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VOTES TO SEND TEAM Monday Afternoon, December 9, 1935 SOFT BALL RUNS NATIONAL GAME RAY MORRISON STARTED S.M.U. More Than the Old Boy Can Stand Bounds Into Bowl Picture TO OLYMPICS OUT OFFLORIDA TO GRID FAME Mustangs Beat Christians 1-0 in 1918 For First Win Piker's Game 20 Years DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 9 (AP Twenty years ago curly-thatched-young Ray Morrison gathered 25 gangling huskies around him, issued the nose and shin guards, and football was born on the Southern Methodist campus. It was a weak Infant that Morrison, fresh from quarterbacking the Vanderbilt University Commodores, struggled with through a six-game schedule. And just one year later the 1916 season Southern Methodist Action is Taken After Bitterest Fight In History By ALAN GOULD Associated Press Sports Editor NEW YORK.

Dec. 9 (AP) The Amateur Athletic Union of the United States emerged today from the bitterest battle of its 47-year history, on record as supporting full American participation in the 1936 Olympic games in Germany, but with the war by no means ended. Although irrevocably pledged to go through with the American Olympic program, the A. A. nevertheless remained split wide open by an issue that is still very much alive, stirred by religious as well as racial controversy.

It threatens to curtail sharply this country's part in the eleventh Olympaid. Voting is Close Proof was promptly forthcoming that neither oratorical guns nor ballots killed "off the main issue yesterday, when the closing session of the A. A. convention turned down 54 to 55 a compromise proposal to send a factfinding commission of three men Sports Round-Up Diamond Officials Get Into Shape For Busy Session Boston Braves Foremost Golfing Cavalcade Strikes Sarasota For $2,000 Tourney Several Additional Pros Join Horde for Swing Through Florida SARASOTA, Dec. 9 (AP) Additional stars joined the winter A Bobby Ago, Game Now Played By Thousands MIAMI, Fla Dec.

9 (AP) A "piker's game" they called it when it first was played in Minneapolis some 20 years ago but diamond ball has all but chased the national pastime out of Florida. Too, the vest-pocket edition of baseball, known elsewhere as "playground," "soft," and "kit ten" ball has made serious inroads into sand-lot and intra-city base ball enthusiasm. Miami sports directors have figures purporting to show more than 2,000,000 players, forming 60.000 organized amateur clubs, engaged in the game at 1,000 lighted and many more unlighted parks in the United States. Ernest Seller, director of Mi ami's recreation department, credits part of its popularity to the fact that it can be played without extensive investment for equipment. A "soft" ball, gloves for the first baseman and catcher, regu lation catcher's mask and bats ere all needed, he says.

In Miami alone, there are 2,500 players on 93 teams divided into city, civic, church and industrial leagues. Each league has its own park, brilliantly lighted for night games, where an average of two contests weekly are played during the seven months' season. Each team is maintained by its respective city department, club, church or merchant. A number of junior leagues also are listed, whose games climax at the end of the season in a junior world series. Women, too, have organized teams, and even Seminole Indians play the game.

Last year, 148,418 spectators witnessed games in Miami. At Minneapolis, birthplace of the game, more than 25,000 players and 100 diamond ball parks are scattered about the city. Atlanta is becoming diamond ball conscious and St. Louis boasts a high grade professional league under direction of George Sisler, former St. Louis first basemen and American League batting champion.

Diamond ball, in outline, is baseball with a shorter infield, an enlarged ball nine to 12 inches in circumference, a lighter bat, an added short stop who is called the "short fielder" and the underhand pitching delivery. The pitching mound is 37 1-2 feet from the plate instead of the 60 feet, five inches in baseball. Diamond ball pitchint can be highly effective. No-hit games are common and nineteen strikeouts in one game is NOT unusual. Cruickshank Beats Revolta in Playoff ORLANDO, Dee.

9 (AP) Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, was $500 richer today after defeating Johnny Revolta, Professional Golfers Association champion, in a special 18-hole playoff to decide the winner of the Orlando open tournament. A medal score of 71, par, for the playoff gave Cruickshank two strokes over Revolta. They tied at 280 over the regular 72-hole route. Taking the lead on the fourth hole, Cruickshank never relinquished it. He was one up at the turn.

