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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY* 26, 1937.
“Come Oh, Spring, ’’DiMaggio ’sPlea: Grid Defense Rule Advocated
Crabbing, Making Speeches
Joe’s Main Diversions
in Off-Season.
This is one of a series of person
ality stories on outstanding young
sports figures.
BY RUSS NEWLAND.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. January 26.—
Joe Di Maggio already is getting
itchy feet.
The New York Yankees' out
flelding star of 1936 is straining at
the leash. Springtime can’t come too
soon for the long-legged Italian youth
who carved his name in bold letters
In his major league debut last year.
The Spring training grind may be
a pain in the neck to the oldsters, but
It’s a lark for Joe.
“I sure have missed the feel of
that old apple.” says Di Maggio with
almost as much feeling as if he had
been away from the sport for three
years instead of three months. ‘‘That
blistered foot at training camp last
Spring cost me a lot of time and I
missed the first 17 games of the
season. This year I want to play in
every game.”
Since he helped the Yankees ring
down the curtain last Fall with a
world championship, Joe has taken
things as easily as is possible for a
22-year-old youngster who thinks and
talks in terms of base ball.
Enjoys Crab Fishing.
XJI3 daily routine is simple and his
diversions few. He doesn’t golf,
neither does he hunt. He floated
placidly through a foot ball season
that had the rest of the community
standing on its collective ear.
A sand-lot base ball game between
teams of grammar school kids at
tracted and held his attention on a
day when 90,000 pigskin maniacs were
blotting out the seats of a college foot
ball stadium miles away.
His chief pleasure Is crab fishing,
which is part of the Di Maggio family’s
business. It is up at 3 o’clock in the
morning, a trip through the Golden
Gate on his older brother Tom’s boat
and then 12 hours spent pulling nets
from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
6ame fun!
Formerly a bashful boy, whose con
versation consisted mainly of “yes” or
“no," and whose expressionless face
earned him the nickname of “Dead
pan,” Joe has developed into an after
dinner speaker of considerable force.
Great “Party” Man.
T-JIS presence has been in great de
mand at boys’ clubs and civic or
ganizations throughout Northern Cali
fornia. Naturally, his subject has
been base ball. He tells about the
Yankees, the club’s hitting power and
what an “Iron man” First Baseman
Lou Gehrig is.
If they ask about Di Maggio, he
tells how he broke in as a shortstop
with the San Francisco Seals in the
last three games of 1932, went in as
a pinch hitter in the third game of
the 1933 season, was sent to right field
the next Inning and has been a reg
ular outfielder since.
Ranked as one of the greatest
throwers in the game, he is frankly
puzzled over his ability to rifle the
bell with so little effort.
“All the time I played shortstop, my
arm would go lame after throwing
three or four balls,” he says. “When
I switched to the outfield the whip
came on all of a sudden. I haven’t
had a sore arm since.”
Finds Harder Hard Pitcher.
r\I MAGGIO finished his first big
league season with a batting av
erage of .323. He thinks he'll boost
the mark this year; says he knows the
ropes better and has the pitchers
alzed up.
The toughest pitcher he found to
hit was Mel Harder of Cleveland and
the most difficult park to play, League
Park in Cleveland.
“Too much acreage in the left and
center fields at Cleveland; they run
you ragged there. And all the pitch
ing is tough, if you’re not on your
toes.”
G. U. PREP FIVE AHEAD
First-Half Lead Brings Victory
Over Rockville, 20-16.
Although outscored in the second
half, Georgetown Prep's basket ball
team nursed an early lead to trim
Rockville High, 20-16, yesterday at
Garrett Park. The Little Hoyas com
piled a 14-7 lead at halftime.
Capt. Shaughnessy, Georgetown
Prep forward, captured individual high
scoring honors with seven points, while
O. Woodward, with six points, paced
Rockville.
O’t’n Prep. O.P.Pts. Rockville. O.F.Pt*.
OShaughYf 2 3 7 Preneh.f 1X3
Cummings.i 12 4 Ntcewater.f 113
Kelly.c_ 2 0 4 Ros’berger.f 0 0 0
Sheehang_10 2 A.Woodw'd.c 2 0 4
Byrd.t_ 0 0 0 C.Woodw’d.g 3 0 6
Nurra.g_113 Ray.g _0 0 0
Totals_~7 ~6 20 Totals_~7 ~Z 16
MAT PRELIMS CARDED
Goldberg Opposes Pinto, Baxter
Meets Meske Thursday.
