r le TT 7 Country Club Tournament Starts Today Morning watch 73 GOLFERS ENTER Just Before The Battle, Brother DUKE * » TRACK >5i WITH mimw**mirmn* T > V' S- v ... *. 'Li '\-t*•• CLUB Edward Sachs CAPE FEAR GAMES LOOKS PROMISING Jimmy Herring, Agnes Blue Devil Thin PIP .. , PIP, ,. Clads State meeting Friday Morton Medalists Of Season Sitting in the Tobacco league Open Saturday about this thing called base- evening, we got to wondering Qualifying Rounds With Gamecocks office we fished around ball. So when we got back to the to in the annual Britanmca (Baitim Match play spring DURHAM, March .. ? until we found the Encyclopaedia 30.—,./p,_q, golf tournament of the Cape Fear university's track and we the real lowdown. team WiU Brazil) got club under way today, Country gets stronger in. two fields club last than l- officials of the said night. year’s team but bases and is weaker and so called from the ball, will through April 3 BASEBALL, Play certain in all other events. in which a ball, bat and bases with 18-hole match play featuring a game played by two teams Coach Bob Chamber;. guys named Di- the earlier rounds. ran are employed (to say nothing of several squad through time trials Included -in who if* the 73 players week in preparation for the Maggio). in oocn _ qualified earlier was Miss mg meet play against South Carolina was long disputed be- Aggie Morton, women's here next and Origin of Game. The origin of the game champion. Saturday found th- so far as we know She turned in a 78 to third material for the cause of its resemblance to rounders, (a rounder, place distance event, bad and whistles March- in the round. was plentiful and is a guy who beats his wife, writes checks, qualifying promising h',t whenever he is in Atlanta) a game originating the track mentor was in” Through Georgia” A score of 75 placed Jimmy Her- none too on modification of games grouped timistic over the in°Great Britain and its similarity to as medalist of the talent, m ,hP and "One Old Cat, ring qualifying 0Ul* under the common designation of Town Ball, er fields. Old Cats/ (Now round. Robert Strange, Jr., with a “Two Old Cats.” “Three Old Cats,” and “Four “We 77 was should be call “Blind Toms.”) posted runner-up. stronger this rear you know why they affectionately umpires in the distance and Matched in the first are middle distant, flight but weaker in the about American base- sprints," Chaw, After about 1,500 well-chosen words Jimmy Herring and Paul Bergen; bers we said. “Prospects in ball, in which the E. B. seems to be miffed because Charles J- Blake and J. M. John- most of the field events are between it up this nugget: A still Vorp,,.i don't serve tea , gives son; Robert Strange, Jr., and J. i Abner doubtful.’’ commission, says E. B„ decided that Col. Doubleday James Mctts bases and Holmes Davis, Jr., S. devised the of posi- me ocaomi wm <=. xum, Leading contenders in of the U. Army diagram and Fred Louis Orrell and umciais ol the various rooacco btate league ciuhs pose wim league omciais as mey mei iu majj yiaus ^ the dis is not to be Little;; tance runs are tions for players in 1839. (However, baseball Kite and Pollock of and J. E. Jackson of Dunn. Back row, W. B. Williams of Angier, Brodie Smith of Bill Palmer different Robert Davis; Miss Agnes Morton row, left right, Bert Wilmington Balt,' confused with the Old Army game, an entirely L. C. Kerr of Clinton and J. E. L. Wade, league more, Md.; Jim Davis, Ben M. L. L. Smithfield, Zeb Harrington of Sanford, Morris Wade of Dunn, league secretary-treasurer, Birmii,E. and Washburn, Jr.; ham-, Ala.; and amusement.) president of Wilmington. Chuck Dowm-s Doss, Sr., and Dr. Donald Koonce; _ Baltimore. Md. Downes and Pall the E. B. tells us that the Washington Nationals Robert Black and W. A. Fonvielle: mer are Further down, returned servicemen vh„ a lulu in 1867 when they made the first. Trans-Allegheny Second flight: Walker Taylor and won letters for the really pulled Blue Devils two The team went as far west as St. Louis (they contacted a few L. L. Doss, Jr.; James H. Sloan and and three tour. Bucs Outfielder Lancester years ago. Davis was the Indian tribes to the west of St. Louis but couldn't get any games L. Steve star runner Tommy Morton; Barefoot Wilmington Sign for the cross countrv without a guarantee of 10.000 beads, five pounds of dry-fish' and a and Walter E. Curtis; Harold