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Wonder what goes on in Lou Gehr
ig's mind these days as he sits on the
Yankee bench just another guy wear
ing a big number 4, watching other
men play the game he played so long
and so well and getting the plaudits
and cheers that were his for so many
seasons?
Wonder how a fellow f eek when he
at last realized the parade has passed
him by and that other gentlemen will
get the publicity, the cheers and the
limelight. It must be sickening, almost
too hard to comprehend, when you
discover you are through and realize
that reporters will not ask you for
stories and fans will not crowd you
and bawl for your autograph. But it
is a feeling that must come to all
athletes, for no man can go on for
ever. No man can hold off Father Time
and his scythe that robs legs of speed
and arms of whip and snap.
Lou Gehrig sits on the bench,
getting up once' in a while to beat
his hands together as he did for the
years he was the greatest first base
man baseball will ever know. Days
when the name of Gehrig inspired
. fear in the heart of every opposing
pitcher; when Gehrig and Ruth
made opposing managers faint of
heart and made up the most devas
tating one-two punch in the hundred
years since Abner Doubleday laid
out the first baseball diamond on a
peaceful cow pasture up in Coopers
town, N. Y.
This is all gone now. Ruth is fat and
past 40, sitting none too contentedly
in New York waiting for the call to
manage a major league team that will
never come. His home run bat is
tucked away and the glory that was
his is tucked away in cold black let
ters. His fat, broad-nosed face still
inspires the cheers it once did but
soon a new generation of baseball fans
will grow up a generation that
knows of Ruth only through hearsay.
Other men have won a fourth
straight pennant for the Yankees and
are now going about making a com
plete wreclfoi" the Cincinnati Reds.
They said the Yanks would collapse
when Ruth went, but the team car
ried on and won four straight Ameri
can league flags. It was almost incon
ceivable to think of the Wrecking
Gang without Gehrig ...
Gehrig who had played every game
since early June of 1925. Gehrig who
was as inseparably a part of the
Yankees as the stadium, the home run
and power. But early this year the
end came for Gehrig and he retired
to the bench. Babe Dahlgren moved
out to first. Never again were base
ball fans to see Henry L. Gehrig per
form around the base. An era of base
ball was over, the lush era of the
twenties when the country rolled in a
sea of money and Ruth and Gehrig
were the two greatest names in a mad
nation.
Now Gehrig watches the world se
ries. Sees the Yankees crush the
Reds in the first two games with
out his services. Sees Dahlgren bat
in the accepted Gehrig fashion and
hears the cheers go up for Babe and
for DiMaggio and tells himself
that for all time they will never
cheer him again.
The Yankee juggernaut rolls on,
crushing all in its path. The Reds are
hopelessly battered and perhaps are
now ready to go down four straight.
Kill McKechnie has thrown his aces
and all he has left are deuces, and
deuces are not wild in this game. If
Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer
cannot stem the forward march of
McCarthy power, what chance have
Junior Thompson and Lee Grissom?
They will probably be swept aside
tomorrow and Sunday at Crosley field.
It will not be a happy week-end in
the Queen City. Instead it will be a
eek-end of official mourning as the
food citizens go around pinching each
other and asking whatever did become
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Apologia Pro Mia Vita
The sports editor wishes to apolo
gize for any inadvertant meaning
People may have read into yester
day's varsity football story. There
as no intention to build one player
UP at the expense of another. It
ight all be characterized as a
lastly mistake. It was. The facts
ere presented, perhaps, tcio lurid
ly. And as is generally the case,
lurid facts means distortion in the
winds of some readers. Ooops sorry
and all that sort of stuff.
St. Anthony Upsets Betas, 12-6;
BVP Wins, Ties Lead In Loop
YESTERDAY'S TAG FOOTBALL
RESULTS
St. Anthony Hall 12, Beta TheU
Pi 6.
Kappa Sigma 20, ATO 0.
K 12, Manly 6.
BVP 12, Old East 0.
Steele 13, Law School 7.
Phi Gamma Delta 12, TEP 8.
St. Anthony hall pulled the first
major fraternity upset of the season
yesterday as it defeated Beta Theta
Pi by a 12-6 score.
Both teams scored touchdowns in
the first half but failed to add the ex
tra point, and then in the closing min
utes of the final period St. Anthony
pushed across the goal again to pro
duce the winning margin.
D. Murchison and N. Walker tallied
touchdowns for the winners while
Ross scored for the losers. Other out
standing players for St. Anthony were
D. Torrey and Harvey, while Hall and
Winkler led the Betas.
KA-ATO
Kappa Sigma gave a good account
of itself in its opening game of the
season yesterday by marching to a
20-0 victory over ATO.
