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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-14

A meeting of the "Weevers', a club of older young people and young married couples of St. Paul's Epis- copal church, will be held tonight at 7:45 a'clock in the Parish hall.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Shy Several Players,
Hockey Lions Open
AT Pittsburgh
BoIstered by Addition
Of TrudeI;; Hornets
Beaten in Debut
Special DiepAteh to The star.


PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2S.-Against
the Pittsburgh Hornets, who dropped
7-2 decision to the Cleveland
Barons last night, the Washington
Lions will make their 1942-43 Amer
lean Hockey League debut here to-
night.
Short on manpower due to several
players still awaiting passports in
Montreal, the Lions nevertheless
hope to have IA players available to-
night and have been bolstered by
the addition of Winger Lou Trudel,
the leagues leading goal scorer last
season.
Trudel had been holding out, but
a deal collapsed that would have
sent him to the Boston Bruins of
the National League, so Lou agreed
to terms and hustled here.
Tony Hammerling, Pittsburgh's
brilliant left winger, who scored
both the Hornets goals last night,
is the player who will be covered
most carefully by the Lions. Alex
Singbush, Washington's burly de-
fenseman who specializes in bot
ting up high-scoring players, prob
ably will be assigned to him.
While the Lions are meeting the
Hornets here Buffalo will invade
New Haven for a league game with
the Eagles. Last night the Eagles
were routed, 81, by the Hershey
Bears, and another league game
saw Buffalo wallop Indianapolis, 5-3.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Aircraft Concerns See Sports as Aid to Production
Dog BY Nome As Wq

ton Of reshuffling the major
league ball clubs into Eastern
and Western loops to cut down on
travel was an idea this dept. had
been considering and saving to
use on some dull day. We
planned to go farther than Rud
Rennie's anonymous executive,
and suggest that games should
be played only on Saturdays and
Sundays, and maybe Friday
nights, so that ball players would
have chance to hold down use
full jobs during the week. We
still don't think the very con-
servstive major leaguers will con-
slider 1t seriously except as last
resort. All this only proves what
you hear every day: IF you want
to save something. buy War
bonds"
Today's guest star-John J.
Peri, Stockton tCalif.) Record:
Those who predicted that 80
year-old Amos Alonzo Stage
would coach until he reached 100
may have been prophesying bet
ter than they knew. Coach
Stages last game Of the current
season VIII be his Tooth with ths
Evening star., 1942-10-28

drew from the loop last year the
Pioneers games with conference
members will count in the standings.
Which means that the Denverites,
if they are good enough, can win
the title in a conference of which
they are not member.
When Herb Kopf. eloquent Man
haitian College football coach, Wis
tied the Pennsylvania home of Hen
ry Furio in an effort to find out
if all the reports about the young
mans prowess were true. he found
young Henry casually holding up the
rear end of the family chariot while
Papa Furio leisurely changed a tire.
Young Henry played a lot of tao
kle last Saturday as Manhattan
hung second straight defeat on
Duquesnes record.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Plan 10 Merge Major
Leagues Scorned
By Magn;a;ltes
.Con Slice TroveI Knot
By Cutting Squads,
Declares Griffith
BY the Associated Press.

~ AASSVS~s~eSN .
NEW YORK, Oct. 2s-The sug-
gestion that major league baseball
tumble its American and National
Leagues into Eastern and Western
divisions to temper transportation
difficulties today was tossed on the
scrap heap, useless. even for conver-
sational ammunition.
The idea, repeatedly. outlined by
an unnamed baseball Official was
pounced on by baseball magnates
like a rattlesnake wiggling down
Broadway. Baseball men branded
as silly" and impractical the plan
that would have submerged the
identity of the leagues.
Under the scheme the four East
ern American League clubs and
the four Eastern National League
teams would form the Eastern
League" playing a regular sched-
ule of games, while the eight West
ern clubs would do the same, thus
obviating the necessity of long train
jumps.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain
Lands refused even to discuss the
proposed arrangement.
William Harridge, president of the
American League. said, There S
nothing to it," and Ford Frick, Ma
tional League boss, suggested it
wouldn't be necessary to consider
such radical" proposal unless an
emergency arose.
Clark Griffith, president of the
Washington Mats, who has fosterec
some radical ideas in his time, said
Il don't like it.. We can meet our
transportation difficulties with
smaller squads and by using day
coaches for most of our jumps.
Evening star., 1942-10-28

