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2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 15, 1929—PART FIVE. Unruly Tonsils Affect Griff Hurlers : Foot Ball Makes Vast Strides in Mexico TEAM IN ITS FIRST YEAR HANGS UP AERIAL RECORD NAT SLABMEN GET OPERATION ORDERS Sore Throats Making Sore, Arms, Griffith Avers as Some Athletes Howl. BY JOHN B. KELLER, ASHINGTON'S basc ball club | evidently is to have a lot of made-over pitchers next sea- son. This seems to be a big Winter for the surgeons, so far as the Nationals' pitching staff is have been weilding, or are about tc concerned. The physical separaters | wield, their knives to such an extent | that it might be well for Clark Griffith | to have some spare parts around when | his athletes report for training next | Spring. Tonsils have caused much trouble in the ranks of the Washington pitchers, it appears. Ad Liska was the first to submit to the surgeon’s knife because | of an affection of these unruly things that rest in the back of the human | throat. The submarine rookie had his yanked out during the past playing sc son and as soon as he was through with the operation it seemed every other member of the mound corps discovered something wrong inside his neck. Not only the pitchers thought so, but | also Clark Griffith, He knew something | was wrong with his slabbing athletes . every time he glanced at the standing of the Nationals in the American League | and the pitching records of the circuit. It must be tonsils, he figured, and forth- | with ordered a wholesale clearing out of | the inner portion of that part of the | anatomy between head and shoulders. Fred Marberry, Garland Braxton, | Lloyd Brown and Bob Burke were ad- | vised by the club prexy to have some- thing done about their tonsils. In fact, Marberry and Braxton not only were | advised but virtually commanded to have the treacherous bits of flesh re- moved from the back of the throat.| Cough up or shut up about pains in the pitching arm was the order from head- quarters. Hate to Give Up. This was none too pleasing to the boys. The average ball player believes in getting all he can and giving up nothing and the order to give up ton. sils brought a howl of protest from the slinging staff. But Griffith was firm, firm to the extent of telling some of the howlers that no contracts would be offered them for next year unless hé had proof the surgeons had done their work. So far as can be learned Marherry 1s the only pitcher who has followed Liska's example and had the tonsils removed. Fred was relieved of them about a month ago and has informed the club prexy he is recuperating nicely. Fred was a pretty good pitcher last season, despite poisoning tonsils He was by far the best of the Wash- ington lot and among the best in the league. If having his tonsils yanked makes Fred a better pitcher, he ought to be a wow next season. But the three left-handers—Braxton, Brown and Burke—who developed so many aches and pains during the course of the past base ball season and blamed them on tonsil poisoning have balked at letting the surgeon do his stuff. Griffiith got real harsh in Braxton's case, telling the young fellow to undergo the operation or else—the “or else” meaning something that might affect the pitcher’s stipend. Either tbe tonsils or pay must suffer a cut was the prexy’s ultimatum, Teeth, Not Tonsils, Now. ‘Then Braxton suddenly discovered it wasn't his tonsils, but his teeth that bothered him. He so informed Griffith, and now the lanky left-hander is to spend most of the Winter at his den- tist's. Griffith, however, isn't so sure that those tonsils should not be yanked as well as the ailing teeth. He may not be_through with Braxton yet. When Brown pulled up with a lame elbow last August he immediately blamed diseased tonsils for the trouble. It seems that the ball players these days blame their tonsils for everything from an error to & poor swing at the plate. But Brown was not ready to let the surgeon get at the tonsils. Oh, no. Rather he would wait until the Winter %0 have an operation. Well, the Winter is here, and no report of an operation on Brown has been received. But he’ll show up gb Biloxi with the remainder of the hylers minus his tonsils. Burke, t'ho never seems to add any weight no matter how much or what he may eat. is said to be kept thin by his poor tonsils. It might not be that ton- sils are making him the string bean of the left-handers, but every one tells him they are, and Bob is beginning to be- lieve He, too, was ordered to have them yanked, but he, too, decided to wait until this Winter. And no news of an operation on Bob as yet. But he'll have it done, for Griffith has said so. Maybe tonsils affected Ossie Bluege's trick knee. Maybe they put the little blister on the finger that Joe Judge has to have taped every day he gets in a game, Maybe tonsils keep the umpires from seeing 'em right. Who knows? ‘They seem to be doing all sorts of things to ball players, especially those who pitch for the Washington club. ECONOMIC ROLLERS CLING TO AGGIE LEAD AR 4 20435 6 20.620 6 20312 A 19833 8 10.761 5 19980 20 26 10672 Records. Migh team sets_Economics. 