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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

Georgetown, D. C., March 21 - Fl = The Boston Braves, one of the weaker hitting teams in the majors, may have 6 pair of long distance sluggers in Camp Manager Bob Coleman revealed today. The mewcomers, Stan Wentzel and Vim MhHzne. both uD from the Hartford
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

Totals
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
MARINE CUNTS
PLAN TWO MORE
CAGE CONTESTS

CAMP LEJEUNE, Jan. 31.-The
Marines of Camp Lejeune and the
nearby Cherry Point Air Station,
Boosting two of the hottest basket
ball squads along the Atlantic sea-
board have extended their 1945
competition to four games.
Dates for two additional contests
between the teams, which split
their previous engagements, still
are indefinite, but the finale is
scheduled to dedicate a huge field
house for Cherry Point.
This agreement will help round
out attractive states for both clubs
without enchroaching upon limited
travel facilities, Captain R. M.
Port, Lejeune athletic officer, said.
The first tilt in history between
the Leatherneck teams, here Jan
uary ID, drew the largest crowd
ever to attend an indoor athletic
event at Camp Lejeune
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
TAR HEELSPREP
FOR INDIAN TILT

CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 31.-North
Carolina White Phantoms will be
seeking their eight win out of elev-
en- games in Southern Conference
competition this season when the
William and Mary Indians drop in
or Woollen Gymnasium at Chapel
Hill for visit Thursday night.
Starting time is o'clock.
The boys from the Virginia Pen
insula have been an unpredictable
quantity all season-as hot as a
stack of counterfeit gas coupons
one night, and as cold as a tray
of ice cubes the next.
In home and home series with
N. c. State the Indians presented
both extremes. Playing in Raleigh
the Red Terrors walked all over
them to take a win by a 2Gpoint
margin. Then they got the Raleigh
team up in Williamsburg and took
them over the Goals, coming out
of that nlixup with an advantage
of almost 10 points.
When the Indians come to Chap
Ell Hill they will bring a Confer
ence record of two wins and two
defeats, and will be fighting for
berth in the annual Southern
Conference tournament. Starting
for them will probably be Magd-
ziak and Bruce at forwards;
Wright at center, and Appel and
Mackiewicz at guards.
Assistant Coach Clyde E. Pete"
Mullis, taking charge of the White
Phantoms during the absence of
Coach Ben Carnevale, who is con-
fined to bed with a back injury,
put his charges through stiff
practice session yesterday after
noon, and them planned a light,
tapering-off drill for this evening.
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SPORTS SHORTS.

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-(UP)-K. P.
Wrigley was reelected president of
the Chicago Cubs today in the an
nual meeting of stockholders in
which it was revealed that the
teams 1915 roster of 40 players in
cluded their entire starting squad
of last year.
Other officers elected W er e
James T. Gallagher, vice president
and general manager; Earl w. Mel
son, treasurer; Margaret Donahue,
secretary, George Boyle, assistant
to the general manager and Robert
C. Lewis, travelling secretary.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 3l.-UP)
Manager Joe Mccarthy of the
New York Yankees announced to-
day that he will leave for New
York tomorrow and confer with
Col. Larry MacPhail, head of the
syndicate which last week purchas-
ed the club.
MONTREAL, Jan. 31.-UP)-
An effort to- revive the Canadian
open golf tournament this year was
made today when the Beaconsfield
golf club voted $4,000 to under
write the event and suggested it be
held in either July or August.
The tournament, which annually
attracted the top professionals OF
the United States and Canada, has
been suspended since the war.
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Barrow Takes Advisory Position
Under New Owner Of Yankees,
No Change In Policy Is Expected
Car Holds First Business
Conference With =
MacPhail
BY JACK HAND

