The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 Football Greats Have Had Poor Luck Trying to Crash Movies ‘ JOIN MACK BROWN, LIONEL CONACHER PROBABLY GREATEST ALL-AROUND ATHLETE ANDY DEVINE ONLY |( ovr BoarpiNe House TWO ABLE 10 STICK Heyburn, Mohler, Morrison and Big Jim Thorpe Outstand- ing Failures MONTGOMERY, SMITH TRY Saunders, Duffield and Rosen- berg Making Good as Di- rectors, However Hollywood, Jan. 24.—Football stars who gain lots of ground on the grid- iron are thrown for huge losses when they try to crash the pearly gates of movie town. There is a whale of a difference between side-stepping to a touchdown and whispering love to a film siren in a dramatic boudoir scenc. At least that’s the discovery made by most of the campus heroes who have heen ballyhooed to Hollywood through their gridiron names. ‘With the exception of romantic Johnny Mack Brown, former Alabama All-America back, and comedian Andy Devine, who starred as a guard at Santa Clara University, ex-grid stars haven't fared well in the movies. Scores of football players trek to Hol- lywood at the close of each grid sea- von, obtain screen tests on their repu- tations, and then go right back home. see Tt’s no secret that to become a suc- cess in Hollywood one must have a striking personality and pleasant voice, and be able to act. And it’s no secret that 99.9 per cent of our colleze football players lack these require- ments. That's why ex-touchdown manufacturers fail to kick goals in Hollywood. zee Weldon Heyburn played football at George Washington University in Alabama, but as a Hollywood actor he wasn't so hot. Orv Mohler, Southern Celifornia’s star quarterback two years back, took a screen test and then went to work for an oil com- pany. ‘Duke Morrison, another Trojan pig- skinner, appeared in one big picture under the name of Johnny Wayne, but didn’t make the grade. Big Jim Thorpe took a crack at the flickers and learned he wasn't suited for the game. Others, including the great “Red” Grange, tried and dis- covered the same thing. Even as this is being written, Capt. Cliff Montgomery of Columbia's Rose Bowl championship team, and Bill Smith, University of Washington's All-American end, are thinking about film careers. Montgomery took a test during a visit to a Hollywood studio while he was in California, and he may forsake Gotham for movie town. &mith is al’ set to preserve in cellu- loid the physique and features of the “handsomest football player in the west.” Behind the scenes in Hollywood, however, several ex-grid stars are do- ing right well by themselves. “Race- horse Russ” Saunders, Marshall Duf- field, and “Alley Oop” Aaron Rosen- berg, all former Trojan stars, are working as assistant directors and as Prop men. Alan Dwan, former All-America at Notre Dame, is a successful director, and “Jumbo” Pierce, late of Arizona, finds lucrative pay as a technical ad- viser, All these boys agree Hollywood 1s okeh, but acting is out for them. eee Brown, who was All-America for two years at Alabama, attracted cast- ing directors when his team played in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl in 1929. He's handsome, romantic and possesses a Pleasant voice with a heavy southern accent. He’s due for several top roles am Hollyweod’s 1934 production sched- ules, Devine is as homely as they make ‘em, but a gravel throat, personality and the ability to act have carried him to the top since his football play- ing days at Santa Clara U. ended in a blaze of glory. Oddly, Devine was spotted wearing his Santa Clara foot- bell sweater by an assistant director wnile walking along Hollywood boule- vard. The a. d. thought the mono- pram stood for Southern California, and asked him if he wanted extra work in a football picture. ‘When Devine replied in that crazy voice of his. his career was made. Since then he has played hundreds of ‘es, He stole top honors as @ pro- pe of Gaorge Gipp in the “Spirit Notre Dame,” released about three ago. But his efforts have not in football pictures only. Like- » Brown played in pictures for years before he made a gridiron Though former football