Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 6

Wed Sept 17 1941 Page 6 Kingsport Times obfoy Coffers As 'Sophomore Off Year Ira College Football -A- -A- -A' '-4-' Wallace Bobby Peters Bated As One Of East's Best I Blue Devils Tangle With Appalachia At Kane Field Thursday Shoemaker Tests i Power Against Wise Favorites Pictures Pail To Tell Practice Story By Luther Evans i (NEA Berries Staff Writer) New High pressure col lege athletic publicity men opei each football season with gag pic AL TT i Tit 4 'H X' i'-- ss i f' Sv lv r- -'K X-- i s-f a pm iyV (Fraa State Sarrtee) Gate City Shoemaker Blue Devils short on numbers experience and weight but long on spirit are going to show Thursday night what they can do against a team which is favored to cop the WUe county gridiron championship Coach Billy Hicks who led his Bulldogs to a Southwest Virginia title last season will bring a team here Thursday that is reported tcf be big fast and with plenty of placements Although the Bulldogs lost some of their key men from the championship tleven by graduation Coach Hicks is reported developing a first string fast from one of the largest squads in this area The Blue Devils with a fast and smart backfield running behind a weak and inexperienced line rolled to a 38-0 victory over Damascus in their opening game but showed little in the way of power or consistent attack Warren sparkplug of the team looked good at times Sivert and Templeton ran with plenty of i power and Thompson operated in the quarterback position well -The light line with only one boy weighing as much as 160 pounds will be altered for tilt Coach Carl Wise said Smith who showed up well in the opener will go to right guard and Rhea Starnes I will switch to left Brickey a tackle will move to right end Tuesday afternoon Wise put thef team through an extended blockings and tackling 'Session with emphasis on defensive play In order to slow down the hard charging Bulldogs Francis Sophomore back of the year" Bobby Cifers Sports Roundup Series Odds 9-5 i Against Either National Outfit i By Hugh Fullerton Jr New York (The Times Special News Service) Pennant progress report: Baseball men may feel that the Yanks any better than even money in thel world series as long as Charley Keeller and Red Rolfe are out but the bookies see it that way Their figure is 9-5 against either National league club Baseball writers with the Dodgers suggest a sperate column in the box! scores by Hans Lobert points out that the speed limited to Hopp Marion and Brown all fast he says even their bat boy time Brooklyn won in 1920 the race until September 27 Today's guest star: Atkinson Jr Louisville Times: favorite bedtime sto ry In Chicago promises to be and the eleven 0 0 J(j 4 a I rs -vi Dodgers Can Do Anything i Wrong In Drive For Pennant By Judson Bailey Associated Sports Writer Doodgers can do no wrong these days and even when they dost fate figures out some way to compensate them Brooklyn ran into a 4-3 11-inning pitfall yesterday a Cincinnati and the game Two Dobyns-Bennett high school alumni will be among the outstanding college football players of the nation this season according to Francis Wallace well-known football authority In annual Review" which appears in this issue of the Saturday Evening Post Bobby Cifers has been named as an of the two backs of the year" who will flash into the headlines and Bobby Peters has been rated as one of outstanding backs for his season Cifers is starting his first year with the Tennessee varsity and Peters will captain the Princeton ileven from a backfield post In speaking of Cifers who was selected for an All-Southern slot twoc consecutive years as a triple threat Kingsport tack Wallace laid: hasnot only lost most of its stalwarts who kept the team undefeated during the last three seasons but the Army has calledip Major Neyland The Vols have never been so good without their drillmaster Still John Barn' hill the line coach (who moves up knows the plans They are ambitious In addition to a fairly seasonedgroup of reserves including the unpredictable Johnny Butler has some sweet sophomore backs ready to explode a new offense The ace of the lot is Bobby Cifers of whom you may have read For he' broke a prep scoring record set by Bill DeCorrevant He weighs 190 is very fast a great pivoter accurate passer and a good if somewhat erratic punter I am told by teammates that he blocks and tackles and "likes Put Bobby down as a future great and one of the two sophomore prizes of the season" However Wallace- picked Billy Htllenbrand of Indiana University as the No 1 sophomore back be-- cause he says Hillenbrand has a alot with the varsity already opened for him while Cifers will have competition Butler for the tailback post Cifers was presented in the Post In one of the four color pictures Bruce Smith Minnesota Wallace's of the Alf Bauman Northwestern of the and Andrejco Fordham "climax were the other three shown in color Of Bobby Peters who sensational with the Princeton 'varsity since his sophomore year has drawn high praise of the Eastern writers Wallace says: Peters a Dixie boy who reversed the recent -trend by coming North should be one of the East's best backs" Peters is rated -as the sparkplug a Princeton team which is not expected to gain much national recognition butwhich is rated as one of the top contenders for the Eastern laurels Peters is slated is the No 1 passer kicker (the routes by which he gained his lame as an All-Southern back with Kingsport) and runner Hurler Balances Playoff In South (By The Associated Press) It took Bob Chipman roung southpaw to stop the home-run slugging of Les Fleming Nashville