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Evening star., 1941-12-28

Mike and Helen Lerner are
glamorous figures in the fishing and
hunting world. Their endless ex-
cursions to the far corners of the
earth are intriguing to all who love
the outdoors, and they are educa-
tional, too, for the Lerners make a
permanent record of every worth
While happening.
In a recent letter from Edllonton,
Canada, on their way out from an
Alaskan hunting trip. Mike notes
the exposure of 10000 feet of color
film, much of it close-ups of goat,
mountain sheep, caribou and moose.
Most of this film goes into the files
of the American Museum of Natural
History and is an easily available
fund of information.
More interesting to us was the
news of the trout fishing in the area
south Of Whitehorse. The picture
of a 15-pounder bore out the as
sertion Of catching with ease
enough to supply our camp needs"
and brings again the thought that
only in the far places will such fish
ing be found in the future.
Out Pittsburgh way sportsmen
have started a bucks for-b bombs"
movement. In the two weeks since
it's inception organizations have COL
lected so much from members and
any others they know that use q
gun or rod in field and stream there
is every right to think it will not be
long before outdoors dollars are
fighting at the front.
We cannot help but believe, how
ever, that Defense stamps and bonds
will get more there in a shorter
space of time.
John Alden Knights Solunar
Tables for 1912 are of the press and
will be available shortly at all sports
stores.
Over a period Of five years we
have used these tables with results
that force us to believe no hunter
or angler should plan a trip that
QOeS IlOI tdkc tllc OOluiioi INV cPo''
into consideration.
The International Game Fish AS
ISOLATION announces the catch OF q
broadbill swordfish weighing 837
pounds by George Carey OF the
Chilean coast.
There is more than just the
taking of another large fish in this
catch, for it immortalizes its captor.
In the whole history OF angling
only six broadbill exceeding 800
pounds In weight have been caugnt
on rod and reel. Carey has &C
counted for three.
w. E. S. Tukor IL the present
top angler ct this game OF giants
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Blue Devils Advanced
At Average Of 372.2
Yards in 9 Games
Georgia Is Among Top 10
Gamers Along With
Missouri, Fordhum
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Dec. 27.-Duke's pow
erful gridiron machine, which en-
tered the Rose Bowl three years
ago with a reputation as an i'm
movable object, will enter the 1912
transplanted classic as the Nation S
top collegiate offensive team.
Final figure released by the
American Football Statistical Bu-
reau showed Duke had passed Ari-
Zona to wind up the season as the
No. collegiate ground gamer on
the ground and in the air.
The team ran and passed for an
average of 1922 yards in each of
its nine games, the bureau reported
in its year-end compilation. 1t was
the highest offensive average since
Wllizzer White led Colorado to a
1854 average in 1887.
Other Bowl Teams in Top 10.
Arizona, leader most of the season,
was pushed back into second place
with a 1868 average Besides Duke
three other bowl teams-Georgia,
Missouri and Fordham-landed IN
the top 10, ranked as follows be-
hind the leaders: Georgia. 350.4:
Utah, 350.4; Texas, $50: Missouri.
344.7; Tulane, 3279; Fordham, 327;
Detroit, 3201, and Clemson, 3199.
The Texas Aggies, host team for
the Cotton Bowl game, proved to
be the "passingest" team in the
Nation on the basis of volume pro-
duction, although they trailed Ari-
zona in total yardage gained
