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A— Terry Sure He Has Big Winner : Vines Tops Tilden’s Pro Net List WORLD'S GREATEST 18 ®» His Gang Can’t Be Figured Lower Than Second, Says Champs’ Manager. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, January 13.—Re- member the Giants? Two thousand six hundred and six- teen base ball experts already have gone on record with their selec- tions for the National League pennant in 1937, and 80 per cent of these high- class mystics are picking the Chicago Cubs or the St. Louis Cardinals. It's very confusing, because the Giants are the champions No one pays much attention to them. They are mild and drab, the Giants. When an absent-minded fan runs over National League prospects for the coming season he is apt to finish his count on the seventh finger and say: “Let’s see. now. Who did we skip?” And the guy who is drinking beer with him will reply: “I think it musta been that New York club.” Things. being thus, it is fortunate for the champjons of the league that they are managed by a super-salesman with a powerful voice and a forceful personality, who very much dislikes to have the Giants overlooked and will remove that big Havana heater from his mouth and roar a challenge to the world whenever he comes hi sniffing distance of a microphone. Terry Speaks Up. MR. WILLIAM HAROLD TERRY dropped around this week with an 8-inch hickory log on his shoulder instead of the usual chip. He found that the Giants were being overlooked right and left and center, and he didn't like it. Stepping swiftly to the plat- form, Mr. Terry cleared his throat and emitted a wholesale consignment of assorted defiance. “The Giants,” said William, “will | finish first or second this year. You can't rate 'em any lower.” Instantly several dozen ingenious mugs came forward to prove, with the aid of a blackboard, an apple, and & glass of water, that it is a very easy trick to rate the Giants lower than second. if you just know how to go | First, they asked Mr. Terry | about it to name a line-up—any line-up at all. “I will give you a line-up.” said the big fella haughtily. “I will give you what I think will be our batting order for next season, wind and weather permitting, and then you may do your worst. This is it.” Whereupon Mr. Terry listed the fol- lowing morsels of ivory, in order: Chiozza, 3b. Bartell, ss. ott, . Leiber, cf. Moore, 1f. McCarthy, 1b. Whitehead, 2b. Mancuso, c. “There she blows.” said the old Tennessee whaler. “I figure Leiber is good enough to play the outfield for | me, if he hustles, and I think Johnny McCarthy will make me a nice first baseman, with Sambo Leslie standing by to fill in. Then, too, I expect to get | me a lot of nice pitching this season from my pitchers.” “Such as who?" said a heckler. | Rehkopf. i There's Also Hubbell. HAVE been talking to Castleman just lately,” said Mr. Terry with dignity, “and the kid satisfies me that he will have a big year. Schumacher is | bound to Improve over last season. Gumbert is a comer. And, of course,” said William, breaking into a merry smile, “there is always Hubbell. If those guys come through for me, I can use Al Smith for relief, where he does his best work. I like the looks of n” There was no answering chorus of | enthusiasm from the assembled multi- | tude, so Mr. Terry proceeded to tear down the opposition. “The Cubs and Cardinals are the| teams to beat, naturally,” «Warneke will help the Cardinals. The | Cubs will miss that boy, and it re- | Mu mains to be seen whether Parmelee | | Heinoaug, will come close to filling the gap. “But the Cards are wearing out here and there, and they still need more pitching, and the Cubs will need a big year from Augie Galan as well as Parmelee to get back where they used to be. Cincinnati is coming along, but they're not ready yet, and I don't see where Pittsburgh is im- proved. Boston and Brooklyn are no bargains; they need better shortstop- ping and catching, and—let's see, that's seven clubs—who's the. other?” | “The Giants” sald the heckler. he said, | Sbe PORTS. “Hits Road,” But Stays Put CHARLES (CHUCK) KLEIN, Substituting the confines of a Philadelphia gymnasium for the wide, open spaces, pedals away on a stationary bike as part of his training routine while awaiting the Spring camp call. former Cub, now again with the Phillies, hopes to set a new THE EVENING S1LAR, WASHINGTON, D. The al League this year. —Wide Warld Photo. home run record for the Nation: | | . Routs Wilson—G. U. Prep Winner—Devitt, Landon Both Defeated. T. JOHN'S basket ball team was another step nearer recognition as one of Washington’s leading scholastic fives today, following | a 32-20 defeat of Woodrow Wilson High yesterday on its own -court on| Vermont avenue. Wilson gave West- | ern’s highly favored team a real scrap | in the interhigh opener last P‘rlday and is a set-up for none. St. John’s victory was outstanding | in & day which found Georgetown Prep stopping St. Albans, 33-17, in an interprep game, and two other preps, Devitt and Landon, losing to Bethesda- Chevy Chase and Episcopal High, re- spectively. Jimmy Giebel led St. John's with 14 points, the Cadets never beml(‘ headed from the opening whistle. It | also marked the first time that an! opponent had scored as many as 30 points against Wilson. GF.Pts. Wood. Wil. 414 £ 1 .'I o l| J swunl 1= Holland Struver. Hovt.g Battisies . 1 Batchelderg 0 Totals __ uso. GEORGETOWN PREP had run up a 22-7 lead at the end of the half in its game with St. Albans and was content to keep step with the city school during the last two quarters. Capt. Bob O'Shaughnessy, bespecta- cled forward, led Ed Hargaden's team | with 18 points, while Billy Byrd dropped in five fleld goals and two free tosses. G'town. O'S'nessy. {__ G.F. PO na:? 8t. Albans. G P, White,{ -9 = 2 Alexander.g_ 0 Graysong - b | corooson | corans! Totals . 13 733 Totals __ 8 117 Dn'm'r»nve Bethesda-Chevy Chase a good fight, but was unable to prevent the suburbanites from record- College Quints Southern Methodist, 26: Texas Ohris- Mr. Terry ignored him. As far as he himself is concerned, | old William plans to go on the volun- | tarily retired list. This will give him a chance to spring back into circu- lation on short notice, if Mr. Mc- Carthy and Mr. Leslie, his replace- ments, should bog down. Will would like to swear off playing ball forever, and put his cracking knees on a pension, but, as Shakespeare said, you never know. As soon as he had reminded the public of the existence of the Giants, and installed Stonewall Jackson as manager of the new farm clup in Jersey City, the big fella hustled off for warmer regions. ‘The chip, or log, was still on his shoulder. You can forget the Giants if you want to, but | p! not while William Terrw is around. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americaa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) RUSH INTO BIG RACE 862 Nominations Already Made in Arlington Futurity. OCHICAGO, January 13 (#).—The Arlington Futurity, which carries an added money value of $20,000, already has drawn 362 nominations, track of- ficials said today. The second payment date for the Arlington and also for the Arlington “Lassie Stakes, the Washington Park Futurity and Princess Pat Futurity falls due Friday. Entries to date for those stakes are: Lassie, 235; Wash- t;axlwn Park, 328, and Princess Pat, Estimating that the combined nom- ination lst will total 1,200, track officials said the four stakes may have & total value of $150,000. The added money value of the Washington Park Futurity is $15,000, while the Princess | Ohio Ohio | Findlay College, Ohio Northern. | Case, 48: Joh: Wittenberg Cincinnati, | Randolph- 41: Nial 27, Mumsmm “State, 28, T. T, Tennessee. ch-tt.nnoo::8 18. Vanderbilt, 4 Roanoke, 40 6. . Viator. 20. s (Minn.), 3: Hebron College. 3¢ stern Illinois Tolch- 'M Doln! College, 14. Kearney Teache: Demrll Normal. Nebrasis, 38, Western Maryland, 35. Mount St. Mary's, 26. | Presidents. 75 | this Winter by a 31-21 score. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR SEVERAL golfers of national rep- utation will be driven frem amateur ranks by the apolication of the new definition of amateurs approved in New York City during the annual meeting of the U. S. G. A. The rule, as amended and adopted, makes ineligible as ama- teur any player “engaged in any business connected with the game of golf wherein one’s usefulness arises because of skill in the game itself.” Business and Tech loom as the strongest teams in the interhigh basket ball series. Their latest vic- tories, in which Business defeated Eastern, 23-16, and Tech trounced Central, 34-20, establishes them as the two quints which possibly will bmle for !he title. ACE ROANOKE QUINT TO VISIT HEURICHS| | National anmesl College Has| ‘Won 22 of 23 Games in Cur- C., WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 1937. DS ARE AGAINST |EASTERN IS SAVED | Original and Her Eehs BY BILL DISMER, JR. the floor here and in Philadelphia, preliminary petween the Cardinal and Prior to that 37-28 setback from St. C. U. Battles Mississippi ASKET BALL teams of Catho- lic University and Georgetown respectively, against Mississippi State and Temple. Moun. St Mary's freshmen, finds Fod Cotton's charges up against a team Joseph's, Mississippi State had con- quered Duke and Florida. State Here, G. U. Meets Temple in Philly. B will be cast in the roles of underdogs tonight as they take C. U’s game with Mississippi State, slated at Brookland after a 7 o'clock which absorbed its first defeat of the season last night in Philadelphia. Georgetown, still seeking its first victory in the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference, will face a team which | conquered it twice last year. To add to the Hoyas’ gloomy outlook is the fact that they will be playing on Temple’s floor, where the OWls trounced them, 39-17, last Winter, in contrast to the 1-point victory which they were able to eke out here. Carideo Coaches Invaders. OhE of Notre Dame's greatest quar- terbacks, Frank Carideo, will be at the helm of the team which comes to meet C. U., the former all-| America coaching the Southerners’ court team in addition to assisting Maj. Ralph Sasse with the foot ball squad. Mississippi State is said to have as tall and as fast breaking a club as Dugquesne, which routed the Cards on Monday night. C. U. held the Dukes on even ferms for the first half, but wilted rapidly in the closing 20 minutes. Hermie Schmarr, currently second to Hal Kiesel of G. W. for District scoring honors, should make the Cards a | threat, but, so far, Whitey Ambrose is the only teammate who has proved able to help him materially with the point-compilation. Georgetown must win from Temple or give up hope of winning the con- ference championship for another | year. Already having dropped games to Carnegie Tech and West Virginia, | the Hoyas cannot afford to lose three | in a row. One consoling fact to Hilltop sup- | porters, however, is the memory that Georgetown has come through on two previous occasions this year when the | odds were against them. The Hoyas | licked Princeton, after having plaved | only one warm-up game and then proceeded to defeat N. Y. U. for the second successive year, when the Vio- lets openly were laying for revenge in the familiar confines of Madison | Square Garden. Threat to G. W. Genuine. ITS beginning to sound like the | “wolf, wolf” fable whenever the | “first test for G. W.'s five” is men- tioned, but it is a fact that the Co- lonials will be facing a top-notch rent Campaign. EATEN only nine times in two years and with a record for this season of 22 victories in 23 games, the National Business College basket ball team of Roanoke, Va. is coming to Washington Sunday for a battle with the Heurich Brewers Sunday after- noon in the Heurich gym. The Roan- oke team has lost this season only to the original Celtics, over whom the Heurichs hold a decision. National Business College has won 111 out of 120 games, including among its recent victims the Washington ! and Lee University quint, collegiate | champion of the Old Dominion. | Former college and high school stars make up the National squad. - \ Sunday’s contest promises to be u\ ding-dong affair. The Heurichs are forging ahead rapidly in the pro fleld, | having beaten among other strong teams the Original Celtics, Renai- | sance, Brooklyn Dux and New York | ing their eighth victory in 11 pmesl The winners had a 14-8 lead by intermis- sion and outscored Devitt, 17-13, dur- ing the last half. Schneider got nearly half of the victors’ points, scoring 14. GFPts Devitt, G.F.Pts. PYSPAERS sumv-n i Hortons | 3] mrosouars a| sosomsien Totals 3 Totals 7 721 Referee—Mr. Kessler. BUD HARMAN, Episcopal’s crack center, personally doubled the score on Landon as the Virginians swamped the local quint. 