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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
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Joseph Earl Jones, SON of
MIR. and Mrs. Eddie Jones, has
graduated from Counter Intelli-
gence corps center at Holabird
Signal Depot, Baltimore, Md,
and is now on his way over
seas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03

After thawing, frozen foods are
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lar foods.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03

There are now more than &c, 600
diamond cutters widely scattered
throughout the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
City Briefs
FORUM To MEET

The Young Adult forum of
the First Presbyterian church
Will meet tonight at $50 o'clock
in the educational building to
hear a book review and dis
cussion by Preston Oliver on
Emory Reaves' "The ANATOMY
of peace" A light supper will
be served.
SON BORN
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Earl
Bryant, have announced the
birth of a son, Wilbur Earl
Bryant, Jr., born yesterday.
The mother is the former
Margaret Davis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Hope, Alaska, Episcopal missionary

Hope, Alaska, Episcopal missionary
to the Eskimos.
After lunch, which is being serv-
ed on the grounds, the program
will continue with inspirational talks
by church leaders, and close with
an address by the Ri. Rev. Tho
mas H. Wright, D. D., on the sub
ject, "Individual Responsibility for
Building The City That Too Long
Hath Stood A Dream" The meeting
will adjourn with the benediction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
By WILLIAM TUCKER Limited Press Sports Writerl

New York, Jan. 1 - (UP) - The U. s. Military Academy's unques- tioned superiority for the second straight year, new all-time attend ance records and the flocking of war veterans back to their Alma Matters highlighted the 1945 football season.
 Led by the touchdown twins, Felix Blanchard and Glenn Davis, Army bowled over all opposition by shat tering scores to stamp itself as one of the great pigskin powers of all time. The Cadets climaxed their sea- son by taking apart Navy 32 to l3 before 102,000 fans in Philadelphia.
 There were plenty candidates for runner-up honors in the mythical national campaign including Navy itself, previously unbeaten, although tied by Notre Dame; Alabama, which went undefeated and united in the South; Indiana A. & M. in the Western Plains country.
 Crowds Up S5 P. c.
 Overall football attendance in- creased 35 per cent over l944, boost ed by the sudden end of hostilities in the Pacific, the return of many servicemen to school and the re- sumption of the sport by a number of colleges which had been forced to suspend 1t during the war.
 All-time attendance records were broken in both the Big 10 and Southeastern Conference and every circuit in the country reported 8 sharp rise over 1914.
 The 7,264,147 fans who attended the games of 75 leading colleges saw everything - perfect precision play such as Army's, an exciting but hardly terrific form of high school" play in the Ivy league; overnight improvement of some teams due to the return of servicemen; the col- lapse of others-notably Minnesota due to dissension; a bumper crop of freak plays; officiating well below the prewar standard, due in part to varied interpretation of the new rules.
 Ivy League Agrees
 In the East, the standout team of course was Army, followed by Navy, Holy Cross, Temple and Penn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

ringside seats has been announced. Thus in one fell swoop Madison Square Gardens two-and-a-Quartea millions for l945 will be eclipsed.
 Champions in ali divisions wiIl come galloping back. New stars will flash across the flstic Armament.
 Racing anticipates a bigger year than ever, with this years two-year- olds maintaining their form and getting better. Pot O Luck and other three-year-olds join Stynlie, Armed and other older horses in strong handicap division. The new two year-old crop appears promising. With Santa Anita returning after . four-year shutdown and setting the pace there will be general increase in purses.
 Football, with the Army still load- ed and spearheaded by Doc Blanch- ard and Junior Davis, will reach a new peak, with competition keenex because of more explosive power on the other side of the fence.
 Professional football will rise O. unprecedented heights, with teams battling in two leagues, the National and the new All-America Confer ence. This situation is expected Co ultimately develop into e World Series comparable to that of baser ball.
 In golf, tennis, automobile racing fixtures that were discontinued dur ing the war years will be resumed in full blast with old and new stexs vieing for supremacy.
 Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and IuS McSpaden are among the moze formidable for the U. s. Open fo m held June 13-l5 at Cleveland's CaA= terbury. Fred Haas will be fav0rzEe in the National Amateur.
 Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer return to present what may be 1a~ surmountable barriers to Prank Parker in tennis.
 Davis Cup competition is to es resumed with Australia, the der lending nation, possessing 6 neW headliner in young Dinny Faiis ln addition to Adrian Quist and John Bromwich.
 Great things are expected uf Les lie MacNitchell as the indoor track season rolls along. Veteran coach Emil Won Filing clings to the belief that the New York University flyer will achieve the four-minute mile.
 Jimmy Rafferty, lightly-crediknd winner of six consecutive starts iaa9 winter, and Tommy Quinn. national cross-country champion, will pre1s MacAfitchell or vice versa.
 Sprinters Buddy Young and Bar ney Ewell are swifter than eVeE Doc Blanchard will once more he the unusual combination of spflnteK and shotputter. Hal Davis is expeeE- ed back from Australia in tlEne ka& the outdoor season. Bill naneeFt q around and about for the shot and discus. Cornelius Warsnerdam a again warming up his vanlflns pn|s
 Dan Ferris. Mfr. AAus WiIl haEz hundreds of 'em.
 There1l be much to see and red about in I04e.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
RoyHos Mon To Toke Over 

