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THE BANWlMLBEBUD. ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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By JACK FROST
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Republicans Overlook Issue.
In the Republican dance mara-
f thon or official bout, which open
ed in Kansas City last Tuesday,
the High Moguls of the Grand
“Oil" Party cussed and discussed,
considered and re-considered, se
lected a dry plank to go on the
front of the platform, but pulled
the farm relief board from the
back row, which sent the farm
ers ioack home singing to the tune
of “Just Another Day Waited
Away." But to the great surprise
of Aleck Smart, who was in at
tendance upon all of the all-night
sessions, and back-alley confaibs,
nothing was mentional in regard
to the situation no wexisting in
the American and the National
leagues.
However*/ Mr. Smart Is not
worrying over the fact that
this important question, dis
cussions of which can be heard
on the streets of almost any
American city, town and village,
from daylight until darkness,
because being a devout demo
crat, he believes that he »can
add much to his party by mak
ing a ' question of which team
will emerge winner in the an
nual pennant scramble now go
ing on. a subject for one of the
all-night sessions to be held at
the democratic convention in
Houston this month.
When Interviewed, on his ' re
turn tram Kansas City last night.
Mr. Smart stated that he intends
to introduce a resolution compel
ling. the American League to re
verie its standing, putting the
team in'last place on top, and so
on, thertby stopping the Yankees,
temporarily at least, and giving
the other teams a chance. Mr.
Smart figures this will add tre
mendously to the democrats pop-
u’ariiy, especially through the
Middle 'West. Of course, Mr.
Smart is playing on the extremes
just a bit, but it is true that tho
baseball situation Is coming fin
for a lot of discussion at present,
and his plan seems to be the only
one that will head off the fait
flying Now York Yankees.
COACHING SCHOOL STARTS
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Owls Take Local Crown By
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SUNDAY. JUNE 17. 19M
— 1 . —eas
IT GEORGIA GIVEN
TIu» Yanks have swept
'“eriian.Lcagu- ~—
the
_ue with an easy
tho conflicts of this
and from all indications
it the championship
». an essv road
KfWWInrffldi to the home stretch.
It seas all over hot the shout.
from a New York stand-
point. *
As a pthole the National League
is furnishing a much-tighter race
than th* other major group. There
arc a nunfter of strong teams in
tho National oufit. A close study
of th; teams, in the two leagues
■will show that a mad scramble
. has been «uid is still in progress
for the Nalionol League lender-
■:m'it js due to the fact that
‘ ’orktrong teama may be
. that group and that the
for the one-sided affair of
icrican League are found
it, i fact- that only one real
may be round in that
Denton Leads* Hurler*.
Although the Yenkeee ere ml-
‘ isoball world to put the
League on top tne Na-
,1 League has a hurler that
rod-t when it comsa to
.. them ncroaa the plate
tho pride of the league i»
' Larry Benton of tho Now
ants. The Giant rtght-
by merit of hit work this
season, has been nominated to the
high position of Exhaulted Rajah
of tho hurlena of both leagues.
During the esmpsigns of this
seared llenton Is the only pitch-
er who has not been forced out
of a , ingle game. List year ht
was a mighty good pitcher, hut
was never good for over its or
seven innings, bnt with a lit
tle more experience hr started
the .-Id ball to rolling this year
with a feeling that he was able
to handle the games that fell
under his guidance all by him-
self, and so far haa aucceeded
iittlv all too well.
Not once this year has a Giant
.relief man bien forced to warm
while Denton was on the
and. Of course he has been in
Jht n’aces, but never haa the
.lew York management wavered
in it* trust and confidence in Ben
ton, and he has invaiably justified
their confidence in him but using
his head a 1 well as hit arm in ex
tricating himself frim tickless alt-
it ions.