Abe Goldberg will tangle with Stan
ley Pinto and Ed Meske dll twist with
Laverne Baxter In 30-mtnute prelimi
naries on the regular Thursday night
wrestling card at Turner’s Arena,
•which this week will feature matdom’s
brawling brothers, the Duseks.
Rudy, senior member of the trouble
some triumverate, will square off with
Abe Coleman in the feature snarlfest,
while Ernie will face John Katan and
Joe stacks up against Scotty Mc
Dougml.
BERSHAK AGAIN READY.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ January 26
(JP).—Andy Bershak, North Carolina
forward, who was held out of the Wake
Forest game last Thursday on ac
count of a foot injury, will be avail*
able for the Virginia basket baa game
here tonight.
Cards’ Captain
I HERBERT (ZEKE) BROWN.
I He ll lead his basketers on
the floor at Brookland twice
this week, against Virginia
Tech tonight and Western
' Maryland Thursday. Brown
is playing a fine all-around
game and hopes to figure in a
double victory at the expense
of the Gobblers and Terrors.
CARD FI MS
FIRSTMAJOR WIN
Battling Virginia Tech at
Brookland Tonight—C. U.
Shy on Reserves.
THE rose that withered will be
tossed out on the floor again
tonight as Catholic University’s
basket ball team, still seeking
its first major victory of the season,
stacks up against Virginia Tech at
Brookland at 8:30 o’clock.
Potentially one of the best collegiate
teams in this area, the Cards have not
lived up to expectations chiefly be
cause of a dearth of reserve talent.
The Gobblers, like virtually every op
ponent Catholic University has faced
this season, will hold a distinct edge
over the Redbirds in this department.
After compiling early leads in most
of their games thus far. the Cards
have faded rapidly in the waning mo
ments to lose. Duquesne, St. Thomas,
Mississippi State and Duke were forced
to travel at top speed, but neverthe
less all were successful in wearing
down C. U.’s first team.
Searching for Reserves.
QOACH POD COTTON, still search
ing for capable reserves, thus far
has found none and it is likely that
his starting line-up against Virginia
Tech also will finish the game. Cot
ton will use Capt. Zeke Brown, center;
Hermie Schmarr and Wayne Ambrose,
forwards, and Sam Pagano and Irish
Carroll, guards.
Schmarr, who set a new District
record last week by scoring 31 points
against Shenandoah, doubtless will be
guarded by Capt. Joe Mottola, crack
Tech performer, who will see action
tonight for the first time this year
following a lay-off necessitated by in
jury.
In a preliminary game at 7 o’clock,
the Catholic University yearlings will
collide with St. John's Prep.
NAVY’S STRONG MAN
VERSATILE ATHLETE
Bergner, 215-Pound Plebe, Boxes,
Wrestles, Plays Poot Ball,
Lacrosse, Tosses Shot
Special Dispatch to The Star.
A NNAPOLIS, Md., January 26.—
Midshipman A1 Bergner of Kan
kakee, Hi., who though still a plebe
is the Naval Academy’s strongest man
by official tests, is so much in demand
for the different athletic teams that
he has difficulty in settling In the
right groove.
The shifting around started In the
Pall, when, althouhg his experience
in foot ball has been entirely as a
lineman, he was placed In the back
fleld of the plebe eleven. During the
Summer he became the champion
heavyweight boxer in his class, but this
Winter has turned up with the
wrestling team, and won his first bout
last Saturday against the freshmen
of Virginia Military Institute.
Bergner’s services will be in demand
by two teams again in the Spring, as
he has played some lacroose, and his
215 pounds, with speed and ability
besides, would be of great service on
the defense, but it has been found
that he can toss the shot in the high
forties and the track and field people
certainly will want him in that line.
Rambling Scribe Spots Sport Notables in Hollywood
Borries Still Active Athlete—Ramage Making Comeback—Stengel Wants Minor Job.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.
Hollywood, Cain., Janu
ary 26.—By way of Vine
street and Hollywood bou
levard . . .
“Dutch” Leonard, the old left
hander who pitched for the Boston
Red Sox and Detroit Tigers, a
spectator at a professional foot ball
game . . . now a grape grower
around Fresno. Casey Stengel, ex
Brooklyn ’36, around and about
without worries . . . still has a
year’s salary ' coming from the
Dodgers . . . would like to hook
on as a minor league manager.
