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Orlando, Fla. The Nationals are first to go into training.
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GASTON HILL. (Spl).—Eleven
lettermen, six of whom were reg-
ulars during the 1939 season, are
among the thirty-odd football
candidates expected to report to
Coach Jack Graves today as the
Gaston Red Devils open the first
of four weeks set aside for spring
training.
The Red Devil aspirants, seek-
ing berths for the 1940 District
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feet last week, Coach Andrews End George Lowdermilk, also a
would likely have had to practice starter last season, and Johnny
without several of his candidates, ' Nelson, star halfback. Other
to start their training grind:
The Aggies, riding high and
handsome, will be the team to beat
when the Southwest Conference
stadia fill with cash customers
next fall. Texas A. & M. support-
ers have made no attempts to
deny that their team will be after
its second straight undefeated,
season, the con-
ramumemsaxn" ference title and
l| —saaahinats of the loser's bracket.
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BULLETIN
Basketball hasn’t dropped out j sky, end, and George Jordan,
of the picture at the local school Manuel Williams, and Jim Curry,
yet, and Andrews will have to 1 backs.
le moment ordinary ink eradicator touches one of our Super-
fety Checks, irremovable VOIDS flash forth, canceling the
eck forever. And to back up this protection every depositor
10 uses these checks is INSURED against losses caused by
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real work.
The Lions were scheduled to
scrimmage all of last week and to
start two weeks of blocking and
tackling drills today. However,
Coach Andrews said it is likely
the aspirants will do considerable
contact work this week after be-
ing thrown off schedule last week.
Most of the boys who suffered
bad colds and light attacks of flu
last week are back in school and
apparently ready to resume work-
Nelson on Fort Worth
who were either abed with fluI numeral winners who return are
or were nursing bothersome colds. Ed Gossett, a tackle; Jack Petrof-
Junior basketball practice ends
this week, and Andrews is e.*
pecting all the boys who played
on last year’s Cub team to be on
hand sometime this week. How-
ever, many of the junior high
prospects are also suffering from
colds and it may be next week
before they will be in shape to
take hard workouts.
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What the harvest will bring
after the seven schools have
wound up their 1940 schedules re-
mains to be seen, but the Aggies
are going to know they’ve played
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talk about the Yankees and get it
over with."
"Okay,” I aid. "And they can’t
be such a tough team. You beat
them four times out of the 22
times you played them last year.
You must have had a lot of tough
luck in those 18 games you lost
to them.”
"We did, and we won't lose that
many to them this year,” Dykes
said with a definance, born per-
haps of the knowledge that the
baseball season is a full two
months away. "It isn’t the Yankees
as a team that bothers us and all
the other clubs in the league, but
their key man. Let them lose their
key man and the result would be
a mad scramble for the pennant."
Dykes' line of reasoning in-
trigued me, and braving the fumes
of the alleged cigar he was smok-
ing. I moved closer and asked him
the name of this all-Important
Yankee key man, on whose per-
formance depended the greatness
meet at 8 o’clock to determine
i a Rose Bowl bid.
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MIAMI, Fla. (UP). — Bobby
Riggs of Chicago, national ten-
nis champion, trounced Gardner
Mulloy of Miami, 6-0, 7-5, 6-2 to
win the noney Plaza invitation
tennis tournament and his third
triumph of the winter circuit
yesterday.
Pauline Betz of Los Angeles
defeated Sarah Palfrey Fabyan
of Brookline, Mass., 7-5, 6-4, to
win the women’s singles title. The
mixed doubles crown went to
Charles Hare and Mary Hardwick
of London, who defeated Doris
Hart of Miami and Jack Mahoney
of New York, 6-2, 6-3.
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through a heavy drill of calis-
thenics this afternoon, Graves an-
nounced, but they will get down
to serious work tomorrow and
continue that pace the remaining
four weeks.
Graves, who will be assisted by
Jack Tittle, said scrimmages are
to start the middle of this week,
possibly Wednesday, and are to
be the main dish for the next
several days of practice. The Red
Devils are to spend the final two
weeks in heavy blocking and
tackle workouts.
Heading the list of lettermen
returning for the 1940 campaign
are Captain Wayne Melton, cen-
ter; Mabry Dallas and Roy Craw-
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talking to any American League
manager other than Joe McCarthy
I always try to keep from mention-
ing the New York Yankees. It is
the same sort of politeness that
prevents one from talking about
Thanksgiving to a turkey, the
1936 electorial vote to Landon, or
Chevrolets to Henry Ford.
