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Payoff Games at Hand With 11 Teams in Title Race Vaunting Clean Slates
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Backwash From the Town's Big College Game
“Personally." Jack Hagerty was saying, "I wasn't surprised because it
was a tight ball game. I knew the George Washington players were all
hopped up over this game with us because after the first half I saw some
of them walking off the field and they were crying like babies."
Mr. Hagerty is head coach at Georgetown University. Like almost
everybody else who occupied a seat in a Griffith Stadium pew on Satur
day Jack still is replaying the Hoya-Colonial game. He said, after it was
over, that he expected something of the sort but, by the same token,
that he was disappointed with his team.
"George Washington's line ” Hagerty said, “outcharged my line all
afternoon. My kids weren't blocking well and I don't think the average
fan in the grandstand knew exactly what was going on. After the game
a lot of people came to me and asked what was wrong with Jules Koshlap.
It seems he didn't complete a single pass and that he didn't do any j
running to speak of.
“Why,” demanded Mr. Hagerty, “do people pick out a fellow like 1
Koshlap or Lou Ghecas and blame him for not scoring? It wasn't Kosh
lap's fault that we didn't score more points. The bitter truth of the matter
Is that George Washington's line charged Koshlap so fast that he didn't
have a chance to throw a decent pass or get off to a good run.”
Hagerty Feared the Colonials' Ken Batson
After any hard-fought game, with something more than a trace of
tradition behind it, there crop up a number of angles. The Georgetown
George Washington game was no exception It was the kind of game that
needed only a break to decide the issue and. as it developed, a break did
decide. With 71 seconds of play remaining in the first half Georgetown
blocked a Colonial punt and Mike Kopcik, a sophomore end, scooped up
the loose ball and ran for a touchdown.
Hagerty admitted that he did not look for this sort of break to win
for the Hoyas, who have been unbeaten since 1937. “I figured that a
touchdown would be the difference.” confessed Hagerty, “and the fellow
who had me worried before the game was Batson. I was afraid of that
fellow, but I had the G. W. backs pegged all wrong. The kid who gave
us fits all afternoon was this Billy Richardson. If he had been just
a little faster . .
We thought that it was a swell sort of a college game and that it
might well have ended in a scoreless tie. Had there been a whistle
between our lips at the time the Hoya line surged forward and blocked that
punt by Tim Swett for the games only score we think a little loud
blowing would have been automatic. From high in the stands it looked
as if a couple of Hoyas from the right side were offside but, then, officials
are hired lor the purpose of detecting infractions of the rules and those
who were on hand Saturday were a lot closer to the scene of action than
we were and. after all. they were the fellows who possessed and who were
authorized to use the whistles.
The Game Deserved a Little Better Support
Aside from the particular play which won the ball game for the
Hoyas we remained unimpressed by the officials. Not elsewhere in the
country, perhaps, but here in Washington college football is struggling to
compete with the pros. For almost two years now Georgetown has been
a good, entertaining and successful football team. The Colonials hadn't
been successful, but they were primed for this particular game and they
put on a great show. In short, both teams wqre on their toes.
But what of the officials? As we said, aside from that blocked punt
play, we were unimpressed. What we saw were four officials on the field
■who either were too slow or too lazy to carry out their assignments. They
ruined the ball game and the same quartet, performing as they did on
Saturday, are quite capable of ruining even a pro game. It would seem
that when men are hired and imported to do a job they would at least
snap into the swing of things and, at least mechanically, fulfill all
obligations.
In the wake of the game one finds the George Washington forces
unashamed, and rightly so. The Colonials gave the Hilltoppers a better
battle than fans had bargained for, apparently, for only 17.505 spectators
(counting students, deadheads, etc.) turned out. The game deserved
better support and, after the lesson given by the Colonials on Saturday,
it undoubtedly will get it hereafter.
Briefly, the team that figured to win the game won it, finally, but
not in the manner nor by the score expected. This is no particular
reflection on Georgetown. True, the Hoyas didn't look as good as they
figured to look, but any time you put two teams on the field and throw
up a backdrop of local rivalry and tradition it isn't likely you will see a
one-sided game.
