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Evening star., 1941-12-29
New York Team Nabs
|ntercity Table Net
Tourney Laure|s
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-With six VIC
tories and no defeats in two days
of play in the 18th annual intercity
table tennis tournament, New York
is the winner of the team cham
pionship. The title was the eighth
consecutive for the New York ag-
gregation.
Chicago finished second with five
victories and one loss, dropping the
deciding game of the meet to New
York last night, to 8.
Detroit finished third with four
wins and two defeats, st. Louis and
Indianapolis were tied for fourth,
each with a pair of victories and
four setbacks, while Boston and
Philadelphia were tied for last place,
each winning only one out Of six
games.
Bill Holzrichter Of Chicago won
the outstanding player award.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

mate, is a quiet, inoffensive sort of
chap who Is satisfied to let Kovacs
hold the spotlight. Not so many
years ago Bobby was cocky, too, If
not as loquacious as Frankie, but he
seems to have grown up since he
was here last and to have acquired
more poise and reserve.
Whether this tour will net the
100 grand promoter Alex Thompson
has guaranteed the principals is con-
jectural, although Kovacs is quite
certain it'll hit that figure on the
first bounce. frankie figures he's
worth that much alone ard that
tossing in Riggs, Bulge and Perry or
Mako is akin to sprinkling shreds Of
fresh coconut on the cake.
The opening stand IN New York
did not come up to previous attend
ance marks and there are growing
indications that the war may cut
deeply into Thompson's estimated
ticket sales. Tonight, however, be-
tween 1000 and 5000 fans are ex-
pected to file into Ulines to see the
boys bang away at one another.
Bulge and Riggs are down for the
opening singles engagement tonight
at $3.50. with Kovacs slated to tackle
Mako in the nightcap approximately
an hour later. Doubles will 60 on at
1890.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

lI-lulCl lCd - OOllll NolS ldlllb
Moody, husky fullback of the Morris
Brown team. and Roy Cant. guard,
of Florida Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College Moody led Negro in
dividual scorers of the Nation for
the second straight year, piling up
81 points to run his four-year total
to 275.
Other Backs on Squad.
Other backs making the all
America first team were Clarence
Nix of Texas College, star quarter
back who distinguished himself as
an open-field runner, strategist,
passer, punter and place kicker;
Andrew Hopkins of Prairie View,
Tex, rated the best blocking back
in the Southwest Athletic Confer
ence, and Oscar Givens, a sopho-
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Battle Royal on Mat
For Girls Is Corded

Grace Costello, Jersey City resi-
dent who is two shades better in
everything than Babe Didrikson-
if you can rely on Goldie Ahearn's
press agent-will be one of the four
women in a feminine battle royal
on the portly promoters wrestling
show at Uline Arena next Monday
night.
The Costello gal will be thrown IN
with Hanka Kavetzka. Frances Cor
rigan and Helen Smith-and some
unsuspecting referee.
Oracle is supposed to be one OF
the greatest feminine softball pitch
ers in the game, good basket ball
player, a golfer, swimmer, bowler
and tennis player. She also cooks
and well.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Spring Football Work
Planned by Colleges
Despite War Crisis
Schools Also Are Told
To Prepare for 1912
Pon-Americon Games
1y the Associated Press,

