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Evening star., 1938-12-31
North-South EIevens
LET Defense Slide
To Develop Attack
BY the Associated Press.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 81
1t began to appear today that the
outcome of the first annual North
South ail-star charity football game
here Monday may depend upon
whether the Yankees or Rebels have
the better offense.
Coaches of both squads, since be-
ginning practice last Wednesday,
have concentrated on developing
offensive machines, apparently leav-
Ing defense measures to the expert
ence of the players, star performers
from colleges throughout the Ma
ton.
The vigor with which the teams
went through drills indicated the
Blue and Gray" game should not
be lacking in thrills.
Coaches Lynn Waldorf and Carl
Snavely of the Blues in announcing
a Commute scrimmage yesterday,
limited that those showing up the
best would be in the starting line
up-but the boys went at each other
with such enthusiasm that the
coaches called it off after 10 minutes
to prevent injuries.
Thereafter the session consisted
of signal drills.
Both the Blues and the Grays,
the latter coached by Jack Meagher
and Frank Thomas, are doing lots
of work on passes, running plays in
volving laterals. Ed Clary of South
Carolina, Dick Todd of Texas A. and
M. and Eddie Dunn of Miami U
did most of the passing for the
elsSyesterday, alternating with
long and short heaves.
Probable starting lineups had not
been announced.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Louis SchmeIinq Fight Packed q Thump

long aeward that Armstrong IN really great
Lou Ambes for the
lightweight sick from swallowing the care eeng like
punching operating early margin that
the picture of Armstrong
all of the fellows with them the memory OF Arm
thought the fight packed bigger hmp
time to time At
asked the Bomber
sad Ahn knock him
wnked laughed and OF
Schmelng Louis again.
but not The fight lasted ia
dropped the first Minute and when he got
up promptly him down again There is the picture OF
Schmeng fright Louis right to
goveng the Max Mahon his trainer
throwing in the towel
you thought Schmelng took the out
medicine did
knocked II rounds 1t seemed that
towel fight
hospital felt sort of ashamed for
Somehow. though
the left You horse break leg while going
the other three And
hockeys other athletes painfully hurt
unwilling surrender.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Optimism and Caution
Ming|e With Sooners
And Vols All Set
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 31.-Optimism
cropped out in Oklahoma and Ten
nessee camps today as coaches for
the two unbeaten, united football
conference champions agreed their
charges were just about ready for
Mondays Orange Bowl game.
A note of caution was heard on
each side, however, as Tennessee
went into its final practice session
and Coach Tom Stidham decided
to put the Oklahomans through a
brief Sunday workout.
Major Bob Neyland, Tennessee
mentor, agreed his team looked
pretty good but talked of those
Oklahoma Giants" The Sooners'
line averaged 1877 pounds to Tennes-
sees 1876, and the Oklahoma back
field averaged ITO to the Volunteers
ITS.
Stidham said his biggest worry
was getting his boys to realize that
Tennessee probably was the best
team they have faced this year.
He added he was satisfied with the
condition of the squad.
Miami will blow off some of its
excess steam tonight in an orange
jamboree, featured by a parade with
the Oklahoma and Tennessee Uni
versity Bands among Is musical or
carnations participating.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Work Finished +, Jones
And Wade Even in
Duel Of Worry
Psychological Aspect
Of Rose Bowl Bottle
= Fuvors Blue Devils
By the Associated Press.

