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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1947 1946 Champions In Minor Sports Events Listed By FRANK ECK AP Newsteatures Sports Editor NEW YORK.—wWhile baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis and racing enjoyed a boom year in 1946, many minor sports and feature events, held idle by war years, returned to the scene, Among them were the 500-mile Indianapolis auto race, the Ber- muda yacht race, bob sledding on the dangerous one-mile Mount Van Hoevenberg run at Lake Placid, international polo, the National Horse Show and the Westminister Kennel Club dog i e’s the ‘alphabetical run- cown in some of the minor sports, including a few that are big time: AUTO RACING—George Rob- son of Los Angeles won the 500- mile Memorial Day race at In- cianapolis but three months later he was killed with George Bar- ringer at Atlanta. BADMINTON — Carl Loveday triumphed in the singles and paired with Ken Quigley to take the doubles in the nationals at Buffalo. BILLIARDS—Irving Crane of Livonia, N. Y., dethroned Willie Mosconi as pocket billiards. cham- pion, while Welker Cochran re- tained, the three cushion and 18.2 balkline. crowns and the “Boy Wonder”, Willie Hoppe, kept the 18.1 balkline, BOATING — Guy Lombardo won the national sweepstakes regatta‘ in*his Tempo VI. A. H. Full 7-foot sloop Gesture won the 635-mile Newport to Bermuda yacht race on corrected time. H. C. Taylor's Baruna was first but vas shunted to third on handicap. Mrs. B. W. Henry’s Good News finished second. BOB SLEDDING—Driver Tuf- field Lataur piloted the two-man Saranac Lake Bobsled Club to victory in the North American championships at Lake Placid while William Linney steered the! Republic Miners B. C. to the four- y Benham and Howard Crossett of Lake Placid won two-man hon- grs while Benham piloted the home club to the four-man title. BOWLING — Leo Rollick of Santa during a doubles match in the ABC tourney at Buffalo. A week jJater he took the singles crown. Joe Wilman of Chicago won the all-events. CHESS—Mikhail Botvinnik of Russia captured the master’s in- crown. In the juniors, Stan-j; tional tourney in'HoHand. The Tulsa, Okla, in a high svhool American League For the third time in four years smartly enough, in 1946, to equal the league record for defensive play, .973. | As the Boston Red Sox led the junior circuit with 4 team field- ing mark of .977, the circuit as a whole fielded the same mark as it did in 1943 and again in 1945, Boston’s team average this past season equaled Cleveland’s lead- ing mark of 1945. Charles Stevens of St. Louis was the top first baseman with a mark of .995 in 120 games. Most chances, 1451, and most assists, 116, were tallied by Rudy York of the Tigers, who wound up only one point behind Stevens for a mark of .994. The second basemen were led by Robert Doerr of Boston, who handled 916 chances, more than any other second sacker, with but 13 errors for an average of .986. In addition, Doerr had the most assists, 483, the most putouts, 420, and participated in the most dou- ble plays, 129. George Kell of Philadelphia- Detroit, was high among the third basemen with a mark of .983, only one point below the league record of .984 made by William Kamm in 1933. Kell handled 415 chances with but seven errors and had the most assists, 267, and the Most putouts, 141. Lou Boudreau of Cleveland topped the shortstops with a mark of .970, reached handling 742 chances with but 22 errors. Boudreau made the most putouts, Tragic ee ae | Marked Gridiron | Battles Of 1946 ' By JIM BECKER | AP Newsfeatures Sports Writer jeracy was carved of wood from Calhoun, | the gridiron during the 1946 sea- Record crowds cheered upsets, thrills, long runs, spectacular passes and hard line play, but when the plays were concluded | many gridders failed to rise. One of the most tragic acci-; dents of the year occurred at American League players fielded | NEW YORK. — Tragedy em-; South Carolina erged from many a pile-up on. United Daughters of the Confed- | son. {the home of John C Monica, Calif., rolled 300 Fielding Average cago had the most assists, 505. ‘Best defensive mark among the {outfielders was chalked up by; | Walter Judnich of St. Louis, who wound up with .995 by handling! }417 chances with only two errors.' }Stanley Spence of Washington} thad the most chances, 435, in 150! | games. i Twentysix pitchers, five more | than the number in 1945, had per-; fect fielding records on the bas’ of ten or more games. Among them, Ed Lopat of the Chicago} White Sox had the most chances, 56, three more than his leading total in 1943. Paul Trout of De- |troit handied the most chances,! 