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( 1 Seen as Club Sends Out Its Contracts. HIS promises to be the big year for compromises on contracts the annual official agreements going forward from Griff's office starting this today that the opening shot really was fired one day last week when Charles of 1936, pricr to his departure for the old homestend in that dear Ellisville, “Well, Griff, the wife and kiddy, as well as yours truly, all are in fine straightened out for next season. «T realize T let you down last Sum- «I don't know what you think I uld be able to earn this year, but be the Buddy of old. “you know how it is with one more circumstances I'm leaving every&_hmg up to you, so whatever you say will be | Big Year for Compromises BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor of The Star. I so far as the Nationals are concerned, with the first of morning. But it was revealed by the prexy Solomon Myer, 1935 American League batting champ and all-America flop Miss., with Minna and the newborn, approached Griff with: shape and we're about to shove off to | hum, but before going T'd like to get mer and by missing & great majority of the games| failed to earn my salary. teel swell now, and 8s Minna and the bebby are feeling ditto, I hope to in the fambly as far as income and outgo are concerned, but under the all right with me.” Griff Hits Hot Iron. T‘h THEREUFON Griff, who knew in ; advance that's the way it would be anyhow, regardless of whether Buddy genercusly agreed to take what- ever was offered him, exhibited his surprise by fishing an already filled out contract from & desk drawer, had Buddy's signature witnessed by & stooge hanging around for just that purpose and the Myerses were on their way to Dixie, with “mutually satisfled”—and no specific figures mentioned—the only comment on the incident, except that Griff sees no yeason why Buddy should not be as .good as ever this vear, unless he also suffers from “growing pains” as & corollary of the devastating pre-junior ";"ully expedts Buddy to be his regu- lat second bisetan throughout 1937, slthough admitting the young man will have to rate his pace in training, starting with the first squad at Or- lando, Fla, March 1 (by special re- quest of Myer, otherwise it would have teen an order). t { Grift Is Reticent. DECLINED to admit even that Myer drew $1%,500—for no good rea- —last year. ”rll)ecumd to admit he has been cut s much as ofe-third for next season, or, for that matter, that he has been cut atall. | Declined to vouchsafe whether Buddy still would continue as the highest paid ¢mploye of the firm, now { that Whitehill's gone, God r'st his soul, what with Joe Kuhel, Pete Ap- pleton and Jimmy De Shong due for | raises and the likes of Ben Chapman and Johnny $tone still around. Declined to| allow as how that other Buddy (surnjme Lewis, he's a third basemean, y'know) was due for an| increase in ¢molument, although it wasn't put to| us in just those words. | Bolion Is All Set. DECLIN‘ED to admit he or anybody else was| wrong in the original ‘Sridespread belief that Clif Bolton is s “natural Hitter,” averages to the contrary, notwithstanding, or to ad- mit that the High Point No'th Ca’lina, home lover will do his pouting at High Point this year, or any other point of the compass except Wash- c ington, asserting, on the contrary, that Bolton the Bolter will be half of the local catching staff, presumably with Shanty | Hogan the other half, although they size up more as one- quarter and | three-quarters, respec- tively. There are|about all the denials elicited by yodur reporter following a phone call initiated by the prexy him- self. | But, by way of making news and to wheedle a bit of publicity for that seventh-place club that finished fourth, 8 percentage |point or so out of third place and only half a game back of second (who| said 20 games to the rear of the champion Yanks?) the prexy did some admitting, too. “Myer has |signed and contracts to the other players start going out to- day.” f And, further quoting Mr. Griffith: *Get ahold of that guy Berryman and tell him to draw me a cartoon.” s INCREASE RACE PURSES. BALTIMORE, January 4 (A).