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HE GREENVILLE NEWS. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THIRTEEN SPINNERS HOLD MEETING, PLAN FOR 1947 SEASON WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2 0, 1 9 4 6 WS HEE Neyland System Dominates In Dixie mm til .1 Great Year Winter Golf Circuit Opens Today iv mm i i RES I ITU IN GROUND GAINS Vols' Master, Proteges Head Southern Play club, will tee off in the first round jof the, main tournament Thursday. 1 Byron Nelson, semi-retired 1945 king.

is the most notable name among the few absentees-j The field includes the two well-I known British pros, Charley Ward land Dai Rees: Masters' Champion Herman Keiser. PGA Champion Bob I Hamilton. Chicago and Philadelphia Champion Herman Barron, and th veteran contender, Harold (Jug) McSpaden. ATLANTA. Ga Nov.

19. iU P. The winter golf suing officially gets under ay here tomorrow when nearly all the b.g names of the links gather for a pro-amateur preliminary to the $12 000 Druid Hills invitational tournament oer the 72-hrif route Paced by bouncinz Bpn Hosan. top money winner for the year, a field of 170. all that can be accommodated at Drmd Hills country Tidwcll And Trippi Continue To Set Pace For Dixie Backs 7-': -J Al fri.iWii','ll'ni"'' I 4V-.

Ivy Griffin Here, Confers With Gaston; Officers Are Re-Elected IVY GRIFFIN, who Is in line for reappointment as manager of the Greenville Spinners next season if he accepts the offer, came back to town yesterday and conferred with President James B. Gaston. By a pleasant coincidence the club at its annual meeting In the afternoon voted Griffin a bonus of $500 in appreciation of his services. He was in Spartanburg when the honorarium was awarded and, upon his return here today, will hear the good news. In regard to the managership, Gaston repeated what he had said at the close of the 1946 season: "All things being equal, Ivy Griffin will again pilot the club, I hope." However, Griffin told the Spinner executive yesterday he had had one or two attractive offers to go elsewhere.

He was asked to give the Greenville club a definite answer as soon as possible. Gaston was reelected president and treasurer of the local Sally league club at the annual meeting of the directors in the company's offices in the Woodside building. Other officers re-named for the coming year were W. M. Shelton, vice-president, and James M.

Daniel, secretary. The stockholders jeduced the personnel of the board from seven to five members and elected the following named directors: George Norwood, W. M. Shelton, James M. Daniel.

James B. Gaston and Pete Bybee, these being the five largest stockholders. There are nine other holders with smaller shares. 1 55,000 SEE SP1NNS PERFORM PRESIDENT Gaston said the club "had had a most successful season financially" in line with the prosperous times enjoyed by -all clubs in baseball and other athletics. The Spinners' paid attendance at home games during the regular Sally league season totalled over 155,000, and this figure does not include the 18,000 cash customers at the playoff games and exhibitions.

The club voted to reduce the par value of the stock from $100 to $10 shares in order to unify split issues as held by some of the owners. A cash dividend of $4 per new share Was declared, and a surplus was held in reserve for any operation losses that might occur next season, officials said. MINOR MEET SET FOR DECEMBER ATLANTA. Nov. 19 Gene Roberts.

University of Chattanooga little all-America back, carried the ball 18 times against Newberrv last week for 197 yards, enough to booit him Into fourth place place among the South'a Individual ground gamin. Roberts, also the nation's leading aoorer, now has 901 yards gained rushing and passing on 140 plays and Charles Conerly of Mississippi and Bob Thomason of V.M.I. however, flgutes released by the National Collegiate Athletic association ahow Travis Tidwell of Auburn still leading with 1543 yards In 260 plays. Charlie Trippi of Georgia held to second place with 1,089 yards in 167 plays and Harry Gilmer of Alabama remained in the third spot with 1,048 yards in 222 plays. Conerly, Idle last week, dropped from fourth to seventh place with 799 yards in 184 plays, while Thomason held to fifth 849 in 161 attempts.

Charlie Justice of North also passed Conerly. mov-ing from seventh to sixth place with 808 yards in 134 tries. ROBERTS TOPS RUSHING Roberts, who has compiled all but nine yards of his total-via rushing, leads in that department with 892 yards in 139 plays, and Tidwell leads the passers with 64 completions of 126 for 702 yards. Justice ii second in rushing. Tidwell is third and Trippi fourth.

Clemson's Bobby Gage rocked up 853 yards in 105 plays to hold down Terrier spot. Dudley Elected PGA President CHICAGO, Nov. 19 (INS) Ed Dudley of Augusta, today was re-elected president of the Professional Golfers Association at the organization's annual election of officers in Chicago, Joe Novak of Los Angeles and Willie MacGuie of Houston were reelected secretary and treasurer, respectively. The meeting named three new vice presidents to bring the total to nine and thev are: George Corcoran of Grensboro, N. Alexander Cunningham of Chicago, and L.

J. McClelland of Kansas City, Mo. ii i -11 I Dodd, Barnhill, Feathers, McKeen Doing Okay In Big Season MEMPHIS. Nov. 19 wearing the indelible mark of Tennesiee's touchdown engineer.

