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Thirteen Wh Colombo, 46-3 1 PAT M'DONALD STILL HOLDS WEIGHT RECORD PARSONS ALMOST UPSETS IMPROVED ROUNDUP FIVE White's Five assured itself of a place In the Recreation Association's Industrial League's playoffs by drawing away from Gus Brown's Colombo quintet in the last half and gain a 46-31 victory last night at Meyers High. The other game of the night saw District 10 Playoffs Set Meadville, Pa, Feb. 21 UP) Dates have been set for basketball playoffs in PIAA District 10, Secretary Donald Hauck of Fairview 13 Basketball Games Tonight With the end of the second half In sight with only three more rounds of games to be played the crowns in two of the three Wyo HUTSON NAMED PASS RECEIVING CHAMPION Chicago, Feb. 21 MB They thought the most productive touchdown supply line in football history was broken up last fall when passer Cecil Isbell became assistant coach at Purdue and left his battery mate, end Don Hutson, of the Green Bay Packers groping Xor tosses from two other guys. New York.

Feb. 21 (At His name is Patrick Josenh McDonald. there's a twinkle in his Irish eyes, and his 63-year-old snow-white hair is as thick as the brogue of his native county Clare. He's the kind of mental image Roundup Inn of Nanticoke hard pressed to nose out Parsons! announced today. He revealed also that aDDroval ming Valley scholastic basketball American legion, 43-39, in a thrilling contest, you conjure up wnen someone speaks of a "big Irish cop," for Hut Hutson retained most of his had been given to the transfer of The scheduled contest between leagues are still In doubt.

Sharon and Farrell High schools Blue Ribbon Cake and Hazard was rwi not maved. Blue Ribbon had Tonight's Came Patrick Joseph is captain of the traffic detail at the 19th precinct station, is six feet two and one-half Alsab Out to Westmoor Nips Central, 33-27 Central ME threw a scare Into Westmoor Church of Christ pennant hopes last night at the YMCA effectiveness, weakening the old debate that a receiver is only as good as his passer. The Isbell-Hutson combination was terrific, but Hutson without Isbell also was terrific. Hutson's name today was- en Manhattans In 1st Place inches tall, and weighs 310. from District 10 to District 7, effective next fall.

On March 14 at Farrell, Sharon High, winnec of the No. 3 Mercer County) section will meet the winner of the No. 1 (Erie County) The latter will be either Erie East or Erie Academy. If East Break Records As police captain he's in a position to throw his weight around and that's just how he hit the headlines back in 1907 and stayed tered on the official books of the team ready for the contest and announced it would ask to be awarded the game by forfeit. Hazard announced Saturday it would be unable to play because of a Fourth War Loan drive which was staged last night.

Colombo stayed with While up until the closing minutes of the third period when the North Penn National Football League as the Manhattans, in the girls bowling WYOMING VAIXKY CONFERENCE Berwick at Meyers. Kingston at Plymouth. Newport at Nanticoke. GAR at Coughlln. VALLEY LKAOl Edwardsville at West Pittston.

Larksvllle at Luzerne. Pittston at Exeter Plains at Wyoming. NORTH I.EAGI Suzar Notch at Pringle. Wilkes-Barre Twp. at Jenkins Twp.

West Wyoming at St. Leo's. Warrior Run at Hughestown. Swoyerville at Ashley. Miami, Feb.

21 UP) 1943 pass receiving champion. It wins their games Thursday, it becomes sectional champion; if Academy wins, they must play again. leagues, playing under the super Alsab, the greatest $700 bargain colt in American turf history, will was the third consecutive time ne had won that distinction and the sixth time In nine years of pro of the Playground and Recreation Association, broke the season's team game- record last week when they rolled 762, taking in the spotlight of sports until they led until the last two as a weight thrower. Iminutes of play coming through in In fact, over his 26-year career.the pinch Westmoor won, 33-27. as an athlete.

Big Mac almost! Larksville-Courtdale to Me-threw the 16, 24 and 56-pound morial Presbyterian, 25-14. shots out of the park so manyj First Welsh Presbyterian defeat-times that he still holds one ed East End PM, 33-25. Trailing Olympic and three national iec-19 to 4 at the half East End put, ords on spurt in the second half but The big fellow chuckled at his couldn't quite catch the Heights captain's desk today as he recalled, hoys. ball. During that stretch ne com-Diled the amazine efficiency record sylvania Avenue quintet stalled to pull away.

At the end of the first session, Colombo led, 6-5, and was rne survivor oi tne Marcn 11 tilt will meet the winner of the No. 2 (Crawford-Venango-Warren) section on March 17. If the survivor is Sharon, the place will be Farrell; otherwise, it will be arranged. The Section 2 title will be de of scoring touchdowns on 21.6 per run his first race as a fullgrowrt horse tomorrow in a $3,000 seven furlongs events at Hialeah Park. It will mark the start of a campaign planned by owner Al QaHntVi in An pffm-1 tn rmoftnlra cent of the passes he caugnt one trailing, 16-14, at the end of the half.