186, with five errors for a mark ‘of .942. | | Warren Rosar of Philadelphia broke the major league record for ithe highest fielding perceniage by a catcher, playing through a sea- | { 315, while Luke Appling of chi-| ror. With nine games left over :from 1945, Rosar broke the record ‘for the most consecutive errorless {games with 126 running. During ithis stretch he handled 648 coi {secutive chances, a new major league record, and added another | 'major league record with 605. j consecutive errorless chances in ;one season. ' | Frank Hayes of Cleveland and | Chicago did not appear in the lineup on April 24, thereby break- { {ing a record: string of 312 con-; |Secutive games as starting catch- jer. | | James Vernon tied the major jleague record for participating in jtwo unassisted double plays at ifirst base on May 29, /MAKES GAVELS FROM OLD HOMES PENDLETON, S. C.—(AP)— | David E. Burréss has a gavel- :making hobby of unique propor- | tions. | He scorns all but wood from | historic buildings. A recent gavel made for the chapter of the Fort Hill, near here. In addition to wood from the ~ dwelling of this one-time U. S. vice president, Burress has made gavels of wood from Hopewell, the home of ‘General Andrew W. Pickens, also’near here, and | from the home of | U.S. championships went to.Sam-!8@me, when Henry Frnka, Jr., uel Reshevsky and Miss N. May}S0n of the grid mentor at Tu- | College Karff. DOGS—Champion Hetherington Model Rhythm was judged best- n-show at the Westminster. GYMNASTICS -—»'Both ail- around champions refained their national crowns. Frank Comiskey of Union City, N: J., was best among men while Clara Schroth | Minnesota and Michigan, of Philadelphia led the women. HANDBALL—Angelo Trulio of New York regained the national AAU four-wall singles title he Jast won in 1932 by beating Gus Lewis, Buffalo steeplejack, in San Francisco. Frank Coyle and Ed- die Linz of the New York A, C. scored in doubles. HOCKEY — The Montreal Ca- nadians won their third straight National League flag and regain- d the Stanley Cup, beating the Boston Bruins, four games out of | five. HORSESHOE PITCHING—Joe Latzko of Plint, Mich., .was, tops in singles whileRatpi Laokey and June Marcum of Middletown, O., triumphed in doubles. ICE SKATING — Bob Fitzger- ald, Minneapolis, won the men’s lane, suffered a brain injury that | caused his’ death. He was tackled head-on by two opposing line- j backers. Broken bones were numerous} in both college and pro football ranks. ! Bill Daley, All-America from was counted on to carry much of {the backfield load for the Brook- jlyn Dodgers in the new All- | America Conference, suffered ay broken ankle early in the cam-} paign and never returned to! form, | Bill Dudley, one of the Na-; | tional Football League's bright- [est stars, took a tremendous beating over the year, and when! jhe was carried from the field} | with a torn ligament in the final! game against Philadelphia, he announced his retirement. “I’m the beating,” Dudley asserts. Another pro gridder was lost yfor two months when Jackie | Wilson, rapid scat-back of the »Los Angeles Rams, suffered a national speed crown at St. Paul. POLO—U:S. beat México’s four Gracida brothers’ two straight in the International series at Mead- owbrook, Westbury, N. Y. ROWING—Jack Kelly, Jr., of Philadelphia lost by three lengths io Jean Sepuariades of France in the finals of the Diamond sculls. Two weeks later Kelly won the USS. single sculls title. SKI JUMPING — Alf Engen scored in the nationals at Steam- boat Springs, Colo., with a leap of 2 feet. SWIMMING—Thirty-seven rec- broken arm in the Washington game. | A brokenarm also was dealt to Roy Cestary, spectacular Col- .