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Evening star., 1937-01-12
DEWITT FIVE STOPS WI

Rallying behind a remarkable ex-
hibition of defensive play in the sec
ond half, Devitt's basket ball team
overcame an early lead of the WASH
ington-Lee High courtmen yesterday
to win, 1917. The defeat snapped a
four-game winning streak of the Lit
tie Generals.
Dewitt held WI. to one field goal
in the last two periods, while its own
attack pulled up from a 11-9 deficit.
Bill Hargaden, brother of the George
town Prep coach and all-America
courtman while at Georgetown, led
the winners attack with 9 points.
He was the only Dewitt tosser able to
score more than once from the floor
or foul line, getting half of the win
ners' six field goals and three Of
their seven free tosses.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
St. Louis Club Hayes Pet Hate
lack Burns to Get Back at Browns, Who Kept
His ChisOx Out of Second Money.

was right. 1t cost us around $40o
apiece, but We still had q chance
to win in a fifth game against the
Browns, the last game Of the sea-
son.
And what do you think hap
pened? We got rained out when
a win would have given us second
place, because Detroit played that
day and lost. I'm laying for those
Brown this season plenty"
Hayes hasn't signed up with the
White Sox for 1887, but expects to
be back at the keystone sack.
where he's been holding forth for
five seasons. He hit .312 last year.
fielded around $50.
Hayes spends the Winter in the
automobile business with his
brother. Dick Hayes. He hunts
and fishes in spare time.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Brooklyn Basketers to Fly to Coast for Game
r. for 80 Exhibitions Needs No Rest to Run.

the Base Ball Writer'S Association
at last nights feed.
The Brooklyn Jewels will fly to
California for a basket ball game
with the Los Angeles Elks January
II. The experts now estimate
Fred Perry's pro tour will gross
him a quarter of a million dollars
(Which amt hay).
The Yankees have increased
their string of exhibition games to
80, figuring Joe Di Maggie will pack
'em in through the provinces.
Judge w. G. Bramham, minor
league czar, Is around again after
q siege of flu Mike Jacobs and
some Of the boys shuffled OF to
Buffalo last night to watch Joe
Louis in action.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

he used to know can keep Escobar at
the top Of his class through this year.
There has been very little conSpicu-
GUS action among the flyweights, those
almost forgotten mites of the ring.
But now they seem to have a real
champion in a Filipino with the Gu
rious name Of Small Montana. Rely
ing on what have heard Of him, and
pending further information on his
challengers, mostly Europeans, would
say that he is safe for the year in his
little niche.
(Copyrisht, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.J
Evening star., 1937-01-12
nv JOHN LARDNER,


n YEW YORK, January 12.-Being
N duly sworn, the parties in
VI volved in the case of the boy
4 colt VS.. Max Schmeling made
the following sensational statements,
each and every one a bombshell:
James J. Braddock-Kind of queer
business, amt it?
Joe Gould manager of Braddock-
I haven't made up my mind.
Julian Black, manager of Joe Louis
We'll have to wait and see.
Boxing Commissioner Bill Brown
It's none of my business.
Mike Jacobs of the Twentieth
Century Sporting Club-Nice
day, don't you think?
James j. Johnston of Madison
Square Garden-But it might rain.
In word. the boys with an interest
IN the case are going to keep passing
the buck gently to and fro until they
can all get together around one table,
with everybody's cards on it, and de-
eide how to do themselves the most
good with the least risk.
Part Dynamite, Part Phony.
IT'S A funny case, this boycott
business. 1t is partly dynamite and
partly an out-and-out phony. The
Non partisan Anti-Nazi League for
the Championship of Human Rights
hereinafter to be called the league)
is strictly on the level in its scheme to
ostracize and boycott the Braddock-
Schmeling fight. 1t viii do its darndest
to wreck Herr Schmeling's prospects in
this country. and it may succeed.
But from that point on, we
find the going little muddy
and the motives shade impure.
Mr. Joe Gould and Mr.. James j
Braddock frankly do not care about
the ethical and political aspects of the
boycott The only question in Mr..
Braddock's mind-or. I should say
in Mr.. Gould's minds whether to
fight Joe Louis for a stack of dough
or Max Schmeling for coffee money
Mr.. Gould now is trying to figure out
if this ber-cut gagg, as the boys call
it in caulifloWer alley, is worth cash.
ing in on.
Maybe he will use it to freeze Herr
Schmeling out of the picture en-
tirely. and maybe he won't. I don't
think he is sure yet. He says he will
not fight if the boycott goes through
but this has the marks of stall and
a feeler. Mr.. Gould is hiding his time
So are the joint promoters, Mr.
Jacobs and Mr.. Johnston. The Brad
dock -Schmeling fight will not suffer
greatly in a business way from the
boycott. because it was anemic in the
first place. The promoters had beer
figuring on a s250,Ooo gate A Naz
embargo might cut few slivers
| off that sum, but not many.
If the promoters were SINGER.
about the fight in the first place,
they will carry it through now.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

