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Evening star., 1947-12-31
Brilliant Display Of Fireworks
Expected in Bowl Struggles

well-known passer in All-Amerlca
Ray Evans, whose 80 completions
in go attempts netted 598 yards and
four touchdowns. But Georgia Tech,
the Jayhawkers' Orange Bowl foes,
boast a tosser with an even better
record. He is Jim Still, who COM
pleted AZ out of IA for 545 yards and
six touchdowns.
The Delta Bowl at Memphis,
Tenn. of course, will have the top
collegiate grid battery of all time in
Mississippi's Charley Conerly and
Barney Poole. Conerly set new rec
ords by throwing 233 passes and
completing 1873 of them for 1857
yards and 10 touchdowns and Poole
caught So of them, including eight
of the touchdown heaves.
But Texas Christian will not be at
a complete disadvantage in the air
against Ole Miss as long as it has
Lindy Berry, who completed 80 OF
10 passes this season for 437 yards
and 3 touchdowns.
hduCH Against uIyh.
In the Gator Bowl at Jackson
vile, Fla, 1t will be Georgia's Johnny
.Rauch against Vic Turyn of Mary
land.
Passes also may play an important
part in the East-West all-star game
at San Francisco, with All-America
Johnny Lujack of Notre Dame lead
ing the Eastern backf1eld forces and
Herman Wedemeyer, former ALL
America at st. Mary's, heading the
Western crew.
Lujack tossed 109 passes for the
all-victorious Irish, completing 81
for 7e1 yards and touchdowns,
while Wedemeyer also tried l09, but
connected on only Al for 6e1 yards
and 5 touchdowns.
The remainder of the bowl lineup
tomorrow will find William and
Mary and Arkansas in the Dixie
Bowl at Birmingham. Ala; Texas
Tech and Miami (Ohio) in the Sun
Bowl at Ell Paso, Tex; North Texas
and Nevada in the Salad Bowl at
Phoenix, Ariz. West Chester (Pa)
Teachers and Missouri Valley in the
Cigar Bowl at Tampa. Fla; San
Diego State and Hardin Simmons
in the Harbor Bowl at Fresno, Calf,
and Catawba VS.. Marshall (W. Va.)
in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando,
Fla,
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Speciol Dispoteh 10 The St1r

