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’ The Foening Stap SFporls WA SHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936. D. C. Teams in for Tough Saturday : “°Granddaddy”’ Tilts Mark Card Record Crowd Is Seen for Terps—Catawba Threat Taken Seriously. BY ROD THOMAS. T GOES without saying that l Maryland, meeting V. M. I, and Catholic University, opposing North Carolina State, are in for a tough afternoon Saturday, and now it begins to appear that Washington 1s to see still another torrid grid scrap this week end. Catawba College or North Carolina has made bold to predict an upset victory over George Washington Sat- urcay at Griffith Stadium, and the Colonials, taking the Indians at their word, are preparing for a stiff game. Georgetown is the only member of the District Big Four playing away, opposing Manhattan at Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn, but the Hoyas won't want for rooters. New York is well dotted with Georgetown alumni, and the largest delegation ever to go to Gotham from Washington to see the Hilltop- pers play is expected to attend the Manhattan clash. Two special trains have been char- tered by the Georgetown Athletic Asso- ciation. They will leave Union Station at 1 and 4 pm. Friday. A special rate of $8 a round trip has been ob- tained. Tickets for the game may be purchased at the Georgetown athletic office for $2.20 apiece. Record Crowd Seen for Terps. ARYLAND'S squad today settled down to light drills again after the hardest session it has gone through in many weeks. The Ter- rapins had done so little strenuous work since the battering at Syracuse October 24 that they had gone off color in their blocking and Coach Dobson devoted nearly all of vester- day's hour-and-a-half drill to that vital fundamental, using freshmen as stooges. Dobson was pleased not only with the showing made by his charges and the eagerness with which they went about their task but with the fact that Jim Meade and Coleman Head- %y, clever running halfbacks, ap- peared ready to function 100 per cent for the first time since the Syracuse contest. “This is the first time since the game at Syracuse,” said Dobson, “that Meade and Headley have been able to run on two legs and our at- tack should be a lot stronger than it has been in the last two games.” Go for Guckeyson. GUCKEYSON got the votes of the Richmond fans for an all- America berth when they saw him wreck a strong University of Rich- mond team last Saturday with two 66-yard runs for the only touchdowns of the game. One came after & punt and the other from a fake-kick play. He also galned & lot of other ground, did his bit fully on defense and made one punt that traveled 30 yards from the line of scrimmage. He had the Richmond kickers so afraid to boot the ball in the air that they were slicing it from 10 to 20 yards to be sure of putting it out of bounds. Indications point to a record crowd | at College Park. In addition to the| fact that it is a homecoming, there is & great desire of many to see Bill Guckeyson. It will be & homecoming for the team as well as the alumni, for this is the first contest on the Terrapin fleld since the season’s opener with St. John's, Moreover, the $1.10 price for the best grandstand seats has made & hit with grid fans in general. V. M. I and Maryland both present flash backfields and & wide-open battle apparently is in order. The game will start at 2:30, but the program will begin at 10 o'clock Saturday morning and wind up with the homecoming dance in Ritchie Coliseum at night. Think Catawba Not Spoofing. HIGHLY respected in its own ter- ritory, Catawba probably doesn’t enjoy & high rating among Washing- ton fans, but the Colonials look to their clash with the Indians with only one thought uppermost—to be ready for serious trouble. Particularly concerned are the G. W. coaches over Catawba's passing attack, as evidenced by practices this week in which Boss Jim Pixlee has stressed overhead defense, a phase of play in which the Colonials haven't been especially proficient. The public may be skeptical, but the Colonials are far from scofing at Catawba’s threat to pull an upset. Pixlee's men realize that the Indians must