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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-04

1921 granted andlocked Switzerland the right 10
have her own ships on the high seas. She did not
take advantage Of it, however, until this war when
other nations to transport her goods,
So she bought these ten ships and made mer
chantmen out of them They operate under the
protection of all the bellgerents with each vessel
prominently displaying a big Switzerland" and
the Swiss coatofarms
So let's have no more gags like, "Ickes has
heart as big as the Swiss navy etc, etc
Every so often l get silly idea in my head
and can't drive it out. 1t keeps popping up almost
driving me nuts.
! try to steel myself but this only aggrayates
matters. The only cure is to print il and have done
with IT,
There is one riding me now. 1t was caused by
all this talk about cartels
Al right. here it goes
Don't put the cartel before the horse
Mr.. Homer Joseph Dodge was in a mellow
mood at the National Press Club ON night and
kept urging fellow member to sit and converse
with him The other man was in a hurry and eM
cuscd himself
Two weeks later this same fellow sat down be.
side Mr.. Dodge, who greeted him very coldly
who asked you to sit here?" he demanded
why you did" said the fellow.
when was that?" asked MIR. Dodge.
Two weeks ago"
MY gawd!" cried Mr. Dodge. "IIave we been
here two weeks?"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-04

gave with a handle, but it Is not the official one
The official bangor is precious national relic,
dear the British crown jewels One of the
gravest duties of the sergeantatarms is to grab
it the minute the Senate recesses and lock it up in
a safe.
Several years ago the gadget was banged so
forciby that a chip came off. 1t was taken TO a
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-04

jeweler who put the chip back In place with
small screw He warned, however. that it would
not hold. 1t didn't. So the jeweier put two silver
bands around il.
The House, on the other hand, seldom retains
the same gavel for more than a couple OF days
when Congress is in session
Speaker Sam Rayburn gives them away
Practically every distinguished visitor TO the
House is given the Speakers gaVel as mcmento.
Sam usually autographs them. He has gotten so
used to this. he says, that whenever he is asked
for his autograph he automatically looks around
for gavel Furthermore, every representative
who presides in lieu of the Speaker-f only for
10 minutes usually keeps the gavet
This is tradition Most members have one.
The demand is so great the Capitol actually
has gavel factory, II is run by Mr. Gus Cook,
chief engineer in the Capitol architects office.
The gavels are made from maple which is
first seasoned in a drying room for three months.
They are sent up to the Speaker in dozen lots,
asked Speaker Rayburn what he eonsidered
his most interesting gavel experience.
1T hasn't happened yet he said. ut viii be the
day you come up here and can bang you on the
head with one"
Mr.. Rayburn always says the sweetcsl things!
wish to report that one of Americas
favorite gag lines has gone down the dratn-the
one about the Swiss Navy, mean.
The Shipbuilders Council of America re.
veals there actually is Swiss ndvy-ten
ships all told
The Barcelona International Convention OF
DRAWINGS sY ONO soetow
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JACOBS GIVES JOY
TO MEXICAN FANS

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14.-(P)-
Sports circles in this Mexican CAPT.
tai were enthusiastic today over
the prospects of Mike Jacobs, New
York boxing promoter, staging a
big international fight here in the
spring.
Gacobs said in New York Sat
urday he had been asked to put
on a big fight card in Mexico City
and that it probably would be
held in April When no fights are
scheduled at Madison Square
Garden.)
THE idea is admirable and the
time and place could not have
been better chosen for success
full fight" said one experienced
sports editor. Mexico has fer the
first time champion in Juan
Zurita, idol of her boxing fans. If
he is matched with such an oppon-
ent as Beau Jack or any other OF
four or five good ones who should
be available, a crowd to overflow
ing is a certainty"
Sports authorities agreed the
only place ha ling sufficient ca
pacity is the bull ring which can
seat $4,000 people and, with the
erection or ringside seats, can ac-
commodate 10000.
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1910 playing Scnedule.
The league met and passed on
the bylaws in a harmonious ses-
sion which lasted more than four
hours. The schedule as submitted
by DR.. T. S. Wilson. president OF
the league, was not satisfactory to
all clubs and it was referred back
tc him for further revision.
The league will meet in Danville,
Va, February 10 TO adopt the
schedule.
The SGT of bylaws passed in
Guided the general routine regula-
tons employed by all professional
leagues. The only unusual regu-
lation passed was one which ruled
that each game of a doubleheader
must be scheduled for nine in
nings.S Every other minor league
in the country follows the practice
of playing one seven-inning game
in doubleheader.
Durham, Greensboro, Leaksville,
Burlington, Raleigh, and Danville,
Va. were represented at the meet
ing. Rocky Mount and Winston
Salem officials were unable to at
tend.
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ARMY IS OPPOSED
TO CAGE GAMES IN
BIG CITY ARENAS

