I Three Clyde Key Men Hurt; Might Play Saturday
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Mountaineers Will Make Strong Bid For Victory In Tennessee;
Doctors To
Check Two
Men Today
Clyde high school football team
and fans await four major de
risions this weekend?the doctor's
reports on the condition of three
key players, and the outcome of
the Clyde-Glen Alpine same Sat
urday night in Canton.
Three starting players of the
Cardinals might see limited actio.i.
If allowed by their physicians to
play at all.
Coach Brown Griffin said Half
hack Danny Caldwell, had injuries
lo his eyes, which he suffered in
the Bethel game last Thursday
night in Canton. Caldwell will get .
a report from his doctor Saturday
morning.
Bill Ingram and Willard Hancy.
first string guards, were hurt in
Monday's practice, and are ex
pected to get reports from their
doctor sometime today. Ingram
suffered Injuries to his ribs, and
Haney has a hurt back.
Clyde will go into the gam*
with a better season record than
I he big and heavy Glen Alpine
eleven. The Burke county team
will weigh between 30 and 40
pounds more per man, as they
meet Clyde Saturday.
The Glen Alpine Green Wave
iepends upon power plays and
vith their size team, can make
.lood yardage against the average
leam. This season they have eighr
zirtories and no losses. They have
scored 283 points and their op
ponents 20.
The Clyde Cardinals have won
all nine of their games, chalking
up 293 points as against 12 for
Iheir foes.
Both teams boast strong offen
sive and defensive unit!?,
T* la <> on Itrml e tslei i ii V ' N'/lo if
1 I i V IIUUI 0}'ll H Ul V V?v ? -
at. a high pitch, and the-? same
Saturday night is expected to at
tract one of the largest football
crowds of- the season.
Since both teams have perfect
rp/'nrH? ttt (ha f'nnforonoo
te winner will be the champion,
nd go to the state playoffs.
"We are going to put everything
e have into the game, and hope
e can win and play in the state
lay-off," Coach Griffin said.
Canton is winner of the Blue
tidge Conference, and Swain holds
he ton spot in the Smoky! Woun
ain Conference.
GLEN ALPINE ? The Green
Vave have been working out on
hard schedule in preparation for
he championship game of the
ikyline Conference against Clyde
n Canton Saturday night. The
earn took a 34-0 game from Bak
rsville. on a field covered in about
ix inches of mud last week.
Coach "Jug" Wilson let his sec
>nd team take over in the half
:t order to save his starters for
he Clyde battle Saturday night
Versatile Veteran
GRAND FORKS. N. D. (API?
)ick iBinR) McBride, University
if Nortti Dakota Left halfback and
op Sioux scorer in 1955. has
Rayed end. fullback and both half
>aek spots.
ooacn j ay nes
Sees Definite
Improvement
An improved, and determined
Mountaineer squad will leave here
shortly after noon Friday for the
105-mile trip to Elizabethton.
Tenri.. to meet the Tornadoes at
8, in what promises to be a tip
top game.
Coaeh Bruce Jaynes worked the
squad past five o'clock Monday
and Tuesday in preparations for
the game, stressing the Elizabeth
ton passing attack.
The Mountaineers came through
the R-S Central game last Friday
night in fine shape, as they tuck
ed away a 20-0 score.
Hugh Grasty, shaken
up in f^^revard game, has fully
recovered and will be ready for
lots of hard work Friday night in
the neighboring state, Coach
Jaynes said.
Assistant Coach Rill Swift scout
ed the Kingsport - Elizabethton
game last Friday, and said the
Tornadoes in a 14-13 score pave
the league leading Kingsport team
a hard struggle for the one-point
margin. Coach Swift said Eliza
bethton had a better balanced
team than last year, when the
Mountaineers romped over them
27-0.
Wednesday afternoon Coach
Jaynes put the Mountaineers
through a tapering off drill a
gainst passing, and ran the Jay
vees on some of the Elizabethton
plays against the varsity. Coach
Jaynes said the squad showed
much improvement, and were up
to give Elizabethton a real battle.
Fowler and Snarks are likelv to
{ start at ends Friday night. Dur
ing the past three days Jack Hold
er has been doing some work at
the fulhack position, and showing
up well. He and Grasty will be
called upon to labor in that de
partment Friday.
