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THE LINCOl.N ST A A DY. MARCH 23. 1935 New King to Reign In Realm of Basket Sport Oilers Dethroned by Kansas Stage Liners On Mile High Maples CORUM'S CHATTER By BILL CORtM. CORAL GABLES, March 23 (INS) The safe return to these shores of Herr Direktor Joseph (We Wuz Robbed) Jacobs, our pugilistic ambassador to the court of Reichsfuchrer Adolf Hitler, revives interest in the heavyweight boxing situation here and abroad. make out from thi.s di.stance, Germany comes clo.se to being the capital of the sports world.

According to the papers. Hitler is planning to hold the next Olympic games, and the next heavyweight championship bout, and the next world war. What fun! One of these days Herr Direktor Jacobs will dash over to Germany to be behind his man Max Schmeling in some important bout and wind up behind a .77 on the western front. I do not wish little Joey anything but the best of It. but I must admit it would be interesting to see him goose-stepping off to defend the fatherland against whatever nation Herr Hitler picks for his warm-up.

DENVER, March king is live the king! The rrign of the Tulsa D-X Oilers, two-time national A. A. U. baskethall champions, wa.s but a memory today, as basketball-mad Denver awaited the crowning of a new king of the courts tonight. Toppled From Throne.

A fast-moving team of Southern Kansas Stage Liners from Kansas City toppled the Tulsans from their throne in the Semi-finals of the national tournament here la.st night by a score of 36 to 29. But before the Stagers crashed through to victory, the Globe Refiners of McPherson, had removed the last remaining threat to Missouri valley supremacy by defeating Universal Pictures of Hollywood, 40 to 36. Tonight, Busmen and Refiners will battle for the national title as.sured that, regardless of who wins, the championship will remain in the Mi.ssouri Valley league. University and Oilers will compete for third place. Ru.s.scll Browning, an Oklahoma university student who dropped his books after three years of Big Six conference competition to accompany the Stagers to Denver, stole the show from the veteran.s on the bill and turned in the outstanding performance of the evening, scoring 11 points toward blasting the hopes of the Tulsan.s for a third successive title, as well as playing the most aggresivc game seen in the tournament.

Stagers Ahead at Half. The Stagers-Oilers game started slowly, the defending champions leading 3 to 1 five minutes after play started. Slowly, the Kansas City team got under way, until, in the last few minutes of the period, they rushed the Tulsans off their feet. Fischer, high-scoring guard, dropped two field goals and a free hrow through the hoop. The naif ended with the Stagers lead- ng, 19 to 11.

At the opening of the second alf, Jerome, Oiler guard, scored points in quick succession, and le Oilers were in the game again, rowning and Fi.scher then led a Yunter-rally that again put the tagers far ahead. Too late in the the champions found the basket for seven points, to cut down the lead. The Hollywood movie men, led by Chuck Hyatt, outstanding individual player of the tournament, took a long lead over the McPherson Refiners. Ten minutes after the game started, they w'ere ahead, 13 to 2. Refiners Come From Rear.

In the waning minutes of the first period, went into action and fans saw an amazing exhibition of speed and a fast-breaking offense, with Fontenbcrry and Francis Johnson, Refiner forward, leading the attack. By the end of the half they had cut down the Hollywood lead to 20 to 14. Five minutes into the second period, with the Refiners still going at full speed, they took the lead for the first time, 24 to 23. Then Hyatt scored three field goals and his teammates made three more points, while the Refiners tallied once, putting the Movie- men again in the lead. The refiners overtook Hollywood and tied the score at 36-36 with but three fninutes to go.

The ball was in the hands for the remaining time, during which they missed two free throws and scored two field goals. PRIMO BACKS OUT ON GARDEN FOLKS Italian Giant Sijfns For Glove Battle With Detroit Negro. NEW YORK, March 2.1 Not many hours before James J. Braddock completed his conquest of Art T.asky last night at the Garden, Primo Camera, the only other winner the Garden tournament has developed, announced he was breaking loose from the Garden to sign for a 15- round bout with Joe Louis, sensational negro from Detroit, in the Yankee Stadium June 19, under the promotorial auspices of Mike Jacobs. managers indicated they were upset by reports that the winner of the elimination tournament get a shot at Max title at all that Max Schmeling already has been lined up for a Baer fight in the Long Island bowl in June.

