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Evening star., 1940-12-26
Pelkington Must Sign
Today # He Wants
Brewer Berth

John Pelkington, a towering per-
former, who requires considerable
time to make up his mind, was
granted another few hours today to
determine if he would relish being
af11liated with the Washington
Brewers of the American Profess
sional Basket Ball League.
Sponsor Chris Heurich has in
formed the 6-foot-7-inch. 240-pound
center he must sign with the Brew
ers today or Heurich will withdraw
his offer. They have been dicker-
ing for days and Heurich has wearied
of it.
If Pelkington is signed, he will be
started at center against the Sphas
in Philadelphia Saturday night and
against the New York Jewels at New
York on Sunday. He would make
his local debut against the Jewels
at Riverside Stadium on Wednesday
night.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Terps Short on Ring
Talent for Season
Start January
Heovy'Is Main Problem;
South Caroline Teum
Offers First Test

Marylands varsity boxing squad
is short" two ways for a testing
schedule that opens with South
Carolina at College Park on jan
uary II. This will be the first
twin bill attraction of the season,
as Duke also will be met in basket
ball
The Terps lack quantity and
height. only one man on the ring
squad being as tall as six feet, and
also are short on experience. Izzy
Alperstein. 145. and George Pyles
165. are the only letter men avail
able, unless Izzy Leites decides to
resume the heavyweight job. He's
not on hand at present, leaving
this berth without a contender,
although Harold Berry, soph grid
fullback, may take a shot at it.
Leaders in other classes are:
l2O-Judson Lincoln, a 5-foot AZ
inch soph.
127-Charley Door, a 5-foot g.
inch senior.
135-Hank Gaylord, a soph, and
Rowan Scarborough, senior. who
Is bothered with a bad hand
155-Fred Bach, soph, who was
a football back.
175-Herb Gunther. a soph, who
probably is tops on the squad
Vincen Hughes, letter man in this
class last year, hasn't reported.
Pat Quinn, a las pound Soph,
also is making a good impression
on Mike Lombardo, former Terp
ring ace, who is in charge of the
squad.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
NeoIe Recalled as Member
OF Champion Boil Club

What many people forget. though.
Is that Mr.. Neale once played on a
championship big league ball club,
the Cincinnati Reds of 1919. He
played the outfield, along with Larry
Duncan and the great Eddie Roush,
and was a long hitter, though not,
some of the pitchers OF that time
tell me, impossible to fool, Still. he
hit for .357 to lead his team in the
1919 World Series.
When the series was over, Mr.
Neale heard a call Like Billy Sun
day, also a ball player he took to
the platform and addressed many a
church supper on the subject of the
power Of prayer
The power of prayer said Mr..
Neale. in part. was the thing that
won the World Series for Cincinnati
when all the world thought Chicago
would win"
The following year it came to
light that the power of PRAYER. in
this case had received material as
sistance from the Chicago White Sox
themselves, and from Mr.. Abe Attell
and others.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Committee Selected
To Name Winner Of
Star's Award

Three outstanding Washington
basket ball authorities will select
the best team on the basis of
sportsmanship and ability in the
current Boys Club of Washington
tournament to receive The Star
Trophy. At the conclusion of the
tourney the award will be made by
Albert F. E. Horn of the Boys Club
Board of Trustees.
Members of the committee max
ing the selection are Fod Cotton,
coach at Catholic University; Orrel
Mitchell, former Gonzaga cage
coach and an outstanding court
referee, and Jan Japkowski, former
director of the Central Branch
Boys Club and now "a member of
the physical education department
of Central High School.
Eight games were on tap today
in the tournament.
The schedule:
Central Branch.
.9O-pound clas%Central Celtics VS..
hIsxaadTs hlsnsh 1s. nerrisk Il S E. m pm
1O6-pound class-Crandall Cubs vs. Cen
Branch VS.. Alexandria B. c.. pm
12O-pound class-Georgetown Branch
VS. Alexandria B. C.: 8 pm; Central
Branch Americans VS.. Eastern Branch lips
Z pm: Central Branch Fleetwings VS.
Langley B. c.. pm.
Eastern Branch.
12o-pound class-Merrick b. C. vs.. East.
ern Branch Crows, S:30.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
MANY Apply for Tulsa Grid Job;
.Dodger Coach Touts Redskin
Defense to Cornhuskers