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Second-
seeded Gil Bogley of Landon School,
Washington, was scheduled to meet
their-seeded Sidney Schwartz of
Brooklyn in the semifinal action of
the national junior indoor tennis
championship tournament here to-
day.
J. Bogley fought his way to the
semifinals by defeating Marvin Man
tin, 60, Ga, yesterday, while
Schwartz won over Jimmy Saunders
of Amarillo, Tex, 81, IS.
Bogley teamed up with Jackie
Yates, also of Landon, to beat Tom
Lewyn and Peter Golden of New
York, IS, 6-, and thereby ad-
vance to the doubles semifinals.
Tim Coss, another Washington
youth, from Sidwell Friends School,
pounded his way to the semifinals Of
the boys tourney with a 60, 6-3
Evening star., 1947-12-31
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Picking
the bowl game stars on New Years
eve Is a little like selecting your
Christmas turkey on the Fourth OF
July, but it's safe bet that most
of the backfield honors in tomor-
rows gridiron classics will be dis
tributed among the boys who flip
the passes.
After a season in which all the
collegiate records for completing, as
we'll as throwing, forward passes
we're knocked into an askew SOM
brero, it was only natural that teams
owning the most high-powereo
aerial artists should wind up with
lucrative bowl assignments.
Unless they are hobbled by very
bad weather, an extra good defense
or both, it is highly probable that
the Gilmers, Laynes and Conerlys
will outshine the fellows who thlns
the only way to advance the bal
is to carry it down the field.
In addition to the assortment OF
established hurlers, most OF whom
could cap brilliant season with one
more display of aerial wizardry
there is always the possibility thai
some obscure fourth-string sut
might steal the show as Southern
CALIFORNIA; Doyle Nave did against
Duke in the 1899 Rose Bowl fray.
Chappuis' Injury a Factor.
Michigan's favored Wolverines
may be handicapped in the aerlal
department when they collide with
southern Cal in the Rose Bowl at
Pasadena. Calf, tomorrow If all
America Bob Chappuis, their princi-
nal pitcher, fails to recover fully
from a practice injury received this
week.
Chappuis threw "a passes during
Michiean's all-victorious nine-game
season. completing 48 of them fol
e76 yards and II touchdowns.
Operating against him, the Tro-
fans will have Jim Powers, who
connected on 46 of his SO passes tor
ss1 yards and five touchdowns, as
well as George Murphy. who tried
II forwards and completed AZ for
422 wards and a touchdown in the
bargain.
The most brilliant display OF
aerial fireworks may be touched OF
in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans
when Texas and Bobby Layne hook
up with Alabama and Harry Gilmer
Gilmer tossed SO passes in Ala
bama's 10 regular season games and
completed 81 of them for per-
centage of .613, highest among all
the collegiate passers. His compile
tions covered 61o yards and five
touchdowns.
Iayne did even better in all re-
epects except accuracy. He made
Good on SO of the lis passes he
tried, accounting for 965 yards and
nine touchdowns.
Penn State, which depended al
most entirely on running game fol-
the perfect record it will carry into
the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Tex.
NAV discover that All-America DoaE
walker is merely the second best
passer on the Southern Methodist
team it takes on tomorrow.
Walker completed 80 or 50 passes
for 344 yards and two touchdowns
but his teammate, Gil Johnson
hurled n passes, completing 43 OF
them for 564 yards and five touch
downs.
Kansas goes in to the Orange
Bowl tussle at Miami, Fla, with a
Evening star., 1947-12-31
BoqIey and Schwartz Meet in Net Tourney

victory over Lawrence Harrison of
Brookline, Mass.
Coss was slated to meet Ted Jax
of Hamtramck, Mich, who elm
mated Teddy Rogers, another Lam
don School entrant, 60, 6-3. Coss
and Rogers were whipped in the
boys doubles quarterfinals. IS,
50, by Harrison and John Hahra-
tian of Detroit,
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Hoya Quintet, beater
Again, Will Oppose
Louisville Next
SpecjoI pispotch to The S+or

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31.-Georgetown
Universitys once-unbeaten basket
ball team will reach the midway
point in its Christmas vacation trip
tomorrow night at Louisville Uni
versity. The Hoyas, in the true
Christmas tradition, have been CIV
ing.
1t all began in Washington, two
days before Christmas when the
Hoyas, boasting six straight vic
tories, played host to unbeaten
Santa Clara. The Hoyas ran up a
9-point half-time lead, then, bowed
to Santa Clara's surge. The Hoyas
then lost to Loyola in New Orleans
and last night let last-period rally
fall short in dropping a 1888 tilt
to ST. Louis University here.
The Hoyas meet another unbeaten
quintet tomorrow in Louisville. After
the Louisville engagement George
town travels to Bowling Green to
take on Western Kentucky on Fri
day, plays Loyola of Chicago in
Chicago Stadium Sunday and comes
up against Notre Dame in South
Bend Monday before returning home
to play Maryland January 8.
Georgetown won the approval of
the 7,103 fans last night with a
second half rally which had the
Billikens amazed and frightened.
Old Father Time stepped in to help
the home team over the hump, for
with only four minutes remaining
the score stood 1888 and with only
one minute to go Ray Corley suffered
a twisted knee and was helped from
the scene of battle.
1t was Corley who kept the visitors
in the game with total OF 81
points, IA of them coming in the
hectic second half.
The Billikens, paced by big Ed
Macauley who tailed % points, high
for the night, ran up 1926 half
time lead and at one point led by
IL points. But in the second half
Corley began hitting the basket and
with five minutes remaining tied the
count at 5l-5l.
| After Corley was taken out with
knee injury, Macauley dropped in
2 points which all but sewed up the
| contest.
Evening star., 1947-12-31

m ! G n t y
Michigan. No
doubt many
p e opl e will
say the Tro-
jams would be
sensible to re-
main hidden
rather tn a n
f a c e F ri t z
c r / S / e r. S
t h u n d ering
herd tomor-
row at Pasa-
dena.
We h a v e
yet to find
opvona hold
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Contract to Be Extended

