Johnson City Chronicle from Johnson City, Tennessee • 9

Thursday Morning -December 11 1911 Chronicle'" Dodgers Buy Don Padgett John Rizzo Other Trades Brewing Teachers College Withdraws BohMkr i tuP- To Receive Is Released Casts Lot For Slugging DolphCamdh omoky Mountain Clicuit Neil Trophy By Red Sox Willi Navv Joe Louis To Receive Neil Trophy Lefty Grove Is Released By Red Sox By JUDSOX BAILEY CHICAGO Dec 10 CP) The would buy Johnny Mire big firtl sacker of the Cards Writers Honor Champ As Oulstandin Boxer Of Year CHICAGO Dee 10 Robert (Lefty) Grove tlyear-old pitching star of the Boston Red Sox was given hts outright release tonight at his own request No reason for retire-nient was given by the club in making the announcement Grove won seven games and lost seven last season bringing his total victories during his major league career to 300 e-r $5 9 4 i tf i 'A The Dodgers paid $30000 for Padgett a husky lefthanded hitter who batted 399 for 92 games in 1939 and slipped to 247 last season when he did not play regularly and let his weight rise al most the size of hia batting average' He has promised MacPhail to get down to 210 in weight not batting The price of Rizzo who was a freshman sensation when he broki in with Pittsbuigh in 1938 was about $10000 He will give th Dodgers the righthanded hitting strength they have been seeking The club already had Pet i Reiser Joe Medwick and Dixi I Walker all bett-n than 300 hitters and Jim Wasdell Augie Ga-lan Tom Tatum and Jack Graham for a total of nine outfielder! tf i 'k irlf 5 4 1T- Gene Tunney Swears Young Pilcher Inlo Beserse Corps 41 CHICAGO Dee 10 Young Bob Feller one of Jiase greatest pitcheis became a chief boatswain's mate in the United States naval reset today He was svvoin in by Lt Com Gene Tunney and the brief ceremony was bioadcast by radio are many things more impoitant than baseball these days" the 23-j ear-old pitcher said st vve'll have to wm the war to keep He will pay a farewell visit to his parents at Van Meter Iowa and then go to Norfolk Va for six weeks training before taking an assignment a a physical di-' rector under Tunney By SID FEDER i NEW YORK Dec 10 OW-For his record-breaking reign as king of boxing and the job he did in turning back seven challengers this year Joe Louis today won the Edward Neil Memoiial awaid as the man who did the most for the spoit in 1941 The Boxing Writers Association of New York making the annual award in memory of the Associated Press sports writer and war correspondent who was kill Bowling Results 4 Brooklyn Dodge is took the wind out of the baseball market today by announcing the pui chase of tvyo slugging outfielders Don Tadgctt Lorn the St Louis Catdi-nals and John Rizzo from the Phillies The tradeis were just staiting to loosen up when the Dodgers plaved their hand and after these ti ansactions were announced there another deal all day long The Club owners veie closeted for many hours in business sessions or the National and Ameii-can Leagues and tonight the managers of the National League weie to be entertained at a dinner by Manager Leo Dui-ocher of the pennant winning Dodgehs This function apparently forestalled any other1 immediate hading in the senior circuit but made likely a series oft cleanu? deals ioinot kiw after Commissioner Kenesaw joint meeting brings the confabs to a close The two plaveis Brooklyn added today did not solve the 1942 problems and left them with two more men than allowed on the roster MacPhail will have to remove them quickly Fuitluw complicating the picture was the fart that Biooklyn still is dickering with the New Yolk Yankees over a sale of first baseman Dolph Canmlli the most valuable player in the National League and meantime holding up a deal hv whuli the Dodgers i 7 I The Dodgers erased one name fiom their roster during the day bv selling pitcher Mace Brow-n 1c the Boston Red Sox for slightly I less than the waiver price The one-time star relief hurler of th National League was sold conditionally to Los Angeles late last Reason but was turned back tc Brooklyn and was on the verge of being a- signed to the Montreal farm today when the Red Sox suddenly reached out took him Montreal did buy infielder Emmett Mueller from (the Phils I The New Yoik Giants apparently closed their trading late last I night by buying and selling veteran outfielders Joe Moore and iMorrie Arnovich to Indianapolis INS DOG TRIALS JACKSON Tenn Ded 10 (Pi Congei sman II a pointer owned by Com an of New Ma-dt id Mo won the all-age stake of the Tennessee Field Tiial Club