The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 20

Journal-Every Evening. Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, February 23, 1943 Interstate arks Expansion to Eight Clubs Twenty Time First WUMP, Another War Product Fights Last Night Uf Astociated Preu Pojello Learns Japs' Jju Jitsu Reading Bid Made, Wait on York Now Yale Conforms To Big Three's nehmeiit Sports Roundup By HUGH FCLLERTON. JR. Tulsa Texas League Qub President Files Application for Franchise in Pretzel Town; Six Holdover Teams File Season Guarantees PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 WP).

Despite the "duration deaths" of other minor circuits, the Class Interstate Baseball League hoped today to expand from a six-team to an eight-team wheel, taking in Reading and York, Pa. The six 1942 members Wilmington, Trenton, N. Hagers-town, and Allentown, Lancaster, and Harrisburg, all in Pennsylvaniaposted guarantees at the special league meeting yesterday and a tentative application for a Reading franchise was filed by Don Stewart, president of the Tulsa (Texas League) Oilers. Action on the application was erred pending word from York. A s- s- -w- Li.

I U. Bottom, Top Fives Face Schedule Tonight Sends First Division Combines Against Lower Bracket dm 'jj (, xsrup First WUMP, woman umpire. Loraine Heinisch of Kenosha, has been assigned to work in Wisconsin by Ray Dumont, president of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. C. T.

O. LEAGUE Tonifht'a Schedule At St. Joe's Hall) St. Ann's vs. 187th.

St. Thomas' vs. Engineers. St. Joe's vs.

Army Air Base. Standing W. L. Pet. St.

Ann's ...14 1 .933 St. Joseph's 11 2 .864 St. Thomas' 4 .733 St. Paul's 7 .533 Army Air Base 10 .375 187th 3 9 .250 St. Ann's 3 10 .231 Engineers 0 13 Montgomery Improves Title Bid by Defeating Costantino In the seventh and eighth, Montgomery's body assault was particularly effective and he was close to a knockout but Costantino weathered the storm.

Lulu slipped and fell in the seventh but was up without a count. The gross gate was announced as $19,793.25. Connie Mack, 80-year-old head of the Philadelphia Athletics, was one of the ringside spectators. He was introduced from the rine and was PHILADELPHIA Bob Montgomery, 1344. Philadelphia, outpointed Lulu Costantino, 129H, New York, (10).

BALTIMORE Lee Q. Murray. 199. Nor- walk. knocked out Buddy Walker, 191 Columbus, 181.

NEW YORK Steve Belloise, 155. New York, stopped Joe (Butch) Lynch, 161. Plainfield, N. (5). NEWARK.

N. Billy Grant, 164. Orange, and Private Larry Scalone, 175, U. S. Army, drew, (10).

HOLYOKK. MASS. Terry Young, 135V. New York, knocked but Joey Bag-nato, 135. Toronto, (J).

CHICAGO Jimmy Joyce, 1314. Gary, outpointed Al Reasoner, 136, Hines, (8i. SAN FRANCISCO Pat Valentino. 190, San Francisco, outpointed Fred Fiducia, 192. Newark, N.

(10). Light Heavies Battle for Title Bivins 2 to 1 Choice Over Christoforidis as Ohio Rivals Collide in Final CLEVELAND, Feb. 23 (U.R). Recognition by the National Boxing Association as light heavyweight champion "for the duration" will go to the winner of tonight's 15-round rubber match between Jimmy Bivins and Anton Christoforidis. The former jewelry store porter ruled a 2-1 favorite to take his Greek opponent into camp.

Both are from Cleveland and are meeting in the final bout of an elimination tournament. Bivins, the nation's top-ranking light heavyweight and second listed heavyweight outside the service, will be making his first start over the "uaa ruuic- nis recent decisive victory over Ezzard Charles of Cin- clnnati. made him the favorite. Gus Lesnevich, official titleholder, is in the Coast Guard and, if and when he return to the ring, will have to meet the winner to retain his crown, according to the N. B.

