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As Expected, Blue Devils
Working On Pass Defense
Wademen Must Have
Best Day Defending
Against Passes Satur
day If They Expect to
Stay in Game With
Tar Heels.
Durham, Nov. 15. —Just ns every
one imagines, the Blue Devils of
Duke are spending plenty of time m
building up their pass defense this
week as they make ready to go
against North Carolina’s undefeated
Tar Heels in the annual football
classic.
Everyone ! n the State who tries
to figure out these football games
is convinced that the boys in blue
will have their greatest day yet
against passes ; i' they expect to stay
in the ball game with the Tar Heel
aerial circus.
They don't have to be reminded
at Duke that George Stirnweiss and
Jim Lalanne are as good as they
come in throwing that ball around
and the full load of the game now
appears to be how well the McAfee
brothers, Roger Robinson, 'tommy
Prothro, Gordon Burns and their re
placements will be in knocking them
down.
It is no secret that Nx of the
seven touchdowns that have been
made on the Blue Devils in the past
17 games have been by forward
passes. Only team to score on a
running play was Syracuse on a 74-
yard run and even that run came
after the Syracuse back had taken
a lateral pass from a teammate.
It is also no secret that V. M. I.
completed 10 of 16 passes for 142
yards in last week's game against
the Wademan. The Cadets were at
tiieir peak for that game and it was
no rest for the Blue Devils who did
a fne job in winning 20-7 consider
ing the physical shape they were
in.
So as far as Duke is concerned,
it appears that they will fare in
at Saturday’s game just as well as
they are able to knick Carolina’s
tosses down.
Os course the Blue Devils are not
exactly “pikers” at throwing that
ball around themselves. It has been
Duke’s best scoring weapon al
though the Duke passing game is
not figured <.o be as well polished
as the Tar Heels’ sensational aerial
circus.
So. as the Tar Heels and the Blue
Devils come up to the 25th in the
series that started back in 1888, it
appears that the ball will be in the
air more than in any of those past
classics between two of the nation’s
outstanding football rivals.
North Carolina and Duke will
stack up even in experience when
they square off for their annual
classic at Durham Saturday. Which
doesn’t sound any too good to Tar
Heel supporters, for Duke won that
game 14-0. Each team has five
starters back from last year’s game,
and what is more singular, each
team has 13 of the boys who played
that day. Carolina’s starters who
are back are Kline. Kimball, Wood
son, Stirnweiss, and Radman, and
Duke’s are Darnell, Perdue, Ribar,
Johnson, and Eaves.
The quality of burley tobacco gen
erally is not as good this year as it
has been in the past two years, says
Lloyd T. Weeks, tobacco specialist of
the State College Extension Service.
NOW ONLY NOW ONLY
Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville and Baltimore
Bulldogs To
Face Tricky
Team Friday
Henderson high school Bulldogs
will have to be good at solving rid
dles, or they must employ the same
tactics that N. C. State College used
against Duquesne 'last Saturday m
holding the strong Dukes to 7 to 0
score.
Catholic Orphanage is bringing a
tricky eleven here Friday, and the
boys cover up the ball in all sorts
of ways.
State College adopted the policy of
tackling everybody, hoping that one
of the tacklers would get the ball car
rier. Frequently, the cry was heard:
“He ain’t got it,” as the Wolf pack
tackles nabbed Duuesne backs, on
ly to’find that the back was not car
rying the ball, it Henderson is to
stop ihe .... . .... the ...uleigh school
Friday, they ve got to tackle every
body, too.
Coaches Bing Miller and Fred Kil
patrick are cooking up a defense a
gainst the tricks Friday’s visitors are
expected to use, and the Bulldogs
are gunning for a victory over a
light, fast team.
Sober Carolina
Getting Groggy
Over Grid Tilt
Durham, Nov. 15. — (AP)
North Carolina, normally made
up of sober business men, tobac
co farmers and folks connected
ith the cotton textile industry,
was populated today by an esti
mated 3.000,000 Monday quarter
backs working on a vital two
fold question.
All of them were asking,
“Who’s going to win, North Caro
lina or Duke?”
Some 2,939,000 wanted to
know, “How am I going to get
in to see that game Saturday?”
The other 51,000 bought their
pasteboards weeks ago. Scalping
was at a minimum because the
scalpers wanted in, too.
That’s history repeating, for
every year the staid Old North
State gets a bad case of football
jitters just before this game, and
4 when a possible Rose Bowl or
Sugar Bowl bid hangs in the
balance it’s just that much worse.
Partisans of the undefeated
Tar Heels from the state uni
versity have high hopes of a
bowl bid, but they can’t forget
the debacle they refer to as the
“nightmare of 1935.”
That year Wallace Waue’s Blue
Devils had lost to Georgia Tech
and Auburn. But, led by the
great Ace Parker, they came
back to blast Carl Snaveljds
unbeaten eleven, 25-0, and cause
a mass cancellation of reserva
tions to Pasadena.
