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Jimmie Wasdell Rated Serious Threat to' Take Joe KuheTs Job
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BY BOSS GRIFFITH
Competitive Spirit Strong
as Nationals Get Under
Way at Orlando.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ORLANDO. Fla.. March l.—To
a mythical rolling of drums
and blaring of trumpets the
curtain rose today on a new
Washington ball club training camp
extravaganza and revealed, as chief
characters, a curious score of wide
eyed rookies and staid veterans.
Some of them girded their loins
today for a battle that may last until
the American League campaign opens.
A spirit of competition reigns and only
thinly veiled was it as the Senators,
new and old. took command of Tinker
Field to start five weeks of condi
tioning under Orlando's famed Cen
tral Florida sun.
•It's a good ball club," pronounced
President Clark Griffith. "I'm not
saying that we will win the pennant,
but worse teams than ours have done
It. I think it will be a club with great
spirit and plenty of batting punch."
Wasdrll Gets Consideration.
/'"'RTFFITH was not thinking of Buck
^ Newsom when he mentioned the
club's spirit. Newsom is not the only
unsigned player, but Griffith is regard
ing Buck as the person marring an
otherwise placid outlook As the cara
van headed for the ball park today,
Bhortstop Cecil Travis and Outfielders
Ben Chapman and Johnnv Stone were
Unsigned, along with Newsom, but
Griffith expects no serious trouble
from this trio.
“As for Newsom.” said Griffith, "I
don't know what to think. He is sup
posed to report today, but I'm certain
he will not be here. Newsom called
me Saturday night from his home in
Hartsville and said he had a touch of
the flu and asked if I had changed my
mind about boosting his salary. I told
him I had not.
" 'Then I won't be down,’ said New
iom. and that's the last word I've had.”
Both Griffith and Manager Bucky
Harris, the latter arriving yesterday
»t the head of a skeleton squad from
Washington, publicly announced the
throwing open of several jobs. One
came as a surprise. All along Shanty
Hogan was to battle Clif Bolton for
the No. 1 catching berth and Jesse
Hill was to scramble with Fred
Sington for the third outfield post,
but there was a general raising of
eyebrows when Griffith declared that
Rookie Jimmie Wa'dell was to be
given a real chance to oust Joe Kuhel
at first base.
Pitchers Face Real Job Fight.
‘‘VX’E'RE going to give Wasdell
V every chance," commented Griff.
•‘They say that he's a great looking
ball player. I'm anxious to see him.
If Dick Lanahan hadn’t hit him in
the face with a pitched ball last
year in the Southern Association I
know that Wasdell would have been
just about ready for the big leagues.
Maybe he is now. I don't know, but
we won't be long in finding out.”
Among the pitchers in camp there
is an air of tenseness, only slightly j
alleviated by the prospect of Newsom
not pitching for the Washingtons
this year. Griffith has stated flatly j
that he doesn’t need Newsom and
has ventured an opinion that Joe
Cascarella. Jimmy De Shong. Johnny
Balveson, Pete Appleton, Eddie Linke
and Dick Lanahan will wind up as
the club's starting pitchers. “We ll !
need more than four starters,” said
Griffith.
“This sextet, while fairly sure of
starting, by no means form the en
tire slab staff. At least three more j
Will be retained and ambitions flame i
Within Monte Weaver, Harry Kelly, !
Ken Chase, Ray Phebus and Prank
Peticolas. All of them cannot stay
even with Newsom out.
Not Sensational but Watch ’Em.
'T'HERE seems to be nothing sen
sational about the Washington
club this season, but it still is a team
in the process of rebuilding and that
always is interesting. A diamond j
squad might be likened to a building. !
When incomplete it attracts only a
passing glance. But when the steam
shovels are through gnawing and
riveting machines are through sing
ing, however, it becomes a sight to
behold. So it is with a ball team.
