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TVrj: -Want Ad Only T.P.ant Mflft- i if t. i. it a -Other Departments, ORanl 6'flO- TtFmT. DFrF.MP.FR 1, 1936 DANIELL NAMED ON ALL-UNITED STATES TEAM SPORTS COMMENT REMEMBER 'Way back in the "good old days" hen we ftnt began to kirk about the high cost of living? HARD GUY IturlHgh (irlmes can lake il. lie merely milled hen they told him he whs sen-tented to he the thirteenth manager, Ry JA.MKS .1.

I.ONfi Violet in lYfli 0wiior PLAYS HERE NEXT FALL Fine $in tor Fluid CARNECIK WILL open at home in the next football season, and with the strongest visiting attraction that has appeared in a curtain-raiser here in a long time. i llWi I lilt! 1 1 fill OIJ ullL i ii Trading Wars nt Powwows NEW ORLEANS "mtrr it. Or Nothing less tnan New York University, the school that astounded the country on Thanksgiving Day by wrecking Fordham's dream of an undefeated year with a 7-6 victory in the face of 5-to-l betting odds. In recent seasons, Tech has visited New York annually to meet the Violet in a series that started in 192(5, and in which the Easterners have won eight games to Carnegie's three. However, Clarence (Buddy) Overend, Tartan graduate manager of athletics, has completed negotiations to have the game transferred to Pittsburgh next fall, and it's all set for it 1 I If I BUDDY OVFKFN'D oaturuay, ucioucr at uie oiauuim, Books Violet for Oprm-r as the starting contest of the Skibos.

Pitt will begin here one week earlier against Ohio Wes-leyan, but October 2 is open for the Plaid at the Oakland bowl because the Panthers' annual game with West Virginia, scheduled for that date, is to be played in Morgantown. Carnegie will have a very attractive home program. Notre Dame also is to come here in 1937 to play the Kilties. There is no longer any thought of moving the Holy Cross game to Pittsburgh on the Thanksgiving Day date vacated by Pitt. The Crusaders cannot make such a trip for Turkey Day, on account of their annual meeting with Boston College being booked for two days later.

Tech will again go to Worcester to meet Holy Cross, and will not play here on Thanksgiving Day unless Carnegie and Duquesne decide to move their yearly game in the city championship round robin back to that holiday. Long Punts Not Ativans Iiest PUNTERS WHO DRIVE the ball extraordinary distances come In for a lot of publicity, but according to Leroy Mills they do not always get the best results. Mills is regarded as the country's leading authority on punting. ff, fa 7 I. EMrnlos if BILL ItENSWANOt'R Kent on trading or buying to club for the 1937 National League four ivory hunters arc in Montreal He is the man who coaches a number of the major Eastern college ft.

I1 i teams in kicking. According to Mills, the most effective punts travel from 40 to 45 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Longer kicks, going straight to the safety man. are no pond, he argues. It is the latter type of kick that often is run back for a touchdown.

Because no end can get down field in time to cover a 65-yard punt, the safety man has every opportunity to break away. The return of punting has been one of the refreshing features Of the gridiron season of 1936. It Is hard to recall another year In which so much attention was given to kicking. The result is that good punters are again being developed, and the punt is no longer a lost art, as Walter Camp lamented hortly before his death. Losing Team Hampers Simmons MANY A FINE football player will fail to get his due In the year's ratings because a losing team kept his individual ability from standing out.

Oze Simmons, Iowa star, who has turned pro with his brother Don to play with the all-Negro American Sot for I lie JEWEL ENS strengthen the local pennant race, these today for the open- tion and careful Inquiry by football" experts of the Hearst newspapers, blanketing the country under the chairmanship of Damon Runyon. They investigated every possibility, searching for perfection and for strength. They picked the team in a telegraphic conference. They set, the highest possible standard, making no compromise ml l.itrry Kfllcv. 1 'I tirhli' l.ti iiNc'Ii, linnf.otn (itiiirti M.tt M.tnM'iU'h, tign i ntT Hh Mi rw Ik, Cnltf onilii (imnl Art hltr.

