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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Captain Hawk Arrives
For Southport Meeting

SOUTHPORT, Oct. 3d. Captain
O. L. Hawk, who is the best an
swer to why some people catch
fish and some do not, blew in
Tuesday to be in readiness to
greet his friends who conduct the
powerhouse (sports) columns on
the metropolitan dailies. Incident
ly, he has already made a lot of
other friends, fellows who some
times go fishing and do not catch
any while a companion a few feet
away is hauling 'em out faster
than he a string them.
Captain Hawk is the rod and
reel expert of the Shakespear COM
pany. Part of his job is to ex-
plain the technique of fishing to
each and every angler who has
problems. "a fish, according to
Captain Hawk, lis not dumb. If
he is there it is your bait, tackle
or method that keeps you from
getting him."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Cats Work To Correct
Errors In Furman Game

DAVIDSON, Oct. 30-R-After
viewing pictures of their game with
Furman, the Davidson Wildcats
went to work today to correct their
errors in time for the homecoming
day game Saturday with Centre.
Coach Gene McEver criticized
the tackling of his squad and prais-
ed Hank Bahnson, senior tackle.
for his work in keeping after the
ball. He also had praise for Jay
Bolin, Jim Crutchfield, George
Marsh and Dave Spencer for their
work all season.
In the practice session, McIver
spent a lot of time %perfecting a pass
defense against the Colonels, who
have registered victories over the
University of Mississippi and the
University of Louisville. He also
worked his first string men against
Centre plays, run by the Kittens.
Ed Hipp, big junior tackle, showed
up well in today's workout and
may get the nod for a starting post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Williston Will Play
Tarboro Here Friday

Williston's football team will meet
the Tarboro High school eleven on
the locals athletic field here Friday
afternoon.
This will mark the second home
contest for the Tigers this season.
They defeated the invaders from
New Bern in the first home game by
a score of IA to 0. The Tarboro team
suffered defeat at the hands Of Will
iston by a score of 6 to 0 in their last
encounter which was staged in Tar
boro in 1898.
Fridays contest is expected to be
one of the hardest games of the sea-
son as the visitors are considered
one of the strongest elevens in the
east this year, having o most of
their games thus far. Coaches Rob-
inson and Montague have been work
ing hard to strengthen the Williston
defense and to smooth out the Of
Tense. With the line charging and
the backfield running and blocking,
a thrilling game is in prospect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Tigers ~Scrimmage Hard
For Game With Tulane

CLEMSON, S. c., Oct. 3O.-lR-
The Clemson Tigers worked on
everything in the book today as
they went through their last scrlm'
mage before the Tulane game.
After limbering up with block
ing, offensive and defensive pass
ing, punting and broken field run
ming, the first and second string
ers smeared the third team, when
was running Greene line plays
and end sweeps.
Booty Payne and Sid TInsIey
sensational sophomore, were out Of
the lineup and Chippy Names was
kicking and passing without pass
Names is sure to be ready for me
New Orleans fray, however, anu
Tinsley and Payne are expected
to be in condition.
Marion Craig. out yesterday, re,
turned to the starting backtleld' T
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
cats SCRIMMACE
FOR GAME FRIDAY
Freshmen Show Up Well
Against Varsity In Drills;
Kittens Play ChaGbOurn

New Hanover's Wildcats, pre-
pairing for their game with New
Bern there Friday night at 8
o'clock, scrimmaged with the
freshman team yesterday after
noon, and the Kittens ripped
through the varsity line for sew
eral long gains.
Standing out for the Frosh was
Thomas, quarterback, who will do
the signal calling in the Kittens
game with Chadbourn here Friday
afternoon at Legion field.
Little is known of the strength
of the New Bern outfit. However,
the Cats will rule a slight fayorite
over the team in the non-confer-
ence engagement.
Friday, Nov. 8, the locals will
play Wilson in a circuit battle.
G%oldsboro, Fayetteville and the
Oxford Orphanage. follow in that
order to wind up the locals sche-
dule.
Coach Bob Black said last night
that all players on the team are
in fairly good shape for tomorrow
nights game.
Coach Floyd Bumgarner has
been drilling the freshmen on pass
es and new running plays all this
week.
Craft, McIlwaine and Biddle are
the standouts in the backfield, with
Raynor, Burney, Snow, R. Dyches,
H. Holt, Herring and Smith the
leading line candidates. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Joe Louis Called In
Draft; Ready To Serve

