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Tuesday, December 1, 1936. THE HAMMOND TIMES Page Eleven i TF I 1 Red for Dizzy Dean Are Prepared to Offer $200 Widseth Only Big 10 Man to Rate Giles Dangles 'Bring Us Five Players Gallivan to Santa Claus AfcLemore Bored as Cards Trade Cracks With Dizzy Srowns Rated Highest; Cats Need a Center Valparaiso Game to Furnish Better Line on Hammond High ence. And in simple justice, I must add that the conference not long produced an all-American, namely Dutch Clark, who could and can and did and, even now, will play, ball on almost any man's team. All told, it was a year in which selections were greatly simplified, and, at the same time, not without1 complications. Tinsley and Kelley, the ends, were so far in front of their fields that no representative team could ignore them.

Francis of Nebraska, Baugh of Texas Christian, Parker of Duke, Widseth of Minnesota and Starcevich of Washington were equally conspicuous. The complications came in omitting Herwig, the California center and Daniell, the Pittsburgh tackle, from the first team selections. However, there was a more insistent rating for Basrak of Duquesne and Kinard of Mississippi and it was so ordered. The west coast will probably figure that Gorrard, Washington State, belongs. But it seems resonable to suppose that the only undefeated and untied team, Santa Clara, should be represented with a first team choice and, therefore, Falasche gets himself a job.

There are a great many more names, but that's the trouble with all-Amerlcan selections. When you name too many, the first thing you know you're not naming enough. By STEVE CHRUSTOWSKI A jumping center, two forwards with ability to make baskets and two good and fast guards. Give Ray Gallivan the above combination and and Whiting high school will have a winning basketball team during the 1936-37 season. Gallivan, who stepped into the basketball coaching business at Whiting last season, sees anything but a rosy outlook as he begins his second year as cage coach at Whiting high school.

Two regulars Mike Kinek, center and Steve "Gus" Haran-gody, forward-guard have graduated from the 1935-36 squad which won seven games and lost 11. Four of the first string reserves who saw plenty of action last season also are gone. They are Godfrey Bradoc, forward; Harry Soth, forward; Joe Hanyiscka, guard, and William Kovacich, sub-center. With both Kinek and Kova- cich gone, Gallivan has a real problem to find a new man to plug the hole at the pivot position. Kinek was regarded one of the best senters in the con- ference and was considered the sparkplug of last season's team.

Bill St. Clair, a junior and Bill Jones, a sophomore, football men, are being groomed for the pivot position. One of them is expected to be given the post. Also working out for the pivot position are Robert Green and Raymond Isbell, both seniors and both members of the football squad. H0PPE HOLDS LEAD IN CUE TOURNAMENT CHICAGO, Dec.

1. (UJ Willie Hoppe, defending champion, held the lead as the round robin tournament of challengers of world three-cushion billiard championship entered its third day. Hoppe scored his second victory last night by defeating Allen Hall, Chicago, 50 to 37, in 45 innings. PITTSBURGH TO GET EAST'S TITLE AWARD NEW YORK, Dec. 1.

(U.P.) The August V. Lambert Memorial trophy, emblematic of the eastern football championship, will be presented to the University of Pittsburgh within 10 days, it was announced today. Micaiah Pendelton of Virginia drafted the first total abstinence pledge in 1812. ECU DAYTONA BEACH. Dec.

l.Word from myself that I had been elected president and corresponding secretary of a new organization reached me today, and on learning the ideals of the club I accepted the honor and paid two years' dues in advance. Its name: "Whoinell-Cares-Whether-Dizzy Dean-Is-Traded-or-S 1 d-Until-Dizzy Dean-Is-Traded-or-S 1 d-and Lets Read-the-Classif ied-Ads-Page Association." Its motto: "Make Dean, the free balloon, a free agent, and let him go where he wants to." The club is open to all citizens, preferably sane ones, who are sick unto death of picking up the sports pages every day and reading fresh and unverified rumors on what the St. Louis Cardinals are going to do with the great man. Dean, before the 1937 baseball season. Since the world series there has been a story a day, connecting Dean with half the boroughs between here and Lisbon, and involving a sum of money Dean wouldn't be worth even If he had more arms than an octupus, and could pitch 20 winning games a year with each one.