Anyway they're off today, the 1937
Nationals. A year ago with prospects
far less bright, they wound up a
good fourth. This season you can
write your own ticket. To repeat
Clark Griffith's W'ords: "Worse teams
than this club have won pennants."
Maybe there is something in what
he says.
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Pro Hockey
Bt the Associated Press.
International-American League.
Providence, 3; Syracuse. 0.
Springfield, 4; New Haven J.
American Association.
St. Louis, 2; Minneapolis, 1.
Kansas City, 2; St. Paul, 1.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Briarly Military Academy vs.
Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park,
Md., 3:30.
Howard University vs. Morgan,
Baltimore, Md.
Boxing.
Irish Eddie Dunne vs. Joey
Straiges, 10 rounds, feature bout.
Turner's Arena, 8:30.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
Long Island vs. Catholic Univer
sity. Brookland gym, 8:15.
Georgetown vs. Pittsburgh, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Central vs. Wilson, Tech High
gvm (final public high series
game). 3:30.
Roosevelt vs. George Washington
High. Roosevelt gym, 3:30.
WEDNESDAY.
Basket Ball.
George Washington vs. Long
Island. Tech High gym, 8:30.
Georgetown vs. Penn State, State
College, Pa.
George Washington Frosh vs.
Y. M. C. A.. Tech High gym, 7.
B e t h e s d a-Chevy Chase vs.
Georgetown Prep. Bethesda. Md.
Boxing.
Washington amateurs vs. Balti
more amateurs. Turners Arena,
8:15.
FRIDAY.
Rasket Ball.
George Washington Frosh vs.
George Washington High, Alex
andria. Va„ 3:30.
Gallaudet vs. Elizabethtown Col
lege. Elizabeth. N. J.
American University vs. Virginia
Medical College, American U. gym,
8:15.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
George Washington vs. Villanova,
Tech High gym, 8:30.
Alumni vs. American University,
American U. gym. 8.15.
Kutztown Teachers vs. Wilson
Teachers, Wilson gym, 8:15.
Track.
Maryland. Catholic University
and Georgetown in Fifth Regiment
games, Baltimore, Md.
No Heavy Favorite Among
Teams Drawing Tonight
for Pairings.
BY ROD THOMAS.
THE delicate business of seeding
teams for the annual Evening
Star tournament for the Met
ropolitan Washington inter
scholastic basket ball championship
will be done tonight in a meeting of
coaches involved at The Star sports
department, opening at 7:30 o'clock.
Heretofore the team that drew the ,
Washington entry in the first round
was as good as erased from the tour
nament. But not so this time. Where
formerly only four selected teams
played in the event, the 1937 competi
tion engages eight and for the first
time the field is well balanced.
No Sharp Favorite.
rJ',HERE will be no sharp favorite
when outstanding teams of the
Capital proper, Northern Virginia and
Southern Maryland move into action
at Tech High on March 15. The rise
this season of suburban schools and a
slightly lowered standard of play in
the Washington public high series
have served to equalize things so far
as the Metropolitan tournament is
concerned and the struggle is expected
to be exciting from start to finish,
with the event shot through with nat
ural rivalries.
The entry of St. John’s College,
which overwhelmed Gonzaga in sur
prising style in the final game for the
Catholic high championship of Wash- j
ington Saturday night, tossed a
spoonful of pepper into the basket
ball stew.
St. John's Real Threat.
gT. JOHN'S, the first school outside
of the public institutions to be
admitted to the tournament from
Washington, also adds to the prestige
of the metropolitan title, for the Ca
dets clearly are the class of the
Catholic high field and play under
the same conditions to which the
District public high schools are re
stricted.
It is not unlikely that the two
Washington public high entries will
be seeded in opposite brackets«and the
one that draws St. John’s is guar
anteed trouble. The Cadets played
like true champions in knocking off
Gonzaga, 34 to 13, after dividing two
games with the Purple by close scores,
When the big clutch came. Horse Hol
brook’s youngsters turned on the pres
sure like hardened veterans.
