Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1938 — Page 20
By Eddie Ash SPENDS DIME, COLLECTS
MAYBE SANTA IS A SOUTHPAW
$2000
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ndianapolis
WEDNESDAY, "DECEMBER 14, 1938
1imes Sports
hg lost eight
1 # ‘Home, Sweet Home ™ ; Home must look mighty good to - the N. Y. U. Violets. Although they
basket .games last season,
the most in 14 years, they- were un-
: | beaten in
local competition.
: BY investing 10 cents, the cost of Sporting News, the
baseball weekly, Lefty Lester Willis fell in up to his
: Heck in Uncle Sam’s shekels. ~ Yecall the chunky southpaw pitcher who came to Perry
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Stadium with Louisville last season. + ‘While perusing the baseball publication several weeks ~ ‘ago, Willis noticed that his name was not included on the
Teserve list of the Colonels.
,. - - All clubs in organized ball are required to submit a list of players on their reserve list to Judge William #Bramham, president of the National Association of
~ *Profestional Baseball Leagues
(the minors), and to Judge
X M. Landis, baseball's commissioner, by Sept. 11.
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yy wired Fudizs Bramham and called his attention to Louisville’s oversight. . . . The judge ruled
| Lefty a free agent and the
player promptly accepted
terms with Milwaukee and collected a $2000 cash bonus. ! Louisville appealed the decision and Bramham again ruled in favor of the player. . . . Two thousand bucks for a dime! ... And Christmas just around the corner! $i». Willis lives at Jasper, Tex., and is turning his 26th
birthday.
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PT was the second bonus collected by Willis this year and gave him
$4500 in extra sugar above salary. . .
. Last spring Judge Landis
. dooked into the St. Louis Cardinal chain store situation, declared a
rge and Lefty Lester, more or less A vas freed from his contract.
an unknown in the little minors,
tHe shopped around and Louisville noticed that he won 22 games 3 while losing eight with the Pine Bluff, Ark, club of the Cotton States
League in 1937. “The Colonels shelled out $2500 in ing dotted line. 5
cash and Willis put his name on
* The lefthander won only nine and lost 21 for the tailend Colonels :
ut 11 of his defeats were scoreless games for Louisville’s hapless club.
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F Freddie Hutchinson makes the big league grade with the Detroit Tigers it will be a perfect box office natural when he is matched
surely will pack ’em in.
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son has one advantage over Fireball
with Rapid Robert Feller of Cleveland.
. « . The two youngsters
Feller is a year or so ahead in big league training but Hutchin-
Bob. . He pitched a full sea-
son in the Pacific Coast League under that wise old head, Jack
elivelt, 4 Freddie set Seattle ablaze with
baseball enthusiasm last season
#nd when he won his 19th game on his 19th birthday he was crowned
king of Puget Sound. . . . He is now at the University of Washington, ® 8 ” =
studying business administration
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J AST season the Indianapolis infield was made up of Bob ‘Lat#ls shaw, Vincent Sherlock, Buck Fausett, Steve Mesner and Jimmy
Potahl, .
d 1d, Pofahl released. . .
. In the stove league sweep Sherlock and Fausett have been . Mesner was recalled by the Chicago Cubs. _ President Leo Miller is in full charge of the housecleaning and ds touching. all the bases—we hope. . .
. It's so easy to get caught
holding the bag in the baseball market.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—OQur information is that the
ajor league magnates, gathered here for their annual bull session, will agree upon two very revoluntionary matfers before the week is over. They will agree to raise the ayer limit from 23 to 25 and also to adopt a standard ball. : The consequences of these two radical measures
1 Ehreaten to shake what is known as the national pastime to dts very foundations, leaving the whole structure perched
Y: a dizzy angle, with no assurance against an early and
lcomplete collapse. 2
Taking the lightest and most optimistic point of view, we feel
oy athe increased player limit, for instance, will have terrifying and far-
Feaching effects. 5 \ 2
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We feel it will work out in such a way that ine ‘Stead of some teams having 23 terrible ball players they will have 25.
