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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Parker Quits Topping
For Tribe Farm Job

Ace Parker, veteran major league
baseball and football star, will give
up his berth with Dan Topping S
New York All-America Conference
team to become part owner of the
Portsmouth Shamrocks of the Dixie
League. 1t was learned last night.
Parker will serve as player-coach OF
the team.
Harry H. Howren, president Of the
Shamrocks. conferred with George
Marshall, Redskin prexy, here over
the week end, and the two have ar
rived at working agreement where
by Portsmouth will be a Redskin
farm.
The Dixie League plans to resume
operations next year, with fran
chises located in six cities. Applica-
tons from Atlanta, Ca; Charleston
s. c.: Winston-Salem, Greensbo.
rough and Asheville, N. c., are
pending. The loop will be affiliated
with the National Football League
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whose work Is limited to handling
games.
Approval was granted to recon-
mendation that all returning serv-
icemen-with three exceptions-be
Immediately eligible for competition
in intercollegiate sports.
The committee also stood by its
rule permitting the use Of freshmen
on varsity teams.
The 1915 outdoor track and field
meet was set for the University Of
Nebraska, Lincoln, on May Is, the
same date and site of the next con-
ference confab.
The indoor track meet will be
held in Kansas City on March 2.
DR.. H. II. King Of Kansas State
College was renamed Big Six repre-
sentative to the National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
Approval OF baseball schedules was
postponed until thu May meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Boston AwordedAAU RingMeet
After 2-Hour Convention Fioht

ming out over San Diego, Calf, for
the womens swimming, one Of the
most hotly contested dues Of the
present convention. The women's
indoor was assigned Seattle.
Following the battle in which
Boston won the boxing tourney, the
AAU fathers also approved the
sending of four sluggers to London
for January 81 ring show and also
approved the competition of an
Argentine squad of t-throwers
in the Boston ring championships
on April and 9. In truth, the
AAU will send a boxing team to
the South American country later
in the spring.
Ralph M. Marlowe of Philadel-
phia, serving as chairman Of the
boxing group, said the four men
sent to London and their coach
would be determined by mail vote
after the. present convention.
At another committee meeting,
the eligibles for the Sullivan Award,
given to Anne Curtis a year ago As
the athlete having done the most
to advance the cause of sportsman
ship in the preceding IL months,
was cut to nine.
Award Candidates Listed.
They are, in alphabetical order:
William Bangert. Missouri football
and shot put star; Felix A. (Doc)
Blanchard, Army fullback and also
a shot putter; Arky Erwin Of New
Orleans, hurdler; Alan Ford, Yale
swimmer; DR.. M. A. Northrup Of
San Francisco, wrestler; Joe Platak
of Chicago, handball; James Raj
ferty of New York, track; william
Smith Of Honolulu, swimming, and
Hazel Walker of Little Rock, Ark,
women's basket ball.
Records approved included the
235-foot 3-inch javelin thrown by
Corpl. Seymour Cohen of the Sc
Station Hospital Medical Detach-
ment at Istanbul, Turkey, on Sep
tember 80, 1915, and the :l4.4 turned
in by Haakon Lidman Of Sweden
for the 110-meter hurdles on the
indoor board track at Davisville,
r. l., on April Z. Cohen's mark
went into the book as a United
States citizens mark while Lidman's
will be listed as an American rec
ord.
Eleven swimming marks were
turned back for further checking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
No Wrinkles Scores
In $4,000 Handicap
By the Associated Prsss.