Or even if he were as good as he thinks he is. A few of the more "definite" reports on Dean I have read are: He will go to Cincinnati for Derringer, $250,000 and riparian rights on the city water works. He will be sold to New York for free passes on the Empire State elevators and the right to build a skeet shooting trap in the Statue of Liberty. He will be traded to Chicago for everything Brother Wrigley can raise in the way of money against Valparaiso. Kessler, although faced with the big task of upholding a winning tradition at Hammond high, is not singing the blues.

He figures the Wildcats will take care of themselves against the best once a combination has worked together long enough. Whiting, short of material, is likely to take a severe whipping Thursday night in a conference opener with Emerson, a team that has three returning stars in Tom-bers, Collins and Anderson. The latter figures to rate as one of the really great forwards of the year. Washington has only Don Yohe and Tillotson returning from the list of regulars last season but John McShane, the new coach, should have a pretty fair team ready to invade Gary Friday night for the Froebel game. On the same evening, Horace Mann visits East Chicago to play Roosevelt.

George Rogers Clark, rated now as one of the outstanding teams in the Calumet, opens play on the home floor Saturday night with Edison of East Gary. Thornton Fractional, district champion and sectional finalist last year in Illinois, entertains Hammond Tech on the beautiful Fractional floor Saturday night. Tech blew a 32-20 opener to Emerson but rates to play evenly with the Calumet City lads. SINCLAIR AND GEN. AMERICAN TIED FOR LEAD TBI CITY STANDINGS W.

Pet. Gen. American ....2 0 1.000 Sinclair Oil 0 1.000 Lever Bros. 1 1 .500 Amaizo Prod. .....1 1.

JSOO Youngstown 1 1 500 La Salle 1 1 -500 W. B. Conkey 2 .000 Grasselli Chem. 2 .000 MONDAY SCORES La Salle 30, Grasselli 30. Sinclair Oil 17, Amaizo 15.

Youngstown 21, Lever Bros. 19. Gen. Amer. 25, Colkeys 17.

General American and Sinclair stand at the top of the heap in the Tri City Industrial Basketball leasrue race today but there is no indication that they will remain undefeated for long. The Tankers played the last place Conkeys last night and emerged with a 25-17 decision which was more decisive than the score indicated, but Sinclair had to turn on full steam for the 32 min GLASSES DIRECT COMPLETE GLASSES between now and April. He will be traded to Brooklyn for the moving picture rights of the Brooklyn Dodgers, which will be released through Mack Sennett under the title, "Should This Be Allowed in the Major Leagues?" He will be shipped to Pittsburgh" in exchange for every bit of baseball paraphernalia the Pirates have except one second base cushion which the Pirates' president will use to soften the hard chairs in the Pennsylvania state poorhouse. There have been dozens of other reports. Yet, as this is being written (:32 a.

m. Greenwich mean time) Dean still belongs to St. Louis, and if he still was there when the next season started the surprise wouldn't send me yelping down the street. If the boys persist in writing stories on Dean, the all-time sports bore record held jointly by Babe Ruth and Colonel Jacob Ruppert, and established when they used to take three months each year publicly to come to terms on a contract they had agreed on in five minutes in the privacy of the colonel's office, deep in the coils of his brewery will be smashed to bits, I won't get any members for my new club in this town, because the citizens of this metropolis are very interested in seeing Dean traded. For he offended them with several kind blasts when it was announced that St.

Louis would train there this year. As I recall it. Dean said Daytona was too' windy. Personally, I wouldn't dare disagree with him, for if ever a man has qualified as an authority on "wind," Dean is the cookie. utes of play in order to nose out Amaizo, league champions, 17-15.