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"Sales Because of Service" Phone 141 Bounding Bobby Wilson, 147 pounds of dynamite, deception, and elusivenes, put Southern Methodist university right into the Rose Bowl when his running, ably aided by a fast, hard-charging line, and great blocking by backfield mates, defeated Texas Christian university, 20-14. Here is an unusual action shot of the terrier of the turf who will go into action against Stanford at Pasadena, New Year's Day. fans would rather not mention the foundling of the school's sports program toddled up against Xice Institute. The big game between Methodists and Institute, with about 500 fans in attendance opened with one Sam Merrill senIng a mighty drop-kick through the cross bar to put the Methodists ahead 3-0. Nice Little Game The Institute took the next kick-off and as one sports chronicler relates, "started sweeping end runs." They swept to 22 touchdowns.

Final score: Rice 145, Southern Methodist 3. "What have you to say for the team?" Morrison was asked after the season was over. "A prayer for the future," he i lapped. In fairness to Morrison and his -ew-bornj Methodists, it must be told that' they were allowed to use only freshmen In the opening season, Southwest Conference officials barring junior college and university transfers. Morrisoa left the fold for other coaching jobs, including a year at Vanderbilt and Army work.

But he was to return and lift the Methodists and himself into national prominence with a pioneering venture into the realm of the forward pass. Two changes came over the Methodists in 1917. J. Burton Rix of Darthmouth started a five-year reign as coach and the school librarian, who knew little about football, but thought the name appropriate to a Texas team, dubbed the gridiron gladiators the "Mustangs." First Win on Forfeit In 1918 the Mustangs register ed a victory over Texas Christian. It is a legend at Southern Metho disk The Methodists won 1 to 0 on a forfeit when the T.

C. eleven failed to appear in time for the game. The Mustangs lost one game in 1918, Texas licking them, 32-0 The sparkplug of the team was Quarterback Jimmy Kitts ow head coach of the powerful Rice Institute Owls. In 1919. 1920 and 1921 the Mustangs were again lambs for wolves and not until 1922 did the Methodists, the team selected in 1935 to battle Stanford in the Rose Bowl classic, start playing the football that eventually rocketed them to the heights.

Racing Clubs Declare Truce; New Dogs Added MIAMI, Dec. 9 (AP) Three hundred additional greyhounds were eligible to race at Biscayne track today through a truce de clared by racing factions in their fight over a commission order re quiring American Kennel Club registration. Dog owners who at first refused to comply with the order agreed Sunday to make application to the AKC, and the Biscayne Kennel Club said it would allow these owners to race their dogs at its track. Attorneys said, however, that the truce would not affect litiga tion before the Florida Supreme court to test the racing commis son's order. Dog owners have claimed it was not necessary for them to register with the American Kennel Club because their animals were registered with the National Coursing Association.

Half a Hundred Slots Licensed Leon county has 55 slot ma chines licensed by the state and county for location, Tax Collector W. K. Collins said Saturday. All those operating inside the city of Tallahassee also are licensed by the city, although a few are plugged and idle until the city's zoning ordinance can be tested in the courts. Collins said three operators (distributors) are licensed by the state and county for Leon.

License applications of three other operators and 15 store locations obtained at the comptroller's office have been returned by the county tax collector because they expired before they were paid for. The law allows eigM days for applicants to remit after making By EDDIE BRIETZ (Associated Press Sports Writer) NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (AP) Buck Newsome comes up with the best laugh of the stove league season He says Rogers Hornsby sold him to Washington because the St. Louis papers gave him a bigger play than Hornsby why, Rogers! Young Murray Patrick, son of Lester, the hockey coach, and amateur boxing champion of Canada, got the egg-zided shiner flirting with Lew Feldman (a pro) in a gymnasium A New York newspaper, which conducted a contest for an Ail-American coach, hands the plum to Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern Don't be surprised if Ben Chapman bobs up in the Washington outfield next season. Lou Little goes into a hospital today for a hip ailment Mickey Cochrane, who likes to flit hither and yon in airplanes, has been ordered to stay on the ground by Walter O.

Briggs, new owner of the Tigers Richmond U. and Williams and Mary are trying to get' into the Southern Conference Tony Canzoneri has been offered $20,000 (count it) to fight Harry Mizzer in England, and Sammy is hesitating Navy Bill Ingram, who used to coach the Bears, cried real tears in the dressing room after the Stanford-California game. Jimmy Isaminger of Philadelphia contributes the best line of the week Says he "It begins to look like the Athletics will start next season with an exceptionally powerful home plate and nothing much else" The Washington University band went on strike recently The boys want ed to know why the football play ers got all the scholarships while they were tooting their heads off Joe Medwick says he has to think twice before spelling his real name, which is Modiewocz me and you bote, boy Lou Gehrig is wrestling with his den tist in Boston. Charles S. Cobb of Baltimore was the first to guesr (we hope he and Orville White of St.

