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Evening star., 1945-12-25
Holy Cross Confident
AS Gridders Reach
Orange Bowl Site
BY the Associated Press,

| os Inc hScOCldteQ fIeSS.
| MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 25.-A conf.
dent, almost cocky Holy Cross foot.
ball squad storned into Miami last
night bringing the consensus that
we'll do all right" against the Uni
versity of Miami in the Orange Bowl
classic New Year Day.
Right out of the chilly North
still wearing overcoats and sweat
ers and carrying their own luggage
the players were perspiring as they
lined up for photograph, during
which they playfuYy held the
Orange Bowl queen, Libby Walker
shoulder high.
| More than a thousand Miamians
crowded SO tightly around then
that photographers had difficulty
taking pictures-and some of thu
team was crowded out of the photo.
graph.
/ Coach John (Ox) Dagrossa man.
aged to separate players and groups
of well-wishers and herded his mer
toward a string of Official cars ant
buses. He helped load luggage IL
compartments himself, chatting will
all who crowded around.
I We're not in Miami to lose {
football game" Coach Dagrossa de-
clared cheerily. and added while
players laughed: TITS oranges we'r.
after, not a lemon"
/ The Holy Cross party of 56, plus
Icity officials and sports writer's
whirled away through Miamt's
downtown section behind a bowling
motor cycle police escort and
checked in at their hotel near
Biscayne Bay.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-The seven
bowl games are only week away
Two OF the IA participants come
from California: Southern Califor-
mia and st. Mary's. Two come from
Oklahoma: Aggies and Tulsa. Ala
lama. Georgia, Massachusetts,, Flor
la, Texas, Missouri, South Caro-
ina, North Carolina, Colorado and
New Mexico send one representa-
1--WE each into the trays.
This is a pretty fair national cov-
erage. There will be no representa-.
tive from the Midwest and only one
from the East. The South, as usual
has the lead. with five-Alabama
Georgia, Florida, North and South
Carolina.
There will be no championship
involved with Army, Navy and In
diana absent. While the games will
prove little, they will be an inter-
esting part Of the holiday sched-
ule in almost every city involved
Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami
Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville and
Ell Paso.
Texas Leads In Games.
Texas takes the lead with three
bowl games, but since it is our big
gest State and one of our hottest
football States, this could only be
expected. The Rose Bowl at Pasa-
dena will lead the attendance rec
ords-above 10000. The Sugar Bowl
at New Orleans will beat 10000
Most of the others are guess.
In order of precedence and tradi-
ton, the Rose Bowl ranks first, with
the Sugar Bowl second, although we
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Many Feel Il Will Be
|1947 Before Return
To Prewar Qualify
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

