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Evening star., 1945-01-03
College 1ossers Tune
To Resume BATTLING

College dribblers were warming
I'D for a resumption of their court
warfare today with Gallaudet get
ting ready to help American Uni
versity open its season in a Mason
Dixon Conference game at A. u.
Friday night, while Maryland read
led itself for 3-game invasion OF
Virginia.
Gallaudet, third in conference
rankings with two victories in four
games, will be the choic over the
Eagles, but Artie Boyd always comes
up with a well coached team and
A. U. may have surprise in store
for the Bisons. Gallaudet's most
notable achievement to date was a
one-point upset win over Mary
lands rookie five.
Coach Burt Shipley is viewing the
Terps' future through smoke-col
ored glasses. The team meets North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Friday
night and moves over to Durham
to tackle Duke the following night.
Monday finds it at Raleigh for a
game with North Carolina State.
Shipley hasn't decided on the
combination for the first game, but
probably will use Jack Flynn and
Steve Chalmers at forward; Bob
Yordy. center; Dave Balachow and
Hal Keller, guards.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Aqua Caliente' NOT Hit
By u. ). Turf Action
By the Associated pres<

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. 3.-Re-
ports that the Government would
try to halt horse racing at Aqua
Caliente, Mexico, through drastic
rationing pressure against motorists
going to the weekend meets pre-
vailed here today, but Frank L.
Oliver. chief OPA enforcement at
torney here, said there was nothing
to them so far as his office was
concerned.
There has been no pressure on
me from any Government agency
to move in on the track" Oliver
said. ANY checkup that OPA may
make of motorists going to the
border will not be directed against
the track, but only to determine If
there is any misuse of motor fuel
rations."
The pressure" reports apparently
grew out of Government order
halting racing in the United States.
The Caliente track, closest racing
plant to the United States, is not
affected by the order. .
Evening star., 1945-01-03
BY WILBUR JENNINGS,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 3.-The hun
dreds who made horse racing their
business awoke today to the realiza-
ton that their livelihood doesn't
exist any more.
Jockeys, track employees and 9TH
ers found themselves without work
as Tropical Park ended its abbre-
waited meeting at Government re-
quest yesterday.
Only few are expected to re-
main at their present Jobs. They
will include the grooms and riders
necessary to care for the horses. A
few groundkeepers will be kept on.
Hialeah Park, considered a tour
ist attraction, employs ground crews
the year around.
Wagering Hits Peak.
AS racing bowed out at Tropical
a crowd of 10,743 wagered a record
$857,414 A single race record of
$l14,230 was set for the eighth, a
|nondescript affair with a 81 300
purse.
Ted Atkinson. the leading rider
Of 1914, chose the day to boot home
his 1,000th winner and rode couple
more for good measure.
Il owe lot to racing" Atkinson
said. Il can't believe it has gone
for long. It'll be back soon, I'm
sure"
Jockeys turned down for military
service because they were under
weight soon may find themselves
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Inframura| Athletes
To Get TC Awards

In addition to the standout foot
ball players of the year, national
and local, to be honored at the
Touchdown Clubs annual dinner at
the Hotel Statler next Tuesday
night, the club has announced that
four trophies will be awarded the
outstanding intramural athletes in
local colleges this season.
Dinner Chairman Hugh CBingo)
Flynn today announced that these
trophies will go to Thomas Graham,
Maryland; Robert r. Auray, George
town; Lloyd Price, George WASH
ington, and Gene Sklarz, Catholic U.
The fact that Maryland alone is
attempting to carry on in major
athletics has in no way curtailed
the awards of the Touchdown Club,
Flynn announced, in stating that it
was felt that all of the encourage
ment possible should be given the
intramural programs of the schools.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Editors note: Fred Hayden,
Associated Press turf t0riter and
chart yorker, has coUered racing
for years and the close OF the
sport yesterday iDas something
neW in his experience, so he
stayed after the races to take
look at the scene. What he found
toIlotos.)
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 3.-Along
about o'clock last night most
every one had left the Tropical
Park race track. Only a few
stragglers could be seen in the
gathering dusk and drops of rain
began to pelt the virtually de-
serted little plant.
But one of those stragglers-a
little, wizened, close-to-earth
character, who might once have
been a jockey in bright silks, but
who now looked like a stable
worker-seemed unaware of the
elements. He stood gazing across
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Meeting al Chicago
will Draw Formula
For New Chief
BY JERRY LISKA,
Associated Press Sports Writer,


