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Evening star., 1940-03-13
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Jack Hagerty is nearing the end
OF the smoker and banquet trail and
glad of it after sitting through IS
assorted beefsteak and cheroot ses-
sions. The Georgetown grid coach
has five to 60, mostly on the north
eastern spur of the filet mignon
line. then he can settle down to
earnest worrying about spring prac-
tice.
Touring the provinces isn't the
incest part of coach's job. Smoke
gets in your eyes and some of the
too eager alumni get in your hair.
They pump your arm until it's limp
and ready to fall off and you greet
an unending line of prospective
gridmen who want room and bath,
spending money and a big, red
roadster for sitting on the bench
three years and wonder why you
don't grab them.
Getting Great Hand.
But Hagerty must be getting
warm welcome from the old grads
with two unblemished campaigns
behind. They may be calling him
names this time next year, but right
now he emerges from the conference
room without any stab wounds.
There won't be much spring prac-
tice at the Hilltop this year. Work
will not begin until the first of
April because lengthy Easter holi-
day would interrupt the business if
started this month. It's better to
finish the work once it's started,
April would be as good as any other
month if it weren't for spring sports.
Baseball will claim a healthy per-
centage of gridmen, track gets a few,
and an extensive intra-mural pro-
gram will give others enough excuse
to escape few afternoons a week.
Hagerty isn't enthusiastic about
spring practice. It's an old coaching
adage that team is only as good as
1t shows in spring practice and it
isn't confidential that GEORGETOWN
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
District A. A. U. tournament,
Heurich gym, 7::30.
Wrestling.
Golden Terror VS.. Lou Plum
mer, feature match, Turner's
Arena, $50.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Washington VS.. Cleveland, Fort
Myers, Fla.
Basket Ball.
Roosevelt In Southern scholastic
tournament, Durham, N. G.
District A. A. U. tournament,
Heurich gym, 7:30.
Ice Hockey.
washington Eagles VS.. Jersey
Skeeters, Riverside Stadium, $50.
Swimming.
District A. A. u. indoor
championships, Shoreham Hotel
pool, 8.
SATURDAY.
Baseball.
Washington VS.. New York
Giants, Winter Haven, Fla.
Basket Ball.
Roosevelt in Southern scholas-
tic tournament, Durham, N. G.
District A. A. D. tournament,
AeHach Sym, 7:3o.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
loughran, Ring Richie!
Gone, Has City Job
Al $500 a Year
Tolls for Philadelphia
Fairgrounds, Where He
Got fistic Stort
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March l3.-
Tommy Patrick Loughran, stripped
by misfortune of most of the riches
he piled up in his sensational ring
career, is holding down a S2,5OO-a-
year city job.
Mayor Robert E. Lamberton made
the former light-heavyweight cham
pion, idol of millions of fight fans
less than 10 years ago, executive
secretary and supervisor" in the Bu-
reau of Recreation. Loughran CAM
paigned for Lamberton last year.
A series of reverses has drained
Tommy's share of the big gates he
drew during his nine fighting years.
Since his retirement in 1886 he has
been fight manager, restaurant man,
conductor of a physical education
course, boxing promoter-none with
much success.
Failure as Promoter.
The fighters he managed never got
very far There was disagreement
with the owners of the Philadelphia
restaurant that hired him for his
name, and Tommy left the dine
and-wine business. Then the res
taurant closed
Loughran's correspondence course
in physical culture was beset by
troubles with the Federal Trade
Commission over certain misleading
statements" in the advertisements.
Last year he took up fight pro-
motion. That failed, too.
So now the blue e-eyed, massive
chested Irishman who became one
Of the most popular light-heavies in
history and a serious contender for
the heavyweight crown, is city Job
holder.
Stfll in Fine Trim,
Thirty-se years old, bachelor.
and still in top physical trim,
Tommy recalls that as a kid he
learned in playground scraps the
fundamentals of his fighting prow-
ess; the tricks of weaving and dodg-
ing and skipping about the ring that
kept him at the top of Ight-heavy-
weight ranks for two years, 1927 to
1929.
But he doesn't necessarily want to
make fighters out Of the playground
boys. He is more interested In
training them to use their bodies
correctly" and making good citi-
zens out Of them."
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Ellis Seen as Taking
Most Swim Titles
In Eastern Meet
Have Made Eight Marks
This Season; Capture
Loop Team Honors
BY the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA March l3.-The
feeling prevailed here today that
Yale will win the majority of titles
In the Eastern intercollegiate in
dividual swimming championships
here Friday and Saturday.
Fourteen colleges and universities
are entered, but none appears able
to hold candle to the Eli mermen,
who have created eight records this
season, mark unique in the annals
of intercollegiate swimming
The Bulldogs undefeated medley
and 400-yard relay teams have left
a string Of broken records in their
wake, and so have Joseph Burns,
in the 150-yard backstroke; How
ard johnson. in the 220-yard free
style, and Edwin Gesner, in the
200-yard breaststroke. The trio, ir-
cidentally, make up the medley crew.
Cook Lauded as Diver.
In addition, Robert Kiphuth, vet
eran Yale coach, has James Cook,
regarded by Bill Merriam, Pennsyl-
vania's mentor, as the best diver in
the East. He is favored to win on
both the one and three meter boards.
Although Yale will defend only its
400-yard medley title, individual
champions back include Robert
Garrett, Army, so yards; Ned Parke,
Princeton, 220 yards; Albert Vande
Weghe, Princeton, 15O-yard back
stroke, and Eric Cutler, Harvard,
40 yards.
Participating also will be repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania, Temple,
Villanova, Dartmouth, Syracuse,
Navy, Columbia, Penn State, Rut-
gers and Cornell. There will be 126
swimmers competing in the nine
individual and two relay events
largest number since 1898.
Easily Defeat Harvard.
Yale, beaten this season only by
Michigan, copped the Eastern In
tercollegiate Swimming Association
team title last night with an easy
$500 victory over Harvard. The
meet produced no records.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Hogerty, Banquet Jount About
Ended, Plans Short Spring
Grid Session for Hoyos