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 81
Two slender. gray-haired men, with
brows deeply furrowed, paced up
and down the lobbies of separate
hotels here today-hours ahead of
the rest or the world with New Year
headaches.
They were Coaches Wallace Wade
and Howard Harding Jones of Duke
and Southern California, following
32-year r-old custom of worrying
over the outcome Of the daddy of
intersectional football contests, the
Rose Bowl game.
There was little left for the two
silent mentors to do but worry.
Each admitted that whatever could
be accomplished toward winning the
battle of the blossoms here Monday
afternoon was water under Colorado
Street Bridge, stones throw from
the stadium.
OF the two, Coach Wade's worries
probably were better founded. since
pre-New Year odds favored the
Vests representative over the Blue
Devils from the tobacco planta-
tionS.
The concensus was that Southern
Caifornia's Trojans would have too
much offensive power and too many
reserves for Duke. The belief pre-
vailed that these elements would
beat down the stubborn defense of
the team from Durham, N. c., that
turned back every scoring gesture
of its opponents during the regular
season.
Too. the men of Troy appeared
to hold the edge in physical condi-
ton, with all hands ready for COM
bat. Many of the 9O0O0-odd spec
tators who will cram the Rose Bowl
to capacity were not satisfied, on
the other hand, that Dukes great
Dan Hill, rugged center, would be
recovered sufficiently from his back
injury suffered early this week to
play his top game.
Technical questions that could
not be answered until Monday after
noon were whether it is true that
Southern California actually pos
sesses superior speed: whether it's
defense can match that amazing
scoreless record established by the
invaders this year; ard whether
those thunderlng punts of Dukes
Eric Upton will Offset the dazzling
passing and running of Southern
California's Granny Lansdell, Bill
Sangster, Mickey Anderson and the
rest.
The psychological edge has been
on Dukes side of the ledger from the
start and remains there today.
That was one thing neither coach
had to worry about today, because
. the moneys in the bank.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Hall Entry Seen
As Youngest 10
Capture Title
21-Yeor-OId Graduate
Of Tech High Aided
. By 27-Pin Handicap

Julius Singer, 21-year- member
of the Convention Hall team of the
District League, stood today to be
not only the youngest bowler ever
to win the mems championship Of
The Evening Star tournament, but
the most unorthodox in form. Julius
delivers the ball off the right foot.
Only a few bowlers in the history of
the game ever have become pro-
f1cient with this style.
At Convention Hall last night
young Singer, a graduate of Tech
High School, where he was adept
In minor sports, shot TIA with a
handicap of 27 pins. From scratch
he rolled $50, 145, 1872, 127, 1887.
He took the lead from William H.
Smith of the Navy Yard League,
who the night before turned in a
score of $1,000 at the Lucky Strike.
With only a few contestants still
to roll the odds heavily favor Singer
to walk off with the top cash prize
of $50 and a gold medal. The
tournament, in which more than
5000 men and women have COM
peted, making it the largest duck
pin event in the country, will be
concluded tonight with the rolling
OF postponed sets. The last reg
ularly scheduled roll-off was to be
held this afternoon at Silver Spring.
Misses Record by 16 Pins.
Singer failed by 16 sticks to equal
the record for the 11-year-old tour
nament established last year by
John Shenos, who got nowhere in
the clty-Wide competition this time.
No male champion ever has re-
peated in The Star tournament.
Two women have and it appeared
today that one of these would win
for a third time. Some of the fore
most fair duckpinners in the city
took their turns last night in the
finals, but none approached the
leading score of Lorraine GULL,
5-607, rolled at the Lucky Strike
Thursday evening. Miss GULL won
in 1881 and 1882 Bess Ackman
triumphed in 1929 and 1890
Three skirted entrants at Rosslyn
moved into the money circle. Hazel
Jarrett took over sixth place with
$3.50; Lucy Rose, Ladies' District
League champion, shot 579 from
scratch for a tie for seventh. and
Evelyn Ellis, with 8-574, occupied
the eleventh notch. Louise Stam-
baugh rolled 50-579 at the Columbia
to tie Mrs Rose.
Starts With Double Strike.
Mrs. Ellis started her set with
double strike, but cut deuce in the
third box and more or less struggled
from there on. In contrast, Mrs.
Rose, her teammate on the crack
Rosslyn quint, got away to a fair
start but wound up with games of
1876 and 129.
The top-ranking male duckpin-
ner OF the country, Astor Clarke, who
argues that The Star tournament
is the toughest in the country for
a star to win, went Mrs. Ellis one
better in tlashy beginning. He
opened at the Chevy Chase plant
with a triple strike that founded
a lo3 game, then stumbled. He
rolled 95 fiat in the second string
and wound up with a total of 1858,
out of the pay-off.
Norman Prather, who shot the
high game of the qualification
round, 181, came back with anothe.,
(See BOWLING, Page Aid
Evening star., 1938-12-31
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-The Ma
tons baseball writer's are wetting
their pencils and preparing to en-
shrine another immortal in baseballs S
Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y,
so George Sisler, the old st. Louis
Browns first baseman, might as we'll
start trimming his cuffs and getting
ready for the induction ceremony.
1t is taken for granted that Sisler
who in 1922 established the highest
batting average in the history of the
American League (.4l979 and had a
l5-year big league mark of .344, will
become the 10th member of the
select Cooperstown colony.
Players previously nominated by
the writer's are Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth,
Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson,
Walter johnson, Larry Lajoie, Iris
Speaker, Cy Young and Grover
Cleveland Alexander. In addition,
seven pioneers of the game were
voted places in the Hall of Fame by
a centennial committee, but not nee
essarily for their playing ability.
IS Per Cent Vote Necessary.
In order to gain admittance to the
shrine, player must be nominated
by rs per cent of the writers par
ticipating in the annual poll. Sisler
barely fell short last year, when
Alexander was elected, so he seems
bound to be picked this time.
Some 260 writer's participate, each
naming 10 players he deems worthy
of the honor, the only stipulation
being that the player has completed
his active career. Alexander ap-
peared on 2l2 ballots last year, fol-
lowed by Sisler with 179 votes, Wee
Willie Keeler, 1T, and Eddie Collins,
Evening star., 1938-12-31

