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A—14 Colonials, Cards i B, W, FOF AMONG NATION'S LEADERS C. C. N. Y. Quint Has Great: Record—C. U. Is Host to | Western Maryland. BY H. C. BYRD. EORGE WASHINGTON and | Catholic University probably will have their hands full to- night, maybe more than full, when their basket ball teams walk out on the floor to face City College of New York and Western Maryland. City College of New York, as usual, is among the Eastern leaders on the court, while Western Maryland is said to have a very capable team. George Washington will attempt to smash a two-year jinx when the tal- ented proteges of Nat Holman invade for a tussle slated to begin at 8 o'clock. Twice in the past Colonial teams that were rated even better than the 1934-5 quint have absorbed beatings from City College, both times in Gotham. In 1933 City College swamped the Co- lonials, 51 to 25, and last year walked off with a 37-to-26 triumph. Catholic University’s highly rated team, though winner of only one of three games so far, is conceded a bet- ter than even chance of whipping Western Maryland. It will be the Cards’ first game in three weeks. [Capital Is Loser as Erwinl Departs With Sarron and Everett. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ASHINGTON lost its most colorful fistic figure yester- day—only temporarily, we hope—when Senor Jimmy Erwin dropped Petey Sarron in his overcoat pocket, placed the leash on Buck Everett, and pulled up stakes. Senor Erwin, something of a gypsy | at heart, had been wanting to giddap for some time. He had stayed in ‘Washington nearly two years to set a new record for the Erwin household for remaining in one spot. His leav- ing, in reality, was the tip-off on how bad is the fight situation in the Capital. Senor Erwin and his little feather- weight and dark-skinned heavyweight depart owing Washington nothing. For almost two years Sarron has been the most pleasing scrapper to sinow here, Buck Everett gave the Capital its two best heavyweight battles. Erwin gave the fight game color, class, and an honesty not to be found in fight managers every day. He gave sports writ- ers more ring tales than they'll ever get out of any one guy in a long time. | When “2,500” Pay $900. Action in the Brookland gymnasium %6 slated at 8:15 o'clock. | Both games will be preceded by pre- | liminaries. The George Washington | freshmen will play the Y. M. C. A. at | 7 o'clock at Tech, while the Catholic | University Frosh will entertain West- | ern High School at the same hour on the Brookland floor. Has Amazing Record. ITY COLLEGE boasts one of the | most amazing records in the country and a victory undoubt- edly will more than atone for George Washington's recent defeats at the | hands of Indiana and Drake. Coached by Nat Holman for the last 15 years, City College has won 182 games while losing only 45 over that period. For | one four-year stretch his teams, meet- ing the classiest opposition. won 49 | games and lost only 6. This season | City College has not been quite up to | par, but nevertheless has won 6 of its | 9 games. | Still another new line-up is ex- pected to take the floor for the Co- lonials. Capt. Jimmy Howell, tempo- rarily benched, again will start at one of the forward posts, with Bill Noonan occupying the other. Hal Kiesel will remain at center, but Mil- ton Schonfeld will take over Dallas Shirley’s guard post, teaming up with Clarence Berg. Terrors Mainly Gridman. | HE same five men who started | Catholic University’s three | T WAS a sad day for Washington when Jimmy Erwin was left out in the cold in the matchmaking de- partment. Goldie Ahearn, of course, | needed no one to make his matches. Like Jimmy, he learned the fight racket | from A to Z, first as a fighter, then | as a second, manager, and promoter. But Prof. Joe Turner, strictly a pro- | motor—and a rassle promoter, at that—could have used Jimmy. I often have wondered why they never tied up; how Turner overlooked that bet. | Erwin had more connections than | you could shake a stick at. He was| known throughout the country as a square shooter. Out-of-town fight | managers often sent their scrappers to Washington, leaving Erwin to handle | 'em. They knew they could do no | better themselves. And if Erwin paid the fighter off on a $900 “house” and sent him home, the manager knew the “gate” was 900 smackers and there was something wrong in the newspaper report that said 2,500 spectators laid it on the line to see the scrap. Jimmy and Dan Moffat, who handles Frankie Covelli, were the only two men who faultless- 1y seconded their fighters during the eight and a half months of legalized boxing in the Capital. A fly would die of thirst in the cor- ner occupied by Erwin's fighter, so expertly did he handle his pails, | sponges and bottles. “The Kid's Hurt.” | The Foening Sfar Sporls WA SHINGTON, D. C, ad RIVERS' RING WIN STIRS WEE GROWD Only 709 See Him Hand Burl Lacing to Become King of Feathers Here. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ALIFORNIA JOE RIVERS, hard-bitten, hard-hitting lit- tle Mexican, hopped onto Washington's mythical feath- erweight fistic throne today hardly | before the seat was vacated for the first time in two years by Petey Sar- Ton, off in quest of new laurels. Rivers takes possession with little dispute, and certainly no argument at all from Eddie Burl, who once con- | quered Sarron and still must not be | counted out if only for a great fight- ing heart which must account for most of his 124 pounds. For Burl ab- sorhed perhaps the worst lacing of his lengthy, up-and-down career last night at the Washington Auditorium from one of the most crowd-pleasing | scrappers to invade since the same Sarron first migrated. One of the smallest crowds since | legalization of boxing in the District | witnessed Promoters Charlie Cornell | and Joe Turner—a new hook-up— | usher in & new year of fisticuffing. | Only 709 laid it on the line for a “gate” of $904.50. B against Rivers, and what held | the battered Jacksonville battler | up undoubtedly will remain a mystery. Yet he not only remained on his feet —sometimes conscious, sometimes semi-conscious—but Burl actually | came back after losing the first seven | rounds to win two of the last three and finish with a flurry. Rivers, weighing 124!, to 124 for his adversary, easily won the first two | heats and then narrowly missed stow- ing Eddie away in the third. Burl staggered to his corner, groggy, but game. The fourth, fifth and sixth heats went to Rivers by fair margins, and in the seventh he connected with a right hand to Burl's chin, which ! resounded throughout the auditorium. | Burl grimaced, his eyes turned | glassy, and his knees shook, but he | stayed on his feet and absorbed blow after blow to last the round. The eight® went to Burl on an amazing comeback, the ninth ap-' peared even, and the tenth was Burl's on a low blow by Rivers. | The decision of Referee Charley | Reynolds, and Bob Eller and Denny | Hughes was unanimous. Burl Game to Core. URL never was in the running Jones Trims Lowry. OB LOWRY, the local welter they | were trying to blow up into a main-eventer, took an unmerci- | ful pasting from Jimmy Jones of | Baltimore in an eight-round semi- | wind-up, which proved as lop-sided N A SOAKING FROM RIVERS. G'tfcrnla Joe 4 RIVERS cur Loose A MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935. BurL HAD A BAD ATTACK OF* BLONDES IN THE CORNER" ! Tddic BWRE -- BUT THE " OLD MAN' ‘SHOWED HE CouLD TAKE [T~-- HE JUST WOULDNT GO Downa = ABOUT §2.500 EACH To Net This Sum If 16’500i Capacity Sees Pro Bow in New York Tonight. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 9.—The transfer of George Lott and Lester Stoefen from tennis’ amateur ranks to full-fledged professionals will be completed tonight when the national doubles champions | make their pro debuts before an ex- pected crowd of 16,500 in Madison Square Garden. The erstwhile Simon-Pures will re- ceive their professional baptism in contests with “Big Bill” Tilden and Ellsworth Vines, world pro singles champion. Lott, whose arguments with Tilden were many in their amateur days, will renew his rivalry with the “old o LOTT, STOEFEN DUE THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE FOR ALL-AMERICA JITTERS -~ ONE OF JONES ' SECONDS 3 Proselyting and Subsi Practical Foot Ball. | OS ANGELES, January 9.