A. A crowd of 11,500 fans is expected to pack the Cleveland Arena one of its biggest gatherings in many years. Matchmaker Larry Adkins predicted a gate approximating $40,000. Sl)Cedv Dado Criticallv nun in iaie Altercation LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (JP).

Deoasado Pesado, 36, known as Speedy Dado, former bantamweight fighter, was shot and critically wounded early today, police said, in a cafe altercation. Dado, once was chauffeur for screen actress Mae West and California bantamweight titleholder 12 years ago. Clyde Vickers, 36-year-old special officer, gave Detective Capt. Thomas Bryan this account of the fray: "Dado accosted Vickers in the cafe, asked him why he carried a gun and then attempted to seize the weapon, which was discharged in the struggle. Vickers was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Dado, born in Manila, was one of the Pacific Coast's flashiest fighters in the 1930s. His career reached its height in 1935, when he unsuccessfully bid for the world's bantamweight championship with another Filipino fighter, Pablo Dano. Billy Grant Gives Away 11 Pounds But Gets Draw NEWARK, N. Feb. 23 (JP).

Billy Grant of Orange, N. gave away 11 pounds to Private Larry Scalone last night, but held the favored Newark soldier to a draw in a 10-round slugging match at Laurel Garden. Grant, who weighed 164 pounds to 175 for his opponent, was unmarked at the end of the vicious battle, but Scalone bled profusely from the nose and mouth throughout the last half of the bout. Referee Johnny King's decision was roundly booed by a crowd of 2,000, most of whom thought Grant was entitled to victory. King, who scored four heats for each and two even, explained after the bout that he had penalized Billy several times for illegal kidney punching.

Grant and Scalone stood toe-to- loe ana siuggea most of the way Is Touirli Goinsr Clever Pro Mat Veteran Engages in Private Bout Before Service Experts CHICAGO. Feb. 23 UP). Amer ican soldiers fighting Japs hand-to-hand must be merciless, tough, and above all young. Karl Pojello, 60, Lithuanian-born, who has WTestled all over the world as a professional, is convinced of that today after engaging in a bloody, battering, bone-crushing battle with a Jap jiu-jitsu artist an encounter fought before a selected audience of 15.

Pojello. original man of a thousand holds, weighing 205 pounds, was positive he could make any jiu jitsu instructor surrender by using wrestling tactics. He knows now that a man, skilled in the defensive science of jiu-jitsu, can knockout a man with a little jerk in less than two minutes. American-born Ta- mura Masato, 30 years old and weighing only 143 pounds, did exactly that. Those who watched the match in a second floor room in a Loop building included Navy end Marine officers.

One idea of the match was to determine whether men in the service need more wrestling or jiu jitsu training for hand to hand combats on the battlefield. The principals agreed that all rough stuff, such as kicking in the groin, was out. All wrestling was to be done on the mat. Pojello, who fought for four vears in the first World War, was game, but his age and lack of condition was a tremendous handicap. After a few Dreliminarv mnvps Pnillr I slammed his opponent to the mat and they quickly squirmed to the edee.

There Mas to instantiv n. plied a cross-hand grip to the collar of Pojello jacket, quickly stopping the flow of blood to the brain. Referee Ted Tonnenman commanded them to break holds and return to the center of the mat. But Masato yelled: "He's out." Pojello, unconscious, lay motionless, flat on his face. The time was 1:10.

Then Pojello jumped to his feet and begged to continue. He tossed Masato flat on his back a half dozen times and began appliyng bone-crushing holds while on top, only to have the bare-footed Masato kick him into the air. Within Ave minutes, Pojello was wheezing like an old bellows. His nose was skinned. Masato was bleeding from cuts over both eyes suffered when his head banged into a radiator.

But they continued for 14 minutes, first the Jap hitting the mat, and then Pojello. His 60 years began bearing down on Pojello. Lieut. James McMillen, former football star at the University of Illinois, later a professional wrestler and now teaching rough-and-tough wariare in the Navy, commented: "I still think that an American, in an alley rough-and-tumble, can lick a Jap any day in the week. A good kick in the belly, a punch in the nose, a good old fashioned football block works wonders." jUrsinus Twins to Face St.

