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THE' "MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER Constructive Fearless Independent SUNDAY. JANUARY 29. 939 tate Golf Tournament To Be Played eauvoir University Of Alabama Scores Brilliant 41 TWENTY-SIX Hi To 38 Victory Over Kentucky a i.i Jm Celtics To Be Here Saturday Directors Of Southeastern To Trucks' Outfit State Title Play Will Be Here In July IN ACCORDANCE with my custom of trying to make dull sports period less dull to you few boys and girls who turn to this space, I present this morning a guest column written by Frank Thomas, coach of. the Alabama football team, and a fellow who managed to become Xamous last Fall because his team was beaten and tied in the same year. Thomas-coached teams are so widely knows for winning that team which could fail to win two times in single year made people wonder Late Outburst From Crimsons Clinches Game Tide Keeps High Rank In Conference By Birmingham Vin By MAX MOSELET BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Jan.

21. A six-point outburst toward the end of as wild and wooJy a game as Birmingham ever has sees carried the University of Alabama to brilliant 41 to 38 victory over Kentucky's smart quintet from the Blue Grass here tonight and kept the Crimson Tide to the favorite rote in the Southeastern Conference race. A crowd of 2,500, one of Birming if Gabriel had started tooting his horn. His column is titled: Observations of 1938 Football Season When the final standings of the many college and university football Howard Line i Coach Takes Job At L.P.I. Raymond Davis Quits To Take New Position BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Jan.

28. (JP Raymond Davis, line coach at Howard College and former star player there, resigned today to become head football coach at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, La. Davis will succeed Eddie McLane. former Howard player and coach, who will become athletic director. The new L.

P. coach will leave for his new duties immediately, and will conduct Spring football training at Ruston. He said the present staff of assistant coaches would be retained at the Louisiana school. Billy Bancroft, head coach at Howard, expressed regret over Davis' resignation and said no successor had been named. Davis was line coach for the 1935 and 1936 Howard teams which won the Dixie conference championships, and for the 1937 and 1938 teams which lost only one game each in conference competition.

With Montgomery's prize cage ahow of the year, the visit of the Original Celtics. is less than week off and already plans are completed for the big circus of the court The Celtics will battle Virgil (Fire) Trucks' fast-stepping team at the Madison Avenue Armory Saturday night, the feature game starting around 1:00, and stars of two sports will be meeting. Trucks' cage team has played one game here and won that, and since then his team has been strengthened. The addition of one player, Ervin Hampton, has made the team one of the most outstanding outfits in the South. This past r- week.

Hampton scored more than 150 points himself, making 89 points in one day. Hampton is a tall, rangy lad, just out of high school, and is six feet, three inches tali With Oeorge Abbott, the Indian, and the other Trucks stars, Hampton rounds out formidable quintet. The Trucks team won nine straight games last week. As for the Celtics, the fans always know what to expect from the Shamrocks. They know they will see the greatest team on earth staging the biggest show in this sport.

That's all that is needed. The rest takes care of itself. Immediately after their game here! Saturday night, the Celtics leave for teams throughout the nation were tabulated, it was found that only five major teams had not felt the sting of defeat. Five years ago it was not I asttStt-. i unusual for twice this many teams to go through the season unbeaten or untied.

What are the reasons for so few teams going through undefeated today? To my notion the contributing factors are: First, there are more high school boys playing the game than ever before high schools that did not have football teams ten years ago are playing the game today. Consequently, there are more boys going to college each year that have had the experience of playing high school football and are better equipped to play the college game. Not so many years back it was not so uncommon for the various college teams to be made up of several boys that never played high school foot ball. Now days that is not often the case. The coaching in college and high Pro Athletes Earn Much Or Little But Hours Are Swell schools, particular the high school coaching, has improved immeasurably.

