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Evening star., 1941-11-13
Champions Seek
bSouthpaw,
0utfie|d Talent
MocPhoiI Dickering
With Reds, Who Eye
Catcher Phelps
Bv GAYLE TALBOT.


NEW YORK. Nov 13-If bank
roll of approximately s250,000 and
some excellent trading material hold
any charms for rival club owners,
President Larry Macphail Of the
Brooklyn Dodgers has no intention
of standing pat with the club that
won this years National League
flag.
In the first place, he admitted
today. the Dodgers badly need a
good left-handed pitcher and an
other outf1elder who bats right
handed
And in the second place, he said
with twinkle, both the Dodgers
and the Cincinnati Reds had better
get busy and do something If they
expect to live in the same league
year.
Il just got through telling Warren
Giles that in this letter" he said.
waving a copy of his epistle to the
general manager of the Reds. War
ren would like to do some trading
and I've told him I hope We can get
together to our mutual benefit. be-
cause st. Louis is going to be tough.
Ready to Make Deals.
Giles would like TO have Babe
Phelps. He needs a catcher, and
it's no secret that we're going to
trade Phelps to somebody But it
depends on what he's willing to
give up to get Phelps
Sure, We would like to have
Johnny Wander Nicer. He's the
left-hander We need. And SO would
Giles like to have our Pete Reiser.
But I doubt he would give UP
Vandy, and I know we're not trading
Reiser-though one Of my rules is
that no player is Indispensable.
Maybe we'll get together on some
thing
That. said Larry. was as far as
he had gone toward making any
deals to strengthen the club that
was beaten by the Yankees. 4 to /,
in the World Series. The only
other "feeler" he had had was from
/ the Boston Red Sox. and he said
it would be impossible to obtain
waivers on the player the SoX
wanted.
For a club that was supposed to
have been on the verge of bank
ruptcy few years ago, the Dodgers
have made remarkable financial
recovery under MacPhail He had
a statement on his desk today show
ing that there was about a quarter
Of million dollars in cash in the
clubs accounts.
I Owens Miss ExcusabI
I Sure. it's mine to do with as I
please-less operating expenses. Of
course said MacPhail. The club
is in fine shape. even though we
made almost nothing out of the
World Series. We and the Yankees
got real split out of only one game.
the fifth. and our expenses putting
on the series ran to nearly S8O.OOO
1t should have gone seven games
but guess that's an old story now.
There's this much I would like
to emphasize though: Mickey Owen
should never be blamed for miss
ing that pitch in the sixth game.
(See BASEBALL, Page DID
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Is Runner-Up
To Todd in yardage
Returning Punts
Giont Star Averages ia
With Redskin at 1866;
Bears Big Guiners
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.--Tuffy Lee
mans of New York ran himself
right among the leading punt ham
dlers of the National Pro Football
League last week when he returned
three kicks against Detroit for 81
yards.
Leemans now has carried back L.
punts for an average of l24 yards
which is topped only by Dick Todd
of Washington. who has l65
average in 13 tries WhiZZer White
of Detroit has handled the most
puntS, 10.
Boyd Brumbaugh. Pittsburgh full
back. returned one kickoff last week
and tied White for most kickoff re-
turns, 10. Dick Rifle of Pittsburgh
took over the leadership in pass in.
Perceptions. He derailed one against
Philadelphia, his fifth, to break a
tie with teammate Art Jones.
Sammy Baugh of Washington has
averaged 4s9 yards in % punts
Dean McAdams of Brooklyn has q
sos average, but has kicked only
half as many times as the Redskin
veteran.
Meantime, team figures disclose
Chicago's Bears would be half way
to a first down every time they left
the huddle. if they could apply
statistics literally. Figures show the
bears have averaged 6.61 yards q
play in seven games.
Evening star., 1941-11-13

more with a dumbbell than a
drill sergeant. He's a noted
weight litter. Bob Uhle, Detroit
Tigers southpaw, is at Camp
Grant, ILL.,. and Johnny Gerlach.
formerly with the White Sox, st.
Paul and Atlanta, is training as
an airman at Montgomery, Ala.
The Corsicana. Tex. Army Air
Activities School doesn't have a
football team because of the risk
of getting good flyer busted up.
but there are plenty of players on
hand and nearly every cadet was
an athlete in college.
Navy men around New Orleans
plan to form teams in basket ball,
softball, bowling, track and may
be a few other sports, and 1t.
Comdr Garry Bennett of the
9th Naval District is plugging
golf because he used to coach
Stanford's golf team.
Today's guest star-Billy Kelly,
Buffalo Courier Express: Freddie
Cochrane. welterweight boxing
champion. suffered "a defeats
during his ring career. Evidautly
Evening star., 1941-11-13

