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Among Us Tar Heels ' Did ~Eet ever were l.u't;,1 Ute clotl:les andeahead Walker. seen again by P later the twain But some years. had gone into Among Us Tar Heels ' did ~eet. The SenI~aking quit~ a religlo~ an~ wft in the campaigns 'W._ II • ZW ... 'II I I By W. T. BQST name for hlmse day Mr. Walker RALEIGH. for his L~rd, on~evival and there breezed Into the ing souls. The Sunday night ot this week Sports the brother was sav ot of Brother Scribe Tom Bo~J.I;.. , of· Wake preacher. who ;'~~ ~f faith. was a Forest fetched from 13oston. where Walker":! hOU~ 0 dearly craved to his Wake Foqrest had· beaten Boston Methodist. e aved' sinner Mr. College. a memento which reeked convert the uns f' t move had to with Tar Heel interest. Uneonver&ed . Walker. BMut t~e l~~~ was to forget His prize was not the elegant as­ When Peahead Walker. Wake be right. r. a An expose at sortment of blackened optics. bloodY Forest's football coach. is in repose, the suit of clo~hes"n the reverend, noses. and skinned shins w:b,ich ai- , he is a story teller of the first that time woul rUI ach made the most always will follow the team magnitude. The Wake ForfJtn~~ tell the com­ which battles the BoStonians. Ther.e Mr. Walker doesn·t prett!nd that pled~e. 1f,~~°fuat stolen suit, ~~! were all these and mo~e. but.this he had an easy time up. Some rnen remembrance of Boston IS contained are identified as boys "brought' up h~~~~ld like to have :haM;O~tatute in a talisman which every youngster with a silver spoon in his mouth," suit na~ur~llY ;'':1 ~~ ~gainst it, but in the land would be happy to·own. but Mr. Walker's pewter spoon was of limltatlon n~ needed money. ~he It is an American League baseball welded with difficulty to a wooden Mr. Walker s I ould not get m­ with almost the entire Yankee team handle. He played football' and reverend.brotherm~ney; he was so as signatories. worked his way very largely terested !n theuls and seeking th~ The sportsman had been ~o ~os­ through Boward in Alabama. As bus)' sa"lng sonconverted Peahea ton boosting the I:\ame w~th the his Junior year came to an end, he slfivation of urlll is a Baptist.a.nd North Carolina Baptists. Their c~ash had scraped up enough money to Walker who tSh t $20 of sancbfl~d had everything to mak~ the fight able to use a . fierce Wake Forest is the perfect buy the best suit of clothes that he ever had to that time. money. ! T m Trott had a littlAe Prote~tant; Boston is the. perfe<;t A Senior stepping out near com­ The Rev. ,0 mes to mind. Jesuit. When those faiths hit mencement time borrowed the hab­ doggerel which cOilfered a' pair of head-on only a rubber necl;t .an~ a erdashery from Coach Walker. The colored bb~ot~er r~generation. th~il hard head can keep down InJUrIes. youngster was a bit suspicious about pants e or th river to nave s The Friday night football game was it. He had put $20 into it and that turned up at e in baptism, He fierce. Hero Red Cochran. ~ho sins washed awayaside any sin that back in the first world war days lay will be North Carolina's leading certainly wa!m·t hay. Coach Walker was asked, to b t him whereupon candidate for All-Amer:ica's b.ack­ began to suspect that something did so easlly ese '. field this year. took qUite l} bit of would happend to his suit. Some­ he prayded:'f de motive am right pummeling, but he came out ready "Law, I '? ' for more Friday night. Even Re.d thing did. He saw the man who , Whar am de Sin. borrowed it running off with it I bought dese ?ritc~e~ Cochran would be glad to have hiS and despite the popular supersti­ press agent's trophy. tion that men with parenthetical Fer to be ,ba~tlZedn~~' know what In the current clubs of both. big legs can outrun the straighter style. Mr. W~lker oes his college mate leagues are many North Carolinians.... the Howard Senior got, away with holy motive mO'!fg Walker's whole but the Yankees seem to have more to make off fu~ evangelist was ~ than their share. Which isn't hard suit but as W ke Forest coac to explain because the Yanks have Metho~i.stk tf~at t~e preacher's P~t been going after the best and ~hat can't t In baptism in the Bal! most qtten means North Carolina. pose was Young Tom Bost was sitting in the . sense. • grandstand at Fenway Park watch­ ing the Boston Red Sox' and the Yankees play. Tommy Henrich was at the bat. He fouled a Red Sox pitch into the stands. The ball took many crazy turns and. several. Bos­ tonians had hands on It. But It got away from them all and rolled into the Wake FOI;est scribe's !Iand.. The fellow fans looked athlm wlth a few cuss words. They had fought furiously for ~his great p,rize and there it was In the keeping of a man who had not lifted his hands to get it. He took it to the hotel and George Stirnweiss, Aaron Robinson. Tommy Byrne and Charley Keller. all former Tar Heels, signed it. one after the other. The ball was passed about and 15 other Yankees Pl!t their names on it. among them Phil Rizzuto who played in the state during the war, Joe DiMaggio whose brother Dom also pastimed in these parts; Bill Johnson wh.o once toppe~ Stirnweiss as the rQokle of the year. Bumps Hadley the pitcher who ac­ cidentally bearied ~ickey Cochr~ne and ended his catching career, Nick Etten. Johnny Lindel. and of cour~e others less Tar Heel ,than the big four on that one quarter of the ball. And all of that came to the Tar Heel youngster by the incidents ot a seat at a game in which, Hal Wagner. a Duke catcher. was pe~­ forming for the Red Sox. InCI­ dentally. the Yankees co not think that Wake Forest's Tbmmy Byrne has a big league superior in abund­ ance of "stuff," and Wake ;Forest's" other great pitcher, Scarborough. was good enough to mow down the champion Red Sox. , < ••• • .
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