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Sgmgsougca 4 ' TURNER's ARENA ZZZ2TJS C-4 •• the EVENING STAR. Washington, D. C. wawisAT, aartamaa t. laaa Hoyos Ploy NYU Coach Happy as 37 LITTLE SPORT SPINGARN HAS GREEN SQUAD In Garden Dec. 8 Answer Grid Call at NEW YORK, Sept. 7 UP).—' The 22d season of college basketball \District Teachers i at Madison Square garden will 1 Phil Pox. coach of the District Hall Cautions Cardozo Fans open December 8 with 17 pro- - Teachers College football team, grams listed, along with the • starts with 37 candidates, who To Tone Down High Hopes fourth annual Holiday Festival 1 turned out for yesterday's open- 28, ing practice. By December 26. 30. By DICK SLAT 808 HANSON The Gkrden announced the » The District Teachers are a Sal Hall, Cardoso's soft-spo- Spingarn High School and the opening double-header Decem- - combination of the old Wilson ken football coach, has had six word green seem to go hand in ber 8 would see Seton Hall vs. .1 Teachers and Miner Teachers unbeaten seasons out of eight hand. Western Kentucky, and New i Colleges, neither of which had at that high school, winning 65 The school colors are green. York University vs. Georgetown. football last year. boys are games, losing three and tying j The athletic teams are known as The holiday tournament will 1 “AH the strangers to two. Trouble is, people won't I the Green Wave. And, to hear feature San Francisco, the • j i-iincs look Replay Ordered Basilio, Turner let him forget it. iCoach Dave Brown tell it. the NCAA champion; UCLA, Du- . good. I never had more than Hal) was at Virginia State football team is green. Only quesne. the National Invitation i 20 turn out the first day when OUTDOORS just College for five years before | two regulars are returning from Tourney champion; St. John’s ofr we had Wilson.” he returned to Cardozo last fall last year. Brooklyn, Fordham. Syracuse, Two-a-day practice sessions Ik • m. With BILL LEETCH J being High As Arcade Nine ¦ Clash in TV Bout to coach the Clerks to a 6-2 One Ralph Chase, senior La Salle and Holy Cross. are held at Cardozo is a m. record, the first time one of his; ' guard. The other, and the name The regular Garden season i School at 9 and 2 p.m, I SYRACUSE, N. Y„Sept. 7 UP). schoolboy teams lost more than figures, is George Green, senior ends March 1. to be followed by —Welterweight Champion Car- one game. For the Cardozo fans 1 halfback the 19th National Invitation SARANAC LAKE. N. Y„ Sept. done all the collecting. The days men Basilio takes his middle- anticipating ‘BASEBALL Cancels Protest camp who are a return! Under the rotating system of tournament. 7.—We’re well settled In are warm and sunny and we fish weight title aspirations Into the all-conquering . to to the habits of coaching at the school. Page protest filed by Pepco Bar- now and have had time look every ring tonight ) bout 19405, used Continued From C-l A waking moment. The best) in a 0-round the the coach has several from u::‘ to third, games manager . around and take stock. Our fast-punching Gil Turner, Brown takes over Leo Hill.; rom lead lVs ry, of the Arcade Pon- periods, of course, early with words of caution. Brown, who had champion- 'ack Vet Marty, too, was _ camp is certainly a de luxe one. are fighter In 160- a i TENNIS still tiac team, against Atchison & 10th ranked the About 70 boys have signed up ship football team in the old From Page in there pitching his team : The 24 by 18-foot tent la pitched morning and late evening. The pound class. for 1 Continued C-l, l. as night’s City football this time and their Division while coaching at officials swal- • j ut ror two games with Keller after last ' over a wooden platform well off warmer betting over-all picture II had a hard time the ’water la still than the Basilio Is a 12-5 local is one of in- Phelps, also has been successful lowing that. rs. Series sandlot baseball cham- ¦ the ground with screened side* favorite to launch successfully experience and lack of heft. In- v air, however, and a heavy fog ! at Bpingam. “Ha.” laughed one, he h«! “At least day off,” pionship game, has been with- . and a screened front porch over- his campaign for the title held cluded in group are play- we’ve had a each morning keeps us close to j the 16 hours to sleep, so wrhat Is he Marty said, always looking the lake, well furnished by Bobo Olson. Turner, however, from last yaar,' five with Stress on Speed 17 1 “and we drawn. camp. Hie