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Evening star., 1936-12-09
Centers Offer Problem.

7 IKE the Cards, Maryland and
Georgetown also are faced with
an annoying situation at center, the
Terps having lost the elongated Vic
Willis and the Hoyas unable to place
too much work on Mike Petroskey, who
recently recovered from an appendec-
tony. Willis, a mere lad of feet S
inches, was a fundamental cog in the
Terp machine, but already has three
years of competition behind him and
is ineligible for further use.
Should Bill Guckeyson decide to
play this year, Coach Burton Shipley
will be well fortified at center, how
ever. since the Old Line foot ball ace
is rated as polished performer. Bills
lack of height, comparatively speak
ing. is more than offset by the set Of
springs in his sturdy legs.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
ALI Hard To PLAY.
One Strenuous Day.

All HARD 70 RAY.
CIT HAS been my experience" he
said the last time he was in New
York with the Maroons, that all
games are hard to play we'll. and pro-
ficiency comes only with the greatest
effort. I know I have had to work
hard for anything I ever earned in
the way of honors or pay in sport.
THE toughest game? I'd say
foot ball. Hockey is rough
enough to suit anybody, sup
pose, but the continual bodily
contact in foot ball took more
out Of me than anything else
I've ever known in sport"
He has a theory that mixing up his
sports the year round has kept him
active for so long. He means that,
by moving from one sport to another
with the changing seasons. he has
maintained his enthusiasm at high
point and kept rust from gathering
on his muscles. AS far as he person.
ally is concerned, guess he has
proved his theory. But it seems to
me that q lesser mortal would have
needed q little rest between seasons.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
STAR WITH FREE TOSS
Schulze, Brennan Take Honors at
Basket Clinic Joust.

Hugo Schulze Of Western High
School and Joe Brennan Of George
Washington University have served
notice they will score steadily from
the foul line this basket ball sea-
son. In a contest held last night in
connection with the National Capital
Basket Ball Clinic. at the Y. NJ c. A.,
Schulze tossed in % points in 80 tries
and Brennan scored 20x25. In a shoot
of between the two Brennan won by
one.
In the clinic Paul Mention, Baltimore
newspaper man. foot ball and basket
ball official and member of the Ma
tional Basket Ball Rules Committee.
explained the new rules, which allow
four time-outs instead Of three, per-
mission for substitutes to converse
with teammates upon being sent into
play and the six-foot restraining circle
around the tap-of1 spot. About 180
attended the clinic.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
CUNTS ARE ACTIVE.

Potomac Electric basketers will face
of Agriculture tossers to-
night at $50 o'clock in a Roosevelt
Community Center League game at
Roosevelt High gym. Tomorrow night
at 7:30 o'clock, Federal Alcohol will
meet Peerless Furniture and Agricul-
ture will stack up against P. w. A.
at $50 O'Clock,
Evening star., 1936-12-09
QU|NT
HERE TO GET TEST
Opposing Maryland Normal
Tonight-Center Bothers
Them, Hoyas, Terps.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
AUNCHING the local collegiate
basket ball campaign in rather
mild fashion Catholic Uni

mild fashion, Catholic Uni
versity's promising passers Will
stack up against Maryland State Nor
NAL tonight at Brookland gym in .
tilt which is expected to offer a sur
plus of swishing from the Cardinals
aand a conspicuous lack Of competi-
tion from the invaders.
Catholic University Is blessed with
wealth of veteran material, but
Coach Fod Cotton, perhaps taking
his cue from the disappointing show
ing of a veteran foot ball squad. still
is undecided about the possibilities of
his club. His lack Of optimism at
this stage revolves about the absence
of Bernie Lieb at center.
Lieb's angular frame walked of the
Cardinal campus last June following
graduation, and just how much the
Redbirds will miss him, II any, should
be revealed tonight. Capt. Zeke
Brown has been switched from his
forward post into the tap-off job.
One Soph Gets Berth.
WAYNE (WHITEY) AMBROSE, a
sophomore, will be the only re-
cruit who has managed to chisel his
way into a starting berth. He will
man Browns old assignment at for
ward. teaming with Hermie Schmarr,
the Districts leading scorer last sea-
son.
The guards also present another
problem in that both Irish Carroll
and Sam Pagano originally were for
wards and as yet are not polished
in that happy knack of holding the
opposition's scoring aces in check.
From an offensive angle, however, the
Cardinals figure to create trouble this
early in the year and undoubtedly will
click on defense before the season is
many games old.
In a preliminary tussle, Catholic
University's yearlings will clash with
Dewitt Prep at 7 o'clock. The feature
fray, in which the Cards will be striv-
ing TO capture their seventh consecu-
tive victory in as many meetings with
Maryland State Normal, will get under
way at 8:l5.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
By the Associated Press.

