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f TAE SPOKlS PAUE No Game This Week, But Mountaineers Waynesville's gridders will be tHl this week-end. as far as regular game is concerned. But you couldn't tell it from the practice this week as the unde feated Mountaineers went back to work to try to stay that way in their battle against the tough Mar ion Rippers a week from Friday. Coach Carleton Weatherl. said, "they all played a good hall aaine and played consistent!:." in tluir 20-0 victory over A-heville School last week. The win, which was the seventh straight since the oeumi; game tie with Sylva. wrtualU lnuh'd the Blue Rid;?e t '..niei ence tine for the second sti.o 'hi -ea-ur, tor the Mountaineer It also clinched a lelui n mvit.t- t.-. Ilm P ill, i ll.iul s'.illif at Pnnlun Noveiobei :tn tlu-o) Waynesville ltt.ittii Marion team, if-1-1 ' Paper Howl sj.iok I'" ed last season In suite of the . .p u 'I '0 till week-end, the Mount. win . i go through tin ii 1 1" ui.,1 v schedule "We'll work outdoor ac as long as the un i 1 -himn fnai'h s.lid ml s hrll it ' 1 1 we'll work in the ni. The workout- i':i- 'Auk and in t week arc amud ;.t iMMilnn th,- offense and deiin.-c ('..cites c.itherby . I'ai I Ua'clul-- and Mar shall Teacue aN arc sending lno boys tlmuiah work on the dum mies. W'eathtuhy. along with a sub stantial contingent of Mountain eer supporter? are planning to see Marion and Canton tangle Friday nisht at Marion. The Mountaineers came throueh the Aheville School aar.ie with nothing worse than some b.ii bruis es Quarterback Charlie Womack. who played his usual smart saino, was limping early tin? week an injured leg muscle, but '.iu dition was described a- "no! ious." Mil oil- Canton Midgets Rally To Edge Asheville Y The Champi YMCV-. Gra-Y Junior Bear defeated lieu ter rallv that tory over tin YMCA mid. pi . . i n d tin I!' 1111 d wiin a tlui l-iiar-gav t hem ,i 7-ti vic--licwiU- Ci ntml t at Caiituii ia-t The win a- tbi eighth . -j.wele-dersonville i, the their record thi-- - Carl (;iliiian pi Cantau midgets' tie wuh Hen- only blotch on rj-uii u far. it the A heville 11. tile reeond gridders in fund u period w hen lie ero goal from the nine- d tie- Canton nil line on a quarterback blleak. His thrust capped a 70-ard drive. But the vital tr lor the point failed, and Canton set up the matching touchdown in the tliird period when Charle. Carpenter in tercepted an A "heville pa-s on the Asheville and i-tuined it tiPht yard-; Charle- Eurnf.ite tb-n whipped a pass to Butch Moran in t!,e end zone to tie tne -core. Then fcuriiette. ira bed through the line to make tie v.u i m..; point. The highe-.l bodv of water in the United State- i- believed to he Colorad Tarn, ar a l3 06S-fuut elevation in the Hoi I;-. Mountain.-,. A tarn a mountain iiooi with less than one-tenth of a mil surface. f 'a ater L FOUR TIMES AND UP m lav ' WWW S&ZfwJJf Of The WayiicSviHe MOuiUailU-cr Thursday Alitrruoon, November 10, 1943 Practice As ! I AP Vewsfeature; MA RY I L.I.F., Ten n The brother .Maryville college here v, ith lour -it i tie football sotiad. I..' ! MARY iLl.t. 'lenn 1 he brother ;.ct is bt in", emphasied at i '1 In hi others as pictured arc blocknm !;..ck. and blocking back, and Paul Mi r in. i mi , w ineljack. are sUinih The Callaway s, Siirpards and Aierwm orotriei- sons ni rreMn China, arc playing their fust tack'e I'ooiball. The boys learned touch loothall in American school- in China. The parents sent the buys back to the I . S. for college, lie. id Coach l.onibe S. Hunaker and Line Coach J. D. Davis say the boy.- arc picking ui the tackle variciy of football in a liurrv. Ex - Mountaineers Star For Gardner-Webb College Coon Hounds Good; Squirrel 'Cats Better HIGH POINT UP i The Smith's beloved coon hounds. fo:i hounds ai d bird dots aie takiiiK a biick -e.it nowada-. at le.ct in High Point Vnm ill ti lets ai e In t beor . the same as d-. of the residential liainins squirrel cats a squirrel cat is about a squirrel dog exc ept that- the cat is on 24-hour duty and carries the fight to the tree tops, where Ktdo would be at a dc.lllict dl-,ail jittage. The wooded hills of the lovely Frnorywood section have become overrun with squirrels to Mich an extent thai tiled business men came home to a ;( -.ion with the ride or 'hotiin in the backyard. That tended to make the back yards more than a little danger ous. Chances are the place would be knee-deep in shotgun shells if it badn't been for a cocky tomcat which sauntered into the mid-t of the evening battle. Tom ; ent the quit r. ! heading fur cover and' then headed up the tall timber, w ah them. That did ii. That plu-: the fa't that a armcl fight in', spittin?. clawing, "quin-el-hatin' cat cost . a good deal less in .upkeep than doe an active shot gun. Use of pumice and puniicite reached a record 007.740 tons in the U. S. in 1948. - By Alan Mover PAUL 'BEAR" , 4fM KHTUCKV ' LOOKS HIS BEST AS WLL AS otfe of '' VATOX'S BESTS PAUL'S FIRST KeHTUCKY MADtTir SCHOOL'S eesT Since i9t2 tto He MM MMt -1N8. SCHOOL FIRST WMNMR OF TH mm A $ j , srr Usual Gridiron Brothers H. ; I bintliei oil the 1!MU Seol- l let' to tit' lit. front row Henrv. i Call.iw.A' t la!, and Kiti4 Herrong. Jr.. l.tin Beiroii'. tailbac:;. Donald, tackle, and in! Clarence. ii!back and Kenneth Shepard, io;. i l'.i rn;!,s are local boys. Tin. ii.