Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1936, Page 12

@he Foening Stad Sporls w ASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936. Colonials Told Deacons Are Potent : Nation’s Best Clash on Grid FACE REAL THREAT | IN FRIDAY'S GAME Scout Sexton Sees Foe as Strong in Every Phase. Offense Varied. OOMING large as a threat to George Washington’s unde- feated recorg, the surprisingly strong eleven of Wake Forest College is expected to show a well-bal- anced attack in Griffith Stadium Fri- day night. Freshman Coach Jean Sexton, a veteran scout, who rarely misses calling the turn on G. W.s opponents, watched the Deamon Dea- cons conguer Clemson College, 6-0, last Friday night. According to Sexton, the Deacons are proficient in all phases of offense, and, if necessary, use the puni as an attacking weapon. Big Releigh “Hobo” Daniel, 195-pound f 3 who does the booting for Waka Forest, smacked one 65 yards on the fly dur- ing a rainstorm against Clemson. This toe artist sports an averag> of 50 yards for four games played thus far. But with a potent passing attack, as well as a running offense, which starts both from regular punt formation and @ tandem alignment, the Deacons probably will not employ the punt to exceptional extent. Their overhead and running power has prevailed sgainst every team they've met in- cluding North Carolina Univer: 4 North Carolina State, Wofford and Clemson. Nearly Beat Tarheels. JEVEN North Carolina U.. the only “ team to beat Wake Forest this| year, was unable to stop the Deacons The Tarheels, in fact, trailed until the fourth quarter before their own power prevailed to the extent of pro- | ducing two touchdowns. The final gcore was 14 to The unbeaten N. C. U. outfit has also conquered | Maryland, Tennessee and New York | v.. Wt didn't have as much trouble | succeeding as it did with Wake Forest. | Fullback Daniel is ably supported | n the Deacon running attack by Dal Morris and Hal Warren, a couple of light, but specdy halfbacks, and by Walton Kitchin, star quarterback of the 1935 team, who until last Friday was handicapped by injuries. Another halfback highly regard- ed is Porter Sheppard, who dem- onstrated his wor running back a Clemson punt vards for the Deacons' winning touchdown. Still @nother capable running back is George Wirtz, a swivel-hipped sopho- more. Any one of them, says Sex- | b} 5. LOCAL BOYS MAKE GEORGETOWA U.BOASTS THREE WASHINGTON BOYs WHOSE POUNDING CLEATS HAVE CARRIED THEM GOOD. INTO THE SPOTLIGHT OF LOCAL GRIDIRON PLAY... MAURY NEE, SOPHOMORE EAND, AND THE BRILLIANT LITTLE QUARTERBACK, TOMMY KEATING, A JUNIOR,ARE. PRODUCTS OF GEORGETOWN PREP... JOE KEEGIN A SOPH,, 15 A FORMER ALL-HIGH BACK FROM EASTERN..ccoe b W.ISUP AGAINST A GREAT DEFENSE Wake Forest Goal Menaced Only Once as It Gains Three Shutouts. WAKE FOREST, N. C,, October 20. —With three straight victories to their credit over teams in this sec- tion, the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest College will invade Washing- ton Friday night to battle George ‘Washington. The Deacs have played four games this season. In the opening tilt of the card. North Carolina, after trail- ing the Deacons three quarters, came from behind in the last 10 minutes of the game to push over two touch- downs for a 14-7 win. After dropping this close one to £y THE HOYAS HAVE DEVELOPED A FLOCK = OF INTRICATE LATERAL Z\ Passes &), LIKE CLOCKWORK @ WHEN THIS KEATING To KEEGIN To NEE COMSINATION 15 WORKING. . ) ~—By JIM BERRYMAN. - WHICH TICK G. U HOLDS SECRET| DRILLS FORN.Y. U. WEAKER ELEVENS OPEN HIGH SERIES | Western, Beaten in 2 of 3| Tilts, Meets Roosevelt, Thrice Defeated. one game in six that both have played previously this season were to open the inter- Western High's stadium, with the regular occupants of that site enter- taining the not-so-rough riders of WO teams that have won only high foot ball series this afternoon at Roosevelt. The kick-off was to be at “ Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Foot Ball. Western vs. Roosevelt, Western Stadium (public high title series), 3:30. K AMONGFIRST 20 INTRIO OF TUSSLES ‘Gopher-Purdue, ‘Irish’-Pitt, St. Mary’s-Fordham Listed. Duke Rated 2d, Army 3d. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 20.—A half dozen of the foot ball teams listed as the first 20 in the national ranking as it now stands by the votes of foot ball experts in a Nation-wide poll come together this week to decide their respective merits. 