Jimmy Johnston, Garden fight director, insisted he had an oral agreement with managers that big Primo would remain in the eliminations and LINK'S BIG REGRET: 'I CAN'T Right now, ns nearly I can hoped to get Camera and ThlM ol body ta than tha qama ta a hard iob lot Hoy Lyaiaa. former Cornhuakar football alar who apani It yaara aa a pro- iaaaiooal ptayar balata to tha Untrataity ol Nabraaka aa llaa eoach. "Tha thtag I mtaa moat ta tha playi I tha combat part ol II" aaid tha btawny Lyman aa ha watchad tha Cotnhuakar spring loot- ball aquad ol about 70 man warm up lor practica, Ha got hla prolaaaional axpatl- anca with Canton. Claraland and Cbicogo. andlng up with algbt yaara with tha Chicago Baara.

How bo la aarrtng hla llrat yaar aa a Cornhuakar eoach. "It'a hard to gat uaad to watching fbo othar lallow do tha playing, but aoma ol thaaa daya Vii gat In thara and axarciaa a bit," Lyman aald. Ha playad lackla on tha Corn- busbor loams ol lili, and 1921, but ha waan't quita aa busby than aa ha la now. Ha axplatnad that ha walghad pounds most ol fbo (imo during bis play with tha Baara. Ha now wolgbs but by naxt iall bo oxpocfs (e "gof down" SPLIT PROPOSED IN CAGE CIRCLES Heads May Create Special Basket Class For Collegemen.

DENVER, March 2.1 (INS) A suggestion that college and independent basketball teams be placed in separate brackets in With Lyman at Helm, Husker Line Showing Class In Grid Drilh HY GREtiG McKRlDE, Head Dana X. Bible, who guidea the deatiniea of future A. Nobra.Hka ia looking toward the 1035 foot- mcnts was made here today by i ball campaign in a of One of the reasons several officials of the tourna- 1 for the brighter colons in the Hu.sker grid picture i.s the men now steady improvement shown by the varsity line as the spring workouts move along. OGHTS LA.ST NIGHT BOY "Linr' LYMAN, to a mara 255 pounds. A the moment, it looks as though the Reichsfuchrer just wants to fight somebody and care much who.

Which i.s a dangerous frame of paind and poor matchmaking a good matchmaker always knows exactly who it is he w'ants to fight exactly why. You can bet all the German marks that Herr Direktor Jacobs brought home with that he knows who and what he wants for Max Schmeling. Even I know. He wants Max Baer and he W'ants him because he thinks Schmeling and, not incidentally, Jacobs can get the most potatoes that w'ay. Honesty makes me admit that the herr direktor has some excellent grounds on which to bace his claim for a return test with the big Baer man, w'ho such sw-eet talk to the ladies.

By and large, prizefight alibis are a dime a dozen, I believe that Schmeling was himself that fearfully hot night that Baer belted him out. Nor can I erase from memory the sight of Baer all but collapsing from a combination of heat and weariness before he punched the German out on his feet. here is, however, another memory of that fight which sticks in my mind. While he still was comparatively fresh and strong, Schmeling took machine gun aim and nailed the eye, chin, dead center with his lot fall right hand, and the curly-haired wolf from Livermore, only blinked. Schmeling, a smart young man in any language, also remembers that, you may be sure.

He remembers it and the memory be of any help to him, if and W'hen he crawls in there wdth the Braddock together in a w'cek or two. COLORADO SIGNS TO PLAY KANSANS LAWRENCE. March F. C. Allen, University of Kansas director of athletics, has arranged football game.s with the University of Colorado.

The first game, next Nov. 16, is to be played at Boulder. This completes ahe nine- DETROFT QUINT TEN-PINS TOPS Team of Unknowns From Auto City Sets Pace For A. B. C.

SYRACUSE, N. March games of 968-9701028, Detroit Gaskets, unheralded and unsung, vaulted into the lead in the American Bowling Con- game Jayhawker schedule, as fol- I tournament last night with a total of 2,966. A capacity crowd, most of whom turned out to see the crack Chicago and Milwaukee teams scheduled, saw the 193 Detroit city champions pass the Florists, Cleveland, by a 37-pin margin. Augie Jankowsky, Detroit, was elected president of the A. B.

C. for another year. At the annual convention of the A. B. Indianapolis was selected for next tournament lows: Notre Dame at South Bend.

