Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1935, Page 20

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1935. SPORTS. :B—6 Frick Guarantees Braves’ Operation : Harrison Burning Tree s “Official” Star L3 LEAGUE AWATTING * OFFERS FORCLUB . National Owners Unanimous in Absorbing Franchise of Boston Club. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, November 27.—The Boston Braves' base ball team was a National League orphan today, its franchise dangling before any one who would open his coffers to the risky business of base ball. Beset with financial perplexities, the lowly Braves, who finished far in the cellar last season, were taken over by the league yesterday after the action was indorsed unanimously by the other presidents of the circuit. It was the first time since 1903, when the league took over the fran- chise of the Philadelphia club, that such drastic action had been taken. Ford C. Frick, league president, said in a statement: “This action was taken because of the failure of the Boston National League Base Ball Co. to fulfill its contractual obligations over an ex- tended period of time. Debts Total $325,000. # A S A result of this action the Na- tional League is now in position to receive proposals for the acquisition of the Boston franchise and players’ contracts and will consider all pro- posals submitted in writing to the president of the National League on or before the date of the annual meet- ing on December 10, 1935, in Chicago (the date of the league's annual meeting). “At this time no definite proposals have been submitted, but the Netional League guarantees that there will be no break in the operation of the Bos- ton National League base ball club in Boston, which has operated continu- ously since 1876.” The debts of the club are estimated to total $325,000. This amount, Frick said, would be cleared either by re- organization of the club ownership or by the league, if the latter finds it necessary to operate the club. Frowned On Dog Racing. THE meeting was attended by presi- '~ dents of the league clubs, Charles F. Adams, majority stockholder of the Braves, and Maj. Francis Murphy, who represented the minority stock- holders. Adams controls 8,500 of the 15,000 shares. A year ago, Judge Emil Fuchs, then elub president, sought to operate a dog racing plant at Braves' Field in order to solve his difficulties, but be- cause of the gambling aspect the plan was frowned on by the league moguls. As a result the Braves for a time were threatened with loss of the park. Later the league underwrote the ren- tal of the field. Just before the beginning of last season, Babe Ruth was signed as vice president and assistant manager. But the aging Babe failed to heighten the turnstile tempo, became embroiled with the club officials and finally resigned. Fuchs stepped out in August as the Braves set up new records in losing ball games. — ROBERTSON REGAINS BOWIE RIDING LEAD Boots Home Four Winners to Top ‘Wagner—Only One Displays Class in Workout. By the Associated Press. LFRED “SLIM” ROBERTSON re- gained the lead in the race for riding laurels at Bowie by scoring on four winners yesterdsy. The vic- torles gave him a margin of three over J. Wagner, second-stringer of the Greentree Stable. Only one, from Mrs. Deering Howe's stable, stepped to the front as a can- didate for the Bowie Thanksgiving handicap by working eight furlongs in 1:413/5 Monday. Only one is named for both the $2,500 Thanksgiving event and the Bryan and O'Hara Memorial on Saturday, the closing day. He may start in only one of these races. A. A. Baroni's Top Row, twice victor over Discovery, has been shipped from Texas to Santa Anita, Calif. Top Row, winner of the Waggoner Me- morial Handicap, is rated as one of the leading candidates for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in February. HARGADEN RECOVERING Cage Star Is Lost to Sleuths Be- cause of Operation. Ed Hargaden, who thrilled thou- sands of basket ball fans while play- ing for Georgetown University, is re- covering at Georgetown Hospital from an emergency appendectomy. Stricken late Saturday night, Har- gaden was rushed to the hospital and operated upon immediately. The main cog of a strong Bureau of Investigation quint, Hargaden will be lost to the Bleuths for a year. L 3 L3 No Cause for Thanksgiving on Part of G. W.’s Colonials 39 HARRIERS TO RUN IN TURKEY DAY RACE University of Maryland Enters Nine in Track Club's An- nual Contest. 'HIRTY-NINE are sure to start, and more may sign up today, in the second annual cross-country race of | the Washington Track and Field Club, to be started tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in Rock Creek Park. Two col- leges and three independent teams have entered favorites in the 6Y- mile run. Latest to enter are nine members of | the University of Maryland track squad. Those planning to represent the black and gold are K. Belt, G. Con- nelly, 8. Dibbs, R. Gray, V. Gray, 8. | Gerber, C. Orcutt, R. Maurer and G. Young. Eight contestants from the Balti- more Cross-Country Club also have signed up for the event. They are J. Bears, W. Folmer, E. Martak, G. Mar- tak, E. Newton, W. Rich, R. Thomp- son and R. Weinreich. LITTLE TAVERNS BOOK. Jake Hoddinott is booking games for the Little Taverns