Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1937, Page 10

- 3 Richmond’s Fist- Throwers in Maryland Twin Bill. Gallaudet at A. U. BY BURTON HAWKINS. HE eager, grasping claws of Duke University’s Blue Devils will clutch at a double victory in local collegiate activities tonight when Catholic University strives to dodge the pitchforks of a £ood boxing team and Maryland seeks 10 upset a crack basket ball club in the first half & double-header which finds the Terps pushing punches at Richmond's ring squad in the night- cap. Maryland’s twin bill will be Jaunched at 8 o'clock, while the fistic festivities at Brookland will gt under way at 8:30 o'clock. In a strictly local court argument, American Uni- versity will entertain Gallaudet at | the Eagle gym at 8:15 o'clock, with Catholic University’s dribblers invad- | ing Philadelphia to meet LaSalle. Tough Task for Cards. \ DISTINCT underdog, the Cardi- nal boxing team will climb through the ropes with mingled ap- prehension and dogged determination. The confidence which was present | in the Redbird camp earlier in the week has been shaitered somewhat by the loss of Ferd Rogers, who is nursing & mild case of influenza. The Cardinal captain, who trimmed Ray Matuelwicz, N. C. A. A. light- heavyweight champion. last year to give Catholic University one of its will be replaced by Ed Dunne, an| earnest novice who hardly is expected to cope with the experienced Matuel- wicz. Leo Katalinas, who scored the other | Catholic win in 1936 with a one-round knockout of Don Schmitt, will square | off with Schmitt again in the heavy- weight division. Leo, in his debut| this season, chalked up a technical | knockout victory over Ed Helms last‘ week as C. U. recorded & 7-1 triumph over North Carolina State. Duke will toss two other intercolle- | giate champions at the Cards in aq- | dition to Matuelwicz. Danny Farrar, who will train his chilling southpaw | pokes on Fred Mix in the 145- -pound | division, and Capt. Jack Kneipp, a local 1ad who will face Nestor Martinez in & 135-pound scrap, also are title- | holders. i In other bouts, Dave Bernstein will square off with Bob Koger, Duke, in | the 115-pound clase; Tex Guinan will | trade blows with Little of Duke m‘ the 125-pound class: face Wilton Mann, Duke, in the 155- pound class. and Sully Greco will de- bate with Al Mann, Duke, in the 165- pound class. Terps Annoy Duke. LPSE.'I'I'ING Duke has become somewhat, of & habit with Mary- | land, however, the Terps carving out neat triumphs seven out of 10 times they have met on the court. In the role of underdog last year, Maryland | booted the dope can with a startling | 38-34 victory. ‘The Blue Devils invade with an im- | pressive record, having won slx con-‘ secutive games in as man nl tne Southern Oonrerence, whfle Marv- land enters the fray seeking its fourth ‘win in six tussels. 3 Coach Burton Shipley will start ‘Waverly Wheeler and George Kneoley 84 forwards, Eddie Johnson at cemer and Knocky Thomas and Chariey ! Keller at the guard posts. Wheeler, ‘ who has been handicapped by an in- | jured foot, now is primed for action and is expected to bolster the Terps considerably. Al Waters, who scored | 10 points against Western Maryland, | probably will crash the line-up before many minutes have ticked by. | Richmond will enter the ring under & 2-0 deficit, having elected to forfeit | the 145-pound and light-heavyweight | engagements. Ivan Nedomatsky and | lancelot Jacques thus will sit idle on | the Maryland bench, but two bouts | each in the 125 and 155 pound divi- | sions will round out the card. | Maryland Boxing Line-Up. | COACH HARVEY L. MILLER, whose | @ebut as a ring coach was suc- cessful Jast week as Maryland launched its season with a 6-2 con- quest of Western Maryland, will em- | ploy the following men: 115 Ed She- | gogue; 125, Tom Birmingham and Bob Bradley; 135, Benny Alperstein; 155, Mike Lombardo and Bob Walton: 165, Alex Males, and heavyweight, Ed Engell. | Richmond will send the following punchers into action: 115, Lee Copley: 125, Ralph Arthur and Joe Flax, Ed Hughes or John Ridenour: 135, Charley Minor: 155, Bill O’Flaherty and Roland Nuckols; 165, Lew Tobias, and heavyweight, Mike West. ‘The Spiders will be making their 1937 debut. | COURT RESULTS. Tr nsyivania, ¥ 40: Southeast- n 28, Stetson, 41 Emory and Henry, 36, Auburn. 