Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 56

D—2 * s Overconfidence Louis’ Bane : Another Mu L3 ATTITUDE WRONG INSCHMELING 60 | Joe Also Proves Himself Unable to Use His Head Clearly in Crisis. (This is one of a series of 10 ar- ticles on the sport highlights of 1936.) BY GRANTLAND RICE. OS ANGELES, Calif.,, December 10—Life had become a trifle too soft and lush for Joe Louis. At the age of 21 he had fought 27 professional fights, with 23 knock- outs and four decisions. He had at- tracted $1,844,391 and had collected $400,000 in the purses. In his last 10 fights he had needed only a total of 33 rounds to clean up the debris. He might as well have been punching a | bag. Max Schmeling was to be his next stand—and who was Schmeling? Sharkey had carried him 15 rounds to get the decision, as bad as it was. Max Baer had knocked him out. And Louis had stopped Baer in four rounds. Joe No Mental Giant. THAT was the background when . Louis began to train for Schmel- ing. He had married in the mean- time and had turned to a life of ease. His training lacked the zip and dash of his other fights. Why run for a street car you've already caught? ‘What most of us, including Joe Louis, overlooked was that Max Schmeling was on a desperate and determined man hunt—that he always had kept in top shape—that he was smart and could hit and hurt with that right hand. What the great majority also | overlooked was that Louis is far from being any intellectual mammoth who can adjust his mental angles in a hurry when suddenly crossed. His best qualities always have been on the PORTS. T HE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Calm Awaiting Big Decision |K|pl| FNKO THREAT VAN METER, lowa.—Bob Feller, 17, who pitched sensa- tionally jfor the Cleveland Indians last Summer, is shown at his school desk here, where he at the Van Meter High School. now preparing his decision on whether Feller was signed legally by a minor league club or by a Cleveland scout in violation of a major-minor league agreement. whether Feller will be made a free agent and put into a position to accept a contract offered by the Boston Red Sox involving a $100,000 bonus. EEDING a clean sweep to tie| Engineering girls did just that | in the Ladies’ District League | N last night, when they routed the Na- | Strike which saw new team game and | Suddenly and fractured his leg, has | is president of the senior class Judge Landis, base ball czar, is The decision will determine —Wide World Photo. Two new season records were in tennial teams of the Eastern Star League today after a night at Lucky Proves Caliber in Series of Victories Over Grunt and Groan Stars. OME of the most scientific squirming of the indoor grap- pling season is expected tonight when CUff Olson risks his world championship, or that division of the title owned by Dusek, Inc., against the popular Matros Kirilenko in the feature of the weekly twisting session at Turner’s Arena. Matros invariably has been on the heroic side of the ledger with local pachyderm patrons during his visits here in the last several months, and he probably will not desert that role tonight, even in the presence of his honor, the champ. Since Olson also is a fair-haired lad in this region, it is likely the journeymen will revert to science for whatever thrills are to be provided. Should the stolid Kirilenko shed his attitude of nonchalance towards this business of brawling, he probably could give CLff the Cutie a few hectic mo- ments. Against Rudy Dusek several weeks ago, Matros lost some of his mat dignity and Rudy lost the match. Also Star Linquist. KIRILENKO can toss Russian, Eng- lish, French, Turkish, Greek and Hebraic languages glibly off his tonsils, but earned the right to face Olson by flipping such muscle men as Ole Anderson, Stan Sokolis, John Katan, Hank Barber and John Katan without muttering a word. He's one of those strong, silent mer. Olson, who inherited the crown of for third place, the Highway | possession of the Washington Cen- | the Eastern mat world here several | weeks ago when he happened to be in the ring when Yvon Robert turned 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR GEORO!.TOWN outclassed Tu- lane in an intersectional foot ball game at New Orleans, winding up its season by swamping the Louisiana eleven, 61-0. By the score, the Hoyas became the high- est-scoring team in the country, with 473 points for the season, 61 more than Georgia Tech. Gilroy simultaneously became the highest individual scorer of the Nation, his two touchdowns and seven conver= sions against Tulane giving him 164 points. James Braid, the pride of Scote tish golfers and one of the great triumverate which rule the