teams in final PRACTICES FOR ROSE BOWL TILT Starting Position* Arc Uncertain For Pitt PASADENA. Calif., Dee. 3*.—UP)— Pittsburgh and Washington began the final stages of practice today for tire twenty-second Pasadena Ito-r Bowl footj>all game New tsar’s dav The Washington Huskies, led by Coach Jimmy Phelan, trotetd out on Brootcslde field within the shadows of the huge Rose Bowl for their ..... nraet.lee on local soil after a upflt cf conditioning at Santa Bar bora. Pitt remained at Its Arrowhead Springs hide-out at San Bernardino. Coach Jock Sutherland, continuing to juggle around for a starting line up, sold he would bring his squad here Thursday morning and take a light, workout In the Bowl. Six positions on the Pitt firsi itrins are open to speculation. The veteran Dante Dalle Tease and Sophomore Walter Raskowskt are battling for the right guard job; Don Hensley bobbed up to contest Heinie Adams* center position; Tony Matisl rates an edge over Elmer Merkovsky at left tackle; John Cbickemeo and John Mlchelosen seek the quarterback spot; the sen ior Bobby La Rue may give way to a possible re-Injured leg and Har old Stebbtns for the right halfback post: and Prank Patrick, sighting a return to hts fine 1995 form. Is after the fullback Job over BUI Sta piltiS. Phelan was still a trifle mournful over the loss of A1 Cruver, hla sec ond best fullback. "We have only eight backfield men. two for each position, and If injuries go beyond the second com bination we'll be sunk,” he said. MAXIE IS RATED NO. 1RING MAN Ring Magazine Gives Praise To Joe’s Master NEW YORK. Dec. 2g.—<**>—For malting just one fistic appearance before the cash customers, Max Behmeling la nomlnted by ‘‘The Ring” magazine as the world’s num ber one fighting man for 1936. Der Maxie knocked out Joe Louis in his lone competitive start, to tin the top spot the Detroit Brown Bomber held for 1935. Heavyweight Champion Jimmy Brad dock was not called on to throw punches in competition and as a result was dropped to number three on the list. Louis was second. Aside from Schmeling, the only ether non-champion to top a divi sion in '‘Hie Ring’s” rankings was Benny Lynch of Scotland, who head ed the flyweight groupings. Ught-heavyweight king John Henry Lewis of Phoenix, Ariz., was listed alone in group one in his weight class, as were the middle weight titllst, Fredd Steele of Ta coma, Wash., and welterweight champion Barney Ross of Chicago, Lou Ambers was placed at the top of the 135-pounders. The magazine agreed with the N. B. A. in rating Petey Barron in frrm omnne Champion Six to Escobar headed the bantams, and topping the fly weights was Peter Kane of England Hans Wagner To Pick His Team PITTSBURG, Dec. 38.-0P)—Ho *u» Wagner—the i/imortal “Hans” of the National League—prepared ‘odsy to select 48 all-state state baseball teams and ultimately an "Ail America" nine. Wagner, now high commlsaloner Of semi-pro baseball, said the all ,tar foams will be selected at tournaments to be held In every atate. Each team will lnelude 18 Players; each player will be eligl b!* for the "All-American He said the All-American nine chosen by major league •routs at the national semi-pro tournament In Wichita, Kansas, *ug. 13 to .23, and will tour Hawaii Playing exhibition games. Erskine, Davidson Relations Resumed Due West. 8. C., Dec. 28.—<*">— , a°h Jake Todd of Erskine aaid oday thit football relations be ,,fen his) team and Davidson col r:' *0111*1 be resumed next fall. "* saijfl the two teams would play * lhf »{ Davldaon or Charlotte. N Ton September 38 Erskine will *** ’ iiirut South George Teaeh ,rB^P'Jmber 18. PiT.'bvjterian. Newberry. Wofford, CiiAuel. South Carolina, Wakt rur&it And Emory and Henry would ,u|ina t>ut Ersklne’s schedule. John iMrown’s body Is buried on * WmB i nwmed two miles east of Jd, n. y. SPORTS r\ ROUNDUP -a By SCOTTY HESTON (Pinchltting For Eddie Brieti) NEW YORK. Dec. M.