here jesterdsyl Another pointer Village Boy from the kennels of Yarbiough of Jatk-son placed second and Village Senbootx Boy owned by Dr Har-bert Massey of Paducah Ky was thud Lowe Resigns As Commissioner Of Conference East Tennessee Stats' Teachers College yesterday formally resigned from tlie Smoky Mountain Conference in a letter to Alex Chavis conference secretary at Carson-Newman Dr Charles Sherrod Faculty Athletio Representative Bible and Coach Gene McMurray announced the resignation The letter read: there exists in the Smoky Mountain Conference much confusion and conflict in viewpoints and there seems to be nothing constructive possible at this time we can see no purpose nor benefit in continuing to 'remain In the conference and think it advisable to withdraw and await further de- elopments State Teachers College therefore respectfully requests thte Smoky Mountain Conference to accept its resignation as a member to take effect BIBLE Chairman Activities fust when the resignation will be considered by the SMC is Indefinite Coach Clement Eyler president said a meeting of conference members would have to be held to act on the request Withdrawal of the Teachers in atitution leaves Milligan Carson-Newman and LMU as remaining members King College entered the circuit temporarily during football season but Is undecided on whether to compete in basketball Meanwhile it was learned reliably that (Chink) Lowe of Knoxville who had been commissioner of the Smoky Mountain Conference since its inception in the late had resigned and that the conference would operate henceforth minus a commissioner as it did during football season At the annual meeting in JKnox-ville Monday Evler was re-elected president Dean Ramsey of LMU renamed vice-president end Chavis reappointed secretary-treasurer Dues also were reduced considerably and legislation designed to meet the national emergency with respect to an eligibility was drafted Union College of Barbourville Ky Maryville College and Tusculum were represented at the meeting but gave no indications of coming into the conference Tusculum and Maryville are former members King College was awarded the football championship of -1941 succeeding Milligan 2ni! 3rd total tf i2a J' ay sAwirtmfrVi nk VO PALACE LEAGUE In Tuesday matches In a min i ithe Palace League at the Bowling tr voted i Palace the Orange Crush team trophy by acclamation for the took iou inU oldfcmo first time in the four years it ha bUe teim thereby climbing to been awarded The previous Win-Wlthln two poinis 0f the league neis were Jack Dempsey Billy jeacj jn individual events Percy Conn and Henry Armstrong Fowler sent his hook into -the The Brown Bomber will re- pockets for a fine 617 senes which ceive the trophy at the boxing included a finishing 243 game annual dinner January Bui leson of the Hill-Summeis 14 at which Gene Tunney also team aho took a finishing 24? will be a guest of honor for his game contribution io fhe fight game in organizing navy boxing this year The writers reelected their entire slate of officers headed by Munay Lewin of the New York Daily Mirror and then voted On their rankings of champipns and contenders in seven of the eight weight divisions excluding only the flyweights These were: Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis Detroit BUy Conn Pittsburgh Buddy Baer Sacramento Calif Light heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevlch Cliffside 1 Booker Beckwith Gary Ind 2 Ken Overlin Norfolk Va Middleweight Champion Tony Zale Gary Ind 1 Georgie Abrams Washington 2 Coley Welch Portland Me Welterweight Champion Cochrane Elizabeth Ray Robinson New York 2 Young Kid McCoy Detroit Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins Sweetwater Tex 1 Bob Montgomery Philadelphia 2 Angott Louisville Ky Feathei weight Champion Chalky Wnght Los Angeles Jackie Wilson Pittsburgh 2 Richie LemOs Los Angeles I Bantamweight Champion Louis Salica New York Kui Kong Young Honolulu 2 Rush Dalma Honolulu fr Only six? years oltTwtnkl Watts movie and bowling star of Santa' Monica Cal avyrageslSE and edf games over200 iShauseaElO-poundball and has swell form as yo can" see Sh 1 Us ahpiynatForestHill N'YAt Teachers And Milligan Play Out-Of-State Foes Tonight Milligan College Buffaloes and East Tennessee Slate Teachers enter the basketball wars again tonight against tough college opposition from out of the state Coach Clement Buffaloes entertain powerful Union College of Kentucky on the Milligan court at 7:13 while Coach Gene Buccaneers are host to the strong Lees