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Negro Benefit Fights
Planned For Tonight

Refereeing tonight's all-Negro
fights at the Legion stadium spon-
sored by the Negro employees OF
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, for the benefit Of the
Fannie Norwood Memorial home
for aged Negroes in New Hanover
county, will be James J. Johnson,
former sparing partner of Joe
Louis, Promoter Huck Lilies an
nounced last night.
The main bout of ten rounds will
feature Bill Johnson, 175-pounds,
against E. B. Turner, 180-pound
boxer of Shaw university, at Ra-
eigh.
The semi-finals will pitt George
Davis, 155 pounds, of Wilmington,
against Willie Simon, 1877 pounds,
of Durham.
A six-round bout between 157-
pound Monroe Council of Whining
ton and 155-pound Stanley Mosley,
Brooklyn fighter, has also been an
nounced.
Also signed to fight tonight are
Haywood Pollock, 14O pounds, and
Willie James, 145 pounds.
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YANKS ADVANCE
IN Med FINALS
BY SID FEEDER

ROME, Dec. IA R The Fifth
Army's defending championship
team put two more men into the
finals of the second annual Medi-
terranean inter Allied boxing
tournament this afternoon to boost
its total to six finalists and to take
a commanding lead over he North
African and Adriatic zone squads,
which loom as the chief threats.
Cpl. Leroy Jeffrey of Kansas City
and Corp. Melvin Pullen of Day.
ton, o., reached the finals in the
short afternoon session, joining Pvt.
Ezzard Charles, Cincinnati profess
sional middleweight, Pvt. Milton
Glass of Akron, o., Sgt. Adolph
Labrecque of Holyoke, Mass, and
Pvt. Adolph Barlow of Philadelphia.
Jeffrey, long, lean MP, came
off the floor after suffering first
round knockdown to outpoint Har-
old Sammis, New York sailor. in
the amateur l i g h t heavyweight
semi f.1al. Pulen, an amateur
bantam weight, became the first
boxer in the tournament to chalk
up two knockouts when he fatten-
ed Pvt. Claude Mclaughlin of
Rockville Center, Long Island. Nc
Laughlin was hurried down from
the fighting front to compete in
the tournament after being located
in line outfit and appeared to be
out OF condition as a result.
CPL Jim Mcdonald, husky east
St. Louis, ILL.,, Negro representing
the continental team from southern
France, pounded out one sided
win over rs Richard Duckworth
OF Poplar Bluff, Mo-, to reach the
amateur heavyweight finals. Nc
IDonald's skill in fighting and
blocking punches as well as his Of
fensive class led one ringsider to
remark, Hes the best educated
amateur ever saw
The fourth doughboy to win this
afternoon scored the second knock
out Of the day. rs Joseph Dimar-
tino, big shouldered Bridgeport,
Conn.,, por welterweight clouted
Albert Wright of Yorkshire, Eng
land, with pair Of right hand ar
tillery shells in the second round
and Wright took the full count Of
ten on his back.
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Weatherman SUITS
Duke Drill Short

DURHAM, Dec. IA. -(P)- The
weatherman threw damper on
Dukes Sugar Bowl plans this af-
ternoon when Coach Eddie Cam
eron cut short the drill due to the
cold and windy weather.
ut was just too cold to do any
good" commented the Blue Devil
mentor, 80 we made it short and
snappy."
There was no rough work. A
brief passing drill launched the
session and the squad ran through
a light signal drill before calling
it a day.
The biggest news was the an
nouncement that Gene Wilhoite,
substitute tackle, had suffered a
painful ankle injury in yesterday
drill and may be lost to the team
for the Sugar Bowl game with
Alabama ON New Years day.
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Feminine Baseballers
Lose Original Angel

CHICAGO, Dec. IA. -(P- The
six-club all-American girls profess
sional baseball league will operate
on its own next season, without
the help of its original "angel-
P. K. Wrigley, president of the
Chicago Cubs.
Wrigley financed the feminine
circuit during the past two sea-
sons in which attendance increas-
ed from $4,000 in 1943 to $4,000
last year. League President Ken
Sells said Wrigley was turning con-
troll of the league over to four
charter members. Rockford, ILL.,,
South Bend, Ind, and Kenosha and
Racine, Wis.
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Managers Confident
OF Another Season
Twice As Many Big League
Players Indicted As
Discharged

