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Evening star., 1936-02-10
No Bogash, By Gosh.

WELL. you know as well as I do
W that Bogash did not receive q
dime for that fight, because the local
promoters cheque bounced back in.
side a week. However, we are not
using Bogash this year. I would
rather lose honorably than violate the
Olympic spirit. I think all Americans
feel the same way.
you may quote me to that
effect, if you wish. The name is
spelled Pflug, with the p silent
as in pflounder.
"Our German hosts have been most
cordial so far and have guaranteed us
fair treatment when the team takes
the field against Austria in the first
game tomorrow. There is a certain
amount of bad feeling among the
Americans here. The bob-sledders
seem to think they should get as
much publicity as the pillow fighters,
and quarters as comfortable as ours.
"I suppose you never threw a pill
low for money one bob-sled person
said to me with a sneer.
81 will match my record with any
bob-sledder's, I replied with dignity.
And will, too, as soon as I confer
with my lawyer about certain tech
nical points.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Basket Ball HOnOrs Founder This Week
Coaches Players Fans to Tribute 10 Nismithat
So the Southern Conference

So the Southern Conference
adopted the Graham anti-subsidi-
zation plan Well. Hiram
doesn't hire 'em" and Graham
doesn't pay 'em i. i. Papers down
there say Carl snavely and Hunk
Anderson may not sign new five
year contracts at North Carolina
and N. G. State, as the result e..
Every one is wondering If Duke.
Clemson, South Carolina and vir-
ginia Military-which voted against
the plan-will climb aboard the
bandwagon, or take walk"
Jack Coffey. graduate manager
at Fordham, wrote the article on
athletics In the Catholic Encyclo-
pedia =. A 64-year-old woman
is official statistician for the VAL
ley Base Ball League In California
and one of the lads in the
Richmond white hope" tourna.
ment was trained by . woman.
73 Wrestling Is doing q big
comeback In Dixie Danno
o'Mahony drew. 1000 out In the
Evening star., 1936-02-10
BY EDDIE BRIETz,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n W YORK, February 1e.-
M This is the week basket
/ Y ball coaches. players and
fans all over the country
pay tribute to DR.. James A. Maj
smith, originator Of the sport :.
The idea Is for every college and
high school team to set aside one
game and donate / cent from each
admission to q fund which Is to be
used to send DR.. Naismith and his
wife to the olympic games, found
an annuity In their behalf and
start q memorial for him either at
Springfield, Mass. or at Lawrence,
Kans. =. DR.. Naismith Is the only
founder Of q major sport still alive
:. At Is he Is professor Of phys
ical education at Kansas University
he originated basket bali ut the
Springfield Y. M. G. A. College IN
1891 ;. Basket ball Is included n
the Olympic program for the first
time this year. p
Evening star., 1936-02-10
They Thumb n Ride.


"WE WILL take the next boat out
of here, though it be the frailest
sort of fishing smack" announced
Capt. Plug to the press. st expect
to put strong team on the field at
Garmisch-P -Partenkirchen, and I look
for Yugoslavia to give us the strong
est opposition. Ny name is spelled
Pflug. with the 'P' silent as in psalm
and psandwich."
A few hours later the team thumbed
a ride from a passing submarine and
went bowling off for Germany. I am
happy to be able to inform the fans
and afficionados of pillow fighting, who
have been without word from Plug
and his Olympic fingers for many
days, that the goal is reached I am
in receipt of the following communi-
cation from Capt. Plug himself:
"Garmisch p e nkirchen, Ger
many. February 6.-Arrived just in
time to participate in the parade
Of nations. a gorgeous and stirring
pageant of international good will
Our ammunition is is good shape,
though Leftwich's private string Of
thoroughbred sofa cushions suffered
somewhat on the voyage and we're
treated by local pillow veterinaries
on arrival here.
I'VE marched past Chancellor Hitler
today and returned his salute with
dignified reserve. Am told that Der
Fuehrer. as they call him, is a con-
noisseur of pillow fighting himself
and was much impressed with our
appearance. The Norwegian dele
CATION is stronger than thought and
may give us trouble. However, we
will reflect no discredit on the great
United States If Leftwich's string re-
spends to treatment.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
YANKS GET BREAK
IN HOCKEY DRAW
Placed in Easiest Group for
Second Round of Olympic
Series.
nv the Associated Press
Wonder if that fellows good
BY the Associated Press.

