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Evening star., 1936-12-26
PREDICTS RECORD
FOR ACE TR0TTER
Greyhound Will Crack Mark
Ia Years Old, Declares
Trainer Palm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
r INDIANAPOLIS December 26.-Sep
Palm. veteran retnsman and
trainer of Grand Circuit harness
L horses, predicted today that Grey
hound, the big gray gelding he has
developed, would break l4-year-old
trotting record next season.
Greyhound was one of the best
2-year-olds OF the 1894 season, and
in 1885 took the Hambletonian and
seven other stakes, trotting to record
Of 400 fiat. the worlds mark for q
gelding Of his age.
Fourteen years ago at Lexington,
KY, Peter Manning established the
championship trotting record Of 1854
and since that time-at least until
Greyhound came along-the mark has
stood practically unchallenged.
Palm Is Confident.
WITHOUT a doubt. Greyhound
will break that record" said
Palm. He'll top 1t If he's sound, and
there's every indication he will be.
fully expect him to set a new record
He's a great game horse. He'll come
through"
Palm recalled he had held the reins
over Peter Manning in two exhibi-
tions, so he knows the horse whose
record Greyhound is out to beat.
Palm is leaving next week for Long
wood, Fla, where Greyhound Is in
Winter quarters.
Runs Five Fast Miles.
nURING the year just ending, Palm
recalls, Greyhound trotted the
mile five times in two minutes or
faster. In winning the Progressive
Stake at the Goshen IN. " Grand
Circuit. Greyhound established new
world record for a three-heat race,
trotting the trio in 20l, 2:00h and
200, an average Of shade faster
than 2:0012.
Then at Springfield. Ill, he trotted
in 2:02 and 1:57A. the latter a new
world record for a harness horse,
either trotter or PAGER
"There1l be some fast miles trotted
this year" said Palm, but watch
Greyhound. He'll top them ALL"
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Old Alex Has Points.
COLLINS may not be the most pop
~ ular man in base ball today,
what with that hackneyed nose-in-
other people 's-business rumor still
making the rounds, but Eddie finished
a glorious career with lifetime bat
ting average Of 1893, was famed for
his brainy play. both defensively and
extensively, and for nine years he
led the American League. Even when
you saw him last, in 1926, he wound
up with q .344 average.
OF the rest, Alexander seems
to stand as good q chance as
any. Alex was the marvel Of his
age, lasting 20 years while mis-
behaving and compiling q truly
great pitching record.
The misbehavior is not mentioned
as an argument in his favor, of course.
but merely as a sidelight. The fact
that he pitched 696 games in those
20 seasons. which were spent with the
Cards, Cubs and Phils, and won 373
of them does qualify him, however.
Half dozen times he led the Ma
tional League in hurting complete
games; five times he topped in earned
runs. and in 1901 he tipped four one
hit games Added to these points, he
pitched 90 shutouts. including Is in
1916. and in three years-1915. 'l6
and 1.-The won "a games.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
GREAT MILE FIELD
THREATENS MARK
New Orleans Meet Features
Race Among Cunningham,
San Romani, Lash.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
n YEW ORLEANS, December 60
nj Olympic stars came here today
for the Sugar Bowl track meet
curtain raiser of week of
sports designed to rival the Mardi
Gras.
In holiday gayety New Orleans well
coined Glenn Cunningham, the famous
miller; Helen Stephens, queen of wom-
an sprinters: Archie San Romani, an
other star mile runner, and Joe Nc
Cluskey, the steeplechase king.
Don Lash, Tom Deckard, Harold
Manning, Glenn Dawson, Marty
Glickman, Billy Brown and Dudley
wilkins were other Olympians invited
to compete in the Sugar Bowl track
meet at Loyola Stadium tomorrow.
Mile Mark in Danger.
THE world record for the mile was
expected to be in danger when
Cunningham. San Romani and Lash
faced the starters gun in the feature
race Of the program.
Lash forced Cunningham to run
the greatest mile ever raced in Dixie
in the first Sugar Bowl track meet
last year. Cunningham won that
thrilling duel in 4:16. San Romani
said today he felt he could run the
four laps in 4:l2 tomorrow. If need be.
Meanwhile. Louisiana State Uni
versity's undefeated, once-tied foot
ball team worked off Christmas din
ners this afternoon in final workout
for its game with Santa Clara New
Year day.
The Broncos were to entrain in
California today for their long trip.
Grid Game Sellout.
HAMMERS sounded at Tulane Sta
dium, where the game is to be
played, as workmen squeezed in lust
. few more" seats. Normally the sta
dunn holds about 10000 but knock
down seats are expected to add 10000
more All tickets are sold.
An intercity boxing tournament be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans. a
tennis tournament-yes. and even a
yacht race-will polish off the sports
week.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
WILL SHOOT FOR TITLE

