The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 18

KHS Trojans Continue To Lead State Grid Title Race Stair Tech To Rely on News-Sentinel Bailcs Punt and Prayer Ag AM Balled lip Greenies and Irjsh an(f Scahawks Pointing for Game Undefeated Opponents of Saturday Meet in Unofficial National Championship Game at South Bend Ind LSU Has More Impressive Record but Foes Appear To Be Evenly Matched Bobcats Drop to 4th After Memphis Loss Top Ten Teams Remain Intact KHS-CHS Game May Decide Title By DR LITKKNHOUS Although it gave its best performance of the year in trampling a fine Asheville 52-0 the top-ranking Knoxville High I eleven lost three-tenths of a point 1 in the difference-by-scorc ratings The first ten teams remained intact but a threat from West Tennessee Memphis Central moved up to third right behind Spring-j field by beating Knoxville Central 7-0 The Springfield eleven idle for the second straight week held on to the runner-up spot and now! leads the Bluff City school by only one-tenth of a point Just who the winner of the Nashville Banner-Litkenhous Tro- phy emblematic of state hignj school football supremacy will be probably be known until! Thanksgiving when the Trojans and Bobcats meet in their tradi-: THE LETTERS RECEIVED BY THIS department it is tional Turkov Day clash in Knox- evident that former KHS Trojans and lormer CHS Bobcats viUc now in the services already are thinking a lot about the Trojan- Bobcat battle to be waged at Shields-Watkins Field on Thanksgiving Day former sports editor of the Blue and White The top ten: 1 Knoxville High 997 2 Mac Guess a former sports editor of the Blue and White By Aanorinlnl Pirns CHICAGO Nov 18 Fortunately for Frank Leahy and Id Don Faurot the social dictum that not polite to point BNEw' ORLEANS Nov It's hold true in football circles number 41 in the time-honored1 So the coaches of Notre Dame and the Iowa Pre-Flight series between Louisiana Seahawks the top-ranking teams are hard at it this Tigers and the Tulane Green1 week pointing their respective unbeaten and untied elevens for Wave here at 3 (CWT) showdown engagement The result should establish one or the other definitely as football Saturday afternoon The Tigers and Greenies have the greatest team college or service A crowd 1 2 position in the latest Associated of 50000 is expected to watch this press national poll have trounced Hopes for Best With Kicking Game Golden Bears Made 23-Point Favorite To Whip Techmen a Second Time Realizing his team faces huge odds Stair Tech Coach Red Bailes today planned to rely on pass a punt and a Friday afternoon when his Engineers clash with the Rule Highl Golden Bears at Evans-Col- lins Field The kickoff will be at 2:30 "I have two excellent punters and passers in Jimmy Bentley and Ed Bailes said know punting can be utilized! as much for of- Bill radgett fense as for de fehse and that what going to The Golden Bears 25-12 victors over the Engineers in an early sea-writes from the University of South Carolina where he is an air son meeting will rule a 23-point cadet that the Trojans will win the ball game Listen to Brother favorite to repeat according to Dr Guess: i latest ratings the drubbing KHS gave Asheville High it must be ap- announced today Rule is rated! parent to even a confirmed Bobcat fan such as yourself that the at 776 by the noted grid expert Trojans more than deserve their position on top of the state as against 543 for Stair a differ Pile ence of 233 points it is my opinion that the Trojans are from three to four touchdowns better than the Bobcats at their best which they certainly will be Thanksgiving may also tell Fats Harris for me to take Allen Fielden give a pretty fair ball game this time except for the fact that Clark a tackle and Gentry a quarterback are injured Gentry 't 1 1 been struggling for gridiron supremacy ever since 1893 and with the exception of a five year span there been a single interruption And at no time in the ancient rivalry have the two teams ap-p a on to be more unofficial championship battle at Notre Dame Stadium Both teams have spotless records of eight consecutive victories The Irish string however is far more impressive It includes de- the Pre-Flighters have scored 235 evenly matched Louisiana State cisive triumphs over such front- points against the 32 Only with six wins in eight starts has ranking teams as Georgia Tech victory-starved Iowa was shut the more impressive record but Michigan Navy Army and North- out Five teams have scored 13 comparative scores give the western while the Seahawk oppo- or more points each against Kau Greenies at least a chance sition has been of second rate 11 Georgia Tech beat the