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T)) one 9 Beriai it 1 ace 1 00 Prob Say eiiifiiSo 'We If Some Were Mine' Kline, Wright, Wet Training Field Adds to Early Worry By CHARLES JOHNSON Minnesota football players Bud Scufi. Jiel 160 They'll Have to Order Special Jerseys for Bill Baumgartner who go to work 65 strong to morrow morning on Northrop Field don't know it, but they have no less than 100 prob Geary Set AA Freak Record By HALSEY HALL This was the year of the Big Reverse. Along the Avenue of Records, the Minneapolis Millers were a high-powered car going the other They set good marks but In direct contrast to peaks of other seasons and they produce Ab Wright, Bob Kline and Huck Geary as holders of records bordering the unusual. Wright won the homerun championship with 26 circuit blows the LOWEST TOTAL IN 16 YEARS. Back In 1926, Bunny Brief, the fearsome fusilier from Milwaukee, belted the same number.

But you go clear back to 1920 before you find one lower and that was Brief with 23. lems to solve before they'll be able to live up to all of the advance press notices about their 1941 ability. Awaiting the start of practice, Bernie Bierman sized up his squad this way: from last year, said he spent the summer in a boy's camp but expressed the wish that he had done common labor Bill Baumgartner, pass grabbing end, headed for Oscar Munson's stock room on important Lanky Bill tried on at least .10 jerseys, didn't find one that fit HIS ARMS ARE THE LONGEST "ON THE SQUAD AND MUNSON WILL HAVE TO ORDER SPECIAL JERSEYS TO ACCOMMODATE HIM Munson and Cliff Snyder were busy sorting out equipment Oscar said he had to have from two to four pairs of shoes on hand for every gridder They wear out that many during the year The season opened yesterday In the training room operated by Stein and Boyce They took turns wrapping tape around each other's ankles, developing new bandages prior to the big job Wednesbday Both said they never saw a Gopher squad report in better shape; everyone down a few pounds. Little Bud Higgins, the sophomore halfback mite, rrfade a trip or two to the official scale, but only when no one was looking Higgins says he weighs 160 but every, one knows better Most worried guy around is Art Smith, grounds keeper His practice fields are in tip top shape AND IT'S RAINING Smith thinks the 65 Gophers will tear It to pieces wnen Bernle starts driving them By JOE HENDRICKSOX Sitting in as the Gophers roll in. The university athletic quarters is a busy spot.

In twos and threes, the Gopher gridmen stroll In Some try out new equipment; others trot around In sweat suits to test their steam for Wednesday's start; most of them stick around to gas about the coming season Bill Daley was one of those on hand yesterday game do you fellows fear most this year, Bill? Daley had a big choice "Washington will be our toughest Wisconsin will be good, too, but those Huskies have most of the fellows worried because we don't know much about them" Daley was down a couple of pounds (And this in Nicollet Park with the lively ball. Who said the Association was a homerun para' Spoils ivlisv a 1 lei 4 i "7 1 i PL lV i i 'p'' i i if Hi' 1 i I i L' i I I dise?) Huck Geary became positive In his record breaking, for Huck, with Mill CityAngler Gets Top Prize DUIXTH A Minneap-oils angler is winner of the 1911 North Shore deep-sea fishing title. He is F. H. Mossberg of 3105 Portland avenue who caught a 24 pound, 13 ounce trout off Knife river.

25 SACRIFICE HITS, had the high. est total 11 seasons. In 1931 Evar Swanson had 56 and in 1930 Eddie Sicking had 31. So, good fans, we give you this and those who have wandered from the AA to other terrains will never believe it the top performances in home-runs and sacrifice hits were almost the same. "I'd say that we have at least 100 problems on our hands before we go to work.

We'll probably have many more after we have been practicing for a few days. "I haven't much fear about the boys returning in pretty good physical condition. The early arrivals that I have seen look all right in their street clothes. I don't worry much about their attitude for I think they realize what they'll be up against, particularly the first game with Washington. "I don't know whether the squad will be able to live up to their clippings or not this year, but I do feel confident that if we lose any games this year the opposition will know that they've been in quite a battle," the head coach went on.

