^hi Rivals Gunning for Star Games Upset ftoenittg JSpofls** McKenley's Washington. D. C., Wednesday. December 31,1947—A—8 Six Opponents Hoping STAR GAMES' STAR Terps and Bulldogs or W in, Lose, Draw To Boost Tapering Off Today By FRANCIS E. STANN. Prestige How Good (Bad) Is Coast Football? Jamaican For Bowl Classic In establishing Michigan a 14»i-point favorite over Southern Against the famed By George Huber Rase the odds-makers are taking a Herbert McKenley, California in tomorrow's Bowl, Staff Correspondent who has entered St^r of Coast football. From here it looks like the biggest Jamaica runner dim view Pacific Dec. 31.— S. C. Invitation in the first JACKSONVILLE, Fla., betting overlay on the bowl program, Notre Dame's rout of U. the 600-yard A blackboard drill today for Mary- notwithstanding. Evening Star-AAU track meet Sat- in land and a light, half-hour work- But if the odds-nmkers are correct, there won’t be any dancing urday night at the National Guard on New Year's Day. out for Georgia was all that re- the streets of Pasadena Armory, will not find the 16th event_ Coast football needs a shot in the arm now as it mained on the program for these on the schedule a cake walk. The never needed one before. If the Trojans blow this two schools until they meet tomor- other six contestants will be gunning but not is the Coast brand going row in the third annual Gator game, good, only increase their Rase Bowl, for him, hoping to to begin giving off an odor but the Bowl football game. with an 1 well Olympic prestige upset oldest of all the January spectacles, may Georgia's Bulldogs are favored wind w'ith tradition to recommend it. triumph. up only by as many as 13 points here, as has been chal- incidentally, will run The Sugar Bowl, particularly, McKenley, to the 7 available in the He compared points lenging the right of the Pacific Coast to call its for Jamaica Olympics. leave the United States next elsewhere, because of the large Tournament of Roses extravaganza the best and will a two-month tour of ^ I.**"- number of in attractions. This Monday for Georgia supporters biggest of the New Year's Day for the Australia, returning in time Jacksonville. Coach Butts’ before the remarkable agreement made Wally was long latter part of the indoor seasqn. //V 7HE FIRST RACE HERB EVER RAN RE Pl/CEP Coast Conference team is well known and well liked a year ago between the Pacific 600 is BUT TRE 1 POINT RE GAiNEp NON THE The indoor record for the LAST, in this section. It has played the and the Big Nine. the RIS "HOUSE I minute 10.2 seconds, co-held by MEET FOR TEAM*,..._ University of Florida here for four Chances are you know all about this interest- and Hugh Short, great John Borican consecutive years, winning by good terrific hue and was raised by middle dis- Francin stann. ing pact. A cry the former Georgetown margins and putting on good shows five to the West Coasters when it was announced that for the next years tance runner who transferred each time. Rose Bowl. after his dis- the Nine will nominate the Eastern team to play in the University of Michigan Another thing keeping Georgia Big Borican s charge irom the Army. as the favorite is that Butts’ teams and Shorts a A Couple of Jokers in the Pact mark was set in 1941 never have lost a bowl game in the Nine year later, both wearing spikes. four previous trips to New Year's That ain't all, either. According to this novel deal Big in Fourth Position. classics. The Bulldogs beat their best team to Pasadena next McKenley Day conceivably won't be able to send 40-26, in the 1941 Dorsey Griffith Texas Christian, last Illinois barely winning in its conference but Meet Director year. They did year. here Sat- Orange Bowl; U. C. L. A., 9-0, in de it again tomorrow figures that excellent time slaughtering U. C. L. A. in the Rose Bowl. They'll would the 1942 Rose Bowl; Tulsa, 20-6, in if urday. running without spikes, ranks tops in the Big Nine, but the 1945 Oil Bowl, and continued because undefeated Michigan be 1:15. next year in the Big Nine there'll with a 20-10 triumph over North Michigan or Illinois reigns supreme has drawn the fourth McKenley Carolina last year in the Sugar be no Coast trip for either. of the field position, with the rest Bowl. in the Nine-Pacific Coast contract there The joker is that Big lined up like this: Royce Crimmin oftener than Record i rowfl ixpwiro. is