Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 35

Go to Red Sox. . NEW YORK, December 11.— again will be wearing the Clark Griffith finds some way to lift Bump is Bucky Harris’ pick of the his boss to bring this boxman back Ducking a throng of ball players, ness sessions of the big leéagues, Grif- conference with Lou McEvoy, reached the negotiations between the vorably that another conference was Nationals and the Browns will be HE deal for Hadley might have manager of the Browns. Hornsby Knot{—each a right-hand hurler—and ~—than Hadley, but also insists that e capable young second baseman. whereby the latter would obtain Oscar will sanction no other trade by his So to get Hadley or either of the Ask for Some One to Fil Shoes of Melillo, Due to BY JOHN B. KELLER, 8taft Corresponden® of The Star. Bump Hadley, right-hand hurler, next base ball season Washington club uniform instead of the livery of the Browns provided the chunky chucker from the St. Louis outfit. Browns' pitching pack and the new manager of the Nationals has asked to the Capital club if possible. And the bidding has begun. traders, scouts, officials and base ball's unemployed here for the Winter busi- fith contrived to keep to his hotel room much of the time yesterday in president of the Browns. While no agreement on a deal was Washington club president and the St. Louis official progressed so fa- scheduled today and before nightfall it is believed some trade between the effected. Deal Near Completion. } been completed yesterday but 5 for Rogers Hornsby, shrewd not only seems more inclined to part with George Blaeholder or Jack Griffith would take either of these if he could not get the man Harris wants there will be no deal unless the Browns get as part of the exchange It is understood here that a barter between the Browns and the Red Sox Melillo, veteran middle sacker, already has been arranged and that Hornsby club that would not get him a good replacement for Melillo. other pitchers above mentioned from the Browns, it looks as if Griffith would have to cook up a deal with | some club that would provide him with a second baseman he could turn over to Hornsby. It might be that the ‘White Sox would be drawn into the bargaining. Round-About Methods. T APPEARS that among their new infield talent there may be a sec- ond baseman satisfactory to Horns- by, so a deal with them might be man- aged. It is no secret that Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago club is keen on Luke Sewell, veteran catcher, on the block, according to Griffith. In exchange for Sewell and perhaps some cash, the Washington president | might get not only the second base- man needed to swing the St. Louis deal, but also Leslie Tietje, the young right-hand pitcher sought for the Na- tionals. In addition to the conference with MCcEvoy today, Griffith also was to go into conference with White Sox officials. There seems more than a fair chance that a switch of players advantageous to all clubs concerned will be made. Negotiating With Yanks. HERE is something brewing be- ! tween the Nationals and the Yankees, too, for Griffith, Harris and the Yankee manager, Joe Mc- Carthy, are to get together before the sessions here end. McCarthy has de- | clared he is after a left-hand swing:ng outfielder who can hit fer high figures and that the Washington club might help him out. “I have an appointment here with the Washington men.” the boss of the Yankees admitted today. “We tried to talk things over in Louisville (when the minor league meeting was held there last month), but Griff said he preferred to wait until the meeting here. “Heinie Manush? Certainly, we could use him. We need a new left- handed slugger and I believe Heinie would fill the bill. But the chances are that Griff wants too much for him.” Well, Griffith has said before that Manush is not for sale. But should McCarthy offer something like Ben Chapman,gspar_klmgvJmugg. b ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3 SPORTSGCOP BY JOHN EW YORK, December 11.