Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 14

A—14 *x Net Pros Deny Selves for Public : Schmeling Too Slow, Says PASS U PARTES | Vines Ridicules Suggestion He and Perry Aren’t in Deadly Earnest. BY BILL DISMER, JR. M SORRY, but cocktails aren’t l so good for tennis players,” spoke Ellsworth Vines into the mouthpiece, declining the tele- phonic invitation, and then, turning to those waiting to talk to the greatest racketer in the world today, pleasantly bade them be seated in his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. “That’s the toughest part of the game, refusing, and trying to explain our inability to accept, such well-meant invitations, but if we were to accept every offer of hospitality that comes to us, we'd have little right to take the mceney of those who come to see us play, including your own good fans who will be at the University of Mary- land Coliseum tonight. “We sincerely appreciate the inten- tions of those who would entertain us on our one-night stands, and although it may seem a little unfair to those ‘who want to go out of their way to be nice to us, you can see for yourself what kind of tennis we'd soon be play- ing if our acceptances became custom- ary. We're only at a certain place one night, and while we may be offend- ing unintentionally a few by crawling into our shells before and after our matches, we feel were being fair to those in other cities who have not yet seen us play. If our would-be hosts only understand that our night in their town may be a ‘special’ night to them, but only one of many such nights to us, we are certain no feelings will be hurt.” Want to Give Their Best. THA’I“S the kind of professional troupe that's performing for local fans tonight—the best in the business, eager to be able to give their best. Forced as they are, by circumstances, to spend a good deal of time on trains, to which they sometimes dash madly after finishing play #ovtly before mid- night, Vines and Fred Perry are past masters at the art of conserving their strength, as the over-signed will attest following three vain attempts to see the great Englisher. Each time he was—asleep. But Vines outlined their mutual Toutine, simple and, like Tilden's, not composed of a strict training diet, often thought necessary for those who lead the athletic life. They eat and drink what they please, with only sensible limitations such as those de- scribed at the start of this piece. Sleep they get as much of as is pos- sible, making up in the daytime what they sometimes miss at night. By always keeping fit, they are not forced to undergo strentious conditioning be- fore starting a series of matches. All of which brings us to the thought that has been in the back of our mind all along—that the series which started January 6 will be deadlocked after tonight’s match at College Park. Perry holds a 5-4 lead, but after talk- ing with his foe, one gathers that it won't be very long before the series is squared and after that—look out, British; here comes Elly with a bang- bang! Vines Sure of Himself. ES, it will be remembered, lost 'V three of the five matches he has dropped to the Britisher when he was in no condition to play, and before he would take time out to go to the hos- pital. Since emerging from the sick bed, the American has won four matches to Perry's two. And you get the idea he’s likely to continue. Perry, though, is playing the best tennis of any opponent who ever faced the hard-driving professional cham- pion across the net. That, from none other than the lanky Californian him- self. Vines is convinced' that Perry could lick any other man besides him- self in the world today, including Til- den. Whether he could have licked Big Bill when the latter was at his peak, is something else again. But Perry is playing better against Vines than Tilden did when the Vines-Tilden match was in vogue some years ago. I think that Vines thinks he can beat Perry any time his shots (and cannon-shots are not a misnomer) are clipping the base line, or falling in- side. He doesn't think Perry, or any one else can return his shots when he is right. But it's natural that a hard- driving game like his is more prone to be a losing one when his aims are even a trifle off; when, to slow down for accuracy’s sake is to change one’s entire