Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 18

WASHINGTON, D. C, Oldest, Youngest D. C. High Schools Clash as Basket Series Starts Tomorrow . GLOVES FOR THE GOBS Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN The Cherry on the Whipped Cream “My goodness, it can’t be done!” That’s how everybody still interested in football must have felt when the timekeeper's gun sounded over the radio and the Chicago Bears walked off the field at the Polo Grounds, winners again and by 35-24. ‘The team that happened to be playing the Bears yesterday unques- tionably was one of the great gridiron aggregations of all times. It was a picked team of all-stars representing the other nine teams in the National MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942. ——By JIM BERRYMAN Colleges Ready To Fill Orders 0f Uncle Sam Grid's Official Family L, BUT DISAGREEBLE U.S. Peppy Coolidge J g8 ~(Ezkeatie | Quintet o Vie RIFLE,GRENADES, WATER, FOOD TABLETS.... AN’ SLUGGIN’ MITTS ! MAYBE THE Anacostia Plays Host AIAVY INCLUDES A COUPLE OF League. Stout Steve Owen, who was coaching the all-stars, was surround- ed by everything it takees to make a great team—crack ends, sturdy tackles and guards and backs who could run in a broken field, tear apart a line, kick and pass. Surrounding Stout Steve Owen is a test for the Russian Army. It doesn't happen often. But yesterday the gentleman was surrounded by virtually every standout pro not working for the Bears and still he found that he didn't have enough. To this distant observer the Bears put the cherry on top of the whipped cream with that 35-24 win. Other Great Teams Not as Deep It may well be that the Bears, who probably played together yes- terday for the last time, were the greatest football machine in history. It would be useless to compare any college team of the past with George Halas’ firm, and precious few pro clubs could be dignified with a serious comparison. In the comparatively short history of professional football three teams are best remembered. There were the Bears of the Nagurski-Manders era; the Green Bay Packers with Hinkle, Hutson and Herber, and the ‘Washington Redskins of 1937. True, there have been many crack Chicago and Green Bay clubs. The Bears were plenty tough when they had Red Grange and Keith Molesworth to augment their power. But pro ball was run loosely in those days and the competition was not as it has been in recent years. Good as he was, Nagurski was not better than was George McAfee this year. Nor was his team as deep in all positions as the 1941 Bears. The same fault may well be found with the best Packer and Redskin teams. As a single unit the 1937 Washington backfield of CIliff Battles, Sammy Baugh, Riley Smith and Erny Pinckert probably stacked up with any foursome of all times. But the Bears that have been disbanded not only had a comparable backfield in Luckman, Osmanski, McAfee and Nolting, but two other sets almost as good. And they had the lines to g0 with them. Even Baugh, With Strong Cast, Not Enough Like the fabled baseball Yankees of the Ruth-Gehrig-Meusel and the Gehrig-Di Maggio-Keller eras the Bears scored in big splurges. ‘Twenty-one or even 30 points in a single period was no novelty to this team. It was with a 21-point uprising that the Bears took a never-to-be- lost lead yesterday. You could almost hear them saying in the huddle, *“Well, let’s get a few points and let 'em try and catch us.” The All-Stars tried nobly enough. In Sammy Baugh they had a passer so good that not even the Bears’ best could carry his helmet. Baugh pitched to three touchdowns. It popularly has been supposed that Sambo, given a cast of supporting players who could run the ball and snag his bullet passes. would oe unbeatable. » He had his cast yesterday. He had Hutson, Cuff, Schwartz and Dewell to catch. He had Pug Manders, Tuffy Leemans and Art Jones to diversify the attack with their ball-carrying. But it still wasn't enough to beat the Bears. All-Stars Had Hero, Won the Statistics On the statistics sheet the All-Stars won the game. In Baugh they had the game's individual hero. With 13 seconds left to play and the game out of reach, Owen took Baugh out of the game and the announcer stopped calling the All-Stars the Giants long enough to let the listeners hear the ovation. It didn't seem possible that 17,725 people could make that much noise. But Chicago scored the most points and won its 19th victory in 20 bruising battles since last August. That is a long stretch of time, and, considering the caliber of opposition, probably a record without parallel With eight first-line stars already due to join the service and more likely to follow, the Bears no longer are an overpowering machine. Whether the pro loop views the break-up with glee or alarm is a matter Pledges Co-operation To Aid War Effort PARACHUTER'S By ROBERT MYERS, EQUIPMENT.... Associated Press Bports Writer. - PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan, 5.