* r if i misj tmi$ \£3 *%*****' a.... WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940. C—3 Tennessee, Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas Aggies, Fordham Among Choices — ■ — ■ ■ — A — JL. _.... TERROR FROM TECH —By JIM BERRYMAN Lose or Draw Lions Are Picked Myer Candidate Win, Xaiowwait \ TECH'S WIN6MAW IS KNOWM WEAR-SOUTH By FRANCIS E. STAN. f A MINAJIT ! THAT yOUCH?S\ THROUGHOUT THE Star Stall Correspondent. To Beat 1 Guy was taken : ( HEyl HOWPID \ AS A VICIOUS For Georgia f OUTA THIS PLAy / WE GIT A GAME ) & TACKLER^^^ Griff Helm Portrait of a Football Coach I once-isawit!- / WIT'A BUNCH < i V. O'MAD LEXINGTON, Ky„ Oct. 18.—For the better part of 13 hours and a POGS*V few stray minutes, while a train snaked through the mountains and In Close Game If Goes carried George Washington's grid 11 nearer the Kentucky game, a lot Bucky Of football was talked and, for all we know, was dreamed, too. This is a big game for G. W. tomorrow. The Colonials are unbeaten. Rested Gophers Given Harris Rejects 1-Year Kentucky, which also is unbeaten but tied by Vanderbilt, is the best team met so It was to Over they have far. good enough swamp Washington Edge Buckeyes; Contract to Manage •nd Lee, 47-12, and G. W. barely nosed out the same W. and L. outfit last week. 20-14. Terps Underdogs Tribe, Is Report It is a big game for the G. W. coach, Bill Reinhart. This is his By HERB BARKER. By BURTON HAWKINS. third season as head coach of the Colonials. He won't get bounced if he Associated Press Sports Writer. loses or like but it's still a game he desperately wants to Buddy Myer, scrappy part-time anything that, NEW YORK, Oct. 18 i —Conducting » f 2 MORE PL Ay$ second baseman of the Nationals, win. In his third year the average coach begins to expect big victories. HE'S THE ORIGINAL the weekly interview with football's AROUN' My ENP- today tossed his hat in the for as he did two JOHNNY-JUMP-UP WHEN ( ) ring He doesn't whip out the weeping towel as often the first (but misinformed 1 willing frequently IT COMES To SNAGGING / AN1 I LL BE JUST / consderation as manager of the 1941 eeasons. He figures that his type of football should be more familiar crystal ball: Tossed balls. V A NAME ON A Washington baseball club in the coaches and that should come Alabama-Tennessee — Alabama is to the players and to the assistant things y \ HEAPSTONE ) \ event Bucky Harris is engaged to easier. * the mystery team of the South- pilot the Cleveland Indians. eastern but Conference, Tennessee, »}/ 1M IN TH' V Harris, fishing off the coast of ofT its decisive defeat of Duke, J ap- f CUEAR-- BUT Florida, could not be reached to in a Battered Hat pears to be the Sherlock Holmes to WIGGLED l Just Another Guy /I’VE affirm or deny reports he had re- provide all the answers. The Crim- / SO MUCH I / He sat next to a window on the way down. Reinhart doesn't talk jected a one-year contract with the son Tide, reputedly exceptionally A CAN'T much. Few coaches do. Now and then a player would drop beside him SToPy Indians and submitted a counter strong, hasn't played a major foe and Reinhart would stare at the blackness proposal of a three-year agreement end they would talk quietly and this to yet vote, therefore, goes to manage the Cleveland club. outside again until somebody else came along. It was surprising to see Tennessee. ‘‘I don't know anything about it,” how many of the boys and the newspapermen got around to chewing the Notre Tech—Tech Dame-Carnegie professed President Clark Griffith fat with him. teams of the past have been tough of Uae Nats, “but the last time I the of a coach. Like most of the good ones, he meat for the Irish. This is another Reinhart looks part talked with Bucky he said he hadn’t Harvard year and it will be a major surprise Was a football player himself. He quarterbacked Oregon against been approached by Cleveland. I If Carnegie keeps the score within In the Rose Bowl of 1920. He baseball and basket ball and served don't know if gotten to- played reasonable bounds. they've the first World War. He has The VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN gether since then.” 16 months overseas in the infantry during with Cornell-Syracuse—Syracuse, THROWS A BLOCK MADE been around. a sophomore find in Sal Mirabito, Buddy Says He Wants Job. town as some of the other OF SOLIX> CQMCKETE. He probably isn't as well known around may give the Big Red some trouble, Myer. who with Coach Ossie District coaches. He came