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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-18
"PeopIe Still Can't Understand IT,

reached many months before Betsy and ! had
ever heard of The $4,000 Question:" at time
when there we're no prospects of increasing our
income. When came back 10 this country from
Korea in January, 1855, was as discouraged as
have ever been. l had little money in the bank,
and the cost of living was so high that my family
and were reduced to the bareSt essentials. HouS-
ing was very scarce SO my family continued to
live with my wife'S parents while hunted for
any adequate quarters could afford Maintain
ing my family in one place, and myself in another
took every cent had. My morale was on the deck.
II can't afford the luxury Of being Marine
! told Betsy one evening, in a moment Of despair.
Its not fair to you or the kids to sacrifice that
much for my personal satisfaction"
"You've Got To Think Bly,
Betsy was shocked. She knew that giving up the
Marines would be as painful for me as losing
her. She said that she didn't mind our minimum
living scale, but that if | wanted a good-paying
civilian job with all its comforts instead Of the
struggles of Marines life that was okay with her.
However, senSed Immediately that she, too,
would not be happy out Of the Corps, and
realized that | was acting contrary to all the
spirit and training had received. was quitting,
an unheard-of maneuver for Marine.
At that moment ! was struck with the remem-
brance of something lieutenant knew in Korea
had once said. All our battalion officers ate in
the same mess, and a lively feud existed between
one of the battalion's senior officers and this
lieutenant. They were very skillful at swapping
insults, but one night the senior officer suddenly
lost his humor. You're getting too big for your
brtches!" he told the lieutenant
"Sir, if you want to be big, you've got to think
big" the lieutenant replied softly.
The full meaning of those words suddenly hit
me during the conversation was having with
my wife. You couldn't think big and be leaving
the Marines for the sake Of steak on the table
and bigger apartment. II you want 10 be big,
think big. How else do you get to be President
ofthe United States, Commandant Of the Marines,
Chairman of the Board Of General Motors? Not
if you think like clam digger.
realized that night, while talking it over with
Betsy. that it made no sense to go for the small
thing, with its momentary advantages, and lose
the big thing.
So we went on, living close to the margin, trying
to find some way to help ourselves without sacri-
fcing the big things that really mattered. We
tried to make some extra money by entering all
kinds Of contests, but we did not win single
cent; however, we didn't get discouraged. When
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Evening star., 1955-11-04
Johnson Fovored
Over Boyd Tonight
In Teleyision Bout

CHICAGO, Nov. 4 TIC George
johnson, Trenton, N. j. middle
weight, rules a 7-to-5 fayorite
over Chicago's Bobby Boyd to-
night in what should be q free
swinging, nationally televisied
hereunder at Chicago Stadium,
The fight viii be teleyisied Ia
Washington over Station WRC-
TV, channel 4, at 10 pm.
Johnson,s only loss in fiye
scraps this year was to Ralph
lTiger) Jones and he has al
overall record Of 26 victories in
80 starts. % by kayoes.
Boyd. n, showed marked i'm
provement in upsetting Gene
Fullmer at the stadium last
month to gain his fourth straight
triumph Of the year. He has
won 35 of 43 fights IA by knock
outs and fought two draws.
Tonights bout replaces. the
originally scheduled title fight
between Sugar Ray Robinson
and Olsen. II was postponed
until December 0 when Robinson
injured his ankle In training.
Evening star., 1955-11-04
Boil Control Bottle Due
AT Byrd Stadium Saturday

