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Evening star., 1939-08-16
Poffenberger Takes Licking Standing Up
Bucsted Luboes and Hopes to Return to Baseball

sized Dutchman said he hoped
he'd get back into baseball some
time-but admitted the blacklist
hung on him by Commissioner
K. M. Lands probably would
keep him out for good.
Poffenberger, Is years old, said
he'd asked for transfer to the
minors all through the season
before he jumped the club in
Cincinnati. He jumped, he said,
because his arm wasn't right and
he felt he needed to work the
kinks out against hitters in the
lower league.
When they sent him to Mon
treal, he took his transportation
and headed for Canada, he said,
only to be recalled by telegram
in New York saying his wife was
seriously i'll at their home here.
He didn't show to play with the
Royals. Moguls OF baseball put It
down a. another po6enberser e.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Henson Out 10 Make
Il s. Wins in Row
In Ringer Loop
Metro League Winds Up
Sunday; Star Tourney
Next Competition

Clayton c. Henson, hot favorite
In The Evening Star horseshoe
championships, the qualifying test
OF which will be held next Monday
and Tuesday evenings on the Ma
tional Capital Parks courts, on Sun
day will attempt to set a record
which might stand for keeps. Hen
son hopes to finish the Metropolitan
Singles League season undefeated
He has won 81 games and Sunday
will play nine more. His opponents
will be Sid Stoddard, Kruger and
Ed Henry, with Stoddard the hot
test of the three.
Henson Hard Pressed.
In his last appearance Henson
was forced to struggle to keep his
streak intact. He beat Lee Flesh
man by only 50-48 in their final
game and Bill Woodfeld held him
to 50-46 and 50-45.
All pitchers desiring to compete
in The Star tournament should re-
port Monday or Tuesday night at
the courts at Fifteenth street and
Constitution avenue. They will toss
100 shoes, with 16 high scorers to
qualify in each sector. Northern
Virginia, Southern Maryland and
Washington flippers will compete
separately.
Tournament Is Free.
There Is no entry fee.
Sundays matches, which will COM
plete the Metropolitan Leagues sea-
son, and the last results follow:
Sunday, $3.50 PM.
Ronning VS.. Stoddard, Hefin,
Henry and Fleshman.
Henry VS.. Stoddard, Kruger and
Hef1in.
Merryman VS.. Kruger, Hefiin
and Henson.
Henson VS.. Stoddard, Kruger
and Henry.
Kruger VS.. Stoddard and Stod-
dard.
Hef1in VS.. Stoddard, Kruger
and Stoddard.
Fleshman VS.. Stoddard and
Kruger.
Howery vs. Kruger.
Haley VS.. Stoddard.
Results.
HoWery beat Ronning, 5O-47,
50-45, 20-5O.
Stoddard beat Howery, 500,
50-43, $50. ~
Stoddard beat Merryman, So
81, 50-28, $40.
Ronning beat Haley, 5O-34,
47-50. 500.
Woodfeld beat Haley, 50-34,
50-33, SOL.
Henson beat Fleshman, 5O-24.
50-34, 50-48.
Henson beat Woodfeld, 5O-46.
50-45, 50-24.
Henson beat Ronning, 5O-24,
| 50-26, 50-33.
Fleshman beat Woodfeld, 500,
! 50-48, 500.
Fleshman beat Merryman,
50-34, 50-36, 50-2S.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Expert on Radio
For Cup Regatta

AL Bauer, veteran sports an
nouncer, will help keep spec
tators informed on the progress
of events in the Presidents Cup
Regatta scheduled off Hains
Point September 1924, it was an
nounced this morning.
Bauer, official announcer for
division 3, American Power Boat
Association, will not only handle
the amplifying system during the
racing events, but also at the
swimming events scheduled at
the Shoreham the night of Sep
tember 16.
An all-around waterman, Bauer
was coach of the American canoe
crews at the last Olympics.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Maryland Will JuggIe
Pair of Grid Dates

