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Sugar Bowl May Overshadow Rose: Want Interference Rule Modified
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SANTA CUM WIN
TODAY IMPORTANT
Would Give Louisiana Show
Only Major Team With
Flawless Record.
BY GBANTLAND BICE.
AN FRANCISCO. Calif., Decem
ber 13.—If Sant* Clara can
handle the case of Texas Chris
tian and Sammy Baugh, re
maining untied and undefeated, the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans will be
foot ball's main spot on New Year
day. This means that Louisiana State
and Santa Clara, with no defeats and
one tie between them, will dominate
the closing scene.
If Santa Clara beats T. C. U.—no
part of a pushover—today, there will
be sounds of revelry In New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and Northern California,
for It will mean the big bowl show
moves from the Pacific to the Gulf.
The fact that Washington and Pitts
burgh are two of the country’s four
strongest squads has little to do with
the case. It is the psychological side
that counts.
If Santa Clara wins her last game,
Buck Shaw's team will be the only
top-notch team left with a flawless
reoord. And this team will be pitted
against a team ranked on a par with
Minnesota in the front-line stand.
VLTASHINOTON is rated as the best
team west of the Mississippi.
Pittsburgh undoubtedly is the strong
est squad in the East, including re
serves. But most of the color will
move from the Par West to the South
In case Santa Clara slip* by today.
There are many reasons for this.
Both Washington and Pittsburgh have
been beaten and tied. Pittsburgh has
little chance to get back in shape,
training in Pittsburgh's December
weather. And on her last two trips
to the West Coast. Pitt was beaten.
47 to 14 and 35 to 0, a total of 83
to 14 In two games.
When you try to tell them around
Lob Angeles how strong this Panther
team la you get one answer: "That’s
what tlwy told us before—both times—
and all we saw was a cross-country
run by Southern California.” One
of the main answer* was Pittsburgh’s
foot ball weather.
I asked Jimmy Phelan. Washing
ton'! coach, a keen, alert head man,
why L. S. TJ. was overlooked. "We
wanted the best Eastern team this
year,” he said, "and we picked Pitt.
There can be no national champion
ship. anyway. There have been good
teams this year—but no great ones.
We are not great. And neither Is
Minnesota nor any one else. Pitts
burgh was good enough to beat Notre
Dame, 38 to 0. and Nebraska. 19 to 6.
What other team did two better jobs
than this?”
If Santa Clara Loses.
yyHAT will happen If Santa Clara
loses her last stand? Suppose
Slinging Sammy Baugh begins to hit
his target with his bulletlike passes.
This can happen. If It does, some
of the Sugar Bowl edge wiU be re
moved, but the Sugar Bowl game still
wiU carry the main appeal, unless
the Californians are routed or badly
beaten. It still will mean only one
defeat and one tie for the combined
talent at New Orleans against two
defeats and two ties for the combined
talent at Pasadena.
As far as I can make out. every foot
ball fan In Southern California wanted
L. s. U. and no one else. What hap
pens In San Francisco today may have
quite an effect on later reaction.
Last One Always Tough.
Y17HEN a team la unbeaten the last
• ” shot always is a tough one. "We
were an entirely different team after
the Northwestern defeat,” Berate Bier
man told me. “When you have gone
over two years without losing a game
you know the bad news is sure to break
soon. An unbeaten team either takes
too much for granted—or else It be
come* keyed up and overanxious. The
game’s psychology is all against you—
and don’t forget that psychology plays
a big part in foot ball, a bigger part
than most people know.”
With so much at stake It isn’t likely
Bow that Santa Clara wiU take any
thing for granted in this lsst game.
Barred out from all Rose Bowl con
sideration—not being a member of
the Pacific Coast Conference—Santa
Clara Is keener than any one else to
lift the Sugar Bowl to first place in a
national way. This feeling may bring
on too much tension. And T. C. U.
has a team that demands respect,
especially In a wild and woolly year.
