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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21

He who sows, even with tears, he
precious seed of faith, hope nd
owe, she'll doubtless come ag n,
bringing his sheaves with him, be-
cause it is the very nature of that
-eed to yield a joyful harvest.
Cecil.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21
KaShiwagis TailOrS RepulSe Shanty I'M
In Feature mel Tenpin Match

NISEI COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
STANDINGS
WI
Kashiwagi's IS "a
Shanty Inn so 40
Paramount Cafe So A
Tad's Cafe 81 40
Sakahara Insurance 40 81
P.S.VGA. As 81
Oriental Cab A So
18th Ave. Service % 70
results In Brief
Shanty Inn 2, Kashiwagi's Q
Sakahara Insurance 4, 18th Ave.
Service 0
Oriental Cab 3, P.S.V.G.A. /
Paramount Cafe 4, Tad's Cafe 0
Tad's Cafe probably will have to
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21
MEMS DIVISION
Tournament Talk

:. Bill Beach of the Comets will be the official
scorekeeper, TAX Miyahara Of Question Marks, Of
fetal timekeeper, and Jim Mar of Cathay Post 1876,
one of official announcers it II be like old times
for "Bullfrog" Suzuki when he steps onto the
floor for Spokanes Beacon Cleaners Suzuki
showed for few games with Tokuda Drug of Sc
attic during the early part of the much is
expected from Ray Saito of Ontario JACL, but
don't forget our own Pat Hagwara of South End
Merchant Reds. If the WIGS wind up on top in
the womens division of the tourney, they'll be
REAL winners they haven't any outside play
ers added to their team all teen-age girls will be
cheering for Mercury to win; the Mercury youths
are fast but they lack experience.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21

Revolutions begin in the best
heads, and run steadily down to
the populace -Metternich.
You will find it less easy to up
root faults, than to choke them by
gaining virtues.-Ruskin.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21

MEMS TEAMS
PORTLAND OLD-TIMERS
portland, Oreg)
Joe Tanaka
John Murakami
Ben Soejima
Bill Oda
Jim Miyoshi
George Tsugawa
Ike Tsugawa
George Murakami
Terumasa Okla
Hiroshi Onishi
Ned Mazda
PORTLAND STARS
portland, Oreg.)
Gay Chin
Kay Fujishin
TAX Fujino
George Hara
Bill Hirata
Tex Irinaga
Mineo InuZuka
Sam Mazda
Jack Nomi
Craig T. Sono
Shig Sakamoto
Mickey Tamiyasu
Jack Tashiro
William Wakayama
CATHAY POST 1876
Al Mar
Phil Mar
Art Louie
Howard Wong
Glen zee
Jimmy Ko
Ray Ko
j. B. Chin
Willie Chin
Calvin FlIng
Les Cnm
Ed Yaplee
David Wong
BEACON CLEANERS
(Sp0kane, Wash.)
George Saih
Sadao Kuroiwa, co-captain
Roy Suzuki
Paul KuroSe
Hank Ito, co-captain
Hugh Kasai
George Yamamoto
Eddie Kurimura
Kozo Nishibue
Andy Aoki
Sam Hirata
George Nakamura
Bob Kurimura, coach
Frank Yamada, manager
Fred Munekiyo, manager
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21
ONGBL "BIG TEN"

Men are won, not so much by be-
ing blamed, as by being encompass
ed with love-Channing.
The majesty of God revere; fear
him, and you have nothing else to
fear.-Fordyce.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21
List of Players in Northwest Nisei Cage Tourney

