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Big Ten Head Sees Grid Stand Pat : “Won’t Be Fi ooling,” S RULES AND STYLE OF PLAY CRATIFY Grifith Declares Pay for Athletes Would Be End of College Sports. This is one of a series of stories written for the Associated Press by outstanding sports leaders. They deal with 1936 developments and 1937 prospects. BY JOHN L. GRIFFITH, sdent, National Collegiate Athletic 'T&‘!gfil';flfln, Commissioner of Athletics for the Western Conference. CHXCAGO, January 5 () .—At the close of each year it is customary for those who are interested in any sport or group of sports to prophesy that the next year will be better than the year that has just passed. This is because we all indulge in wishful thinking. It is safe to say, however, that 1936 saw the attend- ance at college games considerably tmproved over 1935. When we think of attendance we usually think of foot ball, so it may be pertinent to direct attention to the large crowds that, generally speak- ing, attended the college foot ball games last season. There is no other @ame that attracts so many spectators 88 does college foot ball each Autumn Baturday. Passing Big Threat. HERE have been many arguments this year between those who favor the open game and those who believe that runs and’ bucks constitute fully 80 per cent of offensive foot ball. The majority of might be named among the 10 best in the country use both the passing and running attack, but most of the coaches employ passes and tricks as & means of making the running at- tack work. Foot ball has come of age. We need not expect startling innovations each year in the future. Foot ball coaching technique has been improved, thus making the work of the officials more difficult. Especially have the field Judges been forced to make a great many close decisions on forward pass plays. The chances are, however, that the forward pass will be retained and the rules governing this feature of the teams that rightfully | WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937. Varsity Quints Duke, 30; Wake Forest, 28. Naval Training Station, 28; Vir- ginia, 26. | Emory and Henry, 42; Union, 35. Purdue, 43; Wisconsin, 30. Northwestern, 47; Iliinois, 38. Oklahoma, 47; Kansas State, 41. Baldwin-Wallace, 29; Ohio Wes- leyan, 25. ‘Wooster, 45; Lehigh, 21. Minnesota, 34; De Paul, 25. Drake, 43; Washburn, 37. Ball State, 38; Wabash, 30. Creighton, 33; Iowa State, 28. Stanford, 58; Hamline, 26. ‘Tulane, 33; Alabama, 20. Washington U. (St. Louis), 41; ‘Tulsa, 27. Loyola, 56; Mississippi College, 28. Hawaiian All-Stars, 42; Western Union, 38. Iowa Success School, 41; Penn College, 24. 'STREAK OF EASTERN AT HOME IS HALTED St. John's, 22-21 Victor, First to Beat Chumpions on Latter's Floor in Five Years. FOR the first_time since 1931, when another local prep school turned the trick, Eastern High's basket ball team has been beaten in its own gym- nasium. St. John's, District prep school champions for the past two years, yes- terday gained further breaking the five-year streak of the | Lincoln Parkers, 22-21. Gonzaga was | the last team to defeat Eastern in the latter's gym. The Cadets gave an indication of | what was to come two weeks ago when to two overtime periods before losing, 25-21, but the Johnnies were not to be | denied yesterday. Ahead, 12-5, at the half, St. John's widened the gap to 20-11 and 22-13 before Carroll Colton. one of the los- ers’ only two men able to score from Another double-decker by Quantrille point behind, but Colton missed a des- perate peg with seconds to go. All but one of St. John's team took a hand in the scoring of the biggest victory their team has won in years. Eastern. n's. G.F.Pts 1 00 game will not be materially modified. | Finte Because & profit is made in foot ball in some 50 or 60 of the 1,000 institu- tions above high school rank, many have insisted the proceeds should be divided among the players. This is another way of suggesting the colleges ehould promote professional instead of amateur athletics. Would Ruin Sport. IP’ THE profits from foot ball inured to the benefit of the few, there would be some force to this argument. Those who advanced the suggestion perhaps do not realize that if the col- Jeges generally placed their athletes on a paid-player basis, it would be the beginning of the end of intercol- legiate sport. ‘There is no disposition on the part of the colleges to enter the field of professional athletics. A man who in- sists that all college athletes are sub- sidized is the same man generally who believes that all bankers and business men are crooks and that there is no honesty in government. Basket ball now is looked upon as a major college sport in most sectiors ©f the United States. In some colleges more people witness basket ball than attend foot ball games. Basket ball has grown tremendously in the high schools. This means more