The schools are able to pay in most cases higher salaries to coaches thereby getting a more qualified Instructor than they were a few years back. Summer coaching schools conducted by the outstanding college mentors are being attended by a large number of high school coaches and have added greatly to the Improved methods of teaching the game correctly to the youngsters. In the days when there were only a few outstanding college teams the few outstanding high school stars were attracted to the college with the winning team. Now days the high school players that play the game well are more numerous, and each college gets a goodly share of these boys. The Meet Here Today 'Directors the Seetacutera LeagM will bmc here Uday ba wbat is called "reatiae" saeeting by Btoart X.

Stepheaaeav svesMea the leagae. There have beea nuawi to (be effect the seagae will drop freaa aa eight to a six club ebrait bat aa the BMetinr's eve they seeaied take "realise" raaMra. The schedule will fee diacassed. Seisaa's aew aaaaagemeat, with Maariee Bkacb as chairawa tt the beard at directors, Buy eeoae la tat mom lafenaal discassWa beeaase nnatereas people have beea trying to get Maariee Biecb to Use cm-trel at the Selaaa aataattaa far hm Strikes And Spares TJARTWELL DAVIS, local au-thority on legal lore, just jumped the second hurdle towards his ultimate objective, in short, perfect 300 tenpin game. He rolled his first 200 score recently, had one pin to spare, and overcame a handicap of two splits on top of it.

Miss Peggy Smith, a pretty young lady, attending the Alabama College at Montevallo, turned in a crackerjack duckpln score of 114, this week. In the Ladies Duckpln League, the Pepsi-Cola Pepperettes were the "fair. haired gals." They used a bit of the old psychology, keeping the opponents waiting and it must have worked as they won three games from the Nu- Grape Grappettes. The Wells Lum ber-jacks won two out of three from the Dixerettes. The high scorers were Miss D.

Wells, 127; Miss Edith Moorefield, 112 and Mrs. R. Humphrey, 111. The high team game was made by the Lumberjacks with 423 (averaging over 105 per bowler). The standings now are, with 45 games bowled: W.

L. Lumber-jacks 31 14 Pepsi-Cola 28 19 Nu-Grape 18 27 Dlxleerettes 15 30 Miss Doris Wells, the head bowler the Lumber-Jacks Is Woking for new fields to conquer. It Is rumored that invitations are going te be mailed out directly, challenging some lady duckpln teams la this "yere part of the country." James Wilson, (wrestler), aston ished himself and several bystanders, by rolling 143 duckpins this week, ail in one game, He insisted on keeping the sheet for evidence, and not only that but demanded an O. K. on the score by the alley prop.

Said his pals, Clarence Johnson and Walter Perry might not take his word for it The Men's Duckpln League rolled with six teams. French Piano's squad was incapacitated, due to illness and the Frank TenniUe Fur-nlturemen. being the gentlemen that they are, did not insist on winning any games by forfeit. Therefore, when the Pianomen recover, the' Furnituremen will take them on for games past due. The Rosemont Gardeners swamped the Swift Packers for three games.

Waco- Sandwich Shop and F. A. each won two out of three games from the Alabama Power and the Merpaco G-Men. The standings now read, beginning the second half of the schedule: W. L.

Rosemont Gardens 3 0 Woco Sandwich Shop 2 1 W. S. F. A. 2 1 Alabama Power Co.

1 1 Merpaco G-Men 1 1 Swift Packing Co 0 3 In the Capital City Duckpln League. O. L. Martin's smile covered lots of space when his team, the Oderless Cleaners inveigled three games away from the Krystal Hamburger makers. Pacific Loan and Tavern's Aces and Joker took two games each from Shoaf Studios and the Brass Rail's Number The best games were turned in by Shoafs, 523, and The Aces and Joker's 503.

Teddie Mayers, an Oderless bowler had the high score for his three games with 330. The standings in this league now read: W. L. Shoaf Studios 4 2 Tavern Cafe's Aces tc 4 2 Oderless Cleaners 4 2 Brass Rail's N6. 6'S 1 3 Pacific Loan Co.

