The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 7

JPHaeE iMisIke rvr? 0 as good as any other first base-man In the Southern this So you are safe in writing name in your opening day lineup The bigwigs of the club are not even wasting the time and money of obtaining an understudy for Buck By TOM ANDERSON VALDOSTA Ga March For the benefit of those who have been wondering whether Vic Bradford and Jimmy Sheehan are the outfielder and catcher respectively promised the Knoxville Smokies by Bill Terry of the Giants let it be said that they are Neil Caldwell who manages motion on the bases As a matter of fact McCulloch is as fast as Shelley Ho fields his position about as well as Shelley too which means that he runs all over the lot grabbing fly balls? Caldwell said The confident Knoxville who has already promised his supporters a stronger clnb than he had last year has no idea of retracting He does not see how It will be possible to keep his clnb ont of the first division "They look better every Neil spouted "The -pitchers who will make the chief difference between my team of last year and the one have now are all In good shape and rearing to go trades which brought us Sheehan and Bivins the righthander were certainly beneficial to the club Both of them are happy to be with Knoxville and are working as hard the rawest rookie in In spite of the misleading Information that Cald- well has placed himself on the active playing list he has no idea of returning to the lineilp The only reason he did this according to him was to provide a first sack-er for the intra-squad games Buck Neil told us "is even better than I remembered I was in the Texas League with him several years ago He broke a leg was ont for a while and then started a comeback last season in a smaller league He be as good as Babe Young but he will be well sent his charges through the customary intra-squad game Too much emphasis should not be placed on these sham battles One reason we think the Intramural combats are over-played Is that we did not witness the one today James Myers the photographer and your author rode down Into Florida James had never been in that state and wished to send his wife and other casual friends postal cards to prove he actu ally invaded the orange-producing commonwealth Jennings was the name of the small Joint we visited The or slot machines decreased our capital quite some not to mention the fancy souvenir bottles containing colored drinks and stuff like that We seem to be in the doghouse with the Knoxville moguls because of their inability to understand the word We do not hear ourself crying as yet Indians Have Chance Of Ousting Yanks Scribe Thinks the Smokies made this plain In a conversation tonight They are two of the players he personally selected on his recent visit to the New Tork camp "Sheehan is one of the best-looking young catchers I ever the skipper declared "He i Is Ideally built for a broad and powerful And he takes a good cut at the plate "He will have a tough time at that beating Norman Kies out for the first string job Kies is one of the most improved players I have He is considerably heavier than he was last year and is hitting the ball much Caldwell is thoroughly sold on Bradford although the former University of Alabama footballer has had only one year of professional experience "Vic will play in my Caldwell stated "providing' he proves better in my judgment than Ed Lukon and the other rookies we have in camp Bradford has the making of a great hitter" Probably the most surprising claim made by Caldwell is that McCulloch the outfielder will be as fast on the base paths as Hubert Shelley center gardener retained from last year "I know that the fans in Knoxville have been led to believe that McCulloch is another Woody Abernathy I mean by that that he is a great hitter but strictly slow By WHITNEY MARTIN FORT MYERS Fla March 22 VP) been 20 long years since Cleveland held the American League championship and although even the free thinkers tell you that this is the year it will be given back to the Indians the idea is general that Oscar team is one of the two or three with even an outside chance of finishing ahead of the Yankees That Is the chance was there until three or four days ago when Vitt sent Louis Boudreau Bear Bryant Former Tide Star Will Help Sanders At Vanderbilt R2arso Joe Ready Again Vandy Aide Highly unusual rain struck this South Georgia burg last night but not enough fell to prevent the daily