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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
BUNS LICK REDS
TO SNAP STREAK

CINCINNATI, May 20. - R =
Hal Gregg snapped the Dodgers
four game losing streak today,
holding the Cincinnati Reds to Sc
ven hits and Brooklyn won 81:
The Reds only run resulted
from Ray Mueller's home run IN
the fifth inning. HOWE Schultz LED
the Dodgers attack with two hits,
including homer in the ninth with
two aboard, it was the big flrst
baseman's sixth circuit clout OF tne
season and gave him total Oh
50 runs batted in.
Brooklyn presented Eddie BASIN
ski at second base, and the re-
cruit from Buffalo University,
playing in his first professional
game, tripled in the fifth to reg
lister the third Dodger run. He
handled seven fielding chances
flawlessly and began a double play.
Stanley Bordagaray and Augie
Calan also made two hits each for
the Dodgers, Bordaga driving
in two runs and Galan the other.
It was fifth triumph of the year
and the first loss for rookie Bob
Patz, making his first starting as
signrnent for the Reds.
Brooklyn ------------OO2 OlO OO3-o
Cincinnati ----------OOO olo oOo-l
Gregg and Bragan; Katz, Fergu-
son. Carter and Mueller.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
DEVIL TRACKERS
BEST PRE-FLlCHT

CHAPEL HILL, May 20. -(P-
Winning eight of a possible four
teen first places Duke University
defeated U. S. Navy Pre-Fight
Cloudbusters 81 % to So 1-3 in
track here this afternoon.
The Blue Devils moved into first
place after three events when
Howard Hartley of football fame
won the 10O-yard dash. From there
on out the Navy lads just dldn' t
figure in the running.
Besides winning the 100 Hartley
won the 220-yard dash over Char
lie Beetham, former Olympic ace,
in one of the best events OF the
program. Winning time was 22.6.
Other feature events included
Clark of Duke and Cassidy OF Pre-
Flight ending in dead heat in the
mile and Mohler of Duke winning
the 120-yard hurdles in time OF
1913.
Pre-Flight's Panther won the
javelin with a throw of 1876 feet.
Earlier in the year the Cloud
busters defeated the Blue Devils
TIA to 54.6 but since that time
many of Pre-Fight stars have
completed training here and are
now at primary bases.
Dukes mile relay team compos-
ed of Carver, Reed, Haggerty and
Larue defeated the Pre-Flighters
in an exhibition race. The meet
was the final one of the year for
the Cloudbusters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
TICS LACE SENS
BY 6-2 MARGIN

WASHINGTON, May 20.-(R -
Southpaw Frank Overmire scat
tered Washington's 10 blows as
the Detroit Tigers walloped the
Senators, 6 to 2 tonight for their
second consecutive win of the
current series.
The Tigers nicked Mickey
Haefner, one of Washington's
knuckleballers, for eight hits in
the five innings he worked, then
added a couple more from the Of
ferings of big Alex Carrasquel.
Detroit, laundering near the
league cellar most of the year,
started off in buciness-like fash
ion and counted runs in the sec
ond, third and fourth, added two
in the fifth and wound up their
scoring with a single in the sixth.
Ed Mayo led the Tiger attack
with three safeties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Duke Commencement To
Be Held This Weekend

DURHAM, May 20-tREDuke
university's annual commence
ment will be held next Friday and
Saturday, with $50 students, most
of them women, scheduled to re-
ceive degrees.
Chief visiting speaker will be
Dean Lynn Harold Hough of Drew
Theological seminary, Madison,
N. j., who will be heard Friday
night in the university chapel.
Governor ]. Melville Broughton
will be speaker at the gradual
ing exercises Saturday morning in
Page auditorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
YANKEES DUBIEL
DEFEATS BROWNS

