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Evening star., 1943-04-07
Naval Ordnance Quint
Is Recreation Champ

The longest basket ball series In
Washington. that sponsored by the
District Recreation Department,
finally is ended, with Naval Ord
nance the champion. More than So
teams, playing at five high school
gyms, began this long series back in
December.
The Naval team took the title in
the playoff final last night by defeat
ing Army War College, 1864, in two
overtime periods. Tom Dawes, with
IA points, and Jack Helms, with II,
paced the winners.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
BY BILL KING.


BOSTON. April latter taking a
long and quizzical look at the young
sters responsible for the current box
ing boom, little Sammy Fuller of
Boston. the old lightweight who
slugged like heavyweight, has come
roaring out of five years of retire
ment to pound out another pot of
gold with his iron fists.
Little Sammy, who started out as
a f1yweight away back in 1925, when
Jack Dempsey ruled the heavies.
Harry Greb the middleweights and
Mickey Walker the welters, had more
than 100 professional engagements as
he progressed through the ring s
golden days into one of it's worst de-
pressions.
Willing to Fight Anybody.
eyes I did make a pile, one big
enough to set me up in the restau-
rant business" Sammy explained.
But finally found it more profita-
bic to quit my own business to be-
come defense worker I have kept
in close contact with boxing since l
retired in 1897 and now I have de-
cided that the time has come for me
to make comeback I still can box
and I still can slug and I'll take on
everybody the promoters will give me
to get a crack at Henry Armstrong
or Beau Jack or BOTH
Sammy. born Sabine Ferrullo in
1907 in Boston's North End, where
he painfully gained his first rudi-
ments of boxing as bootblack, ap-
pears to have both of his stocky legs
planted on the comeback trail.
About two months ago he tested
himself by chasing the fleet Joe
Torres of New York for a 1O-round
decision. Il just boxed him because
wanted to convince myself I could
last the full distance without tiring,"
he explained after disposing of
Torres
Then" Sammy continued, II was
eager to prove that I still had my
Sunday punch and did it, at least
to my satisfaction"
Evening star., 1943-04-07
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writsi


NEW YORK, April Horse
race bettors who have been en-
joying an enforced vacation for a
few days will have a fresh lot of
horses to put their money on
when the Eastern season opens
tomorrow. Most of the Southern
favorites haven't reached Jamaica
yet, and Narragansett, which
opens Saturday, has only about
half as many nagS as usual. The
neutrality-suspicious..
Shanty Hogan will manage the
ball team and Rabbit Maranville
will coach at the Fore River
Mass.o shipyard. where they're
both working. And between them,
they'll probably drown out all the
riveters. AL Buck is back covering
the fight and hoss race beats for
the N. Y. Post after being dis
charged from the Army because
Of age.
Shorts and shells-The Dodgers
recently asked the Connecticut
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Racing at Charles Town
Listed May 10-JuIy ;

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, April 7.
The spring race meeting of the
Charles Town Jockey Club will be
held from May 10 to July 3. inclusive,
A. j. Boyle, president and general
manager, has announced
a. The meet will follow that at Pim-
lico and will precede the program at
HagerstoWn.
Between 300 and 400 horses already
are Quartered here.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Bears, Brooklyn
Cards May Take
Step in June
HoIos, Topping in War
Service and AIIThree
Clubs Lack Power
BY WALTER McCALLUM
Star Staff Correspondent.


