Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1936, Page 14

G. W. Revises Attack < CLOSELY SCOUTED BY WAKE FOREST Works on New Plays Enemy Can’t Prepare Special Defense Against. HOROUGHLY scouted in all of its earlier games, George Washington University's eleven will attempt to uncork a sur- prise attack on Wake Forest College Friday night in Washington's only major coilege contest of the week. Mindful of Wake Forest's strong defense, which has allowed only two touchdowns—to North Carolina U.— this year and realizing that G. W.’s plays have been copied in detail by Wake Forest scouts since the season commenced, Coach Possum Jim Pixlee is bending every effort to provide the Colonials with something for which the Demon Deacons can't set up any special defense. Throughout yesterday's practice the Buff mentor had his charges re- hearsing time and again variations of old plays and a number of brand- new ones, and the lads, themselves seeming to realize how tough Wake Forest may prove, went about their chores with an earnestness that must have warmed the cockles of wily Jim’s heart. Colonials Spirited. As IN previous contests, G. W's spirit may be the biggest single factor in its favor in the forthcoming engagement, which to the Colonials is as important as any on their slate. Sheer fight enabled them to stem Mississippi’s steam roller in a 0-0 game, and more of it, plus good coaching, carried them to a 13-6 vic- tory over Arkansas in one of the major upsets of the season. Casual observers may think that the Rice game a week from Saturday is the real objective of the Colonials right now, but they're mistaken. The Colonials don't look beyond the task immediately at hand. They want to beat Wake Forest, and how! Last year G. W. went to Wake For- est’s stronghold apparently little wor- ried about the outcome. but before the first quarter was completed found that it was in for a terrible afternoon. ‘Wake Forest, making good its threat of 1934 that it would win the next time they met, put over a touchdown and kicked the point to eke out a 7-6 triumph. Only a desperate last-min- ute passing attack, engineered by the redoubtable Tuffy Leemans, prevented the Deacons from adding insult to injury by blanking the Buff. G. W. Must Shoot Works. THE 1936 Colonial squad hasn't for- gotten that catastrophe. It cer- tainly shouldn't think Wake Forest soft, in view of the impressive Deacon record, and from the way Pixlee is bolstering the attack shouldn’t expect to win Friday night without shooting the works. Besides holding North Carolina to a 14-7 score, Wake Forest has defeated North Carolina State, 9 to"0; Wofford, 32 to 0, and Clemson, € to 0. With the season just about half finished, the Colonials still remain so evenly matched among themselves that the coaches won't call any group of 11 players “the starting team.” ‘Those who answer the opening whistle merely are the first 11 men to go into action. The others—hardly with ex- ception—are considered equally as pro- ficient. This situation makes for har- mony, an ingredient always to be found in the production of & winning | foot ball team. Examples of this are found in the persons of Tim Stapleton and Al Haringer, both of whom played im- portant roles in the defeat of Arkan- sas. For the first two games of the season little was heard or read of either one. Their positions were being handled ably by others. But when the Ole Miss game came along both got their chamce to make good, Stapleton et guard and Haringer—in an emer- gency—at center. Suffice to say, they performed so well that night that they started the Arkansas tilt, and, like the Test, emerged with equal shares of the laurels in a startling triumph. S Five years ago—James Rowe, jr., owner of Twenty Grand, died at 42 years. - BIG BOOTS AND SA NOBLE ; I ™M T R ITS NO PLACE FOR A" HASN'T CARRIED OFF R RECOGNIZED SHOW.. DEACONS IN FINE Here on Friday—Boast ber 21.