The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1937, Page 8

| ton Redskins, produced the most excit- ® # > we are going, in some respects, it's ise in Popularity of Pro Football Was Most Striking Sports Trend, Say Experts Increase in Gate Receipts Not- ed; Spread of Six-Man Teams Is Mentioned —___—_ New York, Dec. 21—(P)—Notwith- standing some confusion in the minds of our sports experts as to just where obvious they think the growth in pop- ularity of professiona) football is the most striking development of 1937. Of all the trends or cross-currents noted during the year, the pro grid- iron boom attracted most attention, as well as a bigger share of the sports- page headlines than ever before. For one thing it is still fresh in mind. For another, the climax games, featur- ing Sammy Baugh and the Washing: ing football of 1937, amateur, pro or semi-pro. BOWL TEAMS OPEN LAST 10 DAYS OF HEAVY PRACTICES | Fights Last Night | FFF (By the Associated Press) Chicago — Al Nettlow, 136, Chi- cago stopped Larry Grebb, 136, Milwaukee, (9); Harvey Woods, 138, St, Paul, stopped Mike Bat- talino, 130, Milwaukee, (4). Washington — Harry Jeffra, 123%, bantamweight champion, Baltimore, outpointed Armanda Sicilia, 124, Chicago, (8), non- title, Newark, N. J.— Mike (Kid) Frattini, 148, Italian welterweight champion, Lorenso Lov- No other trend or development was even close to pro football, which got the vote of 22 out of 53 experts par- ticipating in the seventh annual As- sociated Press poll. Seven noted the growing popularity © of football in general, five emphasized the paralleling increase in gate re- reipts, while five more suggested that defensive grid maneuvers, such as the five-man line, represented the year’s most conspicuous trend. Viewpoints Are Conflicting Otherwise the poll reflected nothing so much as contrasts of opinion or viewpoint. Five sports editors pointed to more liberal collegiate views on the subsidization of athletes, including “more open recruiting” or “calm ac- veptance of professionalism in college football,” but three others believe the trend is toward more “de-emphasis,” less recruiting, and decreased demands for all-winning teams. The Easts’ competitive renaissance In football was duly noted, together with the Middlewest’s slump in team power, but one observer stressed that no one section has a monopoly on “tough” teams. Other gridiron trends cited: Low- scoring average in major games, growth of popularity of six-man and 150-pound teams, decrease in use of lateral pass, and the presence of more Irish players in the Notre Dame line- y Minoreased interest and/or gate re- veipts were noted in at least six sports —baseball, tennis, golf, polo, racing and professional as well as vollege football. 8o far as boxing was concerned, the vote was 3 to 1 in support of decreased | Tennis Group to Distribute Films S. Association Adopts Motion Picture as Best Way to Popularize Sport New York, Dec. 21.—(#}—The Unit- (ed States Lawn Tennis association, | | sitting powerful and octupus-like on | Lower Broadway, has embraced the motion picture as the most forceful tedium of popularizing tennis over | the country and laying the founda- >| tion for an ever-lasting Davis Cup su- | premacy. | Both producer and booking agent, the association is preparing to exhibit } throughout the nation a full-length, | two-hour film showing the past and { present greats of the game in action. | Already more than 300 clubs and in- | dividuals have applied for the film | which will be ready in a few weeks. In order that the film may have the widest possible showing, it is being prepared for the 16 millimeter projec- | tor, or about half the professional ) sise. Thousands are owned by clubs and individuals, and they are easily set up and operated. The association will charge only $10 rental on the | film and expects only to break even The purpose of the film, an of- ficial explained, is two fold: points of the game to those who are Playing only patch-work tennis. * Emil Seeger Turns in High Gun Club Score Turning in a score of 362 out of & 400, Emil Seeger topped in the regular weekly shoot the Bismarck Rifle club. Second honors went to Guy Smith who had a score of 344, Scores turned in by other shooters. 