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■q>—1———... ■ ■ ... PASS COSTS Worth With 273 Sports Roundup REDSKINS GAME Open By HAROLD V. RATLIFF CLEVELAND, Dec. 17—(IP)—That he's entitled to a third strike be- Cleveland! Dec. 17.— FORT Dec. Nel- double zero at the pro football fore he’s declared out for good. WORTH, TEX., 17.—(fP)—Lord Byron was a matter playoff yesterday wasn't just the (/P)—It of argu- son, golf’s superlative, went back to the farm but the CLEANING THE CUFF today number worn by Washington's Steve ment today whether it was will be brief. He's to invest his first If the indoor track meet pro- stay going place money Bagarus. You could have seen it too little or too mur,.h of Sam- moters are smart, they'll stuff the in the Fort Worth open tournament in a tractor then rejoin •n any convenient thermometer ballot in that enabled Cleve- The usual weather was responsi- j boxes the Big Ten's mail my Baugh the nation’s links tourists at Los Angeles to start the P.G.A.’s ble for one fine gesture of vote on of sports- ! postponing application land’s rah-rah-Rams tc hang new year. manship Before the game both 1 its eligibility rule until after the , their first Pro- teams tried out regular cleated up National winter season. Among the boys footwear and basketball shoes and fessional Football Texas, hurried to an eleven-un- who can’t league Parker Rated 273 decided to wear the cleats compete under the rule Cooke, Ser-par yesterday to win the Between the halves, Coaches Adam as recently passed are Michigan’s championship as well as the Fort, Worth open in a breeze. He No. 1 Tennis finished strokes ahead of Walsh and Dud Degroot held a I Ross and Bob Hume and Indiana's title of “world’s best icicles Players eight another Texan. Jimmie Demaret confab about changing and De- j Campbell Kane, who have both ” in football suits of Houston, back in groot decided that since Walsh was ; gate and gait appeal Chicago NEW YORK, Dec. 17—(/P)—Mrs golf’s big going to continue using cleats, he | writers are rising the question of Sammy opened up the bal Sarah Palfrey Cooke's brilliant time after a hitch in the navy. so there whether the Cubs still owe the comeback has earned Harold iJug> McSpaden of San- would do the same—just game yesterday and in the firs campaign shot a six-under- could be no question of the game Yankees some money or players on her the U. S. Lawn Tennis asso- ford, Me., who | quarter threw a gamble pass Iron 65 in last being decided on merits The the Hank Borowy deal and Boss ciation’s No. 1 ranking among the par yesterday's round, j his end zone most appropriate thing about the Jim Gallagher’s replies indicate that bdunced bad women players for 1945. was third With 232, while E. J. of Little wholef performance was the "White that maybe some dough still is | for a Rams’ safety when the goa The petite Boston and New York, (Dutch) Harrison Rock act on the due ... The absence of racquet-wiclder, who deserted the was fourth with 283. Christmas” put by fumbling j posts got in the way of it. Thi Washington band the in- j in yesterday's snowbound grid game competitive game after winning the Nelson, who took a two- during bound was the edge that gave th< termission. accord ng to coaches, was due to national championship in 1941, re- months vacation from golf Rams their 15 to 14 I the players’ consciousness of the photo-finisl turned with a this to afirr 18 1 bang year winning tournaments, TODAY'S GUEST STAR danger of committing a $500 or decision over the Washington Red defeat Pauline Betz of Los Ange- returned to the links wars at James E. Doyle. Cleveland Plain $1000 error The .worst error | skins. les, her victim four years ago. in Glen Garden Country club Dealer: "Lou Boudreau had twe was just going into the joint on Slinging Samuel left the gam the Forest Hills title final. Miss where he Ms start as a 1 j got headaches but he never thought a day like that. j with an injured side shortly afte Betz, who reigned as queen of the caddie. He announced that he courts Mrs. Cooke's of taking headache powders j that "one pitch too many” am during absence, would be back on the tourna- No. he just made each of hi! reappeared only for a few minute v" -enked second. ment schedule with both feet headaches take a powder." Gibson Girl To 1 in the second half. Tire Red MISSOURI GETS THE BALL—R. Heinsohn, (13>, Missouri's center, wins the ball in a wild scramble under Frankie Parker, who re- after missing seven meets. 