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Evening star., 1948-03-17
Jackson and vigeant
feature Ring Card

stonewall Jackson, l9-year -old
Phelps School fighter, will return to
,'urner's Arena Monday night, meet
ng Frankie Vigeant, Hartford,
Conn.,, welterweight, in the feature
10-rounder.
jackson is boasting one Of the
most impressive records of any D. c.
lighter, having dropped only two
2outs In more than Is, but having
qtoned for such setbacks by beating
Willie Cheatham twho held Gene
Burton to a draw in 10-round
Baltimore headliner, and recently
Iayoing Willard Coffey in five In
another Baltimore feature.
In Stonewall's latest outing at
the Arena he won easily from Leslie
Harris.
Vigeant, who dropped only one
bout in 10 during 1916, had an up
and-down 1947 campaign, but turned
in q sparkling victory over Tony
Falco (his second over Falco) and
dropped a close match to Beau
Jack. the former champion, last
December. He also holds a victory
over Bobby Lee, who last Monday
beat Livio Minelli. Italian. in head
liner at PHILADELPHIA
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Two Fairfax Fighters
To Compete in Tourney

Warren Roseberry, 145-pound
boxer, and Monte Burns, 125, will
compete in the National Interschol-
astic Boxing tournament at Char
lottesville, Va, Friday and Satur-
day.
Both boys. are members of the
Fairfax High School ring team, but
since the school is member of the
Federation of High School Ath-
letics, which does not sanction the
tournament, will compete under the
"unattached" label.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
AAU Fighter Walks Ten Miles
Daily for Love of the Game

ward that he thought the decision
could have gone either way.
Dick Rawlett, a teammate of
Howard's, ranks the favorite to take
the 126-pound senior title after
knocking out Sammy Kelsey of the
Liberty A. G. in a senifinal bout.
Rawlett used a right to the jaw.
Roy Bush of the Naval Receiving
Station and Pat Thomas of Apollo
A. C. also won their semiflnal bouts
in the 126-pound senior class.
Thomas took a close decision from
Eddie Funk, former AAU and Golden
Gloves bantamweight champion
while Bush fought his way by Dick
Jimmey of Merrick.
Dick Fennell. football star at
St. Johns last season, won three
round technical knockout over AL
Young in the 175-pound novice bout,
while Dave Primrose. 11S-pound
senior, moved to the finals with
decision over Joe Thompson of
Randall A. G.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
N. Y. U. and 81. Louis
Match Speed in Final
OF Garden Tourney
y the Assoeioisd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 17.-st. Louis
University and New York Univer-
sity, two Of college basket balls
"runningest" teams, battle this st.
Patrick's night in the National In
vitation Basket Ball Tourney final
at Madison Square Garden.
At stake will be a place In the
olympic trials, and with the odds
makers calling 1t even-up, 1t looks
like the tuck of the Irish" might
determine the winner.
After n. Y. us showing against
Texas last week, when they almost
were eliminated by the Longhorns,
things appeared bad for the Violets
in their semifinal with De Paul
Monday.
However, the fiery Violets turned
in q great performance to scuttle
De Paul, 1889, and regain corlsid-
erable favor in the eyes of the
critical Garden fan.
No less impressive were the Bill
likens of st. Louis, who battered
down top-seeded Western Kentucky,
1o-53, in the other half of the dou-
lie bill.
Speed Beat De Paul.
What the rival coaches have
cooked up In the way of strategy
~emains to be seen. Howard (Jake)
Cam of N. Y. U. told his team to
outspeed De Paul, and the plan
worked, and in that type Of ball
much can happen.
"At first we couldn't make up our
minds whether to run with De Paul
1r try to slow them up" Cam de-
Jared later. I'VE decided to try
20 run with them"
It's generally agreed that il the
lot-so-shrinking Violets get as hot
onight as they did against De Paul,
hey can beat about any collegiate
segregation.
De Paul's coach, Ray Meyer, had
70 trouble agreeing
"If N. Y. U. plays as they did
>gainst U.s." he said, they'll take
st. Louis, or almost any one else"
Hickey's boys showed they could
-'un and keep it up in their decision
,ver Western Kentucky. The Blue
Grass cagers went ahead of the
3illikens Monday in an attempt to
1utspeed st. Louis, but ran out
If gas.
A Matter Of Octane.
Now the question Is, which has
he greater supply of high octane,
It. Louis or N. Y. u?
Two string bean centers, ALL
America 6-foot 8-inch Ed Macauley
# st. Louis and N. Y. US Adolph
5chayes. 6-7, figure to provide an
Individual duel in themselves.
And Coach Hickey also must
worry about the Violets' Ray Lump,
Who ruined De Paul with his south
Jaw hook shots good for II field
,oals.
The schools never have met be-
ore in basket ball. With mutual
opponents, ST. Louis twice defeated
Notre Dame, 42-40 and 68-51, while
the Irish conquered N. Y. u, Ga
SO. st. Louis split with De Paul,
winning, 58-56, in overtime, and
losing, 52-42. The Violets and Bill
'ikens both beat Georgetown and
Missouri
In a preliminary, Western Ken
lucky and De Paul meet for third
Ilace honorS.
Evening star., 1948-03-17

