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Twenty-right Delaware. Wednesday December 3, 1947 Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Major Leagues Considering Expansion To 10 Teams Apiece A La Carte By ai Council Plan Individual Swim to Climax Junior High Card Tomorrow Nobody Gives Walcott a Chance in Title Go, But Chamv Louis Rehearses as Hard as Ever State Schools! In Grid Flareup Sports Editor Wy -m includes four "iiiiiunimuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiujiinHiiT i kUCKY CARMICHAEL and Jack tv Piihiic Schools Athene 1 P. C. L. Cities Rehoboth Superintendent College Basketball Hushebeck.

Wilmington boys ho experienced a sensational League individual swimming cha.Ti-I pionships. 1947 edition, will be he.cl nmArrnu' nirht in the Y. M. C. A.

football season as teammates in the Augusta Military Academy backfield Urges Suspension Of Rivalry With Lewes By Associated Press EAST Nf York 41; pool at 7 o'clock. Bancroft. Bayard. I P. S.

duPont and Warner Junior Lakes I High Schools will compete. Warner lis the league team champion. Long Island. T4: QuantifD. 49.

64: Grrat (Pro i. 32. REHOBOTH BEACH, Dec. 3 (Special). Because of "evidence of Los Angeles and 'Frisco Reported Especially Ready for Big Time MLAMI.

Dec. 3 UP). The 10-team major league, which proved a dud once before, may be revived in the National and American Leagues in the near future. a lack of friendly rivalry" between the Lewes and Rehoboth high school Brooklyn Polv. Pratt, 45.

SOl'IH Tennessee. 56: U.nco'.n Memorial. 41. Western Ky 51: Ky. Wesleyan.

31. Vanderbilt. 57; David 43 Baltimore Loye'a. 4T: Town. 37 Baltimore CO: Wilson Tcfcw MID-WEST Western Michigan.

64: Calvin. If. Lawrence Tech. 86: Indiana Tech, 48 football teams, as demonstrated 1 their annual Thanksgiving Day game, the Rehoboth school board is at Defiance, play a post-sea-t-on game at Chattanooga on Saturday It's the Orchid Bowl, no less Incidentally. Hushe-beck has been elected to the academy Honor Society, which admits only five members from the entire school on the basis of their scholastic ability And don't let this get expected to decide Thursday night at a special meeting whether game relationships should be suspended raw C.

Walter Kadel. supervisor phvsical education, who is known bv virtually every high school athlete to grace the playing fields in Wilmington for the pat four decades, is the motivating force behind the meets. Kadel. who started swimming meets at Yale back in 19W. makes no secret of his love for swimming, which rates on a par with his rooting for the baseball Blue Rocks.

33 Events "The youngsters really look forward to these individual meets." said today, 'and we've turned out some fine high school and college swimmers. Some of the boys that Delaware Frosh To Plav 11 Games for several years. Dr. Joseph A. Vansant.

superintendent of Rehoboth High School. The Executive Council has drawn up preliminary plans for such a revolutionary move with the purpose of admitting four Pacific Coast League teams in the majors, the Associated Press learned from a reliable source last night, on the eve of the minor league meetings here. The source added that the teams are Los Angeles, San Francisco, NEWARK. Dec. 3 'Special'.

0arh Bob Siemens Delaware fresh- said today that he would make such Al Cartwright a recommendation to the board "in men will piav basketball games the interest of good relationship season, according to the sched-tween the two communities." juie completed today. The card be-Tr all srnrrpH whpn thp traditional cins here Dec. 13 aaainst Brown around, but Bill Murray is interest "friendly rivalry" took a belliger-1 Prep, crack Philadelphia team. With will swim tomorrow night are good the exception of the opener, all the swimmers right now. and nerd only games will be in the new Middle At- the poise that comes with experi- lantic Freshman Conference.

ence to be excellent." Jersey Joe Wolcott plays with his pup Fluffy, and shows you the target at which Joe Louis will fire in Madison Square Garden on Friday night. Prosh candidates include Joe The will be 33 events, with four -Kwiatkowski. of last season Salesi- cssfs represented So. 9d. 110-anum quintet.

Several former P. S.iPuni unlimited. One boy wi.l ent turn in the holiday game at the Rehoboth Ball Park, where the Rehoboth team scored an easy victory over Lewes, 28 to 0. Dr. Vansant says the ill feeling between the two teams was demonstrated throughout the game with "too much slugging back and forth, and noisy encouragement from the Lewes aggregation in the grandstand." 'Other Casualties' It reached its peak, he says, when and has been fighting since 1934.

