Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - September 29, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee PAGE TWO THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1939 Indians Annex Second Victory ma Chattanooga Locals Take Fifth Win in Seven Starts Against Pounders in Hard-Fought Battle At Kingsport's Indians undefeated in their first three starts started pointing today for their biggest hurdle of the season Louisville Manual after polishing off the ga Purple Pounders at Chattanooga last night for their victory in their lust starts against tile Pounders The victory came as every tory lias for the Indians over the hard way with the Chattanooga team lending the local eleven until the last four minutes of the game when a long pass Whittaker to Barrett and some fancy running by Bobby gave the Indians their third and winning touchdown of the tussle The game ended with in possession of the ball ir mid- field Both the Indians and the ers showed improvement over their last week's game the Pounders getting some unexpected ance in the passing department from the Indians and the locals finding the defensive abilities of the Pounders improved in almost every phase of the game over that ALABAMA MENTOR Thomas Admits However He Will Have Good Team Despite Dark Side By KENNETH GREGORY TUSCALOOSA Ala Sept 29 only a slight variation Uncle Frank Thomas of the bama Crimson Tide football forces is singing strains of a familiar tune I ain't got no blockers The second line of the same finds him warbling and displayed at Morristown last nobody to call signals for me Kingsport wound up the game with the advantage in first downs 10 to seven and snowed a much ter average in completion of passes than did Chattanooga The Pounders tried at every op- to pierce the Kingsport defense with long passes but were successful only six times in 19 at- tempts However one of those six times gave the Pounders their second touchdown of the game In the third quarter they completed a long pass that tied the score at then made the extra point to jump back into the lead Passes were also instrumental in setting the up for their first tally in the second half when they took a Kingsport kick-off and marched up the field to score and convert the extra point just be- fore the first half ended for a lead After both teams had battled through eight minutes first quarter without and appreciable gain and punts had been exchanged once Duck Dickson Kingsport wingback set the stage for first tally of the game when he took the ball on a reverse and reeled off 59 yards before being dragged to the ground on the line Dickson tried to pierce the line once and failed then tried it again and went over for the score Cifers missed the extra point Kingsport took the kickoff at the opening of the second half and with Cifers Whittaker and Ladd contributing yardage ed up the field for their second touchdown before losing possession of the ball Ladd a newcomer at the fullback spot this year last night turned in an outstanding game He carried the ball over on the second Kingsport down from the line fers converted for the extra point It was soon after that that taker fumbled and lost the ball to Chattanooga setting the ers up for their second tally Cifers took the kickoff however and raced 50 yards to the line but the play was called back because both sides were On the next off Cifers was stopped in tracks and it was not until late in the final quarter that the locals could muster up strength to drive for the winning tally Kingsport lost 30 yards on alties Chattanooga 35 Whittaker Cifers and Ladd were all credited with ex- games while Aesque guard and tackle played an out- standing game in the line Cullom Devil Leader Horatio Alffer McKechnie Writes Another Best Sellert 2 No Longer Is the Rhineland the Sad of Old for McKechnie and his boys Have Given a Pennant CAPTAIN COWAN CARTER Leading the Gate City Blue Devils into the game Saturday night against the Pennington Gap eleven will be Captain Casey ter dependable Shoemaker man Although weighing but ISO pounds Carter is outstanding on both defense and offense being both a good pass receiver and speedy runner Whereupon he continues I ain't got no guards to open holes for me An afternoon in the company of Alabama's gridiron professor leads to the conviction Mr Frank Thomas isn't any too optimistic concerning this 1939 football son He's not exactly pessimistic for there are some brighter sides D Blue Devils Out to Keep Chewing the end of a cigar j Goal Line Intact for Third Straight Week SHOEMAKER READY FOR GAP ELEVEN Thomas admits at times he be- i going to have a good i loam but insists Alabama can't be considered in championship terms Under the Alabama system which in effect is the Notre Dame for Thomas did quarterbacking for Knute Rockne in the early the quarterback directs the team and handles the blocking He hasn't that combination Nor docs he have what he called top-notch guards The Alabama skipper indicated he might have to depend on his left halfbacks Charley Boswell and Herky Mosley to call signals He doesn't like that set-up but his quarterbacks Dal Wicke and Bud Waiters at other positions season haven't mastered the art of running a team Neither has ever called before and they are only fair What I said Thomas is a good man who can knock em down in front of the ball carrier My best blocker iy Billy Slemons a senior who will be used at right half but he is susceptible to ries Maybe things will work out but a team is little good without blockers On