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PAGE TWO NORTH GEORGIA TRIBUNE FRIDAY, SEPT. 22. 1939 C 0’1 CANTON DOWNS A -AnndArn Tengll The Sporting Side copperhill in HDRenmemileven L&CKleS opoius bic OPENER 41 TO 0 By JOE PARHAM, Jr. Very interesting reading this week, notwithstanding the war news, in "A History of Southern Football 1890- 1928" by the late Mr. Fuzzy Woodruff. * Fuzzy druff. passed several Woo- who away years ago, was a vet- eran Atlanta newspaperman who wrote of foot- ball and other sports in a fine, clear analytical style. Mr. Wood- ruff covers the thirty-eight year period thoroughly, giving line-ups and scores of practically all games and interesting accounts of each in his three-volume work. We trust readers will pardon us if we devote most of a column to comments and quotes from this book. First Intercollegiate Game The first intercollegiate match in which a Southern team was in- volved, according to Mr. Wood- ruff’s book, was played by the University of Virginia against Princeton at Princeton in the fall of 1890. The score was humiliat- ing, for the southerners were downed by a score of 116 to 0. Comment: Contrast this with the modern records of southern teams. The University of Alabama has made several conquests in the far west and east. L. S. U., Au- burn, Ga. Tech, Georgia and other "below the Mason and Dixon" ele- vens almost annually drub eastern teams. Tar Heels and Cavaliers From the book: But it is evident that the disastrous defeat served to stimulate the ambitions not on- ly of Virginia but of other South- ern colleges. We find that foot- ball was immediately introduced into the University of North Car- olina and in 1891 the games be- tween Virginia and North Caro- lina began, which have continued uninterrupted since save through the catacism of war. As far back as 1893 a card was printed in the Atlanta Constitution, which sets forth the plaint that institutions such as Vanderbilt, Se- wanee. Auburn, Georgia, Ala- bama, and Georgia Tech, could not hope to make any progress un- til they are put on the schedules of Virginia and North Carolina, or both. Comment: That provokes a laugh now. The Virginians are on ly a second-rate football power in the south at the present time and the Tarheels have only recently come out of the doldrums. Introduced Football Dr. C. H. Herty of the Universi- ty of Georgia at Athens and Dr. George Petrie, professor of his- tory at Auburn, are generally cre- dited with the introduction of football to the deep south. Accor- ding to "A History of Southern Football" Doctors Petrie and Her- ty went out on the playing field armed with rule books and taught from the ground up. After months of preparation, the first Georgia-Auburn game, a classic which still survives, was played at Brisbine Park in Atlanta. Auburn triumphed 10 to 0, where- upon they promptly and boldly challenged North Carolina. In those early days football was by no means confined to the fall months. Auburn met the Tar Heels and were soundly trounced 64 to 0. A Firm Foothold Continuing from the book: Despite lack of public interest in the game it had obtained a firm foothold by the fall of 1892. How- ever, there were no association rules and no rules of player eli gibility. Comment: It’s a great tempta- tion but we will refrain from com- menting here. Faculty members were frankly permitted to play in the games and each team always introduced its coach or "trainer" in its line- up. Comment: What we wouldn’t do to those Bremen boys if we just had Coach Vic Hansard fin as halfback on the Canton High team. The first gridiron meeting be- tween the University of Georgia and Ga. Tech was played in Ath- ens November 4, 1893, and Tech won, continues Mr. Woodruff’s account. On their return to Atlanta that night the Tech team charged that Georgia had played a professional halfback and furthermore their players were constantly assaulted with rocks thrown by the Georgia student body. Comment: Gosh, you must have had to be a man to play football back then., We sat in Monday night and lis- tened to Guy Butler, of the At- lanta Journal’s sports staff, inter- view Jack Dempsey, who was in Atlanta to referee the Ben Brown- Teddy Yarosz fight. The Manassa Mauler gave his opinion of several fights which will come off within the next few months and warned Butler to watch out