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Varoff Is Picked to Set World Pole Vault Record at 15 Feet
Coach Sees Finesse, Due to
Come, Lifting Coast Boy
to Great Height.
BY LAWSON ROBERTSON.
HAVING picked John Woodruff,
University of Pittsburgh
Negro star and Olympic 800
meter champion, to run the
supposedly impossible 4-minute mile—
even though no human ever has
done it in 4 minutes 5 seconds—I'll
•tick my neck out again.
Height this time. Thirty years ago,
when the world pole vault record was
MlUUiiU 11 1 CCl,
It would have
aounded crazy;
20 years ago,
with the "‘ceil
ing” nearing 13
feet, It would
have brought a
laugh.
Today, with the
world outdoor
record 14 feet 6>2
Inches and the
new indoor stand
ard 14 feet 47s
inches, my pre
diction Of a 15
foot vault — two
Lawson Robertson.
and one-half times the height of a
tall man—may still sound fantastic.
But A. C. Gilbert, who has done
to much for vaulting in America,
agrees on the possibility and per
former—George Varoff, University of
Oregon husky, who now holds both
world marks.
Gilbert, now a well-to-do business
man who coaches Yale's vaulters as
a devoted alumnus, created a sensa
tion in 1906 by vaulting to a new
world record of 12 feet 3 inches in
1906 and won the Olympic title in
1908.
Over the years Gilbert’s Yale vault
era have been outstanding, although
the coast provided all three of our
1936 Olympic polemen and now has
both world marks in the person of
VarofI, who took the w’orla indoor
ctandard from Keith Brown of Yale
In the recent Boston A. A. games.
Ohe Has Yale Style.
CUEO OHE, the Japanese star who
is captivating America, uses the
Yale technique, even to the short pole,
to illustrate Gilbert's influence.
Gilbert and I were watching Varoff
at Princeton last July 4 during the
A A. U. meet, where George thrilled
with his new world record elevation.
He's a pretty vaulter to watch. Gil
bert, enthused, exclaimed: •'There's
the man who can do 15 feet." I
agreed and am willing to risk a pre
diction.
People are calling VarofT a “mystery
man,” because two weeks after set
ting his w'orld mark he failed to make
the Olympic team at a lower height.
The answer is simple. George was—
and still is—perfecting his form.
Vaulting is really an artistic acrobatic
stunt, requiring the suppleness which
comes from gym work on ropes and
parallel bars. Because of the shock
your system gets while you're learn
ing to fall, and even later, men can
not practice hour after hour, and
therefore polishing is a long, spread
out process.
Varoff on Way Up.
VAAROFF has the head and the
* heart, plus strong shoulders, arms
and wrists. The finesse will come.
He hasn’t reached peak; when he
does, look for that 15-footer.
For the sake of youngsters who
dream of doing just that I wish I
could say Varoff was an absolute un
known. as many seem to think when
he flew into the sky and headlines at
Princeton. His coach, Bill Hayward,
knew, of course.
"I have a vaulter,” he confided,
“who will make your Olympic squad
and push up that record."
I was convinced, sight unseen; Bill
doesn’t talk through his hat.
With the vault elevated 3 feet in
to years, you’ll ask If we’re breeding
a generation of supermen, birdmen, or
what.
I doubt it. They then used spruce
poles; now bamboo provides more
spring. For, as the boys say about
poles, "It doesn't mean a thing if it
hasn’t got that spring" They de
mand good poles, even in practice.
Runways are better, coaching is
better, more men specialize on the
pole, and when a lot of men start
pushing at a record, it’s bound to
go up.
Great Array of Stars.
VAAROFF, Ohe and Eari Meadows,
‘ ’ Olympic champion, will share the
spotlight at the nationals Saturday
with Don Lash of Indiana, now in
door 2-mile world record holder, and
Sam Allen, Oklahoma Baptist hurdler,
who also has a world indoor mark.
Lash, who now has erased Nurmi's
superb indoor and outdoor tvorld 2
mile records within a year, has, I am
glad to say, given up jockeying and
resumed running his "own race"
again. He should, he can. He's a
great runner.
There is a partial parellel between
Varoff and Lash. Both set indoor
and outdoor records within a year,
and while Lash made the Olympic, he
failed to run his true race at Berlin.
One of those completely competitive
runners, he is inclined to overdo it
and was, I believe, worn thin from
too much running when he reached
the Olympics.
