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Evening star., 1949-03-18
Toe in Polo Grounds,
Gains in War With
20th CenturyC|ub
By me Assoeia,sd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 1S.-Lee Oma
comes back to Madison Square
Garden tonight, but boxing s
prime news today still was the
latest move by the Tournament
of Champions in its promotional
war with the 20th Century Sport
ing Club.
The TOC announced yesterday
it had signed a long term con-
tract" for the use of the Polo
Grounds, thus obtaining a site
to promote outdoors championship
bouts, such as a middleweight
title bout between Champion
Marcel Cerdan and possibly for
mer champion Tony Zale.
Terms of the least were not dis
closed but David B. Charnay,
TOC president, said 1t ran at
least through 1850. The Goth
Century, Mike Jacobs organiza-
tion, still holds a lease on the
Yankee Stadium through Sep
tember, 1850.
Oma, who gained heavyweight
prominence during the war, is
pitted against Cuban Heavyweight
Omelio Agramonte. The match
was substituted for the Ike Will
liams-Kid Gavilan bout, originally
scheduled for tonight, but post
poned to April !.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Caps Title PIoyoff Chances
Slim Without Feerick, ScoIoH

Washington's hopes for win
ner In the Basket Ball Association
of America playoffs starting next
week were simmer than a reduc-
ing diet today, with Capt. Bob
Feerick and Fred Scolari on the
sideline.
Feerick's injured knee torn
cartilage) was IN cast and ditto
for Scolari's broken finger. Both
definitely are out of the play
offs
Without these two regulars in
the lineup it is conceded that the
Eastern division champs will have
to pull a modern miracle to win
the postseason roundelay. Last
nights 84-81 defeat by the fourth
place Philadelphia Warriors may
have been an ominous sign for
the Caps. Coach Red Auerbach's
men may meet the Warriors in
their first playof test.
A more accurate line on the
Caps future will be available to-
morrow night when the second
place New York Knicks come here
to help them ring down the cur
tain on their regular schedule.
The Caps have not run up the
white flag, however, although their
optimism is tempered by the re-
alization of the herculean task
confronting them. Washington
fans insist that Bones Mckinney.
Kleggie Hermsen, Matt Zunic and
their playmates have enough on
the ball to pick up the Eastern
division playoff marbles. But no
body denies it'll be hot tussle
and that the Caps can afford to
make no mistakes.
Fans point to the Caps indi-
Evening star., 1949-03-18
BY the Associated Press

PHOENIX, Ariz., Mar. 18.-The
New York Giants have made their
first squad cut, dropping six pitch
ers. They were Bill Miller, Ken
Van Gelder, Fred Volk, Andy
Tomasic, Roger Bowman and Ted
Heitschmidt. They were sent to
the Giants minor league camp at
Sanford, Fla, to be distributed be-
tween the Triple A farms. Jersey
City and Minneapolis. Inflelder
Billy Rigney returned to action
yesterday after missing four days
practice following a heart attack.
VERO BEACH, Fla.-The Brook
lyn Dodgers scheduled an intra-
squad game today before getting
back to the regular grapefruit
circuit against the Philadelphia
Athletics tomorrow. President
Branch Hickey arrived in camp
yesterday from California and
promptly denied any trades were
on the fire.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. =
ehortstop Phil Rizzuto appears
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Thompson Looks.
ToGood Season
|AsNat Pitcher
Weight Down, Forrest
Battles for Berth
As Starting HurIer
D. p.x>. A>.L:s.
By Burton Howkins
Star SfoH Correspondent

