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Evening star., 1943-01-01
WoIcott Beats Mark
In High Hurdles in
Sugar Bowl Meet

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. TRACK
fans yesterday saw Ensign Fred
Wolcott of Georgia Navy Pre- Flight
clip two-tenths of a second off the
Sugar classic record of 14.3 for the
l2O-yard high hurdles. which he
previously shared with Forest Towns
Of Georgia.
Gil Dodds of Boston took the mile
over Walter Mehl of Iva Navy Pre-
Flight by margin of some 40 yards,
and Notre Danes Oliver Hunter ran
away with the 3-mile event.
Hugh Short of GEORGETOWN fin
ished second to Owen of Ohio State
in the 440-yard dash.
120-yard high hurdles-Won by wolcott.
Georgia Naval Pre-flight: second HAD
Chicago, unattached; third. Egbert. Mar
t guette tOld record: 143 by Forrest
Towns, piN Georgia, Geoogrssia, in 1887 and Fred wolcott
Mile run,,.1Won by Dodds, Boston A. A.:
Burnham. Dartmouth. Time, Abb.
440,yard run-Won by Owen. Ohio State;
second. Short. GEORGETOWN: third, Erwin
Louisiana State. Time. O:4S.s
3-mile rur-Won by Hunter Notre
Dame: second. Wilt. Indiana; third. Thomp-
son. Texas. Time, 14:26.1.
,o;, s.n,ile steeplechase-Won by Efaw. Okla
e. A.; third. Deseoree. N. z. A. c. Time
10.10S
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Dobbs Appears as Surest Bet
To Be Days Grid Stondout
Games Filled With Stors, but Leading Figure
Moy Come From Those Not Even Mentioned
rry, Prdkop - Georgia

Castleberry, Prdkop - Georgia
Tech.
Mckay, Mauldin-Texas.
All Are Good Players.
We mentioned the fact that in the
last World Series the two men
picked as the most valuable play
ers'-Gordon and Mort Cooper
were able to contribute nothing.
Less than nothing.
In these closing games we have
seen such stars as Tommy Harmon
and John Kimbrough outclassed
And these were among the best that
football has ever given the game.
The pick from New Year Day are
playing their last games in some
time-possibly for all time.
They know this. The entire list
Is headed for war service.
If you can guess the duration per-
iod, you can give them the answer.
1t is sure gamble some over
looked entry will wade out and steal
the show in one of these games. For,
after all, the difference isn't any too
wide. Every one knows that.
They wouldn't be playing in these
games if they were just another
Joe or another John.
All they need is the break-the
chance-and the big headline will
be waiting.
Here's How They Size Up.
Here are the top picks for indi-
vidual performances - backs ano
ends:
l. Governali, Columbia - East
West game
2. Sinkwich, Georgia df in shape)
Trippi. Georgia Rose Bowl game
3. .Dobbs, Tulso-Sugar Bow
game. Daley, Minnesota-East
West.
4. Holovak, Boston College -
Orange Bowl game.
5. Mckay, Texas-Cotton Bow
game.
6. Craft, Alabama-Orange Bowl
game.
7. Castleberry, Georgia Tech
Cotton Bowl game.
8. Waterfield, U. C. L. Arose
Bowl game.
9. Poschner, Georgia-Rose Bow
game.
10. Steuber, Missouri-East-West
game.
II. Currivan, Boston College
Orange Bowl game.
H. Prokop, Georgia Tech-Cotton
Bowl game.
13. Schreiner, Wisconsin, or Dove
Notre Dame-East- West game. May
be both.
Dudley Starred Last Year.
A year ago we named Bill Dudley
OF Virginia as the star of the East
West game. Dudley was.
This time in the East-West game
1t will be hard to overshadow
Governali and Daley. Another
young fellow by the name of Glenn
Dobbs from Tulsa won't be far
away from the top performance of
any bowl contest.
l can't remember where any five
one-day contests along the finishing
road ever had greater number of
individual stars facing the spot
light.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Jinx, Not Bad Ankles, May Thwort Sinkwich
Many Iusous Grid Sto Have Foied Rose Bowl in Past

