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Evening star., 1961-11-02
Derringer Says
He's Broke, Has
$87,6o1 in Debts

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2 (AP).-
Paul Derringer, who helped
pitch the Cincinnati Reds to a
National League pennant in
1889 and a world champion
ship in 1910, has told a referee
in bankruptcy that he is virtu-
ally destitute, unemployed, and
knows nothing about a trust
fund estimated in value at be-
tween $500,000 and 81 million,
in his wife's name.
Involuntary bankruptcy pro-
ceedings were brought against
the one-time pitching great
after a series of creditor suits.
Derringer has listed unse-
cured debts Of $87,691, while
Mrs. Mary Jane Derringer, his
wife, also named in the pro-
ceedings, listed unsecured debts
totaling $78,238. She has filed
a plan for repayment of the
claims but no plan has been
filed by her husband. The two
were married in 1943.
Derringer was asked by John
j. Rivers, attorney for one
creditor. about a trust fund set
up for his wife by her father,
Karl A. Stein of Dayton, Ohio,
in 1912. Derringer replied he
knew nothing about it.
Rivers then asked him if he
did not know that the trust was
worth between $500,000 and 81
million.
You'll have to ask the trust, "
Derringer responded.
Derringer testified he had
been joblesS for a year, since
being discharged from the Au-
burn PlaSticS Co. of Auburn,
N. Y. He received 1925 a week
there for contracting jobbers. he
said, but lost out after being
named in a civil suit involving
unpaid debts.
Evening star., 1961-11-02
Terp Frosh Face
CIV in Bid for
4th Straight Win

The University of Maryland
freshman football team will
seek its fourth straight victory
at 2::30 pm. tomorrow, facing
the George Washington frosh
at Byrd Stadium.
. Navy's plebes, impresSively
.unbeaten and united in five
games, will be host to the Pitt
,.frosh at 1880 Saturday. The
Pitt team handed West Virgin
Jas freshmen their only defeat,
-29-14, two weeks ago.
: The little Colonials are try
ing to snap back from two
straight losses-27-6, at Will
liam and Mary and 40-6 last
week at Navy-since an open
Ing victory at Richmond, 3o-8
2 But the Maryland frosh
offer little hope of a letup. The
Baby Terps beat the freshman
teams of South Carolina, 1922
and Virginia, 35-l8, and last
week downed Bulls Prep, 21-6