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Evening star., 1947-12-12
Crockett, Hook-Shot
Artist, Leads A. u.
In Win 0verM

College basket ball coaches are
attempting to devise method to
stop the hook-shot artists-the fell
lows who receive the ball in the
pivot, leap, twist and hook the ball
into the basket. They're running
away with scoring honors this year
but II the coaches find a stopper
Coach staff Cassell at American U.
hopes it will not be this year.
Cassen has one Of the best in
Reggie Crockett-third high scorer
in the Southern Conference last
year-and it was Crockett's fade
away shot that helped the Eagles
to steaming last quarter and a
57-42 victory last night over Mount
St. Mary's team that was better than
the final 15-point margin indicated.
Casseu used his twin varsity sys-
tenn in the first half with the man
for-man defense team playing the
first period and the zone defense
club the second. The Mounts stuck
close, however, and led for the last
time, 31-30, in the third quarter.
The Eagles two competent teams
were factors in wearing down the
Mounts for the last-period squirt,
even though Crockett and Don Hill
lock went out on fouls.
Bob Lamon, one Of Eastern Highs
top courtment of the last decade,
turned in an excellent job of guard
ing the Mounts star, Mike Russo,
and in addition Lamon potted the
basket that put the Eagles ahead
to stay.
Mount st. Mary's has the most
rabid following in this section. The
A. U. gym was packed to its 1,10O
capacity with the help Of about half
the Mounts student body which
attended in mountain costumes with
signs and mascots and making din
with their famous mountain
water" yell.
The Eagles play Muhlenberg to-
morrow night at A. U.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Mississippi
Yale, 616 per cent completed, and
Harry Gilmer, Alabama, with 61.3.
Continued From Page C-1.

Yale, 61.6 per cent completed, and
Harry Gilmer, Alabama, with 613.
All-America Halfback Bob Chap
puis Of Michigan, although ranking
28th on competitions, set an all-time
record for what the bureau calls
economy in forward passing" by
getting the most for the least" He
completed 48 of "a for 976 yards and
II touchdowns, for an average per
attempt of IL 6 yards. The cid mark
was 11.2 set by Hal Mccullough of
Cornell in 1912. Chappuis' yardage
was seventh high.
OF the top five touchdown passers,
only two were among the leaders
Conerly with 18 and Rauch with 10.
Others were John Caputo, Utah
State, IL; Chappuis and Frank
Burns, Rutgers, II each, and Bobby
Gage, Clemson, 10.
Caputo only completed AZ passes,
but if you can figure out a way to
have half completion, one out of
every three and one-half Caputo
competitions went Tor a touchdown.
Bucky Hatchett of Rutgers was
runnerup to Poole in touchdown
passes caught with seven, followed
by Arizona's John Smith and Vito
Ragazzo, also of Rutgers, with six
apiece.
Evans Accurate Thrower.
Evans, who nosed out Conerly on
the America, We'd with the Mis-
sissippi pitching ace for freedom
from -interception honors. Evans
completed 80 out of go passes with
no interceptions for a new all-time
record for complete season. Wes
McAfee of Duke attempted 46 with
out interception in 1899.
Conerly, meanwhile, had only
seven of his 233 tosses stolen, for
remarkably low interception mark
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Eastern, Wilson Fives
Make Ruqqed Starts

