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Redskins Being Counted on Heavily by All-Stars Against Green Bay’s Packers ___<■ "? From the Filchock and Farkas Basket Barnstorming The 11 Press Box Due for Yeoman Duty Soon to Give Way to Sportlight Bowl Contest Who Is Lardner, Asks In Tilt Next Sunday Conference Tilts Orange Al Hostak May Be Day's Best Mysterious 'Dream Team' Will Play Will Championship Play By GRANTLAND RICE, By JOHN LARDNER. Pro Gridiron Champion Teams Special Correspondent of The Star. Special Correspondent of The Star. Occupy Major LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (N.A.N.A.). NEW YORK. Jan. 1 (N.A.N.A.h— Packers at Los This Week Angeles After —This is Old Cole The case of mysterious Al Hostak. King day. By middleweight Star. that I it's bowl Seattle's private Special Dispatch to The By HUGH 8. FULLERTON, Jr. mean day. All the has taken a very em- 1.—Green champion, LOS ANGELES. Jan. Associated Press Sports Writer. bowls that can be filled. Rose barrassing turn. At least it em- 1939 of Bay's Packers, champions NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—The Na- Bowl—Sugar Bowl—Orange Bowl— barrasses me. in my capacity of the National Football League, and tion's best basket ball teams Cotton Bowl—Sun Bowl. world's foremost non-opium-smok- an all-star team selected by a fan college ing detective. poll from the rosters of other league get their final r..ng this week end at You can’t treat the situation any to are hard at work I have given a lot of thought teams, preparing the enjoyable Dusiness of traveling too lightly for the simple reason Hostak. At for their combat. The game, the the case of mysterious around the and be- that in the four bowl contest country playing major games one point in the investigation I only post-season permitted be fore “double-header” crowds. something like 250,000 identified 48 different kinds of cigar under league rules, will played big spectators here in ash while blindfolded. This sort of next Sunday, January 7, Then- they will settle down to the will invest well over $500,000 to get Stadium, which has been various work has nothing to do with Hostatt, Gilmore serious task of deciding the a look at the ensuing action from enlarged to accommodate 20,000. conference but it keeps a detective in shape. championships. Pasadena to via is the second annual Miami, Dallas and Is The game This part of the program gets Tire original quastion was: and New Orleans. affair involving the champions under way tonight, when Clemson, there a Hostak? Witnesses said j Tennessee and Southern Califor- the league's All-Stars. Last year the 1939 Southern Conference champion. they had seen him, but you know nia are all set for their tilt or joust champion New York Giants staged tackles Maryland In one game ol a how witnesses are. You can buy at Pasadena where some 90,000 sun- a brilliant last-half rally to triumph, --- double bill at Baltimore. By Satur- ’em in gross lots. flecked spectators will oav out over 13-10. day every major conference from shown his sinister >11 n> __3 __J-*34 CHANCE TO BE HEROES—Understudies Ambrose Schindler 8300.000 to see two powerful de- Never having XUC Xlil-Uiai ovjuau, the Eastern to the Pacific League fensive teams at countenance outside of Seattle un- rection of Steve Owen, coach of the (above) of Southern California and Butler of work. Johnny (right) Coast will get in one or more cham- me has They look to power out this west- til recently. Hostak made skep- 1939 runners-up, the Giants, Tennessee may get the call over Grenny Lansdell and George pionship tilts. to Dr. at ward way. They can't see a Ten- tical. I remember saying been working out twice daily Is Reduced. Cafego, their injured regular backfleld mates in Barnstorming nessee Watson: Griffith Park. respectively, team, outweighed by over The barnstorming will continue, of 15 Hostak makes me skep- The Packers, with Coach the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena. It appears unlikely that either pounds to the man along both "Watson, champion course, but on a considerably re- in will line and backfield. are tical.” E. L. “Curly” Lambeau command, Lansdell or Cafego, stars of their respective teams, see much duced scale. And there won’t be Maybe they at the Riviera right. I don’t think so. Whatever are training Country action. —A. P. Photos. anything like this week's nine Man Dressed in Carnation Club. They reassembled a week happens I can’t see Southern Cali- -:-1 double-headers in New York, Phila- fornia's Rare in