for a coming young fighter. Red Burman, who now belongs to the Dempsey stable of fighters. Red Burman once was known as K. O. Burns. His name was changed to Red Burman to give it a Hebrew touch because of the 2,000,000 Jews in New York, many of whom are fight fans. The star halfback of the football team will have to take a back seat. Newest hero of the 12-year- olds is the band "tooter". There were two dozen following the fire truck Friday afternoon as the band played colorful tunes in their ride over town. Curtis, Garner, Goss and Fain Score Greenie Tallies As Tenn. Team Goes Down Greenies Here Tonight Early Purchase Of Hunting Licenses Urged in Georgia ATLANTA, Sept 22—The State Wild Life Division Wednesday urged all fall outdoorsmen of Geor- gia to buy licenses before the Oc- tober 1 deadline on purchase from agents. After this date hunters and fish- ermen will be required to file ap- plications by mail or person with the Revenue Department in Atlan- ta. This charge was made this week and Director Charles N. El- liott estimates that it will save the Division annually from $20,000 to $25,000 now paid in agency fees. Licenses in the hands of county ordinaries and sporting goods stores, serving as agents, will be withdrawn September 30, Elliott said. The Wild Life Division will dis- tribute 750,000 blanks over the state in a movement designed to expedite and facilitate the buying of licenses. Shipments will be made this week to ordinaries, sher- iffs, hardware stores and banks. Rangers have been instructed to honor money order receipts for li- censess. Simultaneous with this announce- ment Elliott reported that license sales for the first two months of the fiscal year—July and August —had totaled over $13,000. This is a new record for the Department and comes principally from fishing fees. With the dove season opening (September 15) in North Georgia counties, it is estimated that Oc- tober will bring in over $15,000, with November doubling.this fig- ure. Sideline Slants On Canton-Copperhill Football Tussle Sideline Slants on the Canton- Copperhill football game: The field seemed to be in much better shape this year and the addition of le- gible yard markers enables fans to tell how much yardage was gained (or lost) on a play . . . Football scoreboard at end of field is also a big help. It gives downs, yards to go and other informative items. But it would be a still bigger help if somebody was stationed there to put the info down . . . Canton ele- ven looked very snappy in those new green and gold uniforms ... During the game, one player pul- led off his helmet for a play and the referee instantly ordered him to replace it. This is a new rule this season and will probably re- duce injuries . . . Canton Band tooted and were sweel with their fine music and when their uniforms arrive they’ll look as well as they play . . . Although all school children were admitted Friday night, crowd was still lar- ger than any last year. Prof. Ralph Owen, who was at the gate, stated. Greenie line looked better than ex- pected but improvement can still be made in the line’s offensive play. Most Canton gains were on end plays and reverses. Canton High School football team opened their 1939 grid season Friday night with a 41 to 0 vic- tory over Copperhill, (Tenn.) High School. The whole story was Fain through the line and Curtis, Gar- ner and Goss skirting the ends. Canton High scored six touch- downs and added five of the extra points. They were superb on de- fense and on offense—well, figure it out for yourself—they scored a touchdown every time they came in possession of the ball. The Greenies scored early in the first quarter, a few minutes after the game began. Canton kicked off to Copperhill and held the Tennes- see lads to four downs. Canton took the ball and ran a feeler play in- to the Copperhill line which picked up a little yardage. The next play, a reverse, lost ground when Bot- toms, Greenie end, evidently be- came mixed up in signals and crashed headlong into Brady Cur- tis, the ball carrier. However, the Cherokee eleven took a fresh start and made a first down on the next play. The fourth play after the Green- Dies had become into possession of The ball resulted in the pigskin be- ing deep in Copperhill territory, and goal to go. Curtis carried it over and the extra point was ad- ded by a