Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1935, Page 48

D2 PORTS, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY MARCH 28, 1935. SPORTS. \Northwestern Foot Ball Squad Really Has Wildcat Ball Toter to Present < BlG TEN WARNED T0 WATCHYANED ‘Likely to Be Best Since b Savoldl and Nagurski ¢ in Middle West. “g e | | BY FRANCIS J.-POWERS. HICAGO, March 28.— Confi- dential note to: Noble Kizer, Robert Zuppke, Bernard : (Lief) Bierman, Francis A. ‘{Bchmidt and Elmer Layden. If the spost office kicks because of insufficient | taddress, we'll fire the post office. “Dear Messrs.: I know you are thinking of foot ball, for when did you | sever think of anything else. So I'll| 'skip the old guy at the door, who is | sworking his way through college— | but not your college, of course—selllng‘ ‘hat pins, to send you some very im-’ ‘portant information. “The other day.I went up to North- | iwestern University to see if Mr. Lyn| Waldorf was making the Mildcats ‘wild. What did I see? For 30 minutes | & thought I saw Jumping Joseph Sa- ¥oldi, who used to do a good fullback Job for the Notre Dames, making | chumplings of the Northwestern | Jboys. i. *“‘What's the idear?’ I asked Mr. Lyn Waldorf. ‘What's what idear?’ count- sered Mr. Waldorf. ‘Having Joe Savoldi ‘out there scrimmaging against your ‘hoys. Don't you know Joe Savoldi is ® professional, a rank prnlessmnal and you are likely to be haled before | ithe Carnegie Foundation for high .h'eason" : Wirlwind Is Identified. NATZ!" retorted Mr. Waldorf. ‘That's not Savoldi; it's Jim Thorpe. Oh, I guess I might as well tell you, that's Fred Vanzo, a sophomore. Some boy, eh?’ « “My dear Messrs., ‘some boy’ is a very inadequate description of Fred | Vanzo; whom you will see in person and often when your elevens are| called upon to play Northwestern. Play doesn't seem to be the proper | word; battle fits a lot better. “Like Savoldi, this Vanzo is an Ital- fano boy. He has Savoldi's legs, Sa- voldi’'s arms, Savoldi's power and| speed. Up to the face he is a dupli- cate of Jumping Joseph, but from a front or profile view he is much bet- ter looking than Savoldi would be after a month in a Hollywood beauty par- lor; which is no handicap at North- | western. You've seen the Northwest- ern_co-eds. “Waldorf had Vanzo throwing his 225 pounds against what Northwestern | called its regular line last season, and | after 30 minutes decided he would keep Vanzo and send the other boys home. It was 25 yards or no count with | Frederick, and a lot of bum raps for | the lads who tried to stop him. Well, they did stop Vanzo once. His op- | ponents lined up in a single file, all | 11 of them, and dared him to come on. | ‘The tenth fellow stopped Freddie when he slipped in the mud. He Has the Works. 1 HAT I am trying to tell you, | Messrs., is that Fred Vanzo | is likely to be the darndest|Won the men's doube title by defeat- | ing pitchers. ing the defending champions, Mal-i fullback the Middle West has seen | since Joe Savoldi or Bronk Nagurski.| He starts fast, runs hard and with | tremendous speed. Also he can do a fair bit of passing; can block like twin elephants and is no sap on defense. | You had better start thinking up the | answer. It might be a good idea for you to go scouting on the day your eleven plays Northwestern. There’s no | use hoping Freddie flunks his classes, | for the young man is good at book | larnin! T don’t know what else Mr.| Lyn Waldorf will have to offer next Fall, but any 10 fellows named Her- man and Vanzo will make consider- able of a foot ball team. This might be the year for you to try the insur- ance business. “Very truly yours.” “P. S.