Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1936, Page 53

WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER .6, 1936. bening Sfap Classified Ads D-1 West: Virginians in Washington Given Break on Foot Ball Card THO HOME-STATE TEANS ARE HERE Injured Bobcat Stars Back for C. U. Game—G. W. i Host to Davis-Elkins. BY ROD THOMAS. EST VIRGINIA folk now resident in Washington will have a choice of two home-State teams to watch tomorrow when Davis-Elkins lines up against George Washington at Griffith Stadium and West Virginia Wesleyan | move$ against Catholic University at Brookland, with both kick-offs at 3 o'clock. It promises to be a tough afternoon for C. U., which has dropped two hard games in a row, but the Colonials apparently have little to fear. fact they plan to use a large part of she contest for experimental purposes. A number of G. W. reserves, hunger- ing for action while the regulars were used as much as practicable in four straight fiercely contested games, will see a lot of it tomorrow if the Colonials assure themselves of victory in the early going. Chiefly among these will be Jay Kenslow, quarterback; Kingston Burnham, Elmer Hogg and Lefty Johnson, backs, and Bob Faris, an end. In what little opportunity they have had, all have given indication of latent talent. Pixlee Has Hopes. IT IS the hope of Head Coach Pixlee that they will reveal capabilities on & scale shown by half a dozen or more Colonials who have come through with unexpected smartness. So well have Tim Stapleton and Izzy ‘Weinberg, the smallest guards to | play for G. W. in recent years, per- formed, that Harold Schiering has| been moved back to tackle. He was shifted to guard to put more weight in the middle of the line. Slow motion pictures of the Rice game make Llloyd Berry, substitute end, look even better than the re- porters described him. One section of film reveals Berry, on the ground with a blocker half reclining across him, reaching up and pulling down the runner. Pete Yurwitz won his letter as a substitute last season, but has made long strides this Fall. When Pete caught the pass from Joey Kaufman that gave G. W. its six points against Rice it was recalled that this pair won the public high-school champion- ship of New York City for Theodore Roosevelt High on a 50-yard fling from Joey to Pete. Mahan Shows Generalship. RUCE MAHAN engineered the 80- | yard touchdown drive against the Owls. Guy Renzaglia, a small guard— it's the only type G. W. possesses— surprised with high grade play against Arkansas and Wake Forest. Faris caught a pass from Burnham for a 20-yard gain that started the Colonials to victory over Wake Forest. Johnson, who weighs only 160 paunds, | played for a few minutes against | Elon and seemed to hit harder than eny other back on the team. Not exactly wishing another fellow | hard luck, no member of the Catholic | University squad is tickled to learn that Leonard Barnum will return to| West Virginia's line-up. Barnum, passing and kicking full- | back, was voted a place on the C. U. all-opponents’ team last season and Judging from his performance against Duquesze two weeks ago the young man is a better foot ball player than ever, He, more than any other, ac- cording to report, was responsible for the Bobcats’ sensational upset of Duquesne. He was banged up in the battle with the Dukes and withheld from last week's contest with Waynes- burg. Bobcat Regulars Return. K!.'EPING Barnum worthy company in the visiting backfield will be Nelson Peterson, hard runner and also & boot artist. Five of Wesleyan's regulars took a physical beating after Duquesne sensed serious trouble and remained out of the Waynesburg game, but all are ready to face C. U. The Bobcats will present & hard €harging line and will meet a fast one, but C. U’s may be weakened a little by the absence of Leo Katalinas, tackle, who cracked a rib in practice the other day. Katalinas and Elwood Clements, the other Card tackle, were declared by Ray Hapes and Bernard, Mississippi backfield stars, to be the two toughest men in their positions that the Rebels has faced all season. Bam Bogano will replace Katalinas. The Cards will be the favorites, which is all to the liking of C. B. Ross, Wesleyan coach. Ross, a Bob- cat alumnus, who has been coaching the West Virginians for 10 years, goes in for upset victories in pro- nounced fashion. He has won notable surprise victories over such schools as Southern Methodist, Kentucky, Georgetown, N. Y. U, Syracuse and, his latest, over Dugquesne. ‘The Bobcats will arrive tonight at In| 11 o'clock from Buckhannon, W. Va., and put up at the Lafayette Hotel. South Dakotan Calls Gophers’ Defeat Year Ahead ;| PAGES FROM THAT D / SHEETS, G TERP ACES READY. 