1,608: Dlant and So-Kems, 1.652. High team games—Central Stores, So- Kems. 580; Economics, 586 High individual sete—Palmer, 410: Hev- ener. 375; Adams. 368 High individual games—Hevener. 151 Paimer, Rose, 148 Economics retained its grip on the top rung in the Agriculture Interbureau League by taking all three games from the Interbureaus, Hank Miller's 344 w best count for Economics and w xactly matched by Conklin, who shot 344 for the Interbureaus. Plant Bureau won all three games from Extension, but were forced to thoot the team’s best set of the year to do it—1,652. Seaton d Ferrall, with counts of 349 and 244, led the winners, while Ackerman's 144 game and 352 set, topped Extension. Although Blister Rust _outbowled Central Stores, 1611 to 1,589, on the set, the latter team won two of the three games by doing some effective pin_spilling in the pinches. Donaldson and Caspar led the winners, while Pal- mer's count of 337 was best for Blister Rust. The So-Kems surprised—not to say shocked—Accounts by taking two of the three games, Wwith Adams and Ready doing the effective work. Tony Terwisse totaled 322 to lead Accounts. The greatest upset of the evening, however, came when the Shops quint toppled Public Roads two out of three. Roads had won 11 of the 12 previous games and looked like a sure winner, | but DeGlantz was the only man rolling up to form and the steady shooting of the Shops line-up made victory possible. - | Hammond, S.Meth.T THE All-American Team. OME of our best foot ball minds decry the picking of mythical “best” elevens. The practice, instituted by the Jate Walter Camp some two score years ago, is branded as fallacious and futile. But the fact the cus- tom has been growing yca;ly is proof enough the fans are inter- ested, and, that being the case, no apolopy i5 offered for the presen- tation here of what must be re- garded as the strongest and most ffcctize combination that could e assembled from the many hun- dreds of athletes who pm'(orm(‘g on college gridirons this Fall. Likewise the second and also the third best teams. Here they are: First Team. End .. .Tappaan.S. California. Tackle ....Sleight .{.....Purdue Guard .Cannon...Notre Dame. Center ...B. Ticknor... .Harvard. Guard ....Schwarz .California. Minnesota. Tackle ....Nagurski End ......Donchess . Pittsburgh. Quarter i .Notre Dame. Half Army Half . S .Dartmouth Full ......Welch . ..Purdue Second Team. Third_Team. Schoonover, Ark... ......Smith, Ga . Twomey Brown, vandbilt..G..Anderson, N'thwa. Siano, Fordham. Moynihan, N. D. Montgomery, Pitt.G...Barrager, U.S.C. uds, W. & J. T...Ackerman, St. M. Fe: Ohio. Barres, Yale Banker, Tulane Yale GIassgow. , Ala. McEver, Tenn [Uansa, Pitt. Parkinson, Pitt. Lom, Calif. Any eyebrows raised in the be- lief the above-listed All-America is of our picking is out of order, as we named but seven of them, with Banker and McEver of the backfield on our first team in- stead of Cagle and Welch, and with Brown and Schoenover in the line in place of Schwarz and Tappaan, although Welch and Schwarz were assigned ' positions on our Number 2 team. The reason the players listed above are designated as THE All- America team is that they repre- sent the choice of not one emi- nent authority, but a whole skad of them. They comprise a con- sensus of the selections of 11 dif- ferent observers, or groups of ob- servers, numbered among whom are some of the best-posted au- thorities on foot ball from a coaching and writing as well as officiating angle. List of the Pickers. Through the painstaking efforts of E. J. Hornibrook of the Federal Trade Commission, an enthusias- tic foot ball fan who enjoys dab- bling with dope of the game, a tabluation was made of the teams named by the staffs of the Asso- ciated Press, the United Press, the Hearst papers and the New York Sun, representing the large cen- ters of population throughout the country; the North American Newspaper Alliance board, com- prising Coaches Bob Zuppke of 1llinois, Howard Jones of Southern California, Bill Roper of Princeton and Dan McGugin of Vanderbilt; the board composed of Coaches Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, Tad Jones of Yale, Pop Warner of Stan- ford and Bill Alexander of Geor- gia Tech; Tom Thorp, the noted referee and writer; Walter Trum- bull, veteran sports authority; Frank Wallace, foot ball expert of the New York Post; Coach Lou ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON v. D. | points for the others of the All- ! Little of Georgetown and soon to affiliate with Columbia University, |and Lawrence Perry of the Con- solidated Press Association. | In tabulating the choices from | these 11 different sources Horni- [brook adopted the system of awarding three points to the play- ers chosen for the first team, two points for those placed on tho: second team and one point for| third team members. | | Carideo Alone Unanimous. Thus 33 points was the max mum for a player to receive, and | it is notable that Carideo alone was thus honored, the Rockne rambler being the first choice of all the selectors. Cannon, his teammate, earned 27 points, being the first choice of nine of the | pickers, while Purdue, the only | other team to place a pair on the "All-»Amonm consensus team pre- sents Sleight with 26 points (8 votes for the first team and 1 for the second) and Welch with 24 points (5 votes for the first team, 4 four for the second and 1 for the third). | Standing next to ‘Carideo in unanimity is Donchess with 32 | points (10 votes for the first team land 1 for the second), while the i America totaled B. Ticknor, 30; | Tappaan, 25, Nagurski, 24; Schwarz, 23; Cagle, 22, and Mars- ters, 21. Those of the second team re- ceiving the highest number of points were Fesler, 20; Montgom- ery, 19, and McEver and Parkin- son, 18 each, while Uansa led thel third team members with 14| points. The Roll of Honor. Cordovano of Georgetown, Gor- don of Illinois and Hufford of Washington received 1 vote apiece for positions on the first team, and others receiving votes for the second and third teams and com- prising what may be termed the roll of honor, were: Evans, Mary- iund; Heinecke and Muller, Stan- ford; Ebbing and Stennett, St. Mary's; Greene, Vincent and Hickok, Yale; Duffield and Saun- ders, Southern California; Brum- belaw and Leland, Texas Chris- tian; Pomeroy, Utah; Sington, Alabama; Richards, Nebraska; Law and Elder, Notre Dame; Rie- gels and Norton, California; Wakeman, Cornell; Baker, North- western; Bates, Western Mary- land; Humber, Army; Masters, Penn; Harmeson, Purdue; Wood, Harvard; Dimeolo, Pitt; Brazil, Detroit; Huntington, Colorado; Bromberg, Dartmouth; Roberts, fowa; Churchill, Oklahoma; Weitz, Illinois, and Van Sickle, Florida. Trumbull Misses But One. Of the 11 different sources from which selections for the All- America were obtained top honors go to Walter Trumbull of the North American Newspaper Alli- ance. He named 10 of them, the only man on whom he disagreed with the other contributors being Schwarz. Brown was his first ghoice for a guard job, but it is notable the latter landed on the second team of the consensus array. Next to Trumbull came the As- sociated Press, the Hearst staff and the Rockne - Warner - Jones- Alexander combination, each of whom named eight of the players comprising the “Varsity” eleven. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 14—The ballyhoo drums were booming today for Baby Face Jimmy McLarnin, that venemous lit- tle fighter with the smile of an Irish cherub. The clouting Celt from Vancouver seems certain now to head the sparkling card of attractions building for the great outdoor “shots” of next Sum- mer. Jimmy has been assured a belt at Jackie Fields' welterweight title in one of the big ball parks here if he can Qispose of one more headliner with the ferocity and deadly punching power that swept Ruby Goldstein out of the Madison Square Garden ring in two rounds last night. MecLarnin Good Enough. *Ripping apart the fighting equipment of any welterweight topnotcher save Fields probably will offer little difficulty to McLarnin, one of the deadliest punchers and canniest ring m«'n‘lhe 147-pound division has ever seen. Even the most pessimistic of the veteran ring worms was ready to admit today that Jimmy's showing against Goldstein, a fine boxer and deadly hitter, who found his courage in the crisis, ranks the Van- couver Jad as one of the really great warriors of the game. His next oppo- nent has not yet been chosen. ‘Mulling over the situation left by McLarnin’s _sensational performances. the Garden found itself today with a list of attractions to be booked for next Summer that promises to set a new record for thrilling outdoor fights and gate receipts for one season. in ball-park battlcs with the leaders of their divisions this Summer. Al Singer, the lightweight pride of the Jewish fans is due to box Sammy Mandell for the lightweight crown, and “Keed” Choco- late, Cuban Negro, is read: a title tilt with Christophe talino, the new featherweight king Among the bigger boys, Mickey Walker is scheduled to fill one of the ball parks some Summer night in a middleweight championship tilt with Rene de Vos, the Belgian challenger, or in some mateh to decide