—Should you happen to be down in Clinton, Ind., next Summer, look around; there might be some more | Vanzos in the town. You could tell the conference you were in Clinton to buy a load of coal.” LYNCH TO AID ON AIR. Joe Lynch, captain of Georgetown | University's go0lf team and president | <°. of the National Intercollegiate Golf Association, will aid Joe Holman in staging the weekly WOL sports broad- cast tonight at 8 o'clock. e BETZEL WILL MANAGE. FORT WAYNE, Ind.,, March 28 (#). ~Bruno Betzel, former American As- sociation player and manager, has been named manager of the Fort Wayne Club n the Three-I League. | M: Phils Meet Old Friends in Sox By the Associated Press. INTER HAVEN, Fla.—Jimmy Wilson’s Phillies, who meet the Boston Red Sox today. greeted enough former members of their team in the last two days to make up a nine. Yesterday they encountered three—Smythe, Dugas and Thomp- son, playing for the Montreal Royals, who defeated the Phils, 4-3. On Tuesday, playing Baltimore, the Phils shook hands with six who vore the Quakers’ jersey. Battling for Title and Crowning of Badminton Champ Henry Howlett failed to make this pick-up from a shot off Malcolm Beattie's racket, but he and Jack Purinton (on his right) won the District doubles honors at the Y. M. C. A. last night. Holmead Callum, Beattie’s partner, “got cheated” when the cameraman snapped the shutter, He was In the back court. . BADHINTON RULERS CROWNED Waldron Faulkner and Mar- garet Graham Win Finals of Annual Tourney. ALDRON FAULKNER of the New York Badminton Club and Margaret Gra- ham of Washington today held the men's and women's singles badminton championships of the Dis- trict as a result of victories last night at the Y. W. C. A. in the final round of the annual tournament. Faulkner was presented with the Leander McCormack-Goodhart Tro- | phy, following a 15—3, 14—4 triumph | while the new ' over Sheppard Holt, woman’s singles champion scored over Kathleen Willoughby in a play-off, 5 to 4, after playing to a 13—13 tie. Jack Purinton and. Harry Howlett colm Beattie and Holmead Callum, 8—21, 21—10 and 21—14. ‘The woman's doubles crown was won by | Margaret Graham and Victoria Eynon, who defeated Mary Ryan and Mrs. H. Clay Thompson, 3—15, 15—12 and 15—11. The mixed doubles champions are Kathleen Willoughby and Beattie, who downed the team of Mrs. Graham and Harry Howlett, 13—21, 21—9 and 21—17. Varied Sports Women’s A. A. U. Basket Ball. Quarter final scores: Tulsa Business College, 44; Ameri- | | can Institute of Business, Des' Moines, | 5. Holdenville, Okla., Flyers, 15; Chi- cago Baby Ruths, 13. Eldcrado, Ark., Lions, 26; Wichita Merchantettes, 16. Shreveport, La., 44; Houston, Tex., Consolation scores: Bethel Nurses, Colorado Springs, 31; Meade County, Kans.,, All Stars, 25. Eldorado, Kans., 32; Wichita Ponies, 15. ‘Tulsa Bearcats, 20; Stratford, Tex., 26. Asheville, N. C., Enkas, 33; Kansas City Brownies, 32. College Base Ball. ‘Washington and Lee, 2; William and ary, 1. Michigan State, 7; Newberry, 7 (10- inning tie; darkness). College Golf. Hampden-Sidney, 17; Wofford, 1. Amateur Hockey. Chicago Baby Ruths, 4; Boston Store (Chicago), 0. (Western A. A. U. championship final.) Pittsburgh, 5; Baltimore, 3. GUARANTEED USED TIRES POTOMAC TIRE CO. 28tk & M N.W. TURN TO | Pages A 1 Ford T R . SED 4 & A-15 Dealers Weekly CAR QUOTATIONS 'SEEDED SENTETS Waldron Faulkner, singles winner, is being presented with the trophy that goes with the title by Leander McCormack-Goodhart of the British Legation BUILD FOR FUTURE WITH “FRESHMEN” (Continued From First Page.) ‘Pra.nclsco last season, has been suf- | ficiently noteworthy to clinch regular jobs for them and buoy the pitching | prospects. All of which means that the fling- ers who figure to have the preference | on past performances, including Paul | Derringer, Si Johnson, Danny Mac- Fayden, Tony Freitas and Bennie Frey, will have to hustle to keep from | being elbowed out of the list of start- | Mize an Unknown Quantity. H | HE one problem still unsolved by | Manager Dressen is whether | Johnny Mize, the hard-hitting “flrtt sacker obtained from the Card- | | inals by way of Rochester, will be fit | to handle the regular job and justify the price that must be paid if he sticks. Mize has been tried out under an