Parks Is Fighter Without Fire, TKO Defeat by Bivins Reveals
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f Parks Is TKO Defeat Was Fighter Without Fire, by Bivins Reveals D. C. Boy So Cautious Title for Commerce Sports Program Wilkins Retains Lead W in, Lose or Draw For Local Fans He Passes Looms After Season TODAY. In Court and By JOHN B. KELLER Up Early Hockey. Points Washington vs. New York, Uline Pro Sports Blackout Would Make D. C. Dreary Chance Mark It Bowls Arena, 8:30. Without Victory Basket Ball. Mikan in professional baseball and football operating this year, the Average sports BOB BEN MeALWEE. blackout in Washington would be just about complete. Even By MeCLEAN. By St. Anthony’s vs. Central, By the Associated Press**} those who look in on this kind of entertainment only every once in Georgie Parks today might have Setting the pace for the first time Catholic U., 4. NEW YORK, Feb. Sharp- a while would the find National Capital a really dreary spot. been a boxer of national prom- this the three-time St. Albans at Coolidge, 4. shooting Dick Wilkins of the Uni- Prom season, pennant- any sports angle, Washington never was a “college” town, inence. Instead he is Just another Hyattsville at Montgomery versity of Oregon crossed the 400- even when winning Commerce bowlers of the Georgetown, George Washington and Maryland were flour- local heavyweight with a badly cut Blair, 4. point mark last week in in retaining ishing athletic endeavor. Generally, this "big three” of the Wash- mouth and a defeatist attitude. National Capital Ladles’ loop clicked Bethesda at Rockville, 8. his No. 1 spot in the national col- ington Metropolitan Area played big games away from home and even Had he cared to gamble, Georgie like real champions last night at Oxon Hill at Maryland Park, 4. legiate individual high-scoring bas- the more important contests staged here aroused no considerable could have whipped Jimmy Bivins Washington-Lee at Tech, 4. ket ball race. Interest. Lucky Strike in sweeping Foreign Certainly in football the colleges never gained public favor in Uline Arena last night. Bivins Wilson at George Washing- The Pacific Northwest star tossed as have the pro Redskins. Trade with a season record set of is flabby, slow afoot, with a spare ton, 4. in 39 points as his team split a two- What little 1,616, believed by Scorer Agnes college sport Washington had has all but disappeared tire of flesh around the midriff Woodward Prep at Mount game series with Washington to since Pearl Harbor. Thaxton to be an all-time mark for As for professional boxing, ice hockey and basket built up by a year of Army chow Rainier, 3. boost his season record to 413 points bell, none the league. under the most favorable conditions has managed to make and ring inactivity. In trim he never Fairfax at Fredericksburg. 8. on 183 field goals and 48 free throws. itself Spearheading the Commerce at- immensely popular. would have trouble with the likes Big George Mikan erf the De Paul With the almost to tack were Muriel TOMORROW. place themselves, the high schools—public and of Parks. Scott, league presi- Demons in in second dent, with 135 and and Pearl Wrestling. Chicago stayed private—and the prep schools have enlarged their programs, but they But last night was 344, 40 Georgle’s op- Weekly wrestling program, Tur- place by scoring points against haven’t won the fans. to nail the Watkins with 326. Standards swept portunity highly rated ner's 8:30. Notre Dame and Purdue to climb This is a interested in Planning to gain a tie Arena, city really only professional baseball and Cleveland slugger and take over second-place to 360 points on 143 double-deckers football for sports diversion. Given other form of athletic enter- with Statistics, who dropped a game Basket Ball. any his "duration” heavyweight title. and 76 one-pointers. Having played tainment, it virtually shuns it. to Navy Blues. Gonzaga at Anacostia, 4. Georgie muffed it because he was in only 17 games to Wilkins’ 33, Should manpower demands bring on a pro baseball and football Charlotte Hall at Baltimore wary of taking a chance and be- First Grill Sweeps Set. Mikan tops the Oregon player in the there won't be much recreation for in 4. blackout, Washington spring, cause with all his natural talent Sweeping the pace-setting Rich’s Friepds, average-per-game department. summer and fall after it has done a good day’s work. And can Georgetown at he is no fighter. He Tloesn’t want Barber Shop, the champion First Prep Friends, Stan McWilliams, College