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Evening star., 1945-04-15
By BEN McALWEE.

Midnight tomorrow is the dead
line for entries in Washington
Women's Duckpin Association tour
nament which opens May 8 at La
fayette.
Lorraine GULL. association secre-
tary. will be at Lafayette tomorrow
night to receive all late applications
Mailed entries must be postmarked
not later than II o'clock. Entrance
fees must accompany all blanks.
With the Ladies District and
Washington Ladies' loops in solid
and a host of other leagues giving
strong support, the forthcoming
oath annual championships loom
to be one of the biggest ever
Silver Spring. Takoma, Mount
Rainier, Prince Georges County,
Veterans Administration, Rosslyn,
Bethesda Bowling Center, Claren-
don, National Federation are among
the other women's loops which
promise to help greatly in the team
entry exceeding last years field
of III.
This afternoon and tonight the
second day of competition in the
mems 35th annual city tour
nament at Chevy Chase Ice Palace
and the second annual Clarendon
handicap at Clarendon will divide
the interest Of the tourney rollers.
With s10O top prize, many bowl
ers of both sexes are expected to fire
in the fve-game Clarendon event.
Entrance fee is $3.50. Contestants
will receive three -fifths handicap.
Harry Worth, one of the city's up
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Mrs. Page Is Favored
In Ms. Golf, Which
| Starts Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.


PINEHURST, N. c., April IA
Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel
Hill, N. c., will be the favorite to
win the North and South women's
golf championship when this event
is played here for the 43d time,
starting Monday.
Mrs. Page, defending champion.
is out to establish new record by
winning the North and South for
the seventh time, thus passing the
mark she shares with Mrs. Glenna
Collett Ware of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Page will have no easy task.
as Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs.
Ga, is entered. Miss Suggs defeated
Mrs. Page in the North and South
final in 1912 and has been playing
excellent golf this winter.
Jeanne Cline of Rollins College
and Bloomington, ILL.,, is in Pine
hurst practicing for the champion
ship. Margaret Gunther Of Men,
phis. a student at the University OF
Alabama, also is entered
An 18-hole qualifying round will
be played Monday, followed by
match play, with the final round
scheduled for Friday.
Among other leading woman play
ers expected to compete are Betty
Abernethy of Pittsburgh, Kay Byrne
of New York and Annette Coar Of
PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Women's Pin ourney Entries
Will Close Tomorrow Niqht

and coming bowlers and a member
of Brooklands second-place District
League team, will be among the pin
men taking the drives at 2 o'clock
this afternoon in the singles of the
WCDA. Sharing the lanes will be
Ralph Glockler, recent runneruI
in the Bill Wood Dub tournament
at Lucky Strike, and Sam Parks
of Bethesda, who with Charles
Evans carried of the Glass A
doubles title last season.
Washington Cab, Eddie's Tavern
Underwood Cleaners and Waldrop's S
Restaurant. all battling for the
ST 900 top prize nj the keen Rosslyr
Major League pennant scrap, will
be among the teams from Gait
Davis Virginia pin plant firing in
the team competition starting at 3
Doubles are scheduled at 5.
Picked teams from the War Man
power Commission and United
States Employment Service League
will have it out Tuesday at Conven-
ton Hall in what Gino Simi, pro-
motor of the match, calls The
Bowling Battle of the Potomac. u
Action starts at 6:l5. Arthur L.
Schoenthal, deputy director for the
District and several surrounding
States. will captain the VINO quint
which will include SINH, Frank
Busbee. Dick Vingoe, Myer Frey
man and Jack Hurt. Johnny Micro,
league individual champion, will
head the USES with Dave Linden,
Jack Hammer, Dusty Lewis. Jack
Havran. Glenn Carr and Jack Cla-
spell his cohorts.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Two Former Champs
On Turner Mat Card

