davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Move Already Under Wav.

CORNELL alumni, agitated over
" the mediocre showing of Cornell
foot ball teams III recent years.
have argued that the university hes
leaned over backward in its effort to
avoid recruiting or subsidizing OF
athletes.
The committees statement disclose !
that steps already have been taken
to bring desirable students, athlete
and non-athletes, to Cornell by foster
ing closer relations with secondary and
preparatory schools and with the
alumni.
Among these steps, the committee
said, was the institution of Cornell
day" on the campus. On one Sat-
urday each Spring groups of out
standing school boys and girls are
to be brought to Ithaca to become &C
quainted with student life and the
educational facilities of the university.
The possibility of dropping foot
ball-one Of the four alternatives pro-
posed by the Alumni News-was passed
over briefly as undesirable so long as
Cornell is able to continue its pleasant
relations with traditional rivals and
bring home major victory now and
again.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Yacht Wagering Enormous.

4 SINGLE operator. Darnell, re-
n ported that S5CO,000 in bets
passed through his hands before
and during the races. Figures like this
likely are to be embroidered bit by
the time they reach the newspapers,
but the betting was lively just the
same. The odds. as usual, were cock
eyed. Most published reports gave En-
deavour as the favorite. Actually, and
quite properly, the English boat was
on the short end of the big betting at
or 7 to 5.
Base ball bets gained in size and
number from the tightness of the race
in the National League and the win
ming squirt of Detroit in the American
League. In prize fighting, the COM
missioners drew most of their revenue
from those two close bouts between
Barney Ross and Jimmy McLarnin.
The rise of Runyan, Goodman and
Wood made this the best betting year
In golf since Jones retired
But sports betting didn't increase
simply because the program was at
tractive There have been other pro-
grams just as attractive, or more so,
in the past. The betting boom orig
mated with the public itself. Every
body wanted to get something down
on something, no matter what it was,
and today you will find the public bet
ter informed on odds, form and
chances than any self-respecting pub
lie has right to be.
(Copyright. 1894. by North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc0
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Sports Betting Grows.

CIDE by side with this boom in lot
y terry play (Which might be called
unskilled gambling, there has
been an increase in sports bettings
(Which might, for want of a better
phrase, be called skilled gambling)
The biggest increase. naturally, is
found in fields where the small bettor
can get big returns-in horse racing
and, lately, in foot ball.
You can trace a slighter but equally
steady rise in other sports-boxing,
wrestling, base ball, hockey, golf, even
tennis. Commissioners like Jim Cof-
froth, Jack Doyle, Tom Kearney and
Darnell report that the last world
series and the last National open
golf tournament brought them the
largest volume Of business since 1880
It's evident that, If the volume in 1894
approached the volume In 1890, the
number of individual bets was much
greater.
The smartness Of the bettor can be
gauged by the sport he bets on and
the way he betsa In horse racing, the
favorites win about IS per cent of the
time. In prizef1ghting, the percentage
Is about so, and, in foot ball, it goes
as high as IS or co. That doesn't
mean that the smart bettor is the man
who plays foot ball instead of the
races. A race track bettor, sticking to
form, can strike far higher average
of success than the fellow who throws
his dollar or his five-spot into a six
or ten game foot ball parlay.
With new racing laws everywhere
and with pari-mutuel tracks popping
up like dandelions around the country
horse play was responsible for most of
the increase in betting. This is the
five-dollar players favorite game. But
there was big betting, too. The inter-
national yacht races, staged for the
first time since 1880, attracted more
bets from sportsmen than enthusiasm
fro,,, the o,,h1;n
Evening star., 1934-12-24
WEEKS HARD DRILLS
FACE TEMPLE,TULANE
New Orleans Squad Stressing De-
tense Against Smukler for
New Year Day.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, December "a
~ Tulane and Temple faced a
hard week Of practice today in
preparation for their gridiron battle
here in the Sugar Bowl game on New
Year day.
Tulane's squad will go through hard
secret drills all week. placing emphasis
on defense to halt the line smashing
dynamite Dave Smukler and the trick
double wingback thrusts of Coach Pop
Warmers team.
Temple, meanwhile, will go through
its drills at Louisiana State Univer-
sity at Baton Rouge, 80 miles up river.
After a light drill yesterday, Coach
Warner let his boys go to a motion
picture show.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Rawls Is Versatile.

