Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • Page 2

TWO THE KINGSPORT TIMES, KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1930 VOLS RATED NEXT TO TIDE AND WAVE IN S. I. C.

VOLS BUCKED OVERWHELMING ODDS THRU SEASON BUT DODD KEPT TEAM AT TOP OF HEAP Great back Credited With Fine Showing Made By Crippled Volunteer Band lower than ATLANTA, Dec. A Af I it to veterans its championship hopes, Tennersee, the early Southern Conference favorite, bucked nung odd' to finish the just a notch )4thama and Tulatr the 1930 title. injury jinx visited the Volunteer camp at Knoxville jort the pi at 5 ice days were over as McEver, the leader in 1929, suffered injury which kept him yea r. Good Seaton warm-up victories cost their stellar senior end ii Hug ane Fritz Brandt. And Saunders and other North Carolina Schedules Vandy, Gators For uff knee out ail Early 1 Voh Vm Iks CHAPEL HILL, N.

Dec. 0. and Florida replaced Maryland and Virginia Poly on the University North 1 DI 11 football schedule, announced today. Six other Southern Conference teams, Georgia. Tennessee.

North i Carolina State, Georgia Tech, Duke and Virginia with Wake Forest and Davidson. North Caro, llina denominational colleges, ail of which were met this year. The -eason ends with the annual irginia game Thanksgiving day. The schedule: Sept. 20: Wake Forest at Chapel Hill.

Vanderbilt at Nash- Mnrs were out of the lineup I crucial games. But even with their aces inis-ing. the under each Bob Ncyland.1 jnanhod to victories over their arch rivals. anderbilt and Kentucky. and lost only Alabama.

Dodd Dixie gridiron critics give most credit or iional play under these handicaps Quarter hark Bobby I called by many a coaeh on the tield. This youngster, an unanimous choice for the Associated Press Mil-southern team, wa- uncanny in hi -election of plays. He directed an admittedly inferior team through several games to victory. Seldom ha- the south seen an all-round backfield performer a- Dodd. Mctiugin.

veteran coach at ranked him alongside of Benny ried- man. the former Michigan star, as a passer, while his skill as a kicker rated him the best in the south. nt play of Buddy halfback. and the service of several substitutes also aided in beating Florida 10 17 Florida at Georgia Gainesville, at Chapel 24: Tennessee at Chapel North Carolina Stat The exc Haehman. itoriou; mi sophomore Tenne-: re Saun da v.

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Hill. 14: Davidson at 21: Duke at Durham, N. Virginia at Chapel CITY BOWLING LEAGUE Borden Mill won three points from the Foundry in the most inf resting match of the City Bowling League games this week. forfeited four points to the Press. McConnell had hi; and Thomas high single three.

game The Loyola Wolves of New Orleans cun claim smne kind of a record for playing and winning -even intersect ional brushes in a -ingle season. Starting with Daniel Baker of Texas, the Loyolians conquered Loyola of Chicago. St. Xavier, Mat 1er, St. Louis University.

Iowa Stati' and Detroit. Their only defeat came mid- Mays in the season at the hands of Oglethorpe of Atlanta 1 9 to P. The Duke-North Caroline -con- less deadlock Saturday left the grid championship of the Old North State unsettled. While Georgia Tech concluded one of i- worst by bowing to Georgia in a traditional test, 12 to NOTRE DAME HAS RISSMAN TROPHY I i LOS ANGKLKS. Dec.

8 (AID Knute Roekne Raiders from Not re Da me. having swept Southern California aside were en route home today with two undefeated 1 3 straight victories and a 27 to triumph over the Tio an-, to their credit in addition the Irish bad permanent possession of the Rissman trophy, signifying that three time within a decade Notre lame bad produced the national trail champions. Meanwhile. Southern (aliior- nia and the far West were re- eovering from the stunning blew i he Irish delivered Saturday, and expert-, and the 90.000 faun who saw Troy fall vied with each olhet in coiigtatuiating the ictoi Frank at ideo, the quarterback. Paul the fullback, Merchmont Schwartz, halfback, and Belt Metzger.

