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Evening star., 1934-12-11
Simmons Much Sought.

Simmons Much Sought.
Al SIMMONS of the White Sox
n is one of the most popular play
ers not here. besides being
traded to Detroit, they're shipping the
walloping AL to the Red Sox for Oster-
mueller, Yves Ferreil and Cook. and
TO the Yankees for Russ Van Alta,
cash and a flock of young talent q.
but it looks as if Al will stick right
with those White Sox.
n UTH'S decision to see the world
II instead of being in the States in
time for the opening of the next
base ball season probably will get him
out of the game altogether, the big
bugs here are saying.
And to hear them talk the Amer
icar League was through with the
Bambino anyway.
He might have had a chance to hook
up with the Cubs as manager after
Herr Grimm moved up to a club vice
presidency. Now that looks out
Buck Newsom, the Browns hazy
hurler, is attending the Winter ses-
sion here for no good reason. "Reck-
on If Dizzy Dean can 60 to minor
meeting can take in the big league
stuff" is the way Buck explains his
presence. so he came up from the
old South Carolina homestead to hang
around.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Sports Events
In Local Realm
TODAY.
Rasket Rail.

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Shenandoah, at George Washing
ton, 800.
Mount Rainier High, at Roose-
welt High, $50
Falls Church High, at st. Johns,
$50.
Rockville. at st. Adams, $3.50.
TOMORROW.
Wrestling.
Washington Auditorium - Main
match, Jim Londos, New York, vs.
Vic Christy, California, heavy
weights. Three other exhibitions.
Show starts $50.
Basket Ball.
Western Maryland VS.. George
town, at Tech High, $3.50.
Maryland State Normal. at Cath
olic u, 500.
George Washington freshmen, at
Roosevelt, $3.50.
Western VS. Georgetown fresh
men, at Tech, 7:30 preliminary to
Western Maryland-G. U. game).
Charlotte Hall, at Central. $50.
THURSDAY.
Basket Ball.
Walter Reed, at Roosevelt, $50.
FRIDAY.
Bowling.
Masonic League qualifying round
In Evening Star tournament, at
Convention Hall, 800.
Basket Ball.
Hampden-sidney. at American
o., 500.
Georgetown VS.. Bucknell. at
Bucknell.
Catholic U. VS.. La Sale, at Phil
adelphia.
Southern High (Baltimore). at
Tech, $3.50.
Bethesda Chevy Chase High, at
st. Johns, $3.50.
Rockville, al Georgetown Prep,
$3.50.
Western. at Baltimore City Col
lege.
Falls Church, at Mclean, $50.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
Randolph Macon, at George
Washington, 800.
Georgetown VS.. Pittsburgh, at
Pittsburgh.
Catholic q. VS.. st. Thomas, at
Scranton.
Wilson Teachers, at Bridgewater.
Roosevelt VS.. Alexandria High, at
Armory Hall, Alexandria. 800.
Bowling.
Meyer Davis Sweepstakes, at
Lucky Strike, 500.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Basket Briefs

Mount Rainier Grays meet the
Tremonts tonight at the Mount
Rainier High School at 8 o'clock and
the Grays will engage the Heurich
Brewers Thursday night also at the
high school in the District line town.
Olmsted Grill basketers face the
Fort Myer quint tonight at Fort Myer.
Heurich Flashes engage the West
Washington Tigers tonight at 8 o'clock
at Roosevelt High.
Results:
Community Center League.
Never Wins, 81; Monarchs, 81.
Two Point, IS; Basketers, 81.
Flashers, IS; Stones, %.
@. p. o., 80; s. A. K, 36.
Investigation; So; Pep Co., 6.
National Lumber, "a; Sigma Lamb
da, 10.
Mount Pleasant, 2s; Dunkers, "a.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
YEW YORK, December IL
Dealers in base ball ivory are
! doing a lot of Cabling with

