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Sports DURHAM MORNING HERALD SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18 1944 Sports Omodfeoa sfre rs nfesih SflTOnug) Cainrap Peary Oitd (FdohsiD TfiDfl' Yale Favored Over PAGE 6 On IT Do is CaroDiinia Dmke AH' Colymbiis) Powerful Service Elevens Play Today At Chapel Hill Cameron And Newton Match Gridiron Wits (Corner Will Jat JJ Blue Devils Favored To Whip Gamecocks In Loop Skirmish DIKE UNIVERSITY Tar' Heels In 17-Hour Ride To New Haven Me Ever Sticks To His Same Line-Up WDNC Airs Game NORTH CAROLINA FEATHERS IS COACH OF YEAR IN TAR HEELIA The 1944 football season in Tar Heelia is heading for the last round-up with two of our elevens dropping the curtain on their campaigns with games Win lose or tie today Carolina Pre-Flight and State College conclude highly-success-ful seasons Camp Peary Favored In Carolina Pre-Flight's Last Game Of Year Crowd Of 10000 Expected Chapel Hill Nov 17 (Special) Holding victories over such outstanding teams as Navy and Duke and losers only to Bainbridge the Navy Pre-Flight Cloudbusters will tackle favored Camp Peary Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Kenan Stadium A crowd of 10000 is expected the game being one of the top contests in this section this week-end Peary has also lost only to Bainbridge Other than the game which is the final one on the Pre-Flight schedule the spectators will witness prior to the game a parade by the entire regiment of Cadets While not rated high in National ratings mainly because of their inadequate schedule Camp Peary has on its roster some of the finest ex-college and professional stars in the nation PRE-FLIGHT Cherry Point L' 8 Navy Duke Virginia Georgia Pre-flight Jacksonville NAS Bainbridge Georgia Pre-flight Total Points CAMP PEART Washington Redskins Cherry Point Camp Lee Bainbridge Camp Lee Columbia Nov 17 (Special) The Duke University Blue Devils after spectacular victories over Georgia Tech and Wake Forest on successive week-ends will meet an underdog but stubborn band of South Carolina Gamecocks in a Southern Conference football game here tomorrow A turnout of 12000 or more second only to the Carolina-Clemsan State Fair classic in State football was anticipated Duke 10th ranking team in the nation in The Associated Press poll was a heavy favorite to win by a wide margin and retain the Southern Conference leadership Tom Davis All-America fullback candidate will head a list of star performers for the Blue Devils while the Gamecocks will be counting on Pat Thrash their All-State end to give them an effective Husky Fred Hardison above who passing offense moved into a first string tackle1 Beattie State College Wolfpack wiU be favored to hang up its seventh victory in nine starts against the Spiders from Richmond University when they tangle at Raleigh this afternoon The Carolina Pre-Flight Cloud-busters are due to suffer their second defeat of the year at the hands of the Pirates of Camp Peary Va who lost to Bain-bridge by only 7 0 You may remember Bainbridge walloped the Cloudbusters 49 20 Pre-Flight has a record of six wins one loss and a tie not a bad season regardless of today's outcome While these two squads writing finish to their 1944 seasons North Carolina's Tar Heels face unbeaten untied Yale at New Haven Conn and Duke's Blue Devils tackle South Carolina at Columbia We like Duke to win and Carolina to upset Yale But don't ask us why picking the Tar Heels Just a hunch STATE GETS OL'R nomination to spank Richmond while we look for Camp Peary to topple the Cloudbusters The Busters will make a fight of it however and could mighty easily emerge triumphant if Otto Graham's passes connect The fifth member of the so-called Five" is Wake Forest The Deacons will be idle until next Thursday when they meet South Carolina at Charlotte in a Thanksgiving Day skirmish which closes Wake Forest's card Duke ends its season against North Carolina at Chapel Hill a week from today while the Tar Heels meet Virginia at Norfolk Va Dec 2 in their final game BEFORE GETTING away from the State-Richmond tussle we'd like to put in our plug for Beat-tie Feathers to be retained as head coach of the Wolfpack when the State College Athletic Council huddles in Rhleigh today to discuss coaches for 1945 Although football contract runs out at the end of the current season he has agreed to coach the State baseball team