— Dealers in base ball ivory are doing a lot of gabbing with- out getting results on the mar- ket here. Many trades have been talked, but nothing in a big way put across . . . seems as though the bar- gainers are all steamed up over a deal « .. until they hear what they must give up to the other fellow...then it's ell over. Something like that idea of Yaw- key’'s concerning the lifting of Jack Russell, pitcher, from the Washington club. “I like that Russell,” the Red Sox owner told Bucky Harris, when the two were returning from their South Carolina hunting expedition. “How could I get him for my club?” “Well, now, you’ve a pretty fair pitcher named Ferrell we might consider in trade,” the Nationals’ manager said. And that was the finish of that deal. I OGERS HORNSBY, field boss of ! the Browns, complains bitterly of the way Eddie Collins tries to do business for the Red Sox on the tvory market...“He comes around ripping the rubber band from the ‘Yawkey bankroll and offering plenty for the best you have,” says Rogers ...“Never a player, though” added: “I've never seen any club able vice | top of the heavy-weight class. of the human (at times) race that “they don't come back.” This may apply to a champion after a defeat or a long lay-off from the active marts of competition, as mus- cles that once were elastic lose their | spring, or timing no longer follows the split-second hand of form. This adage may apply to a human being—but what about a horse? One of my recent traveling com- panions across the continent was a pretty fair traveler in his own right by the name of Twenty Grand. Twenty Grand looked to be right at the top rung of the old P. of C. But Twenty Grand hasn’t run a race since 1932. He now is warming up around | the Santa Anita battlefield to take a shot at Cavalcade, Equipoise, Mate and other good ones for the $100,000 show that takes place at Santa Anita on February 23. The message from Twenty Grand's eyes seems to be this: “T'll be there giving somebody a battle.” But even William Brennan, his trainer, doesn’t know what Twenty Grand can do now. Neither does Sil- vio Coucci, the jockey who probably will ride him. | | Twenty Grand’s Come-back. HORSE in competition,” Trainer Brennan said, “is a good deal like a man. I know most of | them don’t come back. Twenty Grand won around $200,000 in 1931. That year he was a great horse and he was good enough the year before to beat Equipoise twice. He won one race in 1932 and then developed ligament or tendon trouble just above the hoof. He was beaten in his next start. So | we retired him to the stud, where he happened to be sterile. He was a race horse that belonged only to racing— to the competitive side. “Last June,” Brennan continued, «Mrs. Whitney decided to see how he would work out. We started getting | him back in racing shape and 1t wasn't so long before he turned in a mile in 1:39. That's pretty fair time, | especially for a horse that had been away from the track for more than two years. So we decided to keep up | his training and to give him his chance | again st Santa Anita—and the $100,- 000 pot.” “He'll get his chance in other races before the big shot?” I asked. “At least three or four times,” Bren- nan said. “He is one of Mrs. Whit- ney’s pets and we’ll give him every chance. We know the odds he faces. | Grey Lad couldn't come back and neither could Purchase. But Twenty Base Ball Moguls Do Much Gabbing, but Little Bartering. B. KELLER. | to put up a good defensive game with | nothing but collar bills down at second | base.” Simmons Much Sought. L SIMMONS of the White Sox is one of the most popular play- ers not here...besides being traded to Detroit, they're shipping the | walloping Al to the Red Sox for Oster- mueller, Wes Ferreil and Cook...and |lo the Yankees for Russ Van Atta, cash and a flock of young talent . . . but it looks as if Al will stick right with those White Sox. UTH'S decision to see the world instead of being in the States in time for the opening of the next base ball season probably will get him |out of the game altogether, the big bugs here are saying. And to hear them talk the Amer- ican League was through with the Bambino anyway. He might have had a chance to hook up with the Cubs as manager after Herr Grimm moved up to a club vice presidency. Now that looks out. Buck Newsom, the Brown’s hazy hurler, is attending the Winter ses- sion here for no good reason...