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, Figured on the basis of three
:. points for first, two for second
and three for third, Armstrong
collected Ill points in the vot-
ing, As more than his closest RI
val.
The second best comeback,
the ballots showed, was that of
the St. Louis Cardinals, who not
only came from behind with a
blistering stretch drive to nose
out the Brooklyn Dodgers for
the National League pennant but
also walloped the New York
Yankees in the World Series aft
er dropping the opening game.
Sixteen of the So voters plac-
ed the Cardinal feat at the top
of the list and the Red Birds
drew enough additional support
for a total of Sc points.
Baseball also figured in the
next three places in the final
tabulation. Larry French, the
Brooklyn Dodger pitcher who
won ten games before losing
one. was ranked third with 40
points. Fourth went to Ernie
lombard of the Boston Braves,
who received 33 points on his
achievement in returning to the
National League batting cham
pionship. The St. Louis Browns
were fifth with 20 points.
NAME RICKENBACKER
The voters mentioned . total
Of 81 teams and individuals on
their ballots and some pointed
out that the most glorious come
back of all was that Of Eddie
Rickenbacker, once q central flg-
ure in the auto racing sport.
Others who rated near the top
in the voting included the Tor
onto Maple Leafs, who won the
Stanley Cup, emblematic OF
world hockey supremacy, after
losing the first three games OF
the best of seven series; the
Holy Cross football team, which
knocked Boston College out OF
= perfect season; the Georgia.
Vale and Wisconsin football
teams; Mort Cooper, st. Louis
Cardinal pitcher; and the Wash
ineton Redskins of professional
football.
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Fights
Last Night

NEW YORK - Beau Jack,
1921, Augusta, Ga, knocked
out Tippy Larkin, 134A, Gar
field, N. ]. (3). Cor worlds
lightweight title, New York ver-
sion).
BOSTON - Ralph Zanelli,
1881, Providence, r. l., out
pointed Corp. Carney Young,
1851, u. 8. Marines (10).
PHILADELPHIA - frankie
Carlo, l27, Philadelphia, out
pointed mo No" Cuebas, 124,
New York (8).
PORTLAND, Ore. - Turkey
Thompson, 202, Los Angeles
knocked out Ernie Nordman,
lol. Coodland, Kas. (2).
HOLLYWOOD - Jack Cog
ains, lit. San Diego, TKO over
Connie Norden, 19S. Oakland
(8ys
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Walker Quitting Stresses
Serious Baseball Problem

sion withdraws title recognition
from Lou Salica, whom it alone
contended was still bantam
weight champion.
Everybody else suspected that
one Manuel Ortiz, a Los An
geles Mexican, did that by TAX
ing a ~ round decision from
the Brooklyn Italian in Holly
wood in August.
With that result looking them
smack in the face, the New York
funny men ruled that Salica had
not defended the crown enough.
Salica will give them an ar
gument on that one.
That joust on the coast was
amply sufficient.
New York's mitt mixer up
pers have decided to hold anoth-
err one of those elimination tour
naments which never fail to end
with all participants eliminating
themselves.
When the National Boxing As
ISOLATION. which reco gni ze 3
Manuel Ortiz as the bantam
boss, suggested lightweight
elimination the New York COM
mission would have nothing to
do with one. announced that the
winner of the Beau Jack-Tippy
Larkin fight would be treated as
champion. They would get that
one settled in a jiffy.
One thing about the New York
Boxing Commission is that 1t Is
consistently inconsistent.
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Hurricane SET
for Big Blow

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19-(R
TULSA University's Golden
Hurricane, first of the bowl
teams to get to the scene of its
New Years Day engagement,
blows into town today for a look
At the Sugar Bowl stadium and
its only glimpse o. the historic
old French quarter until after
the battle with Tennessee.
Rolling in by rail sans follow
ers on orders of transportation
officials, the squad will be es-
corted to Tulane University to
ret acquainted with the $4,000
capacity surroundings. There
will be no workout.
From there Sugar Bowl Off
Gals will take the Missouri Val
ley champions to Antoine's fam
ous restaurant in the heart of
the Vieux Care where the Ok
lahomans will be introduced 10
such dishes rs crepe suzettes,
oyster q Ia Rockefeller and POM
PIANO en- papilotte.
The Tulsans, who kept their
football record clean during the
regular season with a lot OF
home town rooters, won't be
without supporters down here
where they grow poinsettas for
Christmas.
The Fortier high school band,
already trained in Hurricane
tunes, will meet the boys today
and will carry their part along
with thousands of service men
who are getting free tickets
from Tulsa for the ninth annual
classic.
Tulsa fans arc kicking in with
some of the money they would
have spent on a trip here to lie,
in men in uniform who will root
for their team. The young mems
business club here AZ, has pur-
chased 5000 of the 10000 tick
cts available for service men al
recu led prices.
With the fair ground racing
program moved up to morning
it begins to look like hometown
ers and service men WI fill the
bowl, usually about half full OF
visitors from far and wide.
The Tulsans move on to Bay
st. Louis, Miss, late today tc
open their training camp.
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Lions Owner
Changes Mind

