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ormouth N essimistie is hardly the word for my thoughts on the football dltatioint The world is jubilant. But not this fellow I Maybe t as born of despondent parents. Maybe I read too many urder tales before I was nine. Maybe the satanic part of -my Vture rises to the surface to rule during the fall months. Or, s aybe-and I think this is it-maybe I have been believing all the stories in the daily papers about the Demon Deacons, 5 ~known also as the Wake Forest football team-how they beat the socks off the same Citadel team that gave Georgia such a fight and made North Carolina sweat blood to win the opener. It's hard to swallow plenty of things you find in the paper but the boys who wrote those stories had facts. With soulful eyes and shaking head, the only person at Caro lina who can talk poor mouth better than I do wailed to the unoffending and unlistening air. In referring to the Wake Forest game, he clipped, "It's a schedule double cross! The Deacons were originally scheduled as a breather and now turn up with one of the strongest elevens in the conference." And gesturing in the direction of the scrimmaging Biddies, muttered in a very .humorous tone, "If you want to see that bunch all together, you better do it before Friday night." That man was Rex Enright I Then Tell A Story Jim Young, WIS sports announcer, furnishes the story of the week that is on my must tell list. Jim is that voice that tells you all about the football game when you are late and heading for the field at top speed with a flat tire, an empty gas tank, a loud radio, and an irate girl friend on your hands. Jim is a good fellow I Anyway, the story goes something like this. Between the halves of the Georgia-Carolina game, Jim was busily describing to the radio audience the colorful ceremonies unfolding on the field. The huge football had been placed in the center of the gridiron, the University band had formed around it. In a mo ment, Miss Claudia Zobel was to appear as the football fell in two. Jim mentioned the fact to his microphone. Directly in front of him a lady arose from her seat. With a reproachful look she wailed at him-and the mike, "Don't tell!" Raise A Question Tell me, people-Is Quinton Lumpkin, Georgia's huge center, as good as he reads to beI Is Larry Craig, Carolina's star end, as good as he reads? Are any All-American or All-American prospects as good as the papers say? Or are the sports writers, publicity agents, and spotters All-American ballyhoo artists? You'll never know! The three mentioned agents hide the truth under a shower of words, phrases, and adjectives. It's an art to get a man on the All-American team. It's a restricted honor but the applicants are as numerous as the pounds on Man Mountain Dean. Every college and university in the United States is trying to get one of their boys in the lime light, know ing the limelight is shared by the Alma Mater. It's a noble thing-no lie ! Georgia is working for Mr. Lumpkin-Carolina for Mr. Craig. Both are good boys laboring under a common handicap. They play on teams not known nationally!I But even that canl be overcome by good publicity. An example-Mr. Whizzer White of Colorado. Both Craig and Lumpkin are on the All-American eheek list and are being watched by sports writers over the qountry. So let's give them something to see. Getting the name on the check list is comparatively simple. Keeping the papers full of news is possible.' And lastly, let's make them look good or, rather, better. This is the part of the program that has the unephistophelean touch. It introduces the spotter and his duty. Each team has spotters. These are men familiar with the players, so familiar that they can pick the man on their team who makes the tackle in a pile-up of ten men. These spotters work in the press box to keep the players straight for the re porters and for thd radio announcers. And here your All-American prospect comes into the picture again. All spotters have instructions. Any time there is doubt as to who made the tackle, give credit to the prospect! . It's a fne system. According to the newspaper accounts of the Geor.gia-Carolina game, Lumpkin was all over the field making all kinds of tackles. Or, my friends, did he?i And did Mr. Craig?i Then Find Some Hope But, people, there is a hope for our boys ! To quote Bill Cun ningham, a frequent contributor of sports articles to the COS A HAPPY THOUGHT FOR THRIFTY COLL.EGIANS -SEND yout weekly laundry home byhandy Raiway Express Right from your college rooms and return, conveniently, economically ad fast, with no bother at all. Just phone out local college agent when to come for the bundle. He'll call for it Promptly-whisk it away on speedy express trains, to your city or town and return the home done product to you-eli wsthout exts cbasE-the whole year through. Rates for this famous college service are low,awayou can send celert, you know (only by Railway Express, by the way). It's a very1 popular metho4 ad adds to the happy thought. Phone our agent today.He's a good man to know. *1307 Main street, 'Phone 6720 Blranch Office: Union Station, 'Phone 7087 Branch Office: S.A.L. Pas. station, 'Ph9n. 32 - oolutnbia, 5. 0. RIATLwAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC. ite Gcrecoc Deacons Sporti World 1 Corolina Own In Stellar .Larr "$Bigger and faster than Gaynell Tinsley." That's the way Ed Ci Camp, the Ole Timer of the At- ba lanta Journal, the dean of southern m; football critics, rates Larry Craig, "( brgad-shouldered co-captain of the nc South Carolina Gamecock football re, aggregation. th Other sports writers have hii paused in their resume of gridiron cu greats to say a word or two about ba this modest, unassuming giant pa from the tiny town of Six Mile, he S. C. Wilton Hazzard, in his il- of lustrated Football Annual article on "The Stars of 1938" said: ir< "Look to the historic campus of pr the University of South Carolina st for one of the stand-out flankmen so of '38. Larry Craig is back in har- ca: ness. Craig', with his chain-light- So ring charge, with the speed to pro pel his 205 pounds at the heels of ab two 10 second sprinters, with the Ca power to put the shot 47 feet and tio fing the discus 145. Larry.was penalized last year for Re ow grades. Although already a mt tar, he asked permission to work ior Aith the scrubs. There he put in en< grinding, thankless season hankless, that is, except for coaches co< md teammates who appreciated the le ;well, unselfish thing he was doing. poi Lead4 Demol Captain George Wirtz of the Demoi ping lightly in the above picture but v cockrs tomorrow in University stadium will be missing. Grid S: Leo Kroto, sophomore guard at rea South Carolina, who played 300 er ninutes of the five freshman con ests last year, says he is having tough time this season. Leo, vo' vho now wears portable teeth, Sol rrumbles that he cannot bite his Bu >pponents any more. stil Br< Ohio, besides contributing singu- I ar stars to the Gamecock gridiron Ca lestiny, has sent two brother acts. Sol )ne, Frank and Alex Urban, 'are sot to.w playing, while George is car- me ymig on for the Makovics while yes 'rank earns his daily bread in To- the edo. Frere Frank played fresh- the nan ball in 1936, then left school. Dick Baxter, Toledo husky, who Gra lays end for South Carolina, in- mc ends to enter the Foreign Service ab)t f the State Department after grad- Joe ation. Dick also boasts that he Mc W1OPOI1TAN magazine, "Pro foo imerican pickers.'' As a rule, bi >f All-American while the smaller iish all the material for the profes ~he same as advanced in the preced eges (lonl't stand a chance in a big Those All-Americans with few es ~o make the big time. Never in c< i line averaging 225 pounds--wit )Unch. It's the hard working, sear ~he real players--All-Americans hi f the small school players can sta: Maybe Mr. Craig !!! CAL 3191 or . FOR FAST FREE IOE M r OLD DRINES - BURNI O.k. Fresh F: Vatches s Wonder r Craig Back in good scholastic standing, aig has absorb'ed as much foot It as long and arduous scrim age and the coaching of famed atfish" Smith can give him. And w he is primed to close his ca er in a blaze of glory. Woe to e tackles who try to brush by m on those dazzling Notre Dame tbacksl Woe to the hostile cks who try to cover him on ss iflaysI Woe to the safety men hits with that tenth of a, ton TNTI Up in- North Carolina, the Grid )n Rambler recently went to ess with this item: "For in Lnce, let's take a flying glance at me of the outstanding All-Ameri n prospects in the Southern and utheastern Conferences: Ends-Perron Shoemaker, of Al ima, and Larry Craig, of South rolit)a deserve much considera knd to quote Craig's head coach, x Enright, "You can't say too ich about Larry. In my opin 1, he will be one of the greatest Is ever to play in the south." Larry is co-captain of the Game :k eleven together with left tack W. R. "Pop" Howell, a 205 und lineman. i Deacons! 1 t ~~M :\\' ..M. i Wake Forest Deacons Is trip rhen he hits the Carolina Game all angelic or fairy-like qualities horts d "Anthony Adverse" from coy to cover. ['he New York Yankees were ed the baseball favorites of the uth Carolina football squad. t Irving Granoff, Junior tackle, I likes his hometown club, the oklyn Dodgers. Earle "Big" Durham, South rolina senior guard, was All ithern high center several sea is ago. As a college sopho re he played fullback, and last ~r Durham was shifted again to forward wall. Anywhere but bench, Durham- remarks. Svery unromantic soul is Joe uigani, South Carolina's sopho re fullback. When questioned >ut his favorite movie stars, chose Mickey and Minnie use. But Joe admitted he would t thall makes