NEW YORK, Jan. Oh Up Ed
Barrow's policy under t h e new
ownership of the New York
Yankees will be to offer advice
but not to interfere with Col. Lar
ny MacPhail president and gen.
eral manager.
In a formal statement released
today after his first business con.
ference with MacPhail since the
sale of the club, the 76-year-old
Barrow said: Il told him we could
not both be head man and that l
would stay as chairman of the
board of directors as long as my
health would permit. He said 1
could have any office l wanted.
"As my policy is never to in
terfere, l am sure we will get
along without any friction. I told
him that he should be president
and run things and | would stay
in an advisory capacity. I will sup
port him when he is in the right,
but when he is wrong will simply
keep my mouth shut
MacPhail revealed actual trans.
fer of stock has not taken place
and only $4,000 actually has
changed hands, but posting of the
remainder of the estimated $780,
600 purchase price was purely a
matter of working out the legal
quirks of large scale operation
before a March Is deadlne.
The former Brooklyn and Gin
cinnati- executive who will be nam
ed president and, general manag-
er for a long term when the trans
fer is completed reaffirmed h s
mo change policy as he observ-
ed, there have been no changes
and there aren't going to be any.
"Today's meeting" the colonel
said, was largely a matter of
Barrow telling me here's what we
nave been doing and me saying
that's okay by me-"
MacPhail said he. would take
charge February 10 when he is
placed on inactive status by the
Army but would be present at the
Friday and Saturday meetings
mot as an American Lacquer but
merely as an interested person.
Barrow will represent tn e New
York club and whatever his views
are if ooeS for me- fno -
Barrow will in no way be bound
to a vote for Ford Frick for COM
missioner, MacPhaips personal
choice, but the new No. l man
of the Yanks classed himself as
a leading proponent of the group
asking for immediate el,ction of
a car.
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Duke And Wake Forest To Clash
In Big Fiue Game At High Point
Deacons Seek Early-Season
Revenge From Blue
Devils

HIGH POINT, Jan. 31.-Basket
ball fans of this section will be
offered Big Five and Southern
Conferenc contest here Saturday
night when Dukes Blue Devils and
Wake Forests Demon Deacons
clash in the High Point college
gymnasium in the feature half OF
cage doubleheader. Elon a n d
High Point tangle in a North State
Conference tilt on the same pro-
gram.
Wake Forest, with a lineup fea-
turing some of last falls Deacon
football stars, will be seeking re-
venge for. an early season loss
suffered at the hands of Coach
Gerry Gerand's Blue Devils.
In fact, Wake Forest outscored
Duke in the second half only to
fall short of wiping out the Blue
Devils first half advantage. Wake
Forest has a strong team despite
the fact its record isn't impress
sive.
Coach Murray Greason h S
whipped together a well-balanced
team after the Deacons suspend
ed the cage sport last year be-
cause the army finance school was
using the Baptist gymnasium.
Dukes defending Southern Con-
ference champions had won only
seven Of IA starts before last
nights clash with N. C. State at
Durham. The Blue Devils, after a
slow start, are rounding into top
form, and they expect to put up
strong fight in t h e conference
tournament at Raleigh on Febru-
airy %, %, and "a.
Three footballers have also been
sparkling Dukes play. They e
Gordon Carver, Johnny Crowder
and Cliff Lewis, all-stars of Dukes
Sugar Bowl victory over Alabama.
Carver and Lewis are starters,
while Crowder is second string
center. CroWder also is High
Point boy and he will be playing
before the homefolks.
Stars of the Duke team are Bill
Sapp, Ed Koffenberger and Bob
Roellke. Sapp is the leading scor-
er for the year, while sixfoot- three
Koffenberger excells under the
basket. Roellke is long shot ace.
They are the big three of the Blue
Devils.
Dave Harris, pass catching end
in football last fall, is leading
Wake Forest in scoring. The husky
six-footer has been turning in
some brilliant performances on
the hardwood.
High Point fans should see an
exciting battle when Wake Forest
and Duke tear into each other Sat-
urday night, because the past few
years these two rivals have stag
ed some lively athletic games.
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The Sports Trail

the fix as one or two sta PLAYERS
with yen for easy money can
make the difference.
The wGole affair is sonethino
OF a black eye for private promo.
ton OF college basketball. We have
an idea there are no such han.
penings involving games PLAYED
on campuses, and we just can't
picture a crooked game between
say, Iowa and Minnesota. Pride in
the schools and their records are
just too great.
We can just hear Forces
"Phog" Allen cackling II told YOU
so'' out in Lawrence, Kas. Phog
put his finger on the button months
ago, but was laughed off as a
publicity-seeking calamity bowler.
To the credit of New York, it
exposed its own unfragrant situa.
ton. The sports loving citizens
here want no more of such shen-
nanigans than do the real sports
fans in other parts of the coun.
try, and they resent as much as
anyone else the fact that a hand
full of cheap gamblers have been
trying to make a travesty of the
game at the expense of lila dvised
kids.
Ned Irish, who started big-time
private promotion of college bas-
ketball, has been doing his best
to curb the growing gambling. but
it's no easy job. He knows it is a
peril to the sport, that such an
exposure as the one just made
not only will be harmful to his
own private enterprise in that
teams will be cagey about riskins
their regulations in the garden at.
mosphere, but it might cast shad-
oW of doubt over the game
throughout the county.
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JQypees Lick
Lejeune High
In Ninth Win
By WEDDELL HARRISS