1 skins didn't have much chanc > the basket in a fast game with Nebraska Dec. 14 at Kansas City. Missouri's forward, W. Moulder (23) is on ins national title, once again Lord Byron now has been • MONDAY MATINEE Be Featured In with him out of there, the floor, while an unidentified Nebraska player makes a dive for the ball. Missouri won, 65-54.—(AP Wire- rated the No. 1 male player. money-winner in 102 consecutive especiall; * ; The newly organized boxing I against a hot club that was thre ; photos). I Billy Talbert of Wilmington, Del., tournaments over a period of four promoters of America plan to to four points the favorite goini who lost to Parker in the cham- years and this year ran his total G-W Production jouis, 26 stolen bases; Ed Stanley, j open a New York office in the to the post. pionship final for the second winnings to $66,600 in war bonds. tame building where Mike Ja- FREAKY Brooklyn, 128 runs scored; Luis ! straight year, followed by Pancho McSpaden finished in second place A mono-drenched soft cobs has his And garden, SHAPE CAVARETTA of Ecuador. with and Een of headquarters. The safety was as AGGIES Dlmo, Brooklyn, triples, 13; Dain ; Segura $34,200 Hogan music, the colorful costumes of the probably Clevelands Larry Atkins says a score as ever was Hershey, Pa., who tied for seventh Gibson Girl period: all this will be freaky Blay, Cincinnati 656 times at bat. it will serve as a reception made in in the Fort Worth yester- ! in of the Gardner-Webb Dra- football, amateur, pro The open center for part Brooklyn Dodgers’ Goodie out-of-town promo- 1 or “catch as catch can” but It Blanchard Picked day, was the third man in the matics Class production of, "The FOR ANOTHER PACES Top ev- BATTERS Hosen finished third behind \ ters and managers “where race with total Garden was two points and enough to monev winning* feel of the Moon." a three-act erybody will at home." j decide it after winging Bob Holmes in batting with a .325 av- 1945 Grid Of $27,425. romantic comedy drama to be pre- j Player Adam Walsh, the Rams' who a Golfers on the PGO tour coa<^i, sented in the E. B. Hamrick audi- Waterfield, signed srage. George (Whitey) Kurows- celebrated his 21st wedding Rams contract will return to their homes for torium at 8 o'clock, Tuesday eve- three-year only CAGE CROWN WITH A.355 ci of St. Louis tied Hack with .323, DES MOINES, I A., Dec. 17—Fe- anniversary Saturday. Bob j a few hours before the (he Christmas holiday. The ning. game, ind other members of the top 15 lix (Doc) Bltmchard of unbeaten’ Waterfleld delivered the pre- threw two touchdown next tournament—the Los An- The ccnccrns an old passes, were St. Louis Army is the choice of the nation's! sent the next afternoon story pro- NEW YORK, Dec, 17. —UP)— Ok- NEW YORK, Dec. 17—(JF)—Fif- Augie Bergamo, Jan. 4-7. One of these was for 38 yard football writers as the inter- geles open—is One fessor, who. to prove to his young j 316; Olmo, .313; Bill Salkeld top of the interesting angles to his batterv-maie Arkansa i lahoma A. & M. and De Paul, last I teen National league regulars fin- Fred Corcoran, tournament man- friends that such a as en- pet | collegiate player of 1945. of the was the thine Pittsburgh, .311; Mel Ott, New game the use of Jim Benton and the other coverei season’s finalist for the National ishcd the 1945 season with .300 ager of (hr PGA announced that during love aetually exists, tells j VTork, .308; Ai/»e Galan, Brook- Blanchard polled 114 of 120 "grid eve" device for sighting 11■ a million dollcs in al- 45 yards to Jim Gillette, a 185 Basketball or better and one of the votes cast members of the half cash to them the story of h;s youth and championship, again averages lyn, and Ernie Lombardi, New by from'the sidelines determine a has been assured for the here occurs pounder who showed that Vir as reasons the Cubs football writers association of ready ball the second-act flash- shape up the teams to beat for ; Chicago captur- 3fork, .307; Johnson, .302; Rene I just where the should be J can hot evei to shoot for in 1946. This back in which are enacted scenes ginian stay pretty 1: this year's cage crown. i