The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-09

good old go-by or quietly re-
Palmetto Paradox
But down in the neighboring state
of South Carolina, a very interesting
paradox on this football coaching
situation presents itself. Clemson
ia about to lose it's coach Jess
Neely-because he was too good, and
The Citadel has already shucked
Gressette and is feeling around for
a successor, because Gressette's 1889
Light Brigade wasn't what the au.
thorities hoped it would be.
Nicely left Clemson for Houston,
Tex, Saturday morning, presumably
to confer with Rice officials about
the vacated grid coaching job there
"a job reported to pay between
$4,000 and $4,000 per year. His
present pay at Clemson is reported
to be about $4,000 and just before
he left for Texas he reputedly told
Clemson officials the conditions I'M
der which he would remain and it
appears that unless Clemson acts
hastily it will be minus a coach, and
a good one at that.
Down at Charleston it seems that
Citadel officials have as many candi-
dates as they can investigate. The
athletic board met Sunday afternoon
and after a long and heavily-dis.
rJ1cca1 caccin, il yroc onnn11nna6
that there will be no announcement
for a few days yet.
Every ousted grid coach from
Kits to Thornhill has been men
toned for the job but a report thai
drifted out Of the Sunday afternoon
meeting indicated that a well-known
line coach at Rutgers is the white.
haired boy at present.
What impressed us was a state
ment by Lieut.. Col. Ralph C. Holli.
day, chairman of The Citadel board,
just prior to the meeting:
Il don't want to name any names
until all arrangements have been
closed. But I'll tell you this. The
man we will consider tomorrow has
had a great deal of experience as a
football coach.
THE Citadel will not enter into a
contract with any coach unless we
are able to send a Citadel team on
the field with as much knowledge
and skill as any team we expect to
play"
That's what we call a big order, if
the Light Brigade meets a ~top-heavy
schedule again this year. But the
situation is interesting, neverthe.
less.
Americans All
Several hundred Americans enlist.
ed last fail with Canadian forces
going over to aid Mother England
in her battle with Germany. Some
of them indicated their American.
ism by saying that they enlisted
"just for the hell Of it."
But when they disembarked in
England, their identity as Americans
was definitely established when they
asked reporters.
Who was invited to play in the
Rose Bowl"
Odds And Ends
The New Hanover High school
boxing team is faced with a serious
shortage of boxers. Their seems to
be plenty Of featherweights, fly.
weights and welterweights, but not
a middle or heavy in the crowd 49,.
Their first meet Of the season will
be against Warsaw some time soon
-. Out in California they are
stream-lining horse-racing in the
manner of Corrigan When a
race starts the owner trots his nag
out on the track and then turns
him over to someone else. When
the race starts everyone rides as
hard as he can, to see who can coma
In first, thus enhancing his own
horses chance of being last. For
the last three horses win If
they don't watch out that new
"Scarlerhette" dance-named as you
must have guessed from certain
windy novel that is Rhett- Scarlett-
will be transformed to the gridiron
next fall 80. The steps are fancy
enough for good broken-field run.
ming.
Definitions: Alumni are people
who at one time went to college and
will not be happy until every foot
ball team wins every game every
season.
Soviet Russia has 10, 900 newspa-
pers, with a total circulation of more
than $1,000, 600.
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