NEW YORK, May 20. - IN
Walter Monk Dubiel pitched and
batted the New York Yankees in
to first place in the American
League standings today, as the
World Champs defeated the St.
Louis Browns 80, before 11,790
paid admissions.
Dubiel held the Browns to four
hits and made two himself, scor-
ing one and driving in another.
He scored the first Yankee run
in the fifth when he singled, went
to second on safe bunt by George
Stirnweiss, to third on Bud Me-
theny's sacrifice and tailed on
Ed Levy's long fly. His double
in the eighth drove in Rollie
Hems1ey with the run that decid-
ed the game.
Jack Kramer, winner Of five
games, hurled a creditable game,
but caused his own downfall by
committing a balk in the fifth,
which allowed Stirnweiss to score
with the second run of the inning.
AL Zarilla made two Of the
Browns hits, including triple
in the ninth and scored both of
their runs.
The triumph ended the Yankees
losing streak Of four straight.
St. Louis --.... 600 100 001-2
New York 600 O2O O1x-3
Kramer and Hayworth; Dubiel
and Hemsley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Scott Tough Opponent
For Big Bill Wilson

industry, Scott is constantly land
ing jaring hooks to his oppon-
ent's head. Big Bill has always
been worried by this type of at.
tack and ring observers are anx-
ious to see what he can do against
bouncing Buddy in Tuesday
fracas.
Promoter Lilies announced last
night that Buddy Best will fight
George Eschman in the semi-fina]
on the card. Eschman dropped a
TKO to the sensational Jackie
Crawford Friday night and will be
out to bounce back into the win
column. Eschman defeated Best
In a battle here several weeks
ago. Best has never lost a return
bout, and Tuesdays ARRAY with
Gorgeous Georgia will find him
endeavoring to keep this record
intact.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
BY BILL McILWAIN

Big Bill Wilson, who has never
lost a ring battle in Wilmington,
places this great record in dan
ger Tuesday night when he meets
Buddy Scott in a ten round bout
at the American Legion Stadium.
Scott handed Wilson his only pro-
fessional defeat in Jacksonville,
Florida, several months ago.
Wilson has become bit more ex-
perienced since this fight, and
some ring experts expect to gee
the big shipyard worker give
Scott a good scrap.
Scott, who ranks seventh in the
worlds heavyweight ranks and
has the distinction of being the
only fighter to ever floor Bob
Pastor, has style that is ex-
tremely difficult for Wilson to ov-
ercome. Possessing one of the best
left hooks in the leather pushing
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
ALLIES BROADCAST
UNDERGROUND ORDER
Continued from Page One)

the strength and movements Of
German troops, tanks, and guns,
to spot location of supply dumps,
and urged the patriot army to be
disciplined and vigilant," to
'hide all your actions until the
word is given"
Meanwhile the Allied air often
give aginst strategic rail centers
and by German account al
least - swift sweeps Of the chan
mel waters by enemy and Allied
ships were filling out. the pattern
which Berlin says will precede
ID" day. .,.- .
Urging everyone to care for his
gas mask, Field Marshal Lord
Birdwood, father" of the Brit.
ish army, warned that although
Hitler has promised that he will
not use gas, he may at the last
moment like mad and beaten
dog release gas not only on the
troops, but on the country az
we'll"
The Germans tried once again
last night to feel out the channel
darkness, but even their own &C
count of widespread E-boat oper.
atione left it evident that the
British naval forces are not con-
tent with screening their own
coast and are carrying their op-
erations almost to German
guarded beaches.
The German news agency DNB
reported that the Nazi E-boats
warded off repeated attacks -
acknowledged that the channel
initiative was held by the British
and said that some British op-
erations extended to just west of
Dunkerque and off the channel
islands.
These islands are the Germans
farthsst outposts, seized without
a fight at the time of the fall of
France and likely to be cleared
OF their limited Nazi garrisons in
the event of any invasion of
Brittany or Normandy, whose
channel approaches they guard.
The Germans also said British
bombers repeatedly strafed the is-
land of Quessant, rocky guardian
of the tip of Brittany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
MICHIGAN, LIONS
AFTER WESTFALL
BY WATSON SPOELSTRA