President Roosevelt's scrambling
of Thanksgiving Day from Novem-
ber 80 to the 23d has prompted Uni
versity of Maryland officials to inau-
gurate plans to juggle dates on two
football games.
The Terps had booked Washing
ton and Lee for what previously had
passed for Thanksgiving Day, but if
Maryland now is forced to play the
Generals on November % it thus
would enter it's game with Syracuse,
billed for November Is, with only
one day of rest.
Director of Athletics Geary Eppley
hopes to move the Washington and
Lee game to December at Balti-
more and play Syracuse on Novem-
ber Is at College Park.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Trio Of D. {. linkswomen
Advance at Shawnee
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeclAl DlSpatcn TO lhe Star.
SHAWNEE E-ON-DELAWARE, Pa.
Aug. l6.-Mrs. Betty Meckley of
Washington, D. c., medalist in the
Shawnee women's golf tourney, to-
day faced the challenge of Mrs. R. C
Mitchell, also of Washington, as play
moved into the second round.
Mrs. Bishop Hill, the third Wash
ington golfer to advance, was to
meet Mary Gumser of New York
Mrs. Hill wedged her way into the
second round by defeating Mrs. S
Schaffer of Montclair, N. j., 8 and 6
Mrs. Mitchell experienced the
toughest grind for Washington en-
tries in disposing of Mrs. j. Feinstein
of Lake Hopatcong, N. j., up, in a
bitterly battled match, while Mrs
Meckley eliminated Alice Pearson of
Echo Lake, Pa, 7 and 6.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
BY the Associated Press.


HAGERSTOWN, Md, Aug. 16.
-Peck's bad boy of baseball
hunched his brick yard laborer's
shoulders and took his licking
standing up today when they
busted him out of organized base
ball for keeps.
Elwood Cletus (Boots) Poffen-
berger, the crossroads husky who
went out with hay in his hair to
stand big league batters on their
ears-when and if he felt like
it-opined he was still young
enough to get a job in the brick
yard or the tannery and play a
little sandlot baseball or 20 fish
ing.
The Boots, who admitted he
jumped the Brooklyn club and
didn't report to Montreal when
they sold him down the river
still feels his side Of the story
never had an airing. The over.
Evening star., 1939-08-16

capade, and the threats they
made got Boots Dutch up. So
he went fishing and heaved few
to the boys on the vacant lot,
and when his wife got well he
already was marked for the skids.
Confirmation came yesterday
with formal notice of the black
list issued by Lands at the re-
quest of the Brooklyn club.
Boots wrote, to Lands today.
He didn't beg for reinstatement.
He asked only if it would be all
right for him to play sandlot
baseball here.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Max Boer Gets 1000
To Battle Ritchie

DALLAS, Aug 16 F.-Former
Heavyweight Champion Max Baer
has signed to fight Babe Ritchie,
young Texan, at Lubbock, Tex, Sep
tember Is. He was guaranteed $1O,-
900 for the 10-rounder.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
nng Might Happen 1ave With Two Fast Steppey After ohnson
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.

Today a year ago-Pop bottles
shower down on Jake Powell,
back in lineup after Today sus-
pension for radio remarks, as
Yankees whip Senators twice,
16-1 and 60 at Washington.
Three years ago-Eleventh
Olympiad closed before overflow
crowd Of 10000; Germany
captured all equestrian honors,
including PrK de Nations.
Five years ago-Helen Jacobs
defeated Mary Greet Harris, ST.,
81, 6-3, to reach quarter-finals
OF women's national tennis
championships.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Scott Fights Montonez
Next Monday Niqht
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16-Pedro
Montanez, National Boxing Associa-
tions No. challenger for the light
weight title. will meet Howard Scott.
Washington, D. c., in a 10-round
boxing bout here next Monday night,
Promoter Jake Mintz has announced.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Sherwood Title at Stake

The deciding game of the Sher-
wood League softball championship
series will be played tomorrow at
$50 O'Clock. Kavakos Grill tied up
the set yesterday, defeating Jimmie's
Grill, Al, behind Bolts one-htt
pitching.
Evening star., 1939-08-16


@ Of the League who recently joined the Cleveland
outstanding
Ohio He his
thones discovered A
nome His
Evening star., 1939-08-16
7-Up Club at WursaW