-t**)-Prl mo Camera, pathetic prodigal of the ring, may come back from his native Italian hills on a strange and monstrous mission. An ingen ious If heartless. New York theatri cal manager has proposed using "Da Preem" in a dancing act, with African female pygmies as the chorus . . . The victory needle, in jected by football coach Bernie Bierman, is making the Minnesota sports fan sic k. . . Until the Go pher gridders began running wild, there was little complaint about Dave MacMillan’s mediocre record with the Minnesota basketball team ... But now the fans are yelling for his job. even before the Big Ten season is really started . . . Mac Millan's Big Ten record is 37 won and 71 lost . . . Bill Hewitt, former Michigan and Chicago Bear’s star, has quit the game to take a full time job in the freight department of the Illinois Central. . . . It took an auto accident to make GU Doble drop hia {loom . . . He's wheeling around his Boston home now smiling like a kid on Christmas . . . He’s glad to be alive, that’s all . . . Mickey Cochrane has told his ball players to leave their wives and sweethearts at home this spring, and he’s not kidding . . . Humor around here is that “Holly” Grimes will appoint Jess Haines, veteran Card's pit* rher, as his second coach ... Jos Tenses, Washington feather* weight, actually trains behind a bar . . . He’s barkeep in a capi tal restaurant and toughens his muscles by jigging a shaker . . . Football coaches are in town congratulating each other on hold ing their jobs . . . Mainly they tell stories, gee shows, catch up on their self-pity, moan about the boys they lose next year, and shop around among the athletic directors Just in ease . . . Wes Fesler got his Job as Harvard basketball coach by acci dent at these meetings a few year* ago. . . . He was talking on some in volved physical education sub ject when Bill Bingham, Har vard athletic director, walked in . . . Bingham thought Wes was a good speaker, hired him aa basketball coach, and found out the boy was good at that, too ... Carl Hubbell’s young bro ther Don is making good on the pitching staff of the House of David team in California . . . and Vince DIMaggio, brother of Joe, who was recently bought by the Boston Bees, is painting spots on hobby horses in a coast toy shop . . . SPORTS SLANTS i Down at the University of Okla homa, they have g new “part-In dian” coaching regime to follow up where Maj. Lawrence M. (Biff) Jones left off when he was recall ed to Army study at the staff and command school, Fort Leavenworth. As a matter of fact, 340 pound Tom Stidham, who learned moat of hia football under Dick Hanley, is one-sixteenth Creek Indian—and flfteen-sixteenths Irish! But he's a native Okfehoman anri «hnnlha a nonular new chief tain for the Sooner football forces in a state that has a lot of pride in the achievements of its own boy* such as Carl Hubbell, Pepper Martin, etc. There are a flock of Indians down there, too, the kind who wear blankets even when they are not sitting In the football sta dium on a chilly day. At one time, Oklahoma wanted to hire another of the great Indian coaches — one William H. (Lone Star) Diets, who at the time was at the Haskell Indian Institute, turning out high school teams that slipped up and tomahawked a good many college teams that consented to cross the warpath of the Diets men. But somehow that proposition fell through. ... Played Under Hanley Stidham himself is a product of Haskell, which for a time seemed destined to become a modern Car lisle in football but which later was so restricted in scope that it ceas ed to be a gridiron menace. Such names as John and George Levi Little Babbit Weller, Tiny Roebuck Mays McLain and Carpenter an still remembered by football fan) who saw Haskell in action in the •20s and early '30s. At Haskell, Stidham played tackle under Dick Hanley and he captain ed the undefeated Indian team ol 1936 The Rambling Redskins, ai they were tagged by a wlde-awak< pale-face publicity man who trav eled with them from coast t« coast, scrimmage against Pop War ner's Stanfords one day while tun ing up foe an Intersectional gain* with the University of Hawaii oul West. The wide-eyed coaches of thi West team in the annual East-Wes i all-st a r persuaded Roebuck ant TECH’S RAZZLE-DAZZLE DAZZLES CALIFORNIA Georgia Teeh'a far-famed razzle-dazzle ptaya ao confuted California that the Yallow Jaekata aeored a 13 to 7 victory over the Golden Beara In their posf-aeaaon game In Atlanta tha day after Chrlatmae. Dutch Konemann (arrow), Teeh’a etar hack, it ahown carrying the ball on a ahort end run that gave hla team ita firat touchdown. (Aaaoclated Prate Photo) jMew V. M. I. Coach Allison, T. S. (Pooley) Hubert (above), sensational fullback on Alabama's 1925 Rose Bowl tfen