British golfing world, was killed while boarding a moving train at London. He was thrown downward on his head and died en route to a hos- pital. Five Georgetown foot ball play- ers have made the all-South At- lantic eleven. They are Cusack and Whelan, ends: O’Conner, tackle; Maloney, quarterback, and Gilroy, halfback. YOUNG VETERANS SET PACE IN COLF 28 Average Age of Victors in Leading Amateur and Professional Events. BY DILLON GRAHAM, Associateu Press Sports Writer, LTHOUGH a youngster some- times breaks through, and in- frequently one of guard scales the heights, the |average major golf championship | winner is around 28 years old. | Based on the age chart for the THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936. ny Golf Course Visioned NORTHWESTLACKS ANPLE FACLITES Rock Creek Is Overcrowded, ‘[ SPORTS. s HE boys who do the picking of which make the park course a better courses for the sectional quali- | layout. ficatior. rounds for the open | championships | end amateur | But Hasn’t Room to Add Another Layout. BY W. R. McCALLUM. the old | T ISN'T generally known, but it's a fact nevertheless, that 8. G. Leoffler and the gents who run municipal golf around Washing- ton are quietly looking around over Northwest Washington for a site for a new public course. Nothing has been done about it yet, for they've found it hard to get hold of sufficient acreage in one piece, and maybe nothing will be done about it for some time to come, but Leoffier realizes that the present public golt facilities in the crowded northwest sector of the city are inadequate to handle the business. The little 18-hole course in Rock Creek Park cannot be expanded under | present limitations, Leoffler has ascer- | tained, and the Leoffler man, realiz- ties in ihe most populous section of | the city, wants to expand. It isn't unusual for play at Rock Creek Park, in the Summer, to reach as high as 1,400 individual nine-hole rounds. Play at East Potomac Park is heavier, but there’s more room at the down-river course, where four nine-hole courses are available, and where play on & good day will run | as high as 1,800 nine-hole rounds. Club members who complain of the crowded condition of the private layouts would be amazed could they see the way the crowds pack the pub- lic courses on a good day in the playing season. | Downtown the public golf situation | is all right, with East Potomac Park | and the Anacostia courses within easy | ! had better get busy and choose the layouts in this territory where the pros and amateurs will fire away next | year in the preliminary trials for the two major championships. | Although these matters aren't settled at the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association, scheduled for January 9 in New York, bids for the courses on which the sectional rounds will be played usually are laid before the meeting, at which John G. Jackson, firm advocate of the stymie, is to be re-elected president. It isn't likely there will be any wild scramble for places in the amateur title tourney mext year, for it will go to Portland, Oreg., some 3,000 miles from Washington. Inasmuch as the cost of getting o a tournament so far away will be high, with more than a chance that the hopefuls who survive the sectional rounds will be bounced out of the | ing the growing need for more factli- | tourney in a round or two, you won't find any burning desire on the part of the hot golfers who qualify, such as has been shown for the past two or three years when the championship has been held within overnight dis- tance of Washington. But routine must go on, and the choosing of contenders will be run off in the usual way, | | some decision must be made on the | sectional courses within a few weeks, Last year the sectional rounds for he open were played at Hillendale, The pro brigade will wind up the early Florida season starting tomor- Tow at the short little Nassau course in a 72-hole tourney for $4,000, won last year by Leo Mallory of Con- necticut, Roland MacKenzie, Cliff Spencer, Al }Houzhton and Leo Walper all are at Nassau preparing for the opening of the tournament tomorrow. Walper tied the course record at Nassau last | year with a card of 65. (EASTERN IS VICTOR IN UNUSUAL BATTLE | Timekeeper Overworks Teams by 27 Minutes in 49-18 Game. Quantilla Is Best. 