The all-around championship of
the Washington Gun Club will be held
Monday. One hundred targets-20 at
Is yards, 20 at 18, 20 at 20, 20 at %
and 10 pairs of doubles-wll be fired.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
And SisIer. ct al.

A LSO on this departments list will
60 George Sisler, McGinnity, Cap
Anson, Walsh and Tinker.
A 464-inning stint in 1908
was one of Walsh's recommen-
dations Sisler was great
either as a pitcher or n first
baseman Ans0n, together
with Cobb, was one Of the only
two men ever to hit over 500
for more than Is years and
Tinker had few equals and prob
ably only Wagner to surpass
him as shOrtstOp.
But Young, Collins, Lajoie, Speaker
and Alexander are the five who seem
most likely to crash the gates Of
Cooperstown's hall. The tiny agate
type opposite their names seems to
pack too many arguments in their
favor to overlook.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Leo Durocher and Ducky Medwick
The Cuban governments ad-
visor on their big sports week was
Harvey Harman, Penn's foot ball
coach Harman's going down
there to officate in the Villanova-
Auburn game 4. Odds on the Rose
Bowl Game are 9-Io and take your
pick.
Story: Texas Christians great
passer, Sammy Baugh. came back
into the huddle and a pass-play was
called ;. "All right" said the guy
who was TO get it, Lets see you
hit me In the eye with II Slingerl"
to which the Singer replied,
Which eye. podner, which eye?"
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Olympic Fill Sugar Bo,v Friedman Master Boxer Importer
Varied Sports

College Foot Ball.
Santa Barbara State, IS; New
Mexico A. e. NJ, IA.
Scholastic Foot Ball.
st. Petersburg (Fla.), 10; Marble
head (Mass,), IL.
Union Endicott IN. ", 7: Clear.
water (Fla), 0.
Pro Soccer.
st. Louis Shamrocks, S; Pitts
bureh Heidelbergs, 2.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
EUROPE BIG FIELD
FOR RING FREAKS
Carnera Main "Discovery"
by "Good- Time Charley"
Managerial Genius.

(This is the sirth and last article
OF series celebrating the foht
manager, uhose exploitation OF
angles sets the pace for the ptigi-
hstic industry. The adventures and
strateoems Of some OF the more
celebrated and colortul American
prize fight managers are described
by an experienced sports writer.)
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Todaya year ago-Arky Vaughan
Of Pittsburgh Pirates led National
League sluggers with .607 average
on long hits.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Reserves Please PheIan.

pHELAN was pleased with the work
of his reserves in scrimmage in
which the red-shirted subs, using Pitt
plays, banged away at the first-string
eleven.
Loss OF Fullback AL Cruver by in
juries from the Husky second team
may hurt the Washington cause con-
siderably, particularly since the reg
ular full, Ed Nowogroski. has an ailing
leg that may go back on him, but
many observers refuse to be alarmed
over the Cruver mishap. Phelan has
a wealth of good backs. The man he
is grooming to understudy Nowo-
groSki, Merle Miller, was good enough
at the first of the regular season to
go into the Huskies' starting lineup
against U. c. L. A.
Pitt Polishes Attack.
THE HuskieS break camp tonight,
taking a deep-sea fishing excur-
sion tomorrow morning and driving
on to Pasadena Sunday night to re-
main until the New Year day en-
gagement.
Coach Sutherland continued to pol
ish up the Pitt running attack. with
Marshall Goldberg. chief ground
gamer Of the outfit, packing the ball.
Next week Sutherland will concen-
trate on passes and pass defense.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Must Be Talented.

