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-PAGE TWO THE K1NGSPORT T1MES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE SUNBAV BEcEMbeR 25 iS2? 3s i xyj I mM fc EASTMAN VOLLEY FRENCH NET STARS LOSE FIRST ROUND Football fo Gather Monday toMakeAnnual Rules Virtually Unknown Western to Be Used in Game Against Billy Spears today Possibility That Changes of 1927 Rules WilJ Be Made Especially as Concerns Goal Posts Rules Committee Will' Make Report of different types but both hold the general opinion that the grid-iron game is in danger of being oyer regulated Pendleton of Whit- i tier College to Bear Brunt Both Teams Hold Secret Workouts Elevens Rest Before Game Which Starts Monday at Los Angeles ning speed Gene Cook one of the four University of Washington players slated to start Monday has been booked for a half back berth The others are Louis Tesreau at fullback Doublas Bonamy at center and Bob Shaw at guard They will ipeet old friends in Fred Pick-hard and Red Brown tackle and half back respectively of the southern team for al lplayed in the Alabama-Washington game op New day at Pasadena three years ago The other half back position on the western team will be filled by Manuel Laraneta cf Southern California The Southern team blossomed out in new jersies during their Colisium workout yesterday They will wear blue sweaters with white numerals White jersies with red numerals will mark the westerners Secret practice yas ordered at both camps today the workouts being last for each team before the game By ALAN GOULD Aocited Pri Sport Editor NEW YORK Dec 24 While a few arguments are being settled on the Pacific Coast fields football" coaches of the nation will gather In New York to put the code of rules pn the There is every indication that the members of the cdaches association Will take a rathtfr decided stand on several points First Of all they are expected to urge greater representation from their rants on the roster of the National Rules Committee Secondly they are likely to reepm-mend the' elimination of several changes made in' the rules this year among them the new lateral pass regulation and the removal of the goal posts ten yards back of the actual goal line Chang Not Beneficial Neither of these changes many of the coaches feel accomplished gny outstanding good the are moved back why' call them goal Clark $baughnessy coach at Loyola College New Orleans argues belong at the goal line if they belong any Gilmore Dobie Cornell's veteran mentoif and Knute of Notre veriy likely will coir tribute to the debate They are FIRST HALF SEASON Total of 56 Games Played in First Much 'Enthusiasm Displayed in the Sport at Local Plant The Eastman Volley Ball League which was oinized pin played its first official game on October 17 has just completed the first half of the schedule playing a total of 56 games each team taking part in 14 contests All games are played at the noon hour Each game lasts 25 minutes the total score for that period being counted Oh game constituted by each playing Much Interest-Both players and onlookers have displiyed much enthusiasm The greatest of friendly rivalry has been developed among the various departments of the East man plant by the games The following departments have tc-ms in the league: Team Mainteance Bright captain Tec Char Brown captain Retort House dal loway captain Tec-Lump Burnett captain Charket Smith captain Office White captain Wood Yard Jas Dykes captain Construction Sam Milhorne captain' Very erratic playing has been shown at times by all of the teams those teams that have consistently led the' league being defeated by the poorest teams Oth er teams seem to hav a touch of artistic temperament at times The playing has been divided into two Reasons of 56 games each The fining team each half wi play for the championship of the league at the enc of the second half' The firs half has been wop by the office team which has displayed remarkably steady playing' only on or Jwo occasions Standing Following is the team standings at the end cf the first half of the Rale Coramitt Report While the coaches are having their private argument the point of view of the rules committee itself may be on record in the annual report of the chairman Edv ward Hall to the convention vrf the National Collegiate Association A liberal In football government Mr Hall always bad an open mind toward changes in the rule His has frequently been the task of assembling the widely varied ideas about regulating tho game striking a' happy medium of prompting action to keep a proper balance between the offensive and defensive sides of the contest Changes In the rules 'this year frankly were designed to give tho offensive more of a break The evidence is still to be found a means by which teams will 1)0 duced to try a pass or rush instead of a kick for tho extra point kftcr touqh down Moving of the goal posts ten yards behind the goal line failed to accomplish this It would seem that- the rule makers either must -resign themselves td use of the kick for tho added point or eliminate the extra marker altogether tv LOS ANGELES Dec 24 A virtually unknown western quarter-back will match wits and Ji speed with the famous bounding ECU Spears of Vanderbilt Mon- it diy afternoon when