'I‘WEN‘I'Y-SEVEN extra minutes were played in the first half of the Eastern-Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School basket ball game at Easte ern yesterday before the timekeeper was awakened to the fact that he should blow his whistle at the end of each 10-minute quarter. His laxity, | however, had little to do with the re- | sult of the game, which Eastern won by the one-sided score of 49-18. Before complaining of the apparent- overlong periods, Coach Tony Kupka of Bethesda checked his own | timekeeper to discover that the first period had run 20 minutes and the second 27 minutes. Coach Mike Kel- ley saw to it that only 10-minute ;\nr‘iods were played during the second | half. ! Quantilla, center, led Eastern’s ate tack by scoring eight times from the floor for a total Eastern GF P last decade in the American open, lamateur and professional tourna- ments, the composite 10-year cham- pion in these three big title events | near Baltimore, while the amateur championship sectional rounds were run off at Columbia, where Roger Peacock burned up the track to lead reaching distance. But uptown, in| the middle of the large population | of Northwest Washington, it isn't 80 good. i ! | disposed of George Koverly, Ernie | tional Beer team, not only pulling the ' set marks hung up. Rolling against | v latter down to their third-place level | Joseph H. Milans, the Centennial fiz:k-“-"n: x:ngh:{,m:;};, 2:«1); }ln:.ql but giving Lucky Strike undisputed | maids shot & 550-game and 1,564 set, | i pfer many oc! possession of second place. taking two out of three games. The | BPpearances. physical side—speed, punching power, boxing skill—not ring generalship | under fire. He had been under practi- cally no fire of any importance, so he never had to prove this point. ‘When Schmeling came into the ring that June night in New York, it was easy to see that Louis was puzzled. Schmeling started fighting with a half crouch, his body turned partly side- ways, his left arm and left shoulder extended to protect his chin. This put the left side of his body wide open for a right-hand punch—a tip that Gene Tunney called promptly before the first round was over. Sensing this, Jack Blackburn had schooled Louis in this punch for two weeks be- fore the fight. But Louis forgot about this in his baffled state of mind. “‘He fought all turned around,” Joe said later, “and I didn’t know what to do.” Louis Fails to Learn. LOUIS began jabbing with a darting left. As he jabbed, he lowered his left more than a foot. He was reaching Schmeling’s eye and face Wwith this jab, but he also was leaving the right side of his head as wide open as a Nebraska plain. Schmeling barely missed his target with a right- hand smash, a full swing, in the first round. The crowd cheered. Here was the first daring, courageous punch they had ever seen thrown at Louis. It missed—but it meant business. In the second round, Louis showed this punch had taught him nothing. The 1-t0-10 shot still was lowering his left—still overlooking those wide-open ribs on the left side of Schmeling’s body, waiting unguarded for a smash- ing right hand. In the second round, Schmeling’s right rode along the open boulevard and landed. It hurt. It | landed again in the third—and hurt | :ven more—although Louis kept his eet. This, every one thought, will wake Louis up. He has found out by now that he has no mere punching bag to handle. Now he'll keep that left guard up to protect the right side of his head ~—and he'll start pumping a right into those uncovered ribs. But Louis seemed to have only one set idea in his mind. That was to peck out Schmeling’s eye. The two damaging punches had shown and taught him nothing. He was one-tracking—and it hap- pened to be on the third rail. He caught it right in the fourth—and this time he hit the canvas and bounded like 200 pounds of rubber. That was the beginning of an end, still many rounds away. Later on, Louis rallied to win the seventh, but he was too badly dazed, battered and bewildered to come back all the way. All he could do was to stand up and take it until the right side of his face resembled one of those 40-pound Georgia or Texas watermelons. The end came in the twelfth, with Louls flattened into a buman pancake, Max’s Foul Blow Damaging. SCHMELING later brought up the point that Louis had fouled him sev- eral times with low punches. These were thrown from a nightmare and did little damage. They were the uncon- scious acts of & fighter in a trance, groping in the darkness. The most damaging illegal punch of the fight came from Schmeling after the bell had rung at the end of the fifth round ~—as I recall it now. As the bell sound- ed, Louis dropped his two hands, Schmeling landed squarely on the side of ‘the head with every ounce of force he could put into a full right, and Louis literally fell into the arms of his seconds. This was the punch that hurt Louis more than any other and |in the decisive triumph of Highway The league-leading Rosslyn team, which did not roll, never- theless had its first-place mar- gin sliced two