Barring an upset the Valley touchdown on every nve caicnes. This man about town Green four points from the Pals who were leading the league by two games. Miss Irene Hanko, captain of the Manhattans bowled 157, with her team mates Merrill, 142, Yarish League, the second half winner Jim Lopallo kept Colombo in the Bav bowline oroorietor and presi will not be decided until Friday dent of the Lions Club tame out Whirlaway-s money winning record of $560,000. Alsab earned led White's drive with three riouble cided March 10 in a game between Warren, the Class AA champion, and Cranberry, Venango County, thp Class A winner. night when Luzerne and West of retirement to play one more season for the Packers and trapped IX 134, Pincalki 167 and Honeywell I 1 CO Pittston clash on the former's the days when he was "Pat Mc-j League standing: Donald-champion," and weighed rhllrcn of nrM mere OO.

First Welsh Presbyterian "I Won my first title, the junior Friendly Lutheran national, in 1907 at Jamestown, East End PM Va" he said. "I threw that shot 37 feet and three-quarters of an First Methodist Inch, and no one has beaten thatjUarksviiie-Courtdaia Th District 10 winner will meet 2 2 3 7 9 9 11 Pet. .833 .730 .58.1 .250 .083 10 10 8 7 3 3 47 passes during the regular 10 came schedule for a total gain of floor. A win for Luzerne will clinch the crown as they copped the first half bunting. A victory the District 8 champion and tne survivor of this game will enter a playoff against the WPIAL titlist.

Tho nhnvp are all Class A or aecKers and tnree conversions for nine points. White's pulled away in the final minutes of the third period, leading 33 to 25 at the three-quarter mark and then outscored Colombo, 13 points to six, in the final eight minutes. Eiden led White's scorins with 870 in his two, three and four-year old races. More Immediately, however, the race will serve as a workout for the $25,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah March 4. In his last race as a colt he turned five years old January 1 Alsab barely was beaten at Pimlico last fall bv Stefanita.

yet. It cost me 11 days pay as The wres: policeman to go aown mere anai mkmorml pres- LARKSVII.LE- for the Green and White would necessitate a playoff game on a neutral floor. In the Wyoming Valley Confer- 776 yards and 11 touchdowns, in the last game of the season, December 5, against Phil-Pitt, the Packers ran out of quarterbacks. Hutson accented his versatility by calling signals for the first time in his life and caught two touchdown passes which swung Green Bav into a 38-28 victory. COIRTUALK I4 compete, ana im sun wonaering bytk.ria.v pts Following are the high scores and standing of the leagues: Duck Pin Leagues Shooting-Star League Team match, Victory 1529; team game.

Victory 518; individual match. Jean Mack, Victory 351; individual game, Helen Kendzior, Victory 138. Meteor League Team match, Serve-Your-City 1402; team game, 1 Serve-Your-City 501; individual match, Marvice Wilson, Serve-Your-Citv 355: individual game, AA teams. In Class the Mercer and Crawford County winners will meet March 10 at Greenville and the survivor will play the Warren County winner March 15 at Franklin Erie is not entering a Class 15 points as Pete Pasko added 14 tames, nine of his points pommpi i c.ut oo.n whether it was wortn it. Between 1911 and 1933, McDon- fff aid won the 56-pound national '-rm'her crown 11 times, and his 35-foot i.ionei mark in the latter year at Chicago DeWut Jockey George Wolff broke a 10 2 Kester 4 1 9 Marry 2 0 4 James .1 fi Picton 2 0 4 Morgan Casterlln 12 1 25 Snyder ft pta 2 a 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 10 3 1 2 14 team this year.

Hutson, who will become an as in i i i. i will Have tu win luuiftiii sis in the last half. Dave Murray, Friday to sew up the diadem, former GAR ace, contributed lljNanticoke won the first half pen-points, all in the last half. stirrup at the first, turn, and thus was handicapped in riding Alsab. Assigned 126 pounds, Alsab must spot as much as 23 pounds to the when he was 52 wasn't too far offTo(a9 sistant.

Green Bay coach next fall, pushed his three all-time records tne iSb-ioot li'-j-incn performance! Totals a little farther beyond the reach wun wnicn ne won tne lyzti uivm- Marvice Wilson, Serve-Your-City ivonnitsKi topped Colombo's scorers in North League, Swoyerville with nine points and -Lopallo and With the pennant safely tucked rank Uhler each had six tallies, away for the fifth consecutive the loss made Colombo's play-! year will let the other teams The Ant- Referee Ostroskl. rtt ovon q( Anliirorn Cleo Shans Outpoints Juloe Kogan at Arena of future National League plavers rrunning his total of receptions to 384. number of touchdowns on werp mark is thp Olympic record. first welsh, east end tm lightweight, Bridleour, in tomorrow's five-horse field. Wise Moss, carrying 105, probably will go to the post the favorite in view of Alsab's long layoff.

