Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 17, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee PAGE TWO THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE FRIDAY MARCH 17 1939 DOWN IN FRONT By JOHN BLOOMER pot in IS corner has spent a great deal of time wondering how it is that the directors of the Kingsport club spend so little time moaning the financial condition of the local Appalachian member while directors at Elizabethton Greeneville Newport and Pennington Gap m an annual spring training period from February 1 until the league opening marked by alternate periods of sighing over finances scrambles for money e been living under thc delusion that Kingsport directors seel no great need for money because they had a nice little ic treasury but this writer finally stumbled onto the fact today fund at amounts to like vot tn the Kingsport directors haven't found time f P They are busy in a quiet way at f ti Promises of advertisements concessions and so forth tney hope will net them the needed to to start the which they are going about it presages a healthy baseball team for Kingsport this summer It won't be rich by any means and it will probably fail to the un- profits section of the federal income laws but it will have enough money to pull through the season and fork out the payroll KNOXVILLE QUINT FAVORED TO TAKE STATE CAGE TITLE East Tennessee Lads Over- come Lead Built by Nashville Central to Beat Mid-State Champs Eastman League Ends Basketball Schedule Tonight SOUTHERN LEAGUE FOR 1939 SEASON Werber Will Add Enough To Reds To Team Win National Pennant Says Scribe Schedule for the Tennessee man Arkansas Travelers Are Still twice a month This appeals every spring on thc basis that it is have into of tearful the community to help the baseball club a community project and closely breaking point If there are enough baseball fans of the city to support a club then there is no why the club should not be operated But trying to keep up a the benefit a SmaU of fans is much mighty glad that a few men have taken the task is a task th h entertainment Operating such a club to assume and one that not very many wish Hash and Jock Sutherland and Mississippi The eye larser or hocked the Maroon the f deserves lt Buck Newsom is year and this corner is of c t-n i e te holdout is still holding out and will apparently continue to do is the local directors are concerned until he wishes to Zimmerman the Cherokee so as far come to terms NASHVILLE March 17 fighting band of Knoxville lads occupied the role of favorite today the state high school basketball lourney after winning a thrilling over-time game last night from the powerful Nashville ral team After trailing 10 points at the end of the first quarter Knoxville battled the mid-state the count was and the emulation playing time expired the extra period 40 seconds ild Will Wright sub Knoxville enter scored and sudden death the lot of lie's crack entry To Meet Milan Knoxville will play at 8 o'clock tonight going against the West Tennessee champion Milan ier yesterday over Kittrell 42 to 4 The westerners also chose the route to victory wiping out he early margin of six to go en and win In the other half of thc Nashville Isaac Litton to Central in the mid-state last week and victor over Bradley County will oppose Linden Thc Linden lads who in the mid-state joust won rom Bemis after a contest n which thc West runners-up un- two definite challenges Linden enjoyed a lead after the first quarter but only n dge at half-time The Bemis boys bogged down again in the third and a fourth quarter rally came too late Consolation Bracket First-round losers will get into action again today by virtue 01 a consolation bracket Kittrell will so against Nashville league will be ended tonight with the playing of the j frame between the leading S and M and teams the leaders of the league S and M has led the league throughout the season the team on its heels all the way In the other game scheduled for tonight Twisting will meet En- The basketball season ut see Eastman will be ended next week with a tourney featuring the teams in the league Drawings for the tourney were to have been made oday with S and M mental Lab and Yarn Lab the seeded teams Faced With Two Holdouts In Sharpe and Final Offer Is Made lly The The baseball playing dogies of the Southern Association showed inclination today to head into camp for thc training roundup be- fore the season's mid-April ing Paul Spencer pitcher and ond baseman Lou Bush showed yesterday at the Memphis traming quarters in Fla just in time for pepper game Reports Into Kiki Cuyler's camp rolled havo bumPed of the Chatt into defeat since Sunday Two teams from the powerful Missouri Valley League thc champion Denver Nuggets and the Lookouts players The veteran pitcher declared he