Two former heavyweight wrest-
ling champions are on the Turner
Arena graphing show Wednesday
night in the persons of Joe Sa-
voldi and Dave Levin. both now
campaigning to knock the crown off
Babe Sharkey's noggin.
Savoldi goes in against George
Macricostas, and the interesting
twist is that Macricostas is con-
sidered modern day replica of
Jim Londos, mailman Savoldi de-
feated when he originally won the
title.
The match is featured with the
return showdown between Dave
Levin, Brooklyn star once recog-
nized as champion by the National
Wrestling Association, and the
Golden Angel. They wrestled to a
one-hour draw here two weeks ago
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Bad Puff by Goodman
Costs Calcutta Match

CALCUTTA. April IA LP.-Pfc.
Johnny Goodman of Omaha, one
time United States Open golf cham
pion, missed a 2-foot putt on the
18th green today and lost to 1t.
Jack Spancer of Dallas, Tex, in the
semifinal round of a Obi tourna-
ment.
Goodman was three up on Span
Ger, former Texas intercollegiate
champion, at the 18th hole, but
then lost all control of his putter
and dropped the next four holes.
Spancer will meet 1t. T. K. Smith
of Raleigh, N. c., in Mondays final
Smith, former professional and
once the North-South amateur
champion, eliminated Pfc. Joseph P.
Carney of White Plains, N. Y,
3 and 2.
The tourney is the first phase of
the Little Olympics" arranged for
United States servicemen in the
China-Burma India theater,
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Probable Pitchers
In Major Openers

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 14.-Prob-
able opening-day major league
pitchers with their 1914 records
in parentheses:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York at WashinRton-Donald
G3-1O VS.. Leonard u4-14.
Tuesday.
taas5 s'50ls vs. a. JakusEi si tCs,sNevn0uSer ns,s
Chicago at Cleveland-Lee (3-9) or
Grove u4-15) VS.. Reynolds Q1-sl.
Washington at Philadelphia-Haefner
I2-15 VS.. CHRISTOPHER Q4-14 or
Newsom u3-15).
Boston at New York-Cecil A-O
VS.. Borowy (17-12):
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
st.. Louis at Chicago-M Cooper
t;Ss:r sG2.D ~, or aPonnelly GID vs.. Der
Plttsburgh at Cincinnati oster-
New York at Boston-Voiselle (21.
16l VS.. Javery GO-19)..
Philadelphia at Brooklyn-Raffens-
berger 03-2O vs.: Davis l0-1D.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
ERGO Banquet Lineup
Is Rich in NotabIes

A bevy of notables from the
sports world will feature the sec
ond annual banquet of champions
of the Engineering and Research
Corporation at 6 pm. today at In
dian Spring Country Club.
Andy Farkas, recreation director
of the plant and the man behind
the numerous basket ball, bowling,
softball leagues and other activities,
will present awards to team and in
dividual champions during the
banquet. About $50 ERGO employees
will attend.
Feature speaker of the program
will be John Kelly. national chair
man of physical fitness, and Strick-
land Gillian and Jack Lavelle will
give them an earful of humorous
yarns and anecdotes. Bob Sim
mons will be POSTMASTER.
Others prominent in sports ex-
pected to attend are Umpire Bill
MCGOWAN, Dutch Leonard, DR..
Clarence w. Spears, Maryland U.
coach; Capt E. j. Spaulding,
Comdr. William KILLER" Kane,
Clark Griffith and Dud DeGroot.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Baseball
Continued From Page A-16.)