evenings up here are : ers kicking about? We told him we ' good a with comfortable chairs. A roomy hopes to turn the tables and put letters but a quarterback Spingarn bounce after little rest." Barry disclosed today that he t getting shorter and we have not He steered into the thought it was a fair starting ' ! addition to the tent houses the himself In lin& for a shot at Ba- in the bunch. playoffs in basketball last winter The White Sox will have to had changed his, mind and in- much less daylight here than at time To change it would have ‘ have plenty of bounce this ' cooking stove, rink, etc. Bottled silio’s title. "This is the first time since and followed up by playing Ana- on formed officials of the Washing- gas home. upset our program." trip. They hit the Yanks ’ has been added by the Doc fight, County War I've been coaching the (split) for the Interhigh baseball t for ton Amateur Baseball Associa- ’ of old friends in camp The in the costia Burrows, incidentally. Is the -two Friday Saturday, since we were last here and with Lots are Auditorium, T-formation that I’ve had championship, won by Ana- advantage and then tion of his decision. The associ- a keep leaving Dr. Memorial will be a first player to take of:Play a Sunday slick new wood stove to but are this week. double-header in ation promptly ordered the game Detroit, broadcast and televised nation- the new United States Lawn ‘ Boston. After that—two double- ! us warm, plenty of gas lanterns Joe Johnson of one of ally (WMAL qnd WMAL-TV in ruling per- replayed, at 5:15 p.m. Friday. lamps the country’s leading Tennis Association | headers in two days at Balti- as well as the new which pediatri-) Washington at 10 p.m.) mitting Americans to work for “After thinking it over I de- - burn propane gas from metal cians who is here with his fam-; more. a Basilio sees as a sporting goods companies and j to withdraw my original cylinder, comfortable lily, says he’s had most luck this! j himself Marty (Pinky) Higgins of the cided I cots and over still hold their amateur standing 1 protest,” Barry said. “It is no > mattresses and plenty of summer with what he calls a knockout victor the Phila- Red Sox pulled everything neatly i blankets delphia Negro, a way to win ball game although or sleeping bags, hardly Upolar bear power puff” which and feels tri- Whitney Reed Ousted in focus. “Anything can hap- a i there's qualify the complaint against Atchison i anything in the way of comfort seems to consist of a bunch of umph over Turner will 5 Vic Seixas, defending cham- pen.” he said. ”Our bullpen got him for title match ¦ ;& Keller was perfectly fair." one could ask for. polar bear hair tied with the a with Olson. jjl" pion from Philadelphia. Ken 1 straightened out against Wash- butt ends splayed Arcade played under protest up night around the Rosewall of Australia and Hamil- ington and we re in a good spot.” It is cold here at and up near eye ¦ against A&K, citing the use of all of sleep under the equiva- hook the and the ton Richardson of Baton Rouge, • The Red Sox got straightened us trailing over an ineligible player. The game are ends off the shank SENATORS )[*., all advanced to the quarter- ’ against Washington, too. By lent of three blankets. Ours being along out up a tie, topped after tied down it. Continued From Page C-l finals yesterday. sweeping the Labor Day twin wound in 1-1 called; I; off and underlaid with a It has the innings of poncho appearance and action Seixas gained his spot with a 1 two complete games after 10 because dark- wind and waterproof and night’s date with Chicago is bill behind pair light of some of the deer hair bugs one. 7—5. 6—4, 6—2 victory over : they ran ness. Officials of the WABA held l a of wool socks on one’s always Otherwise, they'll battling from the staff, their a meeting Ellipse which are productive in be Australia’s Neale Fraser; Rose- ’ latest winning spurt to five brief on the feet are not amiss. Some of the fishing for smallmouths here. the Indians in twi-night dou- and ruled in favdr of Arcade. boys wearing a wall moved along at the expense - games got back into the are winter longies ** * * bleheader and a night game, Moylan and Billy was of Eddie of Trenton, pennant picture, pulling within Outfielder Garner i to bed. Many people plus three night games with the player.) ** * were here for the J„ 6—2, 6—3, ¦ the A&K ineligible He * N.
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