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r if i misj tmi$ \£3 *%*****' a.... WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940. C—3 Tennessee, Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas Aggies, Fordham Among Choices — ■ — ■ ■ — A — JL. _.... TERROR FROM TECH —By JIM BERRYMAN Lose or Draw Lions Are Picked Myer Candidate Win, Xaiowwait \ TECH'S WIN6MAW IS KNOWM WEAR-SOUTH By FRANCIS E. STAN. f A MINAJIT ! THAT yOUCH?S\ THROUGHOUT THE Star Stall Correspondent. To Beat 1 Guy was taken : ( HEyl HOWPID \ AS A VICIOUS For Georgia f OUTA THIS PLAy / WE GIT A GAME ) & TACKLER^^^ Griff Helm Portrait of a Football Coach I once-isawit!- / WIT'A BUNCH < i V. O'MAD LEXINGTON, Ky„ Oct. 18.—For the better part of 13 hours and a POGS*V few stray minutes, while a train snaked through the mountains and In Close Game If Goes carried George Washington's grid 11 nearer the Kentucky game, a lot Bucky Of football was talked and, for all we know, was dreamed, too. This is a big game for G. W. tomorrow. The Colonials are unbeaten. Rested Gophers Given Harris Rejects 1-Year Kentucky, which also is unbeaten but tied by Vanderbilt, is the best team met so It was to Over they have far. good enough swamp Washington Edge Buckeyes; Contract to Manage •nd Lee, 47-12, and G. W. barely nosed out the same W. and L. outfit last week. 20-14. Terps Underdogs Tribe, Is Report It is a big game for the G. W. coach, Bill Reinhart. This is his By HERB BARKER. By BURTON HAWKINS. third season as head coach of the Colonials. He won't get bounced if he Associated Press Sports Writer. loses or like but it's still a game he desperately wants to Buddy Myer, scrappy part-time anything that, NEW YORK, Oct. 18 i —Conducting » f 2 MORE PL Ay$ second baseman of the Nationals, win. In his third year the average coach begins to expect big victories. HE'S THE ORIGINAL the weekly interview with football's AROUN' My ENP- today tossed his hat in the for as he did two JOHNNY-JUMP-UP WHEN ( ) ring He doesn't whip out the weeping towel as often the first (but misinformed 1 willing frequently IT COMES To SNAGGING / AN1 I LL BE JUST / consderation as manager of the 1941 eeasons. He figures that his type of football should be more familiar crystal ball: Tossed balls. V A NAME ON A Washington baseball club in the coaches and that should come Alabama-Tennessee — Alabama is to the players and to the assistant things y \ HEAPSTONE ) \ event Bucky Harris is engaged to easier. * the mystery team of the South- pilot the Cleveland Indians. eastern but Conference, Tennessee, »}/ 1M IN TH' V Harris, fishing off the coast of ofT its decisive defeat of Duke, J ap- f CUEAR-- BUT Florida, could not be reached to in a Battered Hat pears to be the Sherlock Holmes to WIGGLED l Just Another Guy /I’VE affirm or deny reports he had re- provide all the answers. The Crim- / SO MUCH I / He sat next to a window on the way down. Reinhart doesn't talk jected a one-year contract with the son Tide, reputedly exceptionally A CAN'T much. Few coaches do. Now and then a player would drop beside him SToPy Indians and submitted a counter strong, hasn't played a major foe and Reinhart would stare at the blackness proposal of a three-year agreement end they would talk quietly and this to yet vote, therefore, goes to manage the Cleveland club. outside again until somebody else came along. It was surprising to see Tennessee. ‘‘I don't know anything about it,” how many of the boys and the newspapermen got around to chewing the Notre Tech—Tech Dame-Carnegie professed President Clark Griffith fat with him. teams of the past have been tough of Uae Nats, “but the last time I the of a coach. Like most of the good ones, he meat for the Irish. This is another Reinhart looks part talked with Bucky he said he hadn’t Harvard year and it will be a major surprise Was a football player himself. He quarterbacked Oregon against been approached by Cleveland. I If Carnegie keeps the score within In the Rose Bowl of 1920. He baseball and basket ball and served don't know if gotten to- played reasonable bounds. they've the first World War. He has The VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN gether since then.” 16 months overseas in the infantry during with Cornell-Syracuse—Syracuse, THROWS A BLOCK MADE been around. a sophomore find in Sal Mirabito, Buddy Says He Wants Job. town as some of the other OF SOLIX> CQMCKETE. He probably isn't as well