ORLANDO. Fla. Mar. 1S.-rt
was this time last year that For
rest Thompson said, IF I don't
make the grade with Washington
I'll quit baseball" BY stretching
a point, it might be conceded that
the smiling blond farmer made
the grade. At least he won six
games with a seventh-place club
while being employed mostly IN
relief roles.
Thompson wasn't an enthrall-
ing performer. perhaps, but as q
rookie he could claim some dis
tinction. His 385 earned run
average was superior to those Of
such pitchers as Joe Coleman.
Freddie Hutchinson. Jack Kramer.
Early Vim, Phil Marchildon. Joe
Page, Bob Porterfleld. Fred San
ford. Boo Ferriss and Lou Brissie.
I'll be better than last year."
says Thompson. For one thing.
I'll know more about the hitters.
I'm in better shape. too. I lost
IA pounds this winter building q
smokehouse and a couple of sheds
on my place"
Thompson's trim figure has left
the Mats minus a nickname for
him. When Catcher Jake Early
Spied his portly frame last year.
he promptly tagged him Little
Bear" That roly-poly appear
ance has vanished with the i'm
provements Forrest made on his
3-acre place at Mooresville, N c..
where he is kept busy with four
children-ages 3. S. and 9--and
few pigs and chickens.
Got Back at Indians.
Thompson's disgust with the
Cleveland farm system years ago
created a tie for the American
League pennant last year. The
Indians once owned him, but when
they wanted to send him to
Wilkes Barre in 1943 for the
princely salary of $125 a month.
Forrest quit and made more
money pitching with semipros on
. textile mill team.
1t was a long haul to some sort
of revenge. but last season
Thompson beat Cleveland once.
II Cleveland had won that game
no playoff for the pennant would
have been necessary; but Cleve-
land won the playoff and the
World Series. so Tommy's revenge
was sliced thin.
Atlanta wooed Thompson back
to baseball. buying his contract
from the Indians in 1914. The
mild d-mannered left-hander won
lis games and lost nine with the
Crackers in 1947. which prompted
the Mats to pluck him in the draft.
Thompson waited 10 years for
a crack at the major leagues. He
put in time at Newton -Conover.
N. c.; Leaksville, N. c.: Tyler,
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Gonzales Spreads His Wings
For Flight to Top of Tennis

meaSuSe without success. BY
learning how to stop him.
Pancho erased the last major
threat to his dominance of the
amateur game In this country.
The artificial light bothered
me more than the boards"
Gonzales said after crushing his
first opponent in the opening
round of the indoor tourna-
ment yesterday. 1T will take
me a little while to get used to
it." Gonzales beat Eddie Gray
of New York, 60, 60.
Until yesterday, Gonzales
never had played competitive
tennis on a board court. In his
entire career, he has worked
out only three times on wood.
Progressing to the second
round with Gonzales were five
other seeded stars. including
Defending Champion Billy Tai
bert of New York. and 10 un-
ranked players of varied ability.
Talbert crushed Bradley
browne of New York, 6-l, 6-3.
Former Champion Don McNeill
of New York measured Joe
Short of Pittsburgh, Ga. 6-1.
Not so simple, however, were
the initial appearances of two
other seeded players, Fred Ko-
valeski of Detroit and Ed Nc
Grath of Brooklyn. Kovaleski
needed two hours and a half to
dispose of Frank Bowden of
Madison. N. j.. 14-16. Ga, 6-1,
McGrath prevailed over Andy
Patton, University of Michigan
star, Ga. Ga.
Talbert was to return to the
court today to meet Bill Ma
damba of New York in the only
second round match on the
days program.
The day was to be allotted
principally to the women.
headed by Gertrude Moran of
Santa Monica. Calf. Their
field Of 80 will be sliced to Is
by the end of the day.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Oklahoma Aggies Favored
In Western NCAA Meet
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

