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George Occupies
The Sports Spotlight
Duke In Offing
For Track, Golf
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SHELLEY ROLFE
rusnensing with the more immediate
problems such as where the Phillies
finish and whether Lou Gehrig is
tir0Dgh, today's little dissertation
based on whether Long Lazy
ifthn Cheshire and Freight Train
Henry Feimster wm oe a Die u emae
the big league scouts for a few years
gad pitch for Bunn Hearn and the Tar
gecls the next few years.
In recent years every time a
pitcher has bloomed as freshman for
Hearn the scouts have infested Chapel
gill like locusts out for a field day and
cicnic in tne hea fields. A couple
of years ago, George Turberville elec
trified the natives and dismayed the
opposing batters in such a manner
that the scouts flocked around him
and pretty soon Mr. Turberville had
signed his soul away for a mess of
gold and a uniform with Uncle Con
nie Mack's Pathetics. Well the story
briefly is this, Mr. Turberville was
not ready for the major leagues and
after a season or two of proving that
point he drifted out of the majors and
into tbe semi-pro ranks. When last
jjeard of he was chucking semi-pro ball
in tbe eastern part of the state.
The most celebrated case is that
of Johnny Humphries who should
have graduated college last June,
hot instead was trying to keep the
Cleveland Indians in the American
league pennant race. Mr. Humph
ries responded to the occasion and
the Indian cause by winning upward
of ten games.
The scouts started camping on his
trail after a brilliant freshman year.
Humphries pitched one season for
the varsity, won seven and lost six,
but the scouts saw enough promise
to offer him a contract. Johnny
promptly won 20 games for New
Orleans in '37 and Massa Ossie
Vitt, the chief bossman of the In
juns, is counting on Johnny to do .
some tall ball game winning this
year, thereby enabling the noble
Redskins to do something about get
ting the Yankees out of there.
Had not Humphries signed with
the Indians he might have given Caro
lina two years of gilt-edge pitching
and last season a Big Five champion
ship. Cheshire and Feimster have been
turning in some incredible pitching
feats with the freshmen, such as strik
ing the side out, winning the game
in the ninth inning with a home run,
and then ending the afternoon by
lifting themselves by their bootstraps.
Such feats of strength and valour
are all very interesting, but some
body for the good of the Tar Heels,
ought to protect the young fellows
from the scouts for a few more years
anyway.
If they can keep Cheshire nailed
down, hell make Hearn the first
good southpaw he's had in the mem
ory of a few of the oldest settlers.
Feimster started amazing citizens
last year by winning a high school
championship for Scots high of
Statesville. He has lived up to ad
vance notices with the freshmen
or is that news?
Being an innocent looking, bright
eyed citizen, Charlie Rich, Tar Heel
sophomore third baseman, was peace
fully drinking his beer and shooting
his billiard balls at a Lexington pool
parlour Wednesday night when a
gendarme entered the scene to spoil
the Eden and cause the Rich beer to
get warm.
Said the grim guardian of the law,
"Sonny when did you blow into town?"
Mr. Rich was too amazed to an
swer. The g. g. of 1. didn't wait for
any more. He promptly grabbed Char
ge by the ear, well, almost by the
and dragged him out into the
open where our hero was immediately
kse by a number of representatives
f Washington and Lee.
"That's our man," they were re
Ported to have said, "he robbed the
dorms."
Chollie gulped, told his story, and
finally they believed him.
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Roanoke Rapids Today Honors
HometownBoy Who Made Good
By SHELLEY ROLFE
Folks up Roanoke Rapids way who
are going to honor George Nethercutt
today as one of the outstanding college
players in the South had better save
some of their superlatives and gifts
for the future, for the chances are that
theyll get many more chances in the
years to come to honor the chubby Tar
Heel catcher and co-captain as one of
the outstanding players in the major;
leagues.
, They say a good college catcher has
a one way ticket to the big leagues and
if that's so Nethercutt is on his way to
the majors. For he has everything a
catcher needs to get by with in the big
show. He is fast, is a smart receiver,
and has a splendid arm. Only two
bases have been stolen on him so far
this season.
As if his behind-the-bat work wasn't
enough to recommend him to the scouts,
Nethercutt has one of the fanciest bat
ting averages in captivity, having made
18 hits in 35 trips to the plate for an
average of .514. Coaches of opposing
teams have tried to fool Nethercutt on
slow balls, fast balls, curves, drops
and bases on balls and they're still
trying to figure a system to get him
away from the plate. Of the eight
games the Tar Heels have played he
has been effectively stopped in only one,
the battle against Washington and
Lee at Lexington Friday when he only
made one safe blow in five trips to the
plate. But the entire Tar Heel bat
ting attack was stopped colder than
a winter morn in that game.
OLD HAND
This year's offensive splurge isn't a
new thing or a flash in the pan for
George. He batted .440 last year and
socked the apple for a cool .314 his
sophomore year. Last season George
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Swimmers Discuss
Practice Tonight
. Plans for spring and fall practice
will be discussed by Coach .Dick Jam
erson and Captain-elect Ed Mueller at
an important and short meeting of
all who are interested in next year's
varsity swimming team which will be
held in room 304 Woollen gym tonight
at 7:15. Pictures of the N. C. State
varsity and freshman meets of this
year will be shown.
