1940-10-02 [P
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Smoke Rings 1940 WORLD SERIES OPENS TODAY * ... ... -4r iir -4r Choice W ^ Name Your NEWSOM GETS NOD SAM RAGAN For Vols By AS TIGERS HURLER Cifers, Hust May Not Play Saturday choice on It’s World Series day and time to take your ‘Darkhorse Jim turner I This series Derringer Is Probable Starter May who will be the new world baseball champions. Probable Lineups For Series RIGHT ENDS OUT more than an even chance Reds In Detroit is a hard one to figure and there’s For Opener; Get Chance In World Series I CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.—(JP)—Probable in tomorrow’s World old luck will have a hand in it. Favorite lineups that good lady Remains Series opening game between the Detroit Tigers of the American league INJURIES divided. And there s WITH FRYE fair first but Opinion locally seems about evenly and the Cincinnati Reds, defending National league champions: By JOHN baseman, Frank Mc- Cormick was better. So a the around. If you care for it you (Figures denote season batting average, except in case of pitchers, CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.—OP)—1They deal was a lot of hedging all way BY JUDSON BAILEY which vice versa. won and lost record): Blue Devils For Game made—Scarsella for Turner. at even money or the Reds Prepare are in this thriving can get the Tigers CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.— UP) —Big. Detroit Cincinnati speculating The deal made Jim a late-bloom- be Bartell ss (.233) Werber 3b With Defense On who is to wouldn’t so let your purses your guide. blatant Newsom of tbe Detroit (.277) Saturday river town over going After 14 in We know, Buck cf ing perennial. years to- McCosky (.340) M. McCormick cf (.300) on mound will' will be in the firing box Attack when in the forthcoming con- the the old milkman turn- Starting the today Tigers Gehringer 2b (.312) Goodman rf (.258) Running, Passing pitch business, of the be Bubbling Bo-Bo Newsom, who at morrow in the first game Greenberg If (.340) F. McCormick lb (.309) tests for the baseball championship ed out to be another wheel-horse, with Paul York lb and its immediate his one time pitched for the Wilmington ALL SET World series, equally big (.315) Ripple If (.298) of the world even though exploits were GOPHERS 1— ® rifle or Fox rf Tenn., Oct. Pirates. The Palmetto native has Derringer probably doing the Campbell (.280 (.289) Wilson e (.243) KNOXVILLE, satellites. Derringer, Walters, slightly obscured as people watch- Reds. Higgins 3b (.271) Joost 2b (.216) may be Walters and one of the best won-lost records seen work for the Cincinnati —Tennessee’s volunteers Thompson, or Walters, Derringer, ed Bucky Paul Der- Sullivan c (.314) ss several SKERS Myers (.201) first or W. & D. climb toward the in the American league in FOR CORN Fans were camping outside the services of their Thompson, T., ringer 20-game already Newsom p (21-5) Derringer p (20-12) without that may be overlook- mark. years—won 21, lost 5. the bleacher entrance to Crosley Bill Klem ends when Something Umpires: (NL); Emmett Ormsby (AL) ; Lee Ballanfant and second-string right the him will be Paul Der- to make sure of seeing ed in the confusion is “dark- Bucky and Paul had some hard Opposing Nebraska Will Kate Slight field tonight (NL) and Steve Basil (AL). march the Duke Blue they against that Bill McKech- times in mid-season. Both ringer, a 20-12 winner this year. the spectacle that starts at 1:30 p. horse” Manager along But Devils Saturday. Reds can throw in there had rims of four losses. Derringer is an exceptionally good Edge Over Minnesota m. (EST) tomorrow, but the prox- nie of the straight control and not dis- Emil Hust of Cleveland, Ohio, the Tigers, a seasoned But during that period Jim was pitcher. He rarely loses Game Will Be Close imity of tl*e first battle did Series Facts against suf- of 34 the name of up a string of six victories. he's hard to hit. turb Manager Will McKechnie. The INJURY REPORTS wingman on the No. 2 team, gentleman by running | Tenn. the so is Newsom. his line- Jim Turner, of Antioch, (He didn’t quite balance books As for that matter, secretive Scot kept starting fered torn ligaments in his right — _ the the in to- Oct. 1.— <-P> in his mind. CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.