Reinhart Calls Richardson Best Back
Newspapermen who interviewed Bill Reinhart after the game heard
him say that, in his opinion. Georgetown men were offside on the play
that won the game. Over the week end Mr. Reinhart found no reason
to change his mind. At the same time Bill isn't amplifying. In his book
the Georgetown game is over and already he is worrying about the
Colonials' engagement with Clemson on Friday.
Commenting otherwise on the game, though, Mr. Reinhart is pretty
proud of his line, particularly the tackles. "There were three kids out
there," he said, “whf> played darned good ball and got no mention. All
of them were George Washington tackles—Jones. Keahey and Barauskas.
They are the only real tackles I’ve got and they played Georgetown's at
least to a standstill. That,” he added, significantly, “wasn't in the
book, either, was it?” Practically everybody will agree that it wasn’t.
"Even if we didn't win," philosophized Mr. Reinhart, “we sort of cut
Georgetown down to our size. In other words, Georgetown isn't the
greatest team in the country and George Washington isn't the worst.
Those kids of mine were pointing for this game and I'll illustrate their
frustration by telling this—Swett, the boy whose punt was blocked, cried
in the dressing room for three hours and moaned that he personally lost
the ball game.
"My kids,” he concluded, “did all right. 'They proved that G. W.
has a fighting football team. Richardson, I thought, was the best back
in the game. Billy got off to a bad start by fumbling on his first play,
and he made another bad maneuver when, on his 36-yard run, he raced
for the sidelines instead of cutting back. But he was a great back
Saturday and undoubtedly played his best college game. A little better
quarterbacking and possibly a cutback by Richardson and we'd have done
all right, offside or no."
In the meantime the Hoyas and the Colonials, hostilities ended, are
looking ahead today. Ahead of Georgetown now lies West Virginia, and
after the Mountaineers come Maryland and New York University. And
ahead of G. W. lies Clemson. a 15-7 winner over Navy and loser only once
this season when a good Tulane team licked the Cadets, 7-6. So wipe
ofi Saturday's slate "and dig in for another week end.
Olympic Award
Big Surprise
To Detroit
Not Ready to Hold
Games If Finland
Gives Them Up
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated press Spnr’s Writer.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.—'The 1940
Olympics became an international
guessing game today because of an
announcement from Olympic head
quarters in Switzerland that they
might be transferred from Helsinki.
Finland, to Detroit.
Nobody could be sure what it was
all about, inasmuch as Finland still
is planning to hold the games and
Detroit has not asked for them
recently, and isn't sure it wants them
on such short notice.
There perhaps has been no more
startling ••communique" since Eu
rope's war began than the proclama
tion of the International Olympic
Committee in Lausanne yesterday
that the 1940 games would be held
in Detroit if Finland renounced its
right to stage them.
The committee's communique said
all national Olympic committees had
been polled as to whether they
would send teams to Helsinki and
that if their replies were negative,
as many were expected to be. Fin
land would renounce and clear the
way for removal of the Olympics to
the United States, where many ot
the neutral nations were certain to
compete.
The consternation this caused was
something to behold.
“Some Mistake,” Says Brundage.
Avery Brundage. president of the
American Olympic Committee, re
torted. "There must be some mistake
The committee would not award the
games to Detroit without consulting
us and we've heard ndthing about it.”
In Detroit Mayor Richard Reading,
with great civic enthusiasm, de
clared his city would "welcome the
games with open arms.” But his
own chairman of a committee to
obtain the Olympics in 1944. Frederic
C. Matthai. expressed surprise at
the action and added:
"There isn't sufficient time to make
plans for a bang-up Olympaid. and
a track meet without France. Great
Britain and Germany in the conten
tion would not be much of an at
traction. Finland has a tremendous
investment in the games and it may
mean bankruptcy for some one If
they are not held.”
Word of the International Com
mittee action reached Finland in the
middle of the night and no official
comment was forthcoming imme
diately. But it was pointed out that
preparations for the Olympics. July
20 to August 4, had gone forward
unceasingly during the current crisis
between Finland and Russia.
Finland Ready to Carry On.
When the games were moved to
Helsinki earlier this year from Japan
because of the undeclared Asiatic
war, the city appropriated $2,500,000
and the nation twice that amount
to promote the affair.
a stadium designed to seat oz.uuu,
with 45.000 permanent seats, is in
tire last stages of construction. The
first apartment houses of the Olym
pic village, intended to house 4.000
athletes, have been completed and
others are being run up speedily.
