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Evening star., 1934-12-27
PLAY SEVEN GAMES
IN BASKET TOURNEY
Program in Metropolitan Police
Boys Club Events Includes
Three Unlimited Games.

Seven games were listed for today
in the Metropolitan Police Boys Club
basket ball tournament, which opened
last night in the George Washington
University gymnasium.
Three unlimited games, involving
as many leading contenders for the
unlimited title, were features of the
second days program. At 7:30 o'clock
Parchey's undefeated Comets will
play the Heurich Flashes, at $50
O'Clock; Sholi's Cafe will meet the
United States Coast Guard, and an
hour later Navy Department will en-
gage Delaware & Hudson.
Other games to have been played
today were Merrick VS.. Washington
Boys Club, O'Clock, 100-pound class;
Georgetown B. c. VS.. Olympics, 3
O'Clock, ll5-pound class; No. S Pre-
cinct VS.. Northeast B. c., 4 o'clock,
and No. Precinct VS.. Washington
B. c., S O'Clock, 120-pound class.
Tourney scores last night:
Unlimited-Silver Spring, 30; Mil
Ter Furniture, 81. R. F. c., 80; Sara
macs, 16. Gallinger, 80; Corr's, 4.
145-pound class-Bovello's, %:
Twin Oaks, 81.
130-pound class-Washington Boys
Club, 20; Ebbetts, 26.
115-pound class-Macfarland, 30;
No. Precinct, IL.
100-pound class-Georgetown Boys
Club, IA; Halls Pharmacy, 13.
Other scores-Army War College,
40; Mclean A. c., 20. Dome OIL Co.,
40; Peoples Drug Stores, 13. Com
munity League.)
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Varies Notre Dame System.

TN FOUR years Thomas Alabama
teams have won 33 games while
losing four and tieing one. The
Red Regiment won its conference
championship in 1888 and 1884 and
this year was rated as one of the best
elevens in the entire country. Thomas
teams naturally play Notre Dame foot
ball but he has supplemented the
Rockne offenSe with the ancient short
punt formation and added other
variations which give the capstone
crew deceptive weapons for every
situation.
Alabama is a hard running team
and observers. who should know, de-
clare it has all of the elan of some of
Knute Rockne's better elevens. Thomas
is hard driver, but his Southern
players like his methods and it was
an enthusiastic and trinity trained
squad which landed in Pasadena to
complete preparations for the New
Year day game with Stanford in the
Tournament of Roses Bowl.
The Alabama players hail from six
States, with old Alabama producing
most CT the stars. Peculiarly enough,
Arkansas contributes literally to Ala
bama's foot ball successes and seven
members of the 1884 team come from
that State. ArkansanS playing on this
years team are Joe Dildy, the 1885,
pound end; Charlie Marr, 214-pound
guard; Bill Young, 205-pound tac-
kle; Don Huston, the All-America end :;
Paul Bryant, another TANKER, and
Harry Campbell and Roy Goldsberg,
who sub for Riley Smith at quarter
back. All but Dildy and Bryant come
from Pine Bluff, and Alabama is con-
sidering annexing that little city at
some future election.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
BACKS SHUFFLED
BY EAST'S TEAM
Purvis Out, Brominski and
Shepherd to Alternate
at Right Half.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
- AN FRANCISCO, December 27.-
- With eastern and western foot
X ball stars rounding rapidly into
shape for their annual East
West charity clash here New Year
day, Coaches Dick Hanley and Andy
Kerr, at their Berkeley headquarters.
concentrated today on revising their
crippled backfield lineup.
Duane Purvis, ace halfback from
Purdue, wrenched his knee in prac-
tice and is out of the game. An op-
Grafton was ordered for today at an
Oakland hospital. Doctors said he
will be out of action about 10 days
and may not even see the game.
Hanley said he will alternate Bill
Shepherd of Western Maryland and
Ed Brominski of Columbia at right
half in place of Purvis.
Meanwhile from Stanford Univer-
sity, where the western aggregation
is practicing, came the announcement
that Coaches Percy Locey and Orin
Hollingbery are counting heavily on
big Al Nichelini Of St. Mary's to run
interference for Cotton Warburton Of
Southern California.
Hard practice was on the program
today despite heavy intermittent
rains.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Betting Falls Off.

