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Evening star., 1941-03-26
Basket Ball Coaches
Would Eliminate
3-Second Rule
Convention Recommends
STANDARD Equipment;
Norgren President

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 26.-The Ma
tion's college basket ball coaches, in
almost perfect agreement that courts
and playing equipment be stand
ardized, have managed to get to-
gether on one rule change they con-
slider desirable.
Concluding the two-day conven-
ton of the National Association of
Basket Ball Coaches yesterday, they
voted to recommend to the National
Rules Committee that the 3-second
rule be eliminated. Under present
rules, a player is allowed to retain
possession of the ball in front of the
foul line only three seconds.
Other recommendations were that
the backboards be of standard
6-feet-by-4-feet size and preferably
of glass; that the court be "a feet in
length from basket to basket and
SO feet wide; that the ball be q
laceless stitch ball Of brown leather
inflated to Is pounds. and that court
lighting be made to conform to
specifications of the Rules Com
mittee's Research Committee, headed
by "Phog" Allen of Kansas.
Nels Norgren, University of Chi
cago coach, was elected association
president to succeed Nat Holman of
the College of the City of New York
who was voted the associations first
award for "the outstanding con-
tribution to the game of basket ball.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
The
SPoRTLIGHT
Trouble for Louis Due
In Year, Keurns Says
BY GRANTLAND RICE,


ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. March
26 (N.ANAD-A fragrant whiff
from the past joined the March
winds that came in from the Gulf
His name is Jack Kearns, better
known as Doc, the most dramatic
fight manager in the story of the
rosin and the ring.
The whiff came from far away
Shelby where Doc exploded a num-
Der of banks as Dempsey outpointed
Tom Gibbons 1t came from the
ringside of the Dempsey -Firpo fight
where Kearns beat Dempsey to the
smelling salts in the wake of Firpo's
hammering right fist.
KearnS, as keen as ever and just
as alert. still is looking for another
heavyweight who can bring back his
lost glory, and also some of his de-
parted cash.
Kearns is full proof concerning
the scarcity of good heavyWeights.
He knows fighters and he can trail
them from far off but, after nearly
20 years search. he hasn't been able
to locate a good one after his span
with Jack Dempsey and Mickey
Walker.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Navy Nine 10 Start
19-Game Schedule
On Saturday
Dartmouth Is Opponent
In inaugural; Middies
Are Reported Ready

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March as
Navys l94l baseball team opens q
19-game schedule here Saturday
against Dartmouth.
working his squad indoors for sew
eral weeks and reports his men
ready.
Early graduation last February
robbed the team of Lefty Schoen-
baum, pitcher, and Tommy Blount,
shortstop. Topping the list of re-
turning lettermen is Capt. Norman
c. Smith, crack twirler.
Jack Brennan, hard hitter, is the
outstanding prospect from the 1910
plebe nine. He played first last year,
but Bishop is trying him out at
third and the outfield.
Here's how the squad shapes up:
Catchers-Jack Wallace and Johnnie
I.ebron, foremost candidates, with Lefty
Lavrakas pressing them.
Pitchers-Capt. Smith and Bob Seiden
n.eo Hurt. Joe on Donahee sS1 and Paul Lacy ars
promising juniors.
sdRe s s.een9 Ss5nfG s.n su. a. a ssorss 5s
and Brennan at third
outtisId1asl nnh nIs AL, HaIEood' Ernie smith
Jack Shepherd in reserve.
March 80. Dartmouth
April =. Harvard: f. Vermont: 5, Cor.
nell: Q. Pennsylvania: l2. Syracuse; Is.
Michigan; 10, William and Mary; %.
West Virginia; 26. North Carolina, 30,
Lafayette.
May 8 Duke:'7 Penn State: 10, Penn
sylvania; IA. Maryland; II Notre Dame
at South Bend: "a, Pittsburgh: 81.
Georgetown: 81, Army at West Point
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Powers, Hoya Pitcher
Not Ready for Use
In Opening Tilt

An injury to Winnie Powers pitch
ing arm probably will keep that
worthy off the firing line when
Georgetown inaugurates its diamond
campaign against Dartmouth Mon
day at the Hilltop.
An ailing fipper has not responded
to treatment and Coach Joe Judge
is afraid it's going to delay his debut.
Powers absence will cause a revision
of Judges original plans, which
called for Winnie, John Dieckelman
the portly portsider. and Bill
Wixted to handle three-inning shifts
against the Indians.
Dieckelman and Wixted will be
used, of course, but Joe Welles and
Danny Murphy, rookie right-hander
and southpaw, respectively, will bat
tie it out for the third three-inning
tour.
Evening star., 1941-03-26

