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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-26
THIRD BASEMAN
PLAYS ON KNEES

BERKELEY, Calf, March Is.
-F-Don Grant, 2o-year-old Ne
gro crippled by infantile para
lysis, played third baseman on
his knees today for San Francisco
Junior College.
Grant played errorless ball, loop
ing accurate throws for first base
putouts, but his team lost to the
University Of California varsity,
Is to 3.
Grant got his chance because the
regular third baseman failed to
show up. He made no hits although
he slammed out two hard blows in
seven innings. By agreement of
coaches, Grant is privileged to
have a base runner for the whole
route.
Grant is able to stand on his
feet only a few seconds at a time.
He also plays guard on the Junior
College football team.
Grant suffered an attack OF in
fantile paralysis several years
ago and lost the permanent use
Of his right leg. He can hurtle him
self off the ground with his left
leg to field the ball or to hit a
mound offering.
He wears pads on his knees to
stride around the infield. When a
ball appears out of reach, he rises
to spear it before kneeling again.
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Cuff Notes
BY JACK STILLMAN

me Of the most popular pre-
sint;ons for the Army Air Forces
sss.aTslescents and returnees from
GU. ess fight fronts is golf. This has
.as nroven at the Biltmore unit
Ds' tbe Army Air Forces regional
,o o. at Coral Gables, Fla,
ny sara a total of IS, 448 rounds
w Sare played by convalescent pa.
s S during the last 20 months
W.. .is the first 20 days of March.
NV :, has been pointed out by the
.,r,manding officer of the hos
s e;tsl that the game is highly bene-
tg.i.l to the returning war veter-
NV. .ns The hospital is the former
Msl,mi-Biltmore Country Club and
M. ,, convalescents play on one OF
is IS hole courses.
II has long been the contention
=, medical men that golf can play
w important part in recondition-
'ne men who have been injured
' mentally as well as physically.
IN TACT, not only golf, but any game
~ SPORT which serves to take their
minds off their injuries, as well as
Give them the required exercise.
c ef lust happens to ba one of the
hest all round sports, as walking
Is considered one of the best
lawns of exercise there is.
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BY FRANK KENESON

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March Is.
-(P)-TWo-thirds Of the regular
Detroit outfield may consist of
40-year-old youngsters before
the 1945 American league baseball
campaign finishes next fall.
One of the leading candidates
for the left field position left va
cant by 1.-the Dick Wakefield's re-
induction into the Navy is Charles
(Chucky) Hostetler, the Come
back Kid who came out of base
ball retirement last year to play
regular outfield for the Tigers
until Wakefield was handed back
temporarily by Uncle Sam.
Hostetler, plucked out Of a Wi
chita, Kansas, industrial plant at
the age Of SO after he had given
up the game, played IS games in
the Tiger outfield, batted well
above 300 while a regular and
finished the season with a .298 hit
mark as a pinch bstsman.
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BRAVES DEFEAT
SENATORS, FL

WASHINGTON, March 26-(P-
Slender Jimmy Wallace, 23-year-
old Army discharge and south.
paw pitcher, today scored the win
ming run in the ninth inning as the
Boston Braves defeated Washing
tons Senators, 2 to I.
More than 5000 persons attend
ed Red Cross benefit affair
which opened the exhibition season
here on an ideal baseball day.
Wallace, hurting the last two in
nlngs, opened the ninth with a long
double to right and crossed the
plate on an infield play.
George Case, Washington out
fielder whose left shoulder was
operated on during the winter,
made three hits, including a double,
and walked once in five times up.
Outfielder Garden CLEARWATER, up
from St. Paul, paced the Braves
attack with double and triple.
Boston -------- 010 900 010-2 9 c
Washington - 600 DOL OO0-1 9 2
Batteries: Hutchings, Cozart.
Wallace and Mast; Leonard Mig.
ceiling, Wolff and Evans.
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VI course, some Of us spend so
much time in the trap and woods
it would probably be best for all
concerned if We stuck strictly to
victory gardening, and confine our
chopplng and cutting to a more
prosperous past-time.
AT any rate, golf is one Of the
top spor-s in the nation This is
emphasized by the large crowds Is
who escort the players around the
greens in the winter golf tours.
and particularly at the Charlotte
and the Greensboro tournaments
Until recently, the game has
been considered more Of a spe
cialized sport, and only a limit
ed number of players participat.
ed. However, the armed services
are doing their part in helping to
promote the game. OF course.
what they are interested in is the
work of rebuilding men. But the
men are becoming more interest
ed in golf, and We look forward to
a bright postwar future for the
sport. There will be better equip
ment, more and better courses
than ever before, and as in other
sports. the postwar years will pro.
duce a better game as the inter.
est grows.
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Three Absent Players
Hold Phillies' Fate

