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The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Pickups and
PutOutS

Consensus Of opinion among
boxing fans attending the Port
ner bouts Tuesday was that
Freddy Fidducia, the Newark
ight-heavyweight, could stake"
the heavieS appearing in the fea"
ture, Les Kennedy and Big Boy
RawsOn. .Fidducia k.O.'d Henry
Irving but the latter shouldn't
feel bad about it. not after Civ
ing away more than Is pounds,
regardless Of "Col." Lakes an
nOuncement. .Bucky H arriS
agreed last June to manage the
Boston Red SOx in 1884. could
have become immediate mana
ger but wouldn't accept the job
then. out Of fairness to Frank
Navin, owner Of the Detroit
Club. and Sam Rice won't 60
to Boston. because he and
Harris don't "gee". Marty Nc
Manus lost out at Boston be-
cause he wouldn't "pimp" on
the players who kept late
hours. Joe MalcewicZ, who
wrestIes Ray Steele at the
Washington Auditorium A TO-
night, Is one Of the foremost In
the profession.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
c. j. TOPROVE
TOUGH,FOE
FORV.P.L.
By GARRETT WATERS

Virginia Poly'S basketball team
opens a three-day tour against
local collegiate fives tonight, by
stopping off at the Catholic Uni
versity gymnasium to oppose the
c. U. Cardinals.
Tomorrow the Blacksburg (Va.)
lads engage the George Wash
ington Colonials in the G. w.
gymnasium, while on Saturday
night they Jump out to College
Park to face the Maryland Uni
versity five in Ritchie Coliseum.
Tonight'S contest at Catholic
University commences at 8 o'clock.
Right off the bat the Virginians
are expected to run into an i'm
portant test, as the Cardinal
courtmen promise to triumph by
several points, and we mean sew
eral, in this instance.
Same Lineup
The Cards will line up with the
same array which has represented
them in recent successes and this
tells the story that Gene Auguster-
fer and Abe Rosenfield will be at
the forward posts, Bernie Lieb,
center, and Ed White and Babe
Gearty, guards.
Maryland University's boxers
and basketballers are preparing
diligently, by the way, for their
scheduled performances Saturday
night against Western Maryland
and Virginia Poly, respectively.
The Old Liners expect to defeat
Virginia Poly in basketball but are
not so sure Of gaining the edge
ir the boxing bouts against West
ern Maryland.
Many experienced boxers will
represent the visitors, including
Don Keyser, 155-pounder; Andy
Gorski, 165.pounder; and Bernie
Kaplan, 175-pounder, all Of whom
v'on bouts against the Old Liners
last year.
One 1888 Winner
Maryland will line up with only
one ringman who scored against
Western Maryland in 1888. He is
Harry Carroll, who won in the 1875
pound class by default.
Maryland's complete array will
include such men as Joe Harris
and Dick Stoner, 115-pounders;
Dick Babcock and Walter Webb.
135-pounders; Johnny Evans and
Frank Hawkins, l65-pounders, and
Carl Statfort, heavyweight.
The Old Liners will depend upon
Rufus Vincent in their basketball
contest against Virginia Poly. This
lad, known as the best scorer Of
the team for the past two or
three seasons, has registered Al
points in five games to date, and
is expected to better this percent
age as the games progress. Last
year his record for the entire cam
paign was 220 points in 20 games.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
NOV. "a DATE
IMPLIED BY
shift 7
By W. WILSON WINGATE

