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Vols’Speed and Spirit But Lack of Weight Impress Coast My the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 31.—They may not be big, but they’re fast and full of fight. That was the impression given by the Tennessee Volunteers in their Initial, unlimberlng workout after ■rriving yesterday for their Rose Bowl clash with Southern Califor nia's Trojans. Three hours late in a four-day aranseontinental jaunt, the Vol party was greeted by a brass band and pretty 16-year-old Mary Louise Rutte, rose queen. Miss Rutte and Billy Bevis, blocking back and acting captain for the Vols on New Year] Day, posed for numerous photo-1 graphs. Then Coach John Barnhill whisked his 38 charges away to work off their “train legs.” In a two-hour drill the Southern ers showed speed and spirit—also extreme youth and slimness. One veteran observer said the Vols ap pear to be the smallest team ever to come to the Rose Bowl. Twenty nine of the squad and seven of the starting eleven are freshmen. While program weights give the Dixie boys a team average of 192, they looked considerably lighter. The line which Barnhill assembled yesterday averages 197 to the Tro jans’ 211, while the Vol backs aver age 183 to U. S. C.’s 178. Troy's starting team will have a bulge of at least 7 pounds per man. Vol heavyweights are Tackle Bo Stewart, 205, and Guard Bob Dobel stein. 200. U. S. C.'s tackles, All America John Ferraro and Peewee Pehar, tote 235 and 265, respec tively. The Tennessee backfield included Buster Stephens and Mark Major/ rugged frosh, and a pair of 24-year old juniors—the “old men” of the team—Bevis and Casey Stephenson. Trojan Coach Jeff Cravath put his squad through another defensive drill, using Reserve Tackles Jackie Mustek and Clark Higgins at guard1 to get even more weight in the line. Mexico Has Light Team For Sun Bowl Tussle By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21—A Uni versity of Mexico football team averaging 165 pounds will start against Southwestern U. in the Sun Bowl game at El Paso New' Year Day, CoRch Bernard A. Hoban says. "As substitutions are made the weight of the team will drop sharp ly,” Hoban commented. Godoy Gets KO Victory Over Ulrich in Second By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO. Chile. Dec. 21—A crowd of 10,000 saw Arturo Godoy, South American heavyweight cham pion and twice challenger for the world championship, knock out Juan Ulrich, a Peruvian, last night in the second round of a scheduled 10 round bout. Each weighed 199 pounds. Starting Five at L. S. U. Contains Four Frosh By the Associated Pres*. BATON ROUGE, La.. Dec. 27—A starting line-up consisting of one j sophomore and four freshmen prob ably will inaugurate Louisiana State University's basket ball season to morrow night in a visit to Alexan dria Army Air Base. Athletic Director T. P. Heard said i the remainder of the schedule will | include home and home games writh Alabama, Mississippi State, Missis- j sippi U. and Tulane in the South- j eastern Conference, and several service teams. Zacher, One-Time Major League Player, Dies By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y„ Dec. 21—Elmer H Zacher, supervisor of city play grounds for 18 years, former major league ball player and one-time as sistant New York secretary of state, died yesterday in General Hospital after an illness of four months. He was 64. Zacher was one of the first players to catch a baseball tossed from an airplane. Cards Set Two Team Records, Bag Four Other Titles Afield By JACK HAND, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Defensive skill of the St. Louis Cardinals, painfully obvious to the Browns in the World Series, were recognized officially today in the National League fielding records, showing the champions set two major league team records and swept four of seven individual titles. Billy Southworth’s Red Birds established a new mark for both leagues with a .982 percentage and, by committing only 112 errors, erased the old standard hung up by Cincinnati in 1940. It was their third successive fielding title to back up three straight pennants. Three Infielders Lead Way. Ray Sanders at first base, Marty Marion at shortstop, Whitey Kurow ski at third and Johnny Hopp in the outfield showed the way in their divisions,' leaving to “outsiders” such scattered laurels as best field ing Second Baseman Woody Wil liams and Pitcher Bucky Walters, both of Cincinnati, and Catcher A1 Lopez of Pittsburgh. Leadership in all positions, except pitcher, was based on playing 100 or more games. Sanders’ .994 mark was just 2 points better than Prank McCormick of the Reds. Marion nosed out Eddie Miller of the Reds by one marker at .972, Kurowski’s .965 gave him a wide edge over Steve Mesner of the Reds and Hopp showed the wav among.the regular outfielders with .997, four ahead of the Giants’ Joe Medwick. Williams’ nearest rival was Emil Verban of the Cards, but the winner had a 3-point edge at .971 and