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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
GRAND S~TEEPLECHASE
RUNNING FIELD CUT

LONDON, March Is. -(P)- The
field in Saturdays 103rd running
of the grand national s~teeplechase
at Aintree was cut to 81 horses to-
day with the withdrawal of M. j.
Anderson's Great Patrick, a Soto
1 outsider, who had won n of his
last two starts and finished second
in the other.
James v. Ranks Irish Ace,
Prince Regent, remained the z to !
favorite, for the grind, with the
North Country Hope, H. Linsley's
Bricett, a starter last year and
winner of three straight 1Ars sea-
son, as the second choice at 100 to
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
DAVIDSON GOLFERS
SCORE SECOND WIN

CHARLOTTE, March Is. -Re
Davidson golfers scored their
second Southern Conference links
victory today with a 1913 victory
over South Carolina. The match
was played over the par u Char
lotte country club course.
Despite a high wind, which boost
ed individual scores on both
teams. Bob Chapman, No. l man
for the Gamecocks, carded a
medal 80, while Davidson's Free
man Jones and Don Bryant posted
82's.
The summary:
Chapman (S.C.) defeated Bum
barger CD, 3 to 0.
Bryant Cd defeated Roberts Is.
c., 8 to O.
Chapman and Roberts (S.C.) de-
Bumbarger and Bryant CD,
2 to l..
Thorne (S.C.) defeated Hender-
son CD, 3 to 0.
Jones CD defeated Jeeter S.C.),
3 to O.
Jones and Henderson CD de-
Thorne and Jeeter $50, 3
to 0.
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league flag. This is the same pat
tern which was followed last year.
The Masonboro Ramblers, 1916
champions, r being handled
again by Frank Manner. Wallace
has their same leaders back in
Bob Hursey and Lloyd MCGOWAN.
Whiteville has an entirely new set
up with Earl Brinkley and Dewey
Hooks at the helm. >Bladenboro's
manager Of last year, H. B. Har-
grove, will be aided by R. C..
Bridger. while the new entry,
Elizabethtown, will be directed by
Earl Melvin AID Darrell Duncan.
An al-star game, composed of
players from every team in the
loop, will be played around mid
season. Tentative date for this
contest has been set for July 4th.
With several Of the towns install
ling lights, several of this sea
sons games, especially the cham
pionship tits, are expected to be
under arcs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
CAPE FEAR LEAGUE
DIRECTORS SLATE
MEETING TONIGHT

The Cape Fear semi-Pro
Baseball league will hold a
special meeting tonight At 8
o'clock ut the Recorders
Courtroom to make final plans
for the coming season.
Addison Hewlett, Jr., league
president, is expected to bring
discussion on ground keepers,
umpires, scorekeepers, and
other small but important de-
tails.
Representatives from Sea-
gate, Pepsi Cola, Hampstead,
Masonboro, Delco, and Winter
Park will attend the meeting
tonight. Official opening date
Of the circuit is April ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
Oklahoma Defeated, So A.;
Longhorns Win Over CCNY
Crusaders Are First Eastern Team To WinIn
Intersectional Finale; Texas Cagers@
Take 3rd Place With $3.50 Win
HOLY CROSS

