Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 17

KID AY, MARCH 29, 1946 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH PAGE SEVENTEEN Hot Competition In Chicago Relays National and Conference Titlista in Annual Meet mi SHOODV, CHICAGO, March 29. Six national AAU track champions, seven from the Big Ten and three from the Central Collegiate Conference will provide an inters; tional flavor to the 10th annual Chicago the Chicago Sta mum tomorrow night. Leslte MacMltchell, king of the rollers, who has won seven straight Indoor mile vlctor- this, season, lefcds the brigade sf national champions entered In meet sponsored by the Chicago Dnlly News. The New Yorker Is Favored to make It eight straight the Banker's Mile tomorrow. Elmore Harris will be back to jefend the Hill 600-yard title he In the 1945 relays.

Also entered in the event Is Roy Cochran former Indiana University star now taking postgraduate work at University of Southern California, and Herb McKenley, Unl of Illinois middle distance who won the conference 140 In the record tying time of Tough Going Other national tltleholders' and icfending champions In the relays A-ill be Forest Efaw in the Merriam two-mile and Ed Dugger in hurdles. In the GUI 1000-yard ivent Fred Sicktnger AAU and champion, faces keen competition from Bill Clifford, Ohio Slate freshman and Big Ten mile indoor champion. In addition to McKenley, Illinois will furnish three other Big Ten Eddelman, defending champion In the Vilgh jump; Bill Mathis In the sprints and George Walker In the-hurdles. Billy Moore of Northwestern, will be the only double champion in the games. He won the AAU pole vault title and followed with a victory in the Big Ten championships.

Claude (Buddy) Young, former Illinois star, will be making his first indoor start since 1944 when he won the Lambert sprint series. Bill Leonard of Notre Dame, Piasa Field Trials Saturday, Sunday First of Club's Events to Be Held at Humbert Site CHICAGO FASHION NOTE Belleville Pitching Staff Bothers League Schools Central Collegiate mile champion who has run the fastest collegiate mile of the winter, heads the Irish entry. Other CCC titllsts are Fred. -V Feller of Drake, entered in the two mile run, and Ed Taylor of Western Michigan, outstanding high jumper. Zollners Debut In Chicago Meet Fort Wayne Faces Dow Chemical Cage Five By JEKRY £ISKA CHICAGO, March 29.

-The defending champion Fort Wa'y'ne, Zollners make their debut tonight in the eighth annual world's professional basketball tournament which swings into the quarterfinal round at the Chicago Stadium with a new single game scoring mark already established and 695 points amassed in six first round games. Fort Wayne, seeking its third straight title, drew a first round bye and bows in tonight against the strong Midland, Dows. Other quarterfinals battles Include Sheboygan, Redskins, who also draw a bye, vs. Chicago American Gears; Oshkosh, All Stars vs. New York Renaissance and Baltimore, Bullets vs.

Anderson, Chiefs. Attention will center on the upper bracket scraps between Chicago, bulwarked by lanky George Mikan, and Sheboygan, and the New York Rens and Oshkosh, finalists In the 1939 inaugural tournament won by the Gotham negro team. Mikan, in his first stadium start as professional basketball's highest salaried star, ployed a stellar floor game but his 17 point bag against the Pittsburgh Raiders Monday was topped by five other players in fust round 'competition. Semifinals are scheduled next Wednesday and a best of three finals next weekend. Onized Club Wins League Playoff Onized Club came from behind in the final minute and a half of 1 lay to score a 29-28 victory over Standard Oil and annex the City Basketball League title in a game Thursday night at Alton High School gym.

The victory was the straight for Onized in the playoff series. Beck was high for Onized with nine points, and was tied for scoring honors by Holmes Standard Oil, Working with and squads, Edgar Gunderson, Belleville Township High School baseball coach, has two full teams prancing through early workouts in preparation for the Maroon diamond season. Gunderson has 10 lettermen out for the team, Including three pitchers. Pitchers Bob Goalby, Lee Wolters, and Don Diller are expected to give Belleville a mound staff that will furnish Southwestern Illinois Conference teams with some fancy twirling to swing at. Gunderson has a fair share of his infield returning from last season, with first baseman Ttimrny Erwin, second baseman Jim Davis, and catcher Mel Classen, "all reporting for the season's nine.

Outfielders who won letters last, season are Dave Mace, Richard Brauer, Willard Dinges, and Ken Kosar. Has Reserves Gunderson is aided in handling the squad by Frank ScOtt, Belleville's head basketball coach, and Scott is reported to be working with a large group of diamond youngsters, to be fed to the varsity as the need arises. First game on the Maroon schedule is slated for Tuesday noon, at 3:30, when CentraT'Cath- olic of East St. Louis will call at Belleville. Plasa Pointer and Setter Club, meeting Wednesday night, completed plans for the club's first field trials, to be held Saturday and Sunday, over five courses which have been laid out east and west of Humbert street road.

Entries for the opening trials by the club will be limited to members. Eight braces of shooting dogs and four braces of puppies are entered In the meet. Part of Wednesday night's meeting was devoted to drawing braces and courses for the meet. Missouri judges will make decisions and trophies will be awarded. Members of the club are enthusiastic over introduction of this sport to Alton ares, and the club Invites everyone interested to attend the trials.

Puppy trials are for 1 p. Saturday, and shooting dog stakes will start at 8 a. Sunday, continuing until mid-afternoon. Puppies whelped on of after Jan. 1, 1945, are eligible to compete for first, second, and third place trophies in 20 minute heats of the one course event.

Shooting dog stake will be an all-age event, with running on five courses in the 30-minute heats for three trophies. Ic bomb for 15 years. Mrs. beth Graham, who got In first with an application for that changed her mind el $100 a and now calls, the colt Admiralgen- eral. According to the rules a once granted can't be duplicated for 15 years.

The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues had an $800 telegraph bill for one month on wires sent tt Durham, N. about wnivers. Spring Vacation Earl Hllllgan, the AnterlCBh League publicilor, was talking to League President Will Harrldge In a Sarasota, hotel recently when umpire Jim Boyer came along Earl was caught off baw by a strong resemblance and tried to Introduce Boyer to his own boss as "Gerry Moore- of the Boston Globe." The ump gave Hllllgan Ihe thumb act and stated solemnly: "You, Hllllgan, are out for the season." One-Minute Sports I'aje Greg Rice has authored a pamphlet on distance running for the Five non-conference games are already scheduled, in addition to conference tilts, while a game is in the offing at Mascoutah, either April -16 or May 7, a second with Cathedral of Belleville, and possibly a second with Central Catholic. The schedule as it stands: April April April April April April of Belleville- April April JO May May St. May May Richard Milford Initiated Richard Milford, formerly active in Troop 1 of Alton Boy Scouts, was initiated into the University of Illinois Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega.

An impressive ceremony for the initiation of this candidate was held Iri the mini Union building on March 26. Alpha Phi Omega is a national fraternity with 105 active chapters. Membership is open to all former Scoutp who are attending the University and who are interested in continuing their scouting activities and who are willing to help with various projects of to the and "faculty of' the university. Telegraph Want Ads CLICK Brooklyn Fans Will Say It With MusicThisYear By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK, March 29.

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