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BANNER -HERALD
SPORTS
808 OLIVER, SPORTS EDITOR
MIDGETS LOSE OPENER
Both "Y" Prep Teams
Win First Court Tilts
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
LEXINGTON, Dec. 21.—Athens Y. M. C. A. eased to
victory in two games of a basketball triple-bill here yes
terday afterncon while the homelings won the other game
bv a comfortable markin.
The Athens teams playing
were the Midgets and the two
Prep teams while Lexingten
played three school teams, the
first being composed of boys 15
years old and ' under and the
other two composed of players 13
years of age and younger,
Athens took both Prep. Class
tilts by the scores of 24-11 and
22-3. Lexington sailed to a 32-17
win in the Midget game.
The games yesterday officially
opened the regular season for the
Athens “Y” Prep and Midget
teams. These were their first
games with outside competition.
Athens Coach Cobern Kelley
said the teams were ragged in
all phases of the game, but
would improve with practice and
game experience.
The Athens “Y¥” Cub Class
officially begins its basketball
season tonight with two intra
squad games to be played in
the “Y” gym with the first be
ginning at 7 o’clock and the
other immediately following.
The public /s invited to attend.
In the Midget tilt, first of the
triple-bill, a J. B. Echols coach
ed five made 16 field goals to
account for all of their points,
although they tried five {foul
shots, Lexington took an early
lead and kept it all the way. The
iop offensive player of the game
was Bobby Shedd, Lexington
guard, who hit the loops for ten
points. Bill Reynolds, Lexington
center and guard, and . Albury
Carter, center, each made six
points.
Tops for the losers was Fain
Slaughter with eight tallies. Mer-,
ritt Pound hit for four points.
Slaughter for an iron man as he
played during the entire tilt
and Pound showed plenty of pos
sibilities. ]
The first Prep tilt, with teams
flgalnposed of boys 12 and 13 years
d, was thrilling although the
gre doesn’'t show it. Winston
‘Wiggins, Athens, with eight
points topped all scores while
?xington's Jimmy Maxwell was
ext with seven. Bobby Duncan
made six for the winners. Athens
4ook this game 24 to 11. The top
etar in this tilt was a guard who
got few shots and only made
two points, but who was definite
ly the standout. He was Bobby
Marbut, a steady and consistant
ball handler.
Athens had an easy time in
the last game us they soared
‘handily to vietory. It was an
Athens game from the first whis
tle to the last. Lexington scored
cne point in the first quarter
and the other two in the last
stanza.
Athens’ Tommy Williams and
Bee Tillman tied for top scoring
“honors in this game, eah getting
six points. Tops for the losers
was Paul Brown Hammond with
two tallies.
Lexington (32) Ml‘gzets (17)
¥.—G. Griffetn (4) LeConte (2)
F.—F. Griffeth (2) .. Pound (4)
C.—Reynolds (6) . Slaughter (8)
G.—Shedd (10) .. .. Chapman
G.—Harrison (2) .. .. .. Hudson
Substituets: Lexington — Car
ter (6), Hayes, Harrison, Smith
(2); Athens — Nash, O'Kelley,
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Lexington (11) Preps (24)
F.—Cabaniss .. .... Wiggins (8)
F.—Maxwell (7) ... Duncan (6)
C.—McFarland .. ... Osteen (2)
G.—J. Newborne ... Marbut (2)
G.—Christy (2) .... Barber (2)
Substitutes: Lexington — Wray,
Newborne, Bryant (2), Noell, G.
Shedd; Athens—lLabocn, Prather
(4).
Leximgton (3) Preps (22)
¥.—Thaxton .. ..., Tillman (6)
F.—Foster (1) .. ... Lanard (2)
C—Huff .. ... Mendenhall (2)
G.—Hammond (2) . Leathers (4)
G.—Norris .. .. .. Williams (6)
Substitutes: Lexington — Caba
niss, Gunter, Poulnot, Dawkins,
Shedd, Quarnes;Athens — Moss
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Connie Mack
Looking For
Flag In 49
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 —
(AP) — Connie Mack hinted to
day on the eve of his 86th birth
day that 1949 might be the year
for that elusive ‘‘one more pen
nant.”
Smiling a bit miscievously, the
man who helped form the Amer
incan League and guide it through
48 seasons admitted that he has
high hopes his Philadelphia Ath
letics can land the loop champ
ionship next season for the first
time since 1931.