KANSAS CITY, Mar. 18.-The
West. which has produced 8 OF
the 10 National collegiate basket
BAH champions, begins its four
team playoff series tonight.
Matched In the first game are
the Oklahoma A. and M. Aggies
and Wyoming's Cowboys.
These two schools have won
half of the Vests National Col
legiate Athletic Association titles.
Wyoming won the title in 1943
and the Aggies in 1945 and 1916.
The Oregon State Beavers, Pa
cific Coast champions. and the
University of Arkansas Razor
backs, Southwest representatives,
will play the second game.
The champion in the two-night
meet here will vie with the Eastern
regional NCAA winner for the Ma
tional banner at Seattle, Wash,
next week.
The Oklahoma Aggies (20-A
rule as slight favorites to cop the
Western meet. However, an eye
injury to Starter Joe Bradley,
suffered in the fifth district play
off with Nebraska here Monday
was not considered in the handi-
Gaping.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

vidual scoring records as more
evidence that teamwork. not in
dividual brilliance, landed them
on the top rung Of the Eastern
ladder. They have an idea the
same sort of team play can take
their favorites to the champion
ship finale. 1t would be nice to
have Feerick and Solari, of course,
but the point is that some Gus
toners, at least. believe Auerbach's S
machine can chug along without
! them.
Jack Nichols and Kleggie Herm-
sen were the workhorses in Phila-
delphia last night, chalking up 19
and 26 points. respectively. II
Mckinney, Johnny Norlander &
Co. had been on the beam the
Caps could have won. With moth
| ing at stake. however. the boys
weren't under any pressure. When
the playof pressure is on things
may be different.
Both Feerick and Scolari under
went thorough examinations yes
terday at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity Hospital in Baltimore, where
the decision was reached to put
both on the bench.
The Caps will open their play
off series either in Philadelphia or
Baltimore. depending on which of
those teams finishes in fourth
place. The. second. and if neces-
sary third, games will be played
at Uline Arena.
Rochester clinched the Western
division crown last night, although
idle. as Baltimore trounced Min
neapolis, 101 to 81. In other
games Chicago tripped st. Louis,
1919. and Fort Wayne edged
! Providence, 74-72.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
'C'CIub Track. Meet
Off After 80 Years.;
Sanction Is LACKING

The &C" Club interscholastic
track meet. which was to celebrate
its 31st anniversary this year, will
not be held. Cancellation of this
big schoolboy meet. scheduled for
May and which has been an out
standing fixture on the spring
sports program here since its in
ception in 1919. has been an
nounced by Bob Newby, secretary
of the Central High School Alumni
&C" Club. sponsor of the meet.
The reason, said Newby. Is
pressure from the National Feder-
alton of High School Athletic AS
sociations which refused a sane
ton for the meet. Without sane
ton, nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia public high schools could not
compete without being ruled out
of their own State meets. anti thus
success of the &C" Club meet was
threatened. Further. Newly said,
schools in the District, which are
not members of the Federation,
would not be permitted to COM
pete in other Federation sane
toned meets.
AS District schools get much of
their competition against Mary
land and Virginia schools there
was some talk that several local
schools would not enter the &C"
Club meet and thus endanger
their chances for competition the
remainder of the season.
Principal federation objection
to the &C" Club meet was that
competition was permitted be-
tween high school and prep school
athletes in the same events. The
federation also objected to the
long distances Travelled by some
of the teams entered. The &C"
Club refused to alter the plan of
it's meet to arrange separate di-
visions for prep and high school
athletes. or to limit entries to
teams within a short radius OF
Washington.
I'VE have been running a sue
cessful track meet for 80 years, "
said Newly, land never had any
complaints. We see no reason for
changing our rules just because
some one in Chicago (headquar-
tiers of the federat.on tells us to-
Announcement of the cancella-
ton was made in a letter to
schools which already had sent in
entries for this years meet.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Stars Of loyo|a,
San Francisco
Dominated Meet
Chicago Team Down
Bradley, Coast Five
Tops Bowling Green
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Mar. lS.-The
championship in the National In
vitation basket ball tournament
probably will swing tomorrow
night on the individual duel be-
tween Chicago Loyolas Jack
Kerris and San Francisco's Don
Lofgran.
The Loyolas and the Dandy
Dons from the Pacific Coast, dark
horses of the blacklist hue. rolled
into the title round last night at
Madison Square Garden on the
superb play of these two athletes.
Loyola, the rain check" team
that got in on a second-choice
bid subdued Bradley University's
fire engine kids, $3.50. San Fran
cisco turned back the favored
Beanstalks from Bowling Green
ohio. 49-39.
+! To the sellout crowd of 1891
which watched these semlfinals. 1t
was evident there have been few
teams so dependent on single key
men as the victors.
Kerris Leading Scorer.
Kerris is a well-muscled young
ster of 6 feet s, whose 81 points
leads the tournaments individual
scorers.
For the first half last night he
was completely shackled by Brad
ley's tight zone defense that built
a harassing human barrier around
him.
The game was Is minutes old
before Kerris got decent shot at
the basket-he missed-and it had
moved 6 minutes and so seconds
into the second half before he hit
for the first time from the field.
At this point, Loyola was fight
ing what seemed hopeless uphill
battle after trailing by 8 points,
3l-22. at intermission.
But Kerris, aided by his teams
tactical maneuver Of midcourt
stalling that opened Bradley's de-
fense. started hitting late in the
game.
He poured in IL points in the
last half. adding to q single point
in the first, to lead his mates to
victory.
Lofgran Is Sharpshooter.>
The big dark haired boy scored
26 against City College Of New
York in the first round and % in
helping upset Kentucky. 67-56. His
throttling of Kentucky's ALL
America Alex Groza was largely
responsible for that amazing quar-
terfinal reversal.
Lofgran Is q willowy, 6-foot-6 8
symphony Of grace from Oak
land, Calf, with an uncanny push
shot. From almost any angle and
with either hand he lays the ball
gently in the basket with few
misses.
He chunked in 10 goals from the
field against Bowling Green and
added four free throws for ~
points. His tournament total is
SIS.
Kerris and Lofgran are leading
candidates for the. tournaments S
most valuable player" award. The
final game may decide this issue
as well.
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Owen Moran Dies at "a

