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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-09
TIMEs-LEGION DRIVE

The drive, sponsored by The
Detroit Times with the co-opera-
ton Of The American Legion, is to
provide Christmas gifts for the
war wounded in nearby govern
ment hospitals as well as enlisted
personnel at army and navy posts.
For each 81 contributed, the
Santa for Servicemen committee
will pack a box, enclose a card
bearing the name and address of
the donor and have the box de-
hvered Christmas week to a
worthy serviceman.
Fo woU-d>d soldier will spend
Christmas forgotten if you do
your share. Send your contribu-
tion today 10 the Santa for Serv-
tcemen Fund, Detroit Times, 1870
Cars, Detf-nt 81. A handy blank
Is provided in today's~ paper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-09
Murray Staff Aids Army's Santa

Detroit is opening its heart and
pocketbook to the Santa for Serv-
icemen drive, with S9.556 already
Tailed.
Today's contributions included
500 from the men and women OF
Department 113 at the Murray
Corp. of America. who wrote:
I'VE had kept the money In
our service fund TO give $50 To
each man In cur department
>awho entered the armed forces.
"Since no additional men have
been indicted. we decided to put
our Sl20 balance TO a good use.
The Santa for Servicemen fund
Is the best we know Of"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-09
Santa for Servicemen Fund

In Care of The Detroit Times stI
1870 Cass Avenue
Detroit 81 Michigan.
Enclosed find. ........,. dollars my contribu-
ton to help provide Merry Christmas for servieemen
and women in this / understand that for each
81 I'm enclosing the committee will pack gift box
and enclose card with my name and address.
Street Address Zone No.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-09
NEW CONTRIBUTORS

Recent contributions to the
fund include.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
MATS Ready 10 Spend
For Players After
Profitable 1943

Full speed ahead in 1914" is the
keynote of the Washington baseball
club after yesterdays annual meet
ing, with most of the proceeds of q
profitable l943 season earmarked
for the purchase of players with
which President Clark Griffith hopes
to build a pennant winner in 1914.
Grif1. OF course, is president of
the club after the routine of electing
him for the oath consecutive year.
Other club Offices were shuffled a
bit, however, with Calvin Grifith.
Grif1's 32-year-old nephew, named
vice president and George M. Rich
ardson. brother of the late William
Richardson, Griff's former partner,
elected treasurer. Eddie Eynon con-
tinues in his post of secretary and
assistant treasurer.
Griffith has been grooming Young
Calvin for his new position for some
time. For the past two years he was
assistant secretary Of the Washing
ton team, previously having served
as president and manager of the
farm team at Chattanooga and later
at Charlotte.
At yesterdays meeting a dividend
of 81 a share, which amounts to
about $4,000, was voted for the
first time in several years. This is
only portion of the profits, how
ever, Griff reported, with a major
share being reserved for purchase
OF new players and other improve
ments
Evening star., 1944-01-05

, brightest stars were out of the line
up for the duration, perhaps even
the more enthusiastically because
those stars had joined up somewhere
in Uncle Sans big varsity.
We played our schedules last year
with teams composed mainly of pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers, some 4-Fs
some plus-38s, some sub-19s. We
face season coming up in which
the outlook is for fewer of the family
men in our line-ups, more of the
other groups.
President Roosevelt wrote to Judge
Lands January Is, 1912. a month
after Pearl Harbor:
Il honestly feel that it would be
best for the country to keep base
ball going " If 800 teams use
5000 or 5000 players, those players
are definite recreational asset te
at least 2O,0OO00O of their fellow
citizens-and that, in my judgment
is thoroughly worth while"
The National Leagues aim fol
1914 is to carry through on the
Commander in Chiefs assignment
as it did last year and the year be-
| fore,
Evening star., 1944-01-05
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 5.-Coach
Carl Voyles of William and Mary's
1912 football champions, a staunch
single wing system advocate
throughout his 21-year coaching
span, says that the current T for
nation boom has left him unim-
pressed.
Despite the success of footballs
Big Three-Chicago Bears, Notre
Dame and Iowa Prehight-with the
T this season, Voyles believes that
greater results can be produced with
other formations.
THE T has a weakness that good
defense will stop if the material is
anything like even," Voyles con-
tended. "It takes much strength
in the center-I mean good center
good quarterback and a good full
back. If a coach has exceptional
men in those positions then he
might well adapt the T formation.
After the war it will be used and
used successfully, but not as success
fully as the single wingback with a
man in motion or some other proven
offensive formation"
Voyles expressed the opinion that
the A formation used by the New
York Giants had all the running
advantages of the T and better
passing formation.
But all in all, the w. and M
mentor said lit is matter of timing
blocking and throwing passes that
makes your formation click.
"A fine point about football Is
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Walter Johnson Jack Bentley to Spice Bond Bowling Rally
Marshall, Bear Prexy
Planning Loop Fight
Against $500 Fines

