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tSW (bv Points), (WY Win By Dick Young In the parlance of those who wager on sports events, a "lox and bagel" describes a result in which the bookies win all bets. Those prosperous gents enjoyed a rich feast of this tasty appetizer on the very first card of the garden's basketball season last night as NYU took the sting out of Rochester's Yellow Jackets, 53-39, the exact 14 point margin Heodliner the Hard Way By Jim McCuIley If you would like to know why some fighters get sick and disgusted and quit the ring even before they have half a chance, take the case of Lee Oma, who meets Tami Mauriello in the Garden's main attraction tomorrow night. Lee Oma, alias Levi Omanski, nee Frank Czajewski, had his first pro fight back around '35. "How can I forget it," says the self-styled rehabilitated Oma today. "It was a six-rounder and, first of all, I spent my last 41 cents for bandages.

After it was all over the promoter handed me an envelope. On the envelope were the figures 140. My heart actually thumped. 'Boy, I said to myself, '140 bucks. Man, I'll be able to get a new suit, etc.

Well, I almost shook as I tore it open. The first thing that dropped out was a receipt for one dollar, for a license. 'That's not I said to myself again, 'there's still 139 bucks left. Then I took the envelope and shook it. Out came 40 cents; a quarter, a dime and a nickel.

I shook the thing again, but nothing more appeared. I hustled over to my manager and told him there had been a mistake. Mistake? 'No he yelled, 'and what are ya squawking about? I didn't even cut you. That was my first a dollar 40 cents and I lose a penny on the deal. I won't mention the lumps I took." S3 Ji Finger on the Ball 3 3 S3 4A.

And then there was the time another of Oma's managers sent him out of town for "an easy win, nothin' to it, a breeze." "Well," recalls Lee, "the first punch in the fight, this easy piekin's gink hits me square in the mouth with a right. He knocks out my teeth, splits my lips and my head feels like somebody had dropped an anvil on it. I think to myself, I think, 'if this is the easiest stuff they got around this town I must not be out of town at all, but right home in Detroit, where Joe Louis And there was the time Lee was sent to Chicago to box in a preliminary. One of the main bout fighters was injured on the day before the program. Would Oma box Altus Allen in the main go for an added 100 bucks? "Well," Lee shudders when he thinks about it, "the only Aliens 1 had heard about up to that time were Gracie and Fred.

I didn't know Altus from an almond, but I knew what they were talking about when they said a 100 extra. So I said, 'ha, ha, why certainly. And without a "Everything was fine until I picked up the evening papers and discovered that I probably would get my brains knocked out, and that the odds were 10-1 against me. Well, when 1 took one look at 'this Altus in the ring, I think I screamed He had muscles HE KNOCKS OUT MY TEETH SPUTS My urns'. required to put the game right smack in the middle of the give-lo-take-13 wagering.

In the preliminary tilt, City College's 42-22 decision over dismal Detroit was what any one of the 16,182 squirming spectators would have called a limberger on rye. It smelled something fierce. To appreciate what a "lox and bagel" means to basketball fans, you would have to have been present at the 8th Ave. arena last CCNY M21 DETROIT '22) ti. Ir G.

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Just what were they so excited about? Surely, it was a physical impossibility for Rochester to tie the score in such short time. Well, this is what they were howling about: Rochester's George Ewing, a clean-cut kid who probably never heard of lox and could'nt tell a bagel from a hole in the ground, had just been awarded two foul shots. If he made them, the fans who had taken Rochester with 13 points would earn an even break. If he missed them, those who had bet on NYU minus 15 points would save their money. George made one and missed the other, as 14,000 fans groaned.

Strangely enough, it was only in the final 10 minutes of action that NYU's margin of victory grew to such decisive proportions. The scrappy Yellow Jackets, led by a blonde buzzer named Clarence Hutchins, had held the heavily- NYU 53) G. Sarath.lf 1 amnaoanp 2 2 Gor.lcm 1 Alana 1 M.jst 4 5 lroVrian 0 PJROCH'R F. 2 lrt 1 0 2 10 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 5 4 If 1 Marko.rf ll 2'Pii-hl 2 Fnl.r 0 Hermit 1 2 1 FfMiorys-liyn 1 1 Ewjiii; Totals 24 5 Totals favored Violets to a 20-20 tie at half time, and had shot ahead 25-21 early in the second stanza. But NYU's marksmanship, so slipshod in the early stages, finally started to mesh with its precision passing.