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3o-RHHeavy-
weight Champion Joe Louis, wear
ing a tan overcoat about the color
of army khaki, said today he was
ready to trade it for the uniform
of a private or whatever they
want me to be that's best for the
United States"
When he arrived here from Pitts
burgh, Louis was informed he had
drawn order No. 2611 in the draft
lottery. His first comment was, II
wonder what number Max Baer
drew"
Baer is scheduled to be one of
Louis future ring opponents.
The negro fighter was asked if
he would prefer to- be a physical
instructor or teach boxing to army
recruits, but he replied, whatever
they think best. I want to do what
would help the country most
He said he had no reason to seek
exemption and was ready to serve
as soon as he was called.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
WARNER PRAISES
STANFORD COACH
Original 'Houdini' Of Gridiro,
Says Shaughnessv Has
Helped Game On Coast

PALo ALTO, Calf. Oct. a..
LP-Glen Scobey Pop" Warno-
the original "Houdini'' of the a.;s
IRON, gave an admiring salute t0d.,
to the man who is proving 10 b."
fc coast football that the hand
quicker than the eye Ga.
Shaughnessy of Stanford.
AS an early day exponent of ID.
ception (his 1907 Carlisle IndisT,
were hiding the football I'M tbo
backs of their jerseys. Warn rS
expressed profound admiration fa.
the way Shaughnessy's team bss
out-slickered five opponents. tbo
latest being Southern C%aliforni.
'shaughnessy is entitled to tbo
fullest credit for the phenomena
way he is making use of the r,
formation" Warner said. The for.
nation is almost as old as football
itself. We used it when | PLAYED
at Cornell from 1892 to '94 and
when l started coaching the newt
year at Iowa State and Georgia
THE methods by which Shauqb.
messy gets so much deception from
the formation is a tribute 10 hi,
coaching strategy. He has given
football out this way a tremendous
lift. 1t is something new and a
tonic for the game.
His fellow coaches cannot but
help admire it. And they will have
to do something about it. Practi.
cally every team in the west, with
the exception of Washington, has
been using the same basic forma.
ton, the single wing, with occa.
sional use of the short punt for.
nation"
Warner, as a matter of profes.
ional courtesy, offered no possible
solutions to the problem Of 'how
to stop Shaughnessy''.
The tribute to Shaughnessy, paid
by the second Oldest coach in the
country, took on added signi-
fcance in view of the fact the
famed oldster himself coached at
Stanford from 1924 to 1882, with
outstanding success for the most
part of his regime. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
WORKS ON

CHAPEL HILL, Oct. 80. - R-
Carolina put aside its w versatile
attack today and continued stressing
defense for Fordham's Eshmont,
Blumenstock, and Filipowicz and
their speedy running, passing and
kicking game.
Center Carl Suntheimer and Quar-
terback Frank O'Hare still worked
lightly, but Blocker Harry Dunkle
resumed duty. Bob Smith manned
center, and Joe Austin, sophomore
blocking and tackling standout, took
over %wingback in the only varsity
changes.
The Tar Heels showed lots of form
and spirit. However, the Rams
Notre Dame maneuvers, which Caro-
lima is facing the first time, still
gave trouble, and particularly their
bullet passes as thrown by Jim
Lalanne.
Coach Ray Wolf and Johnny
Vaught, who supervised the neces-
sary revisions in pass defense and
line charging, stressed the fact that
Fordham is more dangerous than
Tulane and that one error or lapse
Saturday night might be costly.
Approximately a thousand students
and supporters will follow the team
Saturday, judging by reservations to-
day, and New York alumni officers
wrote today that several hundred
guests were expected for their pre-
game rally Friday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
SOUTHERN WRITERS
ENJOY SQUABBLES
IT'S Turn About For The
South When The Ivy League
And Big Ten Start
Rv ROMNEY

ATLANTA, Oct. 3o.-R-south'
ern sports writers, accustomed to
defending Dixie football against
SLABS from the East and Midwest
are enjoying a field day with lne
souabbles of the Ivy league and Big
Ten The columnists' collective
horse-laugh, however, came wnen
Ohio State complained that Cor
nell's Carl Snavely directed plays
from the bench with a white GYM
der Veteran Bill Keefe of the
New Orleans Times-Picayune sum-
med it up thus: "If the Ohio State
bench knew that Snavely was signal
ling his team, and knew every Sig
nal, then there are only two conclu-
sions you can reach; either ONO
State was too dumb to use the sig
nails themselves, or else Ohio States
team is far inferior to Cornell"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

claims can do everything but talk.
Fontenot and a friend, A. M. Per
kins were hunting when they came
to a small, clear stream.
The thirsty Perkins got down on
all tours, stuck one leg straight
out behind him for balance, and
dipped his mouth into the water.
At that moment the dog burst
through some brush, took in the
situation at a glance, and froze
in its tracks. It figured Perkins
was on the point, and did not
move and spoil his chance.
Well, anyway. the story has a
point 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
BY BILL BONI