Jeffress, Downey, and. Wooten
scored for the winners and were
greatly assisted in leading the team
to victory by Branson, Hambright
and Sumner. Diffendal, Grier and
Ashby stood out for the losers.
The newest dormitory on the cam
pus, "K", opened' its first intramural
season yesterday by downing Manly
12-6.
Both teams played air-tight defen
sive ball in the first half refusing to
allow their goal line to be crossed but
in the final half the teams turned to
the offense and supplied three scores.
Tothrow and Evenson gave the win
ners a 12-point lead early in this half,
but with only a half minute to play
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Bill Beerman's
STRAIGHT STUFF
(Ed. note: At present Mr. Beerman
is dividing his time between a pair of
crutches and the infirmary, the re
sult of a recent attempt to "get the
low-down" on tag football, newest and
mildest (?) addition to campus
sports).
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Me and George Stirnweiss. Yes,
I too am a football casuality.
Saturday I was sorry for General
George when Wake Forest's rough
neck crew hit him with such force as
to cause him great pain. Sorry, but
only in a detached sort of way. To
day, I know exactly how Mr. Stirn
weiss feels, for have not I too made
the supreme sacrifice on the football
field?
It all happened this way:
I was quarterback for the Mongrels,
playing out on the rocky patch of
ground which is the center of the
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YANKS' PEARSON
SHUTS OUT REDS
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. Unable to win
consistently during the regular sea
son Monte Pearson, Iowa farm boy
of the Yankee pitching staff, retired
22 Reds in a row this afternoon, shut
the Cincinnatians out, 4-0, and gave
the champions of the baseball universe
a two game margin in their struggle
to win the title for a fourth straight
season.
An in-and-outter and despair of
Manager Joe McCarthy most of the
year, Pearson equalled a world series
record as he set the Reds down in
order until lumbering Botcho Lom
bardi singled with one man out in the
eighth. Billy Werber collected the
second hit off Pearson with two men
out in the ninth.
Otherwise the Reds could do nothing
with the curve balls of Pearson, who
last year pitched a no-hitter against
the Cleveland Indians. Monte has now
won a game in every one of the four
Yankee world's championship efforts.
Werber walked in the fourth but he
was promptly erased by a double-play.
Pearson tied the record set by Ed
Ruelbach of the White Sox in the 1906
series with the Cubs.
The game all but put an end to
any Cincinnati hopes of dethroning the
Yankees. McKechnie led with Bucky
Walters today and Bucky, winner of
27 gams over the regular season
failed to stem the power of Yankee
bats. All McKechnie has left is Gris
som and Thompson. The series is re
sumed Saturday at Cincinnati and
Thompson will piltch. That would
probably leave it up to Paul Derrin
ger to keep the Reds in the series Sun-
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lower quadrangle. Incidentally, the
Mongrels are quite a crew, being made
up of any and everything that strag
gles onto the field and says "lemme
play, will ya?" Anyway, as I was say
ing, I was the safety man, and when I
saw the opposing team (the Aycock
Alcoholics) assume a punt formation,
I wisely deduced that a kick would
follow.
But they threw a pass instead. Equal
to the occasion, I dashed forward,
leaped into the air, and intercepted the
ball. When I came to earth I bounded
off in the general direction of the
other goal, stepping gutters, bump
ing into trees, and tripping over
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DO OR DIE SPIRIT
IN SATURDAY GAME
BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 5 Present-day
sophisticates may laugh at
the old "do or die' spirit that bright
ened college gridirons when our dads
were playing football. Well, the Vir
ginia Tech Gobblers are keeping up
with dad this week and they think
the Tar Heels of North Carolina will
be too busy to take time out to laugh
when those old rivals clash Saturday
at Norfolk.
Spirit of the brand that enabled
Tech teams of yesterday to roll up 12
victories against six defeats and five
tie games at Carolina's expense is
evident in Tech's workouts this week.
The situation is distinctly to Tech's
liking, for it's one that has produced
some of the finest performances in
Gobbler football annals.
The Gobblers know well that the
same sort of spirit still flourishes at
Chapel Hill also. Moreover, the Tech
scouts report that Coach Ray Wolf's
touchdown machine is quite an awe
some array. Any outfit that has Gen
eral George Stirnweiss, Sweet Jim
Lalanne, Sid Sadoff, Paul Severin and
George Radman has to be potent,
spirited and colorful.
TECH ASSETS
But before you concede Carolina an
other touchdown parade, figure a few
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15 Fresh Mermen
Begin Practice
Freshman swimming practice started
off yesterday with no bang at all.
About 15 candidates showed up out
of an expected 30.
