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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
GOLDEN GOPHERS
RENE ENERGIES

Minneapolis. oct. S-AP-Coach
Bernie Bierman has rewired his
Minnesota football dynamo for high
powered performance once again.
II there are any doubts that the
Golden Gophers have plenty OF
stored up energy to shock remain
ing opponents on their schedule,
let statistics OF those first two
victories over the Universities OF
Washington and Nebraska, neither
OF which was exactly a pushover,
do the talking.
The Gopher ball carriers picked
up a net rushing yardage Of 522
yards. averaging 4.9S yards for
each attempt Washington and
Nebraska's highly touted offensiyes
on the other hand were able to gain
only 225 yards on the ground or
1852 yards a try.
Minnesota's stalWart line, one
OF the heaviest in the schools his
tory and which may also prove to
be one of the most powerful be-
fore the season is over, trapped OPP
posing ball carriers behind the
line of scrimmage for total loss
OF So yards in the first two games.
The strength of the Minnesota
line was most apparents after Ne
braska had tied the game at TO
: last Saturday, in the third quar-
ter. From there on things changed
considerably with the fast charg-
ing Gopher line tearing the Ne
braska offensive to pieces. The re-
sult?-Nebraska had a net deficit
of nine yards for the last quarter.
Bob Paffrath, quarterback. is the
leading Gopher ball carrier with
an average OF 1867 yards try,
while Bill Daley, a sophomore who
has promise of developing into as
great a fullback as perhaps Bronko
Nagurski or Herb Joesting OF Min
nesota fame tore off gains at an
average of nine yards a clip,
George Franck. who travels the
100-yard dash in considerably I'M
der ten seconds on the cinder path,
has an average Of ~ yards, while
Bruce Smith. another half back,
boasts an average OF SAB yards.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
innesota Football Dynamo Rewired For High Power
Y. H. S. Cross Country Team
Meets River Rouge Today

IN preparation for the meet this
afternoon with River Rouse, the
Npsilanu Hich school cross country
team concluded It's practice Monday
night with the boys an running
three fun miles Coach Martin
OPEN did not hold the stop watch
on them but merely NOTED where
and how each finished
Stan pushihcr as usual was the
leader with Rud Ellis not far be
hind him and these two boys are
expected 90 furnish the bulk of the
opposition against River Rouge To-
dav
The WIS team has so FAR en-.
gagged i'm three meets and although
they suffered loss each time they
are expected % improve as time
COOS on and finish the season quite
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
SHEPHERD INJURED

Detroit. oct. AP Burly Bill
shepherd, Who vaulted to gridiron
fame when he was the nations
leading collegiate football scorer
IN 1884. will he prevented from fin.
ishing his fifth season with the
Detroit Lions by injuries Shepherd
pulled a heel tendon as he leaped
into the air TO snatch a pass from
Whizzer White in a game against
the Cleveland Rams Sept. 20
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
INTEREST LAes

st. Louis. Oct. Here's a state
ment some Of the Maryville Teach
ers' players should note down in a
little red book and save for next
year. Calling his Washington Uni
versity squad ont for its first drill
after a rs loss TO Maryville. Coach
Butch Loebs said "No longer inter
ested in Maryyille except for what
the game taught US What we're
working on now is the Washburn
game" n the lack OF interest con
tinues until next fall. perhaps
Maryville can beat the Bears for
the third straight year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
10 ACCOMPANY TEAM

Lexington. va. oct 8 AP
More than 500 members Of virginia
Military Institutes 730-man cadet
corps will accompany their foot.
ball team 10 Charlotte, \. C.. for
Saturdays game with Davidson.
It's the rubber" game in a series
that stretches over 80 years Each
team -has-wnn- times so Tar and
they never have played a tie
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
Boxing Results