-n.iu missionaries in l'cinii 1 1 1 I'l,.. M . ,111.1 :i it ) SHKUJY The Gardner-VVebl College P.iilldogs have two young I nik'ii of whom Waynesville citizens can be justly proud. They are Ervin Shook and Charles Howell. Shook is one of the leading punt ers in the Western North Carolina Junior College Conference. Howell is one of the defensive stars for the 11119 Gardner-Webb College 1 1 'even. Shook, who has played both at tailback and quarterback this sea--on was a Waynesville High School star for three seasons. He al-o attended Central High of Atlanta, Ga., for one campaign. That year. 1945, he was an All Slate 'election. While at Waynesville, he twice was second team All-State quarter back. Shook was also a baseball star three years at Waynesville and one year at Central, and a basketball standout at Central. This 10T) lb., 19-year-old gridder played in the East-West Optimist Bowl game in Asheville in 1947. Shook graduated from Waynes ville High in '48. and went to the Gardner-Webb campus in the lat ter part of the same year. He wa- a three-sport star at the Roiling Springs school in '48, hit ting .320 as a eft fielder on the ba.seball squad and teaming with Jim Hullender to give the Bull clogs of the court two of the finest guard in the conference. So far this season Shook has punted 10 times, averaging 38 yard-, per kick. He has also com pleted 7 of lr parses. Howell was a three-sport, star while at Waynesville High, hav in played Hue., years of football, and one yrar t ach of baseball and biisk l hall. In 1 !J !fi. he won a berth on the All-Blue l.'idge Conference League team when Waynesville won the conf, riT.ec c h.nnpionsliip. Ho-ac! giaduaiirt from the Waynesville sehfiol last spring. Ma joring i Physical Education at G-W. he litis the scales at 170 lbs and is ?, years old. This being his initial season on the Cleveland County campus, he is being count ed upon for heavy duty the next three sea: ons. Franklin High Re-Admitted To Smoky Conference Franklin High School was eject ed, then readmitted to the Smoky Mountain Conference, all in a week's time. On November 1 Conference offi cials ousted Franklin for allegedly failing lo submit eligibility reports on its players to its opponents. But last Tuesday night, exactly a week later, the Conference offi cials voted to readmit the school after a delegation of Franklin citizens. Franklin Coach Milburn Arklna, and Principal Guy Sutton appealed from the previous -verdict.. "We have a clean house, no In eligible players, nothing to hide. Anyone Is welcome to do any checking on ua they want to do," Coach Atkins said. The U. 3. Bureau of Mines esti mates zinc-lead deposits In the tri- Sfate district of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma at 68,100,000 ions. Marion Rippers Hard-Luck Team Of The Year; But Rate As Toughest Test For Undefeated Mountaineers Tight-lipped Art Ditt, the ex North Carolina back of the late 30 s, stood in the chill wind last Saturday on the sidelines at Ashe ville School, taking notes and nod ding. Then he murmured: "Waynes ville and I.enoir that'd be a good gatuf." Ditt was watching the Mountain eers overpower a game but under manned Asheville School eleven, !0-0, when he expressed the opin ion. The nhdit before, he'd seen his own Marion Rippers take a 12-0 lickina from I.enoir, the Western Class A powerhouse that has drop ped only one game sp far this sea son. That loss was by a couple of touchdowns to the Class A A Gray HikIi eh en of Winston-Salem. The Mountaineers have only two hurdles to leap to finish their 1949 season undefeated, though tied. One of them is Ditt's Marion eleven. To hear the ex-Carolina back field workhorse tell it. though, the Kippers constitute no-obstacle. -We'll try to make it close," he smiled wryly, referring to the No vember 18 engagement at Waynes ville. Marion this season turned into the hard-luck team of the Western Conference, going into the games weekend to weekend with the sick list loaded with