NEW YORK Dec. 14.-R-Twice
as many big league ball players
have been indicted into the Army
and Navy since the end OF the 1914
season as have peen discharged,
but club owners today look ahead
with confidence to another camp
paign and a rosy postwar future.
The trickle of returning services
men has yielded Van Mungo of the
Giants, Mickey Livingston and
Harry peanuts" Lowrey Of the
Cubs and Les Mueller and Al Benz
ton of the Tigers.
Dick Wakefield, who almost sin
gle-handedly slugged the Tigers ia
the American league flag. head&
the outgoing list that includes
Thurman Tucker of the White Sox,
Hal Epps Of the Athletics, Fred
Schmidt of the Cards, Al Zarilla.
Paul Dean and Bill Seinsoth OF
the Browns, Jim Tabor and Roy
Partee of the Red Sox and Bob
Malloy of the Reds among the bets
ter known.
Although increased drafting Of
the 1851 age group and reviews
Of wel-knoWn servicemen before
discharge are expected to tighten
the manpower 81 tuat n, the
leagues have made provisions for
taking care of the Army of nation,
al defense list players when and
if they come back.
The American league h s 239
men in the service and the ma
tional 231 but the minors with 34O6
on their defense lists present the
big problem. Just for example. the
latest list shows Toledo of h e
American Association with IA on
the defense list, Hartford, Conn, Of
the Eastern league with lis and
Lynchburg, Va. of the Class B
Piedmont league with 81.
Action at the major and minor
meetings in New York and But
falo clears up the situation some.
what. The big leagues have boost
ed their player limits to 48 and
their active lists during the play
ing season to 30, both increased
on ratio of one returning serv.
iceman to each five men original
ly allowed The minors have voted
to add one defense man for each
third regular on the player limit
and one to each five on the active
list, a start but not solution.
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Duke Alumni To Honor
Football Team Tonight

DURHAM Dec. IA. = up -
Durham almuni of Duke University
will honor the Blue Devil football
squad and coaching staff at meet
ing at Four Acres tomorrow night
at seven o'clock. Engraved bill
folds. will be presented the entire
SQUAD and coaching staff by the
association. Captain c. P. McFea-
theirs, commandant of the Duke
Naval unit, will be principal speak
er. Alumni officers for the coming
wear will be selected.
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Tag Team Bouts Set
For ITALIAN Matches

Don Lee, 275-pound grappler
hom the Louisiana canebrakes,
was once a protege of the late
Huey Long. Perhaps this is one
reason why he is so disliked by
local fans, however, he is teamed
with newcomer in the person of
Johnny Turner from Memphis,
Tenn. in tonight's wrestling show
at ITALIAN hall, and the outcome is
aybody's guess. This is parti-
ruarly true as their opponents are
the popular Texas Jack" O'Brien
and Johnny Long, of Baltimore.
Don Lee was formerly a star
tullback on the Louisiana univer.
siy varsity. His unpopularity
among local fans doesn't seem to
bother him, although he takes
quite a bit of punishment before
getting the referees decision.
Jack O'Brien is seemingly as
unpopular as Lee, but he can be
admired for his talent on the mat.
Pet Managoff, of Charlotte, re-
turns to the ITALIAN Hall arena to-
night and will be pitted against
Jack De Vault OF Kn~ willie, Tenn,
in the opening bout. Bob Redmon
again will referee the scraps, and
Promoter Bert Causey said last
night that few ringside seats are
available at the Orion hotel.
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RANDOLPH FLIERS
LEAVE GOLDSBORO
FOR BOND CONTEST

GOLDSBORO, Dec. IA Up "A
confident bunch of Randolph Field
footballers left here today for New
York where they will play the Sec
ond Air Force Superbombers in a
war bond-Army Air Forces cham
pionship grid game Saturday.
The Ramblers arrived here from
Randolph Field, Tex, late Tues
day and remained over until to.
day taking well-earned rest. No
workouts were held but Coach
Frank Tritico sad polishing-up
drill was planned for New York
tomorrow.
Tritico said he was confident his
team would take the Superbomb.
ers. "For that matter, I believe
we could lick Army or Navy.
We've got a great football team
and any man would be proud to
coach them"
animous in their choice Of tn e
Members of the team were I'm.
Third Air Force Gremlins from
Charlotte as the toughest team
they faced this year.
81 believe we can take any team
in the country today, including Ar
my and Navy, but I doubt that
any of the teams would give us g
better game than Charlie Trip
and the Third Air Force team
Trippi is the finest individual back
we've played against Tritice
said.
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City Sunday School
League Has Meeting