— Pimlico race|track will increase its daily total rses by $2,460 during the Spring meeting, April 29 through May 15. Purses will average $12,380 e day, as compared with $9,920 for the meeting jast Spring. Pro Hockey Py the Associated Press. National League. Montreal Maroons, 3; Chicago, 1. Montreal Canadiens, 4; New York | Americans, 2. Boston, 3; New York Rangers, 2. Detroit, 4; Toronto, 2. International-American League. New Haven, 3; Cleveland, 2. Syracuse, 4; Pittsburgh, 0. Philadelphia, 2; Providence, 2 (tie). American Association. St. Paul, 1; Minneapolis, 1 (tie). Wichita, 3; St. Louis, 1. New Orleans Sponsors Plan | By the Assoctated Press. Sports Festival, cheered by today to a still better Winter show. directing committee of the Mid- our festival is growing bigger every pressed for a new stadium to seat FORESEE SWEETER for 70,000 Throng—Grid EW ORLEANS, January 4.— N the record success of the pro- ‘We had the best year in history,” winter Sports Association, sponsor of year.” 70,000 persons in an effort to have it Tilt Pays $121,000. Sponsors of the Sugar Bowl gram just concluded, looked ahead said Warren V. Miller, member of the the 3-year-old event. “It shows Miller indicated plans would be ready for the 1938 foot bail game. in Tulane’s stadium, which seats only about 40,000. Not Worried About N, C. A. A. ILLER said the association was undisturbed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s dis- approval of post-season foot ball games. “The coahes talk one way, but the conferences are run by the athletic departments of the colleges,” he said. ‘The sports program, featuring track, tennis, basket ball, boxing, a regatta and rowing races, was climaxed by the } New Year day foot ball game between unbeaten Louisiana State and once- beaten Santa Clara. Santa Clara won, 21-14. $40,000 for Each Team. THE committee said unofficial fig- ures showed 41,000 persons paid which each team would receive ap- | proximately $40.000. The festival ended yesterday with | the regatta at the Southern Yacht | Club and a rowing race. PANTHERS START HOME PASADENA, Calif., January 4 (). — The University of Pitsburgh foot ball team, victor by 21 to 0 over Wash- ington in the Rose Bowl, spent a busy morning in Hollywood before piling on coaches to return East. The players were luncheon guests at & studio. Praises and apologies poured in as Southern California hailed Pitt's great machine. The praises were for the Panthers’ work last Friday, the stowed when Pitt was invited to play in the annual insersectional classic. ‘The Huskies left for home last night. NEW YORK RETAINS TABLE TENNIS TITLE Victory Over St. Louis Squad De- cides Meet—Jay Purves Gains T. S. Team. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, January 4—New York's table tennis team won its third consecutive intercity championship by defeating St. Louis, 5 to 3, in the final tournament early today. New York finished with six matches won and none lost. St. Louis, In- dianapolis and Chicago tied for sec- ond with four victories and two losses each. Trailing were Newark with two victories, four losses, Kansas City with one and five and Detroit with six losses. Jay Purves, high school physical education instructor at suburban Des Planes, won the play-off for a place on the women's Corbillion Cup team, which will compete at Baden, Austria, February 1 to 7. Miss Purves, Mildred Wilkinson of Chicago and Miss Mayo Rolph of Port- land, Oreg, finished the regular schedule in a tie with seven wins and two defeats. In the play-offs Miss Rolph defeated Miss Wilkinson, 21—15, 21—16, but lost to Miss Purves, 22—24, 23—21, 21—16. The latter also defeated Miss Wilkinson, 21—7. 21—14. Mrs. Dolores Kuenz of St. Louis previously clinched a place on the team by winning nine straight matches. ‘The other member of the team is Ruth Arons of New York, an auto- matic qualifier on her past perform- ances. Heretofore the contest has been played | | about $121,000 to see the game, of | apologies for slighting remarks be- | round of the national table tennis | WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937. GRIFF’S ANNUAL CONTRACT PARTY, S'LONG GRIFF! I'LL BE SEEIN' YUH AT SECOND BASE TH' FIRST DAY OF TRAININ' ! THE BUDDY “WE-ARE-THREE" MYERS SET SAIL FOR SOUTHERN PORTS AFTER THE EX-BATTING CHAMP SIGNED HIS PAPER