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WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. MONDAY, JANUARY 1946 BLUE BOMBERS SPLIT DOUBLE BILL WITH NEW YORK FIVE TWELVE Post-War Boom in Sandlot Ball Predicted St. Paul's, St. Elizabeth's Win C.

Y. O. Court Contests Gothams Take Night Game, 56 to 46, After Losing, 55 to 50, Here SALLIES DEFEAT ST. AGNES', 59-34 Gold and White Passers Hang Up Sixth Victory In Easy Manner at Home Association of Leagues, with each winner to be awarded a trophy by this organization; all players to be under a nation-wide contract system, unable to join other clubr without release; and disputes a cannot be settled within league referred to commissioner of this organization, George H. Sisler.

The SPORTS PATROL T. ai, Reg V. 8. Fat. OH.

I i J' sis Sonny Hertzberg Paces New Yorkers to Win On Home Court; Charley Hoefer Features In Game at Armory Before 7, 646 Fans By JOHN J. BRADY Morning News Sports Editor The Blue Bombers and New York split a home-and-home bill In the American Pro Basketbn.il League yesterday with Wilmington winning, 65 to 50, here in the afternoon and the Gothams taking down a 86 to decision in a night game on their home court at St. Nicholas' Arena, New York. By CHIP ROYAL AP News Features Sports Editor NEW YORK It's too bad that more men haven't the love and interest for baseball that Raymond Dumont, president of the National Baseball Congress, possesses. The Wichita, wizard of the semi-pro diamond game has been called Just about everything from nut to silly but he has been going along for some dozen years helping the great American sport and de veloping big league players.

The Baseball Congress traveled a long, tough road. It started out on a shoestring and grabbed space where It could with some so-called schemes. Ray had a tough time making himself heard but once he was recognized, Dumont has been growing louder every year. Now the sandlot Landis is really coming into his own as his recent letter proves: "Early In December I received an official entry blank from a 'town' team known as the Foresters in Forest City. N.

to enter one of the sanctioned state tournaments of the National Baseball Congress at Jamestown, N. Y. The team had organized during the cold winter days exactly seven months before the New York State Tournament Is scheduled to start. "Never before in history had a team entered our program before April. It showed, however, that Standing the Teams Won IOit Pet.

St. Ann's St. Eiizabetb'e St. Paul's Army Air Bsse Sacred Heart St. Joe's (Wil.) 13 13 11 3 4 5 5 .750 .722 IM .600 .503 .563 .154 .003 7 -7 13 11 IS St Helena St.

Anthony's ,3 Tonieht's Schedule At Howard High: St. Joseph's (Wilmington) ts. St. Joseph's (Brandywtnei. 7 o'clock; St.

Anthony's s. Sacred Heart 8 o'clock: St. Paul's ts. St. Anns, o'ciock.

St. Elizabeth's "crept within a few percentage points of first place In the C. Y. O. League yesterday at the State Armory by nosing out St.

Anthony's in a hard fought game, 41 to 39. St. Ann's took over the lead Saturday night in a game played on the Y. M. C.

A. court by tripping St. Elizabeth's, 48 to 37. In another loop tilt played on the court St. Anthony's tripped Woodcrest, 44 to 40, for its third victory of the season.

In the other game played on the Armory court yesterday St. Paul's tightened its grip on third place with a 46 to 45 victory at the expense of St. Joseph's (Wilmington). Bill McCahan paced St. Ann's to its victory over St.

Elizabeth's by tabbing seven field goals and six fouls for 20 points. Bill Cole was high scorer for the defeated club with 14 points. Joe Buck was the big gun In St. Elizabeth's triumph over St. Anthony's, while Frankie Pritchett stood out for the Tonies.

Buck split the cords eight times from action and gathered in one penalty toss for a 17-point total. Pritchett collected 16 points. St. Joseph's was leading St. Paul's 45-44 with 10 seconds of their game remaining.

But at that moment Bill Morrow took a pass and dropped in a one-handed shot from the side-court to give the Tenth Warders the victory. The game was fought polnt-for-point from start to finish. The scores: ST. PAUL'S 1 ST. JOE'S (WILMINGTON) Hertzberg Features Sonny Hertzberg, missing from the lineup here in the afternoon, was the big gun for the Gothams last night as he rang up 15 points to pace Coach Barney Sedran's club to victory.

The Gothams Jumped off to an early lead in the night game and held a 21-18 advantage at hejftime. They outscored the Bombers 22-16 from action, but trailed 14-12 from American Basketball League Testeraay'a Basalts Wilmington, 45; New York, a (KftrnfMn 1 New York, Wilmington. Philadelphia, 57: Paterson. 53. Trenton, 83; Baltimore, 41.