The remarkable old gentleman,
whose Cinderella club hovered
near the league lead until the last
month of the ’'4B campaign, said
cautiously his team ;Rould be “a
little better.”
Mr. Mack doesn’t plan any for
mal observation of his birthday
to morrow. He'll chat with repor
ters and pose for photographers
at a press conference tomorrow
morning when a huge birthday
cake will be cut. He'll appear la
ter on a television show (9 p. m.
EST, over WPTZ-Philco).
Two-Months Vacation
Then on Monday, Mr. Mack
will leave for St. Petersburg, Fla.,
for a two-month vacation before
spring training for his Athletics
begins at West Palm Beach.
Returning to his ball club, Con
nie said that he expects his out
field to be stronger next year,
thanks to the addition of veteran
outfielders Taft Wright and Wally
Moses.
Wright came to the A’s from the
Chicago White Sox and Moses
from the Boston Red Sox.
“It should be another great sea
son for baseball,” Connie said.
“The new managers — Casey
Stengel (New York Yankees) and
Red Rolfe (Detroit Tigers)—will
bring a change in play. That is
always good for the fans.”
Mr. Mack, as he has done for
the past umpteen years, laughed
off the ever-prevaient rumors
that he plans to retire. He is on
record as saying he wants ‘“‘one
more pennant” before he gives
up his scorecard-waving post in
the Shibe Park dugout.
AUSTRIAN GRIDDERS
TO TRAVEL :
VIENNA — (AP)— The Aus
trian national football team has
scheduled games with four coun
tries for next year, the football
assotiationy has announced.
On March 20, for the first time
in history, the Turkish national
team will appear here. Later in the
season the Austrian team will meet
Switzeriland at Berne, Hungary at
Burdapest, and Italy at Rome.
FREEZER-LOCKER PLANTS
According to a recent survey of
freezer-locker plants in Georgia,
most patrons still process their
vegetables at home, although
more than half of the plants have
facilities for processing vegeta
bles.
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University of North Carolina footbhall team arrive in Hammond, La., to train for
their Sugar Bowl game with \Oklahoma in New Orleans New Year’s Day. Just
about the‘entire population of the city turned out to welcome them. Nellie Dabson,
a co-ed at Southeastern Louisiana College, pins an identification ribbon e¢n Charlie
Justice, North Carolina’s All-America ba ck. Similar ribbons were given all mem
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Athens High D Wintervill
ens 10 oOwWns interviie,
49-43, For Seventh Straight Wi
-45, ror deventh Jtraight Win
By CURT!S DRISKELL, Prep Editor
Athens High’s Trojans hung on to a slender sixpoint lead through the final seconds
of play here last night, and won their seventh straight basketball game from a
scrappy Winterville club, 49-43. The game was played before an overflow crowd in
the Athens High gymnasium. 14
Big John Marshall, steady Na
than Williams, and Fred Leath
ers, who hit the basket with a
flurry of goals in the second quar
ter, were the deciding factors in
the hard-fought Trojan victory.
Marshall led all scorers with 17
points, and Williams and Leathers
were right behind him with 12
apiece.
| Williams left the game via the]
foul route in the final quarter,!
‘and without - him, the Trojans
'seemed to break apart at the
seams. Winterville outscored
Athens, 12-5, in the final stanza,
but time ran out before the visi
tors could break down the six
point Trojan lead.
A pair of Palmers, Billy and
,Charles, and Mitchell McElreath
|showed the offensive power that
had carried the Winterville quin
. tet to elevgn,wim}Bin twelve games
until last night. Billy Palmer and
McElreath hit the cords for 12
lpoints apiece, and Charles Palmer,
tall center, racked up eight. El
liott Williams, Winterville, guard
'had collected seven before he also
fouled out in the last period.
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Ted Short, Trojan forward, was
a definite asset to the Trojans, al
though he. managed only seven
points, a low total for the south
paw forward. Tommy Lovern
played the whole game at guard,
and, with Williams, helped turn
the tide for the locals. Dickie Car
teaux turned in a fine performance
as sub for Williams, with Don Sea
graves being the other Trojan to
see action. . . .
Athens grabbed the lead after
Winterville had drawn first blood
on a quick break, and held a 10-7
margin at the first quarter mark.