3 Floyd Fowler 328, Art 296, Carl Nelson 287, Harry Dela- Barre 275, Oscar Nybakken 267, McGinnis 215; John Morton 215, and Kelly 167. ‘Tonight at 7:30 p. m. a five-man the rifle club will shoot it ‘with a team from Company I at coln, The next regular meet- club will be Jan. 7. Connie Mack, Near 75, Still True to Baseball Philadelphia, Dec. 21.—(#)—Nearing his 75th birthday, Connie Mack, vet- eran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, said Tuesday that baseball is a “grand, old game.” “If you had to start over, Mr. Mack,” asked, “would you be a doctor, Suyeign a ashing it, an actor, & » an a , or what?” “I'd go into the business I did— “old gentleman” his 55th season will be'75 Thurs- , stopped ings, 144, Chicago, (4). Memories of Rare Passing Team Go West With Bama Miss’ in Aerial Efforts Dur- ing 1935 Bowl Game Tucaloosa, Ala. Dec. 21—(7)}— Coach Frank Thomas is taking to the Rose Bowl memories of one of the greatest passing and scoring combin- ations in American football. It is a dazzling picture that comes to Coach Thomas’ mind on the eve of his second invasion of Pasadena as mentor of the Alabama Crimson Tide. The passing team he dreams of was made up of fleet-footed Millard (Dixie) Howell and rangy, swift Don Hutson, ‘There were other stars on the Bama eleven that smashed Stanford, 29-13, in the Rose Bowl three years ago. But Howell and Hutson stole the show. Few backs ever have displayed the footwork and passing ability in a big game that Howell did then. He and Hutson, 6-foot-1 inch end, just couldn’t miss in their pass efforts. Stanford shot ahead in the scoring on Fullback Bobby Grayson’s touch- down after a teammate had recovered an Alabama fumble in the first per- Howell Started It Then Thomas saw his charges put On one of the most amazing perform- ances in Rose Bowl history. Howell touched off the powder keg by passing to the Stanford 5-yard line and driv- ing over from that point, Uittle later Quarterback Riley Smith kicked a field goal from a try- ing angle. This score, although com- ing in handy at the time, was hardly | ‘te same needed for a victory. A minute or 30 afterwards the dazzling Howell | "8: pees pered 67 yards for another touch- lown. ‘Then Hutson sprang into the scor- ing picture, into the game before it was over and Jet loose a toss to Hutson netting 46 yards and a final score. “These men,” Thomas remarked, “put the Babe Ruth punch into a foot- ball game. That's what we are lack- ing this season—climax players. ‘Good’ “But we hay light, agile fense against passes Our backs, although good ground gainers—the. ing type. “Anybody will have a tough time crossing our goal line. for any wild day. we have been. That means some- thing, doesn’t it?” Sanish Cagers Win Four in One Week it has had in four years chalked up four victories in leas than six days last week. Monday the Sanish quintet walloped Arnegard 23 to 12; Tuesday Ray was defeated 21 to 7; Wi Earth, last year's Mountrail county champions, fell before Sanish 33 to 19; end Friday Van Hook was beaten 25 to 13. The victory spree made the Tecord for the season nine games won to three lost. James Slat- tery, Bismarck, is coaching the team. Dunn Center, Golden Valley Teams Divide Dunn Center, N. D., Dec. 21.—Hold- ing the-visitors scoreless througout the first half, Dunn Center defeated Golden Valley 20 to 11 in a high school basketball game here. In a prelim- inary game the Golden Valley girls turned back Dunn Center's girls’ team 35 to 21 to give the visiting teams an even break on the invasion, REDSKINS WIN BONUSES Chicago. — By winning the profes- sional football championship, each member of the Washington Redskins Some Trek to Scenes of Battle; Others Already Deep in Stiff Drills (By the Associated Press) ‘While many a college football play- er started the happy round of ban- quets that welcomes the hero home, “bowl” teams and the Huskies of the East-West game opened the last 10 days of vigorous practice for the New Year's day extra-season activities Tuesday. Some were en route to the scene of the battle. Others were deep in the mousetraps