Tigers riety 42-7 two weeks ago Last week Notre Dame practically unani-the Wreck trimmed Tu- mous choice as the No 1 lane 33-0 making the Green Wave team has rung up 312 points while a touchdown weaker offensively holding its formidable foes to 37 By rnltd Pmm and a touchdown stronger defen- Only one team Georgia knwkfd sivcly by that yardstick has scored as much as 13 points: jj 1' Angeie (2) At wr 'is Louisiana State and Steve Van 'against the sturdy Irish line Mich- on ptnn 1 Buren beat Rice 20-7 early in the igan with Bill Daley playing uTiY "IV nil ilJTty Lar! r' i-season A week later 1 a managed to register 12 Navy and ic city (4 trimmed the Owls 33 to 0 Northwestern got six apiece and NORTJI roviikntr 1 rfry Tiger backers said it all de- the other four including Army Bnum prnviitemr intoned m-" had a grand total of zero pends on the big Seltzer 126 fiw York rift) Fmn i Leonard knocked Pretty Pauline Hinei Is all balled up In her work at Cincinnati sporting goods factory Ninety per cent of athletic equipment now beingmanufac-tured in United States goes to armed forces Springfield 944 7 Memphis Central 943 4 Knoxville Central 929 5 Eliiabethton 918 fi Chattanooga Central 916 7 Memphis CBC 904 8 Knoxville Young 858 9 Tullahoma 835 10 Chattanooga Red Bank 833 Castle Heights kept its top spot among the state preps but lost a zj series swags rr a i 1 Taunton The Seahawks standing in Noinut Bnny jnnotti St Tmu Announced Steve Van Buren senior tailback who has scored on all eight of Louisiana State's opponents this fall An ankle injury sus- may play but Clark has been in stubborn Columbia Military inklebarger and Schaad and all the rest of Mike Balitsaris boys eleven b-0 McCalhe still in sec- and get much for that ond moved up two notches by beY the liT Coach bailes Champ Yanks Receive $204- tained in the Georgia Tech game bed with the llu Loach Bailes is causing the triple-threat ace to sid Rule's heavier more experienced 9624! Of Receipts hobble a bit but Tulane fans fear that he will be able to go full force Saturday Tulane have a Van Buren but the Greenies have real scoring threats in Jim Shaiver this time Led by Bill Padgett By candidate for All-State team hon- CHICAGO Nov 18 Members ors the Bears boast a line that the New York ankees baseball blasting Duncan 66-0 Baylor is still third Columbia fourth and TMI fifth Alcoa 4f Bartlett 4V Baxter 30! Bradley Co Brownsville Bru eton 281 Carthage 665 Cave Springs 7 CHATTANOOGA Central 01 City 07 Bed Bank 83 Soddy-Daisy have a guy down here at South Carolina who is really playing a lot of football for the Gamecocks He's Ralph Hodges ijne may be the deciding factor! You may remember he captained one of the best elevens in history in 1941 Last year he spent his spare time earning a set of numerals from the University of Tennessee particularly interested in playing football for but he was more or less drafted into it He practiced for three days and made first string playing on the opposite side of the line from Don Fusci Southern California All-Conference tackle He played excellent ball against North Carolina and in the Clemson game he was responsible for the removal of one of the Tiger's key offensive threats Harris that I called the turn on the CHS-Male High massacre also on the C-HS-Memphis Central game and the KHS-Asheville game although admit even I dream Coach Cox and' his boys would do such a thorough job of biti 0S- LE Hurst LT Padgett LG Humbert tauter Hoffner Henson RG Brewer Bowel! RT Smith Shamis RE club winners of the 1943 World Series received $20496241 and! Billy Jones and Joe Renfroe They the defeated St Louis Cardinals can all run pass and kick as their share of the total receipts of the five game series this fall Commissioner Landis has announced The World Series participants' share represented 70 per cent of Lopat Leads A Hurlcrs the portion of the total receipts which amounted to $1- Sharp 205784 This total included $100- Lee QB Iluffaker qqO received for broadcasting Bentley LH Day rights to the series and the gate Watkins RH Johnson receipts Attendance at the five Tucker FB Miller (c)games totaled 277312 Officials: Gilley referee Distribution of the total receipts Bill Dyer umpire: Greg Benson was made four ways: $10207980 head linesman Top Smith field to the office $488- KINGSPORT FOOTBALL FANS have been rabid rooters for the Notre Dame Irish this season The reason: Stan Lujack older brother of Johnny Lujack the young Notre Dame star who stepped in and filled Angelo shoes when the latter was called to the Marines played first base for the Kingsport Indians a few seasons ago Carroll Oakes received a letter from Capt Roy Witt in the Marines telling