Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 42

Sports News Hendrix College, With Football Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. The Madman of G Street It may be that some of the boys are worrying their pretty Sittle heads needlessly when they cry out against the lack of stamina and the softness of modern youth. At least, it’s a cinch they never saw Mad Matt Zunic. Matt is a young man who is winding up his varsity basket ball career 88 George Washington. It is a lead-pipe cinch that he will set a new scoring record for the downtown school. Zunic isn't playing on the best quint in the country but virtually every enemy coach who has seen him in action admits that Mat Matthew could make—and star on—anybody’s team. Zunic 1s 6 feet, 2 inches of skin and bones but he can play 40 minutes of the hardest, most flerce basket ball you ever saw. He never stops. It's pound, pound, pound every mintte. That's the main reason why he has scored 146 points th 10 games and why he leads in the Southern Con- ference in shooting. That’s the main reason because there are better floormen—not to be confused With floorwalkers—around these parts. There are better passers and, from afar, better shots. But Zunic outdigs the rest. He runs ragged the two and three men assigned to guard him a game. Some way, some- how, he fights to get his shots. It is significant that he is the perennial local leader in drawing foul shots. Zunic Is a Bargain-Counter Courtman We asked Publicist Johnny Busick to help explain this startling yound man and Mr. Busick, an honest person at heart, was forced to admit that Zunic was sort of & bargain-counter courtman. A sort of an Alsab, so to speak. “He comes from New Kensington, Pa.” Mr. Busick relates. “George Washington was after a high school star named Pierre Hartman. When we landed him we were so elated we didn't pay any attention to Zunic, wko came along, too. But Hartman flunked out of school in a hurry and Zunic . . . well, you know the rest.” How Mad Matthew generates that-amazing stamina is beyond Mr. Busick and, to -tell the truth, a constant source of wonderment to the other G. W. players. The way basket ball is played today it's like run- | ning full-speed on a treadmill. There are no times out after goals. It's dig, dig, dig, and even the old graybeards, who always insist that rowing and the 440 are the toughest tests in sports, manifest growing admiration for modern basket ball players. It's pretty hard, you know, for a boy to attract unusual attention on the court at George Washington. This is because ever since Coach Bill Reinhart came here from Oregon in 1935 the Colonials have been in the | national picture. And you don't build nationally ranked teams out of stumblebums. Reinhart’s had some great players. Reinhart Won’t Make a Comparison There were, for instance, Tommy O'Brien and Art Zahn and Jack Butterworth. There was Forrest Burgess, too, who goes back quite a few years. It is Burgess who is holding the scoring record of 544 points for three varsity years and who 1s about to be passed by Zunic, who has 539 already and is almost certain to wind up with 650 or more. Zunic always has been a big point scorer. As a soph he scored 150. Last year he counted 243. But he isn't “shoot crazy,” either. This can be proved when the G. W.'s licked Maryland last Saturday to win the local title. He shot only 13 times from the floor and dropped half a dozen. Ernie Travis of Maryland, his chief rival, shot 23 times. Reinhart calls Zunic one of the best in the country, but he won't compare him with O'Brien, the Irish lad who captained the crack team of 1937-8. At that time Bill said that O'Brien was the best captain he had ever had in 16 years of coaching sports. “You can't compare them very well,” says Reinhart, “because they are entirely different types. O’Brien was the smart, cool, brainy leader— n@er ruffied or hurried. He was like another coach on the floor. Zunic has terrific eompetitive force. He's not the long-shot O’Brien was, but he's better. at close range. Zunic will go arbund you with his speed whereas O'Brien was more likely to fake or outsmart you.” Does Mad Matt Belong With All-Timers? Over at George Washington they are saying that Zunic belongs on any all-time local team, in case anybody is thinking of organizing an all-time locel team. We wouldn’t know about this, but it seems safe to| say that it will take a little digging to find five better players than Mad | Matt. Bozie Berger, the Maryland all-everything, would almost have to be put on such a team. There wasn't anything Berger couldn't do with a basket ball. For that matter there wasn't much he couldn’t do with a football or a baseball except, in the latter case, hit a good professional pitcher’s curve. 