Eastern and Wilson, two of this
schools listed as probably strong
contenders for the District school,
boy basketball crown this season,
have tough openers this afternoon
that will give line on their pros
poets. Eastern is host to the strong
Patterson Park of Baltimore, while
Wilson goes to Alexandria against
George Washington High.
Eastern, runnerup to Coolidge last
year, especially looms as a school,
boy power this season. It has q
number OF boys back from last year,
particularly tall Johnny Brown who
got honorable mention on last years
Al-High. Among other returnees
are Sal De Giorgi, Bill Kallas,
Francis Wesley and Spike Barouth.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Eagles Badly Crippled
For Vital Tilt Sunday
with Green Bay
by the Assoeiofsd Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IL. - The
badly battered Philadelphia Eagles
head into Sundays must" game
against the Green Bay Packers with
only four of the seven halfbacks
that started the season available for
heavy duty.
Coach Earle Greasy Neale will
have at his beck and call only Steve
Van Buren, Ernie Steele, Russell
Craft and Pat McHugh in q game
the Eagles must win to tie the Pitts
burgh Steelers for the Eastern Di-
vision championship.
Bosh Pritchard, one OF the sew
eral Eagles injured in last Sundays
game with the Chicago Cardinals,
reported for practice yesterday for
the first time this week but Neale
expects to use him only in spots If
at all. The former VMI ace suf-
fered an injured leg.
Gil Steinke and Noble Doss, who
completed the ranks of the half
backs at the opening of the season,
definitely are out, along with Bill
Mackrides, third-string quarterback,
who has been coming along fast in
the last few weeks.
I'VE are so hard up," said Neale
that I have told AL Gefty) Sher-
man to be ready to fill in at one
Of the halfback spots. Sherman is
the No. 2 quarterback behind Tom
my Thompson.
The list Of linemen on the injured
list is almost as imposing. Ali
Bauman, giant tackle, will sit out
the entire game due to a leg
injury received in the Cardinals
Doneybrook. Alex Wojciechowicz
veteran center. Is in such a physical
condition that he probably will be
used only on defense and Ends Dick
Hun1bert and Jack Ferrante expect
to see only limited action.
BY contrast, the packers are In
perfect physical condition, except
Clyde Goodnight, pass-catching end
who probably will play only in
spots.
The Packers are not in the run.
ming for anything, having dropped
four and tied one of their II games
but they have declared their inten-
tion of trying to keep Van Burer
from setting new league ground.
gaining record.
The Philadelphia back needs 9:
yards to pass the mark of 1,O04 yards
established by the Chicago Bears
BelJtie Feathers.
".And we are not so bad as oul
record shows" said a spokesman
Remember we failed to win five
games by only q total of nine
POINTS"
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Whot q Team They'd Make!
By Frank Leohy
Notre Dame University Cooeh

Our lads faced many an out
standing player this season. We
doubt that ever before was there
finer talent distributed all around.
Given the pick Of the talent faced
by Notre Dame we'd be happy to
engage almost any aggregation of
players.
If we could wave magic wand
and bring these stars together,
here's how they would line up:
End-Ned Maloney, Purdue.
Tackle-John Ferraro, South
ern California.
Guard-Phil O'Reilly, Purdue.
Center-Tom Novak, Nebraska.
Guard-Shim Shimshack, Navy.
Tackle-Goble Bryant, Army.
End-Paul Cleary, Southern
California.
Quarterback - George Murphy,
Southern California.
Halfback-Dcuald Doll, South
ern California.
Halfback-Tom Aschenbrenner,
Northwestern.
Fullback-Rip Rowan, Army.
What team this would make!
How we would fear to face them.
Individually they glitter; as a
team they could hardly be less
than devastating. Consider hav-
ing Murphy, Aschenbrenner, Doll
and Rowan running behind such
forewall. With Murphy direct
ing and rif1ing those target-split-
ting passes for which he is so
well known, you wouldn't know
which way to turn in setting up
defense against such power. Stop
their running attack and they
would pass you dizzy. Set your
defense to smother the passes and
they would run around and
through you.
Cleary is one of the finest ends
Evening star., 1947-12-12
GoIento, Camera RussIe
In Co-feutures Here

1.-TWO Ton" Tony Galento, Newark
N. j., tavern owner and former
heavyweight boxer, and Primo
Camera, earstwhile world heavy
weight boxing champion, will ap-
pear in co-feature rassling matches
next Wednesday night at Turner's
Arena.
Cameras foe will be the atomic
Blonde" from Texas, 300-pound Don
Lee. Galento's opponent has yet to
be announced.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Tryouts at Ice-Copodes
Scheduled Twice Todoy