and Fred Gore cast in the role OF
offensive stars. Gore is an end, but
rated fifth back because of his
ball-toting ability. Knupp is a first
rate passer, and the two team up
to give the Bisons a potent air at
tack. The Pennsylvanians may not
need their overhead game at all. for
G. W. scouts report they have a
running attack as good as any-if
not better than any-the Colonials
have encountered this season.
Bucknell is scheduled to leave
LeWisburg this afternoon, arriving
here in time for late workout un-
der the lights at the stadium. The
squad is in good shape with Walter
Szot completely recovered from a
knee injury incurred three weeks
ago and Al Magagna, sophomore
halfback injured in the Gettysburg
game last week. ready to start.
Reinhart probably will not be able
to announce George Washington S
starting lineup until after tOday's
fin9l workout, although it appears
thats Stub Martinson and Sam
RomaSco will be called on to bear
the brunt of the attack.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
5o|em, 'Y.PIayCoach
Is Given New Term
AT Syracuse Helm

SYRACUSE. N. Y, Nov. 13.-The
football coach who invented the
novel "Y" formation and who
turned his center around to face
the backfeld will continue in
charge at Syracuse.
Rehiring of big. -shouldered
Ossie Solem three DAYS before the
Oranges renewal Of its 50-year-old
rivalry with Colgate was viewed as
vote of confidence for soft-spoken
48-year-old Ossie
Lewis P Andreas. director of ath-
letics, said the term of Solem's con-
tract would be decided later.
Solem's "Y" formation, a varia-
ton of the IT gave Syracuse one
of its most successful seasons in a
decade. losing only to Cornell and
Penn State.
Solem's four previous Syracuse
teams won 16 games, dropped II
and played ties.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Big Awards May Not Aid Di Mag, ComIIi Financially
Amy Air School Avoids Grid for Injuries Monmouth Five Pos oPne

the new champ is a difficult chap
to discourage.
Second Pitt over Fordham
selector to report is Bob Fusco of
the Saratoga Springs IN. "
Saratogian. He noted that re-
suits of the series had followed
the Saratoga -Mechanicville High
games for six years and picked
Pitt after Saratoga's seventh-year
win.
John Jacobs. veteran Oklahoma
U. track coach. called the Big
Six 2-mile run. lap by lap, a few
days in advance winding up with
a victory for Bob CHM of
Nebraska with Oklahoma's Dick
Smethers and Bill LYDIA having
outside chances. They ran 1928
and so did the teams Jacobs
figured as contenders.
Quote, unquote-Nathan Podolofi
New Haven promoter, whose
license was revoked for staging
forbidden team wrestling match
What is the difference between
having two clowns or four clowns
tn the ring7"
Evening star., 1941-11-13
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.


NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Looks
as if the 1941 most valuable player
awards won't be much help in
getting Joe Di Maggie and Ralph
Camilli pay raises next season.
Di Mag is dragging down about
as many chips now as the Yanks
are willing to hand out and
Brooklyn bosses aren't entirely
sold on Camilli's hitting, espe-
cially when he goes into one of
those slumps. Di Maggie told his
San Francisco pals recently that
he may ask 5000 more because
it costs a lot to bring up child
these days.
Moving the hockey Americans
across the river will give Brooklyn
a monopoly on the Reds" A
Brooklyn scribe says: ''We1l have
Red MacPhail, Red Dutton and
in-the- Red Topping" The cham.
pionship belt Nat Fleischer gave
Lesnevich the other dAy vas the
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Dodgers Fearful of Cards. Out Spend Trade Freely Strengthen for 42
Win, Lose or Draw
At the Party on Griffith's Lawn
By FRANCIS {. STAN


by the of H. NJ nusous Formidable
football
angle
eventually wrihng human bodies
Something arge-scale ball
that after three cheers for rugby and
dofng willingly will
football After all something they understand The Warner system
6yarod child all about the Tfomatlon Double
something else Joe what people are the
British!
The British
Ralph Matthews yoman oil
North Carolina 1T
Matthews politely
football call it. Nor as interesting as
Evening star., 1941-11-13
35-Pound Gridders
Pluy for City Title

Eastern Branch and Georgetown
Branch 105-pound football. teams
will meet on Saturday at IL am
on Anacostia gridiron No. l to de-
eide the City Football League cham
pionship in their division. Both are
undefeated and united.
In preparation for the game, East
ern Branch will hold a pep rally
tomorrow night at the clubhouse and
a parade to the field on Saturday
Evening star., 1941-11-13
106th awarded by the ring maga-