ed the loop's pennant was that .301 i America for their All-America golfers placed and the linesmen's Monteagudo, Philadelphia. the for of the earlier, romantic ; when the thermometer is reach The they had three in the se- team, Bert McOrane, of year boys played $375,000. stakes was su period. defending champion Aggies ! players and Jimmy Wasdell. Philadelphia secretary planted. It aris- to hit zero. j ing up with a 46-42 defeat De Paul lect circle the organization, announced to- ing how often the official j only by including batting and Dixie Walker, Brooklyn, .30C ! COUNTER to mar their otherwise slate Phil CavarretL the of- day. were six inches or perfect champion each. Lewis Howard guesses more Understatement The with i Billy Redskins countered 1! this season are flying high follow- ficial figures disclosed today. Ranking next in the balloting wrong Sweetness and FRANCISCO——Coals r In Denver SA^' couple touchdown passes of thei three over With Cavarretta a siz- were Halfback Glenn Davis of the Dies note from the recent to ing straight triumphs setting light newcastle department: own. Indiana Frank Filchok, re On Ice I.INCOLNTON Billy Lewis How- such formidable foes as Westmin- zling .355 pace, the Cubs also Hogs I Army, with 110 votes, and DeWitt baseball when Branch — meetings The Chinese central news thes ; Minn. — ard 15. son of Mr. and Mrs. R. lief hurler for Baugh, flipped ster < Pa.Long Island University romped off with the team batting NEW ULM. I Coulter. Army tackle, 108. Q. Rickey had to pull out of one agency broadcast from Chung- the section, I to Jack Rabbit Stave Bagaru; and title on a .277 four oints Henceforth Arnold Gram’s pigs Howard of Denver died session before it finished, he Temple. average, king today that it had been scat-back from Noire Dame, am 1 1 are going to market instead of Saturday night in a Lincolnton left De Paul, beaten for the title by higher than the runner-..p St. his proxy with Sam Brea- learned in UNRRA consign- 1 after a brief Illness. In Oklahoma Bob Seymour. As the last is over Louis Cardinals. skating. Basketball Scores hospital don. ment of Aggies year, bowling I $50,000 tons of rice 1 matter of if it hadn't beei 1' He a on i__. addition to his he leave* fact, its opposition like so many duck Cavarretta staged a stretch put piggy parents would arrive soon in Canton the these Redskin 5 < Minnesota Indiana 62, Louisville U. 59.. three brothers and three sisters. for safety, pins. Sparked once again by George drive to overtake Boston's Tom- jaunts along j OBSERVATION POST and Swatow. 3 river after of 39. 11 would have turned the trick 14 t Mikar, its six-foot-nine-inch center my 28 iris fat pork- Wake Forest 40, McCrary Funeral services ^re held at Homesick Huck Geary got ou The agency commented that j IJolmes. at 13 for Waterfield missed one c f unbeaten De Paul has chalked Other members the ers ventured on thin ice and William and Mary 77, Richmond o'clock Monday morning Moun- Of the and asked to be re was up Chicago of navy it generally believed the tries, whil e broke All antf AAF 23. tain View church. Inter- his two extra-point six straight triumphs including a 3.00 club were the veteran Stan through. drowned, ! Baptist • instated on the Pittsburgh Pirate s of rice would shipment “greatly ; Joe clicked on his r Grams figured his loss at i North Carolina 63, Davidson 31. ment was made in the church Aguirre pal 74-56 win over Indiana State Sat- Hack who finished in a tie for 1 active list ... He must figuri s stabilize" the rice market. of placements. urday which enabled the demons to fourth with .323 and Don John- $1,300. Duke 48, Virginia 38. cemetery. won titl ! The Rams their icicle win their invitation tourney. son, the youthful second-baseman, on on th simply by finishing top =! In that game Mikan established a who collected a neat .302 mark. 1 rock-hard Cleveland Municips new Chicago stadium record with Hack and Johnson also brought in that would hav stadium gridiron 37 points. Last winter big George a couple of other firsts for the a An 1 made dandy hockey rink. set a new Madison Square standard Cubs as the third-sacker finished the general impression was tha 1 by sinking 53 points. in front in rapping out single, 155, sooner or la the National league I De Paul will be gunning for vic- and