added speed and defense to make
his good pitching look better. Brook
lyn has infield problems galore,
needs more catching and pitching,
but boasts strong outfield built
around Dixie Walker. The Phil
lies have green infield, added
power in the garden with Vince
Di Maggie, but they miss Northey
and Lupien.
Detroit counts on Al Benton and
Stubby Overmire to give Hal New
houser and Dizzy Trout the help
they didn't have last season. Loss
of Wakefield and Higgins has weak
ened the batting attack.
st. Louis has last years pennant
winners back with the exception of
zarila and Galehouse and has add
ed one armed Pete Gray and Boris
Martin, $50 hitter at Toledo
New York's chances depend on
how soon Johnny Iindell and Nick
Etten are called for duty. Only
Pitcher Mel Queen is missing from
VIC l03f SlQO 1CdFlllS JUG NCSdl lily
a well-rounded mound staff as its
strongest asset.
Loss Of Tex Hughson, Hal Wagner
and Bobby Doerr probably cost the
Red Sox last years flag and they
were socked again when Tabor and
Partee were taken. However, Joe
Cronin has come up with some
good-looking youngsters and still
has Bob johnson and Pete Fox and
himself for the heavy stick work
Pitching is his problem. too.
Connie Mack thinks his chuckers
will do with big four hung on
Don Black, Bobo Newsom, Russ
Christopher and Jessie Flores, but
he is looking for more hitting
strength from Hal Peck in right
field Cleveland has infield miseries
with Keltner and Ray Mack missing,
but may have a pitching flash" in
young Red Enbree.
Jimmy Dykes has a fair-to- mid
ding mound staff, a passing out
field but an unsettled infield in
Chicago and Ossie Bluege at Wash
ington has much the same prob
lem, trying to plug the hole left by
Spence.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
D. {. Ring Fans Giver
Bargain as Graziano
Battles Stewart

When Rocky Graziano, young
welterweight who learned about
fighting on the sidewalks of New
York's Lower East Side, made his
first ring appearance here last year,
Turner Arena fans were sure they
were seeing a future champ. 1t
was Rocky's first feature bout and
he KO'd Bobby Brown.
He came back later to fatten
Freddie Graham and Tommy Mollis,
and meanwhile he was building up
his present record of 81 KOS in 80
bouts in Manhattan club brawling.
Then, in what many enthusiasts
term the best bout of the Madison
Square Garden season, he hung a
third-round KO on the highly
touted Billy Arnold.
The Rocks reputation was made
He's been signed to fight AL Bum
my Davis in the Garden on June 8
and the bout is expected to gross
100000.
In the meantime, Graziano is
returning to the scene of his first
main event triumph. Tuesday night
at Turner's Arena he takes on
Solomon Stewart, Providence (R. ~
Negro, who claims the New England
welterweight championship.
The match is listed for 10 rounds
but no one expects it TO last that
long. Principal betting, in fact
consists of Wagers on the round
when Stewart will be f1oored. Other
side of the picture is that Stewart
himself is hard puncher who wades
in and shoots for a KO. He put
Morrie Ref on the canvas twice
before losing split decision.
The w street arenas capacity is
in the neighborhood of 2,1OO and il
the advance sale is any indication
they'll be hanging from the rafters
to see a Madison Square Garden
main eventer at Joe Turner's bar
gain prices,
A semifinal eight puts Billy
Banks, U street lightweight ace, in
with Joe Ganbero, Puerto Rican
who has been pleasing the club
crowds in New York.
Evening star., 1945-04-15

president Will Harridge of the
American League has 1Drttten for
the Associated Press the tollo1Ding
prospectus on the 1945 baseball
season, ,Dhich opens at Washing
ton Monddy.)
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April IA. - Baseball
next week will open a season which
will rank as one of the most notable
in the history of the game.
For the very opening of a fourth
consecutive wartime campaign
stands as a remarkable tribute to
the fans of our national sport, both
at home and abroad. 1t is because
of their steadfast interest and 10y
atty that the game will open its
1945 season, meet as best it can the
many problems which will arise,
and, I am confident, again put on
a worthy show.
At this time the American League
has almost 260 of its players in the
armed services. Others will join the
colors in the months to come. Since
Pearl Harbor most of the games
greatest stars have left the playing
field, yet interest in the sport re-
mains as great as ever.
The American League season of
1914, when attendance showed
remarkable increase over the pre-
vious year, proved competition still
is the foundation of baseball and
that there is no substitute for a
close, hard-fought pennant race I
have every reason to believe that
We will have an equally close fight
for the pennant in 1915.
During the past three seasons
several million service men and
women enjoyed baseball as the
guests of the l6 major league clubs,
and we'll over a million will watch
our games this summer.
At the present time hundreds of
thousands of our fighters in all parts
of the world are seeing the Amer
lean Leagues motion picture. of the
1914 World Series. Reports from
overseas show that the broadcasting
of scores and details of the pennant
battles has forged a real link be-
tween home and the many far-f1ung
bases Of our soldiers, sailors, Marines
and airmen the world over.
Baseball hopes to hold that link
again in 1945, for the constant in
terest and support of OUT national
game by its fighting fans" have
been a major factor in the games
continuance.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Presidents Of Major Leagues See Baseball
AS Fittinq Properly Into Wartime Picture

