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: WASHINGTON, Chances for Deals THE SPORTLIGHT rz:j_”_fg : CONSIDER THREE OFFERS, NONE HOT Chisox Urge Hurler Trade,' Red Sox Desire Manush, Browns Want Kuhel. BY RANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, December 12—Three trade offers which will await his def- | inite acceptance or refusal for an in-| definite period seemed to comprise Clark Griffith’s only chance of swap- ping player talent today as the annual | meeting of the major leagues passed into its final day. Inclined to pass up all of these of- fers for the time being, the Washing- ton club president packed his bags | for the homeward journey this morn- | ing and admitted that, barring sl complete change of mind by rival | club owners, he otherwise would re- turn empty-handed. In spite of this almost certain prospect, Griffith managed to reg- ister a degree of optimism concerning | his own trade propositions, which | were turned down cold by New York | and Cleveland during the thres-day | conclave. | Will Stand His Ground. "I'M NOT going to give an inch to the Yanks and Indians,” he an- nounced. “They turned down our offers, but I have a hunch that when Joe McCarthy and Steve O'Neill begin | mulling over the strengthened Red Sox and Tigers they will be less in- clined to pooh, pooh, our propositions. They may come around yet.” The offers made to Griffith failed | to interest him particularly, although | there was a possibility that he may | take Pitcher Les Tietje of Chicago in & straight trade for Jack Russell, vet- | eran right-hander of the Nationals. | Manager Jimmy Dykes of the White sox offered Tietje for either Earl| Whitehill or Russell and told Griffith | that any time the Nationals wanted to | accept it would be okay with the Sox. The time limit on the offer was in-| definite but it probably is meant that Dykes’ offer will stand at least until | the Spring training season starts. | Deals Are Kept Open. JOE CRONIN of the Red Sox, still trying to unload Outfielder Roy Johnson, Heinie Manush, but offered to trade Roy for this definitely was turned down by Griff. If he changes his mind, however, Washing- ton can have Johnson, provided he still is with Boston. The third offer was made by Rogers Hornsby of the Browns, who wanted Griff to accept Outfielder Sammy West, an ex-National, for First Base- man Joe Kuhel. This, too, was turned down by the Capital chieftain, al- though he flatly told Hornsby that it would be a go if St. Louis would agree < | not by several jumps from a willowy | spring board. | tamed. Only the food hunters keep Wild Bull Elephant “Pjece of Fighting Machinery” in World. BY GRANTLAND RI 0S ANGELES, December 12— ‘Who is the best heavyweight in the world—with nothing barred? Joe Louis? Not quite. In fact I asked Frank Buck to give me his rating after 25 or 30 years peering/ at jungle fights. Frank has seen them all swinging or clawing at one time| or another, including left hooks and | upper cuts. | “The gorilla?” he said. “Nothing to it. The wild bull elephant can whip anything that lives. In addition to his size and tremendous strength, don't forget his speed and his smartness.” “What about lion and tiger? I'll take the tiger. The big cat has more speed and more ferocity. A tiger would be too quick for a lion.” “All right,” I continued, “what about tiger or lion against an American grizzly?” “Just about a toss-up,” Buck replied. “A big grizzly would have an edge through the thick matting of hair that protects his throat. Before lion | or tiger fangs had cut through, those big grizzly arms would be wrecking something. Neither lion nor tiger would have a chance against one of those big Alaskan Kadiaks. They are | the fighting kings of the Western world.” “Another rough entry,” Frank said, “js a big rock python. He is no push- over for anything that lives. “If you want pound for pound, I'l| give you the black leopard. Even a | big tiger will give one of this breed all the room he wants. It makes a big difference whether they are wild or their speed and strength. The others soon get softened up.” The Wee Scot Returns. IT HAS been 12 years since Bobby Cruickshank dropped his putt for a birdie 3 at Inwood to tie Bobby | Jones in the U. S. open. A day later the Scot fell on the same green be- | fore one of the greatest shots the other Bobby ever played—a midiron | from a sandy lie that stopped 7 feet | from the cup. Before that Cruickshank had served four years at the front, finishing with a record for gal- lant service. In the last few years the wee Scot | on a Julius Solters-for-Kuhel sWap.