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THE = =SPORTS= TRAIL By WHITNEY MARTIN Wide World Sports Columnist NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Boy, how those Yankees slug that ball, don’t they? It’s really too bad they have no pitching. Some of their chuckers actually allow more than six hits a game now and then. The common misconception of Joe McCarthy’s club is that it is a team which just overpowers the opposition, and is willing to use one of the bloomer girls as a pitcher juSt as long as it gets its chance to bat according to the lule book. .. , There have been years when that was practically true; when the Yanks could spot another team 10 runs and beat it Not that the present Yankee club is on the feeble side at the plate. It still is the most dangerous team m base ball when it has it’s “ins,” as the kids say when it s then turn to smack ’em. „ , But it isn’t the greatest hitting of Yankee teams by any means. So why are the Yanks where they are? _ Well, one reason might be that, since August 1, their chuckers have turned in 17 games in which the opposition o-nt six hits or less. Eight of these games were six-hitter, five were five-hitters, and they had one each of four, three, two and one-hitters. What! Xo no-hitter? This was not a one-man parade bv any means. The honors weie split like a watermelon for a fam ily of six, indicating Marse Mc Carthy can let the boys draw straws and be pretty sure' the guy who gets the short one can handle the job nicely. t Ernie Bonham and Marvin Breuer each contributed four of these per formances, Atley Donald and Hank Dorowy each was guilty three times, Red Ruffing twice, and Spur geon Chandler once. The one-hit ter belongs to Borowy. And as another indication that the Yankee sluggers don’t always slug, it is noted that they lost the decision in four of those 17 games in which the other team got six hits or less. We thought the Cin cinnati Reds had a copyright on such funny business. A Red hurler has about a 50-50 chance of winning if he pitches a no-hitter. So the Cards, whose mound staff is slightly tremendous itself, can be sure they are going to look at some pretty fair pitching in the World Series, and they have the added discomfort of knowing that when they do hit the ball solidly Mc Carthy has a bunch of rabbits loose out ill the field that aren’t looking for a cabbage patch. In fact, without those rabbits thehre wouldn’t be quite so many six-hitters and five-hitters and less. A team's strength is through the middle, they say. There’s nothing wrong- with the Yankee catching. Joe Gordon is practically a second base combination by himself, al though Phil Rizzuto is more than a statue out there. Joe DiJIaggio hasn’t had the year at the plate he had last year, but he can cover three quarters of the outfield with that lazy lope of his. So you see what the opposing team is up against. It's hard enough to hit the Yankee pitches, and when they are hit the ball like ly as not will be smothered before it goes too far. That doesn’t mean we think the Yankees will be a shoo-in against the Cards. We still aren't sure which team we like. But it does mean that the Y'an kees have much hetter pitching than they are given credit for hav ing. and that their slugging, al though alway- dangerous, isn’t enough to caray them through with out this fine pitching performance and those rabbits out in the field nibbling away at loose baseballs. Wildcats Prep For Game With Charleston Friday Smarting from +heir first loss of the season—a 19-6 defeat at the hands f Durham—New Hanover high school's Wildcats yesterday began preparations for their game with Charleston, S. C. high school in Charleston Friday afternoon. Little is known anout the strengtl of the Charleston team this season, but if the records of past seasons can be taken as any indication the Palmetto team will be anything but a pushover for Coach ltuppert Bry an's boys. Taking the offensive, an underdog Durham eleven spoiled the locals' record last Friday night in Durham, 19-6, scoring two of the touchdowns on passes and the third on an in terception. In the statistical department, the New Hanover team had the upper hand, rolling up 17 first downs to only seven for Durham, but picked the necessary punch to cross the goal. Twice in the first quarter the ’Cats. drove to hte Durham 10-yard stripe, but each time the Durham line rose up and hurled back the threat. All three of Durham’s scores came in third quarter, while the locals scored in the final minutes of play. Their vaunted aerial attack, which completed 16 out of 29 aerials for a total of 150 yards, carried them to the Durham 10 where Thomas hurled a