president Ford c. Frick OF the
National League has 1Dritten for
the Associated Press the tollo,0-
ing prospectus on the 1945 base
ball season.
NEW YORK, April IA (R).-The
National League moves into its
fourth campaign during World War
II confident of its place in the war
picture on the home front.
A great percentage of our star
baseball players are in the service
uniforms of our country, under
Army, Navy, Marine, Air Corps and
Coast Guard orders on the various
fighting fronts. At home the eight
National League clubs are repre-
sented on the ball fields by men
who are over or under military age,
declared physically unfit for war
service or discharged veterans. Our
best ball teams have gone to war,
but there is every indication of a
keenly competitive National League
race here at home.
Pledged to aid the war effort, the
National League will continue to
play games for war charities. In
line with a request from the Office
of Defense Transportation, the 1945
schedule is being revised so as to
eliminate travel mileage whenever
possible The annual all-star game
has been Cancelled for 1945, the
World Series will be held only if
Government officials assure us of
their approval.
Once again the clubs will have as
their guests any servicemen who
wish to attend games. This is a
policy without restriction. Any man
or woman in service uniform may
attend any game without admission
on weekday, holiday or Sunday. In
1914, servicemen at our games num-
bered 352,082 1t is our belief that
with many men returning from the
fronts, either as casualties or or
furlough, the number of uniformed
guests will be perhaps doubled in
l945
Evening star., 1945-04-15
e. Club 10 Celebrate
Birthday, Plan Meet

The &C" Club will meet for double
purpose at Central High School next
Thursday night at o'clock.
The forceful organization will
celebrate its 25th anniversary and
at the same time will map out the
details for its annual track carnival
which will be staged at Central on
Saturday, May 10.
Dutch Acorn is the present prexy
of the club and George Norris. who
is treasurer, also is chairman of
the track committee.
Bob Newly Thursday will show
movies of the meets which have
been taken over a span of 20 years
Evening star., 1945-04-15
PimIico Is Hopeful
Of 12Spring Dates

Srecial Dispatch 10 The star.
MIAMI, April 14.-Contingent
upon an early lifting of the turf
ban, II days of spring racing
May IA to 26-is planned for
Pimlico. This is the report at
tributed to Charles j. McLen-
nan, race secretary of the Mary
land Jockey Club, prior to his
departure for Baltimore to con-
fer with club officials.
McLennan. who is racing sec
retary as well as general man
ager at Havre de Grace, also is
expected to have said that no
racing would be held at that
course until after Japan is
knocked out of the war.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Revenge for Jameson
Over Babe Is Seen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April IA
Texas golfing fans are expecting the
second half of the 72-hole match
between Babe Didriksen Zaharias
and Betty Jameson to have a diff
ferent ending than the first, which
the Babe took in Los Angeles last
Sunday, 4-up.
They expect to see Betty out in
front when she gets Mrs. Zaharias
on the San Antonio Country Club
course, with which Miss Jameson is
quite familiar.
The contest will be April %. The
first batch of 600 tickets was
snapped up yesterday. Proceeds go
to the st. Mark Episcopal Church
Community House of San Antonio.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
28 Teams in Boys Loop;
Three Franchises 0pen

