Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 26

~ @he Foening Stad Sporls WASH INGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937. ; Facts Back Base Ball Optimism : Majors Look for Few Hold-Outs “ | | | BRAMHAM POINTS TO GROWTH IN'% Expects 30 Bush Loops in Field Next Season. Youngsters Loyal. (Note—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 W. G. BRAMHAM, President National Associations of Profes- sional Bi Le: ase Ball Leagues. URHAM, N. C, January 11 —A¢ this time of the year, when reflections and antici- pations are in order, it is customary to take stock of the sea- #on just behind us and to visualize, as best we may, that which is down the highway ahead. We are inclined, as a rule, to see the future through rose-colored glasses, for a radiant pic- ture of what is to come is most de- sirable, and it is & trait of human nature to forecast things as we would like them to occur. 1 have no desire to be accused o 4ssuing & stereotyped statement in behalf of the minor leagues of base ball. But as I glance at the record written on the pages of 1936, it is im- possible to ignore the fact that our leagues and clubs have enjoyed a splendid season. Nor is there any- thing in the offing to indicate that 1937 will not be as artistically and financially successful as its predeces- sor, if not more so. No League Failed in ’36. I AM, therefore, obliged to fall back in a measure, to the recipe of former years and openly state that we of the minors are looking to 1937 without apprehension for the welfare ©of base ball. There are a number of contributing points which lead to that thought. During the 1936 season we had 26 leagues in operation, taking in 31 States of the Union and 3 provinces in Canada. Every league which an- swered to the roll call at the start of the schedule was present at the ad- Journment of the season. We cannot ask for more than that, end it is my pleasure again to report that such stability has been the rule, rather than exception, for the last several years. I am repeating when I remind that since 1933 only one league which started as a member of our national association has failed to go through its season program. We closed that circuit after a short life, when it was apparent that a contin- uation would bring only undesirable eircumstances. Look for More Leagues. ASE BALL has enjoyed a greatly improved co-operation. This is existent between the clubs of the in- dividual leagues, between the various Jeagues and between the officials of the leagues and clubs and the offices of the national association. Such & state of affairs has been of mutual benefit to all, and it has played no minor part in the improved conditions of the game. We are growing. That means an influx of many new club operators into our ranks. We do not expect them to grasp the intricate workings of base ball routine in a moment or & week. But they have shown the willingness and co-operative spirit that has made the road much easier Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. Dugquesne vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8. Elon vs. George Washington, 2010 H street, 8:30. Devitt vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30. Boxing. Joe Straiges vs. Bucky Taylor, eight rounds, feature bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Tech vs. Roosevelt, Tech gym (public high title series), 3:30. Western vs. Eastern, Roosevelt gym (public high title series), 3:30. Towson Teachers vs. Wilson ‘Teachers, Wilson gym, 8. St. Albans vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md., 3:30. St. John’s vs. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Md., 3:30. Landon vs. Episcopal, Alexan- dria, Va., 3:30. ‘WEDNESDAY. Basket Ball. Mississippi State vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8. Georgetown vs. Temple, Phila- delphia, Pa. Gonzaga vs. Eastern, &ym, 3:30. ‘Washington-Lee High vs. Epis- copal, Alexandria, Va., 4. Swimming. Y. M. C. A. vs. Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. THURSDAY. Basket Ball. ‘Western Maryland vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md., 8:15. St. John's of Annapolis vs. American University, American U. gym, 8:15. Wake Forest vs. George Wash- ington, 2010 H street, 8:30. Tech vs. Maryland Freshmen, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md, 4. Gonzaga vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md., 3:30. Wrestling. Gino Garibaldi vs. Stanley Pinto, feature match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. Eastern FRIDAY. Basket Ball, Catholic University Thomas, Scranton, Pa. Wilson Teachers vs. Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Eastern vs. Wilson, Tech gym (public high title series), 3:15. Central vs. Roosevelt, Tech gym (public high title series), 4:15. St. John's vs. Western, Western &ym, 3:30. St. Albans vs. Friends, Friends gym, 3:30. Manassas vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 8. Hampton Institute vs. Howard University, Howard gym, 8. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. Duke vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coli- seum, College Park, Md., 8. Gallaudet vs. American Univer- sity, American U. gym, 8:15. Catholic University vs. La Salle, Philadelphia, Pa. St. Paul’s vs. Episcopal, Alexan- dria, Va., 3:30. Gilman Country School Georgetown Prep, Md., 3:30. vs. St VS, Garrett Park, Boxing. Richmond vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md., 9. and the happy result is reflected in the record. Before we turned over the calen- dar leai to 1937, one new circuit, the Evergreen League, was added to our Toster, and there are several more in the final stages of organization, ready to take their places in organized base ball. No doubt we shall have 30 or more leagues offering clean, whole- some entertainment to a receptive public in 1937. Youth Clings to Game. THE players, themselves, furnish unmistakable evidence as to the upward trend of base ball. Each year we enroll several thousand youngsters who sign their first pro- Zfessional contracts. There are several thousand others who apply at the gates but are not quite ready for the professional plunge. When this num- ber is given the consideration is de- serves, it stands as an impregnable frefutation of the old saying that base ball was getting out of the minds and hands of youth. We do not hear so much of that any more, and we are happy to iell the world there is no foundation for it. With a watchful eye that will pre- ¥ent the recurrence of a wave of un- #ound business methods which once gnawed at the pillars of our organiza- tion, we turn into 1937 with the fore- thought, the experience, the hope and the vigor which give us the best ob- tainable insurance of the desired re- sults. _ ELKS’ BOWLING OFF. No bowling matches will be held fn the Elks' League tomorrow night out of respect to the memory of Dr. John T. Ready, one of the league's charter members, who died recently. Duke vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8. Bowling. Virginla Open Sweepstakes, Rosslyn Alleys, Rosslyn, Va., after- noon and evening. THREE QUINTS VISIT MIDDIES THIS WEEK Baltimore, Western Maryland and Pitt Listed—Admirals Off Form in Shooting. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIE, Md.,, January 11.—The Navy is playing three basket ball games at home this week, ending with a brush with Pittsburgh next Satur- day. The University of Baltimore plays a postponed game this after- noon and Western Maryland sends its team Wednesday. Inaccurate shooting has been the weakness of the Navy team so far, Bill Ingram and Frank Lynch, foot ball men, being the chief offenders. ‘The team is playing an excellent pass- ing game and should be in good shape for Pitt if the shooting impreves dur- ing the week. George Ghesquiere, the tall center of the plebes last year, was shooting in excellent form, but was not used against Duke Saturday because of a bad ankle. He is expected to be ready this week. Ghesquiere had a season with the freshman team at Michigan before entering the academy. Other members of the unbeaten plebe team last season who have been tried out on the varsity so far this season are Bob Laney, a guard, and Bob Gillette and Larry Geis, forwards. . W_IN'BREATHER s 11 WO major college basket ball teams, Duquesne, play at Catholic Both C. U. and G. W. are undefeat- times for both games are 8:30 o'clock, Last of the Capital major teams to face it within the next six nights. Dangerous Duquesne Plays Card Five Tonight—Elon Visits Colonials. BY BILL DISMER, JR. games are scheduled here to- night and it's a question for local fans to decide whether to see the better of the two visiting University, or to watch the best team this town has produced in many a year, George Washington, entertain Elon at 2010 H street. ed, but of the two, the Cardinals will receive by far the more difficult test, despite two defeats absorbed by the Pittsburgh team last week. Starting with a game between the C. U. fresh- men and Mount St. Joseph's of Balti= more slated to precede the varsity clash at Brookland. swing into the thick of its court sched- ule, Catholic not only will be meeting its first hard opponent, but also the first of four tough foes scheduled to Mississippi State comes to Brookland Wednesday night before the Cards go on the road for week-end games with St. Thomas and La Salle. Tall Stars With Dukes. 