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1 Yo en Iks Already To rcQDiTDDfrug Li a 'ryow Says JBsaSBasM oi On the line Bj BOB CONSIDINE HARD-TACKLING BUCKEYES SMOTHER TROJANS Jfounffks May Melp MasekaSS I I i NEW YORK. Taking a look ahead to the 1943 major league baseball season. Presi NEW YORK. (INS) The iports pages ram an awful lot of ituff about stars and super teams dent Ed Barrow of the New York Yankees, said yesterday that unless "something drastic" spring, the Yankees expect happens between now and next camp at St. Petersburg, and play a full schedule of games.

The Yankees already have their Grapefruit league schedule of exhibition games made up and have made arrangements to establish headquarters again at the Suwannee hotel in St. Petersburg 1 a. a 1 1 tt 'tt emu engage in ij training hi miner nuggins neiu. jH-JP etetpbtng Shut THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, Governali Can Pitch That Pigskin; Figures Prove It CHICAGO. (JP) Columbia's Paul Governali is long on passing This picture shows a sample USC back, indicated by arrow, is of Ohio State's hard tackling which stopped Southern California, 28-12 last Saturday.

Darrel Kroll, shown being stopped after a gain of only one yard. BilMVillis (99). Ohio tackle, is piling up the play. and short on rushing but he doesn't have to worry about his ground game. The crinkly-haired Lions star has been throwing a football virtually as far as anyone else propels it by running and passing.

The American football statistical bureau reported yesterday that Governali had gained 74 yards by rushing and 603 by passing in three games for a total advance of 677 yards by far the best Wove of Mokes Gudetrdosis Aooiins BBBSDOB'Oy9 WITWER Coach Dick Jones of the high school Green Devils, emulating the best meaning technique of the famed "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, yesterday took stock of the injured members of his gridiron squad and opined, "we're in very bad shape" for Saturday afternoon's Big Ten conference tussle against Hillsborough, Terriers at Stewart field. Jones' unusual burst of pessimism was occasioned by a virtual plague of injuries which this week has riddled his line from end to end and will force him to start not only a makeshift forward wall against the Terriers but a wall lacking replacements. 1942 PAGE ELEVEN Paul Governali Columbia ing, 316 yards passing, 554 No. 5, Roy McKay, Texas, 4 games, 280-258-538. Individual rushing: No.

3, Leroy Hirsch, Wisconsin, 4 games, 378 yards; No. 4, Ruman, Arizona, 3 games, 377 yards; No. 5, Hank Margarita, Brown, 2 games, 353 yards. Passing: No. 3, Leo Daniels, Texas A and 3 games, 63 attempts, 31 completions, 6 interceptions, 347 total yards gained; No.

4, Frank Filchock, Georgia Navy, 3 games, 54-50-3397; No. 5, Siwich, Georgia, 4 games, 59-29-1316. Punting (10 or more kicks): No. 4, Bill Schatzer, Iowa Navy, 4 games, 10 punts, 444 yards, 44.4 yards average; No. 5, Blondie Black, Mississippi State, 2 games (a third unreported), 15 punts, 652 yards, 43.47 yards average.

Pass receiving: No. 3, Gorhan Getchell, Temple, 3 games, 14 cought for 179 yards: No. 4, Jim Kelleher Columbia, 3 games, 12 caught for 170 yards; No. 4, Jim Georgia Navy, 3 games, 11 caught for 104 yards. If ic I ir 'Bama-Tennessee May Be Battling For Bowl Bid In Annual Tilt Saturday BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

You'll have to buy the Sunday papers to learn who wins the Tennessee-Alabama football game offensive showing in the nation In fact, only two flayers have surpassed Governali's passing yardage through their rushing and aerial efforts combined. They are Bob Ruman of Arizona, with a total of 608 yards, and Dick Fisher of Iowa Navy, with 604. Governali was in top form last Saturday as Columbia was bowing to Brown, 28 to 21. Pitchin' Paul personally clicked for 223 yards while the rest of his teammates could muster only 61. "he only player offering arguments about Governali's passing supremacy was Ray Evans of Kansas.