pass Garner to Curtis to put Canton in the lead 7 to 0. Canton Unstoppable Fain again kicked off to the In- dians. The mountain boys though were apparently unable to gain a- gainst Canton and were forced to punt. Curtis caught the ball and made a nice little gain down the north side of the field before caught and tackled. Here the Can- ton gridironers started another touchdown march that ended with Curtis scoring his. second touch- down behind the perfect blocking of Frank Fain, who excelled in that department of play all through the game. The extra point was good giving Canton a 14 to 0 lead. The Greenies added two more touchdowns in the second quarter. After the Greenies had gone down the field with a series of line bucks and off tackle slants, Frank Fain bucked the ball over with a seven yard line plunge. Extra point was good. Score: Canton 21, Copper- hill-0. Fain again booted the kickoff to the Indians and as before the Cop- perhill footballers failed to gain. With Canton in possession of the ball, Fred Jack Goss, star Greenie quarterback made a great 45-yard run through a broken field for the fourth touchdown. Goss ran to the right, pulling his opponent’s safe- ty man over, then reversed his field and skipped over the line for the marker standing up and mak- ing the score 28 to 0 in Canton’s favor. Trick Play Works Copperhill kicked off to start the third quarter and the Canton ele- ven worked a play successfully which had failed to function all last season. Robert Bell caught the kick- off boot and started toward the east goal in a slow slant. Curtis came behind Bell to receive the ball and the entire Copperhill team was sucked over to the opposite side of the field after Bell. It was a touchdown run from the kickoff of approximately 80 yards. Here Canton tried to pass for the extra point but it was batted down and was the first “point-after-touch- down” Canton had failed to make good. The score now stood Canton-34, Copperhill-O. Canton kicked off and the Tenn- essee eleven, by reason of good blocking, here made their first good gain. Copperhill gained again on the next play and it looked as if the Tennessee team might score on the local eleven. But on the next play, the Indians tried a pass and it was intercepted by Aaron Hagin,| Canton center. With Canton in pos- session of the pigskin, it was car-. T 1 .41.1, ried deep into enemy territory and ton Lackey, two tackles of exper- - 1 - - S ience, are back to make the loss of from there William Garner trotted around left end for the touchdown. The combination of Garner to Curtis accounted for the extra point, making the score 41 to 0, which was the final score of the game. Indians Fail to Gain Fain kicked off for Canton in Large Crowd Expected to See Canton Eleven Meet First Crucial Test of 1939 Pro Grid Star, Bride-to-Be Marshall Goldberg and Florence Deutelbaum Engagement of Marshall Goldberg, All-American football star at Pittsburgh last year and now a member of the professional Chicago Cardinals, and Florence Deutelbaum, 19, has been announced. The two met while Goldberg attended Pittsburgh. No date has been set for the wedding. Razzle-Dazzle Is Expected to Again Be Tech Weapon ATLANTA, Sept. 22—A quan- tity of backs, some of whom have fair ability, but no one of whom can be termed an expert at all- round performance, and an antic- ipated weakness in the center of the line, threatens to tax the re sourcefulness of the Georgia Tech football coaches. The backfield squad is mainly lacking in driving power. They have no A. No. 1 line plunger; but even if they did it is doubtful if the| middle of the line, filled largely with green and inexperienced men, could do the proper sort of work as a vanguard. Five stars in the exact center of the line were lost| by graduation. They were Cap- tain Jack Chivington, center, and Junior Anderson, Jimmy Brooks, Allan Wilcox and Mack Furlow, all guards. Glenn Cushing, No.1 tackle, also is gone; and George I Smith, standout end of last year’s j team, has finished his scholastic! and football careers. The end situation is hardly as acute as is that at the middle of the line. Rob Ison, senior flank- man, who was out with a broken ankle after the Vanderbilt game last year, is back in shape. George Webb, a very promising sophomore is available; Joe Bartlett, convert- ed from the backfield, has