The Meusel brothers, “Irish" and
Bob, who socked them hard and
far for the Olints and Yankees, In
the tap room business.
“Bub” Borries, Navy's great back
of three seasons ago, still active
In athletics . . . playing center
for the effleen’ bpket ball team
PROS’ BEST TENNIS
SEEN IN TEAM TILT
Perry, Playing With Vines,
Dominates Match After
Loss in Singles.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.
Ellsworth vines and Fred
Perry didn’t have the tennis
show stolen from them alto
gether last night at University
of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum, but
It is safe to say that most of the 3,500
who left the College Park arena after
midnight were unanimous in opining
that the headliners of the professional
troupe were only half the show.
The 300 or so walkersout never will
know for themselves, but let them talk
to those who stayed to the bitter end
—and it was bitter for little Bruce
Barnes and bespectacled George Lott
—at 12:07 a.m., and they soon will
learn that they missed the best tennis
of the night.
Whereas the sight of Vines evening
his series with Perry in a straight-set
victory by the crushing scores of 6—4,
6—2 was stimulating only to the ex
tent of the perfect artistry of the
American professional champion, ten
nis—with all Its thrills, “impossible"
shots and long rallies, mingled with
the Inevitable color of professionalism
—was exhibited at its best in the
two-and-a-half-hour doubles match
which the singles headliners took from
Barnes and Lott.
ANY who might have doubted the
sincerity of the contestants as a
result of the two singles matches,
which were won in straight sets by
Vines and Lott, who defeated Barnes
6—3, 6—4, would quickly have been
convinced otherwise by the dogged de
termination which the two pairs
showed in fighting until they all were
ready to drop, before Vines and Perry
won by the marathon scores of 4—6,
6 3, 20—18.
The fireworks, of course, same in
that last 38-game thriller, a new high
for tennis in Washington. Clearly, the
boys weren’t “kidding.” Once they
had entered the only decisive set of the
evening, it was each team for itself,
and a world championship could not
have been productive of more bitter
competition.
Never, during the set equal to three
normal ones, did either side hold more
than a game edge until the very last.
Dead tired, after nearly four hours of
play, it appeared that each of the four
men was draining energy from a seem
ingly Inexhaustible source as pure me
chanical play Improved directly in
proportion to the passing of time.
They disdained a suggestion to allow
the next game to break a tie to be the
deciding encounter. Intending to play
all night, If necessary.
—
Perry Dominates Team Play.
YjyHEREAS vines had taken the play
'' from Perry during the singles it
was Perry who dominated the team
play with his opponent during the
doubles. For the first time, the Brit
isher seemed to get a kick out of the
game midway in the doubles match,
and once a smile had appeared on his
face, he became the crowd’s delight as
well as its co-attraction. Not forget
ing the spectacular and heroic per
formances of Barnes and Lott, the
former, incidentally, looking the best
doubles player of the night. It was
Perry who saved his team from defeat
and paved the way for victory.
Even here, however. Fate stepped in
with the opportunity which brought
up Vines’ service in what was to be
the last game. The most devastating
server in the world brought his zoom
ing service into play for three straight
service aces in the thirty-eighth game,
setting the stage for a clean place
ment off his own racket which ended
the marathon.
Combinations Are New.
TF THE pros want to continue to
A give the fans a full show for their
money, they will do well to abide by
the new arrangement wherein Vines
and Perry remain teammates against
the Barnes-Lott duo. Last night was
the first time those combinations bad
been used.
Vines’ conquest of Perry, in which
the latter got only half as many
games as his conquerer, was ended in
typically dramatic fashion by the
American professional. Four service
aces, only one of which Perry was
able to toueh, were dished out by the
fastest server of ’em all, and Perry
went down swinging, futilely.
THISTLETHWAITE STAYS
Signs for Another Three Tears at
University of Richmond.
RICHMOND, Va., January 26 (IP).—
Glenn P. Thistlethwalte will direct the
athletic destinies of the University of
Richmond for another three-year term.
President P. W. Boatwright an
nounced the decision to renew the
veteran coach’s contract was made by
the Executive Committee of the Board
of Trustees on the recommendation of
the Athletic Council. He coaches
foot ball and track.
at San Diego naval base . . .
