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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-29
PITTSBURC NEEDS
MORE BASE HITS
By JAMES JORDAN

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28.-(R-You
can take it from Frank Fisch
There's nothing much wrong with
the Pittsburgh Pirates, from this
distance at least, that "a few base
knocks won't fix"
And 10 get those base knocks,
he's going all-out in reshuffling his
lineup with the aim of adding more
punch to what was better-than-
average defensive club last year.
Convalescing in hospital bed
after minor operation, the one
time Fordham flash went on: =
I'm not predicting anything. I
won't have any idea what may
be what until after I try these
fellows in new spots"
Both oldsters and newcomers
will be shuffled according to
Frankie's ideas for a new Pirate
deal.
The changes. eff they work out
right will find Bob Elliott, who
batted 315 and fielded .949 at third
base last year, out in right field.
In center would be Jim Russell,
taking the place of Vince Dimag-
slo. Frank Colman, up from Toron-
to will be over in left field.
There's some hitting power, ="
Frlsch said. Russell was coming
along fast at the end Of the sea-
son and should add a lot of punch. !"
Dimaggio, one of the national
leagues outstanding fly hawks,
batter out .248 last season, and
may be in utility role, rather
nan a regular, for that reason.
vince, who slammed out two home
runs In the 1943 All-Star game,
was unable to ''untrack' himself
ana lie dthe league in strikeouts
last season.
lem.
Lee Handley will be on third
and Babe Dahlgren will take over
IN tlrst. But short and second-I
uoh t know" Frisch said.
Pete Coscarart or frankie Gus
s,lle will be on second, with Frank
lack or Tony Ordenanna - both
aeWcomers-at short. Either way,
mat will be a good fast infield with
10 1ot OF hitting power" he said.
:, me veteran AL Lopez is back as
nS'-llne catcher, and the Flash S
Mound corps of four southpaws and
eisnt rlght-handers will be headed
a asalh by Rip (Blooper BALD Sewell
S Sao won q and lost 9 last season.
LiWlh Preacher) Roe, lanky left
p patloer from Columbus, and jim
upper, from Toronto, are the mos,
V'.o'ttLnlSlng rockies.
3 mats what it looks like today
frankie observed, "but it might be
lot different before we gel
u through Tug our training camp SEIZED.
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GOVERNOR NAMES
HOSPITAL GROUP
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Continued from Page One)
Mccain of Sanato~ium, DR.. Don
nell Cobb of Goldsboro, Dr.. H. B.
Haywood of Raleigh, R. G Deyton
of Raleigh, Mrs. R. ]. Reynolds of
Winston Salem, D. Hiden Ramsey
Of Asheville, Miss Flora Wakefield
of Raleigh. Paul B. Bsisette of Will
son, DR.. Frances Hill Fox of Dur
ham, John w. Umstead of Chapel
Hill, I. G. Grier of Townsville,
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, DR..
J. B. Sudbury of Wilmington, Mrs
w. T. Bost of Raleigh. DR.. Reece
Berryhill of Chapel Hill, Dean c.
c. Carpenter of the Bowman Gray
School Of Medicine at Winston-Sa-
lem, Dean w. c. Dawson of the
Duke Medical School at Durham,
DR.. Edison Blackmaa of Charlotte
and Alexander Webb of Raleigh.
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Durhan1;s Piedmont Loop
Status Is Still Uncertain