Hit on cnances a little tougher. It; battle it out for second and third must battle with Pittston's Kovals nlncp a In 1912. in the Olympics at ihkmbi Stockholm. Big Mac pitched the p0weii 16-pounder 50 feet four Inches to Phillips win and that was tons until He also tossed tho 56-pound ball Sabath reported that Alsab has ior the fourth spot in he playoffs Tonight's card of 13 games sends with Blue Ribbon, White's and Edwardsville to West Pit tston and .1 A m. pts Jones (i 1 13 Wat kins 4 0 8 Shades .10 6 Owens 10 2 Smith 2 II 4 Vivian 0 0 0 Gregory been looking lively in his workouts, 1 fpu Oil 2 3 7 0 0 0 3 I 7 4 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 7 23 "which indicates he is nearing his Larksville to Luzerne.

The Orange 126. Regulation Leagues Community League Team match, Manhattans 2169; team game, Manhattans 762; individual 1 match, Winnie Honeywell, Manhattans 501; individual game, Winnie Honeywell, Manhattans 194. Recreation League Team match, J. B. Carr 985; team game, J.

B. Carr 533; individual match, Luella Carroll, Eagles 242; individual game, Keller, General Aviation 136. old form." io ieer inree-nuaners oi an lncniMorgan If he runs well Tuesday," into the air to set the national height-throwing record, and copped the nationnl 16-nound record Sabath continued, "I'd say he'll Totals 16 1 33 Totals Referee Turley. take a lot of beating in the six times between 1911 and 1923. i WKSTMOOK HI R(H OK CENTRAL ME (17) Dt All that was done during his 39 Widener.

The Florida climate has been agreeing with him this time, whereas in his two previous appearances here, it didn't. CHRIST (33) Munzing pts Plam years as a policeman, 37 of which New York, Feb. 21 UP) Cleo Shans, 135, Los Angeles, outpointed Julie Kogan, 132 New York, in eight fast rounds at St. Nicholas Arena tonight before a Crowd of 3,000, who contributed to a gross of $5,448. The California Negro forced the fight all the way and had Julie backing away with the exception when Kogan would momentarily halt the always moving Shans with short right crosses and right upper-cuts to the head.

Roman Alvarez, 140, New York, decisioned Mitsos Grispos, 142, Athens, Greece, in a hard-fought eight round semi-windup. Henrv Johnson. 145. New passes to 83 and yards gained to 6,310. The 31-year-old former Alabama wingman, set one new record during the season three weeks after Wilbur Moore of the Washington Redskins had given him something to shoot at.

Moore bettered the yards-gained mark on October 31 against Brooklyn when his seven catches netted 213 plus two touchdowns. Hutson. also using Brooklyn as a stepping stone, later collected 237 yards on eight passes, two of which he turned into scores. Those eight catches, plus eight more against New York on October 31, enabled Hutson to beat out Washington's Joe Aguirre for the chamDidnshiD. Aguirre, Sammy Baugh's main target, returned to football last year after spending more than a year aboard a mer 3 0 8 0 12 3 17 10 3 0 0 0 13 1 27 nazaro.

certain to Ilnlsh among the first four. Colombo plays Roundup Wednesday night and completes its season next Monday against Parsons. Pittston opposes Hazard Wednesday and Blue Ribbon next Monday. It's a tossup as to whether Colombo or Pittston will be in the playoffs. In the first game last night, Jenks Williams' Parsons Club almost upset the improved Roundup five, only to have a miserable last period ruin its chances.

Roundup grabbed a 21-10 lead at the end of the first period but the tide of the game changed and When the third session was completed Parsons was were on the traffic squad. For 15 Bolton years, before getting his si'ver Fdwaris bars, he guided errant drivers at Havwnr-rt "it he keeps training as well as 5 0 10 Dllley 0 0 0 Rchmaltx 3 2 8 Volgflt 2 1 0 0 0 Total 5 0 10 43rd and Broadway where his Garrahan he has been his chances in the Widener are very roseate additionally, he will be right up there pushing Whirlaway's record, if not white gloves and huge bulk were fcvans among Times Squares most 13 3 33 Totals dazzling exhibits. outdoing it. and Black will hate a stiff er test than the Garden City quintet. Other League games find Pittston at Exeter and Plains at Wyoming.

Newport, the team that practically killed off any chance Plymouth had of the crown by upsetting the Shawnee cagers on Friday night, will journey to Nanticoke to see if they can score another upset. The game will be enlivened by the intense rivalry that exists between the two schools. Other conference games send Kingston to Plymouth and Berwick will invade Meyers. The second of the lntracity games will find GAR at Coughlin. Coughlln dropped a contest to Meyers and GAR will play host to the South Wilkes-Barre Institution on Friday night.

In the North League Swoyerville will invade Ashley, runner up in that loop's race, while Sugar Notch will iourney to Pringle. Referee Oslroskl. McDonald is married, and has There are six $50,000 stakes in the East that I know of, and sev one son. a New York physician. Asked if the son had been an York, knocked out Verne Atkins, eral $25,000 events.