42: Sewanee, 1! Arkansas State Teachers, 47: drix. 3 M. I T 36: New Hampshire, 31. 1: Florida. 30. ToeiA Tennessee, B; Western Tennes. Hen- | *turiay Teachers Mississippi Ool~ ege. 0. JANUARY 16, Ring, Court Call Capital Colleges : Foreign Athletes Interest U. S. “POPPI OFF Yian. Released Outright. URIED in the local sports pages the other day was a stick of type announcing the outright releases of First Baseman George McQuinn and Catcher Willard Hershherger by the Yankees. So what? Nothing much, perhaps, because neither McQuinn nor Hersh- berger ever was a major league ball player. They were Yankees only in a bookkeeping sense, for neither ever played a championship game for the world champions. But behind each of these youngsters, who probably are gone from the big leagues for good, is & story with a little {inge of pathos, George McQuinn belongs to the little group of ball players whom Washington, stretching a geographical point a trifle, can call its own. Few know it, but McQuinn is a Ballston boy, a graduate of one of the high schools just across the river, and one of the pro ing local youngsters whom Clark Griffith failed to see. Anyway, the Yankees grabbed him, ! | just as they snapped up Bill Werber | at first, and McQuinn, a fancy fielder who batted well in the minors, | | worked in the New York chain-store | | system in fond hopes of one day | stepping into Lou Gehrig's shoes. Lou “Outlives® 'Em A, J 'S release the other day served to accentuate how futile are the | ambitions of young first bwvmen‘ who belong to the Yankees. It was | on June 2, 1925, that the late Muller | Huggins sent Gehrig into a ball game | to replace Wally Pipp. At the time, Hug said: “He's my first baseman | from now on.” Lou was Huggin's first baseman ever since . . . and Joe McCarthy's, | too, when Hug passed on. Come next June 2 ne will celebrate his eleventh | anniversary at first base and he never has missed a game. His re- | | markable string of consecutive games | now is well over 1800, and it has embraced, among other items. the out- living of a number of would-be suc- cessors. First there was Johnny Neun, then Dale Alexander, Johnny McCarthy and Me- Quinn, Newark, chief “farm” } of the Yanks, was as far as any of them got. | McQuinn seemed to be sitting in & nice spot at one time because he was the last of the understudies, and people always were looking for signs | Joe Bunsa will| of approaching age in Gehrig. When | | wasn't little pieces, the Yanks sold Mec- | Quinn " conditionally to Cincinnati | last vear, “conditionallv” in this in- | stance meaning that the Reds could‘ send him back if he didn't make| good. Nais Wanted Hershberger. AT BOTH Newark ind Toronto, while on the Yankee list, Mc- Quinn distinguished himself as a good fielder and a .300 hitter, but he failed to make the grade with | mncmmm nnd the }kds shlpped VINES BEATS COLD, THEN STOPS PERRY Recently III Net Pro Plays‘ Fine Game for First Win Over Englishman. By the Associated Press, ITTSBURGH, January 16— | Ellsworth Vines, national pro- | fessional tennis champion, shuffied along to Detroit to-| day with a double victory safely tucked away—he licked a cold, then trounced Fred Perry, former amateur king. | Three times before he bowed to | Perry in matches at New York, Cleve- land and Chicago. Then he went to a Chicago hospital, stayed in bed | for six days and licked the cold. He went into last night’s match, back in top form and except for the second set, which went to Perry, dis- played marked superiority piling up points seemingly with little effort. | Perry had said before the match Vines’ illness “certainly put me in & hole.” He explained: “If I won I did so because Vines wasn't at top form; if I lost fans could say that Vines, even though off his game could beat me.” Third Set Stops Perry. TH!: third set in the Pittsburgh match before a near capacity crowd at Duquesne Garden, put Vines definitely out front. He played flaw- less tennis, taking the first three games he served without allowing | Perry a single point. Immediately after the mateh and a doubles contest in which Perry and George Lott defeated