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a Western Quintets Prevail on 'Drive' Brilliant Ball Handling Also Factor As Illinois and Santa Clara Defeat Manhattan and City at the Garden By GEORGE E. COLEMAN Drive plus fine ball-handling was the reason for Illinois 56 to 40 victory over Manhattan College and Santa Clara's 49 to 41 triumph over City College at the Garden last night. In basketball, "drive." a combination of top competitive spirit and perfect physical condition, makes fair players stars and turns fair teams into record-breakers. The quality makes un for mnnv rtefprtc Ed (Red) Stevens had little more than drive when he started with New York U. and last APaCftn Vl E7 ltiirrV tVtjt friAl4 4 1 A i uiuuMb me viuicus lo me tui ui uic Is missing and to date N.

Y. U. is Just a fair outfit. That's Just I neap, dui mis year the drive an example. It's true that the Illinois players DROOtaVN EAGLE FRIDAY, DEC.

27, 1940 2 SPORTOPICS By JIMMY WOOD Sports Editor GANGING UP Harry Fishman, No. 6, and Julian Gerson, No. 20, scramble with big Jim Rickert of Santa Clara in second game of doubleheader at Garden last night. Santa Clara won, 49 41, ond made it a sweep for invaders as Illinois already had beaten Manhattan, 56 40. Defeat eliminated City College as contender for mythical metropolitan title.

GRID MEETINGS This weekend the college football coaches and athletic directors gather in New York for their annual seance in which nothing ever happens. These affairs vary only in locale and the fact that this year's gathering is being held on Manhattan Island makes the coaches and athletic directors look somewhat Garms No Hall of But Rates Vote of Famer, Thanks FAIR BOBSLEDDERS RULED OFF MT. HOVEY Lake Placid, Dec. 27 P) The girls who last Winter taught the he-men of the dan-i gerous Ml. Hoevenberg Olympic bobsled run how to ride down a mountainside at a mile-a-minute clip are in despair.

Hereafter no woman may eom-i pete in championship races. I'n- Prevented Crowning of Champion had the edge In height and Schwit-ter and other driving Jaspers have brought bigger men down to their size, but not men with such drive as the Illinois battlers boast. Even when Manhattan ran up an 18 to 10 advantage in the opening 12 minutes one could see that the pace would be too much for the Jaspers to hold. Slowly the Westerners kept nibbling at the margin to lead at halftime, 21 to 20. Through the second 20 minutes it was all Illinois.

And, in the final ten minutes the visitors went from a 36 to 32 lead to their 16- point victory on the wings of a drive that had the Manhattan cagers dragging their legs. Mediocre Shooting Team Yet, the Illinois outfit had manv serious faults. They were the worst shooting team that has visited the Garden in a long time. Although they had possession of the ball 75 percent of the playing time in the first half, they counted on only four out of 41 shots and in the second half, with Art Mathisen and his tap-ins from underneath omitted, they connected on only seven shots QUI 01 37. The fault was that, with the ex ception of Walter Evers, they refused to look at the basket when throwing 'em.

They all had fine "eyes." Perfect foul-shooting, with 18 out of 18 for a new Garden record, was their performance when looking at the iron ring. The Jaspers, however, have improved. Bill Schwitter, always steady and dependable for under the basket and floor work, is much better with Leon Thompson showing the next degree of improvement. The Manhattan star of the evening was Dan Christie, former Loughlin High lad, who is the heaviest man on the Jasper squad and should have been in there all night, The Santa Clara cagers were even better ball handlers than the Illinois lads. Bob Feerick, Bruce Hale and Jim Rickert used one hand to do magic twists and turns for passes and shots.

The Broncos never let the Beavers get set on the offense or defens' and just rushed them off their feet every minute, running up a 22 to 6 ad-vantage in 14 minutes of the first half. Tomorrow, it's the Kansas Tj speed boys against Fordham and New York against Minnesota at the Garden. Illinois Manhattan 8 s. o. r.

P. Evers 28 5 5 15 Thompson 6 3 3 9 Drlsh 7 10 2 Crist 7 0 2 2 MathUfn 19 9 2 20 Courtney 9 10 2 Wuk vits 11 2 9 Kroveu 10 2 2 6 Richmond 0 1 1 Schwitter 10 4 1 8hapiro 4 0 11 Hassett 0 0 Neil 2 0 11 Christie 7 4 5 10 Hocklnc 2 0 2 2 Reynolds 110 2 Sacks 2 2 0 4 Albnunh OO00 Shirley 10 11 Totals 82 19 18 56 Totals 55 15 10 40 Referees Grieve and Nucatola. Santa Clara City Collee O. P. 8 G.