So the other day when I ran
across Jimmy Dykes, manager of
the Chicago White Sox, I steered
the conversation away from the
Yankees as long as I could. We
discussed salmon fishing in the
tipper Rogue River, Barrymore's
chances of a permanent reconcilia-
tion with Elaine, the present
whereabout of Grover Whalen,
whether tatting would ever become
fashionable again, and whether or
not Manx cats really minded not
having tails.
"Ican’t stand this any longer."
Dykes finally said. "I know what
epretty tough for the Yankees. Per-
haps it was this sort of thing that
Jimmy Foxx had in mind when,
। from Florida recently, he said the
, Other American League team
Saturday
10 a.m.: Loser of Carlisle-Mt.
Enterprise game vs. winner of
Laneville and Henderson-Lever-
ett’s Chapel contest.
8 o’clock; Finals.
In the event that the winner of
the loser's bracket wins the final
game from the team that emerges
victorious in the winner’s division,
a playoff game will be staged at
the Gaston gymnasium Monday
night, starting at 8 o’clock, it has
been announced. In 1939, Hen-
derson and Laneville executed
that trick and a playoff contest
was necessary.
‘he too money-winning spot of
’be winter prize-tovrney circuit
in his match with Nelson.
Up to the Texas open, Hogan
ranked fourth among the money
winners with $1,048. Should he
beat Nelson today, his winnings
would go above $2,500 as the top
prize in- this tournament is $1,-
500. Second money is $750.
Nelson and Hogan alike hit
MT. ENTERPRISE WILDCATS
ARE FAVORED IN CAGE RACE
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i Port Arthur, Texas, will fill the
vacancy left by Jeanette in the
Evangeline League, a Class D
baseball league.
Directors officially approved
the franchise yesterday and
Charles H. Schilling, local busi-
nessman, who was awarded the
franchise for the new club, im-
mediately announced facilities at
Port Arthur would be provided
at once, including apparatus for
night ball.
The eight clubs of the league
will open a 140-game schedule on
April 16.
thedineup score at least five
Rolis when the Lions trimmed
otdon, 39 to 12, and Minden, 39
tlo. Third, after scoring 27
#4Es against Leverett's Chapel,
befihar Bane, Lanevllle’s lanky
center, was held to five points by
Mt, Enterprise and to six points
by ’ Overton, Fourth, the only
team in the toumey applying a
zone-to-zone defense is Hender-
son; all the remaining teams us-
ing a modified man-to-man sys-
tem.
• Following are scores of games
Which the five teams left in the
tourney have played: Carlisle 51,
Tatum 12; Carlisle 38, Overton
80; Mt. Enterprise 31, Henderson
27; Mt. Enterprise 35, Laneville
28; Henderson 31, London 23; Hen-
derson 39, London 12; Laneville
55, Leverett's Chapel 12; Laneville
80, Overton 19; Leverett's Chapel
88, Tatum 22.
The schedule for this week-
end's final games is as follows:
Friday
3 o’clock: Henderson vs. Lever-
ett's Chapel.
7 o'clock: Carlisle vs. Mt. En-
terprise.
8 o'clock: Laneville vs. winner
of Henderson-Leverett’s Chapel
game.
McGovern headed South today,
his goal—the Brooklyn Dodgers’
training camp; his purpose—to
pare down to mid-season weight
any Dodger who tends toward
corpulence.
The former prize-fighter,
whose regulation of the physical
condition of the brass hats of big
business has made him a fortune,
shaved 500 pounds of excess
weight from Dodger silhouettes
last year and will spend five
weeks getting the Brooklyn squad
in shape this season.
“When opening day rolls
around this year, the Dodgers
will be better trained and much
superior to last year’s club," Mc-
Govern predicted before entrain-
ing for the Brooklyn camp at
Clearwater, Fla. “We’ve learned
much from last year’s experience
about how to grade each player
so far as exercise is concerned.
In my book, ball players are more
difficult to get into condition,
than fighters because they don’t
have to face the beating that a' dh
poorly-conditioned boxer does.” i W
Artie took poundage off al-
most everybody on the Dodgers
but the bat boy last year. Chief
among his “peelings” were—19
pounds off Babe “Blimp” Phelps,
20 pounds off Hugh Casey, 25
pounds off Fred Fitzsimmons, 14
off Dolph Camilli and seven off
Manager Durocher himself.
