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Mr. Howster Writes
About Zombro’s Price
The public, that great guardian of other people’s morals,
is sometimes a little bit overzealous in looking for rotten
•pots in sports, and I cite a very flattering communication
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makes a bet and therefore, based on $2 bets there was only
approximately 975 in attendance. We also know that the
regulars bet more than $2 so, carrying out the argument
along that line, the attendance would dwindle to 400 or 500.
“It looks as though they are going to pay for the new
track at this first meet.”
My opinion, my good man, is «
that you have overlooked some
rather commonly known facts
in your method of figuring and
reasoning.
Horse and Position
According to my personal line
of logic, it makes no difference
whether the regulars at the
track bet $2 or SIOO, because
Much an argument as Mr. How
ster’s cannot be based on what
an individual bets, but rather
on what horse he bets it on in
what position.
As an illustration, let us take
the case at hand —that of
Zombro’s paying $590 straight.
According to the track authori
ties only three win bets were
made on Zombro, which made
the total output on Zombro
$1,770 on the win end only.
How about the second horse.
Mobile, which paid sl3 for
place, and the third horse,
Black Dreams, which paid
$5.50? Surely, plenty of race
fans wagered on these two
horses for place and show. If
they hadn’t, why, the mutuel
price on them would have been j
considerably higher, because in I
order for the track to pay such
prices the other contestants in
the race must be wagered upon.
Personally, I doubt if over
$5,000 was bet on that par
ticular race, as the event was
Notre Dame Head Confirms
Layden’s Appointment
CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (1.N.5.). —Rev. Charles O’Donnell, presi
dent of 'he University of Notre Dame, today formally an
nounced the appointment of Elmer Layden as football coach
to succeed Heartly (“Hunk”) Anderson and confirmed other
sweeping changes in the athletic setup at the university.
Father O’Donnell stopped off<
here en route to South Bend
from Rochester. Minn., where he
had beer a patient at the Mayo
Cilr-ie.
In addition to verifying the ap
pointment of Layden as head
football coach. Father O’Donnell
also announced that Joe Boland,
tackle on the 1924 team, now at
fit. Thomas University. St. Paul,
and Mai El ward, for several
years assistant to Noble Kizer at
Purdue, would aid Layden next
fall. Elward also is a former
Notre Dame player, starring on
the 1913 eleven.
Was Satisfactory
Father O’Donnell also declared
whatever action taken by Rev.
John F. O’Hara, acting president
In his absence, was satisfactory
with him. The Notre Dame presi
dent likewise verified the resig
nation of Jesse Harper, athletic
director, but did not indicate a
successor to that post.
Father O’Donnell added that
Rev. O’Hara had visited him at
Minneapolis two weeks ago, and
had discussed the changes.
It was reported today Father
O’Hara was to meet Layden at
Indianapolis this afternoon to ar
range final details of the appoint
ment.
During his brief stopover here.
Father O’Donnell admited he was
disappointed over the showing of
the Notre Dame football team
during the past season. It was
his belief, he said, that the squad
could have done better. He de
dared he watched the Pittsburgh
game and he felt that the Pitt
eleven played that day as Notre
Dune used to play.
Spoke Kindly
Father O'Donuell spoke kindly
° Forgets Many Bets
On Place and Show
Horses In the Race
make a sweeping bow and which I
shall try herein, more than ever be
fore, to merit.
He writes: "The undersigned has in
variably found that if one wants to
get the real lowdown on sports it is
usually found in your column. There
• fore, what is your opinion on the fol
lowing:
‘‘ln the second race at Charles
Town yesterday Zombro paid $590
for $2 to win and the official report
from the track states that only three
I $2 tickets were sold on this horse.
Now that means that only $1,770
I plus 10 per cent take or $1,947 was
[ bet on the race. Now we know that
practically everyone at the track
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quite an ordinary one and the
public will not get down very
strong on such contests.
Every hofse in a race gen
erally receives some backing
from the public, win, place or
show. I am confident that if
you really want the total
amount of money wagered on
the Zombro race, my friend
Mort Mahoney will gladly pro
vide you with that information.