Robert R. Neyland, are painting large oranee splash across Dixie gridirons this year. It's a peak season for Neyland-styled football with the "ceneral" and his proteges having four teams in the bowl spotlight and a fifth riding a victory crest in the south-, ern conference. The old master's own Tennessee Volunteers, who have played in three major bowls, are high in the post-season "feeler" lists as are Georgia Tech, Arkansas and Mississippi State, all coached by former Neyland pupils. VOLS LOSE ONE Tennessee has won seven games and lost onlv to Wake Forest during this comeback campaigns for the brigadier general who spent his war years in the China-Burma theater.

The Vols' victim list is imposing, containing such powers as Georgia Tech. Duke. North Carolina and Boston College. The loss to his old master was the only setback for Georgia Tech's young, enterprising Bobby Dodd. who has strayed farthest from the old Nevland system.

Embellishuig his tactics with the popular and some razzle-dazzle inherited from Tech's Bill Alexander, Dodd has led the Yellow-Jackets to seven victories, including wins over Louisiana State, Navy and Duke. While abandoning 1 a single-wing formation. Dodd nevertheless has stuck closely to the Ney-land-type stop-watch precision football. John Barnhill, newcomer coach at the University of Arkansas, has rammed the orthox Tc system down the throats of the flashy southwest mightiest. With six wins, two defeats and a tie only one setback in the conference, Barnhill has clinched at least a tie for the conference championship and his Raz-orbacks are favored for the Cotton Bowl.

FEATHERS SUCCESSFUL At Mississippi State another former Neyland pupil, Allyn McKeen, is fashioning a record comparable with any of these. He has seven wins, one loss and one foot in the door of a post-seasonal bowl party. One more Neyland protege. Beat-tie Feathers at North Carolina State, is riding along with six wins, including verdicts over Duke and Wake Forest, and two setbacks. If If you want a Sweater that will take real punishment and wear for years, provide marvelous warmth end fit smooth as i a glove, then you certainly want a FLINTWIST.

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Liberty defeated Simpsonville In the quarter-finals and walloped Falrforest In the semifinals to gain the right to meet Olympia which eliminated Saluda. Several thousand spectators are expected at Sirrine stadium for the game. The rockhopper penguin has yellow eyes part of the year and red eyes the rest of the time. DIRECTORS also voted a contribution of $100 to the Greenville Community Chest as a token of appreciation for the handsome patronage of local fans at the game 'Big Four' Cop Top Berths In Football Poll Georgia Tech And Tennessee Move Up In First Ten Teams NEW YORK. Nov.

19 (Pi Football across the country stood pat today on their designation of Army, Notre Dame. Georgia and U. C. L. A.

as the big four of the college gridirons but juggled all six remaining positions in the standings of the nation's top ten teams. Sports writers again placed mighty Army in the No. 1 spot by a narrow margin over Notre Dame and a tabulation of their ballots kept Georgia ahead of U. C. L.

A. in third place although both teams are unbeaten and untied. There were wholesale changes in the remainder of the select circle, however, as Texas and Pennsylvania, dropped out of the top ten following last Saturday's defeats. Southern California, which tangles with U. C.

L. A. Saturday in a game destined to produce the Pacific Coast conference champion and host team for the Rose Bowl, moved into the top ten for the first time along w4th Louisiana State. Fifty-eight of the 110 writers who voted this week put Army at the top of their ballots, compared with 57 the previous week. Sixteen of them voted for Notre Dame as the best team of all.

compared with 31 a week ago. and 23 others, called it a tie. While Armv gained over first-place vote. Notre Dame lost 15, indicating that the Cadets' 34-7 walloping of Pennsylvania made a greater impression on the experts than Notre Dame's 27-0 triumph over Northwestern. Georgia drew eight first-place vote and a total of 835 points while U.

C. L. which got five firsi-place votes, wound up with a point total of 760. Illinois jumped all the way from ninth to fifth place as a reward for the 16-7 triumph over Ohio State which kept the Mini out in front in the torrid Big Nine race. Georgia Tech, while crushed Tulane, 35-7, but still must argue with Georgia on Nov.

30, stepped up from seventh to sixth and Tennessee advanced from eighth to seventh off its stretch-drive victory over Boston College. Michigan, still In the running for the Big Nine title, lumped from tenth to eighth, while Louisiana State took over the ninth position and Southern California landea in the tenth spot. Ranking of the top ten teams (points based on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 system): 1st Plre 1( Place TEAM 1 Army 2-N. Dame 3 Ga. 4 UCLA.

nte Ti' 53 23 16 23 8 5 Points 1.053 1.003 835 760 527 425 328 267 139 5 Illinois 6 Ga. Tech 7 Tenn. 8 Mich, 9 L. S. U.

10 Sou. Cal. 107 The second ten: 11 Arkansas, 99 12 Rice, 98; 13 Pennsylvania, 70; 14 North Carolina, 60; 15 Yale, 43; 16 Delaware, 31; 17 Texas. 27; 18 Oklahoma, 20; 19 Tie between Muhlenberg and Tulsa, 19 each. Warning Issued To Grid Crowd ATHENS, Nov.

