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Evening star., 1940-12-22
Ready 10 Grab Stars,
Says Stoneham, but
Club Buys None
No Rebuilding Is Done
BY Terry; Dodgers Hit
Polo Grounds Cote
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-The
Giants, one of the most valuable
properties in baseball, are going to
die slowly and horribly this coming
summer unless an energetic effort is
made soon to blow life back into
their limbs and joints.
The club that was winning pen
nants only few years ago and wax
ing fat on capacity crowds at the
Polo Grounds dropped to sixth place
in the National League last season.
Toward the end their attendance was
pitiful.
1t will be that way from the start
next spring unless something is done
toward convincing the fans that the
team has a fighting chance. Local
baseball fllberts are interested only
in winners.
MacPhail Tough Competition.
President Horace Stoneham knows
this all too well, and so does Man.
ager Bill Terry. They know also
that Larry MacPhail over in Brook
lyn has built team that will dis
hearten even dyed wool Giant
fans. Yet their efforts to snare the
sort of help they need so far have
appeared alf-hearted.
To be exact. they have obtained
Joe Orengo, fair intielder, and Bob
Bowman, a losing pitcher in 1910,
both from the St. Louis Cardinals,
and they have signed Gabby Hart
nett, late manager of the Chicago
Cubs, as a coach, Meanwhile. Mac
Phaii was purchasing Kirby Higbie,
the hottest young pitcher in the Ma
tional League, from the Phillies.
That MacPhail is tough compe-
tition," Stoneham sighed
He was asked if the Giants had
the currency necessary to buy a star
or two.
Sure we've got the money" re-
piled the youthful prexy. Maybe
not the kind of dough MacPhail is
tossing around. But show us the
player that will help us and we'll
buy him"
Sure, some of the players we
CUUlU UQy WOulu IluIG Us IllOT6 llldll
they would help" contributed Treas
urer Les Bondy.
Club Has Only One Star.
There is some doubt about that.
The Giants as now constituted have
only one outstanding star, Catcher
Harry Danning. Their pitching staff
is shot since Carl Hubbell finally
succumbed to the years. and Mel
OFT, their once great rightfielder,
has shown signs of going over the
hill at last.
The hard truth is that the Giants
under the Terry regime have not
come up with any new stars. They
have gone back gradually but surely
as the team gathered originally by
the late John McGraw has played
out its string. 90
The Polo Grounders need help,
and if they don't get it by spring the
entire National League will feel it
where it hurts worst-at the box
Office.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
BY MORTIMER KREEGER,


NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2I.-Clark
Shaughnessy, who led Stanford from
footballs scrap heap to the Rose
Bowl this year, got his first major
coaching position when a couple of
other applicants-including Knute
Rockne-couldn't make the train
trip South for an interview at Tu-
lane University.
Dana x. Bible and Uncle Char
ley" Moran wanted the job, too,
and Dan McGugin tried his darned-
est to land it for Ray Morrison.
But Rockne and Morrison couldn't
get to New Orleans, and the Tu-
lane authorities wanted to see the
man they hired. Bible applied too
late. So Shaughnessy took a quick
trip south and got the job.
No, this isn't any nightmare
caused by reading too many stories
about bowls and bowl teams. It's
exactly what happened when Tu-
lane needed a new head coach back
in 1915.
Shaughnessy remained at Tulane
for II years. except for one seasons
absence. His stay was climaxed by
an unbeaten team which declined
a Rose Bowl invitation in 1925.
Top Offer Was $4,000.
Correspondence relating to the
filling of the position was made
public by Sumter D. Marks, jr.,
prominent New Orleans attorney
and former Tulane quarterback,
who. as secretary of the Tulane
Athletic Association, handled the
communications with prospects and
their references.
Tulane had a maximum of ST.
900 a year to spend for q head
coach to handle football, basket
ball and track.
Shaughnessy and Rockne were
recommended by the Specialists
Educational Bureau of st. Louis,
a teachers employment agency
which Tulane asked for sugges-
tions. Both held subordinate coach
ing positions at their respective
alma matters after brilliant playing
careers.
Tulane invited them to apply.
ShaughneSsy, assistant to Doc Will
liams at Minnesota, wrote with his
application:
MY experience as a football
player and coach was acquired at
the University of Minnesota where
I was a member of the second team
in 1910, and of the varsity in 1911,
1912 and 1918, and of the coach
ing staff in 1914. AS q player I
Evening star., 1940-12-22
a, the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-All-
America Tommy Harmon and 81
teammates who comprise the East
ern squad arrived here today to
begin practice for the 18th annual
East-West Shriners' charity football
classic on New Year Day.
The Fasteners, headed by Co.
Coaches Andy Kerr of Colgate and
Bernie Bierman of Minnesota, de-
trained in a steady drizzle of rain.
Players of both the East and West
squads paid visit to the Crippled
Children's Hospital.
Harmon was the big attraction.
The ace halfback was f1anked by
three other players of All-America
status, Francis Reagan of Pennsyl-
vania, a backfield running mate Of
Harmon, and two Western lumi-
naries, Paul Christman, Missouri
pass thrower, and Rudy Mucha,
husky center from Washington.
The Western team, coached by
Matty Bell of Southern Methodist
and Orin Hollingbery of Washington
State, will move to practice head
quarters ut Stanford tomorrow.
Evening star., 1940-12-22