NEW YORK, March Is - IN -
Holy Cross ended the long feisn
of western teams as basketball
champions Of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association toa
night by whipping Oklahoma, So
At, in the East-West finals be-
fore a crowd OF 18,445 at Madi-
son Square Garden.
First Eastern team evex to
triumph in the intersecsso1.al II.
male, the Crusaders hoisted Coach
Doggine Julian on their shoulders
and hauled him around the court
after htey had %outlasted the Big
Six champions with their accurate
shooting and clever ballhandling.
The woodworking Worcester.
Mass, boys. who play together as
if they had been doing it all 'thei-
lives, succeeded the Oklahoma
Aggies, winners Of the NCAA title
in both 1945 and 1916.
It VISA a welldeserved victory
the purple shirted Crusaders On.
gineered by coming from behind
in the second half, protecting their
slim lead for Is minutes and then
pulling away as the desperate
Oklahomans fell apart in the
games closing moments.
Inability Of the Sooners to find
the range in the second half. cost
them their chances of victory.
They made only three field goals
in the entire final period, not be-
cause they didn't get the shots
but because they simply would not
drop.
Gerald Tucker, six-footS3our-
inch center and key man OF, the
Oklahoma ~offense, led the Soon
ers with is points in the first
halt. which ended with Oklahoma
on the long end of a 1923 score,
but he couldn't hit his turn shot
after intermission.
George Rattan, six-foot, three
inch 1876 FOUNDER, was the best Of
the victorious Crusaders, a1tough
there was littel to chosse AMONG
any of the Holy Cross regulars.
Rattan led the Crusader scorers
with 10 points and was voted the
most valuable player in the game
by sports writer's on the side3ines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
WOLFPACK CHARLTON
CONTEST POSTPONED
Special To The Star

CHARLTON, March Is - The
game scheduled yesterday after
noon between Whiteville and Clark
ton high schools was called off
because Of the high winds, Jiggs
Powers informed the Star last
night.
Powers said the game will be
played today at Clarkton at 1880
O'Clock. The first Whiteville home
game is Friday when the Wolf
pack baseball outfit meets Williams
High school. Fairmont was sup
posed to play on this date, but a
flu epidemic forced the schools
there to be closed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
PRESIDENT GIVEN
BOWLING ALLEY
Presentation Will Be Made
Officially On Chief Ex-
ecutive's Birthday

WASHINGTON, March rs. up
- President Truman expect, to be
knocking off strikes one after an
other this spring, but they won't
have anything to do with John l..
Lewis or industrial disputes.
The targets will be ten-pens.
The Presidents press secretary,
Charles G.. Ross, told reporters
that a two-lane bowling alley is
being set up in the White House
basement as a birthday present
for MIR. Truman who will be SO on
May 8.
The President hasn't bowled since
he was 10, but White House at
taches say that with his horseshow-
pitching technique he can be- ex-
pected to ring up "strikes''~ and
"spares" like an expert in short
order. He uses a kind Of "South-
paw Missouri windup in tossing
horseshoes, they say, and the mo-
ton will fit in with his newly
adopted exercise. w
AS In most OF his manual actlvI-
ties, the President is getting equip
ped to bowl from his port side. He
pitches the opening ball at base
ball games with his left hand and
performs other chores southpaw-
style. He signs his mail with the
right hand, however.
Ross said the alleys are q gift
from "a group of anonymous do
nors" and will remain in the White
House after Mr.. Truman leaves Of
flee.
Ross didn't say WHETHER the
President had expressed a wish for
a new form of exercise or w1eth-
er he had become bored with the
present exercise facilities at the
executive mansion the poof in
stalled for the late President RQose-
welt, the small gymnasium, and a
horseshoe-pitching court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
TABOR CITY GIRLS
TO PLAY BUSINESS
MEN IN CAGE GAME
Special to The Star

TABOR CITY, March 25-The
Tabor City School Home Econom-
les Department will tangle with
the business men Of Tabor City
in a cage game in the school gym
nasium Wednesday night at 1880
o'clock sponsored by the Woman's
Auxiliary OF the Presbyterian
church. Arrangements have been
made for the business men to wear
shorts, anklets. and hair ribbons.
The %post-season affair will see
the aged, grey-haired business
leaders trying to cope with the
young girls. most Of whom are
of tf-, high school bas'
ketball team, in floor play and
basket shooting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
TEXAS WINS