All duPont athletes also decorate the i 111 Oakland and Hollywood. 'Only Logical Step' "The Executive Council, with the approval of the major leagues, had agreed that this is the only logical step," the source continued. "After its visit to California last August, during which time it listened to the demand of the Pacific Coast League, the council studied the matter carefully and decided that it would not be feasible to grant the Coast League's request. It agreed, however, that major-league ball was bound to come to the coast some day." "The council was of the opinion that two of the coast's cities Los Angeles and San Francisco especiallywere prepared for big league baseball," the informant said. sauad.

and Jim Middleton, a 1947 scnoois. except lor me rnen wv Gold seal certificates will be the laws of nature insist he has passed his peak, has slowed up, is product, and Jimmy Thomas, who pawn in a celebrated political fight which forced the two Dempsey-Tun-ney fights out of New York. Buddy Young, the Negro football star, looking unbelievably small without his pads and helmet. John Roxbor- comes via the Army and the C. Y.

JOE WILLIAMS POMPTON LAKES. N. Dec. 3 (U.R) Chubby Harry Mendel, who used to read the commercials for six-day bike races, herded the pressmen into what he called the recreation room at this training camp. ready to be taken.

It simply has to be that way. Looking at him yesterday as he one of the Rehoboth players struck ough, who may or may not still be Louis' manager, but who in any case remains in the background, appar "The champ will be over in five minutes to answer your questions," Mendel said. awarded the winner of each event, while place finishers will be awarded silver seal certificates and bronze certificates will be given to each third. Last year vas the first meeting since the war and there will be boys on hand to defend their titles, while several other champions will have to move up the weisht scale. "These junior hish teams make it possible to feed some cood swim- League, should prove a big help to the Blue and Gold chances.

Clay-mont's Jack Doct Green, a 6-foot-3 eager: Archmere's Chick Daley; Conrad's Bob Smith, and former C. Y. O. passer Art Sullivan are almost sure bets to lots of action this winier. Other standouts in preseason frosh drills have been Curt Turner, 6-foot-2 Collingswood, N.

J. product, and Frank Albera. The a Lewes boy Joe Hudson while no play was going on and knocked out several of his teeth. "The referee banished both players over the protest of the Lewes ently chastened and apologetic since Pretty soon Joe Louis arrived, well his prison term in Michigan as the Arthur-Murrayed around the ring, agilely enough it seemed, it was impossible to tell just how much he has slowed up, just how far he has gone back. For immediate purposes it doesn't matter a great deal.

Everything is relative. All he has to do is to be faster, stronger and better than Walcott Friday in the Garden, and the price is 1 to 10 that bundled up and wearing a lacy "Hollywood and Oakland were in result of a bribery rap. And scores cluded to give the leagues -better coach and then the police tried to of others, the faceless silhouettes black beard that made him look like a corn-fed blank verse writer. quell the rising disturbance," Dr balance. With, four teams in the American and National Leagues, the who are always around these things staring and gaping and drooling, "Gentlemen, the president," said Vansant added.

"Other casualties Mendel with a sweeping motion of and you wonder where they come playing schedule would be greatly simplified. The four-coast-team idea jmers into Wilmington High and P. IS. duPont. both of which have varsity teams." Kadel declared.

his right hand. he is. from and what they do for a living, Louis smiled stuffily as if to in if anything. would also act as a stimulant to inter-city rivalry in California." Still Dangerous Except for a growing bald spot on the top of his head and this be schedule Dec. 13 Brown Prep.

home. Jan. 7 Drexcl, away. Jan. 10 Swarthmore.

home. Jan. 14 Ursinus. away. Jan.