—College football will be ready to fill any order by Uncle Sam in 1942. If Uncle Sam wants fine, well con- ditioned athletes, he’ll get that, too. It doesn’t take long to discover this sentiment among recognized leaders of the gridiron sport who are gathered at Camelback Inn here to- day. The occasion is the annual meet- ing of the National Collegiate Foot- | ball Rules Committee, composed of | | the men who lay down the laws for | your football heroes to follow. Ranking Coaches Attend. | sitting with the group, some of | them members of the official family, | are ranking coaches of the Nation, men whose names are familiar to all | followers of the game. Dana X. Bible, Alonzo Stagg. Lou Little, Matty Bell, Dick Harloy, Bill Alex- ander and others. 4 i “Sure, we'll have football next fall, and good football,” said Matty Bell, the one-time praying colonel from Centre College, now coach of | | Southern Methodist University at Dallas. “But.” he added, seriously, “you can bet the boys that go into service will go gladly and they will be men- tally and physically fit, just as they | | were in the last war.” i Bell, a modest but plain-spoken | Texan, was not assuming a “blow | the bugle, hoist the flag boys” at- titude. He's not that kind. | His words reflected the attitude of | the entire gathering, as rules discus- | sions got under way in earnest. The | discussions are strictly private and | | nothing of their nature is to be dis- closed until final decisions are | reached. Chairman Walter Okeson of Lehigh University made this clear. It might be added that the ses- | sions at this stage are a lot more | secretive than some of the commit- | | teemen. i Sees Few Rules Changes. One delegate was so frank as to say he expected few changes in the | 1942 rules book. Another, identified by a friendly face, highly familiar to | Columbia University football play- | ers, observed aloud that the unlim- | ited substitutions rule had been 8- OUNCERS IN EVERY \\Y So! THAT'S How WE'RE GONNA LICK THOSE JAPS .. - AN’ JUST THINK OF ALL TH' DOUGH SPENT ON GUNS, PLANES, SHIPS AN’ 7ANKS ! -.BUT.WE BELIEVE WE KNOW WHAT AMERICA'S SECRET WEAPON /S ! LT COMDR. GENE TUNNEY K SIGNING UP ALL FIGHTERS...FROM CHAMPION T& HAM-AND-EGGER ... SO-.. COULD BE ... THEY'RE GOING TO KNOCK OFF THE MIPPONESE NOGGINS. ....... L unanimously approved at the recent g fet iz st Chibears’ Wins Over All-Stars (Senates Now Rule Roost ! Lou Little of New York was a prom. | inent figure there. i Further more or less anonymous Lyttleton-Rogers By the Associated Press. Miami Net Lures Segura, of conjecture, but certainly it will be some vears—for the duration and | cbservations are expected to fol- | perhaps much longer—before they'll: be another team like it. We can |low as the delegates warm to their see ourselves in the future telling young Tobasco, age 10, all about the 8ssigned task. wonder team back in 1941. next one.” I'm too old for fairy tale: We can even imagine the answer. “.. . And five fullbacks, each as good as the | “And nuts to you, pop. Ruth Is Recuperating; . In Heurich Court L N'Ck owner HUIUS fOl’ $6I000 | “Sen:eur:er tno:rnowogfnds | alone on top of the Heurich Ama- teur Basket Ball League, undefeated in nine ioop games. Its latest win Fans Again Are Missing as McAfee Routs | came yesterday in the feature of ‘ Pick of Pro Loop; Baugh, Filchock Hurt four games when it topped F. B. I, i | 49-35. | By SID FEDER, | “ate Associated Press Sports Writer. also enjoyed an undefeated record, NEW YORK, Jan. 5—In the name of sweet charity—and by but Jacobsen ruined this string with e 3 | : B i { . " g0 | LOI.IIS COflfldenf He “ Beflt Bflel' Au'o MIShap' Dlehng way of proving that his Chicago Bears are just about the greatest lh52‘35 upset. In other tilts, Hot oppe handed District Silents Qu icker Thon He Did Lust May \cause Ne"e A"ack Halas’ bankroll showed a $6,000 hole today for two all-star games. By AUSTIN Associated Press Bports Writer. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Joe Louis, who wound up with a knot on BEALMEAR, ! | BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Babe Ruth, who batted his way to a sal S gridiron collection ever turned loose to prowl—Jumping George,‘ Snokher sibatk: 54546, snd. Jeveish | Community Center won over Michel- George, mind you, had a lot of satisfaction from the way those | bach, 40-27. apples of his eye knocked over thed- | National Pro-Football League All- s | o P "s rou vuring | broken rib; Prank Fllchock, Wash- | Alexandria Police, until yesterday, | MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 5.—An Irish- man and an Ecuadorean top the for- eign entry list so far for the Univer- ! | sity of Miama amateur tennis tour- nament starting January 12. The Irishman is G. Lyttleton- Rogers, former Davis Cupper, who upset Frankie Kovacs last summer. Francisco Segura of Ecuador used | his powerful two-handed forehand drive while eliminating Bitsy Grant of Atlanta from the Sugar Bowl tournament at New Orleans. a1 greater than that paid the Presi- ington ball-carrier, had two of the | \ his head, an argument on his hands and $40.000 in his pocket the dent of the United States, was| in a 35-24 decision yesterday in the last time he tied into Buddy Baer, risks his heavyweight title against the Californian again Friday night with nothing but thanks ! covering rapidly from the extreme 2s his reward. | nervousness that necessitated his ' The champion expects to earn twice as much as he did before, in about half the time, but he'sé————— giving it all away. Win, lose or draw, Louis will donate his end of the purse to the Navy Relief So- ciety. which takes care of the fam- ilies of Navy men felled in action. If the gate reaches $225.000, the goal set by Promoter Mike Jacobs, the Bomber’s share will be around $80,000, And all that he'll take, under an agreement reached long before Pearl Harbor was attacked, will be his training expenses. Baer is turning part of his purse back to the naval fund and Jacobs is working for nothing. It took Louis six rounds to finish the job in Washington. D. C.. last May. after Baer had bounced the champion on his head in the open- ing frame. Baer was disqualified by Referee Arthur Donovan whel Buddy's manager. Ancil’ Hoffman, | remained in the ring to claim a foul after the seventh round was sched- uled to start. lowed lasted for days, but Capital boxing officials sided with Donovan. | This time, Louis says, there'll be | | no room for argument. He has been | | powdering his sparring mates with | terrific blows at his Greenwood Lake | training camp, and his handlers say he will be the Louis of old when he | crawls through the ropes at Madison Square Garden for the 15-round tussle at 10 pm. | . After flooring two rugged fighters ! {in less than 30 seconds. the cham- | pion relaxed and declared: “After 1 knocked ’em down, I hadda save some of my steam. May need it Friday night against Buddy. | Took six rounds last time down in Washington. I think it'll be shorter | this time, Least, I'm going to try | { to do it shorter.” | At Lakewood, N. J.. Baer has other | ideas. He even talks of putting | Louis down to stay this time. | “I'd have won it in Washington | resting comfortably today and re- removal to a hospital early Satur- day. Mrs. Ruth, wife of the man who once was paid $80,000 a year for playing baseball, said “he was get- ting along fine” and that she ex- pected him to be released late this week. A narrow escape in a car accident during the holidays, when his car was wrecked, and a heavy dieting program during which he lost 37 pounds in a few weeks brought about the nervousness, a physician said. Ruth also is suffering from a heavy cold. fight. It wasn’t until I was training to fight Abe Simon that I learned that I had chipped two bones in my right elbow. “Two_doctors advised an opera- tion. The third decided to treat it. It hasn’t bothered me since I started training here. I'll use it this time. I'll use my right to knock Louis out.” The battle, expected to attract Although Louis had floored Baer | if T'd been able to use my right | close to 20,000 customers, will be the twice in the sixth. Hoffman protested | hand.” Buddy confided. “My elbow 20th title defense for Louis since he | that his man had been hit after | bothered me. and I had it baked lifted the crown from Jimmy Brad- the bell. The argument that fol- | every day for two weeks before the dock 4!; years ago. Polo Grounds for the second one. | ! But the red ink is getting to be | | quite an item. | A year ago, Halas took his big Bears out to sunny California and | blew $3,800 of his own while turning in a 28-14 win over the All-Stars. Yesterday George brought the | thundering herd into the Ilocal| National League ballyard because | {of the war, and in the process of | becoming & set of mud-covered | | snowmen the pro league champs | | rolled up the biggest score ever | marked up in this four-year series. | Halas Pays Again. . 