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 18.-
A University Of Maryland-G George
town football alliance Of far-reach-
ing import has been formed and
barring a weIl-nigh impossible can
collation. at the eleventh-hour, will
be announced shortly, it was
learned today.
The tremendous local signific-
ance Of this reapproachment lies
in it's bearing on the future Of
Maryland-H Hopkins and Maryland
Western Maryland gridiron relar
tions and in the insight into fu-
ture football policy at College
Park it might afford.
Plainly, the implications are:
Cd Termination after next
year of the old Hopkins-Maryland
Thanksgiving Day competition in
Baltimore.
(2) Maryland's decision to turn
to Georgetown and the nearby
Washington field, rather than to
Western Maryland and the some
what unreSponSive Baltimore fan
market, for a new Turkey Day
rivalry that will serve as a corner.
stone for a stable, self-SupportinG
syste of intercollegiate athletics.
Hints Are Seen
Hints of much Of this, includ.
ing the termination Of Maryland
HOPKINS competition on Thanks.
giving Day and the apparent
futility of those tavoring a stand
ing Maryland-Western Maryland
Turkey Day attraction, have been
apparent for two years.
However, the Georgetown and
City of Washington angle Is new.
In fact, Maryland had let go
unchallenged report that it was
a game with some Eastern insti-
tuition that was being sought for
the hitherto untitled 1884 date
of November "a as a forerunner
of a standing attraction Of out
standing merit.
Now, it has been learned that
Georgetown has been offered the
plum.
Ask for Change
The Hoyas had scheduled West
ern Maryland for that November
"a date and the game was to be
played in Baltimore Stadium.
The fact that the Terrors--
entirely willing, apparently, to ac-
commodate Georgetown-have ap-
piled to Park board and stadium
authorities for a shift in the date
of their game with the Hoyas
from November "a to the Satur-
day following Thanksgiving Day
was learned today.
Anxious to Resume
The Maryland Georgetown game
planned for next November "a will
mark the first Terp-Hoya compe.
tition on the gridiron since Mary.
land graduted from the small
college" class year ago.
Georgetown, however, has neen
anxious to resume relations with
Maryland for q long time, believ.
ing that the large followings the
two institutions in Washington
would guarantee profitable compe.
tition with great popular appeal.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
M|DD|ES STOP
HOYA FIVE

Georgetown's big five went
back to extensive practice SeS.
sions today for the purpose Of
getting into winning fettle for
Saturday nights game against
Temple at the Tech High gym
nasium.
Yesterday, the Hoyas jumped
over to Annapolis to grab a
hunk of the Navy's scalp. But
the Middies did the scalping and
as every collegiate sports fan
knows by now, Georgetown went
down to defeat by a S3-to-18
count.
Fred ("Buzz") Berries and Ed
Hargaden were the individual
stars.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Ruth III Earn 1t
Barring Accident
Game Can't Measure

Baseball-minded folks are
pondering over the $4,000
which Babe Ruth will receive for
his 1884 efforts covering a Pc
riod Of five and a half months.
Many are asking themselves
how many games Ruth may rea-
sonably be expected to play,
bearing in mind that his legs
have slowed, albeit he is still as
heady a performer as the game
boasts.
They are also speculating as
to whether he will be overpaid,
underpaid or equitably paid.
Barring accident to his frail
ankles and spindle lower legs, I
believe Ruth will earn every
dime for which he has signed.
IF injury overtakes him, the
Yankees will simply have to
charge up the loss to the four
teen previous years over which
Ruth paid them handsome diVi-
dends.
Earns It All
Ruth has personally drawn
every dollar through the gates
Of the nearly a million he has
been paid by the New York Club,
and plenty besides. It was Ruth
who got baseball into high
sounding figures, big gates and
prosperity generally. His sig
nificance to baseball really can't
be measured in dollars, either
the 100-cent kind Of the 60-cent
variety.
Rurh's service has been one of
inspiration to a sport that was
dragging a heavy anchor. They
hired Judge Lands to pull base
ball up by its own bootstraps,
but Babe Ruth is the chap who
did the job. It was done on the
field Of play, not in a mahogany
furnished office.
AS to the number Of games
Ruth will adorn next season,
one mans guess is as good as
the neXt'S. He has said he's
good for between Is and 100
games, but if he gets into so,
he will have done p remark
able job for a man past 40
and staying abreast of as
vigorous a game as baseball.
Little Hits Top
When Knute Rockne was
killed in an airplane accident
the football world generally
conceded his like would never
again rise in the gridiron
armament.
I would not make so sweep
ing a statement that an exact
duplicate Of Rockne has de-
veloped since his death, because
precise duplicates in sports
never materialize with the
years.
But Lou Little, who once
could be called WaShington'S
own, has come as near to
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Bucky Harris Talks
Of Red SOx OUer VOL

