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Evening star., 1937-11-27
ROSE BOWL CHIEF
IS MUM ON CHOICE
PriestIey May Name Team
to Face Bears After
Today's Games.
BY ROBERT MYERS,
Associated Press Sports Writer

AsADENA. SAL Calf, Nov. al
- The annual Rose Bowl guess.
ing contest was on in full
swing today, and pending an
of1cial answer, one guess was about
as good as another.
The problem: Who will California
invite to Pasadena's big bowl New
Year Day?
The only man who could solve it,
Ken Priestley, wouldn't. He is Golden
Bear graduate manager, upon whose
shoulders rests the responsibility of
picking foe for his Pacific Coast
Conference champions.
May Name Team Today.
x UMORS that Alabama, Pittsburgh
and Fordham were under Deep
est consideration" were met by stony
silence at California headquarters
here.
1t is a long established custom never
to hint who will get the coveted bowl
bid until the deal definitely is set.
Priestley intimated the announce
AHSHo HiISiiO tOlllt ldUS lUudE dIIeT 1ne
Pltt-Duke and Fordham-New York U.
games. But this was not taken TO
mean Alabama was out
Nor did it mean dark horse" such
as once-tied Dartmouth, was not un-
der consideration.
1t didn't mean anything. because
Priestley didn't say anything. He
merely said he intends to return to
Berkeley tonight and would not come
back until Thursday. Usually Bowl
announcements are made here, and 1t
isn't likely that the matter will be
held up until next week.
Panthers Won Friends.
MEANWHILE there was enough
inside" information to choke a
water pipe-but good for little else
DR.. Jock Sutherland's Pitt Pan
theirs made converts out of Rose Bowl
followers in smashing Washington last
New Year Day. and the Crimson Tide,
only united and unbeaten team in its
class in the Nation. never has been
defeated in four trips out here.
Jimmy Crowley's Fordham Rams
whose tie with Pitt is the only stain
on either teams record, never have
been in Pasadena's bowl.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

The biggest trade of ala six
player swap-didn't noticeably do
the Cleveland Indians or St. Louis
Browns any good.
Terry parted with a minor league
player and $4,000 cash to get
Third-baseman Lou Chiozza from
the Phils. Lou topped at the hot
corner, though he did do some
valuable and totally unexpected
batting for the Giants toward the
end of the campaign.
Pittsburgh found that the vet
eran Ed Brandt, obtained from
Brooklyn, was no bargain, and the
Cards found no value in the three
players they picked up.
The reluctant conclusion must
be that the midwinter conclave Of
the managers produces much more
ballyhoo than tangible results. It's
good, clean fun. though.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Diamond Magnates,
By GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK. Nov. 27.-Listen
M closely as King Football
busters his way out today
4 and you'll hear the thump-
ing and throbbing of the baseball
drums.
They can't remain silent long. It
seems only day before yesterday
that Bill Terry sat in his big ball.
bearing chair in the Polo Grounds
clubhouse. listened to the carousal
Of the victorious Yankees next
door, and said: Boys, they simply
licked hell out of U.s."
Yet next Wednesday the minor
leagues open their big three-day
horse-trading session at Milwau-
kee, and five days later the major
league magnates start exercising
their tonsils at chicago. There
will be q world ofnoise- e-particu-
Evening star., 1937-11-27

will use it just little bit better than
most Of its rivals.
A college scout who saw Har-
ward beat Yale was saving 1t
came as no surprise TO football
men in the East.
Had not Frank shown an incred-
ible defensive performance. he said.
Harvard would have routed Yale
Football people know there is no SUBJ
stitute for vicious blocking. tackling
and charging We knew Harvard had
the solid stuff which Yale lacked, the
bedrock on which sound defense and
offense alone can be built"
They Say He's Only Started.
"RREAD and butter football is the
way the trade calls the kind of
game Harlow's teams play. That
explains itself. Harvard had no back
to match Frank. no kicker to punt
with ColWell. But Harvard bottled up
two exceptional ball carriers in Frank
and AL Hessberg and the Crimson line
savagely cleared paths for its Struck
and Foley and Macdonald
Harvard is coming! Everywhere
you go you heard that expression
at Chick Meehan's coaches confabs
in New York, at Washington's Football
Writers luncheon, and Army ano
Navy pre-game hangouts.
Harvard in 1885 won three anc
lost five games. That was Harlow's
first year In 1886 the Crimson wor
three. lost four and tied one.
This year Harlow won five, lost two
and tied one.
That Army game he shouldn't
have lost. either.
Nor is there anything to indicate
that this is Harvard's peak. The more
authoritative observers say that Orni-
thologist Harlow really hasn't started
| and l, for one. wouldn't care to take
the negative side.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
White WILL EXHIBIT
HIS GRIDlRON WARES
Unbeaten Colorado to Send Its
Star Back Into Post-Season
Football Clash.