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S for the standard ball, we shudder to think what effect it will : have on such fence busters as Spud Chandler, Lefty Grove, Cliff
Beaton and Danny MacFayden, whose loud fouls have thrown pitchers both leagues into agonizing nightmares.
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Designed to curb the hitting violence of the New York Yankees, standard ball is also likely to produce a head rocking sensation.
"There is every indication that the Yankees’ one-time ferocious attack
Mill be muted to a thin whisper. f their lead in home runs and runs ‘one-one hundredths of a point. go. Fellows like Gehrig, Dickey,
Fabbages for triples.
~ ‘hitters. - There is only one way to stop the Yankees and that’s for the
x Jopposition in both leagues to build 3 isn’t going to do it.
ot a
And in the end we will be surprised
driven in isn’t reduced by all of
-Di Maggio and Keller would hit The standard ball isn’t going to bother real
up stronger teams. Legislation
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WE are for the standard ball and feel it should have been in use all the time, not only in the big leagues but in all leagues where
professional baseball is played.
If batting averages are to be taken
seriously then the equipment should be uniform. There never has been a great deal of difference in the balls used
by the two majors. been slightly thicker and the seams
The covering on the National League ball has
slightly higher. This supposedly
has made for more effective pitching in that it gives the elbowers a
better purchase on the ball.
For years the National League has been promoted as a pitchers’
f league, and the American, a hitters’
league. With the standard ball
in use there will be less speculation and theory on this subject. The comparative pitching figures will carry more authornty, even if they
} dons, provide the final answer.
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1 AFTER it will always be easier to pitch to lighter hitters than
to have heavier hitters, no matter what kind of ball the pitcher is throwing. So if it’s true the American is a hitter’s league it naturally follows the pitchers in that league do not have a soft assignment. Perhaps a small measure of relief for them is not out of order. The Giants, needing a first baseman, had a choice between Zeke
Bonura, American League cast off,
and Buddy Hassett of Brooklyn.
They choose the cast off and it probably will develop they made a wise choice. Bonura hifs a long ball and the left field stands at the Polo Grounds should be an inviting target. He'll blow some games around first because of his ‘awkward fielding, but he'll win a lot more with
home runs.
Siz. Bonura’s main difficulty will be in keeping his waist line down
to modest dimensions. The Signor trenchermen in the big leagues. - he belongs on anybody’s all-America
A Hunter Quintet
Hunters have walloped are Bedford
; gr Appears Strong
The Happy Hunters of HuntingBrg sounded a warning throughout fhe Hoosier prep basketball kingdom last night by defeating the Vin- : es Alices, 33 to 23, at’ Vincennes. “The victory, the seventh.iconsecutive for the Hunters, was made over one of the coleaders in the Southern Conference. Other teams of bet-tering-than-average rating the
5 and Jasper,
- Seymour, recovered from its first setback of the season last week, edged the Bedford Stonecutters, 28 to 25, on the home floor. After holding their strong North
Central Conference opponent, Frankfort, throughout the first half, Lebarfon suddenly folded to lose, 43
is one of the most accomplished
As a free handed, loose style eater”
team.
Cathedral Practices For Double Header
Cathedral High School's basketball squad is preparing for two contests this week-end. The Irish are to play Greencastle there Friday night and meet Brazil here Saturday night. - Under-basket shooting and defensive maneuvers occupied the attention of Coach Joe Harmon in early week practices. Light scrimmages have been held with the second stringers showing great form against the starters. Cathedral's drubbing of 'Greenfield last Saturday night here has aroused considerable interest in the game with Shortridge which isn’t until Jan. 20. The Blue Devils conquered Greenfield by a greater marEin than the 29-15 Cathedral mar-
DePauw Tied With Grizzlies | For Loop Lead
Tiger Five Defeats Purple Aces, 38-32; Indiana State Wins.
