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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Wednesday Morning, April 7, 1943 War Forces Prof essional Cleveland Rams to Withdraw From Football Loop 8 Gridders Quit DAN(DEE) PROSPECT By Jack Sords Fifth Graders To Participate In Girls Sports In the Sportlight By GRAXTLAXD RICE NEW YORK, April 6. What will the price be against the Cardinals this season? April has already rounded the corner and is now on its way to opening day. And th morning line is almost due. There have been no' set figures offered so far on the coming pen Outlook Dark For Browns in Top Bracket Manager Luke Sewell Discouraged Over Team's Prospects CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo, April 6.

UP) Always the unruffled Alabama gentleman. Manager Luke Sewell of the St. Louis Browns was philosophic today over the discouraging outlook for his team, which once was highly regarded as a pennant contender. "You don't know anything about anything this year," he said. "We're never going to know where we stand from one day to the next so well Just have to be prepared for Track Tourney Being Planned In Great Falls Carl Horn, Great Falls high school track coach, is planning a class invitational track meet to be staged at Victory Field April 24.

This may be the first meet on a heavy program for the Bison tracksters who are now working out daily on the cinder and sod. A triangular meet at Helena with the Bisons vieing with Butte Purples and Helena Bengals is scheduled for May 1. The following weekend Helena will come here for a dual clash. Information received this week from Missoula Indicates that an invitational meet is planned to replace the annual interscholastic, a wartime casualty. Missoula has had assurance of some class A schools participating as well as class B.

Action of high school principals and coaches at the Helena meeting this week should enlighten the athletic situation in the state for the coming year. Whether Great Falls Bisons will appear at Missoula rests cookie cA-rcaeR jj Middle West Takes Honors Iii Basketball Wyoming Hailed as Team of the Year; Senesky Outstanding NEW YORK. April 6. (U.R) The middle west, where basketball is an annual fever, continued to lead in turning out the greatest quantity of outstanding players during the 1943 court campaign, but team honors went to the west and individual laurels to the east. An exhaustive survey completed by the Helms Athletic foundation of Los Angeles awarded the college team crown to the Cowboys of Wyoming and selected sharp shooting George Senesky of Philadelphia's St.

Joseph's college as the player of the year. Midwesterners who may be Irate over the nonselections of such teams as Illinois and Notre Dame can draw a measure of consolation, however, from the fact that their players dominate the Helms All America team. With two men picked for each post, the midwest placed four players, the west three, the east two and the south one. Selected as forwards were Gail Bishop of Washington State, Ken Sailors of Wyoming, Seneskey and Andy Phillip of Illinois. Centers named were Gerald Tucker of Okla-home and Bill Closs of Rice.

The guards chosen were Ray Evans of Kansas, Bill Morris of Washington, Bob Rensberger of Notre Dame and John Mahnken of Georgetown. Chosen for the second team were forwards, John Hargis of Texas, John Kotz of Wisconsin, Ed Beisser of Creighton and Oran McKinney of West Kentucky. Centers Included Harry Boykoff of St. John's and Milo Komenich of Wyoming. The guards are Stan Skaug of Dartmouth, Ted Cossard of Souther California, John Mikan of De Paul and Bob Mullens of Fordham.

Seneskey, a senior at St. Joseph's, succeeds Stanely (Stutz) Modzelew-ski of Rhode Island as the player of the year. A native of Mahanoy City. the 6-foot 1-inch athlete rolled up 515 points in 22 games and yet was proclaimed the best defense player in the east. "Senesky, in my opinion, is as fine a player as Chuch Hyatt of Pittsburgh and he ranks so close to Hank Luisetti that one would have difficulty in making a choice," said Dr.

Forrest C. Allen, shrewd Kansas coach whose opinion on basketball is like sterling on silver. Wyoming, led by Seilors and Komenich, won 30 of 32 games this season to succeed Stanford as national champion. The Cowboys from Laramie copped the Rocky Mountain crown, reached the national A. A.

TJ. semifinals, won the N. C. A. A.

championship and then topped it off by defeating St. John's, New York national invitation tournament kings, for the. mythical championship of the nation. Giants Lose Danning LOS ANGELES. April 6.