7-Up tossers will visit Warsaw, Va,
Saturday for a game with the home
team, and Sunday is scheduled to
play at Culpeper. Otis Printz and
Frank Baroni have been nominated
for mound duty by Manager Connie
Wyche.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Shunkmen-Romuns Divide

Shankmans Market broke even
with the Romans in a twin-bill, los.
ing the nightcap, 1915, after winning
the opener, 14-4. Wolf, Miller and
Pinner starred at bat.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
Rod and Stream
BY GEORGE HUBER.
(August l6, 1882

The buehsh situation down Chesapeake nothing
less desperate Here
the ~ 0' -"'' yea" ~ was
Previous that though and
by big blues In all
aneake crnenS
Evening star., 1939-08-16
BrodIey Pays Hordboot,
Loser on His Tip.

Brokers Tip, however, was one
Bradley horse which the colonel quit
on before the race To tell the
truth, the animal was not much.
On the day before the Derby, Col
Bradley picked Head Play, from a
rival barn, for publication.
Kentucky bettors thought he must
know something, and promptly
switched to Head Play. When the
Bradley horse beat out the Bradley
selection in stretch duel, featured
by the woolly riding and brilliant
cussing of Don Meade, some of the
hardboots thought the colonel had
jobbed them.
One Kentuckian wrote Bradley to
say that he had lost $40 by following
the colonel's tip. The colonel sent
him the 10 bucks and held his peace.
Brokers Tip never won again. He
was a one-race horse and he as
tonished nobody more than Col
Bradley by winning the Derby. At
least, the colonel said he was as
tonished.
Bradley does not always follow
form in betting his own horses. He
is likely to play the No. horse in
his stable instead of the No. l. For
this reason, his fancy this coming
season may turn to Boy Angler in
stead of Bimelech.
Better Watch BimeIech,
Despite Boy AnqIer.
But I wouldn't think so. Boy
Angler may be the coming cham
pion, as few track people tell you,
but Bimelech looks a better piece
of goods today A touch on the
small side, maybe, but he has
strength and the style of slayer
One of the colonel's standing Of
fers is a bet of even money that
you cannot name a yearling horse
that will win a race as 2-year-old.
Bimelech was just as much gam
BILE as any other yearling, though
foaled by the colonels favorite sire,
the late Black Toney, and full
sister to the great Bradley mare,
Black Helen.
And even if he wins all the good
e-year-old stakes this year, includ-
Ing the Belmont Futurity, he still
will be a gamble for the Derby-for
Col. Bradley has another standing
offer of 5 to l that you cannot
name a 2-year that will start
in the Derby the following year.
Things always are happening to
Derby candidates during the win
ter and spring.
Bear this in mind, if you fail to
see Bimelech in the march to the
post at Churchill Downs next May:
But, if you do see him there,
bear in mind that Bradley horses
have a way with them in this par
ticular race. They've won four of
them and they may give the king
of the hardboots fifth winner for
his 80th birthday.
Evening star., 1939-08-16
INTERNATIONAL.

Baltimore. ID: Toronto, O-s.
Rochester, So: Syracuse. 20.
Buffalo, 60: Jersey City, 2-8,
Newark. g: Montreal, 4
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Yole Loses Boil Come
As Well as Pottern

Yale not only lost the pattern, but
the ball game. The record says it
was a G. to o." AS recall, it was
more like or G. to o. The referee
took one G. away from me shooting
dice) and I lost two more G.'s in
little stud poker game that evening.
How that Willoughby could play
poker! I refer, of course, to the
younger Wllloughby, son of the cap
tain, who entered Yale just as his
father kicked off
The year 1876 saw the introduc-
ton of tights, so called because they
were so ID snug. In 1890 we
began to effect long hair, and Yale
introduced heavy interference by
employing the guard, Pudge Heffel-
finger, on end runs.
They employed Heffelfnger for
number of years, mostly on daytime
jobs. Heff certainly could move
down that field, though he admits
that he met his match in me in the
'91 game. In some way or another
Hef had got possession of the ball
(rumor said that he inherited it
from an uncle in Duluth. He
started down the field, and the Har-
ward players, who were in great
demand at that time, were all sud-
denly called to the telephone at the
same time, leaving me to protect our
goal line against the onrushing
Heffelfinger.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Bulls $50 Triumph
Over Dewitt Evens
Football Series
Dove SporkIes as Sligo
Team Boes Its Fourth
Little Army-Novy' Tilt