The Jay-hawker ace has completed 48 passes In four games to Paul's 32 in three games but Evans' percentage of completions and his total of yards gained are both well below Governali's efforts. While Governali, Ruman and Fisher dominate the total offense listings and Governali and Evans set the pace in passing, unheralded Rudolph Mobley of Hardin-Simmons and Don Griffin of Illinois' surprising team stole the honors in individual rushing. Mobley in three games has charged 434 yards. He scored the touchdown by which Hardin-Simmons defeated Southern Methodist last Saturday. Griffin had trouble against Minnesota last week but still added to his total yardage to run it up to 394.

Lee Roy Pletz of Pennsylvania enjoyed a scant margin over Tom Douglas of Dartmouth as the nation's punting leader. In 12 boots Pletz has averaged 47.5 yards to 47 even for the Dartmouth kicker, Bobby Cifers of Tennessee was in the No. 3 position with a 46.5 yard average. Capitalizing1 on the passing ability of his Kansas teammate, Evans, Ott Schnellbacker of the Jayhawks forged in front of the leading pass receiver. In four games he has nabbed 14 aerials for 210 yards.

Cullen Rogers of Texas A and also has snared 14 passes, but has only 182 yards. Other leaders included: Total offense (rushing and passing:) No. 4, Frank Sinkwich, Georgia, 4 games. 238 yards rush- next Saturday, but this is for the book: The odds are five to one the victor will play in a post-season bowl game next New Year's day. Winner of the traditional Crimson Tide vs.

Volunteer struggle for the past five years has played either in the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl or the Cotton Bowl and with both teams undefeated again this year, another potential bowl bid rides to pitch their spring training Barrow said he anticipates some severe transportation problems and says, almost with relish, that some of his high-priced artists probably will find themselves sleeping two to an upper berth. "It'll do 'em good," he said. "Many a time back in the old days we traveled all night in the smoker and played good ball the next day. We thought it was luxury when we got a coach with cane seats and a stove in the front of the car." Barrow thinks that the 18-19 draft might help big league baseball to some extent, in that it promises to provide deferment for some of the older stars who have dependents, but he says it will knock the blocks from under the clubs' normal replacement program. "Drafting the youngsters should enable us to keep some of our married players for another season," he conceded.

"But it also means that a lot of boys we had planned to bring in will be gone to the Army. It looks to me like about a fifty-fifty proposition." The Yanks, he pointed out, already have lost three of their reg ulars of the past season Tommy Henrich, Phil Rizzuto and Red Rolfe so the question of replacements is an important one right now. He thinks, though, that the club has a great infield prospect coming in George Stirnweiss, the former North Carolina football star who played with Newark this summer. Barrow, frankly, is a trifle piqued at the way the sports writers went overboard about the Cardinals' victory in the series. He claims they got every break going in the five games.

"You young fellows seemed to forget that the Yankees ever Jiad won anything," he complained. mildly. "You forget how many World series we had won before this one, or that we just had run away from the American league "Sure, the Cardinals were a hungry bunch of boys and hard fighters, but they got every break, too. Why, we hit eight or ten balls here at that stadium that would have been home runs in the St, Louis park or anywhere else." Lakewood Links Meet Enters Second Round Only four first round matches were played in the Governor's cup golf tournament at Lake-wood the first four days of this week, defaults and byes keeping the remaining players in the event idle. Woody Wever, Dave Beazley and H.

L. Vaughan advanced by default of their opponents. In the matches played, Stan Shaver defeated Bill Cermak.l-up; J. E. Bryan defeated George Sarven, 2 and Hap Ward downed F.

A. Pirie, 4 and 3, and Frank Liggett defeated W. L. Harbin, 5 and 4. Second round matches start today and end Sunday night.

The schedule: Wever vs. E. H. Dunn; Beazley vs. Jim Budd; Shaver vs.

Russ Sheldon; Vaughan vs. George McCleary; Bryan vs. Murray Lester; Ward vs. H. C.

Bumpous; Liggett vs. Ross Carson: Art Stone vs. U. C. Barrett.

The tournament is played on a handicap basis. Jimmy Mann, last year's winner, is not defending his title. ROGER BARGAR down each fall, but like Joe E. Lewis, who goes to the movies only to see the credit 'ine given to "sound by Western Electric," I also have my obscure favorites. There are nf CONSIDINE strange people hovering on the fringe of football.