Twenty-four apartment buildings
are in the group and four are de
signed as permanent dwellings.
Only a few days ago the Olympic
Committee of Finland announced
that of the many acceptances re
ceived from foreign nations, not one
had been withdrawn as a result of
the war.
The confusion surrounding the
games extends also to the winter
Olympics, which were given Switzer
land after Japan's withdrawal, and
then passed along to Garmisch
Partenkirchen, Germany, because no
skiing was to be on the program.
Now they are expected to be aban
doned entirely.
Finns Not Relinquishing.
By the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Oct. 30 —Erik Frenck
ell, vice mayor of Helsinki and head
of the city's Olympic Games Com
mittee, declared today: "Finland
has no intention of giving up the
Olympic games. If the war contin
ues until next year, the committee
naturally will be obliged to meet to
consider the possibility of maintain
ing its original plan.”
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Redskins Fooled in Grand Way
As Packers Triumph in Mud;
Irwin Blamed for Defeat
By BILL DLSMF.R, Jr.,
Siar Staff Correspondent.
EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON.
Oct. 30.—It seems the Redskins were
misled.
Green Bay's Herber-to-Hutson
combination doesn't have to click
often in order for the Packers to
win. Their "aged" line still is clever
enough to show younger opponents a
few tricks. Cecil Isbell doesn't ex
actly holler "Uncle'’ when hit a
. couple of times. And Hank Bruder,
i their oldest player, who now con
I fines his duties almost exclusively to
1 blocking, hasn't forgotten how to
! score touchdowns.
Because all of these things proved
I surprisingly true—surprising to the
Redskins, who had been told other
1 wise—Washington’s pro football
■ team Is returning home today from
Milwaukee beaten for the first time
this season and, -worse than that,
no longer deadlocked with the still
i undefeated Giants for the leader
; ship of the Eastern division.
| The most admirable thing that
can be written today about the Red
skins is that they never stopped try
ing throughout the 60 minutes of
: their 24-14 loss to the Packers in as
game, but vain, an uphill fight as
they've ever staged. But they didn't
deserve to win against a team of
opportunists playing heads-up foot
ball every instant and capitalizing
on every break such as the Packers
did yesterday.
Packer Line Rushes Sammy.
Mud. the result of a midday two
hour rain, turned a dry, fast field—
which would have been to the ad
vantage of the fast, light Redskin
i backs—into heavy going, which only
' accentuated the Packers’ tremen
] dous weight advantage in the line.
! For it was the Parker line that was
I the difference in the teams yester
day. ... A line that continually I
rushed Sammy Baugh, in contrast to
I the inability of the Redskin for- I
wards to get close to Bay passers
I very often ... A line that opened |
huge holes for its backs to rip
through, while the Redskin backs
more often than not found them- j
selves stymied by skidding forwards.
Although all of the Redskins are !
willing to share the blame for failure
to stop the Packers, the finger of
guilt points squarely at the usually |
reliable Don Irwin for halting three j
of the Redskins’ promising forays
into enemy territory when they were
beginning to show signs of over
coming a 17-7 deficit. All came
within 5 minutes of the third
quarter.
Sammy Baugh's broken field run
of 39 yards after intercepting Isbell's
pass at midfield had given the Red
skins the ball on Green Bay's 1J.
On the first play, a spread, Irwin
fumbled and the Packers recovered.
Then, after Clarke Hinkle's punt
had been returned 28 yeards on a
brilliant run by Andy Farkas, Baugh
threw a perfect pass to Irwin, in the
clear—and Irwin dropped it. Not
3 minutes later, Irwin butter
fingered a reverse from Frank Fil
chock and another incipient threat
had ended. 'Twas a sad day for
the ex-Colgate back, perhaps his
saddest in professional football.