scoring aerial to Coughen our in the end zone. MacSwain missed the try for the point. Following the Charleston game the Bulldogs will go to Rocky Mount October 9 for a conference game with Joe Caruso’s eleven. Tfiakeifqo / Twice ao fia/ts / Get extra shaves from your Treet Blades by drying your razor and blade after each shave. Save steel for Uncle Sam. FISHING TACKLE SPORTING GOODS VICTOR! BIKES ALL REPAIRS SNEEDEN CTCLE CO. 114 Market St. -————— World Series Atmosphere Grips St. Louis . . i iiii i. x -X- X X X X Davis-Appalachian Game Here Saturday DUKE PREPARES FOR WAKE GAME Planning Strong Offense To Hurl Against Dea cons On Saturday DURHAM, Sept. 28. —(#)— Plan ning a formidable offense to throw against the Wake Forest Deacons on Saturday occupied the Duke Blue Devils here today, and Coach Eddie Cameron placed special em phasis on touchdown punch. The Blue Devils drilled exten sively on line play as Coach Cam eron worked to iron out the weak* nesses discovered in the Davidson tilt last week. Blocking and tack ling along with other fundamentals were the highlights of these drills. Backfield play from the defen sive angle was taken up at the close of the session and attention was given to defensive halfbacks and line backers. Bo’b Gantt and Tom Burns ap peared on the fifeld for today’s workouts, but neither was in uni form. Gantt was sidelined with a knee injury, while Burns is out with an infected boil. Both men are expected to be in uniform to morrow. 1 North Carolina And Georgia Pre-Flight Elevens Meet Friday ATHENS. Ga.. Sept. 28.— CD — Jack Crain and Noble Doss, former University of Texas players, will make their debut with the Athens Navy Preflight school football team in its game with the Chapel Hill, N. C., Preflight eleven here Friday night. Crain, a tailback, and Doss, a wingback, reported for duty in the military department here last week. Both are Ensigns. Lieutenant Ray Wolf, head coach, was pleased with his team’s performance in its surprise vic tory over Penn at Philadelphia. Saturday. The team shook off ef fects of a 23-hour ride in railroad day coaches and showed unexpect ed pep as they bested the team that generally is regarded as the class of the Ivy league. The Chap el Hill Navy team defeated Har vard the same day. Coach Jim Crowley’s Cloudbusters previously aad defeated Catawba and will j meet the local skycrackers in a contest of unbeaten teams. Burell Wastes No Time In Kayoing Bill Wilson By R. J. POWELL. Tough Sailor Burrell, 185 pound er from Charlotte, last night was just another palooka to the local heavyweight sensation, Big Bouncing Bill” Wilson, who rack ed up his sixth straight kayo as he sat the visiting boxer on his pants for the final count in one minute and ten seconds of the first round of their scheduled three round fea ture match on the shipyard boxing program at Legion hall. From the start, it was clearly not a case of who, but how soon The same thundering hams that had silenced Freddie Barnhill, Bill Scoggins, Jack Conrad, Charley Hornaday, and Soldier Pinelle in that order soon were finding the mark and the Queen City luminary was soon finding the peaceful soli tude of the canvas. Although he seemed very willing to mix with the shipyard dreadnaught, the Sai lor was not in the same boat with Promoter Plunk Moring’s prize pug. In slashing the high-rated Charlotte fighter down, the 195-lb. Wilson set himself up for some big time stuff with the boys who play for keeps. Add Warren will probably be his next dish. In the semi-final bout, put on s the night’s final event, Collier Os walt, Belmont’s top-ranking light weight, chalked up a clean-cut, six-round verdict over the local lightweight hope, long, lanky ”Mus” Lockamy. Osw'alt, looking very much like the champion he is, kept the long-armed post office puncher on the go for the greater part of fthe non-title scrap. i_,ockamy looked his best in the | opening heat while the sharpshoot ing battler from Belmont got his famed left jab functioning in the second. Both fighters scored in the third and the action was hep ped up a bit in the fourth, with the local star perhaps getting the worst of the deal. Doctor’s orders kept Willis Jones from connecting with Billy John son in the feature negro bout, and in place of this shipyard champion ship affair two darky bouts were staged. The stage perhaps would nave been a better spot for the first cne, in which James Hicks of Brooklyn, won over Philadelphia’s Walter Best in a three-act dance routine. And one minute and fifty seconds finished Charles Holmes in the next three-rounder with dusky Quincey Halsey. The first victory by a member of the upstate boxing contingent crme in the number two