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DAILY EM SUE SPORTS Hanson to Coach Syracuse Again Vie Hanson, Syracuse Vniverslty head football coach, re-waled yesterday that be had signed a contract coach the Orange team for 1935. Hanson, a flve-lrtter star at Syracuse, has coached the team for the past three years. This team was the best he tamed oat. COLUMI I 20 NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934 N. C.

A. A. Raps Hired Football Players Hughes By Ed Well, Stranger Things Have Happened Heavyweight Title on Line Tonight BELIEVE It or not, there Is a heavyweight championship fight In Chicago tonight. Max Baer meets Klngfish Levlnsky In a four-rounder In which "the championship is not at stake." That is all very true if it goes the limit, for no decision will be rendered. However, should the wild swinging ex-fish monger "hang one" on Baer's royal chin.

Max himself will become an ex-heavyweight champion, inasmuch as the affair is billed as a fight and not an exhibition, of necessity the referee would be forced to count out Baer. That would automatically make Kingflsh Levinsky the new heavyweight ruler. Titles go with knockouts, no matter how much legal phrasing a champion writes in the contract. No such shock as a knockout by Levinsky is expected. Still, stranger things have happened, brother.

The King has a wallop and is not timid about letting it go. He has everything to gain and nothing whatsoever to lose. Baer hasn't fought since the Camera thing. The chances are he is pretty soft, physically. The idea of four rounds with Levinsky doesn't feaze a chap with the amazing ego Baer possesses.

Still, there's just a chance Max may find them the toughest four rounds he has ever experienced. Impromptu bouts such as this one have caused humll-fr Cornell Tosses Foundling Child Into Alumni Laps By GEORGE CX'RRIE The National Collegiate A. A. went on record as opposed to "illegitimate proselyting" in football yesterday at its annual conclave in the Hotel Pennsylvania and for one, was mightily lifted up at this expression of piety. Hardly had I turned from watching Harry Stulhdreher of Villanova voting aye with his left hand and Bo McMillan Voting with both hands for so lofty an expression of simon purity tha nl was accosted by two coaches, one of them on a faculty rating and both of whom knew I lived on Staten Island.

iation in the past to greater champions than Max Baer. Dempsey and Greb begun some preliminary training for the Miske fight at Benton Harbor. Harry Greb dropped around one afternoon and suggested the champion put on the buffers with him for "a REMEMBER the afternoon in New York when Jack Dempsey little work-out." Now Greb. in ad dition to operating the craziest, most foolishly agreed to box Harry Oreb unmanageable style of fiehtine. was a minute notice.

Dempsey had dangerous in another sense that Wri.51CV.'J aUV fviflftW, i. YWL 'TJ iJtl' aW 1 "Are there," they said, "any more fmm wit zrwmj. Hubbell at Top But Dizzy Won More Games li JJI Averages List Pitchers in Order of Earned Run Effectiveness Bill Shakespeares In the Borough of Richmond?" I was compelled to eonfess that the town boys back home were good, but that a Shakespeare was duplicated only once in over 300 years. The first one, I believe, was a poet or a play-Wright or something. The last, as everybody knows, went from Staten Island to kick Notre Dame out of tight spots.

The coaches have got the notion 70-yard punters grow on trees across the bay. Having thrown this cold water pon their fond hopes, I moved on, pondering the obtuseness of coaches Who, needing a kicker, would not go looking for one if one might be found. JOB IS TO SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM The august N.C.A.A. also thought It might be well to keep coaches on the campus and prevent their addressing remarks about Alma Mater's advantages 'to championship prep and high school teams. At least, one professor thought so.

He was dismayed to find that the coaches were all unanimous that they should not be allowed to speak before such gatherings. As one of them nut it. "Our job is to school By TOMMY HOLMES Ever since baseball averages were invented, the better minds in close contact with the game have de Avy cJUf feER bated, argued and even come to blows about the best mathematical system for rating pitchers. TiTLE There are those who consider won-and-lost percentage the only real standard, pointing out that a pitcher is supposed to go out there and win. There arv many rather obvious squawks agaffist this meth Dempsey didn't suspect.

Greb always thought he could lick Dempsey in a regular fight. The "little workout" proved anything but a tonic for Dempsey. Greb went into make the most of it. He carried the champion at a lively pace for about a round and a half. The affair wound up in the second round when the boisterous "Windmill" finally butted and gashed Dempsey's eye.