DETROIT, May 20. -(P-Play-
ers eligible for college football
normally are out of-bounds for the
professional game, but the war
time code has thrust the Univer-
sity of Michigan into direct COM
petition with the Detroit Lions for
the services of Fullback Bob West
fall
Westfall, the Big Tens rushing
leader in 1941 when he captained
the Michigan eleven, received a
medical discharge from the Army
Air Forces several months ago.
He intends to return to the class
room in July to put the finishing
touches on degree, and as stu
dent is eligible to return to Coach
Fritz Crisler's backfield even
though he had three years of col
lege play.
However. the Lions also have de-
signs on Westfall, who was. De-
troit's top choice in the 1871 Ma
tional Football League draft. The
Detroit roster is pretty much shot
to pieces with Harry Hopp, Wrank-
lie Sinkwich and 10 other members
of the 1913 squad gone to war, and
the Lions presumably will make a
strong bid with their big check
book.
Football salaries are paid for
ability and gate appeal, and we
are sure Westfan still has both, "
declared Coach Gus Dorais today.
Naturally, we want Westfall and
hope to sign him. He's Is years
old now, and we believe that if he's
going to cash in on his football,
now's the tirne.'
The Detroit club is known to
have paid big salaries to Dutch
Clark, Whizzer White and Sink
witch, but the offer to Westfall is
undisclosed.
Meanwhile, Crisler and his Mich
igan staff are remaining discreet
ly silent. Westfall isn't talking
either.
Westfall hasn't seen gridiron ac-
ton in nearly two years, but this
week he reported he was just above
normal playing weight.
Sideline observers aren't over
looking the possibility that West
fall could play in Michigan's first
five games with Iowa Pre-Flight,
Marquette, Indiana, Minnesota and
Northwestern before the semester
change in October. The pro cam
paign would then be barely start
ed, and the fullback could switch
to the Lions, thus uniquely cram
ming college and pro football into
one season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
American League
TODAY'S GAMES
National League
All double headers.

All double headers.
New York at St. Louis - Pyle
CD and Fischer 0-2)~ VS. Bre-
cheen CD and Jurisich. 1-2).
Brooklyn at Cincinnati - Davis
(3-2- and McLish Old VS. Heusser
Q-2) and De La Cruz (2-2).
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh -
Mussill 0-0) and Schanz GID VS.
Roe (3-2) and Butcher 90.
Boston at Chicago - Hutchin-
son go and Barrett 1913 VS.
Wyse (2-3) and Fleming (0-3).
American League
All double headers.
St. Louis at New York - Num-
Grief Old and Shirley (1-2) VS.
Borowy (4-D and Page CD.
Chicago at Boston - Dietrich
(3-0 and Grove go VS. Hugh
son CD and O'Neil' (2-2).
Cleveland at Philadelphia -
Reynolds go and Gromek Co.
o. VS. Newsom 90 and Flores
(010).
Detroit at Washington - New
houser (4-3) and Trout (4-3- VS.
Niggeling go and Wolff (3-D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Recreation Calendar

at Robert Strange Park.
1880 p. m. Meeting of Board
of Governors of Municipal
SohbalI League City Hall,
Council Chamber.
Thursday, May rs
6 p. m. Taylor Homes Gen.
ter-GirPs checker contest.
(Negro).
8 p. m. Municipal League.
Lake Forest-141st A. B. N. T.
T. at Robert Strange Park.
Friday, May rs
4 p. m. Williston School
Horse Shoe Pitching (Negro).
5 p. m. Hillcrest School
Paddle Tennis Tournament
(Negro.)
! p. m. Nesbitt Court Center
Teen Age party.
1880 p. m. Cornelius HarneH
School-Teen age party.
1880 p. m. Final meeting
Softball league - City Hall,
Council Chamber.
8 p. m. Municipal League.
Spofford Mills VS.. City Optical
at Robert Strange Park.
$3.50 p. m. Taylor Homes
Adult Dance (Negr0.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21