CHICAGO, April Club owners
and coaches OF the National Football
League were to gather again today
behind closed doors to null over
prospects of a nine-team league
schedule next fall, with more than
ghost in the closet. The rattling of
bones, borne on the wings of rumors,
is that although nine clubs, as of
today, are committed to pro football
come next September, only six
actually may start.
These rumors have no official
backing, but backstage gossip has it
that before the next league meeting,
scheduled for June, three of the
clubs may drop out for various
reasons, chiefly player shortage.
Marshall Is Confident.
President George Marshall Of the
Washington Redskins isn't perturbed
by rumors. The Skins will play pro
football next fall, even though 1t
may not be of the high caliber of
other years.
"The league will operate this year" "
said Marshall, land I'll guarantee
we will operate longer than baseball.
OF course, have nothing to say
about baseball, but we have a better
chance to continue than baseball
for the reason that we play only
once a week, while baseball operates
every day."
Marshall, Of course, referred to the
manpower situation, a matter that
more and more is engaging the at
tention of every one connected with
sports of any kind.
1t can be that any one who can
toss any kind of block, or can run
100 yards without a SPAWN may be
able to play football next fall. For
there isn't any secret that the pros
are up against 1t in the business of
getting men with some football savy
Reasons Appear Sound.
Rumors have it that the omnipo-
tent Chicago Bears, the Chicago
Cardinals and Brooklyn, the Gin
derella club, will drop out at the
June meeting. 1t. Comdr. George
Halas, owner and coach of the Bears
will deny that the big. bad Bears
won't start. So will Jimmy Conzel-
man of the Cards, but the rumol
persists.
The reasons seem sound. Hala!
won't be around to master mind hi.
club because he is In the Navy
Without Halas the Bears aren't sc
tough. And the Bears will have back
in uniform next fall only a few OF
the tough guys of 1912 The same
goes for the Cardinals. Charles Bid
we'll, their owner is a wealthy man
who looks upon the Cards as a play
thing Also he is said to take the
view that public educated to big
time football won't be satisfied with
anything else.
Brooklyn has only one regular OF
last season available this year, and
Chief Owner Dan Topping is 6
Marine Corps captain.
Edwards Visits Barber.
Happiest man in the Redskin party
here was Chief Petty Officer jim
Barber. now attached to the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station. Jim
reused out of bed long after retreat
by Turk Edwards, was glad to talk
football again.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Rams Pro Brings Three More Quit
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Navy, Anna
polls.
Coolidge at st. Albans, 400.
Eastern at Episcopal, 400.
Handban.
District AAU championship
doubles final, SYMCA, 800.
TOMORROW.
Wrestling.
Stranger Lewis VS.. George
Macricostas feature, Turner's
Arena, 8:45.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Pitcher Jacobs Is Sent
To CHATTANOOGA Club
BY the Associated Press.

by LIIe ASSOCldIeu PleSS.
RICHMOND, Va. April 7.-Bucky
Jacobs, right-handed pitcher who
starred at the University of Rich
mond before performing with the
Washington Nationals and the
Charlotte IN. c. Hornets, will play
for Chattanooga this season.
Jacobs, who has been working as
Junior storekeeper at the quarter
master depot at Bellwood, was
transferred to Chattanooga when
Charlotte dropped out of the Pied
mont League this year. Both teams
are farms for the Mats.
Evening star., 1943-04-07

court against Bitsy, who is a great
defensive player. So ! played a
slam-bang game against him and
he'beat me, GO, 81, 81. The
only way to beat that fellow is just
to resign yourself to spending any
where from three to five hours on
the court and play that patty cake
game with him."
Shedd, who once held seven State
tennis championships similtane-
ously, says 20 minutes of badminton
is equivalent to two hours of tennis.
"The variety of shots in badminton
is greater than in tennis, too," says
Shedd, land movies have shown
that badminton is 10 per cent fast
er. I've made movie shorts in Hol-
lywood and my backhand stroke is
so fast that they couldn't even stop
it in slow motion.
Jack Purcell, a Canadian, is the
Bill Tilden or Bobby Jones of bad
minton. He's professional, and
Freeman, who is an amateur, has
beaten him both times they've
pldyeQ, OUT FuTCeu is responsible
for popularizing the game.
Shedd Busy as Tutor
Shedd has done fair sort of job
himself in popularizing the sport.
He has been a professional at nu-
merous clubs. has played the game
in many night clubs and at Stephens
College alone taught the game to
5000 students AS many as 801 Of
ficers week have played under
his supervision at Norfolk.
He has taught the game to numer-
GUS movie stars, including Clark
Gable, Joan Crawford and Tyrone
Powers. Of-the crop he rates Power
moviedom's best.
Il had Joan Crawford for three
weeks and in that time she trimmed
IL inches off her stomach and an
inch off her posterior. AS a reduc-
er can't think of better sport"
"The game hasn't caught on in
the East as it has in the West" :"
concluded Shedd, but it will. In
Chicago, for instance, every high
school gymnasium is taken every
night by badminton clubs. The
game is growing"
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Brandt of Bucs Hoodooed

INDIANAPOLIS - Hard luck is
pursuing Pitcher Bill Brandt of the
Pittsburgh Pirates. He twisted his
left knee in basket ball game dur
ing the Pirates first week of drills
and yesterday line drive off the bat
of Maurice Van Robays struck him
above the right knee. The Bucs re-
manned here over night and will try
for their third in a row against
Cleveland TODAY.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Win, Lose or Draw
By BURTON HAWKINS,

