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10 LINCOLN JOURNAL Thursday. Marcii 22. 1915 Seeded teams come thru in AAU cage tourney Phillips club gets past LA Clifton clan 20th Century has i May Baseball gets I ease on life Players allowed Tami loves to eat so WRLT DOBBINS The first complete coaching! staff In three years is handling! Sooners In the cur-! to quit war job WASHINGTON, UP). The war manpower commission Wed es- Lee Oma skirmish Friday may be his last BY' JACK CUDDY. NEW YORK.

(UP). The is more dangerous than the "punch" for heavyweights, Fat has ruined the careers of more big battlers than the blows of their opponents. Heavies put on blub Remember what happened to undependable. He lost blond Lee Savold, who fights out much money for his followers, of Patterson, now at about when he dropped decisions that he 190 pounds. retired was favored to win.

He lost his job bout to Oma in December, extra period go letterdlmenllSincludinglday baseball a go-aheud on'ber more quickly than fighters in MT with 15 letter who have been en-iany other division, because of GRADUATE MANAGER op athletics WHO RECENTLY BlASTED COMMERCIALIZED BASKETBALL PROMOTIONS in ig city stadia NED IRISH, WOMOYIR OP N.Y. BASKETBALL at MAOiSON SQUARE TARGET OP JONES' BARRAGE tmu VatM Parten tot- West Point barrage DENVER, Colo. (UP). The de-: fending champion Phillips Oilers, Bartlesville, face their stiffest competition of the National A.A.U. tournament to date when meet a San Francisco Athletic dub quintet in Thursday quarter finals.

The west coast team eliminated a formidable Fort Warren, Wyo five, 59 to 40, Wednesday night to stay in the running. The defending titlists had to go all-out to overcome a dogged Losjhelp him mould Angeles Clifton team, 54 to 43. The Oklahomans held a 14-point lead at halftime but were hard-pressed to beat off a strong second half Los Angeles attack. The most exciting battle developed between 20th Century Fox and the Idaho Sim- lots, Burley, Ida. A tie score forced the game Into a five-minute overtime period before the Big Six stars in off-season employment.

Deraid Le bow. their traditionally big appetites In giving its full support to thei and their naturally slow move- continuance of baseball as a Merle rale builder, the commission ex- Unfortunately suet settles first W. G. players, coaches and man- M.ytield! it, Job rcf.rr.l pro- gone I Six champion-1 PlaFer was last i Bhin may leave a Job in an es- -mH 1 44 Industry and return to the narh Dewey without danger of being re- "Snorter" Uis-i ter secured two new coaches to i team that it is respectable This means that a baseball Dewey Luster at Midland college sports banquet I ute overume perioa ueiuie Rev. G.

P. Krebs mam speaker players eked out 1 48 to 47 victory. The game was a hotly-contested 'one from start to finish, with 'neither team boasting more than i 4-point lead during the entire show. At the half, the score was 24 to 22 in favor of 20th Century- Fox. FREMONT, college will honor Its athletes of 1944-45 at an all-sports banquet at 5:30 p.

m. Friday in the college Commons club. Twenty-three football and basketball players will be feted for participation on Warrior varsity teams. Main speaker at the dinner will be the Rev. George P.

Krebs, Midland field secretary, A graduate of the Fremont college In 1931, he was a member of both the club, athletic and the Tomahawks, pep society, during his college A highlight of the dinner will! be the announcement of honorary football and basketball captains chosen by members of their respective teams. They will be presented by Lowry Lindell, basketball player-coach. Ted Youngquist, Glendale, student at Western Theological seminary and a Midland eager last year, will be master of ceremonies. President Fred C.j Wiegman will give the and Oscar Lyders, professor of voice, will lead group singing The Tomahawks and Warrior ettea, and pep societies, are in charge of banquet arrangements. Nolte, Westboro, heads the Tomahawks, while Eva Zessin, Madison, a Warrior cheerleader for the past four years, heads the Warriorettes, Eight set in National meet NEW YORK.

