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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1937
Page
10
The column lists college football matchups and outcomes with Duke and several state teams across conferences. It notes Duke Georgia Tech and Alabama Tennessee ties, plus several season highlights and future boxing and baseball notes, including tributes to Bill Booth and trades like Melo Almada.
Card camps filled with more than four thousand campers this summer as Branch Rickey builds a player pool. Ohio State star Johnny Rabb was a Fordham freshman, and Michigan State's Vernon Harley is Chick Harley’s nephew. Dodgers pitcher Waite Hoyt flung a badge from a safe-fly miscue, while Burleigh Grimes commented on player restraint with a wry joke.
The article cites Bob Zuppke criticizing film study by Southern Conference teams and notes SEC restrictions on scouting with movies. It mentions various celebrity sports touches, including Joe Louis footwear and Charley Ruffing using World Series money, plus other scattered notes about athletics and gifts.
In Burlington North Carolina a seven game industrial league final between Tower and McEwen Hosiery ends with three wins for McEwen and Tower two while four games tie. Manager Dave Barbee notes 10 hits in 14 at bats with five homers. Reporters joke about a coach lacking a player named George on his squad.
A note from the night rounds spots Helene Carrell hosting at the Hotel Piccadilly and highlights the Missouri Valley conference handbook edited by Leighton Housh. It mentions LSU ends Jack Giormiey and center Dick Giormiey as lookalikes, then ends with a brief, humorous aside about their appearances.
High Point high school's Black Bisons meet R. J. Reynolds of Winston-Salem in their first North Carolina conference game at Willis Park under lights at 8. Captain George Marsh may anchor center with Taylor at guard. Idol out with a broken ankle. Last year ended 0 0. Reynolds likely outweighs HP by six to ten pounds per man.
Duke’s Blue Devils will train to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech, the undefeated and unscored on Golden Tornado. The trip is an overnight jaunt to avoid class misses as Wade’s squad aims to rebound after Tennessee and keep up the fighting spirit on the road.
The piece notes top college and high school talents sunning in the Ohio Valley with Clemson and Pitt stirring interest. Alvin Thacker, a 190 pound Charleston East Bank star with 13 touchdowns in four games, draws major league attention. Pie Traynor vs Bill McKechnie feud surfaces after Bees deal with Giants. Traynor seeks Berger as Pirates fallout grows.
John Gulley of Shenandoah College in Deyton Virginia never watched a football game until the night before he faced Georgetown at Washington. Ed Hardy Georgetown’s candidate for All America honors led the attack as Gulley appeared for a crucial line.
High Point fans await Cowboy Luttrall and Roy Graham in a main event two falls out of three at High Point arena. Morris faces Bowman in an opening bout as doors open at 7 15 with matches set at 90 and 60 minute limits.
Roaring with anticipatory pain this corner plows into a slate of major football games and predicts outcomes. The piece surveys Fordham Pitt Tennessee Alabama Northwestern Purdue Texas Christian Texas A M Southern California Oregon Cornell Syracuse Yale Army Navy Harvard Columbia Penn Notre Dame Colgate Tulane Georgia Tech Georgia Colgate Georgia Tech Louisiana State Mississippi Wake Forest North Carolina Kentucky Washington Maryland SMU Vanderbilt and others with coin flips and cautious judgments.
Injuries open lineups as sophomores gain prominence in key games. At Richmond, seven sophomores will play against VMI with Ed Merrick and Stuart Hoskins set at center and left halfback. VMI counters with sophomore Paul Shu and Phil Chapman. Other teams shift backs and faces injuries as Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, and The Citadel prepare for weekend fixtures highlighting young talent and lineup changes.
An Associated Press survey shows most MLB managers will keep their jobs after the 1937 season. Only Chuck Dressen of the Reds and Rogers Hornsby of the Browns appear certain to be replaced, with Cleveland's Steve O Neil and others holding steady for 1938. The Browns may appoint Gabby Street, while Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy secured five and three year deals respectively.
Bessemer high school defeated High Point high school 1 0 on the local high school field yesterday afternoon at 3 30. The Bisons played strong defense and offense with a lucky goal when the Bison goalkeeper’s kick deflected off an opponent’s knee and into the net. High Point threatened often, pressed into the Bessemer half, hitting the crossbar once before the ball stayed out.
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