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SPORTS
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
Tune In On KRBC
Monday Evening, December 11, 1939
Monday
CC, McMurry Schedules Set Wilson, Waco
. , ‘ 1------------———-------------Are Favored
) S AS FREEZE BATTERED EL PASO LINE FOR TOUCHDOWN
Texas Loop
Pipeliners and
Wildcats Clash
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UNDI
Spring Meet
Io Abilene
Abilene Christian and McMurry
college officials have returned from
Dallas where schedules for the 1940
athletic seasons were arranged at
the weekend Texas conference win-
ter meeting.
In addition to tentative schedule
arrangements in basketball and foot-
ball, the spring track and field, ten-
nis and golf meets were awarded to
Abilene with ACC as the host school.
The meet will be held the second
week in May.
Athletes of St. Edward's univer-
sity, which recently voted to aban-
don its entire intercollegiate sports
program, were declared eligible to
compete with other colleges in the
conference if they care to transfer
next semester. ,
However. Texas conference of-
ficials ruled that no more than four
athletes from St. Edwards may
transfer to any one college and still
be eligible
The conference also made a new
ruling permitting the runner-up
team in basketball to challenge the
first place team for the champion-,
ship providing the teams have not
met in the regular season of play.
Because the conference includes
eight teams it has been impossible
to play a complete round robin in
the past. The championship has
been given the team winning the
greatest percentage of games it play-
ed in the conference
J. H Shelton, business manager
of athletics at Howard Payne col-
lege was reelected president of the
conference Lawrence Smith of
Abilene Christian and Dr J. C. God-
by of Southwestern were reelected as
vice president and secretary respec- |
tively.
ACC Cagers Play
23 Game Schedule
Eddie Freeze Sweetwaters
sparkling triple threater, is
shown slamming over the hard-
fighting El Paso Tiger line for
the first touchdown in the op-
Cowboys Open
Nith Arizona
As Finalists
ening quarter of Saturday s bi-
district game at El Paso The
score culminated a 91-yard
march which started with a pass
interception deep in Sweetwat-
er’s territory. The Mustangs,
who pulverized El Paso, 40-7,
took 13 plays to make the first
touchdown. Tiger Halfback Bar-
ney Farlow • No. 41 • stands in the
foreground and at the left. End
Adolfo Quijano (No. 50) is
blocked out. Photo courtesy of
El Paso Times.
Nine-game warmup schedule has
been set for the ACC basketballers,
with tonight's home encounter the
last in Bennett gym until the Wild-
cats open the Texas conference card
with Austins Kangaroos on Jan. 19
and 20. The Cats will play a 23-
game schedule.
The card:
Dec 11—American Liberty Pipe-
line at Abilene.
Dec. 19. 30—North Texas State
at Denton.
Jan. 5. 6—East Texas State at
Commerce.
Jan 10. 11—West Texas State at
Hardin-Simmons' Cowboys will
ACC Gets Trio on
Coaches' Texas
Conference Team
Abilene Christian college domi-
Speaking of Sports—
Lubbock Next!
—Sweetwater Shows Power at El Paso
open their 1940 basketball season nated the official all-conference
here New Years night against the football team for the 1939 season
University of Arizona Wildcats in with three players on the mythical
-u eleven selected by the coaches of
the Texas conference at the league *
Ten games have been booked for caucus in Dallas last week.
the HSU cagers, five or six others "Red" Stromquist, all-conference
are to be arranged this week at end for the - third straight year:
Canyon
Jan. 12, 13—Texas Tech at Lub-
book
Jan 19. 20— Austin at Abilene
Jan 30—Howard Payne at Abilene.
Feb; 2, 3—Southwestern at Abi-
lene
Feb. 6—McMurry at McMurry
gym
Feb. 9—Daniel Baker at Brown-
wood
Feb 13- McMurry at ACC gym.
Feb 16, 17—Trinity at Abilene
Feb. 22—Howard Payne at Brown-
wood.
