The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04

Golf Leads
You might be surprised at this
but golf equipment led all the rest
in 1889, with the lings goods valued
at almost SIG, 600, 900. This includes
some 5000, 900 clubs, $50, 600 cad
die bags, etc. Golf expenditures
rose 50, 900, 900 from the year 1897
to 1889.
There next comes an item which
Wilmingtonians a grasp more
quickly. Fishing tackle, valued at
$12, SIS, 900, included 808, 900 bam'
boo rods, more than a million steel
rods and nearly three million reels.
Artificial lures alone had a value
of So, 500, 900 in the year 1899 A. D.
Baseball equipment in the year
of the big Yankees included $780,
600 dozen regulation baseballs,
Bill 443 dozen softballs, nearly g.
OO0. 900 bats and 1,500, 900 mitts and
gloves. Football, basketball and
boxing goods ran up a total of S.
1868, 800, including 1888, $40 foot
balls, SOL, 1924 ba~sketballs and $780,
1856 boxing gloves.
Skating goods for 1889 had a
value of SIS, 400, 600 including 1884,
1892 pairs of roller skates and
1876 pairs of ice skates. Skis and
-snowshoes were valued at more
than a million dollars. T n i S
goods had a value of 81, 748, 500,
including 608, 545 dozen tennis balls
and 686, 923 rackets.
Other sporting and athletic goods
had a factory value of more than
$40, 600, 900. In all the sports equip
ment industry employed IA, 600
workers with a payroll exceeding
$14, 600, 900.
And if that hasn't got you dizzy
just let your Imagination dwell on
it awhile.
Grid Rule Changes
The football rules committee
made three changes in the rules
yesterday, with all three designed
to be of help to the offense, which
has been bottled up in the rules
book too long.
Under the changes players may
be substituted at any time and as
many times as the coach likes, the
ball may be handed forward to any
player behind the scrimmage line
and fourth down passes that fall
incomplete in the opponents enc
zones are to be put ir+o play at the
spot where the pass was launched,
thereby ruling out the automatic
touchback.
These three simple rule changes
should be of great help to some Of
the 'house of magic" grid teams
next fall.
Odds and Ends
The rumor is going around that
The Citadel will bring out a sopho.
more football team next fall thai
will make a lot of people sit ur
and take notice. The up-com.
ing players from tn freshman
squad are mostly imports and
Coach Bo Rowland is not ever
afraid of that first game with
Army. If a thunderbolt doesn't
strike George Glamack, North Car
olina's elongated center, he is sure
to repeat on the All-American cage
team this year. In the game
with Lehigh Thursday r:ght he
personally accounted for "a points.
Charley O'Rourke, the little
Boston Eagle, who engineered thai
victory over Tennessee Wednes'
day, is being doomed as the No. ]
hero of the 1941 bowl games. .
And the best story we've lcard ir
regards to the bowl games is the
one about the two inebriated fel
lows who tackled up to the gate
:. at the Sugar bowl in New Orleans
and produced their tickets with g
demand to be seated: The tick
cts turned out to be for the Rose
bowl game out in Pasadena ano
when this was explained to the
pair they zig-zagged off, with one
muttering, II told you we caught
the wrong train"