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1 THE INQUIRER, OWENSBORO. MONDAY. DECEMBER H946. PAGE SEVEN JIMMY DYKES DEFENDS TRADING TITLE 14 GRID TEAMS FINISH SEASON UNBEATEN AND UNTIED Socker Christman 1940 Grid Squad At Western Kentucky Teachers College w.sffl'AJWV Wi ELEVENS ESCAPE NT MAJOR WH1TES0XP1LDT HAS YET TO GET WORST OFTRflDE Former Third Sacker of Philadelphia Athletics Is a High Pressure Salesman of Baseball Talent. TIES Ally EPEITS Eastern Kentucky Teachers of Richmond Come Through 1940 Football Campaign With Perfect Record.

Atlanta, Dec. 2. Poor Lou Com-iskey tried to buy a place in the fint division in 1933 by giving Con- ft 'r I II Jackson Generals In 1939 and when Here 'n There Mack $150,000 for Al Simmons, Mule Haas and James Joseph Dykes. That didn't get the Chicago White Sox anywhere, so early in the following season, Comiskey made Jimmy Dykes manager. Dykes has since done very well on his own.

The old third baseman has been a high pressure salesman and de fends the trading title at the winter baseball meetings. Mickey Cochrane and the Detroit club have not yet recovered from the shock of Dykes taking them for $75,000 in exchange for the fading Simmons. Dykes has done all right with the Tigers. They tossed in a young minor league catcher with Gerald Walker and Marvin Owen in the deal that sent Vernon Kennedy, Dixie Walker and Tony Piet to Detroit. The young minor league backstop was Mike Tresh, who quickly became the No.

1 Pale Hose receiver. Dykes got Taft Wright and Pete Appleton for Gee Walker, and $15,000 foff)Marv Owen. ltAkfrm a a vn cat yttu i Johnny Taylor, Jimmy Salato, Barney Fisher, George Sadler, Walter Pudlo and Ed Stansbury. Middle row, left to right: Chester Ellison, Ed Rutledge, Benny Tom-bllnson, William Mazlack, Bob Wilson, Tom Byrd, Pete Marcus, Ray VanMeter, John Stoll, Curley Pitt-man, Frank Griffin, and Arnold Wlnkenhofer. Last row, left to right: Harry Markham, Harry Bowling, Eugene Sparrow, Ralph Bushong, Mike Price, Tom Zoretic, Elwood Sanders, Rudy Senitza, Siler Steele.

Dick Crouch, Clarence Pruden, Howard Downing, and W. L. Terry. The Kitty has produced a lot of fine ball players. This last year they had a 1938 Kitty star in the World's Series in the person of Junior Thompson, and while Junior didn't exactly set the woods on fire, he set all the kids' hearts beating, at a mile-a-mlnute clip in his old love the Kitty league.

It's the spirit of baseball that keeps the Kitty league intact. Before long youll see the headlines "Fans Chase Umpire Smaltz around Court House Block." "President Peace Confers With Judge Bran-ham About Kitty League Rumpus, etc, etc" but take it from me "You Can't Kill the Kitty." I HMUUIIMIIRI IIUWWMUI 1 in Field Sports his team hit a batting slump he concocted the idea of "loading the bats" of some of the weaker sisters with some sort of cork substance with the idea that they would tear down all the Kitty fences. During an animated series with the Owensboro Oilers, the cork tip idea was exposed, and in the confusion it took all the local policemen, plus the aid of the sheriff and his deputies, to quell the riot. Needless to say the good old hickory bats prevail in the league now. The ball players for the most part are young kids and they love the Kitty with all their might and main.

Al the clubs play night baseball and all the teams travel by bus. And what buses. It's not an uncommon sight to see any one of the teams trying to thumb a ride In order to reach a scheduled town on time, after a breakdown by some of the "Covered Wagons" they travel In. But they have a good time and they give the fans a real show. BRINGS JOE KUHEL The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers who closed their season Saturday, Nov.

