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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNA lJ B:\.SKETBA LL b J. d.H.S li'ROM SOPHOMO RES I Thursday , Decembe r 19, 1 Pennsylvania Basketball Team Sante Sport in Bringing the Ymmgsters Into Limelight. All Big Ten basketball fans are fa. millar with the capabilities of "Stretch'' Murphy, Ted Chmielewski and all of the other tamous veterans ot the league, but the stars of tomor· row will come out of the present ::10phomores, and there may be some ll!port In bringing these youngsters into range of the spyglass now. Purdue has a good prospect In Johnny Wooden of Martinsville, the "India rubber man" of Indiana prep basketball from 1925 to 1928, who is a master dribbler and Is expected to develop Into a floor guard of the type of Don White and "Windy" Hobbins. He has a great eye and specializes In Rudden charges under the basket, ending with nn elastic bounce that puts him In scoring position. Bllly BlygTave, the tallest mnn on the Indiana unh·ersity Sllllnd, standing 6 feet 3 Inches tall. looks like the regular back guard on the Hoosier team. Bill Newbold, who received all-state mention while plnylng at Rushvllle, Ind., Is Notre Dame's best sophomore. ne Is tall, fast and good on defense. ne scored t('n points in the openPr with Kalamazoo and Is slated to flll the position left by Franlt Crowe, allstar forward for the last two years. Reg Hildreth of Valparaiso. Ind., Is playing regulal'iy nt forward for Iowa. He is also a b!ISI~ball star, likely to make shortstop on the IJn wk nine next spring, suPceeding Willis Glassgow. . I < .Bo1-.n .fa.n./,.173S • By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE association of New' Year's day with Important e v e n t s in American history goes back to Its very beginning. In faet. tbe very name "America·· came Into being t h r o u g h associatloo with an e\·ent whkb took pla(·c on Jauua ry 1. In the Iutter half of the I<'iftet•nth century a FlorentlnP named Americus \'espuccl drifted to Spaln and, hearing of the discoveriPt> of Christopher Columbus. re>;olved to seek his fortunes In til<' New worlrl So be visited I<;spanola ( II;1~·ti). went on a pearl hunting expedition with the Spnnin rrl. Ojeda, In 14!l!l. and on January 1. 1fi02, be d!sr'O\'ered the Eay of Hlo Jnnelro In South Amerlcn. Sometime during his voyage he wrote a letter In which he cnllf'd the western lands "~lunrlus 1'\ovus." In stead of Asia, and some historians a!'· sert that Ver;puccl. bPfore ('olumbus. discovered the muiulan1l. that he was the first to realize that ··~tundus 'o vus" was wholly distinct trom Asia and was, In fnct. a new world. an;! that therefore he has some <'laim Lo the. title of "disco,·erPr or America." But whether he de!'<en·ed that hm10r or not. the fact remains that the new continent was to he known as "Amerl<'a'' ruther than "('olumhus." And this Is how It came ahout: At St. Die In the Vos;zes mountain~ there was at the tlmP Vespurci wus malrlng his voyage a little collegiate Institute whkh wus a <'Pnter of geographleal leaming. Two of Its faculty members. llfathlas Rin~-:mnn, n Lntill· 1st, and :.'llartin Walfls<>emull!'r. a gpo· grupher, were preparing a new edition of Ptolemy'~ "GE>ogrnphia." Refnre It was published. howe\'Pr, they printE>d a lltlle <>ssuy under the title of "('os. mographlae Tntroducto," to which thP.v added thP letter of \'espucci. It wns In this !'!'