scrap in which Guy Brown, sparmate of Oswalt, captured a hard-fought, | three-round nod over Frank Grey, formerly of Fayetteville and now a promising prospect in Promoter Moring’s stable. Steady plugging gave Brown the edge in this one. Donald Lane. 122 pounder from Burgaw, and Jack Inman, former Golden Glover from Whiteviile, fought to a bloody three round draw that opened the show. Pell mell rushing featured the Pender county boy’s attack while Inman overcame a nasty cut in the second chapter to score with some rack ing lefts in the final round. Bill Rhodes refereed the entire card and judges for the night were Delmar Mobley and Jack Brinson. -V Clemson Wastes No Time In Starting Rough Work For State Game Saturday CLEMSON, Sept. 28.— Iff)—Clem son’s Tigers, passing up the cus tomary “light drill” today, plung ed right into scrimmage and tough work . in preparation for N. C. State at Charlotte next Saturday night. Pass offense and defense and fundamentals were stressed. Claude Rothell, blocking back, who missed the V. M. I. game, has been released from the hos pital and may rejoin the squad Wednesday. Marion Craig and Charlie Wright who played 60 and 59 minutes re spectively against V. M. I., said they were ready for 60 more against State. No serious casualties resulted from the M. I. game. 1 Georgia Tech Scores 0 n Auburn In Last Minute ,Eddie Prokop, (No. 75), indicated by arrow, plunges over from the one-yard line in the last minute of the Georgia-Te ch-Auburn game in Atlanta Saturday. Tech then added the extra point to round out a handy 15 to 0 victory over Auburn. Note official’s hand up to signal the scor e. Alsab Appears Cinch To Win Lawrence Realization Stakes -.- -* NEW YORif, Sept. 28.—(^—Un less the form chart is completely wacky, little Alsab should get good start on his fourth $100,000 tomorrow in the 50th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park. Four just so-so- three-year olds have been named to oppose Mrs. Albert Sabath’s Chicago-owned ace and it's difficult to picture any of them in front of the son of Good Goods at the end of the testing mile and five-eighths. Ten days ago Alsab hung it on ; Whirlaway. winner of last year’s I Realization, in their match race at Narragansett Park, and the $25,000 he picked up then boosted his total earnings to $298,475. If1 all five face the barrier tomorrow. ■ the ancient stake will have a gross value of $11,500 with $7,900 going to the winner. Mrs. Payne Whitney’s Shut Out. conqueror of Alsab in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes but beaten by the Chicago colt in the Preakness, originally was slated to start in the Realization. The Greentree Stable star, however, turned up lame over the week-end, after his Saturday morning work out and apparently hurt himself in his stall. As the result, Alsab's opposition will consist of J. M. Roebling’s Lockinvar, Bucksin, stablemate of Shut Out, and William Woodward's three-year-old filly, Vagrancy, and Trierarch. The Sabath charger will carry 126 pounds to 115 by Vagran cy, 114 by Lockinvar and 110 by the other two. A shift in riders will place Georgie (Iceman) Woolf up on Alsab instead of Carroll Bier man. 1 -V Blocking Stressed As Deacons Point To Game With Duke WAKE FOREST, Sept. 28.— W— Blocking and still more blocking was ’the order of the day in the Wake Forest football camp today as the Demon Deacons set about preparing for next Saturday’s game with the Duke Blue Devils. The blocking session was follow ed by pass defense work against Duke plays. The squad was out in full strength. 1 Strong Man Milo Stehiborn Bob Johnson Says He’s Through Playing With Team So Poor As A’s TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 28— C/P)—Bob Johnson, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, arrived home today and told newspapermen he had played his last game for the Phila delphia club. He said he was dissatisfied with the bonus system and that he didn’t care to play with “a team so poor as the Athletics.” He would neither deny nor verify reports he was about to be sold to the Boston Red Sox. Johnson, who completed his 10th season this year, says he’ll work in the local ship yards. -V— Civilians from plants producing Army equipment are attending current Army maneuvers, to study operation of equipment under con ditions closely approaching those of actual combat. LONDOS ARGUING WITH STE1NB0RN Principals For Wrestling Card Here Can’t Agree On Type Of Match “This business of arranging a championship wrestling match is going to put me in the bug-house before it comes off.’’ says Bert Causey, promoter of the match which is scheduled to take place here Friday night. “First, it