Hinton has rung np ten vic
tories this season. He haa turn-
in his 1 tilth inning of service
for 11128, and haa Ditched in 12
games. He has been beaten
nnlv twice. A dozen times haa
Itinton 'tatted sad a dozen
times has'ho succeeded in silenc
ing Ihe hats of all opposition.
BY JACK FROST
Because of the fact that
the Pirates failed to qual
ify within the given
length of time, the Owls
automatically win the
Athens championship
crown and will represent
the Classic City in further
competition of the Junior
baseball program that is
being staged by the Amer
ican Legion.
Official application blanks were
distributed among: the boys some
days Ago, in order that they might
have plenty of time to get the
Applications signed and turned in
to local headquarters before^e
final date set for the application
to be in, but for some reason
or other several members of the
Pirate team failed to turn in their
blanks and in that way made it
impossible for their teams to
Frank Holden, athletic officer
of the Legion post, announces
that all Owl ' blanks were in by
June 15th, and toy that reason
they have been officially deci*******
the owners of thd mythical
crown that represents the c<t«u»-
pionship of Athens.
One of the requirements of the
Legion from the beginning or. nc
junior program was that members
of the various teams be required
to sign contracts before they be
nllowej to take part in an offi
cial game. »The Pirates met the
Owls in one game but it failed
to count as an official showing
because of the fact that the appli
cation blanks had not been signed.
The initial move that the Owls
will take as champions of Athens
will be a series with a team from
Covington for the championship
of the eighth district. The cham-
p'onship series will be divided
into two parts. The affair will
be made up of six games.) Three
games will be played in '■ A then:*
and a like number of battles will r
be fought In Covington and tho p.’ T. * *
team that comes out of the tight I gg™* 1 \
with the long end of the count N York!*
...in * ,i„,i At*. wew xorg ...
Coach Georgia Woodruff, whe
resigned ns head coach at the Uni
versity of Georgia early in the
football season last fall, was at
the helm of the grid game her*
for five years, from 1923 through
1928, and during that time his
teams participated in 47 contests.
In 30 of these the Red ant) Black
were victorious while in 16 tho
Georgia team met defeat. One re
pulted in a tie.
1925 was the worst year Wood
ruff had and 1928 wa? his best.
In the first named year ht lost
more games than he won, the
count being five to four in favor
of the opposition. In 1928 he won
9 and lost but 1. The Georgia
team, at one time or another, de
feated every team played while
Woodruff was coach, with the ex
ception of Centre, who was tied
on? year and was victorious the
next in a two year series.
Confer*!** Record.
Georgia teams won twice
many Conference games as they
lost during Woodruff's mentorship
winning 20 and losing 10.
Auburn was the easiest meat i
for Woodruff, five victories be- j
ing rung up against the Plains- J
men during his career. Alabama *
was his iinx, the only victory
coming the final year, 1927.
His teams scored a total of 719
points to 425 by the opponents
during the five years.
Following is the Conference
games record for the five years:
Tenncsse
Virginia
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Alnbsmn
South Carolina
Georgia Teen
Florida
Tulane’
Clemson
How they
J stanr^
COACH BILL WHITE
IS HARD AT WORK
H
When the Columbus Foxes took
the field against the Montgomery
Lions in Colubmus Thursday aft
ernoon the destinies of the club
were guided by a new pilot, Coach
William P. White, better known in
baseball circles here as just plain
“Bill,” the best baseball coach in
the Southern Conference.
The new manager of the Co
lumbus club has for the post nine
years coached the University of
Georgia baseball team and records
of his teams during that time are
about the best of any teams ever
produced at the University.
In taking up the problems of the
Fox outfit the new deader faces a
task of no littie magnitude, as ha
takes a team which has lost eleven
games, tied one and won only one
on foreign fields which was popu
lar and prosperous only for the
aliens, and a record that can not
be called good by any means.
But situations of this kind are
easy for the Georgia co&ch and x
he will take up the work with the
future in mind and with the past
serving only as history.
