Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 14

A—14 The Foening Star Sporis ¢ ASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER_ 20, 1937. Sampson’s Durability Big Question as G. W. Girds for Alabama < Little Back With Perfect Passing Record Takes on Manifold Duties. HETHER Vie Sampson, the : lightweight running and passing star of the George Washington backfield, can stand up against the punishment of bouncing off a 195-pound granite ~wall 18 & question that may make congiderabie difference in the outcome of the G. W.-"Bama engagement Sat- wurdav afternoon at Griffith Stadium. Sampson has proved himself the most dependable ball carrier in the Colonial ranks and, surprisingly, has bhecome & most. effective passer. But George Washington's running attack rests on his shoulders, and there is, of ecourse. A question whether a 160- pounder can cope with Alabama's hard-charging forward wall all after- noon. Can he take it? Time alone | will tell. Vice Takes on More Duties, T‘H’E 20-year-nld junior from Wat- seka, served notice of his They Lead Cheers for Bama; Foe of G. W. on Grid Here Saturday Jast Fall by breaking away for | &8 hdown runs. His inaugural | ason was in the West Vir- | ginia Wesleyan game two weeks ago, | when he scampered 59 yards to tally in | » masterpiece of broken field running. Fxperts agrer he's a scoring threat every time he breaks intn the open Tr's conceded that Vic might wear well against Alabama on outside run- ning playe and punt returns, but re- cently he's taken the burden of run- ning inside tackle and guard plays as well. and that's where a lightweight ight get bruised in & hurry. Sampson chopped away at the stout Weslevan line with telling effect, how- ever. He added a number of short! gains to that long one and finished the evening with a total of 125 vards en 13 plavs, an average of 9.6 He wesn't, used as much against Wake Forest, but averaged 7 yerds every time he lugged the ball. Has Perfect Passing Record. 'HE Colonials’ ground game will be built around Sampson's inside | cuts and outside sweeps, the reverses | which Bob Nowaskev and Bruce Mahan use to advantage and short line jabs, with Jay Turner and Elmer Hogg doing the ramming. This pair | have battled for the fullback berth all| =eason, Turner holding the edge Hogg's line plunging unquestionably is superior, however, and his forte will| be used to best advantage. Coupled with this running attack, the Colonials will be able to use an werial game that may worry the big Red eleven. If the Tide has a weak- ness, its on pase defense, Colonial geolts report, and G. W. may connect through the air lanes. In two games the Colonial tossers have piled up 295 yards on 13 com-| pleted pass aitempts. They have failed to connect on only nine heaves, which isn't a bad percentage. Samp- #on's pitching record is perfect. He's eompleted five out of five for 106 yards. Joey Kaufman, who really is the Colonials’ best pitcher, has completed | 6 of 11 merials for 143 yards. A com- parative rookie, Elmore Borden, lanky | rophomore, has & 500 average with | twn completions in four attempts that | netted 46 yards, LAYDEN VINDICATED | ON HIS EARLY FEARS. Notre Dame's Need of All-'Round | Back Makes Navy Favorite in Battle Saturday. Br the Aseocisted Press, CHIOAM. October 20, Elmer Lay- den still is trying to prove he was wreng about Notre Dame's foot ball | team--and now he hopes he can do t by Saturday. The “thin man” admitted back in | early September that “Irish” prospects Inoked very nice—on the surface. There were lettermen for every posi- tion and experienced bovs who failed | to win monograms a vear agn, but Lavden insisted that trouble lurked | @l too close to the surface. | He was so right that the “Irish” | will be the second choice when they | square off against Navy's stalwarts Baturday at South Bend. Lavden pointed out—to the accom- paniment of disbelieving chuckles— that Notre Dame needed a triple- threat back. Failing the appearance | of one of those, he said the “Irish” might =queeze through & murderous #chedule with the aid of a top-flight passing and running back. But he hasn't been found, either. N. C. U. COACH FIDGETY Fordham Game Means Much to Tarheels, Playing Tulane. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. (#) —If Ray Wolf, North Carolina’'s coach. seems to be paying very little attention to the N. C.-Tulane game Saturday, don't pay it any heed. He will merely be wondering about that Fordham-Texas Christian game in New York. Wolf formerly coached Texas Chris- tion, and his Tarheels have to play Fordham here October 30. Horse Show Tickets Tickets for the Inter- American Horse Show to be held at the Meadowbrook Show Grounds on the East- West Highway this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun- day may be obtained at the District Building, the Muni- tions Building of the War Department, the A. £. A. and the Willard Hotel. Prices are 55¢ for generil admission, SL10 for reserved seats, and $1.85 grandstand. { | man, - TUSCALOOSA., Ala., October 20.