Evening star. [volume], August 20, 1948, Page A-12, Image 12

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Cutting Weight Below 225
Big Worry of Skin Recruit
Bv Lewis F. Atchison
Star Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 —For
almost two weeks now Ed Quirk
has slaved like' a Turk on the
field and punished himself at
the dining table—taking only two
helpings—trying to slim down to
less than 225 pounds, w'ith no
luck. Each time he steps on the
scale the arrow hunts out that
figure as surely as a bird dog
scenting quail and it makes blue
eyed Mr. Quirk, now on the in
jured list, a very unhappy young
man.
"I can t understand it,” says
the rookie Redskin fullback, look
ing hopefully at his listener for
a clue to the solution. ‘‘I’ve
really tried to take it off, but 225's
the best I can do without cutting
off an arm or leg. And the
coaches think I should be
lighter.”
But Quirk has cause neither for
worry nor perplexity. The truth
of the matter is that at 23 he's
still a growing boy with a high
pitched voice and an appetite to
match. You look at his 17*.,
inch neck and No. 11 shoes and
figure he could take a couple of
gnarled, weatherbeaten wrestlers
and knock their heads together.
Wrap a Mack truck in a football
suit and you have a graphic idea
of his build. He'll get bigger,
too.
Quirk seems destined to be a
blocking back, although Wilbur
Moore has an idea he'd be a good
line bucker with more speed. To
speed up he must shed weight, so
he's in a quandary.
. Young Ed grew up in an at
mosphere so thick with sports
chatter his mother “is sick of
it." His dad, now dead, played
scmipro football with Knute
Rockne in Indiana and reversed
the usual procedure by becom
ing a college star after being a
pro, a not uncommon practice
those . days.
"He was a guard on the same
St. Louis U. team w'ith Bob Han
negan," Ed told us. “They
played against Notre Dame's
Four Horsemen, Red Grange and
some other pretty good m*n
of thht era. I think St. Louis
had a pretty good team, too.”
Quirk grew up in that trans
planted bit of Ireland in St.
Louis known as Kerry’s Patch. .
Like Washington's Swamppoodle
©f a by-gone day, corn beef and
cabbage w'as the most popular
dish and sports and politics the
favorite topics. Ed didn’t pay
any attention to the latter, but
he w'as busy in sports almost as*
soon as he could toddle.
"Soccer was the big game,” he
•said, "and we (St. Matthew's
Parochial School* won the grade
school championship every
year.'
At St. Louis U. High School
Ed, then a lusty youngster of
ED QUIRK.
230 pounds, was installed at
tackle, but later shifted to full
back w'here he won all-state
honors. On second thought, he
won a 11-State honors at both
positions.
When he arrived at the Uni
, versity of Missouri after looking
over a couple of bids from other
j schools, he started in at full
back under Chauncey Simpson
and immediately made good.
Tom Botts got him interested in
putting the shot for the track
team and Ed won the Penn Re
lays, Big Six Conference and
national intercollegiate cham
pionships.
Missouri was rated one of
the potentially top teams of 1945
and lived up to that by winning
an invitation to play Texas in
i the Cotton Bowl, but Quirk was
| inducted into the Army after the
-first four games .and missed the
better part of the season.
Overseas he was stationed at
Frankfurt, Germany, and got
a chance to play football
with the Headquarters Command
eleven that mopped u^ every
thing but the Air Corps Command
squad and won the ETO cham
pionship. Nor was his shot put
ting neglected, for Ed competed
in the GI Olympics at Berlin and
came off with the shot putting
title. The idea of competing in
the Olympics just completed
tempted him. but he figures he
was a couple of feet short of
being a real contender.
This summer, before reporting
to the Redskin camp Ed worked
out with Jim Kekeris, Philadel
phia Eagle tackle; Bob Callahan
of Michigan, who is going with !
Buffalo, and a couple of other
football players. But the work
outs were mild compared to what
he's getting now.
"They told me it was tougher
than college ball," he said, "but
I didn’t think taking off a couple
of pounds would give me this
1 much trouble.”
Rookie Fullbacks Hurt,
Skins' Sunday Game
Plans Are Upset
. By o Staff Correspondent of The Star
| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—The
Redskins' supply of fullbacks for
Sunday's intrpsquad game at Long
Beach was lessened by two today
as Trainer .George Bohler barred
both Ed Quirk and Glenn Barring
ton from participating. Coming on
| top of Harry Gilmer's loss, their
!absence takes even more punch out
1 of a game that had shaped up
; as an interesting contest.^
Quirk’s injured shoulder is re
sponding to treatment, but it will
be another week before he is ready
to resume the rough stuff. Bar
rington has an infected heel and
wasn’t able to even do setting-up
exercises yesterday. It'll be at least
a week before he's ready to go
again.