Nowhere do hearts beat warmer
than in the sporting fraternity D.. I.
Boxing Commissioner Bill Brown
runs an expensive health resort at
Garrison, N. Y. One of his
recent patients was a Protestant
minister from the South -. When
the minister's dough got low, he
thanked Brown for what he'd done
and said he'd have to 60 you'll
do nothing of the Sort" said the
outspoken Brown You need
six more weeks here and you'll stay
as my guest" The minister did
and went home 100 per cent cured
=. Grateful friends have written
Brown the latchkey is out when he
goes to Dixie.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

before running the third fastest
indoor mile on record in the
K. of c. games Saturday.
Fight tip: Bob Pastor Is spending
his evenings viewing slow motion
pictures of the Schmeling-Jouis
brawl . He says the right Max
used to massacer Joe all evening Is
the identical type of right Mr.. B.
Pastor loves to toss.
The gymnasium at Michigan
State is so crowded these days
Coach Charlie Bachman is giving
his backfield men and ends their
Winter workouts in q nearby barn
Eddie Brannick, Giant secre-
tsry. was made . Life member of
Evening star., 1937-01-12
LAST PERIOD DECIDES

A last-quarter squirt, which cli-
NAKED a see-saw game, enabled Wood
wards basket ball team to defeat
Western Highs junior varsity, 23-18,
yesterday on the winners court at the
Y. M. c. A.
Although Woodward got off to an
early lead, which stood at 1910 at
half time, Westerns Jayvees rallied to
assume a 17-16 advantage as the last
quarter started. A guard, Horn, how
ever. led a counter-rally of the Y
team to outscore the enemy. 6 to 2,
in the final period.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
THE SPORTTICHT
Champ and Their Chances in 1887.
Most Ring Rulers BeloU Heauies Firm.

