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Eight of 20 Collegians Drafted by Redskins Are in Three Big Bowl Games
— - -*■ _ __
! Rate Top as Pickers
If This Gives Real
Line on Players
Trojans Are Best Liked,
Nine Being Selected
By Four Pro Clubs
i
By BILL DISMER, Jr.
According to those who have most
i to gain or lose by an impartial ap
praisal—National Football League
coaches—Southern California is by
far the most experienced and power
ful of the 10 combatants in the five
I major bowl games on New Year Day.
And, looking at the situation from
I the other side of the fence, the Red
skins stack up as pro football’s No. 1
; selector in the drawing of 1939's out
standing college seniors.
Foundation for the foregoing as
sertions comes from the fact that
nine of the Trojans’ first-stringers
were selected by four of the Na
I tional League's leading teams in the
■ recent draft, while eight of the Red
! skins’ 20 draftees will be playing In
Pasadena. Miami and New Orleans
on January 1.
I,cad in Bowl Players.
No other college team was so ex
ploited by the pros, and no other
National League member will have
j as many draftees in the forthcoming
i spotlights as the Redskins.
Befitting its recognition as still the
ultimate goal of every winning team,
I the Rose Bowl game will involve the
services of no less than 14 players
deemed big league material. Five
! will be playing in the Sugar and
, Cotton Bowls and four in the Orange
Rna l And thanlfg nur norn
olic University, at least one partici
pant in the Sun Bowl will get the
offer of a National League contract.
Interest of 7 of the league's 10
teams will be bound up in the
Southern California-Tennessee clas
! sic, but none will have as collective
I an interest as the Detroit Lions, who
| will have eyes on four Trojans and
a Volunteer whom they picked in
; the draft. As a matter of fact, the
Lions’ first five choices were con
fined to these two teams, their first
I three and fifth being Trojans and
their fourth a Tennessean.
Draft Three Rose Bowlers,
j The Redskins have prior rights to
Halfback Bob Hoffman and Tackle
Howard Stoecker of Southern Cal
and Halfback Sam Bartholomew of
Tennessee.
That brother act that has been
going on down at Missouri for the
past three years, where the Orf
boys not only have the same initial,
“R,” but play the same position,
end, Is due to end on Monday, when
the Tigers meet Georgia Tech in the
Orange Bowl, but if both accept
j professional offers, they will land on
| two National League teams next
year.
Roland has been drawn by the
Redskins and Robert by the Lions,
j but unless these two teams meet in
the 1940 playoff they won't oppose
each other on the pro gridiron next
i year, as the Redskins and Lions
aren't scheduled to meet in a regu
lar season game again until '41.
Foes Later May Be Mates.
Opponents in two of the New
Year Day games, however, may find
themselves teammates next fall. In
addition to the aforementioned
draftees of the Redskins and Lions
from Southern California and Ten
nessee, the Redskins have picked
three seniors from the Sugar Bowl
rivals, Tulane and Texas A and M.
Merton Banker and Bill Kerchem.
Green Wave halfback and tackle,
and Joe Boyd, Texas Aggie tackle,
are the Redskins’ draftees.
Following is a list of players in
the five bowl games, followed by the
team drafting them. Numbers in
I parentheses to the right of each
1 team represent the number of
seniors picked from it by the pro
clubs.
ROSE BOWL.
So. California (9). Tennessee (S).
Hoffman, Bartholomew
HB (Redskins) HB (Redskins)
Stoecker. Cafegn,
T (Redskins' HB (Cardinals'
Nave. HB (Lions! Clay, T (Ramsi
risk F (Lions' Rikr. C 'Lions'
Smith. O 'Linns' Coffman.
Winslow. E (Lions' HB (Dodterai
Gasoar. T (Packers'
HB (Packers)
Lansdell,
HB (Giants I
SCGAR BOWL.
Tulane (1). T»ni A. A M (t).