TONIGHT Detroit at Purdue. Indiana Central at Franklin, Tri-State at Hillsdale, Mich. By United Press DePauw’s Tigers smashed through Evansville College, 38 to 32, in an Indiana Conference hardwood bat-
tle at Greencastle last night to shoot to a tie with Franklin for the league leadership. Both have three victories.
Two tilts between Indiana college. quintets .and out-state rivals
last night brought wins for the Hoosiers. Eastern Illinois Normal, 25 to 23, and Tri-State of Angola went into Michigan to edge Olivet, 33 to 30.
Indiana State defeated
Herbert Kixmiller, veteran for-
ward, led DePauw's savage attack| against -the Aces by scoring 12 points. personal fouls being called. Maglaris and Polk, Evansville players, left the floor via the foul route. DePauw led at the half, 24 to 13.
The game was rough, 31
Tri-State staged a last half rally,
overcoming a 14-to-10 disadvantage, to knock off ‘the Michigan five. John Dyer, rangy Indiana team, led scorers with 16 points, all of which were made in the'last half.
Central Normal to Tangle With St. Joseph’s Five
Times Special
center for the
DANVILLE, Dec. 14—Two new-
comers are expected to break into the Central Normal lineup in the basketball night with St. Joseph’s College.
game here tomorrow
Shaw, center, and Younger, for-
ward, are the two new starters who will team with McGarvey, forward, and-Wallace and Farr, guards. The Warriors have been drilling on defense and were to taper off today with a foul shooting session.
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Times Photo.
Kenneth Peterman, veteran Shortridge High School cage coach, smiles after three early season victories in a row. ,,, :
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Franklin Seeks 17th Straight Home Win
Times Special
FRANKLIN, Dec. 14—The Frank-
lin College basketball team tonight goes after its 17th straight home win against the Indiana Central quintet. The Grizzlies scored a onepoint decision Purple Aces in their most recent start.
over Evansville’s
Coach R. E. Tillotson of Franklin
may move Don Reichert, guard, to forward, and Shafenacker to center. Myron Knauff, sophomore, is a likely starter in Reichert’s customary position.
Detroit Five to Test Purdue Tonight
Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Dec. 14—Purdue
University’s basketball team gets its second test of the season tonight when it faces a veterah University of Detroit five in the Purdue Fieldhouse. torious in their starter against Monmouth.
The Boilermakers were vic-
Coach Piggy Lambert indicated
that although he would start a vet-
eran five he planned to substitute with sophomores. Sophomores likely to see action are Bob Igney and Norman Swarts. A duel for individual honors is expected between Purdue's Capt.
Detroit cocaptain, both centers.
Basketball Scores
STATE COLLEGES
DePauw, 38: Evansville, 32. Tri-State, 33; Olivet, 30. Indiana State, 25; Eastern Illinois Normal, 23. . OTHER COLLEGES Armour Tech, 36; Northern Illinois Teachers, 31. Georgetown, 36; Loyola (Baltimore), 34. American U., 34; Western Maryland, 28. Mt. St. Mary’s, 45; Blue Ridge, 28. Peru (Neh.) Teachers, 45; Haskell Indians, 26. South Dakota State, 65; Eastern Normal, 28. Dubuque U., 31: Wartburgh, 19. Kearney (Neb.) Teachers, 35; College, - 26. Central Alma, 24. Assumption, 31: St. Mary's, 16. Highland Park Jr., 39; Detroit Tech, 37. Beloit (Wis.), 57; Kenyon, 35. Ohio University, 55: Marietta, 28. Kent State, 38; Holbrook, 27. Findlay, 33; Bluffton, 32. Fairmont. 47; Concord, 43. Wittenberg, 43; Scranton University, 41 (overtime). St. Mary’s (Winona, gustana, 42. Grove City, 44; Clarion, 32. New Mexico School of Mines, tional University of Mexico, 29. Illinois College, 52; Westminster, (triple overtime). PROFESSIONAL
Warren (Pa.), 43; Kautsky All-Ameri-cans (Indianapolis), 41.