workout of our heroes Following the picture taking Cald for a precautionary X-ray of lame ankle "He was running from first to Yitt explained "When he came in he said he hurt his ankle stepping on second base The X-ray showed a crack in the bone He may be ont three weeks maybe indefinitely Yen tell about those things the best shortstop looked at in a long while I wouldn't trade him for any in the league I care if he hits ought-two help me But he New Mentor Makes Selection After Many Confabs NASHVILLE Term March 22 VP) Henry (Red) Sanders new head football coach announced tonight the appointment of Paul William (Bear) Bryant former University of Alabama star and member of Frank coaching staff for four years as his No 1 assistant Bryant was secured by Sanders at Tuscaloosa last night but the deal was not closed until sanctioned by the athletic board The new line coach will come to Nashville Sunday The new head coach said he hoped to name his other assistants this week-end in order to have his entire staff ready for the opening of spring practice Monday Bryant a Fordyce Ark native played varsity football at Alabama in 1933-34-35 starring both as a tackle and an end Sanders arrived in town late today and immediately- went into conference with school athletic officials regarding prospective assistants Some concern was felt earlier over whereabouts when It was reported bis mother Mrs Sanders was ill and members of the family were attempting to contact the new mentor plenty of class with large Hal Trosky on first and Ken Keltner on third It is the impression that the Indian outfield is a little on the light side butVitt bristles at the suggestion saisfied with he challenges belligerently "Ben Chapman and Roy Weatherly are all right and Geoffrey Heath has the natural ability to be one of the best players of the game that No 34 out there? Clarence Campbell an outfielder with New Orleans last year I like him He hit one nine miles the other However despite expressed satisfaction with how his garden grows the idea persists that the Indians could use some men out there who would send opposing outfielders shinnying up fences Heath got 14 home run last year Chapman six and Weatherly only one in the 95 games he played and all that add up to a halfpint of power when compared with the Williamses and Di Mag-gios and Greenbergs some of the other contenders boast Trosky is the only real power hitter on the team and going to take some blasting to get the Yankees out of there Yon bunt them out The Indian catching seems to be well taken care of with Rollie Hemsley on his good behavior these many months and Frank Pytlak a capable understudy With runs none too abundant a heavy load will fall on the Cleveland pitchers and it is the mound stuff which starts the fans arguing and worrying simultaneously The argument is that Bob Feller is certainly due for a fine year that Mel Harder should win his share that Willis Hudlin and A1 Milnar should turn in workmanlike jobs and that a couple ol lads like Mike Naymick may help the credit side The worrying comes in with the question of Johnhy arm and the possibility of wing going dead All Vitt will say right now is that his pitchers "are coming along all right" As a whole the chief drawback would seem to be the lack of sheer power on offense particularly in the outfield but that drawback be shrugged away hard to find a good substitute for a home run with the bases loaded should hit 260 You should see him on double plays swish swish Vitt illustrated with darting movements of his hands be in on four double plays a Boudreau came up late last year from Buffalo along with Second Baseman Ray Mack much to the distress of the Buffalo fans Mack a 195 pounder handles his bulk dexterously and he and Bondreau make an excellent double-play combination In fact with Boudreau available the Cleveland infield packs New Vandy Codch 'v I I Ij'W 'A iv Cm i i F-1 1 At i Henry (Red) Sanders back field coach at Louisiana State University succeeds Ray Morrison as head football coach at Yanderbilt University Morrison resigned to accept the football reins of Temple University Tm 4ob Nvce tat 4SA60M pu or Twe worlo's I TW HB8NIEST MEMBER: MATED Ott THS $HO HS A AKSJWfi MIS? fouwo Twe tft TH6 471 i6 38'E wrUERj T'HS' CAifASr INTO V4JMUII-5Q ThB CIHCUIT tN 0OB PTEONY TtttE mr FAGE 7 Yols Earn Seven Points In SEC Swim ATLANTA March -22 Showing unexpected strength Louisiana State University to a two-point lead over a favored Florida