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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1934
Page
9
The conference shows friction over new member prospects and grading of high school football teams. Western Reserve’s reluctance echoes past battles for inclusion. Long and Jones feature in a broader sports gossip column touching coaches, press presence, and 1934 season anxieties.
The Buckeye Athletic Association plans to add three members to form an eight-team loop after approving next spring baseball and 1936 football schedules at its annual Columbus meeting. Western Reserve denies invitation rumors while Washington and Jefferson, Dayton, and others like West Virginia University Navier and Case are discussed as prospects. The conference also released its 1934 all Buckeye teams with players from Cincinnati Miami Ohio Wesleyan and Marshall.
John Longley and Fred Burchfield represented Logan High School at the Southern Ohio Association meeting in Wellston. Arrangements were made for presenting championship trophies to Middleport and Logan. next year’s football schedules were discussed. Coaches did not select an all star team as usual.
Casey Stengel voices shaky remarks about the Giants collapse to Prank Frisch and Bill McKechnie while firing back at Bill Terry and others. He teases Brooklyn’s status and jokes about Van Mungo amid league chatter and trades.
Boxing’s Christmas week slim with only Boston Garden major show. Ring officials plan to take spotlight from the actual bouts with Baer, Dempsey and Sharkey sharing referee duties. Fuller's bout with Pacho and Rosenbloom vs Shucco on the card plus Buddy Baer meeting Surette.
Northwestern University narrows its head football coach search after Dick Hanley resigns. Ossie Solem of Iowa is a leading candidate, with a possible early-week announcement. a coach trade between Iowa and Northwestern is discussed though Iowa officials dispute Solem plans. Other names include George Veenker, Dana X. Bible, Paddy Driscoll, and Waldo Fisher.
In Chicago on December 17 a fake race call claimed Little Bubbles won the seventh at New Orleans. Bettors rushed bets before the actual start. the race later produced a win paying $17.40 on a $2 stake. Bookies worry over wire tapping.
Ohio State captain and 1934 All-America guard Regis Monahan is set to play professional football with the Pittsburgh Pirates next year, according to reliable reports.
Time Supply, a three year old colt owned by Mrs. Frank A. Carreaud of El Paso, won the mile and one eighth Bay Meadows Added Handicap guiding jockey Tom Luther. Derk Winter ran second, Fleam third, with Top Row fourth on a muddy track. Time Supply earned 21,100 from a 25,000 purse and heads to Santa Anita for stake events including the Santa Anita Handicap.
Milwaukee team Heil Products tops the Central States Bowling Association tournament over the weekend led by E Koch with 60s and Gil Zunker 672. Johnny Crimmins and J Gilboe of Detroit head the doubles with 1049 while W J Mattison of Toledo remains first in singles with a 700-count. Arcadian Waldorfs of Cleveland hold fourth in team with 3025 and Rebis of Cleveland posts a 710 in singles.
Chauncey defeats Wilkesville 36 to 18 for their seventh straight win as regulars sit for much of the game. Capt Nicholson Ross Smith Osborne and Carter led early as the Blue Devils built a 27 to 8 halftime margin and relied on reserves in the second half. A preliminary Chauncey Reserves won 15 to 8 with Stanley standout.
In Columbus a purge of the Ohio Association of Football Officials began with more than twenty dropped on charges of chisel ing and four placed on probation. A report-card system will grade officials from A to D, guiding assignments. Towns end urged closer calls in close games but leniency in college contests.
Baton Rouge dispatch reports a rift between Senator Huey P. Long and LSU football coach Lawrence "Biff" Jones after a heated altercation over team management. Long's attempt at a half time pep talk was blocked by Jones who threw his hat and barred Long from the team room. LSU won 14 to 13. Both men declined to discuss the incident amid uncertain prospects of reconciliation.
Middleport Yellow Jackets edged Tuppers Plains 20 to 11 on their home floor in the season’s second game. The Jackets opened Friday at Rutland with a loss to a fast Rutland quintet. Middleport Reserves beat Toppers Plains Reserves 23 to 8 as Rutland visits again Friday.
Ohio college hoops face a heavy schedule from December 17 through early next week. Teams like Wittenberg Kenyon Denison George Washington and Xavier mix in Ohio Conference games with Heidelberg Mt Union and others. Ohio State resumes play December 26 after a brief break.
Sinclair Lewis best seller Babbitt comes to the Ohio Theater with Guy Kibbee and Aline MacMahon in leading roles. The film follows a self confident businessman outwitted by a banker a widow and a scheming plot, offering colorful small town life and sharp humor. Also featured Sylvia Sidney in Behold My Wife at Majestic Theater with Gene Raymond and a tragic romantic arc.
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