He is the mutuels manager at
Charles Town and never re
fuses such information.
Data Is Available
From what I have observed
of Charles Town in the first
week of its operation, I con
sider the conduct of racing and
the handling of the pari-mutuels
as satisfactory as most of them
in Maryland, Kentucky and Illi
nois, and therefore believe your
closing comment as to their
paying for their plant at the
first meeting a bit hasty.
Besides, I happen to know it
has been financed over a term
of years and after all, if racing
is not conducted squarely there,
j or at any plant, fans like your
' self will be convinced of it first
and forthwith desert it. So far.
Charles Town has been far from
boycotted.
Have I, Mr. Howster, re
mained true to my tryst
no matter who it tyrannizes?
♦— —
of Anderson, however, and de
clared he was pleased “Hunk”
was leaving Notre Dame in a
“blaze of glory” following the
Irish team’s spectacular 13-to-12
victory over Army.
The Notre Dame president
breakfasted here with Dr. Deno
O’Connor, a friend, and then de
parted for South Bend by auto
mobile. After a short stay at the
school, during which the athletic
situation will have been com
pletely straightened out, he plans
a vacation in the South. Dr.
Walter McGuire, his personal
physician, said Father O’Donnell’s
condition was showing great im
provement.
HDRNETSSTART
AGAINST G. W.
DAYTON, Va„ Dec. 9.—Shen
andoah College, the up and com
ing little school in the Shenan
doah Valley of Virginia, will visit
Washington Monday to start its
floor season against George
Washington University.
All through the Valley in North
ern Virginia the townspeople have
been praising these “Hornets,”
whose athletic conquests during
the past few years have rivaled
the achievements of many of the
larger schools in the State.
With an enrollment of a little
over 100 students. Shenandoah
has not drawn any line among its
list of opponents and have shown
equal success among both large
iand small schools.
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BOUTONFOUL
There are many ways a wrest
ling bout can be decided, but
Gus Sonnenberg’s latest triumph
takes the cake.
Gus was trying hard to keep
Stanley Pinto from defeating him
last night at Joe Turner’s wrest
ling show at the Auditorium
when Pinto up and bounced his
toe right into Sonenberg’s
tummy.
Os course, the bout was
awarded to Gus as officials
ruled that Pinto had fouled. It
ended an orgy that had the cus
tomers yawning their heads off
because of the lack of real wrest
ling action.
The semifinal of the program
proved to be the most interest
ing bout. In this Rudy Dusek
defeated Scotty McDougal with
two crushing backdrops after 36
minutes of grappling. The fight
was full of action and had the
fans on edge throughout.
Wladek Zbyszko dropped a
decision to Big Jim Clinstock
after 9 minutes of twisting and
grunting. Vic Christy and
Charley Strack wrestled to a 30-
minute draw, and Eli Fisher won
over Kurt Gabriel in a 16-minute
bout to feature the supplemen
tary events.
PIRATESPLAYCUBS
Mike Goldman’s Pirates wind
up their gridiron activities tomor
row against the Georgetown Cubs
on Haydon’s Field at 2:30 o’clock.
The Pirates won the city senior
football title.
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Begins in Times
On Monday
Beginning Monday in The
Washington Times, Gino Simi,
Times bowling writer, will pen
a series dealing with the pio
neers of this popular indoor
sport. Simi, an acknowledged
authority on the game, was
voted a gold medal by the Na
tional Duckpin Bowling Con
gress as the country’s outstand
ing duckpin commentator last
year.
Watch for the first article of
this series. “Duckpin Makers,”
appearing in the sports pages of
Monday’s Times.
SATURDAY—DECEMBER 9—1933
Gus Dorais Praises
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Laydens Choice
By Alma Mater
DETROIT, Dec. 9 (1.N.5.).
Notre Dame officials made a
“very good choice” when they
selected as head coach, Elmer
Layden, former quarterback of
the famous Four Horsemen, in
the opinion of Charles E. “Gus”
Dorais, University of Detroit
mentor.