the optimistic side Thomas referred to promising sophomore Halfback Jimmy Nelson and back John Hanson upon whom he is counting heavily The Tide tain said he was all set with fine centers excellent tackles and good ends Captain Carey Cox ii the top ter His aide is Warren Averitte The tackles are alternate Captain Walt Merrill and Fred Davis both Special to Tin Times GATE CITY Sept 29 maker's Blue Devils lead by Cap- tain Cowan Casey Carter will be primed to keep their own goal line intact for the third straight week i tomorrow night here when they I tangle with the Gap eleven at Kane field under the j lights at 8 o'clock Starting out under a cloud when they were downed by Green e- ville in their opening game the Bine Devils have emerged as one of the teams to beat in this area with two straight victories by heavy margins over foes considered of equal strength before the season got underway Coach Carl Wise has his team short on quantity but with plenty of quality clicking with speed and gusto and it promises much damage to reputations in Southwest Virginia However Wise has been taking every precaution to avoid defeat nt the hands of a big Gap eleven and has been working the team hard all week on ing and tackling two things which Wise says the team is still deficient in The Devils are also expected to spring several new plays on the Lee County team Probable starting line-up for the I Blackwell and Newman Re- Gate City Carter E Sandidge K Carter Bushelman Lilly Starnes tions among them Sandy the and end Guard prospects include three Wayne Watson John Wyhowanec and Elwood Gerber mny come around looked at his schedule and remarked we have three fully tough games in Fordham ranked No 1 in the East and Tennessee and Tulane ranked as LE LT LG C RG RT R Sandidge RE Warren QB Quillen LH Thompson RH Lane FB Weston Myers Livesy Litton Zion J Collier H Collier Williams T Smith Musick COLLEGES OF AREA By CINCINNATI O Sept No longer do they aigh Remember when No longer they yearn for Pat Moran Sallee Croh Bresaler Kopf But where are the snows of Gone are those long lonesome years of being kicked from Back Bay to the shores of Lake Michigan and the banks of the Mississippi to the champions and hail to the team of Cincinnati Reds that rooted itself from the depths to the stars in two years so short that the the fans can only voice a tired whisper it seems like only yesterday Hail to the champions nnd write these names Frey Goodman McCormick Craft Berger Myers Write these names in Walters And write this in letters of McKechnie Barker Steps Into Gussing Game In 1940 Grid Season Swings Into Full Steam Vols Are Picked By HERB BARKER NEW YORK Sept 29 ing the football first fold test a guessing game that does no one any particular son shocks The South Carolina team many experts think will be outfit is plenty tough again but we'll take possibly proving some guys never leurn Texas The Christians lost O'Brien Notre That's a j and Hale others but there nice soft one to start with Rumor i has been little weeping at Fort it that they both have pretty j Worth operating under a fair ball clubs in any man's league j new coach has three For better or worse Notre gro stars in Washington Strode North Wake Forest may turn out to be the best sleeper of the clay ever there were no flies on the North Carolina offense against adel and this conservative corner is content to string along with the North Carolina Clemson's conquest of the Green Wave was one of last year's major and Jack Robinson a sophomore back but the nod goes to York This gets worse as it goes along Colgate apparently is on the way back after two lean years but this ballot for North Carolina The close with Davidson indicated State is in for a bad evening against a Tennessee Reds Were Due To Break Loose Had Excess Scoreless Innings By EDDIE NEW YORK Sept 29 Those Reds were due to break loose yesterday they had been held too many innings Max Baer's next start will be in Hull to the champions and salute Chicago next month against Bob out of the Chattanooga line-up I Mississippi State Salley played his usual bang-up i game at blocking back until in- I jured and taken from the game The injury was not serious One of the biggest crowds ever to witness a high school football game in Chattanooga ly people saw the game Kingsport Chattanooga Barrett LE Chadwell LT Duncan LG Stephens I Bernard C Helms I Duncan RG M Stephens Depew RT Kellcy RE Hardic 11 Salley QB Cullum Cifers LH Dickson HH Ladd FB Tindel KINGSPORT C 0 7 CENTRAL 0 7 7 The Indo-Malayan mantis insect I am gently fade away help heads mute wonderful new in your complexion by famous Cream Un- most creams speeds up the natural process of exfoliation m gentle action freshens ens dark dull you toward a fresher smoother softer more alluring complexion the kind that men admire find women envy Used and praised for 40 by thousands of women at your or toilet counter lory guaranteed or your money back Get GREASE The fellow Kides u Yellow a Yellow Ami Be YELLOW CAB CO Smoky Mountain Teams Are Busy Tusculum Only Team Playing at Home The King Tornado led college elevens of this area into action for the week-end this afternoon when it tangled at bury N C in an effort to win its second game of thy season The first victory carnc over Concord last week-end At the same time the metal of the Eagles was to be tested by another North lina eleven when the Jefferson City clashed with the j Appalachian Teachers Col- lego team at Boone N C The lost their first start lust week-end when they bowed to