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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT Carter “Pinky” Townsend To Coach Mercer Line Next Yea Craham Batchelor Wins Technical K. O. From Rakestraw In Thiy EX-GEORGIA PLAYER | T aLMUST CERTAIN T 0 bfﬁcial Announcement 1s : Expected to Be Made ¥ In Near Future 3 A it § Carter “Pinky” Townsend, who ‘ro"ed such a capable line coach t Athens High last fall, is almost | gertain choice to succeed “Tiger” nnett as line coach at Mercer.{ ennett will assume the line coach | g duties at the University of | G rgia, and like Townsend, is a‘ er sta, Rulldog athlete. | Although Townsengd could not be i ached for confirmation the choice & a certainty and the official an- | kxhcemom will be made in the! r future by the Mercer author- | fes. Just who will succeed Town- gend as Maroon line coach is un nown, but it js very possible that oward Pope, stella, fullback on thens High's team last fall, will s the only aide of Howell Hollis" Townsend was a member of the j 1 and ’32 Georgia teams and was bbed of the final year by a trick ee. Regarding the huge Carters jllé boy as a valuable candidate, r6c a coaches ordered an opera [ to return Townsend to acti-| e duty. However, the knee fail-l to respond to treatment and ownsend was unable to play last‘ fall. ¥ ik Aids Hollis 1 * Not wishing to sit by idly, Town- | Bend aided Howell Hollis in deve~ Joping one of Athems High's best wleven last season. Working with enly a handful of small and inex perienced candidates, Townsend ?mguced one of the fastest and smartest forward walls that has E:ner worn the Red and White. ¢ Sport fans will remembe, Town nd as the playver who led the rgia team in prayer during the termission between the first and poond halves of the New York ilversity game .in 1981, Buster ott receive the apening kick-off f the last half and returned it or a touchdown. “Catfish” Smith made the extra point good to give Georgia their second straighy 7 to . victory. . Townsend, who prepped at G. M, ~ is now attending summer gehool and will graduate in the atter part of August. “Pinky,” as he is b:is; known by his school mates and local sport fans, lost Hhis bachelor status a few months @go when he married the former [iss Inez Dixon, of Savannah, then a Georgia coed. " The best of wishes are sure to accompany the fine young man bls new coaching venture. 2 E - Down Delivers ANY BEDROOM SUITE - AT STERCHPS TOMORROW r‘ 4 i AS LITTLE AS $1 WEEKLY PAYS! ot | gl : : “5:'?;; e, L fl o _:J,D [ S s s \“;;'r i KT y A o ol DNE V 2 N S\ e B 2% AR .(.:.-&‘\ | , tn“J\ \® "‘;ﬁ“a;é "7 i i ‘ Sl Ol | * " SRI - o &= Y = 25 g 4 % rH! \ b ¢ ! Vd | o *‘; l 10 Pe. VANITY SET tBH N - -s'ﬁr_u,w.f;? Includes lovely Pyralin Mir ) ‘)?’)é-’ , Brush, C her w - “;——ﬁ%w"m ;i:irat:l\:s pie:er:b faor:'d o;o:r E —"_/";\2_s)" 2‘j Vanity . absolutely FREE A Bl with ANY Sterchi Suite at ﬁ\k;\,, - e '«“__ Low August ' Prices. Priced . g\:"“ ‘///,. '/ ;i’ = as low ‘as: irbl!. =f/ T $, 50 Fé m . 9 D < ,aé-"ﬁ" _z 2&&4{ . =T HERCHI'S ' > Y, P ATHENS, GEORCIA ——————————————————————————— NEW MERCER COACH? !‘ crar -,y st R ; ' S Y can, Wt WIG T é wooyYeax AW . B E .‘”"“_; ,;%;:r‘_‘ ¥ ’.“; x} j e N S CARTER “PINKY” TOWNSEND Skeet Club to Hold Special Shoot Again Tomorrow Afternoon According to an announcement made thig morning by Bolling Du- Bose, preminent member of the Athens Gun club, there will be a shoot at the club tomorrow after noon at about 4:30 o’'clock. | There has been a shoot every Thurgday afternoon recently, al though Sunday is the regular day for the skeet shooting, and on ev ery one of these Thursday after noon shootg a large crowd hag at tended and a good size crowd is ‘also expected tomorrow. Athens Boys Expected To Take Part in State Swim Meet Sunday Several local boys are expected to participayr in the Georgia State Championship swimming meet which will be held in At lanta in the Venetian swimming pool this Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Goodloe Erwin, Howell Erwin, ‘Bunkey "Wingfield, Hatold Tiller and Jack Reid are