—Co-ed leaders of the rah rah brigades which cheer the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide foot ballers are these comely misses. Upper lejt (left to right), Johnel Fisher, Martha Witt Burleson and Frances Edmister in action. demonstrates acrobatic ability. Johnel and Martha further exemplify their agility. Upper right, Cheerleader Burleson. Lower left, Martha . Lower center (left to right), Lower right, Martha applies the arnica. —Copyright. A. P. Wirephotos. COACH RIDES HERD ON CARD GRIDERS [Shake-Up in Starting Team Threatened if St. Louis Game Is Lost. HOLESALE changes in his starting order will be ef- fected by Coach Dutch Bergman if his Catholic niversity foot ball team fails to snap back into a winning stride against the St. Louis Billikins in the Mound City Saturday. So sald Bergman as he vmwrmi to send his Cardinals through their | paces for the last time prior to de- parting for St. Louis tomorrow after- noon. Looks Beyond St. Louis. WILLING to concede that his team | may have experienced an off | night when a great Detroit eleven wax in full stride last Friday, Berg- nevertheless, maintains that another losing performance Saturday would necessitate his taking measures that would jolt some of his present | reguiars. “We have a two-week interval of preparation between the St. Louis and West Virginia Wesleyan games.” Bergman said. “In other words, suf- ficient time for considerable changing about if th: boys fail to snap back into stride against St. Louis.” 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR ATIONAL BASE BALL COM- MISSION issued a warning to American and National League players not to participate in post- season games. It is rumored that Wild Bill Donovan will be deposed as man- ager of the New York Yankees be- fore another season. Western High's teamwork and general play in defeating Business, 25-0, was such that they must be considered real contenders for the interhizh title. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Foot Ball. Eastern ve. Gonraga, Stadium, 3:30. Eastern Soccer. Maryviand ve. Western Maryland, College Park, Md., 3. TOMORROW. Horse Show. Inter - American, Meadowbrook Saddle Club. 1:45. Wrestling. Joe Cox vs. Cliff Olson, feature mateh, Turner's Arena, 8:30. FRIDAY. Foot Ball. Wilson vs. Tech, Tech Stadium (publie high title game), 3:30. St. John's vs. Western, Western 8tadium, 3:30. Anacostia High vs, Woodward, Eastern High Stadium, 3:30. Roosevelt vs. George Washington High, Alexandria, Va.. 3:30. St. Albans vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md., 3:30. Washington-Lee High vs. Luray, Ballkton, Va, 3:30. Devitt Prep vs. Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va. Friends vs. Charlotte Hall, Char- lotte Hall, Md. Miner Teachers State, Dover, Del, Horse Show. Inter - American, Meadowbrook Saddle Club, 1:45. SATURDAY. Foot Ball. George Washington vs. Alabama, Griffith Stadium, 2. Maryland vs. Syracuse, Baltimore Stadium, Baltimore, Md., 2:30. Georgetown vs. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic University vs. 8t. Louis, St. Louis, Mo. American University vs. William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va Wilson Teachers vs. Gallaudet, Kendall Green, 2:30. Episcopal vs. Gilman, dria, Va. 2:30. Howard vs. West Virginia State Institute, Institute, W. Va. Horse Show. Inter - American, Meadowbrook Saddle Club, 1:45, vs. Delaware Alexan- i | | | | | | | | land championship. He had managed To- | | Toledo of the | But OSCAR VITT MADE PILOT OF INDIANS Leader of Newark Champs Succeeds Steve 0’Neill. Latter to Coach. By the Associatea Press. ' LEVELAND, October 20.—Presi- dent Alva Bradley of the Cleveland base ball club an- nounced today appointment of Oscar Vitt, manager of the Newark club of the International Association, as new manager of the Indians, re- placing Steve O'Neill. O'Neill becomes a Tribe coach, Bradley announced. Replacement of O'Neill as the Cleve- | 1and pilot came after months of un- certainty over his status Vitt, 47. managed the New York Yankees' Newark farm club for the last two years, finishing 25'; games ahead of Montreal last defeating Columbus in the seven- game little world series after drop- ping the first three straight He formerly plaved third base with Detroit. and Boston in the American League, winding up his major league playing in the 1921 season. Has Plenty of Experience. VHT ha City. Hollywood Base