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0 I I I I I SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1926. WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, Heydler Believes New Generation of Batting Champs Is Making Bow GEORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of The Journal rivals Hornsby who have 8 to stay up. Adams, of the chance Cubs, is high, but of he may, slide Bottomley, Louis, down. should his boss is, but this batter is hitting only .0250, and 19 one reason why the Cardinals have not chirply as they should. Hornsby and Bottomley should be the best pair of batters the but they are not.

One of league, has faltered and the other them has flopped. Who used to do leading? There were Roush, Wheat, Bigbee, Pop Young, Carey, Frank Snyder, and others, who were counted upon to but fat produce batting not only averages timely a hits about which the home fang could boast. 'They seem to be out of it now. Babe Herman, a tall, gawky whom Brooklyn took out vouth far West is better off than of the and hitting the ball with Hornsby that some think the Robregularity ins unconsciously tumbled on one of those freak batters who slip into the national game and by batting skill manage to hold their own when in other departments they are not perfect. has lost his way in the Speaker maze in the American League.

Ty Cobb is not likely to win a batting this year. When championship roll narrows at the finish, probthe and Hellmann will be ably Ruth for supremacy- one found fighting left-hand exemplar of of them a of hitting them out, and the art the other a right-hand champion hitting them over their heads. of But it won't be a novel sight to the American League to watch, fighting for the lead. those fought it out before. If They have both of them were out and Cobb Speaker were out, and the and batting championship were won by Mostil or Falk or Meusel or Goslin, the American League might sit York, June querled John Fan as he scanned the batting averages, "has become of the batting champions of the National League?" Mr.

questions asked of John Heidler, president of the National rehouse and after Mr. Heydler had looked over the figures with puckered brow he gave it up. He thought hard and extracted only one theory, "I believe that a new, generation in." said Heydler. "Hornsby isn't leading now. But later.

He is good for much as any batter we have, but perhaps some of the other men who rivalled him in the past have shot their run at the batting leadership." Rogers Hornsby, of St. Louts, who has been regarded as persona swattica in his organizasumma, never been able this year to get within sight of that altitude which has made him 8. sort of Mount McKinley among the National League batters. Maybe it is due to his maragerlal worries. Men have said that it is not possible for a man to be 88 good a playing manager as an individual player, yet there Speaker who gave the to that theotry in his case.

fie played better ball manager of a championship team. hasn't been hitting the Hornsby ball as well as he should. But he 1s a natural hitter and worried along another six weeks or more will still be batting the ball he when other batters have stopped. If he does get back to the leadership, who are there who will sit with him? None but the kids, apparently. and if that is the result the Natonal League is in for a new deal.

faces of the kids will beam The out the frames of the famous from and the memories of of of the old birds who have been looked upon 88 will be only the talk of sluggers yesterday. Cuyler and Traynor, of Pittsburgh, Herman, of Brooklyn, of Boston, and Lindstrom, Brown, of the Giants, are the momentary up and look in the mirror. Copyright 1926 by Consolidated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis 5-2; Kansas City 4-1. St. Paul 2: Toledo 0.

Minneapolis Columbus 8. Louisville 8: Milwaukee SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Asheville 4-6; Macon 8-1. 4-7: Spartanburg 5-1. Greenville-Columbia, both games postponed, rain. Augusta 7: Knoxville 3.

(Second game postponed, darkness). Women's Athletics By Mary Isabel Caldwell THROW ARMS UP AND TIME YOUR TAKE OFF WITH BOARDS RECOIL Figure Work Here's one for the maid or matron who desires a bit of reduction. Stand with heels together, chest out, and arms extended above head. Bend from waist, keeping stiff, and try to touch the knees floor with hands. When you have bent as far over as you can, bring hands In a continuing arc back of and up.

In doing this, keep you reaching out with your arms as though trying to reach some imaginary object beyond your finger This will keep arms tips. stretched, and the exercise will be felt in the muscles of the abdoIt 1s not necessary to touch men. floor at first. Just bend as far the and gradually you will as you can, find your degree of suppleness increasing. Waughtown Slugs Out Easy Victory The Waughtown Sluggers defeated the Union Grove baseball team in a hard contest on the Waughtown diamond afternoon by the score of do 24 to 8.

