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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1937
Page
7
A long memory of North Carolina State athletics frames a debate over coaching and policy. Loyal alumni blame Doc Sermon for poor results while noting successful moves by rivals and a historic kidnapping yarn about Red Espey highlights campus tensions.
Lee Henning, 21, former A A U standout, meets masked foe in main event at High Point as promoter Curt Denning touts the card. Henning previously beat Jim Zimbleman and seeks another victory to cement a rising pro career while Ivan Vaduroff battles George Hagen in the opener.
Catawba College tennis team beat High Point in a North State Conference match with several close singles and doubles results. Zamiello and Hinshaw each won for Catawba, while Armfield and Short and Pritchard contributed as well.
Trailing 8 to 0, the A’s broke through in the seventh inning scoring ten runs on ten hits off Cubs pitcher Charlie Reot after six scoreless frames. Connie Mack’s Athletics stunned Chicago with a historic offensive outburst in the 1929 World Series.
The 1923 Dempsey versus Firpo fight yielded the highest labor pay for a bout as Jack Dempsey earned $470000. The first round lasted 3 minutes 68 seconds, equating to about 120000 dollars per fighting minute.
Raleigh May 4 The latest State College athletic dispute involving basketball coach Doc Sermon and football coach Hunk Anderson moves toward a faculty council review. Alumni and students press for Sermon’s removal while President Graham backs him. governor and attorney general have supplied data to the council for action.
In Pittsburgh Billy Conn from Pittsburgh outpointed Vince Dundee from Newark. The match scorecards likely reflected Conn's decisive win. In Baltimore Louis Kid Cocoa of Puerto Rico outpointed Johnny Lucas of Camden New Jersey over twelve rounds.
The first intercollegiate billiard match under the label Grand Trial of Skill took place in Wooster Massachusetts on July 25 1860 between Yale and Harvard freshmen. They played on a 6 by 12 table with 6 pockets and 4 balls with push and crotch allowed.
Night games made a strong showing in Cincinnati after introduction in 1935. Attendance rose from 211,000 in 1934 to 492,000 in a later year, with 267,000 in after noon games and 125,009 in seven night games.
High Point high school’s state championship golf team leaves at noon for Chattanooga Tennessee to compete in the Southern interscholastic title chase Thursday and Friday. A Wednesday practice round is planned on the course hosting the championship. The Bisons beat Durham XIII and IV in a tune-up. Coach Cameron Deans says the squad is shooting good golf and should contend for Southern honors. Tech high of Atlanta, the Southeastern title winner, is expected to compete. Players with Deans: John Diffendal Frank Garrett Sydney Gayle Jr Frosty Snow. Joe Brinson will compete as an individual.
Charlotte meets Richmond while Asheville faces Durham and Winston-Salem plays Norfolk. Portmouth travels to Rocky Mount for a set of regional college basketball games.
Results yesterday show Richmond ii over Charlotte 4 to 2 while Asheville 6 Durham 4 in 11 innings. Rocky Mount 11 Portsmouth 5 and Norfolk 5 Winston-Salem 4.
Four games listed with New York visiting Detroit Philadelphia traveling to Chicago Washington visiting Cleveland Boston at St Louis. Matchups highlight key interstate rivals and city pairings shaping the schedule. Each contest sets up potential early season benchmarks for teams across the circuit.
Detroit defeated Chicago 12 to 9 with only the game listed on the schedule. Cleveland at St Louis was set for rain and not played.
Pittsburgh hosts Brooklyn, St. Louis visits Boston, Cincinnati plays New York, and Chicago travels to Philadelphia in a slate of early season games featuring marquee metropolitan teams.
Boston beat New York 3 1 while Philadelphia powered past Brooklyn and Pittsburgh at Cincinnati as rain interrupted play. The card lists results with notable weather impact on the schedule.
Birmingham beat Chattanooga 10 to 5 while Knoxville edged Memphis 6 to 5 Nashville defeated Little Rock 5 to 3 and Atlanta prepared for a night game at New Orleans.
The National League released probable starters for six matchups. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn features Blanton versus Henshaw, St Louis at Boston lists Warneke or Lanning with Fette, Cincinnati at New York pairs Hollingsworth against Hubbell, and Chicago at Philadelphia matches Shoun against Mulcahy.
The American League slate features New York at Detroit with Gomez facing Wade, Philadelphia at Chicago featuring Nelson Bay or Stratton, Washington at Cleveland with Newsom against Harder, and Boston at St. Louis pitting Cirove against Bonetti.