'VIDENCE of power in the current | squad of Fod Cotton was given in its third and most recent victory over a C. U. alumni five, enlisting every outstanding star that school has pro- duced within the past five years. The grads, which the varsity trimmed by 2 points, presented far more of a test | than did Shepherd or Maryland State Normal, both defeated rather handily. Against Duquesne, led by co-Capts. Ed Kweller, 6 feet 7, and Walt Miller, 6 feet 2, the Cards will start Hermie Schmarr and Wayne Ambrose, for- wards; Pete Brown, center, and Sam Pagano and Irish Carroll, guards. | C. U. has no man to measure up to | the taller of the Dukes' co-leaders, who should give the visitors a decided advantage at the tap-off tonight. Beaten by Long Island and Villa- nova last week, Duquesne is apt to snap out of it at the wrong time—| for C. U. Chick Davies practically has the same team that gave the| Pittsburghers one of their best rec-| ords in history last season, which was | climaxed by the winning of the West- | ern Pennsylvania championship. Seen Practice for G. W. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S COLO- | NIALS, on the other hand, should | have about as much trouble with Elon | as they have in putting on their uni- | forms. The visitors were in town Sat- | urday night, but their 31-20 victory over Southeastern has sent no chills | down the spines of the Buff and Blue aces, who turned the St. John's game, which was to have been their first “test,” into another rout, fast becom- ing traditional for Bill Reinhart’s point-a-minute boys. In five games G. W. has won by a | margin of not less than 19 points, and | has an average of 44 per game. More | pleasing to Reinhart has been the de- fense of his team, which has limited | Johns Hopkins, Marshall, Nebraska, Mount St. Mary's and St. John's to an average of 23 points a game, G. W.s regulars may bench them- selves quickly by a continuation of their high-type play tonight. Kiesel, O'Brien, Goldfaden, Schonfeld and Butterworth should establish a suffi- cient lead early in the game to give Reinhart a chance to see his reserves in action for a longer period than usual. At that, the Colonial mentor won't need reserves until 1938, all five regulars merely being juniors this ‘Winter. P e FLYING EAGLES SCORE. With Troup, Hoy and Terneak keeping the hoop hot, the Flying Eagles downed the Army War College quint, 52-36, on the Army court. Rehkoff of Army was the game's high scorer with 15 points. Varied Sports Pro Basket Ball. Heurich Brewers, 30; New York Presidents, 28. Renaissance, 39; don Bobbies, 33. United States Rubber Products, 49; Akron Firestones, 40. New York Renaissance, Columbus A. S., 35. Pro Foot Ball Chicago Bears, 7; Los Angeles Bulldogs, 0. Dayton Lon- 48; | sportsmanlike . . | but remember the night Max won the heavyweight title lying flat on his back | WHAT A DUCKPIN HECLO, YUH LITTLE ROUND PUNK-=THINK Y'URE A HARD GUY---WELL, T NOTICE YUH GO 'ROUAD ME ! EH -HEH! = THERE! I KNEW I COULD TAKE IT-- AN' ALL TH’ REST ARE DOWN-—~THA'S WHY THEY CALL ME TH' #] PIN-- & YOow-SUH/ THINKS ABOUT THERE GOES ‘AT #10 PIN!-- WHAT A WEAK- KNEED WILLIE HE 15---ALWAYS FLOPPIN' OVER ! —BY JIM BERRYMAN DID ANYBODY GIT TH' NUMBER OF THAT TRUCK ¢ HOLD v EVERTHING! “DEADWOOD; DIDN'TCHA EARLY BIRDS QUICK T0 SETTLE ON PAY Feller Signed for About Half of $20,000 Sought in First Full Year. By the Assoctated Press. EW YORK, January 11.—From the looks of things at this writing—several, weeks before it’s time for any one to start | worrying—contract difficulties between ball players and big league clubs will be few and far between this year. The general impression is that merrily-clicking turnstiles in 1936 pro- vided the medium whereby pay pow- wows, for the most part, will be settled amicably before the annual training camp migration starts. Some of the early birds in making flat wage demands already have come | around. | Red Lucas, one of the first to voice | & protest over his offer for 1937, visited the Pittsburgh front office the other day and put his name on a pitching contract. Bob Feller, Cleveland's smoke-ball sensation, said he wanted $20,000 for 4 his first full season in the majors, but GERMANY I POT TOLANDBIGFEHT Boycott of Max-Braddock Bout Is Genuine—Yanks Face Holdout Pain. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, January 11.—If| Germany really wants the Schmeling-Braddock scrap, | now is the time to step in and | grab it ... It's 10 to 1 it'll never go on in this country . . . Don't think for a minute that boycott isn't the real thing . . . One leading sports magazine ‘was offered the cost of producing six issues (five figures) just to print a column of anti-fight propaganda each month ... P. S.: The mag turned it down . . . Schmeling has a lot of crust to talk about Braddock being un- . Jimmy can’t help and hollering foul. Yanks Expect Holdout Trouble. 'HIS is the open season for expected holdouts . . . Yanks expect trouble signing Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez (who is due for a sizeable slash) .. . Brooklyn looks for headaches from Van Mungo and will get ‘em . . . All the Giants are happy, according to last reports . . . New York hasn’t the heart to say much about Philadelphia fight decisions after that Venturi-Ambers verdict the other night . . . Also the one in the Blair-Pacho scrap . . . Can’t help that foot ball player out in Cin- cinnati until he signs his name and tells what position he plays. Base ball parade heads South in an- other month . . . Louisiana State and Santa Clara lugged $40,000 each out of the Sugar Bowl . . . This corner now establishes Schnapps as the most likely candidate for the 1937 Hamble- tonian . . . Some of the boys are say= ing the real reason Gene Venzke shifted from the 3,000 to the 800 me- ters in the Casey games Saturday night was not to get a crack at Glenn Cunningham, but to get out of the way of Don Lash. Schacht Calls Johnson Tops. AL SCHACHT says Walter Johnson was the greatest pitcher that ever lived, and tells why . . . “He didn't have a curve and he didn't have a sinker,” says Al . .. “All he threw was that high, hard one . . . Every- body knew just what was coming all the time and laid for it . .. but look how many years the guy fooled 'em” . . . When you figure it out, mebbe Al is just about right, at that ... Genie Tunney, who says Bob Pastor Is being overmatched with Joe Louis, forgets that’s just what everybody else said when they threw Gene in against reen Bay Packers, 42: Salinas Packers, 7. Pro Soccer. Pittsburgh Heldelburgs, 2; Ro- chester Kodak Parks, 0. Pro Hockey. Detroit Red Wings, 4; Boston Bruins, 2. College Hockey. St. Cloud, 3; St John's (Minn),, 2. Dempsey 10 years ago. Adolfo Luque can get to the Giant training camp in Cuba merely by walking across a field . . . Ralph Kercheval has signed a 1937 contract with the Brooklyn foot ball Dodgers, but still insists he’s going to devote all his time to training race hosses . . . Rumor says Carl Hubbell, who drew down $17,500 in °35, will collect $25,000 from the Giants this season. Scooter Makes High School Calisthenics Fun Winfield, Kans., Students Mount Wheeled Platforms and Spin in Games for Exercise. By the Associated Press. Kans. — Gym classes at Winfield High School have been 3 “scooterized.” It all started when Ralph Titus, Titus, is just as beneficial. The scooter is a simple thing, back for passing. Hockey can be played on scooters, too. Relay and wheelbarrow races are run. Lying face downward on the scooters, boys race across the gym floor. “Just as good for them as swim- ming” and they don't get sun- Physical education experts else- where are interested. A set of scooters already has gone to a State teachers’ college at Albion, Mich. Other orders are coming in. Titus has been asked by several schools, .including one university, to bring 2 ) his boys and scooters for a demon- stration. At two schools the demonstrations will be put on be-, tween halves of basket ball games. Titus is seeking to patent the de- vice. “The same thing caused the in- vention of the scooter that brought about the beginning of basket ball,” Titus says. “That was to turn ex- ercises in a gym into active compe- tition. ANl manner of games are possible on the scooter.” Titus, & former manual arts in- structor, has so far manufactured the scooters Base Bal | y T IS a matter of public record that once Uncle Clark Griffith leaves for the Southland, prior to the opening