STATE HIGH SCHOOLS
Midland
{Mich.) State Teachers, 46;
Minn.), 46; Au-
30; Na-
4%
> Seymour, 28: Bedford, 25.
West Baden, 22; Paoli, 21. Frankfort, 43; Lebanon, 25. Huntingburg, 33; Vincennes, 23. St. Joseph's, 27; St. Mary's (Michigan City), 19. Goodland, 29; Kentland, 28. _ Dillsboro, 21; Versailles, 18.
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Gene Anderson and Bob Calihan,|
“ve And diagrams a play which he hinted his Blue Devils will never use—or he wouldn’t have revealed it.
Fisher's All-Stars defeated the Hoosier State Commercial College quintet, 27-20, last night at Fisher gym.
The Sportsman's Store Parochial School League is to open its season Saturday morning. All games are booked for 9:30. The schedule:
Lintle Flower vs. Holy Cross at Cathedra), Philip vs. Sacred Heart at Sacred
ip. St. Patrick vs. Holy Trinity at Holy
Trinity.
The Bush-Feezle Thursday Night League was organized at a meeting last night. The league will open play tomorrow night at the Pennsy Gym. The first night's schedule:
7:15—~P. R. Mallory vs. U. S. Tir 8:15—Eli Jiu vs. opponent to bo named. 9:15—Ste art Warner vs. Kingan AthStew A ion. Teams desiring to enter the league should file. applications with Carl Callahan, RI-4453.
The Blasengym Funeral Home five is seeking games with teams having ‘access to .a gym. ‘Call DR.
Kelly St.
. The St. Patricks are to practice at 7:30 tonight at the Pennsy Gym. Teams of high school age desiring games are to contact Joe Bauer, 1506 Naomi St.
Ajax Jr. took undisputed possession of first place in the Em-Roe Pivot City League at the East Tenth Street gym last night when they
|handed Eighth Christian a 26-t0-25
setback. In other games, Art's Standard Service turned in a 34-to-30 decision over ZionyLutheran snd the Salvation Army Blue Shields downed St. Paul, 31 to 25.
The Logomachian basketball team desires games with teams in the 15 to 20-year-old class on a home-and-home basis. Call Saul Hochman, TA-4914. :
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Amateur Basketball
‘Results of last night's games in the Em-Roe Church League at Hawthorne gym: Lyndhurst Baptist, 35; Speedway M. E., Olive Branch Christian, 26; Belmont U. West Park Christian, 47; Tabernacle Baptist, 23. Standing of the Church League:
B,, 2
Tonight’s schedule in the SmithHassler Capital City League at the
Dearborn Gym:
%7:00—Schwitzer Cummins Stokols vs. Mount Jackson Tire & Battery %:50—Brehob’s Market vs. Liehr's Tavern. 8: H0—-Drikel Refrigerators vs. Furnas Ice ream.
Last night in the Smith-Hassler ‘Manufacturers League, Polk’s Milk team took a 19-to-17 contest over the Linco Oilers, new entry in the league. Wilkinson Lumber defeated H. P. Ransburg, 33 to 14. Beveridge Paper downed the Fashion Cleaner Aces, 27 to 16, while Schwitzer Cummins defeated 3ne Stokley VanCamp five, 24 to 19.
There still are a few vacancies for the Dearborn holiday tourney which is scheduled to start next Monday night. Teams interested call Harold Engelhardt or Bob Stehlin at the Dearborn Gym, Ch. 7550 between 5 and 7 p. m.