Alex- team last fall. as Juice.") ★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ gallon of what the Indians referred to “Laughing ius and L. E. Clif- Woodbury, Sr.; The middle distances will be led ford Mayfield and E. N. Hines; by A1 Bodine. In that same year, the Rockford, 111. club began the Rochester, N. Y. William Redder and Clark James; Loren Young, quaint practice of paying salaries to some of its players. Huntington. W. Va E. A. Metts and Marion A. Wood- and Bill Simmons, Charlotte. (Now you know why Clark Griffith doesn’t like Rockford.) Wildlife Calls Constitution AH R J. Doss and I. B. Meeting three are newcomers to bury; Grainger. Group the squad. --- i In the Bill In 1871, (this may not come under the heading of news) the Na- Third flight: W. T. Benton and sprints, Aumcnj 1 Braintree, John tional Association of players was organized Thomas Orell; W- L. Bozeman and Mass.; Maxwell', (a name for a bunch of disbarred turtle- Pasadena, Calif.; and Aus! very long jockies wearing Frank Bailey; Tom Cobb and Rich- PIRA1 FIELDER Vernon COURTHOUSE SCENE Doug neck sweaters and chewing Durham plug). Of this group, our favor- Stephens Jumps bon, Durham, have shown the best ard Phelps; N. W. Humphrey and ites have always been the Troy (N. Y.) haymakers. This was a times with Tom Cordell, Bartles- W. B. Love; Pete Jeffreys and R. team that worked like mad, on sunny days, causing Horace Greely. ville, Okla., leading the way m P. Jobb; R. B. and J. F. IS TEXAS NATIVE OF MONDAY PARLEY then covering baseball for Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, to say "If ; Gwathney Browns For Mexican Ball the hudles. Zapf; Hooper Johnson and John B. one makes Hay while the Sun shines, one need not worry on days : Ausbon, recently a member oj D. H. and Paul of precipitation.” Howell; Earp Wil- Served Three Years In (Compiled from AP and UP) start and was clouted for seven State Federation Will the basketball team, has also son. Open shown the best marks in the Vernon star shortstop runs In the six innings he work- broad The E. B. takes to Stephens, great pains explain what the heck the Fourth flight: Gordon Doran and Coast Former Haefner and Ver- Drive jump and high jump. Guard; St. Louis stated ed .. Mickey Membership different players are supposed to do. For instance the short- for the Browns, Aumen and J. E. of Phila« J. M. Snow; Tom James and Allen non Curtis divided the Washington Curry stop has a longer throw' to make the on most U. Star On 1. Gravely; H- H. Marks and H. T. Baylor last night in Nuevo Laredo, M.exi- nine April delphia, Pa., are the only two let* of the balls batted toward the shortstop position. The short- pitching, the former giving up Newland, L. B. Howell and B. S. ico that he reached an agreement termen returning from last yes* i stop may be called the of the markers in five frames Lefty “Handy-Andy” infield. (There By EDWARD SACHS the Mexican for a Members of the New Hanover a Norwood and D. H. Gren- with league Ken Holcombe com- squad. is standing offer of S100 to be given to the man who calls Whaley; Joe Page and Star Editor contract. Stephens, a county chapter of the North Caro- Leo Durocher “Handy Andy” after the have lost shaw; Dr. D. R. McEachern and Sports five-year bined on a three- pitching job Dodgers been ARMED WINS AGAIN a Albert Forbes and holdout who had seeking $4,- lead lina Wildlife Inc. were -header.) Bergen; George C. W. Lancester, a well-built na- yesterday at New Orleans to Federation, 500 more than the he said CORAL GABLES, Fla., March W. H. Averette; W. D. McMillan $13,000 the Yankees to a 10 to 1 decision last of staked out urged night by chapter offi- —(U.R)— Fhe F. B. us tive Texas, last night was offered him by the American 30 Armed, Calumet Farm tells that the right fielder is the man “who and Herbert Bluethenthal. over the New Orleans Pelicans. guards cials to attend a of the hit right field. (Anyone who saw Babe Herman a claim on one of the starting league team, will discuss final meeting handicap star’, completed play right field knows Fifth flight F. P. O’Crowley and The Yanks only collected sev- that this is propaganda, pure and Our terms with Pasquel, presi- group in the courthouse Monday sweep of the double events stakes simple.) favorite is “a play- A- positions in the Wilmington Pirate Jorge en safeties but were helped ei or