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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
STATE TO STAGE
BIGGEST EVENTS
FOR SP0RTSMEN
Curtain Goes Up Nov. Is,
When First Nine Race
Tracks Open

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 25-tR-Buy
train ticket and find a place t.
live lis he kidding?) and you car
have a ringside seat this winter
for Florida's richest sports spec
tacle.
Never before even in peacetime
boom years, has the state staged 6
show with such a golden return
for the actors.
Topped by perhaps 81, sec, 900 TO,
race horse owners, the payoff will
include nearly $1,250,000 for dog
races, maybe $500 for college
football teams, up to $4,000 fol
professional golfers and $4,000 fol
fishermen.
II you like fatter figures, you
might count spectator participation
and call it a hundred million dol.
lar-plus season. Betting at horse
and dog tracks hit the $109, 900, 0O(
mark last winter and racing mer
say the total will 60 higher this
time.
The curtain goes up Nov. IS - ir
state already teeming with sol
diers, sailors, war workers ano
their families - when the first OF
nine dog tracks open. The final &C,
will end May 81 with the closing
of the last greyhound course.
Here are the high spots Of the
program during the six and one.
half months:
Horse racing - three tracks are
scheduled to operate 100 days. q
more than any previous Florida
Miami, will reopen after severa,
season. Gulfstream Park, north Of
p1iami, will reopen after several
years of idleness to share the bet
ting bonanza with Hialeah race
course and Tropical Park. The
Widerier handicap. biggest race in
the state, has been returned to its
$4,000 added pre-war value.
Football - the Orange bow,
game New Years day tops a sche
dule which includes invasions Of
the state by Tulsa Dec. and
Texas A. and M. Dec. 8 for engage.
ments with the University Of Mi.
ami. A big post-season high school
attraction is being considered.
/. Golf = the $4,000 Miami open
tournament will be held Dec. ITO.
The international four-ball tourna.
ment will be revived in the spring
with a value Of $1,000 or more. st.
Petersburg is considering resump.
ton Of the $40, COO West Coast open.
Several amateur events for men
ID women are planned.
Fishing - the $4,000 metropoli.
tan Miami tournament will attract
many thousands of participants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Florida Lines Up Rich Sports Program
Historians Say Browns
Took First Flag In 81

points as St. Louis, Detroit, Pitts
burgh. Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
Boston, New York. Washington.
Baltimore and Chicago.
The Browns lost to Detroit in 81
and the New York Giants in '88,
but they copied the playoffs In
1886 and tied in 1885.
Chris Won Der Abe was the
president of those historic Browns
whose star player was Charles
THE Noble Roman) Comiskey.
captain and first baseman general
ly credited with coming the
phrase, mo game is lost until the
last man is out"
Comiskey had attracted the at
tention of the Browns while play.
ing for he Dubuque Rabbits
and acting as a grain butcher"
for news company on the side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Randolph Field Eleven
Clash With Gren1lins

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. rs
RETwo undeteated, united high
scoring teams meet here Satur-
day night when Randolph Field
Hurrying Rsmblers clash with
the Third Air Force Gremins
but fans are expecting a defensive
battle.
Reason: Two massive lines will
collide and they have made grid.
iron history in holding the oppo'
sition virtually to nothing on the
ground. Especially is this true
of the mighty Ramblers who show
just So yards to have been given
to four games, an average of nine
yards per contest-an all-time
record.
Third Air Forces 206-pound line
allowed Georgia Preflight 4f
yards rushing and Georgia Pre-.
flight lost by only three points te
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
BRITISH DRIVE FOE
OFF NEAR TILBURC
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German troops into a huge rec.
tangular trap bounded by the
North sea, the broad Mas delta
and Canadian forces smashing
northward from Antwerp.
''Ihe cutting of the eneny's life.
line very obviously increases the
enemy's difficulty in west Hol
land" declared a British staff Of.
ficer. He described S Hertogen.
bosch as a Every priced objective
in the present phase Of the Allied
campaign.
Canadian forces fighting to clear
the approaches to Antwerp main
tanned their pressure both in the
area Of the Breskens pocket on
the south side Of the Schelde es.
tuary and around Bergen OPP Zoom,
directly north Of Antwerp.
The Canadian First army troops
added two-mile advance south Of
Breda to the general jostlings OF
the Germans in Holland.
Bad weather kept most of the
U. S. Ninth airforce planes on the
ground today, but so Thunderbolts
took off late in the day to strafe
railways and roads. destroying two
trucks and four freightcars.
West Of Antwerp Canadian mari,
time infantry captured the German
strongpoint of Fort Frederik Hen
dirk on the south side of Schelde
estuary after two days hard fight
ing. The German radio earlier had
announced withdrawal from the
town, which is a mile north Of
Breskens.
As q result of this Canadian vic.
tory the only guns the Germans
have left on the south side Of the
Schelde capable of covering the es.
tuary are at Cadzand, six miles
west Of the fort. The Canadians
were within four miles Of that goal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
PRISON CAMP HEAD
CUT BY PRISONER