Freshman Coach Ralph Casey put
the frosh through a session of callis-
All freshmen who failed to re
port at the swimming meeting
1 Wednesday night " should report to
the manager on the main floor of
Woollen gym at 4 o'clock today or
Monday.
thenics on the main floor of Woollen
gym, putting a medicine ball into play
for a while. After this workout the
frosh retired to Bowman Gray pool to
loosen up their muscles.
A 50 meter time trial for all can
didates, regardless of their events or
distances, will be held Monday at 4:20,
the time practice begins every day.
Nineteen men reported to a squad
meeting Wednesday night and indi
cated they would be out for the frosh
team. They are J. E. Cohencius, Hugh
Clark, Cluck Dunn, Milton Harris, B.
W. Landstreet, Joel Lester, Jim Lit
tle, Albert Loewenson, Bill McClin
tic, Don Nicholson, Buck Orsborne,
Donald Patterson, George Peabody,
Coman Rothrock, Robert Rose, Byron
Sherman, Fred Swindel, Kenneth Wall,
and Andy Weiss.
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outstanding men around the Gobbler
backfield when Virginia Tech battles
Carolina at Norfolk tomorrow. He is
a triple-threat back. '
Harriers To Show
Speed In Practice
5-Mile Run Today
Showing pleasure over the per
formance to date of his harriers, but
still refusing to admit that he has an
other conference winner, Coach Dale
Ranson of the cross country team an
nounced yesterday that the team
would take to the road again as a unit
today on a five-mile course.
Because the underbrush is rather
thick at some points of the new Braf-ford-Lewis
course, the squad will
probably run the old course, but pres
ent plans call for the Davidson meet
to be on the Brafford-Lewis route Oc
tober 21.
The performance of the ace runners
last week was not up to the marks set
by them on the first unit run of the
season, for they were. held back with
orders to follow the pace-setters. To
day, however, with just two weeks be
fore the first meet such men as
Crockett, Hardy, Lewis, Morrison,
Vawter, and Wise should stretch out
and show their heels to the slower men.
The varsity took tilings easy yes
terday preparing for the run today.
The freshmen will take the cake race
today just before the varsity work
out. Dick Van Wagoner, Ed Phillips,
Roy Gibson, Sim Nathan, Vernon
Drewry, Jim Manly and Gradyon
Liles will be watched closely, for
these boys gave the best showings
last week.
Bat-And-Ball Men
Coach Bunn Hearn requests all
baseball candidates to be at Emer
son field at 2 o'clock this afternoon
for a fall practice game. ..
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LALANNE TO LEAD
STARTING LINEUP;
SAVING STIRNY
By WILLIAM L. BEERMAN
Ranking high in the nation on the
strength of winning two games, the
Carolina football team leaves at noon
today for Norfolk, where tomorrow
VPI is met in a game which once more
favors the Tar Heels. Coach Wolf
and a squad of 38 men will leave by
train from Henderson.
Jim Lalanne, pass-thrower, runner,
kicker and all-around good quarter
back, will start tomorrow's game in
place of George Stirnweiss, ace of
them all, who is still limping from
leg injuries he received in the Wake
Forest contest. Yesterday Stirny did
not workout with the squad but stayed
at the fieldhouse and took heat treat
ments "in an effort to hasten the re
cuperation of his sore appendage.
Coach Wolf, claiming he would
save Stirnweiss for the NYU game,
said he would possibly use George
Radman in the tailback position if
the need became urgent. Frank
O'Hare, sophomore understudy to
Stirnweiss and Lalanne, has not fully
recovered from a bruised ankle he was
made a present of in the Wake Forest
game.
LALANNE GENERALS
In practice yesterday Lalanne ran
the first team in defense against VPI
formations, and later quarterbacked
the regulars when numerous Carolina
plays were run off for the satisfac
tion of the coach. Radman gave up
his left halfback post to Don Baker
and drilled in tailback duties by run
ning the second string.
Wolf has not definitely decided on
his starting line-up tomorrow, and in
practice alternated several men on the
regular eleven. Certain of beginning
the game, however, are Lalanne, Bob
bitt and Radman in the backfield, ends
Severin and Kline, guards Woodson
and Abernathy, center Bob Smith and
tackle Gates Kimball. Either Sadoff
or Dunkle will start fullback, and
either Dick White or Chuck Slagle
at taekle.
Certain to play against VPI are
many of the reserves who in the two
games this season have shown up re
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Fall Tennis Tourney
The fall tennis tournament slate
has been drawn up and is posted on
the bulletin board of the varsity
temnis courts. "All first - round
-matches not played by Monday will
be forfeited," John Chambliss said?
yesterday.
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