La Salle Steel and Youngstown, who were defeated a week ago, came back to win and pull into a four-way tie for third place. Youngstown took Levers, 21 to 19, and La Salle put on a last-half drive with Mettler and Gehr leading the way to smack Grasselli, 30 to 20. Amaizo's defeat by Sinclair proved startling to the fans at George Clark gym. The champions shot themselves into a 11-1 lead in the first six minutes of play and then went into a shooting slump that held them scoreless until the fourth quarter when two charity tosses and a basket put them back in the game. Spu-dic, Erwin and Bob Diehl were heroic in the rally which won for Sinclair.

Levers took an early lead over Youngstown but the Sheet and Tube contingent outscored the Soapmen, 14 to 7, in the last half with Howell, former Emerson star, snagging nine of the 14. Levers missed numerous short shots during the game, causing Manager Ed Filas to suspect that a shooting drill would work no evil. La Salle's 13-polnt third quarter iced the game with Grasselli. Rogus, Yablonowski and Sal-czynski were heroes in the General American triumph over Conkeys, Rogus sinking three fielders. The Conkey'i 10 0 2 11 Oen.

AmerTn YablooBki. f. 3 3 1 Bobsrakl, f. Mlehalic, f. Lena, f.

Bohrlng, f. Rogus, I. 3 0 1 2 Derosa, f. 0 OiStemp, e. a i Tkacz.

e. 1 Stamnlck, g. 0 Crbanski, g. 2 Reeves, c. 13 0 Salczrnskt, (.202 Benicb, g.

10 8 Score gy quarters: Conkers 4 4 1 8 17 General American 8 4 4 25 Levers Kocbls. f. Kooney, f. Friedhof, t. Zazada.

c. Thomas, e. Malak. g. Young-atowa Howell, f.

Wilson, f. Thilmont, e. Richards, e. Ganainger, (. 1 Carlisle, g.

1 Noworyts, g. 0 Lawrence, g. Score gy quarters Levers 5 7 4 319 Yonngstown 1 6 6 8 21 la Balls Wilhein. f. Malak, f.

Plebl. f. Wolik, t. Gehr. c.

Olinski, c. Mettler, m. Kaslevich, g. Baldwin, g. OraiseUl Spndicb.

f. Radford, f. Rerenci, f. Ruffkln, f. Savajje, c.

Lietzan, g. Teles, g. Bradley, t- 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 0 1 2 1 0 Rail, g. Score gy quarters: La Salle a 6 Grascelli 4 15 13 630 520 Amaizo Brown, f. Visouatti, Papach, c.

Btralho. g. 4 0 2 0 VI Sinclair 1 1 2 1 2 1 0'Concoy, f. 0 Burton, f. OIGajda.

f. oiWilde, g. E. Diehl, g. Wickborst, g.

1 Erwin, g. Score gy quarters: Amaizo 11 4 15 Sinclair 8 8 4 217 FROM MAKER AT LOWEST PRICES our glasses, because we are jur, glasses come to you Tou take no chances when you buy our glasses. Our guarantee: If the glasses we furnish you are not entirely satisfactory in every way, they will be exchanged or your money returned. manski, Holy Cross and Haines, Washington; fullback, Kurlish, Pennsylvania. Of course, we're violating the rules.

That third team back-field, now. Three men from the same section; that simply should not be. We should have thrown two of them away and pandered, not to judgment, but the expediency. Another thing we're working on is to be able to tell what has happened during the season, before it's over and thus be in a position to announce our team before we have it qualified. That's a very difficult undertaking, but so many others seem able to do it that we just know we'll master it in time.