TT WILL be the third trial in the
Olympic stars meet for Lenore
Kight of Homestead, Pa, Amer
ica's leading free style swimmer. On
both previous appearances here she
tumbled records by twos and threes.
Miss Kight now is national cham
pion at every distance from 220 yards
to l mile. She holds numerous
records.
From Fort Lauderdale, Fla, will
come 17-year-old girl considered the
best all-around mermaid in the world,
Katherine Rawls, in search Of her
marks to add to her already siZable
string.
Other noted women swimmers COM
peting will include Dorothea Dickinson,
Janice LifSon, Elsie Ferrill, Elizabeth
Kompa and Elizabeth Harrison of the
Women's Swimming Association of
New York; Alice Bridges of Whitins-
vile, Mass, and Johanna German of
Homesated, Pa.
Dick Degener Of Detroit, national
indoor and outdoor champion, and
Marshall Wayne of the Biltmore,
runner-up for the national title, will
feature the diving exhibitions to be
held at the meet.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
LIFT TO FOOT BALL
GIVEN BY CORNELL
Scholarships Presented by
Alumni Are Expected to
Relieve Slump.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ITHACA, N. Y, December "a
The new deal in foot ball that Cor
nell alumni have been seeking for
a half dozen years may be on the
way.
Although reafirming the univer-
sity's traditional amateur spirit of
sport for sports sake" the committee
on athletic control announced a lib
eralized policy on scholarships for ath-
letes yesterday in a formal statement
evoked by publication of an editorial
in the Cornell Alumni News.
Dismissing the suggestion that Cor
nell buy foot ball material as some
thing the university never would do,
the committee said, however, that if
funds for scholarships became avail
able through the alumni it saw no
reason why men Of athletic ability
should not receive them along with
non-athletes, always providing that
character and brains remain the pri-
mary consideration.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
PRO HOCKEY

international League.
London, 2; Detroit Olympics, /.
Syracuse, 8; Buffalo, 1.
National League.
Montreal Canadiens, 4; Chicago
Blackhawks, /.
Detroit Redwings, 2; New York
Americans, /.
Canadian American League.
New Haven Eagles, 3; Quebec Bea-
vers, 2.
Exhibition.
st. Louis, 6; Minneapolis, 2.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
SWIMMING MARKS
| DUE FOR BEATING
World Records Not Likely
to Last Year Out in
Miami Girls Meet.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
M 1AMI, ,, Fla, December ~
IVY given little chance to last
out The year as some of
Americas greatest mermaids seek
new records here December 80 and 81
and January l in the third annual
national Olympic stars aquatic meet.
Back INTO competition after layof
will plunge Mrs Eleanor Holm Jarrett
of Los Angeles, best of the women
backstroke swimmers. She picked as
the spot of her re-entry the pool of
the Miami Biltmore, the hotel at
which her defenders spiked charges
Of professionalism brought against her
at the meeting of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union.
Only four times in the last two
years, or since the 1882 Olympics at
Los Angeles, has Mrs. Jarrett flashed
her superlative form. Each time she
not only won, but set new national
or world record. She won the 100
meter title in the Olympics.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
"SLEEPER" PLAY SCORES
Marions Defeat Palace Eleven in
Tight Battle. 7 to O.

Marion foot ballers, hailing from
the Southeast, today are receiving
congratulations upon their TO VIC
tory yesterday over their old foe from
the Southwest, the Palace eleven.
Marions scored on the old Sleeper"
play. HIKE Licarione, sneaking out
to the sidelines in the third period,
received 25-yard pass from Ed Hoff
and rushed the remaining IS yards to
score.
Palace threatened In the closing
minutes, reaching the Marion 10-yard
line, where a pass was intercepted by
Hoff to end the sortie.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
BY JOHN LARDNER.

n YEW YORK, December 24-For
N some reason or other, the last
Y few years have constituted
one of the richest and ripest
gambling years in the history of this
gambling nation. The figures can be
checked only in the roughest sort OF
way, but the feeling in the air is un-
mistakable.
The depression had something to
do with it. Old theories about eco
nomic securities, savings, investment,
hard work-a penny saved is a penny
earned-were discarded slowly and
bitterly as the lean years continued
People like to make easy money, and,
when they couldn't make it in the
stock market or in the pursuit of their
daily task, they turned to the get
rich-quick schemes which always have
been open to large and small investors
in America.
Most of the small money flows, as
usual, into lotteries-policy games,
foreign sweepstakes, slot machines,
punchboards, pools of every descrip-
ton. The increase in lottery play
since 1881 and 1882 has been immense
You can measure it by sweepstake re-
turns and by the figures which get
into the papers now and then when
the police raid some unit in the num-
Der games conducted by Dutch Schultz
or Henry Miro.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
Alabama's Arrival,