WEST POINT, N. Y, Jan. IA
(UP)- Col. Lawrence M. (Biff)
Jones. graduate manager of ath-
letics at the Army Military AGA
denny, said tonight that the school
wants no part of outside COMM
cial basketball promotions and
that it would drop Pennsylvania
from it's schedule next season I'M
less the game there was returned
to the campus at Philadelphia.
Scheduled this year for Philaoel-
phia's convention hall on February
II, Jones SAID that the Army W 5
obliged to fulfill it's commitment,
although the game originally w S
billed at the Penn Palestra. 1t was
transferred to the city's conven-
ton hall when the Navy Viz pro-
gram took over the other gymna-
SUM.
He said there was no chance
for Army to be included in pro-
grams at large metropolitan arenas
in New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia
or Boston, because there is no.
enough money in such ventures to
make it worthwhile for the aca-
denny"
'"The teams end of the receipts
is peanuts-just a little more than
expenses" ne said.
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Prick MAY GET
BASEBALL POST
BY LEO II PETERSEN

NEW YORK, Jan. IA. -UP)-
The way appeared paved tonight
for the election of Ford Prick as
commissioner of baseball as chan
ces of the sports survival this
year appeared the brightest since
the proposal which would drain
the game of nanpoWer were ad-
vanced by the Administration.
Working quietly behind the scenes
while 10-man committee is busy
drawing up the new agreement
under which the successor to the
late Kenesaw Mountain Lands
will be named, Frick was report
ed assured of enough votes to win
the post.
Although he has denied that he is
campaigning for the position, it
has been no secret in baseball cir
cles that the former sports writer
who abandoned the typewriter in
1884 to become president of the
National League, has had been
working in his behalf.
Some opposition was said to have
been advanced by club owners Of
his. own circuit, but that was bal
anced by reports that he probably
will receive tie support of at least
two American League clubs-the
New York Yankees and the Wash
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HOWE Krist, Card Star,
Injured At War Front

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 14.-CR-How-
ard Krist, pitching star with the
St. Louis Cardinals before enter.
ing the Army in 1943, is in 4 hos.
pital in England recovering from
a leg injury. President Sam Bread
on was informed today by Mrs.
Krist.
Mrs. Krist, who lives in Delevan,
N. Y, told Breadon her husband
did not explain the injury but said
it was not a wound. He has been
in action in France.
The Cardinal owner said he had
also learned that AL Schoendienst,
Cardinal minor league shortstop
formerly with Rochester, N. Y,
in the International League, has
been honorably discharged from
the Army. His home is in Ger.
mantown, Ill.
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BARONS BREAK EVEN
IN PITCHER DEALS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. IA
R-Paul Florence, general man.
ager of the Birmingham barons.
today reported the clubs acquire
ment of two pitchers and its loss
of two other hurlers to the armed
forces.
The new Barons are Joe Talley,
80, purchased from Syracuse, and
Johnny Sciarra, holder of an
Army medical discharge, who has
been playing in the California
winter league. Talley was with
the Barons for time last season.
The recipients of draft calls are
Charlie Harris and Ralph Rorie,
both Birmingham products. The
latter played with Middleton in the
Ohio State League last year and
Harris was with the Norfolk, Va.
team.
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LEADING PRO
CARDS AHA
Reformed Diamond Star
Has Chance To Cop
Money But Fails
By JOSEPH BANKS

PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 14.-uP)
Byron Nelson o, Toledo, o., COLTS
leading money-winning pro in 1874.
won the Phoenix Open golf tour.
nament today, coasting to the vic.
tory with a none too impressive
final round Of "A and 72-hole
total Of 274.
The consistent Nelson, who was
exactly 10 strokes under par for
the tournament despite the fact
he went three over in his final
round today, finished two strokes
ahead Of Denny Shute, the veteran
Akron. O., SHOEMAKER who posted
a So on his final round for a 276
total.
Sammy Byrd, the reformed base
ball player from Detroit, finish.
ed in third place as he also took
a IS on the last 10 for a at. Byrd
had a chance for the crown going
to the last hole, but wound up in
a trap as Nelson laid 4 l0O-foot
approach within a foot Of the pin
for top honors.
In fourth place was Bon Hamil.
ton, the National PEA champion,
from Evansville, Ind, who ended
the day with a sensational IS on
the par II layout for a 278 gross.
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THREE FAST ONES
FEATURED AT ~