F. Rourke 3 0 0 0 Holrman 30 7 4 18 Hale lfi 4 8 13 Miller 0 0 0 0 Rickert 12 5 4 14 Goldstein 4 2 4 8 Peerlrk 14 5 2 12 Monitto 4 10 2 Passaalia 12 4 0 8 Geron 2 0 0 0 punocner 0 0 0 0 peck 4 0 0 0 Murphy 0 0 0 0 Phillips 2 2 Manaan 3 10 2 Wlnograd 10 0 0 Mandler 1 0 0 0 rishman 3 0 0 0 Morrlsey 0 0 0 0 Canraro 0 0 0 0 Sch'nkm'n 9 2 3 7 Totals 62 19 11 49 Totals 67 14 13 41 Referees Kennedy nd Brnovich. With Lowest Mark in N. L. History By TOMMY HOLMES In most respects, our National League seems to have had a very fine baseball season.

But today it is just a mite embarrassed by the publication of the official batting averages. Debs Garms is the league's batting champion which probably surprises even himself. His average of .355 was made under unusual circumstances since he wasn't a regular player for the Pittsburgh Pirates. dopey. Last year they put on their Jleeping tablet and aspirin convention In Los Angeles, where they could enjoy a motorman's holiday at the Rose Bowl game and the year before that found them In New Orleans for a peep at the Sugar Bowl.

This year's gathering will be minus the presence of the top coaches of the nation. Not that it matters, anyway. After all coaches already have been polled by mail on rule recommendations and, as usual, all favor thj retention of the major rules. The top coaches busy with Bowl games are lucky to escape the oratory that goes with the guff gatherings. Very earnest gents arise and read yawn-stirring papers entitled "Systems of Defense to be Used Against the Charging End," or "The Rise and Fall of the Double Wing Back." And while the earnest gents spout most members of the audience sit back and snooze, storing up energy for the evening and another round of the hot spots.

This, of course. Is very uninspiring to the speakers, who wonder why they wasted all that time preparing their speeches and wish that they could have a little of that sleep themselves. It happens that this time of year finds most coaches pretty well fed up with mouse traps, downfleld blocking and assorted itrategems of the moment. From August through November, and in some cases into December, the coaches' have been up to their ears In mousetraps, downfield blocking and assorted stratagems. But no Americau organization that has any pride passes up the opportunity for a convention, so there they are speaking or sleeping as the case may be.

We once found ourselves hypnotized into occupying a place on the speaking program of a minor football gathering and our topic was something about the press-box viewpoint. We don't recall Just what we said, but we know we said nothing about a five-man line. At the end of our delightfully dull monologue, however, a coach rushed up to us and said: "I never believed in the five-man line and I'm glad to have somebody else agree with me." We would not have you believe that the meetings are entirely without comedy relief. As a matter of fact, the repartee Is almost brilliant at times. Some years ago Bob Zuppke of Illinois was retiring as the association's president and Fielding H.

Yost was among the nominations for his successor. Zuppke and Yost were carrying on a brisk fued at the time and there was quite a stir when Zuppke arose and said he didn't think Yost was eligible, "He's not an active coach," Zuppke barked. "Yes, I am," Yost howled. "It didn't look like it the day we played you," Zup retorted, recalling to his listeners a game in which Red Grange scored four touchdowns in the first 12 minutes against the Michigan. There has been little for the coaches to do In recent years except take a few shots at football reformers, make a minor recommendation or two to the rules committee and call it a day.

They have a committee which cooperates with the rules commit tee, but the code has become more or less uniform and those with proposals hesitate to make Continued on Page 14 A 32-year-old Texan his birth place is a crossroad settlement called Bangs Garms has been rated a fair journeyman ball player for eight or nine years but no one ever expected him to wind up with a major league batting crown. Forgotten Man The Bees owned him last Spring, Casey Stengel had no place Garms in his plans and sold linn to the Pirates at the waiver price in i March. Until the last month or so of the season, he was practically forgotten. He did manage to break into 103 games 64 as a third baseman, 19 as an outfielder and 20 as either a pinch hitter or pinch runner. And a final checkup shows him with YSi hits in 358 times at bat for i.n average far ahead of any one else.

Garms demonstrated pretty fair power, too. He had 23 doubles, seven triples and five home runs. Garms wouldn't rate as champion under similar circumstances In the American League, which has a rule requiring a batter to have at least 400 times at bat to be eligible for championship honors. But the National League has rn BOWL WHAT'S WHAT-READ IT IN EAGLE! You can't se; all of the Bowl football games; you can't listen to them all; but you can read about all of them in the Brooklyn Eagle through the eyes of the crack sportswriters of the United Press and Associated Press. They'll tell you what might happen, what does happen, and why at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, the Orange Bowl at Miami and the East-West game at San Francisco.