more selective in granting mana
gers and seconds licenses. Practi-
cally anybody who now applies can
get one or the other and all to often
the applicant doesn't know the busi-
ness. Unsavory characters creep
into the game that way and 1t re-
suits in quite a few questionable
practices. Many of these men don't
know the first thing about train
ing fighters, or about reviving them,
treating bleeding wounds during
rest periods between rounds. Periodic
tests to determine the competence
of managers and seconds has been
suggested.
And the public, 100, should know
more about out-of-town fighters
coming in. All fighters. in fact,
should have their records for the
last year, or for their last 20 fights,
on file with the commission of the
city or State in which they're fight
ing.
Evening star., 1948-03-17


smooth, even start. Each of the
six took chance on getting away
ahead of the field by beating the
gun and under present rules man
is allowed one break without penalty.
The crowd didn't like it, but Gates
refused to let the gun-jumpers get
away with yard or two advantage
When the field did get away evenly,
the best sprinter, Joe Cianeiabella,
got out in front and won, with Bar
ney Ewell closing fast and all but
overtaking him at the tape Ewell
made up a yard between the halfway
mark and finish.
In the scholastic 75-yard dash all
but two of the six f1nalists were elm
mated for making two false starts
each and Jim Sparksman of Gilman
nosed out Bob Waldron of Harve de
Grace in the two-man duel.
A few years ago in the AAU ma
tional championships at Randall's
Island, N. Y, all six finalists were
disqualified for breaking twice be-
fore the starter gave the signal. The
referee was appealed to and per-
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Change in Sprint Starting Rule
Urqed to Curb 'Gun-Jumper'