liars of us All-. g colleges contribute plenty backwater institutions fur sional teams. The reason is ing paragraph. Smaller col publicity campaign! Eceptions fold when they try >Jlege did they have to meet h not a tub of lard in the itily publicized boys who are wve to be good. But plenty nd up to them. 3192 DELIVERY GIGARETTES - -DRUGS IT T'S. rom ViC The Man Crali ike to play football like his idol, Yale's Clint Frank. Rex Enright sometimes gets ,he emptation to draft two of his as istants for 'flank duty in varsity ircles. They are Vernon "Catfish" 3mith and Ted Petoskey, who vere All-American ends at Georg a and Michigan respectively. Rex Enright, Gamecock mentor, Lnd Clem Crowe, Xavier coach, vere teammates at Notre Dame in .925. Crowe was captain and end, Lnd Enright was a line-smashing ullback, earning All-Western hon >rs that year. Clem Crowe is not the only rony Enright will run across'this all. At Fordham he will say hel o again to his college roommate, im Crowley, one of the Four 4orsemen. And when Duquesne :omes to Columbia, Rex will re nember Little Clipper Smith as the ellow who led the interference for im in 1925. Smith played guard or the Fighting Irish. Alex Urban, South Carolina's iant center, who hails from To edo finds History the most inter sting of his college courses. Says he elongated Alex: "I like to earn about the big men of the last." The captain of the 1937 Game :ock eleven, Jack Lyon, was a >roduct of the Buckeye State, his Bird Brain! ......... "Bird Brain" may sound slightly n the suspicious side but any of aturday's millions who have seen )eWitt Arrowsmith quarterback og the Gamecocks know that he is he brains of the Carolina outfit. Fall's Newe. The New Three Button Dra and Alture Browns-In Cov at $25.00 t The Two-Way Over (Yoat B In Oi at $1H McGregor Sweaters In at $3.5 McGregor Bush 0< at $5 MoGmr Leather 0 Wool 8ks, Greens, at $5.0 t< Ma rsi 1535K MAIN I Qvei hpme being in Conneaut. And, be lieve it or not, in 1936 another Con neaut boy was captain of the South Carolina football team Bob Johnson. Lyon is now a high school football mentor in Sylvania, Georgia, and Bob Johnson is an insurance salesman in Columbia, S. C. Z i p p Newman, Birminghim News sports editor, -rated Dick Lit tle, South Carolina fullback, one of the hirdest running backs ever to gallop on Alabama's home gridiron. The Crimson Tide swept over the Gamecocks, but for sixty minutes the 'Bama boys hoped Little was only a mirage. At present, Little is out with a knee injury which may end his athletic career. Al Grygo, sophomore halfback at South Carolina, while playing against the Clemson lCollege year lings last fall, was viewed in action by Bill Varn, Associated Press sports scribe from New York. Said Varn: "Al Grygo is the greatest running halfback I have ever seen in freshman competition." The 1937 South Carolina fresh man football team was undefeated, untied, and unscored on, tallying 128 points in five games. Al Grygo chalked up sixty points himself. Against the Citadel frosh, the Bid dies gained a total of 395 yards, while the losers had a net loss of yardage. 4 .i MODERN STYLING ern colors. CONSTANT INK C0 pen. Fast-i INK-WIN1 YOUR PENPOINT . your wuitin REMEMSIRR-.THERB IS NO SUE st Greations for se Model Suits In Green ert Cloth, Fine Worsted o $35.00' ain Coat and Over Coat Le alU The New SheA.. O up ats, All Colors 00 sats at $10.00 up Browns and Grays all's WTRUNT Led B"d.0 otiu. ird From Pae O WI The.(flird squad- is riddled. witty injuries as a .result 9f the des perate fight against Gnd Enright will go. iwtoth 416' morrow without thi serViQ9s Dick Little and tvingl'Giakof sed probably s without first-string guard Joe Hatkevitch. Hatkevitch is still sufferini with a burst blood vessel in his leg which kept him out of last week's fracas. Carolina's captain and righf 'end Larry Craig and sophomore centef Alex Urban are in splendid' cohdi tion however; and'ready to give an other of their performances which has marked them for All-ConfeiOnce honors. ' The Baptist -institution from the old north state boasts a first team which carries the names of nine sophomores. Included in thi list is a great paqs-catching end John nie Jett, and two powerful 'guards, TI0hgo a4 Tingle. The Dea con line averages 198 pounda from end to end. Against .thi$ line not a toth down has been scored this season. North Carolina which beat Wake Forest by a narrow 14-6 count, scored both times on passes, and Randolph-Macon, trounced 40 to 6, tallied their lone point on the kick off. Following is the probable start ing line-up for tomorrow's game: Carolina Pos. W. Forest Nowak .......... ' . Howell- ... ..t ..........Pate W. Craig ......Ig........Tingle A.-Urban .......c ........Clark Durham ......rg ...... Trungo A Dorflinger . rt .......Powers L. 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