Feb 24— Daniel Baker a: Abilene
the Border conference meeting in
El Paso
The incomplete card:
Jan. 1. 2—Arizona at Abilene
Jan. 12—Howard Payne at Abilene
Jan. 13-Howard Payne at Brown-
- wood
Jan 15. 16— West Texas State at
Abilene
Jan. 19-Daniel Baker at Abilene
Feb 15—Daniel Baker at Brown-
wood
Feb 19 20—West Texas a: Can-
yon.
Tyson Cox. 215 pounder who has
played a lot of tackle for the Wild-
cats for the past three seasons; and
Thurman (Tugboat) Jones, high
scorer of the conference with 49
points, are the three junior men
honored. All three will be back on
the squad next season.
Those selected on the team were
ENDS “Red” Stromquist, ACC
dates on the McMurry schedule.
Morrison plans to play one or
two non-conference games with
state schools in Oklahoma or New
Mexico
Two more conference games with All the football dates are listed
Texas Wesleyan will be added to for Saturdays but they are sub-
the cage schedule, announced Coach ject to change after arrangement
A B Morris, but officials have not of other college and high school
agreed on the dates. schedules in the city, Morrison ex-
plained .
The football card:
Seven games have been docketed
for the football schedule with at
least two, possibly three, additions
to be made
A conference game with Texas
Wesleyan will be added while two
pre-season contests likely will be
announced later
The grid card
Oct. 5—Arkansas State at Little
Rock.
Oct 12—Trinity at Abilene
Oct. 19—Southwestern st George-
town
Ret 26—Open
Nov. 1—Austin at Sherman
Nov. 9—Daniel Baker at Abilene
Nov 15—Howard Payne at Brown-
wood.
Oct 6—Trinity at Waxahachle
Oct 12—Texas Wesleyan at Fort
Worth
Oct 19—Howard Payne at Abi-
lene
Oct 26—Open
Nov 2—Daniel Baker at Brown-
wood
Nov 9—South western at Abilene
Nov 16—Open
Nov. 23—ACC at McMurry sta-
dium
Nov 23—McMurry at McMurry
stadium
McMurry Arranges
Cage, Grid Cards
Coach Dale Morrison of MeMur.
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Staff
DALLAS, Dec. 11—Woodrow wil-
son’s Wildcats and Waco’s Tigers
roared into the quarter-finals of the
Texas schoolboy football race to-
day favored to slash the last week
in December for the state title.
Woodrow Wilson’s versatile team,
sparked by one of the finest all-
round players in interscholastic
league annals, showed they had
everything necessary in their con-
quest of a brilliant Masonic Home
team last week.
Waco spotted mighty Breckenridge
two touchdowns and then came back
with the speed of the wind to beat
the Buckaroos. • -
These two games long had been
regarded as the top battles of the
bi-district round.
Woodrow Wilson meets Sulphur
Springs Saturday afternoon at Dal-
las in the quarter-finals and the
Dallas Wildcats rate overwhelming
favorites to march on.
Waco plays Tyler at Tyler Sat-
urday afternoon the prohibitive
choice to trim the Lions. Waco al-
ready holds a three-touchdown vic-
tory over Tyler, earned in a non-
conference game
Lubbock’s revitalized Westerners,
-dark horses" of the race, play the
unbeaten, untied Sweetwater Mus-
tangs at Lubbock Friday afternoon.
This game is regarded as a tossup
although the Sweetwater record far
surpasses that of Lubbock for the
season.
The burly Mustangs of Austin
(Houston) meet Austin high at
Houston Saturday afternoon. This
game, also, is regarded as more or
less of a toss-up although many
will select the Mustangs to down
the Maroons because of superior
weight and power But they’ll have
to bottle up Travis Raven, a great
all-around star, to do it and thus
far Raven has not been halted in
his touchdown dashes
Austin high and Sweetwater are
the only teams left with spotless
records. Sulphur Springs is unde-
feated but has been tied.