BY the Associated Press.
BOULDER, Colo, Nov. 27-Byron
(Whizzer) White. Colorado Uni
versity's national football scoring
leader, will exhibit his tricks outside
the Rocky Mountain section after all.
Colorado's Athletic Board today ap-
proved a post-season game for the
Buffaloes, undefeated and united in
eight games.
Prof. Clarence Eckel. chairman, said
the Buffs have been invited to New
York's Yankee Stadium to meet Villa
nova December IL; to the Ell Paso,
Tex, Sun Bowl New Year Day. with
Texas Tech as the probable foe. and to
Los Angeles for a charity game Christ
mas,
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Redskins Start
'38 Ticket Sale

THAT George Marshall expects
to keep the National Football
League franchise of his Redskins
in Washington next season will be
apparent to Washingtonians to-
morrow when they get their pro-
gram for the Green Bay game at
Grifiith Stadium.
Therein is revealed the fact that
applications for 1888. season tickets
already are being received. Al
though the number Of home games
will not be known until the league
schedule is adopted. applications
filed in the order in which they
are received-wil assure the best
seats.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Skins Must Win or Tie.

A LOSS at the hands of Green Bay
automatically would give the 1887
Eastern championship to the New
York Giants. But a tie-or victory
would leave the issue squarely depend
ent upon the Redskin- Giant game in
New York a week from tomorrow,
with the former needing to beat or tie
the Giants-dependent upon tomor-
rows result-to overcome the New
Workers. present half-game advantage
It's either tie the Packers and beat
the Giants. or beat the Packers and
tie the Giants if the Skins would re-
tain their sectional crown.
Both the Skins and Packers took
their final warm-ups at the stadium
today behind closed gates. Although
there is only the barest Of chances
that Green Bay can tie for the West
ern title (Chicago's Bears would have
to drop both their remaining games
while the Packers were holding the
Redskins) it promises to be by no
means a debated team which takes
the field against Washington.
Incidentally, tomorrow's game starts
at o'clock. a half-hour earlier than
other Redskin games this season.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

edition, but. for that matter. Harvard
also should be better. Yale could not
cope with Harvard this year and Yale
had Clint Frank.
II the Ellis couldn't beat Har-
low with Frank, Colwell and
Hessherg. they don't figure to
do it without them q year from
now.
Washington, of course. never was
on Harlow's side. When Dick was at
Western Maryland he nearly always
was battling a District team. But he
was an honored foe and whenever
Harlow came to town the newspaper
boys crowded around him to listen
and learn
Western Maryland coming down to
play Catholic U. i. Harlow match
ing wits with Dutch Bergman . .
sometimes winning. sometimes losing
but always interesting . Har-
lows Terrors facing Maryland, when
Curley Byrd was at the College Park
helm Again a battle of wits,
victories and defeats and, as
always, interesting ball games.
knows His Birds.
ORNITHoLOGIsT HARLOW .
and he ranks 1928 among the
countrys ornitholcgists also is
ranked by football coaches at l-2-3
among the Nations mentors. The
other day at the football writer's
luncheon in Washington you got to
talking to Bergman about Dick and
Dutch was saying he ranked near the
top This Is just an example.
With bows to the prowess OF Lou
Little and Crisler, Ducky Pond and
Gar Davidson and others of the East,
Harlow will take no back seat in
even the fastest of company. His
teams know the fundamentals Of foot
ball and they are tricky after first
being sound and solid. He processes
to no patented hokus-pocus. Harvard,
as did Western Maryland. uses the
single wing and short kick formation.
Only Harvard from now on probably
Evening star., 1937-11-27
NEALE'S FINE Job
AT YALE ATTRACTS
Eli Aide Is Declared to 8?
Sought by Several as
Head Mentor.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, Nov. 27.-FYon.
nj Washington and more remote
v South Atlantic points como
a rumors concerning Earl Nealc.
first assistant to Ducky Pond at Ya'c
Stories are that several Southern COL
leges want Neale as head coach.
Most assistant coaches have
hankering for the headman Job which
is very difficult to resist: probably i,
Is especially difficult with a man O.
the caliber and attainments of Ear
Neale, whose career is speckled with
jobs of supreme authority vorthlly
administered. AS to this. no more dis
tinguished proof may be advanced
than that he developed one of his
elevens to Rose Bowl status. which
thereupon in the huge arena at Pasa-
dena held a powerful California out
fit to a stalemate
Evening star., 1937-11-27
SLEUTHS' FIVE PRESSED.