Dorais. a former teammate of
the late Knute Rockne, and who
also was mentioned as a possible
successor to Hunk Anderson,
would not comment further.
Dorais’ team this year lost but
one game and that to the Lay
den-coached Duquesne team.
Both Dorais and Layden coached
at, Columbia College, Dubuque,
lowa, following their graduation
from Notre Dame.
MILLING TRIES
VONREEDEN
A well rounded fistic card fea
turing a 10-round duel between
Varius Milling, slender Filipino,
and Charley Von Reeden. of the
rapier dukes, will be offered at
Portner’s Arena next Tuesday
night.
Milling recently startled local
ring addicts with a knockout
victory over Eddie Burl, return
ing later to lose a decision to
Pete Sarron. Von Reeden’s pre
formances have always pleased
District fight followers.
Billy Landers, the Blonde Buzz
saw. sent advance notice from
Norfolk last night that he is ready
for his eight round struggle with
Frank Nour Tuesday.
Three fours, of quality em
bellish the principal bouts. In
these Earl Wise, Baltimore,
tackles Mike Groves, Washington;
Paddy Ryan swaps punches with
Tommy Slaughter, and Jack
Quigley returns against Sailor
McKenna.
St. Rita Team Meets
Blue Eagle Eleven
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ Dec. 9.—
The St. Rita’s gridders close their
1933 campaign tomorrow on Hun
ton Field, playing the Blue Eagles,
of Washington. The Saints have
enjoyed a successful season, win
ning four games, losing two and
tying two. A banquet for the foot
ball players, to be held within the
next 10 days at the church-hall, is
being arranged by Manager Fran
cis Becker
LAYDEN TABBIES
FOB PABLEY
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 9.—Elmer
Layden. Notre Dame’s new foot
ball coach, was not with the squad
of Duquesne all-stars when they
arrived here today. Layden’s
assistant at Duquesne, Joe Bach,
headed the squad of 30 players
who will meet an all-star team
recruited from four western uni
versities here tomorrow.
Bach said Layden had stopped
enroute to St. Louis for a confer
ence. It was reported he was to
meet Father John F. O’Hara, vice
president of Notre Dame Uni
versity, at Indianapolis this after
noon to talk over his new assign
ment at his old alma mater where
Layden won fame as one of the
famous “four horsemen.”
The Duquesne all-stars will meet
an all-star team recruited from
players of Purdue, St. Louis,
Washington and Missouri uni
versities.
The game is for the benefit of
the boys’ club, a local organiza
tion.
FBATMSH
WITH BROOKS
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. fl.
Alexandria Fraters football war
riors will collide with the Brooks
A. C. of Washington at 2:15
o’clock tomorrow on Baggett’s
Field.
The Fraters will be hard hit
in tomorrow’s fray, as Hardy
Gensmer, big fullback, is on the
sidelines with a severe case of
charley-horse. Coopy Goodwin,
big halfback, also will be unable
to play.
Hearst Consensus All America
Football Team for 1933
First Team Second Team Third Team
Left End SKLADANY, Pittsburgh LARSON, Minnesota SMITH, Washington
Left Tackle CRAWFORD, Duke WISTERT, Michigan SCHWAMMEL, Oregon State
Left Guard CORBUS, Stanford SCHAMMEL, lowa HUPKE, Alabama
Center BERNARD, Michigan DEL ISOLA, Fordham OEN, Minnesota »
Right Guard ROSENBERG, So. Calif. JABLONSKY, Army STEVENS, So. California
Right Tackle CEPPI, Princeton HARVEY, Holy Cross JORGENSON, St. Mary’s
Right End PETOSKEY, Michigan GEISLER, Centenary MATAL, Columbia
Quarterback WABURTON, do. California MONTGOMERY. Columbia LAWS. lowa
Left Halfback.... LUND, Minnesota EVERHARDUS, Michigan PURVIS, Purdue
Right Halfback... FEATHERS. Tennessee BUCKLER. Army FRANKLIN, Oregon State
Fullback SAUER, Nebraska DANOWSKI, Fordham MIKULAK, Oregon
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Layden Resembles Rockne
In Everything But Bui'd
Editor’s Note—Following is an estimate of Elmer Layden. Notre
Dame's new football coach, written by a sports writer who had the
privilege of observing the work of the former member of the Four,
Horsemen during his seven' years’ service as head coach and athletic
director at Duquesne University, where he compiled an enviable*
record:
By HARRY KECK
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9. — Knute Rockne in the spirit will
coach Notre Dame’s footbball teams beginning next fall, with
Elmer Layden named to succeed Heartly (‘‘Hunk”) Ander
son as head tutor of the Irish.