By HAL SAYLES f There are direct .comparisons be-
T UBBOCK bettors, according to our Nolan county Informant., are ready tween the teams in their season’s
L to wager “more money than there is in Sweetwater ' that the Wes- records.
terriers will take the Mustangs Friday afternoon at Lubbock. | Lubbock defeated Big Spring 18-0
We are not ready to step out on the limb this early in the week, and Sweetwater won over the same
team 26-7.
but here are the records if you care to draw your own conclusions:
SWEETWATER
14. Brownwood 0.
50, Roscoe 6
19. Abilene 0.
36 Midland 13.
7, San Angelo 0
47. Stephenville 14.
22 Odessa 19.
46, Lamesa 7
26 Big Spring 7.
40, El Paso 7.
LUBBOCK
0. North Side (Fort Worth) 0.
6. Capitol Hill (Okla. City) 13.
18. Big Spring 0.
6 Vernon 7
8. Breckenridge 26.
6 Pampa 0
40. Borger 0.
19 Plainview 0
14 Hobbs N M 0.
9 Amarillo 7.
20. Electra 0
Sulphur Springs beat McKinney
13-6 and Woodrow Wilson lost to
McKinney 7-0 although the Wild-
cats were sorely crippled that night.
Sulphur Springs defeated Sherman
7-0 Woodrow Wilson won over the
same team 18-7.
Austin (Houston' downed Jeffer-
son (San Antonio' 2-0 and beat
American Liberty Pipeliners of Kilgore and the Abilene
Christian college Wildcats blast the lid on the basketball sea-
son tonight at Bennett gymnasium.
The game starts at 7:30 o'clock. All high school and gram-
mar school students will be admitted to the game free of charge,
school officials said this morning.
-------------------------EX-ALL-AMERICAN
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—(P)—Al
Weill, who owns the biggest fight
stable in the country, will give the
other managers a break by closing
up shop and letting all his boxers
spend Christmas at home . . . At-
tention. Scouts: Lefty O’Doul has
another DiMaggio on the way up.
But since he is only a cousin of Joe
and Co., he probably won't be able
to hit better than 330 or so . . .
Wasn't that Associated Press All-
America a honey?
Today’s guest star
Dan Daniel, N. Y. World-
Telegram: “Doc Prothro, man-
ager of the Phillies, got permis-
sion from Bill Terry to call
Zeke Bonura over the telephone
at New Orleans and ask him if
he would accept a salary cut
with Philadelphia . . . Zeke,
who got $15,000 f rom the
Giants, told Doc he would ac-
cept $19,000 from the Phillies.”
Bob Seeds of the Giants, who
owns the prosperous Amarillo (Tex.)
club, has offered the manager’s post
to Roger Peckinpaugh, who was
once Bob's manager . . . Joe Louis
is in town to referee a series of
amateur bouts this week.
LOADED
When Tulane and the Aggies
clash
And Troy squares off with Ten-
nessee
The football addict's New Year's
hash
Will be a bowl of T. N. T.
The Kilgore team boasts of one of
the strongest lineups of the state's
independents.
In the lineup will be such stars as
Willie Tate, former University of
Texas eager; Bill Blanton and J. D.
(Sniper) Norton, all-Southwest
players at SMU; Shorty Schultz,all-
American at the University of Illi-
nois a few years ago, and Bruce
Swann, former Lon Morris basket-
baller.
Coach Bugs Morris probably will
start an all-letterman combination
against the Pipeliners. This array
would include Leon Reese and Bruce
Prior, forwards; Bill Johnson, cen-
ter: J. O. Black and P. H. Hill,
guards.
Ten Regional
Games Slated
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Yep, same guy
Larry MacPhaf! went to Cin-
cinnati to get Joe Medwick and
came back with Gus Mancuso
. . . which reminds Marcus
Griffin of the N. Y. Enquirer
that Larry once took a jaunt
into Germany to get the kaiser
and came back with an ash
tray.