Tryouts for Ice-Capades. orig
inally scheduled for yesterday, were
to be held at Uline Arena today at
3 and 1880 pm.
Skaters 16 years and over are
eligible. The affair will be super
vised by Robert Dench and Rose
marie Stewart, precision dance
team of the ice show.
Women between feet and S feet
6 inches tall and men Of feet 8
inches and over are eligible.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

1t 10 victories in
IA events staged
by the National
Duckpin Bowl
ing Congress in
the Central
lantic area by
hitting the jack
pot in the
S ports B o W |
Classic at New
port News, Va,
tomorrow.
Incl u ded In
Capital contin-
gents will be
T ony> Santini,
d e f e n d | n e
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Graziano's s Pilot 10 Seek
0kay for BOOKING Here

Irving Cohen, manager of Middle
weight. Champion Rocky Graziano,
will appear before the District Box
ing Commission Monday to discuss
the possibility Of Graziano fighting
here early next year.
Heinie Miller, chairman Of the
District Boxing Commission, re-
ceived telegram from Cohen yes
terday requesting the appointment
Cohen said he wanted to discuss
with the commission a list of posi-
BILE opponents.
Earlier the commission and Cohen
conferred on the possibility of Ora
ziano fighting here and the commits
sion has okayed Graziano provided
the opponent is suitable.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
American U. Frosh Five
Romps Over Roosevelt

American University's freshman
basket ball team racked up its third
straight victory yesterday, defeating
Roosevelt High, 1920. The Young
Eagles were ahead all the way and
had a 20-12 halftime edge.
Al Nencio11i tossed in nine points
to lead A. u, while Sonny Paugh
dropped in five for the Rough
Riders.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
10000 10 See Yanks,
Browns in TussIe
For A.AC Title
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. ia near
sellout crowd of 10000 Is expected
to watch the Cleveland Browns and
New York Yankees battle for the
Au-America Football Conference
championship In the playoff at
Yankee Stadium Sunday.
But the contest likely will fall
short of the record gate receipts
figure of $282 ,955,25 which the Ma
tional Leagues New York Giants
and Chicago Bears set in 1946 in the
Polo Grounds-although 1t is figured
to draw 10000 more fans.
Reason for the discrepancy is that
league officials failed to anticipate
the drawing power OF the Yanks
and Browns and placed cheaper
tickets on sale at 50 and 50.
II the Conference had followed
the National League playof scale of
Sc and 81, the game probably would
have attracted a record $4,000 in
receipts.
The spine-tingling 1928 draw
which the Yankees and Browns
played in the stadium three weeks
ago added to the lure Of the playoff
game. The Yankees took a $50 lead
at intermission and the Browns
surged back in the last half to
knot It.
Also, the counter will pit two of
professional footballs outstanding
offensive performers.
Spec Sanders, the Yankees back
field ace, has travelled 1882 yards
on the ground and scored 18 touch
downs. He has passed for 1,442 yards
and thrown the ball for IA scores for
the leagues best offensive mark.
Otto Graham OF the Browns, on
the other hand, is the circuits pass
ing king. He has completed 163 Of
269 heaves for new major league
record of 2,753 yards by air. He has
passed to Is touchdowns.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Leohy Places Murphy, Doll, Aschenbrenner
And Rowan in Irish AN-RivoIs' BockfieId

ern Cal and Shoaf, Iowa; guards,
Steffy, Army, and De Francesca,
Northwestern; quarterback, Di
Marco, Iowa; left halfbacks,
Stuart, Army; right halfback,
Serbowski, Purdue; fuuback,
Murakowski, Northwestern.
Well pick our All-America in
the next article.
(McNaught Syndicste)
Evening star., 1947-12-12

