Sports Briefs Br Hugh Fullerton, NEW YORK. Nurch 29 (P) Reporting on the basketball set on at tha Jacksonville, Fla., na val air technical training center, Yeoman Carolus G. Anderson sayi that come 1500 sailors and marines competed on 150 intra , mural teams and about 500 more 1 played on outside courts. . , . ' "While the south is no basketball hotbed," he adds, "the navy is doing its part to scatter seeds for future growth." . . . And when you think that Florida alone has hundreds of other military estab lishments, nearly all with court teams and leagues, it appears that there'll be more to the her alded post-war sports boom than just a few more folks going to games. ... It may mean real popularity for some sports in sec tions that never paid much at tention to them before. TODAY'S GUEST STAR Whitey Gruhler, Atlantic City (N.J.) Press-Union: "Bowler Tru man Carey was so angry when a pocket-hit produced a 5-6 split that he grabbed a ball off the rack, set it down at the foul line and kicked It down the alley. And what do you suppose hap pened: He made the 56 split. . . Guess you could say that's one shot that was made with a foot to spare." MONDAY MATINEE The Hassatt f a m 1 1 y of the Bronx (Buddy of the Yanks and the navy, Billy of Georgetown and Danny of Manhattan) is coming up with another athlete. . . . Their dad says that 13-year-old Tommy is the best of the bunch, both at sports and sing ing. . . . Pedro Montanez, ex welterweight title contender from Puerto Rico, is doing all right with his bowling alleys in ; San Juan. . . . The Tigers claim ' to have baseball's best table ten nis player in Roy Henshaw, who brought three paddles to their Evansville, Ind., camp. . .-. He learned the game from his old college classmate, Coleman Clark, a former national cham pion. 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The officers approved an experiment for next season where by Jt will be a violation "when a player touches a try for goal on its downward arc above the level of the basket" Announcement of the experiment followed by only three days the performance of George Mikan, Depaul university's 0- Ted Norbert To Pitch For Americans PORTLAND, March 29 (IP) The Portland Beavers of the Coast league will be without the services this year of Ted Nor bert, top batter in the league last season. The big outfielder was sold to Milwaukee if the American as sociation. William H. Klepper, Beaver business manager, an nounced Pitchers Roy Davis and Daniel L. Brainard, Second Base man Stanley Rogers and Infield-er-Outfielder Ted Gullic plus an undisclosed cash consideration were received' in return. Norbert, who topped the league with, a .378 average and 28 home runs last year, could not come to terms with the Beav ers. Klepper said the deal also was undertaken J;o solve the sec ond base problem". Odell Hale, second baseman purchased last winter from Mil waukee, notified Klepper he would -remain on his farm for the duration. Cicero of the Chicago Cardinals, made a speech for the Great Lakes gobs recently, Lieut. Com mander Russell J. Cook present ed him with a shiny belt of the kind that Nat Fleischer doles out to boxing champions. ... It seems that when Jimmy was at Great Lakes during the other World war and was somewhat more slender than he is now he had won the a middleweight title of the station.. . . Only Com mander Cook remembered that Jimmy never had received the belt, and he got a better laugh than any of Conzelman's gags by insisting that the "champ" should try it on as soon as it was presented. SERVICE DEPT. The newly-arrived WAACs at Fort Sill, Okla., are likely to keep the regular soldiers busy defending their athletic laurels. The group includes First Leader Eve Evans, who was city tennis champion of Portsmouth, Ohio, had a 180 bowling average and was an all-star basketball player, in the 1942 tri-state tournament, as well as several other athleti cally inclined gals. Intercity buses, of which there are .only about 21,000, account for nearly two-thirds as many passenger miles as the railroads. Like to Select from the Piece? March 29, 1943 foot 8-inch center, who flipped aside 17 Dartmouth shouts in the opening round of the east ern national collegiate playoffs in Madison Square Garden. Experts said at least 11 of the attempts would have tum bled through the hoop except for Mikan's "goal-tending." Dartmouth was defeated by the Chicagoans, 46 to 35. The experiment was not writ ten into the rule book but will be tried at various times next season and then considered for inclusion in