WENTWORTH, Oct. rs. - R -
Capt. J. f. Taylor, Al, superintend
ent Of Prison Camp No. 500, near
here, was in Leaksville hospita,
in critical condition tonight rom
stab wounds which Capt. J. M
Barnes. Greensboro, divisional.
camp supervisor, said were in
flicted last night by Paul York, %,
Of Greensboro and High Point, a
prisoner at the camp.
Barnes said the assault occur
red in the camp stockade at the
supper hour. He gave this version:
York and a fellow prisoner obtain
ed liquor while they were Workjng
on the road yesterday and when
they returned to camp Taylor Or
dered York's companion hand-cl1ff-
ed in his cell. When Taylor went
to investigate the non-appearance
of York at supper, York attacked
the superintendent, Barnes said,
and slashed him deeply across the
abdomen before he could be halt
ed by guards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Florida Gators Drill
For Forthcoming Game

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Oct. 25.-
-(R-The University OF Florida
Gators today turned from work
outs on new offensive passing plays
to a heavy session in tackling fun
damentals as they entered the H.
nal stages of their preparations for
their homecoming game with the
University of Maryland Terps mere
Saturday: afternoon.
Coach Tom Lieb stressed tack
ling and downfield blocking IN a
session that found most OF the 80
man squad in action. With tAe
team in what Lieb has described
as excellent shape" the Gators
will taper off in light afterno on
session tomorrow, and limberlns
up workout Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
CATS PREPARE
TO MEET CAPS
pr WFDDELL HARRISS

TIKI Now Hanover Wildcats put
10 finishing touches on their IL
nal nal heavy practice Yesterday at
t t,a- in preparation for their
fl with the favored Raleigh Caps
here s, tomorrew night. The kickoff
is slated for 8 p. m. under the
/ Tghts at Legion Stadium:
The local eleven is in fairly
good shape for the contest, al
though several starters have sus-
tained minor injuries during recent
nractice sessions. All of these,
however. are expected to be rea-
DIV for action against the Caps with
tie possible exception of Johnny
svmmes. who was injured in Mon
days scrimmage.
lack Lorimore. Cats captain
and shifty wingnack, will be back
in the starting lineup against the
! Raleigh aggregation. Lowrimore
Was unable to see action in the
Goldsboro encounter due to an in
jlred shoulder.
Rupert Bryan, Wilmington men
Tor, Indicated that he possibly
would shift fullback Winford SUIT
ton to the tailback post, in place
Of the injured Symmes, and run
David Bannerman, hard-driving
reserve back, in the fullback slot
The remainder of the backfield
will be rounded out by Lowrimore
in the wingback position, and We'd
dell Harriss at blockingback.
Also expected to see much &C.
ton are Bubba Sykes, versatile
tailback, and Neal Patrick. fleet
footed end. Patric.-, who was re.
Gently promoted to the varsity
from the junior varsity, has dis
played much talent on defense as
well as offense.
The Capital City boys have ex-
hlblted much speed and power,
combined with a dazzling array Of
trick plays, in previous engage
mentS and present serious threat
70 the locals. The Raleigh lads are
led by Jimmy Phillips, swivel-hip-
PED tailback, and Brantley Poole,
powerful guard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Aerial Minded Gridders
Out ToSet New Record