MERCURY
Gaylord Iwasalzi
Ray Otani
Blotz Suyama
Art Yoshioka
Tommy Deguchi
Bobby Yasunobu
Kay Saito
Jiro Yoshitake
Richard Tsuji
George Kurata
George Kozu
Harold Horiuchi, coach.
TOKUDA DRUG
Saibo Fujii
Shobo Fujii
Chuck Kinoshita
Isao Nishimura
Manabu Fujino
Hold Otani
Mote YaSuda
Ben Yoshida
Yuk Takeuchi
Harry Yanagimachi
TAX Yagi
George Nakagawa
Stan Karikomi, player coach
SOUTH END MERCHANT REDS
+. Terry Kurimura
Joseph Full
Shig Takeuchi
Joshua Hata
Patrick Hagiwara
Edo Sasaki
Masao Watanabe
William Yanagimachi
Sam Sakai
Sab Ogishirna
Haruo Kato, manager
Shigeo Watanabe, coach
ONTARIO JACL
Ontario, Oreg)
Hideo Harada
George Iseri
Isao Kameshige
Oscar Kondo
Henry Matsubu
Jun Matsumoto
Ray Saito
Connie Shimojirna
Carl Tanaka
Harry Yamada
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21
This Just Had to be Done

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is
almost omnipotent.-H. W. Beecher''
The public opinion, at this writing, 2:4O pm.
Thursday oo. 49, is that the teams will finish IN
this order III the second annual Northwest Nisei
Iryitatonal Basketball Tournament which is now
in progress in the Seattle Buddhist auditorium.
MEMS DIVISION
/ Cathay Post 1876 (Seattle)
?. Iokuda Drug (Seattle)
g. South End Merchant Reds Seattle
WOMEN'S DIVISION
l. High School (Seattle)
2. WIGS (Seattle)
WE'LL the public could be right
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21

Each mind is pressed, and open
every ear, to hear new. tidings,
though they no way joy us.
Fairfax.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-21

A map does not exhibit more
distinct view of the situation end
boundaries of every country, than
its news does a picture of the ge-
MUS and morals of its inh 7bitants.
Goldsmith.
Evening star., 1948-02-15

u you feel sveksrsd out, take time out
for bracing cup of Upton Tea. You'll
see at once what Deborah means!
There's good reason for the flavor
lift you get from Lipton's.
Lipton Tea is brisk richer, more
robust The result of Lipton's own spe-
cial way of blending the very finest
Evening star., 1948-02-15

legend had preceded him: How he cracked
the Texas kidnapping case; how certain
Senator had gone to prison on Hap's evi-
dence; how Stoddard just happened to be
on the spot when the FBI closed in on the
spy ring. Stoddard's name was Charles, but
his nickname suited him better. Nobody
ever loved the news, the people who made it
and those who wrote it, quite so well. Dark,
good-looking, slender and erect, not even
Norah could guess his age Happy went
about his business as though he wore the
invisible cloak of Richard Harding Davis,
conscious of his journalistic stardom. If the
boys and girls grinned once in while, they
never laughed. Everybody was his friend.
1t was all the more remarkable with wife
like Gladys.
AT FIRST sight Gladys was rather attrac-
tive, small, blonde, well-formed, tastefully
dressed. She had an amusing way of saying
things and no matter where she was or in
what company. she said anything that came
into her head. Sometimes it was cute, oftener
it was bore. And so was Gladys.
Whenever Happy went on his travels
Gladys went too. She had dined en- tansille
Evening star., 1948-02-15
A Short Short Story

In THE bars and the back rooms where the
Il City Room gang of the New York Bull
letin foregather to grab quick one and en-
broider the facts they know with the fiction
they're almost certain of, Hap Stoddard's
name is pretty sure to come up these days.
Hap's new play is hit and his novel is
doing all right too. Happy and Gladys, 'the
perfect little fool," haven't been back to
New York since that morning two years ago
when Hap walked in, cleared out his desk.
stuck his head in the Boss's door and
resigned. The old man came to the doorway,
opened his mouth a couple of times as if to
call him back, then turned and went inside.
Nobody thought much about it at the
time. Newspaper men, even at best, come
and 60. But they usually turn up from time
to time to say hello to the gang. Happy
didn't, and it wasn't like him. So now they
try to fill IN the blanks. Nora... Whyte, if
she's present, says little. Norah was the one
who named Gladys the perfect little fool
with emphasis on the perfect. She liked
Gladys, which made her unique.
When the Stoddards hit New York, Hap's
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
BEzNE Oslo (No.) 2o37

