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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
HUSKERS ARRIVE
in CALIFORNIA
Team Given Great Ovation On
Arrival For Rose Bowl
Game With Stanford
BY ROBERT Y E

PASADENA, CALF, Dec. %
-R-Approximately fifty years of
football for the University of Ne
braska reached a high peak today.
The Cornhusker grid team arrived
N Pasadena for its first game on
California soil and-more impor-
tant-its inaugural appearance in
the traditional Rose Bowl battle.
Hundreds of Nebraska supper
tiers. many of whom had travelled
b. train, plane and thumb from
the rolling prairies of the midwest
: to get here head of their idols,
braved a drilling rain to greet
the Husker party. Music from the
Tournament of Roses band evoked
"a festive air as Major Lawrence
" M. Biff) Jones, coach of the
rugged invaders. led his champions
of the Big Six conference off the
train.
- The hefty Jones said there were
three things he wanted his charges
to see on their first day here. One
was the famous Rose Bowl itself
The third was the professions
Chicago bear team in it's pro-bow
game this afternoon against the
= National League all-stars, because
the bears use the same intricatf
+T'' formation style of play tina.
Stanford uses.
s1-= The Huskers lost no time seems
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Grid Rules Body Recommends
Nine Changes To Aid Offfenso

kickoff should be put in nI,,.
the 40-yard line of the recoi,al VI
team, instead of the 35-yard II.
at present. 1t also was roo. ,,-'
mended to bring back the kic.
from a tee. "W~
6-Placing an extra line ot j..
ferent color three yards outsi5o VIZ
the side lines and the end Iinos VI
keep the boundaries clear Of s,s
stitutes and coaches.
IA uniform system of mink.
ing all players and positions in W.
der to aid spectators, newsnsro,
men and officials, and Soma S ~,
tenn of Identifying various offio,oIs
One suggestion was to have ~
ends numbered ~, all gI.ra W.
90, all tackles 49,, etc, N'H
% strlcter Interpretation Of
rue passed last year regarding in,
eligible men going down tbo 5I a.,
on forward passes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Bowling Loops Resume
Play Here This WeeI

Six bowling leagues in the city
will start play in the second half of
the seasons schedule this week at
the Recreation Bowling alleys, with
the Ladies Major Duck Pin league
and the Independent duck pin loop
starting tonight.
Tuesday night the City Ten Pin
league will start rolling. Wednesday
night the Ethyl-Dow Ten Pin league
will commence it's second half,
Thursday night the City Duck Pin
loop and Friday night the Indepen-
dent Ten Pin league will play.
Winners in the different leagues
in the first half were: Independent
Duck Pin, Railway Express; City
Ten Pin, American Legion; City
Duck Pin, Cinderella Booterie; In
dependent Ten Pin, JEWELS Service
station; Ladies league, the Recrea-
ton girls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Michigan Summers Lead
In East-We est Relays

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Dec.
29.-R-FolloWing are the sum
maries of events in the East-Wes1
relays at the annual international,
aquatic forum here today:
50-yard free style: D. Burton.
Michigan, first, Fred Herr, Mich.
igan, second; Geiger, Rutgers,
third; T. Monaghan, Kenyon,
fourth. Time 1858.
400-yard breast stroke relay:
East (Gantner, Rutgers; Pin.
combe, Springfield; Stebbins, Am.
herst; Gibson, S%pringfield), first:
West (Shremet, Michigan; Pou
lous, Iowa; Williamson, Purdue:
Tanner, Kenyon second. Time
5:O5.4.
50-yard backstroke: Horlenko
Michigan, first; Gibson, Rutgers,
second; Blacka, Kenyon. third; j,
Shaw, Purdue, fourth. Time 1888
200-yard free style relay: Wes1
(B. Allen, Michigan; Branner,
Purdue; Smeeth, Kenyon; Holmes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
UPSETS MAR PATH
OF TOP QUINTETS
Holiday Tits Find Several
Teams Falling In Trap;
Southern Cagers Idle