first baseman and even the Southern final playoff series at two games all This picture would lead you to believe Northwestern backs have just lots of fun pegging footballs through tires but this is no way to acquire knack of hitting moving target in eye at so many paces Besides Lynn Waldorf knows who will pass for Wildcats end there is no time for this kind of mon-key business Backs are left to right: Bill deCorrevont Otto Graham Dan Williams Don Kruger Bud Kean Don Buffmlre Jim Furlong and Floyd Chambers Charles Haddad Mass points out that Cleveland's fondest memories are of two 20-game winners Ferrell and Feller So how about a few more boys? And from the same town Steve Markiewioz nominates Joe Dimaggio and Dolph Camilli as the most valuable major leaguers (and him practically a next-door-neighbor of Ted Wiliams) had ended before darkness des-scended on St Louis and out the Cardinals and New York' Giants in a 3-1 10-inning tie I This shaved the National league lead from two games to a game and a half but on a long-1 range basis the tie almost as damaging as a defeat I Knoxville Tenn-A-The Smoky It figures out this way: Mountain conference the band of Brooklyn has won 92 games lostEast Tennessee small colleges that 51Qf11T h3S v1 t0 Pla5oa i was unique in having a commis- St Louis has won 89 lost 51 and sioner t0 supervise their sports pro- separates the blackboard talks and the second practice This one is for keeps Players don complete equipment Full uniform constitutes head to foot helmet ahoulder pads possibly elbow guards jersey hip pads and thigh guards molded to fit each Individual pants ankle bandages stockings and shoes A complete uniform weighs from 14 to 18 pounds Strenuous blocking and tackling drills and squad scrimmages are on the menu Fundamentals worked oui in the morning dummy scrimmage are put to test It is almost dark when the squad is dismissed After dinner the athletes are free until 10:30 when they are checked Into their rooms Tired from a full day they usually need no urging to go to bed coached by Lou Little as 'a criterion here is the average day in the life of a college football player before school begins Breakfast is at 8 a Players lounge around and swap small talk until 10 when they get into shorts for a two-hour session Calisthenics open the workout and are followed by fundamental drills in kicking passing spinping faking etc Coaches work with players individually pointing out mistakes and giving helpful advice There is no contact work As quickly as the noble athletes have showered and dressed they have lunch Then comes skull sessions Backs gather with the back- field coach ends with the end coach and so on down (the line Perhaps a half-hour of leisure tures that frequently gag the customers No campaign is officially under way until the? sports desk has been cluttered with such silly camera ideas as: Passers firing the ball through suspended tires or bull's-eyes The blokes 'must throw their arms out here because most of them complete a pass all season Squadmem crashing recklessly through paper schedules though they probably win a game last season Ball carriers many of whom coaches would consider lucky if they ever got over the line of scrimmage racing over barriers marked with names of opponents I'Tackles incapable of getting within recognizing distance of the guy on the field fiercely smacking a defenseless dummy labeled aa All-America Joe Twinkletoes Pretty co-eds explaining the principles of rhythm to bruisers whose only rhythm can be found in the steady movement of their jaws at a dinner table 1 Striving to- make the aports pages the boys often contribute ideas even more far-fetched and ludicrous shoving a puffing locomotive around for example Puts in Full Day Dress agents and photographers appeased players knuckle down to serious business Their chores are a far cry from what pictures would have you believe Using Columbia University a piece of the One-minute Sport Since he bought Braves Francis Ouimet says seen twice as ball games as he has played rounds of golf The Chattanooga ball club moved its home games in the Southern Association playoffs' to Atlanta be cause of infantile! paralysis and drew only about 1000Q customers for five games but in the Texas league playolffs Shreveport's attendance for two games was almost a third of the regular-season total Coach Gu? Dorais is geti ting along with only 34 player on his University of Detroit squad but there are 123 men bidding against him for his job on the common council of the municipal election He must havej got his signals crossed when he called for $500 IN CASH TO ONE LUCKY PERSON Register Here For Your Chance has 13 to play Thus the Dodgers will play 154 games this season to 153 for St Louis and if both teams lose the same number of games Brooklyn still will take the championship The Cardinals have two more contests left on their schedule than have the Dodgers If Brooklyn wins say 10 out of 11 St Louis must win 13 out out of 13 because of deadlock i The stalemate was a 1 shock to St Louis The Cards had beaten the feeble Giants 15 out of 21 times previously including a doubleheader Sunday and were right on the verge of hanging up a 1-0 clsic conquest yesterday when the Giants deadlocked the game The schedule leaves no opportunity for replaying the contest The affair at Cincinnati was almost equally tight Elmer (The Great) Riddle allowed only six hits and give an earned run in the nine innings he worked Bill Werber singled home a run for him in the first and knocked in two Gera 7V Thursday Friday i Saturday Thursday Friday Saturday Standings grams today was alive but that was about all Three