Beyond any argument a Santa Clara
victory will be a hard blow at Rose
Bowl prestige—for this season, at
least.
(Copyright. 1936. Sr the North American
Newspaper Anienee. Ins.)
GIANTS BUT PITCHERS.
NSW YORK December 12 </P).—
Mew York Olants have purchased four
young pitchers from Greenwood of the
Cotton States League. They are Wil
liam Benne, John Meteki and Tom
Merrick, right-handers, and William
V are wick, southpaw.
SHE BOTES ON RECORBS.
Nlda Senff, 16-year-old Dutch girl
who won the Olympic backstroke
championship, has kept on breaking
the 100-meter dorsal world record. Her
latest mark la 1:11.6, five seconds
fajtlr thaw her winning Olympic time.
Wildcat Is Wild
As Big Ten King
VfOVINa end sound pictures of
lV1 Northwestern’s thrilling 6-to-0
victory over Minnesota, ending the
Gophers’ long reign as foot ball
champions of the Middle West,
featured the Northwestern Alumni
Association banquet last night at
the ehib house of the American
Association of University Women.
High school coaches and 11 of
the In ter high scholastic stars
wen honored guests at the dinner,
calebntlng Northwestern’s winning
of the Big Ten title. Judge lease
It. Hitt, an alumnus of North
western. wss the principal speaker.
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College Quints
Johns Hopkins. 58; American
University. SO.
Duke, 38; Richmond. 35.
Dana, 33; Concordia Teachers,
18.
Waynesburg, 48; Carnegie Tech,
43.
Northwestern. 37: Pittsburgh, 38.
Iowa State. 39; Grinnell, 38.
Marietta, 39; Fairmont Teach
ers. 36.
• Toledo. 70; Adrian. 13.
Wake Forest, 50; Durham T. M.
C. A.. 35.
Depauw, 32; Georgetown College,
39.
Villa nova, 51; Western Mary
land, 30.
St. Cloud. 48; St. Olaf, 33.
Murray College, 48; Arkansas
8tate, 37.
Roanoke College, 71; Roanoke
Y. M. C. A.. 31.
Coe, 32; Central. 36.
Drake, 37; Simpson, 37.
Calvin, 35; Battle Creek. 24.
Loyola, 42; Beloit College, 30.
Dakota Wesleyan, 40; Valley
City. 32.
Mayvllle Teachers, 35; Moorhead
Teachers, 24.
Western Illinois, 38; lacrosse
Teachers, 28.
Superior, 40; Macalster College,
24.
South Dakota. 33; Nebraska, 31.
Idaho, 25; Whitman College. 21.
Aberdeen Northern, 37; Ellen
dsle Normal, 16.
YULElEltERS
Major Plants Reduce Fees
for Star Tourney Play.
Star Duos Clash.
BY ROD THOMAS.
ANOTHER break for bowlers in
The Evening Star's ninth an
nual Yuletide tournament
came today with the an
nouncement of concessions to be made
by the city's four major pin plants,
Lucky Strike, Convention Hall, Ar
cadia and Columbia.
A straight buck will be collected from
entrants at these plants who use
three league games as part of their
live-game qualifying sets. The Ar
cadia and Convention Hall had been
collecting 30 cents, a nickel a game
under scale, for the two extra strings,
plus two bits, which, with the usual
60 cents for league play, grossed $1.15.
Two-bit Fee a Nuisance.
rPHE additional quarter was rung
in to pay the qualifiers’ bowling
fees in the roll-off. Bosses of the
major plants, joined by Tad Howard
of the Rendezvous, another "20-cent
house,” agreed yesterday to dispense
with the two-bit arrangement which
alley men soliciting entries had found
to be a nuisance.
Many bowlers will take advantage of
he Sunday opening of the Silver
Spring plant tomorrow to shoot their
qualifying sets in The Star tourney
and also to see perhaps the hottest at
traction, from a spectator’s viewpoint,
of the season.