champion; Jack Barkley, Bob Mi
ciotto, Cletus Pannell, Johnny Burg
er, Moe Meade, Paul Fitzgerald, Joe
Harrison, Al Wright, Karl Gochen-
our, Howard Parsons and Ell Geib,
who last week end bagged the $500
top prize in the John Blick classic at
Atlanta, Ga.
Gochenour will be aiming at his
fourth tournament triumph Of the
season, while Pannell, Wright, Par
sons, Barkley, Miciotto and Geib
will attempt to gain their second
wins. Top prize will be $3.50 and
second place, SIS.
This entire squad will be among
the many twosomes firing in the
Brookland Recreation doubles at
Brookland Sunday.
Two season game records were
marked up in the Odd Fellows
League as Walter Lund fired $50
and his Golden Rule quint counted
SOL. Friendship No. held its lead
by beating Brightwood two games
while Covenant moved to second by
sweeping the earstwhile runnerup
Columbia.
Sid Browns 1896 and Harry
Blumenthals 1880 were the big
pokes as Schneider's Hardware
swept Ace Wrecking Crew with a
season high set of 1874. The victory
moved the hardware quint into sec
ond place. Mitchell's Sport Shop
retained its grip on first place by
n1cking Brightwood Pharmacy in
the odd game. Fred Rosenberg's
$50 helped A. z. A. Alumni take two
from AIS Chicken House.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
D. {. Sending Strong
Group 10 Bowl al
Newport News
BY Ben McAlwee

Enjoying their biggest tourna-
ment-winning season in a number
OF years. Washington's topfight
male duckpinners will strive to make
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Haas IS 5 Under Par
AS Pacemaker in
Miami Open Golf
by the Associotsd Press

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 12.-Fred Haas,
jr., of New Orleans, believes good
wood shots straight down the middle
pay off as well as putting in this
game Of golf.
But yesterday, Haas put the two
together and came up with s.
under-par IS to lead the field of 230
golfers at the end of the first 18
holes of play in the $4,000 Miami
Open golf tournament.
Haas, son of veteran pro and an
insurance salesman, didn't get
around to insuring his game, for "A
other golfers who eoualed par 70
or better over the 6,310-yard Miami
Springs course were breathing hard
on his neck.
Virtually daring the former ma
tional intercollegiate champion to
falter was sturdy Ed Furgol of De-
troit, who like Haas, hasn't done a
whole lot since he turned pro. Fur
gol had sc, which included 81
on the back nine.
Sammy Byrd of Detroit, who
once was baseball player for the
New York Yankees, was two strokes
behind Haas. Still another stroke
away at 68 were Glenn Teal of
Jacksonville, Fla; Walt Burkemo
of Detroit; Bcb Hamilton of Evans
ton, Ind; Jimmy Demaret of Ojai,
Calf; Amateur Frank Stranahan
of Toledo, Ohio, and Jim Milward
Of Three Lakes, Wis.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

National Open Champion Lew
Worsham and Otto Greiner of
Baltimore led the present and
former Washington area players
with par 70s. Buck Worsham of
Mamaroneck, N. Y, had 10; AL
Houghton of Prince Georges, IA,
and Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase
and Miami, II. Charles Price,
Kenwood Club amateur, did not
finish his round because of dark
ness, but needed a u to qualify
among the amateurs. All the
pros survived.
Evening star., 1947-12-12

The champion Standards gained
second place in the National Capt.
tai Ladies' loop on total pins over
Echoes as Betty McIntyre's lit and
327 led q 80 win from Anonymous.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
Hot Shots

