Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 19

SPORTS THE EVENING ' STAR, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1997, 'SPORTS 1° . Conference Basket Ball Season Opens : Field of Heavyweight Boxers to Be Weeded Out INTERSECTIONAL PLAY BOON.TO FLOOR GAME _Chicago’s Recen; Defeatof—Princeton Indicates Maroons Will Make Strong Bid for Another Big Ten Title. ! BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ASKET BALL fives of the western conference begin their scason B tonight, and the end of the week will see the intercollegiate game : iwsfull blst throughout the country. Quitgithe most interesting and valuable feature of the court season | last year was the tournameént at Atlanta, in which college and club par- ticipants from various sections of the country participated, giving to the meeting a flavor decidedly national. A few more events of this sort—it was really a basket ball clearing house—will give the game enhanced . significance and standing. ' So will further meetings of an in-| Camp's all-American backfield did not | tersectional nature, such as took place | contain a plunging back * ecarly in the past year between Penn sylvania _and Chicago, respectively. champion® "“of the - Jrtercollegiate Rasket Ball League and the Western Conference. Chieago Appears Strong. Princeton has a strong five this - son and the handy way in-which it was defeated by Chicago the other night—both fives, -of course, still a it green—indicates that the Maroons #re going 1o make a strong bid for ‘unother big_ten championship.- All but two of the seven players who re- iceived their letters in three seasons of 1919-20 are in the college, the ab- sentees being Capt. Hinkle and Cur- .tiss. These men will leave holes, but 1 looks as though they can be filled. Remaining are such players as Cris- ler, rated as the best guard in the conference; the gifted Birkhoff ,and Vollmer and Halladay. The team will niss Pat Page, the coach, who has Jbeen at the midway helm for ten Years; Alonzo Stagg has taken up the task of instruction. This is something | a. i ‘of angexperiment, since Stagg never Dlayed; the and_hag had no «<oach However, with experience. 9 mmanvhea plavers fn hand, he probs ‘ably will have an excellent oppe ‘iunity to shine in reflected glory. Jn the| east Pennsylvania, where 't ball is cherished as a fine art, yndoubted- “ly will present as usuali& first-class Team. Princeton will,bé strows and Cornell, which already has beaten the "Tigers, should prove a strong contend- jer for final honors. The Greatest Grid Player. ‘Who was the greatest foot dall play- er that ever trod a gridiron? This lquestion was asked the other day by jthe editor of Outing, _circulating among the tables of a club in New \York where graduates of many col leges fo; Answers were vari- ous. Frank Hinkey received two votes. Fddie Mahan of Harvard received two. “Willie Heston of Michigan was pro- bosed by another man and Jim Thorpe by two. gndctnr Cuwtl{&otk Pflnee(ol; had ong champion and Snake Ames of E: 1'r|n09&n aiso wis named. As a per- <onal opinion the writer would say he never saw a better foot ball player than Eddie Mahan—unless it was Tack Hardwick or Keck of Princeton. “Did_you notice,” asked, & fan at the club mentionéd, “that Walter EPPAANY QUINTS BLSY Comety, and Tigg, Which Have +Many More Contests. Epiphany Church basket ball. teams ‘that Bave been toppling,opponents with Startling regularity since the start of the floor campaign will have “opportunities to establish excellent ‘racords this season. Heavy schedules have been prephred for both of the quints, and if they get better than ‘even breaks in the remainder of their series, the G street church boys will he ranked among the leading basket- ers of the District. The xim ‘to, tromunce repre- santative ryland ~ and Virginia fives in addition to the *big- local combigations. Besides . tomorrow’s cngagement with the Y. M. C,,A. Ar- rows at Epiphany, the Comets have {listed the following games: 25, Aloysius: 26, Bel. ;' 29, Capital Silents, gy g s, by = f The Tigers, who have wom all their { ten starts, are making a specialty of 5 scholastic teams. They have van- j quished the Western and Tech teams fand are anxious to hear from other 7hlgh and prep sofiools* So far ur following schedule has been arranged: ¥ Jamuary 11, Manhattan Awnlette Ciub: 13, ds Belect Bchool: 14, Linworth Atiletic 18, Roamer ‘Athjetic Club; 29, Catholie Tniversity men, &t Bi ; 25, Rose. « dale Athietic Club, &¢ NeaF House. Febrmry 1, Peerlssd Athletic Club; 4, Steward's Buiness College, at Carro Friends