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By Eddie Ash

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ANOTHER FRESHMAN

O collegiate football player—not even Red Grange— has been so much on the spot as 19-year-old Bill DeCorrevont, late of Chicago Austin High School and now a freshman at Northwestern. . .. But after a couple weeks spent with the Wildcat yearlings, it appears as though the 180-pound youngster will surmount the obstacle of having been the most highly publicized prep footballer in the his-

tory of the sport.

Because DeCorrevont has poise—more poise as a

‘ freshman than many athletes varsity careers. Freshman Coach Maury worked with a lot of Northwe Baker, Bill reminds him most of Bak

attain at the height of their

Kent, who has seen and stern greats—such as Moon

Hank Bruder, Pug Rentner and Don Heap—says

er.

“He has the same relaxed attitude and ability to

spring into top speed when made Moon such an outstand doesn’t have Rentner’'s speed has loads of natural ability. “Bill is a fine runner, th

the occasion demands that ing back,” says Kent. “He nor Bruder’'s drive, but he

ough. Not fancy, but very

effective. He has a natural change of pace and knows how

to swerve and cut. His passin

g is just fair and he is just

an average kicker, but that poise of his should overcome any shortcomings he might have.”

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N OPENING DAY of practice pictures were widely printed showing

DeCorrevont posing with Head two are seen together, As far as Waldorf man football player the hands of Coach Kent. himself would have it. “I've got no illusions about be admits.

. He leaves

Coach Lynn Waldorf. . . . The

however, in pictures only. is concerned DeCorrevont is just another fresh-

the boy's development entirely in

. . Which is just the way DeCorrevont

ing a great football player,” he

“I happened to go pretty good in high school and got in a lot

of headlines, but I've still got plenty to learn

“Certainly, I hope I'll mgke the don’t I'll be the least of lot of boys who will be able to put

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surprised person of all 70 freshmen players with the same idea,

varsity as a sophomore, but if I Right now I'm just one and there might be a their ideas into better effect.”

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S ONE OF the entertaining highlights of the first appearance of

a Boilermaker football eleven

in Indianapolis in over 30 years,

Purdue's justly famous 130-piece military band will not only provide a

t parade in downtown Indianap appearances both bef

olis before noon on Saturday, but ore the game and between halves

Bowl on Saturday afternoon.

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p th ® dir ection of 1 e itself a

taken en sts to assur

legiate pan The Purdue ban

S. Emrick, the Purdue band has place in the Hall of Fame of Cold was not only the first to boast

of alph Jabetic al letter marching formations on the gridiron, but the

first to use a giant bass drum. Saturday, Indianapolis residents ering upon its second year on a , the famous drum, which has gro landmark,

ent fall

will see the original drum—now motorized mount. Only last wn to be more or less of a Purdue

was completely renovated—given two new bullskin heads,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938

squawking

PAGE 23 Rose Bowl

Bronx Cheering

ill be plenty of cheering

Saturday in the gridiron stands and won't subside until the annual

session starts over the selection.

CUBS BANK ON LEE TO KEEP CLUB ON TOP

Hutler to to See Action on 4th Straight Day

Hartnett and Root, Majors’ Oldest Battery, Praised As Cubs Triumph.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Methuselah’s children—ancient Charley Root and antiquated Gabby Hartnett—were the toast of the baseball world today after a dramatic ninthinning performance which will live forever in the National League's archive of memories.

That venerable pair, whose years on this earth add up to 76, forming the oldest battery in the majors, hoisted the Cubs into the national League lead, climaxing one of the most courageous of all September drives in a league famed for its photo finishes. For 13 years Root and Hartnett have been on the firing line for the Cubs, but they were never better than in that critical ninth inning with the score knotted 5-5 and the

Ushers escorting manager-catcher Gabby Hart- | him after he hit

nett from Wrigley Field as thousands of fans rushed

the game and took the leadership from the Pirates.