This Winter he has been running
mile and 2-mile grinds—a terrific
■train—in one night. Significantly,
his world 2-miie mark came after he
withdrew from the Boston A. A. mile.
I’ll discuss him at length later.
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INGRAM TOPS AT NAVY
Only Athlete There Now Who H»«
Three “N Stare.”
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. February 23 G4»).
—William (Young Navy Bill) Ingram
—one of the "Navy Ingrams"—is the
only midshipman now at <he academy
who has three "N stars” for having
participated in Navy victories over the
Army.
Ingram gained this third "N star”
Saturday by playing for 30 seconds
In Navy’s 42-40 basket ball victory
over the cadets. He was a regular
guard, but has been taken out for a
month with a bad foot.
He played in Navy’s 7-0 foot ball
victory over the Army last Fall and
already held an "N star” in base ball.
Alperstein, Maryland’s Hope
In 135-Pound Class in Title
Event, Unbeaten in 10 Bouts
ENNY ALPERSTEIN, polished
Maryland lightweight, will be
nursing a string oi 10 con
secutive collegiate boxing vic
tories when he starts swinging Friday
at College Park in the Southern Con
ference tournament, and is rated by
many as no worse than an even money
choice to displaoe the present cham
pion. Jack Kneipp of Duke.
Alperstein never ha. been defeated,
winning three fights last year as a
freshman and wading through seven
opponents this season. His southpaw
style repeatedly has bewildered his
foes, and although Benny has scored
only two knockouts this year, he is
rated as one of Maryland's stiflest
punchers.
The mild-mannered Terp light
weight has scored decision wins over
Harold Martin. Western Maryland;
Tom Bass, North Carolina; Don Sless
man. V. M. I.; Bob Rablnowitz, Rut
gers, and Nestor Martinez, Catholic
University, while knocking out Joe
Flax of Richmond and Page Clagett
of Virginia in the second round.
Kneipp Defeated Once.
' J^NEIPPS only loss in his collegiate
career was administered by Ivan
Nedomatsky of Maryland in the final
j of the lightweight division in 1935.
This season Jack has compiled five
victories over outstanding opposition.
He also won a verdi. t over Tom Bass
of North Carolina and shades Alper
stein in comparing their efforts
against Martinez, who retired on a
second-round technical knockout
against Kneipp. He otherwise has
defeated Louts Carleo of South Caro
lina, McIntyre of West Virginia and
Glenn Penland of North Carolina
State.
Penland, incidentally, is one of the
Wolfpack’s finest ring specimens. He
also has trimmed Martinez, Carleo and
Bass in addition to Kell of V. P. 1.
and Bill Dukes of Clemson, losing
only to the highly-regarded Kneipp.
Collegiate ring followers expect this
trio to create the greatest amount of
fistic fireworks in the lightweight
BENNY ALPERSTEIN.
class, although Jack Lough. Virginia
Tech; Meyer Goodman, Richmond; |
Bass and Louis Carleo, South Caro- ;
lina, may surprise,
A composite record of entrants in
the 135-pound division shows 22 wins,
3 draws and 8 lasses in dual matches 1
this season, with only one defeat ,
chalked against the combined punch- I
ing prowess of Alperstein, Kneipp and
Penland. in contrast to 17 triumphs. ‘
Tickets for the tourney, which are
priced at $1.10, $1.65 and $2.2f, are
available at Spalding's and the Uni
versity of Maryland athletic office. ;
The $2.20 seats are for the ringside I
at night.
AMBERS rePS UP
Whips Roth So Badly Bout
Is Dull—Barlund Fights
Mann Tomorrow.
NEW YORK, February 23—Lou
Ambers, the lightweight cham
pion, who seems to save his
best fighting for the important
bouts, is beginning to perk up now
that his first title defense is in sight.
Starting a preparatory campaign
leading up to his championship bout
with Tony Canzoneri April 2, the
"Herkimer Hurricans" handed a sound
thumping to the New York veteran.
A1 Roth, in a 10-round non-title bout
at St. Nicholas Palace last night.
The bout was so one-sided it was
hardly interesting to the 3,500 cus
tomers. Ambers, a far superior boxer,
kept throwing punches from start to
finish, while the heavy-hitting Roth
never could locate his target. Lou
nearly flattened his opponent in the
second round, started him wabbling
again in the fifth, then methodically
continued to chop away.