Bulls Preps football team today
looked back on a 800 victory over
Dewitt, satisfied that in beating its
greatest rival it had atoned for an
otherwise dismal campaign.
Although riddled with injuries.
Bulls nevertheless was able to put
three different teams on the field
before the game ended yesterday.
while Dewitt was forced to struggle
along with but one team and three
reserves. The game left the schools
even in the little Army Navy"
series with four wins each.
Despite the score, the game was
no pushover for the winners. Little
Ed Dove, former George Washington
High star, twice smashed the line
with his 135 pounds to give Bulls
a two-touchdown lead before the first
quarter ended, b''' Dewitt braced to
make the second quarter scoreless
Then with man power slowly wear
ing down the trailers. Bulls scored
once in the third and twice in the
fourth quarters. Bud Troxell went
through the line for S yards and a
tally at the start of the second half
and in the last 10 minutes a pass,
Troxell to George SIMMER. put the
ball on Devitt's 7, from where Bill
Helbock plunged through the line
for a score. The last touchdown
came in the final few minutes, a
pass from Helbock to SIMMER being
good for SIS yards and 6 points.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Ten-Letter Man Popular
With BIoomer Girls

However, did not mean to lecture
on vegetables today. Nor on birds
eggs, which are the speciality of Rich
ard G. Harlow, the noted Harvard
coach and nest-looter nor on the hot
piano, which is the forte of Raymond
w Pond, Yale '25. I was planning
to stroll down memory lane with the
Harvard-Yale football tradition.
I we'll recall the day when Obadiah
~Snedecker, '76, came into my room
unannounced, pushed the ivy to one
side, applied the bite for five bucks,
borrowed shirt, and suggested,
How about a Harvard-Yale game.
Snodgrass? You're the man who
could fix it." I should mention that
served my first stretch at Harvard
Give to eight years for poaching)
under the name of Snodgrass. I was
a 10-letter man at the time. Most
of the letters came from infatuated
bloomer girls.
1t was the work of a moment to ar
range the first Yale-Harvard game.
In those days, the expression ito
kick off" meant exactly what it says.
When man kicked off, he died.
Willoughby the Yale captain, kicked
off on the first play of the game and
was carried from the field by eight
pallbearers. He was a fine man.
They don't make 'em like Willoughby
any more. I guess they lost the pat
. tern.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
From the
Press Box
Ivy on Hurvurd-YuIe
Tradition Thinning
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

BOSTON, Nov. Is (N.A.N.A0.-
The Harvard-Yale football tradition
is very old indeed. AS Notre Dame
rapid transit alumnus told me last
week, "Those buns have got every
thing but football teams"
At Harvard and Yale, the boys
chew ivy as the ordinary undergrad
uate at Princeton or Slippery Rock
chews tobacco. Ivy, in fact, is a
drug on the market. I remember in
my school days at Harvard how the
ivy used to overgroW the walls and
climb in my window of an early WIN
. ter morning to touch me for $5 or
borrow shirt. That was a general
practice with the inmates of Har-
ward, including the ivy.
Naturally, ivy is common today.
You find it everywhere They tell
me that even the newest, Johnny
come-lately colleges are literally
lousy with this famous old fungus.
Harvard and Yale, always pioneers,
recently have been leading move
ment away from amelopsis cordata
to such an extent that some of the
battlements and turrets on these two
ancient campi are as bald as onions
That is the trend in classical edu-
cation-toward nudity. I venture to
say that 10 years from now our
noblest college buildings will be gar
nished with maybe only little pars-
ley and the Ivy League will be known
as the Sally Rand Mutual Better
ment Association. That's the way it
goes, BOYS.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Freight Train Loosened
HeffeIfinqers Tooth