College of the Pacific. If foot
ball Is suspended next year, as
many seem to expect, the game
will be the Grand Old Mans
final, at least for the duration"
Win, lose or tie-For seven years
when Earl Blaik went to Boston
with Dartmouth teams he always
wore red tie, and during that
time the Indians snever lost to
Harvard. A year ago he forgot
his mascot" and Harvard beat
Army. Last week when the
Cadets took of for another
Harvard game, Earl wasn't taking
any chances. He donned the red
tie before he left West Point.
Service Dept.-From the F. r. o.
at the South Plains Army Flying
School at Lubbock. Tex. comes
this item: along about the So
yard stripe the gridiron at the
South Plains Army Flying School
trails Oh into prairie, 50 backfield
men at this West Texas Home Of
the. Winged Commandos' keep In
practice BY chasing Jack rabbits
and tossing passes at prairie
dogB,' Wonder IL they run from
astngle wing foemation9
Evening star., 1942-10-28
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-No
matter what may happen to
sports in the next year or So
and you can be sure something
will happen when the Army takes
in a few more patches of ath-
letes-the big aircraft compa-
nies will keep on with competi-
tive athletics They're sold on
the effect of championship
principle upon morale. Paul S.
Gilbert, who handles the huge
sports program that has grown
up in the Grumman aircraft
plants. claims that the men get
rivalries started in softball or
bowling and then work just as
hard to outdo one another on the
production line. And do the
employees like it? Well, they'll
stretch a softball game over two
or three days by playing a few
innings each lunch hour; they'll
work Sc hours a week and try
to train for boxing in their spare
time and they'll start bowling
matches at 3 am. when they.
come on the night SHIFT.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Georgetown Defense Is Great
When F oe Gets Close to Goal
Maryland Grid Names Offer Nature Study;
Eolliss Draw Minus Chandler, Ehrhordt

Fred Weaver, the little 17-year-old
blond who was favorite performer
with the Washington Eagles Of the
Eastern Hockey League last season,
will be seen here this season. He'll
be playing with the Indianapolis
Capitals Of the American League
against the Washington Lions at
Uline Arena. 3. & go
The Lions say Paul Courteau, the
swing -and-sway-'em boy of the
Eagles last season, will be. more
subdued as a pro this season. That S
like placing raw meat before a
snarling tiger and requesting him to
nibble gently. When Paul is hurt
he'll hit or vice versa. Short tenn
pers aren't being rationed and
Courteau owns one of the shortest
on record, so he probably still will
be flinging his fists and the custom
ers still will love it.
The Frank Dobson mentioned
above attended the Georgia Tech
Navy game Saturday because he
wanted to see a former grid pupil.
Bill Alexander, Techs coach, was
launched on his football career by
Dobson in 1907 when Frank was
freshman coach at Georgia Tech.
Alexander was his fullback.
Eastern Hockey League fans will
miss the handsomest player in the
loop. frankie Parker, a clean-cut
youngster with a classic profile,
who performed with the New York
Rangers, was taken prisoner by the
Germans at Dieppe.
Dobs0n Strong for Muha.
This is getting to be Dobson
column. Anyway, Dobbie rates Joe
Muha, the " M. I. star, as the best
back ever produced by the Southern
Conference and he's seen them all
come and 60. Dobson tabs him tops
with no reservations.
Remember all that fuss about
lowering the scholastic sports age
limit here several years ago? Con-
gress hasn't any objections to 1S
and 19 year old boys battling In the
worlds toughest league, but 20-year-
old football players were considered
too likely to harm the younger fell
lows In public high games here.
Those youngsters won't be asking
the age of Japs and Germs.
We don't like to be a killjoy, but
| Is or isn't the gas and rubber situ-
alton acute? Bowie race track will
operate for Is days and it's 2h
miles from a train track. Holders of
A gas ration cards obviously can't
make 1t out to the track and if
holders of B and c cards get there,
exclusive of owners, trainers, etc,
they must have fibbed to the ration
board. 4
Evening star., 1942-10-28

