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KING AND HEIR-APPARENT—From the Redskins’ training
camp at Los Angeles, Calif., comes this shot of Sammy Baugh,
ace quarterback, fitting a helmet on Harry Gilmer, Alabama U.
star, touted as the Texan's successor in the T-formation quar
terbacking chores. —AP Photo.
Turk Demands Ferocity to Go
With Redskin Linemen's Heft
By Lewis F. Atchison
Star Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3. —Turk
Edwards is looking for mean line
men for his 1948 Redskin football
team and he may have them in the
group assembled at the Tribe's Oc
cidental College training camp.
The Redskins may not even match
last year's dismal record of four
wins in the National Football
League, but to the casual eye this
seems to be one of the best-looking
collections of talent the Burgundy
• nd Gold has boasted recently.
Edwards, fingers crossed, holds up
a warning hand against hasty pre
season predictions.
"They all look good until the
first game,” he commented. "Then
some fade and others turn out to
be better than you expected. We
think every player in camp has
possibilities or they wouldn't be
here, but w'e won't know how we
stand for some time yet.”
Edwards must be discreet, but
when you hear the veterans mar
veling at rookies' appearances you
know the ability may be there.
Sammy Baugh, for example, couldn't
believe 230-pound Ed Quirk was a
fullback. The Slinger thought he
was a tackle. Quirk has a square,
bull-necked frame akin to Sal
Rosato’s, and they sav he's fast
with It. Sam thinks he'll enjoy
playing in the same backfield with
him
Want* Fiercer Spirit.
But if there is any major improve
ment in the Skins it will be in the
line. Edwards’ feathers ruffle when
the line is blamed for last year's
poor record. He thinks defensive
backs, more than linemen, were to
blame for the disasters of ’47, and
while the line-backing situation will
be improved the line's betterment
figures to be one of the features of
the approaching season. It will be
big and it could be tough. If it
will be mean enough is something
else again.
You don't expect to see men as big
and experienced as John Adams,
254; Tom Dean. 255; John Sanchez.
240, or Ernie Williamson. 235. pushed
around by anybody. But a mean
little guy, weighing pounds less,
can do it and Edwards wants his
tackles to be vicious enough to hold
their own in any company.
••I'm not asking them to play
dirtv football—I don't want that,
he explained, "but I want ’em to
hit hard and drive in there when
they go after the other guy.”
Big Don Avery is a case in point.
A complete bust last year, the 255
pound Avery has enough native
ability to be one of the circuit's
best tackles but lacks aggressiveness.
The coaching staff figures the slow,
easy-going Californian nedtts a good
swift kick in the pants, figuratively
speaking, to shake off his lethargy,
and is going to work on him in
earnest.
Harris Docility Is Deceiving.
There are some heavily-larded
j gentlemen in camp, notably Henry
Harris, 289, and Gene Vellela, 260,
but there are others who are trim
and seemingly ready to go in now
and do an honest day’s work. One
of these is Mike Roussos, a 235
j pounder from the University of
Pittsburgh, who is overawed by his
i first trip to a big league camp. He’s
nice and friendly—almost kittenish
—but scout reports indicate Mike
isn’t nice company on the football
I field.
One ot tne oest-loosing prospects
! is Mike Katrishen, a Mississippi
Southern product who hails from
the cotton-dotted fields of Hazleton,
Pa. A tackle in college. Katrishen
has been shifted to guard and unless
i Line Coach Tiger Walton misses hjs
guess, Mike will make the veterans
hustle for their jobs. Katrishen has
a square jaw and blond, wavy hair
that would make him a good stand
in for Jimmy Cagney.
Bill Gray, who seems to have got
ten bigger since last year, is an
1 other dark horse in the race for a
regular guard berth, although his
speed and ability to smell out plays
may keep him in the role of a line
! backer. But Gray is another of the
I lads whose size make you dead cer
tain the Skins will be better this
year. He's mean, in a sense that
when he draws a bead on an enemy
he gives him all six barrels and
; when they hit they bounce. Edwards
! is looking for more of his type.
Saenz Succumbs
To Call of the Grid
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star
LOS ANGELES. August 3 —
Eddie Saenz, who informed
Coach Turk Edwards last March
he would not play football this
year, was waiting on the door
step of Occidental College when
the Redskins arrived to open
their 1948 training camp.