have something on the ball to be able to stop cold a team that had scored 263 points while yielding nary & touchdown in six games. Catawba did just that Friday in beating Ap- palachian University 14 to 0. Going deeper into the details of that contest, the Colonials found that Catawba's tacklers had thrown the Appalachian backs for more yardage than they gained, which may hold considerable meaning in view of the defeated team’s previous scoring sprees. George ‘Washington has beaten Catawba three times, buf the Redskins appear tohave (See THOMAS, Page A-18) HOPKINS GONTEST A.U.HOMECOMING Eagles’ Regulars Will Be in Good Trim to Play in Saturday Tilt. ARALLELING the plans of the University of Maryland and Catholic University, American U. will stage a homecoming of its own on Saturday, when its foot ball team plays here for the first | time since October 3. Central High Stadium is the site of the game which the Eagles will| play with Johns Hopkins. Most striking about the situation is that American U. and Johns Hop- kins have identical records to date— one victory apiece in five games. Americans came over Bridgewater by & 7-6 margin, while the Baltimore eleven trimmed Haverford, 10-2. But although both have been beaten by Washington College and Randolph- Macon, Hopkins gets the edge on comparative scores. The Chestertown outft only trimmed Hopkins by one point, 8-7, but walloped American U., 25-7, while Randolph-Macon stopped Hopkins, 25-7, and American, 48-7. Eagles Hope to Muster Force. HANDICAPPSD by injuries all sea- son, the Eagles hope to be able to present their full strength Sat- urday, benefiting especially through the return of Hal Toner and Emer- son (Sparky) Bartlett, backs. Last week only three regulars were in con- dition to play—Pete Sitnik, tackle; George Brown, end, and Ralph Wins- low, halfback. Coach Walter Young, however, is banking no little upon Larry (Pea- nuts) Howard, a 135-pound, 5 foot 2 back, who is serving his third year on the squad. Hesitant about’using Howard last season against large op- ponents, necessity forced the Ameri- can U. coach to fnsert the small youngster into the line-up this Fall when injuries depleted his backfield. That the little fellow made good in & big way was Young’s opinion after last Priday night's game in which Howard did all of the kicking, passing {and signal-calling. His boots aver- aged more than 40 yards and he completed 8 out of 12 heaves. . Sports Mirror By the Assoclated Press. Today & year ago—Ethel Burk- hardt Arnold, heroine of United States Wightman Cup tennis vice tory, turned professional. AR ANNUAL WAR DECLARED. \ == ind It Matters Not That He Won Or Lost, He Got His Picture Taken, Did “Mike Diz Eslin though it isn't at all startling, they “Of course, he never wins, but & worst and, paradoxically, the best of the fourth annual Golden Gloves boxing tourna- ment was ended today with the burial of the bulk of first-round novice class bouts and the call for the big shots, who will open fire tonight at Catholic University. In the maze of missed punches, stumbling feet and awkward feints last night few were those who detected signs of future ring greats, or even | prospective polished battlers. But in | comedy the best is over, especially now | that-little “Mike Diz” Eslin is out of the tournament. “Mike Diz” is from Northeast. His real name is Bernard, but everybody | calls him “Mike Diz,” although no- | body knows why. He really didn't belong in that company last night be- cause most of the novices were long, gawky, unmuscled kids and “Mike Diz” is matured and little and instead of having peach fuzz on his chin he has an honest-to-goodness beard that has to be shaved. He is like a majden race horse which never graduates. Nobody knows exactly how old is “Mike Diz,” not even the kids who fight with him every day in Northeast, but they do know he has been fighting ever since amateur boxing was or- ganized on a high-pressure scale in town and that he is one of the real veterans of the Golden Gloves because he never has missed one. Soberly, as —By JIM BERRYMAN. _ Q say: he's always in there swinging.” “I Wuz Robbed!” LAST night “Mike Diz” was in there swinging again in a 