game. Perry can start making mistakes and correct them, due to his softer, steadier pace, which does not accelerate or retard perceptibly. Vines pish-tushed the idea of the current series being “carried” along by either player to prevent ane or the other from taking too much of a lead in matches won. “It's too obvious, to spectators, when any player starts fool- ing around in tennis. It can't be done and concealed. And if you think we were having fun in that 14-12 set the other night—phew!” Bruce Barnes and George Lott will open tonight’s triple bill with a singles match, starting at 8:30. Vines and Perry take the court for the big mo- ment as the second part of the pro- gram. And the doubles, involving all four players, will wind up the evening. e RUDY TAKES TOP ROLE Matches Self With Coleman to End Brothers’ Quibbling. Rudy Dusek today terminated quib- bling among his brothers as to who shall be featured in the weekly wrest- ling card at Turner's Arena Thursday night by announcing that he will take over the top billing with Abe Coleman, thus compelling Ernie and Joe to work in 30-minute preliminaries. The elder member of the Dusek tribe, boss over most of the twisters he grapples, ended the wrangling by the self-appointment. It seems the Dusek chain of pachyderms is well disciplined. Ernie will tangle with the villainous John Katan, while Joe will snarl with Beotty McDougal. Two additional matches are being arranged by Pro- moter Joe Turner, 2, Sports Program . For Local Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. Georgetown Prep vs. Montgom= ery High, Rockville, Md., 3:30. ‘Tennis. Ellsworth Vines vs. Fred Perry and George Lott vs. Bruce Barnes, singles; Vines and Barnes vs. Perry and Lott, doubles, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md., 8:30. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Virginia Tech vs. Catholic Uni- versity, Brookland gym, 8:15. Roosevelt vs. Western, Roosevelt gym (public high title series), 3:30. Tech vs. Central, Tech gym (pub- lic high title series), 3:30. Hyattsville vs. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bethesds, Md., 3:30. Landon vs. St. Albans, St. Albans gym, 3:30. Woodrow Wilson vs. Montgomery- Blair, Wilson gym, 3:30. Boxing. Cowboy Howard Scott vs. Irish Eddie McGeever, 10 rounds, feature bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30. WEDNESDAY. Basket Ball. George Washington vs. West Point, N. Y. York Collegiate Institute vs. Cen tral, Central gym, 3:30. THURSDAY. Basket Ball. ‘Western Maryland vs. Catholic University, Brookland gym, 8:15. Maryland vs. North Carolina State, Raleigh, N. C. George Washington High vs. Maryland Frosh, Ritchie Coliseum, College Park, Md,, 4. Briarly Military Academy vs. Eastern, Eastern gym, 3:30. FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Temple vs. Georgetown, Tech High gym, 8:30. Maryland vs. Chapel Hill, N. C. Towson Normal vs. Gallaudet, Gallaudet gym, 8. Central vs. Western, Tech gym (public high title series), 4:30. Tech vs. Wilson, Tech gym (pub- lic high title series), 3:30. Washington-Lee High vs. Easte ern, Eastern gym, 3:30. Bethesda-Chevy Chase vs. Roose- velt, Roosevelt gym, 3:30. Georgetown Prep vs. St. Peter’s High, Jersey City, N. J. St. John's vs. Gonzaga (Catho- lic School League), Catholic gym, 8. Army, North Carolina, Boxing. Columbus University vs. Spring- field College, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. Maryland vs. Duke, M. C. ‘Wilson Teachers vs. Shippensburg Teachers, Shippensburg, Pa. Eastern vs. Navy Plebes, Annap- olis, Md. Central vs. Massanutten Military Academy, Woodstock, Va. Georgtown Prep vs. Prep, Brocklyn, N. Y. Episcopal vs. Augusta Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Va. Hopewell High vs. Washington- Lee High, Baliston, Va. 8. Boxing. Maryland vs. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. Catholic University vs. ‘West Point, N. Y. Track. Georgetown in Knights of Co- lumbus games, Boston, Mass. Durham, Brooklyn Army, Basketers, Matmen, Water Poloists Carry On. NNAPOLIS, Md., January 25.