Stanley Raymond (''BuckyD
Harris tonight will broadcast over
Station VOL 7:45 to 8 p. m,
anent the new deal offered Bos-
toms Red Sox by President Tom
Yawkey.
Harris, newly appointed man.
ager of the Bostons, also will
discuss other timely subjects.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
!; @ RI.
Past Worth In Coin
LittLe's Dream Granted
With Some to Spare
TIMES SPORTS EDITOR

capturing the imagination Of
intercollegiate football as any
coach since Rockne, and in
this respect Lou has satisfied
q sort of an ambition which he
expressed back in 1880.
81 diSliked to leave Washing
tOn," said Lou as his wife LOr-
eta nodded her approval, "be-
cause we love the Capital and
/ wanted to sort Of become the
local Knute ROckne with little
domain over which 1 might be-
come the dean"
But the football fates had a
wider territory and a bigger op-
portunity for the then new
coach of Columbia who, in the
meantime has not only carried
his own name to every corner
of the sports world, but as well
the name of a college which
many said could not possibly
be given q winning team be-
cause of limitations and restric-
tionS.
His invitation, and accept
ance thereof, to head the sum.
mer football coaching school at
Lafayette, Easton, Pa, next
June is an admission from his
own profession that he is recog-
nized as the biggest man in the
game today. He has reached
the top on achievements. And
in a comparatively brief time
at that!
More Player-Pilots
There seems to be something
of a trend toward playing man
ayers in our great national
pastime.
This glorious season Of 1884
there will be four playing pilots
in the American League and
five in the National League. For
the first time in several seasons
the bench manager will be IN
the minority in major league
baseball. Last year each loop
had but two field directors in
action. -,
Both st. Louis clubs will
have the directing brains Of
their teams in uniform and on
the field, frankie Frisch and
Rogers Hornsby still having a
lot of active baseball life left
In their systems. Joe Cronin,
Lew Fonseca and Mickey Coch-
rane comprise the other three
American League pilots, other
than Hornsby, who will ask no
player to do something that
they won't be out there trying
to do themselves.
Besides Frisch, the other Ma
tional League player-pilots COM
prise Bill Terry. Charley Grimm,
Bob O'Farrell and Jimmy Will
son. Nine playing managers
altogether in the two large
loops, enough to take the field
and play in an all-manager en-
gagement for charity. the un-
employed or the retired profes-
sional players association.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

4I16 WedGLleT, NOdC11 DuGCAA
Bergman believes, will be more
suitable at that period Of the
year than mid-March.
Weather q Handicap
Last spring the Cardinal grid
men doomed uniforms in March.
The weather proved a decided
handicap for football practice. AS
q result Coach Bergman's war
riors received little benefit from
training, in fact, they might as
well not have practiced.
About Is men will report for
the first drill this year. Coach
Bergman states this group will
not include athletes busy in cur
rent sports events at the school.
Usual Drill Routine
The usual routine for spring
drills will be followed and Coach
Bergman hopes to get a real line
on what his football team may be
for the regular season.
The Cards, on the whole, will
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

be quite green for the 1884
campaign because Of a lack Of
veteran men.
However, it is Bergman's hope
to develop a team Of worthwhile
caliber before the actual season
rolls around, and it is in these
spring practice sessions that he's
able to get a fair start on the
necessary ground work.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Virginia Quint Subs
For Cafemen's Foe

Warrenton CVa.) A. c. basket
bs llers replace tho Camp Meade,
e ID team as an opponent for
Sholl's Cafernen at the Boys Club
morrow night.
The Shollmen are to appear in
the windup end of double-header
which is to be launched by Boys
Club varsity and st. Johns
Cadets at g.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Sports Today
WRESTLING

WRESTLING
At Washington Auditorium
Double feature; first preliminary
ct $3.50 p. m.
BASKETBALL
At Catholic Observation-Disclosures
Poly VS.. C. u, $50 p. M; RooSe-
velt High VS.. c. U. Freshmen, 7:15
p. m. -
BILLIARDS
At Arcadia ParlorS, Layton vS.
Nichols, 7:45 p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
"Y" LEAGUE BUSY

Three games are listed tonight
in the "Y" Department League:
internal Revenue VS.. Marine Corps,
Aviation, I. c. C. plays State De.
partment and F.C.A. clashes with
Labor,
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Alexandria's Leading Fives
To Play For City Title

ALEXANDRIA, Vay Jan. 18.-Four Alexandra senior
basketball teams Times Herald Alexandria De Moay st.
Rita and Central Cougars indicated they would take
par in series decide the city championship the series
to get underway within the next two weeks
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

c. Gridders Will Start
Spring Drills Earlier

Spring football practice will start SIX week ahead Of Time
Catholic University this year. commencing February
instead Of March is, as was the last season.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

