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TT I AGE TWO Ktnnsttori THE KINGSPORT TIMES. KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER S. 1938 Will Make Final Home Stand Against Elizabethton Tennessee Moves Into Fourth Place In Nation's Grid Sport Poll TEXAS CHRISTIAN OCCUPIES HONOR PCSmON IN VOTE Key Men In Nation Key Gridiron Games Fiiihtini; Irish Move Into SccoEid Place as Associated Sports Writers Take FojrtI' Poll MIDDLFTON MU NURK Xov The ('hristmn football -n ithwostorn tr iiit. first eleven in A- vi poll of Thf of Xotro prkiins behind 1 I iM three prev- i 1) to iririi while Carh ti I f'lnther" master I to ixth a The i fi hr. 'ti in t-nond last week 1 v.ii for ar.J l.i iii The Irish had i 41 for i 1 rt high I til on, partiri- wt In ind ii i t'ntn u-rt other in a.

1 'u i by on- .1 i'l ro i vi ur over fircit I- (I: i i 1 i I i To 1 Poiiits 0 1 41 1 1 4 C. a 7 ri 1 r. C-Mfor: n.in-i i V-'n 2 h- y' 1 T'uriis. 2. i-'Uff Hr-; 1 of ranking h.is I'-a "'i't foj- time thu' 1 jongc has str-an- in nii T-: took of Ntrire.

Texas onU team in the rhlil uriything likr- 1 week. piay i r. Hson. ir' i I 'torili nre IJ rt -t i tak the first of i ST. JOHNS CLAIMS MOST INOFFENSIVE SQU.AD IN NATION Durable QuaUty BETSY THREATENS Being Shown MAROON CAMPAIGN By Minor Leagues for BIC SIX TTTIE DURHAM, X.

Xov. 8 Coach Rich Sends Charges Through StifF Workouts At New Plays Are Designed to Stop Cyclone Blast Gridiron Efforts of School Minor league baseball had a per- Show That 150 -pounders as well as i a new attendance mark during the Has Powerless, Scoreless 1938 season according to the report Record For Season of the Natioaai of Pro----------------I fesslonal Baseball UasuM. theii- final home stand of Xov. 8 Thirty minor leagues the season -and a crack at their A low-geared, no-scoring football ed the season and all of them fin- fourth Big Six conference cham- machine from St. College, ished their schedules without pionship in a row, the Kingsport I boasting one of the most powerless hitch.

Ail the member clubs already Indians followed a course of rug- attacks in years, put forth its bid i have paid their membership and ged practice this week in prepara- for fame today as premier! protection fees for 1939. The total tioii for Elizabethton high when goal line protector. attendance for the 37 leagues w'as i the Cyclones invade the Industrial They have challenged the pig-' 15,500.000. an increase of 2,000.000. i city Friday night, skin to produce another team over 193T figure.

with their unparalleled record of protecting opponents' goal And nobody in these parts think pFPllllFr their challenge will be snatched JElflllnu DELUlTlCu The St. ilream Coach Valentine (Dutch) Lentz he dreams things about it nearly every done some greatless things since the season SAFETY DISCIPLE Coach Rich planned no letup this week as he put the boys through the paces assigning new' plays to be opened up against the in the Indians most severe test of the season. Bobby new high scoring record makes him a doubly marked man this week. The Cyclones, as all other teams for the past several weeks, will be lying in wait for a opened but it reached new heights Veteran Speed Racer Teach smother him. Whether of inoffensivcness against Ran- Traffic Safety On Lecture the visitors will be able to turn dolph-Macon College Saturday.

The Johnnies lost 45 to 0 to protect their season record of not making a that was small fry stuff. They register a Tour of East the trick will be know'n Friday night. Kingsport will not be facing a team the calibre of which it has will help Xotre Dame in its a ttempt to turn hack at South Bend, Nov. 12. VVoml.

shoun puritiag. will help Tennesnee in its attack on Vanderbilt in Xanhville. Whit Baker, right, halfback, is one of chief auainst Dartmouth at Ithaca. Denies Irish Have Changed System SOI-fH BKXD. v.

rv r.3 unipl nned iiiii- ha- departed fr Xotre DHmt in punt formation this i but Klmor Layden it Th. formation goes Vandy Preparing Deception Redskins Report For Vols; Cifers Is Injured Groundwork Best For Pro Leagues SALT LAKE CITY. Xov. S. single first down i veteran driver who holds more mot in most games this season.