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-R-Be.
ing No. 2, Vol. II, of "Screwy
News Of the Gridiron":
Credit this one to Harvey Har-
man. Harvey's Rutgers team was
back in the huddle during tn e
Princeton game. The quarterback
called a play, and one of the ends
turned to the big tackle who played
beside him.
Remember, Joe," said the end,
this is the play where you pull
out of the line and then. -"
Say, I'd almost forgotten,
broke in the tackle. Remind me
again when we get up on the line,
will your" :.
Down in San Antonio, Tex, they
built a new 900, 900 stadium this
year, fitted with an electric score
board that could register scores
as high as SO to SO. The second
time the St. Mary's R attlers
played in the park they broke the
board running up a 1000 score
against the 23rd infantry, Fort
Sam Houston.
The disguised scoreboard atten-
dant just made it 100 to O" and
got ready to start all over again.
From Ward Burris, San Anonio
Express.
Paul Allemandi, Tulane halfback
didn't make the trip to Chapel
Hill for the North Carolina game.
But he listened in to a broadcast
back home in New Orleans. Early
in the fourth quarter the young
ster almost fell out of his chair
as the announcer proclaimed.
There goes Allemandi, around
end for five yards"
For the next 10 minutes ALE.
mandi cheered himself h r S e
while, $50 miles away in Kenan
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Lalanne, Kimball To
Play For Dixie Team

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct.
30-R-The Blue and Gray
association announced today
that Jim LaLanne, sensational
passer, and Gates Kimball,
tackle and co-captain of North
Carolina, had accepted bids to
play with the Dixie team in
the North-South football game
here December 70.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
RESUME

BOONE, Oct. 30.-R-Appla-
chan State Teachers college and
Catawba college have agreed to
resume football relations, broken
in 1887.
Coach Red Watkins and the
Mountainer athletic committee
reported a three-year contract had
been signed with Coach Gordon
Kirkland's Indians for a series of
games opening October II, 1910,
at Winston-Salem. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

The Texas Aggies, who featured
the line-cracking of all-America,
John Kimbrough, lined up for a
play aaginst Baylor. One of the
Aggie guards looked across at a
Baylor lineman, and said:
Listen, Bud, I don't know what
your plans are on this play, but
if you feel like 1 do you'll get tn
hell out of the way. Big ] o h n
K~imbrough's coming right through
here"
From Tom Siler, APP, Chicago.
First downs are a notably unre-
liable method of comparing team
strength. For an extreme example
we give you the game between
Lake Worth Fla.) and Andrew
Jackson of Miami. Lake Worth,
made eight first downs to none
for Jackson-but jackson won the
game, 40-7, on touchdown run Gov
ering 81, 66, 80, 60, IS and SO
yards.
From Bob Balfe, Palm Beach
Post . Times.
Even the police department helps
guard against enemy scouts at the
University of Oregon. Lon Stiner,
Oregon State coach, drove over
to see Oregon play the other day,
and when he returned to his car
found he'd been given a parking
ticket.
When he got back to Corvallis,
he mailed the ticket and one dol.
lar to the Eugene police depart
ment. Back came the reply, in.
forming him the unfixable price
of the ticket was $40 and please re.
nit.
From Gail Fowler, APP, Seattle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
Wake Forest Prepares
For George Washington

WAKE FOREST, Oct. 30 Up -
Coach D. c. (Peahead) Walker
gave his Wake Forest Deacons-
especially the backs-a stiff drill
in tackling and blocking today as
they ended rough work prior to the
game with George Washington in
Washington Friday night.
Injuries still had it's effect on
the team. John Jet, end suffering
with a charley horse, was idle. Pat
Preston, tackle, was kept out of
the heavy duty, and John Fender
CAST, center, participated in very
little Of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
CAN'T BE L LUCK

Maybe those Texas Aggies have a
collective charmed life 80. But more
likely it's good conditioning No
where along the 1s-game string OF
victories have the Texans had q key
man injured Pulled knees,
broken hands, fractured legs and
arms and shattered collar bones just
don't seem to. visit Homer Norton's
boys Which is something Of a
record in bi3-time football.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
IN GOOD A

