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PAGE TEN THE PORTSMOUTH, N. HERALD, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1939. Clippers Leave For New England Classic Triple Decker At Junior High Tonight Three Games On Tap As League Nears Close The Standings: First Half Final Pet. Ouellette C. 7 1 .875 Dover Clerks 6 2 .750 Hackett's Drug 5 2 .714 York Alumni 4 3 .571 Creek A 3 4 .429 Marine 3 4 .429 Klttery M.

1 6 .143 Naval Prison 0 7 .000 Second Half Pet. York Alumni 3 0 1.000 Marine 3 1 .750 Ouellette 2 2 .500 Dover Clerks 1 2 .333 Hacketfs Drug 1 2 .333 Creek A 0 3 .000 Games Tonight Ouellettes vs. Hackett's. Barracks vs. Dover.

Creek vs. York. A triple-decker is on tap at the Junior High School gymnasium this evening as the PHS AA City basketball league goes into its last phase. In the opener at 7 o'clock the Ouellette Cardinals tackle the Hackett Drug combine and at 8 o'clock the Marine Barracks meet the Dover Clerks. In the night-cap the York Alumni will attempt a defense of their first place standing against the last place Creek A.

C. Only one more session is left after tonight, following which the play-offs will be staged between the winner of the first half, the Ouellette Cardinals, and the winner of the second half. Sports Roundup By Eddie Brietz New York, March 16 (AF)--Tip Henry Armstrong will hang up the mittens at the close of business this year. Stanford and Illinois now are tagged as 1940 possibilities for Doc Sutherland. The SOS is out for Jack Paton, one of Jack Roper's sparring partners, who has disappeared from camp.

You don't reckon Jack was afraid he'd be arrested as an accessory before fact, do you? They made it very plain on the Glenn Cunningham broadcast Tuesday night that Glenn had received no expense money for telling the boys he got his biggest thrill galloping the mile in 4:04.4. As long as Glenn was kicking dust in their eyes, you rarely heard of him except in Sunday morning papers. He drops a couple: not only gets on the air, but Is initiated into the ex- elusive Saints and Sinners Club One more licking and they'll offer him a vaudeville contract. teams meet Saturday. Manager Bucky Harris of the Senators plans to start Alex Alexandria of Caraca.

and finish with Roberto Ortiz Cuba. St. Petersburg, Jo Medwick holding out, Elvin (Bus ter) Adams is getting a chance show his stuff with the St. Loui Cardinals--and it's quite a show too. His timely single against th Boston Bees yesterday gave th Cards a 1 to 0 victory.

Lake Charles, recurren display of power by Connie Mack batters has camp followers wonder ing whether it is the real thing a new-found weakness in the pitch ing corps. Sam Chapman got four hits, including a homer, in flv times at bat to set the pace yes terdaly as the "Johnsons" beat th "Finneys" 12-9 in an intramura skirmish. Pasadena, Jim my Dykes believes, the Chicag White Sox' chances of finishin better than last year's sixth hing on five men. They are Rooki Pitchers Vic Frazier and Art Her ring, Inflelders Eric McNair an Ollie Bejma, and Catcher Ken Sil vestri. St.

Petersburg, Yor Yankee fans are concerned abou the weak hitting of their favorite The champions were held to one hi and no runs for eight innings yes terday and finally beaten 2-1 in th 12th frame by the Cincinnati Red, They're going to play it over to day. Yank Rookie May Get Selkirk Post So Cholly Grimm wants to top off ft fine baseball career as manager of the Cardinals? Well, say the Messrs, Frisch, Street et al, let him have it. The Red Sox are supposed to have more wives in camp than any other big league club and the Boston scribes to a man report the members of the ladies auxiliary are very easy on the peepers. Baseball Briefs Sarasota, battle of Boston opened on this far-away stage today with Manager Casey Stengel of the Bees assigning two of his top-notch fingers to the task and Joe Cronin of the Red Sox placing his pebbles on the ability of a trio of rookies. However, the rest of the Red Sox line-up was studded with regulars.