“Reck- on if Dizzy Dean can go to a minor meeting I can take in the big league stuff,” is the way Buck explains his presence...so he came up from the hang d | old South Carolina homestead to around. Rumania Has a “Carnera” Standing 7 feet 4 inches in his bare fcet, this Rumanian youth doesn’t have to reacn up when he shakes hands with the horseman who's just paced him on the road. The giant, Mitou Gogea, 21, is takirg up boxing seriously in hopes of becoming another “Carnera” in the fight world. He is soon to make his ring debut, a career he believes will take him to the THE SPORTLIGHT Can a Horse Come Back? Twenty Grand’s Great Spirit May Make Him an Exception BY GRANTLAND RICE OS ANGELES, December 11.—It, Grand is a great horse. has been written in the records | different. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, Clark Griffith Is Striving for Deal to Bring Bump Hadley Back to —A. P. Photo. He may be About Twenty Grand. HERE'S one thing about Twenty Grand that gives us hope,” | Brennan explained. ‘““He's one of the great competitors. —McAtee once told me he was the greatest horse he ever rode—for just one reason.” “What was that?” I asked. “Because he always would give you that little extra something down the stretch—that little extra something that closed up the gap when pressed. He ran as if he liked it and he came from bebind as if he liked it when the going was hard. “Right now he is in fine shape. His old trouble is completely healed. He always has been a sound horse—a horse that was easily conditioned—a good actor—easily handled. Just a little slow at getting away—in no great hurry away from the barrier— ::t after that always something to at.” Horses and Humans, = OU remember,” I said to Trainer Brennan, “that Jim Corbett s almost came back. He made Jim Jeffries look to be a sucker for 22 rounds until Corbett got careless. You couldn't get careless with Jim Jeffries. But at 15 or 20 rounds Cor- | bett would have been champion of the world again after a four-year lay-off. Jack Dempsey came within a half breath and a fingernail of repeating— but something happened. Bobby Jones was playing the best golf in ‘he field at Augusta after a three-year lay-off, but the old putting touch left him in the middle of the fight. He had every- thing else needed to win.” “All this may happen to Twenty Grand,” Brennan said. “I'm still say- ing that horses and humans in com- petition are just about the same. In both cases some are at the top under pressure—and others are not, no mat- ter how good they look. “You mention Corbett, Demp- sey and Bobby Jones. Demp- sey was overworked and Cor- bett and Jones went in cold. “We are going to give Twenty Grand several races. No onse is quite sure yet just how good Cavalcade will be, and Equipoise is as old as Twenty Grand. There will be several others to consider. In fact, there is a strong probability that there will be more than 100 entries for this $100,000 race.” R requested for more than 2,000 thoroughbreds at the Santa Anita race course, 53 days of racing being the magnet—and there are accommo- dations for only 1,500 horses. Some- body will have to sleep in an upper. The lid will be pried off Christmas day, and it will present one of the most beautiful tracks in the world, in the ll.‘)ell'& of the old Lucky Baldwin ranch. Stalls Oversubscribed. ESERVATIQNS already have been As Los Angeles is one of the great sporting towns of the Na- tion, there is every indication two weeks in advance that this opening will write a new chap- ter in racing, which must be entered in the main book. Meanwhile, Equipcise also has been in hard training, and will be here in a few days. Cavalcade has been at work in South Carolina, and the quar- ter-split in his hoof is reported com- pletely cured. The mop-up runner for Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane is expected to be right when he faces the barrier. And right at this moment Twenty Grand looks fit to give either a battle. If he were not, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Maj. Beard and Trainer Bill Brennan wouldn't have him here. They are not interested in the “moral victory” of a defeat. They think too much of a grand horse to have him outclassed. His first start will tell a big part of the story. If any one is worried at this point—it isn’t Twenty Grand. (Copyright. 