for the title, for Montanez is fast,
strong and sharp puncher. He
suffered with bad hands and a deep
cut over one eye that kept him out
of action for while last year, but
he is in good shape now. A fight
between him and Ambers should be
a thriller-and a toss-up.
The featherweights are in Scram-
bic again as the new year gets under
way, the situation being complicated
by the fact that there are three cham
pions, each having recognition in some
part of the country.
These are Mike Belloise, Petey
Sarron and Henry Armstrong
with maybe a few more getting
title votes in the outlying pre-
cincts. Such a situation doesn't
make sense, of course.
The only way to solve it would be
to get all the title claimants together
and let them fight it out-but none
of them seems very enthusiastic about
an arrangement like that.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
.STRA|GES IS FINE
F|ST|C PROSPECT
Young Lightweight Displays
Makings in 8-Round Win
Over Taylor Here.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Joey STRAIGES, an apple
checked kid, who appears alto
, gether too nice and clean to be
~ mixed up in such greasy game
as the boxing business, is slated to
flip gloves with fistiana's foremost
lightweights in the not too distant
future If the majority opinion of vet
eran local ringworms may serve as
a barometer.
His creamy complexion still un-
marred, the 19-year-old Camden pros
pect today added his forty-third con-
secutive victim to an unblemished rec
ord by virtue of his decision victory
over Bucky Taylor. Baltimore scrap
per. in an eight-round feature bout
last night at Turner's Arena.
Straiges is rated by many fans as
the finest flstic timber to pitch paw
here in recent months, Buddy Scott
and Lou Gevinson not excepted. His
colony of supporters was increased
considerably as he demonstrated effec-
lively against the Solid-smacking Tay-
lor that he can absorb Sunday punches
all week and still maintain the dead
illness Of his attack
Even Joey's stanchest admirers will
admit the baby-faced lad still is in
the diaper stage in some aspects OF
the caulifower art. but with little
chipping and polishing of the few
rough edges, most ring devotees feel
the diamond in the rough will sparkle
among ringdom's elite.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
ROMP FOR SHAMROCKS
Polly's Scoring Over Navy Yard
s. E. Center Feature.

Polly's scoring of Is points for the
Shamrock five featured the three
games of the Southeast Community
Center Basket Ball League last night
as his teams 47-32 victory over Navy
Yard was the only one in which the
fight was not carried down to the final
whistle.
Sigma Mu Sigma nosed out O'Don-
nel's, 1928, in an American League
encounter, while Clark's Service Sta
ton whipped Loans and Currency,
26-19, in another game of the same
group. The Shamrock-Navy Yard
game was National League game.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
BY the Associated Press.

)LANToN, Ala. January IL.
Lean, fit-looking Jack
Hayes anticipates a season
of vengeance against the
st. Louis Browns while second
basing for Chicago's White Sox.
The 30-year-old former Univer-
sity of Alabama athlete stopped
selling automobiles long enough
today to tell the base ball world
he Is out to avenge the defeats
which pushed the pale hose out Of
second-place money in the Ameri-
can League.
Those rascals beat us four
straight games right at the end
of the season." he said, land made
us lose second place to Detroit by
less than half q game. Every
thing we did In those four games
was wrong. everything they did
Evening star., 1937-01-12
The Welterweights.
RARNEY ROSS must put hi.

RARNEY ROSS must put his title
- on the line first for Ceferino Gar
cia. who gave him rough fight once
and, if he gets by Garcia. Jimmy
McLarnin is waiting for him again.
and it may be that fourth fight be-
tween Jimmy and Barney will be held.
Judged on their most recent appear
ances, McLarnin was the more i'm.
pressive OF the two and another meet
ing with Baby Face would be no
part of a cinch for Ross.
Meanwhile, in Australia, Jack Car
roll has been blasting his way through
the welterweights, home-bred and
imported.
Carroll Is = veteran, works
as an ironmonger between fights
because the wage scale for
fighters isn't very high in Aus
tralia-and Is q deadly puncher.
Ross, having once called OF ne
gotiations for a fight with Carroll in
Australia, is considering new propo-
sition-and I believe an effort Is being
made to bring Carroll to this country
for a series OF fights to be climaxed
with q clash with Ross.
Barney doesn't seem to be in i'm
minent danger of being toppled from
his throne. But the chances are ne
will have to fight harder to stay
there than some of the other cham
pions will.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Straiges Clean and Classy.