9y the ASSOCIATED Press.
DETROIT, Dec. 29.-The role of
collegiate athletics in the Nations
war effort topped the agenda today
of four administrative conferences
headed by the American Football
Coaches Association.
Consensus of early arrivals who
gathered in hotel lobbies yesterday
was that spring football practice
sessions will be scheduled in 1912
despite the advancements of June
graduation dates at many schools.
D. o. (Tuss) McLaughry OF Dart
mouth, association secretary-treas-
urer, said most coaches probably
would start drills earlier with in
door workouts.
The National Collegiate Athletic
Associations track group and men,
bers Of the American Association of
Track Coaches were told to pre-
pare for the 1912 American
games at Buenos Aires.
DR.. Lloyd w. Olds of Ypsilanti,
Mich, chairman of the National A.
A. U. committee promoting the
event, said he had received instruc-
tions from the New York office to
begin plans for the event.
The Buenos Aires games, designed
to supplant Olypmiad competition,
have been set for November 81 to
December to coincide with the
450th anniversary of the discovery
Of America.
The N C. A. A., which began
It's 36th annual meeting today, will
hold Joint session with the grid
iron coaches tomorrow to discuss
the contribution of competitive
athletics in the war crisis. Also
scheduled to meet tomorrow is the
College Physician Education Society.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Touring Sports Group
Urged as Alternative
To Pan-Am. Games
BY the Associated Press.

by Jfle hSSOCldleu fTtSS.
BERKELEY, Calf, Dec. %
Brutus Hamilton, University of Cali
fornia coach, suggests that, as an
alternative to the projected Pan
American games. the Government
sponsor a South American tour for
a small group of this country's world
champion track and field athletes.\
IF we could choose or 10 men,"
the veteran track and field coach
said in letter to National A. A. u.
headquarters, teach them the
fundamentals of Latin American
customs and traditions, then have
the Government send them down
there as ambassadors at large, they
would do a world of good-perhaps
even more than the official am
bassadors.'
The Pan-American games have
been tentatively scheduled as a war
time substitute for the Olympic
games, but Hamilton said he was
afraid these, too, may have to be
dropped"
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Wi|d|ife Office Shift
To Chicago 10 Ruin
Work, Brown Says
Outdoor Writers Head
Claims 1t Needs Close
Contact With D. G.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 81. Ham,
mond Brown, president of the Out
door Writer'S Association of Amer
lea, is protesting on behalf Of his
organization the recent order by
President Roosevelt removing the
Fish and Wild Life Service from
Washington to Chicago.
Such a move. he says, will mean
eventual disintegration" of the
service. After conferring last week
in Washington with officials of the
service and later with Ding Darling,
former head of the bureau who Is
credited with raising it to its present
high level, Brown said that If the
bureau is forced from Washington
it will be so crippled by designations
of experts that it will take many
years to regain the ground that
would be lost overnight.
The value of the service IS
measured almost in direct ratio to
it's ability to have immediate con-
tact with nearly all other Govern
ment bureaus" said Brown. Moved
to Chicago it speedily would get out
of touch with Washington and its
influence would be minimized and
we will have lost all the ground we
have gained in the past generation
of effort"
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Claude RippY Proves
CaIiber as Golfer
By Shooting a 81
Jocko Miller Runs Into
Flock Of Eagles; Don
Lee Scores an Ace
By WALTER McCALLUM.

