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Evening star., 1933-10-11
STAGG FINDS COAST
RATES HIGH ON GRID
Measures Up to Big Ten and
East-St. Mary's Displays
Great Man Power.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
= TOCKTON, Calf, October
~ 11.-W e stern foot ball
~ measures up to the best
traditions of the game, the
veteran coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg,
declared today, adding that in
some respects it was superior to
the gridiron play to which he
was accustomed during his 40
years at the University of Chicago.
Stagg, grand old man of foot ball, ="
now coaching at the College Of the Pa
cific here, said:
Certainly there is no team in the
Big Ten conference that has the man
power that St. Mary's showed last Sat-
urday in the California game. Cali
fornia and Stanford also have some
magnificent physical specimens. I didn't
get near the players on the field but
when I read of men weighing 225
pounds and saw them move on the
field. know that they were fine stuff.
There is no question but that the
leading Pacific coast teams will meas
ure up to those in the Big Ten or
in the East. would say that the West
ern teams are q little further advanced
at this stage of the game.
.."HERE was not much fumbling in
the St. Mary's-California game
and both teams handled the
ball we'll st. Mary's was good with its
wide stuff early in the game and Cali
fornia opened holes in the line. Coach
Bill Ingram's attack was we'll conceived
from the standpoint of strategy. He did
not use many plays but they were well
done.
Coach Slip Madigan played the
Notre Dame attack very effectively. My
observation of the Notre Dame system
has been largely through its use by
Purdue.-I would say that Madigan's
team depended heavily on strong side
plays, while Purdue's attack is more de-
veloped on the weak side.
'The best forward passing Is that
which grows naturally out Of the run
ming attack. Both st. Mary's and Cali
fornia had it."
Coach Stages only criticism Of West
ern football, although he hardly put
it strong enough to be a criticism, was
that the officials are not quite as strict
as they are in the East with regard to
inflicting penalties for piling on.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Sophomore Deuces Running Wild in Big Ten Grid Pack
Iowa Chicago Leading

have shown under fire they are more
than ready to step into fast COM
pany without a shudder.
Singularly enough Wisconsin,
where the dearth of ranking hold
over talent was one Of the most de-
pressing in years, has not found
much room for sophomores.
Tackle John Golemgeske is Dr.
Clarence Spears one outstanding
soph-yet the Badgers did well
enough in their opener against
Marquette to indicate that another
surprise, such as he achieved with
q third-place team last Fall, may
not be out Of the question.
Northwestern, where the yearlings
of skin were supposed to be most
abundant, really has 'efn, despite
the Iowa reverse. But Chuck Hajex
at center and Irwin Kopecky at
tackle have outshone the flock. Of
well-advertised purple sorhomore
backsA
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and Chicago. at present are leading
the league in the matter of newly
found grid talent.
The Hawkeyes, unveiling Soph-
omore Dick Crayne, among others,
already have checked in with a con-
ference win over Northwestern and
an impressive practice game triumph
over Bradley, $50.
And Chicago's two highly pub
licized newcomers, Jay Berwanger
and Ewald Nyquist, more than did
their part in by far the most clean
cut Maroon opening game in q
decade, when Cornell College OF Iowa
was brushed aside.
For several years midway teams
have been just getting by"-even in
their openers with minor foes-but
Coach Clark Shaughnessy'S first ag-
gregation looked like real "big uni
versity'' stuff In pushing over the
Iowa collegians. 40.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Mich-Seal Harris, 1856,
Chicago. outpointed Willie Davis, Chi
cago (3); Seal Harris knocked out AL
bert North. Pontiac, Mich. %; Seal
default; Johnny Stroppa, 1873, Winni-
peg, Canada, knocked out Tommy
Meeking, 139, Windsor, Canada a..
INDIANAPOLIS Tiger Roy Will
(Kid) Baker, 157, Indianapolis G0) !;
Paul Lee, Indianapolis, stopped Tony
Conger, New Orleans a..
DENVER, Colo. - Baby Joe Cans,
New York, knocked out Jackie Purvis,
Indianapolis (6).
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Meanwhile Purdue universally re-

Meanwhile Purdue, universally re-
garded as the 1888 "powerhouse"
Of the conference and consistently
near the top for a half dozen sea-
sons, had to be content with a one
touchdown margin over potent lit
tie Ohio University.
Experts have been limiting "this
will be q sophomores' year" in the
Big Ten all through preseason
analyses, and early results seem to
bear them out.
Iowas new backfield has two
other newcomers, Dwight Hoover
and Russ Fisher, destined to share
some Of Cravn's glory, WHILE Guard
Bill Secl and Tackle Lloyd Hoffman
are other sophomore bootstrap lift
.ers Of Ossie Solem's revived Hawks.
Illinois Les Ltndberg, Minnesota's
Sheldon Beise, Indiana's Wendell
Walker and Ohio's Dick Heekin are
other sophomores, all backs. who
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entirely. Certainly no rule should re-
main in the code If not even a pretense
OF enforcement Is to be made.
T. JOHNS may make a fairly

