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Trojan-'Irish’ Is Centerpiece in Today’s Gridiron Picture Despite Soiled Records
Win, Lose or Draw
By BURTON HAWKINS.
(In the Temporary Absence of Francis E. Stan.)
Some Strictly Office Stuff—And We Do Mean Stuff
Reporting time is 6:30 a.m., which means crawling from those warm,
caressing covers about 5:30, jumping onto a cold, unsympathetic floor
and rushing across the room to choke the alarm.
You rush—that is, if you’re equipped with a heart and a wife.
Otherwise you'll wake her, she who has acquired a happy habit of
Ignoring that startling and rude rouser. You can't set the alarm clock
by the bed because the temptation's too great to reach over, click off
the alarm and snooze for another five minutes, which is fatal. Those
five minutes have an annoying manner of developing into an hour or more.
Sound slumberers employ a system of hiding the alarm under the
bed, in a shoe, out in the hall or any place out of reach, the theory being,
of course, that by the time you locate it you're wide awake. Well, con
scious anyway.
There is a sneaking suspicion around the office that such fellows as
Denman Thompson, the boss, and Bill Hottel, assistant sports editor,
have solved the problem by eliminating sleep. The charwomen haven’t
flecked away the last bit of dust before they’re frowning over stacks
of copy.
An Instance of Laudable Ambition Frustrated
Once, in a sudden burst of ambition, we sneaked down to the office
at 4:30, prying open our eyes en route. We slapped our overcoat into the
locker and ourself on the back because we were in the midst of beating
the boss to work and setting a record. We'd give him a condescending
smile when he showed.
"How ya?” says a voice when we skirt the file cases and trudge into
the sports department. We raise the still-drooping lids and attribute it
to the early hour, but it's no good. D. T.'s editing Grantland Rice's stuff,
and, it develops, he's been there since 2:50. Ate some cheese, or some
thing, and couldn’t sleep, so he decided he might as well work. His
record, anyway, still stands.
Such guys as Francis Stan and Walter McCallum keep bank hours.
Stan usually fills this space, and he has convinced the boss he can’t find
the keys on the typewriter before the sun’s high in the sky. McCallum
struts in about 10, whacks out a piece or two for the next day, and hustles
out to keep a golf appointment with Wiffy Cox, Freddy McLeod, or
somebody who makes a living curing slices.
Redskin Willie Dismer, The Star's own edition of Man Mountain
Dean, stumbles daintily over the furniture, crushes a waste basket or
two with elephantine ease and batters his way to Denman’s desk. "George
Marshall says he has a good yam for me. Okay to leave now so I can
drop up and see him?” Dizzy trips over a desk en route to his Ninth
and H campus, and Bob Henry of the horsey set swears he’s gonna buy
him blinkers.
Traffic Heavy Despite Pass Defense System
About 10 o'clock Thompson constructs a pass-defense system envied
by such fellows as Jack Hagerty, Dutch Bergman, Bill Reinhart and
Frank Dobson. The parade is on. Pass-seekers converge on his desk
and the traffic resembles Thirteenth and F streets at noon Saturday.
“Say, Denny,” says a linotyper, hopefully, “I just found out the
mother-in-law won’t be in town until next week, so I’ll be able to go to
that Lions game tomorrow, after all. Couldn’t fix up my kid at the
same time, could you? Great boy. Only 9 years old, but he knows the
first name of every player in the league.”
This steady succession irritates Mr. Tony Atchison, who is close
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typewriter in an effort to mentally shadow-box himself into shape to
peck out a fight story, but just when a particularly pleasing phrase
strikes him the train of though is interrupted by, “Denman, ya gotta
couple for Bowie? I wanta collect some Christmas savings out there.”
Roddy Thomas and Jack Keller bear the brunt of The Star's own
"Information Please” program. These guys, whose duty it is to weed
libel out of stories and insert a graphic word where a gasping one grew
before, seem to get most of the phone calls demanding dope on things
ranging from the color of Buddy Myer’s eyes to how many times Alabama
teams have played in the Rose Bowl.