19 (INS) -Judge Vincent Matthews of the Athens city court issued stern warning today to all persons who plan to combine drinking with driving to and from the University of Georgia-Georgia Tech football game Nov. 30. "The Athens police have explicit instructions to arrest all drivers who appear to be operating an automobile under the influence of alcohol." The stiffest penalities will be invoked against offenders, he added. Dunean Defeats Air Base Five Duncan's strong Dynamo quintet opened its basketball season with a 69 to 42 victory over the Air Base last night on the Base court. Turner and Green with 18 and 16 points respectively, paced the Dynamoes while Moody recorded 13 for the Base.

The Soldiers will meet Fort Benning tonight at 8 o'clock at the Air Base gym. Mobley of Hardin-Slmmons, the best galner-perplay in college cir-clas last week. The college figures for this week aren't all In vet, but last week Satier had a total yardage mark of 1,292 more than the 1,248 officially credited to Bobby Layne of Texas, the leading collegiate ball-advancer. NO BETTER BLADE AT ANY PRICE! OrrlMf 44 CONIOU0tO U0 lutot INC. 11 iJ Doughboy Star Has Great Mark ATLANTA, Nov.

19 (U.R) Nobody noticed him at West Point because he played behind a fellow namorf nionn f.lnnior) Davis, but down at Ft. Benning. Johnny (Mighty Mouse) sauer nas luuna his niche on the first team and nmhnhiv is the leading football- propellor in the country. The national collegiate atnietic knpi9ii (Ws nnt. include service nlonaii auarace In Its Official ftS- UreS.

But where, the Ft. Benning Doughboys DacKers as in uiorua, will you find another player who has crainprt MHO VflrdS DV TUlinlng and throwing the pigskin? Sauer, who chafed on the west Dnlnt honrh thrniishnut the 1944 and 1945 seasons while Davis galloped to glory, has powered the Doughboys to nine straight victories and made them the standout Army camp team of the country along with the Ft. Lewis, outfit. AVERAGES 7.1 YARDS Corporal Carl Burkons, indefat-loohlo ftmire hue of the Ft. Benning public relations office, pro vides up-to-date aigiis on just wnai the erstwhile cadet has accompltsh- a tha nltrtlrln t.ht vear.

He cu wm 'n has tucked the ball under his arm an even 100 times and cnurnea out 710 net yards. Even our rudimen-fin arithmot.ir reveals that's an av erage of 7.1 yards per carry. Sauer has cnucKeo. tne oau times and connected with 43 heaves good for 699 yards. He has averaged it nnntlno nan that, wa down from a phenomenal 47.7 average last ounoay wntn no naa to kick a couple of times from within the 40-yard line against the Quantico Murines.

Rain that fell throughout the Quantico game (which Ft. Benning won 75 to also cut down the 170-pound Bauer's ground-gaining average. Before that game he had hauled the ball 8.1 yards per try. compared to a 59 average for Rudy last season. An invitation was officially extended to the sports editors of The Piedmont and The Greenville News to attend the national minor league baseball meeting in Los Angeles the first week in December, as guests of the club.

President Gaston will attend the meeting and expects to leave Thanksgiving Day for Chicago, whence he will go to the Pacific Coast. Director Norwood also 'plans to attend if other business permits. Directors and stockholders expressed their satisfaction over the working agreement Prexy Gaston had arranged for the Spinners with the Brooklyn National league organization for the coming season. The Spinns retired their pact with the Milwaukee Brewers and this change may have an influence upon Griffin's decision about the Greenville man- gGBm Veeck former owner of the Milwaukee club heads the syndicate that recently purchased the Cleveland American League club, and Griffin was offered a post in that organization. The Indians have promulgated a working agreement with Spartanburg of the Trt-State league, and Ivy's visit to the neighboring city may have some connection with the Spartans' new affiliation.

GRIFFIN VISITS SPARTANBURG THERE IS NOTHING in the terms of Greenville's working agreement with Brooklyn which binds the Spinners to any managerial appointment. Dodger officials have made no suggestions about a pilot for the local club. A wish was expressed by President Gaston and Brooklyn representatives that a playing manager be engaged if Griffin decided not to return. It is known that Ivy would be acceptable to Dodger farm club officials who hold him lrf high regard. Gaston said it is usually customary for a club to wait until tne minor league meeting to announce the appointment of a skipper and intimated that the Spinners would have officials news at that time.

Also, player deals will be engineered at Los Angeles. Directors were reassured at the meeting that every effort would be made to give Greenville a winner next season. They were highly gratified over the Griffs showing the past summer asthe team finished third, only two-and-half games out of first place, and were eliminated by Columbia in the first bracket of the playoffs. Augusta, which finished fourth, a half game behind Greenville, won the Shaughnessy series after the Columbus Eedblrds captured the pennant For Rugby rn LlVI Jul mm MiiniMwiii mil MEN'S SHOP Sweaters Greenville, S. Ut MSTKIBOTORS.

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