Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1936, Page 21

The Sundmy Sher WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1936. - Griffs Splurge on Spring Dates : Georgia Tech Whips California SLATE 28 GAMES FORCONDITIONING Open With Champion Giants. Players to Report Week Later Than in ’36. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OR & second successive year, I ‘Washington's ball club will ‘wade through an unprecedent- edly pretentious exhibition- game schedule this Spring, it was announced last night by President Olark Griffith. Twenty-eight “Grapefruit League” games, beginning on March 17 in Orlando, Fla., and ending on March 18 in Baltimore, are slated for the 1937 Nationals. Eighteen of the games will be played against major league clubs and the other 10 against minor Jeague teams of class A and AA rat- ing. Definite reporting times for play- ers will be February 28, for pitchers and rookies and March 7 for regulars. ‘This is approximately a week later than players reported last season and due to the fact that the American and National Leagues will open later this coming April. National Leaguers Frequent Foes. Tflx pennant-winning New York Giants, newcomers to recent Washington exhibition game slates, will open the Nationals’ pre-season campaign by invading Orlando on March 17. The Red Sox were the first foes last year, when 26 games were slated by Griffith. Until the re- lease of the 1937 schedule last night, the slate of '36 was the longest in the history of the Nationals. Most of the competition to be pro- vided the Griffmen will be furnished by National League teams, which have been booked for 11 games. In addition to the Giants, Washington will play the Cardinals, Phillies, Reds and Bees of the National League, as well as the Red Sox and Tigers of the American. While only two teams of their own league will be played. however, the Nationals will meet them in seven games. Boston has been scheduled for a game in Orlando and one in Sarasota, training site of the Red Sox. The Tigers will be played in five games, three to be staged in the Detroit camp at Lakeland, Fla., and the other two at Orlando. Cards Move Closer. TH! moving of the Cardinals from Bradenton - to Daytona Beach, which is approximately 70 miles from Orlando, has served to elevate St. Louis to an important place on the Washington schedule. Next to the Tigers, Sam Breadon’s men will be played more often than any other | team, Washington invading Daytona | onece and the Cards coming to Orlando three times. After the opener with the Giants on March 17 the Griffs will idle two days and then, on Saturday, March 20, will begin an 11-day stretch in which a game a day is slated. The Cards, Phillies and Red Sox will visit Orlando the first three days, after which ‘Washington will move to Lakeland to play Detroit, Daytona to meet the Cards and Winter Garden to oppose Baltimore of the International League. Back to Orlando the Nationals will meet Detroit and the Cards and then swing -over to Sarasota for a game with the Red Sox. A game with Montreal in Orlando and Columbus of the American Association at Deland will complete the 11-game grind. Come Home March 14. NE day of rest will be meted out | and then off they will go again for eight more games in a row, start- ing with Chattanooga at Sanford, the Phillies at Winter Haven, Cincinnati at’ Tampe and Deiroit at Lakeland. Thr2e of the next four will be played in Orlando against St. Louis, Detroit and Chattanooga, while the other will be staged at Lakeland. OCamp will be broken on April 9 and the first stop on the trip northward will be Chattanooga, where a two- day stand is slated to be played with the Lookouts. Atlanta will be invaded next and after that Washington will open & three-game barnstorming series with the Boston Bees at Gas- tonia, N. C,, the town which produced Buddy Lewis. Washington will be reached on March 14 and s two-game series BREAKING THE NEWS TO HIM. Reds’ Money Bag To Remain Open CINCINNA'H. December 26 (#).— The prosperous Cincinnati’s Reds, pointing toward a first divi- sion berth in the 1937 National League base ball pennant race, are willing to buy—but sell? Oh, no. General Manager Warren C. Giles re-emphasized today the Reds’ position as buyers, not sellers, of base ball material. “We're willing to trade at any time some of the surplus material we have in the infleld and behind the bat—why, we'd even part with our regulars—ut when we deal we're going to help our ball club, not our treasury,” he said. FEARFUL HUSKIES CREW WIL CRACK {0arsmen So Good Last Year Ulbrickson Is Afraid Mo- rale Will Weaken. BY the Associsted Press. EW YORK, Deceinber 26.