3 During our little span in sports there was a fellow we still remember. His name was Ray Foley of Catholic University, another of those all- everything guys. We couldn’t imagine a better pair of guards than Berger and Foley in collegiate ranks. Fred Rice was before our time, but they say he was something to see, to0. And there were some pretty fair Johnnies at Georgetown, some more at G. W., and the Harveys, Longs, Ronkins and Chalmers of C. U. and Maryland. It's quite & Jjob, weeding out the five best. Any sug- gestions? - Georgia Tainfer Bids For Bigtime Fame in Miami Links Final Gains Revenge Beating Louise Suggs, Takes On Dorothy Kirby MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30.—Making her first real bid for national golfing fame, attractive Georgia Tainter of Fargo, N, Dak, faced Dorothy Kir- by of Atlanta, Ga., today in the 86-hole final of the Miami Biltmore tournament. Miss Tainter, Whose best previous efforts were in the North Dakota State tournament, which she won twice, reached the final here the hard way. She met Louise Suggs, Southern champion, from Lithia Springs, Ga., in the semifinals and managed to reverse the decision the Georgian gained over her in the semifinals of the Punta Gorda tour- nament last week. She won, 4 and 2, and had a 37 on the first nine. Miss Tainter scored the first eagle of the tournament on the 415-yard eleventh, when she chipped in from the edge of the green for a 3. But Miss Kirby, Georgia State champion and an established star, was even more impressive in her semifinal match. She walloped Mrs. ‘Wilcox, jr., of Miami, 7 and 6, with the help of a 36 on the front nine. Forbes, Veteran Referee, Boxing Writer, Dies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Eddie Forbes, 68, well-known boxing ref- eree and former sports editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, died of a heart ail- ment yesterday in hls Brooklyn home. In 40 years as a referee Forbes officiated in an estimated 10.000 bouts. His last big assignment in the professional ring was in 1928 when he refereed Gene Tunney's farewell bout against Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Basket Ball. Gonzaga at Woodberry Forest, Orange, Va. Washington-Lee at George Washington High, Alexandria, 8. Anacostia at Frederick (Md.) High. Gallaudet at Quantico Marines, Quantico, Va. Hockey. Johnstown Blue Birds at Wash- ington Eagles, Riverside Sta- dium, 8:30. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Coolidge vs. Tech, Eastern vs. Roosevelt (high school series), Tech gym, 7:30. Virginia at Maryland, College Park, 8. Columbus at Potomac State, Keyser, W. Va. Baltimore Poly at Maryland Freshmen, College Park, 3:30. Georgetown Freshmen at Navy Plebes, Annapolis. Boxing. Miami at Catholic U., 8:15. Virginia at Maryland, College Park, following basket ball. Virginia Freshmen at Mary- land Freshmen, follows freshmen basket ball. Columbus at Lock Haven Teach- ers, Lock Haven, Pa. Hockey. ©* Drexel vs. Georgetown, River- side Stadium, 8:30. Washington Lions vs. Hershey Bears, Hershey Pa. ‘Washington Eagles vs. Johns- town Blue Birds, Johnstown, Pa. Swimmin, Catholic U. vs. La delphia. g Salle, Phila- Wrestling. Maryland at Davidson, David- son, N. C. N. C. League Going Ahead SALISBURY, N. C, Jan. 30 (#)— Directors of the North Carolina State League at their annual meet- ing passed up debate on operation in wartime and went ahead with their plans for the 1942 season. A 100-game schedule will open May 7 and close August 29. The Foening Fap cone WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942. Progrmrings Pracfically All Into Pastimes De-emphasis Step Seen As Real Solution for Smaller Institutions By HENDRIX CHANDLER, Wide World Sports Writer. CONWAY, Ark, Jan. 30.