Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1937, Page 51

5 l Sports News ’ @I]R WILL SLOW TULSA, GATOR SWIFTES Hoyas Figure Heavy Going | Will Give Their Line Edge Over Jaspers’. AIN-SOAKED gridirons were g@ped with light hearts by three District college coaches today as enhancing their chances in Important games this week end. Heavy going would slow up Tulsa's 160-pound scatback, Morris White, for George Washington at Griffith Stadium tomorrow night; would re- tard Florida's all-America candidate, Walter Mayberry, against Maryland at College Park on Saturday, and would improve the chances of George- town against Manhattan at Griffith Stadium the same day. Even should shere be no more rain until the kick-off of each game, pre- cipitation of the last few days has “deadened” the fields beyond ability to put them in perfect shape for the three games. Tulsa was to arrive in Washington this niorning and work out at the stadium this afternoon. With the Golden *Hurricane will be one Pearl Green, half of the reason for an inter- esting side-light on the G. W.-Tulsa battle. . e Rival Was Roommate. (GREEN, it seems, was the prep school roommate of Jay Turner, the Colonials’ able junior back. At Oklahoma Military Academy, where they prepped for college, Green and Turner played side by side in the cadet backfield and each, singularly, considered entering the school chosen by the other. “He’s one of the best friends I ever had,” Turner said today, “and if they're all as good as Pearl, we're in for a rough evening.” It's likely that the two will clash more than once during the game, for Green leads interference on many of Tulsa’s running plays and Turner probably is G. W.’s best defensive back. Incidentally, they're telling a new | story on Turner this week. The big blond, it seems, is notoriously a poor practice player who nevertheless al- ways keys up to fine exhibitions when under fire. When he walked off the fleld after the Alabama game last Sat- urday. however, he was heard to say, “Now I've got to start working for Tulsa. That's the game I want to get.” This week he has been laboring like & Trojan, and his prac- tice efforts have been as fine as his games. ? Mayberry Not Alone. WH!LE Mayberry is regarded as LYV the finest back on the Florida squad, Coach Frank Dobson is ad- vising his Maryland boys that others of the 'Gator ball-carrying contingent will bear watching. ‘Warning against the tendency to pay too much attention to Mayberry, Dobson pointed out Ken Willis, Red McGhee and Moon Mullins, with the suggestion that all may spell trouble for the Terps. Continued rain today would force Maryland indoors for the third straight day. Dobson is outlining several schemes to stop Mayberry. Fear Manhattan Passes. GEORGE‘TOWN'S desire for a wet gridiron is not to stop a fast back like White or Mayberry, but to give its heavy line a big advantage and to hamper Manhattan’s feared passing attack. Although Coach Jack Hagerty also has been stressing passing during the week, he is not dependent upon, it to the extent that Coach Chick Meehan of the Jaspers is. And while Man- | hattan’s line has yielded only one of the nine touchdowns made by oppo- nents this year, the record of George- gown’s forward wall is even better. Not once this season has the Blue and Gray line surrendered to charging backs. But weakness against passes has wrought Georgtown's downfall on several occasions and if Manhattan is unable to go to the air, because of rain or a muddy bell, s0 much the better for G. U. Manhattan’s passing attack centers around Vic Fusia, a bullet-like thrower who whips the ball with tremendous speed. He gave a sparkling exhibition egainst Texas A. and M, connecting three times in a row for a touchdown. Georgetown's aerials will be directed by Tommy Keating and Elmer Moulin, both fit and ready after recent in- Juries. GRIDDERS AT THEATER. Football night at Loew's Capitol tonight will feature the attendance of George Washington and Tulsa varsity squads and coaching staffs as a pre- | & 1% | WASHINGTON, D. C., Washington Football Coaches No PETE SHULA, Manhattan tackle whom the New Yorkers figure will mess up a lot of Georgetown plays Saturday afternoon at Griffith Stadium. By ALAN GOULD. EW YORK, Oct. 28 (#).