A. Marshall. Drawing byes in they tripped pocketed is a runner who is dent of the Mexican league consider the at Tropical Park today, winning successively prevented season he re- 15 walks ... Joe evening to adoption a base the fifth flight were R. B. Bell, N. outfield this when considerably by by skill of more than one of the If he signs with the Pasquels, five the second division in the same opposing E. Davis, D. W. W. R. Chris- Busi- DiMaggio drove in two of the of a chapter constitution and by- from^dvancing Lewis, turned his signed contract to Mexican brothers backing the cir- track record time which he won holm, F. A. Matthews, Dr. James Yanks runs to bring his RBI total laws. ness Manager Bert Kite. cuit, he automatically will face a the first division of the $20,000 Smith and M. S. Nesbett. to 42 Johnny Vander Meer, lnf°rmatJon “ baseba11 ^ «™mer from A preview of the charter re- mile-and-an-eighth test last Sat- fromVthehSpkonmgb News*61 "Lancester has been in the Coast five-year suspension organiz- Redleg hurler of no-hit fame, ed baseball under a ruling hand- vealed that it stress the federa- urday. Guard for over three years," Kite pitched his first full game of the ed down Commissioner A. B. Wilson by season at Plant tion’s HiSh opened its season Friday "But before service yesterday City, principal objective, tlje by said. entering (Ah Loves Baseball) Chandler blankingHGntPC;R?SmSItORTSooo Goldsboio, 20-0 Carolina TABERNACLE as the authorities are WINS and lost of doing every- he was a maintasy of the Baylor Fla., Syracuse creation a separate state divi- SKATES thing short of hypnotism in an Another standout, attempt to keep Lt Ben Carnevale team and before that Chiefs trimmed Cincinnati, 5 to FOR BEGINNERS coach of the White university Yankee Red said sion of game aad inland fisher- Phantoms, at Chapel Hill Ruffing an WinstomSalem sports an school 4, in exhibition tilt Jim aie the was outstanding high in that unless ies as a means of giving North move o£ Wake Forest to PLAYOFF OPENER yesterday Chicago Blackburn limited the Reds to six town wTiUr,ab0Utthe college their' player at Troy, Tex.” Carolina a better wildlife Deacs moving up the athletic scale. the Yanks call him to camp soon program. L^lth Winston-Salem i hits for the victory ... In all From *° S°me Lancester gets that happy paper he will “do drastic” Raleigh came word last of firEt‘rate home ^am^ Tabernacle Baptists won the first i something Vander Meer gave up nine hits. jhe BaS’SSqueads° from the Coast Guard April 3. like the Mexican night the federation will launch an game of the long-delayed playoff J joining league. Hal Newhouser, going the and will make tracks for his home said he he intensive membership drive on series for the championship of the Ruffing though full nine defeated the Bos- innings 1 with a 111 MARKET before he joins the local club. had a “few” left. April goal of 30,000 rpem- YMCA church league last night good seasons ton Braves at Lakeland 8 4. to bers by June 1. s when Heath, Tabernacle for- "Tex is a handed hittf» “I may wait until the season Alabama Gilmer Levy right The Tiger lefthander was Harry and fielder who is ticketed to move starts and then if I don't hear from Ross A. Stevens, executive direc- ward, hit from the floor to give the belted for 12 hits but his mates tor a 24 22 to a in the Larry MacPhail, I might size up of the federation now has 98 Baptists to win over the up higher league very went on an extra-base binge to First at the “Y” near Kite said. "He has this Mexican league that seems affiliated clubs in 94 counties. The Stars In Presbyterians future," win Eddie Lake slammed a Practice Game so free with its The federation was gyrn. one of the best-throwing arms I money.” homer and Dick Wakefield. Hank formally organized in Without have ever seen and 'can hit with Browns were also mixed up in an- June, 1945. Physical The series and Jim Outlaw were BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 30' 6, but a playoff began only Greenberg blocked kick near the Red our other baseball last and —(U.R)—All-American Halfback Har-' after the First Presbyterians had anyone in league." argument night good for doubles The Athle- Mental Suffering? goal put the ball on the one-foot when asked ry Gilmer actual Kite also they to tics OXFORD WINS scampered 76 yards line a protested the playoff