McRae quintet from Banner Elk permission to play a post-season Milligan freshmen will play Gate gdme ln Washington New Duquesiie Given Okay To Plav War Relief Tilt PITTSBURGH Dec 10 Officials of Duquesne University tonight granted the undefeated and untied football team Cannon 178 A A KSSA -k -V City after the main battle while the Teacher team will play at 7 Total HILL-SUMMERS Day for the USO and British war relief The permission specified how- It will he the second battle of ever that the opponent must be Fill McNe Ilonvcutt Johnson Total MAJESTIC Prl the week to both outfits' Milligan defeated Independents of Bristol 40-31 while the Teachers dropped a 44-33 decision to Tusculum at Greene-ville Both Union and Lees-McRae are reported to have powerful court clubs and oth are capable of walking off with victories over the hometown teams Union is on a tour of the South and has been bowling over larger schools LOST SIIEEP NEW YORK UPl A sheep lost little boy blue In Central Park this week At least neither little boy blue nor any other owner claimed the sheep corraled by Patrolman Albert Dickhoff The sheep spent several hours in the morgue before the A took lt into their fold Kttt McMackin Total either Minnesota champion of the Big Ten or the University of Texas Congressman Samuel Weiss a Duquesne alumnus announced receipt of the Invitation for a victory bowd game at the football squad's annual banquet last night It came from Fred Spaulding district director of the United Service Organizations and the British relief fund Weiss said The Duquesne athletic council in recommending acceptance of the bid stressed the fact it wanted the school to give the services of the team free as a patriotic ges ture Weiss said he understood Texas already had rejected an invitation Minnesota would have to obtain permission of the Big Ten council to play JoRtHry MUrrjof Emory And Henry At Athens Tonight EMORY Va Dec Emory and Henry College hag vague but hopeful prospects of regaining its place on the winning list in hardwood competition this week with games scheduled with Concord College at Athens Vs tomorrow night snd I at Blacksburg Saturday night The dropped two hard-fought encounters played here last week losing to Georgetown College 35-48 and I 83-33 Georgetown proceeded from its narrow victory at Emory to trounce the University of North Carolina and lose by a mere 8 point margin to Duke Univeisity The and basketeers go to Virginia Tech with a determine tion of retaliation Since their narrow margin defeat last Saturday was largely accredited to a bogging up of the offensive Coach Bailey has been drilling the Emory boys in offensive tactics which are expected to make an improved showing in their return encounter at Blacksburg Saturday night Last year Concord College was the easy victor over Ekqory and Henry In two encounters and should be stiff competition for this Improved UOUEXTMUTS SALVS NOSI MOPS DESTROYERS LAUNCHED BOSTON Dec lfl Two destroyers being launched today at the navy yard will bear the names of a rear admiral who organized the North sea mine barage in the World War and an enlisted man wounded while cutting a Spain-Havana cable at Cienfuegos in 1898 The launching of the vessels the Earle and the Doran to take place late this afternoon is the first to be announced here by the navy since the United I States and Japan went to war Duquesne Is Invited To Post-Season Tilt PITTSBURGH Dec 10 (Sb Duquesne undefeated and uhtied football team last night received an Invitation to play a special post-season game on New Day in Griffith Stadium in Washington for the Joint benefit of the and the British war relief The invitation was delivered to Rep Samuel Weiss a Duquesne graduate at the annual football dinner Texas Univer sity was suggested as a possible ODDOnent Athletic Director Aldo Donelli said the Dukes would be eager to help in the present national emergency but definite acceptance would have to come from th? athletic council and school GLEN MORE SUITS and OVERCOATS THE IDEAL Christmas Gift! KEYSTONE GIRLS WIN Keystone Recreation midget girls defeated North Side 48-10 last night in a basketball game Adams Hodge and Picklin did all the scoring for the winners rn ill Added Weight On Buddy Baer Means Better Target For Joe Wo (fie muilonS ivfo fiave came to America ore forever Indebted for they brought precious ingredient of ambition courage Intelligence Imagination ingenuity and skill in many crafts to be added fa our national melting pot Today vrhen yo soy f'l 'em an American" you can be proud