good baskat bell material is to be found in the eolleges each year. Base Ball Holding Own. COLLEGE base ball in 1936 held its own and in some sections reports Indicate there was increased interest in this fine game. Since many of the tigh schools do not promote base bail and since town lot base ball has not Qourished in recent years, the quality of college base ball has not improved es rapidly as base ball enthusiasisis have wished. The Olympic games gave track, wrestling and swimming in the col- Jeges an impetus last year and colleges yesponded by supplying the American teams with outstanding stars. It is significant that in the Olympic games we do well in the sports that are to be f6und on the school and college pro- grams and do not do so well in the other sports. In other words, America 1s an athletic Nation and the educa- tional institutions are responsible for our athletic success. All in all, 1936 was a good year s0 far as college athletics were concerned and the prospects for 1937 are indeed encouraging. SHOWS FILM ON SKIING Club Invites All Interested to Movie Tomorrow Night. Moving pictures on the technique ©f skiing will be shown at 8 and 9 o'clock tomorrow night by the 8ki Club of Washington in the auditorium ©f the Department of Interior. The club will hold its regular meet- ing at 8 o'clock and all members and interesteg. prospective members are invited to attend. prestige by | they carried the inter-high champions | the floor, dropped in three of his six | field goals to slice the lead to 3 points. | left the Lincoln Parkers only one| Charge for Basket Ball Games Saturdays. NNAPOLIS, Md., January 5.— A The squads for the eight Win- work at the Naval Academy. About 400 are working out under the and pool. The basket ball team, which makes burg, had a specially hard workout yesterday under Johnny Wilson and Wilson has two complete teams and may start either, but the serious work has Capt. Bob Ruge and Allan Mc- Farland at the forwards, Frank Lynch Ingram at the guards. Next in line will be the aquatic on the 16th, with swimming and water polo matches with Columbia. ris and Sim are the outstanding dis- tance men in the free style, with |ard and Ruge in the sprints, Carnes d Snyder in the dives, Kercheval, and Green, Arthur and Grace, breast strokers. erans of last year—Blankinship and | Cunningham, forwards, and Melhop Charge for Basket Ball. be made at Saturday basket ball games this Winter under a new pol- | The charge will apply to all SBat- urday games, with the exception of | mission will be by ticket iasued by the Navy Athletic Association. No basket ball games. No charge will be made for the during the Winter. The regulations on boxing established last year will cers and midshipmen attending to wear evening dress, and other spec- dress. Admission will be by invi- tations. which will be issued to mid- | Eight Squads Toiling—Will "Spectal Dispatch to The 8:ar. ter sports are down to real coaches in the armory, gymnasium its start tomorrow, playing Gettys- his helpers. is likely to be done by a five which at center and Frank Shamer and Bill sports, which begin their schedule here Woodfin, Robinson, Waldron, Nor- Frederick, De Vane, B. Boykin, Leon- Hasler and Senior in the back stroke The water polo team has these vet- and Johnson, backs. | 50-CENT admission charge will icy. the Army-Navy game, to which ad- charge will be made for Wednesday other athletic events at the academy be in effect. These require all offi- tators are expected to wear formal shipmen, naval officers and guests. Totals _._10 322! TODAY. Basket Ball. St. John's vs. Roosevelt, Roose- velt gymnasium, 3:30. Falls Church vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 8. TOMORROW, 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, 8:30. 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, 8t. John's gymnasium, 3:30. Wrestling. Henri Piers vs. Gino Garibaldi, feature match, Turner's Arena, 8:30. FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Loyola vs, Southeastern, Y. M. C. A, 8. Maryland vs. Lexington, Va. American University vs. Lynch- burg College, Lynchburg, Va. Gallaudet vs. Towson 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, Rl;chie Coliseum, College Park, Md, 4. Bethesda-Chevy Chase vs. Briarly Military Academy, Briarly, Va. Montgomery-Blair va. Washing- ton-Lee High, Ballston, Va.,, 8. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. George Washington vs. 8t. John's of Brooklyn, Tech gym, 8:30., G. W. Frosh vs. Drexel Frosh, Tech gymnasium, 7. Elon vs. Southeastern, Y. M. C. A, 8 Washington-Lee, Sports Program for D. C. Fans Gallaudet vs. Alumni, Kendall Green, 8. Maryland vs. V. M. I, Lexing- ton, Va. American Unfversity vs. Hamp- den-Sydney, Farmville, Va. Wilson Teachers vs. Shenandoah, Dayton, Va. St. Albans vs. Episcopal, Alexan- dria, Va., 3:45. Central in Richmond, Va., car- nival Boxing. Western Maryland vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md, 8. _North Carolina State vs. Catholic :Jnivemcy, Brookland gymnasium, BUDGE BEGINS PLAY IN MIAMI NET MEET Other Late Arrivals Swing Into Tourney Today—Seeded Stars Take Early Matches. B the Associatea Press. RAL GABLES, Fla., January 5.