known around may give the Big Red some trouble, Myer. who with Coach Ossie District coaches. He came to George Washington from his alma mater, but Cornell is so well drilled and Bluege has been stamped a popular Pixlee at the time. strikes choice to succeed Harris if Oregon, in 1935. He was an assistant coach to Jim with such devastating quick- Bucky had reached its ness that a seems resigns his post here, said when Pixlecs attempt to make G. W. a gaudy grid center Syracuse victory .... A impossible. The ballot is cast, as AMD THEM HE'S reached by telephone at Ellisville, and was beginning to tail off at the time. Sports Prograrti peak usual, for Cornell. BUTTERED SNAKE Miss., “I would like a crack a back named certainly was well known and widely quoted. He had Pixlee — Michigan-Ulinois Bob Zuppke, j CARRYING THE BALL.... For Local Fans at the job if Bucky leaves.” Myer, the writers weren t thinking of new TufTy Leemans, and when sports canny coach of the mini, engineered declares, however, that Griffith had about Zuzu Stew ait, a bald- TODAY. eulogies to Leemans they were writing one of 1939's greatest upsets in this not talked with him concerning Football. headed, razzle-dazzle guard, if there is such a thing. So Reinhart was game. History can. and does, re- j 1*)41 plans. Virginia Tech vs. Georgetown, in a battered felt hat on the bench. peat, but so far as this corner is Midway in the 1940 season Myer Just another guy j Gabe Father, Griffith Stadium. 8. concerned, we'll take Harmon,! Murphy's stated emphatically he would not Catholic University vs. Miami, Evashevski & Co. play major league ball in 1941, pre- Ex-Athlete, Dies Miami, Fla., 8:30. New Team Washington State Stanford— ferring not to jeopardize his health Reinhart-Farrington Progressive Called away by the death of his Anacostia vs. Western (series), the uniforms and informed Stanford, lone unbeaten, untied after five years of on But G. W. threw away barber-pole father. Thomas F. H. 3:30. campaigning outfit in Far Murphy. Western Stadium. a $25,000 any major the West, has a j rebellious stomach. On the last Alabama and Tennessee they were not paying guarantees Gabriel Murphy, graduate manager Gonzaga vs. Eastern, Eastern standout back in Norman Standlee day of the season, though, Buddy shades in 1938. Pixlee resigned and of atletics at Univer- Stadium, 3:30. longer and turned several purer and a tricky offense. Georgetown stated he he would be left- Washington thought back the was to Reinhart, who inherited only a few varsity sity. will not see tonight’s Hoya- St. John's vs. Roosevelt, Roose- job given State has tied Southern California “if one or two things materialize.” and Max the new athletic director, formed and Virginia Tech game at Griffith velt Stadium. 3:30. overs. Reinhart Farrington, beaten California. In a quan- Myer also has been mentioned as over but without having Stadium. Georgetown Prep at St. Albans. a fresh team and now G. W. is a power all again, dary of this sort, only the coin can figuring in a possible waiver deal The elder Murphy, an ardent AND STAR END OF THE 3:30. to resort to transfer players. help. Stanford. CO*CAPTA|N with the Detroit Tigers, who of- fan and well-known athlete in his * Landon vs. St. Paul's, Balti- Reinhart is a coach with an uncommon style. He takes it upon Texas Aggies Firmly Backed. DANGEROUS V. P.l. ELEVEN WHICH WILL fered $20,000 for his services last younger days, passed away suddenly more. individual If he decides that Joe Some- SNAP season only to have the deal blocked himself to study each player. Texas Aggies-Texas Christian— Wednesday evening at his home in ATTEMPT To GEORGETOWN'S Bullis vs. Mount St. Mary's to a even STRING OUT by the Indians. The Tigers, for- body is a wingback, he will suggest that he shift wingback Stringing along with the Aggies to Hogansburg, N. Y. Funeral services IMPRESSIVE VICTOR* Freshmen. Emmitsburg, Md. the bitter end. bidden to trade by virtue of win- though Joe was three times all-Ohio scholastic guard. were to be this morning, with a AT GRIFF STADIUM TONIGHT. Culpeper High vs. Fairfax High, Colgate-Duke—Duke has had time ning the American League pennant, •'About the only player you can't readily make over." he once told high mass of requiem and burial in 3:30. to over may lose Second Baseman real get the Tennessee setback the at TOMORROW. Charley us, “is a tackle. There are times when some tackles, with speed, family