London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1945, London, Middlesex                                1945 sports the stars and stripes sports Page 7 once by Gene Graff baseballs Over 1 1 somewhat like hot stove league debates the comparative prowess of Marty Marion and Pittsburgh old Honus National hockey league managers arid owners Are taking sides in favor Howie Morenz or Maurice Montreal fabulous for years has been generally conceded to be hockey counterpart of babe Ruth to nobody Ever dared ignore fee canadians hero when selecting an Allstar As at Forward Morenz ruled the Roost for know theres a movement afoot in Mon 1 Treal of All x to classify Morenus in the same category with the old master him theres no question As to Richards versatile brilliance on the but whether Hes another Morenz is a horse of a different when the Toronto Maple Leafs arrived Here this morning to tackle the flounder ing Chicago Black Hawks we popped the question at Connie who has been bumping around Tizie National league for he saw per haps too during the great ones Plush Days and now Hes watch ing Richard in to Jato sell Richard Short for one smythe but although Hes a Fine scorer and a steady team performer i personally doubt that Hes As Good As Florenz in his there was a player who bad All the natural Talent in the world and whats More knew How to make the most of in Only sorry he want wearing a Toronto we sure could have used manager Paul Thompson of the Black Hawks chimed in Richard is he Hes a Fine shot and a helluva player inside the Blue he cant take the puck All the Way through like Morenz and he can Only move Forward effectively while Morenz was one of the games greatest in my Book that the real just like whether a football halfback can run equally Well either to the left or when Hawk prexy Bill Tobin also cast his ballot for Morenz we decided Richards constituents we rent among those Widdoes May stay As Buckeye Mentor 11rcarroll duration coach at Ohio state Heads the Field to become permanent Mentor of the Buckeye football team which he piloted to the big ten title while filling in for his Navy Paul now that now at great lakes has signed a five year contract with the Cleveland team of the newly organized Al America word is that the Ohio state Post is Widdoes for the Jug Mcspaden hotels Lead la new Orleans 6pen new 11 Jug Mcspaden continued to set the Pace in the new Orleans open yesterday shooting a three below Par 69 for a 36 Hole total of Mcspaden holds a three stroke Lead Over Byron i perennial who scored his second 7 Violet rally fails As Irish Triumph new Dame halted a last half and Defeated new York for the fifth straight time in the feature hoop Battle at Madison Square Garden last night after Brooklyn with a new beat in the a crowd of Over saw the paced by Vince jump out front arly and run up a Lead at the then pull up to a 23point advantage n the second chapter before the violets started clicking to provide serious deadly shooting from the foul line kept the new yorkers in the game As they netted 20 of 24 free Boryla and George Batterman each hooped 24 Points for the while Dolph Shayes netted 16 for the Hawk eyes Edge Towa continued its drive for the big ten basketball title Here last night by defeat ing the Las place Indiana it was no soft touch for the and the score was tied seven times throughout the wolverines fall before badgers bounded Back from a on sided defeat by Ohio state Friday night to defeat in another big ten hoop contest last night As Ray Patterson poured in 18 Points to Lead the the badgers showed marked improve ment Over Friday nights when the buckeyes Defeated buckeyes tame states Champion basketball quiz Jet halted a bruising second half rally Jere last night and remained in a tie for first place in the big ten race with Iowa by edging the buckeyes held Northwestern to Only two goals in the first half and led at Intermix buskers topple upset in a fast grime Here last handing the Jay Hawks their first loss in five big six Nebraska led at the and the Corn huskers were hot All evening As they won their first game in seven conference middies sink undefeated basketball team unleashed a Blister ing attack in the last half Here last night to defeat West the middies play was erratic in the first half and at intermission they led by Only six cadets clout West basketball juggernaut rolled on to its tenth win of the season and its 26th Over a three year period Here last night by burying Doug Kenna quarterback of the undefeated Cadet foot Ball connected for 22 Points to take scoring pro Cage standings Wayne Cleveland Pittsburgh Sheboygan Chicago Oshkosh Eastern division w l p 19 3 9 15 7 15 Western division w l p 15 8 10 13 8 14 of of Cage results fridays games Galaudet Johns Hopkins 35 Georgia tech georgia38 Florida aggie Knoxville 3l Fordham Cathedral Collegio 39 Mississippi state Mississippi 37 Northwestern Michigan 34 North Dakota aggie North Dakota 44 Ohio state Wisconsin 34 Luce Texas Christian 47 St Johns rider 39 so Lawrence Courtland 42 Simpson Wartburg 59 South