The Trojans got-hot midway of the
second -frame and left the floor
lwith a 31-15 intermission score.
Winterville . outpointed - them in
iboth of the last-quarters, but could
narrow the margin to no less than
six points.
Lineups:. = | ’
Athens (49° = Winterville (43)
F—Short (7) .... B. Palmer (12)
F—Leathers (12 .... Pittard (3)
C—Marshall (17) C. Palmer (8)
G—N.Williams (12) E.Williams (7)
G—Lovern (1). ... McElreath (12)
Substitutions: Athens—Don Sea
graves, Carteaux. Winterville —
Dewey, Seagraves (1).
“Bees” Win Thriller
. A basket in the closing minute
of play by Charlie Parrott proved
to be the margin as the Athens
High “B” team eased by the Win
terville “Bees,” 22-20, in the
thrill-packed preliminary.
Parrott led the Baby Trojans in
scoring with seven points and was
a mainstay” in_the Athens floor
game. Sonny Suddath racked up
five points to be second high, as
Jerry Davis connected for four.
Frank Gooch paced the Winterville
five with ten points, which was
high for both teams.
The lead changed hands often in
the opening minutes, with Athens
at last forging ahead near the end
of the first half. But the Winter
ville crew quickly cut down the
lead to 11-10 at the half and pulled
up even as the third quarter start
ed. :
The Trojans were hard pressed
to get ahead again, but Parrott’s
long, arching shot ,put .them two
points ahead to stay. Alert de
fensive play by both clubs made
it an even exchange of points until
the final whistle. .
Jimmy Williams, * Hal Weller,
and Jimmy Maxwell were out
standing floor men for the Baby
Trojans.
Lineups: s
Athens (22) .... Winterville (20)
Williams (2) Gooch (10)
Weller (1) Tucker (4)
Davis (4) S Barrett
Parrott (7) 3 . .Thornton
Maxwell Sorrow
Substitutions: Athens — Flana
gan, Griffeth, Thompson (2), Sud
dath (5), Sailors, Driftmier, Con
dron, Fowler, Bonner. Winter
ville—Branyon (1), Seagraves (2).
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Baskethall Continues
Rough, Pre-Xmas Play
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—(AP)—The East, winning six
of nine games, took top honors in last night’s major inter
sectional college basketball games.
The compiled a percentage of
.667 as CCNY beat Oklahoma,
53-51; Duguesne deteated Arizo
na, 57-51; St. Johns of Brooklyn
trounced lowa State, 71-47! Vil
lanova trimmed Willham and
Mary. 70-48; Seton Hall humbled
Detroit, 55-43; and Marshall nip
ped Hardin - Simmons, 62-59.
These offset Cornell’s loss to Illi
nois, 71-47; Pitt’'s 58-52 defeat at
the hands of Miami (¥la.), and
Yale’s 78-62 licking by Stanford.
The Midwest, with a win six
and lose six mark in 12 games;
the Pacific Coast with a 3-3 rec
ord and Southern teams with a
2-2 mark, tied for runnerup hon
ors at .500. Southwest teams lost
three of four games for a .250
percentage.
Puget Sound (?) Wins
Stanford, UCLA, Duquesne, St.
Louis, Indiana, Purdue, and
Miami (Fla.) remained in the un
deteated class, but perhaps the
most outstanding feature vof last
night’s play was the upset of the
University of Washington by the
College of Puget Sound, 48-41.
The Huskies, defending cham
pions of the Pacific Coast Con
ference, was within hailing dis
tance at 38-36 until Puget Sound
put on a strong finish.
Stanford ran its winning streak
to eight games by overwhelming
Yale, 78-62, in the feature of a
twin bill at the San Francisco
Cow Palace. Michigan, Big Nine
champs, romped to a 53-37 win
cver Santa Clara in the opener.
In a doubleheader at Los Atv
geles UCLA chalked up its sixth
straight, a 49-44 triumph over
Northwestern. Southern Califor
nia whipped Wisconsin, 36-31, in
the other game. .
Duquesne dunked : Arizona, 57-
51, for its third straight at Pitts
burgh, while at St. Louis the St.