10-1l record in "A. War plant COM
mitments were understood to be
the most important delaying fac
tors in each case. v
Jimmy Foxx will play regular
first base as long ds his tender
feet stand the strain. Old Double
*" has been clearing the. leftfield
wall regularly at the Wilmington
drills and was confident he would
help.
The Hammer boys from Rich
mond were the current keystone
combination, Wesley Garvin who
hit .284 for Richmond was the
second sacker and brother Gran
vile w., the 17-year-old kid who
broke in with the Pills late last
season. was the shortstop. Bitsy
Mott, a Utica grad with a .285
passing grade was at third,
Fred Daniels, a sparkplug PIT
sWatter at Utica was slated for
second base but he underwent a
minor operation during spring
training and will be lost for eight
weeks. forcing a reshuff1e of the
deck.
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The Sports Trail
Cage Players Overcome
Fatigue Before Coaches

Other findings of the survey in
dictate:
That short rest periods are more
necessary and valuable as there is
more and faster recovery from
strenuous work during the first two
minutes of rest than in the next 10
minutes.
That vigorous and strenuous ply
steal activity develop sound bodies
which can accomplish more work;
can work better, faster and longer;
recover better and more quickly,
and can be ready for additional
work with less rest.
That nature employs fatigue as
protective mechanism against
harmful overwork under health
full conditions for all age levels,
and that fatigue inhibits activity
before damage to the Individual
occurs.
The tests which determine the
course of the fatigue curve are
simple enough, but revealing.
Such curve could be plotted, for
instance, by counting the bricks
thrown out of wagon by sub.
ject for IS seconds, resting for 10
seconds, then repeating the throw
ing and resting for 10 consecutive
periods, or innings. The gradual
reductions of the number of bricks
tossed in each inning would determ-
inc the curve.
Coaches could use such sys-
tenn to predict the type of per-
Torrance that might be expected
from team; to determine whether
an athlete is hot, or cold. If
enough previous tests had been
run on boy, one single 10-second
test would reveal whether or not
he was in top form.
In case anyone has the idea a
coach would have to carry around
a wagon load of bricks, it might
be mentioned "spot" running or
any other test bringing into use
an athlete is used to using
S quite as satisfactory.
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CRACKERS BEGIN
.SPRIN 6 BASEBALL
WORK WEDNESDAY
Two Of Eight Southern
Clubs Will Train Away
From Home
BY CHICK bosch

ATLANTA, March Is. R -
Taking advantage Of the weather
and Southern Association ruling
which permits spring practice In
augural 80 days prior to opening
day, the Atlanta Crackers begin
drills Wednesday. Other clubs will
start next week.
Two OF the eight clubs. Birming-
ham and Nashville, will train away
from home, the Barons at Green
vile, Ala, and the champion Vols
at Statesville, N. c.
Mobile and Chattanooga open
practice Sunday. Memphis, New
Orleans, Little Rock and Birming-
ham get underway Monday, and
Nashville starts the following day.
Four Of the clubs, Mobile, Chat
tanooga, Birmingham and Little
Rock open under new managers
this year. Willis Hudlin, part own
er OF Little Rock, who steered the
team to pennant in 1912, sue
ceeds Bob Seeds. 1t marks the sew
enth straight season the Pebs have
changed pilots.
Clay Hopper, Mississippi State
diamond star in the late 20's, takes
over at Mobile, succeeding Buddy
Lewis, traded to st. Paul; Bert
Niehoff replaces scrappy Moore
at Chattanooga, and Frank Snyder
succeeds Johnny Riddle at Bir-
mingham.
Niehoff is a league veteran,
having previously managed Chat
tanooga, Mobile, Atlanta, Little
Rock and Knoxville, winning three
pennants and three dixie series,
the last for Chattanooga in 1882.
Fresco Thompson will be back
for a second year at New Orleans,
Kiki Cuyler starts his second sea-
son at Atlanta, and Doc Prothro
continues at Memphis. Larry Gil
bert, the league perennial, part
owner Of the Vols, is set for his
seventh year. However, there is
some question as to how active
Gilbert will be this season.
To date, the eight clubs have
signed an average of 20 players
over IS per cent Of them newcom.
ers or returnees from other leagues
and armed service.
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Yank Outfielder Gets
Call For Draft Exam