of Spring training camp. the chances are highly in favor of the Washington base ball firm standing concerned. Of late, the Old Fox appears to have made a habit of doing his trad- ing from the home office or not at all, and, inasmuch as he is spending | his final week in the Capital, it would | seem logical to assume that if the | Senators are to dicker further for | fresh talent, it will be done in the next | few days. """ "This theory, then, might well | revive such sundry trade rumors as made the rounds a month ago, when the base ball big-wigs were conducting their annual shopping mart in New York. Since then the Bolton-to-St. Louis rumor has grown quite cold and noth- ing further has been heard on the | Newsom-to-Detroit talk, but the more optimistic of Washington fans might cling to a shred of hope if only be- cause no recent word has been heard | from Hartsville, S. C., admitted to be | the diamond center of the world by | Buck Newsom for the reason that Buck Newsom lives there. Relieved of Stigma But— EWSOM recently was relieved of the stigma that was bestowed upon him for allegedly calling a Washington newspaper man by long- distance telephone during the Winter meeting in New York and declaring he “wanted away” from the Griffmen. ‘The writing gent who spread the tale later confessed that he and not New- |som put through the call. Buck, however, has not been forgiven by Griffith for popping off as he did, re- gardless of from which end the con- versation was instigated. Briefly, Blushing Buck de- clared he was treated unfairly by Grifith and Bucky Harris, that he was not given a real chance to collect a bonus for winning a certain number of games and that he would be ex- tremely happy to be traded to some other team. News of the declaration was met with a loud, indignant snort from Griffith, whose first reaction caused the old gentleman to brand Mr. New- som as something of an ingrate. “If the Washington club hasn't treated him fairly,” ripped out Griffith, “I'd like to know how it possibly could be done. He came to us as a $5,500-a- year pitcher. Right off the bat I raised him to $7,500. I loaned him money three times to meet what he described as emergencies, and last year I upped his salary to $11,000 and threw in a bonus clause as well. Hummph!” Keeping Quiet Might Help, EV!NTUAI.LY. with the cooling of his rage, was forthcoming from Griff a theory on Mr. Newsom’s case, and others similar to it. If Blushing Buck only knew it, he is helping his campaign for a shift of scenery far more by keeping quiet than by broad- casting as he did a month ago. The Old Fox was explaining his viewpoint today. “Y will not say that I won't trade Newsom,” he said. “I'll trade anybody on the bail club if the right proposition is made. Newsom might yet be traded, but only if he keeps quiet. In short, I won't trade a player who tries to dictate a policy to the club owners. “If Newsom should be a holdout, f'rinstance, I wouldn’t trade him un- der any condition. Why, that would be setting a fine example for the rest of the ball players. All one of them would have to do, in case he is dis- contented, is to hold out, and, presto, the club owner would trade him. “I never put Newsom on the block at New York. The offer for him came from Mickey Cochrane. After Buck did that phoning, though, he was more closely knit to the Washington club than ever. He's the kind of a guy I want to keep and teach a les- son. Treated unfairly, huh?” | (N | 4 OfF"% an..’ I Column | Tiger Trade Still in Air. | JF HIS subscription is paid up, Buck can read Griffith’s declaration and | really means what he says or whether he is giving Newsom the old how-do- pat as far as its playing personnel is i you-do preparatory to mailing his 1937 | contract. Newsom, after all, was an extremely troublesome gent to sign | last year. Those with an ear to the ground in the vicinity of the ball park are in- clined to believe the Newsom-to- Detroit affair will be renewed within | the week, either by the Tigers or Na- tionals. Griffith yesterday announced group there could not be detected one southpaw pitcher with more than half a chance to fill the vacant shoes of Earl Whitehill. Obviously, if Griffith could land a promising left-hander in exchange for Newsom it might not be the part of poor wisdom to consider a trade. The Tigers seem to have such a southpaw in Jake Wade, who was be- | lieved to have been offered to Wash- | ington, along with Elden Auker, for | Newsom. Wade is a newcomer to the | American League, but in his few chances last season he displayed some- thing more than the promise of such as Dick Lanahan, Ken Chase or Syd Cohen, who are Washington's only current hopes of providing some south- paw pitching. FEVER DOWN, VINES SOON BACK ON TOUR Tennis Champ Should Be Up and Doing by Thursday, Says Hospital Medico. By the Associated Press. ‘HICAGO, January 11.