Bureau of Investigations basketers
had close call last night in the
Southeast Community Center League
when they nosed out the Riggs Bank
five, 27-25. Lynch and Thompson led
the winners with eight points apiece,
but Clinton scored IL for Riggs
Evening star., 1937-11-27

1NHEY may not possess the glamor
of Cliff Battles and Wayne
Millner and their names may
4 not mean as much to the aver
age fan as that pair Of well-known
Redskins. but Don Irwin and Charley
Malone are going to have lot to say
about tomorrows crucial game with
the Green Bay Packers.
Irwin. you may have gathered from
reading of his out-of-toWn feats since
the Skins left home in mid-October,
not only has been one of the teams
biggest ground-gainers but man who
could get that last two or three yards
needed for first down, or touchdown.
Malone. statistics will bear out, has
been the teams most consistent pass
receiver. Without discrediting Millner
who has played as good ball as any
member of the team both extensively
and defensively, it has been Malones
long fingers which have grabbed the
majority of Sammy Baugh's and
Battles passes. Withal, Malone has
continued to be tower of strength on
defense.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Salary Close to Ponds.

A LII that is known is that the Ponc
administration has done very vel
indeed, and whether it would do hall
as we'll without Neale or whether his
loss would have no more serious effect
than the departure of Ivan Williamson
from the line coaching job last veal
are questions that could be answered
only practically. Meanwhile, every
one is entitled to his own opinion
Neale's salary at Yale is said tc
range between $1,000 and $500, while
Pond is said to receive about $4,000
The writer's understanding is that
neither receives the salary annually
allotted to Frank Wandle, the trainer
whose duties are constant throughout
the scholastic year.
None Of the Yale football coache.
works on a contract basis covering
term Of years Agreements with all
are made annually, and so. If Neale
wanted to 60 elsewhere there would
be no legal complications in his way.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Army Has Edge
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A RMY football teams hold q 2O-to-
IA edge over Navy gridders in
their annual service battle that, with
few lapses, has been played annually
since 1890 Navy won in 1896, but to-
days classic appears toss-up.
Here are the scores in their long
Evening star., 1937-11-27

down to beat Miami, TO, at Miami
last night.
Two unbeaten teams, Santa Clara
and Villanova. play tomorrow, Santa
Clara..neeting 0onzaga and Villanova
encodhteging Loyola Of Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
POPPING, ! e! g!
OFF" ~ShGton.. {4
Birds Eggs and Pigskins.

q
TNHIIADEIPHIA, Nov 27Wheever football the
- or later embraces ornthoogis Dick Harlow AT the Navy head
themselves sliding
Harlow themes
of Harvard! football
vicious charging blocking
Harlow turned of the coaching jobs
exceptional performances Hooks Myn Lafayette did job
public
it
The nhcalled for
Evening star., 1937-11-27

the most important and far
reaching event Of that meeting was
q $4,000 banquet thrown by
Owner Horace Stoneham of the
Giants.
Neither the Yankees nor Detroit
Tigers, destined to finish one-two
in the American League, made
single deal.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
SILENT QUINT DATING.

Games with basket ball teams hav-
ing gyms are wanted by the D. c.
Silents The Silents prefer to play on
Tuesday and Thursday nights. Ollie
Smith is booking games at National
1900, branch 269.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Violets Are Dangerous.

I IKE Sutherland. Crowley has heard
the distant humping of Rose
Bowl drums. But his team has un-
finished business ahead that gives the
Rams a greater incentive against
NJ Y. U. than Pitt has in meeting
Duke. A year ago the smell of roses
around Fordham was waited away by
7-6 Violet victory.
They said then N. Y. U. didn't be-
long on the same field with Fordham.
They say the same today. Perhaps the
Violets should skedaddle home before
the game starts. But Nal Stevens
pitchers, and he has capable staff,
may make 1t extremely uncomfortable
for the Rams.
On form, both Pitt and Fordham
should win. thus placing the Rose
Bowl selectors in a most uncom-
Portable position. One OF three, Ala
bama, Pitt or Fordham. probably will
be picked for Pasadena. If Alabama
misses Rose Bowl bid, it's a good
bet that the Tide will meet one of
the other two teams in the Sugar
Bowl, thereby giving the New Or
leans game the fastest attraction of
its history.
Alabama. unbeaten and united is
resting on its laurels after shading
Vanderbilt. Frank Thomas has moth
ing to worry about but his plans for
New Year day. His team is in as
far as the regular season goes-and
you can't sell Alabama short for the
Rose Bowl.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Neale's Position Not Clear.

