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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1943
Page
8
Walter L Johns presents national college and professional football ratings and scores from games played Sunday Oct 17 1943. Includes wins losses ties points scored and opponents points with per cent metrics and national ranking notes.
Sam Angott faces Slug White next week for the NBA Lightweight title in an outdoor West Coast bout. Promoter Joe Lynch eyes a $50 000 gate. Also notes Penn coach George Munger on Bob Odell, Detroit Lions guard Rattlesnake, and West Coast chatter about Dick Bartell managing the Oakland PCL club.
Wake Forest coach D C Walker cancels heavy workouts for the week to protect an injury-plagued squad ahead of the Southern Conference clash with Virginia Military Institute in Lynchburg. Fullback Russ Perry and end John Bruno are sidelined. Perry may play Saturday as VMI eases into a prep scrimmage.
In Haverford township grammar school games on October 20, Mrs. Sara Smith led Chestnutwold boys to a 7 to 0 win over Manoe team coached by Miss Kay OConnell. Winifred Piersol joined Principal Charles King of Lanerch as co coach. Oakmont defeated Lanerch 19 to 6. OConnell noted training table issues after the loss.
Clemson and South Carolina conducted light workouts as Coach Frank Howard emphasized minute details. Injuries and exams limited South Carolina to two elevens on the field while Clemson refined plays for Thursday practice.
STATE COLLEGE Pa Oct 20 Penn State will employ the T formation for the first time in the football game with the University of Maryland at College Park. Coach Bob Higgins said the team will be at full strength for the contest.
The traditional Carolina versus Virginia Thanksgiving clash is relocated from Chapel Hill to Foreman Field in Norfolk, Virginia. Athletic director R A Fetzer announced the 2 p m kickoff on November 27, with Foreman Field seating 16 500. alumni and service members secure special access through local offices.
High Point College football team known as the Black Bison hold a final heavy practice before Friday night game with Coach Marion Richard's Salisbury eleven at High Point Stadium. Drills include conditioning, blocking, passing, a 30 minute scrimmage, and mixed first and second string lineups. Koonts returns to punting duty after a head injury with several 50 yard kicks.
Eugene Oregon October 20 Gordon a New York Yankee second baseman says he is through with baseball after a discouraging season with three new fielding records in the World Series. He predicts there will be no spring training and says he will not attend if there is. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy says he has heard nothing from Gordon and knows only what he reads in the papers.
Irish poised for another strong campaign under Leahy as Bertelli departs Nov 1 for the Marines. Notre Dame seeks perfect run after four straight wins, facing Navy on Oct 30 and Army next catalogued, with Creighton Miller and Jim Mello supporting a veteran lineup.
Washington Redskins receiver Wilbur Moore leads the league in receptions and yardage, gaining 200 yards on 12 catches in two games, including four touchdowns. Eddie Rucinski and Don Hutson trail, with Sid Luckman directing a prolific Bears passing attack. Dean McAdams leads punting averaging 40.9 yards.
In New York, promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs wins rights to operate at St Nicholas Arena to save Friday night cards as Garden bookings dwindle. The Boxing Commission’s unusual 1,356th exception paves the way for expanded shows and potential rival venues. Albert Davis’s status shifts as he seeks Garden work once more, amid promoter manuevering and legal lease talk with Billy Brown.
Philadelphia reports the loss of two top golf professionals Harold Jug McSpaden and Sam Byrd amid military drafts and club changes. McSpaden faces army physicals and possible 3-A status while Byrd resigns from Merion Golf Club. Jimmy Demaret and Plum Hollow Club also figure in the reshuffle.
In Hartford Billy Banks from Washington outpointed Hernandez of New York. Ernest Robinson of New York knocked out Vinnie Lehenmann at 150. Pete Derazza of Mamaroneck outpointed Indiana Gomez of Cuba at 160. Buddy Farrell of Newark outpointed Mike Bualick of New York at 149. Fights held in HARTFORD and New York and surrounding areas.
The scene centers on Billy Brown who discovers Uncle Mike has ousted him from a boxing club lease after securing 15 dates at 550 dollars each. A lawyer and the Boxing Commission weigh in as Mike consolidates control and Billy confronts a dangerous, uncertain future.
The Associated Press survey shows 133 home games this season drew 1,827,454 spectators versus 138 games last year with 2,111,990. Despite wartime handicaps and improvised schedules, college football attendance declined by 284,536 nationwide, with five fewer games.
Golfer Frank Eubanks shot a hole in one at West End Golf Course No. 5 but was penalized two strokes after A. J. Kaiser, opponent, protested an unplayable lie at the bottom of the cup. The result was not an ace but a higher score for Eubanks.
Sacramento dispatch reports Max Baer and his brother Buddy Baer, heavyweight boxers, will move from McClellan Field to Patterson Field Dayton Ohio for an exhibition tour of east coast army camps. The army plans an overseas wind up potential.
Three girls at Fayetteville High School assist the Syracuse football squad by lugging water, sponges, oranges and gum, cleaning mud from cleats, and handling uniforms as wartime volunteers.
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners will meet in the Commissioners’ Room at the Court House in Greensboro on Thursday October 28 1943 at 10 o clock AM. The chair confirms the meeting to transact any business brought before it.
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