1934 by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) COLLEGE BASKET BALL Colgate, 35; Ithaca College, 29. Purdue, 42; Western State (Kala- mazoo, Mich.), 28. Iowa U, 36; Carleton, 23. Macalester, 50; Itasca Junior, 33. Tlinois, 55; Bradley, 25. De Pau, 29; Illinois, 26. Wisconsin, 33; Wabash, 20. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION CARD QUINT SEES OPENER AS EASY Four Veterans Will Start Clash With Maryland State Normal. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY will pry off its 1934-35 basket ball lid tomorrow night in the Car- dinal gym, stacking up against its traditional inaugural foe, Maryland State Normal. The game is slated to get under way at 8 o'clock, with a preliminary tussle between the Red Bird yearlings and one of the local high school quintets set for 7. Boasting a team that has no less than four of its last year's letter winners, the Cardinal five is expected to have little trouble subduing the Normalites. The teams have met the past five years, and each encounter has resulted in a walkaway win for the Brooklanders. One familiar player will be missing from the Cathelic U. line-up. He is Capt. Eddie White, who received his sheepskin last June. Schmarr Only Newcomer. ITH the loss of this able vet- W eran, Coach Fod Cotton has been compelled to juggle his line-up. Where White once held forth at guard, Cotton has elected to play Gerald (Babe) Gearty, a forw'rd on last season's team. And in Gearty's old spot, Hermie (Schultz) Schmarr, outstanding performer of last year's capable frosh five, will make his debut. Bernie Lieb, former Eastern High luminary, is slated for the center posi- tion, while another local lad, Capt. Gene Augusterfer, late of the St. John's Prep hardwoods, will take care of the other forward post. Abe Rosen- field, two-year veteran, rounds out the team at guard. Cotton is well supplied with reserves, most of whom came up from last year's freshman team. Those on hand are Bill Adamaitis and Joe Yanchulis, forwards; Zeke Brown, center, and Sam Pagano, guard. Dick Morrisey, a forward, is a junior. LELANDERS POSSESS A VETERAN QUINTET Montgomery County Champions Opening 22-Contest Card This Afternoon. ETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL, boasting a team of veterans in every department, ‘was to meet an aggregation of Roose- velt High School cagers at Bethesda, Md,, this afternoon in a game listed as the inaugural feature of a 22- game schedule. Coach Tony Kupka, mentor of the Montgomery County five, was to start Bob Harris and Eddie Johnson, son of Walter Johnson of diamond fame, at forwards; Tom Lodge in center | and Frank Lozapone and Tom Finlay- son at guards. , With the exception of Lozapone all| of the starting five won their letters in the sport at Bethesda last year, | while Lozapone was a member of the souad that won the Montgomery County championship for the Le- landers. The other games arranged by Man~ ager Dick Bishop follow: December 13, Poolesville High; 14, | St. John’s High School at Washing- ton; 18, Roosevelt High, away; 21, Bethesda-Chevy Chase Alumni. January 4, Western High, away; 8. Annapolis High, away; 11, Damascus High; 14, Georgetown Prep at Garrett | Park, Md.; 16, Takoma-Silver Spring High; 18, Gonzaga High, away; 21, Eastern High, away; 23, Washington- Lee High School at Ballston, Va.; 25, Rockville High: 29, St. John's High School; 30, Landon Prep. February 1, Annapolis High; 6, Washington-Lee High; 14, Western High; 13, Gonzaga High; 20, George- town Prep; 22, Landon Prep, away. “Manassa Mauler” Finally Buries His Gloves b. W. BASKETERS INTEST GONTEST Pixlee Due to Experiment in Game Tonight With Shenandoah Five. ITH only one member of last season's sqyad, Capt. Jim Howell, forward, reason= ably certain of holding a varsity berth, Coach Jim Pixlee and his assistant, Roland Logan, are ex- pected to do a deal of experimenting tonight with the George Washington basket ball squad in its opening game against the Shenandoah College team. The game, the first college tilt of the court season here, will be played in the G. W. gym at 8 o'clock. * Hal Kiesel, 6-foot 6-inch center, who played with the Sholl's Cafe quint last season, appears to have ousted Bill Noonan, last year's pivot man, from his job. Ben Goldfadden, a soph for- ward, is listed to team with Howell, and Dallas Shirley and Tuffy Leemans are having a tough time keeping Walter Bacon and Milton Schonfeld, sophomores, out of the guard assign- ments. | mean anything, hardly will do more | than give the Colonials a workout. 