| NEW YORK, Dec. 25.--Now that
peace has come once more to war
weary world this country is set fol
a tremendous sports boom that may
overshadow even the terrific 20s
sports writers from coast to coast
agreed in poll conducted by the
Associated Press.
Asked to speculate on the effects
of the war on sports of the i'm
mediate future, the writer's virtually
were unanimous in their belief that
the expansion of the Nations sports
program will surpass anything ever
seen in previous years.
Such phrases as 1--WE are cascad-
ing into the biggest sports boom
America ever has known" and "a
sports boom the like of which this
Nation never has experienced" were
sprinkled throughout the ballots.
See Normally in 1947.
. Many writer's were OF the opin-
ion, however, that sports will not
return to prewar standards until
1947, although most of them pre-
dicted that once the program swings
into high gear it will SNOWFALL into
amazing proportions.
There were some who pointed out
that prewar stars, both amateur
and professional, who returned from
the armed forces hit their stride
Immediately despite the layof. And
these suggested that the anticipated
boom already was under way.
AS for 1945 itself. the majority of
the writer's selected the abundance
of money-earned as a direct result
of the war, wagered in unpre-
cedented amounts and poured into
record gates-as the wars principal
effect on sports during the year.
Returning Stars Help.
OF course, there was the shortage
of playing talent, equipment and
transportation which reduced the
quality Of sports again this year, and
many noted that the return of such
servicemen as Hank Greenberg, Bob
Feller, Ben Hogan and others gave
sports a much-needed shot in the
arm.
The principal reason advanced for
the expected postwar boom also
involves the millions of returning
servicemen. Most writer's pointed
out that the GIs are coming home
with keener interest, plus their
wartime training, is bound to raise
the quality Of sports and attend
ance figures as well
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Bog|ey Is Seen Tough
Foe for. MouIedous
In Boys Net Final
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Gi.bert
Bogley, Landon School star from
Washington, D. c., will meet Richard
Mouledous of New Orleans for the
Eastern indoor boys tennis cham
pionship at the 168th Regiment
Armory tomorrow.
Bogley gained the final when he
defeated Billy Long, highly ranked
jackson Heights. N. Y, player, g.
6-3. yesterday in semifinal action.
Mouledous, the No. seeded player
of the tourney, had an easy time of
it in his march through the brackets
but may face sitter opposition in
the Washington youngster.
Unseeded Alex Hetzeck of Detroit
surprised by beating second-seeded
Fred Scribner of New York, 6-1
Ga, to enter the semis in the junior
section.
Top-ranked Sidney Schwartz of
Brooklyn reached the fourth round
by turning back Marvin Mantin
New York, 60, Ga.
Metzeck meets Walter Dockerill of
New Rochelle, N. H.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
ans Want tLouis-Conn
Fight, Jacobs Asserts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. 25.-
Referring to recent blasts. put on
the Louis-Conn fight set for next
year, Promoter Mike Jacobs said
today that they're the only two
guys the public wants to see now"
Jacobs admitted that both are
older and have been slowed up by
their inactivity and several years
in the service, "but they won't be
too bad"
He said Louis had Just returned
East from an exhibition tour" II
had some men following him and
checking on him and they tell me
he looked good"
Jacobs predicted that sports "are
in for the biggest year in history in
1916, and I think it's going to be
good for five years"
He is here to spend the Christ
mas holidays with his family. He
will return to New York in about
week for the Beau Jack-Sonny
Horne match in Madison Square
Garden January 4.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
18th Airborne 41st Division
7 cams Gain Tokyo Bowl Test

Service Command, 27 to 2. today fol
the right to meet the 11th Airbornt
Division in the Tokyo Bowl game
| New Year Day.
Scoring for the 41st were Louis
Lacoste,. former star of Modesto
Calf; Capt. Jack Farbian, for
merly of Oklahoma Aggies; Don
Virgins of Kansas University, and
George Groshen of Western Re-
serve. Farbian converted after each
marker.
Winner of the bowl game meets
the Hawaiian All-Stars in the pam
Pacific Olympic games January 26
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Enid AAF Is Named Top
Semipro Nine Of 1945
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
WICHITA, Kans., Dec. 25.-The
National Baseball Congress pre-
seted the Middlesboro (Ky.) Lions
Club with its "l945 achievement,
award" and the Enid (Okla) AAF
with the title of the No / Army
team today in naming semipro base
balls leading teams and individual
performers for the year.
The Middlesboro Lions Club wor
its recognition for sponsoring what
the congress classified as the Ma
tion's top civic team. Enid AAF
gained its title by winning the ma
tional semipro championship this
year after having been runnerup
for the title the last two years.
General Electric of Fort Wayne,
Ind, and Cessna Aircraft OF, Wichi-
ia, Kas., share honors as the top
industrial team.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
By the Associated Press.

