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A—12 Griff Lye: Yanks, Chisox and Indians Have Flingers Capital Club Could Use. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. N ROUTE TO CHICAGO, De- | 5 cember 9.—Two Western clubs and an Eastern entry seemed to hold the Washington Ball Club's trading hopes today as Presi- | dent Clark Griffith and Manager Bucky Harris sped to the annual major league base ball meeting, opening to- | tmorrow in Chicago. Their hooks baited with an assort- ment of pitchers, an infielder or two, end a generous choice of outfielders, | Griffith and Harris are expected ta; seek out Joe McCarthy of the Yankees, | Bteve O'Neill of the Indians and Jim- | my Dykes of the White Sox as their | first act at a diamond mart that| promises to set a new high in the| buying, selling and trading of talent. Griffith, hopeful of lifting the Na- tionals from the ruck of the second di- | wvision by a display of the shrewdness which earned him the cogromen of | base ball's “Old Fox,” chiefly will con- | fine his end of conversation to acquir- ing pitching strength. He has an- mounced his intention of launching a graduel rebuilding program, but, by the same token, it is firmly believed by the | National bosses that with one or two consistent hurlers an otherwise potent | Capital entry will prove a factor in the 1936 American League flag chase. Yanks to Bid for Myer. | O IT is that the counters of the Yankees and Indians, who are blessed with the two best pitching staffs in the league, will be the first stops of Griff and Harris on their shopping tour. The Washington chief- tains long have heen eyeing several New York pitchers and for a time | last season it looked as though a deal | for one of the Gotham slabbers would | be made, with Heinie Manush or | Johnny Stone going in exchange. | Manager McCarthy of the Yanks | cooled on such a deal, however, prob- | ably on the theory that Connie Mack was prepared to auction off a flock of his Athletic stars, including Out- fielder Roger Cramer and Third Base- man Pinky Higgins. The Yanks, | minus Ruth and Combs and sour on Ben Chapman, lack at least one out- | fielder. but McCarthy's preference is reported to be Cramer or Roy Johnson of Boston over any of the Washing- ton gardeners. Whether Griffith will be able to ewing A swap for a Yank hurler in exchange for Manush, Stone o1 Fred Schulte, may depend on where Cramer goes, if anywhere, and the willingness of the Red Sox to dispose of Johnson. Even if the local plans of rekindling the spark of last Summer's trade | plans with the Yanks fall through, | there still will be an opportunity for Griffith and Harris to talk turkey | with McCarthy. The Yank boss makes no secret of the fact that he wants | Capt. Buddy Myer and Jake Powell, but whether Griff will will go this high is conjectural. It he is willing to part with Myer, batting champion of the league, Griff could command a sizable hunk of talent in return. Undoubtedly, in this event, he would bring up the name of Johnny Broaca, ace right-hander, who stands next only to Lefty Gomez in the “Old Fox's" estimation. Red Sox Cool on Manush. THUS far Griffith persistently has | denied intentions of disposing of | Myer or Powell, “unless I got offers that couldn't be turned down.” He may not get quite the fancy figure he has set on either of this pair, but Griff is likely to- be sorely tempted to part with at least Myer, who, great ball| player that he is, never again figures to duplicate his 1935 performance and ‘ who will be in his 33d year when next | season opens. Trading possibilities with the Red | Sox, by Griffith’s admission, have di- minished. Joe Cronin was hot after | Manush, but a few weeks ago Boston's | overtures suddenly stopped, leading | Griff to believe that Cramer, as well | 88 possibly Eric McNair, Jimmy Foxx | and Johnny Marcum of the A's, defi- nitely are ticketed to play in the | Hub in 1936. | The Brown’s, with whom Washing- } ton has done most of its trading in recent years, have little that Griffith wants, excepting Outfielder Julius | Solters. The dope is that Solters is net for sale or trade. Philadelphia has not been on Wash- ington’s trading list since the begin- ning of Griffith’s regime, and chances of a deal with the Tigers are not bright. It has been predicted freely that Gerald Walker, the outfielder wanted by Harris, will go to Chicago with Elden Auker and a sum of money for Al Simmons and Mule Haas, If Detroit lands Simmons, they will not ‘want anybody from Washington except Cecil Travis, who positively is not on the block. Should the Simmons-to- Detroit deal go through, incidentally, you can look for Walker and Pitcher ‘Whitlow Wyatt to be sent to St. Louis by the White Sox for Sammy West, Dykes Wants Whitehill. 