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SECTION TWO THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carolinas MONDAY MARCH 2 1942 PAGE FIVE Mecklenburg High School Tournament Opens Today Out At Pasadena TWELVE CLUBS 'SHIED FOR Ml Newell First Seeded In Both Boys and Girls Play Top Teams Play In Openers TERRI OBTAINS 5 other Yariks Are Unsigned Keller Ruffing Dickey and Rolfe Among New York Holdouts Gordon Reports and Likely Will Join Club Today Sunday Workout Held BY JUDSON BAILEY I 1 CT PETERSBURG Fla March 1 (JP) The seconc squad of the world champion New York Yankees was due to report to Manager Joe McCarthy today but when he ordered a special Sunday workout there was no change in the critical holdout situation One championship has been splits two ways and several of the crowns BY WHITNEY MARTIN Now About to Make Himself Look Bad and Mel Ott Good Giants Promising Outrun Famed Leslie Mac mitchell In National AAU Another Duel Loom NINE TIGERS UNSIGNED FOR 1942 SEASON still to be presented may have to be stretched to fit at least two wearers With only a few odds and ends to be cleaned up here and there the teams safely across the finish line are Illinois in the Big Ten conference Colorado in the Big Seven Kentucky in the Southeastern West Texas State in the border loop and Arkansas and Rice in the Southwest Illinois grabbed its first undisputed Big Ten title since 1915 last night by winning its 12th conference game in 13 starts 63-49 triumph over Wisconsin JEW YORK March won-1 derful what a fresh paint job and a few new bearings will do The New York Giants slowly rusting away under h-for me policy now are being rated in several informed quarters as dangerous contenders for the National league pennant Oddly enough the man who probably is responsible for this reconditioning job is the man who might stand to lose the most in prestige through its success For the last couple of years Bill Terry had been struggling along with a fading ball club which even was making enemies of its friends BY EARL HEAFNER ECKLENBURG biggest scholastic sport event of the year begins today in the Central High gym when 12 teams representing the cream of North Carolina high school players pry the lid off of the annual Mecklenburg County High School basketball tournament Hostilitie in the sudden-death llminstions contests begin this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock when the top-seeded Newell girls clash with unheeded Bain High sextet program promises to be ne of the largest and best during Che eight-day tournament with the top-seeded team in both the and boys' divisions seeing action along with 10 other clubs Newell's team won first seedings in each bracket ik' i p'j Lakeland Fia March General Manager Jack Zel ler arrived in the camp to day to untangle the holdout problem and announced that nine players have expressed dissatisfac tion with contracts offered them for 1942 and are unsigned The holdouts Zeller said are Pltcheri John Corsica Paul Trout Buck Newsom and Luther (Budt Thom as Catchers Billy Sullivan Rudy York Barney McCocky Rip Rad cliff and Dick Wakefield Pitcher Lynwood iSchoolbov) Rowe signed a contract alter a ahort confer ence with Zeller jj RUNNNER-UP SPOT Iowa and Indiana tied with nine victories and four defeats will set HARD AT The first day of apring practice found these Chicago White Sox cavorting at Pasadena Calif In mid-season form Picture shows left to right: Dario Lodiglana third baseman Bob Kennedy another third baseman sliding and Murrell Jones infieldrr needed everything up to and tie the runner-up question this CAGE ROUND UP NEW YORK March Swiping an idea from Mike fight promoting methods metropolitan track official already have paired Gil Dodds and Leslie MacMitchell for another fling at the world indoor mile record at the Knights of Columbus meet on March 14 Dodds a 23-year-old student at Gordon seminary in Boston became the newest mile sensation Saturday night in the National A-AU races by outlasting MacMitchell NYU senior in a 4:087 effort to end a string of 19 consecutive triumphs Ironically first defeat in almost a year came just a few hours before he received the James Sullivan award as th nation's outstanding amateur athlete of 1941 at a Sunday luncheon ANOTHER ONE triumph so dumbfounded the 15000 spectators that even th officials regained their composure when Greg Rire cantered to" a world record for the third straight year in the three-mile run Fred Wilt of' Indiana who was expected to furnish Rice with most of his opposition was waved off the track with another lap 'to go and Robert Nichols of Rhode Island State actually third even listed in the official summaries Rice clattered to the tape in 13457 after having passed every one of his rivals at least twice on his 33 turns around the Madison Square Garden oval In