Joe on Triple Bill PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 23 (Special Ursinus College basketball team will present a set of identical twins when the Bears battle St. Joseph's College in Saturday night's triple-header at Convention Hall. The Ursinus-St.

Joseph's game is an added attraction to what was originally to have been one of the season's doublehcaders. The game will get under way at 6:45, so that Long Island University and LaSalle College can clash at 8:15, followed by Georgetown University and Tem- pie at Tom Rorer and John Rorer are the identical twins on the Ursinus aggregation. They are juniors from North Wales, and measure the same height and weight. Plans for Junior Cage Tourney to Be Aired Managers of teams interested in entering a junior basketball tournament are asked to attend a meeting to be held at the Y. M.

C. A. tomorrow night at 7:45 o'clock. Several local teams wish to enter saders, French A. C.

DuPont, Sigma Kappa Delta, and Wilmington Arrows, and it now appears that the event will be held. St. John's Five Moves Closer to Invitational NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U.R). St.

John's basketball quintet was one step closer to a national invitation tournament bid at Madison Square Garden today following an impressive, 65-43, victory over Georgetown University. Long Island University defeated Canisius, 48-44. in the opening contest of the double-header at the Garden last night, which drew crowd of 16,235. I a Eli Sports Restricted To One-Day Trips; Wait On New Plans for Football NEW HAVEN, Feb. 23 (JP).

Conforming to the athletic retrenchment policy announced jointly by Yale, Harvard, and Princeton last week, Yale officially explained yesterday that track, tennis, and golf have been abandoned and schedules of other spring sports are being revised to meet war time conditions. Beginning immediately, the Yale announcement said, its teams will play only those games to which it can travel and return on the same day. That ruling applies to the winter sports games still to be played as well as spring sports. Winter sports will also be affected by dropping Yale participation in the following intercollegiate meets: The Eastern intercollegiate swim ming at Cambridge, the N. C.

A. A. swimming at Columbus. the intercollegiate wrestling at Phil adelphia, and the intercollegiate fencing at New York. The athletic association is now studying the winter and spring sports schedules, and conferring with scheduled opponents, to determine hich games will have to be can celled because of the one-day travel ban.

Revised schedules are expected in a few days. Yale's statement, issued after a meeting of the executive committee of the athletic association's board of control, followed closely similar action by its traditional Big Three rivals, Harvard and Princeton. It explained that "because of the cancellation of the spring recess. which was to have been held from March 20 to April 5 and the moving up of the beginning dates for final examinations from May 22 to May 8, all intercollegiate athletic activities will end on May 5 Intramural' sports will continue. the statement said, but such teams will not leave New Haven.

All row ing had already been cancelled. But still undecided are the uni versities' plans for baseball and foot ball, because too many indefinite factors are involved. Last summer, Yale baseballers played a number of industrial and service teams. One of the largest indefinite fac tors in Yale's sports plans is to what extent naval trainees in college can play with the teams, since Yale has many naval reservists. The Navy recently announced that its trainees would be permitted to participate college athletics.

But it added the condition that such activities must not interfere with prescribed hours or courses of study. What effect that will have is still to be determined. Keen Basketball Rivals End Feud for Duration LA WREN CK, Feb. 23 UP). Backing: up his recent declaration that collegiate athletics should be converted to war use only, Dr.

F. C. (Phog) Allen, University of Kansas basketball coach, ended basketball relations between the feuding Jay-hawkers and the Oklahoma A. and Cowboys, at least until the war ends. The armed services manpower de mands likely will push college bas ketball into a dead end road, he said.

Henry Iba, cowboy coach, shared Allen's opinion. Commenting at Stillwater, on Phog's announce ment, Iba said "we probably couldn't have played basketball for the duration anyway." Apparent mutual acceptance by Iba and Allen of the cessation of their private hoop war ends one of the Midwest's hottest Hatfield and McCoy athletic series. OPA Finds Many Autos Driven to Bay Meadows SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 23 (JP).