Saturday's Keaalt Philadelphia. 88; Paterson, U. Stanalag tka Traaaa Won lost Pct.i Philadelphia 14 .700 WILMINGTON ..10 ft .524 Baltimore 10 10 New York ft, Trenton 11 .450 Paterson 1J .331 Five Major College Court Quintets Remain Unbeaten Ray Dumont National BaseoaU. Congress Chief 'town' teams are organizing earlier than In the past. The enthusiasm is there and I predict that the 'town' teams will double over the pre-war days of 1940.

"The structure to handle these teams has nearly been perfected for 1946. Teams may play in a National Parochial Basketball League Satarday's Results St. Paul's 42, St. Elizabeth's 34. Catbedral 28, St.

Ann's 20. St. Hedlf's 20, St. Mary's 12. Sacred Heart 23.

8t. Thomas' t. St. Patrick's 30, 6U Joseph's (Brandy-wine) 10. Christ Our King 20, St.

Joseph's (Wilmington) It. Standing at the Teams O. P. G. F.

P. Mastin.f 4 3 0 13 0 0 OlRuffln.f 7 4 J8 P. 1 11 lister.f 0 0 0 4 1 9 Bates.c 5 0 10 Maloney.o 0 ft 1 ft 3 Morrow. 1 3 Sevens. 11 3 SulliTan.g 0 0 0 Church.

0 0 0 J. rmckl.g 0 0 0 Webb 0 0 0 Damico.g 0 lOiBoni.g 0 ft 0 Totsls 10 8 46, Totsli 20 41 Won Lost Pet. St. Hedwif's 0 1.000 Christ Our King 1 .833 St. Patrick's 3 Sacred Heart 4 3 .667 St.

Ann's 4 2 .667 Cathedral 3 3 .500 St. Paul's 3 3 St. Joseph's (Wllm.) 3 3 .400 St. Thomas' 2 4 .3:3 St. Elizabeth's 1 4 .300 St.

Mary's 1 .167 St. Joseph's (Br'ndy) 0 .000 Referees: Boroyich and Collins. ST. ELIZABETH ST. ANTHONY'S O.

P. PJ O. P. Cole.f ft 3 2 0 4 Brgler.f 3 3 9 SylTester.r 0 ft 0 Nauman.e 4 0 8 Pritchett.e 7 3 18 Buek.g 8 1 17 rhomasso.c 3 0 8 Sansone.g 12 4 Aenia.g 0 0 0 IDellose.g 3 0 4 IVilone.g 4 1 Totals 18 4lf Totals 18 3 38 Referees: Smith and Borovich. Satvrday'e Resnlta ST.

ELIZABETH'S! ST. ANN'S G. F. O. F.

P. S. Ergler.f 0 3 3Riley.f 0 3 3 Nauman.f 0 3 2 Borccki.f 0 0 0 Marshall. 1 8) 4 18 Sansone.f 0 1 liNolan.f. 3 0 8 Loucks.e 0 0 Turley.e 4 1 9 Stan 3 3 Saltay.c 0 3 3 Cole.g 3 lt Clhin.r 7 30 0 0 0 Totals 10 17 37 Totals 18 13 48 Officials: Carucci and Smith.

ST. ANTHONY'S I WOODCREST O. F. G. F.

P. SiHcato.r 1 1 3 Bariowe.f 5 111 Renat.f 10 3 Wilson. 4 1 Serlo.f 1 0 2 Homiak.f 7 0 14 Pritchett.f 1 113 Dellose.g 10 2 P.Wright.e Oil Thomaso.g 5 1 10 2 STlvesier.g 1 0 2: Dougherty 0 0 Vilone.g 3 3 9 Sorn.g 0 0 0 Totals 1ft 44! Totsls 18 4 40 "About 200 district tournaments will be established by July 1. qual- ifying teams into 48 state championship events, followed by the 12th annual national finals at Wichita, Aug. 16 to 28, for the right to represent the United States in the Canadian American series which follows.

"To organize every part of the sandlot program, this organization will sponsor National Associations of Umpires, Scorers and Old-Time groups. "The National Baseball Congress will publish a half million baseball books (for free distribution), which will include the official playing rules; instructions on how teams should organize and how players should play the various positions. "But, we won't stop here. Base ball will continue to be organized on a global basis, with no less than 24 countries deciding their champions. In years which follow, a recognized world's titlist will be de cided in the non-professional ranks I BY LOS ANGELES Former Washington Mentor Will Coach All-America Club Owned by Ameche LOS ANGELES, Jan.

20 (U.R) Dudley DeGroot, who resigned last week as coach of the Washington Redskins In th National Pro Football League, has signed a "long term" contract to coach the Los Angeles club In the rival All-America Pro Football Conference, it was announcsd today. Edward P. (Slip Madigan, general manager of the Los Angeles eleven, made the announcement shortly after he arrived by plane from Chicago where he signed De Groot last Thursday. Terms of the contract were not revealed other than it was for a "long term." DeGroot will name two assistant coaches probably this week. He expects to use the formation.

