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WILLIAMSON SAYS

Stanford Likely to Defeat Columbia in Another of Satur-|

day’s Important Games; Fordham Holds Edge.

By PAUL B. WILLIAMSON Notre Dame should gain a ciose victory over the Trojans of Southern California and Army should have little difficulty in defeating the Navy in two of Saturday's leading football games. However, I would not be surprised to see the Fighting Irish held to a tie by the scrappy West Coast outfit. Indeed such an outcome would be consistent with the series record of these two old rivals. The contest has come to be more or less of a traditional affair in which “anything might happen.” In some of the other important games I look for Holy Cross to defeat or tie Boston College, Nebraska to defeat Kansas State and Fordham to wallop their old rivals, New York University, and thus improve their chances for a Rose Bowl invitation.

EXPLANATION: Figure after each team is its rating according to the current Williamson Football Rating Table, published earlier this week. In “Predict” column: 1. means win for No. 1 Team; 2. means win for No. 2 Team; T, means possible tie game or close outcome: R, means prediction contrary to ratings. No. 1 Team plays at home. X, Friday afternoon; Y, Friday night; Z, Saturday night. These predictions are made on the basis of each team’s past performance to date THIS SEASON, as measured by its Williamson rating. They tell as closely as possible the exact shade of difference between each of the competing teams, so far as this is revealed by their previous records this season. When the symbol “T” with a number appears in the Predict column, the number indicates the team which 1s slightly favored, but a very close decision or “upset” is predicted as possible, A difference of 5 percentage points or less in the ratings of two teams often indicates that they are evenly matched and their game is a “toss-up.”

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headed prize fighter out of Bagle | Bend, Minn., is built like one of the | gut.” locomotives he used to jockey for | the Southern Pacific and he hits | pout, about as hard. swinging “Max Schmeling will think he was | rounder. Schmeling hit by one of those new streamliners starter and Thomas hopes when I get through with him in| “punch him so hard and New York Dec. 13,” offered Thomas, | he'll stay slow until it’s all over.” with a significant glance at his heavily taped left fist. “I don't] know what Joe Louis will do against | Schmeling a second time, going to knock him out.” This is the lamb supposedly led to a slaughter by Schmeling as the |

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Although it's to be a 15-round Thomas plans to come out were a four-| slow ton | Wade in with both hands flying, | taking five blows to land one. So |

n Los Angeles before he won |, jn football and member of the |

German belter conditions for his | second fight with Louis—now all the! more important because Bomber | Joe wears the heavyweight crown | Schmeling is convinced he can win | back. i

15 Rounds O. K. by Him

But what the hangers-on around | Chicago's musty gyms can't figure | is why did Schmeling pick Thomas? | Harry is rough and willing, kicks | like a mule with both fists, is big, | slow and awkward enough to make | any fighter look bad. He has knocked out 60 of 71 opponents and | lost only five decisions. Some be- a game with San Francisco, lieve Harry's chin is so toughl| Saturday, will get all the turkey Schmeling may hurt his hands. | and trimmings they want, ac“I ‘was surprised myself when | cording to Coach Charley they picked me as Max's warmer- | Bachman. upper,’ Thomas grinned. “I've “No football game is “imnever fought much in the East, but | portant enough to make a boy I'm not worried. miss a Thanksgiving dinner,”

“They gave a lot of publicity to is the way the Spartan coach

AND SO THEY'LL GET THEIR TURKEY DINNER AFTER ALL

AST LANSING, Mich, Nov. 23. —Training rules, as far as diet is concerned, will go by the boards today for Michigan State football players. The Spartans, who will be en route to the West Coast for

the fact that Schmeling requested | puts it.

the bout be for 15 instead of 10°

Battles Scores Again

Clift Battles is the leading ground-gainer of the National League put mo march to a touchdown ever pleased the Washington Redskins’ halfbeck nearly as much as his march to the altar with pretty Dorothy Kaufman of Lakewood AONE Miss Kaufman became Battles’ bride after

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Dan Thomas persuaded Harry to | quit railroading for a time and the

“IT don't want him to come back | lumbering Minnesota heavyweight | th any alibi after I knock him | made his

| far. no man has been able to knock |

Harry never has seen Schmeling |... in a contest but he and his Uncle | him out.

