The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
VOLS ARE SEEN
AS CAGE CHAMPS
Mississippi Coach Says Ten
nessee Better Than Ken
lucky on Grip Shots
By ROMNEY

BY ROMNEY WHEELER
ATLANTA, Feb. 17.-R-Tennes-
see will be the next Southeastern
conference basketball champion,
says Chuck JaskWhich and
Chuck ought to know. He is
basketball coach at the University
of Mississippi, and luckless
charges have been beaten by ev-
cry other team in the conference.
-. The Rebels won one (from
Mississippi State and since have
dropped Is in a row. . Kentucky
rates number two in the Jaskwhich
winter book because, he says, the
defending champions lack Tennes-
sees skill at moving the ball in
for ''crip shots"
Question: Up Knoxville way,
Sports Editor Tom Anderson of
the Journal suspicious that Frank
Leahy's shift from Boston college
to Notre Dame may solve Ten
nessee's schedule problem for 1941.
He says Leahy objected to
playing the Vols in Memphis next
fall because Major Bob Neyland
and Boston's athletic director,
John Curley, closed the deal in
his absence. . Now, he thinks,
the game may go through as orig
inally scheduled. .. Zipp Newman
of the Birmingham Age Herald,
meanwhile, suggests it would be
smart business for Tennessee to
play in Boston, where the game
would draw better than 49, 900. =.
Auburn, he adds slyly, might agree
to play the Vols in Memphis if
Mayor Crul.lp must have a game.
Huddle: Vanderbilt's footballers
are aching for action. Although
not scheduled to report for spring
training for a week, five varsity
men including Captain Joe Atkin-
sen joined the frosh squad for
workouts. When the U. S. Lawn
Tennis association regulations pre-
vented Bobby Riggs, Frank Ko-
vacs and other stars from COM
peting, Miami's Roney Plaza am
ateur tournament was cancelled. :.
Carolina rumors say The Citadel
shortly will abandon intercollegiate
baseball. No games yet have
been scheduled with other colleges.
Meanwhile, from Lexingtc;S CKy.)
comes speculation that %uisiana
State may pass up the Southeast
ern conference basketball tourna-
ment. The reason: Too long
a haul to Louisville, site of the
meet.
Dispute: A rift in athletic rela-
tons between Centre college and
the University of Louisville is ru-
mored. Trouble bobbed up when
Louisville's athletic director, Laur-
lie Apitz, billed Centre for $25 re-
pairs to goal posts torn down at
Louisville's field after Centres &C.
0 football victory last fall. A
year earlier Apitz irked Centre by
remarking that a scoreless
against the Prayin' Colonels was
pretty good for our amateurs"
i. And here's one for the book.
Georgetown CKy.) basketballers
lost not only their recent game
with Centre, 50-40, but lost their
shirts as we'll. Georgetown
Bob Evans made his boys
shuck theirs because the light or
ange jerseys too closely resembled
Centres gold uniforms.
People: Walter Mehl is tabled
as the man who will run the mile
IN four minutes before 1916. Ev
Clay of the Miami Herald says
Mehl's first coach, Secretary Rich
ard vans of the Miami Y. M. c.
makes the prediction, explain
ing Mehl now is "a and most milers
don't reach their peak until q
or %. Add politics: B. M. At
kinson, Jr., of the Louisville Times
Coach Snavely of Cornell as
Ohio's choice to succeed Justice
MacReynolds on the United States
Supreme Court. "They figure
les handed down some great de-
cisions from the bench" Ed
Savannah pitcher, had a
chance at a preseason job with a
Canal Zone club but turned it
Town when he learned he'd have
% stay through April 1. His
contract is owned by the Boston
Red Sox and he reports to Savan-
lah in mid-March. l