through the air. The Aggies tossed
294 passes, the highest number
tossed since Arkansas pass-dizzy
eleven threw 310 in 1887.
Little Duquesne may not have
received a poSt-SeasOn bid, but 1t
gave the bowl boys spectacular
defensive mark to shoot at. Du-
quesne yielded an average of only
1106 yards to opponents on the
grund and in the air to finish far
ahead of Navy, the runnerup with
a 1898 average. Navy was the 1910
leader in total defense.
Duquesne Defense Was Tight.
Duquesne yielded only an average
IS yards per game to its opponents
running attack. The shellacking the
Texas Aggies took from Texas
dropped them out of the No. spot
in defense against rushing, and they
finished in 18th place after having
led the Nation for two years.
Here's how the statisticians caught
them at the finish line:
Total defense-Duouesne, 1905; Navy.
1928; Notre Dame. 1875; Georgia, 1929;
Texas Tech. 1872.
Rushing ofense-Missouri. 3O7.7 yards
average per game for hghesl since Colo
RADIOS 80 in 1887: Duke. 265.S; Mime
sofa. 257.s; Utah. 1855; Syracuse. 25o,99.
Rushing defense-Duquesne SO yards
Eieidded per game; Gss99rggla, 596; Texas
forwsTd SaH2 Ie*ee eonpst e.
1o8 out Of 53I for l77.7-yard average;
Texas Aggies completed 126 out of 294
for 165 .7-yard average: Washington of
St. Louis. 1885: Detroit. 1852; Notre
Dame, 1899.
Pass defense-Purdue yielded 27.1 yards
per game; Boston University. 35; Denver,
39.7; Idaho, 41.2; Lafayette, 46.4. tPur-
due forged ahead OF Boston U. after the
final November report)
Punting-Clemson, 42.32-ysrd aver
age; Texas Mines, Al 50; Navy. 41.53:
Fordham, 1898; Army 40.45. Gn the
final November report Texas Mines led
with Clemson second)
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Tar Heels Gain Five,
Duke -Four Titles
In Conference
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. IL
North Carolina and Duke, as usual,
dominated the Southern Confer
ence athletic campaign In 1941,
winning nine of a possible eleven
team championships.
North Carolina led with five titles
to Dukes four, but the Blue Devils
walked off with loops most priced
crowns football, basket ball, out
door track and golf.
Tar Heel athletes were trium-
phant in baseball, swimming, in
door track, cross country and ten
mis-.
A dark horse Citadel squad sur
prised by winning the boxing cham
pionship.
Washington and Lee captured the
wrestling team honors.
Duke dethroned three 1910 title
vinnsrA repeating only N golf.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Dukes Rose Bowl Football Team Nations Best Oen Records Reveal
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Hockey.
Philadelphia Rockets VS.. Wash
in9ton Lions, Uline Arena, $50.
Washington Eagles VS.. Johns
town Bluebirds, Johnstown, Pa.
TOMORROW.
Tennis.
Professional tennis, Bobby
Riggs, Frank Kovacs. Fred Perry
and Don Bulge, Uline Arena,
$3.50.
TUESDAY.
Basket Ball.
Maryland VS.. Seton Hall, South
Orange, N. j.
WEDNESDAY.
Basket Ball.
Maryland VS.. City College OF
New York, New York.
THURSDAY.
Hockey.
Washington Lions VS.. Provi-
dence Reds, Providence, r. I.
Tennis.
Exhibition, Barney Welsh VS..
Don Leavens: Hugh Lynch and
Davev Johnson VS.. Ralph Adair
and Eddie Miller, Y. M. c. A.,
400.
FRIDAY.
Basket Ball.
Maryland VS.. st. Johns, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
Roosevelt VS.. Gonzaga, at Cath
olic u, $3.50.
Eastern at Lancaster, Pa, High.
Hockey.
New York Rovers VS.. WASH
ington Eagles, Riverside Stadium,
$3.50.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
Marshall VS.. Columbus, Tech
gym, $50.
Hockey.
Washington Lions VS.. Hershey
Bears, Hershey, Pa.
Evening star., 1941-12-28