He Learned Something A LTHOUGH it was the result of rough stuff, and perhaps an accident, Dempsey was more or less humiliated. Many thought the butt was the result of a punch. At any rate, Dempsey was made to look bad. He regretted ever consenting to spar with such a dangerous fellow as Greb, never a respecter of persons or of feelings. Still, Dempsey learned something from the painful Incident.

Some time later he frankly told me he wanted no part of Greb In a championship fight. "He's a tough guy to handle," piped the champion. "Why, he might paste me all over for six or seven rounds before I caught up with him and put him away. And then I wouldn't get anything but abuse for it. They'd say I picked on a little fellow.

Win or lose I'd get nothing but a headache for fighting Greb." Dempsey was right. Had he always reasoned as soundly Jack would never have sparred that afternoon with the pestiferous Pitts-burgher. Jef fries and Munroe EDOUBTABLE heavy weight champions such as Jim Jef-erf ies and Jim Corbett had even more disturbing experiences. Following his second defeat of Pitzslmmons, Jeffries hit the road on an all-comers tour. The "Big Pellow" offered $1,000 to any fighter who could remain four rounds with him.

Jeff stumbled across a "cropper" in Butte, Montana. A huge Anaconda miner, Jack Munroe, not only stayed the four rounds, but received credit for sending Jeffries to his knees in a mix-up. Jeff allowed that he had sliDDed but heatediv od. Naturally, any pitcher should be more successful with a pennant- winning club than with a tailender. Dizzy Dean won 30 games for the Cardinals.

He'd have been lucky to have won 20 with the support that the Reds would have given him. A system in much more general a football team, not to orate like Benator Huey Long." Considerable agitation over Just what is proselyting arose. H. J. Btegeman, director of athletics at the University of Georgia, asked for School Grid Deaths Show No Decrease Four-Year Survey Reveals Need of Greater Care in Boys' Football A sharp challenge to high and preparatory schools to reduce their football death toll was issued today by Prof.

Floyd H. Eastwood of New York University in reporting the results of a Jour-year survey of football fatalities. Fatal injuries in college, athletic club and sandlot games are decreasing, Eastwood told the American Football Coaches Association. In contrast, the undiminishing number of high and preparatory school fatalities form an increasing per Practice KitCHie favor is that of earned runs allowed per nine innings. This, too, has its drawbacks.

The strongest defensive team in the league is not necessarily the one which commits the fewest number of errors. It is imparting no state secret to say that Ike Boone was not a good outfielder. But he was so slow on the grass that he rarely reached a moderately difficult chance. And when he couldn't reach the ball, he was not charged with an error. I have a notion of my own which I rather fancy rating pitchers on the basis of the batting average of opponents facing them but the probabilities are that these sta- Continued on Page 22 Mentor Calls Seven Colleges Plan Princeton Track Meet a definition and Prof.

C. V. Cleven-ger of Indiana felt obliged to admit there was no good definition to go by. The real tip-off on the situation, however, was the furious effort Just to round up a few to talk about it. Two of the volunteers astonished the gathering.

The first was Professor Dietrichs of Cornell, who explained that at Ithaca no new policy had been announced. Cornell is still on the gold tandard, so far as simon purity is concerned. "Athletes will not be discriminated against," he explained. As one of the brother coaches put it: "The Cornell faculty simply tossed the foundling child of sport into the lap of the alumni," which seems to be about as good a description of what happened as any. WORCESTER TECI.

PROFESSOR HET UP Prof. Percy Carpenter of Worcester Tech was all net up because the newspaper boys had got the notion Okeson Report Sees Football Virtually O.K. Rules Committee Be centage of the total. The percen Eldridge Stops Conde in Second No Conference Is Involved or Considered Red Hot Rumor Has Lou Little Going to Coach Football at Harvard denied any punch of Munroes had tage was 56.5 this year against 36.3 in 1931. The record is even more alarm lieves Game Needs but Little Tinkering ing, he said, if ueaths from lnfec tion which he does not list as di Stanford Best In Many Years Thornhill Pleased With Showing of CoastTeam Old Lineup or'Bama Pasadena, Cal, Dec.

28 UP) Stanford's current Rose Bowl football team, which meets Alabama here next Tuesday, is, in the opinion of Coach Tiny Thornhill, potentially the finest eleven of any turned out at the Palo Alto Farm in more than a decade. "It is. potentially, the best team Stanford has had since I went to rectly attributable to football are included. There were five such among high school playeis last dropped him. Up to the time, Jeffries had never been near a knockdown In his career.

