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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. 134a THE EVENING TELEGRAM, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA PAGE SIX Chicago Cubs Are Expected To Sign Lou Novikof Major Leonguei Roundup ogers STIRNWEISS REJECTED Dr. Samuel Harris peers Into the mouth of New York Yankee shortstop George Stirnweiss during physical examination at Hartford. Id which the rookie infielder was rejected for army service because of stomach utters. Soon ggsey Stengel A I II aaiisnea how His Boston Braves Outhitting Opponents By BILL KING BOSTON, May 5.

(JP) Now that he is startinj his third week in a hospital bed. Casey Stengel the Boston Braves' broken-legged manager, appears to have convinced his doctors and nurses that he is a contented patient. Previously thev feared force might be needed to detain him, "I guess I'll stay here as long as they want me." Stengel told his latest visitors, coaches George Kelley and Bob Coleman, who have been running the club since the 52-year-old manager was felled by an automobile on the eve of the National league's opening day. UCUMCI RUNS BATTED IN National League Vaughan. Dodgers 10 DiMaegio, Pirates Owen, Dodgers 8 American League Spence.

Senators 12 Stephens, Browns 11 Jolinson, Senators .10 Gordon, Yankees 10 HOME RUNS National Leaeue LitwhiIer. Phillies 3 Naylor, Phillies 2 Fourteen tied with 1 American League Gordon. Yankees 1 Keller, Yankees 1 Laabs. Browns 1 McQuinn, Browns 1 Mack, Indians 1 NEW YORK Larry Fontana, 1591-4. New York, outpointed Leon Anthony, 158 3-4, Elberton, Ga 8).

Quarterback Club Member Makes Fine Flying Tackle This Time, However, He Knocks Down Thief; Friend Tells How Tackle Was Made By Member How to be comfortable Drastic Changes Clubs Making Switches Of Very Many Players The most valuable player competition in the major leagues! this year could very well be i styled the mosi versatile player awards. Wartime manpower shortages are causing managers to transplant their players from one position to another faster than most people can get the onion sets started in their victory gardens and if the spring shufiiing is only the beginning, a fan must wonder how his favorite pitcher will do at shortstop in the fall. The Phillies, with a pathetical' ly small roster, are doing the most shifting of jobs and doa bling up at two or more posi tions. Last week they brought Outfielder Jim Wasdell from Pittsburgh and made him their regular first baseman, moving Babe Dahleren from that spot shortstop. They have Schoolboy Rowe pinchhitting in almost every game in which he isn't pitching and they frequently have had three or four players swap positions during the course of a ball game.

Other clubs are doing it too. The New York Yankees moved Pitcher Johnny Lindell to first base and then to the outfield in spring training and the Brooklyn Dodgers switched Billy Herman from second to third. But one of the prize swaps of ihe season was made Monday by that indefatigable inventor, Frank Edison Frisch, who installed Catchel Al Lopez at third base for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lopez has been one of the best backstops in the National league for many years, but his previous experience at the hot corner was limited to about five games in an emergency with the Dodgers a decade ago. A few fans still remember him stopping bails with his chest, a la Pepper Martin.

By putting Lopez on third Frisch was able to give a try at shortstop to Bob Elliott, who only year before last was an outfielder. The result of the newest experiment was that both Lopez and Elliott made an error. More different kinds of minerals have been discovered in North Carolina than in any other state in the nation. Sports By Ht'GH FIXLEBTOX, JK. NEW YORK, May 5 The new major league baseball, which mill be distributed to the clubs lu a few days, is abcut as lively the one the Southern association uses And the Southern league always has insisted on plenty of pep in the pills so there'd be plenty of guvs with big batting averages to the end of each season Lou Coleman of Spalding's says that the production line will be rolling by today so that there's no danger of a shortage the rest of the season Lou Smith is trying to round up 500 bicycles so that race fans can pedal to Rock-Ingham Park from the Lawrence.

station where all the trains stop If he'd install a few mutuel winds at the station so the riders could bet on themselves the idea might go over. CONFESSION When ex Featherweisht Champ Chalky Wright, who always thought training was getting aboard a train, turned up at the gym yesterday for the first time in seven weeks, Mike Belloise groeted him: "What are you doing here. Chalky? Are you "No," admitted Chalky gravely, 'I'm Just hungry." CONSOLING THOrGHT When Burnt Cork struggled home last in the Kentucky Derbv. his owner. Rochester 'who probably was the only person there watching the nas "He's sure tired, ain't he And a friend offered this bit or consolation: "Don't you worry.