~ ARMISCH PARTENKIRCH-
EN-, Germany, February 10
7 The United States got a de-
~ cided break in its bid for the
Olympic hockey championship today.
being drawn in the easiest group for
the second round-robbin series.
Drawn with the United States were
Austria, Sweden and Czechoslovakia
Canada, the defending champion,
was drawn in group that included
Great Britain, Hungary and Ger
many.
No games were scheduled at hockey
today.
Yesterdays results and other facts:
Hockey.
Switzerland assured United States
Of place in second round-robin series
by defeating Italy. to o. Other
qualiflers, Canada, Germany, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Great Brit
ain and Sweden.
Yesterdays results: Switzerland. l:
Italy, o; Czechoslovakia, 2; France, O.
Austria, z; Latvia, 1.
Ski Racing.
Franz Pfnuer, Germany, captured
mems combined downhill and slalom
title as result of brilliant victory in
slalom race yesterday. Dick Dur
rance Of Tarpon Springs, Fla, and
Dartmouth led American contingent,
placing tenth in combined scoring
as Germans took four of first six
places.
Figure Skating.
Mems compulsory figure skating be-
gan with no scoring made public.
Robin Lee, American champion, and
Montgomery Wilson of Canada, reck-
oned unoflcially among leading con-
tenders.
Bobsledding.
Americans turn in outstanding
times in both two-man and four-man
trials. Francis Tyler named pilot
OF second American four-man team
IN Tuesdays competition in place
OF injured Donna Fox. Rumanian
racers Emil Anghelescu and Ion Crib
incea injured in only serious prac-
tical spill.
Point Scores.
Germany, 96; Norway, 80: France,
IL; Switzerland, 10; Great Britain, I
dncluding Sundays events).
points scored on 10-5-4-3-2-l basis.
unofncially; including separate as well
as combined ski racing competitions
Evening star., 1936-02-10
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

TEMPLE took the measure of
Gallaudet, 50-46, In one of the
closest games seen here this year
and tonight will meet George
Washington in the Y. M. C. A.
gym. Temples victory came in the
last 2 minutes Of play. the score
being tied at 46-all. A. Wenger
of Gallaudet nearly tied Temples
high scorer, Neff, getting l6 points
two less than the visiting star.
Manager Clark Griffith returned
from the National League meeting
In New York without having dis
posed of any Of the players ne
wished to transfer. There Is but
one deal possible now-the sale Of
Joe Boehling to Pittsburgh, pro-
vided waivers can be obtained on
the southpaw.
West Virginia Wesleyan, which
plays Georgetown and G. U. here
this week, was subjected to severe
trouncing by the Navy at Annap-
oils yesterday. losing by q 46-s
score.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

through a period Of intense solitary
training In the Maine woods, flogging
his own head and shoulders with a
horsehair bolster until the blood came.
ITO sail without Leftwich would be
fatal to U. S. hopes" declared Capt.
Pfug as he stood on the pier, watching
the main boat sail off with the rest
of Americas Olympic competitors.
I'VE will wait for him until 1910, if
necessary"
As 1t happened, the great de-
fense man came sprinting up to
the pier just as the boat disap-
peared on the skyline.
Late again, Leftwich," was Capt
Plugs mild reproach, and some wit
remarked, laughingly, that Leftwich
would be late to his own funeral.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