<say that Wnldse('mniiPr. aft· er descrihinA" the> thrPe continents of Europe, Asln and A fl'fr·a. tlwn ~nn·e an account or thE> \·nyHges or Vespncd and closerl by !'a)·fng "The fonrth part of the· world having heen dlsl'overert by Americus It may he called the land of Am!'ri<'U" or A merlca." The suggeJO;tlon met with favor. and although ut ftt·st the name wns confined to South America, It wns later appliPd to hoth WPStPrn contin"nts. And thus, whf'th('r rightly or not, wns the fame of Am"rlcus VeRpuccl per· petuated on the mnps of the world. The next great epoch In American history ln which SP\'Prnl Important event!' were linked with Nl'w Year':o: day was the American Re\·olutfon. On January 1, 1/a:-•. thl're was born In Foston to a Frpnch goldsmlt h named Apollos Hl\·nrs (who, howi'V('r changed that to Paul nevPrl' soon aft· er his arrivftl In AmPrica HIHl his mnr rlnge to Dehorah £1iehborn) n son who was nnnw!l aftPr hfs father Young Pnul follov.-ed his tathPr's trarle and became an expet·t in It and In mnny other things. But, although few Ame1icnns ma;v know of l'aul Revere In any of thP!'e roles, few lndc!.'d are they who do ont know of him as a conriPr beu ring "a word that shall echo fore\'('r nwt·e !'' For It •as hi!> famou!l "mirlnight ride" In April of 1773, t\'hkh wamed the patt·fots of the npproach of the· Rritlsh an<l rallied tiH·m to mnl;e their stand at Lexin~rton nnd at Concord, where "the shot hl'ard round the world" was flrerl. . On the day that £': nl flpvpre ceiP· brateli his tenth hirt hd::.v there was born on a f:u·m in \lie~tt>r ('onnt~·· l'u., another hoy who was dP"t ined to ncllle\e !'\'Pn I!TPatPr falllP in tile great struggle for liherty. Anthon.\' \Yayue wns hi!' name. anrl WhPn he grew to young manhoorl he hec:1me tl!' well known as a !'nn·e.\·or in ['(•nns.\ Ivan Ia as \Vnshington W:l!'< In \'it·glnia. He attrac-ted the at lt>ntion of Benjamlu I<'rnnklin who hurl him uppointe!l tC! look after thP lnt!•rests of n numbPr of Philadelphia hnsiuess men who owned lnnd~ in • ·m·n Scotln. Upon his r('turn from thi" work in 17117 he married Polly Penrose, the daughter of a promfnpnt Philadelphia mr>rrhnnt, and they setliPrl In Chester county where young Wayne made a good living as a fnnner and sun•eyor. A little old cowbell Is becoming as In 1774 he was made one of the famous a victory token In the South provincial d('pllties and he was also as the l\Iinnesota-~Iichigan little brown n member of the Pennsylvania com·en· jug. Sint-e W2·1 the bovine neck orna· tion held at Philadelphia to discuss ment h.ns been the prized emblem or the Impending trouble between 1he l'Olonfes and tt1e mother country. But the \'lctor in the Georgin Tech-VanAnthony Wayne wns o m1m of action. derbilt gridiron combats. Possession not merely a man of words, and New of the token has changed with reguY('ar·s day of 17iG found him at hi<~ larity, neither team having been vichorne, \\'a~·neshorough, torious two years in a row since Ed lrnpatit'ntiy awultiilg word from Phllaclelphia. F. Cavnlerl of Atlanta put up the where the Penns~·tvnnln commit tee of clanging trophy, '?'JAI>Alrt: Ho.zrr-N~ safety wus R.hnut to choose the col• .l3or.n dan./, 17-t-sonels for the four hatta lions. which Ru;;by, according to a university were to be ~t·nt to the aid of (:enerul the tlng which tonk place on Jnnunr~ president, failed in America because It Washington nnd his Continentals bP· 1, IHJWe\·er, which is undi;.;put ('(i. TIJ:ll taught a lel'son we already knew too fore Boston. Unnhle to r('straln his Is the fact tllal on .January 1. 1771i. well-to pass the buck; get rid of the impatienf'e, Wn.vne. tw.J (lays later. Gen. GeoJ"ge Washington ral'<ed over ball. Football, says he, demands holdbaue his Polly nnd their f'hildr('n a his camp at Caruhrld~e. Ma!