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THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Thursday Morning-, December 15, 1938. CENTRAL WHIPS JOELTON FOR SECOND LOOP VICTORY Return of Long Boosts Jackson 's Hopes Vol Injured List Cleared OWEN SCORES 11 POINTS TO LEAD VICTORYMARCH Donelson Romps Over West, 24 to 11, for First Win BEARS NOW CAN MATCH BETSYS THROUGH LINE 1 i zabethton's Mighty Record Altering Odds on Tilt Kingston Honors Wyatt CAFEGO, WOOD, OTHERS READY FOR MIAMI TILT Regular Practice Begins For Oklahoma Mix On Monday ejoeff ut3 put Mpv Mnj IH Hiepjto tiiviiy, M1tM utH '(jiimi peduis hm) sui))dOH uuy uXSa punejs AuioB put iu0j jmo Buvit)t 'sjs Seed Xuejd Bujuijej H'UJ00q 0)u 6u)jnq sqieiseq uoissejdxs su) Xq tuteui wm mous spsoa oet3S uBih ueutl ss xis eJH 'eA Jho am 0) punoje ujn) mu) sm PI 10MJ EIGHTEEN 1 Basketball Bursts Into Full Blossom i 1 11 A iV '-'K----- gr, MaaaaNMaMwaaMaaMaBHBaMaaMaaHaaaMHtffcsuAMMM4 aHiaaMaMawaMttssBiiiattMSS8SBl KNOXVILLE, Dec. i-fm Trainer Mickey O'Brien failed to find an injury on the Tennessee football squad today and expected the champions of the Southeastern Conference to be In their best physical condition of the season when they play In the Orange Bowl. O'Brien was cautioning the players to safeguard against Injuries in practice so they would be In top condition when the Vols meet Oklahoma In Miami January 2. George Cafego, star halfback, had recovered from a sprained back; broken hands of Halfback Babe Wood and Tackle Bob Woodruff had healed, and a cut under the eye of Fullback Joe Wallen was hardly noticeable.

Examinations ended today at the university -and many of the squad's 41 members went home for the week end. Others took light, vol-untary workouts under supervision of O'Brien. Regular practice will be resumed next Monday. Linemen Join Backs In Sooner Drill NORMAN, Dec. 14 fly-More than 15 linemen joined University of Oklahoma backs today in a workout for the Orange Bowl game with Tennessee at Miami, January 2.

Backs Bob Seymour and Otis Rogers consistently punted 55 yards In practice. The drill was cut short by chilling winds. About a dozen frosh showed up and will run. Tennessee plays against the varsity in next week's practice. v- thy, 4' v.

'iTlvf TU -1 yr v1Sr it 1 1 Vy 4 it I Captain Bowden Wyatt KINGSTON, Dec. 14 WV-Kingston will honor an "illustrious and brilliant son," Captain Bowden Wyatt, ef the University of Ten. nessee football team, January 14. The town's board of aldermen has adopted a resolution designating the day as "Bowden Wyatt Day," in recognition ef Wyatt's "prowess and excellence" as an end on Tennessee's undefeated gridiron machine. Wyatt gained widespread recognition as an Ail-American.

A parade and a banquet will ba features of the occasion with Major Bob Neyland and other Tennessee coaches scheduled to attend as guests. JACKSON, Dec. 14 (SpU Return of Rosa Long plunging fullback, to full-time duty today skyrocketed Jackson's hopes against Elixabethton In the state championship high school grid game here Saturday. Long, weighing 190, has been suffering from a charleyhorse the past ten days. He was given very little service In the Jackson-Memphis Tech game last week, hobbling about the field, but this afternoon he was his old self again ripping away for long gains in the final scrimmage.

With Long in form, Jackson will be able to match Harold "Crash" Stevenson, fullback, who tips the beams over 200 for Elixabethton. Stevenson Is Elizabethton's main spark and is expected to give the Bears plenty of trouble. However, the Bears have made up their minds to atop him. BETSYS USE STRAIGHT POWER Straight away football Is the specialty of Coach Niles Brown's Betsy eleven. Baffling spinners and reverses are well timed.