NEALE'S position at Yale is not
altogether clear even to Yale rem
Ducky Pond is head coach and thu re-
sponsibility for organjzat ton and for
success. as well as failure. is his.
Since. in defect he must bear the
burden, it is no more than fair that,
in victory, the credit shall rest upon
his head
There have been many things about
the plav Of Yale elevens in recent
years which individually have betrayed
Neale's fine Italian hand Some Yale
men close to the team have said that
Neale has pretty much of a free hanc
in Yale football strategy.
Others equally familiar with athletic
affairs at New Haven. while
recognizing and admitting Nealet
genius as a teacher insist that he is
top sergeant in all that such ranking
implies and that Ducky is the gen.
eraiissimo in all that that rank i'm
plies.
Officially. nothing has ever beer
said to support either assertion.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Don Late Starting.

1RWIN'S late blossoming into the
line-ripper he proved to be toward
the end of the 1886 season has proved
boon to the Skins who could have
used that same kind of back in the
early part of the current season. In
deed, if Don had been in form those
first four games. the Skins now might
be leading the Giants, instead of trail
ing them, because in the Chicago
Cardinal and first Philadelphia games
they were close enough to score on
several occasions.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
CITY LOOP GAMES OFF.

Because of the Redskins-Packers
game, all games in the National City
Football League scheduled for tomor-
row have been postponed.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

Five years ago-Lou Bush, Mas
sachusetts State halfback, tops
Nations football scorers with ia
points.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

Among the most whooped-up
trades of the session was that send
ing Third-baseman Frank Higgins
of the Athletics to the Boston Red
Sox in exchange for Bill Werber.
The final 1887 standings fail to
show where either club proflted.
The Chicago White Sox, perhaps,
made the most profitable deal when
they got Pitcher Thornton Lee
from Cleveland. He trimmed the
Yanks five Sd aight before they
finally caught with him.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
BALTIMORE FIVE READY.

Lithuanian-Americ Club basketers
of Baltimore challenge all fives Of
Washington and vicinity to games
during the coming season. Write
Joseph Muzdakis, 500 WashingtoA
boulevard, Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

coach. if it was to be done correctly
For two seasons he went with
out scoring ma ior victory.
That was the tip-off on what
Harlow was given with which to
work.
This season the Harlow system
began to bear fruit For weeks the
Crimson fought in vain for that major
victory Harvard walloped little Spring.
field and weak Brown. but succeeded
only in holding Navy to a scoreless tie
Dartmouth trimmed Harvard next but
then Harlow's team began to click.
Dick smothered a sub-par Princeton
team. lost undeservingly to Army. 7
to 6. and closed the campaign in a
blaze of glory by beating Yale With
this triumph went the Big Three title.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Sugar B0,ul Is Assured Great
Attracti0n No Matter Which
Team Is Named for Pasadena

New Orleans wants Alabama for
Rose Bowl choice is still in the
air as fas as any one knows
from this sector. including Alabama.
which still is waiting for the smoke
to clear away.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
FOrdham- -'Bama Would Draw
IF PITTSBURGH is named, Fordham

| r PITTSBURGH is named, FOrdnam
and Alabama will be a big card in
the Sugar Bowl. If Fordham is picked
for Pasadena Pittsburgh and Alabama
will be named for New Orleans. If
Alabama is the Rose Bowl choice, Pitt
or Fordham will be asked to meet
L. S. u, on a fair guess
Meanwhile. the Cotton Bowl at
Dallas is dangling large guarantee
in front OF some leader that might be
willing to meet the champion team of
the Southwest. And this guarantee
will make you dizzy 1t may 60 as
high as $5oO0O to team. What Pitts
burgh and Fordham do today in their
final games, against Duke and N. Y. u,
will play big part in the final selec-
tions.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
ARMY-NAVY GAME
TAKES BACK SEAT.
Draws Biggest Crowd. but
Nations Eyes Mostly
on Bowl Aspirants.
By DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


"A yEW YORK. Nov 27.-They're
N headin' for the last roundup
today and two bell-coWs of the
4 football herd. Pittsburgh and
Fordham, lead the way.
Despite the glamorous background
of the Army Navy clash at Philadel-
phia Pitts engagement with Duke. at
Durham, and Fordham's traditional
clash with New York University, at
New York. are more important ma
tionally. Reason? Empty benches in
the Rose Bowl corral
But don't mention this in Philadel-
phia. There the streets echo to
Anchors Aweigh" and Benny
Havens' as the staid city on Schuylkill
entertains the days largest crowd Of
100000 at footballs most impressive
show The fact that neither Army
nor Navy is up to standard doesn't
make the slightest difference. This
game stands alone
DR.. John Balm Sutherland of Pitt,
and Jimmy Crowley of Fordham have
man-sized problems this afternoon,
The Pittsburghers, halted only by a
tie with Fordham, meet resourceful
foe in Duke. The Blue Devils are in
fine spot for gambling, with every
thing to win and nothing to lose. And
with Red Upton and Honey Hackney
on hand they can make Monte Carlo
resemble a church bazaar.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Surfeited With Football.