players fe it on the chin in Hollywood tewn, other sports characters are do- {xg right well. Johnny Weissmuller, one-time swimming great, and Buster Crabbe, 1932 Olympic Games swim- Ba tor in his film debut. Vines, Tilden All Square in Series EGAD, HAVE PATIENCE, AND 1 WILL TELL YOU,IN FULL,HOW I | TRAPPED THE NOTORIOUS CAPTAIN SHANDYGAFF, WH WIS ARREST ~BUT, FIRST, I WANT TO TELL HOW THE CASE PARALLELS THE FAMOUS PADDINGTON CASE, WHEN I WAS A SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR “THE CRIMINAL WAS "LIMEN LEO; ICH BROLIGHT ABOLIT A HUNTED ALL OVER ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT “MY ONLY CLEWS WERE A FEW PENCIL SHAVINGS AND A COLLAR BUTTON ~ ~EGAD, WAIT A MINUTE, LADS 9 Movie f THAT F WINDMILL 1s SUST STARTING TO TURN, AN’ HE WON'T QUIT UNTIL HIS CHIN By Ahern TH TIME HE GETS BEARING? Manager Mickey Cochrane Encouraged’ By Good Word from Schoolboy Hurler DECREASE IN GEESE AND BRANT Fixes Arm With ‘Pot Lik- IN MARITIME PROVINCES NOTED Wild Life Chieftain of Canada Addresses American Game Body New York, Jan. 24.—(?)—Hoyes Lloyd, supervisor of wild life pro- tection of the Canadian department of the interior, reported to the 20th conference of the American Game as- sociation Tuesday that there is a startling decrease in the number of geese and brant in the maritime prov- inces. The decrease is believed due to the destruction of eel grass by a bacterial disease, he said. He read a telegram from Robie W. Tufts, chief federal migratory bird officer of the mari- time provinces, which reported the geese in Nova Scotia very thin and in Poor condition. The situation was made more ser- ious, the telegram stated, because the ground is covered with snow and no food is available to take the place of the destroyed eel grass. Dr. W. B. Bell of the division of biological investigations, United States bureau of biological survey, pleaded for “a new deal for ducks.” “We've got to get down to hard- headed business methods,” he said. “We must provide sufficient breeding grounds and refuges and also evolve a sensible plan for harvesting the sur- Plus only of the duck crop.” Thomas H. Beck of Wilton, Conn., chairman of the special United States committee on wild life restoration, and William Lovell Finley of Portland, Ore., member of the migratory bird advisory board, made pleas for the return of reclaimed marsh and other submarginal lands to the public do- main for use as wild life sanctuaries, OSSIE SOLEM RE-ENGAGED Council Bluffs, Ia., Jan. 24.—(P}— The Iowa state board of education Tuesday re-engaged Ossie Solem for four years as head football coach at the University of Iowa. No salary terms were announced, but unveri- fied, apparently authentic reports Place his annual salary at $8,500, There are nearly 250 British peers without sons. | OUT OUR WAY (MU ELAM E AE f 34 Teams Entered in Bowling Meet Trundlers in Third Annual Tournament Jamestown, Jan. 24.—(#)—Thirty- four teams already have entered the! third annual Jamestown bowling! ‘tournament to be held Feb. 2 to 5,' 'Dewane Wilder, secretary of the! {Jamestown Bowling association, an- nounced Tuesday. | There will be singles, doubles and) five-men team contests, John Soulis is manager of the over which the tourney will be rolled) under regulations of the American. | Bowling congress. Entries already are in excess of the! number registered at the same time! jlast year, tournament officials said.| ‘They expect additional entries from| |North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. Jamestown, with 20 teams, leads in number of entrants. Other en- trants are from Fargo, four; Minot and New Rockford two, and Bismarck, | Grand Forks, Cooperstown, Valley City, Crookston, Minn., and Mobridge, 8. D., one each. i\Schmeling-Baer Bout In California Sought New York, Jan. 24—(?)