A lot of people around town think
Claude Rippy, the tall gent from
Shelby, N. c.. Is the best amateur
golger hereabout. They cannot
prove 1t, because Claude played only
in one amateur tourney this year,
and he didn't 60 far in that one.
Claude didn't compete in the Dis
trict amateur championship the Mid
Atlantic and the Maryland State
title affairs, but that was because
he didn't have time to compete.
Time means money with Rippy. He
happens to be employed In a Job
where his services have to be avail
able every day.
Scores . Snappy 81.
But Rippy. according to many
people, would be the best simon
pure around town If he could COM
pete in most of the Journeys. The
tall Carolina gent plays weekend
golf, but he does all right at that
Witness the ST he scored yesterday
at Washington, against the course
par Of 70. He played with Sam CAL
loway and Adam King, two men who
couldn't move along with the Rippy
pace. and yet he played the course
in three better than par, without
being pushed. And there were sew
eral spots where Claude might have
cut q stroke OF even that good
score.
Jooho Miller. Congressional cad
die master, who seldom gets .
chance to play golf during the sum-
mer, when golf affairs are hum
ming around the club. is singing the
blues nowadays and proclaiming
that the winter Is too long.
It seems that Jocko lately has run
into a flock of eagles. Latest was
the eagle deuce scored on the 387-
yard seventeenth by w. E. Trevett
who holed a 7-iron shot for the
deuce. F. E. McArdle also con-
tributed. Jocko has a valid claim
to a squawk, for t. Bryce Conlyn
also scored an eagle against him
Conlyn reached the eighth green
In two shots and holed l0-foot
putt for a on this par hole.
Don Lee Shoots an Ace.
What may be the last hole in one
scored on local course during l94l
fell to the spoon shot Of Don Lee
Interior Department employe, at the
washington Golf and Country Club
Lee holed a tee shot on the 1877
yarder at Washington in game
with Representative Bishop ano
Robert Nagle.
DR.. Howard Lee Smith, co-holdel
of the Congressional amateur course
record, is out of the game for 2
while. Smith was pitched from a
horse and broke a collar bone.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Fordham Holds Drill
While Missouri
Attends Party
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-The
Fordham Rams gained . practice
session on their New Year Day
Sugar Bowl opponents, the Missouri
Tigers, yesterday, but both were
back at their drilling today.
The Tigers, taking the day of,
came here from their Edgewater
Park, Miss, headquarters to be en-
tertained at a party by Sugar Bowl
Vice President Joseph B. David.
Fordham spent the afternoon on
contact work, signal drills and
blocking assignments at Bay st.
Louis, Miss. More work was on the
card today.
Coach Don Faurot took his boys
home early last night so they could
be ready for q hard drill today and
lighter workout Tuesday.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

they have skidded into a fourth
place tie with the Baltimore Orioles
and prospects Of duplicating last
seasons championship are darker
than a London blackout.
Five full games, or 10 points, be-
hind the leading Johnstown Blue
birds, the Eagles tobogganed into
a fourth-place tie with the Orioles
yesterday by dropping 6-2 deci-
sion to Johnstown while Baltimore
was beating Boston. 20
Three Teams Punish Eagles.
Against Johnstown, New York and
Atlantic City the Eagles have been
an inept outfit. The Eagles have lost
II games and 10 of these defeats
were administered by this trio 1t has
been on the road that the Eagles
have suffered most losing eight
games, winning only four and tying
one.
To wedge their way among the
leaders the Eagles must brace and
hit more consistent pace. Nearly
half the season has evaporated and
Washington has done no better than
Evening star., 1941-12-29

more triple threat Of Morgan Uni
versity, Baltimore.
William (Gus) Gaines, towering
237-pound Negro tackle of North
Carolina College who scored 80
points on field goals and extra
points, made the first team. He
also is a sophomore. A third soph-
omore named on the team was Roger
Pierce of Langston (Okla). who this
year was acclaimed No. l punter Of
the Southwest Conference.
Most Teams Play FrOsh.
Lucius Jones, sports editor Of the
Daily World, said it was not unusual
for sophomore players to make all
America in Negro football since most
Negro schools play freshmen.
The teams:
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Beermen Deal Florists
First Basket Defeat

Senate Beer and Alexandria Po-
lice basket ball teams remain locked
in first place in the Heurich anna
teur cage loop while Jacobsen Flor
lists, previously linked with those
two in a three-way deadlock, drops
down a notch.
Jacobsen was knocked from the
undefeated list yesterday when de-
feated by Senate, 43-34, in the fea-
ture of fve-game program. Alex
sndria Police kept pace by topping
Jewish Community Center, 1926
In other games Petworth c. A
stopped District Silents, 55-43;
Northeast Falcons won over F. B. l.,
54-44, and Hot Shoppe downed
Michelbach, 57-51.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Lucky President
Back With 'Bumu

TUSCALOOSA. Ala, Dec. %
DR.. George H. Denny Is back as
president of the University Of
Alabama and the schools foot
ball fans believe it's a good omen.
DR.. Denny retired in 1897 after
Is years as president. During
that time Alabama won three
Rose Bowl games and tied one.
DR.. Richard C. Foster. who died
last month, succeeded DR.. Denny
and Alabama lost to the Uni
versity Of California in the Rose
Bowl in 1888.
DR.. Denny is back at the helm
and Alabama meets Texas Aggies
in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas New
Year Day.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Snatches Third Spot
In Gross Standing
With 24-474
2l5 Men Shoot Better
Than 400; Women's
Big Scores Few
BY ROD THOMAS.

