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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1946
Page
8
A collage of tributes and grievances from local sports figures and fans. Notes praise for Virginia Tar Heels star Chan Highsmith and Georgia football plans, plus sympathy for Homer McCoy and Ted Hodge. Calls for more post season bowl coverage and reminders of upcoming High Point wildlife meeting and North State basketball tourney.
A roundup notes widespread coaching changes across major leagues with eastern intercollegiate, big six, and other programs unveiling new leaders. It highlights Frank Thomas not bowl-bound for Alabama and lists several former Alabama players now at other schools.
Tulane likely first college to pair basketball doubleheaders with football. Greenies have staged ban tam league contests for 125 pounders under 15 years old before college games. The program is sponsored by the New Orleans Junior Sports association. Bert Bell handed Bill Dudley a blank contract when rejoining the Steelers, and Dudley filled it in.
Amos Alonzo Stagg, after 57 years coaching college football, will not move to a major program his son said, accepting a new coaching post at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove Pennsylvania.
Margery Miller discusses how expert hunters cling to expectations about deer locations. The piece explains how a buck may appear unpredictably near a clearing, yet hidden biases and timing often prevent a shot, illustrating a general sport psychology trap.
The Fight Managers Guild held its annual beefsteak banquet with over 100 attendees. A moment of seriousness occurred as members prayed for boxing promoter Mike Jacobs, hospitalized after a cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.
The fifty-eighth AAU convention in San Antonio nears year 1947 plans with Olympic games in view. Omaha was chosen as the closing meeting place for its central location in the United States, per committee chair Charles Ornstein of New York.
Billy Fox prepares for the final pre title bout in Philadelphia tonight a 10 round light heavyweight match with Shelton Bell from Youngstown Ohio. The strong puncher aims to cement readiness for February title clash with Gus Lesnevich and has flattened 41 opponents in his career.
The ninth annual Greensboro Daily News All-State football banquet will be held tonight in Greensboro. Sugar Bowl discussions are expected to dominate the program, with joint sponsorship by the Greensboro touchdown club.
Tar Heels face ticket shortages for the Sugar Bowl with about three applications per seat. NC alumni and other fans scramble as 3500 UNC tickets and an equal Georgia allotment are far from enough. Team departs from Chapel Hill by air around December, with games in New Orleans as a key travel plan.
North Carolina opens a 15 game basketball week as Catawba visits UNC and East Carolina plays Cherry Point. Tar Heels show scoring power from last season while independents like Hanes Hosiery and Wake Forest slip in late results.
Walter Johnson the 59 year old famed Big Train of baseball fame remained gravely ill at Georgetown hospital after a relapse. He had been unconscious since yesterday and showed little improvement as hospital attaches described his condition. Johnson, former Washington Senators pitching star, entered the hospital last April for treatment of a brain tumor. All crows are not black. The hooded crow of Europe is mostly gray.
Shrine Bowl receipts for the 10th annual all star game in Charlotte could reach a record level for Greenville hospital funds. South Carolina beat North Carolina 19 to 13 before 17,000 fans as Lewis Brunson and Jimmie Brown led the Palmetto scoring while Bill Cox and Dick Foard connected for UNC touchdowns.
Three Black Bison players Von Drehle Grooms and Hooper earned all state honors in football with Von Drehle named tailback Grooms guard and Hooper pivot center. The selections were announced by the Charlotte News and Greensboro Daily News after reviewing state teams. Hooper has been a leading blocker co captain and defensive star for two years.
Sammy Snead of Hot Springs Va captures the Miami Open at Miami Springs scoring 268 on 72 holes to top par by 12 strokes. Clayton Heafner ties for second at 271 with FE F J Dutch Harrison and Ellsworth Vines sharing third at 272. The event awards Snead 2000 and moves him to the sixth place money list for the year. Fred Corcoran cites improved balls courses grasses and practice as key factors in the record low scoring.
Bison announce that all three senior players Von Drehle Grooms and Hooper earned all-state recognition this season. Coach Tony Simeon praises them as top notch players likely to excel in college and beyond. Drehle's kicking and running, Grooms' blocking and Hooper's defense fueled the team all year.
Baseball delegates left Los Angeles satisfied with week of powwows. A new executive council empowers quick action between meetings and a major minor pact was adopted after three years of bickering. George Trautman elected to lead the minors. Chandler heads the council with key league representatives and two major league players. Trades noted include Gettel Bearden and Peck for Mack Lollar, Leonard sale to the Phillies, and Lopez moved from Pittsburgh to Cleveland for Gene Woodling.
Ten teams have entered the National family basketball tournament to be held December 26 to 28 at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson after a wartime lapse. The Loftis brothers of Durham, 1941 winners, defend. Wilson fields the five Smith brothers and two sisters, with large entries from Nashville North Carolina, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Thomasville, Coleraine and other towns.
The University of Georgia Bulldogs start with light drills in Athens on Tuesday as they prepare for the Sugar Bowl showdown with North Carolina. They will train in Biloxi Mississippi before moving to New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
Utah State's Farmers upset Denver 28-14 in a fumble plagued game to earn a share of the Big Seven title and dash Denver's bid for a repeat conference championship.
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