plot Hogansburg. and rates the nod in this one. Football. Gehringer due to a back injury' and if a is a tackle, he should 1 can be marie into ends. But, usually, boy really it is felt the now is clear for Penn-Princeton—Penn may not George Washington vs. Ken- way stay there." be quite so good as the 50-7 score tucky, Lexington. Ky. Myer to move to Detroit. W.'s best end this also is Reinhart’s best quarterback. As Yale G. year against indicates, but should Maryland vs. Florida, Gaines- Probably Has Seen Bradley. Bob at Free Dazes Grid Fans McKeever to Defend a sophomore. Sam Babich almost stole the show’ from Nowaskey get past this one, especially since Scoring ville. Fla. Buddy naturally would prefer the seem to be line end. Last year Reinhart found himself shy on quarterbacks. He put Tigers having American University vs. Johns managing the Nats, but it is likely excited trouble. Penn. It up to Babich—he never orders them to change—and Sam got As Tearns Crown Hopkins. Baltimore. nothing definite will be known until Pitt-Fordham—The Panthers have College Ape Pros, Motorcycle Howard vs. the Indians' over doing something really big for the school. At first he was just' Virginia State, Board of Directors developed surprisingly well and this Va. he's of Petersburg. meets on October 28, at which time, another quarter. Now plenty quarter. should be contested all the fiercely Into Hill School vs. Episcopal. Alex- reportedly, it will consider Harris’ way. but Fordham is the choice. Throw Offense High In Sunday Races andria. proposition of a three-year contract. Columbia Georgia — Columbia Better at Full LEWIS W. ATCHISON. Thus far. for example. Army National Club Masonic Home of Virginia vs. It is Harris and President Monchlovich Ace Center, teams, By Capital Motorcycle likely given exceptional coaching, Williams. 20-19: Notre Washington-Lee Alta W. end who went to the Bears this Either the virus has nosed out will hold its final race program of High, Arling- Bradley of the Indians have Bob Nowaskey, the G. Chicago usually are strong until injuries play professional ton. Dame tripped Georgia Tech, 26-20; the season on at Glenmont conferred in the South. is in the backfield when Reinhart with hob with a small crept into the collegiate game's Sunday Bradley year, was just as good got through squad. Georgia is Devitt vs. Western Pittsburgh bounced Missouri, 19-13; Heights, Md„ with the first race Maryland on vacation at Sea Island. Ga.. while was carrier on the but Out of the blood stream or the pros merely him. While playing end last year he the best ball young potent. hat ; Rhode Island. 20- Freshmen, Md. been it the old Brown whipped beginning at 2:30 pm. The track Westminster, Harris is on a yacht off the Florida sets of to on and Columbia. have giving college team. Reinhart fitted up plays capitalize Nowaskey 17; Virginia took Yale. 19-14; is located 6 miles north of Silver George Washington High vs. coast, with Paul Townsend — all these and on fishing Yale Dartmouth De-emphasis. I try years getting by Norfolk. thus had five backs in the game almost all of the time. Tim Swett of Duquesne stopped South Carolina, on avenue extended. Maury, Bucky will not return to doubled in spades. But Seymour false pretenses, if early returns of Spring Georgia Washing- team center as a Last year he Ohio State beat Purdue. 17- The ton due to the this year’s played sophomore. plaved guard. and Anderson will be back and the the 1940 collegiate season are trust- 27-21; American Motorcycle Asso- immediately, improved end. 14; Minnesota nosed out Washing- ciation has sanctioned the meet and condition of his This season he's playing nod goes to Yale. worthy indicators of the trend in Today a year ago—Chicago daughter, Sally ton. 19-14; lost to Wis- has a bronze to whose was an Gene Shields, the new’ line coach, came from Oregon to Washington Harvard-Army — With Johnny football. Marquette given trophy go Cubs released Pitchers Earl leg fractured in consin, 19-33, and routed Iowa to the winner. Bobby McKeever Whitehill and Jack Reds accident yesterday. last spring for early practice. He looked at Mike Monchlovich, the junior Hatch an uncertain Army starter, There was a time when a team Russell: State, 41-25, and our own George of Silver Spring will defend his released A1 Harris, whose contract with tin center. ‘‘I've seen some ones on the Coast," he but can't the choice is Harvard. leave the field at the half- Simmons, veteran good said, they could ■ j Washington took Manhattan. 