Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1937, Page 41

WA Foening Shar WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937. Features and Classified | (G PAGE C—1 Virginia to Revise Athletic Corps : Increase of A. A. U. Stars Seen L Staff Also Slated to Be Eliminated. NIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ball set-up next Fall and some heads in the business end of the athletic department are word that comes from an authentic source. Virginia, it appears, has been top- fact that its teams have not set a pace that would call for so much business direction. Slated to go from this de- manager, and Tom Carruthers, busi- ness manager, leaving Norton Pritch- ett, the “baby” of the bunch in point | as the man to do the revamping. These steps doubtless would have | been taken even had not Virginia re- 1in the December meeting at Richmond, but some brave action that previously was taken by Pritchett most certainly breaking away from an organization of which they were charter members. Priichett Acts Bravely. | IT IS said that Pritchett called at- tention to the higher-ups of a| gima that was distasteful to him and | hardly in line with the obligations | demanded by the conference. It took | did, but he got away with it, so he‘ evidently knew what he was talking | about. Pritchett. incidentally, is held institution in the conference and, in| fact, by every one with whom he has | dealings. | coach of foot ball, basket ball and | base ball, with Butch Slaughter as his grid assistant. Bob Fletcher, who | freshman coach and is not involved in the charges. Tebell, it is said, surely will not handle the 'varsity | be among the missing. Whether Tebell would want to stay for basket ball and base ball, even if he were desired. has that he would not. He has hardly been successful with basket ball, his | record in base ball standing out above Two Members of Directing. is going to have a new foot going to be chopped off, according to heavy in athletic leaders, despite the partment are Jimmy Drive, graduate of service at the Charlottesville school, | signed from the Southern Conference had something to do with the Cavaliers | domestic situation that existed at Vir- | a lot of fortitude to do what Pritchett | in the highest regard by every cther; Gus Tebell at present is the head | went to Virginia only last Fall, is the eleven next Fall and Slaughter will not been indicated, but it is likely the rest. Veterans Will Remain. F COURSE, the two veterans, Archie Hahn, track mentor and trainer, and Johnny LaRowe, the boxing coach, will not be touched by | any changes, as, if there are any | such things as fixtures, these two are. There also has been no room for criticism of their work from a stand- | point of handling the squgads or of | success. Another angle that is causing con- | THE ANNUAL BOGEY MAN. WE BETTER SLIDE, BOYs, IT'S GOANAA BE CLOSE ! SR MICKEY COCHRANE ,RETURNING To ACTIVE PLAYING AFTER A LONG LAY-OFF DUE To ILLNESS, WILL PROBABLY FIND THE GOING PRETTY STRENUOUS..1es.. < siderable concern to the remaining 15 members of the Southern Con- ference is what Virginia is going to do in regard to its athletic code. In fact, some of them are hesitant about | entering deeply into schedules with the Cavaliers until Virginia declares its athletic policy. It would be very embarrassing to some of the schools with which Virginia has had such long and pleasant relationshios to book the Cavaliers and then find that it would be impossible, under con= ference rules, to go through with the events, Code Causes Concern. SO VIRGINIA'S action as o its athletic code really is a source of more concern than what it may do about its foot ball coaching and athletic staff. To those in the anow it was apparent such changes were due to come, for despite the Cavaliers’ failure their material has been on & par with some of the other schools in the conference, although it has been far from matching that of its traditional foot ball rival, North Caro- lina, and Duke. Two things that probably ‘“broke the camel’s back” were the loss of money on the game with North Caro- lina last Fall at Charlottesville, when the receipts were less than the an- nual guarantee agreed upon oy the two schools and other expenses, and