Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1937, Page 57

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Once Enticing Prey, Ivy Colleges All Present Brave Grid Fronts REGAIN OLD SPOTS INFOOT BALL SUN Maryland Rated Worthy Foe for Penn—Cornell and Colgate Headline. Ry the Associatec Press. NEW YORK, September 30.—It used $0 be easy to trim the ivy, but appar- ently “them days is gone forever.” For the ivy colleges, once the soft touch of the season, now are tougher than an open-field block and as solidly in the national foot ball picture as any group in the country. Yale, Harvard and Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Dart- mouth and Columbia, the ivy league, all are In front again with a.minimum of ballyhoo and a maximum of results. Five of them open Saturday. Yale meets Maine, Columbia plays Williams, Harvard and Springfield clash, Prince- ton entertains the Cavaliers of Vir- ginia and Penn is host to Maryland. Different a Decade Ago. ‘A DECADE or so ago these games wouldn't be the double-staved, brass-hooped cinches they appear to- day. For in those days the ivy league was taking it, and often. But just when a blocking back would bring four Greek texts and an instructor in bio- chemistry on the foot ball exchange some one discovered that moral vic- tories don't pay for new shells or new gymnasiums, and the boys got busy. Columbia was among the first. Lou Little came to New York and a couple of years later he was bringing the Light Blue back from the coast vic- tor at the Rose Bowl. Princeton bounded back into the national pic- | ture to challenge Minnesota for No. 1 ranking. Penn introduced Messrs. Warwick, Kurlish, Elverson and Mur- ray to the East. Yale hired Ducky Pond, with the astute Greasy Neale as assistant. Last, but far from least, Harvard weized the distinguished ornithologist, Richard Cresson Harlow, and set him to work at Soldiers' Field. Cornell-Colgate Headlines. ITH the return to foot ball nor- X malcy, relations between the dyed-in-the-ivy institutions improved and the schedules got tougher. Cor- nell, just two years away from a licking by St. Lawrence, is up against & good Colgate team with an even chance of defeating the Raiders. It is the biggest single game of the ivy group’s schedule this Saturday and one of the few that sends the Ithacans out of the league. Penn may encounter trouble in Maryland, & tough customer from the Old Line. Columbia can't take Wil- liams lightly. Two years ago Wil- liams gave Fritz Crisler and Prince- ton a bad afternoon in a “breather” which ended with the Tigers one touchdown to the good. Dartmouth, with one game already away, meets Amberst. After this Saturday’s “short, quick ones” the boys really have their hands full. They all meet other “ivy” league teams and the resulting shocks will register on any seismograph. If outsiders want to play in the ivy Pool room the best advice is “speak ®oftly and have plenty of reserves.” The boys on this block are tough. PETERSON IS READY FOR REDSKIN DEBUT Former West Virginia Wesleyan . Star Gets Chance Sunday Against Brooklyn. VERSHADOWED by his more noted | backfield colleagues, Nelson Peter- | oon, fleet West Virginia Wesleyan product, finally may have his oppor-! tunity to show the customers just | why he was signed by the Redskins when the Brooklyn Dodgers invade Griffith Stadium Sunday. A protege of Cliff Battles, Peterson has remained idle through no short- coming of his own, but rather through | the known prowess of Sammy Baugh, Riley Smith, Ernie Pinckert, Don Er- win, Battles, etc. Coach Ray Flaherty is anxious to view the newcomer in action under pressure and the Dodgers | doubtless will provide the setting. | Due to Ben Smith's collarbone in- | Sury, Vie Carroll, a guard, has been | ehifted to center to understudy Ed Kawal. e PRIMM RINGER VICTOR Banker Takes Edgewater Beach Title From Large Field. Herbert W. Primm, executive of the Washington Loan & Trust Co., today sports = silver trophy em- blematic of the horseshoe pitching championship of Edgewater Beach, Md. In the eighth annual Edgewater Beach tournament, held at the cottage of Paul H. Primm, Herbert vanquished & sizeable field and in the final de- feated Loran O. Norris, 21-14, 21-19. The defeated semi-finalists of the tournament, staged under the direc- tion of W. Henry Barringer, were W. D. Middlekauff and Morgan Wood. TAKOMA WANTS ACTION, Takoma Fire Department gridmen want a strong 150-pound or unlimited foe for a SBunday game. Call Manager Myers at Randolph 1753 between 4 and 5 pm. Gophers’ Eleven May Be Greatest BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. CHICAOO. September 30.