Bruce Barmes and Vines, the troupe boarded a train for Detroit, next stop on their n: tional tour. | Bolton-won't-do hysteria spread | first name is Walter. | Harris, as well as the Yanks on| ers | | mal NG him back. last season, playing 108 games for Toronto, he batted .328, but even this noble effort was negli- gible alongside of Gehrig's record for 1936, and so now McQuina is assigned to Newark and with little hope of ever getting away. Unless your memory is preity keen and you recall last Spring’s training camp stories from Orlando you probably will not remember the name of Hershberger. Well, he was the kid catcher in the Yanks' training camp at St. Petersburg who caused Uncle Clark Grif- fith and Bucky Harris to set a trap designed to be baited with the carcass of no less a person- age than Clif Bolton. | A week or so after camp opened the in | sports | brown son of Sickle was rated as the REAPING REWARD DERBY FAVORITE [Pompoon, Leading Juvenile of ’36, Lacks Stamina, Experts Figure. By the Associated Press. ing Reward, from Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ Milky Way Farm, was picked today by many of the Nation’s leading turf experts as the winner of the sixty-third running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchil Downs May 8. By a decisive plurality of the 35 editors and turf writers, the horse to beat in a poll conducted by the Louisville Times in co-openuon | with the Associated Press. Seventeen experts cast their ballots for Reaping Reward, which won only 5 of his 15 starts as a 2-year-old, but was good enough to lower the colors of J. H. Louchheim’s Pompoon in the New England Futurity and then traveled West and won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stzkes. Eight others saw Mrs. | Mars’ colt finishing no worse than sec- | | ond, while two rated him the No. 3 position, for a grand total of 69 points | Orlando and when it became obvious that Sammy Holbrook and Bill Starr were just fellows named Sammy and Bill the Nationals' bosses decided it was time to swing into action. Rumors of Roy Spencer and other backstops filled the sports pages but | most of all Harris wanted Hershber- ger, a lively little fellow who had showed promise at Newark in 1935, Who'll Be Next? (GRIFF even hot-footed over to St. Petersburg one day in an attempt | to get a catcher from Joe McCarthy, but, although Marse Joe had five receivers—Dickey. Jorgens, Glenn, Baker and Hershberger—he would not ! let any of them go.” Eventually the Washingtons bought Walter Millies from Chattanooga and found out that Bolton did very well indeed . . . until, of course, Clif was charged with being A. W. O. L. late in 1936. And Hershberger, for whom Me- Carthy might have been able to drive a fairly hard bargain with Washington, was sent te Oakland of the Pacific Coast League. Now Hershberger has been released unconditionally to Newark and he is | fair prey for Washington or any | other club wanting to buy him. But Harris was saving todav that he interested in Hershberger, |the Iron Man refused to break into [‘although, gosh knows, his catching | set-up has improved not a bit, what | with Bolton still a question mark, { Shanty Hogan grasping at a lhm} straw in the major league Whirlpool, | 2ad Millies represcnling, ei least to the Senatorial bosses, a fellow whose What soured Hershberger, was that he batted only | 269 for 86 games in the Pacific | Coast League last year and simply | ‘was an all-around disappointment. But that's base ball. Wonder who'll | be the big news in camp this year? | (Iollege Quints St Thnomas. 31 Catholic University, 26. Yale, 53: Columbia, 33, New Yoik U, 3i; North Carolina. 30. Oarleton. 23: Monmouth, Stantord. 63: U. C. L. A.. Puget Sound. 30; Weshington. 29. Southern_California, 41: California. 37. | Orezon. 35: Oregon Siate. 34 Hampde: 44: Bridgewater. 34. Calvin. 51; A 3. Appalachian High Point, 28, Snhenancoan ‘o8, | Aoprentice 4 Tilinois Nor, 4: Eastern T:achers. 32 Unner Jowa, 27. Ambre 8im) 3R, Duluth Teachers, 38; P Moorhead Teach- 40; Elendale Nor- | : Eau Claire. 23. 36; South Dakots | ydney. di hoeton Sclence, Crosse Teachers Iowa State Teache | State. 35, i River Falls_40: Superlor State. 8 ! Milwaukee State. 