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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1940
Page
8
The Sports Editor notes a packed schedule with Western Conference track, South Atlantic golf at Blair Park, Tri City baseball, college and high school games, boxing matches, and softball starts. Pro and semi pro leagues begin in April, with remarks on Pirates, Athletics, and Bee players and plans for flexible lineups.
Charlie Gilbert could join the Brooklyn out field squad with only one previous year of Organized Baseball experience. His father Larry Gilbert, a Southern Association manager for 17 years, coached him through five industrial league seasons. Kenneth D. Raffensberger, a limber lefty, trained with the St. Louis Cardinals and will try the 1940 season with the Chicago Cubs, possibly the first of several Raffensbergers to reach the majors.
Indianapolis seeks a lightweight title fight winner to face the Lou Ambers Lew Jenkins victor. Detroit News notes big league managers wives on display and golf stars idle until the $5,000 Goodall tournament. Jimmy Demaret boosted earnings near 87,652 last season.
The Training Camps Washington appoints the youngest team in Major League outlook to capital supporters Connie Mack sends Lodigiani Fred Chapman and Chester Poindexter to minors for development and exposure.
The Tri City league will start April 27 with eight clubs led by Hanes Hosiery Hanes Knotters and Siler City Chatham. Greensboro teams White Oak Mock-Judson-Voehringer and Triangle Adams-Millis High Point. Siler City joins after Tomlinson declined entry. Home games split between Triangle High Point and Adams-Millis. officials plan schedule and by laws at Greensboro meeting.
Duke baseball led by Coach Jack Coombs showed power at Davidson in a Big Five and Southern Conference clash amid other ACC state matches. Elon crushed High Point as Fletcher drove in the decisive run, Wake Forest beat NC State 7 to 6, and tennis saw Wake Forest top NC State 7 2.
Fragments mention a Kitty League travel note from Owensboro Kentucky, Clemson back Banks M Fadden, Hank Greenberg at first base, Nebraska spring drills with many natives, Dizzy Dean decline, Iowa Minnesota thriller films, and George Raft with George Latka as a rising star. no cohesive single event.
Washington hosts a youthful Senators squad in a preseason showing against the Boston Bees. The regulars average 26, with pitchers younger than that. only two of the first string have passed 30.
Numerous spring exhibitions halted by cold weather with several games completed. Notable results include Brooklyn 5 New York 1 in Louisville, Chicago 7 St. Louis 6 in Wichita, Cleveland 14 New York 1 in Salisbury, and Detroit 16 Knoxville 13 in Knoxville.
In Galva veteran coach John Romans takes the civil service exam for a postmaster position. Romans lives in Moline and hopes for a job that lets him keep his letter men longer than four years.
Joe Stripp recalls Dick Bartell as a nasty little fellow yet admirable. The piece notes Pastor’s house on Church Street at Saratoga, built by Pastor.
Philadelphia welcomes Chuck Klein back boosting the Phillies as team president Gerry Nugent notes. Oklahoma City reports an infield setup with Johnny Mize Stu Martin Jimmy Brown and Don Gutteridge seen as the likely 1939 starters. Cincinnati's Derringer to start vs Boston with Cronin Galehouse Dickman and Bagby sharing mound duties. Cubs and Browns face pitching woes with no fourth Cub starter and Haney lamenting late-inning losses.
Casey Stengel of the Boston Bees endures a rough spell as the club struggles to hit. Al Lopez suffers a finger injury with a split bone under the fingertip, adding to the team’s woes.
Kansas City April 10 An escapee from the St. Louis Cardinal chain gang Tommy Turner 23-year-old catcher infielder joins the Chicago White Sox as a top rookie. Turner hit .312 last season with 137 games for Houston in the Texas League. He cost $7500 from the Cardinals and may become the club’s first string catcher by September.
High Point College released a football schedule under Coach Virgil Yow listing ten games for the fall. The opener is September 20 vs Wofford in Millis Stadium with five home games and five North State Conference foes. Newberry is a newer opponent, replacing Appalachian, and the slate includes Lenoir Rhyne, William & Mary, Catawba, Emory & Henry, Western Carolina Teachers, Elon, Guilford, Eastern Carolina Teachers, and a nonplayed date on November 22 followed by Newberry at Newberry.
Jack Hussey, the Bison’s key pitcher and slugger, is expected to play as Cach A. J. Simeon’s Black Bison meet the Winston-Salem Black Demons at High Point College stadium this afternoon. After a tough start with only one win, the team hopes Hussey’s return steadies both the mound and the lineup.
In New York Petey Scalzo outpointed Primo Fiores. In White Plains Jackie Larrimore outpointed Bill McDowell. In Dallas Jimmy Jackson outpointed Big Boy Hogue. In Los Angeles the results list shows similar decisions for local boxers.
In Indianapolis Billy Thom 179 beat Lord Lansdowne 178 in Bloomington Indiana. The match used a 2 of 3 falls format with Sweish Angel 235 throwing the Irish Angel 212 in 15 44.
Pinehurst Polo Club gears up for a high caliber contest Sunday afternoon between Pinehurst and the New York Athletic Club. No. 2 field is being groomed, Pinehurst seeks a 11th straight win, and a capacity crowd is expected with parking and grandstand arrangements in place for spectators from across North and South Carolina and a New York contingent.
The North and South Amateur tennis tournament reached the second round at Pinehurst and Chapel Hill as seeded players stayed in contention. Notable winners include defending champion Charles Rider Archie Henderson top seed Martin Buxby and Walter Mesercle with many UNC participants remaining for class commitments.
In Thomasville on April 10 the semi pro McCrary Eagles scored five runs in the ninth to beat the Tommies 9 to 6. McIntyre and Davis held the Eagles scoreless for eight innings before a late surge. Henry Easley and Harris led the Tommies with key hits while Laceman went 2 for 3.
High Point College traveled to Guilford to watch Coach Black Smith’s soon to emerge team fall 12 to 6 to Elon Christians. Hobson led Elon with three hits including a homer, and Showiety hit another homer after Hobson’s. Koontz and Nance paced High Point with multi hit games, but Elon built an early lead and added runs late.
National Semi-Pro Baseball Day opens the sandsot season with an estimated 60 000 games across the nation. George H. Sisler will toss the first ball in Wichita on May 5, with Walter Johnson in Washington D C part of the observance. The sixth national championship runs August 16 to 28 with a $5 000 prize and trip to Puerto Rico. Loe Diakales oversees North Carolina district tournaments in High Point in June.
Jimmy Perrin of New Orleans is named the No 8 world champion by the Louisiana State Athletic Association. Petey Scalzo is recognized by the National Boxing Association despite controversy. Joey Archibald receives blessing from the New York Boxing Commission though the NBA disowned him.
Ath ens Country Club hosts final tune up for the Southern Intercollegiate tournament with 36 holes of qualifying. LSU sophomore Karl Stewart shot six birdies but finished 72 as his team beat Alabama 16 to 11 . Georgia captain Sonny Swift matched six birdies and par to power an 18 to 0 win over Hampden Sydney. Alabama beat Michigan 11 to 7 in another practice match. Teams from Florida Mississippi Duke Furman and others arrive. Duke's Joe Taylor is defending champion.
Jean Bauer of Providence R. I. captured medal honors at the Land of The Sky Invitational for women in Asheville. She fired an 83 at Biltmore Forest CC to lead a field of 17 after two rounds of 72 holes. Jane Cothran of Greenville D C. was runner up with 85 while Helen Dettweiler of Washington and Mrs. Ben T. Parks of Charlotte tied for third with 90s.
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