There is no doubt about his __
ability to pull the team up to the la football, basketball, and track,
level if thera is any material at
nil to be found on the outfit.
Faced with the handicap of losing
an arm when but fourteen years
of age, he failed to yield to the
slings and arrows of fortune, but
rose above hit misfortunes and
carved a career for himself in the
great world of aports.
The instruction •? In -.jail three
classes will be handled by Coach
Stegeman. The Georgia coach is
one of the outatandlng authorities
of the country on major sports.
Since ho came to' the ,University
about nine years ago lie has be.
come wtdely known *fover the
South as one of.Jhfe.aytstandlng
coaches of the southern Confer,
rnose instrumental in tne' josier- ence An unusually large number
ing of the indnmitahl* will in win I -• ^ . -. - • •
The spirit of the Bulldog is
traditional and Bill ia 'one of
those instrumental in the foster-
'ilY JACK FROST
Plans for the annua!
coaching school to.be held
in connection wjth the
University of Georgia
Summer School for the
high school loadles who
will be on hand here this
summer undqr the auspi
ces of Coach Herman J.
Stegeman, have been com
Dieted and instruction will
get underway June 25,
according to.Dri J. S.
Stewart, director of the
Summer School. -
The school will run «n the Mm,
program as the cause* of last sum.
raer and instruction wlilke ottered
Ilho three major Sports of Georgi.
high schools. - >
Kirkard Entertains Reporters-
Mr. Tex Rickard, tho big-heart-
ml ntlem.m of Madison Square
Garden, early Friday mommy, left
rm Ihi> runromo ruler’s yacht with
f-roun of what ho ca'lcd friends,
fn r i little iaunt down into Jersey-
Thiir exact destination was not
r-inn out. but it developid that
t iii-v put Inti) Fair Haven. N. 3.
th- .o,. nc of Sir Thomas Keeney’s
trnininir activities, and also that
tlm pueit quarters were largely
orrunied by a nunVier of the
out-tsndinj? snort writers of the
riftropo’i'. Watch the papers in
the near future, and you will
will naturally be awarded the dls.
trict championship. In cate of e
tie another battle will be itaged.
The exact date of the scramble
to take place over the district
crown haa not been set but it is
believed that both divltlona of the
series will be held along toward
the Utter part of June and the
early part of July.
And if the huaky little Owls
come out of the affair with the
long end of the count they will
be given a place in the atate cham
pionship Merits to be held in Ma
con about the middle of August.
The Owl team is good and with
the coaching that the outfit will
receive from now until the tipio
set for further competitions the
local champions should be in the
best of condition for the future
battles..
Watch the Bannet-Herald for
further announcements in regard
to the garnet to be played.
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh .
Boston .. .
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Boston .. .
Cleveland...
Washington
Detroit .. .
Chicago .. .
.632
-.36 25 .590
-.33 25 .586
..30 22 .677
-.28 27 .609
-.26 30 .455
..18 34 .346
..14 36 .280
.778
..33 29 .623
..30 27 .526
—SO 29 468
..26 30 .464
..22 27 .449
..23 34 .404
..20 35 .364
Birmingham
Memphis ..
New Orleans
IMtl ile .. .
Nashville ..
Chattanooga
Atlanta ■.
Little Rook
Southern League
..43 22 .662
..37 26 .587
..34 27 .557
..34 30 531
..30 33 .470
..26 38. .406
..25 37 .403
..23 39 571
LOS ANGELES. Cal — (UP) —
Eighteen year old Frank Wyknff. |
Glendale High school sprinting
star, won the 100 metre race at
the southwest Olympic finals at
the Los Angeles Stadium Satur.
day.