National League.
Montreal Canadiens, 0; Detroit,
0, tie.
Chicago, 4; New York Rangers, 3.
TRACK AMES
TO KEEP STEM’
Seton Hall, Maryland-Fifth
Regiment Games, Chicago
Meet on This Week.
BT the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 1—The
year's national titles have been
awarded and the job of re
writing the indoor track record
books virtually has been completed,
but there's no sign of a let-up in
running and jumping activity.
Beginning tonight with the Seton
Hall meet at Newark, N. J.. the board
track stars will spread out to do a
little "barnstorming" while college
aces will take over the spotlight with
the intercollegiate A. A. A. A. meet
two weeks hence, the Big Ten and
other regional title meets.
In addition to tonight's meet, this
week's schedule includes two meets
Saturday. At Chicago the Daily
News A. A. meet is expected to at
tract many of the stars. The South's
best runners, will run in the Univer
sity of Maryland-5th Regiment meet
at Baltimore.
Stars Vie in l'-j-Mile Race.
'POPPING the Seton Hall program is
a l12-mile race which has drawn
a flock of top-flight milers and two
milers. including Glenn Cunningham,
Italy's Luigi Beccali, Don Lash. Wayne
and Blaine Rideout and Harold Man
ning.
Due to a cold, Cunningham didn't
run in the A. A. U. 1.500 meters last
Saturday, confining his efforts to a
relay leg while Archie San Romani
of Emporia, Kaas., Teachers won the
feature with Bercali second. He also
is entered for the 1.000-yard invita
tion tonight against Miklos Szabo of
Hungary, Bill Ray and Joe McCluskey
and may run only in the shorter race.
Jim Herbert, New York University
freshman Negro star, who hasn't lost
a 600-yard race this season, faces A1
Pitch, Southern California Olympic
runner, and Edgar Stripling of N.
Y. U. in the Waldron 600.
Tempo Will Slow Down.
EGARDLESS of the fields, meets
on the flat armory floors or in
door dirt tracks aren't expected to
produce anything like the record
breaking which reached Its climax in
the A. A. U. meet. Topping off an
indoor campaign already notable for
the wrecking of the pole vault and
two-mile records, two world Indoor
records and three meet records fell
Saturday.
Eddie Burke. Marquette University
Negro, established a high jump mark
of 6 feet 91.* inches, wiping out his
own former standard by 5-16 of an
inch. The New York Curb Exchange
sprint quartet set a record of 1:59 7 in
the 1,000-meter medley relay trials, i
Norman Bright of San Francisco, one
of seven successful defending cham
pions, lowered the 5.000-meter meet
standard to 14:45.8 as the first three
finishers beat the old mark. Indiana's
Tommy Deckard was clocked in 8:48 6
for the 3.000-meter steeplechase and :
Earle Meadows pole vaulted 14 feet
3 inches.
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W. P. A. BASKETERS WIN
All But One Scores in Victory
Over Baltimore Y. M. H. A.
8pecial Dispatch to Tha Star
BALTIMORE, Md . March 1—With
seven of its eight players having a
hand in the scoring, the crack Dis
trict W. P. A. basket ball team de
feated the local Y. M. H. A. five here
yesterday, 28-19. Twenty of the win
ners’ points were scored in the first
half, the hosts out-counting them
12-8 in the second period.
Reds Scheible, former Eastern High
School star, led the attack with 8
points, Dopey Dean dropping in 6 and
Bernie Lieb 5. No Baltimore player
scored more than once from the floor.
BOHL FREMONT PILOT
New Reds' Farm Leader Formerly
Managed Martinsville.
CINCINNATI. March 1 (JP).—Ap
pointment of Harold D. (Hap) Bohl.
veteran infielder, as manager of the
Fremont team of the Ohio State Base
Ball League was announced today by
Willis Johnson, president of the
Peoria (HI.) team of the Three-Eye
League.