—Ellsworth Vines, forced by illness to suspend temporarily his net tour with Fred Perry of England, rested comfortably today in St. Luke's Hospital. The California star, world profes- sional tennis champion, entered the institution suffering with a mild case of influenza and tonsilitis after play- ing a listless, losing straight set match against Perry Saturday night. Their scheduled match at Detroit tomorrow night was called off, but Vines' physician said he probably | would be up and about Thursday in time to resume the tour at Pitts- burgh the following night. The physician said Vines was feel- ing “much better.” His temperature was nearly normal, in contrast to the 100.2 reported when he entered the hospital. No visitors were per- mitted, however, and telephone com= munications were severed to assure him complete rest for several days. The Californian played with a fever of 101 in Perry’s professional debut at Madison Square Garden last ‘Wednesday night. In Cleveland two nights later the match was cut to two out of three sets, instead of three out of five, because of Vines’ con- dition. Vines plainly showed the effects of his illness in his Chicago match. He was slow afoot and frequently rested against the backdrops. Perry won easily, 6—0, 6—2, 6—3, for his third consecutive triumph. —_— HEURICH BOOTERS LEAD Conquer German Club While Sun| Radio Is Forced to Idle. ‘The Heurich Brewers were in first place today in the Recreation Soccer League by virtue of their 2-0 triumph over German Sport Club yesterday and the fact that Sun Radio, which was tied with the beer boys for the top spot, was forced to idle because the referee assigned to its game with Marlboro failed to appear. Playing against the seven-man George’s Radio club, the Democrats shoved up a notch into fifth place with a 3-1 victory, while wet grounds prevented the Silver Spring-Italian- American fray, -~ that 32 players will be carried to | Spring training camp and in the entire i ide whether the old gentleman | ‘ i | in Set—Western, Eastern Slated for Scrap. will fill the public high school championship basket ball race paddock tomorrow to make initial bows in series competition at Tech and Eastern will square off at Roose- velt gym. | last season’s quint in George Hahn and Bill Rea, Tech looms as a title ‘Walt Merchant expected to share the | scoring burden. Roosevelt is minus Kolius and Francis Beamer, but never- theless is rated a contender for titular Capt. Frank Bailey, who recently scored 16 points against the highly | with Joe Comer, Ray Fridrick and standing for the Rough Riders, who finished second to Eastern’s club last | Tech, Roosevelt Make Bows ECH and Roosevelt's entries T field when they trot out of the High gym. In the other game, Western Although it lost two vital cogs from | threat, with Jimmy Vermillion and |its best players of last year, Spero honors. regarded Maryland freshmen, together Sam Fogel, thus far have been out- year. Scoring Aces in Action. | WBSTERN, the choice of many to | capture the championship, will | be fighting to take the series lead, | while Eastern, defeated by Central, 28- 17, after it had compiled a consecutive series victory streak of 23 games, will strive to throw itself into the thick of the battle. : Held scoreless from the floor by Central's burly Sam Fox, Clint Quan- | trille, elongated Eastern center, holds | much of the Lincoln Parkers’ fate. | Should he hit his stride against West- | ern, the Red Raiders will encounter trouble in handcuffing the lanky blond. Capt. Gerald Burns, who scored 12 triumph over Wilson in its series debut, looms as Eastern's most irritating factor, although George DeWitt and Hugo Schulze also are potential high- scoring aces. Both games will get under way at 3:30 o'clock. Pro Hockey By the Assoclated Press. National League. Montreal Maroons, 5; New York Rangers, 2. Chicago, 2; Toronto, 1. Detroit, 4; Boston, 2. International-American League. Syracuse, 6; Springfield, 1. Philadelphia, 4; Pittsburgh, 1. New Haven, 6; Providence, 1. American Association. Minneapolis, 