Service With a Smile—About One Smile a Day
This service is given with a smile, an average of a smile a day.
About noon, when Thomas is wishing somebody would toss a luncheon in
honor of anything, Roddy's likely to snarl just a little when some sweet
thing asks in what round did Jack Dempsey kayo Joe Louis. Such
research-demanding questions as “What was the last football team to
beat Georetown?” or “How many times was Max Baer knocked out in
his career?” have been known to make Keller moan.
Cartoonist Jim Berryman lopes in about noon, parks his posterior on
an inviting desk and inaugurates a search for an idea. After an hour
or so of sleuthing, he decides perhaps that idea he thought of en route
to the office isn’t so bad, after all.
By this time the linotyper of a few paragraphs above has returned.
"Mr. Thompson,” he says, "I just noticed these tickets are in Section R.
That’s doggone near out on Fifth street, isn’t it? Of course, I'm not
complaining, but if you do have something better, my boy certainly could
see those players better.”
By the way, Denman, old man. I’d kinda like to get a couple to
that Redskin-Lions game. Something upstairs between the 30-yard
lines, ya know.
Manfredo, Kayo Star,
To Make D. C. Debut
A new knockout artist from Bal
timore, Nick Manfredo, will nAke
his Washington debut Monday
night at Turner’s Arena, where he
is scheduled to box Buddy Thomas
in a preliminary to the Phil Furr
E1 Brookman bout. It will be a
4-rounder.
Promoter Goldie Ahearn also an
nounced the signing of Joey Spang
ler and Dick O'Leary for a 6-round
semi-final that completes the pro
gram. O’Leary scored a hit in Bal
timore last week in a fast engage
ment with Lew Raymond.
Tommy Mullins and Buddy
Holmes and Billy Banks and Buddy
Moore, all colored fighters,' have
been paired in additional 4-round
ers. The feature will be contested <
over the 8-round route.
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Five years ago — Stanford i
named to represent West in Rose ]
Bowl game on New Year Day <
for second year; won nine and
tied one during season. i
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD—Bed Green. 141.
Inelewood. Calit . outpointed Irwin
Kaye, 142. Los Aneeles (10).
RENO—Eddie (Unknown) Winston.
205. Boston, knocked out Tlllie Ta
verna, 212, Reno (3)
MASON CITY. Iowa.—Lee Savold,
187. Des Moines, knocked out Pal Sil
vers. 185. New York (3).
INDIANAPOLIS —Pat Patterson. 127,
Somerset, Kv., outpointed Jules Guidry,
125*4. New Orleans (12).
OMAHA.— Johnny Paycheck. 1!)4, Chi
cago. outpointed Paul Hartnek, 193,
Kenosha. Wis. (10).
WORCESTER. Mass.—Howell Kina.
152. Detroit, knocked out. Joe (Butch)
Lynch. 157. Newark (6).
CLEVELAND.—Georeie Pace. 120*4,
Cleveland, the National Boxine Asso
ciation's world bartamweieht champion,
stopped Jimmy Webster, 119. To
ronto (8).
TAMPA, Fla.—Kid Williams. 140,
Savannah. Ga.. and Young Raymond,
130. Tampa, drew (10).
NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J —Gus Alex
ander. 1R7. Roebline.-N. J.. technically
knocked out Tony Marco, 175, Garfield,
N. J. (3),
it. Gabriel's Is Winner
St. Gabriel's 120-pound football
earn won an informal parochial
chool tournament by defeating
loly Name in the final, 48 to 0, at
Jonzaga yesterday. Co-Capt
tommy Connor starred for the
vinners.
Bowl Bid in Vain
For Team Near
Two Titles
Perfect Slate in Bag,
Louisiana Normal Is
Ignored by Rockets
By MORTIMER KREEGER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NATCHITOCHES, La., Nov. 25.—
The Louisiana Normal Demons are
wondering how many champion
ships a team has to win before it
can be invited to a bowl.
