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Los Angeles Evening Express from Los Angeles, California • 13

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'0 4- How Christian Keener Cagle looks in action No tica how cloce he is he hind his interference On this end we present Johnny Preston one of "Pop" Warner's capable wingrnen Preston is a great defensive player e)'- SI Introducing Capt "Biff" Jones head coach of the Cadet squad The big fellow on the right is Herbie Fleishhacker Card -l'AstPpob 9F4z iy ALL-STARS IN BRISK WORKOUT Results In Sport Over Week End 9 0 f4 414xICUOo itISVS ART SIGNS UP FOR FIVE BOUTS Be Associated Pres PASAD Smith wins open golf tournament with 280 East-West Grid Teams Show Snap Precision In Practice Session Great One' Declines To Retire and Plans Big Program to Get Cash This is "Chuck" Smalling a pretty fair football player in any league Just ask Warner Above is shown Johnny Murrell one of the Army's big guns Murrell plays fullback Captain "Mush" Muller" the hero of the "big game" is the handsome gent pictured here Cadets To Use Card Stadium TROJANS STAY AT BOVARD FIELD (Z4It -411 '41 10J)1Jifr t15 Sid Ziff i I I I Jones Won't Move Squad To Pasadena Until Next Monday Players Ready By Aswelated Press SAN FRANCISCO Dec 23 With remarkable speed and facility forty-four husky gridiron warriors representing the finest football talent throughout the country today were engaged in perfecting two speedy smooth functioning elevens which on New Year's Day will compete at Kezar Stadium here in the annual East-West Shrine benefit classic Fooball specialists watching the two squads at practice On their respective training grounds were amazed at the speed and the ease with which players gathered from every section of the country were able to perform intricate plays with the dispatch of 'veterans who had played together tor months It simply gave proof of the fact that with plenty of good material a coach has no trouble turning out a team with a winning punch Both East and West squads yesterday engaged in light workouts Meanwhile the Western outfit was brought to its complete quota with the arrival of Tommy Churchill brilliant Oklahoma end who came to San Francisco by airplane and was given a warm reception by Coach Percy Loney and his pack NEW wilt de fend welterweight championship against Young Jack Thompson at Madison Square Garden January 3 NEW of Chicago football team beats Loyola of Louisiana 26-6 Wagner succeeds Bill Carrigan as manager of Boston Sox Shires signs to meet Al Spohrer Boston Braves catcher in Boston Garden ring SALISBURY Moran National League umpire signs to coach Catawba College football team PHILADELPHIA basketball team bows to Penn 26-21 NEW Murphy Utica (N Y) tennis player announces he will not defend national indoor junior singles championship Saunders son of Clarence Saunders suffers broken leg as Clarence Saunders' Tigers pro football team beats 'Chicago Bears 16-6 NEW Fa icaro wins world's bowling championship from Joe Scribner in 60-game match 12932 to 12803 Izzy Grove Makes Debut Tonight I RI Associated Press CHICAGO Dec cities in the East and Middle West will get a look at Charles Arthur (the Great) Charles Arthur will get $20000 Far from being wrecked by his defeat by George Trafton the pugilistio career of the great one is I Just nicely started he says He has signed for apfd 4 4 pearan ees in tr At Detroit New 4Z' Buffalo y- St Paul and 4 tiAt Davenport 1 1 1r Iowa and plans )118 to keep on fighting until about two weeks before the base- ball training season opens Shires an- nounced that Jackie Fields Jackie Fields world welterweight champion will aid him in preparing for tile bouts The White Sox first baseman By Associated Pres STANFORD UNIVERSITY Dec Army's football warriors refreshed after a night's sleep in Branner Hall were expected to start intensive practice today for their intersectional game Saturday with Stanford's Cardinals who finished in a tie for the 1929 Pacific Coast Conference championship Nine hours behind schedule the Army train of thirteen cars pulled into Palo Alto late last night Cadets and coaches aparently efited by a two-hour workout at same team that started against Santa Barbara yesterday after their California with one exception Walt long trip across the continent were Heinecke Cardinal center was in a housed in Branner Hall which they Palo Alto hospital with a cold and will occupy until the game Satur- his position was filled by Perry day Taylor Heinecke will be out In a The West Pointers will probably few days and Warner said he would use Stanford Stadium largest in the surely start against the Cadets (ar West while Stanford will practice on its regular field Arrangements were to be worked out be- Godfrey Hawkins tween Coach Lawrence "Siff" Jones and Glenn "Pop" Warner Cardinal In Another Act mentor today Meanwhile Jones By let it be known that the Army Assotiated Press workouts would be strictly private ROANOKE Va Dec 23--George Godfrey giant Philadelphia negro SECRET WORK By Amsotinted Brews ROANOKE Va Dec 23---George Godfrey giant Philadelphia negro who has to box a (Editor's note: Bon Macdougall was referred to in a racins Etory In this column as one of the fly-by-night promoters who failed at old Ascot He has an answer to that It rings with pathos Macdougall lost everything at the "Jonah Joint" and today he confesses Is working as a day laborer 3ut read him:) "Dear Sidi Saw your column today and you deserve credit for giving the boy at the American Legion Speedway a hand Few people if any know better than I what a Jonah that joint was and the heart aches that it cost 'I will probably be remembered if at all as one of the 'fly-by night' promoters that had at one time operated Ascot and while the matter is of no great consequence I feel that it is rot entirely correct "When 1 got bit by the racing bug Sid llot bit bad I had worked hard as a kid to get a chance in the flying game and with the beginning of 1926 was the largest shareholder in what is now the Aero Corporation of California 1 was associated with Art Goebel in doing stunt work and was rapidly becoming nationally known as a flyer 1 sold my interest to buy a Miller Special and drive on the board speedways 1 was a Jonah right from the start