rwuflg A—14 WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1942. Part Payment in Defense Bonds of All Baseball Salaries Urged by MacPhail ~ ^ —. .. ..., ■ .. ■- 1 __ _____ _JL. A Tilt of All-Stars, Sports Program Lose or Draw ; Hockey's Injury i For Local Fans Win, TODAY. FRANCIS E. By STAN. Basket Ball. S ar Stall Correspcnann. Jinx Runs Wild Picked Service La Salle vs. Columbus. Tech One Day When Milan Wouldn't Listen to Griff gym, 8:30. Maryland at Virginia Military, NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—As these lines were written Judge Kene- Lexington, Va. saw Mountain Landis, the frosty old gentleman who holds the whip Nine Wrestling. over the major baseball was no statement as re- At Haven New at leagues, making i Proposed Maryland Virginia Poly, gards the so-called national pastime and World War II. It is within : Blacksburg. Va. at Ullne Landis’ power to order 154 games of night ball a season for each Fractures Rob Club Dodgers' Boss Offers Weekly program Arena, club and within his to order all 8:30. jurisdiction lighting systems Wartime Plan at scuttled and the steel, aluminum and melted down to make Of Boxing. copper Five; Flu, Army Lee Savold vs. Neville Beech more bicycles for Leon Henderson to ride for the benefit of pho- Get Three More Writers' Party feature. Turner’s Arena; first tographers. bout, 8:30. here By JUDSON BAILEY, j But so far Landis has not committed himself, and on the way By LOU BLACK, A»»ocl»ted Press Sports Writer. to a rare baseball “war meeting” President Clark Griffith of the Wash- Associated Press Sports Writer. — Feb. 2.—A wartime ington ball club was admitting that the judge's silence was beginning NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 2 NEW YORK, to wear down even his <Griff's> own robust nerves. "And I'm healthy, by What's happening to the New Haven program for baseball, involving an Central and Wilson club of the American Hockey sin.” boasted the 72-year-old boss of the Nats. “Think what it's doing League all-star game with a service team should happen only to the Japs. to the other fellows.” and of in The mounting casualty list has con- partial payment players Battle for in All of which reminded Griffith how potent is the weapon of silence. for Spot vinced local supporters that their Defense bonds, was proposed “I've used it myself, many times.” he was telling Secretary Edward B. ice heroes have been spending their the major leagues today by red- Eynon, jr„ and Spencer Abbott, one of his farm team managers, on the time walking under ladders. spare headed Larry MacPhail, president Series train from Washington. “Let me tell you about the time I clashed with If the Eagles aren't the murder- Playoff ! of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Clyde Milan.” Milan since has served as Griffith's manager and cur- ous sport's all-time hard-luck team, ac- The fiery. Imaginative boss of the one how else, they ask. would you j Game Rated a rently is of his coachesj out- Tossup; count for the with which i National League champions frequency effort their favorites have been making | lined an all-out emergency Western Is Favorite last at The Old Fox Held Pre-Game Meetings ambulance sirens sound overtime i for the diamond sport night the nineteenth annual dinner of Over Anacostia Griff out one of his two-for-a-nickel cigars, peeled it and these nights? pulled baseball writers and follower of murder on ice the New York struck a match. “This happened back in 1912.” he began. “It was my Every said he expected the National and The big game on tomorrow's high I had been in knows that this melange of speed, first year as manager in Washington and the first time American to consider the flying skates and sticks and vicious Leagues school basket ball program pits the American for some time. Before every game, when I League quite But subject at their meetings today. body checks is dangerous. why, Central and Wilson on the neutral was called. Wed talk over the hitters and was a In managed, a meeting enemy fans want to know, should misfor- MacPhail. who captain invite the to the First World War and one of a Roosevelt court with a spot In tha lay plans. I always had my say, but I'd also players speak tune concentrate on New Haven? | small that to kid- the Both have up, too. ■With two months to go, the Eagles group attempted playoff round as prize. the Kaiser after the Armistice, their roster lasts. nap won three one in series “Anyway, we were opening a series with the-White Sox and Jacques only hope supply and. dropped was allotted a few minutes on an winner definite- One Has Skull Fractured. 