•‘I just couldn’t stay away when
I read in the newspapers about
the team starting up again,” he
told Edwards, “and I’ve changed
my mind about not playing.”
P. S. Edwards already had a
room reserved for him.
Paige, Pitching Tribe to Front,
Likes Starting Job Over Relief
By tH# Associoted Press
CLEVELAND. Aug. 4—He was
making his first starting appearance
• s a major leaguer last night, but
old Lero y (Satchel) Paige came
through. He pitched the Cleveland
Indians back into first place.
• Startin' a game is a lot easier
than goin' in to try to save one.” he
drawled in the dressing room as Ed
Klieman was finishing out the*last
two innings. Satch had departed
for a pinch batter, but the Tribe
finished ahead of Washington. 5
to 3. That left Cleveland in first
place by a couple of percentage
points as Chicago knocked out Phil
adelphia.
1 iic icau ‘ -
lng much fancy stuff in his seven
inning stint. He hadn't pitched a
full game all year, but had taken
part in eight of the Indians’ con
tests for 18 innings, winning one and
losing one. During that time he had
given only two unintentional walks.
There were 72,434 fans in the sta
dium—largest night crowd in the
town's baseball history—when the
ageless Negro went to the mound.
But at the start, the famous Paige
control was lacking. With one out
in the first inning, he passed A1
Kozar and Gil Coan in succession,
and both scored when Ed Stewart
lined a triple to left center.
After tr.at Old Satch settled down.
He issued another pass in the third
and a final one in the seventh, but
he scattered a total of seven hits
•nd had six strikeouts. He used his
•'hesitation pitch” to get the last
one, Eddie Yost.
The blooper he used “just once.
It's better to be a few runs ahead
■when you use that one,” he said.
••You can't tell what might happen.”
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At the plate, satch naa one out
of three, a scratch single to deep
short in the sixth inning. That
was right after Jim Hegan had
slammed a home run to break a
3-to-3 deadlock. In the fourth in
ning Paige had grounded out with
the bases full, and when the same
situation arose in the seventh, Man
ager Lou Boudreau sent Hal Peck
to bat—Hal forced Hegan at second.
Satch said, "My left leg's a little
sore. Bothered my control some,
but I'll be all right.”
And when some one asked wheth
er he w'as ready to start every
fourth day he came back, “I used
to start every second day and do
relief in between. That every-four
davs would be a vacation.”
Fairfax Police Slated
For Two Softy Tilts
The newly organized Fairfax Po
lice Department softball team will
play its first game at 7 p.m. tomor
row at Fairfax High School against
the Fairfax Rotary Club.
The police team will play a benefit
game in Alexandria against that
city's police team at 8:30 p.m. Sat
urday. A return game between the
two police teams is scheduled at
Fairfax High August 16. Proceeds
from the latter game will go to the
Fairfax Police Association recrea
tion and safety fund for boys.
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Griffs’ Wrath at Peak
In Loss to Indians
Before 72,434
By Burton Hawkins
Star Staff Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Aug. 4— If the
Cleveland Indians capture the
American League pennant it win
be over the strenuously struggling,
protesting bodies of the Nats. Cleve
land brings the Nats' normally calm
corpuscles to a boil, with the result
that Washington has played in
spired baseball, mostly in a loosing
cause, against the Indians.
Washington's last five games with
Cleveland have been tense spectacles
but some sort of peak for irritation
among the Nats was reached here
last night as the Indians'grabbed a
5-3 victory and the flag lead before
a throng of 72,434 and it was the
second largest night crowd in his
tory and. Cleveland’s biggest.
Mickey Vernon, the Nats’ phleg
matic first baseman, considers he
has experienced a violent battle
when he frowns at an umpire, but
last night the usually mild-man
nered Mickey unleashed a torrent
of heated language at Umpire Jim
Boyer over a difference of opinion
concerning a third strike.
Nats Blow Their lops.
Coach Sam West, who avoids ar
guments, joined in the rhubarb, as
did Coach Clyde Milan, who doesn’t
effervesce easily. It was a warmup
for what followed in the fourth
inning, when the Nats tossed a half
dozen towels from their dugout,
Pitcher Early Wynn threw his glove
high in the air and Manager Joe
Kuhel imitated Vesuvius on a
rampage.
With Larry Doby on first base
and the Nats owning a 2-0 lead,
Ken Keltner lashed a double to
left which caromed up the barrier.
