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Cross Country Trials Thursday iEIeel Footballers Meet Pre-Flights Again an? TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1945 PAGE THREE Spins with lrwm ftmallwood There's a lot of space to cover to day, but probably the most important topic for discussion is that of the great game of football. The grid sport is becoming the main topic for talk among sportsmen and fans nowadays, as definite signs of fall air begin to creep upon us. . Coach Carl Snavely is out of town today, as he was yesterday along with his entire coaching 'staff, to conduct a clinic for high school mentors of this section in Charlotte. He returns tomorrow and will wind up the sum nier drills for his potential Tar Heel gridders Thursday, Friday and Sat urday of this week. There will be a layoff of one week, and things will get back into full swing Monday, Sep tember minute 3, with the season opener 4 a 26 days hence. Speculation on prospects ! for the grid sport this year in ' Dixie is not focused in any one place, but accord ing to the experts most of the power will come out of Georgia Tech, Duke, Tennessee and Alabama. However, to put it in the words of Grahtland Rice, "Carl Snavely did not return to North Carolina to play s ecoiid 1 Stradi varius not for long. We are not going to go out on the traditional limb and say that Carolina will have a power house, but we will say that unless we miss our guess miles, the old ' Tar Heels will be far from the bottom when December rolls around We have a tough slate ahead, which includes games with three of. the major bowl contenders of last year, but Coach Snavely, builder of 'Big Red' elevens at Cornell for the past v nine years, has worked hard this sum mer on the job of throwing together a winning team here and his work should pay off. Along this line of local football, we the student body and most ardent of Carolina fans, should begin right now and plan to give the Tar Heels the best support they have had in years. All this support from the stands goes a Ions' way to helping a team get ahead, and it is as little as we can do to get out there and back our grid ders to the hilt. Let's go, gang, plan now to see the footballers from Tar Heelia through the season. . . . Tickets went on sale yesterday for the four Carolina home games. The Pre-Flight football situation is - moving right along, but without such stars of last year as Stan Koslowski and Otto Graham. Coach Paul Bry ant reveals himself as pleased with the Cloudbusters so far, and before the season is gone, the local fliers are likely to come up with a good squad. At least they had better with Army and Navy on their schedule. . . . This man Koslowski, who co-starred with Graham all last season, is playing for his old Holy Cross crew this year ' and seems destined to. emerge an All Am erican. . Our prediction that the Phi Gams would win out in the Softball play offs seems to have brought out a little controversy. We have been as sailed by key men on several of the other top-notch teams, and they as sure us that THEIR'S is the club to beat. . . . Only time can tell, now. The whole , sports world is being strengthened every day by the re turning of servicemen, but the base ball world seems to be trying itself these days The Detroit Tigers, on top of the American league at the present, are staying there mainly be cause of the batting of Hank Green berg, who has just returned after four. years service. Ana me cvciauu dians, making a pennant bid from fourth place, just five games from the top, will receive a tremendous shot in the arm this Thursday when Fireballman Bobby Feller comes back from the Navy. Feller has been aver aging something like 10 strikeouts a ' game with the Great Lakes Navy nine, and his will be in tip top physical shape as he returns to his Indians. It will be interesting to watch the fast ball artist in operation again, and it should lift the chances of the Cleve land club for the pennant consider ably. . . Too, Charley Kellar, King Kong' of the old Bronx Bomber champs, is slated to be back in his old position within two weeks and he should do a lot to get the Yanks back on their winning ways. . . . Joe McCarthy is sack with Yanks now and the veteran manager was bounced from the ball park by the umpire m mmmmmmmmmmmmmm y - .ft""- if V V - w w v " -t i r -V'?. ...... 