DETROIT, Dec. 19 = R) -
Owner Fred L. Mandel, Jr., OF
the Detroit Lions, who once
thought 1943 operations of the
National Football league out OF
the question, now is solidly be-
hind Commissioner Elmer Lay
denis plan to continue even at
the extreme of putting play on a
semi-pro basis.
Perhaps because he has moth
ing to lose (his team dropped all
IL games last falD, Mandel said
Yesterday war plant workers
with college. high school OF
sandlot football experience
would be invited to try out with
the Lions next fall.
"I admit right now that the
caliber of play will be far be-
low Standards" Mandel declar-
ed, "but so long as the competi-
ton is keen it should meet with
public approval"
Mandel favors an eight-game
schedule confined strictly with
in divisional limits.
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BY HARRY GRAYSON
NywA g.,vls> gnagta Edttor

NEW YORK, Dec. 19-Dixie
Walkers retirement from base
ball is additional evidence that
professional baseball clubs are
going to have a tough time field
ing acceptable teams in the
spring.
Walker, who became the most
popular Dodger in quarter OF
a century after drifting around
in the American L ague for
years. has been appointed ath-
ietic director of the tremendous
Sperry Gyroscope Co. OF Brook
lyn. The veteran outfielder was
eager to get into victory indus
try. intends to make the position
a career.
The Dodgers have lost Pete
Reiscr to the Army. Dolph Ca
MILL and Arky Vaughan say
they will stick to their Califor-
MIA agricultural holdings.
All clubs are in the same
boat. or hit harder. and II is 60
ing to get worse before there is
a turn for the better
With the young fellows in the
armed forces and the Oh d r
heads in war work or on farms,
the ranks of professional base
ball are going to be thin indeed,
which is rs IL should be until
the boys come home.
New York Boxing Commits
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Psychology Professor Now
is Penn State Cage Coach
BY ROBERT MELLACE
&---I-- Ga.eS rASS>sAAaASnt

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Dec.
l9-Few basketball coaches can
become professors of psychol-
ogy, and fewer professors of
psychology can become cage
teachers, but John Lawther Of
Pennsylvania State College has
undergone the transition three
times very skillfully.
With a mind attuned to con-
structive thought and theory by
formal education, Lawther has
contributed materially to the
game in Is years of-tutoring at
Westminster College and Penn
State. His success is witnessed
by his record of $50 games won
and 70 lost.
Although he owns a master of
arts degree in educational psy-
chology conferred at Columbia
University, the scholarly pro-
ponent of the sliding zone de-
tense would rather coach for the
very sensible reason that it pays
more money than teaching stu
dents about reactions.
BALL DETERMINES AREA
A protege of fuss McLaughry
at Westminster, where he star
red in all sports, Lawther did
much to develop the sliding zone
after his experience with the old
man. or-man defense, and the
orthodox zone as taught by DR..
Forrest c. Allen, the veteran
Kansan.
Instead of playing floor areas
expounded by Phog Allen, Law
theirs Nittany Lions play that
area in which there is an Of
fensive threat. These areas
change as the offensive threat
changes with the movement of
the ball, hence the term sliding
zone.
AS successful head of the ed
ucation and psychology depart
ment at Westminster, Lawther
decided to abandon coaching
following the 1885 season, but
was lured back to the fold by an
attractive offer from Penn State.
LEANS TO TALL BOYS
Almost completely rebuilding
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The racehorse style Of play
used by the Bathers is hardly
suitable to a small squad. OIL
plant, the former Adrian col
lege mentor now coaching his
first year here, possibly will re-
vert to the slow break to con-
serve the strength of his squad.
Until Siewert left the game,
he was the bright spot in the
Bather offensive. His six bas-
kets and four foul shots made
him high man on either team.
Lack of accuracy from the
free throw ring was an under
lying reason for the Bather de-
feat. The Red and Gray cagers
missed IS of % charity shots,
the usually reliable Siewert bob,
bling seven chances and Lyle
Bliss, four.
The shooting of Siewert and
White gave the Bathers a 8 to 7
lead at the quarter. The score
was knotted two minutes before
the halftime gun, but White and
Siewert each scored to pull the
Bathers ahead four points at in
Permission.
ELEPHANTS team should win ut
least three-quarters of its games
providing Siewert can stay in
the ball game. Because of his
weight. however, he is apt to
tire badly unless spelled and the
foul menace is always present.
For Royal Oak, Jack Shader's
six baskets and two foul shots
led a classy attack.
The Reserves easily defeated
New Baltimore "a to IL in the
preliminary. Center Fred Fink's
five baskets topped the Bathers
while Cal Mccormick was high
for the Tars with a basket and
fO,Ir f0t,1 shots
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The Monitor-Leader
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1o, 1912 PAGE 8
Beau Jack and Jersey Bounce
too Much for 7ippy Larkin