The Peoria Club, owned by the
Cincinnati Reds, has a working agree
ment with the Fremonters.
Bowl, a native of Cincinnati, man
aged the Martinsville <W. Va.) Club
of the Bi-State League in 1935 and
last year piloted the union springs
team in the Alabama-Florida League.
CARDS START TRAINING.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Of*).—
Forty St. Louis Cardinals, including
several promising rookies, open train
ing today. Conspicuously absent are
Dizzy Dean and Johnny Mize, hold
outs.
St. John, Virginia Star, to
Race Formidable Lot at
Baltimore Saturday.
6peclal Dispatch to The Star
Baltimore. Md.. March l —
Bob St. John, former middle
distance ace at Central High
School of Washington, will
head a crack field of entries in the
Oriole 600. one of the mast enticing
offerings on the 27-event program of
the University of Marvland-5th Regi
ment indoor track meet here Saturday.
St. John, running for Virginia, won
the non-conference half mile in the
Southern Conference meet at Chapel
Hill Saturday night, but will face a
more formidable field here in Bill
Ray of Manhattan, Jim Elliott, a
former Villanova star now performing
under the Penn A. C. banner, and Ed
Schofield, crack Navy trackman.
Probably outstanding, however, is the
field which will face the gun in the
Governor's Mile, with Graham Gam
mon of North Carolina, who captured
both the mile and the half-mile con
ference events in the Southern Con
ference test, the marked gian.
Promise Trouble for Gammon.
QLENN FUNK, former Nebraska
track captain, now affiliated with
Penn A. C.: Jack Harbey, Navy, and
Coleman Headley, Maryland star, fig
ure to press and possibly whip Gam
mon, since all have covered the dis
tance in 4 minutes and 20 seconds or
better. .
Competing In the 2-mile A. A. U.
invitation will be Joe Lumpkin of
Richmond University, who probably
will be forced to lower his winning
time of 9:30 4 in the Southern Con
ference if he hopes to triumph over
Joe McCluskey. member of the Olym
pic team: Joe Fox of Yale, Bill Agee
of Baltimore and others slated to run
in that event.
Virginia's Bill Hopkins, who cov
ered 60 yards in 6.02 seconds Satur
day, will stack up against such sprint
ers as Windman Gary of Yale and
Jack Dalton of Navy.
Three years ago—Prime Camera,
370, defended heavyweight title,
but failed even to score knock
down in 15 rounds with Tommy
Loughran, 186.
Ball Players Pull for Foxx to Win Salary Battle
. Southern Methodist Rich in Grid Talent—Rowe Lucky to Escape Death in Auto Crash.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March
1.—Greetings, all. Here is
your roving agent back at
the mike with plenty of
chatter . . . Base ball men (moguls
excepted, of course) are pulling for
Jimmy Foxx to win his salary
- battle with the Boston Gold Sox.
Old “double X" was slashed from
20 to 15 grand just like nothing
had happened.
Yep, those guys with the red
t. pans are the ones who purveyed
f the “official” news that Doc Suth
< erland would quit at Pitt .. . The
a Dizzy Deans may have had a long,
cold Winter in mind when Mrs. Diz
bought that Bradenton beauty
foundry. Old Diz la being schooled
to
to operate on the debs and sub
some.
Although perhaps the highest
paid sports editor in the country,
the late Bernard William St. Den
nis Thomson of the New York
Times, seldom was seen at a
sports event, but directed a huge
staff from his desk in the Times
office . . . The Winter colony here
misses Babe Ruth and his hearty
laugh.
If you don’t believe pneumonia
has something on the ball, try it
Twice it had this correspondent
headed for the last round-up,' but
that little dogle just wouldn’t git
... Gene Tunney says a Braddock
Schmeling fight wouldn't draw
$150,000, because of that anti-Nazi
boycott . . . Attention, foot ball
coaches: Matty Bell has ’em three
4.
deep at Southern Methodist, and
prays he can keep ’em under cover
until Fall.