Layden is a chip off the old
block or Rock, if you will.
He has all of the mannerisms
of the famous coach who handled
the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
when Layden was the fullback of
that immortal quartet back in
1924.
He doesn’t resemble his old boss
in build, being tall and slender,
but he has the same control over
his men, the same decisive ges
tures, the same incisive manner
of speech. He tells a story as
Rockne told stories, he commands
respect as Rockne commanded it.
Perhaps it is because Layden
loved his old mentor so well that
he has emulated him so much.
Today he is the walking image of
the beloved Knute in everything
but build.
Will He Succeed?
Will Layden succeed in the hot
spot which proved too tough for
Hunk Anderson, his friend, a man
whom he admires as a coach?
From observation during the
seven years Elmer has oeen coach
ing at Duquesne University, it is
my guess that he will. His coach
ing ability is unquestioined; he
has turned out consistently good
teams, with his product of this
year his masterpiece.
This 1933 team lost onl" to Pitt
by a 7-0 score in a great game.
It was a team which functioned
so smoothly that it drew the
warmest praise from scouts, who
pronounced it the slickest eleven
they had seen in action all season.
It was the only team to defeat
Detroit University, which trounced
Holy Cross. It defeated Bucknell,
West Virginia, and others.
As a result of its fine record,
it has been, selected to play the
University of Miami in the post
season tournament of the palms
game at Coral Gables, Fla., on
New Year Day, when Stanford
and Columbia will be battling in
the Tournament of Roses classic
at Pasadena, Cal.
Could Handle Men
One of Rockne’s greatest as
sets as coach was his ability to
handle men. Another was his
tact or diplomacy in any
emergency. Anderson’s main
fault was said to be a lack of
tact in handling his players;
stories of internal dissension
would appear to bear out this
point.
Layden has proved himself a
diplomat. He is the master of
his team. When he commands
the players jump. There is that
Rockne touch, that ringing
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Notre Dame will come back
[ under the happy choice of Lay
, den as coach and athletic direc
: tor. He is an organizer and a
' director.
The Irish began their rebound
. in the final quarter of the Army
’ game which finished their most
’ disastrous season. Layden may
be depended upon to capitalize
L the psychological effect of that
’ game-winning rally from the
1 abyss of defeat.
' Elmer Layden appears to be
• the correct answer to the mo
-1 mentous question:
“Where will Notre Dam get
another Rockne?”
MAGMEMAINS
MUM ON DEAL
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 9 (1.N.5.).
Connie Mack, veteran manager of
the Philadelphia Athletics, today
declined to comment on the an
nouncement of Frank J. Navin,
president of the Detroit Tigers,
that Mickey Cochrane, the A’s
star catcher, will manage the
Tigers in 1934. He says:
“I have no statement to make
at this time about Cochrane or
any of my players. I’ll be in
Chicago on Tuesday when the
baseball meeting opens, and
I’ll probably have a statement
to make Tuesday night.”
TINIES “HERALD
FIVE TO PLAY
ALEXANDRIA, Va.. Dec. 9.
Times-Herald basketball quint
will open its season here Wednes
day night, meeting the Western
Flashes at the Armory.
Johnny Travers, manager of
the local champions, would like
to hear from the Ennis Tire
Company, Army War College,
St. Martin’s, Georgetown A. C.,
Washington Boys’ Club, Peck Me
morial and other leading 130-
pound quints lor games here or
in Washington. Phone Travers,
Alexandria 2055, between 3 and
4:30 o'clock.