Shaughnessy, asked to come for
an interview, wired back that he
was taking the first available train.
Bible Was Interested.
Bible was coaching at Mississippi
College and on April l wrote Marks
asking him to mail the contract for
the Tulane Mississippi College game
the following fall. After the sigma
ture comes this:
p. s.: Will Tulane University be
in need of a coach and athletic di-
rector for next season? If not, will
they need an assistant?"
He was told that the board had
proceeded so far with examination
of applications on hand that it
could not entertain new ones.
There was much correspondence
with Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt,
who recommended Ray Morrison,
then coaching at Branham and
Hughes School in Spring Hill, Tenn.
He wrote that Morrison had "just
about closed contract" with
Southern Methodist. which I be-
lieve is located at Dallas"
McGugin said Morrison still was
availablee to Tulane, but he was
rejected when he could not leave
his teaching duties for a personal
appearance
McGugin Backed Morrison.
McGugin later wrote that if
Shaugnessy did not prove satisfac-
tory, II suggest that you keep your
eye on Mr.. Morrison, as in my opin-
ion he is a very unusual man."
Moran, who was just leaving the
job of coach at Texas A. and NJ,
applied unsuccessfully. He then went
to Centre College, where he de-
veloped the great Bo McMillin.
A sequel to the story came only
a few days ago when Marks young
daughter, hearing her father had a
part in rejecting Rockne's services,
declared:
Daddy, I bet if you'd seen the
movie you would have hired him."
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Record Field Fights
For Court LaureIs
OF Boys Club
Three Titles at Stake
As "a Teums TussIe
Throughout Week

TWenty-four teams, a record num-
ber, will play in the fourth annual
Boys Club of Washington basket
ball tournament this week, with the
135-pound class, composed of IL
teams, being the largest.
Eight teams will compete in the
105-pound class and six each in
the 80 and 120 pound divisions.
Games will be played at the Central
and Eastern branches every day, ex-
Guiding Christmas, through Satur-
day, with two championships being
decided Saturday might and the
other two a week from tomorrow.
The schedule:
9O-Pound Glass.
Tuesday-E; B. Gnats vs.. Merrick 3: G,
zoo Both sames at e, Eastern err B Branch m
ceIics EST Vs winner sa game
90. Both games at Central Branch.
Saturday-Final game, Eastern Branch
IO5-Pound Glass.
TomorrowgMEastern Eranch Dgx rs: ys:
Crandeu Cubs; zoo. eastern Sranch'
Georsetown eorlSf m Branch vs. Grady BOYS, $50
Last two games at Central BRANCH:
Alexandria B. G.. $3.50, Eastern Branch.
Thursday-Winner. Dux-Crandall Cubs
vs.; winner Merrick-Central Branch 30;
Branch -Grads Boys vs. winner. Eastern
Branch Cards alexandria B. G., 2:30,
saturday~Final game, Eastern Branch.
7:30.
I:O-Pound Glass.
rsEt.rn Branch Rr,nsb VS.
lips VS. Central Branch Americans, ZOO:
Both games at Central Branch. Merrick
B. c. VS., Eastern Branch Crows. 7:3o,
AsSsS4 vs ana: F5aash Essssn
$40 Central Branch.
Monday December 30-Final game,
Central Branch, ZOO.
13J-Pound Glass.
Tomorrow-Bsssin Grill VS.. Bethesda
Chevy Chase; 700; A. and v, Trojans vs.
Pau Rec, B. c., 500. Both games at
FleetWnes 500, Central sranch. Hayes
Y. vs. Eastern Branch celts. Eastern
Eriday% Alexsndria B; A G, co7,. rs, winner ne.
$50, Central Branch b Merrick 3. c. VS..
7:30. Eastern Branch: Eastern Branch
Rens vs.. winner. Fleetwines- Langley B. c.
sage 339 ssntfs Braesh esmes Eastern
Monday December 3o-Final game,
Central Branch, 500.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Woodward Quint Bows
To Charlotte Hall
S-ecial Dispatch to The Star.