Dakota state augustan 43 Southern methodist Texas aggie 43 Washbum Herington a 50 saturdays games Akron Case 41 Albright ursinus 37 army Rochester 42 Ashland Heidelberg 42 i Ball state teachers Butler 36 Bates Bowdoin naval 46 Bowdoin Maine 50 f Brooklyn so Francis 41 Buff cell Scranton 55 i celsius 587 Syracuse 45 Columbus 33 i Citadel Clemson 29 1 coast guard Academy Brown 32 1 Deolson Baldwin Wallace 40 Duke Temple 46 Franklin and Marshall Gettysburg 31 Geneva Carnegie tech 41 tech Tennessee 49 fetal lakes Lawrence 29 Hunden Sydney Vii 25 Harvard Mit 34 Gayer Ford Dickinson 23 Dinois Minnesota 35 if Elsana state Stout Field 37 Jowa Indiana 40 preflight Missouri 36 Jacksonville naval Auburn 23 Lafayette Stevens 34 Lincoln Hampton 21 Louisville Eastern state teachers 40 Loyola Delaware 23 Sra Quette Detroit 32 a Wohlenberg Columbia 44 overtime j6y West Virginia 40 Kansas 45 new Texas tech 39 a Jere Dame Nyu 60 state Northwestern 32 University Cincinnati 40 Ima Kansas state 36 j state Oregon 41 i Drew 27 Princeton 52 san Diego state 28 quonset naval fliers tuft ii 40 rp1 Union 44 Randolph Macon Virginia medical College 3 Rice Southern methodist South Carolina Wofford 20 Texas Baylor 22 Texas Christian Texas 40 Trinity holy Cross 54 Utah Wyoming 38 Virginia Maryland 33 Washington state Washington 43 Wesleyan Worcester poly 4j Wisconsin Michigan 44 Yale Connecticut 41 Novice award War wont seek ban on Diamond game Senate military affairs committee Drew highs of Relief from sports fans All Over the nation Friday when it Dis closed that the War department will not counsel against the continuation of discussions on the question of baseballs role in the manpower problem Lave been held with War department officials during meetings on the work r tight and the War depart ments attitude seems favourable toward he National it was but while baseball men got a lift out f this another revelation took the de simultaneously they Learned hat theres a lot of unofficial talk Mong Washington bigwigs in favor of abandonment of the present big league setup and the reorganization of one Eastern and one Western this plan would save the major league Lubs More than a million Miles of according to its and would help baseball under the East West Victory league alignment the East would have two new York and Philadelphia Brooklyn and Wash while the Western Loop would in clude two Chicago and Louis Best fighter on tomorrow nights All Novice card at the Rainbow Corner will be awarded this statue by the arc athletic Hawks upset Chicago Slack Hawks pulled another of their infrequent surprises Here last night and Defeated the Toronto Maple hockey league standings Montreal Detroit Toronto w l 30 5 22 11 19 16 p w l 63 Boston 12 22 4s new York 7 Jio 40 Chicago 7 23 to the dismay and bewilderment of the Las place National hockey league club gave a Brilliant defensive exhibition and held a Lead before the losers could score in the third Don Grosso put the Hawks ahead after less than five minutes of play and Willie Fields pushed in another for Chicago in the third chapter before lome Carr came through to save the Leafs from a Richard ties record As canucks 52 speedy right Wing of the Mon Treal tied Cooney wetlands Al time National hockey league scoring record Here last night As the canucks Defeated the Detroit red and stretched their Lead Over the second place Detroi ters to seven and a Ball Richard rammed heme his second goal of the game in the third Frame to tie wetlands 43goal Mark set in while other Canadien goals were scored by buddy toe Blake and Ray Eddie Bruneteau and Carl Lipscombe tallied for the Abc seeks to stymie gamblers gof another sock in the nose Here yester Day when the american Bowling con Gress warned bowlers and Alley proprietors that it would stand for no handbooks or parimutuel bet Ting on matches or Alley proprietors and members who participate in such schemes face a life american hockey league fridays game Louis Cleveland 4 saturdays games Pittsburgh Louis 2 Cleveland bears hey 1 other learns not Eastern division w l t p w l t Buffalo 23 17 7 53 17 21 5 Hershey 18 20 8 44 Western division w l t p Vav l t Cleveland 22 11 9 53 Pittsburgh 20 18 6 ind Nevlis 19 15 11 49 Louis 9 26 6 Cleveland and Arent expected to approve baseball men Arent expected to a Rove of the particularly since the 1945 schedules have already been and its a natural tendency among the fans to dislike the thought of any change in the old hence hey preferred today to look at the Slighter Side and the favourable attitude of the War department in its discussions with the senates military affairs com senator Albert Happy Chandler a former minor league Ball is credited with negotiating the Alks and they will be part of the records on the work or fight Bills these War department Guys Are the toughest in Washington on this manpower one member of the committee told they counselled the government to shut Down horse racing my this makes their attitude toward base Ball look pretty baseball men like words like and although they realize the game is