and spinners that most of the boys are already forgetting. One lucky group was on vacation. Here's the situation on all fronts: Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.) —The Golden Bears of California, the coast paladins, were diverting themselves with a long drill on blocking. This is in line with Coach Stub Allison’s strict adherence to the fundamentals as the best method of readying his Pacific coast champions for the fray. -Tide Leaves for West California's opponent, Alabama, & Rose Bowl staple, was on the way. The Crimson Tide, never beaten at Pasadena, left Tuscaloosa Tuesday after winding up home preparations with a long scrimmage session Mon- day. The Tide players, from Capt. Leroy Monsky, All-America guard, down, promised the home folks an- other Alabama victory before leaving. Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, La.)— Coach Bernie Moore of Louisiana State ordered earlier practices, with the suspension of classes for the holi- days, and planned to carry the attack through the air against Santa Clara of San Francisco. Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Tex.)—Minus the redoubtable Whizzer White, who won a Rhodes scholarship in Call- fornia Monday, the University of Col- orado arrived 35 strong to start work for the game with Rice. White will rejoin the squad Thursday or Friday. , Spartans Trek South range Bow] (Miami, Fla.)—Mich- igan State, 41 strong, left for Miami fon East Lansing, Mich., Monday The Auburn squad, the Spartans’ foe on New Year's day, is vacation- ing until Dec. 27 when it will reassem- ble and get to work. Sun Bowl (El Paso, Tex.)—West Virginia, held to ‘light signal drills by inclement weather,. made final preperations Tuesday for the trip from Morgantown, W. Vs., to El Paso Tuesday. Coach Marshall Glenn was oes prospects for the game with et west (San _Francisco)—The es lootball stars assembled Stanford university to start‘ work for and went through a light workout, including passing and kick- , Monday. The Eastern squad of 22 men, headed by Coaches Bernie Bierman of Minnesota, and Andy Kerr of Col- gate, was due Tuesday and will have, ite first real drill Wednesday. EASY FOR IRISH Philadelphia. — Pennsylvania has pee 11 basketball games with Notre e without winning over the Fight- ing Irish. Kipke’s Exit Proves That Even as a contender in the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, March The Texas colt won six straight stakes this year, but = his chief claim to fame is a dead heat with Seabiscuit. The star of the T. P. Morgan Stables became a sick horse en route from Maryland, but now is in tip-top condition. Alabama Had 20,000 Requests For 5,000 Rose Bow] Tickets . New York, Dec. 21—(#)—Sure didn’t take Harry Mehre long to get thet “old feeling” . . . He quit Georgia and announced he was through with coaching . . . @ week later he pops up as one of the candi- dates for Ed Walker's old job at Mis- sissippi . . . Physicians have warned Sixto Escobar, former bantamweight champ, who just missed pneumonia, |- - to do no more fighting in New York between September and May ... Alabama had 20,000 requests for its 5,000 Rose Bowl ticket allotment ... Yes, we have no tickets today or tomorrow. If Louisiana State is so much stronger than Alabama (as the Sugar Bowl horn blowers are tootingy why was Alabama the first choice? . . . Don Bennett; who coached South High of Worcester, Mass. to six district football championships in six years, —Says Eddie Brietz. captains hail from there . . . Jim- my Blair and Russ Boone, 1937 co- captains are Turtle Creekers and so is Alexander Waleski, just elected for next year . . What we want to know is how all those guys got away from Pitt . .. Ain't they big enough? . . . Colorado will train for the Cotton Bowl at Fort Worth . Thirty Texas cities invited Whizzer White and Co. Here's bad news for Jimmy Nelson of Lansinburg High, Troy, N. Y.: Just when it looked like he had set & season’s record for high schoolers with ® 106-yard touchdown run, Duane Moore of Ponca City (Okla.) high had to go and spoil things with a 108-yard gallop. .. Red Dawson, Tulane's fine young football .coach, is a