The Wildcats Face All-Star Cagers Tonight Morning Watch FORMER COLLEGE COACH FINDS BARE PANTRY WITH Local Fan Asks NCHSAA Edward Sachs PLAYERS MAKE UP For Ain Open Meeting Abe’s Birthday GRAYSTONE FIVE Mr. C. E. McIntosh, Secretary on N. C. High School Athletic Assn. Raleigh, N. C. We didn’t expect to work last night, Abe Lincoln’s YMCA Varsity Meets Iven- Dear birthday, you know, but the sporting scene was unusual- Mr. McIntosh: hoe Quintet In Pre- I with much interest the “muddled” situation active so we’ll have to consider several things this have been following ly on the New Whistling that popular ditty liminary Contest involving one Johnny McKoy, who is the star center morning. “Marching Hanover school basketball team. Through Georgia,’’ let us look over the following: High By GENE WARREN I originally came from the greatest basketball state in the union, Star Sports Writer first a gentlemen answering to the name of Raymond D. Indiana, and until the latter part of August 1945, lived in Atlanta with a of a The powerful Graystone All-Stars Christman comes through honey suggestion, to wit.” quite a few years, where I have always been an ardent follower of school bowl game between New Hanover High trek to Wilmington today to try . high school’s baseball, basketball and other sports; having played both myself. football team and a leading eleven front one of the five surround- their luck at routing the New Han- From all the news I could gather on this case through •“g states to be played each Hangover day in American Legion over High school Wildcats, who reading stadium.” are trouncing everything in their the local papers, it seems to me that somewhere, certain persons got _ path in the Eastern A conference. mad at the way this high school team ran “rough-shod” over theirs don’t know if has We anything been done to back up Mr. Coach Leon Brodgen said last in basketball, and through some minor technicality, they saw a chance suggestion but in of Christman's place a bandwagon, this night that the All-Star-Cat game to throw “mud” in the face of not the school team, but a will on Mr. only high corner jump Christman’s letter, which ran on the would start at 8:00 following a of the Star, young member of that team, who is trying to get an education, enter editorial page Monday morning, and say at last pre-game tussle at 6:30 between has suggested a sport’s seems loves and learn to be a real American. someone promotion that tailored the Y. M. C. A. Varsity and Ivan- into activities of sports he of for ^ the needs Wilmington. hoe. What has been “handed” to him now, will linger in his memory instead of Graystone, a quint composed many years and we should be helping our boys trying to unlike so We hope that, many things, this idea does not die a of American mostly of Marines that live ashore put a “dishonorable discharge” from the playing sports ■ The possibilities of such a game are unlimited. Picture stillbirth. in the Morehead City area, boast team like Boys High of Atlanta or Miami or even a strong as is in this case. , one of the best clubs in eastern team from Virginia, Pennsylvania, or New York in the stadium In the first should the secretary of this association give North a place, why a New Hanover eleven and know that the at- Carolina, having perfect against good you Coach Leon Brogden of Wilmington, permission to play McKoy, if : would make the a fixture. season. John Mercer, coach of the tendance game to "crawl „eam, has at his command players he did not have the authority? Is he trying now away” from such as from some that is too for him the “buck” or Next, the Carolines Association of the AATJ wants a vote colleges Kingsly Prep, thing big by passing of West Uni- on the leading male and female athletic stars of the two states University Virginia, was he trying to pull a “fast one?” for the annual Louis E. Teague Memorial awards. When first versity of Pittsburgh, Westminster I feel, and know that thousands of other real, red-blooded Ameri- contacted by the AAU last month we nominated Jim Jordan, College, and the University of In- to the entire Ameri- can sports, that a meeting should be called, open North Carolina basketball player, and Estelle Lawson Page, diana plus several high school can (who wish to attend) and the members of tiie press, re- i other sports writers nominated Carroll Bowen, Catawba stars. All in all, the squad aver- public Marion Clemson football and basket- of the or constitution of this association. three-sport man; Butler, ages about six foot in height, which gardless by-laws coach at Erskine c ollege in Due