The spectators have been much
impressed with our work in practice.
One Frenchman, watching Leftwich,
said, Quill est fort! Un Hercule, SIM
plement.' And I must say that Lefty
never looked better. He can take
the regulation size Olympic pillow
flush on the chin without giving an
inch. You know this is much sitter
test than the 14-ouncer, the Marquis
of Queensberry pillow.
"All in all. am happy and con-
fident as we go into action. America
will not be ashamed of us. I inclose
three action photographs of myself,
for immediate release.
PHILO PFLUG,
Captain"
All this will be welcome news to
pillow fight followers in this country.
I believe I can say without fear OF
contradiction that in Philo Pflug
America has a leader worthy Of her
Olympic tradition.
(Copyright. 1896. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1936-02-10
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Captained by Courageous Philo Plug,
U. S. Pillow Fighters Defy World Foes.
BY JOHN LARDNER

"The crowd did not cheer as the
American athletes passed by, probably
because of the trouble we had in the
Winter Olympics of 1882. You re-
member that France. Germany. and
Sweden protested when our pillow
fight team used Bogash in the right
outside position, charging that he had
thrown pillows for money in a minor
league fight in Kansas two years be-
fore,
Evening star., 1936-02-10
McCon Optioned
ToLOokout Farm

THAT youth move recently started
by Washington's ball club will
have Alex McColl, venerable right
hand hurler who toiled in the
minors 10 years to get a major
berth, in q Chattanooga uniform
this year.
The thin-thatched Alex who is
pressing 40 today was optioned to
the Lookouts, the Nationals head
quarters announced,
Evening star., 1936-02-10
rain and cold in Birmingham the
other night.

Jimmy Braddock, brown as
berry, got In last night from Flor
ida but goes back as soon
as his little girl RECEIVERS from an
operation Sammy Goldman,
who has signed for Tony Cam
zoneri to fight Jimmy McLarin.
wants to back out and save
Tony for q Barney Ross bout in the
Summer Sammy Is afraid
If he lets Tony meet McLarnin
there will be no Ross fight.
When Ripper Collins told Casey
Stengel the Cards had not yet
mailed him q contract Casey said:
Maybe they just run out Of con-
tracts :. You know they have
to mail out 800 each year."
Hal Weafer, the old first sacker,
is in line for an umpiring berth
in the International The
Yanks have their eye on Ray KEN
nedy, secretary Of the Newark
farm, and may shove him up the
ladder shTtly.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
PHILO PFLUG,
%
Varsity Quints

Late Saturday Night Scores.
Southern California, Al; California,
IS.
Oregon State, 49; Oregon, 23.
Stanford, 80; U. c. I. A., IS.
Syracuse, AZ; Colgate, 81.
North Carolina State. 43: David
son, 80.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Hockey Results

By the Associated Press.
National League.
New York Americans, 4: Chicago, !.
New York Rangers, 2; Boston, 0.
International League.
Windsor, 4; Detroit. 1.
Syracuse, .; Cleveland, 2.
Canadian-American League.
Boston, 4; New Haven, 2.
Providence. 4; Philadelphia, Q.
American Association.
st. Louis, 3; Tulsa, o.
oklahotha City, 4; Kansas City, 0.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Bic League Pay Roll Na $3OOQOOO Ross rudng Issue With Cansoe
Courage, Quickness Required
As Olympic Skiers Negotiate
654-FOOt Descent In SLdIOnl

