Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-26
Football Now
Taking Spot
With Capital
Daily DISpatcIl Burtau.
In the Sis Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Sept. 26.-War and weed
crises to the contrary nOtWithstand-
ing, football, the annual fall frenzy
and in full force, has edged into the
Raleigh picture and on all sides you
can get an argument that North Car
olina's Tar Heels are as good as
Dukes Blue Devils, or vice versa,
lust as easily as you can get the low
down on the war.
Politics is out as subject Of con-
versation, and out as printed matter
in the press; but almost any acquain-
tancc you run into will give you
fifty-seven varieties Of pigskin pro-
phecy and prediction. The number Of
experts is positively amazing.
What started it all were last Sat
urday's games in which u. N. c..
totalled no less than half a hundred
points against hapless Cadets from
The (the capital "T'' is correct)
Citadel Wake Forests Deacons de-
monstrated they are really quite de-
mon-lille by squelching South Car
olina, 1877, and States Wolfpack
edged out little Davidson, 1914.
So what? So a large percentage Of
the population has gone nuts over
this Saturdays clash between the
Tar Heels and the DeacOns, while on
the other hand the coming Friday
meeting of State and the University
Of Tennessee doesn't rate quite so
high in the attraction scale as it did
prior to Greensboro's pOst-darkness
affray.
Coming out of the Kenan Stadium
S0fI n T.
all Raleigh's news writer's, sighed for
the omniscience of a God or a
preacher "because then I would
know if we've (Tom is as ardent a
Tar Heel rooter as ever was born,
bred and died vocally at the end of
"Hark the Sound, etc') really got
something or whether we just didn't
have anything to stop us today.
And that is the question still
agitating thousands Of others not SO
we'll Versed either in football or the
art OF expressive speaking as Tom.
Without setting up shop as an ex-
pert or ex cathedra utterer Of the
obvious, your correspondent was i'm
pressed by those rough, tough bows
Bear" Wolf filded for the after
noon, even granting the comparative
weakness of the Charlestonians. Car
Olina looked to have few of the rag
ged edges usually associated with an
opener. If there were weaknesses.
they were associated with this ti,ing
called passing, both Extensively sad
defensively. Neither Sti1nWeiss nor
Lalanne had better than fair control
IN flinging leather, while there were
times when little Graham Edwards
caught the Carolina defense flatfoot-
ed with sharp swift stabs through
the air. But there again bobs up the
question Of evident weakness or
great strength, because this Edwards
chappie can hit a needles eye at
forty PAGES and can hold up his erd
at throwing in any mans league.
AT Wake Forest, Peahead Walker S
bruisers were just that, with Jolting
John Polanski the bruisingest of them
all. That lad is dynamite-Iaden,
make no mistake about it. "Eed''
Mayberry is the fellow capable of
coping with Carolina's StirnWeiss III
the kicking department.
State gave its hopeful and always
faithful rooters little right to expect
anything except to get slaughtered
mercilessly by Tennessee; but that
Wolfpacl1 has ever had the klaell
OF rising to its greatest defensive
heights when apparently doomed to
utter and complete extinction. Aid
so it may be this time, though it
looks from this angle like 80 points
would be about the proper "spot' en-
this game.