| has given up most of his time to | Much as he likes Kuhel, Hornsby is not | teaching, where he has made a big | expected to meet this price on Joe. | njt in the Richmond, Va., district. So | Starting early yesterday, Griffith,| when he stepped to the front in the | Manager Bucky Harris and Secretary | firgt of the Florida Winter tourna- | Edward J. Eynon, jr., conducted an ex- | ments against a fast field there was | tensive canvassing of Palmer House | pienty of cheering. It might surprise | lobby in an effort to swing a deal Bobby to know how many as far Declared Greatest | away as California were pulling for | him to come through, no matter who his opponent was. Only a sound swing could keep a tournament game going over this stretch. And the Scots seem to have it. In addition to Cruickshank there also are Mac Smith, Willie MacFar- land and Tommy Armour. Any one from this quartet may step out and win a big tournament at any given date. One advantage they have | over many others is their ability to play almost any type of shot. They are not restricted to a long drive and & blasting iron. They are especially | cangerous on windy days where con- trol counts. These four Scots would be a good match against any four- man team you could name from any other golfing nation, not even barring the pick of the U. S. homebreds. The Record Rush. ARMY and Navy—Army and Notre | Dame—California and Stanford— among others—have had ticket stam- pedes where the demand moved far beyond the supply. But the S. M. U.-Stanford Rose | Bowl game finds over 80,000 additional | parties out with a search warrant to | locate some form of parking space for | the human body. { The Sugar Bowl rush is about as| bad, so the two bowls chis season will set a new mid-Winter record for | American foot ball. | It has been estimated that the two | together would bring out over 200,000 spectators if there was only space | enough to handle this many people. One reason for this has been the colorful ingredients that make up all | four teams. It isn't often that two foot ball games will produce such stars as Grayson, Moscrip, Bobby Wilson, Spain, Shuford, Lester, Mickal, Baugh, N\\TAW/2~ D.- O Cash With Players to Acquire Nat Star. HICAGO, December 12.—This base ball industry just doesn't For instance, this morning there were veteran diamond men eye if Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yanks walked up to Clark Griffith for Buddy Myer . .. Manager Bucky | Harris did not go for that fantastic pert “would make a fancy offer for Buddy befors Griff got on the train Half a million bucks for a ball player who will be 33 years old soon same gent . ., . It doesn't add up by a long way ... And neither does an a certain major league club for Bob Burke . . . The club wanted to buy $2,000 . . . For Cambria, incidentally, it falls just $8,000 short .. . The Al- Burke and -he says he. will get it| either from the White Sox or the Red | Not Seen Willing to 'Back By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. seem to add up any more... galore who would not have batted an | and handed him a check for $500,000 business, but he did predict that Rup- for Washington.” ... But not a player in trade for the offer made to Joe Cambria today by the ex-National pitcher for a paltry bany owner wants “10 grand” for | Sox. They Didn’t Know Linke. ILLY EVANS, one of the out-of-a~ jobbers here, is quoted as saying that he wouldn't have given Steve | Sundra, the class AA pitcher, to the | Yanks for the sore-armed Johnny | Allen , . , much less Monte Pearson, | too. It was a queer dinner that Griffith, | Harris and Rogers Hornsby were eat- | ing last night . . . With every mouthful | of food, Hornsby proposed a deal . . .