Navy Booms Bodminton Flyers Playing 1t on Carriers
The Navy badmnton
played the hangar deck apane there
boom the appng industry won't be the fault
Chief Specialist Training
Station
One the players shedd spreading
mnton gospel terrific
naval officers
at naval training stations throughout the Nation.
shedd saying recently catching
officer confirmed great conditioner
because
It's ereaxe for orrc
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Borons, Crackers Wear
Custoff Uniforms

Birmingham Barons baseball team
is wearing Cincinnati uniforms in
spring practice "for psychological
effect" while the Atlanta Crackers
do their drilling in leftovers from
the class D Waycross (Ga.) Bears.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Freemun Is Games Best

freeman Is Games Best
Shedd is to badminton what Joe
Kirkwood, trick-shot artist, is to golf
but his versatility isn't confined to
exhibitionism. He's one of the
worlds top five players, but he ad-
mits nobody around can whip Dave
Freeman, 23-year-old Pasadena,
(Calif) youpgster, who has captured
the amateur championship four sue
cessive years. Gene Mako, former
national doubles tennis champion
with Don Bulge, who also is chief
specialist assigned to Norfolk Naval
Training Station, seconded Shedd s
Endorsement of Freeman.
Dave once told me he could give
any player in the world seven points
a game is Is points-and beat
them" said Mako, "and Freeman
isn't fellow that pops off. He's
very modest, but that's how he feels
about it.
II love badminton," continued
Mako. There's no contest between
badminton and tennis as condi-
toner. Badminton wins going away
and there's nothing similar in
playing the games. Badminton is
ideal because novices can have fun
from the start. You can't do that
in tennis.
Beats Tennis, Says Mako
IF had it to do all over again,
In fact" unused Mako, I'D never
play tournament tennis. Sure, the
trips are nice and you make a lot
of friends, but it makes a wreck
of you physically. Many's the time
I've played a flve-set match and
suffered cramps in my legs and
shoulders. It's just too much of a
grind.
There's no way of comparing
tennis with badminton unless it's
to say the reflexes have to be about
as keen inseach sport. Then, too
believe there's less opportunity to
play a strictly defensive game in
badminton that there is in tennis.
Gosh, I remember one time
was playing Bitsy Grant in New
Orleans and I was determined not
to spend the whole afternoon on the
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Sligo Nine Is BOOKING

Sligo A. G. is booking games with
strong unlimited clubs. It wants to
open Sunday, April II, and has a
diamond. Call Wilson at Shepherd
S352.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Wakefield Drills Afeld.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Manager
Steve O'Neill, pleased with the bat
ting power Dick Wakefield has shown
for the Detroit Tigers, isn't satisfied
with the young mans fielding. Yes
terday Wakefield was stationed at
third base, with O'Neill batting him
grounders.
Evening star., 1943-04-07
Al Simmons, Red Sox
Job C|inched , Puts
Bee on Skeptics
Asbury Schools Let Out
Youngsters to See
Yonks Play Bears
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 7.-Most of
his friends laughed when he said
he'd do it, but AL Simmons, who will
be 40 next month, virtually has
clinched Boston Red Sox outfeld
berth. Rookie Tom Mcbride and
Veteran Pete Fox will flank the
centerfleld veteran.
The Seekers wind up their Balti-
more stay today with Oscar Judd
and Lefty Olsen picked to twirl
against the minor leaguers.
ASBURY PARK, N. 1.-THE New
York Yankees go to Newark today
for their third meeting with their
International League farmhands.
1t will be a rubber game and the
contest has created SO much excite
ment the schools are being dis
missed in the afternoon.
Orval Grove Tests Knee.
FRENCH LICK, Ind. -Orval
Grove, Gordon Maltzberger and
Floyd Speer will pitch for the Chi
cago White Sox today in the clubs
informal game with the Chicago
Cubs. Maltzberger and Speer are
rockies while Manager Jimmy
Dykes is sending Grove to the
mound to see if he has recovered
fully from a knee operation.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. - Rockies
Jack Salveson, Pete Center and Mike
Naymick are Manager Lou Bou-
dreau's choices today to halt the
Cleveland Indians losing streak in
exhibition contests against the Pitts
burgh Pirates. Ken Keltner, third
basenan, out week with muscle
strain, likely will perform at his po-
sition.
Evening star., 1943-04-07