Philadelphia Arturo Godoy
POP, Chile. outpointed Gus Dorazio,
1874. Philadelphia Q0).
Chicago Chico Romo, 40. Los
Angeles. outpointed Johnny Pleas
ant, 134i2. CHICAGO G0).
Youngstown. o. Roscoe Toles.
1913. Detroit outpointed Jack Tram
mel. 1904. Youngstown O2).
New York -Abe Simon. 25Sh.
New York. outpointed Gunnar Bar
lund, 1851. Finland Q0).
Baltimore Buddy Walker. 1881
Columbus. O.. outpointed Tony
Music. 1870. Chicago Q0).
Newark. y. Norman Rublo.
1872. Albany. ~ Y, outpointed Nike
Piskin. 146. Freehold. y. ]. GO).
Providence. r. Abe Denner.
+i229 y, - PFetiAeHee-kA knocked -eut
Pete Galiano. 1873, Baltimore. go.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08
REUNION LIKELY

Fort Worth, Tex, Oct SAP
Instead of having the party break
up in fight. the fight is likely to
wind up in reunion party when
Texas Christian plays North Caro-
lima at Chapel Hill. n. c., Saturday.
Four former + c. t. stars are
coaches OF the two teams.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08

strongly River Rouge. being a
Class A school will hold an sdvan.
tage over the local boys but as in
any athletic contest the winner is
not decided until the event IL over.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-08

San Francisco Shorty Hoguc.
1861. San Diego. Calif. outpointed
Billy Latka. 1877. San Jose. Calf.
G0).
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1940-07-05
Pogo 7
CELEBRATION

CElEBRA1lON .~~
Although ho11porod by q 1ittlo rain, which
|dorlponod tho dust but not tho 1iddios spirits, |
|kod lax Post No ~ Of tho American Legion con be
comp 1H1ontod in tho naaaor in which tho annual
I4tll Of July cclobrction carried out. Making
ia canvas Of tho merchants and bust snon Of
TOWN, they ivcd Substantial SUM Of money
with Will Oh thcy purchased surf iont candy etc.
$50 that ovory zid41io in town received bcgfull,
|ond ho1d various novelty races and contests in
(which cash prizos whore givon tho Winnors os Vo
ia: dino: for entering Zach contest.
voting contest with ballot boxes locct
tat both tho Base Corp and in town was lu1iyorso1 i
1of Independence. Although many na1aos Woro put
lon tho first ballots, it narrowed down to just |
Il fov during tho last final minutes. Aftor tho
!ooll Lots had closed. and counted, it was
found that Hiss Dorothy Boclos, daughter Of lr.
land hrs. HIS .Boclos of tho Naval Air Station
CoHp,~ had boon elected. VorJ close contestants |
Fl1lz.on; Mldrod Frisk, Pauline Nelson and Mary
Pcronoff. Il nulbor" Of votes cast for Romeo
EIorcl1Q, who, it turned out to be-, was nan.
Pr is s?ipportors no doubt thought: that 9. king
1s}2ould;. rcign instead Of quoon. .:.
-" Adding otlaospEo to tho .occusion, many
Thousands Of firo-crockors vo1o sot off during
s4b1o 'b1itzlroig" in tho offirg. T4oro vor
no casualties reported duo to corolossnoss, etc
:: Duo to heavy showers in tho cftornoon, It'll
as doomed cdvi scblo to pos tpono tho Flag ISL
hg ceremonies tho Independence Day spooc}4
Echodulod to DO delivered by Capt. .Bloncharo]
~ .s.M.C.
1T 10 O'Clock, dancers won't to Bl1nn's
Hall to pay homage to tho Qaoon and onjoy gcoG
bonco, t tho music Of Holdon's orchos trc. /.
grand march took place ct 1850 Pm. and lodi
by Commander CIV. Coryol1 and Hiss Dorothy 3oalos
Followed by Liout Roberts o11d Hiss Julino Horr-
Ping end dozens Of othor couples.
Aftor throo hours Of tripping the light
Fantastic too around tho ballroom, goi1y Decor
htod wi tn tho traditional roc, wfito end blue
Fourt and "a good limo was had by al1".
TWO JAILED
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
Newton Gives WoFpack
Lecture On Cadet Game