quainted with the Jersey
Bounce.
Beau-real name Sidney Wal
ker-is busy little Negro
flailer out of the locker room of
the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf
courses. He came up from Geo
rgia to give the Jersey Bounce
to a guy from Jersey last night.
And he gave it so well he flat
tened Tippy Larkin in three
heats of a 15-rounder before
1887 of the faithful in Madi-
son Square Garden.
In making the brides sing for
the kid from Jersey, Beau hit
the "hepcats" with the Bounce,
all right. But what he left as a
means of settling the confusion
over the lightweight champion
ship, which sprang up over Sam
my Angotts abdication a few
weeks ago, would make the
Bounce look like something out
of Mozart, with slight traces of
Toscanini.
Disregarding the symphonic
for the moment, all Jack did was
to win himself that portion of
the lightweight crown recog-
nized in New York and New
Jersey.
The National Boxing associa-
ton, for instance, sings a differ
ent tune, with the chant that,
regardless of the discords on the
New York State commission
pipe organ, it will recognize on
ly the winner of national eli
mination tournament. Last
nights shindig. says the MIA,
is lust the first ste. in that di-
rection. And Maryland, which
has it's own Bounce, is about to
recognize the survivor OF a
forthcoming fuss between Will
lie Joyce, the Gary (Ind) indi,
vidualist, and Slusger White, a
Baltimore better with an idea
about fighting that wouldn't be
bad for a machine gun to copy
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The Suspense
Must Haze
Been Terrible

BLOOMINGTON, IND, Dec.
19-(R-Twenty-one years ago
30 McMillin, now Indiana's
football coach, received word
that he was to be awarded a
medal for landing berth on a
mythical All-Southern football
team selected by an Atlanta, Ga,
newspaper.
McMillin-A quarterback on
the Centre (KyD college team
only heard about the honor and
never received the medal until
lust the other day
The medals had been misplac-
ed and the newspapers sports
editor ran across them while
rustling through cabinet. Nc
Millin and 10 other players on
that 1921 All Star team have re-
ceived their belated awards.
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VINO Defeats
Central 42.37

DETROIT, Dec. 10 - (P) -
Hal Gensichen g. Co., which
means the Western Michigan
College basketball team, still
stacks up as the hottest hot
stuff in Michigan cage circles.
Gensichen, who let a team
mate take high scoring honors
the last time out for Western
Michigan, accounted for Is
points last night before a home
crowd at Kalamazoo to lead the
Broncos to a 42-37 victory over
Central Michigan.
In the first half Gensichen
led four reserves on rally that
tied the score 1920 at the half
With Central ahead 1888 in the
second half, the regulars came
back and saved the game for a
clearcut triumph in the renewal
of Western-Central cage rela-
tionships.
It was Central's first loss in
four games and Westerns sixth
victory in seven.
Lawrence Tech bombarded
the basket to beat Concordia OF
Fort Wayne, Ind, 1920, here
for its eighth victory in nine
games. Norman Hawkins, Chef
Gabriel and Carl Campbell shot
Is, Is and IA points, respec'
lively.
Having given up lanky Jake
Hickman. star center, to the
Army, Calvin had trouble get
ting started against Albion but
came back strong in the second
half to win by 1923. Albion
led at the half 1916 but scored
only seven points thereafter
Elmer Van Wieren, who moved
from guard to center for Cal
vim, sank 16 points.
The University of Detroit
handled the RCAF Gremlin:
from Aylmer, Ont. with ease
47-17.
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Until SieWert was thumbed
to the sidelines, the Bathers had
an even chance of upsetting a
Royal Oak team that last year
defeated Pontiac, 38 to 36, for
regional honors. Four of the
men are on, the current Royal
Oak team are veterans and John
Baldwin, the smart Royal Oak
coach, has at least eight other
good men at his command.
BY contrast, Bather Goa C h
Harvey Oliphant can muster
only one capable substitute.
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Basketball
Scores
nv the Associated Press