>S., a Illig Ing onto the ball and doing the best hasty good-by and set out tor !'hila· whieh. although It lwcl the Onion .Jal'k you can with it. Whether that state· delphia. there to lenrn that he had In the CHnton. had tile thirtePn nltPr- ment Is unquestlonnhly true or not, been appointed colonel of the first hnt· nate red on.rl \vltlte strrres. rPpresent- the fact remains that all sorts of sport tali on. iug the thirteen colonies. Th s tlag tend to ralo;e the ethical standards So the military career of Anthony wa::~ referred to In the f'Orresponden\:e generally among the people who are Wayne began and how brllll»nt that of the dny as the "Amerlean colors:· Interested In them. career W'llS Is told In one of the most and may snfely be r!'gnrded as the lnterestlng biographies of recent first American tlag. Since tile thlrtet>n One of the fallacies that creep conmonths-Thoma s floyd's "Mad An coloniE's reprPRented In the thlrte('n tinually lnto all-American reports Is thcmy Wayne." puhlishl'd by Chnrlel' stripes, although fighting for tlwir the premise that the team ls being put !'lcribuers' !';ons. No bPtler chnrn!'rl~hts. h!id not yet broi;en entirely up just like a real college varsity for lzatlnn of Wayne cun he l!i,·en than awuy from th<' mother country, tile actual competition. The catch IsIn the scl'ne. as Boyd descrlhes ft. British Union .Jock was retained to what style of play Is to be used, a which took place after the long. hltshow their conneetion with F.n~land. shifty, open, forward passing game; tpr winter at Valley Forge whPn Six months latf'r, however. the ties a power attack or a kick and walt for Washington summoned his generals to whkh bound them were se,·er!'!l h:v the the breaks? Obviously the players a council to dr>r·ide whPther or not to Declnrntlnn of IluJPpen,Jenc·e. and· thPn selected f<>r one style will not do tor allow the Rritb<h, who wPre prPtmrln~ the need for a new hnnner r('snlted In another. to leavP Phllartelphia for New York the doing away with the Union Jnck Naaurskl of the Gophe who played to pnss arrosR :\'pw .lersPy unmolested Then cxme the hiRtorlc resolution of fullb;ck nearly all of the time this GPn. ('hllrle~ LPI' spoke longegt and ~nne 14, 1777. the !'t:Jrs wPre placed yeat· for hls t~am, Is used frequently loudest and his arlvice wn11 to let the m the canton and the flag of the Unit- at tackle on the all-stars, although RrltiRh a Jon£'. ThPn : Pel Stn tes became the Stars anrl the New York E,·enlng Post's poll for Anthony Wayne had eat npart, hnldStripes. Its all-American brought him 148 lng n book beyond whieh he had 0~ .l:~nnary l, 1800, th\•re w11s born points as n back to 48 as a tackle. looked with bright-eyed scorn aR ten As a matter of fact, of course, everyor hi:!' feilow offi<·('rs had agreed with at \\ allingf,H·d, Conn., a man who was rle!'tlned to become an Important fig. body knows that the Bronk would have Charles LPe He ra!sPd hiP head • \Veil, !';enerRI," askt'd hi" Ex<·elure In Ameriran journalism und to In · bee~ a better end than anything else, lency, "what dt) ynu propn~e to do?" trocluee un fnnovntion 1\'hkh was to if the needs of his tenm had not re\Voyne an,.wered quickly. "Fight be the forPrunnpr of one of the most quired him to perform at other posl· sl r '"~ Important faetOI'R in our mociPrn new~- tions But that ro"pl:V could s<"areely have PllJH~I'S. For it was Mosps Yalp Bench surprl,.f'd tht' C<'mm:tnrlE>r-tn-c hler or · any or the others For when bad n t who conceived the idea of spPedy the leadE>r or th~ Penn"vlvanla line Tlnr\'ard's varsity hockPy team will trnnRmission of news which resnlter1 voted In favor of attaclt7 At Brandyplay 14 games, with the pos!'ibility wine? At GPrnmntown• At White