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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY* 26, 1937. “Come Oh, Spring, ’’DiMaggio ’sPlea: Grid Defense Rule Advocated Cards’ Captain British Tennis Star in “Toils of Law” Sports Program PROS’ BEST TENNIS For Local Fans MANDATORY LINE TODAY. Basket Ball. Tech vs. Catholic Uni- ASKED BY SEEN IN TEAM TILT Virginia JONES versity, Brookland gym, 8:15. Roosevelt vs. Western, Roosevelt gym (public high title series), 3:30. Trojan Coach Would Check Crabbing, Making Speeches Perry, Playing With Vines, Tech vs. Central, Tech gym (pub- lic high title series), 3:30. Increase or Decrease of Joe’s Main Diversions Dominates Match After Hyattsville vs. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Md., 3:30. Forward Wall. in Off-Season. Loss in Singles. Landon vs. St. Albans, St. Albans I gym, 3:30. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. This is one of a series of person- BY BILL DISMER, JR. Woodrow Wilson vs. Montgomery- ality stories on outstanding young vines and Fred ANGELES, Calif., January Blalr, Wilson gym, 3:30. 26.—There is sports figures. Perry didn’t have the tennis no closed season on foot show stolen from them alto- Boxing. ball for a foot ball BY RUSS NEWLAND. last at Cowboy Howard Scott vs. Irish LOScoach. When not actively Ellsworthgether night University Eddie McGeever, 10 rounds, feature the By the Associated Press. of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum, but coaching, maestros are busy Turner's Arena, 8:30. FRANCISCO. January 26.— It is safe to say that most of the 3,500 bout, thinking or talking of the game to. when Howard Joe Di Maggio already is getting who left the College Park arena after TOMORROW. Jones of Southern Cali- in fornia and Lynn Waldorf of North- itchy feet. midnight were unanimous opining Basket BaU. SAN The New York Yankees' out- that the headliners of the professional western, outstanding representatives Washington vs Army, of the in their flelding star of 1936 is straining at troupe were only half the show. George profession sectors, got West N. Y. the leash. Springtime can’t come too The 300 or so walkersout never will Point, together the other evening, the old know for but let them talk York Collegiate Institute vs. Cen- was keelhauled for soon for the long-legged Italian youth themselves, game the better to bitter end tral, Central gym, 3:30. six who carved his name in bold letters to those who stayed the part of hours. —and was bitter for little Bruce In his major league debut last year. it THURSDAY. The conversation was largely about be Barnes and bespectacled George Lott rules and what could be done to The Spring training grind may Basket BaU. make —at 12:07 a.m., and they soon will foot ball a better a pain in the neck to the oldsters, but I HERBERT (ZEKE) BROWN. game—from the learn that they missed the best tennis Western Maryland vs. Catholic coaching of course. It’s a lark for Joe. I He ll lead his basketers on viewpoint, Both of the night. at Police but social visit. On his is David University, Brookland gym, 8:15. Jones and “I sure have missed the feel of Fred Perry (second from left) Court, only for left Waldorf agree that one of the floor at Brookland twice Whereas the of sight Vines evening is Karl both assistant district Carroll Maryland vs. North Carolina the tasks a that old says Di Maggio with this week, Hart and on his immediate right Kindleberger, attorneys. greatest coach faces in apple.” against Virginia his series with Perry in a N. C. straight-set (extreme had Perry in tow. This was yesterday afternoon and Perry did not have State, Raleigh. these days is building an offense suffi- almost as much feeling as if he had Tech and Western Morgan right) * tonight victory by the crushing scores of 6—4, unable to with Ells- George Washington High vs. been from the for three Brown quite as happy a time at another court, being “found guilty” of being cope ciently versatile to meet the numer- away sport Maryland Thursday. 