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fretting j£faf Jspofls Washington, D. C., Tuesday, November 1,1949—A—16 • w in, Lose, or Draw By FRANCIS STANN A Little Country Boy Reports The letter is dated October 24—a week ago yesterday—and the signature is T. A. McCrary, faculty, Georgetown Dnversity, and the theme . . . well, Army versus Notre Dame. Maybe the gentleman hasn’t got the right slant, but at least it’s different. “I am just a little country boy,” begins Mr. McCrary, “but I have had pretty good luck winning football pools during the past 15 years by studying teams carefully and disregarding comments by sports writers. “Every one is placing a lot of emphasis on Notre Dame this year. Yet Notre Dame has not been tested. Washington is one of the weak est teams on the Pacific Coast. Purdue and In diana are weak. Tulane hasn’t played a strong team, and almost lost to very, very weak Auburn. Yet Notre Dame is touted to the skies. “Look at Army. You have severely criti cized her, yet she has played a tougher schedule Frusta stun. to date than Notre Dame. Michigan and Penn 8tate are better than any on N. D.’s list to date. As for the future, N. D. plays no undefeated team—North Carolina, Michi gan State, Southern California and Southern Methodist ill having been beaten. 'He's on Leave, Said the Sarge “Army is playing two undefeated teams this year—Michigan and Penn. (Ed note: Sure was confident back on October 24, wasn’t he?) Notre Dame has and will be playing only one— Tulane. “I have seen Army, Michigan, Michigan State, Maryland, Penn, Navy and a few others this year. Army is as alert, smart, well conditioned and able as any team I have ever seen, including the great Army teams of 1945-1946. No stars now—just a good all around team. They would beat Notre Dame by two touchdowns." The gentleman closes on a note calculated to send shivers down the spines of all loyal Irish by saying, “Notre Dame will get its next test (Ed note: Didn’t he say earlier that N. D. was “not yet tested ’?) when they play Michigan State. They might get licked. "I suggest,” he concludes, “you examine your facts before you ballyhoo, and give credit where it is due. Yours sincerely, Tom McCrary.” A telephone call to Georgetown University verified McCrary’s status. “I think there’s a McCrary in the military department.” said the university’s operator. Sure enough, there was—Lt. Col. Them as A. McCrary, U. S. A. "He’s on leave,” said a sergeant in the department. “Think ha went out West, somewhere.” Army Should Rank No. I, He bays “Yet Army," pursues the relentless McCrary, “has already defeated one powerhouse after three years of victories (Michigan) and now must play Penn—undefeated and will be undefeated." (Oh, what that man put on paper! Bet he didn’t win any pools last week). “Why shouldn’t Army be the No. I team?” he demands. “Could it be prejudice, as usual? She has a tougher time to get up a team, less practice time, higher academic standards to meet, and is a small school (2,400). Yet you sports writers never give her credit.” In McCrary’s book, Coach Red Blaik can do no wrong. Says he’s the most scientific coach in the field today, etc. Then he twitches to sectional football, to wit: “Many others have discredited other Eastern elevens,”, he writes, “yet most good Eastern teams have been defeating Southern and Western teams. Examples: Army over Michigan, Villanova over Texas A. and M., Detroit and St. Mary’s; Pittsburgh over Northwestern, Virginia over Miami of Ohio, Navy over Duke. Tain t Guns, but Headline Writers Apropos of the hunting season, now in full swing, C. B. Lister, executive director of the National Rifle Association, sternly wraps the wrists of newspaper headline writers who "unwittingly are causing a semihysteria in their manner of announcing accidents In the hunting field.” ' Seems that in the first six days of the Colorado hunting sea son, Denver papers reported 10 deaths attributed to hunting. “If you read the fine print,” comments Lister, “you will see that half of those deaths were caused by heart attacks due to over-exertion. “Those are no more hunting accidents than heart deaths at the wheel of a car are traffic