Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 16

A—16 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR WAéH]NG’l‘ON D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936. SPORT Pros’ Coaches Weigh 1936 Talent : British Open Win U.S. Pros’ Goal FRANCISISNAMED OUTSTANDINGBACK Some Lukewarm on Kelley. Halas of Bears Sweet on Guckeyson. By & Staft Correspondent ot The Star. EW YORK, December 8.—The shrewdest of all judges of foot ball talent on the hoof are the coaches and scouts of profes- sional foot ball teams—the men who study and appraise college stars from a strictly practical point of view, un- swayed by headlines or tradition, weighing the candidates by every pos- sible standard of foot ball measure- ment, paying attention to nothing but solid worth and ability. The pro men cannot afford to make mistakes—not often, anyway. Your average all-America picker has noth- ing to lose by guessing wrong, but the pro coach puts his business career at stake whenever he approves and bids for a college player. Nobody scans those cabbages on the grocer’s counter more closely than the guy who is going to buy one. Field Closely Scanned. THIS year, with the cash foot ball industry coming along fast and competition for the college product growing keener by the minute, the boys missed very few tricks. Here is the pro man’s idea of the all-America college team for 1936, based on a poll of coaches in the National Professional League, taken by the North American Newspaper Alliance: Tinsley, Louisiana State -Widseth, Minnesota -Starcevich, Washington Quarterback.Baugh, Texas Christian Halfback. .. Buivid, Marquette Falaschi, Santa Clara Fullback. ...Francis, Nebraska Of course, the coaches are by no means unanimous in their selections. Some of them have different ideas of what they want in a foot ball player. Some have scouted one section of the country mcre thoroughly than others. And besides, all-America teams are a dime a dozen in the pro man's book. He is looking for actual value, not newspaper clippings. Divided as to Kelley. er's see what the professional fel- lows think of this year’s crop, generally and individually. In their judgment, Sam Francis, Nebraska's fast, pile-driving fullback, is the outstanding back of the year. Every coach in the poll would like to have Francis on his ball club! ‘The pro men are divided on the subject of Larry Kelley, the season’s most publicized performer. George Halas of the Chicago Bears and Joe Bach of the Pittsburgh Panthers rate the Yale captain as an all-America end. Most of the others are noncom- mittal, but Bert Bell of the Philadel- phia Eagles says specifically that he ‘would not be interested in Kelley. Next to Francis, the most thor- oughly indorsed of the college players are Gay Tinsley, Louisian’s great end, and Mike Basrak, the big center from Duquesne. The boys are agreed that it was & bumper year for fullbacks and centers and an off year for ends and tackles. And, naturally, each professional furist has his own individual ideas about certain players, certain hunches he would be willing to play. Halas Likes Guckeyson. 'TEVE OWEN, coach of the New York Giants, is high on Francis, Widseth, Tinsley, Starcevich and Falaschi in the West; Kurlish of Penn and Dulkie of Fordham in the East. “Those are the ones I like best,” says Steve. “Francis seems to be & great back, and, of course, Tinsley and Widseth are outstanding in their own spots. There is a lot of argument about those three good backs on the Penn team, Kurlish, Murray and Elverson, but my pick is Kurlish.” George Halas of the Bears likes Kel- ley and Wendt for ends; Widseth and Daniell for tackles; Bassi and Lautar of Notre Dame for guards, and Basrak for center. One of the backs on his preferred list is the little-heralded Bill Guckeyson of Maryland. He puts Baugh, Buivid and Francis at the top of the backfleld department. Ray Flaherty, highly successful coach of the Boston Redskins, gives an all-America rating to the lesser known of the Tinsleys of 1936, Tinsley of Georgis, the guard. Wojciechowicz of Fordham is his choice for center and he likes two backs from the | Pacific Coast, Goddard of Washington State and Cain of Washington. Fullbacks Plentifal. "I‘be toughest job is to pick your- self & fullback,” says Ray, split= ting his vote between Buivid and Prancis. “There were plenty of good ones. Not so much in the way of ends and tackles.” Joe Bach of Pittsburgh is strong for the Notre Dame end, Joe O'Neill, along with Kelley, and for Ed Franco, Fordham’s bulldog tackle. Glassford of Pitt and Reid of Northwestern are his choices at guard, and he ranks Vanzo, also of Northwestern, as the top quarterback of the year. Milan 8. Creighton, coach of the Chicago Cadinals, favors three line- men not considered by the others— Bill Daddio of Pitt at