San Bernardino, Bell, a promising rookie, looks like a good bet to stick with the Pittsburg Pirates this season. With Paul Waner still holding out, Heinle Manush probably will start in right field, but Bell is being groomed for replacement duty. Orlando, Detroit Tigers are going to get a sample of the Washington Senators International pitching brigade when the two It will soon be time to start your a Spring cleaning. Why not start selecting your paint, wall paper and window shades now? Take advantage of the window shade prices during March. You will save money.

Housewives, you can get all kinds of cleaners here such as Kyanize, No-Suds Kleaners, Dick -a-Doo, Pyramid, Sava- gran, Double and Purg-AII Cleaner. F. A. Gray and Company St. Petersburg, Kelle has been blinking at Georg Selkirk from afar for two years.

Now it has caught up with him and cas its broad shadow over Twinkletoes shoulder. But Selkirk is accustomed to trou ble. A jinx has pursued him eve: since he joined the Yankees a few years ago, He's managed to box hi way out of clinches before and he figures he can outpoint Charlie Keller, the Newark bludgeoneer. Selkirk is the fly-chaser who wa; assigned to carry on when Babe Ruth left the Yankees. He inherited Babe's famous old No.

3 uniform and, for a while, had Babe's spot in the batting order. That was tough spot--to be compared with the great Bambino every day in every park in the American league Selkirk was no Ruth, but he hi; job. Two years ago, after a fine start he injured his shoulder diving after a fly ball. That hampered him al season. Last year a bunged up wris cramped his style.

He's in great shape now as the Yankees drill in their Florida park no one knows better than George that it will take his best performance to keep from being oustec by the 22-year-old, Internationa league ace who spreads 190 solic pounds over a 5-foot-10 frame. Keller's B.A.: .365 George's puny .254 batting average last year just doesn't fit into the Yankee interpretation of power Marse Joe McCarthy like outfielders who can bulge their average up around the .365 figure Keller had at Newark. This Keller likely would have been a major-league star long since if he had been owned by any club except the Yankees. But the way the Yanks have waltzed away with world's championships the last three years they haven't needed him. A sensation with the University ol Maryland nine, Keller hopped direct to the Newark Bears.

He was just as much of a sensation there. Before he was 21 he led the league at bat. He was the batting leader again last year in his second pro season. (Keller was tops among players in 100 or more games, although Catcher Warren Rosar--another Yankee rookie-hit .387 in 91 contests.) Gallagher May Stay Keller is bubbling over with confidence. He thinks he can hit well enough to hold his own with any of the Yankee sluggers.

"I'll get my share of long hits but I'm not a home run slugger," he says. "I just slap that ball out for a safe hit without concentrating on distance." There's some talk of converting Keller into a pull hitter, but Charlie doesn't favor it. 'If a man can hit, why not let him bat his own way?" he asks, with a bit of logic. The Yanks will have Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Henrich as two outfield fixtures. Keller and George Selkirk will battle it out for the other spot with Jake Powell around for occasional duty.

If McCarthy elects to carry six outfielders, Joe Gallagher, a huge 210-pounder with fullback shoulders, will get the call. Fights Last Night Birmingham, (AP)--Jimmy Perrin. 125, New Orleans, outpoint- ed Lloyd Pine. 126. Akron.

O. Herald A Page BLADES HAS THE MAKINGS By Jack Sords GAS MOOSE SAAJ TME AlAfiOAJAU VEARS AGo, joe PAUL O6AM HiS AT SfiCOlD is expecreo PAOU RECRUITS TMlS YEAR ARE-TAB uw-iesT PROM A SUMMER. -rue TEXAS HAD FbR SOME 1939. Funnn Syndiem. Clippers Leave For Bay State Hoop Classic The Portsmouth High School basketball squad of ten men, manager, and coach, left this morning by train for the New England basketball tournament which opens at the Springfield, Armory this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

A rousing sendoff was accorded the group yesterday at a student rally at the high school as Clippers prepared to participate in their second consecutive New England classic. Portsmouth plays its first game tonight at eight o'clock, meeting Adams High of Adams, Mass, western Bay State champion. Those making the trip included, Captain Angelo Katsanos, Robert Wheeler Robert Burns, David Powell, Paui Downs, John Hamilton, Stewart Dawson, Fred Powell, Nicholas Paras, Jack Berwick, manager Newton Foss, and Coach Ralph Lizio. Tournament headquarters will be at the Kimball Hotel. Mass.