—Yes, it's true what they say about Minriesota. The Gophers are back on their 193¢ mass production schedule, Leif Bierman regards the 1934 team of Kostka, Lund, Larson et al. the best he ever coached, but may come to a different opinion before snow blankets the iron ranges and ice bridges the waters of Minne- tonka, From the time a stray foot ball first was discovered rolling around the Minneapolis campus the Go- phers have been famous for power, with such noted bone breakers as Sprafka, Wyman, Lidberg, Joesting and Nagurski. ‘Then Blerman came home to add the speed of Lund, Alfonse, Levoir and Uram to the drive of Kostka, Beise and Roark. With speed add- ed to native power, the Norsemen became a real avalanche. Still with the same power and same speed, Bierman now is stress- ing forward passing as the quick- est distance between two points. S DON'T EVEN HAVE Y'LOOK - JUST HOLD ouT MY MITTS == IT'LL Bf THERE' N’ THE G.W. BACKFIELD COACH SAYS JOEY'S BRAND OF PASSING ° RANKS WITH THE BEST To BE HAD ON COLLEGE GRIDIRONS.. = > Even So, May Lose Three or Four Games, Says Coach By the Associated Press. EW HAVEN, Conn., Beptember N opening game, Head Coach Ducky Pond sdmits Yale is this season—but “even so it may lose three or four games.” back from Evanston, Ill, setting a speedy pace, the brawny, powerful terial, but not so fortunate in the line, shows evidence that it has the ability The Elis open an eight-game sched- ule in the bowl Saturday against OUGHT T0 BE KEEN of Brawny Squad. 30.—Two days before the going to have a good foot ball team With Capt. Clint Frank, all-America squad which is rich in backfield ma- to cope with almost any situation. Maine. Miller Cause For Joy. JOHNNY MILLER a husky Colum- bus, Ohio, youth who was ineligi- ble last year is bringing joy by the manner in which he has beéen filling the huge gap at one of the Blue's wings caused by the loss of Larry (The Great) Kelley. The other out- standing end is Flick Hoxton, one of 15 lettermen who are serving as & nuc- leus for the 1937 team. The tackles still are a problem. Bill John, 215 pounds, is holding down one again, and Bill Platt, s converted cen- ter, is coming along nicely, but an injury could hurt the team seriously. The only other tackle who has shown promise is Bill Stagbuck, a 200-pound sophomore, Line Averages 190 Pounds. ‘HE eleven as it shapes up now will | be one of the heaviest in years. The forward wall, averaging 190 pounds, and the backfield, the real bright spot, about 185. Of last year's backfield regulars, only Bud Miles has been lost. The probable eleven that will open against Maine includes J. Miller and Hoxton, ends; John and Platt, tackles; Char- ley Miller and John Castle, guards; Frank Gallagher, center; Charley Ewart, Al Wilson, Dave Colwell and Frank, backs. The schedule—October 2, Maine; 9, Pennsylvania; 16, Army; 23, Cornell; 30, Dartmouth. November 6, Brown; 13, Princeton; 20, Harvard at Cam- bridge. PINETTES UNDER WAY. Catholic Ladies’ Bowling League has begun its season. Officers are Nellie McCormack, president; Ellen Arendes, vice president; Ethel Neff, secretary- treasurer, and Mrs. G. Handley, chair- man of entertainment. SWITCH TO HARVESTER ~ i il i L e HATCHET MAN, RRYAUAN) st D —By JIM BERRYMAN. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S "STORMY PETREL ... BRILLIANT TRIPLE-THREAT BACKFIELD ACE WHO IS COUNTED UPON To BE THOROUGHKLY DISAGREABLE TO THE VISITING WAKE FOREST DELEGATION FRIDAY NIGHT. S M " MILEY, JAMESON WAGE GOLF DUEL Invitation Meet. 30.