basket ball team. Call Georgla 7272 or Adams 8497-M. BOB CAMPBELL, Despite his mere 165 pounds Halfback Bob Campbell, kicking star of the North Dakota University gridders, is a man to be watched by the Capitalians at Central High School Stadium tomorrow afternoon. And LOUIS CHUMICH. as for Chumich, the 220-pound left tackle, ’twas he who blocked the punt that enabled the Nodaks to defeat the Colonials, 7-0, last year. Beer Keg Kentucky Grid Jinx By the Assoclated Press. EXINGTON, Ky., November 27—A little old beer keg, symbol of foot ball rivalry between the Universities of ‘Tennessee and Kentucky, may house a jinx, At any rate, Kentucky hasn't won a game since 1925, the year the keg came into the picture. The rivalry began back in 1899 and will be renewed here tomorrow. Hopes of the Kentucky Wildcats Hasn’t Beaten Tennessee Since It Became Trophy, But Hopes to Turn Trick Tomorrow. to rout the jinx and upset the fa- vored Tennessee Volunteers are wrapped up in Halfbacks Bert Johnson and Bob Davis. Johnson, who scored two touch= downs against Alabama's Rose Bowl team last year and gained 108 yards on scrimmage plays this year against Ohio State, is back in top form after being laid low by a leg infection. Davis, one of the Nation's leading gridiron scorers, will be gunning for points to add to the 66 he already has piled up. {ALCOVAS PLAY GUNNERS i Team in Game Tomorrow Also Is After Sunday Tilt. Risking 1its undefeated record, marred only by a tie, the Alcova A.C. will meet the strong Seaman Gunner eleven at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow on the Arlington Field. A game for Sunday is sought by Alcova, which may be contacted by calling Manager Henson at Claren- don 1480. HANLEY COACHING AGAIN| Will Help Kerr Coach East Team for Coast Contest. CHICAGO, November 27 (#)—Dick Hanley, former Northwestern coach, 1s back in the gridiron wars again. Collaborating with Andy Kerr of Colgate, Hanley will drill the Eastern team for the annual East-West game |t for the benefit of the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children, which will be played for the tenth time at San Francisco New Year day. ST. JOHN'S BASKET PROSPECTS BRIGHT Three Regulars and Two Strong| Reserves Back From Last Year—37 in Squad. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 27— ‘With three regulars and two first- string substitutes included in the squad of 37 players, Coach Dutch Lentz is optimistic over the prospects of his | St. John's College basket ball team. Len De Lisio, former Central High School star from Washington; Bill | Ross and Johnny Lambros are slated | for regular berths, while Charles ! Seven Army Men In Last Grid Tilt ‘NEBT POINT, New York, No- vember 27.—Seven members of Army's starting line-up will be playing their final game against the Navy Saturday, Those graduating next June are Capt. Bill Shuler, Jack Clifford, Nick Necrason, Hal Wolf, Bill Grohs, Tarzan True and Whitey Grove. 2 The other four members, Monk Meyer, John Eriksen, Stan Smith and Woody Stromberg, are juniors. Casey Vincent, alternate center with Clifford, also is a senior. G. U. PREPS LEAVE FOR IONA CONTEST Coach Gardner Takes 17 Players on New York Trip—Hopes to End Losing Streak. SEVENI'EE'N Georgetown Prep foot ball players and Coach Joe Gardner left this morning for New Rochelle, N. Y., where tomorrow morning they come to the end of a| losing season in what is becoming an | annual game with the Iona High| School team of that city. Unsuccessful in its quest for victory in each of its previous five starts and riddled by injuries all Fall, each mem- | ber of the squad will have cause to | give thanks when the final whistle | blows tomorrow, ending their season | of turmoil and unhappy incidents. While Capt. Billy Pranklin will sit on the bench in uniform for the first time since he broke his collarbone | more than a month ago, there is lit- | tle lkelihood of him getting into the | game. Gardner thought, however, that his presence might lend encour- agement to an otherwise disheartened | squad. Five of tomorrow’s starting eleven | will be playing their last game for| Georgetown Prep. Along with Frank- | lin, Schroeder, Morse, Cullen, Daly | and O'Connor will graduate before an- | other grid season rolls around. Of | that group, Schroeder has proved | most valuable this year, proving an| execellent pass receiver at his end post and a fearless defensive man. BASKET LEAGUE BUSY Three Games Scheduled Tonight in Heurich Organization. ‘Three games are scheduled in the Heurich Basket Ball League tonight, with action taking place in the Brewery | gym. | Heurich's Flashes and Little Tavern | will open the triple-header at 7:30 oclock, W. P. A. will face Bovello SENATOR HOLDS | HANDIGAP AT CLUB Has Scored as Low as 76. | Commissioner Allen s Favorite Opponent. *BY W. R. McCALLUM. F YOU can judge by club handi- caps, Senator Pat Harrison of [ Mississippi is the best golfer among the official group that plays the Burning Tree course. For Senator Pat not only has the knack of con- triving winning golf games, but he also has reduced his handicap so that he sports the lowest impost among the golfers at Burning Tree who are connected with governmental activities in an official way. Harrison’s handicap is 7 strokes against a