vych idealG zaujal stanovisko
k nejpalcivejs1m problem6m
dneska a genialne resi- priciny
~soucasnych zmatkG, We svete
atomOveho a MISUNDERSTANDING
sllenstva, ktere posedlo velke
narody -.
Masaryk v6ril, re Slovanstvo
a take my cast teto slozky slo-
vanskych narod1 sveta, .jsme
povolani vytvorit novy lidstej-
81 a spravedlivejsf svetovy rad.
Vzpomlnaje ne1casti ceskoslo-
venskeho lidu v Baltimore ma
Masarykovych oslavach = clo-
vek div, re by nezaplakal. Mel
vetSl pfedstavitel idealnf de-
mokracie veT1, re jsme povo-
lani uskutecnovat jeho odkaz
V lasce a svornosti a my ....?
Kolik malichernych vymluv a
vykrutd v tax vazne dobe. Ig-
%noruje-li kdo oslavu jednoho z
nejvets1ch svetovych demokra-
til, nemGze tato laxnost byti nj
Gin jinym nez d1kazem, Re "a
rostla nase srdce tukem blaho-
bytu a vzdor vsem fecem ne
dorostli jsme jeste k onomu "a
polenl Ia pravo a spravedlnost,
nedorostli jsme k tomu proto,
protoze nam chybf smysl a
podstata demokracie. Netrapf
mas nevyfesene otazky a poho-
dine ponechavame vyfesenf je-
Jich = dvojfho jazyka politi-
kaTGm.
Ucast ceskoslovenskeho lidu
V Baltimore pTi letosni oslave
jeho SO. letych narozenin uka-
re, jak sobe vazfme jeho odka-
zu, demokracie, svobody a ia
kou mravnf podporou jsme ce-
skoslovenskemu lidu pri W.
stavbe prave svobodne a spra-
vedlive lidove demokracie.
jmv
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
DOPIS.

Brno, 5. 1nora, 1913.
PAM Sylvie PETER, tai.
Sdruzenl Csl. SpolkG
" Baltimore
1907 Ednor Road
Baltimore, Md, u. S. A.
Vazena pant tajemnice =
Obracfm Sc ma Vas s prosbou
IDA by sc u Vas v Baltimore
nenasli krajane, Sc kterymi by
chom 81 mohli navzajem dopi-
sovat.
Rad1m Sc k tenn, kterf neza-
pom1naj1 ma ceskou vetev v A
merice a kterf radi O nj Sc do
v1daj1.
Dekuji Yam "a Vast ochotu
a jsem S krajanskym pozdra-
VEN
Miloslav Filka,
S%tojanova Gill,
Brno, CZechoslovakia.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
POHRBY.

- 20. 1nora zemrel krajan
p. Karel A. Sup1k, 1912 E. Ma
Olson st. We start II let. Marc
dill Sc v Nalzove, Ceskosloven-
sko a do Ameriky prijel pred
rs lety. Pracoval v oboru krej-
covskem. Umrti jeho zel1 man
zelka pf. Emma Sup1kova a
ditky: Eleanor, Clement, En-
ma, Edward, William a Anna.
Prinalezel ku Spolku Nejsv.
Jmena.
Pohreb konal Sc v pondell,
%. 1nora re Cvachova Pohr.
Domu do kostela sv. Vaclava a
odtud ma hrbitov NeJsv. Vyku-
pitele "a assistance vlp. Felixe
Yanishe.
%. 1nora zemfel vdovec
o. Lawrence J. Huber, ST., 712
N. Luzerne Ave. We start CT let,
Narodil Sc v Baltimore a by]
listonosem ma pensi.
POhreb kOna Sc V paCeK, ~
mora re Schimdnkova Pohr.
Domu do kostela sv. Katerlny
a odtud ma hTbitov Nejsv. Wy
kupitele.
20. dnora zemfel vdoveC
%. Edward Lindt, 944 N. Dun
can st. We staff IA rokH. Marc
dill Sc v Baltimore. Zamestna'
MIN byl naterac.
Pohreb konal Sc rs. unora ze
Cvachova Pohf. Domu ma Ces
Mar. HTbitov.
pa. 1nora zemfel p. JOSE
Kafka. 1747 Lafayette Ave.
We start IA rokG. Zanecha
zde manzelku Mary Kafka {
deti: John, Marie, Frank
Charles, Joseph, Anna a Al
bert. :.
Pohreb kona sc v patek, n
unora re Cvachova Pohf. Do
mu do kostela sv. Vaclava
odtud ma hrbitov NeJsv. Vyku
pitele.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
DOPIS
z WASHINGTONU, D. C.
2. 1nora, 1913.
Sestre OTILII