When we do, for instance, before he takes part in a 0-40 debacle in his final game of the season. It will not be necessary, either, to have Gaynell Tinsley go through LSU's 33 to 0 game against Tulane because it won't be necessary to wait for that to know the man absolutely for what he is. We'll appoint him on suspicion. Just what we are to do in the future about such men as Brobnitch and Ryan, of the Rocky Mountain conference, I am unable to say and must continue to feel that way until this conference furnishes a line upon itself by playing "outside teams. For all anyone knows, the above pair may be the greatest in the land or merely the greatest in the confer Dean Alumnus lor a Day; Will Exhort Florida Grid Team GAINESVILLE, Dec.

1. (INS) Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, baseball's immortal, is going to try his hand at a new role. Dean is going to be "cheer leader" for the Florida 'Gators in their battle here Saturday with the Mississippi State Maroons, it was revealed today. Maybe not "cheer leader," but he's going to yell and pull for the 'Gators. He Is, in fact, going to be No.

1 assistant water boy. And if the crowd insists, he may even try his hand at chucking the pigskin. think I'll be good luck to the 'Gators, and if they play a good game, I'm going to tell my teammates to take a few lessons from them," Dean declared. Dean's wife is Mississippi girL So, it looks like the house of Deans is going to be divided that day. MRS.

DE BOLD IS CUE CHAMP Mrs. Christine De Bold Is the champion woman pocket billiard player of the Calumet region and will compete in the Mid-West ama teur tournament in Chicago on Dec. 16 and 17 for the right to move on to New York City for the national finals. Mrs. De Bold clinched her cham pionship by winning from Miss Winifred Thornton, 50 to 46.

The two finalists had tied for first by virtue of four victories and one defeat apiece in the round robin series. BELIEVE BABE RUTH WILL BOSS ALBANY MONTREAL, Dec 1. (INS) Joe Cambria, owner of the Albany, N. club of the International league, and Frank Shaughnessy, president of the circuit, believe Babe Ruth will manage Albany next season, they revealed today at the annual convention of the minor leagues. However, Shaughnessy denied flatly that the league or any other clubs would help the Sena tors land the Babe or pay him.

"We feel the Babe would be do ing us a favor," Shaughnessy said "to manage one of our club, but also we feel we would be doing the Babe a favor in giving him a chance to get started as a mana ger, just as Walter Johnson, Rab bit Maranville and others were given their chance." INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Officials of the Cincinnati Reds announmed they were ready to offer $200,000 to St. Louis Cardinals for services of Dizzy Dean. Reports persisted that Babe Ruth would become manager of the Albany Senators of the International league. Teams of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian led field of 13 teams in international 6-day bike grind at New York. Max Schmeling, who arrives here early this month, was ex pected to give approval to the Braddock-Louis championship bout at Atlantic City Feb.

22 if he receives a contract for a fight with the winner. Pittsburgh Panthers awarded August V. Lambert memorial trophy as best college football team in the east. Bruce Barnes of Austin, was signed as fourth member of Fred Perry, Ellsworth Vines and George Lott pro tennis touring Sports Review Bv DAVIS J. WALSH (INS Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Dec.

1. After a careful canvass of all possible contingencies, even to those that happened in the all-important climax games at the close of the season, the International News Service today is announcing its all American football team for 1936 as follows: Pos. Player College E. Tinsley Lou'na State T. Widseth Minnesota G.

Glassford Pittsburgh C. Basrak "Duquesne G. Starcevich Washington T. Kinard Mississippi E. Kelley Yale QB.

Falasche Santa Clara HB. Parker Duke HB. Baugh Texac Ch'ian FB. Francis Nebraska The second team choices are: Ends, Kovatch, Northwestern and Benton, Arkansas; tickles, Daniel, Pittsburgh and Strange, Louisiana State; guards, Reid, Northwestern and Routt, Texas Aggies; center, Herwig, California; quarterback, Goddard, Washington. State; halfbacks, Buivid, Marquette and Alabama; fullback, Uram, Minnesota.