takes about a month to get Jim Londos and Milo Stein born to agree to a match here,” he continued, “and now the both of them want to argue about the number of falls and the time lim it.” Further airing his woes, Causey revealed that Londos wants the match to consist of a single fall with no time limit and Steinborn wants the best - two - out - of thre falls type of bout but with a 90-minute time limit. Londos claims that the single fall bout is standard for a cham pionship encounter. Steinborn doesn’t dispute his word but the strong man avers he can stand a better chance of winning as he can tire Londos down in three falls. In the meantime, Causey is in the middle with the cost of tele phone calls to both men piling up by the hour as he tries to reach an agreement on the match. Pending a settlement, Bert’s keeping his fingers crossed in the hope that “Sailor” Hill and A1 (Masked Panther) Mills won’t find anything in their scheduled en counter to argue about. The match between Londos and Steinborn is slated to headline the Thalian Hall wrestling program here Friday night and the Hill Mills tilt will be the semi-final at traction. “Wurra,” sobs Bert, “what a headache.” 1 -V INTERESTING FACTS A lacquer that pels off has bea provided for protection of highly polished surfaces during handling or shipping. It can be applied by spraying, burshing or dipping and dries in a few minutes. Football Is Standout But Swimming Is Most Important At Pre - Flight Schools BY HAROLD CLASSEN NEW YORK, Sept. 28 — t/T) — Swirpming, not football, is the ma jor sport at the four Naval Pre Flight schools whose gridiron ma chines haven’t been defeated, Comdr. Tom "Hamilton told the New York Football Writers’ Asso ciation today. “After all, these schools are a part of the war program and swim ming is the cheapest insurance policy the government can buy for its student Navy flyers. The foot ball teams are used mainly for building school spirit and for re cruiting purposes,” the originator I of the toughen-up process told the ' writers. *' Statistics showed,Hamilton said, that when the Cadets arrive at the Universities of North Caro lina, Georgia and Iowa and at St. Mary’s College, 18 per cent of them can’t float. By the time he has finished the 12 weeks course the Cadet can tread water for 40 minutes fully clothed. The football that really counts is administered to the Cadets in an intramural program. Each school has 12 squadron teams. Every Cadet must play football for two hours daily for 14 days and it is here that Aloysius Book worm becomes Joe Bruiser. To keep the “varsity” squad serving its dual purpose no more than five officers may be in the lineup at any time except at Geor gia where the Cadet ranks haven’t been filled completely. “The officers,” Hamilton ex plained. “are used only to bring the teams on a par with the col leges which have given us a spot on their schedules. Football vic tories are fine but football vic tories are only secondary.” The playing officers are culled from the approximately 1,000 coaches, athletic instructors and former outstanding athletes in ducted into the service from the 17.000 applicants. Hamilton said that letters he I had received from flying instruc tors rated the Pre-Flight grad uates as the best aviator prospects and that every graduate gained almost five pounds in the 12 weeks course and that he lost two inches around the waist but increased his cnest expansion by the same amount. fishing tackle We Can Supply You Complete “WiPment. FRESH or SAI/T WATER, Also FLY RODS PM KARDS 209 Market St. Dial 3224 SEVERAL CHANGES SLATED IN ARMY ELEVEN’S LINEUP Vannoy, Center, And Pa gano, Are Out With Injuries With plenty of hard work fore cast for the week to iron out the rough spots found in The Citadel game, the Camp Davis footballers yesterday started intensive prep arations for their game with Beat tie Feathers’ Mountaineers of Ap palachian State Teachers College in the Legion Memorial stadium here Saturday afternoon. Lost to the Camp Davis team for Saturday’s battle are Frank Vannoy, center, and Nick Pagano, guard. Vannoy, who played a stel lar role as pivot man last week, aggravated an old knee injury, while Pagano suffered a dislocated elbow. To add to the woes comes word that tackle Morrison Clay has been accepted for Officer Can didate School. Coach Johnson plans some wholesale conversions of backs to line positions. Allie Goldberg and Primo Primavera will be given trials at the guard posts, while Bill Gallagher, who did a good job in backing up the line against The Citadel, will be inserted -a one tackle. Other backs are to be tested at different forward wall slots in an attempt to improve the hitherto