the AAU committee meeting which preceded the MacMitchell luncheon the delegates instructed Lawrence Di Benedetto of New Orleans AAU president to name three-man committee to confer with John Kelly of the Hal America division of the OCD including ball players TERRY MOVES Then what happens? Bill Terry moves up to the front office and Mel Ott takes over the job of keeping that patched and vulcanized bunch of antiques in reasonable working order Only they are making things easier for little Mel Terry immediately starts rounding up ball players He gets Mize and Werber and Leiber and there is talk now that he is angling for Claude Passeau capable Cub hurler Now if Terry had done all this for week The schedule favors Indiana which plays Northwestern tomorrow and Ohio State Saturday both at home while Iowa must entertain Illinois tomorrow and invade Wisconsin Saturday Kentucky returned to the South eastern throne after a one-year layoff last night by winning the annual championship tournament at Louisville The Wildcats wrapped up the title with a 36-34 victory over Alabama which won its way to the finals with a 21-18 triumph over Tennessee last Illinois Colorado And Kentucky Kings Several Conference Basketball Championships Decided With Others to Be Determined Within Next Few Wild cats Win In Tourney At Louisville PAIRINGS Pairings for games have been to arranged that three girls' nd thre boys' games will be reeled off They will be alternated with the girl of Newell and Bain taking the floor first followed by the five of Newell and Hunter-ville The battle between the Newell boy and the powerful Bain five will hold the potlight on today's program as the first-seeded men of Jack Melton of Newell are defending champions in their division I To tome extent it will share the Jlimelight with the second-seeded Sharon girls who are also battling defend their division championship The Sharon lassies clash with th Matthew sextet himself he would have had a presentable team which would have made Manager Terry look very year indeed Inftead hJ waite umif back BnRham champion Colorado clinched its third Big Seven championship four years last 52-35 night for its tenth straight DODGERS EDGE GIANTS BY 3-2 HAVANA March 1 (P) The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers battled almost into the tropical dusk today before the Dodger finally made it two straight victories in their exhibition series by a score of 3 to 2 The National league champions won yesterday opener 6-3 It was the 12th inning and the crowd of 7000 was wondering if they would be able to get in an other inning when Les Burge rookie Brooklyn first baseman slapped a hit into right field to score Charlie Gelbert from second and break up the struggle At that Gelbert bare ly beat Jim Maynard's clothesline peg to the plate For a training game it was thriller First the regulars of the two clubs fought to a 2-2 deadlock for five frames and then the veteran reserves and the hopeful rook ies took up the torch and scrapped scorelessly through nearly seven in nings before the break came Both sides received superlative pitching The victim of Burge's pay-off wallop in the 12th was John Hubbell a younger and righthanded brother of the Giants' famous Carl MIAMI Fla March A late-starting $500 bargain horse will be a low-money favorite Saturday to kick more dust into the faces of the frnest group of turf champions ever brought together in one American race Lucky Louis Tufano's Market Wise humbled the mighty array of thoroughbreds a full dress rehearsal at Hialeah park yesterday and most of the 26571 spectators are willing to bet that he can do it again in the $50000 Widener handicap this week There will be more horses seeking the richest prize of the winner in the Widener but Market Wise will find the competition not one whit more formidable than he faced in the $2500 warmup Starting last he caught and pass indriskfthro1 IK and its 14th of and risks the opinion of the unin-'the formed that all the Giants needed was a new manager got to give the guy credit he give a hoot what anybody thinks and Southwest conference race last night he giving his successor every break in a title deadlock to the surprise he can LIKE GIANTS Billy Southworth and Casey Stengel are two astute baseball minds of no one Arkansas swamped Tex as Christian 63-37 while Rice was setting a new conference season scoring record in trimming Texas 61-41 EW YORK March 1 (JP) Collegiate conference bas-ketball titles were passed around as freely as butter at a banquet this week-end and others will be awarded within the next few days as the season ends its 1941-42 run Six stars still were unsigned and McCarthy said that except for Second! Baseman Joe tFlashi Gordon who is in town he had not heard from anv of his holdouts Gordon he added cryptically' will be at the workout