. Princess Elizabeth Joined the
ranks of British brides-to-be seeking
homes this week after her palatial
Sunninghill Park estate was destroyed
by fire.
. The National Federation of British
Merchant Tailors defied Paris fash
ions by resolving not to make long
skirted dresses. One reason for their
stand, British tailors admitted, was
the present desperate shortage of
CLOTH"
. Despite two marriage proposals, a
jailed 25-year-old British war bride
would rather 60 home to England
than try American marriage again.
Deserted by her excl husband, she
was arrested in Detroit in a $12 toy
gun holdup to get funds for her two
small children. A jamestown, N. Y,
man made his offer to prove that
America isn't full Of heels"
Q In New York, a 1914 Model T Ford
car, brass trimmed and with kerosene
burning head and tail lights, COM
pleted an eight-months tour of every
state. Driven by John, q, and Virgil
Emmert, 10, of Salem, Neb., the car
averaged IS miles an hour and got
about 30 miles per gallon on the 22,-
000-mile trip.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
Scourge
ModhoUse on Two Wheels

The frolicking of motorcyclists whM
practically took over Riverside, Calf.
over the Labor Day weekend led in@
directly to one death and directly ia
half a dozen accidents and scores Of
arrests.
The situation was similar to a mo.
torcycle madhouse at HOLSTER, Calf,
over the July 4 holiday.
Police said about 5000 motor
cyclists inundated the town for the so
and 100-mile races billed as national
championships by the American Mo-
torcycle Association with the Califor-
MIA Highway Patrol as a co-sponsor.
Police had difficulties not with tho
racers themselves, but with race fol.
lowers. Riders roared about down-
town streets at breakneck speeds.
Finally police, on 48-hour duty,
blocked off two blocks in the heart
of the business section and let the
riders roar. The street became lit
tered with broken beer bottles.
Chunks of rubber from screaming
tires burned in impromptu getaway"
races and "spin-a-circle" riding al.
most formed a layer on the street.
An 18-year-old girl died in a hos
pital after the motorcycle on which
she was a passenger was in collision
with a car.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07

b~ers-Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
and Saudi Arabia.
Britain is already on record before
the United Nations, however, that it
would not sacrifice British pounds and
lives in enforcing a U.N. decision on
Palestine.
The committee report unanimously
recommended Holy Land i%ndepend-
ence from Britain's 2~5-year-old man.
date Eat the earliest practicable date"
To Internationalize Jerusalem
The seven-member majority urged
partition of Palestine into Arab and
Jewish states and that the Holy city
of Jerusalem, including Bethlehem
and surrounding villages be interna-
tionalized, under a governor, neither
Jew nor Arab, to be appointed by the
U.N. ~trusteeship council.
The committee would give the
Jews eastern Galilee, the central
coastal plain, taking in Haifa, Jaffa
and Tel Aviv, and the Beersheba sub
district, including most of the Negreb
the southern desert.
It would allot the Arabs western
Ga1ilee, the Samaritan and Judean hill
country and the southern coast from
Isdub to the Egyptian frontier.
The ports of Jaffa and Haifa would
be operated Sin the common interest"
under an economic union of the two
states.
Last week the Security Council
dropped the problem of Greece's
northern border. There is little doubt
that the assembly, in inheriting the
infammable Balkan dispute, is in for
many long hours of bitter debate.
Whatever the assembly recon-
mends on Greece can, however, be
vetoed by Russia, whose frequent use
of the veto during the past year has
caused much of the criticism of the
U.N,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07