— The going became s little harder for the “name” players today in the second round of the fifth annual Miami Biltmore tennis tournament, but none seemed in great danger of elimination. Prankie Parker brought his No. 2 national rating and No. 2 seeding prestige into action against Jack Kirkham of New Britain, Conn. The Spring Lake, N. J, star dropped only one game yesterday in beating Abe Bassford of New York. Charlie Harris of Palm Beach, the 1936 winner, met young George Pero of Miami, while Wayne Sabin of Los Angeles, seeded sixth, was due to meet James Waters of Miami. Both disposed of Miami foes without being extended in the opening round. Delayed arrivals caused postpone- ment of the opening matches of top- seeded Donald Budge of Los Angeles and Bitsy Grant of Atlanta, listed third. Budge meets Arky Palmer of Miami Beach, and Grant goes against Willam Shelby of Miami Beach. The seeded list lost one member when Martin Buxby of Miami, No. 7, was injured in an automobile dcci- dent while en route from New Or- leans. Arthur Hendrix of Lakeland, Fla., seeded fifth, was delayed by the same accident, but may go into action todsy sgainst Kenneth Boyle of Tal- lahassee, Fla. RUDE AWAKENING FROM A WINTER DREAM. COLONIAL TOSSERS Face Two Fast Teams Here | EORGE WASHINGTON'S un- G this week, while Georgetown, | first games in the Eastern Intercol- Maryland, defeated in its lone start Hopkins, one of G. W.s victims for their first Southern Conference | V. M. L on Saturday, both at Lex- Mary's on Thursday brings together of the Winter will be the Colonials’ This Week—Terps Debut at Home—G. U. Away. defeated basket ball team again holds the spotlight here | another of the Capital’s major college fives with a spotless record, plays its legiate Conference at Carnegie Tech and West Virginia. by Richmond, makes its bow at College Park tomorrow night against Johns earlier in the season. Later in the week the Terps will go on the road engagements of the year. Washington and Lee on Friday and ington. ‘While G. W.'s game with Mount St. two undefeated teams, the choice game of the week and one of the choiciest contest with St. John's of Brooklyn on Saturday. Games in Tech Gym. EXPECTKNO banner crowds at both games, George Washington of- ficials have scheduled the contests at Tech. It will be one of the few in- stances in recent years in which St. John's, one of the perennial leaders of New York basket ball circles; has come South for a game. G. W.'s scoring average of 40 points per game, as against its opponents’ 21 not only bespeaks offensive and defen- sive power of the Colonials, but a rough time for the Brooklyn quint. Capt. Hal Kiesel and Tom O'Brien are lead- ing the individuals with 32 and 29 points, vely. Catholic University’s five gets its lone work-out of the week against an alumni team on Thursday night. American U, scheduled to play Bridge- water here also on Thursday, makes a trip into Virginia over the week end, meeting | playing Lynchburg on Friday and Hampden-Sydney on Saturday. . Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & year ago—Wilmer Alli< son, national champion, beaten in final of Sugar Bowl tennis tour- ney by Arthur Hendrix, 6—4, 1—8, —17, 6—1. Phelan Yearns for Post at Iowa, Friends Declare Dempsey’s Florida Spot Thrives—Long Tour for Schmeling—Another Bowl Game. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associsted Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, January 5.— .What's this about Jimmy Phelan being headed . for Ossie Solem’s old job at Jowa? (Jimmy’s friends say he just can't wait to get back into the Big Ten) . .. Jack Dempsey's new Florida spot s going over in & big way . . . Max Schmeling’s ex- hibition tour opens in Philadelphia the first week in March and will take in 16 Southern cities . . . They “ say Travis Jackson can't make up his mind whether to manage Jer- ‘ sey City or go to Brooklyn as first leutenant to Burleigh Grimes . . , 7 Bddie Borden’s boxing magasine, fa) “Bang,” folds after this week's issue. season, has decided to give base ball one more fling. Sonja Henie is an eyefull in any league . . . Al Schacht estimates he has done his base ball clowning act before 40,000,000 fans . . . Phil Weintraub, the former Giant, is honeymooning in Miami . . . Casey Stengel is taking life easy in Glen- dale, Calif. . .. If you think opera stars are temperamental, you ought to hear Col. John Reed Kilpatrick, den, talk about fighters and fight managers . . . They're tops, he says. hum, here’s another bowl game; every New Year day up in Devils Lake, N. Dak., they put on what is known as the “Wash Bowl” hockey game . . . There are eight Moores playing ball in the National League, just one shy of a complete team . . . Tony Canzoneri may start his comeback against Jimmy Walsh, crack British lightweight, in Lon- another ball player in the Ameri- can Association . . . But in ‘Winter he bosses major and leaguers alike in his capaci chief shipping clerk for & big ville bat factory. L 2277, A ER--DON'T YoU THINK THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME To GO OVER THE CHRISTMAS BILLS ?