AldDdmaS AfTlVd.
4 LABAMA gets its first workout
~ in the Pasadena section Mon
day with an army of unofficial
inspectors hoping to get look at the
Southern team.
Even those backing Stanford-and
most Of the West Coast is back of
the Cardinal outf1t-are none too sure
Of the final result.
A year ago they had the feeling
that Stanford would run hog-wild
over Columbia, and the resultant
shock was terrific.
Among the smarter foot ball
followers in this locality there
Is a general feeling that Ala
bama has at least an even
chance.
The one weak Alabama spot was
somewhat mediocre schedule, on
which Tennessee was the only team
able to offer any real pressure.
The Southern delegation out here is
outnumbered badly, but entirely con-
f1dent. A young fellow by the name
Of Tyrus Raymond Cobb called up
from his home at Menlo Park, near
Palo Alto, to get line on Alabamas
strength.
Stanford has a strong line and "a
fine backheld," Ty said, ''but undef-
stand Alabama has the same"
When assured that Alabama
had quite line, two fine ends
and . high-class backfield, the
old Georgia Peach cheered up
considerably.
Stanford will begin to gather as
team the day after Christmas. Bobby
Grayson's return has doomed the
Cardinal outlook by number Of
degrees.
you can say for me-" Howard
Jones remarked, that Grayson makes
big difference to that team. Hamil-
ton and Alustiza are both fine foot
ball players and extremely valuable
men, but Grayson's speed, power and
dash make up dangerous combina-
ton that needs the closest sort of
watching. For that matter, the run
ming attack on both sides will have
hard going. know it will against
this Stanford team"
(Copyright. 1884. by North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc0
Evening star., 1934-12-24
GET FIRST PLACE TIE
Sun Radio Booters Climb in so
Defeat of GEORGETOWN.

Sun radio hooters, who downed the
Georgetown eleven, SO, yesterday,
now are tied for first place in the
second-half Recreation Soccer League
race with Virginia Avenue and New
York Avenue
Occoquan conquered Miller Furni-
ture, 81, and New York Avenue over
came Sherwood, 10, in other league
games played. Both results were
surprises.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
HEURICH STREAK SNAPS.

BALTIMORE, December 24.-Una-
BILE to stem a determined rally by the
Polish-Americans in the final min
utes, the Heurich Brewers of Wash
ington yesterday lost 36-to-S5 thrill
er in the Baltimore Semi-pro Basket
Ball League. The defeat snapped a
Heurich winning streak.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
COURT RESULTS

Santa Clara, IS; California, 20.
Ohio Wesleyan, 80; Baldwin Wal
lace, 81.
University of California CLOS An
geles), IS; San Jose State, as.
Oregon, 30; Willamette, 81.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Laws Frown Balks Mayhem as Sport;
Rough Lads Feel Robbed of Pleasure.
by JOHN IARDNER.

himself at liberty to change the mind
of the referee with surgical opera
ton.
I put this problem to some
Of the hockey players in our
town the other day. They
were puzzled.
you mean," said a Canadian gen.
tleman who Is well known for his
uninhibited conduct on the ice, that
I get 80 days or a fine or something
just for getting mad? What am
going to do when I get mad? I have
to do something"
See Life Robbed Of Joy.
THE boys seemed to feel that the
cop ruling, If it extends east
and west of st. Louis, will rob
life of all joy for players like Nels
Stewart, Lionel Conacher, Red Dut-
ton, Red Horner, Irving Frew, Young
Goodfellow and Shore. If cop skates
out on the Ice when the going is rough
and slapS pair of handouts or a
summons upon one or more of the
contestants, then things will have
COulc " d pISIIy pass In our great
national Winter pastime.
Some Of the athletes are employed
just to get mad. Red Homer of
Toronto, for instance, Is what they
call a professional redhead. Mr..
Horner Is instructed to go out there
and get sore at somebody, II he has
to poke himself in the ribs to do 1t.
The public appreciates his temper and
his employers pay of on 1t.
The history Of the game Is
studded with the names Of
scamps who made a living this
way. Two Of the roughest were
Billy Coutu and Sprague Cleg-
horn of Boston.
"The cops could never have got
away with pinching Billy for rough
ness" I was told. HE would of taken
the case through every court in the
country until he found something, the
Constitution or something, that proved
he could be as rough as he wanted to-"
Maybe there is line somewhere in
the Constitution which protects the
right Of the athlete to pummel and
mcapacitate his contemporaries for a
living without interference. Somebody
borrowed my copy, 50 I'm not sure,
but I think 1t would be worth the
while Of Man Mountain Dean or Red
Horner to look 1t up.
(copyrisht. 1884. !by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc0
Evening star., 1934-12-24
TIGHT SOCCER BATTLE.