10 FAGE-SPIDERS Guckeyson and Meade Will Start Game Tomorrow in Richmond. ARYLAND'S foot ball team will go to Richmond tomor- row to play the University of Richmond Spiders with considerably more hope than was entertained during the early part of the week. Donning grid suits for the first time since the Florida game last Sat- urday, the injured ball-carrying aces —Bill Guckeyson and Jim Meade— | showed exceptional spryness and will start the contest in the Virginia cap- ital, The four days’ rest worked wonders with the two clever halfbacks, and the cooler weather did much to re- vive the entire Old Line squad. ONLY Blair Smith, the regular right end, is left on the injured list. Nick Budkoff, 186-pound soph- omore, will take his place. This means that six seniors, three juniors and two sophomores will start the Richmond game. ‘The probable starting line-up is: Ends, Willis and Budkoff; tackles, Fletcher and Birkland; guards, Wolfe and Surgent; center, Walton; quar- terback, Ellinger; halfbacks, Meads and Guckeyson; fullback, Gormley. The entire Maryland squad of 29 will be taken to Richmond, leaving by bus early tomorrow morning, The Old Liners will make their head- quarters at the John Marshall Hotel. e —— e — LOUISVILLE JOB OPEN No Overtures Made to Fill Place Vacated by Grimes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., November 6 (). —William A. (Cap) Neal, general manager of the Louisville American Association club, said today no over- tures had been made to anybody to succeed Burleigh Grimes as manager of the Colonels. The first application was made by Nick Allen through a friend. Allen managéd the Akron, Ohio, club of the Middle Atlantic League last year and formerly was skipper of the St. Paul and Kansas City American As- sociation clubs. “Red” Rollings, who served as Grimes’ assistant here, was listed as & prospect. FAMOUS BOOK. Steclal Dispatch to The Star. AIRMONT, W. Va, November 6.—~Why is it, when everybody else lays dough on the line to see a foot ball game from the grandstands, those hangers-on across | the field at Griffith Stadium have to | sit on the blocks that mark the yard | stripes and make you count, 5-10-15- | 20-22-etc., to see where in the h—l the ball is? | Smart colleges ought to issue guns | to customers and declare open hunting | season for sniping the chiselers. | Why is it that one of the horn- | blowers in the Georgetown band stays consistently off-key, Saturday after Saturday, no matter what the band is playing? He always sounds like some- body swiped his music sheet and that he is playing from a G. 0. P. pre-election speech. WHY is it some teams, having two sets of jerseys (like gold and green), always insist on giving Player Joe Doakes No. 14 in gold and No. 58 in green and go on like that all down the line? Why is it that newspaper men and press agents, having the word so worn out it can’t stand up by itself, keep on over- working “razzle-dazzle”? It wasn't much good in the first place. WHY is it all press boxes must have & gun in them who either claimed to be a coach or fancies himself to be one and who insists on yelling at the top of his lungs, while everybody is trying to write a play-by-play, what is coming off after it already has come off? There's one in every press box and he’s no help. Just loud. ‘Why is it that after you write mere- ly a politely flattering piece about a college team or coach you always get one or two unsigned letters from some- body saying you are a subsidized bum? Like the one yours truly got a couple weeks ago after writing a piece on Catholic University. ! “All you lousey sporiswriters are Catholics,” yelped “Indig- nant.” He didn’t sign his name, The omly clue was that the gripe came in a Georgetown University envelope. Heh, heh. Airing a Few Pigskin Peeves. WHY is it the guys who make up | the official programs are always so careful to give the first, middle and last names, the numbers, class, nationality, weight, height and gen- eral history of each home player and | only the last name of an invader? Why is it that 9 out of 10 press agents who are supposed to tell the press who tackled ‘who on that play, or who carried the ball, get so excited and are so wrapped in one team that all they do is stand with their mouths open and get in tae way? WHY is it that one or two “dead- heads” always manage to sneak into the press section and, when you're in a hurry to have your period-by- period account sent over the wire, the “dead” tugs at the Western Union man's arm and asks him to see if he can get the first-quarter séore of the Clemson-Auburn game? ‘Why Is it that colleges do not put their public address system announcers through a little schooling on foot ball? Maybe they'd be of some help. IN SHORT: Jimmy Erwin, manager of Feather- weight Champion Petey Sarron, is toy- ing with the idea of taking the Syrian to England for a series of fights, in- cluding one for the National Boxing Association title he now holds. There is no demand for a Sarren-Mike Belloise match in New York, but Erwin is afraid that English fight judges and referees might not “understand” Sarron’s rough-and-ready type of fighting. In fact, lots of American judges have & difficult time, frequently penalizing Petey . . . it may be re- called that when he first came to Alexandria some years ago there was some doubt as to whether to hail Sarron as a great fighter or throw him out of the ring for doing every- thing except fight. John J. Romane, the N'Yawk fight expert, wants to get in touch _with _California .Joe Rivers. It seems there is a demand for Joseph in Gotham after his victory over Howard Scott ... getting no younger, it might be a good idea for OUTBOARD LAURELS AGAIN GO TO JACOBY Pro Speedboat Driver Awarded Townsend, Ferguson Medals as National Champion. Erecial Dispatch to The Star. INEW YORK CITY, November 7.— | Fred Jacoby, jr., professional out- board driver of North Bergen, N. J., him the national scoring championship last year and is the winner of the Townsend and Ferguson Medals for 1936. Both are symbolic of the indi- vidual national outboard speedboat scoring champlionships in classes A, B, and C professionals. Jacoby was called “truly the greatest outboard driver of all time” by George ‘W. Sutton, jr., in charge of scoring statistics for the National Outboard Racing Commission, which released the rankings. Pessessicn of the most coveted out- board prize in the game went to Jacoby, on the basis of his compilation of 18,992 .points, who was nearly 3,000 ahead of his nearest competitor, Andy Laird, Pacific Coast professional. Clin- ton Ferguson of Waban, Mass., was third with 12,125 points. Molly Tyson of Chestnut Hill was given credit for one of the most per- scoring the greatest number of points in only two classes during the season. Sports Mirror Ey the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Sad Sam Jones given unconditiona] release by Chicago White Sox after 22 years in major leagues. Three years ago—Sidney Weil resigned as president of Cin- cinnati Reds after $800,000 loss in California Joe to look into it...f. striking while the fron’s hot, ete. Dempsey Doesn’t Want Phelan’s Job—Pros After Kobroskey of “Little All-America.” BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, November 6.— While three-cheering Jim Farley for calling 46 of 48 States for Roosevelt, don’t overlook another neat bit of long- distance picking . . . Bob Oates, sports editor of the Yankton (8. Dak.) Press and Dakotan, wrote in his paper on November 11, 1935: “The only team .to beat Bernie him, too, if he doesn’t watch at New Orleans December 27. ., they are Harold Manning, Wichita, Kans.; Glen Dawson, Tulsa, Okla, it wh has repeated his exploits which won | fect performances of the season by | OF WEST VIRGINIA Team to Be Met Tomorrow Season’s Toughest Foe, Says Coach Hagerty. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. Staff Correspondent of The Star, AIRMONT, W. Va., November 6.—Some 30 hours before the start of the battle, Georgetown University’s foot ball warriors pitched camp today on the outskirts of the Universtiy of West Virginia's gridiron stronghold and prepared for their hardest game of the season to date. All officers of the invading horde from Washington, from Head Coach Jack Hagerty to End Coach and Chief Scout George Murtaugh, spent the morning pounding one theory home, namely, that if the Hoyas thought New York University was tough wait until they get a load of the Moun- taineers. New York U. was the only team so far in this gampaign to hold Georgetown on even terms, getting a 7-7 tie, but in the light of carefully- studied coaching reports Hagerty and his aides are honestly convinced that ‘West Virginia is stronger than N. Y, U, “This team,” added Hagerty, re- ferring to the Mountaineer clan, “probably is the best we’ll play all year, and that isn't taking a thing away from a good Maryland team and an N. Y. U. team that everybody un- | derrates.” Romped Over Cincinnatl. GEORGEI‘OWN. as a whole, was slow to appreciate the threat of West