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BASEBALL FUTURE
By WALTER L. JOHNS
Central Pna Sports Editor
, DURHAM, N. C. Richard Mor
row Groat, whose activities on the
basketball floor and the baseball
diamond . rates him as America’s
only double All-American athlete,
sat in a history class on the beau
tiful Duke campus here one day
: as his professor fumbled among pa
pers on Ids desk.
! Richard, called Dick by everyone
! and “The Great" by Duke's athletic
tub-thumper Ted Mann, watched
with interest as the proof finally
found what he was looking for but
showed amazement at what the
prof had to say after finding it.
“You know,” he said, “I’ve been a
history professor for many years
and I’ve written five books. I’ve
I never received any attention from
| my family in all those years but
I when I take this roll call book
home and show my daughters, that
Dick Groat is in my class I’ll be
I famous and a hero.”
| Dick Groat is THAT FAMOUS
i here on the Blue Devil campus and
throughout the state. He’s current
ly averaging better than 25 points
a game in basketball and is rated
among the greatest baseball pros
pects to come off the Duke campus
since Billy Werber made the leap
to the New York Yankees in one
afternoon.
Dick made both the basketball
and baseball AH-American tea oft
last year and is considered a natu
ral for future stardom in the dia
mond sport when he graduates in
June.
• * *
IN BASEBALL he’s a shortstop
and one of the slickest glove men
seen in collegiate circles. He’s a
fine hitter, too, batting .386 last
season.
A native of Swissvale, Pa., (a
Pittsburgh suburb) Dick is being
eyed especially by the Pittsburgh
' Pirates although he has had touch
es from the Yanks, New York
Giants. Boston Braves and other
clubs. He worked out with the Pi
rates and Giants and reportedly is
in line for a bonus estimated at
anywhere from *35,000 to $10(1,000.
Die* told this reporter in an in
terview here that he has never
talked money with any of the major
league baseball people but that he
will go to the team which will give
him -the biggest bonus and a real
chance to play.
The Pirates, it is said, wanted him
last summer and indicated that if
he signed he’d be playing shortstop
the next day.
Dick told us he likes Lep Duro
cher as a manager and one of his
close Jttwads is Whltey Lockman
so the indication is that tfe Giants
may have something to say about
his future.
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I most as you visit and talk with
I Dick is hie unimpressiveness.
He doesn’t look like a star ath
lete. In basketball he has the dis
advantage of height, standing on
actual A. feet lOH inches but it Is
his speed and ability to Mop and
maneuver the ether fellow bat bf
position that him bo “great.**
He’s not affected by publicity, and
this kid really has had it this year.
In addition to newspaper aml mag
azine stories he is the subject at a
special brochure presenting him to
the pruss, a several-hundred dollar
brainchild of Mann, who is an old
hand at promoting.
Dick’s only *0 year old and
looks younger. He dresses like mast
college kids, lives at the Bigma Chi
section and drives a cheap-priced
but new car about the campus.
I He has a steady “date,” Rachel
Cosart of Fuquay Springs. N. C.,
who is soph at Duke. Bhe watches
him fan all his sports activities and
he meets her between classes.
Dick has strong family 'ties, too,
being the youngest of five children.
His two older sisters are his great
admirers and they, together with
his parents, frequently drive to Dur
ham to watch him play.
It was his jjad end his older
brothers who interested him in
sports at an early age.
In fact they fell the story about
Dick as a seven-year-old eager. The
father constructed a basketball hoop
I on the back porch and placed it at
the regulation height.
The father noted that young
Dick couldn't reach the basket with
his shots and asked him if he want
ed it lowered. Dick said no, and
the basket stayed.
As a boy Dick was the only kid
In the neighborhood who owned a
basketball. So when it came tim
to play he always was allowed to
participate in neighborhood games
because he owned the tmll.
A star basketball player in high
school, Dick w»s undecided which
college to attend. He talked to John
ny Michelosen, coach of the Pitts
burgh Steelers, and Michelosen sug
gested to try Duke because he would.
have the advantage of the'famed
baseball coaching of old Jack
Coombs, still the head man in the
diamond sport here.
As a eager here Dick set all kinds
of records and is still compiling
them as the season comes to a close.
-He enjoyed his biggest night against
George Washington when he potted
46 points, 34 of them in the last
.quarter when he hit on' 13 out of
13 shots. |
He dominates the game and Is
the ■play-maker.? If he makes a-mis
take and he makes very few pf them,
he has a habit of scratching his
head and shaking his hands. He's
so serious minded about his play
that he generally is sick before the
game starts but snaps out of it as
he tallies basket after basket.
Dick was a bit upset when Duke
did not have the chance to enter
the National Invitational tourney.
“I sure would have liked to playi
in that one,” he said.
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FIVE STARTING CAMELS The boys shown above have carried orange and black ft Cnqighall
College through a moat successful cage season. Coach Earl Smith’s boys have loot Wily two regular
season college games and two tourney games. These boys are guard Ronald Zeroise of GoMshorn, for
ward Sam Frailer of Henderson, guard Smith Langdon of Angler, center Red McDaniel of Kinston, and
forward Kelly Bynun of Edenton. These beys face unbeaten Lees-Mcßae tonight in Ratios Creek.
(Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart).
76 Year Old Publicity Man Passes 50
Years Os Service; Made Blade Hawks
By ED SAINBBURY
(United Press Sports Writer)
CHICAGO —(IP)— Joseph C. Far r
red, tub thumpber for the Chicago
Blackhawks since the team was or
ganized recently passed his 50th
anniversary as a press agent.
Farrell, 76, has been publicity
man for the Hawks for 26 years.
He joined the team and its princi
pal owner, Maj. Frederic Mc-
Laughlin, when the game first
came to Chicago.
"It was a civic proposition,” Far
rell said, “and I guess Tex Rick
ard is the one who put it over.
Teams came to Detroit, New York
and Chicago at the same time. Sort
of a social proposition, and the
Armours and Swifts and Marshall
Field and everybody else had stock.
“But they lost over *150,000 the
first year and interest kind of fell
off. But the major kept on with
six or eight others, and finally
it caught on.”
REAL NEAT STUNT
Farrell didn't take credit for
making the catch, but street]
stories have hlamed him for mak-!
ing hotkey a Chicago suceess by |
giving away free tickets to all
comers in the first couple of years.
“I didn’t do that,” he said.
“What I did was this. I got the
i major to give me an introduction
•to the heads of some'big companies,
i “Then I'd go to their lunchroom,
says at Sears-Roebuck, and have
■ the head of the company go with
. me. I’d tell them the business men
had brought, this game to Chicago
and wanted them to see it. It
, they just saw it, they’d like it. And
the heads of their companies want- 1
ed them to see the game once, as
their guests.
“If you want to go and take your
; family and friends, line up here
, for tickets, but don’t take them it
i you don’t want to go.”
“I guess some games I gave
away 3,000 tickets, but I was right.
i 1 It caught on and they made money
for the next 13 or 14 years, some
years an unbelieveable amount of
money.” j
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35* FOLDED
;] About 350 colleges and schools
{abandoned football play due to con-!
■ | ditions created by World War 11, ]
a survey shows.
Duc|iMKno Coach ttots
Mow Contract; Moore
Worries About N.I.T.
PITTSBURGH Os) Donald “Qu
dey” Moore, coach of DuquMne
University's top-seeded N»tionsd,Jto
vitation tourney-bound Dukes, had
a brand new three year MttnSlt
in his pocket today, but stHI Was
a worried man.
Moore, who received a new pact
calling for a "substantial raise” yes
terday, said he had the customary
pre-tournament blues and was a
little worried about how his team
would do in the NTT.
When asked if he thought being
seeded No. 1 in the big event had
his boys on edge, Moore replied in
the negative.
“No, I think the team realizes that
they rate you up there on your
record, and ours, on paper at least,
seems to he the most impressive.
Afterwall, we’ve only lost qne game
in 22 starts and not many people
can find much fault in that.
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Chicago —M— Is the football
huddle disappearing? There were
Indications today that it might be. a
There’s the case* of Illinois, the
last Rose Bowl champion. Coaim
Ray Eliot revealed that quarter
back Tommy O’donnell called his
plays In the huddle—but always
had the authority to change the
play once the team lined up for
the center snap.
The quarterback might decide to
change the play for a variety of
reasons, but usually because pf the
defense. Actually, Eliot still pra
ters to stick to the play called in
the huddle, but he didn’t pound w
that into his quarterbacks.
One way the quarterbacks kept
the opposition continually jumpy
! was the matter of the. number on
which the ball would be snapped.
*We have quick plays on two or
three counts, or the quarterback
can call off to the sixth or eighth
count if ht wants to,” Eliot said.
Stanford’s linemen in the Rose
Bowl were caught off balance con
tinually as they tried to puess u
which way the Illinois play might w
go—and when it might go. Other
coaches were quite interested in
this reaction. They figure that a
quick call of signals by numbers
without a huddle will keep the op
position more off balance than
ever. -«q
REPEAT PERFORMANCE
There was a day that football
had no huddle—and, it appears,
that day may come again. The one
hitch Is that there can’t be any
discussion without the secrecy of a
huddle.-
The T-formation has produced
smsMer quarterbacks for busi
ness of ducking behind the center
for quick and deceptive handoifs
after the snap. But again, the treld
may be the other way-back to tile
larger boys. I
This trend comes from the pa®-
happy southwest. The idea is Be
place the quarterback farther bm*
for the newer split T formation, *
Under the split T, the line Is spread
out more to give pass-catching
ends a quicker getaway. By the
same token, the quarterback is
farther back to give him more tilde
to throw.
The weather probably will blot
out this system in the Midwest
and East, even though It might
grow in wanner climates. “Ws /
used it some last year,” said Elidt,
“and I was satisfied.
Thp huddle may join the tflyfng
wedge, as History. * a