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Evening star., 1934-12-26
STANFORD SQUAD
PLANSF|NAL TOLL
Players Scattered During
Holidays ReasSembIe at
Pasadena Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
- TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calf,
December 26.-After final in
4 J formal workout this afternoon,
Stanford's foot ball squad
what there is left of it on the farm
will head south tonight for PaSa-
dena and the New Year day Rose
Bowl game with the University of
Alabama
Coach c. E Tiny" Thornhill plan
ned to hold only brief practice with
the players who remained here over
Christmas About half of the squad,
most of whom lived in Southern Cali
fornia, left the campus the first of
the week.
The entire squad will hold two prac-
tices at Brookside Park, in Pasadena,
tomorrow. Coach Thornhill announced
no more heavy scrimmages before the
game.
The players were given a rest on
Christmas day, but Bob Reynolds, all
America tackle, and Jim Monk" Mo-
scrip, star end, held a tWo-man prac-
tice of their own for over an hour.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
A Refreshing Breeze.

90 WHY, asks Cornell, in announc-
y ing her policy, should not a boy
qualified to play good foot ball re-
ceive benefaction as well as a boy who
has no athletic ability? Why not, in
deed? From the shores of Cayuga a
clean breeze is directed upon college
sport.
If this writer is not mistaken. GER
tain important universities, now that
Cornell has taken the lead and spoken
forthrightly as a prelude to fortnight
action, will follow suit, soon or later.
And thus will perish deceit, educa-
tional tergiversation and all the sub
tie innuendo and back-biting which
mark the conduct of intercollegiate
foot ball.
What I like about Cornell's ac-
tion," said an eminent educator to
this writer, lis the effect it is likely to
have in dissipating the nlurk in which
foot ball systems have been skulking
in recent years. AS compared to open
athletic scholarships openly arrived at,
existing conditions are unwholesome,
unhealthy and wholly contemplate.
What are those existing conditions?
Chiefly. they place boys gifted with
ability to play foot ball in the position
of sneaks and cheats. An enthusiastic
alumnus of means whispers to Sec
ondary school athlete and thereafter
that boys college career Is based on
whispers.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
They're All Guilty.

THERE is not university or COL
lege playing foot ball of merit
whose teams do not include. or
have not included. players helped
through college, wholly or in part, by
alumni benefactors- This applies to
any institution you care to name
Harvard, Princeton. Yale and most Of
the rest of our distinguished seats of
learning including the State universi-
ties of the country. And do you think
that Of those who play on the Army
and Navy teams some have not re-
ceived appointments to the service
academies because they were good ath-
leteS in preference to candidates who
we're not?
Since Cornell has pointed the way,
let us have done with hypocrisy for
good and all. Let us recognize, as one
director of athletics said to this writer
today, that our colleges have been
exploiting boys for years and years.
having them risk their necks and
spend their time in the commercial
enterprise of attracting dollars to the
Golfers of their institutions, while i'm
posing upon them the necessity Of
living lies and in general educating
themselves in the devious ways of
deceit.
The other day man who stood in
his university as a leader. an out
standing athlete and brilliant stu
dent. came to an alumnus Of his uni
versity and paid him-a year after
graduation-the last cent owed this
graduate for money advanced for the
boys education. The name OF this
fine boy is concealed-why? Because
were it known he had gone to college
as beneficiary he would be set down
as one who had capitalized his athletic
ability, and the college he attended
would be exposed as haven for a
hired athlete. Could anything be
more silly?
Cornell may have started something
which will rectify this grinning nom
sense. 1t wants no tramp athletes
and will have none. But hereafter
boys who can play foot ball and at
the same time maintain scholastic
standing need not skulk at Cornell.
(Copyright 1934)
Evening star., 1934-12-26
PARKER OUT, HUNT
TOPS TENNIS LIST
Washington Player Seeded No. /
in Field of 73 Seeking
Junior Crown.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, December pa field
OF 73 college and schoolboy tennis
stars will open a SiX-day battle to-
day in the 7th Regiment Armory
for the national indoor junior singles
tennis crown, relinquished by default
by Frankie Parker Of Lawrenceville,
N. j.
Replacing Parker. who has gone
to Bermuda for the Christmas holi-
days, as the seeded No. l player is
Gilbert Hunt CT Washington, D. c.,
runner-up for the singles last year
and winner Of the doubles. Other
seeded players. in order. are: Jack
Behr, Scarboro School; Russell Ball,
Northwestern; John Mahoney, Hack
ley School; Alfred L. Jarvis, Hackley,
and Frank Farrell, De Witt Clinton.
There are four seeded players in
the boys division, which also opens
today. They are Robert A. Low,
Choate; 1sadore Bells, Central High,
Philadelphia; Henry H. Daniels, ir.,
Choate, and Arthur c. Nelson, jr.,
New Trier Township High School.
Finals IN both divisions will be
played on New Year day.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
ALUMNI CUNTS CLASH
Central and Tech Will Garry On
Ancient Sports Rivalry.