Leftfielder Gil Coan immediately
objected that a fan had interfered
with the ball, which would have
forced Doby to halt at third on a
ground-rule double.
Coan seemed to have a point, or
else the law of gravity ceased
functioning briefly, but the umpires
permitted Doby to score. Christ
man and Umpire Ed Rommel, West
and Rommel, Wynn and Rommel
and Kuhel and Rommel had private
arguments later concerning that
point, while the entire Washington
bench expressed its displeasure
loudly throughout the game.
Washington had spurted into a
2-0 lead in the first inning when
Ed Stewart lashed a triple to left
center, scoring Al Kozar and Coan,
who had walked. The Indians
scored their hotly disputed run off
Wvnn in the third, but the Nats
nicked Satchel Paige for a 3-1 lead
in the fifth when Wynn doubled,
took third on Kozar's infield single
and scored after Coan filed out.
Allie Clark’s single and Doby’s
double fetched the Indians a run
in the fifth and shelled Wynn from
the mound. Doby came around
when Forrest Thompson was clipped
for singles by Keltner and Lot;
Boudreau.
Paige, making his first major
league start was lifted for a pinch
hitter in the seventh. In his seven
innings on the mound the famed
colored righthander allowed seven
hits, including a bunt, three infield
tape and a pop fly single.
Hegan's Homer Gains Lead.
Jim Hegan hoisted the Indians
into a 4-3 lead in the sixth when
he lifted a home run over the right
field fence and the Indians got to
Walter Masterson for a run in the
seventh without benefit of a hit.
Masterson loaded the bases on walks
and Joe Gordon scored when Hal
Peck, batting for Paige, grounded to
Kozar.
Ed Klieman pitched the final two
innings lor Cleveland and didn't
permit a hit.
NAT NOTES—In six games here
the Nats have played before 191,034
fans, or approximately the same
number of customers the St. Louis
Browns have attracted ail season.
. . . Last night's crowd boosted
the Indians over the million-and-a
half mark at home, and when they
play the Nats here tomorrow an
all-time Cleveland attendance' rec
ord will be set. . . Last night's
throng was the largest any Wash
ington team ever has played before.
Idle today, the Nats and Indians
will clash in a day game tomorrow,
with Ray Scarborough slated to face
Cleveland's Gene Bearden on the
mound. . . . President Bill Veeck
of the Indians, who admires the
manner in which Kuhel has the
Nats hustling, says the fact that
Paige was slated to start last night
attracted at least 25.000 people.
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• Flied out for Thompson in seventh.
+ Flied out for Mafterson in ninth.
i Grounded into force play for Paige in
seventh.
Washington - 200 010 000—3
Cleveland . OOO 121 lOx—5
Runs—Kozar. Coan. wynn. Clara. Dooy.
Gordon, Heuan. Errors—None. Runs
batted in—Stewart CD, Keltner. Coan.
Doby. Boudreau. Hegan, Peck. Two-base
hits—Mitchell. Keltner (2), Wynn. Doby.
Three-base hit—Stewart. Home run—
Hegan. Sacrifice — Boudreau. Double
plays—Christman to Kozar to Vernon.
Gordon to Boudreau to Robinson. Left on
bases—Washington. Cleveland. 12.
Bases on balls-—By Wynn, 4: by Paige. 4:
hy Masterson, 3; by Klieman. 1. Strike
outs—By Wynn. 1; by Paige, fi. Hits—
Off Wynn. 5 in 41* innings;.off Thompson.
.V in 1 "3 innings, off Masterson. 1 in 2
innings; off Paige. 7 in 7 innings; off Klie
man. o in 2 Innings. Passed ball—Early.
Winning pitcher—Paige Losing pitcher—
ThomDSon. Umpires—Messrs. Boyer, Pas
sarella and Rommel. Time—2:29. At
tendance—72^43^.__
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LEXINGTON, Va„ Aug. 4 <£>;.—
Jack I. Carper, former Roanoke
Times sport editor, has joined the
staff of Washington and Lee as di
rector of sports information.
Guldahl, Afraid to Fail
With Son Watching,
Sets Tam Golf Mark
By tht Associated Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—A high-pow
ered field in the $50,000 All-Ameri
can golf tourney today tried to catch
up with an explosive comeback
swinger, stoop-shouldered Ralph
Guldahl, 1937-8 United States Open
champion.
