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Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 6

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giJfriT hwtRyrfcyry rHWv S'KWWPWK gsyL iiiiiiiiiiiiM HWtfi WhflMaBWi Sports Second Time Honor Wanderers Defeat oil hit 4 i ednt 12 19 ties 8 2 the CHRISTMAS 3: ie 4 course which Turk to Sue Newspaper rom £00 up and coufmv in order to Pasadena $4000 event WHILE OTHER PRICES SHOOT'SKYWARD medal battle its contestants will the 9 5 6 3 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 7 arrive their 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 i 0 0 1 0 0 0 Columbia Takes Last Home Drill He's 3 4 15 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 29 It is some 4000 miles to centre Au he lock I Place Second game: Sns Suucims (9) Brooks rf Criob if Ellerbe rg Baker rg Poynor ig Dudley rf Reese lg Totals Says Santa Why Not Select HIS Gift Where he would choose himself Quito the Capitol of Ecuador al though on the Equator enjoys a perpetual rpring HERMAAJ RtlTW MASTER MIND WOWS THAT? io 12 7 8 0 GO PLAYERS ASSEMBLE OR BENEIT GAME Laval Announces Two Assistants IOO CENTS 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 Was Ousted By White Sox or Throwing World Series Game SAN RANCISCO Dec Local football circles heard today Lieut Tom Hamilton stationed at San Diego aboard the Sa ratoga may become coach at the Naval Academy either next year or In 1935 Coach Bill Ingram of the Uni versity of California former Navy coach said he had heard Hamil ton was in line for the position lp Miller Is the present Navy coach Hamilton former backfield stnr at Annapolis made an enviable i ecord us player coach last year of the West Coast Navy Service elev en A Naval Service team w'ns not organized this year ans Speculate On Perfor mance At Augusta Ga In March Boston Reds Have Ample Supply of Left Hand Hurters NEW HOURS for the There's a big variety to select front eaturing Van Heuscn Shirts 112 Dargan Street 116 North Dargan Street 5:00 A TO 1 :00 TRY BREAKAST SPECIALS You'll Surely Like Thom SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LADIES ISTANBUL Dec (UP) The portrait of a masked man which appeared In the New York Ameri can review Is the cause of a prom inent Turkish business man's suit against a paper published in Istan bul i The photograph was touched up and reproduced In the Turkish paper and Ekrem Handl Bey has rued the publication for calumny claiming that the picture ol the masked man closelv resembles him The court is withholding Its decision until the arrival of a fresh copy of the magazine In Good Shape Team Leaves for Rose Bowl This Afternoon COLUMBIA D0C (API Two assistant coaches at the Uni versity of South Carolina were re tained for another year today on recommendation of head Coach Billy Laval They were A (Rock) Norman varsity track and freshman basket ball and football and (Whit ey) Raw! foe than scout and back field coach Athletic officials said arrange ments had not yet been worked out for Curran Hughey assistant line coach but they hoped that tlild wild de done later Salaries c( the lo assistants given new contracts were not announced 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 9 at Greyhound's new under way at Pasaacna Thursday It was an optimistic array of mashle and putter performers that crowded outhern California's lock er rooms get In a few practice rounds be fore the Pasadena $4000 event opens Wlille the 128500 in prize money fer the aeven tournament is less than half of the stake in the golden era of 1030 It more than five thousand dollars larger than last season HE IS JUST ABOUT THROUGH AS A REGULAR PLAYER WHAT does the: future hold for BASEBALLS GREATEST GURE Tobacco cannot be puzcmibed in Scotland after 8 Saturdays after 9 While Meritas Down Suns cians 60 to 9 White Sox to take over the mana gerial reins However these rumora were killed off when Eddie Collins engaged Bucky Harris as the Red Sox ader and Lew onseca was reappointed pilot of the Chisox It was even whispered that Rup pert would offer Babe the post of manager ot the Newark Bears the Colonel's leading minor league team preparatory to giving the Great Man the leadership of the Yankee team However it doesn seem possible that Ruth would con sent to pilot a minor league team even for a season And even if he was willing it would be impossible to get waivers on him from the other American league magnates TP 1 I 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 tp 0 19 0 0 3 0 1 0 4 VetMl nX rali 0 0 0 3 I) 0 0 0 3 TP 