Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1935, Page 17

Che Foening Stap Sporls WRITERS TouRyey WASHINGTON, D. C, UESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1935, * A—-17 Matchlng Last Year’s Record G. W. Aim : Cardinals Now Eye District Honors MUST WIN3TILTS LEFT TOTIE MARK Colonials Will Find Star in(‘ Gainer as D. and E. Is Met Friday. HE season of 1935 may yet be a | big one for George Washing- | ton’s foot ball warriors, Three games remain to be played by Jim Pixlee's rejuvenated | Colonials, and if they win them ail | they will have equaled last year's rec- ord with respect to victories and de- feats. In six games thus far they have broken even, so with three wins du:- ing the rest of the campaign they can match the six of 1934. Last year one game was tied and three lost. Davis and Elkins, No. 1 on the list the Colonials hope to conquer, invades Griffith Stadium Friday night in its first gridiron clash with the Buff ana Blue. The Scarlet Hurricane, which incidentally is the joy and pride of Representative Jennings Randolph, its former athletic director, came to life last Saturday after an unimpressive earlier showing and held West Virginie. Wesleyan to a 12-6 score. But for a grevious error of one half- back who permitted a Weslevan re- ceiver to get between him and the goal line, D. and E. probably would have come eway with a tie score and & moral victory. of November 15. 'WO George Washington scouts re- ported to Coach Pixlee that D. and E. packs a lot of weight, prac- tically as much as the Colonial eleven, and that in Fullback Gainer the visit- ing outfit will present one of the nicest passers and runners Wash- ington has seen this year. This Gainer lad, it may be recalled, was the one who defeated George Wash- ington in basket ball last Winter in a 48-44 upset. Gainer's speed and accurate shooting proved the undoing | of G. W.s basketers. Following Davis and Elkins comes snother “Hurricane,” the Golden Hurricane from Tulsa University on November 15. and in the wind-up engagement the Colonials will play North Dakota on Thanksgiving Day. Having regained confidence not only for themselves, but for their sup- porters and the general public—at least that portion that viewed the thrilling Rice game last Saturday—the Colonials need only to maintain their wide-open tactics against Davis and Elkins to build the Tulsa contest up to the level of importance it enjoyed & year ago. Victory over D. and E. in impressive style probably would send the largest night crowd of the current season into Griffith Stadium the night N ALL likelihood with a mind to this, the Colonials yesterday started where they left off Saturday working on their new spread formation plays which have kept grid fans tongue- wagging since the Rice contest. Coach Pixlee intends to lose ro time adding variations to the set of plays already mastered in an effort to increase their | Ppossibilities. It shouldn't surprise if G. W. against D. and E. flashes still more unanticipated maneuvers from its far- flung line-up in which the ends and | two backs are widely spaced from the | tackles, guards and center and shift into different positions on successive plays. The changing of positions among Tuffy Leemans, Herb Reeves and George Jenkins may be increased and &till newer developments in handling of the ball are probable during the next two games. Even Ben Plotnicki, at present still nursing an injured shoulder, may swing into action in the new order of things at G. W. before the week is up. Trainer Roland Logan hopes to have the hard-working little | Pole in good physical trim by Friday | night. INVESTIGAi’E POLICE | IN 6. U. GAME RIOT Leading Richmond Citizens Score Beating of Students Who Sought to Take Goal Posts. By the Associated Press, ICHMOND, Va., November 5.— Baturday's foot ball game riot be- tween Georgetown University students and Richmond police, who differed over whether goal posts are legitimate plunder for rooters of a winning team, simmered down to a promised investi- gation today. But at its height the matter drew attention of more than a hundred in- fuential Richmond residents. Meet- ing at the Commonwealth Club the day following the game, they heard witnesses describe scenes wherein po- licemen beat students with night- sticks—in one instance while the boy was lying on the ground. A committee was appointed at the meeting. It called yesterday on Col. John Cutchins, director ®f public safety, and later drafted a report of Its conference with the director. The committee accepted, its report said, an assurance from Col. Cutchins that the actions of police would be Investigated. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, November 5.—St. Mary's is coming across the coun- try in style to meet Fordham . The Gaels have their own special train of 12 cars. . . one is equipped as & gymnasium . . . There 15 & public address system, too, and whenever ‘Coach Slip Madigan de- cides to give the boys a pep talk, the 120 fans accompanying the team can tune in. Since leaving Oskland last Tues- day the Gaels have stopped in Arizons, New Mexico, New Orleans, Miami, St. Augustine, and today they visit the Naval Academy at Annapolis . . . Last year Madigan took the team back from New York through Canada . , . Each Ir A THEY WRITE A GOOD GAME, ANYWAY. THEY'RE BoTH GooD ON THE AIRWAYS --- AND BILL IS O.K. ON THE FAIRWAYS ! SPORTIN! PRESS” (ARMY WAR COLLEGE) GIRIFF ARRIVED EARLY WITH A PAIR OF COWBELLS TO AID HIS "FAVORITE "WRITERS WITH THEIR PUTTING Yeveee +)OE ROBERTS THE PEACOCK OF THE PRESS ‘— DRESSES N THE 705 SHOOTS 1N THE —By JIM BERRYMAN OH WELL~ YH COURSE UP BEFORE WE Sow Th' GRASS SEED! &9"\ CAPT Roes Mackie, Lirecror o Athlents ar War Couz_ge TooK 1T PuiLosoPHicaLLy HAGEN -- WALT, YUH GOTTA GIT MORE WHIP 1IN YHEM WRIST! 7 GUESS WHO THIS BASE BALL /@ WRITER 15! Z‘%z:- 90’ Francis STan cLams THAT A GOLF BALL 15 BY NATURE ONE OF THE MEANEST THINGS e EVER CREATED BESET WITH HURTS, NAVY FEARS PENN' Hamilton to Stand Pat on Team Despite Routing at Princeton. Bv the Associated Press. NNAPOLIS, Md., November 5.—Beset with injuries, Navy settled down today to its light- est practice schedule in many weeks, hoping to have the Princeton- shaken varsity back into shape for the hard tussle with Pennsylvania. Head Coach Tom Hamilton gloomily anticipates no picnic against the Quakers at Philadelphia Saturday. But he likewise expects a real battle. Adding that he plans no shake-up in the team as a result of the loss to the Tigers, Hamilton said: “One of these Saturdays we're going to hit and hit right. We are building up the squad to the end of the season.” The “light” program mapped out for | the middies consists of little scrim- mage and much smoothing of kicking, passing, running, tackling and block- ing. Yesterday the varsity went to the movies to see films of the Navy- Princeton game, shown in the academy gymnasium. Hamilton and his aides worked meanwhile with a fourth team group. GIANTS GET FED STAR Red Oliver, former Texas Christian halfback, who has been playing here with the Washington Federals, has been signed by the New York Giants and will report immediately, it has been announced by Finis Parrish, Federals' coach. Probably the fastest gridder to play here this year, capable of 100 yards in 10 seconds in foot ball uniform, Oliver turned in stellar performances against the Stapleton Pros and the Chicago Bears, time he selects a different route . .. If you want to see the coun- try, all you have to do is play foot ball at St. Mary's for three years, Always a great defensive team, St. Mary's is stressing offense this season . .. Madigan has a lot of trick formations to shoot at Ford- ham . . . One calls for the ends to move into the backfield and for two backs to shift to the flanks . . . Thus six ball carriers are available all the time .. . The Gaels miss Harry (the horse) Mattos, who flunked his studies and now plays pro foot ball around Los Angeles. Correction on Jim Lindsey: He was with Atlanta all last season, so it must have been year before last that traveling man trailed him around the country , Howard | | Sports Scribes® Cleland Golf (?) Meet Prebe Will Blast Winner if Radio Stoo,i_e Weakens | FEDERAL investigation of the twelfth annual Cleland Cup golf tournament today was asked by lovers of fair play following Maury Fitzgerald's victory vesterday over & field of alleged sports writers at the Army War College. Fitzgerald of the Herald, lone scratch man in the tourney, staggered off the eighteenth green claiming to have shot a 68 while his three part- ners in crime, two from the Herald |} and the third a radio commentator, dumbly nodded their assent. Sof shocked were the field judges they neglected to order a saliva test and in the confusion Fitzgerald slipped away clutching the rusty tin mug em- | blematic of the District fabricating championship. Taking Fitzgerald’s announcement most to heart was Dave Herman, | | chairman of the Handicap Committee. | | Herman shot an 80, gave himself a 10-stroke handicap and was trying to | induce a photographer to snap the Cleland mug and his own when Fitz- gerald appeared on the scene. Her- man, who said he worked for the Post, was led away by relatives. He is expected to profit by the experi- ence. Having slipped up on the saliva test, tourney contestants are in hopes that the forthcoming investigation will pin down the three Fitzgerald stooges, George Garner, Eddle Reich and Arch | McDonald. All refused to talk yester- day, but under professional grilling it is believed that at least McDonald, who claimed he was the radio an- nouncer, will crack under the strain. Reich, it is understood, did not play, but acted as Fitzgerald's caddy. If this is proved Fitzgerald will be dis- | qualified. No caddies, nor golfers are | allowed in the tourney. Making a fatal mistake, The Star's contestants counted all strokes and consequently finished among the also- rans. Vinnie Flaherty smashed the | only window of the day and was | speechless at luncheon, thereby earn- ing a standing vote of thanks by both officers of the War College and by his fellow scribes. The officers of the War College also Gaels’ Grid Trip East Is de Luxe Sightseeing Affair In Annapolis Today After Traveling Through South in Elegantly Equipped Train. Cann, New York U. basket ball coach, is a ringer for Olin Dutra, the golfer . . . Babe Ruth has be- come a pro foot ball fan ... Why doesn't Mississippi State give that fellow Pickle No. 57? .. . Without Ken Strong the Giants look like Jjust another foot ball team. Before each game the Marquette team goes into a”huddle and says 8 little prayer for victory . . . but after that nobody speaks in the huddle except Art Guepe, the quar- terback . . . He is said to be the perfect feld general . . . Lou Little of Columbis, Pop Warner of Temple and Slip Madigan of St. Mary's are the only $20,000-a-year coaches in foot ball . . . The fullback for the New York Aggies weighs only 133 tendered thanks to Jim Berryman and | Jack Keller of The Star for not play- ing in the tourney. Both graciously acknowledged the tribute as they were carried away from the punchbowl. The scores follow: Shiriey Po- O'Neill | FROM THE BY JOHN EW YORK, November 5.—The | highly developed and carefuily trained mind of Mr. Geue Tunney is occupied for the| most part these days with travel, poli- tics, financial manipulation and the duties of a Connecticut landholder. I| could quote him at length on any of | these items, but it strikes me that you might prefer to hear him talk fights. It's easier said than arranged. World problems—including what Mr. Tunney describes as “the internecine strife in Europe”—are of greater im- port than pugilism. Mr. Tunney likes to discuss them. Besides he is a smart man and knows when to duck a pain- ful subject. He was smart enough to duck that grim program of fisticuffs presented at | Madison Square Garden the other eve- ning by Jimmy Johnston and featur- ing Signor Primo Carnera and Herr Walter Neusel. It was Primo, chiefly, who kept Mr. Tunney away. Rates Carnera as Bouncer. “I've seen all I want to see of that fellow.” said the ex-champion. “He should be a saloon bouncer, not a prizefighter. He happened to find a man he could lick the other night, but that means nothing; absolutely nothing. “He’ll always be able to whip pounds . . . San Franclsco is doing a comeback in boxing. They're raising the ante on Bryan Grant . . . His latest offer to turn pro calls for $15,000 for a season’s touring . . . Bryan said no ... Bing Crosby, the crooner, owns a piece of Freddy Steele, Tacoma lightweight . . . Bradford High in Pennsylvania has won 26 straight foot ball games ., . N. C, State went to Idaho for a half- back, but Marquette has a guard who comes from Austria . . . Al Nye, Penn end, is a nephew of Rocky Kansas, former lightweight champion . . . Lou Salica’ and Sixto Escobar will do a return bout for the bantamweight title in the Gar- den November 18, :\ l—v' Tunney Intimates He Could Spank Most of Present-Day Heavies, But Omits Louis. —74: Prancis Stan (Star). (News) Vin: 2" "Eddie | (Herald), Reich 1: | (Herald). Rod Thomas Jack | (Star). 