--THERE SEEMS! To BE QUITE A FLOCK OF THEM! FROM THE PRESS BOX Sports Forecaster Scans 1937 Skies, Comes Up With Bargain Predictions. BY JOHN LARDNER. OR 10 years, man and boy, your correspondent has been work- | ing his way through college by selling sport predictions. 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This handsome sex- tuple special is practically crawling with chromium plate and can be buried as much as 8 feet underground. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americsa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) DEVITT.FIVé GETS JUMP The second of a two-game series between the basket ball teams of Dev- itt Prep and Hyattsville High School was to be played this afternoon in the Hysttsville Armory with the team of that town striving to get even with the local tossers. Devitt thoroughly outclassed Hy- sttsville yesterdsy by s 29-15 score. Jack Hardgaden, younger brother of the Georgetown Prep coach, shared scoring honors for the winners with Pascalla, Each accounted for 8 points. G.F.Pis. Hyattsville. G.F.Pts. T g § i | 0o0s000! NINE GRID GAMES PLANNED FORC. L. Six Closed, Four at Home. Duguesne, Detroit May 1936 | Be on Schedule. SHOULD pending games Wwith Duquesne, De Paul and Detroit | games next Fall, according to the | schedule released today. Six games | have been definitely booked, with four of them to be played at the Brookland Stadium. Should Duquesne’s Board of Regents | refuse to ratify its team’s appearance | here on October 30, C. U.'s biggest home game will be with Detroit, which lost only two games last Fall. Num- bered among its victims, moreover, was Duquesne. South Carolina will be met at Brookland on Thanksgiving day, with other home games scheduled with road to meet Canisius at Buffalo their opening game on September 26, 1a Salle at Philadelphia, De Paul at Chicago and the University of Miami at Miami, Fla. A track schedule, calling for dual ware, Wake Forest, Guilford, Gallaudet and La Salle and for the team’s ap- pearance in the Penn relays and the non-conference section of the Southern Conference meet, will start with the latter on February 27. A meet also is pending with the University of Mary- land. The schedules: Track. Saturday. February 27—Southern Con- ference, Cnapel Hill. , March 6—Pifth Regiment, Baltimore. ‘Wednesday, March 17—Knights of Co- lumbus, New 'York Ci Saturday. April 1 Wednesday. April e iday and Saturday, April 23 relays, Philadeiphia. aturday, May l—Western Maryland, Westminste! Wednesday. May sitg an dolph-Macon. C. U. aturday, May 8—Mason-Dixon ence. Baitimore. Wednesday. May 12—Delaware Univer- sity (pending), turday, May 15—Wake Forest, Wake Porest. N. C. Monday. “May 17—Guilford. Guilford. ‘Wednesday. May 19—Gallaudet, C. U. Stadium. qhturday, May 22—La Salle. C. U. Sta- m. Wednesday. May_26—Open. 20—District of Colum- pionships. oot Ball. September 26—Canisius at Buffalo, October 2—Loyola of the South. C. U. Stadium: 9. La Salle_at_ Phil Phia ‘dedication of La Salle Stadium) niversity of Detroit at C. U. Stadium De_Paul University at Chicago: 30. op November R—West Virginia Wesleyan, C. U. Stadium: 12. University of Miami. at mi, (night eame): 20, permanently open: 25. 1] ., at ©. Tum (Thanksgiving. —American _Univer- tadium. Confer- Saturday. bia A A. U. chi of Schumacher By the Associated Press. LAMEDA, Calif,, January 5. —Dick Bartell, peppery shortstop of the New York Giants, has popped up with fuel for the hot stove base ball league with the prediction his team “would repeat” for the Na- tions! League pennant this year. “We'll have the same club and the pitching should be & lot bet- ter,” Bartell said. “Hal Schu- macher had & bad arm last sea- son but is better now. Clyde Castleman'’s state of mind affected his pitching. The difficulty has ays Vines —By Ju BERRYMAN. | ()]]T TUWPERRY JOHN DEAR --ER" materialize, Catholic University's | foot ball team will play nine | SPEEDILY, F ABLE Tennis Pro Must Look to Future Livelihood, U, S. Star Points Out. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, January 5—If H. Ellsworth Vines is the greatest tennis player in the world, he will have an opportunity to prove it tomorrow night when they toss Mr. Frederick Perry into the cage with him and lock the doors. From then on it will be strictly up to Ellsworth, There are those who believe that the young Californian with the five- card-stud-poker face can carve Mr. Perry to mincemeat, if so disposed. This would not be a pretty spectacle, but it would be conclusive, and a con- clusive victory over the greatest amateur player of the last few years would leave Mr. Vines, the greatest of the professionals, on a solitary pinnacle. Of course, this match in Madison Square Garden is merely the first of a series that will take Mr. Vines and Mr, Perry from coast to coast, beating each other’s brains out almost nightly for the entertainment of tennis nuts in all regions and climes. Mr. Perry is bound to win some of those matches, and you can't count him out on the strength of one licking. Biggest Indoor Net Crowd Due. UT the first match is highly im- portant. It will be playved before the biggest crowd in indoor tennis his- tory, something like 16,000 people. It will be the first encounter between Perry and Vines since they became recognized as the world's greatest. It will be the key match of the series, and you sort of get the idea, from watching the boys warm up, that both will be aiming for a kill. Your correspondent went around to see Mr. Vines in practice. The young man looked much as usual, pounding away with all he had, and when the blasting was over he expressed a very earnest desire to get Mr. Perry’s scalp. “There won't be any fooling around,” said Mr. Vines. Now, whenever athletes engage in a contest where cash money is the prin- cipal objective, the public is disposed to wonder whether the boys are giving everything they have to the cause, Mr. Vines seemed to realize this, bee cause he was most emphatic in dise cussing his plans and motives, Means Money to Vines. “J]'D BE a sucker not to try to win as quick as I can,” he said. “Perry is one of my best friends, we corres spond regularly when we're not to- gether, but if I can beat him at all I'm going to lose as little time as pos= ble doing it. “Just look the situation over. Ten- nis is my business, and good business | means good money, and you can't name me a guy in the world who likes money better than I do. Well, to make real dough, you have to stay up on top. “When the next great amateur turns pro, they'll want some profes- sional fella to play the important Loyola of the South and West Virginia | Wesleyan. The Cards will go on the | meets with Western Maryland, Dela- | matches with him. I aim to be that fella. If I'm beaten before then, I won't get the call. That's just so much real money out of my pocket. | If Perry beats me more often than I beat him, the guy they ask for next year will not be named Vines.” | Young Ellsworth has a notion that ihis fellow-Californian, Don Budge, will be the next important amateur | to jump off the cliff. “I think Budge figures on turning pro as soon as he wins the national | title,” he said, “and I don't see who's going to stop him from winning it in 1937." Expects to Play Budge in '38. HICH means, in the terms of Mr, Vines' neat, though sordid system of logic, that, if Mr. Frederick Perry can be disposed of in the meanwhile, it will be Vines vs. Budge a year from now. Vines' tennis is something to watch these days. If you haven't seen him since the time of his short sojourn among the Simon-pures, you will be surprised at the change. In fact, {you will be electrified, if that's your idea of fun. Vines could always smash a tennis ball harder than any topnotcher in the business, but he couldn't always control it. Now he is pitching strikes all the time. Forehand or backhand or volley, he is inside those lines consistently. Nate urslly, a player of Mr. Frederick Pere ry's skill is going to force the Cali= fornian into occasional errors, but the errors won't be of Vines' making, as they used to be. Give him a clear cut at the ball and he will lay it on & dime, if you give him a dime. Perry to Face Great Game. INES is continually striving for passing shots or for outright kills, Perry will hold his Sunday punch une til the other fellow is properly set up, a practice which makes for protracted rallies when the other fellow is good, but Vines doesn’t wait. He can afford, with his speed, to dispense with strat- egy and position. The combination of (See VINES, Page A-13.) Believes Giants Will Repeat Bartell Sees Improved Pitching, Especially That and Castleman. been ironed out and I look for him to have a banner year. “If Castleman and Schumacher pitch the kind of ball they're capable of and if Carl Hubbell comes anywhere near approaching his 1936 record, the Giants should be the toughest club in the league. ‘Why we have fellows sitting on the bench who could be regulars on most any other team.” While giving full credit to the ‘Yankees for capturing the world series, Bartell said, “the Giants could have won just as easily by getting some of the breaks that went to the other side.”

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