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Evening star., 1944-12-17
Dodgers Walker Best Batter
Bv1OPoints in N. L. With .357

Others high up are Augie Galan,
Dodgers (318); Walker Cooper,
Cards C31D; Jim Russell, Pitts
burgh C312), and Tommy Holmes,
Boston 5000. .
Bill Nicholson of the Cubs scored
the most runs, 116; hit most honers,
33. and piled up most total bases,
|317. Musial and Cavarretta tied
for most hits at 1877. Musial's 81
doubles and Cavarretta's 142 singles
were tops. Johnny Barrett of the
Pirates took a double crown by lead
ing in stolen bases, %, and triples,
10. George Hausmann of the
Giants had the most sacrifices, 81,
and Woody Williams of Cincinnati
most at bats, 653.
Babe Dahlgren, Pirates, and Will
llanls, Ray Mueller and Eddie Mil
Ter, all of the Reds, each played all
their clubs games. Due to ties,
Dahlgren got in 1853.
Cavarretta and Galan put to-
gether 19-game hitting streaks, and
Nicholson set league record by
hitting four homers in a double
header at 'the Polo Grounds and
tied major mark with four round
trlppers in successive at bats.
OFT Sets More Marks.
Manager Mel OFT of the Giants
continued his record making spree,
raising his lifetime total of runs
scored to 1,784, extra-base hits to
1,025, total extra bases to 2O75.
honers to 489 and tied Gabby Hart
nett for length of service with one
club at 10 years. OFT also equaled
his own mark by scoring six times
in one game and extending to 48
times his feat of hitting two or
more circuit clouts in one contest.
The Cubs had the longest winning
streak, II, and the Dodgers expert
enced their worst slump when they
dropped Is in row.
In winning the flag, the Cards hit
the 90-win mark on August %, a
National League record. They set a
circuit standard and tied a major
league by coping 100 or more games
for three consecutive years. Billy
Southworth's world champs also
established another major league
standard by sweeping II double
headers.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
By the Associated Press.

Fred Dixie Walker, the peoples
choice in Flatbush, became the
sixth Brooklyn player to win the
National League batting champion
ship, compiling 1857 mark, accord
ing to official 1914 figures released
today.
The popular Dodgers right fielder
topped by 10 points the 1914 aver
age of Stan Musial of the st. Louis
Cards, who won in 1943 with an
identical 1857.
Former Brooklyn favorites to be
champ hitters we're Harold Pete)
Reiser, Lefty O'Doul, Zach Wheat,
Jake Daubert, who won twice, and
Dan Brouthers who tied in 1892.
Joe Medwick, who dipped below
300 for the first time in 1943,
bounced back with a fine .337 come
back effort for the New York
Giants. He grabbed third place
ahead of the Cards Johnny Fopp,
whose 1886 mark represented a
years gain of 112 degrees.
Cavarretta Fifth Batter.
Phil Cavarretta of Chicago, took
nth with .321, his best year.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Town Hall Stirs Fans
As Winning Choice
|Af Charles Town
Special Dispatch to The star.

Gpeclai DlSpatcn 10 Inc star.
CHARLES TOWN. w. Va, Dec.
16.-Three Thousand fans yelled
themselves hoarse' as G. C. Smiths
Town Hall, their choice, broke on
top and, racing seven-eighths of
mile over heavy track in 1.28 2-5,
was driving winner of the $1,000
Rippon Purse, today's racing fea-
ture.
The race was a sizzler. Town
Hall, after putting away Flying
West the first half mile, stood a
strong challenge to the wire from
the Rocky Hollow Farms Robert E.
Lee.
John Fosters Cushlamacree also
closed strongly to be bang-up third
in one of the meetings most excit-
ing races. Town Hall paid $500.
E. A. Dunn's Gayle F., which with
his stablemate Black Bear Is un-
beaten at this meeting, surprised by
reeling off AZ furlongs in 04935. He
led home Mrs. M. H. Everhart's Road
Scraper, odds-on favorite in the
HagerstoWn Purse, the fifth race.
He paid $500. P. H. Faulconer's
Roman Boy was third.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
By JOHN B. KELLER.

