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BERNARDINO DAILY STTN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931 New Era Looms for Minor League Baseball as Prexy Resigns PAGE EIGHTEEN MEN WHO MADE WEST'S MIGHTIEST ELEVEN Luminaries Selected on Associated Press All-Coast Team TROY EXPECTS TOUGH BATTLE FROMJUSKIES Coach Jones Believes Invaders In Better Condition; Picks Gaels Over Mustangs By HOWARD H. JONES (Football Coach University of Southern California) SEXTON GIVES UP POST TO AID MODERN PLANS Central Governing Body Formed To Handle Club Problems; Propose Commissioner By GEORGE KIRKSaY (United Press Staff WEST BAPEN. In Tec. 3.

-The ALL-AMERICAN 1 ELEVEN PICKED BYU.RCRITICS Troj'ans Place Shaver, Baker on Team; Notre Dame Gets 'Hurry Up' Cain at Full By HENRY M'LEMORE (United Press Correspondent) NEW YORK, Deo. United Press today announced Its selections Five Trojan rpHREE football players who -L fornia guard; Pinckert, So nia got five, California two a concensus. til 1 O- 1 1 I were uthern nd fall- coash eleven! WMlJM Vf1 WASH. I USC. -IcALtFORNtAl II I -11 H.II.U..L selected as All-Coast team members In 1930 won berths on the 1931 outfit compiled by the Associated Press.

They were California halfback, and Schwegler, Washington tackle. St. Mary's placed two men on the 1931 team, Washington had University of California at Los Angeles one. The Associated Press polled 31 sports writers, coaches and officials In five Second, Third Grid Teams on United Press All-Star Listing mtm BYfilLtWl.T hi fi i i1 1 irt INSTALL GAELS 10-8 FAVORITES Mustangs Underdogs as Two of Country's Leading Elevens Clash in San Francisco (By United Frew) SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 8.

Odds of 10 to 8 that the St. Mary's football team will beat Southern Methodist university here Saturday were reported tonight as the weather bureau predicted a possible rain storm during the game. The Galloping Gaels of St. Mary's are famous for their aerial offensive, but have proven this season that they can win games by using a running attack exclusively. Southern Methodist's Mustangs are equally noted for their passes, but last Saturday were held to a scoreless tie on a muddy gridiron when their passes would not work.

Regardless of the weather, Kezar stadium probably will be filled with more than 60,000 spectators. The teams are among the 10 best In the nation. Southern Methodist la undefeated and was tied only once. St. Mary's has defeated University of Southern California, the team that later beat Notre Dame, Oregon university, the team that defeated New York university, and California, which finished second in the Pacific Coast conference.

The Gaels slumped after six straight wins, losing to Olymplo Club and University of California at Los Angeles In games played four days apart. They had won 12 in a row, Including games last season, when they met Olympic Club. St. Mary's has two of the best players on the Pacific Coast. Bud Toscanl, halfback, and Bill Fischer, guard, won positions on the United Press All-Coast team and are candidates for recognition on All-America teams.

The Saints use the Notre Dame system of attack. Southern Methodist has met two teams with this style of offensive this season. The Texans will arrive here to morrow morning. Rosenbloom Signed For Three Battles By United Press) NEW YORK, Deo. 3.

Frank Bachman, manager of world light-heavyweight champion, Maxle Rosenbloom, today signed his fighter for bouts at Scranton, Savannah, and Milwaukee, Wis. Rosenbloom will meet Pete Latzo at Scranton Dec. 11, and Walker (Cyclone) Smith at Savannah, Dec. 17. Both boute will be 10-round non-title.

The Milwaukee bout, on New Year's afternoon, will be a 10-round overweight contest, with Dave Maier of Milwaukee. The contract includes an agreement for Rosenbloom to defend his title against the Milwaukee fighter If Maier wins. 'Ramblin' Wreck From Georgia Tech' Born With Great Yellowjacket 1917 Eleven Baker, Southern Call-one, Southern Califor-states for Its All-Coast COUGARS GIVEN HARD WORKOUT (By United Prees) NEW ORLEANS, Dee. 1. The Washington State college football team went through a strenuous workout here today preparing: for lta game with Tulane university's undefeated and untied team Saturday.