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 6 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 TP 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 The Babe Looks Ahead Uy BURNLEY $585 1 $855 $1080 $375 $730 $1305 $730 $900 $2055 Washington 1) $1405 i Ashvellle $990 pny him a salahy in keeping with his reputation Of course there Is only one such a managerial job And there's Uic rub Joe McCarthy's contract as Yankee manager has not yet expired and Col Ruppert the Ytniks' owner has shown no dissatisfaction with Joe's work us pilot since the port of Yankee man ager which would seem i be a "natural'' for the Babe is not open at present! the problem presents it what to do with Ruth? The Bambino hlmselt lias ex pressed lie desire to try his hand al a managerial Job and theie Meritas (60) Jeffers rt Kitchens If Bridges Griffin rg Wheeler 1g Courtney rg 2 Strickland rg 0 Totals 29 Referee: Scliuvler Score at half: San Soucinns Meritas 39 NEW YORK Dc Columbia's football team went out dors todav for Its final home drill in preparation fcr the New Years Diy battle with Stanford in tne Rose Bowl at Pasadena Held indoors by Inclement weath er for some days the Lions went to Bicker ield tills afternotn alrge because head coach Lou Little wanted Captain Cliff Montgomery Tom Tomb and Newell Wilder to get in some kickliig practce Mont gomery and Tcmb did the bu'k of the punting while Wilder practiced drop kicklng and placements Tim sound of 30 piayers five gu of ir? a NTo I bod 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 Khik Im (rWk(J vr It i A basket ball schedule for lorida Specials Jacksonville la $1180 Miami ka $2070 Tampa la $1800 St Petersburg la $1900 NEW YORK Dvr 18 All members of the nil north and all south football teams will Wednesday to pre pare for meeting nt the Brooklyn sports sta dium Sunday afternoon Stumpy Thomason all south conch will arrive with the sqund and practice will start immediately Thomason already has sent ills men copies of tho plays and sig nals to be used Tlie 15 southern players Include Walker Mosely Lencli Dildny and Kirkland of Ala bama: Lackey and Tharpe of Oco gin Tech Stanley Bach of Ken tucky McCollum Phipps Cham blcss and Kimbrell of Auburn Ol son of Mercer mid George Bnrclny of North Carolina The southern group will use a variation of Um Warner double wing back attack while Jack Me Bridge all north coach will use the Notre Dame Style Hie game a benefit affair is snonsored by the Kings County havoc ho caused in his 14 years of American Legion By mlION tHAIIAM AUGUSTA Ga Dec His swing is ns Kmootli and llawless las ever The foot and hip move ments nre ns rythmic as in the days not so long ago when he was marching toward the greatest heights ever scaled by a golfer The score card shows he still 1ms a firm grip on pur but Ims three years absence from competition taken anything from the golfing mastery of Bobby Jones? or the first time since lie won the 1930 National Amateur at Me rlon nobby comes back into nctunl competition next March 22 25 in an invitation tournament over tne uusta National helped design Tliis 72 lole number anions best professionals nnd amateurs of tlie universe It likely will be the largest collection of stars Jones ev er faced In any of his past tri umphs And this tournament may decide several questions Whether the many other arcs able for three years to concentrate cn pnr and llielr best efforts in competition without worrying over the Jones' menace have forgotten or escaped frem tlie phychologlcal whip Ilobbynppcarcd to hold over them in the final years of his cam paigning Whether they can forget lie Is in the field nnd can produce tho same low scores they have been posting recently And perhaps mote Important whether the long layoff 1ms taken anything from the mastery To all outward appearances Jones is ns good as ever There arc no kinks in that swift easy swing in tho perfect timing of every movement every shot But It has brn a inn time since Bobby wag railed upon to voiitln nnlly produce liis beat shots under fire Tlie other stars will not need a pep talk to train their guns on Jones They will remember the With Grove As Sox Ex pect Big Season BOSTON Dec (AP) Now that the once ridiculed left handed pitchers have come into their own heir ascent if the baseball ladder being climaxed by Hie coronation ci 7arl Hubbell as the outstanding ithiete of the year the rebuilt Bos on Red Sox have an ample supplyt them to dazzle Aemrican League pponents during the next penant race 1 Almost a year aga when Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins bought mt Bob Quinns interests they igreed that the kick of a consls ent southpaw hurlcr was the cause most of tlie Sox' misfortunes Die fact Quinn told them that al nost every cept he was able to garner went for southpaws few of vhom were even able to finish aame llins as sotn as he became general manager started reviewing the Red Sox ancient history He had to go back to the days of 'Dutch" Leonard Ray Collins and the then pitching Babe Ruth 13 discover traces of competent south paw hurlers in Ifed Hose His re earch led him to believe that the Red Sox started slipping as soon as their port side pitching weakened Since Yawkey and Ctlllns are both rabid AnieriSn Leaguers they must be excused for their allures to pay much attention to the great success southpaws have enjoyed in ith National League In their blasted minds Hubbell was Just another goX pttohcr until lie blasted the Washington Senators the Harrldge circuit's pride in Um recent world series If they said to themselves one southpaw can do that to the Sen ators what will four or five do to the rest of the American League S3 that is probably the reason why they have five of them on their squad of 10 Bob (Lefty) Grbve George (Rube) Walberg Bob Wel land Helnie Ostermuller last years International League ace and young Justin McLaughlin nomevwn wn who Is fact rounding into major league calib'c But Collins despite his southpaw leanings has not gone overboard He has more than a generous quota of good righthanders such as John (Dusty) Rhodes George Pipgras Henry Johnson and Johnny Welch AU those boys needed last season was a littel more hitting in the pinches Hamilton May Coach The Navy IVE ORMER CHAMPIONS TO COMPETE AT MIAMI MIAMI la Dee 18 (AP) ive former national open chom Gene Strazen Cyril Walk er Tmrny Armour Willie Mac arlane and Billy are ex pcctcd to compete In the Miami open annual winter classic offi cials said today Entry books for tno event open ed today and an enrollment of 200 Is expected by the committee The open offers $500 to the winner with a balance of $2500 spread ways Plate and golf accessories will be the amateur awards John Revolt i tne title holder is not expected to defend GOL PROESSIONALS MOVE ON PASDENA LO3 ANGELES Dec Promise of the greatest array of golfers in the history of the aCU money tournaments was given today the country's lead ing profeffilonnls continued to ar rlve for the winter season to get mi 2 WE SEE IT id I By JOHN McKNIGHT wm rumors iiiai ituiii w' ihl Ii wUhCld either to tlie Red Sox or to the A realignment 1 1 tne thi week brings (ogelher to night the Merita team and tho Wednesday the Me rilas engage In a louhlc heul er laying the CCC Wanderera off a tie game which t'k place last week and then faring Joe Clark's "Ole in tin nnd contest Thursday the 'Ga rs meet the Juniors and the Troians hook up with the San's Soucians to end the ay for the week The Wanderers unu Meritas her alded as strong contenders for the city league baskethall title cxhlJit ed their wares in fine style last night and ran roughshod over their rivals The Wanderers defeated the Juniors in the first contest 29 7 wiiiie the Meritas trounced the Sans Soucians by tlie count oi GO to 9 The Juniors played a great game the first naif but weakened in the last portion of tho contest and the Wanderers turner the game into a rout It was too much height and experience for ths young eleven The Meritas opened up at the start of their contest and coasted to an impressive victory over the social club irst game: Wanderers Hopkins ri Steadman If Gray Worrell rg Duke 1g Eaddy rf Woodall if Scott ester rg McLemore 1g Totals ST LOUIS Dec 18 ing himself a "100 per cent Horns by Louis Vonweise exe cutor of the estate of the late Philip De Catesby Ball today was elected president of tlie St Louis club of the American baseball lea gue He announcer! an immediate ef fort would be made to rebuild the Browns Into a profitable and win ning team "We cannot splurge financially as the Boston Red Sox have done re cently but funds to a reasonable amount will be at Hornsby's dispo sal" he explained The election and statement set at rest rumors that the club would be sold it also placed the heirs ol the wealthy baseball man on re cord as planning to continue re building efforts started by Ball slicrily before his recent death scheme for a winning ball club ntered areund Manager Rogers Hornsby once stormy petrel ot the National league and hired near the close of the 1933 season by the late St Louis ice machin ery magnate At the recent