21 P. M. C. home. Feb.

7 Haverford. away. Feb. 11 Drexcl. home.

Feb. 14 Ursinus. home. Feb. 21 Swarthmore.

away. Feb. 28 P. M. C.

away. Mar. 3 Haverlorrt, home. Should the lo-team idea become 'Durocher Treatment' The pressmen are not permitted resulted. Bill Barney, who had slugged the Lewes lad.

emerged with a bloody face, while Holland Ewing got a fractured nose." The ill feeling has persisted, the Rehoboth superintendent says, with groups of Lewes boys cruising around Rehoboth ever since, looking for Rehoboth players. dicate he was in no mood for juvenile humor. Yes, he expected to win. No, he wouldn't try to name the round "Won't take mor'n 15, though" Yes, he was going to ed in the pair. Right after the new year begins, the boss Clippers will meet and decide whether or not George Vener-oso will be retained as coach Grover Cleveland Jones, and Carleton Elliott, the Delaware athletes who starred for Virginia, made honorable mention on the United Press All-America squad Elliott, the giant young end from Laurel, a to got a call from the Associated Press Nothing fancy about Eddie Bush, the new Brandywine golf pro from Detroit That's his full name just Eddie Bush Harry Waldman, of the club's tournament committee, predicts that Bush will be a great asset.

Jesse Malinowski, former Conrad High athlete, has won his freshman football numerals at Wooster College in Ohio He played both quarterback and halfback and was his team's outstanding passer Paul Chadick obtained his release from Elizabeth without playing a pa me and has Joined the crack Wilkes-Barre club in the same American Basketball League He collected 16 points as the Barons, who won the Eastern League title In 1946-47, handed Lancaster an 83-65 thumping in their last attempt Johnny Murphy, another ex-Blue Bomber, now is with Lancaster after starting as a Philadelphia Spha. Adam Adamowiak set a new Delaware semi-pro record for running around the block the other afternoon 45 seconds. And through all those Market Street shoppers, too Speaking of running, the Police boxing team's Tommy Zickgraf jogs six miles to work every morning Or so claims his press agent During the month of October, athletics at Allentown. High School grossed $18,240 Ralph and Dick Durstein. the Wilmington brothers who played on the Lafayette line this season, rome up with the tip that the Leopards soon will be on Delaware's schedule.

comes noticeable only when he's di Van llise Trospect Donald Van Hise of Warner is one swimmer whom Kadel is sur will develop into an ace. Van Hue. who swims in the unlimited 50 and 100-yard free style events anri was a mpmhpr rf thp Warnrr a reality, it would not be the first time that the majors expanded. Back in 1890, the National League, rectly under the ring lights the to enter Louis' dressing room but it is noted the champion warmly invites Raft and the cinema artist's two companions to visit with him in rushing years haven't changed Louis' flushed with success after several London in February for a series of outer appearances much. He still lean years, widened into a 12-team The Lewes aggregation is said to privacy and this prompts one of the exhibitions "That is, if I'm still champion.

They don't want me un- T. R. A. Pressure Asked relay team, will probably go to P. S.

Brooklyn representatives to observe circuit. When this failed to work out, it was cut to 10, then finally reduced to the original eight in 1900. ess I'm champion" All this with Orwi 111 11 duPont High, which should make) II Irack UllUeSiraiHCSiNat Bender, tank coach at Thirtv- that "we are now getting the Duro has the looks and the manners of a very dangerous ring character. Against his three animated blocking dummies yesterday, Jimmy Bell, Bob Garner and a spectacularly black person incongruously captioned a completely dead pan Yes, he have been incensed by aggressive Rehoboth supporters the night before the game when the resort town group allegedly invaded Lewes, threw paint on the schoolhouse and daubed cher treatment." This was in ref was in shape and felt strong Opposition From Coast The latest plan, however, faced erence to the days when Durocher, CHICAGO, Dec. 3 iJP).

A unified drive to bar "professional chiselers fourth and Van Buren, very happy. Don Boyer. Bayard, another unlimited entry, is rated by Kadel as Enter. George Raft Three other men entered the hall bursting with his own importance, kept the baseball writers outside and crooked gamblers" from the determined opposition from the Pacific Coast League itself. Clarence the initials of the rival team, H.

nnrinn-s hnr.raritiir trnrkt uun.ru on sidewalks and other con twiddling their thumbs while he, Bover and uicia lie on at this juncture. Louis beamed and turned to the pressmen: "George spicuous places. urged today by Spencer J. Drayton, president of the Thoroughbred Rac the indispensable man of the Dodgers, sat in his private office Rowland, when informed of the movement afoot, admitted that he had heard of something brewing "along those lines," but insisted that Van Hise have been battling all season and each holds a decision here knows more about my fights Up to School Board' "While I feel sure this vandalism ing Protective Bureau, at the an- than I do. Why don't you ask him nual meeting of the Thoroughbred over, the4 other; aclPl and exchanged fulsome flatteries with the ham-fats of Hollywood and was done by just as many out-of- how I'm going to do against Joe Shamus O'Brien.