—Any college looking for a way to remold its athletic program because Uncle Sam is getting its fleetest and brawniest can take a few pointers from little Hendrix Coliege, which de-emphasized intercollegiate sports experimentally a year ago. With an enlarged intramural pro- gram, this Methodist institution of some 500 enrollment has increased student participation in sports from 52 to 93 per cent for men and from 30 to 86 per cent for women, while its sports deficit reached no more than the usual $200 a year. And, war or no war, Athletic Di- rector Ivan H. Grove believes the de-emphasis program was coming anyhow for the smaller colleges. ' “The smallest colleges simply can't carry the load,” said this vet- |eran of 16 years’ coaching experi- ence at Hendrix. | “Nearly all the smaller schools | have been losing money, and even | some of the larger colleges and uni- versities have been having a hard go of it. The intercollegiate sport | simply is too expensive for the re- | turns you get.” | Football Loses $100. | 'The Hendrix experiment involved dropping intercollegiate football, which lost something over $100 in 1940, although it produced $1.460 of the institution’s sports revenue. In- come from the grid sport came largely from a pro-rata share of lstudenc activity fees. | Measuring the returns from stu- | dent participation in football alone, | the figures are five to one in favor | of intramurals. There were 27 men |on the 1940 football squad, which | played a 10-game intercollegiate | schedule, while 120 were active in| six-man intramural football in 1041-42. | And what was the reaction in a| student body that annually steamed | | itself up over games with such grid | mighties as the Universities of Mis- | sissippi and Arkansas? Here's Grove's observation: “I believe there’s really more enthusiasm and interest in sports on the part of the student body than Jbefore. I'd just like you to see the school get worked up over the ane nual freshman-sophomore football game and some of these intramural basket ball games. “I have heard over and over again this statement, ‘You know, we don't miss football like I thought we would’ Another statement voiced by many is, ‘I've really enjoyed Hendrix more this year because I feel that I'm more a part of the college than I was last year.” Research Precedes Change. Hendrix didn’t rush into the de- emphasis program. Grove said the | college undertook the change after three years of study and research on the part of the institution’s Policy-Making Committee. The purpose in adopting the new plan, said Hendrix President J. H. | Reynolds, was to provide “a more ‘wholesome and stimulating program than the old spectator sports type, in which ‘only a small number of men actively participate.” The intramural program is all- inclusive. Students are assigned to classes suited to their individual needs and interests, as shown in observations during a physical train- ing program required during the first two years. In these courses, | certain skills are taught for group and individual sports. | If a student is eliminated from | active physical training classes by some deficiency, then remedial and corrective classes are provided. Sports on the 1941-2 program in- clude tennis, basket ball, six-man | football, roller hockey, volley ball, | table tennis, golf, tug-o’-war, track, | softball, bait casting, pocket billiards, wrestling, boxing, horseshoes, hand- ball, touch football, tumbling, badminton and weight lifting. “All in all, there are no regrets for abolishing intercollegiate foot- ball,” Grove summed up. “The faculty is sold on the need and the value of the new program, the stu- dents definitely are making the most of it and the faculty respects the wisdom.of the change and is co- operating wholeheartedly.” De[ending Champions Head Record Field InU.S. Ice Meet By the Associated Press. LA CROSSE, Wis, Jan. 30.