him that Bertelli is in the same camp with him lnci- judge Coffman Gave Most Hits Anderson Hardest Hit By I niled Press ATLANTA Ga Nov 18 Ed Lopat Little Rock southpaw who won 19 games and lost 10 led the Sofithern Association in effectiveness in 1943 with an earned run average of 305 according to official league records released today Lopat also was the hardest working hurler with 245 innings pitched dentally Bertelli is just another Marine being in boot camp which means that he is taking his basic training The Army Navy football game will be a battle of strategy ac The 00574 to the players $30732498 to the dubs and leagues and $30837348 including the $100-000 broadcasting receipts to War Relief Service Fund Inc Members of second place teams in the American and National League pennant races received 15 per cent of the share the Washington Senators and the Cin- Army- Mathes Asking Aid of Solons To Get Shells Righthander Mack Stewart of cinnati Reds each getting $36-Nashville had the best winning 60043 Ten per cent went to third percentage with 18 won and five place team players the Cleveland iost hut Gilberto Torres of Chat-Indians and the Brooklyn Dodgers tanooga-Montgomery turned in each receiving $2440029 and the the most complete games with 23 Southpaw Weldon West of Memphis led in strikeouts with 135 Billy Rogers of Memphis and New Orleans pitched in the most games 45 Herb Anderson of Knoxville walked 126 batters to be listed as the wildest hurjer Dick Coffman of Knoxville allowed the most remaining 5 per cent turned over to fourth place team members the Chicago White Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates each getting $12-20014 The American League the National League the New York American League club and the St Louis National League club earn I nitfil Pres NASHVILLE Nov 18 State Conservation Commissioner Paul Mathes reported that he planned to write Tennessee members of Congress asking that shotgun shells be released to sportsmen in the state on an "equitable distribution shells being released in the state in my opinion are not being distributed in the proper manner and I would like to see I something done to prevent any possible of the Mathes said Similar letters already have been written to the Alabama representatives by Conservation Di- hits 385: Howard Fox of Birming-received $7683125 as their share ham and Steve Warchol of Knox-of the take jvilje lost the mast games 17 each 1 iw? 1 1 The only no-run no-hit game Rebels Waul (amc hurIed by southpaw Rob wn- liams of New Orleans Irector Ben Morgan he added Ollt The official f'gures showed that ittle Rock led the in team cording to Rae Crowther assistant Penn coach are so evenly matched physically that the game will go to the smartest he explained Hobe Brummette erstwhile Elizabeth-ton manager who has been busy cutting meat for the past year is still thinking baseball Hobe popped off: miss a game in calling the World And then he continued: told you about that Seminick too make good in the majors I knew that he was good enough for the Southern League and he didn't make me look that pOACH FROSTY HOLT INFORMS ME that basketball practice has started at Carson-Newman College and that he is now in the market for some games for his athletes He expects to pit his outfit against Milligan Emory Henry Lincoln Memorial and ether schools in that section He also will arrange some games with strong independent teams in and around Knoxville Tom Young of North Carolina has been named the coach of the week by the United Press as a result of the Tarheels beating Pennsylvania last Saturday Penn was an overwhelming favorite but the Tarheels put it to them 9-to-6 Young was a high school coach until two years ago when he returned to his alma mater as haekfield coach in 1942 When head coach Jim Tatum was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy Young was elevated to head eoarh In practice Young wears a ragged old pair of 11-year-old baseball pants 106 wins and only 12 losses in thesp pants" he chuckles I'm not going to tempt the fates by casting them aside now" 47ERSATILE ANDREW SEMINICK WHO WENT from the Smokies to the Phillies via Milwaukee following the close of the Southern Association dropped in at the baseball office for a chat yesterday Andy disclosed that he suffered a broken bone in his wrist after leaving Knoxville but didn't discover it until after the close of the major league season Andy offer it as an alibi but this undoubtedly was the reason that he hit any better with the Phils Big league baseball is the stuff according to the ex-Smoky workhorse and going to put out to the limit to stick there next season Andy said there a great