RALEIGH. Nov. 13.-R-Coacf
Williams Doc) Newton took to the
lecture platform today before his
n. C. State football team, and spoke
a piece about The Citadel squad
with a few words thrown in about
the Wolfpack as well.
A heavy rain forced the country
boys indoors for a session in prep.
aration for the game with the Light
Brigade in Charleston, S. C. Satur.
day.
THE Citadel football teams" New
ton said, "are very dangerous
especially in Charleston, and we may
expect the team to meet Saturday
to be primed and ready for us.
"Our team usually plays good foot
ball against good teams, but against
teams we are supposed to defeat,
you boys seem to be satisfied with
what you did in the previous weeks
game. We have never had enough
'trength here to overpower anybody
Ind we must always play as hard
against these teams that we are
supposed to defeat as we do when
we go out to make a good showing
against teams that we are not sup
posed to defeat"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
RAILROADS PLEDGED
TO MEET NATIONAL
DEFENSE DEMANDS
Continued from Page One)

its members in dealing with any
complications which may arise as
a result of this country's defense
program, as we understand it and
as it may develop"
Pelley cited the breakdown OF
operations of the railroads in 1917
and their resultant government
operation as a war measure.
These things won't happen
again." he promised, because, as
a result of the lessons learned then
by all of us-government, shippers
and railroads alike-we already
have in operation the means which
will prevent them"
He listed three satisfactory
'tests:" The SIS per cent increase
in traffic handled smoothly in Octo-
Der, 1889: The troop movements
in the Army maneuvers of the past
summer in which the railroads
moved an average of 40, 900 men a
day compared with the peak record
of 20, 1000 a day average in July,
1918 and the present rate of freight
shipping for export across country
to Atlantic ports.
Such export shipping, said the
resolution head, has averaged this
year more than three-fourths as
much as is was in the war year
of 1918, while right here in the port
of New York there have been
months when the flow Of freight
equaled that of the same months
in 1872.
The association reelected all its
officers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
|MIzE SECOND BEST
IN NATIONAL POLL
Reds First Baseman Receives
274 Points; Walters Gets
Third Rating
BY JUDSON BAILEY

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-R-The
Cincinnati Reds may or may no
have a monopoly on the National
league pennant but they apparent
ly have a strangle-hold on the
circuits most valuable player
award.
Frank Mccormick. whom tt
Baseball Writer'S Association of
America announced today as tnei1
selection for the 1910 award, was
the third Cincinnati player III as
many years to win the honor.
The hard-hitting, smooth-fle: ding
first baseman fallowed the trail
marked out by Catcher Ernie
lombard in 1888 and pitcher
Bucky Walters last year.
There was some division among
the committee of "a baseball wit
ers who made the annual selection
with the result that McCormick's
margin over Johnny Mize, the St.
Louis Cardinals first baseman and
home III king, was only 274 points
to 205. Last year Walters received
303 out of a possible 1856 points.
This year Walters again received
146 points and Paul Derringer, MS
pitching partner, 121, to finish third
and fourth, respectively, in th e
balloting.
The Reds won their world cham
pionship this year more on
team play than on the perform
ance of any one player and since
no one on the other clubs stood
out head and shoulders, the diff
ficult task of selection pretty much
narrowed to finding who of the
Reds contributed the most.
Mccormick, a tall, handsome
youth from New York, has been
a regular for three years, playing
in every n of the Reds games
in that stretch. In 1888, when he
broke in, he batted 1926 and knock.
ed in LOG runs. In 1889, When he
rated third in the most valuable
balloting, he hit 1882 and drove in
l28 runs. This year his average
dropped to 1909 but the sent III
runs acros the plate.
Obviously --'.cCormick hasn't i'm
proved individually but has in
proved as a team man and during
1910, when the Reds pitching !ost
some of its ~lustre, he was a vital
factor in Cincinnati's repeating for
the pennant.
Mccormick received 16 OF the
possible "a votes for first place
with Mize getting six and Der
ringer and lombard one each.
First choice counted IA points,
second nine. third eight, etc.
Fred Fitzsimmons. the aging
knuckleball pitcher of the Brook
Ign Dodgers, whose is and 2 record
was the best in the league last
season, was accorded fifth place
with "a while Debs CAIRNS of Pitts
burgh, the disputed batting cham
pion, tied for 18th with Is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
FRESHMEN DEFEAT
CLINTON B., 1870
Thomas And Wolfe Lead
Locals Offense As Kittens
Score First Win OF Year