how Fred Hamilton's shoulder
has responded to treatment. The
sophomore has given 1t the big
try all season and has been a
major cog in Maryland's sue
cess in filing in for the in
jured Tom Selep. He may be
forced out this week. However,
Maryland is fortunate again
because Phil Perlo has been
Hamilton for his job
and now Bob Laughery. the
extra point and kickoff special
list. has been thriving in work
outs behind Perlo.
LsH will bring SO men but only
% Of them have played any ap-
preciable time in six games. The
Tigers have three seniors and a
sophomore quarterback In the
backaeld and a good line headed
by Earl Leggett, 265-pound
tackle who Is not In there Just
because he's big.
M. C. Reynolds is the soph
quarterback who has won the
job primarily because Of his
passing. The backs to watch
are topped by Vince Gonzalez.
who has five touchdowns and
leads in most Of the offensive
departments. Levi Johns Is the
other halfback and Fullback o.
K. Ferguson is the heavy worker,
having carried more times than
any Maryland player but Vereb.
Evening star., 1955-11-04
WITH THE
HIGH SCHOOLS
BY DICK sLAY

Yale's three-year winning string,
|20-7, In the second frosh game,
:. Bill Is a center, the same po-
Isition he held down for unbeaten
Blair a year ago.
George Williams used up his
eligibility last year when he was
an All-Division II fullback at
Spingarn and this season he is a
team manager, one Of three.
Julian Weingarten, formerly at
Coolidge High. has received one
of the few basketball scholar
ships at Maryland University. :.
Techs football team, which was
bumped from contention early
In the Interhigh race. has OUT
scored It's opponents. BAT, DUR
ing the last 10 quarters.
Team physicians at st. Johns
have been grumbling for more
than q year about the plastic
football helmet. The matter
came to a head this season when
John Piazza and Paul Cornwall
suffered conclusions. Notre
Dame has never used anything
but leather helmets and the Irish
have been free Of serious head
| injuries, the doctors contend.
Halfback John Bish Of Wilson
High, the son of the Mckinley
Tech principal, DR.. Charles Bish,
had his right knee repaired by
an operation at Garfield Hospital
yesterday. =. John injured the
knee in wilson's opening game
and was idle until practice last
Monday. :. He ran out for a
pass and collapsed with q carti-
Elage torn on completely.
A year ago. Washington-Lee
Ijourneyed to Portsmouth, where
lit was defeated. 14-0, by the
team which was to win the Vir-
lginia State championship,
woodrow Wilson. Tonight.
WI meets the current favorits
for that crown, Thomas Jeffer-
son, In Richmond, and the Gen.
Evening star., 1955-11-04
THE EVENING STAR c-3
washington, d. c. &S
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1855

erals believe they can make 1T
even closer, although Jefferson
is regarded as much more pow
erful than Portsmouth was in
1854.
The prediction business is be-
coming riskier by the week. One
would suppose that teams would
follow form as the season pro-
gresses, but the opposite has
been true in scholastic football.
This department scored 20
right and eight wrong, plus four
ties last week for a season total
of 117-41-9, or an average of "a
per cent correct. This week end:
TODAY
Wilson over Dunbar. Roosevelt over
Western, Coolidge over Bell Tech over
Phelps, Springarn over Eastern, Ana
Baltimore Carver, Armstrong over Bates.
Bladensburs over Suitland. Laurel over
Sherwood. Wheaton over oxon Hill and
Winchester Douglass over Carver.
George Washington over John Mar
shall Thomas Jefferson over Washing
ton-Lee. Annandale over Mount Vernon,
Falls Church ever st. Stephens Hern-
don over Mclean, Osbourn over Chester,
LoudOun County over Culpepper, Park
er-Grav over Leesburg Douglass. Luther
jackson over virginia Randolph. Bal
timer Friends over Friends and George
town Prep over st. Mays.
TOMORROW
MONTGOMERY Blair over Frederick.
Gonzaga oyer Northwestern. DeMatha
over High Point. Richard Montgomery
over Gaithersburg. LaPlata over Char
iotte Hall. Wakefield over B-CC, George
Mason over Garfield, Episcopal over
virginia Episcopal, st. Adams DYER 81.
Andrews. Penn State FTosh over Balls
and Wyoming Seminary over Columbian
MONDAY
st. Johns over Carroll
Evening star., 1955-11-04
Fredericksburg Sets
Pro-Member Tourney