by the Assoetateo FfeW
EAST
Fordham SO, Brooklyn College
AS.
Vermont 50. Tufts 81.
Maine IS. Northeastern a..
Buffalo 40, Hartwick %.
MIDWEST
Oklahoma A e. M 81, Wich-
tia %.
Ohio Wesleyan 81. John Car
roll as.
Western Kentucky Teachers
81. Southern Illinois Normal 30.
Loyola (Chicago) so, Brigham
Young a..
Baldwin, allace 56, Kent
State "a.
Akron IS, Muskingum "a.
MICHIGAN COLLEGE
Detroit AZ, RCAF Gremlins IL
Lawrence Tech 10, Concordia
30.
Western Michigan AZ, Gen.
trail Michigan 81.
Calvin 43, Albion %.
TONIGHT'S GAMES
RCAF Gremlins at Lawrence
Tech,
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Armstrong Winner
Of Comeback Poll
Issue When Siswsrt Leaves
Visjtov's Reserves Decide

ina comeback SPORTS the opinion Of writer's throughout
the country engineered by Henry Armstrong one time
triple chompion of the ring hos tights since he
come out Of retirement eory in the summer
Honmerino Hanks feot roted tor oheod OF oil other
coebocks by individuals in the annual Associated
Press DOLL of IS sports editors Fifty of the oworded the
Cofornon the three places their ballots u OF them
,omino him first II second and j third.
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SCORES IL KAYOES

DETROIT - (P - The only
blot on the fistic record OF well
terweight Jimmy Edgar of De-
troit Is a defeat last August IN
a furious bout at Madison
Square Garden with Jack La
Motta of New York. Aside from
that the Detroit Negro has scor-
cd IL knockouts and won seven
decisions.
Edgar gets a chance New
Years night to square accounts
in a ten-round bout with La
Motta at Olympia.
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Selfridge
Plays M
Dec. 30

ANN ARBOR - (PD - The
Selfridge Field Filters, beaten by
one point Thursday on Don
Lund's last second field goal. are
going to have another crack ut
the University of Michigan
basketball team Dec. 30 at Yost
Fieldhouse. The addition in
creased Michigan's schedule to
II games. 1t is the lone holi-
day season test for the Wolver-
ines.
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his team last season, Lawther
turned in his best job, losing
only to Cornell and West Vir-
ginia in the first half and then
winning IL straight, including
a 44-3O revenge victory over
West Virginia's National Invita-
ton Tournament champions.
Penn States Lions represent
ed District No. 2 in the NCAA
tourney in New Orleans, where
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BY SID FEEDER

NEW YORK, Dec. 19-(P)-
The Jersey Bounce, as piece
of 1--WE, is small chunk of mu-
sic which makes sense to no one
blu. rug-cutters, except that Beau
Jack owns a piece of the world
lightweight championship to-
day because he is slightly ac-
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NEW YORK, Dec. 19-(R-
Greg Rice, star two-milcr Of the
New York A. c., who stretched
his winning streak to IS races
during the year and retained his
national A. A. u. indoor and
outdoor titles. has been given
the Metropolitan A. A. U. medal
as the districts outstanding ath-
lete of 1912.
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Locals Were Ahead
.22-18 at Halftime
kswspopermsn Cite His Record
Of 10 Pin Victories This YeoT
By EDGAR D. RACINE

Because Royal Oak could 2 good basketball poy.
and Mount Clemens only six the Aoorns today had 4o to
IS victory the Bothers.
The Bothers led at the half Y to Is and we're trolling
only % to 81 when Ralph Sewe their six foot eight inch
center, foued himself of .he ball game.
Wtou Sewert, the Bohes lacked control Of the ball
off the back board and the was in doubt.
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LADIES MINOR LEAGUE
SIMON TO PLAY