Some class, eh?
Irvin L Payne is football coach
at the Lawrenceville (Va.) high
school ... his stationery is en-
By The Associated Press
Twenty teams square off this
week in the battle for regional
championships in the class A di-
vision of Texas schoolboy football.
Such outstanding clubs as Ennis
and Humble are missing as the class
A boys prepare to wind up the sea-
son. This division goes no further
than regional titles
Ennis fell before McGregor 20-7
and Humble, conqueror of Hull-
Daisetta, which boasted the great-
est winning streak in schoolboy his-
tory, was beaten by Nederland 7-6.
Binis had run up an extraordi-
nary record, numbering several
class AA elevens among its victims.
In the regional round they pair
off like this:
Region 1—Perryton vs. Shamrock.
Region 2—Olton vs. Pecos.
Region 3—Burkburnett vs. Dub-
lin
Region I—Garland vs. McGregor.
Region 5—Plano vs Mineola
Region 8—Center vs. Overton.
Region 7—Elkhart vs Nederland
Region 8—Galena Park vs. Cald-
well.
Region 9—Taylor vs. Yoakum
Region 10—Victoria vs. Alice.
Packers Grab
3:00- News
3:15— Jack
3:30—The (
4:00—The (
4:15— The
4:30—Budd
4:45—Piney
5:00-Mutin
5:15—tenry
5:30—Sunse
5 45- Sport
5:55- News
6:00- Fultor
6:15— Savoy
6:30—Ed Si
6:45—Jack
7:00—Auth
7:30 TSN
8 00—Hawa
8 15—Dallas
10:00—News
10:15—Georg
10:30—Paul
6:30—Wake
7:00— News
7:15—Home
7:45—Les >
8:00—News
8:05—Organ
8:15 Morni
8:30—Grand
9 45 House
9:00—Swing
9:10—Healt)
9:15—To Be
9:30—Morni
10:00— Fay a
10:15- Dance
10:20- Miltor
10:30-Keep
10 45—Gary
11:00 News
11:05—Piano
11:15 Neighl
11:30—Toe T
11:45—Men f
13 00— Singin
12 15— Man •
12 30—Hymn
12:45—Jack 1
1 00— News,
1 15— Lest V
2 00-To Be
2 15—Crime
TSN
2:30—Ray C
RADI
Reagan (Houston) 150 Austin high
smashed Jefferson 39-0 and defeated
Reagan 7-6. McAllen defeated Aus- lor.” . . . Wow!
tin Houston' 2513. Brownsville de-
feated McAllen 6-0 and Austin won Flay, professor.
to the casual observer in the first round playoff, over Brownsville 20-6.
Sweetwater did look like a championship club out in the El Paso But most of these games were wuor rerringlists
Dendy, Howard Payne high school stadium Not attempting to mix passes with the power stuff, early in the season and the compari- Footboll Records
GUARDS :Formagus St Edwards, the Ponies used repeated cutbacks to gain at will through the Tigers' sons now mean little.R
and Howard. Daniel Baker line El Paso was out classed all the way
CENTER: Kooken. Trinity Frankly, we believe the Bengals, playing without a couple of their
BACKS Terrell Howard Payne better boyx, were not even up to the "typical" El Paso district- standard
Kunkel Trinity Ringgold, Austin last weekend. The typical team out of the El Paso sector is quite a
college Jones ACC few notches below the average team out of this district.
____’____‘ Saturday s score meant nothing. The Ponies probably could have
made 60 or 70 points if they had tried. The El Paso team we saw couldn't
Double Bill for have beaten a single team in district 3AA.