The Demons already have clinched
the bunting in the Louisiana Inter
collegiate Conference, and a victory
next week over Southwestern
Louisiana Institute—which on sea
son’s records seems in the bag—
would give them a perfect season
of 11 victories and top claim to cham
pionship of the large Southern In
fprPnllppifltP Athlptir. AcRnriatinn
Vainly Await Invitation.
Laast week they thought they had
a bowl game. The “brain bowl"
for teachers colleges, tentatively
scheduled between the Slippery
Rock, Pa., and Maryville, Mo., teach
ers. didn't pan out.
The news got around that Slippery
Rock still wanted to play some un
beaten teachers school in a bowl
game, and Normal officials let it be
known they would be "receptive” to
an invitation.
But the invitation, if it was mailed,
went to the wrong address. It
hasn't arrived here.
Normal officials reluctantly ad
mitted today they still might con
sider a bowl bid, which is another
way of saying they’ll play anybody,
anywhere.
Want to Show Off Team.
They want to show off their team
that has gained 300 yards a game,
scored 189 points to 18 and licked
the best in its class from Texas to
Kentucky.
They also want to display the
| talents of their triple-threaters,
I Parker Wiggins and Roland Migues,
I and their guard. Edmond Saucier,
who boots goals and calls signals
when the regular quarterback is out.
Victims of the Demons have been
Centenary, East Texas Teachers,
Southeastern Louisiana, Lousiana
College, Louisiana Tech, Delta
Teachers of Cleveland, Miss.;
Stephen F. Austin. Murray (Ky.)
Teachers. Ouachita College of Arka
delphia, Ark., and Mississippi State
Teachers.
Who wants to be added to the list?
Iron Man Team Cracks
Record Grid Streak
By the Associated Press.
HUMBLE. Tex., Nov. 25.—Eleven
Humble iron men, playing without
a single substitution, snapped the
longest winning streak, in Texas
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setting Hull-Daisetta, 13-0, last
l night.
| Hull-Daisetta had won 43 straight,
starting in 1935.
New 2-Year Conlracf
As W. and L. Coach
Is Given Tilson
By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Va„ Nov. 25.—War
ren E. (Tex.) Tilson, head football
coach at Washington and Lee Uni
versity since 1933, held the ”gc
ahead” signal from the school's
athletic authorities today in the forir
of a crisp, new contract for twc
years.
The athletic department also an
nounced that Tilson’s first assistant
Riley Smith, who joined the W. and
L. staff this year after a stint with
the Washington Redskins, had beer
given a similar contract extending
through the 1941 season. Action or
the other football assistants has
been deferred.
An alumnus of Washington and
Lee and one of the outstanding
tackles in the school's football his
tory, Tilson captained the Generals
1924 eleven. He returned to ths
school in 1931 as assistant to tht
late Head Coach Jimmy Dehart
whose assistant he had been ai
Duke. He is a former president ol
the Southern Conference Footbal
Coaches’ Association.
Under the tutelage of Tilson, thi
Generals won the State champion
ship in 1933 and repeated the fol
lowing year, when they also annexec
the Southern Conference title. The)
took the State crown again in 193(
and were tied for top honors the fol
lowing year.
Armstrong to Quit Ring Within Year, He Admits on Air
Pro Grid Likes Hardin-Simmons Center; Newport News Boy, 19, Star Sportscaster
By EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Henry
Armstrong is going to quit the
ring in less than a year. He said
on the air last night: “I haven’t
completed my book because I
want it to include the end of my
boxing career. I’ll finish it (the
book) in six months or a year.”
Write your own ticket.
That Iowa football team is al
most too good to be true; there
fore, we were expecting North
western to pin its ears back today.
Lightweight Leu Jenkins doesn’t
go around telling it, but his first
name is Verlin. That football
Injury won’t keep Kansas State’s
one-man-gang, Elmer Hackney,
from going after new shotput
records next season. W. C. Tut
tle, president of the Coast League,
has just sold a radio program
based on a Western character
Tuttle made famous in fiction.