| and very few of his proposals were al- | lowed to be finished . . . Rogers likes | Joe Kuhel and Johnny Stone best of all the “available Nationals” . . . but he offers what a Washington official | termed “ham sandwich” ball players in | return . . . Hornsby should like Stone ... Johnny goes hit crazy almost every time he plays in St. Louis . .. Last season he got 15 hits in 17 trips to the Lawrence, Tinsley, Rukas, Wetzel and a few others who have played their way into national prominence. I doubt that any other two games of the year could show as wide variety of play as these two bowl parties will put on. Grayson running against Wilson— Baugh passing against Mickal—are two | features alone that are stirring up conversation over two weeks in ad- vance. It is a tribute to the big boom in Southwestern foot ball that two of these four teams come from that sec- tion, with L. 8. U. in a neighboring State. Dallas and Fort Worth have set & new record for talent massed in one compact area, when you consider quality and quantity combined. (Copyright. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) | pounds off,” says Grif, “and I'll be plate during one four-game series. | Eddie Linke, a Chicago boy, was | “snubbed” aplenty by his friends | when he visited the unhappy hunting grounds today . .. Very few recognized | him, so much weight has the erstwhile | roly-poly lost . . . Linke looks to weigh no more than 160, although he vowed he was at 194, which is a considerable reduction at that ... “Four more satisfied” . . . Ed gets his degree from a local physical education college in February, incidentally. Toend WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION | something that deprived it of more | Conference last year—a tall, depend- L4 D.C. BOYS DEBUT WITH . U. QUINT Three in Varsity Line-up for Opening Game With Terrors Tonight. HE unusual and fascinating spectacle of three, and possibly four, home-town boys playing on a local college's basket ball team will be presented to District court fans tonight when Georgetown sends a trio of former all-high stars into its opening game with Western Maryland in Tech High's gymnasium. . A preliminary involving the Hoya | freshmen and Western High will begin at 7:30, with the varsity combat sched- uled to go on an hour later. [ Reared here and proteges of the| city's finest scholaste court mentors— | Charley Guyon and Bert Coggins— | Harry Basein, Tommy Nolan and Buddy Nau have been selected by Coach Freddy Mesmer to start for Georgetown, while a fourth, Si§ Esen- stad, a Roosevelt product, is regarded as chief of the reserve brigade. Moreover, if Mesmer desired, he could start a team composed entirely of all-District residents, Tommy Keat- ing and Ben Zola being ready for action. The former was an all-prep selection when playing with George- town Prep two Winters back, and the | latter is another ex-Eastern star. All-High Performers. OTH Nolan and Bassin won all- high berths while playing with | Eastern in the series of 1933, while Nau was Selected for the mythical “best” team the Winter previous. He was just nosed out for the honor in his senior year, Don Gibeau and Mike Petroskey are the only non-natives slated to start in tonight's game and upon the former rests the responsibility of giving G. U. victories in the Eastern Intercollegiate | able center. Petroskey, 6 feet 4 and husky of 200 pounds, is the most aggressive man on the squad under the basket and may be the answer to Mesmer's prayers.| Petroskey still is somewhat awkward | in his floor game and the young mentor is hopeful that a few games will smooth out the rough spots. Tonight's rivals fell before George- | town last year, 38-34. Admission to the game will be 40 cents. RIDING ON AIR- Foxhunting Club Instructor in WOL Interview Tonight. Harry Bennett, instructor at Fair- land, Md., Foxhunting Club, will dis- cuss interesting phases of cross-country | — riding in an interview tonight during | ke Gliove NEAW bo Xroshy. Yoo Holman's broadcast from Station | HAL TROSKY, never a finished first | wOL, starting at 8 o'clock. baseman, will be a worse fielder | The instructor will be assisted by | than ever, predict base bali men, now | Miss Leo Smith and Joe Dinkin, mem- | that he must remove the lacrosse net from his mit in accordance with the | bers of the club, | new rules . . . Trosky will