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BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff
LOS ANGELES. (UP) -
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. (UP).
—Byron Nelson, of Toledo, O.,
and Ben Hogan, White Plains,
N. Y., both Fort Worth, Texas,
trained golfers, will compete in
an 18-hole playoff today for top
prize in the annual Texas open
golf tournament.
Both players tied at 271 in the
final round yesterday. Nelson
shot /stellar golf in the final
round of the 36-hole final but
flunked a $1,500 putt on the last
green to hole out in three and
tie Hogan.
The putt cost Nelson a new
course record, also as both he
and Hogan equaled the 271 set
last year by E. J. (Dutch) Harri-
son of Little Rock, Ark.
One shot behind Nelson and
Hogan was Horton Smith of Oak
“Well, Bill Dickey,” Dykes said.
"Or if not Dickey, Joe Do Maggio.
Or just let something happen to
that second baseman, Joe Gordon,
and where’ll they be ? And don’t
overlook Red Rolfe at third base
as a key man. He means a lot to
that team. And if you don't think
Crosetti is a great shortstop and
vital to the Yankees, you’re crazy."
“What about Red Ruffing?” I
asked.
"Now you're talking," Dykes
H defending-champion Lane-
Ville Yellow Jackets are still in
the running for the Class A Rusk
County basketball championship,
but the Mt. Enterprise Wildcats,
quarter-final victors over the
1939 title-grabbers, have sprung
into the favorite's spot and now
loom as potential winners of the
pennant that will be decided at
Gaston Saturday night.
By virtue of their second round
victory over Henderson, followed
by a decisive triumph over Lane-
ville, Guy Massey's Wildcats sail-
ed into the finals of the winner’s
bracket and have only to beat
Carlisle’s Indians before they play
for the championship which Lane-
ville has hogged the last few sea-
eons.
From the thirteen games play-
ed at the Gaston gymnasium Fri-
day and Saturday of last week
have come five teams with chances
to win the 1940 championship.
Besides Laneville, Carlisle and
Mt. Enterprise, Henderson and
Leverett’s Chapel have not been
eliminated, but one of the two
will drop by the wayside Friday
afternoon as they are slated to
long tee shots. Nelson,
said. “There is a real key man.
Let that sore arm of his go dead
and then watch the Yankees. Or
kt something happen to Pearson
or Donald or that slugging out-
fielder. Charley Keller, and
where’ll they be?"
When Dykes had finished his
key "man” I dicovered that he
had listed no fewer than nine, and
it was easy to see that if some-
thing happened to these nine men
simultaneously it would make it
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should be ashamed of being afraid
of the Yankees and conceding the
pennant to them even before the
season opened.
After naming the key men on
the Yankees, Dykes expressed the
opinion that while the Yankees
were very offensive to the other
seven clubs in the league, their
real greatness bested in their de-
fensive perfection.
"The Red Sox have power
enough, and so have Detroit and
Cleveland,” Dykes said. "But they
hoven’t the defense. The Yanks
have great pitching and it’s next
to impossible to get a ball through
that infield or over the outfield.
But they won't beat us any 18
times this year. They've got to
slip' sometime and maybe this
will be she season."
ridge, American League presi-
dent.
Two umpires, Tommy Connolly
of th American League and
Ernie Quigley of the National
League will sit in the meeting in
an advisory capacity.
Quinn, who will be 70 Wednes- ,
day, has another suggestion to
offer the committee which would
permit a batter hitting a home
run out of the park to circle the (db
bases rather than be forced to "
touch each one in order.
“There’s going to b a lot of
confusion some of these days
about that rule when a batter
hits a homer with two or three
men on base to win an important
game in the late innings in a hot
pennant race," said Quinn. “The
fans are going to be all over the
field as they were when Gabby
Hartnett hit that homer against
the Pirates two seasons ago and
no one will be able to make sure
if the runner touches all the
bases.”
M836keeS ivailable.
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Kimbrough , been comments
that this season
the Aggies are playing a "Rose
Bowl” schedule a la Tennessee.