CHARLOTTE HALL. Md, Dec. %.
Woodward School of Washington
was routed. 43-18. by the Charlotte
Hail Military Academy five here as
the Cadets rang up their third vic
tory of the season.
Frank Cady, former St. Johns
High star, continued to pace the
academy's attack, tallying l3 points
to take scoring honors for the game
The victors hit the cords for IL
points in the opening stanza be-
fore Woodward could sink a shot
and held a 1876 half time lead.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Ace Renaissance Five
Plays Here Friday

Regarded as the greatest colored
professional basket ball team in
history, the Renaissance Club visits
Washington this week to play the
Recreation Collegians Friday at
$50 at Banneker Junior High.
A preliminary game at 7 o'clock
brings together the Recreation
Juniors and Armstrong High.
Renaissance, organized II years
ago. has compiled 173l victories
against 254 defeats.
Evening star., 1940-12-22

coach at Brookland; Dorsey Grif-
fifth, track coach; Herman Lau-
ritzen, athletic trainer; Boxing
Coach Eddie Lafond and Fresh
man Basket Ball Coach Carmen
Pirro. Plus a couple of colored
janitors who appear in condition.
Stan, apprised of the challenge,
went into a huddle with himself
and came out with this stirring
statement: 1--WE accept. But we
want a lunch, free beer, and we
bar Lafond. Any guy as good
with his fists as Lafond isn't
going to play against me. Fur
thermore, we want a guarantee.
Think of our regulations. A
sports writer who gets licked at
ANYTHING isn't any good any more
III ever"
Evening star., 1940-12-22
6. W. Ring lntromuroIs
No Prelude to Varsity

Although George Washington
University will stage an intramural
boxing tournament after the hol-
days, it will not lead to adoption of
boxing as a varsity sport by the
Colonials, it was stated by officials
yesterday.
Many felt G. w. U. would add
boxing to its sports curricula with
its admittance to the Southern
Conference, but school officials deny
such a move has been considered.
Evening star., 1940-12-22

That league, around this time of
year, is our toughest hurdle"
Dutch Bergman, athletic di-
rector at Catholic University,
coach and star of Bergman's
Brookland Bearcats, grinned and,
with a sweeping gesture charac-
teristic of a well-known football
promoter, said: Bring 'em all on.
Particularly bring on those news
paper teams. Can't you fellows
on The Star get together a bas-
ket ball outfit? And if you do
and come to play us I want
STAN"
Bergman's Bearcats have on
their roster such distinguished
servants Of Catholic University
as Bergman. the Notre Dame
dash: ''Fod" Cotton. basket bali
Evening star., 1940-12-22

George Washington, George
town, Maryland, American Uni
versity and all the other basket
ball teams around town, draw
only a quizzical grin from the
coach and outstanding star Of
Bergman's Brookland Bearcats.
Consider our record" says the
gray-headed, chunky man who
directs the destinies of the hot
test court team in the National
Capital. We've played Is games
and won them all. Undefeated
and united. That's us. We bar
no team in creation, and we'll
take 'em on for anything from
doughnuts to ice cream. No holds
barred.
"Of course, 20 far the opposi-
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Navy Teams to Select
New Set of Leaders
By the Associated Press,


ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 21.-A
new set of captains for Navy's mid
winter sports will be selected after
graduation February 7.
The early graduation, being held
so that more officers will be avail
able for the Navy under the national
defense program, will rob the teams
OF the majority of their captains.
Seniors who are captains of mid
winter sports include Norman w.
Ackley, basket ball; James p.
Marion, jr., boxing; James H. Nc
Pherson, fencing; Bruce T. Sim
monds, gymnasium; Wayne M.
Newport, rifle; Hubert H. Wager,
swimming, and John L. Landreth,
wrestling.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Bergmons BrookIond Beorcots Hungry for More Victims
Cord Coach and His cones Would Ioke On Npn Basket Boil

ton hasn't been topnotch. But
those IS straight wins are not
altogether phony. We won IL by
forfeit and three by beating a
newspaper team, made up of
men who, judged by their basket
ball skill, are as athletes better
scissors wielders than foul-line
hounds
"But that isn't the point. Any
team, in any sport, that wins IS
straight games has something.
We hereby challenge any news
paper team or any other outfit
around town. The only line we
draw Is that they have to be
slightly out of condition. Just
how far depends on the schedule
In the cocktail party league.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
EIks List Skeet Shoot