Their loss helped scramble Coach
Turk Edwards’ patched-up plans
even more, for the Tribe's chief of
staff wanted a look at both boys
; with jobs at stake. The Skins are
I carrying a surplus of 10 men who
! must be dropped before the league
opener next month and fullback
I seems to be one of the places where
j the axe will fall.
Break for Heftl.
j Quirk had been expected to put
| “oomph” into the attack and to give
a crowd-pleasing performance of
line smashing, the likes of which
Redskin followers haven't seen in
years. The big Irishman showed he
had it in the first two scrimmages,
overshadowing the veteran Sal Ro
sato, who himself is looking better
than ever.
Barrington hasn't caught the
training camp fans’ fancy like
Quirk, but the coaches like his speed
in getting to an opening and his
fleetness after breaking into the
secondary.
Their loss, however, is a break for
Jim Hefti, Cinderella man of the
backfield; Roger Dughi, the Ran
dolp-Macon ace, and George Wilde.!
Roy McKay also will help man the
position, but McKay's security for
the season is taken for granted.
The other three will have a chance
to show their ability and it won't:
displease Edwards if all of ’em per
form better than Quirk. But it will
surprise him if they do.
Trick Plays Work Well.
The Skins spent more than an
hour testing their blocking on passes
yesterday and, while far from satis
fied with the outcome, Edwards
thinks the throwers will have more
protection than they received last
year.
Clyde Ehrhardt, Floyd Lawhorn
and Bill Ray were outstanding on
defense. Both Sammy Baugh and
Tom Mont who did the passing had
a hard time connecting on stright
throws, but screen passes and trick
running plays used to cross up the
defense netted several long gains.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Mobile. ?.—4: New Orleans, 3—ft.
Atlanta, 6; Birmingham. 3.
Little Rock. 6: Memphis. 6.
Nashville. 7; Chattanooga. A.
Furci, McCoy Seeking
Midget Auto Money
An overnight revision has inject
ed new punch into the seven-event
midget automobile racing scheduled
for West Lanham Speedway tonight
at 8:30 o'clock.
Andy Furci, a big-name competi
tor from Rye, N. Y., has been se
lected to replace Tony Bopadies in
the starting field, while fiery Ernie
McCoy will supplant Walt Fair.
John Carpenter, originally sched
uled to make his Lanham debut, has
withdrawn from the competition,
but Ed "Dutch” Schaefer, Mike
Joseph, Fred Moore, Len Duncan,
Charley Miller, Len Fennelli and'
Dee Toran will fill out the Offen
hauser lineup
Furci recently created a .-.en'ation
at the Philadelphia Yellow Jacket
Speedway when he beat out one of
the finest fields ever assembled
there in the 25-lap feature and is
a consistent winner on other East'
ern tracks.
However, Schaefer, official speed
king at Lanham since 1946, and
Joseph, Toran, Miller. McCoy and
Duncan are top Eastern money win
ners who will be out to steal the
show.
Four Games Scheduled
For Johnson Loop Nines
Four games were on tap today at
Griffith Stadium in the , Walter
Johnson School baseball champion
ships. Cook and Thomas-Parkside
were slated to play at 9 a.m., while
Manor Park was to meet Rosedale
at 11. Takoma and Gas House Gang
were to oppose at 1 p.m., and Kelly
Miller and Bundy were slated to
face at 3.
In yesterday’s action. Cook beat
Thomas-Parkside in the 12-and
under B class, 14-5; Manor Park
w'ent two extra innings to down
Rosedale, 2-1, in the 12-^nd-under
A class: Takoma trounced Gas
House Gang, 10-4, in the 13-14 A
bracket, and Kelley Miller defeated
Bundy. 5-2, in the 13-14 B division.
Tying Run Made
As Lights Go Out;
Decision Held Up
»y the Associated Press
SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebr.. Aug. 20.— .
B. M. Diers, a member of the State
American Legion athletic commis-!
sion, scratched his head over a
tough one today.
It was the ninth inning of a
Legion junior night baseball game/
between Fairbury and Alliance with
two out. Alliance led 3-2. The Fair
bury batter struck out and the
Alliance catcher dropped the ball.
As the batter headed for first and
the catcher threw the ball, the
lights went out, When they came on, I
the runner was on first and the ball
in right field.
The runner went around to tie
the score at 3-all before the game
was rained out.
Diers has to decide whether Alli
ance won, the game was a tie, or
just to forget the whole thing.
Three Pin Loops Slated
To Meet at King Pin
Rhode Island Avenue Business
Men's Duckpin League that needs
teams with averages from 565 to
'575 will meet next Tuesday night
at 8 at King Pin.