WITH LOVE AND KISSES. N THAT TME-- ME OF ALL PEOPLE! TH' GREATEST HEART INTREST IN TH' WHOLE DERN LEAGUE/ \j YEAH- . SORTA RAISED ~ n TH'ANTE FOME! R gAY, I THAT PEN AL YRS 1S ALL YOU NEED-- I' DEAL AN' THEN TAKE EVERY TRICK! \ THA'S TH'PRETTY PART OF THIS o/ BLUSHING BUCK NEWSOM WILL ANSWER WITH A SHORT BLAST OF ABOUT 18,00 WORDS ---AND END UP BY SIGNING / Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Glenn Cun- ningham defeated Chuck Horn- bostel in 800-meter race at opening of indoor track season. Time, 1:55.2. Three years ago—Eddie Shore cleared of blame for accident in which Ace Baley. Toronto hockey star, seriously injured. Four Members of Olympic Team Among Entrants in By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 4.—Indoor N tacks New York's metropolitan district about this time every cities, is due to make its first appear- ance of the Winter this week. Columbus Council, K. of C., games at the 106th Infantry Armory in Brook- indoor track season. Already four members of the 1936 United States prepare for the more serious competi- tion they can expect in the big meets Cunningham Heads List. ’I‘OPPD!G the field are Glenn Cun- who now is a post-graduate student at New York University, and Don Lash 2 miles. Joe McCluskey, former Ford- ham star and Olympic steeplechaser, member of the Olympic team who didn’t get & chance to run at Berlin, well-known metropolitan stars also will run. Christmas holidays today to begin practice, is entered in the 800-meter Opposed to him will be Lou Burns of Manhattan, who won the intercollegi- outdoor titles last Spring, and Bill Ray of Manhattan, who was third in Aim at Nurmi's Record. LASH and McCluskey both have race, aiming at Paavo Nurmi's indoor record of 8:26.4, while Glickman, who made a mistake when they left him off the sprint relay team, will compete in meters. All but McCluskey competed in the week, but only Glickman came in first. The Brooklyn speedster took the 100- | | seconds. Lash and Cunningham both | trailed Archie San Romani in the mile, |in second to Wayne Rideout, the | Texan, in the 2-mile run. Deemed Closest Approach Since Pro Boom. By the Associated Press. FOR CASEY MEET — | Games This Week. foot-racing madness, which at- year and occasionally afflicts other The first manifestation comes in the lyn, annually the opening meet of the Olympic team have filed entries to later in the season. ningham, the great Kansas miler of Indiana, American record holder at and Marty Glickman of Syracuse, a also are slated to compete. Most of the Cunningham, due to return from his | event which he won last year in 1:55.2, ate A. A. A, A. 800 and 1,500 meter the I. C. 4-A 800. entered the 3,000-meter special 15 out to show Olympic authorities they the sprint series at 60, 80 and 100 Sugar Bowl meet at New Orleans last yard dash over a soggy track in 9.9 | | while Lash, trying for a double, came i PERRY-VINES TILT to Championship Match EW YORK, January 4—Fred | Perry of England, who was rated the No. 1 amateur tennis player of the world when he capitulated to the lure of playing for cash a few weeks ago, and Elisworth Vines, top-ranking professional, will clash in Madison Square Gardens Wed- nesday night in the nearest approach to a world championship match since the pro game began snapping up the simon pure stars. Perry and Vines at Peak. TB‘E pro-amateur argument has raged ever since Bill Tilden, then past his peak as an amateur, turned pro and developed his game to & higher pitch than ever. By the time Vines joined the play-for-pay ranks, Big Bill was on the downgrade again. Perry, however, established himself at the peak, before he made the pro jump, while Vines never has been better. Wednesday's match at the Garden and the series to follow on a Nation- wide tour should go & long way toward settling the dispute. The weight of expert opinion seems to rest with Vines, who has had a few years' experience with indoor courts. Vines Sees Opening. THE Briton alse has shown an in- ¢lination to hurry his shots when an opponent persistently rushes the net. It's unlikely Vines has missed noticing that and he is expected to attack vigorously, rather than try to match strokes with Perry from the baseline. One of the largest tennis “gates” on record is expected. The show will be completed by a doubles encounter in which Perry will team with George Lott against Vines and the veteran Tilden. The Garden has been scaled to net $53,400 and & capacity crowd is expected. 