Those should afford him all the opportunity he athlete, McDonald replied: Meyers Swimmers to Get Red Cross Awards "He captained the football team requires. Shooting-Star League Teams Miller Beauty Shop Percy A. Brown Victory Boston Store Reds Meteor League Serve-Your-City Continental Can Bom hers Continental Can Boston Store The Community League Manhattans Pals General Aviation S. Friedei- Sons Chi Alpha Chi Alpha Recreation League -y Glen Summit Water Eagles J. B.

Carr Hazardettes Hazard Trulays General Aviation Hazard Rollers Pet. 18 4 .800 10 6 .625 11 13 .438 11 13 .458 4 16 .200 23 1 .958 15 9 .625 10 10 .500 7 IT .292 1 19 .050 23 5 .821 21 7 .750 15 13 .536 10 18 .357 8 20 .286 7 21 .250 5 1 .833 5 1 .833 4 2 .667 3 3 .500 3 6 .333 1 8 .111 0 0 .000 chantman delivering exDlosives to 150, Youngstown, unio, in in the third round of a scheduled four rounder. Hanbury TKO's Young Baltimore, Feb. 21 (JP) Lew Hanburv. voune Washington light the fighting front, He nad 61 receptions and made 420 vards with them.

His teammate. Moore, fin in his senior year, 1932, at Ford-ham Prep, but. didn't play when he went on to Holy Cross. When he was born I wanted to call him Patrick Joseph after myself, but Mrs. McDonald didn't like the name, so we called him Joseph ished third with 30.

but surpassed John Nagle, Water Safety Chair- man of the Wyoming Valley Chap-' ter of Red Cross has announced the followine Meyer's Ilieh School Aguirre in yards with 537. Aguirre, Titians Use Height To Nose Out Brooklyn New York, Feb. 21 (JP) Using their height to a decided ad Moore and Harry Clark of the students will receive certificatea Patrick." Chicago Bears tied for runner-up leading, m-so, scoring 26 points in the middle two quarters against 14 for Roundup. Roundup came back in the final period, outscoring Parsons, eight points to three, to win the game by a four-point margin. It was the best performance of the year by Parsons.

Leo Retel, the chunky little forward, again led Roundup's scoring attack, collecting 13 points. Walt Serowicz, the former Newport High and Scranton University star, had 10 points, all scored in the first half. Walt Tanalski. the ex-Coughlin performer, paced Parsons and tied Retel for high scoring honors with 13 tallies. Owens had weight, scored a technical knockout over Jimmy Collins, of Baltimore, in the third round of their ten-round feature bout at the Coliseum tonight.

Hanbury weighed 134; Collins 134. honors in number of touchdown passes received each nabbing West Wyoming, only a half game out of second place, will travel to St. Leo's. Wilkes-Barre Township for proficiency in swimming: Reclnaer Domenlck Alfano. Jam est Armltage, John Bakus.

Paul Baughnlgtit. Harold Bloss, Thomas Bonn. Marvin -Bootee. Joseph Bowman, Don Boyle, Marts Brennan. Albert Broody.

Robert Brown. vantage in the second half, West seven. minsters Titans whipped Brook and Warrior Run should have an lyn College 58-50 in the opening easv night as the former will show Thomas Brown. Sheldon Carey, Clement Cleveland Trio Leads Hockey Scoring Race New Haven, Feb. 21 UP).

at Jenkins Township and the lat The Washington belter parried everything Collins threw his way in the first heat, turned on the ter will tackle the other cellar Cerwonka. John hokalo, lieorge iiarKf Joseph Coplan. Russell Daubert, John Dixon. Joseph Ellas. George Evans, Rafpn Evans.

Tnnv Flueeel. David Flnicelstein 9,221 Hialeah Fans See Mark Win Purse Di-essure in the second and smash ed him into submission in the Vii-tnr Frmnrhf. Marvin Hibernian. Bobby dweller, Hughestown on Upper County school's hardwoods. League Standings with the Cleveland trio of Tom third.

Burlington, Les Cunningham and Kenneth Hayden. Bill HelL Charlea Hun- Jimmy hit the deck five times nine tames and Al Mussery added eight counters. The scores- game of the basketball double-header at Madison Square Garden tonight. A crowd of some 12,000 saw the smaller Kingsmen from Brooklyn take an early lead, hold it through the greater part of the first half and then leave the floor at the intermission on the long end of a 21-17 count. The Pennsylvanians started driving in the final chapter, however, and in the first New York.

Feb. 21 (JP) T. Lou Trudel monopolizing the top positions in the American Hockey WYOMING VALLEY CONFERENCE Martin's Bankrupt, a Widener rtOl'NDlP I.VV (.43) PARSONS LEGION eligible, disappointed today by fin l)H (38) 1 31 fpts Retel. ishing third to Mark and Sweep Swinger in the mile and a furlong 0 8 before Keteree taaie ieonara stepped in and awarded the duke to Hanbury. Jackie Saunders, of New York, substituting for Bob Jacobs, of Philadelphia, walloped Jimmy Bell, of Washington, in the eight-round semi-final.