Louis Billikens rang up .No. 5
with an easy 74 to 47 triumph
over Rice. Easy Ed MaCauley. as
usual, sparked the Bills with 26
peints. ;
In another game at St. Louis,
Indiana won its sixth straight
against Washington of St. Louis,
51-44, Purdue took its fifth
straight against Drake, 71-58.
| Miami of Flerida -stayed un
- beaten by sinking ‘six points in
|the last 40 seconds to nip Pitt,
1 §B-52.
| A crowd of 15,123 thrilled to
llanother close finish in Madison
-1 Square Garden as CCNY squeez
» ed by Oklahoma, 53-51. A tap-in
l'by substitute Norm Magey 'withj
- only two seconds left provided '
!the winning margin, |
| Towa State Smashed !
| Brooklyn St. Johns swamped
' lowa - State, 71-47, in the opener
‘of the Garden twin bill. ;
’| North Carolina State, Southern
l|Conference chmaps, headed for
jgames .on the Pacific Coast,
’lbowled over Nevada, 70-51.
i In other standout games, Illi
lnois overwhelmed Cornell, 71-47;
'Southern Methodist beat Missou- |
|ri, 59-49; Ohio State humbled
! California, 74-60; Colgate smack-,'
‘ed Boston University, 74-52; Bos- |
~ton College nipped Harvard, .
'47-45, on a long shot in the last |
. 46 seconds; Indiana State nicked
- Los Angeles Loyola, 56-54, in an
.lovertime srtuggle; Bowling Green |
'.(Ohio) sunk South Carolina, 83—!
. 54; Nebraska shdaed Western |
Reserve, 83-80; and Louisville
{beat Louisiana State, 79-44. |
| Georgia farmers plant more'
~acres in corn than in any other'
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o e i e
South Line
To Average
218 Pounds
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 22—(AP)—
The South will start a line aver
aging 218 pounds per man against
the North in Mahi Shrine’s All-
Star football game in the Orange
Bowl Christmas night.
Coach Andy Gustafson of Mia
mi listed the South forewall this
way today: Jimm Cain, 208, of Al
abama, and Barney Poole, 224, of
Mississippi, ends; Ernie Settem
bre, 246, of Miami, and Ray Rich
eson, 232, of Alabama, tackles;
Philip Poole, 203, Mississippi, and
Mario Demarco, 204, of Miami,
guards, and Gene Kinney, 206, of
Maryland, senter.
Gustafson said his squad was
working well together but “we
still need more running to make
us ready as a team for the Hick
man bunch.”
Coach Herman Hickman’s
North squad had a hard day’s
work ahead of it. The genial Yale
coach said he told his boys to get
a good night’s sleep “because from
here on in the practice sessions
are going to get tough.”
“They’re looking better every
day,” Hickman said. “I'm work
ing them hard but they don’t
seem to mind it. Eevery player is
taking personal pride in this
game” they all want to look their
best out there Christmas night.”
Cards Had
Best Mark
In Fielding
|~ NEW YORK, Dec. 22 —(AP)—
The St. Louis Cardinals, for the
third straight year, compiled the
, best team fielding mark in the
' National League for the 1948 sea
son.
; Manager Eddie Dyer’s Red
Bird’s fielded .980 as a unit and
made the fewest errors, 119, ac
cording to final official averages
released today. The Pittsburgh
Pirates finished second with a
977 mark and the pennant win
‘ning Boston Braves third at .976.
{ The last place Chicago Cubs
'accepted the most changes,6,o49,
| made the most assists, 1,810, and
| also led in double plays, 152. The
! Philadelphia Phillies made the
most errors 210, and had the
worst fielding record, .964.
Pitchers Helped
St. Louis, pitching staff figured
prominently in the individual rec
jords. Seven Cardinal hurlers who
appeared in 10 or more games
came up with perfect records.
Little Murry Dickson topped
jthe league Dby accepting 63
; chances without a boot. Al Brazle,
Harry Bresheen and Red Munger
(of the Cards trailed Dickson in
that order. All toid 34 pitchers
iwho took part in 10 or more
games came up with perfect rec-{
ords. |
| The leaders in the remaining
positions are: first base, Ed Ste
‘vens, Pittsburgh, 996; second base,
! Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn, .975;
third base, Sid Gordon, New
| York, 948; shortstop, Marty Ma
(rion, St. Louis, .974; catcher, Phil
, Masi, Boston, 988; outfield, Jeff
. Heath, Boston, 991; and Whi‘tei
Rauch Sought By Yankees,
Boston In Pro Grid Draft
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.—(AP)—The Boston Yanks drafted Doak Walker of
Southern Methodist and the Detroit Lions picked Johnny Rauch of Georgia today
then they swapped rights to the stars in the first big deal of the National Footbal] ke
gue draft session. |
A Lion spokesman said the club already had two good passers in Clyde LeForce and
Fred Enke and needed a runner like Walker. o ews | SRR
On the other hand, Boston
badly needed a passing star.