After wasting a lot of time and
energy looking for an outfield pros
pect at the minors and majors
winter meetings, the Mats front
Office group has reached the con-
clusion it has just the player wanted
already in stock.
Little considered before, but re-
garded as an outflelder with posi-
bilities since Eastern League rec
ords came to light last week, is Jose
Sanchez, one of seven gardeners
named in the Mats reserve list for
1945.
Sanchez came up to the Mats last
spring under the name of Zardon,
just one among a flock of Cubans
flown in from Havana by Joe Cam
bria, the Washington clubs Latin
America specialist. AS Zardon, the
outflelder made little impression
at the Mats College Park training
camp, but as Sanchez he certainly
made his mark with the Williams
port club.
Placed in center, he contributed
a sparkling defensive game to his
outfit. Sanchez proved keen ball
hawk and displayed a sturdy throw
ing arm. And he used judgment in
his throwing, too, according to re-
ports from Williamsport, directing
his throws shrewdly instead of
merely pegging the ball anywhere
TO get rid of it,
Jose Swung Sturdy Bat.
But it was Sancnez's offensive per-
formances more than his defensive
play that were particularly impress
sive. In his first season in the pro-
feSsional game he batted 300 in SO
games. Among his hits were
two-baggers, u triples and brace
Of home runs. AS a lead-of batter
not the most favorable spot for driv-
ing in runs, he sent 81 tallies across.
Sanchez also MAJ good use of his
speed afoot. He pilfered 33 bases
to lead the Eastern League in this
branch of the game.
When he came up last spring Jose
was slightly built lad, but SEEM
ingly possessed of a lot of fire. He
got into only few exhibition games
before being shifted from the Mats
to the Williamsport squad, but at
that he managed to give a fair &C
count of himself.
With q year of pro experience
back of him, however, Sanchez is
believed to be a much-improved
player. He swings from the right
side, which could add to his value
to the Mats, now a trif1e too much
on the left-hand batting side. It's
certain that Sanchez will get a thor
ough looking-over by Manager Os
Bluege and the Washington coach
ing board at College Park next
spring.
Nat Scout Ruffles Cubans.
Activity of Cambria, the Mats
lone scout, in Cuba has brought
complaint from the baseball loving
islanders. Now they are crying that
Joe signs everything in sight when
he comes to their country, leaving
little to maintain their leagues
through the winters. jess Losada
sports editor of Havana's Prensa
Libre. has written he Is trying to
get his government to pass some
kind of law to check indiscriminate
recruiting of young Cuban players
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Harris 3-to-1 Choice
Over Washington
In Ring Feature

Ossie (Bulldog) Harris, the hard
hitting Pittsburgh steelworker, and
Bee Bee Washington, local colored
favorite, tangle at Turner's Arena
tomorrow night over scheduled
nine-round distance in a middle
weight feature that promises fire.
works. The experts predict KO
win for the Bulldog.
Both fighters wound up heavy
training yesterday and were sched
uled for limbering up workouts to-
day in preparation for the match
that marks Double Bees debut as a
main eventer.
Washington, who has given a
good account of himself in prelims
and semifinals here for two years,
can Jump into big matches and
heavy sugar with a win tomorrow
night, but Harris, who is rated as
one OF the top middleweights in the
business, rates 3-to-1 favorite.
Double Bee cannot be ruled out
completely, however, because of his
record of 80 wins in IS fight, six
of which were KOS. His last loss
was to the veteran Tommy Mollis
about a year ago.
A top-f1ight card of four sup
porting bouts has been drawn up for
the show. Appearing in a fast,
eight-round semifnal will be Irish
Billy Miller, terrific SmoketoWn
lightweight contender who has won
u straight. He takes on Harry Di-
duck, local boy who put on a
great show against Johnny Cock
field in the ball park this summer
Three four-round prelims bring
together Norville Gladdis VS.. Gary
Rice, local welterweights; Jimmy
Brown VS.. Ernie Pope, District
heavyweights. and Watty Forcey VS.
Kid Lacey, local middleweights.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

PhiIs Dispose Of CiesIok
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 IP,.-The
Phillies have sold Inf1elder Ted
CieSlak to Atlanta.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
SaIvo Is Easy Winner
In GuIfstream Debut
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GULFSTREAM PARK, Fla, Dec.
16.-G. T. Strother's black colt
Salvo. a 3-year-old son of the famed
War Admiral, made his first start
here a winning one when he led
home seven rivals in the featured
Gov. Leverett Saltonstan Purse,
named for Massachusetts, executive.
With his regular rider, Vic sBor-
sell, handing the reins, Salvo went
postward a $10.60-for-$2 and scored
by a length and a half In 1:12b
for the furlongs.
River Divide Farms Cold Crack
was second, half length before
Margaret McCallums Carmus, with
the favored Cream a poor fourth.
The second largest crowd of the
meeting, estimated at 1000 was on
hand
Evening star., 1944-12-17
lie Droit Park Falcons
Trim AII-Stur Eleven