— A Boxing and fencing will be ] sport list this week as the Winter season approaches its full ‘water polo contests also appear on the program. Poly on Wednesday and Swarthmore or Saturday, while the Plebes, who High of Washington last Saturday, will have their second game against urday. The Navy basket ball tear, after a pace in the last two games against Virginia and Lafayette, and steady test, however, will be against Mary- land, which it wili meet February 3. JN THE last two games Capt. Bob Ruge and Alan McFarland, first the forward of last year, shifted to guard, have been scoring regularly. center, and Laney, guard, of the sec- ond string, also have been doing well. its strength from the sophomore class, will open against Western Maryland only event for the evening. The wrestlers and water poloists have their North Carolina varsity and the latter against the Central Queens Y. M. C. A. The fencers also engage in their first match with the bladesmen of St. WOODWARD JUNIORS WIN. In an exceptionally close game, team nosed out the Landon Juniors, 13-11, last Saturday. McMannes, who outstanding for the winners. Sands and Morris were best for Landon, Boxing, Fencing Added as! Special Dispatch to The Star added to the Naval Academy swing. Basket ball, wrestling and The varsity five will meet Virginia started victoriously against Roosevelt the Capital’s Eastern High next Sat- weak start, appears to have hit its improvement is expected. Its real Basketers Improve. string forwards, and Frank Shamock, Geis and Gillette, forwards; Chesquier, Navy's boxing team, with half of on Saturday, the match being the second matches, the former against of New York City. John’s (Brooklyn) as their opponents. Woodward School’s junior basket ball scored 10 points, and Nicalidies were . @he Foening St Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, BlB lEAGUE VHS’ asng in the Sunshine Now RANKS GROW THIN Fifty-Three Ten-Year Men Remain—Tough Targets Confront Rooks. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, January 25.—The Di Maggios, the Fellers and other rising young major league base ball stars may steal a lot of headlines next Summer, but the record book shows they have a big job ahead if they hope to dim the accomplishments of the “old guard.” Freddy Lindstrom, who indicated today he's about convinced his playing days are over, is just one of a large group of 10-year men who have drop- ped out of the big league playing ranks since last January. Among those who have passed down the trail are Rabbit Maranville, Fred Marberry, Wally Stewart, Dazzy Vance, Travis Jackson, Ray Benge, Huck Betts, Hughie Critz, Tom Zach- ary, Bill Walker, Alvin (General) Crowder, Mark Koenig, Charlie Grimm and Bing Miller. Fifty-Three Vets Left. T WASN'T so many years ago that fans were saying it would be a long time before a smoother infielder than Jackson, Maranville or Critz popped up; that Marberry was just about tops as a relief pitcher, and that Vance had about as fast a ball as any pitcher could shoot over the plate. Of those now on the active major league lists there are 53 who have managed to stick in the big time for 10 years or more. About six, how- ever, are on the verge of admitting their playing days are over—Jess Haines, Jimmy Wilson, Frankie Frisch, Bill Terry, Rogers Hornsby and Har- old (Pie) Traynor. Hornsby Up Longest. “'T'HE RAJAH"—Hornsby—is the dean of the old timers, having broken in with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1915. And the fans right now are saying it will be a long time before an- other player compiles a 20-year bat- ting record of .359. Terry hasn't done so bad, either, with a slugging mark of .342 over 14 years, and Frisch's name long will be remem- bered. -Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chi- cago White Sox still can play a lot of third base, and he’s been around since 1918. Gabby Hartnett started 'way back in 1922 and he’s on the list as the Chicago Cubs’ No. 1 backstop. Lou Gehrig signed with the Yankees in 1924, and he's far from ready to take a back seat for any youngster. HUB TRACK MEET ATTRACTS STARS Nation’s Best Primed for Stiff Competition on Banked Boards. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 25.