next Spring In our humble opinion Feathers is the of the in North Carolina football circles In short he has done the best head roach ing job in the so-called family The former Tennessee All-American w'ho still holds several National Pro Football League records has done a magnificent New Haven Conn Nov 17 (P) tired and sleepy band of North Carolina grid huskies arrived here at midnight after a 17-hour ride in day coaches and turned in at once for a good rest prior to their intersectional feature with unbeaten and untied Yale here tomorrow afternoon was a tough trip all said Coach Gene McEver the former All-American and National high scorer at Tennessee kids bounce back faster than us old folks and we're counting on them to make it a scrap Kickoff is set for the Yale Bowl at 2:30 o'clock and indications point to a crowd of 15000 A play-by-play account is to be broadcast by the Atlantic network over a number of Eastern and Southern stations including WDNC in Durham and WPTF in Raleigh Leading the invaders in tonight were Acting Captain Bobby Weant sensational line-backer and heady field general and three other standouts of the whole season Bob Warren triple-threat Earthquake Smith 220-pound tackle and Edwin Golding who was All-Met guard at Pelham last year STARTS SAME ELEVEN Coach McEver who brought 30 players said the visitors were in good share except for the triplethreat Allen Eiger a recent transfer from Duke who has been sidelined by an injury and that he planned to start the same eleven which battled William and Mary to a 0-0 tie last week defense looked pretty good against the McEver remarked have to wait till tomorrow to tell about the offense You see we lost half our squad by Navy transfers Nov 1 and although we picked up as Two-coaching rivals of long stand-j ing will match wits when Doc Newton sends his hot-and-cold Gamecocks against the in-and-out Blue Devils coached by Eddie Cameron OLD COACHING FOES Before coming to South Carolina this year from North Carolina State New'ton faced Cameron and the Blue Devils for the seven years he was at State College Cameron is in his 19th season with the Blue Devils last three as head coach while Lt Col Wallace Wade is with the! United States Army in France Each team has won three games this season Coach Newton's Gamecocks have three victories two losses and two ties in seven games Closes Brilliant Career With Busters iwhiie coach cameron-s Blue Devils 'have lost four of seven starts Handsome Otto Graham shown leaping into the air to throw a forward The game marks the renewal of 27 21 IJ 13 3 14 20 33 144 14 14 13 0 II 40 15 11 33 20 30 0 41 132 27 0 0 34 Total Point In their only tough game played to dale and that against Bainbridge who defeated the Cloudbusters 49 to 20 Camp Peary lost by 7 to 0 when Harry Hopp returned a punt for 69 yards late in the final period However statistics favored Camp Peary a the Commodores were able to gain blit 22 yards rushing and 46 in the air Pre-Flight will be minus the services of Stan Koslowski hard- tOWn Center Bob Morrow Illinois Wesleyan at quarterback Uram at left half and Merle Decker Long Beach Junior College at right half and George Pryor William and Mary at fullback The probable lineups: berth when John Kerns was trans-' ferred to Carolina will be in the I) JJw 1 starting Duke Blue Devil line-up: a'J i today at Columbia where the prpF Th? ieturi V'tv rkiL cu li-v of Ray Bray and Gene Flick in the line and Levay Jitterbug Kellogg and Spec Sanders in the backfield will take up some of the slack GRAHAM SPARKPLUG As usual the Cloudbusters will be led by Otto Graham the former Northwestern All-American who is making a strong bid for All-American service honors Last Saturday against Georgia Pre-Flight he passed for three touchdowns and scored one himself When the Pirates come to grips with the Cloudbusters the Vir-! ginia sailors will be coming down the home stretch toward a record that should make head mentor Lt Comdr Norman Strader I former mastermind for the famous of St Mary's College i Calif) a logical 1 contender for of the honors If the Pirates can keep the Cloud-busters from scoring it will be the sixth consecutive time that a Peary opponent has failed to score on a i play from scrimmage Even the touchdown that cost them their i first game with the Bainbridge Commodores came on a 69-yard punt runback and not on an offensive play TWO ALL-AMERICANS