A double main event, featur-
ing new faces, was arranged for
Wilmington's wrestling faithful
at ITALIAN hall Friday night
by Promoter Bert Causey yes
terday.
In one of the battles, Billy
Bartush of Chicago, will go
against Herbie Freeman, of
New York, and the other will
pit Wally Grebb, of st. Louis,
against Jack Bloomfield, a
Kansas City boy.
All the performers are tough
and large with Freeman top
ping the list at 260 pounds. It
will be his first appearance
here and advance reports are
that he is a meanie that will
give Wild Bill more than the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Camp Davis Blanks Camp Pickett, 50
7luin Main Euent Slated
Al ITALIAN Hall Friday

usual amount of trouble.
Last Friday nights program
saw Grebb score a victory over
little Beaver In one Of the three
bouts. In another. John Sher-
man was awarded the match
when Jack Hader was dis
qualified for using his Cobra
hold. Daffy Don Lee overpower-
ed Bartush in the third engage
ment in two out of three falls.
Promoter Causey announced
the addition of more electric
fans at Tha Han Hall yesterday
to make the house more COM
Portable.
Tickets for Friday nights
contest, which will start at $3.50
o'clock, will go on sale today
at the Orion hotel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Coombs, Laval Selected
As Junior Ball Mentors

CHARLOTTE, May 2O-tRAJack
Coombs, head baseball coach at
Duke University, and Billy Laval,
director Of athletics at Newberry
College, accepted today appoint
ments as coaches of two teams in
the inter-CaTolinas All Star Jun
io1 baseball game here, scheduled
tentatively for the night Of June %.
The outstanding player in the
contest here will be named to play
in the All-Americaa Junior game
at the Polo Grounds in New York
Aug. 7. The Carolinas representa-
tive will play on the Eastern team.
managed by Connie Mack, against
the Western squad, coached by
Giant Skipper Mel OFT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
SLUCCINC TUCKER
HELPED BY NAVY
BY JACK RAND

NEW YORK, May 2o.-iR-Tb,.
man Tucker, the man with tbe :.
E. Brown profile and the Joo n,
maggie way of chasing fly hail.
gives the Navy an indirect as,;'
for his 90 batting average in -,
American League.
The Chicago White Sox outfio,s..
who tops the junior loop in haiti.
has been accepted by the N.,,,
and is playing ball while awai,i.
call. With the pressure off his boa Mug
ball future he goes up to the nISS'
completely relaxed and finds 's Wv
hits coming easier. Wy
Before this year, I was a,u,,.
swinging for the fences. but I n.",
I'm up there just trying TO ms NOW
that ball" the bespectacled Tay.s
offered as an explanation Of II,
sudden surge from .235 in 1912 ~
first place in the early spring ava"
ages. N'
Manager Jimmy Dykes s+ucr
with him last year because Of III.
speed, good throwing arm and abiI
ity to rob the opposition of bau.
hits. Now he's seeing his confidenc.
repaid with interest.
The Gordon, Texas, native st,r
ed playing ball in the Cotton Stat,
League, but moved to the big Show
from Fort Worth in the Teys,
Loop late in 1912.
Rogers Hornsby was Tucker,
manager in the Texas League and
he gets credit for changing him
from a switch hitter 10 the Iet
handed variety on the theory fla,
the extra step added to his blindns
speed would give him many eytrs
safeties. He hit .313 after he
change.
Tucker is so fast on the base,
that he sometimes fools his ovr
coaches. Thursday against New
York, he tripled into left cente-
with the bases full and Mule Haas
coaching at third, took one look a
the ball and put out the stop SIR
at third. When he took anoths
peek, Tucker was roaring in
third and the ball was just leavrl
the outfielder's hand.
AS fuckers blow gave Chics;
a three-run lead in the tenth, Has
had every reason to stop him. bu
he might have gone all the way.
Tucker didn't mind missing hi
home run inside the park, It's a
the same to him as long as the
add another digit in the hit column
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Mel Harder Blanks As
With Fine Three-Hitter