accidents. Yefc all over the country, deaths of any kind occurring after a man has picked up his gun and started for the hunting field are publicized as hunting acci dents. As a result of that sort of publicity, the hunting game is getting a terrific black eye in this country as a dangerous sport.” Actually, according to Lister, whose headquarters are In Wash ington, deaths due to firearms run about 2,500 a year, and approx imately half occur in the home. “Even if you call those 1,250 other deaths ‘hunting accidents,’ you’d have to figure the accident rate into the third and fourth decimal point when compared with the number of hunting licenses issued.” he says. “It’s much the lowest accident rate of any recorded category in the country." Pass me my 30-30, Junior, I’m a-going hunting. Birthday and Tough Games Put Age on Hoyas' Bob Margarita Georgetown's Bob Margarita is the country’s youngest football coach at a major college, but he’s aging rapidly. Tomorrow, for in stance, he’ll be 29 years old and after what happened to the Hoyas against Fordham last week he probably feels it. Also enough to make a man feel older than his years is the Villanova team coming here Friday night to play in Georgetown’s homecoming game. With all due respect to Mary land and Fordham, the two teams that have beaten Georgetown this season, the Wildcats could be the toughest outfit the Hoyas have faced this year. They’ve beaten Texas A. & M., Penn State, De troit, St. Mary’s, Duquesne and Boston College, mostly by healthy margins, and lost only a very close one to Tulsa. There’s no gray in Margarita’s hair yet, bat take another look on Saturday. Margarita still is shaking his head unbelievingly about that 42-0 Fordham affair last Satur day. "Actually,” he recalls, "it seemed to be a pretty even game except for that score. It was a funny thing, but our two teams looked almost identical. We had practically the same plays, we both used the same defensive set ups and everything else looked even. Except that scoreboard.” To cap it all, physically the Hoyas will be in their worst shape this week. Margarita isn’t the moaning type of coach, but he could take the list of injured players posted in Trainer Joe Kuczo’s office and almost make a good starting team. Sidelined have been such as End Jim Resch, Backs Johnny Preston and Johnny Hughes, Guards Bob For tunate and Paul Wintermeyer, Tackles Dick Imbomoni, Jim Ricca and Art Sheridan and Cen ter Tom Burde. Practically every one is a grade A player and most of them will be on the bench again this week. Most of the other players are banged up in a minor way, and BOB' MARGARITA. Margarita actually doesn’t plan even one scrimmage session this week. Nobody put on pads yes terday. Instead, those who were able to walk donned sweat suits and walked through defenses against Villanova plays and through Georgetown pass plays. Of those badly injured players, Preston seems most likely to be In top shape this week. He’s seen brief action on defense in the last two games and now appears ready ' to take his place on offense, i Hughes was injured last week and was left in New York over the week end, 11111 18 expected to return home today. His fullback spot will be shared by Lou Miller and Don Kitkowski. The latter has been used solely on defense up to now. Pro Basket Ball •y tW« Associated Frau Mosul ts Last Night. Mo games scheduled in any league. Sehedale Tonight. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Tri-City vs. St. Louis at Chicago. New York at Chicago. Denver at Indianapolis. McCarthy Ends Rumors, Will Pilot Red Sox Again « — _____. _—-— ■ - .......i . i — ...» Manager Renews His Contract, Will Manage Club for Third Year ■y the Associated Press BOSTON. Nov. 1.