Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1937, Page 41

Features and Classified C WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION seors news | @he Zpening Sfap WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 1937. PAGE C—1 Big League Managers Never Rest : Louis’ Defeat Held Ring Help TOIL AT BASEBALL N.B. A, SECRETARY DISTANCE STARS SURE-SHOT SCHMARR. —By JIM BERRYMAN. I Lay Groundwork O MAJOR LEAGUE man- with celebrities from all over the Na- inspiring, restores Plans for Trades Occupy Minds, Says Mack—Tells of Classic Swap. ager should ever miss seeing a World Series. When I saw the Yankees and Giants play tion present, it made me dislike more than ever association with a tail-end club. This World enthusiasm makes you want to plan a Winter BY CONNIE MACK. before overflowing, roaring crowds Series scene is campaign to get players who will | make you a prin- cipal in the next annual yourself. It is the best uplifter of spirits for a sec- ond-division manager that I know. This leads to a question asked me by a friend. He wants to know how a manager or own- er spends his time in the off season. I am both an owner and a manager and find so much to do that I am taking no vacatian. Base ball now runs 52 weeks a year with the dif- ference that the owners play it in the Autumn and Winter recess. No Longer Lock Parks. NO LONGER do we lock the park gates and forget base ball until the annual meeting as we used to do years ago. I am thinking every day of ways to strengthen my cluo for next season. I am more anxious to stay around the park than ever, be- cause I don’t want to lose any oppor- tunity that might be offered. If I merely visited the park two or three days a week for a short time just to collect my mail, I might be out when an important long-distance phone call came, 1 think of base ball all day. Think of players who might help and then maneuver to get them. I go to sleep with players on my mind. Constantly I think of trades that over the reaction of the owner if I I would like to make. I speculate make an offer. Trades are the con- tract bridge hour of an owner's day. Every one seeks to make a deal where he will lose little and gain much. But if the deal turns out to be beneficial to both clubs, the owner Wwill be satisfied. I wonder if any of my readers ever heard of a three-cornered deal that resulted in three championship teams. There was such a swap and it did base ball more good than any other transaction that can be named. Connie Mack. Swap Made Three Champions. IT TOOK place in the month of January in 1922, and the New York, ‘Washington and Athletic clubs were involved. I traded Third Baseman Joe Dugan to the Washington club and received in exchange Outfielder Bing Miller. Clark Griffith, wily leader of the Senators, immediately traded Dugan to New York for Short- #top Roger Peckinpaugh. Badly in need of a third baseman, its weak position, New York was able to repeat for the pennant in 1922 and won again in 1923. The acquisition of Peckinpaugh plugged the Senators’ only hole and Washington won the pennant in both 1924 and 1925. Bing Miller was just the outfielder for whom I had been searching and when he took his place in my batting cast we became pennant contenders. We ' finally won in 1929 and repeated in 1930 and 1931, and everybody will recall that it was Miller who batted home the winning run in the final game of the 1929 classic with the Cubs. 8o this one shuffie of players in the Winter of 1922 meant pennants and world’s championships to three differ- ent teams. I always have called that the perfect deal of base ball. (Copyright, 1937. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission.) College Quints George Washington, 55;: Wake Forest, 33. Maryland, 48; Western Mary- Jand, 36. St. John's (Md.), 40; American University, 30. ~ Roanoke, 48; William and Mary, 9. Mississippi, 40; Louisiana State, Western Kentucky, 49; Mill- saps, 28. Providence, 28; Lowell Textile, 5. Hendrix, 47; Arkansas State Teachers, 42. Union, 37; Birmingham-South- e, 24. Clemson, 38; Wofford, 31. South Carolina, 40; Erskine, 24. Union College, 41; Centre, 33. ’wchlnn State, 24; Kentucky, 3. Depauw, 29; Butler, 28. Vanaerbilt, 34; Chattanooga, 28. Princeton, 31; Cornell, 27. Geneva, 31; Waynesburg, 24. Glenville, 51; Alderson-Broad= dus 42, Salem, 52; West Liberty, 29. Findlay, 37; Heidelberg, 36. ‘Washington and Jefferson, 34; ‘Muskingum, 29. Cederville, 33; Defiance, 19, Ohio, 42; Xavier, 20. + Denison, 38; Wooster, 35. Swarthmore, 45; Johns Hop- ¥ins, 38. Southwestern, 47; Mexico City Y. M.C. A, 16. Michigan Tech, 35: Northland, 34. California State