—Not- withstanding rain, snow and conditions generally calcu- lated to make football life unhappy for ball-carriers, this week's all-America round-up features the lads who have been going places and scoring touchdowns for the old alma maters. With a bow to Vanderbilt's 60- minute line, chiefly responsible for overthrowing Louisiana State and fea- turing an all-America candidate for remains that halfbacks monopolize the latest big-game headlines. Nearing the halfway mark in the pursuit of all-star recognition, the following talented young men: Yale’s Clint Frank, a 1936 all- America, -who gave another superb all-round exhibition against Cornell; Bill Hutchinson, who tallied all three of Dartmouth’s touchdowns against Harvard; Vic Bottari, who twice crossed Southern California’s goal line for California, the Nation's No. 1 team; Bullet Bill Patterson, dynamo of Baylor's unbeaten and untied powerhouse; Marshall Goldberg of Pittsburg, who had one of his best days against Wisconsin; Byron (Whiz- zer) White of Colorado, who tallied 23 point® against Colorado State; Jack Pingel of Michigan State, a broken- field terror against Marquette; Jimmy Fenton and Henry Kelly, the twin ground-gaining sensations for Auburn, and Andy Farkas, who has scored 11 touchdowns for Detroit's unbeaten outfit. . Star Blockers Clash. 'WO of the Big Ten's finest blocking backs were on opposite sides of last Saturday’s main event, with Ohio State’s Jim McDonald apparently en- joying an edge over Northwestern’s Fred Vanzo. Don Heap did some spec- tacular ball-carring for Northwestern, but could not turn the tide, even with the 213-pound Vanzo's help. The passing show continues to fea- ture the work of Dwight Sloan of Ar- ansas, Joe Kilgrow of Alabama, Joe Gray of, Oregon State and Sid Luck- man of Columbia, although these busy boys do not confine their work to the aerial game. Gray's all-around talents have been outstanding, even on a sec- ond-division club. Here are others whose exploits win praise in this week’s round-up: May- berry, Florida; Watson, North Caro- lina; Wolfe, Texas; O'Brien, Texas Jiminary to their game tomorrow night at Griffith Stadium. Phil Lampkin and the orchestra will render appro- priate music. . Christian; Principe, Fordham; Kearns, Lafayette; Keating, Georgetown; Stopper, Villanova; Palumbo, Detroit; center in Capt. Carl Hinkle, the fact| backfield list of favorites includes the | Backfield Stars Monopolize Week’s _All-A merica Headlines | Despite Fine Play by Linemen | Magnussen, Utah State; Snow, Utah; | Trainor, Colorado College;’ Kinnick, | Towa; Lain, Rice; Stoddard, Idaho; Sienko, Washington State; McCarthy, Notre Dame; Bob Davis, Kentucky, | and Dick Davis, Indiana. ‘( Hinkle of Vanderbilt so far looms conspicuously among the centers on all counts, including leadership, dura- bility and play diagnosis. Two of the best pivot men were on view at the Polo Grounds Saturday, with Ki Ald- rich of Texas Christian given an edge by most critics over Fordham's Alex Wojciechowicz. Herwig of California, Dougherty of Santa Clara, Erickson of Washington, Murray of Wisconsin, Gallagher of Yale and Moore of Colo- rado are other centers who come well | recommended. Holland Sterling End. EFENSIVELY, one of the season's finest performances at end wusi registered Saturday by Jerome (Brud) Holland, Cornell Negro star. Holland was a “fifth man” in Yale's backfield much 6f the afternoon. The Southern Conference has two topnotch wingmen in Andy Bershak of North Carolina and Don Hudgins of Duke, the latter a converted back who specializes in blocking punts. Other standout ends: Shoemaker, Alabama; Davis, Dartmouth; Benton, Arkansas; Boyd and Huessner, Baylor; Looney, Texas Christian; Benz, Wis- consin; Daddio, Pittsburgh; Dreher, Denver; McDonough, Utah; Waters, Brigham Young; Pete Smith, Okla- homa; Ray Smith, Idaho; Sweeney, Notre Dame, and Hardy, Georgetown. Two big reasons for California’s all- conquering march, observers report, are the team’'s superlative guards, Stocktor and Evans. They are com- pared to Post and Robeskey, the pair who raised havoc in Stanford's be- half some years ago. Virgil (Brahma) Jones of Texas A. and M. is rated the standout guard in the Southwest Conference, though playing on the same team with a 1936 all-star choice, Capt. Joe Routt. Others in this - position who have caught expert eyes: Hooper, Cornell's kicking guard; Sivell, Auburn; Mec- Garry, Utah; Smith, Colorado Uni- versity; Wallace, Denver; Gillespie, Brigham Young; Monsky, Alabama, and Dubois, Navy. Fine Tackles Numerous. THE season has developed a wealth of first-class tackles, judging from the reports. - Vanderbilt’s Ricketson, was conspicuous for his touchdown dash on a deceptive play Saturday. Frank (Bruiser) Kinard of Mississippi is rated by coaches of rival teams as the best in the old South.