October 5, St. Benedict at Lawrence; 12, Michigan State at Lansing; 26, Kansas State at Lawrence. November 2, Oklahoma at Norman; 9, Nebraska at Lincoln; 16. Colorado at Boulder; 23, Iowa State at Lawrence; 28, Missouri at Lawrence. Larry Benton, veteran pitcher released by the Reds, is working out with the Giants in hopes of gaining a relief role.

the thought that this time he would nail him. But, having hit him Just so and the punch having failed to deter him to any extent, it is hard for me to sec how Schmeling can hope to win. I suspect that Herr Mox know's what I think I Baer ia too big and too tough for him. DETROIT TIGERS. hlvi champion again, hf did in Tigers, young and old.

are telling ether this today as they chuckle over the 13 to 5 walloping they gave the St. Louis Cardinals and the less dUsv halt of the Deans. Paul, yesterday. And the beauty of it all came in watching a ceuple of left-handed rookies getting the world champions on their collective ears. Clyde tMadt Hatter and Joe Sullivan did the pitching.

On the contrary, the conviction that Baer can take his best shot and keep coming on is apt to have a more adverse psychological effect than the knowledge that Max Adelbert stopped him. If he nailed Baer last time, he could buoy himself with ven though the German was not at his peak last time, the Livermore Adonis is an improved and more confident fighter, and the intense heat on the night of their last meeting have been of any direct help to him. But Schmeling comes up the logical contender in my rating and the logical choice for the big bout of the summer. Nice fellow that he is, Steve Hamas never was any great shakes as a fighter. But few of our heavyweights could have done to him, anywhere what Schmeling did to him recently in Germany.

He darn near killed him, if the reports of the bout reached this side w'ere accurate. There might conceivably be one justified complaint about my so light-heartedly electing Schmeling to the office of challenger. I know nothing at all of Joe Louis, the most recent black menace, except what the papers have had to say about him and his fights. He reads very well, indeed. Closed Tourney at Coliseum Monday The Lincoln will be represented in each of the four divisions In the state closed Y.

M. C. A. tournament at the University of Nebraska coliseum Monday. A picked team of volleyballers.

swimmers and handballers will represent the Lincoln group, while Coffee, Cosmopolitan league basketball champs, will be the entrant in the cage sport. Teams from Omaha. Beaver Crossing, Hastings, Lincoln. Columbus and Fremont are definitely assured, while McCook, Beatrice and York may be represented in one or two of the sports. Exhibition Baseball.

FRIDAY New York 6, Cincinnati S. Brooklyn tN.i. il.L.i, 3. Philadelphia iN.i, Toronto tl.L.I, I. Boston (A.i, Boston 5, Detroit 12; St.

Louis iN.l, S. St. Louis lA.l, House of David, 1. Cleveland (A.i, 3, Washlnnton 0. Plttsburih Chicato 4.

SATtTRDAT SCHKDCLK. At St. York (N.) ve, Philadelphia At (N.) ve. Detroit (A.I. At Los (N.) vs.

Chicago (A.I. At (N.) re. Newark (I.L.). At (N.) vs. House of David.

At San (N.) vs. Ban Francisco iPC.L.). At Bf. (N.) vs. New York At Louis (N.) vs.

Boston (A.I. At (A vs. Kansas City (A.A.), At West Palm Louts (A.) vs. Buffalo (l.L.). At New (A vs.

New Orleans (S.A.). It was pointed since 1925, when Washburn college of Topeka, came away with the national championship, has a college team w'on the tournament. College teams, those favoring the change said, cannot compete on an even basis more experienced independent opponents, The showing of college teams in the current tournament has been unimpressive. Under the suggestefi change, college fives would play only collegiate opponents, with the winner of the finals to be declared national collegiate champion, and the independent quintets would similarly have a tiUeist Play-off Proposed. If the winner of the colleg'ate bracket appears unu.sually strong viccv.

ni. and, the poinion of tournament i knocked out nob Godwin, ni, wait Pflum and Rus.sell Line Outlofdi EnrourRging. The Nebraska forwards, under the watchful eye of Roy Lyman, new member of the Corn- husker coarhing staff, have been showing rapid progress and the seasoning given by the spirited scrimmages forecasts an improved line next fall. The battle the linemen, in fact, is one of th3 high spots of the spring drills promises to carry over next fall. Prior to the spring drills, Husker coaches were a bit worried over the center position, left vacant by Franklin Meier, the ne- of locating a pair of run- ill a A.