—The Boston Red Sox announced today that Joe McCarthy had renewed his contract as manager of the club, climaxing speculation whether he would return next season. McCarthy’s two-year contract expired at the end of the season. Owner Tom Yawkey and Gen eral Manager Joe Cronin told newsmen they were “very pleased” McCarthy had made up his mind to handle the team again. In 1948 McCarthy’s Red Sox were edged out of the American League pennant in a playoff game won by Cleveland and this year the Red Sox lost out to the New York Yankees on the final day of the season after having a one game lead with two games to play. Despite that disappointing fin ish an enthusiastic crowd greeted McCarthy upon his return to Bos ton and he told the throng: “I’ll be back if you want me.” Cronin later added that Mc Carthy could be Boston’s manager as long as he desired. During the past season the Red Sox, who had been picked as a pennant contender, were in sec ond division during much of the first half of the race. After July 4 the team surged forward and cut New York’s big margin steadily. During the club’s lean days it was questioned whether or not McCarthy would return. McCarthy managed some of the New York Yankees’ greatest clubs for IS full seasons and part of another. In that time the Yankees won eight American League pennants and seven World Series, losing only to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1942. Recognized as one of the game’s top strategists, McCarthy never played major league baseball, but was manager of Wilkes-Barre in 1913, piloted Louisville from 1919 joe McCarthy. through 1925, then moved up to the big leagues to manage the Chicago Cubs from 1926 through 1930. His 1929 Cubs won the Na tional League pennant, but lost a five-game series to Philadelphia. McCarthy won four champion ships in a row with the Yankees from 1936 through 1939 with such players as Bill Dickey, Lefty Gomez, Spud Chandler, Joe Di Maggio, Tommy Henrich, Charley Ruffing, Prank Crosetti. Lou Gehrig, Red Rolfe, Tony Lazzeri and Charley Keller. McCarthy’s Yankees won 29 games and lost nine in World Series competition. A. U. Opening Drive For Arena Fund A two-month campaign to raise $225,000 for American University’s War Memorial Athletic Center will be inaugurated tonight in “kick off night” ceremonies that will attract high-ranking military men and big names of the sports world to the A. U. gym. Harold Russell, national com mander of the Amvets and a dou ble Academy Award winner in moving pictures for his work in “The Best Years of Our Lives,” will be the principal speaker. The program starts at 7:30 in the gym. Cavalier Players Suffer From Chemical Burns *y*h» Aisocioted Prus CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., N6v. 1.—Painful skin bums handi capped most of Virginia’s regulars yesterday as the Cavaliers started practice for Saturday’s big test against Pennsylvania. Doctors said the burns appar ently came from a strong fertiliz ing compound sprayed on Scott Stadium prior to last Saturday’s game against West Virginia. Halfback Ralph Shoaf, one of the Cavaliers’ big ground gainers, was the most seriously burned. G, W/s Burak, Davis On List df Ailing Two more important George Washington players are on the ailing list today. Blocking Back (Quarterback) Stan Burak has a chipped shoulder and will miss Saturday’s game against Maryland, and Tail back Andy Davis has a heavy cold. Davis was confined to his bed today, but may be ready to play Saturday. READY WITH FREDDIE—Skyscrapers of the Washington Cap itols surround 5-foot-ll-inch Freddie Scolari (center, front) at yesterday’s Touchdown Club luncheon. Big boys awaiting to morrow night’s 1949-50 opener against Baltimore’s Bullets at Uline Arena are, from left: Chuck Halbert, 6-9; John Mandic, 6-4; Chuck Gilmur, 6-4, and Jack Nichols, 6-7. Colonials, Terps Plan Strategy for Tough Tussle Saturday By George Huber Bo Rowland, the George Wash ington University football coach, has been one of Maryland’s most ardent football fans recently. He flew all the way down to Raleigh two weeks ago to watch the Ter rapins in action against North Carolina State and last week he had an early reservation for a good seat high in Byrd Stadium for the game against South Caro lina. He saw enough to convince him that Maryland has a mighty good football team, but he can’t Joke about it because his G. W. eleven tangles with Maryland Saturday afternoon at College Park. Mary land will be a hefty favorite to end G. W.’s three-game win string, although many hope the score won't be as high as it was last year, when the Terps won, 47-0, as the schools renewed grid relations after a 