is paired with Riggs in singles.
But Don and Mako will get a return
crack at this Frankie-come-la Lately
and Riggs and they are the favorites
in this line of endeavor Bulge
joined forces with John Nogrady.
little known pro, when Perry was
hauled off the court Friday and
they proceeded to whale the tar
out of their opponents. 6-3. 10-8.
Record Gate Is Likely.
Eddie Bean, handling the business
end of the troupes visit here. re-
ports heavy advance sale of tickets
and predicts Sell-out. This would
break all tennis attendance records
for Washington as previous pro
matches were played at Marylands
Ritchie Coliseum which does not
compare in size with Uline Arena.
The first event tomorrow night is
scheduled for $50 with doubles ex-
pected to go on two hours later.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
20 Years Aqo
In The Star

Maj. Charles DAILY, Army coach,
was elected first president of the
new American Football Coaches
Association, with John Heisman
of Pennsylvania as vice presi-
dent.
One of the first acts of the
organization was to pass a reso-
luton denouncing professional
football. Collegiate officials will
not be permitted to referee pro
games and players taking part
will lose their college letters.
Battling Levinsky announced
his readiness to defend his
American lightheavyweight box
ing championship against all
corners and Tex Rickard is lining
up Gene Tunney as his first
opponent.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Alabama, Texas Ags
Are Rated on Par
In Cotton Bowl
Tide Arrives Tomorrow
At DoIIos, With Rival
Reporting Tuesday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Dec. 81. - Alabama's
Crimson Tide will roll into town
Monday to find itself an even bet
against Texas A. g. M. In the sixth
annual Cotton Bowl football game.
At least that's the way money
talks in Dallas. It's one and one
half points and take your choice.
Which means the Tide and the
Aggies are considered more evenly
matched than any teams ever to
appear before in the classic.
The ticket sale is booming. Only
about 5000 remain TO be sold to fill
the bowl to its As 507 capacity.
The final drill at Tuscaloosa was
held today. The squad stops off for
dinner in New Orleans tomorrow.
The Aggies arrive Tuesday after
noon.
AS Alabama turned toward Dallas
word came that Coach Frank
Thomas still was worried about his
pass defense. Alabama has had
nine touchdowns scored against it
this season, eight either on passes
or the result of them.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Oregon Stote Workout
Disuppoints Stiner
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Dec. 27.-
oregon States gridders were put
through a game scrimmage this
afternoon in preparation for Thurs
days game in Durham against
Duke.
After the drill, which lasted two
hours, Coach Lon Stiner said the
Beavers appeared to be "back on
their heels"
He said he wasn't impressed with
the session and intended to hold
another s,ah drtu Monday.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Georgia, 7. C.. u. Held Sure
To Offer Dramatic Battle

Their policy became a financial
success with the early sale of the
35,000-odd available seats-and ev-
cry sign pointed to an artistic tri-
umph as well.
All-America Frankie and his sup
porting cast ranked as early favor
ties on the basis of a seasons record
that brought them second place in
the Southeastern Conference.
The Georgians rolled up 279 points
to SO for opponents.
To match this high-scoring array,
Texas Christian will depend on q
deadly passing eAna.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Bid to Rose Bowl
Suddens O'Brien
b. the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27-Pat
OBrien, recently selected as
Southern CALIFORNIA; leading
sports fan by the Helms Athletic
Foundation, has an offer he'd
give a leading role-almost-to
accept. But he just can't.
Donald Wade, identifying him.
self as a wealthy tobacco mer-
chant of Durham, N. c., invited
Pat to be his guest at the Rose
Bowl game He offered seats on
the 5O-yard line and a round
trip airplane ticket.
OBrien declined with sincere
regrets. He's too busy to slip
away even on New Year Day.
P. S.-Wade said Pat might re-
member him as the fan who
tainted on studio set out here.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
PorochioI CUNTS Play
Two Contests Today

In an effort to clear the crowded
Parochial School Basket Ball League
docket two games will be played this
afternoon in the Gonzaga High
School division.
st. Aloysius and st. Michael's
will clash in the curtain-raiser at 8
O'Clock and Blessed Sacrament and
st. Joseph's will meet Immediately
after,
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Cornell Buys 30 Acres
For New SkiCenter

ITHACA, N. Y, Dec. 27.-Recog-
nizing the increasing popularity OF
snow sports, Cornell will open a ski
center this winter.
The university has acquired 80
acres Of hill property eight miles
from the campus and has appro-
pr1ated funds to clear the slopes
and install . ski tow, SKI Jump
and shelter hoaDa.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Rockville High Quint
Opens Long, Testing
Season January 9

Richard Montgomery High OF
Rockville opens its basket ball sea-
son on January playing at Shep-
herdstown, w. Va.
Six other games will be played be-
fore opening of the home schedule
on January 20.
The schedule:
Away-January =. shepherdstown: 10.
St. Joseph, Martinsburg, w. Va: IL,
GEORGETOWN Preparatory School, 16, Mary
land Park; 90, Hyattsville; %. Gathers
burg: 81, Sherwood High School, Sandy
Spring.
Home-January %. St. Adams: Febru-
ary 8, Bethesda: 8, Maryland Park; 10,
Briarley Hall: 13. Friends School: 90
Alumni; %, Calvin Coolidge. "a Hyatts-
Vile. 81, GaithersburE.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Gridmun Is Leader
AS Linemun, Back

Frank Grundler, ITS pound
Rollins College player, was NOM
mated this year as most valuable
lineman and most valuable back
the only player in the Nation
so honored in the Assoated Press
Little All-America Survey.
He is a guard who was con-
verted this season to blocking
back.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Kovocs, Bulge, Riggs Promise
D. Tennis Fans Rare reut
Mako to PIoy With Pro Troupe Tomorrow
If Arm Injury Still Keeps Perry Idle