Guldahi ripped Tam O'Shanter's
rolling greens apart yesterday with
a 64—a record-breaking 8 under par.
Thus, mild-manner Ralph, who
tumbled from the headlines after
winning the 1939 Masters’, held a 2
stroke lead over Runnerup Dick
Metz of Arkansas City, Kans., in
the rich 72-hole medal play test.
Metz, with 33-33—66, was a stroke
ahead of a brace of 67 shooters,
Chandler Harper of Portsmouth, Va.,
and Elmer Reed of Atlanta, Ga.
In all, 34 professional contenders
and 4 amateurs, headed by Mike
Stolarik of Waukegan, 111., with an
impressive 68, shattered par 72 in
the get-away round of the three
ringed Tam fairways circus.
Babe Zaharias Paces Women.
in the third All-American divi
sion, the Women's Open, favored
Babe Didrikson Zaharias tapped a
4-under-women’s-par 72 to grab
the lead.
The Babe's performance, match
ing the course record, gave her a
4-stroke lead over Patty Berg of
Minneapolis, and two amateurs,
Grace Lenczyk of Newington, Conn.,
and Mrs. Eddie Bush of Detroit,
all with 76's.
Guldahl's surprising performance
was a sort of family contribution
| by the 36-year-old shooter from
Chicago's Medinah course,
i “You know, my boy, Ralph, jr„ is
| just 13, and all he knows about my
| past is what he has read in the
i newspapers—sort of ancient his
! tory,” grinned Guldahl.
"He breaks 80 himself and he has
been wondering just how good his
dad really is. He is watching me
! in this tournament, and I couldn't
I let him down.”
Record Is Worth $1,000.
Even if Guldahl fails to maintain
his phenomenal pace in today’s sec
ond 18-hole round, he has $1,000 in
the bank for breaking the course
record of 65 held by six players, in
cluding himself.
Guldahl shot a record-breaking
opening nine of 29 in the 1945 All
American, but his closing nine that
time was 36 for a 65.
Yesterday, he uncorked a sizzling
approaching game, missing only one
green from the fairways. Guldahl
banged a 5-under-par 31 on the first
nine and came back in 3-under 33.
Four strokes off the pace in the
pro battle for first prize of $5,000
was Herman Barron of White
Plains, N. Y„ with a pair of 34s for
68. Barron won the All-American
in 1946.
Seven pros were knotted with 69s,
including Lloyd Mangrum of the
host club, Pete Cooper of Ponte
Vedra Beach, Fla.; Dutch Harrison
of Little Rock, Ark.; Sam Snead -of
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Bill
Nary of Phoenix, Ariz.; Stanley
Kertes of Chicago, and Henry Ran
som of Ravinia, 111.
Press Club Linksmen
To Battle August 30
The golfing members of the Na
tional Press Club will hold their
annual tournament Monday, August
30 at Prince Georges Country Club,
Golf Committee Chairman Fred
Perkins announces.
Top prizes in the 17th annual
event will be the George R. Holmes
Memorial Trophy which goes to the
low gross scorer and Press Club
champion. It was won last year by
Frank Pace, director of the Budget
Bureau, who shot a 77 at Wood
mont.
The best part about the tourna
ment is that every contestant—
there were 70 last year— receives a
prize. Principal awards in addition
to the Holmes Trophy are the
American Automobile Association
Cup and the Press Club plaque.
The Steinem-Preston handicap sys
tem again will be used.
Perkins’ committee includes Jim
Preston, co-ordinator; Paul Wooton,
Sam O'Neal, Ed Jamieson. Merri
man Smith, Albert Steinem, Ray
mond Dickey, Dr. Yap and Joe
Short.
Five Football Dodgers
Join All-Star Team
By th« Associated Press
PLATTSBURG, N. Y„ Aug. 4 —
Brooklyn Football Coach Carl
Voyles lost the services of five star
players today when they left for
Chicago to compete with the College
All-Stars against the Chicago Car
dinals Aug. 20.
They are Bob Chappuis, Michi
gan halfback; John Wozniak, Ala
bama guard; George Strohmeyer,
Notre Dame center, and Ends Hank
Foldberg, Army, and Dan Edwards,
Georgia. The Dodgers will be with
out their services in exhibition
games at Buffalo, August 17, and
Montreal, August 19.