and confident that it meant to the rest of the world Chotrcst but a great deal more i You can Kelp at KttSding the worfvf most powerful Air Force and in the necessary expansion of the Regular Amy ACTION NOW! our country has decided The treacherous attack on America has aroused tike United States as nothing rise couii Your Army is ready Call at the nearest Amy Recruiting Station for advice Yon wiH be given fufl information on how you can se(ve your country beat how yon can deYend that freedom which is your birthright "Let's gol USA Keep Fiyiegi A I Your Regular Armf catfiirg far volunteers! Men between 18 and 35 are needed for ail otf the Arms and Service The Air Force wants thousands of young men immediately Training schools are ready now for Urge numbers of Air Mechanics Aerial Photographers and other specialist AVIATION CADETS Many thousands of aviation cadets 20 to 26 years of age inclusive are needed to become flying ofliccrs as bombardiers navigators and pilots I By WHITNEY MARTLV Wide Woild Spoits Columnist NEW YORK Dec 10 Buddy Baer says he was a little light for the job the last time he met Joe Louis the statement hinting that Buddy still is a little confused He was just out there to box a man not sit on him Buddy weighed 2371 that affair that medium-tank displacement giving him an edge of only 33 pounds or so It has been found however that any weight advantage an opponent carries into the ring against Louis do a bit of good Unless it is in the form of Iron bolts or railroad spikes accidentally poured into the gloves Buddy is In town to prepare for his return booking with Louis Jan 9 He has been freshly upholstered and weighs about 256 but he considers about 11 pounds of this as excess He thinks about 245 would be about right for Louis That is Buddy would carry the 243 pounds although probably have more chance if Louis carried them Personally we think Buddy will have any better Juok the next time than he had the last time On that occasion Louis hear the bell ending the sixth round and Buddy hear It starting the seventh Louis was charged with working overtime in the sixth with his punch after the bell ending the fight To credit hp never offered an alibi althfough plenty were offered for- hu He joins Biaddock and Brother Max and Paychek and Conn and a few others In that respect That is that there was no persona! alibi Some of other opponents have tried to excustheir showings often uth comical results For instance King Levinsky was a and Jack Roper said zigged when I should have ragged an impromptu remark he apparently had rehearsed weeks Lou Nova said he couldn't fight the way he wanted to fight because Ray Carlen and Ray Arcel let him although those who saw that travesty of fisticuffs insist Lou would have been more accurate If he said he fight period Buddy could have said that if he had followed up his advantage after he had knocked Louis head over appetite through the ropes he might have won But he Conn could have said that if he hadn't gone out to slug with Joe in the 13th round he would have won He didn't although everyone else said it Vr him Even fat Tony Galento could have said that if he had taken advantage of his opportunities when he had the champion rocking he might have won Even Tony say that although again the second-guessers talked for him The idea is that opponents only make themselves ridiculous when they try to alibi After all sn alibi is lqlended to prove a fellow around when something happened and the guys who have fought Louis all have been sround and something always happened And always to them 0 Sometimes we think this guy Louis must pretty good i The Homo of BvdweUer pay premium price for the creom i of each year' barley harvest But that is not enough The i choicest hops are reserved for Budweiser But that is not enough Nor is it enough that it is brewed by the most expensive process in America Of course you expect and you get ail these in Budweiser and something more It's the most important ingredient of ail the art of blending Nature's finest into a perfect product which could have been developed only by generations of experts Who says I so? All America for America has made Budweiser the biggest-selling beer in history1 ir IVt RECROITIilG SEBIICE KJ AT YOUR NEAREST RECRUITING CENTER IBiadlweises? rimer host TO A HOST or riiiNDS UMM Ml EXLIST IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY AT UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING SERVICE Virginia Post Office' Building Phone 1916-W Bristol Virginia i 4 ST 10 WJS ei aum.