NEW YORK, Dec. % GP It's
a tedious trail that leads to national
honors in basketball and some of the
country's outstanding collegiate con
tenders already have fallen into
traps.
Several notable upsets in the big
holiday intersection jostling oc-
Cured over Saturday night.
Indiana's travelling Hoosiers were
bounced out of the undefeated ranks
by the unpredictable Southern Cali
fornia Trojans in a 41-39 thriller
after beating California and U. C. L.
A. earlier in the week. Right after
their defeat the Hoosiers set sail for
New orleans to play Kentucky in
the Sugar Bowl spectacle tomorrow
night.
Phog Aliens Kansas Jayhawkers
were handed their first setback 53-42
by Fordham while New York univer,
sitv remained among the unbeaten
leaders by edging out Minnesota
54-51 in a Madison Square Garden
doubleheader.
Colorado, defending champion in
the Big Seven and winner of it's first
two games this winter, was turned
back 45-41 at Philadelphia and
Illinois, which earlier had knocked
Manhattan out of the list of the per-
feet, was trimmed by unbeaten
Temple 42-41 in a doubleheader at
Philadelphia.
Toledo remained unbeaten in sew
en- games by nosing out Cornell "a
80. The Ithacans were stopped FOR
the first time Friday night 1922 by
Bradley Tech.
The transforming games will COM
prise most of this weeks schedule
before the teams settle down in their
own bailiwicks to decide sectional
honors.
At present the situation in the
various regions shapes up something
like this:
South-Southern conference ouints
were idle and most of them will re-
main so for another week, except
for n%on-college practice games, leav-
ing Richmond undefeated at the
helm.
Action in the Southeastern also
was at a standstill except for Ken
tucky's warming UP for it's Sugar
Bowl engagement by %walloping Cen
tenary 70-1S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Earl Dew Out To Win
Years Jockey Honor,

aqua CALIENTE, Mex. Der q,
TIP Nineteen-year-cld Earl Nov.
came south of the [. S. border toi.,'
bent on riding as many Vinrin,
horses as he possibly could at III.
Caliente track.
Dew was trying to regain the load
in his contest with young Walton
Lee Taylor for the National .JocEor
championship of 1940-for which viz.
tories here are eligible. TAYLOR Was
idle today.
The serious-faced, rangy.type Dew
hurried to Caliente trailing Taylo,
by two victories.
Campaigning in Florida al Tronf.
cal Park, Taylor racked up two firys
Saturday While Dew, after a pIara
flight the day before from the same
track in quest of better mounts. fail.
ed to score a win in the three asser,
ments he was able 10 get at Santa
Anita Park, Los Angeles.
The count after the SATURDAY races
stood: Taylor, 2S5 for the year. Dew
2S3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

the bowl. Despite the rain, they
rode in two big buses from the
train to the stadium nearby before
going to their hotel. Fullback Mike
Frances, a 200-pounder, expressed
the sentiments of the team when
he said: boy, that bowl looks good
to u.s."
Across town IN their quarters
at the Huntington Hotel after a
brief workout in the morning, STAN
ford university's champions of the
Pacific coast conference and de-
tenders of the far west prestige in
the New Years day contest, re-
NAMED in as much seclusion as
Coach Clark Shaughnessy could
command. The undefeated Indians
nave been in camp here since
Thursday.
Major Jones, greeted by Tourna.
ment OF Roses officials, expressed
thanks for the invitation extended
oy Stanford to the Rose Bowl,
added he hoped the weather would
turn clear so his boys could gel
IN more practice l;cks and pre-.
dlcted "a very tough game TO,
both teams"
Nebraska and Stanford alike have
a lew injury worries, but how
serious they are remains to be
seen. Jones said that his frs
str4ng quarterback, Roy Petsch,
mad recovered from a slight in
Jury and would probably start the
game. Herman Rohrig, stumpy lit.
ue reserve halfback, apparently
had recovered from a mild case
of influenza. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Riggs, Muuoy Advance
To Net Tourney Finals