N YEw YORK, December g.
M Scouts say Jimmy Brad
" docks boxing Is nothing
less than terrible Bos-
ton is pounding George Preston
Marshall for moving the pro foot
ball play-of game to New York .
Marshall's next announcement may
be that he is going to move the
franchise, too Lew Fonseca, the
old first sacker, is the best dressed
man at the base ball pow WOW .. .
Tip: The Yankees are in q huddle
with the Athletics about something
. Jack Appel, best fight referee
In town during the days Of the old
Garden, has been located driving
night taxi.
Bill Terry pitched a feed for the
other National League managers
last night Horace Stonehan,
Giant president, dittoed for the
other club owners :. The Red Sox
want Julius Solters back from the
Browns Rogers Hornsby is will
ing, but Yawkey & Co. is going to
have to cough up plenty Ameri-
can League managers are making
discreet inquiries about some of the
Athletics young pitchers.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
RESUME BASKET PLAY

Heurich Cup basket ball competition
will continue tonight at the Heurich
gym. with Sterling Restaurant meet
ing c. C. c. Camp (Georgetown) at
7:30, Fort Myer and Delaware g. Hud-
son clashing at $50 and District w.
P. A. and District Fire Department
tangling at $50.
w. p. A. is looking also to its con-
test Saturday night with the strong
Abbott's Dairy team Of Philadelphia
at the Heurich gym.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
HYATTSvILLE BOOKING.

All junior basket ball teams in the
District, Maryland and Virginia have
been challenged by the Hyattsville
Juniors, who are booking games
through oscar Hiser at Hyattsville
1924. Hiser has rounded up formida-
BILE aggregation. none of whom is over
81. including Paul Hershey, Howard
Ritchie. Billie Bobb, Charlie Piozet,
Pinky Magruder and Ducky Reamy.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
'|R|SH,' TROJAN TIE
IS SCRAz|EST GAME
Even Umpire, as Interferer,
Helps Badly 0utpIayed
Coast Eleven.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.


There may have been dafiier
foot ball seasons than the one
now passing. but not within the
memory Of this observer. And quite
the daffiest Of all games seen in this
daffy season was the 1918 tie between
Southern California and Notre Dame.
The Trojans Travelled about ITS
yards to gain the two touchdowns that
tied the "Irish," but when the second
was recorded they had not made q
single first down. In fact, Southern
California made only one first down
in the game and that by the aid Of
a penalty.
As you will recall, Southern Cali
fornia made its first touchdown on a
77-yard combination of tackle smash
and lateral pass. The second occur
red when Laurence Langley inter-
cepted an Irish pass on his own 1-yard
line and ran 80 yards without Notre
Dame man turning on the red light.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Layden's Second Goal.

ELMER LAYDEN completed his
third season as mead coach of
Notre Dame with record Of 10 won,
6 lost and tie. In his first year as
Irish" marshal Leyden lost to Texas.
Navy and Pittsburgh. Last season the
only debit on Notre Danes record
was caused by Northwestern, and this
year Navy and Pitt again hung crepe
on the Irish" banner.
Layden's record stands up with the
best in his profession, and his work
this season was particularly outstand-
ing. since he was obliged to rebuild a
backfield and fortify the line with the
remnants of the 1885 squad. Sopho-
mores contributed little to the success
of the team, but several developed
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Umpire Is Good Blocker.

