Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1937, Page 12

A—12 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937. SPORTS. Pitt, Trying to Arrange Grid Schedule, “Too Good” for Own Good Rgyal Mait Showed Bormi it Famerl Buce | THANNRINEES BIG TEN ELEVENS DODGE PANTHERS Sutherland Will Have Task Getting Gate-Pullers for His Team. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS, HICAGO, March 29.—Now that Dr. Jock Sutherland is in sole command of University of Pittsburgh’s foot ball fortunes, he may find it more difficult to ar- range schedules than to win his book- ings. With a million dollar plaster still sticking tightly to the high walls of the Squirrel Hill Stadium, Pitts- burgh needs a consistently attractive schedule and when that is lacking, the tall doctor may find the bankers & lot tougher than dissatisfied alumni. Pittsburgh year in and year out is entirely too good on the gridiron for many of the teams which would be gate attractions in the Smoky City. Any time any team plays the Panthers it is in for a hard afternoon and the majority of coaches are perfectly will- ing to skip such engagements, par- ticularly when they already have & calendar of hard traditional games. Last Fall Pittsburgh and North- western contracted for a two-game series, starting in 1938, but some weeks ago the Purple asked to be relieved of the obligation on the grounds of an already topheavy sched- ule. Big Ten Dodges Pitt. T is rather typical of the West- ern Conference attitude toward the Panthers. Every Big Ten team, with the exception of Chicago, will play five conference games over the next several seasons and one or two will tackle six championship duels. Consequently directors and coaches are of the opinion that added traffic with & team like Pittsburgh is putting $00 much of a burden on the players. In recent years the Panthers have E::yed ©Ohio State and Minnesota, but 'h of those schools have had enough for the time being, although the Gophers did manage to take both de- eisions. With Notre Dame dropping off the Pittsburgh schedule in 1938, the Panthers have lost their best draw- ing card and a series with Duke or any other opponent will not match the Irish as a draw. Western Conference members are Surning to Notre Dame, the Southwest and Pacific Coast for their outside games. Northwestern is a perennial on the “Irish” schedule and for the next two seasons Notre Dame plays Minnesota and Illinois. Elmer Layden is assured of three conference games svery season and likely could have a fourth for the asking if his schedule permitted. The “Irish” are guaran- tee of a sellout whenever they play & Big Ten eleven and Layden’'s popu- larity is an added reason for the closer relationship between Notre Dame and conference schools. Coast Getting Games. HIO STATE and Illinois are play- ing alternate two-game series with Bouthern California and that relation- ship is likely to become rather perma- nent. Purdue may soon effect an agreement with U. C. L. A. even though the Los Angeles school is pre- vented by faculty regulation from playing intersectionals on a home-and- home basis. Iowa plays Washington in Seattle this Fall and in 1938 the Huskies and Minnesota resume warfare in Minne- apolis. With 40-hour train service between Chicago and the Pacific slope foot ball relationships between the Western and Coast Conferences are certain to increase. And, by the way, Minnesota and | Ohio State have cleared their sched- ules toward a resumption of foot ball relations not later than 1939. ‘Wisconsin plays Pittsburgh this year, but after that game there is unlikely to be much traffic between Big Ten and Panther elevens for several sea- sons, at least. There is nothing hint- ing of a Big Ten ben on Pittsburgh. Dr. Sutherland and his Panthers are Just a bit too skiliful to find & wel- come spot on the October achedule ~ conference elevens. PEARSON’S ANKLE HEALED. ST. PETERSBURG, PFa.— Monte Pearson, Yankee pitcher who stepped on a rolling ball and sprained his ankle, is ready to work again. Braddock (Continued From Page A-10.) consideration and the latest possibility seems to be that Joe Gould, Braddock’s manager, has decided to reconsider Bchmeling’s offer of $350,000 for a bout in Berlin as a possible “out” in case affairs on this side of the ocean become too involved. Announcements Repeated. ERE are the varfous announce- ments that have come to light in the last two days: 1. Gould says Braddock will accept service of the court order obtained by Madison Square Garden, requiring him to show cause on April 5 why he should not be enjoined from going through with the Chicago bout. 2. Col. John Reed Kilpatrick, Gar- den head, and United States Deputy Marshal Robert C. Forrest, in charge of the Newark office, maintain Brad- dock was served at Woodcliff, N. J., Saturday despite protests of “mistaken identity.” 3. Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's American manager, says Gould got in touch with Schmeling by shore-to-ship telephone a few days ago to talk over the Berlin offer, which was withdrawn before the German sailed, and that Schmeling said re-opening would have to wait until he reached Germany. 4. Gould asserts he talked with Schmeling but didn't mention the fight; he still wants $400,000. 5. Chicago promoters, awaiting the outcome of the legal mixup as well as the Illinois Senate’s action in pass- ing a bill providing for a $10 top for Louis-Braddock fight tickets, have little to say. Gould already has an- nounced there won'’t be a Chicago fight at $10 tops. Up to the Court. BAR.RING a sudden decision to take whatever money may be forth- coming in Germany or & compromise of the sort Kilpatrick says will not be considered, the only way to settle the matter seems to be to thresh it out in court. In that case it's purely an academic matter when and where the much-discussed papers 'n delivered. Here’s H. L. Thomas’ Royal Mail setting the pace in clearing the notorious Becher’s Brook, fol- lowed by the riderless Drim, in the ninety-ninth running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England, on March 19. Royal Mail, a 100-to-6 shot, raced to victory before an estimated crowd of 400,000, headed by King George and Queen Elizabeth. —Wide World Photo. HAT was a whiz of & dream that blew out of Louisville last week. The Associated Press by a local sports writer, that Winter books be abolished and that Churchill Downs conduct a mutuel future book to do one as the other. No way to put the bookies out of business and a mutuel future book would prove | to prevent price quoting during Win- ter and Spring. The one nightmare of the man that meaning money that is bet away from the track and wired back by the bookie to be placed in the machines The one idea of the Winter book player is to beat the price. ‘Winter books are play-or-pay your horse fails to go to the post, it is your hard luck. There are no refunds. but should you know of a Derby can- didate that has Wintered well, is gal- | loping strongly and on 2-year-old look up his price. | Say, for example, 20 to 1 is the best quoted. You take it and feel, any- | you placed your money in the ma- chines there would be no guarantee that you would get 20 to 1 or any- trary, when the first real workout of the horse became public property, every one and his brother would go having been cut in the Winter books. Bettors and “Scalpers.” WE HAVE known Derby candidates Havre de Grace in fast time, and be- fore the race was “official” the Win- ter book price of the winner would Those that bet real money in the Winter books are turf fol- lowers who wish to gamble or BY WALLACE DUKE. T carried the suggestion, made on the Derby. It would be just as easy just as big a joke as the attempt bets real money is the “come back,” 8o that the odds will be forced down. propositions. If for any reason It is & bit early for fast workouts, form looks to be a contender, you way, that you have the best of it. If | where near such odds. On the con- for the mutuel gag, due to the prioe to win one of the early stakes at be cut in half. to “soalp.” Popping Off Continued From Page A-10.) long 8go, when he seriously was trying to play ball, that intelligent people laughed at him. It took him a long time to capitalize on if, but now he intends to do it on a large scale. All-Sports Clown. "I MAY even branch into foot ball and other sports,” disclosed the professional goof. “Joe Crowley at Fordham already is interested. Why can’t I dress up in a dizzy foot ball uniform and hire a couple stooges to tackle me? Man, my sports clown- ing idea has unlimited possibilities.” If for no other reason than nobody has tried it before, Al seems to have something. There have been screw- balls in base ball but Schacht cer- tainly is the most progressive of the line, which included Arlie Latham, an old cartwheel turner; Germany Schaeffer, a monologue artist, and Uncle Nicodemus Altrock, one-time partner of Schacht’s and peer of all base ball jugglers. Mention of Altrock brings a thunderous look to Al's face. Somebody, seeing this, suggested that maybe he ought to be put back in his cage before he bit a bystander. Al, however, waved assurance that he was under control. “I'll be in Washington for the all- star game,” he said by