One-minute sports page-Ben
Wahrman of the Richmond News
Leader wires that a Broadway
play aptly described the George
Washington William and Mary
game last Saturday-"George
Washington Slept Here" When
Tex Hughson, the Red Sox
pitcher, attended a banquet in
his homer at Kyle, Tex, the other
night he reported he had been
harvesting corn all day and was
too tired to make a speech-but
he'd talk baseball all night. Al
though Les MacMitchell is in
the Navy, New York U. will have
a crack miller this year. Fresh
man Frank Dixon, who broke
Macs schoolboy marks, Is win
ming cross-country races for, the
Violets and Coach Emil Won
Filing sees him as "the greatest
colored distance runner we have
had" Ever hear about the time
Alsab won three times In one
day? 1t was at Waterbury,
Conn.,, a few days ago and Alsab,
4 Boston terrier puppy. took three
awards In dog show.
Delayed buck-That esieges.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Virginia Would Speed
Attack for Clash ,
With Gobb|ers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Oct
28.-Virginia, which tied Richmond
and lost to Lafayette in its last
two games, is speeding up its attack
in preparation for Saturdays game
at Norfolk with Virginia Tech.
Coach Frank Murray said he be-
lieved Virginia's defeat by Lafay-
ette-and the tie by Richmond
largely was due to the fact that the
opposition had a faster ofense.
Murray said he hoped that Eddie
(Flash) Bryant and George Grimes,
both injured in the Navy battle,
would be at their peak against the
Gobblers.
Tom Dudley. who scored against
Lafayette by snagging long pass,
is getting special attention from
Cavalier coaches. Dudley, with the
other Virginia ends, Capt. Billy Hill
and Eric Schlessinger, rapidly is
becoming one of the key players
in the Virginia offensive.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Needs No Apology
For Cancellation
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-There
were several reasons why the
st. Leonard Grade School foot
ball team didn't keep its engage
ment with the st. Joseph
Academy eleven Of suburban La
Grange.
The captains mother was to
take some of the players in her
car, but the starter got stuck
and the machine wouldn't start;
their coach was called out of
the city; the right tackles
car was in a garage for repairs;
none of the other parents
wanted to add any mileage to
their tires, and the kids didn't
have enough bikes to 60 around.
Evening star., 1942-10-28

buckeye-Badger
Struggle May
Decide Title
Brings Together Pair
Of Crack HuIfbucks:
Ohio Stute Choice
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, Oct. 28.-There
is no old oaken bucket or little brown
jug at stake in Wisconsin's home
coming battle with Ohio State here
Saturday, but the contest between
the undefeated elevens packs plenty
Of box Office punch in other ways.
Those who have been lucky enough
to get pasteboards-the ticket Office
expects near sellout-may see in
action the new Western Conference
titleholder or even the next mythical
national champion.
Ohio State, unbeaten and united
in five games this season, has been
! parked in the No. l spot on the
Associated Press Nations honor
grid list for the last three weeks
while Wisconsin, with five victories
and tie with Notre Dame, is in
sixth place.
Ohio State Is Favorite.
The game, which the super
charged Buckeyes are favored to win,
has a two-for- the price of -one at
traction for a thrifty grid fan.
In action on the field at the same
time will be Ohio States Gene
Fekete. fullback, and Badger Half
back Elroy Hirsch, two of the FORE
most sophomore backfield men in the
country. Fekete so far has piled up
eight touchdowns and IL extra points
for total of co. Hirsch has tailed
five times and pitched one scoring
aerial. For good measure there are
Badger Fullback Pat Harder. leading
Big Ten scorer and ground gamer
last year, and Buckeye Halfback
Paul Sarringhaus, who skipped
through the Northwestern Wildcats
for two markers last Saturday.
If the superstitious want to make
anything of it, this game will mark
the 18th meeting of the teams. Ohio
State has won six, Winsconsin four
and two ended in ties. The last
Badger victory was in 1918, during
the first World War and Wisconsin
fans are hoping for history to repeat
itself.
154l NOHteSL VHu AHdH.
The Badgers scored "a points in
last years contest, enough to win
two ordinary games, but the Buck
eyes ran up 46 to whip them.
Out Of this game of the week may
come the coach of the year. On
benches on opposite sides Of ti1e
field will sit two former high school
quarterbacks who grew up IN Massil-
lon, Ohio. The Buckeyes Paul
Brown bounded from high school
coaching job to boss at Ohio State
Harry Stuhldreher, the Badgers
tutor. went up via Notre Dame and
the -Four Horsemen.
Only sure thing about the game
is that Massillon can't lose.
Evening star., 1942-10-28