The weather proved a little disconcerting to Bierman today. Be. fore he went to the office, he Inspected the practice fields and found that they aren't too good, but he figures that if there is no more rain between now and tomorrow morning, the athletes will get along all right outdoors. With only 11 days of practice at home before entraining for Seattle, loss of any sessions out Cubs Set Dodgers Bob Kline, or Mount Kline, holds the other figure. You will see It among those listed elsewhere in this sports section.

Appearing- ONY I llS A It JOURNALl I I sLsJJL "susrjmxz 2JL Wilson Hopes to Knock Off Loop Leaders By t6m SILER CHICAGO (P) The usu In the huge total of 52 games, Kline nevertheless had only six decisions three for and three 'HE DID NOT PITCH ONE COMPLETE GAME. HE STARTED ONLY jONE. Tuesday, September 9, 1941 PAGE 18 Little Bud Higgins, the midget of the Gopher football squad who refuses to reveal his correct weight, watches 235 pound tackle Manley Wilcox weigh in preparatory to Wednesday's opening Minnesota drill. Higgins perhaps wishes he had some of Wilcox' weight. Star Journal Photo.

Scribe Tabs Gophers Only HE FINISHED THIRTY. And, ally inept Chicago Cubs, with in those 52 games, he was in less everything to gain and nothing to lose, eagerly awaited doors would be costly because Washington already has a two-day jump on the Gophers. Sure Thing as Drills Open As far as Bierman knows, all of heir scries opener today with noisy and confident a leading Brooklyn the candidates invited to return will be on hand tomorrow morn KIMBROUGH TO 'CLEAN UP' IN YEAR, QUIT GRID 'My Son Will Hold Girl's Hand, Stay Out of Football' than 90 innings of pitching. And, just to put the final daub of weird color on a hard worker's record, Robert was at bat in only 12 of those 52' games and for a total of only 18 times up. The annual Clash of Mystery starts tonight with Minneapolis at Louisville and Columbus at Kansas City.

The Clash of Mystery is known as the playoff, where the fourth place club usually wins. It Betty Pretty, Too ing. None of them has requested permission to report a little later. Calls Picking Any Other Team 'Terrific Gamble Dodgers. Most of the players, especially Leo Durocher's high-flying Dodg ers, three games ahead of the St.

the out-of-towners, were on hand Monday and were quite prominent around the training quarters. The Louis Cards, hope to clinch the By STEVE SNIDER National league flag during their CHICAGO (U.E) A season of un certainty opens tomorrow for the 10-game trip through the west, but they'll have to fight all the way. rest of them will be in today with a scattering few not showing up until Wednesday. is not entirely unheard of for the nine football teams of the Big Ten conference. BIERMAN'S COACHING STAFF pennant winner to come through and Minneapolis fans would like National defense poses a in selective service.

Ohio IS SET. HE HAS HANDED OUT INSTRUCTIONS TO EACH AS I took animal husbandry at Texas A. M. and I expect I'll be able to make a living." Kimbrough told Twentieth Century-Fox studio that he doesn't care for football any more, that "if I ever have a son, he'll not be scrambling around in the mud. He'll be sitting up in the stands holding some pretty girl's hand and yelling to somebody else to get out there and run." HOLLYWOOD (UP.) Jarring John Kimbrough, last year's terror of the gridiron and this year's horse opera hero, said today that he would play football this fall for whoever would pay him the most money.

going to make every penny I can out of football," he said. "But just for one year. Then if It turns out that I'm a flop in the movies I'll go back to Texas. not to hear of It this year, because their Millers happen to be the State is a question-mark under its fourth notchers. THE CUBS, THOU MIRED IN SIXTH PLACE, WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO SMACK THE LEADERS OVER IN BOTH GAMES OF THE SERIES.

The two teams have been ex SISTANT AND NOW IT'S JUST A MATTER OF THE BOYS SHOWING UP. Dr. George Hauser was around As this series starts, Tom Shee han is well fixed for pitchers. Monday for the first time and he devoted most of his conversation to deflating the 1941 Gophers. But it is not in pitching that this tremely bitter rivals since early in the season when Brooklyn new coach Paul Brown.