| At 28, Thomas is as big and awk-

Panthers Cool

To Rose Bowl

By BERNARD NILLES United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH. Nov. 25.—High on | the snow-covered bluff of Pitts- | burgh’s Oakland district, where the

| Pitt Panther reigns, there is a lack | ‘of enthusiasm for another trip to | I sunny California's Rose Bowl. There is no talk about a bid to the West Coast football classic. The Pitt players themselves are indifferent about the matter. Athletic officials deny that the Panthers, who | defeated Washington last January | in the Rose Bowl game, have even | received a “feeler” from West Coast | authorities. Coach Jock Sutherland, nicknamed “The Silent Scot” refuses to | become excited about his team’s chances of getting the bid from | California University, the West Coast’s representative. | “It remains entirely up to the] boys ‘whether Pitt will accept a bid | if one is offered,” Sutherland said as | he prepared the Panthers for their | last game—against the Blue Devils | of Duke University Saturday. “I have no feeling one way or the | other. The affair belongs to the boys | and it's for them to say hess they want to play an extra game | if invited,” Sutherland said. | James (Whitney) Hagan, director of athletics at Pitt, would not comment. “It would not be right for anyone to say one way or the other since Pitt has not been invited,” Hagan said. = Another source close to the players, who didn’t want his name used, saic members of the team are not enthusiastic about possible chances of getting the bid. “The players are tired after their hard season and they have one more game to play. They are satisfied they've had a successful season,” this reliable source said. “One varsity player told me he personally

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does not want to go out to the Rose Bowl and he believed that feeling was quite general among the players.” As for the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, it was learned Pitt has

Dan, who used to be a fighter, paid | 0. as he was at Trinity College, | SIX returning lettermen in a squad |

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Twin Bill to Open Franklin Schedule

A double-header with N. A. G. U. College, Indianapolis, and Anderson College will open the 1937-38 basketpall schedule of the Franklin College Grizzlies here, Nov. 30. With

of 28, Coach Tillotson is expected to have one of his strongest quintets in recent years. The returning lettermen are Capt. Murlin Hougland, Franklin, and Rupert Ferrell, Paoli, guards; Sam Atkinson, Sullivan, center; William Schafenacker, Ft. Wayne, and Homer McCracken, Washington, forwards; and Ralph Crawford

IT’S A BROTHER ACT MANHATTAN, Kas. Nov. 25.— | Three sets of brothers are Tepresented on the Kansas State wrestling team this year. One set is Dale and Clifford Duncan. The second is Forrest and Farland Fansher, while the third set is Loren and Roscoe Smith.

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Alabama-Vanderbilt Tilt

Tops Today s Grid Card

on the Pacific Coast today but in { the Rocky Mountain division three | conference games were carded— | Utah U.-Utah State; Wyoming- | Greeley State and Denver-Coiorado. The No. 1 game of the nation | Colorado leads with six victories and was played at Nashville—Alabama | no defeats. The worst it ean do is vs. Vanderbilt. Alabama, unbeaten | tie with Denver for the title if it] and untied and aiming at the Rose | loses. Outside games are: Colorado | Bowl. was favored to become the | College-Whitman; Montana-North second team in the land to finish | Dakota and Arizona-Colorado State.

with a perfect season. In the Rocky Mountain conference | 60,000 Expected at ‘Cornell-Penn Clash

By HENRY SUPER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The curtain began dropping on the 1937 football campaign today.

Record With

Jess Pritchett led the Indianapo 738, on games of 218, 256 and two fast local loops.

broke the Indianapolis League mark Previously he had posted the city and loop record of 760 while bowling in the Beam’s Recreation circuit | Oct. 22, Carl Hardin was runnerup last night with 955-214-265—734 and Jack Hunt had 233-226-257—"T16. Leo Ahearn came through with 993.289-200—712 for his third 700 | total of the present campaign. He hit for 720 on Oct. 27 and 716 Nov. 17, both in the Indianapolis loop, | the only pinman thus far with three 1700's. John Blue finished with 266 for 692, John Murphy rolled 675, Manuel Schonecker 652, Roy Haislup 647, Phil Bisesi and Jim Hurt each 640, Bud Schoch and Harry Wheeler each 638, Oscar Behrens 635, Dan Abbott 634, Arch Heiss 631, Ed Stevenson 629, Fred Schleimer 628, Bert Bruder 626, Lee Carmin 624, Fred Spencer 619, Ray Roberson 618, Chuck Markey 617, Frank Liebtag 612, Neil King 611, Don Johnson 608 and Bob Wuensch 607. The Barbasols took team honors with 3216, which tied the city record this season set by Bowes Seal Fast Oct. 13. The scores: 203 204 234

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187— 207 — 203— 624 231— 675 Pritchett 261— 38 Totals 1002 1122 1092—3216 Along with Barbasol, Bowes Seal fast, Falls City Hi-Bru, King's Kegelers, Louie's Tavern and L. S. Ayres registered double triumphs. Harold Seal tied the season mark of 626 in the Eli Lilly League. A close fight was waged in the Interclub circuit at pritchett’s, Vollrath getting 606 to shade Brown by one pin. The J. C. C. Jays won three games and Mercator Bears, Richman Lions, Mercator Tigers, Lumberman's Mutual and “A.-B.C. gained a pair of victories.

