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SECTION SPORT The News and Observer VOL. CXXVI. NO. 143. RALEIGH, N.

SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1927. CAROLINA CRUSHES DUKE BLUE DEVILS Wake Forest De Defeats High Point Elon is Defeated TAR HEELS HOLD IMPROVED FORM TO DEFEAT DUKE Collins' Charges With Driving 18-0 Mix Passes Power For THEY DO HAVE A KICK YOUNG AND WARD STAR IN CAROLINA OFFENSIVE Tar Heels Score Twice In First Ten Minutes; Duke Offensive Is Smothered Save In Fourth Period When Brilliant Drive Falls Short of Touchdown; Victory Assures Carolina of at Least Tie For Second Place In 1927 Race In State By A. J. McKEVLIN. Hanes Field, Durham, Nov.

The University of North Carolina football eleven accomplished quite a few things on the gridiron here today, chief among which was the racking up of a 19 to 0 victory over Duke University's Blue Devils The Heels surprised everyone by searing in the first five minutes of play, and repeated the surprise by scoring again in another five minutes: they upset the dope by winning: they accomplished the hitherto in white washing the Devils: they demonstrated that the offensive shown against Davidsor A week ago Was something permanent and not just a flash in the pan, and in SO doing proved that they have come to realize that "It l'ays to Pass Early and they gave their followers something to grin and cheer about as they hadn't grinned and cheered in many moons--and they clinched at least a tie for second place in the 1927 football race in North Carolina. An Unexpected Victory. Following their victory a week ago over the Davidson Wildeats, the stock of the Heels had taken a boost. Carolina supporters were hoping for something like what happened today, hut even the most optimistic had even had dreams of a three touchdown triumph. Today the Tar Heels truly reached heights which were as far removed from their play in earlier games this season as thie top of the Woolworth Building is from the bottom of the new tunnel under the Hudson River.

Carolina launched its offensive carly, and always the Heels were a dangerous foe for the Blue Devils. Carolina early showed that its defensive was working in unison and determination and, although the defense weakened in the fourth period under a brillia.it drive ny the Blue Devils, it came again into its own to hold Duke for downs and wrest the ball from the struggling Dukemen within two yards of the goal line. Duke's Play Not Standard. Duke did not seem the Duke of previous days; and there are several reasons which might be advanced for this. Chief among these is the brilliant defensive game played by the Tar Heels.

Then, too, there is the fact that the Heels swept the Blue Devils off their feet by pushing over a score in opening minutes of play, and it may be that it was this that the Dukemen never were able to "shake off." But. from the psychological standpoint. the most reasonable seems to lie in the fact that twice within the first three minutes of play Whisnant fumbled Duke punts, once on Carolina's 37 yard line and on the other occasion on the Heels' 30-yard line, and that Duke. recovering these fumbles, was cheeked in its. tracks the ball on downs.

Duke Gets Breaks. But- Undoubtedly these two fumbles by the over-anxious Whisnant, who went after the punts as an outfielder might race in on a Texas Leaguer gave the Blue Devils a pair of fine openings. Duke shot its bolt at the Heels' defense, and the Heels' fense refused to permit a down on either occasion. This twist affairs proved to the Heels that the Blue Devil offensive was not 19 good as their defensive. and it proved to the Blue Devils that they would hare a hard time doing anything to the Heels after being un able to turn into something worth while the two golden opportunities And this ontcome of things seemed to have its effect on the usually notto-he-ruffled Sam Buie, Duke quar terback, who did many things wrong today.

He was not the elever and efficient Buie who had piloted Duke in its early games this year: he was not even the Buie who piloted Duke against State a week ago. Carolina appeared to have his "number." well as the address of just abort everybody else on the Duke team including "Steam Engine" Jankoski whom the Heels carly side-tracked on an inconspicuous siding and kept off the main track until that healthy threat by the Devils in the final period. It was just after Duke had failed to turn into the credit side of the ledger the second fumble by Whisnant that Carolina started the march (Please Turn to Page Two.) IF YOU CAN'T BUY IT IN YOUR HOME TOWN RALEIGH HAS IT PRICE: SUNDAY, FIVE TEN CENTS HOT SPOTS ON SPORTS By REYNOLDS NO 511201 WERY CAROLINA 18 DUKE BLUE DEVIL VANDY FIRST TIME HARVARD VALE 14 39 BLANKED TOM MARYLAND THIS YOUNG, VEAR 20 MARINES JIMMY 14 WARD ARMY GA, TECH 19 ALLE OR WE NOw AINT FRIENDS OGLETH. 7 WE JAN GOT STARTED WORTH HOLLING5- LATE THANKSGIVING VIRGINIA 19 ONLY FOUR FRESH. DAYS OFF U.N.

