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Evening star., 1937-02-25

and Shuf1lin' Phil was tossed out of
base ball.
When last heard from. the Shuffler
was raising shoats near the Sequatchie
River in Tennessee and leading the
church choir There never was a
pitcher Of greater promise, nor VIC
tim of a more unhappy set of cir
cumstances.
Mr.. Dizzy Dean, as noted above, is
a paragon of Boy Scout virtues COM
pared with Douglas and Alexander
and the Babe in his heyday. He is
impulsive, too, but his impulse never
leads him to do anything more flend-
ish than pop off about his colleagues
or skip an exhibition game in favor
of a quiet nap The Diz is temper
amental, but righteous.
incidentally, if Dizzy ever gets the
$50,O00 he has been asking for-which
he almost certainly won't-he will be
the fourth ball player in history to
achieve such a wage. Ruth, natu-
rally, leads all the rest with his top
figure of $4,000 year. Ty Cobb's
pay with the Athletics in 1927 was
estimated at 100000 or s65.000. iris
Speaker got close to 100000 from the
Washington Club in the same year.
Some day, Dizzy Dean may break
into the refined and exclusive order
of 50-grand boys. along with Cobb,
Speaker and Ruth. 1t may happen
if St. Louis trades him to another
club. But. meanwhile, the Diz is in
a huff. and that's where to forward
his mail.
(Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1937-02-25

two first-string posts will be fought
for by Goose Goslin, who now is So
years old; Al Simmons, who is not
much younger; Pete Fox. Jo-Jo White
and Chet Laabs, promising rookie.
Despite the voluntary retirement of
Alvin Crowder, the Tigers are not so
bad off for pitching. That is, they
aren't compared to other slab staffs.
Mickey Has Fingers Crossed.
CCHOOLBOY ROWE and Tommy
- Bridges, of course, will head the
curving corps and they figure to win
80 or 40 games between them. After
this pair will come Eden Auker and
young Jake Wade. a southpaw, who
undoubtedly will be given a starting
role.
Vic Sorrell, Clyde Halter. Roxie
Lawson, Red Phillips and Joe Sulli-
van are the other hurlers seemingly
holding the best chances of sticking.
Detroit fans had ample ex-
cuse last season when the Yanks
ended the Tigers two-year reign
of supremacy.
This season, even in 100 per cent
health, Detroit is not likely to finish
better than second, and if they do
So it probably will be only by scant
margin.
They are ball club which sustained
a couple of direct hits last season and
y1-bicH u-oila
have rusted and grown weak in spots.
Mickey goes to camp with his fingers
crossed.
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Thought Pastor Bout Set.

WE CAME here with every assur-
ance the Baer-Pastor match
would have official okay," said Hoff-
man. 1.-The original contract stipu-
lated it would be null and void unless
such an okay was obtained from the
Boxing Commission by February 10.
I gave the Garden a two-week extern
sion until yesterday, meanwhile adj
vising British promoters I would take
Baer abroad if the deal here fell
through.
"Now they want Baer to go down to
another meeting, apologize, and get
his license. Apologize for what?
"He was there to get the license yes
terday, submitting to an examination
and doing everything asked of him.
But all he got was heckling from
Commissioner Bill Brown"
The Gardens matchmaker, Jimmy
Johnston, attempted to pour oil on
the troubled waters by comforting with
Brown as well as Hoffman, but got
nowhere last night in his efforts to
patch things up.
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Bryant of Terps
Puts Team First

A DISPLAY of real spirit and
self-sacrifice was shown by
Bill Bryant, member of the
University of Maryland basket ball
squad, last night when the Terps
beat the North Carolina State team
by a sensational second-half drive.
Bryant needed to get into last
nights tilt to assure him a letter
for the season, and Coach Burton
Shipley of the Terps fully intended
to use him for a time.
However, when the Maryland
tossers were in the throes Of the
rally, Bryant turned to his coach
and said: ship, forget about send
ing me in; the boys are too hot,
and they might cool of if you make
a change"
Bryant is a Washington boy and
a former Central High athlete.
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had described Baer as bum" -.
We looked up this in the biggest
dictionary we could find and we've
been wondering ever since if Brown
could have meant that Baer is ~
q humming noise or ca a high
popped, two-masted craft Of the
Levant Either way. it's pretty
bad.
Brown and Baer have clashed
before You may remember
Brown as the gent who was going to
stop the Baer-Primo Carnera fight
because he said Baer wasn't in
condition Baer knocked Car
nera down II times, and it was
freely suggested after the bout that
the doctors examine Brown instead
o6 Da PTeem.
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Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
George Washington VS.. Geneva,
Beaver Falls, Pa.
Catholic University VS.. University
Of Baltimore, at Baltimore.
Boxing.
Miami VS.. Catholic University,
Brookland gym, S:15.
Wrestling.
Cliff Olson VS.. John Katan, fea-
ture match, Turner's Arena, $3.50.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
George Washington VS.. West
minister, Westminster, Pa.
Newark Teachers VS.. Wilson
Teachers, Wilson gym, 8:15.
Tech VS.. Eastern, Tech High gym
public high title series), $50.
Central VS.. Western, Tech High
gym public high title series),
7:30.
st. Johns VS.. Bethesda-Chevy
Chase, Bethesda. Md, $3.50.
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Braddock Promises to Make Louis "Burn" From Start