(U.R) SPECA U1lfr For Duration, Officials Say Several Teams in Circuit Shaky, Say Previous Reports CHICAGO, April (U.R) Profes sional football today was dealt its heaviest blow of the war when the Cleveland Rams withdrew from the National league. The Rams decision threw a bombshell into the meeting despite previous reports that several teams in the circuit were shaking and desirous of folding. Cleveland's request was to sus pend "for the duration" but the league officials made the suspen sion effective for only the 1943 cam paign. The Rams were ordered to notify the league by March 1, 1944, of their future intentions. How ever, an extension of the suspension order can be obtained merely by requesting it.

Charles 'Chili Walsh, recently ap pointed head coach, and Percy Cowan, Chicago investment broker, representing owners of the Cleve land club, presented the Rams' pe tition for suspension. "The action was taken solely be cause Daniel F. Reeves and Fred Levy president and vice presi dent of the club, respectively, are in the army air force," the Cleve land spokesmen said. All players under contract to the Rams and on the club's reserve list revert to the league. They will be distributed to the remaining nine clubs in the circuit under a plan to be decided upon during the present meeting.

Whon Cleveland resumes all its gridders become Ram property again. Cleveland's current membership in the pro league dates from 1937 when Homer Marshman was granted a franchise for $10,000. The Franchise was transferred from Marshman to Reeves and Levy on June 1, 1941. The price supposedly was the league's minimum franchise price of $50,000. Since Cleveland returned to membership the club never had a winning season.

The Rams won one contest and lost 10 in 1937; scored four triumphs against seven defeats in 1938; won five, lost five and tied one in 1939; gained four victories, lost six and tied one in 1940, and won five out of 11 Tast season. Walsh said the Rams currently had "between 14 and 18 players who figured to be available for competition next season." "I decline to enumerate who those players are," he said, "because I do not believe it would be fair to the remaining clubs to divulge that information until the player distribution has been made under the plan the league works out." The outstanding men believed available on the Ram roster were Halfback Dante Magnani, Fullback Corby Davis, Tackle Chet Adams and Center Bill Cronkright. Under the plan worked out for the distribution of the Cleveland talent, league President Elmer Lay-den announced the following procedure: The names of all players on Cleveland's active list, reserved list, and those drafted Thursday will be placed in a hat, then from another hat the clubs will select numbers from one to nine to determine the order in which they will get to draw the Ram talent. Layden said the Rams had 28 men on their active list, 90 on the reserve list, plus the 20 players to be drafted. Gridders known to be in the armed services will be scratched from the distribution list before the nine clubs make the draws.

Greeley State Coach To Enter Navy Soon GREELEY, April 6. 0F Granted a leave of absence for the duration. Coach L. C. (Pete) Butler of Greeley State will report April 22 for duty as a naval lieutenant at Chapel Hill, N.

C. But before reporting, he plans to take an oral examination for a doctor's degree at New York university. Butler received both his naval orders and notice that his doctorate dissertation had been accepted yesterday. A former star athlete at Greeley State, he became basketball and baseball coach, and a football assistant, in 1940. He was an assistant professor of physical education.

Washington Purchases Athletics' Outfielder COLLEGE PARK, April 6. (IP) Washington today completed its deal with the Philadelphia Athletics for the purchase of Outfielder Bob Johnson. Clark Griffith, president of the Senators, made a cash settlement. The amount was not announced. When Johnson was traded to Washington, Jimmy Pofahl, infield-er.

was supposed to go to the Mack-men to bind the deal. He elected to stay in a defense job, however. Tiger Pitcher Quits Baseball for Duration AD EL, April 6. UP) Hal Manders, 25-year-old pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, said tonight he is through with baseball for the duration. Manders, who Is classified 3-A, said he has taken a Job on a stock farm near here.

He is married and the father of a 2 -year-old son. The pitcher said he felt he should either be in service or on a farm. Softball strife for fifth grade girls will start in the city Monday, April 12, with fpur teams entered in both the No. 1 and No. 2 leagues of the class division.