disposition of the light-heavyweight coronet, now ownerless. The recent decision of the New York State Athletic Commission to permit a champion’s appearance in overweight contests all but guarantees the reappearance of the Jersey Bulldog, who has not battledl in New York since losing the welterweight crown. Sharkey-Schmeling Fight. To top off this ambitious program the Garden dreams of a heavyweight title fight in September between Jack Shar- key, the American champion, and Max Schmeling, so far the best of the in- vading foreigners, but has enough wor- ries for the present trying to find an op- | ponent, for the Boston Gob in Miami. Fla., this Winter. With Schmeling in difficulties with the boxing commissions, fouls spoiling | the major skirmishes among the con- McLarnin on Crest of Ballyhoo For Great Bouts Next Summer Negotiations are under way to pit two | of the flashiest youngsters developed | here since Benny feonard scuffied resin (k- it tenders and the second division of the heavyweights no better than it was two vears ago, the outlook for Miami is any- thing but promising. As a matter of fact, Bill Carey, presi- dent of the Garden, has offered to match Frank Bruen, the new general manager, to sce whether he or Bruea will fight Sharkey in the South. MINORS PLAN TO SAVE. Several minor leagues are expected to follow the lead of the International in cutting the player limit in an ef- fort to reduce the expense of operat ing the clubs. Ingenuity of Coach Prevents Staleness BY SOL M ZGER. In my college days our foot ball coach would give us a lot of new splays near the fag end of each sea- son and then quietly tell our quar- terback not to use them. Later we learned this was done to prevent us becoming mentaliy stale. Athletes do get tired of the same old grind day after day. Ingenuity upon the part of a coach alone prevents staleness. “Fog" Allen, Kansas' great basket ball tutor, is & corker at this sort of thing. Instead of making each prac- tice a dreary, monotonous affair he ALLEN'S PRACTICE STUNT- ONE MINUTE. GROUP COMPETION FOR MOST PASSES COMPLETED | uses his wits to keen the squad pepped up. Now, to instill in his Get Five National, Seven State and Two Honor Medals. ATIONAL Capital Rifle Club, noted for its fine rifle shots, entered the annual outdoor competitions of the United States Revolver Association for the first time and ran away with five national, seven State and two honor medals, according to the official prize bulletin. William Cook, 1719 Eighteenth street, proved himself the star of the local group by accounting for three national and two State prizes, while Leon C. Smith, 6307 Georgis avenue, district governor of the United States Revolver Association, came close behind with one national and two State awards. In the novice limited re-entry match, which was open to all amateurs who had never won an important prize in pistol or revolver contests, Cook and Smith scored 232 and 228, respectively, for secbnd and third national medals. Dr.| W. Walter Marr, 1815 Vernon hot 2 for fourth prize. W. Thresher, 231 S street north- east, with 217 points out of a possible 250, and George E. Cook, younger brother of Willham, with 213 points, were given honor medals for keeping their 25 shots close enough to the 3.36- inch bull's-eye to beat the qualifying score of 210. Firing was at a distance of 50 yards. Using the same size bull's-eye, Bill Ceok, Smith and George Cook captured all three State medals in the pocket revolver championship event with tal- lies of 186, 176 and145, respectively, out of a possible 250. In the 50-shot “any pistol” match, Bill Cook, with 449 out of a possible 500, and Smith, with 441, again took first and second State prizes; third place going to Col. Chester H. Wilson, Army War College, with 428. Cook was also awarded fifth national prize in both the “any revolver” cham- pionship and the international “free pistol” events. He totaled 447 out of 500 in the former and 509 out of 600 in the latter. Dr. Marr won second State medal in the “free pistol” shoot with 438 out of 600. This match consisted of 60 shots at the international target 50 meters distant. VETERAN BASKETERS AT RANDOLPH-MACON ASHLAND, Va., December 14.