And these are the third team nominations: Ends, Daddio, Pittsburgh and Wendt, Ohio State; tackles, Bond, Washington and Hamrick, Ohio State; guards, Lautar, Notre Dame and White, Alabama; center, Gilbert, Auburn; quarterback, Frank, Yale; halfbacks, Os- YOUNG FELLER GET FREE DECISION SOON By STEVE SNIDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) CHICAGO, Dec 1. New signs pointed today to a decision by Baseball Commissioner K. M. Lan dis declaring Bob (Young) Feller a free agent plunking $50,000 or mora into the path of Cleveland's schoolboy pitching sensation. Action by the commissioner on two recent cases gave Fellers a hint of his future for the first time since his tangled case became a major league issue.

Setting back the Cincinnati Reds in the disputed cases of Lee Handley, infielder, and John G. Peacock, catcher, Judge Landis tipped his hand once more on his stand regarding major league manipulation of minor league players. Handley and Peacock were declared free agents. They are at liberty to contract with any baseball club except Cincinnati or its affiliates because the Reds "at all times completely dominated and controlled Toronto's disposition of these players and their contracts." The Feller case reportedly hinges on whether Bullet Bob was signed legally by a minor league club or by a Cleveland scout in violation of a major-minor league agreement. In the absence of this first contract, however, many baseball observers believed Landis may set him free on the same grounds as Handley and Peacock.

Since this decision may affect several other cases which have not yet come into the open, other experts were just as certain the commissioner would hold back the ruling until after the league meetings this month, when the major league agreement not to sign amateur players except collegians would be amended or removed. Most speculation so far has been in favor of the Cleveland club, which picked the 17-year-old Fel ler off a Cleveland amateur team after New Orleans had placed him on the voluntary, retired list with a sore arm. New Orleans, a Cleveland farm, had obtained him from Fargo-Moorhead of the Northern league, presumably Feller's first professional boss. The Indians used him in an exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals July 6 and he struck out eight bastmen in three innings.

Thereafter, he established himself as the pitching find of the decade. While Judge Landis prepared his decision either declaring Bob the rightful property of the Cleveland Indians or free to sell his contract to the highest bidder Feller at tended classes at Van Meter Con solidated school (van Meter, riding the school bus and carrying his lunch in a tin pail. He's the president and a leading student in the senior class. LAY DEN SEES TEAM IN PERFECT SHAPE CHICAGO, Dec. 1.

(INS) Notre Dame's football squad, 36 strong, sped westward today with Los Angeles the ultimate destination. The Irish will play the University of Southern California, an old and respected foe, Saturday. During a brief stop here yesterday, Coach Elmer Layden revealed his plans for practice enroute. The Irish will work out at Tucson, tomorrow and Thursday, at Yuma, Friday, and will arrive in Los Angeles Friday evening. The squad is in excellent physical condition, Layden said, and the Irish will be at top strength against Southern California.

PICK FOE DEC. 7 SEATTLE, Dec. 1. (TJ.P.) The eastern Rose Bowl opponent of University of Washington will be named at a Pacific coast conference meeting in Pasadena, Dec. 7 or 8, Coach Jimmy Phelan said today.

Cash in Eyes Of Card Heads Talk Is Cheap at Opening Session of the Minor Leagues By LAWTON CARVER (INS Sports Writer) MONTREAL, Dec. 1. Officials of the Cincinnati Reds today were ready to offer $200,000 to the St. Louis Cardinals for Dizzy Dean in the second greatest cash baseball deal ever transacted. Warren Giles, business manager of the Reds, said he was awaiting arrival of Branch Rickey, Cardinal vice president and general manager, to present a check, backed by the millions of Powell Crosley, Reds' owner, to complete negotiations for the ace right-handed pitcher of the St.