He was awarded Turley.f Stein, Serowicz. garter. Clarence Johnson, Samuel Kaiuw Francis Kammerer. Joseph Katusz, Georg Koval, Alfred Kratz. Fred Kruger, Robert Levine.

Joseph Masavage, Thomas Mc- Rowan, Robert McGrane, Robert Marvin Mltchnerk, Joseph Marrash, John Namey, John Nogan, Gerald O'Brien. Bill Ostrum, George Pappaa. Georg Phillips, Bernard Reppy. Marvin Rees Thomas Rellev. Robert Rhlel, Tom Rowlands, Joe Swlereynskl.

Lawrence Roeshnt Joe Rustle, Arthur Rux, Andrew Schmid, -Carl Shaver. Bernard Shlnko, Julian Seehermab. Ernest Siege). Marvin Skuno- southern cross rurse at maiean before 9.221, leagues individual scoring race, features the past week were provided by Al Thurrier and Fred Hunt of Buffalo. Burlington scored a goal and figured in three tallying plays to bring his total to 67 points; Cunningham kept pace with Tommy to grab the runnerup spot from Trudel, who recorded a couple of goals ten minutes hunt up a ad oil Kamlnskl.f 0 10 Tanalski, 1 0 li Owens, 2 Williams, 3 1 7 Smith, 0 2 2 Tntm 0 1 1 6 1 13 4 1 9 2 0 4 2 0 4 18 3 39 Ztnder, Yatko.g Blazer, Frank, vantage, largely on the sharp- Bankrupt, a 3 to 5 favorite, tired after a mile while Mark, fifth in his last three outings.

shootinE of rd Little. a unanimous decision. 16 WPIAL COURT TITLES DECIDED Pittsburgh, Feb. 21 (IP) With 16 tittles already "on ice," WPIAL basketball quints had but little business remaining before playoff games and the championship tournaments here. Two more titlists will be definitely determined in tomorrow night's games Avalon at Belle-vue with the Section 10, Class crown hanging on the outcome, and Etna at Shatpsburg for the Section 18, also Class honors.

Championships already have gone to Washington, Section Monessen, Section Freeport, Section Duquesne, Section Rankin, Section Brentwood, Section and Uniontown, Section 9, all Class and to the following Class schools: Monaca, Section Long Island University staved Totals 10 Nanticoke Plymouth Berwick Kingston GAR Meyers TouRhlln Newport Hanover VALLEY I.EAGIE West Pittston Luzerne Larksvllle Edwardsville Exeter Pittston Wyoming Plains Forty Fort off Washington and Jeffersons moved up with a rush coming into the stretch and won going away witz, Stanley smulyan, Harold swan. George Tart Joe fiwimers. jonn looie. Half time score 28-22, Roundup Fouls tried Roundup 11, Parsons 12. WHITE'S (48) COLOMBO (31) pis I its by a length and a half, bweep Swinger took the place by a place by and set up a score.

Consequently, Cunningham trails with 61, one more than Lou. Police Let Youth Go Through With Fight ner, James wetss. uienmore Yourcheck, Robert Zupa, Jerry Small comb. closing rally to take the nightcap of the basketball doubleheader in Madison Square Garden tonight, 45-42. Long Island took a 19-12 lead at the half and held a 17 -point length over Bankrupt.

Mark ran Mark I. Prt. 4 1 .800 4 2 .687 4 2 .67 3 2 .600 2 3 .400 2 3 .400 2 3 .400 2 3 .400 1 5 .167 VV Pet. 5 0 1.000 5 0 1.000 3 2 .600 3 2 .600 3 2 .600 2 4 .333 2 4 .333 1 4 0 6 .000 Pet. 16 0 1.000 13 3 .813 12 4 .750 9 7 .563 9 7 .563 7 9 .438 6 10 .375 4 12 .250 2 14 .11 2 14 .125 The Buffalo Dair of Thurrier and Infme4late Armltage.

xawmra 2 0 4 3 0 fi the distance i3ft and paid in $23.00. 1 0 Hunt were hot, the former picking up six points to jump into the big Arnold, Lawrence Baumgartner. Wayn Brelalord, Olln Evans, Lewis Harris. SoU Heller, James Kingsbury, Al. Kishbach 2 0 4 ii ueoree.r Murray, 1 11 Lopallo.f Moreseo.f 2 0 4 Zerner.f Lynn.c 0 0 0 Brown.c GonKlefskl.c (i Uhler.g Graham, 1 0 2 Konnftskl.g Marconi.

Kane.g Wnshinetnn. Feb. 21 UP) SDec- The mile and one-sixteenth East 3 0 fi John Knrdek. Bill res ae. Bin Lawaon.