A meeting will be held at the
Gazette office and rules drafted,
besides the selection Of officials
to handle the play-off.
Last year the Times Herald lads
annexed the title.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

Officers for the st. Rita's girls
Athletic Association will be named
at a meeting to be held Friday
night at the church auditorium
in Mt. Ida.
"RedS" Miller has been selected
to coach the st. Rita's girls sex
tet.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Open SChol Series

Open SchOl Series
Alexandria High courtmen will
play washington and Lee in the
first game for the northern Vir-
ginia scholastic title Friday night
ct BallSton, Va.
On Saturday the 'Twins" clash
with Oakton High in the head
liner at armory hall.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

Jack Watts Lee-Jackson quint
opposes the Falls Church High
five in the feature game at the
Lee-Jackson gymnasium on Friday
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

The Falls Church lads were
runner-up for the State title in
class &c" The girls sextets will
also perform.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
New SeOttsbOro
to be heard
on Jan. 9th

NEW YORK, January rs
-Osmund K. Fraenkel, well-known
constitutional attorney, will probably
be the legal representative Of the In
ternationaI Labor Defense in Judge
w. w. Galatians Decatur court,
January 27, when motions for new
trials for Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys
sentenced to die February 2, are up
for hearing, it was announced by the
|. L. d.
The motions demand the setting
aside Of the lynch verdicts Of death
passed against the two boys by Cal
lahan, contrary to the evidence which
proved their innocence. The issues of
Negro rights involved in the case
barring Of Negroes from Alabama
juries-as well as the prejudice evid-
enced by Judge Callahan and proved
in affidavits presented by the +. l..
D. to the courts, are raised in the
motions which will be argued.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
Senator Dill Heads
Com mittee For
Anti-Iyneh Bill

Washington, Jan. 19.-The COST
gan-Wagner anti-lynching bill moved
forward another step today with the
appointment Of a subcommittee Of
the Senate Judiciary Committee to
conduct hearings probably in mid
February. The members Of the sub
committee are Senators Clarence G.
Dill, Washington, Chairman, (D),
George w. Norris, (R), Nebraska
Frederick Van Nuys, (D) Indiana,
William H. Dieterich (D) Illinois and
Warren R. Austin Cd, Vermont.
The National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People has
announced that among those who will
be called to testify before the Sen
ate subcommittee are Charles H.
futile, former U. S. attorney in New
York City, Dean Charles H. Houston,
Howard university law school, Arthur
Garfield Hayes, noted lawyer, and
Prof, Carl Llewllyn, Columbia uni
versity law school, who helped draft
the bill and several other authorities
on constitutional law.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
Ask For Jobs On
Bus line

New York, ain. 19.-Charging that
conductors on the Fifth Avenue bus
Is are discourteous to Negro pas
sengers and citing the failure of
these employees to assist colored
women on and off the conveyances,
although white women are eagerly
assisted, or to close the doors on cold
days on buses going through Harlem,
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People in a
letter signed by Roy Wilkins, assist
ant secretary, demands Of the Fifth
Avenue Coach company that all pas
sengers on its buses be given uni
formily courteous treatment.
The letter also calls attention to
the failure Of the company to give
employment to Negroes as bus driv-
ers, conductors or garage employees
and urges that the color bar be re-
moved.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
The Negroes Loyalty
the Pen OF A
White Man

The white man forced his laws,
religion and civilization upon the
Negro as a penalty for his residence
here in these United States, and then
proved the lack Of intelligence be-
hind his aims by treating the Negro
as an inferior being, incapable of as
Stimulating the white mans educa-
tional advantages.
The Negro did not ask to be
brought here; he was seized and sold
into ruthless slavery in this country,
the disgrace and humiliation Of that
terrible condition affecting his noble
soul as it never could the soul of a
white man. That, in itself, is suffi-
Gent to make the Negro inferior
if inferior he is-which l do not
admit, lacking proof.
Still despite the above, the Negro
has shown a lopalty to his white
brother that is sublime in it's sim
certify Of aim" This fact should
credit him at least with equity I'M
stinted. At the battle of San Juan
Hill, the American forces, out-num-
bered twenty to one, were selling
their lives in a losing fight; were be-
ing whipped"
Suddenly the black legion arrived!
Then the tide Of battle was turned"
That battle, won by the Americans,
broke the back Of the Spaniards, and
tossed the laurels into the palms Of
the Rough Riders.
Is the Negroes loyalty on that oc-
casion still remembered? We hear
little Of it if it is.
On TIE Mexican Border another
another black legion went down to a
man. Uncle Sam was busy across
the sea; this Negro faction was all
that remained to protect life and
property; the Mexicans having taken
advantage of our Arrays absence to
snoop, raid and cut up other devilish-
ness on American soil. Was not this
act of heroism a great proof of loyal
ty?
Again, consider the black boys
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
League orders Libe-
rias Acceptance OF
Foreign Advisory

