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Record List of 139 Nominated by 75 Owners for Golden Jubilee of Preakness
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Getting Back to the Arena Subject
It develops that among us walks a Frankenstein of a sort who has
built up something a little terrifying, in its way, and doesn’t know what
to do with it. But Bill Reinhart isn’t going to tear it down. Sooner or
later somebody is going to build the kind of an arena that George Wash
ington University’s basket ball team deserves and, when this happens, Mr.
Reinhart hopes to remain ready.
Let’s see about this now. Here is a fellow who must be among the
best basket ball coaches in the country. He has developed another team—
and we mean developed—which is too good for most of its opponents.
It is a team which has won six in a row, which defeated Navy by 20 points
on Navy's home floor, which twice has scored as many as 74 points this
season, and which makes fiascos of games with such average opposition
as Davidson and Virginia Tech.
In its field it perhaps is the best sports combination in Washington,
and this includes the Redskins and the Brewers and the Eagles and the
Nats and Georgetown's football team. At least, it is close up, in case
anybody is thinking about writing us a letter.
Yet, what happens to this George Washington team? It practically
Is buried, that’s all. It has no home. As a result it has no following to
speak of. Which makes Reinhart some sort of a Frankenstein.
High School Atmosphere and Big League Prices
Of course, the day is going to come when the doors of an arena are
going to be thrown open and Mr. Reinhart's singular genius for coaching
basket ball will be displayed publicly. If nowhere else, the wheels wall
have to start moving at George Washington. Sooner or later the school
WiH have to build a house for these Colonial quints and, if you promise
not to lead us to the nearest bughouse before w-e finish, we’d like to add
that when and if the house is constructed these same basket ball teams
will be able to start paying for it from the outset.
At the moment, it must be admitted, the financial end of it does not
look promising. Last Saturday this G. W. cage team played V. P. I. It was
established that V. P. I. was no world-beater. The Gobblers were just
another team, but a team that barely was beaten by Maryland. In short,
It might be supposed that the game, offering at least a 40-minute look
at one of the finest college fives (G. W.) in the country, wTould be attractive.
What happened? A charitable estimate might have put the crowd at
400. Speaking of charity, it was a game played for the President’s infantile
paralysis fund. Still the crowd was only 400 or so.
This might indicate that Washington doesn’t give a hoot about basket
ball. But it also might suggest that Washington fans don’t care about
traveling to a high school gymnasium to see something for which big
league prices are charged. This is understandable. We have seen major
league ball clubs, like the Yankees, play exhibition games in little parks in
Email towns in Georgia and Florida. Somehow even the Yankees don’t
seem to be the same club we linked with Yankee Stadium and Griffith
Stadium and Crosley Field.
Even the Yanks Don't Top Reinhart's Teams
Not that a high school gymnasium couldn’t be filled. It.could be
done, but G. W. would have to switch from Southern Conference teams
and move up a notch, where they belong. G. W. against Notre Dame
figures to fill any high school gym in town. Or G. W. against Southern
California or Oregon or Ohio State.
Why can't they be scheduled? Well, stranger, colleges that aren't
presided over by Dr. Bob Hutchins kind of keep their eyes on the box
office during the basket ball season, as well the football. First they
name their prices. Then they consider the opponents. In George Wash
ington’s case this is a very’ unfortunate procedure because, lacking a gym
capable of seating a crowd, the Colonials can’t pass out large guarantees.
And having the kind of basket ball teams that can make the best look
very bad nearly every night in the week, they have no other means of en
ticing the big boys here unless they pull a Harry Thomas.
Getting away from commercialism and returning to Mr. Reinhart,
we repeat that he seems to have something down on G street, as usual.
When the season started the G. W.’s were just a lot of Johnnys. They
broke even in their first four games. And then the Reinhart genius
began to manifest itself. Now they have won eight out of 10. In the
five years that Reinhart has been coaching the Colonials they have won
66 and lost 21, for a percentage of .759. Even the Yankees don't do this.
The Argument Over the Best D. C. Quint
Reinhart had a team in 1935-36 that won 16 out of 19. including 14 in
a row. The next year he won 16 out of 20 and the year after he won
13 of 17. The worst season he had was in 1938-39. G. W. won 13 and
lost eight but of these defeats only one was sustained at home. In
other words, it took a brutal road schedule in the Midwest to bring
down Brother Bill's average.
