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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
8
A wartime sports column examines amateur and professional teams resuming activity, the fate of 4-F athletes, and the push to keep sports funded. It notes boxing’s wartime pull, expectations for postwar leagues, and the idea some athletes may serve to boost morale.
A four day Riviera Country Club event opened with 131 golf professionals and amateurs. The 15th Los Angeles Open offers a record purse of 13333 in War Bonds, with 4500 awarded to the winner. Notables include Sammy Snead Byron Nelson and defending champ Harold McEpaden.
Chicago gap report outlines plans to establish a new major league agreement and form a committee led by Ford Frick and Will Harridge to name a successor to the late K M Landis. The group will draft powers and salary terms, with a 16 year limit and proposed pay around sixty five thousand dollars, and present proposals at the New York mayoral meeting.
Dee Miles ex A’s outfielder Helder and Virgil Trucks former Tigers pitcher are stationed at a Pacific naval base and will be teammates this season. Trucks says he is back on duty after an appendectomy. all are from Alabama.
Rep O Toole proposes reclassifying draft rejected 4 F professional athletes as soldier athletes to serve under Army or Navy supervision. He suggests sending 4 F players to military establishments where they would do the most good, under War Mobilization Director Byrnes's oversight.
Los Angeles AP reports UCLA head football coach Edwin C. Horrell resigns after six years amid bitter criticism of the Bruins poor gridiron showing. Assistants Bronko Naburski and Ray Edwards quit as well. In Florida, coach Tom Libra of the University of Florida plans early recruitment trips and attends the National Football Coaches Association meeting in Columbus, Ohio, while signaling a bold search for players in central northern states.
Chicago January boxing card at the Coliseum will drop the planned exhibition by 68 year old former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson after the Illinois Athletic Commission, citing a failed physical exam, refused the exhibition with either Kingfish Levinsky or Lee Savold.
London reports Britain's milk run up sharply with consumption forecast to top 209 million gallons in 1944. Agriculture Ministry official J L Davies cites a postwar rise from a prewar 270 million cartons and a 300 million gallon production milestone.
Bedford Indiana factory with Army approval makes bombs from limestone for low altitude target practice. Also notes on London considering radio patrol cars and a Siamese embalming practice described.
ATLANTA AP Georgia Tech North Carolina and several service squads are favored in the Southeastern AAU swimming championship at Emory University Saturday. The program features the national junior AAU 10 yard freestyle and events for both sexes. A Tech North Carolina opener headlines the meet with standout Billy Kelly holder of multiple national and sectional titles. Lloyd Smoot and Hill Coons are key Tech contributors.
Chicago AP. NFL weighing two rule changes including abolishing the extra point after touchdown and adopting a sudden death finish. Proposals by Bert Bell and Earle Neale call for 15 minute overtimes with first score ending game. Drafts and wartime classifications loom, while 1944 accident estimates rise.
In Tuscaloosa Alabama coach Frank Thomas says he is pleased with the Alabama Tide showing after a Sugar Bowl loss to Duke 29 to 26. The team returned home after the New Versa Day game.
A fragmented reminiscence notes Ralph Jones voicing a journey at the Bow with a fine crowd in New Orleans. It mentions graceful people and a first OS memory tied to Chicago and Lavertyine in 1895 while describing a 100 mile round trip.
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