Amateurs Capture Eight Boxing Titles Boston, March 16 (AP)--Massachusetts amateurs scored a clean sweep of eight titles in the New England A. A. U. boxing championships last night in Boston Garden, and Greater Boston boys won six of the crowns. Herbert Coonan, Rochdale heavyweight, and Johnny Leonard, Taun- 118-pounder, prevented the urban battlers from taking all the itles, Coonan decisioning Mike Rosen of Brockton and Leonard nocking out Andrew Trozzi of Stoneham in the third round.

The only defending champion in he field, Florant Des MaraLs, hunky Manchester, N. feath- rweight, bowed out in a prelimin- round, when John Farren of South Boston gained a split decision hat was unpopular with most of the 000 spectators. Farren went on to win the title from John Rizzo of East Boston. Tourney Information Results of the New England basketball tournament opening today at Springfield, can be obtained by calling The Herald (37, 38, or 39) after 8.30 p. m.

this evening. The tournament is being covered by Fred Jones, sports editor, and a Western Union wire is to be kept open in order that The Herald may obtain quarter by quarter scores of Portsmouth-Adams i fame which starts at 8 o'clock. tests of United States, Great Britain and France. THREE YEARS AGO--Frank Nordell, New York Athletic Club, upset Glenn Cunningham and Joe Mangan to win 1500 meter run in at Newark meet. FIVE YEARS AGO--Lester Stoefen of Los Angeles, won the United States indoor singles title, defeating Gregory Mangin, 6-4.

Americans Meet Rangers Tonight (By AP) The New York Americans' hopes of finishing third in the National Hockey League and the ambition of the A's Sweeney Shriner to top the N. H. L. scorers for the third time in four years, are bound up in the Amerks' clash with their neighbors, the Rangers, at Madison Square Garden tonight. It is the last game of the regular schedule for Red Dutton's star- spangled skaters.

One point behind Toronto now, they can go one point ahead by trimming the blueshirts, and then will have to rely on those same Rangers to turn back Toronto in their end. Schriner is in two meetings this week- a similarly tight spot. With 42 points, he trails Toe Blake of the Montreal by one, and Blake also Canadiens has two games to go to Sweeney's one-against the Black Hawks at Chica go tonight, and the Redwings a Detroit on Sunday. Except for the fact the Ranger, may be inclined to take thing easy, since their second-place play off spot is set, things would look bad for the Amerks and Schriner In seven previous clashes, the A', were able to win only two game from Lester Patrick's crew and were outscored by a 3-1 margin. Patrick, incidentally, will receiv a trophy tonight.

It is the William MacBeth memorial cup, awardec to the team that wins the New York City series. It will be given him a a dinner before the game. After the game, the Amerks wil go to Atlantic City for five days There they will rest up and have few practice sessions to get them in shape for the opening play-off game with Toronto next Tuesday. Armstrong Risks Title Tonight St. Louis, March 16 (AP)--Ham- inerin' Henry Armstrong, perhaps the greatest little fighter for pounds and inches in ring history, risks his lightweight and welterweight championships against Lew Feldman of Brooklyn tonight over a 15-round route.

Both of the St. Louis negro's titles will be at stake if the two fighters scaled within the 135-pound limit at the weigh-in, set for 2 p. m. (Central Standard Time). If either was over the mark, Armstrong's lightweight orown will be safe should Felman win Feldman was knocked out in five rounds by Armstrong less than a year ago in New York.