112-pound match, and if he had a chance to win it was lost before the bell rang, be- cause a photographer in the press row stuck his camera through the ropes, ready to take a “shot.” And “Mike Diz” wanted to be in it. He was fighting a long, skinny kid named Orville Lyons, from the North- east Boys' Club, and “Mike Diz" did his best to maneuver Lyons to the floor. It didn't work and so he tried to merely land a good shot while he was facing the camera. This didn't work, either, and Eslin found himself catching punches. Even a picture like that would be better than none, but the camera bulb remained dim. Finally, he started to prod the pho- tographer. “C’'mon, shoot it,” yelped “Mike Diz.” “Shoot it when I t'’row dis one. What th’ devil's the matter?” It went on for three rounds, with Eslin taking a bigger and better past- ing every round. He didn’t know the cameraman was waiting for him to be kayoed or he might have taken a “dive.” Anyway, when it was over, “Mike Diz” cast a nasty look at the (See GOLDEN GLOVES, Page A-18.) Th‘e A. E. F.—18 Years Later. BY GRANTLAND RICE. Flares in the midnight sky—Deep rolling thunder— The blasting shell that sang somebody’s doom— Taps in the eerie night for those down under To wake no more amid the poppies’ bloom— Rain, mud and death by field and stream and glen— Do you remember then? Hair that was dark or H?ht—now thin and graying— Eyes that were shin ng once—now slightly dim; The years have taken their toll, beyond all praying For lighter feet along the flaming rim— Once we could march all day to fight again— Do you remember then? And there were dreams of some one who was waiting— Blue eyes or brown, that shone like far-off stars— Lost lanes of home—where life and death were mating Amid the welter of forgotten scars— Lines that moved up in waves of marching men— Do you remember then? We’re older, We've seen the show—we ifle—does it matt ——— mates_w oo e ,,m’,"c‘;,,fi";,, the parade— |Grimm Will Coach Glove Squad We’ve heard the bugles call—the rifles clatter— And one’m/ We left behi Do you remember then? one we join the old brigade to wear dust’s diadem— Grimes Called Turn on His Career as Spithaller Ross Big Choice Over Jannazzo—Dunn Crashes Foot Ball Game in Great Style. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, November 11.— The Chicago Bears are looking for Coach George Halas and Halas is looking for the New York newspaper man who wrote the Bears should col- lect time and a half for beating nnuamummwhl‘..- And now you tell one. You can write your own ticket on Army vs. Notre Dame Saturday . . . When the majors cutlawed spite ball pitchers 10 or 12 years ago, Burleigh Grimes, new manager of the Dodgers, predicted he’d be the ball experts to Jannazzo in stride . . . Ceferino Garcia may be tough. Here’s how Eddie Dunn of Port Jervis, N. Y., broke into- collegiate foot ball: ying as a sophomore with the U. of Miami team against the South Georgia Teachers, he took the opening kick-off and raced 87 yards to a touchdown . . . he got up, wiped his hands, then flipped a 33-yard pass for another score « « « before the quarter ended he took a punt and galloped 68 yards to a touchdown . . . would you say the young man was well broke in, or was he well broke in? ., . As & freshman he was just another quarterback. Here is how one eminent col- umnist describes the situation: “Although there is an Eastern and Southern foot ball team who are candidates for the Rose Bowl, the West Coast hasn't a formidable team for the Rose Bowl game. ‘The Washington team lost too much prestige when it was tied by Stanford.” .. . You say it are? « . . The Columbia basket ball team will play in the national sports festival in Havana this Winter . . . too bad about the Notre Dame tem of foot ball going to pot . . (cAmioue < / P L WOTSA MAT WIT You--You LET-A DA LEETLA IRISH BOY GEEVA MY TONY WHEEPING? MAMMA MIO! N Ve | {Would Avenge 1935 Defeat at Their Homecoming. Sophs Predominate. | Erecial Dispateh to The Star. EXINGTON, Va., November 11. —V. M. I's Flying Squadron, | with four wins out of five starts against Southern Con- | ference opponents, expects its hardest | tests of the season against Maryland's Terps