Rauch tossed the Georgia Univer
sity Bulldogs to one of their most
successful seasons this year.
GERI, HOBBS CHOSEN
Johnny Rauch, Georgia's ace
passer and outstanding “T”
quarterback, was chosen by two
cilubs—Boston of the National
Football League and New York
of the All-America Confer
ence.
Joe Geri, the Bulldogs’ pow
erful fullback and expert
point - after - touchdown boot
er, was snapped up by Pitts
burgh of the NFL, Geri and
Rauch sparked the 1948 Geor
gia team which won the South
eastern Conference champion
ship and landed in Miami’s
New Year's Day Orange Bowl
game. :
Homer Hobbs, hard-charging
Georgia guard, was the choice
of the Washington Redskins of
NFL, Hobbs said he hagn’t de
cided whether he will enter pro
fessional ranks,
Both Geri and Rauch said
they planned to play pro ball,
but were principally interested
in the Orange Bowl game with
Texas right now.
The NFL champion Philadel
phia Eagles announced selection
of Rutgers Quarterback Frank
Burns, Notre Dame signal caller
Frank Tripucka—now recovering
from a back injury.
rights to deal with Penn center
Charley Bednarik. @
Packers Want Heath
. The Green Bay Packers an
nounced the drafting of Stan
Heath, best college passer in the
nation in 1948. The selection of
Heath, Walker and Rauch actu
ally was made by the clubs in
volved at a November 15 secret
NFL meeting in Pittsburgh. To
day’s word made it official.
- Here is a partial list of play
ers in the order of choice announ
ced as drafted by some of the
elubs: s
| Philadelphia — Frank Ziegler,
i Georgia Tech fullback.
[ Detreit — Walker, Southern
Methodist back; John Panétms
Notre Dame back; George Brod
nax, Georgia Tech end.
| - Beston—Rauch, Georgia back;
Bob Demoss, Purdue Back; Phil
, Colella, St. Bonavenutre back;
(Lynn Chewning, Hampden-Syd
(ney hack; Huey Keeney, Rice
back. . :
| The first three choices of the
Pittsburgh Steelers made at the
November meeting were announ
ced officially as Bob Gage, Clem
son halfback; Harper Davis, Mis
sissippi State Back, and Bill
- Walsh, Notre Dame center.
Coach Kerr
Doubles For
ND’s Fischer
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 —
(AP)—Head Coach Andy Keer of
the East subbed for his star guard,
Bill Fischer of Notre Dame, when
the squads of the East-West foot
ball game visited the Shriners’
hospital for crippled children.
Fischer, delayed by a snow
storm in New York, was missing
from the lineup of players given
official sponsorship by individual
children at the hospital yesterday.
That left a tot named Ann Shir
ley, Fischer’s sponsor, alone while
each of the other children around
her had a football player of his
own. .
Kerr, Lebanon Valley Coach,
stepped in quickly and explained
to Ann Shirley what the East in
tends to do to the West on New
Year’s Day.
The grid stars each year visit
the hospital to see the beneficiaries
of the charity game, for which the
players give up their Christmas
holidays. Both teams resume
practice today.
49 Alabama
Slate Given;
To Play Here
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Dec. 22 —
(AP) — Alabama will play eight
'Southeastern Conference football
opponents next fall. The 10-game
‘schedule was released yesterday
‘hy Athletic Director Frank Thom
as. The only change from last
season is the dropping of the
Louisiana State game.
Seven of the games are to be
played in Alabama. The schedule:
Sept. 24—Tulane in Mobile. .
Oct. I—Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Oct. 7—Duquesne in Tuscaloosa
(night).
Oct. 15—~Tennessee in Birming
ham. J
Oct. 22 — Mississippi State in
Tuscaloosa (homecoming).
Oct. 29—Georgia in Athens.
Nov. s—(Permanently Open).