6. U FVEPCKED TOTRIM TERRORS Most of Invaders Are Grid Players Who Figured in Win Over Hoyas. | G Maryland for the foot ball defeat it suffered at the hands of the latter when the Hoyas and the Green Terrors square off to- morrow night at 8:30 o'clock at basket ball in the Tech High gym. It will be G. U.'s opening game. Western Maryland's court squad is made up almost entirely of members of the school's- undefeated foot ball team. Members of the grid team who are cavorting on the hardwood for the Terrors are Bill Shepherd, who led intercollegiate foot ball scorers of the country this season; George Ryscav- Lathrop, James Draper, former West- ern High star athlete; Gerald Com- merford, Bruce Ferguson, Robert Coe and Nick Campofreda. ‘The Hoyas probably will start Capt. Ed Hargaden and Ben Zola, guards: Chubby Parcells, center, and Don Gibeau and Joe Corless, forwards. ‘The G. U. roster: E. Hareaden 6 1 912" 176 s1. Ch. Br. Acad ¥ s ]J. Corless. . | L. Esenstad 5'8" | 3. Young.. 62" Edw. Ragis 6’1" 170 soph Wat'by, Conn, J. Loving. 2% 180 soph. Tech H_ D. C. h. 8t. P. Xavier. | E. Bodine.. 170 soph. | New York City | Ben Zola.. 510" 178 s0ph D. C. Eastern High. C. Parcells 6°1'2" 190 sr. Hackensack. J.. High. G. Haney.. 6’ 175 soph. Pertii Amboy. J.. High. J. Ecken'de 61° 166 ir. D. Gibeau. 511" 150 soph. 150 jr. 174 sr. Roosevelt. ' D. <.. High Cl(h'rpll Prep.. rie. Pa Crosby High. Lancaster. Pa.. igh, Ch. Br. Acad.. Syracuse, N. Y. B — WALTONITES CANCEL. The meeting of the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League, sched- uled to be held at the Raleigh Hotel tomorrow night, has been canceled owing to the death of its secretary- treasurer, Thomas C. Gale, according to an announcement of Dr. M. D'Arcy Magee, president of the chapter. Shenandoah, if past performances | EORGETOWN figures to get | back somewhat at Western | ning Star 1934, * SPORTS PARADE Lardner, I saw a Notre Dame run beyond the combined ability of horse.” This man was George Gipp, the best foot ball player I ever saw. FROM THE (Copyright, By . Grantland Rice SHORT time after the war, sitting in the Army stands with Ring back throw two passes in succession from back of his own goal line. Both were muffed around midfield and both could have been touchdowns. Later on I saw this same man run wild against a fine Army team. I saw him pass, kick and any one I've seen since. “He isn't a foot ball player,” Coach John McEwan said later, “he’'s a runaway now a legendary figure in foot ball history, after his tragic death. He was the greatest of all the Rockne stars, —Acme Photo. 1934.) PRESS BOX Foot Ball, Minus Training Rules, | Tedious Drills, Pleasure for Pros. | BY JOHN ILARDNE EW YORK, December 11.—One| | of the nice things about this | pro foot ball you hear so much | ‘I about is that the boys do not| have to flog themselves with all sorts| | of abstemiousness and physical cu]-| | ture and training table tactics be-| | tween games. They can roister a bit, | age, Peté Mergo, Louis Kaplan, Cliff | they can smoke anything short of % | opium, and if they see a glass of| | medicinal matter they don't have to| | put their hands over their eyes and| repeat the pledge. | This makes foot ball a pleasure.| | You may recall that, when George Owen issued his bitter squawk about | the college game some years ago, he . | touched heavily on the subjects of practice and training. It wasa tough grind, according to Mr. Owen. The game wasn't worth the workout. Many loyal pigskin addicts were | shocked by Mr. Owen's attitude. They accused him of being a deserter, a mucker and a bright pink Com- | munist. But Mr. Owen was 80 or 90 per cent correct. All the college players I know, *when they let down their hair and talk sense, agree that | foot ball is tough and wonder how |in the name of something or other they got mixed up in it. Short Hours, Pleasant Work. 