team tonight at the midway mark of the Southeastern Conference swimming meet The battle for the championship now held by Florida promises to be strictly between Florida and LSU for none of the other five in the meet seemed near enough to be a threat Georgia Tech wound up the first day with nine points Georgia with eight Tennessee and Auburn seven each and Kentucky four points In the SEC swimming tournament were made as fellows: Silva third in the 150-yard backstroke Elmore third js low board fancy diving Silva Hulquist and Brock filth in the 300-yard medley relay -4 Roche Loses Match To Humberto After a lapse of several weeks the pachyderm parades were revived at the Lyric Theater last night with somewhat disastrous results to the Dorv Roche Roche popular favorite of -local grunt followers dropped his hflf of the double-main event to- the villainous Senor Jack Humberto while Don Me- Intyre made his debut with rousing verdict over squat Pete Schuh in the other half Humberto made Roche yell with a bone -crushing headlock for the first fall dropped the second and came hack to srin the third and the match with a tortouons body press i McIntyre combined some of the football tactics he picked up at Washburn College with some neat elbow smashes to batter Schuh into submission in straight falls Sid Marcus -applied a kangaroo kick whatever that is to knock off newcomer Wendy Black in the opening event 4) 's4 4 4 i Heafner And Hogan Favored In Open Meet Odds Drop On Eve Of Greensboro Go GREENSBORO March 22 UP) Clayton Heafner a boy they all know around here and Ben Hogan a comparative stranger were made co-favorites today on the eye of the third annual $5000 Greensboro open golf tournament Heafner 'a Carolina product only two yean out of the caddie ranks Is one of the local prides Rated a 10-to-l shot when the betting books were opened fur the 7 2 -hole test he was brought down to to 1 through the combination of an anticipated heavy play on him and the fact that likely to win any tournament he starts In if he plays consistently Hogan winner of the North and South championship at Pine-hurst yesterday with a record 277 came down from 12 to 6 on the strength bf that brilliantly-gained triumph Helen Sigel Bests Kirby In Golf Final Takes Augusta' Meet With lUpIn 19 AUGUSTA Ga March 22 Using a putter with devastating effect in the last stages of a gallant uphill fight 21 -year-old Helen Sigel of Philadelphia today defeated defending champion Dorothy Kirby at Atlanta in the finals of the Augusta invitational golf tournament one up in 19 holes Two down and two to go- Miss Sigel fell back on her trusty putter to win the next three holes and her first major title Lull Before Storm Settles On Activity In Bowling Tourney DETROIT March 22 VP) An apparent lull before the storm still governed competition In the American Bowling Congress tournament today The best was rolled by Marion Pillsbury Coldwater Mich who like many others wilted under pressure Pillsbury started with 245 In the singles and added 208 With a chance to hit the big money he slumped to 148 for a 599 total Out-of-town regulars including well known teams take ever the drives for the week-end AT WINTIH HAVEN FLA BI(I 4N) 14te 430 MO I 1 New York 030 0O0 100 0 0 Striaeevick French 48) and Maai Sehamaeher Joiner (5) (8) and Odea Hayworth (6) AT WEST PALM 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Ferena 14) Owen 17) and Neid-aon Maleahy Smell 15) Fallig 46) Jene 40) and Warren Pittsburgh IN) 000 003 7 0 Chicago IN) 010 004 14 3 Bowman Bauer 48) Sewell (6) Hemtzelman (9) an4i Mueller Ferres 401 Bonetti Epperly (4) Bertram (7) Campbell IB) and Todd Collin (7) Chicago IA) 010 000 0 3 Loo Angeles iPae) 100 000 3 5 1 Brown Dobemic 14) Boyles (7) and Turner Sihrestn 481 Pnm Kuah 16) and Hernandez Holm 18) South vjesfcem Chosen Site For Grid Clinic mmm oa aheeJyas? SATURDAY MARCH 23 1940 Kentucky Bowling Green considered 7 the likely mentors The association went on record as favoring the 21-year age limit and a closer working agreement with the board of control of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association CUBS SIGN HURLER GREENEVILLE March 22-Rube Coman right handed pitcher was signed this week by the Burley Cubs Business Manager Coon Dodd announced Corhan was with the Johnson City Cardinals last year and was especially effective against the Cubs i 5 It that a cinch to pull a Rie-gels or a Merkle Dr Tarris says the question of uncovering the subtle