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-R-
Top-seeded Bobby Riggs of Chicago,
and unseeded Gardnar Mulloy of
Coral Gables, Fla, moved today into
the finals of the seventh annual
Sugar Bowl Tennis tourney. Mulloy
won an upset victory over frankie
Kovacs of Oakland, Cal, in the quar-
terminals.
Riggs beat Hal Surface of Kansas
City, in the morning and Ted
Schroeder of Glendale, Cal, in the
afternoon, each by a score of 6-2, SO.
Bobby played steadily and seriously
with none of the clownings which
has marked him in past seasons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
II. e. MEET SLATED FEB. IL TO "a
Bears Ouerpouer Pro AU-Stars, 28 To II
Hickey Says Cards Will Win
Flag If Pitchers Hold Up

and IT expect great improvement
from some. of the men who were
with the team last year. He men.
toned Max Lanier, Morton Cooper
and Ernie White.
Then there IS Harry Walker,
Coaker Triplett, and don't over
look Estel Crabtree, who is going
to do our club a lot more good
than some people think" Hickey
added.
He said he had fine faith in a
big crop of young infielders and
liked the catching staff. Hickey
apparently expects a lot from
Walker Cooper, brother of the
pitcher, and Gus Mancuso, OBJ
tanned from Brooklyn.
AS if to underscore Rickey's op-
timistic forecast, President Sam
Breadon at the same tim e an
nounced a surprise $7-a-share div
idend total.ng approximately $780,
600.
And in a formal statement to
stockholders, which might be in
terpreted by some as an apology
for the sale of big name players,
the management explained that re-
placements now available will fit
better into Jul plans for a good
Cardinal club"
IF this judgment is wrong, we
would pay a heavy price. because
the returns from sales of play
ers could not compensate for what
a winning club and a pennant would
mean" said the statement signed
by Breadon. |
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
MUNSKI CAPTURES
SUGAR BOWL mile
Missouri Grad Leads Mehl
And Fenske To Win Event;
Rice Cops Three-Mile Race

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-R-
John Munski, a young miller JUS
out of the University of Missouri
got away to a good start in the
scramble for Glenn Cunningham:
vacated throne today by winning
the mile event in the seventh an
nual Sugar Bowl meet at Munlc
ipal stadium.
He shook off the furiously-finish'
ing Walter Mehl of Madison, Wis.
to win by a couple of yards II
four minutes 1872 seconds.
Bespectacled Chuck Fenske, for
mer Wisconsin runner who doml
mated the event during most o.
last season, was several yards II
back of Mehl, third in the five
man field.
Gregory Rice, barrel-chested No
re Dame graduate, ran away from
the field to win the three-mile at
fair in 14:16.4. Fred Wolcott o.
Rice Institute took the lloyd. high
hurdles in 14.4, Eugene Litter O.
the University of Nebraska, $40
yard u in 1872 and Campbell
Kane of the University of Indiana
the half-mile in 1888.
Kane and Letter set new NEE
records. It was the first time the
three-mile had been run in the
Sugar Bowl.
Rice led the whole three-mile
distance except for a brief interva
in which Ralph Schwartzkopf O.
Michigan took command on the
fifth lap. Schwartzkopf made {
race of it for 2 miles but finished
more than 100 yards astern. Anoth
er 100 yards back Lou Gregory o
the Millrose A. C. nosed out Ton
Quinn of Michigan Normal fol
third.
Wolcott, who tipped the first hur
die but didn't topple it, led all the
way and won by two yards from
Boyce Gatewood of the University
OF Texas, who finished fast to pas:
Allen Tolmich Of Detroit, Mich
Marsh Farmer Of FIT. Worth, Tex.
was fourth.
Litter likewise was in front the
whole route in the 40, but VOL
by a hairline over Eugene -Alem
mer of Nebraska who closed fast
Roy Cochrane of Indiana was third
John Quigley of Manhattan college
got a cinder in his eye and drop
ped out.
Kane, running the first lap O.
the $50 IN third place, took the
lead going into the final stretch
to beat John Kehoe, Jr., Leslie
MacMitcheL of New York Univer
sity was third.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
SEVERAL BOXERS
START TRAINING
Golden Gloves Dates Here APP
proved By A. A. u; More
Than 100 Boxers Expected

