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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1942
Page
14
Reports from spring exhibition action across Florida and California note manager decisions and player health. Promotions and injuries touch teams including St. Louis, New York Giants, Pirates, Phillies, Cubs, White Sox, and Athletics as camps monitor weather and fit players like Bert Haas Frankie Yak and Bert Fontoy among others. Managers stress readiness for opening day amid ambivalent condition and ongoing training drills.
A schedule from Sarasota and other Florida cities lists matchups including Boston Cleveland New York Detroit and Philadelphia across venues in Tampa Orlando St. Petersburg Daytona Beach Los Angeles and more with several games canceled due to weather. Scores show multiple results like Philadelphia 5 Syracuse 3 and Pittsburgh 3 Sacramento 2 among others. Also notes rail freight facts and a claim about English residents sleeping downstairs and vegetable growing in bedrooms. Wire chains on rear wheels reportedly cut stopping distances by 25 to 30 percent, and 40 to 50 percent with chains on all four wheels.
Clearwater March 19 Lou Boudreau fresh from college arrives as Cleveland Indians manager and inspires harmony in camp. Roy Weatherly in top shape primes for a strong season, while Feller is gone and the pitching staff leans on Smith Milhar. Boudreau aims for fourth place as the club rebuilds with newcomers Fleming Hackett Workman and Edwards and veterans Desautels Heath Keltner.
A quiz asks which plane is pictured and tests rank recognition between a silver oak leaf major and a gold oak leaf colonel. It also asks who George Catlett Marshall is, with answers hinted on the Want Ad Page.
The piece lists trivia: gray hair onset at 35 for whites. Mona Lisa’s right hand as the most perfect painted hand. 6,760 named languages and scripts. beans as the most nutrient rich pantry staple. biannual meaning twice a year and biennial meaning every two years. and a note that over recent years motor vacation travel accounts for more than full retail trade percent in the U. S.
Jack LaRue and the masked Black Panther clash in a two out of three falls main event at the Hip podrome in Boston. Promoter J R Steele says the hood stays on unless LaRue can force it off, while Stranglin Ed White meets Sailor Barto Hill in the other one hour battle. First bout starts at 8 30.
Newell Jefferson Cravath, alum and former USC center, takes over the USC football program after Sam Berry resigns to join the Navy. President Rufus von KleinSmid announces a one year contract standard for the era, with Cravath likely to lead the Trojans through the 1928 season amid the program’s adjustment at USC.
Frankie Sinkwich former 1941 All America backfield star at the University of Georgia wed Adeline Weatherly in Abbeville South Carolina in a surprise ceremony. Both will continue their studies at Georgia. Sinkwich arrived at the university from Youngstown. Limestone use in the United States totals about 25 million tons annually, mainly for iron ore smelting.
In St Augustine Florida March 19 the eighth national amateur pro championship opened first round match play. The $3000 best ball event drew 32 teams with Al Brosch and amateur Harry Offutt posting a 130 over 36 holes after 10 birdies and three eagles. Defending champions Snead and Wehrle teamed with Huce and White in today’s draw.
Champaign March 19. Old Man Misfortune did not accompany the Illinois basketball squad as the Western Conference champions entrained for New Orleans to compete in the NCAA eastern division playoffs. The team escaped the ineligibility and illness that plagued them the past four years under Coach Doug Mills.
Five Pacific coast squads chase national honors in the National AAU basketball tournament, with four California outfits led by Hollywood Twentieth Century securing quarterfinal berths. One Seattle club also advanced, leaving three spots to be filled by the strong Phillips 66 Oilers of Oklahoma and the Denver Legion, plus a Polish-American Chicago Clippers earning the eighth berth.
Ler Savold from Des Moines stopped Teddy Wint of Mount Vernon in a night of boxing in New York Harbor area venue. Willie Pep of Hartford outpointed Johnny Compo of New Haven in a Hartford fight. Preliminary reports claim North Carolina farmers expect a large rise in soybean and peanut acreage this year per John W. Goodman of NC State College.
Wide World Sports Roundup notes Detroit Tigers trim daily meal allowances to four dollars as spring camp reforms follow a record eleven dollars and twenty five cents paid to a pitcher in Washington last summer. Also highlights boxing, wrestling, and football coaching news with NCAA, Navy, and college figures.
Adjutant General Metts will invite North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp and Duplin County draft boards to a peace conference after Metts' Washington trip. The Wilmington shipyard, a Newport News subsidiary, sought to defer a vegetable worker while records show the firm classified other workers as essential. Duplin boards also deferred some shipyard workers, prompting the dispute over who qualifies as necessary wartime labor.
Governor's committee began hearings at the State Hospital for the Insane in Morganton with Toni Jimison as the first witness. Chairman Marshall T. Spears invited informants to testify as hearings were tentatively set for Winston-Salem and Charlotte.
In Duplin County, draft boards report multiple shipyard worker cases across two boards. Inductions, deferments, and appeals show varied outcomes while officials stress regulations govern the process, not employer pressure. General Metts aims for a conference to resolve misunderstandings, underscoring shipbuilding alongside the army as war priorities.
Eastern North Carolina residents object to the Conservation and Development Department plan to push mountains tourism for 1942 while downplaying coastal areas. They warn restrictions on deep sea fishing and bright beach lights may hurt beaches near military posts and argue beaches should remain accessible to the public.
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