Whiteville Refuses ‘Winner Take AIV Encounter [flattered Graziano TKO’s Zale Wilmington Team Appeals 1 In Sixth Round Of Chicago Bout STANDINGS To National Headquaters TOBACCO STATE LEAGUE By SID FEDER for some reason, that ‘‘a clean Columbus County Team Begins Series With — STADIUM, July 1C. fight is most important to you, Team Won Lost Fct. Games CHICAGO0 Rock-a-bye Rocky Graziano, Rocky, because this commission is WARD Behind Dunn American Sanford_ 55 20 733 — Legion Entry For South- l-^ueh kid off lower Manhat- a member of the National Boxing STRANAHAN, Lumberton _ 4ii 32 .573 12 ti!f, corners — the kid they Association and we ,*eet any suspension WILMINGTON_ 42 35 545 14 ern First In enough to take hand out stands all over Clinton 38 £B Crown; Game Called Eighth ,a”/wasn’t game the Unit- SURVIVE OPENERS --- .500 17 1-2 Dunn-Erwin _ 38 39 »aI". lrlj 0f punishment Tony Zale ed States.” By the time the count .464 18 thS Warsaw _ 37 39 487 18 1-2 won the World Mid- reached three Tony was already BY GENE WARREN Hed out Selma-Smithfield _ 29 47 X02 26 1-2 on the to his championship tonight by way feet, badly hurt, Pair Eke Out Victories Red Springs _ 22 54 289 33 1-2 Star Sports Writer height but still ready to go until he Today’s Gamoa “We are the of the d°ing exhibition couldn’t more. In Western Sanford at WIILMLNGTON. champions Eastern half of the South- ^fierce a flailing go any Amateur; brawling that But referee Johnny Behr, coach Clinton at Red Springs. ern league by official rules. Certainly Wilmington would 1 Mood-and-thunder Lumberton at Dunn-Erwin. o* of 18.547 more than of the American team in Brothers Clash us them a “tiie crowd Olympic Selma-Smithfield at Warsaw. enjoy seeing play three-game series for the crown. most of the way. 1936 wouldn’t let him. He stepped But should we? We would ffi hysterical BY SKIPPER PATRICK Yesterday’s Results why have everything to lose and kid came on to stop in and it at 2:10 of the All games rained ou.. h rock-a-bye stopped to said in the sixth DES MOINES, July 16—(JP)—De- nothing gain,” H. M. Leaman, Whiteville America* magnificent Tony sixth. He may have been right AMERICAN LEAGUE arena af- fending champion Frankie Strana- What Wilmington is kicking m this sweltering and he may have been wrong to fl'■“Lrf medalist Marvin (Bud) W L Pet. Games about is tile slow manner in all of Zale’s Sunday write it off the first time han and which absorbing Tony Behind WILDCATS SLATE district still for Ward survived the opening round 10, moguls have handled the himself, and asking was on the deck, because the ex- New York_ 56 26 683 ,s0 of Red Springs issue. the first four heats, match play in the Western Detroit -4C 35 .546 11 1-2 LOOKING FOR ANOTHER They say they e through sieel mill hand from Cary, Indi- — Boston protested the first once in the Amateur Golf tournament today, _ 42 37 532 12 1-2 game played f. been floored ana, had come off the floor in their left had been but not until they had received Philadelphia _ 40 42 488 16 _ and his eye a to make it an old bulldozer rip-snorter year ago Cleveland _ 36 38 486 16 Anybody got LOCALS MEET but sincere that the cham- and his right all come back from warning Chicago 37 45 451 18 1-2 not using next year? Lhed open —had, in fact, they’re The Wilmington American Le- * en- road is to be _ 43 as as a sealea to pionship going rocky- Washington 35 .449 18 1-2 If so, contact tbe New Han- 10 tight the very edge of dreamland gion is re- St- _ squad requested to the third and all the way. Louis 28 50 .359 26 through score his spectacular knockout. over High Wildcats grid head- to aa;ope Games port 13th and Ann field for Stranahan, the muscular shot- Today’s quarters pronto. hav- But Behr had the full say in there New York at Cleveland Chandler Already an this to (2) important meeting to come. He was maker from Toledo, O., had go scheduled 10 football par- he started —and Behr said no. And there (9-4) and Johnson (4-2) and Embree ing morning at 10 o’clock, it was f,Then twenty-two holes for a 1-up vic- (4-7) vs Gromek for Wildcat coach the range and his terrific so hiding the fact that Tony was (2-1). ties 1947, learned ,!nd over Milton Boston at Chicago (2) Dobson (9-5) yesterday. were