doing a lot OF gaoblng WITH
out getting results on the mar
ket here. Many trades have been
talked, but nothing in big way put
across seems as though the bar
gamers are all steamed up over deal
until they hear what they must
give up to the other fellow. then it's
all over.
Something like that idea of Yaw-
keys concerning the lifting of Jack
Russell, pitcher, from the Washington
club. II like that Russell" the Red
Sox owner told Bucky Harris, when the
two we're returning from their South
Carolina hunting expedition. How
could I get him for my club?"
"WelI, now, you've a pretty fair
pitcher named Ferrell we might
consider in trade" the Nationals
manager said.
And that was the finish of that deal.
~ oGERs HoRNsBY, field boss of
II the Browns, complains bitterly
OF the way Eddie Collins tries to
DO business for the Red Sox on the
ivory market. ."He comes around
ripping the rubber band from the
Yawkey bankroll and Offering plenty
for the best you have" says Rogers
Never a player. though. and
added: I've never seen any club able
Evening star., 1934-12-11
COLLEGE BASKET BALL

Colgate, 35; Ithaca College, 20.
Purdue, AZ; Western State (Kala-
mazoo, Mich.), %.
Iowa u, 36; Carleton, %.
Manchester, so; Itasca Junior. 80.
Illinois, IS; Bradley, Is.
De Pau, 90; Illinois, 26.
Wisconsin. 80; Wabash, 20.
Mullikin, 46; Arkansas State, 26.
Conception College. 23; Graceland
College (LaomL Iowa., 10.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
c. v. BASKETERS
IN TEST CONTEST
PixIee Due to Experiment
in Game Tonight With
Shenandoah Five.

v v Howell, forward, reason
ably certain of holding a
varsity berth, Coach Jim Pixlee and
his assistant, Roland Logan, are ex-
pected to do a deal Of experimenting
tonight with the George Washington
basket ball squad in its opening game
against the Shenandoah College team.
The game, the first college tilt of
the court season here, will be played
in the G. w. gym at 8 o'clock.
Hal Kiesel, 6-foot 6-inch center, who
played with the Sholls Cafe quint last
season, appears to have ousted Bill
Noonan, last years pivot man, from
his job. Ben Goldfadden. a soph for
ward. is listed to team with Howell,
and Dallas Shirley and Tuffy Leemans
are having a tough time keeping
Walter Bacon and Milton Schonfeld,
sophomores, out Of the guard assign
ments
Shenandoah, If past performances
mean anything, hardly will do more
than give the Colonials workout.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Foot Ball, Minus Training Rules,
Tedious Drills, Pleasure for Pros.
by JOHN IARDNER-

Its very nice compared with COL
lege ball." said Mr.. Friedman. For
instance, you work from one to one
and a half hours a day. In college
it's two or three hours. Then you
don't have to bother with fundamen-
tails, dummy practice, or the charging
machines. You know all that. You
just pass and kick and run through
plays.
The pro boys practice in the morn
ing. That keeps them from staying
up too late at night and gives them
plenty of time to do what they want
to do the rest of the day. On Sunday
and Monday nights, right after the
game, they can paint the town with
whatever color they think would look
best on it. I don't say they always do.
I say they can. They're free.
They can smoke and all that.
They're mature, and smoking won't
hurt them the way it might hurt a
college boy. AS for drinking, they
stick pretty close to beer during the
season. But it's up to them. If a
fellow gets stiff he gets fined or sus-
pended, like on a big league base ball
club. The whole set-up is pretty much
like big league ball, with individual
rules for individual clubs. Except that
the boys don't have to play a game q
day like the ball players"
Few T0pers on Pro Teams.
TN THE thoughtful opinion of Mr..
Friedman. the pro clubs at the
top of the league have very few
boozers on the pay roll.
You will find that the best boys in
the game are upright and clean -liv-
ing" he said.
There is a familiar campus ring
about this remark, but it's probably
true. 1t checks with observations made
by this department among the foot
ball chattels of Detroit, Chicago, New
York and other cities. They stick
close to beer in season. I have drunk
stuff of sterner quality with some
of them once in a while, but they
seemed to know what they were doing
and to perform adequately on the
field when the time came.
There's much to be said for the
liberal point of view in training. Fa-
nous non-exercisers and non-ab-
stainers like George Jean Nathan,
Stanley Wal, and Ed Howe have
said that they owe what thev are
today to constant infraction Of the
McFadden CODE grant you that Mr..
Nathan, Mr.. Walker and Mr.. Howe
are not foot ball players, but perhaps
they could have been If they'd wanted
to-
The members Of the Giants and
Bears keep a flexible sort of training.
That doesn't weaken their resistance
to kicks, shoves, and an occasional up
percut on the playing field. Last
Sunday. when the ground was frozen
harder than sob sisters heart, they
bounced their bodies upon it with all
the zeal you could ask. And they
get paid for their work, which is
more than any college player has
ever admitted.
(Copyright. 1884. by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-12-11
DEAN LEADS EASTERN.