—Foot | ball is getting more and more L Jimmie Jones most ANOT HAVE SEEN THAT RECENT LOCAL STORY ABOUT WHAT A GREAT FIGHTER Bog Lowry HAD BECOME.... OR MAVBE HE | ) DIDN'T BELIEVE IT: 2 - \/J — N’ MASTER oF CEREMONIES, = JAMES LAKE, GAVE THE CUSTOMERS A CHUCKLE WHEN HE OPENED AN EXPLOSIVE PACKAGE. o0 « THE SPORTLIGHT dizing Inevitable With Foot Ball Going 100 Per Cent Practical. BY GRANTLAND RICE | for big overheads. Losing teams mean | deficits. | A crack halfback or a star run- | ning guard or an able forward passer SPORTS MIRROR By the Associated Press. Today a year ago: Yale speculated on reports Harry G. Kipke and entire university of Michigan foot ball coach- ing stafl to be engaged by Elis. Three years ago: Ellsworth Vines asked not to leave college to prepare for Davis Cup campaign by United States Lawn Tennis Association. . NATS RELEASE PHILLIPS. Eddie Phillips, who joined the Na- tionals last season after an injury had forced Luke Sewell, first-string catcher to the bench, yesterday was released outright to the Albany team of the International League. He came here | in midseason last year from Chat- tanooga. STEIN AT BOYS' CLUB. Sammy Stein, former George Wash- ington basket ball player, has been appointed assistant to Charley Rey- nolds, athletic director of the Boys’ Club of Washington. — e BASKET LEAGUE STARTS. n Court Tests Tonight : Minors Continue Upward Trend GREATER ADVANGE - 5 SEEN FOR 155 Bramham, U. S. Leader, Says ‘Shoestring Operator’ Menace Removed. This is another of an exclusive series, written for the Associated Press by national sports leaders and dealing with the current ath- tetic outlook. BY W. G. BRAMHAM, t. National Associatio sional-Base Ball Leag URHAM, N. C, January 9.— Turning into 1935, the minor leagues of base ball find themselves in & more strategic position for their program of expansion than they have visioned in several years. There are several factors contributing to this gratifying situation. Ever since 1932, the crisis year for the minors, when the close of schedules found only 13 leagues in opera- tion, the Natiénal Associgtion has bent its efforts toward rehabili- tation and ex- pansion. ‘There was some encouragement in 1933, when 14 circuits began the season and all finished. Last year completed their schedules | Iam happy to say our “key” I®agues | have their foundations strengthened | to such an extent that more time may be devoted to organization work, | which means expansion and opening of new territory Menace Is Removed. NE of the chief factors in the sta- bilization of our circuits has been legislation in opposition to | the so-called “shoestring operator.” & | menace to the game, whose activities | had more to do with disruption in some territories than the economic depression. He started out with nothing and wound up with a trail of liens and obligations in his path He is being pushed out of the scene, At our annual convention. more legis- lation was enacted against him. Every operator now will be required to post a cash guaranty with the treasurer of ‘!he National Association before the | start of the season. This will give us ! a definite check on the good faith of every club owner in the minors, and | parties not financially responsible will | be curbed automatically by this res | quirement. The promotional department of the | national association, charged with the duties of organizing new leagues W. G. Bramham. 19 leagues THINK the act most typical ot; Erwin occurred when Benny Bass | fouled out against Petey Sarron.! The punch that felled Sarron for the | first time in his career was not seen Referee previous games will take the | floor tonight against the Green Ter- rors of Westminster. This means that Zeke Brown and Hermie Schmarr, | sophmores, will open as forwards; | Bernie Lieb will be at center and Co- | clearly from the press row. EMMITSBURG, Md., January 9 and lending a hand wherever needed, (#) —The Maryland College basket has an ambitious program. ball league’s season got under way Some 20 proposed additions to mem- here last night. with Johns Hopkins bership have been contacted. We do handing St. Mary's a 34-to-27 licking. ' (Continued on Page 15, Column 2.) as the feattre. After holding his own | in the first round, and winning the | second, Lowry dropped the next six | heats on this observer's scorecard. The | decision was unanimous. master,” while Stoefen will face Vines | in the other singles encounter. Lott | and Stoefen will square off against| : Tilden and Vines in the doubles. | old Big Three to go outside and get| 1f a sell-out is realized, which will| back to the practical stage.