LEXINGTON, Va, Dec. 81 P.-
Washington and Lee Athletics Di-
rector Richard A. (Cap'n Dick
Smith says w. g. L. has offered Art
(Pappy) Lewis a three-year con-
tract as head football coach and
that Lewis had agreed verbally to
accept it. Lewis now holds con-
tract running through the 1948 sea-
con
Evening star., 1947-12-31
National Arena to Have
New Years Eve Party

A special New Years eve party will
be held tonight at the National
Arena, Seventeenth street and Kalo-
rama road NV, from 7:30 to am.
Special roller skating exhibitions,
games and competitive events are
scheduled with large array Of
prizes to be given.
Evening star., 1947-12-31


Coast football needs shot in the arm now as 1t
never needed one before If the Trojans blow this
game but good not only is the Coast brand going
to begin giving off an odor but the Rose BOWL
Oldest of all the January l spectacles, may well
wind up with only tradition to recommend It,
The Sugar Bowl, particularly has been chal-
longing the right of the Pacific Coast to call It's
Tournament of Roses extravaganza the best and
biggest of the New Years Day attractions. This
was long before the remarkable agreement made
year ago between the Pacific Coast Conference
and the Big Nine
Chances are you know all about this interest
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Browns Sign L. S. U. Gridder

CLEVELAND, Dec. 81 (P.-The
Cleveland Browns, champions Of the
All-America Conference, today an
nounced the signing of Y. A. Title,
Ir., star passer and signal caller for
the last four years at Louisiana
State University.
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Rose Bowl Assignment
By Fronk Leohy

Notre Dame University Coach
According to reports from the
Coast, Southern California went
into hiding to practice for its
Rose Bowl assignment against
Evening star., 1947-12-31
Sports Mcten|eys Rivals Cunning for Star Games Upset
Win, Lose, or Draw
BY FKANCIS (. SIANN.
How Good bod Is Coast Football?

establishing Michigan 141A point favore over Southern
California in tomoows Bowl the dmakers taking
football From here it looks like the biggest
bowl Notre Danes rout Of u s. c.
Notwithstanding.
correct there won't be any dancing IN
Evening star., 1947-12-31


announced that for the next ve years
the Eastern team to play in the Rose Bowl
A Couple of Jokers in the Pact
That amt all either According deal the Big Nine
concevbv team to Pasadena next
year They Illinois barely winning IN lts ou'
A. They'll de 1t again o1orro"
because Michigan ranks tops in the Big Nne pu
Michigan year in the Big Nine tnere
be trip for either 49,,
The Joker is that Coast contract there
&c contained clause that Big play oftener than
once in any years Michigan and Illinois run
in 1e48 which highly possible develop that thrd-piace Big
Pacific Conference and the
Michigan sheas u S. tomorrow VIII be none TOO gooo "
the public mind. 4 .x +,o
There is second Joker NineCoast pact After the
Nine OF us
fifth the Big can
choose conference They could select the
Lewis Hotel Training leave Rose Bowl prestige be-
yond repair.
What Happens to the Coast Teams?
What happens teams in crucial baes year
ago the critics building U. C. L. A. while md-Weeners
thought omddln Illinois team the Big Nne was
sending But the score-1inos 49, u C. A. l-was
even more 34 triumph over u S. C. IN the
1e46 Rose game.
The present u S. c. highly rated this season that
alumni backed coach at the Naval ACADEMY
confidently predicted the Trojans would whip Nore Dame
The McNesh rated u 8 O. mao
horrible 1t contest Brother cNe
faded into the Yet u S. as bad as II
seemed against Dame? Can Michigan be cad with
Dame? go - A..
The tin is out that outstanding being bet on the
Rose Bowl with bookies dangling 4 points IN 1ro
Trojan supporters This might indicate lack Oh commences pooao
Michigan roughshod over u D u Inefe o
reason vet to rate Wolverines with Notre Dame
If they choose could make out pretty eooo
comparative scores cngan oio oea'
which utey chased u
both met u WON
bv 800 whereas by 21-0.
Comparative don't much OF course out normas
they're good enough Which the gamblers aren't
Evening star., 1947-12-31