"I am happy with this setup," DeGroot. who is still in the East signing up players for Los Angeles, was quotid as saving. "I guess this is obvious or I wouldn't have made the change." DeGroofs contract with the Redskins had three more years to go, but George P. Marshall, owner or the Redskins, accepted his resignation. The Redskins last season won the Eastern division championship of the National League, but lost the world title to the Cleveland Rams, 15 to 14.

The franchise of the Rams has since been moved to Los Angeles, as the National League prepared to oattie tne newly-formed All-America Conference, which plans to play Its first games next fall. Madigan said his club, sponsored by Actor Don Ameche and others, has written agreements with 22 play ers, and he expects to sign about 40 Lee Ar toe, former University of Cali fornia tackle, and Angelo Bertelli, former Notre Dame quarterback, are the only players publicly announced as signing with Los Angeles. Born in Chicago. DeGroot attend ed high school at San Diego, and later enrolled at Stanford where he played football prior to his graduation in 1924. He played on the United States rugby team in the 1824 Olympic games.

Park, Playground League PLAYGROUND LEAGUE (Section A) Tonight at Bayard. 7 p. Nelrhbor. hood ts. Canby B.

Wednesday at Bayard. P. Lincoln A ts. Cleveland. Wednesday at Bayard.

7:30 n. Wood- lawn ts. urant. Wednesday at High. 7 D.

Clayton ts. Canby B. Wednesday at High, 7:30 p. Jack son ts. snaiicross.

Thursday at Bayard. 7 p. Bayard ts. ttooney. Thursday at Bayard, 7:30 p.

Van Buren vs. Harmon. i Thursday at High. 7 D. Neighbor hood ts.

Rodney. Thursday at High, 7:30 p. Lincoln A ts. Van Buren. Friday at Bayard.

7 p. Woodlawn ts. a. Friday at Bayard. 7 p.

Clayton vs. Bayard. Friday at Bayard. 7:30 p. Jackson vs.

Orant. Friday atv Bayard, 7:30 p. Canby A T. Bhallcross. Friday at JBayard p.

Harrison ts. CleTeland. (Section Tonight at Settlement. 7 p. Carter ts.

tnerry. Tonight at Settlement, p. French ys. Monroe. Tonight at Settlement.

7:30 p. Set tlement ts. Market. Tomorrow at Brown, p. Washing ton ts.

price Run. Tomorrow at Brown, 7:30 p. Shin. ley ts. Broom.

Wednesday at settlement, 7 p. m. Carter ts. Monroe. Wednesday at Settlement.

7:30 p. m. Washington ts. Shipley. Wednesday at Brown.

7 p. Brandy- wine ts. Crescent. Friday at Settlement. 7 p.

Settle ment ts. Cherry. rriaay at settlement, p. rrencn ts. uranaywine.

FAKK LEAGUE Tonight at Bayard, 7:30 p. Gardens ts. Brandywine. 1 Wednesday at p. Lin coln ts.

Rodney. Wednesday at Brown, 8 p. Rocktord TS. GreenhilL Wednesday at Settlement, I p. Adams ts.

Settlement. Friday at Bayard, p. Browntown vs. Union. SEXIOK PARK LEAGUE Tonight at Bayard, p.

Neighborhood ts. Madison. Tomorrow at Brown, p. French ts. Clayton.

Wednesday at High, 8 p. French ts. Madison. Wednesday at Bayard, p. Conrad Ts.

DuPont. Thursday at Bayard, I p. Clayton s. DuPont. Thursday at High, p.

Conrad ts. Madison. GIRLS WANT GAMES St. Paul's girls wish to arrange basketball games with girls playing mens ruies. interested learns are requested to call Mary Cassidy at 16768 or Eddie Callahan at 4-0468.

DEGROO SIGNED I By WILLIAM TUCKER NEW YORK, Jan. 20 u.R Items stirred up in the January sport vacuum: Branch Rickey, the deacon of De-Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, screamed in high dudgeon when he heard that his old St. Louis boss, San Breadon, was taking credit for the discovery of the Cooper brothers who brought $235,000 Into the Cardinal coffers. "Why I signed Mort Cooper for $75 on the recommendation of Scout Joe Schultz and when he reported he brought along his brother. Walker," Rickey said.

"For a long time, Breadon didn't even know wt had any Cooper brothers in the Cardinal system." Henrich to Forget Pitching Tommy Henrich, member of th classy New York Yankee outfield with Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller, came out of the Coast Guard boasting that he had become an accomplished pitcher as well as, oJ all things, a southpaw shortstop Henrich was welcomed back to the Yankee organization with open arm; as an outfielder and told to forget his ambitions to become part ol the innej- defense. The old gag about a deal with house and lot thrown in" came truf for Paul (Bear) Bryant, Don Hut-son's fellow end at Alabama, wher he took over the head coaching jot at the University of Kentucky. Conscious of the housing shortage, Bryant hedged for living space when hi was approached by Kentucky so thej found him a house in Lexington. The U. S.