of six flags through which the con-
testant weaves at terrific speed
After that comes long, steep slope
on which the snow is packed like rut-
ted ice. The skis won't bite and many
tumbles come on this stretch. The
racers yesterday found this stretch
especially difficult on the second run
after the snow had been packed and
rutted.
The next stretch has numerous
bumps and hillocks from which the ice
has been scraped, exposing ice-covered
grass. Among the bumps are curves
with the flags so placed that the racer
must jump couple Of feet, twisting
his whole body to swing his skis into
the turn.
Experts Take Most Chances.
MOST of the falls come in the mid
die section, where the speed Is
greatest and the snow packed into
corkscrew-like twists, and on the home
stretch, where a drop of a couple of
feet precedes the most battling marker
arrangement of them all
The poorer skiers try to take the
course conservatively. losing time even
though they stay on their feet, but the
aces punt-work their sticks furiously
for greater Speed-at every oppor-
tunity. They take their chances on
hitting the flags which aren't easy to
tip over because they are mounted on
flexible poles, but which whip back
sharply at the hapless runners who
strike them,
Evening star., 1936-02-10
FIGURE WELL SHY
Of HALCY0N DAYS
Red Sox Will Pay Out Most.
Athletics Make Big Cut.
Griffs Economic.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, February 10.-Ma-
nj jor league base balls pay roll
will come close to the $3,000.-
n 600 mark this year for the first
time since the depression forced
sharp downward revision of player
salaries.
Although the aggregate figure still
Is considerably short of the palny
days when Babe Ruth's pay scared to
$50, 900 per season, with proportionate
boom time salary checks for all out
standing performers, the trend this
year is distinctly upward.
Estimates gathered from reliable
sources by the Associated Press today
indicate that pay rolls of the 16 big
league clubs, this year and last, have
gone up about s350,000. This is equiva-
lent to restoration of approximately
one-third of the total "cuts" made in
the three preceding seasons.
The estimated league pay roll totals
for 1886 are $1,575, 900 for the Ameri-
can and 1850, 900 for the National.
The Boston Red Sox top the list for
the first time as result of the acquisi-
ton of some of the American Leagues
most expensive talent. Owner Tom
Yawkey, it is estimated, will pay more
than 100000 in the coming pennant
campaign. The Boston salary list,
front Office included, is not far from
the "high-tide' figures set by the
Yankees in Ruth's hey-day.
Mccarthy Highest Paid Pilot.
THE Yankees have economical Of
late, but their pay roll still is near
$250,000 with Manager Joe Mccarthy,
at $4,000. the highest paid pilot in
either big league.
The two championship clubs, De-
troit Tigers and Chicago Cubs, each
is figured to pay their performers close
to $250,000. The Cubs raised pay
throughout their roster this Spring
The Tigers, in addition to bonuses,
also have revised the salary list upward
for the second straight year.
Other teams with pay rolls above
the 100000 mark are the New York
Giants and st. Louis Cardinals.
Branch Hickey. generalissimo of the
Cardinal system. is in the $4,000
class and one of the highest paid ex-
ecutives in the game.
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and
the Chicago White Sox, all with first
division ambitions If not actual pen
nant prospects, have handed out
scattered increases.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
WILSON is TRAP VICTOR
Best in Three-Way Shoot-of at
Washington Gun Club.

Walter S. Wilson won the shoot-off
when the Washington Gun Clubs
weekly competition ended in three
cornered trap tie Saturday after three
hours of target work in IS inches of
snow. Wilson. A. v. Parsons and r.
D. Morgan had ended the regular So
target event with A each.
Benjamin Thaw and j. James were
credited with wins on the handicap
trophies.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
bout PRICE ASKED
IS SBEYOND REASON
WeIter King Makes Amount
High, Knowing No Match
Would Result.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

N VIEW YORK, February 10
M Barney Ross has high idea
of his services when the name
i of Tony Canzoneri is men
toned. Ross will fight Tony provided
he is guaranteed $4,000 with the
privilege of 42A per cent Of the re-
ceipts. Outdoors this would not be
so bad. But in the confines Of Madi-
son Square Garden, with limited
seating capacity, Ross is going a bit
further than any sensible promoter
would care to risk.
All Jimmy Johnston would have to
do to seal his doom as director OF box
ing at the Garden would be to sane
ton such a proposal. Ross knows
this as well as his managers. Turning
a deaf ear to an offer to meet Canzo-
neri in a third match would be just
as damning as demanding such an
outrageous guarantee.
Ross is said to have set 100000 as
the sum he wants to earn this year.
He started off rather poorly in accept
ing a match with Lou Halper In Phila-
delphia. Fans of the Quaker City
are not as gullible as the Chicago out
fit thought they were when they &C.
cepted the match.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
HONOR LORD FAIRFAX

Foxhunters Wear Regalia at Por-
trait Presentation.
WARRENTON, Va, February 10
R.-The dash and color of the chase
will be reflected in the court room
Of the Fauquier County Circuit Court
March "a, when portrait of Thomas,
sixth Lord Fairfax, formally will be
presented.
The masters of foxhounds Of q num-
Der Of hunt clubs In Northern Vir-
ginia are to attend the exercises in
full hunting regalia.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
0LMSTEDS WILL DINE
Film of Famed Celtics Will Be
Seen at Tossers' Fete.