Ai i.T.T. dc- guards and further strength- cuioncd Mihc Mor.h.ii. 1 cning of the tacklc spots vacated McC o.v, ITI, Boatnn, At Ntw Broddoek. 1S3, New iertc.v, derlitvnrd Art Lkiky, 197, Mlnne- IS 1K3, weter, knocked eut Tom Fetrlck, Cetifornlw. In round.

John Anderson, 171, Sweden, drew with l.esne- vleh, 187, diieweter, N. Terry Mitchell, declvioned Rolph icucellii, 19S, New York, At New (ioiner. New Heven negro, AI Bridgeport, officials, has a chance against the independent bracket winner, the two teams would be called upon to play off for the undisputed national title. The subject will be brought up at the next meeting of the A. A.

U. basketball committee. Several outstanding college teams have refused to compete in recent tournaments because it was believed they had little chance against the better independents and a meeting with one of them in the first round meant early elimination. Moorefield High Has Successful Season MOOREFIELD, March 23 high closed its 1935 basketball season with 14 victories i in 20 games. The high spot of the season was the winning of the class district tourney at Curtis.

Letter winners announced by Coach Alex Cochrane are Fay Stcphen.son, Eddie Waltcmath, Chris Jurgens, Norman Kjar, Bud Harwick, Eldon Welch and Wilbur Schultz. Four members of the team will be lost through graduation. Harwick led the scoring with 149 points. Jurgens tossed 37 of 49 free throw chances and Captain Stephenson w'as outstanding at a guard position. The flag chances are as good as any other according to a statement accredited to Bucky Harris, manager.

Jerseyman Wipes Out Lasky as Candidate for Fistic Laurels BY DAVIS J. WALSH. NEW YORK. March name is James J. Braddock and, if forgotten fighters had headstones, there should have been a chaste, hand-tooled epitaph to his memory somewhere in Northern Jersey at least a year ago.

One year If' exact, he was back driving a taxicab and the local Louis is far enough along or has boxing commission, thinking him quite defunct, refused him enough heat under him to get any a license to box at the Ridgewood Grove. THEY'RE GOOD FRIENDS championship shot this season. It be so. but it is, that a negro fighter has to be mighty good to get a crack at that big crown. ALL know that there is invariably a black menace, or, as the late W.

O. McGeehan preferred to put it, a Senegambian in the woodpile, somewhere about. True enough, some of them were not very menacing when the truth about them came out I was amused recently to hear Baron Daugherty of Lieperville discuss his old black menace, the large, fried chicken eating Gawge Godfrey. big black man had a heart the size of a very small said the baron, not unkindly. just fight whenever the going got bumpy.

The minute he was in the least trouble, you could count on it that he was going to foul out. Why he must have cost me at least $10,000 paying fines for fouls in various and sundry places. To say nothing of all the fights he lost that w'ay and might have won, if he had stayed in there and kept But that haz nothing to do with Joe Louis. He may be the McCoy. Semi-Finals Scores At Denver Tourney D-X Oilen.

Llaert. FT Fi FT Mullins, 3 0 31 Pier, 3 1 i Seller, 0 3 3 Jerome, 2 8 I Weir, 2 11 Crank 0 0 3 3 4 Plckrell, 3 3 3 0 0 0 C. Larson. eO 0 li Fischer, 3 3 3 Carlton, 1 0 0 Quonn, 0 0 0 K. Laraon, 1 1 WUlla, 1 0 TotaU TotaU 13 Carroll and X.

O. Qulg- ler. Glebe Piavere. Vniveraal Fletares. fwo graataat drawing carda.

Baba Ruth aad Diaxy Daan. patehad up Ihalr II any. whan the Boston Braraa and tha St. Loula Cardinala mmt in an axhtbition game of St. Petersburg.

Fla. Although Dlaay apoka warm worda ol welcome to tha Baba aa a National laaguar. hla apaad and were too much Bulb. (Aaaociatad Ptaaa Photo BFT FT Johnson, 3 1I Hyatt, 4 3 3 80 Knowles, 341 Browns, 4 00 Lubln. 8 0 8 71 3 Shy.

3 1 I 1 Wheatley, I 0 I Mollner. 0 1 Edwards, 0 1 Goldstein, 01 0 1 Bethel, 0 0 0 Guttero, 00 Totals Totals 14 8 10 1 e. Quigley and John WuU. Braddock Too Rough. But last night at Madison Square Garden all the flaming spirit and at least a suggestion of the body of James J.

