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m l A—14 **WASHINGTON, D. U, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1940. Southern California Enters Rose Bowl Grid Tilt Slight Favorite Over Tennessee NOTE TO THE NEW YEAR -By JIM BERRYMAN Power MSSfe: ----— Choice Win, Lose or Draw Against Trojans By FRANCIS E. STAN. Versatility in At 8-7 Odds Casual Almanac for 1940 Now that 1939 has been embalmed properly In alcohol and honorably buried it is good high time our undivided attention was turned to 1940. We Bowl Yols shall now wash the eggnog bowl thoroughly, turn it over to drip dry, leave Sugar Over the icebag and Turkish towel on our head and look into the crystal: The scenery looks to be Florida’s. Gracious, it is Florida! There is Kimbrough Held Chief Host Team Uncle Clark Griffith, chewing on a cigar and wearing a topcoat and Superior muffler. Uncle Clark is looking over a rookie pitcher named Gilberto Hope of Texas Ags - In Weight, Man Power; Torres, a Cuban discovered by Scout Joe Cambria. v more stuff and finesse than the old “You Tulane Still “He’s got Ruffing,’’ says gent. Against (C\ W'-, f Cafego Enigma can quote me as a-saving this much about our pitching staff It'll be the By KENNETH GREGORY, RUSSELL surprise of the American League. Chase is due for a great year. Kra- By NEWLAND, Associated Press Sports Writer. A. P. Sports Writer. kauskas is due for a great year, too They're just like Walter Johnson used PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 1.—Down to be. They just don’t know how to pitch yet.” * fcEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1.—After l JuU, \ in the bottom of Rose Bowl today a Now the scene shifts. There are hills and the is a vast welcoming the New Year at oxnv^ backdrop night W^M couple of teams squared off to settle race track. Horses are walking onto the track. Thousands of bleary- spots in an old New Orleans way, the burning question of the hour- eyed suckers are tapering off and betting on a colt named Bimelech to thousands of football fans headed £ ** does Tennessee play better football win the They're off! Bimelech is out in front! For a than Southern California, or vice Kentucky Derby. stadiumward today to see the big versa? mile Bimelech leads the field and then he is caught and passed. Another Sugar Bowl clash between two stal- VrvA, mAmxjwtCii After weeks of drum beatine. de- colt wins the Derby! His name is the glass becomes blurred. Anyway, wart gridiron machines—Texas A. ^ bate and relative It's another colt. We can't think of the name of another and M. and Tulane’s Green Wave. ^jjA argument over just eligible Fifteen thousand Texans and merits of the squads, some 92,000 fans into the stadium visitors from nearly every State in jammed big to find out for themselves. the Union were on hand to join the Tony Galento Answers Two Bells record crowd of 70.000 who will Pigskin jargon was the universal language of the day. Since the Another vision passes across the crystal bottom of the eggnog bowl. cheer the undefeated teams. The starts U. S. C. Trojans won the nomina- A ballplayer is sliding into a base. Now it's clear! The Browns and Ath- game at 1:15 p.m. (central standard time). tion and reached into the old South ... it must be the Browns and Athletics are a bitter letics waging hand an Clear and fairly crisp weather, to invitation to the Volun- battle for last place in the American League. Now there is a picture of j the with perhaps only slight cloudiness, teers, house of football found MacPhail. He has discarded his yellow and green sports coat. He itself divided over the Larry was forecast. An entertainment ^v*4^**rdV outcome of The Red Sox are the Is wearing mauve and buff, with pin stripes. leading program, featuring the Texas | the latest renewal of the oldest and Yankees American League race. Cleveland is second by a length and the Aggies’ 210-piece band and others, I ,m best known of the bowl classics. 8-7 Favorites. are third. The Red Sox finally win, with New York second and Cleve- was arranged for more than an hour °uf^. <*,<<'- Trojans ft a Unscored on in 10 land third. Washington is fifth. In the National League the St. Louis before game time. .\M games this last season and unbeaten in a string of Cardinals win by six games. Cincinnati seems to be second. Tulane Stresses Power. 