—Al Ulbrickson, coach of the Uni- versity of Washington's world- champion crew, is finding out that getting on top isn’t half as hard as staying there. With the same varsity sweep-swing- ers available for the 1937 regattas, the silver-thatched coach shouldn't have & worry in the world. But he's worry- ing, just the same. He has confidence in his brawny boys from s stroke-production stand- point, but Al really is afraid of . | Precedent. As be' pointed out in an interesting § 3 i F I g 4 Ea 9 ,,. A ¥ - L od BASKET LOOP RESUMES Five Games on Tap This Week in Central Community League. five games are scheduled this Bet Here yARE, B8 SONNY ---AN' e e pmm |KIES BRUSH UP \ 1 B DON'T THINK A YOUu'LL GET \ROCKING - CHAIR-1TIS THIS SEASON! EAST WESTFOES CHECAEDBYRAN Only Kerr’'s Team Manages to Get Brief Practice in “Liquid Sunshine.” By the Associated Press. AN FRANCISCO, December 26. —Rain bogged down practice today of Eastern and Western foot ball stars, who will battle in the Shrine charity game here New Year day. The weather, however, held the Eastern boys indoors only in the morning. Under the leadership of Coaches Andy Kerr and Dick Han- ley they charged out later in the day for s snappy signal drill. Kerr, Colgate mentor, referred to the rain as “liquid sunshine; some- thing our boys sre used to.” Steve Toth, Northwestern halfback and outstanding punter on the squad, was reported recovering speedily from an ankle injury suffered yesterday. He will be in shape for the game, it was said. West Organizes Backfields. Wm players, training at Palo Alto, sat in on 8 blackboard talk while Coaches Percy Locey and Orin Hollingbery watched for a break in the skies. ‘The West's backfield combinations have begun to take shape as follows: “A” unit—Quarterback, Jack Frye, Missouri; left half, Kent Ryan, Utah State; right half, Maurice Elder, Kansas State; fullback, Ray Peterson, San PFranciseo. “B"™ unit—Quarterback, Roger Dougherty, Washington State; left half, Ed Goddard, Washington State; right half, Lioyd Cardwell, Nebraska; fullback, S8am Prancis, Nebraska. Elder also is being groomed to fill in at end in place of Floyd Terry of Washington State, out, with a broken arm. The coaching staff pointed out the backfield combinations were of tenta- tive nature, with changes possible be- fore the week is out. BIG TEN'S MOST VALUABLE. CHICAGO, December 26 (4#).—Ver- non Huffman, Indiana University quarterback, was selected tonight as the Big Ten foot ball player of great- st value to his team during the 1936 season. The aselection was made by & 23-member board of award under the sponsorship of the Chicago Tribune. d “LETTUCE BOWL” FOOT BALL. SALINAS, Calif., December 26 (4).— 23 o = ~ bai > VIV Georgia Schools Go for Lacrosse BAL'I'IMORE. December 26 (#).— William H. (Dinty) Moore, Navy lacrosse coach, who organized & campaign to popularize the game, announced today Georgia Tech and Georgia would have lacrosse teams next Spring. Moore said Church Yearley, all- American defense man for Johns Hopkins, now working in Atlanta, would coach the Tech team. Jack L'Oiseaux, graduate of the the team at Georgia, where he is now a freshman. Yost Says Staff Apt to Be Ouster Decided. BY the Associated Press. 26.—Fielding H. (Hurry Up) Yost, University of Michigan tice today there may be changes in the Wolverine coaching staff. | Board already had decided to npl.ue] Harry G. Kipke, head foot ball coach, eight games. However, there were reports of like- ica back, whose teams have won four Big Ten titles since 1929. men mentioned for the job were Earl (Dutch) Clark, captain of the Detroit Ivan Williamson, . former Michigan end, and Wally Weber, present assist- Yost said the Athletic Board of Con- trol was reviewing the athletic record Boys' Latin 8chool here, will coach = MICHIGAN COACH Revised—Denies Kipke NN ARBOR, Mich., December | A athletic director, served no- He denied, however, that the Athletic whose 1936 team won only one of 1y successors to the former all-Amer- Included among the dozen or more Lions, professional foot ball team; ant foot ball coach. a:h;:‘nlmmy, but that no one mem- Clark, considered the greatest back- fleld star in the professional foot ball league, is a former University of Colo- SUGAR BOWL MILE MENAFTER MARKS Not Throwing Marvels, but Heaves in Pinches Told During Season. By the Associated Press. ASADENA, Calif., December 