claim- disclosed that repair edged by Toronto yesterday Investigate The Treat few moments later and return First Baseman Mc- Keeley after a that the was al- work at American George at Palm intercepting long pass to Fullback Frank ing championship Legion stadium West Beach, 7 to 6 LONDON, March ment. Over 60 years experience McAlpine went Quinn or a cash settlement 30—(TP)—Oxford give his White squad of Rose Bowl theirs virtue of their win- would be this week with Sam Jack won over for another White touchdown ready by underway Chapman, Wallaesa and its 43rd victory over Cam- One-half million patients. .. Re- an 18-6 McQuinn was traded to the Ath- champions win over the just before whistle ning all but one of their 20 games bleachers being erected along the George McQuinn each hit inside bridge in the quest confidential information. Red the blew. letics for First Sacker Dick Sie- 117-year-old rowing squad ai the two evenly- during the regular season. field's first and third base lines, the park homers The -lassie as more Boswell stood before the who Maple today than 500,000 matched teams a benefit silent bert has since announced staged However, the protest was over- painting of the grandstand and a Leafs hit frequently persons jammed the curving crowd at half-time and in a low, that he to and preview of the 1946 Alabama Crim- ac- plans quit baseball and hard reaches of firm thanked the ruled by the league's board of gov- general retouching job being during his four innings the Thames to welcome son Tide eleven here before voice, sponsors become a sports commentator in today of ernors and the orders. complished on the Wilmington but he was credited with the vic- oack the first full-length version the game. playoff St. Minn. 24,000 shirt-sleeved fans. Paul, General Man- Df this Vhe Only Keeley Institute in the South The next park. traditional sporting event “I’d like much to game of the best two- Bill DeWett k High in the v.esi stands of very see this Kite ager said, “I inform- (Continued on Page 11, Column 3) since 1939. L,- NOT HOME TREATMENT—_J Legion out-of three series will be remarked that Dunn will Field sat the teammate for whom game today,” the 29-year-old form- played' ed Mr. Mack that we were not “Y” have a crowd of 3,000 at its open- er halfback told the packed stad- at the gymn Tuesday evening. to 'hold the they were playing—Capt. Charley 7 going bag’ while Sse- If a third ing game May with the Pirates. ium. “I hope all of you enjoy it.” game is necessary it will bert made his Boswell, who was blinded by a He said that all the civic clubs up mind about his A smile never left his face as be played Saturday evening. German shell burst five baseball status ... I exactly of that town are to explained to highway patrolmen escorted him The box score: cooperating years to the day after he played fill the Dunn Mr. Mack that if he desired to back to the stands to his TABERNACLE FG FT TP park. his last football for Ala- join wife. recall of or game "I we can beat protest my McQuinn, Tickets for the game sold for L. Heath, £ _ 6 3 16 certainly hope bama in 1939. $1 a cash we would car- f _ 0 0 0 settlement, J. B. Dann, that we 'BUNNY' figure when the sea- HINES the and sponsors estimated that dona- open The .game see-sawed through R. Miller, f _ 2 0 4 the case to the baseball com- tions brought the total son the following night,” he com- ry first two until Hite Boswell Parker, f _ 0 0 0 periods Johnny mented. missioner.” And there the case fund to about $30,000. Gilmer cap- Freeman, c _ 1 0 2 “After all Wilmington is of the Whites tossed a short pass rests, the Baseball Com- tained the Whites while C. Heath, g _ 0 0 C about 10 times than awaiting over the to End Rand Leh- All-Ameri- larger Dunn." Announces The Of goal M. Austin, g _ 0 0 0 missioner A. B. (All Still Loves Opening can Center Vaughn Mancha man to put Gilmer's squad in front cap- P. Gore, g _ 10 2 tained the Red Baseball) Chandler’s decision 6 to 0. squad. ASKS "WATCHFULNESS” Total_ 10 4 24 George Binks hit a three-run hom-