The Pirates starting lineup will include several All-Americans two of them who made the team as long as eight years ago and are heading for the same honors again this year They are Andy Uram former Golden Gopher from Minnesota and a Green Bay Packer and Russ Lctlow All-American from the University of San Francisco and all-pro tackle from the Packers Russ field captain and left guard is in on every tackle calls all the defensive signals and is one of the few remaining 60-minute men in football Probable starting lineup for the Pirates will include: Bob Caton Wittenberg College and Ben Hightower Sam Houston State Teachers College Texas ends Graham Armstrong John Carroll and Bob Bjorklund Minnesota tackles Let-low and Zip Hanna South Carolina guards: and A1 Matuza George- Dukes tackle South Carolina's Gamecocks A 200-pounder Hardison hails from Williamston Spiders Play State day Homecoming Affair May Draw 10000 foes Virginia William and Mary and 1 in compiling a season record of six wins and two losses The defeats came at the hands of Clemson and Wake Forest The record is one of the best rolled up by State teams in several years Coach Beattie Feathesrs of the locals and Mac Pitt of Richmond squads were in that each team said tonight the shape ald Chamber of Commerce sponsored day A crowd of re-the down- 10000 is expected State's young but fast team has bowled over all its previous Old Dominion pass in above photo will play bis final game on North Carolina soil this afternoon when he leads the Carolina Navy Pre-Flight Cloudbusters against Camp Peary Va at Chapel Hill at 2:30 o'clock The brilliant many new men we arejust now triple-threat back who riTade the Associated Press All-American at getting organized Northwestern University last year is a leading candidate for the 1944 wjH mark the fourth meeting be The leading newcomers McEver All-American Service selections He's one of the greatest passers and tween the two rivals as South Caro said are John Kerns 230-pound tackle who was one of the top men in the Duke line against Army and Navy Thad Ellis guard husky from Duke and Bill Voris who led the 1942 Army plebes in scoring but tripped over an academy rule and wound up as a Marine With ace quarterback Jake Hall ready for action for the first time this season unbeaten and untied Yale was favored to extend its victory streak to seven in a row EXPECT TOUGH GAME Despite the Tar Keels' inability to click this season they've only won one of six including last week's sc or less tie with William and Mary Yale was prepared for a tough fracas In addition to Hall two other Blue regulars recovered from recent leg injuries will be available Don McCullough end and Buzzy Gher back The contest will be the seventh between Yale and North Carolina in a series dating back to 1919 with the Blue yet to be outpointed The clubs last met in 1924 Some 15-000 fans were expected The probable lineups: finest runners ever to trod a Tar Heel gridiron Grid Spotlight Spreads Its Rays All Over Nation Today Purdue Entertains Middies In Top Contest Tech Seeks Sugar Bowl Bid Over New York Nov 17 SP) The football spotlight spreads Its rays all over the country tomorrow each section having a game or games of attention-drawing calibre on the college front In the east the top-flight encounters are Purdue at Navy Army at Penn and North Carolina at Yale With the Army-Navy classic com- 10 i ing up Dec 2 the Service Academy teams come up against rugged is at stake against the tr ed against Presbsterian lege last week Buddy Riggs left was on the heaves The Gamecocks are not day Down South Georgia Tech goes to Baton Rouge for a game with and the Rambling Wrecks hope to make a showing which will Group Recommends football relations between the two schools after a lapse of eight years Duke won the last tilt between the 'two institutions 21-0 in 1936 This hearted over the prospects against Duke and they're hoping to play the Blue Devils a close game The probable line-ups: Pos Duke South Carolina LE Jones Thrash LT Hardison Couch LG Sink Braswell Crowder Patrone job with little material at his command He has taken a club that won only three ball games last year sandwiched a handful of players nobody else would have and piloted it to six triumphs in eight starts not including today's battle with Richmond The Wolfpack has lost only to Clemson and Wake Forest while it holds victories over Miami