Smoke Rings LOUIS K. O.’S BURMAN Time * IN FIFTH To Speculate * * * » ir t KNOCKOUT PUNCH _ ★★★ ★★★ By SAM RAGAN IS BLOW TO BODY Florence Boxers Score Win Over Wildcats £ to the ot all ----- Here we come baby the months and just of babies there’s a lot of ■n fy,e case speculation wrapped Baltimore Battler Gives As ANOTHER CHANCE By JackSords S this 28-day parcel Much As He Receives for VISITORS watch tor speculation to run rampant in the fields TRIUMPH Blackbirds Score 36-29 Just Four Rounds of Fight baseball, basketball, boxing and football during February. leaguers go grapefruit-leaguing, the basketball- BY 51-2 TO 41-2 Win Over Local The”major* the home By SID FEDER Cagers eo down stretch, boxing keeps up its up-and- NEW YORK. Jan. 31. — CP) — Joe and rumors continue to float as to Nall and Mark V;, business about Hughes, Holt Wilmington Juniors Even the ^° Louis wheeled out a new kind of this or that football coach will keep his job. Up Victories for New Han- Count With 19-16 Lo- hether bomb from his arsenal Win; Go First tonight and SOUTHSIDE CAGERS Giants over Team Here with it knocked out Clarence the Red in Meet cals Rally in Finale than two weeks, the first ^, 1>ss sbic, -jme diamond teams ARNOVICH Burman to successfully pass the BEAT TABERNACLE ASKED — ci, spring training and then "unlucky 13” in his record-breaking ) By GLENWARD BLOMME ROCKY MOUNT, Jan- 31. Wil- «** V of discussion as r-anner run as world heavyweight champion. The classy Florence High school mington's Wildcats were the victims we Smith to and where do go ring squad just to ease out Scores 26 Points starL=\vho NOT TO ENLIST For the first time in his managed of a last period rally here tonight as ! three-year "here Toe Giants start their a 5 1-2 to 4 1-2 victory over the New Lead reign as king of the fistic world, he the Rocky Mount Blackbirds scored Scoring; Immanuel, on Feb. 12 and before Hanover High school punchers in the fc0rmn£' hop a for knocked out a rival with a local 36 to 29 Eastern Class A confer- Lutherans Also Win Z- ceese flv northward again Terry Says He Prefers punch to ring last night before an en- will be on the thusiastic crowd of ence teams Player to Wait for Draft; the body—a smashing right hand cheering fans victory. If?the I who mixed their cheers with boos f'r.ditioning Geld. that polished off a game, gallant, Coach Rupert Bryan was in Although idle last night, the Grace about Says Reds Best Club troublesome for 1 and yells. \nd all of this is coming challenger keeps in charge of the team in the absence Methodist basketball team jumped hold- two minutes and 49 seconds of the Several exhibition matches '“-■■t even a single major put on of Head Coach Bob Black. into a tie with Tabernacle for the " by the of There are no rifts to fifth round. charges Porter Davis, Sr., league lead, when the latter went to aa’e By JUDSON BADLEY The to even ac- was opened the card, and the Jay-vees managed and the only worry So unexpected it. that the youngsters down before the Southside attack 34- NEW Jan. counts for the ’Cats in the opener of fetched'up now have is YORK, 31.——'The in Madison Garden let drew the applause of the spectators baseball crowd Sauare 25 on the Y. M. C. A. court in a the bosses of a twin bill with a 19-16 win over the reg- question of military service for an audible as the Brown by their to mix it and out of the draft. out gasp willingness up ular loop contest. to keep Morrie the New York Baby Birds. Dick Watts paced the h“’nv Arnovich. Bomber revealed this new way of ar- i ne oo-r showed real skill in the boxing game. the club owners say Wildkittens with six The Southside offense revolved c.f Giants new outfielder, came up at the old result. to to- The young punchers will be entered points. for their riving Up i OPfUiS about G. Smith, tall who .. ask deferment center, ^ n-t for airing again today with Man- he had flattened ten of the in the Golden Gloves juvenile divi- Wilmington led at the third r the night, racked a tut Bill Terry of up total of 26 points, more ager Bill Terry expressing opposi- 12 battlers who had challenged the \ieme sion. ter by 23-20. Midway of the last that the government than the entire Tabernacle team. G '«av tion to Arnovich immedi- he when he finished old stanza