Stanford Roses Bowl Hope Noted In Thornhill View
Stanford coach Tiny Thornhill predicts the Rose Bowl squad may be the best produced at Palo Alto in over a decade. Bobby Grayson drills with passes as Stanford holds a long passing session and the Tide toils in a secret workout ahead of the Alabama clash.
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Paul Zimmerman
Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
Stanford
Alabama
Tiny Thornhill
Palo Alto
Brookside Park
Tiny
Columbia
Bobby Grayson
Bama
Frank Thomas
Ray Francis
Charlie Marr
Bob Ed Morrow
James Whatley
Bill Lee
Paul Bryant
Don Hutton
Riley Smith
Howell
Angelich
Joe Demyanovich
Howard Jones
University of Southern California
Ernie Nevers
Safety come first in football says rules committee
The national rules committee chaired by Walter R. Okeson reported that the past season showed the game needs little tinkering with and emphasized player safety. They noted potential encouragement for the lateral pass, citing exciting 1934 games and fewer injuries, while resisting pressure for spectacle.
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New York
National Rules Committee
Walter R. Okeson
Okeson
National Collegiate A. A
Dramatic Football Changes Sought by Coaches Group
New York December 28 A P report says the American Football Coaches Association plans nine proposed rule changes to make football more spectacular. Joe McKenney of Boston College leads the list including restoring goal posts to the goal line allowing forward passes from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage and letting the defense advance on a recovered fumble. A majority of coaches favor keeping the current rules for now.
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Herbert W. Barker
Associated Press
New York
American Football Coaches’ Association
Joe McKenney
Boston College
National Rules Committee
McKenney
Association
Time Supply Seeks Santa Anita Handicap After Bay Meadows Triumph
Time Supply, a Baltimore bred horse, rose to fame when he won the Bay Meadows Handicap after stepping in at Narragansett. Owner Mrs. F. A. Carreaud plans him for the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap with 118 pounds, as 71 horses are nominated for the event whose purse may reach $130,000.
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Cavalcade
Equipoise
Narragansett Park
Time Supply
Rhode Island
F. A. Carreaud
San Francisco
Bay Meadows
Hialeah
Miami
Florida
Maryland
Detroit
Baltimore
Rockingham Park
New Hampshire
Khayyam
Catawba
Football Rules Talk and Leadership Vote at Meeting
Coaches discussed passing penalties and forward progress clarifications while electing Bernie Bierman as president, succeeding Dana Bible. Bible praised football progress, but delegates failed to agree on a universal recruiting subsidy code, narrowly opposing illegitimate subsidization.
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Bernie Bierman
Minnesota
Dana X. Bible
Nebraska
Bible
National Collegiate A. A
Nine Omsk railway youths jailed for wrecks sequel
In Moscow nine teen Omsk railway workers were sentenced for counter revolutionary sabotage and negligence tied to 35 wrecks on the Trans Siberian line from December 10 to 15. Three got 10 year terms while others received one to six year sentences. Damage estimated at 1.5 million rubles.
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Moscow
Omsk
California Weather Sparks Lively Southern Cal Visit
Julian Hall reports from Pasadena on a sunlit California stay. He notes 70 to 75 degree days after recent rains, praises Huntington Hotel baths, and recalls plans for the Rose Bowl as Alabama figures in college football chatter. The piece references Joe Riley, Young Boozer, John Mack Brown, and observer Braven Dyer, with predictions favoring Stanford or Alabama depending on form.