BILOXI, Miss, Dec. .25.-Rather
accidentally and partly because he
used to be so small, Neill Armstrong
of Oklahoma A. and M, is one of
the best ends in college football.
Armstrong has led the country in
pass catching, made third team all
America and is training here for his
second bowl appearance, the Aggies'
Sugar Bowl engagement with st.
Mary's.
But back at Tishomingo (Okla.)
High School, he figured he was
mighty little for football, and So
II guessed I'd have to learn some
thing special to make the team
said Armstrong, whose curly blond
hair now is feet inches from his
soles, with 1875 pounds of beef be-
tween. $50 I studied some tricks
and learned to catch passes"
He made the team, which wasn't
any feat, as Tishomingo set no
prairie fires in football, and Coach
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Combat Vets, Teen-Age Frosh
Contrast in Gue!-Agqie Game

only one Of the five touchdowns
scored on st. Mary's during the year
Passes brought the others.
The novice line made goal-line
stands against UCLA and Southern
California and despite a 20-pound
average deficit the Gaels outrushed
U. S. C. 267 yards to 81.
And back in 1912, people were de-
batting whether combat veterans and
freshmen would be able to play
college football.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
He's Atomic Bomb
As Court Shooter

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ALAMOS, N. Mex, Dec.
25.-Sergt. Don Harvey of FL
don, Mo, a forward with the
Los Alamos Atomic Bombers,
has scored 232 points in II
basket ball games this season.
just shy of 20 points game.
But last season when wartime
secrecy of the atomic bomb
project kept his feat out of the
newspapers, Harvey Gagged $50
points in 80 games for a 22-point
a game average. He played
three seasons at Missouri U. be-
fore his graduation in 194l.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Sports Boom May Overshadow Terrific Twentes, Say Scnbe
|AIobomo, Oklahoma Ags Rated
Best Among II Bowl Teams

have at hand no official figures on
when each new bowl came along.
Certainly the Rose and Sugar Bowls
will lead in general Nation wide in
terest and In attendance marks, but
this won't affect local interest in
the others that might have more in
teresting games to offer-especially
the Georgia Tulsa clash at Houston,
or the Miami-Holy Cross battle at
Miami.
The Cotton Bowl at Dallas one
OF the most interesting and most
hospitable cities in the country. can
use little more churning or STIR
ring up in its bowl selections. For
that matter, Texas and Missouri
may put on the thriller of the day.
The best teams involved in the
impending bowl scramble involve
unbeaten Alabama in the Rose
Bowl and unbeaten Oklahoma A.
and M. in the Sugar Bowl. Both
are among the best in the country.
The Sugar Bowl has one unbeaten
team, Oklahoma A. and M, playing
rival that has lost only one game,
st. Mary's. In the Orange Bowl,
Holy Cross and Miami have been
beaten only once. This is far above
the average.
While Alabama, in the Rose Bowl,
has been unbeaten, Southern Cali
fornia has dropped three games, an
unusual record for any Rose Bowl
entry. Yet this may be one of the
best games of the day, where all
pressure is on Alabama.
Trippi Promises Show.
Tulsa has been beaten twice, by
Indiana and Oklahoma A. and NJ.
both unbeaten. Georgia has been
badly hammered by l.. S. U. and
Alabama. Yet this game also can
be brilliant show, with Trippi
working for Georgia against pow
erful Tulsa team, one of the best in
the country.
The main idea back of all seven
contests is football party, proving
nothing in the way of a national
ranking. After all, Army, Navy and
Indiana are missing, and they are
certainly at or around the top. But
who cares? With Army out, 1t is
like Hamlet without Hamlet. With
Army in, it is no contest.
But it will still be one of the most
interesting bowl roundups of many
seasons. For among the stars in
volved we will have Charlie Trippi,
Harry Gilmer, Bob Fenimore, Her
man Wedemeyer, Spike Cadero, HUI
bert Bectol, Ted Tannehill, Koslow-
ski and Schall and several others
who can put on a football party.
Anyway, these bowl games will
shove the new year away at fast
clip to set the pace football will have
to offer for 1946
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Evening star., 1945-12-25
By WALTER McCALLUM.