right on the tar- and hurt badly. tory slip (Mickey) Leon Brogden is on the look- “"bombs hurt, and Dorish (5-8) vs Gillespie (5-4) and r Beal, Clinton, la. out for another to fill in an Tony weakened notably, It was a flash finish to Lopat (7-7). with the Robeson on sudden, CARDINAL BACKSTOP DEL RICE makes a beautiful stab at aggregation of Wash., two- — October 17 date. the last part of the fifth a was billed as the Ward, Spokane, Philadelphia at St. Louis (night) open 11 because ‘'rough fight that the flying Johnny Wyrostek of Philadelphia at the plate, but un- July of two ineligible Zale with murderous time National and Western Ama- Fowler (5-7) vs Sanford (3-5). The Wildcats added .tagged fight of the year and lived up to he missed the ball, which can be se n between have Red Springs players and nothing * and low in the fortunately scooting Washington at Detroit (2) Hudson both hands that drew bond. teur titlist amateur of and the Phillies won first three opponents this season, was done until Jf from its billing like a government his legs. ‘Wyrostek scored, course, the (5-6) and Haefner (3-8) vs Trucks (6-6) July 14. During from the recent U. S. Open, sweated out a a from St. and Za ‘'ooohs” steaming Ever since they’d fought a year game of double header Louis, 4-2. The Redblrds evened and Benton (5-5). two strong Virginia outfits this lapse Wilmington whipped Red the early part 2 and 1 decision over husky David the count in a 10-inning nightcap, 3-2. Wadesboro which won “ctators. Through ago, and had the customers prac- Yesterday’s Results High, Springs six times. Then when he took Dixon of New Orleans. New York 8; Cleveland 2. the Eastern A news the sixth complete standing on their ears, this Class champion- did come of the protested " tically St. Louis 5-1; Philadelphia 4-4- all but tore Tony apart be “it” and it Beal and Dixon made the quali- ship last year. Maury High of affair, league officials, who are Lge and one was going to Boston 7; Chicago 2. from rope to rope, class in a Norfolk and He drove him was. fying playoff yesterday Detroit 9-1; Washington 8-10. Petersburg High supposed to know the rules, said to corner, as Zale, as with four others who posted 36- Bucs Get Rained are the two newly-slated the would be ,rnm corner The customers knew that these Out; NATIONAL protested game given LEAGUE they ever come tried to roof hole totals of 161. teams from the Cavalier state. to Wilmington. These men had gair.e as two specialists in caving the as he did a year a Behind overlooked the caluse back, just in to fool with any Beal, frail, 6-foot, 3-inch, sandy The schedule: stating, “'a Li weren’t going Brooklyn 49 34 .590 — pier-six lad who served 33 months — team an „ in their sensational haired Does Else Boston 12 Wadesboro in using ineligible player 15-round-to-a-decision panty-waist So 46 36 563 2 1-2 Sept. this return Everyone will in the as a _ be from the brawl that produced stuff. Neither is built that way. south Pacific captain New York 43 36 .559 3 1-2 Wilmington. dropped league St. Louis “natural.” in Uncle Sam’s forces, -43 39 .524 5 1-2 — and none of their games bLit as a So the customers responded with fighting Sept. 19 Maury High in counted, make Somebody’s Wilmington Cincinnati _ 41 42 .494 8 wouldn’t let him it, outstroked Stranahan in the first Norfolk. victories cr defeats.” Rocky cash on the barrel head. They Piratesj Chicago 37 45 .451 n 1-2 absorbing a chance to show their finally, after nine and led at the turn. didn’t get 26 — S. C. Wilmington’s Coach Tom Davis however, made the cash registers jingle to 2-up THOMSON SPARKS Philadelphia _ C6 47 .454 13 Sept. Charleston, “1 than any normal body off his best baseball wares in Clinton last in and business manager Bunny more such a merry tune that they not Playing slightly Yesterday’s Results Wilmington. had to fall. He Hines believe their were Tony Stranahan failed to nar- Boston 3; St. Louis 0. — boys giv- could Ttand, wrote a new all-time indoor form, night, thundershowers checking Oct. 3 Rocky Mount in the center rope, half only Brooklyn 10; Pittsburgh 6. en a rotten deal. Had action been collapsed over record of into the row the gap until the seventeenth, 6 TO 3 GIANT WIN Wilmington.