Accepted on with the WIND —By JIM BERRYMAN Win, Lose Or Draw Brownies Hand Early Odds Give VEAH! I HEARD by FRANCIS E
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Sports News Features and Classified WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1940. C-l Hoyas Happily Swing Back Into Training as Orange Bowl Game Is Accepted ON WITH THE WIND —By JIM BERRYMAN Win, Lose or Draw Brownies Hand Early Odds Give VEAH! I HEARD By FRANCIS E. STAN, I THAT 1iX)--Mc CARTHy " Star Staff Correspondent. Bosox $30,000 \ li WILLIN' TMAKE Big Mississippi T /In even peal— Men Who Hunt Deer r j QOMEZ FER X SOMEWHERE IN GARRETT COUNTY, Md„ Dec, 4,—High up in WALTERS AN' hi-vuh 4 *- UPPy leo! these mountains, so solidly veneered with snow and ice that for long For Slab Pair J5ERRINSER'. BE \ FANCY State an r WELL I'LL DOGGONED BIG NOISE 1 THEA4WRUW*€ Edge stretches the hunters' boots do not break the the life of a spiked crust, — IT'5 OL' BILL AAcktCHNlE! MEETIN' YOU WAY 4 guys said terry \ buck Isn't worth a nickel for five There are too men mobilized ’ days. many WHArCHA DOIN' ‘ROUN' "Down here in WAS SWOOPIN' \ McKeen in this far outpost men wearing red caps and with powerful rifles Prove Spend Allyn Scores They'll THESE PARTS ?--IZZAT GEORGIA ! J ACOUN' PER YOUNG 1 under their arms and for the thrill of a difficult and yearning conquest In Galehouse SO? YEAH.' I JUST BLOOP..AM' HE PICKS J As Mentor; Johnson venison on the table. Buying } f HAPPENED T'BE IN r HARTNETT’.... f But there also arc men who arc these woods, whimsically Keen Threat tramping And Ostermueller [ TH'NEIGHBORHOOD J ! TUA'S A PIP / Triple carrying rifles during a peiiod when only a male deer is legal prey, Say cronin, r Saw TOO? /* WHERE'S GRIFF ? ] A"‘"r a buck. We have been f 1 Light calisthenics this afternoon and who have no intention of shooting hunting By ROMNEY WHEELER, >Y YOU AN COLLINS WITH VA D'yilH SUPPOSE 4 11a\ in a party of 12. There are some who want a buck, some who don’t care Associated Press Sports Writer. DYKES A UL WHILE AGO- HE'S STAN PIN' PAT i were scheduled for a happy group of one way or the other, at least one who wouldn’t pull his trigger unless ATLANTA. Dec. 4— Baseball's LOOKOUT FEE THAT BIRD ON THAT CLUB/ Geogetown football players with the deer ran right over him. Some can shoot out the eye of a squirrel minor leagues took the stage today HE'LL END WITH FOy* OF heavier drills almost immediately holder of license No. for in- ; with official opening of their 39th from 100 yards and some—the tag 10588, AN' DOERR. AN GIVE YOU thereafter to prepare them for an annual convention, but the majors stance—couldn't hit that side of a barn at 50 paces. j A WITH the with the ring SLABMAU A SICK invasion of Miami on New Year This fellow. John Golden, for instance. John is a athletic man grabbed spotlight big, J SOUPBONE \ to meet State in the 1 of cash on the barrel-head. j Day Mississippi of 31 or so, but he looks younger. He comes from Frostburg, Md., and he < Tire St. Louis Browns, here with l* /L ...Dv annual Orange Bowi classic. to be a football He is a lieutenant in the National Guard, used player. advance billing as a club willing to The Hilltoppers haven't been com- serving 16 years in the outfit, all told, and soon he will be called up to peel its bank roll for player strength, out This be his last hunt for some time. move on pletely of training since ending Fort Meade. may did just that in a surprise I NOTE JIMMY If \/Z their schedule the eve of the National Association 5? WILSON'S "POOR 1/5 regular against a to a Crack Shot of Professional Baseball Leagues George Washington 10 days ago. but A Horse, Cow / OLD LEGS" ARE ^ parley. } 4 kinks and stiffened muscles have de- John is one of the country's crack shots with either rifle or POIN' A RIGHT FAIK? pistol. Brown President Donald Barnes veloped which need ironing before of Western because he was born t OOB OF PROPPIN' He knows the mountains Maryland announced of Fritz Oster- ^ they can engage in scrimmage and purchase Him up in th among these craggy peaks. He was the nominal leader of the party, and mueller and Denny Galehouse. two Jc lobbvJ signal drills Coach Jack Hagerty Is t<o hours a pay ! he was a good leader. He could tell by the tracks whether the deer was good journeyman pitchers, from the f preparing for them. a doe or a buck and. in the case of the male deer, approximately how- Boston