The Daily Telegram from Adrian, Michigan • Page 12

TWELVE ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM, ADRIAN. -MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH Dickey Accepted By Navy Dickey Has Been With New York Club For Fifteen Years CHISOX BEGIN ROADWORK NEW YORK, March 16 Add Yankees, running: Bill Dickey is passed intentionally, and Joe Gordon is coming up. The stage is set for a double play. Which, freely translated, means the great catcher of the world champions was accepted for armed service yesterday and assigned to the navy, and that the star second baseman comes up for his physical today out in Oregon. The loss of Dickey, who would have been starting his 16th year with the Yankees, is a severe blow to the club.

A cool, efficient workman, he is rated one of the finest catchers of all time, and the solid rock foundation of the team. Joe McCarthy announced yesterday that outfielders Johnny Lin- deil and George (Tuck) Stainback had agreed to terms and reported To the Atlantic City camp. Fourteen of the 22 signed players were in uniform yesterday. Other Major League Xews Detroit (Pete) Fox, whose home is in Evansville, donned his old Tiger uniform yesterday to unlimber a bit with Ihe Detroit players before reporting for duty with the Boston Red Sox. He has been complaining of an arm injury.

Cincinnati Vander Meer. star Cincinnati southpaw, writes General Manager Warren G. Giles lie should schedule an exhibition game with the Sampson naval training station, where Vandy is taking boot training. "I would like nothing better Than to pitch against your hard- hitting nine," he writes, thinking, no doubt of how many games the Reds didn't win for him for lack of a needed hit. Boston Coleman, new pilot of the Braves, gets his first look at his 1944 talent during the opening drill at Choate school today.

The only seasoned players certain to be on hand are Whitey Wietelmann and Al Javery. Washington Nats may be warming up a dark horse for the hot corner, one Jake Powell, erstwhile outfielder. He looked good in a workout yesterday. Hariond Clift, scheduled to play third, may not report, the front office indicated. Cleveland Indians held their first batting drill in Purdue University field house yesterday with every liurler in camp taking a turn on the rubber.

Allie Reynolds wired he has decided to play ball until the draft calls. Pittsburgh first Pirate casualty of the first day at the Muncie camp was pitcher Max Butcher, who suffered a misplaced Jeg tendon. Frank Colman sent word from London, he had been called for a draft re-examination. He was rejected earlier because of bad leg. Purchase Announced New York relief pitcher Ace Adams the only -serious holdout, the Giants went through another three-hour workout at Lakcwood.

N. yesterday. The purchase ol Bruce Sloan, out- wielder. from Jersey City was announced. Philadelphia Mack can pick his team blindfolded.

At least, he picked an infield yesterday while the squad again was idle because of wet grounds. He named Dick Siebert, IB: Irv Hall, SS: Edgar Busch. up from Elmira, 2B, and Georgie Kell, from Lancaster, 3B. Chicago White White assembled 14 players, Manager Jimmy Dykes and Coach Muddy Ruel today for a trip to French Lick tonight. Dykes says the team will hit the trails for road work by a.

m. tomorrow, and he expects a squad of 29 or 30 to be Clinton Enters Test In State Tourney Tonight DETROIT, March 16 eight schoolboy basketball teams, candidates for eight 1944 Michigan state high school championships, start "hooping it up" in earnest tonight as opening games get under way in final series for upper and lower peninsula titles to be decided Saturday. The Clinton high school Redskins, Lenawee's last surviving entry in the grueling state eliminations, will go into action tonight at Jackson against the Fowler Clinton will take the floor at 7:15 (CWT). Two weeks of district and regional eliminations have thinned the lower Michigan title field to 32 aspirants, while 16 upper penin- sula quintets came through district play last week to enter the pay-off round. The tournament had a total starting field of 700 teams.

Four champions will emerge from downstate semi-finals and finals scheduled Friday and Saturday at Lansing. Three-day eliminations at Ishpeming will settle title fights in four divisions in the north country. All. of tonight's in the lower peninsula converge on Lansing for semi-final games tomor- ow. The Upper Peninsula hot-shot is Negaunee in Class upset winner last week over previously unbeaten Sault Ste.

