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Evening star., 1948-03-25
Caps Pin Hopes
0nStagsBeating
Bullets Tonight
Coach Predicts Win
By Chicago; Scouts
TuIent for 1949
By Bill Fuchs

Washington's Caps, upset by
events that have been leaving them
on the short end of crucial playoff
decisions, are anxiously awaiting
the result Of the Baltimore Chicago
game tonight in Chicago.
Most of the Caps will gather at
the Dodge Hotel, home of Bob
Feerick, Sonny Hertzberg and Dick
O'Keefe, where they will have ready
access to radio and telephone. For
on this game hinges their last
chance to crash the Basket Ball
Association $4,000 championship
playoffs.
If the Stays beat the Bullets the
Caps and Bullets will fight it out for
the loops Western Division third
place in Baltimore Saturday.
Washington, which finished in q
three-way tie for second place with
Baltimore and Chicago, dropped q
74-70 decision to the Stays In Chi
cago Tuesday. If Baltimore beats
the Stays tonight. these two teams
will enter the playoffs and Wash
ington as q last-place team can call
1t q season.
Auerbach on Scouting Trip.
Red Auerbach already is making
plans for next season. He left today
for New York where he will view
the annual East-West college all
stars game. Auerbach Is searching
for new talent and doesn't hesitate
to say there will be some changes
for the next campaign.
When asked If he was sure there
would be team next year-Owner
Mike Uline threatened to shut down
his arena and sell the Caps-Auer-
bach said, Sure there'll be team
here"
About the present situation, Auer-
bach said, "It's shame to lose a
season on one ball game away from
home. It's not fair, particularly
when we finished better than every
team in the Eastern Division.
'"The next break we get will be
the first one. If we had played
Chicago here, we would have been
6-1 favorites. We lost only four
games at home all year."
Chicago, Red believes, will beat
Baltimore. The Stays whipped the
Bullets three out of four times at
home, but lost all four decisions in
Baltimore. Both teams play a
rough, fast game, but while the
Stays are playing on the. home
court, the Bullets will be rested
Baltimore hasn't played since last
Saturday.
Feerick, Scolari Honored.4 =
Meanwhile Feerick and Freddie
Scolari received some additional
consolation for the seasons. effort.
Feerick was named to the associa-
tion's all-star team, a distinction
which pays off 5000 and Scolari was
picked on the second team, worth
s100
The all-star team Is composed Of
Feerick, Fulks, Zaslofsky, Sadowski
and HOWE Dallmar of Philadelphia.
The second team lists Scolari, John
Logan of st. Louis, Carl Braun of
New York. Stan Miasek of Chicago
and Buddy Jeannette of Baltimore.
The all-star teams were picked by
vote of sportswriters and radio
commentators.
Evening star., 1948-03-25
By Ernie Hill
ieoso Daily News Foreign Service

Chicago Daily News Foreign Service
LONDON, Mar. 25.-Joe Louis is
doing no-hit, no-run exhibition
here at 1888 a day.
The Brown Bomber" is having
difficulty in drawing more than a
bakers dozen at 40 cents head for
his thrice-daily stage ballet.
- London's health and holidays ex-
hibition at the big Earl's Court in
door stadium is losing money like
mad. People stay away from the
show by the millions.
1t isn't Joe's fault. It's just the
kind of show nobody wants to see.
The sports pages haven't men,
toned Louis being present and ac-
counted for in more than two weeks.
The Bomber is dragging down
$4,000 for four weeks of what is
jokingly called work. He punches
Evening star., 1948-03-25
SIS, ,333-o Day Louis Big Flop
As Londoners Shun His Show

a few bags, does bit of shadow
boxing and spars bit. He shows O
bored audience how to hit light
and heavy bags, how to punch holes
in the air and how to play games
with over-age pugs.
The audience usually includes
from 100 to 200 languid patrons who
pay to come in and sit down after
looking at displays Of auto trailers,
tents, sandpiles, sporting apparel,
camels and the latest sweaters and
red flannel underwear. s.<,4 W.
Despite the vacant seats In front
Of the ring. Joe is having good
time and keeping in condition. He
is getting paid for what normally he
would have to be putting out cash.
we are happy" said one Of his
managers. IF the people don't want
to see Joe work out. that Is their
fault. We are putting money in the
bank"
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Siqns MusiuI's Brother

HARRISBURG, Mar. rs R.-Ed
Musial, brother of the St. Louis
Cardinals first baseman, has been
signed by the Harrisburg Senate
Evening star., 1948-03-25
By the Asseeiatsd Press
SCORES YESTERDAY.

