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Sports THE CHAMP—Wilfred Vikings Seeking First Program i Flaherty Avers NFL (Bill) MacMitchell, Philly or Purdue Win, Lose Draw For Local Fans Bangert, University’s national By FRANCIS E. STANN Crown in 13 Years; TODAY. Beaten in shotput champion, Man to Beat Basket Ball. Struggle flexes his muscles before the Victor, How Is Too for Young Young Sports? Army War College vs. George- 49-foot 4-inch heave with Returning once more to the subject of national physical fitness, lech town; La Salle vs. Catholic U. and Nips Wilson For Name which he won the Inquirer In Mile Classics specifically to the lack of time, facilities and a progressive athletic (double-header), C. U. gym, 8:00. Players High School Standings, program for the youngsters of Washington, we must that Western vs. Eastern, Anacostia By BUS HAM, indoor meet event yesterday in By BOB CAVAGNARO. report today W. L. W, I because of an vs. at Press Associated Press 8ports Editor. unwritten law, or something, junior high school boys in Tech -,'t 1 Roosevelt_1 I Roosevelt Tech gym (in- Associated Sports Writer. Wilson :t ■ ^ Philadelphia.—AP Wirephoto. the District are forced to conduct athletic rivalries with 1 Western _1 terhigh series), 7:30. Ray Flaherty was feelirig so good PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26.—With other boys of Coolldge :i 1 Eastern _1 | their after school hours and in at about the All-America Conference’s :• age Boys’ Clubs, Central 2 2 Anacostia o ; j Hampden-Sydney Mary- the race he needed lor final prep- without benefit of supervision from the Physical land. 8:00. success in signing players for its GEORGE m aration behind him, tall and slender Education Department. By HL'BER. Buliis at Army JV. maiden season next fall that he said Thirteen Leslie MacMitchell the For example. Hine Junior High School may years is long enough tc St. Albans at St. Andrews. yesterday: appears Kramer Junior man play High in basket ball, but the go without a basket ball champion- 1. “We’ve beaten the National to beat in the Wanamaker general public will never know the time, nor the in the battle for mile in the A. ship, especially at a school which League big-name Millrose A. track and place, nor the score. Interjunior high competition Fever Hits Fans players for 1946.” field meet in Madison Gar- for of used to have some of the best teams Fight Square youngsters this age—12 to, say, 16 years— 2. “We’ll have a world series of den next isn't recognized in the District in the East, and so Central Saturday night—and the school system. If High professional foobtall by 1948 similar they play, it's at at man to beat at that distance from usually night some Boys' Club, supporters are rallying 'round this As U-Lions to that in big-league baseball.” instead of in the afternoon on a school floor under Battling now year’s club and to it home The on. a coach. trying pull reddish-complexioned coach qualified The in front for the first time since 1933. of the New York Yankees of the new former New York University All of which brings up the of when to subject did not disclose whether he star and outstanding miler in the start youngsters in It could be too. This Nose Out Falcons league competitive athletics. Is age done, Viking before he went into the 12 too corralled any more material in an country young? Is it advisable to wait until crew is the best in some time BOB McCLEAN. they quite By overnight stay here. Navy about four years ago won the are 15 or good old routine 16—substituting physical It's somewhat colorless, but War has broken out again in Philadelphia Inquirer Mile featur- education until that time? plays But he reeled off to an interviewer good, tight basket ball and is ing that newspaper’s invitational That getting the Eastern Hockey League with ,an impressive list of players who phizz-ed routine is something that can Met ott. better all the time. And the indoor meet last night. wear Vikings the new vitamin-enriched have jumped the National League to awfully thin in a very short space of time. You hands amazing put your may be bolstered next week when for the All-America Con- It was MacMitchell’s third com- behind your head, you Lions in the thick perform stoop, you squat, you bend, you get lectured, midyear scholastic marks are issued Washington right since his dis- you inhale, exhale, next season. petitive appearance you and, finally, you’re told it’s all over and you and a of become of it. After two weeks of clean jference climb couple good players charge from the Navy, his first at into your clothes, sweaty and dirty, because at some of Wash- As a starter he named Glenn eligible. hockey, the Lions staged a rough- the mile. He ran third in the 1,000- ington’s public schools there aren’t showers work ; Dobbs, Paul Governali, Charley enough that and at Anyway, the Vikings practically race in the none our house brawl with the yard Metropolitan of schools are towels furnished, even for a fpp Philadelphia ; O’Rourke, Angelo Bertelli, Norman are certain to be in the title playoff A. A. U. indoor last Falcons last in Uline jstandlee, , Bob Steu- championships Ott Was at late next month. Last night's 37-33 night Arena, week behind Big Leaguer Age 16 ;ber, Lou Rvmkus, Frankie Sinkwich, Fred Sickinger of the There triumph over Coolidge gave Central took an easy decision in the fisti- New York A. C. and Stan Callendar must be a reason why there is no school and Bill interjunior high a 2-2 record. It had de- Daley. series in basket ball, or in previously cuffing and a 5-4 verdict in the of New York University. He won softball, baseball, soccer or track. (We take feated Tech’s Picks Off Young Fellows. back the track: there is a defending champions the 1,000 at the Grover Cleveland track meet—one day a year.) What the scoring. I “The older (National) still after losing to Wilson and Eastern league in New York on 12. reason is we don t know. but. obviously, somebody thinks that games February super- It still meets Anacostia, Roosevelt Only persons not slugged during will have Its old stars like Sammy In vised competitive athletics by 13, 15 and winning the mile, MacMitchell 12, 14, 16 year-olds is too much the course of the feud were 3,836 Baugh and , and a few to be undertaken. and Western, and unless there's a was clocked in four minutes, 141 delighted cash who new headliners like Bob Waterfield big reversal of form Central may customers, nearly as he Tom Mel Ott was 16 when he first to the seconds, led Quinn, reported Giants, whom he’s count on two victories tore the icehouse roof off as the ;and Steve Van Buren. but we’ve never left and with in that former Michigan Normal athlete whom he became one of the ail-time great National Lions went their sixth off the fellows who will schedule. through picked young j for the New York C League stars. He's just one of hundreds who wasn’t running A. ; too young not Tech also back suaigm uau;u wiuiuui ueieai. oo be the big names in the postwar pe- j to star but to got into the thick durable Forest Efaw of Stillwater. only overcome the obstacles we're talking of. partisan was the feeling that the iriod,” he said. of the fight last night, toppling Wil- Polio Aid Fund Lures Okla., and Bill McGuire of the New Tank fans halted the match for 10 min- nf t.hpsp arp nn thp National Pinners; Stars Reach Peak in Teens son, 45-43, to remove the Tigers York A. C. to the in that order. Usually utes in the final tape The from the undefeated list and throw period by showering League’s reserve list—players who great swimmers, the almost never are more A and a half from the finish, particularly girls, and bottles on | lap the lead into a programs the ice were in the armed forces with one Scores in Star than 18 years old. The three-way tie. So it ! he let with a burst of that good swimming coaches, building for the future, in over Tourney go speed o r>rmr High ic hnt corioc TVin t