The White Falcon - 23.01.1943, Blaðsíða 8

8
Illinois Moves Toward
’Nother Big 10 Crown
The Big 10 basketball scramble
has settled down to- a three-
cornered race among Illinois’
defending champs, Indiana and
Purdue, although once-beaten
Wisconsin and Northwestern
still have an outside chance to
overhaul the current leaders.
The Illini continued their tor-
rid streak during the week by
spanking Iowa, 61-41, for their
third success in as many starts.
Purdue was equally as impres-
sive as the Boilermakers defeated
Minnesota, 49-42, and Indiana
had little trouble sailing through
hapless Chicago, 45-27.
Camp Grant, headed by Stan
Szukala and Mickey Rottner,
former stars at De Paul and
Loyola, respectively, turned in
two victories during the week,
stopping Chicago, 48-26, and
edging Minnesota, 48-41. The
Great Lakes Naval Station, an-
other haven for collegiate and
professional cagers, overwhelm-
ed Marquette’s highly regarded
quintet, 60-42.
Rhode Island State, one of
the nation’s greatest offensive
teams every year, continues to
amaze with huge scores. This
week the speedsters of Rhode
Island bewildered Northeastern
of Boston, 106-64, for the seas-
on's highest total scoring to date.
Two other eastern favorites
won during the week as N.Y.fJ.
photo-finished West Virginia, 52-
51, and St. John’s of Brooklyn
battered Fordham, 63-47.
In the south, Tulane beat Ala-
bama, 41-22; South Carolina
bounced Georgia, 43-35; Vander-
bilt shaded Virginia, 36-35; Ken-
tucky trounced Tennessee, 30-28,
•and Texas clipped S.M.U.,' 41-37.
Santa Clara bowled over Stan-
ford, 45-42; Southern California
halted California, 32-27,. and Or-
egon defeated Idaho, 43-21, in
leading west coast games.
Giants To Train
In New Jersey
The private golf course of John
I). Rockefeller near Lakewood,
N.J., will be the spring training
site for the New York Giants,
President Horace Stoneham an-
nounced yesterday. Lakewood is
65 miles south of New York City,
and only 17 miles by bus from
where the N.Y. Yankees will
train.
The Giants will begin their
conditioning program March 15.
Players will live at a small hotel
nearby, and ride to and from the
training grounds in horse-drawn
cars.
Masons Gather
Two members of the English
Royal Marines entertained a
group of 38 Masons at a gather-
ing last Wednesday evening. The
lectures were followed by a
business session and refresh-
ment* *
Bruins Hold
3-Point Edge
Over Detroit
Skating to a 7-5 victory over
the cellar-dwelling New York
Rangers, the Boston Bruins main-
tained their three-point margin
over the climbing Detroit Red
Wings in the National Hockey
league whirl this week.
The Red Wings whipped the
Rangers, 4-1, then battled the
Chicago Blackhawks to a pair of
HOCKEY STANDINGS.
W. L. T. Pts.
Boston . . . 16 9 6 38 |
Detroit . . . . . 13 8 9 35
Toronto .. . 15 10 4 34
Chicago . . . 10 9 8. 28
Montreal . .. 9 15 5 23
New York . . 7 18 4 18
ties during the week, 2-2 and
1-1, to increase their point total
by four. Toronto, which held
possession of second place for
several weeks, slipped against
lowly Montreal, 2-0, to drop a
single point behind the Wings.
The Maple Leafs drubbed Mon-
treal, 8-4, in their return match,
but Detroit’s spurt offset that
triumph, and kept the Leafs in
third place.
Gas Ration Books
AWOL In Chicago
G-men in Chicago are invest-
igating the daring burglary of
the Gasoline Ration Board’s of-
fice, in which 6,500 ration books
were stolen.
Tlie thieves broke into the
board’s office by smashing the
glass in the front door. They lo-
cated the unlocked safe, and es-
caped with ration books good
for more than 1,000,000 gallons
of gasoline.
Federal Agents immediately
sent the serial numbers of the
missing books to all filling sta-
tions, making value of the books
practically nothing.