We collided on the 20-yard line.
You know how tough Heffelfnger
was. Well, I do not like to boast,
but when he came around to the
hospital after the game to apologize
I distinctly noticed that one of his
teeth was loose.
In the story of his life Heffelhnger
claims that this tooth was loosened
when he struck an Erie freight
train at an ungraded crossing. In
the story of my life claim different
Posterity can be the judge.
In 1892 we invented the flying
wedge, the turtleback, the push play
and the one piece suit. Helmets ap-
peared in 1896. They disappeared
the following spring under suspicious
circumstances. 1t is not my in
tention to accuse Sigsbee, Yale '97,
of theft, but when Sigsbee says that
I took those helmets he is lying.
Seven witnesses will swear I was
in Sumatra shooting Kelly pool at
the time of the crime.
That brings us to the year 1889
in this glorious rivalry. like Har-
ward by a touchdown.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK. Nov. 25.-The foot
ballers who play for pay in the
National League seem to have been
playing for fun--at least the sched-
ule is in fair way of being COM
pleted without a champion in either
the Eastern or the Western division
AT the moment, Washington and
New York are deadlocked in the
East and Green Bay is pursued so
closely in the West by the Chicago
Bears and the Detroit Lions that a
three-way tie is possible when the
season closes a week from Sunday.
The last full-course menu is being
offered tomorrow, with Detroit and
Washington steWing in the main
dish, but the leagues club owners
are so fearful the remaining games
only will complicate the situation
that they have called a ways-and-
means meeting for Tuesday.
Site of Playoff Big Issue.
This session will be held in Pitts
burgh and the topic will be what to
do if sectional playoffs delay the
championship game now set for
Sunday, December 10, at site to
be selected by the Western repre-
sentative.
The location of the big game may
become major issue, for should
the contest be delayed until late
December the weather prospects
would be so uncertain that some of
the prospective competitors, partic-
ularly the Green Bay Packers, might
find it inadvisable to hold the game
anywhere near home.
TomorroW's program calls for De-
troit to invade Washington, the
Packers at Cleveland, Brooklyn at
New York, Philadelphia at Pitts
burgh and the Bears and Cardinals
in Chicago.
When this firing is finished only
three games will be left to play
Washington at New York, Green
Bay at Detroit and Philadelphia
and Cleveland at Colorado Springs,
Colo, the following Sunday.
Out of this octet of games almost
anything can come, but even such
upsets as the Cleveland Rams un-
expected, 4-3 triumph over the De-
troit Lions last week won't solve the
problem tomorrow.
The New York Giants, who have
won seven and lost one, are lead
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Dodgers Offer Won't
Lure Hagerty From
Job With Hoyas

With two undefeated elevens to
his credit and no clouds in his
coaching skies, Jack Hagerty has no
Intention of severing his connections
at Georgetown, he said today, de-
spite a report he had been offered
professional coaching berth. The
Brooklyn coaching job was his for
the asking, according to the story.
Hagerty played with "Shipwreck"
Kelly, one of the owners of the
Brooklyn club. and discussed the
football situation in general on a
recent trip to New York. He said
he had been sounded out by Kelly
on his present status at the HILTON.
but received no direct bid for his
services.
The young Hilltop mentor is slated
to discuss new contract with ath-
letic officials at Georgetown next
week. His last contract expired this
autumn. 1t was for three wears.
The new agreement is expected to
be for five years and to call for a.
sizable increase in salary in recog-
milton of Hagerty's splendid work.
Evening star., 1939-11-25