suffer most ny Sfaf - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 193 Fade : Cubs Due to Get Hurler Davi R RAB RODGERS, Nimble-footed University of Mississippi halfback and one of the South- eastern Conference's leading point dangerous threat to the Cardinals in their New Year day Miami, Fla. scorers this year, who is rated as.a clash at —A. P. Photo. - ) Bob Wilson’s Dad e . ‘Given’ Bowl Trip By the Associated Press. ALLAS, Tex., December 12— ‘The happiest man in Texas today is 50-year-old Robert Wil- son, Gladewater cafe manager and proud father of elusive Robert Wilson, jr., the all-America half- back at Southern Methodist Uni- versity. After Southern Methodist ac- cepted an invitation to play Stan- ford in~ California’s Rose Bowl New Year day, friends went to the cafe to congratulate Wilson senior. He informed them “circumstances” 'G. W. TANKERS BOOKED Face Amherst December 21 in First of Nine Meets. — make today. George Washington University's | nortance yesterday. s of Phils DEALWOULDSEND ‘KLENTOOLD CLUB: jYanks Get Pearson, Sundra From Tribe for Allen in “Toss-Up” Swap. BY WILLIAM WEEKES, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, December 12.—Their rivals in the last world series, the Detroit Tigers, having re- | paired a weak spot by the ace | quisition of Al Simmons, the National | League champion Chicago Cubs ap- peared on the verge of doing some= thing along the same line today. ‘Where the Tigers needed—and got— another strong outfielder in Simmons, the Cubs’ most pressing lack last sea- son was one more reliable starting | pitcher. They did nicely in their own league without, but Manager Charlie Grimm never ceased to yearn. It was reported that the on-and-off deal by which the Cubs would obtain | Curt Davis, star right-hander of the | Phillies, for Outfielder Chuck Klein was on again. The plot was thick yes- terday morning, thinned out to almost nothing last night and thickened up again after midnight. Cash Also to Figure. i THE most reliable report had it that” | the Cubs would return Klein, for | whom they gave a reported $100,000- | and three players in 1933, to the Phil- lies for Davis. In addition, the Phile lies would receive a pitcher and pose, sibly a little money. The npitchers’ | mentioned were Roy Henshaw. tiny. | southpaw; Fabin Kowalik, young’ | right-hander, and James (Tex) Carle-. | ton, veteran right-hander obtained | from St. Louis a year ago. l That the swap was a warm possibility. | was indicated by the actions of Charlie’ Grimm, manager and vice president of the Cubs. After talking things over mbst of the day with Manager Jimmy Wilson of the Phillies, he said he had given up and would return to his home | in St. Louis last night. Later he sud- | denly announced that he had to stay | over. | Another National League deal was hinted when Bob Quinn, newly in- | stalled president and general manager {of the Boston Braves, said he would have an important announcement ta It was: b-'‘eved that he would announce the = of southpaw Pitcher Ed (Dutch) Brandt to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Beth Eager for Trade. | 'HE American League completed the only transaction of major ime The New York swimming team will open a 9-meet yankees desperately eager to do some- schedule on December 21 against Am- | thing to offset, at least in part, the herst in the Shoreham pool. All of | gains in power by the Boston Red Sox, | the Colonials’ home meets will be 8t gave the equally eager Cleveland | the Shoreham. The remaining schedule: 1 | Newark, Del.; 11, Randolph-Macon. | Indians John Allen, talented and tem- { peramental right-hander, for a pair of January 4. Lehigh; 8, Delaware, at | hurlers, Monte Pearson and Steve Sun- dra, the latter a rookie. The Amale February 8, Virginia Tech; 21, Vir- jglmated Order of Hotel Lobby Orators | | ginia;’ at Charlottesville. March 4, Lafayette: 7: Johns Hop- | kins. at Baltimore; 20, District A. A. U. championships. | was not able to decide which finished ahead in the deal. The rampaging Red Sox showed signs of again becoming active today. It was rumored they would give Out~ fielder Roy Johnson for his brother, | sult of the rules, it is said, but | ick — w1 st b | Kicks Goal, Wins For Wrong Team Iso hot without the huge webbing be- | By the Assoclated Press. | tween the thumb and body of his glove. Add sweet mysteries: The St. Louis | JCANNAPOLIS, N. C., December 12.