ze's Ty v plnu zivota a veil
Ike narodnf prace musila Sc s
mani rozlouciti Dude velikou
|ztratou nejenom pro Tvoje
krajany v Baltimore, a pro mas
We Washingtone, ale i take pro
americky ceskoslovensky ruch.
Pro mas v Americkem Cesko-
slovenskem UstTedi We Wash
ington6 je skvela pamet ma
|Tvoie ~navstevy u mas, jak's tax
|talentne a JENNIE vystoupila ma
lnase jeviste "a casu prveho di-
vadelnfho pTedstaven1 ceske
hry v nasem meste, We hlavnim
m6st6 techto Spojenych StatG
la pozdeji, jak's privedla Bal
Itimorske Sokolice ma nasi PRIV
lnf akademii Sokolskych Spoil.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
DOPIS.
Spolecnost Ceskoslovenskeho
cerveneho Kfize


Ustfednf Reditelstvf
Praha III, Thunovska 10
V Praze dine IA. 1nora, 1913.
United Czechoslovak Societies
of Baltimore
% Sylvia PETER
1907 Ednor Road
Baltimore : 10, Md, u. S. A.
Vazena PAM Peiferova:-
Zastupce spolecnosti CARE
v Praze, predal nam 20 balfc-
XII S obsahem potravin pro ko-
jence a soucasne nam sdelil, re
tato zasilka byla venovana u
nited Czechoslovak Societies
of Baltimore, Nc
Spolecnost Ceskoslovenskeho
Cerveneho KT1ze 81 dovoluje
Yam vysloviti svGj vTely dix "a
tento Vas krasny dar. Vitame
tuto zasilku tim vice, re po We
likem suchu a neurode v minu-
lem roce je u mas velky nedo-
SCaCeK pOCraVln. CeSkOSlOVen-
sky Cerveny KT1z Sc snazf pfi-
nesti pomoc ysude kde je po-
tfeba a svoji snahu pomoci
soustTeduje nejv1ce ma pomoc
detem. Nemusfme Yam zdG-
razniti, jak v1tany byl Vas dar,
ktery nam umoznuje mnoha
nasfm potrebnym detem zlep-
siti straw hodnotnymi potra-
vinami.
Prosfme Vas zdvorile, abyste
vsem kteT1 Sc zaslouzili o u
skutecnenf tohoto daru tlumo-
Gill mas vrely dix.
S krajanskym pozdravem,
Ing. j. BIN,
1stTedni Teditel.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27
DAIRY.
Ma Mlecny Fond detem
" Ceskoslovensku:

pf. Katerina Raul $500
K uctenf pamatky zemfele-
no pTftele p. Ant. Hejduka da-
rovali p. a pi. Karel Sappe
$500.
X uctenf pamatky 5. vyroc1
pf. Rozalie Lee daroval
syn p. Edward Lee $500
a sestra pf. Barb. Dvorak 500
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