31: Oshkosh State. 27. | Fiodias: 56; Kent Stater 35, | JeFastern’ Teachers, 39; Georgetown Col- | eve. 26, | Furman. 28: The Citad | Preshyterian College. Loyola (New Orleans). Northern State, 5 | ; Giffon S | sprlnxfleld Teachers, 43; Missourl : Washington (8t. Louls). 32 A arrensblirg | Teachers, 36. Southeast icsour! Willlam “Jewell. 34: Culver-Stockton, 28 Southern Tlinois_ 38 St. Viator. 36. College,” 24 Blackburn Col- Wenern State 25: Armour Tech. 8. §t. John's (Minn,}, 38: St. Cloud."37. Coe. 34 Wayne Teschers, 51: Peru Teachers, 20, Kearney Teachers, 31. Hastines. 34: Doane_ 23 Towa Wesleyan_33- Davis-Elkins.” 59; West Nirelnia wes- Buonu Harvev. 22, Nebraska B. 30: ibla College. 25. Anderson. 38; Rose Pn]v Edinboro Teach- Allecheny. 34: Grove Ci Pairmont State. 48 W!w leet" 33, Waynesburg. 30; St. Vincent, 24. Case. 33; Mount Union. 23. rn’ Reserve, 39; Baldwin-Wal- ace. 38, anglnnon and Jefferson. 40: Mari- | et 26, Cincil 1t s ountain_ State. 20. | Blisics de. Ohlo Normern 0; Nebraska Weslevan, 41 York "ol St. Mary's (Minn.) Central Normal. L Rrcn. b6 Concardia. 26 rdeen Northern, 34; South Dakots Mines. 20, uth Dakota. 30, 2: So Stevens Po Platteville St Southern Methodist, 2 : Arkansas. 25. 11:16 2-5 for 6's | disqualified; Mrs. | Dawn out of & possible 105, 3-to-1 basis. figured on a Pompoon Leads Coin Winners. "J'HE heavy support for Reaping Re- ward forced Pompoon into the runner-up role, although the son of EW YORK, January 16.—Reap- | Pompey generally was recognized as, the leading juvenlle of 1936. He dropped only iwo of his eight starts and topped the 2-year-old money-win- | ning list with $82.260. Although rated a contender by most, only eizht experts gave Pompoon the | No. 1 #pot. Six voted him the likely runner-up, while 10 placed him third for a total of 46 points. For the most part, not bred for both stamina and speed, 30 necessary in the mile and a quar- ter of the Derby. There is no doubt about his speed. He hung up a new track record of furlongs in win- the voters figured he is | Puttmtr Diamond in Shape for Natlona]s i | J | reason a few coaches, MEETS HERE CALL ON EUROPE'S STARS Hoeckert-Lash Race Slated This Winter—Robertson Lauds Berlin Show. BY LAWSON ROBERTSON. MERICAN supremacy in track &nd field was seriously threat- ened by the stars of many naiions in 1935 and for that including my- self, thought was danger of losing, for the first lime in ¢ modern Olympic ? competition, the Olympic track ’ snd fleld cham- pionship when there | the games were held at Berlin. As a matter of record, the good oid U. S. A. came | through with the ‘Uezl victory and ! tield since ORLANDO, Fla.—They say here that the first sign of Spring is when old John Brantley gets out his rake and roller. John is (.nmth s squad 1will tune up. POLOINU.S,GAINS ning the Belmont Futurity and was | beaten by Reaping Reward in the final furlong of the New England Futurity at a mile and one-sixteenth. | Those who believe Pompoon will not go the distance pointed out that his sire quit in the Derby in 1926, and that Ladysman, another Pompey off- | spring, did the same thing four years ago. Brooklyn Rated Third. HOW honors in the forecast went to E. R. Bradley's Brooklyn, a son of Blue Larkspur, which did not ex- | hibit his true racing form until lut Fall due to injuries. rooklyn com- piled 41 points in the balloting, with 6 firsts, 10 seconds lnd 3 thirds. Beyond the “hig three ” which scored & combined total of 156 out of & pos- sible 210 points, the voting was acat- tered. Only three other horses received | first-place votes. They were Case Ace, stablemate of Reaping Reward, ! which was ranked No. 1 by two writers; War Admiral, Samuel Rid- die's Man o’ War colt, which won the Eastern Shore Handicap, and Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs’ Mauritius, an offspring of Gallant Fox, which won | only one of his 11 races last year. Case Ace Has Support. ‘CASE ACE, winner of the Arling- | ton Futurity and two overnight | events before an injury forced him to the sidelines, was rated fourth on | the basis of his two firsts, as many | seconds and four thirds. Although | receiving no first-place votes, Warren | ‘Wright's Privileged, disqualified wln-‘ | ner of the Pimlico