—Chet Smith of the Kan- more to their liking. Has Lengthy Confab. GRIFF'ITH devoted his time and at- | tention to the Yankees and the second day of the American League | meeting. | He argued long with Joe| McCarthy during breakfast and lunch would not permit him to make the expensive trip to see his son play at Pasadena, Calif. But in the Gladewater ofl field, where men gamble and toss away fortunes overnight, came the “cir- cumstance removers.” iends | Outfielder Bob Johnson of the Phila= | delphia Athletics, in a straight swap, Tom Yawkey, the man with the Bos- ton bank roll, and his general mana= ger, Eddie Collins, also were dete in a mysterious midnight huddle h Clark Griffith, owner of the Washing= FARLEY LEADS V. M. L | LEXINGTON, Va. December 12 (#).—James Cheever Farley of Rich- mend has been elected captain of the V. M. I. 1835 foot ball team. He is all-Southern and all-State guard. | FROM THE PRESS BOX Browns outdrawing four other clubs, | including the world champion Tigers, | and at night he divided his attention | between Owner Jacob Ruppert and | Cronin. | Eynon was the “missionary” to the | White Sox, while Harris turned to| Cleveland and made a definite trade proposition which involved Manush and several other players, which Bucky declined to reveal. “I considered it a fair offer to both sides,” declared Harris, “but O'Nelll would have nothing to do with it. | Cleveland did not want to give up| anybody and we're not going to give our players away just for the sake of making a trade.” i One of the Indians involved in the | deal which Harris proposed Wwas Pitcher Monte Pearson, who later in the day was traded to New York, along with Rookie Steve Sundra, for Johnny Allen, the temperamental right-nanded slabber with the chronic- ally ailing arm. Ignoring Griffs Puzzles. THE persistent refusal of the Yanks, Indians and White Sox to think more along the lines of Griffith and Harris not only puzzled the Capital's would-be traders, but also caused many neutral base ball men to won- der. Each of these clubs is short on outfield talent and Washington is well fixed in respect to gardeners. Three of the National fly chasers, | Manush, Fred Schulte and, reports | from the Yanks to the contrary,| Johnny Stone, are on the block. Yet, | outside of volunteering to make a | cash bid, none of the clubs is much | interested in obtaining their services. One last, wild hope that after all these yearS Santa Claus would be un- masked as Col. Jocob Ruppert of New ! York was an unrealistic straw to| which the Nationals’ shoppers clung as they prepared to depart today. Actually, Griffith did not cling to it, or at least he stoutly denied that his | imagination was -capable of playing | such pranks, for the straw was that | Ruppert would buy Capt. Buddy Myer for a price which would dwarf the $250,000 sale of Cronin last year to Boston. RIFFITH'S last stop in the wee hours of thic morning was Rup- pert’s suite, where, to use his own words, he lingered “to kid Jake about | letting Yawkey show him up in buy- | ing bali players.” “It would be worth half a million to you to take ‘the play away from | Yawkey,” Griff joshed to Ruppert. | m¥ don't you buy Myer for $500,- | Ruppert, whom New York newspaper | men have declared is growing mildly (See GRIFFS, Page 3. [ el By the Associated Press. International League. Buffalo, 1; Cleveland, 0. Canadian-American League. Philadelphia, 6; Springfield, 1. Uzzy Is Considered Amazed by Being | Referred to as Joe Louis’ Next Victim. BY JOHN RANGEBURG, N. Y., Decem- ber 12.