1t begins to appear that the 1945
Liberty Cup golf tourney at the
Chevy Chase Club may not be de-
cided until 1946-and not because of
the weather. Several weeks back
the teams of Oscar Coolican and
George Coleman, and Sterling
Nicholson and Corcoran Thorn, jr.,
reached the semifinal. They played
and finished all even. Meanwhile.
Fred Hitz and Sir John Lavarack
the latter an Australian Army OFF,
Ger, had defeated l.. L. Nicholson
and Eric Taft to reach the final In
the other bracket.
Coolican had a minor illness, and
when he recovered and was ready to
play, Coleman, a Navy lieutenant
went to his home at Miami, Okla
Then Nicholson, then Navy COM
mander, went to his home at Dur
ham, N. c., after release from the
Navy. So they haven't gotten to-
gA.er to play a semiinal match
snd probably it won't be played dur
ing the winter.
Now the people in the Chevy
Chase golf shop are wondering If ii
ever will be played. What If Sir
John is called back to Australia dur.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
By the Associated Press.

| BY the ASSOClated PreSS.
TOKYO, Dec. 25.-Speed ano
power were blended by the 11tt
Airborne Division today to reach
the New Year Day Tokyo Bowl
game with a 35-to-6 victory over
the 1st Cavalry.
In the bowl game the airborne
eleven tangles with the 41st Di-
vision. The winner of that tussle
meets Jock Sutherland's Hawaiian
CT stars January 26 in the pam
Pacific Olympic games.
A crowd of 10000 watched the
deceptive airdrome attack tally two
Itouchdowns each in the second and
third periods, another in the fourth
quarter and safety to top off the
markers.
Jack Swarthout of Prosser, Wis.
former University of Montana half
back, and Tom Swisley of New
Brunswick, N. j.. each punched over
Itouchdowns twice for the winners
Jack Noble of Kirksville, Mo-, for
mer Northeast Missouri Teachers
halfback. made two conversions.
In the powerful Angel line were
Tackle Mike Kodak or Holidays
Cove, w. Va, former Western Re-
serve and later a Detroit Lions
player, and George Palmer of Havre
de Grace. Md. onetime University
of Pennsylvania guard, and Mike
ZURICH, former Brooklyn Dodgers
guard.
KYOTO. Japan, Dec. 25 P.-The
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

by lA4C AooOSldeCh 1900
Today a year ago-Pro football
leagues ready to suspend opera
tions if speedier war victory
would result from move, Elmer
Layden, commissioner of National
Football League, announced.
Three years ago-Ray Sugar"
Robinson was named fighter of
the year by Ring Magazine.
Five years ago-Earl Blaik re-
signed as Dartmouth football
coach to take over similar post
at West Point.
Ten years ago-A. A. Baroni's
Top Row won $1,000 Christmas
stakes, feature of opening day at
Santa Anita race track.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-It's just
suggestion, but the main body
of professional golfers might find
it smart in the long run if they
made Byron Nelson a Christmas
gift of about a half dozen trac-
tors and a covey of COWS for that
ranch of his up in North Texas.
The initial cost would be high,
but there is the chance that Mel
Evening star., 1945-12-25
BefouIed Chevy Chase Links
Tourney May Ruin Into 1916

ing the winter?" they ask. That
would force Hitz, who lives in WASH
ington, to play the best ball Of the
winning pair in the final.
Over at Washington another tour
ney has come to an end, with VIC
tory for Done Lee in the Elmer
Jenkins cup event. Several years
back Elmer Jenkins, Coli Commit
tee chairman, put up a cup for the
defeated eight in the first round Of
the club championship. Lee and
1t. F. s. Pomeroy went to the final,
where Lee won 3 and 2.
Fred Mcleod is sitting in the sad
die at Columbia. kidding John Nc
Inerney about a bet they made for
and against Byron Nelson, current
king of pro golf. Last spring Nc
Leod took Nelson in a bet with Nc
Inerney, who took Hogan and Nc
Spaden against Byron. It was dur
ing that period when Betting Byron
was red hot, winning everything in
sight, and Mcleod won eight out Of
nine bets on Nelson. It got SO tough
for McInerney that he insisted on
Mcleod betting Nelson against the
field. And still Nelson won.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Alabama Top Eleven
0ver 10-Year Stretch
By the Associated Press.