OF. JOHNS may make fairly good
showing against Catholic Uni
versity Saturday at Brookland.
The Annapolis eleven is made up of big
men and they did well in a practice
game with c. U. last Spring.
st. Johns Is familiar with Catholic
US style Of play and should not be
bothered by that any more than by any
other style that Coach Dutch Bergman
might employ. The Brooklanders,
though, should be favored to win with
out good deal of trouble. They have
more difficulty than they anticipate,
though, with the st. Johns tackles.
NAVY meets its first real test of the
~ year at Pittsburgh Saturday. 1t
is the first of several big hard
games and If the Sailors come through
creditably the result should do much to
build up their morale for the remainder
of the season.
Perhaps it would be better to say to
sustain their morale because it Is doubt
full if any other Navy squad In years
has been more optimistic or had bet
ter morale than the present.
However. in meeting Pitt too much
should not be expected of Navy. It win
be against an older and more expert
enced eleven, and it takes good deal
to overcome those two factors, although
sometimes 1t Is done.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
THWARTS DEADHEADS.

A newcomer to intercollegiate foot
ball. Northeastern University finds it
self beset by unexpected problems. One
of the most serious, however, already
hac been solved. When the Engineers
played their first game last week, 500
residents of the neighborhood peered
out their windows and saw the game
without financial outlay. A high canvas
wall, just erected, is Northeastern's
comeback.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
PIN STARS TO GATHER
National Capital League Twin Bill
Gala Occasion,

Most of the city's top-ranking bowl
ers will perform at the Lucky Strike
Friday night when four matches are
slated in the National Capital League.
Book of Washington, loop leader,
meets the Lucky Strike BARRIERS and
Judd & Detweiler and the Silver Spring
Skating Rink quint, which rolled q
3,288 set in Baltimore last week, en-
cages Temple Hand Laundry and Far
mans.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
ENVOI.
Oh ledDe us some illusions, friend,
For, say that they are so,
Hon. many other humans lend
A thrill tChile making dough?

Murray and a flock of fast, hard run
Just about the same situation exists
in regard to TennesSee's invasion OF
Duke territory at Durham, where they
expect 10000 on Saturday. Tennessee
has been named as one of the powerful
teams of the South, with strong line
and two star backs in Feathers ana
Bracket.
But it might be suggested here
that Wallace Wade has an i'm
proved Duke team dll set for dc-
tion, pith a line Just about as
good as TenneSsee's, and num-
Der of good backs.
Tennessees foot ball record is amaz-
ing. As 1 recall the details, Tennessee
has lost only two games in seven years.
And these last seven foot ball years
have been no rose-tinted seasons for
anybody The team is up to past STAN
dards this Fall and it will be largely
question of whether Duke can stop
Feathers and Bracket, two outstanding
men.
Tennessee's next rough test will be
against Alabama a week after the Duke
game These two battles will show
Tennessee's place in the Southern foot
ball sun beyond any argument.
Vines as a Pro.
TTOW will Ellsworth. Vines look in
pro ranks? The ex-champ wasn't
the tennis player in 1888 that he
was in 1881 and 1882.
He figures that 10 months of almost
consecutive tennis plus mental entangle-
ments set him back and that good
rest will have him back where he used
to be-ready for all comers.
Whether Vines at his best
could beat the Tilden Of today Is
guess. 1 doubt it.
believe the Tilden of 1888, after
more than 20 years of tennis, could
have beaten any man at Forest Hills in
the amateur championship in a five-set
match. doubt that Tilden could have
gone through a weeks hard play, how
ever.
Vines has been one Of the most inter-
esting tennis studies for the last two
years. His first appearance in the pro-
fessonal lists will carry on this interest
unless he finds himself unable to re-
gain his old form.
(Copyrisht. 1893. by North American News
paper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1933-10-11
PASSERS HAVE JOB
IN PRO GRID DEBUT
Newly Organized Local Eleven to
Play World Champion Chicago
Bears Here Tonight.