1 HAWKEYES SEARCH FOR GRID MENTOR Many Possible Candidates| Seen for Job Left by Solem’s Switch. OWA CITY, Iowa, January 4 (#).— For the second time in six vears the University of Iowa was looking for a foot ball coach today. The Athletic Board will meet either to- morrow or Wednesday for prelimina; discussion concerning Ossie Solem’s successor. ‘Top flight coaches in all parts of the country and lesser lights just mak- ing names in the foot ball world were suggested as possible candidates to succeed the man who accepted a three- year contract at Syracuse University Saturday. ROMINENTLY discussed were Howard Jones of Southern Cali- fornia, who gave Iowa Big Ten cham- plonships in 1921 and 1922; Frank ‘Thomas, coach of Alabama’s Crimson Tide: Gus Dorais of Detroit Wniversity, Charles Bachman of Michigan State, Jim Kelley of De Paul, Marchmont Schwartz of Creighton, and John (Clipper) Smith of Duquesne. If Iowa should decide to take one of its own, a possible selection would be Aubrey Devine, former Hawkeye All-America quarterback under Jones and now scout at Southern California. One alumni faction was known to be boosting Devine to head a staff of all- Towa men. P Should the board' decide to obtain two men to assume the foot ball job and athletic directorship, both held by Solem, it was considered possible Moray Eby, veteran Coe director and former Iowa star, would be approached concerning the supervisory office. —_— ROCHE RITES TOMORROW. Funeral services for Ed Roche, prom- inent local sports figure, who died yes- terday morning at his home, 1815 Otis street northeast, following a paralytic stroke, will be held tomorrow at Holy Name Church. Roche boxed exhibi- tion bouts with Dom McCaffrey and Jim Fitzsimmons here in the 80's. England’s Tax Makes Perry Prefer Living in U. S. BY SCOTTY RESTON, Arsociated Press Sports Writer. EW ¥YORK, January 4.— Frec Perry has taken out United States citizenship papers . . . Says he feels more at horne here than in Eng- land . .. What he means is that he won't have to pay income tax both to England and the United States after the papers clear . . . Elsworth Vines made $3,000 in England last| year and says he had to pay 23 cent of it in taxes before he got out. ill Rogers’ sons, Will, , are developing into stars , o , Max Han- num, publicity director at Car- negie Tech, completely ignores Carnegie Tech's basket ball coach . . . Reason is Hannum’s also the basket ball coach. Jack Vance, Northwestern’s back- fleld coach, developed Clint Frank of Yale, Sam Whiteside, Chicago's 1936 center and captain; Frank Case, Navy regular; Harmon Meigs, captain-elect of Chicago: Ben Sny- der, captain-elect at Lafayette, and Don Heap, Northwestern captain- elect . . . They all played for him several years ago at Evanston, Ill, High . . . Connie Mack says he ex- pects great things of Moses next year,..Get it2 Inwood Smith, Ohio State guard, is after & West Point appoint- ment . . . Jack Dempsey las had the radio technicians tearing their hair for & year . . . His volce is pitched high and they say he sounds like & sissy. Note to prospective skiiers: It's Dbest to be going around 90 miles an hour when you take off a high Jump. Add similies: About as popular as Joe Cambria in Albany. ‘The Santa Clara foot ball players John Bull Nicks Vines for Plenty—Dempsey’s Voice Despair of Radio Technicians. in the open and extremely cou- rageous. Society note: Mrs. Dizzy Dean’s only extravagance is slot machines . .. England's one-time King Ed- ward VIII had planned to hire an American pro for the famed Sun- ningdale Golf Club next year. Don Carrick, former Canadian amateur golf champion, is one of the brilliant young liberals in Canadian politics. Chick Werner, Penn State track coach, is being mentioned as a possible successor to Don Seaton at Ilinois . . . Purdue is trying for its fourth sucoessive share of the Big Ten baskst ball erown. THE SPORTLIGHT Pitt Proves Itself Nation’s Top Team For Scoring Power, Finesse Combined. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OS ANGELES, Calif, January 4—A Pittsburgh team that scored 45 points against Notre Dame and Nebraska, two of the season’s best, added 21 more points against Washington to prove its place as the top team of the Nation when it’ comes to scoring power and finesse combined. “I told you,” Jock Sutherland said after the game, “that our boys like to keep that ball and carry it some- where. Other teams may like to throw the ball around. That's all right. “We like to keep possession as long as we can. I wouldn't lay quite so much stress on power. We Simply bank upon a running game and all that a running game needs—which is quick, aggressive charging, hard block- ing and some good ball carriers who can locate an opening and keep on their feet. “You know how much we stress blocking, and I think we gave the crowd a pretty fair exhibition In this last Rose Bowl game. “I liked the work of the ends es- pecially. I think I told you before that Daddio was a really fine end. He has been all year. Hoffman and Souchek are right along with him., ‘When you have two high-class ends and two fine tackles on the job, you are pretty sure to be in the foot ball game.” Looking Ahead. YOU can say right here that this Panther team will be one of the best of the year now breaking into print—meaning 1937. Daddio, Gold- berg, Hoffman and a flock of others who looked so good to 87,000 West Coast spectators are sophomores. The Pitt team of next Fall should be even better than the Panther outfit of 1936, and that was a pretty fair working ball club. “I'll admit,” Jimmy Phelan said later, “that Pitt was much stronger than I thought it could be. “It was & better team than Minnesota, much the best team we met all year. “It had ont of the best all-around running attacks I've looked at—an at- tack that had a combination of drive and smoothness and smartness, car- ried along by extremely fine block- ing. Here was a mixture of high- class coaching and high-class material. Pitt was a team of both quality and quantity. It was a really high-class squad with replacements almost up to the first-string standard. You sel- dom see a running attack that can carry the ball 130 yards for two touch- downs in two unbroken drives. That's something to look at—even when your own team can't stop it. “Forwa is too often hit or miss—click or don't click. There's no hit or miss about an offense that can take that ball and carry it up and down the fleld—on scross the lLine—without being stopped. I'm just as glad that I don't have Pitt on my | 1937 schedule. Those Pitt ends are almost a foot ball team. And, don't forget, they were hopped up for this game—first by their last two per- | formances and then by the charge that we had ducked L. §. U. to bring out a weak Eastern team we knew that | we could beat. Well, there's one | thing some of them will have to take any set-up.” Better Than Minnesota. I TALKED with Cotton Wilcox, one of the old Purdue stars, now an assistant to Jimmy Phelan at Wash- ington. I asked him to compare Pittsburgh and Minnesota,s as, the Huskies had met both teams. “Minnesota had more power,” he said, “but nothing like the running attack Pittsburgh had in the way of perfect timing. “Minnesota had a star back in Uram, but Pitt had several Urams. T'll have to say this Pitt team is much the better all-around combination we've seen this season. Its blocking was no better than Minnesota—just about the same—but it had more smoothness in the running game and much more deception in its attack— at least as they both played against us.” . Don’t Overlook T. C. U. Pm‘s 21-point margin over Wash- ington and Santa Clara’s victory over L. 8. U. completed one of the most cock-eyed, *dafly foot ball sea- sons of many years. L. S. U. had been rated by well-known coaches as being two touchdowns better than any team in the South or Southwest. Yet the Louisiana entry fell before the team that fell before T. C. U. ‘Which reminds us that T. C. U, plus Sammy Baugh, must be rated with the headliners of the old and new year. It wound up a fine season by trim- ming Santa Clara and Marquette, coming down the closing stretch like games and a full share of casualties. T. C. U, Sammy Baugh and Dutch Meyer can take as many congratula- tions