ultimately In the founding of the As· that two more may be added to the Marsh la"t l"ovemher? Never At- socinted Press, the greatest news gathtad<, attack! It was lbe onlv word ering organization In the world. A schedule released recently. The first be knew. cabinet maker. Inventor sud pnper- game was with Boston university. A And those two words ·•atta<'k" and mill owner In his youth. the turning two-game series will be played with "fight'' wPre the keynotes of his whole point In Beach's career cume In 1821 Toronto, Boston university and Dartcareer, buth in the Hevolution and rtur· when he married n slstPr of FSenjnmin month, and the best two out of three lng the lndilin war afterward". It Day, foundPr of the New York Sun. with Yale. would have t>een appru]Jrlate If he In 18:~5 he purchased an Interest In could have died on the field of bnttle. Duke university, bahy mPrnbpr of that paper and Inter hecmue its proI nst eml. he was stricken hy Illness In the Southern Conference, will matte prietur. Be11ch brought to the Sun Del'E'Illher of 17!lG at the fort at nrlglnnl mPthods for seeuring tliP first Its first serious bid for Dixie laurels l're~que isle on the shores of Lake tidings of Important events. Express In the HlRO football season, having El'ie, and there nfter great su!Tering tntins were run hetween various booked fi\·e games with conference the end cnme on Oecemher Jfl. points at his ex[lense, ond t:Jefore the foes. The third member of the_ trilogy of telegraph was im·('ntell he usc>d car· This season Dnk(''S only conference H('volutiouary notahl(•s who had ~ew rier pigeons to bring earl.v F:uropean opponents were Louisiana State, North Ye!u's duy as their hirthday was u new8 from ineomlng steamers. ns well Carolina and North Cat·ollna State. woman. Born on January 1, 17:12. as fi'Om politicnl guthl'rings, rnee The Rlue Devils will meet South Eliznlwth Gri>'l'Om of Philadelphia track». etc. During the !\lexlean wnr, Carolina, Kentucky, Washington and was married to .John noss, a l'hilnt1PI flncling the means of transmitting news Lee, North Carolina and North Carophla merC'Imnt, who wn~ nlso »n up. so slow, he established a "pony ex- lina Stnte next fall. holsterer llis most able assistant !lress" Rystem of couriers which re· was his wife who hnd become widely duced the time by one-third. LRylng Tennessee hasn't been beaten on Its known tor her ex(·elleot matet·ials and the matter before hili! fPIIow publish- ' home field In four years. the nnu!!'Ual skill with whktJ slw et·s a form of a co-operntfve alliance shaped them. was worked out which was a fo1·erun"It's the bunk." A mou~; ner po trons were the tore ner of the modern ARsoclated Press. That's what parry Klpke, coach of most citizens of Philadelphia nnd she The War of 1812 saw another lmpor· Michigan's varsity football team, nutnhered 11 mung her fri<'nd~ sueh 111~11 tnnt ev('nt taltfng pla<·e on l'iew Year·R I thinks of Glen Warner's plnn for as \\'nshington, l•'rnuklin, Adnms an•J rlay. For It wns on January 1, 1S1fl. \scoring gridiron games. Kipke found HHtenhcnt!'e. So perhaps it was nat that the Rritish made their first nt· only two faults with the rules as oburul that when the ContinPntal con tucl{ on !\'ew Orleans. nnd n W<'Pk Ia- ,. served the past season; he thinks a gress on June 14, l77i. "Hcsoln•tl, that ter occnrrPd thE' deei~ive engagement fumhled lateral pass should be dead the flag of the thirt('f:>n United State~ in \\ llich "Olcl Ilic·!wry" .JnPk!'on go at the point of fumbling and that a be thirte(·n strives nlternate red ann t!ecisi\·el~· clefl'ated PakeniJam's vl't· kicking team shouirl be allowed to white; that the Union he thlrteel• Prnn!'l. run with the ball after having one . tu rs, white on n blue lielrl, represent On .January I, IS~:!. the tlrst Amer of its 1mnts block('tl. ing a nt•w con teflation,'' the coulln't 1c·an settlers urri\·ed In Texas, an I "\\'arnel''s scheme of counting one tee which wa.:> appointe-1 to carr.v ont P.