Turner and Hall, the heaw
Mountaineer tackles have "due in''
and should shove the Tornadoes
back on their heels.
Coach Javnes savs he feels the
Mountaineers reallv want this
game, and are going into it with
a determination to duplicate last
year's overwhelming victory.
News from Elizabethton today
showed that the Tornadoes have
been putting in some steady, hard
work, and expect a close game.
John Treadway. coach, said that
Tavlor, a fleet-footed halfback,
might not nlav at all due to the in
juries sustained in the Kingsport
1 game. i
The WTHS hand will accompany
j the team to the Volunteer State.
Oame Time At
Elizabethton
I Set At 8 P. M.
The Elizabethton game is set
for 8 p.m. Friday night in the
Tennessee city.
Those who drove there last
week to soout the Kingsport- -
Elizabethton game, said fans
should allow about three hours
for the 105-mile trip. The best
route^J^y reported, was to take
I-S- ?Ba Mars Iiill. Ervin and
to Jonmon City, and from there
it was easy to follow the signs.
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STILLWATER, Okla 'APt ?
When Oklahoma Aggie football
eoach Cliff Sneegle knocks on
Wood, he has a purpose.
Three of his players are named
Wood. There's Evenbtt, Duane and
dim Also on the team is an Un
derwood. Dwaine.
ITse Mountaineer Want Ada
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The Party For You ?
Not Just.The Few
Vote The Straight Democratic
Ticket On Tuesday, Nov. 6
Hear Senator W. Kerr Scott Tonight
?7:30?Clyde High School.
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I
Stengel Almost Missed Boat
On Waiving Tom Sturdivant'
By PRANK ECK
AP Newsf'eatures Sports Editor
Casey Stengel, who now has
skippered the New York Yankees
to seven American League pen
nants in eight years, almost missed
the boat on Tom Sturdivant. the
2ti year-old knuckle bailer from
Oklahoma City.
Sturdivant was ticketed for Den
ver in mid-May when the Yankees
sought waivers. The converted
pitcher's three options, had been
used. Stengel approved to retain
Jim Konstanty if Sturdivant could
be farmed out. After all, Tom had
won only one game and lost three
as a 1955 rookie and had never
won a big league game in which he
started. Of course, he had only
one start in '55.
Detroit Manager Bucky Harris,
whom the Yankees fired after
1948, actually aided his former
bosses when he refused to waive
on Sturdivant. This maneuver
farced Stengel to keep Sturdivant
and release Konstanty on May 18.
It turned out to be the Yan
kees' biggest break of the cam
paign. Thomas Virgil Sturdivant
II. drawing about $8,000 for the
year?plus a full World Series
share?became Yankee pennant in
surance when the veterans of the
pitching staff began to falter. On
Sept. 15 he won his 14th game?
ard he didn't get his second start
until mid-June.
"Last spring we were supposed 1
to be deep in pitching," says Sten
gel. "Some fellows said we had
the best pitching staff in baseball.
But without Ford, Kucks and Stur
divant I don't know where we'd
bo."
Whitey Ford and Johnny Kucks
figured to do well, but Sturdivant
?well, he became Prince Charm
ing of the staff.
Sturdivant's two biggest wins
were a pair of two-hit shutouts
against the Cleveland Indians, the
Yankees' persistent tormentors.
Indian pilot A1 Lopez didn't like
the way Tom pitched?especially
the way he shook his wrist while
on the mound.
"I shake my wrist to get a free
motion," says Sturdivant. "Coach
Jim Turner told me I had to learn
to relax. I was missing with my
control.
"Opposing managers have been
trying to give me a hard time be
cause I shake my arm before I
pitch. They usually do it (com
plain) when they have a runner
on third base. Lopez has squawk
ed to the umpires a number of
TOM STURDIVANT
times."
I
The Sturdivant story goes that j
Tom came up to the Yankees as j
a third baseman and, failing to 1
hit better than .264 after three j.
seasons in the minors, turned to J
pitching.
"1 really came up as a pitcher |
infielder," insists Tom. "But I ;
pitched only one game in the low
minors. That was in 1950 at i
Ruincy, 111., in the Three-I League.