: Peterman Not One to Stress | Fast Break; Forwards
Stay Near Hoop. (Last of a Series) By LEO DAUGHERTY from a pivot position if you would
be a basketball star at Shortridge High School-—at least while Kenneth
| Peterman is coaching the Blue
Devils. . In 14 years of coaching, the North ‘Side mentor has learned that the
I'plén to follow is determined best
by the type of material at hand.
| He’s' found the pivot style to be} |the best in 11 of those seasons. This is his ninth at Shortridge.}
He came here from Terre Haute Wiley. Manual’s Redskins are the only
pivot play.“Why not work off a pivot if you have a tall, rangy boy who is a good ball handler and clever at one-handed throws?” Coach Peterman argued. “But if you do not have a boy of that type then you better leave that circle open and play some other type of game.” ‘Without a lanky boy to anchor and feed the sphere to, Coach Peterman advised that the forwards do the hunting of basket territory, with the guards and center back to. work the ball to them. For the last three seasons Peterman has had such a- boy, the current Shortridge pivot expert being Fred Krampe. He whips long arms off a 6 foot 44 inch frame and in three games has averaged 12.6 points."
Wants Guard
Close to Basket
Coach Peterman doesn’t concentrate on the Indiana offensive rage —the fast break. He uses it at times and when he does, he brings the boys and ball to the Shortridge basket in a straight-line. “I play the forwards under our own basket about 6 feet from the ‘corners of the floor,” he explained.
center line and the center in the
|eircle.
~ “I like tall ones for forwards. The guards’ greatest asset should be speed. They don’t need to be big.
fellows for guards is reversed anymore.” Peterman dislikes set plays. “1 said. “I try to teach the boys individual cleverness and trickiness in passing and eluding the other team's guards. They have to use their own judgment in passing and working the ball into a shooter. “Our defense is always the man-to-man with a shift on the blocks. You know I think that all of us unconsciously stress offense and probably shouldn’t. The general idea seems to be to score rather than to keep the other fellows from doing| SO.
Strong Defense
Aids Anderson
“But that’s not the case at Anderson. I think that one of the reasons those Indians are always so tough is ‘that they stress defense. They keep opponents from ringing the bell, but never are a heavy scoring team themselves.” : Like other Indianapolis high school coaches, Peterman concedes the edge in Indiana scholastic basketball to smaller towns. “For some reason ttey seem to grow taller,” he said, “but the success of. the smaller town teams can be traced to the fact that they have grade school basketball and Indianapalis ‘doesn’t. The -city high schook boy, 1 think, is a senior before he's mastered as many phases of the game as the small town sophomore.” Despite the fact that he said he was opposed to set plays, Coacly Peterman diagramed one, but wouldn’t say whether it was-one of his own or one he expects his team to encounter at Southport Saturday night.
you . could . guarantee as a. scorer,” someone. in the athletic office remarked. Which prompted Russell Julius, the rotund athletics director, to advise: “When in doubt, punt.”
Soldiers Should Shoot
WEST POINT, Dec. 14 (NEA)— After a lapse of two years, rifle shooting and wrestling again appear on Army's varsity sports program.
HUSTLE WITHOUT BUSTLE
We're hustlers when the occasion demands ‘but we don’t make any noise abautit. Our service is as cheerful and quiet as it is- speedy.
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Cox Subdued By Zaharias
Japanese Wins. Interesting Preliminary Match.
In a main go which was easily outshone by the preliminaries George (Cry Baby) Zaharias defeated Joe Cox last night 8 the Armory. The 245-pound ‘Pueblo, ~ Colo, wrestler won. his first fall in 20 minutes with a rolling headlock and a body press. Gentleman ‘Joe of Kansas City used a leg breaker to gain the second fail in ~ eight
minutes. After a series of slams by Cox, Zaharias was hanging on the ropes. When he released his hold he fell backward upon Cox, dazed him, won his second fall and the match. The time of the third fall was five minutes. Zaharias often crawled. to the ropes when Cox ‘apparently had him bested. ‘By far, the most Interesting match on the card was between Kiman Kudo, 176, Japan, and Bill Gazzell, 181, Oklahoma. The fast, tricky Japanese won this preliminary in 16 minutes, employing a jujutsu wrist and arm lock. The match was exceptionally fast and filled with slams, the Japanese wrestler having
time. In the semiwindup Bob Bruns, a barefoot 220-pound wrestler from Chicago, pinned Jack League, 219, San Antonio, in 14 minutes with a giant back slam. The match was a fast one for heavyweight: wrestlers. Silent Rattan is to appear on next week's card, ‘Matchmaker Lloyd Carter announced.