'HUS, through the process of this deduction, it would seem that in addition to New York, chief hopes of Washington lie in Cleveland and Chi- cago. The Indians lack an outfielder as a result of Bruce Campbell’s illness and Manager O'Neill should be strong for Manush. With Heinle in a Cleveland uniform, the Tribe would have, per- haps, the best outfield in the league in Manush, Joe Vosmik and Earl Averill, but this seems to be what Griff is thinking, too. He doesn’t sound too enthusiastic about sending Heinie to Cleveland and “making a pennant winner out there,” to use his own words, but if O'Neill mentions Pitcher Monte Pearson and maybe a lesser slab light, it might well bé that Washington’s big deal will involve the Tribe. Dykes, at Chicago, needs quite a bit to make a first-division club out of the White Sox, despite his good show- ing during the first half of last sea- son. To begin with, he wants an rienced southpaw pitcher and has (See BASE BALL, Page 14) A S Brouwnies, Braves May Change |GRIFES PROMINENTIG. W, C. U. QUINTS | League sessions under one roof each L - Foening Sfar Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1935. Hands at Meeting of Moguls By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 9.—Major league base ball men, officials, club owners and managers were limbering up leg muscles today and testing the direction of trade winds in preparation for the opening of the annual Winter meet- ing tomorrow. The leg exercises were training moves for hours of standing in hotel lobbies and hustling back and forth between hotels. This year instead of holding the National and American has headquarters in a different hotel. The National League's foremost problem was the Boston Braves. The Braves, financial losers for several seasons and heavily in debt, passed from the control of Judge Emil Fuchs recently and must be reorganized com- pletely before the 1936 season. The| club now is a ward of the league, but | probably will be taken over by a group | headed by Bob Quinn, veteran base ball man. An American League club, the St. Louis Browns, also may pass to new ownership during the meetings. Led by George Sisler, a great star with the Browns during his playing years, a group of St. Louis business men has made passes at purchasing the fran- chise from the estate of the late Phil De C. Ball. Of greater interest to the man who pays his money at the gate will be the unraveling of reports of trades and sales. Connie Mack, dean of major league base ball men, will be most closely watched in this connection. A number of his Philadelphia Athletics, including Jimmy Foxx, de luxe hitter and first baseman, have been reported up for swap or sale. Foxx already has been sold unofficially to the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox and may wind up with one or the other before the week ends. Detroit and Chicago finally may get together on some arrangement where- by Al Simmons will go to the world champions from the White Sox. Rog- ers Hornsby, manager of the Browns, who has a reputation as a shrewd dealer in base ball flesh, is expected to attempt to strengthen his club, especially if tbe franchise changes hands. THE SPORTLI GHT Louis Will Lose Flock of Adjectives if He Fails to Stop Paulino Quickly. BY GRANTLAND RIC OS ANGELES, December 9.— James J. Braddock, the heavy- weight champion, who has been roaming the Western front, has left a good impression as a fellow anyw The fact that no| one figures him with a chance against Louis doesn't worry him at all. “They never figured I had a chance against Lewis, Lasky or Baer,” is Jim's answer. “They all forget that no one yet has even taken a good wind-up at Louis, much less a healthy punch. “Seems that makes it different.” Braddock has no interest in Max Schmeling’s arrival, but Mike Jacobs has. In fact, Mike has what you might call a million-dollar interest. That's what Mike figures Louis and Schmeling could draw next Summer. On a Different Spot. JOE LOUIS occupies an entirely dif- ferent spot from Joe Gans, Sam Langford and other leading Negro fighters who frequently had to earn a | living by losing on a foul or other- | wise restraining