All High Rankers.
rPKIS will bring together in a mixed
doubles match the team of Lor
raine Gulli-Astor Clarke and Ida
Simmons-Ray Von Dreele. They will
shoot five games in the afternoon, at
2 o'clock, and five in the evening at 8,
for a purse of 850 put up by the Silver
Spring plant.
Miss Simmons is the No. 1 ranking
woman bowler of the country and Miss
Gulli the No. 2. Clarke is the top
rated man and Von Dreele of Balti
more a former holder of that distinc
tion.
CO-CAPTAIN GRIDDERS.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., December
12 (/P).—Johnny Coiner, an end from
Clarendon, Va., and Ted McGowan,
tackle from Ridgefield Park, N. J.,
have been elected co-captains of the
William and Mary 1937 foot ball team,
it was announced here today.
WILL PILOT DURHAM.
DURHAM, N. C., December 12 (A5).—
Paul O’Malley has signed as manager
of the Durham club of the Piedmont
League for 1937.
NEW MS CODE
IN SOUTHERN LOOP
Graham Plan Is Modified
After Virginia Leaves
College Conference.
By the Associated Press.
ICHMOND, Va.. December 12.—
The Southern Conference was
pledged today to what lta sec
retary. Col. William Oouper
of V. M. I., termed a ‘'modified” form
of the abolished Graham plan for the
banning of athletic subsidies.
Moving swiftly after the University
of Virginia had resigned because of
sn "Intolerable” athletic situation in
the conference, delegates from the 15
remaining schools unanimously swept
the anti-subsidization regulations
fathered by Dr. Prank P. Graham of
the University of North Carolina from
the books last night, but substituted
other measures which Dr. Graham said
Included "most of the fundamentals”
of his plan.
Pour South Carolina members bat
tled to get the Southern to follow in
the footsteps of the neighboring South
eastern, S. I. A. A. and Dixie Confer
ences In permitting athletic scholar
ships, but the proposal received no sup
port outside of the Palmetto State.
The adoption of a uniform scho
lastic rule was the only controversial
topic left for consideration today.
Scholastic Standard Rejected,
f LEM SON and Maryland each had
'“4 scholastic recommendations be
fore the body. The conference has
left this problem to the individual
schools in the past, although there
were annual attempts to have the
organization set up minimum stand
ards.
Dr. Lee W. Milford. Clemson, who
led the fight against the Graham
plan as "impossible to live up
to" and an instrument for promoting
"dishonesty," proposed that "no stu
dent be eligible to participate in ath
letics unless he has passed 24 pre
ceding semester hours.”
Maryland’s suggestion, made by Dr.
L. B. Broughton, provided that partic
ipants in Intercollegiate athletics
shall have passed two-thirds of their
required work in the preceding year.
Dr. William H. Wannamaker of
Duke, member of the Scholarship
Committee, said that the average
athletic requirement of conference in
stitutions at present was IS semester
hours, or its equivalent. He said this
was about what was needed in most
cases to remain in school.
Modified Graham Plan.
'T'HE Graham plan eliminated ath
* letic ability from consideration in
the awarding of any form of financial
assistance to students, both directly
by the Institutions, or indirectly by
alumni, or persons interestad In the
Institutions.
The new regulations say that the
“source and character” of all types
of assistance to an athlete must be
approved by a faculty committee “on
the ground that they have not accrued
to him primarily because of his ability
as an athlete."
The substitute measure was adopted
in the same motion which banished
controversial rule 13 and came about
as the result of a compromise between
the forces who wanted more teeth in
the Graham plan and those who
sought Its entire elimination.
There were claims of victory on both
sides and none of the delegates was
able to say Immediately to what ex
tent the regulations had been liberal
ised. Opponents of tbe Graham plan
Interpreted the new rules as not
forcing members to attempt to halt
“indirect aid” to athletes, a feature
of the old measure to which the South
Carolina members, Duke, V. M. I. and
Virginia, had objected strenuously.