nr1RHAM, Feb. %. -(P)- Whe.
.sor Durham will have Piedmont
T.oo7,e baseball this season has
,ooa nlaced up to the Brooklyn
I gvur by the members Of the
D,,rbam athletic commission, who
lodav sent the following telegram
.o''a tbo brooklyn baseball club:
~ p va, dispatches indicate you
10 undecided as to local oper-
+ons this year. Your park lease
a" .nired February l, and as we
sApa other plans which must be
,iosed beg to advise local baseball
.ar[ will not be available unless
!"a hear definitely from you as to
renewal by March q"
"Bascom Baynes, chairman"
H., telegram from the Durham
t Wv resulted from a meeting held
~ " R;ichmond, Va. Sunday by the
p League directors. Har-
I'D Roettger, representing the Dod-
w ors was s'invited" by the 9TH
s five directors to move the Dur
son franchise to Virginia city.
r pa+ersburg, Newport News, and
1onville were recommended to the
Dodger's representative.
what happened in Richmond Sum
dow took place about this same
t;r3e last year. At that time the
VIRGINIA members of the circuit
wanted the Dodgers to switch the
R1lls TO Newport News.
However, when that city was in
,orfioated it was discovered that
Nownort News had park with
Tsbts but wanted $1,000 per year
ny its rental. This latter item scar
ID the Dodgers off, because. the
sacent on the park in Durham is
IT The Dodgers returned to Dur
ham and played through the sea-
non but they offered the fans OF
nnrham something many fans as
s-rted reSemDleu olle-eyou So'
me people of Durham, naturally,
didn't support the club, the bod
COW didn't like that and there have
iepn rumblings since the close OF
+,p 1913 season that the Dodgers
wuld pull out of Durham.
Only a few weeks ago, however
The management Of the Dodgers
srrolnced that Jake Pitler would
ri5o+ the Bulls this season. They
cent down an elaborate review OF
pitler which the Durham press
played up lavishly, feeling that
With such a positive statement
from Brooklyn the fans of this city
would have Piedmont League
baseball for another season. But,
f,e events Of the last two days
have changed this. 1t now appears
hat the Dodgers will take the
Bulls and move them to another
town, with Newport News having
al edge, according to best lnfor-
nation possible.
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CAGE PLAY-0FFS
BEGIN AT DAVIS
BY BILL McILWAIN

The Class B basketball play-OffS
at Camp Davis opened up last
night with Btry. A of the AAS
defeating the 61st. Brigade, 41-32,
and the 444th. Bn. (E.M.) besting
Btry. H of the AAS by 1922
count. These play-offs are winding
up a three-month intramural hard
wood schedule at Davis. The tour
nament is made up of the two
! top teams from the Northern, the
Southern and the National leagues.
Each team must be beaten twice
before it is eliminated from the
tourney action.
The Btry. A-Brigade contest in
the afterpiece of the nights dou-
bleheader was the better of the
two clashes. The Btry. A courteers
jumped off to an early lead in
the opening quarter by using their
superior height and pass work to
good advantage. Holding the Bri-
gade cagers to a lone field goal
by Cpl. Vince Graham, the Batry.
A hoopsters surged to 1872 ad.
vantage at the end of the initial
period.
The Brigade five bounced back
in the second heat and made
things a bit rougher for the A
quint. The half ended with the
Batry. A outfit holding the big
end of a 23-17 score.
In the third canto the Brigade
boys seemed to be on the victory
trail as they moved up to within
l point of the Btry. A team. At
this point of the encounter Cpl. Joe
Radcliffe, scoring leader for the
Btry. A, hardwooders, took charge
of the tallying and broke the game
wide open by sinking 4 field goals
and a foul shot in rapid success
sion. From here on the A basket
GERS protected their lead and
moved to their 41-32 triumph. Rad
cliff grabbed off the point gather
ing laurels for the affray as he
tailed 16 points.
The 444th. Bn. -Batry. H tilt did
not present as many thrills as the
other contest Of the evening. It
was rather slow and marred by
poor ball handling by both clubs.
With neither tear: able to launch
a scoring splurge, the teams bat
tied to SIS deadlock at the first
quarters end. In the second STAN
"a the 444th. quint turned on the
power to virtually clinch the game.
Holding the Batry. H courteers
scoreless, they racked up 10 points
to move on to a 1916 lead at the
rest period.
The third quarter was very
much the same as the first two
as the winners continued to DOM
mate the play. With the score
standing at 26-1o, the 44th.'s IA
vor, the H cagers began a marker
making drive in the final period
to move up to their 1922 standing
with the victors at the final
whistle.
The 444th. Bn. scoring was well
distributed with 9 players contrib
uting. Cpl. Joe Catanese was the
spark in the Btry. H lineup.
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Pre- War Fathers
viii Enter Navy
Here On March 8
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consistent drafting of youths as
they reach the age of IS.
! AS yet, city Draft Board No.
has received no March induction
order for white men, but its re-
ceipt is expected to mean the in
duction for the first time Of pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers through that
board.
The city board will call 20 Ne.
groes for induction into the Army
or March IA at Fort Bragg. The
men took pre- induction physical
examinations on February 4.
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JOCKEY ARCARO
HOT AT HIALEAH