way of in- directly hurling a challenge at Altrock. I'm going to work free of charge and it will be Altro-——, I mean, Schacht versus Altrock. Positively, I will not tesm up with him. That guy—." Pro Versus Amateur. | IT ‘WAS hinted that maybe Mister Schacht might be overconfident of his ability to outclown old Nico- demus. After all, when they were the clown team of the Nats, wasn't it Altrock who was given top billing? And Nick, too, has been working everywhere in the South this year to get laughs. ‘To the latter remark Al was atten- tive. Then he countered: “Altrock was given top billing? He took it, you mean. That was one of the reasons why we broke up. “My talent was completely overshadowed by the stooge parts I had to piay. Listen, be there early at the all-star game. Willya?” It promises to be worth being early at that game. It isn't just clown versus clown. A new fleld seems to have opened. It will be professional clown versus the amateur variety, or something. Anyway, if Mr. Schacht is orasy, s lot of people ocould use :w post-graduate ocourse in goofiness, ‘I Mutuel Future Book Just a Dream—Pompoon False Derby Choice. The former stand pat. The “scalp- ers,” if fortunate enough to wager on a starter, always can lay off a part of the bet at & much shorter price than the original wager, thus winning, regardless of the result of the race. The result would be the same whether the Winter mutuel book made weekly returns—meaning that a new book would be made each week and the pay-off figured—or whether the whole affair was closed Derby eve. 'HE insiders, owners, trasiners and friends of the stable are the ones | that bet the big money. Once a horse’s form is shown or known, the tempting odds vanish. Owner E. R. Bradley is said to have bet $5,000 on Brooklyn in the Winter books. Can you imagine him dump- ing that amount in & mutuel ma- chine? Money in any large amount would be placed on the contenders, thus slashing the prices. The odds in the Winter book on the dark horses al- ways are tempting enough, without having to guess at the mutuels. There are 103 nominations for the Derby. The average field is 18 start- ers. You can figure what the odds are at this writing that you cannot pick a starter, much less the winner. Pompoon False Favorite, REAPING REWARD, which we figure is the horse that BROOK- LYN will have to beat in the blue ribbon event, will start in the $15- 000 Derby to be run next month at Arlington Downs. If you intend taking a fiyer on Mrs. Mar's favorite, better get down before post time in the Texas Derby. The fleld for the Kentucky Derby is a very open one at this writing. On 2-year-old form no horse stands out. There is a doubt in our minds as to whether POMPOON, the present Win- ter book favorite, can go the route. In fact we will wager a straw bonnet that some nag supplants POMPOON as the Winter book favorite before the finish of the Spring meeting at “Havre.” 8hould it happen, by any chanoce, that the stars in the Derby are thrown out of training, such an unwieldy fleld would go to the post that it then might become necessary to divide the race, as once was done in the Preakness. What would happen in such an event to those who held tickets in the Winter books? No need to worry about such a con- tingency. The track where the start of the Derby is made is so wide that 30 horses may be dispatched without danger of too much crowding at the start. The club house turn probably would see half of the start- ers eliminated. Some Dope on Matey. IT ‘WAS for the reason that a large fleld was sure to start in the Derby that MATEY was not nominated. The son of Mate iz a notoriously slow starter and would not have had a chance in the Derby field. It also is doubtful if the colt will go in the Preakness. 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The field is regarded as one of the strongest ever assembled, largely be- cause of the amount of prize money, from $1,500 for the winner to $350 for the player finishing twelfth, along with $100 each to the players making high run and the best game and $200 for any perfect score of 135 for one block. Caras Meets Gainer. IN THE first day of play Caras meets Fay L. Gainer of Vineland, N. J., & newcomer to tournament play, and Ponzi plays Irv Crane of Roches- ter. N. Y. Ralph Greenleaf of Chicago, 13- time champion, and two other former champions, Erwin Rudolph of Cleve- land and Bennie Allen of Kansas City are others rated highly. Willile Mos- coni, Philadelphia; Onofrio Lauri, Brooklyn; Charles Seaback, Boston; Marcel Camp, Detroit, and Joseph Diehl, Rockford, Ill, compose the rest of the fleld. fields, as a