Nov. 12—Georgia Tech in Bir
mingham.
~Nov. 18 — Mississippi-Southern
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BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
Kentucky,
Tulane U.
Play Tonight
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22—(AP)
—After tonight’s basketball game
Tulane has nothing to look for
ward to but Christmas and Ken
tucky all over again.
~ Tulane meets Kentucky tonight
in Louisville in the top South
eastern Conference game of the
pre-Christmas season. Then comes
the Yule rest'and on Dec. 29 Ken
tucky all over again.
Since Kentucky and the Green
Wave are ranked one and two in
the Southeastern, tonight’'s game
and the game on Dec. 29 may do
a lot ‘toward’ deciding who the
1948-49 champion will be.
Of the many reasons for Tu
lane’s ranking second only to
Kentuckky, the ancient king of
Dixie basketball, few are better
than Warren Perkins, one of the
South’s top forwards. |
Perkins ,took® an early season
conference scoring lead with an
average of 14 points per game. |
Plenty of Experience J
Other top Tulane players are
Jim ‘Riffey, center; Virgil- Risner,
Guard; Melvin Payton, forward,
and guards Hal Peck and Tom
Bowman. Only Peck and Perkins
are seniors. Payton is a sopho
more. The remainder are juniors.
They give Tulane a team with a
strong backbone of experience.
Perkins was named to a’ for
‘ward position on a coaches’ All-
Southeastern pre - season team.
Honorable mentions included Rif
fey and Risner.
Tulane enters the game tonight
unbeaten after eight games, none
of which was within the league.
A steady run of Southeastern
teams begins trying to disprove
Tulane’s high ranking beginning
Jan. 3. In all Tulane plays 15
Southeastern teams.
Sports Roundup
~ BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR
NEW YORK, Dec. 22—(AP)—
It looks as if Notre Dame's Bill
Fisher is aboutvthe most popular
footballer around Chicago these
days. He was the first choice of
all three Chicagé pro clubs, but
the Bears had to drop out of the
bidding when they lost a coin toss
to the Cardinals at the “secret”
Pittsburgh meeting. . . And you
should hear the Cards’ Ray Ben
mingsen tell about the hazard
of tossing with George Halas. . . .
May be Bill can run for alderman
against Ziggie Czarobski. . . . One
development - of- the so-far futile
“peace” conference in pro football
was surprising to even the club
owners. They suddenly began get
ting calls from players who want
ed to sign their 1949 contracts in
a hurry. .., Football players ain’t
so dumb. :
GETTING THE CHILL
The reddest face in Philadel
phia after Sunday’s “Snow Bowl”
game wasn’t the result of the
weather. . . Mrs. Pat Harder,
wife .of the Cardinals’ fullbask,
acquired it in a restaurant some
hours later. . ... Seems Mrs. Hard
er fell into a discussion of the
game with a large stranger whose
opinion varied from hers. . . . She
finally told him: “The trouble is
you ‘don’t know anything about
football. You just look at it from
the viewpoint of a spectator.” . .
The stranger mreekly = walked
away and Mrs, H. asked Marshall
Goldberg if he knew who the guy
was. . ... “Sure,” replied Marshall.
“He’s Turk Edwards, the Wash
ington Redskins Coach.”
IN ONE EAR
Reports from Wisconsin say
that George Sauer of Navy, Bud
Wilkinson of Oklahoma, and Hen
ry Frnka.of Tulane are the guys
being considered for the job as
Wisconsin football coach, which
Harry Stuhldreher vacated.” Har
ry, still the -athletic directof, is
said to be on the outside when it
comes to picking his successor,
having no voice in the matter. . .
The word also is thatn Wester
Conference Athlelic Directors
were far from being unanimously
in favor of admitting Michigan
State to the Big Nine. But word
from wvarious university presi
dents turned the trick. . . Steve
Sebo, who led little Alma College
to its conference grid champion
ship, is being plugged for a bigger
job at Wayne U, in Detroit. . . .
Another report is that Jordan Ali
var of Villanova has applied for
the Duquesne coaching job.
FAIR ENOUGH ‘
Del Ennis, the Phillies outfield
er, sprang this one in an .after
dinner speech the other night.