BIRMINGHAM, England. Mar
10 (P).-Owen Moran, an English
boxer who fought many times In
the United States. died here yes
terday. He was "a. Among his
victims was famed Battling Mel
son. whom he knocked out in 1910
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Dunbar and Armstrong
In Bio Tourney Today

FAYETTEVILLE, N. c.. Mar. 18
(SpeciaD .-Dunbar High of
Washington plays Elizabeth IN.
c. High and Armstrong plays
Queen City High Of Beaufort, N.
c.. in two of today's games in the
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege invitation high school basket
ball tournament.
Thirty-seven schools from six
States and the District Of Colum-
bia are competing.
Evening star., 1949-03-18

Tex; Flint, Mich; Cedar Rapids.
Iowa; Thomasville. N. c., and At
lanta before the Mats beckoned
when he was 30 years old.
His status this year hasn't been
clarified. With Mickey Haefner
and Ed Klieman he is bidding
for starting berth. Walter Mas
terson, Ray Scarborough. Sid
Hudson and Joe Haynes will be
the Mats starters barring injury
or complete collapse. There's Z
(See MATS, Page ca
Evening star., 1949-03-18
ADVERTISEMENT.
Hunter Henry Beckett Is
"jumped' by Stag; Survives

Henry Beckett, of Chase City, Va, has
had many a hunting thrill but this
tops EN- all. Hunting rabbits In the
snow, I stumbled on big buck deer.
He let out below and charged, ant.
lers down. My Marlin % was light for
deer but got in five fast shots. The
deer knocked me down, and fell on
top of me-dead! Dashed the wind out
of me-and no wonder, that buck
weighed 178 pounds"
MY fast-firing Marlin saved my
life" adds Mr.. Beckett, "and fast
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and money too. Both products suit mo
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dollar.
Made and Guaranteed by
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Evening star., 1949-03-18

games with the Indians here to-
day after dropping a decision to
the Giants Yesterday. Veteran
Pitcher Mort Cooper caught Man
ager Charley Grimm's eye yester-
Evening star., 1949-03-18