Ball Clubs, the latter 1935 season. He conferred with Brad- ley today and immediately left the West Coast O'Neill, the fighting Irishman from | the coal mines of Minooka, Pa, was behind the bat in 1920 when Clev won its only American League ronto of the International League and American Association when his major league career faded as a Cleveland manager, his | teams disappointed | of George Uhle and Wally BARTLETT IS LOST | FROM THE PRESS BOX - TO EAGLE ELEVEN | Broken Hand Ends Career of Star Back—Only 14 Dependables Left. ROBABLY the only American University foot ball player who not. only could have won a place in any college backfield in the city, but also stood a good chance of making the all-District eleven. will play no more for A. U. | A fractured hand has ended the | | college grid career of Emerson | (Sparky) Bartlett, who, in the Eagles’ | | first three games. appeared to have | | everything necessary to make him an all-city choice. ‘Was Reaching His Peak. | A triple-threat star, Bartiett pos- | sessed extraordinary power and was ties as an elusive, shifty broken-field | runner. | This was Bartlett's senior year with | the Eagles. According to Coach Gus Welch, all that Bartlett needed to make him a great back was confi- dence, and that the new mentor was beginning to instill in him Bartlett's injury is the climax of a series of jinxes which has left Welch | with only 14 dependables. Coming, ax it does, on the eve of the William | and Mary game at Williamsburg on Saturday, it is a heavy blew to the Eagles’ hopes. George Taylor. & new player, was being groomed today to take Bartlett's place. WINS HORSE CLASSIC. KANSAS CITY, Mo. October 20 (#).—Etta Kett, owned by Frances M. Dodge, Detroit, won the three-gaited | saddle horse event at the American royal horse show. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—New York Americans threatened legal action againat National Hockey League for declaring franchise forfeited. Three years ago—Minnesota fool, ball team defeated Pittsburgh, 13-7, before 65.000 fans. Five years ago—Bobby Jones appointed temporary receiver of Atlanta base ball club. Hopkins, Headed for Clean Losing Slate, Appears as Logical Rose Bowl Selection. BY JOHN EW YORK. October 20 —Slowly and secretly, a sinister project is taking form down at Johns Hopkins University—a scheme | to challenge California and Alabama | simultaneously to a double-header in the Rose Bowl on New Year day. The movement, you can well under- stand, must be kept under cover, lest California and Alabama hear of and abandon foot ball entirely, move to Mexico. is foolproof. Johns Hopkins, by New Year day, probably will have lost six games in & row, at which rate she is a mortal cinch to murder the Crimson Tide and devastate the Golden Bears on one and the same afternoon. This great truth first occurred to Dr. Mortimer Sysonby X., the famous tooth-and-nail authority, as he or | fast reaching the peak of his capaci- | - & ol browsed idly through the football | scores in his newspaper Sunday morn- | ing. ‘This is the kind of stuff that leapt to Dr. X.'s eve: Carnegie Tech, 9; Notre Dame, 7. Syracuse, 14; Cornell. 6. Oklahoma, 0; Nebraska, 0. Villanova, 20; Manhattan, 0. Fordham, 0; Pittsburgh, 0. T. C. U, 7; Texas A. and M, T. Holy Cross, 7; Georgia, 6. ‘What Price Form? "SK TSK!"” muttered the healer to himself. “What price form? What price undefeated and untied teams? What price tincture of ni- trate?” and he banged the gong at his elbow to summon a lowly interne. “Where i& Dr. Z.2” he demanded, when the underling arrived by fast ambulance from the second floor. “Operating in surgery J,” said the interne. “Quite s0," said Dr. X. “What do you know about foot ball yourself, doctor?” “Plenty.” replied the bashful youth “How have we done so far this year?" “Well, Hopkins has lost to Lehigh by 32 to 0 and to Washington College by 33 to 0.” Sports Figures Give Eyeful in Broadway Stroll Red Caps Battle to Carry Di Mag's Bag—Noted Ring Champ Travels in Day Car. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 20.