Louis seemed to be working with these two objectives in mind: (a) to sharpen his speed, (b) to perfect his defense. He cut loose offensively only once. This was against O'Brien. The round was cut short to nd the butchery. "It looks as if old Joe doesn't like the Irish," remarked Professor McCarney.

As I say, Louis is as ready as he's Racing Association he had never been informed directly of such a plan. school boys and not entirely by the Broadway, Raft among them. a .3 miinjeu nuai, vwwiu Mi)Uiu miwr for some fast times in their clashes tomorrow nisht. Walcott Friday night? He picked me to stop Schmeling in one round, you know." 'The Pacific Coast League has team members," Dr. Vansant says, "the Rehoboth school is willing to ay now Liouis was reaay to go through his physical rigors, which were to consist of one round of only one purpose," he said, "and Kadel likes the divine event bcvt.

rectify any damages incurred." George Raft, the cinema artist, that is to become a major league in pointing out that a cood ciiver the most graceful of all athletes. Superintendent Vansant added took a well-groomed, modest bow. its entirety. We will never consent shadow boxing and four of boxing, that in view of the bad feeling "It will be one round this time, too. He calk Dick Gregg, who is on t.h io a total stranger the sight or a aroused, "I feel that in the interest You see, I'm in a hurry.

I'm on my fighter bouncing around the ring, The former FBI operative, who organized the racing association's investigative unit two years ago, recommended to the tracks' representatives that they take a "more militant and uniform stand" against those persons whose activities are unquestionably detrimental to racing. "We of the T. R. A. do not attempt to say who should be licensed as racing-horse Drayton said in a prepared address, "but we Bayard team with Boyer.

one of the best divers he's seen in a long of good relationship between the to have the majors take one, two or four clubs from us. We are all in this together and the stronger clubs have pledged themselves to protect the weaker ones." way to North Africa to make a pic ture." time. communities, probably the best thing Half an hour later the indoor Kadel compares Grecg with Hvmie ever going to be. Nobody gives this Walcott a chance but it is typical of the thoroughgoing champion that he's worked as hard for this fight as any he's ever had. Or just about.

There are two standing guarantees about Louis: (1 He's always going to be in condition. (2) He's always going to be leveling. would be to discontinue future games for a while. But it is up to the Swartz, who started out at No. 4 gymnasium was opened and in due Oscar Reichlow, secretary and business manager of the Hollywood school, was on the W.

H. swim school board to make the decision. time it was filled with the types of snorting and scowling and throwing punches at an invisible opponent must be completely beyond understanding, an insane man doing his home work. This round of shadow boxing revealed Louis to be in about as good shape as he's ever going to get in again as long as he lives. You must keep in mind he is a veteran of 33 club, also denounced the proposed Anthony Higgins, vice-president of the Rehoboth School District and team and then scored the highest number of points in the history of plan and pledged full support to the people you usually see in fight camps.

Great old-timers like Prof. Billy McCarney, who goes back to rest of the league. the university while at Delaware. And Dot's Dot a member of the Rehoboth board, said today, will try to arranee a Raft and his companions didn't have to see him privately to find Sullivan's days. Harry Wills, the Meanwhile, assembled owners, general managers and managers of do have the right to take a positive and decisive stand against those professional chiselers and crooked gamblers who we believe should not be employed or allowed to race at T.

R. A. tracks." combined meeting of the Lewes and original Black Menace, who was the that out. CiRYING in his schnapps over Franklin and Marshall's 57-7 the two major leagues were striving and with Bauduy Grier, another Red Devil and Blue Hen diver. Both are still among the best in the state.

Tommy Bratton, Warner, won the 25 and 50-yard free style events to loosen the jammed trading mart, loss to Muhlenberg, in which Rehoboth boards, superintendents and coaches before the matter comes before the Rehoboth board." Experimental Five but with little success. Qualifying Begins the Mules ground out an average of Nothing new was learned regard St. Pat's, St. Paul's Fights Last Night By Associated Press In Orlando Golf Wins 4th Straight Experimental recorded a 26-18 Rutgers Cards Temple NEW BRUNSWICK. N.

