Eastern Kentucky University Encompass The Athlete Kentucky High School Athletic Association 11-1-1940 The Kentucky High School Athlete, November 1940 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete Recommended Citation Kentucky High School Athletic Association, "The Kentucky High School Athlete, November 1940" (1940). The Athlete. Book 419. http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete/419 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Athlete by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PAUL DERRINGER Kentucky's Gift to the World's Champs - -~ .r ···:. •I!.,_.~ ,--.c..-.u~c,_.c...-t,._c•~~..._<-t-r•~·'....,..'_'_,._...,~-•,--.:l.-..._...t• -c-(~C.-c,.-.c-~~~\•-:.• i I PAUL DERRINGER ! I Fe\v Kentucky High School athletes have come in for greater :-Jational ac­ claim than Paul Derringer, 1940 World Series hero, Kentucky's gift to the great National Pastime. I Derringer was a high school star in Springfield, Kentucky, where he played tackle on the football team \vhen the w·cather was too cold to handle a baseball. But baseball was his first love. and his exploits in the National League for the past I ten years are almost too well known to baseball fans to bear further comment. I A release from the office of Gabriel Paul, P ublicity Director of t he ·world's I Champion Cincinnati Reds, reads : Greatest control pitcher in the Major Leagues i today is Paul Derringer, winner of 25 games for the l\ational T.eag ue Champions last year, and third in the League in earned runs, walked only 35 men in 301 innings pitched. and 14 of these passes were intentional. This gives him a mark of about one unintentional walk in every 15 innings.... Derringer's greatest pitching moment came in the last game of the Reds' 1939 series with the St. Louis I I Ca rdinals. ,..-hich the Reds won, 4 to 2, and by so doing clinched the l\ational League pennant. Paul was at his greatest heights in the last frame, striking out I two of the game's deadliest hitters, M eclwick and Mize to end the contest. It is possible that ~1 r. Gabriel P aul and even Derringer himself might now I want to revise the comment about that greatest moment in view of his more recent performance in clinching the \Norld's Championship by two masterful games against the Detroit Tiger Sluggers. Certainly a ll who saw or heard that I' last \Norld Series game must haYe felt that they were w itnessing one o f the i greatest games of all times pitched by a master workman. The Reds' Publicity Department continues: PAUL DERRINGER ... dean of the Reds' staff since 1934, heroic in All-Star games o f past 2 years, 5 innings pitched, ze1·o runs for his American League opponents ..... Tall Paul's world series experience dates from his first major league season, 1931, with the \Vorld's Champion St. Louis Cardinals. T hat year, as freshman. just up from Rochester, tall Paul led the National League with 18 victories against 8 defeats. Ever since I his switch to Cincinnati in 1933 tall Paul has been 1\o. 1 on the Cincinnati staff. only pitcher whose varsity status with the Reds pre-dates the 11cKechnie era ... I ~fore than any other pitcher, he paved the way for the Reds from the bottom I to the top by hard work. In 1936. he was in more games than any other Nat­ ional League pitcher; in 1935, when the !~eel s rose irom last place to sixth, Paul i chalked up 22 victories; and 1938, when they climbed from the cellar to a place in the first division sun, he pitched more innings than any other National League pitcher and won 21 games, each of the 21 a complete 9-inning game. ... Started I baseball as a high school catcher. One day all the pitchers got knocked off, and Paul started pitching.... His dad was a great semi-pro pitched down in Ken­ ~ I tucky.... This is his sixth pennant- Danville in 1927, Rochester in 1929 and ~ i 1930, St. Louis in 1931, Cincy in 1939 and 1940. Exponent of the direct OYer-hand pitching deli,·ery, kicking his left foot into the sky and firing the ball out of the i clouds at the plate. His control record qualifies him fo r all-time fame. In his 9-year major league career he has averaged less than two bases on balls per 9- inning game.... Gets hay fever every August, but does not allow it to interfere I with his pitching. I I ~~~ - 0 - C - l- t- IJ'- _ ..._,..._._.._ . ...... ,~ ...--- 004--D------HO... _IIH O...-- ~~ ------· --HO... _IIH O...-------~ !