—A return match between Max Schmeling and Max Baer will be held at Los Angeles n April—if the California heavyweight can be persuaded to sign @ contract tendered by Lou Dero, Los Angeles Promoter. Paying a flying visit to New York, |Daro stayed just long enough to get |Schmeling’s name to a contract for a 12-round match with Baer at the Olympic auditorium in Los Angeles, then left for Baltimore to confer with Baer and his manager, Ancil Hoff- man. Majestic Alleys, | pars ker, Greens, Grits, Hom- iny, Bread’ Detroit, Jan. 24—(P)—There was joy Wednesday in Mickey Cochrane's heart, because from down Arkansas way has come the news that one of the Tigers’ choicest bits of pitching apparatus—Schoolboy ‘Rowe's right arm—is ready for the coming cam- paign, and in the schoolboy’s own words is “better than new.” And what did it? The schoolboy again is authority for the assertion shat it was “pot likker, greens, grits, hominy and dog bread.” To the heal- ing virtues of these along the prom- ising youngster attributes his recov- ery from an injury that put him on the bench in mid-season last year. It all came out in a letter to Frank Navin, head of the Detroit club. “I have been following the doc’s in- structions right faithful like,” the let- ter read. But, the schoolboy goes on, his la- made him hungry, and the diet prescribed by the “doc” proved slim pickings. He stuck it out though, un- tl one day the boosters club of a nearby town asked him to make a speech. As their guest he simply could not refuse the good old dishes, “so,” he said: “First we ate. And, Mr. Navin, I tried to remember what doc said about diet, but them greens, grits, hominy, dog bread and pot likker was too much for me. I dived in, and that fixed my arm up fine.” Notre Dame Cagers Face Chicago Quint South Bend, Ind., Jan. 24.—(P)—Its big winning streak stopped at Pitts- burgh last week, Notre Dame will try to keep a smaller string intact Wed- nesday night against Chicago's sopho- mores, Although the Irish were stopped by the Panthers after winning 22 games in a row, they have not lost a game at home in i¢ starts. JAP CUE STAR WINS Philadelphia, Jan. 24.—()—Kin- rey Matsuyama, Japanese billiards ace from New York, won the national three-cushion championship in the last scheduled match of the profes- ‘sional tournament Tuesday night. By Williams | | STAR AT FOOTBALL, BOXING, WRESTLING, n-ne Sky-High to Win Ski Title HOCKEY AND TRACK Played With Toronto Interna- tional League Champs Under Howley COACHED RUTGERS ELEVEN Brought to U. S. by Pop Warn- er and Starred on Grid at Duquesne Chicago, Jan. 24.—The greatest all- around athlete in the United States is not Jim Thorpe, the famed Carlisle Indian, nor is he Jim Bausch, the Kansas cyclone who ran rampant on gridirons and won the 1932 Olympic decathlon with a record number of points. He isn’t even a native-born citizen—he is Lionel Conacher, great- ee athlete ever to come out of Can- Conacher, now defense for the Chi- cago Blackhawks, National Hockey League entrant, is one of the greatest hockey players ever developed in the Dominion— But did you know that he was the amateur welterweight and heavy- weight boxing champion of Canada, @ successful pro wrestler, one of the greatest lacrosse and football players ever to wear a uniform, a 10-second man in the 100-yard dash, member of the Toronto Maple Leafs the year they won the International League pennant and little world series under Dan Howley, and football coach at Rutgers University? Well, Gus, if you didn’t know those: things you're excused, for the modest Conacher isn’t one to go around toot- ing his own horn. But he was all of those things, and more! xk * Connie started his colorful career back in 1916. At 16, he won the On- tario wrestling championship at 125 pounds, and scored 29 professional victories in a row. In 1918 he took up hockey as an amateur, and has been batting a puck hither and yon ever since, with the exception of brief excursions into la- crosse, football and fighting. His football stardom started in 1920, as fullback of the Toronto Argonauts. After playing rugby in Canada, he switched to the American game when Pop Warner took him to Pittsburgh with the idea of making him a star in this country. He played at Bellefonte Academy with Gibby Welch, and outsmarted the fellow termed by Jock Suther- land, present Pitt mentor, the great- est football player he ever saw. He matriculated at