A meeting of interested persons
in the Y. M. C. A. Sunday school
basketball league was held last
night at the Y. M. c. A., and dis
cussion for formation of the new
league was discussed.
The second meeting of represen
tatives of Sunday schools through
out the city will be held Tuesday,
it was announced, for the pur.
pose of electing officers. Also tc
be talked is practice times in the
Y. M. C A. gym for teams enter
ing the league, and the purchase
Of uniforms.
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=, WHITNEY MARTIN

,u YORK Dec. IA R -
NJ" you get the information :.5t di.
aSsnt r nm the horse itself, y GU
~. i's cav, it must be right. SC
dsn' .be coach of the Randolph
t's FL football team, one of the star
lsa . w. and a scout for an op-
,syel'it team all say the Ramblers
1s . GOOD, they must be good.
" 10 Randolph Field squad flew
'a IL, ifs Bond Bowl game with
' Scecond Air Force team at the
" Grounds Saturday, arriving
Pao w If the train-traveling Supe--
geo. ssers, However. 1t. Dan STAY
s1pD assistant coach for the Sec
~, Air. Air. Force and former line
40 ~ al 81 the University of Denver,
E0a a.. us our first information on
ss..ndolph Field. He secuted the
Td say Randolph Field is bet
~ .han the Philadelphia Eagle
s t team l aw," the handsome
ll' ~ said. Maybe not as
.'sh deception. They just knock
plu' dawn and nave plenty of speed
y 1i;tf Dudley { ID Layden and the
' ' They US! US d., dT nd torm na0.
Box r.,;+;oo p..ao,.,
mar, ac and perhaps the most anony-
. uons tutor a major team ever
. l was the next to give his opin-
a IN It. Tritico is very quiet,
,I moon-faced Louisiana
,oduct. whose coaching expert
srrp before joining the Army was
sonfned to six years at La Grange
ssh school, Lake Charles, La.
I'll say I never saw a better
.s,m than ours he admitted.
"Of course we might meet one
Saturday, Our toughest game was
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GIANT BACKFIELD
ONLY STAND0UT

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-tRAThe
New York football Giants aren't
outstanding stars, says their
coach, stout Steve Owen, but 'they
are boys who can do one thing
and do it well" That's why they
won the eastern division champi-
onship Of the national football
league and stand a good chance in
their tussle with the Green Bay
Packers for the league title next
Sunday.
The nearest thing to a standout
in the Giant backfield is Bill Pas
chal, who carries the ball so well
that he has just won the ground
gaining crown for the second year
in succession. But Bill comes right
out of there when the Giants 60
on defense and HOWE Livingston
usually goes in. The last time the
Giants met the Packers, HOWE
did such a good job OF covering
Don Hutson on passes that tn e
Packer star, who achieved fame
by doing one thing superlatively
well, couldn't make one Of h s
touchdown catches.
Then there's ancient Arnie Her
Der, long-pass specialist; X e n
Strong, who came back to do moth.
ing but kick; Len Younce, an able
guard who drops back to do the
punting and missed the league
championship because of one bad
boot last week, and John Weiss,
strictly a defensive n d. Strong
and Livingston won league cham
pionships this year in their speci.
alties, field goals and pass-inter.
ceptions.
Perhaps the best all-around per
former in the Giant backfield is
Ward Cuff, who was regarded only
as a blocking back up to a couple
of years ago. Besides blocking and
calling signals, Cuff averaged Sc
yards for rs times he carried the
ball this season.
Because of the uncertainty about
PaschaPs ankle, sprained last Sun
day, Owen may change some o.
those special assignments thi.
week. Livingston, Keith Beebe ane
Carl Liebel, the clubs best pas!
receiver, was dropped back from
end to defensive left hafback.
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MIAMI CRiDDERS
PLAN COMEBACK
BY CHICK HOsCH