| umbia énd who did all the punt- ing for his team. The wing was; shattered in the Dartmouth game and Cestary watched the re- mainder of the Lion tilts from} the bench. Brilliant Cal Rossi, right half- back who sparked the early- season march of the undefeated united UCLA Bruins, suffered a | broken right leg in the Cali- who, with six too small at 172 pounds to take! ords were broken, 29 by women. | fornia game, and sat out the sea- Bill Smith, Hawaiian, clipped ajson. Rossi led UCLA's point tenth of a second off Johnny | scorers when the fracture struck. Weissmuller’s mark of 0:57.8 for} Another backfield star, Michi- 100 yards freestyle. Adolph Kiefer | gan’s Jack Weisenburger, frac- swam the 150-meter medley in/tyred a jaw in the hard-fought} 1:47.9 and later turned pro. Joseph | Army game. The fullback had Verdeur of Philadelphia nego- | yipped ‘off 4.5 yards per carry 1 200 yards in 2:19.5 and 200) yen the injury cut him down. in 2:35.6 for two world’s | George Connor, Notre Dame’s| tstroke marks. All-America tackle, broke his Ann Curtis, 20-year-old) 344 on the opening day of 1946 ancisean, set eight Ameri- | actice. However, in this case, {the injury healed — and le y on to.. be@@me a and Patty Sinclair of San Bean | Conor ane nike for teens isco, Nancy Merk _ iof Sarees eaten Irish, the nation’s top| liate met San I can marks in freestyle races from 150 10 440 yards. Jo: Ma rae 3etty Lachok of Akron, C i ’ : if we : year? Chicago | football team in me A.P. 1946 other multiple record smash | sports writers’ pt ——————<————— Everything Relative ae | ; She’s So Refined a 8 Ssin; She: “Isn't at onde girl ‘Tell t it man to stop ki: 8 | h 1. h b you! j next to us pretty “Tellthim yourself. I don't talk Lae ; to stranbers. Thomas G.| Clemson, founder of Clemson; FINDS $18,000; REWARD, $3 BISMARCK, N. D.— Kenneth . Yeiter, a bartender, found $18,000 worth af indorsed and negotiable checks.lost by a Bis- j marck contractor. The contrac- | tor generously rewarded him— i ELLING ABOUT FLORIDA— son of 117 games without an er-,’ Key West Reported Turned | of 973 Equals Mark; Boston Leads| Down In Bid For Franchise (By Assoeatea Press) In F. L. Baseball Leagu Davis Cu From Australians (By Assoctated Press) | MELBOURNE, Jan. 1, — With/ the Davis Cup safely locked in a! vault of his hotel here toda Walter Pate, captain of the Amer. | ican Davis Cup team, prepared to return to the United States by plane January 5. The great trophy, held by the Australians since 1939, was hand- ed over to the United States at eeyong, Monday following Kra- mer’s drubbing of John Brom- ch, Australian champion, 8-6," 6-4, 6-4 and an equally impres- p, Won Dinny Pails, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. The concluding singles matches gave the United States its fifth clean sweep of the international matches in Davis Cup hi ‘f They also settled any ek to the superiority of Amepiéé's top-flight amateur tennis play- ers. Kramer beat both Pails and Bromwich. Ted Schroeder and Mulley each defeated Pails, sec-| ; ond-ranking player of Australia.’ | Kramer and Schroeder soundly trounced Bromwich and Adrian! Quist, top-flight Australian dou- bles team. Kramer had no comment on reports that he would turn pro- fessional for $50,000 if he wins the Wimbledon Championship in June. He told the Associated Press that he planned to play at best in the solution of problems | citizens. Wimbiedon and Forest Hills and defend the Davis Cup in the 1947 ‘challenge round in late August | ; September. After that, he! have no plans.” Kramer, Schroeder and Prank to be friendly. Her smile three} oarly the next morning. He said| Parker will return with Pate. Parker showed bitter disappoint- ment at not being selected to play and voiced severe criticism of Pate’s management. Mulley, Bill Talbert and Tom Brown will compete in the Australian national championships, starting January 17. $850 POSTAGE FROM CHINA CLARKFIELD, Mnn. — It re- | | ! i quired $850 — in inflated Chi- nese money—ot bring a letter {from China to the Rev. J. E. Akre, of Clarkfield. The back of the