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El EWH Clark Shaughnessy, Chicago Coach, Listed As Huey Long's Choice LINCOLN KNINC Joi UN L. Vt KDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934. BIFF JONES LOSES State Amateur Mat Meet Postponed Day BELIEVE IT OR NOT! AU. By Ripley nn uitii iiiinnnii RAFRrARNFRA RATTIF team at its annual dinner at the University club Tuesday night, makes anyone glad he's connected with athletics, no matter how small the connection may be. The Big Ten commissioner made the finest case on behalf of college and high school games that I ever heard.

Scholarly and with a background of over thirty years in athletics as a player, coach and for the past twelve years in what must be one of the "hottest snots" in Maroon Coach Says He BmL Vj BbHhHB L0NG 15 HIS FRIEND itiai p2f 1 mdi at the age of ft emi BMl ih ats I Krp; fors; ToTi I pearu opal ruby JH(9 jl flPtr I rPF7 who were selected on All America first teams are Francis "Pug" most unanimous choice on team; Frank Larson, Minnesota DO 0U DECIPHER Ktt men j. iTc, piiBDnsf Bewildered Caterpillars arc duped ft suit. Tke LOOP Lose Mer Sense of Direction WD rmiTiinapmr mmm wl OF STARVATION Chestnut II, Conn. PESEK PtESTfNA TOP WEDNESDAY MAT IT; Major (Jnrfith has made a continuous study of athletics with the result that he has at his finger Coin; takes the sane vi studies Latin in colli term successful, this suco due to the fact that he studied Latin. The same is true with foot ball, and algebra and all the rest.

glint Lynn Waldorf from Kan sas State, the Ags are said to te ready to elevate his assistant, Wes Fr v. to the head roachshin. say Waldorf's present salary Is $5,000, Fry's half that much. Arch Ward in the Chicago Tribune, points to the fact that Sin? Sing Black Sheep made $5,000 van! lost $30,000 "And they say." says Arch, "honesty is the best policy." Ward also tells of uh aucmpis os nfODM Kizer, l'ur due coach, to discipline his son, Dick, age 5, since Nov. 24....

All attempts end with Lick muttering, "I'm crlad Indiana beat va." Charles Borg, captain of the Miacas uncle. now i When Bob Zuppke first went to Illinois as a coach his salary was $2,700 and his contract called for lending a hand with basketball a tier the grid season ended One of the longest feuds in foot hall will end next fall when Penn sylvania and Princeton play at Philadelphia These teams broke i vat when charges and counter charges of rough play Pacific coast ronfereneo abandoned the center tipoff in basketball, except to start the game and at the beginning of the second half. other times the ball will be put in play from the sidelines by the team against vnnn me precening DasKet scored Nebraska fans will have portunitv of seeing how this nlnn works when Stanford plays here agreed to try the idea at that BRANCH RICKEY SELLS INTEREST IN CARDINALS dend on St. Louis Cardinal baseball st.uk. it was revealed Branch Rickey, vice president of the National league club and right hand man Le President Sam Breadon, had sold his interest in the team to Ib.ward.

of St. Louis, a P.readon said th, re was no riificance to the deal as Rickey owns 7f, percent 01 24 percent is divided among 140 stockholders. Rickey refused to discuss the b.uc. mv own personal affair." The $10 dividend, first since the $15 dividend when the Cardinals won the 1931 series, involved 10, 160 shares of stock and totaled $101,600. Par value of the stock is $25.

McNulty Wymore Captain. wymore. Neb. Larry McNulty has been elected captain of the 1935 Wymore high football team. Announcement of his election was made at a community banquet honoring Coach Kail Hurst and his Cardinal football squad.

xsrrr; Hst I OS ANGELES. Robert W. Zuppke. the sage of Illinois, is a great believer in quickness. "We hear too much about speed in football," he says.

"Quickness is more important quickness of feet, hands and head. A slow starter may have speed, after he gets under way. But he doesn't often get under "way." "What is the age of quickness?" I asked. "Stamina comes after "The age of quickness." Zuppke thr. Tins La where suppleness a agiiuy reacn meir iop marks quickness begins to die out I te is twenty six." "I had to get by with quickness this year." Zuppke said.