Pittsburgh, Jan. (UP) - Johnny Ray, the man who made" Billy Conn the fighter he is, has 1t all figured out.
 Joe Louis is the present heavy weight titleholder. After him comes Conn and then-well, Johnny has a pink-cheeked youngster named Charles Francis Waters who, he says, will pick up the purple when 1t drops from Conn's shoulders.
 At the present writing. Waters hasn't had a pro fight. Tn fact, he hasn't come any closer to the beax- busting profession than a gymna- sium and a ringside seat. But Johnny took a gander at the kids left and immediately got his sigma ture on the dotted line.
 Waters is only 19, but he's 6 feet, l inch and goes 190 pounds" Ray smiled. Right now he looks better to me than Billy Conn did at the same stage in his career"
 But before anyone could accuse him of treason, he hastily added:
 Not that I think there is, or ever will be. better fighter than Billy. But here's a fellow who will take his place Yhen he's through fight ing"
 Then Johnny dropped a hint of things to come:
 I'm going to let you in on some- thing. Billy Conn is going to have just two more fights and then he's going to quit the ring.
 Both will be with Joe Louis. In the first he's going to win the heavyweight championship and in the second he's going to beat Louis again just to prove it wasn't a duke. Then this fellow is going to take over."
 Waters admits to Chicago as his home town. Right now, he's a naval cadet at Notre Dame, where he played sixth string center on the freshman football team.
 According to Johnny's story, Waters got the fighting bug after reading of Conn's successes and near-successes. He wrote Ray and arranged for the latter to watch him work out. Johnny's only com- ment was:
 "A pip of a left hand and a fast follow through with a right"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

from the Army Air Forces. won q games and lost 10, gaining eight straight victories after a five-hit shutout over the As in the first big league game he ever pitched.
 Mel Ott of the New York Giants hit his 50oth homer during the season to move into the select company of Babe Ruth and Jimmy FoXX, the only other major leaguers in history to attain that figure.
 Two National League managers resigned during the hectic cam paign, Bob Coleman of the Boston Braves being replaced by Del Bis sonette and Freddy Fitzsimmons Of the Philadelphia Phils giving way to Ben Chapman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

Their all-around excellence to over shadow the others eventually.
 Paralleling the collapse of the Giants was Pitcher Bill Voiselle, who won eight straight games, then suddenly found it impossible to stop opposing batsmen. He lost seven in a row before pulling out of his tailspin and thereafter was just so-so- pitcher. Had he not faltered, the Giants might have gone on to win the pennant.
 The Cubs would have won with out difficulty had it not been for their inability to beat the surging St. Louis Cardinals, who almost overlook them in the late stages. Chicago had a seven- -and-a-half game margin on Aug. 19, but after the Cards swept three-game series and the Cubs were shaky in a few other games, the margin was re- duced to two-and-a-half games. It was not until Sept. 29 that the Cubs clinched the pennaht at Pittsburgh on the next to the last day of the season. Key man in the Chicago drive was Pitcher Hank Borowy, who won II games and lost only two after being waived out of the American League in July by the New York Yankees.
 Award to Cavaretta
 Phil Cavaretta, the Cub captain and first baseman and the major league batting champion with an average of 1862, was named most valuable player in the National League, while Newhouser, who won 5 games and lost nine for the Tigers, gained the laurel in the American League for the second straight year. The American League batting champion was the Yankee second baseman George Stirnweiss, who had final mark of 1909, while Borowy was top National League pitcher.
 Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves set a modern National League record with a 37-game con- secutive hitting streak, but there were few individual featS.
 Rookie Dave Ferriss, coming un- heraaded to the Boston Red Sox
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
TED WILLIAMS
 AND JOE LOUIS MAY STUD YEAR
By NED BROWN NEA staR CoFrespondet