Both teams hammered the ball hard, but the winners bunched their blows to a good advantage aided in scoring by six and were the part of the visitors. erors on Waughtown drove Jones from box under A shower of base the hits and continued their heavy againet the slants of stick work for the winners, while Hege, a Brooks. Brendle Home featured runs the by Tucker hard-hitting and catcher, went to the Waughtown times and claimed five bat five base hits, Including A double. hit for four bases for Clarence Union Grove. Box score and summary: Union Ridge AB PO A 0 1 10 Carter, 00 0 Oldham, 3 8 Deberry, 2b Burrell, 3b Heath, cf Teague, If Clarence, White.

rf Younce, 1b Totals. .80 12 24 10 Waughtown AB PO Clodfelter, 2b Allred. 3b Tucker, 1b 12 Brooks. 11, Brendle, ct Hege, Boger, 8walm, Joyner, 11 Totals. 54 25 20 87 12 Union Score Ridge ..001 311 2 00 8 by Innings: .164 003 0.

010 x-24 20 12 Waughtown Two-base -Hege. Swaim, Jones, Deberry. Home rune -Clarence, Tucker, Brendle, Struck Brooks, out--by Bases Carter, 10: balls by off Jones, 2: off Carter. 2. Jones.

8: by 2. Mengel Wins Over Forsyth in Game Sapp held the strong Forsyth Lines team to seven hits and Mengel won a hard-fought game in the Industrial League race by the score of 11 to 8 yesterday afternoon on the Skyland diamond. Mengel hammered Smith for fourteen hits and bunched blows timely to win the batthese McGee and Longworth featured for the Forsyth team by the game Absolutely Correct A summer suit--coat and trousers--plus an extra pair of light color trousers gives the effect of two suits. And when you have a suit with extra knickers it's another great help for vacation packing, where space is limited. We're full of good ideas for vacationists-we've outfitted a lot of them.

Winston Clothing Co. "Quality With Service" Stadium for the University of North Carolina Proposed New Chapel HIll, June 19 -The above sketch shows the proposed new stadium for the University of North Carolina. The campaign secure funds was definitely launched this week. Circulars ton handsome drawing of containing a the proposed structure were malled explaining the plan In alumni, detail and opening the way for subscriptions. The proposed stadium would 33,500 persons, and there seat provision for 20,000 ad- a ditional seats whenever needed.

would be $500,000. The The 'cost project is to be financed through sale of options on seats and the The location 1g a 4. through gifts. beautifully shaded natural ravine back of the present Emerson just Field and on University land. The is to complete the structure plan in time for the Carolina- Virginia in Chapel Hill on Thanksgame Day in 1927.

Work on it giving will be begun as soon as the funds are Options on Seats "The certainty of a comfortwithin the 50-yard zone able seat Carolina play such teams as to see Virginia, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Florida and is being offered those the recompense who subscribe to stadium fund. For everybody who these detributas seats is reserved for a period of ten years, provided he in an order for the seats sends at the regular admission price. All who contribute from $100 will be known as Subto $1,000 scribers: those who contribute $5,000 as Donors; those $1,000 to who contribute $5,000 or more as Founders, All contributors will be by having their memorialized placed on bronze tablets names suitable places on the stadium. at contributor of as much as For a tablet will be $20,000 A bronze placed in the center of a section, inscription telling that the secthe erected through gention was erosity of this person. Plan Heartily Endorsed The stadium proposal was heartendorsed by the General Alumily and the Alumni ni Association long home runs during battle.

Outhammering out off Sapp two terrific blows, side these unable to solve the the losers were of the Mengel hurler. slants Bostic led the hitwith three hits Captain BIll ting four trips to the rubber. for Mengel out of also feature with "Red' Watkins with a tripe and a the willow, double to his credit. in Joe Petree featured the game Mengel team. He the feld for made and cut short several several nice stops during the game rallies by the Forsyth dangerous stole home in the Club.

Sapp ninth Inning. He also the accomplished this feat last Saturday against strong Fogle nine. Mengle Box score AB PO and summary: 5 1 Watson, If Watkins. 14 Petree, 1b Sapp, Miller, 2b 00 Southern, 3b Boyles, K. Page, 89 Totals.