New Hanover High Schools unde.
feated junior-varsity quint, romped
to their ninth consecutive victory
this season by trouncing the fight
ing Camp Lejeune High School
Devil-dogs 1918 last night in q
spirited affrey staged in the high
school gym preceding the varsity
tilt.
The high-flying Jay-Vees, under
the guidance of Coach Wallace
West, garnered first quarter lead
of AZ, and trotted off the court
at the halftime with a 1873 advan-
tage.
The visiting Dogs found the
range in the second half, however,
and led by the deadly shooting OF
Hardesty and Nelson, chalked up
10 markers and limiting the locals
to scant 6.
The Jay-Vee four-foot wonders,
Vests capable but extremely light
reserves, stole the show during
the last three minutes of play.
Eager, they darted onto the court
from their Well-Warmed bench.
The midgets drew thunderous ap-
plause from the ever-groWing crowd
of Wilmington supporters as they
determinedly lodged around and
under their lanky opponents, the
game was climaxed by an unex-
pected field goal by Tiny Thomas
in the closing minutes.
The Jay-Vee attack was headed
by demon-dribbler w. A. Brown,
Red Crowley and Billy Harrison,
who combined to score the majority
of the locals tallies, and worked
with their colleagues to form an al
most impregnable defense against
the Lejeuners, forcing them to re-
vert to long shots most of the night
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WILDCATS BEAT
SAILORS, 4-22

The New Hanover High school
Wildcat hoopsters sailed to their
fifth victory of the season last night
to bring their average back up to
the 500 mark, showing a favored
Maffitt Village Ferry Command
five under 1922 landslide on the
local hardwood.
The Wilmingtonians. led by the
high scoring Mason brothers, Billy
and Carl, with 10 and eight points
respectively, and lanky Johnny Nc
Koy. also with eight TALES to his
credit, paved the way for the Wild
cat victory with their accuracy.
The first quarter kept the fans
constantly on the edge of their
seat with the lead continually
changing hands, terminating with
the count knotted at 6-6.
The local supporters were able
to settle back and breathe a little
easier during the second period
however, when the Cat quint open
ed up and hastily ran the score up
to 20-e halftime advantage.
The remainder of the tilt was all
New Hanover, with the Masons
and Jack Marcus bringing the third
setto count up to 32-17. &:
Bobby Brindell, Norman (Ploo.
gie) Waters, and McKoy got on the
ball during the final period boost
the standing to 1922 triumph.
jerome Thibideau, Fairy Com
mand center, took high scoring
honors for the affray, aggregating
IL points, while Wilmington CO.
Captain Billy Mason followed close
on his heels with 10 markers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
DEMPSEY SAYS
NATIONAL GAME
WILL CONTINUE
Former Ch mp Asserts
Baseball, Other Sports,
Must Go On

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 31.-lRHAn
encoura ging word for baseball
came today from Comdr. Jack
Dempsey, the chief Of the Coast
Guard physical fitness program,
who knows his way around in
Washington.
Baseball is going to be played,
I understand,' the former heavy
weight champion told Guy Butler,
sports editor of the Miami Daily
News, in telephone conversation
from Palm Beach, where he is va
cationing.
There is too much money in.
vested in baseball and some other
sports, and too much interest by
the civilian populace as well as
the servicemen for them to be
closed down."
The big fellow warmed to his
subject.
Sports must go on, no matter
what happens, ne declared. "O1
course, nobody expects big, strong
healthy athletes to be anywhere
but in fighting uniform-bu1
We'll have enough 4F's incapable
of fighting, discharges, older mer
and those 17-yearold kids to con
tinue the various sports.
Sure, 1 mean boxing, baseball
football and all the others.
eve can't quit now. We cam
back down. What will we have tt
carry on with after the war i
everybody gives up sports noW?'
Sports are necessary for morale
purposes, he emphasized.
We've got to have EN-" Demp
sey continued, although we're
going to have to go with lot less.
in quantity and quality, than
we're accustomed to-. But that's
all right
Turning to boxing in the post
war era. the former mauler said
he would have to string along with
Champion Joe Louis until the lat
ter is dethroned.
people say that the last was
produced great fighters" he com
mented. 1T didn't. Gene Tunney
came along, to be sure, but il
was seven years after the war be-
fore he became champion.
There are no real good boxing
men that I've observed in this
war. 1t takes three or four year:
to develop a topnotch fighter
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KlLLINCER MOVED
TO NEW STATION

CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 31.-(P)-
Ii. Comdr. W. Glenn Killinger,
whose Navy Preflight teams in
football and baseball last year
amassed impressive records, was
detached this week for duty at a
Naval air station in Florida, and
Ii, Comdr. Paul w. Bryant, former
Alabama grid star, has been named
10 head the football training course
Of the Cloudbusters.
Announcement of the change was
made by 1t. Comdr. James P.
Raugh, commanding officer of the
Navy Preflight school here.
Besides serving as head of the
football training course, Killinger,
who was member of Walter
Camps all-America grid team in
1921, coached the Cloudbuster elev-
en- which early last fall upset the
heavily favored Naval Academy
lSd44l dlll w CI4I VII W aim
the best grid machines in the coun-
try with six wins, Two losses and
one tie. The losses were to Balm
bridge and Camp Peary. two ser
vice teams which were loaded with
ex-professional luminaries.
Mllinger also coached the 1914
Cloudbuster baseball team which
compiled a record of "a wins
against y losses for the season.
Bryant, who succeeds him, star.
red at end during his collegiate
days at Alabama, teaming up with
Don Hutson to hold down the Flank
positions On Alabama's great Rose
Bowl team Of 1884. Last fall he
served as line coach of the Cloud,
busters.
He was assistant coach at Ala
olama and later at Vanderbilt, be-
,ofe entering the Navy in 1912.
ne reported to Chapel Hill last
Suiy after IS months sea duty in
Fl Inc Atlantic area,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
CAUSEY
RETURNS TO CITY

Promoter Bert Causey, local en-
presario, has returned to the city
after brief illness, and announced
last night that the Swedish Angel
and Blimp Levey would be featur-
ed in the ITALIAN Hall arena Tues
day night, February 13.
Causey pointed out that following
the next wrestling show here, the
bone-bending exhibitions would be
moved to the old Friday night date,
when big names will appear on the
Wilmington card Additional Crap
piers for the fray February 13,
will be announced later, Causey
said.
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New York Assemblyma
Acts On Sport Gamblers

ALBANY, N. Y. Jan. 31.-UP)
-Assemblyman Malcolm Wilson,
Westchester Republican, introduce
ed a bill today amending the penal
law making amateur athletes liable
to heavy penalties for accepting
brides.
Under terms of the measure,
amateur athletes could be fined up
to $4,000 and imprisoned from one
to five years for accepting money
or any article of value to throw"
a game.
The present law applies only to
professionals.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 R We
10 naive sort of soul who
lucy look for the bay where they
v0'l sn+ The bay rum, but we find
dip W. W. to realize a bunch Of kids
it na nsantjng a school would plot
fep. .srow basketball game for
to .lmOi as the Brooklyn College
n 1opsrs admitted doing.
pla aither the kids nowadays e
,.a a or we were brought up
alis- more wholesome section of
II NJ country, for we could no more
'lle .ojste such a practice with our
ss sT.oe days than we could asso-
e e'.ts sparrow with a B-2s just
s s,a', they both fly.
os rron our experience the pride
soino winner and pride in
~, school dwarfed everything
u a,s. and the boys would have liv-
s-''' an bread crusts rather than
e eur themselves and their school
down the river.
oo W. can't believe the Brooklyn
coileoe affair is anything but an
;.olsted case, although, like one
ss5 ample in a barrel, it will cause
va otber games to be looked on
f. fs unfortunate that the gam
,,.rs moved in on college basket
S.n although the very rules of
.so came seem to make it a natur-
~ for the fix. In football there are
TN many players involved. Base
b.n although calling for nine play
srs on side, offers an opportuni-
~ because the nature of the game
nr,5 50 much responsibility on one
OF two men
But basketball, with five players
~ team. leaves an opening for
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Sports Writer Reports
On Western Front Tour