The Japanese who have been fight
ing so hard to acquire it must be
surprised to learn we give away
China at a lot of our movie shows.
HENDERSON,, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY’, NOVEMBER 15, 1939
Blue Devil Leader
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Allen (Sweet Pea) Johnson, pictured above, will play his last game
against the University of North Carolina on Saturday afternoon when he
leads the Duke University Blue Devils against the Tar Heels in Duke
Stadium. Johnson is captain of this year’s Duke eleven and is winding up
three brilliant years of varsity play. He ranks among the finest guards in
the Southern conference. He was dubbed “Sweet Pea” back in his fresh
man days and the name has stuck. But against the Tar Heels, he’s likely
to be most everything but sweet.
Carolina Edge !n Air, Duke
On Ground, Even In Veterans
By MARION ALEXANDER.
Chapel Hill, Nov. 15.—North
Carolina’s undefeated Air Raiders,
v ho are being rated a slight edge in
the airlanes, and Duke’s Blue Dev
ils, who are being given a larger
margin on the ground, will stack
up even in experience in their clas
sic at Durham Saturday. Which may
not augur well for the Tar Heels,
l'or Duke won last year’s game 14-0.
Each team has five boys who
started and 13 boys who got in
last year’s game, and who will be
taking up where they left off in that
brilliant and dogged contest.
Duke’s 1938 starters who are
back are Leonard Darnell and 8010
Perdue, ends; Frank Ribar and Al
len Johnston, guards; and Easy
Eaves, blocking back. Its other vet
erans of that game, some of whom
are regulai's now, are Bill Bailey
and Jim Marian, ends: Alex Win
terson and Tony Ruffa, tackles; and
George and Wesley McAfee, Jap
Davis, and Roger Robinson, backs.
The 1938 starters back at Caro
lina are Jim Woodson, guard; Gates
Kimball, tackle: Chuck Kline, end;
and George Stirnweiss and George
Radman, backs. The other veterans
of last year’s game are Paul Sev
erin and Jim Mallory, ends; Leroy
Abernethy and Chuck Slagle,
guards; Bob Smith, center; and
Sweet Lalanne. Mike Bobbitt, and
Sid Sadoff, backs.
Eaves of Duke and Kline of Caro
lina, however, are out with injuries
and are expected to watch their last
Tar Heel-Blue Devil battle from
the sidelines! Radman was also in
jured last week but has a bare
chance to be ready although he will
not be in top shape.
Four of the Tar Heels and five
of the Blue Devlrs are also veterans
of the 1937 game, won by Carolina
14-6, and these seniors will be fight
ing doubly hard to close this per
sonal series victoriously.
Carolina’s three-year battlers are
Woodson, Kline, Stirnweiss, and
Radman. Duke’s are Ribar, Burns,
Johnson, McAfee, and Perdue. Kline
and Woodson were the only two in
the group who started the 1937 con-
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test; all the others came in as sub
stitutes that day.
Stirny led the ground gainers in
last year’s hard loss to Duke, and
Woodson was a power in the Cai'o
bna line which stopped the Blue
Devils the preceding year.
In addition to Co-Captain Stirn
weiss and Woodson, Radman, and
Kline, the five other Tar Heels who
will oe running their last game
against Duke Saturday are .Aber
nethy and Slagle, letter guards; and
Leo Slotnick, halfback; George Ral
ston, center; and Ed Megson, guard,
reserves.
The classic North Carolina-Duke
rivalry, which will be renewed at
Durham Saturday, dates back to
1888 and shows Carolina 12 wins,
2 ties, and 9 losses. There was a
forefeited game in 1899 that is
claimed by both Carolina and Duke.
However, Duke has held the upper
hand since Coach Wallace Wade
took over in 1931, winning 5, tieing
1, and losing 2. Carolina has won
1 and lost 2 in Coach Ray Wolf’s
three-year tenure. i
If the North Carolina-Duke game
at Durham Saturday doesn’t break
52,000 set by the Tulane-Alabama
the Southern attendance record of
game, the only reason will be that
there just aren’t enough seat avail
able. The annual classic was a 49,-
000 sell out, not counting teams,
bands, workers, etc., two weeks ago,
and athletic authorities are urging
fans without tickets not to come
•/> Durham that day.
The North Carolina-Duke head
liner for the Southern Conference
title Saturday will match three of
Lie finest triple-threat backs in the
country. They are Carolina’s touch
down twins, George Stirnweiss and
Sweet Lalanne, and Duke’s George
McAfee. Interestingly, all three play
the same position, quarterback, and
each is leading candidate for All-
America.
North Carolina’s and Duke’s stal
wart lines, which clash Saturday in
Wildcats To
Meet Seceders
On Saturday
Davidson, Nov. .a.While the eyes of
North Carolina football fans point
to the Duke-Carolina clash this
coming Saturday, Davidson's Wild
cats, emerging from seven straight
Southern Conference games, meet
Erskine Seceders on the shady Pres
byterian campus in a contest that
will afford those fans who got left
out in the rush for Duke-Carolina
tickets a chance to see the pigskin
bounced around.