36 11 14 27 7 AB PO Forsyth Lines Phillpott, 3b McGee. 1b Brewer, 68 Wyrick, 89 Longworth, ri Pope, ct Barnes. ct 2h Schaffer, 11 Johnson, Emmett Spicer Is New Dixie Golf Champion Travels Stormy Path to Win George W. Adair Trophy Memphis Shines Both Finalists From Tenn. City Ry The Associated Press Memphis, June Emmett Spicer, Memphis municipal champion, tonight had reached the peak of Southern amateur golfdom after traveling one of the stormlest paths over which a champion clambered to the George W.

ever Adair trophy, He defeated L. P. Jones, Memphis, today In the Anals, 8 to 7. after tying for medalist honors and surmounting such obstacles 09 Lamprecht, W. C.

Harris, Frank Dyer, and Bill Tyne. After a morning round during which he took a six for one hole and fives for five of the eighteen, to stand two up, Spicer played sterling golt to end the match at the eleventh green in the afternoon round. Four birdies were among his afternoon collection and he finished the drat nine holes of the afternoon two strokes below par. Cards, morning: Spicer; Out In Afternoon: Out In Jonest Morning: Out In Afternoon: Out In 445 446 354- -39 344 455 445- 17 644 433 348 ..34 .545 343 346- 455 466 446- 545 845 846--38- 45 Spicer came through the of the tournament to est, matches. In the first round of match play he beat Fred LamNew Orleans, 5 and 4 precht, Lamprecht recently added the Louisiana State title to his previous designation as national tercollegiate champion.

Two other fellow town.amen then fell before Spicer before he tackled Bill Tyne, of Nashville, in the semifinals yesterday, and met Jones today. W. C. Harris, an outstanding tournament player and a vigorous opponent of Spicer in many previous matches, him one of the fights the tournament withardest nessed. Harris carried the fight to the twentieth hole before losins.

one down. Frank Dyer, also of Memphis, former Metropolitan champion. next was beaten by Spicer on the sixteenth green, end Bill Tyne, yesterday's conqueror of Glen Crissman, Inst year's champion, was beaten in the semi-finals, 4 and 3. Jones came into the finals after beating R. E.

MoDade, Shreve4 and 1. and R. G. Bush port, New Orleans, In a struggle which lasted to the eighteenth hole, where he won. one up, Jones defeated Moreland Smith.

Atlanta, in the round, one up, and Nelson third Giddens, Memphis, in the semiAnals yesterday. His hardest fight came from Giddens and Bush. Bush, A veteran golfer, in the first round of match beat F. U. Garrard 4 and and had expected to go far In play, tournament.

Giddens was an the Jones', the two old previously met the semihaving finala of local tournaments. The match between Ewin Watkins, Chattanooga, and Spicer, for medalist honors, will be at a time and place to be decided upon later, association officials announced tonight. ACAJ.NO I Monogram Club at their mencement meetings. Preliminary In outlined at an organi- the plans were zation meeting of a group of any Durham alumni at the WashingHotel Durham on Monday night, May 24. at which time Robert Lassiter, '08, of Charlotte, was named temporary man of what was to be known as the Durham Stadium Committee, gia with Foy Roberson, '05, secreThis meeting decided to call tary.

meeting of all alumni and friends of the institution to consider the proposal, and this meetIng was held at a luncheon at the Washington Duke Hotel on June Every detail of the project was thoroughly discussed and agreed and a permanent Stadium upon Committee was formed, with RobLassiter as chairman and Foy ert Roberson as secretary. Demand Is Obvious With the launching 8. new athletic program which brings alumni into closer relationship with faculty and students in athletic control, and with a reorganized coaching staff taking over athletics next fall, the demand for a stadium to offer physical equipment to meet this program 19 obvious. Last year 16,000 visitors amiably put up with wooden benches none favorably situated, or stood too about the side-lines, to see the Carolina- Virginia game on a field planned to seat fewer than the number of students in atactual tendance at the University. Other institutions in this territory are this need and meeting it on their seeing campuses.

The intramural the numerous State high program, contests, the need of the school State for a convocation place for large gatherings -all these things urgently, press home facilities. the necessity Where the University Lags In spite of its leadership in fields the University of other 19 far behind in North Carolina Its provision for students, alumni citizens of the State and other like to see University teams who in Chapel Hill. The present play of the stadium 18 seating capacity the actual number of smaller than Smith, 2 9 00 ..38 8 7 27 3 Totals. hits -Bostie (2), Watson, Miller, Holton, McGee. ThreeWatkins, Home runs--McGee, base Struck out- by Sapp, by Smith.