regulars. Still. Waynesville's supporters find little comfort in Ditt's observa tion when I hey start of the compar ative treatment Waynesville and. Marion each gave to the Hender sonville Bearcats. Though comparative scores mean practically nothing they can carry some significance . The Mountaineers worked out a 28-20 victory over the Bearcats the -memorable night of October 14. The next weekend, the Rippers mauled the same Hendersonville team. 30-0 "Marion." reported a Waynes ville scout respectfully after the game, "could do no wrong." The Kippers' performance Friday night against Lenoir gave no rea son for comfort to Waynesville supporters either Observers reported that Marlon out played the I.enoir eleven most of the way. and some said they dioiilil have won. Hard luck struck the Rippers even before the opening kickoff. A regular tackle slipped on the concrete as he was running out of the stadium to the field, for the opening kickoff. He rode the bench with a sprain ed ankle the entire game. , Then Marion scored twice in the first half. But both touchdowns were call ed back on penalties. What hint, Dift winced, was that one of the penalties was call ed against Lenoir "I've never seen that happen be fore," he said, "but we weren't given the opportunity of either ac cepting or refusing the penalty." Ditt said a Marion boy caught a pass and ran all the way to the Len oir end zone. But Lenoir had been charged with interference with the receiv er. The play was called back and, according to Ditt, the official pro ceeded to s:tep off 15 yards against Lenoin without giving Marion a chance to decline the penalty and accept the touch down instead. Marion .which ended the. 1948 season with a 19-14 loss to WaynesV. villi? in the Paper 'Bowl. '..was loaded with talent1 aA h cjrlt& campaign opened. Observers reported that the Rip pers did "very well" against Lee Edwards in two regulation - length scrimmages before the season open ed. One of the key men in the Mar ion offense was Wingback Gil bert Packctt. a big, shifty runner equipped with sticky fingers that gave him an early reputation of being one of the finest pass catch ers in North Carolitla scholastic loothall. The Rippers opened up the sea son by blasting a good'Olympia High School team from Columbia, S. C. But that victory was the last game Packett played this season. Early in the opening period, he broke a leg. After that tragic news broke, Marion's opponents proceeded to tighten up their defenses to stop, the Rippers' running attack. The passing offensive had all but died when Packett broke his leg. All but three of Marion's oppon ents managed to stop the Rippers. But there is a report unofficial, of course, that Packett's leg has been slowly knitting during the last ten weeks, and that he may see action Friday night against the Im proving Canton eleven. . If not that night, so the report goes, he may play against Waynes ville the next weekend. But whether Packett can play or not and his long layoff will keep him far below the par at best- Waynesville's Mountaineers can look for plenty of trouble tha night of November 18. ; That's an Inevitable commodity naturally produced by any eleven that makes the best of the State's Class A teams pay heavily fo what they e- However, Ditt's reflection regard ing a possible Waynesvllle-Lenoir tieup is an echo of much of the speculation over the identity of the two Paper Bowl teams. The official announcement ex pected about November 12 would prove a shocking surprise if it did not include Waynesville As for the other team, the talk has centered most heavily around Monroe and Lenoir as the Westepn Clas? A representative, though Lenoir is certain of a bid to the post-season Bowl game at Hickory. At the time, the idea was con sidered somewhat horrifying, but one observer after seeing Waynes ville's powerfu lrallies against Hen dersonville said the Mountaineers would be ready for Lenoir by sea son's end unless, of course, key players suffered serious Injuries. That game followed by only a week; Waynesville's narrow 7-0 squeak over a fighting Canton team that had fallen 37-0 the previous Friday under the Lenoir steamroll er. Since the Canton game, however the Mountaineers have looked like an entirely different team. Some weaknesses are still evident, but not obivious. But the Mountaineers are an en tirely different bunch of players than those who stumbled to a 6-6 tie In the mud at Sylva on the night of September 16. Furthermore, "Injuries to key players" have developed into more of a blessing than a curse to the Mountaineers While triple-Jhreat Halfback Bob Davis was nursing an ankle injur ed in the Canton