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Large Crowd Attends
YMCA Gym Exhibition

The YMCA held its annual Gym
nasium exhibition last night un-
der the supervision OF Adam w.
Smith, physical director.
The Cadet class was led in the
various drills by Robert Clark
The Juniors were led by Charles
C. Caudill. The Parallel bar work
was under the direction OF Smith
J. @. LeGrand made an address
in which he honored j. B. Hunt
ington, YMCA general secretary
recounting the loyal service he
has rendered in the past IS years
to the youth and citizens Of Will
mington.
Charles o. Voss and Miss Warf,
performed on roller-skates with an
enthusiastic reception by the au'
dience. I. Stevenson gave an ex.
hibition of body building and
weight lifting.
Russell H. Caudill, Boys Work
secretary, furnished the musica!
background for the show. A large
crowd attended.
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ARENA PRESIDENT
IS HELD RAMPANT

NEW YORK, April 6-W.D-Police
Commissioner Lewis ]. Valentine
insisted today that Ned Irish, act
ing president of Madison Square
Garden, had told him betting was
becoming rampant at the Garden.
He was testifying at the open hear
ing into basketball gambling.
Irish, in testifying had denied
that he told the commissioner
ANY such thing"
Valentine testified today that
Irish had sought a conference with
and said he feared a scandal .
He reiterated his testimony thai
Irish had sodght a conference with
him concerning gambling. Irish
testified that he had sought NO
conference, but Valentine said he
had a photostatic copy of an or.
der he sent out for the meeting.
Valentine repeated his testimony
that Irish told him gamblers were
becoming particularly bold in con-
nection with hockey and basket.
ball games and boxing events and
congregated in the lobby, in the
aisles and around the arena and
occupied some of the boxes.
Irish, also told him, Valentine
testified, that gamblers were try.
ing to corrupt basketball players
and coaches by having them toss
games"
Valentine pointed out that these
were not 1rish's words but that
he had taken notes.
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Coffield Ties Tourist:
Mysterious Miss Wins

The much anticipated grudge
match between Jimmy Coffield,
bad Boy from Kansas City, and
Abe Tourist, former Toledo, Ohio
basketball star, ended up in draw
last night at ITALIAN Hall.
Coffield won the first fall within
81 minutes with a double head
lock, only to have Tourist bounce
back to take the second fall after
ten minutes with a hammer lock.
The bout between the two female
grapplers, mysterious Miss Red
and Miss Violet Valentine proved
to be the cards thriller. Miss
Red, who had volunteered to I'M
mask if defeated, remained anony-
nous as she pinned Miss Valentine
in the first attempt with full
body pin after Is minutes. She
came up seven minutes later with
another body pin to win the bout
In % minutes.
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The Sports Trail

Bv WHITNEY MARTIN

ball game, too. He'd call the pitch
es in the tight spots, and whenever
we were to face dangerous hitters
he'd say to his pitchers: Throw il
in the dirt Meaning to keep it
around the knees, as that's the
toughest ball for anyone to hit.
If the hitter was walked, all right.
1t was better than having him
break up the gaRe.
HE was absolutely impartial in
dealing with his players. I remem'
Der once on training trip In
Texas We had upper and lower
berths. 1 asked him how to de-
eide who would get the uppers,
and he said: Put the names in
hat
"WeIl, said: How about Mr.
Mathewson?" and he said: Put
his name in too. He's no better
than anybody else Mr.. Mathew
son drew an upper.
HE had his own system OF play
ing the game. Never let the other
team make sucker of you he
would say. So he was always doing
the unexpected. His teams play
ed a game something like the
Cardinals of recent years. It was
run, run, run. Get that extra
base. Hit when they expect you tt
bunt. Do it differently.
''He liked big men for his bal
club. Joe Mccarthy does, too. He
had small men, sure, but they hae
to be good. He knew how to handle
all types of men, too. He wouldn''
be tough with g quiet, shy player
who might be upset by gruffy talk
But he loved to rough the rough
boys to see just how tough they
were.
Give Of the eight present Ma
tional League managers played I'm
der Mr.. McGraw at one time Of
another. That should indicate
something"
We suspect that Eddie Brannicl
thinks Mr.. McGraw was quite
man.
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Shortstop Crosetti
Signs Yank Contract