MANAGERS today must be ticket
A'A experts. legal experts (or WELL
advised legally. at leasD, financiers
anad banquet hounds, standing in as
we'll as possible with the press and the
promoters. 1t isn't the honky-tonk.
carnival racket 10 used 10 be, though
See LARDNER, Page C.5.)
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Ink Given Top Spot.

THE boys tournament presents even
more Of problem for the COM
mittee which seeds the players on
the basis Of known performances.
Only few from outside the metro
politan district have shown their right
to seeding.
Arthur H. Ink, jr, Of San Diego,
Calf, was given the No. position
followed by William Unstaedter. Mil
burn, N. j.: Melvin Schwartzman.
Joseph Greenberg and Richard Bender,
New York; John j. Jorgensen, Chi
cago: Bert MCGUIRE, Montclair. N. j.,
and A. Allan Mcdonald, Wichita
Kans.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Muller Now Surgeon.

A g BRICK MULLER. end of the
California wonder team in 1919,
he won fame as one Of the Pacific
Coasts greatest foot bail stars. As
Brick Muller, his name became ma
tionally famous on January /. 1920.
when he fired a pass-estimated at
from 50 to 20 yards-to Brodie Stevens
that started O fine Ohio State eleven
on the road to ruin in the Rose Bowl.
Today Brick Muller Is one of the
San Francisco Bay areas finest young
medical specialists. The same huge
hands that once hurled foot ball out
of sight now are deft In the use OF
lancet and scalpel. A busy surgeon,
Muller still finds time to keep up on
foot ball and the game is his main
hobby. Intently he watched the
Eastern stars al work, but most Of all
he watched Larry Kelley, master end
watching the performance Of another
master.
Dick Hanley, one Of the East
coaches. came by and stopped to talk
with Muller. Suddenly Hanley paused
and called 10th and Kelley to his side
"Show Brick some passing" he ordered
AZ 10th took the ball. Kelley raced
down field-down field so yards
where he picked one Of the North
western stars throws out of the air
Several times the pair repeated the
performance. Hes an all-around
end" commented Muller on Kelley's
performance.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
PITCHING HONORS
TO CARL HUBBELL
Has Low Earned-Run Aver
age and Highest Percent
age of Games Won.
Sv the Associated Press

by the Associated Press.
n JEW YORK. December 26.-In-
M dividual pitching honors in
" the National League for 1886
\ went to southpaw Carl Hub
bell of the New York Giants and
Dizzy Dean of the st. Louis Cardinals,
while the laurel for group perform
ance was captured by the Chicago
Cubs mound staff.
The release of the official figures
today merely confirmed the knowledge
OF ball balloon that the annual twirl-
ing prize for the lowest earned run
average went to king Carl" With
record of only 241 earned runs
per nine-inning game, Carl won this
distinction for the third time in his
career.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Any Louis Conqueror in Mike Jacobs Clutch
Promoter Insists Agreement Before FightHarman Aide

those two!" roared one Yeah,
so are Eleanor Holm Jarrett and
Avery Brundagel" wisecracked the
other g.. Eddie Shore OF the Bos-
ton Bruins is probably the best
hated guy in the National Hockey
League but the tougher the
crowd is, the better he goes, and,
boy, can he go!
Scoop: The New York Yacht
Clubs doorman is named Sam
and a very nice gent he Is, too j.
his last names Goddard =. H. q.
Salsinger points out that If the great
Dean leaves the Cards. he will no
longer be something out Of Ring
Lardner, for most of his wisecracks
are prompted by Pepper Martin,
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Five years ago-California foot
ball Bears defeated Georgia Tech,
1876
Evening star., 1936-12-26
RitZenberg Is Seeded.

