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Evening star., 1937-01-05
RY John GRIFFITH.

President, National ColleEiate Athletlc
Association; Commissioner oil Athletics
for the Western Conference.
~HIcAGO, January S @.-At
the close Of each year it Is
customary for those who are
~ interested in any sport or
group of sports to prophesy that the
next year will be better than the
year that has just passed.
This is because we all indulge in
wishful thinking 1t is safe to say,
however, that 1886 saw the attend
ance at college games considerably
improved over 1885.
When We think of attendance we
usually think of foot ball, so it may
be pertinent to direct attention to the
large crowds that, generally speak
ing, attended the college foot ball
eames last season. There is no other
Rame that attracts so many spectators
as does college foot ball each Autumn
Saturday.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Charge for Basket Ball.

A 50-CENT admission charge will
be made at Saturday basket ball
games this Winter under a new pol
icy.
The charge will apply to all Sat-
urday games, with the exception OF
the Navy game. to which ad-
mission will be by ticket issued by
the Navy Athletic Association. No
charge will be made for Wednesday
basket ball games.
No charge will be made for the
other athletic events at the academy
during the Winter. The regula tions
on boxing established last year will
be in effect. These require all ON
GERS and midshipmen attending to
wear evening dress, and other spec
tators are expected to wear formal
dress. Admission will be by invi-
tations. which will be issued to mid
shipmen, naval officers and guests.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Bang" folds after this weeks
issue.
They sre toughening up the Oak.
land Hills course for this years
open . When Prof. Herb Shave,
the demon groundskeeper, gets
through with it the layout will
measure 1907 yards, as compared
with the present length Of $3.50
:. Shave says the rough win not
be over 9 inches for the open and
the traps normal He thinks ass
will win the title Last time the
event was played at Oakland Hills,
in 1924, Cyril Walker won with 2e7
;. Ellsworth Vines gets our vote
to trim Fred Perry In the Garden
tomorrow night j. Freddie Lind.
stron, who quit the Dodssrs last
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Duke will cop the Southern. Texas
Christian is a breeze in the South
western, and Penn will spread-eagle
the Ivy League. This handsome sex
tuple special is practically crawling
with chromium plate and can be
buried a. much as feet underground.
(Copyright, 1887. BY the North Americsa
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-01-05

season, has decided to give base ball
one more fling.
Sonia Henie Is an eyefull In any
league AL Schacht estimates he
has done his base ball clowning act
before 10000, 900 fans Phil
weintraub, the former Giant. Is
honeymooning in Miami :. Casey
stensel Is taking life easy in Glen
dale. Calf. II you think opera
stars are temperamental, you ought
to hear Col. John Reed Fitzpatrick.
president Of Madison Square Car
den, talk about fighters and fight
managers >. They're tops, he says.
John Henry Lewis Is growing 70
fast he may have to give up his
ltgnt-hsavyweisht titIs 10.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Believes Giants Will Repeat
Bartell Sees Improved Pitching, Especially That
of Schumacher and Castleman.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A LAMEDA, Calf, January 5.
~ Dick Bartell. peppery
shortstop Of the New York
Giants, has popped up
with fuel for the hot stove base
ball league with the prediction his
team would repeat" for the Ma
tionsl League pennant this year.
We'll have the same club and
the pitching should be q lot bet
ter" Bartell said. HAL Schu-
macher had q bad arm last sea-
son but Is better now. Clyde
Castleman's state Of mind affected
hts pitching. The difficulty has
Evening star., 1937-01-05

been ironed out and I look for
him to have q banner year.
"If Castleman and Schumacher
pitch the kind of ball they're
capable Of and II Carl Hubbell
comes anywhere near approaching
his 1885 record, the Giants should
be the toughest club in the league.
Why we have fellows sitting on the
bench who could be regulars on
most any other team"
While giving full credit to the
Yankees for capturing the world
series, Bartell said, "the Giants
could have won Just As easily BY
getting some Of the breaks that
went to the other sids."
Evening star., 1937-01-05
TODAY.
Basket Ball.