Few t)f them even get a credit line, yet they attained their positions by dint of more determination than went into the making of an All-America halfback. It would be unkind to call this the lunatic fringe but here and there a career or two may have been helped alo lg a bit by a solid knock on the skull. There is the drum major, for Instance. We felt for years that selective service should have gone into effect the day, many years ago, when the first football drum major strutted down the field, trying to walk like a circus horse. Now I am resigned to them as a special breed with several resemblances to homo sapiens.

They have parents who come to watch only them, even girls whose pretty heads are turned by the stiff-legged antics. I never saw one eat, however. In fact I never saw one without a shako. AND BATON TWIRLERS. They practice more than the team does.

Their's is a considerably keener science than the act of running over a tackier. Roy Riegals, the poor sucker who ran the wrong way and never lived it down, probably suffered no more than a baton twirler who, on the final twirl, muffed the shiny stick when it came whirring down out of the air. The Foreign Legion must have been full of them. We like most of the people who win the newspaper football guesses contests, too. They have such a wonderful detachment.

So few of them would deign to attend a game. Our favorite wa a charwoman who picked one of the coupons off a floor one night, added up her grocery bill in the vacant spaces and won $250 and two tickets to the Rose Bowl game. She had picked the correct scores of 15 tough games, while the best that any lifelong student of football entered in the contest could do that week was four rights and 11 wrongs. Of course, we can't overlook the assistant managers in charge of broken straps on trusses, and the kid with thick glasses who holds the front end of the bass drum. Fraternity politics may have aided the assistant manager's dizzy rise to power in the government of the game, but the front boy on the bass drum had to come up the hard way.

We can't think of anything lower on which he might have started, but there must be a lot of fierce com petition for the job. After all, he is but inches removed from what must be the glorious peak of all ambition for this segment of the fringe the bass drummer him self. ANOTHER KID we admired was the Notre Dame lad, bright-eyed with pride, who used to follow Knute Rockne around the practice field with a chair and shove it under the fundiment of the great man whenever he stopped iiid began to sit down The kid never missed, but no body ever thought to put his jersey in a glass case and keep it on exhibition at the school Could Joe Savoldi have done the job as well? Then we have the hair-split ters, fine-line-drawers, decimal dervishes and atom smashers who get up those weekly rank ing lists. Last season our ai fection for the Williamson sys tern was alienated, in a weak moment, by the Lambert trophy committee ratings of eastern colleges. It was fascinating to watch the mathematical rise and fall each week of Catholic university of Washin Sn, D.

Sometimes old C. would charge past Muhlenberg, then it would sag heavily behind Vii-lanova. What a team old C. U. was, fighting, always fighting, to keep its head above Wesleyan.

Of course, Catholic university had given up football in 1939, but that made no difference to me and it certainly made no difference to the statisticians on the ranking committee. For some wholly unaccountable reason, C. U. is not in the Lambert ratings this year. Now I've returned to Williamson's bed and board, largely because he rates the -professional Iowa pre-flight team on top of all the amateur college clubs with a rating of 99.2.

Some of you probably will wake up screaming in the middle of the night, wondering why Iowa isn't 99.3, or 99.4. That failing, what chronic breakdown beyond the eyesight of Coach Bierman, knocked off enough decimals to bring the rating down to 99.2? PERSONALLY, I don't worry. Sitting in his New Orleans garret, the candle-light flickering creep-ily over his slide-rules, test tubes, stethoscopes and comptometers, Williamson is tops with me. I be lieve every digit and only rarely, now, am I gnawed by a desire to see Tulsa (95.7) meet Vander-bilt (95.6) a game which, I am convinced, will see Tulsa triumph gloriously by a score of l10th-to-0. Anyway, you can have your Sinkwiches, Hillenbrand, Kuz-mas, Mazurs and Filipowiczes.