Eastern Kentucky Teachers Tusculum's Pioneers defeated by Mars Hill last weak will at- tempt to make a comeback against Smoky Mountain conference sition Saturday afternoon when they meet the Maryville College Highlanders at villo which already has a I tory over Union Ky tucked away in the trophy case fall is ex- to present opposition of too overwhelming a caliber for Planners to be able to get very far although if Coach Johnny Faulds has passing nation clicking tomorrow the Scots might a bigger battle out of game than they think Emory Henry Wasps tonight the Apprentice School clever at Newport News Johnson City Teachers will at- to follow in Maryville footsteps Saturday afternoon when the Buccaneers go to Ky for u tilt with the Union grid team which the Scots defeated last week has an elate this the St Louis Cardinals who gave nothing and by a score stepped out of the National league pennant race as game a club as ever fought its way through a wooly season and lost only when it met a team and a man who wanted victory the worst way and got it the the breaks and refusing to accept the doctor's diagnoses For there are those who say the Cardinals are the better team There are those who say the could give the New York Yankees a fight in the World Series But there are none who say the Reds didn't work for every one of the 95 victories that grave them their first National league pennant in 20 years and their second in tory Some came easy and some came hard but those Reds took nothing for granted except the time of day until the last man was out from April through September It was peculiarly fitting for the Reds the oldest organized ball club to climax baseball's centennial celebration by winning the National league pennant For all you may say that there are other teams who haven't had a chance at the flag for lo these many years people were pulling from coast to coast for the Reds Just why no one knows Maybe it was the color of the gang Maybe it was that ing from the 1937 cellar to the 1939 championship Whatever it was the front office scrapbook tells the story of a mandate from the people to win And they won They won as more than people alternately lived and died in the gathering shadows of day's afternoon They won as Paul Derringer stood as heroic as atio and fought back a tide of St Louis base hits big enough to win any two ball games this season This man from Kentucky who always gives four to five times as many hits as runs saw 14 balls go 1 singing past his ears and saw three more Cardinals get on on er- i rors by Billy Myers He walked i Johnny Mize on purpose once There was that seventh inning when the Curds got four whole hits with nothing to show for the ble but improved batting averages And the game was over no matter how you held the box score the St Louis runs added only to three This man from Kentucky did what every rookie dreams of doing some day With baseball history depending on every sweep of arm he struck out two of the heaviest sluggers in the loague Joe Medwick and Johnny Mize on six pitched balls in the ninth to end the ball game light the fuse under tl emotional gunpowder Paul Can't and won't claim all the credit Tne Cardinals aided and abetted cause no little by tins a low estimate on man's nnd Ernie arms Joe Medwick started that seventh with a double but he wanted a triple nnd Ival threw him out at third Johnny Hopp doubled for Curt Davis in the eighth but strayed too far from second and Ernie cut him down on the next pitch But that's all water over the dam and under the bridge and the kees lie ahead No matter which way you bet you'd better or Red Burman You boys with dough should load up on those odds they are quoting here against Wake Forest in morrow's garni with North lina St Mary's Texas has traveled coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico four times in as many years Why jern the navy Today's Guest Star Howard Green Abilene Tex If the majors could ar- range for the Yanks to take part in a Shaughnessy play-off there might be some hope of dethroning the world's champions we Ceferino Garcia will some of tne big dougn ignore Al Hostak and the if he bents Freddy Apostoli Facts and Figures The population of greater nati is The Reds play to home customers ble the population To do that here the Giants have to average a game for the 77 home games The Hal Kemp crew will air for the tirst time tomorrow night the new theme song of the Washington Redskins They say it's so ring the boys will be asking for letters instead of raises The line Alabama is bringing north to play Fordham next week is the heaviest the Rams have faced since St Mary's California came east in 1933 Attention thy Swan Indian schoolboy pitcher of Gettysburg S D fanned 173 guys in 144 innings this season and walked only 17 of 022 batters Boston 41 Lewis Washington 16 McCpsky Detroit 14 Home Foxx Boston 35 Greenberg Detroit 33 Stolen Case Washington 51 Fox Detroit 25 Sundra New York Donald New York NATIONAL LEAGUE Mize St Louis 352 Medwick St Louis 338 Werber Cincinnati 113 Hack Chicago 110 Runs batted in: McCormick 127 Medwick St Louis 114 McCormick Cincinnati Medwick St Louis 200 Slaughter and Medwick St Louis 49 Herman Chicago 18 Goodman Cincinnati 16 Home Ott New York and MiKC St Louis 27 Stolen Handley 18 Hack Chicago 16 Derringer Cincinnati Wyatt Brooklyn as good if not better thrin last year's unbeaten array Reaching into the hat Nebraska Wisconsin but it probably will be close Temple Stabbing uncertainly in the dark town Holy The saders first start under