Elks' Skeet Club is holding a tur-
key shoot today at O'Donnells
Griffith Farms on the Marlboro
road. Shooting begins at 10 am.
and lasts until dark.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Harmon Magnet as East Grid
Souud Arrives at Frisco

The Fasteners will shift over to
Berkeley and begin training on the
California field Monday.
Evening star., 1940-12-22
Col. Hall Traps VICTOR;
Scores Excellent
Despite Breeze

Good scores in spite of the wind
were made yesterday by a small
group of gunners at the weekly
shoot of the Washington Gun Club
with Col. j. r. Hall winning the
50-target event. He broke II clays.
The 25-target handicap firing was
taken by G. Oliver with %. joseph
Green, 81, was second while three
others tied with II.
Summaries:
Evening star., 1940-08-04

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Evening star., 1940-08-04

Book to the coctus. Vice
President Corner hos q little
chin-up gesture for a misty
eyed Mrs. Corner as they
toke q foreweII Of Woshinq-
ton thot moy be finoI. They
ore shown at Union Stotion,
where Mr.. Corner told news
popermen he didn't know
whether they'd return from
their UvoIde. Tex, home.
A. P. and Wide World Photos.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25

corps of correspondents in the key
points of Europe and a staff of ex-
pert news analysts and reporters In
this country to cut through the fog
of censorship, CHS was ready on all
fronts.
Paul w. White, Columbia's director
OF public affairs, rushed by airplane
mand of CHS news facilities within a
few hours of the German invasion Of
Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium,
which had been reported on a round
the-clock basis.
White and his staff had long waited
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25
Block Signals Found
Not Yet Ready for
Montana HiQhLU0uS

A highway block signal invention
experimental with by the Montana
highway department has been discard
ed as not being sufficiently developed,
D.. A. McKinnon, state highway en-
gineer, said.
McKinnon, who directed experiments
with the signal, said mechanical i'm
provements would be necessary before
the plan was feasible.
Last summer the block Signal-an-
vented by a MiSsoula man-was in
stalled on Macdonald pass for prac-
teal experimenting and was later
studied In shops here.
It worked on an air-trip basis, a red
signal being flashed through impetus
received from car wheels passing over
rubber air-hose. fundamentally the
block signal, designed for blind curves
and hills, is sound, the engineer said,
but was still too close to the formative
state TO be Of practical value.
Instead, the department plans to IN
stall for try-outs one-inch reflector
buttons mounted on posts 10 warn
drivers of road margins and danger
areas. The new ref1ectors, McKinnon
said, have the double advantage Of
being self locking into posts so that re-
moval is impossible.
These reflector buttons viii be IN
stalled on a section Of Macdonald pass,
the highway departments experiment.
al strip"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25
Population Gains
ShOICn by Six TOIOns
In Southern Montana

At least six cities IN southern Mon
tana have made population gains IN
the. last decade, according to a pre-
census released by Earle G. Morse. dis
trtct supervisor.
Hardin, with a gain of 7l2 persons
IN decade, headed the list Of six
with q population count Of 1881, as
compared with 1859 In 1880. Big Tim
Der, with a gain Of 240 persons came
second, showing 1,464, as compared
with 1924 in 1880.
Bridger had a gain Of 212 persons
and showed ITO persons, as compared
with SGT decade ago. Livingston had
gain of 1874 to raise its population
from 6,391, the 1880 figure, to 6,585.
Columbus gained 124 persons to IN
crease its count from 834 to s58 In
the last decade, and Laurel added "a
persons to give it 1852, as compared
with 2,55S in 1890
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25

for this moment-the outbreak Of war
on the western front and, possibly
total war for all Europe. At the micro
phones In CHS New York studios
throughout the day and night were
the veterans of many news crises.
Abroad, meanwhile, Obs coverage
was directed by Edward r. MurroW,
chief of Columbia'S European staff,
with headquarters In London, and VIII
liam l. Shirer, chief of Columbia's
central European staff, with headquar-
tiers in Berlin
Also on CHS staff are: Erland Ech-
lin, London; Thomas Grandin and
Marvin Breckenridge, Paris; Russell
Hill, Berlin; Cecil Brown, Rome, Betty
WaSon, Stockholm; Eric Sevareid, cor
respondent-at-large; Larry lie Seuer,
at large, and Edmund Hartrich, at
large.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25

