FKIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1942
The Tar Heel
PAGE THREE
Down I he All
by Westy Fenhagen
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Twilight Baseball and Boos
Twilight baseball, a brand new experiment in major league baseball this
season, is doomed as far as New York fans are concerned.
After two consecutive nights in which two such arch rivals as the Giant? and
the Dodgers have had their nocturnal scraps called on account of the dimout
law, Giant prexy Horace Stoneham has put his foot down firmly and decisively
and Dannea any sucn an airs in the future as far as the Polo Grounds are con
cerned. The fans certainly wouldn't stand for a recurrence of the proceedings
which sent them home in an extremely unpleasant frame of mind last Monday
and Tuesday nights. On Monday evening a huge crowd of 60,000 jammed the
Polo Grounds and for the first time m the history of the ancient park were
permitted to stand out on the field and along the foul lines. Trailing by three
runs m the ninth, the Giants put two men on the bases with none out and the
heavy end of the batting order due to bat.
But it had just struck nine o'clock and according to coastal dimout regula
tions the lights had to be turned off so they were and the cash customers,
drowning out the "Star-Spangled fanner" with their boos, went home in dis
gust. Once was enough but when the next evening after Brooklyn had scored
four runs in the tenth to take a 5-1 lead, regulations called the game before
the Giants had a chance to bat in their half of the f rame, it was too much.
Such farcical exhibitions are unnecessary. Instead of allowing two hours
and fifteen minutes for the game, club officials could move the time up and start
at 6:15 instead of 6:45. It was doubly unfortunate that the incidents had to
come during a Dodger-Giant series when the fans are not satisfied unless a
very decisive outcome has been reached. But it is hard on New York club
owners to have to give up so many potential gate receipts because of their
proximity to the spooky waters of the Atlantic and harder still on the day
workers who relish nothing better than a little early evening relaxation at the
ball park. But defense interests must be served so the Dodgers and Giants will
be forced to hie themselves to other inland sectors in the future if they want to
play night and twilight ball.
Dodgers Way Up in Front
A few weeks ago we stated that the National League pennant chase was by
no means a closed issue as yet. But just about now probably the Cardinals
themselves would be the first to admit that they haven't a chance.
With a full ten-game lead and pulling further ahead every day, not even a
sucker would lay his money on anybody but the Dodgers winning their second
straight gonfalon. Why it hasn't been a closer race in the National Leagu
this season is a question that is somewhat puzzling.
The Bums haven't even had anything resembling a little slump and those
six old men gracing the center of the batting order haven't collapsed or fallen
down at all. Despite the advancing old age of regulars like Galan, Walker,
iledwick, Camilli, Riggs, and Herman, not to mention half the pitching staff
and in spite of persistent rumors that internal strife was rife at Ebbets Field
the Brooks are coming through in a way that delights even the most pessimistic
Dodger fan.
There is riot one thing specifically wrong with the prides of Ebbets Field
They have a strong pitching, hitting, fielding, and all-around steadiness which
is all a club could hope for. The Cards on the other hand are placing most of
their trust in raw rookies who have a lot to learn yet about the big time. A year
from now, barring unpredictable changes the armed services might cause, the
Cards will be in a far more favorable position to dominate the senior circuit s
pennant chase.
Before we leave the subject of baseball, don't count those Phillies out! Al
though they are thoroughly consigned to being the league doormats again this
year, those Phils are actually ten games further ahead in the cellar than they
were at this time last year.
Last year John Lobert's aspiring charges chalked up their 27th victory after
77 defeats, but this season the club that even Kalamazoo doesn't envy nailed
down Win Number 27 after only66 setbacks. Lobert is gradually building up
his club, he hopes, to the point where they will be contending for seventh place.
At least Lobert can say that he hasn't done any worse than any other Phillie
manager in recent years.
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Over Pi Kappa Alpha In Intramural Play
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Town 11, Chi Phi 6
Kappa Sigma-Zeta Psi 7, Town 1
Old West 10, SAE 3
Sigma Nu nosed out a close win
over Pi Kappa Alpha to the tune of
4 to 3 yesterday, the game going eight
innings. Joe Conger was the winning
ED MICHAELS, husky 220-pound
tackle whose play last season earned
him a regular berth and makes him
one of the mainstays for this year.