The Washington players were In high splrlU and unawed by the reputation of Tulane. "We're making no predictions, at all," said Coach Orln (Babe) Hol-llngberry. "It would be foolish. On form, Tulane looks 20 to 40 points better than we are. You can count on us, though, to put up a great scrap." Coach Bernle Blerman of Tulane predicted Washington State would win.

"My boys are too confident," said Blerman after a workout. Tulane will be fighting a Jinx that has plagued all their intcrscc-tlonal games for five years. Tulane has not won an Intersectlonal game for five years except one from Texas Aggies. Northwestern and New York university have beaten Tulane, and Missouri has tied twice. The Tulane line, averaging pounds to the man, will be outweighed.

The prospective Washington lineup gives that team a line averaging 190 pounds. Morale of Tulane players was above par, despite Blerman's pessimism, and Captain Dalrymple predicted "the boys will run up a big score to prove beyond all doubt that we're the real champions." of a new era in minor league baseball was signalized day when the National Association of Professional Baseball Leases voted unanimously to retire Mike Sexton of Rock Island, 111., from the presidency and create a com mittee of five to replace him for one year. Sexton, who has served as president for 22 years. 15 of them without pay, retired gracefully, asking his friends to join the majority and make the vote unanimous. He was made honorary president for next year at his present salary of JS.000.

J. H. Farrell, secretary of the national association, was not effected by the resolution and will continue in his present capacity for another Sexton Aika Cooperation "Gentlemen before I came to this meeting I had a pledge of sufficient votes to reelect me," said Sexton, before the resolution was voted on. "Since then this gathering has taken an unusual turn of affairs. I am going to be a game sport and a good loser and ask my friends to forget their pledges to me and join in with the movement of the day." Branch Rickey, vice-president of the St.

Louis Cardinals and director of their nine minor league farms, praised Sexton's long and faithful service. Rickey was a leader in the reorganization movement. "Mr. Sexton recognizes the problems of modern baseball," said Rickey, "and realizes the need for younger men who can cope with these problems. He has very graciously joined In with the program to rehabilitate minor league baseball.

The committee should bear In mind Mr. Sexton's long record when It makes its report 60 days before the next meeting of the national association." Five Members For Committee The five members of the committee, three from the class AA and A leagues and two from the class and leagues, were to be selected tonight. They will serve for one year without pay. Their work will consist largely of survey. Investigation and recommendation, although they will have full power to act.

The leaders behind the movement said they hoped that at the end of that time the committee will have found a man to take over the lead-1 ership of the minors, perhaps a i figure similar to Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of baseball. It is the plan to invest the office with more power and authority than was held by Sexton, whose principal duties were merely as a presiding officer at the annual meeting of the national association. Most minor league club owners agreed that the action taken today was one of the most important made In the history of baseball, enabling them to have a temporary central governing body and later, possibly, one dominating figure to lead them out of the present plight.

"The danger of the action taken today," said Rickey, "is that the minors may expect too much from this committee. We must not expect that the ills of the minors will be cured overnight The committee will have achieved greatness If It comes back next year with the 16 minors that now exi9t, intact." Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the 1 New York Yankees, today an- tiounced he had completed the pur- chase of the Newark International i league club for a "very big sum." It was said to be more than After nam'ng himself president and Wilbur Crclin secretary, he reappointed Al Mamaux manager for rext year and signed Eernard Kelly, coach of the Chicago White Sox last season, as coach. Ruppert said be had sever considered any one but Mamaux for the managerial Job. Columbus Given Convention Date Columbus, Ohio, was awarded the 1932 convention.