He equalled the existing Olympic
record of 10 3.5 seconds and fin.
fshed ahead of an extremely strong
field inclndlng Charlie Paddock,
holder of the world’s record at
that distance. Paddock’s world rec.
ord was 10 2-5 seconds. Paddock
P . /tool: second place, only a yard
behind Wykoif at the finish.
men think about Sir Thomas and
how he is develqping a powerful
punch that he is said to poetess,
his possibilities of knocking Pro
fessor Gene Tunney for a row,
and relieving Mm of Ms crown on
probably’ se; what these gentle- the night of July 26th,
National League
Pittsburgh 0: New York 4.
Chicago 7j Boston 0. -
St. Louis 6; Brooklyn 5.
Cincinnati 7; Philadelphia 10-
Cincinnati 1; Philadelphia 3.
American League
Philadelphia^; Cleveland 9.
Boston io; Chicago 5.
Washington 1; Detroit 4.
New York 5; St. Louis 7.
Southern’ League
Memphis 4; Atlanta 1.
(Little Rock 3; Birmingham 4.
Chattanooga 13; Nashville 15.
New Or! ans 2; Mobile 6.
GLENN ELECTED AS
FLORIDA SOLICITOR
Friends of Thomas L. Glenn, Jr.,
will be interested to learn that ho
has been recently elected prose
cuting attorney of Sarasota coun
ty, Florida.
Mr. Glenn i, an alumnus of the
University of Georgia, graduat
ing in the class of 1925. He !c
associated with the firm of Evans
end Glenn, Sarasota. Re Is a
meihber of the A. T. O, fgrntcr-
nity. .
BY JACK FROST
Take a look at the above pho
tograph—know him? Sure you
do. You recognize him right off
hand as Mr. William Harritnn
Dempsey, the greatest wallbper
the world has ever produced, the
last member of the knockout
boys.
And no doubt a glance , at tho
representation will bring back
memories of days gone by when
the old Manasa Mauler was at his
best and sending even the tough
cst guys to the mat for the fatal
count with very little trouble and
then you come on down the line
end think of the firrt fight in
which Professor Gene Tunney, the
fellow who has been lecturing to
Yale classes on the life and works
of Shakespeare, was acting as of
ficial contender for the crown
that was loved so much by the
man of the old knockout family,
and haw the professor chased
around the ring and managed to
grab enough points to win the
decision aver the man who had oa
more than one occasion proved
himself to be a greater walloper
than the guy who invented the
general art of walloping.
And so the story goes. With
Tunney’s victory came the passim!
of the world’s greatest fighter. Of
courie to say this does not mean
.to aay that he is at present the
greatest of all fighters but it does
mean to say that the world will
never again see such a fighter as
the old Manassa Mauler was when
he was at his best.
This one fight between Demp
sey and Tunney, which was held
back in 1926, saw a big change jn
the fight world and saw the man
of the old school giving way to n
more modern fighter. Thon comes
memories of the time after the
first fight between the two gen-
tiemen. While the friends ani
supporters of the fighting Marine
were merrymaking over the suc
cess of tlioii entry in the squared
circle friends of Dempsey pro
tested highly and said that their
man was still capable of staging
a comeback and another fight was
arranged.
This fight, which was held in
the summer of 1927, probably was
the greatest fight the world has
ever known and was without
doubt the greatest drawing card
that Sir. Rickard win ever be
able to frame. But as was the
case the man of knockout faint
just could not land a safe blow
and once more was- forced to re
tire end lose the crown that he
had owned and loved so many
years.
Again in the year of our Lor!
1928 the seme group of Dempsey
friends who said two years ago
that their man waa capable of
beating Tunney ere tending out
er will never be able to stage a
give up their knockout king. They
say that he is good for one more
fight and that the last appearance
of the Old Mauler will be in New
York toward the latter part of
the summer.
Wc do not chbose, thanking Cal
Cnolidge for the expression, to go
into a lengthy argument in re
gard to whether or not Dempsey
will be a contender this fail but
from all outward appearances it
does look as if he will be back
in the ring again in an effort to
regain the crown that was for
many years Dempsey property.
