The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-12-25
Wberforce u Cagers To Meet Brewster New Years Night
SPORT FACTS
By JESSE T. HAUGABoOK

AT the annual draft meeting in Chicago the major
leagues showed that the evidently concern
III over the manpower problem Some managers failed
q draft single player in fear that the man might be in
H. army when spring training rolled around There will
" fines that many Of the clubs will not have available
Sanpower to carry full roster in 1914
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands could easily remedy
H. manpower shortage by making Negro talent available
biz league baseball. Lands receives salary of SIS
300 year protect the best interests Of baseball The
Commissioner is in position to make any ruling he chooses
III make stick In fact Judge Lands is MIR Baseball
&mself He is the highest authority in the game.
Today baseball faces its trying days since the
amoas Black Sox scandal o. 1921 Judge Lands could
much for baseball and America in helping to break
rn racial discrimination in the big leagues bv working
fourpont resolution submitted to him by the Negro
kblshers
An article in the Detroit News states that the Amer
H. league pitching in l94S the best in 25 years
bly, two pitchers won 20 games. Sturgeon Chandler of
Ia Yankees and Paul Trout Of the Tigers The league pro-
heed outstanding pitchers in fact only two hurlers
itched 20 complete games
During the past % years the American league was
4ocd Tor its good pitching. The league produced men
he Lefty Grove, Earl Whehill Lefty Gomez. Red Ruff
Mel Harder and Schoolboy Rowe Yet with all these
&tstanding fingers missing, 1919 banner year in
Gtchng This only proves the nerorty Of the leagues
bters. The pitchers weren't so hot and the hitting
Judge Lands take note Of this The public does not
art 70 see an inferior type Of baseball in 944
John Roxborough will be among the Ia letter
& ttion in the Western conference. Roxborough and
~ Ross Hume the defending conference champions
y in the half mile and mile.
Bad luck continued for the luckless Ossie Bulldog
rs who had to postpone his scheduled 10-round bout
6th Fritzie Civic in Pittsburgh due to Infection
Dc fight will take place Jan. g.
Curtis Sheppard heavyweight of Pittsburgh,
knocked out Clint Conway of New York in the first
round at the Baltimore Coliseum recently. Sheppard
Ms best remembered by Detroiters for temporarily
Xhalting the of Alfred big Boy" Brown Cur
N lis fractured Browns jaw win the duration champ
Iionshp of Baltimore Brown in his last local engage
ment decisoned Larry Lane of Pittsburgh.
al Clark 165 pound younger brother Of Dave Clark
u iveround decision to Gene Simmons last week IN
Hcago. All is planning going to Erie Pa, where he
engage in bout. His opponent has not been selected
Wee Willie Williams, another local fighter, is
planning going to New York. Williams will be
managed by Girls Dundee, manager of Jose Basora.
Brewsers representative team defeated Dearborn 46
26 to remain undcfeated in the Detroit Basketball as
"a ation at the Hacket Field House Sunday, Dec ~
u ling of Brewster nigh point man with Is and Ed
Mh collected IL points for combined total Of "a
6uck Hawley collected 0 points for top man of Dear
nrp
In the remaining games Jagowcz squeezed out SUI
Nr 26 10 "a and Detroit Police team walloped Briggs
bmbcrs 50 to 35.