Lou was credited with winning every
round and earned the unanimous de
cision of the referee and two judges.
Ambers weighed 1364 and Roth one
pound more.
Heavies Take Stage.
pjEAVYWEIGHTS take over the
local fight scene next w hen Gun
nar Barlund, the promising young
heavy from Finland, meets Nathan
Mann of New Haven. Conn., in the
10-round feature at the Hippodrome
tomorrow.
The lightweights are due to return
Friday however, when Pedro Monta
nez of Puerto Rico and Enrico Ven
turi of Italy, two of the leading seek
ers after Ambers' title, clash over the
15-round route at Madison Square
Garden.
Barlund has made an impressive
showing in this country, hanging up
four straight victories. Mann, although
not a top-flight fighter, has a terrific
right-hand punch.
The Montanez-Venturi scrap may
lead to a title shot for the winner.
Venturi held Ambers to a draw in a
non-title bout, wrhile the Puerto Rican
has been coming along steadily for
the past year or so.
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NAVY BUSY IN MARCH
Will Take Part in Three Title
Collegiate Event*
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, February 23.—Navy
will be represented .n three general
collegiate competitions during March.
On the 20th its team will compete in
the finals of the Intercollegiate Gym
nastic League, to which Dartmouth
will be host, and at the same time
will engage in a dual match with the
Army.
On the same day a sectional match
of the finals of the Intercollegiate
Rifle Association will take place here
and at other points. The Navy is
defending champion.
On the 26th and 27th the fencing
team, which has won three matches
and lost one, will compete in the in
tercollegiate which will be held In
New York. The fencing team also
will engage in a five-cornered match
at New Haven on March 6.
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ORIOLE TRIO BALKING
Puccinelli, Abernathy, Vanden
burg Hold Out Despite Boost.
BALTIMORE, February 23 OP).—
Outfielders George Puccinelli and
Woodley Abernathy and Pitcher Hy
Vandenburg were on the hold-out list
of the Baltimore Orioles' International
League team today.
General Manager John Ogden said
Puccinelli had declined to accept a
contract for more money than he made
with the Philadelphia Athletics last
year. He was an Oriole in 1935.
Neither Abernathy nor Vandenburg
have signed their contracts yet. The
money involved was not disclosed.
| Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK—Lou Ambers. 136’..,
Herkimer. New York, lightweight
title holder, outpointed A1 Roth,
137*2, New York (101.
SAN FRANCISCO—Andre Leng
let, 207, France, knocked out Phil
Brubaker, 195, Dinuba, Calif. (2).
BALTIMORE.—Jim Schwemmer,
191*2. stopped Steve Madden, Cam
den, N. J. (4).
MILWAUKEE.—Max Chowaniee,
170*4. Cudahy. Wis., outpointed
Chet Leverre, 171 *2, Chicago (8).
CHICAGO. — Jimmy Christy.
132*2, Chicago, outpointed Pat Rob
ertson, 129*2, New York 18).
MIAMI, Fla—Frankie Martin,
120, Montreal, knocked out Buddy
Hayes, Miami (3).
PROVIDENCE. R. I—Mickey
Page, 136*.2, Providence, outpointed
Paris Apice. 135, Providence <8).
! NEWARK, N. J—Ruby Gold
I stem, 139*2, outpointed Freddie
Fitzsimmons, 146Vj, Garfield, N.
j J. (8).
HOLYOKE. Mass—Joe Gelinas.
145*i, Athol, Mass., outpointed “Six j
Seconds" Powell, Plainfield, N. J.
(10).
SCRANTON. Pa —Ralph de John.
165, Syracuse. N. Y., won on a tech
nical knockout from Stanley Lynch.
165, Brooklyn (3): Pete Suskey. 159,
Scranton, outpointed Billy Rose,
157, Cleveland t6t.
NORFOLK, Va —Dick Welsh, 130,
Philadelphia, outpointed Nick Ca
marata, 130, New Orleans (10).
Golf Notes
URED McLEOD'S playmate has gone
South. William W. Hinshaw. the
former opera star, who has been
playing a round of golf a day with
the Columbia pro since last Novem
ber, finally decided that golf around
the Capital wasn't so hot with snow
on the ground and shoved off for
Augusta. Ga. Fred and his star
pupil will rejoin at Augusta at the
time of the Jones tournament, and
Hinshaw will come back for his Spring
training with Freddie at Columbia.