Big time tennis makes another onenight stand in Wash
ington Uine Arena where Bobby Riggs Frank
Bulge and Gene Mako will conjure little excite
with their glorifed snowshoes
They part parcel professional
this sponsored by Alexis Thompson wealthy sportsman
promoter they happen be in the
Mako pinc-hit Perry the Briton
Evening star., 1941-12-28
FIick's S .41o Best
Minor Hittino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.-The
Appalachian Leagues Louis
Uefty) Flick, veteran Elizabeth
ton outfielder, hit at q mighty
.418 pace last summer.
And the Howe News Bureau
proclaimed Flick's mark the high
est in minor league baseball in
194l.
Flick got 210 hits and was 28
points ahead of his nearest rival.
Harry Michel Of johnson City.
also in the Appalachian.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Navy Has Fine 1941
Record, With Grid
Team Leading
ty the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 27.-De.
spite an accelerated academic
schedule prompted by national de-
fense, Navy's 1o varsity sport teams
hung up better records this year
than they did in 1910.
The Middies captured 98 events,
lost 48 and tied in $50 varsity
contests, compared with "a victories,
54 losses and deadlocks in 1910.
Navy's athletic year was marked
by a highly successful football sea-
son which saw the Tar eleven whip
Army the third straight year and
be ranked among the Nations best.
Records of the varsity teams:
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 27-The Orange
Bowl football spectacle-starring
fireball Frankie Sinkwich and the
team that beat Texas-win play its
1e42 engagement here Thursday be-
fore packed house.
Convinced that the shows the
thing, producers Of the relatively
small bowl game gave little con-
sideration to big name talent and
signed Georgia and Texas Christian
as the, actors most likely To play out
q tnrt1l-a-mtnute drama.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Figure-Skoting Tourney
Is Moved to Chicago
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The 1912
national figure skating champion
ships, originally awarded to the St.
Moritz Ice Skating Club of Berke-
ley. Calf, have been transferred to
Chicago.
The reluctance of parents of pos
sible competitors to let their chill
dren visit the Pacific Coast was the
reason given.
The dates remained unchanged,
February 10, 20 and 81.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Beavers TO Relax Today

PINEHURST, N. c., Dec. q [P.-
Coach> Lon Stiner will bring his
Oregon State squad to Pinehurst
tomorrow for luncheon and q day
Of relaxation,
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Treasury Quint Routs
immigration, s. to 18

In a preliminary game to the
1ndiana-George Washington basket
ball clash last night at Riverside
Stadium, Treasury swamped Immi-
grafton, 5316.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Lions, Eagles Have Game Each
On Lean Capital Hockey Card
Pros Are to Entertain Rockets Tonight,
Rovers Visit Eastern Loopers Friday

Washng last lean week of ice hockey until the end OF the
the
Amateur League each play only
home game.
will off tonight stacking up against the Phla
delphia Rockets while Eagles
Evening star., 1941-08-18

suits" in operations elsewhere in
Russia.
Already. the NsI battlef1ag waved
over the Black Sea naval base and
grain port of Nikolaev, Germanys
biggest prize in the 58-day-old cam
paign. and Hitlers forces were
tightening their steel ring around
the port of Odessa, still bigger
prize.
Moscow Raided Again.
Luftwaffe night raiders pounded
Moscow again, and several major
rail lines, the communiQue said.
(The Berlin radio said compe-
tent military quarters disclosed
that Soviet troops driven by the
Germans to the eastern bank of
the lower reaches of the Dniester
River in some places had con-
Quoted scouting operations by
again crossing the river.
This action apparently was in
the Odessa area. The radio, in
the one action cited, said that of
Red Army reconnaissance group
of SO which crossed to the west
ern bank Al were killed and the
remainder wounded and cap
turedD
The German public heard of the
(See GERMANS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Liverpool, Almost Rozed by Nozi Raiders,
Begins Rebuilding Steel and Concrete City

crete roof as a precautlon against
incendiary bombs. There are three
bedrooms, a living room and a
combination kitchen-pantry. They
cost $4,000 to build and can be
rented for $3.50 per week.
After the war the three bedrooms
will be converted into living room,
the living room becomes kitchen
and the kitchen pantry becomes a
pantry and a second floor will be
built on For the present the half
house" makes an excellent air raid
shelter.
Wooden warehouses will be re-
placed by concrete and steel build
ings as they should have been a
long time ago. drove through the
docks and it is obvious that great
number of ships are getting through
from North or South America. The
old mistake of storing goods in local
warehouses is no longer committed.
Trucks and trains rush imports
direct to new points of distribution.
Liverpools foremost architect,
Alderman Shennon, told me of post
war plans for a wide seven-mile
stretch of concrete road to run
parallel with the docks and with
bus routes all the way for dock
workers.
To Rebuild Whole City.
We've been wanting to do this for
a long time, now We can begin to
plan it, thanks to Adolf Hitler" the
alderman told me.
Whatever Hitler iaft standing In
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Gas Dealers Fear
August Supply Wont I
Last Out Month
Rotionine Enforcement
Discussed at Meeting
Of Advisory Boord