Miibmnu Diuilill, HIT ml din il I ImIi l.ouisiiiiiH Slulf inHrti'rlmck Nhiii lljiinch, Ti-M hrltlan Hiilth.iik KrAiiK Murray, I'tiin Hull I). Kvf l'trU4 r. Dukr l-ullttark fain I- ram-In, tTirakit MONOK4ltli; MhNlhiN KruN mlr lie rhuk. North i nrollnn Wllllum Ihiiltlio, I'll Merit' WmhII, Ohio MHtr. '1 H'tlr rhiirrh Homl, nhlnitlon a-mumt rritnro, onthum: 1 hcoitoro Livingston, luirlfjt loll, rrlniffon.

(innnl ttl hnnl tinti, sunt a (turn -lliti l.miltir, Nolri' Ititnif; Hilt MontKoiiM-ry, rrtncrlnn; Mffrht-n HrU, Nnrlhwrli-rii; ItoitK, I (An A. hikI tltarU ImiIU, Mtum -(ttu. rnii ro Mli hin lirtiritk, alter (illtN-rl, Aiihurn; Jhiih- lliturr, I'niii- iiiiLt wh tw iijfdrhoH let, I onlhum. Hut Itiii tiioiul liiintit. Miirmirl I'hMili Mlcknim.

Tfiini'HMr; fMo Haotti tLtn; lliilun lYaitk, tilt-; Utolv (iitiilro, Mlruii mIh litMHlituril, Hith-tntoii Sne; Miirlnill inMI)-rK, I'lll Hill l)H'k'Mii, lt roll Hulnrw, llaniinihiin. Ihirtntmilh tTittm llorTitmn, toiHiiiui; licorsc hnrti-nmtlr-, Ihmihkii llllain Kitritoh, IVtin-Uanl'i; KolM-rl Utlkr, Prttnc. Ing of the head for week, hoping Inn irtfrmtionsl I'hotn by Siin-TfiiVfc. SAM WAITERS or a Van Mungo, among others. I5ensanger is president, Matters vice president, Traynor manager and Ens coach and former manager of the I'irates.

IME TRAYNOR minor league meetings. From there they'll New York for the major league sessions next to land a Diziy Dean, a l'aul Derringer, m.i tl, U1RI1L3 OI Jlltrtgu. wu. uuv ui unluckily placed. Coaches and critics declare that the best back of the season in the wit Power.

Itiilaiifo Mark Ml I. 7VIC5 RIVAL cmic INVITE MAY COMETODAY By JESS CARVER Pitt's football Panthers. gener ally conceded to be the 1936 Eastern champions are very much in the running for two "Bowl" bicU for post-season games and by eventide, the bewitching cocktail hour or just plain tonight, may definitely be set for a New Year'i Day appearance either in the Hose Bowl at Pasadena or the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. As matters stand today, the Panthers are top heavy favorites to grab ott the New Orleans assignment and still are in the running for the one at Pasadena. Backers of the Sugar Bowl game indicated Sunday they'd issue a formal invitation today for their game, for which, by the way, more than 25,000 seats already have been sold.

Ray Eekmann. athletic director at, the University of Washington, which will represent the Far West in the Rose Bowl, insists the Huskies won't announce a choice until later in the week. This choice will be made from among three teams, Pitt, Alabama and Louisiana State. The Southern team not invited to the Rose tournament will be asked to meet either Pitt or Santa Clara in the Susar Bowl, and Pitt I is a top-heavy favorite to get the call over the Broncos, who still have a game to play, with Texas I Christians, and who have not played nearly as tough or representative a schedule as have the Pitts. HARRISON IN DARK W.

Don Harrison, the Panther athletic chief, claims to know nothing about either a Sugar Bowl bid, and further denies hav-' ing been contacted by Washington with regards to Pitt's meeting the Huskies at Pasadena. Nevertheless, the Panther var- sity squad was called into a secret confab yesterday, the purpose of which was not divulged, but it it I wasn't for the purpose of getting the boys' reactions to playing in either of the post-season classics, I then the name over this story should be changed to read "Edgar Allan Poe." It is significant, when consider-I ing the Sugar Bowl setup. Pitt unofficially was sounded out. I through Dr. H.