This Winter they've set a record for
consecutive days of play, until the
snow came along and Hinshaw de
cided to get away to a warmer climate.
And now Freddie will begin to put on
weight. He gained plenty last year
when he couldn't play for a month and
a half.
Likes to Play With WifTy.
OECRETARY BILL BARR of the
District Golf Association pc t
cards a greeting from Coral Gables,
Fla., where he has been since early in
the month, announcing that he has
played with WifTy Cox and telling the
world that Wlff is all he should be as
a golfer.
"The guy only had a 6.,,” says B' .
"He was a little off his stick, and that
Biltmore course is tough. But he’s a
great guy and it’s a lot of fun to play
with him.”
Bill probably will be back in the
land of snow in a week or so. Bruce
L, Taylor, a former member of the
Executive Committee of the District
association, is with Bill.
Mrs. Roland MacKenzie of Con
gressional and Mrs. Lucille G. Pray of
Manor have been named members of
the Maryland State Golf Association
Women's ComimtOee.
Mrs. Theodore Schleuderberg
of the Baltimore Country Club,
heads the committee, which will
handle women’s golf affairs in
Maryland this year.
The Maryland State title tourney,
for the crown now held by Mrs. Betty
P. Meckley, probably will be staged at
a Washington club this year, although
the season schedule of the State asso
ciation is not yet out.
Potting Gama Revived.
0°T in Dave Thomson’s golf shop
at Washington the boys have
revived the little putting game that
whiled away so many hours last Win
ter. They kept Calvert Dickey from
winning a hole for four hours one day
lsst week but finally he crashed
through, after Dr. Calyert E. Buck for
bade him using the surname “Calvert.”
“No man can use my name if
he’s as bad as you are,” said
Buck. "Henceforth your name
is Vivian.”
“But how about my $15?" said
Dickey. "Do I got that back?”
IN FIGHT WRANGLE
Champ Must Scrap Plenty
if Law Means Anything
to Jacobs, Garden.
By tbe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 33 —
Latest developments in the
war of promoters over the
services of Jim Braddock for a
June bout Indicate the heavyweight
champion will have to do a lot of
scrapping to keep up with the men
who make the matches.
Statements from Mike Jacobs, the
"middle” man, who has an interest in
Max Schmeling—slated to fight Brad
dock here June 3 fbr Madison Square
Garden—and in Joe Louis, matched
with Braddock for Chicago June 22,
were answered yesterday by his rival,
Col. John Reed Kilpatrick, president
of Madison Square Garden. Both
said they Intended to stand by their
legal guns and do plenty of shooting.
Jacobs, confident there can be no
hitch in the Chicago plans, made a
tentative compromise offer which also
would enable him to get his "cut” on a
Schmeling bout.
Garden Won t Compromise.
"JF ON account of conditions beyond
my control, the Braddock-Schme
ling fight fails to materialize,” said
Jacobs, "I am confident I can persuade
the winner of the Braddock-Louts
match to meet Schmeling within 60
days.”
To this Kilpatrick, fighting for the
punclple that contracts must be bind
ing as well as for the Garden's
finances, replied:
"I see no chance of a compromise
along that or any other line.”
The Garden’s contract with Brad
dock was supposed to be as tight as
a battery of legal experts could make
it However, the champion's manager,
Joe Gould, has announced he will
ignore it and concentrate ot. the Louis
bout.
No Legal Bar, Say* Jacobs.
JACOBS' position is that the con
tracts for the Chicago fight do not
in any way interfere with the New
York bout. They don't specify that the
title is to be at stake and the date set
is later than that for the Schmeling
Braddock affair.
"X stand ready and willing to pro
duce Schmeling. It Is up to Madison
Sqare Garden to produce Braddock,”
he announced.
”1 could not in all fairness to Joe
Louis prevent him from making the
match with Braddock. * * • I am
advised that nothing can lawfully stop
this match.”
Medlock’s Win Over Feather
Titlist Assures Revised
New York Line-up.
BJ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 23.—The
1037 Golden Gloves amateur
boxing tournament of the New
York Daily News A. A. will
see new champions crowned in all
weight classes in the finals March 8.