Several hundred motorists may lose their gasoline rations because they drove to Bay Meadows to see the ponies run. OPA Investigators counted 1,204 cars parked on the highway near th- peninsula track yesterday, and wrote down the names of 240 owners for a report to their local rationing boards. The list included 83 cars with no gas ration stickers, 104 with tickets and 53 with Cs. The OPA said ration books would be withdrawn in cases of misuse of rations. Joseph F.

Rankin, OPA district enforcement officer, served notice that regular checks would be made at the race track and at other places of amusement. Track officials reported a larger crowd and a bigger pari-mutue. handle yesterday than at the opening last Saturday. Penn Starts Building New Nine With Frosh PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (JP).

The University of Pennsylvania began building its 1943 baseball team today and Dr. Walter Cariss, coach since 1921, planned to use some freshmen, now eligible for varsity play. Cariss called the team's first in door drill for this afternoon. Five 1942 varsity men eligible are Capt. Walt Wiesmiller, catcher; Bert Kuczynski, pitcher and outfielder; Bill Miller, infielder and outfielder; Ken Jamieson, pitcher and Bob Latimer, second baseman.

St. Paul's Five Wins St. Paul's won over Sacred Heart in Parochial School Basketball League game yesterday at St. Joseph's Hall, 16-11. ST.

PAUL'S I SACRED HEART O. P. O. 0 1 1 0 2 0 F. P.

1 1 Walsh.f 4 ehouse.f 8 PiBrennam.e OiVoltgroo.g Burke.f Kirkwood.e Farell.c Cassidy.g J.McG'igal.B Totals 16! Totals 4 3 11 Reerte: McGinnley. Wide World Sports Columnist Canisius, one of the first colleges to drop football after the Army's "no time" announcement, professes to have no qualms about it but Ath letic Director James Crowdle admits it was schedules as much as the Army that prompted the decision "We had five scheduled games cancelled," he explains. Princeton eliminated formal crew competition because all three rowing coaches had joined the armed forces And maybe because there was no card for the coaching launch. Ned Irish reports Notre Dame's basketball team is better than Great Lakes but lost because the Irish aren't built for the rough play that prevailed Saturday. Eddie Le Maire, favorite to win the national figure skating championship next week, was national senior roller skating champ last year.

Bobby Ginn. former Nebraska, miler who'll come from Stinson Field. Tex, to run against Gil Dodds Earl Mitchell, etc, in the national track championships, never has raced in a big-time indoor meet. In other words. Bobby's new career is about be-ginn.

TODAY'S GUEST STAR immie Murphy. Canton (111.) Daily Ledger: "An old Wells Fargo stage coach which had been in several holdups was used Saturday to haul race fans to the Bay Meadows race track Some of its passengers probably were of the modern version of the holdup of earlier days, watching their horses finish as also-rans." When Bobby Widholm. of the Ice Fellies, took his physical exam for the Naval Air Force, the doctors nearly turned him down because could walk a straight line immediately after a test that makes most candidates dizzy as a whirlwind He got an okay only after explaining his skating act, which calls for plenty of rapid spinning. Boston Trade School had three Bill O'Briens (not related) what scored in a track meet last week. Coarh Harry Tilton distinguishes them by their school courses, -auto" and "cabby." Hub Nelson, goalie for the nifty Curtis Bay (Md.) Cast Guard hockey team, is reported to have received the highest gTades ever given out in the examination for a C.

P. O. rating in the cook and commissary dept. His teammates also claim he's the best short order cook In uniform. Buddy Hall, former Yankee farmhand, is in charge of the soccer program at Camp Lee, Va.

and, of course, he claims he never saw a soccer game before joining the Army. Lieut. Pete Bogden, ex-Utah end, instructing Uncle Sam's soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting at Fort Ben-ning, Ga, says that jiu jitsu is a Chinese invention and that the Japs just appropriated it as they're new trying to appropriate everything else. Dumb Dan Morgan says he can count 128 different boxing moves, most of which today's "smart" boxers don't know That doesn't include the way Dan's jaw moves when he talks about Jack Britton. Tiger Five Beats Yale As Jack Munda Stars PRINCETON, N.