n ETTING on fights has fallen off in
h recent years, along with the size
of the crowds and the purses.
The year 1934-with two close
matches between Ross and McLarnin
and a colorful heavyweight braWl be-
tween Baer and Carnera-waS better
than some, but it didn't set any rec
ords. A few hundred dollars was a
big bet.
Gambling people say that the
favorite wins about so per cent of
the time in the fight business. That
makes it advisable to take the short
end of a bet and play the outsider,
especially in a heavyweight champion
ship fight. Only three times since
1880 has the favorite in a heavyweight
title bout come through with victory.
If fight betting is slack, bets on
wrestling are practically non-existent.
Wrestling doesn't appeal to gamblers.
The results are so certain that there
really is no certainty about them from
q smart bettor's point of view. Gotch
was the last wrestler who attracted
bets. Today the bookmaker gets a
few SIS and $40 wagers from Greek
admirers Of Jim LondoS, but not
much else.
How are you going to handle a
wrestling bet nowadays?" says Jack
Doyle, the Broadway commissioner.
You can't establish favorite in q
wrestling match unless you know
who's going to win, and the wrestlers
are the only ones who know that,
and the chances are that they
wouldn't tell you if you asked them" !"
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Newspaper Alliance Inc0
Evening star., 1934-12-27
THOMAS COACHING
AIDS IRISH" FAME
'Bama Mentor Regarded as
Leader of Notre Dame
Men in Grid Field.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~ ASADENA, Calf, December
- 27.-Frank Thomas, the wide
spread gentleman who coaches
the Alabama foot ball team,
rapidly is gaining the reputation of
being the most successful Notre Dame
man in the coaching business. Thomas
was a quarterback at Notre Dame
and had the distinction of calling
signals for the great George Gipp
when the Clipper" won All-America
fame.
After graduating in law at Notre
Dame, Thomas Immediately launched
into the coaching business, as an
assistant to Knute Rockne, and in
1928 had hand in starting the Four
Horsemen on their road to gridiron
glory. Then he left the South Bend
campus for the University of Georgia
and as backfeld coach at that school
helped install the first Notre Dame
system ever used in the South.
From Georgia, Thomas went to
Chattanooga University and as head
coach at that small school, turned out
championship teams in 1927 and 1928.
He went back to Georgia as Harry
Mehre's chief aide in 1929 but after
two seasons moved on to Alabama,
where he quickly proved himself one
of the best foot ball teachers in the
country.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Let Their Coin Ride.

TT WAS customary in those days fol-
the bettors to buy pools, or par
lay their money, on each fight or
the card. There were two preliminary
bouts on the Sullivan Corbett card
George Dixon against Jack Skelly
aid Jack McAuliffe against Billy
Meyers. Roche picked Dixon, Nc
Auliffe, and Sullivan, getting odds oi
TO l for his parlay. He won the
first two bets and dumped every
thing he could find or borrow or
Sullivan in the main event.
Roche was the financial backer OF
Jack McAuliffe. who, in turn, was the
assistant, friend, and admirer of John
L. Sullivan. McAuliffe collected about
$4,000 for his victory in the pre-
liminaries that night. He proceeded
to buttonhole Mr.. Roche.
Dick" he said, put it all on John
L. for me, will you? The whole Is,
at the shortest price you can get"
Mr.. Roche set out to place the bet,
but the town had been sucked dry by
that time There wasn't a nickel of
Corbett money in sight. Mr.. Roche
put the $4,000 back in his pocket
and dropped a sigh of regret for his
friend, who was now leading cheers
for Sullivan at the ringside.
When the champion lay on the
floor in the twenty-first round, Nc
Auliffe went crazy with grief for
Sullivan and for the $4,000 he
thought he was losing.
Get up, john" he implored. "for
the sake of your mothers soul"
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Court Play Aids Base Thieves
Chapman Credits Basket Ball With Development
of Some of Greatest Bag Pilferers.