WITH the Security Council on
w a belated vacation, the Unit
ed Nations concentrated this week
IN preparing an agenda for the
General Assembly which opens
US second regular session in New
LUX on September 16 confronted by
such knotty problems az Palestine,
VIZ Balkans and the big power veto.
me world peace organization is
nseIng with an increasingly critical
puollc reception. In some quarters the
s IS regarded as an insurmount-
ave olock against effective action in
nlaJor controversies. Some maintain
we veto relegates the U.N. to the
S,atuS Of an Intellectual paper organ
teatlon like the old League of Nations.
JNers hope, however, that by mar
alaillng world opinion behind it the
assembly can enjoin dissenting ma
noiiS TO go along with the will of the
majority.
AS an indication of the Importance
s s,'ached to this years assembly ses-
;at ~ II was learned that foreign min
s'ers OF 10 nations have been named
atsend the conferences at Flushing
meadow and Lake Success.
Partition for Palestine?
hone OF the most heated debates is
s Souao to be over the Holy Land. A
speclal U.N. committee this week
etommended partition Of Palestine
n1.o Arab and Jewish states and ad-
l, , OF 10000 Jewish immigrants
LING the next two years.
ane plan drew immediate Arab OPP
a pgsI'lon and a warning from the Pal
Ssnne Arab Higher Committee that
MY N.Y. attempt to carry out the U.N.
P'1posal would result in violence.
Gap Spokesman promised that the
tb INV Arab League would fight
"e report through its five U.N. men,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
U.S.. ARMY: Shrunken Giant

ice. There is no place in the new set
up for Indian Scouts.
No formal ceremony will mark the
passing of the picturesque unit estab-
lished in 1886 by Gen. George Crook.
At one time, 1000 Indian Scouts were
in service, but no enlistments have
been accepted since 1923.
Recruiting Troubles
The rest of the armed forces, how
ever, are not meeting their monthly
goal of 10000 recruits. Secretary of
War Royal disclosed that almost half
the applicants for enlistment are be-
ing rejected. Higher intelligence re-
quirements, he said, account for a
substantial number of the failures.
The Army enlisted about $4,000 in
July and $4,000 in August.
Army Air Forces enlistments have
spurted during the last few months
under a new career plan" offered
high school graduates under which
they are given a choice of training
in various technical schools, of the
service.
While the broad program of the
AAF also embraces plans for more
pilots, the major manpower head
ache now is to train the highly skilled
air crewmen and maintenance tech
nicians.
For this reason the Air Force has
opened 40 of its technical schools to
recruits who come in under the "ca-
reer plan" with an idea of specialize
ing in particular fields.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
Labor
Fighting Words

Labor's observance of its own holi-
day was marked by fighting words
this year as union leaders pledged
about battles to strike the Taft
Hartley law from the statute books.
Philip Murray, CLIO president, de-
ciared that American working men
and women were determined to keep
their unions strong and to change the
anti-labor complexion of Congress.
William Green, ALL president,
pledged his organizations fight would
be waged mot with strikes, but with
ballots in the peaceful, democratic
and American way"
Former Vice President Henry A..
Wallace told a Detroit CLIO audience
that present policies of Congress and
the Administration were guiding this
country towards depression and war.
eff we don't make the Democratic
Party into a party of peace and pros
perity, we shall build a new party"
he declared.
The Labor Day oratory followed a
Sunday night speech by Secretary of
Labor Lewis Schwellenbach in which
he declared that despite wage in
creases, industrial profits were run
ming far ahead Of last year and wage
earners have been unable to keep
abreast of the cost of living.
Schwellenbach took indirect issue
with Earl Bunting, head of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
who contends that Gin spite of all the
hubbub about high prices" American
workers have a substantially higher
buying power than eight years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-07
Sport
Victory

Once again, the Davis Cup, en-
blematic Of world amateur tennis SUI
premacy, belonged to the United
States as CALIFORNIA; tennis buddies,
Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder,
turned in a Al triumph over the
challengers from Australia.
It may be a long time before the
tennis world sees another singles bat
tie like the one in which Schroeder
outlasted Dinny Pals of Australia to
apply the clincher in the fve-match
series.
For II games the two players
fought, with Schroeder discarding his
shoes half the time on the slippery
turf. Twice the Australian had the
American at match = point before
Schroeder finally won 6-3, 8-6, As,
gil, 1913.
It was the longest singles match
ever played in a Davis Cup challenge
round.
Kramer, the American ace who
probably will be a professional be-
fore another Davis Cup challenge
round arrives, opened defense of his
national singles title later in the
week.