to George Washington from his alma mater, but Cornell is so well drilled and Bluege has been stamped a popular Pixlee at the time. strikes choice to succeed Harris if Oregon, in 1935. He was an assistant coach to Jim with such devastating quick- Bucky had reached its ness that a seems resigns his post here, said when Pixlecs attempt to make G. W. a gaudy grid center Syracuse victory .... A impossible. The ballot is cast, as AMD THEM HE'S reached by telephone at Ellisville, and was beginning to tail off at the time. Sports Prograrti peak usual, for Cornell. BUTTERED SNAKE Miss., “I would like a crack a back named certainly was well known and widely quoted. He had Pixlee — Michigan-Ulinois Bob Zuppke, j CARRYING THE BALL.... For Local Fans at the job if Bucky leaves.” Myer, the writers weren t thinking of new TufTy Leemans, and when sports canny coach of the mini, engineered declares, however, that Griffith had about Zuzu Stew ait, a bald- TODAY. eulogies to Leemans they were writing one of 1939's greatest upsets in this not talked with him concerning Football. headed, razzle-dazzle guard, if there is such a thing. So Reinhart was game. History can. and does, re- j 1*)41 plans. Virginia Tech vs. Georgetown, in a battered felt hat on the bench. peat, but so far as this corner is Midway in the 1940 season Myer Just another guy j Gabe Father, Griffith Stadium. 8. concerned, we'll take Harmon,! Murphy's stated emphatically he would not Catholic University vs. Miami, Evashevski & Co. play major league ball in 1941, pre- Ex-Athlete, Dies Miami, Fla., 8:30. New Team Washington State Stanford— ferring not to jeopardize his health Reinhart-Farrington Progressive Called away by the death of his Anacostia vs. Western (series), the uniforms and informed Stanford, lone unbeaten, untied after five years of on But G. W. threw away barber-pole father. Thomas F. H. 3:30. campaigning outfit in Far Murphy. Western Stadium. a $25,000 any major the West, has a j rebellious stomach. On the last Alabama and Tennessee they were not paying guarantees Gabriel Murphy, graduate manager Gonzaga vs. Eastern, Eastern standout back in Norman Standlee day of the season, though, Buddy shades in 1938. Pixlee resigned and of atletics at Univer- Stadium, 3:30. longer and turned several purer and a tricky offense. Georgetown stated he he would be left- Washington thought back the was to Reinhart, who inherited only a few varsity sity. will not see tonight’s Hoya- St. John's vs. Roosevelt, Roose- job given State has tied Southern California “if one or two things materialize.” and Max the new athletic director, formed and Virginia Tech game at Griffith velt Stadium. 3:30. overs. Reinhart Farrington, beaten California. In a quan- Myer also has been mentioned as over but without having Stadium. Georgetown Prep at St. Albans. a fresh team and now G. W. is a power all again, dary of this sort, only the coin can figuring in a possible waiver deal The elder Murphy, an ardent AND STAR END OF THE 3:30. to resort to transfer players. help. Stanford. CO*CAPTA|N with the Detroit Tigers, who of- fan and well-known athlete in his * Landon vs. St. Paul's, Balti- Reinhart is a coach with an uncommon style. He takes it upon Texas Aggies Firmly Backed. DANGEROUS V. P.l. ELEVEN WHICH WILL fered $20,000 for his services last younger days, passed away suddenly more. individual If he decides that Joe Some- SNAP season only to have the deal blocked himself to study each player. Texas Aggies-Texas Christian— Wednesday evening at his home in ATTEMPT To GEORGETOWN'S Bullis vs. Mount St. Mary's to a even STRING OUT by the Indians. The Tigers, for- body is a wingback, he will suggest that he shift wingback Stringing along with the Aggies to Hogansburg, N. Y. Funeral services IMPRESSIVE VICTOR* Freshmen. Emmitsburg, Md. the bitter end. bidden to trade by virtue of win- though Joe was three times all-Ohio scholastic guard. were to be this morning, with a AT GRIFF STADIUM TONIGHT. Culpeper High vs. Fairfax High, Colgate-Duke—Duke has had time ning the American League pennant, •'About the only player you can't readily make over." he once told high mass of requiem and burial in 3:30. to over may lose Second Baseman real get the Tennessee setback the at TOMORROW. Charley us, “is a tackle. There are times when some tackles, with speed, family plot Hogansburg. and rates the nod in this one. Football. Gehringer due to a back injury' and if a is a tackle, he should 1 can be marie into ends.