Besides their conference oppon-
ents, A. & M., has scheduled only
three teams — Tulsa, Texas A. &
I., and University of California
at Los Angeles. Of these three,
only UCLA is considered capable
of giving the Aggies an interest-
ing afternoon.
Coach Homer Norton will start
the Aggies on spring practice to-
day. Derace Moser, star sopho-
more back last fall, will not par-
ticipale because he underwent an
appendicitis operation this week.
Texas Christian University and
Rice also start today. Baylor
started Feb. 2 and Texas last Fri-
day. Southern Methodist and Ark-
ansas will open their 30-day spring
programs within a few days.
Regardless of non-conference
opponents, the other six South-
west Conference teams intend to
see to it that Texas A. & M , has
no “powder puff" season. Texas
will be considerably stronger,
with Jack Crain and its sopho-
be shootinm for
burnament finals.
[ first two days of play
ht out some outstanding
res, most of them furnished
le teams still eligible to win
hampionship. First, the air-
1 defense Mt. Enterprise set
1 throttling Laneville after
Fellow Jackets had scored 55
■ in their opening game
at Leverett’s Chapel. Sec-
Henderson’s well-balance of-
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DEVILS START
r inal l wo W eeks
the most consistent shotmakers in
♦he country. Hogan, a small man,
has bursts of brilliance but thus
far in his golfing career has
missed having great rounds close
enough together to win a big-
money tourney.
But he was good enough in this
tnorney. Three 66s Hogan scored.
With an off-form 73. he posted a
score that looked like a winner
until Nelson began burning uD
♦he back nine and birdied 17 to
become a threat.
Todav's loser w'H bet 25 ner
cent of the net glle" reneint
in addition to the $750 second :
prize.
Lawson Little’s fourth place
winnings of $450 boosted his
winter prize accumulation to
nearly $2,400. Clayton Heafner,
the young Linville, N. C., pro
who was hot in California tourn-
eys, won $275 for his 275 total
and his winnings were increased
to $2,183.
Ed Oliver won $375 fifth
money, making his winter total
$1,775.
NEW YORK. (UP).—Although
Promoter Mike Jacobs never
takes any punches in the ring,
he may develop cauliflowered ears
before June from the verbal
hammerings of Managers Al
Weill and Joe Jacobs.
Both have the same burning
yen: To see the heavyweight he
manages tossed into the ring with
Champion Joe Louis for a big-
money gate at Yankee Stadium
in June.
Right now, Weill is doing the
loudest bellowing. Weill manages
Arturo Godoy of Chile, who lost
a close decision to Louis Friday
night. Weill charges that Louis
and his advisers “are afraid to
give Godoy a return bout in|
June and are getting ready tol
pull a duck-out.”
Joe Jacobs, manager of Tony
Galento, put in a vociferous bidl
for his fighter.
“Mike Jacobs promised Galento
a title fight with Louis in June!
if Tony beat Lou Nova last Sep
tember,” he shouted. "Tony not
only ended Nova’s winning
streak; he moidered him. Tony
almost knocked out Louis a couple
of months before that. He’s the
National Boxing Association’s
No. 1 challnger. He’s the only
man who’ll draw any money with
Louis.”
’BELLEAIR, Fla. (UP).—The
intentional base on balls, prob-
ably the most unpopular play in
baseball with the fans, will be
legislated against at the meeting
of the playing rules committee
which opened here today under
the supervision of Commissioner
K. M. Landis, if Bob Quinn, pres-
ident of the Boston Bees, has his
way.
Quinn, one of the National
League’s three representatives on
the rules committee, favors
awarding two bases instead of
one to a batter who is deliber-
ately walked with men on base.
“if the batter was given two
bases instead of one when he’s
intentionally passed with men on
bases we’d see some better pitch-
ing in the majors,” said Quinn.
"The pitchers would get smarter
and try more often to fool the
dangerous hitters rather than take
the easy way out and walk them.
“And besides the fans don’t
want to see a dangerous hitter
walked in a pinch. They want to
see him hit or strike out. If a
batter has given an intentional
pass with a man on second and
the pitcher knew the base-runner
would automatically score he’d
forget about walking him.”
Quinn’s suggestion is one of
the more radical changes which
will be passed upon by Landis
and the rules committee here.