—Ken Bartholomew and Carmelita Landry, defending titleholders and favor- ites, headed a record field of speed skaters who worked out today over a soft and slushy ice track for the national championships which start tomorrow. Bartholomew, the lean and lanky kid from Minneapolis, and Miss Landry, diminutive entry from Fitchburg, Mass.,, who is one of the most serious treiners in the sport,| gave notice they were ready for a sturdy defense by turaing in smash- ing victories in the North American championships at St. Paul last week. Meet officials expected 225 entries by tomorrow. Minneapolis, winner of the 1941 team trophy, listed more than 50 contestants, only a few ymore than Chicago. Little likelihood of new records over the Pettibone Park lagoon course was seen unless a sudden cold — Droppe ° GETTING HIS REWARD—LLt. Fred J. Hughes, jr., who won the jumper scurry event with Black Caddy in the final portion of * | | | NOTABLE ONLOOKERS—Gen. Albert Cox and Douglas Fair- banks, movie actor, who now is a lieutenant in the United States spell should improve conditions. Navy. Courageous Athlete’s Award Given Hoppe By Philly Scribes | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.—Phil- adelphia sports writers feel that the veteran billiard champion, Willie Hoppe, is the Nation’s most courag- eous athlete. A plaque in recognition of his 1941 activities, which included a come- back from a sick-bed to win the three-cushion crown, was presented the cue artist at the annual banquet last night. A special award for courage went to Army Flyer Capt. Colin P. Kelly, jr., who gave his life to sink a Jap- anese battleship in the Philippines. The “outstanding athlete for 1941” award went to the New York Yan- kees’ Joe Di Maggio. Giants Pay Atlanta High For Rookie Infielder BY the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Jan. 30—The New York Giants have decided to take up their option to buy Connie Ryan, young Atlanta second baseman. It is to be a cash deal and the whole sum was not announced. The Journal said it was understood to be near $30,000. —Star Staff Photos. the President’s Birthday horse show at Fort Myer last night, is being presented with a trophy by Mrs. Arthur Godfrey. Noted Horsewomen Are Losers | As Prince Tex, Rocksie Falter Men'’s Team Goes Faultless in Last Round Of Challenge Match at Fort Myer Show By LARRY The spirit of the riders was willing, but the horseflesh was weak. That, to a degree, explains the defeat of The Star’s team of expert horsewomen by a quart performance of the President’s Birthday Horse Show at Fort Myer last night. Before a capacity crowd of horse¢———————— show enthusiasts, but few movie celebrities, the gamest contestants that ever entered an arena—Mar- garet Cotter, Mrs. Fred J. Hughes, jr.; Mrs. W. Haggin Perry and Sara Bosley—tried all the arts of match- less equistriennes to encourage their mounts—the peerless Rocksie, the brilliant Hi Ho, the giant Thunder Boy and the dauntless Prince Tex— to rise to the occasion and surpass| the best efforts of four gallant steeds ridden by opponents who had ability, luck and everything else that goes with a winning combination. Men’s Horses are Faultless. Enteting the second night of the | match but a half point back of their rivals and confident of turning the tables the women's team saw the captain of their adversaries, Maj. C. B. McClelland, ride his great Smacko to a faultless round. Up came Thunder Boy, with Betty Perry aboard, to let his rider down with a refusal at the hog's back then Curb Stalling Batters, Hurlers To Speed Baseb all, Zeller Asks By WATSON SPOELSTRA, Associated Press Sports ‘Writer. DETROIT, Jan. 30.—If baseball is to be fitted to a wartime pattern, General Manager Jack Zeller of the Detroit Tigers thinks streamlining of the battle of hom tribution. ot e plate would be & notable con- Zeller has in mind the countless individual battles between pitchers and batters in the course of a major league season. By various time - consuming methods%- this endless feud “has become primarily a war of nerves, and Zeller wonders if it isn't the customer who is greatly irritated. “There’s .no reason why major league games should consume two or perhaps eveft three hours,” said Zeller today as he prepared to leave for the special league meeting at New York for consideration of the game’s wWar course. There Are Rules to Keep. “In addition to having less time for baseball, the customers won't have the patience to sit out an ex- hibition of stalling by batter and pitcher,” Zeller declared. “I think it’s time to enforce the rules against delaying the game.” The rules specify that