the 65-t0-0 lacing the Cavaliers took at the hands of Harvard in Cam- bridge. Certainly both were bard blows to Virginia's pride and prestige. All Personally Popular. ERSONALLY Driver, Carruthers, Tebell and Slaughter are popular at Virginia and with the schools with which the Cavaliers have relations, but circumstances make situations that force even friends to part. It has been said that Virginia would like very much to have Greasy Neale, one-time successful coach there, re- turn, but he is declared to be too| strongly intrenched in every way as| | assistant grid mentor at Yale to con- sider leaving the Elis. Newsom Is Headed to Detroit, Mungoto Cubs, To Giants, Are Latest Rumors | EW YORK, January 14 (A).— Reports of three possible base ball player deals went the N rounds today, thereby saving | this especially dull hot stove season from taking a dive into its own cracker barrel for want of something to talk about. The trade talk, such as it is, re- vived the talk that: 1. Van Lingle Mungo will go from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the Chicago Cubs pitching staff. 2. Buck Newsom is headed away | from Washington, toward Detroit. 3. The Giants will land a catcher | from Cincinnati. For a while it looked as if thé Bos- | ton Red Sox might lure Moose Solters from St. Louis or Joe Vosmik from Cleveland. However, Tom Yawkey put the damper on such goings-on yesterday by explaining he has learned the “for sale” sign definitely was in mothballs so far as these two are concerned. % Mungo Rumor Spasmodic. 'HE Mungo-to-Chicago rumors have A" been turned on and off like a Duke Followers Lament Conflict DUKE UNIVERSITY alumni and followers, and there are many in Washington, are up in the air about Saturday. Duke’s boxing team, rated about the best in the Southern Confer- ence, will come here to battle the strong Catholic U. ring outfit, while the Blue Devil basketers, Conference leaders, will invade College Park to play Maryland. Duke boxers beat South Caro- lina, 6-2, in their only fistic en- gagement, while the basketers have won 9 of 10 games with a clean slate of six triumphs within the Red Backstop faucet almost since last season wound | Recently there was talk the | Cubs would get him, Brooklyn's classy | up. Third Baseman Joe Stripp, and Pitcher Paul Derringer of the Reds in some sort of three-cornered trading. This, however, turned out to be too big a proposition for Chicago to swing. But Manager Charlie Grimm feels the addition of the tempera- mental fireballer may mean a pennant next Fall, and says he's still trying | to land Mungo. Ever since Newsom let off steam against the Senators in the public prints some weeks ago he is said to have been persona non grata with Washington big-wigs. That was the starting point for reports he would do his pitching somewhere else this year. | Mickey Cochrane put in a bid for him at the big-league meetings last month, and even though he was turned down then, the Tiger pilot is still anxious to have a 17-game winner like Newsom around. And Clark Griffith of the Senators i.sfln‘c one to say no sale to an attractive offer. Giants Need Catcher. THE Giants are in dire need of an- other catcher. They can't expect Gus Mancuso to do again the work- horse act of last season. The Reds have a corner on the catching market at the moment, with Ernie Lombardi, Spud Davis and Gilly Campbell on hand. Bill Terry has been buzzing around Cincinnati like a bee around honey, but the Reds want more than he will put up. They have their eyes particularly on Outfielder Hank Leiber, but Terry needs Hank for '37. Bill, however, still is trying to swing a deal, for he realizes that an- other capable receiver just about will leave the Giants set for the coming wars. —BY JIM BERRYMAN. - O, THAT! WELL, 1) CASE 1 DECIDE To BOLTING CLIF BOLTON IS ONE OF GRIFF'S CHIEF WORRIES -YET HE IS TO SHARE RECE V(NG DUTIES WITH “SHANTY ' HOGAN... "POPPI T DEVELOPS that Mr. J. Francis Hogan, owner of the biggest waist- ] line in all base ball, finally seems | willing to settle for a few pounds | Ball Club will prolong his major league career. Mr. Hogan, who is called Shanty, may be recalled as the wheezing gen- | tleman who did the Nationals' catch- | ing last September after Clif (The | Bolter) Bolton took his alleged “run- | out powder” and went home. When | | Hogan was reprieved from Albany as a result he spent several days idling on the Washington bench while Griff tried to find a uniform capable of covering his 262-pound chassis. Mr. G. was thoroughly dis- gusted but at the time he could not be choosey. And the fat Mr. Hogan did prove to be a big help . . . batting .323 for 19 games and establishing himself as a hot favorite with the Washington pitchers. The hurl- ers made no secret of their pref- erence for Shanty behind the bat. Now, according to word received from Mr. Hogan, the fat man appar- ently wants to stay with Washington. “I've lost 18 pounds since the close of the season,” wrote Shanty to Griff. “Now I'm down to 245.” 225 Or No Go—Mr. G. If Shanty, who is in Somerville, Mass., expects Mr. G. to shower him with compliments via the mails he is doomed to disappointment. “It ain't enough,” snorted Griff today. “I mean that 18 pounds off his weight ain’t enough. I won't have a ball player who weighs 245.” This by no means seals Shanty’s fate, however, for Mr. G. realizes as well as anybody else that catchers simply are not in abundance and the thought of Shanty as he appeared with the Giants and Braves a few years back is, indeed, a pleasant one. So Griff is going to give him a chance. “I'm writing him,” explained the old gentleman, “and saying that if Hogan thinks he can melt down to 225 pounds I'll send him to Hot Springs, Ark., for at least three weeks. If he’ll gamble, so will I. But if if Clark Griffith and the Washington | | Hogan reports to training camp weighing over 225 pounds I'll tell him NG OFF Ytan. Shanty’s Still Too Big. we simply can't use him and send him home.”, Compiled Menu Code. of the writing boys in training camp if Mr. Hogan is shipped back from Florida because Shanty possesses, in rare measure, color and personality. He is, in short, good “copy.” Fat as he was last year, Shanty unhesitatingly hit the dirt if he thought he could make a base and it was no orthodox, feet-first slide he engineered. With his bulk, as a mat- ter of fact, this kind of a slide was impossible. Shanty dove, head first, and when he came to a stop he resembled a giant turtle lying on his | back. Only J. Francis, of course, all | the time was lying on his stomach. He was a favorite of the late John McGraw's, until he grew too fat. He was a consistent hitter, a smart, able backstop, and McGraw paid him well. According to tales told by New York base ball writers, there was an everlasting battle of wits between the sharp Muggsy and the resourceful Shanty. Fat meat, potatoes and pie a la mode were out, McGraw would tell Shanty in the Giants’ training camp, and John would see to it that he studied Shanty’s checked menu before food was sent to his room, where | Hogan had made a practice of eating. Sure enough, for weeks McGraw saw only consomme, spinach, broiled pom- pano and tea checked off on the menus. But Shanty kept getting fatter and fatter. Finally it came out. According to these stories, Shanty had arranged a code with the hotel chef. A check opposite pompano meant thick steak. “Spinach” meant mashed potatoes and “green salad” meant fresh peas. “Tea” was pie a la mode, with milk. Would Be Real Bargain. IN THE end Shanty found out that | all, | this item. He also retains his bat- T WILL be to the everlasting regret | | at Hot Springs. base ball did not love a fat man but neither can anybody, base ball folk or otherwise, diclike him. After | he can handle pitchers better than Bolton, even Mr. G. admitting ting eye and in a batting order already | lopsided with southpaw hitters he would be especially welcome. Best of all, if Shanty shed the necessary weight and re- gained most of his former agility, he would prove to be one of the best investments Griffith ever made. He cost nothing to speak of origi- nally, coming from the Albany glue factory, and when all would be said and done, the Washington firm would have picked up a first-string catcher | for the price of three weeks’' board LINKE TO SHED FAT Newly-Signed Nat Gets Reduction | Plan From Griffith. The sixth contract of a Washington | player was in Clark Griffith's desk | today as the Nat prexy announced the receipt of Ed Linke's agreement to work for Bucky Harris' team this year. Griffith stated trt he had advised | Linke of a new training schedule, | which he thought would keep thei perennial fat pitcher on the team throughout the season for the first time since he became the Nats' prop- erty. Other than to state it was not | running, Griffith did not divulge his | formula for Linke's weight-reducing program. FAVORS SHORE LEAGUE | Home Run Baker Finds Base Ball| Interest Running High. TRAPPE, Md., January 14 (®.