and thus it was assumed that he might come to terms tonight or in the morning rjINEHURST March 1 The rnhh-grMeJhe vcry mch The Owls scored 651 points in12 ciinningy )S South-lR(jmes five more than Arkansas i sra race be- tallied in posting the old mark over 'rdlna Dodgers 'the jdme distance last year the Reds and the Giants He fig ures that in Mize and Leiber real power has been added to the Otters that Werber's experience and dash West Texas State winding up its greatest season with an average of better than 70 points a game sewed up the border title in mid-week ed Charles Howard's Mioland and The other nlaver still mil of ihp Pmchurst polo team defeated Porter's Cap Brann's Chale-fold are JoeP DMaggio the great Army four today 8 to 5 on the don and Pictor Samuel Riddle's center fielder and most valuable1 'falt fleld' for Lnp- piaver in the American league last flv? and 4aaaa 'rill Fink accounted for the other year who seeking a $40000 con-ithree Each nlember of lhe Army er and Barrington stable's Olympus tract Charley OKing Kong) Keller lMm scorec once Edqar Taylor The race brought a major levi-the slugging left fielder: Pitcher Henry Barnard Lieut Joe Cobbs ision of the early Widener line Vuluablf' and that Tom 1 with an 88-65 victory over Texas Sunkel obtained from the Car- Mines dinals will be a winning pitcher Oregon State took the northern emayjbe nRht Mlze and Lei-diviMon championship in the Pacific are hitters at anyjcoast conference and will argue with Stanford which repeated in the Southern division for th title time Werber alwavs goes great1 guns with a new club OTHER RECORDS Other indoor world records set in meet which saw the New York A retain its championship with 20 points were in the two-mile relay where Seton foursome burst the tape in 7:398 in the shot-put where A1 Blozis of Georgetown got off a toss of 57 feet s4 inch and in the 1000-meter run which John Borican toured in 2243 This week end the 11-lap Garden track will be turned over to the indoor I 4-A athletes where Mae Mitchell is expected to have hi own way in the mile His toughest prospective opponents Don Burnham of Dartmouth and Leroy Schwartzkopf of Yale probably will compete in other events Burnham is the likely champion in the 1000-yard run and Schwartzkopf probably will concentrate on the two-mile growing no younger but the Dodgers did ail right last year with a club Market Wise had shared the favorite's role with Mioland and Chal-ledon but he is certain now to be the single at three to one or less Second in favor today is Attention The colt running for the first March 13 14 and 16 in a two-out-of-three series at either San Fran- LARRY BARTON CLEVELAND March (Ah The Southern conference championship will be decided in a three- Red Ruffing who won 15 games and Licut Mllton Untcrmeyrr last season: veteran Catcher Bill Dickey and Third Baseman Red L- T- RoWe who has been a kingpin in INDIANS BUY all of the last five championship combinations of the Yanks Outfielder George Selkirk Utility Infielder Frank Crosetti and Tom Hcnrich also were missing from parctiee today but thev are signed Trosky at first base the Cleve-Selkirk is in town and Crosetti is land Indians today purchased the due tomorrow from his California contract of Larry Barton from home their Wilkesbarre (Pa) farm The workout wa the first left-handed hitter will report at ever held on a Sunday by the Yanks once to the Tribe' Clcariaater except for their actual games and Fla training camp was caused by disap-! At the same time unsigned pitch-pointment over the progress of er Millard Howell was sold out-training He has been handicapped' rght to Wilkes-Barre an Eastern Overlooking no bets in lining up successor for the retired Hal spotted with gents who might bei cisco or Palo Alto living now on their 30-year annuity policies Genial little Eddie Brannick aday tournament at Raleigh world champion swell guy won't have to dig into a barrel of synthetic enthusiasm this year in talking of the chances of his beloved Giants opening Thursday Creighton and the Oklahoma Aggies seem destined to share the Missouri Valley title after knocking off each other Tied vuth OTHER GAMES Other games today are between the Davidson and Huntersville lassies and the Bain and Matthews Iboy Also on tap in the division is a game between the sec-lond-seedcd Sharon boys and the Cornelius quint First round of the tournament will be completed tomorrow night as 12 more teams swing into action for the first time The Dorita girls and the Pineville boys will not see action until Wednesday having advanced into the second round on byes Officials this year have stressed the point that the teams in each division are very evenly matched They have Indicated that none of the seeded teams may advance to the finals as the clubs arc so nearly equal To back up this fact they point