The YMCA City Church league
basketball schedule added tn e
games to its tally Saturday night,
when St. Andrews toppled Maj
fit Village Baptist, Leland Bap-
fist defeated Trinity Methodist
and St. Pauls won over Grace Mt
thodist in a fast set-tos before a
house O. approximately $50 on
lockers.
In the opener at 7 pm. st. An
dreW's triumphed over Maftitt Viii
lage by score of 1914. Heavy
scorer for the victors was Burriss,
with II, while E. Stevenson and
Mills nabbed four points each for
the losers
Leland Baptist had no trouble
downing Trinity Methodist in the
evenings second affray. The final
score, run up largely by means of
set-shots, was 1925. Harry Buch-
anan was top man for the van.
guished, knocking off Is points.
High scoring donors for the game
went to Leland's Rourke. with o.
In the main event at 9 pm, a
fast St. Paul's quintet took the lead
from a never-say-die Grace Meth
odist team in the second half to
win tidily, 27-18. The first half
was evenly played, rendering an
intermission score of 8-8, but the
Episcopalians forged ahead in the
third quarter, leaving Grace II
points in the lurch as the finale
got under way
The Methodist aggregation re-
gained the offensive and had be-
gun to climb in the last minutes of
play, but were unable to offset
their opponents commanding lead
before the final whistle blew.
Brown was high-scorer for St.
Pauls with ~ points, while Bob
bitt tailed -! for the losers.
Officials we've Lilies and Steven
son, the scorer: Moore, the time
keeper: Grissom.
The Eooupc.
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COCOANUT GROVE
NIGHT CLUB HAS
ANOTHER BLAZE

COCOANUT GROVE 49,
BOSTON, Jan. IA UP) Fire
broke out again today at the Co.
coanut Grove night club, and in
vestigators reported that young
sters kindled the blaze on the
scene of the tragic holocaust of
November 1912 which claimed 400
lives.
An arson squad survey revealed
that two separate fires we set n
the one-story cement building
which is to be, auctioned off Tues
day. The one-alarm blaze was ex-
tinguished quickly in driving
snowstorm, and damage was negli-
gible.
Later, a woman living near the
former Back Bay night club told
police she saw several youngsters
break into the building which has
been boarded up since the confla-
grafton.
The youngsters we're not appre-
hended.
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KENTUCKY SET
TO HOLD LEAD

ATLANTA, Jan. 14.-P-Ken-
lucky, perennial Southeastern Con-
ference basketball leader, after
humping off eleven straight non
league foes this season, opens de.
tense Of its title against Tennessee
at Knoxville Saturday night.
The Wildcats, with Coach Adolph
Rupp in his 18th season, have
towled over some OF the Nation S
best this year, including Temple,
Wyoming, Ohio State, Ohio, Long
Island University and Indiana.
Michigan State was added to the
list Saturday night, by a lopsided
$685. score after the Wildcats had
trailed at the half, 24-18.
Tennessee, following the same
winning pattern as its football
team did in resuming play after a
years layoff, has knocked off
eight of nine opponents, losing only
to Temple, 31-33. Kentucky edged
by Temple, 1914.
The Wildcat-Vol struggle this
week should have a lot Of bearing
On the 1915 title, in the light of the
comparative scores. Each has also
beaten Ohio, the Wildcats by Il
points, the Vols by only four
points. But, Kentucky is faced
with replacing Alex Groza, the
6'6' freshman center and confer.
ence leading scorer, who is ticket
ed for Army induction tomorrow.
Crazy has averaged 1865 points
per game.
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GRIFF ASKS DELAY
ON DIAMOND CAR
BY BUS HAM

