* * SLAUGHTER DETROIT TIGERS, 16-7 YANKS * . .. a. * * + + + * ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ * * + 56.697 ATCH Wildcats To Play Seven Home Games Daring Grid Season CHAMPIONS WIN ______*■ Civitans Duke Team Lions Club Trounces Reserves Upset Lifts New Yorkers State’s Civitan Rifle SALE OF DUCATS Triumph First 20 To Within Two Games Of To Win Civic Softball Trophy Team, T0 7 First Place TO OPEN MONDAY DURHAM, Sept. The Lions club won the city civic finals. Last year the Civitans whip- 14—(JP)_j.Jn- Steve Lach and club softball the Kiwanians and Rotarians Sophomore til Of Con- service championship ped tat Storer BY DALE STAFORD. Five, Possibly Six turned in defeating the Civitans 12 to 7 to reach the finals, where they brilliant indi' three by viduai exhibitions Yankee power, dormant for tests, Will Be Played to lead the n„t* in the finals of th eannual round were turned back by the Exchang- Reserves to with a surprise "’0 7 games, exploded old-fasi^on- Under Lights at Rob- ites. over the world robin series Friday night tory first team L ed violence today as the ert In the finals night, the intrasquad game here this aft the Detroit Strange playground. Friday iler* champions slaughtered blomme noon. ol by glenward The lightly regarded Lions, the Lions and Ciivitans battled-to a 2 16 to 7, before a crowd Lach scored all Tigers, sale of season tickets title who were de- to 2 deadlock in the three of the p The annual 1938 holders, opening serves’ fans. at home 2 touchdowns and all 56.697 or football games played throned last year by the Ijxchange frames. The Lions took a 7 to Jl world school on forward passes, two The victory lifted the the New Hanover High one of the biggest up- lead and then the Civitans rallied thrown ! jy club, pulled Storer and the two Monday after- club In other bv Frank champions to within games Wildcats will open sets In the history of civic to knot the count at 7 and 7. ranl! of the various Swiger. their belated quest loon and members athletic competitions in crushing the closing innings, the Lions bat- of first place in will Bill Wartman. American of the school the favored Civitans. ted and fielded like veterans to speed merchant a fifth straight >ep organizations highly for their drive from Charlotte scored T the de- iwarm over the city in Counted out of the run- clinch the contest going away by the league pennant. Despite definitely team’s lone of of athletics. in 7 touchdown on e the Tigers stayel on top or monetary support ning because of a poor showing a 12 to margin. a feat, will seven yard jaunt on which he a half-game in- The Wildcats play last year’s tournament, the plucky The team lineups were: Lions, was aided the standings by at a fine block Red Sox this season and on by by asmuch as the Boston lome games Lions ten turned the tables the Fulghum, ss Livingston, rf Pad- Tommy prothm of them will be played J Tony Ruffa kicked the mowed down the second -place "ast five Civitans, odds on favorites for the rick, p Sneeden, short field Har-1 extra p0Li 1. the with the possibi- mechanically. That tally Cleveland Indians, 6 to mder lights championship, who were runners- riss, If Griffin, cf Watkins, 2b came wih^ a sixth one. Among the the first outfit Every Bit a Run ity of up in the series last year. Matthews, c Sewell, lb and Law trailing. 20-0. run be at home will Almost every hit meant a earns to played The Lions drew a first round sen, 3b. combed six the High Purple CLEMSON today as the Yankees >e strong Raleigh bye, advanced through the semi- Civitans: Boney, rf Marks, ss SQUAD in for 16 safeties that hurricane, playing Wilmington round virtue of a forfeit lb 2b Detroit pitchers final by Fox, Steele, Henderson, CLEMSON, S, C„ 14- Joe Gor- first time in several years, Sept. ,.B included two homers by or the over the Kiwanians, and entered If Moose, 3b Dudley, short field —Clemson ended its AU '■ L. Coon second v-w> and one Bill Dickey. ind e Charles High the final round with follow- c Hall and don by sports Hewlett, Herring, p of grid practice today with a scoring was con- school eleven of Wilson which is scrrri of the Yankee ers giving them but little chance Woodbury, cf. mage in which the yellow of four innings, a strong contender in the shined fined to the space always ot regaining their softball laurels, Padrick led the Lions at plate first team scored three and two in the jastern section. touchdo'ur four in the