0Oddly enough, these three pairs are figured as closely matched accord- ing to their point totals in the As- sociated Press poll. Minnesota, al- most unanimous choice of the 35 sports writers for first place, meets Purdue, No. 5 on the list; Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, seventh and ninth, respectively, come together, as do St Mary's of California and Fordham, rank Nos. 12 and 16. As an added attraction, two out- standing Eastern teams which bare- ly failed to “make” the first 20 clash when Princeton tackles Navy. The | Midshipmen received 15 points and the Tigers 14 in the scoring on the basis of 10 points for a first-place vote, 9 for second, etc. Each of the | 35 selectors named his “first 10.” TOMORROW, Boxing. District National Guard vs. Ocean View A. C. of Norfolk, Va., Turner's Arena, 8:15. THURSDAY. Horse Show, Inter-American competition. Mead. owbrook Saddle Club, East-West Highway, 2. Wrestling. Ernie Dusek vs. Cliff Olson, fea- ture match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30, FRIDAY. Foot Ball. George Washington vs. Forest, Griffith Stadium, 8 Central vs. Eastern, Central Stadium (public high title series), 3:30. Roosevelt vs. St velt Stadium, 3:30. Gonzaga. vs. George Washington High, at Eastern, 3:30. Maryland Freshmen vs. Rich- mond U. Preshmen, College Park, 3:30. Luray High vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30, Woodrow Wilson vs. Friends field, 3:30 National Training School s, Fredericksburg High, Predericks- burg. Wake John's, Roose- Friends, Heavy Vote for Gophers. INNESOTA received the impres- sive total of 345 points out of a possible 350, all but three selectors naming the Gophers first, while Duke, | in second place, received 187. Other | 1eaders were Army, 178; Northwest~ ern, 145, Purdue, 120; Southern Cal- | ifornia, 114; Notre Dame, 98: Wash- ington, 90: Pitt, 76, and Yale, 61. N. Y. Out of this first 10 only Yale and i Georgetown vs. N. Army draw easy opposition this week, | York. although most of the others figure to| Catholic University vs. Mississippi, win handily. The Elis take on Rut- | Oxford, Miss | gers, which may turn out to be American University | strong enough to provide a good| Guard Academy, New workout, while Army has a “breather” | Conn. against little Springfield. | William and Mary | "Duke takes on Tennessee, North-| Division) vs. Gallaudet, western meets an improving Illinois| Green, 2:30. team, Southern California encounters | West Virginia State vs. Howard Stanford. last year's Pacific Coast| University, Howard Stadium, 2. champions, and Washington tackles| Wilson Teachers vs. SHenandoah, California, beaten twice, but still a | Dayton, Va powerful team. | George Washington FProsh vs, | In the second 10 the opposition for | Naval Training School, Norfolk. Va. all but Southern Methodist, nine- Landon vs. St. James, Hagers- teenth on the list with 26 points, m‘ town, Md. just about as tough. The Mustangs Horse Show. have an open date Saturday. Inter-American competition, Mead- } l'laul.llne—llvlll-e Looms, l;;l:rl‘:fl!k‘ ?uddle Club, East-West ALTHOUGH they received only 52 = Horse Show. Inter-American competition. Mead- owbrook Saddle Club, East-West Highway, 2. SATURDAY. Foot Ball. Maryland vs. Syracuse, Syracuse, Y. U, New vs. Coast London, (Norfolk Kendall and 34 points, respectively, St.| They Never Know W hen to Quit. HEY go back quickly in the| fight racket. Three years ago | ton, is liable*to break loose for a | lengthy gain or a score. Morris and | Eheppard hold down the safety po- sition. Kitchin, who defeated George Washington a vear ago with a beau- | tiful pass to Tex Edens, since gradu- | the Tarheels, Wake Forest went on to knock the props out from under Hunk Anderson's North Carolina State eleven, 9 to 0; Wofford College, 38 to 0, and Clemson, 6 to 0. In| all, except the Wofford game, Wake Forest was doped to lose. 3:30 o'clock. While Roosevelt has yet to win this vear, being beaten by its alumni, Bullis and Gonzaga, Western could show only a slightly better record, a narrow 7-0 victory over & notoriously weak St. John's eleven being its only triumph. | from the University of Arkansas; Texas A. & M., 42. meets Baylor, up~ set victor over Texas last week; Nebraska, 36, playvs the Oklahoma Mary's and Fordham are figured to stage one of the week's headline bat- tles. TheyTre rated among the best in their sections, and in the past usually have succeeded in putting on | Sooners; Holy Cross, 29. takes on lively brawls. | Carnegie Tech, which ousted Temple The line-up for