7. Hit by pitched ball- Johnson Longworth. by Sapp. Umpires -Beck and Southern. Attendance-150, Westside Loses to S.

P. U. in Game yesterday afternoon on the gers Forest Park diamond by the score of 17 to 14.. Both a teams hammered the ball at will and were aided in scoring by misplays. The contest called at the end of the sixth was inning on account of darkness.

The Linesmen touched Dudley thirteen clean hits, including home runs by Clark and Brinegar and were aided in winning the by five costly errors. Trent, game pitching for the Southern Public Utilities nine, gave up twelve hits, but he kept these fairly well scattered, but eight errors behind him gave the losers many runs. score and summary: 8. P. U.

AB PO Trent. 2 C2 Clark, Clodfelter, 69 3b P4 00 CRO2 Winecoff. 1b 00 Scales, 264 Cunningham, Brinegar, 00 Wilson, Transou, ri Totals. 32 17 13 18 West Side AB PO Philips, 2b 5 Dudley, 10 Knott. 3b Pennex, 1b 2 Hicks.

11 Goforth, Holder, 00 Trent, Payter, 00 8 Totals .39 14 12 18 3 Score by innings: S. P. 410 702--17 13 West Side 123 521--14 12 The Southern Public Utilities baseball team won a free-hitting contest from the West Side Slug- Sacrifice hit--Clark. Two-base hits Clodfelter, Philips. Three-base hits- -Clark, Brinegar.

Discover no Trace Of Morganton Girl Fifteen-Year-Old Cornelia Brittain Missing for Two Weeks Special to The Journal Morganton, N. June Mystery surrounds the disappearance here two weeks ago of 15- year-old Cornelia Brittain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eller Brittain. The girl left her home near the State Hospital after noon June 5 to come to Morganton and has not been seen since.

There are several reports that she left town with some traveling man but local officers have not yet located either the man or the girl. One report was that she was in Asheville, but officers there report they have been unable to find her. Cornelia is a pretty, bobbedhaired girl, of dark coloring and dark eyes, brown hair and has a small scar below her right eye. She is of medium height and weighs about 115 pounds. When she left home she was wearing brown crepe dress a dark blue coat with fur collar and cuffs and an orange hat.

students attending the University. fact, this University now has smallest seating capacity of university of similar importance in this territory. Other universitles have realized the urgent need of a large stadium and have built or are now building. Vanderbilt has recently completed a stadium seating 24,000 and GeorLouisiana are now buildand ing Eastern a and greater Western universities accommodation. have larger stadia and find it comparatively easy to draw immense crowds.

of a stadium like the The uses one planned are innumerable. It will be the largest of 45 the Stats and may be sembly in for State occasions whenever used For the University and needed. State it will be a center all high school athletic championship contests, for University football track meets, student assemgames, commencement exercises, biles, celebrations, and outpageants, do4r meetings. The football will Increasing Interest, in Sports begin next fall with a of thoroughly organized and capably trained corps both freshman and New sports have coaches for varsity squads. rapidly together with the allgained popularity on the campus, and year mural actively entathletic program, hundreds students form of wholesome gage in some 11- exercise.

Increasing student outside attendance at terest and athletic contests have University created the demand for this new The University 18 development. need of a field with now serious deity large enough to seating ca care of the immense take proper to Chapel Hill crowds that come witness athletic contests. to To Play Biger Teams University athletic officials Chapel Hill the The wish to bring to athletic teams of prominent deSouthern universities. It 18 such teams as Georsired to place Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Tulane and Alabama on cia, Florida, for by playing such the University's own athschedule, teams the will be put on 2 higher letics NOAH Numskull(IM ON TH RIGHT TRACK HOW MUCH WATER CAN A PUMP HANDLE? Editors AMERICAN LEAGUE York 6: Chicago 5. New Detroit Philadelphia 3.

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NO. LIBERTY ST. Chapel Hill. All collegiate, games are played on the equal division of gate receipts and the good teams cannot afford to play to small crowds and small gate reThe proposed stadium is ceipts. offered as the remedy, The bigger universities want to come to Chapel Hill for games, but until the University of North Carolina can offer what other universities are prepared to give in attendance they cannot consider playing the University on their schedule.

The proposed stadium is the result of much thought and planning. Other large stadia have been visited for the purpose of ascertaining Just what features are good and which are bad in stadia construction and use. Architects and engineers have been consulted about the plans and location, and all highly recommend and endorse proposed stadium. plane. Now, with the present seating capacity of 2,400, It is not possible to interest the best Southtenms in playing games at Colonial Player Seriously Hurt July 19.

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