« DITION Foening Staf WALTER MAYBERRY, Captain and ace back of the Florida ’Gators, who meet Mary- land in the latter's home-coming Mayberry is all-America caliber and the Terps’ big task will be to stop him. affair at College Park Saturday. "POPPI OFF Ytan. All-America Hooey. HIS is supposed to be the year of fine Eastefn ball carriers and embryo} all-Americas and yet there was Coach Frank Dobson of Maryland .putting the blast on picking the Nation's best football players the | other day at the Washington Football Writers' Asspciation meeting. | Mr. Dobson, happily, is not one of those college football attaches who is knee | deep in hypocrisy. Frank believes there are players who are great, good and But he cannot understand ‘the practice of picking 11 players and T mediocre. calling them the best in the land. Eastern football writers and critics are enjoying this campaign so far. It begins to look as though a good many of the East's ball carriers will be prominently mentioped for all-America posts when the season draws to its close. Clint Frank of Yale is making a lot of talk and so is Osmanski of Holy Cross, At Columbia the irrepressible Lou Little calls 8id Luckman the best forward passer hé ever saw and waiting patiently for Bill Ingram to round into top shape. Peck and Baker have attracted attention of Cornell%——- PR and so far nobody has called Oakes of Harvard a bum. In the process of lambasting the All-America teams, Dobson said: “There are approximately 25,000 college football players in the country at the moment. Of these, critics they haven't seen 20,000 of the others, to say the least, and yet the practice of choosing so-called . “All-America teams’ goes on. What kind of foolish- ness is this?” Battles No All-America. DOBSON has a point ‘which will bear investigation. Look over your professional rosters. How many All-America players do you see? Mr. George P. Marshall, ever the showman, has corraled an uncommon number of prominent players, headed by Sammy Baugh. But on the Wash- ington Redskins’ roster there also is listed the names of such as CLff Battles, Turk Edwards and a number " Erwin to Promote Winter Boxing in Birmingham By EDDIE BRIETZ. * Associated Press Sports Editor, EW YORK, Oct. 28 (P).— Mickey Walker, former welterweight champion, is batting 1,000 as master of ceremonies in & West Forty- eighth street cafe ... Casey Stengel must be slipping . . . he'll get $3,000 Jess for managing the Bees next year than he got for not managing the Dodgers . . . Down South the boys are trying to raise dough to get aboard the Florida Alligators in 1938-39 . Operatives report Josh Cody has got himself & fresh- man team from away back yonder ... Only trouble is, most of the guys are from up this way, and sport names that give the sports scribes flits, such as Pauzauskie, Kosolosky, Reinschmidt, Battista, Zdanzykas, etc. . o « (time out for air). — Lou Ambers, the kKing, i beck in town lightweight after a month’s hunting trip on which he killed—three pheasants . . . That gent in' the brand-new bowler is Eddie Brannick, secretary of the Giants, who sails today for a month’s tour of Europe ... The father of Johnny Dundee, once & great featherweight champion, died yesterday . . . Big Bill Dwyer plans to spend $75,000 improving his Tropical Park racing plant at Miami this winter . . . Two famous names—James Fennimore Cooper and Billie Burke—form an effective combination for the Marquette football team. 4 ‘This racing business must be ex- pensive, at that . . . Two other mil- lionaires soon will follow C. V. ‘Whitney's lead and get out . . . Bob Quinn of the Boston Bees used the telephone on two occasions 44 months apart to sign the same manager . . , In 1934 he called Casey Stengel at Glendale, Calif, to land Casey for the Dodgers, and \ the other day he called Casey at Omaha, Tex, to offer him the Boston Berth . . . Fordham’s jaunt into North Carolina today marks the first time in three years the Rams have left New York to play a football game . . . Jimmy Erwin, manager of Petey Sarron, the featherweight champ, will promote boxing shows in Birmingham this ‘winter. Against Texas Christian last week, Fordham used two backfleld combinations . . . one consisted of three sophomores and a senior and the other of three veterans and one sophomore . . . The reason Henry Armstrong is a favorite to trim Petey Sarron tomorrow night is that since the first of the year the West Coast Negro has scored kayos in 21 of his 22 fights . . . Jack Manders, who comes to the Polo Grounds with the Chicago Bears Sunday, made 70 straight conversions in his first three years with the Ohi- Nats’ Piedmont Farm Made Cal Griffith’s Charge—Florida Building for Football Future. cagoans . . . is. there anything to the rumor that Jimmy Hamilton, general manager of the Nashville Club will be in a similar post in Brooklyn soon? Jake Mintz of Pittsburgh is a promoter who will get along . .'