envelope, sent by Edward Sovik, a missionary was covered with stamps. In the ten years Worid War Il, the world popula- tion increased by 200,000,000. ithe poor and one kind to Key West’s application for en- try in the Florida-International Baseball League was turned down yesterday, according to a report received by The Citizen. Roy Hamlin, chairman of the Municipal Stadium Committee, who went ot Miami,to apply for a Key West franchise in the league on behalf of local back- ers, could not be reached for comment today as he was still in Miami. Friends of Hamlin, however, who saw him at the Orange Bowl patade last night, said the body else had beat Key West to it’ in securing the franchise. The name of the other city was not available. The development came as a surprise to fans here since the communications from other clubs in the league had favored Key West’s entry. The franchise ‘ap- plication was apparently turned down by Judge Wayne Allen, ! league president, whom Hamlin had an appointment to see yes- terday for the purpose of seek- ing admission of Key West in the league. Your Horoscope WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1947—Today gives a benefactor to the weak. A student of the mys- terious, you should seek employ- ment in abstruce trades, for you will not be interested in the brdi- nary employments, but will work benefitting mankind. SMILE BRINGS FORTUNE GRONINGEN, Holland. — A Dutch girl has found that it pay years ago at a man who was shunned by neighbors because of a facial disfigurement has brought her a fortune of about $40,000. The man, a farmer, never forgot the girl’s smile and when he died recently, he willed her all of his possessions, EATING RACE DANGEROUS PARIS, France.—Of ahree. men who contested the title of the biggest eater in Bayonne, one died of indigestion and the other two seriously ill. The men sat down to a meal consisting of an enor-| in China, mous steak, one rabbit and ten! was left behind when the 335 pounds of beans. Shortly after Hlaeving the table, one of them/to death. preceding collapsed and died, a second was! struck with paralysis and the art attack. rs ee The results third had a ' produced thus far by the campaign of the State) Advertising Commission in telling Florida's story to the nation were vividly presented in Miami at a public meeting sponsored by the State Chamber of Commerce. vertising program concerning industry, agriculture, recreation and retirement has already brought in more than 150,000 inquiries, and the publicity campaign has reached an estimated 250,000,000 people. ville and Perry Marsh of St. Petersburg. Commission members who spoke at the Miami meeting included (top, left) to right): Braden Ball of Pensacola, J. Saxton Lloyd of Daytona Beach, Commissioner of Ag-' ext to you, everything | riculture Nathan Mayo; (bottom) James T. Larimore of Miami, Jomes L. Cartwright of Jackson were sent to. the hospital! | small children, had been thrown jon some When all prisoners were lined up, ' | STREET LIGHT The four-way ad-! A recent dispatch from Rome,tered the murdered bodies in the German genetals were on ,ttial ably decayed), so his wife and for ordering the massacre -o , brother-in-law hadn't been able ~ Italians in the Ardeatine Caves’ to claim his body for burial, The young Italian told how he , bodies, a look upon the mangled, mutilat-' human heads spread out on the ed bodies of the 335 Italians who tables, in a vain effort to find were slaughtered in reprisal for their loved one. He said*the two the ambush killing of 32 German }ittle' children of the dead man, SS troops. The 335 murdered were told \by their mother that bodies "9 Pokey oar tole a, their daddy was away in..the sig le i k ace rei: 4 been ‘shot in the back of the, Similar ‘atrocities might have ieee ier in shees of Gor eae eee, arene a n officer In.