By the Associated Press.
SAN MATEO, Calf, Dec. g.
Streaking ahead in the stretch, No
Wrinkles, ridden by Bob Summers
Of Toronto. Canada, won the 18th
annual running of the $25 ,000-
added Bay Meadows Handicap to-
day before jammed crowd Of more
than 10000.
Time for the 1ls miles on q heavy
track was zoos.
Wise Eagle ran second and Sammy
Angott was third. Foreign policy
was fourth and the 4-to-5 favorite
Whirlabout, was beaten of badly
after twice leading the field.
No Wrinkles. owned by K. Mar
ley OF Phoenix, Ariz., won by ~
lengths carrying liz pounds.
The win earned No Wrinkles
$20,930. He paid $3.50,
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Big Six Athletic Commissioner
Within Next Year Is LikeIy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.-Reports
that the Big Six Conference will hire
a full-fledged commissioner of ath-
letics within the next year" seeped
from the closed session of the con-
ference's winter meeting here today
While the athletic directors and
faculty committeeman declined to be
quoted, there was little hesitancy or
the part of several to say I'VE are
getting very close to hiring a COM
missioner"
One well-informed source said the
new commissioner would have
broad duties in overseeing the con-
ference's athletic affairs" but added
that his powers would stop short Of
q car"
The proposed commissioners du-
ties would In no way conflict with
those Of the conferences commits
sioner Of ofncials-Reaves Peters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Wiley Coaching Aide
Dies With His Team
Winning in Bowl
u the Assnciated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 8.-Assistant
Coach Harry Long died today just
after his team, Wiley College (Tex.
Wildcats, scored its first touchdown
over Florida Ags in the Orange
Blossom Bowl. The Wildcats won
the game, 1876.
Coach Long, brother of Head
Coach Fred Long, was stricken as
he sat on the bench. He was pro-
nounced dead upon arrival at Tampa
Negro Hospital.
1t wasn't until the second half of
the game that word of the coachs
death reached the Wiley squad
Head Coach Long refused to leave
the field.
81 know my brother would have
wanted me to stay here and finish
out the game" he said.
The teams played stubborn ball
throughout the first quarter, with
the Wildcats scoring late in the pc
Rod. News of Longs death hit the
visitors hard, but they scored two
more touchdowns in the second Pc
Rod and twice in the final round
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Army Picks vi|Ianova
To Start ; Seasons
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.-Little
Villanova stuck its neck out good
today-it will open Army's football
season for the next three years.
Rev. Edward B. Mckee, moderator
Of athletics, In announcing the
agreement, admitted Army looms
as another powerhouse next fall,
but added, "Villanova is expected to
be stronger outfit in 1916"
The Wildcats, who hope to return
to position Of national grid promi-
nence, took a $40 shellacking from
Army this year and lost, $50. in
1914.
Villanova and Army have met II
times with the Wildcats winning
only once, q 1918 victory in 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Boss Of Baseball
Apt 10 Demand
Full Showdown
Fireworks in Chicago
Appear Certain With
Happy Set for Fight
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY,

noSoSidtcu fICSS cpUIbo WIlteI.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.-Basebali Com
missioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler
gets chance at bat in his full
blown feud with the minor leagues
when the major leaguers hold their
annual winter meeting here Mon
day through Wednesday.
Meeting with the men VINO elected
him as the late Kensaw Mountain
Lands successor, Chandler-con-
sistently rebuffed at the minor
league session in Columbus, Ohio
will have big say-so in the minors
attempt to hoist the Glass AA Pa
cific Coast League into the major
league bracket.
Almost the entire complexion of
the minor league meeting was anti
Chandler, which may precipitate
some fireworks here from the for
mer Kentucky Senator, who appar-
emily left Columbus in a mood for
a showdown
Happy Ready for Battle.
Happy told the minors that he
intended to run baseball just as it
had been run before, regardless of
what you do or say" and ne sug-
gested they refrain from passing
legislation Offensive and obnoxious
to me personally
Unimpressed, baseballs little men
voted to relieve Chandler of any
connection with a $4,000 postwar
promotional program and strip him
OF Lands dictatorial Jurisdiction in
legislation the commissioner might
construe as detrimental to base
ball" The latter restriction, how
ever, already was imposed on Chan
dler when the majors elected him,
II the majors do any wrist slap
ping, and it's perennial habit after
a minor league meeting, it probably
will center on the Pacific Coast
Leagues bid for major league recog-
milton.
The American League will meet
Monday with a five-man Pacific
Coast committee and the National
League will hear the same groups
petition for big league status on
Monday or Tuesday. The proposal
will be acted upon at Wednesdays
joint session with Chandler.
Cards Against Coast Loop.
Although official comment is lack
ing, some big leaguers are asking
such questions as: Does the Pacific
Coast have enough fan interest to
support major league player SAL
aries? Will West Coast playing ia
cilities accommodate major league
crowds? Can a third league corral
players of major league caliber from
top to bottom? Could Owner P. K.
Wrigley retain the Los Angeles club
along with the Chicago Cubs?
The majors are expected to concur
in the minors recommendation that
both the majors and minors be pro-
hibited from paying bonuses for
signing contracts.
Los Angeles Gets Help.
| Los Angeles of the Pacific will
acquire Pitcher Glenn Hausmann
from the Red Sox to complete q
deal which sent Inflelder Glen Rus
sell to the American League club
last season.
The Cubs announced outright sale
Of four players to two Of their farm
clubs, Los Angeles and Nashville.
Los Angeles got three players, in
Guiding Pitcher George Comellas,
First Baseman Regime Otero and
Third Baseman Pete Elko, while
Pitcher Wally Signer went to Nash
Vile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Bulge Smothers TiIden
Gains Pro Net Final

