GOOD MORNING Hot Stove Talk DUKE LEADS NATION IN SCORING By GLENWARD BLOMME 0 BLUE ELEVEN HAS in this into a The best place town to get good argument local fire HIGHEST AVERAGE ■ around one of the stations. The fire laddies, the cream of blaze tacklers and f ides being crack checker on the mat on most Nation’s Gridders Have ifvers can pin you any subject from p Lizzie an old maid to the w your Aunt stayed condition Best and and how it should be Scoring Average f the country why remedied, cornered a well-known football and basket- Since 1930 Season n of the boys a few days ago and from what I came nii referee hear the tussle. He asked me about the and By BILL BONI. t on top Army feud and so today we will talk a little about the NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—uP>—Aided Jf.L and Cadets. My record of the series goes back to chiefly by 'two pieces of helpful ?sqO when the Navy defeated the Army 24 to 0. This legislation, the nation’s college foot- most colorful series in football and no matter ball teams this season went on their t rted the kind of season either team has, the contest packs them biggest scoring spree since 1930. The 20th annual Associated Press eve1-' itl ^st'Alarm *—- analysis of scoring figures revealed series unless today that 248- teams playing 1,947 wjii review the ffe games averaged 14.61 points—slight- rings and sends us on WOODS *... long ly better than two touchdowns—per ... In 1891 jaunt. AND game. This was an increase of 1.13 fighting learned to kick L Army mule points over 1940, and less than a lost its horns point and a- half under the 1930 the Navy goat WATER aI" of an even 16 lfi Back came the peak points. ★- By BILL KEZIAH -* Of all the1 teams in the survey, 1892 with a 12 to 4 win M'ddies in SOUTHPORT, Dec. 3.—Maybe It Duke’s undefeated and untied Blue 6 to 4 in 1893 with a total and again was the pictoral and other pub- Devils compiled the highest I do not know just score and the best average. The victory. licity that western North Carolina whose but team Wallace Wade will bring into CADETS RECOVER MIDDY FUMBLE on toes, as a result of *,,h0 stepped college girls #got 1898 the Rose Bowl come New Year’s 1895. 1896, 1897 and their nocturnal It’s a fumble! But your guess on its recovery is wrong. Bill Busik, extreme right, 1894 ‘possum hunting day rolled up 311 points in nine teams did not play, stellar didn’t recover the ball after the bad pass from center. The I* service activities that created the idea, games, for an average of 34.6. Navy back, Army’s in 1899 as operations of the extreme fell on it. This the wide-awake bul resumed and maybe it was recent newpaper Highest-scoring six major George Seip, left, foreground, typified play copped 17 to 5. geographical gridiron sections, just by the Cadets that scuttled the He Cadets stores about coons being numer- nearly Navy,__ in 1900, 11-7 and Army as it was a year ago, was the south- Navy won ous on Frank Sherrill’s Bald Head in 1901, 11-5 and again west. But the biggest jump was Availed has kindled r.,02 bv a 22 to 8 score. Anyhow, something noted in the Middle West, where really kicked the the of ambition in the the average scoring per game w-as Bewildered !L Army mule spark Duquense Slightly By around in 1903, 40-5 17.97 compared to 14.94 in boat breasts of a group of girls who are points K A stalemate in 1904. ... 1940. That increase boosted the «nd 11-0 now in one of a abiding of North Caro- 6 was the result tight mid-west into second place ahead of Cold Shoulder From Bowl ” f0 lina’s Moguls came largest institutions of learn- -w- e in 1907. Army the South. 