"My foot hall team ranged from 156 to 188 mv heaviest man. We i ut webbed from ten to pounds in almost every Bd yet lost onlv one start. I like quick men quick movers quick thinkers. I can't use lumbering giants. I'd much rather have a quick 150 pounder than a slow 220 pounder." A good example of this is the Four Horsemen, who averaged 158 pounds, the lightest big time back field in history and one of the greatest.

THE CASE OF RED GRANGE. DEL) GRANGE, the Illinois coach continued, "was not only quick but fast on his feet. Grange nao a way oi picking his openings, timing his charges, but, when the opening came, he was thru like a flash. He could run the hundred in ten flat in a football of the fastest men in a football than track who could do 9.7 in a track "Red also had one of the quickest competitive minds I've ever known. He could size up a situation in a flash, and action was almost instantaneous with thought.

It was like setting fire to a pile of powder. Grange never lost his bead no matter what the situa tion. In the famous Chicago game he was cornered and nracticallv surrounded twice by four or five tacklers, and yet worked his way out for long runs. It was marvel ous to see Red time a tackier out time him, changing his pace meet the situation. Grange was football genius and you don't get a genius often in anything.

"Another thing about Grange he knew the art of relaxing. He kiww how to handle his nervous system. He wasted little effort. That's one of the reasons Red has been a star football player for a dozen years." SPEAKING OF STAR COMPETITORS. IN ORDER to carry out the competitive argument, I dropped by the famous Gay lion farm at El Monte.

Why is the lion known as the king of beasts? Mr. Gay has 221 lions in his stadium, ranging from a week to thirty years old. He ought to know. "The lion." he insists, "is the greatest competitor in the animal world. The lion can whip a tiger for just one reason it has everything the tiger has on attack speed, quickness, courage, and it has a perfect defensive armour against teeth and claws in the thick, matted mane that protects both throat and stomach.

It would be almost impossible for a tiger or a leopard to reach a lion's throat, and the throat is the main target usually the first target. "Few people understand the tremendous strength and the amazing quickness of a full grown lion say between the ages of six and ten. They have big, heavy paws as you can see and yet these paws work with the quickness of a cat's. They are like flashes of lightning." LION JUMPERS. 'TO SHOW the natural agility of a lion, even one broue ht un in captivity, Mr.

Gay put on an exhibition. One of his younger lions, from a standing start, with just a slight forward movement, cleared twenty feet from one table to another. When you figure that a grown lion weighs around 500 pounds, it takes something in the way of muscular agility to carry this much weight twenty feet thru the air from a standing start. STARTING 'EM YOUNG. THE MAJORITY of stars in sport Jones, Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Walter Hagen, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey and Bill Tilden all began picking up their favorite games between the ages of seven and ten.

its old." Demnsev once said. Bobby Jones began swinging "These lions you see here would Mr. Gay said. "In the jungle they ight call babvhood. Thev ralu miss a vital thrust.

Rrouht nr. out of the jungle their timing uuiu dq uireiy uirierent. iney 'ould miss too many targets. "Their weapons are about the ame. Look at those hahv linns with paws bigger than any dog Can ShOW.

Paws with Inner raxre sheathed for action, even at the age of four months. But it takes cne competition ot the wild to bring them to their best." it mignt interest a trainer of Will eat eiehtv nounria of meat a day, if allowed to order his own meai. tsut in captivity he can do better on twelve or fourteen pounds. i ne quantity or rood stan.jjn null Uo sn i.e as much POm3: Maxie's First Round Blast on Primo Stands Out Navy's Win Next. NEW YORK.

(UP) Km BmM paralyzing fists furnished the outstanding sports thrill in 1034. Navy's first football victory over Army in thirteen years, Carl Hubbell's sensational pitching in the all star baseball game. Cavalcade's Kentuckv Perhv victorv ami a long list of other events that excited the nation are ranked well behind the first round of the Baer Primo Camera fight, bv a majority, of sports editors a poll by the United Press. Ill orts books beside the Dempsey Firpo Slade Cutter's field goal in the bory riding the' soaring ball, was picked by the editors as sec 38 votes. Hubbell's sensational pitching; fanning of five feared sluggers in a row including Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx was selected as thrill number three, with 14 votes.