&. NEW YORK, Feb. o.. Up -
Jockey Eddy Arcaro started Wide
ner week at ,Hialeah Park today
with a bang, turning in perfect
day with four winners, including
Jimmie in the featured seven-fur-
long Dade Handicap.
Arcaro, who rode Stir Up to an
upset triumph in the Flamingo
on Saturday, started the day by
riding Bright Quest, $3.50, to VIC
tory in the first race. In the Sec
ond race he -steered Armed $3.50.
to an efght-length triumph for a
$43.6O daily double
t His third mount was Dream
Parade. $24.20, in the fourth race
and then followed through with
Jimmie, $11.40, in the fifth. He re-
tired for the day after that.
Jimmie, owned by Mrs. Roy
Carruthers, appeared sore going to
the post, but Arcaro ran him out
of 1T to win. by five lengths over
the favorite,s ~ As w. Wentzers
freezeouts. Edmar Farms My
Malcha took the show, half
length further behind. The winner,
a three-year-old colt, ran the dis
lance in 1926 Is.
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Two-Ton Tony Galento
Wants To Get In Scrap

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 27.-R -
Two-Ton Tony Galento, who was
here to referee. wrestling match
told reporters he wanted 'to get
q Jap skull and put it over my
bar in Orange, N. j."
II really want to get in that
thing (the army, he said.
He reports Friday morning at
Orange, N. j., induction station
for a final physical examination.
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TRIBUNAL RULES
- : s ! a.. IN LABOR CASE
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group" the court said 'Tts bene-
fits and advantages are open to
every employee of the represent
ed unit, whatever the type or
terms of his pre-existing contract
Of, employment. g.
- I'VE are not called, upon to say
that under no circumstance can
an individual enforce an agree
ment more advantageous than a
collective agreement, but We find
the mere possibility that such
agreements might be made no
ground for holding generally that
individual contracts may survive
or Surmount collective ones"
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YANKs BUY COLLINS

NEW YORK, Feb 2S.-RIThe
New York Yankees purchased Rob-
ert Joseph (Rip) Collins, catch.
er, from their Kansas City farm
club today foz' an unrevealed sum.
Collins, 38-years old and in or
gained baseball since 1882, lives
at Pittsburgh and spent last sea.
son in war work as a railroadman.
He was with the Chicago Cubs in
1910.
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FIGHT TONIGHT

The Lake Forest and the
Brigade, Boys boxing clubs will
meet in q return ring match
tonight at $500 in the Lake
Forest Community Building
gymnasium.
There is no admission
charge, and the public is in
vited.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-29
WASHINCTONPARK
SCHEDULES RACES

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.-tRLA total
of $490, 1000 in added money for "a
stakes was announced tonight for
the combined Arlington Park-Wash.
ington Park Today horse race
meeting opening at the Washington
Park track June 10 and running
through Sept. Z.
There will be five $4,000 added
stake events as follows:
Stars & Stripes Handicap, July
4. Tar.
Arlington Classic. July %. y
Arlington Handicap, July %.
American Derby, August rs.
Washington Park Handicap, Sept.
The double program also offers
two rich futurities to attract the
nations top-ranking two year olds,
the Arlington on July IS and the
Washington Park Futurity on Sept:
2. Each will have an estimated
gross value of $4,000. In addition
there will be two $4,000 added
stakes and a pair for $4,000 add
ed for the juveniles.
!. Two $4,000 handicaps, richest in
the nation for events run on a
grass course, also will be offered.
Emphasis will be placed ON the
overnight races in a move to at
tract leading stables to Chicago.
There will be overnight events for
purses of So, 500 to $4,000 with mini
mum purses daily of $1,000 to ST.
600.
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Amber Light, $3.50, won the Leo
P. Mclaughlin Inaugural Handi-
cap, the opening day feature at
OaklaWn park at,Hot Springs, Ark.
Corona Corona was second and
Night Shadow third. Amber Light
ran the six furlongs n 1:14 3-5.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
Case of Boxer Versus
Draft Has Many Angles
BY
DAN PARKER