by IIe ASsOCldtSu
Alabama, Rose Bowl bound, has
compiled the best record of any
college eleven in the country over
the last 13 years from 1933-1945,
inclusive.
Over this 13-year span the Grim
son Tide, ranked second to mighty
Army in the final Associated Press
1945 poll, has won SO games, lost II
and tied for a percentage Of .840.
Arny's sweep of its 18 games dur
ing 1914 and 1945 pulled the West
Point Cadets from far down the list
into the No. II slot.e
The won-lost tabulation shows an
other Southeastern Conference elev-
en-, Tennessee, is second and Duke,
champions of the Southern Confer
ence, third.
The first Is teams over the 13-
wear period:
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Hoosier Is Named Line
Mentor at Arkansas

BY the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Dec. 25.-Hobart
Hoosier, former Tennessee football
guard who helped tutor the 1941
Vols to the Sugar Bowl, will be line
coach at Arkansas next fall, Coach
John Barnhill has announced.
Barnhill last week accepted a jot
as head coach at Arkansas after
having a similar job at Tennessee.
Hoosier was released a week age
from the Navy as lieutenant COM
mander.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Dog That Shot His Master Dies
With Broken Heart Blamed

rabbit Leblanc was dangling over
the gun barrel. The dogs paw
struck the trigger, discharging the
gun.
Friends said Jack has camped
relentlessly about Leblanc's market
and refused to eat. They finally
decided that Jack might snap out
Of 1t II he were taken on another
hunting trip.
Jack shifted the gun and took out
for the woods. Anthony Plaisan,
followed the faithful dog and saw
him lie down In ths woods and die
Evening star., 1945-12-25
South Is Slight Choice
lover Norih's Eleven
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 25.-
A powerful line and more expe-
rienced material has made the
South slight favorite to win the
eighth renewal of the e-Gray
football game here Saturday.
The Southern squad has won five
of the seven intersectional clashes.
The North is building its attack
chiefly around Bob Kennedy, former
Washington State aerial star who
played with the Sd Air Force this
season. Members of the Southern
squad are openly concerned about
stopping the 185-pound back.
The Southerners are relying main
ly for their running passing often
sive on John Burns, former Wander
bilt ace; Virginia's 160-pound
Charlie Ellis, Y. A. Title of
Louisiana State and Perry Moss,
who played with Keesler Field after
leaving Tulsa.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Ten Race at Gu|fstream
In Christmas Handicap
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 25.-A field of 10
thoroughbreds has been named for
the running of the IS 900 Christmas
Handicap at Gulfstream Park to-
day. The group is led by Proof
Coil from the Vera S. Bragg stable
which is going after his seventh
straight victory. Three have been
at Gufstream.
The Gulfstream Handicap at a
mile and quarter to be run jan
uary IL has been raised from 5000
to $4,000. The event will climax
the 40-day winter season.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Lewis of Eastern Stute
IAouin Hot Busketer

RICHMOND, KY, Dec. 25.-Fred
Lewis, Eastern States crack point
maker who was third highest COL
lege basket ball scorer in the Ma
tion last season, is biddingsfor new
honors this season.
In Eastern's four pre-Christmas
games, Fireban Fred has hit the
meshes for IS points. He averaged
20 last season, getting hotter as the
season progressed.
Evening star., 1945-12-25

it can never repay and we are even willing to put
off squawking about his press box until next
year
Comdr. William r. Killer) Kane, u. S. NJ,
new assistant athletic director at the Naval
Academy and the best commanding officer fellow
ever served under May the new regime at Navy
be the best ever-as it figures to be when people
like Killer Kane draw tours of duty there.
George Preston Marshall and his gracious
mssus Giving the gentleman his dues. George
still is the smartest operator in the National foot
ball League, if he doesn't like Roger Treat.
Roger Treat, a hungry banquet-goer who
doesn't like George Preston Marshall.
McCann, Povich, ONeil, Costello and others
of an amiable group of colleagues who are almost
as much fun to be with as people.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
HempeI, Pacific Veteran.
Is Signed by Chibeurs