OP). Eight indi viduai and team scoring records for Madison Square Garden went by the boards Wednesday night as George Mikan scored 53 points in leading DePaul of Chicago into the finals of the National Invitation basketball tournament with a 97 to 53 triumph over Rhode Island State. Mikan established six of the records and Joined with his mates In setting the new team marks as the Blue Demons qualified to meet Bowling Green in the finals next Monday, before a crowd of 18,253. Bowling Green eliminated St. defending champions, 57-44.

Here are the new standards hung up by Mikan: Most points in one game, 53; most points in two games, 86; most field goals one game, 21, and two games, 34; most points in one-half, 32, and most foul goals in one game, 11. All except the foul mark beat standards set by Bob Gerber in the 1942 tournament. The free throw record of nine was held by Carl Ott of Ohio university. W'hile passing tournament record, the six-foot nine- inch Mikan, who played all except the last two minutes, also beat the all-time Garden standard of 45 points made by St. Harry Boykoff during the regular season, three yars ago.

REV P. KREBS. Wilson looks at expansion CHICAGO. (UP). A tremendous postwar expansion of collegiate athletics was predicted by Kenneth L.

"Tug" Wilson, newly appointed Big Ten athletic commissioner, who envisioned four football teams representing a single university and almost 100 percent participation in intercollegiate sports. Intercollegiate athletics has a vital duty to perform for the youth as well as its returning war veterans, he said. Wilson, who also is secretary- treasurer of the National Collegiate Athletic association, speaks with the authority of 24 years of administrative experience in intercollegiate athletics. His ideas undoubtedly will play an important role in shaping future collegiate sports programs. There are two problems the schools must fare, he explained, 1.

The student bodies of many schools will increase by more than 1,000 students after the war. Competitive wartime training programs wilt have made the returning: servicemen sports- minded. Another group which will he more sportsmitided is high school graduates, who have been going thru the biggest competitive sports program in high school history. 2. If competitive sports are good for a varsity, they are good for all students.

Previously, the accent has been too much on varsity competition and not enough on inter-school competition for all he said. THE CAMP ROBINSON, Ark officers took a heartbreaking 62 to 60 victory from a Poudre Valley Creamery, Fort Collins, team. The winning basket came in the final seconds of play when the Sid Cohen broke loose under the basket for a layup. The score was qnotted 32-all at the half. Allen-Bradley of Milwaukee had little difficulty defeating the i Music Makers, Portland, 64 to 45.

The Music Makers, Sole I Oregon entry, got off to a slow start and were never able to threaten. Ambrose Jellymakers entered the quarter finals by turn ing back Modesto, Junior college, 51 to 41. All American center, Bob Gruenig scored 24 points for game honors. In other games Wednesday night, the Fort Lewis, War riors overwhelmed a caterpillar tractor team from Peoria, 111., 80 to 56, and the Cessna Bobcats, Wichita, took a 60 to 37 walkaway match from the Moose Lodge of Fort Wayne, Ind. THI SCHEDULE, fquartrr Finals) euiiUiM Bartlesville.

FRENCH LICK, Ind Cold weather drove the Chicago Cub In-! Wednesday and Manager Charlie Orlmm played the piano to accompany the Indoor of A basketball team composed of Cub playera will play a local independent team tn a Rett Croaa benefit Wednesday. Snead breaks records while fellow pros appeal for sliare-the-wealth plan BY WHITNEY MARTIN. tour this year can be traced NEW YORK. They say the courses over which the tance lends enchantment, and Sam tournaments have been played. Han Francisco Athletic club itrnvcr Ambrose vs.

Camp Robinson Milwaukee Atlen-Hradlejr vs. Twentieth Hollywood. Wichita. Cessna Fort Majors look lor additional talent NEW YORK. UP).