The Boys Club of Washington
Baseball League will open play
April %. Twenty eight teams are
signed and there is room for three
more-one in the midget class and
two in the peewee section.
Ages for the classes are midget.
II and under; peewee, IA and
under, and insect, 16 and under.
Any teams desiring to fill the va
vacancies should call Paul Casasss
at Michigan 2122 after $50 pm.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Tomorrow Card
In City Pin Event

Tomorrow nights schedule in
the WCDA tournament at Chevy
Chase Ice Palace:
Teams, 7:50 pm.-Brookland
Garage (Brookland Merchants,
Claims GAO, P. & P. No. 2 Un-
come Tax. Veterans Admins
tration (Office of Fiscal Direc-
tor,
Doubles, 10 pm-Lt. E. w.
Irwin-Lary Evans, Marcel Jorny-
Bob Winning, Bob Winning-Dick
Winning, G. Jenkins-J. Eckstine,
E. Dryer-F. Cones, F. Smith-R.
J. ONeill, Frank Pietila- Norman
Croft, Daniel L. Haldeman-John
L. Sullivan, Leon White-George
Vail, James Talbot-Bill Raake,
August Widnmer- Rafael Sistoza,
Robert Litts-JameS Crowley.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Keefer Cup Tourney
Expected 10 Draw
Record Entry
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Plans are in the making for what
may become one of the most inf1uen-
tial golf groups around Washington,
made up of several hundred links
men in Uncle Sans employ.
The Federal Golf Association, with
a spring tournament planned this
year. will gather next Friday to
talk over expansion of the group.
The association also will choose
officers and will select a date and
place for the Forthcoming l8-hole
tourney. M. N. Bannister, presi-
dent, has resigned to enter private
business in New Orleans, and a
nominating committee composed of
Don Dudley, Lou Morrison and Clar-
ence E. Purdy will select slate
of officers.
More than ITS played in last years
tournament of the FGA, but the
present officers of the association,
and probably those who will head
it this year, favor an expansion pro-
gram by which possibly 300 to 400
more golfers will become members.
There is no talk. as yet of the pro-
posed Federal Country Club, sug-
gested several years ago, but exec
utives of the association favor this
year a limited schedule of team
matches in two classes. This will
depend on transportation facilities.
Chevy Chase Makes Changes.
Three Journeys scheduled for
linksmen of the Chevy Chase Club
will be played this spring on Sun
days, instead of the methods of past
years. The Treasurer's Cup tourney
for the trophy presented by Will
liam F. Nam, used to be a two-man
match play affair. This year it will
be staged as a four-ball handicap
medal play over 18 holes, on Sum-
day, May G.
The Victor Kaufman Memorial
Day Cup affair in past years has
been played on May 30. This year
it will be held May 27, as an l8-hole
match play against par event.
The Independence Day Cup af-
fair, usually held July 4, has been
moved up to July l, at l8 holes
handicap medal play.
Pro Bob Barnett is home from
winter IN Florida and probably will
play tomorrow in George Diffen-
baugh's season opening pro-amateur
tourney at Kenwood, where big
turnout is expected for the initial
event of the year. George has in
vited all the pros around town, and
has asked each to bring several
amateurs from his club.
Monday, April %, the pros of the
Middle Atlantic sector will gather
az Baltimore'S Rolling Road Club to
hold their annual meeting and
choose officers for the year. They'll .
stage a team match between Wash ,
ington and Baltimore mentors.
Keefer Cup Tourney Booms.
A record list of entries is expected .
for the Keefer Cup tourney, to be
staged at Chevy Chase May and 3
AS the first of the Women's District
Golf Association events. Mrs. M.
Hale Dineen, tournament chairman
of the WDGA, is receiving entries
for the Glass A event at 4725 Thirty
seventh street North, Arlington, Va.
or they may be telephoned to her at
Chestnut 4555.
Several of the more than dozen
Washington members of the Senior
Golf Association of the United
States are planning to attend the
annual tourney at Apawamis the
latter part of June. Prominent from
the Capital in past senior events
have been Walter R. Tuckerman,
Charles B. Hatch, John F. McCar-
ron, Edward S. Clifford and P. S.
D;lcIo1o
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Grade School Basket
Title Finals Listed