You can even get Stiff (of Pennsylvania.) Leave me only those curious satellites who whirl dizzily around the bright stars of the gridiron constellation. In short, nuts to me. ili Do juries By STAN To lead off with the most dis- astrous blow both Charley Tru-bey and Franklin Beard, the team's right guards, definitely will be sidelined Saturday, Tru-bey with a badly bruised leg and Beard with a broken bone in one hand. Reserve Tackle Al Ross, favoring a lame ankle, appears to be headed for more bench-riding than playing during the week-end melee. Mac McKee, first string tackle, is bothered by a bruised side.

Center Sam Odom and End Billy Turner are nursing leg injuries. Odom will start against Hillsborough but Turner will not and may, in fact, see very little action. The backfield, fortunately, is in good shape and the Devils' success Saturday probably will rest on the ball toting department's ability to function behind a line of questionable stature. The injury jinx this week is so potent that Jones is not going to risk a scrimmage for his varsity, so they will go into the Terrier game without having a chance to work against Hillsborough plays. As of yesterday, Jones revealed the Devils' probable starting lineup Saturday as including Bob Sogers and Buster Horton at ends, Lacey Pounds and McKee at tackles, Dick Kirk and Elwood Mc- Cord at the guards, Odom, center, and Bill Reeder, Bill Tucker, Nelson Mossburg and Bob Gold- rick in the backfield.

Behind Segers and Horton, Jones has only Gene Gatewood as a hale and hearty substitute. Back of Pounds and McKee he has Johnny Thompson. Mc-Cord'and Kirk appear headed for 48 minutes of work at the guard posts. To add to Jones' woes in his own estimate of Hillsborough as "the toughest tem we have played this season." He and Assistant Coach Mike Balitsaris have scouted the Ter riers and report them big and fast with a 190-pound pile-dnv ing fullback in Gasper Vaccare, two tpckles weighing 200 pounds each "who can move" and at least (Continued on Tage 12) on the outcome at Legion field. Alabama ended a three-year jinx last season, beating Tennes see at Knoxville in a hectic game, 9-2, and the Tide wound up in the Dallas Cotton Bowl with a victory over the Texas Aggies.

Previously Coach Frank Thomas saw his Tidesmen beat Tennessee in 1937, an undefeated season, and went on to receive a Rose Bowl bid. In 1938, 1939 and 1940, however, Tennessee humbled Alabama, the first time 13-0, the next time 21-0, and finally, 27-12. On Jan. 1, following each victory the Vols played in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls, In that order. Tennessee this year was held to a.

scoreless tie in the Vol's opener against South Carolina. John Barnhill's boys bounced back, however, thundering over Fordham, 40-14, and then taking Dayton in stride in a breather last week-end, 34-6. Alabama is unbeaten and untied, triumphing over Southwestern Louisiana, 54-0, in a warm-up, then taking Mississippi State, 21-6, and the Pensacola Naval Air station, 27-0, on successive Saturdays. Saturday's Alabama-Tennessee engagement, expected to draw 24,000 spectators, will be the twenty-fourth meeting of the two teams since 1901. Alabama has won 13.

Tennessee eight, and two ended in ties. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (V) Tennessee's blocking has dwin- evBis died to nothing and "unless it improves before Saturday we won't have a ghost of a chance against Alabama," Coach John Barnhill declared last night. "The boys aren't In the right mental frame for the engagement, they're as flat as a flat-iron, they don't want to block and if they don't mow down those Elephants, Tennessee will get a trouncing," Barnhill, himself suffering a cold, added. The Volunteers' offensive prowess was tops against Ford-ham, enabling the Tennesseans to move the ball almost at will against the favored Rams.

Eight Fordham players could be counted on the ground after the Vols' blocks. This blocking was absent in the Dayton game last Saturday, and as a result the Vols' ground game was held in check during much of the game. "No one's trying to block," Barnhill went on, "and the worst of it is we can't seem to put this idea across." Tennessee entrains Friday morning for Birmingham, but the brief offensive scrimmage staged yesterday will be duplicated today in longer fashion before the 35 players board their day coaches. William (Bill) Meek may get a chance to show off before the homefolk in Birmingham. The Volunteer second-string quarterback is slated to replace Charles Mitchell, ailing with a foot injury, if the West Virginian fails to come around by game-time.