I'D. Ptacek, sestry: Waters,
Friedrich, Ptacek, Saba, Ba-
Choir, Kristin, Wagner, Novot-
ma, Week a Mrlfk.
NaSe mistnf sok. sbory BALTIC.
Jedn. Sokolic a Sok Jednota
"Blesk" zastupovaly Getty soko-
lie, rorostenek a Dram. Odbo-
ru. PTedsednictvo a machine
two G. O. S., zupa Vychodnf,
vsechny jednoty sdruzene v O.
krsku a SLOW. T. j. Sokol Phila-
delphie, Sbor els. Sc zaslaly
krasne kvetinove Diary.
Razem druhe hodiny zacaly
pohTebni obTady. Vsechno
pfftomne uniformovane Glen
stvo zupy Vychodnf vzdalo po-
ctu zesnule sestre MARTINIQUE,
Sc kterou sc poslednim pohle-
dem rozloucilo. Nasledovaly
krasne a zaroven i tklive Teci,
v nichz pine ocenena obrovska
prace Otilcina. Ia BALTIC. Jed.
ISokolic promluvila mlstosta-
rostka ses. FrantiSka MareSo-
va; "a Damsky Sbor Vlastimila
ses. Rozalie Legro; Ia Dram.
Odbor Sok. Jedn. "Blesk" br.
Jan Kaspar; Ia Zupu Vychod-
nj br. Josef Sazama a Ia Amer.
Obec Sokolskou br. Frant. Ry-
|sanek, ktery pravil:
Dear friends, brothers and
sisters: -
AS a representative of the
American Sokol Organization
and Chief Instructors of the
Women's and Mems Divisions,
we are here today to pay tri-
butte to our beloved sister Oti-
lie Martinez, a great friend of
all. A law of nature called her
suddenly away in her prime of
life. 1t is a great loss to our
Organization. 1t will matter
little in the years of passing
have we lived here, but it will
mean a great deal in genera
tions to come what we did here
And life of our beloved sister
Otilie Martinez was filled with
outstanding courage for the
promotion of human rights
and understanding. In honor
of our dear sister we shall de-
dictate our lives to the same
cause.
Dear Sister Otilie Martinek:
On behalf of the Sokol Or
ganization of America, I thank
you for every minute of your
life's work which you so UNI
selfishly dedicated to SO noble
a Sokol cause. In your memo
ry your courageous and unset
fish devotion will serve as a
guiding light for years to
come!
Pc reci br. Rysanka kvarte-
to Dram. Odboru zapelo GA
svit mi ty slunko zlate, ma ten
mil poslednf krok -"
Spallrem Sokolstva vynese-
ma rakev s p~ozGstatky ses. Mar
t1nkove cleny Dram. Odboru
.Sok. Jedn. "Blesk" do pohreb-
n1ho voZu.
Dlouhy pohrebni automobi-
lovy prGvod ubiral Sc re Schi-
m1nkova PohT. Domova ma
Cesky Naordnf HTbitov, kde te-
lesne ostatky vsem nam tax
drah6 sestry Otilky Martfnko-
We ulozeny ku klidnemu odpo-
|cinku. Posledni rozlucna slo-
va pronesli ses. Frantiska Ma
resova> "a Sokolice a br. Jan
Kaspar "a byv. odbocku Ces.
Mar. Sdruzen1. Pc zapenl "Kde
domov mil" Sc slzou v oku o.
poust6li jsme vsem nam tax
drahou sestru.
"Otilko, dospela isl mety
nejvySS1 - budlz Ii vecna pa
met a zeme lehkou!"
fonda CihlaT,
vzdelavatel Okrsku
Zupy Vychodni.
Baltimore, Md.
l25. 1nora, 1913.
%
DOPIS
z D. C..
2. unora, 1913.
ISestre OTILII MARTINIQUE!
ze's Ty v plnu zivota a veil
Ike narodnf prace musila Sc $
mani rozlouciti Dude velikou
ztratou nejenom pro Tvoje
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