Marie, prime favorite for laurels in the early going. ON UNCLE SAM'S TIME PHILADELPHIA, March 16 When Robert R. M. Carpenter, president the Phillies, left to begin army life today at Fort Dix, N. genera! manager Herb Pennock lold him: "Keep your eyes peeled for future ball players who are fighting the war with you." Said the 28-year-old president, who was inducted last month: "What, on Uncle Sam's time?" 10.

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He was reminiscing and I asked him what had been the toughest game he had ever pitched. "Rube said that it was in an all- star game back in 1907 or 1908, after the regular season had ended, when he faced a colored team called the Cuban Giants in Chicago. He said that it was a 1-0, 13-inning game, and he began to describe the pitcher who opposed him, a colored fellow named Grant, as one of the best and fastest he had ever seen. He talked about him for fully ten minutes, and then concluded by saying that he had no idea what ever became of the fellow. "Just then the head waiter in the Hermitage dining room, who had been eyeing us for a few minutes, stepped up and asked, 'Ain't you Mr.

Rube "That was Grant. I don't know how long he had been working there. I've never been a party to a stranger happening than that." Kisinger attended Adrian high school and Adrian college, where he began his baseball career, and later attended the University of Michigan. After a short fling with the Detroit Tigers, he played with the Buffalo Bisons of the International League. He also played for St.

Louis of the National League, and with the New Orleans Pelicans, a minor league club. His last appearance on the mound in Adrian was in 1930 when pitching for an "Old Timers" team, he defeated a squad of 5 to 4. "Ki-Yi" was more than 55 years old at the time. Kisinger was killed July 17, 1941, by a freight train at Huron, Ohio. He was working on the New York Central railroad at the time as a construction engineer.

O'NEILL WILL PILOT EVANSVILLE. March (IP) O'Neil is going to his master-minding this summer from the dugout instead of the third coaching box, thereby giving the Detroit Tigers a new combination along the basepaths. Al Vincent, former minor league manager who became O'Neill's assistant in 1943, will move from the first base box to third base, replacing O'Neill. At first base will be Arthur Mills, whose name is so new to baseball fans he is in need of formal introduction. Mills is a former right-handed pitcher just turned 41 who spent a dozen years in baseball but only part of one season in the major leagues.

That was in 1927 when he worked relief assignments for the Boston Braves under Dave Bancroft Before the end of the season he was sent away to Rochester of the International League and never got back into the big time. Discovered White Mills dropped out of baseball after the 1934 season and returned to his home town of Utica, N. Y. There he spotted a kid pitcher in sandlot ball whose progress he watched closely. Soon he sent word about the prospect to O'Neill, who had been Mills' manager at Toronto in the early thirties, and Steve signed up the youngster, little Hal White, for Buffalo.

White came along so well that in 1940 O'Neil sold him to Detroit for 532,500. Through the same connection, O'Neill returned to the majors the following season as Tiger coach and presently became manager. Last winter O'Neill recommended Mills for a coaching job. If first impressions linger, Mills should amply serve Detroit's needs. The Tiger officials like his earnestness and enterprise.

Besides, he is strong enough to take a regular turn as batting practice pitcher. That in itself is of inestimable value in the shortage. present manpower Scores High In North and South Golf Tournament PINEHURST, N. March 16 been many a day since an open golf tournament reached halfway mark without at least a few scores in the high 60's. But that the case in the North and South open with Sgt.

Clayton Heafner out in front with as the last two rounds began today. Only three round leaders, Gene Sarazen and Leonard Dodson, Kansas City, have bettered par 72 by a stroke. Sarazen all but shot himself out of the running with a 77 yesterday for a total of 148. Lt Horton Smith didn't help his chances yesterday with a 76 for a 150 total, and neither did Willie Goggins, White Plains, N- with 1,000 A MOMH LANSING, March li gan men of the armer; services are returning to civilian life at a rate of more than i month, and an increase, i jtate Selective jepurted Wed- the rate has Brig. Gen.