TAJOR league pro foot ball is
lV slated for Griffith Stadium to-
night when the newly organ
lied Washington Passers engage the
Chicago Bears, world pro champs last
year and who are led by the famed Red
Grange, former Illinois galloping ghost.
Play will begin at 8:15 O'Clock. The ad-
mission charge is 81.
Johnny Fenlon from George Wash
ington and Jimmy Bankhead from
Texas are the big noises in the Passers'
backfield and other former college lumi-
naries are expected to help the District
Of Columbia team no little. A formid-
able forward wall also has been as
sembled, among the linemen being
Pease and Zulick from Maryland and
Mulvey, Slaird and Blackstone from
George Washington.
Probable line-upS:
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c. " Gets Break in Success Future Crdion Hottest Middle Yves
Mat Matches.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associate Press.
NEW YORK-Jim Mcmillan, 223.
Chicago. drew with Sol Slagel, 232, Ger
many, $500. (Halted by II o'clock
law
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Everett Mar
shall, 220, La Junta, Colo, threw Frank
Brunowicz, 220, New York, 22:00.
ST. LOUIS.-Ray Steele, 2l5. Glen
dale, Calf, threw Gino Garibaldi, 2l4,
st. Louis, Al 100.
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Substitutes.
Bears-2. Nesbitt .Drakel; 4, Molesworth
(Monmouth); 5. Corbett tMillikenl; q. Ron
Zani tMarquette); 10, Manders minnesota;
10. Musso (Milliken); 10. Tackwell kansas
Stated 27. Doehring Qllinois); 20, Kopcha
(Chattanooga): 56. Hewitt (Michigan);
Smith tOhio State).
Passers-1. Diaz (Quantico); 2. Lawrence
(Western Maryland; B. Leventhal Brook
lyn Dodgers); T. .Stipe tBeloiD; s.. Wells
lMaryland;, 9. Haines tTexas Tech); ..
IL. Galloway George Washington); . 13.
Ingham George Washington); II. Gurneau
North Carolina State); 10. Lee (Oklahoma); /;
(Nebra Ska).
Referee-Paul Magofdn (Michigan). Um-
pire-Paul Mention CLoyola). Linesman-
Jonas Ingram Navy. Timekeeper-Dick
Daniels (Georgetown).
Evening star., 1933-10-11
SCENE OF FIVE BIG >
BATTLES SATURDAY.
Three IntersectionaI Gamest
Two Big Ten Scraps On. \
Trojans Advance.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, October liz
M it's competition that foot
l Y ball fans want, a trip into
the Middle West might be
advisable this week. No other
section of the country will be so
literally endowed with outstand.
ing games although the South
will not be far behind.
The Corn Belt" program is headed
by three prime intersectional duels-
Stanford's clash with Northwestern at
Chicago, Cornells joust with Michigan
at Ann Arbor and vanderbilt's sally
against Ohio State.
Then there will be q pair OF Big Ten
struggles, Purdue and Minnesota and
Wisconsin and Illinois; Notre Dame'S
second start. this time against Indiana,
and two Big Six contests. the one in.
volv1ng Nebraska and Iowa State, the
other between Kansas State and Frank
Carideo's hapless Missouri Tigers.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Bill Jones on Trial,

4 LTHOUGH it is topped in general
n interest by such battles as Duke
Tennessee, Auburn Georgia Tech
and Georgia North Carolina, louisiana
States's clash with Centenary's Gentle
men will be watched closely by South.
eastern Conference members, anxious
to determine just how sturdy team
Bin Jones has succeeded In building at
Louisiana. The Baton Rouge outfit so'
far has bowled over Rice, 1870. and
Millsaps, 400, but Centenary should
offer sterner test
The Gentlemen were undefeated last
year, beating Louisiana State, 60, and
turning back three Southwest Confer-i
ence members-Texas, Southern Meth
od1st and Texas A. and M-before Ar
kansas held them to q scoreless draw
In their final game. Centenary has won
its hrst three games this season by
comfortable margins, the last a 1870
conquest Of Baylor, another member of
the Southwest Conference
Evening star., 1933-10-11
THE SPORTLICHT
FEET OF CLAY?
BY GRANTLAND RICE

FEET OF CLAY?
"Those heroes ,rinning such hooray-
Why did you cheer them so?"
A cynic said to me today,
They got their chunka dough-"
They're thinning fame and riches. too.
For one, I'm nothing 10th,
Upon these days of deepest blue,
To cheer them all for both.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Trojans Keep Steppin'.

wv 1al1ng by the WayStde In droVnh
Southern Calfornia's Troja6S
continue their all-conquering sweep il
SO impressive fashion as to indicate
that 1t will be tho Trojans against the
field for the mythical national cham
pionship. Developments later may force
q revision. Southern California has
scored 141 points against none for the
opposition In the first four games. but
St Marys. Oregon State, California,
Stanford, Oregon, Notre Dame, Georgia
and Washington Lie ahead.
Eastern interest this week VIII be CEN
tered at Pittsburgh, where the Pitt
Panthers meet Rip Millers Navy eleven.
Preseason calculations pointed to Pitt
as one OF the country's major gridiron
powers again, but that remains to be
proved in competition. Navy, much
improved, may provide the answer to
the riddle.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
DANCE AT INDIAN HEAD.