MCNEIL and Lewis are seeded
first and second among the
juniors, followed by Melvin E. Lap
man, Charles T. Mailman, Joseph
Fishback and Marvin Kantrowitz, all
OF New York; Albert Ritzenberg,
Washington; Isadore Bells, Philadel-
phia; Henry H Daniels, jr.. and
Robert A. Low, New York boys rep
resenting Choate School; Malcolm
Weinstein, Philadelphia, and George
Mccall, University of Virginia.
Since the junior events seldom fol-
low form, upsets may be expected
somewhere along the line among such
players as Peter Lauck of Prince
ton University; Tom Slattery, Uni
versity of Michigan; Walter Woronow-
ski and Gerald Schaflander Of De-
troit; Alfred I. Jaffe, University of
Chicago; Frank McElwee, Fort Smith,
Ark: Robert D. Kempner, University
Of Virginia; Billy Gillespie Of Atlanta
and Scarborough School, Alexander
Guerry. ir., Chattanooga. Tenn;
Alter Milberg, New York, and Walter
B. Meserole, William and Mary
College.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Three years ago Lou Meyer
named champion auto race driver
for third time.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Fighters Only Business.

Fighters Only Business.
THIS was in prohibition times and
the readers of Paris drew their
own conclusions about Mr.. Friedmans
business. When he reached his hotel
he found that every whisky and
champagne salesman on the Continent
was present with samples, ready TO
trust him for the first few cases. Mr..
Friedman promptly brushed them of
the premises and set out to look for
a heavyweight.
He made history with Camera. At
any rate, he set a style in pugilistic
build-up that still influences the
whole industry profoundly and oceu-
pies unique chapter in the records.
Primo was a strong man with q
wandering circus when Mr.. Friedman
found him, freak strong man with
heart of the purest nougat. Mr..
Friedman advertised him over here
as an ogre who drank the blood Of
babies. He showed him a couple of
boxing tricks and put him on the
tank circuit, knocking over scare
crows and springboard divers in every
hamlet in the land.
The significant thing is that Good.
time Charley collected far more cash
on that tour than Camera every saw.
He knew he had a good thing. AS
rule, Charley confines himself to the
discovery and importation of these
menaces. When he gets them over
here he sells their contracts to the
highest bidder, sometimes retaining q
modest percentage, and goes bounding
back across the ocean to look for more.
Where's That Chinaman?
MR.. FRIEDMAN'S dream is to find
A'A a Mongol mammoth, a Chinese
white hope, who will be bigger, fun
nier and more profitable than any
menace he has yet imported.
Much more respectable than Mr..
Friedman, but dealing In somewhat
the same line of goods, is Bow-tie
Jimmy Bronson, the neat and cheerful
little man who handled Gene Tunney
in his fights with Dempsey. Jimmy
is the American agent for a good
many European managers and pro-
moters who do business on an inter-
national scale. He frequently skips
over to England or France to help out
with a fighter who needs handling
or to escort a new one back to the
United States.
He transacts the American affairs
of Mr.. Jefferson Davis Dickson, the
boy Tex Rickard of Europe, and shares
with Paul Damski in the development
of Herr Damski's extensive interna-
tional stable, which now includes the
most promising heavyweight of the
year, the forward Finn, Gunnar Bar
Iund
Evening star., 1936-12-26
POPPING a.
OfF"~JtGfa fan:: -
Bronze Plaque Candidates.

TINE business should have been
completed early in the week
when the base ball writers
- received the requests to supple
ment the Cooperstown Hall Of Fame
with 10 nominees, but first there was
Christmas shopping, and then the
letter was lost among Yuletide cards.
Now that it has ben salvaged you
wonder if shopping wasn't easier than
trying to pick spiked gents for i'm
mortalitys sake
Ty Cobb. Honus Wagner, Walter
Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Babe
Ruth we're picked a year ago. and
bronze placques in their honor will
be hung in the little New York towns
Hall of Fame next week. For a man
to muscle into this select group he
must have done at least some Of his
playing after the turn Of the century,
even though active prior thereto, also.
but he must have been out of service
at least by the 1886 season.
Ten players are TO be named,
but of this group, according to
the rules, only four or five will
be chosen because it will be
necessary to receive IS per cent
of the total vote.
Such candidates as Rogers Hornsby
and Lou Gehrig are ineligible, Gehrig
because he played in all 154 of the
Yankees games and Hornsby because
he showed the poor taste to serve as
a pinch-hitter last season for the
Browns.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
YOUNGSTERS OPEN.
TENNIS TITLE PLAY
Al Ritzenberg of District
Among Seeded Stars in
Junior Tourney.