Boxing DRETTIEST of all the touchdown runs we saw last week didn't count
S Pen 1 on the scoreboard. It was Audrey Gill’s 50-yard runback of- an in-
CLEVELAND Dec 11(UP)LA1 tercepted pass late in the game The angular Sweetwater linebacker out-
Hostak of Seattle derate A distanced three or four of his foes as he raced for the sideline and, bot-
claim, to theSeasdiefends his tied near the 20-yard stripe, the all-district center proceeded to shake his
claims to the middleweight bo ring hips in » manner that would be a credit to the shiftiest halfbuck to side-
crown and Henry Armstrong of Los | step the last two would-be tacklers The play wax called back because of
Angeles risks his welterweight title, a clipping penalty against the Mustangs.
In a double-header championship -
show at the arena tonight.
graved: “Irvin L. Payne, coordina-
and Jensen, St Edwards
TACKLES Tyson Cox, ACC, and
WITH exception of Woodrow Wilson’s 21-0 victory over Masonic Home.
“ Sweetwater’s bi-district triumph was perhaps the most impressive
Waco remains as the high-scoring, By United Press
team of the state with 319 points in The season records of the state
10 games. Sweetwater is second high school quarter-final lists:
with 307 In a like number of tests Lubbock—Won 7. lost 3. tied 1;
144 points to 53 for opponents.
Sweetwater—Won 10, lost 0; 307
points to 73.
Sulphur Springs—Won 7. lost 0.
Frank Kimbrough
Cleburne Speaker
Frank Kimbrough, Hardin-Simn-
Pro Grid Title
MILWAUKEE Dec 11--
The amazing Green Bay Packers
have done it again
For the fifth time in 11 year*
these stalwart football representa-
Uvea of a town of 40,000 have
smashed their way to a national
pro football championship over the
best the nation could offer
They started winning titles back
in 1929, They took two more to
a row after that. In 1936 they won
again But never did they reach
mons football coach, will be in Cle- I 217 point* to 33
burne tonight where he is slated to
tied 2; 127 points to 38.
Woodrow Wilson—Won 9, lost 1; the peak they attained yesterday
when they beat the New York
Waco—Won 9, lost 1; 317 points
be the guest speaker for the high to 75:
school football banquet. | Tyler—Won 8, lost 1, tied 2; 284
In addition to his talk Kimbroughpoints to 78.
After the game Coach Larry Priddy commented:
“We’ve used Gill at end, guard and center and he's about the
best we've had at those positions. Now It looks like well have to
make room for him in the backfield. That .referring to the nullified
pass interception run) was the prettiest bit of open field running I've
seen in a long time.'’
Hostak emerges at last from the
Pacific coast to meet Eric Seelig'
in a 15-round bout before a neutral
public
Armstrong opposes Jimmy Gar-
risen of Kansas City over the 10-
The Sweetwater team came out of the El Paso game without serious
will show motion picture shots of the
Howard Payne-Hardin-Simmons and
West Texas State-Hardin-Simmons
games.
Stephen Austin—Won 9, lost 1.
tied 1: 203 points to n
Austin— Won 11. lost 0; 219 points
to 18
Kinnick Is Outstanding
39 Athlete in AP Poll
By SID FEDER
; NEW YORK, Dec til — By
a margin just about as narrow of
Iowa’s football victories over Notre
Dame and Purdue, All-America
Nile Kinnick was named the out-
I round route injuries.
'Although Pap Headrick, the Ponies' fine blocking back, has been on
the ailing list with a bad shoulder for several weeks, he has yet to miss
a down because of the injury Paps shoulder slipped out of socket three
time at El Paso He called ume out the first two times to push the
bone back in place The third time, to avoid penalizing his team for too
| many times out, Headrick had a mate shove the shoulder bone back in
place while the referee was putting the ball in play.
Butler's Run Worth $72 an
Inch to Tennessee Eleven
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec 11 —
(UP)—$2,500 a yard.
3833 a foot.
$72 an inch
ry college announced today the
Indians 17-game basketball ached-
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St Edward’s, which dropped out In as close a battle of bal- Food in profeeonal football this
one Texas, conference at the lotsas the Associated Press fan was ninth Farther down the Val.
list were such of the years stand- VOIS KoleO 05
out backs as Tom Harmon of ‘ nuIUM 4.