Georsetown's football team has
had Its share of luck this season.
but the Hoyas also have come up
with some remarkable defensive tao
tics in the clutch. In Temple and
Auburn games. Tor instance. George
towns foes had / total of "a downs
inside the Hoyas' 16; yet netted
only II yards or little more than
2 feet per try when it counted.
Maryland's football forces are a
nature study. On the freshman team
is Rock. With the Jayvees are
Banks and Hill. plus Coach Woods,
and there's Byrd on the varsity
squad.
The Ice Follies that invade River
side Stadium shortly will be minus
Evelyn Chandler and Bess Ehrhardt,
which is akin to Charley Mccarthy
without Edgar Bergen, but the Fol-
lies have been packing 'em in any
way thus far on their road jaunt.
Stranger in Own House.
Fame is fieeting dept.-Don .Bom-
ba, one of George Washington Uni
versity's better backs under the hec-
tic regime. of Coach Jim Pixlee, was
Harry" to the Hatchet. G. w. week
ly, in three successive issues. Bomba
now is assistant frosh coach for the
Colonials.
Next member of the local sports
writing fraternity to enter the serv-
ice will be Francis Stan, conductor
of The Stars Win, Lose or Draw COL
umn, who will be commissioned in
the Navy. Slated for the Army soon
is Bob Addie OF the Times Herald.
Others already in the service are
Bill Dismer of The Star, Bob Ruark
and Rocky Riley of the News. Al
HALEY and Jack Munhall Of the Post
and Charley Barbour of the Times
Herald.
Frank Dobson, the former Mary
land coach who currently Is per-
sonnel and athletic, director OF the
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dryoock Co. Apprentice School, got
the job there because no less than
five executives there played football
under him in college.
Buddy Lewis and Sammy West,
former Mats, are seeing a lot of
each other these days. Flying Cadet
Lewis is completing advanced twin
engine bomber training at Lubbock,
Tex, where Sammy owns drug
store.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
>haugne Works Minor Miracle Bawng Out Son Of Old Liners President
Win, Lose or Draw
A New Front Opens in Dixie
By FRANCIS E. STAN

There's nice little a-brewing in Dixie these DAVIS
couple OF sclos OF fine old Southern arsocracy
o 1eolga ana Joe Muha OF " M L. playing good
1ootoa and the probable fact that up on
1oy OF the aAmerica teams isn't solving things argu
ment. sub, is: Which is the better?
snkwch publicity but this Young fellow
unA coming along last Indeed he's
ana extract nr Eighteen Highest American European
working and plugging in his be- .H.
pitch in college ~
An enthusiast named D. Hawkins
letters
correspondence full of ginger
the Soutern Conference has aAmerica
we are confident that the coming
nrm and strengthen estimate
greatest activity the world
egn teams in farof appreciate
showing accounts of " M 1. games"
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Federal Reserve Club
Will Skate Friday

The Federal Reserve Skating Club
will begin its fifth year Friday when
it resumes its sessions at the Chevy
Chase Ice Palace
AS the oldest skating club in the
city 1t claims 300 members. Those
interested in joining may contact
Betty Bartell, president, at Republic
HOO,
Evening star., 1942-10-28

laSL IAN DelOIe llullhlllS ouo anu
winning West Point appointment.
And Francis Merritt, sophomore
tackle. was a sensation as Fordham
frosh In 1910.
Perhaps even Connie Mack has
forgotten that he coached the cham
.pion pro football team of the State
of PENNSYLVANIA in 1902. When the
Philadelphia National League base
ball club sponsored pro eleven In
1901. the Athletics retaliated the
next season with club and Mack
as coach.
The Mackmen walloped the Phils
and then went to Pittsburgh for the
state title game. 1t ended in tie
but on the following Sunday the
Athletics won, IL to 6.
Connie Mack had his gridders
warm up for the Pittsburgh scrap
by playing at Elmira on Friday, an
other game on Saturday. They
cooled off with fourth game in
four days at Williamstown on Mon
day.
1t was when the Monday gate
pronised to be small that Mack sent
his star baseball pitcher, Rube
Waddell. to parade the town wearing
a placard. Waddell visited the high
school during the noon hour and
approximately a thousand students
missed school that afternoon.
Skip Parlang. head coach at
Creighton University. wound up his
skull practice for quarterbacks with
the ever-present question: ut is
third down and one to go, what
would you do?"
Ten minutes after the session,
Parlang went out to his car and
found his third fat tire within a
trio Of days. Just then the quarter
back contingent walked by.
20. K. Coach" said one signal
caller, that's your third down.
Now tell us what you are going
to do"
Before the Geneva College eleven
was toppled from the ranks Of the
unbeaten last week end by Youngs-
town the Pennsylvanians had won
four in row by 26 points each.
Three of the opponents were
blanked. rs to 0, and the fourth lost,
80 to 6.
A year ago Russ Coates was so
outstanding his University of Miami
(Fla) mates elected him co-captain
of the 1912 club Now he is playing
second string behind the brilliant
al Kasulin, junior triple -treater.
The faculty fathers Of the Big
Seven Conference have decided that
although Denver University with
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD. Conn-Willie Pep. 100,
Hartford outpointed George Zengaras,
135, New York lOD.
PITTsBURGs -, Ezzard Charles.
1854, CINCINNATI outpointed Joey
Maxim. 1S1 "a. Cleveland UW.
126la. Rome. N. Y. outpointed Phil
Terranova. l26A. New York ts).
BROOKLYN.-Morris Parker, 1870,
Newark. n: j.. outpointed FRANKIE Ru-
bino. 1904, New York go
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Hunt Meet Aids Relief