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Nov.
4 tSpecial) "A pro-mernber golf
tournament viii be held here to-
morrow at the Fredericksburg
Country Club.
Starting time for the pros
are:
B $50 am. John Galeski; g:40,
Eddie Stevens; $3.50, Art Jones;
10 am. Ed Oliver: 1910, Willie
Palumbo; 1920. Roger Peacock:
1890. Leo Herman. l0:40, Jimmy
Nichols; 1880, Paul Hayiland. II
ID ln., Harold Oatman ll:2O,
Clair Emory; 1880, Mel Shorey.
Noon. AL aJmison: 1910, Clar-
ence Doser; 1880, Harry Greis-
mer; l2:40. Al Houghton; 1880,
Johnny Musser; / pm, Charles
Basslef.
Evening star., 1955-11-04
Boys Club to Meet
.Troininu School

A Boys Club of Washington
football team meets an opponent
of high school caliber for the
first time tomorrow when the
Eastern Branch eleven takes on
the National Training School at
10 am. on the NTS field.
Eastern Branch shows a VIC
tory for its only game. defeating
Jelleff Branch. 1t also has made
good showings in scrimmages
against Charlotte Hall Military
Academy and Chamberlain High.
National Training School has
a 81 record, with its only defeat
a 7-6 loss to Woodward Prep. j
Evening star., 1955-11-04
WEEKEND
FOOTBALL

GAMES TONIGHT
West Virginia at George WashInxton
Boston College at Miami.
Occidental At California AgRies.
GAMES TOMORROW
Logisiana State e MARYLAND.
Yirginia at Pfttsburgh.
Hampton at Howard.
!. Mississippi Southern at Ahilen,
Tulane at Alabama (Mobile)
North Carolina State at Boston q,
Massachusetts, At BrAndeis.
Utah State at Bringham Young.
Cornell ct Brown
CoiEate at Bucknell,
washington at California,
Utah 81 Colorado
Dartmouth AZ Columbia.
GeerHia at Florida tJacksonyillel.
Princeton At Harvard.
Michigans at Illinois.
Misnssosa MMssnssoa 81 q isws. iSws state.
yirginia Military at Lehigh.
Detroit IT Marquette
Oklahoma at Missouri,
South Carolina At North Carclins
wisconsin At Northwestern.
Indiana At Ohio State.
Colorado Ann at Oklahenaa AAsM.
Idaho At Oregon state.
gcLA N, at colIege e Paeific.
Notre Dame at PENNSYLVANIA.
Michigan state at Purdue.
Arkansas &c Rice
Davidson At Richmond
Stanford at Southern California.
GeoKgia Tech at Tennessee,
Southern Methodist at Texas AdsM.
Arizona ut Texas Tech.
Baylor at Texas.
kentucky at yandsrhilt.
William and Mary ct Wake Forest.
oregon at washington State.
Army At Yale
Evening star., 1955-11-04
TIGERS sLUGGER SIGNS FOR $4,000
Lip Gives KoIine FiII-In
On Mays SoIory Boost

about rs grand to start the dick
ering and then asks me If he
thought he should go as high
as $4,000.
81 hedge for a while and finally
he tells me that might as well
bargain with Willie and for me
to make the best deal ! can. I
tell him okay and get Willie on
the phone.
''I don't even mention the Is
grand. WHILE I say. Tn send
ing you contract for $50. .000.'
Fine says Willie in his
squeaky voice. Then tell him
that Mr.. Stoneharn win be down
to watch him play in the Carib-
bean Winter League and viii ac-
tually do the signing.
About q week latersI get this
call from Stoneham and I find
he's sort Of sore about some-
thing. Finally he wants to know
how come / told Willie We were
going to pay him not IS grand
+. not 80 grand but 35
grand. Seems like that's what
Willie had told him when they
started to talk.
Il start laughing and tell the
boss Willie was Just kidding and
would take the $50, 900, but that
he's worth $4,000. He got 80.
But right after the All-Star
Game this year. Horace calls
Willie into the Office and hands
him the other fiye grand.
$50 you see, AL, he actually
jumped his salary from $12,5O0
in one year to $35,OO0 the next
one. See what I mean about my
powers as an agent?"
Then it was Kaline's turn.
.'I'll sure look you up-espe-
cially If ! have Q bad year In
&c." the Tiger outfielder said.
How are you at talking the boss
out Of making q player take o
salary cut?"
mo good" grinned Leo. Only
guys claim are overpaid in
baseball ara the uInpires.
Evening star., 1955-11-04