mitted all six to re-enter the race
rather than not have a national 100
yard champion.
Such a situation is ridiculous as
it places the starter in an en-
barrassing situation with all the
runners taking the one break al
lowed by the rules. The old rule
which penalized a man one yard for
each of his first two breaks and
then threw him out completely for a
third was SO effective 1t was a rare
occasion when any man broke from
his marks. The loss of a yard in the
100-yard dash generally is goodby
to his chances of winning this race.
Last year the AAU polled most of
the track coaches throughout the
country on this matter, but the re-
suit was not made known-at least
the rule was not changed. After
talking to many of the coaches and
fans in the East this winter, I have
found most agree it is high time the
National AAU or the national inter-
collegiate bodies take notice of the
weakness of our present starting
rules and go back to the rule of a
penalty in yards for each break.
Such a rule stood the test for over
40 years and would Immediately get
rid of the rolling start" gun jump
ers and records that do not truly
measure a sprinter's ability.
The 5th Regiment Armory track
in Baltimore was the same eight
laps to a mile length as the District
National Guard Armory, but did not
have the good, firm footing of the
local oval. Whatever type of paint
was used in laying out the track, it
didn't give the runners a good grip.
There were several spills and times
consequently were slower than in
The Evening Star games, although
the boys had two months more of
conditioning.
Baltimore's public address system,
however, was the clearest and best
we have heard anywhere in the East
this winter.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Illinois to Tighten
Boxing Code During
23-Doy Suspension
BY the Associatsd Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 17.-Reper-
cussions of the ring death in
Chicago last month of Sam
Baroudi were capped today by
suspension of professional box
ing in Illinois for % days.
The shutdown was asked by
Gov. Dwight H. Green yester-
day and Commission Chairman
Sheldon Clark said the request
was accepted In complete ac-
cord" The commission will
meet tomorrow to act formally
on the matter.
THE 23-day suspension will
give US time to put into effect
methods of Tightening up the
boxing code" said Clark.
The move climaxes criticism
of pro boxing stemming from
the death on February 81 of
Baroudi, 20-year -old Akron
boxer, after his 10th round
knockout by Ezzard Charles of
Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
NBA Considers Ring Reforms
Demanded After Fatalities
By George Huber

A couple Of boxing deaths already
this year, plus the Larry Doyle
death and number of others last
year have resulted not unexpectedly
in another wave of suggestions for
reforms in the fight game. These
suggestions in some cases come from
persons far removed from the sport
and who use it as just another way
OF getting their names in the papers,
but they are also coming from COM
petent fight men who have an hon.
est desire to improve the game.
A number Of suggested changes
are on the agenda for the annual
winter meeting of the National Box
ing Associations executive commit
tee in Philadelphia this week end.
AS listed by Abe Greene, NBA presi-
dent, they are: a one month layoff
for a boxer after being knocked out,
a medical board examination follow
ing q brain conclusion, long suspen-
sion for fighters found unfit, and
NBA inquiry when fighters lose SIX
fights in a row and all suspensions
to be made national.
This last, of course. is something
the NBA people have wanted long
time, but it won't come until New
York enters the fold. Also likely to
be considered is a suggestion that a
knocked down fighter take a nine
count. 1t has worked we'll in COL
legiate fighting and is favored by
members of the District Boxing
Commission.
All these would do something to
cut down injuries and possibly ring
deaths, but the physical side of
fighting isn't the only thing that
could be improved. The fight GUS
toners often have been getting poor
deals recently. Whether they'll re-
bel and stay away from fight shows
is doubtful, however. They always
seem to come back for more.
For one thing. there should be
big reduction in the number Of non
title fights. 1t seems that cham
pion nowadays doesn't defend his
title until he absolutely has to do
so. And when he does defend, it all
too often isn't against the best op-
ponent available. Some Of the bet
ter fighters don't get even a crack
at the crown in their division. About
the best recent example of that is
Sugar Ray Robinson, who should
have had the welterweight title in
1941, but didn't get a shot at it until
1916.
The way to eliminate that is
simple. A champions title should
be on the line every time he enters
the ring against challenger physi-
cally able to make the weight. And
the man he fights should be the man
listed as the No. / contender.
Also, boxing comrpissions could be
Evening star., 1948-03-17
IMitcheI's Bosketers
Go for Third Title

The high-scoring Mitchel's Sports
Store basket ball team will 60 after
it's third championship of the season
Sunday when it tangles with CYO
at the Armory.
Mitchel's. which won the Christ
mas tournament, last night downed
Mckee Pontiac for the Recreation
Department Roosevelt League title.
The score was, 52-40, with Roy Nc
Neil showing the way with Is points.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
D. c. HondboII Players
Bow at Philadelphia
By the Associofed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 17-Rich-
ard Davis of Toledo gained the
quarterflnal round of the 22d an
nual YMCA handball singles tour
nament by downing AL Houlon of
Washington, 21-7, 21-9, here last
night.
John Mozur and Sam Papandrew
of Washington lost their doubles
match to Don Farley and William
Firth Of Philadelphia, 1919, 21-13.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Nine Meets Lined Up
For Terp Track Team