Both George Marshall, president
OF the Redskins, and Ralph Brizzo-
lara, acting president Of the Chicago
Bears, are protesting the $500 fine
levied on each by Commissioner
Elmer Layden of the National Foot
ball League. Indignation at Lay
den's action has been expressed by
both men, and the whole matter Is
due for further airing when the
annual league meeting is held at
Chicago January IL and l3.
The fine grew out of an unsched-
uled bit of action during the Decem-
Der 26 championship playoff between
the Redskins and Bears at Chicago.
Marshall appeared on the sidelines
near the Bears bench shortly before
the end Of the first half. Ordered to
leave by Brizzolara. Marshall was
showed from the field and into the
stands by Jack Goldie, Bears equip
ment man.
The whole scene was particularly
noticeable to the crowd OF $4,000
because Marshall was wrapped in a
coonskin coat and Goldie was
dressed in red slicker, making both
standouts along the sidelines.
In levying the fines of $500 each,
most drastic disciplinary action he
has taken since he became commits
sioner in 1941, Layden termed this
bit OF byplay mot reciprocal of the
public confidence in the National
Football League" and asserted it
did not promote the interests of
professional football
Here In Washington, Marshall
termed the fine unjust and ill con-
sidered." He said he was protesting
1t. In explaining his part in the
action at Chicago, Marshall said he
merely had intended to go down to
the field at half time, but his timing
was on and he reached the field near
the Bears bench minute or so be-
fore the first half ended.
And In Chicago, according to an
Associated Press dispatch, Brizzolara
described Layden's action as "asi-
nine" and denied he had engaged in
an alteration with Marshall. He
said he had told Marshall to leave
the vicinity of the Bears bench, but
that at no time was he closer than
flve feet to Marshall. The Bears
boss added that Jack Goldie, on his
own volition, forcibly tried to eject
Marshall"
In the meantime, the fines have
not been paid.
Evening star., 1944-01-05

World Wars I and II is sufficient
in itself for a place among base.
balls finest" Simmons further citec
Grifith's unfailing willingness to CO.
operate with local and national
charities, his many sacrifices in the
interests of baseball and the various
improvements he has introduced into
the game
Another baseball figure to be hon.
ored next Tuesday night will be
Ossie Bluege, manager of the Mats
He will be presented special plaque
for his work in helping engineer
the Mats from seventh place in 1942
to second last season.
-Four of the country,s top football
stars during the 1943 season will
be presented trophies at the din
ner. The players and awards are:
Sammy Baugh, Redskin halfback
the Touchdown Club Trophy as the
outstanding professional player of
the year; Angelo Bertelli, Notre
Dame quarterback, the Walter Camp
Memorial Trophy as the outstand-
ing college player; Casimer Myslin-
ski, Army center, the Knute Rockne
Memorial Trophy as the outstand-
ing college lineman, and Dick Todd,
Iowa Seahawks, the Bob Smith
Trophy as the outstanding service
team player
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Seeing Football Lapse
As Error, Many Will
Resume, Stagg Says
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-Amos Alonzo
Stagg, the young" man who went
West and found new coaching
career at II, believes that some COL
leges which abandoned football last
year will resume it next fall.
Voted coach of the year by the
National Association of Football
Writers. Stagg was back here today
receiving plaudits from old friends
of his University of Chicago days.
The grand old man of the Mid
way" coach of the Maroons for Al
years before he took over the foot
ball situation at little College of the
Pacific 10 years ago, turned out one
of the Nations strongest teams last
fall.
Still Enthusiastic. Vigorous.
At 81 he retains the enthusiasm
and vigor of man half his age. He
sees the game as a splendid physical
and mental conditioner; believes it
should not be abandoned because OF
the war.
I'VE coaches who decided to carry
on in 1943 made no mistake" he
said. THE educators who discon-
tinued the sport are the ones who
made mistake. However, some of
the schools on the West Coast which
discontinued athletics last year ap-
parently are ready to resume next
fall I think Stanford will be one
and several others up North also are
ready to return
Thinks Army Made Mistake.
He added that he thought the
Army made mistake by not allow
ing its trainees to take part in in
tercollegiate sports. But maybe
they'll make up for it next fall"
His Pacific eleven, composed of
Navy Via trainees, had only As
minutes a day for practice and did
very we'll" Stagg emphasized The
team lost only to Suothern Califor-
MIA and March Field
eliminating a series of functions
in his honor this week will be the
award Saturday night of gold foot
ball to the coach of the year. II
will be presented between halves OF
the Chicago-De Paul basket bal
game by the order of the &C
A. u of C. Lettermen's Club Stagg
founded during his tenure as Ma
room grid mentor. Football was
abandoned at the Midway several
years ago.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Coputo Gains Sen1is in Effort
To Win Golf Event 9th Time