This style of ball has carried the Cyclones to a record of 390 points for the season as against 28 for their opponents in 12 games. In their last two games, both against championship contenders, the Betsy battalion has amassed 38 first downs to seven for their foes and has gained more than 600 yard on ground plays. The Bears have not been defeated in the conference, but they lost to Edison High of Miami, 14 to 13, early In the season. Besides Edison High, only Memphis Tech, whom they defeated last week 15 to 6 for the regional flag, and Grove High of Paris, whom they beat IS to 3, have been able to score on them. Jimmy Matlock, Jackson quarterback, has an individual high scoring mark of 111 points.

ODDS SHIFTING Early this week the Bears were highly favored to take Elizabethton In style Jackson hasn't lost a ball game at home in three years. But with the arrival of Betsy's record, the boys are given even money and nothing else. It looks like a real ball game. College coaches galore will be in the stands to see the big game. University of Mississippi, Tennessee, Vsnderbilt, Louisiana State, Mississippi State, and other Southern universities will have scout on hand.

Several Jackson players have already been tagged for the big Aside from college scouts, D. E. Ray of the T. S. S.

A. A. board of control In West Tennessee announced this afternoon that members of the state board of control will be feted here over the weekend. They will be given special box seats at the game and honored at a luncheon. The game is already a sell out Rothrock field has a seating capacity around 4,000.

Louis Englert chairman of the "stadium believes 7.000 will attend, provided gbod weather continues. It was almost like a summer day In Jackson today. Both schools will parade crack The Elizabethton team and 100-piece band will arrive Friday morning. Jackson's 50-plece band is In tune for the occasion. a Why Don 't Other Teams Gang Up on the Yankees? Instead of Slitting Each Other's Throats They Might Strengthen One Cluh to Knock Off Ruppertmen By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Dec.

14 It appears "that rthe powers, almost "import York Yankees. As Skipper Joe McCarthy, squat and content, his face split In a wide, tight grin, dents a lobby chair and listens with utter indifference to the howl of the trade winds, other pilots or owner scheme to slit each other's throats in deals, whereas they might concentrate on developing one team which might give the Yanks st least a mild Hall, Bradley Quit All-Stars Crimsley GldnCGS k'r By Wilt Dukes, Trojans Agree On Came Jerseys LOS ANGELES. Dec. 14 CIV-Possibility of a controversy over the colors the Duke and Southern California gridmen will wear In the Rose Bowl vanished today when the two rivals came to a quick agreement. Southern California's Trojans will wear white jerseys, while the Blue Devils of Duke University will don their customary blue.

One of the biggest pre-game verbal wars occurred when Pitt came West to meet Washington In 1937. The rivals insisted on wearing dark hues one a deep purple that looked blue, the other a blue that looked purple. Neither would give In and the (Continued en Next Page) COMPLETE SERVICE! anJtruck springs if Shock Absorber Windshield Wiper, if Carburetors The CHAPMAN Co. Hsuto Parts EqulpmtnHj Coach Kenneth Miles' basket-hailing Tornadoes of Central High School awirled over their home boards yesterday afternoon to humble Joelton's cagers, 25 to 17. The Tornado blew up a storm of points in the first half, rolling to a 17 to 3- lead, but retired into a shell-like defense in the second half, applying just enough pressure to keep safely In the van.

With the triumph Central Improved Its standing on the Nashville Interscholastic Basketball League standings board. The Miles aggregation has notched three successive victories, two within the conference, during the fledgling season. Goodlettsville and Greenbrier were the other victims. Billy Owen, brilliant Central center, headed the goal maneuvers with 11 points. Burton, Joelton forward, netted runner-up honors with seven.

Central (S3) JarlWa (11) Bailey (4) Burton lit Thompson I2i Proctor (31 Owen III) Capp Davenport fl) Adcock (21 Mclntire (J) Koto IU Bubs: Central. Hill 3t. Dudley a. Joel-ton. Felts lit.

Referee. Bowser Cheit. East Bounces Back, Nips Mt. Juliet Mt. Juliet's cage team, rated by many as one of the "teams to watch" in the Nashville Interscholastic Basketball League suffered from that warning last night when It bowed to a previously Impotent East High Eaple array on the East Side boards.

Coach Jimmy Armistead's crew, rated by their mentor as one of the weakest teams in the school's history, bounced back from a 51 to 3 lacing suffered at the hands of T. I. S. to eke out a slender 44 to 42 decision over the Juliets. The game resolved Into a scoring duel between Crowder and Ballou of East, opposing Bates and Part-low of Mt.