—Jim Weaver, Wake | will have his full strength ready for | It was at first thought that Capt. an injury received in the Clemson ready for duty. | son will open against Coach Pixlee's back, who has outkicked all his op- does the signal calling from the Makes Long Scoring Runs. D again will be at punt return for a touchdown against Warren took off on the opening a 48-yard run for a tally on a pass the hole, will be held out until Coach The forward wall will be composed Capt. Rogers and Red Souther, FETTLEFORG.W. of Clever Backs. Forest foot ball mentor, | the game against George Washing=~ | Ed Rogers, guard, would be unable game last week. However, the team The same team that. has started aggregation. ponents this season, will take his blocking back position, will be at the ALLAS MORRIS, 150-pound safe~ | pound speedster, iNorth Carolina and a 45-yard jaunt play in the N. C. State game for a interception. ‘Weaver thinks the time ripe to use of Bert Shore and Fred Hoyle, ends; guards, and Boots Mumford, center. School Work | [Will Present Full Strength ‘ ’ rAKE FOREST, N. C,, Octo- has announced that he ton in the Capital City Friday night. | to play against the Colonials due to physician has pronounced ogers every game for Wake Forest this sea- Big Hobo Daniel, 190-pound full- | post. Jug Allen, 175-pounder, who helm. ty man, and Harold Warren, 175- | halves. Morris turned in a 58-yard against Wofford for a score. 60-yard dash and followed it up with Walton Kitchin, the Deacs’ ace in him. Harry Beaver and Joe Swan, tackles; Hits Foot Ball Chicago Students, Young and Bright, Not Mature Grid Material, Says Coach Shaughnessy. By the Associateu Press. OACH CLARK SHAUGH- NESSY knows just what is wrong with his Univer- sity of Chicago foot ball team—and is willing to let every one in on the “secret.” Commenting on his eleven’s rec- ord of one victory, tWo defeats and one tie, Shaughnessy said: “The three outstanding things wrong with Chicago from a foot ball standpoint are the scholastic load, the outside employment load and the Spring examinations.” ‘The Maroon mentor said that ‘because of scholastic requirements, Chicago “gets only the brightest boys in a book learning sense—and the brightest boys don’t always make the best foot ball material.” He said Chicago has more youths 18 years of age and under on its first string squad than all other Big Ten teams combined. Examinations from May 15 to June 15, he continued, prevent any real Spring practice, and outside employment, is difficult to obtain because Chicago employers “are big city business men not imbued with any rah rah spirit.” - @he Foening Staf Sporls WA DDLES SHOW. — H!EL DIABLO! A i SHE 155 ZE FLOWER OF ZE ANDES-SHE 155 MUCHO A IF IT WEREN'Y FOR THE ACCENT I'D THINK HE WAS FROM WARRENTON e QUR SOUTHERN AEIGHBORS ARE CRAZY OVER HORSES... AND NOT ASHAMED To VOICE ENTHUSIASM. . ED-DIBLY f sopDY, My DEAH, HOOFER" WHO IBBONS (N A < Scrimmage Today to Decide Men to Make Jaunt for 0ld Miss Game. Flying Cardinals of Catholic | University will depart tonight for their important game with | the University of Mississippi at | Oxford, Miss., Saturday. The party will leave tonight at 12:05 over the Southern Railroad and will arrive in | Knoxville, Tenn., tomorrow afternoon | at 1:25. The team will workout on the | University of Tennessee field and will | | depart at 7:55 for Memphis. The Catholic University team is in fine physical condition, with the ex- ception of Speck Foley, quarterback, | who was injured last week in practice. | But Foley is expected to be ready by | Saturday. Just who will make up the traveling array will not be known until late to- night. The showing of the members of the varsity team in a scrimmage today against the freshman team will be the deciding factor. Squad Has Lost Ego. "THAT C. U. is in the right frame of mind as it makes ready for the Southern jaunt is borne out by the | way the lads have been working. Every | member of the team fully realize mni there is a big job ahead. The Cards are not cocky and it is believed that all the ego of being “Orange Bowl Champions” have vanished following the tilts with La Salle and De Paul. It was rumored yesterday that the game would not be broadcasted be- cause of a ruling of the Southern Con- ference. Word has been received by the Cardinal athletic offices that all rulings have been waived and that Arch MacDonald, well known local sports announcer would broadcast the game direct from Ole Miss fleld. Mac- Donald will accompany the Flying Cardinal team to Oxford. ‘The exact time of the broadcast has not been set, but announcement will be made later. POTOMACS CALL CONFAB. Potomac Boat Club will hold its regular monthly meeting at 8 o'clock tonight. Election of float officers, captain and first and second lieu- tenants will take place. 