was in good shape and ready to start work Lookout President Joe En- JOC are left gel who stayed from the Sanford Coast Fla camp to look over the L 4 I J U f i Fla CSmP t0 the u f be neapolis Millers at Daytona Beach handed out tomorrow night said he found there a promise of Jousts frora Manager Mike Kelly f In the George has yet a who perpetrated I pie of holdouts on the Little Rock he upset that had spectators last night will meet the Thc Nuggets will play trio an Club Travelers Kola Sharpe and land Braxton But into his camp Rhinelanders dence Grows With Addition Player By GAYLE TALBOT TAMPA Fla March 17 think the Cincinnati Reds have just about sewed up the 1039 tional league pennant with their purchase of Worber fleet and third baseman from thc Philadelphia Athletics So do thc Reds They were a lappy bunch around their hotel last night and even Manager admitted he was very pleased with the deal He should be because Werber set the nati treasury back and that for a player no club in the can league needed at the waiver price They are all well fixed at that spot With Werber plugging the hole at third the Reds will be a tough outfit to beat out They finished only six games out of first place last year Fielding Still Good Though his batting fell off in thc latter stages of the 1933 race AI Davis Faces Another Tough Battler On Way To Fame In Ring MIDDLETON the and One-Eye NEW YORK March 17 They call him Bummy Werber is a grand fielder six years in Hie big time ind that's all the Reds want He yesterday strolled shortstop Bernio I has of the speed that Snyder accompanied by Charlie A 1 UJ m Bauder the Hazelton outfielder officials said final offers second encounter this is a opinion I clash with Bemis Burns Milan center jumped into the lead in thc race for high scoring honors with 15 points with Williams of Kittrell and Moore of Linden next with 14 each Owen of Nashville Central for 13 Leach of Milan 12 and Russell of Bemis Compton if Kittrell and Wright of s Members of the Kingsport Wildlife club have decided that when next week 1S over people of this area wil know just what is being done to preserve fish and game in this area the state and the nation ex- tensive program is being planned for observance of Wildlife Week Return of winter put a crimp to baseball practice at Sullivan yesterday but Coach Tom Lacy said that he had hopes of putting the bovs through their first practice session today if Old Sol behaved as he should Training With the Majors LOS ANGELES March 17 I confusion behind Chicago's city rivals the Cubs and For one thing there were well White Sox lined up at virtually full power today in an effort to get the jump in their exhibition series opener The only rookies assigned to start for the Sox were catcher Ken Sylvestri and first baseman Merv Connors while the Cubs called on shortstop Steve Mesner and pitcher Newel Kimball among the sters substantiated rumors that a trade was being cooked up which would send third baseman Cookie getto to the St Louis Cardinals for Don For another thing pitchers Van Mungo and Wayne Lamaster have developed sore Men Are Much In Demand As Southern Coaches By DON KNOXVILLE March the Tennessee football devised by the astute Major Robert Reese the dominant factor in southern ville 10 each SHOEMAKER CARDS FIVE GRID GAMES and were taken secretly to Lakeland for treatment by Carroll Detroit Tigers trainer BRADENTON Fla March 17 SAN ANTONIO Tex March 17 New York were for their a united family today with third fourth exhibition game with the St baseman Red Rolfe signed and in uniform for the world champions exhibition against the Boston Bees The last New York holdout came to terms yesterday reportedly at the club's figure of a raise of over last year The Yanks fresh from two ching duels with Cincinnati looked for more of the same when Mana Casey Stengel of the Bees he would use Fette and Jim Turne on the mound Louis Browns who won all three previous contests the Philadelphia Phils pondered the disclosure of the new manager Doc Prothro that he was ready to week out the roster and would ask waivers on a half dozen unnamed veterans NEW ORLEANS March 17 Oscar Vitt of the Cleve land Indians seems convinced tha Jimmy Webb is the answer to hit shortstop problem With holdout Lyn Lary officially unheard from by the club Vitt said he Webb superior afield and that a full season's test against major league pitching might show him adequate nt the plate TAMPA Fla March 17 by their feat of holdin the York Yankees to two run in 20 innings one of the runs homer by Wes Ferrell which wor yesterday's game the nati Reis the Detroit ers open their exhibition program Thc Tigers full of trade rumors including a catcher betts for the shortstop Travis deal with Washington ST PETERSBURG Fla March 17 by their triumph over the Boston Bees