North Carolina Newspapers

SPORTS fie Haiti) ar fet PAGE SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1942 PAGE THREE Tom Young, New UNC -Backfield Coach, Boasts Fine High School Record - Shadowing Sports With Mark Garner It seems to be a tradition for the new sports editor, along with the in coming editor and managing editor, o set forth his policies, plans and ideas when he assumes office. Not being a tradition breaker by nature, and wel coming this chance to state my plans and ideas, here is a brief summary of what to expect from the sports de partment next year. ' First, we of the sports staff will en deavor to give every team, both of the University and of the Naval Unit, full coverage insofar as the news is of interest to the majority of the stu dent body. - Minor sports will receive their snare of attention and major sports will not be over emphasized. Stories of unusual length will not be used except in cases where the event justifies wordy coverage. Unessential details and description will be elimi nated and the articles will be factual, to the point and brief. In this manner a wider variety of sports and teams can be given proper attention. Columns definitely have a place on the sports page and if possible the staff plans to have weekly articles on indi vidual sports written by the reporter for that field. A department of the sports page that has been sadly neglected is the use of features. These human interest stories add color to the page and will be used as often as possible next year. It has long been our contention that the student here at Carolina becomes lost in the little world of Chapel Hill and forgets sporting events of state and national interest if Carolina teams are not involved. We do not mean to overrate this department or tQ neglect Tar Heel teams but a weekly column summarizing outstanding events in the sporting world would be quite helpful in keeping the students informed and up to date in the athletic world. With a new "duration" coaching set up, the influx of naval air cadets, and the many activities sponsored by Uncle Sam's airmen, the sports department will have a doubly hard job in giving full coverage to all sports. Coopera tion with the athletic department and Coach Jim Crowley and staff is es sential in our effort to furnish readers, participants and coaches with the kind of sports page we all desire. There will be mistakes and regrets, but if the student body will work and co operate with us, we will make next year one of the best in the history of the Tar Heel insofar as the sports page is concerned. Seniors Forfeit Softball Contest To Junior Coeds The senior coeds forfeited the soft ball game yesterday afternoon to the junior girls by a 1-0 score. Undaunt ed by threatening skies and a muddy field the juniors mustered enough players to form a team and when none of their opponents showed up, the game was awarded to them by the losers' captain, Mary McCormic. Nancy Jeffries was head of the jun ior group and "Breazy" Breazeale was in charge of the entire event. Major League Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 13, Cincinnati 5. Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 3. Boston 3, St. Louis 2. Chicago 2, Philadelphia 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE All games postponed- Jim Tobin's three home runs in one game this week set a new major lea gue record for home run hitting by a pitcher in one game. The Boston Braves' twirler hit homers on his last three trips to the plate to drive in four runs apd win his own game, 6-5. Your Formal Clothes at Carolina Men's Shop Mentor Starred On Former UNC Football Team By Bill Woestendiek The Carolina athletic association picked a prize plum off the coaching tree this week with the appointment of Tom Bayard Young, head football coach at Lexington high school for the past ten years, to the position of back field coach on the Tar Heel football team. Young, former football and baseball Star here at Carolina in 1925, '26 and '27, moves into the spot left vacant by the shifting of Chuck Ericson, last year's backfield mentor, to the position held by Coach Bo Shepard before his departure for the armed forces. Eric son is now assistant director of ath letics. Young will also hold the po sition of baseball coach. In ten years as head coach of Lex ington's gridiron fortunes, Young has coached five undefeated elevens and at one time his teams had a streak of 28 consecutive victories. He has de veloped several great players, the la test of whom is Billy Myers, star half back on the Tar Baby eleven last fall. Myers was an all-state halfback at