Banker. Boyd. T (Redskins)
HB (Redskins)
Kerchem.
T (Redskin'i
Wenzel, E (Pirates'
White, T__ (Packers)
ORANGE BOWL.
Missonri (4). Gecrdid Tech 10).
Orf Roland
E (Redskins)
Wetzel. T (Redskins)
Orf Robert
E (Lions)
Haas. T (Lions!
COTTON BOWL.
Clemscn (3) Heston Called* (9)
McFadden Schworizer ■ _
HB (Dodders) O (Eaalea)
Bryant Sidnettl
HB (Cardinals) HB 'Pirates)
Payne. HB (Oiantsi
SI'N BOWL.
Catholic I’. (I) Arizona Teachers (0)
Pirro. HB (Pirates)
So Now They're Playing
In Kumquat Bowl
Bj the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 25.
—A Pinellas County all-star foot
ball squad takes the field tonight
against an Ohio eleven in the third
annual Kumquat Bowl game.
The Buckeye State team this year,
chosen from Central Ohio by the
Columbus Citizen and drilled by
Tippy Dye of Ohio State and George
Williams of Ohio University, is the
heaviest to represent that section
in the intersectjonal clash.
An all-Ohio combine defeated
the Florida West Coast All-Stars,
19-0. in 1937, and the following year
St. Petersburg High School held an
all-Central Ohio eleven to a 0-0 tie.
The game starts at 8 p.m.
The
Sportlight
High Spots of 1939
In Realm of Boxing
By GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star,
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 <N.A
NA.t.—The three main develop
ments in boxing in the year now
winding to a close were Joe Louis'
defeats of John Henry Lewis, Tony
Galento and Bob Pastor, the rise
of Billy Conn to the light heavy
weight championship and the re
covery of the lightweight title by
Lou Ambers from Henry Arm
strong.
There was nothing notable about
the Louis-Lewis fight save the ruth
. lessness with which Joe knocked
out John Henry. The fight was ar
ranged for three purposes. One was
to make some money for all con
cerned, another to fill a Garden
date that Mike Jacobs had to keep
and the third to give a break to
John Henry, a good fighter, who
had made very little money and
couldn't go on much longer.
Joe and John Henry have been
friends for a long time. The wise
guvs, who always know what is go
ing to happen, said Joe would carry
John Henry most of the way down
the 15-round route to make him
look good. Actually Joe tore into
John Henry at the opening bell,
gave him a frightful beating and
knocked him out in 2 minutes and
39 seconds. It was rough on John
Henry—but it emphasized once
m, more the honesty of the heavy
weight champion, to whom noth
ing. including friendship, matters
once the bell rings.
Galento Almost Cashed In
On Long-Shot Title Chance.
That was in January. By June
Galento had been built up to a
point where, while nobody thought
he could beat Louis, everybody
Admitted he had an outside chance
because of the power he could put
behind a left hook.
Right off the opening bell Tony
t almost cashed in on the outside
chance. The first punch he threw
was a left hook tha‘t hit Louis on
the right side of the hpad just above
the jaw line and the champion
staggered and almost went down.
Then he moved in and tied up Ga
len^—it was a strange sight, Louis
cllnfding—and in a few seconds
he had shaken off the effects of
the punch and was beginning to
tear Galento apart.
In the second round he almost
knocked Tony out—and in the
< third, as they swapped punches,
Tony nailed "him, and this time he
did go down. But he was up at two
aflfi went about destroying the
Indian, and in the fourth round
Arthur Donovan stopppd the fight
as the battered, blood-drenched Ga
lento almost fell out of the ring.
Pastor was next—in September.
Pastor once had made Louis look
bad by eluding him in a 10-round
chase in the Gardpn ring. This time
Jimmy Johnston, his manager,
wanted the fight, scheduled for
Detroit, set for 20 rounds. Louis’
managers—John Roxborough and
Julian Black—were ready to please,
as usual.
