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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
10
A draft plan to govern baseball and assign commissioner authority is under review by 16 club officials in Chicago. They will revise the expired 1946 pact and may name a successor to K M Landis after a two day meeting, with a likely power reduction and a shorter term.
The National Football League considers abolishing the extra point after touchdowns and adopting continuous clock overtime with 15 minute periods to end deadlocks. Officials cite safety concerns and potential injury increases from longer play and fatigue. The overtime rule currently applies to playoff tiebreakers only.
Coach Watson states Leavenworth’s basketball team is developing well with several players around six feet tall. The squad has not yet played and may rely on newcomers like Payne and Hill as steady guards while others contest forward and center spots. The opening schedule lists a 7:30 PM game Friday locally, with a trip to Atchison the following night.
A collage of sports notes discusses Branch Rickey backing a national sports coordinator and a baseball commissioner push, with skepticism on one person’s all around knowledge. Also covered are Boxer Jimmy Doyle training for a Garden bout, Fritzie Zivic disputing recorded fight totals, Seabee Lt. T. S. Amy’s war ribbon colors, Lt. Ray Evans possibly turning pro after the war, and golfer Jimmy Demaret’s navy transfer to Corpus Christi.
Edwin C. Babe Horrell quits after six years as head coach at UCLA following bitter criticism from players and alumni over the Bruins 1944 record of four wins, one tie, and five losses. Assistants Bronko Nagurski and Ray Edwards also resign amid discontent.
The Haskell Indian basketball team opens under new coach Milton Mitt Haskell with a home game tonight against Chilocco. The visitors arrive in Lawrence after a 2 and 1 start as Chilocco seeks another win on the local gym floor.
Baker University Wildcats coached by Emil S. Liston open post holiday basketball season against Kansas State Teachers at Emporia Monday night January 8. A return game is set for January 27 on the Teachers’ floor. Two players are serving in the military with three more slated to enter service soon.
Washington January 5 UP a proposed reclassification of 4-F provisional athletes for military duty as soldier athletes was outlined by Representative O Toole New York in a letter to War Mobilisation Director James Byrnes He suggested placing 4 F players on various teams under army or navy supervision and sending them to military facilities at home or abroad to bolster GI morale and expand the idea to include prominent band leaders and entertainers unable to serve in combat but able to continue their careers as civilians
Coach F C Allen and Elmer Schalke lead ten KU players for Columbia to face Missouri in the conference opener. Reynolds and Moffett to start at forward, Corder at center, Heim and Scott at guards, with Nesmith, Nesmith listed as trainer. The Mt Dread squad hosts Nebraska next Friday January 12.
The Associated Press reports scattered results: Dartmouth 61 over Camp Endicott 40, South Green Cove Springs Naval Air Station 57 to Florida 47, Tulane 33 over Camp Plauche 28, Marshall 78 over Pentathlon of Mexico 41, Army Air Base 40 over Detroit Tech 43, MacAlester 33 over Pittsburg Ken 36, Fort Warren Colorado 42 over Gonzaga 84, Utah 68 over Montana State 30, among others.
Reports from Duke and Navy swimmers show gradual improvement as Bob MacKenzie and colleagues train under coach Gainesville. Tom Lieb of Florida publicizes next fall’s football plans while NCAA coaches meet in Columbus. Miami sets attendance mark as jai alai and racing face bans and a new season begins with 2,711 customers.
An Associated Press survey shows Missouri marriage licenses fell sharply in 1944 due to new laws requiring a three day wait and premarital physical exams, while border city licenses rose in Kansas and neighboring states. Large drops occurred in St. Louis, Kansas City Missouri, and Poplar Bluff, with some couples crossing state lines to marry.
AP report notes year ago ten football fatalities in 1843 per Dr Eastwood survey, five years past Fred Apagatori beat Mello Bettina in a night fight, plus Glenn Cunningham opened indoor track season defeating Gene Venike in 800 meters. Police court fines totaled eleven people at $1 each for parking violations this morning.
Tito announced partisan forces crossed into Austria threatening a German flank between Klagenfurt and Graz. They cut the Maribor Graz line at several spots and destroyed a long stretch of the Maribor Dravograd line near the Yugoslav border. Attacks were also reported on the Ljubljana Jesenice railway. locomotives and cars were destroyed.
Manuel Snavely Willem Entvaig and Penchard Jr purchased a PT-22 trainer through the Hart Stag echo treasury procurement office. The two seat aircraft with a 160 horsepower Bren engine will be used for pleasure flights by their flying club and hangared at the local airport.
Thirteen servicemen killed before dawn in December when a transport plane carrying 47 people crashed into hills while returning from long service in the Aleutians. The crash occurred near a civilian manned unit. no air force crew fatalities reported. No Kansas or Oklahoma men listed among casualties. At Washington University, Lawrence, Edwin F. Price and Charles Wolfson among 2,856 students registered, both seniors in medicine.
In an eight hour trek near the city Baldwin Bird Club recorded 2143 individual birds representing 33 species. Waterfowl led by Canada geese and mallards comprised more than half, with hawks owls woodpeckers jays crows and quail also observed in the United States Audubon census effort.
The fragment notes a person named Kahn Hea receiving two checks from the state treasurer. Details are incomplete but indicate a financial transaction involving official funds and a government office.
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