Big league baseball club secretaries were busy fixing up spare rooms spring training headquarters accommodate at least 50 players expected to leave their essential off-season jobs. The war manpower commission in Washington fuled Wednesday that baseball players could leave their war jobs and return to their teams without the formality of obtaining a statement of availability. The Cleveland Indians announced they expect infielders Bias Monaco, Joe Desiderato and Russ Peters; outfielders Stan Benjamin and Roy Cullenbine, pitchers Mel Harder and Ray catchers Jim Devlin and Buddy Rosar to report as a result of the WMC decision. Vice President Roger Peckinpaugh also an nounced the purchase of Bob Rother, third baseman of Batavia, N. who led the Pony league in hitting last year.

Other players expected to leave their war jobs and return to the diamond are Nick Etten, Ernie Bonham, Frank Crosetti, Mike Milosevich and Russ Derry of the Yankees; Eddie Basinski, Al Zachary, Mike Sandlock, John Da tonio, Whit Wyatt, Tom Seats of the Dodgers; Les Scarsella. Ken Raffensberger, Al Spindel and Anton Karl of the Phillies; Bucky Walters, Ed Heusser, Frank Me Cormick, Frank Dasso of the Reds Pete Coscarart, Lee Handley, Al Rubeling, Hank Cameili, Wally Hebert of the Pirates; Walter Hoi borow, Lewis Carpenter and Ar noid Thesenga of the Senators Denny Galehouse, Chet Laabs, and George Caster of the Browns Mike Tresh, Grey Clarke, Joe Or in pro cage tourney CHICAGO. (UP). The Chicago Snead probably argue about Winter rules have been observed it. His distance not only is en- on some of the courses, and any chanting; devastating.

So much! duffer knows that if you can give so that he practically has a 12 a good lie it makes quite engo oVthe White Sox; Billy Holm 16-stroke lead before he tees off a difference. the Red Sox and Jahn Toncoff in a golf tournament. of the sponsors feel Adams of the Giants. It figures this way: sensational scores will lure the ------------------------tremendous wood shots enable crowds, so they make it as easy as Iorc him to reach practically any Par 5 jthey can for the pros, shortening green in two, while the other pros the course where possible, are figuring on three shots. If; get the real line on what there are four Par 5 holes on stars today would do on trailing at the course, that would mean he had 16 really tough course like to see'.

1h third strokes the best of it over the them play Oakmont exactly as it and lbe 72-hole route. when the National Open was 20 points in the Maybe why been held therein 1935. Sam Parks, breaking those records and the who knew the greens, was the hearts of his fellow pros, who have one to break 300. I think i qualify for ie- appealed for a share-the-wealth that was the toughest course of the world champions plan in prize money distribution played in this country, and 1 professional basketball loutna- so Snead and Byron Nelson think the first National Open get all the corn while leaving the war should be played The Gears are scheduled them the cob. Sarazen thinks the touring pros meet the surprising Dayton Acme Gene Sarazen, who has played rate an for the outstanding team, which came Rom behind a little golf in his time, says Sneadt and unselfish work they have been seconds Play is one of the longest and straight-'doing in entertaining at camps'1 est hitters the game has known, hoped will make showing next fall, Harry Phillips, the University of line coach of 1942, is one of them.

Wooten, Oklahoma honor co-captain and all-Big Six end of the last two years, is the other. Phillips will handle the Oklahoma line, Wooten the Sooner ends. Phillips Is being borrowed lend lease from Arizona which gave him leave of absence. Capt. Orville Tuttle, now a marine, has the job anytime he can come back to It.

Similarly Phillips is bound to Arizona whenever Coach Miles Castell calls for him. Arizona abandoned football for the duration after the 1942 season. Only nine lettermen reported for first day of spring practice. They were backs Basil Sharp, Max Culver, Don Weir and Louis Doilarhide and forwards Albert Stover, Thurman Tigart, Bill Hallett, Don Tillman and Bob Gambrell, Other players among the 30 reporting were two discharged marines, Jim Bruno of Edmond, College and Jim Hill of Oklahoma City Classen high school; two transfers, Jim Parmer Texas Aggies (who lives at Mangum, Okl.) ftnd Bob Brind ley of Tulsa University (former Oklahoma City Classen high school star), and four promising highschoolers, Lester "Bear" Jen sen and Jim Cheadle of Norman and Bob Vaughan and Jim Huffman of Oklahoma City Central. Next summer Luster hopes to add a score of fine prospects from interscholastic crop and also a few lads from the new navy contingent coming in.