30 many class A bOWlers were
erased in the qualification test
through the big handicaps given
most Of the field that big scores
from scratch in the final of The
Stars Defense savings tournament
are novel. Hence set of $50 rolled
at the Arcadia by Wendell Meyer of
the B. Y. P. L League stands out
like the Washington Monument.
Meyer took the lead in scratch
sets with lot to spare and probably
will hold it to the end. His was a
consistently fine performance, the
games being 145, 148 and 157.
Meyers handicap of "a gave him a
total OF 474 and third place in gross
sets. In which the leader is Bob
Williams of Rosslyn with 72-485
and the runner-up, Richard Mas
chauer, Hyattsville, with 105-477.
Supplants Wilbur Jones.
IN scratch sets Meyer supplanted
Wilbur Jones of Rosslyn, who rolled
ais.
So far 215 men have beaten 400
for gross set but few women have
topped that figure. Lucy Trundle,
Silver Spring. is high in scratch
and gross with 376 and 69-445,
trailed by Catherine Moloney also
Silver Spring, with $40 and $3.50.
One of the best performances in
tho mems division got Perce Wolfe
practically nowhere in the gross
standing. but his 407, the Hyatts-
vile stars fourth consecutive 400"
tied him for seventh in scratch
competition.
Bob williams is in a fair way
to collect two major prizes what
with 485 in gross sets and 24-192
IN gross games, which is high.
Catherine Moloney's 1913 fig
ures to land fat award
Tonight's Schedule Heavy.
Tonight's schedule is one of the
heaviest of the roll-off, with ses-
sions slated at Hi-Skor. King Pin,
Roeslyn, New Recreation, Lucky
Strike, Columbia, Chevy Chase Ice
Palace, Arcadia. Queen Pin. Mount
Rainier. Lafayette, Convention Hall,
Brookland. Clarendon and George
town Recreation. A dozen plants
will hum with tournament activity
tomorrow night.
The tournament will close Janu-
ary 10, it having been arranged for
. number Of finalists to use their
first league sets after the holidays
for the rOl1-Off
Apparently numerous women plan
to do this. At any rate only a small
portion of the women's field has
bowled
Evening star., 1941-12-29
This Coach Loses
More Than Shirt

BY the Associated Press
CARLISLE, Pa.-Coach Arthur
D. Hahler of Dickinson College
(won 2, lost 5, tied u just did
get through the football season
without losing his shirt-and
now that's gone.
Thieves backed a truck up to
a window of his home while he
was away and carted of silver
ware valued at s700, shotgun,
automatic pistol, ammunition,
several mems suits, numerous
shirts and a bank containing
nearly $50 in silver.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Boys Club Bosketers Battling
For Tournament Final Spots

Central Branch teams will meet. The
two winners play tomorrow at Gen.
tral Branch at 8.
Games today also are listed in the
80. los and 120-pound classes.
In clashes yesterday, Sacred Heart
made a real display of strength in
the 90-pound class with 41-0 vic
tory over Western Gnats; Sacred
Heart trounced Merrick B. c., 48-10,
in the 105-pound division, and Mer-
rick downed Eastern Crows, 3l-25,
at 120 pounds.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Brewers Complaining
Officiating Is Poor