— Frank (Homerun) Baker one-time star of the major leagues, looks with favor on proposals to revive minor | league base ball on Maryland's East- | ern Shore. Baker said interest is running high among fans and that a shore loop should find ample support, provided financial pitfalls were avoided. — Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Year ago—Lefty Grove signed 1936 contract at reported salary of $22,500. Three years ago — Ellsworth Vines scored first professional ten- nis victory over Bill Tilden, win- ning 6—0, 5—7, 6—2, 6—2. Five years ago—Babe Ruth re jected offer of $70,000 from Yan- IHamiIton Ordered to Sea. | Coast, where he coached the cham- THE WHITE SOX STILL MUST RELYON LUKE SEWELL, WHO ENTERS THE'37 SEASOA AT THE RIPE PLAYING-AGE OF 36 YEARS....., | = HARDVICK NAVED NAVY GRD COAGH Former Middy End Tutor to Succeed Him. NNAPOLIS, January 14 —Lieut. Harry J. Hardwick, or just Hank to foot ball fans, has been named to the post of | head foot ball coach of the Naval Academy. He will succeed Lieut. Tom J. Hamilton, who has been ordered to sea after spending three years as head coach. The officers will make their move next month, Hardwick taking over the reins about February 15. At pres- ent he is attached to the U. S. 8. Arizona. Hardwick’s selection did not come | as a surprise. His name, along with several others, has been mentioned prominently ever since the Navy sent Army down to defeat in the closing game of the 1936 season. Starred With Hamilton. THE new coach has been identified closely with Navy athletics for a number of years. He was associated with Hamilton as player and coach, and the change is not expected to up- set fnatters at Annapolis. Hamilton and Hardwick played on the great Navy eleven of 1926, the for- mer a back and Hank at end. Hardwick, who was a star on the 1924, 1925 and 1926 teams, played the greatest game of his career against the Army at Chicago in his last year on the eleven. The service teams battled to a 21-to-21 tie. Formerly End Coach. Hardwick was end coach at the Naval Academy in 1928 and 1929. The next season found him on the West pionship fleet team. He returned to Annapolis in 1931 as end coach of the plebe eleven, a position he also filled in 1933. He was head coach of the plebes in 1934. The civilian coaches include Edgar E. (Rip) Miller, line coach; John N. Wilson and Martin Karow, backfield coaches, and Frank Foster, “B” squad coach. These will be augmented by officers who later will be ordered here. Hockey Results By the Associated Press. INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia, 6: Springfield. 3. Providence, 5: Cleveland. 2. AMERICAN ASSCCIATION. Minneapolis, 2: Kansas City. 1. ADVA At the sion of the Moon Great Tailoring Event Established 1898 kees for 1932 season, asking for two-year contract at same price, or $80,000 for one year. JANUARY CLEARANCE NGE NOTABL INDISTANGE RACES Post-Olympic Year to Have Fuller Major Meet Card, Ferris Points Out. This is the tenth of a series writ- ten for the Associated Press by outstanding sports leaders. They deal with 1936 developments and 1937 prospects. BY DANIEL J. FERRIS, Becretary-Treasurer, Amateur Athletic Union. EW YORK, January 14 (#).