I I Krystal Hamburger Kings 0 8 "If there Is a saffron streak dowa anybody's back," admonishes Spec-slating Sam, "bowling will sure enough bring It eat." In checking up on the Civic Tenpin Bowling we find that the Cubs took three games away from' the Exchange crew. The mighty Lions and the "kagey" Kiwanlani each won two smaller colleges are no longer a setup game, they, too, have received the benefits of more and better coached high school players. In the past in making a schedule, it was the custom of playing about four teams of equal rank and then four or five games where the score would be between 41 and 81. The public, when paying money these days, wants to see a contest and will not attend a game where one team to badly outclassed. Consequently, It Is the custom these days to play seven or eight major opponents, and two or three so-called breathers.

However, what you think might be a breather will turn out to be terrible headache. Very few college sports are self supporting, football pays the way in Lewis Crisman Of Selma To Defend His Title Ala burn' State golf championship will be played here at the Beauvoir Country Club with qualifying on Juiv 20, it was announced last night by Bob Phillips, secretary of the association. Lewif Crisman, of Selma, will defend bis title. BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 28.

(TP) Dates for the men's amateur tournament of the Alabama Golf Association were set today for July 20-23 over the Beauvoir Country Club course at Montgomery, following a conference between President Sam Perry, Birmingham, and Vice-President Neal Collins, Montgomery. The 23rd annual tournament will begin on a Thursday and end Sunday, a practice begun at Pensacola. in .1931 and used during the Selma championships last year. Alabama's golf sharpshooters this year will seek to dethrone Lewis Crisman, of Selma, champion by virtue of a 1 -up" victory last year over Harry Pritchett, Tuscaloosa. Among contenders i expected to be Piles Crenshaw, who captured the State title when the tournament was played last at Montgomery in 1934.

Crenshaw took the Alabama crown for the first time nearly two decades ago in 1920. President Perry said competitors in the 1939 championship will be required ti hold an official AGA handicap, a stipulation voted into the association's by-laws at the 1938 meeting. AGA handicaps. Perry said, may be obtained from the association secretary-treasurer or from professionals of home clubs. Former champions are: 1915 Jack Allison, of Birmingham.

1919 Dr. A. B. Harris, of Birmingham. 1917 War year.

9 18 War year. 1919 Bob Gregory, Birmingham. 1920 Files Crenshaw. Montgomery. 1921 Dr.

A. B. Harris. 1922 H. G.

Seibels, Birmingham. 1923 Glen Crisman, Selma. 1924 Jimmy Hillhouse, Birmingham. 1925 Glen Crisman. ,1926 Glen Crisman.

1927 Bob Mungcr. Birmingham. 1928 Harry Pritchett, Tuscaloosa 1929 Sam Perry, Birmingham. 1930 W. L.

Cope, Mobile. 1931 Gordon Smith, Mobile. 1932 W. L. Cope.

1933 John Thames, Birmingham. 1934 Files Crenshaw. 1935 Sam Perry. 1938 John Morris, Birmingham. 1937 Duncan McDavid.

Pensacola 1938 Lewis Crisman, Selma. Ed Barro Bears Down On Yankees YORK, Jan. 28. iJP) Things Just "ajh't what they used to be" around the Yankees' front office this Spring. Ed Barrow, the genial baseball "brain" who succeeded the late Col.

Jake Ruppert as president, is a genius at getting the usual "howlers" to put their names on the dotted line, or the Yankee contracts must be so enticing the players haven't anything to squawk about. Every Spring, way back to the memory of the oldest Inhabitant, there have been howls of anguish from certain Yankees when they caught the first glimpse of the new salary offers. You got so you knew Just who was going to do the yelling and yon could pretty near guess just when Col. Jake was going, to call the photographers in to watch the official "hatchet burying." But It's all different now with Cousin Ed directing the traffic. For instance-, Lou Gehrig usually hi some mild criticism each Spring, even when his contract showed a substantial But this season, the iron hoss was slashed $4,000 or so from his 39,000 of 1938, and there was nary a ''beef." In fact, so neatly was it handled that just about the tttne the boys were unllmbering their typewriters to tell about the fireworks.