ATLANTIC CITY, March 25.-
R)-Ouhielder Johnny Lindell has
received instructions to take a
draft physical, in California, but
he had already requested trans
fer of his papers east, his examina.
ton likely will be in Camden, N.
j., at date later to be announced.
1nfielder Oscar Grimes has had
his draft papers forwarded to him
from Lakewood, Ohio, and his ply
steal likewise will be in this state.
Twenty-six players were pres
ent, with outfielders Russ Derry,
Paul Waner and Catcher Mike Gar
bark having their first 1945 work
out with the Yanks.
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CROFT, MARVIN
READY FOR BOUT

Looking forward to one of the
largest crowds this season, Pro-
moter kid" Ellis announced last
night that Sgt. Lee Croft, para
trooper stationed at Camp Mack
all, and Johnnie Marvin, of Wash
ington, have arrived and are in top
condition for tonight's fight.
Sizing up the rest of the card,
Promoter Ellis contends that to-
nights program is the best bal
anced he has produced this year.
'Tonight's show is evenly match
ed from the first preliminary all
the way to the main event." he
said. "Of course, Croft is favored
to beat Marvin, and l believe
that John Allen, Croft's manager,
may consider Buddy SCOTS re-
quest for a fight here" Ellis dis
closed.
Allen believes that Croft is too
inexperienced to meet the claimant
of the southern heavyweight title,
oAAA V0AAto N1AS P04 q VI oOkCA W pdCN
away few more victories before
tackling Scott.
The request from Scott came
early last week, when Ellis re.
ceived a letter from the fighter
asking him to produce more COM
petition-mainly in the name OF
Croft.
The semi-finals tonight in the
ITALIAN Hall ring will bring Early
Hamilton against Leste O'Brien
for eight rounds.
The opener pitts Johnnie Bry-
ant, of Wilmington, against John.
ME Catrell, also of Wilmington,
formerly OF Columbia, in a sched-
uled three-rounder.
Huck Lilies is scheduled to meet
Wade Allison in a five-round bout,
and Buddy Best is signed to bat
tie Ray Wilson five rounds.
The first fight is scheduled for
$3.50 pm.
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ATHLETICS NEAR
FULL STRENGTH

FREDERICK, Md, March Is
R, - The Philadelphia Athletics
counted up today almost a COM
plete team of ATS, with all but
two of the % players on hand in
that draft category.
The arrival yesterday of Dick
Siebert, veteran first baseman and
the AS leading hitter last year,
completed the At infield. The 1885,
pound Siebert, who is 81 and the
father of three children, said his
St. Paul, Mimi, draft board re-
classified him AT because Of "bila-
teral instability of the left knee"
No matter what, it was good
news to Connie Mack. The g.
year-old president and manager Of
the American league pennant con-
tenders beamed when he greeted
his hard-hitting first sacker, who
has played more than 100 games
each of the last six seasons.
ut doesn't matter how you
came, as long as you got here, "
said Connie, after Siebe rt told OF
travelling to Frederick by plane
and bus. "Now, if we only had one
or two more power hitters, we'd
be right up there. But where are
we going to get them?
"We lost lot of close games
last season. This year we will win
a lot of them, and I feel certain
we'll finish in the first division. -
And will the first and only man.
ager of the AS ever had retire il
his team wins the pennant? The
answer was a very emphatic
"No!".
Siebert's arrival placed the Ath.
letics near full strength, save for
Pitcher Bobo Newson, who is sup.
posed to be working out at Harris.
vile, S. C.
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Training Camp Briefs

runs. Lyons and Dick Sisler hit
homers for cambridge and Char
ley Mead delivered one for the
Giants.
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y, Mar.
25-W.D-Manager Leo Durocller
OF the Brooklyn Dodgers gave a
host of prospective candidates for
jobs tryout today in a weird eH
hibition game with the Montreal
farm club which Brooklyn won 10
to 8. Nine pitchers, none Of whom
is signed to Dodger contracts,
worked for the two clubs.
Mrs. Robert Osborne, wife of a
sergeant at the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point suffered a
brain conclusion when struck by
a foul off the bat OF Morris Adler
holt of the Dodgers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-26
BY JACK HAND