Chicago major lea gue meeting Hornsby engineered a scries of trades Involving no ex pense to the Browns but believed to have strengthened the club He ne aquiia ui nas announcea uueiiuuii to uu inoie coaches two traln'r and the team wupplng ln an attempt to inject manager will leave fo the west new llfc ln lhe tall encl Brownies morrow afternoon at 3:0 tcicrg Litt'e declined to venture any prediction as to the outcome of the Masked rlCtUC UaUSCd game but said th players were in excellent spirits ana upjnueiiuy mre interested in thj game itself than the jaunt across me ccnu nent GREENVILLE Dec 18 (A7 "Shoeless Joe" Jackson soon may wear prolessional cleats again Tlie famous Chicago White Sox outfielder one of the greatest slug ers of all time and a principal the 1919 "Black Sox scandal has ills application for reinstatement in professional baseball in the handsf Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan ds and formal action is expected vlthin a few weeks Jackson who gained his nlck atne from his antipathy for shoeshen lie entered the ranks of pro essional ball was ousted from the iatlonal game after being chargedvlth other stars of agreeing to hrow a game during 3 world series Since that time he has made living at various trades including semi pro baseball but the action of John McHardy Mauldin mayor of nonviUa nnH a friend and adml $'cer of Joe may give him another ('chance in the organized game i Mauldin on behalf of the form Ver slugger has filed a formal plea Ibv which it is hoped the former big league star may be able to re i urn the diamond if he chooses i Tlie action followed correspond ence between the Greenville mayorind the high commissioner that began several weeks ago Judge Landis informed Mauldin that itvuld be necessary for Jackson to fill out the application and at the request of the mayor he did so i The application with a two page iletter from the former the contents of which he would not I went forward to Judge (Landis two days ago i or a year now Jackson has been nanager of a barbecue shop and (he said today that if he is re in ifiated he would like to managesome minor league club He does not hope nor expect to on the major league diamond again but he is anxious to have the old scandal score against his name obliterated if possible Tonight Joe Jackson continued watching over his barbecued pigs and speculating on tne possiouuy of his application being accepted "About all I want now" said the man who a long time ago hot foot ed around the bases sans shoes "is a minor league connection That'll make me ELECTED PRESIDENT ST LOUIS BROWNS I PAGE SIX Carl Hubbell Voted Kins of All Sports lONG HUN Parke Davis nationally recog nized football hist tian has an nounced his annual compilation oi outstanding pl iys of tne wason and tor tre second year straight re erros a scoring play whicn carried mm ihnn the length of tile Heid Charles Caspar star halfback of the Texas Christian Horned ros toon the honsrs wltfi a 105 yaid run back of a klekoff against Texas University laist year Robert Gibb i of Nebraska Wesleyan run 107 yards on the same kind of a play against Oklahoma Citv 1 Two rf the Rose Bowl rivals I Newt Wilder Columbia center and Bui Uorbus Stanford's all Aincr lean guard break into the records among these who kicked tiw Held goals during the season SEASON'S PLAY The record list: Longest scoring run Charins Caspar Tixas Christian igamst Texas 105 yards Imgest goal from the field (place Robert McQuade ot North Ciroli'ia State nliinst Geor gia 51 Longest run back of a James Boring Penn State agiinst Johns Hopkins 100 yaiAs Longest run' from James Mantenuto Rhode Island against Maine 100 yards Longest run with a completed rnuniss Rogers Duke egainst Maryland 60 yards Longest run with an Intercepted James Mantenuto Rhode Is land iflidnst Maine 100 yards Long! st scoring complete Harry Wells to red Crocker Har vard against Duke 78 yards Longest scoring run with a block ed Robert Grant Cornell against St Lawrence 45 yards LONGEST RUN I Longest scoring run with a caught itzhugh Lyons Indiana against IMnnesota 60 yards longest goal from drop William Cavanauch Villa Nova aaglnst Temple 38 yards Longest punt (n Millard Howell Alabama against Tennessee 80 yards Most Peter Young Bluefield Va College 18 Most iictuts after rs ank Tinnev Davis nnd Elkins 25 Must goals from the Newt Wilder Columbia Bill Corbps of Stanford Wliriam Ca anaugli Vil la Nova and Albert Weiner lenber 3 each Most points Peter Young Blue field 108 Juniors (7) Henderson rf If owler Wilson rg Schuyler 1g Myers