The moment 1 got that car they started in to tear the speedways down The year 1926 saw the passing of Fulton Laurel Atlantic City Fresno Charlotte and the dropping of plans to construct speedways at Dallas and Toledo signed a contract Max Schmoling in Atlantic City early in the spring meets Long Tom Hawkins Akron Ohio tonight in a ten-round bout here By BILL BARNETT pASADENA and the Rose Bowl gridiron won't get a glimpse of the University of Southern California football squad until a week from today when Coach Howard Jones moves his Trojan outfit into the Vista Del Arroya Hotel The Trojans were originally scheduled to move over to Pasadena next I Thursday a lota do their finish- ing work for the New Tears gam in the Rose Bowl 17 Morning work If outs at Bovard i I i leo Field will be lit4 '4t47rSf the order this eek and it's au 1 probable COArlf-AWE'S that Jones may Aimaaalkalb send his regulars against the Spartans tomorrow in their first scrimmage against Pittsburgh plays Quite a few of the Trojan players are using their afternoons earning some spending money and this was the chief reason why Miller Is Mentioned As Fordham Coach (COM ON TH1113 PAGE SPORTS SEC) NEW YORKER NEW KING OF BOWLING GAME KID CHOCOLATE MAY HEADLINE CHICAGO CARD By Felted Press NEW YORK Dec 23 Don Miller former member of the Notre Dame immortal Four Horsemen" and present backfield coach at Ohio State University la reported under consideration as head football coach at Fordham University If Major Frank Cavanaugh does not return Cavanaugh has been offered a new long term contract at an increased salary but has not reached an agreement By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Dec 23 Izzy Grove New York middleweight makes his first appearance In this section tonight in a ten-round bout at National Hall with Eddie Dampier rugged San Jose boy Grove's record includes victories over Harry Ebbetts Brooklyn and other topnotchers Dampier has proven himself a tough hurdle for any of the middleweights around here 16 "I saw the handwriting on the wall and returned to Los Angeles with the knowledge that Culver City would be dismantled I figured that if automobile racing was to continue as a major sport all speed events would have to be conducted on dirt tracks "Well I figured I was smart I grabbed Ascot firm in the belief that I could secure an A A A sanction for the track If you recall our publicity 41 those days you will remember how John De Palma and many of the board track drivers helped in the battle but Val Haresnape turned me down cold I would not believe that A A A racing would pass from the West Coast and knew that I had the only available track and hung on believing that the contest board would see th0 (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) I'SV14 44 Wir-11 1 rAiTI 14 '-74tMe Camera men and reporters will be barred Jones said and other outsiders will find no welcome during the week of Intensive practice It is no secret that the Army wants to win Saturday's game and turn the tables on the team that meted out a 27 to 6 defeat to the West Pointers In New York last year With this determination Jones is guarding against anything that might interfere with preparations The Army squad will work out one day this week with the Eastern members of the East-West teams which meet in Kezar Stadium New Year's Day in the annual Shrine charity game Meanwhile the Stanford varsity is picking up loose ends dropped since its last the contest with the California Bears which they won a month ago Pop Warner had his third team using Army plays against the first string yesterday Dusty A11011 impersonating Red Cagle directed the quack and took a fierce hammering from Preston and Muller first team ends The varsity was composed of the (CONT ON THIRD PA02 SPORT SE( Segrave Cancels Motorboat Race or Associated Press NEW YORK Dec Facaro of New York is the new world's individual bowling champion He won the title from Joe Scribner of Detroit in a special completed here last night Fatcaro won by 131 pins compil ing a grand total of 12932 to 12803 for Scribner Scribner held a lead of 159 pins at the end of the first three blocks played in Detroit Fa Icaro shaved this to 38 in the fourth block here on Saturday took a lead of 157 in the fifty block and then clung to hie advantage in the final block The grand averages were: Fa 215 32- 60 Scribner 213 23-60 Connie Mack 67 Today can't Think Of Quitting By Awe lilted Press CHICAGO Dec Jack Dempsey is busy hunting a main bout for January 17 to replace the welterweight title fight between Jackie Fields champion and Young Jack Thompson San Francisco negro which has been moved to Madison Square Garden for January 3 Dempsey abandoned plans for the championship affair because of feeling against "mixed" title bouts in Illinois after signing the pair early this month for the Chicago Coliseum He is working on a match between Kid Chocolate sensational feitherweight and a suitable opponent By Moo'Med Press NEW YORK Dec proposed motorboat epee(' rare March 25 between Maj Sir lenry Segrave of England and Gar Wood of Detroit for the international gold cup at Miami has been declared off because of the inability of the Britleh sportsman to come to the United States world Al Simmons wasn't born and ladies thanked gentlemen for the buggy ride Since then he has won seven league championehips and four world series "I know I'm 67 but I don't feel it" Mack said "I never felt better and all my energies are now devoted to the coming season was concerned it was just an other birthday and was without eignif icanCL For twentyeight years he has been head of the Mackmen When he began managing them William McKinley wee President of the United States Jim Jeffries was heavyweight champion of the lity Amp lorlatod Prem PHILADELPHIA Dec Connie Mack hale and hearty was receiving congratulations to day on his sixty-seventh birthday The veteran manager of the world's champion Philadelphia Athletics said that so far so he am going to make every effort to bring another championship to Philadelphia and I think we can do it if we try "When am I going to retire? Not until I am forced to quit This is my I'm going to stay in it until I am physically unable to continue".

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