the others is like from the unbeaten list: Tulane, 27, Practicing Fancy Stuff to Use in Gotham Battle rooms, with showers that worked, steam heat, a policeman on the door, eted, has a worthy helpmate in Dan- gel for the aerial part of Wake For- est's attack. The G. W. observer believes Daniel is as good a tosser as Kitchin, Line Is Hard-Charging. HARD-CHARGING line moves in front of the Deacon backs. Bexton is warning G. W. that the Peacon linemen block for ‘“keeps.” Defensively, he adds, they perform with just as much gusto. Having beaten North Carolina State ‘ end Clemson, Wake Forrest remains | a contender for laurels in both the | Bouthern Conference and the closer- | to-home “Biz Five” of North Caro- | lina. Coach Jim Weaver apparently has welded the best eleven he has ever coached for the Baptist school. | This is+the opinion of Frank Dob- son, Maryland mentor, for one. As far as George Washington is concerned, this is taken for granted. The Deacon upset the Colonials, 7 to 6. last year and in 1934 gave them @ terrific battle before bowing. 6 to 2. The Colonials, therefore, should be- lieve Sexton readily. With one exception the Colonials will be fit and ready for a hard game. Capt. Frank Kavalier, Bruce | Mahan, Leon Morris and Cecil Clark | have recovered from various ail- ments and probably will see nct;on.i Only Perry Clark, whose leg was i fected after being gashed in the Mi gissippi game week before last, can't | g0 into battle. r GRIDMEN ACE STUDENTS! Four Regulars at Gonzaga Earn | Honors in Class Room. Four Gonzaga High School foot ball | players have earned as much praise by their class-room work as they have on the gridiron by which they earned first-string berths on the Purple's eleven. Bill Gardner, back, and Joe Mc- Donald, end, each have received the highest scholastic awards with the rating “first honors,” while Louis de Filipo, guard, and Jim O'Brien, back, have won “second honors.” The teams manager, Ralph Patton, also won “first honors.” The citations were made by Father Lawrence Kelly, rector of the school. Army Is Favored To Lead in East BY ANDY KERR. Coach. Colgate University. AMILTON, N. Y., October 20.— Saturday the hopes of Prince- ton and Pittsburgh, favorites for the mythical championship of the East, were blasted. Both were victims of upsets. The list of Eastern teams with unblemished records among major teams now is reduced to six— Army, Yale, Fordham, Holy Cross, Villanova, Duquesne. Upon its showing to date, Army appears to have the best opportunity of lead- ing the procession at the end of the season. It is a great tribute to the Pennsylvania defense that Prince- ton did not score. Yale, while somewhat outplayed, showed the fighting spirit of a winner and de- serves much credit for its victory Halts Lone Threat. INCE the Tarheel fray, Coach Weaver's charges have allowed their goal line to be threatened just once. Last Friday night Clemson managed to get from the 9 to the 5 yard stripe on four plays, after the ball had been placed there from mid- field on a long pass. Neither North Carolina State nor Wofford came close. Capt. Ed Rogers, ace guard, who was forced to leave the Clemson game last week with an injury at the cnd of the first half, may not be ready for action against George Washing- ton. Otherwise the squad is in fine fettle. DUKE IS MONARCH OF DIXIE GRIDIRON Tie With 'Bama Great Boost to Tennessee—Texas Aggies Chase 01d Jinx. Coach. Vanderbilt University. ALLAS, Tex., October 20.—In D results over the entire Na- tion, the South continued to bruises. Thete were some surprises in the scores, but no real upsets The end of the day's warfare saw Duke emerge as the top team of the BY RAY MORRISON, & day of shocking foot ball escape last Saturday with just a few in Dixie. section with a convincing victory over | a strong Georgia Tech outfit. Duke now undoubtedly is in the front rank as a Rose Bowl possibility if the Southern Conference rules will permit. Two hard games remain on its schedule, one against Tennessee | and the other the annual battle with | North Carolina. Tennessee Advances Fast. "THE biggest surprise in the South- eastern Conference was Tennes- see’s scoreless tie with Alabama. 