n yEW YORK. December 26.-The
M national junior and boys in
" door Tennis Championships
get under way today in the
big 7th Regiment Armory with field
which includes many of the Nations
leading college and scholastic stars.
Headed by Don McNeill of Okla
homa City and Morey Lewis Of Texar-
kama, Ark, the Kenyon College rae
quet swingers, who performed sensa-
tionally in Eastern clay court events
last Summer. the Junior tournament
has drawn s5 players while 56 have
entered the boys division. The first
round in both events is to be COM
pleted today.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
ROSE BOWL RIVALS
GIVEN HARD DRILLS
Huskies Brush Up on Their
Blocking, Pitt Looks to
Running Game.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HASADENA, Calf. December 26.
- Rival Rose Bowl squads,
Pittsburgh and Washington,
bore down today in one of the
hardest practice sessions of the train
ing schedule.
Coach Jimmy Phelan took his
Washington Huskies out to a private
polo field at Santa Barbara for COM
plete privacy, and held lengthy
drill. 1t included plenty of blocking
and ball-carrying.
Over at San Bernardino, Coach
Jock Sutherland ordered a similar
routine. He didn't have to warn the
Panthers to put aside post Christmas
thoughts. His boys are as intent on
the New Year day game as they
were when they left Pittsburgh earlier
this month.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

IN
M Almost every time you see
" foreign heavyweight menace
approaching our shores-be
he Turk, Kurd, Pole. Egyptian. Italian.
Brazilian. Russian, French, or British
horizontal variety)-you can be rea-
sonably sure that the sinister figure
Of Mr.. Walter Good time Charley
Friedman is lurking somewhere along
side, hidden in the shadow of his
vast new piece of beef on the hoof.
Among Mr.. Friedman's importa-
tionS have been Primo Carnera, the
kind-hearted ogre of sequals; Knute
Hansen, the convertible Dane; Len
Harvey, the timber limey; Jack Doyle,
the Irish Thrush. and Prince Sala
El-Din of Egypt.
Europe and Asia are Mr.. Friedman's
playground. In the scouting season
you are likely to find him anywhere
from Wales rugged mountains to the
plains of Kurdistan. turning over fiat
rocks and shaking trees in his cease
less search for newer and funnier
heavyweights. When he first began
to scour the Old World for these
neolithic fossils Europe did not quite
know what to make of Mr.. Friedman.
A Paris newspaper announced:
"Good-time Charley, the American
racketeer, is making a visit here on
business"
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Ofncisls: Referee-Mr Eberts fCatholic
u Umpire-Mr Sholar Presbyterian.
Head lnesman-Mr Collins tVanderbtll
Field judee--Mr STREET Auburn.
Kick k-of, 3 pm. Eastern standard time).
Evening star., 1936-12-26
Wins I6 in n Row.