Games, being sponsored by the board of recreation, will be played on the Junior league. Junior high school, Gibson and Elks' diamonds. In the No. 1 league are Whittier, Largent, St. Mary's and Franklin schools and captains, in order, are Betty Gonser, Elsie Johnson, Mar garet Little and Helen Demopoulos.

The No. 2 league will have con tests among Lowell, Longfellow. Mc Kinley and Roosevelt forces. These teams will be captained by Cathryn Wollaston, Flora Davey, Jean Jackson and Doris Hildahl, respectively. First and second place winners in the two leagues will play a round -robin tourney for championship of class F.

Schedule of games follows: League Ne. 1 Monday. April 13 Whittier Plashes vs Franklin Score Smashers at Junior league field; Largest Stars vs. St. Mary's Jeeps at Junior high field.

Wednesday. April 14 Whittier Flashes vs. Largent Stars at Gibson field. Thursday. April 15 Franklin Score Smashers vs.

St. Mary's Jeeps at Junior league field. Monday. April 19 Whittier Flashes vs. St.

Mary's Jeeps at Gibson field. Tuesday. April 20 Largent Stars vs. Franklin Score Smashers at Junior league field. Wednesday, April 21 Franklin Score Smashers vs.

Whittier Flashes at Junior league field; Largent Stars vs. St. Mary's Jeeps at Junior high field. Monday, April 26 Whittier Flashes vs. Largent Stars at Junior high field: Franklin Score Smashers vs.

St. Mary's jeeps at Junior league field. Wednesday. April 28 Whittier Flashes vs. St.

Mary's Jeeps at Gibson field: Franklin Score Smashers vs. Largent Stars at Junior league field. Learoe No. 2 Tuesday. April 13 Lowell Forces vs.

Roosevelt Yankees at Elks' field: Longfellow Yanks vs. McKinley P-40's at Junior hieh field. Tuesday, April 20 Lowell Fnrrx Longellow Yanks at Elks' field: Roosevelt Yankees vs. McKinley P-40's. Elks' field Wednesday.

April 21 Lowell Fnrrs vt McKinley P-40 at Elks' field: Longfellow Yanks vs. Roosevelt Yankee Elks' field. Tuesday, April 27 Lowell Roosevelt Yankees at Elks' field: Longfellow Yanks vs. McKinley P-40's at Junior high field. Thursday, April 29 Lowell Fnrrc.

Longfellow Yanks at Elks' field: Roose-volt Yankees vs. McKinley P-40's at Elks' ueia. Monday, May 3 Longfellow VinV Roosevelt Yankees at Elks' field. Bowling Falls AUeys wn a 2a game by Bearce and a series by Cordik. the McClintock Mattress ran up a 2899 team count in the A league xuesaay mgnt.

scores: STANDARD FURV. McCLINT. MATT Linnane 550 Bearch i jonnson kb wenai 536 Slaxman 475 Black 560! cordik Berky 535 Williamson HIS 895, 931. 869 2695 950, 943, 10062899 GLACIER BAR SILVER GAS El? 494iPancich 606 Mehl 49.1 Smith 502: Blumfield R7 Toy Sr. 532 Tebeau 493 TJgrin Ro 888.

818, 84425501 913, 9C6. 9332752 STAR CIGAR PENNANT CIRAB Rowe 603 Stovall ns Hills 485iLongway 57 Sohl 551 Moe 54 Little 51' Hall 515 Scott 547 Shouo 04 842. 1004, 850 296J 959. 950. 924 2833 MONTANA BAR I G.

F. TOWNS1TE Medvec 576! Toy us Seifert 5761 Samson 405 Cummings 513! Strand S42 Gray 51j Nisbet rx Tuss 610' Bowman 959, 951, 8812791 1000, 883, 884 277 In the league Fredlanl rolled a. high game and a 00 series to boost the Black Eagle Beer total to 2720. Scores: PARIS FLIGMAN E. BEER PARLOR W.Jackson 557 Clba 541 Simonton 447'Yukasin am Jackson 47o: Frediani 600 Taylor 530 Fah 446 Brandt 432Ugrin 574 874, 832.