Ancient Sports Rivalry.
For the first time alumni basket
ball teams of those ancient foes, Gen.
trail and Tech, will have it out when
they clash on the Tech court tomor-
row night. The scrap between the
boys who formerly carried the Blue
and the Gray will follow an attrac-
tive match carded for 7:15 o'clock
between the Tech undergraduate
team and the strong Southern High
Quint of Baltimore.
Tech figures to put an alumni team
on the floor made up of such former
cracks as Joe Croson, Waverly
Wheeler, Knocky Thomas and pos
sibly Bozie Berger. Bits Keyser,
Buddy Nau, Carroll Shore and Mario
Gregorio are some of the players who
will represent the Central grads.
Southern High is expected to give
Tech all the fight it is looking for.
Last year Southern won the Balti-
more schoolboy title and a few days
ago it walloped Baltimore Poly by 35
points. 1t was Poly that Southern
trimmed last season to win the Bal
timore title.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.
OS ANGELES, December 26.-1n

II w <ANSSAA@0t 1SSSAA6S1 SOs AL
its 10 games of the 1884 season
/ the Stanford foot ball team
gained $3.50 yards from scrim-
mage and passes, while its opponents
netted only 1,150. The Cardinals are
mainly a running team and 2,289 of
their yards came from rushing. They
completed only "a of So passes and the
gains amounted to only 358 yards.
Bobby Grayson was Stanford's
greatest ground gamer, although he
played in only eight games. The fleet
fullback packed the ball $50 times for
a gain of I'll yards, or an average of
IS per expedition. Grayson's con-
sistency Is shown by the fact that he
failed to gain only II times and lost
only 40 yards during the season. Bob
Hamilton and Frank Alustiza were the
other hard workers on the team, but
neither measure, up to Grayson in ef-
fectiveness.
Makes AeriaIs Work.
4 LABAMA by comparison is better
n than Stanford both at running
and throwing. The 'Bamans
netted 1896 yards in nine games. or
approximately 1A miles. By complet-
ing 81 Of 116 forward passes, Alabama
made a53 yards, SO that its running
game provided only one-fourth Of its
total gains for the season.
The Dixie champions admittedly are
superior to Stanford in forward pass
ing and the Californians must build a
strong aerial defense if they expect to
win from the Red Regiment in the
Tournament Of Roses game.
Both teams have excellent kickers
to get the valuable point after touch
down or mayhap q needed field goal.
Riley Smith, the Southerners' big
quarterback, booted 20 place kicks for
the point after touchdown during the
regular season. while Jim Moscrip. the
Evening star., 1934-12-26
HYPOCRISY DEALT
HAMMER WALL0P
Foot Ball Player Now Can
Be Helped at School
Without SkuIking.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, December 26.-It
M is yet too early to Judge the
Y general effect of the lusty
hammer blow which Cornell
University has dealt upon the head
of hypocrisy. Indications, however, are
that it will be profound.
Canvass Of opinion Of educators con-
corning Cornell's decision to establish
athletic scholarships in the hope that
qualified foot ball material will be
drawn to the university brings forth
sentiment which though guarded and
mot for publication, please" is wholly
approving.
Cornells standing as a great uni
versity, where ideals are cherished and
standards meticulously upheld, insures
respect immediate and wholesome for
any move she makes, for any attitude
she assumes.
Foot ball as a sport is recognized at
Ithaca as a valuable adjunct to an
educational institution, not only as a
producer of revenue for the conduct Of
a general intramural and intercol-
legiate system of sports, but as
wholesome influence for good in its
effects as a tonic in undergraduate
life and the best known agent in es-
tablishing a dynamic and constructive
alumni solidarity.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
PRO HOCKEY

BY the Associated Press.
National League.
Toronto 6; Montreal Canadians, Q.
New York Rangers, 8; New York
Americans. /.
Montreal Maroons, 5; Boston, 8.
Chicago, 2; Detroit, !.
Canadian-American League.
Boston, 2: Providence, 2 (tie).
Quebec, 4; New Haven /.
ter-League Game.
Kansas City (American Associa-
tom, 3; Eveleth (CentraD, 2.
International League.
Buffalo at Cleveland postponed to
January %.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
TURF SPORT BACK
IN 0LDT|ME GLORY
$4,000 See Opening Races
in Southern California.
High GIee Wins.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A RCADIA, Calf, December 26.-
~ The heritage Of Lucky Bald
n win appeared today to have
been handed down to horse
racing in Southern California.
For on a small corner of the once
broad acres of Rancho Santa Anita,
where Elias J. Baldwin successfully
raised and raced thoroughbreds more
than rs years ago, the turf sport re-
turned yesterday in all its glory.
Thirty-nine thousand persons wildly
heralded the revival and with it the
victory of High Glee, C. V. Whitney's
speedy filly in the $4,000 Christmas
Stakes. They put s25s.os6 through
the pari-mutuel machines for the
eight races.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
An Accommodating Gent.