the atom who grew to a giant in the nt the crowd during the sixty minutes of plav at guard, were hailed far and wide. The Games PRESS Playrs 1st 2nd 3rd Ave McUonncll 194 1 19 1 16 189 Thomas 17 4 1 86 166 526 Bra I ley 138167 127 4 32 Brosch 155 172 1 493 McIntosh 169 176 345 Mahady 132 132 Totals 793 84 1 780 2 11 7 Team Average 161 ROTARY Players 1 st 2nd 3rd Ave Snow 176 156 332 Obrien 121 161 282 FOUNDRY Players 1 st 2nd 3rd Ave Ivey 175 1 35 1 1 1131 Noe 144 127 1 19 390 Callahan 127 178 1 10 145 to mbs157 1 10 139 436 Fobie 162 126 1 92 180 Totals i 706731 2202 Team age 1 17 BORDEN MILLS Players 1st 2nd 3rd Ave Petite 158 16! 1 65 18 1 White 135 116 166 -117 Siston 161 151166 4M Roy ield 106 1 65 160 431 Marshall 137 154 1 66 157 700 717 823 2270 Team Average 151 TEAM STANDING LPCT Press 1 .950 Borden 10 10 .500 Foundry 10 10 .500 Rotary 1 19 .050 Strib to Battle Griffith Friday EXHIBITION HR AGO. Dei orhran, world Ik line lull tards BILLIARDS s. champion player, and CHI W. L.

ei a Id fith of AGO. Dee. s. Strib! ing and Ambrose Grif- Sioux itv, rushed today into the last stretch of training for their important heavyweight battle in the stadium Friday night, Griffith had two or three more days of intensive effort on his schedule, while Stribling. satisfied with his condition, planned to keep his edge.

A betting was done on the basis of 2 to 1 on thi southerner. CADETS, MIDDIES TO RESUME PLAY AFTER 4 YEARS Dodd Forced to Display His BASEBALL MOGULS BOLTON AND POOLE Genius to Win Over Gators; GATHER IN GOTHAM! LEAD SOUTHERN LOOP BATTERS Hackman is Co-Star of TiltiFOR ANNUAL MET NEW YORK, Dec, 8 TKe most famous of i spectacles, the Anuy-Navy game, resumed for charity after a lour year break, conies Saturday give a final touch of color to the waning football season. Jt will be played at the 5 an- kee Stadium, New York, for the benefit the Salvation unemployment relief fund. triumph over Pennsyl- vania Saturday has increased interest in the game. The Midshipmen showed unsuspected pow-; or as they gave the Quakers a 2 to 0 beating.

A victory over Penn nut enough to place Navy on a par with its rival in the pre-game calculations. Although the Middie- showed plenty of power and new reserve force, they have had only a mediocre season and beat a team which hail had little more success while Army still cun boast of having been beaten only bv Notre Dame and tied by Yale. The Cadets hold a place near the top of the eastern ranking list rivalling Colgate and Fordham for the highest honors. Colgate -til! holds the topmost position among the big colleges through Saturday's 7-6 over New York University1. Western Maryland alone holds the lead in the eastern standing the only undefeated team.

It defeated Maryland 7 to 0 Saturday for its ninth victory of the season. It has been tied once but has not lost a game -ince 1228. CALDWELL RACING STABLE ON BLOCK NASHVILLE, Tenn. 1 4 James man today signed an reeling that proceeds By CHIPS Robert Lee Dodd of King-port, sterling signal caller for the Uni- ivci of Tennessee, closed his (brilliant three-year football ea- jreer in Jacksonville. yester- i day in a blaze of glory as the Volunteers eked out a 12 to 7 I win over the powerful University of Florida Alligators.

Dodd closed his football regime against the same team that he made his first major hit in 1228. I he ols bested the on Shied- Watkins field 12 to 12 that year in a fierce struggle. Sharing the glory yesterdav with Dodd was his running mate. Buddy Hackman, blonde terror trom Nashville. It was Hack that -cored both touchdowns.