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-R-Rain
Kept Fordham's varsity inside today
u they sat on the sidelines and
watched the second team put on
Carolina plays. With every
prayer in good physical condition
the Rams r confident of bounding
back into the winning column satur-
Gay after losing to st. Mary's last
week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

Since the season opened on sep
tember 2O-when State beat VII
lam and Mary, hardly a week.
end has passed without at leas.
a half dozen games coming ou'
o according to pre-game hg'
ures.
Last weekend, in u opinion
was the biggest in the lot Tor up
sets. To mention r~ly a few, who
would have thought that Tulsa
would beat Texas Christian, Rich
mond beat V.M.I., Syracuse win
owe Columbia, St. Mary's take
Fordham, ct cetera?
There will be more this week
end and if you think that you can
SPOT 'em before they happen, you'd
better get in the business.
Like Father
Jimmie Allegood was remember
ing when yesterday. He picked up
the Morning Star and saw the pic
ture of Claude Hackney, tallback
on the Davidson football team, and
then he remembered that he and
Hackney's father played together
on the Norman Institute, of Nor
man Park, Ca, football team back
in 1916.
Claude Hackney, Sr. played tall.
back on that team, a prep sohool
outfit, while Jimmie played END.
He could really travel, too
Jimmie said, lone of the most
elusive backs in all Georgia"
And from that description we
figured that this was just another
case of like father, like son. For
Claude Hackney, Jr., who halls
from Live Oak, Fla, is really a
scatback. Wilmington football fans
are scheduled to see him in action
when Davidson plays The Citadel
here November 80.
Odds and Ends
Captain Hawk, the well:knoWn
casting expert and fisherman,
would like to meet with the New
Hanover Fishing club before he
departs from Southport. Bill
Keziah is amazed at the Mans
accuracy with a rod and reel. -.
with me standing at a distance
Of IS feet he cast with either right
or left hand, from between his
legs and in every conceivable wa,.
His plug would 60 over and line
drop across my outstretched lin
ger every time" Keziah said. . .
That Carolina-Fordham game in
New York Saturday promises to
be a dogfight, but it still looks
like the Tar Heels to win. j..
Fordham beat Tulane but the
Green Wave outgained the Rars.
Tulane beat Carolina, but the Tar
Heels outgained the wave. So
thtre's the story. :. Besides Caro-
lima ha already lost two games
this season and it's been a mighty
long time since a Ray Wolf team
has lost more than that in one
year. Tony Gallovich, of Wake
Forest, with Al points is the lead
ing scorer in the Southern confer
ence. Someone pointed out a
few days ago that Wendell Willkie
is sure to get the vote of the UNI
pires. What with all this egg
and apple throwing. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
COLOR STUFF

The Duke-Georgia Tech game al
Durham Saturday won't lack for
color as If the two top-flght
teams couldn't supply enough, the
CITY is planning a pre-game parade
with so floats and 10 bands
Vanderbilt would be undefeated and
unscored-upon, says Sports Editor
Fred Russell of the Nashville Ban
ner, if all games were played on a
basis of the first quarter
Vandy's first team is as good as they
come . It's when the starters get
tagged and the reserves come in
that the opposition scores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
CHRYsLER BUYS HORSES

NEW MARKET. Va, Oct. 30
R-Walter p. Chrysler, Jr., a
comparative newcomer to Ameri-
can racing, added valuable blood.
lines to his recently acquired sta.
BILE today by purchasing 10 thor.
oughbreds for $780, 300 at the dis
persal sale of the late Willis Sharn
Kilmer's Court Manor stud
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
EDUCATED TOE

Harry Dunkle, North Carolina full
back, will do as a first-rate punter
until someone better comes along
-. In six games this season he has
lofted the ball 81 times for a total of
l ,496 yards, an average of 40.4 a
try -. Only one punt was blocked
In addition, he converted eight
out of II attempted extra points.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
SMOKE RINGS
Calling The Upsets
By SAM Raglan