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press
Batting—Jack Wallaesa, White
Sox—Cracked a pinch hit single
in the 10th inning to drive in the
run that gave the Chicago White
Sox a 2-1 victory over the Phila
delphia Athletics.
Pitching—Satchel Paige, In
dians—Triumphed in his first
major league start, pitching the
Cleveland Indians to a 5-3 victory
over the Washington Senators.
He struck out six and allowed
seven hits in seven innings before
being taken out for a pinch hit
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Tommy Ryan, Oldtime
Ring Great, Dies at 78;
Held Two Crowns
By th* Associated Press
VAN NUYS, Calif.. August 4 —
Death has claimed another of the
ring's old masters. Tommy Ryan,
former welterweight and middle
weight champion of the world.
Ryan, who graduated from lum
ber camp brawls and fought through
the rugged turn-of-the-century era
when bouts went as long as 76
rounds, died or a heart ailment yes
terday.
He was 78. Anna, his wife of 58
years, was with him when the end
came at their home here.
Ryan was born Joseph Youngs,
jr„ at Redwood, N. Y., March 31,
1870, son of a French glass blower.
He left home early, changing his
name to Tommy Ryan, and headed
for the Michigan lumber camps.
Soon he was fighting in Detroit,
Chicago and other Midwest cities.
At the age of 21 he knocked out
Danny Needham, welterweight title
claimant, in the 76th round at Min
neapolis, February 16, 1891. It was
his longest bout.
Ryan caught up with the 147
pound championship on July 26,
1894, when he outpointed Mysterious
Billy Smith in 20 rounds at Min
neapolis.
He lost the crown on March 2,
1896, when Kid McCav knocked him
out in 15 rounds at Maspeth, Long
Island. It was the only time, record
books show, Ryan ever was stopped
in a career of nearly 200 fights.
By that time he had outgrown
the welter ranks and was tackling
and licking the foremost middle
weights.
He assumed the middleweight
crown by acclamation in 1897 after
Champion Bob - Fitzsimmons had
stepped up the ladder to dethrone
Jim Corbett as heavyweight champ.
For 10 ye^rs, Ryan met and de
feated the best in his class. His vic
tims included Jack ithe nonpareil)
Dempsey, Red Brennan, Jack Wil
kies, Jimmy Murphy, Mike Shaugh
nessy, George Lavigne and McCoy.
Most of his victories were knockouts.
Still generally recognized as cham
pion, he retired in 1907.
Ryan's left jab has been rated bv
ring experts as one of the sharpest
of his or any other era. His pld
friend, Ex-Heavy Champion Jim
Jeffries, once said Ryan "could have
kicked hell out of all the heavy
weights."
After his retirement Ryan toured
in vaudeville for some time with
Fitzsimmons. He came to Califor
nia 20 years ago.
Southampton Net Meet
Held Up by Showers
By »h« Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 4 —
The weatherman promised more rain
for today—in the form of scattered
showers—as the 58th annual Meadow
Club grass court Invitation tennis
tournament attempted to resume
play.
Second round singles matches
were on tap in the morning, headed
by a match between Top-Seeded
Gardnar Mulloy of Miami, Fla., and
Richard Savitt, East Orange, N. J.
Major Tenpin League
Will Meet Tomorrow
Plans for the 1948-49 season of
the Greater Washington Major Ten
pin League will be discussed at a
meeting of the officers and team
captains tomorrow night at 8
o’clock at the Bethesda Bowling
Center, Old Georgetown road, Be
thesda.
The meeting will be open to all
tenpinners wishing to bowl in the
league.
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Gerry Thomas’ Win
Among Surprises
In Junior Tennis
By the Associated Press
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 4.—
The national junior tennis cham
pionship tournament moves into the
fourth round today with four of the
11 seeded players on the sidelines.
Unheralded Gerry Thomas of
Washington, D. C., had a hand in
yesterday’s upsets. The Princeton
University sophomore knocked out
seventh-seeded Ernest Dubray of
San Francisco, 7—5, 0—6, 6—2. The
top surprise was turned in by Steve
Potts of Memphis, Tenn., who
dropped sixth-seeded Jerry Dewitts
of Vallejo, Calif., a semiflnalist last
year, 6—1, 6—8, 8—6. Top-ranking
Dick Mouledous of New Orleans had
to stage a big third set to remain
in the running, which he did by
squeezing past Dick Squires of
Bronxville, N. Y., 9—7, 4—6, 6—2.