lethargic display on the part of some linesmen. The Fighting A’s coach feels that with a more spirited display up front, his backs, who were well bottled up by The Citadel, might break loose and show their flashy football wares. Jimmy McLaughlin showed fine potentialities as a run ning back, but lacked the neces sary blocking support. Allie Gold berg and Bill Gallagher were ag gressive performers and did well defensively. To mold his individual talent into the semblance of an attacking unit is Captain Johnson’s main prob lem. This week may well be the determining factor in the ultimate status of the Camp Davis football team. Whether a reconstruction can be effected in time to bring about a reversal of form, will be the question during the next few practice sessions. The game be tween the Fighting AA’s and Ap palachian this week-end will sup ply the answer. 1 . -V Seagate Man Walks Away With Fishing Laurels Yesterday Floyd Staffard of Seagate, .walk ed away with fishing laurels at Atlantic View pier yesterday, land ing two good-sized puppy drums, one weighing eight pounds, the oth er 10 pounds. Several smaller catches were re ported during the day. Mrs. Formyduval had the largest num ber of fish for the day—25 blues. --V RESIGNS AS MAYOR WHITEVILLE, Sept. 28 — Paul J Williamson resigned as mayor of Whiteville today to assume the duties of acting county recorder on Oct. 1, succeeding W. E. Har relson. No successor has been appointed for the mayor’s place. FIRST GAME IS SE1 FOR SPORTSMAN’S PARK WEDNESDAY Cooper And Bonham Are Probable Opening Game Pitchers By JLDON BAILEY World series atmosphere settled over portsman’s Park today as the St. Louis Cardinals made ready to receive the New York Yankees in the first game of the classic Wednesday. The World Champions were not due here until late tomorrow, but the redhot Redbirds worked out. on their home field while carpem ers hammered up additional seats and Commissioner Kenesaw },[, Landis made a checkup on ar rangements for playing the games and handling the crowds of about 35,000 for the two installments that will be played here this week. Without committing himself def initely, Manager Billy Routhworth of the Cards indicated that lie had his pitching schedule already mapped out with Mort Cooper. Johnny Beazley. Max Lanier and Ernie White working in that order. Starting Cooper in the opening game, of course, has been a fore gone conclusion. His record of 22 victories and ten shutouts has stamped him the year's outstand ing hurler in the majors, and in spite of the furious National league pennant fight that lasted till the final day of the season. Cooper has been rested since last Thurs day. The choice of Beazley for the second game was based partly on the reasoning that a rookie would have a better chance performing in his own park before friendly fans than he would in pitching be fore some 70.000 persons in Yankee Stadium. Beazley achieved h 1 s 21st tri umph of the season yesterday in the second game of a doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs and the as signment to face the Yanks on Thursday would bring him back into action right on his regular pitching schedule. The two southpaws who then would attempt to muzzle the cham pions in their own arena are suf ficiently seasoned that Southworth figures they can withstand the strain that all National league clubs, coming out of small parks, feel when they invade the huge i concrete triple-decked stadium in New York. The Cardinals frolicked through their practice today and will hold another session tomorrow. They were to appear at a rally spon sored by a local .furniture store tonight. The return of the World series to St. Louis for the first time since the wild affair of 1934 was being taken calmly enough by the local populace, but there was a great deal of speculation about the iden tity of the Yankees’ first game pitcher. Most everyone believed Manager Joe McCarthy would lead with Er nie Bonham, his huge righthanded ace who has won 21 games and lost only five. He seemed to be a better bet against Cooper than the veteran Red Ruffing, who prob ably would oppose Beazley in the second game The Cardinals for their part evi denced no particular interest in whom the Yankees pitched, al though they were somewhat sur prised to learn that the Bombers were not going to arrive until the eve of the opening game._ PAUL JONES THE DRY WHISXEY i Dryness (lack of sweet ness) brings out the full flavor of the fine whiskies in Paul Jones. A blend of straight whiskies — 90 proof. A PINT A QUART — — * Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville & Baltimore
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