Indian Head Cardinals hold their Fall
dance Saturday night in Iaskey High
School at Indian Head.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Paulo1od ol,pdys got her tee.
She didn't pass 1t by,
And Hubbell o,Dns an artistry
He prizes just as high.

Aud that applies right dotrn the list
to eu'ry merry Giant;
From ledd-of Moore to, insist,
The Cuu that should be "ridnt."
Evening star., 1933-10-11

Sophomore Stars
w WIEN Princeton uncovered q
\A/ number of good looking
w sophomore backs last Satur-
day, there was a reminder
of the number of young soph stars who
have been vital factors this season up
and down the field.
In this list one must include Peter
son Of Kansas who annoyed Notre
Dame so steadily at South Bend-Bur-
wanger of Chicago. rated as one of the
stars of the year-Crayne of Iowa, who
had Dick Hanley's startled Wild Cats
at Northwestern clawing in vain at
tempts to impede his progress-Gray-
son of Stanford, rated with rare prom
ise-Fuller of Yale-Lane of Harvard
-BarabaS Of Columbia, one OF the best
of the lot-Pilney and Elsor Of Notre
Dame
All of which recalls the time
q young sophomore back by the
name of Red Grange ran q good
Michigan team out of breath in
the first quarter.
There may be no Red Oranges in
the ofing, but few seasons will show
any better sophomores than Crayne
Peterson, GraySon and Barabas.
And it might be mentioned, to fore
stall any swirl of indignant protests
that this list was not supposed to in
clude all the able sophomores in the
land There are many others, South
East and West, who will be heard from
in louder tones later on.
Pitt-Navy-Duke- Tennessee.
Panther, unbeaten
in the East this Fall, has been
ranked with Fordham, Colgate and
Columbia as one of the four strongest
teams in the Eastern sector.
We will know more about this Satur-
day night after the Navy game. Rip
Miller has one of the best squads the
Navy has known in many years, with
plenty in the way of reserve material
There may not be enough Navy power
to cope with Jock Sutherland's strong
team, but this meeting is likely to be
an extremely close affair and it would
be no particular upset If the Navy hap
pened to win.
This Annapolis delegation has its
share of stars in Brookes, Harbold
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Sophomore Stars

Sophomore Stars
Z Y YHEN Princeton uncovered a
M number of good looking
" " sophomore backs last Satur-
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
ISLANDS OF LOST HOPE

the bars and the vast illicit business he controls
outside.
Nothing but exile, surely, can settle that prob
lem. Once on an island in the mid-Pacific, the
racketeer would have no opportunity to confer
with friends"
At the same time, there is logic in urging that
the United States select one Of its islands as a
criminal colony. The islands mentioned by Sena-
tor Copeland's correspondent are all far from
any mainland and could be made self-contained.
Midway Island, for instance, is virtually unin-
habited.
In addition there are numerous islands, con-
nected with the Philippine and Hawaiian chains,
which are isolated and would be practical GRIM
inal colonies. Such islands as Guam, Pago Pago,
Of the Samoan group, and the Virgin Islands,
might have to be ruled out, since they are COM
paratively heavily populated.
There have been many criticisms Of DEVILS
Island, one of the Salvation Group off the coast
of French Guiana in South America. It has been
said that Devils Island is cruel, that prisoner
going thGre almost dies Of despair. That it is hot
ana naOnOtonouG. An that may ho tznA. But
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

no writing letters to the mainland-absolute
disaSSociation from life on shore. No news
papers, moving pictures, no radios-make
them Robinson Crusoes among themselves
while sentence lasts. If it is LIFE-OK
and FINE!
"Cut off from their gang, they would cease to
be heroes there would be no smuggling in fire
arms and dynamite; no breaks for there would
be no place to go; no incentive to riot for they
would be in mid-ocean. Exile would mean EXILE
for years. When they got back to the mainland
their old haunts would have changed; their old
pals would be dispersed; they would not risk an
other exile by starting anew their old tricks.
s<pRESENT State and Federal prisons could be
used for minor culprits as reformatories and
lesser puniShments. The newspapers are full of
crime committed by escaped criminals; good men
shot down by worthless ours and degenerate
dogs who should have, at once, been separated
from decent peOple-EXILED. And exiled for
their own good as well as the protection of decent
citizAn& and officials"
t1essenAA this correspondents lst4sr may ssam,
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