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
st. Johns VS.. Roosevelt, Roose-
welt gymnasium, $50.
Falls Church VS.. Washington-Lee
High, Ballston, Va, 8.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
Maryland VS.. Johns Hopkins.
Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
Md, 8:15.
Georgetown vs.. Carnegie Tech,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Eastern vs.. Bethesda Chevy
Chase, Bethesda, Md, $3.50.
THURSDAY.
Basket Ball.
Mount st. Mary's VS.. George
Washington, Tech High gymna-
siur1. $3.50.
g. w. Frosh VS.. George WASH
ington High. Tech gymnasium, Z.
Catholic University vs.. Alumni,
Brookland gymnasium. Sis.
Georgtown vs.. West Virginia,
Morgantown, w. Va.
Bridgewater vs.. American Uni.
versity, Harrisonburg, Va.
Wilson Teachers VS.. Baltimore
University, Baltimore. Md.
Tech VS.. st. Johns, St. Johns
gymnasium, $50.
Wrestling.
Henri Piers W. Gino Garibaldi,
feature match, Turner's Arena,
$50.
FRIDAY.
Basket Ball.
Loyola vs.. Southeastern, Y. M. G.
A.. 8.
Maryland VS.. washington-Lee,
Lexington, Va.
American University VS.. Lynch
burg College, Lynchburg, Va.
Gallaudet VS.. Towson Normal,
Towson, Md.
Central VS.. Eastern, Tech GYM
nasium public high title game),
3:15.
Woodrow Wilson VS.. Western,
Tech gymnasium public high title
game), AIS.
Roosevelt vs.. Maryland Frosh,
Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
Md, 4.
Bethesda Chevy Chase VS.. Briarly
Military Academy, Briarly, Va.
Montgomery Blair Va. Washing
ton-Lee High, Ballston, Va, 9.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
George Washington vs. st. Johns
Of Brooklyn. Tech gym. $50.
g.. w. Frosh VI. Drexel Frosh,
Tech gymnasium, Z.
Eon vs.. southeastern, Y. M. g.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
SHOWS FILM ON SKIING
Club Invites All Interested to
Movie Tomorrow Night.

Moving pictures on the technique
Of skiing will be shown Ut 8 and 8
o'clock tomorrow night by the Ski
Club Of washington in the auditorium
Of the Department Of Interior.
The club will hold It's regular meet
lns at 8 o'clock and all members and
interested prospective members are
invited to attend.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
DEWITT FIVE GETS JUMP

The second Of a two-game series
between the basket ball teams Of Dew
lit Prep and Hyattsville High School
was to be played this afternoon In the
Hyattsville Armory with the team OF
that town striving to get even with
the local tossers.
Dewitt thoroughly outclassed Hy-
attsville yesterday by . 29-l5 score.
Jack Hardgaden, younger brother OF
the Georgetown Prep coach, shared
scoring honors for the winners with
Pascalla. Each accounted for .
Evening star., 1937-01-05
RULES AND STYLE
OF PLAY CRAFTY
Griffith Declares Pay for
Athletes Would Be End
of College Sports.

This is one OF series OF stories
pritten for the Associated Press
by outsta nding sports leaders. They
deal NTH 1886 Developments and
1887 prospects.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

Today q year ago-Wilmer ALI.
son. national champion, beaten in
final of Sugar Bowl tennis tour.
ney BY Arthur Hendrix, 6I4, l-6.
81, 81.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
BY JOHN LARDNER.

"OR 10 years, man and boy. your
- correspondent has been work.
/ ing his way through college by
4. selling sport predictions. Every
one of these predictions carries gilt
edged guarantee, and when I tell you
that a total OF 102.364 subscribers
have asked for their money back since
1880 alone, you will get some idea
of the popularity Of our product and
the tremendous volume Of business
we do.
With each prediction we give
away some article Of house,
wifely value-a mop, q broom,
an egg-beater, q flask Of henna
or the winner Of the third race
at Santa Anita.
In short, We cater to all members OF
the family, including junior and his
little sister, who have been known to
Evening star., 1937-01-05

cuss Just as warmly as Ma and Pa
when they Jose their cute little shirts
betting on our predictions. On top
of which the stuff makes good dog
food
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Would Ruin Sport.