Philadelphia h;aa, "a, 4; Baltimore H.L).
PittsDgrsh. i. M}. 5; San Francisco
CHICAGO tN1 vs.. st. Louis "a at Los
Angeles, rain.
Philaoelphia (N.), 3; Cincinnati tND, 2.
New York tN) VS.. Oakland tP.CL)
at Oakland. rain.
Boston M. IA; VS.. Washington tA), 6.
st. Louis M. g.; New York "a, z.
Detroit tA.), B: Boston tAD, l.
Chicago tA) VS.. Cleveland (A) at
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, rain.
st. Louis (A.) VS.. Portland P.cL),
Cleveland A) "B" VS.. Hollywood
p'c'llSi TSoba9's 5aiR'; SCHEDULE.
st. Louis M VS.. Philadelphia (N)
at Clearwater, Fla.
Cincinnati lNj VS.. Boston a. at
Chicago lN) VS.. St. Louis tA.) at San
Bernardino, Calf.
New York lNo IS; Oakland P. C. L.
r. e. l. at San FRANCISCO.
Haines City, Fla. p.
Chicago fA) VS.. Cleveland tA.) at Los
Detroit a. VS.. New York A) at st.
Petersburg. Fla
WASHINGTON (AD VS.. chattanooga
Is. A. at Winter Garden. Fla.
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Around the Citrus Circuit
BY the Associated Press

SARASOTA, Fla, Mar. 25.-Out-
fielder Hank Sauer, whose timely
hitting has been missed by the
Cincinnati Reds since he was side
lined three days ago with an ankle
injury, has been sent back to the
training quarters in Tampa for an
X-ray.
Manager Johnny Neun said he
was disturbed because Sauer's left
ankle, badly swollen, was not re-
spending to treatment.
BRADENTON, Fla. - Eddie
Stanky, peddled to the Boston
Braves by the Brooklyn Dodgers,
is scheduled to get into the
Braves lineup Saturday.
Manager Billy Southworth says
he'll probably use Stanky in the
exhibition game against Kansas
City at Lake Wales.
Clyde Shoun and Dick Manville
are slated to pitch today against
Newark at Haines City.
SARASOTA, Fla-Tex Hughson's
question-mark pitching arm gets its
first test today when the Boston
Red Sox entertain the Reds.
Hughson will have a makeshift
Red Sox lineup behind him. Ted
Williams, Vern Stephens, Dom Di
Maggie and Bobby Doerr are out
with minor ailments.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla
Murry Dickson is scheduled to
open on the mound for the st.
Louis Cardinals today against
the Philadelphia Phils.
NicholsOn's Ailment Uncertain.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.-The
Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson under
went an examination for his chest
injury yesterday, but there was NO
report.
The Cubs try to get in their game
with the st. Louis Browns again
today. Bob Chapman, Paul Erickson
and Cliff Chambers have been nomi-
mated to pitch for Chicago.
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Richie
Ashburn, rookie outfielder, is con-
tinuing his fine hitting streak
with the PhillieS.
Yesterday it was Ashburn's
triple in the eighth that gave the
Phils a 80 win over the Reds.
The rookie has 10 hits in his last
IL plate appearances.
LAKELAND, Fla.-John Groth
21-year -old rookie from Chicago, Is
putting in a stout bid for an out
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Around the Citrus CIrcut
Souer|s Injury Has Reds Upset.;
Bosox Check on Huqhson's Arm
Star Stan Photo.