|today can mean from $10,000 to $20;- Princeton was the first of the| 000 in a season’s receipts. | The crowds today go with the win- | ¥ 2 ers—the better players. Out on the a coaching staff that knew its busi- | West Coast the scramble for star prep | Capts. Abe Rosenfield and Babe | Gearty will handle the guard jobs. | Western Maryland’s quint, chiefly | constituted of the foot ball stars who carried on to an undefeated record during 1934, has played only ine game to date, and that against Georgetown last year. The Terrors threw a real scare into the Hoyas before bowing, | 38 to 34. The starting line-up for Western | Maryland is expected to be comprised of Bill Shepherd and Ed Ryscavage at forwards, Louis Kaplan at center and Pete Mergo and Fowble at guards. VEN if every word of criticism the Harvard student paper printed in its editorial about the ap- | pointment of Dick Harlow as head coach at Cambridge were true, the editorial still would be in poor taste. Harlow, appointed probably for a term of years, is to live in Harvard's house, be a member of its household, 50 to speak, and for a representative organ of the student body to come out and assail by innuendo its guest or the record of its guest seems almost. inconceivable. Actually Harvard could not have | picked a better foot ball coach. Har- | Jow will do so much more for Harvard | foot ball than any other coach who has been at Cambridge that before he has been there two years the student body will look upon him as something of a Moses. Harlow is a good coach, as good as could be found, and he has a personality and way of approaching people that should enable him to get along well with Harvard | students and faculty and alumni alike. O INTIMATION has been given as to who may take Harlow’s place at Western Maryland. It has been mentioned that Western Maryland may not try to get another big time coach and may de-emphasize somewhat its foot ball organization. Some Western Maryland alumni -are inclined to the view that the school should have a more rounded and better balanced program to include other branches of athletics, as well as foot ball. Authorities at Western Maryland probably will proceed slowly with their problem, and may not come to any definite conclusions for two or three months. One thing is certain, though, and that is that Western Maryland will miss Harlow and miss him keenly. Harlow fitted into the situation at ‘Westminster as well as any coach every fitted anywhere, and just where a man can be found to fill his shoes simply is not known. HE lot of a small college that has ' a good foot ball team is diffi- cult in regard to schedule-mak- ing, as Washington Coliege now is learning. When the Eastern Shore institution did not have much of a team there were no hitches in filling schedules, but now that it has gone through a year without defeat it seems that the colleges in its own class are chary about meeting it and the schools that are larger are fearful of such an_opponent. The small college with a strong team is not wanted by the larger schools and the other small colleges just do not like getting whipped too mM-ny times by teams in their own class. EORGETOWN'’S basket bail team will get a real test up in New York Friday night, when it hooks up with New York University. The Blue and Gray expects to be | weeks later the boys who yelled “act” Howard Livingstone didn't see it at all. I don't know whether it's gen- erally known, but Heinie Miller, sec- retary of the boxing commission, was right in the proper spot to see the| blow, and he called it low and Living- stone agreed—a verdict later sub- stantiated by a medical examination. But that’s getting ahead of the story. Sarron went down near the| edge of the ring. When a fighter hits the floor with his knees around his ears and his face purple, he is fouled. Some of the boys in the press row yelled “act” and wrote it that way. Others heard Jimmy Erwin, as he| raced forward, picked up the dimin- utive Sarron in his arms, and walked | away from doctors and officials at the | ringside, yelling over his shoulder: “I don’t give a d——n what you call it. The kid’s hurt and we're leaving. That is no part of the show—keeping him out here while you argue. Go ahead, give it to Bass; give it to any- body.” It wasn't given to Bass. Not many swallowed those words when Sarron, wearing a “foul-proof” cup, invaded Bass’ bailiwick — Philadelphia — was fouled again and retaliated by giving Benny the worst beating of his long and glorious career. Erwin leaves Washington because it is his business to make money in the fight game and there is none to be made here—not even with two of the most pleasing fighters in the East. Some day—perhaps soon—he’ll come back. For local boxing, the sooner the better. TRAINS HORSES IN DIXIE. BEL AIR, Md. January 9 (P).