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Evening star., 1934-01-23
Mat Game Enjoying Big Boom in Detroi
Shower of Coin Produced by Third Promoter Field

to set . new high there and watch
. series Of lightweight bouts which
involved no title, actual or otherwise.
Now Promoter Londes says that
for q return match between Londos
and Stecher slated Friday night, the
advance sale of tickets has doubled
over that Of the previous match.
The memory Of old timers here re-
cords no similar record Of the past.
No one attempts to explain the phe-
nomenon--least of all the mat pro-
moters, who. long scorned by hackers
Of the leather pushers. now chew an
honest-to-goodness cigar while the
dollars-eebased or otherwise-roll
into the till as never before.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Yanks Spurn All
Bids for Lazzeri
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 23-If
~ Manager Joe Mccarthy were
willing to part with Second
Baseman Tony LaZzeri. the New
York Yankees wouldn't have much
trouble swinging deal for a start
ing pitcher.
The Yankees have been trying for
months to bolster their hurting staff.
but other clubs won't do business
except with Lazzeri figuring in the
trade. Five clubs have made offers
for the hard-hitting veteran. the
Yankee business Office revealed.
But Mccarthy isn't letting Tony
60 at any price, and that settles
that" explains Secretary Ed Barrow.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
A TLANTA, January 23.-The
~ day when Southern colleges
~ relied on foot ball to pay
the freight" for basket ball
has about gone.
Other sports may be carried" on
the shoulders of foot balls gate
receipts but not basket ball. No
longer Is 1t a weak sister. Its q
robust youngster now and growing
every week. Virtually every South
eastern Conference school is draw
ing large crowds for its cage games.
Tulane University, which has won
only three of its 10 conference
games, reports a 100 per cent in
crease in attendance. Some 5000
fans turned out for the games with
Kentucky and Vanderbilt and the
average attendance has been around
1000.
AT Tuscaloosa, the University of
Alabama WAS forced to turn away
hundreds for its series with Louis
Evening star., 1934-01-23
VINES WOULD TIE SERIES
Needs a Victory Tonight to Gain
4-All Footing With Tilden.

Vines will seek to even the score in his
cross-country tennis travels with Bill
Tilden in the City Auditorium here to-
night.
Their series now stands at four
matches for Tilden and three for his
California rival. Tilden has a 16-to-l2
edge in the sets.
A doubles match between Tilden and
Bruce Barnes against Vines and Vim
cent Richards also is on the program.
A singles match between Barnes and
Richards will wind up the exhibition.
Tilden and his fellow players arrived
here Yesterday,
Evening star., 1934-01-23
COURT TILT FRIDAY.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. January 23-
In the feature schoolboy basket ball
game here this week Alexandria Highs
quint will engage Roosevelt High in
Armory Hall Friday night. In a pre-
liminary the Twins Junior varsity will
have 1t out with the Roosevelt reserves
at 1880 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
ASKING A QUERY.
When Old Mike Kelley Uds king

W tcH ot0 4NthC hCttcy Uoo hTt W
them all,
Who uds to tolloU him then?
But Larry and Honus, clouting the ball,
Hitting and fielding, dns,Dered the call
And filled up the gap again.
When Larry and Honus and Mdtty quit,
Who was to take their place.
Who tDas to star in the rife pit.
There with the stab and the thinning hit,
Thrilling the human race?
When Ty Cobb said, "T am through at
last,
Tpe slipped oper the orade"-
Who Uds to match his mdtchless past?
Who tUds to star in the dH-stdr cast,
Heading the big parade?
One by one, as the stars passed out.
We're seen them matched by youth:
But notc I come to the one deep doubt
Who'll fill the gap in the realm of clout
Who'll take the place OF Ruth?
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Writers HOnOring
HubbelI, Johnson

NEW YORK, January 23.-Carl
~ Hubbell and Walter johnson
will be guests Of honor at the
annual dinner of the New York base
ball writer's, February 4.
Hubbeu, whose pitching helped
the New York Giants win the Ma
tional League flag and the world
series, will receive q plaque as the
outstanding performer Of 1888.
johnson will be given an award
for having done the most for base
ball over period Of years.
The awards are made by the Base
Ball Writer'S Association Of America.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
BADGERS ELECT BENDER.

MADISON, Wis, January 23 R).-
Jack Bender, Bluffton, Ind, has been
elected captain of the University of
Wisconsin foot ball team for next sea-
son. He is a junior. Bender held
a regular guard position at the close
Of the season. It was his first year
of competition here. He is q reserve
guard on the basket ball squad.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Southern Foot Ball Coaches.