However. the blonde demon broke what appeared to be a tie in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter when he intercepted a forward pass from Seay and dashed 50 yards through a broken field to a touchdown. Had Dodd been directing the attack of the Florida team yesterday, victory would have been the lot of Charley Maehman's crew today. Dorsett. known as the million-dollar beauty, tossed victorv coring chance- to the wind.

The brilliant punting, passing and field generalship of the Kingsport youth was in a large mcasuie responsible for the 1 en- nersee victory. His choice of plays was superb while hi- trusty light hoof kept Morida at bay during the most of the game, for the first time in his grid career, Dodd had a punt blocked as Parnell broke through and took one in the stomach. The hall bounded to the 10 -yard stripe where Tennessee held for downs. Twice the brilliant Florida team was on the one-yard stripe with four downs to the last Dec. 5.

white twice the Gator New- attack failed. With the ball order di-1 within the shadow of Tennessee" from to- goal line Dodd came up and aided Ends Grid Career in Blaze of Glory dav" dispersal sale of Rogers! in backing up the line. racing stable and stud quick judgment saved the be placed in the hands of a re- two markers. The order esterday Lobby plunged of' Florida line, danced around end and His Vol? application ceiver. was issucd upon Attorney General L.

D. Smith. The court named Joseph R. West, clerk and master in chancery. as special receiver to hold proceeds of sale.

An injumtion was issucd, refrain ing C. J. Fitzgeraid, in charge of auction. from turning over proceeds oi tlit to any ono other than ce i ver. The bill for appuintment of a receiver was tilcd in interest of generai funds ita of state amounting, it was -et out, to $336,6 15.52 in riosed Bank of Tennessee, a sub- banking house now the thr mashed off-tackle for numerous He was a con- -tanl menace to the Florida defense.

The brilliant field general has played his last inter-collegiate game and leaves a remarkable record behind him. He sale a path through southern gridirons that will long be remembered by foes and triends. Probably no other football player in the history of the South has equalled the record made by Robert Dodd. His place on the Tennessee football team will be haid t0 fact only a genius can in si diary of Caldwell and Compa- 1 replace this brilliant, lanky mountain boy. Mere words cannot receivership.

scribe the brilliant cartel Rogers Caldwell, president of Bobby Dodd. hope that Caldwell and Company, was one in other fields wi 1 of several persons signing bonds (greater than the magnificent record he has made on the gridiron. of his he persons signing personal sureties to protect the deposits in the Bank of Tene-sce. the attorney general has announced. AH hail Bobby the great.

of TRIO MAJOR GRID TEAMS PLAY THRU SEASON UNBEATEN (By The Associated Press) The Rough Riders of Notre Dame head the little band undefeated and untied football teams. Onlv nine elev- Once again a University of Tennessee football team, led by Robert Dodd, great quarterback, arose to supreme heights, beat back the magnificent attack of a great team and breezed home the winner 12 to 6 This time it was Charley Bachman's powerful Florida eleven that was stopped dead in its tracks when the goal line was only a short distance away. Twice the Yol line was impregnable as steel when the the leather on the had one-vard line. It was Bobby Dodd and Buddy ens have been able to tour Hackman again. These two boys through the campaign without I e0mbined to score two touch- encountering either defeat or tie.

downs while Florida garnered Among these teams Utah had onjy one. Hack both mark- the best offensive record with qut it was great right 240 points scored. Alabama per ovn, that sent the hail in milled only 12 opposition point! nrm for the first six pointer. to lead defensively. The list follows: College Notre Dame Mount Morris Ills A la ha ma Washington State Carbondale, Ills.

Utah St. Olaf. Minn. Heidelberg, Ohio Fresno State. Pts.

O.P. 10 265 i 1 9 249 25 9 247 13 9 218 20 2 1 2 4 8 3 IO 20 8 302 32 8 294 20 8 151 66 Hoppe, formel 18.2 titlehober, 1 odaV were til open six tia)s of hi bit ion aloft play Six of 18.1 v. ere oil the uk for tin firxt three and igp V- iti! if jdajcdj at clini ii" v. iji 11 1 Xmu Special 50c Ht- Postage Paid I Kd Price Ramey Insurance Your Protection Our Business ilt I It arm arm Although the names of Hackman and Dodd are being spread over the nation as the boys that turned the trick, the great line play of Tennessee wa- the deciding factor in the win. More honor to this husky wall that withstood two Florida assaults, Thus Tennessee closed another brilliant football season against a great team.