HENRY ARMSTRONG HAS military service which
was one of the rings greatest fighters.
good soldiers as the present plight
OF Ray GDRon nn1g last opponent in New York indicates However
the more important fight that onfrons Thoroughbred
showing convinced me as must have
all who saw the bout that he through tOpne
credit to his and the SO much
,.1SS s%a w s1s the Hs sRy ~a ss that
with of other boxers fighting on foreign
Ray his duty S' h sSP n sas
friend Henry One feels reversed
obligation to the pub That's the %
tween the fighters. ~ ~N "
ing the Do1f n a 1n b war p Some Of the hu look
would be Surprised Armson oea a @ & aS unfit No one
Soms Of the reeceeS who are i'm their prime
oldster go, i acceptable. 7 e' ~
An interesting statistic soldier received any
State discharged far VoS u pSy
the nee AOeS ps cent
out % the @ Ia c4n e. 6seGa an
es VINO nave physical discharges from the
boards are for men to fill their quotas. - ~ ~
Tho Speaking Speak Of willie Pep he headed Hartford
A. after been deducted every
as vs. BsaS S jack Jack at SIS @t op %hh
boxer nothing zsrtfo sa cross Every
the Draft an n s ,.Hs the
Beau Jacks Bob aon
hs @ P1s tn. T a. Aus ,s board s
IN S records although Beau only
d0an know nothn about chiun" town where
all the newsbOys look like ~ ~ ~ ~ O
10 an W T get % so Of
ton the other night with nobody getn wes King
Wouu say Some weeks Cood
ana GAINED to be his manager bobbed document
by mother
Cne boy When this move defeated Gah
VI record Cooed of
ong commission and reported that wears old and
therefore, meglbe to box professional
Pe Gasn to the town in South Perry was
With what
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d Aaro 10 Oo again. Now comes the proved
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Copyright 1914 Syndcate)
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Immaculate Girls
Win HoopGome

Thursday morning at the Wash
1ngton Park gym the girls basket
bal team of the Immaculate Con-
ception c. Y. o. won their rubber
game with the Waterbury Catholic
High team. The score was 44-25.
However, the difference of nineteen
points Is no indication of the true
nature of the game. From beginning
to end 1t was hotly contested and
1t was only in the last period that
the Immaculate girls pulled away
to a commanding lead. For the par
ish girls Catherine Flood, Lois
Beaudoin and Dorothy Armour
divided the "A points among them
selevs. They scored 22-18-8 points
respectively. Yet, brilliant as was
this display Of scoring power much
Of the credit for the victory must
go to the guards on the downtown
team. Shirley Romano, Shirley
O'Neill, Eleanor Mccarthy and
Mary French watched the center
and forwards of the w. c. H. team
so closely that the girls who only
week ago run up SO points on
them were held to Is points. For
the LOSERS Jeanne LaLiberte and
Tiny Kazakausas threw in five bas-
ketS each.
With this game the season Co..
cluded for both teams. Now ....e
girls expect to turn their attention
to softball. The Immaculate Con-
ception girls have already arranged
a game with st. Joseph'S team of
Canaan,
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Conodiens Top
BIockhawks 81

Chicago, April 7.-OP)-The
Montreal Canadiens, using "class
will tell" strategy, aimed for clean
sweep of the annual Stanley Cup
hockey playoffs today after winning
the second straight decisive victory
over the Chicago Black Hawks, 81
last night before 1908 fans at the
Chicago Stadium.
Most of the class last night was
embodied in Maurice Richard, one
of the National Hockey leagues best
playmakers, who turned scorer long
enough to turn the that track"
with three goals and further crush
Black Hawks hopes of sitting the
speedy Montreal attack.
Great Record
It was the 51st triumph In 81
games this season for Les Canadiens,
including so regular season contests
and seven playof engagements.
Richards brilliant individual per.
Torrance enabled Montreal to exc
tend it's jinX over Chicago-a Jinx
which has kept the Hawks from
scoring any victories over Montreal
this season, although they gained
two ties in IL games.
The opening period was scoreless.
but Richard drilled his first goal
home after 10 minutes of the sec
ond period and followed with two
more in less than four minutes of
the final session. The lone Chi
cago score came with only one sec
ond to play when Johnny Harms,
brought up from the Hershey Bears
for the cup finals, hit from close
in to Mar the shutout bid of Goalie
Bill Durham.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor

New York-Eddie Dyer Is optimis-
tic about baseball in it's third war
year and the far-hung Cardinal sys-
. tenn.
There is a very good reason for
this.
I'VE have more players signed and
more prospects available than any
other organization says the man
who succeeded Branch Hickey as the
Cardinal coordinator.
Dyer admits, however, that even
the st. Louis club will not be as
free with players who in the past
were not quite ready for the big
show and had to be farmed out.
Right now anybody who can catch
and hit the ball is welcome wherever
he happens to be.
It took World War to make base
ball people appreciate the conven-
fences and comforts of training in
the deep south, and Director Dyer
points out that there will be an espe-
cial need for this when the last
shot has been fired.
Many players will be returning
from the service. They'll have been
out of the game for season or two
or three or more. They'll require
several weeks of real work under
a southern sun to get in condition
to play again. There will be the
problem of checking up on them,
players brought out by the armed
forces and developed by clubs while
service men were away. Officials
must ascertain just what classical
ton would be best for each of them.
That would be difficult with clubs
working indoors and out in the north.
Shorty Young, the Braves club
house man, recalls Lou Gehrig re-
porting to Hartford 20 years ago this
coming June.
HE wore a brown suit and polka
dot tie. like he always did" explains
the 4-foot 11-inch Young, then bat
boy for the Eastern League club.
when I met him at the railroad
station, he carried a 81 bag-one
of those little long things. He was
green and strong. He was signed
as John Henry Lewis. I chummed
around with Gehrig. He was a nice
guy. We played cards and pool and
he did both exceedingly we'll.
young Gehrig couldn't stop a
marble at first base, but when he
tapped a ball 1t travelled One day
we beat Worcester, 1912. Gabby
Hartnett caught for Worcester and
Jesse Burket managed. Gehrig hit
four home runs. Lippy Leo Durocher
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Buffalo Strong
Hockey Choice