Braddock climbed off its coffin to outfight, outpunch and outgame one of the recognized ranking heavyweights of the day, a Mr. Art Lasky of Los Angeles or Minneapolis, whichever cares to claim the body. Mr. Lasky probably is all right, but he ought to go in for something a little more refined. He folded up like a tobacco pouch after the tenth round.

This James J. Braddock just played a little too rough. The decision of the judges at the end of 15 rounds was unanimous, meaning that the 10,000, who came to the Garden with the obvious intention of cheering Braddock in, strained their adenoids to purpose. They have to cheer him in. As a matter of fact, Lasky seemed to be doing that pretty well through the last six rounds.

Astounding Denouement. Thus, the second episode of the heavyweight elimination serial came down to a most astounding denouement. Braddock was 3 to 1 in the betting last night and Northern Jersey cleaned up in handfuls at the odds. However, it seems to be part of this strange story about the man-who-will- say-dead that the odds of 3 to 1 are always quoted against him in big moments along the way. He was 3 to 1 the night he knocked out Tuffy Griffith.

He was the same against Pete Latzo and Jimmy Slattery. The curtain is mercifully drawn at this point, so that James J. Braddock may decently -retire and take up an honest living. He was retired so long that when he came out to face Corn Griffin of Georgia last summer, they did the natural thing. They made him 3 to 1.

He knocked Griffin stiffer than a marble floor; so they tried him on John Henry Lewis and he won again. And what were the odds? Quite so, Lonsdale, 3 to 1 again. Maybe it would be simpler from now on to believe him. Back and Far Ahead. Anyhow, the man from the past, who six years ago had his eyebrows plucked by Tommy Loughran for the light-heavyweight championship, has more than come back.

ahead of anything he ever knew. He has at least an arguing privilege with Schmeling and Camera among the heavyweight challengers. What going to do with it, of course, is something else. Schmeling, I fear, would knock him for his intellect; Camera is too big; Baer is too everything. Nevertheless, give you James J.

Bradilock as a very gallant young fighter and I might add that Art Lasky says you can have him. Lasky, you see, spent nine rounds last night, leading at Braddock with his nose. He had made quite a show from the second to the sixth round, punching Braddock about the body with a two-handed attack under which it seemed entirely probable that the weary James would ultimately wilt. He Played It Smart. But he In fact, he was making the smartest fight he has ever shown, a strictly counterpunching fight that nailed Lasky with rights to the head until the latter was through.

This point was reached midway through the tenth round, Lasky having shot the works with lefts and rights to the head earlier in the round. The only result was that Braddock came back in the final minute to punch Lasky into the ropes and, from that moment, the idea seemed to take. Anyhow, the young n'lan was hit with two dozen right hands without return through the next four rounds and, although he rallied in the fifteenth, it was like playing the tenth inning after the boy has taken the numbers off the scorjboard. Socks Homer With Bases Choked Ray Zmmerman, 18-year-old Lincoln high student who patrolled center field for the Nebraska league Links last summer appeared in two spring training games at Avon. early this week.

Zimmerman is playing with Rochester of the International league, a team for the St. Louis Cardinals, and in one of his appearances socked a home run with the bases choked and also blasted a double during the game. Sooner Aggies On Way Retain Title BETHLEHEM, March the reigns securely in defense of their title, the Cowboys of Oklahoma A. M. swept safely into the semi-finals of the national collegiate wrestling championships today with a total of nine points and six survivors from the first day of competition.

Two other Oklahoma schools. Southwestern Teachers and Oklahoma university, and the Big Ten champions from Illinois were the only contenders with any kind of a chance to threaten the retention of their crown. With virtually complete collapse in the quarterfinals, the last eastern hope vanished, for only single survivors remained from a few scattered schools this side of the Alleghenies. Results of matches involving Big Six athletes included: "Bif First Oklahoma threw Cheney, Iowa State, 126; Witt, V. M.

threw Campbell, Kansas State. 135; Slsney, Oklahoma, declsloned Sklnnei- Haverford. 135; Larson. Iowa State, clsloned Conrad, Lehigh, 135; Shively, Washington Lee, declsloned Howe, Kansas. 145; Kltt, Oklahoma Southwest, threw Quernsey, Iowa State, 145; Martin, Oklahoma, threw Glass, West Virginia, 145; Kalpln, Oklahoma, threw Davenport, Lehigh.