42-6, at Alex- andria, Va, Harman dropped in six field goals for 12 points. Ten of the 15 players employed by Coach Luke Fleming figured in the scoring, as Landon was limited to one fleld goal in the first half and one more in the second half. Coach Flem- ing used a steady flow of substitutes after the half. o0 n < PRSI EIER RPN, T Smythe. g team when they cntertain Wake on H street. The Deacons’ record and their growing rivalry with G. W. however, portends probably the stif- | fest fight that Bill Reinhart's boys | have faced all season. Having won 10 of their 11 games, the Wake Forest boys include North Carolina among their victims and lost to Duke by only two points. It will be G. W.s last home game until | January 26, the Colonials playing two games away. before antn showing to local fans. Fear Scoring Monopoly. NE reason for G. W.'s success Was shown today in a release of scoring statistics of Capital college | tossers. With none outstanding, and with all averaging more than 5'2 points a game, George Washington's regulars are among the six leading scorers of the District'’s major teams. Only Schmarr of C. U. interposes to prevent the Colonials from having s monopoly on the first five places. Kiesel, averaging an even 8 points a game, leads with 48 points. Then, tied with Schmarr, are Tom O’'Brien | and Ben Goldfaden, all with 47. Fol- lowing them are G. W.’s two remaining regulars, Jack Butterworth and Milton Schonfeld, who with 45 and 35 points, respectively, are averaging 7% and 5 5-6 points per game. Two sophomores, Joe Murphy of Georgetown and George Knepley of Maryland, top their respective teams, Murphy having 31 points to Knepley's 30. e SHOW LEADERS NAMED | Gaskin, Warrenton Manager Since 1917, Is Retained. WARRENTON, Va., January 13 (#).—Fred D. Gaskins of Warrenton, manager of the Warrenton Horse Show Association since 1917, has been re-elected. Julian C. Keith again was named president, Courtland H. Smith and Herman E. Ullman, vice presi- dents; J. North Fletcher, secretray, and Harold E. Smith, treasurer. Elected to the Board of Directors were George W. Cutting, H. C. Groome, Sterling Larrabee, J. Chauncey Wil- liams and Robert C. Winmill. Gaskins announced that the Amer- jcan Horse Show Association had |Toan granted Warrenton the October 1, 2 dates for its thirty-eight annual ex- P O Blon ‘Totals_ . ‘Totals____ 3 hibition. BY the Associated Press. HE new Congress is full of fellows who've played tour- nament tennis, but only Charles R. Clason of Massa- chusetts ever has won an interna- tional court competition. ‘The slender 46-year-old “fresh- man” Congressman spent two Sum- mers in Europe winning tennis tournaments. Starting his net career by win- ning the Bates (Me.) College crown, Clason captured Maine in- tercollegiate laurels before winning Pat carries 87,500 and the Lassie Stakes $10,000. a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. His Summers abroad he spent in ) Switzerland, but vacation study was quickly dropped in favor of tennis meets. Clason won singles and doubles championships in international competitions at Zerwatt, Switzer- land, and singles honors at Thun and Lausanne. Among those he defeated. were former Davis Cup players of several European coun- tries. 