More than anything else the
steaming hot night in Yankee
Stadium and the way the crowd
started to roar as Louis walked
into Schmeling . Louis hitting
so fast you could tell when his
punches landed only by watch
ing his shoulders :. And the
awful change in Schmeling from
a superbly- conditioned, conf
dent fighter to a broken, battered
bloody one-in a little over
minutes.
Standing on the bridge at
Poughkeepsie as the rain beat
down and hearing the Navy
coXswain below at the crew.
"All right. damn you, give 'em
the works" And seeing Buck.
Walsh, the stricken Navy coach,
later in the hispital Esprit
won the race" he said, "You
fellows can't realize what Navy
spirit means"
Henry Armstrong lying on tic
emerald turf at Pompton Lakes
one August day and talking Of
Tony Galento, that curious mix
ture of gladiator and clown ..
II don't know what makes him
Evening star., 1938-12-31

the way he is, but all fighters are
like him When I'm in there
I'd like to take the other guys
head off. I want to see him on
the floor"
The football season: Sid Luck
man playing the greatest one
man game you ever saw against
Yale when the season was young
and Columbia was winning
The last quarter of the Syracuse
Cornell game, the most exciting
you'll ever see 26 points,
three touchdowns on long passes
and the other on a 92-yard run
And Syracuse winning with
3 minutes 10 60 The Duke
team moving with cold precision
and certainty IN practice The
great Goldberg running with
reckless abandon against that
same team "a hours later Eric
Upton punting in the snow :.
And one last look, maybe the
last, at Tommy Farr In the
14th round against Lou Nova,
worn, groggy and utterly spent
-. The nakld heart Of . fight.
ing man, alone snd unafraid.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Leonard Looked for Apartment After Win