Among others in the round of 16
is third-seeded Gil Bogley of Chevy
Chase, Md. He had an easier time
than most stars yesterday, winning
6—2, 6—1 over Ted Jax of Ham
tramck, Mich. Jack Yates and Ed
Weselv of Chevy Chase were elim
inated. Yates fell before Ray De
berry, jr„ San Angelo, Tex., 6—2,
6—1, and Wesely bowed out to Julian
Oates, Waco. Tex., 6—4, 5—7, 6—3.
The boys' division ran truer to
form, with Defending Champion
Bob Perry of Los Angeles leading
the advance. Tim Coss of Washing
ton won over Inman Fox, Nashville,
6—1, 6—1, and Ted Rogers of Chevy
Chase sidelined Ed Dailey, Harris
burg, 6—3, 6—3. Tony Bradford of
Washington was beaten by Don
Thompson, Jackson Heights, N. Y.,
6—3, 6—3.
Rams Open Grid Drills;
Shaughnessy on Hand
By the Associated rress
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4.—The Los
Angles Rams invaded the Loyola
University campus today to start
their ihonth-long training for the
National Football League season.
Coach Bob Snyder has 57 players
signed, including the largest con
| tingent of rookies ever invited to
(the Rams’ camp. From the rookies
he hopes to find replacements for
such missing standouts as Tom
Harmon, Jim Benton, Jack Wilson
and Steve Pritko.
The only newcomers with previous
professional experience are fullback
Jim Mello from Notre Dame and the
Boston Yanks, and halfback Jim
Hunnicutt from South Carolina and
the Charlotte Clippers.
Clark Shaughnessy, leading T
formation mentor, joins the Rams
staff as advisory coach.
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Maidstone Women's Net
Tourney Begins Today
By th« Associated Press
EASTHAMPTON. N. Y.. Aug. 4 —
'With the strongest field in recent
years entered, play was scheduled
to start today in the annual Maid
stone Club's womens invitation ten
nis championships.
With the Woodin Cup—one of
the few solid gold tennis trophies
in existence —the prize, the select
group is headed by Louise Brough
of Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Duquesne's Ace Basket Coach
Returns to Calm of High School
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4.—Charles
(Chick) Davies, a one-time steel
puddler who built a national repu
tation as a college basket ball coach,
has gone back to the comparative
peace and quiet of high school
coaching.
Davies resigned yesterday after
21 years as cage mentor at Du
quesne University to return to
Homestead High School. He had
coached there for three years dur
ing the war when Duquesne tem
porarily abandoned athletics.
"Intercollegiate basket ball com
petition is making excessive de
mands on my emotional and phy
sical energies," the balding 48-year
old coach said in his letter of resig
nation.
The rigors of travel and the ban
quet circuit also were cited by Davies
as reasons for seeking more peace
ful shores.
Duquesne officials who through
the years of stress and strain had
known the excitable mentor to "re
sign” more than once didn’t take
him too seriously at first. When
they found he meant it. they said
it was "not an easy decision” to ac
cept the resignation.
They added it "happened so sud
denly” they have no successor in
mind as yet.
Davies was working under a five
year contract which had three
more years to run.
He put the little "College on the
Bluff” in the spotlight with three
national championships and four
seasons with only seven defeats.
It is one of the bitter disappoint
ments of Davies’ life that he never
quite sneaked through a season
without a defeat. His 1932-33, 34-35,
39-40 and 46-47 squads suffered only
one setback each.
His all-time record at Duquesne
is 303 wins against 103 losses. Last
year the Dukes won 17 while losing
six.
a son-spoKen man on tne noor.
Davies’ excitability during a game
made him a choice target for heck
lers because any verbal barbs tossed
at him got a quick response. On
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the stands after his tormentors.
Davies became coach at Duquesne
at the ripe age of 24 with most of
his education in the school of hard
knocks. He had been a mill worker
and a professional basket ball
player.
Books G. U., Quantico
WILLIAMSBURG. Va., Aug. 4
iSpecial).—Among the games on
the William and Mary basket ball
schedule announced today ara
Quantico Marines here on December
4, Georgetown here on January 7,
and Quantico at Quantico on Febru
ary 14.
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