the laws at the 1944 meeting. Other changes, also labeled "experiments" because -they were not written into the rules but will get a trial period of one-year, would eliminate" the free throws after a double foul, unlimited substitution, and bring minor equipment variations. Only officers, headed by Com mittee Chairman J. W. St. Clair of Southern Methodist, met be cause of the travel restrictions. The coaches' organization meets today but will adjourn in time to see Toledo university and St. John's battle for the na tional invitational title at the Garden tonight Tuesday evening, Wyoming will oppose Georgetown for the NCAA .championship and on Thursday night the winners of the . two .tourneys will oppose each other in a Red Cross bene fit. .... Wyoming defeated Texas uni versity, 58 to 54, at Kansas City Saturday night to represent the west in the NCAA playoffs. St. Johns tumbled Fordhara, 69. to 43, and Toledo mastered Wash ington &' Jefferson, 46 to 39, before the Garden's largest bas ketball crowd 18,419. Oreqon Sport Notes By FRED HAMPSON Associated Press Staff Writer Portland's disposal of slugging Outfielder Ted Norbert came as something of a shock to the Beaver faithful. Norbert was not without his critics many claim ed it took him too long each sea. son to get his big bat warmed up but he was considered as some what of a Portland fixture and a good draw at the box office. Ap parently his high demands had something to do with the deal. As Harry Leeding of the Ore gon Journal points out, there are two quite different points of view on USC Athletic Manager Arnold Eddy's suggestion that the coast football conference be split for the duration. Eddy sug gests a north and south division with the teams in the respective ends playing home and home ser ies. This is all right with the average fan, thinks Leeding. The average fan figures curtailment is inevitable and figures that any football is better than no football at all., The collegiate athletic people, who have to worry about making ends meet, can't accept tne proposal so lightly. For ex ample a brace of games with Idaho has no where near the Cougars Approach Whitman With One Veteran Pitcher PULLMAN, March 29 CP) Washington State college will have but one veteran pitcher Roger Olson when the Cougars go to Walla Walla Friday and Saturday to open their pre-sea-son baseball schedule against the Whitman college Missionaries. Coach Jack Friel is putting his charges through dally intra squad contests to develop new mound talent. BOOHS OPEN . t-IS gin Drives Wicked Curve i - 4i i . Ear! Jennings drives taxlcab lowing workouts with Senators hinder, Jennings pitched in Washington Industrial league. Brewers Lose Bat-Mad Ted To Portland MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 29 (IP) Borchert field won't be the same this summer. Ted Gullic, whose bat has broken up a lot of baseball games for the Milwaukee Brew ers, has been traded out of the American association. Gullic, who patrolled center field for the Brewers for nearly 10 years, was sent to Portland, Ore., of the Pacific Coast league, in -partial exchange for Outfielder Ted Norbert, home run king of that circuit last year. The lanky, wrinkled-faced na. tive of Koshkonong, Mo., known to thousands of bleacher fans here as "old reliable," leaves the association with an all-time Brewer batting mark of .317 The veteran outfielder, now 36 years old, clouted 244 home runs In Brewer flannels and batted In 100 or more runs In five of his 10 seasons on the club. money value as, for example, the USC or the Stanford game. Pat Frizzell, sports writer for the Eugene Register Guard and the Portland Oregonian before Uncle Sam crooked a finger at him, is now a public relations soldier with an American unit at a British air base near London. Willamette university lost a third of its pitching staff the other day when Earl Toolson shoved off for the Louisville club of the American association, The Bearcat fans consoled themselves with the thought that Toolson is single and a member of the ma rine corps reserve and is not likely to finish the season with the colonels. Northwest basketball fans, particularly those at Washington State, boiled at the omission of Gall Bishop from the all-America team. The team was picked, it might be noted, before Bishop cascaded 80 points through the ring in a single game of the AAU tournament at Denver. - WHITMAN WINS WALLA WALLA, March 29 (IP) The Whitman college base ball team made It four In a row over the University of Ida ho nine Saturday, winning both games of