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94 Apply for CoachincTT OAKLAND. Cal on Strickland Wins Elimination Bout. LONDON, Nov. 29. (A.

Maurice Strickland, New Zealand heavyweight, outpointed Al De-laney of Oshawa, in a 10-round bout at Har-ringay Arena tonight. Strickland weighed 187 and Delaney 181. The match was billed as a British heavyweight elimination to find an opponent for Champion Tommy Farr. new manager of the Cleveland Irdiar leave by train today for Milwaukee his bosses "about a lot of thin--. 15 to TniT-inrr nf rrmrVioii "TV Oi the nirmg oi coacnes.

"There are only applicants," he explained. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1937 fc crmrm! rv cn zrx Panthers I MIRRORS OF SPORT by HAVEY BOYLE flportj Editor, Fcct-Guatta. 1 i i Duquesne Will Depend on These Boys During Coming Basket Ball Season SIT-DOWN STRIKE UNLESS PLAYERS DEMANDS ARE ME Vote Against Trip to Coast in PICKLES KREILLXG. JOE CMAIXEY. I It' vshr in 1 i I 1 i --v In I a A 0 1 i i I vr i 4 4 Imi 4VtrW fl Meeting neia; ritt Uiticmls Issue Statement on Affair.

Sri i "11 1 fit -A (Continued From Page One.) tion at present, with yesterday's vote of the players tabulated. mean3 that football for the 1937 season at Pitt is concluded." Before the meeting, which was called by Mr. Weber, the players were told that the entire squad would make the trip in the event of the acceptance of any bid." The Panther authorities admitted that feelers were received for the Sugar and Cotton Bowl games. They were non-committal when queried whether a feeler for the Rose Bowl had come here. They were emphatic, however, in denying that the actual Invitation to go to Pasadena arrived on the local campus.

What the players wanted in the way of pocket money was variously reported as between $100 and $200, with the left wingers holding out for the larger amount. Only One Meeting Held. On the heels of the fiery session came reports by the carload, most of them screwy. One report said that a second meeting to reconsider the first action was proposed by the University authorities. There was no second meeting held and Pitt authorities sharply denied any had been held.

Significant was the absence of Coach Sutherland from the meet ing. Under normal circumstances, it was pointed out by experienced observers, the coach naturally having a large stake in the matter, would be asked to throw the weight of his influence into the issue, either for or against. It was also pointed out that probably one word from Sutherland, high in the esteem of his players, would have swayed the vote either way, and likely would have made it unanimous. Seniors Against Trip. Whether his absence was an echo of the unpleasantness which marked the aftermath of the 1937 Roses game, leading to the Sutherland-Harrison feud, was the sub ject of conjecture last night among The Panthers, Roses and Thorns The only twosome missing in the Rose Bowl situation at Pitt is Gilbert and Sullivan.

Those two gentlemen who made merry with the foibles of the empire certainly would have a rollicking time putting together an operetta about the Pitt Panthers and their connections with the commercial proposition known as the Rose Bowl game staged annually in Pasadena, Cal. In an era where virtually everyone has two strikes on him, speaking not in a baseball but in an industrial sense, the college lads of a great school, after an undefeated season, are asked whether for the glory of Alma Mater they want to play in the New Year's Day classic. Followers of "William Green and John L. Lewis, labor leaders of the first water, in an unsettled industrial situation, would have been well pleased by the attitude of the Pitt players. After the fashion of the day they presented their demands, or the conditions under which they would make the trip to the coast.

These demands contained the motif of solidarity, i. the demand that the whole squad of Pitt players be taken on the adventure, agreed upon by school authorities before the meeting; also the wage idea, that the pocket money allowance be hyped from the virtual zero which marked the collective bargaining pact for the last Roses game, to a right wing demand of $100 or to a left wing demand of $200 a man, and thirdly, a vacation. Now, considering that college football is some degrees still removed from such affairs as the 44-hour week, wages, collective bargaining, and the closed shop, this meeting yesterday was certainly unique in college gridiron annals and will go down as a historical one. What, then, Gilbert and Sullivan could do with such a setting would be worth hearing. Surprise, Surprise, Jock Treated with such hilarity the face of tile university would, course, be very red, and we are not so certain that it shouldn't be in view of the bungling which marked the "sounding out" process at yesterday's meeting of the players.