Il always felt I could have beaten
Lou Ambers in 1886 or 1887, but I
didn't get a crack at him. When I
finally did meet Ambers I was past
my peak and they made me come in
at 1873 pounds. 1 was never any
good carrying more than l35
pounds"
Fought for Years.
Life hasn't exactly been an ele-
CANT existence for Scotty. He fought
for IA years and wound up with little
to show for it except nice wife and
daughter and caulif1owered ears. He
was pretty hot article here for a
while and Goldie Ahearn, who then
was matchmaker for Joe Turner
used Scotty frequently Matchmaker
for Turner now is Gabe Menendez,
who was Scott's manager.
1t took years for Scott to reach a
modest flStic prominence, though
and considerably less time to slip
into ring oblivion. He's 80 now, with
403 bouts behind him. He only
weighs 140. but is entertaining no
ideas of a comeback.
I'm just as happy as 1 would be
if I had good sense" laughs Scotty
II don't start swinging when I hear
streetcar bell clang and that's a
lot to be thankful for I'm giving
this job all / have in the hope I'll
work into something better in the
school system. This kind of work
beats fighting"
Scott hasn't seen but two or three
fights since he quit the ring. He
divorced himself from battling for
ever and started in another direc-
ton. If the combination of a sense
of humor. ambition and sincerity
means anything, Cowboy Howard
Scott won't be a stoker very long.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Five Players Divide
Honors in District
Badminton Event
Seven Finals on Cord
In Championships at
Kensington Tonight

It'll be Shep Holt against Joe
Baker and Polly Thompson against
Charlotte Decker for the District
mems and women's badminton
singles championships tonight at
Kensington with all but Holt in
| volved in as many other title
matches as it is possible for a con-
testant to be.
After meeting each other, the
Misses Decker and Thompson will
pair against Frances Rowan and
Mary Wilson for the women's doubles
title, while Baker will team with Ed
Mackall against Mac Whitcomb and
Bill Edwards for the mems tandem
crown Finally, Miss Thompson and
Baker will play Miss Decker and
Mackall for the mixed doubles
championship.
Seven Finals on Program.
A consolation final between Miss
Sanabeck and Miss Pope will open
the seven-f1nal program at 7:30
o'clock with women's singles, mems
singles, women's doubles, mems
doubles, mems singles consolation
and mixed doubles being run of
in that order. Wilkinson and
O'Donoghue are finalists in the
mems consolation flight.
Holt, Kenyon College star home
on spring vacation, who was a
finaist in the tournament five years
ago, last night earned the right to
meet Baker by defeating Scott
Pollock, 15-11, 15-9. Bakers semi
final victim was Bill Rainey by
scores of 15-3, 15-3. Miss Decker
defeated Mrs. Rowan in their semi
final match, III, Ill. while Miss
Thompson rallied to whip Margaret
Graham, Sill, Ill, lis.
Easy for Decker Thompson.
In women's doubles, Misses Decker
and Thompson defeated the Catlett-
Ryan combination, 15-3. 1916, and
the Rowan Wilson team defeated
Norment- -Willoughby. 15-8. 15-7,
while in the mems competition,
Baker and Mackall defeated Faulk-
ner and Purinton, 15-4, 15-3, while
Edwards and Whitcomb defeated
Wilkinson and Sparrow, 15-9, 15-7.
The Faulkner Graham couple bowed
to Baker and Thompson in one of
the mixed doubles semis, 15-4, 15-4
while Edwards and Edwards were
the victims of Mackall and Decker.
15-11, 15-7.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Chilean Skiiers 10 Be
Constantly on Move
During Stay Here

A full 24-hour program faces the
Chilean ski team, scheduled to ar
rive at Union Station at 4:45 O'Clock
this afternoon en- route home from
a 6,000-mile tour. 1t has been in
the United States since January 27,
since which date 1t has competed
in both Eastern and Western meets.
Senor Don Rodolfo Michels, the
Chilean Ambassador, will hold a re-
ception for the team at the Embassy
tonight while a visit to the Pam
American Union will inaugurate to-
morrow's festivities. Following that
the skiiers will go on a sightseeing
tour, including the White House,
and then attend a luncheon in their
honor at the National Press Club
given by the Ski Club of Washing
ton. They will leave at o'clock
for New York, from where they will
sail for Chile on Friday.
While here the team will stop at
the Dodge Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
SoftboIIers to Hold
Meeting Tomorrow