Florida was doped to win. but Tennessee kicked the i can for a row of tumbled down a-h cans. Ml quiet on the Western roast today. Knute Ramblers rode with telling effect yesterday to snow Southern California" wonder team under a 27 to 0 score and once again scale the supreme football heights of these United State-. The score not indicate the superiority of Roekne" Rulers.

Two touchdowns were lost on account of tie unit it 1 b'k fumbles the Smith Bend team two mo a By HERBERT W. BARKER Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (AP) Baseball's leaders gathered in New York today for the annual mid-winter meetings of the Na- 1 tional and American Leagues. The selective draft, chain-store: i baseball and the lively ball' 6 clip in 154 games and Treadway, Chattanooga, .269 in 149 games. Others hitting .350 or better un 100 or mgre games were Poole Chattanooga tied for batting hon-J 3 4 Partridge, Nashville ors for the 1920 Southern Asso- Griffith.

Little Rock Shir- eiation season with Jim MEMPHIS, Dec. Hutcheson of i Memphis and Cliff Bolton oft Poole of Nashville winning, hands down, the title of home run king and a new league record for circuit drives Mpf 1 mwm fe I BUDDY HACKMAN chances, gent scoring Some gent on the coast offered to wager 10.000 on the this gent must be ill today. The South Bend wizards literally ran Southern California out the park. Brill. and Scharwtz beat a merry tune on the Trojan tune that encored by four touchdowns and three extra points.

There may be better football teams than Notre Dame, but so far we heard of Alabama tnot excepted. I he gian Tide from Tuscaloosa could not stem the dashing offense of Roekne" clan, nor can any other team in these United States check the Rough Riders from the Hoosier state. The superb Notre Dame team of 1920 probably the greatest of the past is certainly superior to the famous eleven on which the Horsemen galloped. The Riders were without the services of Larry Mullins yesterday, but O'Connor" work probably vvas better than anything Mullins would have had to offer. Notre Dame clicked chine like precision Southern California" line.

Perfect timing wonderful interference less calling of plays with ma- crushing vaunted of play, and in' Frank Car ideo nations. were unbeatable combi- Metzger, Notre 152 pound guard, glittered like a gem. Time after time he broke through the heavy Trojan to spill widely heralded Duf field, Mohler, and Pinckert for losses. If this lad tipped the beams at 190 pounds he would be so rough Notre Dame get a schedule. He was chosen All-American by The Associated Press.

Fred Sington. super- tacko. wa- chosen by The Associated Press on its All-American team for 1920. He is the South'-' lone representative on this team. Dodd was selected the second eleven.

The South wa; given very little consideration by The Associated Press writers. There must be some- ething wrong some where. Alabama" Red will endeavor to repeat Notre Dame" great victory New Year" day in Rose Dow). The Tama giants will meet Washington State. Unless the Cougars are far superior to Southern California the West again will bow to the South.

Once it wa- west young but now it is go south into Notre is speaking of football players. The South has laced every section while Roekne" Riders galloped to 19 consecutive wins over all opposition. Yesterday marked Notre Dame" nineteenth consecutive victory. UNIVERSITY, burn effigy at Governor Bilbo in protest against dismissal of institution troiu Southern of Colleges. 1 threatened to cause the most dis- cussion.

i Although formal sessions of the leagues begin tomorrow, two im! portant conferences were on to( program. One of them was to bring together representatives of major league clubs and a committee from the minors for a discussion of the draft dispute. The other was a meeting of American League managers called by league president, Ernest Barnard, to hear suggestions that might be of benefit to the league a whole. There was a distinct feeling among baseball men in general that the majors and the five non- draft leagues would reach a compromise some time this week. The majors want the five non -1 draft leagues to accept the uni -1 versal draft, that is, they want to be able to any play- or from these In- ternational.