-—A swift courier came | riding up to the gate of| Paulino Uzcudun’s training | camp with the news that Max Schmel- ing had signed to fight Joe Louls, come next June. The courier was| covered with dust and sweat, or what | he called sweat, though an impartial observer would have said that the| man had stopped off on the way for three or four or five quick beers. “Louis and Schmeling are matched for June,” barked the courier, vault- ing from the saddle of his trusty con- vertible coupe. “Gimme a beer.” > vieak ye 2 74 Lou Brix, Paulino’s manager, seemed alarmed by this state- ment. “Sh'h, keep it quiet,” he said. “Don’t let my fighter hear you. He might get sore. He don’t think this Louis is gonna do any fighting after tomor- row night.” The boys gathered around Mr. Brix and asked him where Paulino hap- pened to get such a peculiar idea. Expects to Kayo Louis. “WHY," said Mr. Brix, “my guy fights Louis tomorrow night, and I am not kidding you, not for a minute, when I say that he expects to knock this colored fella silly. If he hears about Louis fixing to fight this Schmeling next year, he will get very sore, and then I am not responsible for what he does. Uzzy has got con- siderable of a temperament, know what I mean?” The boys agreed that Senor Uzcudun has every bit as much temperament as a Spanish mackerel, but they were curious, nevertheless, to see how he would take the news of the Louis- Schmeling match. A few minutes later they found out. The Basque came stamping out of the sparring ring, preceded by a three days’ growth of beard as tough as black barbed wire. The Basque was in a testy mood. He always gets a bit ruffied toward the close of a train- ing grind. “What is this?” demanded the “Schmeling and the col- ored man? Why do they waste so much paper?” “Now, now, Uzzy,” said Mr. Lou Brix. “First one thing, then something else,” snapped Paulino. “They make big advertisements about Louis and Gastanaga to fight in Havana next month, when maybe Louis won't fight nobody. So much waste paper. After » ) | thought he was just a bit on edge, to | LARDNE T hit him in the stomach, maybe they will stop wasting paper.” “Now, now,” said Whitey Bimstein, the trainer. Senor Uzcudun glared down his nose as a “road team” in the American League. . . The Hornsbymen drew only 80,000 paid admissions at their 77 | home games and yet were the third | best gate attractions in the league. ... The Nationals were the worst “road” | team .. . and outdrew only the| Athletics and Browns at home. Capt. Buddy Myer will receive his | $500 check for winning the American | napolis soccer team starred in the game with Catawba—but for his opponents. It looked as if Catawba, beaten in all its starts, was going through the season without a victory. Then Chet got mixed up, kicked a goal for Catawba against his team- mates and Catawba won, 1-0. at Mr. Bimstein and Mr. Brix. He said “Bah!” and strode off to his| dressing room. If you didn't know | that the Basque was a light-hearted. | funrloving fellow, you would have say nothing of a trifle nervous. But the Basque is not supposed to have any nerves, so it must have been his temperament. Mention of Louis’ future is not the ‘ only thing that irks the Spanish wood- | chopper these days. He is bothered | by photographers and bystanders and too much conversation. He listens | closely to whatever is said about the | fight, and then he disagrees with you. i He never has seen Louis butpat the | risk of being charged with treason by | Mr. Lou Brix, I would say that Louis has begun to get in his hair, To Concentrate on Body. EFORE he heard about the Louis- Schmeling match and walked off in a huff, Senor Uzcudun told us some of his ideas about the fight tomorrow. ‘He had a grouch on, but he was willing to talk. “Colored men, they can't take if in the stomach, down here” he said, stroking his own washboard dia- phragm. “That is where Louis will get it plenty, from me.” Some one said that Louis was a pretty fair body puncher himself. “In the gymnasium, yah,” said the Basque. “But the gymnasium fighter don’t look so good in the ring. And me, I don’t look so good in the gym- nasium, hey?” League batting championship at the start of next season . .. thanks to| Griff, who made the annual award of | 500 potatoes retroactive, Buddy | cashes in as & Tesult of the decision | made at the current meeting to re- | ward the stick champ. | A fifth member of the Athletics also | will go to Boston after the first of the | year; according to the latest “inside” dope . . . meaning that in addition to Roger Cramer and Eric McNair either Prank Higgins or Bob Johnson will wear a Red Sox uniform. ... Wonder how Yawkey overlooked Caves, Up- church, Huckleberry and Connie Mack's other “barnyard pitchers”? SCHOOL SOCCERS ACTIVE. Three games were to be played to- day as divisional finals of the ele- mentary school soccer tournament. Seaton and Burroughs were meeting in the feature contest, although the Park View-Takoma and the Blow- Cranch-Tyler frays were expected to be interesting. BE PRACTICAL—GIVE TIRES THIS XMAS BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 12.