Joe Medwick's world series slid into Marvin Owen, Dizzy Dean's shutout pitching in the seventh game for the Cardinals and Cavalcade's Kentucky Derby victory each were given eight votes. Barabas' touchdown for Columbia in the Rose Bowl was the big thrill for six; and Joe White's catch of Pepper Martin's potential extra base blow in the fifth gam of the world series and Jack Man ders' field goal against the Neur York Giants to give the Chicago Bears a victory during the professional football season, were voted for by three each. The balance of the votes were scattered over a number of more. less sectional events. Jays Score 40 26 Victory Under Modified Rules of Phog Allen.

MANHATTAN. Kas. UP). Th'i University of Kansas evened the score with Kansas State college in their noneonferenee two game basketball "clinic" series, trouncing the Wild. ats.

10 to 26. here Tues day night. i ne game was piayea vmmm modified rules. Field goals counted three points instead of two, baskets were elevated to twelve te. i.

free throws were shot in the zone in which fouls were committed, and six foot restraining circles At Lawi ern last week. Kansas State beat Kansas, 39 to 30, using the proposed three point rule. Kansas took over the lead after about five minutes of play, and maintained an advantage thruout, despite the fact, Ray Ebling, star sas led 20 to 11 at the half. Lineups: KannaF ft Kas. State ft OttteUlt: Kl Qoi Mary'a and WRESTLE Dec.

19, '34 Marin Plestina 240 Lbs. Chicago OPENING BOUT LEE WYKOFF, VS. DON McINTYRE Ldie 25c. Re.erved SeaU Children 10c. when accompan Tickett on Sal at the Sarati John esek I SCHMELING FIGHTS lSTEil) OF c.otham got together is that Harvev who used to hire Johnston to run errands for him, can't get it out of his head that Jimmy still isn't a "He still wants to send the Gar den oromoter around the for a pack of chewing gum instead of talking about fights.

You know how Johnston likes that." The cigars ran out about this time, so the meeting automatically was adjourned. Iowa Tossers Plan Workout on Coliseum Rectangle Thursday Morning. IOWA CITY, la. (UP). Coach Rollie Williams and eleven Uni sity of Iowa basketball players left Wednesday for Lincoln, where the Hawkeyes meet Ne braska in the first foreign engage ment of the season Thursday night.

The Iowa sauad will arrive Wed nesdav night, it will work out the coliseum floor, whfre Thurs day's gr.me is to be played, Thun dav morning. Unless Johnnv Bai 'ko. veteran forward who has been out of practice all week, is unable lineup which fell before Pitts nuign Saturday. Barko teamed with Dick Moran at the forwards, Ivan Blackmer held down the center post and Al Bobby and Johnny Grim performed at the guard positions in that game. Forwards Barko Moran f.len Tangeman, Sid Rosenthal and Fred Schwartz; centers Blackmer and Matt Walsh; guards Grim, Bobby, lojkefbc Results iKh M.ndrn i Oral I H.

'n 5 a mod friend of mine, so possibly he just mentioned my name in a conversation and thus gave rise to the rumor. Shaughnessy declined to saj whether he would accept the position if it were offered to him. Indians Manager Discusses Chances of His Team in 1934 Campaign. WASHINGTON. CP).

To Rogers Hornsby assertion that Cleveland ought to win the American league pennant next season, aiter jonn son responds with an optimistic While the cows mooed. the chickens clucked and his bird dot a yelped, the Idians manager leaned against a rence on nis iarm near Bethesda, and admitted he looked for a good club, perhaps a pennant winner. "Hornsby was right about our having a good club," he said. "We have some smell youngsters and iless injuries or other troubles sit us, I reckon we have as good chance as any other team." Johnson feels the Indians' suc ss rests largely with a rookie second baseman Louis Berger, up from New Orleans of the Southern association. "Berger had a good year in the south and his hitting improved.

I believe he can start and go all year at second," Johnson said. "He has alwavs been a good fielder but he couldn't hit a curve ball. He has made rapid advancement and even if he hits only .260 in his first year I'll be satisfied. We have enough outside power." Johnson figures Pytlak, his regular backstop, will have a good year but as a precaution he has taken on several young catchers. i also look toi ampt.rd to help in the outfield and Vosmik and Trosky should hit well.

