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Evening star., 1934-12-28
BY FOSTER HALEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


n IEw YORK December "a
N sharp challenge to high and
Y preparatory schools to re-
duce their foot ball death toll
was issued today by Prof. Floyd H.
Eastwood of New York University in
reporting the results of a four-year
survey of foot ball fatalities.
Fatal injuries in college, athletic
club and sandlot games are decreaS-
ing. Eastwood told the American
Foot Ball Coaches Association. In
contrast, the undiminishing number
of high and preparatory school fatali-
ties form an increasing percentage OF
the total. The percentage was 56.5
this year, against 1868 in 1881.
The record is even more alarming,
he said, if deaths from Infection
which he does not list as directly
attributable to foot ball-are in
cluded. There were five such among
high school players last Fall.
Remedies Suggested.
TINE remedy, he believes, is not un-
attainable and he lists the fol-
lowing six-point program:
/. An association of high school
foot ball coaches to do in high school
foot ball what the American Foot Ball
Association has done for the college
sport:
2. Raise the standards for employ
ment of high school coaches, requir-
ing them to have, in addition to foot
ball and coaching experience, ad-
vanced courses under leading foot
ball teachers;
3. Teach a rolling rather than .
head-on tackle, to block so that the
soft parts of the body will be con-
tacted, to tuck in their chins when
falling backward afer being tackled
or blocked in order to avoid concus-
ciOy,.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
OkesOn Indicates
Slight Revisions

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 2s.-The
~ National Foot Ball Rules Com
mittee. through Chairman
Walter r. Okeson, reported today
that the past season furnished
"clear-cut evidence that the game
requires but little tinkering with"
but indicated some further encour-
agement might be given to the lat
eral pass.
Pointing to the exciting games OF
the 1884 season as well as to
sharp reduction in injuries, Okeson
told the National Collegiate A. A.
that despite outside pressure to
make the game more spectacular
the Rules Committee still is "old-
fashioned enough to feel the safety
of the players comes first"
Your committee feels" the re-
port said, that it is quite possible
to keep the game open, interesting
and even spectacular without add
ing risks which, while not too great
for mature men of many years OF
playing experience. are far too
heavy to load on boys OF college
age"
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Other Changes Suggested.

OTHER suggested changes would
allow incoming substitutes to
communicate, clarity the rule
on when forward progress of player
in possession of the ball is stopped,
compel umpire to notify coach when
legal time outs" expire, allow any
forward pass into end zone except on
fourth DOWN to be ruled as incom-
pleted pass, apply penalty for second
forward pass during same play to be
inflicted from spot of foul and not at
spot of preceding down, apply penalty
for attempted lateral pass which re-
suits in forward pass from spot Of
foul and not at the spot of the pre-
ceding down.
The association as whole, it was
expected. would indorse the two sug-
gestions involving passing penalties as
well as the suggestion for clariflcation
of the forward progress rule which
caused many conflicting decisions
during the last season.
Besides discussing the rules and
hearing a dozen talks on technical
phases Of the game, the coaches were
slated to elect Bernie Bierman of
Minnesota president. succeeding Dana
x. Bible of Nebraska.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
COMETS REACHING
FOR STAR TROPHY.
New Court Sensations Pull
Upset in Turning Back
Heurich Flashes.