— No wonder the boys ale ways are glad to see Tom Yawkey show up at the major league meetings . . . He seldom fails to scatter a hundred thousand or so around before he leaves ., . . He's right up to form at Chicago this week. George Halas, owner of the Chi- cago Bears, is picking the Detroit Lions to beat the New York Giants in the National Foot Ball League playoff . . . Harrold Eckert of Columbus burned up at Bill Corum’§ efforts to send Princeton to the Rose Bowl—post cards: “If No, you dont, Uzzy. That's a fact. “But in the ring, I fight,” said the He had made his point, and the boys were stuck with it. Some one in another part of the ring started talking about Louis to some one else. Paulino pricked up his well-combed ears. “Hey, what's that about Louis?” he said. He did this whenever anybody GOODYEAR G-3 (See PRESS BOX, Page 2.) Catholic U, 50; Roanoke, 25. ‘Providence, Yale, 24. Harvard, 39; Boston U, 31. Princeton, 30; Lafayette, 21. Tlinois, 40; Wabash, 22. Baltimore U., 42; Shenandoah, 31. National Business' College (Roan- oke), 43; V. M. I, 24. Augustana, 86; Columbia, 21. Ellendale Normal, 35; Teachers, 34. Dugquesne, 48; Waynesburg, 21, Pennsylvania, 36; Le Salle, 28, - ’ KELLY SPRINGFIELD FIRESTONE HI-SPEED Geodrich - Silverfown All Fresh Stock—18 to 24 Months' Guarantee A ¥ v v < y BEN HUNDLEY 4 A A > A 621 Pa. Ave. N.W. « 3446 [4ih St. N.W and strong supporters of Coach Madison Bell's Southern Metho- dist Mustangs held a little get- together, then walked over to the cafe. They called Wilson aside and told him the circumstances he referred tohad been definitely removed—that he was going first- class to the Rose Bowl. Bill visited the Bronx Zoo he couldn’t see anything but Tigers” . . . The entire West Coast breathed more freely when Jack Sharkey re- fused to go out there to fight Buddy Baer. Yale's gridders insist Navy hit harder and was tougher than any team on the 1935 schedule . . . But for efficiency Princeton took the honors . . . The Tigers moved every man on every play at full speed and, unlike most teams, did their blocking without losing ground contact . . . Webb Davis, one of the smallest men on the squad, was Yale’s iron man this | = | WELSH CONSIDERS BID. New Orleans on January 2. out of a possible 540. Big Jim Weaver, Pirate pitcher, made a speech before the Opti- mists’ Club at Covington, Ky., the other day. ... A member asked: “Are you as good a pitcher as Dizzy Dean?” . . . Jim modestly declined to answer. . . . Both North Carolina and Purdue will have scouts on hand when New York U. opens the big-time basket ball season against California next week. Eulace Peacock, Temple's crack runner, has started training for the indoor season. . .. Gene Tun- ney ranks Jimmy Braddock as the PALINA year . . . He played 459 minutes * ton Senators. POLICE BOYS REPORT. Gridmen of the Police Boys’ Club Barney Welsh, the city’s ranking| tennis star, today was considering an | invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl | 150-pound team are to report at No, invitatfon tournament scheduled at| 5 precinct tomorrow hight at 7:3¢ ! o'clock. Halas Picks Detroit to Win Pro Grid Play-Off | Yale Gridders Rate Middies Hardest Hitters, But Tigers Smoothest Foot Ball Team. No. 1 heavyweight, with Joe Louis second. . . . Best fighter he's ever seen, Dempsey . . . (which doesn’'t make Tunney look half bad). Here's some more dope on that Arkansas team we told you about yesterday. . . . It completed almost as many passes last season as all the teams in the Big Six Confer- ence combined. . . . The passes gained 1,455 yards to 1,647 for the combined Big Six teams. . George (Tiny) Parker, Interna- tional League umpire, is headed for one of the majors. . . . He's the only umps in captivity who is a promotional director. . . . He holds that title with a big Miami hotel.