wasn't it too bad that he had to
miss this crucial game, because
with him in the lineup Oregon
might have a chance?
But miracles of modern medi-
cine being what they are, Robin
not only was in the lineup that
Saturday afternoon, he was in
the Bruins hair from start to
finish. His 5.3-yard per play
average, all hands agreed, was
right fair for a cripple.
Yet even if Sinkwich's ailing
extremities do respond to treat
ment and he's in shape to stage
another of the exhibitions which
earned him all-America, he'll
have a husky jinx to fight of.
Down through the years the big
names have often found the
going too tough in the New Year
classic. Take the current series
opener between Brown and WASH
ington State in 1916 for example.
Browns great Fritz Pollard was
Just another ball player, while q
Cougar triumvirate - Boone,
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Ce|tics Monopo|ize
Crowns in Basket
Event for Boys
Central Branch Squad
Wins 90-Pound Title
And Stor Trophy

Central Branch Celtics' 90-pound
basket ball team has two impor-
tant sprigs of laurel with which to
start the New Year, the champion
ship of its division in the Boys
Club of Washington annual Christ
mas basket ball tournament and the
distinction Of being voted the out
standing team in the tourney.
The Celtics won the title yester-
day by blasting out a 25-12 victory
over Sacred Heart, last years win
ner, and when the tourney ended
last night they were presented The
Evening Star Trophy as the events
outstanding team. They never were
threatened seriously while cleaning
up in their division and in the first
round turned in a basket ball rar-
ity, shutout victory.
The team is captained by 13-year-
old Gus Baroutas, who yesterday
scored 10 of his teams 25 points.
This is his second year as a regular
with the team that last year won
26 and lost only games and was
voted the outstanding player in the
90-pound class. A football and box
ing star also, he captained the 90
pound eleven, which last fall won
the Boys Club of Washington
League 90-pound title. Ollie Dryer,
director of Central Branch, coaches
the Celtics.
Sacred Heart gained consolation
when its 105-pound team made use
Of good zone defense to win from
st. Johns, 1888. Tommy Gletner
of the losers was high with % points.
Central Branch Americans repeated
last years victory by winning in the
l35-pound division. 1t defeated
Merrick, 35-32, in an overtime game,
with Julian Smith high man with
81 points.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
'robable starting lineups:
Early Scoring Held
Vital by B. {. and
B'ama EIevens
BY :he Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla. Jan. both Boston
College and Alabama planned to get
the jump today in an Orange Bowl
football game between teams so
evenly matched that ticket-holders
expected the breaks to be decisive.
Denny Myers. young Boston coach
sending his first eleven into battle,
frankly laid his hopes on dumfound-
ing the rugged Alabama defenders
with his tricky ct" formation and
rushing over couple of early
touchdowns.
Veteran Frank Thomas. who has
led Alabama in three of its six
previous bowl appearances, didn't
tip his hand as opening, but gave
hint of his strategy by deciding
to open with his best offensive
backfield If Alabama received the
kickoff.
Myers said his team was in fine
shape, although he wished for cool
breezes to sweep the palm -fringed
stadium.
Thomas was worried about the
IT.. We've never played against
it, he remarked. "and I'm afraid
they've got too much for us.
Balancing the vaunted 'Bama line.
was all-America Joe Domnanovich.
the center, while all-America Mike
Holovak. at right half, was the
spearhead of the Boston offensive. .
Probable line-ups:
Evening star., 1943-01-01

