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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1944
Page
5
ILDCATS place three players on the Southeast Conference first team. Barney Ballard reports Ville’s second squad earns honors as the league recognizes standout juniors and seniors for basketball performance this season.
Uncle Sam has enough major league ball players in his armed forces to form two rival loops after June 15 restricted to 25 players per club. AL lists 203 and NL 197 in service. Notables include Eugene Stack, Hugh Mulcahy, and Johnny Vander Meer. MLB will play this season with nine men per club and aims for summer competition despite wartime limits.
USO prepares a sports quiz booklet for overseas servicemen as John Kiernan edits with Nat Fleischer providing boxing info. Women’s International Bowling Congress nears its ambulance fund goal while gas bowlers previously funded an A-20 bomber. Tales of Maul’s 1887 stats and a Phils gate homer echo baseball lore. Cadets race in a boxed four-foot obstacle, and league tweaks spark debate as Yale, Virginia seek a postwar football game. Private First Class Bill Scanlan of Fort Sheridan headlines a year of WAC basketball quirks and plans for competition among Norfolk naval teams.
The article recounts Luis Angel Firpo fighting in Mexico City in early summer 1923 with promoter Andreas de Segurola. Firework weather, armed gendarmes, and a delayed ring event lead to a resumed bout after a one week postponement amid a tense crowd and heavy weaponry. Firpo receives substantial purses and debates carrying money in gold due to forged notes. The scene includes a waxed mustache announcer declaring a sudden return to action by popular request.
George McCullough of Texas swims with an artificial leg after losing his right leg two years ago. He trains for the Southwest conference 220 and 440 yard events while aiding mission camps. Coach Arthur Burnham says McCullough has a good chance to win.
Boston March 1 Secretary John Quinn announced the Braves received the signed contract of Armand Cardoni who won ten and lost eight with the Hartford Eastern league farm team last season. Cardoni lives in Jessup Pennsylvania and appeared in Braves games late last year. Quinn said Manager Bob Coleman also told him from Bryansville Indiana that Chester Clemens and Mike Sandlock were seeking reinstatement after a year on the inactive list.
The swift mare Mar-Kell edged Adroit by a half length in the 2000 handicap opening Tropical Park meet, matching the track record with 117 pounds over six furlongs. Adroit and Sparkling Maid followed as field spectators watched Conn McCreary steer Mar-Kell inside to victory.
Sports Mirror notes Bobby Jones promoted from captain to major in the army. The column recalls past coaching and game highlights, including Tom Davies at Western Reserve and Dartmouth’s 38-33 win over Princeton to keep the Intercollegiate Basketball title.
In last night’s bouts from Pittsburgh to San Francisco, fighters faced off across many weight classes. Notable results include Lloyd Marshall defeating Joe Carter in Baltimore, Charles Lewis edging Maurice LaChance in Providence, and Danny Martin outpointing Freddie Graham in Newark.
Pittsburgh infielder Frank Zak of Passaic New Jersey became the Pirates 20th player to accept a team contract for the 1944 season. Manager Frank Frisch told Provident William E. Benswangier Zak agreed to terms.
In a hard fought overtime thriller the Methodists beat Red Shield 20 to 18 after a last minute Kuske foul tied regulation. McKenzie scored the deciding field goal in sudden death. Hargiss Kuske tied for high with seven. St Matthew's 33 Presbyterians 8. Louisiana Training Institute Pelicans 25 Presbyterians 12.
The Valley arena in Holyoke announced that Lulu Constantino of New York and Angel Aviles of Peru will fight a one round feature bout at 130 pounds next Monday night. Aviles previously drew with Phil Terranova of New York, the National Boxing Association featherweight champion, in Hartford, Connecticut.
In Vernon California on July 4 1912 Ad Wolgast defeats Joe Rivers for the light weight championship after a brutal twelve round battle. Rivers lands a sharp right and Wolgast a gut punch as the crowd roars with both fighters hurt. Referee Jack Welch counts the champions out but Wolgast staggers upright and survives the final rally to be declared winner. Nat Goodwin bet on Rivers and Wolgast.
New Orleans March 7 The A A U national president L di Benedetto announced that Lt Cmdr L V Tim mons in charge of the armed guard training center has won permission for the armed guard team to compete in the National A A U basketball tournament in Denver starting March 19 The team clinched the Southern A A U title with a 54 to 53 victory over the Baton Rouge Esses The Pensacola naval air station squad previously won the Southern title in 1941 and 1942 and appeared at the national event.
Andrew C. Scrappy Moore, on leave from the University of Chattanooga, was signed as manager of the Chattanooga Lookouts in the Southern Association. He will replace Marvin Sparky Olson, sidelined by injury, with Olson farming in North Dakota.
Jesuit High of New Orleans leads 15-team Class A field and Zachary High, 46 game win streak, tops Class B entries for the upcoming Louisiana high school state tournament at LSU. Girls’ bracket also entries, deadline 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Cole to coordinate. Holy Cross claimed the 1943 A title, Zachary the B crown.
Dixie Walker, 33, Brooklyn Dodger outfielder, reported Monday at Fort McClellan Alabama for a physical examination preliminary to possible induction into the armed services. The exam was not complete late Monday.
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