—An afternoon along Broad- way: Red caps scrambling to tote Joe Di Maggio's bags . as he takes off for dear old 'Frisco . Al Schacht, the base ball clown (who has just emerged from a one-armed lunch room) picking his molars in front of the tavern .o e Hyn AL Mark Hellinger, the columnist and one of the shrewdest pickers of fight winners in town, visiting his lawyers before leaving for Holly- wood to become a movie exec. . . . A famous world boxing champion and his manager teeing off for Philadelphia in the smoker of a day coach . . . Such goings on would have shocked Gene Tunney. The hoxs pl;,v;r;it.rylnx to dope out the Empire City winners in front of Lindy's Broadway spot . . . N Also the gent in front of the brass rail on Seventh avenue hawking (sotto voice) foot ball pool cards... You smack down a buck...If you pick 10 winners out of 10 you col- lect 100 berries . .. Nine out of nine, 90 cartwheels and s0 on . .. Try and beat it, just once . . . Foot ball writers streaming out of the Lincoln after their weekly lunch- eon . . . Lou Little, Columbia, and Chick Meehan, Manhattan, all but atop trafic as Little diagrams & honey of & play on the back of an old envelope. ‘The guy who peddles “your home town newspaper” at Times Square says: “I atill am & bit low because I picked the Jernts” . . . Jimmy Johnston, former Garden maestro, entirely surrounded by free load- ers Az he presides at high tea at Ohilds . . . Eddie Brannick, secre- tary of the Giants buying a new & Fall lid at one of those exclusive places, Jack Dempsey, freshly shaved and manicured, coming out of a tonsorial emporium near Fiftieth street . . . They say Jack now is sole owner of his famous eatery ... Joe Jacobs, the fight manager, looking lik: the “wreck of the Hes- perus,” heading full speed for a Turkish bath. “Soup” Gordon of the Charlotte (N. C.) News and the fastest sports page make-up man your agent ever worked with, admiring pictures of the Jovelies in front of a West Forty-second street burlesque joint + .. “I don't get up here often and the lid is off,” says Soup. Col. Jake Ruppert, owner of the Yanks, getting his mustache trimmed in the basement of one of his Fifth avenue buildings, and looking like the cat who has just inhaled the well-known canary .+ . Yep, that gent across the A street is none other than old Mike McTigue, looking even better than he did 10 years ago. Al Weill, new matchmaker for the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, 35 pounds lighter after three months of careful dieting . “Yessir,” says Al, “for the time in years I know which shoes I'm wearing” .. . Hank Green- berg, Tiger first-sacker, spotted in a newsreel theater where Ford- ham-Pitt pictires are featured . . . (Col. Ruppert still calls him ‘Hank Goldberg’). That was Horace Stoneham, owner of the Giants, who just raced by in a taxi . . . Broadway 8am Roth, one of the better-known ticket speculators, says business is brisk for Fordham and Texas Christian, but that it was lousy for -the world series . . . “I drop three grand,” mourns Broadway Sam, who frequently blows half that amount for an evening's en- tertainment. A LARDNER. ! ‘i “Well, it Otherwise, the pian | “H'm.” said Dr. Mortimer Sysonby X., pulling & human ulna from his pocket and paring his nails with it. “What chance have we of keeping our record clean, right through the vear?” | “You mean, of going through the season unvictorious and untied?” said the interne, a fast thinker. | we have a good | chance. We play Haverford, Swarthmore, American U. and St. John's. Any and all of them can beat us.” “Splendid!” said Dr. X, enthusiasti- | cally. “You are an intelligent young man, and I will see that you are pro- moted tomorrow. Would you like to | be & specialist?” | | “Yes,” said the interne. “0. K., report for duty in the morn- ing,” said Dr. X., and hurried off to | | find the football coach, who was per- forming a tonsillectomy in studio D, next door to Benny Goodman's Or- chestra. i A Legitimate Challenge. M ¥ AGENTS report that the cam- | A¥L saign is proceeding apace. Johns| Hopkins’ chalienge to Alabama and California will be in the mail next week, and the Golden Bears and the Crimson Tide, if they haven't skipped the country by that time, will have | | no legitimate excuse for turning it| down. | Minnes#ta has been licked. South- ern California has been licked. Cor- nell has been licked. Tennessee has been licked. Ohio State has been | licked. Manhattan has been licked. | Notre Dame has been licked and tied. | Duke has been tied. Nebraska has been tied. Texas A. and M. has been tied. Who wants to bet that Johns | Hopkins can't lick 'em all? | The scholarly medical men } | down that way are pawning | their stethoscopes and waiting in line to get their money down. | Normally, Knox would be giving | | Hopkins a certain amount of competi- tion for the right to represent the East | in the Rose Bowl. Knox—Old Siwash, as Mr. George Fitch used to call it compiled & record for consecutive de- feats three years ago that still is the envy of Hobart and similar temples of underdog culture. But Knox turned bolshevistic shortly thereafter and began to win games | right and left. Well, “anyway, she | won a couple of games. Hobart fol- Jowed her down the primrose path to [Yuin, with a winning spree of her own. | These two clubs, therefore, have forfeited all right to play in bowls of any kind. games is almost as dull and dreary to watch as a team that is undefeated | Which would you bet on in the fol- lowing list? Minnesota vs. Whitewater Teachers. California vs. Greeley State Fresh- men. Louisiana State vs Wofford. Nebraska vs. Mission House. Dartmouth vs. Vassar. Yale vs. Lowell Textile. You're absolutely right. You would put a parlay bet on Whitewater, Gree- ley, Wofford, Mission House, Vassar and Lowell Textile, and then you would buy yoursell & yacht. With three smokestacks and & tennis court. That's foot ball. (CopsTight. 