Quebec, Canada, Galveston, Texas, Springfield, Mass. and San Francisco were other cities that made bids for It. There was little action In the tredlng market The St. Louis Urowns sent Pitcher Garland Erax-ton to their Milwaukee American Association farm. The Louisville American Association traded ritcher Claude Jonnard to Milwaukee for Outfielder Clarence Hoffman.

The 8t Paul American Association cljb sold Outfielder Cowboy Jones to the Dallas Texas league club. The New Orleans Southern league club bought First Raseman Guy Sturdy from the Houston Texas league club. Pitchers Carlos Moore from Shreveport and Catcher Chick Autrey from Atlanta. The United Press alternate teams and honorable mentions: SECOND TEAM POS THIRD TEAM Smith, Georgia LE Moss, Purdue Tozer, California LT Price, Army Hickman, Tennessee LG Leathers, Georgia Yarr, Notre Dame Center Pittsburgh Corpus, Stanford RG Rosenberg, U. S.

C. Marvil, Northwestern Schwegler, Washington Sparling, U. S. RE Stone, California Downes, Georgia QB Wood, Harvard Stecker, Army LH Pinckert, U. S.

C. Zimmerman, Tulane RH Mason, S. M. U. Gill, California FB McEver, Tennessee Honorable Mention Ends: Cavalieri, Holy Cross Orsi, Colgate; Ilaynes, Tulane; Templeton, Iowa State; Riblett, Pennsylvania; Barres, Yale; Kosky, Notre Dame.

Tackles Leyendecker, Vanderbilt; Hardy, Harvard; Bell, Ohio State; MacMurdo, Pittsburgh; Saunders, Tennessee; Rhea, Nebraska; Riley, Northwestern. Guards Zellers, Indiana; Vaught, T. C. Maddox, Georgia; Trice, Army; Hoffman, Notre Dame; Grenda, Columbia Zyntellan, Holy Cross. Centers Gracey, Vanderbilt; Morrison, Michigan; Delcambre, S.

M. U. Williamson, U. S. C.

Sharpe, Alabama. Backs Hewitt, Michigan; Monett, Michigan State; Cramer, Ohio State; Manders, Minnesota; Koy, Texas; Richards, Simpson; Moeller, U. S. Toscani, St. Mary's; Christensen, Utah; Crickard, Harvard; Morton, Dartmouth; McCall, Dartmouth; Battles, West Virginia Wes-leyan; Westfall, Ohio Wesleyan; Caddel, Stanford; Hewitt, Columbia; Booth, Yale; Hinkle, Bucknell; Murphy, Fordham; McNamara, N.

Y. Perina, Pennsylvania; Vi-viana, Cornell Fishel, Syracuse; Campiglio, West Liberty; Goff, Rhode Island; Grossman, Rutgers. (Copyright, Sper Newspaper Syndicate) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3. Al though defeated by California and Oregon In addition to being tied by Stanford, there is no doubt but that the University of Washington eleven Is one of the strongest teams In the Northwest.

It is significant that both of Washington's defeats came about when the Huskies were battling furiously In an effort to overcome a one touchdown lead established bv their opponents. In both In stance. Orecnn and California, the breaks went the wrong way for Washington, two passes were intercepted, long runs resulted and the score in each game was the same, 13 to 0. Had Dame Fortune smiled In the other direction there Is lit- tl HnnM hut that the Huskies would be coming to Los Angeles with a clean record for Saturdays game with the University of South ern California. Need Victory To Gain Title Tha Trnlans need this vlctorv to complete their Pacific Coast conference schedule without a defeat, All other teams In the conference have been beaten at least once.

Somehow or other these much needed final victories are often the hardest to attain. -lte the case of Northwestern as an example. The Wildcats, with the iindisDUted championship of the Big Ten in their grasp, were called upon to play an extra game againsi PiirHne Althoueh favored to win and thus gain a clear claim to the title, Northwestern couldn't muster her early season drive and lost, 7 to 0. Wa.Jilncrtnn has not nlaved since Nov. 14 when the Huskies defeated wBhlnrtnn State at Seattle.