West Coasters when it was announced
the Big Nine will nominate the Eastern
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Co||egeA A||-S Open
Brisk Practice With
III Leahy in Charge
BY the Assoe;oted Press

EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 4.--The
college football All-Stars. who IA
days hence will meet the Chicago
Bears before some 100000 fans in
Chicagc's Soldier Field, today
launched a rigorous practice grind
with Head Coach Frank Leahy
speeches.. or close to it.
Mentor Leahy of Notre Dame
turned up with case of Laryngitis
as he formally welcomed more than
40 huskies from big and little
colleges throughout the Nation
Remainder of the full 6l-playel
collegiate contingent was expected
TO trickle In day by day.
The Irish strategist was articulate
enough, however, to emphasize that
he means business in the tWo-a-day
drills booked until day or two
before the August % night clash
with the champion Bears of the Ma
tional Football League in the 14th
annual All-Star classic.
Leahy may turn over bossing
chores the first few days to his
three chief aides. Wally Butts of
Georgia, Marchie Schwartz of Stan
ford and George Munger of Penn
sylvania.
But smiling Frank has book of
plays. maybe quite few from his
bag of tricks which swept the Irish
to the national collegiate title last
season, he wants to hand out in a
hurry and chances are he'll waste
little time grabbing the loud speaker
that has been hooked up on the
coaches platform at Dyche Stadium.
The All-Star brain trust will be
handicapped by the late arrival OF
four lumlnarieS who can form a
real dream backfield" - Fullback
Doc Blanchard, Halfback Glenn
Davis and Quarterback Arnold
Tucker of Army and Halfback
Charley Trippi of Georgia.
Blanchard. Davis and Tucker
won't be able to report until they
receive new Army assignments.
Trippi. playing baseball for Atlanta
of the Southern Association, will
fly here August Is.
Meanwhile. the Bears are hard
at work at Collegeville, Ind.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
BY The Associated Press

- DAYTON, Ohio. Aug. 4.-Per-
haps because it was the right
thing to say. Joe Louis asserted
today that Jersey Joe Walcott
stacks up as the best opponent
the matchmakers could find for
him.
In Dayton over the week end to
compete in the Miami View Open
golf tournament, an all-Negro
event. the heavyweight champion
explained that his November IL
oponent rated high with him be-
cause he can box and punch
and take a punch"
Louis and Walcott are signed
for 10-round non title scramble
at Madison Square Garden and
the champion said that he reck-
oned there wouldn't have been a
Louis bout this fall If Jersey Joe
hadn't been selected.
He laughed when somebody
mentioned Bruce Woodcock. the
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Shotton Already Is q Success

Nor this attitude surprising The Dodgers didn't to
have much Not compared the World Champion Cardinals Indeed
better
They had first baman who could hit 300 They lacked depth in
pitching and catching and the oued The in
April would personality
salvage second third and possibly fourth place.
BY mo-Apri Durocher He barred
Also gone was his first lieutenant, Chuck
the Yankees When Shoon
were BEING led by didn't players
enemy clubs. his coaches.
To Rrookynites. accustomed rhlbarb Gaiy
procession of pitchers from the bull
II Durooher-the beloved the bullying
hslcouldnt 19a6 with
had this mild mellow Shoton, whom nobody
The that Shottons
in front and the teams the Brooklyn
close and the will be accomplished
the behaved baseball
the he could
so
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Jones Is Underdoq
Against Bratfon in
Scrap Tonight
By GEORGE Huber