With their captain, Al Grenert, who poured a game-high of 18 points through the hoop, setting the pace, the Violets charged in close continuously and hit the hoop from all angles. They strung together 10 straight points to swoosh ahead 31-25. From then on it was just a matter of how much. And "lox and bagel" was the answer. Regardless of the wagering an gle, however, it was well played compared to that CCNY-Detroit smeller early in the evening.

You've never seen such a miserable exhibition of futile flounder- I on him bigger than Louis. If the guy said 'boo to me, I would I have jumped right out of the ring. But he swung instead and I I swung in self defense. I hit him square on the chin and he went fdown, and out. All the while they counted over him, I kept repeating to myself, 'please, God, don't let him get Incidentally, Altus Alien is the fellow they're touting a coming champion.

Giants Building To Hit Skins' Weaknesses By Joe Trimble The Giants will present "variations on an old familiar theme" as they conduct their business of winning the Eastern Division title of the NFL from the Redskins in Washington Sunday. The accent was on offense as Steve Owen sent the team through a 90-minute practice session yesterday with chief stress on new check or alternate plays for those already in the repertoire. "It isn't possible to install basically new formations in a week's time," Owen said, "but we are working out some new variations of our standard plays. In this business you have to plan your attack with the weakness of the opposing team in mind. A college coach doesn't meet any other squad but once, so he doesn't know too much about individuals on the other clubs, even with the aid of scouting reports.

OWEN USES PSYCHOLOGY "But in this league there arc ceitain plays which will work against one club and not another and the answer to it is that the personnel of the different teams is not the same. We study the way certain linemen and baekers-up play according to what we know of them in the past anil align our game to exploit their weaknesses." Steve admitted that Arnie ller-ber, the team's only good passer, is the most important man to the Giants in this game. When it was suggested that the Skins were alo aware of this and might take steps to see that Brother Ilerber didn't stay around the gridiron too long all in good clean fun, you understand Steve refused to go along with such an indictment. But he did admit that the Giants' offense would be considerably less dangerous with him missing from the backfield. During the workout yesterday at the Polo Grounds, the coach used some psychology along with his instructions.

A college team can usually be brought "up" to a game with pleas to die for dear old Frightwig Tech but not the pros. They are strictly dough boys and their concern is measured in dollars and cents. So, Steve's continual cry yesterday was, "Better get ready for that big jackpot." Participation in the playoff against the Packers at the Polo Grounds will mean over $1,500 to each player on the winning team and over $800 to those on the losing squad. Plenty of incentive there. OWEN NOT SATISFIED The sick kids, Len Cal-ligaro, Hub Barker and Joe Su-laitis were all on hand again yesterday and still quite certain that they'll get into Sunday's: game.

Special protective pads are already being prepared for Len's shoulder separation and Barker's bruised hip. Owen still isn't satisfied with the amount of deception in the team's attack and he blames some of this on failure to hide the ball better. That little matter was gone over again, and again yesterday and, if practice makes perfect, there will be four magicians, a rabbit and a silk hat in the Giant backfield along with the football this week. ND Sets Score Mark South Bend, Dec. 6 (JP).

Notre Dame's basketball team established a new Irish scoring record tonight in the opening game of the season, crushing Kellogg Field of Battle Creek, 89-28. The first time I saw Oma, he looked awfully good for a couple of minutes and then he got knocked out. And that's the way it went Lee for some years. "I had given up," he says. "I was disappointed, just struggling ior a dollar whenever I needed it." But a couple of years ago, Oma came to New York for another ftry under the guidance of Tex Sullivan.

