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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 14, 1948 Citation Heads Small List of 109 Kentucky Derby Eligibles Prize Moundsman Nicholas To Pitch for the Deacons A COACH AND PUPIL Novosel and Nicholas Ace Professional Prospect Wants College Degree Before Turning Pro Wake Forest, March is a story of a young man who wanted a college education very much. He wanted it so badly he turned down 16 jobs in his chosen profession to enroll at Wake Forest College to pursue his studies toward a B.S. degree.

The young man in question is the sensational young baseball pitcher, Harry Justly. Nicholas, from Valley Stream, Harry, who is a modest youngster of 18, broke almost existing high school pitching record in New York State. During his four years of hurling Central High of Valley Stream lost only two games for. -and one was one-hitter, and the other was a three-hitter! Nicholas boasts a sizzling fast ball that hops, a sharp hook and drop and has a smooth change of pace. These accounted for two no-hitters, six one-hitters and two two-hitters last year at Valley Stream.

In 90 innings he yielded 27 hits, walked 34, and fanned 146. In three of these contests he pitched two nohit games in a row, then a one-hitter, striking, out 19 of the 21 batsmen him in the seven-inning game. This earned for Harry the New York World-Telegram Most Valuable New York State High School Player Award which gave him a free trip on a Western swing of the New York Giants last summer. Two Men Helped. Harry, who weighs 185 and is sixfeet tall, attributes his baseball baYo-inches, two personshis father, Harry Paul Nicholas, a prominent Valley Stream business man, and Charlie Dressen, coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1945 Dressen spent the entire year with day. The Master taught the Nicholas, working, with him every youngster many tricks from his wide repertoire, and Harry has been practically unbeatable ever since. All 16 of the major leagues baseball teams offered Harry handsome contracts to sign with their team, but, with the guidance of his father, he decided to finish high school and then enroll at college. Now that Harry has enrolled at Wake Forest he says that baseball is secondary to his education. He says that he hopes to play major league bail some day, but for the present he'll stay at Baptist Hollow until he gets his degree.

New Coach Frank Novosel comes to Wake Forest following a wide and varied career as player and manager in professional and semipro baseball. After playing for three seasons at New York University (1925-26-27), he performed with Toronto in the International League, Springfield in the Central League, Hartford in the Eastern League, Raleigh, Richmond, and Greensboro in the old Piedmont League, Hollywood in the Pacific Coast League, Elmira in the New League, Rock. Island in WestYork- ern League, and Birmingham in Southern League. Wake Forest opens its 1948 season under Novosel against the Univerty of Akron at Wake Forest on Friday, March GREENVILLE GOLF TEAM TOPS PLYMOUTH OUTFIT Plymouth, March Greenville golf team defeated Plymouth, 45-29, in a regularly scheduled Coastal Golf Association match here last Wednesday. Simon Mcye, of Greenville was medalist, followed Webb and Bruce Baker.

Highlight of the day was Sidney Hofler's hole-in-one on the 156-yard No. 2. Hofler, who is from Washington, used a four iron for his shot; he was playing with Gene Harrington, Gentry Galloway and Seth Hooker. Scores for the day were: Simon Moye 79, Ersell Webb 80, Bruce Baker 83, Bill Delbridge 85, W. L.

Be Allen 86. Herbert, Waldrop 86 and Hunter M. Barrett 88, Bill Morton 89. Bill Davenport 89, Joe Exum 89, Dave Mosier 90. Seth Hooker 91, Milton Harrington 97, and Cecil Bilbro 92.

Gentry Galloway 94. Cavols Murray 95. Curtis Perkins, 95. Bob Lang 99, Aubrey Tilley 103. J.

R. Pittman 103, and Joe Taft 103. SON OF BULL LEA HAS FINE RECORD Calumet Farm's Juvenile Champion Is Responsible for Small Entry List Louisville, March Farm's Citation, the juvenile champion of 1947 who has been unbeatable since he turned three, today headed a small but classy list of 109 eligibles for the 74th Kentucky Derby. The flashy son of Bull Lea who won 12 of his 13 starts and could have taken the other had anything but a stablemate been in front of him, was held responsible for the smallest entry list in 10 years. while owners of second grade horses were reluctant to nominate them against the greatest three-year-old prospect since Count Fleet, in 1943, practically every outstanding juvenile of 1947 racing season was among those entered for the Louisville classic.