The fifth annual Star-News-Bri-
gade Golden Gloves tournament will
be held here February 11-12-13-14
and invitations to participate are
being mailed to several hundred
amateur boxers throughout the
Carolinas.
The above dates have been Off
cially sanctioned by the Carolinas
Association of the Amateur Athletic
Union of the United States.
Plans are being made to secure
100 or more participants for the
1871 tournament and a Wilmington
team, including fighters of all weight
classes, is to be entered.
Several boxers who will make up
the Wilmington team in the meet
have already commenced training,
the Golden Gloves gymnasium being
located at the Brigade Boys club at
POP Church street.
Capt. George r. D'Orange, long
associated with the Golden Gloves
activities here, has charge of the
gymnasium, while Porter Davis,
trainer for several of the previous
teams from this city, will train the
boxers.
The gym will be open each night
from Z to 9 o'clock from now until
the time for the tournament and
amateur boxers from this section
are invited to make use of the facili-
ties in getting ready for the tourney.
Among the leading amateurs from
this section who have already start
ed training are: Billy Land, feather
weight; Ray Lane, flyweight; Del.
mar Mobley, middleweight; Smoky
Swami, bantamweight; John Cox,
welterweight; and Joe Brown,
heavyweight.
The winning boys in each weight
class of the open division will be
carried to Charlotte with all ex,
penses paid and entered in the Caro-
linas Golden Gloves tournament,
which will be held February 1920
21-22!24. Winners in the Charlotte
meet will be carried to New York
with all expenses paid to participate
in the National Golden Gloves tour
nament.
Champions in the open division
will be awarded boxing trophies.
Runners-up will receive silver minia-
ture boxing gloves and winners in
the novice division will be awarded
miniature boxing gloves.
The tournament is open to all
white boys 16 years of age and over
and all participants under 81 years
of age must have their parents
written permission before entering.
The tourney is sanctioned by the
A. A. U. and the National Golden
Gloves and all participants must
have either A. A. U. or Y. M. C. A.
cards.
Headquarters for the tournament
will be the Wilmington Star-News
and anyone wishing to enter may
write-Sam Raglan, sports editor,
Wilmington Morning Star.
Tickets covering the four nights
of the tournament r to be placed
on sale within a few days. The
Senior fraternity of the Brigade
Boys club will again handle the sale
of tickets this wear
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
BY SID FEEDER

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-RARules
experts among the nations foot
ball coaches went into a huddle to-
day and came up with nine recon-
mendations for changes in n e
game based on giving the offense
a break.
AT the same time, headquarters
for the coaches convention and the
annual meeting of the National
Collegiate Athletic association
buzzed with rumors linkingkPaul
Brown, Massillon tOhio) High
school wonder man with the va
cant Ohio State coaching berth, and
Tuss McLaughry of Brown d
Francis Schmidt, late of Ohio
State, with the Dartmouth O b.,
which Red Blaik left a week ago
to switch to Army.
Only two of the changes recon-
mended by the coaches rules COM
mittee were not directly aimed at
helping the offensive and thus
building up spectator interest.
Chief of the approved suggestions,
all Of which to be presented
to the N. C. A. A. rules committee
meeting at zine Valley, N. j.,
Wednesday, was to change the rule
on a fourth-down incompleted pass
over the opponents goal line.
At present, such a pass is ruled
a touchback, and the ball is brought
out to the opponents ,20-yard line
where they take over with a first
down. The coaches suggested that
in the future such a pass be treat
ed the same as if it had occurred
in the field of play and not be
ruled a touchback.
Thus explained Columbia
Coach Lou Little, the committees
chairman, the ball would go to the
opposing team at the point from
which the pass was thrown. This
will tend to improve offense, be-
cause teams, once they have pene-
trated inside tn e opponents 90
yard line, do not like to take the
chance of being pushed back to
that point if a pass into the end
zon fails"
In addition to the fourth-down
goal-line pass, other proposed
changes approved were:
Widen the goal posts by six
feet, making them "a feet, 6 inches
wide, thereby encouraging field
goal kicking. In this connection,
the committee recommended that
the goal posts be left on the end
line, ten yards back of the goal
line.
2-Permission for a back to hand
the ball in any direction behind
the line of scrimmage, provided
the exchange is from hand-to-hand
(not a pass and that the men on
the line of scrimmage who may
handle the ball must face the goal
line they are defending before re-
ceiving the ball.
"a more liberal substituting
rule, permitting any player to re-
enter a game once in any quarter.
An case of a muddy or wet
field, in order to facilitate play
and to provide a dry ball for play,
three balls should be used, with
the two not in play to be put in
condition by attendants on each
side line.
Sin order to stop the practice
of Intentionally kicking the ball out
of bounds on the kickoff, such a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
Fordham Gridder Hurt
When Thrown By Horse