— Mrs. Robert. H. Hieghe, owner of the Prospect stud farm near here, has shipped nine of her racing horses to Columbia, S. C., for conditioning preparatory to the opening of the Maryland Spring meeting at Bowie. S ¥ Y SWIM MEET CANCELED. A swimming meet scheduled be- tween Central and Baltimore Poly for Friday in the Central pool has been canceled by the latter. Central has booked a meet for next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock against the Central Y natators in the Y tank, LINCOLN AT HOWARD. Howard University plays Lincoln University in the first of a three- game basket ball series between the old colored rivals in the Howard gym tonight at 8 o’clock. _— HEURICH NINE DINES. Heurich base ballers will be hon- ored at a banquet this evening at the Columbia Country Clup, starting at 6:30 o’clock. good, but New York U. has been going along with an almost unprece- dented string of victories. AUL MENTON, who refereed the Richmond-Virginia basket ball game at Charlottesville the other night, says that “this Richmond team is good, if its play against Virginia was an example of what it is doing regularly. Those chaps cut and ran and shot like veterans, and any college team that takes the measure of t.,at‘ quint will have to go some.” Henry Irving of Washington, won | a close one from Mickey Flanningan, Pittsburgh middleweight, in a five- rounder; Sammy Sweet of Washing- | ton and Joe Transperenti of Baltimore, | went to a draw in a four-round fly- weight tilt, and Sam Julian, local | lightweight, handily disposed of Tommy Hoover of Baltimore, in an- other four-rounder. PLAN A. A. U. BOXING. Plans for the annual Winter boxing | tournament of the District A, A. U. | will be discussed tonight at a meeting of the association’s Boxing Committee at the home of Chairman Sullivan, 4116 Fourth street. . AL WO00DS GETS JOB. Al Woods, former University of Maryland grid star, and assistant foot ball coach there, has been named di- rector of educational and athletic activities at the Hot Springs (Va.) C. C. C. camp. He leaves today. mean a gate of close to $30,000, Lott and Stoefen each will receive about $2,900 for their first professional ap- pearance. Just a year ago Vines made his pro debut and received $7,123. The troupe will start a long road trip in Phiiadelphia Thursday night. The schedule calls for matches in 82 other cities from coast to coast before the quartet returns East the end of April. Sports Program TODAY. Basket Ball. f City College of New York vs. G. W., Tech gym, 8. Western Maryland at Catholic University, 8. Lynchburg College vs. Wilson Teachers’ College at George Wash- gton, 8. Gonzaga at Roosevelt, 3:30. He Was a Rushing Torrent JOE RIVERS, The latest of the boxing clan from California to use that ‘monicker, here is seen landing a right to the head of Eddie Burl in a fashion typical of the punishment he handed. his unanimous decision in the feature of Fats Cornell's debut as a ring impresario a game Wi ashington opponent to earn a 8 poorly attended show that marked t the A-ditorium last night. —Star Staff Photo. ness. Yale followed, most of the | way, bug Yale was lucky to have a Ducky Pond to preside. Now Har- vard follows Princeton’s lead. But these are only minor measures. There is more proselyting and subsi- known. Winning teams mean cash to pay in Local Realm Washington-Lee High at East- ern, 3:30. Tech vs. Gallaudet Reserves, at Gallaudet, 3:30. ‘Takoma-Silver Spring High at Bowie High. Cardozo at Douglass High, Bal- timore. Dunbar vs. Armstrong, 3:30. Werestling. Washington Auditorium—Main match, Don George, Java, N. Y., vs. George Zaharias, Colorado; heavy- weights. Show starts 8:30. THURSDAY. Basket Ball. Roosevelt vs. George Washing- ton Freshmen, G. W. gym, 3:30. ‘Western vs. Maryland Freshmen, College Park, 4 FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Elon