We wouldn't know, for sure, but
we think the Packers kinda out
smarted the Redskins. Right off the
bat, Herber tossed a long pass to
Hutson. It fell incomplete, but it
served its obvious purpose. For it
removed the Redskins’ secondary
from its place right behind the line
and Packer backs started to have a
field day. In addition, from then
on. the Redskins had eyes only for
Hutson on Bay passes, but from
then on, Hutson wasn't the sole ob
ject of teammates’ heaves. For
Herber not only started to share
the passing duties with Isbell, but
even started getting on the receiving
end of aerials himself, and the Red
skins had been told Herber never
touched the ball except when he was
going to throw it.
Andy Best Running Back.
But with all due respect to Isbell—
a triple-threat of the highest order—
Andy Farkas was the best running
back on the field. Andy not only
didn't mind the mud, he loved it.
His legs churned up the loose turf
on runs from 5 to *5 yards and once
again he completely captivated a
crowd. The only mystery is—
and Andy himself wondered the
same thing aloud after the game—
was why he didn’t get the chance
to carry the ball oftener. He scored
the Skins’ first touchdown by going
through center practically untouched
after his beautiful cutback had
started him on a 43-yard jaunt to
the 7-yard line on the previous play.
In the final result, it only added
3 more points to the Packers’ score,
but Tiny Engebretsen’s field goal
from the 17-yard line a minute be
fore the half ended had a bad psy
chological effect on the Redskins.
For the 10-point difference that they
were forced to contemplate during
intermission meant that they would
(See REDSKINS, Page A-17J
Giants to Give Dashing
Lions Acid Test in
Battle Sunday
New York Only Unbeaten
Club in Loop; Tie Ends
Panther Loss Streak
Bv TOM SISI.FR.
Associated Press Sporis Writer.
CHICAGO. Oct. 30—Detroit's
surprising Lions should know the
worst about their national pro foot- I
ball aspirations in another week of j
battling.
The Lions, who are matching
the fine play of the Green Bay
Packers stride for stride In the Na
tional League's Western division,
engage the title-holding New York
Giants at Detroit next Sunday in
a pivotal clash.
Detroit. New York and Green Bay
all clicked yesterday with well
earned victories. Their three games
and the Cleveland-Pittsburgh tilt
drew a total of 101.514 spectators.
Lions \ irtorv Heclslve.
Gus Henderson's Lions clipped
the Chicago Bears in a manner
even more decisive than the 10-0
score indicates. The Lions throt- j
tied completely the Bears’ vaunted |
running and passing attack. Chuck
Hanneman’s 37-yard field goal and
Dwight Sloan's 12-yard dash on a
spinner accounted for the tallies, a
defeat that virtually eliminated thej
Chicago eleven from the Western:
race.
The Lions now have won five of
six games, but face a murderous
schedule. After taking on the
Giants a week hence they play the
Bears again. Cleveland Rams. Wash
ington Redskins and Green Bay.
Green Bay matched Detroit’s won
lost record by handing the Redskins
their first defeat, 24-14. Washing
ton’s defeat left the Giants alone in
first place in the Eastern division.
Giants Alone Undefeated.
The New Yorkers defeated Brook
lyn, 7 to 6. to remain the only un
defeated team in the league. TufTv
Leemans scored the touchdown and
Ken Strong added the ail-important
extra point. Ralph Kercheval scored
Brooklyn's six points on two field
goals from the 47 and 27 yard lines
He tried two others, but both fizzled
In the day's other game Cleveland
and Pittsburgh battled to a 14-14 tie,
breaking Pitt's six - game losing
streak. Parker Hall, league leading
passer, had a bad day, connecting
for only one of 13 passes for the
Rams. But he contributed one of
the touchdowns with an 88-yard run
in the first period. Johnny Drake
scored the Rams’ six pointer, leaving
him only one touchdown behind Don
Hutson's season touchdown record of
nine.
Silver Spring Stays Even
Although outweighed, a fast step
ping Silver Spring football team
earned a 12 to 12 tie with Laurel
yesterday on the latter’a field.
Warwicks Down Skulls
Warwick, A. C. gridmen scored an
impressive 13-6 victory over the
powerful Ballston Skulls on the
latter's field.
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Catholic U. Near Top j
Of Unbeaten, Untied;
List Cut to 25
Only Teams Not Scored
On Are Tennessee, New
Britain Teachers
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30—Such fear
some gridiron machines as Ten-!
nessee, Duquesne. Notre Dame, j
Oregon State. Michigan and Cornell i
head the fast-dwindling parade of
unbeaten and untied football teams j
that was reduced to 25 members '
over the week end. Catholic U. is
near the front of the procession.
