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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1941
Page
6
Secatur Boy named to second all conference team as Decatur High School officials announce the end of athletic relations with Morgan Whitmire in a list of players and honors across multiple colleges.
The Agriculture Department estimated the 1941 cotton crop at 10 976000 bales of 500 pounds gross. The area for harvest is put at 22 376000 acres with about 3.8 percent abandoned. Acre yield and prior-year figures are provided with comparisons to a month earlier and the ten-year average.
Don Hutson of the Packers named unanimous 1940 National League Pro All Star. Cecil Isbell also listed. Sid Luckman George McAfee and Danny Fortmann headline among Bears and Packers stars with several teammates on the first and second teams and an extensive honorable mention list.
Decatur's major league figure Truett Sewell is recovering from thigh and calf wounds after a shooting during a deer hunt in the Ocala forest. He and Florida Industrial Commission member Bill Barnett were among Tampa and Plant City friends when the group fired at a deer. Sewell is expected to leave the hospital within a week.
The data lists acreages and estimated production for 500 Ibs gross weight bales by state. South Carolina shows 1 172 000 acres with yield 165 and production 405 000 bales. Georgia 1 826 000 acres yield 164 production 624 000. Alabama 1 755 000 acres yield 216 production 790 000. Eeceene 700 000 acres yield 411 production 600 000.
In this Wide World sports column Fullerton notes boxing stars in Navy service amid Far Eastern crisis and previews boxer of the year, rosters, and touring figures. Mentions Fred Cochrane and others, Rose Bowl chatter, and spring ticket sales plus personalities from baseball and golf referenced for entertainment.
Chicago reports the winter meetings reopen with majors, minors officials gathering for talks in Jacksonville and Chicago. Topics include all star game site, seven night games, and minor league amendment allowing farm teams to advance players without current assignment rules.
Georgia Tech resumes hard training work as the team plans to depart Dec 19 for a Dec 27 game against the California Bears. Coaches expect all reconditioning to be finished before departure with a stopover in St Louis en route.
Texas defeated Oregon 71 to 7 and Rice beat Southern Methodist 6 to 0. Texas A and M won 7 to 0 against Washington State. USC and UCLA tied 7 7. Mississippi State beat San Francisco 26 to 13. Utah edged Arizona 12 to 6. Hardin-Simmons defeated Tempe Teachers 20 to 0. Florida A and M beat Tuskegee 15 to 7. Hawaii beat Willamette 20 to 6.
Chicago Bears defeat the Chicago Cardinals 34 to 24 to clinch first in the Western division and force a title playoff with Green Bay next Sunday. The winner meets the New York Giants for the league championship on December 21 after Brooklyn and Washington also win their finales.
Fred Corcoran, head of the professional golfers association tournament operation, denounces gambling in golf and halts a $1,000 side bet for an exhibition between Sam Snead Clayton Heafner and Ben Hogan Byron Nelson. He vows to bar promoters as PGA purses reach $200000 for the year.
A Tech party will attend the Rose Bowl game between Duke and Oregon State on New Year’s Day in Pasadena.
Continued agitation by Morgan County High officials over two Decatur players led to Decatur High School ending athletic relations with Morgan County. The contract expired on Thanksgiving Day and will not be renewed as Morgan County officials pursued ineligible claims through the District Athletic Board. Two fights at Thanksgiving produced charges. Jack Sherman and Seth Pitt of Decatur and Gurney Lackey and Tasker Ryan of Morgan County were involved, Pitt fined $15 plus costs.
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