Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 193, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 26, 1940 Page: 3 of 8
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Hold Safety School
Tonight for Denton
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Kansas University nosed out the University of Southern California. 43
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Wed like a long vacation
But Where is there to go
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Very tough opposition then looms
for the locals Wednesday and
Thursday, with Oklahoma Univer-
sity’s Booners the first afternoon.
Oklahoma Aggies from Stillwater
the later
of Class
was third
Class B title
with Aubrey
day. have been mulled by Coach
Choc Sportsman, he said today
One acceptance has been receiv-
ed. that of North Texas Junior Ag-
gies at Arlington Also Invited are
Paris and Weatherford junior col-
leges. Terrill Prep and Decatur
Baptists
The progrgin Is slated on Eagle
Field that afternoon at 3 30 o'clock
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Meanwhile. Sportsman was view-
ing weather conditions that threat-
ened to slow his varsity's prepara-
tofliks for this week-end's second
invasion of commerce, to face East
Texas and Howard Payne in a tri-
angular meet
Long victory over East Texas in
a dual affair last week means no
sure win for this Friday, the Eagle
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4|peel his Teachers College fresh- in the state this season. Chief com-
man thinly clads in a six-way track | plication immediately visible is the
and field engagement itere Thurs- I presence of Pete Owens. Howard
r™-,, payne hurdle fiasii. wito is credit-
ed with a 14 4 second journey over
the high timbers this year and will
be favored to erase the Eagles' su-
periority in the two hurdle events
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Smoked Hams and Haron.
Try Denton's Own Dee Laxe
Smoked Bacon and Hams.
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Everybody around here seems to'
think that Reese, the 150.000 kid
from Louisville, is on his way to- .
ward shortstop immortality. He
loks like a natural.
The other cogs of a slick Infield 1
are Dolf C ami 111 at first, Pete Coa- i
carart (who drove ^crossing the
winning run in the all-star game)
at second, and Cookie Lavagetto at
third
Some of the 105 counites in Kan-
sas never have had a grand ,'nry
session and most of them have had
o’lly a few throughout their his-
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for the troop's
Mr and
Woods furnished the
went to Roanoke. |
second and Ponder I
third, and rural title wa-s won by
Green Valley with Double Oak sec-
ond and Cooper Creek third
Final athletic rounds of
county meet will be staged here
Saturday with the playground ball
meet In charge of boys' play will 1
be J M Gross, in charge of the
girls division Miss Agnes Murphy. I
PaUerttotr id .
George E Shauer. captain of the I
safety division of the Public Safety 11
Department al Austin, will conduct i"
a safety school for truck and com- !
men-ial drivers tonight in the mu- ! “
nicipal auditorium j
This school Is being brought to (
Denton for one night in connection I
with the Junior Chamber of Com- |
■nerve safety campaign Both sen- I
lor and junior Chamber of Com-
merce members of Denton urge
drivers of commercial and business
vehicles to attend the safety
school
basketball title at Kansas City. Mo Shown High eleven, Francis Enlow at
J above fighting to gain possession of the ball left to right, are Bob Allen, tackle and Fred Wilkirson in the
Kansas. Jack Lippert, U S C ; Don Ebling Kansas, and Jack Morri- backfield
son. USC I „
Sanger Annexes
Vollevball Title
For the second successive time,
the Southwestern District AAU
track and field meet will be sent
to Denton to be unreeled on the
North Texas Teachers College field.
Coach Choc Sportsman has been
notified.
The meet, for. athletes of all
points in Texas north of a dividing
line at Waco, will be held Friday
and Saturday May 17 and 18
Winners are qualified to enter
the AAU national meet that will
be held this summer in Fresno.
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NEW Y’ORK March 26 — </P>— |
Our operatives report the three i
1 best football teams in the South I
next fall will be Tulane. Duke and I
Wallace Wade. Duke's I
is going riHMind the I
] Carolina golf tournaments looking I
like lie had Just swallowed an en- I
And it isn't his golf I
score he Is so proud of. either I
the meeting
Bob Burns and Duane Faw,
Wil-
and
Sanger High ncnool annexed the
Class A ciiampionshlp last week-
end when rounds of the Interscho-
lastic League county volleyball
meet were completed. Director Oen-
1 eral R C Patterson announced to-
day |
Tabulations made by Miss Pave
Cocanougher. meet director, showed
Pilot Point took runner-up honors
Denton Senior High
IN BUSY WEEK;
RAIDERS TODAY
Against Texas Tech’s Raiders,
Coach Pete Shands’ North Texas
netmen tills afternoon launched
their most strenuous home week of
the 1940 tennis season Matches on
Eagle courts were set for 2:30
o'clock |
Randolph Scott, durable North
Texan, was slated to draw No. 1
pairing for the Eagles, with Dan
Carr. Wayne Park, John Malaise
and Ross Collins, promising fresh-
man prospect from Eliasvllle High,
ranking as listed.