Teachers, 44; Edinboro, 33. West Virginia Wesleyan, Fairmont, 40. Parsons, 38; Fenn College, 30. Carroll, 42; St. Norbert’s, 27. Virginia, 37; Hampden-Sydney, 29. Rhode Island State, 64; Maine, 38. Purmen, 36; Charlestan, 18, 46; and | classic | EXPERTS PREDICT -SCHMARR WILL BE THE DISTRICT'S HIGH - SCORER FOR THE THIRD CONSECTTIVE SEASOA CAPTAIN OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY'S COURT TEAM...AND THE LOCAL STANDOUT IN THE FINE HE familar name of Catholic University’s Hermie Schmarr was back on top of the list of local college basket ball’s lead- ing scorers and those who profess to know courtmen are willing to wager that for the third successive season Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. 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 gym, 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. TOMORROW. 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 vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md,, 3:30. Boxing. k Richmond vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md., 9:15. Duke vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8. Bowling. Virginia Open Sweepstakes, Ross- lyn Alleys, Rosslyn, Va., afternoon and evening. vs. St ART OF GOAL-TOSSING... 7 < '\Schmarr of C. U. Is Good Bet To Top Basket Scorers Again young Mr. Schmarr will wind up by heading the pack. Somewhat overlooked has been the Cardinal ace in the Brookland sports set-up, chiefly, probably, because Catholic University has been concen- | trating on foot ball. Not that Hermie does not play foot ball, for he has won three letters at the sport, but the ‘Whelans and Carrolls and Shearys and Yanchulises have stood out above | Schmarr. ! Topnotcher for Three Years. AT BASKET BALL, however, three years and his record speaks louder than words. As a sophomore in 1934-35 he sank 75 field goals and 31 fouls for a grand total of 181 points. He averaged 11.33 points per game, which also led the District courtmen. As a junior in 1935-8 he bettered this record by making 81 field goals and 34 fouls, for a total of 198 points, averaging 11.64. So far this season his average hovers around a dozen points for four games. Only because Catholic University ball and base ball. In intramural base ball he is rated the best player at Catholic University. He plays first base, captains his team and would like to take a crack at professional ball after he graduates in June. Captains Basketers. SCHMAER currently is captaining the Cardinal basketers, a job he stepped into as soon as the grid team, which he also led, was ended. Schmarr is an end at foot ball, with only slow- ness afoot keeping him from achiev- ing real greatness, according to the C. U. coaching staff. He is 22 years old, stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs an even 200 pounds. | He hails from New Britain, Conn., where he prepped at the local high school. F.E 8. +land, undefeated in two or three years | Schmarr has been pretty close to | tops in the District during the last | does not sponsor base ball teams will | Schmarr miss getting three letters in | each of three sports—foot ball, basket HE GALLOPED OFF WITH THREE LETTERS IN FOOTBALL AT THE BROOKLAND INSTITUTION..... ...AND IN HIS LAST VARSITY BASKET PALL WEAR HIS AM ON THAT HOOP 15 MORE DEADLY THAN EVERL "POPPI NG OFF Stan. HIS department is no devotee | of rule books but, this being sort of an open season for | would-be sports reformists, you | rise to wonder why the gentlemen | | who make the intercollegiatt boxing | laws do not design a few changes to | enhance the growing industry which our Nation's universities are finding | essential to athletic treasuries. This year, for the first time, Uni- versity of Maryland will hold the an- nual Southern Confirence tournament and the Old Linersfwho wrested this piece de resistance from Virginia are planning to make/ it a gala event. Among the reforny items we had in mind was one having to do with the seeding of boxers, whose prowess is better known than some of the other entrants. Wouldnit abolishment of this, f'rinstance, help to make Mary- land’s tourney more of a fair, if not more gala, test? Despite the bombastic titles some of the college boxers hold—such as Southern Conference heavywelght, champion, Eastern Intercollegiate | Conference welterweight champion, Chicago Golden Gloves 115-pound king, etc.