C. JOHNNY FRESH. Cox HEATH WAKE FOREST 13 H.P. 7. OLO REYN EASTERN CITIES IN ATHLETIC LOOP Eleven High Schools Now On Withdrawn List of Athletic Association SYSTEM SEEMS DOOMED Football Series Now Under Way Apparently Last Under Unfavorable System By BILL WOMBLE.

The present football elimination series apparently is destined to be the last championship series among high schools of the State under the system followed by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. The system--that of grouping teams in mid-season and starting their records all over again been the object of unfavorable criticism from school authorities, coaches, players and fans for several years, but the active opposition against it has now reached a high peak. Charlotte High School some time ago withdrew from competition under the association's system. Recently Winston-Salem High School announced that it would not participate in further series of the association, and now nine high schools in Eastern North Carolina have formed a conference of their own and an nounced that they will not participate in further State series sponsored by the association. The Northeastern Athletic Conference, as the new group is termed, will begin functioning with the opening of the basketball season.

Ln recent years there have been two annual basketball races- -that of the association and 3 tournament ducted at N. C. State College the system followed by the State High School Association all schoos are put on an even footing while in the State College tournament the teams are grouped according to size of schools represented, but may enter in the highest group if they wish. With the two largest cities in the State out of the Athletic Association group. and with pine cities in Eastern North Carolina also on the outside the present football season in reality seems the last for athletic eliminations under the association's regme.

Other schools from time to time have announced intention of withdrawing, and in all likelihood these intentions will become realities now that the ball has been solidly started to rolling. NORTHEASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE IS FORMED Greenville, N. Nov. Northeastern Athletic Conference was formed in the local high school last night with representatives here from Tarboro, Washington, Kinston, New Bern, Rocky Mount, Goldsboro, Roanoke Rapids, Greenville and Wilson. In organization of this confer ence various schools interested will withdraw from the High School Association, which method of determining the championship in various sports has failed to prove satis.

factory. The new organization will start with the present basketball season and a committee has already been named to draft a schedule. The Southern Methodist Mustangs of Dallas, champions of the 1926 Southwest Conferesee in football and contenders for this year's title will -lash with West Point on the Cadets field October 6, 1928. BAPTISTS SCORE VICTORY IN TILT WITH PANTHERS CHAMPIONS BEATEN High Point (7) Wake Forest (13) Position: Blosser Burroughs Left End Synder Phelps Left Tackle Watson H. Weir Left Guard Hauser Phffer Center Putton Denton Right Guard" Thompson Zimmerman Right Tackle McManus, Clayton Right End Polets James Quarterback Perdue Stallings Left Half Dixon Cox Right Half Heath Connelly Fullback Score by periods: P.

Wake Forest 0 18 0 0--18 High Point 0 7- 7 Scoring Touchdowns for Wake Forest: H. Weir, Clayton. For High Point: Poletz. Points after touchdown: James (by dropkick), Heath (by dropkick). Substitutions for Wake Forest: Ober for Stallings, Kuykendall for James, Cox for Hackney, Ayers for Cox, Gibson for Connelly, Tennon for Phifer, Smith for Tennon, Tennon for Smith, James for Kuykendall, Padgett for Denton, O.

Person for Padgett. For High Point: Nygard for Hauser, McFadden for Heath, Hackman for Watson, Withrow for Hackman, Campbell for Perdue, Heath for Campbell, Gono for McMannus. Officials: Referee, Sermon (Springfield), umpire; Brennan (Springfield); headlinesman, Cox (Georgia Tech). HURRICANE NOSES WIN OVER CADETS Blount's 56-Yard Run Gives Furman 6-0 Victory Over Citadel Eleven Charleston, 8. Nov.

