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will to Thursday. a I 1 PAGE SIX THE SALISBURY TIMES, SALISBURY, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL. 6, 1942 PITTSBURGH PIRATES TOP GRAPEFRUIT Smokey City Crew Looks Like Team To Beat; Cards Second York, April 6- (AP) Teams are going home from spring training, pitchers are going the route in exhibitions and the fans are going in circles--all of which means that Major League baseball is about ready to get going in the pennant races of 1942. With little more than a week to wait until they start playing for keeps, the teams in the American League are out in front of the National Leaguers in exhibition competition today by five games. Representatives of the junior circuit have triumphed in 55 of the 105 spring training battles involving opponents from the opposite side of the majors.

Equally as unimportant as that interesting but inconclusive data is the fact that five weeks' play in the grapefruit belt has elevated three clubs in each league as the ones to beat when the chips go down. Pirates On Top On the basis of their against all forms of competition in exhibition games, the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers top the senior cirucit while the St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and New York Yankees look like the class of the American League. The Pirates head the grapefruit standings, just two percentage points ahead of the Browns, with whom they have been running neck and neck for a couple of weeks.

Pittsburgh has won 17. of its 23 games to date, including 10 of 13 against American League teams and four out of six in the National League. The Browns, who won a record of 14 victories and five defeats, have won nine of their 10 inter-league tilts and two out of three against other American Leaguers. More impressive, however, and possibly more surprising is the record of the Senators, who have played 25 games, only one of which was outside the majors, and won 18 of them. Nats Are Third Third in the Grapefruit standings, the Nats have come up with seven out of 10 against American League clubs and 10 out of 14 with National entries.

The Cardinals, who are expected to challenge the Dodgers for the National League flag, are in fourth place, one game ahead of the 1941 champs. The Cards have won 19 and lost nine, while the Dodgers have won 18 and lost 10. The Yankees have been the National League's cousins this spring. They have dropped eight of their 12 games with senior circuit clubs, but managed to win enough from American Leaguers and minor loops to boost their total to 16 triumphs and 11 Pulls Sox Up WITH BOB FELLER IN THE NAVY THORNTON LEE OF THE WHITE SOX IS THE AMERICAN LEAGUE'S ONLY 20 GAME WINNER. CLEVELAND SAID YOU COULDN'T PITCH.

JIMMY DYKES MUDDY RUEL Spring Fever Warms Films By Paul Harrison Hollywood, April. 6 It's spring in Movietown. This had nothing to do with the vernal equinox or the secret findoutings of the weather man, since the days lately have been almost alike. On Hollywood, spring is an inner awareness, a quickening of pulses, a surge of confidence, a reassurance come war or pestilence of the essential fecundity and richness and goodness of a patient world. These things are known even by the two sparrows, nesting in the muzzle cannon in front of American Legion headquarters.

They also are known to Greta Garbo, who in her walled estate has taken to running around barefcoted and climbing trees, Song writers are peering wistfully from the windows of their smoky cubicles and making rhymes about soft lips and a balmy breeze instead of warships and the Nipponese, Producers are telling scenarists "there ain't enough romance in this lousy script." At the Hays office, the staff of censors is reported to have grown indulgent. Some of the screen's veteran heroes are being fitted with new toupees, and with no gray strands in 'em, either. Japs Lose Gardens Everything seems quite as verdant as in other springs. Mexican gardeners took over where the Japanese left off, and their chattering jalopies are ere- COMEDIAN Answer to Previous Puzzle 17 Chart. MOF FIAT 19 Continent OR SEED LATE HE 22 Artist's tripod.

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67 Near. 4 5 6 10 0 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 132 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 LEADERS HOLD PLACES IN SIX BOWLING LOOPS Same Six Outfits Top Leagues; Season Is Near End It's the same old story in the six bowling leagues at the Recreation Centre. Sportsman's Club still leads the City League; Dryden's Cabs lead Men's Hardwood loop; Watson No. 2 is boss of the A.C.W. of Universal Credit tops the Ten Pin League and the Strikeouts and Dodgers head the Ladies Rubberband and Hardwood lops, respectively.