Gilmer turned in the thrill of the — PRESBYTERIAN EG FT TP CHICAGO, March 30 UP) — The er yesterday at Orlando to climax day late in the action-crammed Wilmington's Newest Dempsey’s Violent Ray R. Newbold, f_ 1 1 3 Izaak Walton League of America a seven run rally in the ninth fought period when he intercepted H. f Newbold, 113 in a resolution today urged "alert which enabled the Wash- Gordon Pettus’ long heave and ran Battles Oliver Crowley, c 0 0 0 Tuesday watchfulness" by Federal Senators to defeat the Dod- 76 yards for his eleven’s winning Penny, g 3 0 6 Agencies ington Thomas, g- 10 2 in touchdown. conserving the nation's migrat- gers, 15 to 12 ... Joe Hatten, the MIAMI, Fla., March 30—Elmer West, g 3 2 8 ory waterfowl and asked control Dodgers’ widely-touted southpaw A few minutes later Piston-Leg- (■“Violent”) Ray, ballyhoocd by Total of SPORTING Alabama’s hard- 9 4 22 hunting by airplane. rookie, made his first exhibition STORE Lowell Jack GOODS ged Tew, Dempsey’s Boxing Promoters, new driving halfback, took on a Inc., as its main threat for the a short End role and hurled pass to heavyweight fight crown,, is sched- AT 15 PRINCESS STREET make the score 12 to Bob Hood to uled to meet his former conqueror, Dixie Lee Oliver, of Washington, Cooper, Ferrier Deadlocked Now In Stock! D. C., in a 10-round bout here, SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL Tuesday night. SHOES Winner of his last 14 fights, ALL SIZES Oliver beat the Hastings, Fla., For Charlotte Lead knockout sensation when Ray was Tourney APRIL PICKARD'S starting his climb up the pugilistic _ Lawson MONDAY, CHARLOTTE, March 30.— and Ed Oliver, Taunton, Little, Monterey, Calf., 137-71— [ (/P) Mass., l] 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 ladder. Ray has won 35 of his 208. Fighting back with a two-under oar as the day’s final three some just last 38 bouts Via the kayo route. Jimmy Demart, Houston, Tex., 141-88_ 34 to finish with a 72 to- as a brief but severe thunderstoi-m regulation 209. Featuring A Line Of Advertised day, of broke over the 6,410 yard Complete Nationally Chicago clung Meyers Ed Oliver, Taunton, Mass., 139-71—209. doggedly to the $7,500 Charlotte Park course. , Jr. New Orleans, 141-68— Open golf tournament lead with a Playing through the rain he par- 209. ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT & FISHING TACKLE 54-hole score of 206, but he was red the first hole and eagled the Stewart Alexander, Durham, 138-72— 210. forced to share the top spot with 490-yard second after two fine A1 Smith, Winston-Salem, 142-68—210, * Pete Gaines- had left him a 10-foot BASEBALL • Cooper, curly-haired shots putt. Johnny Revolta, Evanston, 111.* 141-69— SPOBTSWEAB to * ville, Fla., professional, who bang- He lost one stroke par on the 210. TENNIS • GOODS ed out a 68. fifth but as still one under com- Harold McSpaden, Sanford, Me, 141-71 AQUATIC —212. * the ninth a SOFTBALL • Breathing hot on their backs only ing to 215-yard, par Ed Furgol, Detroit, 140-72—212. FOOTBALL hole all the 142-71 * a stroke back were three 207 shoot- three uphill way. Johnny Bulla, Little Rock, Ark, GOLF • who joined —2i 3. BASKETBALL of Los Cooper, the tour in * ers, Angeles George Schneiter, Salt Lake City, Utah, • Florida last month and was HANDBALL whose 32-32—64 was the best score third 147-66—213. GUNS Snead at of the Vic of to Jacksonville, three-put- , Akron, O., 147-66—213. tournament; Ghezzi, and 144- Wide variety of popular games of all nick-nack! ted the fourth ninth but turned Leland Gibson, Kansas City, Mo., kinds and many useful Knoxville, Tenn., 69 today, and gg_213 for in 36. Coming in he the home. J Favorite of Hot par bagged five Joe Kirkwood, Sr., Philadelphia, 144- Springs, losing a shot birdies, when he put 69—J213. Hinei invites the around Va., 68. of Bunny cordially sportsmen of this vicinity to drop a ball out bounds of the 15th Clayton Feafner, Charlotte, 141-72— and inspect his new store The photo finish equipment was rp^ 20 leaders: 213. being hauled out tonight for an ex- Pete Cooper, Gainesville, Fla., 138-68— 200. pected tomorrow as 11 stampede Jim Ferncr, Chicago, 134-72—206. final round Snead, Hot players went into the Sam Springs, Va., 139-68_ PENN REELS blanketed by three strokes. 207. Lloyd Mangrum, Los Angeles, 143-64- Ferrier’s round, although only 207. HINES SPORTING GOODS CO. Ghezzi, Enterprise a was one of the most Knoxville, Tenn.. 138-69- par 72, 2oyi° *" " remarkable of the day. Starting the SPORT SHOP 15 j ST. on Harrison- Iittle PRINCESS DIAL 2-1120 round with a three-stroke edge Ark, J141-6D7-208. Bob Hamilton, 105 S. Front Dial 2-1830 the field, he teed off with Cooper Chicago, 141-37—208. j|