optional agreement, depending upon recovery from an ailing hip. Dressen probably will defer his final | decision until the season opens. It | Mize is turned back, the veteran Jim Bottomley will be restored to active duty. The Reds.are satisfied with the rest of their kid infield, including Alex | Kampouris at second base, the sen- | | sational Billy Myers at short end Lew | Riggs on third, with Tony Plet and | Gordon Slade as utility men. The outfleld will combine experience and the team’s main hopes of batting punch with Chick Hafey in left, Sam Byrd in center and the Rochester —Star Staff Photos. Hopes of Grimm Given a Setback By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES.—Manager Charlie Grimm'’s high hopes of playing 100 or more games at first base for the Chicago Cubs this year were at their lowest ebb today. While playing at first yesterday against Portland Grimm suffered a recurrence of the back injury which has crippled him the last two years. In reaching for a throw from Jurges he pulled the muscles of his back. Rookie, Ival Goodman, in right. Har- lin Pool and Adam Comorosky will be in reserve. Bill Campbell, now recovered from influenza, looks fit and capable of sharing the backstopping with Ernie | Lombardi, a booming hitter. (Next: American ltazue review.) G. U. PREPS PLAY GOLF | To Open Season Next Thursday by Opposing Devitt. Georgetown Prep Sthool will open its golf season next Tuesday, when Devitt School will be entertained on the Garrett Park course. The little Hoyas are captained by Hughes Spalding. Others on the squad are Bobby Troutman, Ray Higgins, Jack Meseck, Dick Ganning, Tommy Graham, Aus- tin Parks, Desales Powell, Alonso | Cummings, | Portunondo, Kenneth Ross Muenzen and Jules Titus. At the head of the parade Pronounced LA-ZO-RA .’ Distributer: Daniel Loughran Co., Inc. 1311 H Strest, N.W, Washingten, D. G, STICK IN TOURNEY |Semi-Finals on Tonight in Struggle for National A. A. U. Honors. ICHITA, Kans, March 28 UP) —Top - seeded sextets from Oklahoma, Arkansas| and Louisiana remamcd today in the scramble for the women's national A. A. U. basket ball title, now held by the Tulsa, Okla., Stencs. The all-Southern semi-finals to-! night, pitting the Stenos against the Meadows-Draughen team of Shreve- | port, La., and the Holdenville, Okln, Flyers against the Eldorado, Ark., Lions brings together the same teams| mate round last year. The Holdenville team, comprising most of the stars on the former Okla- homa City Cardinal team, 1934 a tight defensive game. win their crown last year, sank eight of 10 charity tosses last night to ald the Eldorado Lions in a 26-16 | triumph over the Wichita Merchant- ettes, the last home-town team to fail. Shreveport, nosed out of third place Stars at Charity Line, AZEL WALKER, free-throw ex- ped through the quarter-finals by de- feating Houston, Tex., 44-25. It was by the same score that the champion Tulsans eliminated the | American Institute of Business, Des Moines, the last Northern survivor. Completion of the woman's na- | tional free-throw championships was scheduled for today. The first half of the fleld of two dozen was paced | ton, Tex, who fired 44 out of 50 through the hoop yesterday. The 1934 winner primed to defend | her title is Opal Hill of Shreveport, 100. WANTS HEAVY BATTLE. NEW ORLEANS, March 28 (P)— Through Matchmaker Lew Diamond of the Garden Athletic Club here, championship fight between Max Baer and Max Schmeling in Jun HEADQUARTERS FOR AUTOMOBILE LUGGAGE RACKS LS. JULLIEN.Inc. 1443 P St. N.W. NO. 8076 YOULL LIKE RUNYAN'S 63 BEST ROUND OF CAREER Little P. G. A. Champ Defies Rain and Wind to Top Pinehurst Golfers. By the Associated Press. INEHURST, N. C., March 28— Threats of rain held no terror for diminutive Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y., as he set out today over moist fair- ways on the second round of the North and South open tournament three strokes anead of his nearest challengers and six swings