Bangs and Dietz-put across q
14-0 triumph.
Last year Dukes Steve Lach
was overshadowed In Oregon
States 20-16 triumph by a guy
most all-America pickers had
never heard of, States Southpaw
Don Durdan.
In between has been many an
illustrious name. Remember Har-
wards Eddie Casey 1920? Or
Ohio States Pete Stinchcomb
(192D, Stanford's frankie Wilton
192D or Bobby Grayson 1880?
They're just a few. and, of course,
there was California's great
Benny Lom in 1929. Lom,s most
heroic feat was to pull down Roy
Riegels yard short of the
Georgia Tech goal in the famous
wrcng-way gallop which made
that contest and the Engineers
81 triumph the dramatic stand
out Of all the series.
Yessir, Frankie will need more
than q pair Of first-class feet to
get by that jinx. He'll need q
grade A rabbits foot, too.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Jornogin Is Baby
Of Bowl Tutors
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex.-Numerou
football coaches have served their
profession half a lifetime with
out placing teams in bowl games.
But, Clark Jarnagin didn't
waste any time.
Today Clark-at % the young
est of bowl team coaches-leads
Hardin Simmons Cowboys into
their battle with the I'd Army Air
Forces Bombers.
incidentally, it's the first time
Clark ever was head coach. He
built the terrific Hardin Sim
mons line that paced the Cow
boys to an undefeated season, but
just as the Abilene school re-
ceived the invitation to play in
the Sun Bowl, Head Coach War
rem Woodson was sworn into the
Navy as a lieutenant.
So Jarnagin took over. Be-
cause of the war, his tenure as
head coach may be very short
since he, too, is expecting a call
to the service.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Tulsa Eleven Doub|y
Inspired in Battle
With Tennessee
Wants to Prove Its Own
CuIiber and Give Boost
To Its Conference
By the Associated Press.

DS VIC hcoOSiutco
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1.-Under-
favored Tulsa wants to prove two
things here today against Tennessee
in the ninth renewal Of the Sugar
Bowl football game.
Principally, the Oklahoma Hurri-
cane wishes to establish that despite
its lack of heft it can travel with the
biggest and the best. Secondly. as
first Missouri Valley Conference
team to play in the Sugar Bowl,
Tulsa wants to prove its circuit
worth watching closely from here
out.
At any rate, bowl officials expect
sellout crowd of $4,000 to see either
Tulsa or Tennessee hit the post
season jackpot.
Both teams arrived here before
noon from their Mississippi training
camps, unhampered by serious prac-
tice injuries.
This bunch Of mine Is steady"
Coach John Barnhill of Tennessee
said. Il still say the outcome de-
pendS more on Tulsa. We 70 about
the same every game. The question
is, will Dobbs be hitting the targets
with those passes?"
Said Tulsa's boss, Henry Frnka:
"All I can say about Tulsa is that
every time they get that ball it's
going to be business trip. I have
no idea how well we'll show. but
know how hard we'll work, and I'm
satisfied"
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Georgia Tech, Texas
Battle Sure 10 Be
An AI|-0ut Fray
Lonehorns Would Show
They Haven't Received
Deserved Recognition
By the Associated Press.