under all conditions as any team of the year. Pitt Wears No Crepe. IN THE meanwhile, s~ Pittsburgh team will head back East minus any touch of crepe. With 82 points against 14 scored against them in their last two appearances, they return home with a Huskie pelt that really means something—the star team of the Far West. There is no national cham- pion now, but Pitt at least is king of the East and the Far West—with as good a claim to all-around supremacy as any one eise can show. And maybe just s little better. (Copyright, 1037, by the North Americsa Newspaper Alliance, Inc) ? back. We certainly didn’t bring out | NCE! | BUDDY LEWIS WON'T BE Too SURPRISED | | WHEN HE FINDS THE EXTRA “CENTURIES * ON THE PRICE LINE.1. .. SOCGERFLAG RACE NOW IS SCRAMBLE Four Teams Bunched as Sun Radio Loses First Game in Several Seasons. TS league-leading eleven defeated for the first time in several sea- sons, the Recreation Soccer League became a four-team race today as | perennial also rans hailed the Heurich | Brewers as saviors from what was be- coming the tyranny of the Sun Radio. By nosing out the Radio booters, 2-1, the Brewers not only assumed the leadership of the eight-team loop, but at the same time set the stage for two crucial games next Sunday in which the only four winning teams of the league will clash. Heurich’s Lead Is Slim. HEURXCH'S today holds a one-point lead over Sun Radio, in second place, while the German Sport Club and Marlboro each have one less than the Radio outfit. Next Sunday the Brewers clash with German Sport | Club, at Monument Field No. 2, while Sun Radio attempts to regain the lead in a game with Marlboro. Heurich's end Sun have won eight games each and lost one, German Sport Club has won seven and lost one and Marlboro has taken eight and dropped three. Heurich’s and German Sport Club have been tied twice, Sun Radio once and Marlboro not at all. Game Played in Mud. APASS to Sienuta by Shelton, who had broken loose for a long run, accounted for the Brewers’ winning margin in the closing minutes of play yesterday after the first half had ended, 1-1. Pools of water all over some time. Marlboro’s retention of its contend- ing position resulted from a near- record score against Silver Spring, which it walloped 18-1, while German the top of the heap with an 8-0 white- wash of George’s Radio. crats failed to move from the cellar despite receipts of a forfeit from the Italian-Americans. the field made the Heurich-Sun game | one of the muddiest played here in | Sport Club maintained its place near | The Demo- | ver First Griff to Sign for 37 : Senior Loop Draws on Youth AGE AVERAGE LOW FOR 1957 PLAYERS Prexy, Proud of *36 Season, Looks for Greater Boom in Next Campaign. (This is the first in a series of stories written especially for the Associated Press by outstanding leaders in sport. They deal with the developments of 1936 and the Pprospects for 1937.) BY FORD FRICK, President, the National League, NEW YORK, January 4.—Just now I was thumbing over the cards rep- resenting new players added to the rosters of our eight National League clubs. I venture the prediction that our league, in its sixty-second sea- son of championship competition, will present a younger average age in its teams’ regular line-ups than has been the case for many years. And that suits me. The National League had its sixtieth birthday last February and we celebrated the an- niversary with a series of 1876 ball games in each of our eight ball parks. The issuing of lifetime passes the year before and the old-timer ree unions held in connection with each of the birthday parties revived in healthy fashion the traditional backe ground of base ball. But I noticed one very significant thing in attend- ing our anniversary games. Namely, none of the grown-ups, not even the old-timers themselves, seemed to be enjoying the ocasion as much as the kids enjoyed it. Likes Accent on Youth. SO IF we're younger out there on the ball field in '37, we're just as much in line with the march of base ball as we were when we were re- living the annals of the past. Base ball to grown-ups is fundamentally the game we played in boyhood. So why shouldn't the line-ups of our teams and the personnel in our grand- stands emphasize the