83 Dick Tennyson (Play- sround) _63: Walter Haight “Ben ’ McElwee (Times). Miller (Times). 150—30 Buck O'Neill); Henry | expresses resrets. | 43—to Flmucn irk 10—76 0_ (b Droky ! Tait’ Rodier (Bulletin). PRESS BOX LARDNER a certain type of fighter, and certain types of fighters will always be able to whip him. “He's a known quantity—too well known for the public's taste.” When not ducking Carnera, Mr. Tunney keeps an aloof, but tolerant, eye on the rest of the heavyweight | field. He was curious, for instance, to know how Eddie Mader made out in his fight on the Neusel-Carnera card. “Licked Galento, did he?” said Mr. Tunney, “H'mm. He might be a prospect.” In the recesses of his cultivated brain, Mr. Tunney has a hunch about the current crop of heavyweights. He thinks—though he doesn't say so as positively as you might wish— that, with a shine, a shampoo and a bit of & brush-up, he might lick all or most of them, in spite of his ad- vanced years (37) and the thin coat of suet that veils his stalwart frame, Mr. Tunney believes that strength and science do not completely desert a man over the space of eight years, espe- cially if he keeps in shape. Mr. Tunney certainly had science, and all the strength he needed. He feels that strength and science, ap- plied in judicious doses, would mow down the heavyweights of this year of grace like so many sprigs of parsley. He is thinking most specifically of Baer, Carnera, Schmeling and others of that ilk, men who have a definite weakness in their fighting equipment. These are the men Mr, Tunney would undertake to lick with a few months of hard training. For Louis he always has had a bit more respect. But it’s hard to get him to speak of Louis. When I mentioned the Brown Bomber—— “There’s & big problem,” said Mr. Tunney, “in this matter of the Olym- pic games at Berlin.” Tunney Praises Dempsey. To do him justice, Mr. Tunney probably is more interested in the Olympic games at Berlin than he is in J. Louis Barrow, the eminent as- sassin, One fighter, however, he is sdways willing to talk about—Jack Dempsey. When the talk rolled around to Dempsey, Mr. Tunney was there with- a paragraph of praise. “He was the greatest fighter that ever lived,” said the man who beat (Bee PRESS BOX, Page 19). A E3 | | ! TERPS SPRUCING UP ON BLOCKING Also Stressing Passing Prepping to Entertain Big Indiana Team. ARYLAND, convinced it must spruce up on its blocking to| have a chance against In- diana in the intersectional game in the Baltimore Stadium Sat- irday, yesterday had the first Mon- | day scrimmage since the season got | under way. ‘The Terps’ blocking in the Virginia tilt was far from satisfactory and they will meet a bigger and better line when they stack up against the Hoosiers. In fact, Maryland's attack is not clicking in usual November form, although the defense, which has allowed only 13 points in the last three games, with V. M. L, Florida and Virginia, has done well enough. Banking on Aerials. AIARYI LAND will stress offense, par- ticularly passing, all week, with the exception of Friday, when it um‘ be given a defense to check the array | of 190-pound Hoosier backs. | The Terps gained 127 yards in pass- | ing on the Hooslers last year in the stirring game Indiana won, 17 to 14, at Bloomington. Indiana will present in Capt. Reed Kelso, 225-pound center, and Wendel Walker and Vernén Huffman, backs, three of the leading players in the Big Ten. Kelso, who kicked a place- | ment goal that carried 45 yards to beat Maryland last Fall, usually boots the ball far across the goal line when he kicks off. i CHECK-BACK at the edge of | A the Winter recalls a number of remarkable forecasts macc since the last snowfall. all the soothsavers take it on the chin. Scene 1—Bradenton, Fla. march— Dizzy Dean talking with the writer: “They've just sold Pst Malone to the Yanks ‘That means nobody to take Tex Carleton’s place. It also means N0 pennant for St. Louis. Paul and 1| can take care of 45 games, and we'll do that good anyway. But there won't be enough pitching to handle the old home