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-(R-Those
aerlal-minded professional grid
ders, who toss passes around a
football field with the greatest
OF ease, are out to set another
record and it looks like it's COINS
to be easy.
In 10 games this season, the
play-for-pay boys have averaged
one touchdown for every 81 plays
rushing or passing-figures re-
leased from the National football
leagues statistics bureau reveal.
The figure is even more start
ling when compared with similar
statistics for 1886, when it took
an average of AZ plays to produce
a touchdown. Last year that fig.
ure was reduced to 22.4.
But the unbeaten Philadelphia
Eagles, tied for first place in the
Eastern division of the league,
have scored a touch down for
each 1872 plays. Green Bay, with
five victories, and with Don Rut
son in the starring role, has scor.
ed on an average of once every
IS plays.
Eight years ago, when the mark
Of touchdown for each AZ plays
was set, the pass wasn't one OF
the chief offensive weapons. To-
day it is just about as important
to the offense as the backfield it.
self. Consequently, the number
Of touchdowns scored is going
up; the number OF plays per
touch down is dropping.
Defensively, Philadelphia and
New York's lines appear to be tops
in the league SO far. The statistic.
show the Eagles have held their
foes to an average of one yard
per rush in Ill attempts. New
York's mark, also for Ill rushes
is 2.3 yards.
While forward passes have been
getting a big workout, laterals
have been at minimum this
season. The Chicago Bears have
tried nine and completed seven.
Second in that department are the
tail-end Card-Pitts, with a three
for-tnree mark. Six other teams
have tried one each and the other
two, none.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Allied Armies In Italy
Place Foe On Defensive

ROME, Oct. rs -4R+- American
Fifth army troops have captured
Monte Belmonte. one Of the key
hastions guarding the southern ap
proaches to Bologna, after a week
OF bitter fighting, the allied high
command announced today.
On the Adriatic sector British
Eighth army units advanced an
other three miles without encoun
tering opposition, which indicated
that Field Marshal Gen. Alber
Kesselring may be Withdrawing t,
a new line Of defense.
The Fifth army now is firmly es
tablished in the Monte Grande-Mon
to Spaduro area some six mile
from the lateral Bologna-R inin
highway and is in position Il
compel the Germans to make |
major defensive readjustment i,
northern Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
TRAIL

Lakes eleven must really be some
thing. But you find Great Lake,
lost to Ohio State and was tier
by Illinois.
30 you go around in a circle
It's the same in any section. 70,
think Tennessee rates up there
Wen, the Vols were tied by Ala
bama, which was tied by L. S. u
and L. S. U. was knocked out b,
Rice, Texas Aggies and Mississip
pi.
You finally practically give ur
on the teams that have been beat
en- or tied. and concentrate on the
eievens still indicated or united
Ieams such as Army, Notre Dame,
Penn, Tulsa, cambridge, Randolph
Field and Georgia Tech.
Most of the sports writer's an.
parently do the same thing. al.
though they did think enough Of
Iowa PIE flight, North Carolina
Pre-flight and Purdue to n a m {
NAASoA u a. IcdIlI ike BAIL
bridge, whose record is clear but
whose schedule is different from
that of most teams in that it has
played only non-school teams thus
far.
Considering the difficulties in.
volved, the nations sports writer's
DO a pretty good job Of naming
the top 10 every week. Up to now
it's been largely a my pop can
lick your pop" affair. It won't be
long before my pop will get a
chance to see if he can lick your
pop, however, with some of the
leading teams scheduled to tangle
with each other.
Then We'll discover that morning
dew is quite permanent compared
with a spot in the first 10. One
convincing defeat talks louder than
a half-dozen convincing victories.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
PREPS
FOR NAVY FLYERS

CHAPEL HILL, Oct. Is Up
The Carolina preflight B team had
title trouble working Jackson
yille's offensive against the va
sity Cloudbusters here this after
noon as Coach Glenn Killinger
worked his charges FIR the clash
with Jacksonville, Fla, Naval Air
Station in the Florida city Satur-
day afternoon.
The ''B" boys used Jacksonville
plays and gained through the Pre-
flight varsity line with ease. Sew
eral long gains were reeled off
during the session.
Line Coach Pa,! Bryant is wor-
ried more than anything else abtut
capable starters at the end posi-
tons. Warren Anderson, Melbourne
Sheehan, Wally Schumacher, and
w. E.. Harding, who have been
starting on the first two teams
participated in nothing but Light
work. None Of the quartet had or
heaVy equipment.
Running at the flanks were
Cadet Cleasoner from Morris
Harves and Netrson who played al
Maryland. The latter, who just re
ported, looks fair.
In the first string backfield Otto
Graham has returned to his ole
position at quarterback, ]. T
Levay and Bill Wilson are at the
halves, and Stan Koslowski al
full.
Ralph Honeycutt is at center
Kermit Atkinson and Gene F'licl
at the guards, George LoTentz ane
Ben Lun at the tackles, and thu
aforementioned ends at the TANKS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Daily Double Pays
More Than $4,000
To Three Winners