Coast Purse, run on the turf, went 0 j) NORTH LEAGUE to Mrs. Louis Lazares Shamokin margin, M-ii, early in the nnai period before the Presidents started a drive that carried them within one point, 43-42, with 47 seconds to play. The visitors, paced hv Erl Sterline. outscored the by a neck over Sam Garfield F. B.

Eye. Mrs. Sidney ZelTs My tators who watched Billy Waugh, 19-year-old lightweight, go down to defeat in a three-round amateur boxing match last Friday night didn't kngw three policemen were in the rear of the arena waiting for him. the fleht. Waueh All was third.

Shamokin was timed ciaen.g is Coopey.g 0 0 0 Total! 14 3 Totals 19 8 46 Half time seme 16-14. White's leading Fouls tried White's 14, Colombo 7. Referee Chet Basher. Umpire Alex Daniels. in 1:46 and paid $16.30.

winners from the floor by one field Swovervllle Ashley West Wyoming Sugar Noteh Warrior Run Wilkes-Barre Twp. Pringle St. Leo's Twp. Hughestown ten scorers while Hunt, came through with five assists to move up a peg into fourth place under Trudel. Gordon Sherritt of Indianapolis spent six minutes in the penalty box to bring his season's aggregate to 71 minutes, including four majors.

Pete Bessone of Cleveland replaced Vic Lynn of Indianapolis as the runnerup with 65 minutes, and a major, the result of eight minutes in the cooler during the past week. goal but lost thff game from the free throw line. 11; Clark; Section 12: McDonald, Section 14; Bentleyville, Section Glassport, Section 16; Belle Vernon, Section 17; Oakmont, Section 19; East Washington, Section 20. and Saltsbursr. Section 22.

Supermont ridden by Jockey Nick Jemas, won the featured six Standing of the clubs: Sterline and Paul Anthony furlong Rex Purse at New Orleans Pet. Blue Hlbbon Cake Whlte'i Dove Shoot was second and Es-terita third. The winner paid $5.80 New Kensington and Ford City counted 34 points between them to lead the Prexy attack while Al Bair dropped 12 tallies through the hoop for Long Island. 700 was taken into custody on a charge of robbing the home of forrner Representative Maury Maverick of Texas. After the "youth begged to be allowed to go through with the bout, the officers took his parole and let him fight.

The story came to light today and was tuned in 8 8 7 5 4 2 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 10 Pittston Rovals John O'Brien, Joseph Paddork. Anthony Peters. George Solomon. Ted Spano. George Wesley, Bill Wheeler, William Swimmer Walter Artabaogh.

Otto) -Backof. Frank Bankua. Elwood Bell. Joa-eph Bates. Howard Davis.

Bruce Dixon Donald Fluegel. Alfred Guzlejka. Edward Hnrklns. Bill Holland. Maurice Jacobowitx Bob Jones.

Charles Kelly. Billy Kovaleskl, Marvin Lander. Clavton Miller. Ed. Miller George Marrash, Robert Moser.

Harry Phillips. Edward Prime, John) Pryor. John Schmid, John Seaman. Bernie Stelner. Henry Sugden, Joe Zablnskl.

Ads-aaeed Swimmer Donald Alexander John Barker. Ray Bates. James Cavan Cliff Collett. Herb Cruikshank. Jar Cruik-shank, Bill Cutter, Walter Derolf.

Don Fry Harold Ooode. Leon Gilbert, James Hanna-. gan. Anthony Hogrebe. Dick Horn.

Ralph Jayne, Tom Kane, Harold McNeils. Bill Melr. Jack Miller, Bob Mitchell, Frank: Murphy, Francis Norman. Roger Norman. Robert Obeld, Charles Powell.

Raymond Rhlel. Aubrey Silver, BUI Stratum, Donald Thomas. Jack Vlcary. Gene Wasflewskl, Bill Weaver. David J.

Werner, Eugene West. Bill acta an, David Williams, Vine liamson. Fred Xanthopoulos, James Xan- thopouloa. Kingston High Sextet Colombo .41 RounduD Inn Parsons Legion Upsets Seminary, 33-20 Connellsville Wins Landis Declares Mike Schemer a Free Agent when Waugh and another youth were arraigned on housebreaking Tacoma Makes Formal are tied in Section 1, and Aiiquippa and Beaver are deadlocked for the Section 3 title. Ford City meets Butler, New Kensington takes on Har-Brack and Aiiquippa entertains Ambridge tomorrow night, While Beaver has completed its schedule.

If the teams remain tied after Tuesday's games, playoff games will be carded for later this week, the WPIAL heads have decided, With the tournaments to follow. Kingston Hizh School Kirls" The leading scorers Burlington. Cleveland Cunningham, Cleveland Trudel, Cleveland Hunt. Buffalo Bartholome. Cleveland CJauthler, Hers hey Horeck, Cleveland Thomson, Indianapolis Thurrier, Buffalo Kllrea, Hershey A Pts 28 39 67 22 39 61 2S 35 60 19 36 55 37 53 27 25 52 25 24 49 15 34 49 22 Z5 47 15 30 4b WPIAL Tank Crown charges.

