Evening star., 1939-12-28
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

EN- ROUTE TO THE SUN BOWL,
Dec 28.-Here's a new slant on this
New Year Day football game for
all you snow-bound Washingtonians.
Catholic University football war
riors, who will meet Arizona State
Teachers at Tempe in the Sun Bowl
at Ell Paso next Monday will wear
black paint on their eyelids to mini
mize the glare of the sun. 1t all
sounds incongruous to think of sun
glare as the train carrying the
Cardinals slides smoothly through
a snow-covered landscape in the
Middle West. But it's true.
Before the Cardinals left Wash
ington last night Head Coach Berg
man ordered gobs of black grease
paint for the lids Of the G. U. boys.
They will plaster it on to cut down
the sun glare when they face Dixie
HoWell's boys New Year Day. Why?
It's all because of message Bob
Addie. c. U. publicity man, sent to
Bergman. Addie went ahead of the
squad to get the headline angles
lined up prior to the game.
Suns Glare Is Big Worry.
Don't worry about the wind or
anything else. If you win the toss,"
wrote Addie, "get the sun at your
back. The wind doesn't count. It's
the sun glare that will be bad. So
get the sun at your back and have
some black paint for the eyelids of
the players. The glare is terrific" :"
Bergman went into conference with
Carter Barron of the Loew theaters,
and Barron, an old Georgia football
star himself, turned out the grease
and paint squad to help c. U. win a
victory. There are all kinds of ways
to win football game. Before you
know it they'll be pulling the old
Jim Thorpe hidden ball trick.
The team was to hold a light
workout at Walsh Stadium, the foot
ball field of the University of st.
Louis. this afternoon, and was
scheduled to leave st. Louis at $50,
heading for Fort Worth, which the
c. U. party will reach tomorrow
morning, to be met by a Knights of
Columbus celebration, filled full of
cakes and sausage, and the team
will set out for another workout.
The newspapermen will take it easy
as usual.
Due in Ell Paso Saturday.
The Cardinals are scheduled to
arrive at Ell Paso Saturday morning
smack in the middle of a big cele-
bration. The football game will be
the high spot of Week-long party
held at the end of every year at
Ell Paso. They call it the Sun Bowl
fiesta, and January ! will be "old
timers day." the climax of the
whole thing. But the C. U. squad
has been warned not to go across
the river into Juarez, Mexico, with
or without chaperon. 1t seems
the boys over there are careless with
their shootin' irons and their toad
stabbers to the tune of one murder
day in Old Juarez. Even a block
ing back with mercury in his heels
can't run faster that As bullet.
III ooO, dSCOI OIAlS W fauOlc, Is
wild about the football game. The
Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the
Orange Bowl and even the fairly
nearby Cotton Bowl at Dallas all
take back seat before the excite
ment centering around the Sun
Bowl brawl. Boston College and
Clemson play at Dallas, and the
robust Texans are not getting
worked up about the visit of two
teams from the outlands. The ad-
vance sale is far below expectation.
But the Sun Bowl was sold out
three weeks ago. Even standing
room is at heavy premium. There
isn't hotel room left in Ell Paso
and hasn't been for weeks.
May Face Handicaps.
So, boss, if you find some funny
phrasing and some queer use of