Today’s guest star: Henry A.
k
Sullivan, Salem (Mass.) News:
“John Bogdan of the Holy Cross
Crusaders has been selected as a
guard on Sonja Henie’s all-Amer
ica Adonis team. Wherefore, we
might state that early returns
indicate Holy Cross is leading
Boston College by one glamour
boy to none.”
Some of the pro clubs are tell
ing Bulldog Turner, Hardin-Sim
mons’ ace center: “Tell every
body but us you’re not interested
in pro football so we can put
you on the draft list.” Haw!
Just when the printers were all
set for a pleasant Thanksgiving,
the Boston Globe had to go spoil
it by announcing, “Toczylowski
back at helm of B. C. varsity.”
Davey Day, the Chicago welter
weight, was secretly married 10
days ago. We’ve been getting a
lot of raves from around the
Virginia Peninsula about Arthur
Beauchamp, 19-year-old Newport
News sportscaster. who really is
1
going to town on scholastic games
down there. Since Frankie Frisch
got back into baseball (where he
belongs) he has put on 15 pounds.
One-minute interview.—George
Munger, Penn coach: “Pep talks
are so much rubbish. I don’t be
lieve you can win a football game
with words of inspiration. The
time to win your Saturday foot
ball game is on Tuesday and
Wednesday.” (Ed's note: Check
and double check.)
Attention, Yanks: The Red Sox
will try to get either Rudy York
or Birdie Tebbetts from the
Tigers. Did Pitt stop West Vir
ginia because Doc Sutherland is
going down there or because West
Virginia signed up to play Ford
ham in the Polo Grounds next
fall just a week or two ahead of
the Fordham-Pitt game?
Trainer Harry Crowley of
Georgetown U., with 50 years in
the business behind him, says the
present crop of j^hletes are sis
sies. Charles Burton, new sports
editor of the Dallas Morning
News, is one of the youngest
sports chiefs in the business—
still in his early twenties. Add
Frisch: He paid a $2 fine in Traf
fic Court foj parking too long—in
front of the six-day bike race.
Just his luck. Allen Bergner,
Navy captain, and Harry Stella,
Army captain, played prep foot
ball together at Kankakee, 111.
Their coach was Charley Harri
son. All year Harrison has been
waiting to see his former stars
play against each other in the
Army-Navy game. Now he is ill
in a hospital and can’t attend.
Poet s corner. (From the Detroit
News.)
Oh, his name was Parker Hall,
And he beat 'em one and all.
Intercepted letter. “So I give
you Tennessee—unbeaten, untied,
unscored on and unscheduled.”
Dave La Omar, Bristol, Term.
A
HOT ACTION ON ICE—The tempo of hockey is illustrated by these shots taken at Riverside
Stadium last night, when Washington’s Eagles blanked the Jersey Skeeters, 7-0. Blocked against
the sideboards (upper) is Eagle Ken Partis, who contrived, however, to regain his feet and the
puck from Skeeters Swanson <on ice> and Portland (No. 3). Lower: Goalie Gordon Lee of the
Eagles is seen making a nice save and getting a faceful of trapped water when Skeeter Swanson
(2) tried for a goal. —Star Staff Photo.
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Murphy of Maryland Called
Best Safety Man Among
Capital's Collegians
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Bill Meyers, a tall, dignified foot
ball diagnostician who teaches phys
ical education at George Washing
ton and lends a hand with the
varsity now and then, started it
with the quiet observation that Joe
Murphy of Maryland was the best
safety man he’s seen all season.
“He can do one thing no player
around Washington would dare at
tempt,” said Prof. Meyers, “and that’s
watch men coming down under a
punt while keeping an eye on the
ball. If you don’t think that’s tough,
try it sometime. It's one of the
distinguishing marks of a good
safety man, and an ordinary player
can’t do it without getting hit by
either an end or the ball.”
"Tommy Whelan wasn’t so bad at
Catholic University a few years ago,”
reminded Max Farrington. “And
how about Johnny Fenlon on our
own team? He could carry the ball
with the best of them and was a
constant scoring threat with a punt.
Praise for Fee Colliere.