There another 1888 incident remember and that the
Leonard hooked Fel
Baseball hadn't kind
Cinderella midnight
The odds against Leonard the fat
boy with the knucke ball dramatic o0 thirteenth
the morning he then
that after that he should the
lot of other incidents mind all
that fat Tony Gaento Washington stick
Joe Jacobs
Boxing Commission where 1t Heinie
N B. A. Ranking Committee holds Tony
get Louis into the ring
Nobody seriously Ahean
who when
Col Miller kept straight
and returned the few days later.
1t really long that the
winter baseball meeting
Bonura wasn't $4,000 ball Orleans
talk bunk because
But it's the truth, reporter $40 900
ball player"
Il know it, answered the Old bu
sort of thing. 1t might hurt possible deal"
The day to
and
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Intrepid Critic Picks Tennessee-Then Ducks
Rates Louis SLAUGHTER meLne Lqh

them Christians not having much
OF line -. XII Aldrich and I. B.
Hale, the center and tackle, were
in our town a spell back and one
and all agreed they would be
able to take care of double their
number of skibos Also Davey
OBrien still is around . Car
negie Tech hasn't faced a passer
OF his ability this year and is
liable to get plenty flustered.
Closest of them all is the
Orange Bowl classic, but this
corner will take Tennessee over
Oklahoma and duck for cover
Well. who would you pick?
Tennessee can run and Oklahoma
can pass Anyway, Tennessee.
Texas Tech over St. Marys on
the theory the Gaels always blow
the big ones :. New Mexico over
Utah strictly on the flip of a we'll
worn Confederate dime.
just to introduce a novel note,
didn't the year 60 fast? . And
what a year A lot of laughs,
a lot of times when your throat
went tight. a lot of gags, a lot of
guys :. The things you remem.
Der besides the final scQre (.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Merri(k Quintets Con
Two Titles in Boys
Club Tournament
Stor's Sportsmonship
Trophy Awarded to
lexington Bakery

Five championship quints in as
many weight classes today held tro-
phies emblematic of victories in
their divisions of the Boys Club
of Washington Basket Ball Tourna-
ment. In addition. the lexington
Bakery five, eliminated in the semi
final round, possesses The Evening
Star Sportsmanship Trophy.
Merrick Boys Club won two
championships, the 105-pound title
and that of the unlimited class,
while the other new champions are
Georgetown Blues 9O-pound team,
Stanton Aces. 12O-pound courtmen
and the 135-pound Boys Club
Fleetwings.
The Bakery team was selected as
the most sportsmanlike quintet by
a committee composed of Fod Cot
ton, Bill Reinhart and Elmer Rip
ley, coaches at Catholic University,
George Washington and George
town, respectively. Playing in the
135-pound class, it reached the
seml-flnal round before being elm
mated by the Boys Club Fleetwings.
1t was organized just this season.
and the tournament was it's first
experience in organized competi-
ton.
Georgetown Blues won the cham
plonship of the 90-pound class in
the finals yesterday. nosing out the
Northeast Black Hawks, 1917, in a
game that was see-saw affair un-
til the final whistle. The 105-pound
class game was similarly close con-
test. won by Merrick B. C. from
Gonzaga Purple, 17-15.
Stanton Aces had the better of it
IN their game with Georgetown
Branch, winning the 120-pound title,
1920 The Fleetwings, which elm
mated lexington Bakery from the
l35-pound race, were defeated in the
final by Stewart Photo, 1921. and
the unlimited division title went to
Merrick B. c.. winner over North
east Branch, 1927.
In addition to the trophies pre-
sented the winning teams, each
player received a gold basket ball.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Texas Christian Due
To Score Victory
With Field Goal
1888 First Year in
Five Kick Hasn't
Melted Frog Win
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. 81
There may be many surprised fans
here Monday if the Texas Christian
forces should use a field goal to
topple the Tartans of Carnegie Tech
in their Sugar Bowl football classic.
Leo R. Dutch) Meyer, the Horned
Frogs professor, has been coaching
T. C. U. teams for five seasons. In
each of those campaigns, excepting
1888, the Southwest Conference
champions have won at least one
game by 3-pointer.
Delving into a stack of records, j..
Willard Rulings, Texas Christian
publicity director, came forward to-
day with the information that little
Davey O'Brien, the 150-pound ALL
America aerial bomb finger, also
can boot field goals.
"We didn't score a field goal this
season." Ridings pointed out. I'VE
always had such a margin that we
did not resort to any attempts for
points from the field.
buC II we SNOulQ happen 10 nScQ
a field goal, you can count on Davy.
He has kicked a lot of points after
after his passes had connected
for touchdowns
While the Frogs remained 7-to-5
choices to win their second Sugar
Bowl engagement-they beat Lou
isiana State 80 once before here
the advance guard wondered If Car
negie Techs Bill Kern wasn't pre-
pairing a big surprise for the Frogs.
For the last three days the Tech
skipper has huddled his squad into
dark corners in their Bay st. Louis,
Miss, hotel to watch movies of some
of Texas Christians games.
Cant say a thing" said Kern
this morning when cornered for a
statement. Were really concen-
trating on football. We're thinking
about the game instead of talking
about it."
The game is a sell-out, with $4,000
expected to jam the Tulane UNI
versity horseshoe.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Nearly All Gave Derby to Fighting Fox