vs. George Washington, G. W. gym, 8. Duke at Maryland, 8. Maryland State Normal at Gal- laudet, 8. Benedictine High (Richmond) vs. G. U. Freshmen, Ryan gym, 3:30. Eastern vs. Central, at Roosevelt, 3:30 (public high title game). Tech vs. Roosevelt, at Tech, 3:30 (public high title game). Western at Gonzaga, 8. - gmndon at. Georgetown Prep, :30. Georgetown at New York U. American U. at Virginia .Med- ical College, Richmond. Alexandria High, at Washing- ton-Lee High, Ballston, 8. Damascus at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, 3:30. Mayfield High (Fredericksburg) at Armstrong, 3:30. Dunbar vs. Cardozo, 3:30. Takoma-Silver Spring at Rock- ville, 3:30. Charlotte Hall at Bowie. Boxing. Maryland, 9:15. Tennis. Professional troupe, including Bill Tilden, Ellsworth Vines, George Lott and Lester Stoefen, at Catholic U. gymnasium, 8. SATURDAY. Boxing. Bucknell at Catholic U., 8. Trenton State Teachers vs. Wil- son Teachers at George Wash- ington, 8. V.M. L at LE DROITS TO GATHER. Le Droit Tigers, colored base baiters, will discuss plans for the season to- night at 636 W street. Officers will | be chosen, s | dizing and actual payment for foot| | ball talent than the game ever hns‘ | school players has set a new record. | Coaches are soliciting high school and prep school stars. They are not only offered scholarships—but some- thing well beyond this. And the West | Coast doesn't stand alone. | College foot ball has become, in| many instances, big business. This may be all right—or it may be all | wrong. We are not moralizing. We | are merely relating facts. | Today if college foot ball it is the crowds—the winners—the receipts— that count above everything else in | 70 per cent of all institutions. | This isn't so good for high ‘school | and prep school kids. They are| bound to pick up false values—to get | incorrect slants—to develop enlarged craniums. But after all, this is a practical age. | “Why” asks H. L. F., “don’t you| pick an all-America trap-shooting team, as there are five trap shooters to one foot ball player.” This is the 1934 all-America trap- shooting team, picked yearly by Jim- my Robinson, expert from Minneapo- | lis: | Captain of the team, Joe Hiestand, | a Hillsboro (Ohio) farmer, who out- | classed the grand American field at | Dayton, Ohio, when he smashed 878 out of 900 mixed clay targets for a world record, leading the field by a | margin of 11 targets. Others included on Robinson’s team were Frank Troeh, Portland, Oreg.; E. W. Renfro, Dell, Mont.; Cal Waggoner. Diller, Nebr.; Bunny Sanders, Keyser, W. Va. Johnny Jahn, Spirit Lake, Iowa; Wal- ter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa.. Mark Arie, Champaign, IlL.; Lela Hall, East Lyne, Mo., and John Junior Dick of Minne- apolis, Minn. The most outstanding feat of the 1934 trap-shooting season was Mark Arie’s achievement at the Iowa State shoot in July, when he crashed 395 out of 400 mixed targets for a new world ' all-around record. Frank Troeh, Walter Beaver and Ted Renfro were members of the 1933 all-America. We trust this information will be sufficient. Trap shooting and skeet shooting have more followers than the average citizen could ever guess. When you combine the trap shooters and the hunters, you run into mil- lions—and they are not spectators. They are performers in the field. | + Harlow of Harvard. F HARVARD has any material with which to work in the next year or two Dick Harlow, her new head foot ball coach, will have the Crimson under way. Harlow has done fine coaching jobs at Penr State, Colgate and Western Maryland, and there is no one better equipped to handle material placed under his care. At Western Maryland, especially, he was regarded as one of the best in foot ball, where he was not only sound in fundamental instruction, but also one of the leaders in open-play attack along the most modern lines. More than a few smart foot ball experts have ranked Harlow among the best three or four coaches in the game today. In these days of proselyting, subsi- dizing and easy-going scholarship all around the map, it is hardly likely that Harvard’s material, under much severer restraints, can match that of leading teams. In the aftermath of Eddie Casey's , Harvard made a wise the mentor from Western choice in Maryland, (Copyrigh! 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