Lavelle Dean, all-high selection last
season, has been named captain Of
the Eastern High basket ball team for
the current campaign. He scored 78
points in eight series games last Win
ter, only five less than Francis (Red)
DAILY of Tech, who led the series
scorers.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
WALTONITES CANCEL.

The meeting of the local chapter
of the Izaak Walton League, sched-
uled to be held at the Raleigh Hotel
tomorrow night, has been Cancelled
owing to the death Of its secretary
treasurer, Thomas c. Gale, according
to an announcement of DIR. NJ Darcy
Magee, president of the chapter.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
CARD QU|NT. SEES
OPENER AS EASY
Four Veterans Will Start
Clash With Maryland
State Normal.
.ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY will
pry off its 1934-35 basket ball
I 4 lid tomorrow night in the Car
rvx,x~, 10 So n m ;,.s

OATHoLIc UNIVERSITY will
pry off its 1934-35 basket ball
lid tomorrow night in the Car
dinal gym, stacking up against
its traditional inaugural foe, Maryland
State Normal. The game is slated to
get under way at o'clock, with a
preliminary tussle between the Red
Bird yearlings and one of the local
high school quintets set for z.
Boosting a team that has no less
than four of its last years letter
winners, the Cardinal five is expected
to have little trouble Subduing the
NormaliteS. The teams have met the
past five years. and each encounter
has resulted in walkaway win for
the Brooklanders.
One familiar player will be missing
from the Catholic U. lineup. He is
Capt. Eddie White, who received his
sheepskin last June.
Schmarr Only Newcomer.
MYTH the loss of this able vet
" eran, Coach Fod Cotton has
been compelled to juggle his
lineup. Where White once held forth
at guard. Cotton has elected to play
Gerald (Babe) Gearty, a forward on
last seasons team. And in Gearty's
old spot, Hermie (Schultz) Schmarr,
outstanding performer of last years
capable frosk five, will make his debut
Bernie Lieb, former Eastern High
luminary, is slated for the center posi-
ton, while another local lad, Capt.
Gene Augusterfer, late of the St.
Johns Prep hardwoods, will take care
of the other forward post. Abe Rosen-
field, two-year veteran, rounds out the
team at guard.
Cotton is well supplied with reserves,
most Of whom came up from last
years freshman team. Those on hand
are Bill Adamaitis and Joe Yanchulis,
forwards; Zeke Brown, center, and
Sam Pagano. guard. Dick Morrisey, a
forward, is a junior.
Evening star., 1934-12-11

N YEW YORK, December 11.-One
M of the nice things about this
Y pro foot ball you hear so much
about is that the boys do not
have to fog themselves with all sorts
of abstemiousness and physical cul-
ture and training table tactics be-
tween games. They can roister a bit,
they can smoke anything short OF
opium, and If they see glass Of
medicinal matter they don't have to
put their hands over their eyes and
repeat the pledge.
This makes foot ball pleasure,
You may recall that, when George
Owen issued his bitter squawk about
the college game some years ago. he
touched heavily on the subjects of
practice and training. 1t was tough
grind, according to Mr.. Owen. The
game wasn't worth the workout.
Many loyal pigskin addicts were
shocked by Mr.. Owens attitude. They
accused him of being deserter,
mucker and a bright pink Com
munist. But Mr. owen was 30 or 80
per cent correct. All the college
players I know, when they let down
their hair and talk sense. agree that
foot bal is tough and wonder how
in the name of something or other
they got mixed up in 1t.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Twenty Grand's Comeback.