1 KnOW SAID YOu SHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 —By JIM BERRYMAN. MAJOR, BUT YOU WANTED SOME HORSES HERE--AN’ NQW YOU ASK ME IF I THINK WERE RUNNIN' THE LIGHT N r"’ BRIGADE! 3 STA!ZT!NG TOMORROW WASHINGTON SADDLE FANS WILL HAVE FOUR DAYS OF FINE HORSEFLESH AND SMART RIDERS ON DISPLAY OUT AT MEADOWBROOK -+-=* Even Top Dogs Need HERE is an old axiom to the ef- | line-up has eight seniors in it, and | fect that you have to string along with a champion until he, she, or it is beaten and, of course, there is no blotch thus far on the record of Catholic University's Orange Bowl winners. But, axiom or no axiom, there has been a noticeable tendency of late to hop off the Car- dinal bandwagon. ‘When the 1935 gridiron campaign was buried with honors, Catholic rated tops in Washington. Rare was the gent who compared Maryland, George- town or George Washington to last year’s Cards, who rode into Miami to win the District'’s first “bowl” cham- pionship. This season virtually the same outfit carries Catholic’s banner. 1t is a big, fast, versatile squad. If anything, the Cards are stronger in the backfield. Yet, to beat La Salle by 14 to 10, they had to come from behind and have an official call interference on a forward pass. To avenge the De Paul defeat of '35 they were forced to work all the way to win, 12 to 7. And, while victory by one point still counts the same in the won and lost column as a lopsided count, they are saying the Red Birds aren’t what they used to be and predicting a dire fate when Catholic hits Mississippi later in the week on the Southerners’ stomping ground. Too Many Seniors Risky. YOU asked Dutch Bergman about it yesterday over a lamb chop. He wouldn't sell his outfit short, of course, but he took a dig at it in iogi cal reasoning. “A lot ot people,” Dutch said, “fig- ured that all we coaches at C. U, had to do this year was issue uni- forms and turn the team loose. We lost only & couple boys, and it was natural to expect even better things of the outfit. “But I'd like to amend the idea that it's easy to handle a team like ours. In the first place, the regular Grange Sees Great Improvement in Gridiron Defense Styles of His Day Would Bring Crushing Defeat Against Modern Teams, He Holds. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 21.—Take it from Harold “Red” Grange—the going is a lot tougher on collegiate foot ball’s big-time circuit today than it ‘was 12 years ago when he ran wild on the Nation's gridirons as the fa- mous Illinois “Galloping Ghost.” Grange, the most publicized player foot ball ever has known, has been out of the game as a player since 1934. But it's still his great love, and when he’s through with his duties as assistant coach of the Chicago Bears he enjoys study-_ ing intercollegiate elevens and their styles of play. And he sees & big difference in the game, in respect to defense, compared to the days A & when his number “77” trotble to the opposition. “In the main, the running plays of today and when I played are practically the same,” he said. “Lateral passes have opened up the game a little and some teams con- centrate more on speed than on power, but the big difference I see is the improvement in defense. . “We used to play a seven-man line and a diamond or box defense. ‘We never heard of the 6-2-2-1 de- fense or the 6-3-1-1, or all those numbers you hear of today. Nowa- days coaches have different de- fenses for every game—and it's tough on the backs when they are up against something like that. “Say—if some big team next Sat- A meant urday used the defense we used 12 years ago they'd probably get beat 40 to 0!" Grange said he doubted if very many of the major college