1; Kansas City, 0. St. Louis, 2; Tulsa, 1. points in leading Western to a 24-12 | signed during the week end for about | half that figure. Champion Giants All Set. NOT a cloud appears on the horizon ; for the National League champion | New York Giants, who handed out pay boosts all down the line. The world champion Yankees may have some difficulty with Lefty Gomez, who can't see a salary cut from the $20.000 he received last season. For a time it seemed the Yanks also ight have trouble with Joe Di Maggio, | who put in 2 bid for $20,000, compared with the $8,500 he was reported to have | received for 1936. However, the word is that Joe settled for something be= tween $13,500 and $15.000. Outfielder Jake Powell, batting hero | of the world series, and Pitcher Red | Ruffing, who received some $12,000 | for his fine 1936 season, are possible protesters. In the bailiwicks of Cincinnati's Reds and Philadelphia’s Athletics, con- tracts are pouring in without a break. However, Cornie Mack still has to hear from Bob Johnson and Wally Moses. De Shong Only Griff Threat. \VITH Feller, Hal Trosky and sev- eral other stars signed. there seems little reason to believe the Ine dians will have difficulty. Washington also is having smooth sailing despite a threatened protest from Jimmy De Shong. Brooklyn can look for trouble from Van Mungo. who insists he won't set- tle for less than $14,000 and is getting ready for a long fight. This figure would mean an increase of about $1,500. He may be joined by Catcher Babe Phelps, the National League’s No. 2 batter last year, and Buddy Has- sett, star freshman first sacker of 1936. Protests may come from a couple of the Chicago White Sox standouts, among them Batting Champion Luke Appling and First Baseman Zeke Bo- nura, but the odds are the Sox won’t let many dollars stand in the way of signing two such valuable performers, Of course, there's always Dizzy Dean, But his case with the Cardinals is re- garded as so closely resembling Babe | Ruth’s old annual row with the Yan- | kees that base ball men are winking and saying, “Don't let it fool you.” (BASKET BALL LOOP | BOON TO CARDINALS |Join Six-Team College League | Planned to Operate in East | Next Season. A BOON to Catholic University bas- ket ball was seen today in the school’s decision to join a six-team league now being formed in the East and to be launched probably next season. The other institutions in line are Long Island, Duquesne, Villanova and | Baltimore University, and a sixth member is expected to turn up in the Pittsburgh region. Present at a New York meeting Sat- urday, held to make regulations for the league, were: Clair F. Lee, athletic director of Long Island; Charles R. Davies, basket ball coach at Du- quesne; Alexander G. Severance, grad- uate manager of athletics at Villanova, and B. Herbert Brown, jr. athletic director of Baltimore University, who engineered the organization. Fod Cotton, Catholic University bas- ket ball coach, was unable to attend the meeting, but the school wired its willingness to join the league. Schedule-making difficulties will be obviated by the league, with the plan calling for several games a trip to be played by its members. | mi | Interfamily Pin Feud Is On INAL arrangements for Washington's first family vs. family bowling match in years, between the Hutchinsons and the Hodges, have been completed, with the first five games of the home-and-home 10~ game set scheduled at the Arcadia next Saturday affernoon. Arcadia's are the home drives of the Hodges, acceptors of the Hutchinsons’' challenge to any team composed of close kin. The final block of five games will be rolled on the Hutchinsons’ home drives at Convention Hall. With a brother and three sons averaging 100 or more, Chris Hutchinson will be the only mem- ber of that clan to enter the match without a league average. Norman, his brother, a regular of the Wash- ington Daily News team, is averag- ing around 107, and his sons—Ed- die, Irving and Willlam—around 106. A Hutchinsons and Hodges Will Open Series Next Saturday on Arcadia Drives. Recent activities since their ac- ceptance of the challenge have boosted the individual averages of the Hodges to an even greater margin than they showed when first compared with the Hutchin- sons. Harold, the leader, shot & 413 set last week, which sent his average to 120 in his league in Baltimore; Jack's 397 gave him a 114 and Paul reached 111. Z. 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