| CHICAGO, Jan. 81 Baseball's
major league leaders meet here Fri
day to draft a new major league
agreement re-creating the office OF
commissioner and presumably whit
Itling down the big stick the late K.
M. Lands waved inexorably for "A
years.
The job of assembling a work
formula for Lands successor falls
to 10-member committee, includ-
ing five representatives each from
the American and National Leagues.
1t was handed this task at the
leagues recent New York meeting.
Apparently sounding the senti-
ments of most other owners, P. K.
Wrigley OF the Chicago Cubs and
committee member, said he would
like to see a new agreement which
would "codify the rules" of baseball
operation under a commissioner.
No Criticism of Lands.
"We all agree that Judge Lands
did an incompatible job of running
baseball for "a years." declared
Wrigley. "but the time has come
for We should have learned some
thing in those "a years-to say just
what the commissioner had jur:sdic-
ton over-there should be set of
specifications drawn"
He referred to a clause in the
old agreement which gave Lands
carte blanche in any and all
matters relating to baseball. The
judges pre-emptory use of this
cudgel often bruised the pocket
books as well as the feelings of
some club officials.
Fridays meeting ostensibly will
be limited to discussion of an agree
ment which will be presented to a
full meeting of owners here some
time in February.
Both Wrigley and Will Harridge
American League president, and
members of three-man council
temporarily governing baseball said
there was no likelihood that any
candidates would be considered for
the commissionership at this time.
That's a job for all the owners
and our committee is authorized
only to draft a suitable agreement"
asserted Wrigley.
Not Worried by Breakdown.
Neither Harridge nor Wrigley ap-
peared concerned over the posi-
bility that the Federal breakdown
on 4-F men might threaten the 1945
campaign.
mo one can say what will hap
pen between now and spring on the
war fronts" said Wrigley. I'VE
think We can go, but there's no -
getting excited about it any m re
than just after Pearl Harbor. Wen
fit in with the rest Of the country"
Harridge said his league felt the
same way
Besides Wrigley. the committee in
cludes Sam Breadon. president of
the st. Louis Cardinals; Branch
Hickey, president of the Brooklyn
Dodgers; Horace Stoneham, presi-
dent of the New York Giants: War
rem Giles, general manager of the
Cincinnati Reds; Don Barnes, presi-
dent of the st. Louis Browns: Alva
Bradley, president of the Cleveland
Indians; Jack zeller, general man
lager of the Detroit Tigers; Tom
iYaEfey, president of the Boston
Red Sox, and Joseph Hostetler,
i Cleveland secretary and American
League attorney. ssysl
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Mats Hosts to Yonks in Opener;
A. L. Announces Full Schedule

Big league baseball looked brightly
to the future today, despite War
Mobilization Director Byrnes' recent
blast at sports, and came up with
full 1945 schedule for the Ameri-
can League with the Washington
Nationals hosts at Griffith Stadium
to the New York Yankees in the
traditional opening game April Is.
The remainder of the clubs un-
timber the following day with De-
troit invading the champion st.
Louis Browns bailiwick, Chicago at
Cleveland and Washington at Phil
adelphia. Other home debuts are
Gcheduled April 20 with ST. Louis at
Chicago, Detroit at Cleveland. and
Philadelphia at Boston.
The season will close September
10, league officials announced from
Chicago. which means they optimiS-
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Riders, Turf ToiIers at Loose
Ends as Ban Goes Into Effect

fit for Uncle Sam. At
kinson predicted that the riders who
had to stay on diets to keep their
poundage down will weigh 135
pounds by next week"
Few jockeys had made up their
minds as to what to do next. Many
planned to return home and map
their courses from there.
The pari-mutuel clerks, dispensers
Of food, program sellers as well as
those who advertised "the winners
for today" were among the jobless
Most pathetic were the grooms
whose ages are well beyond that
required for the service, or, prob
ably, for war jobs calling for pre-
cision work.
Charles Bond, 78, of Hartford
Conn, who has been associated with
the sport for so years, summed up
the feeling of the others around the
stables when he said: "If Uncle Sam
wants it this way, then I'm sure 1t
is all right"
The bulletin board in the jockey
headquarters bespoke the Govern
rent ban.
Guthrie Hall Horses on Sale.
Outrider l.. Dupps, q former
jockey, offered his pony for sale
for 5000; Guthrie Hall Farms ad.
vertised the first disposal sale fol
today and a sign read, Wanted
several horses no longer useful TO,
racing"
Miami awaited the effect Of the
ban on its tourist trade. This
probably will not be known fully
until the season is over and a COM
parison can be made with other
years.
At New Orleans a scheduled IS
day meet was cut to nine days,
leaving scores of small owners and
stable and track workers casting
about for new ways of life.
Track attendance for the nine
days was estimated at $1,000, with
betting clipping along at an average
of better than $250,000 daily.
Owners scrambled to get their
runners on the daily ticket, which
was pushed from six starts daily up
to seven, then eight, and finally
nine.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Newaor Commissioner to lave Restricted Authority
Lions Get New GoaIie
To Face 0Iympics;;
Tie Royers, II