BALTIMORE, December 24.-Ger-
man-American soccer team OF WASH
ington bowed to the German Sports
Club hooters Of Baltimore In Q 1-to-0
Southeastern League battle hare yes
terdaV.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
FEDERAL ELEVEN LOSES
Washington Pros Bow, 8 to 13, to
All-Star Virginia Team.

RICHMOND, Va, December "a
Washington Federals lost a 13-to-e
foot ball battle here yesterday to q
team picked from various Virginia COL
leges. Johnny Jankowski, former
Catholic University gridder, playing
left half-back for the Feds, scored
their lone touchdown in the third
period. He plunged over from the f.
yard mark after he had shot q 25-
yard pass to Bill Parish, who used to
play for George Washington.
In the second period the Feds count
ed . safety a Chink Farrell, center,
blocked an All-star punt and the ball
rolled over the goal line.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
MERRY CHRISTMAS

May your Christmas be as merry
As the Uhite and scarlet berry,
May your NeU Year be as happy
As robin in the Spring
May you miss the traps that sock you
And the cuppy lies that mock you,
As you stick along the tairway
With O smooth and thinning suing.
Evening star., 1934-12-24

in the final whirl of the Pasadena
open.
AS result of his West Coast popu-
larity and gathering of friends the
veteran of % campaigns arrived 80
minutes late in his third starting
round. A motor car took him to the
fourth tee, where he picked up Willie
Hunter and Dick Metz, with whom he
was hooked up. At the finish Of the
round Hagen was assigned a scorer to
play the first two and then finished
with 72. The sight of single match
weaving its way in and out and around
three ball contests attracted one of the
largest galleries of the day as Hagen,
still smiling and unworried, continued
to hit his tee shots down the middle
and rap his irons up around the pin.
"A cup of coffee" he said, wouldn't
have been bad, but was Just too late
as it was"
Under the circumstances it was an
astonishing exhibition of control over
somewhat bumpy nerves and uncanny
skill. Golfers will come and go, but
it will be long time before there is
another Hagen.
He still is the Man o. War and the
Babe Ruth Of his sport.
In the wake of Walter Hagen's ex-
hibition Of golf and showmanship it
fell to the lot of young Harold McSpa-
den of Kansas City to stampede the
field and show promise of champion
ship days ahead. He led a strong field
by six strokes as he moved into the
stretch. McSpaden has a fine swing,
a first-class golf temperament, and he
should be one of the best of the COM
ing stars for 1895.
The City of Turmoil.
N1TaH1, a1,nis. the arrival T1Ha of Of AlaDama's
big opening at Santa Anita.
where an overflow crowd of $4,000 or
more Is expected, Los Angeles is the
city of turmoil on the sporting side.
The seat sales for both Santa Anita
and the Rose Bowl party have set new
records. There is wild scurrying in
all known directions to pick up tick
ct, whether it be to see race horse or
a halfback run. Both track and bowl
will be packed to the last square foot.
They have found on the West Coast
what an invasion of the Crimson Tide
can mean, but, at the moment, the big
race opening, under the shadow of
snow-capped mountains, shares equal
public interest with the foot ball talk.
Two hundred and ten acres of Lucky
Baldwin's old rancho will be the busi-
est racing spot in the world on Christ
mas day. There is plenty in the racing
sentiment connected with this track
just a short distance away from the
club house there is concrete Maltese
cross. Under this cross are buried
Lucky Baldwin's four famous winners
Of the American Derby:
Volante, 1885; Silver Cloud,
1886; Emperor of Norfolk, 1888;
Ray Ell Santa Anita, 1891.
Within still closer range, the crowd
will have chance to get q look at
Twenty Grand, Equipoise and other
notable entries already here in train
ing for the 100000 Santa Anita
handicap to be run February 23.
Every modern racing invention Is
waiting at the new track, with its set
ting Of orange trees, flower gardens
and snow-capped peaks for . back
ground. This includes the American
totaliSe1 Tor paEi-mutusl betting. the
Evening star., 1934-12-24
THE SPORTZIGHT
Pasadena Episode Proves Hagen Still
Is the Greatest Fan Magnet on Links
BY GRANTLAND RICE

films at the finishes, worked by elec-
trio devices, ready for public inspec-
ton three minutes after each race,
and the electric light-wave timing,
with Photographic record, geared to
hundredth of a second.
Evening star., 1934-12-24