They'll season the Bowl dope for you, and the Eagle will dish it out. College Squash Racquets Nears Quarter-Finals Sixteen players representing 10 Eastern colleges battled for quarterfinal berths today in the fifth annual invitation intercollegiate squash racquets tournament, at the University Cluh. The semi-rinals and final rounds will be contested Scooparade: Down the Line TIWGC DolS By EDDIE BRIETZ Associated Press Sports Writer i The first future book on the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap is 1 out. It makes Challedon a favorite. Kayak II is quoted at 4 to 1 and Mioland at 8 to 1 Who'll get the Dartmouth job? Well, what big-name coach is avail- able except Francis Schmidt? Just after the Big Ten had O.

Helge Pukema, star Minnesota guard, for another season of varsity i play, along came your Uncle Sam-I uel and slapped a low draft number on old Heige. Francis Schmidt has eliminated himself from the Tul.so U. picture, but he has recommended Ernie Godfrey, his line coach, for the top spot at Tul.sa Coach Jess Neely i of Rice recommended Sammy Baugh Artful Arthur Jones, U. of Richmond's star back, will talk things over with Coach Jock uth- erland of the football Dodgers at I the North-South game in Mont-I gomery this week. Pittsburgh experts are predicting Fritzie Zivie not only will retain the welter title in his return bout with Henry Armstrong but that he will slip Henry the old kavo as a belated Christmas gift Ed Ath-erton.

the Pacific Coast Conference czar, will pass up the Rase Bowl game to attend the annual meet- ing of the football coaches here next week Aside to Aubry Mayse. Oklahoma City: Sorry, we have no address for Paul Berlen-bach Pat Comiskey has signed to box Carl Vinciqucrra ten rounds in a Chicago charity sockathon Jan. 24 Christmas cards of Joe i Cook, the comedian, were penny postals, each decorated with $1 i worth of Christmas seals. games on the Pacific Coast. Its fancy-Dan football was good enough to fool the Western boys but Nebraska knows all about that T-formation and has the power to break it up.

SI 'GAR BOWL Boston College is one of the country's great teams, It has a rugged line, speedy backs and dazzling Tennessee also is a great team, unbeaten and untied like its opponent. Tennessee plays hard football, but B. C. Is the kind of team that can stand up under hard tackling and blocking and in addition has the offense to score without first getMns any breaks. COTTOX BOWL-Ycar in and year out.

Fordham plays one of the toughest schedules the country. It lost only one game this ycar-to St. Murv's. The Aggies aKo loM the same kind of a game, tn Texas. Fordham will have to wm on passing, where it has a shade of an edge over the Aggies The Fordhnm line is big cnoujh tn stop John Kimbrnugh and I don't t'nlnk ciiher team will sain much on the ground.

Steve I SHAUGHNESSY WORRIED OVER TWO FULLBACKS Pasadena, Dec. 27 Pj California skies may be sunny, but not to Clark D. Shaughnessy. He has exactly 418 pounds of worry on his mind as he prepares his team for the Rose Bowl gridiron classic against Nebraska on New Year's Day. The quiet, workmanlike coach of Stanford's machine is concerned i over the condition of his two full- backs, Norm (Chiev) Standlee, weight 216, and Milt Vucinich, 202.

Standlee has a bad ankle. He missed action in several of Stan- i ford's biggest games, and was not at his best in others. Vucinich did a splendid job of taking over the chief's duties, but Vucinich got a knee banged up in a workout Tuesday, and the outlook is bad. Standlee's trick ankle may hold up, but it's a cinch Shaughnessy won't let him Indulge in anything strenuous before game time. i thstanding, Shaughnessy gives every indication of calm confidence about the coming game.

He never is one to bubble over with optimism, however. Team Reflects Attitude Team members reflect this attitude, too. Don liebendorfer, Stanford's director of athletic news, and a close observer of Rose Bowl games for many years, says: "Our boys never get that wild, hopped up spirit. It's hard to explain, but you'd never tell by watching them that, they are fired up in the usual sense." Liebendorfer might have added, too, that the Stanford of 1940 never became wild or panicky during a game, even when they were trailing, and they trailed in many of their contests. They just went about the business of cutting down their foe, as the records show.