Michigan, George Cafego Of Ten-
! nessee Fitchin Paul Christman
close of the football season, has
been replaced on both the basket- |
ball and football schedules by Tex-
as Wesleyan
annual poll ever witnessed in
its nine - year history, the
Hawkeyes 60-minute backfield
A LREADY plans are underway for another special tram this week
1 inees in the voting, compared with A More than 300 fans, pepsters and bandsters rode the special to EI
eight for baseball, the 1938 leader Paso
Kinnick’s coach, Dr. Eddie Ander- Practically all of the Sweetwater fans celebrated the win Saturday dog tun acainet Auburn’s
son, who won an award here Sat-night in Juarez. The football team Coaches Priddy and Adrian Clark, touchdown run against Auburn
urday night as "coach of the Supt Rose Cover and Mayor C. C. Johnson, watched the gay life from Tigers on Saturday was worth to
year,” was eighth in the ballot-their banquet table in Lobby No. 3, leading dine and dance spot in the the University of Tennessee It
meant the Rose bowl, and that
Had Butler failed to make his
run the Rose bowl situation would
have been rather acute, because
Southern California was tied by
UCLA and It is a bit diffi-
Opening basketball games will
be with West Texas State at Can-
yon, Jan 4 and 5. while the sea-
eon finale will be here with the
TWC Rams, March 1
The complete basketball sched-
ule:
Jan. 4-5— West Texas State, at
Canyon
Jan 11—Southwest Texas Teach-
ers at San Marcos. ,
Jan 16—Howard Payne at Abi-
lene
Jan 31-Feb. 1—Trinity at Wax-
ahachie
Feb 3—Howard Payne at Brown-
wood.
Feb 6—ACC at McMurry gym.
Feb T—Daniel Baker at Abilene
Feb 9-10—Southwestern at
Georgetown
Feb 13—ACC at ACC gym.
Feb. 14—Texas Wesleyan at Fort
Worth.
Feb. 15-16—Austin at Sherman
Feb. 20 2 Daniel Baker at Brown-
wood
March 1—Texas Wesleyan at
Abilene.
The football slate shows only six
games to date three here and three
away from home, all Texas confer-
ence encounters Another league
bout with Austin college will be
played in Abilene on either Oct 38
or Nov. 16, both listed as open
ace won out over Jolting Joe
DiMaggio, the New York Yan-
kees' “Mr. Baseball,” by the
narrow margin of eight points.
Of the 81 experts who voted for
the three outstanding male ath-
letes, amateur or professional. 21
selected the Iowa youngster with
the pleasing personality as their
top choice three picked him for
second place and ten for third
Votes were counted on a basis of
| three points for first, two for sec-
, ond. one for third -
LOUTS THIRD
Kinnick’s total was 79 points DI-
Maggio first-place choice of 11
balloters had 71 Joe Louis drew
I of Missouri and 111 Davey O’Brien
i of the Philadelphia Eagles, as well
Most Unusual
f
Dallas and El Paso. Tex
Meanwhile, the players began a
nine-day rest before resuming prac-
tice.
The belated clearing up of the
Rose bowl situation gave the South-
cult to peddle a game between two
tied teams as the No. 1 football
That is what Johnny Butler’s attraction of the year. But John-
ny got his gun and fired it just
in time to keep his team untied,
unbeaten, and unscored upon. No
other bowl can offer such an at-
traction, it will be Tulane and the
Texas Aggies in the Sugar bowl
and Tulane has been tied and the
eastern conference a clean sweep of
the major post-season game* Geor-
ax a trio of fine ends—Don Hut- Igia Tech and Tulane, co-champions
son of the Green Bar pro Pack- ATLANTA Dec 11—LETennes-1 of the big thirteen group along with
ers, Ken Kavanaugh of Louisiana see’s Volunteers might well be term- | Tennessee, will pray other sectional
State and Esco Sarkinen of Ohio — . . team titleholders in two bowl brawls.
