THE MOUNTIANEER'S
PORT PAGE
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Completely Covering
The Local Sports
Field
RSDAV, NOVEMBER 23, 1937
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Edited Uy Marion T. Bridges
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IAYNESVILLE AND CANTON TEAMS CLASH TODAY
Mountaineers Defeat Strong Swannanoa
I'eatherbyVBoys
Start scoring in
Opening Minutes
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laineers Enables Ihem lo
Cinch Game In Early
Periods
UPORTU
MARION BRIDGES
On a field. that was ideal for foot-
Ill the Waynesviiie Mountaineers
liked up anotner game to tneir
.jit by defeating the Swannanoa
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It afternoon with approximately five
jdred enthuiastic tans watching
,e game.
The .Mountaineers presented a much
-.proved team over previous games
:d really settled down to business at
i opening kick-off. The long boys
e noted for thei" comeback after
: first half, but in this game they
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an Willi me msi wiiiaue aim Kepi
,; good work up until the last whis
Theie have been several teams that
tve depended on passing attack to
n from the Mountaineers, but to
they have not been able to get
Mi' passes to cuck. waynesviiie nas
tactically' an airtight defense when
comes to passing as was demon-
ratwl in the game last Friday. The
untaineeis intercepted three pass
arid picked up several yards on
ch. Waynesviiie only passed twice
i completed one of the two for
ven vaids and a first down.
The first tally for the Mountaineers
be about in the first "period o'f the
ae due to one of the intercepted
ses that Waynesviiie made. Reeves,
;o has been out of the regular line
since the Canton game due to
ury, took a pass intended- for one
Swannanoa's ends and returned it
the forty yard line where Smith,
a reverse, carried the ball the re
fining distance to the goal line for
e first score. Milner rushed the
e for the extra point.
Waynesviiie almost made another
re in the first period when the
als blocked a punt on the ten-yard
(and Collins, Mountaineer guard,
pk the ball up to the one-foot line
the first quarter ended. On the
Play which netted the locals their
ond score of the game. Phillips
ed the line for the extra point but
led to cross the stripe.
Swannanoa only made one threat at
N goal,' and that was in the closing
The big game of the season on the
local gridiron will be played today.
Of course most of you can guess what
game it is, but for those that only
attend or care lor one football game
WAYXESY1LLE Fl.AYS CANTON
at Township Stadium at 2:'M o'clock.
Waynesviiie came out on the little
end of the score in the first game with
Canton, but the betting seems to be
on more even terms this time.
Football Pool Racket
i Is Coming Easy Money
Suckers Ante $1,500,000 Each Week
Trying to Beat Sure Thing
Coach l'oimio.ler, of Canton has
attended several of Waynesviiie s
games and is expected to throw op
position into the local boy's paths.
It would not surprise me. to see i
minutes of - the second quarter alter
they had blocked one of Waynesville's
punts and recovering the ball on the
twenty-yard stripe. The Swannanoa
aggregation put on a drive that took
them to the ten-yard line where the
half blocked their only real chance
to score.
In the third quarter Waynesviiie
presented a new play against the vis
itors that has not been seen before
this year on the local field, a Wide
spread 'formation that puts the op
posing team in a spot as to what to
expect. Smith, on a sweeping end
run almost crossed the line again for
the locals, but was stopped on the
four-yard line where Swannanoa held
for four downs.
The game ended with the ball in
a very peculiar place and a very rare
place, the one yard line in Swanna
noa's territory.
The line-up:
Waynesviiie Pos. Swannanoa
Chafin LE Patton
Truitt LT Regan
Davis LO Young
Taylor C Burgess
Collins RG Wainscott
A. Hancock . RT Childers
Messer RE Brown
Smith QB Maxwell
Milner LH Snyder
Reeves RH Horne
B. Phillips KB McMurray
Officials Herman, referee; Stretch
er, umpire; Davis, head linesman.
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'HOXf in WAYNES VILLE
iP ' l Suckers are taken for
wW Ij1,800'000 each wreek TnfjfliM
By MAURICE RIKRRYFIELD
International Uluttrated Ne Writer
NEW YORK As is true each
football season, chargea of pro
fessionalism are again in the air,
some of them probably Justified,
but a new threat of commercialism
has developed in connection with
intercollegiate gridiron activities.
This has to do with the amazing
and widespread popularity of foot
ball pools which are estimated to
glean better than $1,500,006 a week
for their backers in United States.
Last year was the first season they
were played on such a wide scale,
cut this fall the racket has swept
the country and future seasons will
probably see it operated even more
extensively.
Aside from the fact that It is to
tie condemned for taking money of
countless suckers who are unaware
of what "fall guys" they are for
playing the pool, it la possible that
the racket may grow out of
bounds and work to the disad
vantage of Intercollegiate foot
ball's reputation.
Suckers Overlook Odds
In England, for example, the
racket has grown to such propor
tions that it is a Dig Dusiness in
Itself. By an odd ruling of the
British court, it is legal there for
operators of the many pools to use
the mails increasing their "take"
tar above what it would be if the
Blips were peddled as they now are
in United States. The pool was
first started by a London news
paper as a promotion contest, but
when it caught on in unexpected
fashion those who are always on
the lookout for "easy money" took
ever the racket and are reaping the
hillings now.