PHILADELPHIA, May 20.-(P)-
The Cleveland Indians pounded out
IL hits off Luman Harris while
Mel Harder held the Philadelphia
Athletics to three for a SO shutout
and his 201st Major league victory
today.
The Indians clinched the game
in the fourth when Pat Secrecy hit
a home run on top of the left field
stands with one on base.
Denton (Cy) Young, only pitch
err ever to win more than 500
games, was among the 4,521 who
saw the AS suffer their fourth
straight defeat.
Cleveland ---0O0 2O2 1905
Philadelphia $4,000 600 1000
Harder and Rosar: Harris and
Hayes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Heel Diamond Outfit
Conauers State, 6-3

RALEIGH, May 20. -(P)- Caro-
lima made a clean sweep of its
series with state by defeating the
Techs, 6-3, here today. 1t was
States final appearance of a sea
son in which it failed to win a
league game.
Coach Bum Hearns Tar Heels
led all the way, but they were
able to make only eight hits off
Bob Edwards, who went the route
for the losers.
Carolina scored a run in the
first inning when Black singled,
stole second, and came home on
an infield out and an error. The
Tar Heels clinched the decision
with four runs in the fourth.
Black, a veteran centerfielder,
was the batting star of the day.
He got three hits in five trips and
drove in three runs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
GRYCO TURNS PRO

ALBANY, Ca, May 20. - R =
AL Gryco, backfield coach for AL
bany's South Georgia High School
football champions, announced to.
day that he had signed a contract
to play football for the Chicago
Bears of the National Profession
al Football League.
A former all-state halfback for
the University Of South Carolina,
Gryco has resigned his post as
coach and social science profes.
sor in the Albany high school. He
played three years Of high school
football at Erie, Pa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Civic Bowling League
To Hold Annual Banquet

The Civic Bowling League, com.
posed of several civic clubs, will
hold its annual banquet Tuesday
night at 7 o'clock at the Brigade
Bows Club. The Exchange Club
will be presented the trophy for
winning this years championship.
w. A. Raney is president of the
league.
An appropriate program has
been arranged, and a large attend
aace is expected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
Cloudbusters Capture
al Win From Butner

CHAPEL HILL, May 20. -(P)-
The Cloudbusters of the Navy Pre-
Flight School made it two out OF
three for the season over Camp
Butner by defeating the soldiers
in tightly pitched game here to-
day by the score Of to /.
Although outhit the Cloudbusters
played flawless ball in the field
and took advantage of scoring OPP
portunities to build up the margin
of victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
0BAN AND HEARN
ALLOW VISITORS
BUT THREE HITS
BY BILL McILWAIN