won't be impressive next month.
Too many absentees. And Jack is
wondering what he's going to do
about the ENDS now that Bob Ker-
cher is gone. Kercher figured i'm
portantly in his plans Red DAILY, a
good man to have around for emer-
gencies. will be missing. too, and
their departure leaves Hagerty be-
hind the 8-ball.
Ends May Offer Problem.
Johnny Lascari, Mike Kopcik, Art
Lemke, Bill Wixted and Al Lujack
are returning, but unless one or two
show startling improvement the
Hoyas will need bolstering. Joe
Daniels, the big tackle who mussed
up so many enemy plays last au-
tumn, could be shifted to the wing
if necessary. He's played there be-
fore and does fairly we'll but is lead
footed getting down under punts
and the rumor is out that punting
will be big feature of the game
next season. Hagerty doesn't know
what to do at this writing. He
really has no plans but it's a nice
problem to wrestle with between
alumni meetings.
Myron Darmohray and Frank
Meglen, fullbacks, will be out of the
picture and if Jim Castiglia doesn t
come through this year Hagerty
has another position on his hands.
Castiglia should be rip-snorter
He had the stuff in his freshman
year but failed to come up to the
mark on the varsity. He looked good
in some intra- squad scrimmages and
continually threatened to bust loose
m a ball game but couldn't get 60
ing. This is his last effort and he
couldn't come through at more
opportune time.
There will be an assortment of
boys up from Hap" Hardell's fresh
man squad and, knowing Hardell as
we do, we can vouch for ID they'll
know their fundamentals. How they
will react under varsity fire remains
to be seen. The grid stars who blos-
som in their freshman years often
turn out to be sweet-smelling weeds.
Shockey Is Shocking EN-.
The hottest gentleman in cleats
at Maryland is a fleet 2l0-pound
fullback by the name of Don
Shockey. He came back to school
last fall after encountering a snarl
with the books in the previous term.
And now he is taking his grades in
stride. He is reported to be the
toughest, most ornery critter in a
football suit they've seen at Mary
land since the flying wedge was out
lawed.
He first attracted attention when
half dozen pretty big boys reported
for treatment after he carried the
ball through center. They seemed
to have been caught between a
threshing machine and meat chop
per. Shockey was easy to knock of
his feet as q freshman, but he's
running better now, legs wider apart
and getting results. He doesn't
bother to run around them, either.
If they don't move he simply runs
over them.
Evening star., 1940-03-13

fling. paid a catcher to come
around every day and help him
get in shape.
Kennel Klub. The Marshfield
(Wis.) cagers who lost SO in
row can move over. Here comes
the Heresite and Chemical team
of Mantiowoc, Wis. with SO
: straight losses. Nevertheless, the
boys are in there elbowing every
Friday night.
"A good long distance derby bet
is Carrier Pigeon. 80 to l. Now
they've got Bill Terry angling for
Johnny Hudson of the Brooks and
Lew Riggs Of the Reds. The Slip
Madisan custer startled tho coast.
Evening star., 1940-03-13