“Dusty” Doroln, a lineman when
Borrles was at Annapolis, playing
on the same cage team. Man
Mountain Dean, the rassle guy,
caddying for Johnny Revolts in
the Los Angeles open—for three
holes, only. Klngfish Levtnsky,
slapped around by Maxie Rosen
blum, getting his picture taken at
a foot ball game . . . also getting
a trifle round at the heels.
Lee Ramage, the California,
heavyweight, who was thought all
finished when knocked out twice
by Joe Louis, doing a nice come
back .. . Has not lost a bout since
going under the management of
“Pop” Foster . . . Ramage may be
matched with Maxie Rosenblum,
who is a hot favorite here. Fat
O'Brien, the movie star, much In
a* toot ban
British Tennis Star in “Toils of Law”
Fred Perry (second from left) at Police Court, but only for social visit. On his left is David
Hart and on his immediate right is Karl Kindleberger, both assistant district attorneys. Carroll
Morgan (extreme right) had Perry in tow. This was yesterday afternoon and Perry did not have
quite as happy a time at another court, being “found guilty” of being unable to cope with Ells
worth Vines in their singles in the net show last night in Ritchie Colisseum at the University of
Maryland. —Star Staff Photo.
YANKEES ON SPOT.
M’CARTNY FEARS
Tells Boss at Beefsteak
Dinner Club Will Need
Much Luck Again.
Br the Associated Press.
EW YORK, January 26.—All
Marse Joe McCarthy has to
do to earn his $35,000 as
manager of the New York
Yankees next season is win the
American League pennant by 20 games
and take the world series in four
straight.
That’s what Col. Jake Ruppert jest
ingly told him before Joe left today
for Philadelhia on his last tour of the
banquet circuit.
Last year at Joe’s annual beefsteak
dinner to the New York base ball
writers, the ruddy Colony expressed
displeasure at the Yankee’ habit of
finishing second. Couldn’t Manager
Joe contrive to finish a little higher?
Last night Ruppert gladly lauded
Joe for a job well done, then added
with unmistakable humor:
‘‘But he fell down on two things. 1
asked him to win the pennant by 20
games and the series in 4 straight
He didn’t do this, but I've forgiven
him. And anyway, may be he'll do
ilt tHs year.”
Joe Net So Optimistic.
VJcCARTHY, however, was not so
sure. A noted base ball middle
of-the-roader, Joe said the Yankees
had their share of luck last year, and
pointed out to his boss, ‘‘Everybody’s
gonna be trying to slip me the queen
of spades this year.” Joe likes his
game of hearts.
Another valuable employe of Col.
Tluppert, First Baseman Lou Gehrig,
praised the treatment he has received
at the hands of the Yankees.
Completely Ignoring the necessity
of base hits, Lou said, “if you hustle
out there on the ball field, you’ll never
have any trouble.” Lou then pledged
himself to hustle henceforth.
NO PLACE FOR BYRD
Ball Players Vote Golf Pro Out of
Their Tourney.
SARASOTA, Fla., January 26 0P>.—
Sammy Byrd has a full year’s warning
now that he can’t play in the 1937
national base ball players’ golf tour
nament.
The players voted to bar Byrd or
any other ball player who has col
lected money as a golf professional
College Quints
Michigan, 32; Chicago, 19.
Penn State, 35; Carnegie Tecta,
30.
Iowa State Teacben, 33; Oma
ha. 24.
Bluff ton, 36; Ohio Northern, 35.
Hillsdale, 29; Albion, 25.
Alma, 25; Central State Teach
ers. 23.
Penn A. C„ 38; Utah State, 29.
Notre Dame, 55; Western Re
serve 20. *
Kirksville Teachers, 45; Mexico
City Y. M. C. A.. 28.
Wayne, 36; Nebraska Wesleyan,
30.
Western Kentucky Teachers, 40;
Vanderbilt. 27.
Wllllamette, 39; Portland, 35.
Southern Oregon, 35; Albany
College, 22.
‘POPP/NG
Qpp“Wx
Tennis for the Funds of It
AS LONG as they can lure a Fred
Perry Into the fold every year,
which, of course. Is on the
prohibitive side, it seems that
professional tennis is likely to remain
in an extremely healthy financial
shape. As noteworthy, perhaps, as
the Madison Square Garden sell-out
with $9.90 tops was that overflow
crowd last night at the University of
Maryland, which represented the most
recent stop-oil for the Perry-Ellsworth
Vines tour. .