6—2 was to the ex- stimulating only in the net show last in Ritchie Colisseum at the Maryland Frosh, Ritchie Coliseum, ous of instead of three months. ‘‘That is a all-around worth Vines in their singles night University of types defense now in practice. years playing fine tent of the perfect artistry of the —Star Photo. College Park. Md., 4. blistered foot at training camp last game and hopes to figure in a Maryland. Staff American professional champion, ten- Brlarly Military Academy vs. Wants Only One Defense Lina. Spring cost me a lot of time and I double victory at the expense nis—with all Its thrills, “impossible" Eastern, Eastern gym, 3:30. favors a rule that will make missed the first 17 games of the of the Gobblers and Terrors. shots and long rallies, mingled with JONES FRIDAY. one sort of defensive line manda- season. This year I want to play in the Inevitable color of professionalism tory, whether it be a six or seven every game.” —was exhibited at its best in the Basket BaU. man type. "You build an offense to Since he helped the Yankees ring two-and-a-half-hour doubles match YANKEES ON SPOT. Temple vs. Georgetown, Tech meet a seven-man line and then down the curtain last Fall with a ‘POPP/NG which the singles headliners took from High gym, 8:30. And your opponent has shifted to world championship, Joe has taken Barnes and Lott. CARD FI MS Maryland vs. North Carolina, six,” complained the Trojan coach. things as easily as is possible for a Chapel Hill, N. C "Of course, the situation is the same 22-year-old youngster who thinks and ANY who might have doubted the M’CARTNY FEARS Towson Normal vs. Gallaudet, for every coach, but the point I make talks in terms of base ball. sincerity of the contestants as a Gallaudet gym, 8. is that the of result of the two singles matches, Qpp“Wx present vogue shifting Central vs. Western, Tech gym defense places too great a burden on Crab FIRSTMAJOR WIN which were won in straight sets by Enjoys Fishing. (public high title series), 4:30. the The Vines and Lott, who defeated Barnes Tells Boss at Beefsteak Tennis for the Funds of It boys. game is difficult XJI3 routine is and his Tech vs. Wilson, Tech gym (pub- enough, but when a kid daily simple 6—3, 6—4, would quickly have been quarterback lic high title series), 3:30. is obliged to diversions few. He doesn’t golf, convinced otherwise by the dogged de- Dinner Club Will Need LONG as they can lure a Fred ning, chasing Elite's prodigious smashes attempt plays against a Tech at Washington-Lee High vs. East- defense that will neither does he hunt. He floated Battling Virginia termination which the two pairs Perry Into the fold every year, to all corners of the court. The score vary from a seven a foot season of Is on Indicative ern, Eastern gym, 3:30. to a six or even five man placidly through ball showed in fighting until they all were Much Luck which, course. the last night. 6—4, 6—2, seemed lint with Brookland Again. Chase vs. Roose- several that had the rest of the Tonight—C. U. AS prohibitive side, it seems that of the difference between their games. Bethesda-Chevy arrangements of the secondary community ready to drop, before Vines and Perry Br the Associated Press. tennis is to remain velt, Roosevelt gym, 3:30. defense, you cannot expect a standing on its collective ear. won by the marathon scores of 4—6, professional likely The current de luxe attrac- youngster on Reserves. 26.—All Georgetown Prep vs. St. Peter's to turn in a A sand-lot base ball game between Shy 6 3, 20—18. EW YORK, January in an extremely healthy financial tion of the pros, combining, as it perfect piece of general- Marse Joe has to As as High, Jersey City, N. J. ship." teams of grammar school kids at- The fireworks, of course, same in McCarthy shape. noteworthy, perhaps, does. Vines’ ability and Perry’s rose that withered will be St. John's vs. (Catho- tracted and held his attention on a do to earn his $35,000 as the Madison Square Garden sell-out is the best Gonzaga Waldorf agreed with his fellow tossed out on the floor that last 38-game thriller, a new high personality, probably pro- again New York lic School League), Catholic gym, fessor and Willis day when 90,000 pigskin maniacs were for tennis in the manager of the with $9.90 tops was that overflow yet presented since turning pro O. Hunter, one of tonight as Catholic University’s Washington. Clearly, 8. blotting out the seats of a foot Yankees next season is win the crowd last night at the University of has not been as a com- the Pacific Coast's representatives on college THEbasket ball team, still seeking boys weren’t “kidding.” Once they regarded ball stadium miles away. American League pennant by 20 games Maryland, which represented the most social Boxing. the Rules Committee, could not find its first of the season, had entered the only decisive set of the plete disgrace. major victory and take the world series in four any serious His chief pleasure Is crab was each recent stop-oil for the Perry-Ellsworth Ttlden’s feiAs Vinnle Columbus vs. objection to tha idea fishing, stacks up against Virginia Tech at evening, it team for itself, moneyed with University Spring- which is of the Di straight.