elimination tournament to find
somebody to fight Joe Louis.
Attention, Judge Lands: The
Cardinals will concentrate 68
farm hands at Columbus, Ca, be-
ginning March 18 Gooks to
be good picking). The Stanfords
will enshrine the No. Z Jersey i'm
mortalized by Angelo Luisetti in a
trophy case along with Ernie
Nevers' No. ! football Jersey. Lam
ny Ross, the songster, who set the
quarter mile record for the Penn
relays in 1927, still keeps In shape
BY trotting around Central Park
every morning, rain o. chime.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Flag Contention
By 1941 Seen
For Mack
Connie Is Enthusiastic
As New Talent Seems
To Blend With Old
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
ANAHEIM, Calf, March 13.-The
very old and the very new may COM
bine to pull the Philadelphia Ath-
letics out of the doldrums and start
them rolling into pennant conten-
ton by 1941.
There is distinct air of confidence
around the training camp and a feel
ing that soon the Athletics may bios
som into championship ball club,
far removed from the seventh place
where the men of Mack wound up
last season.
Steps have been taken-expensive
steps, too-to plug up the leaks in the
infleld that cost many a game last
year, and for once there is more re-
serve strength in the outfeld.
The pitching staff, once it begins
to realize it has steadier support,
should deliver that much better. and
with several newcomers of potential
winning ability in the fold, it may
prove big improvement over the
1889 campaign. Philadelphia base
ball writer's are confident of this.
Mr.. Mack Enthusiastic.
Back of all this is the enthusiasm
and master -minding of the old mas
ter himself-Mr. Connie Mack.
Mr.. Mack brought his club here to
train for the first time this year.
California and Anaheim captured
him, and he returned the compli-
ment.
At the moment there are two flaws
in the picture. One is the torn leg
muscle of Cherokee Bob Johnson,
slugging outfielder. The other is the
holdout of Catcher Frank Hayes.
The very new side of the club in
cludes several sparkling inf1eld pros
poets, such as the highly publicized
$4,000 beauty, Benny Mccoy; Al
Rubeling from Atlanta; Bill Lillard,
from Baltimore; Frank Chapman,
from Springfield, Mass, and AL
Brancato, up from Williamsport, Pa.
Siebert Back in Shape.
Dick Siebert will be back at first,
recovered from injuries which ham
pered him last year: Mccoy goes at
second, Lillard at short and Rubel-
ing may take over third, although
Joe Gantenbein and Dario Lodigiani
also are squabbling for regular duty.
The old could be pictured no bet
ter than by Al Simmons. Once
Connie Mack's star batter and q
hero of the 1880 and 1881 pennant
victories, Simmons is 81 years old.
He'll be a reserve outfllder and he
still can slug the ball.
Wally Moses, Sam Chapman,
Johnson, Wilson Miles and the
aforementioned Gantenbein will
make up the outfield talent. Eddie
Collins, jr., speed demon on the
bases, has been optioned to Balti-
more, but should return to the AS
next year.
Caster Heads Pitchers.
Earle Brucker will be the No. 2
catcher, with Hal Wagner, from
Newark, and Bud Hancken, who was
with Seattle last year, scrapping for
the third string job.
George Caster heads the returning
pitchers, but several of the new
corners may prove valuable surprises.
Among these are Ed Heusser, right
handler who won 10 and lost Z for
Memphis last year; Elon Hogsett,
who had 16 and 9 for Minneapolis:
Johnny Babich, who won II and
dropped 6 with Kansas City; Her
man Besse, II and IL, with Memphis.
1t isn't likely that Mr.. Mack's be-
loved AS will knock over the
Yankees this year, but they may
make it tough for the rest Of the
alSo-rans.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
The Scouts, Like Buzzurds, Swoop Down

ROCKIES Will spy Scout Joe
Cambria sitting talking earnestly with President CLARK
Griffith Two days go Cambria Griffith and John
Joe Enge driving
over from his Chattanooga clubs camp Deand
, Enge will borrow them
league
better Cambria has Springfield and the Pied
Charlotte And certainly all OF
these Tarh and Eastern Shore where the
placed
Finally the day the end Of
can't speak English know
doosda hotel at the boarding house Will be note
from President Griffith him. and Griffith will take
floor and
Geenvile Shelby SALISBURY 4ouU
py regularly control hitch the swng) and
II YOU improve bring you to Washington in the fall
gmble but most OF them glad to go
after the first weeks they didn't belong
Some go hopefully return Some have feeling they
ever
that and they love it, and figure it's better than
a Florida
sunshine and the plentiful and
Evening star., 1940-03-13
When the Photographers Snop the Other Fellows