23, with a 6-0 victory over their arch rivals, the Murray Thoroughbreds. The Hilltoppers lost one, won seven, and tied one for the 1940 season, winning over Bradley Tech, Presbyterian College, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Austin Peay, West Michigan State, and Murray. Louisiana Tech beat them 7-6, and Morehead tied them 0-0. Front row, left to right: Vernon Dulaney, Ralph Gadd, James Kin-duell, Harold Hunter, Bumice Evans, had "peace" and probably never will as long as they know what it takes to make the Kitty change from a mild feline to a roaring wildcat." Ex-President Howard left his office with the distinction of being one of the few minor league presidents in existence that had the league affairs in Black ink instead of the Red that so many Class leagues have adopted as the class color. Let's get acquainted with the setup in the Kitty league.

Kentucky boasts of she towns, namely, Owensboro, Fulton, Hopkinsville, Mayfield, Paducah and Bowling Green, Tennessee has the other two Union City and Jackson. Indiana formerly had an entry, hence the cognomen "Kitty." Owensboro, has been somewhat of a storm center since its reentry into the league three years ago. Hugh Wise brought the franchise into the town from Portageville, when that town folded up during the middle of the season. He interested a guy named "Jule" J. C.

Miller to become president and that swashbuckling oil producer stirred up more baseball interest than the Kitty had seen in He went out and got the citizens of Owensboro to put up the finest ball park in Class D. baseball. Last year when Joe DeMaggio entered the park for a pre-season game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he blinker his eyes in amazement. The grass infield was just like velvet and the entire set up was perfect. Hugh Wise, the Owensboro playing manager, designed the park, built it in twenty-six days before the opening of the season, and knows every blade of grass by it's first name.

The Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds passed up a good sized Southern town to play an exhibition game in Miller's Field, after their traveling secretaries saw the park the other day. Said Mr. Paul, of the Cincinnati Reds "Miller's Field is the best Class set up in the whole United States, and a lot better than some Class A teams I know of." Hugh Wise has managed the Owensboro club for the past three years, and the combination of Miller and Wise has been a real terror over the cir- Out Sales Talk (By L. D. O.V- W.

R. "Smokey" Hildebrand, sends us an article entitled: "You Can't Kill the Kitty," and we believe "Smokey" is about right on it, but we will let you decide for yourself in this matter. Bill writes: It's a pretty generally understood that a "Cat" has nine lives. But the "Kitty." That varment just can't be annihilated. The Kitty in this case is a baseball league that carries more romance more topsy turvey rucuses and more fun for the fans than any other Class league in the world.

The big news is that the "Kitty" has pledged itself to "go" in 1941. Big league lans legion of other fans over the tormented land and of course, Kitty league-bugs will welcome the news. And the "Kitty" surely, is always news. Ben F. Howard, of Union City, was last year's loop president.

And he was a danged good one too at least he tried hard enough. But when the season was just about over he found himself with about umpteen others before High Commissioner Judge Landis. Some of the clubs, namely Mickey CNeil's Jackson, Generals, t'is said, just didn't try so hard to whip the tar out of the Bowling Green Barons in a crucial series, when it was a dog fight as to whether the Barons or the Owensboro Oilers were to win the pennant. Owensboro and we'll tell you a lot more about the chesty little oil town later on, yelped so loud that the "iminent, judge simply called all folks involved to a little parley at Chicago. After a stormy session everybody "kissed and made up." When the call came for the- annual fall meeting.

President Howard sent out the following The regular meeting of the Kitty league will be held at the Irvin Cobb hotel, at Paducah, Ky. You are cordially invited to be. "President." Strange as it may seem a gentleman a True Southerner and a baseball fan from A to was named president Shelby Peace, of Hopkinsville, mayor of the city, and a zealous Kitty fan for many, many moons. Strange, because the name is "Peace." In a league that never Dykes Trying New York, Dee. 3.