TTUNK ANDERSON already has
L i opened his Spring training at
North Carolina State and Jack
Chevigny is about ready to begin work
at Texas University.
Two Of Knute Rockne's best assist
ants can be counted on to give their
squads plenty to work with.
Hunk has complete support at North
Carolina State, and this team will be
heard from in louder tones next Fall.
The same thing will happen at
Texas where they rarely have to bother
about manpower and where in Chew
1gny they have coach who knows his
stuff all the way through.
The South, from the Atlantic to the
Rio Grande, now has the ablest brand
Of coaching, with Dan McGugin at
Vanderbilt, Wallace Wade at Duke,
Maj. Neiland at Tennessee, Biff Jones
at L. S. u, Coke at Tulane, Anderson
at N. c. S., bill Alexander at Georgia
Tech, Harry Mehre at Georgia, Chet
Wynne at Kentucky, Chevigny at
Texas, Ray Morrison at S. M. u, and
a flock of others who also have ideal
Winter and Spring weather for one of
the most important features Of all
Spring practice.
That happens to be when and where
foot ball teams are started on the right
road
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Evening star., 1934-01-23
CHAMPIONS AND THEIR CHANCES
FOR 1884.
No. 8-Giants and Senator'S.

NO S-GlantS ana senators.
n ILL TERRY'S answer to any set
K of National League challengers
leads in this general direction
Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsim-
mons and Parmelee
Those who figure that faster, live
lier ball will curb the effectiveness of
these four grenadiers overlook the fact
that any change will be proportionate.
The livelier ball had no great effect
on the situation at large during the
world series last fall.
Bill Terry will have a good, hustling
ball club ready. one that will hardly
be picked to finish sixth or seventh
again.
He will get his share of warm COM
petition from Cubs, Pirates and Car
dinals. but none of these challengersi
can present pitching staff with the
all-around stuff Terry's big four can
lug to the wars.
Schumacher and Parmelee, both
young, should be even better this
season, and there will be little ques-
ton about Hubbell's contribution.
The addition Of Chuck Klein will
give the Cubs one of the best outf1elds
in either league.
Chuck is great ball player. Stain
back is another star, or should be. The
Braves will be improved and will be
in the middle of the scrimmage.
But Giant pitching still is the tall
est hurdle other National League rivals
will have to take.
The Senator'S Challengers.
-HE Senators NAV find q new chal-
/ lenger in the revised and re-
vamped Red Sox, with Grove and
Walberg added to the cast.
They should find the Yankees some
what better equipped to make a fight
Of it-with more consistent pitching
than they got year ago.
Cleveland and Detroit will have
more to offer. But Cronin still has a
good ball club ready to ramble on its
way.
should say that both Giants and
Senators will be listed as favorites when
the Spring odds are posted.
NToRE than a few sentimental
NI words were penned on the sign
" ing Of Babe Ruth'S last playing
contract. Or what might be his last
playing contract. But 1884 marks the
final playing performance of another
athlete who is even better known than
Babe Ruth.
This news came in the announcement
that John D. Rockefeller, ST., had played
his last round of Florida golf and would
no longer put on his nine-hole march
over the Ormond fairways.
Mr.. Rockefeller, now in his ninety
fifth year-he will be 95 on July 8-was
among the few who did not let the age
of 80 drive him from competitive sport.
I recall the time, only q few brief
years ago, when he and Gen. Ames had
their series of Florida golf duels, all
fought to the final putt.
Mr.. Rockefeller was then 80 and Gen.
Ames, Civil War veteran, was 90.
Their combined ages were q matter Of
1873 years, a great tribute to their tenac-
ity and their love Of outdoor play.
For these matches between two white
haired men nearing the century mark
were as keenly fought as any final of a
championship.
More than thirty years ago, while
living in Cleveland, Mr. Rockefeller was
aflicted with indigestion and his health
was beginning to crumble up. The ter
rific pressure Of his gigantic oil control
WAS beginning to tell.
Shortly after this he took up golf
Evening star., 1934-01-23
TERRY SEES CLEAR
SA|L|NGFOR GIANTS
Thinks Mats May Need Puerto
Rico for Recuperating
Spot-SchuIte Signs.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.
0UERTO RICO'S balmy cli-
mate might be needed by
the Nationals after the

