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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1936
Page
11
The Carolinas Y.M.C.A. basketball tourney begins its second straight year with four on college floor matchups. At 6 p.m. tonight High Point College hosts Durham and Greensboro as the event kicks off with the opening games and a listed schedule for the teams.
The spring baseball rookie camp list shows players from Colgate Providence Florida Alabama Mississippi State Villanova Swarthmore Carbondale and more. Raleigh defends title as tournament draws feature Raleigh Kannapolis Greensboro Durham and Winston-Salem among others.
Favorites Marsh Globe Parlor Harriss Covington and Adams Millis Pointers won last night in amateur league games. Globe Parlor beat Amos 34 to 14, Marsh defeated Highland 41 to 21, Harriss Covington edged DeMolay in overtime 84 to 27, and Adams Millis edged Tomlinson 20 to 19 in a late battle.
Freddy Steele, the top boxing figure in Tacoma, turns down a $1,500 monthly instructor post in Japan. The Tacoma News-Tribune runs a six-page ad section backing Steele before his Dundee bout. Nearby sports figures and events include Jimmie Foxx heading to Florida for baseball school, Dempsey vacation plans, Ralph Metcalfe’s 1000 mile round trip to race in Boston, and various colorful notes on other athletes and promotions.
The Black Bisons of High Point high school moved toward the Western Conference title with an emphatic 41 to 19 victory over Gastonia High. It marked their eighth straight win in the conference race and continued their flawless march.
Winston-Salem Y M C A will field a strong fast five in the Inter-State YMCA basketball tournament at High Point College tonight and Saturday. The Camel City five, one of the tw o Carolinas top Y teams, has only one loss this season and features stars John Sappenfield Sticks Southern Red Phelps Holt Cockerham Obie Johnson Leinbach and more. The squad aims to challenge other teams in the event with games on the college court tonight and Saturday afternoon and night.
The State Bankers association executive committee votes to hold its 1936 convention as a Bermuda cruise from Norfolk Virginia, June 7 to June 12. The plan includes a five day voyage with meetings aboard ship. The report also notes Cornell basketball star considering a jump to a major league squad after college.
SPRINGS Calif Feb The national football rules committee in a three day meeting signals minor changes including ending the slow whistle introducing a pistol end of game signal using three officials if feasible numbering players on both sides and discontinuing the slow whistle and a first down penalty after a kicker is fouled. Walter Okeson chairs the eleven member panel with advisory football men present.
Chapel Hill Feb 0 The Alumni Assembly of the University of North Carolina disapproved the Graham plan to size athletics as adopted by the conference. A resolution urged scholastic eligibility and requested reasonable expense aid, with a separate motion opposing transferring the engineering school to the Raleigh unit. The meeting opened the Carolina Inn as a hospitality center funded by John Sprunt Hill. the inn, erected in 1928 at a cost of 200000, was donated to the university.
Cinnamon is produced by fermenting stripped bark from the cinnamon tree to loosen the inner bark, which is then used as the spice.
Tonight at six o clock the Carolinas Y M C A basketball meet opens in High Point with eight teams from two states. Featuring transfers from Davidson and Carolina, plus local stars led by Woody Thomas and Charlie Spencer, the doubleheader and weekend finale promise a strong indoor sports season for the city.
Tickets vanish as about 125 of 250 ringside seats remain and orders can be placed through The Enterprise for transmission to Monogram club. Other notes mention Rogers Hornsby and Al Thomas with St. Louis Browns, boxing in San Francisco, and various sports topics of the day.
Bunn W Hackney Jr will present the H A Millis Blocking trophy to Herman Snyder of the Tar Heels at Chapel Hill during intermission of the Carolina Washington and Lee game. Snyder repeats as Big Five blocking back award winner for 1935 after 1933 and 1934 wins. The ceremony honors teammates over personal glory with a gold medal and engraved silver scroll.
The fourth annual Carolina Golden Gloves tournament continues with quarter finals and some semi finals on the program today. Forty three boxers were eliminated in yesterday's bouts with many knockouts. The last semi finals are set for tomorrow night and the finals will be Monday night. No bouts tomorrow afternoon.
More than a hundred officials from the Ford Fricksa and the Harridges assemble in Birmingham to discuss amateur eligibility rules and set dates and sites for national tournaments. Representatives from the National Amateur Federation, American Baseball Congress, and Mid-South Amateur Athletic Association attend as Cincinnati and Cleveland vie as tournament hosts with a date likely chosen tomorrow.
A decade passed since George Wilson, ex Washington star, alleged Washington owes him 10500 for the 1926 Rose Bowl clash with Alabama. A media writer muses such a delay points to a wrestling career influence.
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