During the course of a program
that was too long, incidentally, it was
obvious that Vines, playing at any- i
where near his peak, can lick Mr. |
Perry every night in the week and
twice on Sundays and, if the boys do
not do "business," as they say in the
fight racket, the final standing should
prove it. This is no reflection on the
handsome Britain, for Perry probably
is as good a tennis “type” to retrieve
for Ellie as can be procured, now that
our spavined Bill Tllden is showing
signs of the heaves and other dis
tressing symptoms of old age.
As far as this department can
aee, Mr. Vines simply is the
greatest, most overpowering
tennis player in the world.
With a curtsy to Ellie, however,, It
is not he who is drawing the cus
tomers on this most successful tour in
pro history. Nearly everybody has
seen Vines bat a ball so hard that it
resembles in flight a piece of string,
but Perry is something brand new to
all except the regular pew clinetele
at Forest Hills and Wimbledon.
Perfects Flair for Showmanship.
DERRY Impressed last night as the
greatest personality and showman
the pro ranks liave exhibited yet.
During the two weeks he has been
playing Vines for purposes of fatten
ing his own bank roll Perry seems
to have perfected a flair for showman
ship that may even be good for a sec
ond trip around the circuit as the
headline attraction, a feat that is un
precedented In professional tennis.
This, of course, would depend on his
game holding up.
Tilden, of course, was a showman,
but Willie lacked tbe personality, and
If this observation causes stanch dis
ciples of W. Tatem No. 2 to rise in
protest, it also is likely to be met with
monumental indifference by everybody
else.
, That was the way Tilden af
fected people. Ton either liked
him or didn't like him.
Perry, on the contrary, has every
body on his side In a sentimental sort
pf m way. He presents a striking con
trast to the somewhat surly, phleg
matic Vines. The Californian exudes
a grim, determined attitude on the
court.
Hie Britain, who was “Mr.” Perry In
England and Forest Hills before he
joined the money clan, does not hesi
tate to stoop to clowning, with all the
shameless nonchalance of one of
Jacques Curley’s rasslers. In order to
get a laugh. A special delight of
Perry’s is to rib Vines. Verily, until
the boys begin to swing their rackets,
Vines is the perfect stooge for the
black-haired Englishman.
Ferry Is Stooge on Court.
ANCE the match is under way,
^ however, Perry becomes the
stooge. Last night, from start to fin
ish, Vines dominated play and prob
ably will continue to do so. It is
Perry who does the sweating and run
■ — ■ ' " ——
dinners . . . Went all the way to
Notre Dame to favor his pal, Elmer
Layden. "Babe” Hardy of the
Laurel-Hardy comedy team had
five across the board when “Bing”
Crosby’s nag, Fight On, paid off at
$160.60 for two.
Jim Jeffries promoting amateur
fights over in Burbank . .. Jackie
Fields, the former welterweight
champion, working in a studio .. .
Frank Moran, whose "Mary Ann”
punch was famous more than 30
years ago, doing bits as a movie
extra . . . Jesse Hibbs and “Rusty”
Saunders, famous Southern Cali
fornia University foot ball stars,
now successful directors .. . “Cot
ton” Warburton, the Troians’ last
all-America, moving up the ladder
as a Aim cutter . . . Alice Marble,
the tennis champion, may try bar
luck In motion pictures.
Lynn Waldorf watching a profes
sional foot ball game . . . And re
fusing to be convinced the profes
sionals are any better than the
collegians . . . Beans Reardon, the
National League umpire, recovering
from the illness which forced him
to quit guessing last Summer ...
Babe Pinelli, another of Ford
Frick's bluecoats, taking in the
sights of the movie village ... Au
brey Devine, former Iowa all
America quarterback, preferred his
law practice and Southern Califor
nia's climate to the lob of coaching
the Hawkeyes .. . Dick Hanley, the
former Northwestern coach and
now a successful insurance man,
victim of a peculiar accident.
Wrenched his shoulder trying to ,
throw a golf ball from tee to green
at Lakeside . .. Which ruined his
I vacation, hot probably saved him
1 b
ning, chasing Elite's prodigious smashes
to all corners of the court. The score
last night. 6—4, 6—2, seemed Indicative
of the difference between their games.
