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football Attendance Takes Huge Jump During Season * IMPORTS TRAIL IpAP ALL MID-ATLANTIC SERVICE 19441 Survey Shows Gain L^r^ifiTNET MARTIN in the “Treasury Bond Bbwl” Of Over A Million —UPU- New t.cc. 6 — — I'vonK. game. They don’t come much bet- r ?£'■ feel the scheduling „lion tei, if than the NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—(IPS-Foot- i and the Second any. Ramblers’ Bill AVERAGE CROWDS ball attendance took a huge jump .tbui] same here Dc- Dudley, wjjose record for the year during the 1944 season, and even t'r sort of a consolation reads like a season’s statistics TWO iS for FOR YEARS after due allowances were made s iheir disappoint- !"'o or three "vfi. complete backfields. for a number of schools, which re- getting the Army- Among other things, he has car- SECTIONS 1943 1944 f° i° nor sumed the game this & 'V b its the kind ried year.after** !' r hough th«*ball 73 times for 595 East —.17,223 18,849 yards, season or two out of competition, set out 28 of 67 prize you'd completed passes for 464 Midwest _ 16,218 19,417 the over-all average showed a gaiP J^jja'iion yerds, received seven passes for South__ 11.110 11,352 of 13.8 per cent. V ;■ stand- 93 oi.o, spectator’s yards, averaged 43.5 yards on Southwest _ 8,133 10,726 to 17 The total attendance at 833 home ,, j-.self promises punts, returned 26 punts for 381 Far West_ 16,172 21,236 ... og as the recent games played by. 67 colleges co*» yards, made four touchdown runs National _ 14,691 16,552 ered the annual is:;i;, although nat- from scrimmage of 59, 48, 47 and in Associated Press lh0 colorful trap- 67 yards, passed for nine touch- survey was more than a. mil- :!lf'aVii.s lion and a half ■M' r the service contest downs, one higher than the at- tna including 50-yard effort, r0S ano kicked* six extra tendance for 273 games by 57 i.eh setting- points. PRO GRIDSTERS a schools last njv,.. the Easterners That jus; gives you an idea, and year. This year’s ap- ■ an he al''0 re the play of has a couple of teammates in proximate total was 5,554,999 as team End i.. nival Army Jack Russell and Center Tom TERMED ‘UNFAIR’ compared to last season’s 4,010,722, s:: Field Robertson r> ,i:(. Randolph who could play on any- Surprisingly, the resumption of which 17 ball ** L an outfit par- body’s team Second Air Force, JUSTICE^ football by a number of major ^ last Associated .. j-, the although defeated twice and tied Bainbridge Opening Meeting Of 43rd southern schools which had drop- u-a: ., ; undoubtedly thou- once, still is all the team anybody _Back ped the game accounted for only a rate as would Minor of"Soi';thv. sierners, want to meet orv one after- Annual League small part of this increase. Tha av- Cadets. noon, and it has a fine Sr than the all-around erage attendance per game in the will be an mcon- pjayer in Glenn Dobbs. Convention Routine Naturally .t south showed a 2.8 per cent, de- as it’s too So, from a football comparison, purely stand- crease while gains up to 31.9 per t!teV at a mountain point, the BUFFALO. N. Y„ Dec. 6—{JP)~ ,ike looking game looms as com- cent were registered in every oth>- whether it is parable to the Professional football was scolded m’JC,',rving to say Army-Navy contest, er section. than one of ac- and if the weatherman by the In{ernational League today ror smaller cooperates The average attendance f and unfair com- per size you had seen. The it should play to a sell out as “unfriendly vate crowd, game throughout the nation jump- to be out there to- v hich would mean petition until after the end of tl^e f.Ls have the sale of $87, ed from 14,691 in 1943 to 16,552 this the right sizeup, and 507,600' in war bonds. Seats will baseball season,” but the opening to get season, a gain of 2,031. The L*ggest always work, as those cost anywhere from $25 to meeting of the 43rd annual Minor ?E,:hoe-n’t $100,- RAMSEY average gains in attendance were game 000 in bords, with 210 field League convention was an- ",av; (|, Army-Navy boxes just made in the far 5.064 set west, for a on whc’her Glenn Davis aside at the latter figure. Bainbridge other routine affair. Guard percentage of 31.9. The best aver- Blanchard was the out- The odd part of the game is that Aside from appointing a creden- M«tx nrnnrrri—ifttimnn «hMi age gain, however, was registered hack. All they agree on if was plopped into New York’s tials committee