bridegroom. ... Around New Orleans Louisiana State is a 2 to 1 favorite over Santa Clara in the Sugar Bowl. . . Governor Cone of Florida is going to make Kath- rates a great big hand and you can count this as a starter . . . Henry Armstrong got a rousing . welcome when he arrived home in Los Angeles after his eastern knockout tour . . ‘The boys still insist at least one top flight Pacific Coast football coach will move eastward soon . . . To Mich- igan? 4 When bigger and better football captains are turned out, we suppose St! Turtle Creek, Pa., will do the turning ISN'T TIRED YET Philadelphia—Deciding to compete again in mile and 1500-meter events on indoor tracks this winter, Gene Venzke will prepare for his 14th year of competition. CASEY BEHIND SCHMELING Detroit.—Ed (Doc) Casey, Detroit's referee and former trainer of Jack Delaney, has been in Max Schmeling’s erine Rawls, the swimmerite, a col- onel on his staff. Seabiscuit, for the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap in the winter book of James J. Car- roll, St. Louis commissioner... War Admiral is 10 to 1, Heelfly, 12 to 1 and at B to 1, is the favorite | back Player Honored Coleharbor Youth Named to Second All-America Squad; N. D. Boy on First Team One North Dakota boy was given & § position on the first team, four others were named to the second squad and 29 more received honorable mention on six-man All-America football teams selected by Stephen Epler, orig- inator of the game, for the American Boy magazine. Morris Williams, center and quar- terback at Egeland, N. D., was placed at center on the mythical honor team. The names of the youths and pic- tures of first team members and sev- eral North Dakota six-man teams were published in the January issue of the magazine. North Dakota boys honored on the second squad, made up of 20 players from all sections of the country, are Kermit Larson, Dazey, quarterback: Carl Carlson, Coleharbor, halfback: lace Warry, Page, fullback; and James McGrath, Sheldon, quarter- Players who will be awarded certi- ficates include Lloyd Schmid, Minne- waukan; Richard Ruswell, Tower City; Frederick Nott, Donnybrook; Rosemont, last year’s winner, is 15 to| Vernon Coffey, Des Lacs; Charles 1... Clay Calhoun of Loyola, (New Orleans) who made the AP's “Little All America,” is a descendent of John Calhoun, the first southern statesman of ante-bellum days. . . Also he’s quite & ball player. corner in every start made by the German in this country. STILL GAME OF CHECKERS Football fields once were checker- boarded, chalk-marked crosswise and lengthwise every five years. Co eee PERFECT AVERAGE New York. — Joe DiMaggio made only three attempts to steal during 1937, but he succeeded every trip... / Coach of Simon-Pures Must Win Schools Shout Purity But Want Results, Michigan Action Goes to Show By HARRY GEAYSON (Sports Editor, NEA Service) Harry Kipke’s summary dismissal by Michigan is additional evidence that even @ coach of a simon-pure college must win. Schools shout purity, but demand results. Several explanations are given for yelled for Kipke’s scalp as they do at any crossroads school with football ambitions. The only difference between the cases of Kipke and Harry Mehre, who spent 14 years at Georgia, is that latter beat tHe old:grads to it by re) O" aligning. With Kipke undoubtedly will go Col. Heartly W. (Hunk) Anderson, who was brought up from North Carolina, junk Anderson or fall with the one-time back and kicker. Michigan bagged only one engage: ment in 1936. The Maise and Blue edged out four of eight opponents in State to All-; typical Michigan style in 1937. That would indicate that Kipke's coaching was highly satisfactory during the campaign, and Anderson had them taving about the Wolverine line before and after the rout by Minnesota and the fourth consecutive apprehensive about what it considered somethirig of a Harry Mehre Beats Old Grads to Punch by Resigning Job at Georgia Whatever scandal existed was self created, for it was the board of ath- letic control itself which announced that subsidization was suspected in connection with certain freshmen. Inspired by the presence of Tom ere. a sda) lad of