Hollywood notes: Nick Lukats,
the former Notre Dame star, IS
being groomed for big things at
the Paramount lot Aaron Ro-
senberg of Southern California Is
an assistant director at goth Gen.
tury Cotton Warburton. an
other great Trojan back, is snip
ping an authoritative pair of scis-
sors at M-G-M
Jim Thorpe is getting some good
character and Indian parts {.
Johnny Mack Brown, after a whirl
at free-lancing around the stu
dios, is dickering for a new long.
term contract at Universal Z.
AL this from Paul Schwegler, him.
self . great gridder at the Uni.
versity Of Washington. who now y
Woektne ct the studios.
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Dizzy Sticks Firmly to Guns
Won't Bulge for Less Than $4,000, Absolutely
Means Business, He Declares.

l pitcher said he will not 60 to
Daytona Beach Monday.
The contract offered him this
year, he said, carried the same
terms he played under in 1886, re-
ported to be $4,000.
Nothing short Of an offer for
$4,000 will bulge me now" Dizzy
said. Il am absolutely holdout."
The player asserted he would
make no move to break the salary
deadlock.
They've got to come to me.
If they don't do it, I'll just have
to make other arrangements. I
didn't feel hurt or disappointed
over the contract, it was just what
I expected. But I mean business
and I want the S50,000"
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BAER NOW LOOKS
TO SCRAP ABROAD
Pastor Bout Out, Max Will
Take on PeterSon-Farr
Victor in England.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fFeSS.
n YEW YORK, February 25-The
nj latest heavyweight fiasco-the
" failure of New York's flstic
4 fathers, in huffing and-pufff
ing session, to grant Max Baer liz
cense to fight Bob Pastor for Madison
Square Garden--found the Califor-
nian preparing today for a flstic in
vasion of England.
Baer's manager. Ancil Hoffman, said
that as result of the collapse of plans
to fight here he would go through with
an agreement with British promoters,
including Brig. Gen. Critchley, now in
New York with a guarantee Of $500
pounds for Baer to meet the winner of
the Peterson-Farr bout for the British
heavyweight title.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

Jock Sutherland and Don Harrison,
but for personal reasons we'd like
to point out that here's one case
where q Scotchman is on record as
digging into his own jeans to give
the boys a little fun money" =.
New York State Athletic Com
missioner Bill Brown was asked
yesterday if Max Baer's hands were
examined and o. K. before the
Baer-Louis bout Replied the
commissioner: "They were exam
ined all right, but we don't know
whether they were okay, because
he didn't use them against
Louis"
During this same commission
meeting it was recalled that Brown
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STAR RING TEAMS MEET

Baltimore Washington Contests
Slated Next Wednesday.
An inter-city boxing match between
the best amateur combinations Of
Washington and Baltimore will be
held at Turner's Arena next Wednes.
day night when the District Ma
tional Guard ringmen meet an all
star squad from the Monumental
City.
Three District champions will be
fighting for the Guard, with Steve
Thompson in the l60-pound bout.
Steve Mamakos in the 147-pound
bout and Eddie Saugstad in the ll8-
pound bout.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Joe Flames '
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, February Is.
M Joe Louis, struck once,
/ Y but Champion Jimmy
Braddock plans to burn him fast.
I'll be hitting from the first
bell" says Jimmy, and sure as gray
hair and coffin nails, that'll start a
Got a complaint in the mail from
q gent who says he couldn't under.
stand Joe Gould's Brooklynites
over the radio at the Braddock-
Louis signing Evidently the
boys didn't "rehoise." :.
We don't want to get into the
argument between Pittsburgh's
Evening star., 1937-02-25
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ RADENTON, Fla, February
- 25.-Dizzy Dean is "at
home" anytime to the
- bosses of the st. Louis
Cardinals
But he wants them to use $780,
900 contract as a visiting card.
Ole Diz announced in no I'M
certain terms he is a holdout He
has returned the contract offered
him for the 1887 season, will wait
here. but says it is up to Branch
Hickey, vice president and general
manager of the Cardinals, to make
the next move.
With the training season on the
verge, so to speak, the teams No.
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In Perfect Condition.
FIVE months of rigid training has