56-yard run for 8 touchdown in the first period by Blount, brilliant Furman halfback, produced the only score of the game and enabled the Baptists to defeat the Citadel in their annual game here today, 6 to 0. Favored to win by a much wider margin, the Purple Hurricane ran into inspired fighting cadet eleven that was surprisingly successful in stopping Furman's offense. Only Georgia, which defeated the hurri. cane, has held Laval's team as the Citadel did this afternoon. Furman threatened only one other time when a long run by Rawl and a 20 yard pass from Blount to Bawl put the ball on Citadel's 12-yard line in the last quarter.

But Blount fumbled on 8 line-play and Dick Prown, Citadel end, recovered. Cap. tain Don Blanding yards and hurled the Hurricane back on the defense. Cadets Check "Hurricane." Rawl got away for three long runs. two of 30 yards and another of 20, but, excepting Blount's dash over tackle for the touchdown, Furman's attack was successfully curbed by Citadel's defense.

The Citadel forward line played brilliantly on defense. Dick King and Dick Brown, Citadel ends, were marvels on defense. It was a colorful game and one in which the anxiousness of both. sides cost them many yards in penalties. Furman was penalized for being off-side nine times.

Holding and clipping penalties were deyasting to Citadel chances. Furman's great backs gained nine first downs, but for the most part they found worthy foes in the Cita del forwards. Citadel's offensive netted five first downs, made on runs by Duvall, Hutchison and Howie and passes by Duvall and Hutchison. Duvall a and Hutchison featured the Citadel's attack. The latter was especially efficient in returning punts and was strong defense in his role as safety man.

Twice he dump ed Rawl when the Furman field gen eral had gotten by every other cadet and seemed headed by certain scores. Furman Citadel Position Engleberg Brown Left End Pulley B. King Left Tackle' Perry Arnold Left Guard Clary Ingram Center Carson Wideman Right Guard Lemmond Right Tackle Figg Byrne D. King Right End Rawl Blanding Quarterback Capps Howie Halfback Blount Wilson Halfback Pipkins Hasselmeyer Score by periods: Furman 0 Citadel 0 0 Scoring: Touchdown, Blount. Officials: Flowers, Ga.

Tech) referee. Hartsell, (North Carolina State) Rawson, (Georgia) headlinesman. Von Kolnitz, (South Carolina) field judge. Deacons Show Signs of Offensive To Repel 'Little 5' Champs, 13-7 Carolina (18) Duke (0) Position Sapp Warren Left End Morehead Thompson Left Tackle Farris Jones Leit Guard Schwartz Hunter Schuler Thorne Right Guard Howard Culp Rignt Tackle Presson Bennett Right End' Whisnant Buie Quarterback Gresham Lake Left Halt Young Adams Right Half Hoard Jankoski Fullback Score by periods: Carolina 12 6 0-18 Duke 0 0 0 0- 0. Summary--Carolina scoring touchdowns; Young, Ward, (2).

Carolina substitutions: Furthes for Whisnant; Ward ofr Cresham: Spalding for Young; Ferrell for Foard: Gresham for Ward; Whisnant for Furches; Warren for Howard: Young for Spalding: Jackson for Gresham: Lassiter for Young; Adkins for Warren; Donahue for Shuler: Eskew for Farris; Lipscomb for Morehead: Holt for Sapp: Evans for Schwartz: McDaniel for Presson. Spalding for Ferrell. Duke substitutions: Kistler for Warren: Weatherby for Thompson; Weaver for Lake; Hollingsworth for Adams; Bolich for Jankoski: Kelly for Bennett: Brummitt for Hunter: Lake for Weaver: Jankoski for Bolich: Thompson for Weatherby; Warren for Kistler: Weatherby for Thompson. Officials: Harry Springer, (Penn), referee: H. J.

Stegeman (Chicago), J. P. Major, (Auburn), headlinesman; J. R. Boatwright, (Virginia), headlinesman.

Time of periods, 15 minutes. GAME THURSDAY MAY UNTIE KNOT Virginia Carolina Series Proves Deadlock Since Renewal After War By R. W. MADDRY. Chapel Hill, Nov.

the universities of North Carolina and Virginia meet here Thanksgiving Day in the thirty socond renewal of their ancient rivalry, they will be fighting toa break a deadlock in the games. There were games during the war days of 1917 and 1918, but 10 1919 the Tar Heels won. They lost in 1920, but back to win again in 1921 and 1922. The 1923 game was a tie. In 1924 the Cavaliers won again.