NEW YORK, March Is - (R -
The Texas Longhorns took their
place tonight in the NCAA East
West basketball showdown by out
lasting City College of New York
for a 81 to so victory.
The Texans, tall, lanky, wind
burned speedsters, found their
match extensively in City's whirl-
wind fast-break which had made
it the outstanding team in the
Metropolitan area. But City had
no height under the basket to
come with Texas defensively. Al
though the Busting Beavers man.
aged to play the Southwest Con-
ference champions on even terms
during the second half, they were
unable to make up for a slow
start in which Texas got off to a
Is to S lead.
That margin, run up in much
the same manner a Wisconsin
piled up points against City in the
opening round of the NCAA east
ern playoffs was quickly reduced
when City's veteran basket shoot.
ers began to hit with regularity.
City whitfield the lead until il
was but four points behind at the
half, 81 to %, then played the
Longhorns or exactly even terms
after intermission. But the Beav-
ers couldn't make up the four
precious points, even though a,
one time they were a bare goal
behind on Irwin Dambrot's goa.
at the 15-minute mark which
made the score 47-45.
But Texas, refusing to get net.
tied, calmly maintained control oil
the ball and shot when the way
was open, going to a STAT mar
gin on a field goal by Johnny
Langdon. That shot proved to be
a key one since it took the pres.
sure off Texas and enabled it te
trade baskets thereout,
John Hargis, speedy forward
for the Texans, led the scoring
with II points on seven goals ano
three free throws. For City the
pace setter was Everett Finestone,
who made IA points on six goals
and two free throws.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
RING BOOK GIVES
BOXING FIGURES
Boxing Publication
Lists Beak-B Busting Job
OF 1000 Boxers

NEW YORK, March 25@P)-The
fight games Bible-the ring record
book-came off the presses today
listing the beak-busting jobs OF
some 1000 fighters, and publisher
Nat Fleischer figures it may hold
a possible answer to the sudden
rise in boxing fatalities last year.
The 688 pages Of this 1916 edi-
ton have the usual elisa and dat
a. of bash boulevard, like the fact
that, just as in the New York
phone book, the Smiths head the
name" list with Al fighters; that
Joe Louis ring earnings now
st; nd at So, 216, 073. ~, compared to
Jack Dempsey's So, 1853, ia and John
L. Sullivan's 1927, 800; that Jess
willard was the tallest champion
(6-foot-6 1-4) and Primo Camera
the heaviest (260 pounds, and
that there have been eight over-a-
million-dollar gates, and SO over
$100, 900.
But aside from the ear-scramb-
ling statistics, Fleischer points to
the books records of 1897 fighters
in North and South America and
SIT in England, Australia, New
Zealand, Africa and Continental
Europe, to bring out how large
numbers of fighters are permit
ted by boxing commissions and
boards to 60 along time after time
being beaten or knocked out, and
still retain licenses to box"
The book shows that in 1915
there were II fatalities in the ring
throughout the world - II of them
in the United States - and nearly
100 injuries. There already have
been three 1947 ring deaths, too,
Fleischer asserted.
"The records Of many fighters
show why" Ring Magazine Edi-
tor Fleischer insisted today. For
instance, more than 200 active
fighters have been defeated in more
than 80 percent of their bouts. In
many cases, the records show that
out Of Is or 80 fights, a fighter may
have won one, or finished in a draw
in one, and been knocked out in
all the rest.
"This indicates, in most cases,
a lax of proper supervision by
the boxing boards or commits
sion. As soon as 4 promoter
makes up a card, the local boxing
authority should look up the rec
ord of every fighter to make sure
they're not the kind headed no.
where except toward possible in
jury if he keeps On being beaten.
AS fighters pile up losing streaks,
their licenses should be taken
away
Thunbing through the book, Nat
Drew attention to records of Billy
Chaput, Baskerville, Mass, middle
weight, knocked out IL times in a
row in all Of his starts in three
years, each time inside Of three
rounds; Clint Campbell, Los An
|geles middleweight, knocked out
inside of four rounds in all sever
of his starts since 1914; Andy An
derson, Jacksonville, Fla, weller
weight, lost all his seven starts,
four by knockout, in two years;
Ted Christie, New York light
weight, knocked out % times since
1888, including his last two in
1916; Jimmy Allen, Philadelphia
lightweight, lost 20 straight, nine
by knockout, since 1915; Billy Beau
ford, New York and Des MONIES
light-heavy, knocked out in four OF
five starts last year; Henry (Kid)
Briere, Putnam, Conn.,, lightweight,
knocked out 10 times since 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
LARGE BUCK SHAD
TAKEN FROM RIVER