end, Charlie Toll of Princeton at tackle and Tar- san White of Alabama at guard. He puts in good words also for Ace Parker, Duke’s captain and quarterback, and Vernon Huffman, star halfback of Bo McMillin’s Indiana team. Obscure Players Risky. Bm BELL, president and coach ik Bob Servis, Dayton, Ohio, (left), low amateur and winner of Henry L. Doherty trophy, ex= amines his prize with Ralph Guldahl, Western oper champion from St. Louis, who scored 283 to take the first prize of $2,500 among the paid clan in tHe Miami-Biltmore open golf tournament which ended yesterda; .. FANS Y PROS R SHOM New York Yankees Conquer Boston Shamrocks, 20-13, in Snappy Game. IG-LEAGUE professional foot ball was claiming some new supporters in Washington to- day, following its debut at Griffith Stadium last night when the New York Yankees and Boston Sham- rocks put on a good show before the former won, 20-13. Although only 2,500 turned out for the game, the last of the American League season, that number likely was won over to the calse of the paid grid game in the Capital if their enthusiasm meant anything. Those who watched came away openly approving of the fast, clean game put on by the professionals, whose ranks contain many former col- lege stars. Few penalties and just as few time-outs pleased fans who hither- to have been irritated by the numer- ous delays in games. Newman Sets Pace. HARRY NEWMAN, the former Michigan all-America, proved the outstanding player of the night for the Yankees, running the ends and flinging passes about the frozen grid- iron with apparent reckless, but really experienced, abandon. After his line-plunging had carried the ball to midfield in the first quar- ter, Newman passed to Jim Mooney, former Georgetown star, for a first down on the Shamrocks’ 39-yard line, and three plays later Ken Strong slipped through right tackle and re- versed his field for the first touch- down of the evening. Two long runs by Newman put the | ball in scoring position for the second touchdown in the second quarter, Doug Wycoff, - formerly of Georgia Tech, going over from the 1-yard line. Strong added the conversion by place- ment, as he had done after the first six-pointer. Runs 67 Yards to Score. Amn Les Kaufman had made it 20-0 for the Yankees with a 67- yard run with an intercepted pass, the Shamrocks came to life, Hank Soar taking the subsequent New York kick-off and running 90 yards for a touchdown. The losers’ last touchdown was due to the efforts of a former Catholic University Star, Francis (Red) Flem- 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR ANY surprises in the report of VL the Ranking Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation are predicted, although the first four probably will come from R. Norris Willlams, 2d; William M. Johnston, Robert Lindley Murray and George M. Chuch. Williams is the national champion. Two foot ball teams here, one college and one high school, have named their captains for the 1917 season. Catholic University has chosen Shortley, its regular quar- terback, for the job, while Barnes has been selected by Tech High. DUQUESNE'S RIVAL FOR BOWL PICKED Mississippi State to Play Pennsylvanians in Miami New Year Day Game. By the Associated Press. Mississippi State and Duquesne Univer- sity will meet New Year day in the annual Orange Bowl game. Chairman W. Keith Phillips of the had accepted a bid to represent the South in the intersectional battle, When Tennessee turned down the bid yesterday, Orange Bowl officials said they would not select the Southern representative until later today. Announcement Is Forced. HOWEVER, a story by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal that Missis- sippi State had been invited, followed by a telephone conversation between the Miami Herald and Paul Parker, Maroons’ athletic director, caused Miami officials to make public the se- lection. Duquesne, which agreed last week to play in the Orange Bowl, gave Pitts- burgh and Marquette their only de- feats of the season. The Dukes were defeated only by Detroit and West Virginia Wesleyan. Mississippi State lost to Alabams and Louisiana State University. ‘The Maroons won all their other games with one-sided scores, includ- ing a 26-6 victory over Ole Miss, which lost 19-20 to Catholic University of ‘Washington in last year’s Orange Bowl ing, Boston end, blocking a kick and recovering for his teammates on the enemy’s 15-yard stripe. Soar imme- diately passed to Uzdavinis, who caught it in the end zone. Line-Ups and Summary. Yankees (20). -Mooney Tee——MT. lie r. Sim| ), e O'Relll (8rracuse). o) ‘Head linesman—Mr. BASKETERS IN CLINIC ‘The second session of the National Capital Basket Ball Clinic will be held 8 o'clock tonight in the men’s game. Wide World Photo. GULDAHL IN SHAKY FINISH, BUT WINS Pockets $2,500 at Miami in Spite of 76 Final Round. Smith Is Second. BY the Associated Press. (ORAL GABLES, Fla., December 8.