That leaves the postgames standing at three won by each team and two tied. The last two games played on Emerson Field here have been ties. The game this year will be the feature event of the formal opening and dedication of the University of North Carolina's new gridiron, Kenan Memorial Stadium, the gift of William Rand Kenan, New York engineer, who is a native Tar Heel and university alumnus of the class of 1894. The stadium seats 24,000 and was constructed at a cost of $300.000. It is deseribed as the most beautiful gridiron South advance sale of reserved seats indicates an attendance of 25,000, or about twice many as have ever seen a Carolina- Virginia game.

The history of the series gives the Virginians a nice, edge. They won 20 games while Tar Heels were winning eight. On three occasions they battled to ties. The series was inaugurated in when two games were played The Cavaliers won the first. 30 to 18.

but six weeks later, in Atlanta. the same Tar Heel eleven defeated Virginia 26 to 0 and won the Southern championship. SCOTLAND NECK PLAYS HAMLET ELEVEN HERE Teams Meet Tuesday On Riddick Field For Eastern Consolation Series The high school elevens of Scotland Neck and Hamlet will clash on Riddick Field here Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the finals of the Eastern North Carolina consolation series, arranged for teams eliminated from the championship race prior to the group finals contests. Scotland Neck Friday defeated Fayetteville team 13 to 0 to earn the right to move to the finals against Hamlet, which in turn turned in a victory Friday- the expense of New Bern Delegations of supporters from Scotland Neck and Hamlet are expected to neea: pany the teams here for the fray. Joe Stecher.

it is estimated. earns $150.000 annually in wrestling bouts. He is champion and greatest exponent of the scissors applied with his legs. JOHNNY COX FEATURES PLAY OF DEACON TEAM Long Punt By James, Fumble By Heath and Recovery By Hal Weir Gives First Touchdown; Runs By Cox and Pass, James To Clifton, Nets Second Marker; Nygard Intercepts Pass To Lead To Panther Tally; Phelps Stars In Deacon Line Last Minute Passes Give Emory and Henry Victory Two Passes, For 55 Yard March, Break Tie and Defeat Elon, 13-7 CHRISTIANS BATTLE UPHILL TO TIE COUNT Walker's Eleven Stages Rally Late In Third Period and Yorkievitz Scores Early In Final Quarter; Branner and Efrd Star For Elon Elon College, Nov. and Henry hurled long passes to nose out the Elon Christians in the final minutes of play here today and chalked a victory by the score of 13 to Elon started the game with many of the regulars missing from the line-up and outplayed the Virginians on straight football but was not able to cope with the effective overhead attack of the visitors.

For Elon Branner was easily the defensive star with Efird a close runner up, and Cooke was the big ground gainer for the home team on the offensive. Balley and Mauck were the high lights of the visitors' playing. Fumbles were frequent, penalties few, with both teams battling to the last ounce of their strength and pretty evenly matched, with Elon having the advantage in punting, and Emory and Henry the advantage in the overhead game. Wasps Score First. The visitors scored early in the first period.

After an exchange of pants in midfield, the Virginians started a drive through the line which finally went over for a touchdown, Staggard carrying the ball over, and Farmer garnering the extra point. The remainder of the first half was a very interesting punting duel between Smith and Farmer. Elon came back strong in the third quarter and played on the offensive, making several thrusts at the goal but failing to take the ball across until the beginning of the final period. The third quarter ended with the ball in Elon's possession 0n Emory and Henry's 10-yard line, and a series of line plunges took it over with Yorkevietz making the final thrust on the third play of the fourth quarter. Captain "Red" Jones added the extra point by placement, tying the score at 7 all.

Resorting to 8 last minute desperate effort to score, Emory and Henry completed two forward passes for a 55-yard gain and touchdown. The attempt at the extra point failed. CHARLOTTE HIGHS NOSE WIN OVER ATLANTANS Charlotte, Nov. desperate last minute drive that culminated in a touchdown went for naught here today when Hammond failed at the try for extra point and Atlanta Tech high school bowed to the Charlotte high squad, 7 to 6. The winning points were scored in the first period when Lowell Mason.