games by Lucky Strike’s victory. Margaret Lynn's 349 and Annetta Matthews' 340 were important factors Engineering, but Helen Sullivan out- shone them both when she shot a 376 for Lucky Strike. Other results found Georgetown Recreation taking two from Northeast Temple and Conven- tion Hall outscoring Swanee, 2-1. Sports Mirror By the Assoctated Press. ‘Today a year ago—Athletics sold Jimmie Foxx to Red Sox, Detroit Tigers bought Al Simmoris from Chicago White Sox. Three years ago—William N. Ro- per, 53, former Princeton foot ball coach, died. Five years ago—Horton Smith broke his wrist in auto accident after leading qualifiers in San Francisco open match-play tourna- ment., WELTERS REMATCHED Carrier, Bracala Given Spot on Scott-Williams Program. The two welterweights, Stanford Carrier and Sam Bracala, who prac- tically stole the show at last Monday's boxing bouts at Turner's Arena, have been signed for another meeting next Monday night in support of the Buddy Scott-Hobo Williams feature. - An overwhelming demand to see the two youngsters in action again led Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn to book them for a special event on next week’s card. Although floored in the second round, Bracala came back last Monday to win the decision by one of the great- est finishes ever seen here, DELHUDS STRUGGLE Delaware & Hudson, Senate Beer and District W. P. A. were winning quints in the Heurich Cup League last night, only D. & H. having diffi- culty in trimming its opponents. While Senate Beer was trouncing C. C. C. (Geola), 43-20, and W. P. A. was routing the D. C. Firemen, 42-16, Delaware & Hudson was forced to travel at top speed to nose out Fort Myer, 29-28. brain and have at least & slim outside show of getting by. This fight proved that Louis was at least no superman yet—that he lacked the needed experience against real fighters who were willing to fight— and also that he was no part of a Jack Blackburn when it came to craft and league-leading Mizpahs won their match from Unity by a 2-1 decision. This, despite Helena Kohler's 334 for the losers. Kenneth Randlett pulled a triple- header strike for Central in the C. & P. Telephone League, shooting a 161 to lead his team in a 621 game and 1,670 set as it defeated Northern. Hand Set took first place by sweeping | its set with Accounting. Sisters-in-law duplicated double-header strikes in exactly the same spots against each other in the Lucky Strike Ladies’ League, with Maude Fischine and Lena Miller pulling the trick. Mrs. Fischine's double-header, com- ing in the last two boxes, pulled Social Security to two victories over H. 0. L. C, No. 2. General Land Office, current leaders, kept rolling | along with two over Commerce. WESTERN TOSSERS PLAY SNAPPY GAME Easy Win From Briarly Is Seen as Warning to Champion Eastern Quint. ‘HE first potential threat to East- ern’s retention of the high school which yesterday won a 43-21 victory over the Briarly Military Academy team. With the whole Red and White team playing like veterans, the win- ners outclassed the Maryland Cadets from the start. Nine of the 14 West- ern players who got into the game took part in the scoring, which was led by Bill Lomax. Five tosses from the foul lines and three fleld goals gave him 11 points. George De Witt went Lomax one better from the fleld, however, tossing in four double-deckers for eight points, while Burns and Heil each scored three times from the floor G.F.Pts. Briarly. Knigh 2261901295000k al ssmes5335m00mss! N 8l ocZmonnanosrma L ‘Totals.... —_———————— COLONIALS HEAD CLINIC Coach Bi!l Reinhart and his George ‘Washington basket ball squad will lead tonight's spectators’ session of the National Capital Basket Ball Clinic, which will be held at the Central Y. M. C. A. Admission will be free. The meeting will be opened by & short talk by Bill Coyle, local sports commentator, on “The Current Local Season.” Following this, Reinhart will demonstrate his technique of coaching, using his G. W. varsity as {llustration. Spectators will be al- lowed opportunity for questions and discussion during the talk. L. §. U. SQUAD TOILING. » cunning—to ring generalship that could meet unexpected methods, with- out blowing up. killed any chance he might have had to clear out the fog from his addled (Copyright. 