a double header,': 2-0 and 8-0. Ken Benham pitched both seven inning games for the Mis sionaries, striking out 19 bat ters in' the 14 Innings and al lowing only five hits. i "Panama Haitle" NEW TOMORROW LAUGHS! . . . MUSIC! . . . THRILLS! ... & FUN! 1ST RUNI 's Springtime. . . Siugtimel V V , la- to and from and before and fol at College Park, Md. A right Huskies To Open Uneasy Spring Grid Practice SPTS 318 Seattle Ralniers .. LEWISTON, Idaho, March 29 (IP) Only two regulars of the Se attle Rainiers team of the Pacific coast baseball league who are expected to come in wore miss ing from their training camp this weekend. The two are Hal Turpln, pitch er, whom Business Manager Bill Mulligan said ' hadn't decided whether to quit his Oregon farm or not, and Dick Gyselman, third baseman. Gyselman is working out in Seattle" where he is em' ployed In the park department and will, report for the season's opening game. J . ' The Rainiers big problem Is catchers, with Bob Collins of the 1942 team sticking to railroading and Joe McNamee, former Spo kane backstop, out because of a back injury. Sammy Snead Still Golfer Though in Uncle Sam's Navy CORONADO, Calif., March 29 (JP) Service In Uncle Sam's navy hasn't dulled Sammy Snead s golf game. The long-hitting professional, now attached to the Coronado naval training station, won the county open tournament with a pair of 67'i. His 134 total was 10 strokes under par. Bill Foley, defending cham pion, and Lancy Williamson tied for second with 144's. Idaho Loses Track Team to Army on Eve Of Cougar Meet MOSCOW, Idaho, March 29 (IP) The University of Idaho track team, which will have its first meet of the season Saturday indoors against Washington State at Pullman, has just two veter ans on the squad. All the rest are in the army. "I lost a whole track team to the army last week," Coach Mike Ryan declared. The two lettermen left are John Thomas, half-miler, and LaMar Chapman, iwo-miier. WAR GOLF MEET PORTLAND, March 29 UP) An abbreviated tournament to raise funds for war purposes will replace the Oregon state golf tournament this summer, Oscar Furuset, president of the Oregon Golf association, an nounced this weekend. The tournament was cancelled last year. - Tires can lose pressure stand ing in the garage just as fast as when they are driven dally. ENDS TONIGHT on'ThVotnt Divide" ('fi II Ohio State Looking For Grand Slam Western Conference, NCAA Tltllit Looks at National AAAU Classic In New York COLUMBUS. O., March 29 (P With the western conference and NCAA swim championships safe ly tucked away, Ohio State uni versity's talent-laden tank team looked forward today to making it grand slam in the National AAU classic in Now York this woekond. Coach Mike Poppo's Big Ton champs won "going away" In the Nationnl collcglntos Saturday, capturing five individual cham pionships and piling up a team total of 81 points against 47 for second-place Michigan, The other entrants completely outdistanced, finished In this or der: Minnesota 13, Iowa 10, Col lege of Pacific 8; Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, and North western, 6 each; Texas A. it M. and Washington, 6 each; Michi gan Stnto 4, Massachusetts State 3, Purdue 2, and Pennsylvania and California, 1 each. Michigan is the only univer sity ever to annex the Big Ten, NCAA and AAU championships In a single campaign, the Wol verines turning the trick In 1940. That year the Wolves won tho NCAA with 73 points, six under the market set Saturday by tho Bucks. Ohio boasted the only double- winners In the national collegl- atos, Fronk Dempscy taking the ono and three-meter driving titles for tho second straight year, and Kco Naknmn, Hawai ian flash, winning the 440-yard and 1500-meter freestylcs. Emmet Cashin of Stanford grabbed the 200-yard breast stroke championship. Seattle Rainiers Miss Two From Spring Camp SEATTLE, March 29 (JP) The University of Washington will open Its spring football practice today, faced with tho virtual cer tainty that most of the veterans on hand will probably be In soma branch of the armed forces by next fall. For that reason Coach Ralph (Pest) welch soys that the ordi nary garden variety of campus collegian will be welcomed along wiin tno polished performers. About 20 varsity men from last year's squad plus a number of last years freshmen will be on hand for the five-week drill, The training program will be designed to put participants Into physical trim to play football or fight Japs, whichever turns up first, Welch said. Sacramento Solons Double Force at Practice Sessions