leys, Jeff Athh 654, Gauker

Fountain Square Al erton was high wit hitting for 601. The St. John's Evangelical league also was in action on the South Side, Moss taking first honors with 637. Superior Oil, Wheeler's Lunch | and Herrmann Funeral Home made clean sweeps and Holsapple Market | captured the odd game. a Another high for the campaign was rolled in the Postoffice loop | at the Indiana Alleys, G. Wilson | hitting for 654, inciuding a 254 middle game, and TF. Black finished | with 256 for 614, Subs No. 1, Fed- | eral Cafeteria and Parcel Post annexed three games and East Michi-

and Dead Letters scored two-out-of -three decisions. In the Indiana

Ladies League,

Store and Lane's Radio Service

Glove No. 1, A. & P. and Tibbs |

| Cleaners finished ahead twice. | Bill Bowen topped the Uptown | Recreation circuit with 658, Fox land R. Stemfel each getting 649, | Hale 642. Kelley 633, Carr 615, Ham- | ilton 605 and P. Rea 602. J. W. Bader Coffee, with 3022, and Hoosier Pete won three games | while Schoen Brothers Cleaners and | Fehr's X-L Beer turned in a brace | of triumphs, The Bader scores: Dawson .. 206 181— Fox 203 246— Johnson 180 191— Hale 238 2

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The veteran, still going strong after 35 years o

Jeff Atherton High In the Mutual Milk loop at fel

| one. | Man o' War.

| stakes winner, but his opportunity lin the stud came only because most

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J. D. Adams, Julian Goldman Union swept their series and Indianapolis |

| price, and went

by Mullin Jess Pritchett Bowls 738 To Grab Second Loop Mark

Veteran Previously Had Posted City and Beam’s League

760 Score.

lis League at Pritchett’s Alleys with

264, and today holds the season record for

f competition, last night of 721 set by Oscar Behrens Nov. 3.

Rated Best of 4-Year-0Olds

[Champ Money Winner Ex-

pected toAdd to Laurels.

By MAX RIDDLE NEA Service Turf Writer Year after year some horse gal- | lops up from the ranks to prove that there really is a Santa Claus. With the Christmas holidays just around | the corner, it is only fair to hand | Seabiscuit the accolade he so rich- | ly deserves. | “In two years, Seabiscuit has paid | Charles S. Howard, San Francisco l automobile man, a bonus of some- | thing like $200,000 on an original in- | vestment of $8000. | This does not compare with the | all-time parlay for $332,000, which | Phar Lap, the Australian wonder | horse, handed David Davis on an | $800 investment. Nevertheless, Sea- | biscuit is back at Tanforan, where I'he will be sent after the $10,000 San | Francisco Handicap, after which race he will be shipped to Santa | Anita to be prepared for the richest | prize of them all, the $100,000 Santa | Anita Handicap, in February. And | he has years of stud duty ahead of { him. It may be regarded as the veriest | misfortune that Seabiscuit did not [win the last running of the Santa | Anita Handicap. He was beaten in | a photo finish by Rosemont, and as | later events demonstrated, that probably was the only day of his matured life that Rosemont could have turned that trick. Hard Tack’s Son Makes Good

Seabiscuit’s story is an amazing His sire, Hard Tack, was an extremely fast, if unsound, son of He was a high-class

sons of the superhorse were being given some chance there. But Hard Tack’s chance wasn't that. The year Seabiscuit came to the races only three others of his blood represented their Seabiscuit and Grog stakes winners, albeit they caused only a ripple on the pond. The Wheatley Stable, over which Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons presides, sold Seabiscuit presumably down the river. The stable had tried run- | ning him to death-—he was started | 35 times as a juvenile—and probably | figured he would fold up in no time. Seabiscuit was built for hard work, however. In 1936, when he was 3, the colt won $29,000, more than $20,000 more than his purchase into winter quarters as a California phenomenon. This vear he has grossed more than $175,000 in 14 starts. It is taking in a lot of territory, but Seabiscuit goes into the record books as the best 4-year-old since Exterminator, and possibly as the peer of Old Bones. And we are not forgetting Equipoise and Discovery.

None Packed Weight Farther Consider that after 10 starts during the season recently closed he was able to take up 130 pounds and set a new track record for a mile

FG Fo an eighth in the Massachusetts Totals ..... 52 73022 | Handicap. If that wasn't enough to Ted Clark's 608 was best in the establish his claim, note that he

another unbeaten team might finish with a clean slate a few hours PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25 (U. P). Sixty thousand persons are ex- |

| sylvania drives.