However, they could still sit easier If they knew they had 418 pounds of good, sound fullback ready for the Nebraskans. Schmeling Gets Challenge To Defend European Title Berlin, Dec 27 Max Schmeling, former world heavyweight boxing champion, must defend his European title against Heinz Lawk or forfeit, it to the Viennese challenger, Lazrk. who Is German champion, took advantage of the International Boxing Union's ruling that every European tltleholder must defend his crown after Jan. 15, 1941, to challenge Schmeling. Max, who Is serving with the parachute troops, ha.s been Informed of the challenge by wire, but so far his decMon is hot known.

less rules are changed, Katheryn Dewey will be the last, as well as the first, American queen of the "four-man" team drivers. Roaring Welcome Greets Fordham On Dallas Arrival Dallas, Texas. Dec. 27 (U.Ri Dallas roared a Texas welcome to the Fordham Rams today. The team arrived by special train this morning and was greeted by a crowd of several hundred who braved brisk winds to put on a demonstration with blazing six-guns and Western "yippees." At Mesquite, just outside Dallas, a sham train robbery halted the special and the blast of blank shells -routed the New Yorkers from their beds.

The 31 squad members, who meet the Texas Ajsics in the Cotton Bowl New Years, donned cow-bov hat.s donated by Dallas businessmen and rode on to Dallas to be driven through the downtown section amid a shower of ticker Uipe, cotton lint and thousands of papers and old books torn into shreds. Coach Jim Crowley plans a light practice session this afternoon to limber up his players after the 36-hour train ride. Starting tomorrow, Crowley experts to hold two workouts a day, with no parties or dinners "because we're not going to lose this ball game at any banquet table. Well have our fun after the game." Filipowicz the Rams' passing back, will provide the winning margin. BOWI Georgetown lost only to another great team-Boston College.

The Hoyas have 18 ho lost only one game in three seasons. The line is big and fast enough to hold back the opxisition while the barkfield Is performing magic with the ball. Mississippi State is a speed outfit -and Georgetown loves to face that kind of tram. SI BOWL By all figuring. State should win but the past t.vo years State played only four games in daylight and failed to in any of them.

Two were defeats and two were ties The Sun Bowl game will be played in the daytime, so we're picking Reserve nn that hunch. XST-WKST- Individual brilliance mil pay dividends in this game. Coaches Andy Kerr and Bernie Bicrman of the Eastern squad have such players as Tom-tm Harmon, Francis Reagan, Forrest Evashevskl and Dave AU lrrdice to oMtate In their such rule and Pres. Ford Fl ick is- I tomorrow. sued a statement to the effect that Stanley Pearson of Princeton.

Garms won the championship so who ha.s two legs on the trophy, was far as he is concerned. deprived of a chance to try for per- It might be embarrassing for the manent possession by an injury sus-National League hitters to be paced tained this past Fail while piaying by a utility man who is an Amen-1 football with the Tigers. Picks East for Clean Sweep Of New Year's Bowl Games If 1 League castoff to boot. But it would be more embarrassing If Garms weren't recognized. The top N.

L. hitter who appeared at the plate more than 400 times is Stanley Hack, the Cub third baseman. Hack hit .317 and that would be the lowest major league championship average in history. At present this record is held by Larry Doyle of the Giants who topped the league in 1915 with only .320. As a group, the better hitters of the National League had an inexplicably poor season, Garms led the league in no other department except tn average.

Vaughan of the Pirates was tops runs scored and in triples. Frank McCormick of the Reds led in base hit and doubles. Miw of the Cardinals was home run king. Lonny Frey of the Reds was top bate burglar with 22 thefts. Our own Peewee Reese stole 15 sacks Dcfore injuries derailed him after 84 games.

Frank Frisrh's Pittsburgh eliU) won the team batting championship with a mark of .276 and our Dodgers were no better than sixth here The top Brooklyn men were Dixie Walker, whose .308 average led the Dodgers in batting; Joe Medwick who led the club In hits with 175 and total bases with 280; Dolph Camllll, who scored most runs. 92. hit most triples, 13. and home runf. 23, and the aforementioned Reese, who swiped 15 bases.

tComplrtr averages sports pagcj third By HENRY Sl'PER I'niled Press Sports Writer The East will make a clean sweep of the New Year's bowl games. I'm playing a hunch and picking them as follows: Rose Bowl Nebraska ovrr Stanford. Sugar Bowl Boston College over Tennessee. Cotton Biwl Fordham over Texas Aggies. Orange Bowl Georgetown over Mississippi State.

Sun Bowl Western Reserve over Arizona State at Tem Shriners' All-Star game East, over West. All the choices but the Eastern All-Stars are underdogs in the early betting; but I'm still going to ride with the East because ROSE BOWL Nrbra.ska has plenty of powrr and Is rich in reserve strength. II lost only one game to mighty Minnesota and that was one of the Gophers' tottahcsl battles of thr season. Stanford won all its Wiri world photo HERE'S HOW Coach Lawrence (Biff) Jones of Nebraska tells Forrest Behm (left) ond Worren Alfson, his two "All" linesmen, how to beat Stanford's formation in Rose Bowl game at Pasadena New Year's Day. Behm is 200-pound tackle and Alfson It 188-pound guard,.