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April
'6.-R-Frankie Crosetti, holdout
shortstop of the New York Yank-
ees has agreed to terms and will
join the team in Washington on
April IS, club officials said to-
day.
Crosetti who has been working
out in California, agreed to the
$4,000 offer Of Larry MacPhail,
club president. Previously he had
asked $4,000.
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Souiets Hit Vienna
From Three Sides
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mans had had time to organize
a street defense
(The Swiss radio said all re-
naming civilians in Vienna had
been impressed into the Volks-
sturm for a last-ditcn defense OF
the city.
(BBC quoted unofficial reports
that strong Russian forces had
stormed into tn southeastern
quarter Of Vienna and were fight
ing house to house through the in
dustrial suburbs.
German broadcasters, evidently
preparing the German public for
bad news of the Vienna battle,
said the development of the city
had become a simpler task for
the Red Army following the fall
Of Bratislava on the Danube to
the east.
On the extreme southern end of
the front, Tolbukhin had crossed
the Austrian frontier and pushed
his flank to within rs miles of the
Italian border, Moscow dispatches
said.
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NELSON LEADING
ATLANTA TOURNEY
BY SIX STROKES
Byrd Places Second With
1879; Followed By
White With l40

ATLANTA, April 6.-P-Byron
Nelson. the Texan who migrated
to Toledo, Ohio, took a six stroke
lead over the field in the $4,000
open Iron Lung Golf Tournament
today as he added par SO to yes.
terday's GA for a 1873 total at the
halfway mark.
Sammy Byrd, of Detroit, III.
former New York Yankee outfield.
er, slipped into second place with
the best round Of the day, a four
under-par IS which gave him 1879.
Orville White, W7inston-Salem, N.
c. pro, shot his second consistent
70 in row to land in third place.
Three players whose winnings on
the winter circuit have been scan.
ty were in a deadlock for the next
spot with 141's. They were Joe
Kirkwood, Philadelphia; Bobby
Cruickshank, Richmond, Va; and
Joe Zarhardt, Morristown, Pa.
Slamming Sammy Snead of Hot
Springs, Va, and Jug McSpaden
Of Sanford, Me-, runnersup to Mel.
son after the first round, fell be-
hind today. Snead, after going out
IN a ragged SO, recovered with a
"a coming in which gave him a
two-day total of 142. MsSpadens Is
landed him in the IA bracket
with several others.
Jimmy Hines of Amsterdam, N.
Y, shooting a SO today was tied
with Snead at 142. Ed Furgol,
Mhinsdale, ILL.,, also had a 142 to
lead the amateurs.
Nelson started out today with a
80 on the first nine, gathering three
brides and one boyle, but he falter-
ed coming down the stretch and
took two over par sc on the back
nine. He bogied Nos. IA and 16.
Byrd got his IS with IA pars and
four brides, a chip shot from the
edge Of the green on No. 6 for a
birdie two featuring.
Denny Champagne, Orlando, Fla.
amateur, scored a hole-iS-one on
the 145-yard sixth.
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LUCENA CAPTURED
BY YANK FORCES
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the Japanese Air Force, the raiders
set large fires blazing along the
waterfront and ignited oil storage
tanks.
Night patrol planes sank 10000
ton freighter-transport east of Hong
Kong, and sank two barges and
damaged a 1,0oO-ton freighter north
of Hainan. Day raiders destroyed
two small cargo vessels off the
China coast.
Three tankers and two small
freighters were sunk or damaged
in the Pesacadores islands and
parked planes were set afire at
the Toyohara airdrome in Formo-
sa.
In addition to the ships hit in
China waters, Allied filters sank
or damaged II freighters or small
coastal vessels in Borneo and Gle
bes waters.
On other Philippines land fronts
the 4Oth Division captured the SHAY
airdrome and sent patrols to the
Alicante airdrome on Negros is
land.
The American division and Fill
Pine troops were beating off Jap
anese counterattacks on Cebu,
where hard fighting has been re-
ported.
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PHILLIES HELP
DEDICATE FIELD

CAMP LEE, Va, April CLIP
The Philadelphia Phillies of the
National League today helped
Camp Lee dedicate its athletic
field which bears the name of
Sgt. Henry Nowak, former pitcher
of the St. Louis Cardinals, who
was the first National League ball
player killed in action in World
War Two. Nowak died of wounds
received in Belgium on New
Years Day.
The Phillies, playing before a
crowd of 10000 soldiers and a
number of high ranking officers,
defeated the Camp Lee Travellers,
managed by Ted (Specs) Garbee,
former Lynchburg, Va, Piedmont
League pilot, AZ.
Vernon Kennedy and Charley
Sproull held the soldiers to six
hits while Jim Hopper, bought by
Pittsburgh from Toronto before he
entered the Army, gave up II.
Brig. Gen. George A. Horkan,
Commanding Officer at Lee, threw
out the first bal. to Herb Pen
mock, Pills Manager to open the
game, and the National Leaguers
quickly started to work by grab
bing a one run lead in the second
inning on hits by Nick Goulish
and Gus Mancuso.
They scored two more in the
third after two were out on four
successive hits by Jam Wasdeu
Rene Monteagudo, Goulish, and
Mancuso. The soldiers came back
with two counters in their half
OF the third, scoring on a double
by Dave Philley, ex-Chicago White
Sox outfielder, and a long fly
by Buster Maynard, former New
) York Giant and Richmond out.
fielder.
The visitors last run came in
the sixth when Bitsy Mott singled
home Granville Hammer afte- the
latter had doubled.
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FENDER PLANS
RABIES CLINIC