M ket ball sensations-a COM
v Y paratively unknown band
playing under the name Of
Parchey's Comets-tonight will at
tempt to skim another hurdle in the
fight for The Evening Star Trophy,
emblematic of unlimited supremacy in
the first annual Metropolitan Police
Boys Club tournament now in prog
ress on the George Washington Uni
versity court.
The Comets, who won their second
straight in the tourney and their sixth
win in as many starts this season last
night at the expense of the Heurich
Flashes, will meet Reconstruction
Finance Corp in one of the three fea-
ture games Of today's seven-game pro-
gram. Action in the Parchey's-R F.
c. Is slated to start at 7:30 o'clock.
Comets Deserve Victory.
TT WAS quite an upset, that 27-to-
i % victory for the Parchey's over
Heurich's, one of the favored
teams in the new tourney. but the
Comets deserved the triumph. The
eventual winners hoped off to a IA
to-10 lead at half-time and capably
warded off their rivals threats to
snatch the lead several times in the
second half. The game easily was the
feature OF the second days play.
Parchey's and r. F. c. were not due
to provide the only highlights of to-
days program. Sholl's, for the last
several years a power in local inde-
pendent court circles, will tackle
Delaware and Hudson's formidable
quint in another unlimited game to-
night. This tilt is slated for $50
O'Clock. A third unlimited tussle. be-
tween the Gallinger A. C. and the s.
s. Merchants, will start at 8 80 o'clock.
Two games were slated for this
afternoon in the 100 pound class. At
O'Clock the Georgetown Boys Club
was to oppose the Bethesda Bears.
while the Northeast and Washington
Boys Clubs were 10 tangle an hour
later.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
TH0RNH|LL RATES
HIS TEAM HIGHLY
Stanford Has Potentially
Best Eleven in Decade,
Coach Declares.
BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
~ AsADENA, Calf, December 20.
- -Stanfords current Rose
Bowl foot ball team, which
meets Alabama here next
Tuesday, is, in the opinion Of Coach
Tiny Thornhill, potentially the finest
eleven Of any turned out at the Palo
Alto farm in more than . decade.
the mentor Of the western repre-
sentatives. who boasts that he keeps
no grid secrets, had this to say Of his
squad as he threw the gates Of Brook
side Park wide open again for
another workout.
Il did a lot Of talking last year."
said good natured Tiny, "at break
fasts and luncheons and dinners and
over the radio. and then we lost to
Columbia.
Now here I am, back in town,
talking again. But I still think we
have a great team. It is. potentially,
the best team Stanford has had since
went to Palo Alto more than 10
years ago. We have a fine line and
good backfield. That's about all
there is to q foot ball team"
With Bobby Grayson and several
Of the others throwing the ball,
Stanford ran through a long passing
session, with a lot Of laterals on the
end for trimmings
Quite a session on passes was held
by the 'Bama boys, too. in their
secret workout yesterday. followed by
some actual line scrimmaging. Coach
Frank Thomas believes his men
have reached their physical peak
and future work will be designed to
hold them there.
If everything goes we'll the 'Bama
starting lineup will be the same as
that at the close of the season.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
USE SMALL M|TTS
AND LITTLE TAPE
Writer'S Decision Against
Champ Would Hurt His
Drawing Power.
BY WILLIAM WEEKES,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

@HIcAGo, December 2s.-Max
I Baer will risk his box Office
power, and to some extent his
world heavyweight champion
ship, in a four-round bout with King
Levinsky at the Chicago Stadium to-
night.
The Illinois State Athletic Commits
sion insists that the champions title
will not be involved-that the affair
will be an exhibitition-but a knock
out victory for the Kingish would
give him a claim difficult for any one
to laugh off. There will be no official
decision, but in the event both wallop-
ers are on their feet at the finish, a
poll of sports writer's at the ringside
will be taken.
Both Baer and Levinsky apparently
intend to make a fight of it, for they
will use 6-ounce gloves instead of g.
ounce ones. Also, they will use about
half the usual yardage of tape and
gauze in bandaging their hands,
which indicates 1t will be more of a
fight than an exhibition.
The commission has ruled that in
case of a knockdown, the regulation
maneuvers, such as shooing the boxer
on his feet to the farthest neutral
corner, will be observed. However, the
referee will not count. The counting
will be done by the timekeeper, and if
the man on the canvas fails to regain
his feet at the count of 10" the ref
cree will retire from the ring without
saying anything
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Invaders More Experienced.


NHIO STATES five is the more
~ experienced. Wilson being
senior. Smith a sophomore and
the other three juniors. Willis and
Buscher are juniors. but the other
Terps are seeing their first year of
varsity service.
Bill Guckeyson, foot ball back
freshman ace in basket ball. has come
out for the Old Line varsity and is
big asset, but Shipley will lose Head
ley to the track team after the game
with Ohio State.
However. the Maryland outlook is
much brighter than it appeared at the
start of practice, and Shipley should
have a pretty formidable combinatio
by the time midseason is reached.
Guckeyson, Norwood Sothoron or
Charlie Keller may fill Headley's shoes
and Fred Scheele, a forward. is show
ing marked advance. Sothoron is a
veteran. Keller is soph and Scheele
Is junior who was on the squad for
a short time last season. but not long
enough to get into any games Ike
Rabbit, an experienced junior of
worth, completes the squad.
All seats at tomorrow nights game
will be 40 cents.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
YANKEE AUTOISTS AHEAD
straights Are One, Two in Race
Held in South Africa.

EAST LONDON, South Africa, De-
cember 28 L@).-Whitney Straight,
young American auto racer, yesterday
drove his Maserati to victory in the
first South African Grand Priz road
race. averaging 95.43 miles per hour
for the 90 miles.
His brother Michael, driving q
Railton Terraplane, finished third.
Straight, a millionaire sportsman,
has done most Of his racing abroad in
road events.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
MEYERS TO LEAD STARS.