d" HORSE in competition" Trainer
~ Brennan said, lis good deal
like a man. I know most OF
them don't come back Twenty Grand
won around 100000 in 1881. That
year he was great horse and he was
good enough the year before to beat
Euuipoise twice He won one race in
1892 and then developed ligament or
tendon trouble just above the hoof.
He was beaten in his next start. So
we retired him to the stud, where ne
happened to be sterile. He was race
horse that belonged only to racing
to the competitive side.
Last June" Brennan continued,
"Mrs. Whitney decided to see how he
would work out. We started getting
him back in racing shape and 1t
wasn't so long before he turned in a
mile in 139. That's pretty fair time,
especially for a horse that had been
away from the track for more than
two years. So we decided to keep up
his training and to give him his chance
again at Santa Anita-and the $780,
900 pot"
Hell get his chance in other
races before the big shOt?" 1
asked.
"At least three or four times" Bren-
nan said. HE is one of Mrs. Whit
ney's pets and we'll give him every
chance. We know the odds he faces.
Grey Lad couldn't come back and
neither could Purchase. But Twenty
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Short Hours, Pleasant Work.

YUST after the recent professional
play-off game between the New
" York Giants and the Chicago
Bears found myself engaged in con-
versation with one Benjamin Fried
man, and I questioned Mr.. Friedman
closely about practice and training in
pro foot ball. He was willing to talk.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
A. L. Slate Is Heavy.

4 MEXICAN leaguers will name the
n place for the annual all-star
game, with Cleveland favored;
discuss the future of Babe Ruth,
intra-league games during the train
ing season, synthetic double headers
and post-season transforming tours,
one of which has Just ended in Ma
nila, after a tour of the Orient.
Separate sessions today and tomor-
row viii be followed by a joint meet
ing Thursday, with Commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Lands, presiding.
1t is rumored the International
League is dickering with a large air
transport company with a view to
transporting next seasons pennant
winner to the Pacific Coast for a post
season series with the Coast League
champions to make up for the little
world series" between the Interna-
tional League and American Associa-
ton winner. That series went on the
rocks after a disagreement.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
DnDTN H0DC Base Ball Moguls Do
NJ UNI NVUl II Much Cabling, but
~ ~ Little Bartering.
BY JOHN B. KELLER

to put up good defensive game with
nothing but dollar bills down at second
base"
Evening star., 1934-12-11
c. U.FWE PICKED
TO TRIM TERRORS
Most of Invaders Are Grid
Players Who Figured in
Win Over Hoyas.

- GEORGETOWN figures to get
1 back somewhat at Western
Maryland for the foot ball
defeat it suffered at the
hands Of the latter when the Hoyas
and the Green Terrors square of to-
morrow night at $50 o'clock at basket
ball in the Tech High gym. 1t will
be G. us opening game.
Western Maryland's court squad Is
made up almost entirely of members
of the schools. undefeated foot ball
team. Members of the grid team who
are cavorting on the hardwood for the
Terrors are Bill Shepherd. who led
intercollegiate foot ball scorers of the
country this season; George Ryscav-
age, Pete Merge, Louis Kaplan, Cliff
Lathrop. James Draper. former West
ern High star athlete; Gerald Com
merford, Bruce Ferguson, Robert Coe
and Nick Campofreda.
The Hoyas probably will start Capt.
Ed Hargaden and Ben Zola, guards;
Chubby PARCELS, center. and Don
Gibeau and Joe Corless, forwards.
The G. U. roster:
E. Hargaden 6'2" 172 sr. Oh. Br Acad..
Syracuse. N. Y.
j. Corless 5'9l2" 116 sr. w. New York.
N. j.. High.
L. Esenstad 5'S" $50 jr. Roosevelt.
D. g. High.
j. Young. SO" ia sr. Cath'ral Prep.
Erie. Pa.
Edw. Ragis 61" 10 soph. Crosby High.
Wat'by. Conn.
j. Loving. SO" $50 soph. Tech H. D. c.
E. Bodine. q 40 soph. st. r. Xavier.
New York City.
Ben Zola. $40" 17S soph. D. c.
Eastern High
c. PARCELS 61l2" 100 sr. Hackensack.
N. j.. High.
G. Haney. g. 175 soph. Perth Amboy.
N j. High
j. Ecken'de 61' 166 jr. Lancaster. Pa.
High.
D. Gibeau 511" $50 soph. Ch Br. Acad..
Syracuse. N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
OS ANGELES, December lit
has been written in the records
of the human cat times) race
l,o IL