In the first round Pastor was box
ing nicely when Louis suddenly
dropped him. He got up quickly
and Louis dropped him again. Four
timps In the first round—and once
again in the second—Pastor was on
the deck. But he fought gamely on,
outboxing Louis or darting away
from him—and then suddenly being
hit with a punch that shook him to
his heels.
When the tenth round ended with
Pastor still on his feet, there were
some at the ringside who thought
Bob might last the distance. And
then, in the eleventh round, Louis
knocked him out.
Pastor had a lot of stuff that
night—more than he ever before
carried into a ring. But he couldn’t
hit Louis hard enough to hurt him,
partly because so many of his
punches were thrown while he was
retreating. And he couldn’t stand
up under Joe's heaviest blows.
So Louis, busiest of heavyweight
ehampions In the long roll and
roster of the ring, tacked three
major engagements—plus one or
two minor skirmishes—to his record.
Conn Shared With Ambers
Some of Year's Interest.
Conn took tremendous strides as
he covered the 12-month span.
Little known outside of Pittsburgh
at the beginning of the year, he
twice beat Fred Apostoli—one of
the claimants of the middleweight
Championship—in over-the-weight
fighters. Lewis, the light heavy
weight champion, went into retire
ment and Melio Bettina ascended
the throne, having beaten Tiger
Jack Fox in a tussle for the vacated
title. Conn promptly challenged
Bettina and beat him. In a return
match, he beat him by an even wider
margin.
Not only by his winning fights but
by his appearance and his ring style
he revived Interest in the light
heavyweight class. Now another
pretender to the title—Gus Les
nevich—loomed. Conn took him on
and polished him off. Having re
vived Interest In the division, he
practically ruined the division. But
he remains, of course, one of the
beat drawing cards in the ring.
Nobody, they say, ever beats Lou
Ambers twice. Henry Armstrong
couldn’t do It, although he came
Closer to it than anybody else. He
landed the greater number of
punches and. normally, would have
won. But at least five of his punches
landed below the belt and cost him
five rounds on fouls—and those
five rounds were enough to give the
fight to Ambers.
There was some action among the
mlddleweights. A1 Hostak, having
lost hip wake in the championship
to Solly Krieger as 1938 faded, re
gained it by beating Krieger.
Apostoli, the other claimant to the
title, was knocked out by the
Filipino. Crferino Garcia. Thus the
action, while important, was incon
clusive. since there still are two
Champions.
Sports Mirorr
Today a year ago—Jewel
Young, Purdue basket ball star,
named Pig Ten's outstanding
athlete for 1938.
Bensinger Favorite in Boys'
Indoor Tennis Tourney
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25—Robert
Lee Bensinger, youthful and pow
erful racket swinger of Takoma
Park, Md., is seeded No. 1 in the
boys’ division of the national in
door junior and boys’ tennis tour
nament opening tomorrow at the
7th Regiment Armory.
Quarter-finalist in last year's in
door tournament and a semi-finalist
in the national outdoor competition,
young Bensinger is considered one
of the most promising young net
men in the country and is a strong
favorite to win the indoor crown.
| New champions will ascend both
! the boys' and junior thrones as
j Joey Fishback. junior title holder
| of the past two years, is beyond
the age limit and Jimmy Everet.
! boys’ champion, has advanced to the
| junior division.
Others seeded in the boys’ di
vision are Irvin Dorfman, Jack Gel
ler and Albert Shafer, all of New
York. Seeded in the junior division
were Bill Unstaedter, L. S. U.;
Jimmy Everet, Richard J. Bender,
Gardner Lamed. Melvin Schwartz
man, Judah Lober, Frederick V.
Krais, Jr., and George L. Collins.
East-West Gridironers
Find Christmas Just
Day of Drudgery
Drill Hard for New Year
Day Charity Game at
San Francisco
By the Associated Pres*,
SAN FRANCISCO. Dor. 25 —
Christmas meant just another day
of practice for 44 of the country's
outstanding college football stars as
they swung into their last week of
workouts and strategy sessions for
the Shrine East-West charity game
January 1.