“I’ll tell you who must have been
a good football player, one I’d like to
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broke in Bill Reinhart. “I’ve never
seen him play football, but the way
he handles himself in baseball is
enough to see he’s a smart athlete.”
Bill was right, and speaking of
Fee, who catches for the Heurich
Brewers, reminded us of a story of
a game in which he quarterbacked
the old Mohawk A. C. Dropping
back with a halfback under a punt,
Colliere drew would-be tacklers
away from his teammate by stretch
ing out an arm, jockeying as if to
get under the ball, all the while
keeping his eye fixed on a cloud
while his mate took the kick. It
was a neat stunt and much more
effective than trying to block out
two tacklers.
The discussion was adjourned sine
die with Mr. Murphy getting the
palm as the best safety man in this
neck of the woods, but we started
thinking about some who have had
their day in the football sun and
moved into noncombat zones.
1 There was Jack Hagerty, currently
celebrating his second unbeaten
campaign as coach at Georgetown,
in nis undergraduate days one or the
best punt receivers and safety men
in the game. Jack dropped no kicks
during his entire career but met
with an unfortunate mishap in a
Bucknell game that had dire conse
quences. He had returned a kick
15 yards to his own 35-yard line
when the ball was knocked from his
grasp. The Bisons recovered and
moved into position for a field goal
that won the game, 3-2, and marred
the Hoyas' otherwise perfect record.
Jack never will live down that one,
although he was wholly blameless.
Johnny Bozek, Dick Bradley,
Charley Parcells and Joe Mellendeck
were other Georgetowners who could
go places in a hurry with punts
tucked under their arms.
Maryland had other standout
safety men. notably "Untz" Brewer,
Augie Roberts and Mike Stevens.
Catholic University boasted Tom
Oliver, Pete Dranginis and Bud
Munhall, all of whom were devel
oped during “Dutch” Bergman’s ten
tire at Brookland. Even little Gal
laudet had a couple, one of whom,
Lou MassinkofT ranked with the best.
Whelan, Bergman was telling us,
wasn't really a safety man and
played the position infrequently,
but when he was back there it was
lilro h O n W i n rr n 1 X— .
maniac. Tom had speed to spare
and got away like a bullet.
“He was fast,” Bergman admitted,
“but it isn’t the fast men that make
the best safety men—it's the boys
who can wiggle through a broken
field. We call it running in a crowd
and it means being able to pick holes
and get through them. Take this
Andy Farkas. You’ll find a lot of
faster men in the pro game, but
none shiftier or more elusive. And
what a change of pace that boy has.
Mark that down as one of the prime
requisites for a good safety man—a
good change of pace.”
“Dutch” went on to explain that
there are two phases to returning
punts—defensive and offensive. To
the unintiated it may appear that
the man lugging the cowhide is
on the offensive, but he is only as
long as he keeps moving forward.
As soon as he pauses to side-step,
dodge or runs backwards he places
himself on the defensive.
And that brings up the trick of
using the feet in broken-field run
ning, not simple, and as important
as the propeller on an airplane.
There are only three steps, cross
over, side-step and pivot, and, while
anybody can execute them, it’s the
man who does it fastest that gains
the ground. It must be done with
split-second timing to be effective.
Feint Better Than Stiff Arm.
A player who feints with his head
or body and keeps moving forward
remains on the offensive, and to
hear Bergman tell it a feint 5 yards
from a tackier is better than a pivot
or stiff arm after being hit. Faking
more than once is not only danger
ous but a waste of time, so when
you see a back dodging and ducking
tacklers you’ll know he’s merely
wasting time and is sure to be
tackled without gaining another
inch.
Another factor in Farkas’ favor
is his ability to keep his feet after
being hit. It’s an important asset
to a safety man and is a trait
strange to dash men disguised in
football uniforms. They seem to
topple like bowling pins if a hand
is laid on them, but you’ve got to
crease Farkas’ skull with a black
jack to break his stride.