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-Signing for
the 1916 season of Tackle Bill Hem
pei, skipper of a Navy PIT boat in
seven Pacific invasions, has been
announced by the Chicago Bears.
Hempel, former Carroll College
star, played briefly for the Bears in
1912 before he was called to sea
duty.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
By the Associated press

~ ezA1 <xScVCtstcU . 1Vses
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25.-Jack,
the 18-month-old rabbit hound that
shot his master three weeks ago
Is dead
| Folks in suburban Gretna will
tell you he died OF a broken heart
ALI this while Jacks master
Pierre Ivy Leblanc, has been under
treatment In the hospital for q
buckshot-torn hand and forehead
wound.
The accident happened Will.
Jack playfully was jumping for {
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Renew Swimming Forum

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Dec,
Is tP.-The annual international
swimming forum, halted during the
war. will be resumed In 1916 with
an 11-day meet beginning Decem-
ber %.
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Sailors Receive PRSA
Awards for Season

Washington sailors were presented
with trophies won during the season
at the recent annual dinner and
dance in the George Mason Hotel,
Alexandria.
Fifty-six boats competed in five
classes during the 12-race fall series,
officials said.
The final standings of boats were:
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Basket Boil Results

Wyoming, 62; Kansas State, 80.
Michigan State, so; Minnesota, 4e lover
time).
Evening star., 1945-12-25

"DenOCeS pOWI gaI1E SIlII 20 DC pIdytO
fUnplayed in 1943.
tUnplayed in 1943, 1914 and 1916.
SUnplayed in l943 and 1914
Evening star., 1945-12-25
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STANN.
The Seasons Best Wishes to-.

Clark Griffith always of the grandest sports and
figure today than only mlded
League Grfs
bury their knives in his back Baseball Old debt
Evening star., 1945-12-25

fNCW SVHtNISStUHCT SVUTUYS VI SV"V1SUO''S
Len Walsh. Max Harrington, Jim Magner, Kip Edwards
Joe Ecud all the of the Touchdown Cubbers who
running the ndest outfit and doing good for the
community than anybody knows Some day maybe somebody VIII
write the real stuff Maybe we'll do It.
Culey the entire University of Maryland
Athletic which for sticking to sports
though taking ckngs from
colleges blessed with NROTC and VIZ units.
missed here in Washington
while they wait in Brooklyn for Georgetown University to resume its
necoege athletics Bill coach OF
great City George
Washington.
Happy gentleman with the of his
the major league club
strip the held by his predecessor,
Landi thus the they pleased He wouldn't
embarrassed and the harder
the punches thrown at him the broader he grins
Evening star., 1945-12-25

Barron theater and sports
and equally gifted in both fields
Mcdonald Wakeman Russ Hodges Arthur Godfrey,
all of the rich rich radio people who
still speak to sporswriters, sometimes pleasantly -.
Clark ShaughneSSy Bill Hutesn-
Walton Atchison Gabe Murphy
Larry Page Miner all the rest of the
Redskins coaching outnumberd by Of
people Griffith Stadium sold
Sunday.
Steve his fine long but because
hit he always looked he getting
a hell playing football which than some
of visiting teams-notaby the PittSburghs-looked.
u Navy letting in-and letting Brick Wood
frankie Freddie Baxter Doe Gruver
Eddie Bean Calvin Griffith and all the rest VINO
belong local
Robert Morris Daniel, Granddad- mustn't take
notes off
Evening star., 1945-12-25

KYOTO. Japan, Dec. 25 eP.--The
4lst Division shellacked the Army
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-08

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