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Julian Hall
Pasadena
Calif
California
New Mexico
Arizona
N.B
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Middlewest
Alabama University
Huntington
Zipp Newman
Dothan Boys
Joe Riley
Young Boorer
Dothan Hocus Pocus
Dothan Fagle
Paens
Alabama
Billy Spears
Vanderbilt
John Mack Brown
Riley
Johnny Cain
Millard Howell
Boozer
Dothan
Braven Dyer
Los Angeles Times
Stanford
Grayson
Dyer
Tide
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Morgan Blake
The
Atlanta Journal
Red Regiment
Max Baer Risks Box Office Power in Exhibition Bout
Chicago December 28 AP Max Baer faces a four round exhibition with King Levinsky at Chicago Stadium risking his box office appeal and perhaps the world heavyweight title. No official decision will be given but writers at ringside will vote.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Max Baer
King Levinsky
Chicago Stadium
Illinois State Athletic Commission
Baer
Levinsky
Jack Dempsey
National League Pitching Leaders Highlight 1940s Era
Carl Hubbell led NL earned run average at 2.3 in 49 games and 313 innings, marking consecutive top ERAs. Dizzy Dean won 30 games with 2.65 ERA and led in strikeouts with 195, plus seven shutouts. The piece also notes Dean and Hubbell as workhorses, along with rookies and other leaders in games, innings, hits, and walks.
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New York
Carl Owen Hubbell
New York Giants
Jerome H
Dizzy) Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Hubbell
Dean
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Phillies
Curt Davis
van L. Mungo
Brooklyn Dodgers
Mungo
Bob Smith
Braves
Dean Company
Paul
Brooklyn
Silas K. Johnson
Cincinnati
Bill Swift
Pittsburgh
Hal Schumacher
Giants
St. Louis
Philadelphia
State Will Harp in Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Prosecutors plan to call witnesses linking Hauptmann to the ransom scheme at the Morgan Bank scene and to argue a sole motive extortion drove the crime. Defense counters that a gang acted with Hauptmann, and new testimony challenges his claim that he only handled money from Isador Fisch.
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Hauptmann
New York
Isador Fisch
Fisch
Uncertain football fates mix in travelogue satire
The piece visits Huntington Hotel and follows taxi drivers, policemen, waiters, porters, and students in New Orleans San Antonio and Tucson. It notes locals mock Stanford while mocking not the game itself, echoing Ring Lardner on matrimony and uncertainty in football outcomes.
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Huntington Hotel
New Orleans
San Antonio
Tucson
Stanford
Ring Lardner
Jose
Height Rules Determine Child Fare On Railways
Nanking dispatch reports on the Shanghai Hangchow railway clarifying that height, not age, governs reduced fares. Ticket takers now measure children to assign fares. under 2 feet 6 inches ride free as under four, 2.6 to 4 feet 4 inches pay half fare as 4 to 12, others are charged adult prices.
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Nanking
Shanghai-Hangchow
State eyeing Curtis as Hauptmann trial witness
A New York theatre ticket seller testifies Hauptmann was recommitted by no man who passed a ransom bill in November 1933. Attorney General Wilentz will decide soon if he accepts John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk Virginia to testify for the state at the Hauptmann trial Wednesday. Curtis, convicted in Flemington for obstructing justice in the Lindbergh affair, announced in Norfolk last night that the offer was made through his attorney.
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New York
Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Curtis
Flemington
Best Surgeons Fight to Save Miners After Explosion
Powellton West Virginia reports a coal mine boiler blast that killed 16 miners and injured many more. Hospitalized workers linger with low survival chances as relief efforts begin, with Thomas E Lightfoot coordinating accident prevention and awaiting a boiler from Washington to determine cause.
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Powellton
W.- Va
Deala
Gowe
Coal Company
Pitalage
McDen
Thomas E. Lightfoot
Pitt Burgh
Acc
Dent Prevention
Bikhorn-Piney Company
Ex-Premier Azana Freed of Complicity in October Rebellion
Madrid, Dec 28. Manuel Azana former prime minister of Spain was freed today of charges of complicity in last October’s rebellion. The supreme court ordered Azana and his lieutenant Be lo released from prison for insufficient evidence. A separate case linking Azana to a plot to import arms during his term remains pending.
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Madrid
Spain
Manuel Azana
Supreme Court
Azana
Luis Belo
Arme
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