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. %, - R-
Claude PieculeWicz, FOrdham univer.
sity second string quarterback, fell
from a horse today and probably will
not play in the Cotton Bowl against
the Texas Aggies.
Pieculewicz'S horse bolted.
THE trunk of a tree threw the
hardest block into me | ever recftF-
ed and knocked me off the horse aud
into another tree" pieculeWicZ said.
N-Ray showed no fracture, hut Dr..
Glen Carlson said two ribs on
Pieculewicz's right side were bruised
severely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29-R-Brancl
Hickey, the unpredictable trader
who pulled some winter deals tina
amazed the baseball world, is ST
pleased with the looks of things h
predicted today the Cardinals could
win the 1941 National league pen
nant if their pitchers come through.
mark now, I said IF, and you
can make that if as big as the
whole page" commented the Red
bird vice = president and general
manager.
The 'bcss' has stuck his neck
out many times before, but he has
been right SO often his prognosti.
cations demand respect.
Beaming with unmistakable en-.
thusiasm, Hickey framed his first
comment on the prospects for nex'
year as an answer to critics who
have been grumbling a b re.
placements for several stars dis.
posed of since the close of last
season
The sale of such veterans as ST.
Martin, Bob Bowman, Mickey
Owen and Joe Orengo repeatedly
netted the Cards something like
$125, 900 in folding money. Another
loss was the n and only Pepper
Martin, promoted to the manageri'
al ranks.
1--WE have fine new men in every
department coming to the club tt
replace them" Hickey declared
And we can win the pennant i
the pitchers come to taw." .
He said there will be 10 or Is
of these pitchers to build the staff
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
ESHM0NT TO DUEL
WITH KIMBR0UCH
Strange Contrast In Runners
To Face Each Other In
Cotton Bowl Game

DALLAS, TEX, Dec. 29.-tR-
Drummed up as the duel to watch
in the Cotton Bowl game is the
meeting between a sly little fellow
with a compass in his hips and a
giant who simply DULLES his way
around a football field.
No stranger contrast could be
drawn than that between Ford
hams Len Eshmont, 165-pound
wrath, and Jarrin' John Kim
brough, twice all-America fullbacl
of the Texas Aggies.
Two years ago Eshmont blazed
across the football armament as
the leading ground gamer of col,
lege football. On runs from scrim.
mage the Atlas, Pa. antelope gain
ed 831 yards. Figured down tc
average of 6.3 yards per try on
every carry.
Time hasn't mellowed Eshmont
too much. The 1889 season found
Eshmont favoring an injured leg
that cut him down to a mere 400
yards and still maintain an aver.
age of 5.3 yards per run
During the past season, where
forward passing became a lethal
weapon of the Ram offense with
spectacular sophomore Steve Fill.
powicz hurting, Eshmont still was
able to edge in and carry the ball
for better than 600 yards.
Time would be wasted going
back over the exploits of Kim
brough. Boiled down, he's the mos
destructive fullback in all south
west history and also one of the
most durable boys in the business.
But to draw a comparison, he
carried the ball ISL times this
season and gained 671 yards for
an average of 1888 yards. To say
that he carried the ball 161 times
would be enough.
Not in the statistical comparison
is a little something about Kim.
brought that rounds him out as ar
all-American-his defensive abil-
ity. The 222-pounder, actually 235
in football accoutrement, is a stand
out on defense for the Cadets. His
six feet, two inches makes him a
gallant pass defender and he plays
a tight defensive halfback in back
ing the line.
Meanwhile, Coach Jim Crowley
OF Fordham, opined that his Rams
were in proper mental attitude
for the game because they are
tine underdogs."
Spirit? I believe we have ii
this time. The importance of the
game has u boys keyed. Nat.
urally, I feel the Aggies are a bet.
ter bunch because of their remark
able record-19 victories out of 20
starts.
But I would add that the frs
odds quoted or the game-1 to 4
on the Aggies, I believe, are JUS
a little out of line. After all, we
came down here to play a foot
ball game.".
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30
WESTERNERS WIN