Nine track meets are lined up for
the University Of Maryland's track
team. athletic director Jim Tatum
said today. Five are dual meets
while the remainder are sectional
The schedule (home unless other
wise designated):
April 3-William and Mary: 10-Navy,
away; 17-VPI. away; 24-Penn Relays
at Philadelphia; 27-Georsetown, away.
May 4-Sectional AAU meet at College
ference championships at Chapel Hill.
N. c., and 29-I. c.: "A at New
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Droch, Maryland Tackle,
JOINING Army Air Force

Joe Drach, first-string University
Of Maryland football tackle, will
not be back with the Terps next
season.
Coach Jim Tatum announced
that Drach was leaving Maryland
to accept appointment as an avia-
ton cadet in the Army Air Force.
Drach, junior, is a resident of
PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Merrick Girls. Teams
In Two Games Tonight

It will be Eastern A. G. against
Red Cross and Sholl's versus Webb
Aircraft in the Merrick Club Girls
Basket Ball Tournament tonight at
Merrick.
Betty Leach poured in IT points
to lead ODonnell's to a 40-38 vic,
tory over Wac Squadron w in a
tourney tilt last night. The lead
changed hands eight times. In the
other game Mary Doyle basketed II
markers to pace Chevy Chase to a
1925 win over Lyle's Florist.
Evening star., 1948-03-17

night. The Incl
dent left a sour
taste in the fans
mouths and al
though Starter
Bill Gates took
a lot of abuse
from the gallery
he stood by his
guns.
1t happened in
the final of the
invitation 75-
yard dash when
Gates recalled
the six runners
four times before
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Amvet Cage SemifinoIs
Scheduled Tomorrow

Post will face Post 1 and Post
13 will oppose Post 5 in the semi
finals of the Amvets basket ball
tournament at Coolidge High to-
morrow night.
Posts 4, and 13 each won quar-
terfinal games last night. Henry
Lawrence registered 13 points to
lead Post 4 to a 41-28 victory over
Post 2, while Pete Haley Tailed 10
to pace Post 13 to a close 40-38
decision over Post TO- Bobby Bolts
garnered 10 points to lead Post l
to its 1926 victory over Post IA.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Bethesda Girls in Final

CUMBERLAND, Md. Mar. II
(SpeciaD .-Bethesda High Schools
girl basket ball tournament has
made its way to the final round of
the Maryland Class A tournament.
Jerry Welker turned the trick with
q last minute basket which gave
the Baronettes a 1888 victory over
Fort Hill last night.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
CYO Junior Busketers
In SemifinuIs Tonight

Our Lady of Lourdes will face St.
Dominics and st. Gabriel's will op-
pose st. Martins In the semif1nals
of the CYO Junior Basket Ball
League tonight at the priory gym.
First game is 7:30.
st. Dominic's faces Our Lady OF
Lourdes In an unlimited league
semifnal at Western High tonight
at q o'clock,
Evening star., 1948-03-17
6iant-kiIIing Ponfiacs
Face Paceseners in
District Pin Loop
By Ben McAIwse