New York, Jan. 1 = A new Golden Age In sports looms for 10to. an era which promises to dwarf even thn fabulous fantasies of hectic and amusing 1e4s.
 The presence of Joe Louis and red Williams, baseball's last 400 hitter. perhaps epltomizes it best. It is to be a smashing year.
 There will be vast Improvement in class competition. old men and callow youths will be replaced by ex- perienced performers of consun- mate skill.
 And it stands to reason that Che enthusiasm of fans will not dinain- ish with the return of genuine stick outs.
 Baseball, which felt no decline iia interest but dropped sharply in quality during the war years, will experience @ tremendous upIikt. Major league teams which plodded along with inferior talent win once again feature stars. Minor leagues, forced to close shop because 0z player shortages, will reopen.
 Peace promises to again make the Yankees a team to fear in the Amer ican League, with Joe DiMaggfo, Tom Henrich, Joe Gordon, Phil Rig zuto and other topliners back, Thn Red Sox could become a factor with the return of Ted Williams. Bobby Doerr, Tex Hughson and others. Tn the National League most attention is given the Cardinals, whose c. I. list included small army of polish- ed major leaguers.
 Meanwhile all other major league teams eagerly await returnees. And the line is forming to the right to grab surplus talent which the Card- inals will find on hand. Money will flow like water before the training camp sessions are over.
 New stars who would normally have reached the major during the past four seasons will suddenly crop up to perplex experts who dare make forecasts.
 Boxing will see its greatest boom since the golden '20's.
 Joe Louis and Billy Conn win bring back the million-dolIar gate perhaps thrice over-when they battle for the heavyweight cham pionship in June.
 Televfsion will make it's first serious bid for national sports recog- milton in connection with this fight, for which a record price of sl00 for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Who's Playing Who In Football Bowls

New York, Jan. 1 - (UP) - How they will line up for the football bowl games:
 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Cal, New Years Day - Alabama vs Southern California.
 Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, La, New Years Day - St. Mary's (CaL) vs Oklahoma A. & M.
 Orange Bowl. Miami, Fla, New Years Day - Miami vS Holy Cross.
 Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Tex, New Years Day - Texas vs Missouri.
 Sun Bowl, Fl Paso, Tex, New Years Day - New Mexico vs Dem yer University.
 Oil Bowl, Houston, Tex, New Years Day - Georgia vs Tulsa.
 Raisin Bowl, Fresno, Cal, New Years Day - Fresno State vS Drake University.
 Blue-Gray Game, Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 29 Northern College All-Stars vs Southern All-Stars.
 Shrine Game, San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 25 - East All-Stars vs West All-Stars.
 Jacksonville Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. - South Carolina vs Wake Forest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Nelson Repeats as Athlete of the Year

