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PAGE BIX _ THE BANWlMLBEBUD. ATHENS, GEORGIA. STAR ★★★ DUS ★★ By JACK FROST T 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 - j. - r -|—r 7, ■- -f-x--f- — » •$« - - « —4»— -»K- *—«!«■■ - >f«— » *4* ■ '&'• \ -4■■ ■ 4** * 1 *■ Owls Take Local Crown By li 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 JESTER INSURANCE