WILMINGTON, Del, March Is.
-P)-Three absent players held
the fate of the 1945 Philadelphia
Phillies in their hands today as
Manager Freddy Fitzsimmons
awaited the arrival of Les Scar
sella. Hal Spinden and Bill Lee.
Despite loss to the services of
Outfielder Ron Northey's. 2s8 bat
ting average and % home runs
and First Baseman Tony Lupien' S
.283 mark, Fitz figured he could
Improve considerably on the Gel
lar finish of a year ago, if three
missing men could be fitted into
the picture.
Scarsella was most valuable
player and a leading hitter for
Oakland in the Pacific Coast
league with 1929 season. He
would return to the big show as an
outfielder, if and when. Spindell,
a 1857 slugger for Seattle who
didn't play in enough games to
cop the hitting crown, was tabled
to be No. l catcher when he re-
ports. The Veteran Lee was a key
man in the pitching plans on hi
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Fort Wayne Zollners
Win Pro Championship

CHICAGO. March Is. - R -
The Fl. Wayne, Ind, Zollners are
looking for new basketball worlds
to conquer, but it's doubtful
whether any cage coach would
care to challenge them.
The Zollners, champions Of the
National Basketball league, won
their second straight world profess
s1ona1 title last night, and the ease
with which they beat the Dayton,
o. AGNES. 70 to 81, left little
doubt OF their superiority on the
court.
Their smooth-scoring combina-
ton, featuring Bud Jeanette at
forward and the Veteran Bob Nc.
Dermott at guard virtually smoth-
cred the Dayton team under a
barrage Of goals all through the
game. 1t was SO one-sided the
crowd OF 1918 scarcely had any.
hing to cheer about. Fl. Wayne
led at the half, 40 to 26.
Jeanette, who scored 10 points
for the victors, was voted the tour.
nament's outstanding player for
the second time. He won the honor
in l941 while with the Detroit
Eagles.
The Chicago American Gears,
who upset the Hartford, Conn,
Nutmegs and Harlem Globetrot-
tiers before losing to Dayton in a
seml-final game, took third place
in the tournament by dumping the
New York Rens, 81 to Is.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-26
Most OF Tiger Outfeld
Will Be no. Year. OLds

But his most surprising record
was in the field, where he handled
1876 chances and committed only
two errors.
That fielding record probably
gives Hostetler an edge over Rock
lie Bobby Maier, recruit from But
falo, for first call on Detroit S
left fielding job despite the lean
Kansan's mounting years. Hostel
Ter will be 40 on September 2.
Stellar Roger (Doc) Cramer,
who still covers vast territory in
the field and throws strikes to the
plate, couldn't be nudged from
his homestead site under the cen
ter field hagpole by anything less
than eviction papers.
Cramer's young right arm reg
istered IS assists last season de-
spite his 80 summers. Only fole
American league outfielders, in
GLIDING teammate Jim Outlaw,
threw out mora base runners.
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Byron Nelson Captures
Greensboro Open Title
For Sixth Win Of Tour
Winner Fashions I've
Great Rounds OF IS
and 66 To Beat Byrd
By FRITZ LITTLEJOHN