Feb. 23 Princeton University basketball team defeated Yale 38-25. last night to grab a strangle hold on third place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League and keep in the running for the title. It was Princeton fifth victory in seven league starts and Yale's seventh loss against no victories. Bud Palmer paced the Tigers with 17 points to move closer to the circuit scoring lead.

He now has 96 points compared to 99 for Bob Myers of Dartmouth, the leader, and 98 for second-place Walt Budko of Columbia. Guided by Jack Munda of Wilmington, Princetons bespectacled captain, the Tigers held the Eli to six points on fouls in the first half, while tallying 17 points themselves. Munda. one of the finest guards in Princeton history, netted 12 points for runnerup honors. Parish Court league Slates 3-Ganie Card The ParL'h Basketball League will play a three-game schedule tomor-iow night at St.

Joseph's Hall. In the first game at 7 o'clock. St. Paul's will meet St. Mary's, and in games to follow St.

Thomas' 1 clashes with St. Paul's and St. I Joe's opposes St. Ann s. ent crisis caused by loss of playert to the armed services not only because the public needs the entertainment but the boys in the services want to hear and read about the big leagues.

The Pirate president feels that attendance will be on a par with prewar figures but the crowds will come mostly from Pittsburgh and nearby suburbs rather than from outlying communities. He pointed out that the same travel restrictions that keep persons from cominj into the city for games are going to keep a lot of Pittsburghers at home on Sundays and holidays. committee of York business and professional men has studied the possibility of taking a franchise and League President Arthur H. Ehlers said he expected their final decision tomorrow. If York applies, he indicated, Stewart's application will be approved.

The Cincinnati Reds are saic to be interested in placing a team at York. Stewart said his bid was contingent upon the Texas League not operating this year. Texas League owners, he added, plan to announce a definite decision tomorrow. If he takes the Reading franchise he will continue to work with the Chicago Cubs, he added. The franchise picture was confused, however, when Norman Mc-Clain, one of the three owners of the Lancaster franchise, announced that he was "contemplating" the possibility of transferring the franchise, and intimated the transfer might be to Reading.

He said he wanted to confer with Austin Meehan and Jim Peterson, tha other two owners, before announcing any definite plan. The purchase by W. Clifford Case of controlling interest in the Trenton club was announced. Case, one of the original sponsors of the Interstate League in 1939, then a four-club Class circuit, has not been actively connected with the club in the past two seasons. League officials said the new owners of the National League Phils are expected to exarcise their working agreement with Trenton which has another season to run.

President Ehlers took an optimistic view of the league's prospects saying: "I honestly think if any minor league can operate this year, it is the Interstate. We have men in our circuit who are determined to open the season and play out the string as long as they can field nine men for a game." Ehlers said plans for opening the season on May 11 are unchanged, but nothing can be done about the league schedule until the roster of clubs is settled. A's Now Have 20 Plavers i In Fold for '43 Season PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 UP). Connie Mack has received nine more signed contracts from Philadelphia Athletic players, bringing to 20 the total now under contract.

Newly returned agreements were from Russ Christopher, Fred Cali-giurl, Sam Lowry, Jess Flores, Donald Black and Tal Abernathy, pitchers; Hal Wagner and George Yan-kowski. catchers, and Outfielder Jo Jo White. (Abernathy, Caligiura and Lowry were members of the Wilmington Blue Rocks pitching staff last season.) Park and Playground Last Nitht's Results iPlaygroundl Monroe, 24: Settlement 23. Madison. 18: West.

12. Coyne, 27; Shipley, 14. Calling By DICK Bill McCahan goes into the Army Air Force today and Wilmington sports followers wish him good luck and happy landings. McCahan came here with the Blue Rocks last summer from Duke University and established himself as a major league pitching prospect with the Wilmington club Although not seeing too much service last summer with the Rocks, Bill, a powerful-shouldered youth, showed enough pitching gifts to be classed as a comer. This winter McCahan has been playing basketball with St.