Wal ters was one of 26 pitchers appear ing in 10 or more games to field 1.000, but he had most chances, 70. Lopez made only seven errors in his 584 average while he tied the mark held by Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs for catching 100 or more games in the National for 12 years. Mueller Durable Catcher. Ray Mueller of the Reds became co-holder of the big league standard for catching endurance by working all 155 of his team’s games, better ing the former mark set by George Gibson of the Pirates in 1909. Counting a holdover string of 62 from 1943, Mueller now has caught 217 successive championship battles. Damon Phillips of the Braves es tablished a modem third-base rec ord for both circuits by making 11 assists against the Giants August 29 and Roy Hughes of the Cubs tied the old figure for third basemen by accepting 13 chances against the Pirates the same day. In addition to hanging up two major league all-time highs, the Cards made mast double plays, 162; left most on base, 1,200, and tied a National League mark by com pleting two triple plays. Brooklyn committed the most er rors, 197, and completed the fewest twin killings, 112. Design for War Dog Memorial Sought; Collie Smart Tutor Bv R. R. TAYNTON. No question about it, the postwar world is going to suffer from a rash of monuments, just as the world does after every war. The Gaines Research Center is in the vanguard of the monument raisers. It offers a prize of $500 to the person who suggests the most acceptable design for a memorial to be raised in honor of the dogs that fought and died In World War II. Idea more than excellence of sketch will be the de ciding factor. Entries should be sent to Harry Miller. Gaines Re search Center, 250 Park avenue, New York 17, N. Y., before April 30, 1945. The story of Bryce Blair and his sheltie which heiped him deliver newspapers has been told in these columns before. Here is the sequel. Bryce is away at school, but Silver, the sheltie. has had to stay home. A succession of new boys has taken over Bryce's paper route and. as each one takes on the job. he is met on the corner by Silver, which care fully goes over the whole route with him. Silver delivers the paper right at the door, shows each new boy just how it should be done and then retires until another candidate makes his appearance. How he knows a newcomer is on the route is a secret. Nobody ever will be able to collect all the stories of collies and their uncanny sense. The unthinking average person is too prone to say that the modern collie is not the mental equal of the old type collie and let it go at that. But there is a man in the turkey-growing! area of Virginia who has bought | Pint-Sized Freshman -♦ Leads Tulsa Eleven By the Associated Press. TULSA. Okla., Dec. 21.—A pint sized freshman will lead Tulsa’s veteran football giants against Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl game at Miami New Year Day. He's Perry Mass, a level-headed, 158-pound tailback with an accurate pitching arm, a solid kicking toe and a pair of flying feet. Moss steps into the field general's post occupied two years ago by Glenn Dobbs and last year by Clyde Le Force. Moss, the only Tulsa regular who did not play against the Engineers in the Sugar Bowl last January, [hasn’t attained the all-around efli jciency of a Dobbs or Le Force but his coaches think he has a brilliant grid future. The first-year man calls the sig nals, does mast of the passing, punt ing and placement kicking and is an elusive runner. School, College, Pro Football Merely Relative, Says Reagan By toe Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 21.—As sociated Press War Correspondent Rembert. James was on the high seas en route to action and aboard ship he bumped into a marine cap tain. The conversation was of foot ball because the marine was a fellow named Frank X. Reagan who will be remembered as a crackerjack halfback for Pennsyl vania teams during the 1938-40 period. Correspondent James posed to Capt. Reagan, who had a season of pro football with the New York Giants in 1941, this question: Just how much difference is there between professional football and the kind played in colleges and high schools? » Capt. Reagan summed it up this way, aboard Admiral Halsev’s 3d Fleet flagship in the Western Pa cific: "Look at it from this angle. A high school team, if it has two good players on it, can usually play a good season. Now go to college. If a college team has, say, five good FOR FACTORY APPROVED CHEVROLET SERVICE ON CARS OR TRUCKS SEE CHEVY CHASE MOTOR CO. 7725 Wis. Ava, Wis. 1635 players, It should have a pretty much topnotch team. "Stepping into pro football, each man Is chosen, or hired, because he is a star. Out of 33 men on a pro squad at least 25 are very good. They are paid for playing good football. So you get a smart game." and Is raising show-type collies which he uses daily with his flock of 5,000 or more turkeys. Accord ing to him. turkeys are among the most stubborn creatures