of their they Harris talking with phoog
slipping their taking pictures other
their weren't Harris list
plenty pictures taken the expensive shosop with
good fellow who IN the minor
lost last that
dropped down. and trying again
keep they intend that baseball be their
North but
clippings begun folks back home and they don't
mentioned
When regulars begin report they slip
deeper into obscury pitchers the only they hear
their them the box in batting practice
to provide big hitters
Evening star., 1940-03-13
8r the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-
American tennis is in sad state Of
1epair-take it from big Bill Tilden.
Amateur players" says the man
who won seven United States singles
titles back in the golden 20s, "why
even the term is laugh. I could
name 20 professionals playing now
who are more truly amateur than
the present crop of so-called anna
teurs.
1.-THE game has deteriorated to
such an extent that the entire
emphasis is on winning. Most OF
these kids are so scared of losing
that they don't play to win-they
play not to lose. And that makes
for poor tennis
Evening star., 1940-03-13
By EDDIE BRIETZ.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, March 13.-
Sammy Baugh of the Washing
ton Redskins says he'll play foot
ball one more season in the pro
grid league, then take coaching
Job. Shipstead and johnson, the
st. Paul ice show promoters and
skaters, netted 100000 last year
all of it gravy except their
managers cut. Has the N. B. A.
taken a mail vote and decided to
crown Petey Scalzo featherweight
champ effective April !? All
right, we're Just asking. During
his 'holdout campaign Red Ruf-
Evening star., 1940-03-13
The Cardboard Bulletin Board in the Clubhouse

Day they acute An na-squao game
hopefully the cardboard bulletin board
entrancethe
announcing find their but some OF
wildly that Mr. Harris may be
But and the wild rookie pitchers
regular
hites the pitcher to make every pcn
strike the plate possible before e
time to fool with the wild
pitchers ALL it's fellows like Gee Walker and Buddy Lewis
summer ne wants
them with sharp batting instead of dents in the head
along and the cardboard bull
before
eae and be allowed to sit on the
bench
Evening star., 1940-03-13
In Training Camp, Hope Always Springs Eternal

otherwise because the ball
field yelling batting and playing
all of the rockies have high
North where the Streets and
sunshine look and
with
fine
big meals
eternal the breasts Of the kids who didn't
Tarhee League and who signed to Shelby
hopes that will improve big
could
Washington contract.
rockies will treated
will tell the pitchers to bear
pitchers who can't and the htters
pitching to lose
Evening star., 1940-03-13
H Leaders Relieved Poa Shows Gradually Improved throwing Form
Win, Lose or Draw
The Ball Players Who Don't Make 1t
By FRANCIS {. STAN,
Star Stah Correspondent.

The Ball Players Who Don't Make 1t
l3-The the Mats
ing St Petersburg
line the Washington club sit the dugout
Harris questions especially
ball because they what the older
rookie
steps to the plate in batting practice.
This his third will
concerned it's his isn't anywhere He'll hit
thing than batting practice pitching"
newspaper pitcher Bucky will
Il like He's good action fellow with his ability
thng-hes real chance
Evening star., 1940-03-13

Today a year ago-Primo Car
nera, former world heavyweight
champion, and Signorina Pima
Cavazzi were married at Sequals,
Italy,
Evening star., 1940-03-13

Three years ago - Michigan
won fourth straight Big Ten
track title with IS points; Chuck
Fenske, Wisconsin, beat Don
Lash, Indiana, in mile feature
by inches in 4:12.9.
Evening star., 1940-03-13

Five years ago-Fourth perfect
300 game in American Bowling
Congress history rolled by Carl
Mensenberg, Scranton. Pa.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
Let's Not Expect Too Much

are its commitments? They must.
after the war, trade somehow with
Germany What is wanted is not
to Shut Germany out of all AM
erican trade, but to devise safe-'
guards such that trade will not
mean domination.
All these things and scores yOf
others complicate the problem.
What, then, can we hope? We can
properly hope for an even stronger
realization that the American
countries are "all III the same boat"
and for notice served to the world
that they will fight for each others
independence.
We can hope for a start ON plans
for economic unity, and basis for
military collaboration.
We can hope for increase of mu-
tual understanding and better ma
chinery for quick cooperation i'll
the face of future dangers which
can never be exactly foreSeen III
advance.
In matters of this kind patience
and persistence are essential. The
degree of American unity that pre-
walls today is the product of the
long, patient conferences of the
past 10 years. TomorroW's unity in
the face of some unforSeeable
emergency will be partly product
of what may seem today an incorNI
plete solution.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