He pleaded guilty and was held in $3,000 bail for the basketball team extended its string of wins by defeating Wyoming Request for Franchise grand jury. Chicago, Feb. 21 UP) Mike Schemer, rookie first baseman purchased by the New York Giants Seminary team oy score or to 20. It was the first game for the Clairton, Feb. 21 trP Connellsville High School's swimming team won the WPIAL championship for Seminary team to lose.

Team is from Jacksonville, a farm Beau Jack to Meet coached by Miss Margaret Hyde, the seventh straight year Dy fin club, is a free agent Kenesaw Mountain Landis. base' Florida University Tacoma, Feb. 21 UP) A formal request to the Pacific Coast League to transfer the Sacramento franchise to TaComa, was sent today to president Clarence Rowland by H. D. Maxwell, chairman of the Kingston team, which has not lost a game, is coached by Miss Ann Jewett Miss Agnes M.

Berry ishing ahead of four other teams in the annual meet today In the Clairton pool. The champions Al Davis March 17 To Resume Football ball commissioner, said today he decided Schemer's status because the Giants had failed to tender him a contract at the proper time. made 47 points. Butler finished second with 29, Eugene Stack, rookie pitcher on the Chicago White Sox roster, was the first baseball player to be drafted into the armed forces, January, 1941, and the first to die In service. New York.

Feb. 21 UP) Pro Harrisburg Golden Clove Bouts Canceled reiereea. A return game will be played on Wednesday afternoon at 4 in Kingston High School gymnasium. Tacoma Baseball Committee. Maxwell invited Rowland to Schemer recently was discharged TaMrartMiHI.A V1 VmU Ot XX moter Mike Jacobs announced today he had signed Beau Jack.

New from tne Army. come to Tacoma at his earliest convenience, to look over Dlans. and The University of Florida will re Clairton was third with 25 and Johnstown fourth with 9. Duquesne failed to score. Fifty-six boys took part in the eight-event competition.

sume football this fan after a lapse York-Fennsyivama ugntweight fistic champion from Augusta. assured him this -city intends to of one season, President Dr. John and Al Davis, Brooklyn welter maxe lis iacilltles comparable wun any in the Pacific Coast League J. Tiger announced tonight. Harrisburg, Feb.

21 UP) The Harrisburg Telegraph Athletic Association today announced can- cellatlon of its golden gloves box- inz tournament this year due to Connellsviue won live or the Sports Trail Florida suspended intercol first places, capturine three in alter tne war. League directors meet in Holly weight, ior a in-round bout in Madison Square Garden March 17. Davis agreed to weigh 144 pounds or less for the fray, and legiate athletics early last year, the first member of the Southeastern Conference to do so. By WHITNEY MARTIN Al Rubeling Returns Signed Buc Contract Pittsburgh, Feb. 21 CrR The signed contract of Al Rubeling, Pittsburgh Pirate Infielder who came up from Toronto last year, dividuals events and both relays.

Mike Kutsenkow of Clairton was individual high scorer. New York, Feb. 21 CP The Jacobs 'said a portion of the re wood tomorrow to decide the future of the franchise, which they had withheld from Tacoma pending outcome of Sacramento efforts to Kentucky. Tennessee. Mississippi Washington Senators, or Nationals, tiossiblv should be called the Inter shortage of manpower and-failure to obtain Middle Atlantic Amateur Athletic Union sanction for dates approximating those granted for tourneys the past seven years.

Tournament Director Nob Frank said that the Association felt "the fact that so many of th retain it, nationals this year. Clark Griffith's ceipts would go to the Red Cross. Davis catapulted into the spotlight Friday night with a first-round knockout over Bob' Montgomery, former New York Pennsylvania i Cards After Pitcher roster looks like tne rou can at a Pan-American conference. They used to snicker a little was received from his home at Parkville, today by the Bucs, President William E. Benswanger making Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium resound with strange noises.

The Senator roster has no less than 11 men with names that might have been picked out of a Cuban telephone directory, and inasmuch as these athletes are not 1-A or 2-B or 3-C or anything else pertaining to the service draft they are baseball nuggets of great There Is one familiar name on world lightweight king. State, Vanderbilt, Alabama and Auburn followed suit, only Georgia Tech, Tulane. Georgia and Louisiana State deciding to continue intercollegiate sports. Alabama and Vanderbilt fielded "Informal" teams near the tag end of the 1943 season. Florida's action follows similar decisions by Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, to resume intercollegiate football.