caught on nicely at end and Paul Spray- berry, tall and earnest junior, is doing well. Charlie Wood and Es- Phantom Animal Finally Caught ATLANTA, Sept. 22—The mystery of Georgia’s "phan- tom varmint" has been ex- plained. A pick pack of 22 hounds, followed by over 100 fox hunt- ing enthusiasts grounded the mysterious animal which had a reputation of attacking and beating hounds, proved last week that it was only a giant red. Led by two of the State’s champions Russell Riley (‘37), and Beulah (‘38), these hounds drove the big red into ground under a saw dust pile near Collier’s Station, Monroe coun- ty. The animal was seen sev- eral times during the chase, which was staged after a chal- enge between hunters from Monroe and Lamar counties. LEAGUE SERIES GAME SAT. ENDS IN 11 - 11 STYMIE By HERBERT BUFFINGTON Canton and Cartersville played to a 11 to 11 tie in the second game of the Kennesaw Mountain league playoff series here Saturday. The game was called at the end of the ninth because of darkness. The slugging duel was featured by seven home runs. Tipton, Kelly, Watkins and Ashe connected for circuit clouts. Tone got two homers- and E. Johnson one for Carters- ville. - Bacon, Cartersville starting pit- cher, lasted until the fourth. Can- ton had scored five runs in the se- cond when Tipton and Kelly led off with home runs. Ashe follow- ed with a single and Hansard walk- ed. They tallied on singles by Fitts and McNally. In the fourth after Fitts, Wil- liams, and McNally singled with two runs scoring. Price came to Bacon’s rescue. Canton scored sin- gle runs in the fifth and sixth and got Price out in the seventh. Ashe led off with a home run, and Han- sard, Williams, and Fitts singled, Hansard scoring. Old Bunk Mor- ris, veteran southpaw, then came in and retired the side with no further scoring. Vic Hansard, Canton pitcher, pitched in hard luck all the way. Wildness and three circuit clouts accounted for most of the Carters- ville runs. Except in the fifth when three free passes, a hit batsman, two singles, and a home run ac- counted for six runs, Cartersville could not hit very much. Canton threatened in the eighth when Ashe hit the center field fence with a triple after two were down. But Bunk Morris struck out O. Morris, hitting for Hansard. Thacker pitched the ninth for Canton. Cartersville got a man on first on and third with one out but a fast double play Ashe to Parris retired the side. CARTERSVILLE McDaniel 2b Looney cf E. Johnson 3b Hartness lb Lanham If Tone rf Tomlinson ss G. Johnson c Bacon p Price p ab 5 5 3 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 h 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 By JOE PARHAM JR. A lean tigerish Greenie eleven and a tough confident Bremen High grid team will come to grips tonight at Harmon Field. Conceded to be probably the toughest foe on the Canton grid- men’s schedule, Bremen will arrive tonight to attempt to smash Coach Victor Hansard’s eleven in a crushing defeat. But against them will be a team that trampled Copperhill 41 to 0 and punted not once during that game—a team that after the foot- ball famine of last year is hungry for revenge on their 1938 victors. Bremen, reported to be stronger this year than ever before, will bring a crew of tough-skinned huskies to Cherokee with them to- night, most of them members of the same juggernaut that tore the heart out of Canton’s team last year in the opener with a 20 to 0 triumph. No injuries have been reported from the Canton camp and the Cherokee boys, confident after their opening win, are expected to match strength with strength and cunning with cunning. If the Canton High footballers can hurdle Bremen tonight they are well on their way to a good seas- on with Dalton probably the only foe of Bremen’s calibre ahead. It will be a colorful spectacle as the trim and snappy Greenies trot out on the field tonight to face the big black-uniformed eleven. A touch of fall tang in the air this week will bring out the sweaters and wrappers in full force. Director Buford Smith announc- ed that the band uniforms may ar- rive in time for the game but at any rate the Canton high band will be there with full quota. Their zippy tunes and collegiate airs will set the stage for a game which is expected to draw the biggest crowd of this or last season. This game is a natural. The