u,
st. Louis Post-Dispatch sports wri-
ter, has returned from a USO tour
of the western front where he was
master of ceremonies for a unit
of four major league baseball play
ers, Mel OFT, frankie Frisch,
Bucky Walters and Dutch Leonard.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31-lR-It was
cold in Paris, there was no heat,
no warm water in our hotel and
we learned quickly that the trim
uniforms fitted in a New York
Fifth Avenue shop wouldn't be suf-
ficient in winter in cold, damp,
muddy France.
And when frankie Frisch, a cold
blooded fellow for all the umpires
may say, put on his favorite two
sets of long, heavy underwear, he
couldn't pull his dandy officer S
blouse to within two inches of but
toning.
Special service knew our prob
lem and fitted us out at the post
exchange. When they gave us leg
gings foul sizes too large and trou-
sers that dragged the ground, we
knew this was the same Army we
had been in back in 1918.
Early the morning of November
80 we left Paris In our converted
weapons carrier and motored to
Reims. 1t. Col. Frank C. Schroe-
der, special service officer, met
us and ESQ camp shows unit At
was ready.
We met the 82nd Airborne at
Sissone and Suippes and the 101st
at Mourmelon and Chalons. Off
GERS and enlisted men had volun-
tered for that branch Of the serv-
ice. They were a sort of mixture of
! Foreign Legion and Frank Merri-
well.
THAT fellow over there is Buck
Dickson CLOS Angeles)," said 1t.
Bob Burnes of the 101st. He's a
pistol. One of the original para
chute jumpers.
Zone time we moved into Hell
ne installation so quickly they ran
out and left the telephone ringing.
Dickson answered the phone and
carried on polite conversation
with some high officer for several
minutes. Buck got some valuable
information out of the officer and
when he heard all he could get or
wanted, he swung into the darndest
Heine swearing YOU ever heard.
And did we get laugh out OF VS.
ualizing that Heine officer on the
other end of the telephone getting
the hell bawled out Of him"
We met Maj. Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor and Lieutenant Burnes told
us a story about him.
General Taylor jumped with us
in the invasion and to avoid con-
fusion in the darkness he was to
be identified as Killer When he
Jumped he landed with his para
chute in an apple tree and got
tangled UP. One Of our soldiers was
cautious and Taylor's answer OF
the Killer didn't satisfy the SOL
der. He suggested the thing in the
tree had better figure out better
story or things would happen.
"This is your general, Gen. Tay-
lor' the Killer explained and the
soldier was very apologize. Par
don me, SIR he said. Just mo-
nnent. sir, and we'll have you down
sir. and pardon me, sir, for being
about to blow your bloody brains
out, SIR
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Saffo Basketeers Win
Over Pepsi Cola, 14-7

Saffo's basketeers defeated a fast
Pepsi Cola team 14-7, on the
YMCA court last night in the first
game of a double-header, and the
Kenney Educators edged out the
City Optical five 1915.
Herbert MoskoWitz captain of
the bottlers, and Groom, of Saffo's
shared scoring honors with six
each.
In the second fray, John Brown
was high scorer for the Educators
with Is, while Bobby Crowley led
the Opitcals with TO-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Bob Cats To Engage
i YMCA Stars Tonight

Daye Wilkins Bob Cats will
tangle with the YMCA All-Stars to-
night in Municipal Basketball
league battle.
The second-place Cats will be
the underdog, but they will have
the support of Bobby Manor, Jim
my Cane and Bo Markiton, all of
whom will be in good shape.
The Cats will be seeking their
fourth win. Their only defeat was
suffered at the hands of the YMCA
'quint, 20-6. q,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
NOTICE
Plumbing. Heating and Air
Conditioning Examinations

The State Board of Examin-
ers of Plumbing and HeatinI
Contractors will hold its regular
series of examinations on Feb
ruary 21st, 22nd and 23rd in the
King Cotton Hotel, Greensboro,
Examinations for Plumbing
or Air Conditioning, begin
promptly at 500 A. M. February
21st. The Heating examinations
begins at LOO P. M. February
22nd.
Applications for examinations
must be filed with the Board not
later than midnight February
18th. For information and ap-
plication blanks write to w. F.
Morrison, Executive Secretary,
Box 10, Raleigh, N. G.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
VOLLEY BALL CLUB

The Volley Ball Club will hold
its monthly meeting at p. m. to-
morrow at the YMCA, and Sam
johnson will preside