At that session were the players of the traveling squad, with a few exceptions the boys who have been in there carrying the ball, and as the trade name has it, pitching, through an unbeaten season and up to the point where they were considered as possible candidates for the bid from California. Significantly absent, and uninvited, was the man who had quite as much to do with Pitt's getting in a position to accept the bid as anyone in the city. Yea. even the county. We have in mind Dr.

John Bain Sutherland, the Pitt coach. He was unaware such a meeting was being held and what sort of devil pursues Pitt's affairs from time to time which sets the stage for such circumstance as Sutherland's ignorance of such an important meeting is interesting to contemplate. While it is not the custom to have the coach at the meeting, it certainly is the custom to notify the coach that such a meeting is being contemplated, where it will be held, and other not so minor details touching both his personal life and official capacity. For had the players voted to make any trip, it would be none other but Dr. Sutherland, in person, who would be called upon to whip the boys in shape again for the Rose Bowl classic.

Yet there sat Dr. Sutherland blissfully unaware of the winds and thunders and lightnings of the players' meetings. The design of this is not clear, but there is a faint pattern running through the whole plan which indicates that Dr. Sutherland was getting a first-class snub and that the Rose Bowl acceptance was going to be thrown right into his lap, without previous consultation with him, and that the knitting he might have been doing while the meeting was going on, would be somewhat abruptly halted. The purpose of this is not entirely clear, but there is in it an echo of the Harrison-Sutherland feud which last winter entertained us.

Fumbling on the 1-Yard Line But aside from the Sutherland slant, what sort of bungling was it that no one knew the sentiment of the players Even outsiders knew that the Panthers were dissatisfied with certain features of their last trip to the Bowl. It was common talk that the players were figuratively, on that trip, looking into bakery store windows, while, again, figuratively, they rubbed their tummies with one hand, and dolefully rubbed a thin nickel in their pants with another sad hand. Outsiders knew the players were going to ask for something better in the way of accommodations if they were invited this year. Their plight was such on the last trip that Dr. Sutherland dug into his own pockets to scatter some $450 among the disconsolate players on the Post-Gazette Photos.

With his entire first team of 1936- 37 lost for the coming campaign which opens on December 13, Coach Chick Davies of Duquesne will build his quintet around the three boys shown here. Fortney and O'Malley were named co-captains for the 1937- 38 season and will hold down regular positions while Kreiling, a sophomore sensation two years ago, who sagged a bit last season, will be out to regain his spurs at one of the guard posts. DUKE CAGERS OPEN DEC. 13 WITH NEW TEAM Davies Loses Entire First Quint In Off-Season. CO-CAPTAINS NAMED Green Bluff Machine Will Face Severe 16-Game Schedule.

By Jack Sell When Wittenberg College's eagers come to the Bluff gymnasium on Monday, Dec. 13, Charles Robinson Davies will start his fourteenth consecutive season as head coach of the Duquesne University basket ball team. From present indications, the winter just ahead promises to provide as tough a test for the fiery little mentor as any in the past. For the sixteen game schedule outlined for the Red and Blue, Davies has only ten varsity players. His entire first team which g.

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cf P.v pr i Bud-h. Gf 6 P.O. tia-e, i- a fi': ill Jo! scribe a ing Joe sen, Mir: hail COLORADO ACCEP COTTON BOWL Will Meet Southwest Ct: ference Team Jan. 1- Co'io: EC' on New graved by faculty In trtin must schools the Colt Oi- ICiMi, excited Pitt students and followers tn of the team among the general public. The votes against making the trip was likely cast by the seniors who made the last trip to the Roses game to come upon experiences they still remember, whue some of the other votes were cast by younger and more eager members of the traveling squad who have yet to make the long trip to the coast.

Interviewed last night while attending the Curbstone Coaches banquet in the Metropolitan Club. Dr. Sutherland said: "I did not know that the meeting to vote post-season bids was being held yesterday. However, I believe that ati.cn This Season's Schedule Ir. 13 Witlrnhrri.

rx-c. 1 W'aynesbnrg. 21 Tennefw. Hie. 27 lllinold Wnleyan.