SALEM, N. H., Oct. 25.-(R-
The daily double at Rockingham
park today was worth $2,301.60 to
each of II ticket holders.
The record payoff of the New
England season resulted when J
c. Montana's Redbush, a recen
arrival from Canada, scampere,
to victory in the first race and
Mrs. w. w. Snyder's Bloodhound
proved good enough to win the
second.
Redbush paid $139.40 in the first,
while Bloodhound returned 1872. 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

North Carolina Preflight which
beat Navy 21-14.
Randolph Field has averaged
81 points per game, rolling up 205
in beating Rice, Texas, Southern
Methodist and Camp Polk, La,
only six points has been scored
against the Ramblers. Third Air
Force has made 146 points in
five games to IA for the opposi-
ton.
The Ramblers really haven't
been tested although all three Of
the Southwest Conference teams
were supposed to be strong. The
Gremlins have had harder games
but apparently have played tough
er opposition. Their victories
were $40 over Charleston Coast
Guard, $50 over Chatham Field,
22-0 over Fort Benning Third Ar.
tillery, 1877 over Georgia Pre-
flight and 29-7 over the Cherry
Point Marines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
REDS INVADE NORWAY.
CAPTURING KIRKENES
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lost more than 500 tanks III two
days and were losing men at the
rate of 5000 and 1000 killed each
day.
A move to ease some of the ter
rible pressure of this conflict might
be the drive which the Germans
said the Russians were making on
north Poland, posing an imminenty
dangerous outflanking III t
against the embattled homeland Of
the German junkers.
In Norway the Germans them
selves announced first the evacua-
ton of Kirkens. Stains subse-
quent order credited its seizure
along with 80 other towns around
Varangerfjord. to the Artic army
If Gen. K. A. Meretskov and the
Red fleet.
Kirkenes, center of a rich iron
mining district which in 1899 pro-
duced l 100000 tons of ore, is on the
|Barents sea and was Germany s
most valuable port in the TAR north.
Besides winning welcome ew
base for protection of the Muir
mansk supply route. the Russians
signified their intention Of march
ling through Norway in pursuit #
approximately $4,000 German
troops who had been driven out of
the Petsamo district that Russia
took in the Finnish armistice set
Element.
The entry into Norway was with
the approval OF the Norwegian
roval government in London.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
,ruITNEY MARTIN

BY YORK. Oct. 25.-R-Thi'
NEW ~ selecting the top II
lsine ;5 teams "a of the week is get
otbaA lS .ar bv the week, and al
Is t0 o1svens whose records have
'dy u sle or two on them are be
ming IL IN the season it largely
bafly ace of dropping the names
as a cs,rnsd t clubs into a pa
the a touching a match to it
Fl 0as 10 what names the smoke
ID ss 'naiIed out. That is, it was
lirs 81 81 bazy proposition, with one
les' az a,slity u opposition these
The lhls.s qsd' teams have been meet
nds !, oretty well established by
lg Is ID g-t that gives a little basis
o"' a n.o That, and comparative
u Fa'lD SSbich are probably t h e
cores ,.,,,o.faced. double-timing and
aCst NV. NV. unreliable devices ever
'ltoss :'J for comparing the
:oncea ~ If rival teams. But what
gtrtN6" j sc thprP2
't 4 ,,n WITH 7 be long now before you'll
lt i, hard d time finding 10 major
liT We, which haven't had their ears
e'ts i, T hack at one time or anoth-
lNnT W. had a little trouble this
~: :, trying to figure out which
ans. AN belonged. s;,s+ ,.a
. We md Air force, rated a
' '.s~.'s stout club. Then we found
.s5,' pre,flight Rad lost to Michi-
va " Michigan must be pretty good.
M rs ~l,n,e and then discovered
, Wolve-ines had lost to Indiana.
Indiana really must be good,
~ ,,N onlv we find that it lost to
~. .nois Illinois must be very. very
,'.V'- then. but it lost to Great
w. I.o, and Purdue. That G r e a t
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
Spanish Press Claims
Russia Breeding War

LONDON, Oct. 25.- w The
tightly-controlled Spanish press
accused Russia today OF attempt
ing to incite rebellion in Spain
and the overthrow of the regime
Of Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co.
With clashes between Spanish
republican guerrillas and Francois
forces continuing, the concern IN
Madrid over the possibility that
the uprising might develop. into
a full-fledged civil war was re.
Elected in the government-domt-.
mated press.
RI1Y WAR RQNDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26
STATE PREPARES
TO MEET INDIANS