730 243! 905, 931, 8842720 AMERICAN LEGION' HURLEY'S BAR Ballowe 467 Zipperian 553 Hall 5051 Murphy 519 Hoelzel 486IWhyte 571 Peterson 485: Wolfe 423 Jones 559IMahonev 54a 760. 859. 8832502) 877. 841, 8962614 KAUFMAN'S ELLERBE ro. Taylor 478' Stern 487 Hobensack 556 Jordan 558 Kaufman 548' Mackie 484 Shogren 463 Lux 450 Tonkovich 454! Barrett 498 911.

800. 7882499) 854. 834, 7892477 FURNITURE MART O. F. BEER Eigeman 482 Peklewsky 551 Martin 5531 Pipinich 586 Janzer 520 Neils 469 Evans 533 Watts 509 Johnson 536 946.

822, 8202588, 823 2651 Heisey Alleys Wise of the Tavern made a 198 high game In the Women's league Tuesday night and Walsh of the Heisey Alleys a 535 serle.s Best team total was 2316 by the Bennett Pontiac. Scores: TAVERN I BENNETT-PONT Larson 454 Trerise 412 Kerkolelb 354'Dorricott 609 Haggerty 33T, Huss 391 Wise 461 Fake 466 Wert 423 Johnson 508 Handicap 24 Handicap 30 591, 794. 6820531 783. 794, 7392316 TEDDIES' PASTRIES 1 HEISEY ALLEY Kopta 3281Longenecker 444 Foster 342jDulan 418 Hoflin 388 Hervig 362 Wocasek 328 MacRae 449 Topel 378 Walsh 635 Handicap 2581 690, 644. 686 2020 744.

743. 7212208 KRANZ FLOWERS MONARCH LBR. Berg 396' Sedar 390 Lauer 356 Da hie 381 Pike 342 Schroeder 414'Shiell 380 Liesenfeld 390 Frediani 416 Handicap 811 Handicap 111 667, 684. 70720581 45. 639.

7111995 CITY MONT. BAR! ROYAL MILL Pinskl 433! Harvey 411 Jackman 373 Dess 334 Malt 452 (Moore 407 Briggs 326j Ellis 306 Ballard 432 Albertinl 346 Handicap 105, Handicap 288 680, 720, 7202120j 735, 728, 6292092 Fort Hancock Loses FOR HANCOCK. N. April 6. (P) The New York Giants spent five innings tuning up their batting eyes at the expense of four army pitchers today, walloping Fort Hancock, 23-0.

nant races, but last night I ran across two well-known betting comml ssioners who have followed baseball closely for many years. Both had the Cardinals and Yankees well out in front, which proves they are 1 not cumo. out both rated the Elc Cardinals as the surest thing any pennant race had ever known. "The Cardinals." one of them told me. "will be one of the shortest prices ever known.

They may be around 3 to 5." "Against the I asked. "It isn't aganst the field. one of them said. "It's against the Dodgers. What other club has a chance?" "What about the famous Inroads of the well known draft and the manpower situation?" I suggested.

"That might upset everything." The Bookmaker's "Here's the way it Is." one of them said. "The Cardinals were the bett club in baseball last season, meaning both leagues, and they are still the best club in baseball today. "We all know that every club in the two big leagues is going to lose players from time to time, all spring and summer. But the Cardinals can still afford to lose more men than any other team. "For example, they still have 11 good pitchers and three or four others who might be good.

Say they have 12 pitchers, headed by Mort Cooper, Ernie White. Howard Pollet. Max Lanier and several others. Suppose they lose four or five from this group. They will still have a fine staff left.

I mean seven or eight good ones. And they still have that speed and youth which the Dodgers haven't got." The Dodger Challenge I asked these two well-known exponents of chance bjpw they rated the Dodgers. "The second best team, with something to spare." one of said. "I like the Dodgers pitching staff and they may outhit the Cardinals. They have a good Infield and a pretty good outfield.