Frepaaal Tarnad Dawn.
A Proposal by Washington and lee
^ to abolish Spring foot ball prac
tice was smothered, as was an attempt
by William and Mary to allow trans
fer students who would be eligible for
the varsity In one year to play on
freshman teams.
The rule providing that audits of
athletic accounts be available to the
press and published In student papers
was modified to read “shall be open
for inspection by responsible officials.”
Rose Bowl Tilt Unpopular?
Criticism of Washington V.’s choice of Pitt for the Coast
foot ball classic January 1 has been widespread, but—here is
Nelson Wahlstrom, one of the game’s officials, shown yesterday
holding applications for tickets to cost a total of $40,000.
—Copyright, A. P. Wiretfioto.
Orator Max Schmeling Fails to Score in Forensic Fight
Max Schmeling here is shown arguing before the New York
State Boxing Commission yesterday when that body attempted
to set a date for his title bout with Heavyweight Champion
James J. Braddock, standing at right. The effort was blocked
by Joe Gould, Braddock’e manager, seated between Schmeling
and the champ, and the date still is undecided. Commissioner
John J. Phelan is at extreme left and Commissioner Bill Brown
is beside him. Jimmy Johnston, Madison Square Garden match
maker, is seated beside Schmeling. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
JOE WOULD FIGHT
SCOIJNG FIRST
Louis Prefers Return Bout
With Conqueror to One
for World Crown.
Br the Associated Press.
LEVELAND. December 12 —
The Brown Bomber from De
troit, Joe Louis, Mid today
he'd prefer a return fight
with Max Schmeling before one with
Heavyweight Champion Jim Brad
dock.
"I'd pick a Schmeling fight first, of
course," he said after shadow-boxing
and punching a light bag, preparing
for his 10-round battle Monday night
against Eddie Simms, local heavy
weight.
“Simms is a good, hard hitter," Mid
Louis, whose brilliant rise was halted
by the effective right hand of Schmel
ing.
"Can't fool around with Simms
long. Don’t pay to dilly-dally with
that kind,” Joe iaughed.
Calls Edwards' Speech “Smart"
T OUIS arrived yesterday morning,
accompanied by Julian Black, one
of his managers; Jack Blackburn,
trainer, and his bodyguard, Carl Nel
son, former Chicago policeman. Co
manager John Roxborough has been
here for several days.
The Brown Bomber was more
voluble on the English situation and
base ball than his coming fight, for
which be was to work out this after
noon on an assortment of a half
dozen sparring mates.
“Did you hear the King resigning
his title?" asked Louis. “A right
smart speech, I called it.”
Asked if he thought it was the
proper decision, Louis replied;
“He's got a reason mil right. He’s
Mtisf.ving his heart—and it's his
•heart.”
Hm Faith in Tiger*.
Then Louis turned to Base Ball
Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis' de
cision ruling Bob Feller, sensational
rookie pitcher, property of the Cleve
land Base Ball Club.
“The judge called it and the judge
can't be wrong. But I'd kin da liked
to seen the Tigers get a chance to
bia for the kid. He must have some
thing-plenty of something!”
The Detroit club, Louis declared, is
“gonna do a lot of getting even with
a lot of people next year. Twasn’t
nothing but the toughest sort of
tough breaks that stopped them from
repeating this year.
"They won’t be no stoppln' ’em next
time out.” *
TEXAS CASTS ABOUT
FOR NEW GRID COACH
Mentor of High Caliber to Take
Cherigny's Place Asked by
Many Petitioners.
a? tfa* Associated Press.
A U8TCN, Tex., December 13.—Unl
verslty of Texes looked for a foot
ball coach today to replace Jack
Chevigny of Notre Dame.
J. C. Dolley, chairman, announced
the athletic council had accepted
Chevlgny’s request that he not be
considered a candidate and would
start negotiations with applicants for
the vacancy.
He said the council had taken full
cognisance of numerous petitions
with hundreds of names asking It to
employ a mentor of the caliber of
Dana X. Bible of Nebraska, Lynn
Waldorf of Northwestern or Tiny
Thornhill of Stanford.
Many observers expressed the opin
ion Ted Twomey, line coach under
Chevigny, who came here from the
University of Kentucky, would get the
Job.
BUFFALO LEAVES LOOP.
NEW YORK, December 13 UP).—
Maurice Podoloff, president of the In
tern* Uonal-American Hocxey League,
has announced the Buffalo Blaons
have withdrawn from the league.
RACE BETTING DECLINES.
CHICAGO, December 13 UP).—
Wagering on hone racing In Ulinola
In 1936 totaled 633,133,164, a decrease
at approximately 93,600,900 compared
with 1936. %
"POPP/NG
OPPTtan...
Base Ball Meeting Afterthought.
NOW that Bob Feller definitely
U the property of the Cleve
land club, as a result of Judge
Landis' decision, it would be
reasonable to assume that we have
heard the last of Iowa's l>-year-old
pitching sensation until April, when
he begins to fog his fast ball by
American League hitters.
That, however, may not be the ease
Recent stories out of an Icwa oasis
named Van Meter have quoted young
Mr. Feller as saying that he is very
glad to be an Indian but that he will
ask for $20,000 to pitch next season.
It seems that Bab. who went
back to high school when the
base ball season ended, really
has been learning a few things.
Now It also must be assumed that
Cleveland was very happy to escape
from the 1'afTaire Feller with only a
mild slap on the wrist in the form of
a $7,500 fine which must be paid to
the Des Moines club. Had Feller been
declared a free agent the Indiana
would have lost him. inasmuch as they
oould not have bid for his services,
and Robert would have been able to
sign with the Red Sox or the Yankees,
via legal channels, and make a cool
$100,000 for himself.
But paying $20,000 to a kid with
only a couple of months of big-league
experience. Ouch!
O'Neill SUclu Oet Chin.
TF ROBERT wants to get tough about
x it, he can come pretty close to
getting 20 grand. In the first place
there is no doubt but that Cleveland
overstepped the bounds of the base
ball law when Feller was signed.
That's why Landis' decision had to
be rendered in 2,000 words. In the
second place Manager Steve O'Neill,
in a very jubilant mood, was quoted
in the papers after the decision as
saying, ‘‘Filler is the greatest pitch
ing prospect I ever saw come into the
major leagues and he has a chance to
be a world beater.”
Then, asked if he weald trade
him. O’Neill added:
should say net Bob is
going to stay with as. No one
can get that bey away from
As a result of this, Feller need add
nothing more to his salary argument.
Even the most inexpert wielder of
scissors can clip a squib like O’Neill’s
quotation from the papers and Robert
is not likely to have missed It. He
does not have to say that he is a
great pitcher. His own manager has
said so and it now is in Mack and
white.
Unless Robert is an amateur at
heart and unusually susceptible to
fancy words, he probably will become
the highest-salaried rookie in the
history of base ball.
How Aboat the Other Boys?
T^OR do the Indians’ salary head
^ aches end with Feller. Even If
Cleveland gave him $20,000 the
Brsdley-Blspnlcka Interests would be
getting off easily provided no other
complications set In. And they are
likely to set in.
Ball players, you see, almost never
will admit that another player rates
a higher salary than they are getting
and in the ease of Feller this will be
particularly true. Actually, Cleve
land received $500,000 worth of ad
vertising on the Feller esse and It
cost the Indiana only $7,500.
Manner the mum ef Feller
has basics synsaymsm with
Cleveland and wherever the In
dians appear ant year, regard
less ef whether they are playing
American League intests. Fel
ler will he a terrific drawing
•aid.
But try and convince a ball player
of that fact. On tbs Cleveland club
are many fellows who make far lam
than $90,000 par year and they are
Mg leaguers of proved worth, lfel
Harder la one of the best pitchers In
all base ball and he never has been
a $90,000-a-year man. Mel Is not
colorful, nor has he ben a storm
center, but he can win a lot of ban
games. Nobody yet knows whether
Feller will do. regardless of a couple
ef strikeout sahlMtlcna lari season.
Bari Averlll is one of tbs American
League’s bast outfielders, If not the
best. He does not make $90,000.
Neither does Hal Trosky, a great
hitter and run-driver-in. There Is
tood to thought la this angle.
1
CPEAKING of Feller and Cleveland
^ brings to mind the fact that
Branch Rickey and Sam Breadon still
hold title to Dizzy Dean. Not even
the most anxious bidders for Dean
were willing to acquiesce to the ex-,
orbitant demands of the Cardinals
for his services at the Winter meeting
and unless St. Louis contrives to un
load him before the season opens this
is another club likely to have a sal
ary headache.
In New York the aesthetic
Mans. Rickey went from ane
National League owner to an
other. All he wanted for Dean,
whom he described as the great
est pitcher In base ball, was a
paltry $200,000 and half a dosen
of a team's beet players.
Diz, meanwhile, must have been
getting a great kick out of it all when
he stopped to read the papers between
rounds of golf In Florida. Up In the
cold North Rickey and Breadon were
telling everybody that he was the
greatest pitcher in the game and that
he was worth a couple hundred thou
sand potatoes and player talent.
That, of course, will save Dizzy a
lot of words. Like Feller, when con
tract time comes. Dean will not have
to pop off about his ability. Rickey
and Breadon already have told the
world.
On the q. t. nearly every big league
manager in New York said that Dean
would be a sucker If he asked for less
than $40,000 next season from the
Cardinals.
SANTA CLARA TRIES
FOR PERFECT SLATE
Ends Regular Grid Season Today
Meeting Texas Christian
at San Francisco.
CAN FRANCISCO, December 12 (JP).'
° —Big and rangy Texas Christian
foot ball players will try to slip a
halter on Santa Clara's unbeaten and
untied Broncos here today In an inter
sectional contest which will wind up
intercollegiate gridiron warfare in this
section.
Santa Clara, the only major team
in the country with a spotless record,
will fight to keep the slate unblemished
for the 8ugar Bowl game at New Or
leans with Louisiana State New Year
day
Line-ups: (Kickoff 5 p.m. Eastern
standard time.)
Poe. Texas Christian. Santa Clara.
Ll_Walla _P. Smith
L.T_Bale _.McGee
L O_Holt --Jtodsere
C._Aldrich _Doushertr
2: ?.:::;&irU0.n
R. X-Roach _ Pinner
R. B._Ball---Gomel
F. B_Roberta -Pavelko
Official*—Referee C. M. .Price *Call
fernla); umpire. Mott* Blair (Southern
California): head llneunan. Tom Flta
patriek (Utah): field Judies. Bill Dunn
(Michlean State).
KATIE BROWN VICTOR.
DETROIT, December 12 (Special).
—Natle Brown, ragged Washington
heavyweight, abruptly terminated the
winning streak of Lou Withers of
Detroit here last night, capturing a
clear-cut 10-round decision. Withers
had compiled a consecutive knockout
list of 20 victims.
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AT BOXING PARLEY
Champ, Schmeling, Pro
moters, Commissioners to
Go to It Again Today.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 12 —
The heavyweight fight merry
go-round w as due (or another
whirl today with Champion
Jimmy Braddock, Challenger Max
Schmeling and several promoters
grabbing tor the coveted brass ring.