they used against the offense dished
out by the Chicago Bears.
Robert Caddock, who won fresh
man football numeral at Iowa State
this fall. is a son of Earl Caddock,
heavyweight wrestling champion
when matmen were athletes and not
actors.
Robert, an end, transferred to
Iowa State after year at the Uni
versity of Iowa. His brother, 200
pound Richard, also was a member
of the Cyclone frosh squad, but
dropped out to boost his grades.
Both the Caddocks are chemical
engineering students. The family
home is at Walnut, Iowa, but the
former champion conducts an
Omaha oil business.
Gerald Tucker. the wandering
minstrel of the Big Six, has crooned
himself into job with the Okla
homa Quartet. In recent fracas
with the Sooner basket ball team
Tucker, the ex-Kansas State fresh
man, tucked in Is points for the
Oklahoma yearlings.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
From the
Press Box
Pious NeuIe Answers
His Own Prayers
By JOHN LARDNER.
spec,si CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

special correspondent OF Inc otdi'
NEW YORK, Dec 26 N.ANA0.
I'm the chophouse of Joe Madden,
retired lightweight fighter who now
is trying to break the late Zane
Grey's record for literary mass pro-
duction, you will find characters of
every description, from Bruce Bar
ton, recent unsuccessful candidate
for United States Senator and Will
kie strategist. to Greasy Neale, the
newest coach in the National Pro-
fesSional Football League.
Since Mr.. Barton is unknown in
athletics, outside of his brilliant
catch-as- s-catch- wrestling per-
formances against the prime beef
and shoestring potatoes in Mr. Mad
den's shop, we will give our attention
undoubtedly to Mr. Neale. This
Neale is one of the most versatile
operatives in sport.
Next fall he will be coaching the
Pittsburgh pro football club, the
Steelers, which recently underwent
a change in ownership. 1t is now
the property of Alexis Thompson, a
wealthy young sporting life who
spent enough time at Yale to form
an admiration for the strategy and
tactics of Greasy Neale. Mr.. Neale
did much of the thinking for the
Yale coaching staff, At times you
could hear his brain. humming like
some vast dynamo, as far away as
Bridgeport, if you happened to be in
Bridgeport and had nothing better
to do than listen.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Heurich Semi-Crown
Virtually CIinched
By Adam Hats
Holdings Tops Unbeoten
Five os ReeoIs Suffer
First Loop Defeat

First-half honors in the Heurich
Amateur Basket Ball League virtu-
ally were clinched yesterday by
Adam Hats when they got 47-45
overtime decision over Regal Cloth
iers at the Heurich gym.
Boosting some of the city's finest
college and high school stars of past
years. each team had completed
seven games in league play without
defeat. Lanky Merrill Holdings
former Tech High ace and leading
scorer in the loop, however, was at
his best and tailed % points to
lead the Hatters to their eighth
loop win.
With his team trailing 43-45, and
with but 10 seconds of play remain
ing, Holdings sank a difficult over
head shot to knot the count, and
after four minutes of play in the
extra session he tailed on layup
shot for the winning score,
In another league tilt. "Knocky"
Thomas, former University of Mary
land star. scored II markers to pace
Delaware and Hudson to a 1888
win over United Typewriters.
Future games:
Friday. December 81 30 United Clay
VS. Jacobsen Florist: S:30. D. g. H. VS.. Hot
Shoppe: $50 Regal Clothiers VS.. Bellman
Fuel
Sunday. December % . pm, Adam
Hats VS. Alexandra Police: 3 pm. Regal
Clothiers VS.. United Typewriters; pm.
D. & n. VS.. J. C c.
Monday, December 80. 30 Jacobsen
Florist VS. Alexandria Police: $50. j. c. c.
VS.. Arlington Maccabees: $50. Adam Hats
VS.. United Clay.
Wednesday January l New Year Day
afternoon). . pm. Adam Hats VS.. Pet
J. c. G.: 4 pm. Del. & Hudson VS.. Arlins-
ton Maccabees.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Big Year in Golf Produces Bevy of Oddities
Woods World Record Of 1884, divers disqualification Among Them

with three brides. but lost when
SaraZen sank a 15-foot putt for
a half.
Lowest 18-hole score-Ed Dud-
ley's eight-under- 81 in Phil
adelphia sectional qualifying for
the p. G. A. championship.
Best match-Byron Nelson's
1-up victory over Sam Snead in
the P. G. A. finals.
Greatest finish-Lawson Little's
final IS to win the Los Angeles
Open after trailing by five strokes
entering the last round.
Toughest-luck player-Clayton
Heafner, who just missed winning
three tournaments, losing by
stroke each time.
Most forgotten man-Horton
Smith, who tied for National
Open lead at 36 holes, shot him
self out of running with IS, then
finished with SO to miss first.
place tieXby one stroke.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Kehoe, Running in Sugar Bowl
800 Meters Rated 9TH Best
In America at Distance