210 EXPERTS
POLLED FOR
VIEWS
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Picked
after a close, all-season survey
by 210 of the country’s outstand
ing coaches, sports writers, foot
ball officials and observers, the
Hearst consensus all-America foot
ball team presented today ranks,
in the opinion of its selectors
and gridiron experts, as the
cream of the 1933 football crop.
From end to end it shows a for
ward wall fit to clash with any
that could be set up against it.
At left end, Skladany of Pitt is
held the choice of virtually all
those voting on the make-up of
the team. The Panther star was
chosen for national ranking by
nearly everyone who saw him in
action this year. Powerful, sixart
and shifty, he is eminently fitted
for one of the wing posts. The
other goes to Ted Petoskey, of
Michigan, a wingman who has
proved himself on what many
observers regard the strongest
team in the country.
Crawford Named Tackle
At the tackles are Crawford,
of Duke, and Ceppi, of Princeton.
The latter’s fine work through
out the season, but particularly
in the Yale game, where he shone
on the attack and proved him
self invaluable on defense, gave
him the call.
Corbus, Stanford's great guard
whose name has dotted most of
the selections of the mythical na
tional elevens, is picked as one of
the best the West Coast has pro
duced in several seasons and hold
ing down the same spot on the
other side of the line is Rosenberg,
of Southern California, and a
“natural” for the job.
At center, Bernard of Michigan
is picked as a fit successor to a
long succession of Wolverine stars
who have held the keystone job
and proved themselves in it.
Equal to Any
Selection of backs for a national
team is always a ticklish job but
the consensus all-America ' "t
stands out equal to any »
tion, if not a bit superi. ui
the standpoint of brainy, uccep
tive play.
“Cotton” Warburton, heady
field general and scintillating
broken field runner of Howard
Jones’ Southern California aggre
gation, gets the call for quarter.
His selection was virtually unan
imous, although Cliff Mont
gomery, Columbia’s dashing leader
who will marshal the Lions
against Stanford in the Rose Bowl
clash, was a close second in the
choice of the eastern selectors.
At left halfback is the slashing,
pounding “Pug’’ Lund, of Min
nesota, coupled with Feathers,
Tennessee’s plunging ace who has
stood out in the southern sector
for the past three years.
Sauer at Fullback
Sauer, of Nebraska, a powerful,
heady, brilliant back, gets the call
for full. Bulwark of the Big Six
champions this year, Sauer was
almost impossible to stop, and a
defensive back unmatched by any
one in the country, in the opinion
of many.
The second team is scarcely
inferior, with Des Isola, Ford
ham’s great roving center;
Harvey Jablonsky, Army’s bril
liant guard; the flashing Mont
gomery; Ed Danowski, premier
kicker and smart plunging back;
Geisler, an outstanding wingman
in the Southwest, and Schammel,
of lowa, rated “tops” in the Big
Ten—which is “tops” anywhere.
Since its inception half a dozen
years ago, the “consensus All-
America” has come to be re
garded by coaches and football
fans as the choice selection of the
country.
Balloted at Season’s End
The balloting for choices was
not ma le on the basis of a game
or two, or on sectional brilliance.
Everyone casting a ballot for the
team saw all his selections in
action against major opponents,
and in at least one intersectional
clash. And not until the season
was ended was the balloting
started, precluding the chance of
a national eleven featured by
choices from erstwhile leaders
who suffered upsets in this sea
son of so many upsets.
Navy Netmen Card
Thirteen Opponents
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 9.— A
tennis schedule of 3 matches has
been announced at the Naval
Academy, all but that with Colum
bia to be contested here. The Navy
will also send a team to the finals
of the Intercollegiate Fencing As
sociation, the time and placf of
which are to be arranged.
The schedule —April 7, Haverford: 14.
University of Maryland; 18, Johns Hop*
kins; 21, Georgetown; 25. Lafayette. 28.
Columbia (at New York city); May 2.
University of Virginia: 5. University of
North Carolina: 9. Duke. 12. University
of Pittsburgh K. Washington and Jef
fere on. 19. Pennsylvania State, 2s. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.