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The Anniston Star from Anniston, Alabama • Page 8

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TUESDAY. A'Or. 1923 AND ALL OF THEM ARE MARRIED STARS AT MISSOURI AERIAL flTTAGK TALLADEGA :5, TO 4 THE ANSISTON STAR I wm Grid Contest Will Be Feature 0t C. C. H.

S. Home Coming Cadets Have Two More Practices Before Meeting Arkansas Champs iy): Ja 'iuwM young men. woo seem so friendly and happy here, are the five benedicts the Oklahoma A. and The Calhoun County High school Yellpwjackets.wlll meet the Talladega High school Indians on jthe Oxford field at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in the annual Horns Coming Day" classic While Oxford's record Is some what better than the' Talladeit boys. Coach Beck's crew Is expecuV; a hard fight from the visitors ana daily practices are conditioning the VL football team.

Strange to say, each one Is a regular dsplte that old belief that married men do, not make good football players. Of course, the wives attend. every game except the ones away from home. Coach Maulbetsch put his foot down on that with the statement that "wives are too diverting." In the photograph here, left to right, re Orady Burleson; tackle; Sam Myers, center; Ambrose Patterson, guard; Barney Hendrickson, tackle, and Roy Danford. quarterbac k.

Anniston High' School Hard Battle In, Friday's Contest With a smaller and weaker aleven than in 1927, the Anniston High school Bulldog axe now preparing for the tilt with Jefferson County High school which win take place Friday afternoon at Johnson Field. Last year the Bulldogs nosed out 7 to 0 victory over the Jetfcohl boys-on the latter'! field, but the Birmingham team Is said to be much stronger this season. stress was laid oh charging and blocking Monday afternoon, with some tackling work in a short scrim mage. Coach Howard has a schedule of practices which he hopes will put the Bulldogs in shape to down the visitors. None of the Bulldogs were seriously injured in the Rome game last week and it is expected that they nill be in good shape to meet the invaders Friday.

A STAR PERFORMER LONDON, Nov. 13. At least one hen, at the Southend, poultry knew how to. act a winning part, She layed two eggs while being Judged and before the day was out a thh-d was found in the nest This Is believed to be a record In hen trait production. Yellowjackets for the battle.

Reports from Talladega Indicate that the Indians are centering their attention on the Oxford game with -the feeling that their season will be successful If they can down the C. C. H. a boys. Another big intersectlonal clash is scheduled for Saturday, 17, at New York, when Missouri plays New York university.

Although each team has been beaten this year, the struggle should prove a means of comparing eastern and Missouri VaUey football, -as both teams rank among the best of their section. The stars of the Misosuri team shown here, who may see action against-the New Yorkers, are Halfback. Scott Kennedy, above, and Fullback Kern Reece, below, reading left to right. Miller Brown, end. Henry Rosenheim halfback and Bill Smith, ti PLAY PIEilT Last Grid Contest Of Season For Jacksonville Campus Set For Saturday JACKSONVILLE.

Ala, Nov. 12. The fans of this section will again ml All-America? jet a taste of real football next chicag0 tourn over r-- I 5i -r Alabama Military Institute Tigen w4H have two more practices beside; Jm one this afternoon before they strain for Pine Bluff. Ark, where they win meet the strong state championship crew Saturday. Coach M.

O. Padget, wnd scouted the pine Bluff neam last week, reports that the Arkansas team has a Una much heavier than the Tiger wan; but that Jthe backflelds ae of about the same weight. The Tigers are being drilled 'on passes and it is expected that they will depend largely on an aerial attack. The Pine Bluff defense on passes is reported to be weak. In previous years, the Pine Bluff eleven has downed Jvoodlawn.

Fhu hps and Ensley teams. The Cadets have a fighting chance to win and they realize that they must play hard from start to finish If they stop the strong Arkansas team. Injured A. M. players are Im proving, but a number of men on the squad are suffering-fronrbad colds.

The entire squad, however, is expected to be in good condition by Thursday. 4 GOOD FOR 1929 AND 1930 squad at Florida this year are 'mem- pn ft" the FIRST MEETING When Oklahoma Aggies played. West Virginia this year, it was their first football meeting. BANKS WITH "iHlBEST Mid-western crltlca are practically unanimous in the opinion that Mho Labratovicb Wisconsin tackle aha broka his leg in, the Alabam game, is onr of the best at that po-sfon io his conference. INDIANA TO LOSE NINE WnenwTeterah'joT the'tndlana team.