Jimmy Phelan's team should be in the best of physical shape and toward the end of the year this often makes a hlg difference In the ultimate outcome of hard game. Trojans Not Sure Victors There have been enough surprises this year to prohibit my picking Southern California to win over Washington. Naturally we are all hoping for victory hut we are not counting on any championship until after the game has been played. The game between St. Mary's of Oakland, and Southern Methodist figures to he close and hard fought throughout.

I expect St. Mary's to win by a small margin. Both teams are proficient In use of the forward pass and the game therefore should provide a maximum of thrills. During mid-season It looked as If these team mltrht he among the un beaten elevens when they met, hut St. Mary's stumbled slightly ana the Mustangs ran Into a tie with Texas Christian last week.

Favors Lions Over Bulldogs Trunin nf T.n Antreles entertains Drake university In a game tonight. Unless Drake is stronger tnan pic-Una atnroa inipt look for a victory by the local team, coached by Tom Lleb. Washington State college of Pullman Is now in New Or leans prepared to meet the power ful Tulane eleven. Tnere is cvn, i.jiMnn it Tulane will win, but I am of the opinion that the Cou gars will make It a mucii game than most people imagine. Babe llolllngbery started with a green team this fall hut has made fine progress as the new men have gained experience and poise on the field of battle.

Pennsylvania should have little trouble with the Navy, Haskell looks to be too strong for Tulsa and Kentucky should dispose of Florida. Full Trojan Power To Face Washington (By United Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. same lineup which took the field against Notre Dame will smash Into the Huskies of Washington Saturday when Southern California attempts to finish its conference season with only the St. Mary's triumph to mar Its record. Confident that Coach James Phelan's charges will be primed for the game and will do everything possible to end a mediocre season with a brilliant victory, Coach Howard Jones sent his squad through Intensive workouts this week, tapering off with light practice today.

The Notre Dame game took a lot of power out of the Trojans, but they showed evidences of regaining It today and Jones was gratified. He expects the Saturday tilt to be one of the hardest of the season, despite predictions that the Trojans should win by three or four touchdowns. The Huskies will arrive In the Southland tomorrow. They expect to practice on the Olympic stadium field during the afternoon. Residents of Seminole, hav duck hunting close at hand in Lake Magnolia, a clty-owncd body of water.

Read the Classified, ror the All-America football team. The selections were made through, observations of its sports correspondents in all sections of the United States, in collaboration with coaches, officials and well-informed football writers. UNITED PRESS ALL-AMERICA Left end, Dalrymple, Tulane. Left tackle, Kurth, Notre Dame. Left guard, Munn, Minnesota.

Center, Miller, Purdue. Right guard, Baker, Southern California. Right tackle, Quatse, Pittsburgh. Right end, Cronkite, Kan. State.

Quarterback, Shaver, Southern California, Left halfback, Schwartz, Notre Dame. Right halfback, Rentner, North western. Fullback, Cain, Alabama. The All-America backfleld, In thlj writer's opinion, Is one of the mightiest ever assembled, boasting In Schwartz and Rentner, two of the finest all-around ball carriers of all time. It Is difficult to imagine a team with enough defensive strength to halt both of these young men in one afternoon.

Picking the halfbacks was the easiest part of naming the 1931 All-America. There were dozens of top flight halfbacks backs, who in any other season might have won. this highest of seasonal awards but there was none to compare with Marchy and Pug. Schwartz was the standout back In the country this year and last. He faced the sternest sort of competition Saturday In and Saturday out, and only an Inspired Army lint was able to handcuff him.

Schwart possesses blinding speed and was equally at home blasting the line or sweeping the ends. He wss the spear-head of the Notre Dame passing game, and his kicking was little short of perfection. And as though all this was not enough, Marchy was a first-class tackier and blocker, Rentner Had Much Class All that need be said about Rent ner is that against the best team In the country he gained yards every time he got his hands on the ball. Standing better than six feet, weighing 181 pounds, Rentner could get under full steam In two or three strides. Mid-western experts rate him as the finest natural runner since Red Grange.