Pennant-contending Arcade Pom
tiac which two weeks ago knocked
the erstwhile leading Winn's Motors
out OF the first place In the Major
District Duckpin League flag chase,
tonight at Clarendon takes a crack
at another pacesetter in Burr
Heishman Tires. Winners Of, six
straight games, the Arcade Pom
tiacs trail the Heishmans by three
games.
In another important match.
Mann's Potato Chips, tied for the
lead with the Heishmans, tangle
with the strong Galliher and HUI
guely outfit at Mount Rainier.
Last place Senate Beer, which
showed signs of making 1t tough for
all concerned by sweeping the SEN
sational Winchester Packards last
week, takes on third-pace Winn's
Motors at Brookland. The Win
ehesters, tied with Winn's and two
games out Of first place, engage
Mapledge Pins at Colonial Village
Another urgent call for blood
donors is being made for Vernon
Graves, proprietor of the Petworth
bowling plant. who is in Providence
Hospital in dire need of the rare
type Orb negative. Graves has
had four transfusions.
Bowlers and others who can give
Graves tremendous lift are urged
to visit the hospital between 8 am.
and 2 pm.
1t was a field day for second
division teams In the Washington
Ladies League. s. g. H. Parking
Center, led by Rachel swift's 343,
trimmed the leading Ell Gees, 2-1;
Graffettes. aided by Nell Huff's 1879,
whipped second place Davis Paint
ing Co., 81. Shamrocks, with Kay
Brooks firing 346, took the odd one
from fourth-place, Edmonds Opti-
cal. while last-place Takoma Gift
Shop nlcked Ply-Rite, 81, and
bTatpurd Figs whipped Central
Valet, I'll. Despite Lucy Roses 1872,
third-place Jack & Jill School took
two from Aaron's Restaurant.
Tonights Minor District League
schedule has Lucky Strike against
leading Greenway at Greenway,
Clarendon at Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, Arcadia at Alexandria, Pet
worth No. l at Queen Pin, Spillway
at Petworth No. 2, while Colonial
Village and Temple meet at Mount
Rainier at 9:15.
The Ladies' Major District League
schedule tonight has Mount Rainier
at King Pin, Ice Palace at Lafayette,
Brookland at Rosslyn and College
Park at Hi-Skor.
In the Ladies Minor District
League pacesetting Temple fires at
Greenway, King Pin at Spillway and
Lucky Strike at Fort Davis.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
CentruI's Cuoers Feted

Central High Schools basket ball
players, public high champions, were
feted yesterday. Coach Gabe Fer
razi presented awards to Jimmy
Pantos, Bob Johnson, Ross Keith,
Hal Sponsler, Bill Bunker, Barry
Holt, Ivan Schefferman, Jack
Stringer, Terry Gregory, Frank
Gleason, Ed jackson. George Ber-
man and Manager Bill Guiday.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Rino Sole Sets Record

A new box Office record for 9
first days sale for a boxing show
here was set at the Liberty A. c
Office yesterday when $500 poured
into the tills for tickets to the
10-round fight between world mid.
dleweight champion Rocky Grazi'
ano and George Sonny" Horne al
Uline Arena April S.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Redskins Play Rockville

The Washington Redskins basket
ball team will meet the Rockville
Stars Saturday night at Richard
Montgomery High. The Rockville
girls will face Sandy Spring in
prelim at 7::30.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
By Dorsey J. Griffith

Director Of The Evening stor Comes
The real need for a change In
starting rules in track again was
demonstrated in the 175th Regiment
games at Baltimore last Saturday
Evening star., 1948-03-17

OLYMPIC HOPEFULS-Ma Robert Simpson right), former
track coach at Missouri and works with pair stawarts
at San Anono Lakeland rpase where has been stationed
to tutor team of 40 Air and picked likely
material for the Olympic tryous Chicago July TO-
Simpson discussing points hurdlng with It. Jerry
foot hurde and Maj Benjamin Cassidy-AP Wirephoto
Evening star., 1948-03-17

Ten years ago-Chicago White
Sox traded zeke, Bonura. hold
out first baseman, to Washing
ton Senators for Joe Kuhel.
Evening star., 1948-03-17

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WASHINGTON, D. c.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-03
3,78l Cast
Ballots In
Northampton