Manager Hokie Smith also has
scheduled two other league meet
ings next week.
King Pin Low-average loop, com
posed of men or mixed groups with
averages of 535 or less, ^neets
Wednesday at R p.m., while King
Pin Mixed Doubles League holds its
session Thursday at 8 p.m.
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Fox-Colan Bout Here
Joe Vella, manager of' American
Light-heavyweight Champion Gus
Lesnevich, today advised Promoter
Goldie Ahearn that both he and
Lesnevich will be in attendance
Monday night when Billy Pox boxes
Johnny Colan over a scheduled 10
round distance at Liberty Athletic
Club's show/
Former World Lightweight Cham
pion Beau Jack and his manager,
Chick Wergeles, previously had an
nounced their intention of being
present to challenge the winner of
the other 10-rounder involving
Herbie “Biff” Jones and Sonny Boy
West, feuding local lightweights,
Vella yesterday assured Ahearn
that Lesnevich will box only for Lib
erty Athletic Club here and pre
dicted that Gus will win decisively
over Joe Walcott in their 15-round
bout at Jersey City on September 21.
Pox is to work out in public at
Liberty A. C. today and tomorrow at
2 p.m.
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Price Overlooks Rule in Golf,
Forfeits Chance in Tourney
By Merrell Whittlesey
Charles Price, this section's first
! alternate in the National Amateur
golf championship, will be notified
of his disqualification today and
ne will not be
I eligible to make
the trip even if
one of the four
qualifiers with
draws. And Price
has nobody to
blame but him
self.
For a fellow
who made part
of the winter
tour, has been
a golf reporter
for almost a year
and who has
played consider
able tournament
Merrell Whittlesey.
golf for his years, Price displayed
a complete ignorance of the rules
| in the sectional qualifying rounds'
' Wednesday at Five Farms in Balti-’
;more. He violated the preamble to
' the rules of golf.
On the 14th hole of the afternoon
round, Price broke his putter, after1
having putted poorly all day and
for the remaining four holes he |
borrowed a putter from Karl Corby
of Columbia, one of his playing i
partners. He. missed qualifying by
a stroke.
On Page 5 of the United States;
Golf Association's "Rules of Golf
for 1948,” the preamble reads:
“A player is permitted to use
during a round the clubs, not ex-i
ceeding 14, in his bag when he
started except that, without unfairly
delaying play and without borrowing
from an opponent or a partner or
a fellow competitor he may <1) re-1
place a club which becomes unfit,
for play and (2) add a club or clubs I
up to the limit of 14.
Penalty—Disqualification in both
match and stroke play.
Shame on you, Charley! It says
without borrowing a club.
I . --
Glenn L. Bream, a member of
Columbia Country Club, was re
ceiving congratulations at Fred
McLeod's party the other night on;
the initial success of his Gettys-;
burg, Pa., project, a new golf course.;
In July of last year, Bream en
couraged 28 Gettysburg business-!
men to put up $3,000 each for the
new course. The nearest golf course
at the tinle was 28 miles away.
Last week more than 1,000' per
; sons attended the official opening of
the new Gettysburg Country Club,
which includes a nine-hole golf
course and a swimming pool.
! Lew Worsham was the principal
attraction in a match between 12
: golf pros and- Lew stepped out and
| gave the members a course record
with a 3-under-par 67. According
; to Bream. Worsham was a bit hot,
'both at the stag party that pre
! ceded the opening and at the match
and opening ceremonies.
The club is a nonprofit, com
munity organization.
DIVOT DATA—Walter Romans,
Baltimore C. C. pro, refused to take
any credit for Roland MacKenzie's
National Amateur qualifying berth.
In a playing lesson the other day,
MacKenzie changed his grip four
times during the round (overlap,
baseball, etc.), after which Romans
told him “We're both wasting om
time.’’ .. . Eugene Pittman, who hro
been practicing for weeks in hope
of winning an Amateur berth, came
up with a lame back and was forced
to withdraw. . . . One of the Okla
homa qualifiers was Jack Donohue,
jr., former Georgetown golf captain.
. . . Tom Tausig, who through dili
gent practice at his home Manor
Club has developed into one of the
District’s most improved players
over the season, shot an all-putts
holed 68 the other day, 2 under
par and about 20 strokes under his
average score in the early spring.
He soon will be playing from a
scratch handicap. . . . The Maryland
State Golf Association has sent
notices on (1) a mined Scotch four
some at the Naval Academy course
September 12;' (2) a pro-senior
sweepstakes at Columbia September
13, and (3) the Payne Cup play for
women at Columbia October 5-6-7.