The main bout is scheduled for about 10 p. preceded by four preliminaries. In two 10-rounders, Leo Rodak of Chicago meets Everett (Young) Rightmire of Sioux City, and Archie Moore, St. Louis negro, takes on Marty Simmons' of Saginaw, middle and heavyweight contender. light- Spring Football ractice Starts Wrestling Last Night Rochester, N.

(AP)--AH Baba, 210, Kurdistan, defeated Wagner, 225, Portland, Ore. out of three falls. Bob Cambridge, March 16 (AP) --Harvard's spring football practice scheduled to get under way to- ay, when approximately 50 fresh- team candidates turn out. Though the varsity won't report until late next week, Coach Dick Harlow will have about sixteen lettermen, who will be graduated this June, on hand to give tips to the freshmen. Sports Mirror CBy Associated Press) TODAY A YEAR AGO--International Olympic committee approved two Japan's postponement of the winter games for two months despite pro- PA the West Potat coach, Walter French, mifht say, giving Cadets Samuel Kail (left) of Hnnttng- om Davis of some tips on basebaU.

Kail is captain, catcher; Davis is a star pitcher Coaches Row Wow Scheduled For Durham Saturday To Discuss Methods Of Selecting Teams For Annual State Hoop Tourney Durham, March 16--With assurance of nearly 75 being on hand already, and more accepatnces still coming in, University of New Hampshire athletic officials believed their already, and more acceptances still be an outstanding success. More 'than double the number of coaches, Card Lundholm, conference head and acting director of athletics, had hoped for, have already signified their intentions of being on hand for the forum of discussions and talks on problems concerning state coaches and athletics directors. vs. New Orleans (SA). Yesterday's Results At Tampa, Cincinnati (N) 2, New York (A) 1 (12 innings).

At Baton Rouge, New York (N) 8, Jersey City (I) 1. At New Braunfels, St. Louis (A) 11, Philadelphia (N) 10. Discuss Selection Method A feature of the meeting, Lundholm revealed, will be the report of the coaches committee on selections for the state basketball tournament. Growing out of the discussion group held during the interscholastic basketball tourney in February, Coach Francis H.

Oere- monty of Manchester West, Coach Ran Garrett of Berlin and Coach John Clark of Peterborough were appointed ot study the problem of team selections, and report back for the forthcoming conference. The committee will have their report ready for the Saturday meeting and will make several recommendations to the group. The conference will be divided in discussion groups dealing with various phases of the secondary school program. Subjects under survey include football, cross-country, basketball, winter sports, hockey, baseball, intramurals, faculty management and athletic direction, and general physical education. Frisch Succeeds Hooey At "Mike Boston, March Frisch, former manager of the St.

Louis Cardinals, signed a one-year contract yesterday to broadcast play- by-play descriptions of all home games of the Boston Bees and Boston Red Sox during the coming season. A loophole was.left in the contract for Frisch to resign in case an opportunity to manager a Major League club, turns up, but the former Cardinals' pilot said no such prospect was in view and that he intends to devote his full energy towards his new job. Frisch said he had declined offers to broadcast games in New York and Cincinnati to come here for the Colonial Network of New England Sta- Bears In Fight To Hold Lead By The Associated Press The stretch drive of the Hershey Bears to hold their two-point flrs place advantage over the Syracuse stars in the western division of th' International-American League will start tonight. Each team has three games lef to play, making it necessary for th Bears to win at least two of theii remaining games to Insure a tie in the event Syracuse cops all its re maining contests. Tonight's program calls for Hershey to face a seemingly stronger Pittsburgh Hornets nest while the Stars visit the Providence Reds, second place crew in the eastern division.