1 competition and the Fournier was playing first base for them. I was going to pitch Walter extensive at the The club's casualty list plus a speaking program ly will be among the select four bat- Johnson this day and so I told the fellows how I thought they should writers' affair and it was midnight couple of enforced departures makes tling for the crown now held by Fournier. I told Milan, for instance, that a fast-ball pitcher before he his chance to tell play frith sad reading: got Roosevelt. and shade the of a thousand like Johnson working the center fielder should play deep Marcel Tremblav, right winger, DIAMOND ACES HONORED-Hank Greenberg. Joe Di Maggio and Mel Ott Heft to right i hold assemblage per- Also on tomorrow's program is sons what he thought baseball Fournier in left center. Fournier, of course, was a left-handed hitter.” suffered a fractured skull in Indian- awarded them at last night's dinner of the New York baseball writers. Greenberg, re- Western at Anacostia. with the Red plaques to the war a and cackled as he recalled the "Milan.” out should contribute pro- ! Raiders favorite*. Both series clashes GrifT took long puff episode. apolis and may be of the game cently returned to the Army, was honored for "extraordinary service to baseball"; Di Maggio as gram. will start at 3:30 o'clock. he continued, "was at his peak. He and Cobb were the best base stealers forever. of the and Ott. of the "for service to | “player year,” newly appointed manager Giants, outstanding All-Star Game. he was well and he Gus Mancuso. right winger, was Would Move As in most contests among leading in the game. Clyde was a good ball hawk, hitting baseball all over a long period of time.” —A. P. Wirephoto. j lost for almost a month when he four teams, the Central-Wilson meeting had some ideas of his own. ‘Listen,’ he said to me, ‘you just came in this His suggestions fell into fractured his left wrist after crash- is rated a tossup. although the lpague. I've been playing Fournier for quite some time. I know how to groups. ing into the boards. 1. Move this year's all-star game Vikings may have a tough time play him and it ain't left-center. It's right-center.’ George Patterson, center, broke his from little Ebbets Field to the spa- stopping Wilson's high-scoring quint. “I asked the players for an expression of sentiment,” said Griff, “and in Beech Defies left ankle Pittsburgh and has been Experts Basketers' Naismith Memorial cious Polo Grounds and let the win- Hillock Leads Strong Attack. there was a lot of arguing. So I said, 'Well, most of you seem to agree on the shelf for five now at weeks: ner face an all-star service team in Led by tenter Don Hillock, all- with Milan so we'll play his way today and see.’ After all, I had been his home in Joyceville. Ontario, he's some Midwest Fund Is Diverted to War Aid city. high choice last year who is averag- for some time.” slated to return to action 'the New in base- out of the American League In Boast He'll Put 2. Let everyone organized ing 12 points a game this season, Haven this the a management hopes* ball. including players, accept the Tigers have been running up week. his in Defense Until Hostilities End; percentage of salary sizable margins on most opponents, Runs Beat the Nats Wilf was out Building Delayed Fournier's Two Home Hoch, defenseman, Bee on Savold bonds. with Fred Vinson. John Coffey and for six weeks due to a knee admis- There was no bleacher section in left or center field at the time, and injury Southwest, Coast Loop Races Tighten 3. Set aside a part of every Bill Jawish also taking a hand in which required an a he so when Fournier drove on a line to left-center in the seventh inning, operation. sion to buy bomber, which sug- the point-geting. The fifth member Coach Earl Robinson, downed by Will Give D. C. Fans be while a runner was on base, it went for a home run after Milan barely Ring Bv HAROLD CLAASSEN, gested might appropriately of the starting team. Bud Lemeri.se. the flu twice, has just about re- Associated Press Sports Writer. named Kenesaw Mountain Landis. lead was out and the Sox were also has been dropping them in missed a catch. A 1-0 Washington wiped covered from the second Cause to Remember siege. 2.—The Naismith Memorial Executive Com- 4. Make use of every open date in front, 2-1.