Times-Acme Telephoto. a ninth-inning home run that won

Pirates lashing out to hold their scant league lead. Thirty-nine-year-old Root choked off the Pirates with the pennant and thousands of dollars riding on every pitch, maybe. And then when youth and speed and younger hearts failed, 37-year-old Hartnett came through with a game-wrecking homer with two out in the ninth. That punch won the game, 6-5, and saved the Cubs from having to play a double-header today which might have been disastrous for them. Now they can gamble again today on another re-lay-pitching job as they did yesterday when they had six hurlers in action, including Bill Lee for the fourth straight day. The triumph gave the Cubs nine straight and the league lead by half a game. In the other two National League games the Boston Bees won from

Herb Pennock Rates 1927 Yankees Over This Year’s

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 20—Somebody in the dugout of the Boston Red Sox asked Herb Pennock, the old pitcher, how the present Yankees compared with the 1927 champions. Pennock was on that team, was one of the stars. He is a Red Sox coach now. In the World Series that year Pennock pitched a near-no-hitter. For seven and one-third innings the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t get a hit. It was a masterful performance. Pennock didn't have much stuff. For the most-part he was pitching with his head, making the Pirates hit at bad balls, keeping them off bal-®

A Lie ound ORIY one Mish die Pennock throw a ball I said to my-

didn’t pass any. ; > _| self if that's guy's a winning pitcher | Letty Somes of the curren: yank this must be a soft league. If he can|

Mr. Jimmy Foxx, the slugging first baseman who is having one of his best seasons. “Say, if we had had a couple of pitchers ‘we would have beaten em to the pennant.” “But we didn't,” broke in Mr. Joe Cronin, the Red Sox manager, with just a note of melancholy in his voice. It was Mr. Pennock, however, who spoke with authority. After all he had pitched for the '27 champions

playoff finals was in a deadlock to- | day between St. Paul and Kansas,

victories. Tonight the clubs, wearied from the long, hard-fought series,

seventh and final game.

to 11, in a game where the batters hit almost everything that the pitchers offered. The Blues made 17 hits, the Saints 19. Home runs helped the Kansas City cause. Clyde McCullough and Joe Gallagher each! getting a couple to drive in eight runs together. The teams set a new record for the number of pitchers to be used in a single game. Kansas City used seven, St. Paul six. None of the hurlers on either side was effective.!

Saints’ Lead Overcome |

7 to 0 in the sixth inning was the |

feature of the game. The Saints were far out in front with only! three innings to go before clinching | the championship and the right to meet the Newark Bears of the International League in the Little World Series. Kansas City started with a fourrun rally in the sixth and the cause looked hopeless when St. Paul retaliated with three runs in their half of the inning. The Blues made two in the seventh, but the Saints] scored another, leaving them with an apparently safe, 11-to-7 margin. The Blues kept on scoring, however,

and he had had ample opportunity to study the contemporary Yankees. “Ruth, Meusel and Coombs formed a better outfield,” insisted Mr. Pennock. “DiMaggio is what

| makes this present outfield dis- | tinguished. Gehrig at first was bet- | ter in "27 than he is now. Lazzeri [was one of the greatest second | basers of all time and ’'27 was one | of his best years. Koenig, at short,

getting two additional runs in the

Blues and Saints Deadlocked, Play Series Finale Tonight

ST. PAUL, Minn, Sept. 20 (U. eighth and the tying and winning P). — The American Association Ins in the ninth.

‘Newark Wins, Waits City, with each team holding three A, A. Playoff Victor

NEWARK, N. J, Sept. 29 (U. P.).

—The Newark Bears, International will seek the deciding victory in the League playoff champions for the second straight year, today waited

Kansas City won last night 12|the outcome of the American Asso= ciation playoff to see whether their

“Little World Series” opponent will

be St. Paul or Kansas City.

The Bears walloped the Buffalo

Bisons 14-5 to take the final game of the International series for the {| Governor's Cup yesterday.

'ROWE GETS CHANCE

TO EVEN DIXIE SERIES

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 29. (U.P.)—

Schoolboy Rowe, one-time pitching star of the Detroit Tigers, will at= The remarkable manner in which | ‘tempt to even the Dixie Series to=

the Blues came back after trailing | night for Beaumont, champions of the Texas League.

Rowe was scheduled to pitch the series opener last night against Atlanta, the Southern Association titlists. Manager Al Vincent started Dizzy Trout instead. Atlanta pounded him and two successors for 12 hits and a 7-to-3 triumph.

Baseball

Auto City Garage baseball team will play at Glenns Valley Sunday at 2:30 p. m. to end their success ful season as runnersup in the Municipal League. All Garage players please notice.

SANTA CLAUS comes cacy.

You get a real gift of savings in our

also had a great season and Dugan | |at third was still in his prime.’ “You must admit that young Gordon at second is a great ballplayer,’ interrupted Mr. Moe Berg, the

a redecorated shell, and a truck to replace the man-powered carriage on which it formerly rode, thus putting it out in the lead again as the only motorized giant bass drum.

ees watched Pennock pitch to the) } win 18 games (as he had the | Red SS aluen fia Some | year before), I ought to win 40.| remember the first time I saW 1 aq just a busher then. Later on|

I got to appreciate what a great]

the Phillies, 3-1, behind ira Hutchinscn’s five-hit pitching, and the Cardinals, despite five errors, outlasted the Reds to win, 8-7.