They have a hustling manager in Leo Durocher, although the Cardinals won't have to worry about Billy South worth. But the Dodgers also have a bunch of extra years to carry." What the rookies overlooked was this: Those extra years may come as a big help to the Dodgers, with the eyes of the draft boards lookinz ir the general direction of youth. Williams Reports School Softball League to Start Several hundred students, both boys and girls, will swing Into action next week in the board of recreation's annual softball league for grade, Junior high and high school leagues. An adult league will be formed within a few weeks. Director" R.

E. Williams said. First entries received were from the sixth grade girls, class E. Two leagues have been formed, with six teams In the No. 2 league and five in the other.

The following teams, with cap tains of each listed, are entered in this division: Longfellow Kay Millons: Emerson Hardhitters. Patricia Luwe; McKinley Jeeps. MarJorie Moline: Roosevelt All-Stars. Gloradon Si-man; Roosevelt Yankee Stars, Mary Alice Richardson: Collins American Eagles. Shirley Petrine.

Franklin Connie Snippen: Largent Whizzers. Lilly Bean: Russell Bisons. Marilyn Springs; St. Mary's Blue Bolts. Patricia Kimmltt, and Whittier Champions, Susan Kelly.

Cubs Defeat Reds FRENCH LICK, Ind, April C. UP) Chicago's Cubs touched two Cincinnati Red hurlers for 11 hits, topped by Dom Dallessandro's homer with two mates on in the eighth to take a 7-2 exhibition game today. AAA All-Soldier Musical Revue Oil THE EMU CIVIC CENTER Aprin3th-14th Reserved Scats I Mail Orders Special Service Officer, Army Air Base Great Falls Ask us to hold ticket at Box Office if you prefer Right now. with two weeks to go before the opening of the season, there are only three positions, aside from pitching and catching, settled on the Browns' squad George Mc-Quinn at first base, Don Gutteridge at second and Chet Laabs hi the outfield. Third Baseman Harlond Clift.

expected in St. Louis tomorrow, faces the disadvantage of having missed practically all of the war-shortened spring training period. As a temporary stopgap. Vernon Stephens, who is 1A. will be available for shortstop until his draft board calls him.

Outfielder Glenn McQuillen will report for military service any day. Outfielder Walt Judnich already Is in the army. Sewell. of course, has several candidates ready to step Into the breach. Floyd Baker, a hitting shortstop from San Antonio, and Mark Christman.

coming back for another major league trial after several years at Toledo, are the contestants for Stephens soon-to-be vacated berth. In the outfield, the manager has Mike Chartak and Tony Criscola as holdovers. Milt Byrnes, a light hitter from Toledo, and the veteran Mike Kreevich, signed as a free agent. The Browns best bets seem lo lie in their possible hitting power and in the potentialities of their 15-man pitching staff. The catching will be competent with Rick Ferrell and Frank Hayes.

With the departure of Ted Wil liams. Laabs is the league's leading nome run hitter. Clift and Mc Quinn can sock that apple. Char tak has tremendous power and is showing signs of sustained hitting ability. Gutteridge, once a slugger with the Cardinals, is beginning to hammer the ball, as is Hayes, who had a home run reputation while with the Philadelphia Athletics.

The pitching staff has a nucleus of winners from last year, and there is revived hope that Bob Munchief will be effective again after an arm operation. Pitching additions include Nelson Potter, Woody Rich and Paul Dean, all with previous big-time experience. Dean was pounded In a practice game with a navy team last Sun day, but big brother Dizzy declared: You wait and see, hell be the best pitcher on the club by the Fourth of July." Bivins Wins Decision LOS ANGELES, April 6. (U.R) Jimmy Bivins, Cleveland negro, and light heavyweight champion for the duration, tonight scored a close de cision over Watson Jones, Los Angeles fighter, in the 10 round main event at Olympic auditorium. Health Week Girl tv rmCHRITUDINOUS Pat Fitzgerald, a Powers model, has been chosen as the Swim for Health Week Girl for 1943.