the Jump on the other fellow, and
that is what you have to do to
steal bases in any mans league"
Chapman said he noticed he
wasn't getting away as fast during
the past base ball season, and he
believed it was because he didn't
keep active last Winter. The big
outf1elder cannot play basket ball
now, due to his Yankee contract.
Take frankie Frisch, Kiki Guy
Ter and Werber," Chapman said,
every one of them played basket
ball and they developed that natu-
raj alert attitude of being on their
toes"
Ben admitted that he was in
good condition, "the best in two
years." he said, land would be
ready to go tomorrow"
And the Yankees-wel1, he
thinks maybe they will split the
world series money next October.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
.ASADENA, Calf, December II.
. After a three-day inspec-

AASOA o. VIA NN-Aoy AioRSk-
ton Alabama has presented
four qualities that figure in
the general makeup Of an able squad.
These four qualities include size,
speed, ball handling skill and mental
keenness.
This Red Phalanx from Tuscaloosa
not only is big, but extremely agile
unusually so for a first-String average
around 1875 pounds. The kick of Dixie
Howell has been a leading feature in
each Alabama game and the same
thing applies to his passing.
Il like the speed with which
Howell gets away his kicks" re-
marked Bill Spaulding, the
canny mentor of U. c. L. A.
He not only is fast but accurate,
with plenty in the way of range. But,
above all, he doesn't waste any time
getting his toe against that foot ball. i"
The passing and receiving skill has
also been highly developed.
Howell's chucking to Hutson and
Bryant. the two big Southern ends,
has also caught the attendtion of
outside coaches and other experts
watching Alabama play. Hutson,
over feet, weighing 1913 pounds, is
the fastest man on the squad, hav-
ing beaten 10 fiat more than once.
Bryant is even taller and heavier and
almost as good as his more famous
wing mate.
The whole team handles the ball far
above the average. You get quick
proof of finely drilled squad in
which all important fundamentals
have been thoroughly grounded.
Frank Thomas and Hank
Crisp have overlooked no details
in attending to all the needed
matters Of polish and smooth
ness.
This team knows its stuff and 1t
will take quite an opponent to stop
both its running and passing attack.
1t has the ball carriers and the
blockers in addition to the passers,
and only an alert defense will be
able to hold the Tide in check.
It may be that Stanford has this
defense, for there Is no doubling
Stanford's size and speed, but it will
be something of shock to the South
ern delegation if this takes place.
II there is any Alabama
weakness it will be in line re-
serves, where one tackle Is
already in a Texas hospital and
Watley, one of the regulars, is
suffering from a slight attack
of appendicitis pains.
But Tarzan White, reserve line man,
who once lived in tree top as a kid
and fluttered and fitted from limb
to limb, is ready for any emergency.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
BY JOHN LARDNER.

N YEW YORK, December 81
nj Betting has been an i'm
v portant part of the prize fight
business ever since the time
the Duke of Cumberland laid $4,000
to $4,000 on Jack Boughton to beat
Jack Slack for the championship of
England. The duke lost his stake
and Boughton lost the title, but the
betting fever caught hold.
Some of the best bouts in history
were fought for side bets. Tom
johnson, one of the old champions
of England, made his living that way.
He parlayed his money on himself for
eight fights in a row. winning them
all and sometimes collecting as much
as $4,000 for an afternoons work.
On his record, Mr.. Johnson must
have been better and shrewder
gambler than most of the boys in the
profession today.
The great side-bet fight, of course,
was the Sullivan-Corbett thing In
New Orleans The gentlemen fought
for a $4,000 purse and a $4,000
wager, and another gentleman named
Dick Roche established record of
sorts by betting and losing almost
$4,000 on Sullivan. Mr.. Roche put
the Duke of Cumberland in the piker
class.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
SKIER LEAPS 296 FEET