At any rate he is in training
out in California getting himself
in shape for a part that he is to
play in a production known na
“The Fighting Kid.” It is no
doubt true that he is planning to
take part in a play but the work
that he is going through now is
good enough for any fighter be
cause this production is going to
be one of such a tough disposi
tion that the leading man is be
ing shoved through a series of t v
hardest kind of workouts, includ
ing hours and hours of hard road
work each day.
In event he does decide to fight
or has alrJhdy decided on the
matter, one mighty big question
arises: Will he have a chance *
regain the crown from Tunney?
The answer is easy. Take it from
this writer, the Old Manassa Maul- world forever and forever.
displayed by Georgia teams. It
will be strange indeed if he fails
to animate the Foxes with the old
college spirit and make of them a
much better club.
And when Bill White took over
the reigns of managership of the
Columbus club much local Inter
est was thrown in the direction
of the games that remain to be
comeback with Professor Tunney. played bv that team this summer.
And when we say this we say it An editorial in the Columbus
Tay-
with all due respect to Miss ,
lor’s husband and his past record
because in our opinion he was th;
greatest fighter of all times but
now his day ia over and he will
be forced to live on the past.
Take another look at the picture
and compare ft in your mind with
photographs of the noted fighter
last year and the preceding year
when Dempsey was preparing for
the other fights with Tunney.
Note the heavy look an his face
and the lines that run about ov r
the countenance to announce h
the world hat he is through as a
fighter and that it will be impos
sible, although ho is going through
hard werkouta, for him to evci
get back in the condition that he
was in at the time of his last
fight with the Shakespearean lec
turer.
Although he- would , not have
any more chance to win over Tu-.
ncy than Hceney has, and that is
not a chance in the world, Demp
sey would still be the host draw
ing card that Mr. Rickard could
put in the ring and if he does
Enquirer-Sun Friday commenting
on Coach White was as follows:
"The announcement that Coach
William P- White—known to all
recent University of Georgia stu
dents as ‘Bill’— has been named
to pilot the Coidmbus Foxes dux'
ing the remainder of the baseball
season will be received with Inter
est in Columbus and throughout
the circuit. In Columbus it will
be greeted with something like
relief. Hardin Herndon, whom
Coach White succeeds, has led the
Foxes from the beginning of the
circuit’s life; and he has one pen
nant and one third-place to his
credit But this year his manager
ship has not proved successful.
Since the opening of the present
season the club haa been consist
ently In the cellar or next to the
cellar. Despite change after
change in the line-up, Mr. Hem-
don has not been able to pull the
club out •
“Coach White has an unusual
record in the Geld of baseball . . -
sport. Minus Ms right arm as carry ng out of the s:
the claaaes last sumMer and an
even larger number,, it .Ofpec'.eii to
be on hand and 'receive expert
training in coaching. ,r>|
Fielding Yost In a speech here
some time ago stated < that the
reason why the SouUx.wae behind
In athletics was because of the
fact that competitive,-sporte were
not atretaed enough for Southern
high schools and that the dlrec-
tors of athletic! in. Southern high
schools were not exports in their
lines.
8uch & ataiement waa aot ftr
from true but as fat. as high school
•port* are concerned the South is
fast coming to the ..ifront end
Coach Stegeman la playing a greet
part In the movement py givl“*
out expert Information In hie
coaching achoola each , summer.
More or lees interscholastic sth.
Idles have been introduced into
all of our leading high schools and
the day haa come when it ie nee-
cssary that the
athletics ,ln. the
should know bott
practice, tho
of good oporto,
will base hi*
along these lines.
The flret two e
tlon will bo op
room, etudying and oh . _
various plays and systems that the
Georgia coach will have to otter
his student sand then tbn last four
weeks will bo spent In the actual
enter the squared circle again tMs * reault of an accident in boy- were learned during
fall sport fans from all over tlicj hood. Ite^.evertheleran desired to of class room Inltt
country will gather around on •*
AIT
By; Ralph Underwood
tn the closest and best played, .
game of the year the McWhorter j s * Wingfield, cf. )•
clan beat the Hancock team to the I
finish with the score of 2.0 Friday J Total* ....n ,
afternoon at the “Y”.