Around town these days a pretty consistent drawing-room argument
Is the best District college team of all times. Reinhart has had a
contender for two years, or ever since he produced the quint composed
of Tommy O'Brien, George Garber, Sid Silkowdtz, Bob Faris and Jack
Butterw’orth. Out at Brookland the old Cards will snort with indigna
tion and hark back to Fred Rice’s team of 15 years ago. Maybe you will
remember—Ray Foley, Johnny Long, Bill Carney, Bill Harvey & Co.?
They were called the Reindeers.
Traveling to the other end of the town, how about Elmer Ripley’s
Georgetown team? The one with Don Dutton, Freddy Mesmer, McCarthy
co ai.
And Why Not This G. W. Outfit?
Now there is a growing suspicion that Mr. Reinhart is about to
enter another contender. Up to now this isn't a tea*n of which to be
ashamed. For a quint composed of two seniors, a junior and two sophs
It has been coming right along. Shaky at the start, sensational now,
it may carry on.
How does Reinhart do it? To begin with, he had pretty good
material. With the possible exception of Maryland's. George DeWitt he
has all of the best college players in town. Also he knows how to use
them.
But it goes further than that. Reinhart also can develop players.
By coaches and critics Joe Comer has been pronounced G. .W.’s best
player this year. But they didn’t say that last year and the campaign
before.
Joe isn’t from Indiana or New York, imported for the cause. He
went to Roosevelt High. He played basket ball. He was good but not
exceptional in high school, and as a freshman at G. W. he didn’t even
make the team. As a soph he was third-string center. Meanwhile, good
basket ball players were all around Reinhart, who could have dropped
Joe and forgotten about him.
But he didn't. He kept trying to develop him. Now Comer is a
junior and, at last, something more than a comer. He’s arrived, and so
has G. W.’s court team. What's holding up that arena, anywray?
Gloved Basketers
Don't Muff Shots
By the Associated Press.
LAUREL, Nebr., Jan. 22.—The
Laurel High School faculty is
convinced the varsity basket ball
. team is pretty good.
The varsity, wearing husking
gloves and four-buckle overshoes,
beat the teachers, 31 to 30.
Sports Mirror
B> the Associated Press.
Thr°e years ago—William A.
Kern, former Pittsburgh tackle
and a .sistant coach, named head
football coach at Carnegie Tech,
succeeding Howard Harpster.
Five years ago—Jimmy Ward,
right winger of Montreal Maroons
Hockey Club, suffered concussion
as result of collision with Eddie
Shore, Boston defense man.
Ruth Abandons
Hope of Berth
In Baseball
Homer King, Getting
Gray, Is Satisfied
With Easy Life
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The great
est figure of baseball's modern age,
Babe Ruth, has given up hope of
ever returning to the game he glori
fied for two decades.
A mellow, bulging fellow living
decorously on the annuities he had
the good sense to lay away with
part of the million dollars he earned
in. baseball, the Babe doesn't seem
sorry.
"Yeh, I guess I'm out of it,” Ruth
said today. ‘‘I’ve got a comfortable
home here and no worries. I get a
few odd jobs to do, but mostly I
keep busy trying to hold down my
weight I play a lot of table tennis
and golf, go hunting, and I’ve got
one of those electric horses, too.
‘‘I was out hunting all last week
got a bunch of birds and a bad
cold.”
Crowds Ruin Babe's Clothes.
He's a different Bambino now
from the rollicking, carefree char
acter who caused the record books
to be rewritten, received up to $80,
000 a year from the New York
Yankees, squandered possibly a
quarter of a million in luxurious
living and paid some $20,000 in
baseball fines.
Ho nrftirrV\r O AO 1 e n A
above his playing weight, and will
be 46 years old February 7. Tattle
tale gray is beginning to show on
his temples. Somehow it was n
melancholy scene as the Bab-*
lounged in a smoking jacket amidst
countless trophies and remarked:
“I don’t go to the games much
any more. Every time I go I ru n
a suit of clothes getting through the
crowd. Somebody spilled ink nil
down the back of my coat the lf.st
time.”
Although he doesn’t see much of
it, Ruth still likes to talk about
baseball and compare the old days
with the present. He'll be heading
South next month—to take a p’ace
on the faculty of a baseball school.
’’These baseball schools do more
good for a young player than most
people realize,” he champicned.