The The St. started the world speed records than any other eason racrtrediv aeainst American 1 become a disciple of Tregation which has bowled over ie safety. nine straight foes and has lost only Utah's Ab Jenkins, whose endurance driving exploits won him the cognomen "iron has piloted 'O'- championship. (By The Associated Press Those Vanderbilt Commodores apparently are cooking XEW YORK, Xov. 8.

their brighte.st star is Sammy Biiugh, the Washington Redskins have compiled the inoffensive really got to clicking they rolled up two first They did better against Dclaw'are, though, doubling their ineffectiveness. Late in the fourth quarter a completed pass rang up their only first down to mar an otherwise imperfect day. They hit a mid-season Saturday. once did they get a first down. And now Coach Lentz predicts his mighty atoms (average weight will protect their non- record against Swarthmore Saturday.

Injuries have contributed some to Lentz's troubles. For instance, against Delaw'are the Johnnies wound up the game with a string center playing fullback and doing the kicking. Ki rue 15 ars to when Knute Up a tasty dish of deception for the University of Tennessee ground-gaining average in the their Southeastern conference football headliner this i National Pro Football league iann li- KCtTK u.seo short and long loro-niv hv mpthnd long unt along with the i or box formation Lav- ivs Fiddling Halfback Plays Alert Game Head Coach Ray Morrison sent his men through secret practice yesterday, part of it in a driving back in uniform, rain, and said stadium gates w'ould i LSU plays Auburn Saturday, and je locked throughout the week, two prodigal sons of that club. Just what the crafty Morrison Max Harrison and Stancil What- las mind is not generally i ley w'cre back on the campus also Tex Xov 8 established The jury was out far Karl Clark of Texas Christian nothing would please their resumption of football worl Known as the "fiddUng more than to knock the was concerned however. Both boys of thf Horned Frogs, is considered out of their present first i star ends in games prior to las' promi.sing by the T.C.U.

security. said they v.ere of Music. Major Bob Xeyland of the Vois in leaving school after reportcc He took up football in high reported the outlook disagreement with Head Coach jBreckenridge, just Saturday but en-I Jack Meagher. 1 to prove a violinist neces-1 Injuries have cut: Alabama, coming through last Nebf ijska i warily Xow rated Iowti the strength of his club, he game with Tulane one of the he.st backs in the South- and practice this w'eek will i injury, pointed for Georgia Tech largely by the method of lugging the ball overland. In eight games, the Redskins have gained 2.419 yards for an average of 302 yards per game.

They have completed only 47 percent of heir passes, however, 18 out of 169 attempted. The New York Giants have the best passing average, 69 completions in 130 attempts or 53 per cent. FOOTBAIX STAR SlJfX OIBS GREEXUP, Nov. 8. Mr.

and Mrs. Ferris Van Bibber have been notified of the death of their son, Carl. 24, of pneumonia which developed after a spinal injury suffered while playing football in Hawaii, whore he was with the U. S. army.

Van Bibber formerly was a star halfback for Greenup high school. Automobiles 2.000,000 mt an accident. Now going to teach the public how' to reduce the terrific traffic toll which claims of lives annually. Jenkins, pioneer speedster on famed Bonneville salt flats, he fastest and safest track, after an arly winter blocked a contem- Best For Coach Niles Brown will bring to vingsport a group of youngsters as the greatest eleven ever produced at Elizabethton high. Taking the team one of the best this section are three acks and a pair of linemen who being classed as tops in confer- ncc circles.