stra- tegy and force of the up and com- ing Canton eleven matched against the experience and power of the Bremen gridironers. Each team has been keyed for a win but which way the game will go nobody will know until the last tackle has been made and the last whistle blows. Coach Hansard has said that he will be very very thankful for a win and you may be sure that the six touchdowns the Greenie war- riors scored on Copperhill have gi- ven the Bremen coach sleepless nights. Coach Golden of Bremen has re- 2 0 B. Morris p 0 0 0 0 cently said that he has the best e- TOTALS 35 11 11 3 leven in the school’s history. CANTON al r h e Game time will e 7:15 and Williams 2b 5 1 2 0 the probable line-ups wil lbe: Fitts 3b 6 2 6 0 CANTON .Pos BREMEN McNally If 6 0 2 0 Bottoms L. E. Manley W atkins cf 5 1 1 0 Chadwick L. T. Newborn Parris ss 5 0 0 0 Ellison L. G. Dowdy Tipton rf 4 1 1 0 Hagin C. Wilson Kelly c 2 2 1 0 Quarles R. G. Thomas Payne c 1 0 0 0 McFarland R. T. Burden Ashe lb 2 3 0 Payne R. E. Pesey Hansard p 2 2 1 0 Goss Q. B. Kaley Thacker p 0 0 0 0 Garner H. B. Long *Morris 1 0 0 0 Curtis H. B. Watson TOTALS 42 11 17 0 Fain F. B. Bradley IMPROVE THE APPETITE FOR INCREASED VIGOR MALTONIC has been helpful to many people who felt listless due to a poor appetite. It’s a nu- fritive, iron tonic, and it’s a good one. Ask us about Maltonic. Cherokee Drug Company the closing minutes of the fourth quarter. Two plays failed to gain and the Indians were forced to kick. Canton came into possession of the ball just as the game ended. Coach Victor Hansard used 22 men in the game, substituting free- ly. He was well pleased with the blocking of Fain and Curtis and the running of Goss, Curtis and Garner. The line showed improvement o- ver last year. Standouts Friday night in the line were Hagin at center and McFarland and Quarles at tackle posts. Ellison also show- ed improvement over last year’s performance. The ends were well taken care of by Payne and Bottoms who started the game and were replac ed by Frady and Bell, who played the positions equally well. . Coach Hansard can replace his guards, tackles and ends this year without seriously weakening his team which means much to strength when hard games being played. Cushing less acutely felt, and Al- fred Muerth, a big sophomore and Louis Perkinson, a comparatively small, but very willing player, may prove of some use. At center it will be different. Chivington took rank with the very best centers in the country by his all-round work in his last two years and however ambitious his most likely successor, Roane Beard may prove to be, it will be impos- sible for him to fully replace his brilliant predecessor. Neil Cavett, very dependable junior, who played at quarterback and tackle in 1938, and Charlie Sanders, a sophomore, are the two best bets for the starting guard posts, while Robert Aderhold and Elmer Dyke, both juniors without varsity experience, are at present the best the Tech coaches have in the way of replacements. Obvious- ly, the guard problem is a critical one. The backfield situation lends some brightness to a picture oth- erwise gloomy. All of last year’s ball carriers, save June Page, are returning and at least three soph- omores give promise of being use- ful. They are Johnny Bosch, Ralph Plaster and Bobby Pair. Thus the loss of strength in the its are I middle of the line and the return of an experienced backfield have Copperhill was weakened con- set-the stage for more of the ball- siderably by the loss of Tipton, hiding wizardry and general de- due to injuries. Their team was al- ceptiveness of attack which won so much lighter than at first re- nationwide acclaim for the Jackets ported. last season. SPECIAL R. L. Cornwell of Monticel- lo, chief of the State’s flying squadron rangers, and M. H. Rocquemore, of Barnesville, handled the dogs. RANGE MY CUSTOMERS ARE HARD TO PLEASE" AND BLUE RIDGE HAS BEEN "The Yardley’ National Electric Range Exposition GENERAL 0 ELECTRIC MORGAN BROS Next Door to Rogers Store CANTON, Ga. FREE KIDNEY WEAKNESS Money Back; WLARNLOO IF IT FAILS Take FAMOUS KIDANS for BACKACHE; for Frequent, Scanty, or Burning Passage; for Leg Pains; Loss of Energy; Tired, Lazy feeling; Headaches; Dizziness; having a source in functional Kidney disorders. KIDANS work speedily. 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