at College Park Saturday. Last year Coach Frank Dobson's eleven nosed out V. M. I. by a single | touchdown to spoil a homecoming | party, but the Cadets fancy them- | selves in the wrecking role when they | meet the Terps for the fifteenth time |in a 30-year-old rivalry. Doc Saunders, 165-pound sopho- more halfback from Roanoke, will be closely watched by the Terps, while the Cadets will attempt to bottle up the great Bill Guckeyson. Saunders has scored six of the eight touch- downs registered by the Cadets in their last three winning games. Saun- ders, a basket ball star and prom- ising ball player, has grabbed four perfect passes from Andy Trzeciak, another soph, in his scoring spree. Other Sophomores Star. TWO other sophomores—Bud Ko- var and Joe Ross—will join the veteran Billy Roberson, Wayt Clark and Jim Beard in an effort to match the speed and power of Maryland's ball toters. In the William and Mary game last week Ross, substituting at fullback, shone as a line smasher, backed up the Cadet line like a vet- eran and lateraled to- Saunders for V. M. L’s final score. Other newcomers to the Cadet line- up also performed well against the Indians. Billy Holland, 185-pounder, showed promise as a reserve tackle after having been switched from end. Halsey Hill and Carter Cole, two pint- sized guards, battled valiantly as un- derstudies for Capt. Jim Farley and +| Al Fiedler, who were on the bench with injuries. Thirteen of 20 players used by Coach Bill Raftery against William and Mary were sophomores. Prob- ably as many as six will start against the Terps. ——— CENTER BOXING CLASS at Roosevelt. Starting tonight, boxing instruc- tions will be given at Roosevelt Com- munity Center in the Roosevelt High School three times a week, on Mon- day, Wednesday and Thursday eve- nings from 7 to 10:30 o'clock. Bobby Grimm, former Golden Gloves light-heavyweight champion, has been appointed coach of those who turn out for the leather-flinging. Harry Downard will assist Grimm, —_— ROYALS CANCEL GAMES. Cancellation of its games with the Northeast Eagles and Wolverine A. C. has been gnnounced by the Royal A. C, due to unavoidable circum- stances. AUTO HEATERS SALES AND SERVICE LSRN StLNW. N TGRS ANDELSS | /'/ INGITHCOMBAT, O~ F"**tan. & Amherst, Williams Play for “Little 3” Title—Other 0ld Foes Grapple. By the Associated Press, EW YORK, November 11.—The foot ball schedule makers, ap- parently always ready to oblige, seem to have set aside the coming Saturday to give the grid- iron granddaddies a chance to sit back and remember their days in the spotlight, the days of the fying wedge and walrus mustache. Relegating to the background such bright intersectional tussles as the meeting of Mirnesota’s power and Texas' passes, unbeaten Marquette and Mississippi, Texas Aggies and Utah, among others, the card for this week end features the renewal of tra- ditional rivalries dating back to the era when beef and brawn held a cor- ner on the gridiron market. The granddaddy of them all for the day, of course, is the sixtieth meeting of the Yales and the Princetons, a warfare that began less than a decade after the Civil War, and which has seen 59 battles fought in its name, with Yale leading, 31 to 18, and 10| tied at the moment. 0Old Rivalries Renewed. IVALING that meeting, however, are such ancient get-togethers as the 52-year-old Ambherst-Williams warfare, with the “little three” cham- | pionship involved this year; the Ohio | State-Illinois fight, now in its thirty- fifth year, and the Penn-Penn State Rutger’s-New York U. and Tu Bowdoin battles, all only a few years off the half-century mark, Younger, but none-the-less intense, is the renewal of the 23-year old op- | position of Army’s “Mule” and Notre Dame's “Irish,” which ranks with the Yale-Princeton meeting as the East's big game for the day, and Pitt’s private | compared to some of the others. Down South, there will be Tennessee |and Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and Alabama and Duke-North Carolina. All of these have been having the an- nual day for years. This season, the Tech-Alabama meeting has the added | Bowl bid for the Crimson Tide, war with Nebraska, a babe at 15 years, | importance