the boys who have stated that they wish to take ‘part in the meet and on all prob ability they will enter the meet. No full Athens team will swim in the ameet and boys will enter just becdnuse they wish to do do. “Doe” Gentry, local Y. M. C. A. physical director, may accompany the boys to Atlanta and act as ‘coachs Howell Trwin and Bunkey ‘Wingfield will participate in the gonior meet which is for boys over 15 years of age while Tiller, Reid and Gopdloe Erwin wil be enter eéd in the junior group which is for boys 15 and under. : Wingfield is best at the short free style races, H. Erwin spe cializes is the back stroke, Tiller is best at diving, G. Erwin swims the longer free style races and back stroke and Reld swims the back stroke. All of these boys are among the best aquatic stars in the Classic City. SLUBGER WHITE 5 VCTOR IVER BKS N TEN AIUND BOLT Big Graham Batchelor conquered another foe here lagt night when he ended a scheduled tenround battle with Howell Rakestraw in the third round with a short right hook to the Jjaw. Rakestraw's second! threw in the twoel at the count of six, preventing Batchelor from winning on a knockout. Batchelor led the fight from the beginning, and from midawy in the first round, untl the final blow, it was just a question of time be fore the lighter opponent would go down under the heavy punching former Bulldog. The right started off in a calm fashion, but Batchelor caught RaKestraw with a left jab after about one minute of ' the first round had elapsed, and it brought blood from the Cairo boy’e nose. In the second round ‘Graham backed his opponent in a corner and caught him on the jaw with a left that did plenty of damage, and Rakestraw took“f nine count before resuming the battle. In the third and final round “Batch” battered his foe all over the ring, and finally connectd with the short right that ended it all. 1t will go into the records as a technical knockout, but if the second had held the towel just a little longer it wculd have been a ¢clean K. O. 1,000 Present Th largest crowd that has ever witnessed a fight here, saw the at tractive card staged by Promoter K. O. Franks last night. It was estimatea by many to be more than 1,000. Th entire seating ca pacity was filled, and many fans were standing around the aisles. The new seats that Promoter Franks has added to his arena were packed and ‘amed. Franks expressed his thanks to the fars whe, patronized him, and said that he deeply apprciated it. White Wins Slugger White, the undefeated Negro, who long has besn win ning with regularity, added an other victory to his long list, when he completely smothered Sammie Banks)y of Atlanta, who is the only fighter to ever come near winning from White. Banks earned a 3 draw in his first fight here, t'ut, in the two following escounters, the local colored fighter has won clear de cisions. 4 White battered Banks unmerci fully throughout th 2 temy round battle last night. The local fighter stabb4d beautifully with a lleft, and crossed with a right that staggered his opponent every time it landed. Slugger all but had his foe knockedout on several occasions, but never could he land the blow that would have ended the fight. Banks outweighed White by sev eral pounds, but he simply could not mateh the superior footwork, and the lightning like punches that the local Negro exhibited. Bd “Otto” Arnold and ‘Cotton Top” Thrasher fought to a draw in a fast eight round match, that kept the fans howling from be ginning to end. The two ‘colored boys put on a show inat was well worth anybody's money. It was an humorous battle, but all the time the two were throw ing punch after punch that did damage wherever they landed. In a three round opening . battle Young James Corbin of Athens won a decision over “Baby” Johnson, of Miami, Florida, and / Atlanta. The fight was very good, and the two bovs deserved the “hand” that they received. The Statham twins, from Eeast Point fought a three round exhi bition that pleased the fans even more than the battle royals that Franks kas been staging. The two voung