"H1S gentleman will indulge any
! i modest whim you may have. He
generally quotes a standard set
OF prices on pitchers-1 to against
Hubbell at home, l to against Dizzy
Dean, ! to 8 against Gomez, l to 4
against Mel Harder, and so on, the
odds fuctuating bit with the strength
of the rival club and the rival pitcher.
He'll probably accommodate you up
to 5000 or $500.
If you want bigger money, you walk
over to certain place or a certain
box in the park and talk with the man
in the wide yellow panama hat. These
big operators often sit through the
game with one guest and match his
money on everything that comes
along-walks. strikeouts, total scores,
strategy, double plays or the batter's
record last Tuesday.
Funny things happen sometimes
The Giants and the Athletics were
playing a world series game at the
Polo Grounds and Jack Doyle, sitting
in one Of the boxes, had a $500 bet
with a friend on the Giants and
Mathewson. Matty seemed a safe
winner through most of the game
Doyles friend, who had to catch a
train. grew impatient and discouraged
I'll pay off now for $780," he said
In the seventh inning.
Nothing doing" said Doyle, with
unbounded faith in the Mathewson
person.
-Four hundred"
Nothing doing"
Evening star., 1934-12-26
High Glee Is Winner.

TIGH GLEE won with a stirring
stretch run, leading Chictoney.
California owned and bred, past
the finish by length and half after
trailing in second place almost from
the gate. Riskulus, another California
thoroughbred, was third, another
length and half behind. The time
Of 1897 was fast for the mile.
Time Supply, burdened with top
weight OF 126 pounds and an 8-to-5
favorite, finished fifth, head back of
Top Row. Head Play, trying desper-
ately to overcome year Of inactivity,
finished last in the field Of IL after
his antics at the barrier had held up
the race for several minutes.
Evening star., 1934-12-26

started steering their way through
trouble"
All this bore out the Morrison
Coen angle.
The Tightening Process.
We'll" I suggested, what is there
to be done about it? Is it more i'm
portant to work on the mechanical
details of the swing or to devote more
time to concentration-and also to
relaXation?"
Both instructors agreed that it was
difficult to keep the golfer concentrat-
ing on the right order or the right
thing.
This also applies to the best of the
sWingerS. Some years ago I was
watching an open championship with
Bill Fownes. There were nine pros
left with a chance to win.
This ought to be a wild scramble" !"
I suggested to Bill.
only it won't be-" he said. only
two of those left can concentrate for
more than nine holes under pressure" :"
One of the two he mentioned won
this title.
1t is difficult to make the
average golfer understand that
the habit of correct concentra-
tion is Just as important as the
habit of correct swinging-since
thought must precede action.
The club isn't going to swing
itself.
For most golfers the body isn't
going to turn, the weight isn't going
to shift, the wrists are not going TO
be cooked, unless there is direct
thought on the start and finish of
the backswing. not solely on hitting
the ball-a thought which dominates
most golfng minds.
They will think about a few
strokes" the two instructors sighed,
land then begin taking it all for
granted until the big snarl is on
again."
No clubhead PAGES itself The
brain must do that, especially in a
pinch where pressure is applied. In
most games this pressure is largely
physical. In golf it is mental. That
is where the doctoring must start.
(Copyright 1884 by the North America T
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1934-12-26
SUGAR BOWL FOES
FINISH HARD WORK
Tulane and Temple Regard Teams
as Fit and Decide Not to
Risk Injuries.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. December 90
~ Tulane and Temple began taper
ing off today for their Sugar
Bowl intersectional foot ball fray here
New Year day.
Tulane's coach, Ted Cox, planned to
make today's workout little lighter
and shorter.
In Baton Rouge Coach Pop" War
ner cut the Owls practice shorter.
Both teams have done enough hard
work, the coaches feel, and they don't
want to risk injuries.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

THE story that Carl Cashion,
L former pitcher of the Wash
ington Club, is baking at joining
Cantillon's Minneapolis Club of
the American Association is not
based on facts.
Jim Gaffney, owner of the Bos-
ton Braves. has insured the life of
his crack shortstop, Rabbit Maran-
vile, for $4,000.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
SOCCER RESULT DEBATED
German American Team Given

German-American soccerists con-
quered the British United eleven, 4-3,
yesterday on the Monument Grounds,
but there are some who claim the lat
ter should have won, 3-2, contending
this was the score when the game
ended officially. Play was allowed to
go several minutes beyond the regula-
ton limit, it was maintained.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
GRID LIST is CHANGED
Four Newcomers Are Slated fol-
1885 by Mississippi q.