SACRAMENTO, March 28 (IP) After struggling through spring training practice s e s s 1 o n s all week with only three players at his command, Manager Ken Pen ner of the Sacramento Solons saw his squad doubled in one day with the arrival today of two pitchers and an infleldcr. The newcomers were George Jumonvllie, former Philadelphia Phil short-stop who was with Mobile, Ala., in the southeast ern league last year, and Pitch ers Eldred (Bud) Bycrly and Al pha Brazle, both with Houston of the Texls league In 1942. Tho remainder of the Solon squad Is due tomorrow. Don't forget your air cleaner In your automobile. Have it cleaned every 0000 miles. THfc BIG RIGHT ARMY MUSICAL COMEDY! NOW! Doors Orion mo i4 Romance and roughhousel Melody and merriment... with 7 great new tunc , , . but tolldi Added Joyl Donald Duck "DER FUEHRER'S FACE" "Fighting Freighters" Travel and News mnfl SM!1m jHATURE'BAU Armstrong Pays for Victory '-&::. try A a ..... o 9 Young Al Trlbuanl of Wilmington. Dl plants one on the nose of former Triple Champion Henry Armstrong ol Los Angeles in the fifth round of their 10-round fight at Philadelphia, which Hammerin' Henry won by a unanimous decision. Training Camp Briefs By The Associated frets MUNCIE, Ind. The Pills burgh Pirates so surprised Man ager Franklo Frisch in Sunday's lntra-club gsmo that he ordered another contest for today. The regulars, with Elble Fletcher at first, Peto Coscarat at second, Frank Gustlne at short and Bob Elliott on third, handled 45 chances without a mlscuo. Tho team opens lis ex hibition schedule Wednesday against the Ball Stato Teachers college nine. BLOOMINGTON. Ind Man agor Bill McKechnie of the Cin cinnati Reds is confident that Bob Usher, 18-ycar-old speedster picked off the California sand lots, will be a great outfielder some day. Usher placed second with the 60-yard baseball play ers' dash at the Purdue relays Saturday. . LAKEWOOD, N. J. The New York Giants played a 1 to 1 tie In their Sunday camp to every one's satisfaction except Carl Hubbcll. Tho veteran southpaw was ready to twirl three innings but Manager Mai Ott refused permission until warmer weath er sets In. CAIRO, 111. Outfielder Hor ry Walker arrived In tho St. Louis Cardinal camp yesterday Just In time to play tha full 12 Innings of tho 1-1 squad game. Outfielder Stan Muslal, In train ing only two days, also went the entire route. BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y. Joe Medwlck, who says that 1843 will be his best year In the majors, blasted out a double and a home run yesterday as the Brooklyn Dodgers lost a 9 to 7 verdict to a team made up of Montreal and Durham, N. C. players. Medwlck drove in four runs. LaFAYETTE, Ind. Coach Del Baker, one of baseball's best sig nal stealers, lectured Rookie Hurler Allle Reynolds today af ter calling every pitch the young Oklahoman threw In a recent Cleveland Indian camp game. FRENCH LICK, Ind. Per sonal appearance of holdout Bill Nicholson In the Chicago Cub camp has pushed Into tho back ground the mystery concerning noons QpiM dmly ujo . (mi IXTnAI "Trees for Tomorrow" IXTnAI ' "Army Chaplain" XTni Latest War News Fiery 4th Adventure! M , wnd Day! Romance! Excltementl i i All In ilfjttSl Radiant if.'Vl Technicolor - 1 'JrC J I . i4.Miu 1 1 i iewj.. I W "i Lou Novlkoff, Clyde McCullough and Eddio Stiinky. McCullough and Novlkoff are announced holdouts but Stuuky, leading hitter In tho American associ ation last season, hasn't son I a word from his Mobile, Ala., homo. COLLEGE PARK. Md. A Washington cub-driver and a Baltimore semi-pro combined to pitch the Washington Senators' rooltiea to a 3 to 1 decision over m tho regulars yesterday. Earl Jennings and Cheater Koronmn were on tho mound for the win ners In Uie five-Inning fray. ASBURY PARK, N. J. Un til the New York Yankees learn the draft status of Shortstop Rookie George SttrnweUs, Man ager Joe McCarthy hasn't any idea concerning his regular in field. Stlrnweiss is In Hartford, Conn., today for his draft physi cal test. HERSHEY, Pa. Babe Dahl gren has played first base, third base and outfield and now ha. is Manager Bucky Harris' choice to opon the season as the Phila delphia Phillies' shortstop. Ha was tried in tho position Sunday and proved adequate. Automobile ventilating tys- s terns are badly handicapped ( the.io days because of slow driving. Hans Norland. Insurance. rLA8T DAY!- JOHN PAYHI Pit O'SilM "Garden of Moon" nS 'Boss of Big Town" TiT' i fair"- 7TTP -" wn ijjr TOMORROW Filmed In TECHNICOLOR! EDW. G. 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