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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1934
Page
2
Care SAR reports the second annual Silver Cup prize for the most valuable player on the local high school football team in cooperation with Hymen's Jewelry and Broadhurst Theater. Previous winner Jack Copeland is cited as a benchmark for future stars.
The Hy man-Broadhurst trophy is cited as boosting competitive spirit for the Black Bisons. A board will later name the most valuable player. The high school squad paused drills to attend the funeral of T. G. Shelton, Billy Shelton’s father, while injuries thin the lineup.
Clemson College Athletic Council announces head coach Jess Neely and assistants Joe Davis Frank Howard and Bob Jones signed long term deals to remain at Clemson. Neely, a Vanderbilt alum, moved to Clemson in 1931 from Alabama and will guide Tiger teams indefinitely amid a tough nine game football schedule vs Georgia Tech Duke Kentucky South Carolina N C State and Alabama.
Oregon plans to designate a vast geological field spanning about a thousand square miles as a state park. The area has yielded important finds of plant and mineral remains along with fossils shaping scientific interest and conservation goals.
Charlotte October reports highlight Wake Forest preparing for Furman in Florence South Carolina. North Carolina State drills for South Carolina while Duke and Georgia Tech also practice. Duke plans to meet Georgia Tech and North Carolina faces Georgia in Athens with others eyeing weekend showdowns.
The 1934 World Series between the St Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers stands as one of baseballs most dramatic. Rivalries with umpires and fans erupted amid fierce pitching by the Dean brothers and Pepper Martin while Dizzy Dean and Paul Dean anchored the mound. Mickey Cochrane endured injuries yet rejoined the Tigers for the final games as temper and intensity shaped the championship chase.
The YMCA physical department committee named Julian Franklin as chairman. The group approved the season program by Charles Spencer and began classes with emphasis on wrestling volleyball tumbling and apparatus work. Junior and senior boys have set class times and vacant periods are posted by the physical director.
Story recalls Schoolboy Rowe injury from a rough handshake with Joe B Brown and a fan ripping home plate for autographs. Sam Breadon predicts no sale of Dean brothers to NL club. talks raise for young aces. Frankie Frisch earns a higher salary but short contract as Cardinals emerge from red after pennant season.
The Cardinals led by Dizzy and Paul Dean defeat the Detroit Tigers in seven games to claim the national pastime crown. St Louis repeats as series champions and strengthens its grip on the National League while signaling a shift in baseball power toward the senior circuit.
Batted for Crowder in the fifth of the first game. Substitutes noted for Hogcett White Marberry Goth Semelled Fullls Davis Ran Davis Raw Vance Durocher Haines J Dean in various innings across games four through eight. The garbled OCR lists replacements and inning references across the seven games.
High Point college resumes fall tennis action on Tuesday afternoon with four matches played including singles wins by Humphries and Yount. Roger and Palmer defaulted, while Palmer and W Rogers defeated Ingle and Sherrill in doubles. Upcoming matches list Gray versus Cloniger and Primm versus Sherrill.
The report notes profits increasing in the series while cautioning that the overall situation remains subject to change as markets react to evolving conditions and external factors.
In Louisville police court three Charlotte professional football players were dismissed after a nightclub brawl. Dave Bras Earl Glary and B Mott faced prior bonds and malicious assault charges. owner Co. L. Best stated damages were paid. The trio had been in town with a Charlotte club for a league game the previous day.
A terse note states men are used for transaction purposes in the greater African south of the equator, while oxen are used only in the eastern eagle areas.
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