elevens will go through the season unde- feated. Recalling his surprise at the defeats last Saturday of Pitts- burgh and Princeton, he said: “It's getting so now that no matter how good a team is there always is some club coming along just a little bet- ter. The minute a team lets down now it is risking defeat, because the competition is so stiff. “While I don’t think this season yet has produced any -one back—such as Jay Berwanger of Chicago Was last season—almost \ every big team has at least one fine offense player. So far I've been impressed with Isbell of Purdue, Williams and Bettridge of Ohio State, Meyer of Army, Cardwell . and Prancis' of Nebraska, Davies of Southern California and Uram and Wilkinson of Minnesota.” Grange, who during his- high school, university and professional career carried the ball 4,013 times and averaged 8.4'yards each try, isn’t too old to'play. He’s just 33 and “in the pink.” But he doesn’t FILEY LOE R0 |"POPPING NITIWEDETAN| - OFF" "$ian. © More Than Uniforms. | half the time it has nine. At first glance the set-up looks great. The team knows our system and knows what to do on the field. And yet it has been tougher to handle than last year's team. “The reason is that we have too many seniors. Any coach will tell you a boy plays his best foot ball in his junior, and even sophomore year. He's alert and trying his head off. He hasn't made a name for himself yet, and he’s giving all he’s got all the time. He hasn't read a lot of press clippings, unless he's a very unusual player. “I DON'T want to call our bunch swell-headed. On the contrary they're a great gang of fellows 20d they wouldn't deliberately let up. But, subconsciously, they have eased up now and then. Backs on the defense have let pass receivers get behind them. The blocking, particularly in the La Salle game, wasn't as hard as it could have been, and neither was the tackling. “Lots of teams with too many seniors have a hard time getting started. Juniors and sophs are easier to work up to a pitch. “Seniors have been worked up, some of them, four and five times a season for as many as three college years. Potentially this year's team is better than 1935's, but it has yet to prove it.” The proof, one way or the other, may be forthcoming before the week is up. Unlike the team of a year ago, Mississippi is rolling to no fine record such as that of 1935, when it wound up as Catholic’'s Orange Bowl foe. Still, it is logical to believe that Cath- olic U. will have its toughest battle on Seturday in Oxford, Miss. Ole’ Miss Is Tough Luck Team. ISSISSIPPI, first of all, still is smarting from the 20-19 beating it took from the Cards last New Year day. Secondly, for all of their set- backs this year, the Rebels are miss- ing only two players from tbe '35 team. Thirdly, if there is such a thing as a law of averages, Ole’ Miss figures to get a few breaks and wind up the season in a blaze of latent Letting Up Is Subconscious. The Rebels got few good breaks this year. After slaugh- tering little Union in their opener, 45-0, they lost a 7-to-6 decision to Tulane. Next they dropped a 12-7 affair in final minutes of play that, they came to Wash- ington and on a soupy fleld that penalized all offense, they were held 0-0 draw by the George Wash- Incidentally, it will be Mississippi’s homecoming game, and {Will Organize Pro Troupe if | 1936. for Deacons: C. U. Tilt Among < MORE THAN 300 ENTRIES ARE ON THE LIST... QUITE A TuRNOUT !, FLEANORTOSEEK RULGONSTATIS New A. A. U. Regime Is Against Her. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 21.