FIVE months Of rigid training has
put Bob in perfect condition He
stronger.
Bob declares he doesn't intend to
be too smart"
I've got a lot to learn about fol-
low-through and the fine points Of
pitching. I don't intend to be too
smart. at least until my control i'm
proves"
At the training camp Bob plans
to hire tutor to help him keep up
his school work. He wants to return
here for the mid-May examinations
so he can get his high school diploma.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
MOUNT RAINIER VICTOR.

Mount Rainier High Schools girls
basket ball team overcame a l-point
advantage held by the Bethesda
Chevy Chase sextet at the intermission
yesterday to win the game played at
the Leland Junior High gym, 21-18.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Conference Ring Goalof48 Dean Retirement Is Laugh
POPPING ~!
OfF"%JGt RzzS
MANAGER Mike Has His Problems.

This a peculatng
clubs they Spring tratntngJ
RLANDO, Fa February 2-Mickey Tigers
I with in
a
~
Schoooy
however
likely problems
the Tigers rally
that and there the
rtant O 10 be
Evening star., 1937-02-25
c. j. BOXING TEAM
IN FINAL TONIGHT
Fiqhts Miami Here-little
Is Known About Cards
AdverSarieS.

~ ATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES
boxing team will toss their
I final punches of the current
~ fistic campaign tonight. meet
ing an unknown quantity in the nit
ten manipulators of Miami at Catholic
University gym at BIS o'clock.
Victorious over Tennessee, 30, in
their opening match of the season,
the Miamians dropped IL verdict
to the strong Syracuse Club last week.
Cardinal followers admittedly are puz-
zled over the prowess of the invading
team but are confident Catholic will
wind up its season with triumph.
Coached by Dempsey.
THE Cards now display record OF
three wins, two draws and one
loss, having whipped North Carolina
State, Western Maryland and Pitts
burgh, drawing with Duke and Mary
land and losing only to Army.
Hurricane scrappers have not lacked
for proper coaching. having been tu-
tored by none other than Jack Demp-
sey, former world heavyweight cham
pion, in addition to their regular men
tor, Billy Regan.
Regan probably will use William
Lovett, 115; Joe Church, 1875; James
McLachlan, 1856; Lew Hawckotte, 145;
George Dolan, 1855; Richard Middleton,
165; Andrew Csaky, ITS, and Louis
Chesna, heavyweight.
Coach Eddie LaFond will rely on
Dave Bernstein, lis; Tex Guinan, 1875;
Nestor Martinez, 1876; Fred Mix, 145;
Joe Busa, 1855; Sully Greco, 165; Ed
Dunno, ITS, and Leo Katalinas, heavy
weight
Evening star., 1937-02-25
TELLER HAS NEW
CURVE TO OFFER
"Hook" So Great Boys Can't
Catch Ito Leave for
Camp Tonight.

By the Associated Press.
v YAM METER. Iowa. February
Y I 25.-Bob Feller, base balls
" prize rookie. will leave to-
night for the Cleveland In
dians' training camp at New Orleans
equipped with a new curve as well as
a binding fast ball
Bob attended high school today,
probably inwardly fidgety, but ex-
hibiting the same calm composure he
has shown since becoming one of the
countrys most publicized youngsters.
Base ball, not books, says MS father,
is Bob's first love, and he aims to get
plenty of it during Spring training.
Busy Perfecting 1t.
HES been working on a new curve
which he hopes to try out against
American League sluggers this year.
Why, the darn thing breaks so
wide the boys down at the high school
can't catch it." Bobs father says.
The 18-year-old farm boy, who star
tied the majors by setting SINGLE
game Strikeout record for the Ameri-
can League last Summer, was ready
for the campaign. There'N be little
need for conditioning him at New
Orleans
Always a faithful trainer. Bob Is
physically fit to show his sensational
work for the Indians was no streak
of luck. He's all set to prove the
Indians didn't make a mistake in
paying him at least $4,000 for his
1887 contract.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