4 When he returned to America he played less and less tennis, until now he rarely swings a racquet. The reasons, he explains, are that ‘he didn’t have time and that his friends all piayed golf. 3 Clason Ranking Tennis Player in Congress “Freshman” From Massachusetts Only Member to Gain International Titles. He shoots a fair duffer’s game, averaging around the hundred mark. Clason is an enthusiastic fan for all sports, with a leaning toward base ball, for he was an outflelder at Bates. Every Summer finds him striking out for Nova Scotia for a spot of fishing. “He hunted often in other years, but hasn't bagged a bird in several seasons. His last time out, however, he hung up a record that served as & splendid valedictory. “I had 14 shelis on hand. Flying 1n singles, 14 black ducks passed by me. And I felled every one of them.” be laughingly recalled. | Burns.{ | Dewitt 1 | Forest tomorrow night in their gym | Last-Second Basket Defeats BY BURTON HAWKINS, title fight, which already has an autopsy on its amazing 25-24 last- hue following its 22-19 win over ent series probably will set a new high of play by Coach Mike Kelley, capital- Synchronized with the bark of Time- riestled in the cords to climax some of Four Quick Points. 25 seconds to play, Eastern could have flipped in a foul shot just a second Out of a wild scramble underneath an attempted goal. It missed, but one point. It was at this stage that | Taking the tap from Quantrille, court and the foul line. Clinton 1 hero. Central as each of the seven players paced the winners, while DeWitt and outstanding scorers. Western, Muddles Series. Tech 22-19 Victor. ACK in the thick of the public B high school basket ball series become somewhat muddled, Eastern’s crack club today performed second victory over Western yesterday while Tech's prospects assumed & rosy Roosevelt. Fulfilling predictions that the pres- in heart throbs if nothing else, Ralfe Clinton, inserted in the last 25 seconds | ized on his only shot of the game to upset the favored Red Raiders. | keeper John Jankowski’s signalizing the end of the game, Clinton’s shot the most hectic action ever packed into | any scholastic fray. F THIS was fiction it would be un- believable. Trailing, 24-21, with named its own odds on Wwinning George De Witt, Western center, had before which apparently assured vic- tory for the Georgetowners. the Western basket, however, Clint | Quantrille, Eastern center, launched Russ Lombardy followed it up and the | Lincoln Parkers were lagging by only | Coach Kelley's substitution of Clinton | paid dividends. | Claude Colley passed to Clinton, who | was poised at an angle between mid- launched his heave and thereby be- came a candidate for the No. 1 series Eastern displayed a vast improve- ment over its losing showing against used by Coach Kelley figured in the scoring. Lombardy, with six points, Gerald Burns, with nine and eight | points, respectively, were Western's | Western, GFPis S Eastern. G.F.Puw. Lombards.f_ 3 Coltonf.___ 2 1 Clinton.{ 0 Quantrillec 0 2 Heil.{ Schuize. Savlor.g Needle. Sl iz ® Totals__ _ 9 624 Totals Tech Is Impressive. ECH was far more impressive against Roosevelt than the score | would indicate, maintaining a healthy | | lead until the waning moments of the game, when the Rough Riders launched a belated rally which threat- | ened to overcome that margin. A tall, smooth quint that isn't too proud to follow its shots occasionally, | Tech stepped into a 9-0 lead before | Joe Comer tallied for Roosevelt as the | quarter ended. Jimmy Vermillion was instrumental in compiling the ad- vantage. and also proved an impor- tant factor in Tech's triumph by his | molasseslike guarding of Capt. Frank ‘Balle\' who could garner only four points. | Stretch Mills and Country Dobyns. the original thin men. were valuable men in snagging the ball off the back- board and figure on dealing out head- | aches in the future to those players | who believe it's so much wasted | energy to follow up a pot shot. Leading, 20-11, entering the final | period, Tech saw its lead dwindle as Ray Fridrick slipped in a foul shot and field goal. Comer tossed in an- other from the charity line before | Mills retaliated with a pot shot to buoy Tech’s lead to 22-15. Fogel and Bailey scored in rapid succession, but | the gun ended any hopes of victory | | they were entertaining. \Rooslevell GFPts Tech PPt -3 5 M 2 Fridricht 3 Wiliomntn s | | S 8 