Ann's in the C. Y. O. League and DuPont in the Industrial League. With both teams McCahan has been a brilliant performer.

He is a heavy scorer and a good floor man. In 17 games with St. Ann's, McCahan connected with 110 field goals and 20 fouls for 230 points. In 14 games with DuPont, Bill rammed in 74 field goals and converted 21 free throws for 169 counters. One of McCahan's most enthusiastic admirers is Jim McGonegal, coach of DuPont, and president of the C.

Y. O. Basketball League. On All-Time Team "I put McCahan on my all-time Catholic League team," says Mc Gonegal. This team would have Paul Chadick and Charley Noonan at the forwards, Stan Macel at center, and Frank Loucks and McCahan at the guard posts." Sounds like a powerful combination, James.

McGonegal declares that the two-man combination of Chadick and McCahan was the best team of workers in C. Y. O. League history, even better than the Noonan-Loucks tandem. Incidentally.

McCahan and Chadick both gave stellar exhibitions at the Y. M. C. A. last Saturday night DuPont was whipping Pusey's In an Industrial League encounter.

Bill connected for eight field goals and Paul totaled 16 points on five field goals and six free throws. Four cf Chadick's fielders were fired from i Frankie Carto, 123 1-2, Philadelphia, punched out a decisive eight-round decision over Aaron Seltzer, 128 1-4, New York, in a dull semi-windup Bill Carrigan. 155 3-4, Baltimore, won a split decision over Cliff Dyes, 152, Philadelphia. Dusty Brown. 134, York, and Lou Angelo, 141, Bayonne, N.

fought a six-round draw in the second bout. Brown floored Angelo for a count of nine in the first round and battered him around the ring in the second, but Angelo came back strong to earn the draw. In a fcheduled six-round opener, Ike Williams, 134, Trenton, N. knocked out Sammy Daniel, 134 1-2. Baltimore, in 2.56 of the second round.

School Cagers Bill Light Card Only 3 Games Scheduled Today With Rival Fives Meeting in Return Tilts Three basketball games are on today's scholastic card, all of them return games. Only one game is scheduled for tonight. The nocturnal contest will send Wilmington High against Conrad High on the Red Devils' floor. Conrad was the victor when the teams met earlier in the campaign and thus Coach Joe Brewer's Red Devils will be seeking revenge in tonight's fracas. Archmere Academy and Wilmington Friends also clash in a return battle this afternoon at Friends School.

In the first meeting of the clubs Archmere handed the Quakers their only loss of the season. Another encore meeting finds Salesianum School entertaining Howard High. The Howard team turned back the Sallies earlier in the year in the Howard gym and the Gold and White combine is out to avenge the setback. The game scheduled between Alexis I. duPont High and Vocational High has been set back until tomorrow night and has been shifted to the Wilmington High School gym.

Tower Hill Jayvee Girls Reverse Tatnall School The Tower Hill School's Junior Varsity girls' basketball team defeated Tatnall School yesterday at the Y. W. C. 31-20. Misses Car- rvntr and "Pixhpr rar-fA trn tri tors, scoring eight points each, but honors were taken bv Miss M.

Ash- ton of Tatnall with 10. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U.R). Bob Montgomery, Philadelphia Negro lightweight, was another notch closer today to a meeting with Sammy Angott, former champion, back in the ring after his announced retirement, or Beau Jack, New York State lightweight champion, after belting out an impressive decision over flmsy Lulu Costantino of New York. Montgomery practically eliminated Costantino frcm the title picture with a unanimous 10-round de cision before 9,041 fans at Conven tion Hall last night.

The fast-moving Costantino made Montgomery look slow in the early rounds, staying away from the Negro and using a workmanlike left hock to advantage. After the third, however, Montgomery, who scaled 134 3-4 pounds to his opponents 129 1-2, began to use his weight to advantage with a close-quarter body attack. Costantino took the first, ninth, and tenth rounds. In the other sessions Montgomery forced him to fight in close and Used a withering body attack to wear him down. He repeatedly sank his right under Coztantino's heart and in the fcurth opened a cut over the New Yorker's eye.