36. —Pittsburgh may or may not be developing a passing attack, but it is no secret that their Washington opponents in the Rose Bowl New Year day have an over- hesd game that is apt to spell danger or “sudden death.” The Washington Huskies could hardly qualify as a great passing out- 1it, but they were able to strike through the air several times this Fall when the going was tough on the ground and emerge with touchdowns and victory. Against Minnesota, & power team like Pitt, and against Stanford, Coach Jimmy Phelan’s Huskies bogged down in s0 far as winning, although they did roll up 98 yards on 4 of the 15 passes tried in the season's opener with the mighty Gophers. Minnesota won, 14 to 7, and Tiny ‘Thornhill's rampaging Stanfords tied the Huskies, 14-14. 8o much for the bleak side of the Huskies' 1936 record. Nothing worked for Washington in those games. Sparing With Passes. IN ‘THE Oregon game, Washington used only two passes. Made at & crucial point, one was good and paved the way for & touchdown, which was the margin of victory. The Huskies struck via the air| against University of Southern Cali- fornia, & 13-yard throw leading to the | first touchdown and the second brought a score and a 12-to-0 triumph over Troy. U.C.L. A. was bumfuzzled by sudden shots and crumpled before | the running-passing game of the Byron Haines-Jimmy Cain combina- | tion, 14 to 0, | Haines is a southpaw passer, Cain is & better passer, but Fritz Waskowitz is the best passer of them all. He may prove a surprise to Dr. Jock Sutheriand’s Pittsburgh Panthers. ‘Washington completed 34 out of 87| forward passes this Fall for 379 yards. | ‘The Huskies completed 18 out of 19 Olympic Stars Fill Track Games of New Orleans’ Big Sports Fete. By the Associated Press. Eleven members of the United States' 1936 Olympic team will join other track and field stars in inaugurating the Sugar Bowl's greatest week of sports tomorrow. The | eight events at Loyola Stadium will begin at 3 pm. (Eastern standard time). ‘Thereafter will follow during the week of carnival tennis, boxing, bas- ket ball, rowing, regatta and other events which lead up to the third an- nual foot ball classic New Year day in Tulane Stadium between Louisiana State University and Santa Clara of California. . Four world record holders and five national champions are included among the track stars competing to- morrow. Aim at New Mile Mark. LENN CUNNINGHAM, who set the world record of 4:06.7 minutes in September, 1934; Archie San Romani, the American miler who conquered Curihingham, and Jack Lovelock, the Olympic champion, will aim at & new mark in the mile run. Two other events include the 2-mile steeplechase, one of the most exciting tests in track, and the 100-yard dash for women. America’s first three men in the steeplechase, Joe McCluskey, Harold Manning and Glenn Dawson, will sho¥ the South how that is done. Helen Stephens, the farmgirl sprinter from Fulton, Mo., will perform in the dash. Miss Stephens iz national cham- pion in three events. Lash in 2-Mile Race. DON LASH, winner of the N. A. A. . cross-country title three times, will defend his national mark of 8:58.4 of 1936 in the 2 miles, which Aalso stands as & world record. Sixteen featured players, including five of the country’s 10 top-ranking netmen, will compete in the Sugar Bowl tennis tournament starting Mon- day at the New Orleans Country Club courts. . Bryan (Bitsy) Grant, 26-year-old Atlanta star, leads a draw bristling with tennis stars. Arthur Hendrix rado quarterback. will defend his crown. EW ORLEANS, December 26— | Pe! laterals for 102 yards. Pitt's Passes Long. A GAINST this, Pitt connected with 22 out of 80 passes tried for 404 yards, using most of these . tries against West Virginia, Duquesng and | Penn State. Biggest yardage: was | gained via the air in the 19-to-8 win |over Nebraska, when the Panthers| completed five out of 7 passes for 71 In the Duquesne game. Pitt tried 15, | completed ¢ for 50 yards and lost | the game, 7 to 0. In the 0-0 tie with 3 for 25 yards. Pitt battered Ohio State into a 6-to-0 defeat without using a single | pass. And the week before the Buck- eyes had snowed New York University | under, 60 to 0. | Pitt and Washington have good ball | carriers, Pitt with its sophomore star, | Marshall Goldberg, and Bill Stapulis, | Arnold Greene and Bobby La Rue, and the Huskies with Cain, Haines, Jimmy Johnson, Ed Nowogroski and Wasko- wits. Phelan and Sutherland have great, powerful lines. Somebody may | have to pass. FOUR SOCCER CLASHES Sun Radio, Silver Spring Game Heads League List Today. Four Recreation Soccer League | games are on tap today fcr local boot- | ing enthusiasts, with Sun Radio, de- fending champion and present holder | of first place, meeting Silver Spring kickers at Silver Spring, Md., in the feature fracas at 2:30 o'clock. In games on Monument flelds, Heu- on No. 2 and Marlboro will face Ital- jan-American A. C. on No. 1, both games starting at 3 o'clock. The Ger- man Sport Club will clash with the Democrats at Shady Oak at 32:30 o’'clock. OLE MISS AMBITIOUS G. W. Among Eleven Gridiron Foes for Campaign of 1937. UNIVERSITY, Miss., December 26 {#).