Vo ! | wnc‘th 0 1 Seex’” | Blleve . Dobyns.s_ Totals_ Totals____10 222 | Referees—Messrs. Keppel, O. Mitchell. I \GOVERNMENT LOOP OFFERS FOUR TILTS Quints to Complete First Round| Tomorrow—Farm Credit Aims to Protect Lead. FOUR important games are m:hed-‘ uled in the Government Basket | Ball League tomorrow night when the first round of play will be completed |in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Two | teams have a chance to win the title in Division 1, while three teams are tied for the leadership of Division 2. Farm Credit, undefeated in Division {1, must topple Standards to prevent Procurement from creating a first- place tie, provided, of course, the latter defeats Public Health. I. C. C. and G. P. O, two of the three deadlocked leaders in Division 2, play each other in the wind-up while Patents, the third to share the current lead, faces Archives. The standings: Division 1. Won. Lost. E 1 P Inte rnnl Revenue_ Controller- of Currency. Archives . Division 1—8tate vs. Loans and Cur- pency. 7; Stendards v Farm Credit. Procurement Public Health. Division "—Conuolln o 2 Internal Revenue. . ©. Archives vs. Patent: TIES FOR CAROM LEAD Johnny Dodge Catches Champion Ruark in D. C. Tourney. Gene Ruark, defending the District three-cushion billiard championship in a tournament at the Royal, was deadlocked for first place today by Johnny Dodge, following Dodge’s 35- 23 victory last night over Frank Masi. The leaders have won six matches and lost one apiece. In another contest last night Gene Flynn defeated Statland, 35-30. | Howes of Brown University, inter- S— —_ Annette Kellerman, the pioneer diving girl, SPORT ,« gives a few pointers to 13-year-old Mary Hoerger, a diving champion in her own right, ona spnngboard at Miamz Fla. —Wide Warld Phulo. FROM THE PRESS BOX Needle-Threading, Other Events Not Held In Year That Is Tough BY JOHN LARDNER. T THIS time we give you our | annual survey of the leading | sports achievements of the | past year. We give it to you | | in a spirit of melancholy, with a sad | shake of the head, because 1936 was a bad year for sports, a year in which champions brooded at home and| second-raters dominated the field. | It's hard to explain the dismal, refractory, unpatriotic behavior of ! our better athletes. I am tempted to refer to them as cads and Dounders and let it go at that. - What, for instance, has become of Bud R!)nolds of Columbus, Ohio, world’s champion consecutive non- | classical piano player (105 hours)? What has become of Jack Garrison of Seattle, champion hamburger-eater of the North- west (21, without mustard)? What has become of W. H. Love, | also of Seattle, champion diaper- | changer over the sprint route (18 seconds, triangle - and - four - pin method) ? What has become of Alfred 8. collegiate doughnut-eating champion (20 in 18 minutes, 50 seconds)? Unforgettable Peanut Pusher. And what, when you get right down to it, has become of George Clyde Martin, Annapolis, who set the world on fire with his peanut- pushing (for time and distance, with nose) two years ago? While these former aces of track and fleld were sulking in the dug- out, lesser men usurped their places. We herewith append, for what it is worth, a list of the best performances of the year. Some of them are not so bad, at that. There is nothing fundamentally wrong Wwith American sport. There is no cancer gnawing at the heart of the body politic, as certain critics have suggested. There is nothing amiss that a little hard work and publie spirit won't cure. In the words of the great Thomas Jeffer- son— (Note to stenographer: Fill in any quotation from Jef- ferson, but keep it short.) Here Are 1936 Champions. Chicken plucking—Claimed jointly by John Pleasants and Alfred Canada of Richmond, Va. one adult bird in 13 seconds flat. Banana eating (against time)— Charles Brayo of Le Roy, N. Y., 28 ba- nanas in 9 minutes, 30 seconds. (Mr. Brayo is a graduate from the fleld of free-style egg eating, with a record of 40 raw pieces of hen fruit in 5 min- utes, 1930.) Tobacco spitting (for distance and accuracy)—Jasper Davis of Fishersville, Va., bullseye at 12 feet 9 inches, against the wind. Egg eating—Sam Martin of Prince- ton, Ind., 24 fried eggs. (Mr. Martin, who holds the world record for wolfing fried eggs, with a total of 60, was checked in his effort to better this fig- ure by his landlady, who financed the enterprise. Mr. Martin said he could have gone on indefinitely.) Husband-Calling Champion. Husband calling—Mrs. Willlam A. AUTO RADIO SERVICE L.S.JULLIEN, . on Many Champions. Underwood of Mount Tom, Mass., no contest. Spaghetti eating (linear) —Jimmy D’Auria, Buffalo, N. Y. 4000 linear | yards of spaghetti in 1 minute. 