—Their preliminary chores on the flat armory floors completed, track stars adjust their studies to banked tracks and move on to Boston for the opening of the “big-time” campaign in the Prout Memorial games at the Boston Garden Saturday. Virtually every “name” runner who competes regularly in the indoor meets and a few newcomers are on the Boston program. Glenn Cunningham, Joe McCluskey and Marty Glickman, a trio of Olym- pians, wound up their preparatory jaunts last Saturday in the Osceola Club games and showed they’re ready for stiffer competition. Cunningham Keeps Busy. CUNN!NGHAM, competing often to make up for lack of practice time, stepped up his distance to three- quarters of 4 mile and won easily from a big handicap field. He finished 10 yards ahead of the other scratch man, Lou Burns of Manhattan, in 3:09.7. This week Cunningham hooks up with the other four of the “Big Five” in the mile, competing against Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani, Don Last and Charles Fenske. McCluskey, who scored his usual 2-mile handicap vic- tory last week, and Lash, essaying a difficult “double,” head a 2-mile field which also includes Ray Sears, former Butler ace, and Floyd Lochner, for- mer N. C. A. A. champion from Okla- homa. BARKER TOP BASKETER. RICHMOND, Va., January 25 (#).— Jeter Barker, jr, Emory and Henry forward, held top place among basket ball scorers in Virginia’s 12 colleges today with a total of 147 points in 11 games. CLARK GRIFFITH, 1937. Learn Lesson From Bomb- i3 the Associated Press. Max Schmeling knocked out their judgment of the Brown Bomber perts as well as the common variety of York, in a 10-round bout at Madison to show the Detroit destroyer should Simms or other post-Schmeling rivals, RING SEERS WARY er’s Defeat by Schmeling. NEW YORK, January 25—The Joe Louis last Summer are from Detroit. fan far out on a limb, tackles another Square Garden Friday night. have a harder workout than he did there’s just enough chance for Pastor Joe Overweight. fans who guessed wrong before coming back this week to check up on Louis, whose sudden fall left the ex- young heavyweight, Bob Pastor of New ‘While there’s nothing in the records against Jack Sharkey, Al Ettore, Eddie ‘0 make things mildly interesting. Pastor Has Wallop. PASTOR has a good record for a boy two years out of the amateur ranks. He's piled up a lot of victories - President of Washington Club at Orlando, Fla., training camp, getting in trim to battle some of the boys on the contract question. He appears fit in this picture. —A. P. Photo. "POPPING OFF" "“fian. 120 SN Feverish Fighting Men IRGINIA'S basket ball team was so impoten. the other night that you stooped to counting the number of times the whistle was blown, out of curios- ity, and in the first half Bum Enright and Paul Menton tooted 67 times. That was too much and so down into the catacombs of Ritchie Coliseum you went to see if anything was stir- ring before the boxing end of the program with North Carolina. There was something stirring. Some- body blew the whistle in the Maryland boxer’s dressing room, too, and it was a doctor. Coach Heinie Miller, lean- ing forlornly against a rope of the practice ring, said, “Come in and help m: worry. “Lancelot Jacques is in the hospital with the flu,” moaned Heinie. “Ed Shegogue is home sick, too, and now the doctor says Ed Egnell, our heavy- weight, can't fight on account of having a fever of 99 degrees this afternoon. “Ninety-nine degrees! Less'n a half a degree above normal! “What's the use of working and slaving on a boxing team and having somebody come along and knock you out of a meet? We can’t win this one without Egnell. If we forfeit the heavyweight bout, we're sunk.” Reputations to Consider. 'HE doc was there, putting a ther- mometer in Ivan Nedomatsky's mouth, and Ivan the Terrible looked as if he were going to chew it. “Can’t help it,” said the medico. “Egnell came into the infirmary this after- noon, the nurse took his temperature, and it showed 99. I've got my repu- tation to think about.” “F’hevven’s sake, man!” yelped Mil- ler. “I've got a reputation to think about, too. That boy isn’t any sicker than I am. All boxers, almost, get feverish before a bout. Naturally, with the excitement and the blood circulating faster oh, what’s the use?” “Just the same,” said the doc, “he can't fight and that’s that.” Nobody ever gets in the last word when Heinie’s around. “Fight? Good gosh, man, these boys - aren’t fighters. They’re going to box for six minutes, that’s all. “Do you take temperatures of the foot ball players who are going to play 60 minutes? Do you examine them for dislocated shoulders, throw away their special braces and say they can’t play? Egnell is only go- ing to go six minutes with a boy 20 pounds lighter than he is., What say, doc?” The doctor started to leave. Nedo- matsky rushed to Egnell and back to the medicine man. “Ed’s in better shape than I am,” he hollered. “Lookit me. I'm all pale and jittery and you passed me. And lookit him —a picture of health.” Chicago Doesn’t Need Winner Only Incidental to School, Says President Hutchins—Not Held Enrollment Boost. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, Janusry 25— President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago says that while he hasn’t “any positive objection to & winning team,” he believes that & winner is not of much impor- tance to an educational institution. Intimateing that he won't be much concerned if Chicago never produces another foot ball cham- plonship squad, the Maroon presi- dent said that if & winner does come along it will be more or less by accident. Nothing in the way of special efforts will be made to build one. “I haven't any positive objection to & winning team,” he said. “In such & team out on the field some Fall day, I'd probably join .as lustily as the students in the cry of ‘Go Chicago!” But such a consummation would be only an accident, not a main objective in university life. Athletics, he said, has its proper place in a well-balanced curricu- lum, but their aim should be in the development of the general health and physical well-being of the student body as & whole rather than the building of specialized has any appreciable effect on stu- dent enrollment; it has a certain amount, but it is negligible as & general rule, and this is %0 &t Chicago.” Big Dinner . . . and Birkland. EGNm kept undressing and when the doc left he said, “I'm going to box anyway.” Miller sent a boy to tell the loudspeaker manipulator upstairs to page John Birkland dur- ing the next time-out in the basket ball game. Birkland is a foot ball tackle who used to box in the heavy- weight division until Egnell came along. “Tell h'm to say Nedomatsky wants to see him,” said Ivan the Terrible modestly. “Other- wise he may not come.” While they were waiting a silence settled over the room. The Marylands were looking to an undefeated season and now it looked bad. The medical profession, in general, was given a mental beating by eight young men and Coach Miller, who was bandaging Nedomatsky's hands and putting grease on his face and hair. Finally Ivan punctuated the silence by exploding: “Isn't any use putting grease on our faces. Boxing is supposed to be a sport in college, not a business. We need this protection, but do we get it? No. The referee only makes us wipe it off. Honest . . .” Just then Birkland came in. “How about the honor of the school, etc.?” asked Miller, and Birkland grinned sheepishly and scratched his head. He was enjoying the show upstairs and now he was being put on the spot. The last bout might mean every- thing. Besides, he'd eaten & big dinner. Not Quite Story-book Finish. E WAS never given a chance to says yes or no. At the last min- ute Egnell was granted a reprieve by somebody. One of the explanations was funny. “He made a mistake by going to the infirmary to see that nurse,” said one of the boys. “Gee, she’ll make anybody’s temperature go up. There must be something wrong with Eggie, at that, if his temperature only went up less than half a degree.” It all did not end in a story-book finish. If it had Egnell would have knocked out his man in decisive fash- jor: to save Maryland from defeat. He didn't knock him oui, but he pre- vented North Carolina from. tying. The score was 4 t 3 in favor of ‘Maryland when the final bout came up. The subs for Jacques and Shegogue had lost, and Mike Lombardo had dropped a close decision. Nedomatsky, Bob Watson and Tom Birmingham scored clean kayoes for Maryland and Ben Alperstein added a decision. As Miller predicted, it was up to Egnell to win and he did in a clumsy but very welcome sort of & way. Now, on the wall of the dressing room where Coach Miller pastes such typewritten orders as eating no later than 4 o'clock on the afternoon of a meet, drinking tea at 6 o'clock, etc., is likely to be a very strict ultimatum not to drop into the infirmary . . . until you know you've got a tempera- ture first. PRO GRIDDERS BATTLE Feathers, Gordon Put Out of Coast Game for Fist Flinging. LOS ANGELES, January 25 (P).