—An 11-game schedule was an- nounced today by Coach Ed Walker for the University of Mississippi 1937 gridiron season. The schedule included: October 1, Temple (night) at Phila- delphia; 9, St. Louis U. at University; November 5, George Washington at Washington. Fordham, Pitt tried only 7, completed | | " a rich Brewers will meet George's Radio | giie™ Universi L ] Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. Heurich Brewers vs. Renaissance, Heurich gym, Twenty-sixth and ‘Water streets, 3:30. TOMORROW. Boxing. Lou Gevinson vs. Joe Temes, fea~ ture bout, eight rounds, Turner'’s Arena, 8:30. Hand Ball Y. M. C_A. tournament, Y. M. C. A, 7:30. TUESDAY. Basket Ball. John's vs. Alumni, 8t. John's 8. gym, Hand Ball. Quarter-finals, Y. M. C. A. tournament, Y. M. C. A, 8:30. WEDNESDAY. Basket Ball. Georgetown vs, New York Uni- versity, New York. Gallaudet vs. Prospect Park Y. M. C. A, New York. ‘Washington-Lee High vs. Alumni, Ballaston, Va., 8. Hand Ball. Semi-finals, Y. M. ment, Y. M. C. A, FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Gallaudet vs. Long Island, New York. A. tourna- Hand Ball. Finals, Y. M. C. A. hand ball tournament, ¥. M. C. A., 2:3¢. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. George Washington vs. Nebraska, Tech High gym, 8:15. George Washington Frosh vs. Tech, Tech High gym, 7. HORSE IS BEATEN BY JESSE OWENS Aided by 40-Yard Handicap, | Olympic Champion Wins Century With Ease. Bv the Associated Press. AVANA, December 26.—Jesse | Owens brought the old county | fair gag—a man racing a race | horse—into tne big time today and whipped & 5-year-old gelding in | & 100-yard dash at the opening of | Cube’s international sports week. The *“Ebony Antelope” from Ohio | State University was given a 40-yard handicap and took 9.9 seconds to cover the course. Althofigh he was half a second off the world record, he still had enough to break the tape con- siderably in front of his four-footed rival. His winning margin was esti- mated variously at from 15 to 20 yards. Owens Not in Best Trim. 'HE horse was Julio Macaw. Owens said he probably would have done | better had he been trained as finely as he was for the Olympic games last Summer. ‘With the “man-against-beast” com- petition completed, the week-long ' sports carnival turned to team rivalry and other branches of athletics. A | high light of the program is a foot ball game between Auburn and Villa- nova on New Year day. CARROLL AL.L-S. A. PICK | C. U. Back, Prather of G. W.| Named for Sectional Star Team. | CHARLOTTE, N. C.. December 26| |'§' (#).—The all-South Atlantic Board tonight announced its seventh an- nual sll-South Atlantic foot ball team for 1936. The selections, made publi® by Wade Ison, chairman of the board and PULLS 137 UPSET WITH TRICK PLAYS Victory Over Prospective Coast Champs of 1937 Surprises Dixie. By the Associated Press. TLANTA, December 26— Georgia Tech and its razzle- dazzle foot ball beat Califor- nia’s Golden Bears 13 to 7 today in a spectacular display of gridiron tricks. A holiday erowd of more than 15,000 saw the post-season clash on Grant Field—a battle that began slowly and ended in a series of flashy maneuvers with the Bears threatening until the final whistle. Georgia Tech's triumph over a Cal- ifornia team already established as po- tential champion of the Pacific Coast in 1937, was a distinct surprise to Southern fans. Y The old razzle-dazzie paved the way for Georgia Tech’s touchdowns after the Engineers fumbled and played listlessly to give California scoring op- portunities in the scoreless first half. Georgia Tech, victor over the Bears in the Rose Bowl classic of 1929 and loser in a couple of later contests, crossed the blue-shirted gridders’ goal line early in the third period and near the end of the closing quarter. Bears Full Late Rally, TH.AILING 13 fo 0 with only 4 minutes to play, the Bears staged & belated rally, with Vic Bottari, star sophomore halfback, tossing lightning passes. Bottari’s heaves, including one to Perry Thomas that netted 24 yards, carried to Tech’s 2 and the Californian cut through tackle for s touchdown. California had to kick off. There were less than 2 minutes to play. Quarterback John Meek called a short kick and it worked. It was the Bear'’s ball on Tech's 44. Bottari passed to Thomas and the lanky end was stopped on the 13. Bottari tried three passes and a line buck, but Tech took the ball on its own 18 as the game ended. In the third period Georgia Tech generated enough power to invade California territory for the first time, but the Yellow Jackets were stopped ;‘!