106th awarded by the ring maga-
zine.
After that Texas-Baylor tie last
Saturday a wire from Waco, Tex,
was received at the Dallas Asso-
ciated Press Bureau. 1t said:
Understand man dropped dead
at College Station. Please check
and see if man was Jinx Tucker
of News Tribune. He predicted
Texas, so: Baylor nothing. then
went to College Station for S. NJ.
U. game" According to the latest
report Jinx had survived both the
shock and his own efforts to ex-
plain.
Fort Monmouth On. j. is will
ing to match its basketball
schedule with any other service
team when it comes to tough
ness. The signalmen have listed
18 games, including such rivals
as Long Island u, Rutgers.
Scranton u, John Marshall and
the Penn junior varsity.
The boys at Fort Knox. KY,
olAim Pvt. Bob Fleming can do
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Upset Of Gophers
Sensed at Iowa
By the Associated Press.

6S tne Associated PreSS.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 13-
There's a hunch spreading
through the Tall Corn State that
Iowa's Hawkeyes may spring an
other upset on Minnesota's Gold
en- Gophers this Saturday.
Two years ago almost to the
day powerful Minnesota foot
ball team rolled into Iowa City
tagged as pre-game favorite.
What happened? Why, ALL
America Nile Kinnick tossed a
touchdown pass to Bill Green
with less than four minutes to
play and the stunned Gophers
were beaten, 13 to 8.
Since that surprising triumph
BY Iowa's "Ironmen," the Co
pliers have racked up Is straight
victories, but that "old feeling"
is going the rounds that some.
thing similar will happen Satur-
day.
Evening star., 1941-11-13

Georgetown is expected to win the
three remaining games on its sched-
ule, beginning with Saturdays tus.
sic with North Carolina State at the
ball park, and if the Hoyas come
through Maestro Jack Hagerty and
his assistants can step up and take
a bow.
Hagerty's work this year has been
overlooked because his boys were
booted off their high pedestal by
Virginia Tech and Temple on Sue
cessive week ends, and then dropped
another game to Boston College
after snatching verdict over
George Washington. But, by and
large, the old field general has
done himself proud thus far. and
if he happens to bag those last three
birds there won't be the faintesl
whisper of complaint.
Not from school officials. at least,
for Father John J. Kehoe S. j.,
faculty director of athletics. was
saying only today that Jack has
done a grand job with his material
and the school is we'll aware Of that
fact.
Father Kehoe Compliments Him.
II think he has done remarkably
we'll" Father Kehoe said. when
you consider that we lost Mike Kop-
elk, our best punter, Earl Audet,
who should have been a great tackle,
and several promising freshmen in
addition to the 18 varsity men who
graduated. Look over the list and
you'll see that Jack didn't have
much help from the freshmen and
we counted heavily on them to re-
place the seniors
1t is significant that of the IA
freshmen WHO came II this year
only two. Joe GvorcvCe2k end Ben
Reiocs, have fccn used fairy regu-
larly, althouph some Of the others
have shuttled in and out of the line
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Y. N. !. Grid Favorite
But Terps Have High
Hopes Of Winning
Maryland Sees Triumph
If 1t Can Get Attack
To Clicking Saturday

Virginia Military Institute. with
its rd-charging line and swivel
hipped backfeld probably will be
the choice over Maryland Saturday
at College Park, but if the Terps
happen to click on all cylinders the
Keydets may be forced to beat a
hasty retreat
Victories over V. NJ I. and WASH
ington and Lee next week would
give Prof. Jack Faber's pupils 500
average for the season and with
that goal in mind they are toiling
overtime this week. But it isn't a
lack of work that is responsible for
Maryland's. merely the caliber of
the opposition and its inability to
/ synchroniZe the full power of its
attack.
Appears to Have Weapons.
If it could get the same brand
of passing it showed against Florida,
for example, coupled with the line
plunging Jack Wright came up with
against Western Maryland, plus the
kicking Bernie Ulman displayed in
the Rutgers and Georgetown games,
Maryland would be tough to beat
on any given afternoon. Its pass
ing never has been really bad, but
while it piled up yardage on Penn,
Duke and most of the others. the
overhead game paid off only against
! Florida.
! Maryland's running attack could
be effective. too. if Elmer Rigby got
some blocking on hts end runs or
off-tackle slants. Rigby filtered
through Georgetown's husky line for
several sizable gains last week end
with more help might have gotten
out in the open where he would
have been harder to bring down
than a bumblebee. Rigby also is
dangerous southpaw passer and
that. mixed with his running. would
make him a genuine threat against
v. M. I.
Two Tackles Are Injured.
Maryland's line play may be az
fected by the loss of Ralph Burlin
or Max Hunt. both right tackles
who are nursing injuries. Burlin is
expected to take his place in the
starting lineup, but Hunt, still hob
bling on a twisted ankle, is listed
among the doubtful.
The Terps are spending most o1
their time working on defensive
maneuvers designed to stop Joe
N1,,ha and sRoSb" Pritchard v M
is twin powerhouses Muha bea
Maryland personally last year al
Lynchburg and although his team
has not been winning consistently
is still travelling at fast gate
Ditto for Pritchard, who can be q!
troublesome as his teammate on {
good day.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Cardinal Gridders Called