on the face of the earth and the most curious. If one turkey in the flock hears an unusual noise or spots a bright color in a neighboring field, all 5,000 light out. But the collies herd them, one collie doing the work of four or five men in rounding up and moving a flock. Comdr. Juan Seballos, here for a short time, has with him an Aus tralian terrier named Brissy, which catches the attention of all ob servers because of her savoir faire and complete sophistication. In her five months of life she has taken part in every invasion with her owner. Leone's Rugged Talk Gains $300 for VFW Michele Leone, the hefty Italian grappler, does not speak polished English, but his impromptu speech on the ring mike at the Turner Arena wrestling show last night netted the Veterans of Foreign Wars almost $300 for their Christmas fund to buy gifts for wounded serv icemen. Nobody in the crowd of 2,000— largest of the year—understood much the enthusiastic Leone shout ed. but by the time he had finished the ring was cluttered with money and the VFW Auxiliary passed among the audience to collect more. Leone's theme was: "What's a matta you dopes—you no wanna geeve to da boys?" Babe Sharkey defeated Leone in 42 minutes of the main event with a body press. In women's matches El vira Snodgrass used a back drop to whip Anne Laveme in 16 minutes and Violet Valentine overcame Nell Stewart in 11 with a body press. Laveme Baxter and Leo Numa grap pled to a 30-minute draw. Robinson, Dixie Grid Ace, Army Accident Fatality By the Associated Prese. ATLANTA, Dec. 21.—Air Cadet Henry W. Robinson, jr., one of Georgia Military Academy's best halfbacks of recent years, has been killed in an accident at Camp Fan nin, Tex., his parents have been advised. His father is Col. H. W. Robinson, former Auburn end and line coach at Georgia Tech from 1927 to 1930. Sports Mirror By the Associsted Press. Today a year ago—Yankees voted No. 1 team of the year by margin of two points over Notre Dame in AP poll. Three years ago—Chicago Bears whipped New York Giants, 37-9, to win National League playoff. Five years ago—Luke Sewell re leased by Cleveland as player, signed as coach. Ten years ago—Triumph of Yale’s “iron men” over Princeton named biggest sports upset of year. THE BEER OF PLEASANT MEMORIES Barbarosaa Distributing Co., Phonei Adams 4213 Tinker, Ailing Again, 'Rests Comfortably' By the Associated Press. ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 21.—Joe Tinker, part of the famous “Tinker to Evers to Chance" major league double-play combination, now un der observation at Owens General Hospital here, was reported early today to be “resting comfortably." Tinker, 64, entered the hospital Tuesday for the second time this year. Last January he was crit ically ill for several weeks and for a time was placed under an oxygen tent, but recovered. He began his major league career in 1902 with the Chicago Cubs and later managed that-club and Cin cinnati, as well as several minor league teams. In 1937 he formed a baseball school here with Joe Stripp, an other former major leaguer. 1 Delicious CAK^CING!^ QUICK. Wonderful for msk ini marshmallow sauce, fees, ice creams, menn|uea, candies. _ eMf recipe book Write HipO Lite, MO ft dth. St Louis. Mo. ‘tWSIIMII.UW CIEME Six Favorites Run to Victory In Eight Gulf stream Races ir tne Aitotiuea Pr«s«. Form players enjoyed a field day at Gulfstream Park yesterday when six of eight favorites romped home first, including Bobanet Stable’s Sophocles in, the featured Illinois Purse at $4.80. Other choices to score were; Cir cus Flag, $5.10; Wee Shot, $6.10; Twink Shot, $8.10; Top Reward, $5.10, and Winsome Lad, $4.80. Charles Town presented the clos ing card of its fall meeting, despite an overnight snowfall. Jockey Woodrow Kirk of Silver Spring, Md., brought in three winners. Grandma Ray (146.60), Bardy ($13.40) and Bull Terrier ($11.60). Gulfstream was the only track in operation today. Fair Grounds in augurates a 76-day season at New Orleans Saturday. Jockey Herb Claggett accepted his first mount of the Florida season, but a third on Little Bunny and a fifth on Reaping Gem was his best. He had been on the sidelines since an appendicitis operation. Smith of Yolo Honored NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 21 (JF). —New -Haven Gridiron Club, an organization of football fans, at Its dinner last night presented Thomas B. Smith, 2d, of Wyncote, Pa., im pound guard on the Yale eleven, a trophy for having been the "out standing player in the Yale Bowl here during the 1944 season.” i---—_, because L?*OSSE<J it's made from |MCKWELi'| CAB's Famous I^_I English |Scur|gsMi»M Recipe 1 1 i CRISCO * 67c Rumford „ aa Bakins Powder “n Ajc Duff* 1Ul Ad GINGERBREAD MIX *■ 21® COLD MEDAL FLOUR Brar Rabbit Braaa Labal . ^ MOLASSES '«•' 19« Sauor’s , jut Vanilla Extract **•' 29c McCormick A - FOOD COLORS^ 2lc N MOTT'S APPLE CIDER Vi gal. gal. 39e 69e BAMBY BREAD ] Delicious on the table. 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