If Campbell Saleeby rg Zeigler 1g Totals Referee: Schuvier Score at half: Juniors Wanderers 5 ATLANTIC greyhound LORENCE MORNING NEWS Sports TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBrJt 1 avorites Trample Opposition In City League Court Raee NEW YORK Dec 18 selection of Carl Owen Hubbell as the "man rf the in all sports marks the second time th honor has gone to a major league base ball star in the threc year history i Of this annual Associated Press poll Pel per Martin ran away with the contest in 1931 The southpaw ace of th? New York Giants who compiled the best record for pitching cllcctivcncss in was voted the outstanding man amateur or professional by nation wide jury of sports editors and writers He received 56 vote out of a total of 207 in the final tabulation more than double tlie number for his nearest rival Second place went to the first foreign athlete to gain a conspicu ous place in the balloting Jack Lovelock of Oxfcrd and New Zea land who turned in one of the great solo achievements of 1933 by beating Bill Bonthron of Princeton in a woiid record mile raee clock ed in 4 07 6 Levelock collected 2t votes Third and fourth place went to the outstanding figures in golf and tennis Johnny Goodman of Omaha winner of tlie United Btates open golf championship re: eelved 19 votes and rederick Peny hero of tire British Davis Cup triumphs and winner of the singles title 15 Baseball ptayers were by far the most nonular choices in tlie voting a Led by Hubbell six major league and one minor league star oose Hauser of accumulat ed 76 votes altogether Track sports with five entries gaining 39 votes and golfers with 29 ballots for a half dozen contestants were next in the volume of voting oot ball furnislied eight names but 15 votes of which five went to Southern ail Ameri ca quarterback Cotton Warburton and three to Army's Jack Buckler Here's how the first ten ana lift finished in voting order: 35 Carl Hubbell baseball 56 Jack Lovelock track 26 John Goodman golf 19 red Perry tennis 15 Eg Bill Terry baseball 8 ut Glenn Cunningham track Barney Ross boxing 6 Jack Westrope Jockey 6 11! Densmore Shute goli 5 Ii Chuck Klein baseball 5 ij Irvine Warburton football 5 MORNING NEWS LORENCE Jackson Applies or Readmission To Pro Baseball Ruth would MAKE AN IDEA: MAAJAgER What does Hie coining year hold store for the illustrious George jennan Ruth? The great Bam 10 lias become something of a problem to tlia Yankee manage ment Last season proved Hint Babe has lust about reaelud Hie end of 111 Haying days us a regular He sim lv cannot hold up an oulfiel I po jitlon tor a lull season rt ids no zanced age Yet it is a cmcli tnat lie Greit Man will neier take a Iblg salary cut even though his vnl te as a player has decreased to an Harming extent Ruth maintains and rightly hlm drawing card IIUIU lUU (invov iiifirv iiP it Jll UUM'UiUlit uwtv to some hmiv 1()BBY JONES RATED AS GOOD AS WHEN BECAME CHAMPION battling along the links The answer to jones puiiuxiuauw may come through tlie matter of concentration During his competi tive days Jones was known for the absolute concentration he could produce If Hie absence from fire hasn't removed Hits factor Bobby likely will lie as much of a threat as ever' Bobby now is in the best physical eonditfnil ef ills life He is some figliter than in 1930 'Die waist much in evidence then has receded a bit He will have the advantage ot knowing tlie course bet limn his this stiff battleground which calls for every shot and tests Hie skill of players to the limit Bobby has play'd hero often during tlie full nnd plans to spend most of January andebruary here Whatever tlie outcome Bobby's apietiraiice in the field will be one of the features of Hie 1931 cam1 an event that will ratise In tel cst wherever the game is play Ii and more! rUe Iai mil kinlidav vear end trios CAI MkH itoundTrip ares MEASURE it by any standard Vaaasnm IaiaHAK VIAIUA 1 your uuiaai uuy iuhwi vuiuu Hi irst Class travel when you get an At lantic Greyhound bus ticket Low farps many schedules comfort able heated coaches a single high standard of service to every part of America make Greyhound the out standing choice ior every Christmas trip Special reductions effective right now Phone today for details GREYHOUND DEPOT Hotel lorence Bldg Phone 101 GEO McD ANDERSON Mr Round Trip are Charleston Savannah Ga Brunswick Ga Columbia Augusta Ga Knoxville Tenn Charlotte Greenville New Yorn Aehveille 11 i 11 fIR A Ay CT I 1 A I 111" Se I I i a a a Zw' flw IteaL! 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