ready to leave the New York
Yankees hospital list. He broke
into the lineup as a starter yester-
day for the first time this spring
and went all the way In theA2-
Evening star., 1949-03-18

most economical.
Brother Hickey has converted decommis-
stoned naval air station into 1,3O0-acre train
ing camp. not only for his Dodgers. but for his
farm teams too. Here also the st. Paul. Mobile.
Houston, Montreal and sundry other clubs train
for the coming season and the coming decade
There were 25S players in camp the other
night and before mid-April between 800 and
900 athletes branded by B. r. will have been
run through the assembly line. It is the most
complex innovation ever attempted in base
ball.
Every ball player big Lacquer or newly
Evening star., 1949-03-18

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Chicaso. So; st. Louis, 10
Baltimore. Iol; Mime apolis, 81.
Fort Wayne. "A; Pro- Fdenee, ~.
Evening star., 1949-03-18


examination including and throat and Wassermann
test He assigned number and he becomes card in gigantic
constantly is changed the player improves stands still or slips
back here nearly $50 pitchers alone the board the
other day.
Only members of the "varsythe Dodgersmay bring their
who live motes barracks for players who are batch
it. Everybody be bed by II and arise by 730 IN
the morning.
At Boosie-Woosie Big Lacquer
There chow line Navy style and at the head Of the line
hungres and most talented ball players in the world
There billiard swimming pool recreation hall
talent shows like the Happy Hours
of the Navy There movies couple OF times week Pang
nightly at the piano is young man named b Ahs'eu anu
there's better booge woogie artist IN fioroa tne mgnc
samplers haven't heard him BY day Ahsedt is pitcher
player and lost IA last for Newport News
Never one Hickey has members OF MS
Brooklyn the to teach running to help
with the files and to make themselves generally useu curing ~
off
Lest Judgment player who nursing charley
physically m Thus if he seems slow or assembly
line supervisors will overlook the shortcoming.
It's Preferred Over Ciudod Tru|Io
estimated that Hickey will spend 1925 900 to 100000
camp misleading figure. Because he training
farm teams with the notable exception of Hollywood of the
Hickey actually saving prorata basis
chief of the farm insists the Dodg
like this They far happier than last at
Trujlo Republic" Fresco There food
was cooked tasted funny and
lot fellows didn't like flying to exhibition games
Presiding all is Hickey who sits on high perch at
vantage point surveys allseeing It is
rank blasphemy suggest that he lifted the idea OF his
chair from Coach Frank Leahy OF Note Dame More likely
he borrowed from King Solomon.
Hickey believer mechanical gadses to wear
and tear on human type of mechanical
another machine that is reputed throw knucke
balls He has batting tees which are flexible rods upon which are
secured basebals There another gimmick
called eight fired pitchers aiming at the strike
A Case of Too Much MuzzIe Velocity
There's such hers that Hickey has ba-
xookas" long loading moars They are
adjusted proper and rup long fly balls to be
caught.
while thing will backhre, as when Hickey 1et
that bazooka aimed straight up would oup out ideal popp
pulled his the fired.
up. 1t became goH pan
table tennis a marble aspirin and
finally simply went out of sight
of folks outside OF oomo-
ting raid But Branch Rckeys hand
Evening star., 1949-03-18
Win, Lose, or Draw
Branch Rickey's Big Mousetrop
By FRANCIS STANN
Sfor StoH Correspondent

vERO BEACH, Fla. Mar 18-As BELTS genius. Branch
Brooklyn like other all
baseball history yet been established that Hickey has
built better mosetrap all odds it's the biggest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-09