Pat, who used to have her own program over one of the large radio stations, will soon be devoting her time to an audience of one. She's going to marry Ensign Charles Bance, International v- vtfu with the athletic council Principal Armin Jahr and Coach Fred Chez will attend the school session at Helena Saturday, Local Baseball League Needs More Players Interested Parties Asked to Report at Civic Center 3Ieet Baseball players are needed, re gardless of the amount of expert ence, to form a civilian team which will represent the city In the newly established "Falls-Air Force" league A call to diamond arms has been issued by Nick Mariana, Montana State league pitcher, who has urged all men desiring to participate in the league here this summer to re port at a special meeting at 8 Wednesday night in the civic cen ter. The meeting, scheduled for the board of recreation office, will determine what can be rounded up for a Great Falls team to compete with the Army Air Base, Seventh Ferrying group and American Legion Juniors. Initial practice sessions are uncertain as j-et, but the American Legion field Is available for workouts. Soldiers at the Seventh Ferrying group will drill each Tuesday, the Army Air Base "Bombers" are to work out each Thursday while Rudy Scovil's juniors are slated to practice Friday.

Practice sessions for the civilian team will be Saturday. Mariana stated. The Falls-Air Force league has been set to open Sunday, May 16 with the four clubs appearing on a double header card. Confident of material available, Mariana has challenged Lt. Roily Ed berg's star-studded army lineun for the curtain raiser.

The American Legion will tackle Lt. Carl Brown's Seventh Ferrying group "hitless wonders." Possible talent for the civilian team includes Harry Monroe. Ed Ugrin, Bill Polich. Babe Young. Lefty Reichelt.

Marian Smith Charlie Buley, Walt Tuss and others. Junior leaguers assemble this afternoon with Coach Scovil at the high school to map plans for drill which starts outdoors next week. Boho Newsom Joins Brooklyn Dodgers Club BROOKLYN, April 6. JP) While a majority of the Brooklyn Dodger baseball team made a tour of Long Island defense plants in the Inter ests of the bond buying campaign today, Bobo Newsom came from Bear mountain to Join the club. The overweight pitcher, who didn't sign his contract until last week, had been left there to get into condition.

"I was going stir-crazy up there." explained the talkative twirler. "I ran around the West Point field-house so often that I dreamed I was Greg Rice at nights." New Drug to Combat Malaria Is Sought NEW YORK, April 6. The Rockefeller foundation said today that it was financing some of the research, for a new drug to combat malaria, the development of which would have "enormous military and public health significance Raymond B. Fosdick. foundation president, said in reporting on the foundation's work in 1942 that America lost her quinine as well as her rubber in the Japanese advance into the East Indies and that 80 percent of the front line troops at Bataan suffered from malaria 10 days before the end because the quinine tablets gave out.

Girl, 4, Found Slain PITTSBURGH, April 7. (Wednes day) VP) The body of Theresa Williams, curly-haired, 4-year-old blonde, was found early this morn tag buried In the basement of a neighbor's home, less than 12 hours after she had disappeared. Police fSffiS? A CUaICaJMATi MAO AS FvfkR BACK AS Bill Cox Could Lineup to Help By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK. April 6. JP) It looks like Bill Cox was a little hasty in buying the Philadelphia Phils in the hopes of building them up.

He should have bought the Norfolx naval training station club, which is tailor made. In fact, our Hughie Fullerton Jr. says he is picking it to win the world series. Maybe you didn't pay much at tention to the lineup of the Tars when they opened their exhibition series with the Washington Sena tors. If you took just a quick gander at the first couple of names A's to Make Round Roberto Feel at Home By SID FEDER WILMINGTON.

April 6. (JP) It is Roberto Estalella's loudest moan that in eight years baseball he always has been with clubs deep in the second division. And Connie Mack has promised him that this record will be maintained, now that he has moved in with the Philadelphia Athletics. The venerable Mr. McGillicuddy pointed this out to Round Roberto a day or so ago, when he accidental ly heard Estalella give voice to his beef.

"Don't worry, sonny," said Mr. Mack; "well probably make you feel right at home." In addition to introducing Roberto, one of the Cubans who managed to escape from the Washington Sen ators and now is the A's regular left-fielder, it also serves to indicate just where the Athletics fit into the American league landscape. It's as safe as money in the bank to bet that Mr. McGillicuddy's athletes will get just about as far as usual. They've been training here for two weeks now and you'd recognize them in a minute as the same old outfit.

