Evening star., 1933-01-01
ARRAY OF TALENT
AGAIN IS ASSURED
Amateur, Pro Leaders to Be
Glad If No Further Drop
Comes in Receipts.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, December 81
IN The rewards and deficits,
Y laurel wreaths and razzber-
rieS have been well diStri-
buted for 1882 in the world of
sport. Athletic leaders, amateur
and professional alike, face the
New Year with their fingers
crossed. They are hopeful, in
many cases even optimistic, of a
turn for the better, but their box
office preparations, calculated to
withstand the worst, do not carry
the weight of much conviction.
No matter what the competitive side
develops, there will be drastic retrench-
ment in every branch of sport. Ticket
prices will be slashed further, so that
even an increase in cash customers in
1888 may not mean greater revenues.
Professional promoters and college grad
uate managers alike will be satisfied IL
they are able to hold the lines against
further losses.
ID USINESS conditions fast are wiping
- out real or imaginary obstacles to
the reconciliation of old rivals in
college foot ball. The 1893 season in
the East, for example, will be marked by
the resumption of Cornell-Syracuse,
Dartmouth-P Princeton and Columbia
Pennsylvania relations. Harvard and
Princeton are convinced the earlier they
can heal their gridiron breach the bet
ter. Notre Dame, even during depres-
sion big money maker and the great
est attraction on the college gridirons,
tentatively has agreed to play Califor-
mia the middle of next December to
develop more revenue for both. The
Southern Conference has divided ranks,
with business advantages, among other
things, in view.
Non-profitable sports, such as college
rowing, will be especially hard hit, II
not temporarily eliminated. Some lead
ers, including those at Pennsylvania and
Syracuse, already have expressed doubt
about the expediency of conducting the
costly Poughkeepsie Regatta in 1893. A
years moratorium" on the Hudson, it
is felt, might solve a big part Of the
athletic budget problem, and the stew
ards of the intercollegiate Rowing AS
ISOLATION will soon be asked to consider
this emergency. Wisconsin has dropped
rowing, but the University Of California
at Los Angeles has decided TO take it
up the coming year.
THE United States Lawn Tennis As
l. sociation expects to finance an
other expensive Davis Cup cam
paign, however, and the Professional
Golfers Association already has the
money to send its team over to Eng
land late in June for the Ryder Cup
matches. On the other hand, it is
rrvl,n T1,-t4a to-
authorities will exercise their right to
challenge in 1888 for the international
cup. This competition was last held
in 1880 and is already limited to chal-
lenges every three years because of its
costliness.
There will be no SuperShow such as
| the Los Angeles OlympicS to stir popular
imagination or combine competitive ex-
ploits in one dazzling setting, but there
will be opportunities for plenty of indi-
vidual drama in 1888 nevertheless.
Ellsworth Vines and Gene Sarazen,
world champions at tennis and golf In
1882, will stake their crowns IN the
main events at home as well as abroad.
1t will be terrific shock to the home
guard If Vines doesn't lead a victorious
Davis Cup campaign next Summer in
the climax play at Paris.
The ballyhoo Is already on In full
blast for the heavyweight fistic sea-
son, during which Max Schmeling
should re-establish himself as the world
champion by whipping both Max Baer
and Jack Sharkey. The German Is the
best heavyweight IN the business now,
in the opinion of a big majority Of
experts, even though Sharkey Is the
official title holder.
Big league base ball will go to the
barriers in April after the biggest Win
ter shake-up in history. Some of the
minor leagues may not go to the start
ing line at all. And Babe Ruth NAV
have to take another $4,000 or $4,000
cut" His salary was only $4,000 for
1882, but everything will be all right,
ne says, II Col. Ruppert's breweries are
permitted to resume operations.
The new year should furnish plenty
OF opportunity for new talent. new kings
and queens of sport. The amateur
ranks already have lost such champions
as Babe Didrikson, Helene Madison, Ed
die Tolan and Paavo Nurmi for 1888
Jimmie Foxx has replaced Ruth as
the major league home run ruler, but
it Is never quite safe to count the Babe
out altogether Joe Cronin, youngest Of
the big league managers. has a golden
chance to lead Washington in a win
ming charge against the world champion
Yankees.
Younger golfers like Goodman.
Fischer, Mccarthy, Moreland and Howell
viii be keen to regain our nationanl
trophy from the possession Of Canadas
Ross Somerville. But it may take an
old master like Francis ouimet to turn
the frirk