Until he fractured a thumb Rentner rated aa the deadliest passer In the country. He did more than his part In blocking and tackling, and was a better than average kicker. Shaver was awarded the quarterback berth because the Californlan. In a season which produced a hali dozen or more crack field generals, proved himself to be the class of the field. He was more reliable more resourceful and a better ball carrier than Austie Downes, of Georgia; Barry Wood, of Harvard, and Bill Morton, of Dartmouth hisi chief rivals.

Shaver was a beautU ful kicker, a reliable passer, a neaf pass receiver. He packed enough speed and eluslveness to make him a threat In an open field, and enough heft to enable him to smack a line. Conceded Best Southern Star A veritable one-man team this fall was John "Hurry" Cain, of Alabama, generally conceded the finest back in the South. There was nothing Cain couldn't and didn't do. A ball of fire on the attack and a demon on defense that was Cain.

Although weighing 190 pounds, Cain was fast and shifty and delighted in going around the ends. He was probably the finest passe In the South, and one of that sec tlon's most dependable kickers. The' fact that he was a southpaw only, tended to make his work more effective. Cain proved himself bf, his work Inst year, when, as sophomore, he called signals fof Alabama's undefeated and untied eleven. Dalrymple Won Position Easily The All-America line Is featured by one of the greatest ends In fooV ball history.

Gerald "Jerry" DaV rymple of Tulane. He was a maste in all departments of wing play, blocking, tackling, pass receiving, and anything else you might car to mention. His style of play ore defense was highly unorthodox, but so keen was he on diagnosing a play, he never was caught napping all season. Like Dalrymple, Cronkite had et keen football brain and was allowed to rove on defense. Blessed with a magnificent physique, he was a bear on the defense, and a terror on tha attack.

He was a phenomenal snagger of passes. Kurth and Quatse form a for midable pair of tackles. Kurth, proved his class even before ths season started by beating out a horde of first-class tackles for hla position. He outplayed every man he faced all season. Quatse stood above all the other members of a Pittsburgh line that was noted for power.

Rugged and rangy and with a thorough knowledge of his position, Quatse played magnificently In each of the Panthers' games. There were gains made through that Pitt line, but few went The Tellowjacketa of Georgia Tech had stung many a football opponent before but In 1917 Tech changed from a swarm of hornets, occasionally deadly, to a devastating cyclone and thus the now famous Golden Tornado was born. Head football man at the Atlanta, school that year was wily John Heisman, one of Penn's greatest gridiron prides. He brought to the southern school his tricky shift and a fine personality. From a group of seasoned grid campaigners and raw green ones he built one of the most formidable elevens the nation has ever seen.

In 1916 this aggregation was great. In 1917 they "were magnificent. Strupper Bright Star of Tech Probably the brightest of Tech all-time stars was Everett Strupper, a 150-pound back who had everything. Though he was slightly deaf, Strupper played every game like a whirlwind. He was a superb ball-hawk, sensing instantly Just how far he had to leap to snare a pass and he could pass, bl k.

kick and streak through a broken field like jagged lightning. And did not tire. The other halfback was dusty Joe Guyon, from Carlisle, a brilliant blocker and an ball carrier, the near-perfect product of two master coaches Pop Warner and Heisman. He, too, could punt, pass or plunge. Judy Harlun, J'irt a waa a roaring line smasher.

Eull Fincher was an All-Amerlcan at guard. Pup Phillips, though his archea were broken, waa a whirlwind oetiter. This aggregation, none of rham able to enlist and play in the Big Game across the seas for various reasons, carried the war to those hapless elevens which scheduled games with Tech in that fateful war year of '17. Wake Forest was the first to challenge the Tech terror. The Engineers roared to a 33-0 win, as an appetizer for the new season.

Furman went next, 21-0. Down from the North rolled another Invasion, as threatening to Dixie football aa General Grant's blue-clad division were to the Confederacy. This band wore red and blue. Pennsylvania, Helsman's old school, haj come to take the measure of Tech. Penn came with a fine team, one that was to crush eastern competition.