To one who Stops to figure out
the fair odds, the football pool is
obviously a sucker's game. Most
of the printed slips list six of the
closest games in the country.
Players who pick only four games,
and select the winners correctly,
are paid five for one; those who
take a chance in picking live,
winners get only ten for one, and
those who shoot the works and try
and pick all si-x correctly get but
20 to one for their money whereas
the correct odds on the three
combinations are 16 for one, 32 for
one, and 64 for one. In other
words, the pool operators pay off
less than one-third of what they
should when the sucker is lucky
enough to win!
'Runners' Get 10 Per Cent
Many of those who peddle the
slips for the football pools are the
same crowd who operate the
policy games. The office boy,
janitor, elevator operator, cigar
counter clerk and countless others
are the "runners" for the pool,
getting paid off by collecting 10
per cent of what they take in.
It has often been true in the
past when large sums are at stake
that there is someone who tries to
fix it so it will be a sure thing.
Fortunately, there appears uttie
likelihood of such a possibility as
far as football is concerned, Pool
operators can sit back and let fate
take its course, because .the
chances are slim of their being
taken for their bankroll, especially
since a tie game counts against
the player.
Most objectionable feature of the
racket, aside from the money it
takes from thousands of suckers
who would probably lose it on some
other racket anyway is the fact
that such unsavory things are
linked up with the sport of foot
ball at all.
many new plays together with several
trick plays demonstrated by both
teams.
: If the Mountaineers play the same
kind of ball that they did against
Swannanoa last Friday the game will
be worth the money to fee it. Way
nesviiie got off to a bad start, but
are making up for lost games. "
The two ends for the Mountaineers
Chafin and Messer played the
best game so far this season togeth
er with Hancock as running tackle.
John Reeves demonstrated his abil
ity in the back field, both on defense
and offense. During the course of
the game Reeves intercepted three
forward passes and played a jam
up game as right half back- Reeves
has not been in the regular line-up
since the Canton game where he re
ceived a back injury but he will be at
his best again for the encounter to
day with Canton.
When the football season goes out
some fans think athletics are dead
until the baseball season opens in
the summer, but it is not, basketball
is yet to come and will start imme
diately after the football season ends.
It has been a great gridiron season
and many exciting games have been
played by teams from all size schools.
Three times Duke University has
almost eomnleted an undefeated sea
son which would have given them a
chance to bid for the Rose Bowl game
which is nlaved on New Year's Day
at Pasadena, Cal., and is played be
tween the eastern champions ana
the western champions. This year
several eastern teams are on the
undefeated list while California ha3
the western end in the bag.
The Duke-Pitt game this Saturday
is causing no end of comment among
Second Game Of
Season Between
Teams To Be Here
Mountaineers Out To Overcome
Score Of First (iame With
Black Bears This Year
Today the Waynesviiie Mountain
eers will play their last game of the
1JK17 schedule at Township Stadium,
meeting their ancient rivals and con
tenders for the Haywood county cham
pionship, the Canton Black Bears,
The opening kiek-otf is scheduled ut
2:,'!0 o'clock.
For the first time in the history of
local football have Waynesviiie and
Canton played two football games in
one season, as is the case this year.
The first game between the two was
Uiken by the lilaek Bears by a score
of lit to ( o)i Canton's field under (he
Hood lights.
The Canton team has not lost but
one game this season and has one ol
tlu best teams in Western North
Carolina and surely the host team
they have had in several years. The
last game won from the Aloiintain
eirs until tins year, was in l'.t.'it).
The Mountaineers have improved
their .playing since the Inst encounter
and are expected to put up a harder
light than in I lie lust game.
Moth Waynesviiie ami Clinton are
expected to attend in large numbers.
All business houses in Waynesviiie
will hi' closed lor the game and also
lor Thanksgiving.
Canton Fails To
Take Sylva (Jame
The Canton Black Bears lost their
lirst game of the season to the strong
Sylva team last Thursday by a score
of l!l-(! before over a thousand cheer
ing fans.
The Canton team had won all of
their previous games including one
from Waynesviiie, all of them but one
being played on their local field and
under the ligtit.s.
Sylva completed their schedule
without suffering defeat, having tied
only one. The Sylva team outplayed
Canton in all phases of the game.
Flynn, star player lor ('anion did
not get into the game because of ill
ness, this Was to some extent a handi
cap to the (.'anion squad. It is re
ported that Flynn will be in condition
arid will play in the W'aynosville-Can-ton
game here Thursday .
("orreet this sentence;. '"I'lie n.itlnii-.l
budget will lie );tln riceil next J inu'."
the local fans,4 Pitt has not been de
feated, this season and if they are
able to stay on top with thj highest
score in the Duke garni', they will have
a fine chalice for the Rose Bowl. Ac
cording to some local fans that have
seen the lilue Devils' in action, Pitt
will not get the bid to play in the
Rose Bowl. .
To get back to local football.
There has been a little: boost in the
admission charges for the Waynes-villi'-Canton
game (25 and 75c)
so don't fail lo put enough money in
your pocket. book to lake care of your
ticket. See you at the game.
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