PROBABLY Joey's major fault, If it
may be classed in that category
is that he goes out of his way to be
clean. In an industry overburdened
with guys who hit first and look sorry
later, his polite tactics sooner or later
may be detrimental to his ring rise.
A smooth counter -puncher, Straiges
also can force the fighting to his ad-
vantage. He still has much to learn
about infighting. but as a stand-up
boxer he could serve as an instructor
to many mitten swingers. At times
Taylor acted the part of an unwilling
pupil.
Taylor, however. was a constant
threat to Joey's untarnished record,
connecting solidly with left hooks to
the head and body. but nearly always
absorbing a sitter right on the jaw
in return. The stubby Jewish puncher
clipped Straiges several times with the
pay-off wallop that battered Sam
Bracala to the floor four times sew
eral weeks ago. but if joey was
affected he and the Barrymores have
something in common.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Turf Year One of Brightest TTonsy Nearly Unnerve Clarke
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Boycott Move Is "Break," Maybe, for Boys
Mixed in Braddock-Schmeling Business.

You are going to hear plenty Of
statements and counter-statements in
the next few weeks. none of them
meaning anything except as build-up.
You will have no way of knowing what
is really going to happen until one
of two things occurs: (a) Braddock
and Schmeling climb into ring to-
gether, or (b) Braddock signs con-
tract to fight Louis.
Louis -Schmeling Fight Sought.
IF had to bet, would lay a couple
packs of cigarettes on the latter
eventuality. 1t isn't only the Brad
dock-Louis fight that the boys want.
It's a second Louis s-Schmeling fight,
and the boys believe that if Louis
steals a lap and takes the title from
Braddock in a bootleg fight, Herr
Schmeling will swallow his spleen and
come over here and fight the bomber
again.
But don't bet anything more than
cigarettes on it. There is powerful
aroma of larceny about this boycott
business, strong scent of lilies-of-
hokum.
And it is the b0ycOttees who
are giving off that perfume, not
the boyc0tters.
Right now, Mr.. Gould is threatening
to hop skiff for Germany with his
champion and gobble up romantic
guarantee of S35O00O This guarantee
is part of Germany's beautiful ma
tional mythology. I think it was first
mentioned somewhere in the story of
Siegfried, and it got a laugh even
then.
Mr.. Max Baer learned to prattle it
with his Mother Goose rhymes.
Mr. Steve Hamas. settling for one
fourteenth of the original figure of
folklore, was almost killed collecting
it.
And now Mr.. Joe Gould is speaking
the lines. 1t is sample of the sort of
statement you are going to hear from
now on, in connection with this
Schmeling business, and your best bet
is to bury your wallet. put your hands
in your pockets and wait, with f1agon
of salt to your left and beaker of
pepper to your right to make the swal-
lowing easier.
In the face of the implications Of
the Nazi boycott. of the problems it
involves, the fight business is very
petty indeed.
But nations which mix SPORT
ing events into their govern
ment, as Germany does, are
likely to feel more strongly
about prizefights than about
any other kind of sport.
And when you recall how strongly
they felt about mere broad jump
last Summer, you will get some idea
of how they will go to town on the
! Schmeling case.
(Copyright, 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. rnc.)
Evening star., 1937-01-12
wERBER STARTS CUNTS.

Bill Werber, inflelder with the Ath-
letics and former basket ball star at
Tech and Duke University, will make
the opening toss Of a Tech Com
munity Center double bill tonight at
tbs. w. p. A. will face Columbia
Beverage and Jewish c. c. will play
Senate Beers.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Ringer Throwers
Set to Organize

HORSESHOE pitchers Of Wash
ington, Maryland and Vir-
ginia will meet Thursday night at
7:30 at The Star sports depart
ment to plan for a tri-State or
ganization to govern their sport.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
The Little GUYS.

CIXTO ESCOBAR, the bantamweight
champion who once looked to be
another Pancho Villa, doesn't look
that way now and is clinging to his
title with a weak and feverish grip.
He has been defeated twice by Henry
Jeffra in non-title bouts and the last
time they met it appeared that Jeffra
could beat him every night in the
week. at the weight or over it. Appar-
emily only a sharp return to the form
Evening star., 1937-01-12
BY COL. MATT ]. WINN.