felows really knew some thing about fighting, and were al ways ready to swap punches. | A [ e | o W ﬂ;” | » ok X .: L e SS S O 255§ S { (By The Associated Press) ! Roger Cramer, Athletics — Hit idnu‘ulo and three singles and stole { base in victory cver Red Sox. i Ed PRrandt, Braves — Limited | Phillies to seven hits, striking out :SO\'»‘H. | Hank Greenberg, Tigers—Knock ed in three runs against Browns with homer and double. Dizzy Dean, Cardinals and Allyn Stout, Reds—Dean pitched six hit shutout in opener, Stout limited Cards to five hits in second game. Ben Chapman, Yankees . Made three hits in each game of double { heade, against Washington, | Arky Vaughan, Pirates — Hit 8 ! homer with two on base to beat | Cubs. | Zeke Bonura, White Sox-—Hit two | doubles, scored one run and drove ii o, " THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA . "\' @t ‘ ] Southern League The Standings CLUBS— W. L. Pet New “Orleans ... .. 28 18 85 Chattanooga ........ ;19 156 .5669 NWashvllle ... .0 29 1R AOS Memphtls . tiieeas 29 A 2 A 8 Knoxvile .. 00 20 00 iR AURABER .v i oninansi B 0 0N <AN Birmingham - ...5.... 16 21 417 Tattle Rock .. .. Siws 2R 2% 808 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta 0, Birmingham 4. © Memphis, 2, Chattanooga 9. Nashville 18, New Orleans 11. ° Only game scheduled, TODAY’S GAMES Atlanta a¢ Birmingham. Memphis at Chattanooga. Little Rock at Knoxville, Nashville at New Orleans. - National League The Standings CLUBS— W. L. Pet Wew York iv..ianses 0% 788 £BB ChiGaAgo .Lvsiersiovas 82 4155002 St EoUls Li, v 08 AKE UDGT BOStON & b vviisaore DS RS AOS Pittsburgh .......... 49 517 480 Brooklyn ...-.......iy 43 58§ 428 Philadelphia ......... -43° 61 .413 Cincinnati ........ . 368 67 860 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Brooklyn 4, New York 6. Chicago 1, Pittsburgh 4. Philadelphia 1, Boston 3. St. Louis 2-2, Cincinnati 0-9. TODAY'S GAMES Bt. Louis at Cincinnati. Chicago at Pittsburgh (2). Brooklyn at New York. Philadelphia at Boston. / - American League The Stand ngs CLUBS— W. L. Pet EWEON 61 0.0 08 8T e oW YOrk ... :..evs- 86 88 088 aveland ... .o B 8 46 548 Toaton s iaaeiisy R B B 8 Washington ......... 48 556 .466 8t Touls .i i 44 544 D Philadelphia ........ 39 59 .398 OMMOBagO ~&vy s i 8 588 ioR YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Cleveland 2, Chicago 8. i ‘St. Louig 8, Detroit 12. New York 4-3, Washington 3-6. Boston 4, Philadelphia 9, TODAY'S GAMES 1 Cleveland a; Chicago. | St, Louis at Detroit. ~1 New York at Washington. | Boston at Philadelphia. e b< i : “Y” Business Men . - Will Play Team in \ Augusta Tomorrow By JACK REID ‘ The Athens Business Men's all star team will leave here at 12 o’clock tomorrow for Augusta where they will engage the King Mill team in two contests, the first of which will start hetween 4 and 4:80 o'clock, with the second game following immediately after. Both games will be played on the Chafee park diamond which, according to a statement by the manager of the Augusta team, iz one of the best in the city. The first contest will be played with ‘the 12 inch ball with the second ‘being most likely played with the 14 inch “pill"”. These teams played two games here last Saturday afternoon with ithe “Y" team taking ‘the rudi | mentary contest 9 to 2 and also bludgeoning out a victory in the final game by a 20 to 7 count. However, the tale may be to a lditferent tune tomorrow afternoon i as the locals will be playing away ;from home and the crowd will bhe in favor of the Richmond county ' team. The probable starting lineupg are as follows: Po.—Athens Augusta eIl . 200 i dteo s TCotirsay P—Tharmond ...... .....+., Hitt IEPARRE LL S il Rer 2B—Bolton ...... ...i.... McLin SS—Hopkins ...... ...... Turner 3B—Rosenthal ........ L. Videtto 'T,F‘—-Lumpkin verss F P.. Williama [T =HI .oi vvvieata BE VYHetto IRF‘——f‘-ronn caios e e o TRAIREDOtham SF—Praither ...... ..... Johnson ' Hancock-Bolton Plav i In “Y” Loop Today: - Rain Halts Play Tuesday Yesterday’s game in the Y. M. C. A., Business Mes’s league which was slated to be played between the lehgue-leading Va son clan and Hill team was rain | ed out. | This afternoon the stropg Bol l'ton aggregation will tie up with Ithe Hancock outfit that has look ed very weak in their previous | games in the leagwe. However, with all of his men present, Cap ‘tais Hancock should put a strong team on the field and the game may turn ,out to be close and ex citing. ! 'There will be no game played in the league Thursday afternoon due to the Athens-Augusta game in Augusta in which a large num ber of the players will participate. Howewer, those players 'who do not make the trip to Augusta |¥il piay o chose-up contest. & ” ! ] | | i | | : . JANLU > | i Cardinal Ace Is First m'; Either League to Reach | Mark This Year, By HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. Associated Press Sports Writer ‘Whether or not his gpring pt'e:' diction that he and his brother | Paul would win 50 games for the Cardinals this season and pitch them right into the National jlea gue pennant is fulfilled, it seems | that the Volumble Jerome Hprmanl Dean is to be the pitcher of the 1934 season. l Dean became the first Major! leaguer to win 20 games yesterday | when he shut out the Ilast-place Reds 2 to.o in the first game‘of a 4 doubleheader. And since he has reached that mark in 103 games for his club, he appears to have a good chance of taking ten more out of the remaining 49. Dizzy had quite an elbowing ar-| gument with Si Johnson before hel won out, each giving six hitg and | four walks. The Cards, however, put fogether 5 pair of singles in the eighth and a sacrifice and two lßed errors turned them into runs. Then, just to give the St. Louis' pennant hopes another jolt, Allyn Stout limited the Cardinals to five blows in the gecond game while the Reds rapped Bill Hallahan for a 9 to 2 victory. @ The djvision of games left St. Louis seven games behind the lea gue-leading Giants, whose habit ofi beating Brooklyn was not broken although seriously threatened. Tt took an eighth inning triple withi the baseg loaded by Travis Jack son and some good relief flinging} by Carl Hubbell to give the league Jeaders their eleventh vietory in 15 interborough games. The score was 6 to 4. Hubbell’s shutout streak ended at 24 1-3 innings when the Dodgers scored in the eighth but he got credit for his 16th victory. j The second-place Cubs took a worse setback than St. Louis when & 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Pirates cost them a full game. Arky Vaughan’s homer with two on in the first provided the decid ing runs. ~ The Braves rounded out the Na ‘tional league program by beating ithe Phillies 3-1 when they did all |their scoring off Kuel Moore in the first then relied on Ed Brandt's ”hurling to hold the lead. : . Detroit’s Tigers picked up a half zame on the Yankees in the Am erican league race but thez had to pul} through a couple of alarm ing situations to beat St. Louis 12- 8. Schoolboy Rowe, Tiger mound ace, pitched only three balls be fore g “stitch“ in his back forced him to retire. Elden Auker, going in cold, was found for three runs in the fifth and after the Tigers had blasted their way to the front with an eight run outburst in the seventh St. Louis put on a counter rally for four runs in the last inn ing. Meanwhile the Yanks could get no better than an even bhreak with Washington, winning the opener 4 to 3 on Johnny Murphy's five-hit flinging and a ninth inning rally capped by Frak Crosetti’s hit, but going down in the second half, 6-3, when the Senators belted Johnny ‘Broaca around freely. Other first division clubs ran into plenty of trouble as the White Sox trimmed the third-place Indi ans 8 to 2 with some hefty hitting behind George Earnshaw, who turned in a seven-hit job for his tenth victory, and the Athletice pounded out a 9 to 4 decision over the Red Sox behind Johnny Mar cum. . . Willingham-Mason . v Fight at Morton Theater Thursday BY JACK REID Battling, slugging, Clliff Wil lianham, one of the best dusty glovemen in our Classic city, will take on “Kid” Mason in the main bout of a Negro boxing