Thus the knockdown, or the alleged one, made Munroe famous over night. The affair actually "built up" Munroe for a championship fight with Jeff two years later. But although Jeff took quick and merciless revenge, and made money out of it, the name of Munroe was always anathema to him. While the football intellects were beetling over the problems of football and the professors were beefing over the pnoblems of simon purity yesterday, the track coaches met in convention assembled at the Hotel Pennsylvania to air their lungs, look at Dan Ferris' movies and meander about, to shake hands across the hall. his institution was in the market Fall.

Corrective Program Irving Eld Idge won by a technical knockout over Conrad Conde in the second round of a scheduled six-round bout at the St. Nicholas Palace last night. Eldridge's sharp blows opened a gash over Conde's left eye and the referee sent the loser to his corner In the semi-final Tony Fernandez halted Pete Schetting in the second round. George Turner won over George Nicholson, George Mazanoff halted for athletes. "The incident arose," he ex The remedy, he believes, is not unattainable and he lists the fol lowing six -point program: And it just happened that the most Important a ncement from the track coaches came from out in the hall, not from the ros plained, "from a facetious witticism at the end of a letter to Worcester alumni, in which the secretary said we could use a few athletes.

The newspapers said we got hundreds of Corbett and Sharkey 1. An association of high school football coaches to do in high school football what the American Football IM CORBETT. when chamninn. trum. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Coaches Association has done for Dartmouth, Columbia and Pennsyl fell victim to a similar trap of George Ladner in 1:35 of the third round, Joe Bulll won the nod over Charley Marto, Earl Lester threw Palo Alto more than ten years ago," said Thornhill.

"We have a fine line and a good backfield. That's about all there is to a football team." the college sport. 2. Raise the standards for em ployment of high school coaches, re The National Football Rules Committee, through chairman Walter R. Okeson, reported today that the past season furnished "clear cut evidence that the game requires but little tinkering with," but Indicated some further encouragement might be given to the lateral pass.

Pointing to the exciting games of the 1934 season as well as to a sharp reduction in injuries, Okeson told the National Collegiate A. A. that despite outside pressure to make the game more spectacular the rules committee still is "old fashioned enough to feel the safety of the players comes first." "Your committee feels," the report said, "that it is quite possible to keep the game open, interesting and even spectacular without adding risks which, while not too great for mature men of many 'years Continued on Page 22 quiring them to have, in addition to too many punches for Joey Fried-lander, Danny London topped Vic Caggiano, Lew Calabro outpunched nation as football trainer to Red Blaik the other day Horry is going to make his track coaching job an all-year-round occupation. Stanislaus Kotska, the Minnesota battering ram, has been definitely offered an appointment to West Point from the Chicago stockyards district, which is his home Stanislaus was recently barred from playing any more football in the Big Ten Conference on a technical operation of eligibility rules involving his transfer from Oregon to Minnesota, so the gain of the Gopher's opponents would seem to be the loss of Army's honorable vania are planning to put on a track meet outdoors at Princeton two weeks before the Intcrcollegi-ates at the Harvard Stadium next May. This is the same group of teams as comprises the eastern college baseball league, but the explanation is that "no conference is in With Bobby Grayson and several of the others throwing the ball, Stanford ran through a long passing session, with a lot of laterals on the end for trimmings.

Fred Fanzoch and Pete D'Agata scored over Willie Gold. replies. We got one, from an alumnus out of college six years." So that was that. The colleges wouldn't think of countenancing proselyting and we have been mistaken. All these all-America football players are really crack chemists, Greek scholars and future academicians disguise in harness and Jerseys for fear they will be accused of putting on airs over their fancy marks In class.

START TINKERING WITH THE RULES While professors were straighten volved or considered." Quite a session on passes was held by the 'Bama boys, too, in their secret workout yesterday, followed football and coaching experience, advanced courses under leading football teachers. 3. Teach a rolling rather than a head-on tackle; to block so that the soft parts of the body will be contacted; to tuck in their chins when falling backward after being tackled or blocked in order to avoid concussion. 4. Provide a thorough physical Continued on Page 21 WINNERS AT PINEHURST Pinehurst, N.