. He had John Henry Lewis matched with-Arturo Godoy. . . . John Henry went to & hospital for a long stay .. . Instead of throwing in a sub- stitute, Mintz called the show off ... He took a financial licking, but made friends . . . Nomination for the best yell section in the country: Those 4,000 Texas Aggie students ... oOnce they made a Notre Dame baseball team quit the fleld be- cause they couldn’t stand’ the throat-splitting yells Add all- America candidates: Andy Ber- shak, North Carolina’s star end . . . Clark Griffith’s son, Calvin, will head the Nationals’ Charlotte farm in the Piedmont League next 26A808H, \ ‘ NG at Annapolis the Severn clientele is of other plgyers who are feared throughout the National League. Battles, is recognized all over the East as one of the greatest ball carriers and broken-field runners in the game of football. ‘When he went to college some years ago Mr. Battles did his grid stunts for West Virginia. He was “buried” from the big grid centers, and as far as this department can recall the only real boost the guy ever got as a col- legian was when Mr. Rod Thomas covered a Georgetown-West Virginia game one day and was so impressed with Battles that he marked him down as & gent worthy of All-America rating. This seems to be a-habit with Mr. Thomas, who happens to work on The Star. For three years he proved an able aide de camp to Mr. John Kings- bury Espey, who kept plugging Tuffy Leemans for national laurels. Inas- much as Leemans was hooked up with George Washington nobody paid any attention outside of the Capital. Leemans Best, Says Owen. JT WASN'T until Leemans was foisted on the All-Star collegiate team of 1936 that people really began to notice him. He starred against the Chicago Bears a year ago in the Windy City and, brought to New York to face the Giants, he stood out again. Mr. Steve Owen, who coaches the football Giants, grabbed him and inserted Tuffy into the New York line-up. The other day a New York football reporter, busily en- grossed in the task of sounding out Mr. Owen, wrote as follows in quoting the Giants’ coach: “Washington has a grand drawing card in Sammy Baugh. He's a re- markable back, but not the equal of our own Tuffy Leemans. (Where does Owen get that ‘our own.') I rate Leemans the best back in the National League. He's young and eager, loves to play football, can do everything well and calls a fine game. “Tufly, as you know, came to us from George Washington University. ‘When it came to picking the All- America, the experts practically ignored him. But he was the class of the country. I sort of lean toward the boys on the submerged teams. They have to put in mofe 60-minute after- noons than the players in colleges ‘with big squads. In consequence, the small varsity star comes to us with perhaps twice as much actual playing time as a man from an advertised outfit.” 3 Dobson Likes Mayberry. R. OWEN, of course, is no bum in his line. He knows whereof he and so does Dobson. Without THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937. Classified Ads Menaces to Local Football Teams in Attractive Contests Here This Week End RICHARD CASTELLO, 200-pound Tulsa center who'll b, e a barrier for George Washing- ton in the intersectional tilt at Griffith Stadium tomorrow night. Sports Program For Local Fans . TODAY. ‘Wrestling. Joe Cox vs. Chief Thunderbird, feature match, Turner's Arena, 8:30. TOMORROW. Football. George Washington vs. Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Central vs. Western, €entral Sta- dium (public high title game), 3:30. St. John's vs. Calvert Hall, Balti- more, Md. Gonzaga vs. Washington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30. Newport News vs. George Wash- ington High, Alexandria, Va., 8. Landon vs. Georgetown Prep, Landon field, 3:30. Anacostia High vs. Charlotte Hall, Eastern Stadium, 3:30. SATURDAY. Football." Manhattan College vs. George- town, Griffith Stadium, 2:30. Florida vs. Maryland, Byrd Sta- dium, College Park, Md., 2:30. American University vs. Dickin- son, Carlisle, Pa. Maryland “B” Squad vs. Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. Devitt Prep vs. Fork Union Mili- tary Academy, Fork Union, Va. Episcopal vs. McDonogh School, Baltimore, Md. Bullis Prep vs. Massanutten Mil- itary Academy, Woodstock, Va. St. Albans vs. Church Farm School, Baltimore, Md. Howard Universil Howard Stadium, 2:30. GRID LOOP PLAY-OFF FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Oct. 28 (#)—The Dixie Professional Football League has adopted a play-off system similar to that used by many baseball leagues. First and third place teams and second and fourth place teams will be paired in games at the end of the season, with the two winners playing for the league championshi) Tulsa, vs. Miner, DID YOU WIN A SWEEPSTAKES OR SOMETHING ? TERPS LT HEAVY FORHONE COMI Events From Morning Until Midnight Saturday at College Park. [LE the football game with the University of Florida will be the big feature of home-coming at the Uni- versity of Maryland Saturday, the re- turning old grads will have something to occupy them all day. Events have been provided to en- tertain both the men and women. One of the features will be the tra- ditional tug-o'-war between the Sophs and frosh at Paint Branch at 10:30. The losing team will get a ducking. The home-coming dance, that* will last from 8 p.m. until midnight, will be the grand finale. The complete program: 9 am.