The current de luxe attrac
tion of the pros, combining, as it
does. Vines’ ability and Perry’s
personality, probably is the best
yet presented since turning pro
has not been regarded as a com
plete social disgrace.
Ttlden’s moneyed feiAs with Vinnle
Richards failed to capture the public
fancy as Vines and Perry are doing,
and Big Bill's tours with Karel
Koseluh, Hans Nussletn, Martin Plaa
and Bruce Barnes were something less
than box office smash hits. A year
ago Tilden and Barnes, sharing top
billing with Jane Sharp and Ethel
Burkhardt Arnold, drew less than 700
spectators at Catholic University.
Last night’s crowd at Maryland was
3,800 paid, but, counting the “dead
heads," close to 4,300 thought enougfi
of the attraction to drive 8 or 10 miles
for it.
Noticeable was the complete subju
gation of Tilden’s old trick. Vines,
student under the old maestro, has
picked up a few of Willie’s stunts. He
leers at late-comers, smirks at offi
cials, purposely tosses away points and
commands the public address system
operators to tell the customers how
to behave.
Barnes, another Tilden stu
dent, apes him in a collegiate
sort of a way. George Lott, the
other member of the troupe,
broke down once and offered his
glasses to a lisp judge, but peo
ple have been watching this stuff
for years.
Little wonder it is that Perry, whik
he may not be the best pro of them
all, stands to make the biggest year’s
earning of any of them. He's re
freshing.
CARDS RELEASE TWO
Garibaldi, Jordon, Infielders, Are
Shipped to Minors.
ST. LOUIS, January 26 OW.—The
St. Louis Cardinals have announced
the release of Infield era Arthur Gari
baldi to Sacramento and Jimmy Jor
don to Columbus.
Officials of the club also disclosed
Catcher Paul Chervinko's signed 1937
contract had been received and that
Arnold (Mickey) Owen, catcher, had
arrived to talk terms. Owen hit .336
with Columbus last year.
MICHIGAN MAINTAINS
BIG TEN COURT LEAD
Whips Hapless Chicago 32-19 ii
Final Conference Contest
Before Midyears.
By the Associated Press.
PJHICAGO, January 26.—Big Ten
basket ball players turned from
courts to examination class rooms to
day, with the championship race tem
porarily halted until the first week in
February.
Michigan was clinging doggedly to
a first division perch as the result of
its 32-to-19 victory last night over
Chicago. It was a fourth win in six
title starts for the Wolverines and the
sixth straight defeat for the hapless
Maroons.
Given a battle during the first half,
at which time the score stood 12-6 in
their favor, the Michigan eager*
started to click In the second period.
John Townsend clinched individual
scoring honors with nine points.
Indiana plays Loyola of Chicago, and
Depaul meets Chicago next Saturday
In non-conference tilts.
Sington, Tickled,
Signs With Nats
PRED SINGTON, husky out
fielder, Is tickled by the pros
pect of becoming a regular with
the Nationals this year after
several unsuccessful efforts. He
shipped his signed contract to the
club's headquarters today, writing
that he was well satisfied with
terms.
“And I’m sure Til make the
grade this time," he wrote. “I’m
more than happy to get the
t
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Virginia Tech vs. Catholic Uni
versity, Brookland gym, 8:15.
Roosevelt vs. Western, Roosevelt
gym (public high title series), 3:30.
Tech vs. Central, Tech gym (pub
lic high title series), 3:30.
Hyattsville vs. Bethesda-Chevy
Chase, Bethesda, Md., 3:30.
Landon vs. St. Albans, St. Albans
gym, 3:30.
Woodrow Wilson vs. Montgomery
Blalr, Wilson gym, 3:30.
Boxing.
Cowboy Howard Scott vs. Irish
Eddie McGeever, 10 rounds, feature
bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30.
TOMORROW. .
Basket BaU.
George Washington vs Army,
West Point, N. Y.
York Collegiate Institute vs. Cen
tral, Central gym, 3:30.
THURSDAY.
Basket BaU.
Western Maryland vs. Catholic
University, Brookland gym, 8:15.
Maryland vs. North Carolina
State, Raleigh. N. C.
George Washington High vs. *
Maryland Frosh, Ritchie Coliseum,
College Park. Md., 4.
Brlarly Military Academy vs.
Eastern, Eastern gym, 3:30.
FRIDAY.
Basket BaU.
Temple vs. Georgetown, Tech
High gym, 8:30.