still on the they Are turning busted ear Drums Only to suggestions baseball will be operating anywhere but at the same old stand this Billy Jurges to quit major league Ball new in fielder Billy juries announced yesterday that he will quit major league baseball to devote his time to his new tavern at and perhaps play some semipro Ball on who batted in 85 games last his lowest since entering the big leagues Back in quoted in the new York daily news As having made up his mind after receiving this 45 contract which he described As Foxx signs with Phillies one of the leading righthand hitters of All yesterday signed a one year contract with the dodgers release Sunkel Brooklyn dodgers yesterday released Tom Sunkel Southpaw to Sunkel appeared in 12 games with the dodgers in mainly As a Relief winning one and losing behind the sports headlines Bronco former Al America at Minnesota and or years the outstanding Back in the National football league while playing with the says he is through with tall and will devote Al his time to farming new Green won a unanimous decision Over Morris his Brownsville in a ten Rounder at Madison Square Garden Friday Green weighed Reif Earl former Baltimore Oriole was killed in action in Germany on his parents have been notified by the War of entries caused cancellation of the National aau hockey tourney scheduled to be played Here Karl aau hockey has National service invitational basketball tournament will be held Here 1618 with outstanding service teams among the quilts invited Are the unbeaten West Point and naval Academy Palm Jane com of Orange Defeated miss Catherine of three up Here saturday to capture the annual Palm Beach women Golf negro half Back who performed with Illinois last is at great lakes for eight weeks of Boot training after being inducted into the Navy one of the outstanding backs in the big ten last did most of Illinois cub outfielder Dom Dallesandro has been accepted for military service after a today checkup at a Philadelphia twice before he was examined and classified assistant football coach at the University of has been appointed head coach of the University of Detroit and Given a three year Baer succeeds Gus who resigned in the last season Detroit played inter collegiate the White sox have Clay Veteran Southern association and Texas league to balance the loss of Southpaw Don who was inducted into the Mew negro heavyweight recently discharged from the and Melio former Light heavy have been signed by promoter Mike Jacobs for a ten round bout in Madison Square Garden los Callanan will Captain the 45 Southern California football Only the hard driving end is the youngest player Ever elected to Lead a Trojan Smuts pranks yanks of the 398th bomb added four More wins during the past running their Victory string to 23 they tripped the Prestwick at quintet and the Navy the seventh embarkation leading yank scorers were Dick of Elmer of new and pfc Harry of Vince of san Dick Tracy by Courtesy of Chicago Tribune by Chester Gould it Doest matter so much about the pipe chiefs but weve got to recover shakes body and a Pew feet Down the did Vou hear a Tracy Okay when in Chain a Wolf the it with your Hook help save me cant you hear fastened if i Abner by Courtesy of United features by Al Capp human bloodhound sniffs out priceless Pearl All new Mork is agog Stu pen i jus feat of Lucifer fish Hustler at a new 1ork who was si6ht5eem6 at the Over a huge and a flawless Pearl fell from her brooch into the gaping Mouth of a Dis appeared amidst innumerable thou5ahks of its sneer worthy was paced with the Prospect of dissecting thousands of smelly a procedure which would to retrieve a Quick whiff of sneer worthy delicate perfume hokum Dove headlong into the wrk4 odorous mass of and in a few moments reappeared Cutchins the guilty the was afo Vikum was warmly con by  who thereupon Mokum not go unrewarded the fish company gave him the heed that a human bloodhound who will track Down and kill that Little t old and Keith will meet in the feature scrap of a ten bout card at Andrews wednesday and adding a Bright spot to the evening will be Billy who will take on 191pound Willard of in an exhibition Isis Whiz kids of the 436th to added their 14th and i5lh wins against one loss this week when they stopped tie 425th to and the 53rd to Wing he Joe former Marquette hit the nets for 20 Points As the ask warriors Defeated a port he As clinched the 53rd to Wing Clampi Enship last week by defeating the Wing the 313ft to pipers ran their win Streak to 16 games against one loss by Downing the 315th to the 314th and the 316th Gene former Calvin College got 59 John of scored 12 Points to Pace the Golden tornadoes of the 364th fighter to a nod Over a chemical warfare the win was the 15th for the tornadoes against three the 826th convalescent Center hoop men remained unbeaten after 20 starts by dropping the and the 435th to advanced to the finals of their Wing tourney by sock ing the 437th to As former University of Arkansas scored 21 the yanks of an ask depot Hung up their 32nd whaling the at