21-18. tri-State zone championship, with outfielder. beat this Buckeyes Seem Ovkr-Rated. way mark with a two-touchdown (See MYER, Page C-4/> boy.” and Washington and Lee. 20-14—al- his most serious competition ex- Ohio State-Minnesota—It lead and reasonably to find Reinhart grinned. “I wish you could see him as a fullback. He'd be begins expect though the Generals still dispute pected from John Hostetter of Al- to seem as though Ohio State was it there five minutes after the start in the East. But we can get along with our fullbacks and we the latter. toona, Pa., and Don and Charles the best over-rated. Minnesota is rested of the second half. A touchdown need him at center." Smith of Cabin John. and ready—or should be. Minnesota. was rare—and extremely valuable, No Old-Fashioned Scores. In case of rain the will be detected in the of Leemans. — program The fine hand of Reinhart can doings Wisconsin-Northwestern unlike the pro version in which a few =HAHI\= Having There in a nutshell are a of be held October 27. back in football. Reinhart had Tuffy hurdled scores were as 14th probably the best all-around pro Ohio State, De Correvont, couple of important the scores, and heaven only knows] MEN'S SHOPS: b G 7th b K *3212 14th *4483 Conn. Ave. tutored him at G. W. as an assistant Clawson, et al., appear safe enough as a sandbox on the Sahara. But as a freshman at Oregon and again what is coming up in the week 'open in this one although Wisconsin's all that to be radically old- But the fact remains that low scores evenings coach. Leemans was crude as a sophomore. He wasn't a regular. He w’as appears ends ahead. There isn’t a good passes may spell trouble. Still, changed now, with collegians as score in the lot. in football apparently have gone ball carrier. fashioned college Just a fair Northwestern. a well as pros scoring at furious Staid old figures such as 7-0, 13-7, into cold storage with bustles, and Indiana-Iowa—Bo McMillin's luck pace. 7-6, etc., strictly are taboo. They’ve the collegians are going “profes- When Joe Gordon Wanted to Bat Left-Handed is going to change sooner or latei, Offense Has Gone Wild. reached the stage where one team sional” in more ways than you can do but, in the meantime. Iowa. the leather to the other then think of. Before he out of George Washington Tuffv could everything. scores indicate that offense pours got Kansas-Nebraska — No need to The he hotfoots for cover when the rival never a runner around town like him. He punted and has been stepped up to a point way There was look past Nebraska. retaliates. a the horse-and-buggy maxi- passed and he blocked and, finally, he became something of pass- Missouri-Iowa State—Looks to be beyond mum of a few years ago or that With 75 per cent of the college catcher. too much Christman for Iowa State. defense has been almost coaches hitting the highway this — forgotten best is basket ball. His five-year record Oklahoma-Kansas State The Probably Reinhart's sport It's old week we can't quote them on the Sooners’ defense hasn’t looked entirely. causing grads as 25 defeats. In football to date ts G. W. coach is 75 victories against and undergrads alike no little ap- subject, but we know their answers is baseball. strong, but they have plenty of he has won 13, lost 8. Possibly his favorite sport and has them wonder- would involve passing—forward and scoring power. Oklahoma. prehension the same tactics and the same sermon what is transpiring on the old lateral—the dipsy doo, razzle dazzle The fellow practiced preached Washington-Oregon State—Tough ing at He fell heir to a campus grounds. or whatever you choose to call it. when he coached baseball Oregon. as on the list no I on versatility any and surprise ______he was out of Oregon Gordon youngster named Joe Gordon. Before either way. The coin spins and all well. He has been the best second had played every position—and says Washington. California-U. C. L. A.