamond show but
closer to hitting last night
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TODAY'S GUEST STAR

VIM. MEG. Keefe, New Or
leans Timcs-Picayune: with
bowed head we admit to being
dead wrong when il was predict
cd that New Orleans taxi driv-
ers would rot resort to cutting
the corners Of the law by taking
customers TO within a couple of
blocks of the race track. Our To-
cal taxis apparently are no no
bier than the taxis in Louisville
New York or Maryland.
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Sports Roundup

Ed Diddle, Western Kentucky
coach, and Dave Tobey, veteran
New York official. Tobey
points out that the original rule
allowed one personal foul in
each quarter but since then the
game has been changed to add
from five to eight minutes of
playing time, giving a prayer
more chances to commit fouls. :.
Diddle, who claims a player
worries so much after making
his third foul that he isn't much
use to the team, sees it the same
way. He would worry just as
much after the fourth foul"
says Uncle Ed, But it would
take him longer to make the
fouls. This department.
suggestion is to let the rules
alone; just take away the ref
ereeS' whistles.
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MONDAY MATINEE

The Baltimore Orioles are
considering 10 p. m. curfew for
night baseball games because af-
ter that time street cars will
have TO go down town to haul
war workers. Since he won
the bantamweight title last Au-
gust, Manuel Ortiz has done all
right as one of the solid pillars
OF Ell Centre, Calf. He owns a
l60-acre ranch, three trucks, a
billiard parlor and is hacker of a
softball team. And. speak
ing of Ell Centre, the Pirates
travelled 6.5C3 miles last Spring
to train there and get back for
the start Of tie season. This year,
training at Muncie, Ind, and
opening at Chicago, their whole
trip will be only about 500
miles. Although the john
ny Greco-Dave Castilloux fight
at Montreal III April figures to
draw $4,000 for Russian relief,
the boxers won't get anything
but their regular Canadian
Army pay.