C. Carlson, the Blue and Gold floor coach, a year ago when Doc took his basketball team to New Orleans to provide the major attraction of the basketball program. Feelers were put out even then by the Sugar Bowl sponsors, who intimated 'they'd like to have Pitt on hand for this year's gridiron affair. The Dukes are considering two invitations for post-season games. One comes from the Orange Bowl promoters seeking a Duquesne-Tennessee game at Miami on New Years Day and the other from the Pacific Coast for a Duquesne-Santa Clara battle at San Francisco on December 20.

GET LAMBERT AWARD NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (AP.) The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded the new August V. Lambert memorial trophy in recognition of its having the best football team in the East, by a committee of New York City sporta writers. Pennsylvania was a close second, receiving honoraole men tion, while Dartmouth, Yale and Fordham also were considered in the final judging.

The presentation of the trophy will be made at Pittsburgh some time within the next two weeks. The trophy, a gold natural-size football, mounted on a base surrounded by smaller footballs, was offered by Henry L. and Victor A. Lambert, of New York, in memory of their father, August V. Lambert, a prominent sporta enthusiast.

HUSKIES UNDECIDED PASADENA, Dec. 1, (AP.) Tire Tournament of Roses football committee Is "just as puzzled as the fans" over who will play the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day. i in wattle rumor naa it mat "contact" had been made with some Eastern opponent for the Huskies, but university men wouldn't affirm it. Talk centered around Louisiana State, Alabama and Pittsburgh. But Ray Eekmann, athletic director at the University of Washington, insisted nothing would be announced definitely until he has conferred with the Tournament of Roses Committee here.

He said: "Nothing will be announced until after I have conferred with Stanford officials and the committee. Sometime this week we will make a formal announcement." He exnlained hl ntnnnoH mnat. i ing with Stanford officials be-; cause he wanted to get the bene-I fit of their long experience lr Rose matters. The Stanford Indians have represented the West in the Pasadena game the last inrec years. TONIGHT'S FIGHTS i'mi hin, Isvlntkr Ha bp Hunt.

It l-pnnkip illinnio vi. t.mll raJrunl. rounds Jppp ily SEoarsl lIevoiii iForA.A. lJ.fBrosidosMy JUL ML NFAV YORK, Dec. Jeremiah T.

Mahoney, Harry Dublinsky, Chicago vet-lone of the leaders of the movement against American partici-eran boxer, arrived this morning pation in the 1936 Olympics Games at Berlin, will he a candi- far lilt 1 fi vnt m1 if i nrli in ifit i a ii. A Ail.l.i.'. TT: for his 10-round windup Wee, perhaps the best in the country. But he will receive little credit because his team had an off season, failing to w-in a single Western Conference game out of five. Bimmons is a truly great ball carrier, but had no one to block for him.

The only lowan who could block was Oze himself. He was weak at blocking and tackling in his sophomore year, but became a star in both departments in the last two seasons, developing into a remarkable defensive back and a hard and sure tackier. Bernie Bierman, Minnesota coach, as By LEWIS BURTON I nlvrmal Ven ice NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Beat them if you can! The all-United States team is herewith presented as the No, 1 honor roll of intercollegiate football for 1936.

It is the result of close observa cs. tt 1 1 Es doomed VERDI OPENS OWN ALLEYS IVv PHIL GRABOWSKI Johnny Verdi, bowler-alley manager for some 20 years, whose chief ambition was some clay to open an estab lishment of his mrn Hi1 i II t. that, yesterday. The Oakland resident a purchased the a. and A.

Alleys, which were the possession I of George Stiatigos, whose eyes were gougea out oy 1lr years ago. The John Verdi transaction was made by Mrs. Stratigos and her sons last Saturday. Mrs. Stratigos plans to Join her husband in Greece.

It was at tins establishment that Verdi ot hir. start in the bowling game. He was born next door to the plaee and it, was there that he bowled his first, game. Verdi formerly managed the Metropolitan Club Alleys, downtown. He was boss there for almost seven years.

George Stipe-pich. who was John's a.ssistant at I the Metro Club, succeeds him. Verdi sewed as assistant alley manPKpr at the Pittsburgh Ath. flC ASSOCUIllon OCIOie taKlllg at the Metropolitan Club. He has operated alleys at Con-neaut Lake during the summer.