The Eastern boys had their Christ
mas party last night, all receiving
wrist watches from the Shrine. The
Westerners open their packages to
day.
East Doing Heavy Work.
A bruising scrimmage was yester
day’s order of business for the East,
which is getting down to contar*
work with little time lost. The West,
not so far along in condition and
team development, likely won't risk
a scrimmage until tomorrow.
Orin Hollingbery, co-coach of the
West, had a surprise when he asked
that “All you guys who called plays
in school, step forward.” Nobody
ventured forth. Herb McCarthy,
Denver fullback, admitted hesitant
ly that he called a play once, but
“They never asked me to call an
other."
"It may be all for the best,” said
Hollingbery. "Quarterbacks trained
by some one else have fixed ideas
that sometimes don't fit our style
of play. I like to train them my
' sen.
Three General* Picked.
The coach said that Leroy Zim
merman of San Jose State, Ray
Hare of Gonzaga and Kay Eakin
of Arkansas would be drilled as sig
nal-callers.
The East is well-stocked with field
generals. Steve Sitko of Notre
Dame. Ben Kish of Pittsburgh and
John McLaughry of Brown all could
qualify.
De Chard, Motriccini
Box in Main Bout
Of Amateur Card
Heinie Miller, secretary of the Dis
trict Boxing Commission and an
official of long standing in the
game, has consented to referee the
main bout of the all-star amateur
card scheduled a week from to
morrow night at Gonzaga High
School auditorium.
Principals in the bout will be
Jimmy De Chard and Lou Motric
cini. De Chard, a Southeast boy,
defeated Tony Novak, national ama
teur champion, at Griffith Stadium
in his last appearance and is a
strong favorite to whip the Italian.
Motriccini hails from Baltimore.
The bouts are the first of a series
sponsored by the Boosters’ Club of
St. Alovsius' Church and will be
staged by Frankie Mann, veteran
promoter. Tentative plans call for
monthly shows.
From the
Press Box
In Rhyme and Reason
Wishes of the Season
By JOHN LARDNER,
Spinal Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2S <N.A.N.A.).—
These are the greetings of this
here bard
In lieu of the regular Christ
mas card.
The season's best
To Buster West;
A fair Noel
To Kate Cornell:
A New Year wish
For Frankie Frisch;
A merry Yule
To Frank O'Doul.
And Kinnick 'Nile),
And Weskit Weill,
.And Wallie Moses.
’ And the Billy Roses,
And Foulproof Tylor,
And Jimmy Foxx.
And all the men who threw those
blocks
For all the men who made those
scores.
And Gunnar Barlund,
And Primo Flores.
Lomes our unce a tear
And That'* Enough, 01' Dear.
Christmas comes but once a year.
If it came twice where
Wduld we be?
And I always say
That free
Verse
Is a lot easier
To write
Than verse that rhymes.
But it ain't the rhymes
So much as the spirit
Behind them;
Say what you like about
Christmas,
It occurs.
So I hurl the seasonal confetti
At Dazzy Vance and old Jess
Petty,
At Rudy York and Frank Crosetti.
And Mrs. Davis’ daughter Bette.
I plaster Yuletide merit badges
Upon the (count ’em) three Di
Mages—
Vincent, Dominic and Joe—
On MaJ. Neyland and Cafego,
On the Sewel brothers, Joe and
Luke.
And the University of Duke.
And that football team of Wallace
Wade’s. j
And Johnny Mize and Raymond
Blades.
I send good wishes (sure, a mil
lion i
To Lefty Gomez, the proud Cas
tilian,
To Ossie Solem and Pinkie
Higgins
And the head of the blue network,
(You think I haven't got a rhyme
here?
The heck I haven’t),
Keith Kiggins
Not the Rhyme Thot Counts,
But How the Spirits Bounce.