game, Jimmy Moss, a smart, alert junior, devel oped into a cool veteran especially deadly when hes' passing. James (Perk) Fugate, another reserve, taking over Davis' punting duties, developed into a coffin corner kicker. Though he hasn't been able to match Davis' long, spiralling punts that sent the safe ties racing for their own goal posts, his boots have gone out of bounds or rolled dead within the 10-yard line more than mere coincidence can possibly explain. Though Coach Carleton Weather by would be the last' man to admit It, if he would admit it at all, the Mountaineers appear to be knee deep In backfleld talent operating behind a fast, bruising line. George Garrett, the other start ing halfback, has developed into a shifty, dangerous runner. The Mountaineers have as smart a quarterback as the fans have seen in this neck of the woods. Charlie Womack, the star of the 1948 Pap er Bowl game, Is an accurate pass er and a dangerous runner. He demonstrates this, whenever he gets around to calling his own number. As for the fullbacks, they have been entirely too numerous for the opposition to handle. Don Whisen hunt, showing 100 per cent Im provement over his 1948 perform ance, was one of the main reasons for the Mountaineers' 20-0 victory over Asheville School and is cur rently the Mountaineers' scoring leader. J. C. Deweese, his alternate, started slowly but by mid-season turned into a powerhouse that doesn't know when it was stopped. He and Whlsenhunt did most of the bail-carrying last weekend. Each rained two to 12 yards every vune he .carried yie nan. ..Whtsennwrji nfcver lancet torgitf n, or&-lf Pnly That was on a pliy late in the fourth quarter when he' ran into a pileup at the line of scrimmage. As the season goes into the home stretch, the Mountaineers find themselves with the depth of sea soned material that is characteris tic of the best of the Class A schools. However, the two games ahead are expected to prove the toughest of the season. Weatherby and his staff aren't figuring out the total season re cord yet or planning their strategy for the Paper Bowl. They're still taking the season from weekend to weekend. The Mountaineers have an open date next weekend, and the layoff has Its advantages and disadvant ages. They'll have time to recuperate on some bad. bruises that cost thera the 20-0 victory hist weekend and to work on defenses and offenses for the Marlon game. At the same lime there will be the danger of a relapse that faces every team with an idle weekend on Us hands. Coach Weatherby tried to fill the date with a game against rugged Erwin, Tennessee, but said he re ceived no reply lo hi letter. It was understood, however, that the scheduling difficulty lay In the fact that both teams wanted to take a road trip . In any event, Weatherby indicat ed that he was satisfied with the laihsre to make the date. "We can us the rest," be said tn effect. . The Waynesville mentor will use the free time to take advantage of the rare opportunity, of seeing both his, final, opponents play eacb, other at Marion Friday night. Waynesville In Canton Opponents For Classic Announced Waynesville's Mountaineers and the Monroe Pythons will meet In the second annual Paper Bowl football game at Canton November 50- Ralnh Gdiosth, chairman of the. Paper BpwI committee of the spon soring Y's Men!s Club of Champion, YMCA, announced this week that the two Class A scholastic football, powers had accepted Invitations. It will be the second consecu tive appearance in the colorful grid, show for the Mountaineers, Who upset Marlon's Rippers, 19-14, in. the thriller that gave the Bowl a. highly successful christening last season. A former pupil will be facing his old coach along the sidelines at kickoff time. Harry Jaynes learned his football and starred on Coach Carleton, Weatherby's pre-war Mountaineers, then went on to play four great seasons at Western Carolina. He went back to Waynesville as an assistant coach last December, but left for Monroe to take the same Job with the Pythons and play the line for the professional Char-, lotte Clippers on Sundays. Jim Gudger, Monroe's head coach, is, no stranger to this section either. A native of nearby Candler, he starred at Lee Edwards in Ashe ville, then at Western Carolina be fore taking charge of Monroe's football fortunes. The versatile Monroe coach also plays pro baseball. He pitched for Hendersonville of the Western Car. olina League in 1948, then shifted to the Coastal Plains League the next season. The Mountaineers, tied but un defeated, clinched a return inyita tion and their second straight Blue Ridge Conference championship last Saturday afternoon when