Indiana's sophomores, hailed as sensations, could do wonders for the Hoosiers or flop like many sophomores of the past. THE ONLY ITEM TABBED AS A SURE THING IS MNNESOTA. For his defense of the Big Ten championship, Bernie Bierman has the makings of a team at least as year's fourth place finish is written 1 1 i (O Gumfs "IU'WIPl-IMIi II IlillHWIJllJJJJ.Ii ill mHMMSMBiH I -A '-V ill' -f 1 f. charged the Cubs with exceeding the player limit. An investigation IT IS IN HITTING.

Yes, with a Miller club, it is the hitters who fell down more than the twirlers jaDDy io doss Jdsey substantiated the charge, League President Ford Frlck fining the and, given a return to normal bat strong as the 1940 outfit which Cubs $500. ting form by a majority of the lineup, such gentry as Hqgsett, whipped Northwestern and Mich Cards Needn't Give Up Yet! But It was a day of brilliant play igan and ranked generally as the Haeiner, Keney and is.asn couia No. 1 team in the nation. by the Cubs which enabled Brook hurl well enough to win. Kash is the likely hurler tonight day after being behind on Sept.

on the final seven games lyn to supplant St. Louis as the pace-setter recently. Only last Thursday the Cubs whipped the because Hogsett has come up with By HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK Dope book on the National league race shows that in 25 years no club has clinched the pennant before Sept.

18, and in 1934 the Cards won After Minnesota, everything else is a terrifio gamble. In the absence of concrete figures about these three, which figured strongly in the 1940 cam. Cardinals In both ends of a double' a sore back as a result of a vertebra injury suffered at Kansas City last week. Judd is the probable "How will it feel to start a season with line material three-men deep at every posl- tion?" he was asked. "What's that," he countered rather sharply.

"That's the time when I really have to go to work." Hauser was pleased to see so many of his linemen, especially Urban Odson, returning with about the same weight they had at the finish of spring practice. The Gophers' practice program, beginning tomorrow, runs something like this: Report at 9 a.m. in uniform; 11 a.m. chalk talk; 3:30 p.m. begin afternoon drills; 5:30 to the showers.

It's expected that a few more than the 65 gridders invited back 6 If Gabby Hartnett believes everything he hears, he must be wondering where he'll land next header and the St. Louis club hasn't been the same since. opposition. paign, Wisconsin and Purdue have gained considerable support among forecasters as the major dark- "What was good enough for the Cards is good enough for the Dodgers, too," Manager Jimmy Wilson said confidently. horses.

They Look Fine Here's the problem each school Hail the Champ! Markley Moaning Wins Two Towels faces: Tan a i.t, He chose Claude Passeau to pitch Leahy Turns Optimist the lull load ha ahared with All-America penrge Franck In the Gopher backlield today and Paul Erickson tomorrow, Over Irish adding "and I hope they've got it." M1CH1UAN Harmon and Kvmhuv.lcl will be on hand tomorrow gone and enough aald. Described an a "gloomy outlook," the altuation probably ll ihort of that. Passeau and Erickson pitched the double triumph over the Cards. Joe Markley, Central high school football coach, was so proficient at SOUTH BEND, IND. UP) Current stories have him (1) managing the Giants next year while Bill Terry moves to the front office, and (2) managing Jersey City The Phils haven't said anything, but the baseball writers think Doc Pro-thro is out and Hans Lobert will be manager next year Down in Atlanta they hear that Marty Marion, who used to play there, will bo traded by the Cards to the Dodgers Local report Is that it cost the Dodgers Babe Phelps' full year's pay and a bonus to persuade him to retire so they could take on another man in his place.

Zeke Bonura hopes to be out of the army before the American Association playoffs are over NORTHWESTERN For the (econd year In a row, Lynn Waldorf must find a new line to block for hin veteran backa. INDIANA BUI Hillenbrand, the topho-more flash, must deliver. tt'RIHJE Selective service mav hurt moaning last night when the Ama teur Sportsmen staged their annual party for coaches and cap. Betty Jameson, who begins match play defense of her national golf title at Brookline, today, and the champ expects to play a pretty game. Why not? Isn't she? AP Wirephoto.