With the regular schedule closing this weekend, some shuffling in the standings is still possible. The Philadelphia Ramblers, eastern leaders, walloped the Springfield Indians 7 to 2 last night to keep the Indians in danger of being overtaken by the last place New Haven Eagles, who tied Syracuse 5 to 5. Cleveland lost a chance to keep in the running for second in the western group by losing to Pittsburgh 6 to 3 last night. Durham Plans For Four Dual Meets Durham, March 16--Four dual meets, climaxed by the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association's annual games, wil! be run by University of New Hampshire trackmen this spring, according to schedule announcement made yesterday by Carl Lundholnr acting director of athletics. This year marks the first in which New Hampshire is host to New England's colleges in the NEICAAA meet.

The competition is scheduled for May 19 and 20. Two other home meets are listed duals with Northeastern and Springfield, while away games are against Brown and Rhode Island. The schedule: April 29--Brown at Providence. May 6--Northeastern at Durham. May 13--Rhode Island State at Kingston.

May 19-20--New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association meet at Durham. May 27--Springfield at Durham. Last Night's Hockey Results By The Associated Press International-American League Pittsburgh 6, Cleveland 3. New Haven 5 Syracuse 5 (overtime e). Tonight's Shedule National League Chicago at Montreal.

New York Rangers at New York Americans. nternational-American League Syracuse at Providence. Pittsburgh at Hershey. fowling Scores Fire Department League In a Fire Department bowling eague match last night the Permanent Men won three points to wo for the Board of Engineers. Weeks was high with 306.

The scores: ermanent Men Weston 86 77 72--235 Weeks 112 100 94--306 Amazeen 109 82 91--282 Cox 109 98 86--293 Crompton 101 84 90--275 517 441 453--1391 Board of Engineers Wallace Amazeen Cogan Ward 80 90 96 100 71 95 90--265 84 109--283 94 84--274 95 86--281 80 88--239 437 448 457--1342 Exhibition Baseball Today The Associated Press At St. Petersburg, New York AL) vs. Cincinnati (N). At Sarasota, Boston (A) vs Boston (N). At New Orleans: Cleveland (A) Team Defeats Piscataqua A It was a glorious victory for the members of the team of the Piscataqua Rifle and Revolver Club last evening when they defeated the A team in the Southeastern New Hampshire Rifle League.

The team scored 1110 to 1074 for the A's. Earlier in the season the A team was the victor, 1093 to 1054. The team riflemen went to town in a big way, administering the first defeat for an A team by f. team in the history of the club. The score of 1110 was the highest score in the League matches which have been shot this season.

Kolvig was high with a prone of 99 and an off-hand of 90 for a total score of 189. Dunbar was but one point below. The summary: Piscataqua Kolvig Dunbar Harmon Margeson Silva Locklin Piscataqua W. Redden Webber Norton 99 100 98 100 99 97 OH 90 88 86 84 84 85 Tl. 189 188 184 184 183 182 1110 OH Tl.

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API --i sharp-eyed amateur athletir union officials finished compiling the ja-a on three new indoor track recortij today, Dartmouth College workmen set about tearing down the famous boards on which Glenn Cunning. ham ran the fastest mile in histo-v 4:04.4, a year ago. That 6.73 laps to the mile ova' due for an overhauling which. Hary Hillman, its proud custodian predicts will eliminate some of speed, enabled John 3 0r can, sensational New Jersey to set a new indoor half-mile record of 1:49.8 and the Fordham miie relay team to nose out New University's ICAA indoor pions in the record-smashing time of 3:15.2 during last night's secore battle against time. Broke Marks Previously Borican, who previously had broken two other indoor marks, or.e of which has been disputed because officials accused him of ing the gun, also established a nes- mark of 1:49.2 for the 800-meters as he erased the 1:51.4 half-miie record Lloyd Hahn set in 1928.

The record books also credit the latter with the old 800-meter mnrk, listed time being the same as half-mile record. The negro speedster, described by many experts as the "perfect" runner, defeated the closest of his Dartmouth pace-setters. Bob C.n- angst, who had a 95-yard handicap, by 10 yards while running his mile only six-tenths seconds slower than the world's outdoor record ma'de by Sydney Wooderson of England, now awaiting acceptance by the International Amateur Federation, which refuses to con sider indoor feats. Manning R. Jones H.

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