Heads of all softie leagues in the
city will attend a general meeting
of the District Softball Association
at o'clock tomorrow night in the
Tlmes-Herald Building.
Winfree johnson, commissioner oi
the sport here, will preside. Among
the new business items will be the
choice of a new secretary to take
the place of Harold B. Vincent, who
will resign after seven years duty
because of personal duties.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Kennel Clubs Busy With Plans
For Annual Shows; Judges
For Old Dominion Chonqed

or fourth place in every cocker
class, and considering that there
probably are more regular classes
in this breed than in any other,
the array is formidable. It re-
quired a whole page of the bulletin,
even using more authorizations than
Will Judy ever dreamed of, to list
them all.
The fourth club to sponsor classes
at the Old Dominion show is the
National Capital Training Club.
Harvey J. Brown. president and
chairman of the Bench Committee.
This organization has put up Ster-
ling silver trophies for first and
second places in each class, and
other trophies down to sixth place
in both novice and open classes and
fourth place in the utility class.
Tracking Tests Slated April 27.
Those who have dogs competing
for the companion dog excellent and
utility dog degrees may avail them
selves of the tracking tests which are
being held by the Baltimore County
Kennel Club whose show is sched-
uled for Sunday. April o. As is
customary, the tracking tests are
not held on the same day as the
show nor in the same location. In
this case, the tracking tests will
be given early Saturday morning
at Mclean, Va. Dogs entered for
the tracking tests may 90 through
their performances at Mclean and
then proceed to the Old Dominion
show grounds at Alexandria.
The National Capital Dog Train
ing Club is resuming its outdoor
meetings next Sunday under the
direction of Alfred Frank. Glasses
will meet at pm. and continue
until dark. The meeting place, as
before, will be in Rock Greek Park
at Glover and Military roads On
Sunday, April s, they will hold a
competition for members only at
1890 am at the club training
grounds. This is preliminary try
out for the big show.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
American University Apparently Headed for Successful Campaign on Diamond
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Philadelphia Sphas VS.. Wash
ington Bruins, Turner's Arena,
Badminton.
District championship tourna-
ment finals, Kensington Armory,
7:30.
TOMORROW.
Wrestling.
Weekly program of five matches,
Turner's Arena, $50.
Field Trials.
Annual spring trials, National
Capital Field Trials Club, at
Mount Pleasant Farm on Rock
ville-Potomac road, 8 am. and
all day.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Ohio State VS. George WASH
ington, East Ellipse. 2:50.
Hockey.
River Vale VS.. Washington
Eagles, Riverside Stadium, $50.
Field Trials.
Annual spring trials, National
Capital Field Trials Club, at
Mount Pleasant Farm on Rock
e-Potomac road, am. and
all day.
SATURDAY.
Baseball.
Ohio State VS.. Maryland, Col
lege Park, 230.
Horses.
Soldiers, sailors and marines
benefit show, Fort Myer, 8.
Hockey.
Washington Eagles VS.. Atlantic
City Sea Gulls, Atlantic City.
Swimming.
Y. M. G. A. team in interstate
"Y" championships, Baltimore.
Sailing.
Georgetown U. VS.. Navy, An
napolis.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Sandy Spring Tourney
Draws Eight Quints

SANDY SPRING, Md, March 26.
The annual basket ball tourna-
ment of the Sandy Spring Athletic
Association will be held in the Sher-
wood High School gymnasium Fri
day and Saturday nights.
The teams to participate include
Maryland Speeders, Maritime Com
mission, Damascus, A. G. O., Sher-
wood High, Calvary Eagles, Reister-
town and Sandy Spring Athletic
Association.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
By r. r. TAYNTON.