DUERTO RICO'S balmy cli-
r. mate might be needed by
i the Nationals after the
Giants are through with
them in another world series if
one listens to Bill Terry. The
manager of the world champions
sees his club repeating in the
National League race this year
in a bigger and better way that
should enable them to manhan-
die the Washington outfit-if en-
countered again-more easily
than they did in base balls an
nual classic last Fall.
Given worse beating. the Nationals
probably would find Uncle Sans West
Indian possession an ideal spot for
Spring training in 1885, as Secretary
of War Dern has told Clark Griffith.
In such an out of -the-Way place the
ball club ought to enjoy itself if for no
other reason than being so far away
from the heckling band of New Workers.
Terry, here for meeting Of Standard
OH station managers conducts a
prosperous service business in his home
town of Memphis as well as looking
after the Giants-a few days, is full Of
ideas about base ball this year. He's
confident, of course, his Giants will
crash through to another National
League flag and doesn't see the Wash
ington club losing in the American
League race unless the revamped Red
Sox manage to click surprisingly well.
That's a ball club with possibilities" +"
Terry says, but if all the veterans
don't pull together from start to finish
the Red Sox will get nowhere"
Evening star., 1934-01-23
FIREMEN TO CLASH.

BETHESDA, Md, January 23-Beth-
esda Fire Department cagers will meet
the strong Columbia Engine Co. five of
Alexandria, Va. here tomorrow night at
$3.50 on the Bethesda High School floor.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
AdmireS Mats Pitching.

TERRY believes the Nationals will
be strong in the pitching box
again and expresses great admir-
alton for the ability possessed by Monte
Weaver and Earl Whitehill He thinks
that AL Crowder came up to the world
series last Fall "petered out" but rates
the veteran right-hander a pitcher apt
to trouble any club when in prime con-
dition.
But Washington weakened itself
when it made that trade with Detroit
of Goslin for Stone. I can't see Stone
in the GooSe's class" Terry argues.
While Goslin never has been a great
outflelder, he is far above Stone as a
defensive player. And Stone doesn't
compare with the Goose at bat. De-
troit got all the breaks in that trade"
Terry isn't bothering about the new
type Of base ball the National League
will use this year. Well take that up
when We get around to it in the
Spring." he says. There's no reason
why We shouldn't hit it. 1t may be too
lively for bunting, something we de-
pended upon greatly while winning our
way to the National League pennant
last year when We used the so-called
dead ball. But we'll change our attack
and hit EN- out"
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Sh0eIess J0e's Lament.


in
- Winter probably little more
"a
He
that his
ShoeeSS villain the 1919 series
filed several applications for reinstatement
Eddie Ccotte the confess after Billy
Maharg broke his sensational story in 1920 nvng Sleepy Bill Burns Abe
and philosophical about his lot
in 1927
let
Chick
Saplng at
RSberg's Speaking Role
u the fatest speaking
Il
~ Chicago
his testimony
in
admitted
White sox raised pool reward the Tigers for knocking of Boston
former colleagues describe him. uncertain terms td
with the facts
Of the hearing register another resa
testimony
knowledge the 1919 stamped nothing the
Weaver appeal
think could do a lot banS
eligibility major
a
mornful thought
White 1919 the greatest ball Of all better
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Evening star., 1934-01-23

All the ancient spit-ball manipula-
tor could accomplish toward netting
the Nationals their second straight
pennant was 20 triumphs offset by
only defeats, which incidentally
landed him the chucking champion
ship of the circuit, both in percent
age of games won with an 800 and
a 284 average earned-run yield
You can't tell about these fel-
lows like McKain,
Evening star., 1934-01-23
ST. RITA'S A. G. MEETS.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 23.-
A meeting of the st. Rita's Athletic
Club will be held tonight in the church
hall at Mt. Ida at 1880 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY JOHN LARDNER.

melody Berlin
Jackson
the old chorus
Lands recognizing the replied with
rendition "Good-by, Forever"
times last
still
within destroying ball fans
Evening star., 1934-01-23
OFFERED PRO GRID JOB.