In Chambers, stockily built half- lack, Coach one of the lated assauit on scores of endur- leetest backs in the Circuit. Cham- I I hf hi iit once I ft: T'-nnt -see. having wal- i ''r, 1 45-0 Sntur- an old foe in rjj.it at -A records rivals are HKk Pitt. I i I which coasted thf- kin rout, must i.s< (- 1 only once tTvn; I thi rl iiHik Ccjunted sii to hif- Cornell its and faces th- a I i of I i unbeatt n. upon, thf only! tht first Svt u.se.

a team that has; ir btcn very good and i A day for the Orange tv: tr Mi Wfidtr merry men h.ts been losing '-If iiiiiy Sunday's one v. ovvf Francisco t.n for the battle team next ('alifiirma has (vr a vic- imi ii good 5 iiunlt i west. ECONOMY necessarily be sketchy. Captain Bowden Wyatt and Ed Cifers, ends injured in Tackle Walter Rimmer and Center Bob Now'ell of the latter squa. joined the hospital list, and wen Ole Miss Chooses Relatives Teams Xov K.

fur 'i .11 ill tf- Tf.iir..'* Ilf J.d Htnry Kinard Hd brot (i I'odson tnd (if varsity I' k. I'l'i-jKiUiiii I. of f. nu I rt: urr w-k Kiii sosj 1 'k' he right of oil can make all the difference! Our service men you the riijht the pfiee! SINCLAIR Stations Sinclair Opaline and Pennsylvania MOTOR Sinclair G.T. McGuire game with Chattanooga, w'ere not not e.xpected to be in shape fo; I in uniform yesterday, but Half- game, backs Cafego and Foxx and Tackle Mississippi State resumed prac Shires, injured in the LSU game, tice with the coming game i were present and accounted for.

Centenary in mind, while the Louisiana Young Bussey, Florida Gators prepared for a back at halfback position on homecoming encounter with squad today. Coach Bernie lard. Moore announcing that he had Ole Miss vs. Sew'anee, Georgia beer: reinstated. Bussey was drop- and Tulane and Kentucky against ped from the squad recently for; Clemson completes the Saturday announced breaking of training I schedule within the conference.

PLAYERS DECIDE TO LEAVE Plainsmen Ends Told They Could Return to Squad For 1939 Season; Quit nee marks. Jenkins, who plans a driving 'emonstration and speaking tour hrough the populous eastern states ays of highw'ay driving: Be alert. Be master of your car at all nies. Keep on your own side of the cut in. attempt to pass you.

'sion is obscured. Keep your head in an emergency. If been drinking, keep out an automobile. speed in heavy traffic. Be courteous to other drivers; give them a break.

Keep your car mechanically perfect. ARMCHAIR HUNTING WINFIELD. Nov. 8, The Rev. I.

K. Baker has bagged a rabbit each day of the hunting season without leaving his back porch. Shotgun in hand, he seats himself in a comfortable chair after breakfast and waits. Unvariably, he says, a rabbit comes within range. By SID FEDER your little black book for all- NEW YORK, Nov.

8. Tip; America And Man -1 Philadelphia. AUBURN, Nov. 8. Coach Jack Meagher of Plainsmen announced today Stencil Whatley and Max Harrison, 5tar ends, had been an opportunity to adjust themselves and return to the football squad in 1939, but they decided to The decision was announced after the two returned to the campus they forsook before Villanova game and, admitting were asked to rejoin the team.

iJilD Harrison and Whatley left Au bum, according to their own statement, because of Coach discipline. Auburn took its worst beating of the year Saturday, 25 to 12, at Returning yesterday, after spend- days in Mobile, Whatley said he and Harrison we were and he said A'ant to play on the much going to tell the coach w'o are sorry about what has Meagher interviewed the boys announcing action in their case. The wingmen could not be contacted immediately for a statement. When they left Auburn last week they said they had jobs in li ip' Clai t-M I fend itht-ad of aad IjrHk? fruard. ar, the a be surprised if Texas Chris- gridders will you first job is right Coon of North Carolina State here in ole New Decern-; is another lineman who beats thf her 10...

be the ball into the other back- game for charity and is field nine times out of ilready underwTitten by a Darse Robertson, Dixie's new fea- cate of Wall Street ther champ from will head legie, Dartmouth, Duke. Pitt, Ten- for the big town next spring and le.ssee, Santa Clara, and Notre, you 127-pounders around here bet- IJame are also on the No. 11 ter be ready for tough leal of the major league meeting already noticed one robably will send Cecil Travis' jinx which w'as kicked around rom Washington to Detroit plenty summer was the With Elden Auker also whammy the Cleveland Indians Sammy Snead is gonna have his always had on the Buck W'hatley stated in Mobile, when hands full against the classy field Newsom. Buck belted qsked why they left school, that put together for the White the Tribe five times out of six i Meagher accused him of Sulphur Springs open that gets tries during the season i the Rice game, and he and Har- under today Donnie Bush rison, his roommate, decided to i.s ailing- for w'hich all his pals Fred Thomsen w'ould like it a leave. Harrison said had are Out at little (Ikjnzaga lot of football games w'ere only been on me a couple of U.

