Sport: Sport, Jan. 22, 1945

Hopes in the Wind

Chill wartime winds from Washington had numbed the sports outlook for 1945, but there were lukewarm currents in the air:

¶ WPB said that its forthcoming order curtailing nonessential use of electricity would not be applied to night baseball. The hopeful saw it as an indication that the Government would not extend its horse-racing ban to other sports.

¶ ODT ruled that its convention ban, at least for the present, does not include sporting events (example cited: a state bowling tournament would not be forbidden).

¶ The Eastern Lawn Tennis Association...

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