\ent which roret:J!>I the strugg-le for J point for eacb first down and abolishthis rP,..PIUtion f'JJOUld go to "the \VIrl a second wur of indepenrlPnt·e In Nol'lh ing the point after touchdO\\·n would ow Ro!'~" to ha \'e her mnl;e it f01 Mnerkn nnd the the ndtlitiHil of thl! work unfall·l:v and would put a prethem \\'het hl•r or not Het~) I:M,. rlt GrPal Soutlnn·st tc~. the ~-ni_'ed Stall'S. , mium on the team that can make si;:!'llf'!l the first Stars and St rip[:>s 01 Dn .Jnu1111r~· 1, lS.n, \\ ill1am Lloyd fil'l:lt down lu its own territory, but whether that honor hclnn~!< to Fr1111 t:arrison, the Alullitioni,..t. puhlisllPrl cnn't gain an Inch after passing mldcis llopl,lmwn of . 'ew Jerst'~ h; a m;lf l he fir::;t b:;,.,ue of the l.lberutor. the tield," Coach Kipke said. ter for dispute umong hi. toril-!ns. Ar paper whil'h wus to hll\'e so grPnt nn "The kick after touchdo,vn requires any ral e Ilc>tsy Hoss SPCIII" to h;n.lnlluellee in the Sht\l'I'Y dispute. Anrt perfect co-ordination of the whole heen eonnected In some wa)· with th .. whnt Gal'l'i~on >'tarter! 011 .January 1. tr>nm. and there's no ~eason why It earl.v histOf'y of our natlonul btJnnPr IS:H. wns finished h:v Ahr11ham Lin· s.honld l>e erased from the rule book." and the "Bet. y Hoss legc>nrl." If legenrl coin 32 .v<>nrs later. On Janunry 1. It be. sPems to he flrmly flxPrl In our 18G3, his hif\t m·ic emn neipa tfon prot'· It tr•ok eleven years for the Fordnational tradition of the ori;;in of our lamnlion went Into dfel't. nn1l the ham eleYen to beat Uostou college, Gag. death blow to slavery In the Unflerl and tl1e ''ew Yorkers have the goal There Is one event couuected with State!! was Rtruck. JJo::;ts as tokens of the triumtt"- I I • Left to Right-Captain Loblcy, McN11f, Ullrich, Brodbeck, Magner, Peter· son, Tanseer and Sanders of the University of Pennsylvania basketball team. The pluycrs are practicing !or a series of intercollegiate games with the best teams in the East. Baseball Games Played at Night at Des Moines Baseball at night is the new feature 193~. It Is to be played In · Des Moines next season for the first time. 'l'hi!' was announced by Lee Kaiser, president of the Des .Moines club. ''We have had eoglueers of the biggeRt electric companies on the job and plans are completed to play our games next season after dark," sald Kaiser. "They have guaranteed to produce 'daylight' for us by their newest meth· ods of lighting, which are a gl'eat Improvement over the flood ligl1ting sys. tern us('d In the last year or two for night football games." "In Des 1\Ioines we have lost money the last two years. Rut If we r:an play ball at night, when the people can go, we feel sure It will be a success. These electrical engineers d<>clare they can mnl(e It as light as day. We're going through with it. "It is our plan to play all the weekday games at night and to play Sunday a ternoons by daylight. If lt Is golf and business that Is keeping men away from our ball games, they will have no excuse next summer because the games will be after business hours nnd they can't play golf at night. I look for our adventure to revolutionIze the game." Betty Keeps Fit ot the game for Wilkes-Bar re Cop Makes Real Catch in Gotham Lt has often been said things come to those who walt, and Dick Horn, hefty copper on