Thirty-five former members of the Brooklyn Dodgers are now In the armed forces. The group in eludes such well known stars as Hugh Casey, Larry French, Ed Head. Billy Herman. Kirby Higbe, Howie Schultz, Harry Lavagetto, Rube Melton, Don Padgett, Harold Reese. Pete Reiser, and Johnny Rizzo.

While Man War is a thoro- bred known to everyone who has ever enjoyed race, and many who have not, there is no Annual Stake which bears his name. Extermin ator, the late Willis Sharpe Kil famed gelding, lends his name to a distance event at Pimlico and other Important stakes and handicaps are named for Gallant Fox, Grey Lag, Rose- ben, Beldame, Nellie Morse, Questionnaire, Equipoise, Modesty and Top Flight, among others One of the largest horses in training today is Charles S. Civil Code, 5-year-old gelding by Fair by Tetratema, reported to measure 17 hands inches, a hand being four inches and measurement be ing from the ground to the withers Many things can occur to cause a race'to be lost. The famed horse, Henry of Navarre, once lost the Oriental Handicap at Gravesend because his jockey, Henry Griffin followed instructions. Byron Me Clelland, trainer of Henry of Na varre had instructed Griffin to look for me" at the head of the stretch but there McClelland mis-! took another horse for his and waved him back.

Griffin losing his position and the race. The guy that covered them matches the other night must have been Promoter Adam Krieger declared. "Here Jim Pafkas back in the main eventer and you guys had him losing to Jack Conley. "This fellow Pafkas has been a No. 1 bird out on the coast and he can really rassle.

"And if you think Tassos and Merritt put on a swell match, mistaken. They play for keeps. They are both clever boys and the old timers got a big wallop out of job jumper. CHAIRMAN PAUL McNUTT of WMC said he took the action after having satisfied himself that there is a widespread demand, particularly on the part of soldiers in this country and overseas, for continuance of the game. There is considerable evidence that it adds to the morale on the homefront in wartime and that, therefore, there is real justifica tion for this action," McNutt said.

Baseball players in the game last year who have contractural relationships with any club, in eluding an option for the current season, now may be "recalled to their principal which is baseball, without going thru the U. S. employment service. Before this action, a baseball player leaving an essential job had to go through the employment service or risk being referred to his draft board. And if he went to the employment service, he would have been referred to a high-priority war job, not to his baseball club.

in the abdomen. This bulges the stomach muscles and prevents their split-second tightening to protect against body blows. Of course the extra poundage also cuts down speed and stamina. IT IS MUCH more difficult for the average heavyweight to keep a trim waistline than it is for the average chorus gal, altho we read much more about the tussle with tissue. Take Sgt.

Joe Louis, for example. Altho the heavyweight champion is not in competition now, you may be sure that he goes thru almost daily training stints. Otherwise have a bay window like THE ACTION, however, does not mean, for the present at least a liberalization of draft defer ments for baseball players. In view of statement it was believed possible, however that there might be some relaxa tion in the future. In view of President comment that physically fit young men should not be playing base ball this year, it is not egdrded as likely that there will be any liberalization for men able to meet military standards.

Rather it Is thought the liberal! zation would be to take the off of 4-Fs. Many baseball players with 4-F classifications have been sent to their draft boards repeatedly, with the result that some of them have been reclassified into 1-A and in ducted. Nelson takes playoff mix CHARLOTTE, N. C. UP).