ATLANTA, Dec. 14.-REUni-
versity of Miami, whose 1914 foot
ball team failed to score in the
first four games and wound up
with one victory, one tie and sew
en- losses, is laying plans for a
"comback' next season.
Coach Eddie Dunn says that
games already have been arrang-
ed with Michigan State and Au-
burn on successive November
weekends at Miami, and that Tul-
sa and Wake Forest will likely be
dropped. Tentative plans are for
the Hurricanes to open against
University of Chattanooga at Chat
tanooga is among those resuming
play next season.
Dunn says other games being
sought are with South Carolina,
Clemson and Miami (Ohio) uni
versity. ''Miami' would be cinch
to win that one.
A. P. Pierson, Dunn's assistant,
plans to return to his former job
as coach at Fresno State college
in California. Fresno is also pplan-
ming resumption OF football in 1915.
Dutch Harrison, the Army ser
geant who won the recent Miami
open, started golf as lefthander
but switched after two years. .
with four holes to play and the
title at stake, Harrison was adj
vised that Henry Picard had fin
ished witn275 and that he needed
four As to earn tie. He came in
with 43-44, to win by astroke.
Picard had wound up 1883.
After the Texas Aggies-Miami
game, someone phoned Sports Edi-
tor Jimmy Burns of the Miami
Herald for the score. "70 to A.
he replied. Burns nearly fell out
of the chair when the guy shot
back, 'In whose favor?" Later.
Burns m m b e d to himself.
'Musta been stranger
One OF 1944's freak grid plays
involved Curtis Kuykendall- All
burns star tailback. With fourth
down and ten to go at midfield ID
the Georgia Tech game, Kuyken
dall's punt was blocked. The ball
bounced right hack into KuyE0 n
dalPs arms and he lit out, lacking
two yards of maxine a first down.
Coach Homer Norton of Texas
A. & NJ, whose teams played four
bowl games in the last five years,
picks Tulsa to beat Georgia Tech
in the Orange Bowl after a high
scoring duel. Major Vernon
Catfish Smith, Georgia's all
America end in 1881 and later as
sistant coach at Mississippi, is sta
toned in Iceland Bob Suf-
fridge, all-America guard at Ten
nesse in 1910, is home on leave
after south seas service 1t.
Col. Bill Britton, Tennessee line
coach on leave, is now in England.
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Alabama Holds Drill
For Sugar Bowl Tilt

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. A.
R)-Coach Frank Thomas Ala
bama gridders concentrated on pre-
cision work today in a campaign to
develop razor sharp offensive plays
to throw at the Duke Blue Devils
in the Sugar Bowl game on New
Years day.
Running plays over and over,
the Tiders worked on timing and
speed in the line and in the back
field. Detailed practice was parti-
cularly evident in the passing de-
partment. The team divided up
into three units for its drills.
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DEGAULLE IN CAIRO

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-LP-Gen.
Charles deGaulle has arrived by
plane in Cairo in his return trip
from Moscow, the American
broadcasting station in Europe re-
ported tonight in a broadcast
heard by the Blue network.
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BRONCHIAL
COUGHS!

or bronchial 1TFltdClONS Duc W
Colds. Buckley's Famous "CAN'
Adolf" Mixture Acts Like a
Flash.
Spend few cents today at any
good drug store for bottle of Buck
ley's CANADIOL Mixture triple acting).
Take a couple of sips at bedtime. Feel
its instant powerful effective action
spread through hroat, head and prom
chial tubes. 1t starts ance to loosen up
thick, choking phlegm. soothe raw mem
branes and make breathing easier.
Sufferers from those persistent Nasty
Irritating coughs or bronchial irrita-
tons due to colds find Buckley''s brings
quick and effective relief. Don't wait
get Buckley's Canadiol today. You get
relief instantly.
Futrelle's Pharmacy
Brooklyn Pharmacy
Silver Drug Dept.
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BASKETBALL RESULTS
MERCHANT LEAGUE

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Pickards 80, Grocerteria %.
Blake Electric a., Todd Furni-
ture SO.
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SPORTS IN SHORTS

on March 10 and IL Regional
champions will be determined at
Bowling Green on March II and 18,
and the state tournament will open
the following week =.
1t is expected that Bluffton will
be assigned to the Celina tourna-
ment again this season, and in that
tournament the locals may bump up
against two other Class b teams
with outstanding records If
they weather county tournaments,
Middlepoint and New Knoxville will
be in the sectional meet . +. Both
have impressive records, Middlepoint
having won IA straight games with
out defeat, and New Knoxville being
victor in 16 of II starts -.
Bluffton and Middlepoint have a
feud dating back over the last three
years In 1912 Bluffton turned
back previously unbeaten Middle
point team in the finals; and last
year Middlepoint reversed the pro.
cedure by disposing of Bluffton IL
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PAVE SIX