The last time I saw Oma ffight was in the Garden against a fellow by the name of Cross and (he looked pretty good. 1 didn't see his initial scramble against plauriello, but from all reports it was a corker. Tami knocked Lee '-it in the eighth of a slam-bang scrap which also saw Mauriello ready for the deck on numerous occasions. It was a bout which Lee took on short notice (as a sub for Joe Baksi), after he had been in 'the ring only a few days before. Sid Finger (left) of Ciiy College and Al Vannette (26) of Detroit go hoopward after ball under CCN'Y basket.

Dan O'Neill, Detroit, is in background hoping to get a pass from his teammate. ing of basketball this side of Pub lic School 189. Despite their overpowering numerical victory, the Beavers were no ball of fire. In fact, they matched Detroit thunder-for-blun-der and miss-for-miss throughout most of the first half. City College didn't sink a field goal for 11 (eleven) minutes until Sid Finger made good via a feed from Len Hassman on the Beavers' 23d floor shot.

That should give the off-hand impression Detroit would be far ahead at that stage. Well, they were, by the proud margin of 6-5 which gives a faint idea of how bad Detroit was at the same time. The only difference between the two is that City finally caught fire late in the half, went on a scoring splurge that accounted for 21 straight points and held the misnamed Titans scoreless for 13 minutes at a stretch. It was expected that the absence of their star, Joey Smith, would hurt the Titans, but on the basis of their performance, it would have taken all the Smiths in the Manhattan phone book to salvage that game for them. And for such quality, basketball prices have been slightly increased this season.

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Delaware got nothing 12 months ago, but was enriched by $883,473 this year. Taxes paid to the 17 states (and few cities) aggregated for 1944 with this lush commonwealth gaining $27,664,387.78 for its Albany coffers. A year ago these same states collected only $2,424,738.48. Every state showed an increase in the amount wagered. tf rn iiWuifrl "That wasn't an eight-round knockout," laughs Lee, "that was an eight-round collapse.

I was overweight and out of condition. I almost had him out in the seventh, but after that flurry, I couldn't raise my arms. When I hit the deck in the eighth, it felt like a feather bed. I was so exhausted from throwing punches and everything felt so cozy." from over in the South Pacific as a king-sized Sinatra." Revised Rangers Return Tonight Returning to Garden ice tonight for the first time in 18 days, the Rangers will welcome a new target in Harry Lumley, who has just taken Connie Dion's place in the Detroit nets. Local fans will get their first taste of manager Frankie Boucher's rescrambled lines, three reshuffled trios who in the past week have succeeded in upsetting Montreal and barely losing to Toronto, 4-3.

1 For this one, Lee claims he has trained faithfully and is in the best shape of his career at 185. Sullivan and the last Mauriello fight Jiave finally made him see the light, he says. He is going into the as a main bout fighter because of his own effort and ability fend not because of any strange happenstance. Nor as a sub. At past, after kicking around and being kicked around for years, he shears opportunity knocking hard.

He sees big money in the offing, pn preparation for the fight he has spent 25 days training in the jopen country at Greenwood Lake. "Peace, it' wonderful," sighed Oma upon returning to Still-mn gym from pine-scented Greenwood Lake yesterday. "But I doubt whether too much of that free air is really good for anybody. I'm down to 185, practicallv skin and Billion Bet on Racing Horse race betting was a billion dollar business in the country this year, for the first time in history. Exactly $1,126,308,645 was poured into the mutuel machines in 17 states, according to an Associated Press survey, and this amount is enough to give every person within the continental limits of the U.

S. a $10 Christmas present. up there and I'd have looked like Jy Rubin, 50-47 Willie Hoppe, undefeated in lampionship play since '42, was set by Arthur Rubin of Brook- 50-4 in 4d innings, in the jhree-cushion billiard championship the Capitol Academy last night. Vnbin, last man to defeat the fiamp, trailed 44-d8 wnen he ran I six to tie. He pulled even again 46-all, then ran three and went it in the next inning on a difficult hot.

The total was an increase of P- $421,160,388 over last year's fig ure of $705,142,257. Citizens of New York, which pays 25 To of the national income tax, wagered a fabulous $410,230,402 almost 40 of the national betting figure. Every state showed an increase in the amount of revenue from betting, Florida and Delaware benefiting particularly. The Southern state's '42-'43 Winter reason was cut short by the ban on pleasure driving and Delaware didn't a.