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Prospect For Major League Teams Better BULLETIN Washington, Feb. 21—(UP) —Transportation director J. Monroe Johnson today gave an official “okay” to professional baseball this summer, as far as transportation is concerned. (Washington, Feb. 21 — (UP) — HaseiMfll’s 1945 prospects appeared brighter today after a conference between the major league presidand war molbilizat'on director Jagies F. Byrnes yesterday brought forth no new olsstaelee for the sport. Ford Frick of the American league and Will Harridge of the national league jsvere dbtimistic after thp hour-long conference on "manpower” and said that they were all set to complete plans for the openlug of the season in April. 'Frick and Harridge wore to see one other government official today • to wind up their trip here. They not reveal his name, but it i was 'believed that he wae Col. J. i Afouroe Johnson, head of the office of defense tivinsiportation. Prick said during an interview that he and Harridge did not come to Washington for a flat statement of policy on baseball's future. Rather, he said, they came to discues and to weigh their problems against those the government has it; mobilizing production and the armed forces. They can then determine, he said, whether it will be worth while going on with plans for tb(i 1945 eeason. Neither would reveal the exact nature of their conference with Byrnes. "Manpower wae discussed in rather broad terms,” Frick said. ’‘Transportation and night games were not.” Hie said the discussion had been “profitalble” and that Byrnes wae “cordial and kindly.” •Frick emphasized that no one should jump to the conclusion that the meeting wae decisive. No request wae made 'for another session with Byrnes. Frick said, and no future meeting is planned now. 0 _ Valparaiso Defeats Western Michigan Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 21 —(UP) — Valparaiso University’s basketball squad defeated western Michigan 70 to 59 last night in a freescoring match that wae frequently deadlocked.

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'All Persons Must Have Tickets For Tourney •W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur junior-senior high school, and manager of the sectional tourirameftt which opens Thursday evening, today stated in reponse to inquiries, that all persons'attending the tourney must, have tickets. iJHISAA rules, governing all tourneys, prevail here and provide that all persons, regardless of age, must have tickets to gain admission. Price are $1,500 for beasou tickets and 50 cents for single sesaidn. Bowling Green Beats Great Lakes, 64 59 Bowling Green, 0., Feb. 21. —(UP) —Great Lakes naval training station bowed to a Bowling Green basketball quintet last night in a furious game in which the lead changed 23 times before the final whistle sounded with the score 64 to 59. It was the 21st victory in 22 starts for the Bowling Green Falcons, whose only defeat came earlier in the season at the hands of Great Lakes. It was the fifth defeat in 35 games for Great Lakes. Oppose Drafting Os Vital Farm Workers New Provision By Senate Committee Washington. Feb. 21—(UP) — The senate military affairs committee today wrote into its new manpower bill a provision designed to stop the drafting of essen- i tial farm workers. The committee approved a new Tydings farm labor deferment amendment. Offered by Sen. Millard E. Tydings, D., Md., it i would forbid local draft boards to consider the armed forces’ manpower needs in gauging the essentiality of a farm worker. It was offered in protest against a selective service ruling last month which farm state senators said violated the existing Tydings amendment to the selective service act. The original amendment provides for deferment of irreplaceable farm labor engaged in fulltime production of essential crops. Under the new amendment local boards in considering farm labor cases would have to base their determinations solely on whether the worker is producing essential farm crops and whether a suitable replacement can be found. Meanwhile, Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, D., W. Va., asserted that the committee’s substitute is superior to the house-approved work-or-fight bill because it would cover all manpower while the house measure would apply only to men 18 to 15.

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Northwestern Pivot Man Leads Scorers Chicago, Feb. 21 (UP) —Center Max iMorrte of Northwestern, currently leading the Big Ten basketball Scoring race by 43 pointe, closes out his conference, season Saturday against Illinois to climax an unexpected, bint brilliant season. An odds-on favorite to win the scoring title vacated hy Dick Ives of lowa. Morris has been one of the surprises of a hot Big Ten campaign. The 6-foot, 2-Ineh, lOT-ponnd center, a V-12 student, was transferred by the navy from Illinois to Northwestern b fore the start oif the season, Although rated a good prospect, little wae known about Morris until coach Dutch Lon.borg found out that the 19-year-old kid wae a terrific scorer and built his Northwestern offensive around him. During 11 conference games Morals has averaged 15.4 points a game to roll up 169 for a 43-point lead over secondrplace Clarence Hermeen of Minnesota. At present, with defending champion Ives in 12th place and definitely out of the running, there is only one player with a chance of catching Morris. •He is Illinois' veteran guard, Walt (Junior) Kirk, who is in seventh place with 11,1 points and a 13.9 average. Kirk, however, has four games left and a hot streak by the brilliant Illini guard could nose out i Morris. During his rampage, Morris has scored high marks of 21 points twice and his low score was eight poiiute against 'Purdue, when Boilermaker guards John Uinga and Charlie Hagg cut him short in a game at the Stadium here. o I Manchester Abandons Usual Spring Vacation North Manchester, Ind., Feb. 21 — I (UP)—(Manchester college officiate : today cancelled the school’s spring vacation in order to prevent j unnecessary travel, and moved its . closing date up six days t#May 18. • o War Worker Cyclist Is Killed By Auto Goshen. Ind., Feb. 21 —‘(UP) — Rites were set today for Ernest Tomlinson, 24-year-old war worker, who was injured fatally yesterday when struck by a car while he was riding his bicycle to work.

Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Merchant League Gamble won two from Lose; Arnold won two from Brant; Kraft won two from Hoagland; Miee won two from Lane's. Standing W. L. Gamble .. 14 7 Hoagland 13 8 Lose 11 10 Arnold 10 11 Kraft 10 11 Mies ' . 10 11 Brant — 9 12 Lane’s 7 14 High scores: Heller 232, Sclmitz YTSTTmrWTVTY IMRS. JOE KITSON j 403 Fornax St. | This emblem of courtesy and safe driving is awarded to a car owner at tills community every week, DRIVE CAREFULLY—BAVE A LIFE LOANS PRIVATELY MADE Would a loan of $25 to $250 or more help you? If so, it can be easily arranged. FOR SXAMPLf If you are in need of SSO and have a steady job, you can borrow it on your own signature. No one else signs. See Us Today lOCM. WARS jl COMPANY Incerserated Over Schafer Store — Tale>hoM 2-3-? II DECATUR, INDIANA - Open Dally 8:30 to S:3O Thur*, until 13:30

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Standing W. L. Habegger 14 4 Schafer Co 14 4 Smith Ins 11 7 Fricklete 9 9 Bank 8 10. Ossian 2 8 10 Stuckey 5 13 Sohafer Store 3 15 •Higih scores: Allspaw 201, Mies 212, Engle 200, Gentie 207, Sharp 202, B. Schultz 209, Schroeder 211, Brulbaker 226. * Today'sSportsParade I By JACK CUDDY (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) » • New York, Feb. 21.—(UP)—Sheriff Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul arrested attention along Jacobs Jetty today with the assertion that no man ever lived who could slug it out with Jack Dempsey, when he was at his peak, because of his

paralyzing "liver punch." Gibbons, who tried to wrest the heavyweight title from Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., on July 4, 1923, emphasized that he included the present champion, Sgt. Joe Louis. The "liver punch”—a smashing left hook somewhat below an opponent’s right arm pit — was the secret of Dempsey’s success, Gibbons Insisted during a chat at the Waldorf Astoria. He called the blow the most effective one that a boxer can land. Urging that young fighters add the punch to their reportoire, because the liver is the “real nerve center or solar plexus of the body and not the pit of the stomach as is commonly believed” Gibbons said that learning how to use it transformed him from a boxer into a knockout specialist. Gibbons, a solid, heavy set fellow with thinning brown hair and a left ear that is little cauliflowered from his ring days, has been sheriff of Ramsay county (St. Paul) Minn., for 10 years. He came east recently to be present at the commissioning of the new cruiser St.Paul at Boston. Talking in a high, staccato voice that reminded of the machine-gun conversation of Fritzie Zivic, Gibbons told about how he learned of the lethal delivery to the liver. “I fought in 55 pro bouts from 1913 to 1921 and had only five knockouts,” he said. “In 1920, I met a couple of fighters from Cleveland named the Brock brothers. Matt and Bill. These fellows were doing well knocking out fighters and I learned from them about the liver punch in which they used a terrific left hook.” Gibbons said he started working on it immediately and developed suddenly into a knockout artist. From 1921 to 1925 when he retired after being knocked out by Gene Tunney he had 24 fights and scored 20 knockouts. “One of my knockout victims in 1921 was fat Willie Meehan of California,” he said. “I knocked him out in the first round and when he came to he asked me where I had gotten that punch, which he said was the same thing Dempsey had been trying to pse on him.” Meehan said he fought Dempsey three times in four rounders. The first time Dempsey was just developing his famed left hook and hit Meehan with the liver punch but didn’t knock him out. The next two times Meehan said he was on the lookout and gained a draw in the second bout, a victory in the third. “A lot of people have asked me why I didn’t get in and slug wiih Dempsey in that fight in Montana in 1923, ” Gibbons said. "I didn’t because I had too much respect for that liver punch. I had one of my own but it never had the steam that old Johnny had. I didn't win the decision but was able to go 15 rounds and Dempsey was surprised

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because he couldn’t knock me out.” 1 ing so the actual effect Gibbons warned that the element ’ Punch, which is perfect of surprise was most important not visible to the crowi and that the blow should be used very important wejpo/^ 1 ' in combination with others. onp who wants to be n “The idea is to smash your op- tainly ought to learn it." ponant in the liver with the left Gibbons left today f orSl| hook and follow through immed- While he was nere h e iately with a right hook to the | with ttempsey at his ta veni a head,” he said. "Then keep punch- they cut up old touches

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