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8. - Don
Bulge, seeded No. l, today gave the
old master, 52-year-old Bill Tilden,
few lessons in a 60, 6-1 drubbing
to go into the final of the $1,000
World Professional Hard Court
Tennis Championship.
The young, powerful Bulge re-
quired only Is minutes to polish of
Tilden, who obviously was tired
from his drawn-out victory yester-
day over Lester Stoffen.
| Bobby Riggs defeated Fred Perry
60, 81, in the other seminal
and plays Bulge tomorrow.
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until a full school term of resi-
dence.
more leniency than civilians in some
cases. Civilians may not transfer
from another school without full
filling the one-year residence re-
quirement. Also, servicerlen VINO
play at bona fide military stations
will not forfeit any collegiate COM
petition
The conference agreed to make
concessions to athletes who were
taken into military service during
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Navy and Army Appear
On Dukes List Aooin

By the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. c., Dec. ga rugged
nine-game schedule in which both
Army and Navy will be met for the
third straight year, was announced
for the 1916 Duke University foot
ball team today.
The schedule:
September 2S-N c. State.
October s., Tennessee; IL, Navy, Balti.
York.
November 2, Georgia Tech; o, Wax,
Forest: 10, South Carolina: 30, North
Carolina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Football Results

Wiley College, 80; Florida Ags
6. (Orange Blossom Bowl.)
Jacksonville NATTC, o: Camp
Gordon Johnston, O.
Tennessee State College Nash
ville), IS; Goldman Field Fort
Knox, "a.
Pensacola Eastern Flying r. C.
maxwell Field, Z; Pensacola N. A
T. B., 7,
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Two Late Olympic Goals
Defeat Lions, ; to |
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 8.-Two goals early
In the third period by Clare Martin
gave Boston Olympics a 81 victory
over Washington Lions tonight
before $4,000 at the Boston Garden.
Mark Marques put Boston into
an early lead but Washington tied
the count on second period goal
by Paul Bedard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Leemuns Was in Redskins Hair for Years

The 1898 results similar. games
and $780, attracting $3.50 Polo
6ue modern football
Redskins felt badly about losing the second limited
quitting football
criticized for tactics first
Baugh for Bill Hartman when the
drive under Sammy pitched
ending the threat.
For the Redskins couldn't
hair Even when the Giants lost the onetme G. W. stood
like Steve spanked his
in 1941
Jim Poole. still good-for
You could write book
thing that the updctable
figure be mustn't surprised anything.
Owen the games
1t be that he his along this
and wants to November
what he's going pull his
delpha last weekwho thought the Giants
and after being 81 points down?
They've behind whip
points turning
might consolation round
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Crowd Slim as Tribe Won in First Game Here

We weren't covering the that didn't
circumstances until Dutch" Bergman head
subject the other He Rymkus
tackle
Guard Dick Fman had the flu Steve snski grevng
the
nursing their usual quota of bruises in the first The Skins
fair the Giants
the indicates,
Washington the first played against
hinges off the gates In fact quite number of pictures had
empty backdrop
ngon squeaked through with 1873 decision
trely Riley
intercepted co yards for touchdown But the
New York Cliff
Sammy Baugh pitching strikes the Redskins waloped old
49-4 following into
submission, 1921. for its first world title.
We suffered land suffered the world the counterpart
Yorkand should have been edthen here shaahed
Tribe
after that plain
game to lick Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Mehre Quits at Mississippi

OXFORD, Miss, Dec. 8 a,. -
Harry Mehre, football coach at Mis-
sissippi, said he has resigned his
position effective in February. His
contract has two years to run.
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Tigers York Out Of Navy