15 sec- onds, inhalation method. (This. rec- ord is under investigation.) Buck sawing—Thomas Welling o{ Peterborough, Ontario, three cuts of a 4-foot hard maple log in 54 seconds. Claims world’s championship. Chicken eating (Arbnckle tro- phy) —Mrs. Edna Mae Potter of Pasadena, Calif., 10 three-pound chickens. 15 pounds of dressing. Chair-rocking—Armand Vezina of Montreal claimed the title with 58 consecutive hours of rocking. Dr. Alexander Meyer, who has bettered this figure repeatedly in past years, was inactive, being occupied with the perfection of his new device for timing each rock automatically. Beer-guzzling (free-style) — Ray- mond Du Val of Green Bay, Wis.. half a gallon in 19 seconds flat. Floyd Verette of Milwaukee, dethroned champion, claimed a foul, but was overruled by officials. Match-piling (on bottle)—Wade E. Brown of Baltimore, Other noteworthy performances in this | fleld were 7,000 matches by George Colus of Pittsfleld, Mass., and 4.200 | by Dr. Thomas H. Staggers of Cleve- | land. All-around eating — title claimed by Police Sergt. Pat Kelly of Elizabeth, N. J., holder of African and Australian belts in the field of raw meat. Sergt. Kelly engulfed 20 pounds of meat at one sitting in 1936. More or less inactive were Tony Laurentis, - \ the Philadelphia barber, and Dr. Harry George, the former lamb chop king, who is now pioneering in the field of | chili con carne. It was an off year for needle-thread- ing, kraut-eating, spaghetti-eating for weight, endurance drumming, living corpses, flagpole-sitting and bridge- Jjumping. (Copyright, 1937. by the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc.) SET FOR TRIBE RAISE Catcher Sullivan Prepared Wuh]‘ “Law” and Record Book. CHICAGO, January 13 (#).—Billy Sullivan, Cleveland Indian's catcher, is going to have both the “law” and the record book on his side when he talks contract with his bosses. Sullivan, a graduate lawyer of Notre Dame, is working this Winter in the office of his older brother, Joseph S. Sullivan, who preceded him at Notre Dame by several years.. When Billy isn’t sharpening up his knowledge of law he takes time out to study his 1936 record, which shows he led American League pinch hitters, was second in hitting among catchers, was third among league catchers in average of runs driven in, per times at bat; was second among league's catchers’ chances accepted, per game, and topped all his teammates in hit- ting with men on base. “I think those figures will provide & pretty good argument,” he says. DELCO-PHILCO AUTO RADIO SALES AND SERVICE NATIONAL SERYICE ESTABLISHED 1919 | 0 141 ST.N. 1443 P SL.N.W. N0.8076 | vakia; 7.200 matches. | s. Puts Nusslein of Germany Second, Himself Third in Paid Tennis Clan, BY WILLIAM TILDEN, 24. ECENTLY I left myself open to the disapproval and disagree- ment of the followers of ama- teur tennis by offering = world amateur ranking. I will now complete the wreck by incurring the wrath of the fol- . lowers of profes- sional tennis by giving a world professional rank- .+ ing for the year § 1936. In offering a professional rank- ing one has much less data on | which to base an opinion than one working with an |amateur list. | However, we have a sufficient basis” on past results to offer what is, at least a reasonably accurate placement Here is my opinion: 1. Ellsworth Vines, jr., United States. 2. Hans Nusslein, Germany. 3. Willlam T. Tilden, 2d, United States. 4. Henri Cochet, Prance. Bracketing 5, 6 and 7—Lester Stoefen, United States; Robert Ramile lon, France; Martin Plaa, France. 