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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1945
Page
5
As teams prepare for spring training the draft and front office decisions shape rosters. Gubernatorial salary talks echo in college sports while Arkansas weighs football coach pay. Selma enters a key tourney as district coaches brace for action and the Second District tunes up for competition.
Waste fats from American kitchens used to make nitroglycerine, forming 50 percent of the propellant for rockets. The article notes housewives’ contributions to wartime production by supplying fats for military needs.
The Washington Senators unveil a speedy top of the order led by Case, Myatt, and Binks as spring training begins. Griffith believes this quartet offers enhanced base speed and more punch, with six to eight potential additions to form a 25 to 30 man roster before the April 15 start.
In Pinehurst North Carolina dogs in the national amateur quail championships struggle to find coveys. Only two dogs, Ace owned by Virgil Hawse of Staunton Virginia and Ditty Wah Ditty owned by Fred Skinner of Waynesboro Georgia, found coveys in yesterday's heats. Officials may recall several dogs for second heats.
FRENCH LICK Ind APL Manager Charlice Grimm of the Chicago Cubs opened spring training with only about six of the 16 players expected in camp. The group included five rookies and the missing veteran Phil Cavarretta. Grimm hopes pitchers arrive soon and the full 37 on the roster are present within weeks.
Philadelphia reports big name athletes and hundreds of Maeve young volunteers joining a medical project to test whether sports harm the heart. Notables like golf champion Patty Berg and tennis star Mel Mwulows agreed to exhaustive physicals, with periodic exams for younger participants over several years.
Atlanta AP report says Whit Wyatt would train in the South and join Dodgers for light work if spring timing at Bear Mountain or warm sun workouts can ease his arm. He notes past success with the Dodgers from 1940 to 1942 and would stay on his Georgia farm if no arrangement is made.
Nomadic golf professionals tied 30 sets of two in the four ball format for the $7,500 prize in a match play round. Byron Nelson Harold McSpaden led top seeds with Willie Klein Orey Crisman as opponents while Sam Snead Bob Hamilton faced Stanley Horne Jules Huot Canada. Henry Picard Johnny Revolta and other veterans also contested as seeds held.
Rapid City account describes Grover C Dotson of Sturgis claiming his artificial eye exploded twice, one while awake in Aberdeen and another while sleeping, with a hole in the back of the eye. A local eye specialist cites cracked artificial eyes and leaking fluid as the cause, while Central High seniors practice speed typing and dance steps to broadcast music for after school lessons.
Cold Springs, N. Y. A note on the Haldane program shows typists taught to swing words with twinkling fingers and dancing toes keeping agile typing skills during lessons in a local training effort.
Rudolf Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street was refused by 27 New York producers before Katharine Cornell agreed to produce the play.
Seventeen New York Giants sixteen Yankees and eleven Brooklyn Dodgers have been signed for the 1945 season. Giants additions include Harry Feldman Johnny Gee Don King Ernie Lombardi. Dodgers sign Bill Hart Otto Nicholas. Yankees announced by Col Larry MacPhail Ed Barrow include Floyd Bevens Walt Dubiel Al Gettei Johnny Moore Joe Page. Catchers Bills Drescher Mike Garbark Bill Steinecke Herb Crompton. Infielders Joe Buras Oscar Grimes Don Savage. Outfielders Bud Metheny Hershel Martin George Stainback Paul Waner.
Boston AP Jack Sharkey former heavyweight champion ranks Dempsey as top puncher among his era while placing Joe Louis seventh on his list Sharkey cites ten opponents in order including Wills McTigue Schmeling and Godfrey Louis responds to being left off the list at a Coast Guard event last night
A fragment notes a forthcoming Bibliography American Literature in Vienna compiled by an American bibliography society. The item hints at a scholarly reference work with international scope and institutional backing.
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