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TODAY'O TO mm MEN IF 11 gtvi FLAG RACE TO END IN LESS rmuiT iiirniTi News-Dispatch TORNADOES AND GOLDEN BEARS AWAIT BATTLE I By KKNRY UcLEMOR llStiaffl SHAMOKIN, Shamokin Ly THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936 I Why Giants Caught On Cobb Tried to Make Carl Hubbell Ditch Screw-Ball Delivery W0mF lW we of baseball's best ftJlV CATCHERS IS HEADED FOR SPORTg lanO Eddie Brominski, of Swoyersville, i Columbia university Rose Bowl star of 1934, and Stan Hino, former Shenandoah high school and Albright college all-around athlete, have signed to play with the Shenandoah Presidents this season. The Prexies will open their season on Sunday, September 27 against Nan-ticoke Pros, Manager Ed Katalin-as announced this week. Hino will be quarterback of the Presidents and Brominski will take over a halfback berth. Brominski, a member of Berwick's baseball team in the Central Pennsylvania baseball league, was recently elected assistant grid tutor at Berwick high school. George Shotwell, Hazleton high's new football coach, may have been an All-American center at the University of Pittsburgh, but all the same Us the pivot position on the Mountaineer's grid team that is causing him worry.

Shotwell has an abundance of backfield material, but he lacks linemen. Of all positions, the center will be the hardest to fill, the former Pitt Panther avers. Shotwell was center for Hanover township high school several years back when it boasted an undefeated team for two years. The autograph of Jack Dempsey is more valuable to a young Allen- ga if I handling of pitchers. BASB TREVES PEL THE FINE ITALIAN HAND OF AUTM HE OV OF THE IT I Vf BASE TREVES FBEL THE FINE ITAUAN HAND OF HE ONE Of THE AK'D MOST UROMNC ARMS IN TflE GAME b7 as it fades away.

P. I. A. A. Ruling Gives Flood Athlete 'Break' ITCA, UMITOM PRESS AND LOCAL SPOET FEATUBE8 CVKKX DAI PAGE TEN LUCK OF IRISH First day of football practice at Notre Dame brought out a squad of 102 aspirants and "Irish," the team's airedale mascot.

Here's Coach Elmer Layden dressing up the canine in a headgear and hoping the doggie will bring around the well-known luck of the Irish this season. SENATORS TRIP BERWICK IN C-P SERIES BATTLE "Zip" Kleskie, Gets Single, Double, Triple and Home Run. "Zip" Kleskie, of Shamokin, made a "grand slam" when his Miffiin-burg teammates walloped Berwick, 16-6, last evening in the third game of he series to decide the championship of the Central Penn baseball loop. Kleskie's grand slam was a single, double, triple and home run as he led the Senators to their overwhelming victory. Mifflinburg won the first game played a week ago, but the second contest was a tie.

After capturing last night's engagement the Senators need only one more victory to clinch the league title. Dave Kelly, peppery Mifflinburg backstop, also had four hits while Eilly Kerstetter, clever shortstop, smacked out a home run on the first pitched ball of the game. Reidell started on the mound for Mifflinburg and allowed two hits In the first live innings. He was shelled from the peak in the sixth and was replaced by Les "Iron Man" Hinckle, who finished the game. Dennis started for Berwick, but was driven from the mound in the third.

Kunis relieved him, but lasted two frames. Warneke finished the contest. Mifflinburg drove out 20 hits, 11 cf them being for extra bases. Another game will be played at Berwick Saturday afternoon. MILLERSBURG NEXT DANVILLE GRID FOE Millersburg high school will provide the opposition for Danville Iron Men on the F.

Q. athletic Held at Danville tomorrow night. The game is scheduled to get under way at 8:00. It will be the second game of the season for the Danville aggregation. Last Friday night, with weather more suitable for baseball than for the fall sport, Danville took over Muncy by a single touchdown.

Last year Millersburg opened the Danville season. The team is expected to be a worthy foe for their hosts. A new coaching regime has instilled a new system into the boys and with most of the players veterans from last year's machine, a stiff battle is expected. Danville is represented by its smallest team in years. Many of the players are new to their positions, as a result of the shifts which were made necessary to provide for losses through graduation.