37-year lapse. Any way, both teams buckled down to work yesterday. George Washington players looked at movies of last year’s game and; heard their scouts report on Maryland's strength. The report, was fairly complete, as the Colo nials had four men in addition to Rowland on hand for last week’s Maryland-South Carolina game. After that the Colonials hied to their Frog Island practice field to work on the defenses they hope will slow the Terps a bit. Among the missing was Tackle Jim Feula, who had a leg broken in the last play of Friday night's game against Lafayette. He was an important cog in the G. W. offense as the running lineman who pulled out to lead interfer ence for A1 Du Goff and other Colonial ball carriers. His place in the lineup was taken by Clar ence Dreyer. ii it s any consolation to tne Colonials, the Maryland player who did them the most damage last year now is missing. Quar terback Vic Turyn, who threw three touchdown passes, has been graduated. Also gone are Hubie Werner and John Baroni, who scored on long runs. Still with Maryland, though, are several veterans of last year’s scoring spree, such as Stan Lavine, whose 88-yard punt return for a touch down was the longest scoring play, and Elmer Wingate, Jim La Rue and Earl Roth, who caught touch down passes. At Maryland, Coach Jim Tatum also gave his squad a scouting report on George Washington— mentioning such as Du Goff, Andy Davis and Bill Szanyi in particu lar—and then the Terps took to the field for a workout. Missing from the drill were Bob Ward and Dave Cianelli, both guards. Ward was voted the out standing lineman in last week’s 44-7 rout of South Carolina. Yes terday he was in the University Hospital in Baltimore getting X-rays. He suffered severe chest bruises last week. Cianelli has a twisted leg and may not be in shape to play this week. Hockey at a Glance By the Associated Sms RMalts Last 'Nlrht. No tames In an; league. Schedule Tonight. NATIONAL LEAGUE. No games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE. New Haven at St. Louis. UNITED STATES LEAGUE. St. Paul at Tulsa. Kanaas Clt; at Louisville. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Presno at San Diego. Los Angeles at Oakland. New Westminster at Tacoma. Victor; at Vancouver. EA8TERN-AMATEUR LEAGUE. No games scheduled. 4ilB A#»v «*ui «un«c» V ■SMnSi«iiPMiSS«aNMfe^ Ax Ready to Fall Coaches' Jobs Are in Jeopardy At Eastern, Southern Colleges By Merrell Whittlesey If the athletic departments heed the fickle football fans, there’ll be some coaches’ heads chopped at the end of this sea son—if the fans can wait that long. Some of the local coaches and scouts were talking the other day about their less for tunate friends in the profes sion. At Braves’ Field in Boston, the Boston College crowds are singing ‘‘Good-by Denny, We’re Glad to See You Go,” to the once-popular Denny Myers. The Eagles have won one game. Before Wake Forest bounced back to drub William and Mary and Clemson, Peahead Walker was getting the same treatment after the Deacons lost four straight. Everybody figured Bill Os manski had a lifetime jbb when he took over at Holy Cross last season. But now after the Crusaders have dropped six straight they’re saying Bullet Bill won’t last out the schedule at his alma mater. The N. C. State fans were second-guess ing Beattie Feathers out loud as the Wolfpack dropped its eighth straight game to Mary land. At Blacksburg, the V. P. I. students and alumni barely can wait until the season is over to see what happens to Bob Mc Neish, whose Gobblers haven’t won a game in two years. And there’s reported to be great disappointment in Easton, Pa„ where the ex-Boston Yanks coach, Clipper Smith, inher ited some supposedly fine ma terial. Lafayette, which lost to O. W., 14-7, last week, has won only one of five. West Virginia has won only three out of seven to date, but a local scout who watched the Mountainers reports that Coach Dud De Groot, formerly of the Redskins, will forgive everybody and in turn expect forgiveness if he can win one game. You guessed it—over Jim Tatum and Maryland. The Mountain eers reportedly *r*> working on the Maryland game already. West Virginia meets the Terps at College