stretch like we did last year and they'll nose us out by about three games.” That was calling it close enough. Scene 2—Mickey Cochrane at Lake- land. Fla.: “I figure we'll win this pen- nant by about eight games. And don't forget this: Crowder will win at least 16 games and he'll help us win a world | sertes. The old boy looks better than he has looked in some time." | Crowder won 16 games and was one of the vital spots in the Cub-Tiger series, allowing only five hits in the fourth game for a 2-to-1 victory. Scene 3—The Ryder Cup matches at | Ridgewood, N. J. “Who is the pick of the young pros?” I asked Waiter Hagen, United States Ryder team cap- tain. “My pick would be Johnny Re- | volta,” Hagen said. “He's not only a| fine golfer, but a cool, uphill scrapper. | He is aRo one of the best putters I ever saw.” Revolta, 5 down to Whitcombe around the twenty-third hole. came, on to win a tough uphill match. In the P. G. A. championship at Okla- | homa City it was Revolta who elimi- 'mv.td Hagen, the medalist, and then | went on to take over the title with a | display of high-class golf against the toughest competition in the game. Scene 4. Tommy Armour be- fore the United States amateur golf championship at Cleveland: “Lawson Little will romp through. “I don't care what the odds are| against winning eight matches in a row—or 31 straight. I've been playing with him all week and I've never seen another golfer as long and as straight with wood and iron—as deadly around the greens and as ice-cold in a pinch. | He'll play any shot he has to play and it won't be even close.” “I Couldn’t Miss.” CENE 5. Mike Jacobs talking: “I'd heard a little about Joe Louis, | but I'd never seen him fight. I went| out to see him fight Natie Brown. It| probably was the worst fight Joe had been in, but I figured then noboby | would beat him for the next six or| seven years. I couldn't believe a 21-‘ year-old kid could look that good— ntil I saw him. I knew then I couldn’t miss.” Neither has Louis. Scene 6. (It can work the other way.) Max Baer talking to the writer last January in Tampa: “How long| will I hold the title? I figure for at| least seven more years. I'm only 25 and there isn't any one around to make even a close match. And I can't see anybody coming on. I guess it will have to be Carnera again, and next time he won't go six rounds.” Within less than six months Baer ran into Braddock and Louis. Scene 7. Arkie Vaughan, young Pirate shortstop, last April: 'm try- ing out a scheme this season I think will help my hitting. I'm using a bat with a smaller handle. Why? In the first place, it gives me a better finger | grip where I can make better use of | my wrists. You can't get enough wrisf action with a big-handled bat. In the El H ] H g B 8 you feel more weight around the hitting surface. It's like being able to feel the weight in the head of & golf | club. This change ought to add a lot | of points to my 1935 average.” Vaughan was around .400 most of the year. (Note—I mentioned this fact of the smaller-handled bat to Gabby Hart- nett, who said he had tried out the same scheme—with the best results he had known in years after 14 sea- sons of major league catching. There's an ides for ball players to work on.) THE SPORTLIGHT Ball Players, Golfers Call the Turn, But Max Baer Proves Poor Forecaster. BY GRANTLAND RIC | make anybody e second place, the smaller grip makes | : Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Foot Ball. Eastern vs. Western, Central Sta« dium, 3:30 (public high title game). THURSDAY, Foot Ball. Georgetown Prep vs. Gonzaga, Thirty-fourth and Benning road northeast, 3:30. FRIDAY. Foot Ball, George Washington vs. Davis- Elkins, Griffith Stadium. 