the Boston Red Sox hoped to make it two against j National League teams today in a game with the St Louis Cardinals Manager Joe Cronin chose Eldon Auker and Fritz for the mound chore LAKE CHARLES La March 17 disposed of third man Werber to the Cincinnati Reds by the waiver route Connie Mack put up a callous front to the Philadelphia Athletics two j ing holdouts today Saying he hadn't heard from pitcher Leroy Parmelee and out- fielder Dee Miles since camp op- ened he declared I don't see why they expect major league salaries until they show they can play jor league ball Blue Devils to Open 1939 Season Against Greeneville Eleven to The GATE CITY March games have been definitely uled for thc Shoemaker high ball team next season George Thompson athletic director at the high school announced a question the mashed tato league would do well to bandy about during the off-season for at the present reading there won't be my schools left within a few years Hat don't have at least one land disciple on thc coaching staff An incomplete check by the uni- athletic office discloses that math one of assistants and Bowden Wyatt captain of Tennessee's champions as his right-hand men And then there is Quinn Decker another from Tennessee who piloted the Praying Colonels of Centre College through a highly successful season last year He had The noisy streets of this are always filled with kids Kids playing or ball or shinny Kids that grow up to be great lawyers or violinists or gunmen Kids that occasionally develop into great athletes Al Davis the lightweight is one of the latter Before he is through he may be one of the greatest He is moving up now along a well beaten path Two decades ago a kid named Benny Leonard came storming up out side streets into the old Garden and on to the lightweight title before he was Tonight Davis fights Al barber another New York boy at Madison Square Garden We went over to see 4.1 in Brownsville where he lives It is a very tough section of Brooklyn where as a kid you have to fight or get out Al must have had a thousand fights then The fellows southern colleges and thc aid of Weaver ics and more than a score are using coaches trained Where they have authority these n the Neyland school of former Volunteer stars install the i Neyland system which operates Jt isnt hard to find tne reason with a single from a The spectacular success the Major balanced line the nas enjoyed at Tennessee a under the center span of 13 years has made him Neyland has described his system perhaps the most prominent figure some of the best m southern football since the days tures of football as taught bv of Uncle Charlie Moran Knute Rookne and Gloomy Gil of Centre College late Dan j Dobie with his own ideas but many observers have summed up the the Neyland system as the nearest thing to perfection in tals At any rate there seems to be a of Vanderbilt His teams have compiled amazing record of 100 victories in with 12 losses and 8 ties This was topped last January 2 by Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl at Miami Unquestionably Neyland is ing a powerful influence on for The Blue Devils will open the ern football not only through his season against the Greeneville high j own successful teaching but BATON ROUGE La March 17 school team Sept 8 at Greeneville Three playing dates between Sept 8 and October 26 are still open Thompson said with plans for games being made with Richlands and St Charles The 1939 Shoemaker team will be composed chiefly of veterans with graduation making little dent in the Blue Devil ranks The schedule as made up thus Sept Sept Sept Sept Oct High Oct Oct Oct Springs All games will be played at Gate ity with the exception of the and Virginia High of Bristol tilts No spring training is held at Shoemaker a practice out- lawed by the Virginia conference Season Is Closed On Fish by State The state department of game through the young men who carry his teaching methods to new fields The latest example was the lection of three former Neyland pupils to guide the gridiron of Mississippi State Allyn McKeen whose West Teachers won thc Southern stars Two of them John Barnhill and Hugh Faust are the Major's aides at Tennessee Scattered throughout the south to name only a few of them Bobby at Georgia Tech Herman Hickman at North lina Gene McEver Davidson Hackman College Sonny Humphries West Tennessee Teachers Joe Dougherty Mercer University Phil Dickens Wofford College Paul Hug Southwestern don ti il I Intercollegiate Athletic Association Herbert Brackett The Bo Conference championship last fall Brown Austin Peay Normal while Volunteers cr Eblen Tennessee winning the Southeastern j George Craig Union University ence crown was named to succeed i Jackson and Philip Beene Emerson Spike Nelson as head I Murfreesboro Tenn State coach McKeen