Col. Matt J. Winn, who announced the nominations yesterday, was highly pleased with the select list. "More than 37 cent, or better than one in every, three of the eligibles, either an added money race last year, or ran second or third in one," declared the elderly president of Churchill 'Downs where the historic classic he built up from a purely local affair to the nation's premier turf event, will be held on a May 1. Citation was only one of six horses nominated by Warren Wright but he the best record.

He even overshadows the brilliant filly, Bewitch, the only member of her sex entered in the for the roses and the horse which handed Citation his, only defeat when she led him home in the Washington Park Futurity last summer. As a juvenile, eight of nine starts, defeating wine best that could be mustered against him. But it was his form during the winter season in Florida which will install him the winter book favorite when betting commissioners release their future odds on the race. Bewitch gives Calumet another strong contender but only one filly -Regret in 1915-ever has graced the winners, since Aristides won inaugural in 1875. Free America, Coaltown, Whirl Blast, and Beau Dandy round out Calumet's bid for a third victory in the stake.

It won with Whirlaway in 1941 and with Pensive in 1944. The champions from the other winter racing centers--the Fairgrounds California Orleans and Santa Anita in also were entered. S. W. Labrot, Bovard who was bred in Maryland and the Louisiana Derby was a strong contender horses raced in the Pelican but Ben F.

fromsthe Whitaker's My Request headed the nominations from that area. My Request, made only one start at the Fairgrounds and won, displaying the speed and class which carried him to victory in five stakes last season. William G. Helis's Salmagundi, the Santa Anita Derby winner, heads the West Coast contingent which includes Miss Mary Strand's Call Bell, Robert F. Howard's Drumbeat, Mrs.

John Payson, Adams' Grandpere and Mrs. Goldstone's Solidarity--the best youngsters in California last year. Hal Price Headley was the largest nominator. The Lexington, breeder never has won a Derby but he entered seven horses in hopes of getting his first. He named Pinebloom and Pennon who placed in stakes last year, Catsmeow, Dole, Humdinger and Ringneck.

William Woodward's Belair Stud, which has won three runnings of the Derby with Johnstown in 1939, Omaha in 1935 and Gallant Fox in 1930 also was a big nominator in an effort to equal the record of the late Col. E. R. Bradley who won four times. Whirling Fox was its big horse but Gangway, Hypnos and the Devish also were named.

Greentree Stable, winner in 1931 with Twenty Grand and in 1942 with Shut Out, also entered four. Other owners who named more than a single horse included G. H. Bostwick, Edward S. Moore's Circle M.

Farms, Eugene De Sosa, William Helis, Mrs. Alice F. Sherman's High Ground Stable, Robert J. Kleberg's King Ranch, Joseph M. Roebling, Earl Sande who rode three Derby winners as did Issac Murphy and Eddie Arcaro, Mrs.

Rea E. Warner, C. V. Whitney, W. M.

Wickman and Mrs. Elizabeth Graham's Maine Change Farm, winner in 1947 with Jet Pilot. Canada and Mexico were the only foreign countries represented. De Sosa entered King Lear and Vihar from south of the border while E. P.

Taylor named Jacopet from the north. Stakes winners entered included Citation, Bewitch, Piet, My Request, Grandpere, Better Self, Call Bell, Relic, Star Bout, Saggy, Nearway, Escadru, Shy Guy, America, Royal Blood, Bold Gallant, Task, Vulcan's Forge, Gasparilla, Almac, Tight Squeeze, Gee Whiz, Equibit, Hefty, Fritz, Maisel, Cacique and Salmagundi. Those who finished in the money in stakes were Solidarity, Whirling Fox, Ace Admiral, Loujac, Macbeth, Reborn, Pinebloom, Fugit, Pennon, Papa Redbird, Big Deal and Billings. The 109 nominees represented 71 interests and swelled the winner's share by $5,450. He also gets 000 of the $100,000 added plus $1,000 for each starter.

LION'S CLUB SCORES. Plymouth, March in the Lion's Club basketball tournament: Thursday--Aurora girls 25, Pantego Jamesville 43, Bath boys 33; Plymouth boys 27, Central 21. Friday night results: Central girls 27, Hertford Jamesville girls 23, Aurora 17; Jamesville boys 24, Aurora' 18; Hertford boys 28, Plymouth 15. C. Harris, with 16 points, led the Central girls.