Washington and nearby kenne
clubs all are deep in the final frenzy
of getting their annual shows set
The Old Dominion Kennel Club
whose show is scheduled for April
26 at the Alexandria baseball park
announces an 11th-hour change OF
judges. Instead of Mrs. Herbert
Neal for best in show, Mrs. Emo
Meyer of Ohio will judge best ir
show and best American bred ir
show. while Emo Meyer. who is
scheduled to assign the supreme
award at Morris and Essex, takes
over Alva R0senberg's assignment
in the working group, Pekingese and
miscellaneous breeds. Mrs. Neal will
continue with her terrier and other
breed judging at this show. Mrs
Jesse Thornton of Baltimore will
judge Boston terriers
Specially Groups Ambitious.
While the members of the Ole
Dominion Club are busy with the
major problems Of an all-breec
show, the four speciality clubs which
are sponsoring their classes at this
event also are extremely busy ir
the effort to outShine each Other
and to make their specially show.
the best ever held in this vicinity
The Washington Bulldog Club il
ushering in the show season with q
get-together dinner at the Hote
Fairfax on Monday, March 81. This
dinner, according to Mrs. Howard
Grimm, chairman of the committee
Is open to all who are interested in
the bulldog, whether a club member
or no. In addition to the cheer
always engendered by a congenial
crowd and excellent food, the bull
doggers expect to discuss their last.
minute show preparations and pal
each other on the back for theiI
exceedingly good trophy list which
numbers about 100 items, covering
all classes of bulldogs.
Another speciality club which i.
having a pre-show get-together /:
the Potomac Boxer Club. 1t will
luCCG filOdy CFCllliS dG WOll L ldE
Farm, the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Jouett Shouse. The second of 8
series of talks on the boxer will be
given by Keith Merrill, who will
analyze the correct boxer head. The
Boxer Club, too, is Dragging about
its trophies and large cash offer
ings in all classes. Among the
trophy donors are Fred Hamm
president, and Charles Spannaus
secretary, of the American Boxer
Club; Australian Minister and Mrs
Richard Casey, DR.. and Mrs. I
Philip Frohman, many of the ma
tionally known boxer kennels and
most of the members of the local
club. Gordon Barton is chairman
Of the Bench Committee.
According to Cocker Chatter. the
very interesting "house organ" OF
the Capital City Cocker Club, that
organization, too, has outdone itsel1
in collecting cash and specials fol
its first speciality show. There is
a worthwhile prize down to third
Evening star., 1941-03-26

hasn't been stifled by being forced
to start again.
Magro Convinced Cowboy.
Il decided to give up fighting
when Sammy Magro knocked me out
in September of 1885," said Scott,
wiping a grimy paw over SCOT
Smeared forehead. Il knew I had
slipped some, but didn't realize how
much until Magro beat me. knew
that when fighter like that could
knock me out it was time for me
to get out.
My wife saw it coming before
did. For. more than a year before
that she urged me to give it up, but
I thought I still had something.
I'm glad I'm out of it. I made
good money at times, but it was all
so indefinite We're getting along
now and with a lot less worries.
Boxing is no good unless you're
a really good fighter and even be-
ing a good fighter isn't enough.
You've got to have a manager with
| contacts-somebody that can ma
neuver you into crack at the title
when you're ready for it. Without a
good manager good fighter is lost.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
By BURTON HAWKINS.

A slim, bespectacled figure poked a
shovel of coal into the inviting
mouth of one of Taft Junior High S
furnaces. swept the surrounding
dust into compact pile, paused
and said, Yeah. I like this better
than fighting The pay may not be
as good, but it's steady and I figure
/ can get somewhere in three or four
years"
Down there in the stomach of
Taft Junior High, Cowboy Howard
Scott is starting all over again
not with the attitude of a defeatist,
but with quiet determination
which only can be admired. At one
time regarded as one of the world S
seven best lightweights, he now is a
Stoker.
There is no sense of shame at
tached to Scotty's job. He seems to
relish wrapping his hardened hands
around the handle of shovel and
heaping soft coal on hungry flames
He feels his current job down in the
boiler room is stepping stone to
something better. His ambition
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Cont Tell Winning Types
In Advance, Says Doc

mo one can call winning types
IN advance. There are too many
brands. Corbett. FitZ. Jefries,
johnson, Willard, Dempsey and
Tunney all were entirely different
types. But most of them were real
champions.
THE fighter who beats Louis will
have to be smart" Kearns said
mo dumb cluck is going to have
much of a chance. He will have to
plan a smart fight, know when to
take chances and when to keep
away. And when he has his chance
he must be able to follow it up with
a real punch. Dempsey is the only
fighter who could have riSked trad
ing punches with Louis. That will
be no way to beat a fellow who can
hurt you with either hand.
Louis never will be as keen again
as he was two or three years ago.
He has been in training too long.
And training has gotten monoto-
nous, tiresome. 1t has taken away
some of the edge. And. remember,
there are no supermen."
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Co-PiIot Fears Joe Will Massacre Simon
Quick Would Keep Customers From Conn Bout He Holds