Will 1lCNliDSi6 pN iuliliCI oAly VII
first base as a result of his twice
broken left wrist?
Will Cochrane be able to catch 100
or more games?
Will Goose Goslin and Al SIM
mons be able to stand the pace in
this year of their peak senility?
Hank TO Remain at First.
THERE was considerable talk dur
ing the Winter of Cochrane moving
Greenberg of first base and shifting
him to the outfield. Under this ar
rangement Rudy York was to play
first. Last week, when Mickey Wis
tied Washington on personal busi-
ness, he found time to deny this plan.
Adjustment of this idea came as
no surprise Among other American
League managers there was no doubt
but that Greenberg, as an outfelder,
would have made a good member of
Congress. or something.
Unlike Jimmy Foxx or some of
the other first basemen. Hank
cannot move fast enough to be
an outfielder, in the opinion of
most keen observers.
Cochrane's decision to keep Hankus
Pankus at first base appears to place
Mr.. York directly behind the eight ball,
but Rudy ought to be used to it by now.
In previous trials with the Tigers he
failed at first, behind the bat and in
the outfield. Last season, however, he
did a good job of hitting in the
American Association and, on the
strength of that and the question
mark over Greenberg's head, he prob
ably will be retained.
The question mark connected
with Greenberg, Of course, is
whether the big boy has become
too brittle to be counted upon
as heavily as Of y0re.
During his last two full years
Greenberg took rank among the fore
most hitters in the majors. Then, in
the 1885 world series, his left wrist
was broken in a collision on the base
paths. The following Spring it was
dkdll15 l1lAo liiAlN ny OohC L u"
ell in Washington. Memories Of these
bodily contacts may linger.
Outfielders Face Job Fight.
CHARLBY GEHRINGER and Mar
~ win Owen are certain Of retain
ing their infield jobs. and so is Billy
Rogell. although there is more doubt
connected with the shortstop. Coch-
rane probably will do most of the
catching. with Ray Hayworth and a
rookie, George Tebbetts, helping out
The real scramble for jobs will
be staged by the outfielders.
species with which the Detroits
are generously endowed.
Gerald Walker. it seems, is the only
outfielder sure of his job. The other
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Varied Sports

Vd1Ou of1OI 70
College Hockey.
Army, 3; Middlebury, 0.
Minnesota, 3; Michigan, J..
st. Olaf, 4; ST. Thomas, 2.
College Swimming.
Gustavus Adolphus, 46; st. Olaf,
20.
Augusta M. A.. 43; Washington
and Lee Frosh, %.
Staunton M. A., SO; Virginia
Frosh, %.
International American Hockey.
Philadelphia, g. Cleveland, 3.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Points to Louis Mistakes.

A SMART boxer is not going to be
nailed by that right the way
Louis was Most fights are won or
lost because of mistakes in the ring.
Louis made too many mistakes against
Schmeling.
"I'll start work in the woods be-
fore settling down to any training
routine. I'll get plenty of road work.
But that doesn't mean I'm going to
give Louis a foot race"
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Not Taking Joe Lightly.

IT OUIS can be hit, and any fighter
who can be hit can be beaten"
says Braddock. I'm not underesti-
mating him. He can punch-punch
hard with either rand. He's got to get
set for those punches. I don't expect
to let him get set-too often.
If and when he beats Louis and COL
lects, he hopes, the better part OF
S5O0,000 for his share of the Chicago
fight profits, Braddock wants to take
on Max Schmeling, to remove any
question about who's who In the
heavyweight industry.
Louis, regardless of the outcome
of their fight last year, figures to be
tougher than Schmeling," says Brad
dock. Joe has knockout punch in
either hand. while Max has nothing
dangerous but that right.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

" James j. Braddock when the
4 lawyers retire from the
heavyweight ring, pull the zippers on
their brief cases and permit him to
concentrate on the job of putting his
heavyweight title back in circulation.
James J. says he is not only bored
by nearly two years of inactivity and
all the legal -Nalaver, but as husband
and a father is more than anxious to
feather the nest that was worn a trif1e
bare before he shocked the f1stic ex-
perts by whipping the magnolia man,
Max Baer
Braddock wants to fight not once,
but twice this year. That's how conf
dent he is of his chances of beating
Joe Louis, the first Negro to get shot
at the heavyweight crown since Jack
Johnson.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
OutfielderS Face Job Fight.

The real scramble for jobs will
be staged by the 0utfielders,
species with which the DetrOits
are generously endowed.
Gerald Walker. it seems, is the only
outfielder sure of his job. The other
Evening star., 1937-02-25

ATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES
boxing team will toss their
I final punches of the current
- fistic campaign tonight, meet
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Friday Afternoon.