WILMINGTON, Del. - Connie
Mack says he is going to use his
pitchers in relays and doesn't mind
if not single one is able to 60 nine
innings-as long as the Philadelphia
AS win. He has numerous hurlers,
but his best veterans are Lum Harris,
Roger Wolff and Russ Christopher.
Evening star., 1943-04-07

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.-With
only two days remaining before the
St. Louis Browns take the road for
home, Manager Luke Sewell is CIV
ing his boys the gun. He has sched-
uled practice game for today, in
addition to a long workout, and a
morning drill is on tap for Thurs
day before they board a st. Louis
bound bus.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Marines Beot Jops to Punch
By Completing Airport First

In another delayed dispatch that
helped piece together the amazing
story of the Solomons, the Navy told
yesterday how the Marines won a
construction race with the Japs that
enaoled them to strike from Espiritu
Santo and take the almost-com-
pleted Guadalcanal airfield
Within two months after the Ma
rines left their continental base
their rough New Hebrides field felt
the impact of the wheels of small
plane. The Marines knew the Japs
were building field at Qua uadalcanal
and it was a race between the two
forces.
Bulldozers snorted and pushed.
trucks roared, and picks and shovels
were put in the hands of sturdy
Marines and about 300 natives, most
of whom knew no English. Disease
haunted the SPOT, and the supply of
quinlne ran out. When it was re-
newed by an air shipment. 200 ma
tlves were treated in one day.
Dysentery with attendant fevers
plagued the men. Heat and mos
Evening star., 1943-02-14
| Mason Thumbs
Rides to Get to
His Golf Club

It takes more than the ban on
pleasure driving to keep Commits
sioner Guy Mason away from golf.
even though his club is a good two
miles from the nearest streetcar
line.
Mr.. Mason confided yesterday that
he and Col. Monroe Johnson, men,
Der Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. go out and thumb"
rides every week end from the
Cabin John streetcar line to the
Burning Tree Golf Club.
Mr.. Mason said he and Col. john
son also take their own coffee to
the club. An attendant boils the
water for them, but they drink it
without sugar and cream.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
U-Boot Crisis Held Most Urgent
Of Immediate Allied Problems
Eliot Declares Full Power of w. S.
Won't Count Until SEQ Lanes Are Cleared

that the submarines which first
show themselves may be hunted
down.
Of course the ideal situation is
reached when. in addition to a full
sized surface escort, each convoy can
have a small carrier whose planes
can work directly with the destroy
ers and corvettes of the surface es-
cort, all functioning together under
a single escort commander.
killer Groups" Effective.
But even this is not enough. Be-
sides all the ships needed for these
various purposes and the smaller
and slower vessels adequate for
| coastal escort and inshore patrol,
we must have enough big, fast,
rugged destroyers to form killer
groups" to be stationed at properly
located bases commanding the en-
tire area of sea to be protected.
The task of these groups is to pro-
ceed to any point at which enemy
submarines are reported, and to
hunt the U-boats to the finish. These
killer groups can best perform their
functions in conjunction with long
range patrol aircraft, whose duty it
is to locate the submarine and bring
the killer group to the spot.
Remember that the vulnerable
characteristic of the submarine, the
one vulnerability which the Ger
man designers have been unable
materially to reduce, is it's short ra-
dius of action and low time endur-
ance and speed when submerged. 1t
is still dependent for submerged
operation on the electric battery and
every so often it must come to the
surface to recharge its batteries.
Therefore the motto of the subma-
rlne hunters must be-keep EN-
down.
We. are preparing to do all this,
but for the next few months, as the
weather clears and more boats
appear. We must expect a rising
curve of losses. The remedies are
In sight, and progress is being made
We. shall beat the .U-boat as we
shall beat every other weapon and
effort of the enemy. But as in so
many other cases, we shall have to
pay heavily for our lack of fore
handed preparation.
(copyrisht' 1a43. New York Tribune, 1nc)
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Sailor on Sub Removes Mates
Appendix in 5-Hour Operation
Hit Me on Head Patient in Underseu
Ordeal Asks as Anesthesiu Wears OFF