A buck shad, weighing six and
one half pounds, reported to be
one of the largest ever caught in
this section was landed here yes
terday afternoon, it was reported
last night by Eldridge Fergus.
According to Fergus, a buck
shad of this size is very unusual
in these parts. The huge fish was
caught by a commercial fisherman
in the Cape Fear River.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
Wear; Tear Terrific In as
But Cards Come Back Strong
Winners OF National League Pennant
Have All Key Men Back At Regular
Positions For 1917 Campaign

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 25.-UP)-The wear
and tear on the St. Louis Cardinals last year was terrific,
but they still had enough left to win the pennant and 20 on
to win the World Series from the Boston Red Sox and the
experts were betting today that the Redbirds will come
back strong enough to capture the pennant again.
They won the pennant and series with four of their kew
men in the lineup when they should have been on the side.
lines with their injuries. Centerfielder Terry Moore had a
bad knee, third baseman George (Whitey) Kurowski q chin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
WRESTLING MEET

CHAMPAIGN, Ill, March 25-R
defending champion Okla
bona A & M menaced by three
midwestern challengers - Illinois,
Iowa State Teachers and Cornell
(Ia.) College - 100 multi-sized
athletes from 80 schools will come
to grips in the 18th National Col
|legiate Athletic Association wrest-
ling tourney Friday and Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
CUBS

LOS ANGELES, March 25.-W.D
Hank Borowy and Bill Lee throt-
tiled the White Sox on four hits
today as the Cubs won a 4 to 0
victory in the final game Of the
|transplanted Chicago City series.
Led by Bob scheffing, who
singled three times, the Cubs col
lected 10 hits off Orval Grove and
Earl Caldwell.
At Clearwater Fls.-R-
Philadeiphia M 100 900 o2o-s7a
Vanderneer, Riddle ~ Hetki (D and
Mueller. Judd, Donnelly a.. Koecher
Cd and Terrell.
At sebring; Fla.-R-
Louisville tAA) 100 600 300" Is
Newark QL) ----- 200 01o 2ox-5 .
Carter, McDermott "a and Aulds;
Heslet (6).
At Miami, Fla.-Rr
St. Louis "a, - oo2 900 1876 10 Q
singleton, Mulcahy () and salkeld;
Potter, Fannin (6) and Early.
At st. Petersburg, Fla:
Detroit (A) - 100 900 oo2-381
New York "a - 900 600 oo2-2 6 o
Trout and Swift; Chandler, Lyons CD
and. Houk
At Sarasota, Fla:
St. Louis M -- 010 900 00oE1 9 Q
30 ron (A) ------ o10 900 020-3 10 !
l urkhart, McLeland (5), Staley (s)
and Garagiola, WILDER (O; Hughson,
johnson TO- and McGah.
At Fort Lauderdale
Philadelphia (A) - OIL ooo 10 1s 2
Coleman, Fowler (6) and Rosar; Coop
er, Johnson (D md 4camelli, Padgett
(6).
At Los Angeles
Chicago a. - goo 600 600 "a
Chicago M 900 zoo 2ox- 10 0
Grove, Caldwell (6) and fresh; Borowy,
Lee (6), and ScheffinR.
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Vegetable production and con-
sumption were both at record
levels in 1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
ATHLETICS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla,
March 25.-W.D-The Philadelphia
Athletics slammed out Ii hits to-
day to beat the Boston Braves, 4
to 3, despite a three-run homer in
the ninth inning by Boston's Carvel
(Bama) Rowell.
Tagging Mort Cooper for seven
hits in the first five innings and
81 Johnson for six more in the
last four innings, the AS scored
single tallies in the second, third,
seventh, and eighth innings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
REDS