WASHINGTON, Jan. AIR.
Baseball should not be in too much
a hurry to select new commits
sioner, opines Clark Griffith.
The 75-year-old owner of the
Washington Senators cautioned to-
day that if the successor to the
late Kennesaw Mountain Lands
were picked under the present
wartime stress, the best possible
man for the job might be over
looked.
The three-man committee now
at the head of the game can run
the show very well until conditions
settle down." Griffith said. The
men most desirable might then
become available"
A recent poll OF clubowners and
general managers, who must
make the decision, indicated that
a man from inside of baseball"
is desired.
The selection may be made at
Ine FeDruary JOINT major league
meeting in New York.
Griffith is among the minority
who think that Lands successor
should come from ''outside the
game" Should be someone
who knows how to govern base
ball but also speaks the public's
languarge.'
He said that he has no one in
mind in particular, but Griffith's
associates are convinced that ne
thinks Economic Stabilizer Fred
Vinson is well qualified for the
position.
Vinson was star college short
stop for the praying Colonies"
at Centre college. and later semi
pro ball in the coal mine regions
Of Kentucky ane WestVirginia.
He also is former associate
justice of the District Court of
giving him the legalis-
tic background that some baseball
men feel is essential.
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uA AAo4l1P1lS SdCQ III as many
-amily tests.
At their heels are Dukes defend
ing champions and the Citadel,
with two victories each. Richmond
Spiders defeated William ard Mary
in their only league start.
North Cardinals White ?han-
toms have won three in five con-
ference games played. Virginia
Tech and Clemson do not ZEN
their loop schedules until this week
put the remaining conference
quints have found the going a bit
rocky this season.
N. c. States three wins strung
together last week at the expense
OF Maryland, w. & M. and David.
son. South Carolina had no confer
ence games listed last week but
the Gamecocks kept their slate
clean by toppling Newberry, 52-16.
The Citadel whipped Furman
twice by comfortable margins.
Duke added a 60-35 decision over
Wake Forest to an early season
success over Maryland.
Eight family scraps carded for
this week will help break the con.
gestion at the top Of the confer
ence standings.
Furman plays at Davidson Wed.
nesday and North Carolina goes to
Virginia Tech Thursday. N. c.
State meets w. & NJ. at Williams.
burg. South Carolina goes to Glen.
son and the Citadel travels to Fur.
man for Friday night engagements
On Saturday night, Duke renew.
its old rivalry with North Caro-
lima at Chapel Hill, v. M. I. play.
at W. l. M. and the Citadel plays
the fourth game Of a series with
Furman.
Leading games during the week
against outsiders will include:
Georgia at South Carolina Mon.
day; the powerful Norfolk Nava!
Air Station at Duke Tuesday:
Clemson-Presbyterian at Clinton
S. c. on Wednesday, and Virginia
at Virginia Tech, Delaware al
Maryland and South Carolina.Wof
ford at Spartanburg, S. c. Satur
day.
Southern conference basketball
STANDINGS:
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u. S. Golf Association
Stops Four Big Tits

NEW YORK, Jan IA. -UP)-
The United States Golf Association
has abandoned plans to resume it's
four major tournaments this year,
because of the Government ban
OF racing and the questioned draft
status of AT athletes, President
Morton G. Bogue said today.
Bogue, a member of the Deep
dale, Long IsIand club, was re-
elected head OF the association at
its annual meeting yesterday.
Il believe the interest of our
country and golf will best be serv-
ed by combining our activities to
recreational golf and competitions
in local Districts" Bogue said.
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The Sports Trail

column describing the bef,,dd,o
ment of Joe Stretch y e4uoole-
At baseball player, over tG ~ pi I'd
certain attitude ii Washington M
his status and that of the osno W.
The green light seems 10 hauo
turned to amber now, with the
prospect about $3.50 it will +, ,ne
Ied. "A slap on the back, low
down, to the gamblers VINO tr w
to make a roulette wheel out Of
the college basketball games At
Madison Square Garden.
The Piedmont League miob+
hold out longer than the majors
it the man-power situation became
acute. The Newport News team
last year was made up mostly of
boys under 10, and Portsmouth,
could have fielded an all-C1,ban
team. The football pros consider
ed aboishing the extra, points
Wish the ration boards could con-
slider the same thing George
Preston Marshall walked out on
the pro football meeting, A walk
cut in wal time, ten, tch. He
probably figured that as long as
they weren't going to do anything
they might as well sit there and
do it Apropu, the baseball
nall of fame, how about the writer
of Take Me Out To The Ball
Game?' Jack Norworth, we be-
lieve. And DeWolfe Hopper for
his rendition of Casey At The
Bat?"
Eddie Eagan, Yale and Oxford
man, is the new head of the New
York Athletic Commission, but
the boxing game still will be tine
school of hard knocks
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NATION FAV0RINC
NIGHT BASEBALL