and Caputo took the 18th with a par
4, while Viewer missed 5-foot putt.
Williams, whose home also is at
st. Petersburg, advanced to the
semifinals by eliminating Bill Nc.
Intyre of Boston, Mass, and St.
Petersburg, and l.
In today's other third-round
match, William Thetford of Tampa,
runnerup to Caputo last year, OPP
posed Bud Colt of st. Petersburg.
Thetford won from Art Stone Of
Syracuse, N. Y, 3 and l, yesterday
and Colt defeated v. Blaine Asher,
former Iowa State champion from
Spencer, Iowa, 6 and 5.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Eastern Gains Fourth
In Row at 6. W. Hiqh

Eastern boasts the best record of
any high school basket ball team so
far in the young season with four
straight triumphs. The Ramblers
added to their string with 1922
victory over George Washington yes
terday at Alexandria.
Eastern had to come from behind
to take this one after the Presidents
led by Joe Hensley, went ahead
14-11, at the half. Sam Dellinger
and Bob Lamon, two Eastern vet
Grams, took charge thereafter and
helped overhaul the Presidents as
the Ramblers went into the final
period with a 24-18 advantage.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Costontino and Jack
Near Fighting Weight
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Lulu Cos.
tantino expects to weigh around 137
pounds for his 10-round nontitle
fight with Lightweight Champion
Beau Jack at Madison Square Gar
den Friday night. Jack expects to
come in at 1873.
Costantino tipped the scales at 13s
and Jack at 142A yesterday when
they underwent a fitness examina-
ton by the State Athletic Com
mission.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Maryland's S Turf Revenue
Only 1877 Below 1912
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.-Maryland's s
racing revenue last year declined
only 1877 per cent under 1912 al
though the major season was
slashed from 100 to 50 days and all
of it was conducted at Pimlico, in
Baltimore.
The State Racing Commission, in
its final report, told that the State
received 81, All ,65616. This was only
1922 ,629.45 less than the 81, ,734 ,285. 81
realized in 1912.
The half -mile-track season also
was reduced from so to 80 days, with
meetings conducted only at Hagers-
town, Cumberland and Marlboro.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
RickeyHeId AIormist in Seeing
Pro Grid as Baseball Menace