1 ‘The choice of freezing a few toes | aplece or staying home by the fire- | side resulted in a cozy gathering of only 17,725 fans. This produced a net gate of $51,059.67, of which the Navy relief fund got $25.529.84. | Out of the balance came some | 43,800 rental for the park and $8200 for the 28 All-Stars—each of whom collected $150 and expenses. What was left, after George paid his men | and a few incidentals represented | |an estimated loss of a couple of | thousand iron men. So, George won | the ball game and proved his point about his goliaths, but he paid for it. | For that matter, so did the All- | Stars. _Don Hutson, Green Buy'n| pass-catching end, wound up with same, and Slingin’ Sammy Baugh had to have four stitches taken in | his jaw. | This, of course. was after Sammy | had spear-headed the All-Star at- | tack, pitching for all three of the ! All-Star touchdowns. | Baugh Tightens Game. His job of elbowing brought the All-Stars back into the ball game for a bit in the second half, but| never enabled them to draw everl | - with the Bears, who bowled through | for three touchdowns in the second quarter. | The Stars had taken a 3-0 edge | in the first period, after Ward Cuff | cashed in on an intercepted pm} with a 19-yard field goal. Then the | Bears rolled. | ¥ Most spectacular. of their scores | was a 68-yard punt return by George | McAfee, ex-Duke, on & run during | which he spun and slipped away | from five straight tacklers like a ; piece of soap on the bathroom floor. George scored twice in the few minutes he was in there. Bobby Swisher, Ran McLean and Ken Kavanaugh, neither of whom started the game, produced the other three tallies. In fact, the way Halas' reserve ball carriers were operating, you | couldn’t tell who were the All-Stars. | War Seen Likely to H By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr., Wide World Bports Writer. NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Wonder 1 any one has thought of the pos- sibility that war conditions will help baseball and some other spectator sports instead of wreck- ing them? With no new cars and no tires to take folks out of town, they're likely to turn for ‘amusement to the places they can reach easily—the ball parks. Certainly they won't be leaving aminor league towns and driving 200 miles or so to see big league games. And perhaps you noticed the story that the English are go- ing to the movies .nore than ever these days, apparently be- + gause there's nowhere else to go. i Weather wasn't very co-operatiye | With the East-West and pro bowl #harity games, but the pros didn’t do ‘30 badly for the Navy relief i fund. Crowd was only about 4,000 4 under last year's at Los Angeles, s+ and the New York price scale was her. One reason the Bugar New Orleans—the Times Pica- yune published a 60-page Sugar Bowl souvenir sectfon last week. Brass ring dept.—Ih a private bowl-picking contest in the farh- ily of Jack Meagher, Aburn grid coach, 6-year-old Pat won out over Mr,, Mrs. and five other kids. He picked them all right. Hank Wolfe of the Richmond News- Leader apparently grabbed the brass ring among the Southern scribes, He was the only one in Virginia to pick State over Duke. Other States haven't reported yet. Monday matinee—Hold your hats, boys, here comes Lou Nova with another new punch. He calls it the “spitfire punch”—it's a short, fast right that starts high and comes down. Should do all right if it's equipped with & car- ron and & brace of machine guns. Frank Brimsek, the Bruins’ goalie, has joined the Brookline (Mass.) aircreft warning service and puts in three hours & day on duty. Pete Barry, one original > élp R;:tfler Than Hurt Baseball Fans Should Throng Parks With No New Cars or Tires to Take ‘Em Out.of Town Original Celtics, still is playing pro basket ball after 30 years on the hardwood. He is 44. Pvt. Charles White of Lowell, Mass., got a three-day furlough when he was transferred to the Army ski. troops. . He put in his time skiing in New Hampshire, Pat Comiskey, who was busted up in an automobile crash last fall, is back home in Patersen, N. J., but he still has a cast clear up to his hips. Chick Harbert, the young golfer who hit the jackpot at Beaumont, Tex., recently, used 