23 games reaching back into 1937, Shh! Here is a fight scene. Fat Tony Galento is answering the bell Tulane’s Greenies. with a and big Tennessee had a remarkable record Joe Louis. Fat answers the second, too. There powerful line, behind which (the first) against Tony operates that nevertheless failed to impress such fleet-footed and backs Is no bell for a third round. This seems to take care of the heavyweight crashing the odds makers. Those who back as Bobby (the Jitterbug) Kellogg. situation for another year. their opinions with money, folding Harry Hays and Buddy Banker, was A celebrated mile runner from Germany visits the United States to or clinking types both acceptable, expected' to concentrate on power run in the second annual “mile of the century.” Glenn Cunningham is installed Southern California's tactics for the most part. The Wave chair for the occasion. Chuck Fenske comes twice-tied but undefeated team as helped out of his wheel has two fine teams, with Coach Red the favorite. The margin was back. There are the Rideout twins, each wearing elbow protectors and Dawson using the unit substitution slight, 8 to 7, or even with a three- hip pads in case of a traffic jam at one of the turns. The German wins plan. point drag for the Volunteers. tnai an is launciieu. nc is a sanva On the other hand, the Texas easily, so easily investigation given Poundage and numbers in the it is learned that he was Aggies, rated the Nation's No. 1 test, which proves nothing, but later promised matter of outstanding replacements but team, were to hand it to a dozen extra ration cards in the event he won. He is disqualified, expected were Southern California advan- the Greenies with "Jarring Jawn" rather than return to the Fatherland he disappears. Later he is found tages. These factors probably in- Kimbrough, that big 210-pound playing halfback on the West Coast. He is saving his earnings to put fluenced the thin layer of favoritism. crashing fullback, with his power- the Bund back on its feet. Tennessee's greatest halfback, house traveling supported by some George "Bad News" Cafego, pro- fancy short pass from which flips, vided a problem that could be solved Another Comeback Tulane may expect a lateral at The 'Biscuit Makes any only in the heat of battle. The un- time. A fellow who sayg his name is Mike Jacobs is looking for a handout certainty of his injured knee was "Our boys prepared for this about in Fairmont. W. Va. An ex-marine game sufficient to give the stanchest and talking promoting fights as if it were the toughest game they backer a case of Ihe creeps. He was named Heinie Miller is the new fistic czar ol New York, and some Con- have ever played." remarked Coach assigned to start, but the question gressmen with time on their hands are talking about investigating the Homer Norton of the Aggies, "and it was how long would his knee hold and it The National Association awards its racket cleaning up. Boxing is well they have. As I see it. Tu- ; out. annual convention to N. C. People still are trying to lane's vast reserve will us Fuquay Springs, power put Able replacements were on hand but Lowell still is all to a test we haven't had all make Harry Thomas talk. Harry doesn't, doing right. season.! in the persons of Buist Warren, slick You can't wear that crowd out.’’ Hist! Here is another baseball vision. Games at Griffith Stadium passer, and Johnny Butler, broken- now frequently are starting at 8:15. Jimmy Wasdell is not playing first Aggies' Attack Varied. field-running specialist, but the base. Somebody else is on the bag It can’t be but it is! It is From Skipper Dawson came this mere presence of Cafego in a game last-minute Roberto Ortiz, whom the Nats sent to Charlotte last year to learn the comment: "The Aggies' j Bowl Rivals vs. was assurance of a substantial up- attack, built around all-America Orange Aims to Lick Climate East West lift for the team. outfielding trade. Wasdell has been shipped to Springfield to learn how Bergman Charity Kimbrough, is varied and they were Five thousand Tennessee followers to catch. In 1941 Griffith plans to bring him back to play third base. the best defensive club in the coun- were noisily confident that with or Here is something that seems to be a cloud. A thin, wisp of a cloud. to at El Paso try for 1939. Our boys have shown Likely Unwrap Bugaboo Today Grid Battle Today without Cafego their team would a rumor. A baseball trade rumor. Quiet, now, and we’ll try to No, it is fine spirit and well go into the break the spell the Trojans have Now it comes. It’s clear. The rumor is that Cecil interpret it. quite game in good physical condition ex- Use of held on the Rose Bowl—five pre- to Detroit for York.