—Marion Miley and Jane national championship next week, invitation golf tournament. to win, on the basis of her flashy sas-City, Mo. Star Linkswomen Clash for Title in Southeastern By the Associated Press. ABHVILLE, Tenn., September Cothran Jameson, priming their shots for a crack at the matched strokes today in the 18- hole final of the Southeastern women'’s Miss Miley, raven-haired par-buster from Cincinnati, was a slight favorite showing yesterday in eliminating Mrs. Opal 8. Hill, the medalist from Kan- She shot & 38—39—77, 5 under women's par, to end the match on the sixteenth green of the 6,606-yard Belle | Meade course. Mrs. Hill, shaky on the greens, was far off the form she dis- played in firing & 74 in the qualifying round. Mrs. Jameson defeated her travel- ing companion and home town rival, Kathryn Hemphill of Columbis, 8. C., 1 up, 19 holes. Each had a 78 for the 18 holes, but & birdie 4 on the nineteenth erased Miss Hemphill, the defending champion. o Five years ago—Virginia Van Wie and Glenna Collett reached final of women's golf championship. It your dealer ean’t supply you, phone Valley Forge Distributing Co. 901-905 7th St. S.W, Netional 3021 Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & year ago—Behind Carl Hub- bell on wet fleld. Giants defeated Yankees, 6-1. in first world series same Three years ago—8t. Louls Cardinals climaxed great uphill fight to clinch National League pennant. Lou Gehrig and Paul Waner won major league batting tities. .. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937. U. S. BIG GRID WINNER Only One Certain te Have Suc- cessful Financial Season. ‘The big winner this foot ball season will be your Uncle Samuel. It'll take a long Autumn of Saturday scuffies to decide the national cham- pionships. And Thanksgiving turkey will be eaten before the business minds, checking back over defeats and un- favorable weather, can decide whether the season financially is in the red or black columns. But win or lose, rain or shine, snow |/ or sleet, Uncle S8am can't lose. Every/ gridiron season tosses about $1,000,000 into his jingling pockets in taxes. EN HE IS RATED ToPS AMONG THE COLONIAL BACKS WHEN ITCOMES To DEFENSE.... Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Lefty Grove and Johnny Marcum, Red Box—Grove fanned six. walked none and beat Senators. 3-1. in opener; Marcum pitched one-hitter in a 4ia- inning relief trick to take nightcap, Tex Carleton. Cubs—Bianked Reds, 3-0. with seven hits. Burgess Whitehead. Giants. and Bucky ~Walters. Phillies — Whitehead drove in three runs in 6-3 opener win; Walters batted in five runs in 6-5 nightcan victory. hitting homer with * bases loaded and two singles George Selkirk. Yankees. and Ed Smith. Athletics—Selkirk hit double two singles. drove in five runs in 15-4 gpener victory: Smith blanked Yankess, 3-0. with one hit in seven-inning nighteap, Gus Suhr. Pirates—Hit homer in winning rally for 7-5 victory over Oardinals Joe Vosmik. 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INGC 1341 F Strest N.W, COX, HANSON HEAD MAT BILL TONIGHT |Mercier to Tackle Piers in Semi-Wind-up at Turn- / er’s Arena. ILLY HANSON, the Salt Lake City mat master, meets up with Joe Cox, the villainous Kansan, in tonight's feature wrestling match at Turner's Arena. Hanson returns for his third straight shot, his first in a headline role here, as a result of two clever performances. A sensation out on the Pacific Coast, the fast-moving Utah bone bender stepped into popular favor by throwing Red Russell in a semi-wind-up bout last Thursday at the Arena. Cox is not the type of grappler who likes scientific performers such as Hanson. He is strictly & ruffian, and would just as soon flatten Hanson with a left hook as send him into the third aisle with a drop-kick. Tonight marks Kansas Joe's first appearnce in a local ring since he went down to defeat at the hands of World Champion Bronko Nagurski. Mercier Opposes Piers. 'HE semi-wind-up match brings to- gether two topnotch foreign wrestlers—Al Mercier, the Frenchman, and Henri Piers, the Dutchman. Mercier bowed in a thrilling match to Ray Steele last week. Piers hasn't shown here in more than a month. Abe Kashey, the Syrian, who once crushed Charley Retzlaff, a former heavyweight boxing challenger, in a one of the shining lights on the pre- liminary card. Kashey meets Joe Maynard, the rough New Yorker, Nick Campofreda, former Western Maryland foot ball star, meets George Lenihan of Boston, and Dr. Fred Meyers tangles with Bill Sledge. Bquirming, with the no-smoking rule strictly enforced, will start at 8:30. —— GAELS DOING ALL RIGHT. OAKLAND, Calif. (#).