Johnson was head man in ter must move its annual titl :! tories number seven and eight w'hen laying down sacrifices with a to- playoff up from mid-December o r the mighty Chicago quintet tackles tal of 22. else give it to the Eskimos. ! Arkansas State and Oregon State OWN MARK ■ this week. The Aggies get a well- By nailing down their 16th pen- deserved rest in order to prepare for nant, the Cubs beat their own Gene Tunney Heads the Oklahoma City tourney which mark, of 15 held jointly with New gets under way Dec. 26. They had York, and by sweeping 20 double- Building Company a norrow squeak Saturday when j headers, the Bruins wiped out the STAMFORD. CONN.. Dec. 17—(R ; they barely managed to nose out Cardinals’ old mark of 17 twin bill —Gene Tunney. the former heavy j Temple 38-36 for their fourth win triumphs. after nine late weight champion, is listed as pres trailing by points Although he was nosed out in the second half. ident of the Stamford Buildin j. for the batting crown. Holmes Close on the heels of the two company in corporation paper I j grabbed himself a number of leaders are unbeaten filed over the weekend at th Cornell, Wyom- consolation prizes. He belted town clerk's office. ing, Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky, Pur- out the most hits, 224: most due, Ohio New The firm, he said, will concen State, Minnesota, total bases, 367; most doubles, York U., Notre Dame, and trate on small, moderately price j Michigan 47; and most homers, 28. dwellings. Rice. Other undefeated outfits in- Other specialty winners includ- elude Yale, "I have just spent five years i: 1 Syracuse, Tennessee, ed A1 (Red) Schoendienst, St. Indiana, Ohio West the navy building men; and noi v U., Virginia, Baylor, Texas I want to spend as much of m Christian, Georgia, Cross and Indiana. available time as' possible con Holy structing homes," he said. LIONS TO HAVE WINS ESSAY CONTEST DANCE! LUMBERTON — UP) — Jacki a senior Lumberto. CHILDRENS PARTY Oliver, at. ; SHELBY High school, won an essay contes | BEIiUN GANG LEADERS HANGED—Josef Kramer (right), the "beast ; sponsored in the seventh distric t i Pi'eparations gre complete foi of Btlttn,’’ and Ima Great (left', keeper of the death cells at Germany's I by the North Carolina Citizens as -1 the annual Lions Christmas party JAYCEES infamous Belsen concentration camp, were hanged in prison at Hamciin sociation. Inc. Her prizes are i which will take place tomorrow Presents ... Dee. IS, along with nine others of the Belsen gang. They were recently $50 Victory bond and a free tri j night at 7 o'clock at the high convicted by a Brltith military tribunal of revolting crimes at the camp. to the association's convention it i school cafeteria. —(AP Wirephoto) Raleigh on Dealmber 19. The Lions have arranged for old Santa Claus to be present In per- son and the grand old fellow will present a gift and a treat to each | child. Arrangements are being IN NORTH CAROLINA ! directed by J. Carver Wood, chair- man of the boys and girls com- this Christmas mittee. clear More people drink Atlantic Ale and Beer than any other.

— Santa fills Shoes It must be... Of Mexican Children CHARLOTTE. Dec. 17 —• — Three South American physicians, one from Bolivia and two from DEAN Chye„ were here Saturday to ob- serve administration and proced- ures of the western medical cen- HUDSON ter in the rapid treatment of ve- nereal diseases. AND HIS ORCHESTRA DO HOT MAKE They are: Dr. L. F. Piercla Mac- PHASE hicado of La Paz, Bolivia: Dr. Fred A. Cave of Puerto Montt, Cfile; and XMAS DANCE Dr. Pedro Chana of Santiago, Chile. They have been in this country Armory Dec. 27 AHY BUT HECESSARY CALLS three months on a projected six- months tour of medical centers as 9:30 P. M. guests of the government. TICKETS ON SALE 24 AHB SKITTISH KITTY OH DECEMBER LOS ANGELES. — (A5) — SUTTLE'S DRUG Queenie, a gray cat belonging STORE to IS year old Don Brighton, leaped 60 feet from her six or Members of Jaycee DECEMBER 25 day perch on the waving front of a palm tree and landed in Advance Sale $1.75 a tarpaulin held below. (Per Person) The frightened kitty landed on all fours and from and Telegraph Company jumped At Gate ___ $2.00 Southern Bell Telephone the tarpaulin to the ground. Now Don is trying to coax Spectators_$1.00 her from under' a house. i