This Trosky is going to be a great hitter before long, possibly of the Babe Ruth type." tramped about his country place strong, rugged and happy dispels any idea that he is eniovinc poor health, as reported recently. "I don't know how that atoryl got Johnson smiled. "I in great shape. I was bothered but it's gone now." And as for a contract. Johnson has the word of President Alva Bradley of Cleveland that he will manage the Indians in 1935.

"And that's good enough for me," Walter said. BOWLING only S4 p. m. Denver Kansas Kansas Aggies Missouri Oklahoma WAL tn JUHNJN SATo were selected by Kerr and Hanley from fifteen schools eight in the midwest, six in tne east in the south. The six players on the squad end; Steen.

Syracuse tackle Regis Monahan, Ohio State guard; George Barclav. North Carolina guard, and Hartwig, Pittsburgh guard. Five of the squad were named as the most valuable players of their teams in the western conference. In addition to Lund, who uable player and then was voted the Big Ten's same honor, Don Veller, Indiana halfback; Duane Purvis, Purdue halfback; Ed Whalen. Northwestern guard, and Gerald Ford, Michigan center, were voted by their teammates as squad.

Hanley and Kerr, co coaches of the Eastern squad for eight years, believe this year's backfield crop is perhaps the best they ever took west. They have great kickers in Purvis, Lund and Miller Munjas, iLisDurgn. iney nave great passers in this trio, augmented bv Doug Nott, Detroit, ranked by many as the most accurate passer in the midwest. Purvis, Lund and Izzv Weinstock, Pittsburgh, are great power runners. Bill Shep pard, Western Maryland, the East's ana, are shifty runners.

Bill Brom inski, Columbia, is ranked a star at blocking. i a great line in front of this sparkling backfield the Eastern team should give a good account of itself. The Western team, coached by Babe Hollingberry, Washington State, and Percy Locey, Denver, will be seeking its third straight victory. Give few i like the l.tst two and the Nebraski athletic department will be out of point. On the six home panics, the receipts were $152,034.11.

Last year the receints on the home games were $108,000. However, things were not so rosy in 1031 when only $78,000 came in and $Hfi 000 in 1932. It must be remembered that each team that plays Nebraska, has an option of taking 50 percent of the gate or a guarantee of about $2,500 and all of them are exercia ing their 50 percent option. As a result of the past two seasons, the requirements on all coliseum bond issues have been met and the department has a nest egg of $10,000 with which to start the new year, something unprecedented heretofore. The complete report of the 1934 season is not available, as Business Manager Sclleck has not obtained reports from some of the games played away from home.

The receipts on the six home games Totals $152,634.11 The only large debt which the athletic department owes is $100, 000 still due on the coliseum. SOONERS WiLL SETTLE COACH PROBLEM SOON OKLAHOMA CITY. kV. Whether Lewie Hardage and Bo Rowland will continue as football coaches at the University of Oklahoma will be decided at a special meeting of the Sooner athletic council this week, Dr. Guy Y.

Williams, athletic director, said Tuesday. "There has been "a movement to obtain an athletic director who could combine his duties with that of head football coach," Williams said. "A meeting is planned for this week to settle the matter def Class Church League. NOW YOU KNOW WHY HAMAS BY HENRY M'LEMORE. NKW YORK.

(CoDvrieht. 1934. UP). One of the most delightful is oi me ree ogars and club in years was held in Jimmy Johnston's Madison Square Garden office Tuesday. in addition to tne boxing writ s.

those present included Joe Jacobs, who grew rich with Schmeling; Harry Lenny, who grew grey with Impellettiere; Six to Five Pete: a Dunchine baz salesman, and three unidentified gentlemen who wore caps and kept their feet on the desk. Following a roundtable discus sion of the influence of the lake poets on the moderns, and a charming talk by Jacobs in which sent and suggested now was the time to take the promoter anart. "I hear," said a dear friend of Johnston as he helped himself to a Johnston ciL ar from the Johnston desk, "that the brass hats of this place are upstairs right now discussing ways and means of throwing him out." One Cigar and Out. "That isn't news." said the re porter in the tweed suit. "They've been in session on the same topic for two years, and he's still with us.