DALLAS, Jan. IA couple of
Of teams with plenty at stake-Texas
and Georgia Tech-meet today and
you can bet the loudest pair of socks
you got for Christmas that they'll be
playing for keeps the full 60 minutes.
It's the seventh annual Cotton
Bowl, sharply curtailed in attend
ance and with principals that lost
three games between them over the
regular season route, but there never
was more incentive to go all out.
Texas is making its first bowl ap-
pearance. It's doing so as the proud
possessor of a Southwest Conference
Championship, the first in dozen
years. Down here it is felt that
Texas never got the national recog-
milton to which it was entitled Even
its two defeats were by eyelash mar
gins-3-0 to Northwestern when the
Longhorns threw away numerous
chances to score and 1877 to Texas
Christian in the final minutes when
Texas was crippled.
Georgia Tech had one Of the best
records in the country until it met
Georgia-including victories over
Notre Dame, Navy, Duke and Ala
bama. That day, however, Frankie
Sinkwich & Co. crushed the Yellow
Jackets $40.
1t was humiliating, but as Clint
Castleberry, freshman wrath of the
Tech backf1eld put it: "We feel that
we can redeem ourselves if we take
Texas"
Never before was a closer game
forecast than this one. Betting odds
favored Tech by a paper edge, but
the sports critics were pretty well
divided.
No more than $4,000 were expected
to witness the game, but this was
considered pretty good under the
circumstances of gas rationing and
concerted efforts to prevent distance
travelling.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Farley
ToMakeCIear
Program
Lands Coils Session
Before Getting Home
Eight Hours Lute
BY CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-Up in the air
for more than a month, the 1943
baseball questions of where to train
IN the spring and when to start the
regular season are expected to come
to earth Tuesday in a joint session
called by Commissioner K. M.
Landis-of National and American
League officials.
The meeting will be in Chicago's
Palmer House, where the baseball
men broke up their annual get-to-
gether early in December still pom
dering letter from Joseph B. East
man, ODT director, in which he sug-
gested curtailment of travel.
Lands, after conferring with
Eastman in Washington this week,
returned to Chicago last night, his
train eight hours late. Before he
arrived he had instructed his office
to announce the special parley-out
OF which is expected to come a
clearly defined 1943 program.
Information Was Due in February.
Whatever promises of co-opera-
ton Lands made to Eastman or
whatever the commissioner has in
mind for travel conservation will be
withheld until the big baseball fam
lily has its second reunion within a
month.
Eastman possibly gave Lands a
definite announcement" in regard
to spring training travel. Several
weeks ago Clark Grifhth, president
OF the Washington Senators, said he
was told by the ODT director that
definite word on spring training
could be expected by early February
Meanwhile most of the 16 ma ior
league clubs have shopped for train
Ing sites nearer home, forsaking the
usual lengthy trips to California,
Florida and other warm weather
Fairgrounds. Three clubs have come
up with new spots, while others have
tentative places in mind, pending
the definite announcement" The
Chicago White Sox and Cubs select
ed the old mineral spa, French Lick
lnd., 278 miles south of Chicago
The Boston Red Sox will train in the
gymnasium at Tufts College, Med.
lord, Mass. Other teams have at.
tempted to get gyms or field houses
but met little success, for many O.
the athletic facilities have beer
turned over to servicemen.
Before settling the question O
training at home or within a de
termined radius, another importan
item must be acted upon-whethe
10 open the two major league sea
sons April 13, as planned, or vote ,
delay until April "a or 27.
Could Fit in Schedule.
II clubs assemble near home, tn,
later dates would allow extra days O.
warmer weather to exercise outdoors
The 14O-game schedule drawn up fol
each club in 1943-or even 154 game,
| as IN former years-could be fittee
into the period from April 27 Il
Septembar 26, the closing date.
| There may be discussion on re.
ducing travelling squads and tn,
further cutting of trips by lengthen.
ing series in each city so teams woulr
not have to retrace to make a,
many one-day stands.
Aside from transportation, is thu
question of the 1943 baseball make.
up, which is due for alteration be.
cause OF rubber and cork shortages
Ihls mater is in the hands of thu
advisory council of Lands, Presiden,
viii Harridge of the American
League and President Ford Frick Of
| the National.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Wall, 1hornburg Uninjured
In 1ropica! Park Spill!

BY the Associated Press.
Two riders. the veteran Nick Wall
and apprentice Jimmy Thornberg,
escaped injury in spill that marred
the seventh race at Tropical yester-
day.
Woodford Lad stumbled and fell
with Thornberg near the far turn.
Wallis mount, Ishtar, ran into Wood
ford Lad. Wall hung on to Ishtar's
neck in rodeo fashion for nearly a
furlong before falling away from the
animal.
After examination at the track
first aid quarters, both jockeys we're
reported no worse than shaken up
and bruised. Thornberg rode in the
following race.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Rangers Banked First Time
In 129 Contests as They
Bow 10 Detroit, 20
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The joy that came into the lives
of the New York Rangers OF the
National Hockey League on Christ
mas night, when they started their
longest winning streak of the sea-
son, ended on New Year eve-with
a bang.
The Detroit Red Wings shut out
the Rangers, 20, In the only league
contest on last nights program,
not only swapping a three-game
winning spree for the Rangers but
also bringing to an end their con-
secutive game-scoring streak that
covered 128 contests.
Not since April 8, 1910, when Turk
Broda of Toronto blanked the
Rangers, 80, in the fourth game
of the Stanley Cup playoffs, had the
New Workers been held scoreless.
Through two full seasons and the
first 81 games this year they had
tailed IN every contest.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Many lIIustrie
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