I lift a Blass of Christmas Bin
To Casey Stengel and Robert
Quinn:
I raise a stein of dry vermouth
To Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ruth;
I hoist a bowl of applejack
To Doc Prothro and Connie
Mack;
I pledge a jug of apple cider
To Stout and Johnstown, hosa
and rider:
I broach a keg of Medford rum
To Tony Galento (he’s no bum);
I crack a case of ancient brandy
For Tommy Farr of Tonypandy;
In nothing but the oldest ale
I’m toasting Leland S, MacPhail;
I down a horn of foaming mead
To Byron Nelson and Sammy
Snead.
(Boy, can I carry it!)
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Cornin' for to carry me home.
All this kidding to one side,
friends,
Christmas begins
And Christmas ends;
I can’t sing like Harry Thomas,
But I make a very solemn promise
That Christmas comes but once a
year,
Wide Open Football
Due Orange Bowl,
Coaches Admit
Figures Reveal Georgia
Tech More Effective
In Air Than Missouri
Bt the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 25.—Coach Bill j
Alexander of Georgia Tech and !
Coach Don Faurot of- Missouri
agreed today on one point concern
ing the New Year Day football tus- 1
sle in the Orange Bowl:
It should be a wide-open game, j
“Missouri, with Paul Christman. ]
i does a lot of passing." Alexander
said. ‘‘But, then, we throw the
ball quite a bit. too. There ought to
be plenty of action.”
“I think it probably will be an
open game." Faurot declared. "Our
i attack, naturally, is built around
Christman, just as Georgia Tech's
is centered around Johnny Bosch. 1
But don't forget—Christman can'
run with the ball, too."
Defenses to Be Spread.
With both teams boasting effec- !
rive pass threats, the defenses are j
likely to spread enough to permit
considerable running. Tech, par
ticularly, has made excellent use of I
a fake pass to share Bosch and his
mates loose for tronrtlv trains
Casual observers have been in
clined. because of Christman's re
nown as a passer, to overlook Geor
gia Tech's record through the air
lanes. As a matter of fact, the En
gineers gained more ground passing
during the regular season than did
the Big Six champions. 829 yards to
794.
Alexander, who lost no time work
ing the train kinks out of the En
gineers’ legs after the Tech team
arrived yesterday, planned another
light workout, today before begin
ning a period of hard contact prac
tice tomorrow.
Heat Slows Missourians.
Faurot gave his squad Christmas
day off. after sending the Missou
rians through two brisk workouts
yesterday.
“The team is rather sluggish in
this warm weather.” he commented,
"and I figure the only way to cor
rect that is to work it out.”
The Missouri coach had the boys
sweating through a session of block
ing. charging and head-on tackling.
Christman unlimbered his pitching
arm with 30 minutes of tossing to
the Orf twins. Bud and Bob. and to
Jimmy Starmer and Ronald King.
Fast New Haven Team
Sets Searing Pace
In Hockey Loop
Bs the Associated Press.
The New Haven Eagles—admit
tedly the best team ever to repre
sent that Connecticut town in
the International-American Hockey
League—gave 3,200 fans a nice
Christmas present last night, de
feating the helpless Pittsburgh Hor
nets, 3-1, for their eighth straight
victory.
Meanwhile, the Syracuse Stars
moved into second place in the
Western Division's tight pennant
chase with a 3-0 victory over the
Springfield Indians.
After a long time the Providence
club finally beat the Philadelphia
Ramblers, and the score was 4-1.
It marked the Reds’ first victory
over the Philly club since last Feb-;
ruary and was the third meeting of
the two this season.