For the first time this the
’Cats will rate as top heavy favorites
to walk away with the contest but
Head Coach Gene McEver of the
Wildcats concedes Erskiners plenty
and is leaving no phase of attack un
covered in preparation for the game.
Remembering the sa#e that Erskine
threw at the ’Cats two years when
the Seceders held a 6-0 lead at the
half-time, the squad is not taking
things too lightly either.
Featuring the Erskine attack will
be several North Carolina lads who
hail from withing throwing distance
of the Davidson campus. Harold Bur
ris, veteran back, hails from Concord
! and played high school football with
George Richrnon, Davidson’s scrappy
guard. Nine other members of the
squad hail from within a fifty mile
radius of the college.
N. C. Turkey
Crop Larger
Daily Dispatch nureau,
In the Sis* Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 15. —Perhaps the
reason North Carolina will not ob
serve two Thanksgiving Days this
month is thai. there is less than one
turkey to every ten people in the
State, despite an increase in this
year’s Tar Hee! turkey population of
approximately 20 per cent.
According to T. L. Stuart, of the
State Department of Agriculture’s
cyop reporting service, this year’s
North Carolina turkey crop is the
largest since 1929, but even so there
are estimated to be more than 286,-
000 gobblers and hens in the State. «
As a matter of fact the State is
not one of the larger producing one.v
ranking 26tb in number raised and
24th in number on farms as of Jan
uary 1, 1939.
As for prospects for this
season Mr. Stuart gives 18 cents as
about the average price for turkeys
in mid-October, but if the usual price
pattern is followed this year, the fig
ure will move up a bit on the Thanks
giving and Christmas holiday selling.
Prices, naturally, are highest in No
vernbe r and December. Last year
prices averaged 19 cents in November
and 20 cents in December, and the
sale of the entire turkey crop brought
growers around $602,000, the highest
gross income they had received from
this source since 1935 when some
232,000 birds yielded a gross return
of $652,000.
Prices were highest in 1929 when
the 166,000 turkeys sold for an aver
age of $3.43 each. Last year’s 238,000
averaged about $2.88 per head.
the ultimate test of strength, have
yielded exactly the same number of
points this season —39. Os the six
touchdowns scored against the Tar
Heels, who are led by Jim Woodson,
Paul Severin, and Gates Kimball,
two have been on passes and two
were on the second team. Only two
markers have been scored through
the first line, and it took two of
the strongest running attacks in the
country, Tulane and Penn, to turn
the trick.
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and then turn to well-deserved recreation.
For it is in these hours of relaxation that
your family enjoys your companionship.
By living a balanced life —you build friend
ships and develop the art of hospitality.
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One of Carolina’s Veterans
Bob Smith will handle the important assignment; A
Saturday’s crucial Conference test with Duke. The 185-
whose home is now Chapel Hjll, but who prepped at A h
played erd in high school and guard as a freshman. It \va n> M til ] IG
reached the varsity last year that he found his place at cenl.
contributed some brilliant play as understudy to Bob Ada;
all of two games when Adam was injured. He is fast and
excels at diagnosing plays and ball-hawking opponem
fumbles.
4 EASTERN STATES
ROCKED BY QUAKE
Centered In Southern Jersey, It
Rattles Windows, Sways
Buildings.
Philadelphia, Nov. 15. —(AP) —An
earthquake of considerable intensity,
apparently centering in southern New
Jersey, shook a four state area last
night.
Windows rattled. Buildings sway
ed. Dishes tumbled from shelves.
Pictures fell from walls, but no seri
ous damage was reported.
The Franklin institute in Phila
delphia said its seismograph showed
the tremors began at 9:45 p. m. and
lasted for approximately 10 seconds.
An institute spokesman said the
’quake was the most severe register
ed in this area in recent years. Re
ports from several seismographs will
be necessary, he said, to locate the
exact center of the disturbance.
Felt in Baltimore.
The tremors were felt as far south
as Bridgeton, N. J., as far west as
Baltimore, and northward to Allen
town, Pa., and Trenton, Roverton,
and Palmyra, N. J. Wilmington, Dela.
also reported a severe shaking.
A deep rumbling that resembled
distant thunder accompanied the
rocking and rattling of buildings.
Residents of southern New Jersey
and Delaware, where many powder
plants are located, at first feared
there had been an explosion.
Police in Philadelphia were report
ed to be on the lookout for fires that
might start from swinging lamps and
overturned stoves.
A Philadelphian, dozing on a sola
at the time, declared:
“It felt just like two fellows picked
up the davenport and,shook it back
and forth like a baby’s cradle.”
Sergeant William R. Hall, of the
Salem, N. J., police said he heard “a
rumbling noise” that “didn’t seem to
come from any particular direction.”
A Paulsboro, N. J., electric com
pany employe, said ink splashed
full realization that the world abounds
with people and ways to make life invit
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