midWeek games would be played for
| the edification of the water boys,
too.
Pro footballs losses to the armed
services were not small. but the
gents with the names that have
packed in the fans in recent years
still we're around, such as Sammy
Baugh, Sid Luckman and Don Hut
son.
College football normally gets
more than its share of the spotlight
in the fall. The past football season
had not much to offer for the fans
interest. There was a handful of
really good teams, but on the whole
the game was at ebb tide, with many
schools not fielding teams at all
and competition among others often
one sided The football fans had to
have an outlet for their enthusiasm,
so they turned to the still robust
pro game.
Long Session Is Impractical.
AS to Mr.. Rickey's vision of six
month season, we just can't see it.
The game stretches out for nearly
four months now, with its playoffs
and all, but except for the meetings
of the better teams the late-season
games aren't such drawing cards.
In truth, football and baseball are
seasonal games and should remain
that way. They overlap little but
not much. Baseball fans usually are
pretty we'll fed up with the game
when the season ends. A six-month
grid season would have the fans
yawning.
And being the game it is, with
the men flattening each other all
over the place, it is doubtful if the
players could stand six months of it
playing twice week if they made
the playing field out of mattresses
If baseball continues to slump
after the war and football continues
its squirt, then We'll believe there's
something to worry about. Right
now, though, we'll let Mr.. Hickey
worry about it, He thought il I'M.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
By WHITNEY MARTIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Branch
Hickey puts on his worry wig and
warns baseball it will have to show
signs of life or pro football will run
1t right out of its own parks. But
somehow we can't get too alarmed
over this stormy weather forecast.
Mr.. Hickey visions numerous stout
pro leagues scattered over the coun-
try playing six-month seasons, with
college boys dreaming of football
careers instead of signing up with
the Yanks and the sports fans more
interested in two on the 50-yard line
than a pair right back of third base.
Now baseball had a poor year in
1943 while pro football had its best
year, and this comparison probably
influences Mr.. Hickey in the taking
of his view with alarm" attitude
However, l943 was anything but a
normal year and certain circum-
stances make the comparison mis-
leading.
Conditions Help Pro Football.
Most of the minor baseball leagues
we're forced to fold because of lack
of manpower, transportation diff
culties and sundry reasons. The
major clubs were not up to normal
strength because of the demands OF
the armed services, and the man.
power losses included the outstand-
ing individual drawing cards, such
as Joe Di Maggie, Bob Feller ano
Ted Williams. Possibly because Of
war work, midweek attendance fell
off to a shadow of its former sell
and the game became practically q
weekend sport.
While baseball was being sluggeo
from all sides, certain factors
worked in favor of pro football. Te
begin with, it always was weekend
game primarily. If the gridders
played every day as do the base
ballers, we have an idea some of the
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Nelson Hits Top Form
AS Ace Field Starts
Los Angeles Open
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-For the
first time since the war began,
major golf competition returned to
the Pacific Coast today as a field OF
l80 pros and amateurs, including
seven former titleholders, squared of
over rain-scaked fairways in the
S12 500 Los Angeles Open.
Often champion of other events,
but never successful here, Byron
Nelson served strong pretournament
notice that he's back in stride and
expects to break into the winners
column at last to lay claim to the
s4,375 first pro prize.
Nelson Sets Pace With 81.
In a preliminary round yesterday,
the big Toledo (Ohio) pro and Ike
Greenberg, Los Angeles amateur.
tied with Lloyd Mangrum and AL
Behrstock, another local simon pure,
for a pro-amateur best ball of 81
over par Y course. Mangrum had
St, while Nelson shot 65.
Former titleholders entered are
Harry Cooper. who won the first
tournament here in 1926; Macdonald
Smith, four times winner: Jimmy
Thomson, Johnny Bulla, Ed Dudley,
Craig Wood and Jimmy Hines.
Not present to defend his title Is
Ben Hogan. who won the last
tournament in 1912 with a y in an
18-hole play-of of tie with Thom-
son. who shot 73 Each shot 2s2
over the regular 72-hole route.
Dawson, Mccormick Top Amateurs.
Other pros entered include jug
McSpaden, Joe Kirkwood, Sammy
Byrd, Johnny Revolta, Marvin Stahl.
Olin Dutra. Willie Hunter, Leonard
Dodson, Horton Smith, Willie Cog
gin, Leo Diegel, Ralph Guldahl and
Ellsworth Vines.
Johnny Dawson and Bruce Nc
Cormick. both of Los Angeles, head
the amateur field that includes Babe
Didrickson Zaharias, lone feminine
entrant.
The Sunset Fields and Fox Hills
courses were the scene for today's
36-hole qualifying rounds. They
will determine the l28 low scores
and ties that will comprise the field
for the championship round.
Qualifying rounds start tomorrow.
with medal play slated from Friday
through Monday over the Wiltshire
Country Club course. Par there Is
35-36-71.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Coolidge Convincing
In Licking ST: Johns

Coolidge's rating as one Of the
leading high school basket ball teams
in Washington was enhanced today
after the smooth manner in which
the Colts defeated ST. Johns, 34-21,
at Coolidge yesterday.
With Bill Cannon and Bill Lake
each dumping in a pair of baskets,
the Colts went into 1915 lead in
the first quarter and never were
threatened. Ahead l7-8 at the half,
Coolidge increased it's margin in the
third period by scoring six points
while limiting the Cadets to bucket
by Paddy Rhodes.
Both made IL points in the final
eight minutes, George Lafferty and
Addy Basin scoring twice for the
Colts while Bits Dudley and Rhodes
each got two for the Johnnies.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Former North Dakota Ace
Is Missing in Action
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GRAND FORKS, N. Oak. Jan. S
Carl F. Gully Ekstrom
former athlete at the University of
North Dakota here. has been re-
ported by United States 9th AAF
headquarters in England to be miss
ing III action. He failed to return
from recent mission.
While a member OF the North
Dakota University boxing team
Ekstrom won the national intercol-
legiate featherweight title in 1895
He was captain and later coach. OF
the university boxing team.
He is the son of Mrs. Hannah
Ekstrom. Minneapolis. His wife
Myrtle lives in Portland. Greg.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Hall of Fame Move for Griffith
Gets touchdown Fete Buckinq