BOB HEYMANN, veteran tackle
who is expected to fill a big gap in
the Carolina line wrecked by grad
uated regulars.
SHOT COX, sophomore star of a
year ago twho is being counted on
to fill a big spot in the Tar Heel
backfield this year.
Carolina Football Prospects To Be Viewed,
At Opening of Fall Practice September 1
Here and there on the local front Two photographers from Grantland
Rice's Sportlight visited the Pre-Flight school last week to complete work on
the latest edition of the popular screen short. . . . Lt. Dan Partner, former
Kansas City Star sports scribe, has arrived at the Pre-Flight school to take
charge of sports publicity. ... A ball game worth seeing will be tne return
contest tomorrow between the Goldsboro Athletic Club and the Navy Pre
Flieht school on Emerson field at 3:30. In their first meeting last Sunday,
Goldsboro romped off with a 10-5 decision but the Navy is looking for revenge
and thpv atp tone-h to beat in their own baliwick Some of the best boxing
seen around these parts in a long time comes to a climax tonight with the finals
of the Naval Pre-Flight ring tourney. What makes the bouts so fast and inter
esting is the fact that every contestant is in tip-top physical condition and con
sequently the bouts are all fast and hard-fought. This is a great contrast to
several of the University boxing matches last winter when lack of material
and in some cases poor conditioning resulted m slow, dull encounters in wnicn
the fighters did more pulling and pushing than boxing.
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17 Lettermen
With Graduation
Late yesterday afternoon four men
were working hard down in Woollen
going over plays, drawing diagrams,
and discussing systems. Those four
men were none other than the first
all-alumni coaching staff Carolina has
had since 1918. Composed of acting
Head Coach Jim Tatum, who is tak
ing the place of Ray Wolf on leave
in the Navy, Andy Bershak, a mem
ber of the coaching staff for several
years, Tom Young, recently appointed
backfield coach, and Grady Pritchard,
named yesterday as line coach, the
four-man staff is working hard on
plans to bring back a little Carolina
football prestige after last season's
fiasco.
Fall practice will begin promptly
on September 1 with' 45 hopeful can
didates due to report here at that
date. Strenuous sessions will be held
twice daily from then until four days
before the season's opener with Wake
Forest on Sept. 26. A captain for
the team will be elected by the squad
one week before the first contest.
The coaches will tell you that
successful season this year depends
on a great many iactors. r or in
wingback Joe Austin and lineman Mt announced its plans to make soft-
Pre-Flight Nine Meets .
Goldsboro Tomorrow
The Carolina Pre-Flight baseball
team engages the strong Goldsboro
Athletic Club tomorrow afternoon
on Emerson field in a contest slated
to begin at 3:30. The Goldsboro
team handed the Navy squad its
third defeat of the season last San
day at Goldsboro.
Last Wednesday the Pre-Flight
team chalked up its eighth triumph
of the summer campaign by licking
the Alamance County All-Stars 5-1
in a contest abbreviated after five
innings by rain.
On Sunday the cadets travel to
Burlington to meet the Burlington
All-Stars who have marked up a
very successful campaign this sum
mer. League Slates
Mural Playoff
Softball Finale
Begins August 19
The Intramural Activities Office has
Tank Marshall have been plagued dur
ing their college careers by injuries
which have beset them just when the
team needed them most. The status
ball play of this summer session end
in a grand finale with "lots of zing and
bing."
An Intramural league playoff for
the first four teams will be held on
of several other players is in doubt Wednesd a A uenist 19 ,nd Thursdav.
because of their standing with the Augusf. 2Q Qn Monday four games
Army and Navy, and one or two oth- be scheduled, and Tuesday will be
ers have a shaky scholastic standing mar2ed as dav of rest so that. the
at the University. teams mav be in the best of condition
From last year's team, 17 letter- for the final tests. In case that there
men out of 28 have moved on and are more than four teams in the play
included in those 17 were the whole offs, Friday will be the day of the
veteran line and two regular backs, finals.