20 Years Ago
In The Star
Jack Kearns, manager of Jack
Dempsey, is considering an offer
made by Oeorge C. Callaway for
S750.000 for a fight between
Dempsey' and Carpentier at
Dewey, Okla., next July,
2,940 Bowlers Seek
Prizes in Star’s
Yule Tourney
Finals Start Tomorrow
In City and Suburban
Duckpin Plants
There are approximately 12.000
league bowlers rolling over metro
politan Washington maplewavs. This
was disclosed today after a check
of the 2.940 man and woman duck
pinners who qualified to roll in
the final of The Star’s 12th annual
Yuletide tournament which opens
tomorrow night at nearly all of the
20 pin plants throughout the city
and suburbs.
With 2.305 men and 635 women
representing 25 per cent of the field
who made the grade in the qualifica
tion round, the exact number of
league rollers to shoot in the pre
liminary was 11.760.
Adding several hundred substitutes
and others who failed to meet the
required 18-game limit to establish
an average, the number of organized
rollers mav safely be placed at better
than 12.000.
increased nearly lour times in size
over last year, when a total of 3.400
rolled In the qualification round
and approximately 850 in the final,
the 5-day stretch starting tomor
row promises to give the Capital
and its environs its biggest holiday
bowling boom in Washington duck
pin history.
Alley managers are expected to
abide by the tournament rule of
rolling three contestants to an alley.
Tomorrow's rolling—Silver Spring,
women. 7:30: Northeast Temple,
men, 7:30 and 9:30; Columbia, men,
7 and 9; Arcadia, men and women,
7: Lucky Strike, men and women,
7*45: New Recreation, women. 8;
Hyattsville, women and men, 7:30;
Convention Hall, women, 7:45;
Chevy Chase Ice Palace, women,
7:45; College Park, men and women,
7:45; College Park, men and women,
7:45; Brookland, men and women, 8;
Rosslyn, men, 7:30.
Qualifiers in Star
Duckpin Tourney
AT BOFLEVARD.
Tuesday. December 26—7:39 P.M.
WOMEN.
Hep. T. Hep. T.
L. Miile: 40 39!t B. Smith 54 360
M Embrey - 40 363 E Shlbler _ 38 349
M. Gingell - 38 36? H Long ... 64 339
C. Crockett- 53 363 Dot Flack 38 331
T. Robinson 32 361 L. Battaglia 24 339
E. Beat_ 54 354
Wednesday. December 27—7:30 P.M.
MEN.
Hep. T. Hco. T
R M'Ctoskey 48 372 Harmon_ 54 383
N. Shirieleson 64 417 R. Pugh_ 40 385
B. Leckert _ 39 416 R. Parks... 24 382
R. Oarner . 24 413 G. Toth ... 39 382
H. Phillips. 52 403 J. White .. 54 380
Daniel _ 48 393 P. Duvall... 34 373
Seiler_ 64 392 E. Saylor. — 48 372
Staler_ 64 373
AT RETHESDA.
Wednesday, December 27—7:30 P.M.
MEN.
Hep. T. Hep. T
Oeorge Kane 48 423 H. Rhodes_ 54 399
M.Woodward 50 308 A. W. Ball. 54 395
Oeo. Teunis. 54 397 S. Parks_ 38 395
John Swope. .30 397 H. Compton 64 391
B. Teunis_ 48 389 R. Burgess. 64 388
W. Estabrook 40 388 R. Bergman 64 388
E. Mitchell- 54 381 G. R. Boss. 54 384
H. Riley_28 381 w. French . 60 383
V. Buhler _ 64 377 H. F. Boss.. 64 382
H. Goebel . 52 377 Mel Rock— 32 378
W. Kraft __ 52 377 J. Long_ 44 377
E. Thompson 54 370 S. Wetzel- 64 378
W. Bogley - 40 374 E. Schmidt- 38 375
J. Werner . 64 370 Glammatteo 54 308
W. Teunis . 54 300 E. A. Smith 50 308
L. Robinson 33 388 J. Perrell- 28 383
G. Clute ... 54 385 8. Fuller — 38 381
F. Derrlek— 48 385 J H. Hlser. 24 375
T. Lozapone 42 304 H. Breeden. 44 375
H. Biggs ... 54 303 L. Pugh_ 28 384
Five years ago—Brooklyn Dodg
ers obtained Stanley Bordagaray,
Sacramento, Calif., outfielder, for
Outfielder Johnny Frederick,
Pitcher Art Heving and cash in
(50,000 deal.