Louis. Eighteen tioles were scheduled today, with 18 more to be played tomorrow and the 36-hole final Wednesday. Last Times Today golfing cavalcade today as an ex pert field teed off in the $2,000 Sarasota open tournament. Fresh from a 72 -hole grind at Orlando last week, most of the professionals and amateurs hard ly had time for a practice swing over the Bobby Jones club course. Little Bobby Cruickshank.

of Richmond, winner of the Orlando open, was established among the favorites. Johnny Revolts of Mil- waukee. whom Cruickshank de feated by two stiokes in a playoff for first place at Orlando, yesterday, was regarded as dangerous. Several top-notchers who did not compete last week started today for a final tryout before the opening Saturday of the $10,000 Miami Biltmore open, golfdom's richest event. They were Craig Wood of New York: Victor Ghezzi of Deal, N.

Ed Dudley of Augusta, John ny Kinder of Boundbrook, N. and Denny Shut of Chicago. Diamond Stars Compete The amateur list was augmented by seven major league baseball players in Sarasota for the winter. There included Paul Waner, Pittsburgh Pirates; Heinie Manush, Washington Senators; Paul Derringer, Cincinnati Reds; Bill Jurges, Chicago Cubs; Johnny Moore. Philadelphia Nationals, and Lloyd Brown and Willis Hud-lin of the Cleveland Indians.

Sam Parks, of Pittsburgh, National Open champion, was shooting for a comeback after a finishing far back at Orlando. Other Orlando money-winners who played today, in addition to Cruickshank and Revolta, were Ky Laffoon of Chicago; Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Gene Kunes of Philadelphia; Zell Eaton of Oklahoma City; Willie MacFar-lane of Tuckahoe, N. Horton Smith of Joplin, Harry Cooper of Chicago; Wiffy Cox of Washington; Tony Manero of Greensboro, N. Dick Metz of Chicago; Frank Walsh of Chicago to Germany before going ahead with American plans to compete.

Subsequently unopposed adoption of a resolution supporting the Olympics, qualified only by a strong denunciation of the Nazi government's athletic policies, merely widened the breach within the ranks of A. A. delegates. Jeremiah T. Mahoney of New York, who yielded the A.

A. presidency to Avery Brundage of Chicago, head of the American Olympic committee, after witnessing the defeat of all his efforts to keep the organization out of the Olympics, declared in effect that he has "just begun to fight." Resigns From Committee Resigning from the Olympic executive committee, Mahoney said he would continue "the fight against American participation in the games in Germany as the only way of preserving the Olympic ideal." He charged the American Olympic committee was afraid to face the facts" concerning existing conditions in Germany and called for undiminished opposition to holding the games under Nazi auspices. Others who figured in the unsuccessful attempt to put the A. A. on record in opposition to holding the games in Germany indicated they would not abide by the majority decision.

Miss Charlotte Epstein of New York, a leader in women's swimming ranks, resigned from the American Olympic committee. Charles L. Ornstein of New York, who sponsored but finally withdrew a resolution to boycott the Olympics completely, planned similar action today. Samuel K. MacCabee, chairman of the move-the-Olympics committee, refused to admit defeat, declared the "very close vote is a mandate to continue the fight to prove that sportsmanship is bigger than sport," and indicated the movement for a counter "Olympiad" in 1936 had gained Impetus by the A.

A. action. MacCabee suggested that those opposed to participation in the games in Germany might sponsor an international set of athletic games in the United States next year, designed to rival the actual Olympics. i Brundage, resorted to dual Icad-'ership as the most powerful figure in America-" amateur sport after a year's interval, hailed the outcome of the A. A.

battle as a "victory for the athletes of LAST 1MES TODAY The Surprise of the Year! GEORGE ARLISS As a Lovable Vagabond MISTER HOBO Here's a NEW ARLISS for you. A completely new personality as a happy-go-lucky rolling stone. PLIS: MAJOR BOWES AMATEURS ME Problem of Senior League By WILLIAM WE EKES Associated Press Sports Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (AP) Ma jor league baseball men, officials, club owners and managers, were limbering up leg muscles today and testing the direction of trade winds, in preparation for the op 'ening of the annual winter meet ing tomorrow. The leg exercises were training moves for hours of standing in hotel lobbies and hustling back and forth between hotels.

This year, instead of holding the National and American league sessions under one roof, each has headquarters in a different hotel. The National league's foremost problem was the Boston Braves. The Braves, financial losers for several seasons and heavily in debt, passed from the control of Judge Emil Fuchs recently, and must be completely reorganized before the 1936 season. The club now is a ward of the league, but probably will be taken over by a group headed by Bob Quinn, vet eran baseball man. An American league club, the St.