—Ditto this baseman in the major leagues now for several years. bat one, but perhaps U. C. L. A. is over- fractured a thumb while at Oregon. It hurt to Gordon once due. U. C. L. A. if it would be all right to hit left- I right-handed and he asked Reinhart Southern California Oregon— on the game and Gordon handed in the next game. The title depended We’ll take Southern California or was in no mood to sit on the bench. did you guess? to ahead. Gordon did—he hit a game-winning Reinhart told him go Home Field a Factor. home run the first time up. Southern Methodist-Auburn—The | Mustangs just managed to snare a ! Sideline tie with Pitt last week. Auburn is' Grid's Greatest Kickers Janitor Work first-class in every respect. This vote for S. M. U. is based on noth- In Auburn-S. M. U. Tilt Of Montana Grid Star ing more substantial than the fact the will be in Dallas. Bv the Associated Press. game played By the Associated Press. Baylor-Villanova—Baylor, for the MISSOULA, Mont., Oct. 18- DALLAS. Oct. 18.—Two of college same reason. Keeping busy is second nature for finest will duel Arkansas-Texas—Spot for an up- football's punters Johnny Reagan. Montana Univer- set, but we’ll take Texas. here tomorrow in the Auburn- halfback. In addition sity's Negro Georgia Tech -Vanderbilt — The Southern Methodist fracas. to his football duties, Regan works Commodores are surprisingly tough Flaxen-haired Preston Johnston, his way through college doing but Tech's scoring punch should be Tonight at 10:15 Methodist who punted 92 yards work and is near the top the janitor decisive. Georgia Tech. will meet up with Rufus scholastically. jgainst Pitt, — Station in Mississippi -Duquesne Can't see WOL Dpal, the Auburn fullback who During his high school days Duquesne in this one. Mississippi. the old South last season he won letters in football, rocked Chicago Tulane-Rice—Rice, and Dempsey basket track, boxing and timidly with an 87-yard boot against Georgia ball, V8» wrestling. (See“FOOTBALL7~PageTCM) Tech. Corpentier TR1-WEARS Round 14 of tha our os usual, £. ,. £ men's favorites Tackle Is Scrub at Tulane j Florsheim 'Squared Circle' the fie All-America Heading ^ Cordovan are in Ambitious to Regain Top Beginning a brand-new TR,.WEAR styles TRI.WEAR McCollum, Scholastically Ineligible, ‘Squared Circle’ series, **■ ^/\ other all-America lineman, Guard the ■;r the Associated Press. Expensive? Well, perhaps not featuring prize-fight- Ou Edward (Moe) Molinski of Ten- ATLANTA. Oct. 18.—He’s billed In dimes and dollars. But with ers who are making fistic fall in Washington. 0„ have is at same old stand. All-America sessee, the as the Nation's only from headlines ... box- Tulane taking its lumps But he has a red-hot battle on today scrub, and he's probably the most Boston College. Auburn and his hands to keep from being sur- ers whom you may have expensive luxury on the Tulane successive passed by his team-mate, Bob seen in action squad. Fordham in three yourself could think of Suffridge, back after a year w'ith The name is Harley Ray Mc- starts. Dawson Dempsey, Tunney, his 6- an injured leg. Regarded by Collum. Last year, playing on more vital occupations for Baer, and than Tennessee coaches as a better Schmeling, and stamina. Tulane’s undefeated Sugar Bowl- foot-5-inch mastadon being others. beatable style on the bench. guard than Molinski, Suffridge many bound football team, he was head an ornament was the standout lineman in the shoulders over every “We hated to lose him this and nearly Tennessee-Duke other tackle in the country, wind- year,” says Dawson, glumly, “but bitterly-fought brought you by game two weeks ago. ing up with a place on the Asso- it has been extremely gratifying C.95 ciated Press All-America eleven. to see the spirit of co-operation Paul Vincent Severin, North This year, beset by scholastic and good-will he exhibits in these Carolina's all-America end, may he’s his workouts with the scrubs.” have plenty of competition else- HAHN difficulties, repeating PENN. AVE. N.W. 3446 14rti STREET N.W. ■ junior studies. But it hasn't kept McCollum, grimly silent, isn’t where in the Nation, but he's still j Four Men's Shops him out of football. He's a regu- calling any shots. But he’s tops around the Tar Heel State. 1000 BLADENSBURG RD. N.E. 701 SOUTH PATRICK ST. ■ I Far from in his 14th & G 7th & K lar fixture on the Tulane field, keeping that 230-pound frame in slowing down Opposite Smart and Roebuck Corner Franklin, Ala*., Va. ■ working out with the scrubs shape for another try at the top senior year, he is Coach Ray Open Eves. Til 8 P.M. • Open Sun. Except 14th St. Store • Adorns 8100 H 3212 14th 4483 Conn. Ave. < whenever Coach Red Dawson shelf. Wolfe’s pass-receiver, snaring a of 84 calls for scrimmage. Meanwhile, the deep South'* five for total yards. [621

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