— The sun-kissed young men who follow the Winter golfing trail for a living turned toward a $4,000 goal in the Ba- hama Islands today after pocketing $10,000 from the Miami Biltmore's seventh annual open. Ralph Guldahl, husky St. Louis au- tomobile salesman, rode high among the money seekers who put to sea for the 72-hole Nassau open play starting Saturday. Guldahl captured the $2500 top share of the Biltmore despite a shaky finish and a two-stroke penalty yes- terday, and this added to his $1,000 first prize from the Augusta open of the week before. Guldahl won by virtue of three sub- par rounds for the first three days of play. If he had had to depend on his game yesterday he would have been out of Juck—it was & 76, five above par. Horton Smith Second. Hl POSTED 283 for the 72 holes, two strokes better than Horton Smith of Chicago, who took second place and the accompanying $1,250. Gene Sarazen of New York and Harold “Jug” McSpaden of Winchester, Mass., tied at 286, split third and fourth money of $1,750. On the seventh hole yesterday Gul- dahl almost drove into & canal. His ball stopped on the brink and the lie was heart-breaking. ‘The ball technically was within the hazard, but Guldahl parted the grass as if it were ordinary rough. Lawson Little and Denny Shute, his playing partners, filed a protest and the Tour- nament Committee upheld them, as- sessing Guldahl a penalty of two strokes, giving him a seven. The amateur trophy went to Bob Servis of Dayton, Ohio, with 300. —_— NORTHWESTERNS DINE. Alumni of Northwestern University will celebrate the winning of the Big Ten foot ball championship by their alma mater’s gridmen at a dinner to be held at the American Associa- tion of University Women’s Club on Friday. Discreet Silence General, Although Several Urge Partial Aid. BY HERBERT BARKER. BY the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 8.—If any general trend can be discerned in the current attitude of this country’s colleges toward those old bugbears, subsidizing and recruit- ing, & discreet silence seems to be the most apt description of it. In a few scattering instances, notably in the Big Ten and the Southern Con- ference, both subjects either have or will come up for formal discussion, but elsewhere there was small response to a Nation-wide Associated Press poll designed to discover just what devel- opments could be expected along these lines. The Southern Conference bas just completed its first foot ball season under the “Graham plan,” which was aimed at elimination of subsidization and recruiting. Its fate will be decided when the conference holds its annual sessions on Friday and Saturday at Richmond. Southern Loop Fight Looms. FRANK GRAHAM, president of the University of North Carolina and author of the plan, prefers to press for further tightening of the rules, but Forest Fletcher of Washington and Lee, president of the conference, has said that all members of the con- ference have been violating the plan “in spirit” and that he will seek its abolishment. In the Big Ten the “Reynolds plan,” which would have legalized modified subsidization, was given short shrift when it came to a vote the other day, the tally being 9 to 1 against. ‘The Southeastern Conference, which adopted a controlled scholarship plan a year ago, plans no drastic changes, although an amendment is to be pre- sented at the annual meeting this week to break up the practice, reported at a few schools, of inviting prospec- tive freshmen early and taking the pick of the lot. * Montans Is Handicapped. FROM Montana came & direct charge of subsidizing and recruiting. “All of the good athletes in this State are approached by outside in- stitutions and given inducements with which we cannot hope to compete,” a representative from one Montana school said. “We are forced, even to get average material, to go after boys and make inducements to get them to come here.” The alumni of the University of Towa, for the first time, have organized to “sell the university to Iowa high school students,” but this group will be careful to avoid any connection with subsidizing and recruiting. Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen, athletic director of the University of Kansas, has come up with a five-point scheme of his own which he hopes will be taken up by the American Association of University and College Presidents. His plan, briefly, lines up like this: Allen’s New Plan. 1 Athletic competition in the major * universities would be limited to two years. 2. Athletic- competition in smaller schools (now permitting four-year play) would be limited to three years. 3. Adoption of a national no- transfer rule to eliminate “tramp” athletes. 