Racing- Notes By Acsociated Press Racing, which had gone through the novel experience of dark Mondays for the past six weeks, celebrated the anniversary of George Washington's birth yesterday with programs at three tracks. A pair of full sister thoroughbreds stole the show at New Orleans which honored the memory of the first President with the Washington Birthday Handicap, a six-furlong sprint, which went to Warren Wright's 4-year-old filly, Mar-Kell. In the next race, also a six-furlong affair, Nellie another Calumet filly but a 3-year-old, triumphed. Both of the winners are by Blenheim II out of Nellie Flag. Through Bound, a 3-year-old from the barns of Mrs.

A. R. Smith captured the ninth annual renewal of the Mayor Leo P. McLaughlin Handicap at Oaklawn's inaugural. The winner was favored a.

$4.80. Transportation difficulties apparently were a boon to the attendance figures as 5,959 spectators went through the turnstiles compared with the 5,248 who watched the races a year ago. Yesterday's handle was in contrast to the $136,165 bet a year ago. Bay Meadows also had a big day, a larger crowd than saw Saturday's inaugural turning out to see Mrs. G.

Allen's Florizan Beau pound through six furlongs to win at $17.60. The est i ma tea 7,500 fans, many of whom arrived late be- cause of jammed street cars, poured $273,626 into the mutuel machines in contrast to the $226,818 bet last Saturday. Harold Clark's Riverland worked a mile in 1:33 3-5 yesterday in preparation for the New Orleans Handicap Saturday. The Louisiana Farm's charger will be ridden by Jockey Steve Brooks, his regular pilot. Previously it had been announced that Johnny Gilbert would be astride Riverland but he will be up on Ben F.

Whitaker's Requested. Pat Valentino Floored But Defeats Fiducia SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23 (INS). Pat Valentino, curly-haired pride of the Coast Guard, thumped out a popular 10-round decision last night over Freddie Fiducia of Newark, N. at Civic Auditorium.

Surviving a near knockout right cross to the chin in the fourth round that floored him for the count of nine, Valentino bounced back to slug it out with the easterner and capture eight frames. Fiducia was given the fourth and the tenth. Both fighters weighed in at 190. The three-game schedule of the C. Y.

O. Basketball Leagr: pits the three top teams against clubs of the lower bracket tonight at St. Joseph's Hall. In the opening game, set for 7:15 o'clock, St. Ann's, the pacemakers with a record of 14 victories against one setback, will meet the 137th.

In the second game, St. Thomas collides with the Engineers, and in the nightcap, St. Joseph's clashes with the Army Air Base. St. Ann's currently holds a two-game lead over runnerup St.

Joseph's, while St. Thomas', in third place, is another game back of St. Joe's. Canadian-American Joins War Casualties ALBANY, Feb. 23 CU.R).

Another minor baseball league had been added to the wartime casualty list today with disbandment for the duration of the Canadian-American circuit. Club owners voted for discontinu ance yesterday after major league club owners failed to offer sufficient support for 1943 operations. The vote to quit was 5 to 3 with only Utica in New York State, and Quebec and Three Rivers in Canada casting continuance ballots. Rome, Oneonta, Amsterdam, Gloversville in New York State and Pittsfield, voted to disband. Parochial Cage Loop Announces Schedule Games at St.

Joseph's Hall are scheduled by the Parochial Basket ball League for tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow at 3:45 p. m. St. Mary's will meet Sacred Heart and Christ Our King will play St.

Ann's in a game to follow On Thursday at the same time, St. Paul's will meet St. Thomas', and St. Joseph's on-the- Brandywine will battle St. Joe's of Wilmington.

On Friday at 4 o'clock, St. Paul's will clash with St. Elizabeth's. the Turn IN ARB beyond the middle of the court in style reminiscent of his sniping the night General Chemical whipped DuPont for the shop crown two years ago. Chadick is tops, as far as we're concerned, when it comes to basketball in this town and we don't make any claim to greatness for such a statement.