—Com- pleting the second week of strenuous practice, the Randolph-Macon basket ball team is giving indications of its possibilities for the season. Coach Norman Shepard has trained the candidates carefully in funda- mentals of the sport. Practice for the next week, however, will be less strenuous, in view of the Christmas holidays, which begin next Saturday, will bring a temporary let- up in_ practice, but the team will re- assemble January 1. Veterans_who are again in harness are Capt. Bill King. “Phess” Woodson, “Pinky” Trader, Bob Douthat and Henry Burger with the probability that Dick Bryant will report after the holi- days. Offering strong opposition to the vet- eran players are Bob Montgomery and Bill Harry, both of whom were on the 1920 squad, and a large number of candidates of unproved ability. i AR NEHI BOXERS POINT FOR TWO CONTESTS Nehi boxers are preparing for two matches this week. They will meet Knights of Columbus glovemen in the Casey Hall tomorrow night and will en- gage Racquet Club boxers Wednesday. Elmer Stein and Benney Donovan are training the Nehi boxers, who organ- ized recently. George De Perinl is man- aging the {eam. The club has applied for membership in the A. A. U. and plans to hold bouts for members only at the Nehi clubhouse in_the near future. Boxers now_working with the Nehi's are Mike Shapiro. John Marino, John Haje, Oscar Basiliko, Tony Longo, Ber- nard Zegowitz, Charlie Herbert and Dominic Boccobello. MONTROSE FIVE SCORES OVER WOODLAWN, 41-36 Montrose shattered the winning streak of the Woodlawn quint when it won the basket ball game at Fort Myer last night, 41 to 36. The victors are to play two games this week, facing Potomac Boat Club Thursday and Western High School Friday. ‘The score last night: Montrose A. C. Woodlawn A. C. G, FPts G. F.Pts. 1. R 011 icheele. 00 0 000 A. Scheele, @3 0 6 13113 T A 118 S 23 Tschiffely. c.. 3 0 6 Nogay. ¢ 000 ‘Thompson. 6 214 Fitzpatrick. ¢ 1 0 2 Baer. &.. 0 11 OConnell, .1 1 3 Henderson, 10 2 Ryan, & 9 119 Totals ....18 5 41 Totals 15 636 Referee—Sergt. 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W charge. letter he received from Constantine HEN it was decided to establish foot ball at the University of Mexico, Arthur Constantine got into communication with T. A. D. Jones on the subject of a coach. Naturally Jones suggested a Yale man and, as a result, Reginald Root took I have persuaded Jones to permit me to use portions of a on the Mexican foot ball situation. Constantine begins by speaking of the beginning of international intercollegiate foot ball, calling attention to the games played at Mexico City with Louisiana College and Mississippi College. He speaks of the forward strides foot ball has made in Mexico and attributes this to Root, who, he says, established the game on “a sound tech- nical and an admirable ethical basis.” stantine’s letter: Quoting further from Con- “From a purely foot ball point of view, the achievement of the University of Mexico eleven, in its first year of coached foot ball, in cqmpleting 23 out of 28 forward passes on November 20, in the game with Mississippi, seems to me to merit more than casual mention. I doubt if this performance was ever equaled in the United States. “The University of Chicago, in a game with Washington, com- pleted 21 out of 35. Back in 1909, I am informed, Harvard, against Carlisle, completed 19 out of 29. “E. Roman, halfback, did the pass- ing, and Landa, right end, and Elorduy and Miranda, backs, the receiving. Lan- da caught 20 passes. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 175 pounds. and is center on the university basket ball team.” If Landa was not personally known to the spectators, I should suspect that Bennie Oosterbaan had learned Spanish and crossed the border. The descrip- tion fits. And if I didn't know that Friedman had been in the North playing professional foot ball, I might think that he had changed his name to Ro- man, _That famous Michigan pair Dever had a better aerial season than Root is Lauded. Jones did not favor my printing some parts of the letter, but, when I talked him out of it, I made no promises, so I again quote Constantine: “I take this opportunity to thank you for the vital help you gave in enabiing the University of Mexico eleven—more than that, foot ball in Mexico—to get the game on a correct basis. Root was | an admirable coach. His influence over not only the members of the university squad, but over players in the secondary schools and even in the clubs, was ex- traordinary. He is the type of American who finds in a foreign people likenesses, rather than differences, and he won everybody's deep respect. “Root has promised to return next year and to bring with him an assistant to help with the preparatory and sec- ondary school elevens coming within the jurisdiction of the university. It will further interest you to know that the university faculty voted to confer on Root the degree of professor in honoris causa.” That certainly will interest more per- sons than Tad Jones. The rumor is that many faculties here in the North would vote to confer on the foot ball coach a degree further South than any yet reached and a load of bricks. Mexico's President Interested. But Constantine writes that even President Emilio Portes Gil took a real and lively interest in college foot ball, which certainly must have been helpful. Constantine