unsuspected sort of jitters boils down to a simple (to him) business of counting lymphocytes Take it easy now because lymphocytes are just one of several kinds of things that make up the part of blood Dr Farris told the American Association of Anatomists today about trying out his system on the University of Pennsylvania football team last falL Before games he took a drop of blood from each player and using a microscope and some other things tabulated i "i'l 44 '-I 'A Bear -Bryant above former player' and later coach at the University of Alabama was chosen yesterday as assistant to Red Sanders at Yanderbilt University Bryant Is expected to join the Yandy forces within the next few days Sammons Fires Low Score In Golf Tourney Shoots 80 To Pace Christenberry Field Melvin Sammons was low qualifier in the Christenberry Junior High golf tourney yesterday at Whittles course Sammons fired an 80 and will meet Conrad Pifer Monday with Pifer receiving an 18 stroke handicap Other matches will be Rudy Freeman vs Bill Morris with Morris drawing a 15 stroke handicap Earl Hicks vs Charles Flowers with Flowers getting a six-stroke handicap and Jim Walker vs Allan Fielden with Fielden receiving a 19-stroke handicap Pitcher Uses Sugar Bowl To Stop Bdrulit BALTIMORE March 22 Major league baseball clubs that are howling for pitching talent might do well to give Charles Easley 17 the once-over A robber entered the lunchroom where- Easley works threatened the proprietor's daughter and robber the cash register of $2 Easely pitched a sugar bowl cracking the bandit in the head then demonstrated his speed by overhauling his quarry about a block away The robber was jailed After bout five minutes of play the count settles down somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 That says the doctor is about the level of greatest efficiency for football Dr Farris has an idea that by perfecting a quick sort of round-up condition test lymphocytes blood pressure and a few other factors many a potential athletic blunder could be choked off before it happened Pitchers could be yanked before the start of the inning in which they were destined to have a physical or mental blow-up The specialist about to be sent in for a place kick could be sent to the showers instead before he NASHVILLE Tenm March 22 VP) The High School Coaches Association announced tonight that its annual coaching clinic would be held at Southwestern University Memphis August 12-17 The clinic will he climaxed by an all-star game between picked high school football players tn East West and Middle Tennessee in Cramp Stadium the final day Jess Neely head coach at Rice Institute will handle one team but the other mentor has not been selected An all-star basketball game will be staked with coaches McClenahan of Sunflower College Mia and Ed Diddle of Western 7 I Baseball Football listing Esi Bream Is Idea Of Sports Without Muffs Foe Harassed Coaches Minded Physician the best news that has come to lovers of fine beer in a long long time genuine draft beer in bottles Signal Beer is draft draft beer at its the smoothest mellowest most satisfying beer you ever tasted Up to now practically all bottled beer has been pasteurized to make it keep But because our brewery is located so close to you we can make special deliveries of Signal Beer daily from the aging casks to you un pasteurized real draft beer in bottles a new taste sensation! Try a bottle of Signal Beer today Treat yourself to a taste sensation! the jitter signals by counting the lymphocytes It be normal watch out for this for football players about to give their all for Gravel Switch to register the general normal which is a count of 25 to (in percentage) What happens says Dr Farris is that the players even those who seem calmest and feel emotionally give counts that look like winter book odds on a plow bone The highest Dr Farris got last fall was 75 and this he says shows that the player was ready to commit some sort of tactical mayhem which is what happened By JOHN NEWMAN LOUISVILLE Ky March 22 VP) Errorless baseball and football without fumbles by keeping athletes with subconscious jitters on the bench is approach to the and millennium It's a doctor's Idea not yet folly developed but with much of the ground work already done The basis says Dr Edmond Farris of Philadelphia is a method of determining scientifically whether the halfback or pitcher about to be sent Into the game is in such a mental state though he may not know i.