chose Murray ers College Around the Circuit By EDDIE BRIETZ NEW YORK March 17 If thc Philadelphia Eagles can get Bronko away from the Bears they'll spring a Tony Galento goes on his personal appearance tour his stooge will be Marty only guy who ever stopped Galento Keep an eye on Eddie Miller for- prise and play the famous fullback mer Kansas City shortstop at Step right up ladies showing plenty of what it takes and gents and see three former Terry set some kind of a i and fisheries warned today that the long distance record today by an- new act of the general assembly ORLANDO Fla March 11 President Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators put his proving stamp on young Morris Aderholt today just about making it unanimous The second baseman from Wake Forest College already had been praised by Manager Bucky Harris and even Buddy Myer whose job Aderholt is trying to get his starting pitcher fur the National League opener against the Brooklyn Dodgers April 18 would be Harry Gumbert While he was looking into the future Terry also delivered self of the opinion Harry Danning would be the best catcher in ball this year not excepting and that Jurges would be the Giants best shortstop since Travis SAN DIEGO Calif March 17 to open their exhibition schedule against the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League the Pittsburgh Pirates indicated tney probably would be beck in California to train next spring President William praised the weather at San and declared we hope to be back next year CLEARWATER Fla March 17 advantage of an open date in their exhibition schedule thc Brooklyn Dodgers went deep sea fishing left a lot of Exhibition Results At St New York A 1 Cincinnati N 0 At Sarasota Boston A S Boston N 7 10 At New Cleveland CA 1 New Orleans 8 SALVE relieves COLDS price became effective yesterday iting fishing for trout bass pike and other game fish The season however will open again for pike fishing June 1 It was pointed out that next year the trout fishing season will open April 1 instead of March 1 as fore The open season on pike and bass will be between March 1 and June 1 The warning was issued for the benefit of those who have planned to fish during the remainder of the month which now is a violation of the statute California Fives Seek Title of AAU DENVER March 17 California teams led the charge for the National basketball championship into the semi-final stages today One of them swept into the round after delivering the most hair-raising overthrow in this renewal c heavyweight champs in the same ring at the same time They are Booking up plans for a exhibition between old Jack son and old Willard with Jack Dempsey in there So Bobby Jones tuned up for the masters with a so-so 73 hum The Cincinnati squad in Florida has beer hard hit by the flu Both California and Stanford want Notre Dame on their football schedules Lightweight Al vis will have riding on his personal nose when he goes against Mickey Farber in garden night The Irish are burning be- cause Mike Jacobs forgot it was St Patrick's Day and didn't put a single harp on the Looks like old times to see John A Heydler former National League president visiting thc training camps again Eastern college coaches arc interested in Joseph Mack crack forward of thc straw high school team with the Boston Bees in Florida Some of our Missouri Valley friends are burning up the wires him thc American eading three times within four years McKechnie wouldn't say for sure but it's more than likely Werber will lead off the batting order He drew 93 walks last season and if he can do that with his new club he will get knocked in with a cel of runs Frankly it will be okay with us if he hit over said thc club official Though of we wants to do The deal last big worry Now he can quit ing to make a out of Frey and send him back to scrap it out at second base with Ed Joost the fine locking kid from Kansas City Lewis Riggs will be traded or sent to the minors for McKechnie plans to carry two first basemen two second basemen and Nolen Richardson as understudy to Myers as shortstop and utility hand Best in League what seen of the Reds in thc last 10 days I'm ready to climb out on that long limb and pick them this time As a team and as individuals they've begged not to but there it is I don't think the Giants Cubs or Pirates has as sound a line-up right down the line Certainly none of them has anything like the potential pitching I watched Lefty Grissom hold the Yankees to one dingy single for five innings the other day and can guarantee he is ready His fast ball is as of yore Paul Derringer who had to carry the load last year with some assistance from Johnny Vander Meer and gazed rapturously at pitching and My my it looks like might go places Pitchers Are Tops The club furthermore is