Louis Browns, also may pass to new ownership during the meet ings. Led by George Sisler. a great star with the Browns during his playing years, a group of St. Louis business men have made passes at purchasing the franchise from the estate of the late Phil De C. Ball.

Of greater interest to the man who pays his money at the gate will be the unraveling of reports of trades and sales. Connie Mack, dean of major league baseball men, will be most closely watched in this connection. A number of his Philadelphia Athletics, in eluding Jimmy Foxx, de luxe hit ter and first baseman, have been reported up for swap or sale. Foxx already has unofficially been sold to the Boston Red Sox and Chi cago White Sox, and may wind up with one or the other before the week ends. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY The New York Giants won the Na tional Professional Football league championship by defeat ing the Chicago Bears, 30-13, at the Polo Grounds.

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY Eddie Casey was appointed head Coach of the Harvard football team to succeed Arnold Horween. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Ban Johnson, president of the American league, was given a increase in salary and a five-year extension of his contract. guessed), the players on the Associated Press All America also, Charlie paid for his wire Sorry to say, some of the other boys didn't Two tickets to the Louis-Paulino fight will be waiting for him at the Associated Press Office (sports desk) on the morn ing of the fight And now, mister, if you'll just guess the winner of the Rose Bowl game, REMEMBER Wilson Giants and Lions To Battle Sunday For Pro Grid Title Lions Get Crack at Crown When Bears Defeat Chicago Eleven CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (AP) New York's Giants will defend their National Professional Football league title against the Detroit Lions next Sunday at Detroit. The Giants were all set for the championship defending business a week ago, but the Lions who finished their schedule last week, became certain of a chance at the title only yesterday when the Chicago Bears, in a very unneighbor-ly mood, trounced the Chicago Cardinals, 13 to 0.

A Cardinal victory would have given them a tie. with the Lions for first place in the western section, and forced a playoff. Keith Molesworth scored both Bear touchdowns, one in the first period and the other in the last, on slashes through the Cardinal line. The outcome left the Chicago entries tied for fourth place in the west at six victories, four defeats and two ties. The Giants closed their regular schedule with a 13 to 0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Harry Newman and Ken Strong kicked a field goal apiece for the Giants and Tod Goodwin caught pass from Ed Danowski and ran 55 yards for the touchdown. Clarke Hinkle gave a great in dividual performance as Green Bay took over second place in the west by defeating Philadelphia, 13 to 6. The former Bucknell star place kicked field goals from the 39 and 37 yard lines, scored the Packer touchdown and added the extra point. Matesic passed to Ed Manske for the Eagle touchdown. Brooklyn and Boston closed their seasons with a scoreless tie at Brooklyn.

SkinSufferers find ready relief from itching of eczema, rashes and similar ills, in the hi YOU'RE in TELLING ME Charlie Dressen, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, once played football with the Chicago Bears pro outfit, back in the days when they were known as the Staleys. Only two clubs, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, have won the national pro title three times. Kurt Warmbein, Michigan State's great halfback, played end in high school. Freddie Spurgeon, former Cleve land Indian infielder. is a high school football and basketball of ficial in Michigan.

Larry Kel- ley, talkative and capable Yale end, will be back for another year of football next fall. Ed Michaels, the great Villanova guard, plays without a headgear. MICCOSUKEE Miss Laura Willie and Mrs. Guy B. Scott have been visiting Mrs.

W. H. Saunders. Miss Ruth Dodd has returned to Asheville, N. after a visit to Miss Mary Simpson Yarorougn.

The Woman's club met on Wednesday afternoon at the home Mrs. W. C. Haynes. Mrs.

Haynes and her mother, Mrs. Bob Stringer, were joint hostesses. Fol lowing the business meeting a Christmas program was enjoyed in which a number of the 4-H club ciris sane Christmas carols. Dur- ing the social hour delicious re freshments were served. The friends of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Wvrick will reeret to know of the passing of their eight-year-old daughter Gladys, which' occurred after a lingering illness. Death came on Thursday at the Arch-bold memorial hospital where she had been sent for treatment. In terment was held at the old Hall cemetery at Spring Hill.

An experiment at Leipzig, Ger many, in 1920, with the help of a radium solution tc hatch chicks, showed that under these conditions the eggs developed 'in less than 15 days and the chicks were over WTAL 1:30 P. M. Dally. Tune in on State and Kin Ibeatert gentle medication of esmoi application. perfectly normaL we'll go home..