Cousin Ed announced Lar-ropin' Lou was all signed, sealed and delivered. Another of the yearly members of the holdout cheering and chowder so- cfety has been Lefty Gomes. There has been hardly a Spring since he joined the club back in 1930 that EI Goofy didn't have something to say concerning what he didn't like bout the Yankee methods of rewarding the hired help. Yet, Lefty returned torn Bermuda only yesterday, and before he'd been in town 24 hours, tlie Yanks announced today that he's lij line for '39. Cousin Ed really must have something.

Lefty collected about 818,500 fkt salary and some 81.500 bonus for 1938, and although he won only 18 games, he had a good year. His new contract probably calls for even, which would have signified trail to arms for Gomez in the past. Only two other regulars from the holdout society still stand in Cousin Ed's way. One Is Joe DIMaggio, who to almost sure to put up an argument, and the other is big Red Ruffing, who will probably be rewarded so well hell faU in line with nothing to. say.

DiMaggio, it fat' believed, won't be hard 14 handle, however. most cases for basketball, track and Gary, Ind, where more than 15.000 seats have already bees sold for their second game of the year with their arch rivals, the New York Renaissance. The Celtics won the only game these two team have played so far and the bouse at Gary, has already been sold weeks in advance for the second meeting. Seven thousand fans saw the Cel tics tn Greenville, S. Friday night, where they defeated the southern tex tile championship Bleachery team by a large score.

The team plays hi At lanta Sunday, meeting Warren, and then, comes to Montgomery for the big clash here Upwards of aaw the Celtics In Memphis, Birmingham and Chattanooga this year. There are three, good reasons why the Celtics, basketball's pre champions. are able to invade foreign courts, manhandle the home team and escape without serious physical harm. Those three reasons are Pat Herllhy, two-fisted center who tips the beams at 232 pounds; Rusty Saunders, massive guard who weighs 241, and Dutch Dehnert, playlng-coach and master of the wheel plsy, who weighs scant 290 pounds when hungry. No wonder then that they are the bold, bad buccaneers of the court.

Few athletes In any sport would have chance with these puck adds. chaser earns about $5,000. He however, that with the excep tion of goalies, players compete only about 12 minutes each game, thereby drawing -down some $8.50 for every minute they are trying to commit mayhem on one another. Calder did not disclose what the average goalie receives that is. In addition to the average number of stitches per game.

Some pectoris have contended that golf professionals are underpaid. Some may be, but that category does not include Sam Snead. Sam picked up $19,534 and a healthy tan last year, Troy Ball Club Signs Manager For '39 Season TROY, Jan. 28. B.

H. (Cat) Milner has signed contract to man age Troy's entry in the Alabama-Flor ida League for the coming season ac cording to Information given out to-dav by Troy club officials. Milner's home is at Riverview. Milner formerly played with Mem phis. Birmlnghsm and Atlanta in the Southern Association.

During the 1931 season he was a member of the Augusta, team of the Sally League and in 1932 he was with Beckley, West Virginia in the Middle Atlantic League. Out of professional ball for the past few seasons he played with Concord, N. C. last season in the Carolina League. Milner Is 35 years old, 8 feet tall and weighs 168.

He plays first base position and comes to iroy nigniy recommended by higher-up ball of ficials. Milner stated in an Interview today that be would start Spring practice here April 1, thus giving him plenty of time to work his players into playing condition. A list of players both holdovers and newly signed were furnished Milner by Secretary White today and he stat ed that he would try to give Troy fans winning ball club the coming season. A list of players signed so far by Troy officials will be made public within a few days. Poets Hand Selma 33 To 23 Licking Lanier High School's quintet handed a 33 to 23 shellacking to Selma High School in the Lanier gymnasium last night.

Parker and Compton. Poet forwards. split high scoring honors with nine points being credited to each man. Brown, Selma guard, sank three field goals and a free throw for a total of seven points. Lineups: Lanier To.

Parker 9 F. Compton (9) Walker (8) Barton (1) Selma (3) (5) (4) (2) (7) Gordon and Petrey (5) Substitutions: Lanier, Bobland (1): Selma, Moss and Green. Drlggers (2). nate-captaln-elect; George Wolff, Chester Bulger and Gordon MacEach-ern; Ends Gus Pearson and Jim Le-Nolr; Halfbacks Dick McGoweYi. BiU Mims and Carl Happer, and Fullbacks Ross Dean and 'Charlie Haynsworth.