Buffalo beat Jersey City 9 to 4, Rochester defeated Baltimore 10 to 7, Newark routed Toronto 5 to 2, Montreal topped Syracuse 8 to 3. Strong early-season results show multiple teams posting scoring outputs.
In a St Paul vs Minneapolis game, St Paul beat Minneapolis 6 to 4. Milwaukee defeated Louisville 7 to 6 in a separate matchup.
Scranton defeated Birmingham 8 to 4 while Wilkes-Barre beat Albany 10 to 4. Williamsport topped Trenton 5 to 3 in the same standings card.
Columbia defeated Jacksonville 7 to 4 in 13 innings. Macon visited Savannah for a night game and Columbus played Augusta late.
Action sparse field reads like a baseball box score with players Walker and Ferrell leading two teams. Tigers and Red Sox appear with runs hits and errors near the middle of a game or season summary.
Coker pitched First Church of God to a 6 to 1 win over Mann No. 7 in the Commercial softball opener on the high school field. H. Walden led the winners with two hits. Grisom and Flint had the losers only singles as action sets Mer tangling Sartin Dutch Laundry at City Lake and Enterprise’s debut with the Junior Order at the high school today at five.
The commercial baseball league will be divided into two divisions after a YMCA meeting last night to ease crowding. Division A includes Harris Covington Mills Home Globe Parlor and W O W while Division B features Hayworth Roll and Panel Alma Desk Huntley Jackson Adams Millis Plant No 1 Jogme Porter Mirror and Oakdale eds. Division A teams play each other three times in the first half, Division B teams two rounds each. full schedules to be announced soon.
Rocky Mount's Red Sox, Piedmont league pace-setters, erupted to 11-5 over Portsmouth as Traylor led with homer double and single. Koehler drove in three, Kiefer added a homer. Norfolk beat Winston-Salem 5-4. Asheville beat Durham 6-4 in 11 innings. Richmond snapped a seven-game skid with 11-4 win over Charlotte.
Mark Koenig traveled to West Point New York on May 23 1930 and conducted a speed test with a baseball before Army officers throwing at 150 feet per second a pace just under a mile per minute.
A garbled ledger of player numbers and teams lists Brack Dodgers Cubs Pirates and White Sox with various figures. It appears as a box score fragment showing runs hits and positions but is too incomplete to confirm games or outcomes.
Gerald Walker led Detroit with two hits as the Tigers slugged 19 hits in a 12 to 9 victory over the White Sox. Hank Greenberg belted a bases loaded homer amid a strong start to the home stand while Pat McLaughlin endured three innings in his first starting assignment.
The Southeastern duckpin bowling championships begin in Charlotte with 75 teams from four states. North Carolina provides 53 teams across men and women divisions, Georgia sends 14 teams including several from Atlanta, Columbus, Augusta, Athens and Waycross, plus entries from Miami and Tampa and five from South Carolina. The five-day event ends Saturday night with the top score crowned.
Ellsworth Vines avenged his prior loss to Fred Perry at Madison Square Garden by beating the Briton in straight sets 7-5 6-3 6-3. Vines served 20 aces as he turned around a 3-0 deficit in the first set and now leads Perry 29 to 27 in their tour head to head. The pair schedule seven or eight more matches before heading to England.
In Hazelton Gino Garibaldi pinned Jim Wright in 18 minutes. In Portland Danno OMahoney defeated Nick Lutze in straight falls. In Philadelphia Ernie Dusek pinned Hank Barber in 54 minutes. Hal Schumacher noted. Bees win with four big hits in one inning to pull 8-1. Dodgers lose to Phils 14-? with four errors and ten hits versus 21 Phils hits.
Duke edged Maryland Old Liners 2 1 and heads to Pennsylvanias West Chester Teachers for a tresle. In tennis, NC State and Davidson open a two game series Raeford. Catawba crushed Elon 8 1 to tighten its hold in the North State title chase. Eleven straight for Tar Heels as they blank Lehigh 9 0 and head to Yale. Citadel golf beat NC State 123 6.
Three games carded for the Inter-City League resume tomorrow afternoon with six teams in action. Mc Crary hosts White, Boscong travels to Hemp for a bout, and Adams Millis goes to Wiscasset to face the Knitters.
Gene Tunney earned 990000 dollars in a 190 round bout against Jack Dempsey in Chicago during 1927, setting a historic single fight earnings record for boxing.
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