8. Central vs. Roosevelt, Central Stadium, 3:30 (pubiic high title game). Devitt vs. Bullis, Roosevelt Sta- dium, 3:30. Maryland Frosh vs. Catholic U. Frosh. College Park, 5:30 Boys' Latin of Baltimore at Lan- don, 3:30. Friends at Charlotte Hall. Fredericksburg High vs. Wash- ington-Lee, Ballston; Va., 3:30. Hopewell High vs. George Wash- ington High, Alexandria, Va.. 3:30. Bowie State Normal at Miner Teachers, 3:30. SATURDAY. Foot Ball. West Virginia Wesleyan vs. Cath- olic U., Griffith Stadium, 2:30. Indiana vs. Maryland, Baltimore Stadium, 2:30. Randolph-Macon vs. American U.. Central Stadium, 2:30. Gallaudet vs. St. John's, at An- napolis St. Albans vs. Shenandoah Mili- tary, at Winchester, Va Hampton vs. Howard, Howard Stadium, 2:30, e TAMPA U. BEATS ROLLINS. WINTER PARK. Fla., November 5 () —Tampa University defeated Rol- lins College, 19-6, in a foot ball game here yesterday. Another Prediction. IN A round of golf with Babe Ruth a few days ago. the Babe had this prediction to offer: “You are going to see a big jump forward on the part of the semi-pros—like the Bush wicks and others around Brooklyn. I played in four of these games and we averaged around 16.000 admissions. I was surprised to find these semi-pro games were drawing from 10,000 to 15.000 spectators. They don't charge much and they don't pay so much, but they play to a lot of people. “It wouldn’t surprise me to see a semi-pro league composed of Brooklyn, Chicago and a few other cities playing about two games a week. And don't forget, t play to a lot of ¢ “How about golf a playing games?” I “This game of golf, league would base ball as the Babe. at St. Albans 1 W came back in for nine holes. later I went ol and came back in 43. The big trouble is tr; to hook up two good r two days ago I couldn't hit a stra'gm‘ drive or miss a putt—even a 10-footer. The cup looked bigger than a barrel. Today I can't miss a drive or hole a 'S Game With West Virginia Wesleyan May Tip Off C. U,, G. W. Strength, BY ROD THOMAS. OOT ball folk who have hankereq for a battle between Geoizd | I Washington and Catholic Unie - versity since the rivals of -4 | attained gridiron prominence, and then quit relations. won't be indulaed this season, but may be appeased a little when the Cardinals meet Wes | virginia Wesleyan next Saturday :.] | Grifith Stadium In brief: West Virginia Wesley: | held West Virginia to a scoreless tie George Washington defeated West | Virginia, 15-6. Now Catholic University will meet West Virginia Wesleyan. In a season of half-explained upy sets, the once popular method of coms | paring teams by scores against coms mon opponents becomes more and 4! the G. W.-West ir ill permeate the minds of C. U. mddm when they meet the team that battled to a standstill the team that G. W. had a fancy time beating. In lieu of direct competition al} jeround the Cardinals and members {of other major Washington teams are comparing records. l Mulligan Focus. F REPORTS of the C. U.-De Pau) game are accurate the Cards werq victims of a freak play. A touchs down was scored when a De Paul | passer, apparently trapped for a 20- | yard loss, let go with a 45-yard past that was caught by a lunging teame | mate who helplessly grounded the ball ie inches from the Card goal | On the next play the oval way plunged through a temporarily de¢ | moralized C. U. line for victory. [ The C. U. flankman cited for alle America notice after the Cards’ vice tory over Detroit, George Mulligan performed as well if not better agains| De Paul, in the judgment of criticy who saw both games. They say hit pass catching and spirited, efficient defensive play were impressive. The splotching of a clean slate and the drop from national eminence seem to have affected least of all the Card who might have felt it moss r (Dutch) Bergman, head coach there yester drill ing th , the varsity second. strin Pl'§ against the freshman, at last week were forgotten. The rs_had a day off ‘Notre Dame Back At Rockne Peak BY GU DOR\I Foot Ball_ C DETROIA | asked many t ortes of a long line of tre Dame gridiron trie Pilney of Notre Dame came through with one of those | super efforts that stirred up the | rm that blew Ohio State almost ' out of the stadium in the last quar- ter. Two great teams. The story in a nutshell is that Norte Dame putt. What's the answer?"” ted Ohio State. (Copyright. 1935. b 1935 North American News. Newspaper paper Ailiance.) o ! H [} B g B @ W. mmmmw From their they’re snu weather proof. . . and they’re almost wear proof. sheim Shoes wear longer. § *Open Evenings R e ey Heavy Shoes for Heavy Weather their weather-treated calf uppers N T 5 0 T O™~ AN UV 7 O g BY FLORSHEIM Stout is the word that best describes these new Florsheim creations. storm-welted soles to gly water proof and Two or three seasons wear will prove to you that Flor- cost less because they MOST STYLES $§ 875 Men’s Shops 14th & G St. 7th & K St *3212 14th St.