The Raiders came here from an
overnight stay in Dallas, where
yesterday they bowed to the
strengthened 1940 Southern Meth-
odist team 7-0
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Although a human being's tem-
perature la virtually constant,
whether he Is at the equator or the
North, Pole, the temperature of a
camel traveling across the Sahara
! Desert wdll vary as much ac nine de-
; grew in a single day.
about 198 pounds;
tackle. 175, Jimmie McAlister,
tackle (he might get a shot at cen-
ter) 165; Nat Noles, tackle, 170;
Tom Spalding, guard. 175; Jack
Boorman, end. 170; Morris Bover
back. 147; Martin Ferrick, back,
145; CeCH Martin, back 145
Also expected was Doug Crouch I _
140-pound scat back who lettered' make a colorful addition to base-
in 1938 but was out of school last ball, even though they might be
year, and though not slated for rushing him a trifle He is a son of 1
spring drill because of last season's Larry' Gilbert of the famous Bcr»- I
bad leg Injury, big Phil Miller is ton Braves of 1914. and he attend- 1
probable candidate for a tackle ed his first ball game at the ripe
post by next fall | age of 12 days. In a basket His fa-
Squadman Prospects ther now is manager and part-
What the roster would develop owner of the Nashville club,
remained to be seen, but a group ! __ - .
of promising squadmen expected to [ Keese Looks Good
report Included Leonard Stanley
and A B Williford, backs: Ancll
Baker tackle. Bobby Blair and
Harry Heflin, guards; Oscar Stew-
! art center; Claxton Raysor, Bill
I Ruaell and Inge Tate, ends; and I
1 two youngsters from the 1939 Jun-
ior High eleven, rrancts Enlow at
I tackle and Fred Wilkirson in the
backfield
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65 and guests met at the scout hut >
Monday evening f~ "— -
monthly picnic supper
Mrs C W “
supper
Leaders present at
were
, assistant scoutmasters A B
| Ilford senior patrol leader
| Bruce Davis, scoutmaster
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I At 3 o'clock tills afternoon. Coach I
I H. V. Stanton and IiIh Denton !
II High Broncos were to begin laying I
l|iup armament for next fall's push
With Issuing of equipment and a
| check over the roster of ellgibles,
I I the squad would go Into the first
| preliminary calesthenlcs and the
I 1940 football preparations would be
I under way
m "Well just take exercise, pass
■ , and .handle the ball some today.
■ I but we're going to move Uito rough-
■ er work right away.” Stanton
■ commented on the eve of camp |
■ I opening
■ "By the next few days’ and be-
■ fore the week is over, we'll be run-
fl , nlng some plays "
■ i Wealth of Tackles
■ i Nine lettermen from last year's ]
■ Bronco eleven were due to check
■ In today as the 30-day camp grind
H started They presented a wealth masnvuie in tnat importan
■ tackle material, some versatile! if he dees, it can be taken
9 backfield beginnings, but a painful ; admission that the
■ shortage of seascxied football stuff ! hope to win
■ in the middle and at the ends of ' building seriously for tht long haul.1
■ the forward wall I If Cullenbine can hit better than
■ Due to report were Leonard he did with Detroit, he is a cinch
f Carpenter, tackle weight estimated for the third outer post for he is
Ken Redding. | a ball hawk and owns a fine throw-
ing arm Otherwise. Durocher must
fall back on men like Ernie Kay
and Jim Ripple Both are good,
run-of-the-mine outfielders. but
not the kind of men that Brooklyn
needs to make it a pennant con-'
tender
Young Gilbert, incidentally, will I
| Today’s guest star.
I Tom Meany. N Y. World Tele-
Add Yankees sale dept I gram Those rookies who were
It Ls just possible the Tankees ' going to go fart' are on Jheir way
use al
Any wav. we see they've got!
world champions bumping i
out front nobody could catch j around Florida on a bus.
After two long years Garbo’s
singing, laughing voice reaches the
screen in ' Ninotchka.” which opens
. today at the Palace Theatre for a .
With all their new players, includ- lwo.dBy lowing
Here are the figures
Sam Boston one of the better
Broadway handicappers, is the first
out with figures on the major
. league races In the American
| League the Yanks are 1-J. the Red
. Sox 5-1. the Indians 8-1. Detroit
110-1. White Sox 12-1, Washington,
<30-1. Philadelphia 50-1 and St ,
, Louis 200-1 The Cards are quot- ,
led 2-1 in the National, followed by |
the Reds 5-2. Cubs 6-1. Dodgers
'6-1 Giants 8-1. Pirates 10-1, Bees
I 50-1 and Phillies 200-1
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Senior Junior Divisions
Tile 1940 Southwestern District
meet will be staged in two divi-
sions senior and Junior for Uie ; Tennessee
first time Sportsman said uxiay | head man.
The procedure
i the national meets. . ,
athlete* new to the contests will l hit aviary
vol have to comjiete with truck .
and field veterans. |
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<r>-Somewhat earlier than usu-
al It becomes necessary to tell the
ever-hopeful Brooklyn fans to"wait
until next year.”
This Is a painful duty, because
the Dodgers got their following |
a m ^.aaaaaaaa even hKM'e eXClUd than usual by 1
A (* nnil I IJI nIMO 1 cl’"lh,llk tnto third place in last
fl\ llnll I nrlllllN 'years National League chase, and
Hu UllILL ULUII1U ‘he fiatbush fans are going to be
loud In their disappointment if the
team doesn't do at least as well this
time.
| But that's the point. They might
i liave difficulty staying that high.
| With nil their new rylnyern incliid-
—TT—~v..~ *~— i Ing Outfielders Joe Vosmik and Roy
J cullenbine and the little squirrel
I of a shortstop, ' Peewee” Reese, the
Dodgers still are really sound in
only one department, their infield.
Vosmik Only Certainty
Manager Leo Durocher. who irti-
i ported and exported outfielders like
a commission merchant all last
season, still hasn't found a com-
bination that suits him AU he
knows for sure at this point is that
the slowing Vosmik, purchased from •
Boston for $25,000 will hold down
; left field
Despairing of finding an estab-
lished slugger to patrol the center
garden. Durocher Is thinking seti- |
ously of starting the race with 20- ,
1 year-old Charlie Gilbert from,
Nashville in that important spot.
— _1 as an
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Edwards, Robert J. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 193, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 26, 1940, newspaper, March 26, 1940; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1312643/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.