LIE Droit Park Falcons, champions
Of the Police Boys Club No. 2 foot
ball league, yesterday defeated the
All-Stars, 13 to 0, at Banneker in
game highlighted by Quarterback
Norman Evans 45-yard gallop for
a touchdown and Center Wilson
Johnson's neat drop-kick convers-
ion
Today the No. 2 Police Boys Club
senior team takes on the Cavaliers
at o'clock on the Banneker grid
with the senior sandlot champion
shin at stake
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Browns to PIoy Cords
In Troining Schedule

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16.-The st.
Louis Browns have arranged a pre-
season schedule of 10 games with
major league teams, including a re-
play of the 1914 World Series with
the Cardinals.
The Browns and Cardinals will
meet in a seven-game series in st.
Louis early in April.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Dykes, Not Hot on Night
Games, Lists Only Id
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoclated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Manager
Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White
Sox has made it known that Amer
lean League rivals will have trou-
BILE making me agree to play too
much night ball.
Dykes, en- route to California for
short stay before leading the Pale
Hose to spring training at Terre
Haute, Ind, declared:
We're only going to schedule IA
night games for Comiskey Park,
and sometimes I think that's too
many"
Evening star., 1944-12-17
AII-Stur Grid Tilt
At COLLEGE Park

Prince Georges County Foot
ball Leagues annual All-Star
game will be played today at 2:30
in Byrd Stadium at College Park.
Georgetown Trojans, this
years pennant winners, will meet
an aggregation of All-Stars made
up from the other teams in the
league.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Sanchez Rated Find for Next Season by Mats Front Oc,
Fast Cubon Hit 800, SporkIed
In OutfieId in Minor Debut

WaSh1ngton'S Cuban players are
active in winter baseball at home.
Gilberto Torres, third baseman, is
playing with the Havana Reds be-
sides tutoring fellow Cuban players
in English. Mike Guerra, doughty
little catcher; Bob Ortiz, massive
outfielder, and Oliverio Ortiz, Bob'S
younger brother and a promising
pitcher, are members of the Almen-
dares club in the Cuban League.
Guerra, between games, has been
rebuilding his house that fell before
last falls Caribbean hurricane and
also raising gamecocks.
Cases Arm Out of Cast.
George Case has had the cast re-
moved from the left shoulder he had
repaired at Johns Hopkins in Balti-
more soon after last season closed,
Clark Griffith, Washington club
president, learned yesterday. Case
informed his boss that the arm that
repeatedly popped out of socket feels
greatly improved and the player be-
lieves he'll be ready for a good sea-
son in 1945. He is to go back to the
hospital for a couple of days this
week for instruction on exercising
the arm this winter.
Revised figures on total games in
which Rick Ferrell has caught in
the American League show the Nat
catcher still has far to go to beat
the major league record of 1,793
games set by Gabby Hartnett with
Chicago's Cubs and New York S
Giants. Rick is credited with 1886
games behind the bat, not 1,753 as
previously reported.
Ferrell in most of his 16 years in
the American League often has been
used as a pinch batter, accounting
for the difference of ST games in the
two totals. But Rick is only 35
games away from the 1,721 Ameri-
can League record made by Ray
Schalk while with Chicago's White
Sox and should set new mark
for his circuit next season.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Reds List 10 Exhibitions

CINCINNATI, Dec. Is P).-Cin-
cinnati, which trains at Blooming
ton, Ind. will play four exhibition
games with Cleveland and six with
the Chicago Cubs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

do nothing after the one fire which had been extinguished flared anew.
 Sealing of the mine will prevent air from getting into the shaft.
 Rescue crews sobbed without shame as they abandoned their ef- forts and emerged grimy and weary from the shaft. Many had brothers and other relatives trapped inside.
 one of the rescue workers describ- cd the fire as a red hot furnace the hottest place ever was"
 Each crew could remain below but a short time and then was forced to take the mine elevator up the ie0-foot shaft to the surface, while another crew went down.
 As the crews came up for relief, their faces black and streaked with sweat, they ate sandwiches and drank coffee at Salvation Army stand.
 A bulldozer chugged busily most of the night to clear away hump above the mine entrance so that trucks and alnbulances might make their way closer to the scene. Pul- motors, gas masks and other equip ment lay scattered near the shaft, ready for use.
 Doctors and nurses in neighboring hospitals were ordered to stand by, ready for instant call.
 The first answering taps from the entdmbed men came a few hours afteR the fire broke out. This led mine officials to theorize that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