Il " wv I1GfL Vic SOOiIllcoc VI tIlC
game was the performance Of the
umpire, who took out after Langley
and managed to get himself directly
in the path of Notre Danes last
secondary defense man. who was doing
a good job Of overhauling the flying
Trojan. That the umpire was bowled,
spilled and upset by the Notre Dame
back has nothing to do with the story,
but the officials unintentional block
certainly was opportune for the
Trojans.
I recall a similar instance In the
Columbia-S Stanford Rose Bowl game
a few Winters ago when an Eastern
official in the game planted his bulk
between an Indian back and the goal
line long enough to permit the Lions
q chance to stop the runner.
Then. there was another day at Ann
Arbor when the late Walter Eckersall
found himself in the path of some
Michigan and Ohio State boys and
came OF the turf minus several teeth.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
ORGANIZE PRO QUINT

Cohey Sales Team Is Made Up Of
Former Collegians.
A shot of pep Is promised profess
sional basket ball here this season by
the Coffey Sales team, Just organized.
Among the high-grade ex-college play
ers recruited are Bozey Berger, former
all-America at Maryland; Moon Evans,
Vic Willis, Buckley and Bernie
Buscher, who played at Maryland;
Jim Forney, lately Of Baylor, and
Theo Afford, giant all-conference CEN
ter from Baylor.
The team expects to play some Of
its games at the New York Hippo
drome.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Braddock's Boxing Is Declared to Be Terrible


field star, next Monday from
there Parker will dash to Charlotte,
N. c., to attend q foot ball banquet
the following night >. If Cincin-
natl let's Babe Herman go, Brook
lyn will try to grab him Max
Schmeling gets in on the Bremen
tomorrow >. The kids will all give
three cheers If the big leagues okay
p. K. Wrigley's plan to let 'em In
for half price next season.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Maxie Berger,
1877, Montreal. stopped Lew Massey,
l3s, Philadelphia -.
LOS ANGELES.-Freddie Steele,
157l2, Seattle, middle weight
champion, outpointed Young
Stuhley, l61, Kewanee, III. doJ,
non-title.
HELENA, Mont.-Hubert Dem
mis-, l34, Bozeman, and Richie
Fontaine. 13l. Missoula, drew Q0).
NEW YORK.-Mickey Serrian,
1852. Scranton. Pa, and Tommy
Bland, 147, Toronto, drew 49,:
Erred Davenport. 144l2. South
Carolina. outpointed Clarence
Sloat, l40. Baltimore, (6).
Evening star., 1936-12-09
TOE CRoNIN means to play thirt

ZOE CRONIN means to play third
" base for the Red Sox, so it he
gets Frank Higgins from the Macks
it will be for trading purposes only
.. Green Bay Packers arrive to-
day to get ready for Boston Sunday
If Lou Chiozza fails to 60 at
third for the Giants, Bill Terry may
put him on second and try Burgess
Whitehead at the hot corner.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, is staging q
big civic celebration for Ace
Parker, Dukes all-America back
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Trend Foot Ball Spreads Grid Season Termed Ye
Pro Hockey

- the Associated Press.
National League.
New York Rangers, o; Chicago,
o (tie).
Detroit, 4; Boston, 3.
Observation-Disclosures League.
Buffalo, q; Springfield, o.
American Association.
st. Louis, 8; Wichita. /.
Schedule Tonight.
International american.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
American Association.
Tulsa at Minneapolis.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Bowl Games Remain.

The foot ball season still has few
important details to be ironed out
before the silk pants and helmets are
put in moth balls. Saturday the un-
defeated Santa Clara team plays Texas
Christian. one of the leaders Of the
Southwestern Conference, in San
Francisco, and on New Year day there
will be the Rose Bowl. Orange Bowl,
Rum Bowl Havana, Sun Bowl. Choc-
olate Bowl and Finger Bowl games.
Within a few years no community
will be considered civilized unless 1t
can offer some sort Of bowl game on
New Year to 60 along with the Tom
and Jerrys.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Sports Mirror
~ the Associated Press.

~ the H8SocIhted FfebB.
Today q year ago-Berkeley Bell
turned tennis professional. joining
Bill o'Brien's troupe.
Three years ago-Willie Mac
Farlane led first round Of $4,000
Miami open golf with record"
breaking 81, four under par.
Five years ago-Hack Wilson,
1880 home run king, traded to
Cardinals by Cubs for Burleigh
Grimes and Bud Teachout.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Def FOR BASKETERS.