Ellis Bashara Of Oklahoma, all-Big
Six guard in 1888, has been offered
pro foot ball job next season by Coach
Paul Schissler of the Chicago Cardinals.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
RECORD Of INVADER
FAILS TO AWEFANS.
FeatherWeight Bout Tonight
Is Welcome Change From
Diet of Heavies.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

ID FhhNSIS =. SIAN.
DOVELLI preferred may be
I a-soaring in New York's
~ sock exchange, but Wash
ington ringworms were not
selling Petey Sarron short today
as the diminutive Birmingham
buster and frankie kid CovelH
awaited the bell for their 10
round featherWeight scrap to-
night at Portner'S Arena.
Notwithstanding Covellis recent rec
ord. which shows victories over a
quartet Of the Nations best 1866
Founders and draw with still another
In Lew Feldman. the colorful Sarron
Will reign a favorite by odds of ap-
proxlmately Z to in the betting by
ring time.
The featherweight battle, coming as
welcome change to District fight fol-
lowers following a recent unsavory diet
OF heavyweightS, is expected to be one
Of the best of busy campaign at the
Alexandria nose punching emporium.
Both principals are listed as club
fighters and. unlike the majority of
their ponderouS heavyweight colleagues
who have appeared here Of late both
seem destined to go places.
Substituting for Pete De Grasse Of
Canada, Covelli comes here with the
Scalps of De Grasse, Varias Milling, Al
Roth and Petey Hayes dangling from
his belt. all taken in warfare too recent
for high 1888 ranking but weighing
heavily in favor of his chances to be-
come a top-fighter come the new
ratings
Twenty years old, Covelli will have
youth. by some six years. over Sarron
but in turn will concede experience.
During his fistic career Pete has been
In the ring with the best at his weight
and has not suffered by comparison.
Tommy Paul, ex-ruler of the feather
weights, was fortunate to gain two
draw verdicts here. while Champion
Freddy Miller and Fidel LaBarba. when
at his peak two or three years ago,
were winners over Sarron by whisker
decisions.
Evening star., 1934-01-23

who's he?" was the reaction Of
local fandom to the announcement
McKain had been signed as a free
agent, and it was not to be wondered
at considering he had dropped out
of sight for couple of seasons after
several campaigns of marvellous
mediocrity.
Including the one game he
pitched, and lost, for Cleveland in
1927. Harold Leroy's big league
record. after three full seasons with
the White Sox, showed the unim-
pressive total of 18 wins offset by
% setbacks when he was turned
loose with a sore arm in 81.
But what the squatty highlander
did demonstrate during his brief
big-time service is that he has a
cagey Uranium, and if his conten-
tion the old whip again is sound
pans out he may click in manner
for which there are numerous
precedents here.
vACK RUSSELL is the most
recent. The former Red
~ Sox and Indian really is
not old in either years or
length of service, of course,
but until he joined Cronin's
crew last year Washington was
about the only team he could
beat.
Then there was old George Mo-
gridge, who left-handed his way to
several profitable seasons as Griff-
man when the Yankees branded
him N. G., also Samuel Pond Jones,
who dittoed here with his right arm
after having sunk to st. Louis and
who still IS carrying on with the
White Sox.
Dutch Ruether, too, was supposed
to be all washed up, and labeled
bad actor as we'll, when the Ma
tionals gave him haven after IA
years in pro base ball, in which he
was shunted about by a dozen clubs,
but he promptly chucked 18 VIC
tories at crucial period In the his
tory of the Senators.
The prize example Of 'em all. how
ever, was Stanislaus Covelesk1e. who
had reached the end of his rope in
Cleveland, where the boys laffed
when the allegedly gullible Griffith
saved him being shunted to the
minors In 1925.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

and 80 years later it was the game Of
golf that kept him in health and hap
piness.
He always was a deeply interested
student of the game, who knew more
than his share about the mechanics of
a swing, which long ago had lost most
Of its power, but still remained under
his control
He was not long but he was straight,
and unlike the average golfer, his
niblick was rarely blazing hot or emit
ting smoke.
Florida golf will miss him and his
daily nine-hole march into the fact of
times attacking years.
WYE TALK about the Babe at 40
w and Filden at Al, but one of the
greatest battles against age I
ever saw took place on a Southern golf
course.
This was a four-ban match at nine
holes, in which the youngest entry was
SO and the oldest was 88. The aver
age age was 86.
The total age of the four ran to 344
years. Yet they were as keen all the
way through as any championship
competitor I've ever looked at, and the
86-year -old veteran who sank the win
ming putt still had enough left to turn
on a war whoop.
The human side of this is that every
entry would like to feel that at 80 and
on beyond he can still have some
competition left, which will take him
all the way back to the start of the
road, back through so or more years,
that in one way or another have slip
ped on by.
The years of youth are long, but
the years Of old age rush by on fast
wings and there isn't SO much time to
waste.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
BY the Associated Press.
ne Associated Press.
. ETROIT, January 23.-Jack
Sherry, New York heavy
weight wrestler, meets Bull