Dec. ing the rumored trade between the New York Yankees and Washington Senators in which it was reliably re ORLANDO, Dec. 3 (U.R1. the 85-pound class last year, but this season is swimming in the impound events. Bratton has been beaten only once this year, by team LOS ANGELES Maxie Docusen.

132'i. Qualifying rounds in the $10,000 win over Chambers Works last night New Orleans, technicaUy knocked out ported that the Yankees had ac Orlando Open. Act One in profes t). Rutgers added Temple and Colgate to its list of rivals in the nine-game 1948 football schedule Davey Hernandez, 132y2, San Bernardino, Calif. (2).

mate Bob Cunningham in a 25-yard quired Pitcher Walter Masterson from the Senators for a couple of sional golfdom's winter show, were launched today to whittle down the at Dilwyne to continue to set the pace in the DuPont Basketball League. Experimental is unbeaten CLEVELAND Eztard Charles. 173 V. Cin unnamed players. cinnati, technically knocked out Fltzy Fitzpatrick.

US3, Los Angeles (4). announced yesterday. Dropped from next years roster were Harvard and Western Reserve. However, it was learned that the in four games. C.

Y. O. Foes Tonight Three games are scheduled in the Catholic Youth Organization Basketball League tonight on the Howard High floor with St. Patrick's, currently in second place a half-game behind St. Mary's, meeting St.

Paul's, the third-place club, in the middle game at 8 o'clock. The curtain-raiser pits St. Joseph's on the Brandywine against St. Thomas' at 7 o'clock, while St. Ann's meets St.

Joe's, Wilmington, in the finale. BUFFALO, N. Y. Pete Mead. 161.

Grand Yankees were talking trade with the Cleveland Indians, who were seeking whose teams lost to Rutgers in 1947 Rapids, technically knocked out Orchem triumphed over Service- Joey De John, K434, Syracuse i5). Advertising, 36-23, and Engineering to pry an outfielder an I pitch race that was, according to Kadel, "as close as a cat's whisker." Sharp Defends Title Bill Sharp. Warner, will defend his laurels in the 25-yard bark-stroke, in the 85-pound class. whil Bill Rittenhouse. Bayard, will meet all comers in the 25-yard free style, which he copped a year ago.

The events will be the same rntinaeit on TolInwinK fate) clashes. The schedule: Sept. 25, Columbia at New York record field of more than 200 entries before the tournament's official start tomorrow. Ben Hogan and virtually all the rest of his Ryder Cup team were on hand for the 72-hole medal play tourney. Only Byron Nelson and Lloyd Mangrum were missing of the team that whipped the British.

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. Rudy Pasco. conquered Accounting. 24-21.

from them. A catcher and pitcher 125, Toronto, technically knocked out ENGINEERING Oct. 2, Colgate; 9, Temple; 16. at feven yards per play, George Kirch-ner of the Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal columns: "And this was the school that was supposed to ease up in football to devote its efforts to rounding out an outstanding basketball team. Looks as if the guy who told the folks round here that story was talking through his hat.

It's hard to tell just where Schwartzwalder gets all of those boys, and wherever it is. he's keep-In; it to himself Can't say that I blame him. "Just as tough to determine is what sudden attraction Muhlenberg holds for these athletes. You can bet that a player doesn't transfer from a big-time school like Holy Cross to a smaller college such as Muhlenberg just because he likes the color of the grass on the campus. That's the deal in the Russ Strait case.

He was enrolled at Holy Cross, were offered in exchange. While ACCOUNTING G. F. P. Jimmy CaUura, Hamilton, Ont.

7. G. F. P.I the parties concerned remained CAMDEN, N. J.

Elton Evans. 169. Phila 2 4 8Greenf 10 2 Princeton: 23. Lehigh at Bethlehem 30. Brown; Nov.

7, Lafayette; 13, New York 20, Fordham. delphia, outpointed Vinnie (Casey) Jones, mum, the players mentioned were 137, Hew YOrK 18). Outfielder Allie Clark of the Yan Masten.f Esdale.f Barlowe.f McFallx Hubbard Murawskis Connelly, Cooper, kees and Catcher Jim Hegan of the 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 6IMcManus.f 3 2 8 2 0 4Doherty.c 0 0 0 0 1 1 King.c 12 4 0 2Timms.g 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hammerar.i 0 11 I3illen.g 113 Indians. The Cincinnati Reds, seeking center fielder, offered a pair of players for Harry Walker, Phila Totals 9 8 24i Totals 7 7 21 CHAMBERS WORKS EXPERIMENTAL delphia's National League batting champion, but dropped negotiations when Manager Ben Chapman of G. F.