SALT LAKE CITY, December 81
CP).-Alf Engen, Utah's premier pro-
fessional ski jumper, made an unofh-
cial leap of 296 feet on the remodeled
Ecker Hill in the Wasatch Mountains
here.
Engen, who claims the national pro-
fessional record of 257 feet. supervised
the remodeling of Ecker Hill and ex-
poets TO surpass the 300-foot mark in
a tournament here next Sunday.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Decen-
* ber 27.-Basket ball has
been a contributing factor
in developing some of base
balls best base runners, says Ben
Chapman, New York Yankee out
fielder, who led the American
League in base stealing for two
years.
Ben made the assertion yesterday
as he talked about the semi-pro
basket ball team, the Lahan Speed
Brokers, that he is coaching in off
hours from a brokerage house.
II think basket ball helps base
ball player more than anything he
can do during the Winter" said
Chapman, "as 1t is game where
you are on your toes every minute.
"You get into a habit Of getting
Evening star., 1934-12-27
CENTRE GRID LIST TOUGH

DANVILLE, KY, December 27 Lp)
Centre College will open its 1885 foot
ball schedule with a night game in
Philadelphia against Pop" Warmers
Temple Owls, and then will proceed
to take on some of the strongest
Southern and Midwestern elevens.
The schedule:
September p. Temple, at Philadelphia
October 5. Indiana. at Bloomington
WASHINGTON and Lee. at Louisville; 20
Tennessee at Knoxville.
November ., no game to be played: o
Xavier University. at Cincinnati; Is. Uni
versity of Mississippi. at Danvlle; %
University of louisville. at Louisville: IS
December Western Kentucky Teach.
ers at Danville
Evening star., 1934-12-27
The Debate Is On.

The Debate Is On.
CEVERAL hundred southerners al
= ready have arrived to add their
softer but just as insistent dialect
to the war Of words where the
balmy atmosphere is rife with impas-
stoned eloquence.
Here are some of the leading points
now at issue:
/. The all-around ability of How
ell against that of Bobby Grayson
Of Stanford.
2. The big right toe of Howell vs..
the big right toe of Alustiza.
3. The all-America or all-star
end duel between Hutson and
Monk Moscrip of Stanford.
4. The rival tackle play of Lee,
Alabama, and Reynolds, Stanford,
each with a displacement of 225
pounds.
S. The blocking ability of Riley
Smith, Alabama, and Bones Ham
ilton, Stanford.
These are only a few leading fea-
lures of the verbal simeon sweeping
this section of the West Coast, with
more than 100000 spectators conspir-
ing to find their way into 1000 seats.
The only chance for some 10000
or more Of those who can get no
tickets will be to enter the Pasadena
arena disguised as roses from the
flower parade.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
MOTHERS ILLNESS
DELAYS CALLAWAY
Stanford Tackle Will Lose
Another Day at Least.
AIabamanS Toll.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
- TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calf,
December 27.-Claude Gala
\ way, regular right tackle, will
lose at least one more days
practice with the Stanford eleven be-
fore the New Year day game with
Alabama at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.
Receiving telegram that his
mother was i'll just before the remain
ing members Of the squad entrained
for Pasadena last night, Galloway left
instead for Fresno, Calf. II the con-
dition of his mother is good, he hopes
to rejoin the team tomorrow.
The big hneman returned to the
practice field only last week after be-
ing in the hospital with severe cold.
Seventeen other players left last
night to join their teammates who de-
parted for Southern California on
Monday.
Head Coach C. E. Tiny" Thornhill
refused to make any prediction of vic
tory. I'VE will be in there trying,
that's all, he said.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Stanford ANGLES.