Olmsted Grill basketers viii be the
guests Of their backer, Bert Olmsted,
tonight at q dinner given In their
honor at 1886 q street at $50 o'clock.
A film Of the famed New York
Celtics In action viii be run in slow
motion and explained by Elmer Ripley,
former Georgetown and Yale coach.
Managed by Sox Harrington, Ohm
sted Grill boasts Of such locally
prominent amateur stars as Billy
Mitchell Smoky Kemp, Stew Ben
ham, Joe Sherman, Bus Pfau, Ready
and MtGahey.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Philadelphians Smart

PhiIadeiphianS Smart
DHILADELPHIANS have the right
idea. If a match appears one
sided or the promoter boosts the price
of admission. they simply register
disapproval by staying home and
listening to the lulling tunes Of the
radio. 1t is doubtful if Ross was
paid as little for any of his contests
since he became champion as he va
for his effort against Halper.
Canzoneri agreed to a guarantee OF
$35 900 for Ross. This Is big money
for a welterweight. If you don't think
so, check up how much Champions
Teddy Yarosz and Bob Olin received
when they lost their crowns to Babe
Risko and John Henry Lewis.
CanZoneri and Ross met twice.
Some fans will say there is no just
reason for third match, in that Ross
won both contests. This line Of rea-
soning would be correct had Barney
won by a wide margin. Accounts of
both battles prove that the edge was
so thin that the matches could have
been decided either way. For this rea-
son there Is a genuine demand for a
third meeting between the pair.
Canzoneri Tracks Ross.
p OSS was highly acclaimed for the
~ fearlessness he showed in stack
ing up against Jimmy McLarnin and
standing toe to toe with the hard
hitting Irishman. This pair met three
times and the fans turned out in large
numbers to witness each engagement.
Canzoneri's splendid work in regain
ing his lightweight crown over the
current run of 135-pounders and
willingness to spot Ross as much as 8
pounds has warmed the fans to his
standard.
The little Italian may be, as some
writers say, on his last legs, but no
lightweight is proving it. His tenacity
in chasing after Ross is almost fanatic
in its zeal. Once before he followed
the Chicagoan across the country and
whipped the same boys Ross fought.
Nothing came of this effort
Tony has been challenging ever since
and is willing to pay for a crack at
his twice conqueror. Ross seems in
clined to evade the issue. Is it posi-
BILE that Barney, counter fighter, has
an idea that Tony has learned enough
of his tricks to have developed style
that will nullify these tactics?
If the Ross -Canzoneri match ever
takes place, Tony will have the salts
faction of chasing his arch rival for
two years, while Ross will go down in
fistic history as one champion who
evaded the issue with a lighter rival.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Amateur Hockey
Eastern League

Eastern League.
New York Rovers. 4; N. Y.-Atlan-
tie City Sea Gulls, 2.
Hershey, 8; Baltimore, 1.
Independent.
Detroit Holzbaugh-Ford, 8; Chicago
G. Y. o. shamrocks,
Evening star., 1936-02-10
By the Associated Press.

- ARMIsCH PARTENKIR-
a CHEN. Germany, February
10.-If you can imagine
hurtling 654 feet downward
into vortex with a pair of cumber-
some skis strapped on your feet, fight
ing hazards all the way down, you
have rough idea of what it's like to
compete in the Olympic slalom race.
If you could scramble up 1000 feet
on the steepest Of the Gudiberg cliffs
and skid down afoot, you would ap-
preciate better the courage, keenness
of muscle and quickness required of
the athletes who spin down through
80 hairpin turns on skis, twisting and
jumping between pairs of small red
and blue flags.
Must Pass Between Flags.
IT ISN'T merely a matter of getting
down the Serpentine course in the
shortest time. The flags, placed in
rows and on the curves, mark the
lanes. The racers must pass through
them according to rule, with penalties
for improper braking or passage be-
tween the pairs of flags and for
knocking down flags. A fall down the
slope means the most difficult kind of
climbing to repass the flags.
The competitors start from a hut
near the Gudiberg summit, where
there are electric timing devices. I'M
mediately there is small cliff, then
a wide, sweeping curve, then a series
Evening star., 1936-02-10
TOPS BASKET SCORERS
Brown of Richmond Is Far Ahead
in Old Dominion.