In last week's game little use was made of the air route, although Danville has made a reputation for this type of play. WARNING No disorderly conduct will be tolerated at the Coal Town-hlp High School football games. Any person guilty of creating a disturbance, especially those caught scaling the fence or "crashing" the gate, will be prosecuted. (Signed) Coal Township High School Athletic Association. MAN WCCKd St.

Louis Has 10 Games Remaining on Schedule and Jubs isine. NEW YORK, Sept. 17 and eleven are the magic numbers for the New York Giants today! The team of Terry and Hubbell and Ott has 11 games to play and seven victories will bring the New York team Into the promised land of the National league championship. Still 4 games ahead of St. Louis, although they split a double header yesterday with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Giants are slamming down the stretch with every hope for the title.

The Cardinals also divided two games yesterday and they can pass the New York team that way. The St. Louis team has only Dizzy Dean left on its pitching staff, otherwise completely wrecked, and even Dizzy can't win a pennant sin-glehanded every year. With seven victories In their remaining 11 games before they close the 1936 campaign on September 27, the New York team would win the pennant regardless of what the Cards did in their remaining 10 games. If the St.

Louis club loses three games, the Giants can sew up the flag by taking 4 out of 11. The Chicago Cubs still stayed mathematically in the race by moving within a 'lalf-game of the Cards yesterday when they won both ends of a doubleheader from the Boston Bees. The standings of the battling trio of teams at the head of the National league follow: Games To W. L. Pet.

B'h'd Play New York 86 57 St. Louis 82 62 Chicago 82 63 .601 11 .560 4tt 10 .566 5 9 The Giants took the first game vestprrtnv from Pit.r.shin-crh 2.1 hut. I dropped the second, 4-3. Joe Moore i 1 1 i t- i. 1 1 1 1 I 1 suigieu wiia uie oases luauea in uie fourth inning of the opener to give the New York team the winning lead.

In the nightcap, the ancient Waite Hoyt held the Giants to 8 hits and the Pirates staged a 3-run rally in the third to win the game. The luckless Cardinals dropped their opener when Bucky Walter pitched the Phillies to a 7-3 triumph. The St. Louis players made a triple play in the second inning, -Haines to Mize to Durocher, and Manager Prisch and Durocher were banished for protesting decisions. In the second game, the Cards came back to break a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning and win.

5-2. The Chicago Cubs, were lucky to squeeze out a couple of close ones over the Bees, winning 3-2 and 4-2. Tex Carleton did the in the (Continued on Page 11) I'm- GOOPjETCAP ni rz PATHFINDER SIZE PHtssKWtt IlxJttOI 4.41-11. 4 4.71-il. 5.M1I.

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I P0B68 I LONDON, Sept. 17 U.fi Within fivr years baseball will be more popular than cricket In England ana wiuim iu years It will be a serious challenger to league football as the national sport of the country. This is not my opinion. It belongs to a half-dozen English sports writers who know then-country and its games. Ask them why this optimism for the American game in the itight little isle and they point out the healthy groups that have enjoyed the sport here for the past two years what is much more importantthe almost unlimited capital of men who are determined to see" it succeed.

It is common knowledge that Eifelish baseball is chiefly backed by; Operators of giant football pools ana that their interest is purely mercenary. The betting operators consider baseball to be a perfect "plug" for the four months of May, June," July and August. These are the only months in the year in nhich football, on which millions of dollars are wagered, is not played and they constitute a dead loss for the pool owners. They lose not only the revenue from- the betters but also wages for their clerical staffs. Men and women who work in the offices of the betting pools are experts and cannot be replaced easily.

AC a result, they and some of the biftger pools employ thousands mast be kept on the payroll in idle months. Baseball offers the perfect solution and the betting tycoons are ready to sink millions of dollars Already thousands of pounds sterling have been spent and spent In "the most effective channel on the development of the game among the school children. Drive about London's suburbs and you will see hundreds of boys, ranging in age from nine to 18, playing the game with first-class equipment. There art several baseball leagues in the city and their championship games this season often draw crowds of better than 13,000, which is larger than many of the throngs at the big cricket matches. Up to now, coaching has been rather haphazard, with anyone who knew the sport welcome to come oid: and take a hand in training the youngsters.