who la now coaching at Mlsala^pl State Teachers’ collage In Hatties burg, has been elected head coach for Virginia Military Institute- in Lexington, Va. (Associated Pres* Photo) Stidham to play with the Western ers. They were in there all but two minutes and they smashed the eastern offense so consistently that the West came off with a 7-3 vic tory. His Line Held Minnesota For seven years Stidham Built lines for Dick Hanley at Northwes tern—and you remember those lines! They stopped Minnesota cold in the 0-0 draw ame of 1933. one of the tie stig mason the Gophers great march that stretched clear back to the 1932 campaign. And so Oklahoma is going to have one of those Stidham-built lines, which is bad news to the Big Six, Including dominating Nebras ka. Stidham drafted another Okla homan who has enjoyed signal suc cess for his hackfleld tutor. He is Dewey W. (Snorter) Luster, quar terback and end who captained Ok lahoma’s last all-victorious eleven in 1920. Luster was a lightweight, but one of the toughest ever to wear the Sooner livery. He has been coaching Norman high school, in the university town, and he and his boys can have any thing they want as compensation for the record they have made. All victorious last season, the whole Norman squad was given a trip to the New Orleans Sugar Bowl game. All-victorious again this year, they’re being sent to the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Welcome Duquesne To Miami, Florida MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 28.—(IP)—Met ropolitan Miami prepared a gala welcome today for the Duquesne university football squad, foe of Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl New Year’s day. The Dukes, who left Pittsburgh yesterday, were to detrain at 5.30 p. m. and receive the greetings of Mayor A. H. Foasey of Miami, Mayor Louis Bnedlgar of Miami Beach, and a large delegation of wrli-wtsh Card Of Thanks it We wish to thank our neighbors ! and friends for their kindness and i sympathy during the illness and • dea*i of our son, L. 1>. Nanny.—W. D. Nanny and family. The Laocoon group of the Vati can was sculptured between 4(1 and I 30 R. O. NOLAN HOWINGTON \ IS GUEST SPEAKER Double Shoals Folk Hear College Student DOUBLE SHOALS, Dec. 28—The people of the Baptist church en joyed as their guest speaker on last Sunday, Rev. Nowlan Howington, student of Wake Forest college. Mr. Howington was present by invita tion from Pastor Buttle and brought helpful message on the subject, •Christ's Humiliation and Exalta tion." The church will soon be in a position to have a room for each class in the Sunday school. The fold ing doors are now being installed and will be ready for use by the first Sunday in 1037. C. M. Spangler is the superin tendent. The Methodist church had an extra service Sunday night. The pastor, Rev. R. T. Houta preached. Their regular appointed services are held on the first and second Sun day nights. * Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Spangler have pioved into their new home recent ly erected in the community. The relatives and friends gave them an old time serenading. R. L. Eskridge who has been ser iously sick for the past few months, was able to ride to Shelby on Christ mas eve and see the decorations over the city. “Orandma” Wright as she is known by her many friends remains on the sick list. , Mr. and Mrs. Furman McQinnis and little daughter of Beaver Dam , community were among the visitors at the Baptist church on last Sun day. C. R. Spangler has been confined to his room for the nast few dav* suffering with lumbago. Mr. and Mra. Paul Dixon and aon, Ralph, were visitors in the com munity on Sunday. Clemmie Spangler of Charlotte attended the funeral here last week of his uncle, Mr. J. M. Green. O. M. Spangler recently spent a week in Columbia, S. C., where he received special training with Crop Loan Co. preparatory to opening an offioe in Shelby aoon. Mr. Spangler has been an appraiser for this company for the past few years, and deserves the promotion that has recently been given him. Aged Charleston Woman Is Dead CHARLESTON, 8. C., Dec. 28.— W—A lingering illness had brought , deat htoday to Charleston’* second oldest resident, 99 year old Mrs. Edward Trenholm. She was ‘ descended from diatln guishe South Carolina families. Be fore her marriage »he was Miss Jane Gordon Waites. She was a niece of Thomas Bennet, governor in 1830-32. Miss Margaret Ford, who was 100 years old this month, is said to be the city’s oldest resident. She is wintering in Tryon, N. C. Promise Solution Leatherman Death CHARLOTTE. Dec. 28—