Too, Sophomore William Bevis of Marianna, may get a crack at the quarter post. Wildcats Play Plant Cubs The Bayshore Wildcats football team, composed of sophomore gridders at the Senior high school, will play its first game of the season this afternoon, engaging the Plant high school Cubs from Tampa. The Cats are coached by Bud Smith, former Devil gridder, and Bill Hook, who played last year at Orlanlo high Game time has been set at 4:13 p.m. Pels Add Players NEW ORLEANS. (U.P Charles Hurth, business manager of the New Orleans Pelicans, bnnounced yesterday that two more players have been added to the team' roster.

They are Infiekler Gorgt' Hausman, 23, and Catcher Marcus Carrola. 22. Both have been playing with San Antonio of the Texas league. Local Gridders on St. Leo Eleven Doc Painter Is Dismissed By Yankees DR.

ERLE V. PAINTER NEW YORK (P) After having been trainer of the Yankees for 13 years, Dr. 'Erie Painter has been dismissed by Manager Joe McCarthy of the American league champions. The veteran mender of a thousand breaks and sprains was thoroughly angry yesterday as he called at the Yankee office to turn in his keys. He just had returned from an interview with Manager McCar-thy at Buffalo, where he said he was denied an explanation of the firing.

"The first I knew of it was a letter from McCarthy," he said. "I went up to ask him hy if there had been anything wrong with my work but all I got was a promise to recommend me to other clubs. I think it's just that he has somebqdy else he wants to give the job to. "It's no way to treat a man after 13 years." Painter said he was leaving for St. Petersburg, to dispose of his home there and probably would return to this area to open a private practice.

Dr. Painter owns a home at 918 Forty-fifth street north and has been a member of St. Petersburg's winter baseball colony for several years. Majors to Map Wartime Program At Confab Dec. 3 CHICAGO UT) Kenesnw Mountain Landis, commissioner of bnsebftll, called a joint meeting of the major leiicucs yesterday to be held in Chicago Dec.

3 to map out a wartime baseball program. Thus, both the major and minor league meetings will be held in Chicago, the National Association of Professional Baseball leagues having already announced the switch of its gathering from Minneapolis. The meetings of the minor leagues will open Dec. 4. The major league sessions were originally scheduled for New York.

Landis decided to make the change because of better central transportation facilities. T-' Hi Gargantua's Nursemaid Tames Pro Grid Rivals liter ivV. PHILADELPHIA. (tt A vicious king snake had to help Dick Erdliti when he trained Gargantua the great and ferocious gorilla but Dick is taming tough professional football players these days with his bare hands and how! The bespectacled. 22-year-old former Northwestern university star, an ex-circus hand who was Gargantua's favorite playmate and nursemaid for two summers, was hailed yesterday as one of the greatest professional football "finds" in years.

ErdliU, a raw rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles, 'packs more punch per pound than any back I've seen in years." said Coach Earl (Greasy) Neale. beaming. "He's the sharpest tackier to come out of college since Clint Frank." Neale was backfield coach at Yale when Frank starred there and became an All-America choice. The blond blitz, who halls from Delafield, was rated a third-string man when he first reported to the National league squad a month late this season, after quarterbacklng a team of college All-Stars. By now, of course, he has made the team, and he's handling Gargantuan football players with the same finesse he displayed with the gorilla.

In addition to feeding Gargy, Erdiitz had to chase his little playmate from one' cage to another every day. He did It by manipulating a king snake, the one thing for which Gargantua had any respect. He had a title of "trainer." but actually one doesn't do much training with a would-be killer. Generally he just stood around and tried to keep htm amused. Erdiitz.

who weighs 180, Is a blocking back and he seems to be equipped by temperament for the job. He doesn't care much for the glory of ball-carrying. He says an ideal two-man line-up on a football field would be "a cripple carrying the ball and Gargantua playing center." HARVEY HEAGERTY When the FMA Cadets take the field against the St. Leo Lions here Saturday afternoon there'll be two home-town players out to score for the visiting team. They are Harvey lleascrty, left end.

and Roger Barjrar. right end, of the St. Leo eleven. Both are from St. Petersburg.

A tourhdown each is their record in St, Leo's two victories without defeat so far this season..