card here Thursday night in the Morton theater in a ten round bout. Both of the principles in the feature attraction are good fight ers and the bout promises to be thrilling and plenty rough. Torenzo Moon and “One Punch” Booster will tie up in the semi windup 6 round scrap, Both of these boys are plenty good and the fight should be close through out. In another six round bout, “Jab bing” Jewell will be pitted against “Battling” Gartrell in what should be a fight almost as good as the main scuffel. Both of the boys pack a hard punch and the fight will probably not go the schedul=d number of rounds. In the ruidme’tary bout “Maul ing” Murrell will battle it out with Willie Partee in a fight that is slated to go 4 rounds. The fights are scheduled to begin at R8:30 o'clock with admise sion being 15 and 30 cents. A special section will be reserved for white fans. John Winfrey is pro mbting the bouts. - . ocE Widow Carries On Spirit Of “ Immortal” Stallings . ’ Late George Stallings Wife Now Farming At Haddock, Ca. T W HADDOCK, Ga.—(#)—The wid ow of George T. Stallings, whose fighting spirit took a baseball teain from last place on July 4, to a National league pennant, is earry ing on with something of her hus band’s spirit on a 2,000-acre farm here. > When Stallings, one of base ball’s immortals, died five years ago, he left his widow and 11-year old son, George, jr., the farm in the heart of his native Georgia. A city-bred woman and without practical experience in farming matters, Mrs. Stallings was faced with the proplem of what to do with the farm after her husband’s death. She said she knew her hushand wanted their son to grow up there with his own love of Georgia’s red clay hills. So, inexperienced as she was, the city woman from Philadelphia took over ‘the management of the Georgia farm. During the five vears that have elapsed since her husband’s death she has learned the bhusiness thoroughly. Thery are superintendents and overseers but she makes the decisions. Peaches, pecans and cotton fur nish the money crops for the farm, but much of the foed for tenants and laborers as well as for the livestock is grown there.. There are fat Duroc Jersey hogs on the farm and registered Jerseys, Guernseyvs and Black Angus cattle roam its pastures. The chief job connected with the farm is caring for the 4,500 peach trees planted 11 years ago by the late Mr. Stallings. One hundred carloads of peaches are shipped vearly from the planta tion. : George T. Stallings, jr., tall and bronzed by outdoor work, helps on the farm by driving trucks and performing other tasks during the summer months. He recently graduated from Riverside Military Academy, where he played first base on the baseball team for two years. It was back in 1914 that George Stallings, sr., fought his way into baseball immortality. On July 4 the Boston Braves, which he man aged, were in last place in the league. Yet by September he had led them to the National Ileague 3| h q th. t h h t th tth t‘ h l " [AN OLD GOLD SMOKER SINCE 1932] ’ e Bl “JF AN AcTOR plays a few two-fisted : e e e : characters on the screen, some people ; g,& A;’ : get the idea he’s hard as nails all through. RO IR KR .SO ) T g&\c’ ‘?o. “’>§ / e “But that’s not always true. I'ake my S R e : : o L throat, for instance. I have to waich I A% - NN RN R . . I g \'f? \Q\\\ : :3» like every other movie star who works m BOR R 2 ... 3 front of the ‘mike.’ b P “That’s why I'm for Old ( solds—they SRR % e }*&;K i\ & never rasp the throat. And what's more. . ¥ o e your taste tells you that they're pure to- B F s Rt e sied-up’ \° P e e bacco—plenty aged—and not ‘fancied-v| \f M - with artificial flavors. SO P> BRERS S R s * ¢ neh s T . Bt “An_irritated throat is one 10 ; ; L o e g < - right : i:}-:::;.-; : g - i break’ that I won’t risk. So I'll keep EER P R oqs . 5 3 e : ; 's.'.- % SR on salllng smoothly with Uld (J“l‘l iN.R; . . s ) £ T P E We'd like to emphasize this poin'. Ir o . : B P 5 o gl N T e Cagney:—No better tobacco grows than 14 A -:fi.:?.:'.:".f.f:f-::'f:«: ' » 2 3 . 