Military Academy, whicl seldom takes a back seat in an; sport, has acknowledged that Nev York University's Les MacMitchel is king of the collegiate milers. Inviting him to a special race as a feature of the Jan. 26 West Point Relays, the Academy matched Mac-Mitchell with two Cadets who wil pace him half a mile each. Glem Cunningham ran his famed indoor mile against a Dartmouth relay team but such feats are not recognized for records. Hope to Balance Books Joe Louis and Billy Conn can onlj hope to get their books balanced with Uncle Sam and others witl their take of the multi-million dollar June 19 fight.

If Joe gets $1,000,000 as his shar is estimated at this date, he wil realize only about $145,000 when th government gets through workinf out its graduated income I. Conn's share is $500,000 he will bt lucky to collect $100,000. By contrast, Gene Tunney's $990,445 purs for the second Dempsey fight was nicked for a mere 10 per cent bj Uncle Sam Conservation note: The state Minnesota removed 10,053,101 pound! of "rough fish" from state waters during 1S45. Not having dropped hook in the water for 15 years, Wf wouldn't know a rough fish from smooth one. But it appears th rough fish are the non-edible type such as gars, sheepshead, dogfish carp (overgrown goldfish to you) catfish, suckers, mooneyes and turtles In ease you can barely catch the ponieg whisking by at Santa Anite it's because they have speed to burr ut at the California track.

Th barns boast such fast ones as Snon. Boots, holder of the new record foi a mile and one-sixteenth at 1:41 3-5 and Bull Reigh and Sirde, co-holders of the previous maflt for thai distance. 33rd Division Gridders Beat Clark 20- OSAKA, Japan, Monday, Jan. 2: VP) The 33rd Division football team paced by former Cornell star Kennj Stofer, defeated the Clark Fielc eleven, Philippine champions, 20 to 6 before 10,000 shivering fans hen Sunday. (Clark Field was eliminated from the Army's Pacific Olympics semi-finals on Jan.

13 by the 14th Airborne Division team, 27 to 6.) Stofer tossed two passes for touchdowns and carried the brunt of the winners' running attack. Klimczak is Reported In Line for Yale Jofc Walter Klimczak, former Wilmington Blue Rocks' catcher, is reported in line to succeed Red Rolfe at coach of the Yale University baseball team, it was reported last night Rolfe is leaving Yale to become coach of the Yankees. Klimczak is a former player ar-i a graduate of Yale. leagues. I told them to get their house in order then come to baseball with, a petition for recognition! "The Negro leagues favor keeping their own boys and with their leagues on a sound basis, with a contract like the one we use, they expect those boys to want to stay in their own class." He told the Texas club owners baseball had established its integrity under the late Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and that bis prinf oipal objective was continued pre tection of the game's integrity.

Chandler predicted "the greatest sports boom in the history of mankind" this year and declared baseball would lead the way. Regarding the administration of baseball law he said he would rule In the way he thought was just and that he had no Intention of attempting to change the law. I Chandler declared he would like to see the time when all baseball would be under one head with even amateur ball coming under the Jurisdiction of the commissioner's office. Salesianum School recorded Its sixth basketball victory of the season yesterday afternoon on the home court by tripping St. Agnes School of West Chester, 59 to Jim McFadden and Joe Kwiatkow-skl were the main cogs in the Sallies' attack.

The former dropped eight field goals and a pair of char, ity tosses for 18 points, while Kwiat-kowski tallied six times from action and tallied three penalty points for a 15-polnt total. The Sallies got off to a slow start but forged in front 9-8 at the end of the first period, and hit their stride in the second period to lead 24-16 at half-time. Sp-lesianum gained a 25-13 edge on I action goals, and led 9-8 at the foul line. In a high-scoring preliminary game Salesianum's Jay Vees nosed out St Agnes' Jay Vees, 51 to 49. The scores: ST.

AGNES' I BALESIANTJM G. F. P. o. f.

P. rrame.r i 8 2 IB Cosgroye.f 0 OIHagan.f 1 4 Schofleld.I 3 0 4Moran.f 3 ft Homan.i 1 1 0 a l. ica.e 3 i 3 15 Redmond, 3 0 1 1 QulU.g 0 0 OHogan.f 113 Moore.g 3 1 113 Trayis.g 0 3 13 Brocke.g All Totals 13 34 Totals 8CORB BY PERIODS 3i it St. Agnes" 19 34 Saleilanum it 30 IS 59 Officials: Jake Warner and Don Ca-ruecL ST. AGNES' JV I SAUBSIANOM JV a.

f. p.i a. f. p. 4 1 ftiRoddy.f 4 Leary.l 0 0 0 0 7 13 1 11 1 3 3 13 oreoran.r 7 7 21IBader.f Kelly.t 0 3 3i3elTaggl.f Owyer.o 3 0 Waldron.e 9 ft OlCorcoran.f lalint.c 10 3 Brocke t- MMs.g 0 0 osgroTe.g 3 9 10 0 ft Of Totala IS 17 4Si Totala 30 11 51 Officials: Carucci and Warner.