Louis staff. This deal was one of many discussed by early arrivals to the 35th annual convention of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and was definitely ready for consummation, Giles said, if the Cards really mean business." The greatest previous cash deal was that of a couple of seasons ago, when Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators, sold his son-in-law, Shortstop Joe Cronin, to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. And that probably will stand as tops. While Dean is the greatest player and attraction of these times, the Reds appraise his value at a maximum of $200,000 and the Pittsburgh Pirates and other interested in obtaining him seem to feel the same way about it, if not expressing even less enthusiasm. Giles, in discussing the potential Dean trade, said he was confident that Cincinnati had an excellent chance of landing the Cardinal star.

"We figure Dean would put us in the first division," Giles said, "and because we are a second division club we also figure that the Cardinals would be more eager to do business with us than with some club that had a chance of fighting it out for the pennant." Meanwhile, the opening day of the minor league meeting was producing nothing of consequence. The International circuit went into session, and after 10 hours had nothing to announce." They wert to go through the same motions today, and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues will try to make an Improvement on the situation beginning tomorrow when it meets. QUEEN ANNE TO FACE ST. LOUIS GIRL QUINTET The Shaw Stephens American Legion girls basketball team of St. Louis, Mo which will visit the Amaizo gym Saturday night for an intercity battle with the Queen Anne Aces, will bring with it the envious record of having scored almost twice as many points, last season, as its opponents.

The SU Louis girls rolled up 561 points in 20 games, or better than 25 per centest, while limiting foes to points. Saturday's game here will be the first of the new season for the Shaw Stephens club, which Is scheduled to leave immediately after the contest for Chicago where a midnight train will be taken for Des Moines, la. There, on Sunday, the Shaws play the rangy, powerful American Institute of Business five, the only club that gained more than one victory over the St. Louisiana last season. Other teams that ganied victories over the St, Louisans, whi won 16 of their 20 engagements, were the national champion, Tulsa Ste-nos and the Windsor, Canada, Alumnae five.

In return, however, the Shaws beat every team that beat them. Of course, the Queen Annes regard Saturday's game as on In which they will gain revenge for the defeat they suffered when they visited St. Louis last year and bowed to the Shaw Stephens team after winnig 22 games in a row. On the other hand. Coach Edd'e Davidson of the Shaw Stephens club refuses to predict any outcome either way for his team.

He points out that he has lost several members of last year's varsity and is trying to replace them with three newcomers, Bernice Huehnerhoff, Gina DiZorzl and Jessie Crane, all of whom are likely to be seen in action against Hammond. Former Purple Coach Retires AMES. Dec. 1. (INS) The retirement of George Veenker as head football coach at Iowa State college was announced here today.

He will devote himself to his duties as athletic director and head of the College of Physical Educa tion, he said, and will be succeeded as football coach by his assistant, James Y. Yeager. Veenker formerly coached Ham mond and Gary, high school teams. George Macko, forward Steve Nagy, guard; Joe GardU na, guard; Sam Gurevitz, guard; Paul Demas, guard, and Ted Falda, forward are back from last year's squad. Cardi-na, however, is not expected to see much, if any action on the hardwood because of an injured leg suffered in football.

Joe Peters and Joe Molson, juniors, ere showing promise at guard and forward respectively. Whiting opens a 19-game schedule Friday against Emerson at Gary Memorial gym. The first home game to be played in Whiting Community Center gym will be with Hammond Tech, Dec. 12. A tentative game has been scheduled for Community Center gym, Feb.

20, with Vin-cennes high school. The Alices represent one of the top-notch teams in the southern part of the state. The Whiting schedule: Tec. 4 At Emerson. Dec.

5 At Catholic Central. 11 At Waahfncton (K. (.. Iec. 12 Hammond Tech.

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Jan. fi Froebel. Jan. 9 Open. Jan.

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22 Hammond. Jan. 23 At Hobart. Jan. 29 Lew Wallace.

Jan. 30 Emereon. Feb. 5 Washington. Feb.