Harry Dunkle and Frank O'Hare. To Following the league playoffs an All-
further the misery, captain-elect Dave Star Intramural team will be elected
Barksdale, a sharp blocker and all- to play the Men of Mullis Saturday
around defensive star, has been ac- August 22, at the Summer School Out-
cepted into the Naval Academy and ing which will be held at Hogan's Lake.
will not return here. The All-btar squad will consist of
To replace these heavy losses, Coach 16 men and wil1 selected by Walter
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Tatum has an unusually promising . '
joe ureen. Alter tne squaa is selected
there will be a meeting called to elect
group of rookies to fill out his lineup.
Most outstanding in this group are
TTotc v-nA Stravlinrn wntpr I tWO CO-CaptainS.
m. TTi,; M, .t00 f The Mullis Men have only lost three
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tackle, Andy Smith at end, and Walt I TjrATTjr
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backs. For all those first-year men
to blossom out into stars their first Mural Schedule
year up with the varsity is too much
to expect, but Tatum hopes to develop
several budding regulars from them.
In addition to this promising rookie
crop, 15 lettermen, most of them un
derstudies from last season, will re
turn this fall. Of these only a few Tuesday
are seasoned veterans. 5:15 Field No. 1--Pi Kappa Al
The end nositions at this stage seem pha vs. Old West. Field No. 2 Phi
to be well under control barring any! Gamma Delta vs. BVP.
further mishaps. At the left flank ieia no. l uid iiist vs.
will be Johnnv Miller and Jack Hus- Whitehead.
Pritchard
Named Coach
First All-Alumni
Staff Completed
The University will inaugurate the
1942 football season with an all-alumni
coaching staff for the first time in a
quarter of a century.
Grady Pritchard, well known Chapel
Hill insurance executive, has just been
added to the staff to complete the var
sity setup for this fall, Athletic Direc
tor R. A. "Fetzer announced yesterday
It will be an entirely new but well-
rounded staff.
Coach Pritchard captained the great
1922 Carolina team which won the
South Atlantic championship and lost
only to Yale after crossing the Eli goal
three times.
After graduation he accepted a posi
tion as assistant coach and as assistant
to Charles T. Woollen, the graduate
manager of athletics at that time. He
resigned this job in 1930 to enter busi
ness and for the last year he has been
a Chapel Hill representative of the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Company.
Jim Tatum, who returned to the
University in 1939 from Cornell as di
rector of freshman athletics and head
frosh coach in football and baseball,
will be acting head coach, replacing
Ray Wolf who is on leave and is head
football coach of the Navy Pre-Flight
team at Georgia.
Coach Tatum's other assistants will
be Andy Bershak, Carolina's All
American in 1937 and a member of the
staff for the last several years, and
Tom Young, who starred in football
and Baseball at Carolina from 1925-28
and established an enviable coaching
record at the Lexington, N. C, High
School.
Bershak and Pritchard will devote
their attention to the line, and Young
will be backfield coach.
Bill Lange will be head freshman
coach, and one assistant will be Henry
House, an outstanding fullback on
Carolina's 1928-29-30 teams. House
coached at Rocky Mount last year.
pitcher and although giving up eight
hits while Charlie Ball limited the
winners to seven hits, he gave up only
one walk. Ball gave five passes, three
of them coming in the eighth inning.
The Pikas, leading off in the first
inning, scored one run on hits by Bill
Riggsbee and Bulluck. Sigma Nu tied
up the score in the last half of the
inning when Joe Conger, Tom Byrum
and Adams singled.
In the third inning the Pikas scored
again. Walter Rabb, short-stop, sin
gled, and Dolphin Jamerson doubled
to drive Rabb home for the score.
Sigma Nu, not to be outdone, came
back in the bottom half of the frame
to tie the count and then add another
run to go into the lead. Ball gave up
his first pass to Biggs, third, baseman.
Joe Conger singled Biggs in for the
score, and Tom Byrum singled to score
Conger.