There is one legal action filed by the
federal government against private
firm which will receive enthusiastic
cheers from the public.
1t is an action filed by the Depart
ment of Justice against the Pullman
company, in an effort to divorce control
of sleeping car manufacture from its
operation.
1t is charged that the Pullman COM
panies have refused to operate any other
equipment except that operated by the
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing
Co., and have Threatened to withdraw
sleeping car service from any railroad
buying and operating cars OF other man.
ufacturerS.
1t is also charged that the Pullman
company, through an operating mono
poly, Charges the public artificial and
unreasonably high prices for Pullman
accommodations"
The justice department claims that
the Pullman company, which owns 5000
sleeping cars, compels the railroads to
use obsolete equipment and prevents
them from purchasing lightweight,
streamlined sleeping cars.
Travellers who have felt for years that
they were being overcharged for the ser
vice, are happy that retrbution seems
to be catching up with the Pullman off
cials. The railroads which have been
compelled to pay through the nose for
their Pullman cars and service should
also be happy.
Even the Pullman porters should be
happy in hoping that some modern equip
ment may be expected in place of the
old uppers and lowers that they have
worked with for years.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29
Paul Harrison S Notes
On HOLLYWOOD S FoibIes and Fads

Some directors are swell with
animals" the trainer said. Dick
Thorpe, who made the last two
Tarzans, knows just what they can
or can't do. Another guy, / re-
member, got sore because a lion
had to be fed at exactly the same
time every afternoon and wouldn't
work afterward. Say-if that cat
hadn't been fed on time, he'd have
dined on us!"
Another thing few directors un-
derstand is that elephants won't
stand perfectly quiet. Earls going
crazy trying to keep his pals from
spelling scenes by tossing leaves
ard dust at the flies, or by snorting.
Discipline is especially hard to
maintain on a movie set because
SPCA agents, always present when
animals are working, forbid using
a stick on a stubborn or mischiev-
Gus elephant who needs a Wallop-
ing This trainer would mistreat
Duchess, Pinto, and the rest about
as Willingly as he'd kick Dorothy
Lamour.
BEASTS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE
Main trouble about training ele-
plants for pictures is that they're
too anxious to please. They can't
understand-any more than many
a human observer can understand
why a stunt has to be done over
and again for five or six rehearsals
end a dozen takes. Rather logically,
they finally decide that they must
not be doing it right, so they try
something else. Duchess, for exam
pie, walked on the set and lay down
about Is times, and did it perfectly.
On the 10Th time. she tried stand
ing on her head. Preston Foster
sailed out of the howdah for a
beautiful one-and half
This one is the best elephant in
Hollywood now, ard the only one
who'll be trusted to carry Para
mounts stars. Like many star.
she won't work overtime. When G
o'clock eomes-or maybe 10 min
utes one way or the other-she
takes Earls wrist and heads for
the barn,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-29

We of the United States like to
see problem tackled hard wrangl-
ed furiously, and then all neatly
buttoned up and labeled solved"
It is one of our weaknesses. For
not one of the great problems that
plague the world has ever been
tipped up that way with one mo-
ton, and not one is likely to be.
The Bolshevik revolution was
going to heavenize Russia in one
bold stroke. GO was the Blackshirt
revolution in Italy, and the Nazi
revolution in Germany. But if any
of those countries today has any
fewer unsolved problems than we,
it is not apparent.
But we cry for "one-shot pana-
ceas," the MIRA, the gold devalua-
ton. the Townsend Plan, Tech
nocracy, dollar devaluation. Chips
fly. but no logger since Paul Bun
van ever laid redwood low with
out persistent and tiresome hack
ing
The Inter American conference
now going on at Havana is a
little like that. We of the United
States would like to see some one
bold stroke made there which
would settle forever the trouble
some problems of political inter-
ference in the Americas, trade
among them and with foreign
lands, disposition of French and
Dutch possessions. and military de-
fene collaboration.
This is too much to expect The
world isn't run that way. The sou-
thern countries are impressed by
the military power revealed by
Germany They would be foolish
to disregard the economic power
that may be welded by Europe
united" under German sway. Ten
or IS years of "good-neighborli-
ness" have not entirely effaced the
diStrust of THE Colossus of the
North" which was built up through
many decades. They are dealing
with an administration that has
only four more months in office un-
less reelected. How permanent