CLEARWATER, Fla, March Is.
- UD - Grady Hatton's second
home run of the training season
paced the Cincinnati Reds to a 9
to 3 victory over the Philadelphia
Phillies today for the Reds eighth
exhibition triumph.
The Reds outhit the Pills, 9 to
I, ard were aided by sever bases
on balls and two Phil errors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
Training Camp Briefs
TIGERS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
B.-U.H-Paul Dizzy Trout pitch
Cd nine full innings today to give
the Detroit Tigers a 8 to 2 victory
over the New York Yankees in an
exhibition game 1t was the third
straight loss for the Yanks.
Trout shut the Yankees out with
three hits over the first eight in
nings, he tired in the ninth to al
low three more hits and both Yam
kee runs, which were driven across
by rookie outfielder Cliff Mapes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
BRAVES
FORT

FORT L~AUDERDALE, Fla,
March rs. -U.I- Louis Perrin,
president of the Boston Braves,
said today that he "still hopes" to
arrange an important trade with
either the st. Louis Cards or the
Philadelphia Phillies before the
regular season starts.
Perrin left by plane for Havana
in connection with his contracting
business, but, instead of rejoining
the Braves, he will go to the st.
Petersburg camp Of the Cards and
the Clearwater camp of the Phils
in hopes of picking up a valuable
player.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
INDIANS

He WOOD, March 25.-W.R-
Bob ---zava's brilliant pitching
and Pat Seerey's fourth homer OF
the season featured the Cleveland
Indians so triumph over the Holly
wood Stars before LOIS fans to-
day.
Kuzava went eight innings, long
est stint for a Tribe hurler this
year, and allowed only two singles.
Red Embree, who finished, gave
up two more hits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

RED SOX
SARASOTA, Fla, March 25.-
WE-A 425-foot homer inside-the-
park by George Metkovich gave
the Boston Red Sox a 3 to 1 victory
over the st. Louis Cards today to
ever their informal renewal OF
last years world series at one
game each.
Metkovich, making his first
start in the right field, hoped on
the first pitch thrown by Gard
relief hurler Gerald Staley in the
eighth inning. The blow broke a
l to 1 tie and the Sox proceeded
70 lice" the game with another
run on singles by Dom DiMaggio,
Rudy York, and Ed Peliagrini.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
BROWNS

MIAMI, Fla, March 25.-WD-
Although Ralph Kiner of the Pitts
burgh Pirates drove in four of his
teams five runs and scored the
other one, his two hits today were
the only safeties allowed by st.
Louis Brown pitchers Nelson Pot
ter and Cliff Fannin as they beat
the Pirates, 6 to 5
kiner smacked a single and
a triple, both off Franklin, to give
pittsburgh its only batting attack.
Potter held the BUGS hitless for
the first five frames, walking one
man and tanning i've. Fannin,
who had not been scored in thite
previous three inning mound stints,
was nicked for all five Pirate runs.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
u. S, Canada 10 Build
| Nine W Gather Stations
In North in ; Years
By The As.oeiotsd Pres.