'UST after the recent professional J play-off game between the New York Giants and the Chicago| Bears I found myself engaged in con- | versation with one Benjamin Fried- | man, and I questioned Mr. Friedman closely about practice and training in | pro foot ball. He was willing to talk. Mayor La Guardia holds a trowel of mortar in readiness as Jack Dempsey, the “tiger man” of other days, prepares to shove his most cherished boxing gloves under the corner stone of the tavern he's having built in New York City. He wore those gloves when he won the heavyweight championship from Jesse Willard. Standing yesterday is his wife, the former hind Dempsey at the corner stone laying and political world attended the ceremony, ? 4 » be- Hannah Williams. Notables of the % —A. P. Photo. “It's very nice compared with col- lege ball,” said Mr. Friedman. instance, you work from one to one and a half hours a day. In college it’s two or three hours. Then you don’t have to bother with fundamen- tals, dummy practice, or the charging machines. You know all that. You just pass and kick and run through plays. “The pro boys practice in the morn- ng. That keeps them from staying up too late at night and gives them plenty of time to do what they want to do the rest of the day. On Sunday and Monday nights, right after the game, they can paint the town with whatever color they think would look best on it. I don't say they always do. I say they can. They're free. “They can smoke and all that. They're mature, and smoking won't hurt them the way it might hurt a college boy. As for drinking, they stick pretty close to beer during the season. But it's up to them. If a fellow gets stiff he gets fined or sus- pended, like on a big league base ball | club. The whole set-up is pretty much like big league ball, with individual rules for individual clubs. Except that the boys don’t have to play a game a day like the ball players.” Few Topers on Pro Teams. N THE thoughtful opinion of Mr. Friedman, the pro clubs at the top of the league have very few boozers on the pay roll. “You will find that the best boys in | the game are upright and clean-liv- ing,” he said. There is a familiar campus ring about this remark, but it’s probably true. It checks with observations made by this department among the foot ball chattels of Detroit, Chicago, New York and other cities. They stick close to beer in season. I have drunk stuff of a sterner quality with some of them once in a while, but they seemed to know what they were doing and to perform adequately on the field when the time came. There’s much to be said for the liberal point of view in training. Fa- mous non-exercisers and non-ab- stainers like George Jean Nathan, Stanley Walis~, and Ed Howe have sald that they owe what thev are today to constant infraction of the McFadden code. I grant you that Mr. Nathan, Mr. Walker and Mr. Howe are not foot ball players, but perhaps they could have been if they'd wanted t 0. The members of the Giants and Bears keep a flexible sort of training. That doesn’t weaken their resistance to kicks, shoves, and an occasioral up- percut on the playing field. Last Sunday. when the ground was frozen harder than a sob sister’s heart, they bounced their bodies upon it with all the zeal you could ask. And they get paid for their work, which is more than any college player has ever admitted. i (Co ight. opyr] 'N 1934, b{h N ewspaper Alliance: Tnc.) meTican nce, Inc.) Basket Briefs Mount Rainier Grays meet the Tremonts tonight at the Mount Rainier High School at 8 o'clock and the Grays will engage the Heurich Brewers Thursday night also at the high school in the District line town. Olmsted Grill basketers face the Fort Myer quint tonight at Fort Myer. Heurich Flashes engage the West Washington Tigers tonight at 9 o'clock at Roosevelt High. Results: Community Center League. Never Wins, 54; Monarchs, 34. Two Point, 45; Basketers, 37. Flashers, 35; Stones, 22. G.P.O, 39; 8. A K, 36 Investigation; 63; Pep Co, 6. Mount Pleasant, 28; Dunkers, 22. I3 L] “For | BANKROLL ATTACK FLOORING RED SOX Couldn’t Buy a Bat Boy for Less Than $35,000, One of Party Avers. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, December 11.—The open season for base ball deals got away under full blast to- day as owners and managers flocked into town for the annual meetings of the American and Na- tional Leagues. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox, who alreaay has spent al- most $2,000,000 trying to get a pen- nant winner, and Eddie Collins, his astute business manager, were the most sought after. Yawkey and Collins held several conferences with Joe Cronin, their new manager, and the word went around that they would like to have Jack Burns, first sacker, and Oscar Melillo, second baseman, from the St. Louis Browns, or Joe Kuhel and Buddy Myer from the Washington Senators—if the price is right. Want Big Money. &z HE trouble is,” said one mem- ber of the Boston party, “that just because we have paid fancy prices for a few ball players the other clubs want to stick us for everything they have to offer. We couldn’t buy a good bat boy for less than $35,000.” It is considered more or less cer- tain that Melillo will wind up at sec- ond base for the Sox, and then Yawkey and his aides will turn their atten- tion toward replacing Eddie Morgan at first. So, while the American and Na- tional League magnates meet behind closed doors in the first of their for- mal sessions, the managers will hold forth in the lobby and try to cook up deals. The principal business before the National League moguls is to install Ford C. Frick as their new president and decide whether Judge Emil C. Fuchs of the Boston Braves is to be permitted to use his park for dog races next Summer. Virtually all the early arrivals among the owners said they were opposed to the idea. A. L. Slate Is Heavy. MERICAN leaguers will name the place for the annual all-star game, with Cleveland favored; discuss the future of Babe Ruth, intra-league games during the train- ing season, synthetic double-headers and post-season barnstorming tours, | one of which has just ended in Ma- nila, after a tour of the Orient. Separate sessions today and tomor row will be followed by a joint meet- ing Thursday, with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, presiding. It is rumored the International League is dickering with a large air transport company with a view to transporting next season’s pennant winner to the Pacific Coast for a post- season series with the Coast League champions to make up for the “little world series” between the Interna- tional League and American Associa- tion winner. That series went on the rocks after a disagreement, DEAN LEADS EASTERN. Lavelle Dean, all-high selection last season, has been named captain of the Eastern High basket ball team for the current campaign. He scored 78 points in eight series games last Win- ter, only five less than Prancis (Red) Daly of Tech, who led the series scorers, Sports Events In Local Realm TODAY. Basket Ball. Shenandoah, at George Washing- ton, 8:00. Mount Rainier High, at Roose- velt High, 3:30 Falls Church High, at St. John's, 3:30. Rockville, at St. Albans, 3:30. TOMORROW. ‘Wrestling. Washington Auditorium — Main match, Jim Londos, New York, vs. Vic Christy, California, heavy- weights. Three other exhibitions. Show starts 8:30. Basket Ball. Western Maryland vs. town, at Tech High, 8:30. Maryland State Normal, at Cath- olic U., 8:00. George Washington freshmen, at Roosevelt, 3:30 Western vs Georgetown fresh- men, at Tech, 7:30 (preliminary to Western Maryland-G. U. game). Charlotte Hall, at Central, 3:30. THURSDAY. Basket Ball. 5 ‘Walter Reed, at Roosevelt, 3:30. FRIDAY. Bowling. Masonic League qualifying round in Evening Star tournament, at Convention Hall, 8:00. Basket Ball. Hampden-Sidney, at American U., 8:00. ‘Georgetown vs. Bucknell, at Bucknell. Catholic U. vs. La Salle, at Phil- adelphia, Southern High (Baltimore), at Tech, 3:30. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, at St. John's, 3:30. . :’Rockvme, at Georgetown Prep, :30. . ‘Western, at Baltimore City Col- lege. Falls Church, at McLean, 3:30. SATURDAY, Basket Ball. Randolph - Macon, at George ‘Washington, 8: Pittsburgh, at George- wn V. Wilson Teachers, at Bridgewater. Roosevelt vs. Alexandria High, at Bowling. Meyer Davis takes, at Lucky 3trike, B:WM