(-Fourteen college football teams completed their 1940 seasons, excluding bowl games to be played on New Year's day, 1941, as well as those played last New Year's, without a defeat or tie to mar their records. Final records of the unbeaten and untied teams: Team Won Pts. Opp. Boston College 10 320 52 Tennessee 10 319 26 Springfield (Mo.) 10 279 20 Lafayette 9 23B 33 Hardin-Simmons 9 229 76 Milligan (Tenn.) 9 179 33 Stanford 9 175 72 Eastern Kentucky 8 273 27 Pacific Luthern 8 208 53 Wittenberg (O.) 8 161 33 Minnesota 8 154 71 ShurUeff (111.) 8 126 26 Millersville (Pa.) 7 166 25 La Crosse (Wis.) 6 123 9 BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, JR.

New York, Dec. 2. (ff) There arent enough games left on the 1940 football schedule to have any great effect on the season as a whole, so it appears to be about time to summarize the results. The final big week the campaign produced only one major change in the status of the leaders. That was when the mighty Texas Aggies were beaten, 7-0, by Texas for their first defeat this season.

That broke a string of 19 consecu tive victories and put the Aggies out of the running for the mythical national championship. Next Saturday's game between Southern Methodist and Rice will, unless they tie, decide which team will tie the Aggies for the conference. Despite that defeat Texas A. and M. still is very much In the running for a place In the Orange Bowl or Cotton Bowl games New Year's day.

Boston College Edges Win The "major" teams that came through the season unbeaten and untied were Minnesota, which finished its Western conference conquest a week ego; Stanford's Pacific coast champions; Tennessee, title winner in the Southeastern confer ence, and Boston College, unofficial ruler of eastern football. Reviewing the results by sections, the top teams are rated about this way: East Even a narrow escape against Holy Cross, when the Eagles won 7-0 with th "breaks," couldn't deprive Boston College of the No. 1 rating and an Invitation to play Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. Beat en once but still very close to the top are Pordham, which will play In the Cotton Bowl game; Georgetown, which may meet Santa Clara in a Christmas, Day game in California, and Pennsylvania, unofficial "Ivy" league champion. In last Saturday's windup games Pordham swamped its old rival, New York University, 26-0.

The day's biggest game, though the season's records don't support that conten tion, saw Navy whip Army 14-0, before 102,000 fans. Vols Have Fine Record South Tennessee, when it beat Vanderbilt 20-0, marked up a string of 32 consecutive regular-season victories, which stamps the Volunteers as a great team even though there may have been a few more soft spots in their schedules than were necessary. Mississippi State qualified for an invitation to the Orange Bowl with a 13-0 triumph over Alabama. Duke, while it finished only second to Clemson in the Southern conference standing, proved its right to about equal ranking when it conquered Pittsburgh 12-7 in a final intersectional scrap. Clemson and Duke didn't meet this season.

Mid-West With the Western conference race over, final week interest centered around Nebraska's clinching the Big Six title and the coveted Rose Bowl bid with a 20-0 victory over Kansas State. The Cornhuskers have lost out only four years since the conference was formed in 1928. Pacific Coast Quite according to predictions, Stanford had its closest call of the year against California, winning out 13-7. Meanwhile Southern California, which plays Notre Dame next Saturday, whipped the hapless TJ. C.

L. A. team 28-12; Washington clinched second place In the conference standing by scoring 27 points in the last quarter to beat Washington State 33-9. Small washable rugs may be washed in washing machine but should not be put through the wringer. Hang dripping wet on line to dry.