It did a lot of spinning yesterday, but
the only result eras that arguments
went round and round and everybody
came out dizzy. After a three-hour
meeting of the New York State Ath
letic Commission, nobody agreed to
anything. Then after Commissioner
Walker D. Wear suggested calling off
the Braddock-Schmellng title fight
entirely. Chairman John J. Phelan
called another meeting this afternoon
to resume negotiations.
Champa Manager Objects.
LIERE were the possibilities brought
A up yesterday:
Madison Square Garden submitted
a contract calling for a title bout at
the Long Island City Bowl, June 3.
Schmellng approved, but Joe Gould,
Braddock's manager, didn’t, because
it included at the German’s sugges
tion a clause limiting the principals
to four-round exhibitions before the
bout.
Goukl offered to poet a $5,000 for
feit to back up an earlier agreement
with the Garden and its co-promoter,
the Twentieth Century Sporting Club,
for a June bout.
Schmellng offered to fight Braddock
any time, either in New York or in
the South, but Insisted he should be
permitted to face the champ before
the proposed Braddock-Joe Louis no
declslon bout at Atlantic City.
Ordered te Reach Agreement.
rPHE commissioners ordered the
fighters to reach an agreement
for a fight in February or March.
Phelan said the contracts must in
clude clauses calling for the winner to
poet a $25,000 forfeit that he will de
fend the title in the United States
within the next six month#. Schmel
ing objected on the grounds the for
feit would have to come out of his
purse as he would not be allowed to
take that amount out of Germany.
Phelan mid there is nothing in the
rules to keep either from fighting ex
hibitions or tune-up bouts so long as
they were below the championship
limit of 15 rounds.
PLAT DRAW AT SOCCER.
LONDON, December 12 (JF).—Oxford
end Cambridge drew, 1-1, in the an
nual Interuniversity soccer match.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Southeastern University vs.
Mount St. Mary's, Rmmltsburg,
Md.
Gallaudet vs. Loyola, Baltimore.
W. P. A. vs. Abbott’a Dairies of
Philadelphia, Heurlch'a gym, I.
Billiards.
District three-cushion tourna
ment, $14 Fourteenth street.
COACHES ON COAST
BELIEVE IT SEVERE
Would Change Penalty for
Violation When Called
Close to Goal.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.
OS ANGELES, Calif., December
13.—Pacific Coast toot ball
coaches have Joined In the gen
eral dissatisfaction with the
present method of penalising forward
pass interference and it is one rule
that seems in line tor amendment
at the next sessions of the Intercol
legiate Rules Committee.
Opinion of Pacific Coast coaches is
that at least the rule should be re
vised for Interference called inside
the 10-yard lines. The same thought
has been expressed by coaches and
officials in the Midwestern area. It
is agreed generally that an inter
ference penalty that places the ball
on the 1, 2 or 3 yard line is entirely
too severe and tantamount to giving
the offended team a touchdown.
It may be difficult for the Coaches'
Advisory Committee to convince the
Rules Committee as a whole that the
present interference rule is too severe,
but it is quite likely they may secure
some adjustment on penalties called
inside the 10-yard sone. Otherwise
no important rules changes have been
suggested by either Midwestern or
Pacific Coast coaches.
Thinks Defense OrmiMMd.
IJOWARD JONES of Southern Call
1 forma still Is insistent that- the
defense of foot ball has overpowered
the offense and that the rules gov
erning defensive play should be re
vised. Jones contends that, Inasmuch
as the rules demand that the of
fensive team have seven men on the
line of scrimmage, the same should
pertain to the defense.
8even-man defensive lines seldom
are seen any more, and during the
past season some coaches wire meet
ing offensive developments with what
amounted to five-man lines. In one
game the writer saw a defensive team
use four defensive formations on as
many downs. It is Jones’ opinion that,
if some restriction is placed on the
defense, foot ball will become a more
interesting game for both the specta
tors and players. However, the ma
jority of coaches are in favor of the
present set-up and it is unlikely the
Southern California man will find
much support for his ideas.
Rattle-Daule Game Grows.
'J'HE razzle-dazzle atyle of foot ball
Is gaining proponents in the Far
West, where so far it has had little
development. Obviously a sound run
ning game always will be the basis
of attack, but coaches are coming to
the opinion that a more liberal use
of lateral passes is the best method
of balancing offense and defenae.
Appearances of the free passing Texas
teams on the Pacific Coast opened
coaches' eyes to the possibilities of
the razzle-dazzle, and, when Francis
Schmidt brings his Ohio State team
to Los Angeles next Fall, the coasters
will see further demonstrations of the
lateral game.
A new angle in foot ball legislation
was attempted by the Pacific Coast
Conference, when a minority faction
propoaed an age limit of 28 years for
its athletes. It seems that a few years
back one Pacific Coast college had a
foot ball candidate some 40 yean of
age and that othen have played men
over 28. However, the proposal was
voted down, and there still is an op
portunity for retired business men to
catch up on their foot ball playing
in this sector.
EAGLES IMPRESSIVE,
DESPITE COURT LOSS
Brown, Zink Shine, bat Hopkins
Takes Basket Ball Clash
in Baltimore, 58-30.
Special Dlipatch to Tbe Star.
BALTIMORE, December 13. — The
U smooth work of George Brown
and Capt. Sid Zink, who scored 10
and 0 points, respectively, gave Amer
ican University a faint ray of hope
for a successful season, despite the
Eagles' loss last night to Johns Hop
kins, 58-30, In a basket ball game
here.
American forged to tbe front in
the first three minutes of play,
then the Bluejays started to click
and compiled a 35-17 lead at half
time. The Eagles wilted rapidly in
the last half as Capt. Herb Siegel
went on a scoring rampage to chalk
up 17 points.
The regular Bluejays played a
strong game as they rolled up a sir
able lead, then turned tbe affair over
to the reserves.
Jena. Hopkins
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Total!_7l ~ii 30
Rabbit Ball to Remain at Least a Year
\
Majors' Contract With Makers May Help Yanks Repeat—Derringer on Block.
BY SCOTTY HESTON.
EW YORK, December 13 C4>).
—Echoes from the base ball
meetings: A contract be
tween the ball manufac
turers and the majors may help
the Yankees repeat In the American
League next year. . . . Manager
Joe McCarthy of the Yanks fought
bitterly against deadening the ball.
... He figured It would hurt his
staggers both at bat and In the
held and give an advantage to
the young, fast team that could
place its blows. . . In order to
ehange the ball the majors would
have had to buy up the manu
facturers’ present stock, good for
about a SMtson.
•*
Nov that Cleveland has Bob
Feller, aO the Indiana have to do
la sign him. ... He haa said he
will sign for $30,000, and while he
i$ probably the greatest pitching
attraction in the league for the
time being there Is no precedent
to support a rookie's getting $30,
000. . . . Lefty Gome*, "B Goofy*
of the Yankees, was the highest
paid pitcher In the game, with a
contract that called for $22,500 in
1935-30, but that contract baa ex
pired and "B Goofy* Is braced for
the fall. . . . Branch Rickey says
he’s not worrying about signing
Dean, which may mean several
things. ... ”1 can talk to Diasy,”
says Branch. . . . Sam Breadon,
v,
president of the Cards. Is a great
booster for Burleigh Grimes, and
they’ll tell you around the league
that Sam swung the Brooklyn job
to old "Bolly.”
The Reds probably will trade
Pitcher Paul Derringer to the
Dodgers or the Cubs.... They want
Lee or French from the Cubs, Van
Mungo from the Dodgers, but
they'll hare to throw in more than
Tommy Thevenow, Babe Herman,
Benny Prey and cash for Mungo.
.. . The Dodgers would like to get
Lombardi in the deal. .. . They’re
never forgiven themselves for
letting "Schnomle” gc_Herman
likely will wind up in Brooklyn in
any event.