Park'on No vember 24. The Mountaineers beat Maryland, 16-14, with a field goal in the last few min utes last year. Indiana’s 48-14 rout of Pitts burgh two weeks ago was re garded as one of the mysteries of the season, but for mysteries, how about Tulsa’s 21-10 tri umph over Villahova in the game that separates the Wild cats from an unbeaten season? Villanova plays Georgetown here Friday night. Tulsa has won two games, one over a school named Mc Murray by 27-26 arid the other over Bradley, famous for (its basket ball teams, but certainly not for football. Tulsa lost to ■ \AJ — i > " f ■•: • _ e ^^B | i B B V ■ I | t ^B t Detroit by a touchdown and Villanova beat Detroit by five. Tulsa lost to Florida by 40 to 7 and Florida beat Furman last week by only an extra point. Tulsa lost to Texas Tech and last week to Wichita. Yet Villanova. which has beaten impressively six major opponents, lost to Tulsa on Villanova’s home field. Kentucky, which was sup posed to beat Southern Meth odist two weeks ago and be in line for all kinds of bowl bids, may lose another one this week—to Xavier of Cincinnati. If it doesn’t, you can reach Chubb Connolly at his Silver Spring home or at the Federal Trade Commission. Connolly is an avid sports fan, American Legion baseball promoter, etc., who moved here 10 or more years ago from Cin cinnati. He spends the foot ball seasons singing the praises of Xavier, the University of Cincinnati and Dayton, claim ing it’s better football th%n the fans here realize, or better than they see. Several years ago when one of Georgetown's good teams went to Cincinnati and lost to “breather” Xavier, 14-6, Con nolly made a small killing. Last year it was the U. of Cin nati that knocked Tulane out of the Sugar Bowl, holding the Green Wave to a 6-0 score in the next to last game. Last week Kentucky only beat U. of C., 14-7. This week Kentucky plays Xavier and the latter is unbeaten, untied and was the first college team in three years* to beat the Quantico Marines. Trainer Is Suspended After Doping Inquiry By Associated Pros* BALTIMORE, Nov. 1.—Owner trainer Salvatore J. Cicero was suspended yesterday by Pimlico race tflack stewards pending a Maryland Racing Commission hearing of charges that one of his horses was stimulated. The horse, Rough Ordy, won the second race at Pimlico Friday and paid $45 for a $2 win ticket. The stewards said that tests showed presence of a drug (benze drine) . Cicero is a Baltimorean. His trainer’s license was suspended pending the hearing, which prob ably will be held on November fl. The $1,300 purse will be held up until after the hearing. Rough Ordy and five other Cic ero horses have been barred from racing until the case is decided. S.M.U.'MichiganState Climb Into Top Ten; Irish Still No. 1 By th« Associated Pr»*t NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Southern Methodist and Michigan State to day wedged into top 10 teams of the Nation, as voted by 161 sports writers and sportscasters in the weekly Associated Press football poll, replacing Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Southern Methodist’s Mustangs, 7-6 winners over Texas on Daak Walker’s placement, took over ninth position and Michigan State’s Spartans, who face Notre Dame’s powerhouse on Saturday, ruined Temple, 62-14, graduating to 10th place. Minnesota’s 13-7 loss to Purdue dumped the Gophers among the also rans and Penn’s 22-21 upset by Pittsburgh dropped the pre viously unbeaten Quakers into a 20th-place tie with undefeated Fordham. Notre Dame continued to roll up the scor* with 83 per cent of the first-place votes in the fifth weekly ratings. Nobody was close to the Irish who were ranked first by 133 of the 161 voters. It’s getting monotonous. Notre Dame in the No. 1 spot and the other members of the Big Four rushing along behind them. Army is second, Oklahoma third and California fourth, just like last week. The top four clubs cornered all but three of the first-place bal lots. Oklahoma drew 11, Army 10 and California 3. The others went to Michigan State (2) and to seventh-place Cornell (1). The total vote with points fig ured on a 10-8-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis (first-place votes in paren theses) : 1. Notre Dome (139)_1,590 2. Army (10) _1,323 3. Oklahoma (11)_1,308 4. California (4)_1.070 5. Michigan _ 625 6. Baylor _ 501 7. Cornell (1)_ 484 8. Rice 447 0. Southern Methodist _ 2«0 10. Michigan State (8).._ 240 The second ten—11. Ohio State, 2l8; 12. Southern California, 110; 13. Ken tucky, 75; 14, Tennessee. 