field berth with the Detroit Tigers.
He made two spectacular catches,
cutting off four potential runs, yes
terday as the Tigers beat the Red
Sox, 81. He also got one hit in
three trips.
LOS ANGELES. - Versatility
may land newcomer Ray Boone
a position on the Cleveland In
dians' roster-the 24-year-old
rookie can both catch and play
shortstop.
Boone perfers shortsop, but
wouldn't mind hanging around
as utility man, he says, So he
may be kept as No. 2 shortstop
and No. catcher.
Poor Weather Bothers Giants.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The weather
on the West Coast is proving so dis
agreeable that Manager Mel OFT is
sending some of his New York
Giants back to Phoenix, Ariz., to
complete their training.
With more rain in prospect, OFT
put six players and Coach Red Kress
on plane last night with the des-
tination, Arizona sunshine. The
players were willard Marshall,
Buddy Kerr, Catcher Ben Warren
and Pitchers Dave Koslo, Ray Poat
and Ken Trinkle.
LOS ANGELES.-The Chicago
White Sox have nominated Joe
Haynes and Pete Gebrian for
pitching duty today against the
Indians.
The White Sox plan to start
toward home after Sundays ex-
hibition with the Browns.
ST. PETERSBURG.-It looks
as If Manager Bucky Harris has
given up his idea of trying Bobby
Brown at first base. George Nc
Quinn and Jack Phillips held down
the first sack in the game with the
Cards yesterday, while Brown re-
lieved at short. The Cards won,
8 to Z, in 10 innings.
Charley Keller made his first ap-
pearance since last June for the
Yanks, lining out a pinch hit in
the ninth.
Evening star., 1948-03-25

frah" nave uugoutS out1ne helf
routine questions pair reporters
North and when they finally fnish another hreesome
will drop anchor and ask the questions.
That's all and the happy for
period
Evening star., 1948-03-25

playtTS. fCEUS Id1KceS, UUIUTt
game, looked ft and ready, and less like men
whose backs were aching and whose muscles were
sore. Their necks are beginning to get red from
the Florida sun.
The dreaded early days of training are be-
hind now. Days of shin splints, sore feet, stif1
arms and uncertain coordination. Days the
players hated, when baseball was a complete and
undiluted chore like digging ditch. You could
sense it in the way the players moved and joked
and laughed.
Bucky Harris was in high good humor. So
was Johnny Neun, manager of the Reds. The
early days are trying to managers too They
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Exhibition Baseball

(See MATS, Page C-2D
Evening star., 1948-03-25

LAKELAND, Fla.-John Groth,
rookie from Chicago, Is
putting in q stout bid for an OUT
Evening star., 1948-03-25

questions pair reporters
North and when they finally fnish another
will drop anchor and ask the questions.
That's all over and the happy for and in
good humor This Stage Twohe anecdoeng okecrackng
period.
Di Maggie WouId've Made Good at Short
Harris standing the batting hitting ground
to the Yankee nfelders but the followed him. nevertheless
although constantly threatened pops Bucky
LET show a real shosop" invited picking up
and preparing to hit with fungo bat "ey big
shouted, get set
Harris slapped hard gounder Maggie
scooped he'd inneder all his Buck
three then accidentally
The result line drive
TO sense and he drifed back and made remarkable
Bucky stopped What hortstop would
Harris. Hes terrific right
But he broke into baseball hortstop" somebody
they him out in San FRANCISCO"
Il don't what the was" Bucky replied
have made great shortsop'
Bueky Wants No Humpty Dumpties
whats this talk of the Yankees West tran"
asked I there anything going
well, Del Webb would
to have the club in his Of the
"Yes I'd weather 1t rains
too much out there where the Cubs and White
losing few days of training
1t was nearing time and from the Reds
Blackwell all feet inches of him.
You get Blackwell for five innings
Yeah, know" nodded Harris That's
good pitchers at this time Gives hters something
What's the percentage of hitting lot of
having the good pitchers throw the ball starting April 1922
Mccarthy Cancelled His Dinner Date
Bucky bubbing just beaten Joe
McCahys Red for the
resist repeating the story of the latest conquest
We're behind 3 to l. going the
at to We have two pitcher
coming Mccarthy walks hitter
cause he sees there's nobody warming bpen
out of pitchers and while up
and pitch fellow pitched practice
or around the in the innings
"Wel, Gumpert misses pitch
blows ball by him high
darned park
and into the lake at ST. Petersburg
Gumpert hit single you you across
the plate But this was real Di Maggie home
mccarthy funny" grinned a dinnersdate
with Paul Krhe and George
ager OF the Yankees respectively
time Forget It, I'm going back with my
did"
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Win, Lose, or Draw
Now Their keeks Are Getting Red
By FRANCIS <. STANk