— Man’s ultimate in sport, es- pecially in track and field, where marks are measurable, still remains a matter of conjecture. ‘The magnificent accomplishments of the past year, where records were toppled with astonishing frequency, demonstrated that the perfection of technique and other factors still bring forth incredible performances. Although the same razor-edge keen- ness of interest which prevails in an Olympic year cannot be expected in a post-Olympic year, there will be no relaxing in so far as athletes are concerned during 1937. The improve- ment in the caliber of our athletes seems to be steady. New stars are de- veloping in greater numbers today than in years gone by. The recent performance of Wayne Rideout of Texas, when he defeated Donald Lash, the world 2-mile record holder, in the second fastest time ever made indoors in the United States, is a splendid illustration of how athletes develop overnight. Wayne and his twin brother Blaine have been competing in college meets for three or four years. Until last year they confined their efforts to middle- distance races without much success. Henceforth no 2-mile race will be complete without one or both. Distance Field Sparkles. ITH Lash back in the form he displayed last June, he will be a hard man to beat at any distance from a mile to five. Other long-dis- tance stars who probably will com- pete indoors are Norman Bright of ¢ | U. of M. Has 4,460 | Seats for Boxing STA.NDS in Ritchie Coliseum at the University of Maryland have been renumbered to give the ticket holders more space, and the revised seating capacity is 3,576, with 1,788 seats on, each side. A survey of the floor also de- termined that 884 chairs may be in- stalled for boxing. This will give 4,460 seats for the Southern Con- ference boxing tourney to be held I the last week end in February. | the Olympic Club, San Francisco; Ray | Sears, former Butler University cham- |mon, who has run 2 miles indoors | faster than any other American; Joe | McCluskey, New York Athletic Club | veteran; Floyd Lochner of Oklahoma, former National Collegiate A. A. 2-mile champion, who broke the American steeplechase record in defeating Har- old Manning, Glen Dawson and Mc- Cluskey, the three Olympic steeple- chasers, at New Orleans last month; Tom Deckard of Indiana, Tom Ottey of the Penn A. C. and Louis Zam- perini of Torrance, Calif. Archie San Romani of Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia may prove the sensation of this year in the mile races. He surprised himself and his friends by winning a place on the Olympic team last July, and before he returned home had firmly established himself as one of the world's finest milers. 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In fairness to your pocket- book, get my low cash price before you buy tires! eonference. ‘The Blue Devils’ basket game with the Terps will be the opener of a twin bill at College Park, Richmond U., another Conference rival, appearing in a ring match in the final. VINES PLAYS TOMORROW Recovered From “Flu,” Net Pro to Again Face Perry. CHICAGO, January 14 (#)—Elis- worth Vines, pronounced by his physi- clan sufficiently rested to resume his professional tennis tour with Fred Perry of England, said he will take a plane late today to Pittsburgh, where he will meet the British star tomor- row night. Vines has been in St. Luke's Hos- pital with a mild attack of influenza since Sunday, when he lost & third straight match to Perry. - Phillies Get Jack-of-All-Trades in Bill Andrus Rookie From Little Rock Plays at Any Post—Trojan Hockey Coach Cannot Skate. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. the National Foot Ball League dinner, the boys along Broadway Ew;(::flu;nug '14 Y(mk next season , . . Cecil Hart, man- are letting out their vests. has m{n ’trlends u?:n ager of the Montreal- Canadiens, Eddie Brannick, secretary never played a game of hockey in of the Giants, it’ll take Sherlock his life . . . but that’s nothing, Guck himself to find out . . . At points out Bob Ray in the Los the dinner the base ball writers Angeles Times . . . Arnold Eddy tossed for Brannick the other coaches the Southern California night, Jimmy Durante turned pro- hockey team and can't even skate. ceedings into something of a riot by reading this wire, supposedly Attention sports writers: Dead- : line for your Cooperstown base from F. D. R.: “Congratulations . . . glad you didn't run on the Re- ball hall of fame nominations is January 15 . . . the Phillies seem publican ticket last Fall.” Jint fans would rather read to have grabbed off one of those about Bill Terry buying catchers jack-of-all-trades in William An- drus, rookie from the Little than cows . . . Red Grange is tell- Rock . . . 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