The reason is Ray Medlock, 22
year-old Little Rock. Ark., boxer, who
is a sophomore at the University of
Mississippi and fights under the spon
sorship of the Memphis, Tenn., Com
mercial Appeal. He left-jabbed his
way to a close upset decision over
George Coyle, 19-year-old New York
usher, in a 126-pound open class quar
ter-finals bout last night in Madison
Square Garden before 17,000 apec
tators.
Beaten Boy Square Shooter.
'J'HE Tri-State scrapper stole the
spotlight in the three-ring cauli
flower circus by eliminating the only
defending champion in the toiAia
ment. All told 56 open and subnovice
class fighters from 11 Eastern cities j
reached the semi-finals, in all weight |
divisions except the heavies. The
heavies stopped at the quarter-finals
and will catch up with the field when
the seimi-finals are fought March 1-2.
Coyle said Medlock, who runs the
quarter and half mile on the Ole Miss
track team, earned the victory. The
blond Southerner won the Western
Amateur Athletic Union featherweight
championship in 1934 and last year1
reached the quarter-finals of the Na- j
tional A. A. U. tourney. It was Coyle's
twelfth defeat In 164 fights.
New York, with a preponderantly
larger entry list than any other city, j
qualified 31 of the 72 punchers left
i in the tournament, including nine
heavyweight quarter-finalists.
Fighters Are Scattered.
rPHE distribution of the other sur- [
1 vivors bv cities follows:
Philadelphia, nine semi-finalists and
one heavyweight quarter-finalist; Pat
erson. N. J.. Fix semi-finalists and
one quarter-finalist; Trenton, N. J., 1
3nd Boston, five quarter-finalists each; J
Rockville Center, N. Y., two semi-1
finalists and two quarter-finalists;
Buffalo, three semi-finalists: Bing
hamton, one semi-finalist and two
quarte'-finalists; Memphis, one semt
finalist and one quarter-finalist; >
Miami and Union City. N. J., one semi
nalist each.
HE doors of the driving range
are closed and the spot where
lots of Washingtonians thump
out golf balls during eight
months of the year is relapsing into
open field, but the boss Is getting along
with his studies in the university of
golf.
Leo Walper. head man of the driving
range in Bethesda, now is in Florida,
seeking some of the coin that goes to
the lads who can sock ’em into the
cup, some more of the coin that has
come his way in meager amounts since
he started the Winter tournament tour
at Pinehurst last November.
Several Washington pros have taken
the tournament trail over the years,
but Leo has stuck to it longer than
most. He's of Dutch ancestry and
tradition says the Dutch stick to any
job.
Out on the Pacific Coast where the
cash was fairly heavy. Leo didn’t do
so well. He failed to get in the money
in any of the tournaments in Califor
nia, but that didn’t keep him from
plugging away. It’s rather discourag
ing to play in tournament after tour
nament. score fairly well and see the
dough go to the other guys.
But Leo kept on grinning and
kept on hitting the ball and
learning.
He’ll come back to Washington
early In April, broke in pocket but
with some new wrinkles in golf that
may put him smack on top on all the
local pros. They learn fast in the uni
versity of golf, the school where Leo
now is enrolled and where he’s about
to get his degree, cum laude.
T EO started the campaign by win
^ ning *150 in the P. G. A. cham
pionship at Pinehurst. It was a good
beginning, but from that time until
the recent tourney at Thomasville, Ga.,
he didn’t get in the dough. Back in
the East his game revived and he won
fifth money at Thomasville, amount
ing to around another *150. But the
main point is that he's learning.
“I’m going on these trips until I
finally find out something about this
game. It may bust me on the money
side, but I’m determined to learn
whether I can make the grade in the
better circles of golf." Leo told me
early in the campaign.
"I probably won’t win much
money this Winter, but I’ll pick
up enough knowledge of golf to
improve my game for the
future.”
That's a sound way of looking at
It, for Leo is no kid with youth's
resilient muscles. He admits 37 years
and he didn’t seriously take up golf
until five or six years ago.
“I played at it for 15 years,” he
grins, “but I didn’t go at it seriously
until about five years ago.”
For a guy who’s been playing such
a short time the Walper man hasn't
done so badly.
Just to glance at the record, he was
the only Washington pro who qualified
last year both for the national open
and the P. G. A. championship. He
also qualified for the open of 1935.
He didn’t do much In the open, but
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When they start pass.ng out medals
for stick-to-itiveness they’d better
get one shined up for Leo Walper.