After viewing an amaryllis show.
many gardeners are eager to grow
the many different varieties q these
lovely flowers. Few realize that
blooming bulbs can be produced
from seed easily in two years. OF
course, this takes patience, but this
quality must be q part Of the gar
dener's makeup II he wishes to
excel.
Two methods must be followed.
either the outdoor bed method or
pot method, in growing the seeds.
Many of the varieties are hardy In
the South, but the same variety
must be protected from cold further
North. Amaryllis thrive In almost
any good garden soil and you viii
find no flower as brilliant as the
amaryllis when al its requirements
are met.
The time for seeds 10 terminate
depends upon how and where they
were planted after the seed pod
opened and the seeds began 70 fail
The little seeds resemble charred.
brown. paper specks and unless you
watch your ripe pod carefully you
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@. On a. recent Theater Guild
broadcast OF Camille" the heroine
was said to have taken the name
Camille because of her fondness for
camellias. Does that hold waterP
B. H.
A. It does not. There Is no con-
nection between the name Camille
and the flower named camellia, nor
Is the name Camille used IN the ori-
ginal French text Of the story by
Dumas.
1t came about thus: The story by
Dumas has the title, LA Dame aux
Camelias (the woman OF the ca
mellias)." The heroine's name Is
Marguerite Gautier. The camellia
Is her favorite flower.
Now when the play was translated
into English, the translator changed
the title to Camille" and had the
heroine assume the name because
he, the translator, ignorantly be-
lieved that Camille derived from the
flower name camellia, or vice versa
The truth is that Camille Is the
French form of the Latin name Ca
nilla which means attendant at a
sacrifice" Camellia, the plant. was
named for Georg Josef Kanel Cor
Camelh), a Jesuit missionary ano
botarist, who introduced the plant
from the East. His name, Kamel,
German for camel" is pronounced
kah-MEIL. In standard American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-09
TuKe Nv Word for 1t BY F''"t Colby

camellia Is pronounced: kuh-MELL-
yuh; or: kuh-MEEL-yuh.
@. What Is the reason for the
west" in the word travesty?-L. T. p
A. Travesty Is from the French
travesti which has the strange
meaning Of "one who wears the
clothes Of the opposite sex; one who
goes about disguised as member
Of the opposite sex. The French word
is from the Latin trans, across,
over" plus vestire, ito dress, clothe.
Hence, by extension, q travesty Is a
burlesque; q gross parody, especially
Of literary work.
He who fawns on Q person OF
wealth or influence with the hope
Of currying favor Is called q "toady,
which is q contraction Of toad
ester" In the days of old, when
mountebanks used TO hawk their
nostrums on the village square, they
attracted crowds by performing
feats Of magic" and effecting mir
aculous cures.
The warty skin OF the common
toad secretes q highly acrid fluid
which was once thought to be q
deadly poison. The mountebank's
assistant would pretend to swallow
several live toads. Instead of meet
ing a quick and horrible death, he
would be saved by single swallow
of his masters quack medicine.
In the course of time, toady came
to designate a fiattering parasite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-09

Answers to. Herse Sense Quiz.
/. Clover (4-leafed). @ Joe (stalinl. g.
opsomstrise {. sterling lsilver)s s. Clothes
Ssutrai-a 5xl. (eS mt and run-is fs Is
lO jump ban-1o (w1. (s1 Penalty-l2
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Natures Children
LiIIion Cox Athey

are likely to have many blow away
Several successful growers watch
the pods ADD tie q square OF white
cheesecloth or net over the seed con-
tainer when signs OF maturing occur
in the Spring. The grower should,
of course, have soil ready for tbs
seeds. II the seeds are planted ss
soon as they drop, termination fol-
lows quickly and the young new
plants win be sturdy.
You may put your seeds In q fiat,
Dot. q shallow tin can or any SINH
lar receptacle Sprinkle the seed
over the prepared soil. put over
them q light blanket OF soil. spray
them with warm water-rain water
| II possible cover with ptecs
| of thin glass. As soon as the tiny
green blades emerge. remove the
glass enough to give the babies some
fresh air. When you feel all the
seeds are up and awake. discard the
glass roof. Water carefully. and not
too much.
As soon as the plants have two
pairs Of leaves. put the eontatner IN
partial shade. and do not forget 70