Lamb got 14 for Hertford. Gardner, with 19, sparked Jamesville; Hayes bagged nine for the Aurora club. Hennis got seven for Aurora and Brew scored eight for A Jamesville. Alexander got six for Plymouth and Jordan had nine for Hertford. Fighting Irish Grid Team Retires Williams Trophy South Bend, March A new trophy for the 1948 National will be put in play by the UniverCollegiate football championship sity of Notre Dame, whose undefeated 1947 team retired the Dr.

Henry L. Williams Trophy. The Notre Dame National MonoClub today it would present J. Hugh announced, O'Donnell Memorial Trophy to the 1948 national champion as determined by The Associated Press poll. It will go permanently to any school winning times.

The new cup honors the memory of the Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell. C.S.C., a letter winner on the 1915 Notre Dame football team, first president of Monogram Club in 1916, and University president from 1939 to 1946. He died June 12, 1947.

Jack F. Rissman, Chicago sportsman, offered the first trophy emblematic of the national gridiron championship in 1924. Notre Dame retired the Rissman Trophy in 1930 and put the K. Trophy in competition. retired the Rockne Trophy in 1940 and its club donated the Dr.

Henry L. Williams Trophy in honor BEAGLE TRIALS. Kinston, March spring Derby trials of the Coastal Plain Beagle Club will be held at the trial grounds on the Simmons farm, 13 miles south of New Bern, on HighAn Sundav. starting at 8 PHILS SHUT OUT BY DETROIT, 7-0 Hutchinson and Trout Hurl Four-Hitter-Daugherty Hits Four-Master Lakeland, March Freddie Hutchinson and Paul (Dizzy) Trout pitched the Detroit Tigers to a four-hit shutout victory today over the Philadelphia Phils, 7-0. Hutchinson, pitching for the first time this spring, gave three hits in the first four innings, and Trout allowed ed only one the rest of the way.

Tigers jammed most of their scoring into a big third inning off rookie Southpaw Dick Koecher, making five hits for five runs. The game was a notable one for rookie Tiger Shortstop Hal Daugherty, former Ohio State athlete. In his first time at bat organized ball, Daugherty hit a home run. R.H.E. Philadelphia (N) 000 000 000-0 4 1 Detroit (A) 105 000 10x-7 8 3 Koecher, Heintzelman (4), Dubiel (7) and Seminick; Hutchinson, Trout (5) and Riebe.

984 CHANCES. Dave Bancroft, former major he leaguer, holds a league record for the number of shortstop chances in one season with 984. The Deacs' One-Man Teams Hard to Beat in Tourneys Gopher Coach from 1900 to 1921.. Winners of the Rissman and Rockne trophies were determined annually by the Dr. Frank G.

Dickinson rating The Williams Trophy was on the basis of the, final Associated Press poll each season. Notre Dame was the first winner of the Rissman Trophy, but it went in succession to Dartmouth, Stanford, Illinois, and Southern California before the Irish won two more legs in 1929 and 1930. Southern California won the first leg on the Rockne Trophy in 1931 and then it moved to Michigan for a two-year stay. Minnesota won it 1934. It moved the next year to Southern Methodist, then back to Minnesota, to Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Southern California and finally to Minnesota.

Minnesota got one leg on the Williams cup 1941. It traveled to Ohio State in 1942, Notre Dame in 1943, Army in 1944 and 1945. The Irish retired it by winning the AP poll in 1946 and 1947-two undefeated seasons marred only by a I scoreless tie with Army in 1946. o'clock. More than 35 rabbit hounds from the Carolinas will participate in the trials, which are sanctioned by the American Kennel Club.

Charles Turner Kinston and Ray West of New Bern will serve as judges. A picnic dinner will be served on the grounds. Gridders George and Harris Take Time Out to Pick up Other Honors Wake Forest, March Ordinarily Coach Douglas Clyde (Peahead) Walker isn't any too happy when one of his players skips a practice for no good reason. But the genial football mentor was quite proud of the accomplishments off the football field of a couple of his hopefuls. Lilburn (Buck) Harris, 200-pound sophomore right end husky from Norfolk, skipped Saturday's scrimmage and hurriedly thumbed his way to Richmond, to comthe Virginia AAU Weight Lifting championships in the Old Dominion Capital.