Dutch Clark Accepted For limited Service 18-year-old boys are going into the armed forces and others are await-ing call naturally would make it reported. Rubeling played in 47 games at second base for the Pirates last year, batted .262 and had a field when smart, stocky Joe Cambria, Griffith's one-man scouting, staff, would pack his toothbrush, cock his Panama hat on' the back of his head; and disappear Into the unexDlored wilds of Cuba. Bramliam Disapproves impossible to stage a golden gloves Discharged From Navy St. Louis, Feb. 21 (JP) Alvin Jurisich, 21-year-old pitcher recently discharged from the Navy, has been reinstated on the aetive list and a contract is on its way to him.

President Sam Breadon of the St. Louis Cardinals said today. Jurisich was obtained by the ing average ot .974. Feb. 21 (JP Earl tournament comparame to uose oi pre-war years." Expanding Interstate (Dutch) Clark, former coach of They knew that sooner or later the That beloncs to Roberto lie would turn up wun nose rings Ortiz, whom we recall coming up a few yean ago, labeled by Cam Rams Win, 32-27 Rama, playing In Breslau School eym.

last meht defeated Beavers, -on a half-dozen or so native speci- mens who could kill squirrels with rocks at 50 paces and could run bria as a pitcher. He bad no more Cardinals with Johnny Beazley in knowledge of pitching style than an ant eater, bat he could make 32-27. in a hard-fought game. The luce wiuriaway. the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Rams, Professional Football teams, was accepted for limited service in the Army today.

One eye of the former Colorado College All-America star did not measure up to the Army standard for general Clark is subject to call by his draft board in Pueblo, after three weeks. that ball wnm. Threw aspirin September, 1942, from New Orleans of the Southern Association. He was with Rochester of the International League on ontion when Usually these cane field Walter Durham, CV Feb. 21 UP) President W.

G. Bramham of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues announced today he had disapproved recent action of the Interstate League in granting franchises to Connie Mack at Reading, and to Billy Jurges on Long Island. These franchises were eranted laoieM, as iney Anyway, he didn't make the fig) Johnsons or Ty Cobbs got ne further than the Senator training camp, where the dutiful Bucky Harris would see they were shod and equipped with the necessary he entered tne Navy in August, 1942. srade as a pitcher but he was a bier, raw-boned exiv who mierht de- t. Rams were never headed but encountered some difficulty in the vesper period.

The scores: BAMS (31) BEAVERS () pta i I pts Leigh ton.f 5 7 17 CaMahan.f 1 1 Evans. 8 0 6 Loughney.f 0 6 Smlth.c 113 Harlev.e 113 Hayes, 10 3 Dougherty, 3 15 Mws.g 13 4 Kane.g 5 0 10 Total 10 Totals 5 3 37 Half time store 17-11, Rams leading. Referee James. Fouls tried Rama 15, Beavers 14, veiop into an ouuieiaer, so ne was shipped out and has been knocking to be operated after the war and we cannot permit the tying up of Red Sox Sign Two Khaki for Livingston around in tne minors since, we aormani territory in this way, Bramham said. back as an outfielder now.

We don't know his complete history Fort Jackson. S. 'Feb. 21 UP) Men and Lose One Thomas Orville (Mickey) Liv- but know he hit .360 in 95 games for Chattanooga tn 134. Basketball Scores v- So mavbe Griffith and Cambria 25.

Floyd Bennett Field 31, Hedron will have the last laugh after alL Throueh the far years wnen im lirsi game). Flovd Rnn.H t1l1 il RrXnklVH implements of the game, and given i chance to show what they couldn't do, which usually was bat. They would descend in such numbers upon Bucky that it was necessary for him to split his squad into Cuban and American divisions for the workouts, as there were liable to be a few traffic Jams If the athletes started chasing fly balls or running the bases yelling gibberish at each other. What happened to most of these duty-free imports is problematical, but there's little doubt as to what will happen to this year's crop. The senors will be playing under V3 lights at Griffith btacaum.

and Boston, Feb. 21 UP) The Boston Red Sox today announced receipt of the signed contracts of Mike Ryba, veteran relief pitcher; and Leon Culberson, yountr outfielder. At the same time General Manager Eddie Collins learned that 31- ported ball players weren't needed Cathedral College 84. (Second game). tney quietly cultivated me vuoan garden and How they can cash in on their private- good-neighbor delphla Phillies and Chicago Cubs of the National League during the 1943 season, was accepted for Army service at the induction station here today.

Livingston had a .252 batting average and a .992 fielding average during the past season. He reported here, from local board at Newberry, near where he, his wife and their three children have, been living on a farm. Westminster 58. Brooklyn College 50. University of Texas 8L Texas AAM 38.

litehet Field 67, Fort Hamilton 43. Fort Sheridan SS. University of Chicago WAR B0NDS year-old Johnny Peacock, the club's ST. Long Island University 43. Washington and Jefferson 42.

policy. The other clubs might try to ease In, but their scouts never would be able to find those caves and cane fields which are Cambria's happy hunting grounds. second-string catcher, had passed his induction physical tests at Fremont, N. C. and expected to be in the service in about three weeks.

New York District Coast Guard 47, Camp Shanks 42. low bill Missouri M..

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