it tney ever smoked one of these cigars, however, I believe they'd make up their minds in five "Say," asked one of the cap guys, "how did Johnston ever let that Schmeling and Hamas match go to Germany? I ain't no promoterwell, no fight promoter, anyway but I don't believe a eruv 4,000 miles away could steal a natural right out from nuder my "Maybe Hamas wanted too much money," somebody suggested. "Hell, he did," was the reply. "All he wanted was 25 grand which ain't so much when you remember the fight couldn't help miss drawing twice that much over here. What about it, Joe? You're Schmeling's manager an 1 you oughta know." Perhaps it should be pointed out here, before going into Jacobs' testimony, that Joe is manager of Schmeling everywhere in the world but Germany. Because of anti semitic sentiment in Germany, Joe lets Max do all his own thinkinff and signing for bouts in that country, and attends them only a spectator.

According to Jacobs. Johnston lost the match for the Garden only because he wouldn't give Hamas ana uncie i nancy nai v. y. Steve manager. $25,000.

"Jimmy knew Charlev and Stew needed the money, and he knew 1 was ready to sign Schmelhur. but ne never got around to it. After it was too late he wanted me to call Schmeling on the transoceanic Phone nd set him to null out nt the match. But I'd been smart to oo mat, now wouldn't When Schmeling finally gets a sucker to come over and fight him in his have it killed. Max has been ing cross the ocean to fight for five years, and it time he got there and take "a licking." Positive of Max's Ability.

"You sound mighty confident of Max's ability to pop Steven over," someone said. "I am." answered Jacobs. "He ll get him in eight rounds. He'd have got him that time in Philadelphia if there'd been just one more round." Big Time Maulers Slated For Finish Match at Fair Grounds. Two of the leading heavyweights in the mat industry Tiger John Pesek and Martin Plestina, both trial bonea in the palmy days supreme will show their wares 11 the main scrimmage at the fail grounds arena Wednesday night The first preliminary is scheduled for 8:30 p.

m. Plestina, one of the favorites of tirement a year ago, is making his first Lincoln appearance since 1915 wnen ne met scissors Joe stecnei here. Pesek, the Ravenna marvel, is no stranger, having: been a bic drawing card here for the past inree years. Monoay nignt at Omaha he easily disposed of Steve Savage, the Chicago Slav, in straight falls, as a warmup for his bout here. The supporting cast is almost equally as attractive as the main event with Big John Evko of New York facing Bull White, the Alabama alumnus, in a thirty minute, two tails out ol tnree match billed as the semiwindun.

In the opening bout Lee Wykoff and Don Mclntyre will show for fessor in his usual role as third man in the ring. 62 FOR NASSAU LEAD Connecticut Pro Shatters Par Six Strokes in Bahamas Meet. NASSAU. Bahamas. Blast ing par by six strokes and the course record bv two.

Joe Turnesa ot Harttord, Tuesday turned made in a maior conmetition to take the lead at the first 18 holes of the $5,000 British colonial open golf tournament with a dazzling 62. Six birdies, decorated the card ot the long island open champion. Me useo duc twenty tive puna in running up a two stroke edge over Ralph Stonehouse of Indianapolis and Jack Thomnson of Yountrstown. both of whom equalled the course record at 64. The old mark was set by Jock Hutchinson in an open golf tour Pressing closely after Stone house and Thomnson was Billv Burke with a 65.

Tied at 66 were three others. Al Watroua of Bir mingham, Willie MacFar lane of Oakridge, N. and Archie Hambrick of French Lick, Ind. Tied for fifth place with a 67 each were Leo Fraser of Saginaw, John Golden of Nototon and L. P.

Schalk of Hamil ton, O. Olin Dutra, American open champion, and pretournament favorite, was grouped with four others at par 68. Cortland Stops Clatonia. Town Team Scores. ny K.

fiiier 41. Ha, i.na, Muiidug TICKET PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER Cornhusker Basketball 10 Games The 10 camr Iniversitv of ebraka Home is the greatest in history. You will en Joy every came startin with IOWA UNIVERSITY Thursday, Dec. 20 If, ttMMRMl IIbm N.nngMHd up 41. ornrll Kroun Bmton I BiVrtt SO.

met 69, Wiiheton S4hol of Yolle 38. Washington 50. nn iiinaM Vi. I niurvi, Dayton 18. tmm ri 'valley a a.

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