4. Scheduling of games between schools of different rank would be | prohibited. 5. Eligibility would be predicated on a student’s advancement toward a degree rather than on the basis of “outmoded definitions of amateur and professional.” “Is there any particular difference,” asks Allen, “between earning money in Summer by carrying ice or playing on a base ball team? Who ever heard of lee club member being rated professional for singing for pay at a funeral?” ROGERS W. & L. LEADER. LEXINGTON, Va., December 8 (#). —Will Rogers of Petersburg, center on the Washington and Lee foot ball team, has been elected captain for 1937, 'S a rival to Jack McCar- ron a8 the most-hardened vet eran of the weather wars at Congressional, and old-timers at the club think that Jack’s record as an ali-weather golfer may be licked by T. B. Conlyn. It was Jack, it will be recalled, who set an all-time record around Wash- ington for golf under adverse condi- tions when he played 42 consecutive days and as many rounds in a recent ‘Winter. Sandy Armour, just as much & nut on golf as Jack, was his com- Ppanion in every one of those 42 rounds. Through snow and ice, through wind and gale-driven rain they played to establish & record that still stands. Even V. Calvert Dickey, the veteran Washington Golf and Country Club campaigner, quit before the weather obstacles, But they didn’t stop Mc- Carron and Armour. Conlyn, so his friends claim, is even more rugged in this matter of con- sistent golf playing than is Jack. For where Jack stayed away from the game for several weeks last Summer, Conlyn plowed on through the hot weather with his pal, G. F. Mikkel- son, playing every day. And he plans to keep it up this Winter. “Nope, I'm not trying to bust Jack's record,” says OConlyn. “After all, there’s only one Jackie, and he’s quite a rugged fellow. But I enjoy the game so much and find it such good exercise that I play every chance I get.” MacKenzie’s Driver Picks Up. EVI:N the great ones of golf get driver trouble every once in a while. Along comes a postal card from Roland MacKenzie at Miami. | Roland has been known for years as one of the longest and straightest THREE TILTS START CUP BASKET SERIES League Opens Tomorrow Night| at Heurich Gym, With Initial Contest at 7:30. 'HREE games will open the Heurich Cup Basket Ball League tomor- row night at the brewery gymnasium, with the first game starting at 7:30 o'clock. The first half will run until January 8. - ‘The Sterling and C. C. C. (Geo.) fives will play the first game, which will be followed by clashes between Fort Myer and Delaware & Hudson and between W. P. A. and the District Pire Department. Other members of the league are Rinaldi, Senate Beer, C. C..C. (Ole) and Little Tavern. The schedule follows: December 9—8:30. Fort Myer vs. H: 9:30. W. P. A vs. D. C. P. D.. Steriing vs. C. C. C. . 11 . Rinaldi _vs ~Lit ¢ vs. D. C. ¥. D. . C. C.'C. (Ole) vs. Little 30. €. C. C. (Ole) vs. D. & H: rt Myer vs. Rinaldi: 8:30. C. C. s, Little Tavern, 30 C. C. C. (Ole) vs. W.P. aldl vs. Senate; 9:30. D. & H. (Geo)) . St Little Tavern: P. A.: 9:30, C. C. C. H. vs. Little Tavern. D.C. P._D. . C. (Ole) vs. Fort vs.' Little Tavern; ling. D. & H. vs._ Rinal vs. C. C. C. (Geo.): 9 5. Sterling ary 2—=8.00. Fort Myer vs, D. C. 0. Sterling vs. Rinaldi 30, Fort Myer vs. Little Tavern: B, ys. Sterling: 9:30. C. C. C. Myer: 30. "Fort Myer vs. C. C. C. A 40’0{ vs. Sterling; The family of Commodore Jack Shethar of the American Yacht Club has indulged in sailing for five gen- erations. YOU CAN'T WIN WITH WORDS! % [ttakes performance. That's what FREE STATE Is winning onl Not CLAIMS of ageing ... but REAL ageing! . . . YEAR- ROUND ageing! . . « GUAR- ANTEED ageing! Free State flavor tells you that deeds are back of the werdsl REINER DISTRIBUTING CO., INC.—1073 31st St. N.W.—West 2929-2930 (Distributor). Tane Is! , . . “Onestionmark™ Hittonmark . . . “Tho Mon o the Street” . . . WRC . . . Tussday and Thursday, 1:45 P.M. A tee shots. But I hope I licked it today.” It just goes to show that even the best of ’em have their troubles, and with ,the best part of the game, at that. The pasiest part of the game, too, for if there’s one angle of golf the topnotchers fear least, it's in the driving sector. Mac! , Al Houghton, Leo Wal- per and CIiff Spencer, all local pros, ‘were to sail for Nassau tonight from Miami to play in the $4,000 British Colonial open tourney on the little British-owned island across the Gulf Stream. After that tournament Wal- per and Spencer will continue the ‘Winter tour, while Houghton will come back to Washington, and Mac- Kenzie will go North to Jacksonville and his Winter job at Pente Vedra. New Golf Wisecracker. DAVE MORRIS, one of Congres- sional’s better club swingers, has coined a new phrase in the game. He drew Ray Moore as a partner the other day against a couple good players, and expected some help from Ray, but the Moore. man, usually a golfer in the 80s, took 98 whacks to get around the course. “Hey, Ray, have you been sponged?” eracked Morris. “Seems t0 me you aren’t running your race. Better look and see if you haven't been tampered with.” 