Only three changes were made in all six leagues during the past week. In the Ladies Hardwood League the Salisbury Cubs, rapins, Four Ems and the Hot Shots are knotted in a four way tie for fourth place. Liebovitz No. 2 moved past Manhattan No. 1 into second place in the A.C.W.

of A. loop and the Penguins pulled out of an eighth place tie in the Ladies Rubberband League with the Jolly Roll- ers. TEN PIN LEAGUE Universal Credit 24 Blue Ridge Feeds 20 Martin and Schwartz 17 Swift and Company 8 25 LADIES HARDWOOD LEAGUE Dodgers me a 25 Go' Getters 22 Pepper Uppers 19 Salisbury Cubs 15 Hot Shots 15 Terrapins Four Ems 15 Green Banks 12 Alley Cats 12 Dogs 30 LADIES RUBBERBAND LEAGUE Strike Outs 26 4 Merrymakers 9 Daredevils 9 Try Hards 20 10 American Legion ..15 15 Blackouts 15 15 New Yorkers 19 Penguins 7 23 Jolly Rollers 24 New Towners 4 26 MEN'S HARDWOOD LEAGUE Dryden Cabs 39 9 Star Laundry 34 14 Pepsi Cola 34 14 Hill's Service 32 16 Commercial Credit 25 23 Salisbury National Bank -14 34 Willow Brook Farms 9 39 Harrington's Four 5 43 CITY LEAGUE Tri-State Sports Club 5 Kiwanis 7 Elks 15 12 Lions 18 12 Spur Bottling Co. 10 E. S.

Public Service 13 Bruxton Shirt Co. 12 15 Post Office 14 Ward Baking Co. 11 16 East Side Men's Club 11 19 Homestead Dairy 21 Rotary 6 18 A. C. W.

of A. LEAGUE Watson No. 2 27 6 Liebovitz No. 2 9 Manhattan No. 1 23 10 Jacobs No.

1 17 16 Watson No. 1 9 24 Watson No. 4 7 26 EXHIBITION BASEBALL By The Associated Press Sunday's Results Cincinnati (N) 2, Boston New York (A) 11, (SA) 6. Washington (A) 7, (N) 1. St.

Louis (A) 3, Boston Brooklyn (N) 4, Atlanta 3. Detroit (A) 8, St. Louis New York (N) 8, (SA) 7. Chicago (A) 9, Chicago Pittsburgh (N) 15, (A) 10. Little Rock (SA) 4, (A) 3.

WASH TUBBS (A) 1. Nashville Philadelphia Senators Break Camp, 9 Defeat Phils 7-1. 13 News From The Baseball Camps By The Associated Press Uncle Sam Helps Frisch Decide Team Big Spring, -Uncle Sam has helped Frankie Frisen, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, to decide nthe personnel of his pitching staff by inducting big Bill Clemensen into the Army. Other Pirates now in the armed services are pitchers Oadis Swigart and J. Addis Copple, catcher Vince Smith and shortstop Billy Cox.

Camilli, Herman Go To Hospital Charlotte, N. Brooklyn Dodgers tangled with their opponents in last fall's World Series, (the New York Yankees, today minus the services of first baseman Dolph Camilli and second baseman Billy Herman. Both left the club yesterday for general checkups at Johns Hopkins hospital and will rejoin their mates Wednesday. Derringer Suffers Pleurisy Attack Bowling Green, Paul Derringer, Cincinnati's opening! day hurler the past two seasons, is recuperating from a heavy cold and a slight touch of pleurisy. Jacksonville, Fla.

Washington's Senators said goodbye today to their spring training quarters at Orlando and headed northward, stopping off here for another game with the Philadelphia Phils, the team they licked 7 to yesterday. Bruce Campbell, new named cleanup hitter, drove in four runs. Newcomers Point To Masters' Golf Augusta, April 6-(AP)Never a newcomer has won the nine-year-old Augusta Masters' golf tournament, but a couple of youngsters may give this year's field a run for the crown, if not score an unprecedented upset. The Johnny-come latelys are smooth Chandler Harper of Portsmouth, and smiling Chick Harbert, the skinny shotmaker from Battle Creek, Mich. Both got their bids to the tourney, April 9-12, just a week ago, as the two professionals previously unqualified who compiled the best record on the winter PGA circuit.

Both rank among the first seven money winners for the winter tour, and both have been firing top tournament golf. Nor are they afraid of big league competition. Harbert startled the headliners at Beaumont, by taking first money, repeated on the swing east by winning the Texas Open at San Antonio in a playoff with Ben Hogan. He tied with Lawson Little for third in the Los Angeles Open and finished out of the money only thrice in 13 starts. Harper, son of a wealthy Portsmouth family, turned pro in 1935 after spectacular amateur play.

Today, Horton Smith calls his fessional game golf." "among the best in He withdrew from the $10,000 Miami Open after a disappointing start and skipped the Beaumont and Harlingen, Opens. Then he placed sixth at Los Angeles and has finished in the money in every tourney since. Flowers Upset Infield, Bunted Them To Ground Here's one they're telling on Memphis Jake Flowers: in D'Arcy in a Pirate's exhibition (N) 2. game, came up to bat in the late Philadelphia innings just to try his luck. The infielders promptly sat down.