Komar Of Chicago tonight
in the Detroit Light Guard Armory
and thereby hangs tale, for the
bout is the first of a series marking
the entrance of third major pro-
moter into the current wrestling pic.
ture here.
All Winter Detroit has rained .
shower Of gold about the ears Of its
two veteran wrestling promoters such
as none here ever dreamed of before.s
Evening star., 1934-01-23
More Than Coin at Stake,

EACH of the principals stands to
t. gain somewhat more than his
monetary fee tonight. Sarrons
campaigning during the last II months,
with Alexandria as his headquarters,
has netted nearly a dozen coveted VIC
tories as against losses only to Miller,
N. B. A. champion, and Eddie Burl, a
third-rate featherweight in a stunning
upset which later was avenged. So sue
cessful have been his activities since
migrating here that Pete has earned
the wholesale respect Of the feather.
weight crop and a National Boxing As
sociation ranking. Seeking a national
reputation. Covelli might move far
toward this goal by victory over the
Syrian.
Sarron. on the other hand. has been
in quest of something Covelli has right
now. /. e.. chance to show in Madison
Square Garden in a titular attraction.
Buoyed by his non- championship show
ing against Miller. who, incidentally,
was the first southpaw he had ever en-.
countered. Petey has been seeking q
title shot with either Kid Chocolate,
l26-pound king in New York. or Miller
Covelli is slated to fight Miller In the
Garden In two weeks
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Mays. Lowry Promise Scran

VXIELTERwEIGHTs will monop-
" olize the remainder Of the card.
which will consist Of q pair
Of six-rounders and two curtain -raisin'
fourS
Johnny Mays. hard-thumping Fort
Myer soldier, with a 1000 average for
two fights at Alexandria, will seek his
third straight win in one of the skies
when he opposes young Bobby Lowry
OF Washington. Though rated the bet
ter boxer and puncher. Mays is ex-
pected to have his hands full in Lowry,
one of the Districts more pleasing and
aggressive club fighters.
In the other six-rounder. Roy Man.
ley. southpaw slugger recently turned
orthodox by Ralph Murdock. will en-
gage Mike Scipio of Baltimore
Tony Uraine VS.. Bill Howell and Mike
Groves vs.. Soldier Litell is the way the
four-round pairings stack up. Groves
and Ltell, incidentally, are the only
non-welters, weighing around l3d
pounds each
Action will begin at $50 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
c. ? CONGRESS MARKS TRIUMPH
OF SOCIALISM IN SOVIET UNION
Confined from Paae y

capitalist countries take all advantages
Of construction.
1t should be
provides for standards living
now this refers primarily variety clothing,
widespread higher education
useful peasurabe intellectual activity
and sports health wel-being
1t should be clear that already workers the
soviet Union Of their
at the 18th Party Congress rich future the whole
telling population In the
the cashng in
while simultaneously continuing
in the to All this utterly annhiaes
the bourgeois heorecns that Socialism
and reduces
industry,
The Congress itself magnificent
without wasted motion solving the problem democracy
efficiency.
In the absence of motives
the theses and all the Furthermore
couns industry agriculture
with the heads of trusts appearing equal footing
workers from the factories which they administer gives
assurance that each delegate will powerful raying point his
ocy when he returns home to gather
The carrying through Of the decisions
1t is significant that the
nave shown that workers industry
Of the most advanced technique nevertheless necessity
Tor still further progress Of such mastery
sands OF engineers educated proaat and
peasan hundreds of thousands
pete technical education every worker
Before the whole world the perspective
absolutely unlimited future progress on the basis
Of the enormous gains already
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-12
To Present Bill
In Albany Against
injunction Menace
difference Calls for
United Mass Fight TO
Halt Courts

NEW YORK. Several hundred
delegates. representing th-0sands Of
organized workers in New York, met
in conference Saturday at Irving
Plaza Hall and ADOPTED plans Of
struggle against the injunction men
ace.
The conference was called by the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union.
Elect Committee
The main resolution showed how
iniunctions are used to injure work
ers' organizations, regardless Of the
political affiliations OF the members.
It called for q united front against
the bosses courts. A permanent
anti-injunction committee " a s
elected to lead the work of uniting
all trade unions and workers organ
izations in the struggle against the
injunction.
An anti-injunction Dill was worked
out and adopted by the delegates,
which will be presented to the legis-
lature in Albany. The committee was
instructed to organize a broad mass
fight against the injunction and
bring such pressure against the law
makers as to make them pass the
bill.
The speeches Of the delegates
showed that where mass pressure is
used the injunction can be broken.