SAN FRANCISCO, December % Cp).
"A team of outstanding Pacific Coast
foot ball players, selected and coached
by Ernie Nevers, assistant coach at
Stanford. will oppose the New York
Giants, National Professional League
champions, in the annual knights of
Columbus charity game here Janu-
ary 20.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
FORMER GRID ACE DIES.

BOTTINEAU, N. Oak. December %
R.-I. P. Ertresvaag. SO, selected as
an all-America guard in 1916. when
he was a member of the Pennsyl-
vania foot ball team. died here Of
pneumonia. Participating in the jan
uary l. 1917. Rose Bowl game against
Oregon. Ertfesvaag played beside Lou
Little, now Columbia coach.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
REDSKINS SEEK JONES.

BOSTON. December % UP.-Lone
Star Dietz has been released as coach
of the Boston Redskins professional
foot ball team, George Marshall, club
president. has announced. Marshall
is seeking Capt. "Biff" Jones. recently
resigned at Louisiana State.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Hockey Results

BY the Associated Press.
National League.
Toronto, 4; New York Americans,
(overtime).
st. Louis, S; Detroit, 2.
Montreal Maroons, /; Boston, 0.
International League.
Detroit, 5; Cleveland, 2.
Syracuse. 5; London, l.
Intef-League.
Oklahoma City fAmerican Assocta-
tion) !; Eveleth (Central) O,
Evening star., 1934-12-28
~ ASADENA, Calf, December 28.
. -Stanford's rugged foot ball
squad stormed into the Rose
Bowl picture as TINY Thornhill

- STANFORD rugged IOOL Dali
squad stormed into the Rose
Bowl picture as Tiny Thornhill
brought the last half of his aggrega-
ton to town. Under a cloudy sky and
with several hundred spectators look
ing on, the Pacific Coast players went
through a fast workout within two
blocks of the spot where on Tuesday
they will be called upon to face Ala
bama's Red Regiment.
Two weeks ago Thornhill had nine
players in the hospital. Today every
man was on the field but Claude CAL
laway, regular right tackle. who missed
the workout because Of his mothers s
serious illness in Fresno. Galloway Is
scheduled to join his teammates to-
morrow.
Inasmuch as the physical condition
Of Bobby Grayson Is due to play a
most important part in Stanford's
plans, asked the feet and rugged
ball carrier how he had progressed in
his recovery since receiving three
cracked ribs in the California game on
November "A.
II feel great" was Bobbys re-
ply. 81 threw some passes before
we left Stanford and the effort
didn't bother me bit.
That was the last thing worrying
me and, boy, I was glad to find I
could throw all right. I'm just q bit
underweight, but don't think that
will hurt. The five days down here
should give me back my full wind and
make my legs as strong as ever. We
all know we're in for an awfully hard
game, and I'm sure glad that I'm in
shape again"
With both teams now quartered
close to the scene of Tuesdays battle,
there is little to do but wait for the
opening whistle. The Rose Bowl is
sold out, which means that more than
$4,000 fans will view the game-the
largest crowd in Pasadena history.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Boys Club Tangle.
n HACFARLAND BOYS CLUB and
N Georgetown Boys Club were to

n MCFARLAND BOYS CLUB and
lNl Georgetown Boys Club were to
engage in ll5-pound game at
3 O'Clock, while l30-pound meeting
between the Northeast and Washing
ton Boys Club was to wind up this
afternoons program at O'Clock.
Both Delaware and Hudson and
Sholls were victorious in games last
night. but the opposition was not as
stern as that which will be met to-
night when they oppose. The D. & H.
team routed Navy Department, 81 to
10, while Sholl's walloped the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, 55 to II.
Northeast Boys Club gained more
followers when 1t won a 46-to-9 de-
cision over the Fifth Precinct Boys
Club 130-pounders. while Georgetown
Boys Club 115-pounders won a 22-to-
l8 duke over the Olymplcs. In the
l00-pound division. the Washington
Boys Club smothered the Merricks, "a
to II.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
TERPS
IN FIRST BATTLE
Basket Contest Tomorrow
Matches Wits of Two.
Veteran Coaches.