— ‘The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears battled to a 20-t0-20 tie yester- day in a professional foot ball game marred by a fight and near riot in the first half. ‘The principals, Beattie Feathers of the Bears, former Tennessee backfield star, and Lou Gordon, bulky ex-ILi- nois tackle, were banished. FLORIDA DRAWS BLANK Californian Beats Californian for State Tennis Title. ORLANDO, Fla., January 25 (#).— Florida fans looked a bit sheepish when a Californian defeated another wm to win the State tennis ‘Wayne Sabin of Hollywood took the title by defeating Elwood Cooke of Los and a good many knockouts, but not against the same kind of opposition Louis has been facing. He made a good showing in knocking out big Ray Impelhmqe last month in the fight that clinched the Louis match. And he has a good right-hand wallop, the same weapon Schmeling used to ex- plode the Bomber. Louis caused a little worry when he came to town overweight, but his week | of training seems to have dispelled those fears. He probably will enter the ring at about 203 pounds, a trifle over his regular fighting weight, as against 190 for Pastor. ey, RETAINS SOCCER LEAD | Heurich, Pacing Recreation Loop, Holds Marlboro to Tie. Standings in the Recreation Soccer League remained unaltered today following yesterday’s games, in which the Heurich Brewers and Marlboro | played to a 4-4 tie and Silver Spring | atoned for a previous defeat by shel- | lacking the Democrats, 4-1. The two games on the Monument fields were postponed due to wet grounds. ‘The Brewers now are leading the |loop with 10 triumphs in 11 starts, while Sun Radio is in second place with eight victories in nine games. CENTRAL CAPTAIN ISDOWNWITHFLU Vermillion’s lliness Blow to Team’s Chances for Bas- ket Ball Climb. dimmed considerably 3:30 o'clock. at Roosevelt at the same time. is doubtful if he will recover suffi- in two games, could move into second if the Red Raiders trounce Roosevelt. Tech Fades in Late Going. ECH, in fifth position with one victory in three starts, has com- piled early leads in both of its losing frays and then faded in the waning moments of each game. The Maroon passers defeated Roosevelt in their series debut and then lost to Western and Eastern. ! Western, buoyed by its win over | Tech, will seek to strengthen its sec- }ond-plu:e berth, but may slip as far as fourth if it loses. Roosevelt, on the other hand, will move into second | place if it and Tech both win. MIDYEARS HOLD UP BIG TEN BASKETERS Chicago, Michigan Provide Week’s Lone Game in Race Full of Surprises. | By the Associated Press. | (CHICAGO, January 25—The Big race runs into examinat.ons this week and fans will get a chance to try to dope out a campaign which has produced many surprises, Ilinois, by virtue of its victory Sat- urday night over Chicago, rules the roost with a record of five victories and one defeat. Purdue has won four and lost one, an upset by Illinois. Michigan had its title hopes dimmed Saturday through a 37-32 defeat by Ohio State, which now holds third place. The Chicago invasion of Michigan's court tonight is the only conference game of the week. Conference standings: Illinois Purdue Ohio Stats Minnesota Michigan Indian: Northwe: Wisconsin wa. Iot Chic: ProcheRoR MOUNT AIRY, N. C., January 25 (#)—Officials of the Mount Airy Reds of the Bi-State League have an- nounced they have reached a working agreement with the Pittsburgh Na- tionals and that the Pirates had signed Jobnnie Gooch as eoach. # basket ball campaign were loday‘gulé o = | with the possible loss of Capt. Billy| Norih Ceoline - | Vermillion for its crucial game with| CENTRAL‘S chances of climbing in the public high school Vermillion, spark plug of the Cen-| g‘lmfl:oln = tral club, is ill with influenza and it T ciently to allow his presence in the line-up. Central, with an even break place provided Roosevelt trims West- B ern and would shove into third place| EUtS Ten basket ball championship | 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR ASHINGTON is to have two public golf courses in East Potomac Park. Walter J. Travis of Garden City, N. Y., has been en- gaged to lay out the