THERE is general feeling around
J. the Stanford camp-and this
includes several Of her rivals
that the Cardinal team has yet to
show the foot ball it is capable of
playing.
There was the tie with Santa Clara,
the 3-point decision over San Fran
cisco and the 2-point margin over
California, with Grayson and Moscrip
missing.
Three Western coaches have
given us this opinion: "Stan-
ford is better than it looked to
be against US. 1t clicked against
Washington-24 to Ga team
just about as good as Pitts
burgh. 1t didn't quite click in
several Of the other games. So
Stanford is just about due"
There Is lot of solid reason in this
observation, and yet Stanford has
picked a tough team to click against
in Alabama, as far as one can Judge
after watching this Crimson Tide rip
pie around for three days. Clicking
never is an easy process against hard
blocking and savage tackling.
Alabama hasn't played one Of the
hardest schedules of the year, and out
side of one game, the Tennessee battle
the Tuscaloosa tide has yet to be
tested.
This can work both ways. It
was the decisive factor in the
e-Princeton game. Yale had
been to the wars and Princeton
hadn't.
Yale had faced the shock Of q DOW
erful enemy while Princeton had put
on a series Of romps.
Stanford has been more accustomed
to the jolts than Alabama has. They'll
all tell you that the California- STAN
ford game made the annual Santa
Clara-St. Mary's show look like tea
drinking contest under colored UNI
brellas on garden lawn.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Thomas Drives Dixians.

PASADENA. Calf, December 81 CP).
-Alabamas foot ball team
tackled preparation for the Rose
Bowl game with Stanford here New
Year day with renewed energy today
after a brief respite from their grid
iron chores.
Spurred on by the anticipated early
arrival of their opponents from Palo
Alto, the team was expected to put
in its heaviest workout of the week
in the seclusion Of Occidental College
Field.
Coach Frank Thomas planned an
extended dummy scrimmage both on
offense and defense, and hoped to in
clude in the activities an additional
siege of work with the line.
Yesterday the team spent q busy
forenoon touring a motion picture
studio where the players and other
members of the party had luncheon
with film stars.
Coach Thomas said he expects to
have all the squad members in top
physical condition for the classic.
Stanford was slated to take light
workout this afternoon at Brookside
Park
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Side Bets Lose Favor.

HISTORY tells us that Sullivan
n failed to comply with this re-
quest, that McAuliffe got his
money back, and that Roche took one
of the worst financial Shellackings of
the era. Fights for side bets went
out of fashion couple of years later,
following the Corbett-M Mitchell bout.
The biggest betting fight of modern
times was the one between Dempsey
and Willard. That's easy to explain
1t was supposed to be a close thing.
Most heavyweight title fights look
one-sided in advance. There was
almost no heavy betting on the first
Dempsey-Tunney fight, for instance,
because the odds were or to l on
Dempsey. The Willard fight was diff
ferent. The betting was just about
even.
A couple of days before the battle,
there was swing to Dempsey, but it
didn't last. In another days time
the boys had swung back to even
again. some of the bookmakers list
ing Willard as a 10-to-9 favorite and
some straddling the issue. Few people
were prepared for what happened in
that blizzard of heat at Toledo.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
TAKES COLORED TITLE.

PINE BLUFF, Ark, December 26
R).-A deadly passing attack yester-
day carried Merrill (coloreO High
School to the national championship
as the Tigers defeated Ardmore
(OklaD High School, 80 to 0, on a
n-soaked field.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Several From Indiana.

INDIANA also has done right well
by the 'Bama team. Jimmy An
gelich, the right halfback, is from
Indiana Harbor, while Charlie Rhor-
danz, a fullback. comes from Harvey;
Wally Dahlkamp, a lineman, is from
Calumet City, and Bill Peters, guard,
claims Hammond as his home How
ever, the transplanted Hoosiers al
ready have learned the Dixie drawl
and there's no telling them from a
native of Alabama.
Texas, Georgia and Mississippi each
have sent one player to the Red Regi-
ment, but the rest are homebreds and
come mostly from the smaller towns
and cities of the State.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
G0PHERs LOSE WINGNEN.