The other members of the com-
mittee besides Quinn are Sam
Breadon, St. Louis Cardinals;
Ford Frick, National League
president; Eddie Collins, Boston
Red Sox; Clark Griffith, Wash-
ington Senators, and Will Har-
able backfield strength to the
Red Devils. Bird, a sophomore
last season, was injured the
earlier part of the 1939 cam-
paign and did not play enough to
earn a letter.
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Port Arthur Accepts
Evangeline Loop Berth
OVERTON. (Spl). — E. D.
Cleveland has been elected pres-
ident of the Overton Golf Asso-
cialion.
Other officers are: George
Pearsbn, secretary-treasurer; and
I. T. Gunter and the Rev. C. W.
(Happy) Holmes, vice-presidents.
Gunter is green chairman and
Holmes serves as membership
committee chairman in the 1940
setup. -----■—
season, are to hustle
There's one thing certain about the 1940 championship.
Southwest football — the battle i Rice Institute and Baylor Uni-
LAFAYETTE, La.
Arkansas and Texas A. and M.
will fight it out at College Station
Friday and Saturday nights •
break a percentage tie in the
conference standings, both having
won and lost three games each.
S. M. U. and T. C. U. were out
of the running completely and
both have been beaten by Texas
and probably probably will get
bumped again this week.
The Longhorns clung to the
conference leadership by defeating
Baylor at Austin last Saturday
night, 51 to 47. Arkansas swept
its second consecutive game from
S. M. U., 36 to 26, after setting a
team scoring record of 75 points
for a single game the night before.
After the week's activity, Bob
Kinney, Rice center, retained his
scoring leadership of 104 points
for the season. Frank Bryski of
Baylor was second with 97 and
Wilkerson of S. M. U. was third
with 93. John Adams of Arkansas,
with 78, had an average of 13
points per game, the best in the
loop.
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LUBBOCK, Texas. (UP).'—
Texas Tech’s Red Raiders, back
from a two-game series at Albu-
querque, N. M., against the Uni-
versity of New Mexico Lobos,
tonight face the Texas College of
Mines cage team, pace-setter of
the Border Conference.
Tech split with the Lobos to
dim slightly its bright record thus
far this season and the Raiders
expect one of their hardest as-
signments in the Iwo games they
play the Minors this evening and
tomorrow night.
The El Paso team is one of
the highest scoring squads in the
South with an average of half a
hundred points a game.
start another week of drills minus
several eagers who are expected
to play considerable football next
season. Among the hardfloor-
men who are being counted on for
the 1940 District 12-A A football
chase are Bill McCarter, 1939
captain and quarterback; Billy
Taylor, a squadman last season
who is a likely starter at either;
guard or tackle this season; and I
Billy Willard and A. N. Thomp- i
son, also squadmen.
FORT WORTH, Texas. (UP).
—One hundred and sixty eager
Texas youths this week battle
to" stardom in amateur boxing in
the fourth annual State Golden
Gloves championships.
Three champions of 1939 are
seeking titles again and one who
wore a state crown in 1938 is
listed, but the Golden Gloves is
a wide , open, unpredictable
tournament that annually pro-
duces a full quota of knockouts
and more surprises that “form”
victories.
The three returning champions
are Morris Corona, of Port Ar-
thur, 1939 lightweight winner
who may go into the welter-
weights class this year; Eddie
Russey, of Wichita Falls, 1939
featherweight champion who
fought as a lightweight in dis-
trict competition this year; and
Harold Lawler, Canton, fly-
weight champion of the Tyler dis-
trict. Dick Menchacha of Port
Arthur, 1938 state flyweight
chamnion and finalist in the ban-
tam division last year, fought his
way through the bantam class at
Beaumont this year and will seek
his second state title.
Sponsors of the Golden Gloves
matches predict that this year’s
state tournament will be the best
in history. The 160 district win-
ners come from villages and
rities. In 20 district tournaments,
♦hey fought to the top in a field
'hat totaled more than 1,500 con-
testants. An estimated 100,000
persons saw the district tourna-
ments this year.
The state championship, spon-
sored by the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram, will be held in Will
Rogers Memorial Coliseum, which
has a seating capacity of 7,500.
Elimination bouts will be fought
Henderson high school today, and
Head Football Coach Andy An-
drews served as chairman of the
reception committee.
For the first time in ten days,
favorable weather will permit An-
drews to resume spring football
drills which were started two
weeks ago. The drills were post-
poned every day of last week be-
cause of rain, sleet, snow and the
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