Dick Bittner, former goal tender
OF the New Haven Eagles and
Brooklyn Crescents, who set q new
Eastern Hockey League record with
81 saves in a single match last sea-
son, has joined the Washington
Lions. Bittner will relieve 18-year-
old Emile Francis Friday night
when the Lions entertain Boston's
champion Olympics at Uline's at
$3.50.
The tall new net tender originally
was expected to start the season
with the Lions, but was sidelined
early following an automobile &C
cident, and Francis was acquired on
loan from Hershey.
The Lions put on a great finish
to tie the New York Rovers in q
thrill -jammed match at Uline Arena
last night, to 7, after having blown
a two-goal lead early In the final
period.
The Rovers were leading, 7 to 8,
with less than a minute to go, when
Francis skated out of goal and Al
Smith was sent in as sixth man on
the forward line. Smith obliged by
beating Goalie Laurel Harney to
the net at 1921, and only some
splendid saves by Harney immedi-
ately afterward prevented Washing
ton from sinking the deciding goal.
New York jumped into a 3-to-3
lead in the first period, but WASH
ington was ahead at the end of the
second semester, to 3. However,
the Rovers came back strong to
forge ahead at 7 to 6 before tho
Lions put on their last-ditch rally
that produced the deadlock.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Track Workers GIum but GpeIess as Hoofbeots Cease

the front stretch, the infield, to
the palm trees lining the back
stretch. one hand stroking
scanned, leathery neck. AS If
speaking to himself, he muttered:
This is It'll"
And that just about summed up
what most of the working men,
bers of racing's caravan were
thinking.
1t seemed symbolic that, after
SO many days of warm sunshine,
this last program was run with
somber, heavy, dark clouds hang
ing over the scene. 1t was bleak
except for the color and gaiety
of a crowd exceeding 10000.
Officials, horsemen, jockeys,
swipes-all the workers went
about their chores glumly, with
only an occasional smile or laugh.
The day presented a paradox
ical situation, in that there
was merriment and enthusiasm
among spectators, with just the
opposite true of the men who
Evening star., 1945-01-03
.An-America Centers
Are Heurich Rivals

Two former All-America centers
will face tonight when Office OF
Strategic Services and Naval Re-
search take the floor at 9 in a
Heurich Basket Ball League con-
test. George Glamack. 6-foot s.
inch former North Carolina U. ace
will be with OSS and opposing
him will be Harry Anderson, g.
foot-4 eX-Tennessee star.
Powerful Naval Ordnance is IA
vored over Marine Headquarters in
the 8 o'clock game, while womens
division tilt-Transportation Corps
VS.. OSS-opens the program at 7.
-Four George Washington ath-
letes led Perruso Cafe to a 54-4l
victory over OSS in last nights
feature at Hurich gym. Red Auer-
bach and George CARRIER, team
mates on the 1910 squad, hit the
cords for 13 and 10 points, while
Barry Kreisberg and 81 (Pop)
Wagman, CIV students now, scored
ii and nine points.
Leading scorer of the tilt was
Glamack, with 18.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Wilson Quint FIashy;
Routs St. Anthony's