their natural im- | pulses along the line of body assault. The only way many of these could | eat was to put on the shackles. Louis has built up his box office pull as a quick and fancy finisher, Billed as the brown bomber—the dark destroyer—the black blaster— etc., etc. (doubled and redoubled), he | must carry his program along these | lines. He can't afford to leave his dynamite at home. He has been lifted close to the su-| | | per-man class, especially in a field that has few opponents who could lick their weight in sponges. If Paulino or some one else should g0 10 rounds with Louis or muss him around, the ensuing chorus would be both loud and derisive. Louis may be surprised to know how many there are waiting to sound the | age-old slogan—"1 always knew he was a bum.” So Louis must keep on bomb- ing and blasting and destroying if he is to hold his gate appeal. No one has ever stopped Pauline yet, but if the Basque woodchopper | still is swinging an axe at the end of 10 rounds Louis will lose a flock of the adjectives that have been plastered around his name. How many rounds can the Spaniard travel? Paulino is tough, but he bleeds easily, and the best guess is that hostilities will be halted with the old | axeman still swaying under the arc lights. Star’s Marathon Again Title Race Special Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK, December 9.—For . the fourth straight year The Washington Evening Star mara- thon has been designated the Na- tional A. A. U. championship, the award having been made yesterday by the Long Distance Running Committee of the A. A. U. to the District chapter of the organi- zation. The Washington delegates to the National A. A. U. convention, Wil- liam E. Russell, Winfree Johnson, Joseph Aranoff and Jim McNa- mara, were forced to play a lively game of politics to land the big event for which half a dozen lead- ing cities were competing. Ap- plication already has been made to include The Star’s annual classic among the Olympic tryouts. Runners throughout the nation strongly supported the Washington race which received the solid back- ing of the International Marathon Runners' Association headed by A. L. Monteverde of Los Angeles. He isn’t as easy to hit as Levinsky, | Carnera and Baer were, using his big arms in a crab-like defense, but he has little to offer now beyond dura- bility. The Tough Ones. WHO have been the toughest of all the fighters—the most du- rable? Joe Grim made a good living having his system hammered into a pulp without taking the count. Bat Nelson, the durable Dane, was about as tough a target as any op- badly swollen, having turned dark blue, and yet he kept on punching with this hand as if he had on an iron glove. Nelson took the worst beating in the history of the ring from Ad Wol- gast. And he took it for over 40 rounds. Through the last 10 rounds of this fight the Dane was so badly blinded that he couldn’t see 10 inches. His face was a crimson smear. But the fight ended with Nelson still groping for Wolgast, trying to land another blow from the dark. Nelson took the worst 10-year punishment in sport. He told me once that the only time he had ever really been hurt happened when he was five years old. “A miner hit me over the head with an iron bar,” he said. “I had a head ache for nearly two hours.” Herrera, the Mexican, a killing puncher, hit Nelson and turned him over in the air before his head struck the canvas. “I was out cold for six rounds,” the Dane said, “but I finally won. There was the hardest hitter for his weight that ever lived.” Among the heavyweights I'd say that Jim Jeffries and Jack Dempsey were the hardest to hurt. They were about two-thirds cast iron. Fitzsim- mons smashed up both hands on Jef- fries’ chin without stoping his march. There wasn't 10 per cent of the real Jeffries left when he fought Jack Johnson. Jack Dempsey once got off the floor 10 or 12 times to finish in front. He | took the famous Firpo and Carpentier ight hands on the jaw without buckling. “I'll never forget that first punch Firpo hit me,” Jack said recently. “I can almost feel it now.” Gene Tunney proved how much he could take in his first fight with Harry Greb. Johnny Risko was an- other entry that few could ever hurt. And Greb was no cream puff. In their last meeting Tunney hit Greb hard enough and often enough to knock out three men, but the human hurricane was still in there swinging at the finish. (Copyrieht. 