4 - - : ' V X"S"-rA , , , ,A if- - vfe; vr f ' Shown above are the 'members of the 1945 football coaching staff of the Carolina Pre-Flight School here. They are, left to right: Ltj Frank Albert, Stanford; Xt Ray. Bray,. Chicago, Bears; Lt Comdr." Paul Bryant, Ala bama, head coach? Lt. Carney Laslie, Alabama; and Lt. John Druzie, Fordham. " Albert will tutor the backs, 'Bray the guards, Laslie the line,. and Druzie the ends. (Official Navy Photo.) Makings n The By Dick .Portrait of the week: Baseball America's favorite sport and Nationa Pastime raised its pennant last week, for it came through to take a 9-0 no hit win over old man Mars. Although it shifted its lineup throughout the game, the winners played heads up ball throughout the contest, which lasted for three years, seven months, and seven days, and the outcome was never m doubt. Kenesaw "Mountain" Landis was the winning pitcher, al though he tired in the later innings and was replaced by Happy Chandler, who finished up the game by fanning the last three men to face him. There were so many outstanding plays afield that it would be-difficult to mention any particular . star, although Will Harridge's consistent brilliancy kept the fans applauding throughout the contest, while Ford Frick, with four homers in four trips, led the winners in the slugging department. ... It will indeed be a game to remember. . The Tigers and Sens continue their tooth and nail battle for top honors in the American League, with the start of the new week finding Detroit still on top of the heap by a scant game and a half margin. ... Washington fans were basing their pennant hopes on their well rounded pitching staff, headed by Leonard, Haefner, Pieretti and Wolff, but the Tiger fans could also point with pride at the trio of ace chunkers, Newhouser, Benton and Trout. The Diz has been having some trouble finding the range this year, but look for an improved hurler during the remainder of the regular season. . . . Biggest gun of the Detroit stretch crive will be .Big ianK iireenoerg, who, in a little better than a week's time has pulled his average up from a .225 mark to join the elite .300 group. . Word has also been filling the air that Virgil "Fire" Trucks, former Tiger hurler still in the service, will rejoin the league leaders before Sep tember, but the pennant chase still remained plagued with a long string of middled ifs, ands, and buts. . . . a game with the' Browns last week. He's still -fighting for the New York ers, despite his age and condition. Still on the baseball line, we -see that the American loop race is getting closer every day. The Washington j Senators have pulled to within a game j i i and a half of the league-leading Ben gals and look very likely to take over first place from the Tigers. Both teams played double-headers yester day, but the results were not avail able at this writing. Only five games separate the first and fourth place clubs in the Junior circuit, and any thing can happen; but we will stick to our prediction of a week back that the Senators will come through for the first time in 12 years with the bunting. . . . In the National league the Cubs are still going hard and seem destined to take the champion ship. The Chicago team holds a seven and a half margin over the second place Cardinals and are on the up swing. ... Things are getting closer and closer, but we hold to our idea that the Cubs and the Sens will clash for the baseball crown in he world series come October. FOR VICTORY: BUT' BONDS Majors Seaver Hugh Mulcahy, first major leaguer to enter the service, was discharged last week from Uncle Sam's Army, and the veteran Phillie hurler was expect ed to rejoin that club's mound staff in the near future. Mulcahy told report ers that he believed his tour of duty had helped his playing, for during this time he had had an opportunity to see the game from the managerial stand point. . . . Al Lopez, the Pirates veteran backstop, has already set one major league record so far this year and is heading towards another. A few days back, Lopez caught his 1,880th game, thus passing the old mark set at 1,793 set by Gabby Hartnett over a 20 year period. This season will also be num- ber-13 in which Al has caught in more than 100 games, and, barring unfor- seen circumstances, this mark will bring him abreast of Bill Dickey of the Yankees who equalled this feat in the Junior circuit. ". . . Phil Cavaret- ta, now in his twelfth year with the Cubs, is one of the main reasons why Chicago is leading the National Lea gue today. Hitting at a steady clip all year, the veteran first baseman is clubbing the ball at a healthy .363 clip and is now threatening to overtake and pass the Holmes-Rosen monopoly for batting honors. . . . The Senators lost aNvaluable cog in their pennant hun gry machine last week when George Case, veteran outfielder who led the American loop from 1939-43 in stolen bases, was injured