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Eagles Out to Break
Gull Tie After Win
Over Skeeters
On Ice at Atlantic City
Tonight; Fist Fighting
Marks 7-0 Victory
Deadlocked for second place in the
Eastern Hockey League, the Wash
ington Eagles face their second game
with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls to
night in Atlantic City a stronger
and better outfit than they proved
in losing their initial home game
against the Gulls. Improved team
work and better individual playing
marked their second home stand at
Riverside Stadium last night, where
they outskated and outscored a hap
less but scrappy team from Jersey.
The local entry in the Eastern
League won before 2,200 spectators
by 7 to 0.
During a scramble in the third pe
riod, where Ross Knipfel, left de
fense for the Eagles, mixed it up
with a couple of Skeeters. the husky
Knipfel got in the way of a looping
left from an unidentified Skeetei
and came out of the fray with a
choice shiner. If he can see out ol
his left optic tonight he’ll do all
right.
Scores in All Periods.
Washington scored in all of the
three periods, cracking the Skeetei
defense for three markers in the
opening 20-minute set-to, adding
two more in the second period and
chalking up another brace of tallies
in the final chukker.
The Eagle goalie—Gordon Lee—a
mite of a man with a quick eye anc
a mighty knack of knocking the
puck away from the cage, proved the
Eagle stalwart on defense, just a;
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sent the Eagles away winging ir
their second home stand. When
Lee was quick as a cat or
defense the Skeeter goalie took it or
the chin during the entire 60 min
utes of play Penalties were fre
quent as the players went to it ir
rough fashion through the seconc
and third periods.
Eagles Outclass Visitors.
Washington plainly outclassed tht
Jersey entry, outmaneuvering th<
visitors, and outscoring them ir
every period. Scoring for Wash
ington were Courteau, Foster, Par
tis, Knipfel, Dewey and Cairns (2).
The Eagles, by their victory Iasi
night, broke a three-way tie witi
Baltimore’s Orioles and the Atlantic
City Sea Gulls, whom they meet
tonight. New York’s Rovers' top the
league with 7 points, while the
Eagles and Orioles are deadlockec
with 5 points each.
The summary:
Pos Wash. Eagles. Jersey Skeeters
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R.D-Davies _Portlam
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Washington _ 3 2 2—"
Jersey _ 0 0 0—(
Scoring. Washington—Courtreau on as
sist from McTeer: Foster on assist fron
Calms: Calms on assist from Foster
Knipfel on assist from McTeer: Dewey oi
assist from Covert and Kuntz; Partis oi
assist from Dewey: Cairns on assist fron
Partis.
Spares. Washington—Covert. Kuntz
Dewey. McTeer. Knipfel. Partis. Cairns
Colvin and Foster. Jersey Skeeters—Shot
qulst. Rae. May. Kelly. Herchenratter
Ranniker, Bowen and Dutton.
Referees—Messrs. Reilly and Gaffney
Penalty timekeeper—B. H. Graham. Tim
of periods—20 minutes.
Petworths at J. C. C.
The Jewish Community Centei
basket ball team will play host U
the Petworth A. C., starting at 8:3<
tonight. Dancing will follow tht
game.
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South Benders
May Be Tops
In Midwest
Southern Cal Is Rated
Best on Coast; Title
Contests Abound
By HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr„
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—It has been
reported the best three teams on the
Pacific Coast this season are South
ern California's first, second and
third strings. (
Notre Dame undoubtedly has one
or the best teams in the Midwest, 11
not the best of all.
That is the reason why their an
nual battle, rapidly becoming one ,
of the many football traditions, is
the oustanding event on today's na
tional football schedule.
Various sectional and conference
championships are up for decision in
games of even greater local im
portance, but there is nothing which
matters quite as much to football
fans everywhere.
Neither team has a perfect record.
The Trojans were tied by Oregon in
their opener this season, and Notre
Dame lost by a single point to Iowa j
tw’o weeks ago. It is the final game j
of the season for the “Irish,” but i
U. S. C. has two more to play, and
probably will appear in the Rose
Bowl January 1.
Vols, Texas Aggies Idle.
