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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1932
Page
8
High Point boys' team with four lettermen and one newcomer faces Lexington neighbors tomorrow at 8 in the local gym as coach Marlette plans to curb offensive roughness before the visitors arrive.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic council asked George Little to resign as director of athletics. A straw ballot showed head football coach Glenn Thistlethwaite with five votes and basketball coach Walter Meanwell with two votes. Irwin Uteritz appeared as a compromise between faculty and alumni members.
Athletic director Edgar Jones of the University of Florida announced a game and return game with the University of Tennessee. The Vols will visit Florida for the first game on December 3 with location to be fixed later. The return date and venue for 1932 are to be determined.
The New York Giants mailed 35 contracts for the coming season as the major league economy policy takes effect. Secretary Jim Tierney declined to disclose salary amounts, but fans expect significant cuts in pay for players.
The Gobi Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, is becoming increasingly arid and steadily encroaching into northern China, signaling expanding desertification and environmental concerns.
Babe Ruth, in good shape and confident, declares he aims to play at least five more seasons as a regular and possibly manage someday. He values his 80 000 salary, hopes for one or two-year contracts, notes a 73 round of golf, 38 inch waist, and says 1932 pennant chase should be easy for the Yankees.
New York January 7. Jack Kearns manager of Mickey Walker signed for the heavyweight title bout with Max Schmeling set for February 26 in Miami. The Walker Schmeling fight at Madison Square Garden will be a 15 round bout. If Walker wins, Dempsey could get a title shot.
Meyers Department store basketball team of Greensboro edged Friendly Cafeteria 23 to 19 on Salvation Army floor. McCabe led visitors with 10 points, Alcock topped locals with 8 as the game swung tight after a 8 4 first quarter edge for Friendly.
Louisiana State purports to recruit Captain Lawrence Biff Jones and Bert Ingwerson to lead the 1932 football program. If signed, Jones would coach with Ingwerson as his aide, a move Governor Huey Long supports as boosting the university’s standing.
Raleigh January 7. A Charlotte rumor said the Piedmont League would be run in 1982 by an advisory committee of three club presidents. Judge W G Bramham expressed pleasure at the report while denying it. He has asked to be relieved as league treasurer prior to the Jan 15 directors meeting.
Harry Clark received a new three year contract to direct gridiron activities at Tennessee Mountain School. Russ Cohen, after resigning at LSU, was quickly signed as assistant coach by Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt. Paul McLeod succeeded Dad Amis at Furman.
State warden service pursues eradication of vermin and predators to protect game life. Holly Shelter refuge covers 20 000 acres in Pender County with rising non resident hunting interest and lodge development. North Carolina may expand public shooting grounds and consider predator bounties while noting robin and sparrow populations and coastal eagle abundance.
Boston Braves primary moves include Art Shires rejoining as a regular and Bill Knothe moving to third base. Rabbit Maranville moves to second with Bill Urbanski at shortstop. Wally Berger Wes Schulmerich and Bob Worthington anchor the outfield. Pitching remains thin as Ed Brandt Tom Zachary and Harry Seibold carry most of the workload.
In Industrial Bowling League action at Lucky Strike alleys Carolina Veneer duckpin defeated Photographers in three straight games. Montgomery led with 132 and 337 totals, Comer top scoring with 299 across three, while Tomlinson’s Hutchins’ entry was delayed due to a missing team.
The manager has twenty pitchers and may trade several. He could seek a seasoned catcher to aid Al Spohrer, whose long rivalry with Shires remains vivid in New England boxing memory.
Goldie Holt, third baseman for the Pointers last season, seeks the manager role as High Point owns his contract. He has applied to Mrs. E. E. Sensenbach and asks fans for input. Holt touts nine years in pro ball and Coastal prospect access, while playing winter ball with Joe E Brown Warner Bros. in Los Angeles as eight games are booked next month with big league teams.
The writer argues Goldie Holt shows sheer effort despite the team’s 20 game skid and urges timely signing of a manager. Buster Newberry trains Princeton boxers for a Yale bout while Gunnar stays tied to his Madison Square Garden plan. Rufus Miles and Jimmy Swinson from Charlotte impress with recent boxing wins.
Virginia 33 William and Mary Guilford 23. North Carolina 49 Davis and Elkins 37. Loyola 25 Franklin and Marshall 25. Navy Vanderbilt 38. Middle Tennessee Teachers 32. Louisville University 37. Georgeia College 8. Howard 25. Mississippi 56.
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