Marching along with them were
such tiny tots as Slippery Rock,
Knox. Colorado Mines and Earlham.
all of whom still were among the
Nation's honored crews as the sea
son swung into the home stretch.
Of the leaders, only Tennessee and
the New Britain (Conn.> Teachers
boasted un.scored upon records, while
in the select list the San Jose State
Californians had piled up the most
impressive scoring mark—193 points ,
in eight games.
Among those who fell from the
inner sanctum by defeats were Penn.
Mississippi, Ohio State and Hillsdale,
which suffered its first loss since the
1937 campaign. Tied, and therefore
forced to bow out of the picture,
were Lenoir-Rhyne, Oberlin and
Butler. The leaders:
G. Pt.« Opp
San Jose State (Calif) _8 193 16
Tempe <Arix.) Teachers '_6 136 7
Maryville (Mo.) Teachera_6 129 7
Texas A. A M. 6 1*26 16
La. State Normal _6 124 12
Manchester (Ind.)_5 187 16
Kentucky 6 135 19
Catholic U. 5 134 13
Colorado Mines __5 127 31
Fresno (Calif.) State ._ 6 123 22
Tennessee ft 119 o
Clarion (Pa > Teachera _ ft 104 13
Arkansas Tech ft 1(»4 13
Slippery Rock (Pa ) Teachers ft 94 13
Duquesne 6 92 13
Knox College __ _ft 71 13
Washington and Jefferson _ ft 62 2ft
Notre Dame . ft 61 46
Oregon State _5 ft9 25
Earlham (Ind.)_ft 54 19
Michigan _._4 16ft 27
Cornell _ 4 109 27
New Britain (Conn.) Teachers 4 104 0
John Carroll 4 4ft 8
De Sales (Toledo) 3 84 6
Justice's Back Injury
Found Not Serious
B* » Staff Correspondent of The Star.
EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON.
Oct. 30 —The Redskins were heading
home without Ed Justice, their capa
ble blocking and pass-receiving back,
today, but the veteran's sojourn in
a Milwaukee hospital, where he was
taken yesterday after being hurt,
was not expected to be long.
Justice’s injury, received while
blocking on Andy Farkas’ 28-yard
return of a punt in the third quarter,
was described as a "badly wrenched
back." At first it was feared that
he would not be able to play again
this year, a dislocation in the spine
being suspected, but X-rays revealed
nothing serious.
Georgetown Boys Win
Georgetown Boys Club scored an
easy victory over the Hayes Boys
Club, winning by a 32-0 score. Boyle
and Walker led the touchdown
parade.
Pro Football
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Won. Lost. Tied. Points. Opp.
New York ft 0 1 77 39
Washington * 1 1 l-< SJ
Brooklin 3 3 1 M IIW
Philadelphia O ♦ 1 27 70
Pittsburgh « 0 1 ftfl 14<
WESTERN DIVISION.
Detroit 5 1 0 97 66
Oreen Bay 8 10 13S 94
Chicago Bears 4 8 0 1.0 90
Cleveland 2 4 1 126 141
Chicago Cards 1 6 0 63 147
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Detroit. 10: Chicago Bears. 0
Oreen Bay. 24: Washington. 14.
Plttsburrh. 14: Cleveland. 14 (Tie).
New York. 7: Brooklyn. 6.
SCHEDULE NEXT SUNDAY.
New York at Detroit.
Chicago Cardinals at Cleveland.
Oreen Bay at Chicago Bears.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
Philadelphia at Washington.
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Cornell Triumph
Boosts Eastern
Grid Prestige
Southeastern Honors
Probably at Stake
InVol-L. S. U. Tilt
By HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Assocmted Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30,-The ‘ pay
off" month of the college football
season—November—starts this week
with just the kind of games that
can be expected in the more im
portant half of the campaign.
The first half of the battle for na
tional honors, winding up last Sat
urday, produced about the results
that could be expected. There were
Innumerable "upsets” at the start,
dwindling in number as the teams
began to show real strength and
weakness. The end of October
found not more than 11 unbeaten
and untied survivors still in the
race for the mythical national
crown.