RALEIGH, Oct. Is. -(P- State
College gridders held a two-hour
scrimmage session today in pre-
paration for their southern con-
ference game at Norfo k, Va. Sat-
urday with the William and Mary
Indians.
All Of the squad participated in
the heavy work with the exception
OF End Arthur Eicholtz and Tail.
back Howard Turner, both 0!
whom were slightly injured in the
Statewide Forest encounter here
last Saturday night. However, both
are expected to see action in the
Norfolk game.
Coach Beattie reathers drilled
the squad in fundamentals and
polished up offensive plays prior
to the. scrimmage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

Police Chief G. H. Casteen
announced yesterday that Sgt.
l.. b. Rourk had been trans
ferred from the detective bu-
reau to day duty and had been
assigned to the downtown area
and Patrolmam N. J. Wolfe
had been transferred from the
radio patrol to the detective
bureau.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

The fact that light has a definite
speed was brought out by Ole
Roemer at Paris in 1876.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

The Metropolitan Museum Of
Art. New York, contains 325,81l
square feet Of exhibition floor
space.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

Approximately eight million
tons OF food are now stockpiled
throughout Europe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-26

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-02-18
Wrangell W.A.A.C. On
 Active Duty

FORT DIES MONIES. Iowa Pvt. Angeline Ann Tinery. of Wrangell and daughter of Mrs. Aileen Lewis here, was a member of a Womans Army Corps unit which recently left First WAC Training Center at Fort Des Moines for duty with the Army at WAC Detachment. Camp Hobbs New Mexico.
 WAC units now are at work with the Army on more than 26S posts in all 4S states, the District of Col umbia, and overseas.
 The expanded WAC training pro gram is resulting in a rapid in crease of supplemental troops. the WAC members of which are taking over more and more Army jobs Hundreds of trained WACs go out each week from Fort Des Moines. the other WAC training centers and specialist schools, to take their places with the Army.
 Mrs. Tillery's husband, it will be remembered, was one of a crew of 33 Navy men who lost their lives when the submarine O19 went down off the east coast in June 1941. He was 24-year-old Thomas ". TiIlery. Jr and the couple had been married about two years.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-02-18
TEPEE TALK Rr Willnnn

There will be BIG Barn Dance Saturday night at Red Men Hall for all Red Men and their in- yited guests.
 Bro. John Arola and his com mittee have promised us a lot of old time dances. With a pot-luck lunch around midnight.
 There will be an initiation of three new members next Tuesday night and we want all members to turn out. There will be an extra special lunch after the meeting.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-02-18
Local Boy Has 3 Stars For Campaigns

Robert Shermer. Private First Class with the Marines and former Wrangeu high school boy who has seen extensive action in the south and central Pacific. now wears three stars for various cam raigns against the laps. Shermer enlisted in the Marine Corps some time before Pearl Harbor and his occasional letters to The Sentinel and Wrangel relatives have been of great interest to friends here In a letter received this week by his grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Cramer, he tells of his latest action at Tar ava. The letter follows.
 December 23. 1943
 Dear Grandmother and all:
 Thanks a lot for the package. It got here about four days ago.
 You are doubtless worried about me after all the publicity that my division received after the bloody battle of Tarawa. Well. I'm not gO- ing to frighten you with the grislyl details but will say that it wasI worse than the Solomons which, if you may not have known til now, was another campaign in which Il participated which gives me three stars on my campaign bar. Inci- dentally, l have three bars now -I American theater of war So. Pae-I ific-Asiatie three stars and the Presidential Citation.) On Tarawa, ss,T1 afH hTv' Colonel Marrit Edson of Marine Raiders ('Commandos" fame for ef- l fieient communications all through 1 the eampaign-this is not the first time-the upshot of it all is that the -Marines are the crack regiment of the whole Marine Corps. l
 Chad is in for some straight l dope" on New Zealand if he wants it as I went there from my last birthday on until the Gilbert in- yasion.
 My buddy and I are known as Pathfinder" Perry nd Sour dough" Shermer-
 It seems like we went on liberty here in this place and during the course Of the day we tried taking shortcut through the woods. We were told it was only five miles. Vel, we walked five, then 10 and then 15 and NO TOWN! So we kept on til dark. Well, confiden- tially, it gets d---d cold down here and dark so we sat, froze and wait cd for the moon to come lip. We'll VIZ started at 10:SO a. m. and got back to camp at 7:45 the next morn. Fifteen more minutes and V ed have been A. ". o. L. (My feet are still sore.)
 Well, I've got switchboard watch from in the morning til 8 so I'm going to turn in so love to all and a very Happy New Year.
 Bob