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The Wildcats, will trade punches with Elkhart, Mishawaka and South Bend Riley. Horace Mann goes to Fort Wayne on Dec 26 for another four-team tourney that includes Fort Wayne North and Central and Kokomo. Mel Trutt, Hammond high grad, took fourth place in the national X-country race won by Don Lash, also of Indiana U. Logan sport high, certain to be one of the half dozen best in Indiana this year, has won five straight. Parting Shot: The Speculator is just another of the 50,000,000 baseball fans bored by the Dizzy Dean trade rumors.

CAGE SCHEDULE Wednesday Horace Mann, at Wallace. Valparaiso at Hammond (c). Thursday Whiting at Emerson (c). Friday Washington at Frocbel (c). Horace Mann at Roosevelt (c).

Hobart at Chesterton. Crown Point at North Judson. Merrillville at Dyer. Saturday Knox at Wallace. Warsaw at Valparaiso.

Griffith at Hobart. Hammond Tech at Thornton. Merrillville at Crown Point. East Gary at Hammond Clark. By JOHN WHITAKER (Times Sports Editor) FUR conference games this week in the Western division ehould give the annual basketball mania a big: impetus, furnish the coaches with a line on material, and present the fans with a preliminary slant on who has and who hasn't this year in the Calumet.

There is a tendency in some Quarters to concede everything to Horace Mann, the squad that has seven returning lettermen but the lads at Emerson. Froebel, Hammond and, possibly, Washington high, aro inclined to consider themselves in the title race. Returning to action at the Fifth Stvenue school are such able cagers as Ace Harmon, John Carr, Dan TJzelac, Dan Peyovich, Bob Von Berghy, Bud Morrison and Ted Lo-rig. Having flashed plenty last fcrear, Urese lads should if properly handled, comprise one of the classiest teams ever to play in the Cal-tzmeL Coach Keith Crown says it's "the best material we've ever had. My boys are experienced, have the height, speed and all-around ability to go places but it depends entirely on their ambition." Early line on Mann's ability will be given tomorrow night when the Horsemen tangle with Lew Wallace.

Another game on the same brings Valparaiso to the Masonic temple for a game with the Hammond high "mystery team." Minus all regulars from the powerful aggregation of last year, Hammond high looked bad in an opener with Hobart but figures to be much stronger and certainly better coordinated for its conference opener against a Viking team that has four veterans returning from the up and down club of last season. The big problem at Hammond high is to find a center. Wally Ziemba, Jim Crosbie and Dick Dut-ton are engaged in a torrid scrap for the position but none has shown outstanding ability to date. Crosbie Is the better jumper, however, with Dutton and Ziemba having a slight edge in scoring ability. Coach Kessler will probably start Bobby Mygrants and Johnny Peck at forwards and the two Georges, Sobek and Benson, at guards, Fox Shots It's Time You Began Shopping! The Old Fox Shooter hat never been one to meddle into the other guy's business.

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Remember 24 more daysl JACK FOX and SONS 5209 Hohman Hammond WRITER LISTS BEST PLAYS OF GRID CAMPAIGN By GEORGE KIRKSEY (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Dec. 1. High and low spots of the humpty-dumpty football season: Best big team: Minnesota, conqueror of Washington, far western champion, and Nebraska, Big Six champion, and loser only to Northwestern, Big Ten champion. Best little team Western Reserve of Cleveland, unbeaten in nine games. Up-side-own champions: Notre Dame, which came back to beat Army and Northwestern after being routed by Pitt and beaten by Navy.

Biggest upset: West Virginia Wesleyan's 2-0 victory over Duquesne the week after the Dukes had toppled Pitt, 7-0. Greatest single game comeback: Baylor, trailing by 18 points scoring 21 points in the final period to beat Texas. Greatest team comeback: Georgia, after losing four straight games and yielding 126 points, rallying to beat Florida, Tulane and Georgia Tech and tie Fordham. Biggest laugh: Fordham's Rose Bowl buttons. After the Georgia and NYU games the Rose Hill root ers used them for collar buttons.