G. F. P. Stevenson, the Phils demanded Third Baseman More For Your Money H. Borecki.c Grady Hatton or Pitcher Ewel llMoran.c B.

Borecki.B MILWAUKEE George (Sugar) Costner, 152, Cincinnati, knocked out Jackie Cooper, 145, Chicago (3). NEW YORK (Sunnyside Garden) Jimmy Warren, 136, Brooklyn, outpointed Dino Bleta, Canton, O. (8i. SALEM, Mass. Timothy (Buddy Hayes, 131, Boston, outpointed Ticky Molozzi, 135, Elizabeth, N.

J. (10). TRENTON, N. J. Bobby Mann, 143.

Trenton, technically knocked out Ernie Petrone, 148, Philadelphia (3). BROOKLYN (Broadway Arenai Nava Estarza. 1464. Mexico City, outpointed Ruby Kessler. 146Vi, Brooklyn 181.

JERSEY CITY Tony Bertucci. 157, Brooklyn, outpointed Joe Agosta, 153, New York (8). PORTLAND. Ore Luis Castillo. 118.

Mexico City, knocked out Aurel Toms, 120. Romania 161. KANSAS CITY. Kan. Roy Miller.

164, Kansas City, technically knocked out Tee Hubert, 165, Washington, D. C. (4i. where ex-Muhlenberg coach. Doggie Wood.g Julian Is holding forth these days, Blackwell for him.

The Giants, still making a de termined bid for Johnny Vander Casey, jErgler.g lHahn.g 6 181 Totals but he quit and enrolled at Muhlen bere last February. 7 12 26 Totals Meer of the Reds, offered Second Baseman Mickey Witek, Outfielder "Because he entered in February, Ptrait. who is 6 feet 3 and weighs SERVICE-ADV. I Sid Gordon and another player for ORCHEM G. F.

G. F. P.I over 200. was eligible to play this the southpaw, but were given the 2 10 year. He'll be around for a couple cold shoulder.

Johnny Neun insisted 0 2 upon either Bobby Thompson or 0 0 Whitey Lockman, two of the Giants 0 7Pierson.f 71 Mover, 2 Eskman.g OiManey.g top outfielders. Mackey.f Maloney.c Takachage.c Forman.g Anthony.g Cox.g Doherty.g La wrenre.g Totals 0 10 0 3 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 10 The St. Louis Browns confirmed 0 0 0 an earlier report that thev had ob tained waivers from every American 3 231 Totals 18 4 36 League club upon Jeff Heath, who The cigar smoker is a discriminating buyer today. He demands quality distinctive character real'enjoyment mildness consistently fine workmanship. In short, he wants his cigar uniformly good, down to the ringer tips.

Depend on El Producto to give it to you was slated to be peddled to a Na Bancroft, Hercules tional League club. It was said tha Brooklyn was interested in the hard Industrial Winners Of more (horrors' Nancy Sawin. field hockey roach at Sanford Prep, was a member of the Ail-American Reserve field hockey team that defeated the College All-Stars in Philadelphia, 5-1 Miss Sawin. sister of Phil Sawin, football coach at Sanford. Is the first woman from this area to be named to the All-American Reserve team She Is captain of the Keystone Club team of Philadelphia and was a member of the Middle Atlantic squad that held All-England to a 3-1 score, one of the lowest ever registered by the English stars against an American team.

hitting outfielder. Rumors had it that the Boston Bancroft moved back into a tie Red Sox, not satisfied with the for first place in the Industrial Basketball League with Allied Kid acquisition of several of the Browns Gov. Bacon, Mayor To Attend Banquet Gov. Walter W. Bacon, Mayor Joseph S.

Wilson and Bill Murray, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Delaware, will be guests of the Wilmington Touchdown Club at its first annual banquet Thursday night, Dec. 11, at the Hob Tea Room. Francis (Bud) Haggerty, president of the club, said today that other prominent sports persons are expected to be present and would be announced later. In addition the seniors on the Delaware football team willbe guests. Movies of either the 1947 Penn-Army or Penn-Virginia games will star players, were making an ef last night by tripping Atlas Powder, fort to pry Mickey Vernon loose from 48-34.