SIMON TO PLAY
DETROIT - (P) - With de-
fenseman Gully Simon in their
regular lineup. the Detroit Red
Wings will endeavor to beat the
Montreal Canadiens for the
fourth time this season in a Ma
tional Hockey league game Sun
day night at Olympia.
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Coal consumption in the Unit
cd States amounts to nearly four
tons DER capita annually.
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the sharp Dartmouth team drop
ped them in the first game, but
came back to trim Illinois, the
Big Ten champion, in the con-
ISOLATION.
Lawther leans to tall boys. but
gets the most out of what he
has.
John Lawther is learned
man who turns out smart bas-
ketball teams.
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New York Boxing Commits
Evening star., 1942-06-22

ed comments-as ones dearest
friends so often do. 1t is a little
tough on Mr. Wallace, who is an
amiable, likable and sincere Though
somewhat vague man, with plenty
of intelligence and high character
But to picture him as a great
world statesman, a far-sighted inter-
nationalist, a profound economist,
an administrative genius and a
gifted philosopher with a penetrat-
ing understanding of all human
problems-that just is overriding it.
Overdone for SeveraiV Groups.
Certainly, it has been overdone for
what is known as the Douglas group,
composed OF advanced New Dealers
who, rightly or wrongly, regard
Justice w. o. Douglas as a superior
man to Mr. Wallace, meriting con-
sideration ahead of the Vice Presi-
dent should at some future time
say 1944-the road be open to the
White House.
And it has been overdone, too,
for the friends of Mr.. Paul V. Nc
Mutt, the handsome Indianian
who two years ago aSpired first for
the Presidency and later for the
Vice Presidency.
Interestingly enough, this Wallace
campaign seems . to have been
slightly overdone also for certain
members of the White House inner
circle
These take the view that the Wal
| lace tributes were so high and the
Wallace eulogies so glowing that
1t would not now be possible to say
more of the President, himself. This
offends alike their sense of propor-
tion, their conception of propriety
and their feeling for the truth.
The extraordinary thing is that
this prolonged and sustained eulo-
| gizing OF Mr.. Wallace is based
wholly on single speech made in
New York some weeks ago. to which
the country gave the usual patient
inattention with which 1t has re-
ceived Mr.. Wallace's many other
| public utterances.
Evening star., 1942-06-22

here, and King Dorothy Thompson.
Peter OF Yugoslavia is expected
shortly. How quickly the ancient
dream of isolationism has been
buried by the facts of the Goth
century!
That we have become the CEN
ter of the free world is a matter
for pride to this largest and
richest Of the worlds republics.
But pride must give precedence
to responsibility. The first rebel
against the British Empire is
today, to an incalculable extent,
the custodian Of the English
speaking world. 10 is a mean
spirit that is not moved by the
historic grandeur of that fact.
1t is peSSimistic spirit that does
not see in it the opening of un-
limited opportunity for the re-
vivication of the spirit of those
great Anglo-SaXon rebels, who
not only knew how to wage a
successful war, but how, after it,
to build a new world.
And that we build that world
out of men and women of all
races, making not a new Eng
land. but new community al
together. is proof of the power
that lies in heroic response to
challenge. The challenge then
was small compared with today's.
Visit Suggests Crisis.
Mr.. Churchills encourage sug-
geSts that his visit here is chiefly
of military significance. Its un-
expectedness suggests a crisis
The previous visit of Mr.. Molotoff
suggests that action is urgently
needed to relieve Russia.
The relief of Russia is now sup
plemented by the necessity to
relieve the Near East. And the
speculation must be in the minds
Of the councillors: How best can
both be helped? Shall We try to
pour much greater forces into
Libya. or shall we divert the Ger
man forces to another theater of
war, where we take the initia-
tive?
To some extent the Libyan war
Is diversion on HitlerS part.
1t occupies British forces where
they are greatly handicapped.
The Axis can reach Libya from
the tip of Sicily while Britain
must hazardously convoy men
and supplies the whole length of
the Mediterranean or around
South Africa, tying up ships for
weeks and making the redistri-
button of troops extremely diff
f1cult if not impossible.
A grand action of the Axis in
the Near East-to go through to
India-requires greater forces
than Rommels army. But If it
could occupy the Egyptian coast
Alexandria and Port Said-the
British East Mediterranean fleet
would lose its foothold; Hitler
could then send reinforcements
to Crete, Syria and Palestine,