That is, they're the same from the viewpoint of how to win friends and wind up in last place. Actually, it's a brand new team. The one big loss to the armed forces was that of Phil Marchildon, the fancy flinger who won 17 games last year a record that is practically out of this world with a club like the A's. Tennis Ace Austin Inducted Into Army LOS ANGELES, April 6. (U.R) Henry W.

(Bunny) Austin, former English Davis cup tennis star and moral rearmament "morale" worker, was inducted into the army today. Austin had been registered for the draft in New York, but his case was transferred here after an appeal for deferment on grounds of his morale-building activities was denied. Austin appeared early today and immediately entered the induction line for processing into the army. Angelo Callura Wins Over Mike Belloise NEW YORK. April 6.

OP) An gelo Callura, 131-pound brother of Featherweight Champion Jackie Callura, outpointed Mike Belloise, 131, New York, in a dull eight-round bout at the Broadway arena tonight. Belloise, former featherweight substituted for Chalky Wright, also a former ruler of the division. Wright is ill. Angelo Cal lura hails from Hamilton, Ont. MlAA Use Norfolk's Out His Phils in the batting order and did not notice the name of the team you'd just say: "Hmm, so they've moved Di Mag up to the second spot be hind Rizzuto," thinking it was the Yankees.

Only it wasn't the Yankees and it wasn't Joe DiMaggio, it was brother Dom, batting right behind the former Yankee leadoff man. And after Dom DiMaggio came Benny McCoy, $45,000 worth of ball player to Connie Mack two or three years ago. And after McCoy, in the cleanup spot, came Don Padgett, the former Cardinal handyman who just passed through Brooklyn on his way to the service. He was sold to the Dodgers for an estimated $25,000, but went into the service before the 1942 season. Following Padget in the batting order was First Baseman Eddie Robinson, ex-Baltimore Oriole.

Then came Jim Gleason, last seen in the big show as an outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds. Then came three strange names an outfielder named De Vaura, a third baseman named Carlin and still another third baseman named Conway. As far as we can learn they are Just embryo sailors at the training stations. How did those guys get in the lineup, anyway? The gob's catcher was an old Pittsburgh Pirate named Vince Smith, and he was nabbing the offerings of Freddy Hutchinson, the former expensive Detroit Tiger, and Charley Wagner, a winning chucker with the Boston Red Sox last sea son. It really is quite remarkable how all these players, tossed into the whirlpool of war, come to rest at Norfolk.

Or maybe the Norfolk club has some pretty good scouts on the road, and is signing the men before they complete their major league schooling. We'll have to get Commissioner Landis to look into this. Do you suppose he could declare them all tree agents if he found anything wrong? Iowa University Coach Will Take Physical IOWA CITY, April Jim Harris, acting head football coach at the University of Iowa. said tonight that he has been or dered to report in Des Moines Thursday for his final army phys ical examination. Recently reclassified I Harris said he already has been rejected by the army once because of defective eyesight.

The former Notre Dame player recently took over Iowa's football leadership when Dr. Eddie Ander son was commissioned a major in the army medical corps. McCarthy Still Has Faith in His Team ASBURY PARK. N. The New York Yankees, stymied today by the weather, are a good baseball club and a distinct threat for the Ameri can league pennant.

Manager Joe McCarthy said today. "We are probably as good as any club in the league and I'm not afraid of any of them," he continued, "but just which one of them will provide us with the most opposition I can say." Pirates Beat Indians INDIANAPOLIS, April The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-3 in an exhibition game before 1,000 fans today. Harry Danning, New York Giants catcher for the past nine years, was inducted into the army today. From the Minors DW jaw 1 1 GEORGE STIRNWEISS, the- speed merchant of the Newark Beara who is expected to open the season as the New York Yankees shortstop this year, is the former University of North Carolina football and basketball star who made several All-American teams. Stirnweiss, besides hitting a respectable figure, .270, for Newark last year, stole 73' bases to lead the minor league- loop.

Called "Snuffy," Stirnweiss stands 5-8. weighs 175 wJ ft 1 i tMmtam a- inrwiiwi l.LT -r4 i tV9 I fl I j. sa t.f.T TTT'.