—college coaches will tell you that in rah-rah fisticuffing the margin of superiority is not enough to make seeding a reasonable prac- tice. Jacques’ Victory Example. AST week at the University of Maryland a neophyte 165-pounder named Lancelot Jacques, entering the | ring for the first time in his life, | faced Tony Ortenzi of Western Mary- | of boxing and champion of something | or other. If these two boys were en- | tered in tne Southern Conference tournament Jacques would be required to fight in the first round and, if he made the finals, might have been compelled to dispose of three of four | they don't know. opponents. Ortenzi, with his reputation, would have been seeded. Pos- sibly he would not have been required to fight until the semi- finals. Yet when they fought last week Jacques gave Mr. Or- tenzi a very workmanlike going over, as the boys in our set say. In a tournament this feat would have been extremely prohibitive. Jac- ques, fighting his way toward Ortenzi, might have sustained a cut over his eye. Or he might have drawn a southpaw and been beaten. Or, even if he survived, he might have bowed to Ortenzi because he was too tired wading through the field. A couple years ago, when the South- ern Conference tourney was held in Charlottesville, a dangerous Maryland team entered seven fighters. The Terps, along with Virginia and Duke, were favored to win the team tefophy. But when the draw was announced it was discovered that all seven of Maryland’s fighters had first-round matches while none of Virginia's en- tries had to pull on a pair of gloves until the second round. And then only one Cavalier boxer went into action. What's Fair for Goose, Etc. THERE must be a good reason for the practice of seeding boxers, else it would not be done. Maybe one of the conference pappies will throw Would-Be Reformist. some light on it. But, somehow, it seems that when a big affair like the tournament comes along and scores of kids who have trained hard all Winter are anxious to win & championship, what is fair for one guy ought to be fair for ali. Why shouldn’t the highly- favored heavyweight f r o m Siwash be called upon to take his chance in a pot-luck draw? Maybe another kid, no less de- serving, but just luckier, will land a lucky punch or open a cut over the favorite’s eye along the way. According to the smattering of the intercollegiate rules in possession of this department, it is understood that a four-pound leeway is granted in all classes. That is to say, if a boy weighs 179 he can fight in the 175- pound class, etc. College boys accept it without a protesting murmur, probably because But a professional would squawk to high heavens if an opporent had a four-pound weight advantage, especially if he fought in & light division. A pro flyweight or featherweight would have to make fairly certain he was fighting a bum before he would give away four pounds. A heavyweight doesn't give a hoot, naturally. Four pounds is noth- ing to them. Wonder if the confer- ence heads ever gave a thought to graduating the weight distribution to conform to the respective divisions? Mr. Kennedy Knew Nothing. AS LONG as this is all reform so far, let nothing stop you. Why is it in college boxing that a referee cannot count out loud over a fallen fighter? A count, primarily, is for the benefit of the man on the floor. When it gets up to seven or eight he knows it's time to pull his legs under him and get up—if he can. A referee in college boxing must whisper the count. He is not supposed to even give a clue with his fingers or arms. And if you ever have been punched hard enough to knock you down, you readily can re- call the sensation of people, thousands of people, celebrating New Year and ringing bells in your ears. A whisper is simply unheard. A few years back the old heavy- weight, Les Kennedy, furnished a queer case. He was idling in Alex- andria, in the last stages of senility. The local matchmakers didn't even want to use him and so, when a New York promoter offered Kennedy $100 to fight the then up-and-coming Stanley Poreda, old Les snapped it up eagerly. Kennedy was supposed to be a soft touch for Poreda’s murderous punch, and in the second round, sho’ nuf, Les caught one on the chin and ev- erything went blank. The bell rang, however. before he was counted out and when the third round came up (See POPPING OFF, Page C-3.) Brooklyn Warned Mungo Will Ask $15,000 for 1937 Boycott Would Cancel Schmeling’s Tour—Hockey Clubs Go In for Skull Drill. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. EW YORK, January 15 (#). —The Brooklyn directors may as well know it now as later: Van Mungo wants $15,000 to toss that horse- hide this season—and not a dime less, gents . . . Billy Stevens is picking up “Bang,” the boxing magazine, where Eddie Borden left off last week. Any foot ball coach wishing to get in touch with a swell prospect, just out of high school, can com- municate with this column . . . looks like old age will catch up with Bitsy Grant before he gets a well-deserved chance on the Davis Cup team. Well, well ; .nm-flr to give the Boston Bees a regular place to eat in St. Pete this Spring! The hotel where the club was quartered last year had everything but a dining room . . . So Prexy Bob Quinn gave each player $6 per day and told him to put on the feed bag where he pleased . . . needless to report, most of the money went into slot machines . . . this year the Bees will move into a hotel down the block. If the anti-fight boycott goes through, Joe Jacobs will cancel Max Schmeling’s Southern exhibi- tion tour . . . Chuck Dressen says: “The Cubs will be weaker, the Giants no better and the rest of the league stronger.” o o , S0, there Jou are, A 3 Hymie Caplin took violent excep= tion to Wednesday night's decision against Solly Krieger to the tune of a couple of thousand words (most of them expressed with his hands) . . . Fresno, Calif,, has three past and present big league pitching stars living within the city limits ... one is Orville Overall, once an ace right hander on the Cubs; an- other is Dutch Leonard of Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tiger fame, and the third is Monte Pearson, who beat Carl Hubbell in the last world series. And Larry French holds forth at Visalia, only a whoop and a holler from Fresno . .. Overall is & bank president, Leonard runs & winery while Pearson' hunts and fishes N Hockey clubs hold skull practice Just like base ball teams . . .before each New York Ranger game, Trainer Harry Westerby shoos guests out of the dressing room. . . then Coach Lester Patrick gets s players’ forum going . . , every man, regular and rookie, gets a chance to shoot off steam and advance ideas for the common good. No matter who is champion of the middleweights, he’ll never feel quite safe with guys like Teddy Yarosz and Fred Apostoli hanging around . . . Mike Jacobs is not figuring on withdrawing from the New York Hippodrome because he feels the Braddock-Schmeling boy- WANTS RETURN GU} Max’s Victory Proves Game Is Honest, Says Foster. Scribes Lauded. This is one in a series of stories ) written for the Associated Press by outstanding sports leaders. They deal with 1936 developments and 1937 prospects. BY EDWARD C. FOSTER, Executive Secretary, National Boxing Association. ROVIDENCE, R. I, January 15 (#)—It seems impossible to; say anything about boxing dur- | ing 1936 without mentioning. the greatest upset of the year, the | defeat of Joe Louis by Max Schmeling. | Personally, I believe it was a great | thing for boxing, because many people | had been led to believe that Louis was | invincible. Schmeling’s victory proved | to the whole world that this sport was on the level, and endeavoring to pro- | duce the best men in the various | classes. From reports coming into this office, | boxing is increasing in favor all over | the country. It certainly seems to| have earned this increased patronage, for I believe that the boxers and their handlers are doing a much better job than they have in the last three or four years. I mean that the boys are well matched, and in almost every instance are giving to the best of their ability. Shake-up in Champs Due. T DOES not seem to the old-timers that today’s champions are all that | could be desired. In fact, there is no | question that quite a few champion- | ships will change hands during 1937. The National Boxing Association, with its 36 member States, is working | earnestly now on a plan to alleviate some of the tribulations of old, broken- down boxers. It is planned to organ- ize & fund to be earmarked for indi- gent boxers. We believe boxing fans all over the country would be willing | to stand perhaps a 1-cent tax on each | ticket to go toward this fund. How- ever, no really definite plan has been | adopted. The heavyweight division certainly | is in a chaotic condition. There is no | reason in the world why Jim Braddock should not have been compelled to defend his title within the year after he won that title, or declare publicly | that it was impossible for him, owing | to physical disability, to continue as | champion. However, there seems to be a rain- bow in the sky, and 1937, no doubt, will see the heavyweight division represent- ed by a champion who not only is For Shore Loop ALISBURY, Md, January 1 () —Base ball fans and civic leaders in eight different Maryland towns launched a concentrated two-week drive today to round out spadework preliminary to formal revival of class D professional ball on the Eastern Shore. ‘The deadline date is January 24, when the scene will shift to Cam- bridge, where representatives of the eight clubs will meet and effect permanent organization of the new Eastern Shore League—eventually to be a key “farm” loop for major and minor leagues. TOP MINOR MEET Cunningham, Venzke Enter 1,000 in New York Guard Games Tomorrow. By the Assoctated Press. EW YORK, January 15.