coming up with more great looking young pitchers than McKechnie knows what to do with They're all over he place one day holding lyn hitless and the next stopping the Yankees cold Gene Thompson for instance hopped into camu from Columbia S C a class B with a big chew of tobacco in his mouth and it looks at thc moment like he might pitch ing ball for the Reds with craps the corner fruit and apples are Like all those kids he wanted to be a fighter Some of them missed and went on to become muscle guys for the petty racketeers AI was good and got better He was a very good amateur and pretty soon he turned pro and was ing them in at Ridgewood Grove a Brooklyn fight club long known for its savage unskilled fighting and lusty riotous clientele Just as said Terris and Ruby Goldstein did a decade ago Al and Farber struck up a rivalry Farber comes from the East Side and he has just as many neighbors pulling for him as Davis has It is a rivalry They packed St Nicholas arena the draughty old barn that once was a society ing rink a month ago for a draw and they probably will pack Madison Square Garden tonight Over at pool hall where Davis trains they were taking bets Not for much Two dollars a dollar even four bits his friends now Fellows called Joe there and a lot of the fans are saving for their trip to the Garden Like most neighborhoods of New it is as tightly insular as any mountain village and Madison Square Garden is as far away as Milwaukee A lot of them people never have been that far away from a cabbie told us They go to the shows here and buy everything they need But they'll go over there to see Al fight And them buck bets are the same as a i to a big gambler It'll be a sad tn r i arc Saturday in Brownsville if the kid to preserve fish and game gets licked schools will have charge of the program in the schools while Kingsport Ministerial Association will be asked to take over activity in the churches Plans are also to place posters over the city and obtain a trailer at the theaters to Walters Grissom's CHAPTER OUTLINES WILDLIFE PLANS NEW ARRIVALS IN SPRING SUITS WEAR j Quality Tailoring Quality Fabrics Smart Styling The great out-of-doors it's time to dress it's And this store is in step with the I J For our new selections of fine suits are attuned B lo the season with new color pattern and fabric Joe those new styled suits today are sure to you up Week to be Observed Here With Stamp Sale Program In Schools Churches Plans for active participation in the of Wildlife Week to be observed throughout the tion March arc being made oy the Kingsport chapter of the Tennessee Wildlife Federation The Kingsport chapter is the largest of Sullivan county's four Wildlife grade a squawks because we I clubs The others are located at overlooked the national giate cage tourney in our ball piece thc other day Well moter Emil Liston has it going full blast out in Kansas City with tional champs and runners-up from all parts of the country entered Benny Leonard is making a hit as a referee because he leans over the ropes between bouts and re- gales the fans with fight stories Friends of Melio Bettina N Y state will toss a victory dance in next week Tho Los Angeles Times says laco Wade has written ing he was misquoted after the Rose Bowl game and what he meant to get over was that he and Note to Jce Your double Buddy Moore is called the most sensational heavyweight ever developed in the New York Golden Gloves you'll be a- him Some weeks back Russell Harris bet a pal in Peoria 10 cents against five bucks at least one Peoria bowler would roll a 300 game this season other night Harris got hot and turned the trick himself Pal Moran the old is ill in New Orleans and Nick Camarata and Jimmy Lancaster Bristol Sullivan and Biggest item on the chapter's activity schedule for next week Joe Brosch president of the ter announced today will bn the sale of the wildlife stamps issued by the national for the time last year Proceeds from sale of the stamps which were very popular last year will go to the state and national federations for continuance of the wildlife conservation work Also planned for next week are active programs on behalf of life conservation in the schools and churches of the city Ross N Robinson superintendent of city ril 10 had been made Sharpe and ton Dutch new pilot of the Birmingham was ed to look up and see Art Luce ing his first workout in the out- field Luce who topped the eastern League circuit clouters last year as a Selma Cloverleaf helped relieve the outfield situation con- Paul Dunlap purchased from Montreal was expected by week's end Schaffner Marx Suits Priced to Other Spring Suits to A Complete Line of and Byron Spring Hats 50 Comfortable and very smart Dozens of new styles in Spring's best colors 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