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 8 (Pl.
Under contract to the Detroit
Tigers, First Baseman LAWS G.
danny York, ships cook 1/c, to-
: day returned to civilian life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Richard ErdIitz, Coach
AT Northwestern, Dies
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. g.. Richard
Eek" Erdlitz, 40, member of the
coaching staff at Northwestern and
former Miami coach, died in hos
pital here today.
Formerly of Oshkosh, Wis, Erd-
litz suffered stroke some time age
and came to Miami to rest.
A son, Dick Erdlitz, recently was
discharged from the service and is
now full back for the Philadelphia
Eagles. He was a star at North
western.
The body will be shipped to
Minominee, the elder Erdlitz's birth
place, for burial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09
Flick Is A. A. Stick Chomp

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 R.-Lewis
Flick. Milwaukee outfielder, rompeo
away with the American Association
batting crown the past season, OH
cial league statistics disclosed to-
night. He hit 374 in 142 games.
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Win,Lose or Draw
T
Anything Can Happen When Giants, Redskins Meet
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.


Before making predictions about
Giant we'd better have look the
York has beaten the Tribe II times games
tied 1t also evident bath teams only played brilliant
football but at times guilty of bum
less Of what happens today precedent probably
Remember their first here 1912 when
AL without making first down?
running in the of Griffith Stadium and they We
peed IL passes for lib yards and they So
only threw intercepted pass,
with ONeale Adams mushng
their margin
The Redskins COPIED the AT
Bears for the championship, 14-6
But 943 the they reached the
got their fingers burned Washington bowed opponents
woman driver until the Giants got in
forcing playo for the Eastern hopors New York the first
4-l0 with Bill Pascha giving sprinng exhibition virtually
nhlated hemsn the second 3 Newspapers everything
the Tribes funeral notice but TO- the sick
the tables in the play-of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-09

A sister, Isabel Valesta Erdlitz, a
registered nurse, is resident of
Washington, D. c., living at 1919 L
street NV.
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SPACE for SPORTS
By PFC. JIMMY WILLIAMS

league ball club with the exception of the Detroit Tigers was repre- sented at the meeting. In speaking of the absent club, Chandler made it rather clear that they would either recognize him as the boss and stop acting like prima donnas or else prepare to find themselves in an embarrassing position. What that position will be is still a mys- tery. :-- ~".>.
 If rumors are your meat, then here is one to chew on for size. Heavyweight champion Joe Louis will definitely kiss the ring good bye once he and the Army come to a parting of the ways. Louis has managed to sock away quite a piece of change to keep him happy the rest of his life, and this, in ad- dition to the fact that the champ realizes he is growing old, has been enough to make him decide to give up the ring and look for other pastures. @
 .-"=.: ~.:.
 Speaking of fighters, the art of the squared circle has produced just about every type of human. Fighters like the Battling Sikh, who startled the blase citizens of Paris by parading up and down the leading bOulevards dressed in a lion skin and leading two spotted partners on a leash; boxers like Max Baer, who couldn't even be serious about being the champ, and cOlOrless men like Jimmy Braddock. Also .flambouyant champs like Dempsey and those like Joe Cans, who fought his very heart out only to be taken to the cleaners by his managers, who deserted him when his many battles began to show and he lost his sight. Then there are guys like Barney Ross, who took one of the worst beat ings that any man in civilized boxing has ever taken but who kept coming back and back for more until his own blood blinded him. Yes, it's a great business, this box ing game.
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Base Golfers NWAVA< <%z' - ~ AE T Turn Out in
 Force Sunday

Over thirty Officers and enlisted men turned out at the Tumble Brook Country Club last Sunday for the first of series of All Bradley Golf Tournaments.
 Top man in Sundays contest was It. w. w. Fenwick, who shot a low gross of 83, while low net honors were captured by Major Harmon Burns with a GA. Second in low gross was tie between Capt. L. Millsbaugh and Sgt. R. Bradshur of F Squadron, who both earned 85 critical points. It. A.. Graybeal took second low net with a 68.
 Winner of the "duffer's" prize for his exceptional display as a divot digger and untiring efforts in swinging the sticks with futili- ty' was Major c. London with score of 130.
 At O9OO next Sunday another tournament will be held, this time at the Hartford Country Club. Matches scheduled for Sunday, August fifth, will be played at Waumpanaug. *
 Anyone desiring to play in the forthcoming contests who did not play last Sunday is requested to contact It. A. Mallach at the Base gym so that handicaps may be es- tablished. #.=:
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Last Weeks Results B Sqdn, 10; POW Guards i.
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Fighters Lose First Game of FAF Regional Contest
Second Game Here Wednesday