Bidding for the other place in the
Rose Bowl, or for invitations to other
bowl games, are Tulane, Duke, Mis
souri and perhaps a few others who
are listed to play today. Two of
the most prominent entries in the
national championship race—un
beaten and untied Tennessee and
Texas A. and M.—aren’t scheduled
to play until Thursday.
Tulane, seeking at least a tie for
the Southeastern Conference title,
plays the weak Sewanee team today
and is expected to catch up with
Tennessee in the race. Georgia
| Tech, also unbeaten in that circuit, !
has a slightly harder assignment
against Florida.
Since its triumph over North I
| Carolina. Duke is conceded to be the
j Southern Conference's best team
and should dispose of North Caro
lina State in today's windup. How
ever, the Blue Devils can’t claim a
clear title, if Clemson gets safely
past Furman.
Missouri, avowedly looking for a
bowl bid, meets Kansas in a game
which should clinch the Tigers’
claim to the Big Six crown. They
can’t get worse than a tie, for they
have beaten Oklahoma and Ne
braska, which meet in a second-place
battle.
Buckeyes Go for Title.
The Ohio State-Michigan classic
winds up the Big Ten race with the
Buckeyes out to gain their first con
' ference championship since 1920 at
| the expense of the pre-season fa
I vorites. One-beaten Iowa is the only j
i team that can tie Ohio State, and j
i Northwestern may prove a lofty j
| hurdle for the Hawkeyes to clear, j
| Indiana - Purdue, Illinois - Chicago !
and Wiscnnsin-Minnpnntn nrp nthpr
j conference windup games.
The East doesn't have any official j
j championship, and Cornell, rated |
j the best team in the section, likely
! wouldn't accept a “bowl" bid of any
kind. Nevertheless, there is plenty
of action with Cornell's big red
team trying to finish a perfect sea
son in its traditional struggle with
Pennsylvania, Yale and Harvard
coming togther in the fifty-eighth
game of their ancient series and
Duquesne. only other major unde
feated and untied team in the East.!
facing Carnegie Tech.
Important East-West intersec
tional games are Kansas State
Boston College and Temple-Michi
gan State.
Baylor's effort to conquer South
ern Methodist and thus remain in
| the conference title race, if Texas ;
A. and M. should slip, is the main
event on the Southwestern program.
There is a similar situation on the
Pacific Coast with unbeaten U. C.
L. A. facing once-beaten Oregon
State.
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Brewers Are Hopeful
Of Beating Sphas
*
In Court Debut
Mack Posnack's Washington
Heurich Brewers were pointing for
an upset today as they prepared to
leave for Philadelphia, where to
night they will make their season
debut against the Sphas in an Amer
ican Basket Ball League game at
the Broadwood Hotel.
Players making the trip are Mike
. Bloom, Eddie Boyle, Jim Brown,
, Carroll Shore, Whitey Wilson, Ralph
: Bennie, Kit Carson and Ben Gold
f o H rt on
The Sphas, winners over the Brew
ers seven times last season, will be
little better than slight favorites to
night. Last night they were upset
by the Baltimore Clippers and are
meeting a vastly improved team in
the newest Heurich club.
Tomorrow night the Brewers will
travel to Newark for an exhibition
with the Hebrews.
Power Squadron Officers
Will Stage 'At Home'
Flag officers of Potomac River
Power Squadron will stage an “at
home’’ for squadron members and
their families tomorrow at Capital
Yacht Club.
With Comdr. and Mrs. John
Lokerson at the head of the receiv
ing line, the reception has been
scheduled from 3 to 5 pm.
i The local group also was com
l pleting plans for its annual oyster
s roast, to be held at the club on
Deoember 10.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Football.
George Washington vs. Buck
nell, Griffith Stadium, 2.
Episcopal vs. Woodberry Forest,
Alexandria, Va., 2:30.
Basket Ball.
Heurich Brewers vs. Philadel
phia Sphas, Philadelphia.
Ice Hockey.
Washington Eagles vs. Atlantic
City Sea Gulls, Atlantic City,
N. J.
Bowling.
Dixie Sweepstakes, Columbia
alleys, noon; Lucky Strike alleys,
3; Convention Hall, 7:30.