Plans, however, call for the importation of professional ball players from America. Players who have passed their prime in the "United States are going to be offered substantial salaries to come oyer and take charge of teams. As an added attraction, next year several star cricket players, notably Patsy Hendren and Walter Hammond, have been offered contracts. Hendren and Hammond are just as celebrated over here as Lou Gehrig and Dizzy Dean in America and their presence on the diamond would lure thousands through the turnstiles. biggest English booster of baseball is Trevor Wignall, sports columnist of the Daily Express and far and away the most widely read tad influential sports commentator hvLondon.

Wignall, who grew to like the game in his frequent trips tC America (he has covered two world series), is one who thinks it Is, certain to outdistance cricket in popularity in the near future. "Cricket has been dying steadily for years and is becoming more and more a game for the upper classes and not the lower masses," Wignall told me. "Once England finds out ltcan go to a baseball game and uv three short thrilling hours get jribre excitement than in three full days of tedious cricket, the American sport will be made here. And that day is not far off." BUFFALO DEFEATS BALTIMORE BY 10-6 The Buffalo Bisons held an advantage of one game over the Baltimore Orioles today In a four out of seven series for the governor's cup and the honor of meeting the winner of the American Association playoffs in the "little world series." Bisons defeated the Orioles last night in the premier game of the series by a score of 10-6, batting four Baltimore pitchers out of the box and slugging their way Into the lead. DO YOU REMEMBER? One Year Ago Today Wesley Ferrell won his 24th victory of the Mason as the Bed Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers, 5-4, in Boston.

live Years Ago Today Tommy Armour eliminated Denny Shute in the quarter-final round of the Professional Golfers' association tournament at East Providence, R. Ten Years Afo Today Bobby Jones gained the final of 'the national amateur at Short Hills, N. by eliminating Francis Quimet, I and 4. BOWLING SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH Mallck 208 204 150 582 180 174 169 523 184 160 195 539 178 168 182- 528 162 143 169 474 O'Brien Shannon Rom Total 912 849 865-2926 BLOOMSBtlRG Hensyl 158 184 172 514 Travelplece 114 161 139 414 Rhadomojrer 178 180 143 M2 Manning 147 198 133 478 Lemon 197 131 151 479 Total 794 860 7432397 High single gam. Mallck, 208; high total, Mallck, 662.

WHr nnrorer't favivlf tlimt while traveling is to put eels in CiftniAK bertha 0l UamuuOee. i U7 Rivals Clash Tomorrow Night in "Natural" at Silver Bowl. Mount Carmel and Mount Camel township high schools, bitter football rivals, will clash at Mount Carmel's silver bowl at 8:00 tomorrow night in an early season gridiron The contest will be one of the eastern conference variety as the Golden Bears were admitted to that organization during the winter season. With the old saying that "if we don't beat Mount Carmel this year, we never will," the Golden Bears will enter the battle highly confident of victory. Mount Carmel township is composed of a veteran team and eight of its varsity players returned from last season.

Heading the list is1 Captain Eshmont, brilliant fullback. Al Masciantonia, the Bears' coach, is highly pleased with the manner in which his proteges have responded to his teachings and he, too, expresses confidence as time nears for the important battle. The Tornadoes were forced to practice twice this week without the aid of Al Jones, head coach, who was stricken ill and forced to stay at home. His assistants capably handled practice in his absence. Mount Carmel's gigantic team, with its wealth of reserves, will likely count on end runs to snow under the Bears.

It is hardly probable that the Tornadoes will gain through Township's sturdy line. Mount Carmel will count on the power and fleetness of Ososkie, Pov-elaitis, Quinn and Jones in the backfield. PIONEERS TIE SCRANTON WHEN DARKMSSFALLS Second Game of NY-P Series Ends With Teams Deadlocked, 5-5. SCRANTON, Sept. 17 (U.R) Elmer Yoter's Scranton Miners were still cne game up on the Elmlra Pioneers today after the second game of the New York-Pennsylvania league championship series here ended even the score tied 5-5.