Juliet. Crowder grabbed off Individual honors with 16 points. Pas East (44) Mt. laliet (42) Crowder (16) Smartt ill Cothran (5) Bats (10) Loxan (4) B. Bmartt O-Ballou Partlow (10) Rawle (II Rummage Bubs: East.

Sanders Swain (1). C. Smith (31. Mt. Juliet.

Oreek (2), Bradley 10 Referee, Billy Hudson. Donelson Rambles Over West, 24-11 Donelson High basketeers ampere Into the wiji column at the expense of West High. 24 to 11, after a hard fought tussle on the Dons court yesterday afternoon. The Dons were never over the five point margin until the fourth stanza opened when they assaulted the board on crip and long range shots to soar to the victory easily. The Blue-Jays trailed at the half, to 12.

They trailed two field goals and a charity heave at the third and then' Mew chances to. overcome the Dons' lead. Goodwin, a sharpshooting sub, and D. McClendon, shared top scoring honors with a half dozen apiece. Blackwood, Ball and Brandon, stood out -on offense and defense for West.

The Goody brothers played havoc with West's offense by breaking up numerous basket forays. FOS. WERT (11) DONELSON IU) Brandon (1) H. Good 111 Fields ill J. Good 3 BurrouRhe J.

McClendon 121 Ball Hi D. McClendon Crawford Jennings 131 Sun: West. Blackwood (3. Ray (1). Donelson, Goodwin ini.

Davis (3. One Net Came Canled In Prep Loop To1ay A single game is scheduled today in the Nashville Basketball Iasie Hume-Fong's Blue Devils will play Cohn on the latter's court this afternoon while other teams are working out for a heavy week-end schedule. Two of Friday's encounters have a bearing on the league standing. They are Isaac Litton against Joel-ton at Litton and Bellevue against Cumberland at Bellevue. Saturday Joelton will take on Bellevue and Goodlettsville will tackle Cumberland In family frays, TODAY Hume-Post at Cohn FRIDAY jneltnn at Isaac I limn.

Murfreenboro at West. Lebanon at Ml. Juliet. Ft at Oreenbrler Bellevut at Cumberland MTi'inAf East. Joelton st Bellerue Goodie! tsrtlle at Cumberland.

m.k7m. breezes Routt Centerwllla Ramblers Five, 38 te 26; Wants Tilts COLUMBIA. Pro. 14 -(S1) The M. K.

M. Knitters cage quint walloped the Centervllle Independents, 36 to-W, In their openur here tonight. Lovelace and Weaver, starred for the wlnneis. Lambert was the biggest noise for the Ramblers. Anyone seeking games with Mass.

Knitting Mills contact Noble Harper at the plant here. Martin College of Pulaski, just down the pike a ways, boasts the most unusual basketball team in the country. It has played three games and lost three but that is no record streak of reverses and therein is not where the distinction lies. Martin owns what is believed to be the only male cage contingent in captivity which is coached by a member of the opposite, or stubborn, sex. "lady boys how to pass, dribble and shoot and spurs them on with pulsating locker-room McNairy, Bethel Clash SELMER, Tenn, Dec.

14 (Spl.) McNairy County Central High School basketball teams meet Bethel Springs girls and boys here Saturday Martin Team Has Novel Coach, A Woman Gfimilcy Ed Heistand, six-three and one half; from the present freshman crop will come Harrison Rue, six-three; Mac Peebles, six-four; and Dsn Walton, six-three and one-fourth, all stellar cagers and tall timber. MOSS IS ILPPY J. E. Moss, coach of Central High's regional champions, says for the many years he has been at the county school his ambition has been to have a six-foot team' This year, for the first time, he's got it. Hubby Walker, who's not a Miller yet, nevertheless will assist Mike Kelly with the baseball school at Daytona Beach, starting Feb.

15 Blackie Carter was one of the candidates for the Salisbury, N. managership, going to Dick Luckey And your old home-run swatter, Jim Poole, will manage Martinsville in the Bi-State. TURKEY GOLF Four Richland Cobblers In Swingers Win Tournament Turkey dinners for the holidays were assured four Richland Club golfers following the turkey tournament yesterday. Mrs. Howell Warner and Harry Husband won low gross honors with a 76 and hauled off a gobbler apiece.

Mrs. J. M. Peck and J. J.