GREENSBORO, March 25.-A
Continuing the torrid pace he has
been setting in recent weeks. By.
ron Nelson, the Toledo, Ohio,
sharpshooter, won the $500
Greensboro open golf tournament
today with a 72-hole total Of 271.
II was Lord Byron's second title in
five days and his sixth victory
this winter.
He defeated Sammy Snead Of
Hot Springs, Va, Wednesday in .
playoff to win top money in the
Charlotte open. Nelson fashioned
two great rounds of 68 and 66 to.
day as the winter circuits largest
throng milled about the par II
Starmount Country Club course, to
beat out Sam Byrd of Detroit, the
defending champion, by eight
strokes and Johnny Revolta Of
Evanston, ILL.,, the early leader,
who was nine strokes off the pace.
His win today enabled Nelson
to pull even with Snead in victo-
ries, each having six, with two
tournaments yet to 60. Snead fal-
tered badly today and was far
down the list with a total Of 287.
Nelson who is not a spectacua
lar putter as rule, put on ons
of his greatest exhibitions on the
carpets today, to clip eight strokes
from par. In the last q holes the
great iron player dropped puts
of Is, 20, II, l6, %. IL and II feet,
five of them for brides, and two
for eagle threes from the field.
Byrd, making a strong bid with
closing rounds Of So and SO to keep
the title he won in 1912, the last
time the tournament was played,
came up with 279, which was a
duplicate of his card when he
won the title in 1912
Revolta, the first round leader,
closed with two It's, still chipping
close to the pin and using a mini
mum Of puts, but he could not
keep the pace set by the deadly
accurate Nelson with whom he
was playing.
Back of the leaders came Jimmy
Hines of Chicago, at 285, on a
morning round of sc which was
low for the tournament until Mel.
sons stretch drive.
Craig Wood, the duration MAJ
tional open champion from Ma
maroneck, N. Y, dropped back to
third place with a pair Of 73's for
a total of 286.
Snead had 287, finishing with a
10. his first sub-par round after
taking "a in the morning when
he knocked in an eagle three on
the 18th hole after having five
over par through II holes.
First place was worth 81 1888 in
war bonds to Nelson, already the
leading money winner of the year.
The present record OF six vic.
tories in one winter tour was set
by Jimmy Demaret in 1910 and
equaled by Snead this season.
The crowd was estimated at be.
tween 10000 and $4,000.
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BY WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, March Us R) -
Well, papa and mama, you can
quit worrying about that boy of
yours running his health by rum
ming up and down a basketball
court until his tongue is Tapping
around like a sunbaked pups. He
amt. In fact, if he's a sound lad
to begin with, basketball and kin
dred strenuous competitive sports
will make him a better man.
DR.. H. c. Carlson, M. D., Pitts
burgh cage coach and student
health director, has completed an
exhaustive study on the effects of
such exertions on the health of
the participants, and the National
Association of Basketball Coaches
has published his findings in a
booklet authored by him entitled
Basketball Research in Fatigue. :"
The nutshell summary of a sur
vey which included the charting of
the fatigue curves in 10000 cases
in that rather than doing harm,
strenuous competitive athletics en-
able a boy to do more work at
less cost in heart beats, and that
such sports are the best way to-
ward healthy structural and func-
tional development of youth.
In fact, if you must worry about
someone, worry about the coaches.
The game is tougher on them than
it is on the players, due to emo
tional strain. Tests showed the
hearbeats of the coaches, who sit
there squirming and stewing and
giving every play the old body
english, actually keep pace with
those OF the players. On top of
that, the hearbeats of the players
return to normal quickly after a
game while those of the coaches
continue to sprint along as they
fret and brood over the contest
while the boys unconsciously di-
vorce themselves from emotional
strain.
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Is, 900 Fans Expected
At Final Cage Clashes
BY TED MEIER

NEW YORK, March 25-(P)-De-
paul of Chicago (22-O and Bowling
Green Of Ohio (24-2) clash tomor-
row night at Madison Square Gar
den in the final Of the National
Invitation Basketball tournament.
Another standing room only
crowd Of more than $4,000 was
expected to witness the struggle
tor the championship. a game that
opens the final week OF the 1945
collegiate season.
On Tuesday, New York Univer.
sity Q5-D and the Oklahoma Ag-
gies (25-4) tangle in the Garden
for the national NCAA title and
on Thursday the winners of the
two Journeys are scheduled to bat.
tie it out for the mythical national
title won last year by Utah.
Spanked by big George Mikan,
who scored an amazing SO points
against Rhode Island State last
Wednesday, the Chicago Blue Dem
on5 were favored to snare the title
that eluded them a year ago wher
st. Johns upset them in the final
This year, Bowling Green elininat
ed St. Johns in the semi-finals.
The chances Of the Ohioans re
ceived boost yesterday when i
was learned that Mikan was I'm
able to practice because of a lel
injury. He was accidentally kickee
in the calf of his left leg by team
mate during Fridays workout
However, he was not expected tt
miss the game, although his abili
ty to run up and down the cour
might be hampered.
Bowling Green, led by Don OF
ten and Wyndol Gray, bowled ovel
Rensselaer, Poly and St. Johns ii
reaching the final and possibly
could spring an upset if Mika1
is not up to par.
St. Johns and Rhode Island pla,
consolation game in the opener
Earlier in the season the Redne1
whipped the Rams, 66-5S.
NYU stunned a crowd of 1916
at the Garden Saturday by beatin,
Ohio State, 10 to IS, in an extr;
period, for the eastern NCAA It'll,
while at Kansas City the Oklahom;
Aggles smothered Arkansas, 68-41,
Ohio State boosted a l0-point lea,
at 62-52 with only two minute
to go, but the Violets, capitalism,
on the Punishment of Arnold Risen
spurted to tie at 62-62 and fore,
an overtime. In the extra period tn,
Buckeyes went ahead at 1854, bu
three quick baskets in the las
two minutes won for the Violets.
The Oklahoma Aggies, led b,
tall Bob Kurland, had things com
paratively easy at Kansas CITY
They ran up a 36-l7 halftinae O,
the Razorbacks and were never i,
danger.
Kentucky beat Tufts, $685. TO
third place in the eastern compe
tltlon while in the western consola
ton at Kansas City Oregon mir
ped Utah, 6-66, as Dick Wilkin
tossed in 81 points for the North
ern Pacific Coast champs.