headed by J. Al- line lap by Southwest Conference teams, couldn’t get along without previous ballyhoo or urg- vin Gardner of the “suspended” I-that Armv whose home attendance increased rd and that Davis ing. Abruptly it was annunced: Texas league and a resolution com- 31.9 per cent. “Here it is; it’s yours,” and no- mittee under Thomas H. Richard- h indispensible _ The University of Pennsylvania the Gothamites are go- body was more surprised than the son of the Eastern league, the base- An way. held its place at the head of the at- couple of real football Gnthami'es. They aren’t exactly ball men were more occupied in 1,1 t„ ieo’a tendance parade with 379,000 and m ade “A” players displeased, however. BRAY drawing post wai boom plans. spec- tators at eight games. Navy was SOSSAMON N. C. Preflight Some of the more daring have close behind with 353,770 for seven Bainbridge Tackle decided to give it a whirl in 1945, VANDEWEOHE the Center ^ the North Carolina State and Caro- games, including Army game Bainbridge fco,;. ; at Baltimore and undefeated Ohio Senior Volley Players line circuits having upped the ac- End State had 339,344 for seven tive list to 12 leagues. A Canadian games. -V-— league to be made up of Quebec Round ESCAPEE 'in Second Today and Ontario cities and an Indiana RECAPTURED I State league also are in the form- HICKORY, Dec. 6.—(£>)— Fred ative stage. Holmes, of who Insurance Companies Stage 26, Hondo, Texas., TAR HEELS DOWN euiure i.isi escaped from the Catawba prison Two Games At Y. M. On the future list, but not for camp where he was serving a 1945, is a New York State circuit three-year sentence was recaptur- C. A. Tonight of the American members of the ed last night at Long Island near 44-20 here. SOLDIERS, Canadian-American league which New York life Insurance elected Albert Houghton president Dec. 6.—UP>— team will en- CHAPEL HILL, State which are to company volley ball to succeed the Rev. Harold J. Mar- league, resume Mutual for the first time under in have either t h. Massachusetts Playing tin.' operations 1945, sign- Life ed or have umpar- and the Equitable their new coach, Lieut. Ben Carne- The Middle Atlantic loop is talk- hanging working agree- the of ments with clubs. '.-ill encage Metropolitan vale, North Carolina’s White Phan- ing jumping from class “B,” Major League of the jolls in ‘.he second round and Jimmy Hamilton is working Concord will work with the Phil- toms scored an easy 44 to 20 vic- Senior Volley Ball league at the on a new circuit around Knoxville adelphia Phillies, Statesville with over the hitherto undefeated l}[. c. A. today. The first match tory to cover Charlotte, Asheville and the Chicago Cubs, Lexington with the is scheduled at t> p. m., with Fort Bragg quintet here tonight. surrounding territory if the Sally the Philadelphia Athletics, Hick- at 7 with the New second contest following It was Carolina’s ball game from league agrees. ory York Giants, The Thomasville with the o'clock. the beginning, and with newcom- TRIPPl HIGHTOWER juiiiNauiv Texas league decided to re- Brooklyn A. w. Smith, physical director at De FILLIPO main for Dodgers and with the ers Jim Jordan and Ira Norfolk 3rd AAP Peary’ Bainbridge “suspended” another Salisbury he "Y" explained that a team Peary : a 5-3 leading the way the Phantoms Rac/c year by vote against renewal, Pittsburgh Pirates, a minimum of four Back may play with moved ahead 12-to-2 midway of Tackle and the Canadian-American and and a maximum of six, players, the first period. At the half the Sally leagues were content to stay and that a team would be allowed sidelined for score favored Carolina, 16 to 8, In .the duration. The re- minutes before a game ten grace the second half, with Coach Carne- vived Middle Atlantic and New ns declared forfeited. vale the mar- Season’s Crowd York loops are still in the talking will be substituting freely, MIAMI TOURNEY Largest HOOP SCHEDULE The two winning trams and not about 1945. gin of victory continued to in- stage thinking Come entertained the losing outfits at by crease. Delegates get down to serious Early an oyster roast. WILL OPEN TODAY For Match SET AT CATAWBA work tomorrow when the 13 amend- You Won’t Scream! been to Jordon paced Carolina’s scoring Expected Tag You’ll Roar! Schedules have planned ments will be considered. Most and with 11 points, while Norfolk and Cary Grant in include 15 games, — — point Fla., Dec.