A large percentage Of the pro-
ceeds from the two-day United
Hunts meet at Belmont Park, No
vember Is and IA, will be given to
war relief activities, President Lewis
2. Waring OF the United Hunts
Racing Association has announced.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Home Streak Is Broken

When Nebraska won, TO, at Nor
man Saturday it marked the first
time Oklahoma had lost an opening
home game in Is years.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Grid Aces From Other Schools
Help Surge Of Army Eleven
Woods, Ex-Novy Regular, Is West Point Sub;
Mack Once Coached Grid Pros to Title
By HAROLD CLAASSEN,

NEW YORK Oct 28-If have been wondering how the
United Military could lose "a of the members
football still approach the coming
unbeaten eleven perhaps this will help
the cadet uback played for Dartmouth last
Substitute Hafback Bob Woods first rnger at Navy
Evening star., 1942-10-28
They Become MiIdcuts

Frederick Ware, sports editor OF
the Omaha World Herald has a new
nickname for Kansas State: He calls
them the Mildcats.
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Conference Never Had Better Bock-Dobson

Whatever the connection between the
importers OF vanilla beans something
football uniform The other day Frank
hello You will remember Dobbe
Richmond, Maryland, etc, for the better years
Il better the Southern
testimony He do everything"
couple OF weeks ago Clark shausn Maryland took
beaten team to Lexington to play M l. that figured
tossup with winners
Shaughnessy addressed luncheon Philadelphia.
Our IT formation stopped grnng sheeps
81 defense-V. five lnemen
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Muhu Poured 1t Onto the Cavaliers

his 2 he tremendous speed He
the He catches He
like we'll almost like
defense he plays so minutes
they call him the greatest back
the Old Liners
including the Marylanders
believe could better although against them Mua called
number only II times.
impressed think of how Virginia must regard this
Cavaliers personally rolling
He threw two touchdown caught another and
30 yards for fourth
superday virgnians waiting
getting red favote football
Pa, snkwich of Youngstown, Ohio
Evening star., 1942-10-28
Shoughnessy Says Pro Backs PIoy No Better

That's the this Mula affecting
who
says that Mu is good back he's including
the old Miracle Man others Norm Sandee After Muha
Cavalier
walked up Kaydet and said
alThorpe, Mahan, Brkey and Ma
gurskand don't have to take back of them
Pooley Hubert the
fellow backfed himself
football Pooey drawing
Evening star., 1942-04-15

function and superiors could not OBJ
ject, though they better understood
why, in younger days, fellow officers
had fastened the nickname of
'Toughy" on Gen. johnson.
1t was Gen. johnson who directed
the registration of 24,234000 men,
the drawings from the lottery that
determined the order Of their exam
nation for warfare. the publicity
that put the draft across.
I'VE were told 1t couldn't be done, II
he revealed afterwards, that the
Anglo-Saxon people would never
stand for conscription. But we did
it. How? BY pure publicity"
He recalled the court martial of
some Regular Army officers for say
ings-at the time of the lottery
BE Went-Not a Sent" The i'm
plication of their slogan was honor
to the volunteers but not to those
drafted. an implication potentially
hampering the draft.
That was publicity" said Gen.
johnson Of the bona-fide court
martial. necessary and desirable
but publicity nevertheless.
From Staff to Combat Work.
Eventually 2810,0O0 men were
drafted. or more than half OF the
100000 under American arms.
Slightly more than 100000 men
reached France and 1890 900 saw
action
BY August S. his 36th birthday.
Gen. johnson was on the general
staff. heading its purchase, storage
and traffic division. He also was a
member of the War Industries Board
headed by Mr.. Baruch. So efficiently
did they and others team up that
million troops were transported
to France and kept supplied months
ahead of schedule.
Gen. johnson long sought COM
| bat command. Husky Westerners
were being brought together then in
the 9Th Division, designed as shock
troops for titanic western front
drive in the spring Of 1919.
October !, 1918, Gen johnson be-
came commander Of its 18th Brigade
at Camp Fremont, Calf. a fort
night later he was named to lead the
entire division as it was ordered TO
Camp Lee, Va. in preparation for
embarkation. The armistice of No
vember II intervened.
Until January /, Gen. johnson
stayed on at Camp Lee. February
Is he resigned, accepted a brigadier
generals commission in the Officers