rule, are small, and MATEY will be able to show his true form. For the first time in years Mr. Widener will not have a starter in the Derby. It will be remembered that at this time last year BREVITY, owned by Widener, was a big favorite for the Kentucky Derby, due to hav- ing won the Florida Derby in record time. Wayne Wright, the Widener Jockey, who finished second on BREV- ITY, after a bitter stretch duel with BOLD VENTURE, will have the mount on HEELFLY in this year's re- newal of the fixture. Hialeah reported a profit of $500,~ 000 on its recent meeting. Stockhold- ers 'voted $350,000 for holders of pre- ferred stock and a dividend of $1 per share on the 50,000 shares of com- mon. The remainder was set aside for improvements. Tropical Park, ac- cording to reports, is having a very profitable meeting. Oaklawn Park is allowed by law a 10 per cent mutuel take, plus the breakage, which amounts to about 2 per cent. The State, in addition, gets 4 per cent of the mutuel play. No game can survive with such a rake- off. The “Kkitty” will get it all. complete with leather case No lather, no bla: ATTABLETENNIS International Troupe Play Tomorrow Night Will Go on Amplifier. VEN a person who never has seen a table tennis game will be able to understand what the world’s best players are doing at Heurich’s gymnasium tomorrow night when the international troupe brings the current American-European series to Washington. Local officials today announced that the gym’s public address system would be taken care of by Ken Lafferty, one of the city’s ranking paddlers, and George Gaubatz, Capital enthusiast who presided during the American sone championships last year. Lafferty and Gaubatz will alternate at the mike, describing each point scored off the paddles of Standa Kolar and Lazzlo Bellak, the Europeans, and Robert Blattner and Sandor Glancz, the Americans. Four singles and a doubles match and an exhibition singles match will comprise the two- and-one-half-hour program. Line-ups of Matches. T}m‘ line-up for the five American- European matches, which will be played one after the other, will pro- ceed in the following order: Glancz vs. Bellak, Blattner vs. Kolar, Blattner and Glancz vs. Kolar and Bellak, Glancz vs. Kolar, Blattner vs. Bellak. The exhibition will be between Bellak and Kolar, the game's most sensational shot-maker and world champion, re- spectively. Although the matches are not sched- uled to start until 8:30 o'clock, Wash= ington will be introduced to members of the visiting troupe tomorrow after- noon and evening over the radio Beats for the matches will continue on sale today and tomorrow at Spald- ing’s, Garrison’s and Treman King’s Sports Store. Only the 83-cent and $1.65 seats remain. SEEKS NATIONAL TITLES Two Washington youths and two from Hyattsville will compete in the national boys’ and juniors’ duckpin bowling championships at Norfolk next Sunday. The Washington rep- resentatives will be Louis Edlovitch, & junior, and Ralph O'Brien, in the boys’ class. Hyattsville will send Paul Hershy to compete with the juniors and Richard Reamy with the boys. e COLONIALS TRY AGAIN Vince de Angelis, who worked only three innings against Ohio State on Priday, was to climb the mound for | George Washington today as the Colo- nials made their third start of the diamond campaign, against Long Is- land University. The game was to be played on the East Ellipse, starting at | 2:30 o'clock. WALPER GETS PRO AIDE Benny Loving, who resigned as golf professional from the Farmington Country Olub of Charlottesville, Va. ‘when he was denied permission to par- ticipate in Winter tournaments, will become associated with Leo Walper on the latter’s driving range in Bethesds early next month. SOFT BALLERS ACTIVE ‘Washington’s soft ball champion, the Ehrlich Poultry Co. team, will start preparation for its campaign Thursday in an organization meeting at the Park View Playground. The initisl drill will be held next Sunday. SAITO TO BE SPEAKER Japan's Ambassador, His Excellency Hiroshi Saito, will be asked to outline plans now being formulated by his country’s government for the 1940 Olympics, which will be held in Japan, at the testimonial dinner here for Jeremish T. Mahoney, president of the National A. A. U, on April 13. PACKARD Pry Motor Car Co. w President 5019 Conn. Ave. NW. Clev. 6200 des, no fuss—ijust a smooth quick shave. And no mat- ter how tender your skin or how tough your beard, never again will ou cut yourself. ion satisfied users. Charge Accounts Invited 1314 F ST More than a mil- Mail Orders Filled REET N.W. BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. ALTZING to the