1936, by the North Ameriean Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) BATON ROUGE, La.,, December 10 In the most promising of four 30- tangle with Jack Donovan. Donovan tossed Scotty McDougal in an inter- esting argument last week, while Piers won from John Katan when the latter was disqualified in a post-bout slugfest following a draw. Other preliminaries list Bert Rubi facing John Katan, Hank Barber meeting Ed Meske and Jack Hader squaring off against Bobby Roberts. The first muscle will be flexed at 8:30 o’clock. READ’S FIVE PRESSED Only Team Having Hard Fight in Southeast Center League. Read's Pharmacy was the only five |prelud last night in the Southeast Community Center Basket Ball League, defeating Navy Yard, 26-19, in contrast to one-sided victories of two other quints. Loans and Currency held 8igma Mu Sigma to three field goals in chalking up a 19-9 triumph, while Clark’s Service more than doubled the score on D. C. Paper Co,, 36-16. Riegelman of Clark’s Service was the only player of the night to score more than 10 points, getting six field goals for an even dozen. R — COLORED AMATEURS BOX | basket ball championship has lp-.no“"‘ Scheduled for 12th Street peared in the Western High team, | Y. M. C. A, Saturday Night. Four winners in the recent boxing tournament held at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. and two ringmen | from nearby C. C. C. camps will | compete in the colored tri-State ama- teur boxing tournament at the Y on Saturday night. Billy Banks, Zander Ingram, Jim Kenner and Willie McBride are the local entrants, while Bob Harmon will represent C. C. C., No. 3316, from Fort Meade and Joe Lewis will nt C. C. C, No. 1236, from Northeast ‘Washington. BASKET TILT TONIGHT. ‘The Federal Works Progress basket ball team will play the Accounts and Deposits courtmen of the Treasury De- | partment at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the | Central High School gym. Maurice Beiser is captain of the Works Progress Garber. Court Results Catholic U., 50; Maryland State, 35. Cornell, 49; University of Toron- to, 21. Richmond, 45; Hampden-Sydney, 29. Michigan State, 33; Albion, 22. Hillsdale, 34; Adrian, 33. Southeast Missouri Teachers, Arkansas State Teachers, -22. Tennessee, 36; Tennessee Wese leyan, 20. Evansville, 41; Oakland City, 27. St. Joseph’s, 37; Huntington, 34. Central Wesleyan, 24; Southwest Baptist, 17. Kentucky, Georgetown Col- 48; Aberdeen Northern State Teachers, 50; Ellendale Normal, 17. Southwestern Teachers, 56; Al- tus, 11. (#).—Louisiana State has started training for the New Year day Sugar Bowl foot ball game with Santa Clara. Northeastern Teachers, 37; Murray Aggles, 25. _Bees’ DiMaggio Is Touted as »Spark]ing Fielder Whether He Hits Like Joe Is Not Told—Terry Buys Much New Cattle, Only One Giant. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. EW YORK, December 10 (). —You may know the ver- dict in the celebrated Bob on it , . . Betting is even Feller be turned loose . . . Then he write his own ticket . . . If he for less than $100,000 he’s & . Dutch Ruether, who watched the kid all last year, says Joe Di Mag- trims Fred Perry in their first pro start . In all his 56 years in base ball as player, manager and magnate, “Old Fox” Clark Griffith of Wash- ington sold only one ball player .. - that was Joe Cronin, his son-in-law —for & quarter of & million bucks. Most harrassed scribe at the base ‘The base ball men give Judge W. G. Bramham and his right- hand man, Joe Carr, full credit for the flourishing condition of the minors . . . Sam Otis, sports ed of \the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, is seri- ously ill . . . If, the Boston Redskin minute preliminaries, Henri Plers will | team which is being coached by Don | is 28 years and 4 months old. Over the stretch since 1926, the | average amateur champion has been 27} years of age, the open champlon | slightly more than 28 and the Profes- sional Golfers' Association victor & | bit over 29. In that period, the amateur com- petition produced the oldest cham- | pion, Francis Ouimet, and the pro- | fessional event brought out the young- | est, Tom Creavy. Both win in 1931. At 37 Ouimet turned back the | youngsters at Chicago to repeat his triumph of 17 years earlier, while | Creavy was just 20 when he beat Denny Shute, who won this year' tourney at Pinehurst, N. C. Shute, 32, Oldest Champ. OW 32, Shute is the oldest of the current champions. Tony Ma- nero, the open king, is 31, and Johnny Fischer, ruler of the amateurs, is 24. The 30-yesr mark # no deadline |for champions, for in addition to Ouimet, Shute and Manero, several others—Olin Dutra and Tom Armour in the open, Harrison R. Johnston in | the amateur, and Dutra, Armour, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen among |the professionals—have won after passing that age. Armour won the open at 32 and the P. G. A. at 35. Last year, bor- | dering on 40, he was runner-up in the professionals’ conflict. Hagen won {four P. G. A. titles in a row after turning 390. While most of the winners have ‘icome from the 25 to 30 age range, | eight have been under 25. These in- clude Bobby Jones, George T. Dun- lap, jr., Lawson Little and Johnny Fischer in the amateur; Johnny Good- man in the open, and Creavy and Johnny Revolta among the profes- sionals. | } e LITTLE HOYAS TRIUMPH O'Shaughnessy Stars in Victory Over St. Paul’s Quint. A last-minute rally led by Bob O’Shaugnessy, high-point scorer of the game, gave Georgetown Prep’s basket .