Some Of these days when time hangs loose s;s on our e+ n anus
we're going to delve into things %hsss AND w11 TRY Se a plen atgu of examples ees %5ss
makes an upset an upset. Ihere Will y p0N''
to work from-too many, in fact. a,;na 1oAo
~ There are enough vupsets in sports circles da 4;h's+d dS4o y
to fill a volume. Baseball, golf and tennis c ;a tha fom q e
~ s0H T. ama will find the most surprising upsets OF the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
WEATHER NOTE

st. Petersburg (Fla.) sports fans
are looking for Jim Braddock, form
er heavyweight king, TO
training headquarters there If ne
gotiations go through for a come
back fight with Max Baer at Miami
this winter . Promoter Jim Down
ing is dickering with both New
York boxing sources, however, say
Downing will have to make a noise
like lots of greenbacks to lure Brad
dock from retirement Baer,
meanwhile, is %rehearsing for a lucra-
tive Broadway show n cool
to the fight idea.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
DEVILS ALSO
WORK ON DEFENSE
Carolina Puts Aside Offensive
Work To Drill On Defense
Against Fordham

DURHAM, Oct. 30.-R-One day
before the COLLINS were scheduled
to get them, in other words before
Halloween, the Duke Blue Devils
went through along drill for Satur-
days clash with Georgia Tech.
Most of the practice was devoted
to %perfecting the griund attack Duke
will use against the Atlanta aggre-
cation. However, the coaches got
in some good ticks on the Duke de-
tense to be used against Georgia
Techs mystifying offense.
Because of the warm weather the
after-practice kicking drill was cut
short.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

Since static sparks can ignite
dust, static electricity is a posi-
BILE cause of many explosions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
ON FIELD
WIN THE GAMES
Martin Says Layden Used
Substitutes As Carrier
Pigeons In U. S. C. Game
BY WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-S p r
trail detours:
Carl Snavely is being accused
OF everything from using short
wave signals from the bench to
stealing the clothes from the max
ed reverse, but we still think foot
ball games are won by the lads on
the field. The theory is that the
game should be played by tn e
boys, both mentally and physically,
and that when a coach starts to
run the team by remote control
he is taking it out of their hands.
This bench braintrusting is deemed
unethical, yet it's perfectly legal
for a coach to send in a stream
of substitutes, each C carrying a
message concerning the play to
call. The only difference is that a
substitute must wait until a play
is run off before he opens his trap.
We saw Elmer Layden call the
signals on a half-dozen consecu-
tive plays in the Notre Dame
use game last year, using play
ers as carrier pigeons.
Speaking of Notre Dame, any
day now we are expecting an ad
something like this to appear:
For sale or longtime lease: One
first team, slightly used. Apply
Elmer Layden, Notre Dame.
Wheat and chaff: Two former
professional baseball players, Dix
lie Howell and Hillman Walker, are
on the coaching staff at Arizona
State college, but tn baseball
coach at the school is Bill Kajika-
wa, a japanese. Incidentally, Ari-
iona State is being picked in that
sector to win the border confer
ence football title and wind up in
the Sun Bowl again. His brother
fought Joe Louis, which may be
the reason Guido Massacre is con-
filming his sports activities to play
ing plenty of guard on the Univer-
sity of Kansas football team. The
brother, whose name was scram-
bled to Charley Massera, went out
in the third round in his bout with
the bomber.
Tommy Harmon stories are so
numerous that soon he will be
reading how, as an infant, he used
to toddle around lisping touch
down" instead of daddy, b u t
here's one story that's true.
Doug Kerry, coach at Horace
Mann high school at Gary, Ind,
tells it. Harmon was an unknown
freshman at the school, and he re-
ported for the first days practice
going after a wad of bubble gum
in a way that got under the skin
of the coach, who told him to de-
sist. Tom kept right on bubbling,
and to teach him a lesson Kerry
ordesed him into the second team
backfield, figuring that the first
team would push the. gum right
down his throat.
The first team kicked off, and,
well, you know how it happens in
the movies. Tommy caught the ball
and ran it 80 yards for a touch
down, and from that point on he
was a first-stringer, and could
chew a piece of leather as far as
Kerry was concerned.
Here's one of those Nov I'll
tell one'' stories for hunters.
- -6J~~.lA-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

Here's one of those Nov I'll
tell one" stories for hunters.
French Fontenot of Lake Charles
,Minn., has a setter w hi b he
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

Ontario produced 1896, ATT fine
ounces of gold in 1888. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31
TACKLES PLAY TAKE SPOTLIGHT
Duke Drills On Ground Attack For Engineers
Screwy News On. Gridiron

stadium, Rubber Ely, whose own
Jersey had been torn and who put
on Allemandi's, played under an
alias" against the Tar Heels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-31

Speaking of Notre Dame, any
day now we r expecting an ad
something like this to appear:
For sale or longtime lease: One
first team, slightly used. Apply
Elmer Layden, Notre Dame.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
COOPERATIVE ApTs. FOR SALE.
HOUSES FURNISHED.

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