BLUE HENS TRIP P. M. 53 TO 40 Delaware Courtmen Pull Away in Second Half To Regain Victory Column Special to The Morning News NEWARK, Jan. 20 Delaware Blue Hens climbed back into the win column last night with a 53 to 40 victory over Penn Militarv College of Chester, before a crowd of 2,500 in the Fieldhouse. The Hens were behind through most of the opening half and trailed 23-22 at the intermission.

But in the second half the Blue and Gold pass ers hit their stride and pulled away to an easy victory. Delaware outscored the Cadets 18-10 in the third quarter and gained a 13-7 edge in the final period. Dick Grossman and Newell Dun can led the Hens' attack. The former tabbed four field goals and eight charity points for a 16-pomt total, while Duncan tallied five action shot and three penalty tosses for 13 points. Gils Granger was high for the invaders with 11 points.

Delaware outscored the Cadets 17-14 from action and gained a 19' 12 advantage at the foul line. The score: DELAWARE P. M. C. f.

p. a. f. p. W.

Mackey.f 3 3 0 4 0 0 2 3 O. Wolf.f 0 3 3 SiPranU.f 0 3 0 i R. Cataldi.f 0 OjVan Sant.o 1 0 Pie.f 0 OIQlotz.e Kirkland.e 0 SfGallagher.g 2 1 lParthurst.g 3 i 0 01 3 0 Grossman. Monaghan.g 3 11 Skura.g 0 Nen.g R. Wolf.g Totals 17 19 531 Totals SCORE BY PERIODS Delaware 10 12 IS 1353 P.

M. 13 10 7 40 Officials: Pennock and Salvatore. Girls' Basketball League Standinr of the Teams INTERMEDIATE LEAGUE Won Lost "Pet. 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 DuPonters 1 Blue Artisan I 0 White Artisans 0 1 Y. W.

H. A. 0 1 Cool Spring Juniors 1 SENIOR LEAGUE Brand ywirj) Won. Lost Pet. 1.000 1.O00 1.000 .000 .000 DuPont Experiment 1 0 Dia.

Stat Tele. Boothwyn 1 Raiston-Purina 0 1 N. Y. Oyster Bar 9 0 1 SENIOR LEAGUE Christiana) Won Lost Pet. 1.000 1.000 .000 .00) .000 Hosp.

1 0 Harrison Street 1 0 Memorial Hosp. Sip Mar Phi 0 1 DeL Pr. A Lt 0 SebedoU for the Week Toniarht At Brown Vocational. White Artisans vs. Blue Artisans, Diamond State Telephone vs.

Ralston-Purina at W. H. S.f Cool Spring Juniors vs. W. H.

New Tort Oyster Bar vs. Boothwyn Farmerettes. Thursday At Harlan School. Blazers vs. DuPonters; Memorial Hospital vs Sip Mar Phi, Delaware Power Light vs.

Harrison M. DuPont Experiment vs. Sockos. Settlement Conquers Old Swedes 62 to 19 Settlement's trounced Old Swedes in an Intra-Clty Basketball League contest Saturday on the home floor by the score of 62 to 19. Every member of the winning; club contributed to the scoring.

The score: SETTLEMENT I OLD SWEDES Q. F. P. g. r.

p. Robert. 1 0 TWoJ'skLf 3 0 10 3 W.Teat'n.e 4 0 8 Lepore.g; a 0 16 Clayton. 3 14 Ytifn.g IBeverin.c 1 30 a aj Total Jo.Bender.f 3 11 10 3: 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 E.Woowrs.f Poraeker.c Hendrix.e R. Wooters.a; Ji.Bender.g 1 1 i Totals Scbedal Fridsr At Mary C.

X. Williams School St. Paul's vs. St. Ann's.

7 o'clock; Christ Our King vs. St. Patrick clock. Saturday At Salesianum School: Cathe dral ts. St.

Joseph's a. Bt Joseph's Br'ndy) vs. St. Elizabeth's a. Sacred Heart ts.

St. Mary's. 10 beaten In eight league games. North Carolina has won six of seven, los ing only to Duke. Ohio Conference Toledo went Into first by beating Baldwin-Wallace and aided by Capital's loss to Ashland.

Middle Atlantic Muhlenberg 2-0 anud Gettysburg 1-0 still undefeated in league competition. Big Seven Colorado Aggie, 2-0, took over first by surprising ColO' rado, 50-46. Colorado is second at 3-1 and Wyoming third at 2-1 and Brigham Young fourt hat 1-1. Rocky Mountain Colorado State retained first at 4-0 by beating Colorado College, 39-31. Previously Colorado College and Montona State nad split a two-game- series, leav ing Montana State second at 3-1.