Dec. 28 Miss Elva Statler and Mrs. Richard Tufts won first place in the Silver Foils Scotch foursomes golf here yesterday with a score of 90, 1377. Mrs. Le Roy Smith and Mrs.

J. J. Fitzgerald were second with 95, 1778. foes. CURRIE ing out this ticklish matter, the coaches' subcommittee was preparing to start tinkering with the rules, by some actual line scrimmaging.

Coach Frank Thomas believes his men have reached their physical peak and future work will be designed to hold them there. If everything goes well the "Bama starting lineup will be the same as that at the close of the season with Kay Francis at center; Charlie Marr and Bob Ed Murrow, guards; James Whatley and Capt. Bill Lee, tackles; Paul Bryant and Don Hutson, ends; Riley Smith, quarter; Howell and Angelich, halves, and Joe Demy-anovich, fullback. which follows Christmas as surely as Buster's shadow follows his wagging tail. Spurns 'Sissy Seat9 So Young McGregor Sees Hockey Games From Garden Gallery for 25 Cents Joe McKinney, coach of Boston Caseys Guessing Wonder if Law of Averages Will Prevail in Tonight's dash With Crescents College, as chairman of the sub' committee on rules, sent question Lou Little Is practically the next Harvard head coach, barring quite a few small Its and buts Lou is regarded as a high-calibre character at Cambridge with just the right drive behind his good behavior to give the Crimson boys a chance to meet their old friends on the field as peers and equals The question of money is the last consideration, both Columbia and Harvard being willing to meet any just demand from Our Lou and Our Loo being in no burglar's mood This Is the best red-hot rumor of the coaches' conference Lou himself said be heard Tack Hardwlck was going to be Harvard's master mind, but his brother coaches do say Bill Ilingham would be pretty happy if Loo would sign on the dotted line for a period of five years or so Needless to say, Harvard alumni would be charmed; Columbia old grads, burned to a crisp The rumor that Herb Kopf, Lou's first assistant.

Is going to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers pro team next year was also in the fire, acquiring an unbreakable temper. naires to 125 coaches. Replies were received from 101. Fifty-eight said they were satisfied with things as they are. Twenty-three were satis fled but suggested changes.

Twenty Visiting his home town of Frlseo, admiring friends arranged a "set up" bout for him with the then practically unknown sailor, Tom Sharkey. The latter was a raw but rough deck-scrubber of purely local renown. He couldn't box, didn't know anything. Sharkey was selected because he seemed an excellent vehicle for showing off the exquisite boxing skill of the popular champion, Corbett. The champion had been out of the ring for months and was in no shape for a real battle.

But Corbett, assured a "dub" like Sharkey couldn't make a real battle of it, consented. In fact Jim Jumped at the chance of putting on a show for his constituents. The outcome was an awful Jolt to the haughty Corbett's pride. Either Sharkey was much better or his own condition much worse than the champion suspected. The sallor'a roughhouse tactics so exhausted Jim that the champion was near to collapse in the third round.

Corbett was reduced to clinching and holding to remain with his bothersome opponent. According to the tales, considerate friends clipped the last round short to preserve the champion's dignity. As in the case of Munroe, the "exhibition" made Sharkey celebrated over night. Leonard and Ritchie DENNY LEONARD, when llght- weight champion, picked a similar "soft mark" for a four-round performance on the Coast. He was Willie Ritchie, an ex-lightweight champion, who had been in retirement for two years and was supposed to be harmless.

Ritchie proved a terrific surprise. No decision was given, but the lordly champion, Leonard, was given a bulging, black eye. In fact Ritchie looked so good that he Was given a regular title shot two months later. The veteran gave Leonard a fine struggle until Benny punched him helpless In the eighth round. Baer had best watch his step.

A "set-up" frequently develops into an upset. were simply broKen-heartea over the whole rule book. There was an empty seat at the ringside In Madison Square Garden last night, but a lusty kid's voice up in the gallery told where its owner was. "My boy," said Joe McGregor, press agent of the Americans, pointing up into the gallery fastnesses, where the real fans hang out of the upper shelf. If the law of averages prevails as it has in other Columbus Council basketball games this season, then the Caseys should be beaten tonight by the Crescent Athletic-Hamilton Club on the Prospect Park West court.

Because a majority were in Ever since the season started every K. of C. victory has Klein Says He Won't Be Holdout Indianapolis, Dec. 28 (P) Chuck Klein, National League oatting champion in 1933, today asserted he has no intention of being a holdout in 1935. "I don't know anything about this rumor of a cut next season," he said.