UNIVERSITY, Miss, December 26
.-Millsaps, Marquette, st. Louis
University and Centre College are
newcomers on the foot ball 1895
schedule for University Of Mississippi.
September 90. Millsaps at Jackson
(nisht): 2S. Memphis Teachers at oxford.
October 5. Southwestern place unde-
cidedl; 12. Sewanee iplace undecided); l9.
Florida at oxford thome coming); 26,
Marquette at Milwaukee.
November .. st. Louis University at st.
Louis; 9. Tennessee tplace undecided; 16.
Centre at Danville; %. Centenary at
Evening star., 1934-12-26
GETTING GRASS GREENS.

PINEHURST, N. C.-Grass green's
are invading Pinehurst courses, for 80
years famous for their perfect sand
putting surfaces. Grass greens have
been built on the first three holes of
the championship course. and will
probably be constructed on all of the
courses here.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
LEAD YOUNG GRIDDERS
Smitt and Fusco Picked as Best
on 1OO-Pound Elevens.

Carl Smitt, Merrick Boys Club, and
Sammy Fusco, Northeast Tigers, have
been picked as outstanding members
of their teams in the Columbia 100
pound foot ball league. They will re-
ceive awards New Year day when the
Wolverines, league champs, will be
presented a trophy.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
Two 40-FOOt Puts.

4 NYTHING can happen in golf, but
n the strangest incident this writer
has seen in some IS years of fol-
lowing the game occurred at the Lake
side Club here few days ago. How
ard Jones, the Southern California
foot ball coach, and Grantland Rice,
the scrivener, were members of four
some, and on one hole both hit full
brasSie shots to the green.
The balls stopped within few feet
Of one another and some 40 feet from
the cup. Jones putted what he sup
posed was his ball and it rolled nicely
into the cup for birdie 8. Rice then
discovered that Jones had putted the
wrong ball, so it was replaced on the
green. Then what did Rice do. but
confound his opponent by tapping the
ball down for another and official 3.
Jones, of course, missed on his next
attempt, for that's the way golf goes.
But two 40-foot puts with the same
ball was a new one on me.
One Of the few horse monuments in
the country stands only short dis
tance from the Santa Anita track,
Southern California's new racing
plant, which opened yesterday. The
monument is in the shape of mall
tese cross and beneath it are buried
Lucky" Baldwin's four winners Of the
American Derby-Volante, which won
in 1885; Silver Cloud, in 1886; EN-
peror Of Norfolk, in 1888, and Rey El
Santa Anita, in 1894.
Evening star., 1934-12-26

Topping, end; Galloway, tackle; Rey-
nolds, tackle; Rouble, guard; Muller,
center; Adams, guard, and Moscrip,
end.
A. p. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
CHARGE FOR BIG MEET.

When the 1885 track meet of the
Western Conference is held at Ann
Arbor, Mich, it will be the first time
in 10 years the event has not been
staged at Northwestern University.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
BASKET TILTS SOUGHT.

Games with unlimited basket ball
teams having the use of gymnasiums
are wanted by the Western A. c.
Manager Splawn is booking at West
2699-J between and z pm.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
GUEST TO EXHIBIT.

A billiard performance will be given
tonight by the Masked Marvel at
Jacks Billiard Parlors, Gil o street.
The Marvel is scheduled to take on all
corners.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
BETTING MARKED
BY GREAT VARIETY
Fans Wager on Every Angle
of Play and Takers Ever
Are Handy.
BY JOHN LARDNER.