a balk may be called against the pitcher if he consumes more than 20 seconds un- der normal circumstances in de- livering the pitch. There are va- rious penalties for batsmen who fail to stick to business at the plate. With league presidents instruct- Hockey Race Tied as Bruins, Bereft of ‘Kraut Line,” Bow By the Associated Press. The New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins were deadlocked at the top of the National Hockey League today and the Rangers owe the Brooklyn Americans and the Royal Canadian Air Force a vote of thanks. While the Rangers were idle last night the sixth-place Americans snatched a 5-4 decision from the Bruins, who found the loss.of their famous kraut line too much- to shoulder. A the same time, Toronto'’s ) third-place Maple Leafs pulled to within.three points of the leaders by crushing the tall-end Montreal Canadiens, 7-3, and the Detroit Red Wings stayed one jump ahead of Brooklyn in fifth place by blanking the Chicago Black Hawks, 2-0. The Madison Square Garden clash was the first appearance of the Bruins without their famed trio of Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer, who became members . of the Royal Canadian ing their umpires to give strict in- terpretation to the code, Zeller be- lieves games may be curtailed to 90 minutes or perhaps an hour and three quarters. Then afternoon fans would get home to warm dinners, and operators of night ball would conserve the power supply. ‘Twilight’ Game Nothing New. Perhaps Zeller's ardor for less waste motion in baseball arises from his recent suggestion that the De- troit club try twilight ball to per- mit day-shift workers to attend games. “Twilight ball?” several fans cho- rused. “Why, that’s what you had last year with a midafternoon start- ing time.” Zeller believes that twilight ball, however, will change the players’ notions on importance of the time element in baseball “Why, if the umpires tried to speed up the game in the past,” he declared, “the dugout jockeys would complain, ‘What’s the matter, umps, got & heavy date?’” Schedule Ready Soon Georgetown’s 1942 football sched- ule will be releaséd as soon as Grad- Hoyas' 1943 and 1944 cards already are well filled, & hearfening note in the midst of all this cut-out-sports insanity. Juke Care of That Cold RIGGS LAWRENCE. et of noted horsemen at the final finish the rest of the couru with & clean performance. . ‘Then came Sam Béfley‘ with | tion Ringmaster. The ex-cjreus *horse just can't seem to lose \in the Fort | Myer ring. Ringmaster rounded the course without fault. Hi Ho, with Mrs. Hughes up, came along and took all the barriers in stride. | When Lew Dunbar, the Eastern | importation, ridden by Gordon | Wright, also accomplished the cir- | cuit without fault, the best left for | the women's team was a tie for the | evening. Prince Tex, ridden by Miss | Bosley, like a petulant child. refused to try, and Rocksie, with Margaret Cotter up, had four faults. | ‘Women Score 7 Faults. | ‘That was the end, a score for the evening of nothing for the men and seven for the women. Score for the two-day match was 131 points for the men, 20%; for the women. ‘The Defense bond presented by The Star to the low score holder of the women'’s team went to Mrs. Fred J. Hughes, jr. Fencing cleanly over a course so tough that but few of the 38 entries | could negotiate it, Capt. David | Wagstafl's top-flight Enterprise, ‘, under the expert hand of her owner, | won the featured open jumping class | with one of the best single per- formances of the show. For the second time in two nights | the Hughes family, Lt. and Mrs. | Fred J. Hughes, jr., proved that they possessed about the fastest and handiest jumpers in this section. On Wednesday Mrs. Hughes, with her Hi Ho, won the exciting go-as-you- like class, an event in which time counted. Last night it was the lieutenant’s turn and he made the best of his chance by racing his eccentric stallion, Black Caddy, over the intricate course of the scurry class in the remarkable fast time of 29% seconds to score over Hi Ho. Green Jumpers’ Duel Is Keen. Two smart jumpers staged a duel in the green jumper class, Rum Boogie, a good looking Government mount ridden by Capt. Wagstaff and Anita Mammele’s Caddy’s Trump, Leutbecker