Most promising of the rodents expected to report for practice Monday are: Center 'Howard Burns, Guards Rufus Deal, Vic Costellos and Wilton Thorp; Tackles Max Morris, Gene Rush and John Chelkley; Ends James Timberlake, Theo Cremer and James Samford; Quarterbacks Doyce Ham-rick and Francis Crlmmlhs; Hnlfbacks Ty Irby, Steve Johnson and Woodle McNalr, and Fullbacks Dan Carmich-el and Lloyd Cheatham. Some have kits of potential ability, but all will have to develop considerably before being looked upon as even letter winners. Busiest week of the 1939 basket ball campaign now faces Auburn's freshman team. The Tiger Cubs present weekly card lists seven games In six days and all are away from home. Annual Southern tour for the plebes will begin Monday and they will not return to the Plains until next Friday They wlU tackle Eufaula High School Monday night at Eufaula; Newville High School Tuesday afternoon at Newville; Donalsonvtlle Athletic Quo Tuesday night at Donalsonvllle.

Oa.t Opp High School Wednesday night at Opp: Florals High School Thursday afternoon at Florala; and Klnston High School Thursday night at Opp. They do not now have a gm carded for next Friday, but will return to action Saturday night against Fairfax Huh Srhool at Fairfax. Very likely the frosh. who will make ITara Te Next Page) schedule to attract enough fans to pay the way of these other spojfj, Meeting teams of 'equal strength' or1 almost equal strength each Saturday; the matter of mental attitude is usually the deciding factor of victory or defeat. Two teams meet, one is, -say 20 per cent weaker than the other.

The stronger team appears on the field of play in a cock-sure, over-confident frame of mind. The weaker team Is mentally alert, determined, in most cases the weaker team will win. 1. Less lateral passing tie fad of a few years back has worn off. 2.

Return to the art of field goal kicking. 3. More teams using system of varying their defenses, 4. Teams In the South more evenly matched. 5.

More Intersections! games. 8. Bigger crowds. 7. Student bodies taking the game more calmly.

8. Far less fatal Injuries than ever before. 9. Night has helped the high school and smaller college financial 10. A great many offensive maneuvers added by teams in this section.

ham's largest, watched ecstatically as the score was tied numerous times and the lead changed at least on five occasions during thrilling battle. But class told in the end as Alabama, Its gallant fighters finally facing disappointment, Kentcuck was beaten in the face of the superior skill of the Crimson Tide. Once the Wildcats began to fall apart it was no minor collapse, at the end they ere running belter. skelter all over the floor, five head less horsemen going nowhere. But they did grand job while they lasted, holding off speedy Alabama team during the second half after they had trailed most of, the'' first Alabama was so tight in Its defense thst the Cats of Kentucky were ever In trouble, never able to move with the gay abandon they heve shown In the past." When Capt.

Bernard Opper. Ken tucky's sensational all-Southeastern Conference guard went out via the four foul route, the Wildcats' chances faded, however the Tide also tost their star, Oooge Prather, who by the Way, was high point man for the Crimsons. Fouling was numerous on both sides as Referee Ben Chapman atrived desperately to keep the two teams moving with clean game. Each team accounted for a good many points via the. free throw route.

games out of three from the robust Rotarians and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Klwanis outfit clicked 969 for high team score. Individual clicks" were made by W. C. Thomas (Head Lion) 230, followed by 228, T.

B. (Bubber) Walters, (Lkm) 215, followed by a 210 and Fred Stewart was the ranking Cub with 214. Another amcteur on the Cub team, who might someday be a bowler, despite age, bum feet "German Goitre," and other numerous physical disqualifications. made a 204. The standings of this league now read: Lions .25 8 Rotary .................22 14 Kiwanls 17 aa Cubs ....18 23 Exchange ......15 18 Jri- Chamber of Com.tViHlJ (All the back games are not rolled.

yet). St -t-r. Capt. Eddie Wells, of the Cubs, predicts that the Lions will have their hands full tomorrow night with the younger generation. (Lions and Cubs bowl each other at P-m Now then, ladies 'and gentlemen.

we will give the Commercial League the once over. A rather unusual night they had this week. Kxerybody either won or lost all the games. The atar teams were Dr. Pepper; Buick 's, and the Coca-Cola Keglersf each winning three games from the 3, C.