W.P.I.A.L. Members To Meet Saturday The members of the Western i Pennsylvania Interscholastic Ath- letic League plan to eliminate the ban on spring football practice at their annual meeting to be held Saturday morning in the Fifth Avenue High School. In the meantime, the department of hygiene of the city schools is seeking ways and means of arranging a new setup for the determination of football cham- i Fritzie Zivic, local contender, in Motor Square Garden tomorrow nipht, and pronounced himself in the "pink" for the battle. Ho was accompanied by Eddie Long, one of the best known pilots in the business, who has been hnndling him since Harry broke with his old manager, Jack Eile. Long has managed Bud Taylor, Sammy Mandell, Jimmy Delaney.

Jock Malone, Bob Hopcr and other good ones With Billy Conn, another local! I 1 I I serts that if Simmons had been playing for the Gophers, with that great line blocking for him, Oze would have carried the ball from Minneapolis to San Francisco. Another Negro star who probably will not receive as much credit as he deserves is Frank Kelker. of Dover, 0 Western Reserve end, who stands 6 feet 2 inches, weighs 195 pounds, and is pronounced by Athletic Director Karl Davis the equal of any one in football togs. ti.Lftia Oze was Middle OZE SIMMONS I nluekily IMaeed title shifted that the players who Tad Jones, former Yale star and coach, saw Kelker play, and said he considered the Negro a sure shot ail-American candidate. Harry Stansbury adds the testimony that Kelker was the best youngster with title ambitions, in I he other 10-round bout, against H'VT i nt Jimmy Brown, of Canton, Pro- S.

Haddock pres.den and muter Jules Beck is finding the Jfe Brueckel. of Steubenv 1 ate appeal of the local talent strong the delegates of the Allegheny at the box otl.ce and is confident TtTaO conventimi he will have his first profitable i tl It Tpx night in a number of shows. I A. at lex. Two six-round bouts round Friday, buturday and Sun-Uiecard.

In one of them Johnny A hot seas on expected, r.nmrt hraw. with the Olympic snarl to be end that West Virginia played against this year. Trainer Great Aid to Fordham IT WAS NOT becau.se of lack of condition that Fordham failed to hold up to the end. Winning or losing, the Rams always are physically fit. One of their assets from year to year is an exceptionally good trainer in the person of Jake Weber, who is among the few men in hit line to work without an a-ssistant.

Weber started at Fordham in 1902. switching to Columbia in 1910-11-12, when the Rams gave up football. He has trained ticrj United States Olympic track team since 1920, and had charge of the American Davis Cup tennis team in 1933. Back in 1916 he looked after the physical fitness of Willie Hoppe, the billiard player, sending Willie out on the road to get hi leg in ihspe, like a distance runner. Group of Champs in Cue Tourney THAT BILLIARD TOURNAMENT now in proRre.su at Chicago for the national three-cushion crown represents a notable gathering of champions.

I i A. A. U. delegate said today: said he would not sock to succeed Avery Brundage, of Chicago, in the office unices he was drafted at the A. A.

U. convention, which opens at Houston, Friday. Charles V. Ornstein. a deleBatc to the convention from the Jewish WeUaie Board, said that Ma-' honey had receiyed requests to run from 30 district associations and allied bodies.

ironed out. Insurance Planned For School Gridders HARRISBURO, rc. 1. AP 1 A plan for the payment of death and accident benefits to high school athletes went out to-dav from the Pennsylvania Inter-scholastic Athletic Association to all its member schools. Secretary Edmund I.

Wieht said the proposal, discussed for months. jwas drafted by the board of con trol and would be installed at all schools voting in favor of it. The schedule of payments are: Death, $2a0; loss ot one eye, "Otn B1 ms oroKen, ilW, both egs broken. $150: broken PCIVIS. MUU: UIUKI'U niJ, mill leser amounts for less serious injuries, down to $10 for the loss of a tooth.

Hernon Renamed Scribes' President John L. Hernon was re-elected president and secretary-treasurer of Pittsburgh Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at. the annual meeting at the jPittsburgher Hotel last night. The chapter plans to hold a banquet and entertainment in February. GULFERS BEATEN The Chalmers Basketball team defeated the Gulf passers.