n YEW YORK. December 90
nj The great and pure game of
base ball was almost pushed
over the cliff by gamblers IS
years ago. Since then lot of care
has been devoted to keeping it clean.
Minor offenders, like Phil Douglas,
Cozy Dolan and Jimmy O'Connell, are
thrown out of circulation without de-
lay. Painful precautions are taken to
prove that one club did not lay down
to another club in the pennant fight.
So base ball is as clean as hounds
incisor. That doesn't keep the Gus
toners in the ball park from betting
anywhere from so cents to $500 an
afternoon. 1t doesn't kill off the pools
on total runs, high scores and low
scores for the week. 1t doesn't dis
courage the daily bettorS in Doyles,
kearney'S and a thousand other wager
wigwams throughout the country.
It's really very easy to bet on base
ball, so long as you don't give the
magnates cause to suspect you of tam
pering with their hired hands. For
instance, you're sitting back of third
base in one of the parks. A man in
shirt sleeves comes over by your seat,
If he knows you. and says in a tone
several notches above a whisper:
Gomez, Cain, 10 to l Philadelphia,
] to Yankees"
Evening star., 1934-12-26
/THE trouble with most golfers" :"
began Myles Coen, the able
young instructor at Scars
A. p. Photo.

"The trouble with most golfers" Alex
Morrison added, couldn't be put down
in a 2O0-page book.
"You get them Strengthened out, and
a week or so later most of them are
back just where they were. remember
ing vaguely something you told them
to do some time before"
Having two well-known instructors
coralled in one group, the time seemed
to be about ripe to bring up this
point:
Do most golf troubles come
from faulty knowledge of cor
rect swinging, the physical in
ability to swing properly-0r
from lack of thought and con-
centration on the correct way to
swing?
I handed the two instructors this
problem to work out.
1T isn't any difficult matter" Alex
Morrison said. Ito learn how to swing
a club properly. I have helped train
the chorus of big musical organiza-
tion having a golf act, and in few
days had most of them swinging
club well enough to break 9o-provided
there was no golf balls to swing at
That's where the trouble starts. Un-
fortunately there Is a ball to be hit
That makes a rather large difference.
Problem of the Ball.
"IF A golfer can swing almost per-
fectly at dandelion or cigar
stump" I asked, why can't he
apply the same swing to golf ball?"
Because" Morrison said, 1.-The dan
delion and the cigar stump are not
going anywhere. The golf ball is. No
one tries to steer a dandelion or a
cigar stump.
But most Of those playing
even fine professionals and star
amateurs in a tough spot-try
to steer a golf ball and SO forget
about swinging"
This brought back a recollection of
Gene Sarazen, one of the world S
greatest golfers and one of the best
of all competitors, trying to steer his
tee shot with an iron club on the
narrow, dangerous eleventh hole at
Merton, where he finished with z
on a drive and pitch hole.
This also recalled the instruction
Stewart Maiden once gave Bobby
Jones when he was in a slump. you're
trying to steer the ball." Maiden said.
Step up and hit the hell out of it. b"
And that tip" Bobby said later,
Strengthened me out in about five
minutes"
This also brought to mind remark
Tommy Armour, the smart and canny
Scot. once made to me, some years
ago:
'Tf there was a 190-yard shot
to closely trapped green-a
shot to decide the champion
ship-the only golfer / know
who would take his full pivot
or body turn without trying to
steer the ball is Jones.
"Ive seen at least six champion
ships lost by very fine golfers down
the stretch who forgot to swing and
Evening star., 1934-12-26
Detroit Hurt BookieS.

N hOoI poolS are concerned Will
,lN the drabbest aspects of base
ball. The bettor lays so cents
or dollar on certain team to out
score the rest of the league for the
week, or he bets on the total number
of runs that will be scored in the
league, or the lowest scoring team
The results have nothing much to do
with the quality of the teams. The
winner in friendly Office pool COL
lects all the money. The winners in
a professional pool collect a percent
age of it.
Betting in base ball picked up a
great deal this year. The bookmakers
took more or less of lacing, as these
things CO. because two good teams
Detroit and st. Louis-won the pen
nants at fairly long odds. Cleveland
was the only club which could have
hurt the bookies worse than Detroit
did by winning in the American
League. Cleveland had the most
backing at the longest price.
Betting on the world series was
heavier than at any time since 1880.
The Deans and Schoolboy Rowe were
responsible for that. But base ball
betting keeps at fairly steady level
all the time. It's nice way to pass
the time as long as the bettor doesn't
ask the players to cooperate with
him. The late Arnold Rothstein asked
for cooperation back in 1919 and got
so much of it that base ball was five
years climbing out of the mud.
(Copyright. 1894. by. North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-12-26
Sports Program
In Local Realm

Thursday.
Basket Ball.
Southern High VS.. Tech, at Tech,
tbs.
Tech Alumni VS.. Central Alumni,
at Tech, 8:15.
Friday.
Basket Ball.
Wilson Teachers at Gallaudet, 8.
Swimming.
Central VS.. Alumni, Central pool, 8.
Saturday.
Basket Ball.
Maryland VS.. Ohio State, at Col
lege Park, 8.