A series of rabies clinics will be
conducted in Fender county dur
ing April and May, according to
an announcement received here
yesterday.
The schedule follows:
Burgaw, Saturday, April Z, 8 a.
m. to p. m. in vacant lot next to
Harrelrs Department store
Wards Corner, Saturday, April IA,
9 a. M; Malpass Corner, Satu--
day, April IA, 10 a. M; Long Creek
T. J. Henry's store, Saturday,
April IA, II a. M; Boney Wilson's
store, Saturday, April IA, l p. m. ;
Claudio Wilson's store, Saturday
April IA, 2:30 p. M; Ernest
Eakins' store. Saturday, April 81,
9 a. m; Leo Eakins' store, Satur.
day, April 81, 10 a. M; Penderlea
Community store, Saturday. April
81, IL p. M; Willard, Smiths store,
Saturday, April IA, 2 p. m.; Watha,
Town Hall, Saturday, April 81,
p. m.
Lanes Ferry, Saturday, April
~, 10 a. m; c. L. Futch's store.
Saturday, April %, IL a. M;
Hampstead, Towards store, April
~ IL p. M; Rocky Point, Tom
Pea1salrs store, Saturday. April
%, as p. m.
Smiths Bridge. Saturday, May
5. 10 a. M; Maple Hill, Postoffice,
Saturday. May S, 1872 p. M; Cur.
RE, L. W. Rocks store, Saturday,
May II. 10 a. m.-12 p. M; Cane.
tuck. Harry Marshalps store Sat.
urday. May u, 1-3 p. M; Atkinson,
Harrell's store, Saturday, May 10.
g a. m.-12 p. m.
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Major League Catching
Records Near Collapse

CAMP LEE, Va, April 6.-lR-
Several major league catching
records, defying time and receiv-
ers alike for many years, appar-
emily are as near collapse as Ger
many's self-style supermen.
Four veteran receivers who ap-
pear to have golden opportunities
to write their names in big league
record books are Al Lopez and
Virgil (SpudD Davis of the Pitts
burgh Pirates; Rick Terrell, Wash
ington Senators; and Frank Hayes,
Philadelphia Athletics.
Lopez, the fiery Latin, is nearing
the record for the number Of major
league contests caught. The pres
ent record OF 1,790 was set by Leo
(Gabby) Hartnett while catching
for the Chicago Cubs and New
York Giants from 1922 through
1941.
Appearing behind the plate in
lis games in 1914, Lopez pushed
his total to LIZA games, only rs
short of Hartnett's mark. Lopez
also has a chance to tie Bill Dick
ey's record of catching 100 or more
games for 10 years. The past sea-
son was the seniors 18th.
Terrell, like Lopez in his 18th
season in the big leagues, needs
104 games, having caught in l.
686 contests. Last year Rick was
behind the bat in 90 games. Even
if he fails to disturb Hartnett' S
mark, Terrell is almost certain to
break the American League rec
ord of 1,7221 set by Ray Schalk OF
the Chicago White Sox.
Iron Man Hayes, who shared the
spotlight with Ray Mueller of the
Cincinnati Reds last year by catch
ing in all of his teams 1855 games,
needs to catch the AS first 81
games this season to surpass
Mueller's two-year record of 217
consecutive games. Hayes handled
the last two contests for the St.
Louis Brown in 1943 before bag
cling his 1856 straight for the Mack
men. Last year both he and Huel-
Ter topped George Gibson's prev
ious record of 1873 straight in 1909.
BY batting .301 in 81 games last
season, Davis became the first
National League catcher to hit 300
or better for 10 seasons. Davis
homered in his last at bat Of the
1914 season to climb above the
300 mark. The 40-year-old season
ed canpaigner is one short of
Dickey's major league standard
of 300 seasons.
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ENEMY ATTACKS
BROKEN BY U. S.
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ing on several hours. I can't tell
you how many have been shot
down. But the total compares
well with any other battle in the
pacific.') !
On Okinawa, the Marines in the
north gained Up to nearly three
miles in their advance up the 18TH
mus which joins the southern and
northern halves of the island. Re-
sistance was scattered.
But the infantrymen in the south,
attacking the main japanese de-
tense line before the city of Naha,
met heavy enemy resistance sup
ported by artillery. Naval guns and
carrier planes hit the enemy lines
with shells and bombs throughout
Friday.
Nimitz announced that in cap
turing the Kerama islands off the
west coast of Okinawa, invaded six
DAYS before the major landing,
American forces killed 500 Japa-
nese and captured 1865 prisoners.
American infantrymen were vir-
tually stalled in their drive on
Naha.
Front dispatches said that the
Japanese launched their biggest
counter. attack Of the campaign Fri
day afternoon.
The Army troops were some five
miles from Naha but the final drive
to overrun the capital city and two
airfields in the area would not be
easy, the front dispatches indicat-
ed.
The enemy was fighting back
with guns and mortars hidden in
hill caves, just as they did on Sal
pan and in the Philippines. OBJ
servers specialized that a tedious
and bloody job might lie ahead Of
American oath Corps infantrymen
who will have the job of roofing
them out.
Heaviest fighting conferred about
a triangular cluster of three hills
some four miles north of Naha. The
Americans were headed south
along a narrow isthmus toward the
hills and the capital city, which
lies in smoking and repeatedly al
most lifeless ruins from air and
naval boEbardment.
Planes joined the assault on Jap
anese hill defenses with bombs and
rockets.
(Tokyo broadcasts recorded by
United Press in New York and San
Francisco said the Americans were
reinforcing their landing forces and
that more than 300 small landing
craft were lying at anchor off Oki-
nawa.)
japanese air attacks continued.
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PRO GRID TEAMS.
START DRAFTING
COLLEGE PLAYERS
Chicago c Cardinals Get
First Choice and Take
Charlie Trippi