Midwest Athletic Coe 2-0 ousted Beloit from first place by winning 51-50 last night. Pervlously Beloit had been unbeaten In four league starts. Ripon and Lawrence still in running along with Beloit. P. S.

duPont and Brown Win in Hi-Y Circuit P. S. duPont Hl-Y tripped the Club, 20 to 16, and Brown Hl-Y downed Wilmington Hi-Y, 49 to 11 in Hi-Y League basketball games played Saturday on the Y. M. C.

A. court. The scores: CLUB S. DUPONT HI-Y Q. F.

G. P. p. Snialiki.f 4' 3i Jarber.e ol ioyce. Si rpbell.g Olfoung.g pook.g ichaeiier.g nms.g 4 1 Total Referee: Oarvlne.

the foul mark. Doug Holcomb paced the Bombers witb nine points. Hoefer Features Win Charley Hoefer's brilliant all-around play featured the Bombers' afternoon victory before 1,646 customers on the State Armory court. The popular little Long Islander ripped the cords for six baskets, five in the second period, and three fouls for a total of 15 points and in addition played a fine floor game as he broke up several New York scor ing rallies with timely interceptions. Hoefer was all over the court.

intercepting passes, setting up plays and his five second period baskets and a pair of fouls kept the Bombers In the running during that session when they were outscored 23-20 as the Gothams moved into the lead on long shots by Leo Gottlieb and couple of lay-ups by Predo Frey. The Bombers rolled up a 6-0 lead in the first period, but the Gothams fought back on the fine shooting of Ben Scharnus and Gottlieb and it was point for point until the end of the period with the teams dead locked at 16-all. Lead Alternates The Bombers moved ahead at the start of the second period, but New York pull back on top soon after as Gottlieb and Frey sparked an other rally that gave them a 39-36 edge at the end of the session. Johnny Murphy, who again car ried on scoring honors for the Bombers with 16 points, combined with. SI Boardman to put the local club back on top as the final session got under way and after Jumping into a 42-39 lead they were never headed thereafter, although the Gothams pulled up within two points at 51-49 with four minutes to go.

Ken Corley, who entered the game as a center replacement in the final session. Just about clinched the verdict when his lay-up on a fine pass from Bill Davis raised the count to 53-49. Fouls by Corley and Sam Kaplan boosted the edge to 55 while the best the fighting Gothams could do was a final foul by Gott lieb. Holcomb, Chadick Back Hoefer and Boardman with 15 points apiece followed Murphy in the scoring while Tony Kappen, Scharnus and Gottlieb had 11 apiece lor trie Gothams. Two old favorites, Holcomb and Paul Chadick returned to action with the Bombers yesterday.

The greatly Improved Baltimore Bullets will be the attraction at the State Armory next Sunday afternoon. Afternoon; Gtnt NEW YORK I W1LMKGTOK O. F. P. a.

f. p. Cappen.f 3 lllaoefer.f 3 15 3 10 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 113 7 1 15 1 3.4 10 3 10 It 55 ffalah.f 1 lothenberf.f 3 fns.t 3 Scharnus. JoUlltb.g I 3eresson.g 0 3 Murphy.f 3 tlfiolcomb.e 1 lllcorley.e 1 HIBoardman.f ft OiSapian.g phadick.g Totals 10 11 501 Totals SCORE fix PERIODS New York 10 33 11 50 Wilmington 18 20 19 55 Officials: Natie Kaufftnan and Leo Collins. Night Game WILMINGTON 1 NEW YORK F.

P.I F. P. 3 5 3 10 1 5 a 4 2 10 0 0 1 7 1 15 Hoefer.f Murphy. Corley Holeomb.c DaTia.c Chadick. Kaplan.

McCahan.f 3 0 OlOottliob.f 1 1 1 3 1 SJWalsh.g 0 OlHertaberg.g 1 'I Totals 18 14 48! Totals Half-time score: Kew York, hum 38; Wll- mlngton. 31. -Officials: Pat Kennedy an4 Max Ta- bacchi. Leaders Hold Places In Pin Tournament CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (P) -Leaders In the Louis P.

Petersen $52,000 Individual bowling classic were unchanged tonight after afternoon firing by two squads of 32 men each. Only two keglers broke into the top 10, and neither approached the total Prank Sospirato, Cleveland truck driver, rolled in opening rounds yesterday. Jim Carcione of Cleveland, bowling on the second squad today, had a total to tie with Edward Kawolics of Cleveland for seventh place. William Marescalco of Kenosha, was one point behind, with 1,503, for eighth place. Two more squads will roll tonight.

Competition will be suspended until next Saturday; when there will be daily activity until the last of the 2.080 entrants has completed hiG eight games across 16 alleys Feb. 10. ST. PAUL'S TO DRILL, St. Paul's of the Parish Basketball League wCl practice tonight at 7 o'clock on the Mary C.

Williams School court. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGCE Toronto, Detroit, I.Boston, Montreal, 0. Chicago, New York, 1. The Schedalo Friday Paterson at Baltimora. Saturday Wilmington at Phila delphia; Trenton at Paterson.