With Hokie Smith of Washington
the defending champion, the Dixie
Sweepstakes, richest 15-game bowl
ing event to be staged in the South
this season, got underway at noon
today at Columbia with a record
field of more than 65 leading duck
pinners of the East and South COM
peting for top prize of $500 and
a total Of approximately $1,500 in
cash.
The second five-game block of the
ninth annual classic was to be rolled
at 3 pm. at the Lucky Strike. The
wind-up Is scheduled at Convention
Hall tonight at 8.
Seeks Second Victory in Week.
Smith was shooting for his second
victory in week, having recently
won the Frank Jett event in Rich
mond.
Included in the big entry was
Steve WitkoWski, last years runner
up from Middletown, Conn. The
heavy coin was lure for other New
England notables such as Nick Tron-
sky, Jack White, Nick Paye, Tony
Carpenter, Bill Dente. Tony zagryn
Clayton Boeckman, Bill Therrien
Bill Tato, Mike Bogino, Walter
Berthold, Tony Iannarone, Joe Lam
astra and Ben Kosky, the United
Sweepstakes champion.
Baltimore's galaxy of sharpshoot-
ers included Ray Won Dreele, Wini-
field Guerke, Nova Hamilton, Meyer
Jacobson, Pebbles Henderson, Teddy
Weinberger, Bill Cleaver, Everett
Gardner, Lee Seim, Johnny Miller
Gordon Scible, Eli Pickus, Frank
Walzenbach, Julian Easterday anc
Bill Arnold, 1884 winner.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
ns Start Faa Fhock Behind Vet Line Against Lions Tomorrow
New England Strong as Great
Field of Duckpin Stars Goes
To Post in 81 500 Dixie

Among the Capitals squad were
three former champions. Ollie
Pacini, winner in 1881 and 1887;
Astor Clarke, 1888, and Joe Freschi,
1885. Others were Ed Blakeney,
Tony Santini, Columbia teammates
of Smiths; Howard Parsons and
Ray Parks of the Lucky Strike team,
and Perce Wolfe, the College Park
hoWitzer, winner of the 5000 top
prize in the Norman Levy at Nor
folk.
Fred Murphy's entry cost him only
S2.45 as result of winning Dixie
preliminary at the Lucky Strike
His score was 420.
In Warmup for the gruelling
test, the Connecticut Blue Ribbons
last night won two of three matches
from the Ice Palace five.
Palace Wins Only Doubles.
A 1,949 count, which included
games of 652, 637 and 660, annexed
the three-game skirmish by a mar
gin OF $50 pins as Walter Berthold,
newest member of the famous in
vaders, got his team off to a winning
start with 176. His 419 also was
tops. Mike Bogino put on the fin
ishing touches with ITO. His set
was 410.
After Jack Talbert and Bill
Krauss, with respective sets of 387
and 1888, had led the Ice Palaces
futile team attack they came back
to triumph in the doubles by 6
pins over Bogino and Bill Tato,
1853 to 752. Bogino was tops with
395.
In a sizzling singles battle a
packed gallery watched Tato exc
out a 9-pin victory over Krauss,
410 to 401.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Illinois michigan Come
Had Touch Of Moqic

The best one-day performance on
the part of any coach was that given
by Bob zuppke when Illinois beat
Michigan. There was touch of
magic in this game Michigan had
roared through Michigan State,
Iowa, Chicago and Yale, and, with
Tom Harmon, hitting on all cylin-
ders, appeared unbeatable. Illinois
had been battered by Southern Cali
fornia and beaten by Indiana and
Northwestern.
1t didn't look a contest, this meet
ing of Michigan and Illinois. But
Zup, better at getting a team ready
for one game than any coach 7
ever knew, brought the Illini up
red hot for this one. They hobbled
Harmon for most of the game-al-
though Tom broke loose long enough
to make touchdown-and be-
Wildered, befuddled and dazed the
Wolverines with the trickery and
fury of their attack and, much to
the amazement of everybody save
Zup, won the game.
Evening star., 1939-11-25
Dobson Out, Terps Delay
Naming New Coach

Frank Dobson's long-rumored
resignation as head coach of foot
ball at the University of Maryland
has been received, Director of Ath-
letics Geary Eppley said today, and
will be acted on Monday at a meet
ing of the Board of Athletic Control.
Eppley denied that Dick Harlow
had been signed as Dobson's sue
cessor, although reports persisted
that the Harvard coach will assume
control of the Terrapins grid
destinies next season. 1t is believed
that Dobsons resignation will be
accepted at Mondays meeting, but
that a new coach will not be an
nounced until the first of the year