The Freshman football team of
New Hanover High school marked
up it's first victory Of the season
yesterday afternoon as they dropped
the Clinton "B" squad on the short
end of a 10 to 0 score.
Pop" Thomas led the attack OF
the Kittens with his slashing sprints
through tackle and long gains around
the ends. Wolfe aided the speedy
Thomas by adding some nice yardage
Of his own with plunges through
the center.
John Burney led the local line play
with Crumpler and J.. Kaleel leading
the play of the Clinton eleven.
The New Hanover lads made Il
first downs to 6 for the visitors.
In the first period the Kittens
made an 80-yard drive up the field
to score with Thomas Keeling off long
gains. The Kittens made six first
downs on this drive which ended
with Thomas crashing over from the
two-yard line for the score. The try
for extra point failed.
Late in the fourth after a Series
of gains from the Clinton %, Thomas
scored standing up on a long end
run. Williams scored the extra point
on a line buck.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
BAKERY TEN WILL
SUPPLANT BRIGADE
To Enter Commercial Soft.
ball League When Season
Opens In Spring

When the softball season opens in
the spring Of 1871 gone will be the
Boys Brigade team Of the CONNER
cial league and in it's place will be
a club sponsored by the Royal Bak-
cry.
According to Aubrey Everett and
Speed" Jeffords, co-managers, the
new ten will be composed of many
OF the Brigade stars of 1910 with
enough new talent to make it one
Of the strongest softball teams in
the city.
The team will be outfitted from
head to toe, Everett and Jeffords
said, in colors to be decided upon
later and will carry the nickname
Of the "Sally Anders."
Last years Brigade gang fought
1T out with Spofford Mills, city
champions and winners of the Foy,
Roe trophy, for the second half
post in the Commercial league.
Of the eleven men named on the
SSdL1l LII lIdL 1Co5 uS, SA5AS
Brigadiers make the first. selection.
James DIRTY" Allen, the Brigade
short fielder, was the only man in
either league to receive 100 per cent
OF the votes cast for that position.
According to softball officials, the
Royal Bakery will possibly be the
only new team taken on for the
next season. The rest Of the Com
mercial league will probably be CON-
posed Of the championship Spofford
Spinners, American Bakers, Sun
shine Laundry and the Firemen.
The Independent loop will remain
intact with the City Optical Eyemen,
E. w. Godwin's Sons Builders, Ethyl
Dow Chemists, Wertheimer Bag
company's Bagmakers and Taylor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
WILSON, BIRDS
TO MEET FRIDAY
Rocky Mount Can Clinch Title
With Victory Provided
Raleigh Loses Too