Duquesne where he starred two years on the gridiron. Bob Zuppke, wise old Illinois coach, has made the remark that Conacher was the greatest punter ever to toe the leather. There is a record of Connie having booted a 75-yard drop kick. Along with his football activity and hockey, young Conacher took up box- ing in 1921. That year he won the light-heavyweight championship of the Dominion, and the same year boxed four rounds with Jack Demp- sey. Tiring of football, Connie turned to baseball. While he didn’t reach thi major leagues, he did star in the In- ternational League pennant drive and | Wings little world series of 1926, and might have reached the big leagues if he had chosen to remain an baseball. * * But hockey was in his blood, and he devoted most of his time to that game, clicking as a defense star with the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Americans and finally the Black- hawks. Knowledge of all these sports has helped Conacher in his hockey game, he says. a reason I stop those attacks on the net is because, unconsciously, I fall back on other sports,” Conacher asserts, “I use a tackle, maybe, that T’ve learned in football. Perhaps I use a check borrowed from lacrosse. Maybe I hook slide as in baseball.” But whatever he uses, mates, this Lionel lad of 34 is a great defense man. His acquisition by the Black- hawks has made that team chief con- tender in the American division of the National League this year. Bryan and Wilkinson Tie for Medal Honor Miami, Fla., Jan. 24—(#)—A tie for medal honors added zest Wednesday to the first match play round of the Miami Biltmore amateur invitation golf tournament. Curtis Bryan, Jr., of Miami and Will Wilkinson of Indianapolis each had a leg on the low qualifying trophy with their 75s leading a field of 106 players, representing 19 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Thirty-two were paired in the championship flight. The story, “The Man Without a Country,” is entirely fiction in regard to its plot x ‘The Johnstown (Pa. occurred tn 1889. PHI the largest Jumps of 170 and 175 feet on snow packed into Chicago by boxcar from miles away carried Casper. Oimen to the national ski jumping championship before a crowd of 25,000 at the Norge Club slide, Oimen. national champion in 1929-30-31, is shown in the air on one of his jumps, Barney Ross Two to One Favorite to Defeat Petrolle Wednesday Evening NEW YORK RANGERS OBSERVE 400TH TILT BEATING OTTAWA ns | Cooks, Boucher, Patrick, West- erby, Johnson and Mur- doch Honored New York, Jan. 3p oobi the traditions of the modest clan of | hockey players, the New York Rang-/| ers have passed another milestone in| | nase | Basketball | :-° 0 20, me ———=— =F | weigits, risks prestige but no title in By EVERETT 8. DEAN Coach, Indiana University The southern section of the Pacific Coast conference is made up of Uni- versity of California, Southern Call- fornia, U. of California at Los Angeles, and Stanford. At the close of the reg- ular season, the champion of this their remarkable career, the team’s “vision meets the winner of the north- 400th game since it was organized back in 1926, | They celebrated the event Tuesday night mostly by playing and winning | another hockey game, beating the Ot- | tawa Senators 5-2 to hold their share in first place in the National Hockey | League's American division, Two of the players who were called ; out between the periods of Tuesday | night’s game to receive gifts from the | club and cheers from the fans, Cap- tain Bill Cook and Frank Boucher, went on after the ceremony to lead the scoring. The other remaining “originals” are Manager Lester Pa- trick, Trainer Harry Westerby, Fred (Bun) Cook, who plays on the first line with Bill and Boucher, Ivan (Ching) Johnson, the big defense- man, and Murray Murdoch. Even in their anniversary triumph, the Rangers couldn’t shake off the Detroit Red Wings in the race for the American division lead. The Red walloped the hapless Boston Bruins 3-1 with the midget forwards, Herb Lewis and Cooney Weiland, do- ing all the scoring. An off-day dropped the Chicago Blackhawks out of