Pacific Coast, Am-' eriean Association, Western and Three Eye a fixed price as they do from other minor league clubs. This ciple the minors are ready to ac- cept. it is stated, provided the two groups can agree terms. Pending settlement of the dis-; track, pute, the majors on December Maud severed all business dealings with five affected leagues. The National League will hold Official batting averages for the season, made public tonight by C.

H. Miller, league statistician, gave Hutcheson and Bolton percentages of .280 Hutcheson, by virtue of 153 hits in 403 times at bat, and Bolton 92 safe blows in 245 times at the plate. Hutcheson played in 127 games and Bolton in 97. Poole drove out 50 home runs. ley, Chattanooga-Atlanta Taylor, New Orleans .35 Rosenthal.

Atlanta Anderson, Nashville Bonura, New Orleans .352 and McDaniel, Little Rock-Memphis .351. Partridge rated second to Poole in home run hitting with a total of forty. Champman made the most 223; Poole had the most bases, 1 407, and batted in the most Strohm, Little Rock, made the most doubles, more than Waddey of and Eichrodt of New Orleans led in previouns league record, also with a total of 22 Jeane? a Poole achivement, was 33. of Memphis rated second with 21. Four Nashville; Lapan, Birmingham; Ren- I ton, Memphis and Asbjornson, averages higher than Hutcheson and Bolton but played in comparatively few I games.

Chapman, Mobile, hit a Nashville led in club batting with a composite average of .315 and Atlanta was second with .312. The averages for the other teams were Little Rock Memphis New Orleans Birmingham nooga and Mobile .278. ALLIGATOR WINS GRASSLANDS INTERNATIONAL STEEPLECHASE GRASSLANDS DOWNS, Tenn. ing Irish Lad, fell dead upon the Dee. 6 a gruelling! course a few seconds after he had test over a wet and treacherous thrown his jockey, J.

Pearson, who alligator, owned by Mrs. Stevenson of Roslyn N. today won the Grasslands international steeplechase from a field of 17. The running time for the American on Wednesday. A joint session of the two leagues will be held Thursday.

Tennessee blue grass 11 minutes five see- POCKET BILLIARDS TOURNEY TO BEGIN was unhurt. Red Gold, owned by Byron Hilliard, Louisville, plunged headlong into the turf at the tenth jump and was believed fatally hurt. His its annual meeting tomorrow and the four and a half miles over the jockey N. Weeks, was slightly in- i jured. Eric W.

L. Atterbury, the Englishman who rode the English owned Kilbairn, received a slight concussion of the brain as his mount fell. Alligator, starting slowly, was running ninth near the halfway 4( mark and gradually closed the gap as spill after spiil depleted the 17 charging thoroughbreds. With only two lengths separating him and Waver ley Star, owned by Alto the victor" owner. Mrs.

Stew- lison Stern of New York, Alligator art received as second mon- slipped and fell after landing over Rolin-Robin tournament for the ey, and went to Niblack as the 20th andMart jump of the race, world's noeket billiards cham-1 third prize. i Waverley Star went down hi the pionship at Broadway I A throne: of close to 0.000 per- same manner. Vcademv tonight. gathered to witness the race, Jockey harles Plumb who Greenleaf who has won the the first steeplechase ever run in rode Alligator superbly, quickly title nine times in the last eleven the race, the first steeplechase and continued past the vears will meet considerable op- ever run in America under condi- judges stand. Bally Yarn" jockey position from such cue-wielders tions governing the grand national J.

E. Ryan, brought his horse up Frank Taberski of Sehnec-j over the Aintree course in Eng-; to take second. Maitland ridden tady; Erwin Rudolph, Chicago; land. by J. J.

Jasper, fell at one of Bennie Allen, Kansas City; Pas- Some of the many spills provid- back jumps, but was remounted quale Natalie, Baltimore; Ono-1 more than thrills. Julius F. frio Lauri, New York; Fleisehmann" great chestnut Portland, and Arthur Woods, New York. Twenty-eight games of 125 points each will be played over picturesque course was onds. Bally Yarn, belonging to Mrs.

W. P. Stewart of Unionville, Pa was second with Maitland, owned by Austin H. Niblack of Chicago, third. None of the other entries I finished.

