The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
TODAY'S SPORT PARADE
BY HENRY McLEMORE

(Un1ted Press Stan COrreSpOndent)
 New York, Oct. IT = (U.P0 = Tucked away in corner of Jack and Charlie's "21," surrounded by such descendants of the Grey heroes of Shiloh and Chickamauga as Douglas. Fairbanks, Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope, and Oscar Levant, I found Ew Danforth, advance caval- " patrol for the Georgia Bulldogs who play Columbia here on Satur- day.
 Danfortn, who is sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, was eating a fare that would make his cook at home tear up her bandanna and stuff it in the wood range. Gumbo had given way to vichysoisse. Cat fish had yielded to fresh salmon steak. Black eyed peas had bowed to Le Petit PoiS Bonne Femme, and turnip greens were forced to de- fault to artichokes hollandaise.
 Much as it pained me to see Dan- forth blackslide from good cooking, I sat down and questioned him on southern football, a subject on which he is as well informed as any man in the country. Here are a few of the things he told me: There are more good teams south of the Ohio river than ever before, and that's no idle statement there's Tennessee, for one, con- pletely recovered from its Rose Bowl shock and equipped with new of- fensive shift Bob Foxx, tail- back, is bigger and better than Ca- lego ever was but Tennessee would only be even money against Harry Mehre's Mississippi Rebels, wkhose backfield packs the dyna- mite boys, Vovious and Hapes you can go on from there Mississippi may be no better than Mississippi State, Auburn or Ken
 Rolling Along
 Alabama has been saying nothing but saving teams like Springhill. Mercer and Howard, waiting to land like a ton of ready mixed concrete on Saturday .. injuries have slowed up Georgia Tech but the Orange Bowl killer-dillers will be as good as ever in November if you had to choose an All-Southern backfield now you would be hard pressed deciding on the tailbacks alone there is little to choose among Foxx, Nelson of Alabama, Hovious, Johnston of Mississippi State, Bosch of Georgia Tech, Mo- Gowan of Auburn, Zoeller of Ken- lucky, Dodson of L. s. U. and Sinkwich of Georgia
 Michigan'S Evashevski may get the publicity as a blocking back, but Cheatham of Auburn, Novel; of Georgia and Bennett of Ole Miss, would like to get crack at him the South is loaded with good linemen =. you can start Ala bama's 24O-pound tackle, Fred Da- wis, and go on to Tenessee's whale of tackle, Shires L. s. U. has stem-winding guard in 205-poupd Goree, and there isn't better pair of ends in the country than Ison of Georgia Tech and Balock of Clem- son the last mentioned does- mt get much publicity but don't be surprised if the knowing critics put him on their All-America teams he is as good at end as Banks McFadden was at halfback for the same school last year, and that's saying plenty
 SpeedbaM
 New York will see the fastest lot of sophomore backs in the country when Georgia tees of with Colum- bia at Baker field if you want to give to there are Georgians arriving with the Bulldogs tomor- row who will bet you that one of the ! Georgia speed merchants, a soph l named Lamar Davis, will run back c Columbia punt for a touchdown Davis is so fast that he is said to carry a dressing gown with him in case he runs right out of
 his pants.
 In conclusion, here's a guess at the southern teams that will be chosen for the southern bowl games: The winner of the Tennessee Ala bama tilt will get the Orange Bowl nod. and Ole Miss vii go to New orleans for the Sugar Bowl.