Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1932, Page 39

@he Foend WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. ASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932. * PAGE D-—1 College Courts Bristling With Action : Weather Jinx Checks Olympic Bobbers FIVE BASKET TILTS ON WEEK-END LIST Al Quintets Here, Except Cards, Play—O0ld Liners Also Will Box. BY H. C. BYRD. EORGETOWN has the Uni-| versity of Pittsburgh here tonight, on Tech High court, as its opponent in basket ball. The contest begins at 8 o'clock, Maryland entertains in Ritchie Coliseum, Western Maryland in basket ball and St. John's in box- ing. Basket ball play begins at 7:45 and the boxing match im- mediately thereafter. Pittsburgh usually has one of the best quints in the East and the game in which it meets Georgetown should be better than the one Western Mary- land is to play with Maryland. Possibly the Georgetown-Pitt struggle may de- velop into one of the most attrac.ive of the year. Georgetown is going at good speed and Pitt probably is able to take care of itself. Monday night against West Virginia Coach Mesmer could not have asked for more out of his Blue and Gray squad and, going as well tonight, it should give a good account of itself. Western Maryland may prove more difficult for Maryland than is expected, as it seems to have been improving considerably in its recent games. Early this week it whipped the Bucknell quint, which was not a mean feat by any means. However, on the strength of Western Maryland's showing prior | to the contest with Bucknell, Maryland | is the stronger. | St. John's entire boxing squad watch- | ed the Oid Liners lose t> Washington and Lee last week and, judged by the interest the squad took in arrange- ments for the bouts tonight, what was seen was not much cause for dis- couragement. | | OP tomorrow night's contests proba- bly the most interesting will be that in which Virginia comes here to meet Maryland. The Old Dominion basket ball team is one of the best in the South, although its record is not quite as good as that of the Old Line school. At Charlottesville, when Mary- land piayed there early in January, S = unanimous in declaring it was the best geme ever on that floor. Virginia has in charge of its squad one of the most capable coaches in the country, Gus Tebell. Some years ago when Tebell was at North Carolina Stat> he had rather a poor team, but gave Maryland the beating which put it out of the Southern Conference tournament at Atlanta. Coach Shipley of Maryland expressed his respect for Tebell by saying last month, “ I'd just as lief play anybody in the world as ‘Tebell; he's one tough coach to beat.” EORGE WASHINGTON should not | have much trouble taking a fall out of Baltimore University to- morrow night. The Colonials have been going at too rapid a pace to be worried much by anything the Monu- mental City five has shown. The game is to be played in the George Washington gymnasium at 8 o'clock. Gallaudet goes to American University to give the Methodists a chance to atone for the whipping they took at St. John 1y this week. The Kendall Greencrs are up against a hard proposition, as American U. will be a heavy favorite 'HE investigation conducted by Fielding Yost into the causes of deaths among foot ball men last Fall reveals that less than half those supposedly fatally hurt in the game actually were hurt that way. Parke Davis, who is carrying on & rather close scrutiny of the records of the cases in which death resulted from one cause or another, has found some rather unusual facts, which he expectsl to announce later. For one thing, he learned that one boy who was reported to have died from foot ball injury, actually dropped | out from heart trouble when he was, running around kicking a foot ball on | a back lot after he had been refused | permission to play on his high school team because of the aiiment. Another boy received an abrasion in a gym-| nasium, developed blood poisoning and died. And the probabilities are, as Yost apparently found out, that when Davis has completed his investigation a lot| more instances of the kind will be| known. | over Y the time a few more schools get through canceling base ball games | because of the necessity for mak- | ing their budgets balance, to put it | Maryland, and probably , will not have much left | of a bese ball schedule | ecent school to start par- of diamond games is North | ate, and it has asked to be | relieved of a game Maryland is sched- | uled to play at Raleigh. | It has been understool that the finan- cial situation at North Carolina State 18 not the best, to say the least, Ap- parently the administrative authorities have taken hold and are adopting rather drastic means to curtail expen- ditures and get back on a basis where deficits will not be rolled up. Maryland started this year with de- liberate intention to shorten its own schedule to about 18 games. How- ever, in the last two weeks Pennsyl- vania, Harvard, Virginia Polytechnic | Institute and North Carolina Sitate have asked that games be canceled because of necessity for financial cur- | tatiment. The situation in college athletics seems to be about the same as in every- | thing clsc, which resclves itself into nothing more nor less than a great expansion during the boom years prior 10 1930 that was too far above normal. Now it is = ZueSuon of retrench, Whewiet or not the average college desires to. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY wound up its two-day foray into the Old Dominion last night by losing to the Virginia Poly basketers at Blacks- burg. 18 to 35. It was not as good & showing es the Cardirals were expected te make. g The Cards were off in their shooting, particularly in their long-ranga firing. and never were sericusly in the rum- | ning, the hem> quint running into a 13-to-5 lead in tr All of the s figured in the | mmenans® McvVean. f.... Cannicaro, { Galiher, 3 White. g Sheary, WATCHING THE STRANGLER UNBEND HIS STUFF. SAMMY STEIN GIVEN A SERIES OF FLYING HOLDS COMES 10 WINS~ 5AM (S A GRUNTLESS G, WRASSLER ... MR.FRITZ KLEY, & 1HE PRETZEL MAN, DIP EVERYTHING BUT THE HAT CIcLONE BURNS ' FLOP 0UT OF THE RING SO DIVERTED THE ATTENTION OF THE CUSTOMERS THAT MANY OF THEM DID NOT KNOW WHETHER LEWIS THREW TIAY WITH THE AID OF MIRRORS,0R HT HiM WITH A FIRE HOSE ... How po Yovu TRIWK wWe'RE Gonw'’ THE S TRANGLER SWALLOWED HIS GUM AT THE START OF THE TUSSLE.... MR, W. JOHNSOM , THE FARMER, BETHESDA KAUTZKI WENT ouT INTO THE CROWD To MEET A FRIEND FROM HOBOKEN. /MAGINE '\ THE. STRANGLER ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON. NCLE SAM is doing pret- l l ty well by himself in the Winter games section of the Olympics, and if the interest displayed in them may be taken as a criterion, it can be said that the well known world-wide depression does not extend to sports. The Americans got off to a flying start when young Jack Shea scored surprise victories in two of the speed skating events for men, while Irving Jaffee followed with a less sur- prising triumph, and now the flashing blades of the women contestants have contributed to the point total for the Stars and Stripes. Silly bickering, poor weather conditions and serious accidents threatened for a time to mar the program at Lake Placid, but everything now seems to be proceeding smoothly, with prospects bright for a really noteworthy showing by the Americans in competition with entrants from countries where youngsters practically are reared on ice skates, skis and snowshoes. Winter Games a Success. HE events listed for the resort in the hills of up- per New York State round out a 10-day program this week, and, despite initial handicaps, are certain to be accounted a success, at least from the standpoint of the spectacular, however much they accomplish toward international amity, whatever that is. Naturally enough the bob- sleigh races have attracted the reatest amount of attention, or written accounts of the terrific speed and dangers in- volved can engender thrills for those in sections never visited by freezing temperatures, where hockey is known only as a word and_curling never has been heard of. Attention focused on these Winter games, the third set to be held under Olympic aus- pices, will be far excesded by the contests to be staged next August at Los Angeles, where for the tenth time in modern history representatives of more than a score of nations will compete in a dozen different tests of strength, speed, skill and stamina. U. S. Superiority Menaced. HETHER the Unifed States again can con- trive to establish its superiority on track and field, of all events the most highly prized and bit- terly contested, remains to be s2en. Where America once rcmped with ease to victory in a large majority of these tests its margins of late have become gradually smaller, due to the interest in athletics aroused by the World War among other nations, notably the Scandi- navians and Germans. In distance events, particu- larly, this country has been outclassed consistently, having CALLINGCoP®, \ oN THE | | | failed to accomplish anything wortwhile since 1908, when Mel Sheppard triumphed in_ the 1,500 meters and Johnny Hayes captured the marathon at Lon- don, while no Yankee runner ever has accounted for the 5,000 or 10,000 meters events. Of all the Olympic events SPINSY, FALLING LEAFS AND LATEST STUNT- MAKING THE CIRCUS........ // =y THE CYCLONE WENT INTO A FEW TAIL GIVE THE CUSTOMERS WRESTLINGS REFEREE A WORKING MEMBER OF —By TOM DOERER RAIN MAKES SLIDE AT PLACID UNSAFE Four-Man Sled Races Again Postponed—Ski Jumpers Compete Today. BY ROLAND ALSTON. By the Associated Press. AKE PLACID, N. Y., February L 12—The bad weather jinx, active here all Winter, hov- ered over Lake Placid and | the third Winter Olympic games| again today. Rain, which swept down on the Adirondacks yesterday, brought about two postponements of the four-man - bobsled races, one of the big features of the games, and right now it looks as if they Mr. and Mrs. Plerre Brunet of France, who won the title in the 1928 Olympics, were generally expected to repeat, but the United States, with Sherwin C. Badger and Beatrix Loughran and George E. B. Hill and Maribel Y. Vin- son. was expected to win some of the higher places. The Canadian pair of Montgomery Wilson and his sister, Con- ;tlnce Wilson Samuel, also was rated ‘Tomorrow’s program, outside of the bobsled possibility, includes the 50- kilometer ski race and two hockey games. Canada, s0 far undefeated, and the United States will clash in the obably the deciding game ockey contest, while Germany and Poland will battle for third place. BEST ELEVEN EVER NOW WARNER'S AIM Stanford Coach, Signed for Another Term, Devising New Offensive. won't take plice until Sunday. The first two heats, originally| scheduled for yesterday morning, were put off first to today, then,‘ as the rain continued, to tomor- | row or Sunday. | ‘This second postponement of the bob races had the effect of jamming the schedule for the end of the meet. Four | major championships are yet to be de- | termined: The four-man bobsled, the ski jump, winner to be acclaimed Olym- pic ‘champion; the pairs figure skating, | and hockey. The skating and hockey | events can be run off on the artificial |ice of the arena. Not Apt ‘o Stop Ski Jumps. It was predicted last night that the heavily packed snow of the Intervales | | ski jump would be proof against the | persistent rain, and that the jumpers | will go through their stunts this after- | noon as scheduled. Yesterday 62 skiers | went down the slushy 60-meter slide and the Olympic hill below and one | of them, the lithe Hans Vinjarengen of Norway, made & hill record of 204 feet on his second try. The largest of all | the Olympic crowds, more than 15,000 | sat on wet pine benches or stood watching the jumpers, the cold rain | pelting down on the spectators’ up- | turned faces. | Fifteen of those who competed under yesterday's moist and dripping condi- tions are scheduled to try for the jump- ing honors today. Yesterday's was & | combined event, in which both the| 18-kilometer race of Tuesday and the form and distance of jumping counted. The Norwegian team, led by the for- | midable Ruud brothers, Sigmund and THAN A PAPER BARRAGE ENOED, THERE WAS MR.BURNS ON KIS BACK ,AMONG THE PATRONS..... time in today's ski jump. The Ameri- can entries were rated considerably be- | low the Norwegians. They include Cas- par Oimen, John Dwight Steele, Roy Mikkelsen and Pedar Falstead. Figure Skaters on Today. ‘The only other event on today's pro- in the arena tonight. Seven pairs, rep- resenting four nations, are entered. In this, as in the other figure skating | events, European skaters were favored. ' SPIRALS, To Ao Domnsr, WA NG TuBL KBS — THE there is none so grueling nor sow testing as that over the route of 26 miles 385 yards, and for this reason it has an appeal exceeding that for any race where the toll exacted is so much less severe. It practically is a foregone conclusion that the United States this year can't uncover any one capable of competing on even terms with the rugged running ma- chines developed abroad, but there is good reason for believ- in| Ia. visbit to the Pacfmcvgoa;c will not be necessary for Wash- reigns when there was noth- ingtonians to see the long-dis- |. 2 fonice starsiof ihe Olympics in |ing more in wrestling than the action next Summer. More on this subject will be forthcoming later. Rassle Racket BY TOM TALKING out of the wresmngl S past, Ed “Strangler” TLewis, who began championship price of a new pair of socks, ap-| peared before more than 7,000 Washington fans last night to present his claims to the title Jim | Londos claims. : Mr. Lewis, sedate, very, very fat where it does not help, and reaching far into middle age, has nothing more to offer as a bid for Londos’ crown than an honest-to-goodness wrestling | ability. | And that will not give him a crown | in these days of chain store, bur- | lesque grappling, where a man must | | | The First Olympics. OW necessity drove prehis- H toric man to the practice of athletics and the great in- fluence sports have exerted in the molding of the human race will be sketched in an enter- taining manner in a series of articles on the first Olympic games, which will appear in the sports section of The Star be- ginning next Monday. The material, gathered and prepared by Walter Trumbull, veteran sports scrivener and a regular contributor to these pages, will be presented in eight daily articles, in which the origin of the Olympic games, their traditions and ancient customs will be traced. The story, as unfolded by Trumbull, is authoritative and enlighten- ing, and none interested in any form of competitive endeavor will want to miss them. Lewis Still Has It. ITH the unwitting as- sistance of Zephyr Burns, misnamed “Cyclone,” the up- ward of 7,000 cash customers who packed the Auditorium last night to witness the return to rasslin’ in this section cf Mr. Edward Strangler Lewis, after an absence of many years, were treated to a finale’ that sent e conshly sotshe: "the ed 10 ook pained and air thoroughly satisfie y 3 s confused. Then, while the lvu,:'crlt hobtained their money’s :.