OTTAWA, Ontario, Mar. 5.-United
States-Canadian cooperation in de-
velopment of the Arctic for defense
and commercial purposes moved
an important step forward today
with announcement that nine new
weather stations are to be built
jointly in the Northern Canadian
wastelands within the next three
years.
Two of the weather which
will be jointly maintained-are to
be finished this summer, one of them
at remote and barren Eureka Sound
on the northwestern side of Ellsniore
Island and of the Northeast main
land, barely 600 miles from the North
Pole. This will be the northernmost
post in the Western Hemisphere, in
a region where there has been no
human habitation.
The second to be completed this
year will be far to the west at Winter
Harbor on better known Melville
Island in the Northwest Territories,
where American exploratory mis-
sions have touched before.
Announcement of the plans by
Reconstruction Minister c. D. Howe
marked the end of the first stage
of a project first broached by the
United States last summer, when
American military authorities showed
pressing interest in hemisphere
defense arrangements.
The Canadians refused to give
ready assent, and the time passed
when any of the bases could be
built last year. In November nego-
tiations were reopened, again at
American instigation, and the pres
ent agreement is the result.
American military forces will un-
dertake virtually all of the con-
struction, it is understood, being
better equipped for the task. The
Ellsmere Island base, for instance,
is to be built by forces operating
from the joint American-Danish
weather base at Thule, England.
The bases are to remain under
Canadian control and in charge of
Canadian officers, but the bulk of
the work for the beginning, at
least, is expected to be done by
Americans. How the costs will be
shared could not be learned here.
Mr.. Howe, asked whether the United
Evening star., 1947-03-05
WuIter Munro Gets Post
With Truinmen,s Union

The Brotherhood of American
Trainmen announced today that
Walter Munro, a member of the
United States Cancellation Service
here for the last five years, has
bee appointed public relations direc-
tor for the brotherhood by Presi-
dent A. F. Whitney.
Mr.. Munro resigned from the
Cancellation Service March /. He
will have headquarters at 130 Third
street Sc.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

He said Howard has more than 500
applications from qualified colored
young men who want to study ut
its medical school.
The school, however, Is able to
admit only so. Mr.. Keefe explained
that 1t could take an additional 10
If its graduates and medical stu
dents were allowed to carry on work
and study at Gallinger.
Mr.. Keefe informed the House
that Howard University medical
students and colored doctors are
limited to Freedmen's Hospital here.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
keefe Asks Use Of Ganinger
By Howard U. Medical Men

Congress and the House District
Committee in particular were urged
yesterday by Representative Keefe,
Republican, Of Wisconsin to allow
graduates and students of Howard
University Medical School to work
in Gallinger Hospital.
Declaring that three -fifths of Gal
fingers patients are colored, Mr.
Keefe told the House colored doctors
and medical students "are even
barred from entering the buildings. /"
Evening star., 1947-03-05

He described the Howard Medical
School as zone of the greatest
training centers" In the United
States and pointed out that it is
an institution which receives al
measure of Government financial
support.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

States would pay any part OF the
costs. replied simply, @Yes." To a
question as to how much the total
costs would be he said: 'I do not
recall" American sources here were
equally uncommunicatiye.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

S944,665.74 -
p r McANIFF, Vice President
A.. r. McGRATH, Asst Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this |
25th day Of February. 1947.
MARY LOUISE HALE,
fSeal) Notary Public |
Notary Public, State Of New York, resid- |
ing In bronx County, Bronx Co. Clks. No. |
169. Reg. No. 2S1HS. n r. Co. elk. /
No. 1880. Commission expires March 30.
Evening star., 1947-02-16

wells are down from Pittsburgh
this week end for the christening
of their baby son on Friday and the
senior Crowells' party yesterday.
The Clifford Durrs-Mrs. D.
is Mrs. Hugo Blacks sister-are
celebrating because of very small
feminine arrival. The little one,
their fourth girl, was born Monday.
X X
Jane Wilson, attractive managing
editor of the Foreign Service Jour-
nal, gave party the other day and
right then and there could have set
up shop as State Department
clearing house or something. Diplo-
mats and division chiefs rubbed
elbows and exchanged the latest
word. The Director General of the
Foreign Service and Mrs. Selden
Chaplin were there, and the Paul
Tenneys, who are going to Santiago
the middle of March. Philip Sprouse,
who was in China with Gen. Mar
shall, said he's the greatest guy in
the world, and Bromley Smith, who's