University irgmia Cawba William and Mary (a teim that tied Carolina) I and Milligan not an impressive array of opponents it's tiue but State didn't have any powpi house to start the season FEATHERS TOOK the job when Doc Newton was released after seven years at the Wolfpack helm It was offered Doc's line roach Farmer Johnson but the Tennessean wouldn't take it on a one-year basis State didn't know what it was getting when Feathers was given the post On leave of absence from Appalachian State Feathers collared a few freshmen and whipped them in with a handful of 1943 left-overs to come up w'ith an interesting ball club to watch It has more fight than we have seen in a Wolfpack eleven in years The Pack battled Wake Forest to a standstill for the first half leading early in the ball game and lost a heartbreaker to Clemson 13 7 Therefore we think the State Athletic Council will re-name Feathers head coach on possibly a two-year contract if not longer It could do a lot worse Feathers put a smartly-coached hard-fighting squad on the field this year and it's a credit to his coaching ability He's our nomination for the of the CAMP PEARY brings an almost all-pro team to Chapel Hill today to face the Cloudbusters of Carolina Pre-Flight and it should be a game worth witnessing The Pirates from Virginia have a rugged club that rates the role of favorite But we look for the Cloudbusters to throw everything in the book at Peary in their final game of the year It may be another high-scoring affair like Bainbridge Forty-two points were scored in the second quarter alone in that game you will remember with Bainbridge finally winning by 49-20 over the Busters whose mayor Samuel Bernard objected that the choice of Baltimore was an to the citizens of Philadelphia who have loyally ported the game for lie said the decision was In direct violation of a contract that the game would be played in Philadelphia in event it was moved outside the grounds of either academy and furthermore have a much larger stadium than Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium which housed the last big-time Army-Navy game in 1941 has a seating capacity of 102000 Tickets to the Baltimore game will be priced at $480 each statement on ticket applications made no mention of war bond purchases as part of the system of admissions Treasury officials said however they would confer with the Navy tomorrow on the war bond setup and issue a statement later Pending clarification of this issue Humphreys statement made it plain that admission will not necessarily be contingent upon purchase of war bonds His statement on ticket arrangements: no Applications time before the kick-off of the Army-Navy football game is too short to permit the printing and distribution of the usual application forms (for tickets) any persons applying by letter to the Navy Athletic Association at Annapolis Md for tickets must give the name of the tion are priced alike $480 each which includes the 20 per cent Federal tax To any order 25 cents nfust be added to cover the cost of postage and handling application already received and in proper order for this game when scheduled at Annapolis Md will be honored Applications for a total of not cepted Nor will acknowledgement be made of receipt of applications Tickets will be available for mailing on Nov 27" Knotts Tominack! Irwin McDonald I Harrv Farris RG IRT RE Isom Kuldellimond Baltimore Lands Army-Navy Football Classic On Dec 2 Orders For Tickets Being Accepted For Top Game Of Year Navy Announces Transfer By ERNEST BARCELLA Washington Nov The Army-Navy football game was restored to its big-time status tonight with official announcement that the Dec 2 classic has been shifted from secluded Annapolis to Baltimore's Municipal Stadium as a war bond feature and it was President Roosevelt himself who tipped the scales in favor of giving the gridiron extravaganza back to the public A subsequent statement from Annapolis by Capt Humphreys Naval Academy athletic director said ticket applications for the game which shapes up as perhaps one of get another bid to the Sugar Bowl On the coast Southern Cali- New 7-Year Term would be out for a win with Rich- decidedly the underdog Suttle The probably lineups: Erwin Pos Richmond State HP TP Havntllnn ftihuin fornia and California clash with the winner moving a step nearer i committee of the the Rose Bowl while in the South- National