llldG IIley COIl COIlle UdCh.
This may apply to champion after
a defeat or a long lay-off from the
active marts of competition, as mus
cles that once we're elastic lose their
spring, or timing no longer follows the
split second hand of form.
This adage may apply to a human
being-but what about a horse?
One of my recent travelling COM
panions across the continent was a
pretty fair traveller in his own right
by the name of Twenty Grand.
Twenty Grand looked to be right at
the top rung of the old P. Of c. But
Twenty Grand hasn't run race since
1892. He now is warming up around
the Santa Anita battlefield to take a
shot at Cavalcade, Equipoise, Mate and
other good ones for the 100000 show
that takes place at Santa Anita on
February %.
The message from Twenty
Grand's eyes seems to be this:
"I'll be there giving somebody a
battle"
But even William Brennan, his
trainer, doesn't know what Twenty
Grand can do now. Neither does Sill
VIC Coucci, the jockey who probably
will ride him.
Evening star., 1934-12-11


"THE trouble is" said one men,
Der Of the Boston party, that
Just because we have paid
fancy prices for a few ball players
the other clubs want to stick us for
everything they have to offer. We
couldn't buy good bat boy for less
than S35,000"
It is considered more or less GER
tain that Melillo will wind up at Sec
ond base for the Sox, and then Yawkey
and his aides will turn their atten-
ton toward replacing Eddie Morgan
at first.
So, while the American and Ma
tional League magnates meet behind
closed doors in the first of their for
NAL sessions, the managers will hold
forth in the lobby and try to cook up
deals.
The principal business before the
National League moguls is to install
Ford c. Frick as their new president
and decide whether Judge Emil c.
Fuchs of the Boston Braves is to be
permitted to use his park for dog
races next Summer. Virtually all the
early arrivals among the owners said
they were opposed to the idea.
Evening star., 1934-12-11
THE SPORTZIGHT
Can a Horse Come Back? Twenty Crand's
Great Spirit May Make Him an Exception
BY GRANTLAND RICE

Grand is a great horse. He may
different"
Evening star., 1934-12-11
Clark Griffith Striving Deal to Bring Bump Hady Back Nationals
.BANKROL[ ATTACK
FLOORING RED SOX
Couldn't Buy a Bat Boy for
Less Than $35, 900, One
of Party Ayers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
IEw YORK. December 1.-THE
open season for base ball deals
Y got away under full blast to-
day as owners and managers
flocked into town for the annual
meetings Of the American and Ma
tional Leagues.
Tom Yawkey. owner of the Boston
Red Sox, who already has spent al
most 100000 trying to get a PEN
nant winner, and Eddie Collins, his
astute business manager, were the
most sought after.
Yawkey and Collins held several
conferences with Joe Cronin, their
new manager. and the word went
around that they would like to have
Jack Burns, first sacker, and Oscar
Melillo, second baSeman, from the st.
Louis Browns, or Joe Kuhel and
Buddy Myer from the Washington
Senators-if the price is right.
Evening star., 1934-12-23