And he isn’t so bad as a golfer either.
Any guy who can top Gene Sarazen
and Sam Snead and a flock of other
good ones in any tournament must
have something on the ball. Leo did
that at Thomasville. And he is well
on the way to becoming the leading
pro around Washington. "This con- ■
stant round of tournaments is great
stuff for any pro who is willing to
learn," he writes.
_
DUDDY and tanned from four days
of golf , some 30-odd Washing
tonians arrived in the Capital today
after a week end of play at Pinehurst,
where Lefty Harrell’s gang played in
daily tournaments at the Carolina
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resort. They came back to soggy golf
courses from which the snow had
melted in their absence. When they
left the city last Thursday snow cov
ered all the local layouts.
Pinal steps in the Columbia Club’s
fairway irrigation system nowr are
being taken. Greenkeeper O. B. Pitts
is laying water pipe in the eighteenth
fairway and soon will get to the job
of piping the first fairway, which will
wind up the pipe-laying job. The
entire system will be ready for opera
tion by April 15.
Jim Maloney, Congressional golfer,
says that Jack McCarron is red-hot
these days on account of Jack’s prac
tice during a five-week trip to Florida.
“Jack lost only one match in five
weeks,” says Jim. "So, you see, he
didn't do so badly. He's tough
anywhere.”
Albert R. MacKenzie talked with his
son Roland on the telephone from
Florida a few days ago and learned
that Roland plans to start back north
from Jacksonville about the middle of
the coming week. Roland may go
through Atlanta and have a round of
golf with Bob Jones at Eastlake.
Ouimet Sharpens Game.
'C'RANCIS OUIMET, former amateur
and open champion, is at Miami
tuning up his golf for the Jones tour
nament at Augusta five weeks hence.
He probably will be Joined by Bob
Jones himself in a few days. Bob
usually trots down to Miami for a few
rounds of golf a couple of weeks In
advance of the “Masters" tourney,
which will be played April 1, 2, 2
and 4..
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Boxing Referee as Wrestler
Werther Arcelli still was r’arin’ to go after he had been
declared victor over Sid Silas last night at Turner’s Arena.
So-o-o, Referee Denny Hughes had to apply a back-eibow lock to
convince him the fight was over. The end came in the third
round. —Star Staff Photo.
G. W. HOME STRING
SNAPS AT 26 TILTS
Novak, Lanky Loyola Cen
ter, Blocks Colonial Quint,
Beaten 36-34.
HEY didn't play the game at
night, as usual, but George
Washington’s Colonials had the
daylight scared out of them
yesterday afternoon—which should
have made them feel perfectly at
home on the big Tech floor.
And, for the second time within four
days, a local college basket ball team
found itself victimised by an oppos
ing center standing more than 6V2
feet in the air. Last Thursday night
Maryland came a lot closer to beating
Washington and Lee than any one
expected, only to lose because of the
6-foot 7-inch Bob Spessard.
Colonials Off Form.
Yesterday G. W. was farther away
from appearing on even terms with the
crack Loyola five of Chicago than any
local fan had deemed possible. All
because the 6-foot 9-inch Mike Novak
kept them ofl their stride, giving the
Chicagoans a 36-34 victory, which the
last 10 seconds nearly checked. The
defeat snapped a home winning streak
of the G. W.'s which had extended
to 26 games over a two-year period.
For 33 minutes the Colonials re
sembled a bunch of grammar-school
tossers. This probably because they
had altered their aims in an effort to
circumvent the altitudinous Novak,
who stationed himself at hia basket
and used his long arms to bat down
one Colonial shot after the other. The
attempts to arch the ball away from
Novak made the usually accurate aims
of Kiesel, O'Brien & Co. seem puerile.
Those futile efforts, coupled with the
scoring proclivities of Marvin Colen,
who fully lived up to his all-America
touting, kept G. W. on the short end
of the count after they last their early,
and only, lead of 3-0. Colen, a smooth
all-around performer, dropped five of
his seven field goals in from a spot
near the center of the floor, nullifying
all efforts of Schonfeld, the Colonials'
midget guard, to stop him.
Late Rally Falls.
Only in the last seven minutes of
play did the Colonials look the team
that has won all its home games since
the Winter of 1934-5. Pour set shots
by O’Brien and single field goals by
Kiesel, Butterworth and Berg all but
tied the score with 10 seconds to play.