DETROIT, Nov. 4 R.-Leo
Durocher met Al Kaline yester-
day.
The former manager Of the
Giants was addressing q United
Foundations Torch drive dinner
here. In slipped the 20-year-old
Tiger outfielder who led both
major leagues with q $40 batting
average last season.
II never met you. AL" Leo
shouted across the crowded
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room, ''but I hear you just signed
your 1856 contract. Don't know
what you got. but it wasna
enough" grinned Durocher.
Kaline signed his 1856 contract
with the Tigers yesterday for a
reported $4,000.
I'm not kicking. = Al said
! went with q figure in mind
my bosses had the same figure
1t was easy"
Il still say you should've made
me your agent. Leo yelled. .'YS
ever hear how ] got Willie Mays
up IN the bucks last year?s
Kaline hadn't.
Durocher recounted:
willie was making $12, $500 in
1854. his first big year. You know
what q year he hadn't .345
belted Il homers and drove In
Ito, In addition to running into
the bIeachers to pull down long
flies.
Its time to try to sign him
last winter and We know vel
have to go pretty high. The boss
Owner Horace Stoneham) calls
me and asks me what ! figure
Willie ought to get.
II tell Horace ! think they
ought to give Willie the Polo
Grounds and q big hunk of Fort
Knox. before we get sort oi
serious about 1t.
"Stoneham finally says he
figures he ought to offer Willie
Evening star., 1955-11-04

One Of the finest basketball
talents In Washington area high
schools will go to waste this
year.
John Frazier, 6-foot-3 ALI
Catholic League performer for
the past two seasons at st.
Johns. is at Western High School
where he is ineligible to particle
pate. John, now q senior, let
tered at st. Johns when he was
a freshman and the Interhigh
League limits a boy to three
years Of eligibility.
Frazier dropped out Of st.
Johns this year In order to have
a better chance at being accepted
at q Christian Science college In
1856. He had hoped to go TO
Landon on q scholarship this
fall, but found there is no such
thing at the Bethesda prep
school.
Coach Ed Barton Of Landon
made no secret Of his hopes to
gain Frazier. John would have
At In well with the likes Of
Blackie Bruner, Don Dell and
Robin Prince, and none other
than Coach Joe Gallagher of St.
Johns tabled Landon as the best
basketball team in the area-ii
Frazier enrolled there.
Landon does have some i'm
pressive help for basketball
however. Joe Holup. George
Washington University center, il
q part-time physical education
instructor there and is slated tc
coach the NTH and sixth-grade
Junior varsity and maybe third
string basketball teams. The all.
Southern Conference ace Is han
ding the 65-pound and junior
varsity football squads at pres
lent.
tE&
Word from Brown University
lis that Bill Scheick of Montgom-
cry Blair High is playing fresh.
man football and helped snaT
Evening star., 1955-11-04
YOU BE THE
QUARTERBACK
ANSWER
fQaestio,s on Paoe C-Il