Virginia to the Hoyas, who hold the only record in Washington that shows no defeat. Players and the general contingent genuinely fear the Mountaineers now, but Hagerty was far ahead of the pack. Jack per- sonally scouted West Virginia when it routed University of Cincinnati by a 40-to-6 score. He came away im- pressed with the Mountaineers, who romped over a team that Georgetown barely managed to nose out, 7-0. Murtaugh, who scouted West Vir- ginia when it walloped Western Mary- land, 33-20, shared Hagerty's opinion. The end coach saw the Mountaineers pile up 20 points in the last 15 min- utes against the Green Terrors. Georgetown’s arrival this morning was punctuated by fresh news from Morgantown to the effect that, | strength will be available. This is due |to the return to service of Halfback | Glenn Carder and Fullback Sam | Audia, who will add offensive strength to an eleven that already ranks among | the first five in the land in rolling up points. Even Up in Series. EORGETOWN-WEST VIRGINIA grid battles, however, always have been dog fights, and this promises to be no exception, despite the high rat- ing of the Mountaineers, who have lost only to Pittsburgh in seven games, and the injury-weakened Hill- toppers. Since their rivalry began each team has won four games, and a ninth ended in a tie. The last time they played, 1933, the game ended victory. | Fairmont because, literally, there was no room for them in Morgantown. ‘The game tomorrow is the big one of have made it their homecoming. The little town of Morgantown already is filled to capacity, and included among the visitors are 2,500 West Virginia high school players who have gathered for the affair. Five years ago—Jack Chesbro, 56, old spitball pitcher with the New York “Highlanders,” died. “sweet as a nut” No wonder s first choice en taste alone for | | the first time in three weeks, full | | with West Virginia winning a 14-to-12 | The Hoyas pitched their camp in | the year for the Mountaineers, who | DAVE GOODWIN, West Virginia Wesleyan guard, who has_been spoiling other team’s plays all season, plans to continue against the Cards at Brookland tomorrow after= noon. Sports Program For Local Fans ‘TODAY. Foot Ball. American University vs. Ran- dolph-Macon, Ashland, Va. Eastern vs. Western, Eastern Sta- dium (public high title series), 3:15. Woodrow Wilson vs. Bullis Prep, Silver Spring, Md., 3:30. Washington-Lee High vs. Fred- ericksburg High, Fredericksburg, Va. Friends vs. Charlotte Hall Mili- tary Academy, Charlotte Hall, Md. TOMORROW, Foot Ball. George Washington vs. Davis- Elkins, Griffith Stadium, 2. Catholic University vs. West Vir- ginia Wesleyan, Brookland Sta- dium, 2. Maryland vs. Richmond, Rich- mond, Va., 2:30. Georgetown vs. West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. Gallaudet vs. City College of New York, New York. George Washington Frosh vs. Western Maryland Frosh, Westmin- ster, Md. Catholic U. Frosh vs. Archmere Academy, Brookland Stadium, 10 am. Devitt Prep vs. Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va. Virginia Episcopal vs. Episcopal, Alexandria, Va., 2:30. Howard vs. Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. NAVY-TRISH’ GAME 10 BE WIDE OPEN Hamilton Says Middies Are Prepared to Try Every Trick in Bag. BS the Associated Press. NNAPOLIS, Md., November 6.— A wide-open, spectacular game of foot ball when Navy and Notre Dame meet in the Bale timore Stadium tomorrow was fore- cast by Tom Hamilton, head Navy coach. Hamilton, who said the Navy would hold back nothing, explained that he expected the game to be marked by good kicking and swift shots for a score. He said that Notre Dame plays a de- ceptive open game and that Navy would have to open up with everything in its bag of tricks to offset the attack. Hamilton put his team to work on its kicking game yesterday and spent time on polishing its play. the players some rough work, staging a mixed offensive and defensive scrim- mage. He gave CRONIN TO PLAY THIRD Not Off Active List, Manager of Red Sox Insists. BY the Associated Press. Come next base ball season and Joe Cronin will be playing third base. That's definite, the Red Sox man- ager broken thumb heals. “I'm feeling great now, spry as a kid,” Cronin said, disregarding talk that his Red Sox days were numbered. said, then amended—if the SPORT CENTER Hunting Specials High Cut Lace Boots 95 ® All sizes @ Special up Waterproof Breeches S'I .95 @ All sizes up Hunting Coats ® All sizes s 95 @ Best buy in town up CENTER 8th & D Sts. N.W. METRO. 6444 Open Sat. 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