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OUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S game with Ohio State in Columbus,

Oct Pi Sen Rufus B. von KleinSmid is School Vice President Henry W High, near Cleveland os ach Howard irilled the Buckeyes. . . rlin College.

Athletics Dir

Jones was born and

8 is in the nature of a homecoming for Trojan chiefs. . . .

a graduate of Oberlin Preparatory Bruce is a graduate of Amherst

reared in Ohio and once ector Bill Hunter is a graduate of

Sot ithern California probably will continue the Ohio State series ermanent basis after the termination of the two-game series

next year with Illinois, on in Seattle next fall.

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| pitcher he was. | “You were talking about the 1927] | Yankees,” Pennock said. “I'd have |

Three brilliantly pitched games featured the American League's play. Joe Krakauskas pitched Washington to a 4-1 victory over the Yankees, letting the champions down with five hits. Triples by Rolfe and DiMaggio accounted for

Athletics. Each allowed six hits.| George Gill's eight-hit pitching enabled Detroit to blank the St. Louis Browns, 12-0. Hank Green-|y,pree team, better in the outfield, | berg went hitless. Birdie Tebbetts' petter in the infield and better in| homer with the bases loaded fea-|the box. The only edge I'd give this | the Yank {tured the Tigers’ attack. The White| team is back of the plate. Bill] ne Yanks’ only run. Joe Heving | Sox outslugged the Vittmen, 14-11. | Dickey makes that a big edge.” outdueled Lynn Nelson to give the! Although rapped for 16 hits Thorn=| Red Sox a ‘2-1 triumph over the pon Lee went the route to win. tea

m, do you?” scornfully « demanded

R= HORNSBY once said half of the major league managers e there only to be bounced when o¥ners require an alibi for

their failure or inability to line up right . Gabby Street was treated

President Don Barnes of the Browns,

most out of the material at hand.

required talent. . Maybe he’s shabbily . Everybody, including admits that Street got the

There was nothing wrong with the Old Sarge’s directorship when

he piloted championship the latter fall Four of the five pitchers who

the Cardinals to pennants in 1930 and '31 and to a world

gained places in the nation-wide

most popular player poll conducted by a cereal company spent a great

deal of time in clinics . Lefty Gr and Johnny Vander Meer. . . Buck Newsom, vear? ...

Browns and battling young Bob Fel leadership. . . .

have been presented with a new contract in S

ove, Carl Hubbell, Tommy Bridges

And how in the world did they miss who has been one of the outstanding flingers of the He has worked in 42 games, winning 18 for the incompetent

ler for the major league strikeout

Another Newsom and Gabby Street probably would

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at St. Louis. Philadelphia at New York. Boston at Brooklyn (2).

AMERICAN LEAGUE

St. Louis at Detroit. Chicago at Cleveland. Washington at Boston. New York at Philadelphia.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF

Kansas City at St. game,

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF . 002 004 222-12 1% 131 113 1o0—11 19 Wicker, Bonham, R. Willer. Makosky, LaRececa, Piechota, McCuliough and Riddle; Chelini, Frasier, Brown, Herring, Pheips, Taylor and Silvestri.

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GOMEZ MAY NOT T START.

IN SERIES FOR YANKS

NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (U.P)—

| was virtually certain to start in the {opening game of the World Series, seemed in danger of losing the assignment today because of a congestion in his chest. Manager Joe MecCarthy ordered Lefty i “steaming out” in hope of clearing {up the disorder before the first {game Oct. 5.

GO LONG WAY Red Rolfe of the Yankees became

la great third baseman despite his small hands.

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“1 admit all of that,” nodded Mr.!

| make us forget all about Lazzeri but! lin ‘27 the ltaiian was tops. And as | for pitching we had Hoyt, who was! still good: Shocker, who was good | | even when he quit; Moore, who had |

was just starting to come.’

to say it was better than the present Pennock. “One of these days he may |

“You don’t call this a really great his greatest year, and Pipgras, who

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“GUARANTEE” Opens Another Auto Supply Store

Beginning tomorrow open house has been planned for customers and friends at our new location at 502 North Capitol Avenue. This new location on the northwest corner of Capitol and Michigan streets has been reconstructed, completely renovated and redecorated to house our General Offices and Warehouse. The new Capitol Avenue store will be open evenings until 9:00 o’clock, Sundays 8 to 12 noon.