“They have real instructors who
show the boys how to improve
themselves and a few weeks in a
proper school is worth years of,sand
lot play. The big league clubs aught
to lend the schools a hand. They
sign a lot of players out of them
every year.
“There aren't so many ball players
coming up as there were in try day.
Kids in cities don't have much
chance to play. If baseball hadn’t
started the chain store system I
don’t know where it would be.”
The Babe's well-known antipathy
to exhibition games cropped up
when he declared "there'll never be
any more 20-year players They
burn out too fast. A week after
training camp opens they start
playing games and then wonder why
the players get sore arms a id Char
ley horses. They play 35 or 40 ex
hibition games in the spring and
during the season, so a player
may appear in nearly 200 games a
season. Why, I started with Boston
in 1914 and we never had a single
exhibition game until 1918.”
Gordon, Yanks’ Sparkplug.
Steered into later channels, Ruth
praised the present Yankees.
“They’re a great ball club and I
think they'll be on top for a long
time. Do you know who made this
team? Joe Gordon. He came along
just at the right time. The club
needed a spark and he gave it.”
Finally we asked the Bt.be a ques
tion he must have heard hundreds
of times—is anybody going to break
his record of 60 home runs in a
season? Looking up at a big dia
gram on a wall showing the date,
the score, the team, the pitcher for
every one of those homers, he mused:
“I hope not. I hope not; not
while I’m alive.”
Illinois Relays List
Four-Mile Event
CHAMPAIGN, 111., Jan. 22 (P).—
The 4-mile-relay event will be in
cluded in the University of Illinois
indoor relays program this year
after an absence of two years.
The relays, resumed in 1938 after
a lapse of several years, omitted
the 4-mile relay that year and in
1939 on the grounds that the event
took too much time.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
„. . . W. L. O. 0.0. Ptfi.
St. Louis- 27 4 132 48 54
St. Paul - 18 10 99 63 38
Minneapolis- 15 14 95 80 30
Tulsa - 13 16. 85 105 26
Kansas City- 10 18 72 109 20
Omaha- 9 18 62 90 18
Wichita _ 7 20 54 104 14
8t. Paul. 3: Minneapclis. 2.
St. Louis, 3; Kansas City, 2 (overtime).
Rovers Far Out Front,
Eagles Play Orioles
For Second Notch
Runnersup, Behind Eight
Points, Resume Feud
Here Tomorrow
With a sizable gap separating
them from the first-place New York
Rovers, the Washington Eagles will
attempt to break their second-place
Eastern Amateur Hockey League
deadlock with the Baltimore Ori
oles tomorrow night at Riverside
Stadium.
Now leading the loop by eight
points, or the margin of four vic
tories, the Rovers have placed a
canyon between themselves and
their chief contenders, the Eagles
and Orioles, dealing the Orioles a
double dose of defeat in two games
yesterday at New York.
Out to Break Slumps.
Renewing their campaign after
resting for several days due to a
mounting list of injuries, the Eagles
will return to the ice at full strength.
Len Burrage, Bill Cairns and Paul
Courteau all have recovered from
their respective ailments and the
Eagles meanwhile have been equip
ped with a new wingman, Bunny
McKillop.
Both the Eagles and Orioles will
be seeking to snap slumps, Washing
ton having dropped three decisions
and been tied once in its last four
games. The Eagles have captured
five of seven games with Baltimore
this season, but in their last col
lision the Orioles snatched a 10-2
triumph.
Help Paralysis Fund.
The Orioles will introduce a
novelty in a starting line that in
cludes two American-born players.
Arthur Erickson, a newcomer, plays
center, and Larry Archambault, left
wing, in a line that includes Ernie
Camrye, a Canadian, at right wing.
Ten per cent of the gross receipts
will be donated to the Mile o’ Dimes
Fund sponsored by The Star and
National Broadcasting Co.
INTERN ATIONAL-AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Western Division.
. J , W. L. T. Pts. G. O.G.
Indianapolis_18 10 8 42 107 82
Cleveland _1.3 13 6 32 71 75
Pittsburgh -13 14 i 31 72 72
Hershey - 13 14 4 30 72 79
Syracuse- 12 15 8 30 82 85
Eastern Division.
New Haven- 18 12 1 37 104 103
Providence- 16 11 4 36 89 77
Springfield _ 11 16 6 27 90 93
Philadelphia_ 8 17 5 21 69 80
Indianapolis, 3: Pittsburgh. I.