IW. 30 fit. I.nul. Jan. 1 Stanford at Cleveland.

Jan. 3 muter. Jan. 12 Pitt. Jan.

14 At Carnegie Tech. Jan. 20 Villannva. Jan. 22 At Lone Island.

Feb. 12 At Geneva. Feb. 17 arnecie Tech. Feb.

23 At Pitt. Feb. 23 At St. Joseph's. Mar.

4 Geneva. WINDBER REED CLASS JUHAMPS Will Meet Steelton For P. I. A. A.

Title. ALTOONA, Nov. 29. UP) Windber High school tonight was selected Class A football champions of the Western Conference of the Pennsylvania Interscholas-tic Athletic Association and oppo nent of Steelton, Eastern district champions. Representatives from the more than two-score schools of the conference announced the award, giving, the Somerset county town 315 points.

Tyrone was named runner-up with 208 points. Ferndale was named champion with 128 points and Por tage High school was second with 125 points. Official announcement of the site for the game will be made later this week but it is expeoted to be in the Point Stadium at Johnstown. The Windber school board expressed a preferance for that field last week. R.

I. Hoch of Lock Haven was elected president of the Western Conference, succeeding W. E. Sheely of Bedford High school. W.

E. Griffith of Somerset was named vice president anJ D. B. Kulp of Williamsburg was re-elected secretary. In Class A.

Punxsutawney was judged third with 115 points and Lilly third in Class with 100. The conference admitted Roaring Spring and Bosweil as members. Barnesboro and Johnstown formally withdrew. PICK MOUNTAIN TO LEAD TIGERS Second Backneld Man in 21 Years To Be Accorded Honor. PRINCETON, N.

Nov. 29. (United Press.) Thomas R. Mountain, Princeton halfback from East Orange, N. was unanimously chosen by his teammates to captain the 1938 Tiger football team today.

Mountain, second backfield man in 21 years to be accorded the honor, succeeds Charles H. Toll, of Amherst, Mass. the decision should be left entirely up to the players, themselves. I have not talked to any of the boys about the matter at all." It was learned on good authority, nevertheless, that some of the seniors were resentful when they learned that their coach had not been consulted and this feeling may have had something to do with the adverse vote. ERNIE FORTNEY.

DUKES GET READY FOR MISSISSIPPI Matsik May Get in Season's Final Game. Duquesne University's Dukes keep the local grid caldron boil ing another week and will bring their campaign to a close against Mississippi State Saturday at State College, Miss. The Southern Bulldogs have had an in and out season, much the same as Duquesne, but the team that Duquesne defeated January 1, last, in the Orange Bowl at Miami, has been upsetting the dope with regularity this season. The Hilltoppers' return to form against Detroit has been a happy omen on the Bluff and Clipper Smith's boys will be set to wind up the season with another vic tory. The Bluffites will show virtually the same lineup that started against Detroit.

There is a bare possibility that George Matsik, the Ambridge scooter, will, be able to play. An injured hand, which has kept him on the bench most of the campaign, is on the mend and his presence will add another vital spark to Duquesne's grid machine. While this unusual football act t.rr- c-. was being run through by the Pitt) BOl U--members, there was no official in-J (Lr.iu-J T'n timation that Pitt was to get the i Colorado bid, but that Pitt had been sounded a- out by the coast authorities was the beater, general belief. mcd a night of the day they had emblazoned their names on the gridiron annals of the land by a thumping victory over Washington State.

Thus, the cue among the school's authorities was to set the groundwork for a polite rejection of the bid, a process which would not have been difficult considering the mood of the1 pla yers. or, then, to yield to conditions the players might propose and set the stage for acceptance. The stage should have been set for a dignified unanimity of opinion among the players, and whether the school wanted to accept the bid, or reject it, there was one man, who if invited to participate in the deliberations, likely could have swung the decision one way or" the other. That man was the coach who knew nothing of the meeting. Now if that isn't first class fumbling on the one-yard line Ave 'd like to know what is.