West meets South on the gridiron of the Coles-fl ium here Upon the shoulders of Oakley Pendleton Whittier College play- er has beeft placed the responsi- bility of upholding the honor of the West against the kicking run-f ning passing attach of the South-I cm star Pehdleton because he did his playing on a small college team is not known to even a majority of Los Angeles-football' fans Respite 53fthe fact' that Whittier College js -situated only a few miles from the fifty But the shrewd trio of coaches who are marshaling the forces of the western team bell lifve that better football players than Pendleton do not grow ev-i year Triple Threat Like Spears the Whittier wiz- ard carries a triple threat He is a ten second sprinter and is con-rl sidered one of the fastest men in a football suit on the Pacific 'Coast He weighs 165 pounds and starts hie poundage with light- 521 Former Vandy Now Spectator Several hundred southerners living in California wbre out to see the openworkouts earlier in the week Bill Hendricks Vanderbilt fullback last season was among that number He assisted the coaches with the players Bill is now a prep school coach on the Pacific Coast Commant on Speed Every one who has seen the Dixie players in practice comment on the speed of the team as a whole Barnhill on the line is one of the fastest players In southern football history Estes Brown Spears Menville McDowell and Thomas in the back-field are also hard men to catch when given any leeway built as a challenge to the storms of the Atlantic It was designed for alighting and taking off on water as well as land and its builders at the Sikorsky factory were convinced it could withstand the buffeting of heavy seas Two motors of the type Lindbergh used wefe installed in it One could keep the ship aloft for extended period while repairs were made on the other The cabin was built' in boat shape with windows of unshatter-able glass to withstand the possible assault of breaking seas 72 Feet Wing Spread Above the cabin -the main wing spreads its expanse of 72 feet From the sides of the cabin a shorter wing extends with an overhall measurement of only 28 feet From the tips of this lower wing pontoons are suspended From nose to tail the machine is 34 feet long The tail is swung straight back from the upper wings so as to be well above the waves in case of a forced landing upon the ocean The wing s'pread of the amphibian is approximately the same as that of Commander America and the lost trans-Atlantic planes Old Glory and St Raphael but the plane is considerably shoYt-er 200 Motor The two 200-horsepower Wright motors are swung from the upper wings On to the wings are built eleven tanks of a total capacity of 840 galons of gasoline and 40 gallons of oil giving the ship a cruising radius of 3000 miles Its cruising speed is 95 milea an hour while it has a high speed of 110 Unfuelled the amphibian weighs 5000 pounds It carried 500 gallons of gasoline The cockpit is forward in the cabin It has a double ceat and the controls wings on a pivot so that it may be quickly passed from oh pilot to another As the gasoline is stored in the wings the cabin is roomy providing ample space behind the pilot The emergency equipment includes a pneumatic life raft w-ith oars rockets and flares and ten days provisions have rei We have received weather reports from Europe and ships Jthe monoplane Dawn bound for HarbOf -Grace for a take-off on a 2 350-mil flight to Croydon England would run into snow and ftro temperatures before they' reached their destination Rundled in fur-Jined flying euits and wearing fur-lined boots the fliers left Roosevelt Field yesterday afternoon at 5:07 They expected to reach Harbor Grace at 7 morning The Dawn was last reported seen pi oyer Orleans on Cape 0m ScTcoFdVborXh Cod about 70 miles southeast of operator navigator Won and abopt 70 -miles eart cc0 ie the aviatrix on three of the course which its pilot had futile 'attempts to fly announced he would follow from QW 0rchirdf tJ i i Mq Copenhagen Denmark and Fred Pointe along the Mama coast Koehler motor-expert watched in vain through the night Koerler was not aPmembcr of for the plane while the radio sta- the trgngAtiantic fliers but left (ion outside (ebucto Head at the for HarWr Grace the entrance to the Halifax Harbor i- Dawn two motors a final test 1 waited lor signals from the craft fa-rrr 'w The plane was due at Nova Beotia before' midnight but no word of its passing had bpen received at that time The water jumps out 'of of land lay before the fliersy they proceeded north from Cafe Cod 'From thet Cape to Yarmouth the-Daiyn had a pater hop of 250 fifties and a stretch of 150 miles -over- water from Nova Scotia Foundland With Mis- Grayson were Lineup LOS ANGELES Dec (AP) The pride of Dixie All-South football team will face a forward wall averaging 200 pounds to the man from tackle to' tackle when gridiron hostilities are opened against the Pacific Coast All-West squad at the coliseum here Monday afternoon The starting line-up for the Westerners announced today 'by Coaqhes Howard Jones- of South ern California and Enoch Bag-shaw of Washington indicated that five of the first line coasters would scale around a tenth of a ton on the hoof each Coaches McGugin Wade and