Basketball fans concur Wins for Sun Ship Paul won the first half championship of the Delaware River League for Sun Ship. The only game Sun lost during the half was the night Chadick was playing with St. Ann's up at Lincoln University. Chadick banged in 16 points last week as Sun Ship was winning the clincher. His play brought the fol lowing comment in the column of Bill Burk, Chester Times sports editor: "We have known it for a time and so have most of you fans but we think it might be a good time to put it down in black and white Paul Chadick is too good for the Delri League and is the main reason why Sun Ship has made shambles of competition by win ning 23 of 24 games in two years of Play.

"There are no players in the league who can match Chadick in all around ability, condition and competitive spirit. It is possible that Sun Ship could win the league without Paul, but the Robertshaw machine is a double-barrelled cinch with Chadick in harness. The Shippers have a clev-r assortment of court talent but te Wilmington whirlwind is like Joe DiMaggio with the Yankees he is the extra punch that wins titles. "It would benefit the league if Chadick was to retire. Possibly the second half struggle might result in a wide open scrap involving several teams, and this would be a tonic for the fans and the competitors.

But it would be unfair to Chadick who has a perfect right to play. The fans like to watch peppery Paul, but unfortunately he makes the other lads look bad." to the howling delight of the fans.nole Boys' Club, St. Hedwig's. Cru- TATNALL TOWER HILL P.I G. F.

Tatnall. 3 A 6arpenter.f 4 0 8 M.Ashton.f 5 0 10 Fcnn.f 10 2 rnx.f 2 0 4 3 0 6 Beetdey.K 0 0 0 3 0 E.Ashton.g 0 0 Ofisher.f 4 0 8 lussell.g 0 0 0 Thomas.f 3 1 1 ieeds.g 0 0 OCurrier.g 0 0 0 Sparks, 0 0 0 Marston.g 0 0 0 iMertz.g 0 0 0 ITavlor.g 0 0 0 Totals 10 0 20! Totals 13 1 31 Murray Told to Fight, Knocks Out Walker BALTIMORE, Feb. 23 (U.R). Lee Q. Murray, Negro heavyweight from Norwalk, stung when the referee threatened to expel him from the ring for stalling, knocked out Buddy Walker, another Negro from Columbus, in the sixth round of a scheduled 10-round fight here last night.

Murray had been chased around for rounds fey Walker -ch. hSui, uacn. Warned that he would be put out of the ring, he came out swinging in the fifth to put Walker in serious trouble. Then in the sixth, he drove the Columbus fighter into the ropes with a hard, straight left and finished him off with a right to the chin. 60 Answer Spring Grid Call at Georgia Tech ATLANTA, Feb.

23 (INS). The first organized conditioning drill was on tap today for the 60-odd gridiron prospects who reported yesterday to Coach W. A. (Bill) Alexander at Georgia Tech for the opening of spring football practice. Coach Alexander had extended an invitation to "every boy in school interested in football" to come out for practice, and many of those reporting were total strangers to all Yellow Jacket coaches.

Included in the group were some of the veterans of last year's squad, including Eddie Prokop, Jim Luck, Mutt Manning, and Frank Bell. Pirate Proxy Sees Baseball 7u Crouds LocaV Referee: Hartzel. Wright and Peralta Meet for Third Time ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23 (INS).

Chalky Wright, Los Angeles Negro and former featherweight boxing champion of the world, meets Joey Peralta, Tamaqua, Mexican, tonight in a scheduled, 10-round match at the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium. It will be the third bout between the pair, Peralta pounded out a decision over Wright in their initial clash at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Wright evened matters at Madison Square Garden, New York, on a decision in January. PITTSBURGH, Feb.

23 (U.R). Firm belief that the century old game of baseball will weather its World War II crisis just as it has taken all other wars in its stride was expressed today by William E. Benswanger, president of the Pittsburgh Pirates. "Baseball wouldn't have lived 104 years if the people hadn't wanted it," said Benswanger, who yesterday celebrated his fifty-first birthday. "It has been through everything panic.

Civil War, Spanish-American, and World War, even wars within the game itself." Benswanger predicted that baseball will carry on through the pres.