of a possible Rose or Sugar | "POPP Mr. Marshall Argues the Case. NE advantage to moving a| professional foot ball team, O as against shifting the base of a college eleven, frin- stance, is that such sundry accessories as dormitories, class rooms, professors | and the dean need not be crated and | shipped as well. During the course of a pow-wow, George P. Marshall grinningly mentioned this item. ‘ The holder of “Washington's fore- | most sportsman” title is doing a lot of pow-wowing these days. It all started | | when he examined the books of the | Beston Redskins, gulped a box of ‘asplrm, fumed threats of suing the City of Culture for divorce on grounds of. non-support, and °d that he may move the team to Washington. True to his intimations, | Marshall already has conferred | with the approving Clark Grif- fith, and tomorrow he will go to New York to confer with the other three stockholders in the Redskins, who are a very good pro foot ball outfit, of which Marshall owns 51 per cent. For five years now G. Preston| "Marshall has represented Boston with good National League teams, and his club still is $60,000 in debt and mak- ing no progress toward balancing the budget. “And I must confess,” he explained, as lightly as a man can be after throwing 60,000 potatoes down the sewer, “that I'm fed up.” Looks Before He Leaps. 'HAT would secm to sett] ington gets a big-league pro team for the first time 1 Will you still call the boys the Redskins, George? But getting fed up wi | receipts for a cil k and moving to Washington is not guite so easy as all that, although, as Marshall mentioned, | there are no dormitories to move. He threw up a restraining hand. There is [ a little matter of mulling over the | question of whether W ngton will | | support big-league foot ball. So Mr. Marshall is leoking be- fore he leaps and refusing to say definitely whether the Redskins will represent the Capital next | year. “I want them to play here,” he said, “but first I want to be sure if Washington wants them.” Wash- Big Tilts in Midwest. PROM!NENT in the Midwest are the | Michigan-Northwestern, Chicago- | Indiana and Iowa-Purdue clashes, and | the always-tough Pacific Coast con- | tests feature Southern California and Washington in & game that will go a| long way toward deciding the confer- ence title. On the intersectional slate, the Texas Aggies provide the most ambiti- ous, if not the most important, in- vasion. They push to California for a game with San Prancisco today, and then head for the Rocky Mountain area to have at Utah's powerful out- fit Saturday. Journeying with the Aggies to the | coast is TFexas Tech, which tangles! with Loyola of Los Angeles today. Also on the inter regional program are Catholic U.s collision with North Carolina State, and Western Reserve's battle with West Virginia. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Boxing. District Golden Gloves tourna- ment, Catholic University Gym- nasium, 8:15. TOMORROW. Foot Ball. Maryland Frosh vs. Washington- Lee Frosh, Lexington, Va. Devitt Prep vs. Bullis Prep, Central High Stadium, 3. National Training School Episcopal, Alexandria, Va., 3:15. Boxing. District Golden Gloves tourna- ment, Catholic University Gym- nasium, 8:15. Wrestling. Yvon Robert vs. Clif Olson, fea- ture match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. FRIDAY. Foot Ball. Eastern vs. Tech, Eastern Sta- dium (public high title series), 3:15. St. John's vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md. (prep school title series), 3:15. Temple Frosh vs. George Wash- ington Frosh, Griffith Stadium, ium, 8. St. Albans vs. Landon, Bethesda, Md., 3:30. Friends vs. Baltimore, Md. Washington-Lee High vs. Char- lottesville High, Charlottesville, Va. vs. Baltimore Friends, SATURDAY. Foot Ball George Washington vs. Catawba, Grifith Stadium, 2. Catholic University vs. North Carolina State, Brookland Sta- dium, 2. Virginia Military Institute vs. Maryland, College Park, Md., 2:30. Johns Hopkins vs. American University, Central Stadium, 2. Georgetown vs. Manhattan, Brooklyn, N. Y. - Gallaudet vs. Mount St. Mary’s, Emmitsburg, Md. Wilson Teachers vs. Millersville ‘Teachers, Millersville, Pa. Howard