while demonstrat ing his base stealing abilities for the movie cameras. Although suffering a badly sprained right ankle, Case should return to the lineup sometime this week. . . . Don't overlook the pur chase of Mike Kreevich by the Sens from the Browns last week. This little deal, worked via the waiver route, may prove very beneficial during those final days of the pennant drive. Kreevich, you will remember, was one of those "thev'll never do it" boys who last year turned all predictions upside down, and came through to give the Browns their first Junior loop crown. . . . Xast week provided us with two streak happy clubs, Cleveland and New York, the former going up, with 19 wins in their last 26 starts, while the Yankee crew were listing to port as they dropped their tenth game in eleven starts to run up the longest los ing streak they have experienced since , Marthv took over the man a " tj gerial post fifteen years ago. The slumping Yanks, however, were buoyed up by the news that Charlie "King Kong" Keller would rejoin the club in Chicago this week. . . . Biggest news of returning veterans was the an nouncement that Rapid Robert Feller would soon rejoin the Cleveland In dians. Coming on top of the recent pennant drive the Indians have been BULL'S HEAD Ground Floor Library Best New Fiction and Non-Fiction Browse - Rent - - Buy Look Your Best at SEE MACK AT GRAHAM MEMORIAL BARBER SHOP Basement of Graham Memorial Cross1 Country Trials Slated Second time trials of the season will be held Thursday afternoon at 5:30 o clock for the cross country track candidates, it was announced yester day by Coach Dale Ranson, veteran track mentor of Carolina.' The first of these planned trials was held a little over a week ago, and the boys looked good for this early in the season. It is expected that they will show up even better this week. How ever, the times may be a little high since a good many of the lads are suf fering from early injuries and ail ments. The celebration of V-J day last week also cut down on the prac tice periods. First meet on the slate for the local crew is tentatively Pre-Flight, Sep tember 15, but this date will not be confirmed for a week or so. Othepr meets with top-flight teams of the south -and with Navy are also on the agenda and will be announced later. Practice so far in the season is well ahead of that of last year, according to Coach Ranson, and before many more weeks have passed the team should begin to take shape. Several veterans of the not-too-bad squad of last year are back, and if the material on hand comes through as expected, the Tar Heel runners should do well for themselves. . Mural Tourney To Start Today The Intramural Softball tournament will get underway today, but at Tar Heel press time no last minute details as to play off pairings were available. The top two clubs in each league are slated to participate in the tourna ment for the over all summer soft- ball championship. According to an announcement by Walt James, Intramural head, all de tails concerning the play offs will be posted this morning on the bulletin board directly opposite room 307 Wool len Gym. All teams are responsible to consult the bulletin board to find the place and time of their game. staging during the past week, this news may be bigger than it now ap pears. Feller is reported . to De m good condition from his player man ager activity on the Great Lates Nav al Team. The former Indian fireball- er, who led the Junior loop in strike outs, innings pitched, and . wins dur ing the three seasons prior to his en listment, has been averaging 10 strike- cuts per contest during the present season for the sailors. CLASSIFIED LOST One honest person who found one tgn and four five dollar bills on night of August 17th. If found, please notify Paul Rothman, Room 22, Old East. Reward offered. BOOKSHOP the Coming Dances Boca! Scrimmage Busier Grid Squad Pre-Flight Footballers Outscore Tar Heel . Crew By 20-12 In Closed Full-Time Tussle By Frank Miller Carolina's rapidly improving Tar Heels again clashed with the N. C. Pre-Flight Cloudbusters at Kenan Stadium in a closed scrim mage last Saturday afternoon for a full, four quarter xrame. with the Fliers coming out on top, 20 - r Although coming out on the short end of the scoring, Coach Carl Snave- ly's combine held their opponents well during, the scrimmage and clicked much more smoothly on offense than in previous drills. The Blue and White aggregation was-minus the services of two of their first stringers. Max Cooke, end and Al Bernat, center, were both out of battle- togs, Cooke absent due to in ternal-chest injuries and1 Bernat re covering from illness. Starting the fray .off with quick ac tion, the Pre-Flight eleven was prompt in scoring, racking up two touchdowns before the green Carolina team could tally. Pre-Flight sailed to pay dirt early in the first period with a 90-yard sprint and later took to the air ways to score. . . : Midway the third stanza, the Tar Heels started on a drive, climaxed by Bill Crutchfield, tailback, who dashed around his own right end to the white stripes. Herb Young, civilian end from Cary, N. C, was the lad who caused the Black and Gold clad boys trouble all afternoon. Having driven to the Pre-Flight 35, Flamish faded back, flipped a pass to Young, who made a beautiful catch and stumbled on the enemy's 20-yard marker. After an un successful try at the forward wall, Flamish again dropped back and rifled an aerial to Allison in the end zone. Both Carolina tries for the extra point were blocked by the fast-charging Sailor line. Looking good in the Carolina back- field were tailbacks Clayton and Col- fer, both boys adept in the running and passing departments. Little Bill Voris, speedy Tar Heel fullback, also proved a big threat to his titan oppon ents, as the little stick of dynamite ripped off valuable yardage through the rugged Cloudbuster line. Paul Rizzo, first-string blocking back, was another of the backfielders who turned in a fine performance. 1 ' In the Carolina line it was Gold- ing, guard; Leatherman, guard; Haz elwood, tackle; Allison, end; Young, end; Szafaryn, tackle; Marczyk, tackle; and Simms, center, who took the spotlight. ' Coach Snavely will send his aspi rants through workouts until the lat ter part of this week and then give them a, week's rest before going into fall drills and preparing for their first encounter. UVA Has Picnic Coca-colas, beer, song, and moon light featured the University Veter an's Association picnic in and around the' Forest Theater last Friday night. Over a dozen couples and several stags attended the party which started about sun-down and lasted until midnight. Bill Smith was in charge of arrange ments for the affair. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS I Skin opening 5 Walk wearily . 9 Pit for games 11 Depart 12 Prank 14 Loose shoe 15 Took food 16 Crazy (slang) 18 Adherent ol 19 Hen fruit 21 Beetle 22 Single thing 23 Therefore (L.) 25 Thief v 27 Indefinite article 2.3 Musical note 29 Butt end of cigarette 31 Donated 33 Visualize 34 Highest note in Guido's scale 36 Cloth measure 38 Resort 39 Llght-heartedness 41 Small island 43 Christian festival 45 Simpler 47 Brook fish 48 Skin ailment of dogs 49 Dispatched as on a mission 60 Join I 3 Mi . 5 o 7 8 iz " "T"' "" 1 I - ZZT" """"" . hs -k "" 177 v, W" H9 " 12. ' I - m. . irid lickets Are On Sale In Gymnasium (Four Home Games Included On Slate .Tickets to North Carolina's ,four home games this fall will go on sale oyer . the counter at Woollen Gym nasium. Monday, it was announced to day by Athletic Director R. A. Fet zer. The sale will be open to the public as well as alumni, it was said, and itll-be first come, first served. The actual tickets for the annual Duke classic in Durham on November 24 are not due from the printer until late next week, but the Athletic Of fice will begin taking applications for these Monday. The pasteboards for Carolina's home games have already been received and checked and are . ready for delivery over the counter beginning Monday. The four home game3 will be as fol lows: Sept. 29 Georgia Tech at Chapel Hill at 2:30. Oct. 20 Cherry Point Marines at -Chapel Hill at 2:30. Nov. 17 Wake Forest at Chapel Hill at 2:00. Dec. 1 Virginia at Chanel Hill at 2:00. Meanwhile, the hustling young Tar Heel squad, which has been pushing preparations ever since spring prac tice, finished its fourth week of sum- mer drills yesterday in good shape and condition. , v Carl Snavely, their veteran and energetic head! coach, announced today that he will hold three more drills next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and then give the boys a week's rest before beginning fall drills Septem ber 3. ' Director Fetzer also announced to day that the Athletic Department has mailed ticket applications to 35,000 alumni along with a news letter on athletics at Carolina. v This report was sent not only to nearby alumni but it was also mailed, sans application blanks, to thousands of former students now in the serv ice, including a number abroad. "We know that many of you cannot get back to Chapel Hill for the games this fall," Coach Bob wrote, "but I feel sure that all of you are interested in what goes on at the Hill. 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