of the any one believe that will key the workers for extra effort on their a rematch with Bivins. Parks Grill made most of last 3:30. is its chance Pacific freshman, who winds up col- war jobs? at Devitt at 4. a badly whipped boxer. night Lafayette to stop the Washington-Lee, lege play with two games this week Episcopal at Fairfax, 8. Choosing to spar with Bivins and high-flying leaders in the Wash- before reporting to the Army on Seems to Know What Green Means George at Nobody Light allow him to lead, Georgie was ington ladies’ loop. With Lorraine Washington Mary- February 15, dunked 34 points to New York's baseball writers had a lot of fun at their annual outmaneuvered in the Gulli land Park, 8. third round, firing, 157 and 376 and Cath- hold third place by one over St. John’s at point "eating and oratorical contest” the other night in joshing the big- blasted into the ropes with a right erine Quigley banging out 137 and Roosevelt, 4. Bill Henry of Rice. 341 to 340. at 3. timers of the organized game. They also kicked in with a significant hook and floored again with a 367, the First Grillers fairly sank Episcopal Fairfax, Henry, whose team is unbeaten in in the notes of statement introductory the party program which slashing left. He sat in the ropes the front runners with high scores Southwest Conference play, scored included: the first time, then got up with of 589 and 1,674. TTse victory moved the' most points of the week, 45. “Baseball is in the midst of a traffic jam, due to the green light the claret streaming from his First Grill into second place, three v. M. I. Turns Tables Ernie Calverley of Rhode Island and the red light being on at the same time. When a public official mouth to take the second knock- games behind. State did not play last week, but baseball the can't be sure whether Club gives 'go' sign these days, you down. The bell saved Georgie, but Kavakos gained a tie with retained fifth place with 285 points he means ‘go on’ or ‘go out.' Dr. Jojin De Mayo refused to al- Garvin's Grill as Mary Brown, re- On to Score to 280 for Bob Kurland of the Okla- were were “a lot answer cent winner of Terps The 1,200 guests told they likely looking of poten- low him to the gong in the the Women’s United jhoma Aggies. tial riveters” and each was warned that it be his “last round and Bivins States starred with 145 might night following gave a Open, and Sectional leaders, as compiled 370. by out before manning a drill press on the swing shift." And the fourth-round TOO. Garvins dropped two games he Associated Press and including writers admitted “we’re all in Or all out of this to- Second-round IN FINALE versatile forward and to S. 6c H. First Win this together. Ignores Chanee. TONIGHT—Jimmy Wilson, Parking Center, with Loop fames of February 3: that for a shovel isn’t to be for defenseman of the Rasch’s 341 the Special Dispatch to The Star. | any fame into the air Trudy Marie gether. Trading typewriter going Georgie’s opportunity Washington Lions, leaps high edge. Faeifle Caaat Cenf. (Norther* Division). cinch, either.” and fortune came in the second after Goalie Dick Bittner blocks the puck as Wilson skates into Spates’ 137 and 370 were the LEXINGTON. Va.. Peb. 6.—Turn Then the writers, in their well-staged burlesque, didn’t spare the round, a stanza he won on the score the net. Both are to oppose New York’s Rovers in the last home heaviest wallops as Quality Food about is fair play, and so Maryland 1 Hick Wilkins. Orecon 33 &2 Jli club owners and Clark Nat sheet. It in nicked Ballston managers. Griffith, 75-year-old president, was that heat that he game of the Eastern League at Uline Arena Shop Stadium, 2-1. and Virginia Military Institute owe Faeifle Coast Conf. (Soother* Division). tonight. 1 and Connie Mack, boss of the A’s in his 80s, were haled before a found the number that would have Frances Money’s 326 led Edmonds it to one another that their South- 3us Mota, California ... 14 S4 36 164 draft board and although found physically unfit for service in every paid off. It was a neat left hand Optical 2-1 win from Howard em Conference court records this Faeifle Coast IndePeodenti. other way were drafted because they could talk. While players of to the pudgy midsection of Bivins Lions Cleaners. Florence Sabean’s 142 year will not show a complete blank. 1 !. McWilliams, Co^ p*c. 19 140 61 »41 were a Rovers Ten Will blow various clubs seated in th^ dugout, a lanky figure wearing that brought a grunt of surprise Facing Big Discuss gave Investment Building the V.