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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1928
Page
11
Rio Grande begins season preparations for Ohio University game on September 29. Ohio field, Peden expects Olio ready though practice short. Freshmen numbers high but small in size. Coach Herbert and assistant Blythe drill new players for scrimmage against varsity.
Buchtel Timers beat Carbon Hill Longstreth and Monday teams 6 to 6 at Guehtel field. Smathers pitched for the veto, Lovett for the visitors. Despite two losses to the Timers this week, Car bon Hill refuses to quit and seeks a third game on the first open date. Duchtel vets boast a near 0 losses for the season as Shawnee plans a rematch next week. Also Don Black, ex Parkersburg high lineman, joins Marietta College vets practice with the frosh showing promise under Cantinger’s push for varsity. Actor DeWalt Hopper to recite Casey At the Bat before World Series opener at Palo Grounds.
Athens High School gridmen prepare for a first real test Monday at 4:30 pm with teams picked by Dwight Gaskill and Porter Schuler. Positions are hotly contested with several players, including Gaskill, Schuler, Reading, and Shepard, vying for the first string as Coach Harold Wise plans a tight, balanced lineup ahead of the Middleport game. Crow to signal, Hughes to kick, and practice observers asked to stay off the field.
Chauncey Sept 22 The Chauncey Blue Devils near opening game with Buchsel Friday at 3 30 oclock after intensive drills. Coach Pauli Theisen notes smooth formations and improved blocking, while tackling remains a weakness. Key players Ferrel Sutherland Shields Richardson and Ferrer shine in offense and defense as substitutes fill gaps. The heavy line promises a strong front, and practice focuses on passing and defense ahead of Friday clash.
Physical education students in Ohio University are grouped after exams into normal defective posture defective remedial or excused categories. Normal students join regular gym classes with optional basketball indoor baseball and track. Defective posture cases receive corrective exercises tailored to their defect. A few students are fully excused while the department can usually adapt activities to fit nearly every case. Ray Barbuti Olympic champion will race in New York Athletic Club events at Travers Island this afternoon. Walter Miller Cleveland pitcher will wed Samantha Graham October 6. they have been engaged two months. Earl Sande reportedly earned one dollar for riding his first horse in a race in the West field debut.
Ohio University cross country opens season with home meet against Denison on October 20 and Muskingum on November 3 at New Concord. The schedule continues to Miami at Oxford November 10 and ends with the A. I. A. meet in Delaware November 17. Captain Harold Pyle leads a lettered group including Jim Schoal Joe Glander Logan Fry and Harold Wige along with newcomer Harold Moulter and six promising freshmen. Pyle recovering from a recent auto accident expects to wear the uniform soon and says the prospects are better than ever.
Football scores recap shows Clemson 30 over New Jersey 0 at Clemson and South Carolina 19 over Ersttine 0 at Columbia plus Loyola 5 to 1 over Howard at New Orleans.
New York dispatch reports Tex Richard plans seven world title bouts at Madison Square Garden this winter. The fall season opens September 28 with Vinny Canzoneri defending his Featherweight crown as fight arrangements for other weights, including light heavy, middle, welter, and flyweights, are outlined with training and scrimmage notes.
Art Smith, Athens Country Club pro, and Julian Blanton, former Athens pro now in Toledo, will compete in the National Professional Golf Association event starting October 1 at Five Farms Country Club in Beltimore. About 60 players, including Hagen and Sarazen, contend on the Five Farms course. Smith leaves for Washington, then Baltimore, to practice before the event.
Baseball scores across the National League feature Cincinnati and Boston in two first games with dominant Cincinnati tallies and Boston rallying. Second games end with Cincinnati and Boston producing strong runs. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Columbus, Louisville, and St Paul also post varied results. Northwestern loses star guard Brantigan of Indiana after a dislocated shoulder in practice.
Nelsonville High School football eyes a tough week of practice before the season opener next Saturday at Murray City. Coach George Marshall fields a deep backfield led by Huffman, Mace, Hartley and Fisher, with Stocklin and Linton pulling on defense. Strong lines feature Oliver, Whitmore, Hickman, and Ray as key blockers, while Hartley, a standout quarterback, is expected to guide the attack alongside a promising receiving corps and new tackle Columore from Central High.
At Polo Grounds New York Carl Hubbell rookie from Texas returned to the mound to help the Giants beat the Cardinals 6 5 in a tight stretch drive for the National League flag. Lindstrom drove in two with a fifth inning single and Douthit misplayed in the seventh allowing Lindstrom to score and Rees to reach. Andy Cohen followed with a long homer as Hubbell shut down the rally and preserved the win.
New York reports football opens next Saturday with 175 games including two doubleheaders. Yale Army Princeton Dartmouth and Pittsburgh led last year, but the East may not supply the top team this season. A. A. Stage will lead Chicago Maroons against two foes a week hence with Hipen and South Carolina. Occidental also schedules two games on Saturday a week out with Pasadena Junior and San Bernardino Junior.
Logan High School opened the season with a decisive 47 6 victory over Crooksvale High at home. Captain Spencer, quick backs and strong blocking led the attack with two successful passes and multiple touchdowns as Logan rested many substitutes.
Sergeant Clifford A. Huggins led the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry in the Athens Rifle Club weekly shoot at Margarets Creek range. He posted an average near 43 percent, ahead of Dave Taylor who scored 45 percent. Other participants included Pickering Woogerd Murphy Coates Young Watkins and more, with standings showing hits and totals across stages.
Geneva reports that a mission of English and French naval experts may be sent to the United States to discuss naval limitations. The goal is to reconcile the divergent views of the United States with England and France as expressed in the Franco British naval accord.
A Johannesburg dispatch to the London Morning Post reports members of the Cameron Carmichael expedition to South Africa assert man originated in Africa not Asia. They identify the Kalahari Plateau as the birthplace with no geological changes found there. The team now seeks a Bushman type and continues desert exploration. In Chicago, football drills focus on fundamentals as line candidates rehearse plays from a box formation.
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