back to the bushes for Joe but he didn't stay Trenton
enough
Harris suddenly needed
of his regular pitchers got
all he
Nat pitcher the
Hes definitely the best we've Well
Krakauskas'
Louisville just before the Kentucky Derby
all heard
entered named Lawn and
wrote the
before filing edged
who knows horses and he
changed Fighting
Fighting Fox
all didn't him. Since then you've wondered
Fighting Fox contributed the glue on
brush
O sports circuit they
Sarro the eatherWegt
wondered fellow could take
so o. a without going
Evening star., 1938-12-31
BY DREW MIDDLETON.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, December 81
Your agent finds it extremely
difficult to pick apples out of a
barrel New Year morning so we
hereby donate free Except for a
charge of $4,75698 for freightage,
parcel post and delivery our
bowl football selections In
the past your agent gave out
such four-star specials as the
British over Washington and
Custer over the Indians A
word to the wise In dat
Ole Davil Rose Bowl, Southern
Cal over Duke, three cheers for
Wallace Wade and who hit Billy
Patterson? The thought, if
eny, behind this is that all good
things have to end and Dukes
phenomenal record won't escape
.. Southern Cal is too big and
you don't beat Notre Dame with
mirrors.
In the Sugar Bowl Texas
Christian over Carnegie Tech,
bagpipes and all We'uns don't
hold with this yere stuff about
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Snead Highly Honored
As He Trails in Golf
Field al Houston
Sam Gets Vordon Prize,
But Stands Seventh in
Event Led by Dodson
BY tie Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, December 81
The name of Slammin' Sammy
Snead, a former caddy, today was
enscribed on a plaque destined to
honor the great men of golf.
Snead OF White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, was given the Harry Vardon
aWaTd-the second man to win the
coveted prize donated by the P. G. A.
in honor of the great English golfer
who died two years ago.
The award brought light and
cheer where moments before there
had been darkness and despair. The
man who rated distinction as out
standing golfer Of the year. was not
rating at all well here in the 54-hole
Houston Open as the final day of
play began.
Leonard Dodson of Springfield,
Mo, yesterday left the slammer far
behind in big field, completing
his first round in 69-two below par.
Snead missed by a half-inch a s.
foot putt on the last hole and took
rs, which left him tied with seven
others for twentieth place in the
$4,000 open.
Dodson shook off touch of influ-
enza to go out into the cold and
lead the field. One stroke back was
Harold Gug) McSpaden of Boston,
who stuffed the $4,000 first prize
money of the Miami Open in his
jeans few days ago.
A couple of strokes behind McSpa-
den, as the players today started
the last 36 holes, were Ben Hogan
of Fort Worth and Jimmy Morgan
of San Antonio.
Just another stroke behind-with
73s-were Sammy Byrd of Phila-
delphia, E. J. Harrison of Chicago,
Art Clark of Summit, Pa; Frank
Moore of New York and Dick Metz
of Chicago. All rated a good chance
at the top money.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Ingenuity Record
Due Tardy Angler
By the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated PreSS.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla,
Dec. 31.-F. H. Tillotson, Cornell
University swimmer, missed a rec
ord by 4 ounces, but it wasn't
from lack of "the old college try"
@Tillotson boasted an amberjack
that loomed as a record d-breaker,
but 1t was too late for the charter
boat to reach the weighing dock
ahead Of the daily deadline.
So Tillotson and a student COM
panion, Gordon Little, rigged a
halter on the struggling fish,
jumped over and swan ashore.
They borrowed a nickel to call a
taxi, raced to the dock, got in
under the deadline-and found
their catch weighed 45N pounds.
Just under the record.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Varied Sports
College Basket Ball.