Cleveland ago Saturday, too. young giants shoving a Sight delphia, Baltimore, White Plains, much take a bicar- Owen is well pleased with his lighter Tennessee team all "Why don't you N. Y.; Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago Watson, who is a and is confident over the field. bonate?” said squad's progress in one week. coming I am still a matter-of-fact fellow and a little that it packs enough power to beat Star Reveals Bowlers believer in speed—in Tourney The New Year night program in- his the mighty Packers. alertness—in smartness. And it is Blow with noggin. cludes Caiifornia-Dartmouth and nor there. here that Tennessee has the All this is neither here Have Versatile Offense. Panzer-John edge— In D. C. Marshall at White unless Southern California Recently I got a hot tip that the In the backfield the All-Stars will Spend $500,000 changes Plains; Maryland-Clemson and Bal- its color or Phantom was going to appear in have the sort of about which complexion entirely. players timore-Washington College (Mdj at to a fellow named coach dreams but seldom sees Cleveland fight every A Year on the Baltimore; Michigan State-Loyola Cafego's Presence Would Eric Seelig. I rushed to the scene together. Parker Hall, the ; Sport | perform and Santa Clara-De Paul at Chica- Give Vols and made a date to see Hostak in Cleveland Rams' freshman triple- Big Edge xxruiin ♦onfnomont nnr#»nt1v hv mialifvinff fit the T^lickv go and Pittsburgh-Michigan and Bob ■ Neyland of Tennessee person. threat passing wizard, will pilot the knows themselves making final checks on Strike. His Graphic Arts League Cornell-Ohio State at Columbus, in he hasn't the "If there is such a guy as Hos- All-Stars. Parker already has given Volunteer squad he all scores, 63 bowlers—38 men and average is only 120. He’d been a addition to such interesting had last fall. In I told his manager. Eddie Ma- local fans a on what they can single my opinion that tak," tip-ofT man his 129-28 Ross- 25 women, nearly twice as many as scratch had games as Illinois-Butler, Kansas Tennesee team was rino, “you'd better produce him—or expect from him by performing bril- two touchdowns last were ready to cut lyn Independent League average State-Kentucky, and better than else.” liantly in the squad's frequent scrim- year—today Rice-Bradley either Southern Cali- a luscious $1,000 prize melon into counted. Iowa-Toledo. fornia or Duke. But Us detectives always say "or else” mages. this isn't New bits lor their winning efforts in the Ray Burgess, rj., 19-year-old Be- Tnen me court tourists will be Year in the clutch. It doesn't mean any- Davey O'Brien of the Philadelphia Victorious Over Reds, Coach Day, 1939. It is New Year mammoth 12th annual Star thesda lad, was the youngest among Eagles' Urges for Evening heading home. California 1940. A can thing. Eagles and Frank Filchock of the by way Day, year make a ter- Yuletide Tournament. the male prize winners. of Marshall <W. Ohio State rific difference. "Hostak will be on the corner of Washington Redskins will alternate Va.i, and Even a week can The duckpin event in the Shutout entirely in the women's and a in football. Euclid and Thirtieth at 10 a.m. on with Hall in keeping the All-Stars' biggest Future Seen New Deal for Fans Nebraska, Santa Clara with of the game, the national division, Chevy Chase Ice Palace Bright visit In of the nose,” said Marino. “He'll be passing attack clicking. Andy Far- history two-game to Montana State. spite all this I still think record field of 11,760 league rollers came through with the most male Stanford and Tennessee has at wearing a white carnation.” kas of the Redskins, the league's Colorado, also on tour least an even who served to for the winners. A total of six topped chance to Now it’s seldom, even in leading scorer, is expected to col- competed give in the East, wind up tomorrow win—and I'll even give very Strike and Mount Rainier Heurich Quint first time a true line on some Lucky In Series the see a wear- laborate with Hall in making the fairly By against Wisconsin and Volunteers a shade. If Cleveland, that you guy Hockey Duquesne. Cafego that heretofore had been with four each. were and I'd ing nothing but a white carnation in team's running attack a constant questions Maryland and William and Mary right ready figure Ten- answered merely by guesses. Silver Spring led with five winners nessee a sure public, so I figured I couldn't miss threat. Half Game Would Abandon of the Southern Conference make thing. But Cafego Here’s some of them: in the feminine group.