The champion Minnesota foot ball
team loses almost entirely its supply
Of ends by graduation. Frank Larson
and Bob Tenner, regulars, and Maurice
johnson and John Roning, reserves,
are trading moleskins for sheepskins.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
On Floor Four Times.

CHAMPIONS or prelim boys, blown
u up to main-event status, it is
doubtful if Capital fight fans
ever will witness q more thrilling en-
counter than that Of last July. -Four
Evening star., 1934-12-27
Al HoueuroA
d. C.. TINGLES AS YEARS
THRILLS ARE REVIEWED

! times Gallagher groveled in the res
ined canvas, his head in a dizzy whirI,
his nose pouring forth great streams
OF claret, one eye completely closed,
and the right side of his head twice
the size of the left. For round after
round ringsiders yelled, stop it," but
hoped to see Marty live through those
10 rounds and walk from the ring
under his power. He did. And later
last Summer there was an anti-climax.
Marty scored a technical knockout
over the same hard-punching Galento
in a return battle
With bow to the George Washing
ton-Louisiana State game. Catholic
University-Western Maryland classic.
the Vanderbilt George Washington
tin, and georgetown Maryland re-
newal, your all-embracing local foot
ball fan probably will jot down the
y-Maryland clash as the seasons
epochal thrill.
Nays best team in years was run-
ming wild over a scared, green Ter
rapin eleven. Slade Cutter had
kicked field goal and Buzz Berries
and Tommy King were reeling off
long gains. With 10 minutes to go
the score was 16 to 0, and Navy still
pushing the Old Liners around. Then
q skinny, unknown sophomore was
inserted into Marylands lineup.
Within seven minutes Jack Stone
braker had initiated two touchdowns
against a bewildered Navy eleven and
had Maryland pounding at the goal
hpfnFa tho xr,I,t te+1a
Navy a l6-to-l3 victory.
Some Other Thrills.
FAYBE the collegians, the pros or
V the independents furnished
greater thrill, but at least
you can't convince a scholastic basket
ball follower that the Central Eastern
game last Winter wasn't the thrill de
luxe Of the court campaign Eastern
needed only that win over Central to
win the public high series, and with
only seconds left to play, the Lincoln
Parkers led, 80 to 81. With the time
keeper limbering up his trigger finger,
Buddy Nau and Bill Bryant, two of
Central's best, were fouled success
lively. A total Of four foul shots were
awarded. A total of four fouls were
dramatically missed.
There were more thrills to Wash
ington's 1884 sports year. There were
Roger Peacocks 81 at Indian Spring,
the Frankie Coveli-Pete Decrease
fights, Johnny Fenlons 90-yard run
against the Alabama Au-Stars, and
Everett Marshalls dive out of the
ring against Jeems the Londos.
Thrills in 1884 were a dime a dozen.
Many feebler excuse to kill off that
holiday egg-nog may be forthcoming
than toast to 1935-and here's hop
ing it treats the customers to as many
thrills.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
SHREWD PLAYERS
PICK UNDERDOGS
Figures Show Favorite Is
Winner in Only so Per
Cent of Bouts.

This is the fourth OF series OF
articles discussing the rapid spread
OF gambling and the chances that
the public has OF thinning big
stakes.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
GIVES 1s GRID LETTERS.

Iowa Wesleyan handed out varsity
letters to 18 members of its foot ball
Evening star., 1934-12-27
T HOLDS OPEN HOUSE
Big Variety of Sports Will Be
Presented New Year nav

Presented New Year Day.
A varied sports program, including
indoor track, base ball, volley ball,
basket ball, tennis, swimming. water
polo, boxing, wrestling and tumbling,
has been arranged by the Central
\. M. c. A. for its annual New Year
day open house.
The sports program will begin at
A:15 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1934-12-27
THE SPORTZICHT
Alabama Has All Leading Grid Qualities,
Coast Experts Conclude After Inspection.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

After Stanford's first workout, the
observers will be dizzy in the big
comparing act-man for man and
team for team.