TAMPA 25.-Th of those days always
hope will like but The sky cloudess the
sun a gentle breeze waited of Tampa Bay.
could clearly difference in the ball
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01

aIter the last war when the dollar was worth Onlv
HIJy cents IN terms of the goods and services II
would BUY. study of business cycles shows that
Hudlloh IOIOWS wars. This is usually character
lzed by cheap money and a business boom But tbe
business boom usually burns itself out. So prepare
yourself day of reckoning will as surely follow
as does night the day
STOP THE BOONE
The President and our Congress have offered
Sure-cures to end our present infatiOnary spiral I
know OF no time in history where a major price
rise was ever halted by politics. High prices are
the result OF shortage of goods and a surplus of
money and-as | recently eXplaned-Of various laws
winch Roosevelt had passed to force higher prices
Since l94O-41 the supply of money has outrun tho
supply OF goods. People have needed or wanted
thlngs short on supply and have had the money for
the nrSt time, to buy them. AS buyers we have bid
against one another for available, goods Hence
prices have scared. sr.r'
There are three fundamental things which we
can DO to help stop this nfatiOnary spiral If high
prices and imitation the result of C) a shortage
OF GOODS and C2) a surplus of money and (3) New
DeaI Legislation, then 1--WE should ID increase Our
productivity along all fronts. (2) wait awhile for
Ouylhg what we can now get along without. and C3)
nave o congress repeal the crazy laws it passed in
l95z-34 increased production has already broken
the price rise in some commodities supply ex-
ceedlng demand has already shown up along some
manufacturing lines Shortages still exist along
Such INES as steel and autos. But given time
greater balance in our economy will result
LET US USE RELIGION
Tinkering with natural economic laws and with
pOlucs will cure neither initiation nor dehatiOn
Lets buy those things which are in full supply and
encourage our fellow workers to produce to caDac-
iy. In other words let us use some sefcOntrOl and
rehglon IN buying and producing. This could well
mean the difference between bust" and continued
prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01


earnings. Per capita income In the United States
has increased 1900 over 1910 levels. Incidentally
folks in Kansas, the DakOtas and the great North
west have had the greatest increases in income
The trouble is that prices are so much higher
more than twice high and still going up-that
your dollar and mine now buy less than at any
time since the pos-RevOlutiOnary days of the 1905
Cheap automobiles and housing, for example, are
now out OF reach of the average worker Yet this
bad condition will continue long as labor leaders
ana politicians are making money from high prices
DOLLAR AT NEW Low
One hundred cents today will buy only forty per
cent OF the food it purchased pre-war The postwar
clothing dollar has declined to approximately fifty
per cent of its pre-war value. dollar spent today
to keep a roof over your head will buy but eighty
nne cents worth of prewar rentals, while new hous-
ing is only about sixyCents worth of pre-war value
The dollar, when you consider its all-rOund pur-
chasing power in terms of radios cars refrgera-
tors butter, milk. bread suits. and shoes will buy
only about half the things it bought in 1910! In
Hatlon is our major national headaches tOday-our
Public Enemy No l.
49, The picture today is much the same as it was
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
THREE SCORE AND TEN
EDITORIAL BY WM. F. METTEN

An association of many years in the
newspaper activities of Delaware has given
the writer an intimate familiarity with it's
weekly newspapers and the men who have
been Identified with them, and I am frank
IN saying that not one, in nv opinion. has
made record for progress and DEVELOPMENT
over the years comparable to the Milford
chronicle. And so when my friend Marshall
townsend asks me to contribute editOriallv to
this anniversary number | welcome the OppOr-
tunlty to pay my humble tribute to The
Chronicle and the very able and efficient or
ganlzatlOn which has made it not Onlv an
outstanding weekly newspaper in the Eas-
tern States but one of the best in the entire
country.
Among my newspaper friends of years
gone by, none was held in higher regard
than Colonel Theodore Townsend, father of
the present publisher. knew him well and
Intimately He was newspaper man in the
bfoadest sense of the word, and he also was
one of Delaware's foremost citizens. His
active interest in the affairs of his beloved
state over many years proved the latter. and
the progress and development of the ChrOn
Icle, edltOrially and in business way. under
ms direction evidenced his remarkable abiI-
lty IN the field of journalism. And venture
to suggest if he could know now how we'll
ms work has been carried on year after wear
by those he left behind he would indeed be
we'll pleased.
Seventy years is a long time, but as / see
the Chronicle week after week it has seemed
70 grow younger with passing years. This
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
BABSON DISCUSSES
The High Cost Of LIVING