Pear -r Service nesday. DETROIT, Mar. 15 of a second place finish in the National Hockey League and a chance to open at home March 21 in their Stanley Cup playoff series with the fourth place finisher, the Detroit Red Wings take the ice tonight at Olympia bent on dashing the last hopes of the Boston Bruins for a spot in the playoffs. Boston, already beaten six times and tied twice by the Red Wings this season, must take this windup of their set to keep alive a fast- fading hope of ousting the Chicago Blackhawks from fourth place in the standings. Boston must take both its re- 5,000 BOYS FORM- OUTS ARERTHEM Dodgers Solicit 20,000 High School Coaches in Search of New Talent 30 BO.YS NOW TRAINING BEAR MOUNTAIN, N.

March 16 (IP) of crying the blues, the Brooklyn Dodgers have been doing post-war planning on their own hook. For the first time in baseball history, a major league club has solicited all the high school coaches in the country, some 20,000, asked for recommendations of boys interested in pro baseball as a career and got them. The fruits of those 20,000 letters are represented by a contingent of 30 youngsters who answer "present" when the roll is called at Bear Mountain and a complete card file on 5,000 lads for post-war reference. Most of the boys are destined for the links in the Brook's farm system in 1944 but they, and others who passed but reached military age since their scouting, represent a definite forward step. None of the lads are actually signed out of the high schools.

Rickey's Idea Branch Rickey, head of the Dodgers' farm organization, started the whole thing in a search for something new. The old tryout schools that a'sked everybody and then had to wade through a mess of kids who couldn't throw 60 feet or run a hundred yars in 60 seconds were outdated. Everybody and his brother had the same idea and the pickings were getting slimmer as the competition grew hotter. After plotting on a map the replies from the school coaches, sent two scouting groups bn a tour that started at Paterson. N.

in July and hit such points as Lancaster, Gary Janesville, Mankato, Aberdeen, S. and San Maleo, before calling it quits in Salemn, Oregon in mid-September. In time to come somebody's going to say "how did Brooklyn get all those young ball players?" Mister, there's only one answer. They went after them. Yellows Have The "Blues" as Blue Team Wins 14-12 The "Yellows" have the this morning at junior high school as a result of the outcome of the annual Blue and Yellow basketball game played in the high school-gymnasium last night.

The "Blues" ran off on the long end of a 14 to 12 victory. The "Blues" took a 5 to 0 lead at the end of the first period, and were leading 7 to 4 at half-time. At the end of the third period, they led 10 to 7. The "Yellows" staged rally late in the final frame, but it was too little and too late, and the "Blues" were victorious. Dome Dibble and Bob McDonald le.d the scoring for the winners with four points each.

Bob Kellev took scoring honors for the "Yef- lows" with six points. The "Blue" victory on the court was partly balanced by the "Yellow" overwhelming victory on the mats. The "Yellows" took three straight victories in the wrestling matches as Robert Rogers, Bill Kaiser and Carleton Poling won bouts from Dave Curtis, Denver Day and Lester Pickford respectively. The teams divided honors in the boxing matches as each won one bout, and a third bout was called a draw. Roy Sharp out-pointed Billy Tucker in the "heavyweight" match for a "Yellow" victory.

The bout between Don Childs and Darwood Britton was called a draw, and the "Blues" turned in a victory as Sam Mitchell heat Don Hiser. ARREST OF UNDERGROUND CALLED "FISHING TRIP" LONDON, March 16 Iff) German-controlled Vichy radio, elaborating on its report of the seizure of the leaders of France's underground army, said today an automobile license plate provided the clue that led to their arrest, but French sources here discounted the whole story as a "likely fishing expedition." "From captured documents, it has now been possible to ascertain that all terrorist activities and movements obeyed the provisions of one master plan. Two Jews are the main leaders," the radio declared. Philippe Henriot, Vichy propaganda minister, yesterday announced in a radio broadcast the arrest of "the entire general staff of the French resistance army." SWORN IN LANSING, March 16 Dr. William DeKIiine new State Health Commissioner, was sworn into of- fice Wednesday but disclosed he would not take active direction of his department for another week.