today. He said that it was the in
tention to make an exhibit in Chicago
of stamps Of every country on the
globe. The value Of the exhibit, he
thought, would be fully $500,000. He
said that the common opinion that
stamp collectors were mainly confined
to school children was mistaken
one. Thousands of dollars were in
vested in collections and some of the
leading men in the country were
enthusiasts. In his opinion, there
would be at least 100000 collectors in
this country alone who would buy a
complete set of the jubilee stamps
As each set costs about SIC, it will be
readily seen that the department es-
innate Is not out of the way"
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing has completed the manu-
facture of the new Philippines series,
but no formal announcement has
been made as to when the first-day
sale will be held.
Sets will be available at face value
(S6.6D at the Office of the Philippine
trade commissioner, 928 Barr Build
ing, Immediately after official release
in Manila.
Mexico has three new stamps, de-
picting an Indian with an extended
bow and arrow, issued December l..
The values are: 1c, orange; &c, green,
and 4c, carmine.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
Gerard Beeckman Says
Philately Is Prospering
Text of First of a Series of Short
articles for "Stamps
Magazine"

A recent advertisement begins:
-Four million new collectors-hun-
dreds of new stamp dealers"-which
causes me to stop and ponder. Just
where is philately headed? Whether
or not these figures are correct is a
point for argument and matters little,
but they will serve as basis for few
random thoughts.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the army of stamp collectors has been
tremendously increased in the past
few years to the point where it is es-
timated that there are from 10, 0,000, 900
to $4,000, 900 of them in the country
today. Many will fall by the way
side; some will hang on in a hap
hazard fashion and others will become
real philatelists.
What are the new recruits to the
philatelic fold collecting? First-day
covers? Yes. Cachets? Good-yes.
Terrible-unfortunately yes. Cancel
Evening star., 1934-12-23

lations, naval covers, first-flight
covers, stampless covers, foreign and
domestic adhesives and what have you.
Regardless of what the new enthusiast
Is collecting, more power to him, be-
cause philately is performing its mis-
sion of promoting a broad, educational
program that will bring to the indi-
vidual pleasure and relaxation.
However, the new deal in philately
is producing run-around-one might
almost call 1t merry-go-round. The
new collectors are buying mint stamps
(and old collectors, too) from the
Philatelic Agency and from local post
offices for collecting purposes to such
volume that the receipts of the
agency and the Post Office Depart
ment continually are mounting. The
Post ONCE Department in turn is
trying, apparently, to meet the de-
mand by many new issues. Reports
are that the receipts at the agency for
July, August and September were in
excess Of 5000, 900, and this very at
tractive source Of income is being
treated with great respect.
far as to sidestep the real reason
for issuing stamps-that Is, for postal
use-and Is issuing souvenir i'm
perforate sheets that are not pri-
marily for postal use. And right
there Is violated one of the ideals
of philately. These sheets are on
sale only at the Philatelic Agency, and,
as thousands Of collectors do not know
Of the existence Of the agency. they
never win possess these sheets un-
less they purchase them from dealers.
For this and other reasons there Is
q growing sentiment against them.
The new deal In phiiately may
have its good and bad points-but
the good omens are many. II "a
coming into its own. n being recos-
nised on every side. The radio. prem.
sehool, universities are accepting a.
Large department stores that formerly
apologlfsd for q small counter stuck
way haek IN an obscure corner nov
have their stamp sections IN pfumi.
nsnt hputs and Usually N charge NJ
an sxp<ft philaisllst rhllstslisls Are
takins 10 ths lefius plaifafm- high
oef<tnessni efksish eadFess eluha
sft eMHt3niinna
On ths vhess. philsisiy y hsaasa
imssfa-saa N Ne llshl diItellsna
Evening star., 1934-12-23

The charity stamps Of Belgium.
announced several weeks ago, now are
available. They run to seven de-
nominations-10c to SIR. The de-
sign shows knight on horseback, and
the symbol of the shield in each in
stance Is printed in red.
Iceland, 1t is reported, is preparing
new series of stamps to be issued
early in 1885.
Mexico is discontinuing official
stamps. Automatic franking ma
chimes are being installed in Govern
ment departments.
San Marino will have a commemo-
rative set for the Fascist movement.
The indicated values are: 5, 10, 20, IS,
so, 75c and 1L.25.