I won 9-0.
"The knuckle ball has given me j
confidence. I've had it for a long
while?ever since I was in Capitol
Hill High at Oklahoma City.
"In 1948. John Hail, a pitcher '
who once had a chance with Brook- i
lvn, showed me his knuckle ball
Then when I was in the Army I j
used it at Memphis Air Force Base
ar.d at Shaw Air Force Base in
Sumpter. S. C. That was in 1951-52.
I think my Army record was 16
and nothing. I don't remember j
losing a game."
After his discharge, in 1952, Tom '
turned to the mound at Beaumont, i
Tex., splitting six decisions while j
also playing 20 games at third
base. Next year at Birmingham
he was 10-7 and in 1954 at Kansas
City in the American Assn. he
was 8-9.
Sturdivant pitched a total of
three innings in two 1955 World
Series games when both games
were lost. This time the 177
pound 6 foot 1 right hander with
the disconcerting arm-shaking mo
tion will be one of Stengel's Series
starters.
Tatum Pre - Breakfast Drill
Builds Winning Appetites
By FRANK ECK
AP Newsfeature s Sports Editor
If you care to play football for
Jim Tatum you've got to get up
at six o'clock in the morning and
be at the practice field within 45
minutes. Your eye-opener is a
glass of juice, tomato or orange.
Tatum is fresh from nine
straight twinning campaigns at
Maryland. Two of his teams were
unbeaten. One was a national
champion. Before Maryland he
had a winner at Oklahoma in 194P
and in 1942 he had a successful
- ? rinHAttnn V,; C- A 1mn
wasoil at muilll V. U1 Uliua, Iii.-I niu?0
Mater.
Now he's back heading the Tar
Heels r\nd he hopes to raise therr
from the pigskin doldrums. The
team won only three of its IP
games in 1955 and meets the same
rivals.
Tatum never has had a loser ir
11 years as head^coach. He brought
Maryland to the football heights
JIM TATUM
I
ind hopes to do the same at
Chapel Hill, with the Split T he
learned under Don Faurot at the
Iowa Pre-Flight School.
So intent is latum on bringing
?i winner to NC that he has three
if his 1955 Maryland assistants?
Emmett Cheek. Eddie Teague and
Ed Kensler ? helping him with
the Tar Heels,
Tatum may not consider it a
?jood season unless he can register
an upset over one or more such
rivals as Oklahoma in the season's
second game (Sept. 29>. Georgia,
Maryland, Wake Forest. Tennessee
Notre Dame and Duk? They all
beat NC last year.
So if you find NC meting one
of these rivals on a rainy or wet
day don't hold NC short
Tatum's idea for pre-breakfast
workouts is to get his regulars ac
customed to game conditions on a
bad day. He is one of the first
coaches to go for the early morn
ing workouts.
He hit upon the idea back in
1942Twhen he first coached North
Carolina. Surprisingly, the boys
liked it The heavy morning dew
a .
caused the balls to become wet
This condition made the ball
handlers cautious and thcv became
adept at handling the slippery
pigskin. It paid off that year in
the opening Tar Heel game against
favored Wake Forest. The rivals
met in the rain and NC ended a
two-year losing streak, beating the
Deacons 6-0.
Under the Tatum plan for vic
tory his gridmen have breakfast
at nine o'clock. After a hearty meal
they are given an hour to take
care of personal affairs. Lectures
are held for one hour and then it's
time for 12:30 dinner.
This is followed by a rest per
iod. with naps recommended, un
til 3:45. Then it's more football
practice all over again, until short
ly before 6:30 supper.
Ten o'clock is curfew time and
if a boy can't sleep, he will after
a few more two-a-dav workouts
under the Tatum regime.
Tatum. a native of McColl. S. C.,
is only 42 but he has a record un
matched even by older coaches. He
shows 86 victories. 20 setbacks and
6 ties for 11 seasons as a head
coach.
lie hates to lose. That's why
North Carolina will x be a team
worth watching this season. The
Tar Heels have been "hungry to
win" since the golden days (1946
49) of Charlie (Choo-Choo) Justice
Early morning practice and
Tat urn's driving ways have made
them that way.