~ HIO STATE and the Univer-
sity of Maryland will be
Y i clashing for the first time in
any sport when the Buckeyes
and Terps take the basket ball floor
in Ritchie Coliseum at College Park
tomorrow night at o'clock.
Ohio State came East with three
wins in as many starts to its credit
while the inexperienced Maryland
quint lost its only pre-holiday tilt to
Indiana by five points, 80 to 25, on
December 20. The Terps feel they will
be working more smoothly against
the Buckeyes than they did against
the HooSiers.
Veteran coaches will match wits in
the intersectioual battle Harold Oh
sen is serving his thirteenth season
at Ohio State, while Burton Shipley
is in his eleventh year at Maryland
Both have made fine records.
The probable line-ups:
Evening star., 1934-12-28
CLARK STAYS WITH PROS
Quiets Rumor About Taking Job
as Harvard Grid Coach,

DETROIT, December % @.-
George (Potsy) Clark has signed a
contract to coach the Detroit Lions
of the National Professional Foot Ball
League during 1895.
Clark's action set at rest reports
that he would resign his position and
become Eddie Casey's successor at
Harvard.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
HARDY PEARCE MARRIES.

Hardy Pearce, Eastern High coach
and former George Washington foot
ball player, and Marion Elizabeth Flick
were married last night at the Eastern
Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
JOHNSON SCORES LIQUOR
Indians Pilot Makes Address at
Recreation Forum.

Walter Johnson, manager of the
Cleveland Indians and former famed
pitcher Of the Washington team,
warned against the harmful effects
of hard liquor in an address last night
at an open forum held by the Recrea-
ton Department of the Washington
Bureau for Transients, in the depart
ment's boys lodge.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Put on Final Touches.

TINE two camps Of Crimson Cardi-
nal are putting on the final coats
of polish with only four days
to 60.
Both Alabama and Stanford, the
pride of the South and the pick Of
the West, suddenly realize they are
In for the hardest afternoon on New
Year day that either team ever has
known.
can't recall looking at two squads
30 we'll matched on the physical side.
And the physical side, In the main,
means size, speed and power.
Alabama's first-string strength
averages 195 pounds-1S5 pounds
Of exceptional speed.
stanfords first string scales at 1913
with just as much speed. When you
move from one field to another you
begin to wonder how either team ever
can score along the turf, where there
Is power to match power and speed
to match speed.
1t Is my belief this next Rose Bowl
game will be decided in the air-where
the next war will be decided. And
as far as passing goes, Alabama has
shown q slight edge with Dixie
Howell Tipping the ball to Hutson or
Bryant, . pair of tall, fast ends who
know how to handle . pass.
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Schoolboy Grid Deaths Cro,o
As They Drop on Other Teams

4. Provide q thorough physical
examination before practice or .
game.
S. Provide adequate first aid facili-
ties on the field Of play to decrease
deaths from infection;
6. Observe caution in seeing that q
player is thoroughly warmed up" be-
fore he is sent into q game. Gan an
alysis shows that the major percentage
OF injuries occur in the first and final
quarters Of q game)
Eastwood also takes to task the par
ents who give youngster foot ball
but no other equipment and urges the
equipment concerns to develop i'm
proved headguards and pads to pro-
tect the abdomen and lower back.
Any father who buys his youngster
foot ball for Christmas, he said, at
least should buy him a helmet at the
same time and pay more for the latter
than for the former. The best plan,
he says, would be to buy Q complete
outfit or no foot ball.
Fatalities Total lis.
TN THE four-year history Of the sur
vey, made in cooperation with
the Associated Press and the Ma
tional Bureau Of Casualty and Surety
Underwriters. lis accidental deaths
were reported as directly attributable
to foot ball. Deaths caused by infec-
ton Of wounds suffered on the grid
iron were not considered and all on
which definite information was not
obtainable also were disregarded.
OF this total, so, or A per cent, were
among high school players; 80, or 2s
per cent, were among sandlotters; Is,
or IA per cent, in college games or
practice, and is among athletic club
players.
The table:
1Q3l 1000 1Qo2 1a2A 4 VIA
Evening star., 1934-12-28
Hard Scoring.