Futurity and run- | ner-up in both the Belmont Futurity and Jockey Club Stakes, merited No. 5 position on the strength of two sec- | onds and six thirds. Others which received scattered votes were Dewitt Page's Maedic, vic- tor in five straight stakes at Sara- toga; W. M. Jeffords’ Matey, & son of Man o' War and credited with the Pimlico Puturity when Privileged was Emil Denemark's | Orientalist, Anthony Pelleteri's Bottle Cap aad Gerald, the King Ranch’'s Play, William Woodward's Riparian, E. R. Bradley's Billionaire, C. V. Whitney's Flying Cross, and Heelfly, from the Waggoner Brothers’ Three D's Stock Farm. G. W. FROSH IN TEST George Wuhinnona freshman five, which has averaged 51 points in six games, faces its first real test of the season tonight, when it meets the strong P. W. A. courtmen at the Heurich gymnasium, starting at 8:30 o’clock. Although it has limited the opposi- | tion, including Tech, Devitt and Gon- zaga High Schools, to an average of 19 points per game, the Colonial year- lings have met no team of the caliber of the Public Worn courtmen. KARINES TO DAN CE. The annual dance of the 5th Bate talion, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, will be held at the Knights of Co- lumbus Hall, Tenth and K streets northwest tonight. Proceeds will be used for the Corps’ athletic activities. Flag for Chisox, Despite Yanks, Comiskey Claims Owner Says Club, Hit by Injuries Last Year, Will “Lead From Start to Finish.” By the Associated Press. HICAGO, January 16.—The Chicago White Sox, in whom thousands of never- say-die fans have been in- vesting their loyalty for many gloomy seasons, are getting ready to pay off next Summer. Lou Comiskey, genial White Sox owner, confidently predicted today that, barring two many bad breaks through injuries or illness, his club will win the American League pen= Dant—"Yankees or no Yankees." “And what's more,” he said, “we'll lead the race from start to finish.” “We made a fine showing last season, when we were tadly crippled through most of the drive. Monte Stratton was out for an appendicitis operation. Luke Appling was hurt, as were Rip Radcliff and several others, We finished just about in & tie for second place and were whip- ping the Yankees at the end of the season, and we'll whip them again next season.” Comiskey made it clear he isn't going to let anything interfere with his plans to get the Sox away to & flying start. “Holdouts?” he grinned. *I haven't any right now, regardless of the talk going around. Appling always puts off signing a contract. Radcliff and Jackie Hayes are just talking things over. Zeke Bonura may develop into & holdout. He’: a swell fellow, but just doesn't know what he wants. But we'll be ready. “I realize the Yankces are a fine club, with a powerful punch. But they haven't our pitching staff and that will tell the story. Win, lose or draw, the Sox always have been loyally supported for many years. ‘The old man (the late Charles A. “the Old Roman” Comiskey) spent a lot of money trying to give the fans a real team. The Sox always have been scrappy and we'll be that way again next Summer. “There’s a lot of grief owning a ball club, but a pennant next Summer will amply repay not only the fans, but myself and my whole organisation. undefeated | ASALL-YEAR GAE Medium Goal PIay Will Be Advanced in Campaign Already Under Way. (This is the twelfth in a series of stories written for the Associated Press by outstanding sports lead- | ers. They deal with 1936 develop- | ments and 1937 prospects.) | BY ROBERT E. STRAWBRIDGE. Jr. .+ | (Chairman United States Polo Associaton.) EW YORK, January 18 (&).