Lexington and is expected to be a bril liant performer on the varsity team this season under the guidance of his former Lexington mentor. Co-captain Snyder of Carolina's great 1935 eleven was also developed under the careful tutelage of the newest addition to the Tar Heel coaching staff. Two-Letter Man Young was a two-letter man here, starring on both the gridiron and the diamond. He made his name ring from the lips of Tar Heel fans in his sopho more year when he grabbed a punt against Duke and raced it back 80 yards to the Blue Devil six-yard line to touch off a Tar Heel touchdown spree that gave them a crushing 41-0 triumph over their Durham rivals. The following year, 1926, Young again was all over the field playing a great game as the Carolina forces once more downed the Blue Devils decisive 1. winning 18-0. Newspaper accounts of the game wrote up the battle in three words, "too much Young." It was this same year that the new backfield coach turned in his greatest play. Playing against South Carolina on October 21, 1926, Young picked up a fumbled punt on his own 30-yard line and galloped 70 yards through the en tire Gamecock team for the only touch down of the game to give the Carolina team a 7-0 victory. Coached for 13 Years Young has coached high school foot ball for the past 13 years. After leav ing Carolina, his first position was at ! Smithf ield. After a year he moved to Pembrook and the following year went to Monroe. At Monroe he developed Snyder. He moved once more ayear later this time to Lexington and has been at the same spot until obtaining this position at Carolina. During these 13 years, Young has coached more than his share of great players, including several Duke stars of past seasons as well as many of Car olina's greats. The Athletic association couldn't have chosen a better man than this genial high-school mentor who be lieves in the fundamentals of football and refrains from going in for razzle dazzle tactics to any extent. f - - , jf v - - v "-y - - - 'AA - ? f ryr oi-vyJ l v 5'''' ,' - r - f-i. ,'i. K 'sj&s - ' 's I 1.J7, " ' ' - ' W- i s " i A ' , s J - s VX '-- S . . ... r,-,.,....lLuJ A TREMENDOUS 425-foot home run in the second inning was Jack Hussey's contribution to the Tar Heel cause in yesterday's Duke game. The slugging outfielder pictured above, had his long blow wiped-off the records when rain cancelled the game in the third inning. Five Teams Earn Berths In Playoffs With one more day of regularly scheduled games and the champion ship play-offs remaining theN1942 in tramural softball season will wind up this week. Five teams have already clinched places in the play-off, and Monday's games will determine wheth er several more dorm and frat teams will try for the championships. Aycock, Everett No. 1, Kappa Sig No. 1, Chi Psi, and Zeta Psi No. 2 are already in the play-offs. Phi Gam ma Delta No. 1 is also in the cham pionship series, but should it lose its last game, ATO which has lost only one game would also play. Town must win one more to prevent a tie in its division with Graham, BVP, and pos sibly Med School. The intramural track meet will be gin next week on Tuesday, running until the following Tuesday. Qualify ing rounds in the field events and dashes will be held all this week. There were two major Upsets dur ing last week's softball play. Kappa Sigma No. 1 and Chi Psi both of which were undefeated in their divi sion of the fraternity race lost on Thursday, the Kappa Sigs dropping a 7-3 decision to Beta Theta Pi No. 1 and the SAE's handing Chi Psi a 4-2 loss. The twin defeats saved one of the squads from elimination from championship play. The Mighty Men of Woollen took another win, swamping Kappa Sig ma 11-2 on a wet field. "Doc" Siewert tossed six-hit ball for his fifth win against one loss. - iVt-s. Peete, Neese Paced Play Of Linksmen Shooky Neese, captain of the Caro lina golf team in his junior year, paced his mates to a successful season this spring. The linksmen won five while losing three matches and the same team will be back next year with the ex ception of Billy Peete, only senior on this year's team. Neese played the steadiest golf of anyone on the team this year and post ed the best Carolina score in the South ern Intercollegiates. Neese, who hails from Burlington, played sensational golf last year as a sophomore and was undefeated in col legiate competition. His greatest claim to fame is his upset win over Duke's Grover Poole last year. Neese is the only golfer to defeat the Southern In tercollegiate champion in match play. He also gave Poole a great run for his money before bowing to him this year. Peete