Vite ktery president Spo-
Statn I'll nejdele? John
Adams, ktery Sc DOLL veku 80
|roku.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

Prispejte ma
Cerveny Kriz
Radostna udalost

v rodine ceskeho Zastupce do
Domu Delegate p. a pl. John
w. a Melva Wallis. V 1tery ra-
no narodila sc jim v University
nemocnici zdrava holcicka.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

Jiste yam nenf lhostejny
osud ceskoslovenskych detl.
jim jeste .jednou a po--
slete sv1j pfispevek ma Mlecny
Fond.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

XII v roce 1916, a opet ma slav-
nostni akademii zalozeni So
kola We Washingtone, r.. 1947
tax malou chvilku pred Tvym
vecnym snem. Tvoje vystou-
peni mezi Mani ovsem della je-
nom malicky dill te velike pra-
ce jiz 81 delala vubec, ale my
jsme Ii srdecne vdecni.
Odchazis cd mas v case veil
kych dejn. Jest pc velike val
ce v niz Tv1j narod prosel hro-
znou dobu, a ted zacfna Ease
cas- kdy narod TvGj prochazi
.yelikou politickou krisl. Ty
isl v klidu, ale narod Tvdj ne
vi co jej ocekava. Pamatuj 81,
mila sestro, ma mas i budoucf,
a prijde-li hrozna doba, vzbud'
Blanicke Ryt1re by nam sli ma
pomoc.
Podavame ma Tvoji pamet
maly darek ma Mlecny Fond
pro ceskoslovenske deti a dou-
fame, re Ii to Dude mile.
"Odpoc1vej klidne ma veky!"
Franta Kracek,
"a Americke Ceskoslovenske
Ustredi We Washingtone
a "a T. J. Sokol Washington.
Kucten1 pamatky ses. Otil-
ky MARTINIQUE zaslala T. j.
Sokol New York do Chicago k
Obci $500 ma moucn1 akci.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-02-27

K uctsni pamatky ses. Otil-
ky MARTINIQUE vykazeme v prl-
slim elsie "Telegrafu'.. Dalsi
Diary Sc prijimajf v "Telegra-
flu" a pi. Kraft, SIG N. Mont
ford Ave.
Evening star., 1948-04-21
Five Hockey Players
On Trial in Assault
by the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. April 21.-
Five players on the Buffalo team
in the American Hockey League
remained on trial in City Court
today on charges arising from the
beating OF a restaurant counter
man.
A sixth, Wilfred (Wilfy) Field, who
recently shouldered the entire blame
for the affair. was freed yesterday
when the principal prosecution wit
ness failed to identify him.
The five other players, Joseph
Bell, "a; Thomas Cooper, 80; Mich
sel Mcmahon, 80; Leslie Douglas,
81, and Leslie Hickey, 27, were ar
rested on breach Of peace charges
after an early morning fight in a
New Haven restaurant. The coun-
terman, Wallace Holland, %, was
so badly beaten that he required
hospital treatment.
Field was not arrested at the
time, but returned here a day or
two later and issued a statement
saying he alone had struck Holland
IN a fist fight
When the case came up in court
yesterday, however, Walter Ives
principal prosecution witness, could
not identify Field as one of those
involved in the fight.
Evening star., 1948-04-21
He's Keeping Ne in the League
McBHde's Big Homer Socked
|Aooinst Pal He Likes to Face

Athletics on Saturday. Base
ball Commissioner Happy Chand-
Ter attended yesterdays game.
Fielding gem of the day was
contributed by Al Kozar in the
seventh lining when he dived to
his right to spear Tommy Byrne's
hot grounder. 1t was nullified,
though, when Shortstop Mark
Christman dropped AIS flip to
second base. Eddie Yost has
been an ideal leadoff man for the
Mats, what with getting on base
8 times in 10 tries in two games.
Conspicuously missing yester-
day were the temporary left field
bleachers and it's just as well,
because Joe Di Maggio's deep
drive to Gil Coan in the seventh
inning would have been home
run. After two games the
Mats own fancy batting averages,
with Lee Culberson hitting .625.
Yost .571, Mcbride 500 and
Coan, Mickey Vernon and Kozar,
.333. B. H.
Evening star., 1948-04-21
BY the Asseeieted Press