57; 15. Iowa. 54; 16. Duke. 48: 17. Louisiana State. 38: 18. Boston University, 36; 10, Virginia. 34: 20, Pennsylvania and Pordham, each 28. Others receiving more than 1 vote: Santa Clara. 27; Tulane. 26; Pittsburgh. 23; Texas, 17; Minnesota. 15; College of Pacific. 13; Purdue. 12: North Carolina, 11; Wyoming, 0; Missouri, 7; Wake Forest and Maryland, each 6: Dartmouth, 5: Vanderbilt and Vlllanova. each 4; u. C. L. A. and Wisconsin, each 3; Alabama, 2. ■ BRAKESn RELINED WHILE YOU WAIT With the New Rivetlegg SAFTIBOND « «?-? • : The industry's newest end finest brake lining segments; pressure b'r.iici, *:ving mere friction, longer weer. No rivets to score drums. RIVETED SA50 «WHEELS LININGS TTw COMPLETE ^DFF ADJUSTMENTS FOR IlbL LIFE OF THE LINING HYDRAULIC PARTS AND SERVICE RELINED BRAKE SHOES EXCHANGED DRUM TURNING — ROAD SERVICE TRUCKS RELINED BT APPOINTMENT LAPP BROS. BRAKE SERVICE 1806 L ST. N.W. ME. 7040 Caps Open NBA Play Against Bullets, Old Rivals, Tomorrow By Bill Fuchs Under a new coach and in a new league, the Washington Cap itols will face an old foe tomor row night when they open their National Basket Ball Association season against the Baltimore Bul lets at Uline Arena at 8:45. This will be the fourth year of play for the Caps, but their first under Player-Coach Bob Feerick and their first in the NBA. The NBA was formed last summer by combining the National Basket Ball League with the Basket Ball Association of America as the end of a three-year war for stellar players and paying customers. The 29-year-old Feerick, cap tain of the Capitols in their pre vious three years of operation, has stepped into the coaching job va cated by Arnold (Red) Auerbach, who since has been taken on as assistant basket ball coach at Duke University. There will be some familiar faces showing up at Uline tomor row night. Feerick, Fred Scolari and Norlander have been with the Caps since the team first took the floor three years ago. Bones Mc Kinney also still is with the Caps, but Bones has a leg injury and will not see action for some time. Dick O’Keefe will be starting his third season for Washington, while Dick Schulz, former Balti more star; Jack Nichols and Leo Katkavec are back for the second time. Newcomen to Play. There will be some new mem bers seeing action. Joe (Slick Chick) Reiser, who started his pro career with Kate Smith’s Cel tics in 1934 and has been going strong ever since, was picked up by Feerick after Baltimore let him go. Reiser and Scolari got on each other’s nerves considerably last year. Chuck Halber, 6-foot-9 inch star who played for Boston and Providence last year; Chuck Gilmur, who came from Chicago in exchange for Kleggie Hermsen. and John (Moose) Mandic, who played for Indianapolis last year, are other newcomers. The NBA comprises teams and play will be divided into three divisions; Eastern — Washington, Balti more, Boston, New York, Syra cuse and Philadelphia. Central— Chicago, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Min neapolis, Rochester, N. Y., and St. Louis. Western—Anderson, Ind.; Denver, Indianapolis, She boygan, Wis.; Moline, HI, and Waterloo, Iowa. FREE THROWS—To get down to the 12-man player limit the Caps released young Ken Leslie, ^ West Coast amateur star. ... As Leslie did not participate in any league games his amateur statu* is intact. . . . Feerick still is 'fa voring a bad knee, injured In th* second-last game of last season. . . . The league playoffs will in volve the first four teams of each division—12 teams in all. .' . . They will begin in late March and finish—nobody knows. CARS PAINTED $35.95 BOOT -FENDER BENT WORK COHV. TOPS, *35-S? Mane ta Order—Installed Cphol.terj—Mats—Seat Corera TRUCK, STATION WAGON SEATS 201S L St. N.W. ST. 3687 VunHiaiii^ HERE IS THE LAST WORD IN GRIPPING POWER. 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