the Wildcats were leading by fellows as enlisting reign began Summerford, 90 pounds, of Flor- The losers were without the services keep such 25-24—and then the ately as President Horace Stone- Jim Braddock in Chicago in 1937. ence, drew first blood for the Blackbird blitz- on the baseball visitors of F. Kelly, who was away with the u/nk Greenberg ham had Each time, head were the with a krieg began. Captain Cotton Walker income suggested. punches three-round close decision j NHHS Junior D. led pay enough and Earl Cade led the last varsity. James feds. They'll “crushers.” Tonight, coming up u\ei- ±. nunt quarter baseball Terry was one of several base- or uumington, also the Tabernacle scoring with 11 result of playing — for the locals. as a ball against the "13 jinx” which was 90 rally of notables who arrived in town weighing pounds. Summerford had This was Tabernacle's fir3l the military training but that—he turned the points. finance today for the annual of anything too long a reach for the local punch- Bill Bowen led the Wilmington other fellows, he says. banquet loss of the second half. a dozen trick with a punch under the heart er the latter carried the New York baseball writers although the In the second Round Table the Baltimore battler game of the triple- Sports that stopped fight to the visitor and got in close was next high. Cliff Owensby turned Sunday. Manager Leo Durocher header, Epwortli lost a heart-breaker Jeter, chairman of the and dead. to punch out his points. Summerford in the best floor game for the visi- Harold Outfielder Joe Medwick of the to the fighting Immanuel quintet, outdoor sports com- A crowd of IS,061 piid $62,899 to used a long right to the head and tors. For Rocky Mount. Center Pad- Wilmington Brooklyn Dodgers and General 28-26 after leading by 14-7 at the half making plans for an all- see the show. body. gett led the attack with 9. Hayes nittee/is Manager Branch Rickey of the St. mark. Immanuel came back For four rounds, Clarence the Red. on way slate here this sum- marked featured defense. around sports Louis Cardinals also were among Dusenberry up the second with a rush in the fourth and final rated for the past two years among the arrivals. successive point for the South Caro- The lineups: mer. early the world's first five heavyweights, period, and in spite of the loss of he to do is linians by outscoring the hard FT Pts. Ine first thing plans a fight- Rocky Mount (36) FG the foul route, Terry held big press confer- gave as good as he received. Nat- Pridgen by staged all of the leading ing Sammy Doxey in the 95 pound Hayes, f_ 113 to call together ence and said his outfield he couldn't match the AbR depend- urally. negro’s 6AWES’ ax division. Doxey could not inside in the section and get Valentine, f_ 0 0 0 ahead into the fourth sports figures ed almost altogether on Arnovich. punching power. But. fighting out of MAJORS AS A MgM66(? CR by 20-1G going in his -i*Wvfr>CM£Sr£R US-r the southpaw punches of Dusenberry f_ 0 0 0 authority to each Luper, but Immanuel came down delegate He was asked if he agreed with a crouch, he absorbed all of Joe’s AUouli^G- BoSToA Reo quarter ahead with athle- VEAR, 'TAe Sox and had to be content to shoot his Turner, f_ 0 2 2 chosen field to go the the stretch.wide open and with every proposal to have the 26-year- "Sunday punches" and came charg- &JX 2.9k eAfWED and left to the PH0Mi*4e> SiAFp right body. Both f .. 3 1 7 tic SAME. Walker, member of the at plans. old Superior, Wis., player volun- ing in. He cut Louis’ right eye slight- CLWS PER lads mixed it line-up scoring up in the center of c _ 3 3 9 to be lined Padgett, contest. Among the things up teer for now instead ly in the first round. In the third the least two points, copped the Army duty ring for the entire third round Cade, c 3 2 8 are baseball, either with 10 and Butler with 1 for the'city of waiting until he was called in he hit Joe a larruping left to the which ended but Pridgen even, the visitor Shearin, g_ Oil with were scorers. H. Clark or semi-pro along the draft—which has been face, that half turned the champion had in points high rrganized predict- gained enough points the first Weaver, g _ 0 0 0 softball, Joe Of the mark with 10 for Ep- amateur competition.