(COnLlnueQ rom rage U Payton of Birmingham, Mich, told me. Payton, recently promoted from Lieutenant, stopped near the front lines long enough to ask me to give his love to his wife and 7-months- old daughter in Detroit.
 While I talked to Payton, It. Arr thur Paulus of Hollis, N. r., dropped back, trudging on foot.
 "You don't dare drive a jeep up there," he said. My signal squad is up in there now crawling along on their bellies stringing wire by hand and dodging snipers while they un. reel the wire drums.
 "It's a thankless job. You cans juggle a wire drum and a rifle too so we just leave the rifles behind"
 Among the forward signal party were Cpl. Nicholas Obradovich, east Chacigo, Ind, and Pwc. Frank T. Giska, Ambridge, Pa. Later I met Giska, who said, "wlien the stuff starts flying we just hit the ground and pray"
 Following the advance down the main highway to La Have from port bail, I encountered a khaky- clad figure tugging at a rope. He was pulling mines from the shoulder of the road and in front of him were two men with platter-shaped mine- detectors on long poles. The man with the rope was Pvt. Albert Ken- ny, Port Richmond, Ind.
 said. We were under Shellfire all night
 Pretty hot around here" he
 He showed me gaps in the stone- work of 8 farmhouse where he'd spent the night-the work of Ger. man 88's.
 We didn't sleep much," he ob- served. Better get moving down the road. We're under observation now. We need this highway and my job is to yank out the mines. You find two types here, the pres- sure type and the pull type. Some- times the yexplode when you hook onto them. Sometimes not. You've got to know your job"
 Farther along Capt. R. Murray of Erie, Pa, hailed me: How would you like to eat a steak?"
 Having had no fresh meat since D-day, I stopped in my tracks and accepted the invitation. Murray's mechanized infantry had just bought a bovine shrapnel victim from it's French owner and Edsel H. Brown. Pittsburgh, was slicing steaks and cooking them with blow torch and borrowed fry pan.
 The carcass had been butchered by ITS J. W. Rossiter, Astoria, N. Y, who fought with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge in World War and learned meat cutting on a Cana dian farm.
 German shells were falling in a field nearby but Brown was so in- tent on his blow-torch cookery that he almost resented having to take time out to give me his home address.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
ACCUSED DRIVER ASSESSED S1OO-
Found Guilty of Operating Auto With Suspended
 License

Franklyn Smith, 2i, 166 Yale street, was fined $i00 on charges of driving while his license was under suspension when. he was arraigned before Judge Charles R. Summa in City Court this morning. An addi- tional charge of taking a car with out permission was dismissed.
 Smith was arrested on Thomaston avenue last night by Motor Patrol men Gordon Jones and Patrick Reilly who said they had received complaints of him driving about in an cratic manner. Smith said he had taken the car from the garage where he was employed because his foreman had asked him to drive him downtown. The car was owned by Jerry CozEolino, 45 Wyman street.
 Thomas Stack, 3l, 47 Cole street, and James McGarrigle, 90, 2S Center street, were each fined $l0 on breach of peace charges. Patrolmap Salvatore Lavollo said the men en- gagged in an altercation on Meadow street, several weeks ago in the course of which Stacks hand went through a tavern window.
 Mary Fitzgerald, was committed to the state farm for women on a charge of theft. Detective Lieuts. Ernest Packul, Edward McElligott and Sergt. Charles Mccarthy said the girl admitted taking a sum of money from a woman's purse while attending church.
 Other cases: Joseph Deschaine, 4o, g Pond street, Ion-support, nolled; Arthur Carpenter, 35, 32 West Port CT street, breach of the peace, con- tinued to Aug. 31; Thomas Greeley, A, 76 Bishop street, breach of the peace suspended 60 day jail sentence Michael zello, 35, Hubbell avenue, non-support, continued to Aug. 3; Austin Vassallo, 25, 39 Cossett street, passing stop sign, $6 bond called; Helen Hennigenn, 34, 194 Delaware avenue, parking violation, $5 bond called; Edemond Snow, 34, 2 Sparks street, parking violation, nolled for s5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06