Novak got the final center jump, how
ever, and his mates held the ball to the
end.
O. W U. O P Pts. Loyola. O PPts.
O'Brien.f -ft 4 14 Caliban.! 336
But’worth.f. 2 1ft W. O'Brien ! non
Paris.I _ O O (I Novak.c _ 1 1 3
Kiesel.c 2 2 6 Colen.a 7 1 1ft
Ooldfaden.f Oil Murray.*... 4 0 H
Bergs 2 0 4 Kauts.*_ 2 0 4
Schonfeld.K- 2 0 4
Lynch,*_0 0 0
Totals 13 “a 34 Totals 16 4 36
Referee—Mr. Menton. Umpire—Mr.
Ennaht.
LANDON FIVE NOSED OUT
Montgomsry-Bl&ir Wins First Tilt
of Busy Week, 30-27.
Mantgomery-Blair's basket ball team,
which plays two more games at the
Takoma fire house this week, got off
to a good start yesterday when it
noeed out the Landon School five,
30-27.
The winners had to come from be
hind to bag the verdict, Landon hold
ing a 16-14 lead at half time. A third
quarter rally, during which Montgom
ery-Blair outcounted its rivals, 12 to
4, proved the turning point of the
game.
Landon. G F.Pts. Blair. GF.Pts.
Hughes.!_3 1 7 Robertson,!. 2 0 4
Dorian.!_ 2 0 4 Johnson.!-. j}17
Eaton.c_4 3 in Hunter.c ..204
Perkins* .. 0 0 0 F’patrick.c. 000
Berkeley,*.. 3 0 0 Mason.c... 3 0 0
SUU.C ..000
Wilmuth.C- 0 0 0
Fincham *-- 4 10
Totals 13~3 27 Totals_14 2 30
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Mat Matches
By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON. Del—Joe Cox. 271.
Cleveland defeated Henri Piers. 220,
Holland <ot.e fall'.
LANCASTER Pa—Joe Dusek. 210.
Omaha Nebr . threw Hank Barber. 222,
Cambridge Mass (one fall).
YORK Pa—Bobby Burns 217. Mu
nich. Germany, threw Irving Haipern.
2.70. New York (one fall)
PORTLAND Me.—Curly Donchin.
108. Milwaukee, Wis.. defeated Chuck
Montana 105. Detroit (two out of
three falls)
ATLANTIC CITY N J —George Kov
erly 21* Hollywood Calif , threw Nick
Comnofreda. 720 Baltimore ione falli.
SIDNEY. Nebr —Bobby Chick 174.
Sidney. National Wrestline Association
light heavyweight chamnlon. defeated
Count Von Bromberg. 174, Tucson (two
falls).
READY FOR TERP GAME
St. John's to Be at Full Strength
In Contest Tonight.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. February 23—With
Johnny Lambros and Bill Ross, fast
scoring forwards, again in shape, St.
John's will be in trim for the Mary
land game at College Park tonight.
It will be the last game away from
home for the Johnnies. The team will
j be completed by Jimmy Rowe at cen
ter. Ed De Lisio and Alam Pike, guards.
Both Lambros and Ross were out of
the game with American University.
St. John’s has five more games, all
to be played at home. Mount St.
Mary’s will be its opponent Thursday
night and Western Maryland on Sat
urday. Washington College. Swarth
more and Hopkins next week will
bring the schedule to a close.
NEVERS WON’T CHANGE
Not Considering Pro Job. Says
Lafayette Grid Coach.
EASTON. Pa , February 23 UP).—
' Ernie Nevers. Lafayette foot ball
ooach, said he had not received an
offer to coach the Cleveland pro
fessional .Rams, was not considering
such an offer, wouldn't consider one
if received.
“I’m still coach at Lafayette, and
my contract there has one more year
to run," he declared.
BREADON QUIET ON DIZ
ST. LOUIS, February 23 (A>)—Sam
uel Breadon. president of the St. Lorn*
Cardinals, would make no comment
on Dizzy Dean's announcement that
“I'm laying out of base ball this year.”
“I have nothing to say," was Brea
don’s reply to questions.
Last week the Cardinal president
said he expected the eccentric pitcher
to be wearing a Red Bird uniform this
season after Dean had returned his
contract unsigned.
Sports Mirror
Br the Associated Press.