Gary, Ind, and three or four youngsters from Kiski School, it is said that of- ficial criticism was directed at Kipke. It ig explained that the board also believed that rumors~ and cross- rumors, plus discontent in many quar- ters, would do Kipke and Michigan football no good... that Kipke prob- ably would be under too great « strain working under such pressure, At any rate, the reason the board advances unofficially ... that Kipke didn’t seem to get the most out of the material at hand and was Smith, Page; Richard Beck, Haynes; Irvin Stiles, Sykeston; Christ Frank, Wishek; Eugene Spotted Horse, Elbo- woods; Eugene Mongeon, Rolette; Theodore Rid!, Michigan; Douglas Collins, Fort Yates; Chester Sander, Ray; Irvin Giese, New Leipzig. Zane Ketchum, Reeder; George Fannith, Max; Irving Jacobson, Gre- nora; Francis Frank, Carpio; Roy Sandstrom, Plaza; Roy Hovey, Van Hook; Harold Shilks, Hanks; Herbert Glasor, Litchville; Robert Rist, Velva; Kenneth Wolf, Medora; Philip John- son, Binford; William Conroy, Crary; Harvey Billings, Drake; Alford Simp- | coring sop, Sharon, and Howard Ernst, Port- nd. Seven North Dakota teams, Mich- igan, Page, Haynes, Wishek, Daszey, Donnybrook and Ray, are pictured aiong with the individuals. Beulah Cagers Defeat Halliday Quint, 26-16 Beulah, N. D., Dec. 21.—Getting off to an early lead and increasing its |margin to 18 to 4 before the midway gun sounded, Beulah high school’s basketball team succeeded in staving off a last half Halliday rally long enough to turn in a 26 to 16 triumph over Halliday here. accounted for most of Beu- Murray lah’s points with Mulhauser second in the individual scoring bracket. Halliday’s girls defeated the Beulah girls’ team 22 to 17 in a preliminary encounter, Halliday fg ft p: Gordan, t 2 0 Malloy, £ 0 Por 1c 2 Carlson, g 1 Palmer, g 1 Mathson f 0 Totals © ore o ° 1 2 1 0 4 wo cconssees Totals 10 lliday . Beulah Miners Referee: Ol CROFT TO LEAVE MONTANA generally inefficient .. . is somewhat superficial | coach, at best. It is unreasonable to believe that general inefficiency would cloak ® coach as young as Kipke with such suddenness. Fs Kipke illustrated what he could do sea shes from 1930 bah 1933, me ve. He was a young genius soug! by Yale then. z So the more logical answer is that Harry Kipke is just another coach who ran out of the type of boys who make coaches that Michigan’ can't take it. Logan, effective July 1. have no affiliation with the athletic department. GIVES UP TRACK Da and Max Schmeling, Harry Thomas says that he didn’t know he was down. better. They collide in Pittsburgh. i —_———— REWARD TRAINERS Hialeah Park—A total of $1,500 will be distributed in prize money to train- ers at Hialeah Park during the ,46- day meeting starting Jan. 12. LITTLE OFF UMBRELLA: Miami, Fia.—Lawaon Little will not touch an umbrella since he was struck by lightning while carrying one on a golf course few years ago Victory Over Napoleon Dutsky Schneider Sinks Long Shot in Last Seconds to Win See-Saw Battle Paced by the sharp-shooting Donald Downey, who scored four times from the floor, the St. Mary’s high school basketball team closed its pre-holiday schedule with a hard-won 20 to 18 triumph over Napoleon there Mon- day night. It was the fourth victory in six starts for the Saints, who lost to Bis- marck and Jamestown, strong class A clubs, by narrow margins in their only two setbacks. Dutsky Schneider, dependable St. Mary’s guard, sank the winning bucket from well out in mid-court seconds before the final gun to break an 18-18 gount and give the Bainta thetr chance ‘The lead see-sawed back and forth Primo Not Broke; Still Has $16,000 New York, Dec. 21.—()—Old Carnera, ime quite s0 broke aoe thought. His manager, Louis Soresi, re- ceived word Mon- held in New York and New Jersey banks pending litigation had been. released. Costs of the law suits, fees, would cable that amount to Carnera ‘Tuesday. Carnera has been ill in a Budapest hospital arid was due to return to Venice Tuesday. The word from Budapest was that a hotel, managed by his mother, was about his only re- reer was definitely over, Carnera ex- pected to live on the income from it. Fredheim Retains “(Devils Lake Crown Poleon team-mates. Napoleon will play here in a return game Jan. 7, the first of the post- holiday season for St. Mary’s. ‘The summaries: Napoleon tg tt pf t 11 Up Fifth Victory Downs Dartmouth 42-17 as Temple Beats Illinois 51-38; Purdue Wins Again Chicago, Dec. 21.