out that unheeded Davidson has soundly trounced seeded teams tn regular season competition as have most of the teams Officials for the tournament bat ties are Price Ferguson and John McCachren All of the games will be played in the Central gym The final battle on Tuesday night will mark the close of basketball in Charlotte for the year the local high schools having ended their schedules last Veek EISENSTAT IS HARD WORKER CLEARWATER Fla March (A) Harry Eisenstat Cleveland Indian hurler who pitched 34 m- rings last year for one victory (And ons defeat is champing at the Mbit for mor work Eisenstat told Manager Inu Boudreau thrive on work I alwavs used to get In from 200 to 225 innings a yar and that's when I was effective" Boudreau said the 2fl-year-old southpaw would get plenty of mound duty this aeason going te get every Lou commented "I have noticed Harry Is one of th first men on the field every day be ready all right when his chance comes this yearT CHAMPS ENTER DURHAM PLAY DURHAM March iP) Durham and Greensboro have accepted in vitations to participate in the Duke Durham southern high school invitational basketball tournament here March 13-14 Co-chairmen Eddie Cameron and Frank Walker of the selection committee said these were the first two teams chosen for the tourney spon sored jointly by Duke university and the Durham Junior Chamber of Commerce Six other southern high school teams will be invited Durham champion of North Carolina's Eastern conference and Greensboro the Western titlehold er will clash at Chapel Hill next Tuesday for the Class A championship of the state but the outcome of this game will have no bearing upon the March 13-14 event it was said i time since the Florida season open-a Jed was jn second place by only two lengths as Market Wise sped the mile and an eighth in one minute 49 3-5 seconds War Relic ran a creditable race to edge out Challrdon for the show position and will come in for considerable support eight wins in nine starts the two finish conference play this week the Aggies at Washington tomorrow and Creighton at Drake Saturday In the eastern league which has two weeks to run Dartmouth is out in front after whipping Cornell 68-53 last night and can clinch a tie by winning at Columbus tomorrow and against Yale at Hanover RAMBLERS IN 7-5 VICTORY AT CAMDEN TOURNEY IN SEMI-FINALS HEMP March 1 Yesterday's League club wtih which he preferred to train Barton 29 was a member of the St Louis gang" reporting of his leading plavers and! bwe Wilkes-Barre bought htmlPlay in the semi-finals of the Moore after the squad had completed a from Columbus (O) last year He 'County Basketball tournament vigorous batting and fielding drill' hlt ony 251 57 games for Co- Vass took the Westmore girls by a commented you can say Ambits in 1940 but zoomed wlth Caviness lead- in Needham CAMDEN March 1 The Camden Ramblers defcat- BLUE HOSE IN SIAA TOURNEY BOWLING GREEN Ky March 1 Teams to participate in th Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament here next week were announced today by Terry Western Teachers college athletic director and tournament manager The tournament opens Thursday Schools to be represented Terry said are Tennessee Tech Cookes ville Tenn Mississippi Delta Cleveland Miss Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette La Louisiana Tech Ruston La Western Teachers college Bowling Green: Presbyterian college Clinton Union college Bourbourville Ky and Georgetown college Georgetown Ky I'm not very much worried" 315 With the Pennsylvania club I mg scoring was last season and was voted th high scored for Westmore ed the Palmettos 7-5 in a hard-fought polo game here this afternoon which was tied three times In the fourth chukker a pony ridden bv Whit Boykin No 2 play-er for the Ramblers broke a leg LARRY FINES KIRBY HIGBE HAVANA March 1 Presi and had to be removed from the ent Larry MacPhail of the Brook- Eastern League' most valuable plaver the Indians' Business Man ager Frank Kohlbecker reported field and shot Harrison's race down the entire length of the field in the fifth a lvn Dodgers today fined Pitcher Kirby Higbe $50 a day for each of seven days he was late-in re- SEMI-PROS CARD ALL-STAR TILTS ST LOUIS March ltp) Semi-pro baseball is going to outdo the major leagues in the number of all-star games for the benefit of th army' bat and ball fund The majors are playing two games July 6 and 7 The semi-pros will play 48 one in each state early in August Commissioner George Sislcr said today All proceeds will go to army camps for baseball equipment In each game the officially recognized state champion will meet an all-state team of 16 selected he crashed th score posts for a porting to training camp Higbe refused to accompany the Dodgers to Havana when the team flew here from Miami Feb 18 Higbe said it was because he like