Frankly worried that Washington
may run out of gasoline late this
month, before the September quota
is available. the Advisory Board of
the Retail Gasoline Dealers Corp.
met today to discuss a method of
enforcing Petroleum Co-ordinator
Ickes' rationing order. 1t was an
nounced that a mass meeting of
filling station operators will be
called as soon as possible.
We'll have to take the ball and
run with it." commented Harry
Wainwright, research director for
the dealers. IF we should let our
pumps run dry the last two days of
August, it's not likely that Mr..
Ickes will let us handle the ball
again"
Meanwhile, railroads were report
ed today to be establishing new
tariffs at what were described by
the Association of American Rail-
roads as extremely low rates" to
permit the movement of oil from the
Southwest to the Eastern refineries
that previously were served by tank
ships.
A rate Of 171a cents per 100 pounds
has been fixed from Lima. Ohio, a
pipeline terminal to BayWay, N. j.,
and pending before the Interstate
Commerce Commission are applica-
tions to set up rates of Al and A
cents from Singer, Iowa. and Kill
gore, Tex, to Philadelphia and
Marcus Hook, Pa. This application
was filed late last week and action
by the I. c. c. is expected in the next
day or so as the requests of the rail-
roads are being speedily passed on
in view of the emergency.
As the traffic need develops, COM
parable rates will be asked in other
cases, it was explained.
Half dozen filling stations eX-
perimented over Sunday with diff
ferent methods of instituting the
10 per cent cut enforced by the ra-
tioning order, he said. The Advis-
ory Board considered these methods
tSee GASOLINE, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-08-18

Liverpool will be pulled down after
the war and the entire city will be
rebuilt in steel and concrete to give
the city better industrial distribu-
ton and more open spaces for its
poorer citizens. One of the latter,
taxi driver, took me to see the
worst of the damage. We found
entire blocks razed to the ground,
but in most cases, brick shelters
were still there.
They were very cold" the taxi
driver said, but the excitement kept
us warm"
Some of the shelters had pathetic
attempts at decoration. One had
a wallpaper pattern with birds n.y.
ing in blue sky. Another had cush-
ions for a family of six on the wood
en- benches. When I asked the
Lord Mayor whether he anticipated
as heavy raids this winter as last,
he nodded his head vigorously.
They should have been hammer
ing at us now," he said. II hope
that at the end of the war the
Anglo-American countries get to-
gether on a permanent basis. To-
gether they can rule and control
the world and make war an impos-
sibility. Remember that Bismarck
said the greatest mistake Germany
ever made was to allow America to
speak English and not German. I
prophesy that If England and Amer
lea unite in action a. well az In
spirit there will be peace for 100
years"
Evening star., 1941-08-18
By SHEILAH GRAHAM,
Correspondent OF The Star and Nor
American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.

Correspondent of The star and North
American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 18 (By Wire
less).-"The people of Liverpool"
says its white-haired Lord Mayor,
Sir Sydney Jones, ARE healthier
now than when the war started,
particularly the children"
This is startling statement in
view of the fact that the Liverpool
lifeline to the United States in the
Battle of the Atlantic has been
more continuously bombed than any
other city or port of its size in
England and Scotland. In the
Adelphi Hotel where I am staying,
200 rooms were blitzed.
But" says the Lord Mayor, "if
there isn't a house left standing in
Liverpool, we're still going on. I'm
an old man (he's TO-, but I'm opti-
mistic over the prospects of the
next so years. This war has enabled
us to put into operation many long
due social reforms, such as munic-
ipal feeding. Babies and children
now get milk instead of fish and
chips and we are not waiting for
the war to end before starting our
new housing scheme for the bomb
ed people of Liverpool"
Precautions Against Bombs.
Two thousand half houses" are
to be built in the housing scheme
and 200 Of them will be ready by
September. One story Of the new
houses is built Of brick with q con-
Evening star., 1941-08-18
May Will Discuss
Building of Defense

Representative May, DEM
ocrat, of Kentucky will discuss
congressional action toward
building an adequte national
defense, at 1890 o'clock to-
night in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star
and broadcast over the blue
network of the National
Broadcasting Co. The pro-
gram may be heard locally
over Station WMAL.
AS chairman of the House
Military Affairs Committee,
Representative May has re-
manned in close touch with the
Nations military experts and
has been an administration
leader In House debates on
defense legislation. Only last
week he brought to a success
full close the House battle over
extension Of services for e.
lectees.