State. Led football’s most unusual team. Tulane’s- Green Wave, tied by
BASEBALL NOMINEPS Coaches, writers and fans who North Carolina, meet* the Texas
have watched the boys coached by Aggies. Southwest conference cham-
Baseball’s eight nominees in- - Bob Newland agree most def- pions in the Sugar bowl and Georgia
. cluded the year’s two finest rookie Major BOD Nemland agre most oei * -her hall_handline Fnein-
outfield sluggers Charlie Keller
of the Yankees and Ted Williams ball team, but I* a o_____
of the Boston Red Sox Oddly players who do everything well-
| enough while Walters was fourth well enough to win..
titleholders in two bowl brawls.
flower-scented extravaganza car-
ries a reward of $100,000.
Figure It our for yourself,
and if Im wrong sue Miss
Mary Lou Wheeler, my fifth
grade teacher, who introduced
me to the mysterious rites of
higher mathematics.
That was a pretty tough run for
a sophomore back to make He had
the weight of the bowl on his
shoulders and a bouquet of roses
in his arms. If he fell the bowl
would once again be broken for
Tennessee, and once again the roses
would become thorns No one will
.---—----. - _ ever
. . .Tech’s fancy ball-handling Engin- when
initely Tennessee isn’t a great foot-eers clash with Missouri. Big Six
collection of i titleholders in the orange bowl.
convince me that Butler,
he swung around that end.
five first-piace votes and 35. for
j third Bucky Walters, pitching
I workhorse of the National league
champion Cincinnati Reds finish-
ed fourth with 28, although he
was top choice on, six ballots. By-]
ron Nelson national open golf
king, was fifth with 35 point* and
three first-place selections.
Far down the list, with seven
points, was the “king” of 37
and 38, Don Budge, Califor-
nia’s tennis red head
Headed by Kinnick and the man-
ner in which he caught on as the
“people’s cherce" all over the coun-
try football made a big comeback
to this years poll, with 10 nom-
USC Gridders to
Take 'Vacation'
LOB ANOELES Dec. 11-
in the final tabulation, his Cincin- And a team that has been win-
nati pitching teammate, Paul Der- ning as long as Tennessee should
ringer, who was just as responsi- by any stretch of the imagination be
ble for the Reds pennant triumph, called a Tine football club The
could poll only six points for 11th Volunteers have dropped 23 foes in
place, a row and perhaps the biggest angle
to all arguments is the fact the Southern California’s Trojan foot-
Orange -shirted array’s goal line ball team began a brief vacation to-
wasn’t running more toward Pasa-
dena ’in his thoughts, I mean)
than he was toward the end zone
of Shields-Watkins field.
Golf's quartet in the list, beside
Nelson included Marvin (Bud)
Ward seattle amateur star, and
Ralph Guldahl, former two-time
! open king. Boxing also had a four-
some, headed by Louis and Billy
Conn, the Pittsburgh Irish led who
won the world’s light-heavyweight
championship which, the experts
voted, entitled him to a tie for sixth
place among the years athletes
Racing drew three nominees. in-
cluding one third-place vote for
| Challedon, championship horse of
39.
hasn't been crossed in 15 contests
“Its a d---good football team. "
was the way one of the South's
most able coaches described Ten-
nessee "They play smart, alert
football They take advantage of
every opportunity ”
The Volunteers, first Tennessee
football team in history to be select-
ed for the West Coast classic, will
leave the Knoxville campus Decem-
ber 21, by train, arriving in Los An-
geles Christmas eve They will tra-
vel the southern route, via Memphis,
day. giving the Monday morning
quarterbacks free rein to mull over
scoreless tie between the noble-
and highly favored—Trojans and
the University of California at Los
Angeles is simple. The Troy squad
was still dead on its feet from two
successive tough engagements with
Notre Dame and Washington.