'Bama’s tie and Georgia Tech's loss left the Big 13 without an unbeaten, untied eleven. Tennessee is coming fast. It hasp't yet played a bad game of foot ball. By November it will be one of the South’s best. Vanderbilt lost to Southern Metho- dist and the result was no upset. For the Commodores, one word covers it all—outclassed. The Mustangs’ passing attack is as good as any I ever saw in 30 years’ connection with foot ball, and Saturday it was exe- cuted without a flaw. I AM sorry my son, Jack Morrison, was crippled and could not play for S. M. U, but I suppose I should be glad he wasn't in there. He might not have been as kind as was Matty Bell, who used 22 reserves in addi- tion to his 11 starters and obviously did not try to run up the score. ‘The day's greatest surprise in the Southwest was Baylor's victory over Texas. The Texas Aggies broke an 11-year jinx by trimming T. C. U. It was the first time A. and M. has shown any scoring punch, having won two previous games with field goals. Dick Todd, & bruising sophomore fullback, led the attack to score two touchdowns. I advise keeping an eye on this boy, for he will be one of the country's outstanding players before Break for Vandy, Perhaps. over Navy. fa he finishes. I wouldn’t have been able to lay a glove on Johnny Jadick, who had a | left hand that would jab your eyes | out. But they all go and last night at | Turner's Arena probably everybody target practice now. There was a rim of fat around his waist that re- sembled a bicycle tire. He eouldn't get his hands up and his jab was a memory. The crowd was giving the former champ the old how-do- ya-do as early as the fourth round and Leto probably was letting him stick around in the late going. That's the way in the fight racket. In base ball when a guy is washed up, he gets his release. In any busi- ness, when the goods are not delivered, it's curtain. But, somehow, it's dif ferent in boxing and even when a fellow is slug-nutty a manager will keep making matches for him and taking his cut until, finally, he can't see trom 10 paces and his ears keep ringing . . . and ringing. And They Love It. THE futility of it all strikes home when you go into a dressing room | and watch fighters, like those last | night, who aren't going anywhere. | Leto was the best man on the card, | but he'll never win any titles. The others were only small-time prelimi- | nary boys. Maybe it is the sublime ego in fight- | ers that keeps them from realizing how little the future holds for them. putting it better. In a little, crowded room they sat last night, shoulder to shoulder, While their seconds unrolled adhesive tape and bit oft strips of it to tape their hands. None of the bouts meant a thing, but you could feel the tension. A little slip of a kid, Al Dintamin, was sitting in & corner while a handler rubbed vaseline over his eyebrows. ‘Then he stuck out his lip, like Joe Penner, and this was rubbed, too. He was chalk white, paler than the proverbial ghost. He Really Became Sick. OU said he looked sick, but Match- maker Goldie Ahearn said no. “He always looks like that,” Goldie said. Then he slapped him on the back and Dintamin jumped to his feet and scrambled for the exit when his turn came. Fifteen minutes later he was back, and this time he was sick. A boy from Baltimore beat a tatoo on his stomach and he quit after three rounds. You observed that Dintamin probably still thinks he’s some place in boxing, and this time Ahearn nodded. “They all do,” Goldie said. “That's why they take beatings and want to fight again next week. There ain't no doubt in their minds that boxing is their racket. They all sit on these benches before a fight and dream of winning the world championship. And after they come back, all beaten up, they start dreaming over again.” s club fighter like Jimmy Leto | | except Jadick knew that he is only | Ego and love for battle, perhaps, is| and lots of handlers. | Just Like the Rest. AST night he no longer was cham- pion. He was just another fighter packed in a hinky-dinky room. He There was no policeman on the door i and people kept walking over his feet as he sat on a splintery bench. “This reminds me,” Johnny said, “of the Cambria Arena in Philly. Iron Hat Burns runs it. That's where I broke in, y'know. I go back now and then.” Iron Hat is known as Jadick’s man- ager. He piloted him to the junior welterweight crown that Johnny won by beating Tony Canzoneri. You asked Jadick if there wasn't a law in Pennsy against a fight promoter being a man- ager. “He isn't my manager, any more,” Johnny said. “Our contract ran out a year ago and he didn't remew it. Iron Hat just comes to watch me now and then.” . Should Be a Tip-Off. SO HIS contract ran out and it wasn't renewed? You'd think that would be a tip-off to a guy. Just as you were thinking along these lines a colored kid walked in the door. He had an autograph book and asked for Jadick. “Ah’'m Battling Mimms,” he said. “Ah fight, too, and collect fightahs’ autographs. Will yo' sign this?” Johnny signed it. “Why aren't you fighting now?” he asked, and the | dusky boy pointed to his jaw. “The ast time ah fought.,” he explained, “ah had mah jaw broke, but ah'm gettin’ back in.” “Killer Lamar did it at the ball park,” Ahearn said. “The Battler asked for his autograph and Lamar signed it and said it was a good thing he asked for it before the fight be- cause afterwards he wouldn't be | able to. “He was a h-ll of a prophet. In the fust round Lamar clocks the Battler on the lug and out he goes. And with a broken jaw, t00.” Somebody else said, “I see where Lamar got stopped his next out,” and Mimms, moving toward the door, said, “Ah should've stopped him, too. Ah don't know what Ah was thinking about.” Cat Looks at an Ex-King. So IT goes. A dusky cat looked at & dethroned king and asked him for his autograph. And yet they had something in common. They both still think they can fight. Just before the main bout went on two kids named Hobo Williams and Mike Marshall stumbled into the dress- ing room. Williams had given Mar- shall a terrific going-over. Blood oozed down Mike's cheek from a cut over his eye and both sides of his face were swelled until it resembled a Jack-o’-lantern before you cut out a grinning mouth. They didn’t speak, but sat, side by side, with heads bowed. Then Mar- shall got up and looked in the mirror at his eye. Then he said to Williams, “They never give me anybody my size to fight. I'm always outweighed. You wanted to laugh and so, prob- ably, did Williams. But Hobo only said, “I was awfully heavy tonight,” and let it go at that. ‘You didn it to hear what Jadick would say after his fight was over. In the first place, with his lips swollen M b had nobody to bandage his hands. | with New York University on Saturday. EORGETOWN began prepara- | tions for Saturday’s game ! yesterday in the utmost se- crecy. A section of the Hilltop prac- | | tice field has been shielded by canvas | be conducted in privacy. Jack Hagerty has reasons for all this secrecy. New plays, which involve laterals and forward passes, are to be rehearsed for Saturday's game. Up to the Bucknell game the Hoyas were | content to play straight foot ball. | Against the Bisons a few laterals and | | forward passes were tried for the first time. The results were pleasing. Hagerty Sees Trouble. | INEW YORK'S great comeback against the undefeated North Carolina eleven convinced Hagerty the | Gotham City eleven must be taken | seriously despite its early-season rout by Ohio State. Saturday’s attack again will be cen- | tered around Tommy Keating, the Hoyas' brilliant quarterback. An outstanding weakness displayed in the Blicknell game was the slowness of the ends going down under punts. Another weakness noted was the de- | fense against passes. The Bisons com- pleted nine aerials for a gain of over | 90 yards. And N. Y. U, as usual, has a strong forward-passing attack. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Hank Green- berg voted American League's most valuable player; Sam Parks, United States open champion, eliminated from pro golf tournament. ‘Three years ago—Paavo Nurmi and wife separated. and the sessions during the week are to Five years ago—Frank Prisch won National League most valua- ble player award for 1931, Cougars in Line For Coast Title BY JAMES PHELAN, Coach, University of Washington. EATTLE, Wash,, October 20.— The fight-back of the Cougars from Washington State upset the Pacific Coast Conference with a Jolt that proves the northern sec- tion will have its say in selecting the champion for 1936. W. 8. C. in stopping the famous Trojan herd last Saturday showed some backfield performers that matched the best Howard Jones had to offer. The rain that fell Friday and the slight drizzle dur- ing the game did not favor Wash- ington State, either. U. C. L. A. won its first game of the California series, which is only four years old, over California with a series of fake kicks and passes. ‘Washington had plenty of trou- ble to overcome a stubborn Oregon State defense. In the Rocky Mountains, Utah, Colorado and the Idaho Aggies, winners' all, loom as finalists in the conference race. like they were, he probably wouldn’t want to talk. In the ueon,:plue you thought you knew what he would say. 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