Including those two good backs, Bennett and HarrelL will finish- their-. Jootbat rrcareera this year. WANTS AMERICAN WIFE Paavo Nurmi, who says he Is through'witb- the "track, phuaa busmesa-Wp4o America -soott and says he hopes to get an American wife on his TO BUILD STADIUM TXthletic offlcaus at" Iowa will start work on a stadium capable of TACDE1NTATH rrj-r SOUTHERN BEATS ERSKINE, 18 TO 0 LAKE WALES, Fla, Nor. 11 UR Southern Cdllege yesterday battered tet way to a 18 to 0 over Erskine before a crowd of 8,000. Cale Keller, Southern-fullback, iipped through the Erskine line to score the three Moccasin touchdowns.

Southern played straight lootbatt.Il Erskine tried a passing game but Southern backs broke it up. NEW ORLEANS, Not." 11 (U Dan K. Murray, Jr, former Southern singles tennis champion, and presently the holder of several titles in the game, was elected president of the New Orleans Lawn Tennis night Murray succeeds Arthur Waters, also a well known tennis playeri wha. has held the post thre years Murry and Cliff Butter won the southern doubles championship at the Louisville tournament last spring. Murray lost his singles ti- tie to young Grant of dur-4 ing tne Louisvuie tourney.

r. wins, i9-is CHARLOTTE, N. CUUS Presbyterian made use of the Uu( i wo minutes oi piay in the High Point game here yesterday to defeat the North Carolinians, Jo 11 With the last perjod waning and'High Point leading IS to 0 as the result of two touchdown marches and a safety. Presbyterian turns dto the overhead attack. In the final minutes of play forward passes accounted for three touch downs and, victory.

.1. urday when the strong Piedmont College Mountaineers of Demorest, Georgia invade the fold of the Jacksonville Normal school warriors. This will be the fourth and last ap- local aggregation on the campus this year, Many enthu- I slastle fans of nearby towns and cit ies, hwa. witnessed tha past two thrilling games and it Is hoped that -many more will be present next Sat urday at 2:30 p. m.

Jacksonville Normal school now holds undisputed claim to the Junior college championship of Alabama by having defeated Marion institute ythe score of 7 to 8 and Troy Normal by the score of 21 to a ITttfK nf held. Clear records before meeting Jacksonville. The junior college championship of Alabama practically means the Southern championship as Marion institute Jacksonville Normal usually have the strongest Junior college teams in -the acuta. Little is known about the Piedmont college team except that they recently defeated Rollins College in Florida by a decisive score and held Coach Burbaje's Southern college gridders to a close score in Fisks' Jacksonville battled Piedmont' College to a 0 to draw last year on Georgia soil and Sat urday's game promises to be hard- fought by both teams. seating 80,000 within the next few months.

MERCHANTS EXPRESS-110 vl54S iTONllMliMkM $1845 s-TOW-iar yw I tTON-iMfca. -i' r-THiiata One hf the, ranking candidates for- a tackle posiUon-on- the Ail America team thi. war l. TV Barfield, a 21-year-old, 20l-pbund young man from Fla, who plays on the Princeton line. In the game against Ohio' Bar-field had to play against Leo -atar-of -1927 and one at, the greatest finemen hi the middlelwest, and he played with Such individual brilliance that he was the outstanding man on the fteldr He Ja aadltands 7 Inches, If I coMvrmcTALTraucK mm IWTON-lO .5 HfrTON-MS' kMlk $1615 a-TON-lSS STANFORD EEEVEITBIGGEST'OBS OF BEARS FOR EQUAL CLAIM AS "CHAMPS Cabs Look Sweet New The Cubs dldnt announce the amount of cash that was required to get Rogers Horns by away from Boston but It must have been plenty.