— ; The season of 1936, all of us | most successful the game has had in some time, chiefly because of the increased public interest shown in all parts of this country. It always has been the desire of the Polo Asso- ciation to increase public interest in the game, feeling that the sport has a great natural appeal lo the spec- tator. During this past year there was effected a reorgunization of the con- stitution of the association, designed | to increase participation and general interest in polo throughout the United | States, and in the coming season ll \ is planned to devote a great deal of | effort toward the encouragement | | of medium goal polo throughout the | | United States. | National M!et 14; Be Bright. T IS early yet to say with any degree of certainty whether there | | will be & visiting foreign team to this | country, but it is highly probable that | | it one does come, it will come as a | player in our open championship and not for a formal international match, | because we had two such matches last year and it would be difficult for both | men and horses to prepare for an- other in 1937. Rather, we look for- ward to one of the best played na- tional championships the game ever has had to furnish the highlight of | the season. Polo has become & year-round sport and the first tournaments of the new year already are well under way in Texas, and California is on the brink of another high-goal season, during which some of the best players in the game will be in action. 1T Tntercircuit Play Scheduled. AST season saw the revival of the | intercircuit championship with teams competing from the Southwest- ern, Central, Eastern and Southern di- visions. This tournament will be held again this year, and the expectation now is that teams from all six divisions | of the Polo Association will play. ‘The junior championship has been awarded to the Narragansett Polo Club, | | Narragansett Pier, R. I, and will | mark the completion of the revival | of the game there. an important center in the past and which returned to play last Summer. The association in the past six months has received a steady flow of applications of new members, and, while it is the obvious thing for every one to say that they look forward to highly successtul year, I think it can be truthfully said that polo is heading into an interesting and valuable added year to its ancient history. CARDS PLAY ST. LOUIS Go to Billikins’ Gridiron October 23 for Contest. Catholic University will play an in- tersectional foot ball game next Octo- ber 23 when it travels to Missour! to meet St. Louis University. The game replaces one previously scheduled with De Paul, which requested a change in date which the local school could not arrange. If a pending game with Duquesne goes through, the Cardinals will have a nine-game schedule, eight having been definitely booked. Word from 4 Duquesne is expected next week. ! series. | thev reached it. let the rest try to beat him. | !AT using them now as he “manicures” Tinker Field, where Clark THE SPOR TLI GH T Champions and Their Chances in 1937 Tigers Look Best to Dethrone Yanks. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OS ANGELES. January 12.—The | Yankees finished the 1936 campaign in a smashing surge and then went on to whip the | Giants, four games to two, in the world Stopping them in 1937 will | be the hardest task that any ball club | will be asked to tackle. | This Yankee club has this in com- mon with the Yankee club of a decade | ago that swept through to a string of triumphs behind the heavy artillery | of Babe Ruih and Bob Meusel and Lou Gehrig—the same Gebrig who| ent-day stadium aitack: Too many, persons think only of the power the | |Ylnh generate at the plate and not enough of the pitching strength they o Toe?, | Browns, can muster in any important series or | the caliber of the game they play on the defense. This is, naturally, be- cause when they start slugging the ball—which they do practically every | | day at 3:20 p.m.—except on dfly.s' when double-headers are being played, | ywhen the slugging begins at 1:30 or thereabouts—the attention of the mob is fixed on the drives that rattle off the fences or soar out of sight. But Red Ruffing, Monte Pear- son, Bump Hadley, Vernon Gomez, Johnny Murphy, Pat Malone, Johnny Broaca and the rest of the huriers can’t be overlooked. True, Gomez didn't have a very good season in 1936. Maybe it was| just as well for all concerned that he didn't. have been over by June 1. They Hit the Peak. THS ‘Yanks had been moving back to | the peak from which they slipped after they had won the 1932 serles in four straight games, and last season Gehrig was hlmxl! at first base, Lazzeri took a new on himself at second and Crosetti nnd Rolfe continued to develop at short | and third, respectively. The addition | of Joe Di Maggid and