a new coach Joe but the wer still is there Holy Cross Charley Bowser is trying to fill Doc Sutherland's big shoes at Pitt but a mean the Panthers are going into a sudden nose dive We'll take a flier on Pitt State may be one of the coast big surprises and gets the j call here Southern close but Southern California Rose Bowl champion must bo picked first team looks good but they play ball with regiments these days Army to win handily Ditto Navy to get head Coach Swede son off on the right foot Need you ask? Minnesota The have Paul Shu one of the country's great backs He's the principal reason for this hurich on Louisiana L S U to avenge last year's stunning upset No worries for Alabama Mississippi and probably close By the coin Arkansas Davidson's gerous in the air but Duke should mop up Texas A The Aggies look safe The tip is out that Lain and be this year trustingly Oklahoma Southern Out of a dense fog Oklahoma The fog hasn't lifted yet Texas If anything this is worse Eenie meenie Missouri Santa Might be close but taking Santa Clara South One touchdown separated them a year ago and this may be a duplicate South Carolina Skipping over the Duquesne over Illinois coal mine in the country must be I Wesleyan Kansas over Drake idle i burn over j Syracuse over Clarkson Iowa State over Denver in a close one mouth over St Lawrence Carnegie Tech over Wittenberg Fordham over Waynesburg Brown over Rhode Island Boston College over Lebanon Valley West Virginia over West Virginia Wesleyan Iowa over South Dakota Chicago over Beloit Illinois over Bradley igan State over Wayne Georgia over Citadel Washington Lee over Sewanee Richmond over Lafayette sinus Villanova over Muhlenberg Tomorrow's best football sleeper is Wake Forest over North lina Joe Di Maggio has moved the date of his marriage to thy Arnold back to Nov 1 and it will be in San Francisco instead of New York Johnny Paycheck the corn belt heavyweight is about to invade the east and pick up torn torn beater writes that chicken and steaks are the most popular gastronomic items with the footballers No news is that one bud U of Virginia has 50 backs out for its freshman team Please Clemson really wanted to get tough with the and newspapermen it could start a team with poulos Hotkowski Huffstetler and paolo in the line and and ski in the backfield On the bench would be such tough ones as Heinsohn Kalwitz Sosnowski Kronstadt Leonhirth and brakos All we have to say is that every squeezed out a victory over the last night The teams clash again tonight in the fifth game then move back to Texas to finish it up Sam Nahem ths scholarly rister from Brooklyn is Manager Larry Gilbert's pitching choice in the last home appearance of the Vols The likely opposition is Ed Greer also a hander BIG SIX WIN CHAINS IN SERIOUS DANGER ON Three Teams With Perfect Records Clash with Opponents Eyes on Bristol Vikings at Unbeaten and untied teams the Big Six conference and a Big Six fan could almost be astounded by the list swing into their fourth week of gridiron activity today and if they emerge from their scheduled still unscathed there should be much rejoicing among the Three conference teams City Tennessee high of Bristol Morristown still boast records un- marred by either conference or non- conference foes in the first three weeks of the season All three teams meet foes today rated worthy of their metal and in one case the conference team is a distinct un- Eyes will be on the Tennessee High Vikings of Bristol tonight when the team that got the jump on other Big Six aggregations by defeating the Erwin Blue Devils in the opening conference tilt clashes with the Knoxville high school jans at Knoxville Bristol which was not rated as an important tor in the East Tennessee football picture before the season defeated its first two with ease then staged a distinct upset last week by tumbling the Erwin eleven In comparison the Trojans defeats in their two starts Johnson City gaining one victory Boys High of Atlanta the other Despite this the coached team remains the to gain its first win of the season at the expense of the Vikings The Johnson City Hilltoppers who could have a very satisfactory season if it had ended yesterday fcj virtue of their win over ville will run up against a Milligan Frosh eleven whose true strength as yet remains a mystery Although beaten 0-0 by Elizabethton in first the Frosh are very capable opponents anil are ex- to give the Toppers a good run for their money tonight at Johnson City Star of the Morristown Roosters is riding high today as they meet the eleven on the field The Rooster stock is on a boom as the result of their defeat of the Central Pounders lost and Coach Petie Siler's team is be- ing watched for signs of Big Six championship caliber Erwin defeated in its first Big Six start will side-step conference opposition today when the Devils play McMinn county high school's eleven at Erwin There Is still plenty of time for the Blue Devils to make a come-back and win ranking again and there wouldn't be a better opportunity to start than tonight Elizabethton Cyclones decisively beaten last Saturday by a powerful Central high school aggregation of Knoxville has an open date for this week-end Major League Leaders LEAGUE DiMaggio New York 382 Foxx Boston 358 Rolf 6 New York 139 Foxx Boston 131 Runs batted in: Williams Boston 141 DiMaggio New York 120 Rolfo New York 2.11 Quinn St Louis 193 New York 40 Greenberg Detroit and Williams Vcls Even Series With Texas Team 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