I'VE watched the workouts with How
ard Jones, head coach Of South
ern California; Bill Spaulding,
head coach at u. G. L. A.; Bob Zup-
PIKE, head coach ut Illinois, and other
famous grenadiers of the gridiron-
and they all come to this conclusion
here are two BIZ, alert lines, danked
Evening star., 1934-12-28

n TBLE, in his report as president,
y viewed foot balls future with an
optimitic eve.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1934-05-04

portion. Recently the famous Col.
Carl Ben Eielson flew across the top
of the continent, as indicate on
the map. with Capt Sir Hubert Will
kins. over to Spitzbergen. He came
back to Alaska afterwards and es-
tahlished an air company there, and
in a commercial flight made to ST.
IBERIA he was forced down along the
Siberian coast and was lost. It was
months before his body was found.
The people of Alaska appealed to
the Government to send Army
planes up there and search for Colo
mel Eielson, and We found that the
Army did not have any equipment
fit for flying in that climate or in
that country or in that weather.
and so in the end we had to appeal,
indirectly, to the Soviet Govern
ment. and that Government spent a
good many thousand dollars in the
effort to find Colonel Eielson.
"They sent up their military
planes which were equipped for
sub-Arctic and Arctic flying and
they went there and searched for a
long time, but finally the bodies of
Colonel Eielson and that of his me-
chanfc Earl Borland were discovered
by Joe Crosson, an almost equally
famous American flyer. accompanied
by the intrepid pilot, Harold Gill
lam. While our flyers could not
think of going into Alaska to face
the storms at that same time the
military pilots of Soviet Russia were
properly equipped. and they sent
their ships into northern Siberia and
searched for Colonel Eielson.
One would think that under any
adequate scheme of military defense
our air pilots ought to be trained in
that sort of flying, because Alaska
may be the theater of war in the
future. Some may say, We don
care what happens to Alaska, let
the foe take it That might be all
right for the people in continental
United States, but did you ever con-
slider the position the United States
would be in if a strong and hostile
power got possession of the Terri
tory of Alaska. Then you would
have a potential enemy within
very few hundred miles of Seattle
and San Francisco, and shall not
forget this time-also not so far
from Los Angeles.
Let me, if may sum up, since
my time is limited.
so far as the United States is
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1934-05-04

points deemed proper by naval and
military authorities such fortifiea-
tions, and particularly an adequate
air force, as would effectively pre-
vent a successful attack by an enc
my fleet or army Such a program
is essential for the proper protec-
ton of the United States. Alaska,
too. is deserving of adequate pro-
lection.
Second. There should be periodi-
cal voyages to Alaskan waters by
the United States fleet so that the
personnel may become acquainted
with the waterways as matter of
preparedness. OF course, such visits
need not be made by the entire fleet
at one time but substantial units
should be sent north in rotation.
This program is advocated by
the people of Alaska; 1t has the sup
port of the American Legion in
Alaska. I wish that l had time to
read the letters l have from the
several posts of the American Lee
gion in Alaska | believe that it is
in entire harmony with the views
and policy and plans Of the COM
mand of the Army, and particularly
that of the Army air force. l say to
yen. Defend the United States by
defending Alaska. And do not for
get that $4,000 citizens of the
United States. who love our COM
mon country and are as much en-
titled to protection as any other
citizens of the United States, live
in Alaska"
Here the gavel FELL
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1934-05-04

concerned, the theater of discomfort
lies TO the westward. not across the
Atlantic. Trade expansion in the
Orient and racial antagonisms in
yolve this country whether it pleas
es to be involved or not. Our ero-
nomic stake in Asia is large, and
constantly growing.
We are separated from the Con-
tinent of Asia not by the broad Pa
cific but by the narrow Pacific. The
western arm of the Aleutians juts
out past 172 degrees longitude.
Alaska proper lies far to the west
of continental United States. Alaska
is the very close neighbor of Asia.
An enemy from Asia could
scarcely hope to send his fleet east
to the main cities of the Pacific
coast via the Hawaiian Islands. Two
factors would deter him: First, the
United States fleet; second, distance
from bases of supply which such an
attempt would involve. But he nat
uraIly would make the attempt via
Alaska. He would have many advan-
tages by so doing;
First Route is shortest and
regularly used by commercial yes
sells at present.
Second Alaska offers harbors
without number and enemy could
take shelter therein and any effort
to dislorge him would be difficult.
Third. Under present circum-
stances it would be wholly within
his power to make a surprise sortie
upon Pacific Northwest from Alas
ka, and the advantage would be all
his He would have harborages to
which he could retreat; he could
consolidate his gains and a greatly
superior fleet would be necessary
to drive him back.
Fourth. It is entirely conceivable
that once he was in possession of
Alaska that he could not be driven
out. From that position he could not
only worry continually the Ameri-
can fleet and cities on the Pacific
coast but he could establish a trans
port route by which soldiers could
be massed in Alaska for invasion OF
the United States.
ITO obviate any such possibility
there should be:
First. Establish at Anchorage or
Fairbanks and also in the Aleutian
Islands and elsewhere in Alaska at