Send THE
ajaq ;
drains
tuao
auo
.. .LUXU
The American Scene
Pvt. William Daniels got the
news from home that his girl
friend has found a lonely sailor.
Daniels now cries on the should-
er of Pfc. Walter W. Seidler, who
lost his one-and-only to the Coast
Guard.
*
A sandwich worth $400 was
almost eaten, but police inter-
vened in the nick of time. Mrs.
Samuel Karter of Dover Plains,
N.Y., missed two diamond rings
which were valued at $400. Up-
on investigation police discov-
ered that she had accidentally lost
them in a sandwich she had pre-
pared for one of her lodgers.
*
Fined $50 for not taking their
work seriously, two painters
were puzzled. Then came the
dawn and they realized they had
been smoking while painting a
sign on a Hudson River pier,
reading, “No Smoking.”
Cutting off his clothes and
pouring 15 gallons of oil on his
body was the only way police
could get 17-year-old Irving G.
Steinbrick of Newark, NJ., free
after he had somehow managed
to get himself wedged between
an elevator car and the shaft
wall. After an hour of feverish
squirming, Irving slid out, greasy,
but happy.
★
Ants in his pants cost Joseph
Gagen a stiff fine for indecent
exposure. Gagen, a letter carrier,
removed his trousers to shake
the unwanted visitors and instead
of putting his pants back on,
mounted his bicycle and proceed-,
ed to deliver mail, trouserless.
He could not explain his action
when he appeared before the
judge.
¥
A bitten nose, a hospital, a jail;
that’s what resulted when Mr.
WHITE FALCON Home •
•XjjO ‘jajsuuijsoj o/»
UIOJJ
and Mrs. Carl Leila were stand-
ing on a street in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
talking about a possible recon-
ciliation. During the course of
the conversation, Mr. Leila sud-
denly leaned over and bit the end
of Mrs. Leila’s nose. In the hospi-
tal, the now definitely ex-Mrs.
Leila lay bandaged. In jail, Carl
had nothing to say.
¥
Taxicabs, instead of clanging
fire trucks, will answer fire calls
in Gallup, N.M., because volun-
teer fireman are restricted by
the current tire and gas rationing.
★
He ordered her to eat soap and
pinched her while she was obey-
ing his command, is the reason
Mrs. Angeline Sittlcr, 19, gave
when she sought a divorce from
her husband John, 26, in a Chi-
cago court.
*
No waste of time or waiting for
Richard Wilson. Just as his bride-
to-be was being entertained at
a customary pre-wedding shower
about three weeks before the
nuptials, in breezed Wilson, ac-
companied by his father and a
minister. The wedding took place
right there and then.
‘ *
The Banana ration brought zoo
officials in San Frapcisco, Calif.,
a problem. Monkeys will have to
be catered to until they are taught
to like carrots.
*
After the ball was over, many
an itch was scratched. A group
of co-eds at the U. of California
arranged a' party for Servicemen
and decorated the room with
“pretty” shrubbery gathered from
a nearby area. The next day, all
the girls started to itch. The
“pretty” shrubbery was poison
oak. (They now wonder how the
soldiers are doing.)
*
Grandma was right, “they will
come back in style.” Merchants
in San Francisco are displaying
fancy red flannel “unmention-
ables” for the modern young
•lady. i .
*
Kissing lost a husband for 50-
year-old Mrs, Hiller. Peter Hiller,
73, of Seattle, Wash., was grant-
ed a divorce because his wife
attended tod many Communist
meetings, and to make matters
worse—kissed all the comrades
who attended. Hiller charged
mental cruelty.
*
He reached in, the law reach-
ed out, and the law got him.
Detective Will Burns was stand-
ing in a bus station at Galves-
ton, Texas, when he felt a hand
gently easing its way into his
pocket. Burns waited until the
hand had his wallet almost out,
then swiftly whirled, and grab-
bed the hand of the pickpocket,
a 50-year-old Negro.
*
After sending hundreds of men
into the Services, Miriam M. Tor-
mey, draft board clerk in Brook-
lyn, N.Y., resigned her $2,000-a-
year position to join the WAVES
at $50 per month. She refused
to reveal her age, saying, “I am
neither too young nor top qlc|,’'