PASADENA, Calf, Jan. L.
It's not, you understand. that
U. G.. l.. AS Bruins don't trust
people. Or that they'd even in
fer that any one would try to slip
something by them.
frankie Sinkwich may have a
bad ankle. He may have two bad
ankles. Well-informed Geor-
gians say it's so. But the Bruins
and a lot of the expected 10000
plus spectators-are reserving
judgment until midafternoon to-
day or thereafter.
The memory of Terrible Tom
my" Robin Is too fresh.
Up in Oregon. before the Web
foots handed the Bruins their
only conference pasting of the
season, AT, the team collec-
lively was moved almost to tears
by the sight Of q brawny figure
hmping disconsolately about the
campus. He was pointed out as
Fullback Tommy Robin and
Evening star., 1943-01-01
East Matches Speed,
Air Skill Against
West's Power
GovernoI Is Big Factor
In Chority Contest
Of Gridiron Sturs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-Speed
and aerial trickery of the East was
pitted against the crushing ground
power of the West today as star
spangled teams of college greats
prepared to clash in the annual New
Year Day football test of East versus
West.
The Fasteners, studded with all
America and fielding an minded,
fleet-footed outfit including Co.
lumbias crackerjack passer. Paul
Governali, were favored by odds Of
ITO or thereabouts.
But remember. the East most al
ways finds itself the general choice
and yet 1t hasn't won since 1887
when Ken Sandback of Princeton
kicked a field goal for a 80 edge.
OF II games played thus far, the
West has won 10, the East 5 and
2 we're ties.
The Westerners have a revered
reputation of bottling up the East s
big names and winning ball game
in their own quiet way.
The West outweighs the East some
II pounds per man, and its emphasis
on ground plays portends power on
the hoof with bit of T-formation
trickery thrown in. The East,
equipped with brilliant passers and
perhaps the best college ends in the
country, offers not only a well-tuned
aerial assault, but an array of fleet
ball carriers.
A crowd of nearly $4,000 was ex-
pected. Proceeds go equally to the
Shrine Hospital for Crippled Chill
dren and the Army Navy Welfare
funds.
Probable line-ups.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Racing Cards Adjusted
To Football Games
BY the Associated Press

Racing is shifting its schedule
somewhat today to make room for
football.
At Miami, the Tropical Park pro-
gram was to get under way at 10 a m.
to give the fans chance to get to
the Orange Bowl football game and
at New Orleans, scene of the Sugar
Bowl grid battle, the post time for
the first race at the Fair Grounds
was moved up to 1880 am.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Defies Unlimited Quints

Unlimited basket ball teams after
tough competition are invited to
contact George Knepley Of the
Mount Rainier Recreation Associa-
ton quint at Michigan 0756. That
club recently won its third straight
game by tripping Naiman Photo,
4l-29. Next Tuesday 1t Is scheduled
to meet Jacobsen Florist.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Georgia Is Solid
Choice 10 Win
Al Pasadena
Injured frankie PIoys
Today Only in Spots,
Declares Couch
BY RUSSELL NEWLAND,
Associated Press Sports Writer,