8. Bruce Barnes, United States. 9. Albert Burke, Ireland. 10. H. Vissault, France. On the “insufficient data” list, one must place Karel Kozeluh, Czechoslo- the Facendi brothers, Chile; George M. Lott, jr., Berkeley Bell, | Francis T. Hunter and Vincent Richards, United States. Bill Tilden, Vines Without Peer. DO NOT believe any one will se- riously question the placement of Ellsworth Vines, jr.. at the top of the | professional list for 1936, even if he did take a beating from Perry last | week. It is the general consensus over the world that Vines was the profes- sional—in 1936. I am placing Hans Nusslein at No. 2, above myself, by virtue of Nus= | slein's victory in the English profes~ | sional champlonship at Southport, where he won the tournament, defeate ‘ g Cochet in the final round in straight sets. allowing the French star only seven games. I have placed myself at third. above Cochet, on the following grounds. We divided our own two meetings last year. Cochet beat me in the tourna- ment at La Baule. following which I defeated him in the Bonnardel Cup final round, and followed this by win- ning the final tournament of the year at Le Tougquet, in which Cochet played, but was defeated before reaching me. There would be little to choose be- tween us, since Cochet won the French professional championship, beating ‘both Plaa and Ramillon, but I was not included in the entry list. Nature ally Cochet follows at No. 4. | Thres About Even, IN ‘THE positions of 5,6 and 7 I am forced to bracket Stoefen, Ramil- lon and Plaa, due to a very strange series of results. Stoefen twice de- feated Cochet and scored two victories over Plaa, but was in turn defeated twice by Ramillon. Ramillon lost twice to Cochet, once to Plaa and once to Vissault—yet scored two vice tories over Stoefen and carried me to five sets in the finals at Le Touquet. Plaa defeated Ramillon and myself in five sets each in the English chame | plonship, but was beaten twice by me and twice by Stoefen. So in reviewing the performance of | these three men I can see little to choose between them, and feel that the only just placement is to bracket all three. I am placing Bruce Barnes at No. 8, due to his many meetings with these men in past years rather than to any definite results this season. The position of Albert: Burke at No. 9 is based on his carrying Plaa to a Dbitter five-set match in the French championship and two good | performances in the Irish-American- Bonnardel Cup match against Stoefen and myself, rather than on any out- standing victories. The tenth position I give to voung Vissault on the one remarkable performance at La Baule, where he defeated Ramillon in five sets to none and 5 to 3 in the third | set. He also carried me to luur close sets the following da: Kozeluh Off Courts. 'NDOUBTEDLY Karel Kozeluh would be well up the list if he | had played in any competition this year, but he restricted his efforts en- tirely to coaching and cannot be in- | cluded in the ranking list of playing professionals. The Facendi brothers of Chile are new names in professional tennis. They scored victories over Nusslein and Kozeluh during the South Ameri- can tour of the latter pair. The remaining names on the “in- sufficient data” list are placed there due to the fact that none of these men competed in any tournaments, nor against a sufficient number of the ranking professionals to warrant ade- quate placement. (Copyright 1937. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission.) Sports Mirror By the Associzted Press. Today a year ago—John Jack- son, president of United States Golf Association, warned Lawson Little agd other player-writers of ban on instruction-giving articles. Three years ago—Jack Chevigny appointed head foot ball coach at University of Texas. MANGE in dfl’l calls for prompt e. Stumulates hai nanh kills GLOVER'S WORM are safe, sure. In capsuleform for Round worms, Tapeworms an Hookworms. Alsoliquid Vermifugefor Puppies. Famous DOG BOOK~Veterinary advice l’l!‘

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