—| Eleanor Holm Jarrett will| wait until Avery Brundage | retires from the presidency | of the Amateur Athletic Union and then ask the new A. A. U. regime whether she is a professional or an amateur. “It's an embarrassing situation, but I really don't know where I stand | with the A. A, U.” she said at her Long Island home today. Back from the most successful vaudeville tour of her theatrical ca- reer, Mrs. Jarrett said the A. A. U. officially had barred her from Euro- pean competition and had refused to | give its sanction to an amateur meet | in which she was entered after re- ' turning from the Olympics, but it had | | not declared her professional. | Eleanor Fears Worst. "I'M HOPING for the best, but I'm prepared for the worst,” she stated. “I definitely want to keep my amateur standing and see no rea- son why I should not. But if they declare me professional I will go on the stage with a vaudeville swimming | troupe, which will include most of the outstanding amateurs.” Mrs. Jarrett said her troupe prob- ably would include Dorothy Poynton Hill, Jack Medica, Dick Degener, Marshall Wayne, Lenore Kight Win- gard, Adolph Kiefer, Georgia Cole- man and Jane Fauntz. Though most of these now are ama- teurs, Mrs, Jarett said they had agreed to turn professional if she organized the troupe. Keeps in Excellent Shape. ACCOR.DINO to an official of the A. A. U, Mrs. Jarrett was billed on this last vaudeville tour as the “world and Olympic backstroke cham- pion.” Mrs. Jarett denied this and said she had photographs of marquees of all theaters in which she appeared to protect herself against just this charge. Though she has swum only once \sinoe returning from the Olympics, Mrs. Jarrett has kept in excellent conditior. During all that fighting I couldn't eat or sleep and I was down to 104 pounds, but I've gained about 9 pounds since then,” she said. Mrs. Jarrett’s husband, Art Jarrett, went to New Haven today to try for a part in & show. If he enters the show Mrs. Jarrett will stay in New York during the Winter. If he does not, she will go to Hollywood. —e SOKOLIS SUBS ON MAT Will Take Mills’ Place Against Finkelstein Tomorrow. Stan Sokolis, blond twister who has vaulted into popularity with Wash- ington's wrestling colony, will replace Lord Albert Mills in opposing Harry Pinkelstein in a 30-minute prelim- inary to the feature match involving Ernie Dusek and Clff Olson tomor- row night at Turner’s Arena. His Jordship is unabie to appear. In other preliminaries, Hank Barber will grapple with Matros Kirilenko, John Katan will face Tony Colesano and Nick Campofreda will meet Jack Hader. Bet on 2 Horses, Both Break Legs By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, October 21.—Two race-track telegraph _opera- tors, John Kelly and Fred Miles, have suspended their betting op- erations for the year. Yesterday at Sportsman’s Park they bet on Lady Rockledge in the second race.. She broke her leg less than half a furlong from the finish and had to be destroyed. Undaunted, Kelly and Miles Fabius broke a leg at the stretch snd had | {Notre Dame Will Determine | | Alexandrians Will Hold First U. S. Headliners CATHOLIC U, GAINS PRESTIGE IN EAST if Pitt Is to Remain in By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 21— N on any previous Saturday this season, the intersectional grid- chiefly around the ability of Notre Dame, Fordham, St. Mary's and Cath- ‘The 10-game interregional card, cov- ering the territory from coast to coast, Far West in the Fordham-St. Mary's battle in New York. It also brings to- engagements, East and South in two, East and Southwest in one and South Title Running. Stretching farther afield than iron program for this week end centers olic U. to stay among the undefeated. marks the season’s first test of East vs. gether the East and Midwest in four and Southwest in two more. C. U. Game One of Standouts. Wml.! such interregional standouts as Michigan and Columbia, Man- hattan and Detroit and Mississippi State and Texas Christian stud the program, the road toward champion- ship honors being traveled by Notre Dame, Fordham, St. Mary's and Cath- olic places their engagements at the head of the list. Notre Dame's Rambling “Irish” start their ramblings for the year by trek- king to Pittsburgh to tangle with the | Panther power house in a battle that | may decide whether they are slated for a return engagement in the nattonal | championship spotlight. | Fordham's husky rams, colliding in | New York with the Galloping Gaels | from the West Coast, furnish feature | number two on the slate. Catholic U., one of the East's highest scoring ma- chines, engages Mississippi's unfortu- | nate Rebels. Pitt Tough for “Irish.” THE Pitt game