Jimmy Kehoe, Bel Air (Md) prod
uct and doubtless the finest all
around runner ever to wear the
Black and Gold of the University
of Maryland, will run for the WASH
ington Athletic Association in the
300 meters in the special invitation
track meet of the Sugar Bowl pro-
gram in New Orleans next Sunday.
He left yesterday.
Kehoe, who got his degree last
June from Maryland hasn't strayed
far from College Park. as he is
teaching and coaching at Mount
Rainier High School, about miles
from his alma mater and still does
his training on familiar cinders in
Byrd Stadium. He also handled
Maryland's winning cross-country
team this fall.
Sets Record Gaining Title.
Although he will meet some of the
Nations best middle distance run
ners at New Orleans, Kehoe rates
fine chance to carry off the laurels.
In fact, figures just released by the
National A. A. U. show that Jim ran
the fourth fastest 800 meters in the
United States during the 1910 season,
when he won the junior champion
ships in the meet on the Pacific
Coast in the record time of 1:512.
John Woodruff, former Pitt ace
Ed Burrowes. Princeton star, and
Charlie Beetham, Ohio State prod
uct, all OF whom run for club teams,
and whom Kehoe at one time or
another has outrun, precede him on
the time sheet. Woodruff has done
1:48.6, Burrowes 1:498 and Beetham
1:51,2. Beetham, incidentally, still
holds the record of 1:227 for the
Oriole $50 in the Maryland-Fifth
Regiment games, which he set in
1898.
Kehoe is sixth in the world for the
800 meters, as Harbig of Germany
tops with 1:47.8 and Lanzi of Italy
is fourth with 1899, coming on be-
tween Burrowes and Beetham.
Great things are expected of Ke-
hoe during the winter campaign, as
he appears to be running better
than ever and is flooded with in
vitations to compete in the ace in
door affairs. Kehoe. of course, will
be one of the big attractions in the
1941 Maryland-Fifth Regiment
nn ~ 70 IN niN
Baltimore Armory on Friday night,
March 7. He also will serve to at
tract other big time runners.
Kehoe's coast victory. which placed
him on the select list. topped off
one of the greatest years for any
athlete anywhere.
Has Compiled Great Record.
Along the 193e-1940 trail Kehoe
won both the Southern Conference
indoor and outdoor 880-yard cham
pionships. ran on the winning dis
tance medley, 4-mile and 2-mile re-
lay teams at the Penn Carnival last
April, was undefeated in any dual
meet at the half mile and scored
heavily at various big affairs both
on the boards and cinders.
Every time Coach Geary Eppley
of the Maryland trackmen watches
Kehoe as he burns around the Col
lege Park track to prime as a club
runner. his face saddens. He knows
full well there are few Kehoes, al
though he has high hopes for Stir
ling Kehoe, Jim's brother. who shone
as a member of the Terp yearling
croSs-country team.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Sachon Of Cardinals,
Babich Of 6. W. in
Smoke Bowl
Some Of Grid's Biggest
Names in Line-ups for
Clash at Richmond
2, the Associated Press.

2, the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. 26.-Rich-
mond firemen are counting ON some
of footballs biggest names to put
over their annual Smoke Bowl
benefit game before an expected
crowd of $4,000 here New Year Day
Two all-star teams of pros and
collegians will clash. one to oe
coached by Riley Smith, Alabama
Rose Bowler and now a Washington
and Lee mentor. and the other bv
George Stirnweiss of North Carolina
One squad began assembling in Nor
folk for practice today and the
other is working out here.
The backfield of the Norfolk group
will be headed by All-America Banks
McFadden of Clemson and the
Brooklyn Dodgers, while the offense
on the opposing squad will be built
around such gridders as Marshall
Goldberg of Pittsburgh and the
Chicago Cardinals; George Bad
News Cafego of Tennessee and the
Brooklyn Dodgers: Rotten Shelley of
Furman and the Dodgers. and Coach
Smith as blocking back.
McFadden's running mates will
include Pistol Pete" Sachon. Cath
olic US Sun Bowl luminary: Yves
McAfee of Duke. and Sam Babish
OF George Washington.
Chairman Emmett Cotrell listed
among the other players signed for
the Smoke Bowl" such standouts as
Bolo Perdue, Herb Hudgings and
Frank Ribar of Duke: Frank Albert
of Notre Dame; Jimmy Ringgold.
John Jett and Louis Trunzo of Wake
Forest: Ted Konetsky, Pittsburgh
captain: Jim Gillette and A. B.
Connor of Virginia: Woody Gray of
V. M. l. and Ed Merrick of the
University of Richmond.
Cotrells list showed altogether
nine players who have participated
in various collegiate bowls and seven
All-Southern Conference stars as
the nucleus for two potent squads.
Evening star., 1940-12-26