If you believe A1 Simmons, now
boiling out at Hot Springs, School
boy Rowe was lucky to come out
of that auto smash alive . . . The
holdout trouble between Roy Spen-«
oer and the Giants wasn't over
dough. Roy only wanted Bill Terry
to assure him his job as third
string catcher would last all sea
son. Spencer feared he would be
shipped across the river to Old
Hoss Jackson’s Jersey City club.
What's all this about Mike
Jacobs not going to renew his lease
on the Hippodrome this Summer?
His last five or six shows have
been packing ’em in . . . The Amer
ican Association aught to get an
assist if Detroit wins the pennant.
Mickey Cochrane is going to give
10 AA graduates the once over .. .
The Yankee advance squad hit
town last night and goes at it this
morning.
Bill Dickey, unsigned Yank
catcher, has been here two weeks,
but nobody has seen him. And
when such gimlet-eyed sleuths as
Charlie Seegar of the New York
Mirror and Max Kase, also early
arrivals, can’t locate a guy in two
weeks, that’s real riding out in our
books ... The Florida sports pages
are ringing the bell louder than
ever . . . That noise you hear is
merely Johnny Buckley, fat Bos
ton light manager, and his middle
weight, Lou Brouillard. telling how
they "wuz robbed” in the Thil
light In Parti.
M
THERE’S SOMEBODY ON CRUSOE’S ISLAND
—By JIM BERRYMAN
"POPP/NG
OFF'Star . „
%
Let's Meet the Boys.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ORLANDO. Fla., March 1 —So maybe you want to know before the
ballyhooey pours in daily what the boys are like in this training
camp of the Nationals?
You've lived with most of them and watched some of them
play as many as 150 games of ball a year. Lots of the Griffmen won t need
any introduction. Some of them will need it. On your thumb nail you wrote
a iew descriptions uiuny, a* iunu»s.,
Jack Salveson—the boy who steals
the show’ at a college junior prom,
a relic from the days when kids
went bareheaded, drew arrows stick
ing into hearts on their slickers and
painted "Lizzie—four wheels, no
brakes” on their model-T Fords. Nice
guy. Hits a golf ball out of sight and
shoots around 72.
J. Francis Hogan—Chaucer
wasn’t thinking of “Shanty’*
when he once wrote in describ
ing some guy “full fed and well
fat.’’
The words lit perfectly though . . .
Shanty's the guy you'd meet, If
lucky, the club car of a Pullman.
He'd buy you a drink and you'd sit
for a couple of hours Just talking.
He'd never be taken for an athlete.
'Nother nice guy.
Joe Ca scare 11a—the court jester.
Spends 59 minutes of every hour
"ribbing” people, but can intelligently
discuss anything from Gerty Stein’s
stuff to the newest modem detective
serial if he has to do it.
Best crooner in base ball, but
he never haa warbled for the
benefit of his teammates.
Whistles better'n Bing Crosby,
married to a swell gal.
Jimmy De Shong—the fellow who’s
always meeting the gal when she
drives up to a country club in one of
those "buy a Whatsis magazine adver
tisements.” Best dresser In base bell.
Needs three trunks for his sports coats
and odd trousers. Spends spare time
shopping. Probably best pool player
making a living by playing ball.
Dick Lanahan—left-handed pitcher.
See ’'Salveson” for rest and omit only
reference to golf.
Pete Tickles the Ivories.
pETE APPLETON, the guy you must
* deal with when you walk into the
Internal Revenue Building to get free
advice on how to make out your Income
tax. Like Cascarella be can talk well
on any subject, but he has to be
wound up. Has best curve ball, prob
ably in American League. Definitely
the beet piano player in base ball. Can
bang out anything from Beethoven's
stuff to “Minnie the Moocher.”