cash customers may forget all
about the Detroit embarrassment
and decide to stay away from the
Conn bout for fear Of what may
happen to Billy Boy.
However, Joe's other manager
and Joe himself want Simon
again. Joe never likes to "look
bad" against any fighter, and he
certainly was no "oomph" guy in
there the other night. So he
wants another crack at Jimmy
Johnston's gladiator-and will
have it. Ror, no matter what
they say, Joe is grown up now
and as smart as the next fellow
and his managers know It.
Evening star., 1941-03-26

source) is hemming and having
about the match.
The reason-and II this doesn't
slay you, try a guns that this
particular pilot is "afeared" Joe
will chop Our Abe" down in a
couple of minutes the next time,
thereby affecting the gate for the
Bomber's tea party with Billy
Conn in June. The way the CO.
manager figures it out, last
Fridays fuss made it look as if
Conn has a better than fair
chance of beating Joe.
But if Louis lays Abe low in
par the next time, lots OF the
Evening star., 1941-03-26
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer,

NEW YORK, March 26.-Along
Me grapevine comes report all
te not flowers and soft music in
Joe Louis happy fight family at
the moment, all because of Abe
Simon.
When the one-eighth of "a ton
stood off Joe for 13 rounds in
Detroit last Friday, Promoter
Mike Jacobs Immediately re-
matched them for Madison
Square Garden in May. Now you
hear that one of Joes managers
tnAne withheld on request from
Evening star., 1941-03-26
New Wordmun Courts
To Be Ready Soon

The first fast-drying, Har-Tru
tennis courts to be open to the
public in this vicinity will be in
stalled soon by the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Taking over the management of
It's courts from the University Club
which has operated them for the
past few years, the hotel is planning
completely new equipment through
out.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Versatile Terp Slowed
By Knee Operation

Mearle Du Vail, Maryland football
quarterback who was kept off the
basket ball court by knee opera
ton, is being retarded in baseball by
stiffness in the joint.
Normally he's a catcher. but Is
sharing the first base job while the
ailing knee is being limbered up
He's a hard hitter.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Terp Stickmen to PIoy
Three Tits in Week

Maryland's national collegiate la
crosse champions will get plenty of
testing in their first week of sched-
uied combat.
They'll play three games next
week, Dartmouth visiting Monday,
Harvard on Thursday and Loyola
Of Baltimore invading Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Pointer Tukes TriuIs

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, March
26 (P.-Hotspur, pointer owned by E
D. Boise Of New Canaan, Conn, won
the 10Th annual spring meet of the
Rappahannock Amateur Field Trials
Association. Puppy stake honors
went to Listwind Boy, owned by w
T. Few, Travellers Rest, S. C.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Bosox Farm SchooIboy

HOPEWELL, Va, March 26 (F.-
Ray keenan,, former Hopewell High
pitching star, has signed a contract
with the Boston Red Sox, but will
report for training with Scranton
of the Eastern League.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
There's Always Next One
To Climb to Title

There always is the next one,
Kearns said. There always is an
other one to come along. Corbett
had his Fitz-Fitz had his Jeffries-
Willard had his Dempsey and Demp-
sey had his Tunney.
I'D like to be able to tell you who
Joe Louis will have-but right now
I can't. I'd say the best of the lot
was Lou NoVa-big, strong, game,
smart-a pretty good boxer and a
pretty good puncher. Conn? Still
too small and still too light a
puncher.
Conn is a good boxer-a fast
mover. He also is dead game. They
say he might outspeed Louis and
outlook him. But don't forget that
when Conn gets stung he gets sore
and wants to fight back. That might
be perfect if Billy had a dangerous
punch. Some one will have to hurt
Louis and slow Joe down to have
a chance.
But Louis isn't going on forever
There should be some one ready
by another year-and I only hope ]
can find him"
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Champions RetIexes
Bound TO Slow Down

What type of fighter will have
the best chance against LOUISE" !
asked, "A slugging Dempsey or a
boxing Tunney?"
ct doubt that we'll get another
Dempsey or another Tunney,
Kearns said. Maybe one just as
good-but different. Dempsey was
a stick of dynamite at his top.
Tunney was smart. cool boxer who
could also cut you up and jar you.
Naturally a heavyweight champion
has to know something about box
ing. And to beat Louis one must
be able to hit. Joe isn't any too
strong against a punch to the head.
This has been proved. He always
will be able TO hit with both hands
He not only has hand power and
hand speed, but he also has a natu-
raj knack of timing.
The point is that he isn't going
to get any faster. His ref1exes, a
big part of the fight time, are not
going to speed up. They'll slow
down. This means he won't punch
as fast and he won't duck as
quickly"