· , _ rhe Kentuc~y High School Athlete Official Organ of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Vol. III - No. 4. NOVEMBER, 1940 $1.00 Per Year. From the President's Offiee The old type bankboard will be used during the The fact that an athlete does not live with his basketball tournament in 1941. This information is parents does not remove him from the restrictions given at the request of a number of coaches who of Rule VI. are interested in the installation of the new-type bank. There are at least three reasons why the old board The fact that an ath* l*ete * is* married does not re- should be used next spring: (1) 'vVe doubt that we move the restrictions imposed by Rule VI on trans­ have authority to change to the new type until we fers from one school to anotht:r without a corres­ are directed to do so by the district delegates at the ponding change in the address of parents. annual meeting of the Association; (2) the University of Kentucky will not have installed the new boards * • * • by that time and could not be expected to make a The discontinuance of free transportation by a special installation for this particular tournament; Board of Education is, in effect, a re-districting of (3) the vast majority of our member schools have the the county ~or school .Purpose, but every case· coming old type board and will probably prefer its use in under thts 111terpre1at10n should be submitted to the the tournament. president for an official ruling. • * * • Some schools are getting birth certificates from Pupils who are paroled from the reform schools the registrar of vital statistics in the counties where do not lose their eligibility when they enter a public their athletes were born. The registrar is usually a school. person connected with the County Board of Health and no charge is now being made by the county boards of health for these certificates. The one im­ +·--:··-··--·-·-·-·----------+ portant thing to note on these certificates is whether the certificate was filed within a reasonably snort ' DATES AND LOCATIONS OF time after the child's birth. The Association cannot accept birth certificates that are of recent filing. Basketball Rules EXCERPTS FROM OPINIONS CUnies An athlete who failed in his work last semester and did not make up his work this fall in the school I in which he failed is clearly ineligible under Rule V i BUFORD CLARK, Director even though another school to which he has trans­ ferred chooses to promote him. December 2 Bowling Green * * * * The fact that a player has come to live with his .I December 3 . Mayfield brother who has agreed to support him does not re­ ! December 4 Princeton move the restrictions of Rule VI upon those who change schools without a correspinding change in i December 5 Hartford the address of his parents. i December 6 Owensboro •••• J December 7 Hodgenville There is no age or semester qualifications for man­ agers, only a scholastic qualification. f December 9 Louisville • • * • .J December 10 Fort T homas The giving of free tuition to a non-resident pupil December 11 :\faysv ille is not prima facie evidence that Rule XV is being violated, but the Board will inquire whether such December 12 Lexington exemption is also given to those who are not athletes. December 13 Somerset •••• December 14 Morehead \Vhen an athlete's home is broken up by the sep­ aration of his parents he may transfer to another • December 16 Ashland school without loss of eligibility provided the old December 17 Pikeville home is abandoned by both parents. December 18 Pineville * * • * The time which an athlete spends in high school December 19 Hazard on trial before being demoted to the grades will not All meetings are scheduled for 8:00 P.M. be counted as a semester against him unless he par­ ...,._____________ ,, .....-.I U I ticipated in athletics while enrolled in high school. Page Two The KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE NovEMBER, 1940 Vol. Ill - No. 4. If you do not find that there is $5.00 worth of Published monthly, ~xcept June and July, by the Kentucky hazard in the list given above, then, of course, you Hiih School Athletic Association. do not need protection. If you believe that any of Offic~ of Publication, Carrollton, Kentucky. these hazards will likely e..xist at some time during Entered as s.:cond-dass matter August 18, 1939, at the post the season, then ... ''better be safe than sorry." office at C:trrollton, Kentucky, under the Act o i )larch 3, 1879. Editor...................... - ....- ...... - ......- ...- ............ 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