Il
to the benefit of the few. there
would be some force to this argument.
Those who advanced the suggestion
perhaps do not realize that If the COL
leges generally placed their athletes
on paid-player basis, it would be the
beginning of the end of intercol-
legiate sport.
There is no disposition on the part
Of the colleges to enter the field of
professional athletics A man who in
sists that all college athletes are sub
sidized is the same man generally who
believes that all bankers and business
men are crooks and that there Is no
honesty in government.
Basket ball now is looked upon as a
major college sport in most sectors
OF the United States. In some colleges
more people witness basket ball than
attend foot ball games. Basket ball
has grown tremendously in the high
schools. This means more good basket
ball material is to be found in the
colleges each year.
Base Ball Holding Own.
COLLEGE base ball in 1886 held It's
own and in some sections reports
indicate there was increased interest
In this fine game. Since many of the
high schools do not promote base bail
and since town lot base ball has not
dourished In recent years. the quality
Of college base ball has not improved
as rapidly as base ball enthusiasts
have wished
The Olympic games gave track,
wrestling and swimming in the COL
leges an impetus last year and colleges
responded by supplying the American
teams with outstanding stars. It is
significant that in the Olympic games
We do we'll in the sports that are to be
found on the school and college pro-
grams and do not do so we'll in the
other sports. In other words, America
Is an athletic Nation and the educa-
tional institutions are responsible for
our athletic success.
All In all, 1886 was good year so
far as college athletics were concerned
and the prospects for 1887 are indeed
encouraging.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
By EDDIE BRETT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEw YORK, January S.
nj What's this about Jimmy
| Phelan being headed for
4 Ossie Solem's old job at
Iowa? (Jimmy's friends say he
Just can't wait to get back into
the Big Ten) -. Jack Dempsey's
new Florida spot is going over In .
big way Max Schmelins's ex-
hibdtion tour opens IN Philadelphia
the first week In March and will
take in Is Southern cities -. They
say Travis Jackson can't make up
his mind whether to manage Jer-
sey City or 60 to Brooklyn as hrst
lieutenant to Burleigh Grimes -,
Eddie Borden's boxing magazine,
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Passing Big Threat.

THERE have been many arguments
this year between those who favor
the open game and those who believe
that runs and bucks constitute fully
30 per cent of offensive foot ball. The
majority of teams that rightfully
might be named among the 10 best
In the country use both the passing
and running attack, but most OF the
coaches employ passes and tricks as
q means of making the running at
tack work.
Foot ball has come of age. We need
not expect startling Innovations each
year in the future. Foot ball coaching
technique has been improved. thus
making the work of the ofhcials more
difficult Especially have the field
Judges been forced to make a great
many close decisions on forward pass
plays. The chances are. however. that
the forward pass will be retained and
the rules governing this feature of the
game will not be materially modified.
Because a profit Is made in foot ball
In some 50 or go of the 1000 institu-
tions above high school rank, many
have insisted the proceeds should be
divided among the players. This is
another way of suggesting the colleges
should promote professional instead of
amateur athletics.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Perry to Face Great Game.

VINES is continually striving for
passing shots or for outright kills.
Perry will hold his Sunday punch un.
til the other fellow Is properly set up,
practice which makes for protracted
rallies when the other fellow Is good,
but Vines doesn't wait. He can afford,
with his speed, to dispense with STRAIT
egy and position. The combination OF
lSee VINES. Page A-l3.l
Evening star., 1937-01-05
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.

George Washington VI. st. Johns
Of Brooklyn, Tech gym. $50.
g.. w. Frosh VI. Drexel Frosh,
Tech gymnasium. Z.
Eon vs.. Southeastern, Y. M. g.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
OUT T0L|CK PERRY
SPEEDILY, # ABLE
Tennis Pro Must Look to
Future Livelihood, U. S.
Star Points Out.
BY John LARDNER.

BY JOHN LARDNEK.
n 0EW YORK, January ST Il.
nj Ellsworth Vines is the greatest
tennis player in the world, he
will have an opportunity to
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Presisdent National COLLEGIATE AthleHc
Association; Commissioner of Athletics
for the Western Conference.
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
Screams of Mothers Stilled

Rendng of mothers uttered they recognized the
bodies of their children stled orderly work
progressed among twisted wreckage For hours in the night
mothers relatives of the missing stood silently with
out hope as caterpillar tractors working under oodght
pulled and tore at the debris.
The building which destroyed housed students from the
fourth grade through high school, Lower grade pupils in
another building the campus had been dismissed just before
the explosion and had scattered to their homes
at Just fell apart the earth rumbed declared Jewel Jones,
who standing the building when the explosion hap
pened.
Rose Presser of the survivors, said that when the blast
happened seemed though fog black midnight enveoped
the entire campus with falling debris covering the countryside
for nearly mile. She added
my classmates strewn all the campus We
all shocked do much about right after the explosion
except earthquake and then the front door,
Two of her sisters perished
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
New Hospital Opens TO Tragedy