Havana but MacPhail said it was because Higbe was not allowed to bring his wife to training camp West End outplaved the Aberdeen girls 34-21 with Thomas and Tom-linson starring Colloway was Aberdeen's leading forward In a hard-fought and spectacular game West End defeated Hemp boys 31-29 Lewis starred on the offensive for Hemp while Glenn played a splendid floor game The Cameron girls led by Moses and Snow took Southern Pines 20-9 Thomas and Stutts performed well on the defense Grey was high scorer for Southern Pines while Council played well on defense The Cameron boys came out ahead of Vass with 36-24 McPherson starred for Cameron with Cameron and Comer also playing splendidly The semi-finals will be played in the Hemp gymnasium Monday EXHIBITION BASEBALL FORMER BULL ACE TO ARMY ALTOONA Pa March Robert Bobby) Ramazzotti 22 year-old Brooklyn Dodger shortstop who played for Montreal of the International league last season will be inducted into the army next week with 60 other men including his brother selective service officials disclosed today Ramazzotti piaved for minor league clubs in Johnstown Pa Durham and Elmira before he was bought last year by the Dodgers LAKE LURE IN TOURNEY WIN SPINDALE March Lake Lure defeated Ellcnboro here last night for the championship in the Gold Medal high ichool basketball tournament 25 to 24 In the consolation battle Green Creek toppled Sunny View 28 to 13 POLISH CMS FOR A LIV1IIG I use DuPont No 7 It does the job says Bob Rush Rush Ssrvico Station Dallas Tsxas third counter was the feature of the game Plans are being made to bring Fort Bragg here for next Sunday's game against the Rambler murphy'signs NEWARK PAPER NEWARK March 1 P) The Newark baseball club of the International League announced today receipt of signed contracts from Ed Carnett southpaw pitcher of the American Association obtained from Kansas City of the American Association in a winter trade and Lamar Murphy outfielder who played with Norfolk in the Piedmont League last year Murphy underwent spring training with the Bear last season and batted about 300 wuth Piedmont before suffering a leg injury that kept him on the bench the latter half of the campaign BANKER WINS PINES EVENT SOUTHERN PINES March Norris Hodgkins local banker today scored a 46-48-94-27-67 to wm the Sandpipers 18-hole medal tournament at the Southern Pines country club Charles Morrison also of Southern Pines turned a net 70 for second place Arthur Atherton of Philadelphia and Gordon Keith of Aberdeen tied with 71 for third place Twenty-five golfers teed off in the PRIDDY AT THIRD McCarthy has stationed Gerry Priddy on third base and unless Rolfe should suddenly show up the blond youngster who opened the season at second base in 1941 and then lost out may get to open the 1942 campaign at the hot corner Rolfe was ill last year and no one knows whether his health has improved greatly during the winter There are reports that President Edward Barrow has cut the salary of the 34-year-old New Hampshire flash regardless of his part in last vear's championship drive and that Rnlfe may quit baseball In view of this the attention given Priddy by the manager and coaches the early wokouts has been significant He has looked good fielding his position which he tried few times last season and McCarthy adheres to a belief that the former Kansas City star will be able to hit even though he failed last spring Crosetti who was the regular shortstop till little Thil (Scooter) Rizzuto took charge last year also will vie for the third base job vhen he gets here McCarthy said he had heard nothing from Henrich who had been classified 1-A by his draft -board He was expected to report however OMAHA YOUTHS BACK AT WORK OMAHA March 1 (P) Univer sity of Omaha students voted today to recess their five-day old strike against the policies of resident Rowland Haynes and return to classes Monday for one week Th strike started after the board of regents approved plan for withdrawing football and basketball teams from North Central Conference athletic competition PALMETTO GOLF PLANS ARE SET COLUMBIA March The Columbia Junior Chamber of Commerce announced today die fourth annual South Carolina intercollegiate golf tournament would be held here May 1 Bee Harper chairman of the Jay-cee committee in charge of the tourney said every college in the state had been invited to enter teams in the meet The Citadel has claimed the state championship for three consecutive years New York (N) 200 000 000 5 0 Brooklyn (N) 000 200 000 10 1 WILSON PLANS TO CARRY RIP AVALON Calif March The prospects for a regular infield posiUon bright for Glenn Russell but Manager Jimmy Wilson probably will carry him taka Lor Fllenbnr Cl) Rickman (9) Forward Hope 1 1ft) Huntley (81 Forward Rutlrr Whltesidea (8) Center 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