155. Second Oklahoma Southwest, declsloned Swift, Kansas; Kiehl- horn, Iowa, declsloned Young. Kansas State, 165; Martin, Oklahoma, threw Yocum, Stroudsburg. 145; Kalpln, Oklahoma, threw Gregory. Princeton, 155; Oklahoma, beat Browning, Oklahoma gies, default, 165 Oklahoma, threw Steiner, Iowa State, 118; Slsney.

Oklahoma, declsloned Larson, Iowa State, 135; Borden, Rutgers, declsloned Moore, Kansas State, heavyweight; Martin, Oklahoma, threw Tomlinson, Central Oklahoma, 146; Lewis, Oklahoma Aggies, threw Noland, Kansas, 155. Hebron Squares Off For Track Campaign HEBRON, March 23- Coach Roland Edie has six lettermen out for track at Hebron high this season. The veterans are Guy Bailey, Jim Dutcher, Kenny Gottschalk, Johnny Sponsler, Dick Thomas and Gordon Mittan. Schedule: Fairbury at Hebron; 10, Nelson at Hebron; 19-20, Thayer county at Hebron; 27, Southern conference at Hebron. State championships at Lincoln.

BOWLING. GREATER LINCOLN LEAGUE. Liberty in the Greater Lincoln league rollad a 3.149 team series to pace the outfits in the loop at the Lincoln Friday night, setting up 1,151 single game. Brick Individual series which totaled 704. was the high of the evening and his 368 singl- game was well above the best among the other pln-dumpers.

Goeti won the odd game from Colts, while Gridiron Club and Liberty Life each swept all three with and Falitaff, TO FREMONT. of the Lincoln league will compete with teams from Omaha, Grand Island, Fremont and Council Bluffs as opponents. The meet will wind up Sunday evening. SIX BOWLERS TO KAYSEE. Six Capital City pln-crushers will compete In the All-American sweepstakes at Kansas City this week-end, going Into se- tlon at 9 Saturday night and rolling twice more Sunday.

The sextet Includes Everett Finley, Bernle Kossek, Brick Iraln, Dee Mitchell, Tony Lococo and Bob Burns. Keglers from Fremont, Columbus, Omaha, Falls City and Grand Island also will be on hand for the Kansas City festivities. Bearb, In elghlli rnand. -Vllda 157, I Kid Tunero, 154, Cuba, It At Parli deeUlnned Al 1S8. Detroit, deeisioned Tommy Faul, 184, Buffalo New York, 18 rounds.

At. I.57»i. Woreester, Mass, derlstonod Milford (Hwede) Oerglund, San FraaelsroAshn Barglnnd, 180, San Bernardino, 10 rounds. TUP-F CLASSIC ON FAR WEST TRACK Field Of Crack Runners Competing Today For $25,000 Purse. BY RUSSELL J.

NEWLAND. SAN MATEO, March 23 track and leaden skies found eight sleek equine stars ready to break the barrier today in the second annual $25.000 Bay Meadows Handicap, richest stake of the spring meeting at the Northern California track. The one mile and one-eighth gallop attracted a small but strong field, with the "mud lark.s” finding favor on a racing strip that in spots resembled a quagmire. The heavy going pushed Head Play, entry of Mrs. Sila.s B.

Mason, to the forefront and the winner of the recent $10,000 San Juan Capistrano in Southern California was highly regarded in most quarter.s. Head Play, along with Ladys- man of the W. R. Coe stable, drew top weight of 118 pounds. A great dry track performer, qualifications as a muddcr re- rnained to be proved, although his sire, Pompey, was outstanding on a heavy strip.

Time Supply Heavily Backed. Time Supply, winner of the first Bay Meadows Handicap, found plenty of backing to repeat his feat of last fall. Gusto. Thomas ville and Dark Winter lined up as sharp contenders, due to weather conditions. stable mate of Dark Winter and winner of the recent $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, was stabled, due to a hoof injury.