Jake Powell made the outfield, with Selkirk in right. Dickey handled the pitchers superbly again and walloped the ball. This may not be the best Yankee team of all time. The die-hards on that question still | hoid eut for the team that hit | the top of its stride in 1927, | But the records say this was the best team in base ball in 1936, and, in this instance, the records aren’t even faintly | misieading. At the base ball meetings in New York last month, Joe McCarthy was & man neglected. The other man- agers were afraid to do business with him for fear they might add unwit- tingly to his strength. This didn't concern Joe in the least. He felt that he could stand on what he had—and | Many Questions. THIS range, it looks as though the Yankees will get their most formidable opposition from the Detroit Tigers. Pennant winners in 1934 and 1935 and world champions in 1935, the Tigers were favored by many to win aggin last year, but whether or not they could have staved off the Yan- kee rush—and, looking back, it doesn’t seem they could have done s0 in any | circumstances — their chances were wrecked by an injury to Hank Green- berg and Mickey Cochrane’s lliness,| plus some mishaps to the mk:h-; ing staff. | If Cochrane is right again and if Greenberg’s injured wrist has mended the contenders. But there are too | many questions that Mickey will have | to have answered correctly before he can give McCarthy many anxious moments, even if Joe does scare easily. This far off. no serious threats may be seen lurking among the other challengers. The White Sox improved under the able handling of Jimmy Dyxes, and Stanlev Harris did a good job with the Senators, but neither lcoked only a year away fiom a pen- nant when they reached the end of in polo felt, was one of the | wields the heaviest stick in the pres- | the campaign last September. The Indians were a disap- pointment to their followers last year, but may pick up behind the pitching of the amasing Bob Feller. ‘The Red Sox raised a lot of hopes in April and dashed them rudely when the Summer winds blew hot, and there doesn’'tL seem to be & 1937 pennant !in that carload of stars. Connie Mack . still is in the early stages of his re- | building program, so the Athletics may be counted out now, while the even with the redoubtable Rogers Hornsby at the helm and a new owner in the counting room, are not of the stuff of which pennant winners are made. Not yet, anyway. The outlook for the Yankees, then, is that, if they are going to be beaten in 1937, they have 1o beat them- !selves. It's a long haul from April An? Touews 4 )Mr to September, and supposedly invin- cible teams wound up limping before this. But the Yankees have pitching Otherwise the race might !,ng power and & sound defense—and | | tacked to it is the confidence that | comes to a team that wins the cham- pionship of the world (Copyright. 1937 by e North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) \GRANT WOUlD TURN TABLES ON PARKER Dixie Tennis Semi-Finnl Todny‘ “Grudge” Match—Budge Plays Harris, Florida Star. By the Associated Press. 'AMPA, Fla, January “grudge” maich between Bryan Grant and Frankie Parker highlighted today’s semi-final play in the Dixie tennis tournament. Grant, No. 3 rated veteran from At- Janta, lost in straight sets to the New | Jersey youngster a few weeks ago and | was out today to prove this was a mis- take, along with the U. S. L. T. A's action in rating Parker No. 2. | Don Budge, top-ranked swinger from | Oakland, Calif,, faced Charles Harris of West Palm Beach in the other semi- | wind-up. Harris’ fine play last year boosted him into a No. 8 ranking, but he was given little chance against the lanky Westerner. Apparently off his game when he lost to Grant at Coral Gables last| week, Budge showed returning form | yesterday in downing Elwood Cooke o( Los Angeles, 8—6, 6—1. Parker easily disposed of Wllur Senior of San Prancisco, twelfth on ! the national list, 6—1, 6—3. Grant and Harris stroked their way into the semi-finals Thursday. BUCS HAVE PBESS AGENT. PITTSBURGH, January 16 (#).— The Pittsburgh base ball club an- nounced today the appointment of properly and if the pitching holds up —if all these things happen, the Tigers should be the top team among ) James J. Long, Pittsburrh soorts writer, as publicity director for the | Piratea. | o | the foreign competitors. 