Unlimited basket ball teams are
challenged by the Falls Church toss
ers, who have reorganized and are
anxious for games. Write Wilson
Earman, Box Ill, East Falls Church,
Va
Evening star., 1936-12-09

We like to think, in this country.
that Jim Thorpe was the greatest
athlete who ever lived, judged at the
time when he won all those trophies
at Stockholm, which later he had to
give back because somebody discovered
he once played a few games Of pro-
feSsional base ball. jim won the de-
cathlon at the 1912 Olympics, surely
was one of the greatest foot ball play
ers and, following his disqualification
as an amateur. became professional
base ball player and was good enough
to stick in the major legaues for five
or six years.
There is no denying that Jim
has a strong claim to the dis
tinction of having been the all.
time, all-round champion.
Big and tremendously strong and
incredibly fast, he dominated college
foot ball, and the struggling profess
sional gridiron game into which he
plunged later. He was one-man
track and field team.
AS ball player, his only weakness
was right-handed curve ball pitching.
and he might have overcome that if
ne had not heard so much about 1t
that, after a while, it became an OBJ
session with him. He was a good boxer
and wrestler, and, with some train
ing in these sports, would have been
close to the top.
The More Versatile Conacher.
WHAT of Conacher, then? Well,
w Conacher won Canadian cham
pionships in swimming, diving, jump
ing and shot putting. He was Cam
ada's greatest foot ball player, the
outstanding star on the Dominions
greatest team-the Argonauts. He
was ranked as one of the greatest la
crosse players. For more than
dozen years he has ranked with the
best players in the National Hockey
League, which means that for that
length of time he has held foremost
place in one of the fastest and roughest
games in the world as 1t Is played
on its highest plane.
For two or three years he
was an outfielder in the Inter-
national League. He was the
amateur heavyweight champion
of Canada and once was Sc
Evening star., 1936-12-09
THE SPORTLIGHT.
Canada's Lionel Conacher Compared
With Jim Thorpe As All-Time Great.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

9-Over long span Of years,
Lionel Conacher has estab-
- lished himself as the greatest
athlete in Canada, meeting test sup
piled by the broad sweep Of sport
across the dominion. But there are
many who will claim higher title
than that for Conacher, big defense
man of the Montreal Maroons, who
recently announced that this was his
last season as a player in major league
hockey. They have dubbed him the
greatest athlete of modern times-or
any other time. for that matter-and
they insist that his greatness extends
well beyond the borders OF Canada.
Evening star., 1936-12-09


" " and break bread with ath-
letic heroes of every walk
Of life tonight at the Willard Hotel,
where the first annual all-sports BAN
quet will take place, starting at $50
o'clock.
The affair, bringing together in one
room some Of the most outstanding
sports celebrities Of the country, in
addition to WaShington's own vast
colony Of athletic figures, is being
sponsored by the Touchdown Club,
local association of foot ball letter
winners now residing in the Capital,
and Washington college coaches.
Only two speeches are scheduled.
Jimmy Crowley, present Fordham
coach and one Of the famous -Four
Horsemen'' Of Notre Dame, will give
one and Senator Pat McCarran of
Nevada the other. Both will be broad
cast over station WMAL, starting at
1880 o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-12-09

Yesterdays results: Denton. 50: Hall, ~
$50 innings. Matsuyama, so: Reiselt, 33
t3s tnnings1. BoZeman, so: Hoppe, "a
(54 innings.
Todays schedule: Thurnblad VS.. Denton
fafternoon); Cochran VS.. Hoppe (eve
ninD.
Evening star., 1936-12-09

sufficiently to make the 1887 prospects
rather bright.
The thin man has rightly taken a
place among the best coaches. and his
position should be permanent so long
as Notre Danes manpower endures.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
lected to box an exhibition with
Jack Dempsey when Jack was
heavyweight champion.