¢: ey Germans: ‘made it a - said the Germans who murdered jantic. We should be always ‘local man told them that ‘some-| the Italians had placed a Luger grateful to the brave men who pistol to the back of each vic-" Gefeated the Germans 3,000 miles’ tim’s head, while his hands were from our homes. We should keep tied behind his back, and pulled jn mind that if a third world the trigger. war should be allowed to break About 30 heads had been sev-| out, millions of Americans may éred from the bodies and were be searching for the bodies of e win by Gardnar Mulley over Owner of the Havana Club and | spread out on tables. The shrivel- their loved ones. - ed, murdered bodies were lying! a in’ open pine-box coffins. Most; TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS of them were so mutilated that! - (Know. America) : they could not be identified. J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I. head, Grief-stricken relatives of the porn in Washington, D. C.,* 52 dead men still came to the caves | years ago. ol in search of their loved ones. Be-}" pr, Charles Seymour, presiden! ing unable to identify their fath-! of Yale University, historian, born er or brother, the sorrowing‘in New Haven, 62 years ago. families of the murdered men! William J. (“Wild Bill”) Dono- had hung pictures of their dead van of New York, wartime ma- on the walls of the caves. Some’ jor-general and Office of Strate-: of the pictures were wrapped injgic Service head, lawyer, born in faded flowers. Tear-stained let-/ Buffalo, N. Y., 64 years ago. ters of farewell were pinned to! Hamilton T. Holt of Macon, Ga ‘ some of the ‘pictures. Tender | industrialist, president of Kiwan- messages of love and devotion! is International, born in Stewart were written across the bape oe iat Cugaw, ccudasunttis of some of the pictures. The pie-!.. * sins $I gir 47) years tures indicated the dead men | linist, ee rae : were" wholesome, respectable ' " Edwin Franko Goldman of New | York- conductor-composer, bern | A priest who lived a short dis-|in Louisville, Ky., 69 years ago. | tance from the scene of the mas-! U.S. Senator Edwin C. Johnson | sacre said the Germans started/of Colorado, bern. in Scandia, ooting the Italians about 8:00'Kans., 63 years ago. yclock one night and finished The junior colleges in the U.S, | the piteous screams of the doom- | —630 of them—had a record 365. | ed men as they begged the Ger- | 000 students in 1946. i | mans for mercy was heart-rend-/| } ing. He said thé screams and} | moans of the dying men could be! heard throughout the night. A young Italian ex-soldier,| who was in the jail from which| | the 335 victims were taken to be; slaughtered, told how the victims! were selected by the Germans. He said the inmates of the jail, mostly politieal prisoners, were ‘lined up, himself included, and eyery third man was selected for | assassination. He himself hap: pened to be number two, so he GOOD LOOKING... GOOD SEEING .. o Sa | ¥: ANTICOLARS SUN GLASSES ‘The style and smarciess of Ray-Baw Sun Giasses appeals immediately r@ those who pride themselves on looke ing their bem for any occasion. Bus more important is Ray-Baa’s kindness 60 the eyes that wear them. By filtering ‘our excess light and glase, ar the same time transmitting the wse/ul rays of, light, Ray-Ban mekes seeing. comforts able apd non-titiag, eveo ic jbrighnese oudoo: ligh — ~ roomed men were taken away A young man, who was in the leave searching for the body of; his sister's husband, told.a sad tory. He said his brother-in-law, | young man of 33 with two in jail by the German Gestapo trumped-up charge. | he happened to be a fatal num- ber three and so had his brains blown out by a German Luger fired by a German killer The victim had no identifica- | tion on his body or in his cloth-, waeeta shew, | A j ing (it was some two months af- arias ] ter the massacre before the al- : {ules captured Rome and discov Dr. J. A, : Valdes | en | OPTOMEMRIST | Your Grocer SELLS That GOOD | office Hours: 912’and 2-5 pm. STAR * BRAND | Evenings by, Appointment { ADDRESS: PHONES: | AMERICAN COFFEE | Yee: 23. ottice 922 and CUBAN |] 619 Duval St, pease: Residence 295 Try A Pound Today!! | Upstairs PLEASE ADVISE THE City Electric System OF ANY BURNED-OUT SSE IRE ERS BULBS and They Will Be Replaced At Our Earliest Opportunity od Any Person Maliciously Breaking g Street Light Bulbs “Z:’ Prosecuted i

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