Island Convict. Hard Work, Even Though 1t Be
in the Tropics, Is the Lot Of the Prisoners.
make no mistake about it, a French criminal
thinks twice before committing a crime when the
sinister vision Of Devils Island rises in his mind
No wonder! Prisoners who BY hook or crook
(mainly the latter) have made good their escape
from that tropical inferno have brought back the
most terrible tales about conditions there.
In the first place, there is the hard, cruel sun
light that makes work torture, and plenty Of
work, never fear, is obligatory there.
Then, it is said with much conviction that the
living quarters are highly unsantary and the food
almost inedble. / do not know how much con-
ditions have been improved by the French gov
ernment in recent years, but doubt that they
can have been extensive.
OF course, there have been many reports Of
wholesale escapes from the island. Only recently
read that these escapes of desperate convicts
were due to the connivance of secret syndicate
which had influence over the guards.
Perhaps the most famous escape case was
that of the Italian, Charles Mesterino, convicted
in Paris of murder. His wife, beautiful Alice
Mesterino, remained loyal to him and when she
learned he had been sent to Devils Island she
Legend had it that she went to the South Ameri-
can mainland and there negotiated with gang
and aided her husbands escape. All Paris, hear
ing Of this, sang her praises and she became
almost a national heroine.
The Mesterinos are believed to be living to-
gether somewhere in South America, although
there have been unverifed reports of their deaths
THE trouble with Devils Island is the very
one that would be corrected in selecting an
American criminal colony-it would not be any
where near the mainland. It would be so far
away from anywhere that even crooked guards
would have difficulty in aiding a prisoner to
escape since there would be no place to escape to.
Of course, the DEVILS Island theory is not
the only one suggested by our correspondents.
They range all the way from public lashings to
public hangings. One correspondent urged that
racketeers be chained to an automobile or to q
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

AT LARGE
Rogue's Gallery Photo Of Irene MeCAnn, NoW
Being Sought by United States Slauths. She e
capped Twice from Prison. Which Brings Up thG
Question: Would There Be "Dsvips IslaAd'
for Desperate Women Criminals.
Fifth Avenue-and then be thrown into the East
River. Others suggested tortures that woula
make the tortures Of the medieval ages seem
child's play.
But don't think the solution Of crime lies IN
cruelty. It lies in intelligent reform. Exile, 70
my mind, is one method that might be favorGbly
considered.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

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newest OutrGges committed in PaVS sH1 oe6V EOVSg!
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The Washington times., 1933-10-14

UAuuAy udLSAS w HOL L4AAnA .SO.
am by no means raising criti-
cism against our penal system
when / say that mere incarcera-
ton behind the bars does not
thwart the activities Of the
racketeer.
One need only consider sew
eral cases, which ! shall not
name directly here, in which
racketeers virtually directed
their business" from prison
cells. This is not the fault of the
warden nor Of the guards, It is
the fault of the American system
Of coddling the prisoner.
IN other words, there is nothing
\ to prevent a prisoner from
seeing a friend once a week, un-
less he is in solitary confinement.
That friend" frequently proves
to. be his closest business asso-
ciate. That friend" takes or
ders and carries them out. That
friend" is the connecting link
between the racketeer behind
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

are on the
or, some in
salubrious
Us.
he the hard
rimin ais.
them. They
raise prod
kOrtheir keep.
rk outdoors in
eellent climate
and they could
not swim thou
ands Of miles in
effort to es-
If prisons
b conducted
lely so could
Eile Base-be
ucted.
Forget: D ev-
Island
ech cruelty is
NE thing; decent
Treatment by ex-
pe1:ienced penolo-
iininals, their SYM
nd sob sisters will
d' to warp decent
ships that could
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

through the Straits of Florida. What
better outdoor climate could be asked than
th4e? Could the sentimental peters Of
yeggmen ask for better?
"Fifst, however, there must be honest, fair
and speedy trials; revision of habeas corpus,
appeal; tricky chicaneries eliminated; let YER
dict beia verdict, after just and speedy trials
before honest and decent juries-then EXILE
for the non-social, brutal, habitual, incurable
criminal.
Every year of sentence to contain 365 days
time ON for Bad behavior, NOTHING off for any
reason. r2saH
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