mond diamond, was the first in a three-game series to determine the regional champions of the First Air Force. With one victory all ready tucked safely away under their belts, the Richmond team will invade Bradley Field on We'd nesday in an attempt to make it two in row and thus win undis- puted possession of the champion ship. Wednesdays game can we'll prove to be the most important of the season for Bradley, for with a victory they stand a better than average chance of taking the cham pionship, while on the other hand a loss means kissing the title goodbye.
 After pointing all season toward the championship the Bradley team can certainly be expected to make a terrific effort to win the game, while the Richmond team with a one-game margin will definitely not give up their advantage with
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The blazing hot ten-game win ming streak of the Bradley Field Fighters came to a rather abrupt halt on Wednesday night, when the home team, slightly groggy from a rough plane trip that played havoc with most of the mems stomaches, were edged out by an underated ten from the Richmond AAB by the score of 2-1.
 From the opening stanza it ap- peared evident that the game would turn into a pitchers battle, and it did just that with the Bradley team getting scant two hits while the Richmond team did little better by chalking up four.
 The game, played on the Rich
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prominent baseball characters who thought that they could strip the Commissioners office of some of the power it possessed under Lan- dis were sOrely disappointed when they found out the good Senator had no intention of even starting the job unless he was given vir- tually dictatorial powers. The funny thing is that the baseball figures who were at the meeting are usually loud and vocal, yet in the august company of the Sena- tor they became as meek as lambs and voted ives" to everything the Senator suggested. Every major
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One of the hottest ideas around that hotbed of ideas, Jacobs Beach,, is the proposal that the 1945 edition of baseball's grandest spectacle, the World Series, be played in Berlin for the benefit of troops still stationed in that part of the world. The servicemen who have heard of the idea seem united in the belief that such a game would be the biggest and the best thing that baseball could do for the man in uniform. The big boys of the game have also expressed their approval of the proposal so if the Government will give the nod it will be baseball in the stadium where once the minions of Hitler paraded before their sawdust Caeser.
 Baseball's new CZar, Senator Happy Chandler, minced no words last week in Washington when he met with representatives from the major league ball clubs and asked for more power than even the late Kenesaw Landis had. The several
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out struggle. All this adds up to one of the best ball games at the Base this year.
 In last Wednesdays game the usually heavy bats of the Fighters were effectively muzzled by the al- most air tight hurling of Richmond pitcher Faubion, who during the course of the game struck out eight of the Fighters and managed to keep the two hits secured by them from turning into anything serious.
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MKlM' '%sXEEAZX 8 8{!N zS11 By SCI FRANK :}3:I5: 5:IG1 6
Any Umbrellas Today?

Byron Nelson, the big bag and ball man from Toledo, Ohio, sells umbrellas when he isn't playing golf. When he is playing golf, how ever, he plays the most amazing game seen anywhere since the Em- peror Jones rode out of the South to win his Grand Slam" of four major tournaments in 1880.
 Nelson's play this year, in many ways, has been even more phen- omenal than was that of Jones in 1880. Lord Byron, Texan operat- ing out of Toledo, won his last nine matches, beginning with the Miami best-ball tournament and ending with the PGA championships at Dayton-golf's biggest wartime prize. Earlier he cleaned up every one in sight on the winter circuit, winning six tournaments and $25,- 900 in cash and war bonds.
 The Umbrella Man is no flash in the pan. Day in, day out, he has been the best golfer in the country since 1889 when he won the Ma tional Open in three-man play off. Last year he won more money playing golf than any other man in history. And today he plays such a mechanically perfect game that at times it's almost monotonous.
 He's a great competitor, too, perhaps the greatest since Hagen. In the PGA finals he was 3 down to Sam Byrd, going into the last 9, then uncorked string of birdies that sank Sammy 4 and 3. In 171 holes he shaved 36 strokes off par.
 Off the links, Nelson is friend ly, open-faced kind of cookie. Thirty-one years old and 4F with a bum back, he just goes around minding his own business like any other umbrella salesman. Any um- brellas today? TX