Sunday Baltimora at Wilming ton i afternoon): Philadelphia at New York; Paterson at Trenton. The SPORTS TRAIL By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK. Jan. 20 UPr said Gene Sarazen, "have a hunch." If he does, it isn't noticeable, as the alert squire, one of golfs im mortals, still is the erect, stocky, cocky gent he was in winning all the games major titles, most of them more than once. "I am going to fly to England for the British Open," he continued, "and also will enter our National Open.

The British Open will be held at St. Andrews, and it was there I finished Just one stroke back of the leaders in defending my title in 1933. Playing a Hunch "The National Open will be held at Canterbury, and it was there I tied for the title in 1940, losing to Lawson Little In the playoff. I have a hunch that this year it might be different. I came so close on those two courses before.

This time I might do it-It will be Sarazen's 11th appear-; ance in the British Open. He flg-. ures it cost him $20,000 to win the title, which was worth only $310 as the pound was at Its lowest value In 1932. He has been a participant in every National Open since 1920, and never failed to qualify. He hasn't been playing too much 'golf, he says, due to pressure of other business, but In two tournaments in which he competed last fall he was hitting the ball well, and he plans to really get in condition for his assault on the British Open and National Open this year.

Needs to Get in Condition To Sarazen condition really means condition. It means paring down his weight, strengthening his legs and otherwise fitting himself for a long grind. He used to run up and down steps to Improve his wind and get his legs in shape so that walking over a golf course for 72 holes would be Just a stroll In the park. He shot his age on the first nine of a tournament, at Richmond last fall. That is, he got a 43 going out, which ruined his chances although he came in with a 33.

At Pinehurst he started out with rounds of 71, 71 and 72, then ballooned to an 81 on the final round. A remarkable fellow, Is squire. He'll be 44 next month and won first National Open 24 years ago. Ten' years later he won the title a second time, and 19 years later he came within a whisper of winning It a third time. And we have the idea he secretly thinks he might have won that time had the playoff been 36 holes instead of 18.

"All playoffs should be 36 holes," he declares. "When I won the Masters in 1935 it was in a playoff with Craig Wood." A sturdy competitor over the long haul himself, he doesn't think 18 holes provides a real test-It will be nice to see him out there again this year matching his skill and wisdom against the new generation of stars. He probably will be the lone representative of the golden era of the SO's, and, unless Tommy Armour or Willie Macfarlane or Leo Diegel decides to take another fling at it, will be the only entrant who also competed in 1920. And hell be no idle threat, either. The confident, links-wise gent still to list be reckoned with in any tournament he seta his mind on winning.

When the chips axe down, so ue his putts. First Prize Triumphs At Agua Caliente Oval AGUA CALIENTE, Mex, Jan. 30 (JP) The Redskull brothers' patched up cripple. First Prize, under the guidance of Jockey Ron Deb Elloy. captured the $1,500 Tijuana Handicap at one mile today.

Always in the first flight. First Prize took command of his field in the stretch and won by a length and one-half from Mrs. Jack Taylor's Herest The Acampo Stable's Swift Toes was third, four lengths behind Herest Timed In 1:38 4-5, First Prize paid $8.00. $420 and $3.60 across the board. Herest was worth $4.60 and $3.40 and Swift Toes, coupled as a field horse with Porter's Kin, returned $6.40 to show.

By TED MEIER NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (ff)-rer, If any, college basketball teams will finish this season undefeated. Seven more quintets were chopped off the select list last week leaving only five major outfits West Virginia, Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Gettysburg and Navy with a clean slat. And the way things are going it ap parently won't be long before they tumble. West Virginia ran Its string to 11 by nicking Penn State and Car negie Tech.

Notre Dame made it 10 in a row by taking St. Louis and Great Lakes, coming from behind in each game. Holy Cross and Get tysburg each won two more games to make their record 7-0 while Navy knocked over Maryland and George Washington for a 4-0 mark. Unbeaten Ranks Dwindle Falling from the unbeaten ranks during the week were Baldwin-Wal lace by Toledo 47-33; Cornell by New York University 62-48; Georgia by Vanderbilt 44-41; Tulane by Ala Ibama 39-28; Yale by Harvard 39 '37; Northwestern by Illinois 45-38 This leaves a long and imposing list of once-beaten clubs. They UV elude (figures in parenthesis denote number of wins): Kansas (13) Wyoming (12); Kentucky New York Univ (11); Oklahoma Aggies (10); Akron (10); Toledo (10); Cor nell (9); Iowa (9): Muhlenberg (9) Rhode Island State (10): Tulane (9); Colgate (8); Detroit (8): Louisiana State (8); Yale (8; Harvard (7); Wesleyan (6); Pitt (5) and St.