courses as part of an extensive program of the East Potomac Park playground project. It is planned to have a nine-hole course and one of 18 holes. Willows and underbrush now cover the ground. Georgetown's basket ball team put up a fine battle against Navy at Annapolis before losing, 31-23. Fees’ work was the feature of the game, the Hilltopper sinking nine field goals for 18 points. G. U. now is preparing to meet St. John's of Brooklyn in one of Washington's bigzest games this Winter. Grafttland Rice and D. A. Ham- ilton of New York are considered the logical players to meet in the finals of the first flight of the Winter Golf League tournament at Pinehurst, N. C. TOURNEY SPOT AIM OF TOURING TERPS {Must Win on Carolina Trip or May Miss Title Meet First Time. OSSIBILITY of Maryland fail- ing to qualify its team in the | Southern Conference basket ball tourney for the first time in the history of the event loomed today as the Terps prepared for a| | three-game North Carolina invasion | over the week end. Maryland now is in tenth position with one conference victory in four | starts. It must do well at the expense | of teams now ranked second, third and fourth to be definitely in the run- | ning for thé tourney, which will be excluded to other than the first eight | clubs. Terps to Miss Keller. 'HURSDAY the Terps will start a swing through the Tar Heel State, facing North Carolina State on that D Jempsey Cautious German. R younger) so now I'd like to Braddock. Canny, ner and a close cautious and Jack Dempsey. Schmeling is hot July afternoon in Toledo way bac In Prime Jack Believes He Could Beat Clever But BY JACK DEMPSEY. ECENTLY I told how I'd knock off Jimmy Braddock (if we had fought when I was tell how I'd fight Max Schmeling, il we had met under the same conditions. Max presents an altogether different problem thar brainy, a fellow who does a lot of clear, efficient thinking: a plan- follower of his plan once he makes up his mind. But he is methodical and he can't help taking his time over his task. not a quick fin- isher. He wants to be sure, and that. what I think would lead to his down- fall in a fight with me on, say, tha in 1919, Going on 18 years! Oh, well, a I of things have happened since t° glorious afternoon. Met in Germany. I LIKE Max Schmeling, and I a " ways have, ever since I first saw him as a clean, eager young fellow in Germany when I was on a tour there many years back. I was the champion then, and some friends had me meet the “kid who was the dead spit of me.” He wanted to try on the gloves with me, and I'll confess that then I never dreamed he'd some day become world champion. I believe a body attack would get Schmeling. He is a strong-jawed man and he has a deep-rooted gamness that makes it most difficult to put him down with & blow to the jaw. And day, meeting North Carolina on Fri- | day and Duke on Saturday. Duke whipped the Old Liners, 34-31, at Col- lege Park, Md., recently and is favored to repeat on its home court. | Charley Keller, crack Maryland guard, who was injured in the Duke tilt, still is favoring his right wrist and will not be able to play for at least two weeks, thus placing the Terps with their backs squarely against | the wall. Washington and Lee is the only un- defeated team in the conference, fol- | lowing a week of hectic action which saw the first blemishes appear on the records of Duke and North Carolind State. i With examinations in full swing in most institutions, the schedule for the coming week has been curtailed to four family games, three involving Maryland. Old Rivals Batle. IN ‘THE other game V. P. I and V. M. 1. cagers will renew the ancient rivalry between the military institu- tions at Lexington Saturday. Conference standing: w. Pts Opots W. and Richmond | Wake Fores : t Tech tomorrow at Tech High gym at| South Carolina In the other series| Furman - . tilt, Roosevelt and Western will clash| Marsland B 1 [ I8 64 | Davidson | V. 3 140 W. and M. 7 339 ‘The Big Ten conference foes: Waller. Wake Forest State EESePRrreitas N. Carolina 'HEURICH DRIBBLERS, WHIRLWINDS DIVIDE | Brewers Win Here, 35-34, but Get| 54-t0-27 Shellacking When Teams Play in Gotham. THE New York Whirlwinds may have the last word over the Heurich | Brewers as a result of their decisive 54-27 victory in New York last night, but