Alexander likewise posted their rejection today for the opening line-up Bill Spears of Vander- irattsgaiaafflJHEBsgs S3S First Matches on World Tour Lost Trio On Way to Chicago PHILADELPHIA Dec 24 trio of tennis stars Jean Bortora Jacques Brugnon and Christian Boussus were bound for Chicago today after their first setback since they started their world tour' William Tilden Williams and Manuel Alonzo beat them at the Penna A yesterday Tilden defeated bis old time rival Borotra 7r5 6-4 and Alonzo beat Brugnoh 12-10 3-6 6-1 while Tilden and Williams defeated Borotra and Boussus 7-6 6-4 in doubles FIGHTS LAST NIGHT (By Tho Associated Press) NEW Sid Terris New York won from Phil McGraw Detroit (10) Bruce Flower New Rochelle won from Lous Peluze Salt Lake City (8) Technical TAMPA Fla Big Ben Fund New York won by a technical knockout from Joe White Tuscaloosa Alabama (3) Draw But SAN Vince Dundee Baltimore and Joe Vargas Fresno Calif drew (10) GREATEST OF XMAS STORIES RE-ENACTED IN BETHLEHEM (Continued from page one) men from the east who came to welcome the Savior with gifts of gold and frankincense The very road itself is different The dusty path trol 1927 years ago by the wise men is now a modern asphalted highway The surrounding fields grazing ground for sheep and goats have changed too but in a lessen villas the hoTfcVSNaf Bethlehemites who made smal fortunes in the manufacture of soap in the United States stuc the surrounding farms Otherwise tho fields are the same which Ruth followed the gleaners lo wrest from them food and ro mance Where Shepherd Watched Near Bethlehem on the rounded breast of a great hill' there stands a walled enclosure of two or three acres planted thickly with olive trees and other luxurious growths in startling contrast to the barrenness of the surrounding hills This is the identical field where the shepherds watched their flocks on the first Christmas eve Here says St Luke ange of the Lord came upon them and i the glory of tho Lord shone rounc about them and they were sore afraid the angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great jov which shall be to all -people For unto ycu is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord And this shall be sign unto you ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a And so the shepherds filled with wonder started out for Bethlehem over the same route the pil grims and other visitors are treac ing today Ancient Appearance From the field where the shep herds watched the star 'of the east one soon reaches the heart of Bethlehem The town retains its ancient appearance with its narrow windjng ill-paved alleys through which a carriage or auto mobile can scarcely squeeze A few of the newer houses have bright red tiles but the older ones are either domed or have flat roofs made to catch rain water for -storage against the -dry sea con just as they did in the days when Heriod was terarch of Gali lee and Mary forth her bilt who is still high in the air on his spring to football fame has been picked to start at quarter for the invading-southerners Ectes of Georgia and Brown of Alabama halfbacks will flank Spears to port and starboard Doc son of Tennessee will work the fullback post The Southern lin named to block the beef of the Western wall is: Crowley of Georgia Tech and Creson of Van derbilt ends Pickard of Alabama and Hood of Georgia Tech tackles Bowdoin of Alabama am Barnhill of Tennessee guards anc Sharpe of Vanderbilt center Clear weather not too cold anc not too hot has been indicated for Monday Py THE ASSOCIATEL PRESS The Southern Conference all-senior football team will use the Vanderbilt offensive system Monday against the Pacific Coast select eleven Hardage Along Lewis Hardage assistant coach of the Commodores has been running the -first string up and down the field going through signals Hardage so eager to see the game that he made the trip along with the players was the only one of the coaching party with enough to keep up with the players so hq was assigned to that duty Secret Practice The team worked in secret yesterday for the first time since' arriving at Los Angeles Tuesday The same rule will be in effect first-born sen and trapped him ir swaddling clothes and laid him in manger because there was no room for them in the Today the citizens of Bethlehem are unmistakable with their plump un-Arab faces blut eyes and often fair hair legacies left by the crusaders from the north Women Beautiful The stately Bethlehem women are attractive and often beautiful their headdresses tall and tapering and draped in white are oddly like those depicted in the illustrated manuscripts of the' early ages of which' are associated with the times of Chaucer Reverently the Xmas crowds cluster about the three Christian patriarchs Orthodox or Latin whenever they appear on the streets in their slow moving cate arid dressed in their most sumptuously bejewelled vestments They are followed by their attendant archbishops bkhops or 'archimandrites also decked out in their brightest and best From the narrow twisting lanes the way leads into a great open square before the Church of Nativity where is located a cluster of buildings in the very spot where Jesus Christ was born BERGER WITNESS IN REMUS CASE GUILTY CONTEMPT (Continued from page one) the court saying he did not initiate the petition and did not know' its content until four of the jurors had signed it Berger presented the petition to Judge Shook yesterday afternoon The petition signed by the twelve jurors who found George Pemjii not guilty on grounds of insanity for killing his wife Imo-gene related that the jury had based its verdict largely upon Ber testimony and reiterated frequently that it believed Berger told the truth Order Jury Summoned Judge Shook ordered that all the jurors in the Remus case be summoned before him in court Tuesday to tell they signed Nsuch a document and give the circum- stances under which they did Judge Shook said be given time to explain why and how they signed such a petition and to make apologies to the court They will be dealt with drastically if they fail to do Berger to Appear Tuesday Judge Shook instructed JBerger to- appear in court Tuesday Judge Shook said he sent Chailes Stagnaro court bailiff to the jail and that Stagnaro learned from George Remus that members of the jury dictated the petition to Vernon Chumbly federal prisoner from the Leavenworth Kansas penitentiary who was brought here to testify for Remus Chumbly in custody of federal agents left last night for Leavenworth Judge Shook declined to pass sentence on Berger immediately He said he1 wanted to do so and felt that could not do so at this time in view of my frame of Attorney Charles Elston representing Berger announced that he Svould withdraw from the Berger case after a motion to quash the perjury indictment had been disposed of He stated that he would not represent Berger in the contempt case HOURS OVERUDE AT POINT FLIGHT TAKE OFF (Continued from page NEW YORK Dec 24 UF Mte Frances Wilson amphibian plane was Merry'XmAs I 1 1 it 7 1 if J5 2 EARNESTLY We have been striving to merit your good will and patronage We are thankful to each of you and send this greeting for a bright Merry Christ-mas and a prosperous New Year KINGSPORT COAL AND ICE CO With full appreciation of the many courtesies shown during the past we extend oar' best wishes for a Merry and a baPPY New Year Araott Furniture Co 3E2 zxsgssaaesEES that could be hoped for MRS PLANE BUILT TO CHALLENGE STORMS OF ATLANTIC (Continued from page Mrs plane the 4 one) Dawn Not Heard During Night BOSTON Dec TAP) Mrs Frances Wilson amphibian plane which left Roosevelt Field at 5:07 yesterday for Harbor Grace was not heard from during the night or early today The last authentic report up to 9 A today was that the plane had passed over the French Cable Telegraph station at Orleans Mass on Cape Cod at 7:25 Radio stations along the New England coast and in Nova Scotia and New Foundland kept sharp watch for signals from the wireless apparatus but heard nothing Thevweather was clear over the entire course with a brisk northwest wind along the New England shore In Boston it was the coldest morning Nof the winter Apparently it was warmer in New Foundland as an early morning dispatch from Harbor Grace said that it was and that the wind was very light The plane had been expected to arrive at Harbor Grace soon after sunrise Long Overdue HALIFAX NS Dec (AP) Up to 9:15 A M- Atlantic standard time nothing had been heard of Mrs Frances Wilson plane the Dawn which left Roosevelt Field yesterday for Harbor Grace The Dawn was then one hour and fifteen minutes overdue at Harbor Grace Await New NEW YORK Dec (AP) was awaited today of the 1200-mile flight of Mrs Francis Wilson Grayson from Roosevelt Field fo Harbor Grace Indications were' that Mr Grayson and three companions in arriving during the past two weeks have told of unusually stormy conditions on the Dr Kimball added Grayson herself has recently made two stormy passages on liners arid she took off with full knowledge of what conditions are I certainly admire her courage but it seems here that she was facing almost insurmountable Dr Kimball said however that it apparently was not wind that brought the down If indeed it did make a landing The wind from here to New Foundland during the night he said was light He believed the chief danger oh that first leg of the projected flight to Europe however was of the plane Mrs Graysori headed out from Cape Cod where she was last heard he said started the 250 mjle water jump to Nova Scotia she was flying through freezing weather There may have been some rain too Formation of ice oi) plane would have bten quite possibled espite the glycerine coating given the to prevent this The is the first plane to start an eastward ocean hop with equipment for landing on the water in case of need Kimball said however all right for fairly clam water but high Beas make short work of any plane The pontoons might keen the plane afloat a few hours i longer than a i li'nd plahe but -is about all JUST A KINDLY GREETING To wish you Christmas cheer and health happiness and prosperity throughout the New Year IIow grateful we are to you our friends for your loyal support during the past year If it is to be our pleasure to serve you in 1928 be found putting forth our very efforts to merit every trust placed in us Hutchwallin Flora! Just a -vord of "greeting old yet eyer new A Merry Merry Christmas And a happy New Yar too THE MIRACLE STORE fv.