World Series Drew
345.903 Fans
NEW YORK (API ? The 1956
World Series attracted a total of
345,903 paid admissions. The larg
est crowd was 73.977 for the Sat
urday game in Yankee Stadium
The best previous one-day Series
Towd was 78 .102 at Cleveland's
Municipal Stadium for the fourth
and final game against the New
York Giants. Oct. 2. 1954
Nothing Sells Like
Newspapers
Creel Limit Is Changed
To 25 Sunfish, And 8 Bass
Canton Preparing
For Erwin Friday
Night In Canton
The Canton Black Boars will
be back in action Friday night,
after a Week without a game, as
they meet Erwin, 7:30, on the
Canton field.
Erwin has not been able to get
going too strongly this year and
lost recently to Enka 55 to ?), !
and Enka in turn earlier lost to !
Canton 24-0.
This pointed victory for the
Black Bears does not mean they
have not been working hard, or
are taking the game lightly, be
cause their next game is with
Asheville's Lee Edwards, a game
which will no doubt be the ton
high school game of the area on
Nov. 9.
Canton is looking to add the
Maroons to their list of defeated
teams this year, and are putting
in hard work pointing to tfcat
clash has been the order of the
day in the Black Bear camp for
the past week.
RALEIGH (AP>?A change in |
creel limit for game fish and !
regulations to prohibit taking of j
minnows from public waters fo< j
sale are two changes in fislifn:* '
rt gulations for the coming year
'1 he Wildlife Resources Commis
sion held public hearings on fish
ing proposals and decided to keep I
the present regulations in effect j
with few changes.
The new creel limit will allow j
a fisherman to keep 25 sunfish and ;
eight bass per day. The old regu
lation limited the daily take to 25
fi'h of all species.
Although a fisherman may still
not minnows from public water
for his own use, it will be illegal
for him to have more than 100 1
minnows in his possession. The |
purpose is to prevent netting of
the minnows for sale.
Another regulation change will
allow the sale for food purposes i
| of mountain trout grown in com
j mercial hatcheries within the state
The wildlife commission alsj
heard appeals yesterday from the
Currituck County Game Hoard In
allocation of duck hunting blinds
| in Currituck Sound.
| Bethel Goes To
Franklin Friday
Bethel will be on the rebound
after a 19-0 defeat at the hands j
tf Clyde last week, as they jour
ney to tlie county seat of Macon 1
Friday to meet the Franklin
Panthers. '
( oach Charlie Poindextor has
had the Blue Demons working hard 1
| this week pitting for the game '
Friday, as the Franklin Panthers
a-e rated as a tough team when '
they get started towards the goal.
Got His String
Back But No Fish
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va
(API ? Police officer A Brooke
Dyehe sure had a fine day's fish
ing. He baited his hook with sweet
corn, dropped it in the Cacapon
River and came up with six fish,
ail on a fish stringer.
The stringer had slipped from
the hands of .1 F Kidwell and E.
VV. Van Dyke and they. gave up
after grappling for it.
In the barber shop the next day
Kidwell met Dyehe who began
talking about his crazy luck. Well.
Dyehe brought Kidwell back his
stringer but the fish'' They were
eaten the previous, dav.
Football Is A
Man's Game
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Dick
McCann, general manager of the
Washington Redskins, tells this
story:
Gary Glick. the back who was
the No 1 draft choice of the
Baltimore Colts, was being inter
viewed on radio. The announcer
asked Glick: "You have a couple
I of children of your own, Gary;
w ould you advise I hem to go into
, pro football?"
Glick. silent a moment, replied:
"Well. no. I don't think I would
tell my little girl to."
Carpenter Devised Way To Check UNC
From Getting AH - Important Extra Point
As Charlie Carnenter looks
bark over his colorful and exciting
football career, one of these days,
be will no doubt remember vivid
ly the wet afternoon of October 27,
when he played a maior role in
getting a tie for his Wake Forest
'earn against the University of
North Carolina.
Carpenter quarterbacked a mas
terful game, which pleased coach,
Paul Amen.
Coach Amen said: "Carpenter
olayed one of his finest games. His
handling of the attack, the de
velopment of his men. constituted
far his best effort of the season."