Starting part 2. the "major” un
tieaten and untied teams are:
East—Cornell, Duquesne, Catho
lic; south—Tennessee, Kentucky;
Midwest—Notre Dame. Michigan;
Southwest—Texas A. and M.; Rocky
Mountain—Colorado Mines: Pacific
Coast—Oregon State, San Jose
i Calif, i State
Tied but still undefeated are Dart
mouth and Georgetown, in the aEst;
Tulane, North Carolina and Rich
mond. in the South: Nebraska and
Oklahoma, in the Midwest; South
ern California and U. C. L. A., on
the West Coast, and Utah (tied
twice i, in the Rocky Mountain Big
Spvpn
Xot All in Title Pack.
Not all of these teams, of course,
can be considered national title
prospects. By the same token, there
are a lot of real contenders which
have been beaten, often by the one
point that sometimes spells the dif
ference between a perfect season
and a ruined one.
Contenders for sectional and con
ference championships take in a lot
more ground. The situation, by sec
tions. shapes up like this for the
first week end of November:
East—It's been a long time since
any one team did so much to aid
the prestige of Eastern football as
Cornell did last Saturday by whip
ping Ohio State. 23-14. after spot
ting the Big Ten ‘ powerhouse" the
first two touchdowns. That triumph
automatically installed the big red
team as the East's No. 1 power, and
next Saturday's game against Co
lumbia. despite the Lion's decisive
26-7 win over Virginia Military,
shouldn't hurt Cornell s stock.
Duquesne, 13-0 winner over Texas
Tech Friday, faces another stiff in
tersections! test against Marquette,
and Catholic. 14-0 winner over
Miami, meets Tulsa of the Missouri
Valley Conference.
Dartmouth encounters its tradi
tionally troublesome enemy. Yale,
but off the Green's easy 16-0 win
over Harvard and Yale's 27-7 licking
by Michigan. Dartmouth figures to
remain undefeated. Georgetown,
after beating George Washington,
7-0. meets West Virginia, which tied
South Carolina. 6-6. Friday.
The biggest games on the Eastern
schedule pit Army, which hasn't
shown much this season, against
Notre Dame and Harvard against
Princeton, which tuned up with a
26-12 win over Brown. Notre Dame's
fine unbeaten team just managed
to stave off Carnegie Tech, 7-6, while
the Cadets routed Ursinus, 46-13.
Penn Encounters Navy.
Pennsylvania, knocked out of the
picture by a 30-6 licking from North
Carolina, meets Navy, 15-7 victim
of Clemson. Fordham, which came
back as an Eastern threat bv whip
ping Pitt, 27-13, tackles Rice's hap
less Owls in an Intersectional test.
New York U„ 14-13 winner over a
stubborn Georgia team, eases off
against Lafayette Boston College
and Holy Cross, still ranked among
the Eastern leaders, play Auburn
and Providence, respectively.
South—It's Tennessee, the* Nation's
ranking team in last week's Asso
ciated Press poll, against Louisiana
State with the Southeastern Confer
ence title as the probable stake. The
Volunteers knocked off Mercer, 17-0,
while L. S. U. turned back Vander
bilt. 12-6.
Kentucky, co-leader with Tennes
see, Georgia Tech and Tulane, faces
Alabama, which turned back Mis
sissippi State. 7-0, in another major
battle. Mississippi, beaten for the
first time by Tulane. 18-6. encounters
Vanderbilt. Georgia Tech plays
Duke, which gained a second-place
tie in the Southern Conference with
a hard-won 6-0 decision over Wake
Forest. Tulane has an open date.
North Carolina, with the South
ern Conference pack on its heels,
returns to its own league to play
North Carolina State, while Rich
mond tackles V. M. I.
Virginia meets Chicago and Miami
plays Texas Tech in the South’s best
intersectional tilts.
Buckeyes in Stage Center.
Midwest—In spite of that thump
ing from Cornell. Ohio State play*
the leading role in the Big Ten. fac
ing Indiana. The Bucks still art
tied with Michigan for the confer
ence lead, while Indiana's Hoosiers,
idle last week, are a real threat.
Michigan should win another from
Illinois, 13-0 victim of Northwestern.