Question on Page C-ll
Z. Spread punt. Worst call.
Easier to block the kick. And
If you go into this formation.
the safety win hurry back and
the surprise element will be lost.
3. Reverse. II deep. you could
lose quite a bit Of ground.
2. End sweep. Better call.
1. Quick kick. Best call. The
punt Is one Of the best offensive
weapons, especially with the
wind to your back. You should
gain numerous yards on the
punt exchange.
Distributed By the Regisker ana
Tribune ayndfcafhl N
Evening star., 1955-11-04
Southern Conference
Meets December g

DURHAM. N. c.. Nov. 4 fR.
Commissioner Wallace Wade OF
the Southern Conference an
nounced yesterday that the De-
cember meeting of the confer
ence will be held at Williams
burg, Va, December 8.
The agenda. he said, has not
yet been set up.
Evening star., 1955-11-04
cY YOUNG
Continued From Page CT

Continued From Page C-l
honor Of q Civil War captain
under whom he campaigned.
It was at Canton. Ohio. ii
1890. when Young was tryini
for his first professional Job that
he won the nickname Of Cy.
II thought I had to show al
my stun. = he said. '.and / almost
tore the boards OF the grand
stand with my fast ball. One oi
the fellows called me Cyclone.
but finally shortened it to ICY. :
and it's been that ever since" "
CT stuck with Canton, pitch
ing IS full games and finishing
10 others until the old Tri-Stats
League folded up in 1890. He
wound up his minor league
chores with q no-lit, no-run, no.
man-reached first perfect game
tanning Is.
Z b.
Sold for suit Of Clothes
Relating how he went ID
Cleveland. then in the National
League. he recalled:
There have been stories that
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Chi
cago wanted me, but that's all
wrong. After the league folded
our manager was broke and
needed some clothes. so he traded
me TO Cleveland for 9 new suit, "
He made his big league debut
August 3. 1890, beating Chicago,
81. allowing three hits. He
stayed above the 500 mark for Is
straight years before winning Ia
and losing 10 with Boston's
American League club in 1905.
He scared into the no-hit, mo-
run ranks In the majors on Sep
tember IS. 1897, pitching Cleve-
land to q go win over Gin
cinnati. The next was the per-
feet game against Waddell Ii
1904.
On june 80, 1908. he hit the
heights again with b nO-hitter,
beating New York 80.
In First world Series
While with Boston, he playes
In the first World Series IN 1908
winning two games and losint
one. In 1895, before the Ameri,
can League was formed, hi
pitched Cleveland to victory ovel
the Baltimore Orioles in til,
Temple Cup series.
Cy stuck with the CIeyelant
Spiders from 1890 to 1898. II
1899 Cleveland retired from thu
National League and the entirt
club shifted to st. Louis to max,
up the present Cardinal OUTFIT.
There. In two years, he won n
and lost 80, and then shifted Il
Boston IN the American League
He won 191 while losing lI3. H,
returned to Cleveland in 100!
for q two and one-half yea
span. before going back to Bos.
ton with the Nationals rnidwa,
in the 1911 campaign. In thi,
Evening star., 1955-11-04
By MERRELL WHITTLEsEY