BABSON PARK, Mass, Oct.
American Public Enemy No.
l today is imitation; but unfOr-
tunately like Enemy No 2 which
is liquor-tOO many people are
temporarily prOspering by fiirt-
ing with these enemies.
PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONEY
The American people today
have more dollars than at any
time in our history, nearly 81
OOO,O00,000- even after taxes
have been taken out. That's
about two and One-half times as
much as they had pre-war.
There have been tremendous
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01

national issues with a clarity and vigor
which long will be remembered. Bitterly
opposed to wrong of any character, and
equally strong in his political convictions,
Colonel Townsend wrote editorials that were
at once dignifed, thought-provoking and
brainily vigorous.
Surely it must be a source of much satis
faction to the present management that the
present publication, following the principles
ana methods drilled into the present editor
from childhood by Colonel Townsend, has
earned the outstanding position it holds as
one of the model weekly newspapers of
America
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
6N7a7075
BY WRIGHT
1 f3isSl{
Socialism Won't Work
Released by WNu Features

SOCIALISM HAS NOT solved any
= problems in England, either in
dlvldually or collectively. Finan-
clal' mining, industrial, transpor-
tatlon or communication institu-
lions that have been taken over
by the government are not doing
as good a job for the people of
England today as they did under
private ownership. The cost of their
operation has increased rather than
decreased, and none has profted
by the change.
WHEN TIME AND conditions
were normal il is nrnhahln that 60
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
PRAISE FOR CHRONICLE FOIJNDER
GUEST EDITORIAL BY MAJOR c. M. DILLON

More than fifty years ago my sincere af-
lection and profound respect for Colonel
Theodore Townsend created my interest in
the Milford Chronicle, and that interest has
continued ever since. And as | realize that
the Chronicle will have a birthday on Octo-
Der 4-its seventieth-I would feel reniss
II | did not offer my congratulations on its
seventy years of constructive and successful
effort for the benefit of it's city and state.
A comparison of the earlier issues, when
l frst knew it, when it was mostly boiler
plate, with the present publication which
has earned nationwide commendation, in
deed is interesting as showing the remark
able progress which is possible under intel
igent, scientific and "know-hOw" direction.
The outstanding feature of each issue of
The Chronicle, up to the time when failing
health demanded that he relinouish the edi7
torial control which he had exercised SO abIv
for so many years, was the editorial col
umns, in which he discussed local, state and
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
Little LOnghOrn

AUSTIN, Tex. - up - For the
fourth straight year, tiny Byron
pup GillOry holds the title of the
University of Texas smallest foot
ball player. GillOry runs the scales
up to 149 pounds in uniform. The
largest in 1948 is mountainous Bud
McFadin, a 239-pOund sophomore
iineman.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01

enViouS interiors
in the City Of New
York, are, day by
day, the politest
that we have. Their
superficial manners
are pretty and al
most fearsome as
they mask an alac-
rity to fight for
cause, and their
patience is seen to
be majestic under
dire provopafioD
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01

Editors Note: Major c. NJ Dillon former news
paper reporter in Wilmington is now associated with
the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce During the
Span1sh-Amercan War he served as Battalion Ad-
]nIant lt, Tor the then Major Theodore Townsend
w Wnen lneouore townsend was advanced to Colonel
of the First Delaware Infantry Regiment DIIon
was was mace Reglmental Adiutant. They became close
Irends over the long years of association. When
ColoneI townsend was retired from active duty
Dlllon remained with the regiment and went to
france When the group ordered overseas
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
MAY IT'S GROWTH CONTINUE!
GUEST EDlroRI,I nv Iospnu II 49,.


For at least 55 years of the 70 wears of
the Milford Chronicles existence. I have
known 1t. In all that time, rarely has a week
gone by that | have not seen it and glanced
over the news of Milford, and the CORE
sp0ndence from Kent and Sussex towns and
villages. For many years of my life l knew
..I lliaC great OId StalWart Theodore Townsend,
who was one of the Chronicles founders and
for two generations was its editor and pub
Usher From its earliest days the Chronicle
has been first Of all good local weekly news
paper, and in recent years it has been one of
the outstanding weekly newspapers of the
e ror many years 1t has maintained staff
OF correspondents within 2 wida rodiue of
Milford, whose weekly contributions have
3een pee delight to those Delawareans whose
Always the Chronicle has been a staunch
ana vigorous champion of it's city and of
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-01
Takes His Own Medicine

FORT MORGAN, Colo. - Up -
Chief of Police Homer Morse went
right along with City Council in
telling his men:
I'VE play no favorites in giving
parking tickets" 4"
Next day Morse appeared in pO-
lice court. He paid a 81 fine for an
overtime parking ticket.