By AL vERNEEEER NEA Stan Correspondent

New York, Jan. 1 = Another suc- cess story on Byron Nelson, but in this case there is virtually no escape,
 For in searching out lo45's athlete of the year, you come upon the cherubic face of Lord Byron.
 He was the choice a year ago, so the icy stylist is o popular and unanimous repeater.
 The Big Umbrella Man defles you to look farther.
 Other sports had gallant figures. Without Hal Newhouser the De- troit Tigers would not today be champions of baseball.
 Army's Doc Blanchard and Jun for Davis, whose talents fitted to- gether perfectly to make ArIny's football team unbeatable for two falls, were pair to consider. Foot ball produced other greats in Bob Fenimore, who led Oklahoma A. and M. to an undefeated season; Harry Gilmer, who did the same for Ala bama; and Herman Wedemeyer, who in one year turned St. Mary's from 8 winless squad to a New Or- leans Sugar Bowl participant on New Years Day.
 Even against these names Nelson stands up as l945's most dominating athlete.
 For further conviction ask the golf professionals who coughed in dust as the bronzed Texan swept across the nations courses, making old Man Par look like a duffer.
 Not so many years ago Nelson coined exactly $12.50 during his first winter tour. This year he pocketed $66,528 in bonds, a sum which until now would have been declared fan- tastic as tournament winnings of Q golfer.
 Lord Byron gives you more stag gering figures to digest. He has fin- ished in the money in his last 102 tournaments, far surpassing Ben Hogan's old record of 56. Nelson has won 19 major events this year alone. He has been so hot that Jug Me- Spaden, @ remarkable Shotmaker, has been shut out from a tourna- ment triumph.
 of the course, Nelson and Mc- Spaden are close friends. That doesn't hold up when they go to work, although McSpaden grabbed $34 1000 in place money to make him the years second best-paid golfer.
 Nelson's winnings become even more incredible when you recall that he took 0 three-months vacation after he posted a world record in Seattle by covering 72 holes in 259, less than 65 per round. He promptly declined to enter the next nine tour namentS. This was & handsome break for the other pros, giving them chance to pick up a little Christmas money.
 Back again, Nelson continued his whirling pace by winning in Fort Worth. That's where he first struck the money trail after graduating from the caddy ranks.
 Byron Nelson figured he ought to win it for old times sake.
 He's that kind of a performer. Ap- parently he can win whenever the notion strikes him.
 That helps to make him the man of the year in sports for 1945.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Ohio Hunter Gets
 First Wolf in Years

Kenton, O. = lUP) - Leonard Shook of nearby Alger recently shot what old residents said was the first wolf seen in this territory for many years. Other hunters are now searching for the mate, be- lieved to have killed 70 chickens on a farm near here.
 Wolves are so scarce in Ohio that the state does not even pay a boun- ty on them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

tered in two years of competitive swimming to Ford. Ford, who bet tered three of Johnny Weissmul- ler's 20-year-old sprint marks early in the season, lost to Walter Ris of Bainbridge Navy at the National AAU mems indoor meet.
 And 1t was in the very first major meet of the season when Ford was defeated. Late in January the Bal boa, c. z., student broke Weiss muller's old 100-meter and 1i0-yard marks with times of 55.7 and 56.4 seconds respectively. Three weeks later he had shattered the l0o-yard mark with a time of 49.4 seconds.
 Yet Ris, a Chicago sailor who had completed one season at the Uni- versity of Illinois, upset Ford in the National AAU indoor meet at New York's Athletic Club pool.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Dodgers Own Three Minor League Clubs

New York-luP) - Th1 NF0f Dodgers are reprssenkea tn' in four minor leagues.
 The Dodgers own MonlE the International League. of the Piedmont League AnA of the Pony League. NsN Of the Southern AssoelAlItn with Brooklyn by a uefN mank
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Ollie Hunter to Coll
 If Quits After fhe WoE

South Bend, Ind. = (UP) = Ollie Hunter, crack Notre Dame two-mil- CT. says t is possible he will not re- sune running after the war.
 Hunter, enrolled in the Navy V-7 program, said he would be out Of practice after the war and might
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
WGA Proposes 4-Point Prooronl on Coddies

Chicago luP) - The Western Golf Association has recommended four-point program to insure an adequate supply of caddies at Amer ica's golf clubs.
 The ". o. 4. suggests:
 1. Clean, attractive caddie hous- es.
 2. A sports program to get and to hold caddies.
 2. A victory garden to keep cad- dies occupied.
 ( A "senslble, simple program of instruction" on hOw 10 be 3 good caaaYs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Bets And Fans
 Set New Marks At Race Tracks
By JOHN GRIFFIN Limited Press Sports Writer)