Cafe. Pen- sl-Cola and the Philco Radios. This, on good authority, sets ft record for this particular league. W. C.

Thomas (Buick I and Head Lion): aa-aln shines in the limelight with 326, George Williamson (Dr. Pepper) 319 and H. Leedy (Coca-Cola) 218, for the iour-mr- games. The standings for this assembly of agile pln-smasher-upper now reads: Coca-Cola Keglers Dr. Pepper-Uppers J.

C. Cafes 4 6 Buick t's ......4 5 Philco Radiomen 1 Pepsi-Colas 7 Noted from the Foul Judge's Stand: Capt. H. B. Andrews giving pep talk to the J.

C. Cafes. Capt. George Williamson giving same to Dr. Peppers; looks like the tetter's Is the beat, they win three games.

Mule Ears (7-19 splits) snake for Moth games, full of holes Agala blam, blam, blara, blam, btem. Ham, (six of them) strikes la perfect eo- ordination Newby, Moeller and Maroon, new bowlers. Somebody throws a ball la such a way that the 7 pin, Instead of falling, spins and takes "to the road" and comes' to a stop almost ea the spot and the winners come off the approaches smiling and the losers with glnm, faraway look la their ayes. P. H.

Yoe, first-class Birmingham' bowler, seems to have the weekly high score cinched with a 245 In tenpins. L. W. Croy, (Swift Packers cap- tain), is blasting pins down like any old-timer. His form and style of delivery is getting better right along BLDC CEDAR 4864 baseball.

It takes a rather difficult Be Increased To Seat 70,000 the Sugar Bowl classics without a rental charge." A capacity of 70,000 seats, Benson said, would give New Orleans the largest stadium in the South and one of the largest in the nation. "This association," Benson said, "will provide the necessary machinery for the Issuance of debentures but earnestly solicits the cooperation of He played center for the Bulldogs. and is regarded by many Howard supporters as their greatest player. After leaving school, he played tackle for the Portsmouth Spartans in the Na tional Professional League. Usually reliable sources said Davis was offered assistant coaching posi tions at a leading Southeastern Con ference school and by one of the leading professional elevens before the accepted the L.

P. post Yost Doubts Pact With Coast Teams Veteran Mentor Says Big Ten Through With Bowl NASHVILLE, Jan. 28. (JP) Field ing H. Yost, grizzled director of athletics at the University of Michigan.

doesn't see a chance that the football champions of the Big Ten and the Pacific coast will ever meet in Rose Bowl games. Here on an annual visit with relatives, the former grid coach of the Wolverines, said he took a Michigan team to the first Rose Bow game in 1902. Attempts were recently made to have the Western Conference lift its ban on post season games to permit the two conference champions to tangle as a fixture in the Pasadena Bowl. The faculty committee "reaffirmed Big Ten policy, Yost said, barring Such a possibility; I believe it is a sound stand, Yost declared. "Every coach and director I know Jn the Big Ten is perfectly satisfied with the policy.

"After all, we don't want too much at stake in this game," he said. "For the good of the players we must maintain a sense of proportion. The University exists for a purpose that has nothing to do with athletics. The time given to the physical, mental and moral aspect of the school should be evenly proportioned." Yost recalled that Michigan played in the first Rose Bowl game on New Year's in Pasadena in 1902 against Stanford. "We haven't been back since," he said, "but it isn't because we haven't received bids.