deal of difference in major league and Southern League ball except that the pitchers were smarter and had more on the ball and that major league players were naturally more experienced than the run of mine players in the Southern and were always on the alert He has been working in Kingsport since the dose of the season hut the jpb he was on has been finished and lie is in the market for something to do league fielding with a mark of 994 Continue Toda TV A mi' Staunchley Worsteds ShaniL mwAmmwwww (pAfL'JsAkuL is) mvl PVVWAVVVANVVVVVVVV This tough shape-retaining shine-wear-ami-wrinkle resistant worsted puts up the pluckiest fight you ever saw against wear and lear Proved by actual laboratory tests lo be the best all-round suit fabric 1 lie Staunrhley was designed to put in a lot of extra hours of hard wear daily to see a lot of aefinn and to stay new-looking $1 00 Do Your Gift Shopping Early! 318-320 SO GAY ST PROSTATE GLAND Special To The ARMY TRAINS UNKNOWNS MARYVILLE Nov Coach Camp Haan (Calif) post pa- Mim Renfro today was still seek-1 per The Tracer runs an Athlete tag a game for the Maryville High of the Week feature regularly Rebels champions of Blount A number of the athletes who County before closing the 1943 have performed conspicuously in season intra-mural competitions against A contest with the Etowah Pile- nationally noted athletes had drivers scheduled here for Friday their previous sports appearances night was postponed yesterday! limited to high school contests 1 Coach Renfro said nnit oilier rrtiul anil rhronlr ilmeaae Nn himpitalUntion Writ tor freo booklet Itrrtal ilieae It 00 in It--! Finnire lllil A TIMBS ''yftaAteb (-filet (BUT IT FREEMAN Rnnril To Thfetrs Sentinel BRISTOL Nov The All- Age Derby and the Mary Montrose Memorial Stake were to be the feature events in running of the Southeastern i onal Championship held in conjunction with the annual Tenncva Field Trials here The Open Derby was completed yesterday and the winners in the championship stake were: First Surprise pointer owned by A Cook of Bradford Pa1: and handled by King of Rixeyviile Va second Dr Suveneer owned by Dr Sam Black Spartanburg and handled by Prickett St Matthews and third divided between Peerless Deeper owned by Bobitt Winston-Salem and handled by Paul Walk-! er Stein City Jake owned by Caten Sparlanburg and handled by June Weichel Gaffney Built lil zc a HU 4 -M ou-PAlS JS Coalfield Whips for Revengei sM -inl To Tlir Netvw-Priiiliiel OLIVER SPRINGS Nov Coalfield today had avcnRcd the 37-0 shellacking they absorbed Sleek and trim for easy going but sturdy and thick-skinned for protection in rough weather Note the heavy cobble-sewn stitching a practical style touch on winter-weight leather For quality shoemansbip see our complete selection of the season's finest Master Fitters Townsend Capers To Play Tuesday ipeclal To The Newt-Rentin') TOWNSEND Nov 18 Townsend High boys and girls will play oe- the alumni eager in a double- ckoff back 65 yards for a touch header attraction here next Tues- 11 the most spectacular bit dav night of in the game' The Townsend boys team will Oliver Springs was on the! be very inexperienced the quintet iarcb w'tbin striking distance of Coalfields goal when he game: ended Rather Coker and Fox! starred for the losers two weeks ago in their home field after edging out Oliver Springs here yesterday by a 20-18 score in a six-man football game Gates Coalfield center starting his first game took the opening! being built around Handley second-stringer last year Th Hiker lost Heevy A weight hand itained calfskin 10)1 weather-reibtont Ion-rag Sturdy hnovygnuq leolh-erol Filld by opnrti Sire to 12 AA lo Endoie ration itamp with moil order All ovtr th world Pol llodot oro loosing fht who art rvrng our country That why thprf art low or Pal liodoi on th ho front If you connot gt Pol ftlodtt tvtry ftm you ak for thorn rtmombtr thot lomt Aworicon toldtor lomowhor i tnmg youn And whon you do go Pol Hodtt you'll got smooth protturo froo ihovos thof oro worth waiting for tho kind of ihovot thot oro poiiiblo only with 0 floiibio hollow MAi ground roior blodo Hollow-Ground Mp RAZOR BLADES Cooper Aceepled for Army Duly 0 III rnllrtl pi ST LOUIS Nov Walker Cooper catcher and captain of the St Louia Cardinals has been ac-1 cepted for military service but the date of his induction is uncertain the reception center at Jeffer- Dnon Barracks disclosed Cooper who has been suffering from a compound dislocation of his right index finger since the World Series received his induc-evsminstlnn Tuesday RE-ROOF With a Genuine BIRD ROOF On Easy Terms City Lumber Go tSCXTON MOTHftRI I0 318-320 SO GAY ST 1 till Hum 11111 Lj 1.