Cardinal A. c. football team
claimants of the District 150-pound
championship, travel to Richmond
Sunday to meet the Optimists eleven
Players are requested by MANAGER
Jack Hoffman to attend a meeting
tomorrow at pm. at 215 Twelfth
street NE.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Hoyos Figure to Capture Final
Three Tits for Fine Season;
Hagerty Doing Great Job

up in relief roles. Hagerty has de-
pended on his veterans in the rough
spots and keeping them keyed up
and at their best, after the inevita-
BILE let-down that had to follow the
teams three-year sojourn with the
elite was no easy task. especially
with every opponent laying in am
bush for the Hoyas.
And, if Hagerty knew this was
being written, he'd say he hadn't
done anything particularly note
worthy. but that George Murtagh
and "Mush" Dubofsky. end and line
coach. respectively, deserved most Of
the credit. They have done a swell
Job. but nothing extraordinary
That is. Georgetown's line and
Tanker play has been of such
quality since the pair of 'em signed
up that it is only noticeable when
not good and there have been few
opportunities to criticize it.
May Run Into Trouble.
All this and a nickel will buy
Hagerty and his aides cup of
coffee Saturday against State and
it's the same old story on the Hill
top. The squad and students ex-
pect another easy victory while the
Wolfpack actually may give the
Hoyas all the trouble they bargain
for.
Georgetown is not at its best,
physically. what with Gyorgydeak
out of action the second consecutive
week, Ben, Bulvin, Lou Falcone. Ben
Reiges and Chris Pavich all on the
ailing list. But it will rule a favor
ite over the visitors, nevertheless. al
though State can match George
towns record i'll the matter of
games won and lost and with Art
Faircloth. District boy, in the key
position. has a gradeA passing at
tack that might prove disastrous to
the Hoyas. L. F. A.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
It's No Game for Some American Stors

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dribbe.
for somebody like Turk Edwards for instance Heavens
a all
either can't forward while
the admiration
i would stop there.
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Fisher. That
Iuustous
Then the underdogs
Leading Seaman Sweeands In rugby
SWeetands
there 1913 tiei
Adolph whip chaps such these
a something.
Evening star., 1941-11-13
It's q Jolly Different Come

On things the British and the Americans
Sheridan Glenn Martin bombers We
with Madeleine Carroll and
rugby and Wsehshy tell
Petty scored of the goals in the 2o-0
English football soccer to
explained Its the big game like football
national paStme like oasepaH
football the out
Petty Ofcer
all of the In rugsers we must
period be strong
for all speak and "hen
you place It's jolly different game
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Some Thnqs Don't Make for Light Reading

Snaler Charles West
"Twonl"
apooecay That
Halifax undoubtedly
them had i-and rugby something new
1t bat
developed losing 1 TO and 1915 in previous
the
getting
fresh beginning the Formidable had
had been in great battle
a Seaa
80
dabe werea
90. That
kick
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Georoiu Come q SeIIout

Georgia Georgia Tech game in
Atlanta November 20 Is q complete
senout. guaranteeing . crowd Of at
least $1,000.
Evening star., 1941-04-24
Racing Results
Hovre de Grace