6-4. but in 1909 the claim to d in 1908 ing. They be possessed of With the help of thp unlimited By Whitney Martin They know, for Instance, that a Mississippi State—and there’s no and the Navy an in didn't tangle many photogenic qualities, includ- substitution rule and increase NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — (Wide schedule which includes Waynes- harm in hoping, is there? elms in 1910 to win a field goal forward inside the them at the ded passing 20-yard — and and St. Vin- We sized up ing much pulchritude of form, and Wo”ld) There is a slightly be- burg, Niagara, dapper ... A field also 0. ... goal the average total points for Dan where the Pittsbur- , line, wildered and cent, and Manhattan can’t, be rated banquet issue in 1911 for the this week they wrote the local sorely disappointed settled the each of the 243 teams in the survey a representative big-time schedule ghers tried to make up for the 1912 the Chamber of bunch of kids down Pittsburgh and in Navy Commerce, also showed a marked rise, from that was denied them Middies earnestly a and they also know their school recognition the 6-0. way, wondering just what foot- sank Army that a coon 110.71 a to 116.25. This elsewhere. are not aoain beseeching hunt or year ago ball team has to do to rate an for some vague reason has a hard They giants, the Navy take a dive 22-9 ,913 saw coon hunts be staged with them- figure was the highest since 1935, time building up prestige. 3 but they are thick (not in the Army was invitation to a bowl game. 20-0 in 1914. selves team was lads and .. having the bid for the first when the average per Not the They know of the difficulty in hc»ad), solid, well-set-up you again in 1915 by a that Duquesne boys fro big gun such event. 120.9 but the average per game was scheduling big-time games, pos- wsuld want on your side when to 0. 1916 wit- didn’t realize there were certain of 14 , It is an idea! A the shootin’ started. 3 fcore great one at only 13.24. factors not entirely in their favor. sibly because Duquesne is one of another Army win by 15 to nessed that. Coons are in no way as tame The 1941 records, for the nation those tough teams which a school teams didn’t engage in 7 but the and easily handled as ‘possums. and by sections: gets little credit for beating, yet 1918. The mule got 1917 or There is an old saying that a Tm. Gms. Pts. Tm. Gms. stands a pretty good chance of the goat in 1919, 6 to 0 MARINE butted by 'possum can whip a coon and a Arg. Ave. CARDINAL FARMS winning any game. FIGHTERS 0 in 1920 and 1921. and 7 to coon can whip a dog. On the other Nation 243 1,947 29,249 116.25 14.51 Yet the boys did do all that was eked out a 7 to 14 victory A-mv hand, anj; sort of a “fice” can lick South- asked of them, including defeat- 1922. but the outfits battled to GET BOXING in a dozen ‘possums. west 9 85 1,554 172.67 18.24 MAKE 3 CHANGES ing some pretty fair ball clubs in CARD tie in 1923. 1924 a scoreless It is when coons and St. and win the and dogs Mid- Marquette, Mary’s the big crowd watched Army meet that the real championship west 40 334 6,002 150.05 17.97 Dec. 3. JACKSONVILLE, N. C., Dec. 3. 12 to 0 and 1925 they also won JACKSONVILLE, Fla., fight is staged. At any rate, any South 33 304 5,103 154.64 16.79 to decide the It was a big knockdown —(#)—Three managerial promo- —MV-Competition 10-3. ... coon that is tackled Far affair in 1926 when by a dog can tions in the St. Louis Cardinals boxing championships of the first and drag-out be 124.07 14.36 BASEBALL WORLD depended upon to put up a West _ 14 121 1,737 followed the the two elevens fought for four farm system today Marine division started at the New battle that will 94.01 12.58 21 tie. leave the dog all East_ 135 1,008 12,682 of Burt Shotten as periods to a 21 to appointment River base The bloody and scared by the time the Bocky of the Cleveland Indians. today. finals, 192" the Navy brought to Dear its coach FACES STERN FOE coon goes down for the count. The Moun. The Shotten left the which will be refereed by Jack biggest guns and won the game appointment teeth and claws of a coon are PRO PIGSKIN PIPPINS 12 95 97.58 12.33 Birds of the M and then the break came. tains 1,171 Columbus, O., Red Dempsey, will be staged Decem- rather mean weapons when they Bears American association without a JJACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 8. Some of the Navy Admirals found Green Bay and Chicago prepare for playoff ber 12. are brought into play against eith- Eddie Dyer, manager —UP!—Ford C. of out the Cadets were playing lads to settle western division title of the National league. manager.