Scranton won the first game here Tuesday, 4-3. Rabbit Maranville, manager of the New York club, tied up the score in the ninth inning, when, as pinch-hitter he singled. The game went two more Innings but was halted because of darkness. Krider, Kerdock and Shoffner saw mound duty for fhe Miners, being found for 13 safeties, the same number as was allowed by Lew Krausse, of the Pioneers. Krider, opening hurler, had a bad third inning when three runs were scored and Kerdock went to his rescue.

The latter was yanked for a pinch-hitter in the ninth. The title series between the Miners, winners of the first-half pennant, and the Pioneers, second-half victors, will be resumed Saturday at Elmira. SOCCER LEAGUE OPENS m. 25 Trevorton and Elysburg Scheduled to Clash in Opening Game. Eighty-four games will be played in the Northumberland County Soccer league this season, according to the schedule released by the league officials.

The season will open Friday, September 25, and close Friday, November 13. Games will be played Tuesdays and Fridays. On the opening date Trevorton travels to Elysburg, Herndon invades Dalmatia and Pottsgrove moves on Montandon. Schedule: Sept. 25 Herndon at Dalmatia.

Trev orton at Elysburg, Pottsgrove at Mon tandon. Sept. 29 Herndon at Trevorton. Dal matia at Elysburg. TurbotvUle at Pottsgrove.

Oct. 2 Elysburg at Herndon. Mon tandon at Dalmatia, Trevorton at Tur botvUle. Oct. 6 Pottsgrove at Herndon.

Dal matia at Trevorton, Montandon at TurbotvUle. Oct. 9 Montandon at Herndon. Dalmatia at Pottagrove. TurbotvUle at Elysburg.

Oct. 13 Herndon at TurbotvUle, Pottsgrove at Trevorton. Hvaburc at Montandon. Oct. 16 TurbotvUle at Dalmatia, Trevorton at Montandon, Eysburg at Pottvllle.

Oct. 20 Dalmatia at Herndon. Elysburg at Trevorton. Montandon at Pottsgrove. Oct.

23 Trevorton at Herndon. Elysburg at Dalmatia, Pottsgrove at TurbotvUle. Oct. 27 Herndon at Elysburg. Dalmatia at Montandon, TurbotvUle at Trevorton.

Oct. 30 Herndon at Pottsgrove, Trevorton at Dalmatia, TurbotvlUe at Montandon. Nov. 3 Herndon at Montandon, Pottsgrove at Dalmatia, Eysburg at TurbotvUle. Nov.

6 TurbotvUle at Herndon, Trevorton at Pottsgrove, MontanCon at Elysburg. Nov. 13 Dalmatia at TurbotvUle, Montandon at Trevorton. Pottsgrove Elysburg. Klkl Cuyler played all three out field positions for Cincinnati this Former Detroit Pilot Sent Giant Ace to Minors Back in 1926.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (U.R) Carl Owen Hubbell, a gangling, loose-jointed southpaw pitcher, came up to the Detroit Tigers in the spring of 1926 from the Oklahoma City Western league club. Manager Ty Cobb watched him warming up one day and inquired about the unusual ball he was throwing. "That's a screw-ball," said Carl. When Cobb began to weed out the rookies, he sent Hubbell to Toronto.

His parting advice was: "Forget about that screw-ball. It'll never get you any place." That was one of the greatest managerial mistakes the peerless Cobb ever made. Hubbell came back to the majors with the New York Giants in 1928 and with the screw-ball has pitched his way into a permanent place In baseball's hall of fame. Hubbell may be the greatest pitcher of his generation. The only man who can dispute this ranking is Dizzy Dean.

Hubbell's screw-ball Is the most treacherous pitch in baseball. He has made the greatest hitters in the game break their backs swinging at it. Old-timers say the screwball is similar to Christy Mathew-son's fadeaway. Hubbell pitches the screw-ball from a three-quar ter overhand motion. As he re leases th" ball he twists his wrist I with an inward flip which puts i spin on the ball.