under par. With a brilliant display of irons and woods through showers and wind gusts, the little P. G. A. champion yesterday raked Pinehurst's No. course for 65 to head a band of 100 of the Nation’s best money winners. “It was the best single round of my life, under the conditions,” was the leader’s comment, even though wood seconds werc needed to reach the carpets on the longer holes. Only two others could better 70. They were Ray Mangrum of Los An- geles and Felix Serafin of Scranton, Pa., who plodded through the rain for 68s. Several Better Par. TLLIE M'FARLANE of Tucka- Deal, N. J., and Byron Nelson of Texarkana, Tex., were able to bet- | that battled their way to the penulti- | runner-up, survived the quarter-finals| last night by defeating the highly| rated Chicago Baby Ruths, 15-13, in | pert, who helped the Tulsans| last year by the Eldorado team, step-w by diminutive H'Eloise Bunkley, Hous- | who recently sank 98 out of a possible | New Orleans is making a bid for a| ter par, the trio turning up 70s. A stroke back of them with par 71s | were Mike Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y.; Clarence Clark of Bloomfield, N. J.; | Harry Cooper, Chicago, and Joe Ezar of Waco, Tex. Henry Picard of Heishey, Pa., de- fending champion and winner of last | week's Charleston open, was well back in the field with a 73. Those doing the route in 72 were: | | Denny Shute of Philadelphia, Jules Huot, Quebec; Tony Manero, Greens- boro, N. C.; Tom Kerrigan, Mount Vernon, N. Y.'. Sam Parks, Pittsburgh; ‘Chandler Harper, Norfolk, Va.; Ky Laffoon, Penver; Bobby Cruickshank, m«:hmond and Dick Chapman, ama- | teur of Greenwich. Conn. The fleld will be cut to the low 60 players after today's 18 holes, and the event will wind up tomorrow with a 36-hole finale, Still Seek Baer For Fight Abroad By the Associated Press. ACRAMENTO, Calif., March 28 —Max Baer will leave for the East tonight to talk some more about where, when and again whom he will defend his heavy weight boxing crown. While they still were packing | their bags the champion's mana- | er, Ancil Hoffman, said he had received another cablegram from Walter Rothenburg, German pro- moter, to the effect he was com- pleting details for a title fight August 17 between Baer and Max Schmeling. | In all his talking since the New York Boxing Commission named | Jimmy Braddock as the logical challenger, it has been obvious Schmeling is the man Max would like to fight this Summer. TIRES - R BATTERIES All prices subject to change without not 2| .; *Craig Wood of | | (\PORT is what you might call | replete with bizarre episodes. But it isn't so often you find a hot contest under way be- | tween two men who ave 43 years apart in age. Yet that is the late March tip in the American League as 28- year-old Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox and 7l-year-old Cornelius Mc- Gillicuddy (slang for Connie Mack) strike for a spot in the first division of the American League. At this moment, just as the peach blossoms are flaring into canopies of | pwk and white, the general opinion | seems to be that the Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians and New York | Yankees have a slight edge in one- two-three locations. | Back of this trio, we have the Red Sox and the Athletics pointing for the open plot among the upper four. Connie Mack was playing ball well | over 20 years before Joe Cronin was | born. Yet with this discrepancy of | |43 years, Cronin and Mack are two | of the keenest leaders base ball know: | today. Maybe the years don't meaa | \much Maybe Henry Ford and Rocke- | feller are broke. | vision THE SPORTLIGHT | Cronin, 28; Mack, 71, Offer Interesting Angle to Fight for High Place in A. L. BY GRANTLAND RICE a look and Grove was wheeling a fast one through, with a broad smile work- ing as annex. A year ago, Grove was in the depth at this time. He was sunk. He won 8 ball games out of 20 starts in 1934 “He'll win a lot more than eight ball