Northwestern plays Minnesota's so
far disappointing team, and Iowa,
19-13 winner over Wisconsin, playa
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Branch Rickey Mentioned for Governor of Missouri
Golfer Metz Reported Altar-Bound With Film Star; Henie's Partner to Get $400 a Week
By EDDIE BRIETZ.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30 — Seoopa
' rarie: Branch Rickey of the
Cards is mentioned as the Re
publican candidate for Governor
of Missouri in 1940. Dick Metz,
the golfer, is reported altar-bound
with a former Wampus baby star.
Friends are hoping Freddie Steele,
ex-middleweight king <who has
signed for a comeback under
Eddie Mead>. will change his
mind. The Dodgers are dickering
secretly for Johnny Rizzo of the
Pirates and also hope to come up
with Earl Averill of Detroit via
the waiver route. One of the
New York papers hints ex-Gox.
Chandler of Kentucky will suc
ceed Ford C. Frick as president
of the National League.
Who was he? All must have
been chaos up at the Army-Navv
Princeton-Columbia quadrangular
meet Saturday. Nobody could
identify the guy who finished
20th in the cross-country run.
One reporter wired his paper:
“He carried no number and
none of the official scorers knew
him. Also, his coach didn't know
him. He wore a Princeton jersey
and had a nice square head.”
Harrison Thomson of Montreal
has signed as Sonja Henie's skat
ing partner this winter. Four
hundred a week and la Henie on
his arm! Whoops. Chick Evans,
the former Chicago golfing great,
w-as a visitor last week. The F.
F. V.’s down around Charlottes
ville are in a stew. They've got
the Chicago football team booked
as an attraction next Saturday
and it’s too late to “call the whole
thing off.” Ed Bang is trying to
sign A1 Hostak and Eric Seelig
for his Cleveland News Christmas
fund show which may feature
five champions. We know a
couple of good prep school teams
looking for games next year if
Tennessee is interested.
Today's guest star—Paul Zim
merman, Los Angeles Times:
“Seems there has been an awful
lot of Pop Warner and not
enough of Dudley de Groot in
connection with the fine team
at San Jose State. De Groot
still is the head coach, as he was
last year when San Jose went
quietly about the business of be
coming the Nation’s high scoring
team.”
Fifteen Sherman (Tex.l fans
almost broke a football pool by
picking the Sam Houston Teach
ers to upset Rice. Those South
Carolina coaches who nearly said
it with fists after a close game,
used to be roomies at Furman.
Dick Cresap of the Clarksburg
<W. Va> Telegram and one of
the slickest sports writers in the
country, has gone and got him
self married, Larry MacPhail's
plan for a free-for-all world
series left baseball men cold—
and after Larry almost sprained
his brain thinking it up.
Open forum. R. H. Walker of
Charlotte, N. C., and Juma F.
Kearns of Mobile, say they
won't blame the moving picture
people if they sued Tennessee
for jumping the gun on the
world premier of Johnny (Rhett)
Butler in “Gone With the Wind.”
Observation ward. The offi
cial of the Oklahoma Baptists
Texas Wesleyan game, who didn’t
discover his stop watch had
stopped until 35 minutes of the
first quarter had been played.
Ouch department. When our
3-star special (Rice) came a
cropper Saturday, a disgusted
Houston client wired: "Good bye,
Mr. Tips."
I
Sports Program for Local Fans
!
TODAY.
Boxing.
Pablo Dano vs. Armando Sicilia.
8 rounds, feature bout, Turner's
Arena, 8:30.
TOMORROW.
Football.
Roosevelt vs. Gonzaga, Roose
vent Stadium, 3:30.
THURSDAY.
Wrestling.
Jack Hader vs. Golden Terror,
feature match, Turner’s Arens,
8:30.
t
r KIMAl,
Football.
George Washington vs. Clemson,
Griffith Stadium, 8:15.
Central vs. Tech, Central
Stadium (public high title series),
3:15.
Wilson vs. Anacostia, Wilson
Stadium (public high title series),
3:15.
Georgetown Prep vs. St. Albans,
Garrett Park, Md.. 3:30.
Western vs. Gonzaga, Western
Stadium, 3:15.
Landon vs. Boys’ Latin School,
Baltimore, Md.