It was Carpenter and Dick Dan
iels, Wake Forest halfback, who
came up with their own idea of
how to keep Carolina from scor
ing an extra point.
Carpenter vaulted Daniels up
and over the Carolina line as UNC
tackle Phil Blazer stepped forward
to try for the all important extra
noint. The ball bounced off Dan
iels' chest, careened off Wake For
est center Eddie Moore and then
lay just as flat as Carolina's of
fense from that point of the game
on out.
This gave the Deacons the spark
i
of fire they needed, and it was at
this point that Bill Barnes, a lead
er in rushing in the conferenee.
stepped onto the stage and the
Deacons marched 96 yards for the
revenge score and tieinp six points.
"What Carpenter and Daniels
did was strictlv on th' own."
said Amen. "It definite isn't a
part of our defense Daniels just
vaulted across th-^re and got in
front of the ball."
Larry Brooks try for the Deacon
extra point failed.
Brooks' kick was "just one of
those "things." said Amen, but
Brooks had thought it would be
his day at the kicking tee should
Wake get into scoring territory.
"Brooks came un to me before
the game and told me he had
kicked 15 straight without missing
one in the pre-game work-out. He
was very proud." said Amen.
At the end there wasn't a Deac
fan around w-ho didn't wish
Brooks had stopped at 14.
Over in the Carolina dressing
room. Coach Jim Tatum, his head
between his knees and looking
like moat of his famous energy
had been sapped from him, chose
to look beyond mere extra-points
"You can't miss as many oppor
tunities (o score as w did and win
a football game," said Tatum. "Our
bays fought their hearts out and
everybody's sick."
lie laid most of Carolina's
troubles to Barnes
"1 don't believe there's any bet
ter running back in the country
He was all the difference in the
world after our bovs got tired. He
started getting extra yardage on
every play. But we should have
been so far out in front by then
that it shouldn't have made any
difference."
Somebody suggested Tatum's
club might have been a little bet
ter off had it not tried to pass
much, particularly on second-down
situations, with six or seven yards
to go.
? "The passing was all right,"
snapped Tatum. "We would have
come nut okay if somebody had
caught some of them." The Tar
Heels tried 11 passes, hit on only
one. But several times UNC men
let the ball skid out of their mitts.
Anyway. Tatum admitted he and
Amen had at least one thing in
common. But it was Amen who put
It into the best words. "A tie." said
Amen, "leaves me flat "
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2 Jayvee Games
For WTHS Squad
T h e undefeated Waynesville
Jayvecs will meet Owen here this
afternoon, 3:30. The squad holds
victories over Brevard and Hen
derson ville.
On Thursday night, Nov. B, tin
team will plav Canton here it
7:30. This game was originally so' ,
for this past week hut postponed ?
because of changes made in the
varsity Brevard schedules.
West Virginia Has
Top Conference Record
DURHAM. N. C 1AP> ? When
it comes to football in the South
ern Conference, West Virginia has
the best record. In six years the
Mountaineers show a 19-7 record
for ,731. William and Mary is next
with 59 wins, 33 defeats and 7 ties
for .631, Virginia Military Tnsti- i
tute is next. During 23 years in
the eonference VMI shows 65
wins, 57 losses and 12 ties for
.530,
The George* brothers of Waynes- j ,j
ville, put their school's football | a
. line on ice as they accounted '
for IS of the 27 points which v
IPverside Military Academy made v
against Blue Ridge. _
Bill George is an end. and does
the kicking for extra points, while j;
Paul is a halfback and passer. (
Tw o George-to - George passes j ,
went across the goal. One was
for 45 yards and the other for 90
yards, but was nullified because
of a penalty. \
Bill kicked three points after a
touchdowns, and scored one TD. t
v.hile Paul went over the goal ?
once, and figured prominently <in i
other scoring. t
The players are sons of Mr. and e
Mrs G. A George. Waynesville. s
Clyde Football Team ?
To Be Guest Of Art
Shepard Friday Night
Tin* consistent winning Clyde ^
Cardinal football team will be
guest of Art Shepard's Friday
evening for dinner, * I
Shepard is entertaining the team ?
at the dinner as a token of their t
outstanding showing this season, f
with nine victories I
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