The finals of the city fifth and
sixth grade Negro school basket
ball championships will be played
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 in the
Banneker gym with Bell School
meeting Young for the fifth-grade
title and Harrison facing Logan for
the siXth-grade crown.
In the sentinal round, Harrison
School had winner and a loser
the sixth graders topping Burrville
9-6, and the fifth graders bowling
to Bell, 29-7.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Bowling Jackpot
Nav Go to BVL

Station VOLS bowling "jack-
pot" contest conducted by
Sportscaster Russ Hodges tomor-
row night moves to the King Pin
with more than $400 in the kitty.
There will be the usual six con-
testants drawn at random from
among those present. Each will
bowl one box, the pot going to
the first to score a strike.
The affair will wind up a week
from tomorrow at the King Pin
and in the event nobody hits
the jackpot the money will go to
the Bowlers' Victory Legion,
Hodges sponsors have announced.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
-Four Colleges on Border
Sure 10 Have EIeyens
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, April 14.-Four
members of the Border Conference
will have football teams this fall.
They are Arizona State Teachers
College, Texas archaeological Col
lege, New Mexico U. and West Texas
State Teachers College.
At the annual spring meeting
of conference officials yesterday
spokesmen for Hardin Simmons
and New Mexico Ags said they had
no hope of resuming play yet.
University of Arizona and Ari-
zona State Teachers of Tempe are
in the "doubtful' class.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Navy Second to M. !. T.
In Dinghy Regatta

Ry the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, April IA
Massachusetts Tech took first place
in a quadrangular dinghy regatta
at the Naval Academy today. NIT.
scored 81 points in four events.
Navy was a close second with 3d.
Stevens and Cornell finished third
and fourth with IS and Is.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Chattanooga Sends Four
Cubuns to WiIIiumsport

CHATTANOOGA, April IA LP).-
Four Cubans Manuel Hidalgo,
shortstop; Leonilo Marrero, catcher,
and Frenando Rorriquez and Tony
Napolis, pitchers-today were sent
by Chattanooga to Williamsport.
Hidalgo's leaving assures another
Cuban. 24-year-old, fleet-footed An
gel Fleitas, the shortstop position.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Yonks Form Two Batteries

NEW YORK, April IA (P.-The
Yankees sent a battery to each of
their class AA farms today, shipping
Catcher Bill Steinecke and Pitcher
Johnny Moore to Kansas City and
Catcher Bob Collins and Pitcher
Karl Drews to Newark.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
BOwling.

TODAY.
Bowling.
Thirty-fifth annual Washing
ton City Duckpin Association
tournament, Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, 2.
Second annual Claren don
Handicap, Clarendon, 2.
S. @. Ranch Rodeo. Uline
Arena. 2:15 and $50 (through
Wednesday,.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Opening game, Washington VS..
New York, Griffith Stadium, 3.
Bethesda at Georgetown Prep,
$50.
st. Anthony's VS.. St. Paul's,
Catholic University, $50.
RodeO.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
North-S South Pro Tennis
Will Sturt April rs
BY the Associated Press

VfTe ]fssOe-"ttU
P1NEHURST. N. c., April IA
The annual North South profess
slonal tennis championships will
open April 25, Frank Rericha. execu-
tive secretary of the United States
Professional Association, announced
today. The finals are set for April
20.
Rericha said Welby Van Horn.
who was winner lin both events
last year. will defend his titles.
Richard Skeen, runner-up in the
singles, also is an entry.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
TuIso Club Chances Hands

TULSA, Okla, April IA (P.-Pur-
chase of the Tulsa club of the Texas
League by a group of local oil men
was announced today by Grayle
Hewlett. former Chicago sports
editor who will serve as general
manager.