PROSPECTS GOOD
With nine lettermen and a fine ar
ray of prospects, Carolina's future in
swimming seems brighter than in the
i mu ;.fMmiinil meet last winter
past. , , .,
revealed considerable potential varsity
material among tne men wuu wc
out this year. Coach Jamerson is es
pecially anxious for these men to re
port and take part in the sprang work.
Next year's schedule includes seven
dual meets, several AAU meets and
the conference meet. With such a
schedule, a squad considerably larger
and stronger than this year's edition
will be necessary if Carolina is to ad
vance in the swimming world.
CHAPEL
Coaches Praise
Track Team For
Wins At Virginia
Rained out of their workouts yes
terday, Carolina's varsity and fresh
man trackmen took a holiday, while
the coaches praised the surprise per
formances of several of the varsity in
the Virginia meet at Charlottesville
Saturday.
With these men rounding into shape,
prospects for the Duke meet here Sat
urday are picking up. The Tar Heels
have had three week-ends of competi
tion, at Florida and against Princeton
and Virginia, as against only one
meet for the Devils, against Prince
ton. Improvements were shown in all
events against Virginia. In the cen
tury dash Bill Vogler ran second, in
the broad jump he placed third, and in
the low hurdles he ran a fast race but
happened to run it in fast competi
tion. Bill Groves ran his first 220 in
:22.5 to take, third. Johnny French
and Holt Allen, both of whom have
improved gradually, ran third and
fourth in the 'half mile, French being
timed in 2:00.4 and Allen in 2:03. Phil
Walker turned in his best time in the
highs, :15.3. Drewry Troutman, an
inconsistent runner, found himself
and pulled himself into a three-way
tie in the two-mile.
Bob Weinberger, showing the re
sults of his hard work this spring, took
second to McLaughlin of Virginia in
the shot put, and improved by 15
inches his first throw of the year in
Florida. George Watson returned to
the scoring column with a 175-foot
throw which gave him second in the
javelin. Jim Richards was unable to
place in the javelin, his best event,
but he took third in the discus.
Lacrossemen Prep
For Tilt With Duke
Indians Saturday
The lacrosse team yesterday entered
its second week of preparation for the
marauding Duke Indians who seem to
be making a runaway out of the Dixie
league race.
Last Friday in their second league
tilt of the season, the Blue Devils
swamped the defending champions,
Virginia, by the wide 9-1 margin. This
was the Dukes' fourth consecutive win
of 1939, as they already had two vic
tories over Clemson's embryonic squad
and one over Carolina.
Invading Duke this coming Satur
day, the Tar Heel line-up will present
Captain Walt Budden for the first
time this year. This factor promises
much to close up the seven-goal mar
gin enjoyed by the Blue Devils a week
ago on the coed field. To Budden, last
year All-Dixie defenseman, will go
the task of stopping the rampaging
Brown.
HILL, N. C TUESDAY, APRIL
RAIN KEEPS HEEL
NETMEN FROM WIN
OVER GENERALS
By WILLIAM L. BEERMAN
After a week of good weather, the
meterologists finally caught up yester
day with JohnKenfieM's Carolina ten
nis team, and by the margin of a very
few set points the visiting Generals
from Washington and Lee escaped an
official beating. Rain, reservoirs of it,
scattered the tennis players after Caro
lina had taken four straight matches
only one more victory was needed to
make the meet an official win for Caro
lina. Charley Rider, in the lead spot and
not so fresh from his week of playing
at Pinehurst, where he defeated Carl
Rood to become the North-South
singles champion, nevertheless over
came Clements of W. & L. in consecu
tive sets, 6-4, 6-4. Clements tired near
the finish, unable to match the com
paratively effortless style of Rider.
Of the four singles matches com
pleted, none went more than two sets.
Carl Rood, playing No. 2, beat Wash
burn, 6-3, 6-3. Walt Messerole, No. 4
man, ran over Robertson, 6-2, 6-3. Bill
Rawlings whipped Porter in the No.
5 position, 6-3, 6-3, to make the score
4-0 in Carolina's favor. Then, in the
J midst of Bill Rood-Pinck, Beadles-
Midelburg singles, and the Rawlings-Rider-Washburn-Clements
doubles
match, the rain came and "no contest"
was called. The Generals go after
State tomorrow, thus preventing a
play-off.
Pinck and Midelburg saved Wash
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Tennis Summary
Singles: Rider (C) beat Clem
ents, 6-4, 6-4; C Rood (C) beat
Washburn, 6-3, 6-3; Meserole (C)
beat Robertson, 6-2, 6-3; Rawlings
(C) beat Porter, 6-3, 6-3. Winner
the elements.
Mural Schedule
Playground Ball
4:00 Diamond No. 1 Aycock vs.