any comparisons local basket ball fans may make likely are to favor the Brewers, who nipped the New Yorkers, 35-34, in an extra-period | | game here yesterday afternoon. Whereas Chris Heurich's lads were almost lost in the Whirlwinds’ gym at the Hippodrome in New York last night. at one time trailing, 16-36, the local beer representatives proved them- selves an outstanding quintet in their own gym to hand the visitors their seccad defeat in 21 games. | The extra period of the afternoon game was limited to two minutes be- cause of the train departure, but in that time Whitey Wilson sank two fleld goals to give the Brewers a 35-32 Jead. Just before the final whistle Nash dropped in a goal for the Whirlwinds. It was the seventh straight Sunday that Heurichs scored on their home courts. The summary: Mullis! [t 255 B SomoDm! lmes 237854 Totals __ G.F.Pts. Whirlwinds. 4 Reiser.{ Rubenstein.f Bender.{ DePhillip.c Kopitko.c Spindell.g Nash. Totals - Brewers. Bennie.{ Wilsonf __4 0 Leenmnsf._ O ll) Totals - 14 735 CKARETTE CLUB TO RUN. CHARLOTTE, N. C., January 25 he has a beautiful right-hand punch— a corker, really. It often amazed me, in some of the fights he showed here, that he didn't make much more use of it. He did throw it considerably more in his grand fight with oJe Louis than he did in any other fight that I ever knew of. Sees Early Win Needed. UT I believe that the kind of attack I launched against Jess Willard, the kind I threw against Firpo in the second round of our fight—after he knocked me for a goal in the first round—would cut Schmeling down in a few rounds. I'll say this against both Braddock and Schmeling, I'd have to win early—or else it would be just toc bad for me. Please remember, I'm considering the Dempsey of Toledo, not the auto- | graphing tavern man of today. Nor the rather rusty fellow of the Sesqui~ Centennial in Philadelphia. I believe I'd probably get one of Max's right-handers during our fight, and it would set me back on my heels, like Gecrges Carpentier did to me {in Boyle’s Thirty Acres. But I was pretty tough in those days, and 1 honestly believe I'd be able to come back and keep winging. The same kind of body attack that wore down Georges, I think, would be what I'd 4 | try against Schmeling, and I think it | would win the marbles. Max May Be Right. NOW, please take this as I mean it. As I said before, if a fellow does not think he'd win in any fight with anybody, he never will make a fighter, and he never was a fighter. Max Schmeling is a champion—or he was. At any rate, he's a darned good fighter, and he, too, thinks he'd take the Old Manassa Mauler just like he thinks he'll take Jimmy Brad- dock, if they meet. And who knows? Maybe he’s right! (Copyright. 19:37. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission.) Sl CAPITAL RIDER SECOND DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, January 25 (#)—Ed Kretz of Pomona, Wash., won the 200-mile Southeastern Motor Cycle Association road race here, He was clocked at 74.1 miles an hour, a new record. Second place was captured by Clark Trumbull, jr., of Washington, D. C., with an average of 71.45 miles an hour. Ellis D. Pearce, Jacksonville, Fla., was third. POLLARD ENTERS MEET. NEW YORK, January 2 (#).—Frit2 Pollard, jr., of the University of North Dakota, Olympic hurdling star and son of Brown's great Negro halfback, has entered the Millrose A. A. indoor track meet at Madison Square Garden Feb- ruary 6. Varsity Quints (Late Saturday Night Scores.) Southern California, 31; Loyola, 18. California, 46; Santa Clara, 44. Stanford, 50; St. Mary’s, 23. Oregon, 31; Idaho, 29. ‘Washington, 38; Oregon State, 28. Northern Teachers, 32; St. tor, 30. ‘Wahpeton Science, ‘Teachers, 26. Huntington, 67; Taylor, 42. Duluth Teachers, 43; Teachers, 27. Manchester, 43; Franklin, 33. Knox College, 47; Mexico City U. M, C. A, 26. Winona Teachers, 41; Stout Insti- tute, 28. Carroll, 34; Ripon, 22. Duluth State Teachers, 43; Bemidjl State Teachers, 25. Buena Vista, 55; Dubuque, 38. North Dakota U, 53; South Dakota Via- 30; Mayville Bemidjl (#).—Barron Hinson, president of the Charlotte base ball club, says he will operate the Hornets again this year in the Carolina Independent League. State, 19. Hastings, 50; Wayne, 26. Dana, 37; Nebraska Central, 11, York, 31; Midiand, 29, A