New York, Jan. - (UP) - The l945 season will go down in history as the greatest boom year American horse racing ever had, possibly the greatest it ever will have. And there was a time early in the year when the sport wondered if it would oper- ate because of the war.
 An exercising tide of money flow ed through the pari-mutuel mach ines of the nations raceways, smashing the all-time records set in 1924, and making it's influence felt in every aspect of the thor oughbred sport. Already a gigantic business enterprise, racing contin- ued to mushroom in l945 into one of Americas most popular and most costly sports.
 Bettors wagered nearly a billion and half dollars during the year and the various states received the record-breaking revenue total of $66,000,000. Total wagering ap- preached the $l.400, ,000,0 900 mark with the average turf fans bet per day nearly $T6.
 Few Standout Horses
 The increases in popularity were registered in the face of what is generally conceded to be poorer than-average competition in near ly all divisions of racing, with few standout horses and sudden revers- als in form the rule rather than the exception. There were no racers of the Twilight Tear or Devil Diver caliber to provide the same type of class domination that existed last year.
 The public, however. continued to flock to the tracks in ever-in- creasing numbers and the $50 win- dows got more play than the lowly s2 windows. The rising wage of the laborer was clearly evident at the race tracks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
3 StUim Marks and 6 Titles Fell To Coasts Ann Curtis During 45

New York, Jan. - (UP)-Stand- out performers by blond Ann Curtis, who sprayed her way to three indi- vidual records and six solo cham pionships during the season, and Yale's Alan Ford highlighted na- tional swimming for both men and women in l945.
 In addition to individual accom- plishments, Miss Curtis swan as a member of the San Francisco Crys- tai Plunge relay teams clipping two other marks and was also a com petitor on relay squads winning three more national AAU titles. Across the nation she was hailed as the greatest female aquatic star since Eleanor Holm.
 Aside from Miss Curtis domina- ton of records and titles, the feat which stood out in mems swim ming was the first defeat adminis-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01

change my mind between now and then, but I doubt it very much"
 be too old to staps again. I may
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Army Eleven Nations Best for 2nd Year

State among the independents; Penn, champion of the Ivy league and beaten only by Army and Navy, and Columbia, winner of eight games and loser only to Penn.
 Near the end of the season, the Ivy League-Penn, Columbia, Dart mouth, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Yale and Harvard-formally allied themselves as an athletic group with common ideals toward administer ing football without undue em- phasis." Strict scholastic and ethical codes were laid down and 1t was agreed the eight schools would schedule only those opponents oi comparable standards. It was indi- cated they would continue to sched- ule such attractions as Army and Navy, both of which are on Colum- bias schedule next year.
 The Ivy league and most of the other intercollegiate conference in- dicated that they would return next year to the one-year residence rule, suspended during the war, allowing only three years varsity eligibility for athletes.
 Tn the Midwest, the Indiana Hoosiers under coach Alvin N. (Bo) McMillin, captured popular fancy by winning their first Big 10 con- ference, defeating their main rival, Purdue, 26 to o, in their final game. The Hoosiers had only an early sea- son 7-7 tie with Northwestern to mar their record.
 Missouri won the Big Six race with perfect conference record, although badly drubbed by both Minnesota and Ohio State outside the loop. The real power of the Western Plains was Oklahoma A. & M., which roared through all op- position and won an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl against St. Mary's.
 Alabama to Rose Bowl
 Alabama had a similarly impress sive record in the Southeast, going through the season undefeated and united and coming up with a re- markable passer in Harry Gilmer. Alabama was invited to the Rose Bowl even before the West Coast representative, Southern California, had been named. Duke, beaten only by Army and Navy, won the South ern conference crown by toppling Wake Forest and North Carolina. Little Miami, Fla, University turned in one of the best records in the South and won the host role in the Orange Bowl against Holy Cross.
 Neither the Southwest confer ence nor the Pacific Coast circuit turned in an outstanding team, both showing the hangover effects of the war on their erstwhile powerhouse teams. Texas won the Southwest title and will play Missouri in the Cotton Bowl.
 Southern California waded through to the Coast championship although defeated by Washington within the loop and San Diego Na- val and St. Mary's outside it. St Mary's tripped only by U. c. L. A.. was the outstanding team on the Coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Pennont Winners
 In Minor Leagues

New York, Jan. - (UP) - The l945 minor league baseball cham pions:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-01
Ivy League Agrees

In the East, the standout team of course was Army, followed by Navy, Holy Cross, Temple and Penn