Two Of the most possession.
minded football teams In thu
country meet at College Parl
tomorrow afternoon. with Mary
land favored to hold onto tht
ball long enough to make
more touchdowns than louisiana
State. The Terps are 19-point
fayorites.
The Tigers come here with
the handle Of the best hard luck
team in the country. II that's
any consolation. A total 'of IA
points has decided three Of theii
four losses to Georgia Tech
Florida and Mississippi's defend
ing Southeastern Conference
champions.
Inspired by the sincerity oi
their driving, disappearing
coach. Paul Dietzel, the Tigers
havo been the surprise team Of
the Southeastern Conference in
all but the won-and- lost column
They've been scoring moral VIC
tories but losing the games to all
but Kentucky, which they upset
and Rice. which they tied. Their
record includes only one trounc-
ing, $50 by Texas AIM.
Obscured BY Night Schedule
Playing its predominately Sat
urday night schedule, and usual
" an hour or two hours behind
the Eastern time zorle, LSU Is
one Of the ast-known teams In
this section because it usually
is after midnight on Saturday
in Washington when the results
are in. This will be only the sec
ond day game for the visitors,
But the Maryland coaching
star is cognizant Of the poten-
tial Of this club which may be
the toughest test since UCLA
for the No. / ranked Terps.
The ISU team win arrive at
] o'clock this afternoon and work
out at Byrd Stadium after check
ing in to its Dupont Plaza Hotel
headquarters.
The advance guard Of the IT.
gers was shocked to learn their
bout with the Nations top
ranked team win draw only
about $4,000 to Byrd Stadium
Even with q new coach and q
losing team, the Tigers have
averaged 1900 spectators fol
their six games.
They drew 10000 at home
against Georgia Tech and figure
they'd sell out their $4,000 ca
|pacity stadium for the first time
III tomorrow's attraction was
scheduled for Baton Rouge.
Tigers Plug Away
LSU has been losing because
it's the type Of club that takes
10 long time 70 score. It holds
the ball and plugs away. and
nobody has been able to keep
the bah and drive against it,
But the opposition has been
scoring the @home-fun" touch
downs against what has been q
slow secondary defense.
Georgia Tech, headed for the
Southeastern title and a Sugar
Bowl bid. beat the Tigers, TO
with a 55-yard pass play with
seconds to play in the first half,
It was q short toss and q long
run by the receiver that did it,
Maryland goes into Its eighth
game with more iionors than
any other Jim Tatum-coached
team. 1t is ranked No. / In the
IAP poll, has q l2-game winning
streak and tops the Nation on
rushing defense and In pass in
perceptions.
The Terps also have the new
Atlantic Coast Conference scor-
ing leader In Ed Vereb, whose
II touchdowns put him 81 points
behind the Maryland record,
with three games to 90.
Hamilton May Be Out
\ Maryland may have d sub
Evening star., 1955-11-04

with Canton. His sfirst contract
at Cleveland called for q salary
of $1.400 and CT always claimed
he went back to the hill country
with most Of his pay from that
first season.
Married Girl Next Door
1T was more money than most
anyone in Tuscarawas County
had ever seen ct one time" he
related, "and the first thing ] did
was marry the girl next door,
From then on we travelled around,
hand in hand. playing baseball
When ! finally quit we settled
down in the old home.
@But she died in 1884, and
somehow ] didn't care to live in
the old house after that. So ]
sold the place and moved"
Despite his stellar record, he
was nine years reaching the old
player limit Of $1,000. After his
transfer to Boston he climbed to
$2,5O0 per year. the highest
salary he ever drew.
He explained that the name,
Tecumseh, in the record books,
was given him In 1904 by Bob
Unglaub, of the Boston Amer
leans. He was guest Of honor at
q birthday party In Louisville.
His team mates gave him d low
Ing cup, and Unglaub had the
name Denton Tecumseh Young
on It.
Il didn't want to hurt any
ones feelings, so / didn't say
anything. Cy recalled. abut later
unglaub told me he thought my
name was Tecumseh because
he'd heard some Of the boys can
me The Chiefl' Anyway, the
name stuck.
A Fayorite Yarn
He liked to spin yarns of the
old days. He often told of q
Cleveland louisville game in the
90s in which the teams were tied
in the seventh Inning, when
Cleveland filled the bases with
none out. Three gamblers, sit
ting Just behind the catcher,
called to the umpire and said:
II Louisville loses this game,
there won't be enough left of you
to worry about" With that state
n1ent, one Of the men produced
q large pistol.
The umpire 2 Cy said, walked
right out to home plate, and al
though the sun was still high in
the sky. called the game on ac-
count Of darkness Our bows
didn't like 1t. and told the umpire
50 with some rather choice words,
In fact the words were So choice.
that five Of the Cleveland team
we're arrested and fined $500
each by a Louisville Judge. y