BY COL. MATT j. WlNN,
President of the American Turf Association.
~HICAGO January II (P.-The
4 1886 horse-racing picture was
a bright one.
~ From Seattle to Miami, and
from Los Angeles to Salem, N. H,
there was more racing activity than
this country has ever before seen
Here and there was dark spot, but
the whole was one Of increased at-
tendance and larger mutuel play
The extent of the sport can be
realized when it is considered that
over 12,500,OOO was distributed to the
horsemen during the American sea-
son, with l5,435 races run over recog-
nized tracks.
Although no new territory was added
10 the racing scene during the past
p months, regions that had been
pioneered the year before led the way
in prosperity. Meetings of major cali
Der were held in 18 States and the
revenue to these State treasures un-
doubtedly reached a new high.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
THIRD IN D. C. CUE MEET.

With 1925 victory over j. Hayer
in 81 innings, Everett Crouch went
into third place in the District of
Columbia three-cushion billiard meet
last night. Crouch had high run
Of i've.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Some Slow Hitters.

roth Hogan and Bolton Of the
Senators have natural hitting
ability, but must hit doubles to reach
first base. On paper, frankie Pytlak's
record is good. He batted 321 with
Cleveland last year and topped the
leagues regular receivers with a
fielding mark of 1896, but he is still
too frail to get by for a whole season.
The Tigers proved last year that
without Cochrane they are not ade-
quately bulwarked behind the plate.
Ray Hayworth hit only 240 and nat
urally fell below Cochrane,s standard
as q receiver.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n EW YORK, January 12.-
nj Jack Kearns hasn't much
v chance Of landing Brad
dock-Louis fight for De-
troit. but it will not be for lack of
coconutS . . Broadway hears the
good Docs backer is James w.
Norris, Chicago Detroit millionaire,
who also is a Madison Square
Garden director.
Nassau County authorities have
given Helen Hicks, the golferette,
auto license No. "HH-45" Helen
says the letters represent her
initials and the figures her outgoing
score on off days >. Don Lash had
been OF the train only four hours
Evening star., 1937-01-12
CROWDS, BETTING,
PURSES ALL RISE
1886 Also Is Above Average
in Collective Caliber
of Thoroughbreds.

This is eighth OF series OF Sto-
ries uritten especially for the AS
sociated Press BY outstanding sports
leaders. They deal ,Dith 1886 de-
pelopments and 1887 prospects.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
The Lightweights.

T. OU AMBERS, who wrested the
- lightweight title from Tony Cam
zoneri a few months ago, has dam
gerous contender in Pedro Montanez,
the Puerto Rican who made so many
sensational fights in New York in the
year just ended.
Ambers generally is recokened to
have no better than an even chance
to keey Montanez of when the little
man from Pusrto Rico makes his bid
Evening star., 1937-01-12
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

4 SURVEY OF lNe HgNIIlg Ut
n visions below the heavyweight
"A indicates that most of the
4 Il champions are standing firm,
with little to fear as 1887 unrolls be-
fore them. Some of them, even with
out being great fighters, are hard
pressed to find formidable challengers,
a circumstance rejecting what every
body knows-that right at this time
there are few first grade fighting men
This doesn't mean that the days OF
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Louis Schmeling Fight Sought.

Tech VS.. Roosevelt, Tech gym
public high title series), $50.
Western VS.. Eastern, Roosevelt
gym (prblic high title series), $3.50.
Towson Teachers VS.. Wilson
Teachers. Wilson gym, 8.
st. Albans VS.. Georgetown Prep,
Garrett Park, Md, $3.50.
st. Johns rs. Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase, Bethesda, Md, $50.
Landon VS.. Episcopal, Alexan-
dria. Va, $3.50.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.

Mississippi State VS.. Catholic
University, Brookland gym, 8.
Georgetown VS.. Temple, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Gonzaga VS.. Eastern, Eastern
gym, 3:30.
Westinghouse High VS.. Epis-
copal, Alexandria, Va, 4.
Swimming.
Y. NJ. c. A. VS.. Tome Institute,
Port Deposit, Md.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Stakes Are Raised.