NEW YORK, April 6.-R-With
more hope than confidence, the
National Football League set about
replenishing its player rosters to-
day by means of the annual draft
of college players, after devoting
an entire morning to wrangling
about questions of eligibility for
selection.
Once the draft was begun, Char
lie Trippi, former Georgia half
back who starred last fall for the
Third Air Force team of Morris
Field, Charlotte, N. c., was chosen
as the No. l pro prospect. Trippi,
now stationed at Miami, Fla, was
chosen by the Chicago Cardinals,
who won first choice by the flip of
coin.
The Cardinals, the Pittsburgh
Steels with whom they were COM
bined last fall, and the Brook
Ign Tigers were tied for lowest
rank in the league standings and
thus eligible for first pick.
Pittsburgh, selecting second,
picked the subject Of most of the
mornings controversy, Paul Du-
hart of Florida and the Green Bay
Packers. Duhart, who decided to
play pro football last fall after
being discharged from the Army,
came under a special ruling. The
league rule is that no player can
be signed until his college class
has been graduated. Since~Florida
had no football team last fall, the
Packers were permitted to sign
Duhart.
Today the league voted that Du-
hart and a few other players in
the same category, must 60 on the
draft list since his normal college
career would end this year. 1t
was decided, however, to waive a
rule that does not permit club
to trade its first or second choice
men in the draft until the player
has completed one season, and to
permit the trading of these players
only to othe clubs for which they
had played. Thus the Steelers can
send Duhart back to Green Bay
in a trade. but not to any other
team.
The first choices of other clubs
we're: Brooklyn, Joe Renfro, Tu-
lane; Boston, Ed Prokop, Georgia
| Tech; Cleveland, Elroy Hirsch,
Wisconsin; Detroit, Frank Szy,i-
manski, Notre Dame; Chicago
Bears, Don Lund, Michigan; Wash
ington, Jim Hardy, Southern Cali
fornia; Philadelphia, John Yona-
kor, Notre Dame; New York, FL
mer Barbour, Wake Forest, and
Green Bay, Walter Schlinkman,
Texas Tech. Except for Szynanski,
center, and Yonakor, an end, all
the first choice players are backs.
The long process of drafting 80
players for each club took up the
entire opening session of the an
nual meeting, resumed after a sud-
den postponement in Chicago last
winter. BY tomorrow the club own
ers hope to get around to such
matters as the projected Brooklyn
Boston merger which will reduce
the circuit to ten clubs for the 1915
season.
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LAKEWOOD, N. j., April 6.-sF!
I'D like to have seen any OF
these expert signal stealers try
10 steal Mr.. McGrawss signals.
Eddie Brannick was saying, he'd
have them so mixed UP they
wouldn't know where they were"
II was raining and the New YORK
Giant exhibition game had been
called off, so Eddie had plenty
of time to talk on a favorlte SUD-
iect The Giant secretary practl-
cally grew up under John McGraW,
whom he never mentions without
the Mister" :,
"Mr McGraw," he continued.
s.nlight be fooling with a couple OF
bats or doing something with MS
hands to give the impression ne
was giving signals. when all the
time he was telling someone down
the bench to give the signals, ana
what to signal. The other team
never knew where the signals
were coming from.
and I'd like to see some OF the
smart traders today up against
Mr.. McGraw," he continued. lie
never got fooled. I remember once
was walking down the street with
him and he said: Eddie, I'm going
In pull one on Jack Hendricks. I'm
going to trade him John Kelly
"Hendricks was manager OF the
Reds. Kelly seemed to be gong
good, and I asked Mr.. McGra"
why he was going to- get RID OF
him. He said: I've been watching
him in batting practice. and ne
been missing fast balls a loot;
It's his eyes Well, he traded
Kelly for Ed Roush, and Kelly
only lasted year or two longer.
"Mr. McGraw knew what was
going on at all times. He'd walk
into the locked room and see some
player chewing big wad Of gum
and he'd know the fellow had been
drinking and was trying to Kill ms
breath.
"Mr. McGraw always ran his
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a stalemats and is unable to reach
agreement
The WLB set $3.50 pm. tomor-
row to hear the parties report. 1t
then probably will arrange pub
lie hearings for next week.
Collapse of the negotiations may
retard a back-to-work movemen':
A UNIV spokesman predicted
full production by Monday, but
survey by the Solid Fuels Admin
istration indicated that production
today would suffer nearly as hea-
Willy as yesterday.
Before the mines could be taken
over by the Government, the WLB
would have to certify the dispute
to President Roosevelt.
The board took jurisdiction last
weekend after the bargaining con-
ference had failed to reach agree
ment on single issue in a month
of negotiation. 1t ordered the pr!1-
cipa1s to continue meetings TINS
week and submit progress re-
port tomol roW.
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Husband of Wrightsville
Resident Reported Killed
During 3rd Army Action