“u . lf’:l:rm B = v‘;{ With their appetite for the a gale through the ropes, and bizarre whetted by the contor- | she sectators’ gaze was upon him, tionistic clowning of Fritz Kley — and the animated string-bean UT Mr. Lewis and Mr. Londos are feats of Fred Grobmeier in going to wrestle this Summer. I earlier matches, they settled actually believe this for the reason that Lewis has enough, realizes he does down to see how the ancient |/ E® LCW P8 Fro 8 T e ex-champlon of the mat would |Gfc it "0 ToGer GO, pUTedti | hendle the youthful 274-pound |, L atito. scident has bl & Tiny Roebuck, and in the |ien smrg o Acident hes helped his) process envisioned the bald and Mr. Londos will be the show in the mild-mannered referee being match—and the winner. Lewis’ krocked for a goal outside | headlock wiil get a play. It will make the ropes, through which he ,cow Jor the press, but little trouble - for Londos. squirmed back on his bay win But 1 ight's Joe i (Continued on Third Page.) mighty interesting if you can place your » have more color than ability, more political persuasion than grips and nore business cunning than mat craft. OMING into the Curley Circus from a rival bone-crushing tribe, it was expected that the Strangler wou'd | have something new for his new cus-| | tomers. But he has nothing, not even the right to use his famed headlock in the manner in which he has been ac- customed to display it. Mr. Lewis, once a great wrestler, still today a better wrestler than the burlesque stars outdrawing him at the tarnstile, is pitifully colorless. He was booed at times for inactivity. He even stooped to grimace and to grunt when the big Indian, Tiny Roe- buck, red an armlock upon him. But he grunts lke an amateur, grimaces like a Simon-pure. He canndt even snort like a good snorting wrestler. He cannot make funny faces, and he does mot blow through his nose and snarl., How in the heck is he ever going to draw with Jimmy the Londos when he cannot snort. HEN it was time for him to send Roebuck out of the picture last night it tock the aid of the ref- eree and a few fiying falls upon the part of the last mentioned to help make the climax picturesque. Mr. Lewis tri Wrestling Today Entertainment, Not Sport, but Lewis Doesn’t Seem to Realize It. Outgrows Vet DOERER wants with entertainment first and sports second. The boys groaned and grunted and worked themselves into a lather of perspiration. They leaped and hurdled and performed well. It was a good money's worth entertaniment—in any language. I'm never very thrilled at wrestling events because they will not give me an answer to & whole lot of questionable things in the game which no one wants to enlighten me upon. I'm sports first and entertainment second. For_instance, they never can tell me why a wrestler will submit to a series of flying headlocks, stagger and groan and then when he looks as if he should be hung out on the line to dry suddenly comes out of the coma fresher than your Aunt Hattie after an afternoon nap, to toss the opposition on its tin ear in Charlie Paddock time. Black or | ND they cannot explain to me why brown calf. a grip which keeps a man moaning and groaning for 10 minutes ¢én one occasion when repeated five min- utes later is broken with gusto and | relish, to say nothing of mystification upon my part. PO or can the wrestling fotks make it clear to me why running in and out of the ring, thumping and cuff- ing one another on the chin should be a part of either Graeco-Roman or catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Neither can I see what the acrobats and freak men of the circus are doing on the mat if the honest purpose of the game is to decide winners. They make good vaudeville acts, but rarely good wrestlers. And if the game is to survive it will need more good wrestlers, good enough to topple Jim Londos, who, in one year, wrestles more men and makes 10 times more money than Frank Gotch, a great, true champion, did in 14 years of meeting giant Turks, Rus- sians and the best America could offer in the days of syndicateless wrestling. Maybe I am just as wet as ever. And I, and not wrestling, am talking sideways. But I do want to go on record as having said that wrestling Black or brown Scotch grain. G. W.U. Schedules Wake Forest Five EORGE WASHINGTON has add- ed a basket ball game to its home schedule, Wake Forest having been boaked for a contest in the H street gymnasium for next ‘Thursday. ‘Wake Forest has been good enough Carolina, North Caro- lina State and Duke and other {28 showld prove s wortny dou AN prove a for the fast-traveling Colonials. Black or brown calf. Birger, was favored to have an easy| gram is the pairs figure skating event. wi ke MEN’S HAHN SPECIALS By the Associated Press. ALO ALTO, Calif., February 12.