► THEY’RE REGULAR VOLUNTEERS—Here’s a trio of 6-footers
who helped Tennessee's football team to an unbeaten and un
scored upon season. They are big cogs in the machine that will
strive to upset Southern California in the classic Rose Bowl
game in Pasadena on New Year Day. These luminaries, left to
i right, are: Bob Suffridge, 186-pound guard; Fred Newman,
: fullback, who scales 187, and Marshall Shires, tackle, who weighs
j an even 200. —A. P. Wirephoto.
I-"
Busy Carl Storck Now Ready
I To Make Full-Time Job of
Bossing Pro Football
B» the Asaoclated Press
DAYTON. Ohio. December 25.—A
big man with a big job. President
Carl L. Storck of the National pro
fessional Football League, is ready
for a long term of bossing the pay
for-play gridders. 0
Jubilantly pointing out past sea
son successes and predicting a better
year in 1940, Storck. who took over
the league reins for one year last
spring, observed:
“I warmed up to the work from the
start. If the yeague re-elects me and
requests that I make the office a full
time job, I feel sure I would be more
inclined to comply with their wishes
than I was last spring.”
Helped Carr Found League.
Sixteen years ago Storck and the
late Joe Carr of Columbus founded
the league. Carr's death resulted in
Storck's promotion from the vice
presidency. The league then asked
Storck to serve for more than a
year, but he declined because of
business tie-ups here.
As this 42-year-old sports enthus
iast describes it, he's bossing the
prosperous league on a “rain check.”
Now he's ready to cast aside his
other interests and devote full time
to football.
Besides the football league posi
tion, Storck has been handling an
executive's chair wnth General Motors
Corp., and the presidency of the
Dayton Wings of the Mid-Atlantic
Baseball League—all big jobs oc
cupying this big man's t250 pounds)
time.
“Put me down at 250." said the
jovial Storck today. ‘’That's high
enough—and my doctors won't lose
any sleep if they read this.«
One of the best wisecrackers In
the sports woild, Storck can wield
the “big stick" when the occasion
demands and that's the kind of a
man the pro league club owners are
expected to select for a president
at their April meeting.
Turning back to the past season,
he pointed with pride to attendance
increases in all except two cities and
predicted that the Green Bay-New
York championship game would
j have attracted 70.000 persons in New
York. Green Bay w-on the title at
Milwaukee, where there were ac
commodations for only 32.000.
Cleveland Decides to Stick.
"For years Cleveland has been at
tempting to sell the game without
success.” Storck remarked. “Tha
club was up for sale when Detroit
and Green Bay drew crowds of
30,000 to the lake-front city. Owner
Tom Lipscomb jerked the 'For Sale’
sign down in a hurry.”
Because he has to get around in
a hurry, Storck travels by plane^
using that means to go to the soma
35 football games he sees each sea
son.
Storck's weight and his plentiful
supply of big black stogies make
him a standout in any crowd and
he's a gambling man. too. But the
stakes always are a box of choco
late bonbons, his favorite delicacy.
Storck once played football for
the University of Chicago and waa
physical instructor there.
Teaching Job Will Keep
Shaughnessy at Chicago
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25. — Clark
Shaughnessy, professor of physical
education at the University of Chi
cago, has no plans for re-entering
the ranks of the football coaches.
The school's Board of Trustees
eliminated Shaughnessy's job as the
Maroon football coach last week
when they voted unanimously to
abandon intercollegiate football.
Shaughnessy said today that "As
far as I know, I'll stay right her*
in the department of physical edu
cation.” He came to Chicago in
1933 from Loyola University of New
Orleans.
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