Hoyas in Background
iVith Eastern Title
M Issue Today
Downfall of Cornell
And Duquesne Would
Give G. U. Look-in
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25—Cornell
ind Duquesne, only unbeaten and
untied claimants to the mythical
Eastern "championship,” wind up
:heir football seasons today against
rivals which conceivably might drop
:hem into the "also-ran” class.
Cornell, rated the mightiest of
them all, takes on Pennsylvania for
the 46th time in a game that already
las made football history in a small
ivay. It's the first time since 1894
that their game hasn't been played
m Thanksgiving day. Penn doesn't
lave a record to match Cornell’s,
out it has a good team and hopes
if turning in the season's biggest
upset.
Hoyas in Background.
Duquesne’s job looks somewhat
harder, for the Dukes play a power
ful Carnegie Tech outfit in the final
game of Pittsburgh's city title series
Duquesne took this one seriously
enough to arrange a week's rest and
even Tech's four straight defeats
hasn't made it appear like an easy
victim.
II either of these leaders should
slip, there are at least two others
ready' to move up, in addition to such
teams as Georgetown, which has
finished an unbeaten campaign, and
Holy Cross, idle until next week.
Tigers Figure to Beat Navy.
Princeton, the Big Three cham
pion, which has lost only to Cornell
ranks second in the “Ivy League’’
and isn’t expected to fall back any
in its final game against the weak
Navy team. Boston College, upset
by Florida, faces a heavy Kansas
State team before meeting Holy
Cross in the “payoff” contest next
Saturday.
The Yale-Harvard game can’t
come within several dozen miles ol
any championship angles, but nev
ertheless a crowd of 55.000 is ex
pected at Harvard Stadium to see
their annual contest. 58th in a series
that goes back to 1875. They appear
about evenly matched, with Harvard
slightly favored because Capt. Torby
McDonald is back in the line-up.
Colonials, Bisons End
D. C. College Grid
Season Today
With their contemporaries through
for the season and not a single
congressional investigating commit
tee in session, George Washington
and Bucknell had the spotlight to
themselves this afternoon as they
met at Griffith Stadium to perform
the last rites over the 1939 District
collegiate football season.
It was a persistent jinx the Co
lonials bucked, for not in five pre
vious games had they been able to
outscore the Lewisburg eleven. A
close game was indicated today.
The game marked the final home
appearance of a half dozen George
Washington seniors who bow out of
the picture next week against West
Virginia. The group included Billy
Richardson. Bob and Art Nowaskey,
Ralph Zeleska, Sonny Jones and
Duce Keahey, all of whom were ex
pected to see service.
The teams appeared to be about
evenly matched, although the Co
lonials were given a slight edge.
Both bowed to Georgetown by one
enough scoring punch to shove over
a six-pointer on the Hoyas. George
Washington went into action with
a .500 record for the year, having
won three of six games, while the
Bisons were striving to attain that
mark.
Coach Bill Reinhart sent his
strongest eleven into the game in an
effort to give the downtown school
the jump on its guest. Eddie Wila
moski, swivel-hipped halfback, who
was injured in last week’s Kansas
game, was slated to start at half
back, with the sensational Tom
Grady ready to relieve him. The
pair were expected to alternate at
the post.
Bucknell, fresh from a decisive
victory over Muhlenberg last week,
was led by "King” Funair and Co
Capt. George Kiick, a pair of out
standing ball carriers who were
expected to match the best in the
G. W. backfleld. At end, Coach A1
Humphreys pitted John McElhany
against the Colonials’ all-America
nominee. Bob Nowaskey, and at one
guard he started a 150-pound ace,
Johnny Plewak, a hard-running
lineman.
While the Bisons admittedly were
ready to go into the air at the first
hint of offensive trouble, George
Washington hoped to confine its
efforts to an orthodox running game
built around Wilamoski, Grady and
Walt Fedora. The Colonials wanted
to save some of the stuff used so
successfully against Kansas for West
Virginia, but Reinhart also wanted
to win the game and was prepared
to go the limit If necessary.
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