Lone Senior Billy Peete is the lone senior on the golf team, but his absence will be felt. His top performance this year was in the North-South tournament at Pine hurst earlier in the spring. He reached his peak in this tourney and fired a fine 68, advancing to the semi-final round. Billy was another steady golf er and added to his other accomplish ments was the achieving of a Phi Bete key in his junior year. Harris Everett's victory over Welby Van Horn in the second round of the National tennis singles tournament at Forest Hills in 1940 featured the long est set of the entire tourney. Everett captured the fifth and deciding set by a score of 15-13. Carolina Places 13 Trackmen In Conference Finals Today , l v -I si w '- i M l o S iiWli VS ' 4 "f mmmm ::-:::-:-:-;:-:vx-:-:-v.:.v.:W-:' s SXsS-'Xj-s A GREAT PITCHER has hurled his used that sturdy right arm above to while losing two. The Wilson ace was and capped off his collegiate career Duke Tuesday. Sieck Falls in Step With New Army Life; Says College Men Best Take it from Dick Sieck, Carolina's long, tall tackle on football teams of the last three years, that "college men do well in the Army." Sieck, whom Coach Ray Wolf said last fall was the team's most under rated player,4s a buck private now in Company A, Platoon 1, 28th Infantry Training Battalion, at Camp Croft, near Spartanburg, S. C. .Writing this week to the Alumni Of fice, Private Sieck has good advice for college men who will soon be called up for services. But let alumnus Sieck speak for himself: "In reading over the 'Alumni Re views,' I thoroughly agree on one point which you stressed throughout these magazines. This point is that the stu dents should not leave school to join one of the armed forces. If possible, they should finish their education. Our country is greatly in need of officers. Through my experience in the Army, although this experience is very limit ed, I have learned that it is the educat ed man who makes the best leader. I do not consider it unpatriotic for one to stay in school. In fact, the reverse is true. ' It is the college men now who will be the future officers in some branch of the service. "Another point I would like to stress is the students' attitude toward being drafted. The Army's not a bad life at all. For the good soldier, it is full of opportunity. It is only up to the in dividual to make the best of the situa tion. If I'm not being too boastful, I would like to cite my own case as an example. I came into the Army with the idea of making the best possible showing I was able to. After three months here, I consider myself far from being a failure. For the next training period, I expect to be a mem ber of the cadre to train the new men See SIECK, page 4 Track Summary CONFERENCE TRIALS 100-yard dash: 1st heat McMullin (VPI), Storer (D), Brown (D); 2nd heat Master (W&M), Riley (USC), Andrews (NCS). Time :09.9. 220-yard dash: 1st heat Riley (USC), Andrews (NCS), Loftis (D). Time :23.1. 2nd heat McMullm (VPI), Masters (W&M), Brown (D). Time :21.9. 440-yard run: 1st heat Kelly (C), Brown (D), Watts (W&M). Time :50.6. 2nd heat Rucks (USC), Cathey (C), Barrett (D). Time :50.2. 880-yard run: 1st heat Van Wag oner (C), Hollander (C), Wise (C). Time 2:01.5. 2nd heat-Tie for first between Cathey (C) and Franklin (Clemson), Thomas (W&M). Time 2:01.4. Discus throw Gantt (D), Lach (D), Moffett (VPI), Griff en (Rich mond), Carter (VPI), Krivonach (USC). Distance 139' 8". Javelin throw Palumbo (D), Lach (D), Fortunate (R), Griffen (R), Richardson (C), Miller (C). Distance -180' W. v Broad jump Mengel (C), Andrews (NCS), Moffett (VPI), Ashby (C), Loftis (D), McNaughton (C). Dis tance 21' 7-8". Shot put Gantt (D), Lach (D), Griffen (R), Andrews (NCS), Krivo nach (USC),' White (C). Distance 49' 9". E-- . a. 's c ' s , i last game for Carolina. Red Benton win eight games for the Tar Heels the workhorse of the pitching staff with a brilliant four-hitter against Duke Contest Rained Out; Season Ends Carolina's conference champions made an attempt to play their last game of the season against Duke's Blue Devils in Durham yesterday on a rain-soaked diamond, but the inter mittent showers developed into a steady rain in the third inning and the game was called with the Duke nine out in front, 3-2. The game will not be played off. Red Benton and Bill McCahan had started on the mound for their re spective clubs, facing each other for the third time in a week. Benton won the first two games in close one-run decisions. McCahan had allowed three hits yesterday while the Devils had touched Benton for five safeties. Hussey Homers High spot of the