games in 1935,” Cron- in said. “How are you going to use him?" I asked the Red Sox leader. “‘As a starting pitcher,” Cronin re- plied “You know you've either got to use a man as a starting pitcher or a relief pitcher. You can’t mix it up. I know they all figure Grove is about | through. But I figure theyll step into a surprise and a big one.” You might note here that the Red |Sox have the strongest short stop- third base combination in base ball. Their names are Cronin and Werber And don't overlook Werber, “Werber is one of the greatest young ball players I've ever seen,” Babe Ruth told me as he left the park. “He can do just about anything a star should do.” Cronin isn't aiming at the first di- After the volcanic breaks h: rew last year he is shooting for the top. Why not? They can't arrest or An Open Race. 'D LIKE to have you meet Joe Cronin, manager of the Boston Red Sox. Here is a tall, young, husky Irish- | man, with a quick smile and a square | Jaw, a .300 batting eye with a striking | personality. He had to have this lat- | | ter feature to be a big league manager | at 26. Joe Cronin, mopping the perspira- | tion from his brow under a West Coast palm tree, disagrees with your correspondent in naming Tigers, In- dians and Yankees as the three ball wclubs with the better chance to win. “This should be the most open race | the American League has ever | known,” he told me. “Any one of five clubs has a good chance. I'll | tell you how it is. We are all shy | on reserve strength. None of us can stand much bad luck—injuries or accidents. Our first line strength runs fairly even.” At this moment, a kid by the name of Eddie Collins joins the argument and nods his assent. “A team picked to finish fifth can get the breaks” adds Cronin, “and win this pennant. And that includes | the Senators.” At this point we recalled a year ago | when we were inhaling the fragrant |odor of peach blossoms. Every one then was picking the Detroit Tigers | to finish sixth, with an outside chance {to land in fifth place. The first di- | vision?—don't be ridiculous. sue you if you miss. Anybody’s Pennant, TRIED to pin Cronin down for a I pennant pick. He wouldn't take the bait. He merely grinned and | said—"I'm telling you this is any- bcdy's pepnant. And we've got our chance. When you get through it still gets down to the breaks and the pitching.” At this point Eddie Collins cut in. “I always get a laugh,” he sald, “when somebody says ‘we can win if we get the pitching.” Who couldn't? It's saying I could bc rich if I only had enough mon: T said to Cronin, is going to get the best pitching in this American League race?” Cronin tmk another look at the peach bloss: and said, “Wait a minute, this is only March. Grove looks far better than he did a year ago. So does George Pipgras. Rhodes and Ostermueller are right and ready And Wes Ferrell is in better shape 1e has known in some time. But ble is still there, just a8 it is other club in the American League. I reported the argument back to Babe Ruth. “It's the toughest pick I ever ran acrcss,” he said. “Any one of five teams can win. maybe six. If I had to make a pick, I think it would be Cleveland. But I don't have to worry about that league this vear. I j want to get a Maxim silencer for my | dogs.” Continuing the Argument. EW people realize,” Cronin said, “what a terriffic gamble a big | league pennant race is. Last | \ear the Tigers sailed along without an injury or a lost man. We had {about two-thirds of our ball club | wrecked by accidents. I'm telling you there is little difference in the first line playing strength of five or six teams. Any one of these teams can get the breaks and win. None of | these teams can miss the breaks and finish one-two-three.” | “What about a young fellow by name of Robert Moses Grove' asked. | “Look at him,” Cronin said. I took SAVE MONEY AT PRESENT LOW PRICES USING YOUR CREDIT AN GLENN ouT FUR RECOR! 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