'O Washington women will be Tw invited to Augusta next month | to play in the “women’s title-holders’ golf championship,” to be staged late in January. They are Mrs. Betty P. Meckley, District and Maryland champ, and Helen Dettweiler. Mrs. E. Boyd Morrow, Middle At- lantic champion, also will be invited to play in the tourney, which will draw sectional champions from all over the land. BOZEMAN PROVIDES THREE-RAIL UPSETS Layton Latest Vietim of World Tourney “Giant Killer"—Hoppe Again Defeated. BY the Associated Press. 'HICAGO, December 8. —Red-| headed Jay Bozeman of Detroit doesn’t figure to win the world three- cushion billiards title, but he's capably filling the current tournament’s “giant killer” role. ‘The 29-year-old Bozeman, youngest player entered, matched the veteran Johnny Layton at every turn last night, defeating the Sedalia, Mo., ex- pert 50 to 27 in 60 innings. The de- feat dropped Layton into a tie for first place with Kinrey Matsuyama of -:;pln. Each has won five and lost oy " Willie Hoppe of New York suffered & stiff blow in his fight to retain his title when he lost 50 to 41 to Otto Reiselt, Phialdelphia veteran. Reiselt. led almost from the beginning to hand Hoppe his third defeat in six starts. The match went 57 innings. Tiff Denton of Kansas City defeated " | Earl Lookabaugh of Chicago 50 to 41 in 55 innings. Matsuyama won his fifth game by defeating Art Thurnblad of Chicago 50 to 14 in 42 innings. It was the most one-sided score of the tournament. | Matsuyama DRIVE ONTOURNEY URGED BY SARAZEN Former Winner Plans Team for Attack—No Yankee Victor Since "33. BY W. R. McCALLUM. years without an Ameri- can winner of the British open championship, American pro- fessionals are planning & mass invasion of Great Britain next Spring to bring back, if possible, the ancient mug which has been won by so many players from the United States, Gene Sarazen, who undoubtedly will be a member of the Ryder Cup team which will go to England next year, is the guy who is trying to line up the boys for the big push on England, even though Gene has admitted in print that over the sales counter the British open isn’t worth much cash. Shute Last American Winner. "WE'VE got to do something over there next year or lose a lot of prestige,” comments Gene. “When you stop to think about it, we've never won a Ryder Cup match over there, and now, for three straight years, none of our lads has won the British open championship. Before 1934 the old mug had come across the Atlantic 12 times out of 13 consecutive years.” Alf Padgham is the present British open champ. The last American to win in Britain was Denny Shute, the taciturn guy who holds the American P. G. A. title. The battered old cup was won by Bob Jones in 1926, 1927 and 1930, by Walter Hagen in 1922, 1924, 1928 and 1929, by Shute in 1933 and by three foreign-born pros living in America. These were Jock Hutchi- son, Jim Barnes and Tommy Armour Bob Jones is the only amateur in recent years who won the champion- ship. Hutchison tied for the trophy |back in 1921 with Roger Wethered, then a prominent British simon-pure, and won the play-off. Shute and Craig Wood tied again in 1933 and Shute won the play-off. | Sarazen Likely Ryder Captain. SmZEN, who won the British open in 1932, may captain the American Ryder Cup outfit this year, although it is more or less traditional that Walter Hagen, whose name has slipped below the level of interna- tional play, again may head the team as non-playing captain. On the form shown so far this year Sarazen, Shute, Ralph Guldahl, Tony Manero, Henry Picard, Ky Laffoon and Horton Smith all will go abroad on the Ryder Cup aggregation. They can't keep Guldahl off the team this year, even though he never has made it in previous years. The Ryder Cup matches will be | played June 29 and 30, a little more | than three weeks after the American open and a week before the British. G. U. PREPS LOSE AGAIN Fall Before Bethesda Five, 30-14. Schneider Gets 14 Points. Georgetown Prep's basket ball team still was looking for its first victory of the year today after dropping its sec- ond successive game yesterday to Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 30-14. The game was played at Garrett Park. The Preps could not stop Larry Schneider, Bethesda eagle eye, who, with seven field goals, scored as many | points as the whole Georgetown Prep | team. Jack Byrd and Billy O'Shaug- nessy proved the losers’ only consistent scorers. Beth.-C. C. Geo. Prep. . 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