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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1943
Page
6
New York sports chatter covers a crowded picture from baseball spring training to basketball and trotting races. Notes on Barnsey Be Gar, emergency fuel deliveries, and a Hollywood contract shift mix with college football coaching rumors and the Drake relays history.
Southern Conference football officials say the gridiron future next autumn is uncertain pending 11 eligible players. Rifts at Washington and Lee and South Carolina add doubt, while Duke and North Carolina anticipate material and schedules may hinge on wartime conditions.
Woodlawn Colonels of Birmingham defeat Par tish High of Selma 28 to 24 to clinch the Alabama state high school basketball championship. Jock Berry and Gene Palmer lead Woodlawn, while Selma's Tommy Miller tops scoring. Consolation game saw Scottsboro beat Elba 38 24.
Approximately 180 fighters from Marine Navy and Army bases across Tennessee South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama compete in the seventh annual Southeastern Golden Gloves tournament at the City Auditorium. They undergo medical exams and weigh ins at 10:00 am today and will fight through Wednesday night.
Major League baseball opens its spring training with about 317 holdouts. The Yankees lead unsigned players at Asbury Park camp while teams like the Dodgers and Browns report mixed readiness and several players remain unaffiliated as camps begin nationwide.
The former world champion Barney Ross spoke with boxing writers about Guadalcanal service. He said heroes are ordinary servicemen, stressing luck and faith, and that every soldier who can hold and fire a rifle is a hero, recalling moments protecting wounded buddies and facing fear.
BARASOTA Fla AP Paul Deringer led a team of big leaguers and college players to a 4–0 win over the Sarasota Army Air Base in a three inning abbreviated exhibition. Derringer, recently acquired by the Cubs from Cincinnati, shut out the soldiers on one hit over his three innings and struck out three. Johnny Cooney of Brooklyn also shone, allowing one hit in two innings and remaining unscored on, while Cooney and Johnny Moore of Los Angeles each had a single and a double.
AP reports William So boda believes he may recover his property after two burglars broke into his shed and took six homing pigeons, prompting notes of hoped restitution.
The Army USC Athletic Council in Macon schedules a 20 hour opening round card for tonight, outlining the event's start and participants under military and college athletic oversight.
Ninteen Kentucky Derby eligibles were nominated for the Arkansas Derby on March 27 at Hot Springs. Notable nominees include Count Fleet, Ocean Wave, Pop's Pick, and Spartiate along with several Darby Dan and other stables.
In Lewiston Idaho a local tale claims the town would be folded up and returned to the Nez Perce. Citizen Ed Klonick says a letter from a Nez Perce Indian declines the offer, urging the town to keep its lands.
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