‘;he Bear 45 by California’s husky Sims’ Punt Gets Break. FL!TGBER. SIMS, Tech quarter, who played the entire game, gave the Jackets their first “break” when he punted out of bounds on Cali- fornia’s 3. Thomas booted back and it was Tech’s ball on the Bear 25. On the second play, s forward from Sims to Big Bill Jordan and two laterals to Harry Appleby and Dutch Konemann placed the ball on the 3. Three thrusts at the line netted 2 yards, and on fourth down Konemann sprinted swiftly around his left end to outrun Bottari and cross the Bear goal.’ Sims place-kicked the extra point. Razzle-dazzle in the fourth period set the stage for Tech's second score. Sims completed a forward lateral to Jordan and Guard Allen Wilcox that netted 23 yards to California’s 30. Line plays carried to the 15 but the Jackets were penalized 15 yards. Sims passed to Konemann for 18 yards, Appleby got 8 at the line and then Sims tossed a flat pass to Kone- mann, who was knocked out of bounds on the Bears' 3. Appleby hit the line |for 1 and Sims crashed through left tackle for the touchdown. place-kick was wide. Line-ups and S . California (7). Georgia Tech (13). Sims’ sports editor of the Charlotte News, |F:B. - guar ek r. Hill, Duke: right | point . right tackle, n: right end. erback. Carroll. Cath- halfback, Parker, Clemson; g-t halfback. _ Folger, niel. Wake Forest. BILL CLYMER IS DEAD Veteran Minor Pilot Led Clubs in Three Loops 40 Years. PHILADELPHIA, December 26 (). —William (Billy) Clymer, who guided the Columbus Mudhens to three con- secutive American 'Association base ball pennants, died today after an {liness of one month. ke: rif fullback. 7 _6—13 g Touchdowns. Bottari: from try after touchdown. Sparks (place-kick). Georgia ' Tech scoring—Touchdowns. Konemann, Sims: point from try after touchdown. Sims (place-kick). Substitutions: _California—Ends, Dol- man, Bennett. Johnson: tackles, Stoll. Devarona: guards Hanford: quarterback, Winterbottom: halfbacks, Blower. Thomas. Archer: fullbacks. Bottari, Howard. Cot- reia Tech—End, 'Smith: Carmack: 5 rpe. "“Eberts (Catholic). Um: Seman My Colling | Vanderbit) ;f?u‘ an_Mr. s (Vanderbilt). Fie Judge—Mr. Streit (Auburn). Statisties. Pirst downs _ Yards gatne Clymer dassled three minor loops | kateral for 40 years with his managerial suc- cess, but never attained his highest hope, managing a big league cutfit. His professional career extended from 1894 until 1913, and reached into the International League, the American Association and the old New York-Pennsylvania League. BY SCOTTY RESTON. EW_YORK, December 26 P).—Foot ball conches and other college leaders who i il McLaughry of Brown in the chair, on Wednesday will attempt to seek = new interpretation of the current 2 Grid Coaches Focus on Pass Interference Rule Amateurism Another Big Topic for Gathering This Week of College Sports Leaders. the Army-Navy, Dartmouth-Yale and Dartmouth-PrincetoA games Total Taras. Licks reraracd. 90 Opponents” fumbles rect A Yards lost by penalty. (x) Ineludes punts an FELLER BECOMES COACH Tribe's Young Hurler Joins Doan's Base Ball School Staff. MUSCATINE, Iowa, December 28 (#).—Bob Feller, Cleveland’s 17-year= old pitching sensation, will teach other The Van Meter, Iocwa, high school boy will join the faculty of Ray Doan's Base Ball School opening st ‘will be shown “The Coaches’ Responsibility for Hot Springs, Ark., February 15. Doan said today Feller had accepted an offer to instruct the young pitching students. A 25 RO CARDS SLATE GIANTS Three Training Games Are Listed With N. L. Champions. ST. LOUIS, December 36 (#).—Two ‘weeks after the St. Louis Cardinals begin Spring training at Daytona Beach, Fla,, in 1937, they tangle with the club which won the 1938 National Clarence P. Lloyd, club secrctary, shows with the Giants March 13, 14 and 18. ' The first two will played i» Havans, Culse .