2 S 8 22t at's YVO e is used in Old Gold. And it's pure. Tha! L e v , why Old Golds are easy on the THROA Qé;:’)d R and NERVES. G ‘Q-&‘\\' % .- % L N . Caniaen SR CIGARETTE. SoaRE L . e See Jaues Cacney in Warner Bros. Picture, “HERE COM R R R ’ TIE N AMERICAS 5,77?/00"%%/6— CIGARE o P. Lori and L« Ky Laffoon Leads In Rochester Golf Meet With Fine 68 ROCHESTER, N. Y, — () — Ky Laffoon, Denver’s golfing “typh oon” apparently is no; yet through with the par-cracking campaign that has made him a sensation this year. He shaved three strokes off per fect figuves for the Oak Hill Coun try club’s east course with a fine 68 yesterday to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the 72- hole Rochester, Centennial-Walter Hagan tournament. . Laffoon’s score was all the more remarkable in tha¢ his card shaw ed two sixes—the first at the par five fourth where he lifted his head as he chipped for a birdie, and the second at the 13th where his drive found a creek, Tom Newlove, a comparative un known from Syracluse, carded a 69 for second place while Gordon Tay-~ lor, Toronto amateur, and Leo Diegel, pro from Philadelphia, tied for third with 70s. Locked in a deadloex for the next position with par T7ls were eight otherg including Gene Sarazen and George Von Elm of New Yorg, Harry Cooper ‘“‘marathon” star from Chicago, Al Houghton of Bethseda, Mr., Vincen; Eldred of Pittsburgh and Joe Eurnesa of Elmsford. \ . Hagen, in whose honor the tour: nament is being held, took a 72 as did Ed Dudley, Tom Creavy, Bill ‘Mehlhorn and three others. Paul Runyan, -newly crowned P.G.A, champion from White Plains, was well back with a 75 while Olin Dutra needed 76 and Denny Shute, former PRritish open champion, 77. The gecond 18-hole round was to be played today and the final 36 tomorrow. pennant. The Braves beat Connie Mack’s great Philadelphia team, American league champions, in four straight games for the world’s championship. - Stallings began his baseball ca reer as a catcher with Jackson ville in 1886. TLater he managed the Detroit team from 1896 until 1902. He remained in baseball un til ill health forced his retirement shorgly before his death. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4,15 y, N‘ ENG T 0 Bim; “CRUGIAL™ Cn {‘ | | T[BI Piedmont Teams to Play : Tomorroyv; All Games Promise Action Atbheng baseball fang wil o an unexpected thrill here \-:;m.y.,i;; when Commerce battles the \ ens nine here in a game thyt was originally scheduled so; Jetferso The Athens team hag won four oyt of th_eir llast Tive games and if they are 'victorious Saturday they -\\'}l)l g 0 into a tie for the league leyy. ership with Commerre. () the other hand, if Commerce wing {he will practically cinch the last halt pennant. Nbt only is the game a surpig package, but coupled with the fao that the two leading teams of y, league will be battling in , ‘o cial” game ghould attract nupe. ous fans. The Athens team is Co fident of victory and declare they will annex the last half chase Woodie Gann, local moung star. will oppose Carl Stewart, Jacken county hurler, in what promisest be a real hurling duel. Gann i recognized as One of the heg pitchers in the league and jug how he will fare against the hap hitting Commerce team remains t be seen, Other games in the league wit bring together Winder at Bishop Good Hope at Crawford, and Stat. ham at Whitehall. Bill Giles has his t€am in readiness for the Win. der invasion and ‘how)s to improve the Bishop team’s record by lead ing his mates to victory. The Wiy der nine is by no means a set-y for any team in the league and it ~auld not be surprising to see the Barrow county team emerge vic tor, E. B. Thompson and Wagnon heavy hitters for the Good Hops team, will find batting rivals in the personage of McClure and Hoke Smith when the two teams battle at Crawford. Statham and Whitehall will cross bats in probably the second most important game of the day. Obie Coile and Boyce Holliday will ¢ the rival hurlers, with the latter doing the mound toil for Statham Several of the league’s outstanding players will be viewed in this game.