Fumbling which has put the school and its athletic affairs right now in a spot where for years to come yesterday's story will be told and re-told, and a spot whose immediate consequences will see some very sharp comment, critical, cynical and satirical in turn, made from coast to coast. The "sounding out" process was necessarv as a school to The monev issue is a throwback eiev. NAVY MAY LOSE COACH HARDWICK Army Will Have New Mentor Next Season. Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Chicago Tribune. NEW YORK, Nov.

29. Army's having closed its football season with a 6 to 0 victory over Navy conversation in service circles today concerned itself chiefly with the coaching situations at the two academies. After fie years at West Point Captain Gar Davidson must return to troops, and a successor must be named. Following the failure which attended the first season of Lieutenant Hank Hard-wick's coaching at Annapoils, Navy men wonder if some change might not be effected before spring practice rolls around. Last December, when it looked as if Captain Davidson would retire after the customary four years of coaching least one man not connected with hi3 staff was mentioned as a likely successor.

This suggestion developed some discussion and brought a request from Major General William D. Connor, superintendent at West Point that Gar be retained. Now it is reported that the general also is ready to move from the Plains. The favorite for the Army job is Captain Maurice F. (Moe) Daly, who for some years has been working with the backs and has the background of experience necessary for succession to the post held with so much elan by Major Charley Daly, Captain John McEwan, Captain Biff Jones and Major Ralph Sasse.

Lieutenant Laverne G. Saunders, who also has had long experience at the Point, dating back to the Jones regime, is another candidate for the job. POST-SEASON BID GIVEN MARSHALL Sought to Meet Undefeated St. Ambrose Team. Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Chicago Tribune.

DAVENPORT, Nov. 29. Negotiations are now under way for the long sought post-season game for the St. Ambrose College football team, Iowa conference co-champions and undefeated in 24 straight games. The probable opponent will be the unbeaten but once tied Marshall College eleven of Huntington, W.

according to W. J. Duford, head coach at St. Ambrose. If the game is arranged as has been indicated by phone calls between the two cities, it probably will be played Saturday in Charleston, W.

Va. Basket Ball Results PEN'S STATE LEAGCE. Verona T. 28 Hercules ..27 INDEPENDENT. Stranh A.

32 Horvitz 27 A. R. F. Club 27 St. Mirharl PKh.

Academy. .49 Trattord 38 Original Celtic ..32 AV. A. B. 29 CITV CONFERENCE.

Hornish Club ....39 H. 6 1. Michaels. .35 to the trouble following the Roses game last New Year's Day. It was lack of pocket money and the treatment accorded the players otherwise that led to the historic breach between Coach Sutherland, and Don Harrison, athletic director.

Dr. Sutherland reached into his own pocket to divide $450 of his personal money so that the players would have a little spending raon after the game. Memories of those circumstances unquestionably ltd the Rose Bowlers on the current be invited to the Roses game is first asked somewhat furtiveiv if it will accept, if invited. An Echo Now the story behind the story reverts to the celebrated feud between Dr. Sutherland and Don Harrison after the last ll Official Silent on Pitt's Stani Roses game.

In a conlroversv in a hotel lobby Harrison made Final Vote Leaves Pitt As Nation 's Grid Leader won two thirds of its starts, with twelve victories and six defeats last season, has been lost. All Regulars Lost. Three regulars received their diplomas last spring, the trio includ ing Foward Walter Miller, Center Eddie Kweller and Guard Herb Bonn. Captain-elect George Dres- mich was taken ill during the sum mer and has to abandon the sport. leaving a big void at his forward position.

George (Red) Malackney, (Continued on Next Page.) OPPOSES BOYCOTT AGAINST SCHMEL1NG Anti-Nazi League Asked To Reconsider Action. Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Chicago Tribune. NEW YORK. Nov. 29.

