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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1941
Page
6
Both Duke and Oregon State hold football camp sessions in Durham ahead of the Cotton Bowl matchup. Coaches Stiner and Crowley discuss returning players and wartime roster shifts as optimism grows for a strong performance against strong opponents.
Duke’s 1940 squad, under coach Wallace Wade, aims for a high scoring Rose Bowl showing against Oregon State. The Blue Devils boast 311 points this season with potent backs, ends, and a strong defense led by tailback Steve Lach. Sophomores Lew Long, Bob Byer, and othersSee full text.
Christmas week brings visits among Moran County families as Parker Kirby Green Murphree Self and others greet relatives. Auburn student Jack Morgan spends holidays with his parents Fred and family while Nat and Decatur residents join kin in town for the season.
A speedy Miami high school squad defeated City College High of Baltimore 26 to 0 on Christmas night in Miami. The game drew 14,126 fans as Baltimore threatened briefly in the second quarter but stalled at the Stingaree seven. The Decembers hottest weather in Miami aided the hosts, who led from the opening kick and dominated the match throughout.
In New York Alexis Thompson expands tennis shows as Bobby Riggs and Frank Kovacs debut at Madison Square Garden. Thompson buys over $8,000 in seats including all $7.70 ducats to attract friends and stir tour profits while ski crowds lament lack of snow. He hints at play-for-percentage plans amid cautious talk of players coordinating.
Buffalo Evening News notes Pittsburgh field club plans an escalator from the 17th green to the 18th tee and suggests similar lifts for other clubs. Gary Body of Norfolk Naval Training Station baseball worries about post spring training competition as he fields a top AA team with Bob Feller likely headlining. Claud Corbitt may join the Dodgers if not drafted, while Al Davis is transferred to the Philippines. Ray Trail enlisted in the Army air corps at Wichita Falls training station.
Commander John E. Whelchel once coached U S 8 Idaho with star lineman Ken Overlin. Moffat Storer of Duke may miss the Rees Bowl game due to a torn knee cartilage. De Baker of the Detroit Tigers is with a San Antonio home defense unit. Burleigh Grimes, Toronto manager, says he has given up chewing tobacco on the field.
Lawrence Cove visitors included Mrs. Conner Livingston and daughter Dortha Jean. Mrs. S. R. Long and son 8. R. Jr. stayed with her mother Mrs. B. F. Turrentine who is bed bound. Paul Lindler, home from Athens, spent holidays with parents Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Lindler. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Parker and children of Decatur joined Cr. K. Parker and wife for Sunday dinner.
Census figures show New Mexico's birth rate at 277 babies per thousand, the highest in the country, compared with the national rate of 17.9 in 1940.
Four top professional players Don Budge Fred Perry Bobby Riggs and Frank Kovacs join amateur promoter Alexis Thompson in a touring venture promising $100 000 in guaranteed earnings across 80 cities through May The plan features a round robin format with a tiered prize pool and guaranteed minimums for Riggs and Kovacs aimed at building a profitable open championship style tour.
Elmer Riddle of Cincinnati Reds fame, now coaching a Columbus Nehi semi pro team, boasts a .500 record and claims coaching basketball is easier than pitching. He plans a benefit game in Atlanta to aid a Temple of Basketball honoring James Naismith, while scouting contracts and guiding substitutions.
Census figures estimate that alcohol related illness and chronic alcoholism claim more than 2,500 lives annually in the nation. The report highlights the impact of alcohol abuse on public health and mortality.
In a profile of Fordham, sophomore Ben Babula and a deep backfield are highlighted as the Rams’ strength. Jim Crowley’s crew features runners like Joe Andrejco, Steve Filipowicz, and Jim Blumenstock, with Babula and Cheverko adding depth. The line is solid but overshadowed by the powerful backfield as Fordham ranks defensively poor among bowl teams, scoring frequently but allowing rivals high points.
Miami Florida December 26 194? University of Georgia Bulldogs led by coach Wallace Butts head for Miami to play Texas Christian in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day. Key players Frankie Sinkwich Lamar Davis and Ken Keuper are relied on to face the Texans.
Ted Schroeder the national doubles champion is seeded No 1 for the Sugar Bowl tourney opening Saturday Wayne Sabin is No 2 Gardnar Mulloy No 3 and Bryan Bitsy Grant No 4 Seventeen players compete in the event. Ernie Blandin Tulane tackle sets a milk drinking record among the Eastern all stars in practice at Biloxi. He and Duquesne end John Rokisky duel in a luncheon contest. Blandin drinks 11 half pints to Rokisky s six.
Cecil Travis, longtime Washington shortstop and third baseman since 1932, will report for Army induction at Fort McPherson on January 7. Draft board notice arrived after a 60 day deferment last summer. he is 28 years old as of August 8.
Eastern coach Andy Kerr reports 21 place-kickers on his squad plus a drop-kicker among the trio of all-star teams in New Orleans. Oregon State Alabama Fordham Missouri members plan to attend, with Sugar and Cotton Bowl participants stopping en route.
Hollywood reports Mickey Rooney again leads a national exhibitors poll as the top box office attraction for the third straight year. The text notes Shirley Temple had ruled the prior four years, 1935 to 1938, with mention of potential interest in stars like Clark Gable Gary Cooper Betty Grable and Gene Tierney.
Herbert C. Ryding former president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company has been named head of the Birmingham unit of a British war relief society.
The Census Bureau reports a rise in average life expectancy for male infants from 482 years in 1900 to 606 years in 1940, reflecting improved early life survival and health conditions.
A year after two new rules boosted offense unlimited substitutions and fourth down passes inside the 20 changed college and pro play. AP writers named the scoring surge, the T formation rise and broader trends across football including attendance, night games, and shifts in power, with other sports noted too.
Harold Fisher of Montgomery and Mrs Florence Fail editor of The Tuskegee News married on Christmas Day in Tuskegee. Fisher long served as state editor and feature writer for The Birmingham News-Age Herald and as public relations director for the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce. Mrs Fail is daughter of H H Golson, previously editor and publisher of the Wetumpka Herald.
Census figures for 1940 note over a billion dollars worth of tobacco products consumed or destroyed as more than 180 billion cigarettes 7 900 000 cigars and over 7 500 000 dollars worth of pipes and cigarette holders were manufactured in the period.
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