survivors of the one-time 10 member organization met here yesterday and dispensed with the services ot Commissioner Lowe for the duration of the football season Alex Chavis Tusculum College professor and one of the big-wigs of the shrunken league reported formally that it was agreed there would be no necessity for the commissioner to supervise the football 1 Only Carson-Newman of Jefferson City and Milligan and East Tennessee Teachers of Johnson City will have grid gangs in action under the conference banner Chavis retorted while the fourth member Lincoln Memorial University of Harrogate engage in the grid game more with a double in the seventh But each time errors helped Brooklyn bounce back to tie the once in the second inning and again in the ninth Riddle- doubled in the half of the ninth and it had all the earmarks of being the run that would bring him his 18th triumph Manager Bill McKechnie thought so too when he sent Ernie Koy in to run for the pitcher But Koy was' picked off base When Bill Werber finally batted the deciding run across with a single in the 11th it was a rookie Ray Starr who received credit for the win The Reds made a dozen hits off four Brooklyn pitchers and tagged Hugh Casey with the defeat In the only other National league game the Boston Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 8-5 I The Braves made four errors but out-slugged the Cubs 15 hits to 12 Chet Laabs drove in five runs to lead the St Louis Browns to a 9-8 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics for a sweep of their four-game series Laabs hit one homer with two on in the first and won the game with another circuit clout in the 12th The Detroit Tigers bunched their efforts to whip the Washington Senators 4-2 although the Senators made eight hits to the Bengals' five Schoolboy Rowe had to be pulled out of a jam in the eighth after pitching seven scoreless in nings but received credit for the success fTDrTQ THESE EXTRA PKBhSEASOX Values Through Kingsport Days ONLY llulip IFOR Break Up Weak Teams Not Yankee Advises Dykes Boston JP Putting reverse English on the futile warcry of up the keen-witted Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox suggests-that the other seven clubs do some smashing on their own hooks time a club finishes 20 or more games behind the leader tear it-10 Jimmy advises before pointing out must be radically wrong hen they are QjCygGEl uA ToMdir'a Result Cincinnati 4 Rrookljn 3 (11 lnnintll Pt Lmiu 1 New York 1 ttie called 10th innins riarkneiO Boston Chlceito 6 Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (played In dovbleheader Sept 141) Gamei Today New York at Chicago Koslo (0-4) vi Olsen (S-7) I Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Davis '(11-7) va Meintzelman (10-1(1) Philadelphia at Cincinnati (2) Melton (1-2) and Beck (l-R) (14-12) and Thompson Boston at St Iouis and Salvo (6-14) va Lanier (3-3) Vander Meer (5-6) (2) Earley (6-3) Pollet (3-1) and Motorola Radios Heaters We handle aP complete stork of Arvla and Stewart Warner heatere Prepare (or 4 a cold winter days NOW i Batteries General sad Elide Batteries Have your battery hocked to dey and take ad-ventage af this eating Fee heme and aata member the remfert ef llateaiag ta the redie thee cold days Auto Radios $2495 Home Radios $875 apfJ MODERN Burns 43 OCT i A AMERICAN IEAGI Team Won Boat New York 36 Boston 7 6 Chicago 73 Cleveland 70 Detroit 70 St Louis 6 5 Washington 62 Philadelphia 62 Results St Louis 3 Philadelphia 8 (12 In-nlngi) I Cleveland at New York (played In doubleheader Sept 14) Chicago at Boston (played in double-header Sept 14) Ghmee Today St Louta at Washington Auker (14-14) va Wynn (2-0) I Detroit at Philadelphia Benton (12-8) va Marchlldon (10-12)! Chicago at New York Smith (12-13) Chandler 48-41 I I Cleveland at Boatoq Milnar (11-13) va Dobson (11-8) I The Exclusive Distributors For it was an easy matter to get him to express a firm opinion on the failings of the current baseballers "They know when they are well he declared without hes itation have too much time to themselves Too easy a life I never saw such a lack of ambition in any line of business than young ball players have Get them out an hour before the game and what happens? Why talk about every subject except baseball their own livelihood of them make any effort to improve themselves They realize too well that replacements are hard to find and as a result they get too cocky They know be picked up by some other club if released But I am going to find a way to change far back They improve of their own accord unless they shake thejnselves up between And since he is casting himself a baseball physician Dykes is willing to take the first taste of his own prescribed medicine probably will be forcedto undergo an operation on my own gall pladder within a few kaid no matter what they do to me it will be tame to the cutting I'm going to do on my White feox have become convinced that It is foolish to waste any more time kith a player who fails to come up lo your expectations in two seasons have my share of them and so ha about everybody in the league Except the With Jamesy in full verbal flight WE ARE Regular $1478 Tire NEW LOW PRICE Compare 0 GENERAL ANY TIRES 81ZI 40018 OTHII SIZIS Prices AS IOW IN PER WtIK MOPOITION GENERAL i uCE J) WITH T9 III 019 THE r' YOUNG Recap Your Smooth 'Tires New Tire Guaran teed at Savings TIRE SERVICE- Opposite City Hall Phone 1006 edartk) win i innu- mi EWINGTCO iLiflrrr Mode From Only Finest Natural Crains and Choicest Hops REOITO PB NEHI BOTTLING COMPANY Distributor Johnson City Tenn Phone 1811 Authorized Bottler: rhP81-COU BOTTLING Johnson City Tenn.