Top Row, added just before the overnight entries closed yesterday, was regarded as a doubtful i Thompson. Williams In At Guard. Shifting of Johnny Williams to a guard position has strengthened this sector, the new arrangement calling for the former Lincoln high gridder to play guard on offense and back up the line as roving center on dcfen.se. This makes available the best services of Paul Morrison, veteran of some seasons ago, and Bill Horchem, reserve center last falL Morrison and Horchem are finek defensive men in the line and good passers, but lack experience and versatility at backing up the line. Bob Mehring, sophomore lineman from Grand Island, who has been unable to get into scrimmage this spring, i.s a player of WiD versatility.

Mehring is covering from an operation. Other leading center candidates Include Lowell English, former Lincoln high player, and Bill Fitzgerald from South Dakota. Several Guard Candidatea. Williams and Ladas Hubka, Table Rock junior, have been getting the call as first-string guards this spring. Other leaders include Gus Peters, an outstanding froah squad member for two seasons; Clyde White, who saw some varsity service last fall; Don Flasnick, who worked at an end last season, and Kenneth McGinnis, team guard.

The tackle problem also ii clearing with Jim Heldt, Holmbcck and Fred Shirey, all over 200 pounds, seeing most action. Added to this group are Wally DeBrown, a reserve of last season and heavyweight wrestler; Vic Struve, frosh tackle from Deshler, and Wheeler, Belleville, lad 11 moved over from the center squad. Heldt performed at a guard last season and Holmbeck will be playing his third varsity season, while Shirey is rated of the yearling tackles. Officers Chosen By Broken Bow Golfers BROKEN BOW, March 23 H. Hale ha.s been elected president of the Broken Bow Golf Varney, vice-president; Roy C.

Holcomb, secretary-trcasurer. Directors are W. Darnell. Earl Davis, Harold Baker, Edward Low'der of Broken Bow and E. T.

Mallory of Merna. starter. A.ssigncd the lightest i weight of 97 pounds, Bluebeard, Kentucky Derby nominee and the only three-year-old in the race, was coupled with Ladysman as a Coe entry. With a feather on his back and noted for his front- running ability, Bluebeard lined up as a possible "surpri.se” horse. Picard Bidding: For First Prize Spoils CHARLESTON.

S. March 23 Picard of Hershey, headed down the stretch of the 72-hole Charleston open golf tournament today throe strokes ahead of the field and five swings under par toward the $750 first prize money of the $3,000 event. Picard, former pro at the Charleston Country club, required only 208 strokes for the first 54 holes over the wind-swept Wap- poo course, but close on his heels was Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Kansas City, who yesterday hopped into second place by tieing par-equalling 71 for a total of 211. Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Horton Smith of Oak Park, III, and Wiffy Cox of Brooklyn, turned in sensational par-cracking rounds.

Runyan, the P. G. A. champion, carded a 35, one under par, going out and then grew hotter coming home in 31, four under standard numbers. On the incoming route he had a pair of birdies and an eagle.

Smith and Cox showed 67s for the third round. Cass County Highs Ready For Baseball ELMWOOD, March The Cass county high school baseball league will open April 5 with six teams in action. The schedule: Alvo at Murdock. Greenwood at Elmwood. Plattomoiith at Weeping Water; 12.

Murdock at Greenwood, Elmwood at Plattsmouth, Weeping Water at Loula- ville; 10, Plattsmouth at Murdock, Loula- vlUe at Elmwood, Alvo at Weeping Water; 3C, Murdock at Loultv'lle. Elmwood at Alvo, Weeping Water at Greenwood. May-3. Elmwood at Murdock. Platia- mouth at Orenwood.

LouUvllle at Alvo: 10, Weeping Water at Elmwood. Greenwood at Louisville, Alvo at Plattsmouth; 17, Murdock at Weeping W.rter, Louisville at Plattsmouth Greenwood at Alvo. MAY TURN PRO. With the Cincinnati Danny MacFayden has gone back to his old side-arm delivery. Tne Yankees sought to make an overhand pitcher of the veteran.

Blanks For Yanns In Mix With Regulars Ed Pohlman. veteran catcher from Garland, pounded out a and two ainglea to act the hitting pace for the Unl- veraity of Nebraska varalty aa the regulars shut out the yannlgans, 4-0, in a seven- inning practice game Friday afternoon. Don Graham, Ashland sophomore twirler, held the yans to four hits. ------------------------r FBED PEBBY Bankad aa No. I amataur fannia playar ol tha world.

Frad Parry, Engilah nat aea. ia raporlad about to turn prolaaaional lor a aalary aald to ba about SI 00.000 lot lira! aaaaou. I.