accent on youth? Our sixty-first pennant race had plenty of high lights besides the anni- versary games. We had a great race, with first the Cardinals setting the pace and holding the whip hand week after week, then the Cubs coming along and vying neck and neck with the Birds in early Summer, and then the Giants launching their August rampage which put them on top to stay, 26 wins in 28 played, from July * 27 to August 28. S ‘To the Giants, the year was a splen- did achievement, New York's four- teenth pennant in National League history, tying the metropolis with Chicago for first place in the all-time contest of collecting National League pennants. It was their second pene nant since Bill Terry took charge of the management in June, 1932, mak- ing two pennants for Bill in his four complete seasons a&s a major league manager. Proud of Hubbell’s Work. WAS glad to see Carl Hubbell top- ping the earned-rum-average table { when the official figures were tallied. Carl had led in earned runs before, of course, but in '36 he was leader in the won and lost percentages, too, & | fitting tribute to his great year, with ixts winning streak of 16 straight. the | longest streak in our league since Rube | Marquard’s 19 straight in 1912, and |as lgng a streak as any American League pitcher has ever had. * | In our interleague competitions we | had our share of laurels, in the Spring | exhibition games National League | teams defeated American League teams 45 times, against 40 games that went the other way. At Boston in July the National League team won the annual all-star game. The major interleague classic of the year, the world series, went the other way, but I was proud of the Giants for the great battle they put up against the Yankees. My chief feeling in looking for- ward to 1937 is enthusiasm, for the National League and base ball, as a | whole, first, of course, because it's closest to me. But more than that, the evidence of the 1936 base ball season, the fact | that the world series attendance and receipts, per game, exceeded that of the best previous year in base ball history, means to me that not only | base ball, but the United States as & whole, is entering into a year of re- newed national health and -prosperity. Sports Program for D. C. Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. St. John's vs. Eastern, Eastern gymnasium, 3:30. Boxing. Eddie Mader vs. Jack Roper, feature bout, 10 rounds, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Southern High vs. Tech, Tech gymnasium, 3:30. St. John's vs. Roosevelt, Roose= velt gymnasium, 3:30. Falls Church vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 8. WEDNESDAY. Basket Ball. Maryland vs. Johns Hopkins, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md.,, 8:15. Georgetown vs. Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Pa. Eastern vs. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Md., 3:30. THURSDAY, Basket Ball. Mount St. Mary's vs. George ‘Washington, Tech High gymna- sium, 8. G. W. Frosh vs. George Wash- ington High, Tech gymnasium, 7. Catholic University vs. Alumni, Brookland gymnasium, 8:15. Georgtown vs. West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. Bridgewater vs. American Uni- versity, Harrisonburg, Va. Wilson Teachers vs. Baltimore University, Baltimore, Md. ” Tech vs. St. John's, Bt. John's gymnasium, 3:30. ‘Wrestling. Henri Piers vs. Gino Garibaldi, :u:'.un match, Turner's Arens, FRIDAY. Basket Ball. . Loyola vs. Southeastern, Y. M. C. A. 8 Maryland vs. Washington-Lee, Lexington, Va. . American University vs. Lynche burg College, Lynchburg, Va. Gallaudet vs. Towsan Normal, *Towson, Md. Central vs. Eastern, Tech gym- nasium (public high title game), 3:15. Woodrow Wilson vs. Western, Tech gymnasium (public high title game), 4:15. Roosevelt vs. Maryland Frosh, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md, 4. Bethesda-Chevy Chase vs. Briarly Military Academy, Briarly, Va. Montgomery-Blair vs. Washing- ton-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 8. SATURDAY. 5 Basket Ball. George Washington vs. 8t. John's of Brooklyn, Tech gymnasium, 8. G. W. Frosh vs. Drexel Frosh, Tech gymnasium, 7. Elon vs. Southeastern, Y. M. C. Auto Trouble? 24-Hour Service 614 H NW. DL 2775