An engraved gold cup, donated NEW YORK, Dec. 8 Alfonso XH, kmg Spam, ami Headed by the defondiag title-! was the that weal holder, Ralph Greenleaf of New York, a field of eight begins a and crossed the finish line seven minutes behind the winner. an eleven-day period. One game will be played tonight, three daily for the next eight days, two on the tenth day and one on the eleventh. A total of $14,500, exclusive of gate re-; ccipts, will be distributed among the eight players.

SPICER AT TOP BUSINESS COLLEGE OF S. C. B. B. TEAM TO PLAY I ATLANTA, Dee.

8 (AP) Carey Spicer, University of Ken- tuekv backfield star, 75 I points during the football sea- son just ended to win first place 1 in the Southern conference seor- ing race. nrTliniT TA VCAniC; Campbell, Alabama, was run-, KtlUKN 1U LtAuUtl up to Spicer with 73 MOBILE SEEKS TO Roberts, Georgia fullback, who led conference scorers early in( MOBILE, Dec. 6 (AP)jthe fall, finished in a tie for; an entire day of confer- third place ith Berger, enees in Mobile with reference to land, each had 71 the probable re-entry of Mobile I he leaders: into the Southern Baseball Asso- Player and School Harvin, Clemson Askew, Vanderbilt Hackman, Tenn. Florida eiation, President John 1). Martin Spicer, Kentucky gave out a statement just before Campbell, Alabama leaving for his home tonight that Geo.

he was encouraged over, Berger, Maryland the prospects of Southern Asso- Zimmerman, Tuiai; eiation Baseball for Murray, Duke President Martin would not add Almokarv, L.S.U. to his statement and his confer- Welch, lemson cnees with City Commissioner Harry T. Hartwell of Mobile, were executive. The league statement follows: a full day spent, in conference with my old-time friend. Commissioner Harry Hartwell, of Mobile, 1 feel much encouraged over the prospects of Southern Association Baseball for.

President Martin came to Mobile after Knoxville interests failed to carry out their agree-! ment to purchase the Mobile franchise. pit int TdPat. Tl.j 1 1 9 75 12 1 73 12 0 72, 12 0 72 i 11 5 71 1 1 1 6 9 12 66 10 1 64 8 15 63 i 9 1 9 0 5 1 9 0 54 The Kingsport Business College basketball team will meet a quint of former Chureh Hill high school stars in George Washington gym this evening at 7:30. The business college five is led by Harper, former star at Church Hill. Harper is captain and coach of the team.

The local five is composed of former stars from the various high schools in this section. Bill Stephenson is manager of the team. The starting line-up of the business college five will he selected from C. Barker, 1L Barker, Christian, Haynes, Harper and Hood. I Free-For-All Fights After Grid Contest Kingsport Boys Get Letters At Adrian College KY.

5.1/1" WRIGHT CAPTAINS Dee. Ralph Wright, tackle, iriurgis, is the 1931 captain of the University of Kentucky football team. He was elected last night to succeed L. G. Forquer, guard, of Newcastle, who graduates this year.

John Sims Kelly, bUr halfback of Springfield, was elected alternate captain. James Duncan and Arthur Agett both former members of I high school football I teams, were awarded football I letters at Adrian College, Adrian, according to a dispatch received from F. A. Hay of Adrian College. Both of these boys entered Adrian in the fall of 1929.

Duncan plays halfback and Agett center. Dale Spi ankle. brother of Coach Le Roy Sprunkle ol port high school, is head at Adrian. ATLANTA, Dec. 6 (Jp) Police reported tonight that fifty persons were injured, none seriously, in free-for-all fighting during the exit this afternoon from the football field after the University of Georgia defeated the Georgia Tech 13 to 0.

As the thousands poured from the stadium, according to police i a crowd of students attacked an automobile bearing the Georgia colors in which E. G. Skinner and Miss Elizabeth Howard were riding. The car, police said, was somewhat damaged, but po- Pce rescued the couple. A general melee followed, the police stated, in which soft drink bottles and cudgels were used.

Three policemen were among those injured. Eventually according to the police re garden hose were Used to subdue the crowd. Police estimated more than 1 0 coach actively participated in the 'fighting..