Askinc? that the non-sectarian anti-Nazi League reconsider its stand advo eating a boycott of the Max cjcnmelins-Harrv Thomas Iimw weight fight December 13 at Mad ison Square Garden, Promotei Mike Jacobs todav revealed i change of mind. When the boycott first was urged Jacobs explained there wa; nothing he could do about the sit uation because of the contractual obligations the Twentieth Century Sporting Club had with Schmeling tor bouts witn Thomas and Joe Louis, the world heavyweight champion. Aside from pickets nlaced outside the Hippodrome where Jacobs has ms omces, by tne anti-Nazi league, no turther action was taken until today when the promoter made public a two-page typewritten let ter to Samuel untermyer the league's president. In the letter the promoter stated that neither he nor any other individual could select a challenger for the heavyweight championship and that Schmeling's choie was made by public demand from all over the world. He expressed a belief that gport followers generally never favored barring any individual from competition because of race, nationality or creed.

Action of Panthers Leaves Alabama as East's Chief Boivt come- Twenty-Nine Out of Thirty-Three Experts Pick Panthers; California Is Runnerup. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29. Withdrawal of Pittsburgh from 0 the Rose Bowl race tonight ie-Fordham and Alabama as apparent chief contenders to represent the East against unbeaten California in the Pasadena New Year's Day football classic. Graduate Manager Kenneth Priestley of California, with whom the selection rests, had only his usual "no comment" on the report that the Pittsburgh team had voted against any post-season in V' the historic, if inaccurate, remark that "I made you and I'll break you." meaning the coach.

The argument directly arose over Dr. Sutherland 's complaint his players were being shabbily neglected. Which they were, as most stories agree. This led to the official demise of Harrison as athletic director, a self-imposed beheading, with strong outside urgings, which left scars, one of which turned up yesterday. The story is that Mr.

Weber, the business manager, was not so elated over the signing of Harrison's death warrant, and that his sympathies for Harrison turned into an unfriendliness for the direct cause of Harrison's misfortune, Dr. Sutherland. And the chapter yesterday when Sutherland was not taken into the school authorities' confidence was a belated swing for Harrison, indirectly. So now it is reasonable to assume the end in the recent Stormy affairs of Pitt football is not yet. The Rose Bowl seems to be out of the window.

Surely, California would not want to play a team whose majority thumbed its nose at a possible invitation. That may be a passing matter. But the new scars may be something else again and once more Pitt men will be found in two camps. The sad part is that Pitt men everywhere will have to apologize for an historic fumble associated with the Roses game, a fcpringboard from which more publicity, pleasant or unpleasant, Hies than from any similar contraption in the crazy house of ollege football. if ni.

ah'! pvt pr for NEW YORK, Nov. 29.CP) The University of Pittsburgh's rating as the No. 1 college football team of the year fell only a trifle short of being unanimous today in the final roundup of votes for the Associated Press national writers' poll. The seventh and last weekly tabulation of nation-wide opinion disclosed Pittsburgh the top choice of 29 out of 33 experts and clear belief that California, Fordham and Alabama, in that order, compose the "big four" of 1937. It remains to be seen whether the poll indicated pairing for the two major post-season engagements, California-Pittsburgh for the Rose Bowl and Fordham-Ala-bama for the Sugar Bowl, will be made official.

The Final Tabulation. Last year, Minnesota was ranked No. 1, Pittsburgh and Wash ington, the third and fifth ranking teams, were paired for the Rose Bowl, while Louisiana State and Santa Clara, second and sixth, respectively, drew the Sugar Bowl bids. Here's the final tabulation, with points tallied on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. First ten Points 1.

PITTSBURGH (J9 first, ties for first) 37 2. California 277 3. Kordham (1 first, ,2 ties for first) 253 4. Alabama (1 first) 248 5. Minnesota 104 6.

Villanova 103 7. Darmouth 102 8. Louisiana State 97 9. Kotre Dame and Santa Clara ties, gach 90 Second ten: 11. Nebraska, 35; 12.

Yale, 18; 13. Ohio State, 14; 14. Holy Cross and Arkansas tied, each 16. Teas Christian, 17. Colo- Continued on Next Page Priestley would not say whether star Pitt would have been jnvuea.

although the Panthers, once tied by l-oi -Fordham, had been the No. 1 choice of western sports writers. Like Old Man River the Lni- -f2na 'v versity of California football au- .01. -thorities "must know somethm but say nothin" about the ca in to six Oi tnafauieis iui uiv a California's Golden Bears are II.