With Bluffton Highs undefeated
cagers romping thru the season at a
scintillating pace that has given
them a game average of 68.5 points
ner contest. the best Class B record
in the state, tournament hopes are
already riding high in the town and
surrounding area . IF the Pirates
high scoring aggregation can be kept
intact there is very good posslblll-
tv that Bluffton may be represented
in the state final round for the 18th
time
Bluffton has an outstanding record
as contender in the championship
bracket of state tournament play,
having sent 10 teams to the final
round in previous years One OF
those teams reached the state finals,
and another was not eliminated until
the semi-final round
Bluffton's first competition in 1914
tournament play will be in the
sectional meet at Celina on March
2. 3 and d, and the following week
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Tournament pairings this year,
however, would make it impossible
for the two teams to meet except in
the finals, because of new state
ruling that all exempted village and
parochial schools must play in one
bracket, with all county tournament
winners in the other A storm
of protest already has arisen because
of this form of seeding, but the
protests will not receive hearing
until next fall
Allen county tournament play is
getting under way this week, with
Lefayette playing Elida; Beaverdam
tangling with Spencerville and
Harrod meeting Shawnee on the
Shawnee court, Friday night ].
Conner drew bye =.
"Black team out of bounds" the
officials would call when Bluffton
college played Wilberforce universe
tvs negro outfit last Monday night
But the ball would go to Bluff
ton 1t all was because of an
Ohio conference rule that the home
team must wear white uniforms and
the visitors black Bluffton in
Jarly uarb xyac rafarrad fo ac thr
"Black team" all evening :.
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have a more difficult assignment
than those of the last several weeks
when they romped over other foes
to one-sided victories.
This Fridays game at Van Vert
will be the Bluffton teams last out
of-town appearance of the regular
season. On Friday, February 18,
the Pirates will play Wapakoneta
here, and they will close the regular
schedule against Upper Sandusky on
the home court, Friday, February 25.
In IL games, the Bluffton outfit
has averaged 68.5 points per con-
test, the outstanding Class B record
in the state. This record is all the
more remarkable when it is consid-
cred that five of the IL wins were
scored over Class A schools.
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THURSUA1, FEB. TO, Ig44
UndeIeaJed Pirates VIII Play Van
Vert There In League Tilt Friday

Play against Glass A competition
will be resumed this week by Bluff
ton Highs undefeated cagers when
the Pirates travel to Van Vert, Fri
day, to take on the strong Van Vert
High team in a Western Buckeye
league contest.
In the tilt, the Hassonlnen will be
cunning for their twelfth consecu-
tive win of the season, and victory
will put them in position to cop the
league title if they dispose of Wa
pakoneta the following week.
Van Vert is one of the stronger
teams in the Western Buckeye loop,
and on their home court the Cougars
always are dangerous. Advance in
dications are that the Pirates will
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JFFIJN NEWS, BLUFFTUN, OHIO
FIrales SET IVeW Scoring NecOFu
By Defeating Ada High 95 To 40

Bluffton Highs rampaging cagers
ran wild again last Friday night to
pummel Ada's luckless Bulldogs, 50
to 40, in contest that established a
new scoring record for the Bluffton
gymnasium.
1t was the second time this year
the undefeated Pirates trounced Ada,
previous contest played at that
place ending "a to 27.
Buttons 95 points against the
Bulldogs gave the team an average
of 68.5 points per game for the IL
contests they have played so far
this season, and put the outfit farth-
er out in front as Ohio's leading
Class B scoring outfit.
In their last eight starts the Has
sonmen have been travelling at a
particularly fast clip, amassing a
game average of 1913 points during
the streak.
Ada never was able to keep pace
with the fast Pirate outfit in last
| Fridays tilt, and Bluffton romped
away to 80 to 10 lead in the first
quarter, a killing pace that would
have given the team 120 points had
it been continued for the rest of
the game.
Bluffton's play was equally as inn
pressive in the second period when
the locals stretched their advantage
to a 54 to 25 count. At the third
quarter the score was 10 to SO.
Big Fred Hermann, star pivot
man of the Bluffton team, was "hot"
for the second game in row. His
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Flashy Wilberforce Cage Team
Beats BlufftOn College, $3.50

Wilberforce university's flashy team
of colored cagers turned in their
10th victory of the season last Mon
day night with 55 to 80 decision
over Bluffton college, in tilt played
in the Wherefore gymnasium.
Bluffton put up game battle in
the contest, trailing by only nine
points at halftime, II to 26, and if
the abbreviated Beaver squad could
have provided a little more reserve
strength the Burckymen would have
been in the running all the way
down to the final gun.
Shields, scintillating freshman star
of the negro team, lived up to all
pre-game publicity by coping in
dividual scoring honors of the even
ing with a 21-point total.
Loganbill, playing his first years
as regular on the Bluffton squad
and with only a little high school ex-
perience behind him, tailed IL
points to top Buttons scorers.
Lands and Baumgartner played out
standing floor games for the Beav-
ers, and in addition the former scor-
ed nine points and the latter eight.
This years Wilberforce team is
one of the cleverest ball handling
outfits the downstate school has
ever turned out, and Bluffton fans
are in for a real treat on Wednes-
day, February 16, when the colored
lads appear here against Bluffton.