This motion gives the pitch ats name. As the ball comes up to tne plate, it somewhat resembles a fast ball. But as the batter swings the ball breaks sharply downward, losing speed riaKKtr TTarfnarf PhioA Pn( 'etcher who caught Hubbell in the 1934 All-Star game when he fanned Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin in succession, says: "You could see daylight between then-bats and the ball when they swung." Hubbell is a master of control, and also has a good curve and fast ball. His mixture of the screwball, fast ball and curve give him the best pitching repertoire in the As the world series nears the Yankees are worrying plenty about Hubbell, and for good reason. He pitched the Giants to two victories over Washington in the 1933 world series, and in three appearances in the All-Star games he hasn't been scored on.

They don't get a look at anything as baffling as Hubbell's screw-ball in the American league. Hubbell is 33, weighs 175, and is six feet tall. He is tall, slim and silent. Everything he does is plain, impersonal and undramatlc. Off the field he looks like a white-collar worker.

His cheeks are drawn. He looks frail. He dresses ultra-conservatively in plain colors. He likes to play draw poker, 25-cent limit. He pals around with Mel Ott, his roommate.

One of the best liked players in baseball, Hubbell has never had an argument with a rival player or an umpire. In nine years In the majors Hubbell has never complained to an umpire about a decision. Hartnett tells a story which reveals Hubbell's character. "In the All-Star two years ago I called for a pitch Hubbell didn't want to throw," said Hartnett. "But Hubbell wouldn't shake me off.

He Just threw a wide one as a signal to try something else. He was willing to get himself in hole rather than show me up the be- fore 50,000 fans." LOUGHRAN WINS OAKLAND, Sept. 17 (U.R) Tommy Loughran, 33-year-old Philadelphia veteran, scored his third victory over Ray Impellitlere, 236-pound New Yorker, last night in a bout featured by dullness. Loughran, weighing 187, hit his weighty opponent about six hard blows in a 10-round battle at Oakland coliseum to win the decision. LEAGUE LEADERS LEADING BATTERS O.

Ab. R. H. Pet. Appling.

White 496 108 189 .381 P. Waner, Pirate 139 548 100 207 .378 Averlll, Indians ...142 574 125 216 .376 Phelps. Dodgers 105 278 31 103 .371 Dicker. Tankees 105 406 96 146 .360 HOME RUNS Gehrig, Tankees 48 Trosky. Indians ..41 Foxx, Red Sox 38 Ott.

Giants 3 DIMagglo, Tankees 29 Eastern Conference Game v. COAL TWP. HI ADULTS, 50c Some Students Broke Attendance Rule by Serving With Guards. HARRISBURG, Sept. 17 (U.R) Students who were members of the national guard and saw emergency service during the floods of March.

1936, are exempt from the "attendance rule" affecting eligibility to participate In high school sports of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic association, Edmund Wicht, P. I. A. A. secretary, announced today.

Asserting that the service of the guardsmen during the disaster "was humanitarian in nature in that the lives and property of citizens in the stricken areas were safeguarded," Wicht said the board of control, decided that "eligibility rule 1 shall not apply to such pupils who are now playing on football teams of the member schools of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic association." A section of the "eligibility rule" provides that "a pupil who has been absent from school, except for serious sickness, for more than one-tenth of the preceding semester must not participate in any athletic contest for the first semester before December 1, and in the second semester before May 1." Wicht stated that high school principals shall be required to submit to the P. I. A. A. office the names and ages of all athletes who were on duty with the Pennsylvania National guard during the flood period, together with statements from their company commanders to the effect they were actually on duty.

He pointed out that the exemption applies only to absence because of flood duty. FOOTBALL PLAYER DIES FROM BURNS LAFAYETTE, Sept. 17 (U.R) Tom McGannon of Evansvllle, ruraue university iootDan star, cued today from burns suffered Saturday in a shower room explosion. A second blood transfusion by physicians at St. Elizabeth's hospital failed to rally the veteran halfback and he died at 5:15 a.

m. IViiie, VI rcmioj-ivaiiia. 1 SSI chamDion and the governor were chatting in the lobby of an Allen-town hotel last week, a boy approached Dempsey and asked for his autograph. Dempsey looked at him and said: "Sure, sonny, but don't you want the governor's too?" "Naw, I just want Jack Dempsey's," the youth replied. Both the governor and Dempsey enjoyed a laugh over the incident: Dempsey appear-! ed in Allentown to referee a prize fight.