West, S. C., knows just how Old Moth- ORD Harry Bolick new football ball Grady Hatton, Greensboro all-around ath- a factor the roo m for football finds the player; will prove big against Yours very truly, er Hubbard felt as he looks into the storage equipment—and cupboard lete and semi-pro baseball player de-luxe; George Clark, athletics in of all football small locals. In their last game, Don Hassler pretty bare When the school discontinued 1941, it disposed equipment football player; UNC’s swimming stars, Billy Kelly of sh oulder a a blanket and a few balls. Duke’s the All-Stars came out on top 56 a few odds and ends such as a couple pads, jersey, Bobbv Temple, amateur boxer from Florence, S. C. 2650-A Adams Street, except and to 31, and are anxious to stop the Wilmington._ Women nominated include Greensboro swimmer, Evelyn Bar- athletic ace basketball rampaging Wildcats. bee, softball star Bertha Dunn; girl Brodgen s plans lor tomgnx s xnt and swimming, Francis Kenney and Mrs. Page. DAVIDSON DIRECTOR were interrupted somewhat when failed to re- For is votes lanky Johnny McKoy INVOLVED Coan sense m tne panoting given tnree SHEPHARD League bpot Each participating Big • Eager to because of frac- each division and “after the careful consideration’’ requested port practice in him IN TRAFFIC MISHAP AAU Presdent L. J. Fisher of High Point and Award Chairmen tured finger, which hampers by half Wade of Charlotte, we pick Jordan, Bowen and Clark in the in his shooting, and the other Jake — IS. — division and Page, Kenney and Dunn of the gal’s. of the ‘Mutt and Jeff” combination, DAVIDSON, Feb. (IP) YEARLING PLAYER Nine Hanover Gridders JOCKEYS BANNED men's Di- W. A. Brown, stayed out with a Davidson College Athletic and Furman Bisher, sports writer of the Charlotte News, upon cold. Both Brown and McKoy are rector Norman W. Shepard with several FOR his return from service, has come through good exceptional cagers, both being very Mrs. Shepard were recuperat- SENATOR’S CHOICE For Backfield FROM TURF carries a Bisher epic on the Aiming yarns. Today s Star sports page popular with Wilmington fans, es- ing at their home here today the Washington Senator’s nride of Mineral Springs, Gil Coan, the Brown. Even from recently received man seems to pecially tiny Injuries train- rookie. Bish is an eager young who In The New Hanover spring BETTING COUP outfield both were out of action yes- In an automobile accident OUTFIELD POST editor s though FOR BLUE DEVILS BEAT kick out of his work. In these days of sports ing sessions hit their stride yester- eet a big there is a chance that Cornelius. It was the only one available, terday, they nearby lettermen and who have taken the job because Im- day as varsity junior WRECK may take part in tonight. Shepard’s condition was RAMBLING Bisher seems to be a pleasant exception. varsity stars continued to turn out Seven Ruled Out For Life If the duo is not prepared for the college officials said Outstanding Performer Of proving, every day anxious for the condition- 73 TO 31 battle, their places on the first hut Mrs. Shepard was QUINT, Of When Commissioner Jay Jenkins, the pride of Cleveland county today, Association ing practice that Coaches Leon As A Result and team will probably be filled by from Internal Injuries Southern for the Class B Bisher cornered Jay suffering — — was in Charlotte meeting, Brodgen, Tom Davis, and Jap DURHAM, Feb. 13 (A3) on baseball background Don Hyatt and Charlie Smith. seriousness of her con- Pimlico ‘Fix’ Proceeded to pump him Wilmington’s and the Gets Major Tryout Davis having maped out for then Bouncing back from its worst of a Collie puppy. However, Jay, schooled in Smith has seen plenty of action has not been determined. with the intensity dition until March. defeat of the Duke’s Blue stalled and gave one of the in the ’Cats’ last two affrays, and year, JOHN LANGDON the College of Shelby politics parried, FURMAN BISHER in By that By the are Devils defeated Georgia Tech exhibitions of a man talking but not saying anything may be called the ‘six’ man on the The majority of gridders United Press Sports Writer nicest NEA Correspondent a basketball game time. also Special out for backfield high-scoring (U.R) — we have seen in a long first string. ‘Hacksaw’ Tuttle, going positions, BALTIMORE, Feb. 12.— Feb. 12. — There here tonight, 73-51. a reserve, may alternate with HANOVERJAYVEES CHARLOTTE, especially the fast ends such as Seven steeplechase jockeys and a nice Coans and little Coans, The Yellow Jackets led in the Bish didn’t a but in payment for the really if McKoy is not on hand.