the Wilkes-Barre police force, Is the monumental example of that old axiom. Itichnrd, the policeman, bad a day oft recently. lie went to , ·ew York to watch his favorite , ·ew York Giants play the Cincinnati Reds in a double program. It was an Ideal day for baseball, and Richard, the copper, accepted the wnt·m sun for the chance to sit out in the blenchers. The copper hung his coat over a rail. During the afternoon, Outfielder AI· len poled out 11 home run Into the stands. A thousand hands went high into the air the fans wanted the base. ball. The policeman sat quietly by-he wasn't exc;ited oYer the spheroid coming Into the stands. High Into the air lt was hit, and then it began the descent as Allen raced around the bases. rt was an exciting moment. Hands reached out, hut the ball fell on the edge of the rail, and lo, and behold, lt fell Into the pocket of Dick 11om's coat. The Wilkes-Barre patrolman returned home, the proud possessor of a baseball he secured In a most un· usual way. Display at Caliente Display, six-year-old son of Falr Play and Clcuta, which races for Walter J. Salmon and Is trained by Torn J. Healy, has been shipped to the lnaug· ural meeting of the Agua Caliente Jocke& club. The announcement of Display's going to Ute Mexican course for winter racing was made by James Coffroth, the Agua Caliente general manager. Booth as Cager Betty Robinson, world's champion woman !!pl'inter, keeps an edge on her speed during the winter months by skating near her home lo IUverdale. Fred Schulte, the Brown's young outfielder, Is one the taste men In baseball. , . . ,. It Havana entPrs the Southeaitern league it will put a club of native stars on the field. Tfley have many. • • • Catcher Ike Dunning has been bought by the Baltimore club of tha Jnternat!onal league from Tulsa- of the Western.- • • • University of Iowa's new stadium, eonstt·ucted at a cost ot $GOO,OOO, Is 30 feet below the level ot the sur· rounding terrain. • • • Charles (Cas('y) Stmgel, manag-er of the Toledo Mud Hens since 1926, has signed to lead the team In the 1930 pennant <:l'lase. • • • Joe Beckett, the form('r heavyweight champion of Great Britain, Is writing his autobiography. Joe spent most of his ring career on his back. • • • • In order to give evc>ry football tart a good seat, it has been suggested at Princeton university to have a revolving stadium or a revolving gridiron. • • • The Big Three of the world's chMllplon Athletics, Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw and Rube Walberg, hit a home run apiece during the 1929 sea· • son. • • • . A polo tournament was plnyed re- cently In Pelplng, China, by more than ten Brltlsh A mer lean and French teams from Pelping, Shanghal an<J Tientsin. • • • Eddie Wlneapple of Salem, 1\lass., well known in New Eng-land us a baseball and basl;.etball stn r, has sl~ned as a pitcher with Wnshington. lie ls a southpaw. I • • • The la'te Joe l\IcGinnlty, "It·on ~[an" pHcher, hit 41 batters with pitched balls In 1UOO hut led the • 'ational lengue hurlers that season with a \VInnlng percentage of .7GO. He latct;. mastered control. I • • • Col. Dan l\lcGllgin, football coach at Vanderbilt for 26 years, is the dean ot the Southern confPrence and has the best recot·d of anY conch in the., group. His tenrns have a winnln~ percentage of ahout .8~•0. • • • Albie Booth, Yale grid star, as he reported tor the first practice session for candidates for the Yale basketball team. Otis Brannon, sold by the Rrowns to Hollywood of the Coast league, ser>ed with the St. Louis American teague cluh for two years, as a regular second baseman In 1928 and as a reserv~ Infielder last season |