So Cleveland Jake bunted and got a basehit without even trying. DICK COOPER TOPPED SHO' LOOP SCORING Laurel Captain Led Pack With 266 Points In Season Gold medals, in addition to the Pure Oil Co. of Seaford trophy will be presented to the 1942 champions of the Eastern Shore Basketball League, the Cambridge Collegians. The new champs wrested the title from Seaford Y. M.

C. A. in the third and final tilt of the series on the Delaware court last week. Members of the Seaford club will receive silver medals but no formal presentation will take place, according to league president Richard Dykes of Salisbury. The Milford Cardinals, who finished the season in first place, took over the McKinney Shoe Store's trophy.

Henry S. Parker, loop secretary today released the final scoring records for the league's 20 season indicating Charles "Dick" Cooper, captain of the Laurel Merchants, the fifth-place team in the circuit, led scoring with 266 points. George Remsberg of the champions was runner up for scoring plaudits with 245 points and his teammate Warren Robinson was third with 233 tallies. Paul Chadick of the Milford Cardinals finished fourth in the loop with 202. Listed in the order of scoring by the first are: McCarter, Coca Colas, 194; Rider, Laurel, 157: McKnett, Coca Colas, 157; J.

Givarz, Salisbury 145; Hughes, Coca Colas, 141; McCall, Coca Colas, 128; Peters, Coca Colas 121; Willey Collegians 119; Fields, Salisbury, Calloway, Laurel, 117; and "Wheedleton, Salisbury, 100. Oddly enough the entire starting line -up of the Cambridge Coca Colas, eliminated early in the semi-final series by Seaford, was listed in the first 15 scores. At the conclusion of the regular season several weeks ago the Milford Cardinals headed the loop but were eliminated by the champion Collegians, two out of three games. The Cambridge Coca Colas finished second and the Collegians placed third. Seaford was the fourth place team and the Laurel club was fifth followed by Salisbury in the cellar.

Pony League Team To Train At Federalsburg Post War Sports To Boom By Hugh Fullerton, Jr. (Wide World Sports Columnist) New York, April 6 Why wouldn't it be logical to stage next summer's heavyweight title fight between Private Joe Louis and Private Billy Conn at Soldier Field, Chicago? But if wel know Mike Jacobs and his liking for running things right in his own back yard, there's about as much chance that it will be staged at MacArthur, Ohio The Western Kentucky basketball team, 1 runner-up in the national invitation tournament here, will movies of all three of its tourna-1 ment games tonight in the home gym at Bowling Green, for the Navy Relief Fund Baltimore Boy Scout troops can win free admission to one of the Orioles' ball games by collecting two tons of waste paper during April. Pep Pill When the Detroit Red Wings crashed into the Stanley Cup hockey finals, defense man Jimmy Orlando wrote this inspirational message on the locker room bulletin board: "Let's go! It takes two years to make $600 in the Army. Fight! Think of the mortgage fellows. On to victory!" Monday Matinee Fred Clarke, one-time manager of the Pirates, predicts that more baseball material will be developed this year than any year the past times decade.

He figures there ten as many boys who would like to have a chance to play baseball as boys who have been playing And "Old Man" A. A. Bless Me Threat In Kentucky Derby impressed. Federalsburg, April 6-With the Eastern Shore League suspended for the duration, the only organied baseball the fans in this town will see this year will be the spring training of the Batavia (Pony League) club starting April 15. Some 25 players will make the trip here.

The Batavia outfit has an agreement with the Philadelphia Athletics to sign some of the players of the discontinued Federalsburg club. The New Yorkers will remain here until April 27. Harry nell, Athletic's scout, will be on hand during the training session. Lexington, April 6-(AP) You have heard this before, but it bears repeating with the 1942 Kentucky Derby less than a month off. "Watch out for Bradley!" Col.

E. R. Bradley, whose name seems inevitably to figure in Derby forecasts, is aiming at his fifth triumph in the Churchill Downs classic this year with a black colt named Bless Me. Bless Me recently arrived at Bradley's Idle Hour farm near here from Florida to get in shape for the Keeneland spring meeting and, of course, for the big race May 2 at Louisville. The knowing ones here in the blue grass, aware of Bless Me's high standing in the Derby winter book, have been out to look him over and declared they are favorably impressed.

Stagg figures this war will PAPvide the impetus of another sports boom as soon as its over, providing the average citizen has enough dough left to pay for equipment and admissions Spell the name of Ahamo, the Barrington stable's Derby candidate, backwards and you'll get the name of his daddy. a right good race hoss. But let's hope Ahamo doesn't run backwards After watching Jim Tabor playing third base for. Boston, Charley (old silence and Gehringer, remarked: "If Tabor'; chest holds out, I think the Red Sox could win the pennant." Today's Guest Star Dennis Brown, Mount Clemens (Mich.) Daily Monitor: "Vacancy filled: It looks as if the University of Pittsburgh's hopes for admittance to the Big Ten are stymied for the duration. Coach Bernie Bierman's naval commandos at Iowa City seem to have taken over the vacancy and the boys in the back room are betting they'll be sharper on the field than either Chicago or the once-upon-a-time Panthers." TURN ABOUT New York Mlle.