He said he would leave Friday for Washington, to attend the annual conference of the State and Territorial Health Officers Association. where I Yon hear a lot of talk: aboaf morale these days but have you found many people who knew exactly what "morale" was? Well, I was thumbing through my scrap book the other day, and i came on this verse TdlUce to pass on to ITa OM Oft jwm cat tram a Maarilr A brmnd new te a Jaaatr atjaa A letter from home that UK foat- Morale la a lot of UMto toimtm. Isn't it so? Morale is Just a lot of little things. A flower in your button hole, a word of greeting; beer with friends where I ett, to preserve theee fdewflr things that ne-i rate, well be doiBK a lot to hdBK oar country in its time of arMavi And we'll boost morale among-, oar soldiers at the front, too. Because ifB these "important Bttle- things' that they look to returning to.

No. 78 of a Series 19U. ladmUr, fnWatiar maining games and Chicago must lose its last of them with the Bruins to gain a playoff berth. Still another possibility is that Chicago will, take third place, despite its recent reverses that include a 6-4 setback at Boston lastj Tuesday in a game that might have settled the playoff dispute. The third place Toronto Maple Leafs, idle tonight, are only a single point ahead of the Black- hawks and have only one game to Play- In addition to gunning for its seventh triumph of the season over Boston, the Detroit club will try tonight to boost its season goal totalover the 200-mark and become the fourth club in league history to equal that figure in a season.

Three of the Wings already have hit the individual 30-goal mark this Bruneteau with 34. Carl Liscombe with 31 and Syd Howe with 30. GIRL BASKETBALLERS SCORE POINTS CHINA, March 16 The China high school girls' baskfft- ball team scored 2,004 points year, and more than 1.200 of them stand to the credit of one Barbara Self, a forward. The team finished the season with 40 victories and nary a defeat which, added to last year's business, makes a total of 70 straight. In the season final the other night, China threshed High Island, 77 to 3, the second highest score of the year.

The highest score was the S6 to 6 trouncing administered to Four Lakes. Says Basketball Will Have Bright Post-War Future LEXINGTON, March 16 (IP) basketball will bounce into realiy big-time dough after the war, Adolph Rupp predicted today, with a series of "bowl" games to parallel football's postseason contests. "Basketball is the infant of American sports," the University of Kentucky cage coach said in an interview, "and the only one still needing to be developed. Baseball had its Babe Ruth, football its Red Grange, golf its Bobby Jones, tennis its Bill Tilden and racing its Man O' War. "But basketball never has produced an outstanding individual to hang its hat on.

That man will be developed after the war, when we shall see a tremendous growth in this sport, just like saw in college football after the last war." "We'll see a series of tournaments every season all over the Lrited States," ed by two or he said, "climax- three big games in New York, Chicago or other metropolitan areas. Sports fans will go for that, just like they did for. big-time football." Rupp's teams at Kentucky have won 231 games while losing only 53 and have captured six of the 11 conference tournaments played. He's still looking for Mr. Basketball, though.

of these days," he said, "some guy will come along head and shoulders above everybody else. He'll have everything a cage player needs, including color. Crowds will double and triple in size. "Then you can has come of age. man to hang its hat on." say basketball It will have a The Sports Roundup Bv HLGII KUl.LKKTIIN.

JR. NEW YORK, March 16 army sometimes does things to a that are good for a guy in a peculiar business like boxing. Take Sgt. Lou Woods, for example, or Al Davis. Woods, just matched for a Chicago fight with Jake LaMolta, leading civilian middleweight, used to be one of those carefree kids who -found fighting enoyable as well as profitable and who didn't have to work hard at his trade.

Then the army took him and eventually made him boxing instructor at Camp Grant, 111 The responsibility sobered Lou and he decided to learn more about boxing, with the result, according to reports from the midwest, that he's a lot better Davis was a kid left hook and a ungman with a terrific reputation for being a rowdy fighter that was a source of pride to him. "Bummy" once was banned from New York rings for roughness but was allowed to return after the army gave him a medical discharge. He's a more serious now, and determined to shed that bad boy reputation. He still has a lethal left, as he proved by stiffening Buster Beaupre and Bob Montgomery in less than three minutes of his last two fights. and those who have been watching him say the Davis who will fight Beau Jack tomorrow probably is a better boxing businessman than the old Davis, who had the advantages of speed and youthful enthusiasm.

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