Track NotabIes.
TINE Santa Anita opening will be
i a medley of the Whitney and
other racing notables, foot ball
stars and foot ball coaches, and the
motion picture colony, with hardly a
single absentee
Between races, one can take a
close look at almost every known
picture star, male and female, who
will add to the rainbow effect
If advance signs mean anything at
all, this will be the most picturesque
opening sport has ever known, not
even barring the Los Angeles Olmpics
of 1882.
II you can't pick winners,
you can pick oranges at the
club house and grandstand
portals, or you can pick 10 or
IL varieties of fowers-if the
guard isn't looking.
Without reaching too far for any
superlatives, the all-around beauty of
this track setting leaves one dizzy.
Messrs. Strube, Wilson, Roach and
others have turned out an incredible
piece of work.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
HEURICH FLASHES COP
Down Army War College, 1920,
for Tenth in Row.

Led by Holloran and Dougherty,
each of whom scored nine points, the
Heurich Flashes yesterday drubbed the
Army War College quint, $500. to
chalk up their tenth straight win.
Evening star., 1934-12-24

Walter Hagen Still Amazes.
~ ASADENA, Calf, December "a.
- The remarkable Mr.. Hagen.
/ the unforgettable man of golf,
set a new and amazing record
Evening star., 1934-12-24

n YEW YORK, December 24.-In
nj St. Louis, not long ago, the
IN cops decided to arrest all
unruly wrestlers, roughneck
hockey players and referee-slugging
prizefighters as disturbers of the peace.
They got test case right away. A
couple of wrestlers were thrown into
the ice box for pulling noses little
more freely than the rules permit.
OF course, wrestler's beak is his
own, to do with as he will. The
moment he thrusts it into a roped
arena he Is assuming a certain risk.
The other person will attempt to chew
it, rub 1t, and raze it to the general
level of his face. He, by the same
token, will try to prune and scarify
the nostrils of the other person. This
treatment is not very good for the
human bugle, a sensitive instrument
at best. but the wrestlers know that
without being told by the cops.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
America 7hoes Of One of Greatest Gambling Edem Its History
Sports Events
In Local Realm

Thursday.
Basket Ball.
Southern High VS.. Tech, at Tech.
Tech Alumni VS.. Central Alumni,
at Tech.
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.
Evening star., 1934-12-24

Other scores:
Boys Club Varsity, 30; Company F
Regulars, 26.
Bladensburg, A; Company Re
serves, Is.
Mclean A. c., 80; Post Exchange, 80.
Rockville A. c., 36; Jeffersonian
Club, 25.
Athliso A. c. quint is after games
with 145-pound fives having courts.
Call Manager Rubin at Lincoln 9042
before 6 pm.
Evening star., 1934-12-24
The Law Is Forehanded.

WHY, then, you may ask (and a
" shrewd question, too), does
the law undertake to penalize
the athlete for professional and legit-
innate self-abuse? The law answers
more or less as follows:
1--WE don't mind If the boys chastise
each other to pulp in line of duty.
but II some one gets killed or illegally
manned, we save time and money by
having the parties Of the first and
second part at our disposal, instead of
rowing around the countryside"
The law says a mouthful
there, but you feel sorry for the
athlete. His freedom Of action
Is pretty well limited as 1t is.
Man Mountain Deal, the wrestler,
was pinched the other day for COM
mitting a little homework, or over
time mayhem, upon a private citizen.
Now it seems that the man mountain
can't even do his work in the ring
without risking a jail sentence. In
fact, he may be driven to shave off
his beard and settle down to a life
Of non-mayhem. That sounds like
persecution.
If the wrestlers are being perse-
cuted, think how the hockey players
feel. No longer (according to the st.
Louis ruling) will one player be free
to give another player q friendly stab
IN the ribs or q bust on the skull. No
longer will the indignant athlete feel
Evening star., 1934-12-24
BOOM IN LOTTERY
GAMES IMMENSE
Old Theories of Security
Take Beating During
Long, Lean Years.

In the simple form OF "t,Do bits
! roll a fue" and the more sophisti-
Gated games, lotteries and bets by
Which Americans 1Din and lose
huge sums, gambling has spread
rapidly in the last teW years. Ho1D
Uidely it has spread and ,Dhat
chances OF thinning the public has
are discussed in series OF articles,
OF lOhich this is the first.