Friday Afternoon.
115 Christian VS.. Hughes: 125. Price VS..
Kell: 1:}5. Alperstein VS.. Jough Knelpp VS..
Carleo; 145- Pitt VS.. Todd; 30 Lom6ardo d
Cason; heavy. o. Rogers VS.. Alderman.
Friday Night.
1875 Murnick VS.. Murray: 135. Penland
VS. Goodman. l45 Nedomatsky VS.. Sorrell,
Farrar VS.. Jones: 55. Medwin vs.. Tobias,
W Mann vs. LampesiS: 163. Novich VS..
Oliver: 1G5 Semi-flnal nal5-MatuleWlZ VS..
Gaugler Gormley VS.. H. Rogers.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
WEARY
Of LAW PALAVER
Champ Eager to Get Down
to Fighting-Sure He
Can Whip Louis.
BY ALAN GOULD,

BY ALAN GOULD,
N YEW YORK, February 25.-1t
M will be quite all right with
VI James j. Braddock when the
10 rotirQ from the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-15

H. Swartz, San Diego, Cal; Frank Parish, Jack Hanson, Seattle; l. Kriken, Spokane, Wash, F. L. Fiske, L. E. Magean, H. M. Murray, Seattle.
 Jake Logan, Cordova; James Mor- rison and wife, Haida; D. E. Ogle, John Amundsen, Phillip w. Lloyd and wife, Anchorage; w. J. Stewart and wife, Hoonah; c. E. Paget, c. F. Shaver, William D. Beattie, P. Pow ell, H. Klassen, w. H. Chapman, Tulsequah; Mrs. R. J. Kertson, Port Alexander; B. F. Raymond, Salt Lake City.
 Alaskan
 E. Thompson, Juneau; J. M. Blankenberg, Tenakee: MT. and Mrs. Harvey Williams, Petersburg: i l.. Tolladay. Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-15
Ol.ympics To Be Kept Japan

TOKYO, Sept. l5.-After day Of hurried conferences, the Olympic organizing committee decided to proceed With the plans for holding the international games at Tokyo in 1940
 Reports from usually well-inform- ed sources that the government had withdrawn it's support from the games because of the undeclared war with China were branded as false by Akira Kazami chief secre- tary of the cabinet
 The central government, he said, is willing to contribute 4,300, 900 yen tabout $1,25O,oOO to the cost of the games.
 Army in Opposition
 For some time the army's oppo- sition to holding the games in To- kyo has been known. When Count Michemassa Soeshima, member of the International Olympic commit tee, and Ichiro Kono, member of the seikuyat, failed several days ago
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-15
SCHMEL|NC IS PLEASED WITH
 LOUIS GO NOW
Scrap Is Set for Next June Yankee Stadium
 Likely Site

NEW YORK, Sept. i5.-Its cost ing Max Schmeling, two years of waiting and perhaps $l00,0o0 in cash to get his long sought chance to regain the world heavyweight box ing championship. in the return match with Joe Louis that is now definitely set for next June.
 But it's worth it." smiled the black -haired German before he boarded the liner Bremen on his way home. T do not mind making concessions as long as am sure I will have the chance to win back the title. I am a business man, too, but the money is secondary, in this case. have confidence in Mike Jacobs. I do not think I will get what you call the run-around any more. think I can beat Louis again. I do not mind waiting an- other year"
 Million Net
 Schmeling will get the short end of the percentage split with Louis for next years return bout, which figures to net a million dollars. The German stands to make around S2O0 900. He could have had the match on basis of $300,00o guar
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-15
NEW BASEBALL
 AIDS DEFENSE

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-The 1888 model baseball, which will be dead CT and slower than the one now in use, promises revival not only of the defensive features of the game but should reintroduce some of the marathon inning games which were in such cogue before the bun ny was crossed with the pellet.
 The longest game on record is the twenty-six inning tie between the Dodgers and Boston back in 1920 with Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger going the full route. An other long game is the twenty-one- inning battle between Ted Lyons of the White Sox and George Uhle then with the Tigers, at Comisky Park in 1928. Detroit won the game.
 The ball was just being tinkered with around those years with extra elasticality and virility given to the sphere although it has only been of late years that the rabbit" qual- ities of the ball have reached it's peak as indicated by the home run harvest. True, Babe Ruth hit his record sixty homers in 1927. but then he was the Babe and the guy stood all alone on the higrest peak.
 Lyons, for one, does not believe there will be any game like the twenty-one inning duel he lost to Uhle until the ball is deadened.
 With practically every batter, even the pitchers, swinging from the hip. some one is likely to break up game with a home run before many extra innings are played" he pointed out. If one does go along to the eighteenth inning or further, it will have to be played in spac- ious ball park such as the Chicago Municipal Stadium, for instance, where home runs have to be really earned"
 Since the twenty-one inning 8