The Washington times., 1935-11-12
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Interest
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By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

A commentary on the meIt-
ing pot of interests and cross
section of national citizenship
which is Washington, can be
observed at Griffith Stadium
any Friday night or Saturday
afternoon a football game is in
progress.
Regardless of the sector of
the country from which a visit
ing eleven halls, there is ever
q group of loyal sons and
daughters present to form a cheer
ing section in the left field stands.
They know the visiting college
cheers and songs and although
they are in the minority, their
brave efforts at roofing and cheer
tng-on their favorite club is notice
able enough to form a contrast
with the C. u, G. u, and G. w.
U. student body across the field.
In the Manic. U. game this
was quite noticeable. 1t was
equally prevalent in the Rice-G.
W. U. contest as it was in the c.
U.-St. Mary Texas game.
Verify. I believe were football
team from Alaska Teachers to
play one of the domestic teams,
there'd be a willful knot of home
town supporters back of the visit
ing Side-lineS.
Knows His Gridiron
Oze Simmons, Negro halfback
Of the Iowa football team who is
being singled out by many of the
experts for all-American mention.
knows every inch of the gridiron
on 1owa'S home field. He spends
the summer moving the grass to
help pay his way through college.
He studies dramatic art, among
other things.
Clark Griffith will observe his
birthday anniversary next week.
He was born November 20, 1853.
The Times will mark the day
by publishing the box score OF
the first major league game in
which Griff pitched the st. Louis
(American Association team to
a 13-to-5 win over the Cincinnati
(American Association Club,
April IL, 1891.
However, Griff actually broke
into professional baseball for the
Bloomington, ILL.,, club in 1887.
Being born in the same town, I
ought to know.
One On Gil DObie
They say that Gil Dobie actu-
ally fell off the bench when Cor
nell scored the touchdown and
point after which tied Columbia
at z to 7.
The president of Wake Forest
University, Walton Kitchin. has
a son playing on the football
team Of that college. That almost
ties the fact that Elmer Layden,
Notre Dame coach, has brother
playing on the 1riSh-and how!
At the last inventory-taking,
Vannie Albanese, Syracuse half
back, had gained an average OF
222 yards per game.
Next Sunday, Capt. Noah
Hazard is holding his annual
oyster roast at Galesville, Md.
Captain Noah has raised the
oysters he will serve from babies,
every one being guaranteed to be
milk fed. Come one. come all!
I am worried for AL Munro
Elias and his brother Walter. For
the first time in years they did
not show up at the last World
Series. You know 'em; they are
the demon baseball statist1clanS.
Caught on the Wing
Four baseball wives accompa-
MED Earl Mack'S transforming
American League stars to Mexico
Mrs. Earl Whitehill, Mrs. Luke
Sewell, Mrs. Jimmy Foxx and
Mrs. Ted Lyons.
Mushky Jackson Is in charge
OF Joe Louis three-night barn
storming tour of Montreal, Of
tawa and Toronto.
William Rosenberg, New York
city-Alvin Powells home ad-
dress is Silver Spring, Md, and
my best regards to Dan Parker.
An unbeaten football record Is
a nice bauble to finger around,
but I wouldn't give a quarter for
a boy graduating from a team
that had never taken good,
sound beating. Far more char
acter is built from having to pick
oneself up after a severe setback
than in never having faced any
such reverseS.
There IS a question in the
minds of many who saw the
Harvard Princeton game, whether
Harvard's breaks or team, were
worse in that 35 to 0 defeat.
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