NEW YORK, April 21.-Preston
Ward, q 2o-year-old rookie who
never played higher than Glass A
ball before, was at first base for
the Brooklyn Dodgers when the
National League champions opened
against the New York Giants yes
terday.
Even Leo Durocher, the greatest
hunch- player among the managers
seemed to agree his latest maneuve1
deserved an explanation. After all
Ward was slated to return to the
minors only a week ago
Its this way" said Leo, I'm
tust giving the kid chance to make
good on something he said to me in
a hotel lobby down south. Know
what he said?
We'll, I had decided to turn him
Loose to get more experience, but
thought I'd talk to him f1rst-He's
such a. fine, big, good-looking kid
80 I asked him where he would
like to be sent, where he thought
he would learn the most. He didn't
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DurocherE ExpIoins(o for DoesHe?)
Why He's Usinq Rookie at First

seem to get what meant, so tried
again.
Il said I meant did he think he
could hit in Glass A or Class Double
A. He said well, he liked best tc
hit in parks where there was short
right field fence.
That got me to thinking, but
told him I still needed to know what
classification he thought he coulc
hit in so I could send him there.
That was when he said it. He
said: Why, Mr.. Durocher, I don''
know but what I can hit in this
League How do you like that?
80 that's why he's out there to-
day. He's going to get chance te
make good on what he said in that
hotel lobby. He'll be there tomorrow
too, but after that I can't say. One
thing I know for sure, I'm not con-
fused about first base. I always
know that if nobody else can play
| it, Jackie Robinson can.
whats so confused about that?'
Ward slammed out two hits, one
a double, in five times at bat against
the Giants.
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the sideline scribbling notes OF
the game as best they could.
II still can see Jim Thorpe
breaking through Georgetown's
line" Hotel recalls. Il saw him
run through everybody and stop
when he got to Harry Costello.
Georgetowns safety man. He put
the ball down, patted Harry on
the head and said, Nice boy.
Harry Nobody could tackle him
when he got up steam and I doubt
II any II men could stop him
when he made up his mind not
to let them"
But Bill got lot of thrills out
of Maryland sports, too, especial
ly after Byrd began converting
the Aggies into the giant-killers
OF their day. Byrd's colorful
career and an upset victory here
and there gave Bill the only copy
he had to work with.
Peculiarly, the Navy Maryland
lacrosse match will feature the
m" Club program Saturday and
it was a So Terp victory over
the Midshipmen in 1924 at Gen.
trail High School stadium that
gave Bill one Of his biggest
thrills. 1t ended Navy's 7-year
winning streak and elevated
Maryland to new prominence in
the stick world. Another high
light of his tenure was Ivan
Nedomatsky's victory over Danny
Farrar Of Duke for the Southern
Conference 145-pound boxing
crown in 1887. Or he could pick
Untz Brewers 34-yard field goal
from difficult angle that
whipped a great Syracuse eleven,
10-7, in 1920.
He's seen them come and 60
for years, Benny Alperstein in
boxing, Joe Deckman, Ivan
Marty and q raft OF similarly
good men in lacrosse; Charley
Keller, Bozie Berger in baseball
and basket ball. Jack McQuade.
Boots Grove, Jim Meade, Bill
Supplee and scores Of others in
football, and the greatest of them
all-you guessed it, the late Bill
Guckeyson. Bill says no Terrapin
equaled "Gike's" all-around
ability.
After As years of sports you'd
think Hotel would be losing
interest, but not at all. He re-
members when the athletes
dressed in the basement Of
Morrill, Hall, one of four build
ings on the campus. and shared
a single shower, and he hardly
can wait to see what the new
stadium will be like.