. i
Ball Club Wants Games
Virginia Avenue Playground ba.se
ball team is looking for games with
other teams in the 14-and-under
class. Call Coach Eddie Martz at
Ludlow 7042.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Indianapolis, 7; Kansas City, 5.
Milwaukee. 3 3; Louisville, 2.
Minneapolis. 5: Toledo. 4.
St. Paul, ft; Columbus, 1.
Woodmonf Golf Club
Bought by FWA for
Clinical Center Site
Purchase of the 115-acre Wood
mont Country Club and about 48
acres owned by G. Freeland Peter,
in Bethesda. was announced to
day by the Federal Works Agency.
The two tracts comprise the re
maining sections of land needed
for the site of the Clinical Center
Laboratory Building of the National
Institute of Health.
The club, according to the FWA,
will receive (600.000, while Mr. Peter
will be paid $505,000. A third tract
of 50 acres was acquired recently
from the Sisters of the Visitation
Convent for approximately $178,000.
A contract for construction of
the 13-story brick laboratory build
ing will be awarded soon by W. E.
Reynolds, commissioner of the Pub
lic Buildings Administration. Low
bid of $3,273,000 has been sub
mitted by McCloskey & Co., Phila
delphia.
Leopold Freudberg, vice president
of the country club, said that while
the Government will take title to
the entire property, it will use only
about 20 acres for the next two
and one-half years, during which
time the club .will continue to oper
ate at its present location.
He said this will leave the club
14 holes of its 18-hole golf course,
the clubhouse and tennis courts.
In the meantime, Mr. Freudberg
explained, the club will seek a new
site.
Bisons' Silverman Hurls,
Bats His Club to Win
Special Dispatch to Th« Star
BUFFALO, Aug. 20.—Aaron Sil
verman of Washington, D. C., is
one pitcher Montreal of the Inter
national League doesn't want to
see again in a hurry.
Silverman, hurling for Buffalo
last night, held the league leaders
to nine scattered hits and drove in
the winning run with a squeeze
bunt as Buffalo won, 2-1.
Pepperdine Gets Coach
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 OP).—
Leonard (Bud) Adams, line coach
at Drake University, has been signed
as freshman football coach and
chief scout at Pepperdine College.
Hippenstiel, Leavens Face
In Federal Tennis Final
Capt. Robin Hippenstiel, current
“Mr, Tennis” of Washington, and
Don Leavens, who is right behind
| him, will face each other for the
Federal employes singles champion
ship tomorrow at 2 o’clock on the
I Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
; courts.
In today’s action Willie Herbert
and Sosie Girg06ian were to battle
for the womens singles title while
the men engaged in doubles semi
finals. Hippenstiel and Farron were
slated to oppose Powel and Col.
! Andy Evans, while Leavens and
Adair were to face Curtis and Clif
ford.
Hippenstiel whipped Col. Evans.
6—4. 6—2, yesterday, while Leavens
downed Frank Dunham, 6—4, 6—4.
Norfolk Royals Victors
Norfolk Royals of the Negro
American Association /nipped
Greensboro Red Wings, 1-0, last
night at Griffith Stadium. Mario
Arencibia tripled to score Jerry Ben
jamin in the fourth inning with the
winning run.
Czechs Beat Mexicans
GUADALAJARA, Mexico. Aug. 20
The Czech soccer team Brati
slava defeated the Guadalajara
squad last night, 3-0.
Superman Going to Mat
Golden Superman will tangle with
former Champion Babe Sharkey in
next Wednesday night's feature
rassling attraction at Turner’s Arena.
Pimlico's Purses Cut
For Meet Starting
On October 29
By tK« Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 20.—Longer
distances and shorter purses will be
the order when Pimlico race track
opens for its fall meeting October 20.
The stakes blank book distributed
by the Maryland Jockey Club indi
cates the track expects a continued1
slump at the turnstiles and mutuela.
It has lopped $20,000 off four purses,
including the Walden Stakes.
Formerly a $25,000 affair for 1
year-olds, the Walden Purse has
been dropped to $15,000.
Other slices include the Exter
minator Handicap, from $15,000 to
$10,000, and the Lady Baltimore and
Heiser Handicaps, both from $10,
000 to $7,500.
Longer routes have been pre
scribed for four other races. An
other furlong has been added to the
Governor Bowie Handicap, which
was run at a mile and five last year.
The Riggs, which covered a mil#
and three-sixteenths, will be run
over a mile and a half.
Two steeplechases, the Battleship
and the Manly, have been jacked up
a half mile to 2la and 3 miles, re
spectively.
Wagering at the Baltimore track
last spring was almost $3,500,000 off
last year’s figure. The fall meeting
winds up November 12.
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