Rochester. They's been more money lost here today on Burnt Cork than was won on Count Fleet." SHORTS AND SHELLS Connecticut hiffh schools have been invited to schedule football games with Yale t-ams of equal weight and experience next fall The boxing service and athletic fund now has distributed equipment to Army camps In the In.led States and one outfit overseas A couple of baseball's prize if'fUeason jobs are held by Braves rookies. Connie Iree-don is a defective and Ben Geraghty is superintendent of a cemetery They both want It understood that thev don work at those lobs during the ummer The New York Boxing Commission won't name a favored contender for Willie Peps featherweight title until May 20 When Frank Pitt publicity director since 1929, answered the. draft call, his farewell message was, "Please treat my successor kindly." TODAY'S GfEST STAR Alex Shultls, Seattle (WasVO Times: "Gosh, perhaps the umpires have some friends, after all After insuring its players against accidents or injuries, the Shipyards Baseball league is investigating the prospects of taking out policies nn its arbiteis. too." when you're taking a beating! Writer it" golf or tennis, ping-pong or gin-rummy, you'll be comfortable in body (if not in mind) in Arrow Sports Shirt! For Arrow Sports Shirts are sized just like regular shirts not the ordinary email, medium and large.

So you're sure of a perfect fit. And the San-fori zed-label (fabric shrinkage lesa than 1) keeps that perfect fit! $2.25 up By DON STULL COLUMBUS, May 5 (AP) This city's famous downtown quarterback club was prouder to day than it was last fall when Ohio State University's football team captured the National and Big Ten championships. The Reason? One of the club's members executed a brilliant flying tackle that resulted in the capture of a pair of suspected jewel thieves in the early hours of yesterday. The tackier was Howard Hock man, 39-year-old former man ager of the Columbus Press club and now night of a swanky downtown restaurant. Fellow club members, avid for details of Hockman's teeth-rat tling tackle, couldn't get much out of the modest restaurateur today, but they found a willing chronicler in another member Johnny Jones, a columnist for The Columbus Evening Dispatch, who played a major part in the capture of the duo.

Jones, a professional story-tell er, gave them this version: He was standing at the main downtown intersection, talking SERVICE DEPT. Broadway Charlry Wagner, who owned as many as 42 suit when he p'ayed for the Red Sox. gets a'ong with three suits of blues and one of dungarees at the Norfolk Naval Tramini Station Coast Guardsman Henry Bingham, rated as the best middleweight prospect to appear in Baltimore in a long time, learned boxing in Lieut. Jack Dempsey's classes at Manhattan Beach Add confusion: Colonel Mills (better known as Buster when he was a big league outfielder) now is a lieutenant. But don't call him Lieut.

Colonel Mills. l.A.tltS TODAY National League Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (night Philadelphia at Brooklyn St. Louis at Chicago Ii'cv York at Boston American League Boston at New York Washington at Philadelphia Detroit at St. Louis Chicago at Cleveland STANDINGS American League Pet New York 8 3 .727 Cleveland 7 3 .700 Detroit 6 4 Washington 7 6 .538 St. Louis 4 5 .444 Philadelphia 5 8 .385 Boston 4 7 .364 Chicago 2 7 .222 National League Pet Brooklyn 9 3 .750 St.

Louis 7 4 .636 Boston 5 3 ,625 Pittsburgh 7 5 .583 Cincinnati 6 6 .500 Philadelphia 3 6 .333 Chicago 3 8 .273 New York 3 8 .273 RESULTS American League New York 4, Boston 3. Philadelphia 3. Washington 1. Cleveland 2, Chicago 1. Detroit 4.

St. Louis 3. National League Philadelphia 3. Brooklyn 1. St.

Louis 11, Chicago 3. Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3. Eo-ston 5, New York 3. Southern Association Chattanooga 9. Knoxville 7.

International League Baltimore 4, Buffalo 1. Rochester-Syracuse, postponed Others not scheduled. Piedmont League Richmond 11, Durham 5. Roanoke 5, Lynchburg 3. Portsmouth 5, Norfolk 2.

INSPECTION SLATED DAVIDSON, May 5 iJP) The annual inspection of the Davidson college R.O.T.C. battalion will be held May 12, Col. J. A. MaeAndrews.

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C. State college will act as government inspector. They pointed out how a regular suit can be two suits simply by buying an extra pair of tan or gray flannel trousers. That's right most of our Spring suits have coats that can be worn for sport and since trousers wear out faster than coats, it lengthens the life of the clothes. We explore every angle to save you money to put into more War Bonds.