—Registration begins at Ritchie Coliseum, alumni head- quarters. 10:30 a.m.—Freshman - sopho- more tug-o’-war, Paint Branch. 11 a.m—Co-ed play day, wom- en's field; visiting teams, Western Maryland, American University and Wilson Teachers’ College. 12 noon—Lunch, university cafe- teria or Ritchie Coliseum. 1:30 p.m.—Freshman parade. 2:30 p.m.—Football, Florida vs. Maryland, Byrd Stadium. Be- tween halves: Competitive float parade by student organizations. 5 pm.—Annual “M" Club megt- ing, engineering auditorium. Cere- mony to honor President H. C. Byrd's silver anniversary with the university. 5:30-7 p.m.—Alumni buffet sup- ver and mixer, women's field house, entertainment by university Glee Club. 8 p.m. to midnight—Home-com= ing dance, Ritchie Coliseum. MY FRIEND, PAGE D—1 t Chagrined by Softened Gridirons CHCAGD FROTHI FORBURKEYETLT Hopeful of Giving Rugged Foe Fight—Big Ten Looks to Busy Week End. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, Oct. 28.—Chicago's brave little band may be just a soft touch in Ohio State's road to the Big Ten football title, or a share thereof, but the Ma= roons don't believe it. The Chicago team is 50 under= | manned that Coach Clark Shaughe nessy has had to teach almost every member of the squad the duties of two or more positions. They haven't won a game this year in three starts— against Vanderbilt, Wisconsin and Princeton. They don't figure to give the powerful Buckeyes an even mildly troublesome afternoon Saturday. But they have gone about preparing for the tussle in the manner of a team with a good chance of winning. They figure they are going to beat some one and it might as weel be a team as good as Ohio State’s. ¥Whaughnessy does not look for a victory, although | he feels his boys should make a battle of it. The Maroons, however, believe that their passes and running game will click for the first time this sea~ son to produce an upset. Maroons at Peak Form. N ANOTHER spirited session yes= terday the Maroons' Lew Hamity, | Ed Valorz, Sollie Sherman and Louis Letts, manning the offense, displayed precision and their best power of the season. The Buckeyes polished off their offense, stressing passing, which did not operate to Coach Francis Schmidt’s satisfaction last week against Northwestern. Illinois whipped through a final hard session on the maneuvers it will use against Michigan Saturday, with Bob Zuppke's starting backfield of Jack Berner, Jay Wardley, Bob Wehrli and Howie Carson intact and func- tioning at top speed for the first time of the week. The Wolverines fin- ished with an effective defensive dem- onstration against a variety of for- ward passing plays. Notre Dames linemen were drilled |in fact charging against Minnesota formations, while the Gophers worked again with only the coaching staff looking on. At Indiana, Coach Bo MvMillin combed his squad for place- kickers in an effort to find an of- fensive maneuver to supplement the passing attack the Hoosjers will spring on Nebraska. Towa Points for Purdue. \IOWA'S varsity gave its best dem- | onstration of spirit and power since losing to Wisconsin two weeks ago in the last stiff workout in prepara- tion for Purdue. Coach Mal Elward made more shifts in the Boilermaker line-up as he sought to fashion a de- fense capable of stopping Nile Kin- nick, Iowa's sensational sophomore back. Tony Gradisnik tore off a pair of long touchdown runs as Harry Stuhl- dreyer strove to brighten up Wis- consin’s running attack before en- countering Northwestern. The Wildcats drove through an of- fensive session in which George Mc- Gurn and Jay Lasky were groomed as possible replacements for Fullback Jack Ryan, who has played all but a few minutes of three major games. "Gators Get New Stuff for Terps By the Associated Press. AINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 28— University of Florida's foot ball squad went through a series of new maneuvers yesterday to try on Maryland Saturday. The 'Gators built up a defense against the Terps’ formations. Coach Josh Cody said the first team looks “good.” It had no diffi- culty in overrunning freshmen. The team leaves this afternoon for Maryland. Cody said he expects to take 37 players Northward. THAT "IN THE MONEY * LOOK, COMES FROM SMOKING THE FINEST 5% CIGAR MADE...ASK FOR LAAZORA ...IT'S THE WINNING TICKET / A Product of G. H. P. Cigar Co., Inc, DISTRIBUTOR, DANIEL LOUGHRAN CO, INC, 403 11th ST. 8.W.,, WASHINGTON, D. &