The players that the Braves got along with the money certainly were not of the type that would arouse any pennant aspirations in Boston and the Cubs survived the operation without weakening their team in the slightest degree. Instead of being forced to part with Root, Webb, Heathcote and only Maguire, Percy Jones and three' rookies who were not on intimate speaknlg terms with any of. the Cub officials. Without weakening the team elsewhere the Cubs corrected their glaring sec? ond base and their chances for the Championship in 1929 are, at the very least, slightly Just a Ne Good Noisance There hasnt been much growling about overemphasis during the current football sensation and if any complaints are made later about too much attention being devoted to the grand, old game they certainly will not find any sustantiation at Case, one of the schools in the Ohio Jasf high raiucing'scientif lc school, is a tough school to get. Into and a tougher one to make the grades to stay there and football has badly there in recent years.

The faculty apparently isn't concerned about it and has done nothing about it The team had a game recently with Purdue which required an overnight trip to Lafayette. "The squad wasn't permitted to leave until Friday night, which relieved it of any chance for a wckourarW' number of students cut classes to indulge In a pep rally and they were told if they ever committed such a breach'-of classroom etiquet in the future the coach'would be fired and football -would be kicked out of the institution. Cobb Made It Tough discussion of probable chanws in the playing personnel" of the Philadelphia Athletics, the names of Sammy Hale and. Rube Walberg have been mentioned. And in pre dieting the probability of their transfer to another-club the frank statement was made that their lack of courage made no longer de sired by Connie Mackv Mack hastened to the defense of Walberg and said he was not in any danger of losing his Job.

Walberg and Hale were two of the players mentioned by Ty Cobb several times during tne late pen nant race as being without the stuff that a winning team must have in a fight and Cobb is said to have made it so tough, for Hale all year that he was' thrown clear off his Cobb, it will be recalled, had Hale once in Detroit and let him go and he insisted upon ten.ng aim on every occasion after he had Joined the Athletics that he hadn't corrected the weakness that cost him his Job Detroit MIDSOUTO TOURNEY GETS UNDER WAY IINEHURST, N. C. Nov. 13 (UP) Fifty-eight professional and six amateur golfers started today In the ninth annual mid-South open best ball golf tournament here, the country club. Play was to be for 36 holes.

Leading professionals in the tour nament include Jim Barnes and Cyril Walker, former national champions. Walker shot two brilliant 70 rounds practicing Monday. Barnes and Jack Oordon, of Buffalo, mace 73'a, YOUNG JACKSON: WINS KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. 13 UP) Young Jackson, Key West lightweight, knocked out Jack Dillon, of San Antonio, here last night in the second round of a ten-round bout In the seventh of eight scheduled rounds. Farnett of Tampa, knocked out Joe Martin, of Key West -y BROTHERS AT GEORGETOWN Jim Mooney is regular "fullback for the" George town eleven and his two' brothers.

Bill and Phil, are substitutes for the team. Along The Sidelines (By UNITED rBS3 CLEM SON, 8. NOT. 11 JJ9 Josh Cody has announced uork for the Clemson Tigers who lace the undefeated Florida team Saturday: A heavy-wscrtmmage against Florida plays is expected today, CHARLOTTES VTIXE, Va Not, 13. 0J.O Virginia's 20 to defeat by V.

P. las Saturday not dls- toarAse'the'feaw-tlier'prepirt--for Maryland, Thirty years of rival. iX woven into the comtag battle iud i ew-ln'uriet4-yi5K mil be all set for the contest. A ELACKSBURO, V. Nov.

13. UJ3 The Gobblers -of V. P. I tsting no time as they prepare fot Washington and Lee. 'Scrtmmage is scheduled for today.

CHAPEL HILL, N. Nov. lTai.10 North Carolina, battered by held to a scoreless tie by South Carolina, today began replacement cf stars who are out with-injuries and colds. GAINESVILLE, Fla-, NOT. 11 tUJO The Gators -begin preparation for Clemson today with no 'serious injuries reported from the Georgia Reeves, tackle and Owen, halfback, are on the Sidelines until minor injuries heal, 43.

Alabama starts practice for Georgia Tech today with many men on the injury list -Foots" Clements, tackle, three varsity backs, Buther. Holm -and- Campbell- and -Captain Earl Smith, center, are out of scrtmmage. today, ATtJWArtJaVTroTrTaraw Tile Golden Tornado came out ol the Vanderbllt game with ho ma jor injuries and today started work for Alabama. Izzy Schulman, sub-quarter, has a few bruises but will be ready Saturday. p.

gainst Crimson" plays Is set for today. ATHENS, Ga, NOT. 13 (U.R-Gedr Kia has numbers of cripples and coach Mehre la expected -to lecture to the quad today, with a scrim mage for those In condition at the finish. The sick list Includes Mai let, Smith, McCraiy, BuL Haley, Nixon, Frisble and Hooks. tulAne greenies TO WORK ON PASSES NEW ORLEANS, Not.