on the coast, they have tw'o 59 minutes His Arkansas who chalked up runs of Razorbacks lost to Baylor, Texas better than 100 yards this season. Aggits and Rice this all in Utica Jini Mf'Guire ran for 101 against la.st f.0 recond.s And ylor ind Tony Canadeo did it and Rice did the same thing to Conerats to Bucky for 105 tgainst Wnshington la.st year, too Hope Will one of our Pitts- noticed this corner call- burgh scouts please check the re- up the tnai Ray Blade.s-as-Cardinals’ around here that Biggie i bu. Henry ni shot Wednvsd Goldberg may through for will .1 his lightw.ight cr wr sea; Did Herman Taylor, And yeaio agfi, te then Philly promoter, take Ambers, the ex-champ, will be the ro at Oakmont, sank two holes three and four to settle any challenger Mark Ralph Hoik- in one on one round. Hia next i claim on John Henry serv- kinen, Michigan guard, down in ace came just the other day up lers weighs in the neighborhood )f 185 pounds and is dynamite each ime he carries the ball. The Cyclones have another great lack in Stevenson, fullback, who ow'ers something over six feet and veighs 210 pounds.

Stevenson iB ill braw'n and muscle and carries ow'er in every thrust at the line. 4e has w'aded through all opposition this season with ease. Hale, quarterback, is another longerons threat the Cyclones will here. He is fast and elusive md is one of the main scoring tnreats. Maupin Brothern TTireaten In the Maupin brothers.

Coach Brown has a pair of ends who have given up little yardage around their flanks. In fact the oppositions gains around their ends has been practically nil. These star.s, combined with a well-bal- inced group of linemen will bo vhat the Indians must outdo Friday night if they are to retain the 3ig Six crow'n. Hoping to do this Ck)ach Rich not sparing his boys. He is drill- ng them against all Cyclone plays he team has been forced to resort in scoring easy wins over oppo- lents.

The toughest opposition met the Elizabethton team was the 8-7 victory scored over Erwin. All )ther games have found them scor- ng almost at will while toying with opposition. The Indians came out of last game in excellent physical ondition and in fine spirits. They ire expected to be mentally 'or the game that will decide which of the tw-o teams is to lay undis- )uted claim to the title. Huge blocks of tickets continued today to be demanded from all cities in upper East Tennessee.

Bristol, Elizabethton. Erwin and Johnson City will have large delegations on hand to spur on both clubs. At least 5,000 fans are anticipated. Do they check? Just try these he-man shoes on your ion and see! The maximum in sturdiness and protecdon for cold, wet, tery weather. $2.98 brakes STEERING UGHTS TIRES HORN For Sake Mills Motor Co.

Commerce FOX SNOOZES UNTIL SLAIN BY HUNTER MOUNT JOY, Nov. 8. Huntor Claude 'Reigle came upon a fox asleep in a field. He started to shoot, then remembered might be illegal to kill the ani- mal. W'hile sly Reynard snoozed, Reigle retreated a few yards, has- A tily thumbed a code book and dia- covered the law W'as on his side.

Triumphantly, he drilled the fox with one shot. Star Brand for ban aie built just iikt MORGANS SHOE STORE MRS. COLLINS DIES Nov. 8. Mrs.

Ora Collins. 50, wife of George M. i Collins. Frankfort breeder, died here last night. Collins, owner of Tliistledown stock farm, was an associate of Senator George M.

ot Tennessee in the purchase of marble and mineral leases in the Norris Dam area. Berry filed claims against the but lost in the courts. PAC liORSR library Ky. Uov. 8.

A pack horse library has begun operation here as a WPA project. with more than i.ooo books and 3,000 magasinea. Ten persons tribute the books throughout Cumberland county..

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