With Ray Oban and Jim Hearn
combining their pitching efforts to
limit the Camp Pickett nine to
three hits, the Camp Davis Blue
Brigade baseball team conquered
the visiting Virginia outfit by an
30 count on the Davis field yes
terday afternoon.
Aside from the alright hurting,
the Brigade horsehiders also en-
joyed big day at the plate. They
combed starting Pickett pitcher
Sloan for ten safeties, the most
hits that they have garnered in a
previous game this season.
Oban opened on the mound for
the Davis club and worked six
frames, giving up two hits and
tanning six men. Hearn relieved
Oban in the seventh and displayed
a burning fast ball while striking
out the first five men to face him.
He continued his tanning bee by
whiting two more Pickett stick
men in the eight and another in
the ninth to bring his strikeout
total to twenty men in the last
twelve innings he has elboWed
The Davis aggregation was also
bolstered in yesterdays contest by
the first appearances of Johnny
Bezemes, Ed Stocked and John
ny Boschart.
Camp Pickett opened the engage
ment's action by loading the bases
in the first stanza but were I'M
able to score as Oban gained COM
mand of the situation and forced
two men to ground out and the
third fly to Bezemes.
The Brigade nine made good use
of their half of the first heat by
pushing across three markers.
Messing initiated the fireworks as
he reached first on First Base
man Kennedys error. Oban reach
ed first on a fielder's choice, send
ing Messing to second. Right Field
er Cvengros then drove long
triple into deep left-center to score
both Messing and Oban. Bezemes
punched a single into center to
push Cvengros across the plate
and send Camp Davis into a 80
advantage.
Davis gamered another tally in
the third frame as Messing gained
second on Philleys two-base muff
and scored on Oban's single into
left.
Sloan then managed to quell the
hard-hitting Brigade offensive for
the next four innings as he allow
ed but two blows.
In the eighth chapter Davis
climbed on Sloan for its biggest up
rising of the afternoon. Dickstein
started the outburst by singing to
right and taking second on Right
Fielder Tanners bobble. Hearn
drove one-based into left TO
score Dickstein. Jordan singled,
but Hearn was caught in a run
Gown between third and home as
Cvengros batted grounder back
to Sloan. Cvengros reached first,
however, on the play. A triple by
Bezemes scored Jordan and Cven-
gros. Stocked drove Bezemes in
with double to end the marker
making for the encounter.
Shortstop Postolese continued to
spak Camp Davis afield by turn
ing in several difficult plays.
Yesterdays victory will put Camp
Davis in fine fettle for it's meet
ing with the strong Fort Bragg
team in Raleigh Wednesday. Hearn
will probably toe the slab for Da-
Wis with former major league star
Van Lingle Mungo doing the
chunking for Bragg.
Camp Pickett 900 900 OO0-O 8 2
Camp Davis --301 900 O4x+8 10 8
Sloan and Bray; Oban, Hearn
and DeLuca.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
MIDDIES WIN

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 20. IN.
Nays tennis squad continued
uadefeated today with 80 shell.
lacking of Duke University,
The stiffest match for the Mid.
dies was the final singles fray
when Dukes Schoenlaub carried
Nays Bill Kmetz to 81, 6-3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
CLEANING THE CUFF

That story about Don Durham
going from Dartmouth to Cornell
to complete his medical course
sounds good - only it's Cornell
medical college in New York SO
Don won't be on anybody's track
team. Michigan State, which
will play only all-civilian football
teams next fall, is ready to book
all corners for 1915. The Spar
tans' baseball schedule incidental
" lists only two college rivals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
SPORTS Roundup
BY HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

victories, including seven shut
outs, before the Tigers rang his.
up late in the season. Lost three
Of four at Detroit last fall anS
dropped four straight this spring
before hanging up his first vic
tory. "a workhorse who gets
into plenty of games every season.
started pro ball with lands
of the North Carolina state league
but since he broke into the majors
he hasn't tangled with Lands yet.
SERVICE DEPT.
Brig. Gen. U. G. Emf, command
er of the Second air force, finally
has given the official word that
there'll be a football team repre-
senting the force next fall. Head
quarters will be at Colorado
Springs, but all groups and bases
will contribute players and games
will be played in key cities where
a maximum number of service
men can see them. Joe Petritz,
former Notre Dame drumbeater,
has been promoted to full lieuten-
ant in the Navy somewhere on the
other side. He's an armed guard
commander and reports the only
casualty so far came when he ran
over the ships cook on the way
to his station when they had an
alert.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
DEATHS DISCLOSED

NEW YORK, May 20-RAThe
deaths Of Japanese Rear Admirals
Torajiro Sato, the pride of the
submarine units" and Tomeii-o
Tamagi were disclosed today by
Japan's Domei news agency
broadcasting list of "a naval Of
ficers who were killed in action
betvaIea August, 1910 and Deem
Der, 1943.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
CLOWNS PLAY

The Wilmington Clowns, semi
PRO colored baseball team, will
meet the Camp Davis colored nine
on the Eleventh and Ann streets
field at 4:30 this afternoon.
Smith will pitch for the Clowns
with johnson doing the receiving
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-21
HEELS WIN

CHAPEL HILL, May 20-tR-
The University of North Carolina
tennis team scored an overWhelm-
ing victory over Virginia today,
go, with Cardinals netmen taking
all but one match after two sets.