Today a year ago—Japanese A.
i A F. denied any proposal to yield
bid for 1840 Olympic Winter
sports in Norway’s favor.
Three years ago—Charles D.
(Casey) Stengel signed two-year
contract to manage Brooklyn
Dodgers.
Five years ago—Dazzy Vance
signed 1932 Brooklyn contract for
$15,500, a cut of $7,500 below 1931
salary. .
Scores Snappy 8-Round Win
Over Jaramillo—May Meet
Pena, Who Beat Lou.
RAY INGRAM, somewhat neg
lected in the local fistic pat*
tern heretofore, now is antici*
pating a smoother road to
recognition after disposing of the
coffee-colored Christobal Jaramillo.
Puerto Rican lightweight, in a speed
ily-paced eight-round bout last night
at Turner’s Arena
Shunned as a featured fighter, the
fidgety featherweight now looms as a
crack opponent for Lou Gevinson in a
strictly local match to determine the
•rather quaint District 126-pound
championship. It is probable Ray will
be pitted against Johnny Pena, con
queror of Gevinson, with the winner
of that scrap slated to face Lou for
the title
Many fans are anxious to see Just
what effect, if any, Ray’s incessant
body attack would have on Gevinson.
Admittedly no great exponent of
knockout blows. Ingram nevertheless
has forged to the front here rapidly
in recent weeks by concentrating on
the midsectlon and it was that style
of fight which Pena employed In
whipping Gevinson.
Ray’s fights nearly always are
stereotyped, but rarely dull or, on the
other hand, seldom exciting. When
you pay to watch Ingram you pay to
see infighting and if that's your idea
of a fight you leave with a feeling
of satisfaction His style probably
would blend well with Gevinson* more
open method of tossing his fists in
making a good match.
Ingram Captures Six Bounds.
^LTHOUGH Jaramillo maintained
Ray * rapid pace. Ingram gained
a slight margin in six of the eight
rounds, with every frame nearly a
duplicate of the previous one. The
only really solid smack on the jaw
was absorbed by Ingram in the third
round, when the kinky-haired Puerto
Rican slammed a right to Ray a
bobbing noggin.
The preliminaries were brief, con
suming only 14t2 minutes of the cus
tomers’ time. In the opening six
rounder, Frankie Tymosko, Richmond
heavyweight, established the tempo
by chilling a blubbery Stanley Ket
chell of New York after 1 minute and
35 seconds of the second round
through the medium of a right to
fatty's jutting jaw.
The comeback campaign of Sid
Silas struck a snag in the form of
Werther Arcelli, Boston welterweight,
who captured a technical knockout
victory over the Jewish lad after 2
minutes and 5 seconds of the third
round. Silas was floored three time*
for nine counts in the second session
and Referee Denny Hughes stopped
the fight when Sid again hit the deck
in the third.
Hobo Williams. Alexandria middle
weight, twice dropped Eric Lawson of
Norfolk for eight counts before polish
ing him off after 1 minute and 50
seconds of the first round.
Slightly more than 1,000 spectator*
paid $1,317.75 to witness the action,
9 ■ ■ ■
LONE RING MATCH LEFT
i —————
C. U.-Miami Tilt Remains After
Columbus Foe Cancels.
Only one dual match remained on
the boxing schedules of local college
squads today as Columbus found its
season abruptly ended by Hampden
Sydney’s cancellation of the bout
which was to have been fohght here
Friday night.
It left the Catholic University
Miami scraps on Thursday as the one
remaining match. Miami is reported
to have the strongest team in its his
tory, and the bouts will bring two un
defeated teams into action against
each other. Miami has trimmed Ten
nessee and Syracuse, among others.
It will be the C. U. ring team's last
appearance of the season.
IDA SIMMONS COLLECTS
Gets $100, Trophy in Bowling
Win in Chesapeake Stakes.
B> the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md. February 23 —
Although she failed to repeat her vic
tory of the past two years in the Lor
raine Quill Sweepstakes in Washing
ton. Ida Simmons, No. 1 woman duck
pin bowler of the country, annexed
more laurels here yesterday, when sne
won the fourth annual Chesapeake
Sweepstakes title in reoord-breaklng
style.
She rolled a total score of 1,129—
new hgh for the event—to defeat Alice
Lucas of this city by 19 pins. It got
the Norfolk. Va . blond $100 and ths
Howard W. Jackson Trophy.
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