Maryland vs. North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, N. C
Towson Normal vs. Gallaudet,
Gallaudet gym, 8.
Central vs. Western, Tech gym
(public high title series), 4:30.
Tech vs. Wilson, Tech gym (pub
lic high title series), 3:30.
Washington-Lee High vs. East
ern, Eastern gym, 3:30.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase vs. Roose
velt, Roosevelt gym, 3:30.
Georgetown Prep vs. St. Peter's
High, Jersey City, N. J.
St. John's vs. Gonzaga (Catho
lic School League), Catholic gym,
8.
Boxing.
Columbus University vs. Spring
field College, Turner’s Arena, 8:30.
SATURDAY.
Balk ft Ball.
Maryland vs. Duke, Durham,
r c.
Wilson Teachers vs. Shippensburg
Teachers, Shippensburg, Pa.
Eastern vs. Navy Plebes, Annap
olis, Md.
Central vs. Massanutten Military
Academy, Woodstock, Va.
Georg town Prep vs. Brooklyn
Prep, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Episcopal vs. Augusta Military
Academy, Fort Defiance, Va.
Hopewell High vs. Washington
Lee High, Ballston, Va 8.
Boxing.
Maryland vs. Virginia Military
Institute, Lexington, Va.
Catholic University vs. Army,
West Point, N. Y.
Track.
Georgetown in Knights of Co
lumbus games, Boston, Mass.
NIGHTCARDSGIVE
Three Twin Bills Ordered
Are Expected to Boost
Basket Series.
LOCAL scholastic series basket
ball, which rapidly was failing
through non-support, is ex
pected to be resuscitated by
three night double-headers approved
by the board of high school princi
pals. The twin bills will be staged
on the nights of February 5, 12 and
26. with a possibility that they will
become a permanent feature next
year.
After viewing an experimental game
last Friday night between Tech and
Eastern, the principals enthusiasti
cally Indorsed the plan of Birch E.
Bayh, supervisor of public school ath
letics, to stage nocturnal double
headers. The principals, voting indi
vidually by telephone, unanimously
agreed on Bayh’s suggestion.
Crowd’s Conduct Decides.
TN COMPARISON with the largest
A crowd, 420, attracted to any single
day game iast year, the Tech-Eastern
night game drew nearly 2,500 spec
tators to Tech High gym. Officials
frankly were astonished at the orderly
demeanor of the crowd, and this. It 1s
felt by those close to the situation,
played a major role in swaying the
opinion of the board.
Eastern, Central and Wilson will
participate in each twin bill. On
February 5 Central will face Eastern
and Western will meet Wilson. Cen
tral will stack up against Roosevelt
and Eastern tackles Wilson on Feb
ruary 12, while on February 26 Tech
battles Wilson and Central collides
with Western.
Last year only single games were
played in the series, while this season
Bayh recommended the partial return
of the double-header system, with
single games on Tuesdays and double
headers on Fridays. It is highly prob
able that all Friday twin bills next
year will be played at night, with
single games remaining in vogue on
Tuesdays.
SAM AGNEW NOW PHOT.
PALATKA, Fla.. January 26 UP).—
Sam Agnew, former big league bate
ball player, will manage the Palatka
club of the Florida State League. HI*
brother, Troy, owns the franchise.
DOVER MEANS BUSINESS.
BALTIMORE, January 26 UP).—John
Ogden, general manager of the Bal
timore Oriole*, said Dover, Del., had
agreed to erect a modem ball park to
Insure the city of a berth In the proj
MANDATORY LINE
ASKED BY JONES
Trojan Coach Would Check
Increase or Decrease of
Forward Wall.
I
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., January
26.—There is no closed season
on foot ball for a foot ball
coach. When not actively
coaching, the maestros are busy
thinking or talking of the game to.
when Howard Jones of Southern Cali
fornia and Lynn Waldorf of North
western, outstanding representatives
of the profession in their sectors, got
together the other evening, the old
game was keelhauled for the better
part of six hours.
The conversation was largely about
rules and what could be done to make
foot ball a better game—from the
coaching viewpoint, of course. Both
Jones and Waldorf agree that one of
the greatest tasks a coach faces in
these days is building an offense suffi
ciently versatile to meet the numer
ous types of defense now in practice.
Wants Only One Defense Lina.