shapes up as Notre Dame's stiffest test to date. Al- | though upset by little Duquesne last | week, the Panthers still are as tough an outfit as can be found on any grid- iron and should be harder for Notre Dame than either of the Irish’s two hard ones so far—Carnegie and Wis- consin. | The Fordham-8t. Mary’s warfare is the renewal of a rivalry rapidly ap- proaching the “traditional” class, and | which annually ranks with the biggest intersectional games. Last week’s de- | feat of Pitt left Fordham very near the top in the East, and if the Rams get by the Gaels, their .claim will be en- hanced considerably. Catholic, scoring 107 points to 17 for its opposition in three games, also is taking position as an Eastern power. OLD DOMINIONS GATHER | | Smoker of Year Friday. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 21.— Old Dominion Boat Club’s first smoker of the year will be held Friday night, starting at 8:30 o'clock. It is open only to club members. | A series of boxing and wrestling matches, staged through the courtesy of Tom Gearty's Merrick Boys' Club ringmen, have been arranged by the Athletic Committee of Sam Berman, | Russ Nicholson and Julian White- stone. Bob Tow, local heavyweight, will referee the bouts. G. W. HIGH PLAYS GONZAGA. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 21.— George Washington High School's foot ball team, which will meet Gonzaga in Washington on Friday at Eastern High School Stadium, is going through a series of stiff workouts this week. Due to losses through injuries, Coach Givens claims that most of the Presi- | dents’ material now is green. - 130-POUNDERS SEEK TILT. Tenleytown A. C.'s 130-pound team | has been challenged by the Royal A. C. Tenleytown's manager should call Met~ ropolitan 3086 after 6 o'clock. This new 5¢ % Sports Program For Local Fans TOMORROW. 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. John's, Roose~ velt Stadium, 3:30. Gonzaga vs. George Washington High, at Eastern, 3:30. Landon vs. St. James, Hagerse town, Md. Maryland Freshmen vs. Riche ranr;r';d U. Freshmen, College Park, Luray High vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30. Woodrow Wilson vs. Friends, Friends field, 3:30. National Training School v, Fredericksburg High, FPrederickse burg. Wake Horse Show. Inter-American competition, Mead- owbrook Saddle Club, East-West Highway, 2. SATURDAY. Foot Ball. Maryland vs. Syracuse, Syracuse, Y Georgetown vs. N. Y. U, New York. Catholic University vs. Mississippt, Oxford, Miss. American University Guard Academy, New Conn. William and Mary Division) vs. Gallaudet, Green, 2:30. West Virginia State vs. Howard University, Howard Stadium, 2 Wilson Teachers vs. Shenandoah, Dayton, Va. | George Washington Frosh vs. Naval Training School, Norfolk, Va. Landon vs. St. James, Hagers- town; Md. Horse Show. Inter-American competition, Mead- owbrook Saddle Club, East-West Highway, 2. SCOTT, RIVERS MATCHED D. C. Ring Champion Will Battle Mexican Here Monday. Cowboy Howard Scott, District lightweight champion, will manipulate mittens with California Joe Riyers, popular Mexican mauler, in the fea ture 10-round bout of the weekly bo: ing show Monday night at Turner's Arena. Scott, after compiling an impressive winning streak, was knocked out by Chino Alvarez at Tampa, Fla., in his last start, while Rivers’ last two scraps show a seven-round knockout cone quest of Ray Boree and a decision over Nick Camaretta. TESTS GRID OFFICIALS D. C. Association to Hold Exams Next Monday Night. Prospective members of the District Foot Ball Officials’ Association will be examined next Monday night at 7 o'clock in the club room of the Renroc Athletic Club, 515 Eighth street southe east. Candidates desiring further in- formation should contact President Harry O'Meara at North 6867 or Sece retary Paul Magoffin, National 6400, Branch 2320. ‘The regular weekly meeting of as- sociation members for interpretation of the rules will be held at the same place at 8 o'clock. vs. Coast London, (Norfolk Kendall Caer Carbureo Sales and Service LA PALINA Excellente is worth ot least 10¢ based on fodzys CigarValues TRY IT ... YOULL AGREE & él