— An ambition to develop in the next five years “the strongest team that Stanford has ever had” was revealed by Glen S. “Pop” ‘Warner today, following the announce- ment he will accept a five-year renewal appointment as foot ball coach at Stanford University. ‘Warner also announced he plans a new double-spinner attack for the Stanford foot ball offense next Fall. ‘Warner said it provides for two spinning fullbacks instead of one, the quarter- back acting with the regular fullback. Richard W. Barrett, chairman of the Stanford Board of Athletic Control, in- dicated that Warner's annual salary will be approximately $15,000. Jimmy (Rabbit) Bradshaw, former | University of Nevada star, probably will join the varsity coaching group at Stan- | ford for the coming season, Barrett said. Warner was appointed coach at Stan- ford in 1924, though he did not take charge until the following year, re- | maining at Pittsburgh to finish his | contract. COLONIAL CUBS VICTORS Noonan Stars as Wilson Teachers Are Defeated, 42 to 23. George Washington freshmen basket- ers slapped a 42-23 pasting on Wilson "I‘euhers' College quint on the G. W. Court. Wilson managed to hold the year- | lings to a 19-12 lead at the half, but G. W. stepped out in the late going. Bill Nconan scored 21 of the win- | ners' points. | Summary: G. W. Frosh_(£2 i Gleeson. .. Alby Wilson (23) 3 F. P 0§ Kerwin, f 0 0 Summers, 9 0 Johnsol 2 6 Siatter: 00 Gil.g 17 Jenkin Thaden, 1 4 F 2 0 0 3 [ 3 20 0 121 Totals.......19 442 Totals. Referee—Mr. Caruso (A. B.). SKATERS PRAISED BY OLYMPIC HEAD Games at Lake Placid Are Well Handled, Declares De Baillet-Latour. AKE PLACID, N. Y., February 12. —The statement which follows has been issued by Count de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee: “There has been so much comment in the press about the opinions ex- pressed by the leaders of the various international skating teams at Lake Placid that I wish to make it clear that the incidents which happened have been ameliorated with the best sporting spirit and that the decision of the ref- eree proved itself to be very satisfactory to all concerned. “The behavior of the competitors has been very good, and the heats, as well as the final, of the 10,000-meter race were fought for under much better con- ditions. This is the opinion of the leaders of the foreign teams as it has been reported to me. “I wish also to emphasize that the fact that an invitation to take part next month in the competitions at Oslo, issued to Jack Shea and Irving Jaffee and accepted by them, is another proof that the third Olympic Winter games have promoted brotherhood and good feeling among the nations, which is one of the ideals of the International Olympic Committee.” LOYOLA VISITS BENNIES Potomacs Will Meet Caseys in Pre- liminary Tomorrow. Benjamin Pranklin University basket- ers are primed for their clash tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock with Loyola of Baltimore on the Tech High court. Potomac Boat Club and Knights of Columbus have been matched for a pre- liminary, scheduled for 7 o'clock. Winter Olympic A Card and Scoring By the Associated Press. Today’s Schedule. 2:15 p.m.—Olympic ski jump, In- tervales Ski Hill. pair, arena. Paris Arena. Yesterday's Results. Combined ski run and jump— Won by Johann Brottumsbraaten, Norway; second, Ole Stenen, Nor- third, Hans Vinjarengen, Nor- fourth, Sverre Kolterud, Nor- fifth, Sven Erikssen, Sweden; Antonin Barton, Czacho- way sixth, slovakia. Team_score: (Unofficial compliation on 10-5-4- 3-2-1 basis.) United States, 76; Norway, 49; Canada, 36; Sweden, 24; Austria, 15; Finland, 10; Switzerland, 5; Ger- many, 4; Rumania, 3; Italy, 1; Bel- gium, 1; Czechoslovakia, 1. Prices Hit a NEW LOW! In Our Semi-Annual Sale $ 3.85 and that’s 259 Less than our sale Pr ice last year OTHING “just as good” for = Specials. a year as good ol' Hahn You have to wait half for this sale—and it alue surely was worth waiting for this time! Last season the sale price was $4.85. OW that same guaranteed excellence grade of style and that wise shoppers have willingly paid much more for— all here at a record low! 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