We were invited both In 1932 and 1933." Chicks Start March 13 MEMPHIS, Jan. 22. OP) The Memphis Chicks will go into training at Deland, March 13, Frank Longlnotti, club secretary, said today. They will open their exhibition schedule March 21, with Milwaukee Ocala, Fla. every civic organization and leader in Louisiana in the disposal of the bonds.

wholehearted enthusiastic pledges of support by Gov. Richard W. Leche, representing the State administration, Mayor Robert S. representing the city administration, also many civic organizations and leaders, gives assurance that the campaign for the necessary funds will be successful." When Texas Christian University defeated Carnegie Tech, 15 to 7, in this year's Sugar Bowl game the stadium was jammed to overflowing and within two days thereafter agita tion began here to increase the capac- lty for games of the future. Having been cut down considerably since the season of last year, the freshmen coming out to enter varsity competition for the first time number approximately 35.

Among the plebe candidates who are expected to put up stiff fights for places on the first eleven are: Jimmy Nelson and Julius Papias, halfbacks; Al Sabo, quarter back; Mitchell Hellnlskl, tackle; El- wood Berber and Steve Wyhowanec, guards; and Charles Davis, center. Several Redshlrts will also feature in the rebuilding program of Coaches Thomas and Henry Crisp. The workouts will be held once each day and will last for approximately six weeks. As usual fundamentals will be stressed more than anything else stated Coach Thomas. Candidates for the cinder path and field events will start preparation Monday under the direction of Coach Harold Drew.

He reports 'that 20 men will be working out regularly for th track events which begin the first week in April. Regaining its form gradually after being hampered considerably by exams, the Tide basketball team will play only on game this week this one being against Vanderbllt. Saturday night in Nashville. The frosh team has two games scheduled. They are with Southern Business College of Oreensboro there Tuesday' night and with the Howard plebrs here Saturday night, Crimson Tide pugilists Inaugurate their season Friday night in Oxford.

against, the Rebels of Ole Miss. Coach Richard Brkkate be lleves that he has no star "knock out rM.l hiit thl hu "aliwnffth By EARL HILLIGAN CHICAGO, Jan. 28. (P) There may be wide divergence in the earn ings of professional athletes from the heavyweight boxer and his quarter- million dollar purses to the bush- league ball player who tolls through a five month season for some $750 but Tim Hurst's classic remark still goes for sportsdom's legion of per formers: "You can beat thira hours. The colorful Irishman made that crack when someone tried to tell him he was leading a lonely, underpaid life as a major league umpire.

And while the baseball star and his $30,000 contract may make the billiard player wonder whether he should throw away his cue and take up the bat, there isn't much doubt that most established competitors in sports big time whirl enjoy a pleas ant and profitable existence. They say Lou Gehrig, slugging New York Yankee first baseman, took a cut last Wednesday. He drew baseballs top salary in J938 some but his hitting fell oft and he is reported to have signed for 1939 at a figure somewhere between 830,000 and If that "somewhere" is. $34,000, Lou will get about $55 an hour for the full American, League season figuring his working hours from 1 to 5 p.m. Of course: the husky lnfielder will have to do some pre -season training, and in alt likelihood will have to play in a certain post-season affair which probably will end in four games.

But the pay and hours in a world series aren't hard to take, either. The heavyweight boxing king, Joe Louis, turned professional in 1934. When he drew about $321,000 for knocking Max Schmeling into oblivion last June, Joe's ring earnings passed the $1,200,000 mark, and he picked up another piece of sizeable change last Wednesday night. To be sure, Joe has to train. He has to give up fried chicken and "sleepin' in" for a month or so before each match.

And If one knows champion Louis, its conceivable he figures that going without sleeping 12 hours night and the chicken evens things up. The men who sign- the pay checks in most sports are reluctant to di vulge statistics and National Football League moguls are no exception. But comparing notes after confabs with several owners, coaches and players brings forth these figures: Regular linemen get from $125 to about $200 game, with 'regular backs drawing more applause and more dough $150 to $225 game. Byron (Whizzer) White, according to the league president, Joe Carr, drew top salary in 1938, getting $15,000 from Pittsburgh. There are several other well paid performers in- the circuit, but one owner said: "Only two or three players drew $300 or more a game last season." Several authorities pointed out that with an 11-game schedule and numerous substitutions in each contest, the hours weren't long for the pay received.