Capt. Hassel G.. Wall, of Shelby,
whose wife is the former Gertrude
killed in action recently while serv-
ing with the Third Army in Ger.
many, the War Department report.
ed.
Capt. Wall entered the Army IN
June, 1912, and received his COM
mission as a second lieutenant at
Fort Knox, KY, after which he was
transferred to Fort Benning, and
to Camp Gordon, Ca, where he
was stationed until he went over
seas in September, 1914. He was
promoted to first lieutenant at the
port of enlbarkation.
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209th Vessel Launched
At North Carolina Yard

The S. S. Louise Lykes, 209th
vessel to near completion at the
yard Of the North Carolina Ship
building Co., was launched at
pm yesterday under the sponsor
ship of Mrs. Anne Peterson Myers.
Mrs. Myers is the daughter OF
Representative j. Harden Peter
son, of the First Florida congress
sionaI district.
A CO type cargo ship, the S. S..
Louise Lykes is the fourth to be
built here for the Lykes Brothers
Steamship Co.
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the-park home runs.

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y. April
6 - Veterans Galan and Dixie
Walker, the Brooklyn Dodgers two
best batters, were in uniform to-
day for the clubs informal prac-
tice game with the Montreal farm
club. Vic lombard, Otto Nicholas
and Leroy Pfund hurled for the
Dodgers, while Manager Leo Duro-
cher played two innings at second
base.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. April g.
Outfielder George (Tuck Stain
back of the New York Yankees, al
dered to report for induction by
ready classified Ia, today was Or
his Chicago draft board on April
II.
Stainback, 80, requested permls-
sion to take his physical at New
York City.
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posts OF commanders of the newly
created army groups are given
to generals Of the SIS while the
professional army officers are at.
tached to them as advisers. 1t is
also significant that the command
OF higher field headquarters has
increased the number of Himm]er
agents charged with the organiza-
ton of underground resistance on
German territory occupied by Al
lied troops"
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Is YOUTHS FORM COURT
HOUSTON, Tex. April e.-.MR)
The age-old English common law
OF trial before your peers" w1ll
be the benefit in the future OF
Houston's juvenile traffic VIOLA
tors.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April 6.
The Boston. Red Sox defeated the
New York Yankees 1877 to even
their exhibition series at Ball to-
day. The Red Sox collected 10 hits
and pounded Bill Zuber for eight
runs in the first two innings. Leon
Culberson of the sox and Snuffy
Stirnweiss Of the Yanks hit inside