Frank Peticolas—the blacksmith’s
son who can whip his dad. With a
little chewing gum he could roll up an
ear and look like a rassler. Actually a
kid who gave up the priesthood for
base ball and has been handicapped
by ill health, of all things.
Buddy Myer, former welter
weight champion of the world.
(This is a stock description.)
Buddy Lewis, guard on a Duke Uni
versity basket ball team. Probably will
become most eligible bachelor in Amer
ican League if he stays single. Would
be handsome if he let his hair grow
and stopped looking like a junior at
college.
A.
AfONTE WEAVER—the man be
1 1 hind the "notes" window in any
bank. Really he is quite a pitcher
without having benefit of the proper
physique. Is convinced that he isn't
a relief pitcher and yet official figures
showed that he was the best "fire
man” in the American League last
year.
Ossie Bluege — probably the guy
you’d find behind the "receiving tell
er’s window in the same bank with j
Weaver. Dean of all Washington play- j
ers and starting his sixteenth year
with the Griffs. Can’t believe, when
all's said and done, that he doesn’t
belong in the infield regularly.
Ben Chapman — typical ball
player. Frank Merriwell play
ing the outfield.
Johnny Stone—’nother typical ball
player. On same type as Chapman
except that he lacks Ben’s color and
dash.
Jesse Hill—fugitive trom Knights of
Columbus games—dash man trying to
make good in base ball. Kind of guy
you Instinctively pull for when you get
to know him.
Bucky’s a Real Guy.
pRED SINGTON—bull in a china
shop. He'd be the first you’d pick
if you were organizing a foot ball team
and the guy you’d be most leary about
while running a ball club.
Bucky Harris — fellow who
would sell you too much life in
surance and make you like it.
With newspaper men he's moat
popular manager in American
League.
Ball players either would jump out
of a 40-story window for him or cut
his throat when he isn't looking. Lat
ter type are the ones whose throats
ought to be cut.
(Editor’s note—There are a few
more on the thumb nails, but this is
getting a trifle long. Let’s take 'em
up later.)
GOLF BATTLE IS KEEN
Guldahl, Smith, Cooper Flay Off
for St. Petersburg Money.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March
1 UP).—Three iron men of the golf
greens today decide first-money win
ner in the St. Petersburg open tour
nament.
Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith and
Harry Cooper, all of Chicago, finished
in a 284-stroke deadlock Saturday at
the end of 72 holes.
Today’s play-off will give $700 to
the winner. $450 for second place and
$350 for third.
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Depending Too Much on
“One-Man” Teams, Says
Jones. Internationalist.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1—The
United States, England, Aus
tralia and Germany are in
the same boat in so far as
Davis Cup singles players are con
cerned.
Each nation has just one reliable,
and the strain that will be put on the
shoulders of Li'l Bunny Austin when
England open* defense of the inter
national tennis trophy next July prob
ably will be so terrific as to cost her
the cup.
As for the others: Germany has
the bounding Baron Gottfried von
Cramm, Australia has Adrain Karl
Quist and Uncle Sam has redheaded
Don Budge.
Young Englishmen “Green.’*
"Y'OU can take it from tall Davy
Jones, who went from one light
blue to another, first as captain of
Columbia's tennis team and then of
the Cambridge forces in England, in
1934, John Bull virtually has lost the
cup because his younger players aren't
ready to be thrown into the breach
left when Fred Perry turned pro.
Jones things Australia will win.
"The competition this year ought
to be peculiarly close because each of
the ‘Big Four' has only one dependable
singles player.” said Jones, who is
making his first bid for the United
States indoor singles championship at
the 7th Regiment Armory. He looms
as one of Champion Greg Mangin’s
most serious threats.
"The British Lawn Tennis Asso
ciation is working with Charlie Hare.