Sanders won low net with a 66 and took off the rest of the poultry. The tomney was conducted by Pro Charley Danner. eTeam 44 North, South Players Report Dec. 28 at Montgomery MONTGOMERY, Dec. 14 (All-America JialfbackParker Hall and Quarterback Kimbal Bradley of the Ole Miss grid squad were enrolled on the Rebel basketball team today and announced they would forego the Montgomery All-Star Blue-Gray game in order to retain their eliglbilty for the cage season.

Hall Is also a baseball letterman and will perform with the Red and Blue nine next spring. The Ole Miss pair followed Center Hinkebein of Kentucky In with drawing from the Gray squad be cause or the eligibility angle. The teams had been announced but the withdrawal of the Rebels leaves two Southern vacancies to be filled. The game, planned as an annual classic, has a tint of old North-South rivalry going back to the era of the War Between the States Each roster, selected from senior college players from either side of the Mason and Dixon line, has 22 players. All must report here by December 38.

The squads: NORTH Ends Tony Jacunskt, Fordham (188 pounds); Carl Spang, Cornell 176); Tony Eby, Northwestern (175), and Dave Diehl, Michigan State (187). Tackles Bill McKeever. Cornell (215); Alex Schoenbaum, Ohio State (211); Bob Haak, Indiana (230), and Carl Kaplanoff, Ohio State (2M. Guards-Steve Petro, Pittsburgh (186); Mike Korhel, Fordham (190); ln Hovland, Wisconsin (21S), and Dan Elmer, Minnesota (190). Centers- Al Van Ramst, Cornell (Centinusd en Next Page) ill Special Selling 8 I TOPCOATS If OVERCOATS Jj SUITS "lt Here is your opportunity to JJ 1 rgT v.5'i.'l get your suit, topcoat or vi' overcoat of a price that will VI "Wit surprise you, quality consid- 1 ercd! All-wool suits ond V' "ViW' 1 coats in new styles ond mo- Ij s'f Vl tenals that compare favor- tl I obly with much higher priced 1 i XJ1 I clothing! There ore hard- Yi I I 'worsted suits, coverts or 1 I I I snOer Herringbone weoves, I 4 1 I smgle or rlouble-breosted, 1 P'a SPrf oc'" i C1 P7R They might use the Red Sox a the guinea pig, or, if they want- ed to start on a really fertile Athletics prthe Browns which shouldn't be hard.

Everybody else took them last season. Anyway, with Col. Jake Ruppert showing no signs of dissolving his team in the manner Connie Mack did when the world was his oyster, there appears a ripe field for a little conspiracy to do the dissolving for him, so the pennant race would be decided some other way than by acclamation. It's an idea. PLENTY OF HOT Possibly too much is expected, but the opinion persists that despite keen rivalry from faculty meetings, sales conventions and the Tuesday afternoon sewing circle, baseball confabs are in a class by themselves in developing wind without turning any wheels.

Just a blow in the lobby. The National and American League powers have been meeting for two days now, and still haven't decided on the right time. One big money sale the Freddy Hutchinson deal a couple of what-of-it trades, and a miscellaneous assortment of decisions and Indecisions, such as the color and range of the ball, night baseball, and the broadcasting of games, about cover the field. The National League was much in favor of a uniform ball provided it was the National League ball. Conservative as a frock coat, the senior circuit refuses to be pushed or cajoled into adopting anything which might make it look like It was playing to the grandstand.

In fact, in the last world series, there appeared some doubt ar to whether It was playing. The American League was willing to go halfway In the ball mat ter, apparently convinced It could use. mudhalls and still ring the bell. SEEN AND HEARD Seen and heard while disguised as a potted palm, well anyway a palm, In the Waldorf lobby: Joe McCarthy just waiting for someone to crack that "anyone could manage the Yankees by car-l rier pigeon from a bench in Central Hubbard, one um pire who can double as his own bodyguard, looming up like a box I car in a funnel, and splitting con- old love, football. looking) like he forgot to take off Ma chest protector.

Griffith, bewil dered as a jaywalker In cross-1 traffic, trying to get steered to a steering committee meeting. Major league pilots looking hope fully toward their farm managers. managers looking hope-l tuny mwsro meir major miun pi lots. looking hopefully at their watches. I speeches is Miss Jo Chapman, or Johnson City, graduate of the Teachers CqJJege in Johnson City and of Pcabody in Nashville.