Baseball will share the spotlight
with football at the Touchdown
Clubs annual dinner at the Statler
Hotel next Tuesday night as the
club prepares to get solidly behind
the movement to put Clark Griffith
in baseball's Hall of Fame.
An Endorsement of Grifith's right
to place in the Cooperstown shrine
is being prepared by Bob Simmons,
president of the Touchdown Club,
who confidently expects it to receive
unanimous approval of the 900 men,
bers and guests who will be present.
"As pitcher, manager, club pres
ident and as man, Clark Griffith
has qualified we'll for Cooperstown. -
says Simmons. His work during
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Operation Okoys
Furmun for Grid

Dick .Farman, the Redskins
all-league guard, will be able to
play football next season as the
result of a successful operation
at the famed Mayo Clinic at
Rochester, MINI.
DR.. Robert E. Moran, Redskin
physician, has received word that
Rochester physicians discovered
q spine injury caused a nerve
condition in Farman's leg and
that this has been corrected by
IN operation.
Although he played little more
than half the season, Farman
was named to the au-league
eeam.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
BY the Associated Press,

by Cne ASSUCIaIed PTeSS,
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Jan. s.
Jimmy Caputo. the Swampscott
(Mass) golfing landscape gardener,
faced Horace Williams. jr., former
Florida State amateur champion, to-
day in the semifinal round of the
New Year tournament at Lakewood
Country Club.
Caputo, seeking the title for the
sixth year in row, required 19 holes
yesterday to defeat Milton Viewer.
st. Petersburg'S city match and
medal play champion. Both had
two-over-par 74s after the 18th hole
Evening star., 1944-01-05
BY FORD c. FRICK,

President of the National Baseball League.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (P.-No one
knows how the developments of
1914 will shape the programs of
baseball.
We faced 1943 with the determi-
nation to carry through a pennant
race as near like peacetime as could
be done while giving full co-opera-
ton to the high command in war
economies, transportation emergen-
cies, drives for War funds and War
Bonds and the various other con-
tingencies as they came up.
The testimony from all fronts was
that baseball fans now in the Army
and Navy found the news from the
baseball leagues as popular a topic
of interest and argument as in their
civilian days. They rooted for their
home team with the same zeal, even
though some of their home team S
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Other Systems Better Than 7 j.,
Says VoyIes, w. & M. Coach

that different people directing diff.
ferent squads approach the mat
ter of making touchdowns in a diff
ferent way SO there will always be
a variety of plays and formations
I've often heard it said that people
want spectacular football, but they
want to see successful football
There is no one formation that over.
powers defense. The game of foot.
ball is very well balanced"
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Eight Teams Menace King Pins,
Leaders in DistrictLeuuue

The keen District Duckpin League
flag chase enters The second half of
its 117-game schedule tonight with
EIGHT teams still close enough to the
pacesetting King Pins to make it a
hot scrap for top honors before the
curtain falls on the longest season in
the history of the city's fastest bowl
ing circuit.
Boosting three game lead the
King Pins entertain the strong
fourth-place Lucky Strikes and a
whale of a pin spilling fracas it
promises to be since the Luckies are
out to revenge a three-game set
back. The match, which starts at
7:30, also will be linked with The
Stars War Bond tournament. Henry
TAFT Rodier, publisher of the Bulle-
tin, has bought a $1,000 bond to
sponsor both teams in the tourna-
ment. Each member of the two
clubs will roll for Marine 1t. Paul
IS. Hospodar, serving in the South
Pacific. King Pin has won 81 of
81 games while the Luckies stand
1925.
Deadlocked in second place, three
games out of first, Lafayette and
the champion Clarendon outfit are
down for matches at Greenway and
IHyattsville. Wedged in fourth with
IGreenway and Lucky Strike, the
surprising Temple quint will be host
to Gus Places and his Spillways. In
the other tilts, Brookland visits Hi
Skor, Chevy Chase Ice Palace tricks
to Colonial Village and Arcadia fires
at Bethesda Bowling Center.
Whiting down the flve-game lead
held by Hi-Skor in the Ladies' Dis
trict League will be the big task con-
fronting the runner-up Takoma to-
night at Takoma. Other matches
starting at 7:30 will see King Pin at
Rendezvous, Rosslyn at Arcadia, Red
Circle at Bethesda Bowling Center,
Chevy Chase Ice Palace at Apacostia
Spillway and Columbia at Lafayette.