—Although St. Mary's is not a member of the Pacific Coast Conference, it abides by conference foot ball rules. Since 1924, when the Galloping Gaels adopted this policy, they have won 20, lost 13 and tied 4 of 37 games with conference teams. mixed match out Minneapolis way, is | SPORTS. ‘weather. grab all the marbles. think 288, or an average of 72 to the round, will win the crown and we'll B further out on the justly celebrated limb and pick Wilfred Cox, of the Kenwood Coxes, to score that 288 or whatever it takes to win. UT let's see what the record reveals about Indian Spring in four rounds of medal play. They held the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. tourney there about 10 years ago. Leo Diegel and Fred McLeod tied for the crown with totals of 291. An amateur known to a few folks (a few million) as George Voigt finished third with 292. They held the Maryland open there last year and Al Houghton won it under perfect con- ditions with 139 for 36 holes. But 143 led in the 36-hole qualifying rounds for the national P. G. A. tour- ney over the same course last May. Granted that professional golf has moved up a stroke a round in scoring in the past 10 years, it looks as if 287 or 288 will win, if that's important. But don't forget they could play s little golf back in the wooden shaft days. There was, for example, Tommy Armour’s brace of 70s at Indian Spring in the P. G. A. qualifying rounds back in 1927. And Monro Hunter played the same course in 65 and Roger Pea- cock twice played it in 62. But you won't see any scoring like that next week. We'll string along with an average of 72 to'win the tourney, even though Leo Walper and Roland Mac- Kenzie did play it in 71 from the back tees yesterday. 'HE finest piece of scoring ever achieved by a masculine-feminine golf combination around Washington or almost any other town stands today | to the credit of Mrs. Betty P. Meckley |and Volney Burnett, the Indian Spring duo. They not only won the | gross prize but they would have taken TO DOUGLAS ALL-LEATHER c-1 Spring next week, when the cream of the paid boys get together for their little shindig and the crown now resting on the graying thatch of George Diffenbaugh, the Indian Spring mentor? Leo Walper, king of the Middle Atlantic pros, claims the boys are going to take that lengthy Indian Spring course for a fast ride, WHAT will it take to win the District open golf championship at Indian given good Leo, who won the mid-Atlantic title in Southern Virginia two months 280, says the winner will thump his way around the Stlver Spring layout in 280 whacks, which figures out at an average of 70 to the round. The other boys (most of them) figure that an average of 71 to the round, or 284, will Personally weé——— e the net award as well had they been eligible for two prizes in the mixed Scotch foursome yesterday at Chevy Chase. Teaming together admirably they put together nines of 36 and 34 for a score of 70 over the par 69 course. And what a team they made. Burnett was strictly in the groove, knocking those tee shots almost unbelievable distances and leaving Mrs. Meckley short pitches to those lengthy par 4 holes, And when it came to a little chipping and putting Mrs. Meckley did that, too. Altogether their score is one of the finest pieces of golf ever played in this neck of the golf- ing woods. And at that they only picked up one bridie—that one com- ing on the twelfth hole. Their 70 was aided by a 2-stroke handicap for a net of 68. Marion Brown and Buddy Sharkey of Manor and Indian Spring took the second gross prize with 77. Three pairs tied at net 75, and split the net prizes, which all the winners may receive at the Chevy Chase golf shop. Those who tied for the net award were Mr. and Mrs. Page Hufty, Chevy Chase, 89—14—75; Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Rhyne, Congressional, 84—0—75, and Mrs. H. L. Lacey, Manor, and B. C. Brown, Congres- sional, 96—21—75. Two other pairs tied at net 76. These were Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Clary of Indian Spring and Mrs. Bishop Hill and John F. Brawner of Chevy Chase. Burnett, the golfing fire laddie, has reached the final round in the Indian Spring Club championship, which he now holds. He beat Ken Lafferty. 1 up. to get to the ultimate round. The final will be played Sun- - HERE'S THE “DOPE” ON DOUGLAS QUALITY STRAIGHT FROM THE 701 %re Chranber. las "Torture Chamber" contains testing machines = Including the Torture Wheel shown above. Ruthiess fests made on representative Douglas Shoes conclusively prove these facts: re bullt right — to last long and I All-Leather Construction Is the firm fou: correct style. Do las quality Is built In at the factory. Dougl, all-leather policy spells comfort and economy to you! 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