1935, by the North American ewspaper Alliance, Inc.) CARD GRIDDERS BUSY Some Play Basket Ball Between Drills for Miami Game. Until Catholic University's foot ball squad entrains for the Orange Bowl game against an as yet unnamed op- ponent, in Miami on New Year day, it’s going to be one continual change of clothes and uniforms for half a dozen of the Cardinal athletes. Irish Carroll, Bill Adamaitis, Hers mie Schmarr, Zeke Brown, Joe Yan- chulis and Sam Pagano now are di- viding their time between the grid iron and basket ball court. Today the foot ball team was to attend a black- board drill and light workout, which was to be followed by more tossing of leather tonight when the Cardinal quint stacked up against Maryland State Normal at the Brookland gym at 7:30 o'clock. Scoring Figures Flattering to Hitters, but Show Up Weak Slab Staff. LATTERING to the Washing- ton ball club’s batting power, but unflattering to the Na- tional pitching staff are “scor- ing bee” figures released today by the American League Service Bureau. The combination of one of the best batting attacks in the league and perhaps the feeblest curving corps found the Griffs in 47 games which were marked by the winning team scoring 10 runs or more. The total put_the Griffs far ahead in this dubi- ous phase of the 1935 pennant race. Of these 47 games Washington won 20, but when the National pitchers allowed 10 or more runs by the oppo- sition 27 times the local percentage in scoring-bee games was only .426. The Tigers had the most big-winning scores of the year with 24, although the Yankees led in percentages as the New York slabbers had fewer big counts registered against them than did the Bengal hurlers. New York won 17 games with hefty run totals, while losing only 7. Griffs Set Most-Run Mark. ESPITE the fact that 135 of the American League games found the winning team chalking up 10 or more runs, there was a decrease of 15 games in the 1934 production of high scores. ‘The most runs tallied in any game during the last season were 27, Wash- ington beating Chicago, 16 to 11. Phil- adelphia beat Chicago, ¥ to 7. New York trounced Philadeiphia, 18 to 7, while Washington bombarded St. Louis, 17 to 8. | The worst beating of the campaign | was absorbed by the Browns on April 28, when they were stampeded by De- | troit, 18 to 0. One June 30 the Tigers | whipped the Browns, 18 to 1, while on July 3 they beat St. Louis. 16 to 1. | The champs also were on the big end | ponent ever nailed. I saw him in one | Of three other one-sided scores, beat- fight, two knuckles on his right hand | ing Washington, 18 to 2 and 16 to 6, and Philadelphia, 15 to 1. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY, Boxing. Bob Godwin vs. Al Delaney, 10 rounds, feature bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30. Basket Ball. Shenandoah’ at George ington University, 8:00. Maryland State Normal Catholic University, 7:30. Montgomery Blair at Catholic University Prosh, 6:30. Western at George Washington Frosh, 7:00. i Rockville at Georgetown Prep, 3:30. Wash- at Swimming. Western vs. Y. M. C. A, G street, 8:00. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Mount St. Joseph at Roosevelt, 3:30. Shenandoah at Wilson Teach- ers’, 8:00. ‘WEDNESDAY., Basket Ball. Mount Rainier at St. 3:30. Gaithersburg at Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 3:30. Roanoke at Catholic University, 8:00. Tech at Frosh, 7:00. Friends at George Washington Frosh, 3:30. THURSDAY. Wrestling. Jim Browning vs. Sandor Szabo, main match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. Basket Ball, George Washington University at Ohio State. Western Maryland vs. town, Tech gym, 8:00. Western vs. Georgetown Frosh, Tech gym, 7:00. Bethesda-Chevy Chase at East- ern, 3:30. 1736 John's, Catholic University George- FRIDAY. Swimming. Western vs. George Washington Frosh, Y. M. C. A, 8:00. Basket Ball. George Washington at Cincine nati. Roosevelt at Forest Park, Balti- more. Montgomery - Blair at George- town Prep, 3:30. Western at Washington - Lee High, 3:45. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. Mount St. Joseph at Montgom« ery-Blair, 3:30. Hampden - Sydney at American University, 8:00. Tech at George Washington Frosh, 2:30. Shepherd State Teachers at Wil- son Teachers’ College, 8:00. > | | | | | | | Shenandoah Basketers Play| Colonials—Cards Battle Maryland Normal. EORGE WASHINGTON and Catholic University basket G ball quints will fire the first shots of what promises to be the most successful local collegiate court campaign in recent years to- night, when the Colonials stack up against Shenandoah at the H street gymnasium and the Cardinals face Maryland State Normal at Brook- land. The Colonial tossers, who will be making their debut under the coach- ing of Bill Reinhart, boast a veteran squad, which lacks only the high- scoring Jimmy Howell from last sea- son’s team. While Reinhart probably will start Ben Goldfadden and Tommy O’Brien, forwards; Hal Kiesel, center, and Mil- ton Schoenfeld and Tuffy Leemans, guards, tonight’s tilt no doubt will see every man on the squad in action. G. W. Must Start at Peak. WALT‘ER BAKUM, George Frelicher, Clarence Berg, Lee Fenlon, Pete Yurwitz, Tim Stapleton, Ray Dickey and Slim Whitley are fighting for reg- ular perths and all are given excel- lent chances to gain starting assign- ments later in the season. Scraps with Ohio State on Thurs- day and the University of Cincinnati on Friday will necessitate the Buff and Blue basketers hitting top form at the start. | Coach Fod Cotton, handicapped considerably by the new three-second | rule, which will prevent Hermie | Schmarr, the District'’s high-scoring | star of the 1934-35 season, from op- | erating block plays, nevertheless is confident of a successful year. Cards Look to'Attack. CAPT. BERNIE LIEB, Schmarr, Zeke Brown, Irish Carroll and Sam Pagano probably will start for | fast and accurate passers, with the exception of Lieb, they are accus- tomed to playing at the forward posts. Should the Brookland defense be ragged it simply will be a case of the point-crazy Cards staking all on their ability to sink baskets from all angles of the court. Wednesday Cotton's charges will | | Teachers will attempt to sink Shenan- doah in the Owls’ opener tomorrow ;nlzht. Georgetown'’s promising pass- | ers get under way Thursday night at Tech High against the Green Terrors of Western Maryland, who dropped a | 36-27 decision to Westchester Teach- ers in their opening game last Sat- urday. LITTLE HOYA QUINT FIRST CENTRAL FOE| Contest Next Monday Will Open 23-Game Schedule for Blue Basket Ball Squad. (CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL'S green but promising basket ball team, | the only local scholastic quint which | | will not see action this week. will ugurate a 23-game schedule next Monday against Georgetown Prep at | Central. | Coach Jack Ray has announced | that his team again will compete in | the University of Richmond court carnival, i which his Blue basketers | triumphed last season over Benedic- tine Prep, 35-34. George Washington, Maryland, Georgetown and Catholic University freshman fives will be faced by Cen- tral, while games are pending with Devitt Prep and Pennsylvania Avenue | High of Cumberland, December 16, Georgetwn Prep. at Cen- tral 17, George Washington Freshmen, at G. W, Januery 1. Central Alu 3. “Woodrow ‘Wilson_High. : 4, Richmond Carnival | George Washington Freshmen. at Cen- tral: 8. St. John's, at Central; 10. C. U.| Freshmen. at C. U.: 14, Tech. at Roose- | velt (interhigh series): 18. sanutten | Roosevelt, . Eastern | 29, Maryland | Tech. at Tech | 1. at Central; Portsmouth. t Richmond; | at Tech (interhich ses at Tech (Interhigh seri Freshmen. at Maryland; (interhigh series) assanutten Military. at Roosevelt. at Roosevelt 7. Western. at Tech R York Institute. at . at Tech (inter- . John's, at St. John's: son Hieh. ‘of Portsmouth, 14, Georgetown Freshmen. at George'own: 17 Georgetown Prep, at Gar- | rett Parl CHEWAKI, KéN’T GRAPPLE | Given Bout on Browning-Szabo Program Here Thursday. Chief Chewaki, who once scored a knockout over Max Schmeling when fighting under the name of Gypsy | Daniels, and Harry Kent, former Uni- versity of Oregon foot ball star, will replace Joe Cox and Charley Strack in support of the Jim Browning-San- dor Szabo wrestling match Thursday | night at Turner’s Arena. Doug Wycoff, former Georgia Tech all-America, will clash with Abe Kashey in a 30-minute preliminary, while Dean Detton and George Ma- nu:::chwm grapple in the semi-fiinal mat N Newsom Says Rajah’s Jealousy Sent Him to Griffmen Buck Gets Stove League Laugh—Chapman Seen as National—Lou Little Goes to Hospital. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 9.