JONES favors a rule that will make
one sort of defensive line manda
tory, whether it be a six or seven
man type. "You build an offense to
meet a seven-man line and then
And your opponent has shifted to
six,” complained the Trojan coach.
"Of course, the situation is the same
for every coach, but the point I make
is that the present vogue of shifting
defense places too great a burden on
the boys. The game is difficult '
enough, but when a kid quarterback
is obliged to attempt plays against a
defense that will vary from a seven
to a six or even five man lint with
several arrangements of the secondary
defense, you cannot expect a youngster
to turn in a perfect piece of general
ship."
Waldorf agreed with his fellow pro
fessor and Willis O. Hunter, one of
the Pacific Coast's representatives on
the Rules Committee, could not find
any serious objection to tha idea
other than that most coaches would
vote In favor of the flexible defenses.
Would Revise Pass Rule.
J-JUNTER concurred In the
that something should be dons
about the rule on forward pass inter
ference, which will be one of the main
sources of argument at the rules meet
ing next month. It is Hunter's
thought that perhaps the problem ‘
might be solved by putting a yardage
penalty an pass interference instead
of giving the offended team the first
down at the point of the foul, aa the
rule now reads. However, it is un
likely such a suggestion will meet with
, the approval of the other rules mak
ers, although it Is generally accepted
that the present penalty Is very un
satisfactory.
Jones and Waldorf also would have
the ball brought In 15 yards from the
sidelines on an out-of-bounds play
instead of the present 10. Their idea
is that, with a margin of 15 yards
from the sidelines, the offensive team
would have an opportunity for mors
varied plays and not be obliged to sac
rifice one down for position as fre
quently happens.
Suggests Punt Penalty.
T'HE Trojan coach further believe*
that the game might be speeded
up by putting a small yardage penalty
on punts out-of-bounds and that such
a rule also would provide more thrills
for the spectatois in the way of good
punt handling and returns.
It was well after midnight when the
coaches were separated and neither
had found time to say anything about
the prospects of Southern California
and Northwestern. But Willi* Hunt
er's head was packed full of idea* to
submit to the Rules Committee when
it gathers.
ADDS SCALP OF MINER
Virginia State Score* Second Win
at Basket Ball Here.
Virginia State’s basket ball team
hopped a homeward-bound rattler for
Petersburg today with the scalps of
two local colored collegiate quints
dangling from its belt, following yes
terday’s 46-to-32 victory at the ex
pense of Miner Teachers’ College. The
Virginians defeated Howard Univer
sity Saturday night.
Tidewater Cole, Red Briscoe and
Pop Griffin paced Virginia State with
15, 11 and 10 points, respectively,
while Tibbs wss high for Miner with
10 points.
Miner (32). Va. Out* (48).
o.y.pti. o.F.pti.
Tlbbaf ... 6 0 10 Briseoe.f .. S 111
Henley,f_ 0 0 0 Ballard.!... 0 • 0
Cook./_OOO Grisslm.f— 5 010
Bonds.f_ 0 0 0 Cole.e ... 7 1 15
Mack.c_ 4 1 9 Hardy.e-0 O O
J. Brown * 2 1 5 M. Brown.*. 0 0 0
Covlntton.c 3 2 8 Bailey * __Oft
Johnson.*.. 8 S 8
Totals ..14 152 Totals . 20 148
ARMSTRONG* FIVE FADES
Pails in Last Period in Losing to
Douglas, 25 to 23.
Armstrong Tech today mourned its
Inability to maintain a lead as It skid
ded In South Atlantic Colored Scho
lastic Conference standings following
yesterday’s 25-23 loss to Douglas High
at Baltimore.
Leading, 17-15, entering the final pe
riod, Armstrong faded before a deter
mined Douglas rally. Lawson, Douglas
forward, chiefly was responsible for tbs
triumph, sinking 13 points.
Armstrong ^Tech^ Dauclaa Hl*^^
Jackson.f ._ g 2 8 Lawsonf... f iljj
Robinson,! 0 0 0 Moody.*-4 O 8
Wallace.f_10 2 Johnson.*.. Oil
Oaln.c_ 1 0 * Thornton.*. Oil
Watkins.g_113 Dixon* ... 1 8 1
Finney.*... 4 0 8 James.* -—0 0 0
8pratley.*— 0 0 0
Totals_15155 Totals-I51s«
Hockey Standing
KANSAS CITY, January 36 (M.-~
The American Hockey Association
standing is as follows: