Track Season Ends"
For Carolina's Best
Car
Seniors Look Hot
For Interclass Fray
CHAPEL HELL, N...C, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1939
Southern t(rif era Greatest Track Team
PRINT- TO FIT
' By SHELLEY ROLFE '
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This is the story of two boys who came to Carolina in the fall of 1936 -with
glittering high school, running records behind them and still more glittering
prospects of a track future among the greats of the game ahead of them. t
One of the newcomers was from Richmond and his final high school
gesture was a 4:32 mile at the Duke interscholastic meet that broke all
existing regional prep mile records and set the trackwise to whistling
and wondering just how far this solidly built Virginian would get up
the track ladder. x '
The second was a thin, slight blond boy from Goldsboro. He too had been
spectacular in high school and had shattered the old half-mile records until
they were unrecognizable and until he had written his name in big bold let
ters across the state high school running scene. '
In the fall of '36 both reported to Dale Ranson for freshman cross
country, and Ranson, who is used to famous distance men and astounding
times; merely smiled to himself and built air castles with the dreams pf
wkat these fellows might do once they had been seasoned well and poured
into varsity uniforms. They ran one-two on the Tar Baby cross country
team and no one was surprised in the least. After all that was to be ex
pected. Had they not shown by their high school record that they had it?
And after all they had not run enough in their prep days to burn them- ;
eelves out as so often with high school runners from schools in and around
the big northern towns. r ' y ? . r
Well that spring they continued their almost incredible running feats. The
boy from Richmond stayed in the mile and went through his freshman year
undefeated. And the one from Goldsboro ran in the half-mile in addition to
turning in incredible times remained undefeated,
Their paths were running the same until one afternoon that spring
Carolina and Duke were engaged in private war-fare over the state AAU
championship and the slim freshman from Goldsboro was put in the 1,500
meter field. He didn't win but he ran the most brilliant 1500 meters in
Carolina history and chased Duke's great Bill Morse home to a new rec
1 ord and finished inches back of Bill in a thrilling finish.
Then fall came and this time the other fellow gained the headlines. The
thin Goldsboro lad went "to see the doctors about running cross-country and
the learned, gentlemen pulled their beards and decided he was not sturdy
enough. for varsity cross-country, so he was dry-docked. But the other man
in the story could anddid cross-country and in the conference meet, although
only a, sophomore, turned in the third fastest time in Carolina and conference
kostory f or the Chapel Hill five mile course.
' ' That spring both were shifted to the mile. The Tar Heel coaches got
. together, bandied words and decided the freshman half-miler was really
a much better miler than he was a half man. So to the mile field he went
and he had soon outstripped the star miler of the freshman team of the
year before. The thin blonde finished second to Pete Bradley in his first
', outdoor mile, running close to 4:17, and for the rest of the season -was
undefeated. He won the conference championship and finished fifth in
the National Junior AAU meet at Buffalo.
What about.the other fellow in the story ? Well he lagged behind although
his times would have won at almost any other college in the country. But
this was not an ordinary situation, for Carolina had this thin, blonde half
; miler who was burning up the varsity mile circuit. And to make his bad
-luck chain complete, this boy from Richmond chipped a bone in his ankle
'and had to quit running for the spring. He was operated on during the sum
; mer and came back last fall ready to pick up where he left off in cross coun
try. But his leg wouldn't hold up and instead of turning in great perform
; ances of his own he had to sit back and watch the other Tar Heels spin to
"another conference championship.
He could not run during the winter either, and finally went out for the
boxing team instead. He fought in the 155-pound class, winning his letter.
In the meantime, the other fellow kept going, always emblazoning his name
higher on the honor roll of the nation's miters. He finished second to Mason
Chronister of Maryland in the conference indoor mile in a race that was a
: lap too long and was ruined by incompetent officials. This spring he continued
This outdoor mile achievements and was unbeaten. Last Saturday he ran
" Chronister into the ground and was clocked at 4:14.2 the fastest college mile
of the day in a Saturday full of important track meets and fast Tniles and
stamped his name high among those with good chances to make the Olympic
team and go to Finland next summer.
After running the mile, and doing none too good in it, in the early
meets, the fellow from Richmond, who by now had lagged far behind,
shifted to the two mile and in the AAU meet won a spectacular first in a
race made on sheer guts alone. The next week he ran third against Navy
and was first the week after that against Georgia. In the conference
meet he ran second to Tom Crockett, who set a new record of 9:40.4.
Sprinting to come in second the ex-miler-turned-two-miler turned in 9:44.
The track bugs looked up and saw another outstanding two miler for
Carolina next year.
The story is brought to date. Tuesday night the track team elected cap
tains for 1940. It chose Fred Hardy of Richmond and Jimmy Davis of Golds
boro The freshman half-miler, who had turned out to be the best miler m
Southern conference history and had been elected president of the student
body and the freshman miler who turned to the two mile to get back in
condition were united again.
Yes, fate is a queer lady and you can never tell what the dame will do
next.
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Concerning Gear Looky!
All mens' personal equipment There will be an important meet
must be removed from lockers and ing of all- members of the football
baskets in Woollen gymnasium by team at Woollen gym at 10:30
6 o'clock Saturday, June 3. o'clock this morning.
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Famous Radio Star in the Prize Winning
"RANCH 0 GRANDE"
In Spanish with English Titles
With the Authentic Songs, Dances and Customs of
Romantic Old Mexico
Pictured -abover is the!939 TarHeeltfa'ck squad wiiicir brought ;vitb the
University of North Carolina its seventh Southern conference outdoor cham
pionship and "its second In a row. - , - s. ,
Front row: Coach Chuck Quinlan, Wimpy Lewis, Phil Haigh, Jim Piver, Ed
Winstead, Tom Nash, Harold Amoss, Greyard Lamm, and Holt Allen.
Second row: George Watson, Jim Richards, Vaughan Winborne, Tom
Crockett, Co-captain Bill Corpening, Bill Gordon, Harry iMarch, Royce Jen
nings, Carlton White, Jimmy Davis, Tom Holmes and Tom Brafford, assist-
ant manager.
Third row: Coach Dale Ranson, Bill McCachren, Ernest Illman, Bill Groves,
John French, Bob Weinberger, Joe RusselL Julian Lane, Ed Hoffman, Earl
Patterson,-Dave Morrison, and Coach Johnny Morriss.
Fourth row: Frank Wakeley, Lan Caldwell, Fred Hardy, Red Sanders,
Erskine Clements, Bill Vogler, Phil Walker, Don Baker, Drewry Troutman,
and Coach Bob Fetzer.
Inserted at the left top to bottom are: Co-captain Bill Hendrix, Joe Hilton
and Chuck Slagle.
SENIORS APPEAR
FAVORED TO WIN
INTERCLASS MEET
The seniors, led by Bill Hendrix, Bill
Corpening, Tom Holmes, Joe Russell,
Carleton White, Frank Wakeley, Bob
Weinberger, Joe Hilton, Jim Richards
and Erskine Clements, rule slight fa
vorites to win the interclass track meet
which will be held on Fetzer field to
morrow and Saturday.
: Having won the meet for the last
two years, this year's senior group is
touted as an easy winner again. The
sophomores, second last year, are their
toughest foes.
The purpose of the interclass meet
is to help the trackmen or anyone in
terested in becoming a trackman find
his best event. This year, instead of
running some of the distance races over
shortened distances, they probably will
be run at full distances. Anyone can
run as many events as he wishes.
Lacrossers Elect
Finkel And Berdan
Coleman Finkel and Fred Berdan
were elected co-captains of the 1940
lacrosse team at a meeting of the squad
yesterday.
An attack man, Finkel has been an
outstanding player on the Tar Heels
for two years and merited All-Dixie
league rating the past season. Finkel
is from Baltimore. He is a member of
the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
Berdan has been on the team for a
year, coming into prominence towards
the end of the season. He is a defense
man. He hails from Glen Ridge, New
Jersey. He is a member of the Phi
Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Major League Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
. 1
Detroit
New York
Trout vs. Ferrell
Cleveland 6
Boston 2
Hudlin vs. Wilson
St. Louis . 6
Washington 16
7
7
11
4
8
14
Kramer vs. Masterson
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 0 5
Cincinnati 6 13
Gumbert vs. Derringer
Brooklyn 3 9
Pittsburgh . 6 10
Tamulis vs. Bowman
Philadelphia .a 2 11
Chicago . - 3 7
Passens vs. French
Boston 0 7
St. Louis 7 9
Sullivan vs. C. Davis
HOME RUNS Camilli, Gehringer,
Hudlin, Walker, and McCormick.
Extra Invitation
Orders Can Be Made
Additional orders for invitations
may be made by tomorrow, Sam
Southerland, chairman of the invi
tation committee said yesterday.
He said graduation orders already
ordered must be called for by Fri
day. "
Track Team Is Considered
Carolina's All-Time Greatest
By LEONARD LOBRED
Victorious over ali opposition on its
schedule, Carolina's 1939 track team is
considered the . University's greatest
track squad of all time.
Until this year the 1935 team with
Harry Williamson, Tom Evins, Don
Hubbard, Red Drake, Floyd Highby,
Frank Abernethy, Tom Hawthorne and
Graham Gammon was considered tops.
Williamson set two records, Hubbard,
Drake and Evins established one each,
and Hawthorne set one that wasn't
accepted because of weather condi
tions; Only Evins 47 feet inch shot
put record remains on the books, all
others having been toppled by mem
bers of this year's team.
TOUGH SCHEDULE
The 1935 team won the conference
indoor championship, dual meets with
William and Mary, Duke and Navy,
the state championship, and the con
ference outdoor crown. This year's
team record also was unblemished, and
the Tar Hels had the most extensive
schedule that any Carolina track team
has had. They set an alltime scoring
record in winning the indoor games
with 52 points, they beat Princeton,
the third ranking team in the East, and
Virginia, Duke, Navy and Georgia in
dual meets, they won the AAU meet
over Duke, and won the Southern con
ference outdoor title. The Carolina
team of Carleton White, Dave Morri
son, Bill Hendrix and Jimmy Davis
ran 7:48, the third fastest time made
Frosh Fireballers
Show Promise
For 1940 Varsity
By ROY POPKIN
If the three lads who pitched the
freshman baseball team to its great
est season in recent years stick around,
varsity coach Bunn Hearn won't have
many worries next spring. The Tar
Babies came through with 11 victories
in 13 contests, and credit for their
showing goes to Big Henry Feimster,
Red Benton and Lefty Cheshire, coach
Ham Strayhorn's Big Three.
Feimster, unbeaten in five strats,
put all 75 inches of his frame behind
his pitches and the result was 60 strik
outs, for an average of 12 a game and
only 30 hits during season. Henry
walked only seven batters.
i Cheshire, next on the list in won and
lost records, dropped a decision to
Wake Forest, but almost equalled
Feimster's strikeout record with 57
for 38 23 innings while Hank rang
up 60 in 42 frames. Although limit
ing the opposition to 14 hits, Lefty
had his troubles when it came to find
ing the plate, giving away 28 bases on
balls and hitting five batters.
j Benton, JNo. 3 man in the combina
tion, won two games, . one less than
Cheshire, also losing out to the Deac-
lets. -, His claim to fame lies in fan-
indoors at that time, in winning the ning 31 Datters in 25 13 innings, al
two mile relay at the Millrose games
for the second straight year, and sev
eral of the team's leading candidates
performed well in the Maryland Fifth
Regiment games in Baltimore during
the spring vacation. The team averag
ed 76 points in its five dual meets to
its opponents' 50.
The four outstanding men on the
team were Bill Corpening, Bill Hend
rix, Jimmy Davis and Harry March,
all of whom hope to go either to the
National Collegiate or the National
AAU meets during the summer. All
of them performed brilliantly all spring
and turned in one or more school rec
ord. CORPENING HOT "
Corpening opened the season against
Princeton with a 15 seconds flat high
hurdle race against Princeton, dupli
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Mural Schedule
HAND BALL
4:00 Phi Delta Theta No. 2 vs.
Sigma Nu No. 1. -
4:45 North St. vs. Independents.
5:30 Phi. Delta Theta No. 1 vs.
Kappa Alpha No. 2.
TRACK
4:00-6:00 Semi-finals in all field
events except high jump and broad
jump.
4:15 120-yard low hurdles (tri
als) 4:30 60-yd. dash (semi-finals) ,
4:45 120-yd. low hurdles (semi
finals) 5:00 100-yd. dash (semi-finals)
5:15 70-yd. high hurdles (trials)
5:30--300-yd. run (semi-finals)
5:45 70-yd. high hurdles (semi
lowing only 14 hits and walking only
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MURAL TRACKERS
WILL MEET TODAY
IN SEMI-FINALS
Intramural track will reach its cli
max this afternoon between four and
six o'clock xn Fetzer field as semi
finals will be staged in the 60 yard
dash, 100 yard dash, 300 yard run,
discus, javelin, and shot put, broad
jump, and trials and semi-finals in
high and low hurdles. Qualifiers for
today's events are all those wishing
to take part in high and low hurdles,
300 yard run and:
DORMITORY 60 YARD DASH
(First three in each heat qualify for
finals.)
FIRST HEAT: Baker, Grimes;
Markham, Mangum; Hooper, BVP;
Smathers, Graham; Sparrow, Everett
Snyper, Mangum; Bowman, Old West.
SECOND HEAT: Nisbett, Man
gum; Hewitt, Old West; Anderson,
Mangum; Lamb, , Graham; DanielL
Everett; Cuneo, Lewis; Conley, Gra
ham. -THIRD HEAT: Southerland, Man
gum; Mitten, Ruffin; White, Grimes;
Allen, Graham; W. Smith, Graham;
Corneigie, BVP.
FRATERNITY 60 YARD DASH
(First three in eachheat qualify
for finals.)
FIRST HEAT: Hambright, Kappa
Sigma; Ashby, ATO; Thomas, SAE;
Walker, St. Anthony; Blalock, Zeta
Psi; Holland, ZAE; Linker, DKE;
Phillips, Zeta Psi; Spruill, SAE..
SECOND HEAT: Sumner, Kappa
Sigma; Bruner, Sigma Nu; Quarles,
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