RICHMOND, Va. February 10 up.
-Winfrey Brown, Richmond's basket
marksman. today was far in the lead
of scorers on the Old Dominion's IL
college quints.
In II games, the spider flash has
totaled la points. His best game OF
the season was against Yale when he
accounted for Is points.
Second in the State Is Bill Formwalt
Of Hampden-Sydney with 11s points
in 10 games.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
FT. WASHINGTON IN FRONT.

Although Reing was the games
leading scorer with Is points, his team
Of Fort Hunt courtmen bowed to Fort
Washington yesterday, 1888.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
OPTION ON BERWANGER

Chibears Get Maroon Grid Star II
He Turns Pro.
PHILADELPHIA, February 10 O9.
Chicago Bears of the National Pro-
fesSional Foot Ball League have OBJ
tanned the right to sign Jay Ber-
wanger, Chicago ace last Fall, If and
when he turns pro.
An authoritative source disclosed
this information.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

= pillow fight team since it left
our shores for Germany several weeks
ago under the command of Capt. Philo
Plug. the greatest pillow hurler for
height and distance that this country
ever produced.
1t will be remembered that Capt.
Plug and his gallant little crew of
-propellers missed the main
boat for Garmisch- -Partenkirchen be-
cause of the tardy arrival in New York
Of Throckmorton Leftwich, star de-
fense man, who had been going
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Griffs Among Slicers.

THE st. Louis Browns and Cincinnati
Reds. in the process of reconstruc-
tion, also have rewarded merit with
raises.
The steepest pay roll decline affects
the Philadelphia Athletics. Simply by
selling all their high-salaried stars
the AS have cut their salary overhead
more than so per cent. The Boston
Bees and Washington Senators also
have done some slicing. The Phillies,
already well pruned, have only one
man In the five-fgure class, Manager
Jimmy Wilson.
The list of holdouts, however, has
grown this year with upward of rs
players publicly manifesting dissatis-
faction with their contract offers. and
more squawks yet to be heard.
conspicuous among those who have
not yet settled their salary differences
are Dizzy Dean, Arky Vaughan, Van
Mungo, Hank Greenberg and Bill Lee,
but most Of the athletes in the higher
brackets are well pleased with the
documents they have signed.
Earn Big Money.
THE ten highest paid players in the
major leagues are:
Joe Mccarthy, Yankees -s35. 900
Mickey Cochrane, Tigers - 10000
Bin Terry, Giants ------.- 27,500
Joe Cron1n, Red Sox ------ $4,000
Jimmie Foxx, Red Sox---- $4,000
Lou Gehrig, Yankees - $4,000
Lefty Bob Grove, Red Sox-- 22,5O0
Charley Grimm, Cubs $4,000
Frank Frisch, Cardinals 49, 10000
Carl Hubbell, Giants 1880
Others in the $4,000 to $4,000
class. signed or unsigned, include:
Dizzy Dean Of the Cardinals; Lon
Warneke, Gabby Hartnett and Billy
Herman Of the Cubs; Paul Waner and
Pie Traynor of the Pirates, AL Sim
mons, Hank Greenberg and Charley
Gehringer Of the Tigers; Manager
Rogers Hornsby of the Browns, Man
ager Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox,
Mel OFT and Hal Schumacher of the
Giants, Lefty Gomez, Charley Rufing
and Bill Dickey Of the Yankees; Yves
Ferrell Of the Red Sox.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

I EW YORK, February 10.-Al-
most nothing has been heard
of Americas Winter Olympic
pillow fight team since it left