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. - (P) =
The Government gave organized
baseball its first ray of light in
the darkness of wartime operating
conditions with word that night
games could continue.
Such things as news that ball
players, along with all other ath-
letes, would get more thorough
draft board screenings, had fans
worried their favorite pastime
mighe be in for a blackout when
the Government began calling for
illumination restrictions
1t was learned from a high War
Production Board official, how
ever, that the fuel conservation arp
peal of Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes would. exempt
baseball from night lighting re-
strictions.
This was taken to confirm
general Government policy to per-
nit, if at all possible, sports to
continue for their beneficial eff
flea on the morale of persons in
the armed forces, war workers and
civilians generally.
Putting 1t another way, WIPES
decision demonstrates an official
belief that a night ball game, sand
wiched with a hot dog, bottle of
pop and the unabridged freedom to
shout at will kill that umpire
helps a flock of guys and gals
forget for while And do better
job for it next day.
Operators CT war plants favor
night games for the morale factor
them over day games to
check absenteeisn.
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WHITNEY MARTIN

wv YORK, Jan. l4'-'f-
sh 9,.a hope the servicemen don't
We re wrong idea of the life OF
Get y ~ nIaver through the an
Dan aon5ent the New York Giants
no W staT at the Rockefeller man
VIII WI ",njle training at Lakewood,
So" You jus, don't associate
n, ~ zane Rockefeller with some
t I,,n unless it's an oil dump j.
gum d. +se theory that if you cant
' III EN-, hire EN-, the baseball
ne d,,Is might offer James F..
l.DSr the job of commissioner
nv From all reports. the base
ii men taking part in those ov-
o 1.loos tours never made a longer,
' Fl' bit than they did with the
l lo~rt And there still are
S ~ s,' who say the soldiers over
l raos aren't particularly interested
n the fate of ba"eball.
Ina Dodo wants to know why,
:, view of the travel problem and
no y prospective employment of
hill ,',i nlayers in war plants, the ma
W. league clubs couldn't get around
ne difficulty by playing all their
games at home.
We nave at hand Vol. /, No. /, of
.bo National Curling News, prob
sfiv the first publication in this
co'mtrv devoted to that sport. 1t
is abb edited by Glenn Harris
NJ Superior Wis, and reveals
there are so curling clubs in the
United States, split among nine
states A slap on the back,
high up, for Fred Russell of the
Nashville Banner for his fine
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Baltimore Blades Take
Ice Game From Rovers

NEW YORK, Jan. IA Up -
Protecting a two goal lead amassed
in the first period. the Baltimore
Blades went on to defeat the N.
Y. Rovers to l in an Eastern
League hockey contest before 49,
467 today at Madison Square
Garden.
Jerry Lubek, Frank Eisenzot
and Roy Powell netted the disc
for the victors, while Doug Carri-
gan scored the Rovers' lone goal
Neither side could tally in the
second and third frames with IA
penalties handed out during the
game.
Nick Pipsodny was outstanding
in the nets for the Blades.
BUY WAR RONDS AND STAMPSl
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Lejeune Cagers Troubled
With Game Cancellations

CAMP LEJEUNE Jan. 14.-R-
Camp Lejeune's Marine cagers
are having their troubles trying
to win games these days.
Today's contest with the Laurin-
ourg-Maxton ARM Air Base club,
scheduled here, was postponed and
Wednesday's game here with
Camp Mackall was cancelled at
the request OF the Paratroopers.
The Marines are booked for
Seymour johnson Field Friday
and have their fingers crossed.
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CLASS ID LEAGUE MEETING

SALISBURY, Jan. 14.-lRHThe
North Carolina State Class D
league will meet here Thursday
night to discuss plans for re-
sumption of play after a two-year
layoff. The loop recently voted
to 60 ahead in 1945.
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N, {. Waterfowl Season
Will Close January 20

POPLAR BRANCH, N. c., Jan.
4 -2-The State waterfowl sea-
SON will close January 20, with
Like Mattamusl-eet 50,000-acre
refuge reporting the biggest sea-
son On record.
An estimated $4,000 geese were
Oh the lake, but ducks were
scarce. Blinds were booked up
for as long as 80 days ahead.
Further north in the Currituck
county duck country it was the
sane story. Although there were
rot as many birds as predicted,
hunters overlooked Myock, Poplar
Branch, Bertha, Coinjock and 9TH
er villages.
Many of the visitors were SER
wee personnel from nearby mill
t8ry installations.
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BOMBER FORCED DOWN

STOCKHOLM, Jan. IL Up A
U. S. bomber made forced land
ing today at Malrnoe airport here.
The crew is safe.