Among the wreckag found torn muated bodies of the
victims with their clothing blown away and in tatrs Some
of the bodies had feet arms legs and heads missing
The few eyewnesses said that the force of the explosion
hurled the roof upward in broken pieces only to have
crashing down within the crumbng walls From out of the
roar of crumbng masonry and steel Of bodies
catapued to fall on the campus grass and lie still
Within few minutes ambuances store delivery trucks fire
engines and private automobiles speeding and from the
school, carrying bodies of the dead and groanng injured youths
and girls to nearby towns.
The 1856 900 municipal hospital Tyler which be
formally opened today baptized amid goans of the
and dying Twenty-Five juvenile victims, still living
hauled into the institution but death took 10 of them
At first the bodies placed along the school yard fence
and relatives went from bundled form to bundled FORM peer
ing anxously for mark Identification There was
occasional hearsearng mother bent the
dead form of the child she had off to school that
ing
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
HO1.rOr of Texas Blast
Described by Writer

dismissal time yesterday was re-
placed by q grim orderliness.
A heavy rain soaked the ruins
during the night. Rescuers worked
in deep red clay mud, mechanic.
ally sorting out the tangles OF
brick and tile, twisted framework
OF school desks and sodden text
books and gay colored drawing
supplies.
Fragments of the costumes
worn by a group of children who
had been entertaining a Parent
Teachers Association yesterday
stuck up out of the pile.
Only the four oil derricks on
the campus, symbol of the new
wealth that built the million dollar
consolidated school, remained up
right and mistaken.
Terrific Explosion
Automobiles parked as far as
500 feet away from the wrecked
building were battered like tin
cans. Windows were missing from
buildings for blocks around. Trees
were uprooted.
The noise of the explosion, &C.
cording to survivors, drowned out
the screams and groans of the
victims, as the roof left the build.
ing, then settled with crushing
force, breaking down the walls.
Prevailing opinion was that the
blast was caused by an accumula-
ton Of gas, possibly from seepage
through underground channels be.
meath the school building. One
task Of the 1900 workers from the
oil fields and other volunteers was
to uncover a single room where
there are known to be ~ dead.
About $50 of the dead are here
in Overton, four miles west Of the
school house. Others have been
taken to halls and undertaking
rooms in Henderson, Kilgore.
Tyler, Jacksonville, Longview and
Arp.
Twenty injured children were in
the Mother Francis Hospital in
Tyler.
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
CHILDREN SAVED IN BLAST
SPEECHLESSFR0M SHOCK
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and onto the oil well dotted campus or were
crushed beneath the tons of heavy debris
National guardsmen estimated that more
than 400 bodies lay today in improvlsed
morgues in the larger towns within radius
of 100 miles. The injured victims were being
cared for in private homes, stores and hospitals
taxed to capacity
One hundred and fifty bodies taken to 0verton
little oil town few miles away, and placed in rows in
American Legion Hall.
Even with the aid of DOCTORS nurses National Guards
men and Rangers slow progress was made in identifying
the manned victims.
Amid the chaos that surrounded the worst explosion
tragedy in the nations history, Governor James " Alfred
declared martial law. National Guardsmen, under COM
mand of Major CASTOR s. Howard moved in to establish
order.
military court of inquiry ordered by Major How
ard to learn the cause Of the explosion.
Abourh the explosion was ascrbed leaking natural
possibly accumulated within the walls of the modern eproo
building renor spread that sticks of dynamite and length
fuse had been found IN the only corner OF the ouong e
standing.
L. Morrison of Tyler American Legion said he believed
the report was due to the dynamite provided to tear
away parts of the walls still standing in order to facilitate the
search for bodies.
few twisted grders pointed skyward grotesque fashion
where the unit of the building had BEEN Buildings sur
rounding the school severely damaged
Miiamen duty at dawn, keeping the crowds
Of morbdv curious and the eadenaced anxious parents
that sercers could comb wreckage without interference
automobiles busse coggd the roads throughout most
of the night.
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
Rescued Children PrOUe inarticulQte