Coach Mack Posnack of the WASH
ington Brewers pro basket ball
team Is lodging q protest about
officiating with John J. O'Brien,
president of the American Basket
Ball League.
Posnack's plant is about last Fri
days game in which the Brewers
were topped at Wilmington, 1928,
but there have been other occasions,
he said. Among other things, Pos
mack complains that on Friday "tlley
called a technical foul on me-some-
thing that isn't supposed to be
done in pro ball" The point made
on that foul WAS the margin of
victory for Wilmington.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

Finalsts in the Boys Club of
Washington annual Christmas
basketball tournament were to be
decided today with title play set for
tomorrow for the survivors in four
divisions
Attracting most attention prob
ably will be the two 135-pound
clashes, both set for 8 o'clock to-
tonight. At Central Branch, Alexan-
dria B. C. meets the winner Of an
earlier contest between Army and
Navy and Merrick B. c., while at
Eastern Branch Georgetown and
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Recall Booters Snotch
First-HuIf Pennunt

Regal Clothiers' team has an un-
defeated. although once-tied. record
to give it the first-half champion
ship in the Washington-Suburban
Soccer League. The Clothiers
clinched matters yesterday by de-
feating Washington British, So, in
a well-played game at Gonzasa
Field.
The defeat left the British IN
second place. In yesterdays only
other game, Marlboro nosed out
Maryland Sports Club. 10, at Ptney
Grove.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Kovocs Plays Up to His Claims
Of Being Best in Pro Tennis

BY his adason the greatest tennis star since the game
invented With plated larynx vouldbe
movie hero and business with keen sense OF
peal expected write and moving chapter
Washington history tonight Une Arena where the latest
professional will make night stand.
dropped in midst yesterday &C
Evening star., 1941-12-29
EuoIes Smear Couch's Record
In Drop to Fourth-PIuce Tie
Threaten to Be First Muckenzie-PiIoted
Team in II Years to Finish So Low

the first time in u of his Eastern Amateur hockey
League coaching poed by Redvers Mackenzie threat
finish below third place misfortune the Wy mentor
Atlantic City and in two previous seasons
here with the Washington Eagles.
The Eagles consistently have been dropping vital games na1
within shouting distance Of first place Now
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Three Morris Brown Grid Aces
Get Negro AI|-Americu Berths
Atlanta Schools Moody, Gent Of Florida
A. and M Are Repeoters This Yeor
BY the Associated Press.


ATLANTA Dec 28-Morris Brown College of Atlanta claimant
OF the Negro national college football championship placed three
today the Negro aAmerca annually by
vote of varsity players in Negro colleges.
The alstar team, announced by the Atlanta Daily World
Negro paced repeaers from the 1910
Evening star., 1941-12-29

Year ago today-John Munski.
University Of Missouri runner,
won Sugar Bowl mile in 4:l5.2;
Fred Wolcott took 120-yard high
hurdles in 0:14.4, and Greg Rice
the 3-mile with time of 14:164.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
SPORTS Mirror

Three years ago - Freddy
Hutchinson, 19-year-old right
handed pitcher, signed Detroit
contract.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Sports Program
ForLocuI Fans
TODAY.

TODAY.
Tennis.
Professional tennis, Bobby
Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Fred Perry
and Don Bulge, Uline Arena,
$50.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17
Pontiac Marine
In Wake Battle

PONTIAC. Doc L. In the val
liant little band of United States
Marines who have beaten of Japa-
neSc attacks on beleagured Wake
Island for the last 10 days is a
Pontiac boy. Pvt. William r
Schumacher -
Private Schumacher Joined the
marines more than two years ago
He was transferred TO Wake
Island two months ago from Pearl
Harbor. Hawaii. according 10 a
letter received by his brother,
y orman Schumacher. Yellow
Truck and Coach employe The
letter came just before the Jap
attack
Word of his welfare is anxiously
awaited by relatives here and by
another brother Pvt Frederick
Schumacher who is stationed with
the United States Army at an out
post i'm Alaska
Besides his brothers the Wake
Island marine has four sisters
Mrs John Yates and Mrs Frank
Mcclure of Pontiac. and Mrs
Niggo Andersen and Miss Esther
Schumacher, both OF Los Angeles
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17
DREAMED AIRPLANES"