Strupper Scores To Start Riot In the first minute of play Strupper went around on a flank attack and flashed away for a touchdown. Disaster crashed upon the hapless northerners. When It was over, Tech had won. 41-0. Davidson battled gamely but dropped, 32-10.

Washington and Lee fell, 63-0. Against an old enemy, Vanderbilt, Tech opened up full blast and turned the game Into an 83-0 holocaust, Tulane was crushed, 48-0. The Carlisle Indians, ghostly shadows of the red elevens which Seneca, Mount Pleasant, Bemus Pierce, Jim Thorpe and Guyon, himself, had made famous, weren't even a test. Tech won, 98-0. Auburn, burled beneath a 88-7 score, closed the season.

Tech, the old Rambling Wreck of the affectionate song, had outgrown the title Yellowjackets. From a strong team within the Southland Tech had won Its place In the national football picture. From now on the Golden Tornado! Stuart Chandler played every position on the North Carolina football team this season. son. Injuries and Illness kept him out of the game much of the season and his batting average was only .290.

Kerr batted .267. Hadley, who goes to the won 11 and lost 10 games with Washington last year. His earned run average was 3.05, one of the lowest in the American league, Jones won nine games and lost 10 and had an earned run average of 4.10. The Sox will be the fourth major league club he has played with. He previously was with the New York Yankeea, the St.

Louis Browns and then with Washington. Hayes, the other er, goes to the Sox, batted .213 last season. Chicago White Sox Close Deal For Players with Washington Carl Reynolds, Outfielder; Johnny Kerr, In-fielder Traded for Three Senators FAVOR KICKOFF RULE CHANGES (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Dec. 8.

Tom Thorp, noted football official, said today that ha and other eastern coaches, and officials had decided, Informally, to recommend a change In the present klckoff as a means of reducing Injuries and deaths. Instead of the present method, whereby the ball Is held by another player at the klckoff, Thorp said he and his associate favor a return to the old system of putting the ball on a high mound. Added height and distance Is obtained by the latter method. "When the kicker uses a mound, he gets a high, floating ball that enables his players to get down the field almast with It." Thorp explained. "The receiving team doesn't have time to form a flying wedge In front of the ball carrier, and there Is much less danger of Injury.

Many times the ball will carry over the goal line on the fly. "We'll either have to do that, or abolish the klckoff entirely. It seems a shame to do that, because it's about the most spectacular part of the game." Two Alabama players, Leon Long and Hillman Holley, tied for scoring honors early In the southern conference football Twenty-three native Oklahoma Indians played on the 1931 Haskell grid sqund. Twenty-one tribes In all were represented. Read the Classified.

Rv T'nlted PrM) WEST BADEN, Dec. 3 Officials of the Chicago White Sox announced tonight they had traded Outfielder Carl Reynolds and Second Baseman Johnny Kerr to Washington In exchange for Pitchers Irving Hadley and Sam Jones, and Inflelder Minter Hayes. The announcement, made during the meeting of the minor leagues here, was the biggest baseball trade news since the last season ended. Reynolds and Kerr, the two players who go to Washington, have been with the Sox five and six years respectively. Reynolds batted .359 in 1930, but was a big disappointment to the Chicago team last Joe Dempsey Held On Liquor Charge JJOS ANGELES, Dec.

3. Joe Druipsey, brother of the former heavyweight boxing champion, Jnck, was arrested here today and charged with possession of liquor, after officers had stopped him on a highway and found 24 gallons of lne In his automobile. The liquor ss in a rear compartment. After bring bonked Dempsey was rtleased on bond of $500, fi Mustangs Work, Play In Los Angeles Visit (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.

Mixing play with their work, 27 members of the Southern Methodist football squad made full use of their stopover here today en route to San Francisco, where Saturday they play the St. Mary's gridsters. Head the Classified by Quatse..