Roy M. Davenport OF Los Angeles,
kept the submarines crew advised
of progress of the operation.
Although it was Moore's first ap-
pendectomy, he had seen couple
Of thousand" while he was serving
as hospital apprentice at the San
Diego Naval Hospital and he felt
confident he could perform it,
The ocean was smooth as glass
when the time for the operation
came" he said, but the skipper
took her down so we wouldn't have
to make a crash dive during the op-
Grafton.
Il had two forceps. two surgical
knives, all the surgical goods for a
major case, and eight hemostats
tclamps for COMPRISING blood YES
selsl, but I was a little short on re-
tractors instruments to hold the in
cision OPEN and We used two bent
spoons instead.
There was plenty of light, but
we used fashlight also when we
got down deep.
We started with a spinal anes-
thetic but the appendix was grown
to the ascending colon and was diff
ficult to get out. BY this time we
had been under way an hour and
IS minutes and the anesthetic was
wearing of. 80 ..-.
Platter said, I can feel you pull
ing at my CUTS He also remarked
that he could move his toes and that
he was beginning to feel pain.
Asked to Be Hit on Head.
Then he said, Hit me on the
head with something We gave him
a can and half of ether"
Comdr. Davenport said:
Il kept telling Platter stories
while he was conscious but he got
the most consolation out of the first
verse of the 46th Psalm-'God is
our lefuge and our strength. I.
l only saw Moore stand up straight
once to take deep breath during
the five hours"
Moore, when asked what his su-
periors thought of the incident, told
VI tileT return 10 base.
i had a bunch OF long-faced
medical officers greet me-" he said,
and the first question they asked
was Have any trouble?
Il replied No, but we had an
appendectomy
He said, You did? But no dental
trouble?'
Il replied, No, no dental trouble
Wants to Be Paratrooper.
They finally got around to asking
whether the patient lived. I called
Platter over and they said. Lets
see the incision." Platter showed it
70 them.
And that's that"
Now Moore wants to get into a
paratroop outfit" Comdr. Daven-
port interposed. He thinks there's
not enough action on submarines.
The first appendix operation on a
submerged submarine, as recounted
in The Star last December IA by
Correspondent George Weller, was
performed by 23-year- old pharma-
cist's mate in enemy waters of the
Pacific.
The chief surgeon" WHEELER B
.Lipes Of Newcastle, Va, used table
spoons for retractors, extracted al
cohol from a torpedo mechanism for
a sterilizer and succeeded in sewing
up the incision two and half hours
after the operation started, just as
the last can of ether was used up.
Evening star., 1943-02-14

quitoes brought discomfort Rations
we're low The men exhausted their
supply Of tobacco. But it was a
proud moment for 1t. G.gD M. T.
Martin, USN, of Three Rivers, Tex,
the medical officer, when he re-
ported that not life was lost from
illness during the construction
period. 1t. Col. Harold w. Bauer,
now listed as missing, was in charge
of construction. His wife lives in
Coronado, Calf.
The marines knew they had won
the race when planes, partly de-
pendent on the hastily hewn field
bsckstopped landing operations on
Guadalcanal on August 7. 1912
There was A little section in the
middle OF the japanese runway
not yet completed, and once again
the marines landed and soon had
the situation in hand. They quickly
finished the job the Japs dropped
and the Guadalcanal airfield be-
came not only the defense base
for the area but the offensive base
for attacks to the northwest as
we'll.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Rome Explains Plan
To Work Prisoners
Men Won't Be Exposed
To Attacks, Reports Soy
By the Associated Press.

bN tne hSSOCldeO fTeSS.
BERN, Switzerland Feb. l3.-
Rome dispatches elaborated tonight
on Italys plan to employ war pris-
oners in industry, move an
nounced previously by the German
radio.
The prisoners will be allotted in
groups of so to employers "in zones
not exposed to enemy attacks ac-
cording to the Geneva convention. "
the dispatches said. They will
work the same hours as Italian labor
and receive the benefit of workers
insurance"
The dispatches said the prison.
ers, themselves, wanted to work to
relieve the monotony of inactivity
British, Australian, Yugoslav and
Greek prisoners are included in the
work order.
The Geneva Tribune said that
large part" of the Indian troops
captured in Africa would be in
Quoted into the Italian army with
special uniforms and their own flag.
The Berlin radio said a census of
all medical practitioners in Italy
would be taken in connection with
the law, for control of the population
in wartime, The broadcast, re-
corded by the Associated Press, said
the census would include women
doctors as we'll as men.
81 A Rome broadcast, quoting the
official Italian news agency, Stefani,
said two new Italian undersecretaries
had been appointed. National Coun-
cillor Domenico Pellegrini, professor
at Naples University, was named
undersecretary for finance, and Ma
tional Councillor Guido Rispoli,
rector of a Rome high school, was
named undersecretary for education,
the broadcast said.