closes by saying that the university foot ball squad will be vir- tually intact for two more seasons and hints that by 1931 it should be about ready to tackle Yale. It appears to me, as well as to Con- stantine, that there is much significance in Mexico's evident aptitude for Ameri- can foot ball and in the fact, that it is beginning to meet elevens from the United States on the field of play. You understand men better when you play mes with them and you are apt to ike them better. There is no game which builds better that thing which we call sportsmanship than foot ball fairly played, and if individuals learn sportsmanship on the fleld they are likely to carry the same spirit into National affairs. Sportsmanship among nations would mean fewer wars. At any rate, old graduates who go out to get foot ball players for their alma mater may soon be casting their eyes toward Mexico. A Western con- ference team once had a great end who was ineligible because ~he foolishly elected Spanish under the impression it was a cinch course. With a Mexican star that would be one thing over which the coach would not have to worry. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) CAPITAL PRODUCTS STARRING FOR DUKE DURHAM, N. C., December 14— Harry Councillor, forward, and Bill Wer- guard, both former Washington igh-school athletes, have started their eighth vear of play together on a bas- ket ball team. These two Duke tossers played four years at Tech High School together and on the freshman team here. This is their third year on the varsity. Werber, after a most successful 1928-29 season, was named all-southern guard at the conference tournament at Atlanta. Councillor played & substi- tute role, being used by Coach Cameron when speed, aggressiveness and a few baskets were needed. Last year they were joined here by Joe Croson. Croson played two years in high school with Councillor and Werber and is in his second year in college with them. Croson stands 6 feet 3. He plays the floor well and shoots with accuracy. Duke plays Greensboro “Y" Tuesday night here. There probably will be games with other “Y" teams before the Christmas holidays. The first regular game will be played with Virginia at Charlottesville, January 8 and Maryland will be met at Colleg Park the next night. MUST PROVE HE'S FIT. Gabby Hartnett will have to be the first major league player to make good for 1930—if he expects to get a con- tract. He won't be signed until he shows that he has recovered from the ailment of last season. CARNERA TOOWLD TOSTEP INTORING London Would Bar Contest Between Italian and Diener, German. By the Assoclated Press. ONDON, December 14.— James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express, in a half-page article in his newspaper demands that the home secretary take steps to prevent the Primo Carnera-Franz Diener fight at Albert Hall Tuesday on the gen- eral ground of Carnera’s alleged lack of self-control. The big Italian was dis- qualified for hitting Young Stribling of Macon, Ga., after the bell in a recent engagement’ at Paris. “If Carnera kills Diener he will cer- tainly be arrested, charged either with manslaughter or murder,” says Douglas. “If the government pretends ignorance of what is common knowledge, then the government will be accessory before the fact. * * * They can't evade their sep- arate and collective responsibility for the death of this doomed German, who may be less lucky than Young Stribling, who has publicly declared he won't fight Carnera again for any pile of money.” Douglas quoted from a descriptive account of the Carnera-Stribling fight at Paris. “This man mountain,” said the account, “was completely out and for a moment it looked as if he would attack both the referee and his own manager. As they tried to take the gloves from his hands he struck at his seconds.” Lord Lonsdale, head of the British Board of Boxing Control, supports Douglas, saying he wouldn't put Car- nera in the ring until “he learn to control himself.” “We don't feel that we would be acting in the best interests of boxing if we give him our support,” Lord Lons- dale said. “If a master like Stribling hardly escaped from Carnera's berserker fury, what chance has Diener the German?” Douglas asks. LICHTMAN QUINT WINS. Lichtman Theater five easily de- feated the National Circle basket ball quint, 40 to 21. The winners held a decided edge all the way. £ That man BURNS et five wrap with clear the attractive package shopper. get at the nearest cigar stand. The quick answer to: What shall I give HL Sure-to-please gift for a is always the Christmas box of Robt. Burns cigars—Panatela or Perfecto Grande. Twenty- high grade cigars . . . ped in silvery foil, in an as redolent holiday spirit as a Robt. 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