par of 72 for that rugged layout where so much of Washington officialdom indulges in its divot-lifting. But he is closely pushed by Representa- tive Chester Bolton of Ohio, who is one of the better amateurs from the swanky Mayfield Club of Cleveland and by his playmate on many a round of the links, District Commissioner George E. Allen. Bolton has a handicap of 9 strokes and usually plays Burning Tree in the low 80s, while Allen, whose golf has been cut into by his P. W. A. activities, has a 12 handicap, indicating an average of around 84 for the course. Harrison Has Hit 76, SENATOR HARRISON has scored as | low as 76 at Burning Tree, which is considerable golf for a man of his age over such a tough layout. So has Allen, who is some years Harrison's Junior, But the best golfers of the club are not in the official group. Although no club championship has been staged at Burning Tree for some years, Walter R. Tuckerman generally is regarded as the leading player. He plays from scratch in the club events, and L. W. Laudick, who was runner-up for the Columbia club title a few weeks back, | runs him a close second. ‘Tuckerman has played the course in 69, while Laudick has done that ardu- ous layout in 71. Pelley Star on Links, ONE of the newer members of the Burning Tree Club, while not as- sociated with the Government in an official capacity. is John J. Pelley, former president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and a darned good golfer if you listen to the men who have been licked by him. Pelley, pres- ident of a railway association, gets Koogle and Charley Cunningham, who = Plumbers at 8:30 and one hour later ' around in the high 70s, | saw action last year, are standout Acacia will clash with Fort Myer. The But one of the big laughs at Burning candidates for the remaining posi- Flashes and Acacia each will be seek- | Tree, where they don’t take their golf tions. St. John's will open a 15-game schedule with Hampden-Sydney at Annapolis on December 18, The schedule: December 18, Hampden-Sydney, home. January 11. Elon. home: 15. Johns Hopkins at Baitimore; 28, Western Mary- land at Westminster, February 1, Washington College at Chestertown: 3, Al Universit: home: 0, M t Emm: yre: 8 sity of Maryland at College Park; 15 ern Maryland. home: 18. Am versity at Washington; 20. ngton Ce 1o 0Y0l8, home; ome. ount’ starts. QUINT WINS BY POINT. ‘Nu Chi Gamma and the Government | 1S, and if fast he will expatiate on how | Printing Office fives were the victors in | Southeast Community Center League games last night. The fraternity court- | men nosed out the American Stone | quintet, 24-23, but the Printers had | little more than a workout in swamp- ing Epworth, 41 to 10. Myskowski's | nine flield goals had a lot to do with | G. P. O.'s superiority. says...1e Ewcineer tw Every Gavon [ X | ing a second victory in as many league | seriously, is to gallery a game in which Senator Harrison and Commissioner Allen are playing. They “rib” each | other all the time. If the green is slow Pat will tell George how fast it slow the greens are today. It's really a riot to listen to the run- ning fire of conversation between the two. They keep books on their golf winnings and losses and pay off on New Year day. So far no one has grown wealthy on the proceeds, al- though they don't spare the horses-on the first tee. YOUR CAR NEEDS Lubricated Starting | 1425 P se. N.W. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR 'HREE changes Lave been made in the intercoliegiate bask ball rules at the suggestion of n:: s A. A. U. They are: (1) Permis~ sion to shoot for the basket atier g dribble, (2) holding one hand be- hind the back on & jump ball ana (3) playing an extra period to settle a tle instead of playing for one field goal. Rex Collier, Dewey Zirkin, George Schmidt, Ralph Du Boise, Reed Munson and other Tech High stu- dents just returned from a gun- ning trip on which they caught a fox, in addition to bagging 20 rabe bits and 10 quail. What is expected to be one of the best sandlot foot ball games of the season is to be played to- morrow between the Mohawks and Vic Gauzza’s Nationals. The win- ner will meet the Vigilantes for the District title. | LANDON GAINS REVENGE | ¢ | Beats St. Albans 100-Pounders to | Offset Early Defeat. Adherents of the St. Albans and | Landon 100-pound elevens still are | arguing about the merits of their re spective favorites today, even though the Landon team won a 7-0 victory on | its own grid yesterday. That triumph, | however, only evened the season's count between the two teams as an earlier game was won by St. Albans, It was the last game for each team. Rickey Marsh's 10-yard sprint around end climaxed a 70-yard suse tained march for the only touchdown of the game, in the second quarter. George Perkins took Dick Perkins' pass over the line for the extra point, Line-ups and summary: Landon (7) 8t. Albans (0). Po rXwe=0 QX! Phillip Alexander 07 0 0—7 = 20 0 0 ,0—0 wn—R. E. Marsh. Point after touchdown—G. Perkins (pass from R_ Pere kins) bstitutions ng Gruening. Wi Lonnquist, Referee—Mr. Colling (Landon). Umpire—Mr. Triplet (Landon Head linesman—Mr. Blackwell (Landoa Davis £ FB. R Perkins Landon 8t. Albans Touchd BASKETERS CHALLENGE. 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