— </P) Jim is the product of one of but Fireman Joe Beggs took care So if you figure pitching MINNEAPOLIS, up locked up when he tackled a Facts ami on tlie world shoulder today at of the rest of the deficit.) it’s about even. Cincin- here for Na- figures AREA IUTEVEN front office’s better brainstorms day’s game There’s trouble brewing But the hopes of the crippled in a scrimmage. but series opening tomorrow between freshman rough last win- Jim wound up with a record ot nati has a good edge in fielding, kind for the major league meeting next afternoon—the tional league champions giving “Hust will be lost to a Saturday the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati probably Bill knew him at Bos- 14 wins and seven defeats and to counteract that Detroit has its first Duk( ter. Manager when the American league squelch- David May Not Play For us for six weeks or two months," de- of trouble that always develops Reds. where he was struggling with really blew only two games. He giant of a margin in the hitting since 1935 were bound up in Der- said after ton, of ing Afraid Trainer Mickey O’Brien a life-and- took his time between looks close. football teams of the Universities Crowd—33,000 capacity. And Vols Cifers a team that was staging pitches, partment. Today ringer, and no one had any doubt examining the shoulder. to- Weather—Fair and cool. death battle to stay in seventh sighted for the corners, and didn’t 1 We’re calling today’s opener an Nebraska and Minnesota get that he would get the call, if indeed Can’t Play Saturday end, strained — Ed Cifers. varsity Time of game 1:30 p. m. Les Scarsella was a passing worry about striking anybody out. even-stephen affair. But keep your McKechnie had not already told him. in his heel place. gether. S. the Achilles tendon yes- the fireworks. (E. T.) eyes open for Aside from the starting time, and may not be able to That game will be the equivalent Pitchers—Buck De- KENNETH GREGORY terday Doc Newton's "Country Commissioner Newaem, By Watching into the which is fixed by start against Duke. Hurls White Sox BEARS SIX-MAN GRID of "out of the frying pan troit, 21-5; Paul Derringer, Cin- Oct. 1.— Lyons Boys” gallivant around and through Kenesaw M. Landis, and the size of ATLANTA, (ft—As if ii With both Cifers and Hust on fire” for Minnesota, which has leap- cinnati 20-12. Davidson last Saturday night, we the crowd, 33,000, which is con- wasn’t bad enough for Tulane to the injured list, the Vols faced a To 5-3 Win Over Cubs TEAM PREP FOR TILT again — amount of ed into gridiron prominence of Order of games Wednesday were puzzled at the pure trolled by the structural capacity take that 27-7 f rorr serious handicap in their prepara- after the poorest record in a decade and in Cincinnati; Fri- shellacking that Thursday — unadulterated football magic the almost every aspect of the Blue Devils’ invasion, — T h e Gives Junior park, Boston they’re now tions for CHICAGO. Oct. 1. CP) Coach Burks High in 1939. day, Saturday and if necessary, college, trying State has cooked up. baseball’s great autumn classic was Major Bob Neyland sent the squad White Sox defeated the Cubs 5 to 3 Squat! Its Daily Workout; rpu0 rinnViors rrimnipd Washing- Sunday in Detroit, Monday an'd to say the Green Wave touchdown When the Wolfpack ran a play, surrounded by minor mysteries. through a defensive drill today the game of the city se- Offense Stressed take if was made after the time ran ou' in opening one ton last Saturday, 19 to 14, but Tuesday, necessary, Cincin- Duke there wasn’t a ball in sight. Any Odds Favor with freshmen running plays. today as the vet- that Tigers nati. and that the score should have ries championship three backs could have been it from Coach Bernie Bierman, hLOMME of as eran Ted -held the National BY GLENWARD The Tigers were ratea Derung — been 27-0. the Lyons tactics kind of football won't win any divi- Champion Winner of four Pup Phillips, LUJNU carrying the ball. And the DEVILS WUKK to 10 scattered hits and Six-man football in New Han- Biff Jones’ favorites with bookmakers reported football official who worked the leaguers fooled Davidson completely. dends against Coach games. DURHAM, Oct. 1.—(£)—Duke 7 to 10 their winning Louisiana batted in three runs with two sin- schools this year will crew. Nebraska is quoting against State-Mississippi game went over county State—undefeated, untied and un- tough Cornhusker University’s Blue Devils four to and even money on the Reds. But told the Atlanta Touchdown clut gles and a double in trips be a success if the Isaac Bear its best team in rea- scored on so far this season has reported to have about the business of getting Del while defi- Junie Hovious and Merle the plate. is indication of the and the Huskers won Tiger Manager Baker, Hapes this team any type up a good running attack.