Although only four varsity men have returned from 1935, William Penn high, of Harris-burg, Shamokin's first 1936 Eastern Conference opponent, expects to have a strong team. Graduation cut deep into the Tiger's varsity combination last spring, but a wealth of material is avalaible from the junior varsity squad. Those returning are Bob Engle, Eddie Speraw, John Frankford and John Clark. Engle and Speraw are ends. Coach Tony Wilsbach says his team this year will be lighter than customary.

A 10-game schedule confronts the Tigers who open their season at home tomorrow night against Harris-burg Catholic high. DO YOU KNOW "Squeek" Hufford and Jay Riden, former Sunbury high grid tutors, are rounding together a fine team at Lewis-town high school Sunbury believes its high school football stock is on the upgrade Additional candidates reported to Coach Al Coder with the opening of school. Nine from eleven leaves two and that's how many veterans returned to football practice at Coaldale high Minersville, Coal Township's opponent October 30, expects to have another good team The Miners beat the Demons last season, but the year before succumbed to the attack of Frank Pogozel-ski and his teammates Region grid stars have cracked the professional league at last Kusko and Pilconis, of Frackville. played for the Philly Eagles last Sunday while "Gid" Gildea, of Tamaqua, broke into the lineup for the Pittsburgh Pirates Fred Clapper, of Black-well, fanned 25 batsmen in 14 innings, yet dropped a 1-0 decision when his teammates made three consecutive errors in the last inning Carl Marhefka, former Shamokin high athlete, will start at a halfback berth when St. Joseph's oppose Temple in Philadelphia's first college game tomorrow night.

Coach Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern university la the son of a Methodist bishop. In two years at Notre Dame, Coach Elmer Layden has won 12, lest four and tied one. A OTAND1NGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Detroit, Athletics, 2. Cleveland, 13; Boston, 2 (six Innings, rain). Other teams did not play.

Today's Games Chicago at St. Louis. Cleveland at Detroit. Other clubs not scheduled. Standing of the Teams W.

L. Pet. New Tork 96 48 .667 Chicago 78 65 .545 Washington 77 68 .531 Detroit 77 68 .531 Cleveland 76 68 .528 Boston 72 74 .493 St. Louis 51 90 .362 Athletics 49 95 .340 NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results First Games Phillies, St. Louis, 3.

New York. Pittsburgh. 1. Chicago, 3: Boston, 2. Brooklyn, 7: Cincinnati, 4.

Second Games St. Lodli. Phillies. 2. Pittsburgh.

New York, 3. Chicago, Boston, 2. Brooklyn, 10; Cincinnati, 2. Today's Games New York at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.

Other clubs not scheduled. Standing of the Teams W. Ii. Pet. New Tork 86 57 .601 St.

Louis 82 62 .569 Chicago 82 63 .566 Pittsburgh 78 67 .538 Cincinnati 71 73 .493 Boston 64 78 .451 Brooklyn 62 81 .434 Phillies 50 94 .347 Night Football Friday, Sept. 18 MT. CARMEL H. S. vs.

MOUNT CARMEL TWP. H. S. Mt. Carmel H.

S. Stadium Eastern Conference Game 1:00 P. M. General Admission 50c Reserved Seats 75c Free and Protected Parking Teachers1 College FOOTBALL OPENING GAME SEPT. 19th Game Starts at 2:30 P.

M. NIGHT FOOTBALL Bloomsburg State KULPMONT HI (B SQUAD) vs. Shamokin High School NEW EDGEWOOD STADIUM COAL TOWNSHIP STADIUM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 BAND OUT AND LARGE CHEERING SECTION 5000 Seats Admission: Adults 50c, Students 25c STUDENTS, 25e.