HIS honors didn't stop there. He
scored 28 victories against de-
feats and thus became the seventh
pitcher in "a years to top the loop
in both earned run average and won
and lost percentage. Hubbell wound
up the season with an unfinished
streak Of 16 consecutive wins.
"Old Diz," working in 81 games for
total Of BIS innings, saw more duty
than any other moundsman. The
amazing part of it is he posted an
earned-run average Of 3.171, not far
behind Hubbell. He pitched 20 COM
plete games to lead the league and
shade Hubbell by three games. But
Deans "a won and Is lost was good
for a percentage of only SAC, as COM
pared with Hubbells .8l3.
Van Lingle Mungo. the Brooklyn
Dodgers temperamental right -hander,
won strikeout honors with 238 batters
going down, but he also issued the
most walks, 1l8, and threw 10 wild
pitches to finish one behind wild
Bill Hallahan of the Cincinnati Reds.
Walter Leading Loser.
RUCKY WALTER, the Phillies' con-
verted third baseman. was one of
seven who pitched four shutouts dur
ing the season, but he also suffered
more setbacks than any other twirler,
81 losses. The other shutout artists
were four Cubs, Bill Lee, Larry French,
Lon Warneke and Tex Carleton, Cy
Blanton of the Pittsburgh Pirates and
Al Smith of the Giants.
Other honors went to Pittsburgh's
Red Lucas for allowing the fewest
hits, l78, and the fewest passes, 36;
Big Jim Weaver of the Pirates with
only one hit batsmen and Lucas and
French for throwing only one wild
pitch.
Evening star., 1936-12-26
How'd Cy Look Today?

VOUR correspondent was not around
at the turn Of the century, and
some of the boys who qualify for
consideration had hung up their gloves
and spiked shoes by the time this
department was functioning. Cy
Young, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Nap
Lajoie, Joe Tinker, Iron Man Nc
G!nnity, Ed Walsh, Home Run Baker
and Johnny Killing are included in
this personal list Of "unremembered. I"
There are, however. plenty Of long
lines of agate records and hearsay
from old-timers to use as a meas
uring gauge and apologetically you
start hereby firing.
Young pitched for ~ years,
from 1890 through 1911, and un-
doubtedly will poll one Of the
heaviest votes on the strength
of q truly remarkable record.
He won 511 of the 874 ball games
he hurled and for IA consecutive sea-
sons he won 20 or more games. which
Is, as far as you can see or imagine.
something that never has been equaled
since.
One season 1904. he worked % con-
secutive hitless innings. something else
that hasn't been done since. He
pitched a perfect game after 1900 no
batter reaching base. and his strikeout
record reveals 1886 victims.
Speaker Had Great Record.
THE record books do not hurt La
joie's stock. For 81 years the great
Cleveland second baseman averaged
154 hits per season and still holds a
fielding record set in 1908, when he
handled 9s8 chances. McGinnity aver
aged Is victories a season for IL years,
and once, 1904, he wound up with a
mark of IS wins as against 8 lost. He
once pitched and won three double
headers in single month.
You came along in plenty of
time to see such other worthy
gents as Iris Speaker. Eddie
Collins, Grover Cleveland Alex
ander and a few more whose
records, dug up and studied,
compare favorably with any.
Speaker was the greatest of all fly
chasers, it seems pretty generally
agreed. and far from guy who was
just another hitter. He batted over
800 for Is seasons, set record that
still stands by getting IL in three sue
cessive games in 1920. He also holds
the major league record for doubles,
793 in II years and for eight seasons
he made more doubles than anybody
In the American League.
If you want to carry it into the call
culus stage Iris made 3,5l5 In AZ
Evening star., 1936-12-26
BY FRANCIS ]. POWERS.

~ ERKELEY, Calf, December 26.
* The Eastern Al Stars, who
play a similar team represent
- ing the trans Mississippi sec
tor Of the gridiron world for the
Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children
in San Francisco. Calf, January /.
were hard at work on the University
Of California practice field.
A tall. handsome fellow with huge
hands sidled close and in low voice
asked: which one Is Kelley of
YaIe2"
You pointed out the irrepressible Eli
captain. chasing down the field in pur-
suit Of long pass thrown by Steve
10th Of Northwestern. Hes grand
looking athlete" commented the tall,
handsome fellow with huge hands.
You looked with more intent at the
face Of the tall, handsome fellow with
huge hands, and saw 1t was Harold
Muller. Now. the name Of Harold
Muller may mean little to the present
generation OF foot ball followers, but
there was day, 16 years ago. when
Harold Muller Was the toast Of the
gridiron world.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

years. This Is a big figure, even for
National" phone number and a
1887 D. c. auto license.
Evening star., 1936-12-26

Kelley Coasts Idol.
IN A few days Kelley has become the
idol OF San Francisco foot ball fol-
lowers. Genteel at all times, his spon-