A VICTORY for Pitt here might re-
suit in another invitation to the
doctor to take his young men to Cali
fornia, where they have been so
many times that it has been sug-
eested they buy communication tickets,
but the doctor would be-if any,
thlng-reluctant to go. This doesn't
mean that Pitt will not go if it is in
vited. 1t has been the custom at
Pitt, upon receiving Rose Bowl in
Vltatlons. to put the matter up to
the players. and if they want to 20
that's all that is necessary. But Jocks
view is that his players have had
enough football for this year-and
that takes in the first day of next
year. too.
This game with Duke will be
their TENTH" he said, "and 10 games
are enough. Especially when most of
them have been very strenuous ones.
We had to go at top speed for so
minutes to tie Fordham and beat
Duquesne, Carnegie Tech, Notre Dame
and Nebraska-and even the games
we won with less effort were not ex-
actly pushovers. Furthermore. these
boys have been under a strain all
season, knowing that every team
they played was pointing for them.
There wasn't a single moment along
the way in which they could afford
to ease up, either in the week lead
Ing up to a game or while the game
was in progress.
I'm not thinking of myself when
I say I believe we have had enough
football. am thinking of the play
ers. who have had to take all the
raps and bumps and jars and bruises. Z"
tConyrtsht. 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Was ALWAYS Good "Copy "

EASTERN football observers are
- looking for Harlow and Harvard
to reign long time in the Big Three.
Next seasons Princeton eleven figures
to be better than Fritz Crisler's 1887
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Pitt Rare Trip South, Greeted BY Great Durham
DUKE SUPPORTERS
TAKE TOWN APART
Sutherland in No Mood to
Pilot Panthers to Rose
Bowl, if Invited.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

by IhAN LAND klCE.
~ URBAN, N. c.. Nov. 27-It is
for the first time in many
years that Pitt team comes
- South today. The Panther
has ranged North, West and East to
add to his fame. but he is a stranger
In the South. He finds town turned
upside diwn in the excitement over
his coming.
Maybe I'm wrong-but I don't think
that any section of the country can
match the college-town enthusiasm
over football game that you will find
down here. The crowd pours into a
town-a town like Durham, for in
stance-and takes it right away from
its regular Inhabitants The show
really starts the night before, and it
will last here through most of tonight,
especially if Duke wins.
Not that football crowds don't
swamp towns in other parts of the
country. Sure they do But they don't
seem to do it so vociferously. I've seen
towns much smaller than this hold
crowds just as great as this. too
That's one thing you must say for a
Southern football crowd When it
wants to see game, it doesn't care
how big the town or even the stadium
is. 1t just goes.
This isn't any new development
down here. either. I can remember
away back when I didn't care how big
the town or the stadium was. but went
hurrying along with the crowd. We
just moved on, taking the population
OF our town along with us and DROP
ping it in on the football game. But
everybody apparently saw the game
and had good time, and that's the
way 1t is today.
The Stadium Filled.
HE stadium here is an eye-filler
When they changed the name
Of old Trinity to Duke and moved it
over here from the other side of the
town and set it down in these mag
niflcent new buildings among the
trees, they didn't forget that football
Is an important part of modern college
life.
So they built stadium that looks
though it had been cut out of a
picture book. and then they engaged
Wallace Wade to turn out football
teams that could fill it. Wade, who
had had great success at Alabama and
was rated as the South's leading coach
at the time, took year or so to get
his system working and then began
to click just as he had at Alabama.
Duke has ranked with the top teams
OF this section for the last five years
and crowds have flocked into this
stadium. But if I'm not mistaken.
todays crowd will be the biggest of
all-for it isn't every year that even
Duke can lure Pitt down here.
AS Pitt moves unbeaten toward this
Duke team, Jock Sutherland is
strangely unmoved about the chances
OF Pitt going to the Rose Bowl Not
even the circumstances that the Cali
tornia players, in unofficial poll, in
dlcated they would prefer to play Pitt
has caused Jock to become excited
about setting his team down again in
the famed arroyo seco.