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Rear Anderson 1 i I I) Paul Christman When next you hear from Paul Christman, the Missouri football star will be trying for a major league berth. A first baseman who swats a long ball, Christmas is sought by the Yankees, Tigers, Indians and Cardinals. His brother, Mark, has played in the infield for the Tigers and Browns. finally was stung when he passed on Rip Radcliff for Julius Solters but the Moose took a new lease on life under the great cigar smoker's Pitchers Clint Brown, the Indispensable relief worker; Edgar Smith, blond, big, fast and left-handed, and bespectacled Bill Dietrich were picked up at the waiver price. Dykes paid $12,000 for Luke Sewell and got the last good catching out of that fine backstop.

Dykes has stirred more action in the baseball marts since becoming a pilot than any other big league boss in a comparable period. He has engineered 13 transactions between the two major loops. Figuring both sides of the deals, 27 athletes were involved. Eleven of the 18 White Sox regulars of last summer were landed by Dykes in shrewd deals or at the minimum cost. Little wonder baseball men grow suspicious when Dykes starts talking about one of their players.

They know he is angling for another. Jimmy Dykes can make up his mind in a jiffy, and he hasn't been wrong yet. BUS SCHEDULES OWENSBORO, HARTFORD, BEAVER DAM. MORGANTOWN, BOWLING GREEN. KY.

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2 NEW BUSSES 2 WEBSTER CARRIERS BUS COMPANY UNION BUI STATION cult. Fulton, is a railroad town, but the fans will fight you at the drop of a hit if you berate the Fulton Eagles. Baseball is a losing proposition for Fulton every year, but that doesn't matter. They are a part of the Kitty and always will be. Hopkinsville is the real home of the little purring animal.

"Doc" Frank Bassett kept the Kitty alive so many times he is convinced it has nineteen lives instead of the customary nine. At Hoptown last year when the team, for lack of finances looked doomed, the Young Ladies organized a Junior Baseball committee, and by holding bazaars, bingo games, they managed to complete the season, and were among the first to say "Yes" when the meeting was held to decide the fate of the Kitten for -1941. Mayfield has a novel idea of how to maintain its baseball club. Fifteen merchants "sponsor" a ball player. The idea is that unless the gate receipts from the regular league games take care of the salaries, the merchants guarantee each player their month's wages.

Mayfield's ready and rarin' to go. Paducah, the home of Irvin Cobb, has made baseball a thing of civic pride. Last year's owner, gave up the ghost, but the loyal fans have perfected an organization to keep it going. Bowling Green, a college town, and one of the best, is independently owned, and has received fine support from the Warren county fans. Union City has been the stomping grounds for the St.

Louis Cardinals farm system, and gets fine support from the Cards. And they always have a fine team. Jackson, is owned by the Gilland and doesn't "farm" with any of the big clubs. They have a lot of fun down in the sticks with the Kitty league. A couple of years ago one of the fans amused himself by peppering Umpire Specht with a Bee Bee Air rifle, and the fans thought the poor ump was trying out a new Rhumba step, when in reality he was trying to ease his pain from the stings of the air rifle.

The umpires are paid $5.00 per night to officiate the Kitty games. Out of this they must pay their own traveling expenses and all hotel accommodations. They travel in pairs in order to cut down the expenses, but it's a great life for five bucks a night. Dutch Welch was managing the Pour GLENMDRE GET MURE More whiskey, dollar for dollar! And its distinctive flavor makes it America's most favored Bond. Glenmore Distilleries, Louisville, k' "eV Thn 4 Million Bar.

1 tit- Zeke Bonura, who gives the fascist salute to ground balls, went to ington for the accomplished Joe Kuher. Dykes obtained Thornton Lee in the winter of '36 in a three-way deal with Cleveland and Washington, and all he gave up was Jack Salveson, an AA pitcher acquired from the Pirates who took Outfielder Bud Hafey. Jack Knott came for Bill Cox, who no longer is around. Bosy Berger went to the Red Sox for Eric McNair, who played plenty of third base, hit .324 and batted in 82 runs for the White Sox 39. Not a few suspected that Dykes Train Schedules LOUISVILLE KaSHTILLE R.

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