Charlotte quarterback, returned 9. punt 68 yards to the one-yard line and bucked it over on the next play He added the point from placement that proved the winning margin The Atlanta squad played faultless football but met a stonewall on each attempt within the ten-vard line. Steady line bucks and sweeping end runs ran up 11 first downs for the visitors while the locals could register but three. A GAME STAND Elon Emory and Henry Position Branner Mackey Left End Smith Loitto Left Johnson Simmons Left Guard Hardy Mauck Center McCauley Baker Right Guard Efrd Henritz Right Tackle Harrington Cassidy Right End' Whitley Posterfield Cook Farmer Left Half Coggins Hale Right Halt Waggoner Staggers Fullback Score by periods: Elon 0 0 7 0- E. and H.

7 0 6--13 Substitutes for Elon: Yorkievitz for Whitley, Jones for Johnson. For Emory and Henry: Bailey for Hale, Ball for Loitto, Williams for Farmer. Touchdowns: Yorkievitz, Mauck and Stagger. Extra points: Jones and Farmer. Firstdowns: Elon Emory and Henry, 11.

Umpire: Mc Wharter. Referee: Rawlings. Head linesman, Graham. HILLTOPPERS CONTINUE HIGH SCORING TACTICS New York, Nov. Georgetown Hill-toppers, gathering speed as they rushed along, at' defeated Fordham 38 to 0 today the Polo Grounds.

The final victory gave Georgetown, high scoring team the total for the season of 377. The score fell one short of last year. NORTHWESTERN WINS. Nov. Northwestern, "most.

injured team' in the big ten, wrote victory at the end of an unsuccessful season todya, racing through, fighting Iowa team for a triumph. The Northwestern cripples had their full strength today and displayed a drive ard dasb which Iowa could not stop. 16.000 SEATS ALREADY SOLD FOR THANKSGIVING GAME IN KENAN STADIUM Chapel Hill, Nov. number of tickets already reserved for the Carolinafootball game is greater than the total attendance any previous year, but 8.000 reserved seats remain to be sold and of them provides an excellent of the game, it was stated tonight at the office of Graduate Manager Charles T. Woollen.

Orders have been pouring in since the public sale opened thie week, Mr. Woollen stated. He said indications point to a sell. out before the game starts and advised that reservations he made early. Mail orders should be made through the University Athletic Association.

The seats are $2 each and 20 cents should be added for registering and postage. Each batch of tickets sent out through the mails is accompanied by a circular showing diagrams of the stadium, the University grounds, and the roads leading to Chapel Hill. Paving of the high way from Pittsboro will be completed before Thanksgiving, and the road from here to Hillsboro has been tarred and is in splendid shape. OLD LINERS LOSE TO COMMODORES Vanderbilt Defeats Maryland 39-20 in Free Scoring Game at Nashville Nashville, Nov. violence and versatility of Vanderbilt's opening attack served to defeat Maryland 39 to 20 today, though the shifty offensive of Coach Byrd's eleven was ample opportunity to function.

It was a battle between the biggest and quickest firing cannon, and when Armistead and Spears, the chief commodore pieces, had been spiked, Maryland unlimbered her own artillery to roar through the final periods, unavailingly. Armistead his 20th touchdown of the season before retiring with battered face, while Spears' brilliant generalship ended close of the first half, when a charleyhorse curbed his activity. Touchdown for touchdown, it was his long, surprise pass to Creson in the second period for, a gain of 56 yards that put Bandy in position to clinch the score. Creson Was not quite swift enough to make a touchdown of it, but Armistead plunged the ball over from the four yard line. Spears averted one apparently sure tally in the first, quarter when Snyder received a kick and flew through a clear field 74 yards.

The Commodore safety ended off a group of blockers to make an impossible tackle near the goal. Hugh, Kessler and Tenney were Maryland's big guns and with their reverse runs, spinners plays and short passes from fake bucks helped make 19 first downs to Vanderbilt's 22. Vanderbilt Maryland Position Abernethy Dodson Left End Hawkins Zulich Left Tackle Oliver Wonderack Left Guard Sharp Bafford Center Ce-ll Keenan Right Guard Lusky Adams Right Tackle Creson Heagy Right End Spears Kessler Quarterback Owen Pugh Left Halt Mcliwaine Snyder Right. Half Armistead Linkous Fuffback Score by periods: Vanderbilt 12 20 0 7-39 Maryland 6 0 7 7-20 Summary Vanderbilt scoring touchowns; Armistead, 4: Owen, Creson: points after. touchdown: Spears, Sims (sub for Spears).