FIRST RACE-Purse 81 0o0: CLAIMING
maiden "-yesr-olds 1le miles.
seed Pateh ,Si:to, 1920 $50 go
Goldsn Novice 'Duppsb $40
Time. 4 :S22s
Also Isn-Cauel. Orkney Isle Bar Ship.
Metsb' Wire Me and Brilliant Girl
SECOND RAcE-Purse, $1,000: 2-yesr-
Gate Posi- 'shelhamer' $50 $50 80
Ponv Ballet tHsnfoTd) 80
Time, 0.542s
Also ran-Prince GoyanE. Wsrlee. = wal
ter Halght. Bole Novice, Empire Isle,
Three Mines and False Crack
DAILY Double paid S103 30l
35yesr-olds and Up, furlonss.
Elmaoa KEEPER 1880 !" "a $50
Dividend tScottI 1850 J.. 30
Hazel Lee tMadden) 1900
Time. LIS
lee Miss Bride Cockiebur. Grand Court.
Sun Pan, Sun Voter, Big Jack
FOURTH RACE-Purss - 900, cla i'm
inE 4-year-olds and uD. s .furlonss
Pomlva tWatSon) 1870 so
Morstep fSIStoI 10
Time, 1.l4
Also rsn-My Elsie Marco. Chariene
Crack Favor. Panoonna and Creepy Mouse
FIFTH RACE-Purse. 81 coo: claiming,
3-year-olos ano UP; furlonEs
Sack Ode CamilliSl $50 60 out
Smart Crack tBerRl $40 out
Tony Steel fMattisonl out
Time, l:12as.
Also Tan-FosoSo.
Evening star., 1941-04-24
Won Werra Was Justified
In Fleeing U. s., Nazis Say
By the Associated Press.

6N iUt hsSOCtdAcC TIcSh-
BERLIN, April 24.-AuthoriZed
sources declared today that young
Baron Franz Won Werra, sublieuten-
ant in the German Air Corps. was
justified in jumping bail and fleeing
the United States rather than face
deportation proceedings because.
they said, International law is no
longer honored by the United States.
For $4,000 he bought his free
dom" these sources said referring
presumably to the bail posted by
the New York German Consulate,
although it amounted to 10000.
1T was purely a business PROPOSE
ton.
When Won Vera realized from
his treatment that the American
hospitality, of which Attorney Cen
eral Robert H. Jackson speaks, bore
such dangers for German and that
international law no longer is in
force in the United States he. of
course, had the right no longer to
count on police justice
Won Werra made no promise to
stay" the spokesman continued.
Paying $4,000 was a mere money
transaction. Any Englishman would
have acted like Won Werra."
Won Werra escaped from a prison
train near Prescott. Ontario. and
was arrested in Ogdensburg. N. Y.
January "a. after he had crossed the
St. Lawrence River in a rowboat.
Evening star., 1941-04-24
FIRST RACF-
Continued From First Page


Hotel des VoyageurS in Riom and is
exactly the same as that served to
hotel clients except that the proprie-
tor occasionally goes fishing and pre-
vides fresh trout,
Like everybody else in France, they
are required to give up food tickets
in exchange for what they eat.
They are not restricted as To the
number of visits they may receive
from their families or as 10 mail.
which is heavy.
M. Daladier's eldest son. Jean, re-
Gently lunched with him and his
younger son and daughter visit the
former Premier frequently.
Mime. Robert Blum. the former
Socialist Premier's daughter n-laW,
has lived at a hotel in Riom since
last September and bicycles to the
chateau each day TO see her father
in-Iaw. Her husband is a prisoner
in Germany,
M. La Chambre's wife lives IN
Vichy and takes the train over
every morning and spends the after
noon with her husband in his room,
returning to Vichy every night.
Nine. La Chambre told lie Matin
her husband suffers physically and
above all, mentally"
Gen. Gamelins wife, who lives in
Lyon, visits him once week. Always
she walks along back paths from the
station to the prison.
Two other former French leaders
Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and
Georges Mandel, former interior
minister, are held at Val-Les- -Bains.
They frequently are brought TO Riom
for interrogation by the court in
vestigating Frances war guilt"
Evening star., 1941-04-24
lindbergh S Name Booed
By Textile Workers
Earlier Story on Page B-1ol

Earlier Story on Page Bio.
e, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-The name
OF Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was
booed today from the floor of the
Textile Workers Union of America
convention which adopted, after
lively debate. a resolution advo-
eating "all-out aid" to Great Brit
ain and other nations fighting the
axis powers.
The booing occurred when George
Baldanzl, union official. mentioned
Col. Lindbergh's address here last
night and described him as a good
aviator" and "a good stooge for
Hitler"
The resolution voiced support for
President Roosevelt's policies to
make America the arsenal of de-
mocracy," and urged establishment
of an invincible Navy and air force.
and an Army sufficiently large to
meet any emergency that might
arise.
1t expressed belief that nations
OF the Western Hemisphere could
remain out of the war If We adopt
these policies and do these things
speedily and with full resolution
and full purpose"