hC8Ny WO1khS OAhAkuPAVAs
He made such q good showing that
Dempsey and Jack Kearns were eager
to have him turn professional and 60
along with them. He was amateur
heavyweight wrestling champion and
subsequently wrestled professionally
for a year. For diversion he plays
golf. He shoots in the low 80s con-
sistently and gets into the 7Os once
in q while. He has won numerous
minor tournaments around Toronto.
One Strenuous Day.
LIE PUT in one day that, for con-
= centrated action, probably tops
any that any other athlete ever had,
considering the importance Of the
events in which he took part. One
Saturday afternoon he played in the
final game for the Canadian foot ball
championship, and that night he
played in the final game for the anna
teur hockey championship. Between
games he took nap and shower
and had some tea and toast. In each
sport his team won.
Canadian foot ball is somewhat SIM
liar to the American game and it was
cinch that fellow who was star
in Canada would be q star in this
country, too. Conacher received many
offers from American colleges and ac-
cepted one of them. He came down
over the border and attended prep
school for one year so that he could
be eased into his college berth, but
at the end Of that year the coach of
the college decided to switch to a COL
lege on the coast. He wanted Lionel
to 90 with him, but Lionel decided he
Evening star., 1936-12-09
1936PLAY LEANS
TO SPECTACULAR
Lateral Passing Lessened,
However, Except Among
Far West Teams.
BY HERBERT BARKER.

n YEW YORK, December 9 lR.-1f
M there remained any doubt that
foot ball is showing steady
trend toward the more open,
more spectacular style of play, re-
sponses to a Nationwide Associated
Press poll serve to diSsipate it.
Almost without exception, college
foot ball leaders pointed to the wider
use Of passes, particularly of forwards,
as the most striking development of
1896.
Don McCallister of South Carolina
struck a happy phrase when he sug-
gested foot ball offensives had become
SO unorthodox that the players con-
sidered it was "all right to do any,
thing, anywhere, anytime"
Reports from the Southwest indi-
Gated teams there we're using just
about as many passing as running
plays. Vanderbilt, under Ray Morri-
son, former Southern Methodist coach,
reported using more passes than ever
before, Is to 20 a game.
Evening star., 1936-12-09

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Evening star., 1936-12-09
Less Lateral Passing.


EXCEPT in the Far West the lateral
pass seemed to have fallen into
disfavor. Babe Hollingberry of WASH
ington State reported the mania for
laterals is dying out" but he was al
most alone in that opinion in the Far
West. Washington, for instance, beat
U. C. L. A. and California with lateral
passing plays.
Minnesota employed the lateral fire.
ouently, and so did scattering other
teams that had the glue fingered backs
and strong lines to make it go, but for
the most part the backward pass
played a much smaller part than in
1885.
One Michigan State observer thought
there never had been so many funbles,
due perhaps to the increase in the
fake pass and similar plays involving
one-hand ball carrying.
Among the other general trends
noted by one or more of the observers
participating in the poll were: /. better
kicking; 2. heavier schedules with
fewer "breathers" 8, more end and
tackle-around plays; 4, more multiple
passes behind the line Of scrimmage:
5, more frequent use of two complete,
alternating teams.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Scoring Becomes Greater.


HAND in hand with increased use
of the aerial attack, the Rocky
Mountain Conference noted, went
higher scoring. There were eight
games in that sector in which the
losers scored at least two touchdowns,
twice as many as in 1885.
Bill Alexander of Georgia Tech was
one experienced observer, however,
who viewed the trend with a different
slant.
1T seemed TO me-" he said, "that the
teams In this section that were losing
were throwing more passes and the
teams that were winning were more
conservative and more effective with
their passing game"
Jock Sutherland, Pitts veteran
coach. was another who took the vari-
ant viewpoint.
THE tendency by most teams"
Sutherland declared, was to open up
and brighten their running attacks to
obtain the same spreading effect on
the defense once sought by passes.
The tendency now is toward delayed
plays, reverses and spinners."
Along that same line, Harvey Har-
man of Penn thought there was less
fancy stuff" and the emphasis was
on power mixed by deception"
Tom Hamilton of Navy pointed to
wider use of spread formations, so
common in professional foot ball. as a
distinct trend The same tendency was
noted in the Pittsburgh sector.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
BIG SPORTS FETE
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Evening star., 1936-04-01
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Evening star., 1936-04-01
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Evening star., 1936-04-01
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for Rent should clearly state if
room is to be shared by others
and how many. Also on which
floor room is located.
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Sentation brought to attention
of The Star will be promptly
investigated.
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Office for card showing infor-
nation for rent advertisements
should contain and sample ad-
vertisements.