contained a clause that no Big Nine team can play of Brown on the pole; Barry Reed and Illinois run one-two Edward Fitz- This is Maryland's first trip to once in any three years. Thus if Michigan of Holy Cross, second; that a Big Edward a football bow-1, but Coach Jim in 1948, which is highly possible, it may develop third-place gerald of Villanova, third; Tatum had his Oklahoma team in the Pacific Coast Conference and the Palmieri of Tufts, fifth; William Nine team will play the best Bow-1 in the United States Naval here for last year’s Qator U. S. C. tomorrow, will be none too good Kash of best, if Michigan shellacs as a 34-13 winner Academy, sixth, and Robert Black of and returned the public mind. Carolina, over North Carolina State. Given After the the University of NojJh a second in the Big Nine-Coast pact. it’s been noth- There is joker seventh. good weather—and one of its r it won’t be necessary for the Big Nine to send ing except ideal since the Terra- third year Reed recently turned in a 1:15.4 ! For the fourth and fifth years the Big Nine can arrived here last Friday—a teams'to California. the 600 on the outdoor pins could select the time lor record crowd of 23,000’ is expected a team outside of their own conference. They which choose board track at Holy Cross, at 2 leave Rose Bowl be- for tomorrow's game starting Hotel Training School, even, and prestige more for the distance Lewis requires laps o’clock. Armory track, yond repair. than the 220-yard Tomorrow's game looms as a test indoor track in the the biggest oetween Maryland’s excellent run- to the Coast leamsr Thus without any wind in- What Happens country. ning attack, built around Halfback A here he is extremely What happens to Pacific Coast teams in crucial battles? year terference Lu Gamblno, plus a fair passing of- mid-westerners of turning in a 1:15 in one the critics were building up U. C. L. A. while capable HERBERT HENRY fensive, and Georgia’s sensational ago events on the 21- Illinois team the Nine was of the outstanding with Quarterback Johnny thought it was only a fair-to-middlin’ Big passing event schedule. the These But the score—Illinois. 45; U. C. L. A., 14—was Rauch in throwing spot. sending westward. Crimmin of Brown is another who McKENLEY... and Rauch— over U. S. C. in the :wo boys—Gamblno even more decisive than Alabama’s 34-14 triumph In the will make McKenley step. nave been receiving all the attention * * Crim- ...WORLD AND NATIONAL 1946 Rose Bowl game. .. New England intercollcgiates, ^ tor the last few days, and Gator rated this season that, in The present U. S. C. team was so highly i min turned in a 43.4 performance RECORD HOLDER FROM Bowl spectators have been led to coach at the Naval Academy, Hiach nrvi 1 '54 R in the alumni such as Bob McNeish, backfield •xpect lots of fireworks when the Dame. HLLIN015 WHO WILL BE will confidently predicted the Trojans would whip Notre 880. ;wo teams tangle. It probably S. C. had a wide Coach The “best team in the’country,” as McNeish rated U. Fitzgerald in GOO Debut. AMONG THE STARS IN ne a fairly open game. his Notre Dame. It was no contest. Brother McNeish Fitzgerald will be making Butts' of Georgia predicts Maryland horriblp day against THE EVENING STAR and bad as it debut in the 600 but he is anxious vill score at least twice, only into the mists of the Severn. Yet, was U. S. C. as faded he can score more often. be classed with to move up to longer distances. GAMES SATURDAY NIGHT. nopes seemed to be against Notre Dame? Can Michigan In a race with the Villanova relay Tatum Not So Gloomy. Notre Dame? turned in a 47.4 the team, Fitzgerald Coach Tatum is not as gloomy as that no outstanding money is being bet on The tip is out which compares favorably favor in front of quarter, tsual. With Georgia in the even with bookies dangling 14*4 points ran in Rose Bowl game, with the 47.1 that McKenley te's role, he has nothing to argue indicate lack of confidence; probably U. 400- Trojan supporters. This might winning the National A. A. S* ibout there, and he has gone so far over U. S. C. there is no last Iflfii'wifct does. Yet until Michigan runs roughshod meter championship year. is to admit that the Terrapins have with Notre Dame. Kash, a member of the strong "finished reason yet to rate the Wolverines •a chance." The Terps make out a good from the Naval Acad- after- If they choose, U.