16.—A| | small foot bone after defeating Love- greatest number of oints ever scored by Amer- ica in track and 1896, the revival year of the ancient Olympic Games in We believed Germany would be our | chief rival and that the Germans would present a serious threat with many stars in both track and fleld. They did finish second, with several first places to their credit. L. Robertson, Fine Job by Germanv. VW OELLKE. the German shotputter, who won his event on the first day of competition in ihe Berlin Stadium, was the first German to win a championship in the history of the Olympic Games, dating back not onlv to 1896, but to 2.000 years before that. Little wonder that Adolph Hitler shook his hand at the completion of Woellke's final throw, on which he beat our own Jack Torrance, the world record-holder. To my way of thinking Germany did a splendid job of staging the Olympics and deserves great credit for her forethought and efficiencv in handling and providing for more than 4,000 athletes from 50 countries. For example, we were provided with our own American menu, which I sent over in May. and the Germans veluntarily even imported our meat from Chicago, along with condiments, relishes and vegetables from here at an almost prohibitive cost. Germany won the Olympics if you take into consideration all 23 events on the program, and we were second: but we again proved our superiority in track and field by winning 12 of the 23 contests in this branch of sport Foreign Athletes Interesting. APAN has been awarded the twelfth Olympics and Germany already has plans afoot to send her competi= tors to Tokio in three Zeppelins, whica will be built in the next three years. As an aftermath of the Berlin games great interest has been shown in this country in the prowess of some of So much so that several star athletes from fore eign countries have been invited con~ ditionally to compete in the Winter games that have been so successtul in Madison Square Garden, New York, during next month and March. The outstanding long-distance run= ner and 5,000-meter Olympic cham- pion is Hoeckert of Finland. He not only defeated the world's best at 5,000 meters, but subsequentlv broke ihe world record for two miles, dropping it to 7:57.3. Hoeckert's mark, if sliowed, will supplant that of Donald Lash, the Indiana University student, who won a special 2-mile run at Princeton last June in 7:58.5, breaking Paavo ' Nurmi's record It is planned to bring Hoeckert and Lash iogether at least once during the indoor season Wooderson Great Miler. A NOTHER great athleie who stil is in his teens is Sueo Oe—pro- nounced “I” (no ego), who was second in the pole vault at Berlin when Meadows of U. S. C. was the victor. Oe's record is 14 feet 4 inches and he is a consistent performer. Slight | of stature, he typifies the Japanese gymnastic athlete and holds the Japa- nese pole-vault record Another great athlete who may ap- pear in the indoor games is M. Lanzi of Italy, whose record for 800 meters is 1:50.3. Lanzi finished second to Woodruff in the Berlin meet, aithough he did not. approach the European record Stanley Wooderson of England, who defeated Jack Lovelock. the New | Zealander, three times at Lovelock's favorite distance—1 mile—is another who may visit these shores. Wooderson may come to the indoor games, but it is more likely that he will make his American debut at. | either the Penn relays in April or at the Princeton meet in June. ‘Wooderson, unfortunately, broke a lock and was consequently far off his best form at Berlin. English critics pronounce him Eng- land's greatest milq /product of all time. (Copyright. 1937, Reproduetion in whole o in part prohibiied without parmiasion.) Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. 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 Georgetown Prep, Md., 3:30. School vs. Garrett Park, Boxing. Richmond vs. Maryland, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md., 9:15. Duke vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8. Bowling. Vireinia Open Sweepstakes, Rosse lyn Alleys, Rosslyn, Va., afternoon and evening.