13 (UP) Hie Tulane Greenies started another week of developing their defense against the dreaded pass, lack of proficiency In which almost cost them victory In the Tulane-Auburn game here last Saturday. Most of yesterday's workout was devoted to the second line players with Dick Eaumbach, Mike Hooper. Nad Mc Gchee and Adolph Jastram in the backfleld. The first line players were given a day's respite. Heavy trainiiuj for all will start today, however.

Coach Blennan said, as Tujane must put Its house In order for two of the most- Important games on Its this season's schedule thu year Sewanee next Saturday and 8. U. the following weekend. OGLETHORPE WINS OVER MERCER 51-0 MACON," Ga, Not. 18 (UP) Oglethorpe, defeated five consecu-t times, beat Mercer 15 to 0 Asa Wall, Petrel end.

scooped up a lumuie ana ran 73 yards for a i tiivn on the second play of Petrels again in the re period when Cy Bell, quarter. 11 yards around end to; score. kitked the extra point frre got two more points 'in rTd hrn Matt 'Jug-fled i 1 recovered behind the Oiwb.swkp(frS AVERY tOM I 'o'N iff Thousands and thousands of owners of Graham Brother Trucks-all sixes in all Unei of business nuke money with them year after year They keep record! They know trucks They buy and buy again. New thousands each year buy them on this reputation and they build profits jot these new owners. Compare Graham Brothers Trucks with any track ever considered good value Compare them for power and speed Compare them for initial and operating costs Compare them for mechanical excellence performance under any conditions.

Compare them on a basis of your own choosinE any basts. ANNISTON MOTOR Inc. 105-7 East 10th St. Here are five stars of iht California eleven who. If they win remaining games ra thalr achedole, will be ranked with Sonthrn Cairfornla as Pacific Coast champions.

Ross Avery and Captain Irvine Phillips a re the regular ends. Deny Lorn, Stanley Barr and Clarence Canity are three ef the backs the Bears are asing te start their games, Phillips 1 hated ene of the best ends la football this year. MATHERNE meet Stanford. Thafa assuming they won't take one ere they get ready to play Fop Warner's eleven. California and Southern California met early In the season.

The By BOB i NEA Service Only a few short weeks atro this Sports Writer 1928 football season was beins result was a scoreless tie. That ranked: California equal with-South GRAHAM mm wm termed the make-or-break year for Price out at California and here we are in November and Mr. Price seems to be sitting in the most comfortable spot that he has beep In since he became head coach of the California eleven. Not since the good old days of the late Andy Smith has th California eleven had as good an opportunity of being ranked equally as important as any other. Pacific Coast eleven as she has this year.

Mr. Price has refused. to do any breaking. -Neither have his Btrekeley boys cracked any when the cracking might have been 4 There are some who win teU you that theCalifornians were extremely lucky to have arrived the" spot where they are now and these people are the same oncsVho are likely -to. teltyou that the Stanford horde will make monkeys out of the Goidea Bears.

But that is neither here nor there this time. The Callfornians are silting in a nice spot will be in that same spot until they ern caiuornw in cold figures, at least. The Southern California eleven rushed along early this month and socked the highly-touted Stanford eleven of Fop Warner under a 10-0 count, and that lifted them up in the world. It is necessary for California to take the Stanford eleven when they meet this month if they wish to be rated on equal terms with Southern California. If Stanford wins, the Los Angeles "eleven will be the outstanding eleven and champions of the Pacific Coast' Price started, the season with a tremendous squad of football players, approximately 75 very well-built young-men, and he has pushed them along gradually.

His line was hard hit by graduations but t-e rcp'acement materill has come through in splendid jihape and the reserves and veterans on hand have done nobly. Ills back-" i3 Myiii aj niceiy. t'-': i It all depends upon the Stanford game and it doesn't pay to be too certain about the outcome of that affair. 1 DUILT.DY DQDGC-. DRDTHC-riG.

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