— N Buck Newsom comes up with the best laugh of the stove league season . . . He says Rogers Hornsby sold him to Washington because the St. Louis papers gave him a bigger play than Hornsby . . . Why, Rogers! Young Murray Patrick, son of Lester, the hockey coach, and amateur boxing champion of Can- ada, got that egg-sized shiner flirt- ing with Lew Peldman‘ (a pro) in a gymnasium . . . A New York newspaper, which conducted & con- \ J test for an all-America coach, hands the plum to Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern . . . Don’t be sur- - prised if Ben Chapman bobs up in the Washington outfield next sea- son. Lou Little goes into a hospital today for a hip ailment . . . Mickey Cochrane, who likes to flit hither and yon in airplanes, has been ordered to stay on the ground by ‘Walter O. Briggs, new owner of the ‘Tigers . . . Richmond U, and Wil- liam and Mary are trying to get into the Southern Conference. Tony Canzoneri has been offered $20,000 (count it) to fight Harry { Jimmy Isaminger of Philadelphia contributes the best line of the wocz . . . me and you bofe, boy. . . . Lou Gehrig is wrestling with his dentist in Boston, Charles S. Cobb of Baltimore AVERY BRUNDAGE. J. T. MAHONEY, Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee and victor in the battle for American participa yesterday was elected president of th led the fight to have the United S FROM THE Bout With Basque as He Looks Ahead BY JOHN POM’PTON LAKES, N. J., Decem- | ber 9.—You could stroll for half an hour through the train- | ing barracks of Joe Louis date on Friday the thirteenth with a Spanish party named Paulino Uzcu- dun. The boys who do the talking around camp are looking farther ahead | than that: “So we'll leave for Havana the day after Christmas . . . Yeah, 70 grand, a natchal . . . What are ya givin' me, | to be the target of the fun-loving | Schmeling and Braddgck? Jim is no | father . . . So what a fighter that kid should be . . . With Braddock in Sep- tember, that's set . . . Sure, a million. ... But who are they gonna give him in March? . . . Listen, Carnera is no bum . . . No, but listen to me . . . They'll be crazy for him in Havana .+ . Year, on New eYar day . .. 80 Baer will come back? You're killin' me . .. But who are they gonna give him in March?"” In a word, this Uzcudun fight next week is nothing more than one cash episode in the fiscal year of the firm of Jacobs, Louis & Co. Joe will push the Basque over— that's an article of faith with Don Miguel Jacobs and the rest of the Louis stockholders. Then Isidore Gastanaga will feed the kitty in Ha- vana. Then the hunt will be on for fresh victims, and more victims, until Joe's fiscal year winds up in a blaze of profit, with James J. Braddock in | the opposite corner. As Good as Finished. ’I‘O ALL intents and purposes, the Uzcudun fight is finished. Some | tickets remain to be sold, and the rou- | tine job of whipping Paulino remains ! to be done, but Mike Jacobs already is peering into the future. So are Louis and his managers, The fearful | and imminent menace of Senor Uzcu- | dun has about the same effect on | Joe's sleep as a dose of morphine. I do not say this with the idea of annoying Senor Uzcudun, who puts a loftier estimate on his own ability to punch and take it. I am simply describing the attie tude of the Louis camp. Now _and then, some one mentions Paulino, and the boys talk him over, | but they pass swiftly from that to Joe's future, financial and artistic. Joe is training here for the fights | come, as well as for Paulino. But if you press him, the bomber | will consent to say & few words about his next target. He hasn't learned | yet to pronounce the proud Castilian surname of “Uzcudun.” He calls the fellow “Pullino” and lets it go at that. As a matter of fact, Joe never heard of this guy until the match was made. “They say he's pretty tough,” said Joe. “Take a man that's hard to hurt in the stummick and head and you got & tough fight on your hands. And they say he’s got a left hook. Well, a left hook ain't never bothered me none, but I expect some trouble puttin’ him away. You got to be careful with your hands with & man like that.” Brother Jack Blackburn, who directs the artistic branch of the Louis com- pany as firmly and watchfully as Mr. Jacobs guides the financial depart- ment, had the same thing to say about the danger to Joe's hands. Yo' Gotta Be Careful. 