Both Bancroft and Allied the Senators. The slender firs Kid have won four straight games, Hercules tabbed its first win in baseman, who led the American league in batting in 1946, had a four sames by whipping Elec, 46-21 HERCULES I ELEC lean season in '47. F. P.I G. F.P Gllion.f 7 2 4 1 Diehl! 1 1 0 0 Baugh Credited Lopez to Manage INDIANAPOLIS.

Dec. 3 JF). Al Horowitzf 0 0 OjWilson.f 2 2 LeNoir.f 4 0 8 Gooden 2 0 Kenney.I 2 1 5 Baker. 0 2 be shown. Thompson, 2 1 5Xevince.g 0 0 Nuttall.c 1 0 2' Albright 0 0 0 Maurer.c Oil1 Penn State Gets Award Hoopes.g 1 0 21 Davis, 0 11 Lopez, coach of the Cleveland Indians last season and former captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, today was named manager of the Indianapolis club in the American Association.

Lopez succeeds Jimmy Brown. He will serve as playing manager. Smokers know that they can depend on El Producto for what they want. Demand makes El Producto difficult to purchase at times, but El Producto never will sacri' fice quality for quantity never will let quality vary. It pays to keep asking for El Producto.

The effort pays off every time with more for your money. O'Brien. 111! Totals 19 8 46; Totals 8 5 21 With Pass Mark PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3 (VP). A new individual passing record already has been entered in National Football League books and it appeared todav there would be a new ground gaining mark established in the 1947 campaign.

League statistics released today that Sammy Baugh of Washington has bettered Sid Luck-man's cur-year-old record by completing 171 of 279 tosses for 2.437 yards. Luckman. of the Chicago Bears, is only a step behind Sammy BANCROFT ATLAS G. F. P.

G. F. P.I E.McG'sle.r 1 0 14 8 10 0 0 0 8 Wmkleman.f Prucino.f Sullivan. O.McOr-ef J.McG'gle.g 4 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 2 'Farcer, 7 2 16 Lipka.g 4 3 lHAbrahams.g 0 2 3' 1 0 20 8 431 Totals 1 1 1 1 Bucs Get Bagall MIAMI, Dec. 3 (INS).

The Pittsburgh Pirates today traded Second Baseman Jimmy Bloodworth and Third Baseman Vic Barnhart to Montreal in exchange for Romanus Basgall, a second baseman. Montreal recently recalled Basgall from Fort Worth. Destafand.g 13 8 34 Totals with 146 completions in 220 aerials NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (JP). The Lambert Memorial Trophy symbolizing eastern football supremacy goes this year to Penn State.

The Nittany Lions, who ran through a nine game schedule without mishap and accepted a bid to play S. M. U. in the Cotton Bowl, received 68 of the 108 votes cast by football writers and broadcasters. Second in the poll was Penn with 17 and then followed Army, 14; Columbia, 6, and Rutgers, 3.

Two Polish Games St. Hedwig's will oppose Pulaski Legion tonight in a Polish Basketball League game at Modjeska Hall at 7:30 o'clock, while the Polish Library five will tangle with St. Stanislaus C. C. in the nightcap.

A meeting of managers and coaches will precede the games at 6:30 o'clock. Pro Basketball for 2.194 yards. mm Steve Van Buren of the Philadelphia Eagles had a relatively bad day Pittsburgh Sunday, gaining a Parish League Meeting mere 76 yards, but boosted his mark to 868 yards gained in President Bob Meli has called a meeting of managers of the Parish LAST NIGHT'S SCORES Association of America Baltimore, 77; Boston. 69 lovertime). St.

Louis, 86; Providence. 66. American Leagne Philadelphia. 88; Jersey City, 77. TONIGHT'S GAMES Association of America Washington at Chicago.

Baltimore at Philadelphia. American Leagne Lancaster at Philadelphia. Paterson at Willtes-Barre. Trenton at Jersey City. (CIGAR 132 thrusts, a 48 average.

To best the 13-year-old record of the Bears' Beatt Feathers, Van Buren must Basketball League for tonight at 7 o'clock at C. Y. O. headquarters svprage only 63 yards gained in his Jbr real enjoyment 418 Orange Street. The league will open Friday night at Warner Junior final two contests.

Feathers record ed 1,004 yards In 11 games in 1934 High..

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