Lewis No. 1; diamond No. 2 Rang
ers vs. Steele; all other diamonds
available for practice.
5:00 Diamond No. 1 Pi Kappa
Alpha vs. Delta Sigma Pi; diamond
No. 2 TEP vs. Sigma Nn; diamond
No. 3 Lewis No. 2 vs. Med. School;
diamond No. 4 Chi PhUys. Zeta
Psi; Coed. No. 1 Physical Educa
tion vs. Mangum; Coed No. 2
Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Phi Delta
ChL
Tennis (Upper Asphalt Courts)
4:00 Sigma Chi vs. ATO.
5 K)0 Graham vs. Aycock.
No Murals
All intramural activities were
postponed yesterday afternoon be
cause of rain and wet grounds.
These games will be played at a
later date.
Feimster Out For
Greensboro Scalp
Hank Feimster, the big lad who
burns 'em by unsuspecting freshmen
and high school boys, will be chasing
his third victory and a new f rosh strike
out record tomorrow afternoon when
the Tar Babies clash with Greensboro
high on the intramural field.
Freight Train has piled up some
two dozen strikeouts in fifteen innings
on the mound for the yearlings. He
started the season by holding Wardlaw
prep hitless for six innings and then
took over Burlington high, 10-3.
WHIRLWINDS CHAMPS
Greensboro will be a tough one for
Hank to ring up a new strikeout rec
ord against. The Whirlwinds are de
fending their state Class A champion
ship this season and look just about as
good as last year. Although they drop
ped their first Class A contest to High
Point last week, their hurler only al
lowed four hits and the Gate City boys
acted like they were after another title.
The Tar Baby batting order receiv
ed added punch Friday when Julian
Miller joined Tom Frye, Bo Reynolds,
Hardy Thompson and Ernie Carraway
in the f rosh hit parade. Miller, former
Charlotte high school batting star,
came out of his slump to get two for
three against Belmont and aid ma
terially in giving the freshmen their
close 5-3 victory.
18, 1939
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Deac Leader
Irvin Dickens, from Roanoke Rapids,
will be honored today along with
George Nethercutt when Carolina and
Wake Forest meet at Roanoke Rapids.
LINESMEN WORRY
ABOUT DUKE MEET
Back from the golfing wars at
Athens, where they didn't win any
thing except a few friends, Chuck
Erickson's varsity linksmen rested well
yesterday and today will begin worry
ing about the meet tomorrow with
Duke university, the team that walked
away with everything but the green
fees at the Georgia tournament.
Of the five Carolina men entered
in the Southern Intercollegiate affair,
only Hudson Boyd qualified for the
championship flight, and he was short
ly eliminated. Others found themselves
in varying positions of advantage,
from the second flight to the fourth
Snow was eliminated in the fourth
flight semi-finals and Charley Diffen
dal went out in the second flight con
solation match. Kluttz and Neal Her
ring dropped along the wayside ear
lier. Horatio Alger, Jr., could not have
better written the tournament story.
Joe Taylor, a student at Duke univer
sity who was not even on the team,
paid his own expenses to the meet and
then played miraculous golf to beat
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UNBEATEN PITCHER
Citizens of Roanoke Rapids will get
their best bibs and tuckers off the shel
ves this afternoon, dust off the keys to .
the city, watch Carolina and Wake
Forest clash in a baseball game and
honor two local boys who went off to
college four years ago with bright high
school baseball records and ended up
as captains of the teams George
Nethercutt, Tar Heel co-captain, and
Irvin Dickens of the Deacons.
Roanoke Rapids will go rah rah for
the day and acquire some college spirit
by decorating the main streets of the
town in the old gold and black of Wake
Forest and the blue and white of Caro
lina. All merchants in town have
agreed to close their shops at 3 o'clock
so everybody in town can get down to
the ball park by game time which is
4 o'clock. Promoters of the game ex
pect a crowd of anywhere from three
to five thousand. Theyll be able to
handle 5,000. After the game alumni
of both schools will play host to the
teams at a supper in the high school
building.
SOUNDS GOOD
The folks who turn out for the game
will see Carolina's powerful hitting
machine going against the best pitch
ing in the Southern conference. Coach
John Cadell, who can call on any one
of four pitchers and be assured of a
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Frosh Tennismen To
Invade Duke Today
After downing seven opposing
squads in two weeks, the Carolina
freshmen tennis outfit invades Duke
this afternoon for the first of their
two match series with the Blue Imp
netmen.
Coach Kenfield's Tar Baby racquet
wielders have had no trouble in whip
ping Wake Forest, Durham high, Winston-Salem
high, and Peddie school,
and although they struck some tough
competition in the Scarborough prep
matches they came through with fly
ing colors.
Per usual, Sonny Jordan will han
dle matters on the number one court
for the Tar Babies, while Ham An
thony will hold down the number two
spot. Blair Rice and Joe Greenberg
will play numbers three and four re
spectively while Pat Winston and BUI
Calhoun will round off the singles
competition. The doubles combina
tions will be decided on the courts.
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