DROBABLY the most significant
l. trend of the entire year was the
raising of added money stake events
back to their pre-depreSSlon values.
leading the way was the Kentucky
Derby. which carried $4,000 in added
money last May, an increase of $4,000
over the previous renewal. When the
Derby is run Saturday. May 8. at
Churchill Downs, it will be endowed
with $4,000 in added money, bring
ing it back to its highest previous
value
The year 1886 saw new riding SEN
ntion, Basil James, from Sunnyslde,
Wash. come up to take the national
championship. 1t saw new leader in
the owners ranks, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars
If Oak Park, H., who finally reached
he top with her extensive Milky Way
Farms Stable. But it saw the same
trainer, young Hirsch Jacobs OF Brook
lyn, again distance his field, shatter-
ing all records as he saddled an aver
age of better than one winner every
two days.
From a technical standpoint, the
1886 racing season was above aver
age in the thoroughbreds which CAM
paigned most successfully throughout
the year. There was no shortage OF
good 3-year-olds, though it was a
sorry blow to the division when Nor
ton L. Schwartzs Bold Venture, after
winning both the Kentucky Derby
and Preakness, went wrong and had
to be retired for the year. His retire
ment left another New York-owned
colt. William Woodward's Granville,
undisputed king of the 3year-olds.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Granville Sets Pace.

GRANV1LLE'S victories in the Bel
~ mont Stakes and the Arlington
classic caused him to be regarded as
the champion in most quarters, but
.he fact remains he has yet to beat
Bold Venture. True it is that Gran
ville's unfortunate accident in the
kentucky Derby, when he unseated
his rider, Jimmy Stout. at the start,
left him no chance, but in the Freak
ness when both had equal racing luck,
Bold Venture nosed out the Wood
ward colt in photograph finish. The
Granville-Bold Venture argument will
remain an unsettled one, much as
the Cavalcade-Discovery feud has
never been ended.
Brevity, Sun Teddy and Indian
Broom were also better than aver
age 3-year- -olds, although the first
named was retired early with an in
jury and Sun Teddy came to his best
form late in the season. Indian
Broom equaled a word record at Bay
Meadows.
Top position in the handicap di-
vision was a disputed one. Brownell
Combs great 4-year-old Kentucky
hlly, Myrtlewood, was supreme as a
sprinter and it also required the very
best to conquer her at over a mile
and furlong. But she did not cam
paign in the majority of distance
events, and by seasons end Discovery,
Roman Soldier, Time Supply, Fire
thorn and Top Row all had their
claims to the mythical title.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
CATCHER TROUBLE
NOT GR|FFS' ALONE
Eight Other Major Clubs
Have Problems of Age
and Avoirdupois.
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
AsIcc'ateo Press Sports Writer

n YEW YORK, January 12.-Nine
nj major league managers, driven
" to desperation by an assort-
4 ment Of old men with social
security legs would give right field
pavilion for a good young catcher.
And. if you don't believe it. con-
slider these facts:
l. Clark Griffith has announced
that Shanty Hogan. weight unknown.
and Cliff Bolton the Bolter" will
share Washington's catching.
2. Luke Sewell of the White Sox
and Jimmy Wilson of the Phillies are
36 years old.
3. Mickey Cochrane, Tigers man.
ager, is returning to the game this
Spring after a serious illness.
4. Steve ONeill of the Indians is
trying to peddle Frank Pytlak TO the
Browns for Rollie Hemsley. and while
Rogers Hornsby is willing to give up
Hemsley he wants more and more
again.
S. Bill Terry is trying to buy help
for the aging Gus Mancuso.
6. Pie Traynor shuttled Tom Pad
den and AL Todd around last season.
hoping one of them would come
through. but Padden batted .249 and
Todd 273 and neither was satis-
factory.
7. The Dodgers are dissatisfied with
Babe Phelps and Ray Berres.