Josephine Eberli, 82, who as just plain "Josie" waited on the tables of the Steinbugler family of Brooklyn for half a century, played a new role last night. In honor of her 50 years of uninterrupted domestic service, she sat at the head of the table while 33 of the Steinbugler clan waited upon her. Baden-Baden is a town in Germany. lating the same diversions and menaces in city traffic. Bela Lugosi, the horror man, has hired a novel variety of dahlia, and broken-nosed Victor McLaglen is using a new kind of fragrant spray on his roses.

Marlene Dietrich has a Victory Garden (full chives) in a window box. Wild poppies blanket the San Fernando Valley. Gophers, which are old hand. at building -raid shelters, blink sleepily from their burrows at the bombers overhead. Low-flying songbirds have been' quick to learn and rejoice that the thundering but aloof monsters are friendly, since they have driven hawks from the sky.

Linda Darnell has bought a horse and buggy. Bob Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck have a tandem bike. Yacht ers still spend Sundays on their boats, even though the craft are immobilized by Navy order. Fishermen who are city-bound by the tire shortage find solace at a concrete pool on Ventura Boulevard, where for $1 you can catch three trout and have 'em cooked in the adjoining restaurant. It's spring in Hollywood, and oomphy dummies in the windows of the little shops are wearing the skimpest bathing ever seen.

Skirts on the boulevards seem to have shrunk a couple more inches, the cuties baring their knees for I conservation of materials and enhancement of the scenery. The trim little waitresses at the drivein sandwich stands have changed from slacks to shorts. Bald As An Egg When Guy Kibbee fell asleep on a sound stage, somebody put an Easter egg transfer on his bald pate. Women with the urge to do something about the war are going first to department stores, inspecting the various kinds of uniforms, and then joining the outfits which are most fetchingly costumed. Lana Turner is nursing an all-over case of sunburn.

Somebody sent Dorothy Lamour an Easter sarong made of bunny fur and apparently of only one bunny. George Raft has changed his hair oil to a heavier, summer weight. Pretty girls are yoohooing at soldiers in rumbling truck convoys. Hedy Lamarr has found love with a Montana boy. It's spring in Hollywood.

and this reporter want to remind you that the donation of a pint of plasma for wounded soldiers is much better blood-thinner than sulphur and molasses. Dykes Manager Of Semi- Pirates Richard Dykes WilS appointed manager of the Salisbury Pirates yesterday at the first practice session of the year at Gordy Park. Manager Dykes 1'A approximately 20 candidates for the Pirate nine through batting and fielding drill- yesterday in preparation for the coming season. Dykes will represent the club at the organization meeting of a se. mi- pro league for the lower East.

ern Shore to be held in the Arm- ory here on To Instruct Police Aides In Seaford Bridgeville, April 4 Corporal George K. Shockley of the State Police, instruct class in auxiliary police work at the local firehouse, givng the first lesson Thursday night at 7:30. All auxiliary members of the Bridge. ville auxiliary police department are expected take the course, EYES GLASSES EXAMINED FITTED We Grind Our Own Lenses PRICES MODERATE PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED HAROLD N. FITCH OPTOMETRIST 123 Main Salisbury- -Phone, 833 Are You? carrying Fire, Theft, Collision, Personal Liability and Property Damage Insurance on your car? PHONE 772 Avery W.

Hall W. Main St. Salisbury, Md. Bill Nicholson Fears Rationing Of 'Chaws' Bill Nieholson, Eastern Shore slugger with the Chicago Cubs, is worrying about rationing too. Nick fears the government may put a ban on chewing tobacco.

He requires a package or more each playing day and an additional pack when the diamond is dusty. The United States had 6,224,000 head of sheep and lambs on feed in January, 1941. St.Joseph WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT PEGGY. UNDER WELL, AH, AND HE'S ALSO, BECAUSE FOLKS ARE IT SEEMED SUSPICIOUS INTIMATE TERMS OF CAPTAIN A BIT UNUSUAL OF yOU OF THE GERMAN EASY THAT HIS BECAUSE YOU PASSPORT TRIED TO WOULD BEAR PASS AS THE NAME AMERICANS OF JAMES MADIGAN, THAT'S ALL TIME EVERY EATIN' BROTHER HAND, EXCUSES Potato Seed Sold MD. Golden Sweet Potato Seed HERBERT CHATHAM Snow Hill Rd.

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