'OU got to be mighty careful” -said Blackburn. “You hit a hard-headed fella like that the wrong way, with your knuckles tightened up or turned wrong, and you have plenty of grief for a long time to come. “Another thing, Paulline & gonna show us some tricks that maybe Joe ain’t seen before. He \ ) tion in the Berlin games next year. e A. A. U. to succeed Mahoney, who tates withdraw from the Olympics. ~—Wide World Photo. PRESS BOX Incidental to Louis to Braddock Brush. LARDNER. won't be nervous, like them other fellas. . “He’ll be in there usin’ his head and body every way he knows how, the Cardinals. While these men are | Without suspecting that Joe has a and bein’a rough man, he’ll take a lot of handlin’. But Joe can handle him. He won't have no trouble stoppin’ this man.” Joe’s sparring partners have been instructed to rough Joe up in training (within the limits of discretion) and work for his body, which is expected There's Basque. something a bit play host to Roanoke, while Wilson |sap . . , So Joe is gonna become a Comical about the spectacle of Joe's sparring partners trying to rough him up. It's like a jackal under orders to chew the ear off a tiger. The per- formance has a good deal of coyness about it, to say nothing of downright reluctance. But the chances are that Joe doesn't require technical training for any fight, however tough. He was born with an instinct for fighting which should enable him to size up the Basque's quaint maneuvers in a few minutes’ time and work out his own counter attack. He plays by ear. The more you watch Louis, the surer you are that this fight won't go the limit. He hits his spar mates at will, and his spar mates are far more aloof and agile than the Basque. There seems to be nothing under the sun which can prevent Joe from sketching a dotted line on Paulino’s anatomy and cutting along that line until he comes out on the other side. So the boys around camp can be pardoned for skipping lightly over the Uzcudun fight and discussing the future. They don’t even worry about Friday the thirteenth, and when fight people don't worry about Friday the thirteenth, you know they either are dead confident or just plain dead. (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) | GALLAUDET PLAYS 14 BASKET BALL GAMES Rider, Long Island, American U. | Amoné Quints Scheduled by Kendall Greeners. AMES with Rider College, Long Island University and American University feature Gallaudet's 14- game basket ball schedule which be- gins this Saturday night with an intra- city affair involving Southeastern University. Rider and Long Island will be met on a Northern trip to be taken by-.the Blue the latter part of February, while American U. will play host to Gallaudet on February 1. Six of the Kendall Greeners’ games | will be played at home. A seven-match wrestling schedule | reaches its culmination in a home- | and-home agreement with University of Maryland matmen, the first match | to take place at Gallaudet on Febru- ary 7 and the second at Maryland one week later, The season opens Friday at Baltimore, Baltimore Poly- | technic Institution furnishing the op- position. The two schedules: Basket Ball 'Southeastern University; ter Col 2| timore. Pebruary 1. American Southeastern University*: 13, q Phila University: eopathy. *Denotes home games. Wrestling. December 13, Baltimore Polytechnic In- stitution at Baitimore: 21, Johns Hopkins University at Baitimore. January 11—Franklin and Marshall Col- lese at Lancaster. Pa.; 18 Wasnington ¥, . C. A. at the Y, M. C. A.; 25, Baltimore City College at Baltimore. brusry 7. University of Maryland at University of Maryland te not announced. LOUDEN. DIAMOND VET, DIES. | PIEDMONT, W. V., December 9 (®).—William Louden, 51, former major and minor league base ball player, died yesterday at his home here, QUINT SEEKS TILTS. The Star Ramblers would like to schedule 145-pound basket ball teams having gymnasiums. Call Atlantic 4978, Slab Talent on Three Clubs : Olympic War Rages Despite Sanction A AU, APPROVAL SPURNED BY ANTIS “Just Begun to Fight,” Says Mahoney, Chief Opponent of U. S. Participation. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, December 9.