— An early solution was promised today to the baffling murder of Guy B. Leatherman. taxi driver, whose bullet-riddled body we* found in a field a year ago. Detective Chief Frank N. Little john said evidence would be pres ented to the grand jury to connect ; two negroes with the crime, and ! that the motive for the slaying was ' robbery. The nrcrnr.v hr said, arr now in : I'-uslodv, hut not, in Charlotte. Selwood Couples Married In S. C. •Special to The Star t BEL.WOOD, Dec. 38.— A aeddmg >f Interest to thetr many friend* ■hroughout this and adjoining xmnties took place at Gaffney, S. 3. when Miaa Branla Justice he ;ame the bride of Ralph Richard* in Saturday, Dec. 19. They were accompanied to Gaffney by Mr. and Mr*. Roy Dayberry. Mr*. Richard * the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Justice of this county. Mr. Richard la the son of Mrs. W. W. Richard of thla place and hold* \ position at the Cleveland Cloth Mill. The young couple will make their home with the bride’a grand father, Mr. Newton of near Casar. Moselle Hicks and Grady Car penter motored to Gaffney, 8. C. Thursday. Dec. 24 and were quiet ly married. They were accompanied by Mrs/ Zed Brittain, sister of the bride. Mrs. Carpenter was attrac tively dressed In a suit of green and black. The bride la the young est daughter of Mr and Mra. Mc Clure Hick* while the groom la the son of Mr, and Mrs, Gordon Car penter of the Carpenter's Grove community. Both are member* of the senior class of Belwood high school. Miss Zella Willi* entertained the members of the young men and young women’s Sunday School claaa sf Knob Creek church with a par ty on Wednesday night. Christmas Sifts were exchanged and many in teresting games were played. Mrs. A, J. Jeffres was hostess to the members of the Ladies’ Auxil ary of Knob Creek M. P. church on Wednesday afternoon. After an In teresting Christmas program and the exchanging of gifts refresh ments were served. Mrs. Hethcock *nd Mrs. Weld* TOney of Pallston were visitors. n«r'8 Elk College, spent the Christ mas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Grigg. Paul Peeler, who has been In army for several months, is spend ing some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Peeler. Those calling at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Odus Norman Christmas lay were Mr. and Mrs. Thaxter Sain and baby daughter. Shirley Ann, of China Grove, Dr. Fletcher D. Sain of Abington, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Sain of Toluca. Billy, Max Young, small son of Prof, and Mrs. H. M. Young, has been quite sick for several days. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Evoy Luts. Dec. 26 an 8 1-4 pound son. Mrs Luts is staying with her mother, Mrs. E. F. Norman. Dynamite Station After Four Arrests BAILEY, Dec. 28 — f>P) —Officers investigated today the dynamiting of a Ailing station owned by Doc Williams, one of four persons ar rested recently In connection with the death of Preston Cobb, 26. Deputy C. A. Brown said he wa* seeking to determine if Cobb’i death and the dynamiting were conected. Williams was In the building at the time, but was nol injured. The structure was bumeC to the ground. Williams, Eula Driver, Violi Moore and Beatrioe Boykin were ordered held by a coroner’s Jurj recently after Cobb's battered bod; was found by the roadside All fom were released a few day* ago e* habeas corpus writs, MRS. STEWART, 77, i DIES AT GROVER lection*. I We Are Now Receiving — Early Spring Merchandise Daily — You will find everything In brand new suit* and dre*n es. for npring 1937. BEAUTIFUL NEW MAN-TAILORED SUITS AND DRESSES $5.95 to $22.50 A Smash HIT! COTTON WASH FROCKS AH new lovely weave*, print*, percale*, and sluh brown, Wc sold these by the hundreds Christ mu* week. All sizes, all styles. 97c - $1.98 - $2.98 • * FLASH!! SPECIAL!!! Ladies’ and Children's GALOSHES All sizes, all heel style;. A % 1.39 Value! COHENS SHELBY I For The Baby Chicks— CLEVELAND Starting Mash And CLEVELAND CHICK GRAINS Ontsin evsrjr «*l«m«n» for growth and Health. » > i ► EAGLE ROLLER MILL CO.