CHAPEL HILL, Nov. 10 - An
other colorful, wide-open scrap II
the hectic race for the Eastern
Class A football championship
looms Friday afternoon when Will
son and Rocky Mount clash in the
Edgecombe stronghold,
A victory for Wilson would give
the Tobacconists the title. A
Rocky Mount triumph would also
mean an Eastern title provided, OF
course, that the dope runs true to
form and Durham beats Raleigh
in their scheduled meeting at Dur
ham. In the event Rocky Mount
and Raleigh win, the Wake Coun'
ty boys would still be in the run
ming for the title and the Raleigh
Rocky Mount contest on Novem-
Der % would have added signific-
ance. Should Raleigh win that
game, these two teams would wind
up in a tie and a playof contest
would be necessitated.
One other contest in the Class A
division is also on the weeks pro-
gram with High Point and Wins
ton-Salem playing at W~inston-Sa-
lem Friday.
Greensboro moved a step closer
to the Western Class A title last
week by defeating Salisbury, the
No. l challenger, 10 to 7. A vic
tory owe High Point November
% would give Greensboro undis-
puted possession Of the Western
crown.
In other Class A games last
week Wilson beat Wilmington 8 to
0 and Gastonia and High Point
fought to an exciting 14-14 dead
lock.
The State championship Class A
and B contests will be played at
Chapel Hill on Friday, November
%. The Class B game will be play
ed at 12:45 o'clock and the Class A
contest at 2:45.
Reidsville, the defending State
Class B champion. won the West
r title recently by defeating Mt.
Airy, its leading rival, in a recent
contest.
Four teams are still in the run-
ming for the Eastern Class B title.
Sanford, Fourth District cham
pion. and Roxboro, Third District
%titlist, will play at Sanford Fri
day and Elizabeth City, First Dis
trict winner, and Snow Hill, Sec
cnd District leader, play at Eliz-
abeth City Tuesday, November 10.
Winners Of these two games will
play sometime next week, to be an
nounced later, for the Eastern
B" championship.
Class A standings:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
HARTNETT FIRED AS CUBS PILOT
Mccormick GiiuenM Most Valuable PlayerAward
Generals Pinck Was Really
Pink When He Did Wake Up

wandering into the deserted lobby
to hear w. and L is leading, 7-6
late in the first half.
Young Pinck dashed out the doc,
and into a taxi. and, fully awake
by now, rushed up to the MAR
gate at the stadium. But he didn't
have a ticket. Ergo, the gate-keep
ers wouldn't let him in.
Pinck knocked EN- down anc
crashed the gate, only to run full
tilt into two state troopers who
promptly tossed him out again.
Desperate, young Pinck ran al
the way around to the other side
of the park, crashed that gate
without leaving time for questions.
locked himself into the field house
while he put On his uniform-and,
after convincing the coach his abb
was genuine, got away for several
good gains in the asst quarter, but
too late to bring w. and L. back
from a 1877 defeat.
Guaranteed by Lea Booth, W.
and L. news bureau. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
Chatter Chat Winner Oh
Hunter Title In Show

NEW YORK, Nov. Radiation
ping off the years most noted come.
back among show horses, the vir-
ginia-bred Chatter Chat regained the
priced hunter championship of the
National Horse Show today after
being dethroned for two years by in
juries.
Feature Of the afternoon session
of the 55th National shows closing
day, which vas marked by the death
of the honest old Chilean army mare,
Chilena, while being schooled over
the jumps, Chatter Chat, from the
stable of Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus
of Willoughby, Ohio, cleaned up in
two important hunter classes to
take the honors he held back in '3s
and 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
WAR INTERPRETIVE
CONTINUED from Page One)