never had any luck with them,” hel -
Friday's Boxing Program Filled
Four fighters were named today by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter to appear in the six-round semiwindup and another supporting bout of the Elza Thompson-Pal Silvers boxing show at the Armory Friday night. Eddie Vandever, Indianapolis welterweight, has been paired with Ross White, Richmond, in the semiwindup. Noble Wallace, local middleweight, is matched with Pat Durban, Cincinnati, in another sixrounder. Wallace has fought on several cards here and is an -aggressive glove tosser. His foe won Golden Gloves championships in Ohio before turning professional. Elza Thompson, Indianapolis Ne-
‘gro fighter, and Pal Silvers, New
York Jewish heavyweight, feature the program in a 10-round battle. Two four-round preliminaries will complete the bill.
Paul Lee Outpoinied
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (U. P.).— Paul Lee, Indianapolis boxer, lost an eight-round decision here last night to Al Reid, New York featherweight. Lee weighed 125, Reid, 128.
the best of the contest most of the |
COLLEGE NET T OURNAMENT S PROPOSED
Pivot Play Is Shortridge Coach’ s Pet; Blue Devil Netmen Use Own Judgment
N.C. A.A. Aid Offers Plan For Choosing U. S. Champs; ~ Big 10 Likely to Take Part
Tony Hinkle Appointed on One of Committees to. Select . Entries; Two-Day Sectional Play Is Scheduled For March. na
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 14 (U. P.).—Plans for a series of playoffs next March under sponsorship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine a national college basketball champion were announced today by Harold G. Oldsen, Ohio State basketball coach and chairman of the N. C. A. A. hasketball tournament committee.
Teams from four districts in the Eastern and Western sections of the United States, approximately divide ed by the Mississippi River will ene gage in sectional tournaments either March 10 and 11 or March 17 and 18. The two elimination victors will meet one week after the sectional playoffs for the national title, he said. Entries from the country’s eight districts -will be chosen by district committees of coaches and athletie officials whom Olsen named today.
Sites Are Considered
Tournament sites have not been decided although the N. C. A. A, committee’ headed by Olsen has considered Madison Square Garden, New York; the Palestra, Philadel-
phia, Kansas City, Denver and Los Angeles as possibilities. The tournament plan Fepresents the first attempt by the N. C. A. A, to determine. a national college basketball champion, Olsen said. Future meets probably will deter mine automatically the U. S. entry in’ any future Olympic games bas ketball competition, he added. Such major college conferences as the Eastern Intercollegiate, Big Ten and Pacific Coast have waived their usual objections to post-season athletic contests to permit partici pation of their members in the playoffs, Olsen explained.
Omit District Play.
Because most of the college teams have filled their schedules into early March, the committee decided to omit district tournaments this year and avoid too many post season games, he added. “We believe the district committee members were well qualified to a {make fair selections from teams in their districts,” Olsen said. “They do not have to pick teams with the best won and lost records over the season but can choose what they consider the most capable team at tournament time.” He emphasized that the tournaments are not sponsored by “professional promotors.” Any financial
‘| profits will go into the N. C. A. A.
treasury. : ; Dr. Walter E. Meanwell -of Madison, Wis., is chairman of the Fourth District committee. Committee members are Coach Paul D. Hinkle of Butler University, Indianapolis, and Arthur C. Lonborg of North. western. Thirty-four N. C. A. A, colleges are represented in the . Fourth District, which includes the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Wabash Grid Dinner Booked for Tonight
Members of the. 1938 Wabash College football team and coaching staff are Yo be guests of the local Wabash Alumni Club at its annual , banquet “tonight at 6:30 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. - 1. EDeakers are to include: President L. B. Hopkins, Pete Vaughan, hea coach and athletic director, and J. Paterson, freshman coach.
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