application and use of thiamin is even
more desirable This substance is. IN
fact, one of the most important Of the
essential food factors known as vita
minis, and was formerly called vita
min 81.
Why do you need it? Because thia-
min promotes a healthy condition Of
the body cells. 1t aids growth, stimu-
lateS the appetite, prevents certain
types of nervous disorders, assists In
the proper use Of carbohydrate foods
helps to control constipation, plays q
part in the avoidance of anemia, and
prevents the deficiency disease known
as beriberi.
Where do you get itP The best food
sources of thiamin are whole wheat
breads and grains, lean pork, Yeast.
properly cooked vegetables, nuts and
quickly cooked lean meats. Since this
vltamin dtsSolveS readily In water and
IS reduced by. heat, vegetables should
OF water IN covered receptacles.
Although whole wheat bread is an
excellent source OF thiamfn. q pork ar
peanut sandwich on white bread would
give the consumer much more Of this
vitatmin than lettuce, cheese or lam
sandwich on whole wheat or rye bread
Ordinary white bread made with the
usual yeast and milk contains. about
as much thiamin as whole
wheat bread, but has about the same
OF the vitamin as Is found
in most vegetables. Many bakers are
now making their breads with added
thiamin.
The best way to get your vitamins.
however, Is not from any one food. h1Tf
from wholesome mixed diet contain-
ing q variety Of protective and energy
building foods. Such a daily fare. IN
GLIDING plenty of dairy products, bread.
fruits, eggs and meat, pro-
VideS minerals and proteinS as well as
All necessary vitarnf7S
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-25

Business and employment In
Montana withstOod the usual win
ter seasonal slump better I'm 1889
1910 than In 1938-I939, Barclay
Craighead, chairman of the COM
mission, reports. January, February
and March I940 payrOlIs Of indus
tries subject TO the law tOtaIed
about 21,1O0, 900 and approximate
" $4,000 workers were employed
in such industries.
Craighead said this was a payroll
Increase of about 50 ,334 900 over the
corresponding period of 1889 and that
about 1000 more workers were en-
ployed during the winter months Of
1910 in employment protected by the
unemployment law than were employed
in the same period Of 1899.
Railroad workers are not included
in the above estimate. approximately
$500 such workers we're employed In
the winter months. These are pro-
tected by the railroad unemployment
insurance act.
Business men and workers may
view the coming months with some
optimism" Craighead said.
Jobs Are Lasting Longer
The employment division of the
commission placed about 5000 persons
In employment since the first Of the
year. Indications are that the Jobs are
lasting longer and that workers are
being paid on a slightly higher scale
than was paid In either 1888 or 1889.
THE continued operation Of the
Butte mines, which has given employ
ment to $500 persons In Butte and
about 1000 more in Anaconda, Bonner,
Great Falls, East Helena and Missoula,
has been beneficial to the state.
1.-THE bureau Of census reports that,
retail sales by independent stores In
Montana increased lit percent in the
first three months of 1870
Without question the 81 100000 paid
by the commission to unemployed
workers during the first three months
of 1910 did much to Increase retail
trade sales In Montana. Over n 400
unemployed workers have drawn bene-
fits from the unemployment fund and
the money has meant cash business
for merchants"
Farm Work Picks Up
The cold, wet spring delayed farm
erS in spring blowing and seeding and
caused farmers to postpone hiring
workers. During the last month farm !
ers have been employing help in great
or numbers. The weather also caused |
delays in highway construction, but |
this work now is under way in many |
sections of the state.
Those who are disturbed over diff
,ulties farmers may have in getting
heir crops in due to the late wet spring /
should recall 1927" Craighead said.
April, 1927 spring planting was de-
aged by SHOWS and rains and the
spring was similar to the one we are
experiencing now. In some areas In
1927 farmers used high-wheeled wagons
md broadcast wheat, by scattering 1t
rom the wagons In that year Montana
produced its record crop"
While the weather bureau has not
completed final compilations It is be-
ieved that April, 1910 viii be the
vettest April ever recorded IN this
ange in Montana is making its great
st comeback"