COllege Basket Ball.
Long Island, 80; Southern
California, 18.
st. Johns 80; Colorado, 81.
Cornell, 81; Baldwin Wallace. SO.
Bradley, SO; Yale, 30.
American League Basket Ball.
Kingston Colonials, 81; Wilkes
Barre Barons, %.
National League Basket Ball.
Akron Goodyears, 43; Ham
mond, 33.
Eastern Amateur Hockey League.
Atlantic City Sea Gulls, 6; Bal
timore Orioles, 4.
College Hockey.
Dartmouth, 4; Williams, O.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
SisIer, Barely Short in Last
Ballot, Due for Next Niche
In Diamond Hall of Fame

ITS. A total of 119 players received
at least one vote.
Under the system of balloting en-
ployed there could, of course, be as
many as 10 nominees each year,
which soon would cause serious over
croWding in the shrine. but so far
the system has worked well. Differ
ence of opinion takes care of that.
Sisler, this years logical nominee,
for the past four months has held
the post of high commissioner of
semi-pro baseball, and only last
week announced that his organiza-
ton in future would work in closest
harmony with the professional game.
He is in the best graces of baseball,
in sharp contrast to Rogers Hornsby,
who received only 46 votes last year.
Gehrig Sure of Place.
The elevation of Sister would mean
that the Hall of Fame would have at
least two first basemen within very
few years, for Lou Gehrig of the
Yankees is certain to be voted in as
soon as he winds up his playing
career, about 1910. There is plenty of
argument as to which has been the
better first sacker. but Gehrig prob
ably would receive majority of
votes because of his home run rec
ord.
Outside of Gehrig, Sisler generally
is regarded as supreme. He was
marvellous fielder and one of the
greatest hitters ever until eye trou-
BILE finally cut him down. Starting
in 1917, he posted successive batting
averages of 1853, 341. .352, .407, .37l
and .420. AS late as 1928. when the
records show he was IS years old, he
contrived to hit $40 ip 118 games for
the Boston Braves.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Julius Singer With Freak Delivery Tops Star Pin Tourney With Score Of IA
Win, Lose or Draw
Fading Year Full Of Sports Thrills and Drama;
Krokky First Was Flop and Now Is Slab Hero
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

Another slip and somehow to those sports
the awuy fast Maybe it is because
of like squirrel You start
Florida baseball training and then hit most all Of the big
stations Churchill Downs of the big fights Pmlco
fights football
right
you and ready all
Clark Griffith to make undying
another siege month Somehow
really like
being hailed the -conquerng
Krakauskas being called bum
Washington baseball started you know
Florida
really looked he the
Krakauska WELL
bad in Florida and the home
pitched Krakky against the
of wet But they got
Jimmy De Shong and in the bus
his head and said he had
enough of Krakky.
Evening star., 1938-12-31

Three years ago-W. Lawson
Little, jr., awarded Sullivan Me-
mortal Trophy as outstanding
amateur athlete Of 1885.