sixth won for the first time in 1938. with two triples out of three times in the first half and Rest Bargain Yet one in the Mth. The Civitans defeated the Ex- at times at bat. Steele belted out second to win 26-0. — are the luun. ci 1 w The tickets this season me llgeib changites 26 to 4 in the opening a homer for the Civitans on the when ever offered the stu- in the opening inning they Dest bargain round of and drew first in last and play Thursday pitch the inning, two safe bingles out of two trim Chandler and 3ent or the and fans are chased Spurgeon public a bye to advance to the tourney a team-mate, collected to the an- this Herring, plate. ( looked to be on the road to jrged to take advantage of Yan- other victory before the first fact and get their cardboards be- |L-1— ===== Lome kee outbreak in the fourth. fore the opening game with War- faced (Buck) Newsom, who had saw on Legion Field next Friday three but nine batsmen in the first night at 8 o’clock. frames, lost his stuff without warn The Wildcats will work out Mon- was over their jng and before the fourth day afternoon beginning Gordon and Dickey had homered, fourth week of hard practice and Joe Here are the members of the North Carolina Civitan rifle team attending the Small Arms George Selkirk had tripled and Firing the public is invited to come out >chool at Camp Perry, Ohio. Front row, left to right: Thomas \V. Wright, Newland; Denver Collins, had singled and the, and watch the which DiMaggio Greensboro; Carl T. Bumgarner, Greensboro; Captain A. M. Rooney, Linville; L. B. Blume, Kannapolis; spirit pre- were on the road to tri- band of Yanks John Allen, Reidsville; and L. D. Holbrooks, Kannap dis. Rear row, left to right: Robert L. Jenkins, vails among this gallant umph. Charlotte; J. B. Rogers, Charlotte: W. E. Durham, Reidsville; Hugh M. Morton, Wilmington; Paul M. football hopefuls. A new assistant hill un- Newsom stayed on the Vance, Newland; Everett J. Stoker, Greensboro; and Norman J. Bogar, Kannapolis. coach is molding a sturdy line the til two were out in fifth, yield- from a gang of green players and one of them ing two more runs, this young man, Rupert Bryan for- homer o the aft- Gordon’s second mer all-star guard for Wake For- Tom Seats WHITE SOX TAKE Two Games Slated ernoon. Archie McKain, Today est college in 1938, not only tells Trout and Boh> Uhle, Paul Clay the lads how to do it, but gets in order Smith followed Newsom down in the dirt and shows them Smith was SIXTH STRAIGHT In Fear Ball and of the quintet only Cape Loop how. :e does not mind the boys than annoying to the more slightly tackling or blocking him just so Yankee batsmen. By R. J. Powell HEAR THE Defeat Philadelphia Athletics. long as they do their stuff. to win the As the Fear Baseball as- DiMaggio, righting Cape The coaches or the players are title, fur- 6 To Before Slim sociation draws near end of WALKER SKIDS American league batting 3, the not taking this coming Warsaw thered his cause with four blows a banner season, two games will NEW 1941 Crowd Of 1.875 g .re as any set-up for they have and drove hime three oe this afternoon at Robert in five trips played tangled with those lads before and Gordon had a single in addi- and another at the Hilton TO EIGHTH SPOT runs. 14.—CP)—The Strange some of them remember that John- of homers. Which CHICAGO. Sept. tion to the pair diamond. of White Sox racked up their ny Pecora, one the brighter season total of circuit Chicago lifted his The first of the doubelheader which shine in the Univer- sixth straight victory today with a Johnny Cooney Grabs First lights blow’s to 27. will pit the league-leading Royal ol the sity of North Carolina’s wealth Marvin Bruer, who relieved the > to 3 decision over Philadelphia down nine the Jackson- National against Rung Among material this year and who has the turned in a Athletics before a slim crowd of Chandler in first, Bell printers. Following this tilt, in was League Batters been showing the way early workmanlike relief performance, 1,873 spectators. The triumph which is called for 2:15 o’clock, practices, is a product of Warsaw checking the Tigers completely un- ;he Sox’ 13th in 16 games. the Athletics will meet the Purol coaching and has sprinted up and til his teammates had presented The Sox, battling to keep a hand Bluebirds. NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—!A>)— dow'n the local fields many a time with an overwhelming lead.