Buck was defending pion in this event and he successfully retained his title with weight lift of 750 pounds in three events. He had 230 pounds in press, 225 in best snatch and 295 in clean and perk. These are the three types of competition in a weight lifting contest. The runner-up contender lifted 740 pounds. Big Bill George, 210-pound freshman from Waynesburg, the leading candidate for tackle in the current drills, took time off from practice on Monday and Tuesto compete in the Southern Conference wrestling tournament at Lexington, Va.

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In the semi-finals he threw Don Wilkenson of Maryland in 7:15 and then bagged the heavyweight championship with a quick fall in 2:48 over Bill Blackwell of V.M.I. George's three victories on falls gave Wake Forest a total of nine points or fifth place in the team scoring. He accounted for one more point than North Carolina, which entered a full eight-man team. George had only three workouts prior to competing in the Conference tournament. But a glance through the records shows that he had quite a bit of wresting experience before coming to Wake Forest.

Last year he won the National Junior AAU 191-pound crown in Pittsburgh. While high school he won three sectional crowns and two state titles. Likewise, Harris is no newcomer to weight lifting meets. He's been competing off and on in this type of competition for nine years and estimates he has participated in approximately 40 meets. In 1944 he took third in the AAU junior championships Pittsburgh and the same year placed second in the Middle Atlantic AAU meet held in New York.

Premonition Gilbert, March -Erick Sandstrom, 82, Iron Range pioneer, has been a close follower of the Gilbert basketball team this year. His grandson, David Sandstrom, is a member of the squad. Last night Erick listened to a radio account of the GilbertCloquet game in the Region Seven tournament. Gilbert won, 53- 34. Hearing the result, he turned to other members of family and said: "Now that Gilbert has won, I can die." Three minutes later he died from a heart attack.

at Carolina After Triumphs of This Year DOLPHIN COACHES LOOK TO FUTURE Swimming Outlook Is Bright Chapel Hill, March 13. North Carolina's Southern Conference champion swimmers, with seven of them training for the Eastern Intercollegiates, today surveyed their triumphs of 1948 and looked to the future. Coaches Dick Jamerson and Ralph Casey, who were presented handsome gifts by their charges for able leadership this season, admitted the outlook is potentially rosy for next year. From the best they can figure out, only six men swam out their eligibility this season, although there are seniors in the lot with eligibility remaining who may not return. Those who definitely have said goodbye to collegiate aquatic wars are Mike Morrow, Mack Erle, Bob Ousley, Bob Elliott, Dave Whichard, and Bill Pritchard.

Those departing can look back on a 1948 season of 10 dual meet victories without defeat, plus the Southern Conference crown, lot of satisfaction. This was a team which broke all but one of the Southern Conference titles and ran of up a record breaking winning score 101 points in the swim-offs last week. Those selected to compete in the Eastern championships at Harvard University on March 19-20 are Norman Sper, Dick Twining, Floyd Drew, Morrow, Steve Osborne. Bill Pritchard, and Bob Ousley. Carolina will be represented in all events.

With many of old stars returning in 1949, including Twining, the "muscles man," Sper, Drew and Osborne, the squad, is loaded with blossoming talent which successfully went on display this year. In several meets Coach Jamerson withheld his aces in order to let the younger and less experienced swimmers have a chance. This has been the policy in Carolina swimming over the years it has paid off handsomely in triumphs and records. After Eastern championships Carolina likely enter a team in the Nationals. PEACH BELT CIRCUIT WILL OPERATE AGAIN Southern Pines, March Peach Belt League, a fast semi-pro baseball circuit, will operate again this season, was announced here after a meeting last Monday.

Five of the six towns in the loop were represented. Representatives attended from Hamlet, Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Robbins, and Rockingham. Not represented was Raeford, although it will definitely be represented again this season. The league will play a 30-game schedule, two games each week beginning on May 5 and continuing through the latter part of August. Gus Hasty of Maxton will serve as president of the loop in 1948.

Landon Tyson of Aberdeen was elected vice-president and Tom Wicker of Southern Pines is secretary-treasurer. American League teams have won 10 all-star games to four won by the National League..