Happiest coach: Jimmy Phelan, U. of Washington, who was on the spot and came through by putting the Huskies In the Rose Bowl. Saddest coach: Vic Hanson, Syra cuse, who opened the season with brilliant prospects but lost seven in a row after winning the opener. Most important play in big game: Andy Uram's 79-yard run in the last minute of play which gave Minnesota a 7-0 triumph over Ne bras a. Greatest travel feat: Texas M.

defeating SMU at Dallas, 22-6; San Francisco on the coat, 38-14, and Utah at Salt Lake City, 20-7, in eight days including a sightseeing trip to Hollywood. Greatest display of power In single game: Minnesota's 52-0 rout of Iowa. Biggest crowd-drawer Notre Dame, which needs only a sellout crowd for the Southern California game Saturday to play to half a million. Goofiest team: Stanford, which even caused coach Tiny Thornhill to get a little punchy from their unpredictable antics. Greatest one-game punting feat: Howard Dunney, New York who averaged yards on 12 kicks against Fordham.

He kicked out on the 2, 5, 7 and 8-yard lines. Greatest single kick under pressure: Steve Toth, Northwestern, who got off a 75-yard punt from behind his own goal line to save the Ohio State game. Longest run: Ace Parker, Duke's all-American, who ran a kickoff back 105 yards against North Carolina. Greatest passing feats: Sammy Baugh, Texas Christian, who threw three touchdown passes in 18 minutes against Baylor, three in 20 minutes against Texas, two in 15 minutes against Centenary. Greatest defensive exhibition: Fred Vanzo, Northwestern, who made 24 tackles against Minnesota.

Crudest boo: Elmer Layden, who walked on the field during the Pitt-Notre Dame game and caused fans to give him the first boo of his career as a coach or player. Most controversial play: Larry Kelley's "kick" of a fumbled punt in Yale-Navy game. Funniest sight: A little bunny rabbit dashing 65 yards across the Navy's goal in the first period a feat the Army mule couldn't do all day. HONOR JANKOWSKI MADISON, Dec. 1.

(INS) Eddie Jankowski, of Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin's smashing fullback, has been named the man most valuable to the squad for the second consecutive year, it was announced THE ordinary newspaper "expose" usually quotes a few authorities, uses a few affidavits and often uses photostatic copies of documents to prove or disprove the point under discussion. As a lover of the truth. The Speculator prefers those investigations which feature the affidavits and photo-statics. He didn't care one bit for the "explanation" of Big Ten proselyting, if any, as written by Wilfrid Smith and printed these last few days in the World's Greatest Newspaper. The trouble with the Smith articles was that they did not contain what Smith, as a football expert, must know about certain Big Ten schools.

When any newspaperman leaves the impression that the Big Ten conference is simon pure, he ducks the "trut, da whole trut and nuttin but da trut" as a South Chicago bailiff would say. They still pay high school "prsPects" to chase dogs off beaches in the Summer time. They still pay them to turn on lights once a week in the training rooms and The Speculator knows two lads who were home for Thanksgiving in jubilant mood because their pay has been raised for next year. The invariable answer of course is that the school signs no checks and allows no school man to act as payoff. Bdt the schools tolerate the same so what the hell's the difference? XX'.

JERRY HIGGINS, outstanding star on Hammond high's 1935 sectional championship five, is not listed among "prospects" for Purdue's basketball team this year. Only one of the four seniors who played on Frankfort high's 1936 state champions, failed to enroll in college. Name is Montgomery and he played center for the Hot Dogs. McCreary Is at Indiana Joseph at Butler and Vaughan, husky forward, has gone to Southern California where the climate, educational adavntages, are much better than here in the midwest. Write your own ticket on that one.

There are three changes in the basketball rules this year. (1) Elimination of penalty for communication by substitutes. (2) Increase. In number of time-outs to four each half, thus giving the lads more opportunity to catch their wind. (3) Establishment of a 12-foot circle in the center to avoid congestion on tip-off plays.

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