—(#)—Michigan’s ‘Wolverines haven’t figured prominent- ly in the Big Ten gridiron title race in recent seasons but don’t sell them short on the basketball court this winter. The Wolves won their fourth “warm-up” game in as many starts Monday night, and the score, 42-17, over Dartmouth, indicates that op- ponents are going to find it tough to crack the Wolverine defense when the conference championship chase opens. Michigan held Dartmouth to one point in the first half while scoring 21. John Townsend, great Michigan for- ward, scored 13 points, although he played only briefly during the second half. In four games Michigan has held opponents to 110 points while 165. Tlinois left the undefeated ranks, bowing to Temple 51-38 at Philadel- phia, It was the first defeat for the Illini in five games. The tall Temple five outplayed the. Big Ten co-cham- pions all the way and led at half-time 26-15. Lou Boudreau scored 11 points and Lew Behner 12 for the losers. But 18-Year-Old Roy Wilson Makes: Longest Jumps, Shows Best Form Devils Lake, N. D., Dec, 21.—(7)— «Whisser) footed, nimble-armed All- halfback, shout “No” to all poten- tial professional offers Tuesday. He's a Rhodes scholar—and mighty proud of it. ‘The 20-year-old Whiz said his vic- tory in the regional scholarship ex- aminations here Monday night defi- nitely ended any possibility he would turn pro. : And he made a startling disclosure —“I never received any offers.” Pre- | viously he had been reported as re- ceiving pro bids. White leaves Tuesday for Fort ith | Worth, Tex., to join his Colorado uni- 19 points, led at if class, winning a fourth straight tilt ‘turing back Xavier of Cincin- Peoria, | iege LIPS THAT TOUCH, ETC. Ann Arbor.—Matt Mann, coach of University of Michigan swimming teams, has joined Andy Kerr and Alonso Amos Stagg as poster material in the anti-liquor drive. versity teammates in training for ly his last football game—the i probab! last-half Loyola rally andiclash with Rice in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas New Year's day. | Center Jump Ousting Saved Game, Is Claim Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 21. — (®) — Elimination of the center jump has made basketball a faster and more ex- citing game to watch and “saved” the sport, Clement H. Eyler, member of the “national rules committee, said Monday. Eyler, dean of men at Milligan col- in East Tennessee, advised critics not to start “howllng” about the change until it has been given a thor- ough tryout. He said it did not tend to miake the sport rougher. “SAFETY FIRST Mexico City—Pop bottles and sim- clear weather is ahead for the annual Sugar Bowl classic, here on Jan. 1. FRICK WAXES PIOUS ARGUING MERITS OF NL ‘DROWSY’ BALL New York, Dec. 21.—(?)—If there's any truth in what the National League barristers are saying these winter days, the American League should come clean next season and add a new/é column to its official box scores;— After you have. heard Pres. Ford Frick delineate the delights of the National circuit's drowsy new ball, it becomes increasingly clear that in this way alone could the American League waddies atone for their stub- born refusal to scrap the old buck- jumping pellet that the DiMaggios and the Greenbergs love to belt about. Frick puts the issue so squarely, so honestly, that the stoniest hearted American magnate is likely to League break down completely and bewail his delay in seeing the light. had their chance at the recent Chi- cago meeting, and now it’s too late. runs” (as Frick calls them,) but it can’t make light of a statement az solemn and earnest as that one. And that isn’t all Frick says, by any means. “Our aim is to do away with those half-hits which sometimes play a big part ~ @ ball game,” he continued. “What we are trying to eliminate is the thing that happens when a batter hits only a piece of the ball instead of connecting squarely.”