50 to 30, in a City League tilt last night, the victory being the second of the season for the Chalmers team, HARMAN STAYS AT PENN PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1. AP. -Harvey Harman. head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, has been reappointed for a term of Unve years.

The reappointment set at rest rumors that Harman would be replaced as head coach in spit 'of Perm's record of seven triumphs in eight games this year. Harman, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, came to Penn in 1 93 1 from the University of the South (Sew ante) Tennessee. PENN CURS MEET HERE Dr. Le Roy Mercer, University of Pennsylvania physical education director, will be a speaker at the Associated Penn Clubs' annual convention at the Schenley Hotel i i Reds Prepared To Bid for Diz IrHFrtiHOiuml Nrw SitiIi-c MONTREAL, Dec, 1. Officials of the Cincinnati Reds today were ready to offer $200,000 to the St.

Louis Cardinals for Dmy Dean in the second greatest cash deal ever transacted. Warren Giles, business mana-er of the Reds, said he was awaiting arrival of Branch Rickey, Cardinal vice president and rtencral manager, to present a check, backed by the millions of I'owei Crosley, Reds' owner, to complete negotiations for the ace right-handed pitcher of the St. Louis staff. This deal wa one of many discussed by early arrivals to the thirty-fifth annual convention of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and was definitely ready for consummation, Giles said, if the Card.s ren'ly mean business. The greatest previous cash deal was that of a couple of seasons ao, when Claik Gnffltli, owner of the Vashington Senators, sold his son-in-law, Shor'stop Joe Cronln, to tlic Boston Red Sox.for $250,000.

weight, meets Jack Kutik, of Wheeling. Between Hounds ffiinny Jim McVy, Nprn lipht-hf a vy weight, ho "m'rnlly krii kt) oil! 1'raiikte Haiimer tn California, meet Kutrh Knt.urs tn a itntijp hi I.t Anel''. tnnvrr" ruiM. Anl armtml here tht haM -hitting Mi Vty muiiln jit brt-nk. Mlrf CP HhIknM n1 iniMnl (Jtmrira hriin.i'i Imi Hlndtii at on IHcPtnlH-r 14.

Hilly Nirh h.txp Rrd Bnh. Vhby IVan Jrtfkip KtolJ in 10-rmtmi bouts at I.nkpn. tnannKi'f nt Mrhy, Carter unit Hm'i. ithtnt to I ullforiiirt Mirtl Hint will Mili. irlcr n.

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Final Ratings Thp season's lin.il Sclcn-tillc KUiins of the rollegp football teams will he a feature of tomorrow's Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. I i nciu it are in the minority in the field, ten contenders include six champions the past or present. They are Hoppe. the reigning king; Welker who preceded him; Johnny Lay- won me crown 12 times; Tifl i who was on top as far back as So many times lias the angle urn, wnu Denton, I A stl" iiiiivvv tllat if If 3 if nave not Chicago The of Willie Cochran, 1923; Otto The champions contestant competed Despite with quality, and so there is no second team. Widely publicized players who failed to meet the committee's exacting demands were simply left off.

No wonder then that the selectors came up with a GO-minute football team, without a failitiR in offense or defense, about which they can defiantly say: "Beat them if you can!" WHAT A TEAM! It is confidently felt that the all-United States eleven could go to scratch against any other 11 college men in the count 'y. last the full 60 minutes, and win. A big order, that, but look at the team! If most of the names are familiar to you, it is because the selectors helped make them so by their regular all-United States reports all season long in the Hearst newspapers. The East and South, with their unusually large nhmber of upper strata football teams, contributed three men each to the Red, White and Blue varsity. Two apiece came from Far West and Mid- (( orilllimd on Iwcnty-Mtcn) Relsf-lt and Arthur Thurnblad.

only entrants who are not former are Ray Bozeman, the youngest at 29; Alien Hall, Earl Locka-bough and Klnrey Matsuyama. All have many times for the honor. his age and lonn career. Lavton fpar('a by all rivals, and the dope is Hoppe is dethroned Layton may be Rivals Still Fear Him niar to beat him out, even though Willie gave Johnny a bad beating in their opening match, 50-32, Several of the players have admitted that if the tourney came flown to the final match with the title hanging In the balance, they'd rather meet Champion Hoppe than Layton. i-.

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