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Dec,
29.-R-Led by several stars from
Mlchlgan's intercollegiate champions,
a picked team Of western aquatic
aces swamped an eastern squad, 1870
to 81, in the annual East-West re.
lays here today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-30

Point.
Should Be Closer
However,, even if the Bulldogs
do boast such an impressive rec
ord the other clubs r not giving
I'm too easily and this years race
for the conference championship
should be a mite closer than here
tofore. ,
Most observers rate Wilson and
Rocky Mount as the n e best
teams behind the Durham quintet.
Both of these teams have veteran
SQUADS. Wilson beat Portsmouth,
Va, 1927 and Rocky Mount won
over Bear Grass and Roanoke Rap
ids but lost to Portsmouth 31-3O.
Raleigh, with three early season
victories, are given an outside
chance of coming into the first di-
vision and is looked upon as some
thing of a dark horse. Fayette-
vile and Wilmington also fall IN
this classification.
Fayetteville, out of the confer
ence last year, comes back in with
a good-sized crew of tall boys that
are rated better than fair on
the hardwoods.
Wilmingtons Wildcats, with sew
eral lettermen returning and a pair
OF fancy shooting rockies up from
the junior varsity in Dick Dunlea
and Johnny Oliphant, may pull out
of the loop cellar if they can come
around in time.
All the way around it looks like
Durham has the upper hand, but
then surprises come just as often
and quicker on the hardwoods than
on the gridiron. And watch for
some other team in the Eastern
league to give the state champions
a battle for the top.
Last Time Scores
You've probably forgotten the
scores of the various bowl games
of last New Years day, SO we'll
repeat en-.
Rose BoWl-Southern California
+. Il, Tennessee 0; Sugar B ow l.
Texas Aggies IA, Tulane 10; Or
ange Bowl-Georgia Tech 81, Mis-
souri, 7; Cotton Bowl-Clemson 6,
Boston college 8; Sun Bowl-Cath-
Ole U. 0, Tempel 0; Pineapple
sd Bowl-Oregon State 80, Hawaii 6;
A1l-Star game-West %, East II.
Odds and Ends
The New Hanover cagers, idle
since the game with Clinton before
the Christmas holidays, will resume
practice today for the loop tilt with
Fayetteville Friday. The Caro-
lima football team is threatened
with the loss of Johnny Pecora,
.: back, and Ed Michaels, tackle, who
are reported to be having a hard
time overcoming the scholastic
hurdle. the 10Th annual Father
and Son golf tournament at Pine
hurst will be held January 2. . .
the finals of the 38th annual mid
winter tourney at Pinehurst is be-
ing held New Years Day. .
Add Warren, wrestling coach at
Duke, and Mike Ronman, Carolina
boxing coach, will referee the Tri-
State Golden Gloves Boxing Tourn-
ament at High Point January 1913.
By all historical tradition the
Sugar bowl game Wednesday will
be close, as no team has ever won
that game with a margin of more