One who found the body of his revereny placed
it in the of his automobile and then beside it,
apparently stunned with bowed head.
Few of the children who escaped could give anything like
like coherent account of the tragedy
Most of them stood about during the night vaguely an
swerng questions and occasionally trying to help where they
might lead parent to his offspring.
hndered the workers today and precautions taken
guard against fire second explosion.
The consolidated school claimed to be the richest in
the world in that in the of the wealthy East
Texas oil deposits and supported by huge
two-story brick and steel structure modern every
way Thirteen hundred pupils enrolled.
Authorities believe that several days may eapse before
complete casualty list be compiled because of the number
of children yet be accounted for and due also to the hap
hazard in which the dead and dying hastily removed
from here.
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
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district, bringing up crushed little
bodies and parts of bodies to con
firm estimates that the death llst
in this worst juvenile disaster IN
American history totals 500. =,
The children, tossed into the
air like so many limp, lifeless dolls
by the blast of yesterday, lay in
piles now in improvised morgueS
at a half dozen nearby east Texas
towns.
. Guards Called Out
BY order of Governor James V.
Alfred, 1875 National Guardsmen
patrolled the scene, and a court
of inquiry into the cause Of the
explosion was ordered by Lieut.,
Col: Clarence E. Parker, of Tyler
At daylight there began the sad
dest phase Of any disaster. Their
last hopes gone, mothers and
fathers who throughout the night
had hovered at the edge of the
ruins, turned away in despair.
All day long they ploddeo
through the streets Of the raw
little oil towns. turning back the
blankets from bruised young faces
and afraid Of what they would
find. Some parents had as many
as five children among the miss
ing.
Undertakers faced a shortage Of
coffins. Student embalmerS, SEM
over from Dallas and Fort Worth
found more work than the doctors
and nurses,
The State department Of safety
sent two fingerprint experts tc
the scene in the hope that a com
parison of fingerprintS made or
school children at the Dallas Cen
tennial might serve as a means o1
Identification in difficult cases.
Grim Orderliness
The confusion that existed or
+ the campus of the New Londor
Consolidated School after the ex
plosion occurred is minutes before
The Washington times., 1937-03-19
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BLAST HORROR
AT SCHOOL
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and witnessed the horrors Of that
great conflict but saw nothing
that could compare with the
horrible scene at the New London
school following the blast.
was in the garden of my home,
a quarter-mile from the school
house.
Dashed to Scene
Suddenly the ground shook. I
glanced up in time to see a great
cloud of smoke circle skyward in
the direction of the school. My
immediate thought was that q
tank battery used for the storage
Of oil in our big oil field here
had exploded. I had no thought
that it might be the school. Being
an oil company employe I rushed
toward the scene of the blast.
AS I drew near 1 suddenly real.
lied that it was not a tank ex-
ploSion and as 1 approached the
school house the stark tragedy
slowly revealed itself to me. Rush
ing upon the school ground I
found few earlier arrivals begin
ming to bring out the dead and
injured. I started helping, but
keeping an eye out for my four
children.
Finds Daughters bodies
There was no fire. 1t was an
explosion. 1t demolished the main
building of the consolidated
school. Tie walls caved in.
Bodies of the dead lay over the
school ground. Many had been
blown onto the campus. Relief
workers were pulling bodies from
the ranaparts, windows we're to-
tally destroyed and bodies hung
from them.
After helping bring the bodies
from the building for 4 while ]
sought my own children.
1 located one, Edna, IL. I was
unable to assist others. A little
longer search and I found Eloise,
IA. My heart was gone. They
were our babies. 1t was an hour
afterward that we finally located
our other two children. They had
been spared, but in the wild con.
fusion, they had not been able to
locate Mrs. Powell or me.
I can't tell all that I saw when
I reached the school. I knew that
I stepped over and walked among
more than 100 bodies laying in
the School-yard in the search for
my children. Everybody was
walking over the bodies franti.
cally trying to locate their loved
ones. Many bodies we're horribly
mangled, some beyond identifica-
ton. The clothes had been torn
from many of the bodies by the
blast. I saw bodies with no heads.
ard others with legs and arms
missing.