Buffalo, April 7-(UP)-The Buff
falo Bisons today became odds-on
favorites to capture the American
Hockey league championship after
drubbing the Cleveland Barons
12-2 last night to take a 20 game
lead in the best-of-seven series
finals.
Buffalo defending champions,
thrilled the home crowd of 10,156
with slam bang offensive that
Melted seven goals in the last period
to set new league record in ALL
playoffs.
Cleveland scored in the first and
tied the score briefly in the second,
but the Bisons turned on the steam
and won going away. Walt Atanas,
Larry Thibeault, Max Kaminsky
and Fred Thurrier counted two
goals apiece to pace the winning at
tack.
The third game in the series will
be played tomorrow night at Cleve-
land.
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AIDS
H0R sem EN- AT
SUFFOLK DOWNS

Boston, April 7-(UP)-Increased
purses at Suffolk Downs horse race
track had been authorized today
after a member of the Massachu-
sets State Racing Commission voted
against licensing the track on
grounds that owners, trainer, jock
eys and breeders were not getting
their fair share Of the earnings.
Despite the dissenting vote of
Bayard Tuckerman Jr. of Boston,
Socialite member of the commission,
the group approved the petition of
the Eastern Racing Association, Inc,
for its meeting from May Is through
July %.
More Money
Soon after the petition was grant,
ed, President Gordon B. Hanlon of
the racing group announced that
purses would be boosted 20 per cent
with a minimum purse of $1,000 as
compared with the previous high of
$1,000.
Hanlon said the three two-year-
old stake races had been boosted
from $4,000 to $4,000 and that the
Yankee handicap again would be
run with a 5000 added purse for
three-yearolds.
Tuckerman said he believed that
the horsemen who make the sport
possible were not receiving a Suffl-
cient amount of money for their
part in racing. He said he had dis
cussed the matter with the track
officials and urged 10 per cent in
crease which would have amounted
to about $4,000 annually but which,
on account of the tax situation,
would have cost the track only
about $14,00.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-07
Hot Cross Buns

From all indications, the SILK
STOCKING, plug-hat and ascot tie
brigade from the New York Jockey
Club lost a race" to the Appellate
Division of the State Supreme Court,
and it was not even a PHOTO
FINISH; because the Jockey Club
has been ORDERED to give Jockey
Bobby Merritt a public hearing on
his application for riding license
for N. Y. tracks, starting at jam
aica, tomorrow. Merritt is the boy
who was accused of pulling" Peep
Show, a horse, at Empire City in
1912, and he could not get license
to ride since; as the State Racing
Commission would rather resign in
body than offend the Jockey Club,
comprised of blue-blooded gents
who buy blue-blooded horses who
nibble BLUE GRASS near my old
Kentucky home, so far away. Mer-
rift has been tossed around like
cork on the ocean, but got his nerve
up, hired a good lawyer who gave
the guys with the money-bags and
ultra ultra views such a fight that
the open hearing will be held April
IA in the state building, downtown
N. Y. Mike Sheehan of South
Street is home from Italy on a fur
Tough, and with some slick souven-
iers, including an old-fashioned
barrel-type pistol with bullets and
holster, used by underground guer-
illas fighting the Nazis in Europe;
and some Italian coins of five, ten,
and 20 cents denomination, stamp
ed with the head of the little king"
Victor Emanuel. The most avid
cowboy movie fan in town is Freddie
Hall, new manager of the Plaza,
"!p. tasists that the title belongs to
George (Hike) Noonan, the Lake
wood POLAR BEAR, who sees at
least three western pictures per
week.