"However, I don't expect all the boys will be taking one." Klein said that shortly before mid-season he twisted his right leg while running bases. The leg never healed properly. He is now undergoing treatment for the injury. "He won sit down here any been followed by a defeat and If George V. McLaughlin Trophy and also the first Eastern Athletic League championship for the New Mooners.

This will be the third league game for the Caseys. Holy Cross and Dartmouth are going to play each other Oct. 10, 1936, the first year in a long, long favor of the rules as they are, the subcommittee, in the manner of committees, is passing on for changes ten suggestions to the real Continued on Page 21 Last Minute Goal Wins for Maroons Montreal, Dec. 28 Hooley Smith's goal In the last minute of the opening period gave the Montreal Maroons a 1 to 0 verdict ovei the Boston Bruins last night in the National Hockey League's International group. The victory strengthened the winner's hold on second place In their division.

ALLEY" INS tTgOLF Edward Malley, who holds the club title, scored a 79 to win the low gross prize in the Polar Bears tournament at the Old Belleclalre QoU Club yesterday. time that the Crusaders will have Jack McGuinness, it Is said, will positively appear tonight for the Crescents. The former St. John's captain Is listed on the club's rooster but had to miss the last two games because the Christmas rush forced him to work late. The New Mooners can use a dcadshot and more," said Joe.

"You see, George goes to Bryant High in Jersey City and It seems his gang are all hockey fans. One night they spotted him sitting in the 'sissy seats' here and razzed him so hard he would never go back." "Now I have to give him a quarter every game and he goes out there and stands on line with the rest of the youngsters waiting to get in on his Bryant school card for half price." So young Oeorge sits on the celling for 25 cents and likes it while the $2.75 scat downstairs rocs unused. PARROTT. 8HIKAT AT CONEY Dick Shlkat will visit Coney Island tonight to meet Tor Johan-son in the main exhibition at Btauch's Arena. failed to appear on Harvard's pro gram The Crimson Is dicker Miss Ciccone Wins, Also Miss Hedlund Chestnut Hill, Dec.

28 The semi-final round of the National Junior Girls' Singles Tennis championship was completed here yesterday as Miss Eleanor Ciccone and Miss Louise Hedlund turned in victories in the quarter-finals. Miss Ciccone won over Miss Dorothy Klcebe, 60, 61, and MIrs Hedlund tripped Miss Barbara Madden. 60, 64. MONTCL1IR A.C. WINS Montclalr, N.

Dec. 28 The Montclair A. C. clinched the championship of Class in the New Jersey Women's Squash Rackets Association by virtue of their 4-to-l victory over the Plainfleld Country Club yesterday. It was the winner's seventh straight victory.

this delicate sense of balance is going to be preserved tonight the New Mooners will have to win. On Wednesday night Hymie Shanahan's boys beat the Newark A. C. in a surprise game and hence it is natural to expect that tonight the Caseys will go to the other extreme. Columbus Council began its season by defeating Prudential, then went to Philadelphia and lost to the Pcnn A.

returned to the winning column with a triumph over Brooklyn Evening College, lost to St. Francis and followed this with a victory over the Newark A. C. The Crescents want to win tonight's game as they have lost the last two that they have played. The meeting with the Caseys will be the first of the lnter-club series for the Today in Sports BASKETBALL Columbus Counctl.

K. of C. vs. Crmcpnt Athletic-Hamilton Club, at Columbus Council, 1 Prospect Park West, 8:30 p.m. John Marshall vs.

Westminster Col lots, at Jersey City V. M. C. 8.30 p.m. WRESTLING Btauch's Arena, Sttllwell Ave.

and Bowery. Coney Island. 8:15 p.m. Twenty-Second Engineers Armory, Broadway and 168lrt Bt :1 p.m. ing, they say, with Navy and others and asked the Purple to stand down for a couple of years, but there Is no break between the old friends of Massachusetts and the Cross is expected to return to the Cambridge schedule after a brief parting of the ways.

Harry Hillman, track coach at Dartmouth, handed In hit resig fine defensive player like Jack. Ragged work from the foul line cost the Crescents their game with the New York Stock Exchange and Coach Nip Lynch hopes that his men have gotten all the poor foul shooting out of their systems. REIL..