Michaels of Vermont (4). These records are due for a further shaking up this week with Wyoming and the Oklahoma Aggies iclashing in two games; Kentucky Island State tackling Holy Cross. Wyoming revenged its lone defeat by swamping Utah last night, 63-43, and twice-beaten ran its wm ning streak to 11 by crushing Clem- son, but the week's greatest sur prises were contributed' by Syracuse and Dartmouth. Syracuse Surprises Syracuse, a 10-point underdog, stung St. John's of Brooklyn, 52-43 at New York's Maaison, square Garden on Wednesday and fallowed through last night with a 53-52 win over a veteran Temple team, after trailing at one time in the second half by 14 points, uartmoutn, un beaten since Dec.

22, won its fifth straight by upsetting Army, 55-53, only three days after the West Point Cadets had run up a record. 93 points in swamping Pennsylvania, a team that earlier had defeated Dartmouth. Syracuse's two victories gave the Oruige a 12-2 won-lost record ana along with Colgate, N. Y. U.

ana DePaul (11-3), Bowling Green (17-3), St John's (9-3), Louisville (16-3). Temple (6-4), and Pepper- dine (13-4) the upstate New York ers top the country's independents. The various conlerence races shane na ns follows: Big Ten Minnesota, unrjeaten in three league games, moved into the top rung as Indiana upset Ohio State, 44-39. The Buckeyes are second with 4-t and Iowa "third at 3-1. Southwest Baylor1 moved Into a tie for first with Arkansas by trimming Southern Methodist, 58-38 and Rice.

43-35. Both Baylor ana Arkansas have won three of four conference tilts. Their only defeats have been 'to each other. Rice, Texas Christian and Texas still in running with two defeats apiece. Pacific Coast (Northern Division! Oregon State retained first place at 4-1 although losing first league game to Oregon, 53-48.

Washington missed a chance to tie for first by dividing two-game series with Washington State and Idaho. Pacific Coast (Southern uivisionj California and Southern California remained tied for the top at 5-1 as they split their two-game series on Friday and Saturday. Missouri Valley St. Louis uea the Oklahoma Aggies for first at 2-0 by whipping Wichita, 60-42, after the Aggies had whipped the Shockers. 52-41.

Cornell Ivy Leader Eastern Intercollegiate Cornell swamped Princeton 77-34 to remain at top with 5-0 mark. Dartmouth still in running at 3-1. Southeastern Kentucky trounced Tennessee, 50-32, for- a successful league debut, but technically the Wildcats 1-0 trail Louisiana State 3-0 and VanderbUt 2-0. Big Six Kansas squeezed by Oklahoma 53-52 to retain first place at 4-0. The Sooners and Iowa State are tied for second at 2-1.

Southern Duke still at top, un-; Phil Sorboe's Suggestion Aids Gridiron Spectators PULLMAN, Wash. (X At 33 years, Phil Sorboe, Washington State College grid coach, was the youngest mentor in the Pacific Coast Conference last season, and he was also the one with the most new ideas. His suggestions Included a plan to number players according to positions. Each left end's number started with a 1. each left tackle's identification with a 2 and so on.

Sorboe used the idea with his own squad to the satisfaction of sports writers and the fans. Boston Bruins Defeat Montreal Canatiiens, 3-0 BOSTON, Jan: 20 Getting away flying, the Boston Bruins evened their week-end home-and-home series with the Montreal Ca-nadiens by shutting out those National Hockey League leaders, 3-0, tonight before a packed 13,900 crowd at the Boston Garden. It was Goalie Frankie Brimsek's first whitewashing job since he returned from the Coast Guard. GRIDDER ALSO SKI ACE SALT LAKE CITY (JP) Expert skiers as a rule don't run greatly to size, but Laurie Mauss, Utah's husky all-Big Seven football center, is a top hand on the waxed slats. WILMINGTON HI-YI BROWN HI-Y O.

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20 Seaford High School's basketball team turned in its third win of the season Friday night, tripping Georgetown High by the score of 41 to 21. Harlan Fleetwood led the Beaford offense by tabbing 16 points. In the prelim Seaford Jay Vees downed Georgetown Jay Vees, 26 to 9. The score: SEAFORD HIGH I GEORGETOWN O. F.

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Weiszman said play would start In ApriL DALLAS, Jan. 20 (JP) The ques tion of Negroes in baseball is ex pected to be settled satisfactorily through reorganization of the Negro leagues on a basis that will bring them recognition in the general structure of baseball. Commissioner A B. lHappy) Chandler said today. Here to meet informally with Texas League officials and to address a sports achievement banquet tomorrow night, the commissioner, when questioned at a press 'conference regarding the situation resulting from Brooklyn of the National League signing a Nesrro Dlayer.

de clared: There have been conferences be tween myself, President Will Har-ridge of the American League and President Ford Frick of the National League with the presidents of the American and National Negro Leagues. These conferences, at the request of the Negro league presi- aents. were with a view toward or- jganizing the Negro, leagues on a strong basis. I was asked if I would jalso be commissioner for those.