"This is my first experience coaching a boys' basketball team," Miss Chapmsn explains her plight. "I find it very fascinating, but at the same time very difficult. "1 don't think any woman can coach a boys' team successfully, and our record to date bears that out pretty soundly, I think." But Miss Chapman doesn't do hsrself justice. In jlhe first place, Martin followers say she is doing a bang-up job with her new duties. The boys' team has only 15 candidates and few of them with previous experience.

In Pulaski only last week her rhnrges battled David Lipscomb, leading early national scoring with nearly 200 points in three games, to a hard-earned 35-to-23 victory. The team has lost twice to Lipscomb and once Cumberland, but is showing steady Improvement. Miss Chapman Is quite an amaiing young lady. She not only coaches the boys but instructs the coed team as well, putting the lads through their paces right after she gets through with the lassies. She plnyed basketball herself at Johnson City and was very adept at the sport.

She learned boys' rules and the masculine style of play through observation and study. The girls are much easier te coach than the boys, she says. She brags that her coeds, who make their debut Friday night against Lambuth, will be well worth watching. As for the boys well, they've got a long way to go along the road to basketball success. But the pretty Instructress shouldn't be discouraged.

If she doesn't know It, everybody else does Martin's boys are wading knee deep In Inspiration. Who wouldn't play his heart out for a coach like that? TALL TIWBER Every basketball coach dreams entirely of six-foot giants. Coach Jim Buford of Vanderhllt will see that dream blossom into a lark reality next winter, and It will even surpass his fondest wishes. He will have at his disposal net six-foot team but a quintet averaging six feet, three and one half Inches, the lankiest bunch ever te represent the Commodores en the court. From this year's varsity will be plucked Rosa Hanna, six-four, and INDEPENDENTS RIP RED ACES, 45 TO 23 Whilehrad, Hooper Set Fast Pare for Champion Case Outfit The Nashville Independents In augurated their cage season with a smashing 45 to 23 victory over the Red Aces quint last night in the State Aggie gymnasium.

The champion local outfit really went to town. They took an early commanding lead and never wilted Whitehead, stellar forward for the Independents, pased the attack by looping In IS. Hooper aided the cauce with 12. Ward, Dobbins arid Bohan, bottled up the Aces' offen sive threats constantly. Anone interested In booking games with the Independents write Ed Sanders at 701 North First Street or call 6-9494.

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IIOWARD FIVE Notes Out Mississippi Staters By 43 te 40 Score STATE COLLEGE. Dec. 14 (U-Howard College rallied In the last few minutes of play tonight to beat Mississippi State College In a basketball game, 43 to 40. State won last night, 31-29. State took an early lead but Howard always kept within striking distance and In the last 10 minutes the lead changed hands seven times.

GULFSTREAM WasVTM Ba. Vjrflf. fiuenj That Name; Opens Jan. 18 HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 14 flit Florida's new horse race track, the state's third, which is being constructed south of here, today was "christened" Oulfstream Park.

John Horning, young presi dent of the Hollywood Jockey Cluh, which will operate the track, said the plant would he completed well In advance of the Jan. 18 opening data, a ni fl- a I I ft -lit L. iKin ww III Riddle Interested in Race Another Admiral-Biscuit' Match Boomed LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec 14 V-Samuel V. Riddle, owner of War Admiral, was described today as being "Interested" In a proposed second match race between his 4-year-old turf star and Seabiscuit, handicap ace. George Conway, trainer of the Admiral, said neither he nor Riddle had -heard -direct from officials of Uialeah Jn -Miami.

Fla where LI I I Alteration! FREE tt I il II i 11 ft tw is I it II lil I 1 rV 1 pfViaJ-w Lf 'A III ii Ull (In Miami, Marshall Cassldy, assistant to President Joseph E. Wldener of the Miami Jockey Club, said Hialeah Park would consider staging a Seabiscult-War Admiral match race only In event Charles 8. Howard, Seablscult's owner, should announce he desired such a rare. "No race, however, has been arranged," Cassldy said.) The Biscuit defeated War Admiral In a match rare several months ago. There have been reports IflO.OOO race Involving flie Biscuit, War Admiral, Herbert Woolfs tawrln and Matwell Howard's Stagehand had been proposed at Hialeah for next February.

All four horses have been nominated for the Wldener Challenge Cup Race March 4. Msst- fw i Wl 1.