 and the prize city 225 miles east of Warsaw.
 Moscow dispatches said that Gen. KonStantin K. RokoSsovsky's forces advancing on Barnowicze were en- countering heavier resistance by re- inforced German detachment in what apparently represented des- perate effort to plug the invasion gap.
 The newspaper Pravda said Ro- kossovsky's army had moved twice as fast during the presetn offensive as the Germans did in their best days of the eastward sweep in 1041.
 For the moment Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's Third Army of White Russia had taken the lead in the Soviet offensive, smashing toward the defenses guarding the Baltic States, East Prussia and Gen. tral Poland.
 Mobile units of the Third Army, Moscow said, were pushing rapidly up the railroad toward Wilno in pursuit of German forces thrown out of Smorgon, 42 miles to the southeast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
LEGAL AID FOR WATERBURY, OPA Appointment of Counsel Delayed Pending Budge.
 tary Provisions

Attorney William Allen, 6 mem. Der of the legal staff at the Bridge port OPA rent control office, was in Waterbury today to asssit the local office with legal tasks. It was dis- closed he will be at the Waterbury office two days each week, on Tues- days and Thursdays.
 George McDuff, rent administra- tor. said no word has been received from the regional or state office on on appointment of a local lawyer for the post. It is understood that the selection for the post has been ap- proved but the appointment can not be made until budgetary con- alterations are settled.
 The local office meanwhile started to move today to new headquarters in the Waterbury National bank buildings, with the new location to ne used after tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs. Mildred Ka- cergus, Wickapamee road, Bethle- hem, was held yesterday morning from the residence to St. Johns church, Watertown, where sol- emn high Mass was celebrated by Rev. Gerald Catcher, assisted by Rev. Thomas McGarry, as deacon, and Rev. Myles Gavin, as sub-dea- con. Burial was in St. Johns ceme- tery, Watertown, committal services by Father Catcher.
 An honorary delegation from the Council of Catholic Women of St. Johns church included Mrs. Maria Bellemore, Mrs. John Haundra, Mrs. Daniel Mayors, Mrs. Alfonso Hubert, Mrs. Simon Bensavage, Mrs. Adrian Gelions, Mrs. George Stone and Miss Lauron Ford. Bearers were Anthony and John Loukaitis, John and Mat thew Lizauskas, Vincent and Ed ward Skeltis and William Alekson.
 The funeral of Andrew Swanson, 9 Cottage Place, Oakville, was held this morning at II o'clock from the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

had increased their payroll deduc- tions hy 90 per cent while the som- CTS Brass CO, employees have ate tained 75 per cent of their overall quota.
 EmpIoyes of the American Brass O., in Waterbury have purchased S260, 900 in cash purchases of bonds toward a quota of sS24,000.
 Yesterday, members of the Bunker Hill Parent-Teachers' association sold $s,775 in Series ''E" bonds at the Victory House.
 Local merchants are manning the victory house all day today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

mated prizes of eiOO $50 and sz5 bonds for the event. An auction scheduled for Q later date at the plant also promises to be a big event.
 william V. Hawkes., chairman of the payroll savings division of the current Fifth War Loan Drive to- day announced that the Mattatuck Mfg. O., the first to exceed It's quota some time ago. Is now l02 per cent over its original quota of a Sl00 bond purchase for each eEn- ploye. MT. Hawkes. also made known that the M. J. Daly O., employees
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

battle area" Patterson said.
 Some German infantry marched on foot from Paris to the battle front area"
 Patterson said a noteworthy per- centage" of the German prisoners taken in Normandy, although they fought grimly, had no illusions about the ultimate defeat of Germany and were disheartened by the failure of air support.
 The invasion entered it's second month with the Normandy beach, head firmly established and with new battles for its expansion in the making.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

Failure to meet this quota will re- suit in the first such occurrence here during all War Loan Drives of the current campaign.
 Meanwhile the current campaign was being given strong support by the many industrial employees of the city. The Scovill Mfg. Go. bond officials today expressed confidence of attaining their $850,0O0 bond quota as a stimulated sweep of bond buying has set in among employees during the past few days.
 PICK 3
 The ,company's whistle was blown seven times this morning for total of 150 times since D-day and sig- nalizing the purchase of similar number of $1,000 bonds by em- ployeS. The company is planning a gala kicker's handicap tournament on July IS at the Watertown Coun- try club with green fees to be by the purchase of an extra war bond. The company S.ER.A.h foreman's association and girls club have do-