vs. Union University, Richmond, Va. Boxing. District Golden Gloves tourna- ment, Catholic University Gym- nasium, 8:15. November 12 to 28 Incl. First Race, 1:30 P.M. SEVEN RACES DAILY | Redskins about as There are, indeed, many angles to be considered. “The biggest,” ex- plained Marshall, “is getting publicity. | In Boston the newspapers give the much space as ‘Washington papers give the Dixie League pros. That isn't enough. To break even running a big-league club, | you see, the gates have to average! $12,000.” Never in five years has Boston aver- aged $12,000 a season for half a dozen home games. Can Washington, with far fewer people, do it? State Societies Would Help. N PARTIAL answer Marshall struck | an interesting point. Reaching for a wad of figures, he pointed to the gate receipts at Green Bay, Wis, home of the Packers. “Green Bay ha lation of little over 30,000, “and the Packers have been drawing $20.000 and $25,000 gates. They're pro | foot ball conscious out there. “In Boston precite it. teams and this year's outfit is half a game back of the lead. Yet we're in the red and the Philadelphia Eagles, who've won 1 game in 10, are $6,000 to the good. What kinda justice is that?” It didn't sound very just. What of Washington's far- famed reputation for lack of civic pride in a representative sports team, George? | “Well, it supports the ball club, | doesn't 1t?” he countered. “This is a big league town and it has to have big league stuff. And besides, the ! | got very lack of Washingtonians in Washe ington ought to help us instead of hurting. “Why, Griff was saying only today that there are 50,000 people in town belonging to State societies. Think of what this will mean. West Vire ginians will come to see CIliff Battles, Minnesotans will come to watch Nae gurski and Manders, Alabamans will want to get an eyeful of Riley Smith, etc.” I\IR, MARSHALL was reminded of contradictory “tests” of Wash- ington responding to foot ball. When Possum Jim Pixlee swooped out of the West, beating a drum and leading a flock of foot ball players to play for the George W. ns, the Capital took them to its collective bosoms and made big-time foot ball a paying proposition. Big gates have marked George Washington games for the last five years, and yei, according to rumor, Pixlee did not dare to book Colgate here when he had a chance, because Andy Kerr's school wanted 7 $10,500 guarantee. Then, too, how about the cur- rent Washington pros, who are starving to death, and the other local pro teams who have flopped. “Poof,” poofed G. Preston, “don't class the Washington pros with the Redskins. My team i big league. It's t names and everything the pros haven't got. And as for college teams drawing well, but not well enough, mean much. National ball is different. The game is wide open and it's played as can be played. This town huts about the Redskins and about minor league coll foot ball. It's just & question of getting publicity.” Well, Mr. Marshall, you have a way of getting things you want. It publicity’s all you want . . . Will you still call the boys the Redskins or, say, something like the Senators? Again a remonstrative paw. “Sun- day might decide,” he said. “We play the Chicago Bears in Boston. If we draw $25,000 that might make a dif- ference. TWise . . . About That Name . « « “And say,” he grinned, “about that name for the team, I'll hold a contest. e e Christmas Game if Both Stay Undefeated. OS ANGELES, November 11.— | Pat O'Brien, motion picture ment today to stage a foot ball game here Christmas day between sity, provided the two schools finish the season undefeated. the Bronchos of Santa Clara wind up as the only unbeaten coast team, they the Rose Bowl classic, which is re- stricted to the Pacific Coast Confer- O'Brien is an alumnu of Marquette and played on the foot ball team. He underwrite the proposed Marquette- Santa Clara game if it could be are That'll get people interested. 0’Brien, Movie Star, Urges By the Associated Press, star. took the lead in a move- Santa Clara and Marquette Univere O'Brien pointed out that even if would not be eligible to participate in ence and its selections. said a group of sportsmen here would ranged.