Herbie CBiff) Jones. Washington s
rugged southpaw lightweight. moves
up into the big leagues tonight
when he steps ont against Johnny
tHoneyboyy Bratton in the 10-round
main event fight at Griffith Sta
dium, Bratton is clever Negro
boxer from Chicago and he rates
we'll up on eveiybody's list of the
countrys best l35-pounders.
In spite of Bratton's impressive
record against better opponents, it
figures as no pushover for him.
Jones, too, has a winning habit and
the punching ability he's demon
strated may be the great equalizer
in there tonight.
Bratton may be able to box rings
around Herbie, but a couple of solid
ones can slow him down as we'll as
it has many of Herbie's opponents.
Attempts have been made during
the last week to build up Bratton
as something of a slugger, but the
record book shows Herbie with a
greater percentage of knockout wins
Aside from punch. however, the
edge is with Bratton. He has more
reach and height. A boy who's
beaten such as Danny Kapilow
Willie Joyce (twice) and Freddie
Dawson has to go in the ring as
favorite tonight.
There's another lightweight fuss
tonight between Ike williams and
Bob Montgomery in Philadelphia
and there's talk of tonight's winner
here meeting the Philadelphia VIC
tor. Nothing may come Of 1t, but
Jack Hurley, the Chicago promoter
for whom Bratton does 4 lot of his
fighting, has talked of such a bout.
Sinbe Herbie lost to Jimmy Meal
lister last December he's won eight
in row, six by knockouts. His
latest knockout victim was Johnny
Nichols in Chicago. Bratton was a
spectator. In his last show here
Jones stopped Lew Hanbury in two
rounds,
Main supporting match tonight Is
an eight-heater between Ken Strib-
ling and K. Q. williams. Stribling
beat Joe Cannon. and Frank Swee-
ney recently. Two f1ves also are
carded, Buddy Thomas against
Charley Bum and Red Gaddis
against Puggy King. Fighting
starts at 8:45.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Louis Regards WoIcott Best
Foe Available for Fall Fight

British campaigner, and Elmer
Violent" Ray. who recently won
q decision over Cincinnati's Ez-
zard Charles.
That Woodcock can punch all
right" Louis said But he can't
take one. He doesn't belong in
there with me-
Joe termed Ray the worst
heavyweight in the ring today.
why he told a reporter, che
couldn't knock out a man who
weighed ITO pounds, let alone
one weighing ZOO"
Louis said he once refereed a
bout in Cleveland in which the
Hastings lFla) heavyweight was
one of the principals. Joe said
he hadn't cared much for the
Violent ones showing then and
that he didn't think Elmer had
changed.
Il decided then ! don't want
to meet Ray Louis said, "and I
still don't"
Joe said he would commence
training for Walcott at French
Lick, Ind. on September 16. He
said he weighed ZIG pounds now,
but would pare down to 210 for
Jersey Joe.
On the links Yesterday Louis
finished third among the anna
teurs with 81-79-160 for SO holes.
Fred Rhoades of Detroit won the
pro title with a IA made up of
two 72s. George Gibbs, a Will
berforce University golfer, topped
the amateurs with 153.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Stupid Plays Mats Make Mark
Narrow Loss to White Sox