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) - NEUSEL TAKES FIGHT. LONDON, October 20 () —Walter Neusel, German heavyweight. out- Fpointed Maurice Strickland of New Zealand in a 13-round bout last night. A team that has won & couple of | | and untied. And just as unpredictable. | In 1936 the Indians fell to the sec- | ond division for the first time in many years. Last season, the Tribe climbed a notch to finish in fourth. Bradley announced that the future Shang, coaches under O'Neill, would be de- termined by Vitt. LITTLE HOYAS ARE HIT with St Coach With an annual game Albans only two davs away, | Bd Hargaden of Georgetown Prep was | working overtime today in an effort to plug two holes which developed suddenly vesterday when two of his regulars were injured Charley Deschenes and Stuart Fretz were being groomed for the important quarterback post. while Hugh Schroe- der and Henry Briefs were being pre- pared for a tackle position. The firs ring signal-caller, Tom Graham, was thought to have sus- tained a broken rib,. while Joe Crow- ley, crack guard, twisted a knee. Both injuries came during an informal scrimmage with an alumni eleven. FLO split-second d Florsheim Cus Neusel weighed 203 pounds snd | Strickland 187%. 4 season and | s managed the Salt Lake| and Oakland | in the | for | SEOPARKS HARLEY MALONE, erack Redskin end, holds the unique distinetion of re- ceiving honorable mention for all-America without playing » game . It still is & mystery o Malone, who was selected by & Mew York paper while attending Texax A. & M, but he has a medal tn show he was & gridiron great the year he was forced to forego foot ball due to injuries. Phil Furr, tattoed local welter- weight will bump into Mirkey Makar at Holyoke, Mass., Monday, while Nick Camarata, who per- formed here regularly last Win- ter, mixes with Augie Gonzales at New York's Hippodrome Friday night . . . Chris Dundee, his man- ager, would like to rematch Nor- ment Quarles, North Oarolina lightweight, with Cowboy Howard Scott . . . Quarles grabbed a hotly disputed decision from the Cowhoy on the police card here in June Petey Sarron, world feather- weight champ, is one of the most widely traveled fighters now swinging . . . Sarron has launched blows in South Africa, New Zea- land, Auestralia and England In addition to covering the United States from Florida to Californa . Jim Ryba. talented Alabams tackle, never played high school foot ball Henry Cochrane, Alabama quar- terback, was Golden Gloves light- heavyweight champion of Ken- tucky in 1932 ... And might have been a national amateur boxing champion had he not declined make the trip to the finals in Chi- cago . Because his scholaati foot ball team at Paducah started practice at that time. George Zivich, Crimsom Tide halfback, once intercepted & pas and scooted 92 yards . .. But did not score . . . Charley Holm. full back on the same outfit, ix 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 188 pound . Which were the exart meas- uréments of his brother Tony who was an all-America fuliback at Alabama . .. The father of Vi Bradford, Alabama utility back played base ball in the Pacific Coas League, while one of Vie's uncle was a Tennessee quarterback. ‘The game originally scheduled fo: Friday between Maryland's fres yearlings has been canceled by the Cards . A sister of Gus Welch American University foot ball coach, could drop-kick 30 yards G. W. will have a psyehologica advantage over Alabama in their game Saturday, but its superior ceases there . . . The Tide ji | emerged from a tough tussle and { has another next week. TWO STARS IN ONE. SOUTH BEND. Ind. (#.—Chuck Borowski, senior halfback for Notre Dame, was a star on both the In- disna State championship aoft bail and base all teams this past Sum- mer. He is captain-elect of the Notre Dame base ball team. For Men Accustomed to the Best Men whose names make news . . . whose ecisions shape weighty policies . . . whose counsel is sought and advice heeded—they’re the men who wear tom Shoes. Their good taste approves Florsheim fine styling . . . their good judgment favors the economy of longer wear. We'd like to serve you. Most Styles ‘lo HAHN 14th & G o Tth & K o 3212 14th