. . . Del was batting against
Brooklyn’s speedball pitcher, Rex
Barney, and took futile swings at
the first two pitches. They look
ed good but he just couldn’t eon
nect, . . The third pitch looked to’
be nose-high and Ennis let it pass.
The umpire called “strike thres
... Del turned and said: “I think
you missed that one.” ... Replied
TR el OK. Yo migs
‘ed ‘the first two, so I'm.still oné
‘up on you.” R
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22 1943,
N_
Tulane Plays
Irish, Navy
Next Season
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29
(AP)—Tulane’s Green Wave has
embarked upon a two-year plan
to win top national football rating
the hard way — by beating Notre
Dame.
The plan was revealed last
night in a routine announcement
of the 19489 and 1950 schedules,
which include a home-and-home
series with the fighting Irigh.
Navy, Virginia and six Southeast
ern Conference opponents also are
on each card.
© And on both schedules, for the
Saturday preceding the Notre
Dame contest, are two highly sig
nificant words — “open date.”
That means Coach Henry Frnka
will have two weeks each time to
point for a victory over the Irish,
And what‘s more, he should have
one of the country‘s strongest
teams to point with.
The next two years are expec
ted to see the culmination of a
rebuilding process which Frnka
started when he took over Tu
lane’s war-wrecked grid machine
three years ago.
He whipped up a better team
than most people expected for the
season just past. It won all games
except for an early-season 13-7
loss to Georgia Tech.
Old-Time Glory
But 1949 was the year Tulan
ians hoped would bring a return
to old-time glory. Then, they said,
would come a band of mighty
men such as those which played
unbeaten seasons 'under Clark
Shaughnessy in 1925, Bernie Bier
man in 1929 and 1931, and
Red Dawson in 1939.
. And 1949 is still the season for
'which Tulanians are waiting. For
this year’s team is coming back
virtually intact. The only senior
who played more than a few min~
utes during the campaign was
Etr:iile O’Brien, captain and right
end.
Green Wave backers believe
the 1948 elub was just finding it
self in late November, when it
gave ‘Baylor its worst licking of
the year, and Louisiana State the
soundest drubbing of a 45-game
series. :
They point out that the Green
clad line, composed mostly of
sophomores, was getting better
each week. Also that fullback Ed
Price, after a slow start, kept
improving until he finished sec
ond to Fred Wendt of Texas
Mines as the country’s leading
ground gainer.
Tide Noses
Auburn, 46-45
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 22—
(AP) — Algbama’s unbeaten
Tide defeated the Aburn Tigers,
46-45, last night when Sub Gaurd
Pete Mangina scored a free throw
in the last 30 seconds.
It was the second one-pont loss
for Auburn-in conference compe
tition. The Tigers lost to Mississ
ippi State, 54-53, in their last
start. Alabama = downed little
Howard College, 38-37, last Sat
urday. ¢ g "
The action ' built up in last
night’s game after Auburn had
taken an 18-13 lead in a slow
first half. Alabama erased the
lead after five minutes of the sec
ond half to go ahead by 19-18.
.. Lead Swapped
The lead was swapped back
and forth until Bill Lynn, big Ti
ger center, tiéd the game up with
a free throw at 45-45 with little
more than a half minute of play
remaining. . .
Seconds - later, Mangina was
bumped and little Pete tossed the
gift throw in for the winning
point. Auburn’s Roy Brawner had
a chance so knot it again with siX
seconds to go but his free throw
hit the rim. :
Bill Mobberly, Tiger forward,
was._ high scorer with 12 points,
followed by Mangina’s 10.
; _The game,, attended by an es
timated 1,800, was the first res
ularly scheduled basketball con
test in history between the WO
Alabama schools. They recently
resumed football competition for
the first time gsince 1907,
Fights Last Nite
! By The Associated Press
- Rochester, N. Y.—Johnny Fynn,
1210, Rochester; knocked out Melio
| Bettina, 190%, Beason, N. Y. 6
| Los Angeles—Cecil Schoonmak
‘| er, 117, New York, outpointed Luis
fsastillo, 118, "Monterrey, Mexico,
New York (Park Arena) — Burl
| Charity, 162, ¥oungstown, and Al
Winn, 16234, New York, drew, 8.
, Salem, Mass. — Timothy “Bud
| dy” Hayes, 127, Boston, outpointed
|Paul - “Blond Tiger” Frechell¢,
[127%, Low 2!‘5 B
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