The Pikas sent the game into an
extra inning when P. A. Lee singled
and later scored in the seventh inning.
In the eighth the Pikas got one
man on base with no outs, but couldn't
drive in the run. When the Sigma
Nu's came to the plate Ball walked
three men to load the bases with one
out. Adams, first baseman, made the .
second out, and then Bill Loock hit
a sharp drive to deep third base which
was too hot to handle, and Biggs
scored for the winning run and the
ball game.
Town Enjoys Slugfest
Rapping out 17 hits, Town walked
over Chi Phi Tuesday 11 to 6. Lefty
Levin, the winning pitcher, gave up
10 hits, and Johnson was the losing
twirler. Pacing the Town attack was
Julian Miller who hit safely three
times and scored two runs. Leading
Chi Phi hitter was Lee Arning, hit
ting two for four, a double and a home
run.
Town got off to an early lead in
the game by scoring three runs m
the first inning. Sam Sherman, Miller,
Sam Arbes and McCathern banged
out singles while Mike Cooke was safe
on an error, and Mike Wise was given
a pass.
In the second frame Town tallied
four times. Bricklemeyer led the bat
ting with a triple, and Levin, Miller,
Bill Hood, Arbes, and Wise all hit singles.
Chi Phi scratched in a run in the
last of the frame after Lee Arning
had doubled.
Mason scored another run for Town
in the third inning when after sin
gling he was driven home by Mike
Cooke's blow.
Lee Arning added another run for
the Chi Phis as he boomed out his
homer in the fourth inning.
Town added its last three runs in
the fifth . as Mason, Bricklemeyer,
Cooke, and Miller singled. Chi ' Phi,
aided by two errors, scored four times
I in the fifth to end the scoring for the
game. Sibley drove in Coslett and
Mitchle with, a double. Edgerton
pushed King and Sibley across with a
single.
On Wednesday all games were
See INTRA M URA LS, page 4
Monday
5:15 Field No. 1 Whitehead vs.
Town. Field No. 2 Chi Phi vs. SAE.
6:15 Field No. 1 Sigma Nu
Old East.
vs.
sey, both of whom were out most
of last season with injuries. Hussey,
200-pound all-around athlete, claims
to be feeling fine now after an opera
tion to remove, a small bone from
his back and fates willing, he may Thursday
become an outstanding end. Miller, 5:15 Field No. 1 BVP vs. White
bothered with a trick knee, has taken head. Field No. 2 Phi Gamma Delta
See CAROLINA, page U vs. Town,
Wednesday
5:15 Field No. 1 PtKappa Alpha
vs. Phi Gamma Delta. Field No. 2
Old West vs. Kappa Sigma-Zeta Psi.
Improvement Noted in Tests
Of Men 's Physical Ability
A thorough program designed to in
crease the endurance, speed, and mus
cular coordination of undergraduate
students to better fit them for duty in
the armed services is being success
fully carried out by the University
Physical Education Department this
summer.
Two tests were given 205 students
during the first term of Summer School
and the improvement between Tests
No. 1 and No. 2 was particularly im
pressive.
While the program is fundamentally
the same as the one used by the De
partment during the regular nine
months school year, it has been step
ped up considerably. There has been
more emphasis on running, mat work,
rope climbing, jumping, and hurdling
events. The students also used the
same 600-yd obstacle course used by
the aviation cadets in the Navy's Pre
Flight School.
The new emphasis is not in the na
ture of a calisthenics program, for the
University's physical education in
structors do not feel that calisthenics
answer the needs of young men in the
matter of physical conditioning. These
instructors believe the sound physical
education program of games plus em
phasis on the fundamental skills of
running, jumping, climbing and throw
ing form a satisfactory and enjoyable
way of improving physical condition
and maintaining this condition.
The tests, which were planned to
measure the strength, coordination,
endurance, speed and agility of the
students, consisted of baseball throw
ing for distance, standing broad jump,
push ups on the parallel bars, bar snap
for distance, running through a hurdle
maize, and a 440-yard race.
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