| ball team a thrilling 23-21 victory yes- terday over St. Paul's of Baltimore, at Garrett Park. Tralling, 20-21, Georgetown Prep goal of the game. G. U, Prep. O'Sghan’sy.t Byrd.{ Q ] iy Q4| wrorsun; Q e d | szomisncd St. Paul's. Colef: _ ... Anthony.f_ yd.c Whitely. ¢ [ o | sesmiomsis | ocsoson ° -4 Sole Distributer Valley Forge Distributing Coy 4 901-805 7th St. 8.W. Pbene Natiensi 8081, 4 Rock Creek Park is overcrowded L in the Summer, and more public golf facilities for that sector are badly needed. But another course in Rock Creek Park 15 an imposaibility, “We've gone over the whole park, says Loeffler, “and we can't find a| spot where more golf can be crowded | in without hurting the other features | of the park. anything to say about it. expansion is up to the Park Service, course in the Northwest.” Rock Creek Park's course itself could stand more length. It's short enough, as it is. But the real need is for another course. Maybe Leoffier will get his wish, but it's going to be tough with expensive acreage and the bullding that is going on. ———e i he pack with a 36-hole total of 140. One of the two sectional tourneys probably will be played around Washington next year and the lads had better get busy with their bids. “NEVER let it be said that a Har- - rell gives up,” grinned Lefty of Of course, I haven't | the well-known Harrells of the Wash- Any golf | ington Golf and Country Club, and e therewith proceeded to lmsckb :;1 ; but we need more golf facilities in our | 60-yard approach shot for a | parks and I'd like to see another |on the eighth hole of the Washington course. frozen ground, Harrell's pill hit smack Bumping the ball over the n the back of the cup and plopped in | for the bird. Dave Thomson, the club pro, who had hit two fine wooden club shots to the middle of the green, lost the hole. Harrell and Ralph Fowler, the club NINE TEMPLE GAMES champion, played four straight holes in even 3s between ’‘em. Harrell birdied the eighth with a 3: Fowler ! got a par 3 on the ninth, a bird 3 on tied the score on a foul toss by | O’Shaugnessy, who came through a moment later with the deciding field | dhorter Foot Ball Schedule Is Planned Next Year. PHILADELPHIA, December 10 (#.—A nine-game 1937 foot ball schedule for Temple University has been announced. This is two less | than the number played this year. | The schedule: |, Beptember 24, Virginia Military Insti- ute |t Mississippi: 8. Florida: 1 | _ October 1, | Boston College. away: 22. Carnegie Tech away 30, Holy Cross. ber State; 13. Buck- 2 74 THIS YEAR WE WANT TO MA GIVE THEM "GOOD CIGARS! JONES & CO. MUST HAVE HAD GIVING GOOD CIGARS FOR A cHANGE! fourteenth IMPRESSION ON OUR CUSTOMERS. LETS | the tenth with a 30-foot putt, and a part 3 on the eleventh. R up and refurbishing over the past two months, and todsy the little| course up in the park, entirely inade- | Athletic Director Conrad M. Jennings quate for such & big territory and 80 | has announced that Marquette had many golfers, i in first-class condi- t OCK CREEK PARK'S golf course has come in for a lot of cleaning fon. Little improvements have been made and KE A REAL Totals_ .. Referee—Mr. Landis (Continued From Page D-1) had been sold to Cincinnati and that Rickey was just making a lot of noise. “While the score or more major league deals stayed on ice. the old | trading twins of the majors finally produced one deal yesterday. The Boston Red Sox traded Infielder Bill Werber to the Philadelphia Athletics | for Third Baseman Pinky Higgins. Inasmuch as Manager Joe Cronin insists he'll play third base for the gold-plated boys in '37, the dope was that the Red Sox would turn around and swap Higgins to Cleveland for Outfielder Joe Vosmik, who for some | reason appears to be persona none ‘ grata to the Indians. MARQUETTE ACCEPTS. MILWAUKEE, December 10 (#).— i accepted an invitation to represent the | North in the Cotton Bowl foot ball | game at Dallas, Tex., New Year day. here and there, notably cn the third, | Marquette's foe was expected to be seventeenth holes, | Texas Christian or Arkansas. THE CIGARS HAVE TO BE GOOD ONES THIS XMAS = WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST? A SUCCESSFUL YEAR - THEY'RE " THOSE BLACKSTONE CIGARS CERTAINLY MADE A HIT WITH THE TRADE - JUST READ THIS HOLIDAY WRAPPED