—Glenn Cunningham and Gene Venzke, perennial board-track rivals, who met in previous years only in the big indoor meets, will clash capable, - but willing to defend his| in one of the lesser fixtures tomorrow, title. Wants Louis-Schmeling Encore. but only the stop watch will decide the winner. The famous Kansan, now a graduate Y OWN personal hope is to see | student at New York University, and another Louis-Schmeling bout. I| his Pennsylvania rival, both are en- do not wish to detract from Schmel- | tered to run 1,000 yards in the 69th ing's great victory over Louis in New | Regiment meet. Lou Burns, the Man- York, but I believe another contest be- | hattan College ace, who made a race tween these two might very well pro- | for them in the Columbus Council duce an entirely different result. | meet last week, also is entered, but One of the big disappointments to| won't try conclusions with either boxing fans this year was a practical | Venzke or Cunningham., rescinding of the so-called no-foul | rule, which has been in effect since| immediately after the Sharkey- | Schmeling bout some few years ago| in New York. One of the large Eastern commis- Stars Spread Over Field. 'HE three stars have been placed in separate races of the 1,000, which has been divided into three sec tions because of the large field. Each sions has determined that the referee | Will start from scratch, giving handi« in the ring shall be the sole judge of | caps to 20 or mog rivals whether a low blow is struck inten-| tionally or by accident. As a result the two invitation events This is -a| a8t 60 yards and 500 yards probably terrible spot in which to put any| Will provide most of the meet'’s ine referee. He has to rule on intent, an | terest from a competitive standpoint, almost impossible question to answer. In the sprint Herb Weast, Colume The National Boxing Association, at | bia sophomore, who smashed the ine its meeting in Houston, voted to keep | door 100-meter record a week ago; the no-foul rule intact. | Robert Rodenkirchen, the Jersey City I believe that during the last year | Schoolboy star, who broke a 200-meter | the sports writers on boxing have | Tecord in the Olympic trials last Sum- been eminently fair to all concerned | Mer only to learn he wasn't eligible in this great sport, and to them should | for the American team; Eddie O'Sule g0 a great measure of the credit for the revival of the boxing game. Indiana-Purdue Game Title Key CHICAGO. January 15 (P).— Purdue’s high-scoring Boiler- makers, pounding down the trail which leads to the Big Ten basket ball championship, battle Indiana's Hoosiers tomorrow night in the standout game of a full conference cage program. Every one of the 6.800 seats in the Hoosier Field House at Bloom- ington has been sold, with fans ex- pecting to see one of the cam- paign’s hardest fought tilts. The outcome either should stamp the Boilermakers as prohibitive favorites to retain at least a share of the title, or throw the race wide open. S RSB livan, the Curb Exchange star, and Manny Krosney of N. Y. U., will meet. Heavy New York Entry. 'HE field for the 500 includes most of the local college and club stars, including Milton Sandler, Edgar Strip= | ling. Howard Borck, Jim McPoland of Georgetown, Ed Brown and Jack Wolff. Joe McCluskey, former Fordham ace and Olympic runner, heads the list in the 2-mile run. The high jump has drawn Al Threadgill, the Temple University Negro ace; Art Byrnes of Manhattan and Bill Eipel. LEAGUE HOLDS DANCE. ‘The Government Basket Ball League is sponsoring a dance which will be held tomorrow night at the Wardman Park Hotel from 10 until 1 o'clock. Admission is $1 per person, Music will be furnished by Jack Wile liams. IHAHN! MR SALE FLORSHEIM SHOES Every Famous Florsheim Feature Included Look! The famous comfort feature you've always wanted to wear . . . and should wear . . . now at sale prices! Everything from Feeture Arch styles that won't let your arches down, to Flarewedge shoes-that won't “run over” . ..drom Ped-Flex models with the non-wrinkle insole _ to Florsheim Flexole Shoes — that need no breaking in. 3 PAIRS, 8% SOME STYLES $868 —— & OF MEN'S SOX—WOOL—LISLES—SILKS ' 3 PAIRS, 1.39 ® CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED ® HAHN'S MEN'S SHOPS——14th & G ® 7th & K ® 3212 14th St.