PASADENA, Calf, Jan. L.
Against backdrop of world conflict
the Georgia Bulldogs and the
U. c. L. A. Bruins greet the New
Year today on the tough but
friendlier field of football-the Rose
Bowl classic.
Whether there will be another
college bowl game until the fight for
democracy is settled is debatable but
the 1943 renewal of the grandpappy
OF all the post-season gridiron spec
tacles claimed the attention of some
$4,000 fans.
Two fiat feet and pair OF
sprained ankles had tens of thou
sands mumbling.
The fragile ankles and imperfect
pedal extremeties belonged to Geor-
gia's All-America backheld act
frankie Sinkwich. As the climax
to the Bulldogs practice prepara-
tions, Coach Wallace Butts said that
Flatfoot Frankie would not start.
The squatty Georgia mentor
seemed serious as he stated: II am
not going to start Sinkwich. He did
not look particularly good yesterday
and did not work out at all today
CThursday). 1t looks as if now We'll
have to call on him only for some
particular spot. And I'll have to
decide on that as the game pro-
crosses"
Uclans Ready for Anything.
There were some who did not view
the statement with alarm, however.
Sockin' Sinkwich shuffled and
limped through sensational sea-
son. He led the Bulldogs to 10
victories in an 11-game schedule,
finishing as the highest scorer in
the Southeastern Conference and
was voted the most valuable athlete
in the country.
1t is automatic that as Sinkwich
goes so goes Georgia. He couldn't =
60 against an Auburn team that
pulled out all the stops and Georgia
lost its only game.
Reaction at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles camp was as
fiat as mashed potato sandwich.
The Bruins, from Head Coach Edwin
Horrell down, were prepared for the
Southern star to play the most spec
tacular game of his career.
At the same time it was an open
secret they feared Sinkwich's back
field mate, Charley Trippi, more
than the high-scoring captain of the
team. Trippi, the sophomore under
study to Flatfoot frankie, ran wild
against Georgia Tech in the finale
that clinched the Conference title
and the Rose Bowl invitation.
Trippi, the speed specialist and
long passer, takes over the starting
burden and Sinkwich's spot was as
signed to Dick McPhee, an able re-
placement.
Georgia Solid Favorite.
Otherwise the 9th Rose Bowl pic
ture was unchanged since the Bull
dog powered through the Southwest
with one exception, and the Bruir
staggered through to his first Pacific
Coast Conference title, meanwhile
losing to Texas Christian and the
st. Marys Pre-FGght on the outside
and to Oregon in his own league.
The picture. as the teams lined ur
today. was painted in this fashion
Georgia (SinkWich in or ou) /.
to-3 favorite over U. C. L. A.
Georgia, No. 2 team of the Ma.
ton, to win by IL points or more.
The two lines shaped up on fairly
even terms.
Otherwise it was all Georgia
money and few. If any, U. c. L. A
hackers in sight.
Prohah hle line-lIns.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
BIue-Groy Come in 1943
May Be Service Clash

By the Associated Press.
Montgomery's Blue Gray all-star
game will be continued next season
in spite Of the war, says Champ
PickenS.
If college athletes are unavailable
the continuity will be retained by
making the 1943 renewal a North
South service team affair.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Un Set for Sc ppe Baseball Heads Settle Course 7ues
Desert Bowl Come
Has No Problems
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz.. Jan.
HERES q New Years Day
bowl game in which the Once Of
Defense Transportation absolu-
tely has no interest.
It's the Desert Bowl, for the
championship Of the Army's
93d Division, and the 10000
soldiers who will sit on the side
lines won't need a quart Of gaso-
line to reach the scene.
It's right In their own yard.
and it really is desert.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Probable line-ups:
Basket Boil Scores

BY The Associated Press
City College, New York, 81;
Mitchell Field, 55.
Ohio State, 48; Pittsburgh, "A.
Baylor, "a; East Texas State, 80.
Duke, g.; Fort Bragg. At.
De Paul, 54; Marquette, 46.
Phillips "66," 48; Arkansas, u.
Evening star., 1943-01-01
Tuskegee, Texas College
In Vulcan Bowl Tilt
BY the Associated Press.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. l.
Tuskegee Tigers and Texas College,
two Of the Nations leading Negro
college football teams, will clash
here today in Vulcan Bowl match
expected to draw some 10000 fans.
Conquerors of Langston, winner
of the annual contest last year, the
Texans are claimants to the South
western Negro Conference and will
enter the game as the favorites.
Tuskegee is representing the
Southern Negro Conference.