Wilson has come up with a sizzling
quintet that threatens to become
a serious contender in the inter-
high basket ball wars getting under
way this week end.
The Green Tigers have a we'll
oiled machine sparked by Tom Nc
Larney, Les Sanders and Pierce
Godfrey, who led the Wilson five to
42-to-14 victory over st. Anthonys
yesterday.
McLarney dropped in II points,
Sanders 8, and Godfrey 7, and the
Tigers took a 19-to-7 lead at half
time and ran over the Saints the
remainder of the distance.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

tically expect to get in a full years
campaigning despite Byrnes' sug-
gestion that all 4-F athletes be re-
examined for possible induction into
military service Baseball men are
confident the game can survive with
its veterans and cherubic rockies,
plus those 4-F's who are rejected
again by the armed forces if they
should be re-examined. President
Will Harridge has said baseball will
seek no favors in its efforts to sur
vive but will go along with the
Government.
"a Whether opening game ceremonies
here will be observed with the usual
color and gayety could not be learned
today, but it is probable that they
will be curtailed drastically. Presi.
dent Roosevelt has not been present
to throw out the first ball, an act
that is part and parcel Of Washing
ton openings, for the last couple OF
years and is not expected to attend
the 1945 opening.
Griff Officers Reelected.
Meanwhile, stockholders of the
local club gathered at their annual
meeting yesterday for the tradi-
tional ceremony of re-electing Clark
Griffith president and voted a ST
per share dividend on the 10000
shares of stock outstanding. Also
reelected were Calvin Griffith, vice
president; George Richardson, treas
urer, and Edward B. Eynon, jr., sec
retary and assistant treasurer.
Griffith, admitting the club made
a little money" despite finishing
last in the league for the first time
since he became associated with it,
attributed its financial success to
night baseball. Washington's home
attendance of $4,000 was fourth
highest in the circuit. Griffith also
revealed the club spent $49, 500 for
players last year in an effort to
bolster the team.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Hostilities will be renewed in the
hectic Ladies District League flag
chase with the first four pennant-
contending teams opposing one an
other. King Pin, out in front on
total pins, meets the fourth-place
Rosslyn quint at Rosslyn. Brook
land Recreation tied for first place
tackles the champion, -Skors, who
hold third place.
The standings are: King Pin.
29-16; Brookland, 29-16; Hi-Skor,
28-17; Rosslyn, 27-18.
Other matches will find Bethesda
Bowling Center at Lafayette, Red
Circle at Silver Spring, Spillway at
Colonial Village and Takoma at
Chevy Chase Ice Palace.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Racing Ban Not Asked
BY Airp|ane Builders
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3-South-
ern California airplane manu-
facturers had nothing to do with
urging upon war mobilization and
reconversion authorities the closure
of all race tracks in the United
States, a spokesman for the seven
airplane companies in this area
said today.
A careful check had been made on
absenteeism to determine If factory
production suffered by workers at
tending the races, he stated.
During the period Hollywood Park
operated, absenteeism amounted to
only three-tenths of / per cent,
which was the lowest of any given
period since Pearl Harbor, he said
the companies records show.
Donald Douglas, head of the
Douglas Aircraft Co, reiterated that
ne had not urged the closing of race
trael1 Absenteeism at the Douglas
|plAne New Year Day for all saifts
was IL per cent. a relatively high
figure, and well over yesterday s
|6 per cent.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Breadth of Racing
Shown by WMB
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Facts and figures on the Ma
tons horse racing industry,
made known by the War Mo-
bilization Board, show a racing
investment of $75,000,000 in
tracks, 100000, 900 in horses and
$40 100000 in breeding farms.
There are about 1900 profess
sional jockeys handling some
5000 horses in training for racing
on 100 tracks. About $1,000 are
employed as stable help, 10000
are employed regularly as racing
officials, mutuel betting oper-
ators. track and clubhouse at
tendants. About 10000 are en-
ployed on $50 breeding farms in
399 States.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

hundreds of daily rumors failed
to alter what was to be.
That some owners remain
optimistic was further evidenced
when no less than five horses
were claimed, four of them vet
eran geldings which cannot be
used for breeding purposes. And
six claims were put in for one
Of them, four for another.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

provide the show. But it should
be reported of those still dazed
and shocked track veterans that
they have done very little gripping.
Tropical Park, on a day-to-day
basis, came out with colors fly
ing, financially, and never was
there such spirited competition in
the actual races.
Yes, the race track was q sad
looking sight after the shut
down, deserted and quiet, with the
last sounds of hoofbeats fading
into an empty void. Even the
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Length Of Racing Ban
Seen From Months
Ito Four Years

