Evening star., 1942-12-03

Henry McLemore. mere, Qeep III
the red clay and chicken null coun-
try, to report the Georgia Georgia
Tech game. This battle between the
Bulldogs and the Engineers at
tracted the biggest crowd in the
history of the State-45, ,000-and
Athens was just about as well pre-
pared to handle this number OF
humans as cannibals are to turn
vegetarian on moments notice.
Its two hotels, both of which point
with pride to Sherman's spur
prints in the lobby were so over
run with humans that everyone
having a room above the second
floor had to listen to the game by
radio. Both ran out of hominy
grits in the dining rooms, and this
marked the first time in the history
OF the Deep South that diner
couldn't get bowl Of inedible grits
with his meal The manager per-
sonally sent me note of apology.
1t was well-behave crowd, how.
ever. Bourbon seems to make people
more tractable. 1t was not ever
thus. In the days Of prohibition,
Southern football crowds went for
corn whisky, and any one who has
ever fooled around with corn knows
that it is strictly fire-ax potion.
Three drinks of corn-so l am told
makes a man want to challenge the
world, and give the world the first
punch. AS I said, this is strictly
, hearsay.
From now on, this column is di-
rected toward my California clients,
who will see the Georgia team in
the Rose Bowl. I would like to tell
them what they are going to see,
and if the scout of the Pacific Coast
Conference team wants to send me
a check for the information, my
name and address will be sent on
request.
Georgia is not a great football
team, but it is a team that would
make Rockne grow hair in order to
pull it. send Pop Warner in Car
Isle fits, and cause all the other
believers in sensible football to go
slightly daffy. Even their coach,
the tall, lean. lanky Wally Butts,
is surprised by his players.
They'll do anything at any time.
They don't kick when the book says
you must kick. Neither do they
follow any Of the other regulations.
Their huddle is strictly grab
bag. The player who offers the
weirdest suggestion is voted tenn
porary captain and placed In charge.
They pass on a first down behind
their own goal line They kick
when they need only foot for first
down on their opponents goal line.
They clip when they feel they have
made too many yards on play, and
every once in while they call for
an offside just for the devil of it.
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They may not beat the Pacific
Coast representative. but I'll guar
antee you this-youll see the only
team that ever played out there
that doesn't care what the score is,
as long as it is out there playing.
This is for your information:
Sinkwich, the boy with the fat feet
and bad temper, is not great back.
He is sort of decathlon football
player. He doesn't do anything
badly but he doesn't do anything
we'll. So, he'll wind up beating your
team. The best player on the club
Is an end named Poschner. The
next best is sort of Don Hutson
boy named Van Davis.
Everybody in Athens now is busy
buying shoes and ties for the team.
They want the Bulldogs to make a
fine appearance when they reach
Pasadena and are greeted by that
heart-warming reception of two
Rose Bowl officials, rubbing the
sleep out of their eyes.
This is warning to Georgia. No
visiting team was ever killed with
kindness by the Rose Bowl people.
In fact, no one has ever been bruised
by their kindness. But this truth
remains-the Rose Bowl people give
you a little better than 100000
when you leave, and there is prac-
tically nothing you can't buy in
Georgia with 100000.
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