aboard. The jumpers negotiated the tricky course without fault, something that 31 other horses in the class could not accomplish. In the jump off, Rum Boogie had the better round. The pair-of-hunters class proved one of the most popular events. Combined ownership was allowed in making up of the pairs and the team composed of Ruth O’Keefe’s Hyglo, ridden by Roland Ridgway, and the Springsbury Farm’s Ginnico, ridden by Shirlwy Payne, showed the way to the others. Entries of three of the top stables of Virginia had the road hack class with its 41 contestants pretty much to themselves. The class must have been a headache to the judges who finally decided that Mrs. M. E. Whit- ney’s Cherry Bounce, ridden by (See HORSE SHOW, Page C-3) Ve. Now-Resident Hunting Licenses | be Rapid Robert. nd Classified C-1 d, Finds Students Thrill to Intramurals Chance at Louis Spurs Pastor, Lesnevich Winner Tonight Apt To Box Champ for Title in March By SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer, NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—Out at Camp Upton, where they make sol- diers out of guys named Joe, Pvt. J. Louis Barrow is going to have a lot of fun tonight while Gus Lesne- vich and Bob Pastor pound each other all over Madison Square Gar- den’s ring. For, there is a good chance that the winner of this 10-round tea party may be served up to Pvt. Bar- row in a couple of months. And the only dish the private is fonder of than fresh fried chicken is a platter of hopeful heavyweight, served hot or cold. The chief incentive for rapid Rob- ert and rugged Russian from Jersey in the present proceedings is this chance for the winner to get his ears knocked off in March, when Pvt. Barrow comes back to the wars. Of course, there is a small matter of cutting up tonight's gate, which Promoter Mike Jacobs figures may touch $25,000. But both of the bat tle-scarred gladiators are more in- terested in the big shot that lies beyond. Now there is no written guarantee that the fellow who walks out with all his marble tonight is going to have a chance at Louise, since Pas- tor has a February date with Lem Franklin, who was no pushover when last heard from, and Gus is slated to defend his light-heavy- weight championship in the not- too-distant future. However, Promoter Mike has promised both that the winner will receive “first consideration” when it comes to picking the name of Joe’s next victim out of the hat. At this writing, the gambling guys figure that brave citizen will i In the better Forty-ninth street price-making parlors, they're laying 5 to 8 Pastor |-adds sturdy Gus to the list of fel- lows he took apart during 1941 This corner casts its vote that way, t0o. Umps Austin, G;shleu Lost to A. A. for 1942 BY the A_sociated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 30.—Two members of the American Associa- staff will be missing when the 1942 season opens. Bob Austin, who joined the staff last year, has enlisted in the Naval Reserve, while Paul Genshlea, who has called 'em in the association the last’four campaigns, will retain his job at the Curtiss-Wright plane plant, Ramitez, Boxing at 145, Picked Over Britton B) the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30.—Moving into the 145-pound division, Light- weight Champion Rodolfo Ramirez of Mexico was favored to whip Bobby Britton, Miami, Fla, welterweight, in a 10-round match at Hollywood Stadium tonight. Basket Ball Scores By the Aseociated Press. LOCAL. St. John's, 35: Eastern, 33 Staunton M. A.. 36; Episcopal. 35 Western, 23/ George Washington High 17, St. Albans, 43: Rockville, 13. EAST. Edgewood Arsenal, 44; land. 40. Panzer. 43 = pY3 Western Marye Ge { Morris Harvey 37: Va Tech, 29; MIDWEST. Western_ Michigan, 51: Wabash, Bowling"Green. Heidelberg, Kansas. 53; lowa. 51 St. Ambrose, 55: Upper Towa, 42 Evansville, 48; Central (Ind.) Normal. 43. artburg, 29 (over- ama. Tennessee Mexico City U., Kirksville Teachers. leyan. M 5: Friends, 29. Mexico, 44; Fenn, 32. WEST. Southwestern (Tex.), 44: Trinity, 25. Montana Mines, 39; Eastern Montans one of Black Caddy's get, with Bobby | Norm Don't “let down.” Set aside @ part of each week to keep slim, Mind your figure—and have fun. Just try it! For Information & Reservations Phone Oxford 2014