$32.50 $37.50 $5.50 to $9.95 'Had Russian' Needed By Cubs Jim Bagby Pitches His Third Triumph By JUDSON BAILEY Associated Press Sports Writer The most interested non-parti' cipating observer of the goings- on in the major leagues these days must be Louis Novikoff, fuming on the front porch of his hacienda at South Gate, Calif' ornia. The Mad Russian is a holdout and he's mad. More precisely, he is angry, not crazy at least not to the extent of overlooking the Chicago Cubs scraping bottom in the standings of the Na tional league today. The Cubs introduced last year's ball to Chicago for the first time yesterday and 3.908 fans, the biggest crowd of the day, saw a game in which there were 25 hits for a total of 36 bases and 14 runs. But unfortunately from the Chicago standpoint, 15 of the hits, including a home run by Whitey Kurowski made by the St.

Louis Cardinals, who won 11-3. Of the ten Chicago hits not a single one was made by an outfielder and it was small solace as the Bruins stumbled into the cellar alongside the New York Giants, that Chicago finally broke a string of 32 successive score less innings. The Mad Russian probably rushed madly to answer the telephone cverytime it rang last night expecting the operator to say long aisiance unicago can ing." The call seems bound to come soon. NoviKolI was one oi eigiu hitters who averaged .300 or bet ter in the National league last year. Ke was reported 10 nave been paid $5,500 and to have been offered a boost of $500 this season.

He asKea ior and so far General Manager Jim Gallagher has refused to com-Dromise. insisting that the Cubs could get along without the colorful clouter. Chicago's other major league club, the White Sox, also is in the cellar of the American league, but this is causing no disturbance because it was picked to finish about seventh while the sports writers before the season started rated the Cubs third in the senior circuit. The vacancy filled by the Cubs and the Giants in the National league basement was left by the Phildalephia Phillies, who vaulted pretentiously into sixth place by beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 1 in a twilight game. Jack Kraus, the rookie south paw whom the Dodgers sent to the Phillies a few weeks ago, pitched five-hit ball for his second success against Brooklyn.

In rebuttal Rube Melton, the former Philly ace, pitched a no- hitter for six stanzas, but Earl Naylor spoiled it with a home run, his secona oi tne season, to open the seventh. The Giants were shipped 5-3 by the Boston Braves as Jim Tobin pitched six hit ball and batted in three runs with a pair of singles. Rookie Charley Workman helped out with a two-run homer. Pittsburgh was outhlt by Cin cinnati 13-9, but nevertheless beat the Reds 8-3 as Rookie Xavier Rescigno worked his way out of continual jams. Vince Di- Maggio contributed a home run with one on.

In the American league the New York Yankees kept half step ahead of Cleveland by beat ing the Boston Red Sox 4-3 Spud Chandler allowed only six hits and one earned run for his second win. The Indians squeezed out a 2-1 decision over the White Sox in tight game for Jim Bagby's third triumph. He allowed Just five hits and no scoring after the first frame. Virgil Trucks of Detroit also achieved his third victory with out a defeat as the Tigers stop ped the St. Louis Browns 4-3, but he had to have hitless' rescue work for 1 2-3 Innings by Dizzy Trout to weather a belated off' ensive by the Browns.

The Philadelphia Athletics matched the Phils and also climbed to sixth place, the Mack' men defeating the Washington Senators, 3 to 1, behind the three-hit pitching of their Mexican rookie, Jesse Flores. Flores now has worked 32 2-3 Innings and allowed only 11 blows and three runs. EPSTEIN'S 'THE QUALITY CORNER' 1 ARROW. to a patrolman "when up runs Hockman and tells as: 'A couple of guys just bashed in a jewelry store window up the street and are looting the Jones and the patrolman started for the store, leaving Hockman behind. The suspects ducked down a couple of alleys, doubled back toward Hockman.

who braced himself and let fly with a tackle that brought down one of the pair. The other became bewildered and stopped. Then Jones and the patrolman took over. They said the two had $1,500 worth df watches and rings. They are charged with grand larceny.

Jones said Hockman's tackle was as pretty as any he'd ever seen in Ohio stadium. HOSPITAL OPENED NEW RIVER, May 5 (.) Camp Lejeune's new $7,500,000 naval hospital has been opened officially, the public relations of fice announced. It is one of the largest service hospital units in the nation, including 14 build ings covering a site of 144 acres. Look "Rocky Mount Shoe and Clothing Go. Showed Me a Trick About Buying a SPRING SUIT," Spring Suits $29.50 and up Slacks WE STILL HAVE A NUMBER Or TAN AND WHITE SPORT SHOES.

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