—The Amateur Athletic Union of the United States emerged to- day from the bitterest battle of its 47-year history, on record as supporting full American participation in the 1936 Olympic games in Ger- many, but with the war by no means ended. Although irrevocably pledged to go through with the American Olympic program, the A. A. U. nevertheless remained split wide open by an is- sue that still is very much alive, | stirred by religious as well as racial controversy. It threatens to curtail | sharply this country’s part 'in the eleventh Olympiad. Proof was promptly forthcoming that neither oratorical guns nor bale lots killed off the main issue yester- day, when the closing session of the A. A U. convention turned down | 5474 to 553, a compromise proposal to send a fact-finding commission of three men to Germany before going ahead with American plans to com- pete. Subsequent unopposed adoption of | & resolution supporting the Olympics, qualified only by a strong denuncie ation of the Nazi government's ath- letic policies, merely widened the breach within the ranks of A. A. U, “ delegates. Mahoney to Continue Fight. EREMIAH T. MAHONEY of New York, who yielded the A. A. U. | presidency to Avery Brundage of Chi- cago, head of the American Olympic XCummmee after witnessing the de- feat of all his efforts to keep the organization out of the Olympics, de« clared in effect that he has “just be- gun to fight.” Resigning from the Olympic Ex- ecutive Committee. Mahoney said he would continue “the fight against American participation in the games in Germany * * * as the only way of preserving the Olympie ideal” He charged the American Olympic Committee was afraid to “face the facts” concerning existing conditions in Germany and called for undimin- ished opposition to holding the games under Nazi auspices. Others who figured in the unsuccess= ful attempt to put the A. A. U. on record in opposition to holding the games in Germany indicated they would not abide by the majority de- cision. Charlotte Epstein of New York, & leader in women's swimming ranks, resigned from the American Olympic Committee. Charles L. Ornstein of New York, who sponsored but finally withdrew a resolution to boycott the Olympics completely, planned similar action today. Plan “Counter” Olympiad. SAMUEL K. MACCABEE, chairman of the Move-the-Olympics Com- mittee, refused to admit defeat, de« clared the “very close vote is a man- date to continue the fight to prove that sportsmanship is bigger than sport.” and indicated the movement for a counter-“Olympiad” in 1936 had gained impetus by the A. A. U. action. Maccabee suggested that those op- posed to participation in the games in Germany might sponsor an in- ternational set of athletic games in the United States next year, designed to rival the actual Olympics. Brundage, restored to dual leader- ship as the most powerful figure in American amateur sport after a year's interval, hailed the outcome of the A. A. U. battle as a “victory for the amateur athletes of America.” ‘The husky Chicagoan, a former national all-around athletic cham- pion, immediately called for “full speed ahead” in a drive to have the United States fully represented in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Brundage conceded that the finan- cial condition of the American Olympic Committee, which seeks $300,000 for maximum representation in Germany, is “desperate.” Games Contributions Sought. E OUTLINED to the Executive Committee of the A. O. C. last night his proposals for a Nation-wide drive to raise funds and to offset the expected non-co-operation of those antagonistic to Germany. Meanwhile most of the participants picked for the Winter Olympic sports are arranging successfully to finance themselves. “There is no dodging the fact that opposition to support of the Olympics remains,” said Brundage. “PFinan- cially, we have already felt the effects of this. “Whether it is true that a million dollars has been or will be spent to keep Americans from participating in the Olympics, the fact remains we will have difficulty raising the funds necessary to give American boys and girls their rightful opportunity to compete in the Olympic games. “We are facing the situation reso- lutely, however, and I believe we will have fair-minded, patriotic support.” Parker of Duke Five-Sport Star DURKAM, N. C,, December 9.— Already a performer of all- America caliber in foot ball and of major league promise in base ball, Duke’s Clarence (Ace) Parker will try to add another to his list of athletic accomplishments. He is a candidate for Coach Eddie Cam- eron's basket ball team. And there are many who will bet even money that Parker will be just as great a star on the hard- wood as he has been on the gridiron and diamond. You also could get some more dough from his supporters that this all-around lad could make three Duke teams this Spring if he had time—base ball, golf and track. His base ball prowess is known. at golf he’s & par-shooter, in track he’s good at anything, but specializes in the high jump. b | | |