they overpowered Asheville School, 20-0, for their seventh straight victory. They will be meeting a power house that is heading for an un defeated and untied season. The Pythons have rung up ten straight victories to date and are tied with powerful Children's Home for the lead In the South 'Piedmont Conference. They rolled over Canton's Black Bears, 20;-0, ou. September 23, while the Mountaineers edged the same team, 6-0, two weeks later. The Mountaineers face an im proved Canton eleven on Thanks giving Day at Waynesville in their final game of the season. Monroe will go into the Paper Bowl game filling the favorite's role. Coach Weatherby, when in formed of the Invitation, expressed, pride and satisfaction both over his boys having been selected for the second straight year and over the choice of their opponents. Meanwhile, the members of the Bowl committee were working this week on the details of a colorful program which will form the back drop of the game. At least two crack high school bands and possibly three will march and play at the game, and a celebrity will be chosen to present the Bowl trophies. After the game, the players on iw "ajmwvjue uo.ruesqunas will be efitwtine$''a aba&uetii The announcement of the Yearns ended weeks of speculation. The Mountaineers appeared almost cer tain of a return trip to the Bowl, with the choice of their opponents posing the biggest question. Lepoir, Morganton, and Monroe figured as most likely choices, with Sylva and Bryson City up untij two weeks ago given an outside chance. However, Bryson City dropped out of the picture whe the Mount aineers spoiled its unbeaten srlng, 20-6, and Sylva was eliminated from the picture when it lost, 27 26 to Bryson City the following weekend. , Sylva's 6-6 tie is the only blotch on the Mountaineers' record to date. The Mountaineers, however, still have to get by Marion and Canton to go through the regular season unueieated. WEEKEND FOOTBALL i SCHEDULE FRIDAY Canton at Marion Blue Ridge at Asheville Murphy at Sylva SATURDAY Wake Forest, at N. C. State North Cafolln vs Notre Dafcie at New York; Duke at George Washington. Mississippi at Tennessee NOW you can Set CAmhlmttnn comb and Insecticide powdef ftp- Sicator for dogs. Th American agazine describes the device 'as having long teeth that the km, nd a bulb ivhleh. Svhea queeiea, . rorees Tidwder through we utn to reach flees and tick. Host T 'S Paper B ALL-AMEljl FUTURE BOfj By FRANK Kt'K AP Newsfeatures S r ""I Kdilui Frank Clayton Tui likel weii-sizea. teitow win, u,,,, ,. throwing monkey unmii, opposing football n.ael,,,,, Minnesota center could l n,e iiilu 'III,. ptvot man from the hit. i,.,, . make All-America Limv w It is not uncommon fur r, maker to take a be;id i, au 0l. posing back running uuU ami match him stride for stti,it, llllti he meets him at or belmui in. iim. of scrimmage. It is unite ;i m,u to see Tonny and his imi; pounds give, chase after someone Till pounds less In avoirdupois. Following Minnesotas 21-7 i0ii quest of Northwestern, Coach Bb Volghts of the Wildcats la mented: "It's that Tonnemaker who wrecked us. We just couldn't get him out of there, and every time w dented Minnesota's line he was there waiting for the ball carrier." Against Ohio State. Tunny was particularly brilliant in the 27-0 triumph. He frequently nailed Buckeye backs before they hit the line of scrimmage. "We can't do a thing,'' said some of the Ohio State players to their coach, Wes Fesler. "We hit that big Tonnemaker and bounc : right off him. We can'l even knock i him off balance." Tonnemaker, an Associated Press "lineman of the week'' this fall is co-captain of the Gophers and is: working on his fourth football M. I He is 21, stands six-three and comes from Minneapolis. He is a senior in physical education, which usually means a coaching career al ter graduation. Last summer Tonnemaker work- ed in the keg department of aj brewing company, tossing kens' around to get his arms ami slmul-i ders in the best possible physical shape. , George Svendsen, assistant FATHER AND SON &?L BLAIK, AMAV COACH HAVE you .; ha. wh, he enjoy, mo,, m w.khla tnciUngP"? ,h Wmwork, the food blocking, tlM'feaf run. that mik At l (mem., for ".M wi" ,nsw, W tM fowl"" ktt0M V ttlkln, about. He Know. , that win. tht tune- ' It b ttib aune'teamwork tht Duna, Tnt M wnj (3 4 Pi I Jin iZful ! . WrtMrf r F"""n SH'"" . r CLAYTON T Wrecked Minnesota Mid ball ilh Grfti rates Tonny II renter and Ihi he li.is evcrw of North Ci' . . ,n t dos1 working " . .J Iim A"1- "7 . if I V . . Mia Pi Cjiolini N'hCiroli:f? . indulW I Iheiri""- j north 5TAT6S .t insor
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