a world record over a champion
ship course to win the Metro
politan Open by II strokes.
Greatest comeback-Gene Sara
zen, after all these years, by
tieing in the National Open.
dawson Little won the playoh
with 10 to Sarazen's 49,
Outstanding performer - Ben
Hogan, who won the most money,
$10,655, and captured the Vardon
trophy with an 18-hole average
of 1888 for rs rounds.
Funniest incident - Clayton
Heafner climbing a tree to find
his ball after hitting wild shot
in the Oakland Open.
Greatest shot-Henry Picard's
195-yard tee shot within 10 inches
of the cup under tremendous
pressure as defending champion
in the P. G. A. tournament.
Three down to Sarazen with
three holes to go, Picard finished
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Today a wear ago-Brooklyn
Dodgers purchased Louis "Boze"
Berger from Boston Red Sox.
First Baseman Frank Mccormick
signed two-year contract with
Cincinnati at reported $4,000 a
year.
Three years ago-Ring Maya
zines annual poll names Feather
weight Champion Henry Arm
strong as boxer of year"
Five years ago-Eastern ASso-
citation of football officials asked
more recognition and pay, better
working conditions and control of
assignments, but E. I. A. opposed
all requests, retaining 1885 pay
scale, and voted to drop 10 per
cent of officials each year to make
room for new talent.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Bruins, Co|ored Pro
Five, Makes Debut
In Sunday Game

The Washington Bruins. newly
organized colored professional basket
ball team, will launch their season
Sunday facing the Philadelphia
Crescents in Turner's Arena.
With their roster completed by the
signing of Tarzan Cooper, former
Renaissance star. and Red" Briscoe,
eX-Virginia State College captain,
the Bruins will be at full strength
for their debut. Fat Jenkins, an
other former Renaissance player, and
Cooper provide the nucleus of the
local club.
Sundays game starts at 3 pm
The Renaissance, Harlem Globe
Trotters and Pittsburgh Beacons are
on the Bruins schedule.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, Dec. 26.-It was
corking year in big time golf
with the professional experts
shooting at S162,000 in prize.
money-but the 1910 campaign
was not without it's oddities and
disappointments.
Fred j. Corcoran, tournament
bureau manager for the Profess
sional Golfers Association, delved
into his memories of the dizzy
business for a flock of superla-
tives:
Most controversial Incident
Ed divers disqualification after
coming early to tee in the Ma
tional Open. Remember how
Oliver teed off before his desig-
mated time, then played out his
disallowed final round for a 287
that would have tied for the title?
Lowest 72-hole score-Craig
Woods 64-66-768-66-26+for
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Women Three Games),

Maximum
Alley schedules for today and to-
night follow:
Arcadia-Women 730 pm.
Arlington-Men, 7:30 pm.
Brookland-Women. and 7.30
pm: men, $50, 7:30 and 9 pm.
Bethesda-Men. 7:30 and $50
pm.
Clarendon-Women 7.30 pm
Convention Women, T::3o
pm.
King Pin-Men. 7.30 pm.
Lucky Strike-Women, 7:l5
pm; men, 9:15 pm.
Women, 7::30 pm;
men. 7:3O pm.
Mount Rainler-men. 7.30 pm.
Queen Pin-men. 7:30 pm.
Chevy. Chase-Men, 7:3O pm.
Recreation-Men, 7::3O pm.
Rosslyn-Men. 7 and 9 pm.
Takoma-Men. 7;30 pm.
Chance for Everybody.
A total of 127 prizes will be
awarded in the tournament. some
already having been accounted for
in the qualification test. To the
high gross scorer of each sex in the
rolloff will be presented s100 in
cash and gold medal The high
man and high woman, including
handicap, at each plant will re-
ceive a trophy this being a Star
tOI1rr anoent ipnoyotion
Second place in the final will be
worth $50, third, $50; fourth, $40
and fifth, SIS. The lists of cash
prizes for both sexes are so long
that no qualifier can afford to pass
up the privilege of competing,
particularly those with large hand
leaps Many of the citys best
bowlers were eliminated in the
prelim.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Football Abe May Be Called On Choose Between Coegans and Pros
20 Years Ago
In The Star