Even in his knee pants years
she said he dreamed airplane.
an day and was always building
model planes He entered Purdu,
University and studied aeronaut
zeal engineering but quit in hi,
junior year 10 enlist as an all
cadet
THAT was in January. 1910,
al san Antonio, Texas. In Oct,
1910, he won his commission and
left for Honolulu soon after.
when I visited him, the entire
place was on the alert" Mrs.
Scf&artz revealed They felt.
theyFcouldn't avoid trouble with
Japan. And George told me he
and the Others slept beside their
planes two and three nights n
week, 50 they could go up at
moments notice.
"Often I'D ask George 10 ac-
company me hut he'd say,
Mother. want TO spend as
much time a ! can in the air
and get every minutes flying
experience possible.'
"Once | few over Pearl Har-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17

WILMINGTON. Del, Dec. l.
ms Lieut. George Welch. whC
blasted four japanese planes from
the skies over Honolulu although
battling ten-to-one odds. "woulC
not hurt a hy but nevertheless,
is a determined young man who
docs whatever task 20 which he
is assigned
Mrs. George Schwartz. with a
proud twinkle in her eye. told of
her 23-year-oid sons fondneSs for
and his courage.
"Of course / am proud that
he's doing his duty" she beamed.
we can't feel sure of the
future il is hazardous
hut George was never boy
10 >hirk his duty. He can be
counted on"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17
Flint Brothers
Killed in Action
Time. star Correspondent

FLINT. Dec. IA Flint father
today held two Christmas cards
received from his sons and two
Official navy kilograms announc-
ing their deaths IA the war IN the
Pacific
The Christmas cards were the
last messages received by Herbert
". Ripley of 42O Cottage Grove
avenue. from his sons. William. 10,
and Edwin. y, who were killed no.
action fighting the Japs The
father was asked by the navy not
to reveal The name Of their ship
or us station
The deaths brought 10 three the
number of GencSee County youths
killed IN action so far IN the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17
Form Kelly Air Unit
Named in Honor Of Heroic Captain Who
Fell After Sinking Nippon BattIeship

The first Colin p. Kelly Cadet
Unit, army flying squadron named
IN honor Of Captain Kelly who ieil
off Luzon after sinking a Japa-
nese battleShlp. viii be recruited
IN Detroit. II was announced today
by Capt. Richard Gillespie, De
troit recruiting head
Capt. Ward Estes viii bring an
army examining board 20 Detroit
on Monday 10 select the 20 ayia-
ton cadets 10 form the No ]
unit Men 20 10 70 years old who
have had two years OF college or
can pass a mental examination
Will be eligible All must also pass
physical examinations.
Captain Kelly was rho first out
standing hero Of World War II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17

Young U. S. Altman Who Bageed Four Jap Planes
Wouldn't Hurt Fly -. Unless :.

Dor with him. I remarked that
the harbOr with it, docks and
enormous oil tanks seemed
pretty vulnerable To an air at
tack.
He said. why, all the oils
been taken out and stored un-
der earth. We're watching
every minute. II this were a
commercial plane, we'd have
been shot down long ago. No
commercial planes are permit
ted to fly over the harbor.'
Georges younger brother, Dehn
also is in the United States All
Corps, stationed at McChorc
Field, Washington.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-17

daughter in Honolulu is alive and
well-but that's about all they
could find out in a letter received
and a transoceanic phone call for
which they waited more than six
hours. Dudley reported today.
The daughter, DR.. Dorothy Dud-
ley, is a dentist at Honolulu whose
office is in a high building over
looking thee harbor-but it was
Sunday when the JapS attacked