intoxicating strains of Whizz Wheeler's Orchestra, chess enthusi- asts and their friends danced last week end at 1625 Con- necticut avenue for the benefit of the Washington Social Chess Divan and the furtherance of the educational activity program of the Metropolitan Chess Association. The Easter dance, the first affair of its kind ever conducted in the District for the socializing of the game of ohess, attracted a nice orowd of what Amos and Andy term “quality folks.” Everybody had s most enjoyable evening and expressed the wish that dances of this character should become a regular plank in the M. C. A. ac- tivity platform. The vocalist, Marion Swanson, elicited much praise with her popular songs and Whizz Wheeler's sliding saxophone (one of the two such instru- ments in this country, the other being owned by Vincent Lopez), provoked many curious comments. Sophisti- cated Washington apparently liked a sliding “sax.” Assisting Wheeler were Bill Quimby, Sidney Weinstein, Bert Eastwood, and at the piano Bob Wheeler, a tricky harmonizer of the ivories. It was a grand oocasion for chess, and I. J. Curran, president of the Social Chess Divan, said the music just made the “old folks” hop and toddle, and was everybody happy! Norval Wigginton, treasurer of the divan, performed several acrobatic contortions for the fun-loving crowd— but he vowed the dance wax had played h—— with the beautiful hard- ‘wood floor. (Are you sure it was the ‘wax, Norval?) Thanks to Henry Reel, the frater- nity and sorority dance crowd were everywhere and, belleve it or not, Carl E. Rhodes and J. B. Eskin, both deaf mutes (but loyal supporters of the cause of chess in the District), wrote your columnist on & plece of paper, “This dance is swell,” and all they got was a look for their money. It merely goes to show the atrong esprit d’corps that exists in the District for the betterment of the “royal game.” Central-Rooseveit Win. ENTRAL and Roosevelt High 8chools are piling up neat scores against their opponents in the Wash-~ ington Interhigh Chess Association team tourney for the I. 8. Turover Trophy. The interhigh players take their ohess very seriously and play their games with the econ- omy of a veteran. In outside individual matches many of the experts in the Nation's Capital have met the high boys and girls in over-the-board play, and the consen- sus of opinion is that some strong players are being developed among the high schools, and within & few years Sports Mirror By the Aasoctated Press. Today a year ago—Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in third straight game in first-place play offs of National Hockey League. Three years ago—Henry Picard won North and South open golf tournament with 283 for 72 holes. Five years ago — New York Rangers beat Montreal Canadiens for National Hockey League cham- pionship. Vermont Caseys Bowl D. C. Quint KMOH“ OF COLUMBUS bow!- ers of Burlington, Vt, and ‘Washington will tangle tonight in » special match at the Rendezvous, starting at 8 o'clock. ‘The Burlingtons, captained by Mario Ralph Izzio, are en route to the National Duckpin Bowling ?onxrm championships at Nor- olk. Carl Betz is captain of the Wash- ington team, with FPranocis Collins, Leo Deigelmann, Al McDonald and ‘Tom Hughes as the other members. will be showing the aces how to shift the pawns to the best advantage. Individual scoring in current clashes: Central Vs. Tech. Reynolds Pi Higuera _ Schreyer Kurland Hostler Booking for remainder of the inter- high matches in the first half of the 8pring schedule is: April 7—Wilson vs. Central st Wilson. April 7—Tech vs. Western at Tech. April 7—Eastern vs. Roosevelt at Esste ern. Margate Easter Congress. NITED STATES will have Reuben Fine of New York City as its play= ing representative, by invitation, in the current Easter interntional mase ters’ tournament, one of the tradi- tionally great chess congresses held annually at Margate, England. Facing Fine will be Vera Menchik, woman world champion; J. Foltys, Czechoslovakian master; Paul Keres of Estonia, Georges Koltanowski, Bel- gian champion, and the English mas- ters, T. H. Tylor, Sir George Thomas, H. O'D. Alexander, P. 8. Milner-Barry and V. Buerger. Perhaps Jose Capablanca, ex-world champion, may enter, as he has been extended an invitation. Simultaneous- 1y a class A tourney will be initiated. — e ,—_—_—————— — —_—_—_—_—_—_—,— BETHOLINE SALES r... TRIPLED SINCE PREMIUM WAS REDUCED (formerly as much as S¢—now only 2¢ more than gasoline) THOUSANDS of motorists in Maryland and the District of Columbia have switched to Betholine. Why? 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