x1OlcC IdC41iB CdIIle tO LIE cIlQ Oh
the road today and estimates on
when 1t might. get started again
varied from few months to four
years, according to q survey made
by the Associated Press.
Bowing to the velveted but firm
request from War Mobilizer James
F. Byrnes that race tracks close
down In the interests of the war
effort they did just that.
Today there wasn't race horse
running anywhere in the country
for prize money.
Incidentally there weren't any
tracks open today in Havana or
Mexico. But that's Just temporary.
In the United States the ban is
on until there's a lot less emphasis
on hitting the war effort hard and
a lot more time for nonessentials.
At New York racing officials
spoke hopefully of spring meetings,
but Herbert Bayard Swope, recent
ly the chairman Of the State Rae
ing Commission, said he did not
look for any resumption in April.
A trainer at Miami. r. T. Shepp
of the r. j. Dienst stable COM
mented: I'VE won't run again for
four years"
At New Orleans Jockey Dell Cd
Jessop headed back to Phoenix,
where I'll punch cattle again"
Variety of Jobs Available.
This was right in line with a set
of recommendations by the War
Manpower Commission as to what
racing personnel can do now to
help the war effort.
Jockeys, said the VINO, would
make excellent teamsters. and also
could qualify as riders in logging
camps, and for many agricultural
jobs, such as farm hand, cowpunch-
er, horSewrangler, horse breaker
and sheep herder.
Although some race track en-
ployes may find 1t necessary to work
at reduced earnings, others may
find even better paying jobs" VINO
commented, but insisted there are
plenty of jobs for all-jockeys. race
track officials. mutual operators.
stablemen, clerks and others-in es-
sential jobs in critical war indus
tries.
VINO didn't make 1t clear, but
maybe it had jockeys in mind when
it said some might have to work for
less now.
There have been no recent re-
ports Of teamsters and cowpunchers
making $4,000, the unofficial esti-
mate Of the average annual earn
ings Of the Nations professional
jockeys.
A Washington official who with
held Use Of his name said that alb
senteeism in war plants near race
tracks was the real reason behind
the Government closure action.
Absenteeism Increases.
There has been a regular pattern
of increased absenteeism following
the opening Of tracks" he said. I'm
some instances the increase has been
as much as 80 per cent
The Office of Defense Transpor-
tation, which hasn't liked the use
of travel facilities for horses and
their followers, let up little on its
ban-acccmpanying provision.
II said that horses and dogs (yes.
dog racing is over, too} may be
shipped outside the United States
for racing purposes-provided the
races are held more than 300 miles
beyond the borders. That's too far
for most horse players to 60.
But from Mexico City came a re-
port that there are enough horses
there already.
What about the bookies and their
feverish customers? One uncon-
cerned view is that they're used to
headaches-this thing Of eating as
pirin like popcorn is nothing new to
them.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Tropical Jockeys
Shed 200 Pounds
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla. Jan. 3.-Frank
Hawley, weight-reducing expert
Of the jockey quarters at Tropical
Park, reports that his reducing
cabinets took 200 pounds of
riders during the eight-day
meeting.
Il guess s lot Of the boys just
worried weight off, thinking what
the closing of racing would do,"
said Hawley.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
PIoy Moonlight Golf

LAKELAND, Fla, Jan. 3.-Ever
play moonlight golf?
Six inveterate golfers here did the
other. night and kept track of their
balls throughout.
The round was for nine holes and
A. B. Grimes was low scorer with
a three-over 80.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Jacksonville Greyhound
Races Run Two NIGHTS

By the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. g.
The Greyhound racing season
opened at the Jacksonville Kennel
Club Monday night.
Last night it closed down under
the Government ban on animal
races.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

The Sugar Bowl is the only post
season grid game that hands out no
Annie Oakleys. Even the 81 mem
bers of the New Orleans Midwinter
Sports Association have to buy their
own tickets.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Sports Program
For LocuI Funs

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Roosevelt at st. Johns, 4.
st. Anthony's at Wilson, 4.
Wrestling.
Weekly wrestling program, Tur-
ner's Arena, 8:45.
FRIDAY.
Basket Ball,
Interhigh series, Tech gym, first
game at Z:
Eastern VS.. Tech.
Coolidge VS.. Wilson.
American U. at Gallaudet.
Maryland at North Carolina.
Hockey.
washington VS.. Boston, Uline
Arena, $3.50.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
Interhigh series, Tech gym, first
game at Z:
Western VS.. Central.
Roosevelt VS.. Anacostia.
Maryland at Duke,