Northampton County voters
turned out in almost record
numbers here yesterday to Join
the rest Of North Carolina in
giving President Harry Truman
a vote of nearly 20 to one over
his nearest opponents.
Yesterday 1881 Northampton
Countians voted in the Presi-
Dental election, the largest
number to cast their ballots in
a general election since the rec
ord-breaking vote of 1910, when
they cast 4,031 votes in return
ing Franklin Roosevelt to the
White House for his precedent
shattering third term.
Truman yesterday picked up
$3.50 Northampton County votes
while Thomas E. Dewey polled
116 and Henry Wallace picked
up seven.
Returns came in early and
were tabulated by Elections
Board Chairman w. H. S. Bur-
gwyn, Jr., who made them i'm
mediately available for public
alton.
The overwhelmingly Democrat
tic trend indicated by the Presi-
Dental vote continued through
out the state ticket, with W.
Kerr Scott collecting 1878 votes
to the 80 by George Pritchard
and three votes by Mary Price.
The vote was in a similar pro-
portion through the remainder
of the ticket.
There was no contest for
county offices and Democratic
nominees were swept in unop-
posed.
Northampton voted favorably
on only one of the four proposed
amendments to the North Caro-
lima state Constitution. The
voters approved by a vote Of
1923 to 842 a proposal to deter
mine special election by a
majority of the votes cast. The
Continued on Page Eight
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-03
COP Fails In
Congress
Race In N. e.

Raleigh, Nov. 3-R1-Repub-
lican efforts to elect the first
COP congressman from North
Carolina since 1928 apparently
ended in failure today.
Incomplete, but virtually con-
elusive, returns showed that
North Carolinians elected a solid
Democratic + x from the
states IL congressional districts
to represent them in Washing
ton for the next two Yeas.
The Tenth District, one of the
Republican strongholds, showed
incumbent Co. essman Hamil-
ton Jones leading his Repub-
lican opponent, Roy Harmon, by
1888 to 3b,658 with 1853 of the
districts 1T precincts reported.
In the Eighth District, with
ISL Of 207 precincts in, Demo-
cratic Congressman c. B. Deane
lead Republican Lafayette Will
iams by 1880 to 26,157. None
of the other racese was close.
In the Ninth, 84-year-old
Continued on Page Eight
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-03
TalIy Indicates Democrats
Will Control TWO Houses
BY The Associated Press

Washington, Nov. 3-P)-
Democrats grabbed control of
Congress today. The majority in
the House approached a land
slide.
The voters-in a startling up
so or more COP
House members, and gave the
Democrats a majority in the
as seemingly they de-
cided to revamp the legislative
body that President Truman
called "do-nothing," history's
second worst-even idiot"
If the breath-taking trends
the new Congress
probably will look something
like this:
Democrats-242 seats.
Republicans-192 seats.
American Labor seat.
(The COP controls the 80th
Congress House 243 to 1856
with two American Labor men,
bers and five vacancies).
SENATE
Democrats-54 seats.
Republicans-42 seats.
(The COP now controls the
Senate 81 to 45).
Up to 6:45 a. m. (EST),. the
Democrats already had turned
out six Republican Senators in
winning 10 of the 80 contested
seats. They led in six other
races. Republicans had elected
only seven and were leading in
two races. Only one third of the
Continued on Page Eight)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-03
South Carolina
Voters Give
Thurmond State

Columbia, S. c., Nov. 3-R)-
Because of its convincing sup
port Of Gov. ]. Strom Thur
mond, States Rights Demo-
cratic Presidential Candidate,
South Carolina was out Of the
national Democratic column to-
day for the first time since 1875.
Thurmond, backed by the reg
ular State Democratic organiza-
ton, captured the States eight
electoral votes yesterday with
upwards Of a $4,000 vote mai
GRITTY over three other presiden-
tial tickets. \
Unofficial returns from 975 of
the States 1896 precincts gave
Thurmond 89,44O, President
Truman 1893, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey Of New York 5,10r, and
Henry A. Wallace, the Progress
sive Party entry, 178.
Thurmond won a majority in
all counties except Spartan
burg and Anderson, where
President Truman received mai
critics.
The Thurmond sweep was a
manifestation Of State Demo-
cratic resentment against Presi-
dent Truman's and the national
party's endorsement of proposed
federal civil rights legislation.
Thurmond based his campaign