Syracuse. 4; Hershey. 1.
New Haven. 4; Springfield. 3.
Providence. 3: Cleveland. 1. »
Coast, Southwest Quints Play Crucial Games
By HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press 8ports Writer.
NEW YORK. Jan. 22.—Mid-year
examinations claim the basket ball
athletes’ attention in most sections
this week, but leading teams of the
Pacific Coast, Rocky Mountain Big
Seven and Southwest Conference get
down to deciding championships.
Nowhere else are lines between
the real title contenders and the
iemainder of the field so clearly
drawn as in these three groups.
Even on the West Coast, only the
Southern division race has any clar
ity; there are several possibilities
in the Northern section.
Down to Trojans and Indians.
The Southern half of the Coast
League, however, has been reduced
to a two-team struggle between
Southern California and Stanford.
California and U. C. L. A. clearly
are outclassed, losing not only to
their conference rivals, but practi
cally every one else. Next Friday
and Saturday the Trojans and the
Indians play a two-game series at
Los Angeles and out of that may
come the season’s victor.
Right now Southern California is
the favorite, unbeaten in 10 games
this season and possessing the re
serve strength to finish a tough
game as strongly as it started. The
Trojans also have the Coast’s out
standing individual star in Ralph
Vaughn, who ran his total to 50
points in Friday's 50-32 victory over
U. C. L. A. Stanford, beaten only
in its first game with Nebraska, has
run up some notable scores, includ
ing 55-32 over California Friday
and 60-36 over College of the Pa
cific Saturday, but lacks standout
reserves.
In the Big Seven the game of the
week is undefeated Utah against
Colorado’s defending champions at
Boulder Friday. The Utes kept
their record clear last week by whip
ping Wyoming 47-33 while Colorado
crushed Denver 66-25 and beat out
Colorado State 47-41 to make it
four victories in five conference
starts. -Utah State, victor in its
only league game, plays Wyoming
and Denver next week end while
Utah goes on from the Colorado
game to face Colorado State.
Texas, Rice Set Face.
The Southwest Conference race
finds the 1939 champion, Texas, tied
with Rice at four victories and one
loss. Texas A. and M. is close be
hind. The Longhorns already have
beaten Rice, but were upset by Ar
kansas. Rice beat the Aggies 62-44
last week and meets them again
Tuesday in the feature tilt of a
four-game program that gives the
Owls a chance to take a long lead.
Otherwise the Conference races
are dormant this week. Three games
are listed in the Big Six and a
couple in the Missouri Valley Con
ference, but the unbeaten leaders,
Missouri and Oklahoma Aggies,
aren’t Involved.
Princeton makes Its Eastern
League debut Saturday against Cor
nell, one of three teams tied for the
lead. Except for the Kentucky
Alabama game, there's little to dis
turb the leaders of the South’s two
major circuits.
Texas Betting on Baylor or S. M. U. to Stop Aggies
Turf Plant Near World Fair to Seat 50,000; Gelbert Case Started Landis Probe
By EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Big
money in Texas says either Bay
lor or Southern Methodist will
bump off the high-riding Aggies
next season. Miss Henie & Co.,
grossed $215,000 in the garden
last week and broke the joint's
record for telephone calls—more
than 35,000. The real yarn behind
the Kansas State shake-up might
make good reading if some smart
reporter can dig it up. That
new racing plant near the World
Fair grounds will seat 50,000
and may be finished by Fall. No
use to rub it in, but the Yanks
were set to go the limit for Paul
Trout until his honor got wise
to that $25,000 miscue and re
turned Paul to the Tigers.
-4
A luckless guy is Pitcher Trout
(We hope he don't feel hoit)
For he must do a right-about
And go back to Detroit.
Jersey City seems to be the
East's last hope for the Galento
Baer fight for the poor Finns.
The Baseball Rules Committee
huddles with * Judge Landis at
Belleair, Fla., February 12. Mike
Jacobs planned to send Conn vs.
Lesnevich to Detroit to take the
edge off Burman vs. Pastor, but
was denied dates. Carl Voyles,
who expects to put William and
Mary on the football map in
capitals this year, is doing a bit
of missionary work in North
Carolina where they grow those
rabbit backs. Charley Howard
and Bing Croeby an ao keen on
A.
the South American way they
have 10 more horses coming up
from down there and hope
there’ll be at least one Kayak
II, Sorteado or Ligaroti in the
car load.