Eddie Filby, Donald Shayes and
Jimmy Jones (no relation!, but they
won't be ready for big-time play for
a couple of years,” he continued.
"Pat Hughes, who plays cup doubles
with Charley Tuckey. probably will
be Austin's singles mate, but he really
doesn't like to play singles, although
he can beat any one of the four young
sters right now. I don't see how Eng
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SPORTS PRESSURE
Free Home Games Policy
Strikes at Over-Emphasis
of College Athletics.
B» the Associated Press.
Baltimore. Marrh 1—The
Johns Hopkins University of
fered a challenge to high
pressure college athletics today
in the shape of a decision to eliminate
all admission prices to sports events
and neither pay nor accept guarantees
for traveling teams.
Effective next October 13. admission
to home games on any of the Hop
kins 13 sports schedules will be free: as
soon as existing commitments are ab
solved, athletic authorities announced,
"the university will neither pay guar
antees to visiting teams, nor will it
accept guarantees when its teams play
away from home.”
''Contests generally will be sched
uled on a two-year home-and-home
basis, the visiting team always paying
it own traveling expenses." Dr. G.
Wilson Shaffer, director of athletics,
asserted.
Not to Curtail Program.
\VE DO not plan any reduction
in our intercollegiate program."
Dr. Shaffer continued. ‘ The only dif
ference from the former method is
that a budget established for the
department of physical education and
athletics will be broadened to include
the expenses of intercollegiate com
petition without counting on any
problematical profit from gate receipts
or guarantees."
The formal announcement of the
revolutionary change of policy said
the university "in effect, has placed
athletics at the level which they would
occupy if in the realm of collegiate
sports there were no such thing as a
recruited foot bail team and no gold
mine of gate receipts to be tapped."
The Hopkins plan is described as
the first in the United States to place
modern college foot ball on a non
commercial basis.
Extension of Old Policy.
pLIMINATION of paid admissions
and guarantees was described by
the university as a “logical extension
of the athletic policy introduced at
Hopkins several years ago."
At that time, the announcement
said, “the few existing athletic
scholarships were abolished, athletics
were brought under the control of the
university and a strong program of
intramural sports was introduced.
‘‘At the same time, the scope of
intercollegiate program was expanded
to include 13 sports instead of 6, th#
number of students participating in
this form of competition increasing
in corresponding measure. • • •
More than 85 per cent of the student
body now engages in some form of
athietic activity."
D. C. Undisturbed
Bv Hopkins' Act
rTHE decision of Johns Hopkins
to abolish admission charges
to its foot ball games failed to dis
turb local college officials or foot
ball coaches today as they pointed
to the Baltimore's school's lone
gridiron victory last season and
hinted such a record justifies the
end.
Dr. Clovd Heck Marvin, presi
dent of George Washington Uni
versity, summed up the move with
a statement that "Johns Hopkins'
record in foot ball just about ex
plains everything—they have little
to lose.”
The so-called taint of commer
cialism actually never has bothered
Johns Hopkins to any great extent.
Its decision to make no more guar
antees to visiting teams will not
affect American University simply
because the Eagles never have re
ceived a guarantee from Hopkins.
land can win and my choice is Aus
tralia.
Likes Grant for U. S. Team.
“’you see Australia, with Quist,
probably has the best all-around
amateur of the day. He's just as good
at doubles as he is in singles, and I
think Crawford, if the chips are down,
really can produce one victory.
“Don Budge, in my opinion is a
little young to do the job alone, that
is win two singles matches and share
a doubles victory with Gene Mako.
Personally, I'd give the other singles
assignment to Bitsy Grant.”
Jones played in England and on the
Continent four years ago while at
tending Cambridge. He attracted con
siderable attention with his high-kick
ing service, which last year reminded
old-timers at Wimbledon of Ellsworth
Vines and other power hitters among
former amateurs.
Today a year ago—Harry Oooper
won Florida West Coast open golf
tournament with 282.