Byron Nelson won the Charlotte open golf tournament Wednesday by defeating Sam Snead four strokes in a second 18-hole grim match played before an almost silent gallery of some 1,800 persons. Nelson shot a three-under par 69 to clinch his fifth tournament of the winter tour. Snead, with a conceded putt on 18, carded a 73 in a futile effort to record his fourth consecutive tournament victory and his seventh of the tour. Each finished the regulation distance of 72 holes in 272 Monday and each had carded a 69 in the first playoff Tuesday. First place in the $10,000 purse was worth $2,000 in war bonds, sec ond $1,500.

briefly once and took a bartender. He blew up to 256 before he was rescued. We can recall only two heavyweights who operated successfully as fat men. They were Tony Galento, the battling beer barrel, and Willie Meehan of San Francisco. Meehan, who fought from 1909 thru 1923, gave trouble to most of the big boys of his day, including Jack Dempsey.

He broke even in three bouts with drawing and winning. Right now the boxing world Is witnessing a terrific feud between a fighter and fat. This feud reaches a climax Friday night when Tami Mauriello, young Bronx heavyweight, shows whether or not he has eaten his way into the pugilistic ashcan whether he has eaten himself out of a fortune. The proof of pudding is expected to be found in his ten round with Lee Oma at Madison Square Garden. Unless Tami has done a lot of paring, it may be his after knocking Oma out in September.

He was offered a guarantee of $20,000 to fight Oma a return bout in of December, but he take it beeuase of his fat. He blew 20 grand because of suet. Before the Oma bouts he lost to Joe Baksi, beat Savold, lost to Jimmy Bivins, etc. MANAGER Lefty Remini claims he has pared Tami down to 196 pounds, after a long conditioning campaign that opened with three weeks at Hot Springs, Ark. This about ten pounds more than Mauriello should scale; but perhaps he can operate successfully at that weight against Oma, who dislikes training even more than the Bronx Italian.

Anyway, if Mauriello loses again Friday night, he will have eaten himself out of the important morey in New York for a long time. TENSNON was more between the players and the gallery than between the two players. Snead, hurt because of criticism among spectators of their failure to go on a sudden death finish in extra holes Tuesday. was openly resentful and badly off his game. MAURIELLO, tho only 22, already has earned much money in the ring.

He has been fighting professionally since he was 15 when he showed up at the boxing commission with his older brother birth certificate to get a license. real handle is Steve. He has had 13 main events in the Garden. We can re call only two performers who had more Garden main events: Beau Jack and Tony Canzoneri. Tami made money, most of which he lavished upon his large family which includes five brothers.

But he make as much as he should have. And right now he should be the "golden boy" of wartime boxing, instead of getting the short end of Friday purse. He had a tremendous following earlier in his career because he is a "native son," a Bronxite, an Italian, and a guy who loves to fight. He is tough, a good puncher, and an aggressive chap with plenty of heart. Moreover, he overcame the handicap of a crip pled right ankle that was run over by a cart when he was a little boy.

But Tami loved to eat, and he hated to train. Too much rich Italian food and too little exercise blew him up to 228 pounds once. Because of his paunch he Reds in for brutal season BLOOMINGTON, I d. season will be brutal for us. We simply have lost too many So speaks Manager Bill McKechnie of his Cincinnati Reds, a team he has piloted to two National league pennants and never to lower than fourth place in seven seasons.

Right now, he predicts the champion St. Louis Cardinals, the runner-up Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs, who finished fourth behind the Reds last season, are the class of the league. There is a kind of dignified jocularity about Deacon Bill, tho, and somehow you feel that the 57 year old Redleg pilot has a hunch he be left at the post. As the Reds opened their third day of spring training, only a half-dozen performers were missing from the 29 scheduled to report. These included such key men as pitchers Bucky Walters, who won 23 games in 1944, and Ed Heusser (13-11); veteran First Baseman Frank McCormick; Outfielder Gerry Walker, and Second Baseman Woody Williams.

Hoppe sets record to beat Cochran BOSTON. (UP). The old mas ter of the billiard table, 47-year- old Willie Hoppe, was back to normal Thursday. setting records again. He wiped a 26-year-old world mark off the books when he made a high run of 20 to win his championship match with title holder Welker Cochran, 60 to 36, in 24 innings.

The former mark of 17 was set in 1919 by Tiff Denton who equalled it in 1941. Hoppe holds an unofficial exhibition match record of 25, which he set in 1928. Basketball results NATIONAL INVITATION (Irtin 61, St. 44. Rhode Island State 68.

Round. Han Francisco AC 59. Fort Warren 40. 64, las Angeles 48. Camp Robinson 61, Fort Fort 80, Peoria Allen-Bradley 64, 45.

PRO FINAL Ft. Wayne 68. 53. New York 61, Pittsburgh Brownies pul two runs over as A.L. champs blank Toledo CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.

(JP) The American league champion St. Louis Browns reaped two runs off three singles and a double while pitchers Sig Jakucki and rookie Al Lamacchia shut out Toledo of the American Association on one hit in their first exhibition game of the season Wednesday The Toledo hit was a soft fly behind third base. Shortstop Vernon Stephens hit the only extra baser, a double which scored one of the runs. The game was six innings. Bonding TELEPHONE LEAGUE.

High team series: Outside High team Outside Service. High Ind. series: Wanek 564 High Ind. game: Wanek. BANNER LEAGUE.

High team Bert High team game: 871 High Ind. series: Earl 662 High Ind. game: Earl Maeoy COMMERCIAL LEAGUE. High team series: Lincoln laundry 2145 High team game: Place 918 High Ind. series: Schneider 624 High Ind.

came: Schneider BUSINESS LEAGUE. High team series: Johnnies High team game: Johnnies 121 High Ind. series: 485 High Ind. garnet White ..............................168 le bienvenu, vieux Have a Coke (GREETINGS, OLD MAN to and the reason Nelson is able to press him for medal honors is because Nelson, like Harry Vardon, urn back the Dow Chemicals, and hospitals. In fact, he 'Midland, 52 to 50.

see how they stand up under the; The powerful Fort Wayne, strain, and admits he go playing their first game thru it. try to keep up the tournament, defeated Osh has the ability to extend himself their pace for $25,000 he says kosh, 63 to 52. to advance for those few extra yards on the Par 5 holes. Sarazen also has it figured out the pre-war balls now. are Incidentally, he thinks the re- to the semi-finals.

The Zoliners processed balls are about on a a comfortable lead thruout the game but were aided by the Co-Operative club honors cagesters Co-Operative annual basketball sponsorship program, honoring the 10 outstanding high school cagers in the city, was held Thursday noon at the Lincoln chamber. The boys, selected by opposing team coaches, included: Northeast: Paul Kipper, Don Lincoln. College View: Delbert Miller, Jim Hornby. Teachers: Dick Slansbury, Dick Grossman. Lincoln: Gayle Lebsack, Alvin Hoffman.

Cathedral: Bob Brewer, Bud McGinley. Dr. Glenn T. Warren, former Nebraska Wesleyan and Uni versity of Nebraska eager, was the main speaker. George Lemon, one why such remarkable scores are "The prewar balls have de- Wisconsin inability to con- of the outstanding Co-Op being turned in on the winter teriorated in storage," he says, nect on fouls.

sentatives and an ardent follower tour now no better than The New York Rens qualifiedjof the sport, presented the certifi- low scoring era in golf the recaps. The golfers might as to meet Fort Wayne Friday to the boys honored. dates back to the adoption of the well get used to the synthetic the Pittsburgh Raid-j -------------------------larger ball, and the development tho. as there 61 to 52. Pittsburgh trailed, ures, of the sand wedge," he says.

natural rubber available for 39-31 at halftime and could never a-S 3 3 or 2 1234 Your mi exceedingly low scores of the win-1 several Icatch up. Iwiu appear tn both Charge it! a way to show friendship to a French sailor A visiting French sailor may not know English, but he is quick to know friendliness when he sees it. And he always sees it the minute someone says Have a Cake. an invitation that speaks all languages. the good old home-town American spirit behind the same as when you serve Coke at home.

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