16 caddy for Walter Hagen and copies the Haig in every move— even to arriving late at the first Soe ; Today's guest star—Jimmie Murphy, Canton (Ill) Daily Ledger: “Joe Louis celebrated New Year Day by helping devour turkey. Next week they're feed- ing him Baer.” Person-alley-ties—First round- up of the “bowl and buy bonds” program by the A. B. C. shows total sales of $145000 in Milwau- kee, Detroit, Chicago, Cudahy, ‘Wis.; Houston, Columbus, Ohio; Roseville, Mich. In Hollywood, Calif,, Max Sievert told the boys who bowl at his place that he would match them dollar for dol- lar on their bond purchases. Every league in the place took him up. Bowling teams with res- ervations for the A. B. C. tourna- ment have until tomorrow to get in their entries. Dates have been assigned to 4,733 teams. Last laugh—Out at the Okla- homa City basket ball tourney \they weré telling this on Ernie Quigley, who is as good a court that one. = “and entirely too little of it on the fioor.” - ) Big Moments of Life Spur Bowler Dyak In U. S. Classic By the Associated Press. STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 5—Big moments in the life of 24-year-old Steve Dyak seem to inspire him to the heights of dllckpln‘ wm ‘Two years 8go & ., on his wedding ‘day, thee Willimantic sharpshooter won the United Stated Classic and its $1,000 top -prize. Saturday night, four days aff the birth of his daughter, the Dyaks’ first child, Steve did it again, rolling 2014 for 15 games, 3 pins better than Astor Clarke of Washington, D. C, the Nation's top-ranking duckpinner. Wanted 1841 Cadillac Will Pay High Price Mr. Kirk, WO. 8401 4221 Connecticut | To Eastern; Close Title Race Looms * By GEORGE HUBER. With Coolidge’s confident and peppy young Colts making their | debut in ¢hampionship competition, ‘the high school basket ball series opens tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 | with Central playing at Coolidge and | Eastern visiting Anacostia, | A neat twist to the Central- | Coolidge game is that it brings | together the oldest and the youngest high schools in the city. After that comes the weekly double-header on Priday night at Tech with Wilson meeting Tech and Western tangling with Roosevelt to send all eight teams off on the chase for the 1942 title. Coolidge’s addition to the round robin series | makes it just that much harder to learn a spot as one of the select | four teams in the championship ‘plas'ofl and some merry scrambling | is indicated. | Roosevelt, Eastern, Western and !Tech were the four teams in the championship playoff last season, | but there likely will be some changes | this time. All the others have at jleas: a chance. | Prospects of Series Rivals. | A quick, thumbnail sketch of the line-ups goes like this: | Anacostia—More fight and spirit | than ability, although better on | fundamentals than previous Indian | teams. Will be trying all the time. Central—Still green, although bet- ter than could be expected with only one letterman. Players tall with lots of drive and not afraid to shoot all the time from all angles. Coolidge—Confident and fairly ex- perienced. although needs more playing in a tough league to be really good. Good student support and fair reserve strength. Eastern—One of the teams to beat. Lots of experience, good reserves. Shooting is accurate. passing excel- lent and defensive work okav. Roosevelt—Defending champion, but no cinch to repeat. Good first team. needs reserves. Fast and with plenty of stamina. Has several out- standing plavers who can turn tide in their school’s favor at almost any time. Tech Has Midget Outfit. Tech—Midget outfit, lacks polish and has only one letterman. Hasn't been defeated in three games so far, | though, and the final score is what counts. Western—A real chance here. Real teamwork and ability with experi- enced plavers. High-scoring outfit. ‘Wilson—Chance here also if Coach Tonv Kupka can keen team fired up through long series. First team okay. reserves needed Getting down to tomorrow’s games, Central will be unveiling one of the series’ dark-horse outfits against Coolidge. Coach Jack Ray has been working hard with his boys during the holidays and will present a first team of 6-footers with the exception of one player, Johnny Gibbons, who happens to be the best on the Viking squad. A high (See HUBER, Page A-17.) J | \ Men, don't miss these big savings on the "Stormy Leathers" and dressy calfskins you need for all-winter wear. Just 750 pairs, and they're going quickly at this low pricel HAHN Ihhé& G, 7th & K ONI.Y!?‘