Anderson for McWhorter held j MANrnri <
the Hancock team for three hits i U "JSi iT"
which is the best that has been ‘ \ U '
done tie year and a shut-out is a ’ if*"?*’ p '
very rare thing in this league. ’
McWhorter had twelve npn | “
playing for him and six of these “?“• *''■ *“il”
were outfielders so any Gy bell ( .®’ I !bl
was a sure death. , t
Lanier for the loser* pitched a ”•
again to see the famous old manly® 8 " at _
pass.from the realm, of the fight j ^ h di ^ e n
played with and piloted the Annis
ton club, and etilt later went as a
pitcher to the Charleston team of
the South Atlantic League. He
knows about umpires, too, for
after his playing days he waa an
umpire in various minor league
circuits in the southeast.
“But Georgians have come to
know ’Bill’ White chieGv through
his connection with the Univereitj
of Georgia, where he went In
1919 as coach of baesball. Since
then the University team haii
never finished lower than tMn
pisre in a circuit cf twenty-two
college teams. It haa won two
Southern Conference champion
ships. ’Bill’ has had good mate
rial to work with, but his record
at the University ia evidence that
he know* how to work with good
material.
In the team batting averages
Wingfield baa a team that la bit
ting nearly three hundred .while
Daniel, la batting one.
MCWHORTER— AB. R. H. E.
Hodgson, c. 2
H. Parr, as 3
Hopkins, 3b 3
Johnson, lb, 3
Meadow, at. 3
Williams, sf.
1 ’0
vWilliams, sf.
purr. G.. sf. ....
Hamilton rf. ..,
M. Wingfield. If. .
O. Robertson. 2b.
3 0 0 0
,3 0 6 0
.*.... 4 0 0
room
Students In the', basketball cHss
will be shoved thlfcW*** varloui
plays on tho giant conrt at Wood-
ruff Hall in order that they mlsM
be In the beet of position 10 cm"
their high school ’
return to their
for eervlco negt
in the football ch
liar action down
[ord Field
good game and ho with his team
went down fighting. Lemon got
two of hie teams three hits and
Hopkins for tho winners made two
out of three’trips to the plate. rMcWhorter
. Monday's game will-find Daniel *' ‘
and Wingfield’s team* trying to
the same howL They juat can’t break down each others records.
Pittard, c. - . 4 0 0 0
Coach White comes to Colum
bus partly through the’ instru
mentality of Judge Frank Foley , „ ‘MB
, (a itar pitcher at ‘Georgia’ In hla I Have You Bought Youi^S
!. college days), and former Head 1 w
oiCoar* George Woodruff, whoee
, , Bulldog eleven was the football
n sensation of the world of (port
"! last fall. Both gentlemen are
thoroughly acquainted with ‘Bill’
Totals
Score by Innlnge;
I White’* qualification*. They real-
31; 0 3 .lire that he is confronted with a
„ task, bnt they believe—and eo do
task, bnt they believe—and So
1 we—that he will succeed In pull-
McWhorter 0M 000 000-3, inK the Poxe , (n , hapc » to finish
"u^l^'xtai'lJnklnT’w^lke^ i in th * fr0nt rank lf not at the to P
™"kC. N HX! Z I L t t h ra^' Ui ^ * ** ^
and the'members of the track class |
will go through thj
on tho cinder
Tile schedule
so that ono w
tend ail three
SERVICES CALLED OF
FIRST METHODIST’ jE
church thi* Sunday tsjwmng 0,1
Account of the tfdUBBty com;
mcncement sermon 1
at tho chapel.
Rev. J. L. All;
the evening
o’clock.
Cigars Today f
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