These two teams took a lot out
the coming Rose bowl battle with of 8 C, but Tennessee may expect
Tennessee and rehash Troy’s 1939 something tougher Jan 1 at Pasa-
dena than the Uclans bumped into
grid campaign
The fact that Coach Howard
Jones' eleven backed into the Rose
bowl much in the fashion of a
wounded craw-dad. for cray fish,
depending upon your accent), was
Saturday before the record break-
Ing throng of 103,300.
This is intended to take nothing
away from Babe Horrell’s U. C. L
A. eleven They looked every bit as
discounted by ardent backers of 8 much a Rose bowl team as 8. C.
C
Saturday, and they still match the
Their beat explanation of the Trojans’ undefeated record.
Aggies have been scored upon.
Both Orange bowl selections. Mis-
siuri and Georgia Tech, have been
beaten, and the same goes for
Clemson and Boston college. Cot-
ton bowl combatants
So, for this year, at least,
the Roae bowl has the stand-
out game. It could only be Im-
proved by having the Texas
Aggies substitute for the Tro-
Jans, but that is impossible. In
Tennessee, the Rose bowl has
the ranking team of the coun-
try, and in U. S. C. It has a
football power that came across
the country to humble a Notre
Dame team that kicked all the
great ones of the midwest with
the exception of Iowa's fighting
fistful.
The game in Pasadena on New
Year's day is likely to develop into
the biggest betting game of any
ever played in the mammoth sta-
dium deep in the Arnya Del 8eco
Californians, particularly those in
the southern section of the state,
are red-hot barker? of anything
that comes from their section, be
it weather, oranges, or earth-
quakes They are certain to look
on Tennessee with disdain be-
cause of the Volunteers’ none too
rugged schedule, and produce
plenty of fresh money to back the
Trojans The fact that the Vols
haven't been scored upon won't
disturb them a bit.
As for the Tennessee backers-
and it is even money that the en-
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Giants, 27 to 0, to win the 1939
National football league title.
The club that won Sunday
against an eleven that* had the
best defensive record in the Na-
tional circuit was the hottest team
the play-for-play circuit has seen
In many a year Strangely enough,
thla wax the name club that bare-
ly squeezed through to win the
western division title and the right
to participate in the play-off.
The Giant* played good football
against the Packers, but it wax
like trying to stop a wave
There wasn't much doubt about
the outcome after the Packers had
piled up seven points to the open-
ing quarter
The touchdown came on a sev-
en-yard pass from Arnie Berber
to the veteran end. Milt Ganten-
beln, in the end zone. Tiny Enge-
bretaen place-kicked the extra
point.
The •Giants had the win in the
second ‘period but the Packers
checked all of their thrusts
Green Bay resumed its drive in
the third quarter, marching, 40
yards on six plays. When the
Giant line stiffened Engebretsen
dropped back to the 29 and boot-
ed one home from placement to
give the Bays a 10 to II edge
Later in the same period Gant-
enbein intercepted a Giant pass on
the New York 35. From the 31
Isbell passed to Joe Laws for a
touchdown Engebretsen's toe added
the other point
A place kick by Ernie Smith.
Packer reserve tackle, from the 43.
In the final quarter added three
points to the score The final mark-
er came shortly thereafter follow-
ing a pass interception by Bud
Svendsen.
tire state will follow the team on
the trip to the coast—well, they’ll
cover anything negotiable that
shows Ite fare and serial number
Football isn’t a sport around Knox-
ville—it’s a religion The Tennes-
seeans will follow Cafego and But-
ler and Molenski and Foxx and all
the other Vols with the faith of a
sawdust convert
The boys from the hills of
Or Tennessee may have to walk
home, but for a few hours
they’ll out-yell ahd out-bet any-
thing that California has seen
to date.
In fact, it is going to be such a
good game that just as soon as I
get through with the Gone with
the Wind premiere in Atlanta, I'm
going west, young man, to see it,
with my chauffeur Horace Greeley,
at the wheel
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