Outstanding feats in the sports
world that made the year 1920
one of the most memorable have
been indelibly marked on the
sports record by: Man O. War, on
the turf; Babe Ruth, in base
ball: William T. Tilden. I'd, in
tennis; Jack Dempsey, in boxing:
Chick Evans, in golf; Stranger"
Lewis. in wrestling, and Willie
Hoppe, at billiards.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Shouehnessy Has More
Time After Award
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PALO ALTO, Calf. Dec. 26.-
Clark Shaughnessy, Stanford foot
ball coach who is being pretty much
talked of, has more time in his
pockets than on his hands.
For putting Stanford into the Rose
Bowl in his first season as coach
Shaughnessy was presented with the
Spokane (Wash) round table award
for contributing the years outstand-
ing national athletic endeavor. 1t
was swell watch.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Schwartz, Pro AII-Stors'
Winqmun, Is Stricken
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BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. ga severe
throat ailment confined Perry
Schwartz, former California wing
man, to a hospital today and Ray
Flaherty of the Professional League
All-Stars team feared he might not
play against the Chicago Bears
Sunday
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Greosy's Team PIoyed Bowl
Foyorite to ScoreIess Tie

The year before that, Mr.. Neale's
w. and j. team was unbeaten and
united in 10 games and went to the
Rose Bowl, where it held the strong
ly favored California team, with
Brick Muller, to a 0-to-O tie, using
only II men.
Greasys term as backfield coach
at Yale was successful in some de-
gree. He produced the great Clint
Frank and other good ones like
Hessberg and Colwell, and Yale
seldom was outsmarted. But when
Yale made declaration of purity
this fall, Mr.. Neales position was
somewhat the same as Clark
Shaughnessys at Chicago the year
before. Greasy is football coach.
an artist in his field, and he needs
material for his ideas. Pittsburgh
will give him good pro material. if
not the best
Mr. Joe Madden, the publican
novelist, tells me that Mr.. Neale will
have his full moral support at
Pittsburgh, and all the steaks he can
eat meanwhile, at 81 a copy.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Grid Gume Dropped

The idea of a Kansas-Iowa foot
ball game, which didn't arouse much
interest in Lawrence. has been
dropped. 1t is likely that Washing
ton University of st. Louis will open
the Jayhawks' l94l campaign.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Coast AII-Sturs Aheud

SEATTLE, Dec. Is tP.-Pacific
Coast All-Stars defeated Columbus
fOhio) Bulls. American League pro-
fessional football champions, 6 to 3,
yesterday in a charity game. Both
teams scored in the first quarter.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Toss in q Little Stroteey
With Power of Proyer

This may be one of the reasons
why Mr.. Neale hit Cicotte and Lefty
Williams, the Chicago pitchers, with
so much success in compiling his
average of .357 On at least one
occasion, with Cicotte pitching, Joe
Jackson. the SoX left fielder. played
his position so close that he prac-
tically was breathing down the
shortstop's neck-this in spite of
the fact that Greasy was known as
a long hitter. Mr. Neale whacked
the ball over Jacksons head for
extra bases.
However, Mr. Neale got outstand-
ing results with the power of prayer
in other fields, so the chances are
he knew what he was talking about.
Both he and Uncle Charley Moran,
of Horse Cave, KY coach of the
Praying Colonels of Centre College,
employed the power of prayer
successfully in football, mixed with
little high-class strategy
Greasy was one of the first, if
not the very first, to use a play I
saw his Washington and jefferson
team make against Lafayette in
1922. 1t was terrible day, with
the air full of rain and sleet. In
the closing stages, Neale's boys tied
the score at 13 to 13, and had try
for the point to win Kicking con-
ditions were getting worse by the
minute. but the kick was so strict a
tradition that Lafayette was fiat
footed and dumbfounded when
Washington and jefferson forward
passed for the extra point, winning
the game by Il to 13.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
Varied Sports
Basket Ball.

Basket Ball.
Bradley Tech. 33: Yale. %
Chicago Bruins. so; Hammond Ind.),
46.
Football.
Fresno State. 20: Healani (Honolulu), o.
Evening star., 1940-12-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 26.-Every
one but Santa Claus is being men,
toned for the vacant football coach
ing job at Tulsa University, where
Chet Benefited resigned because of
criticism" after winning the Mis-
souri, Valley Conference title.
Fred Thomson, tutor of the Ar
kansas Porkers, is very much in the
running. although Francis Schmidt,
lately of Ohio State, is getting con-
siderable attention from barber shop
quarterbacks.
Mike Getto Busy Strategist.
Almost every afternoon you can
find Mike Getto. line coach for
Brooklyn's football Dodgers, draw
ing defense diagram on the napery
of a Lawrence, Kans.. hotel.
Getto, former line coach at Kan
sas, agrees with Pop Warner that
a flve-man line is Nebraska's best
bet to halt Stanford's version of
that attack. It is the same defense
the Washington Redskins thought