Maryland scoring touchdowns: Pugh, 2: Lombard, (sub for Heagy): points after touchdown: Pugh, 2. Officials: Perry, (Sewanee referee: Bigley, (W. and umpire; Gooch, (Virginia), field judge. CHICAGO GETS BREAKS. AND USES THEM TO WIN Chicago, Nov.

-Chicago took advantage of a series of breaks and downed Wisconsin 12 to 0 in their 31st annual football game on Stagg Field this afternoon and relegated the Badgers to the big ten cellar. Approximately 50,000 utters witnessed the game, pla for the most part in a light snow storm. Libby Rayson scored Chicago touchdowns in the second and final period while Wisconsin seldom threatened. Placekick attempts for extra failed. Wake Forest, Nov.

out of the losing habit that has grown on them since the first game of the season, Coach Jim Baldwin'g Demon Deacons this afternoon rose to display their most dashing offengive prowess of the year, and to subdue purple threat from High Point College, 18-7. Johnny Cox and his gang gamboled at 0888 through the Purple Panthers during the greater part of the game, and it was not until Coach Baldwin had inserted his full outlay of substitutes, in the final quarter that were able at all to penetrate the Wake Forest defense. Deacons Score First. Wake Forest first drew blood early in the second period. With the ball in Wake Forest's possession on the 50 yard mark, Ralph James, lifted punt which was downed by Wake Forest flankman on High Point's six yard mark.

Johnny Heath dropped back, apparently to punt, by the the Deacon line bad plunged through forward wall of the Panthers to smear the play and to cause Heath to fumble. Hal Weir, Deacon guard, was on the free ball for a touchdown. James added extra point by drop kick. Cox Stars Again. Mr.

Johnnie who needs no introduction to football fandom of Tar Heelia, put the ball in position for Wake Forest's second touchdown, which came just four plays later. Receiving Heath's kickoff on his own five yard line, Cox returned to his own 39-yard mark. An off-tackle cross buck, with Cox carrying the ball, netted ten and a first down. And then, with the ball on High Point's yard mark, James passed beautifully to Clifton who, after receiving the twentyseven pass did a neat work in side stepping in covering the remaining territory. Nygard Intercepts Pass.

Nygard, substitute Panther back, intercepted a Wake Forest pass on the fifty yard line in the last minute the game, running to Wake Forest's 29-yard mark before being downed. Heath passed to Hill 3 moment later for a 20 yard gain, and a five yard penalty 01 Wake Forest, followed by two plunges by Poletz, gave the Panthers their touchdown. Big Phoebe Phelps was at his best in the Wake Forest line, and his towering strength was evident throughout the game. Johnny Cox, in the Deacon backfield, also performed in stellar fashion, ripping off gain after gain through the Panther tackles. Ober Shows Old Form.

Captain Monk Ober of the Deacons, got into the game for the second and third periods and showed that he had lost none of the brilliancy with the injury that has kept him out of the fracas for several weeks. James had the edge in punting. His ten thrusts netted an average of 33 yards, while the average OF the Panthers, several booters was thirteen under this. Deacons Superior All Around. Wake Forest gained eleven first downs to six for the visitors, inade good six out of sixteen passes for a total gain of 142 yards against 90 yards in four completed passes for the visitors, and gained 155 yards through the line and around end, as against 105 for High Point, NEW YORK U.

STAR SETS, NEW MARK FOR GAINING New York, Nov. York University's eleven went on 8 scoring spree against a light Alleghany team today scoring 12 touchdowns and 9 points after touchdowns for a total of 81 points, to Alleghany's none. The Alleghany eleven never carried the ball beyond its own 40-yard line and its frantic attempt to break into violet territory with forward passes always ended in disaster. Alert New York University players recounted for half a dozen interceptions that were ultimately turned into touchdowns. Frank Briante, ex of the Violet, ran his total yardage for season to 1,352, eclipsing Red Grange's season record,.