But the grldders will tell you that the ground is rock-hard in. November, almost as hard as a shoeful of cleats is at any time during the' season. President Prank Calder, of the National Hockey League, pointing out that the league salary limit is $7,000 a season, says the average established Bt ELMER SALTER AUBURN. Jan; 28. Football equipment at Auburn will be hauled out of the storage room Monday and sophomore candidates for the Tigers 1938 eleven will begin six weeks of Spring training.

Varsity sqiisd carryovers will don moleskins next Thursday and also are tagged for six weeks of grid duty before bring (released by Coach Jack Meagher until next September 1. The freshmen graduate to the varsity ranks with only a fair record, having won one, lost one and tied one last and list no sensational performers in their flock. Last season they whipped only Birmingham-Southern, lost to Georgia Tech and were lucky to tie Florida, Aspirations to step into the shoes of even graduating first-stringers art held by the plebes. They boot to be the ones called upon to take the places of Guard Junle Burns, Tackle Bo Russell, All-Southeastern and second All-America; End Oscar Burford. Quarterbacks Pig Walker, Oamo Smith and John Davis; Halfbacks Spec Kelly and Ralph O'Owynne, and Fullback Pelham Sits, the nine lettermen who have played their last collegiate football.

Two other valuables Coach Meagher will have to replace are Center Milton Bagby, letter earner in 1937, and Halfback Norman Perry, mainstay in scrimmaging the varsity teams, Chief competition for the plebes will come from the returning mono-gram squad of Centers Getty Fair-child. Abb ChrietRberg and Malvern Morgan; Guard Milton Howell, rap-taln-flrrt: Ernest Mills, Walter Chandler. Everett Smith and Oarth Thorps; Tackles BUI Nichols, alter- Auburn And Alabama Start Spring Grid Work Tomorrow Sugar Bowl To With Bonds; President Herbert A. Benson, of the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, today said his organization had decided upon a debenture bond issue of $550,000 to increase the seating capacity in the Sugar Bowl to 70,000. About 48,000 seats, including temporary stands, is the present capacity of Tulane Stadium where the annual New Year's Day football game is played.

Benson said: "We will first build 15,000 seats on the west and east sides snd then additional seats on the Willow Street end (where temporary stands have been put up). In the event sufficient money to build all these seats is not raised, we will erect such seats as is possible with the funds available from the sale of debenture bonds "The growth of the Sugar Bowl classic. In its short five years of existence, has far exceeded the present stadium facilities and to satisfy the demands of thousands of additional visitors who could not be accommodated last year, it is necessary that the seating capacity be increased if further development is to follow "The board of administrators of the Tulane educational fund 1ms era ted permission for the erection of these adldttona) the maintenance thereof, and agreed to the perpetual use of the stadium for Discount Co. Shepherd Building Get the Money Mflffl! Br ROLAND DOPSOM UNIVERSITY, Jan. 28.

After somewhat of standstill during the fortnight of examinations, Alabama athletics will come to new life. Monday with the beginning of the second semester of the school year. Spring football practice and track will be inaugurated, while the current varsity and freshman basketball and boxing will continue in full sway during the coming week. Issuing his pigskin call Saturday, Coach Frank Thomas, head mentor of football, asked that every player be on hand Monday afternoon for the first workout of 1939. He said that he expected some 85 candidates to be out for this session, which will be his ninth since becoming chief man of Alabama football.

He came to Ala bama in the Spring of 1931. The coaches stated that they face one of the toughest problems in sev eral years, this Spring a problem of filling three key positions to the Notre Dame style of play. These positions are fullback, quarterback and both guards. Alabama bad two fullbacks, Charley Holm and Pig Davis, two quarterbacks, Vic Bradford and Hal Hughes, and four guards, Jake Redden, Cant Lewis Bos tick, Jess Foshee and Gra ver Hark ins to be graduated off Jhe squad of last year. No fullback will be back Dal Wlcke, senior will be the 'only one returning at quarter.

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