thé deadlock, leaving Detroit and the Rangers tied for the lead. In the Canadian division, the Tor- ern division for the coast champion- ship. The northern division consists ot Washington, Washington State, Oregon State, Oregon and Idaho. The playoff series is a big event on the coast and sometimes as many as 30,000 attend these games. Basketball has increased greatly in Popularity on the coast. Crowds have grown and the grade. of basketball is better each year.. Improvement in efficiating has helped very much. ‘onto Maple Leafs and Montreal con- tinued their race, if the word “race” can be applied while the Leafs are 14 points ahead, by walloping lower- ranking teams. Toronto overhaule ed the third-place Montreal Maroons 8-4 and the Canadiens beat the New aged pueries fourth place hold- ers, 6-2, WILLISTON BEATS BROCKTON Williston, N. D., Jan. 24.—(#)}—Wil- Uston Coyotes turned in one of their most impressive victories of the sea- son in turning back the highly-touted and unbeaten high school quint from Brockton, Mont., 29 to 23 here. Red Leads Green an Intersectional basketball shows the Pacific Coast able to take its part. Some prominent middle western basketball coaches to go west with new ideas are Sam Barry, formerly of Iowa; John Bunn of Kansas, and Fred Dakota. Boehler of North 4 In the Coach John Bunn of Stanford University shows a play designed to open up the middle of the floor for player (D), to drive through to the basket. es Fights Last Night (By the Associated Press) Seattle:—Andy Bundy, 129, Portland , outpointed “Clev- Manila (8); Ford gel by Arizmend!, 128, Mexico, outpointed Mark Dias, 130, Philippines (10); Fritzie Ziv- ic, 143, Pittsburgh, stopped Baby Bal Sorio, 145, San Bernardino 2); Jack Prince, 202, Denver, out- Pointed Lou Stratton, 187, Los Angeles (4). Lubbock, Tex.—Abe Chavez, 115, Villa, Ring-Siders, However, Cannot Understand How Odds Are so Wide New York, Jan. 24.—()—Barney 10-round bout with Billy Petrolle, hattle-scarred scourge of the light- s.eight and welterweight divisions, at the Coliseum Wednesday night. Stirred from their lethargy by prospect; of a knock-down, drag-out battle between two first-class fighters, boxing fans rushed for the ticket win- dows. A virtual sellout-12,000 seats— was in sight. Ross’ position as a two to one fa- vorite was due in part at least to the fect that the youngster outpointed | Petrolle in Chicago last March but . New York ringsiders have seen lethal-fisted Billy dispose of too many ting greats or near-greats to under- stand how any rival can be held at such odds against him. The match was made at 142 pounds, Petrolle’s best poundage. When they fought at Chicago, Billy undoubtedly was weakened by the effort he had to make to cut his weight down to 137 pounds. Ross probably won't scale much over 136% pounds, The main bout is scheduled fo. about 10 p.m. (ES.T.). Particularly do ringsiders remember the night he fought Eddie Ran, dead- ly-punching Polish welterweight. Ran was warned that he must watch Pe- trolle’s left hand, that the Fargo, N. D., veteran's southpaw hook was sheer- poison. Faithfully, Eddie did as he was told. For five rounds, he steer- ed clear of that left, never giving Pe- trolle a clear shot with it. Sudden- ly the veteran thudded home a ter- rific right hand punch to Ran’s chin and the Pole went down and out in the sixth round, Ross, of course, is a more polished, far cleverer performer than Ran, but he'll need to watch not only Billy's left but his right as well, St. Paul Fighters Winners at Fargo Kipcott Beats Rippatoe and Freeman Beats Abie Hof- er of Lisbon Fargo, N. D., Jan. 24—(7)—St. Paul fighters for the second consecutive week were victorious in the feature six-round events of the weekly box- ing program at the Fargo Elks club Tuesday night. Jackie Lipcott of St. Paul came on with @ rally in the fourth and sixth rounds of his six-rounder against Rippatoe, Fargo Negro, to gain a de- cision,. after Rippatoe had led with é g zg Ee HE Ei els i George Deck of defeated Joneson going down 210, Joneson going grabbed Deck from under the at Senmon fad” tned itt ‘om the