game as far as it went was a tremendous 425-foot home run clout by Tar Heel right-fielder Jack Hussey. Hussey hit a two and one pitch right on the nose and it travelled on a straight line far over the left field fence while left-fielder Stott watched it go. The blow came in the first half of the second inning. Hussey was the first man up and he promptly parked one out of the lot to give the Tar Heels a 2-1 lead. The Devils came back in the last of the third to score twice just be fore the deluge hit. Taking advantage of George Byam's second single in two trips and some sloppy Carolina play due to the soggy turf and the wet ball, Duke had two runs in and two out when the rains came. Carolina Scores First Carolina scored first in the first frame when Hearn was safe on Sail er's error, went to third on Gersten's single and came home on Johnson's fielder's choice. Benton gave up three hits and a walk in the first inning, but some ex cellent play behind him held the home team to one rua. BOBBY GERSTEN is another Tar Heel ball-player who has played his last game in a Carolina uniform. Bob played a dependable, steady game afield and at the plate all sea son. He socked a single in yester day's rain-abbreviated contest. s "-s ssSm. ! v s ,s ; i i V- "ok & I r s - j 4 ?c ssss , j j r, fc:ajifrsv:ssx-: Duke Leads Qualifiers; Is Favored By Ben Snyder DURHAM, May 15. Running be tween intermittent showers, the cin der great of the Southern conference went through the motions this after noon of qualifying for tomorrow's finals in the annual sectional track and field meet, held this year in vast Duke stadium. Stacking up against a soggy track, Dixie's best did little more than in sure first rate competition tomorrow, as Duke University's great track team led the field into the final round with 14 men qualifying as compared to the 13 competitors qualifying from the University of North Carolina. Times Slow Generally speaking, times were slow and competition lukewarm as the headliners went about tuning up for tomorrow's stern tests. True, McMul- This afternoon's finals of the con ference track and field meet will begin at 3 :30 with the first running event, the mile,, scheduled for 4 o'clock. lin's :21.9 in the 220-yard dash, Gantt's 49' 9" toss in the shot put and Mengel's :24.2 in the 220-yard low hurdles can be considered as indica tive of things to come, but these marks stood head and shoulders above the rest of the standards set in the qualifying events. It was up to Carolina's Cathey and Clemson's Franklin to furnish the only competitive thrill of the day in the second heat of the half-mile when they ran a dead heat in 2:01.4. Closely bunched for the better part of two laps, the entire field, composed of Cathey, Franklin, Thomas of William and Mary, Seeman of Duke and Na than of Carolina, suddenly kicked out on the homestretch and fought it out down to the tape. Cathey, who had as sumed control of proceedings on the backstretch, was challenged by Frank lin and the pair went across the fin ish line together with Thomas just a stride behind. Carolina Half -Mile Hegemony During the course of the afternoon, Carolina hegemony was proven again in the half-mile and the broad jump, while Duke held undisputed sway in All trackmen going to Duke this afternoon are requested to eat at noon today and report to Woollen gym by 2 o'clock. the weight events. As expected, the Virginia schools broke up the Tar Heel-Devil monopoly by garnering the balance of the places in the sprints, while Carolina and Duke werfe quali fying two men each in the quarter mile. From here it appears that Duke has the inside track on the conference championship to be held here tomor row. The Devils reign supreme in the field and it will take a fighting Caro lina team to turn the tide in the dis tance events if the Tar Heels are to prevail. The balance of power seems to lie on the Methodist side with Car olina's chances" depending on their ability to get in there and fight for points all down the line tomorrow. Gantt Leads Field Most of the individual stars came through as expected. Gantt had little difficulty in leading the field in the shot and discus, Mike Andrews of N. C. State qualified in four out of six events, Warren Mengel led the -way in the lowhurdles and the broad jump, Rucks of South Carolina turned in an exceptionally fine performance in the second heat of the 440 winning han dily in :50.2 while McMullin of VPI, Masters of William and Mary and-Riley of South Carolina look to be the class of the field in the two dashes. FOR VICTORY BUY BONDS BUY COAL ' NOW SUMMER CASH PRICES FITCH LUMBER CO. PHONE 7291