they remained afloat and ready
for action, much of Britain's heavy
fleet had to be retained in those
waters.
With three of the six Fascist
battleships destroyed or out of &C.
ton for months, Britain has
clinched her grip on seas vital to
Axis plans for breaking the Brit
ish sea blockade in the east. Num-
erous British war craft can be
spared for convoy duty elsewhere,
and to hunt down German surface
raiders in the North Atlantic.
Prime Minister Churchill
touched upon that aspect in his
gleeful report to parliament on the
laramie bombing raid and its re-
suits. He held that the balance of
naval power in the Mediterranean
had been "decisively" changed in
Britain's favor by this one action.
He also said it would carry with
it reactions upon the naval situa.
ton in every quarter of the globe"
Coming close upon confirmed re-
ports of the heroic stand of the
British armed merchantmen, Jer-
Wis Bay, against a presumed Ger
man pocket-battleship, the laramie
episode thrilled British hearts.
Berlin claims of whosesale de-
struction of conveyed British ship
ping were convincingly refuted
once more by the news of the
Jervis Bay incident, and thus fresh
doubt was cast on similar Nazi
o~utgivings.
Convoy Smashed
The London admiralty also re.
ported that British warships had
smashed an Italian convoy of the
Albanian port of Valona. Presum.
ably that action took place in the
narrow Straits of Otranto.
If so, it means that British ships
as well as aircraft are striking at
the vital communication line be.
tween Italy and Albanian TERRITORY
which is being used as a bridge.
head for the attack on Greece
enforcement of that attack. al.
ready besten back by the Greeks
to a meagre foothold on Creek
territory, depends on free use ~
those waters.
That Germany can long de,av
moving to the aid of her Avis
mate seems incredible. There have
been hints that Hitler frowned
upon the Mussolini enterprise. bit
even so, Nazi abandonment Of ia
~ at this critical junctu~e would
open a dangerous Axis rift. ner.
maps lead to a popular revolt in
Italy against II Duce.
Moreover, an Italian mi1;+.u,,
aasaster in Egypt may conceivably
result from the revised naval s;t.
uatlon in the Eastern %1editerrsn.
can. The Fascist armv t thaa
pogged down for weeks at Sid
81 is placed in new neri1
Inc British are now IA better nosi.
tlon to prevent reinforcenenpo s
supplies SUPP from reaching this arnv
mere have been hints in~London
that a British attack r. dr;,a a .p
coroins pack into Libya might be
ng: II so, the laramie bomb.
ing could serve to speed up plans
Tor such an operation ~ pAa1S
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-14
RACE WIDE OPEN
AT CENTER SPOT
Stock Of SEVERN, Blalock Fall
For End Position On ALL
America Grid Team

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-R-Call-
ing the roll on the outstanding line
candidates for the All-America
football team:
The toughest spot to fill this
year apparently will be center
where competition is wide open.
The east has a flock Of good pivot
men, among them Leon Gajechi
of Penn State; Don Snavely of Co.
lumbia; Chef Gladchik, Boston
college 24o-pounder; Georgetown's
duo of Allen Matuza and J i m
Reichey; Frank Finneran, Cornell
ball-hawk; Spencer Moseley of
Yale, a sensation against Cornell
last week; Bill ellis of Army;
Ray Frick of Penn; Lou de Filippo
of Fordham; Ed Simms Of Navy,
and Burgy Ayres of Harvard.
The Southeastern conference
dominates Bob GUIDE of Wander
bilt, and the Southern likes h e
work of Bob Barnett of Duke, Bob
Sharpe of Clemson, and Louis Soss-
aman. South Carolina sophomore.
Backbone of Baylor's crack line is
center Bob Nelson with Southern
Methodist's Ray Pope another
Southwest standout.
Rudy Mucha, of Washington, a
57-minute defensive ace against
Stanford last week, looks like the
class of the Far West with STAN
ford's Vic Lindskog up there or
Whereabouts. Paul Hiemenz OF
Northwestern and Claude White of
Ohio State are the Western con-
ference's leading candidates while
Marquette's Ray Apolskis likewise
is highly rated. In the Big Six,
center Don Pierce of Kansas IS
a powerful figure on an otherwise
unimpressive ball club. Cliff Spec
gle of Oklahoma is another good
one. Topping the Big Seven are
Frank Scott of Denver and Muir
ay Vaughan of Utah State.
Another hot fight has developed
over the end positions. Stock of
the Southern conference leaders,
Paul SEVERN of North Carolina and
Joe Blalock of Clemson, took a
sharp drop last week. SEVERN, an
Al-America last year, has been
handicapped by injuries for sew
eral weeks and failed to play as
North Carolina vas upset by Itch
mond. Some critics were disap-
pointed in Blalock's play against
Auburn.
Rising briskly to the occasion,
however, yer a number of other
ends including Alabama's gre t
pair Of Captain Hal Newman and
Holt Rast; Buddy Elrod, Missis-
slppi State, who played bang-up
football against Louisiana State de-
spite a cast on a broken hand;
Dave Rankin of Purdue w h O S e
flank was avoided by Fordham's
runners; Bob Steuber, Missouri
youngster; Ed Frutig of Michigan,
superb on defense and offense
against Minnesota, and Alex Ur-
ban of South Carolina. 4