Today’s guest star. Howard
Brickey, Wichita Falls (Tex)
Times: “All that is needed to
cap the Detroit baseball situation
is for Dr. Robert Hutchins to
drop over from Chicago and de
liver his well-known lecture on
de-emphasis and reform.”
Here’s a new angle on the
Landis crack down. Burt Whit
man, well-informed sports editor
of the Boston Herald, says
Charley Gelbert, the old inflelder,
was the underlying cause. Char
ley went to Detroit's farm with
the understanding he'd get a shot
A
at manager if a shift came. That
shift came when Fred Haney
moved up to the Browns, but
Charley was passed up. He went
to Landis and the judge began
investigating.
Fight Manager A1 Weill who
has all his big shots going in
important bouts in the next two
months, stands to clean up at
least $20,000 as his end. U. of
Georgia will be host to the South
ern Intercollegete Golf Tourney,
April 11-13.
Live and learn. Frank G.
Menke's all sport record book
lists Bill Robinkin, the Negro tap
dancer, as the world champion
backward runner. That surprised
Ernest Colburn of Hilton Village,
Va., who thought all the time It
mi Bob Pastor.
Ice Hockey
EASTERN AMATEUR LEAGUE.
“ObiIs—
W. L. T. For. A*t. Pts..
New York_ 18 9 3 162 122 41
WASHINGTON 16 14 1 128 123 33
Batllmore ___ 16 16 1 134 119 33
Atlantic City . 11 18 4 99 130 28
River Vale __ 9 19 3 86 141 21
’Canadians_ 9 4 2 66 49 20
•Toronto Goodyears. Montreal Royals,
McIntyre Miners.
RESULTS LAST NIGHT.
Sunday—New York. 7; Baltimore. 6
afternoon); New York, 4; Baltimore. 1
(evening).
COMING GAMES.
Tomorrow—Baltimore at WASHING
TON: Atlantic City at River Vale.
Wednesday—New York at Baltimore (to
count in the Walker Cup series).
Friday—Baltimore at Atlantic City; New
rork at WASHINGTON.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
W. L. T. Pts. O. O.G.
N. Y. Rangers _. 17 4 7 41 87 42
Boston _ 18 7 3 39 90 59
Toronto _ 18 10 4 36 85 63
Chicago - 11 14 1 23 51 77
Detroit - 8 16 4 20 46 73
N. Y. Americans 9 19 1 19 67 83
Montreal- 8 17 1 18 58 77
New York Rangers, 4; Boston, f,
Detroit. 3; Toronto. 2.
Mew York AmsrtnaiM. Si Oikiss 1.
Winning Owner
May 11 to Bag
$80,000
•k.
Andy K., Bimelech's
Chief Rival, Likely
To Be Late Entry
Bv SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22.—Seventy
five owners have nominated a record
total of 139 top 3-year-olds for the
Golden Jubilee running of the
Pimlico Preakness May 11. The
winner is expected to get an $80,000
pot of gold.
Headed by Col. E. R. Bradley’s
1939 juvenile king, Bimelech, the
field already lists most of last year's
crack youngsters.
More virtually are certain to come
in as supplementary eligibles for the
1 3/16-mile classic, among them
Bimelech's chief 2-year-old rival,
Ankv K. The son of Jack High is
roaming the farm, and Tony Pel
leteri may not want to make him
eligible for the big stakes until he
sees how the colt comes through the
winter.
Bimelerh Wins $135,000.
Otherwise, the turf’s “royal family” .
of 1939 juveniles is well represented.
Mrs. Parker Coming's Straight
Lead, winner of the New England .
Futurity and a total of $41,800 last v
year, is entered. So is Mrs. H. C.
Phipps’ Merry Knight, impressive
winner at a mile and 70 yards in the
mud last season. This bay son of
Sir Gallahad III earned $22,860 *
in ’39.
These head about a dozen which
earned their oats last year with
winnings of $5,000 or more each.
Bimelech, short-priced winter book
favorite to win the Kentucky Derby,
the Preakness and the Belmont, put
$135,000 of the “fresh” on Col.
Bradley's bankroll. Mrs. C. S. Pay
(See PREAKNESS. Page A-15.)"
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