U. S. Tire League at the Penn- | carried 130 pounds in the Riggs at The Guards and | a mile and three-sixteenths, and Endurance were triple winners and | clipped three-fifths of a second from the Cements, Straight Sides and|the track record. Also that while Royals registered two-out-of-three | eaten a nose by Esposa in the verdicts. i | Bowie Handicap at a mile and fiveThe Medical Society circuit also | eighths, he carried 130 pounds, gave in action at the Pennsylvania plant, | the splendid mare 15, and forced her

Kemper turning in a 596 to lead.

| ished only by a scoreless tie with |

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=~ oN het Oldo Bini, Ttalian bike racing star, lost no time in preparing for the six-day squirrely-whirl which opens at Madison Square Garden Nov. 28. Bini is shown astride his improvised mount just after arriving in New York.

a perfect record while Santa Clara can join the parade by halting GonCornell, conquered only by Yale | and Syracuse, was considered the |

zaga on Sunday. favorite to triumph over much-de- |

The unbeaten but tied teams are idle today. Two of them, California | feated Pennsylvania in the 44th renewal of their series.

and Dartmouth, have finished their | regular schedules. Pittsburgh and | Fordham, whose records are blem- | Probable lineups: Pennsylvania talson -...... Zh

pach other, meet Duke and N. Y. U. | Saturday in their finals, Holy Cross | Sut IE aiolland | meets Boston College and on Sun- | Fielder .......... L. al day Villanova encounters Lovola of (ONL... C. 3 Los Angeles on the Pacific Coast. | Shin NAL RAR FRIESE TTY a DE NE ca NO TR veerT eve. ESCHIET L. FETTER Baker Pook

| Shinn | Schuenemann Koepsell y { Burke The heaviest firing of the Thanks- | Soutien giving program centered in the South. The Alabama - Vanderbilt game outshone all others in Dixie because the Southeastern Conference title was at stake. Alabama | can nail down the title with a vic-| PASADENA, Cal., Nov. 25 (U.P.)— tory. If it loses Vanderbilt will tic Friends of Ellsworth Vines, profes- | it for first place. In that event sional tennis champion, today re- | Louisiana might make it a three- | ported he underwent a minor back way affair by defeating Tulane on | operation to correct a muscle ailSaturday. |' ment. Vines expects to resume his In other Conference games Ken-| professional career in January when tucky played Tennessee and Missis- | he starts on a new Gis.

sippi encountered Mississippi State. | tour. Five games are on tap in the South- | ern Conference—Clemson-Furman; | | WOLVERINE STORM || CENTER STARS IN || FOUR BIG SPORTS ||

Davidson-Wake Forest; Maryvland- | WwW. & L.; Richmond-W. & M. and | Vv. M. I-V. P. I.--but they won't | affect the Conference race because | North Carolina already has clinched | the title. Outside Southern games are: Citadel-Oglethorpe; North Carolina- Virginia and South Carolina- | ANN ARBOR, Mich. Nov. 25. —Tom Harmon, Michigan freshman athletic star from Gary, Ind., who recently was invited to drop out of Michigan and enter Tulane, hopes to participate in four major sports for the Wolverines.

Catholic U. Only five major games were schedHarmon, who plays football, basketball, baseball and per-

uled for the East-—Brown-Rutgers, | Duquesne - Detroit, Pennsylvania- | Cornell, Western Maryland-Provi- | dence and West Virginia-George | forms in track, won the 60-yard dash in 66, and the 70-yard low hurdles in 7.5 in an interfraternity meet this fall.

Big Games in South

‘Referee—W. H. Friesell, Princeton. pire—T. J. Thorp. Columbia. Field Judge J, Kelly, Springfield Linesman — Larry Conover, Penn State

VINES UNDER KNIFE

Washington. { Kansas Meets Missouri In the Midwest, Kansas met Missouri in a Big Six contest. Texas encountered Texas A. & M. in the big game of the Southwest Conference. On Saturday, S. M. U.

| nois Alleys with 585. Riveters, Cast- | | ings, Millers, Engineers, Springs and | whan Seabiscuit has finished his

Production were double victors. |

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to get first-hand information.

HOW DO THEY DO IT? WEST POINT, Nov. 25—Army cadets, who are permitted to spend the night of the Army-Notre Dame | game in New York, are allowed only | $5 apiece for expenses. SCHOOL NO. 84 WINS School No. 84 defeated School No. 70 in a football game played Tues-| day at Butler Bowl, The score was 20 to 6.

plays T. C. U. and Baylor meets | Rice, the leader. The race is still |

so wide open that it might not be settled until Dec. 4, when Rice plays Southern Methodist. Arkansas, last year's winner, plays Tulsa today in a nonconference

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| to lower the track record by one and two-fifths seconds. There is no denying that Seabiscuit ean carry high weights any distance and do it as fast as horses ever ran. He is honest and game. Little more can be asked of a thoroughbred. Owner Howard

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NASSAU OPEN DEC. 18-20 MIAMI, Fla, Nov.25.—The fourth annual Nassau Open will be played at the Bahamas Country Club Dec. 18-20. A purse of $3500 will be posted.

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