Red Sox for an unspecified Georgetown's period of nervous club for a much it weighed. But John has been hunting for years and has yet to sum in cash and indicated the waiting post-season game also was interested in a ended last night with an invitation bag a buck. "depend- able catcher.” Sav( HOW' BOUT from the Orange Bowl Committee. hi? tell on him a of how- he went deer hunting Instead, pals story that u l frankie The bid was Now Are Catcher. promptlv accepted and and shot a cow and a horse. It seemed that John and his party wanted Seeking FRISCH? hey! git DIDN'T general satisfaction was expressed Unofficial figures put the probable A LOAD O' to hunt on some posted land and Golden went to the farmer and asked HE GET DOWN To in the Georgetown dormitories, price for Ostermueller and Gale- PEL BAKER, which were ablaze with permission. house at $30,000. Ostermueller last talkin' Turkey 'f lights long farmer and have a time. But ? OVER THERE Trt’ after hours last nigth. that “All right,” the said, “go ahead good season was credited with five wins IN A HURRY regular POOR GUVS the team was I'd like to ask a favor. I have a sick horse and a sick cow and I don't and nine defeats, while Galehouse fc IA/OH/-MJH! LOOKIN', Hoyas' great receiving 3 UNDER PER a richly deserved after a three- have the ammunition to destroy them. When you finish hunting will you won six and dropped six. The RUGS J trip A vear period which it lost shoot them?’’ Browns were said to be dickering V~ INFIELD WIT* >5 during only one game Golden agreed, joined his party and went deer hunting. It was a bad for a catcher. -AyounS LEGS'. Jr Meanwhile Connie Mack acquired Tie Spoils (lean Slate. day. They failed to raise a buck and headed back to the farmhouse to a promising Southern League pitcher Only blotch on the Hoya record thank the host. On the way John passed a cow. “I've been tramping all for the Philadelphia Athletics. In in that time was a defeat by Boston day,” he told his startled pals, “and I'm going to get a shot. See a straight swap with the Atlanta College, 19-18. a little over two weeks that cow?" Crackers, the lanky patriarch gave ago. with a slight smudge, a 13-13 tie Seconds later there was one less cow in the world and John's col- Ed Heusser, a right-handed subma- with Syracuse holding over from last leagues wondered how- they could have misjudged a fellow so completely. rine bailer, for Atlanta's Luman season. Harris. One of the Crackers’ main- This will be Georgetown's first bowl And the Guy Who Studies Buck Fever stays last season, Harris won 17 and trip. Catholic University pre- lost 8. Heusser was a ceded it to the Orange Bowl in 1936, They walked on and neared the farmhouse and. within accurate ! disappoint- ment with the A's. winning six and winning a thrilling 20-19 encounter rifle distance of the domicile. John spied a horse, aimed, fired and there losing thirteen. Cracker Managpr with Mississippi. Mississippi State was one less entry for that last race at Bowie. This time his potential Paul Richard, nowever, was opti- has been to the Orange Bowl before, companions fled to the cars and John, with a grin on his face, walked mistic regarding Heusser. recalling losing to Duquesne. 12-13, in 1937. to the house, thanked the farmer and started to leave. he won 19 and lost 7 for Memphis The team fell apart the next year, “Wait a minute, young man." the farmer said. "You've got some- in 1939. however, only to be pulled up during the last two a new coach. thing to do for me. Now follow me and we'll step back to the barn and Tnere were recurrent but uncon- years by firmed that the Southern Like Georgetown. destroy the sick cow and horse I've got stalled up in there. reports Mississippi Nashville Vois were State's Maroons present a big. fast In our party is Bill Shadel. associate editor of the American Rifleman champion nego- for sale of Boots Poffen- team composed mostly of seniors and Bill was the tiating and one of the cogs In the National Rifle Association. have an berger, a 26-game winner last season Boon to Seen Texas Will they even better record this host and a one. that he is the size. His shirt, Coaches Grid good except wrong hunting year with a tie. 7-7. in the Southern Association after a Sports Against Major Ags Stay only with Au- us. and the boots burn a trousers and jacket were a mite too small for pinched spectacular washout with Brooklyn.