Leagues expressing wt Oktohoo ndS win overjJMjnh 2er nU pB Dvi 2:30 Other games include: EAST: Colgate at Syracuse Dartmouth at Cornell Brown at Columbia Maryland at Penn State Brook- American and Chicago Nov The joint today to recommend the re-election of Landis for another term as commissioner and to extend the present agreement between the two LH Smith ciark Carver iqn nv Cloudbusters I he greatest football battles of all time will be filled on a first-corn e-first-served basis with a limit of four tickets per applicant There apparently will be community-restriction on attendance inasmuch as the statement spoke of applying for tickets Further details' particularly regarding arrangements for war bond purchases are expected to be announced tomorrow after a conference of Treasury and Navy officials A Treasury spokesman estimated the game will enhance the Sixth War Loan Drive by S50000000 The week-long suspense over where the big game would be played ended shortly before 5 EWT) when the Navy Department announced it had been switched from Annapolis to Baltimore whose municipal stadium can accommodate at least 63000 fans The announcement came at a time when hope of moving the classic into a big-city was fading rapidly ROOSEVELT DOES IT The United Press learned on high authority that ap afternoon telephone call from Mr Roosevelt to Secretary of War Henry Stim-son finally broke an intra-cabinet deadlock over the issue of transferring the game Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor-genthau Jr had favored a switch but Stimson reportedly was opposed It developed that Undersecretarv circuits The recommendation will be voted upon at a joint meeting of the major leagues in Chicago starting Dec 11 At that time the duration of a new major league agreement will be determined The current agreement has been for 25 years LandiS new term will be for seven years His present term expires Jan 12 1946 Landis who will be 78 years old Monday has been confined to St Luke's Hospital in Chicago since Oct 2 for treatment and physical check-up The action of the joint compiittee killed rumors that Landis might be asked to resign because of health conditions and that the major league agreement might be revised to include a three-man authority composed of Will Harridge president of the American League: Ford Frick president of the National League: and Leslie O'Connor secretary-treasurer of the Baseball i Advisory Board 9 I Kickoff: 2:30 lE T) The largest racial groups among the Filipinos are the Tagalogs 3325000 of whom live in central Luzon the Visayans 7100000 of whom live in the central and southern islands and the Ilocanso of Northern Luzon 2:30 (E Ford Leads Hillside Over Louisburg 50-0 With Johnny Ford galloping 65 yards on a punt return for the first score two minutes after the game opened the Hillside High Hornets waltzed to a one-sided 50 to 0 victory over an outclassed Louisburg eleven in Durham Athletic Park last night Hillside scored in every period to capture its 14th straight game four of them this year Ford and Cook scored three touchdowns apiece while Watson accounted for the other two Ford and Stewart added the extra points After Ford's opening scoring jaunt Watson intercepted a Louisburg pass and raced 80 yards and followed it up with another 15-yard scoring tally to send Hillside into a 19-0 lead at the end of the first quarter The game ended with Louisburg making its biggest threat of the night The gun caught the visitors on the Hillside 10-yard line Hillside plays Avery Institute of Charleston here in a Thanksgiving Day contest Score by periods: Louisburg 0 0 0 0 0 Hillside 19 12 13 SATURDAY FOOTBALL Pre-Flight Cloudbusfers Vs Camp Peary KENAN CHAPEL HILL' SATURDAY NOV KICK-OFF 2:30 RESERVED SEATS $200 (Including Tax) Paid Honor At Banquet Chapel Hill Nov Lt Comdr James Raugh commanding officer of the North Carolina Navy Pre-flight School joined with members of the Cloudbuster coaching staff and others in extending congratulations to the Pre-flight football team at a banquet held for them here last night Lt Comdr Glenn Killinger head coach declared that no team anywhere had shown any better spirit than had the players Speeches were made by other naval officials and Dean House of University of North Carolina Other guests were newspapermen and Coaches Eddie Cameron of Duke Peahead Walker of Wake Forest Gene and McCauley McEver of