FAT FRED FITZSIMMONS WAS DUROCHER'S CHOICE TODAY, POSSIBLY FOLLOWED BY TOM DRAKE. Meanwhile, the Cards will be tains of Minneapolis high school the Boilermakers. More 21-year-olds on football teams that he received mis snuaa man me average. XI un troubled expect to llnlsh hltrn. Coach Frank Leahy of Notre Dame, getting ready to issue uniforms and other equipment tomorrow to his first Irish football squad, departed from type today.

"They look fine," said Leahy. "The boys have been working hard this summer. They appear to be in great, physical condition, and full of spirit." Drills begin Wednesday. TWO crying towels. All other coaches received COLUMBUS CONFIDENT Stark, Ward in Outdoor Battle DULUTH, MINN.

Professional fighting will go outdoors here Tuesday night when Kelly Ward defends his state light heavyweight title against Solly Stark in the new stadium. OHIO RT ATE Brown la atarting a new system with a new staff and many new men. Speed la hia main worry. WISCONSIN A hard hitter to replace Qeorce Paskvan at fullback. meeting the Phillies twice.

Then the two top teams meet at St. specially embroidered towel after an evening of "bear stories" and a breaking the three-year jinx that has dogged the trail of pennant winners in the loop's post season playoffs. COLUMBUS, OHIO The Columbus Red Birds, 1941 champions of the American association, were confident today of Louis In what well might decide the title. Brooklyn has three big meal. Coaches from the uni IOWA The "Klnnlck fever" la passing and Iowa should settle down with a strong running attack manned by last year finds.

ILLINOIS Zup had a line and no back! last year. It's reversed. versity, radio and newspapermen, John Getchell and the high school games at Cincinnati and two at Pittsburgh, before returning east for seven games against the Phils captains spoke. Aus Nolander was toastmaster. Scene was the Athletic club.

A PACK OF HUSKIES SET TO CHARGE ON GOPHERS Sammy Angott Wins With TKO in Sixth and two against the Boston Braves. WASHINGTON, PA. (Sam my Angott, NBA lightweight cham pion, scored a technical knock Brooklyn 3Yz'l to Win Pennant NEW YORK Brooklyn is a 3H CLEVELAND BUYS END CLEVELAND UP) Howard Hickey, a big pass-catching end from the University of Arkansas, has been purchased by Cleveland. out over Pete Galiano of Balti more, in the sixth of their sched-uled 10-round bout last night. to 1 bet to win the National league pennant, according to big league odds-layers here today.

If you string with St Louis, you'll get 2 '4 to 1 they won't win. Jit ii s- i vjf s-'U'K, "-V "-rjr -f rs i C. fA How the Miller Hitters, Pitchers Finished Play (NOTE TB is total bases, RBI js runs bptted in, SB is stolen bases. In the pitching, ST is games started, TO is taken out, CG is complete games pitched, Fin. is games finished.

One thing to remember the times taken out means literally knocked out; the times a pitcher was lifted for a pinch-hitter are not included. This record does not include the pitching of Nesseth and Smythe.) Simonsen in Revenge Bid DULUTH UP) Ade Simonsen, the man whom a scoring technicality robbed of the 1941 state open THE REGULARS Bat. AB Pet. 2b 3b HR TB RBI FB PO Tig. A.

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house for next year's National Open were made yesterday when 150 Interlachen caddies were guests 32 12 20 20 90 130 251 127 17 13 7 2 64 SS 104 68 7 1 12 6 34 20 4 44 Here is how Washington's football team will look to the Golden Gophers when the teams clash at Seattle Sept. 27. In the line, left to right, Bill Sloan, Bob Friedman, Dick Greenwood, Walt Harrison, Dwight Smith, Mark McCorkle, Don Means and Bernie Steele. AP, Wirephoto. I of the club..