WASHINGTON, January 23-(C
NS)-The League of Nations Coun-
ell in Geneva has informed Liberia
fatty it must accept the
Councils plan for economic rehab-
ilitation through rule BY foreign ad-
visers, without mobilization.
On behalf Of the government,
President Edwin Barclay had advised
the Council that the Liberian Iegisla-
ture had accepted the plan subject to
reservations. Opinion in the Council
was that reservations might destroy
essentials Of the program, but the
text had not been received here.
Under the plan, adopted last fall,
an international white commission
would supervise administrative and
financial reorganization Of the Afri-
can republic for five years. The Unit
ed States supported the movement.
Firestone-rubber interests promised
to reduce the interest rate on a loan
of $780, 900 made to the republic in
1926 if the plan was approved.
During discussion Of the program,
Louis Arthur Grimes, Secretary of
State for Liberia, objected to a pro
vision for appointment Of an adviser
to supervise the carrying out Of the
plan, contending it would make him
a virtual dictator.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
legislator
tests State Civil
Rights law

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, January Is
To contest the present inadequate
Indiana civil rights law, as it applies
to theatres, restaurants and hotels,
Representative Henry J. Richardson
Of the state legislature has filed four
suits against the Indiana theatre and
the SEVERN hotel here asking dam
ages and costs Of court il each case
This action by Mr. Richardson as
member Of the legal staff Of the Nat
ional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, is part Of
the nationwide campaign Of the AS
ISOLATION against discrimination and
segregation based solely on color.
Under direction Of Representative
Richardson a petition in favor of the
Costigan-Wagner Anti-lynching bill
is being drawn up which VIII bear
the signatures Of the leading men
and women of Indianapolis. The petit
ton will be sent to Indiana's two U.
S. senator's and all Of its Congress
men.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
Mencken Endorses
Anti lynch bill

Baltimore, Md, Jan. 19--In a
lengthy comment on the Costigan-
Wagner anti-lynching bill in the
Baltimore Sun, H. L. Mencken, noted
critic endorses the bill and urges its
enactment. 'Under the C~ostigan-
Wagner BILL" he says, 'they lynch
ers) are put on all fours with com
mon murderers, and are liable to
capital punishment in States where
it is inflicted, and to life imprison-
ment in the rest. These heavy penal
ties will not only tend to dissuade
the village DULLES and morons who
~perpetrate nearly all the lynchings;
they will also make it crystal clear
that lynching is not to be defended
any pore as a mere alteration Of
public spirit, but as murder plain and
unadulterated-7
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
Calf. Iynehing
Investigation Ends

San Jose, Cal-(CNS)-The San
ia Clara County Grand Jury con-
Guided its investigation into the
lynching of John Holmes and Harold
Thurmond, both white, last Novem-
Der 26, but would make no announce
ment as to what had taken place or
what findings might be expected. The
lynching received a large amount Of
publicity, especially after Governor
Rolph of California announced that
there would be no prosecution. Presi-
dent Roosevelt condemned this Off
cial c~ondoning of the crime, and form
er President Herbert Hoover de-
nounced Ralp. The entire country,
both press and pulpit expressed
themselves on the case.
The Omaha guide., 1934-01-27
POrters fight to get
advantage OF Code

WASHINGTON, January 24-(CN
S)-A Philip Randolph is making a
strong fight to have the Pullman Car
company placed under the emergency
railroad transportation act of 1888
Under the present conditions the
porters get neither the benefit of the
code under the NRA or the super
vision Of ETRA on the grounds, IN
the first instance, that the Pullman
company is a carrier, and in the see
ond, that it is not a carrier by rail-
road, which places the Pullman COM
pany outside the reach of the law in
both cases.
Since the depression the Pullman
company has reduced wages, has
ignored repeated written requests
from the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters to grant them a hearing
for the purpose of discussing the
grievances of the porters and maids.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor is
pushing the porters case before the
Government.