North Carolina and Beattie Feathers of North Carolina State The banquet was held before final game with Camp Peary it was explained so that members of the team could leave Feathers be retained under at least a two-year contract Dr A Fisher chairman of the council said that while applications had been received from scores of coaches the present staff would be given first consideration view of the fine record Coach Feathers and hia assistants have made this year" Feathers Is assisted by Line Coach A1 Thomas and Star Wood who coaches the ends lyn at Bucknell at Villa-nova Lehigh at Lafayette Swarth-more at Princeton SOUTH: Third Air Force at Maxwell Field Auburn at Georgia Mississippi State at Alabama Clemson at Tulane West Virginia at Kentucky Temple at Tennessee Duke at South Carolina Richmond at State I at William and Mary Camp Peary at Navy Pre-Flight and Camp Lejeune at Bainbridge Navy MIDWEST: Marquette at Great Lakes Northwestern at Notre Dame Pittsburgh at Indiana Minnesota at Iowa Wisconsin at Michigan Drake at Iowa State Olathe Navy at Kansas State SOUTHWEST: Texas and Texas Christian at 1 Ft Worth Randolph Field vs Southwestern at San Antonio New Mexico at Texas Tech Texas A at Rice Arkansas at Southern Methodist Iowa Pre-Flight at Missouri PACIFIC COAST: Second Air Force at Washington Colorado at Colorado College College of Pa- £jfic atU- Air 1 lfn MAto wi aU i n4 Gn I I (VA Force iMarch Field) at San Diego Naval (Sunday) Fleet City at St Mary's Naval Pre-Flight Pocatello Marine Base at Fort Warren Decker New Golf Pro won the Nebraska Open in 1936 that he expected to be back in baseball uniform next Summer of War Robert Patterson rather person to whom tickets are to be than Samson had been holding out sent the number required and against a shift Patterson had must send a certified check postal feared that moving the game to a express or telegraphic money or-large city would have a bad ef- der to rover the cost of the tickets feet on war production But his tickets regardless of loca- after the game for leaves at home Landis whose salary is $60000 a year left the Federal bench to be- State Athletic Body come commissioner in 1921 after the Chicago lack scandal in the world series with the Cincinnati Reds in 1919 He served three seven-year terms and then was reelected for a term of four years in 1942 to terminate at the expiration date of the major league agreement May Retain Feathers Raleigh Nov UP) State College's athletic council will meet tomorrow to select a football mentor for the 1945 season and sources close to the council said the present head roach Beattie would opposition was swept away the United Press informant said after Mr Roosevelt's call to Stimson who in turn conferred with Patterson Selection of Baltimore came as somewhat of a surprise inasmuch as Philadelphia was believed to have the inside track in case of a Fwitch But a Navy Department Today aJrt caiioiw hh Philadelphia Nov 17 VPl Henry (Hank) Decker is the new golf professional succeeding Harold (Jug) McSpaden at the Philadelphia Country Club McSpaden re-Detroit Nov 17 (UR' A1 Ben- sined business Decker ton fast-ball right-hander caddied McSpaden vv hen was star relief pitcher for the De- as boy lrV City' ha been an aid at the club since last March when he came here from Jacksonville Fla He was Mid- Western PGA titlist in 1934 and Benton Gets Discharge troit Tigers before bis enlistment in the Navy in 1942 has been given a medical discharge by that revealed statement pointed out that the Balti-! over four tickets per applican more stadium is will be given consideration on a-home field Hence It appeared first come first erved basis until lhat Baltimore was a compromise! the available supply is exhausted 1 hoice designed to meet objections Telephonic requests will simply that might be raised on the wartime! jam the wires and will not be ac- service it was today by Tiger General Manager Jack Zeller Zeller said his notification came from the Navy rather than Benton but Rothman Drafted The Class A baseball draft opened here yesterday with Binghamton of the Eastern League selecting the contract of Outfielder Murray Rothman from Hagerstown of the Interstate League Bramham president of minor leagues announced Rothman batted 333 last season GMMw aicciii CBMD tiavel-conservation issue But hardly had the announcement been made when repercussions came from Philadelphia i.