hand of gin rummy before pegging
to second to force Hodgin, but in
stead he tossed to first base That
sort of nonsense could be eliminated
with sensible shouting. but the Mats
are reluctant to exercise their jaws
Mats Forget Fundamentals.
The Mats are forgetting some of
the fundamentals. On the next play,
York grounded to Christman. who
trapped Hodgin between second and
third with toss to Priddy. At
that point, Priddy and Third Base
man Eddie Yost played catch, toss
ing the ball across considerable geo.
graphy, with Hodgin having plenty
of room to roam. Ferrick finally
came in to tag Hodgin, but mean
while York moved all the way to
second on Washington's interpre-
tation of a rundown play.
Washington fashioned it's only run
in the first inning when Mcbride
doubled to right with two out and
scored on Mickey Vernon's single to
center, but the White Sox tied it
up in the second on that walk to
Appling. Michael's luck -anointed
double and the Mats anti-noise cam
paign.
Chicago pried the winning run
from Scarborough in the seventh
when Aopline singled. stole second
and scored on Michaels double to
right.
Washington Boys Down.
The Mats stirred UP threats against
Papish, who won his ninth game,
in each of the last four innings. With
two out in the sixth, Mcbride and
Vernon singled. but Spence grounded
out. Priddy walked to open the Mats
seventh and Christman sacrificed.
Rick Ferrell was safe when Micha-
els fumbled his grounder, Priddy
for Scarborough and drilled into q
double-play.
Lewis single with one out In the
eighth stirred hope among $500
fans. but Mcbride lined to Appling,
whose throw to York caught Lewis
off first for another double play.
With two out in the ninth. Priddv
singled to right, but Christman
forced him.
Idle today, the Mats will tangle
with the Boston Red Sox tomorrow
night in the opener of a 3-game
series. Walter Masterson, Early
Wynn and Mickey Haefner will face
the Sox in that order.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Romanian Net Rulers
Suspended for Life
For Visiting U. 5.
by the Asseeio,sd Press

SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 4.
Even in peacetime the tales told
by the European members Of the
international set are strange.
Take the story Of Vinicius Rurak
and his wife. Magda, tennis cham
pions of Romania.
Vinicius and Magds are In the
United States to make the rounds
of the tennis circuit and now are
playing in the Eastern Grass Courts
championships at the Orange Lawn
Tennis Club. Vinicius Is seeded
No. 6 among the foreign men and
Magda is rated at the top among
the women.
But to get back to the story:
Weeks ago, the pair brought 10
the subject of trip to the United
States to the Romsnian Tennis As
ISOLATION. They had been invited,
and as they lacked the money. they
tried to persuade their association
to sanction the trip, and, of course,
pay their expenses.
WELL" said the bronzed vinicius,
who speaks excellent English, we
were tol6 to wait until the Wimble-
don tournament was over before Q
decision was made We even had
trouble getting to Wimbledon. Only
a great deal of agitation in the press
persuaded the association to permit
us to make the trip.
after Wimbledon Magda and
I went to Central France, and again
we asked and were told to wait be-
fore the decision was made. Finally
we got to Paris. and for the third
time. we inquired about coming to
the States
Vinicius said that the of1icials
shrugged their shoulders. hemmed
and hawed, and eventually told
them that sfter all, there was no
money. and 1t might not look good
to go to the United States and they
better go back to Romania and do
their playing there.
Get Money From Friends.
The only trouble was that there
was no tennis in Romanis at the
time" Vinicius said. They had
asked me to play in Poland but
declined. Magda and I debated on
what course of action TO follow, and
when we found that we might obtain
visa in Paris, plus some money
from friends, we decided to come
here.
Now" he continued, I'VE are un-
decided on what to do. We read in
the newspaper recently that VIZ
have been suspended for life by tho
Romanian association. We have
had no ofticial word, but we believe
it's probsb bly, true. We expect to
hear from the association any dsT
now"
Asked II politics might have had
anything to do with the suspension.
he merely shrugged.
When we are finished playing in
the United States tournaments, VI
intend to play in South America
for a time. After that our plan
are indefinite"
Evening star., 1947-08-04
Skins Jump Into Brisk Training
After Rugged Trip to Camp

The season gets Under way, He's
been gaining steadily since under
going an apperdectomy.
There are half dozen candidates
scaling over $50. Some would make
Wee Willie Wilkin look like an
anemic lounge lizard. Others look
as though they ought to give up pie
Ia mode for dessert.
Forty-nine players were scheduled
to take their first dose of calls
themes today, including 20 veterans
of last years team that went down
to the final game of the season be-
fore relinquishing the Eastern title
to the New York Giants.
Three key members of the squad
are with the Collegiate All-Stars
who will play the Chicago Bears at
Soldier Field August o. They are
Bill Gray, center: Joe Tereshinski
end, and Tom Mont, quarterback.