Select Schoot; 13, Quincy Athlatie Claly at Carroil: tic Club: 22, Grace Nitietie Ciab; 25, Qulaey Athaoti Bion - of Columbus leaguers have iro championship contests ® scheduled ! this week. and Potomac coun- clls will clash We on Batu zaga gymnasium, rday ‘S‘Mn‘ will encounter Keane in K. of T am‘ with PJ’:”"""’ = the o uniors nmext Thursday has been strengthened by the addition of Bl'ny and Loftus, former Stonewall Athietic Club play- ers, and Caffe of the Newtons. The contest will be the first of a three- game series. Grace Athletie Club refused to play against the Yankees' reserves, but is ready to meet the regular team of the Congress Heights. organization 4t any time on any floor other than he Congress Hel Auditorium. J. ley, 1041 Isconsin avenue, relephone West 2439, would llke to liear from the Yankee management. ,Jafayette Athletic Club mcored a -to-18 viotory over Circls Athletic lub. - McQueeney and Stmonds of the winning quint did some near scrimmage tossing. “EARLY TART FOR MACK Goes to Lake Charles, La., to Com- plete Spring Training Plans for the Athletics. PHILADELPHIA, January 3-—Con. nie Mack, at i ia., where the Athletics wi the coming meason. M 1L tom- plete arrangements for - n:y of. s team, which will leave for the' south next monmth. Assoclation bass bail special meeting here, : am Presidont J, C, Letcher of { it 1o mct mceording to Wis owi dgment when the various matiers nfronting minor leagues are to_he ttled next week at Chieage, The atern Amsociation mugnates unof- 11y wre said:to We in fayor of the traft ‘as provided in (he now national azreement, Definita action on the iraft and the matter of recognizing nt were left to Ja- TULSA, Okla., January wmmj E - n ] -} badl 8, | Ristrict, That's true. Way, lBelie_ve Tt or Not. ‘amp felt | inchcomb | and Gipp in a backfield, a line bucker | would not be need Neither would. ed. he West Virginia to Princeton. Follows. one of the nice.things that | happen too seldom in intercollegiate | sport.. President Hibben of Prince- | ton, speaking at a_recent function at | the University of West Virginia, took | occasion to the mountaineer eleven a_ flattering tribute, the im- | pelling influence being the olean. | hard, sportsmanlike game which the! Morgantown crew played at Prince- ton last October. After Dr. Hibben had returned to Princeton he re-| ceived the following telegram, signed by Capt. Howard Lentz and Capt.- | elect McKay of West Virginia. } “The West Virginia University foot ball team at its annual banquet asked us to express to vou and the undergraduates of Princeton the ap- preciation of the team of the fine tribute paid us by vourself and on behalf of the Princeton students on the ‘occasion of your address here Tueaday night, December 7. In reply We ‘would say that it is not difficult to be sportsmanlike when your op- Ponents set an example to you.” (Copyright, 1921.) WILLIAM GALE — Gghed 1351 WALKED 2% eHies FOR 1000 CONSECUTIVE HOURS. EACH HOUR - dayy el nugyl - (410av5,16 wowes) X —gy Ripley / Oup oy Sats T e e TRELAND, o ooty Comr, SUPEDY wckey. A SALOG 16 FReT ABOuE Tic Croueisy, thss MOTTE KELLERMAN Swam 23 Mgy I BHOURS, 1) MinuTes PERFORMED THE REMARKABLE MENTAL FEAT OF PLAYING 22 GAMES SIMULTANEOUSLY whuts BLNDFALD (Asda_Yra 2 906 ) PILLSBURY - FAMOUS CHESS MASTER, 4 1D. C. MEN T0 AID GOLF| Profs. Piper and Oakley to Dissemi- nate Information About Greens for U. S. G. A. Profs. C. V. Piper and R. A. Oakley | of the Department of Agriculture wil head a committee to disseminate up- to-date information on the latest and best' methods of golf greens-keeping for the benefit of all golf clubs in the United States and Canada, the United States Golf Association has announced. { Both men are well known in Wash- | ington scientific_circles and both are { members of the Washington Golf and ! Country Club and have contributed to | the development of the course of the Virginja. organization. Their best work perhaps 1as been dome on_the course of the Columbia Country Clib, where they have collaborated with Walter J. Travis and R. S. Connolly in developing the fairway and greens to such a point that the course is now looked upon favorably by the U. @. A. as one of its championship pos sibilitie: g The committee which Messrs. Piper and Oakley head. will do much to save expenditure.of time and money in ex- | perimental work, and should result | in permanent betterment of the zTeens {and fairways of many golf courses. \BREEN REMAINS HEAD | OF THE CARDINAL A. C. Sylvester 'A. Breen for the eleventh time was re-elected president of the Cardinal, Athletic Club of Alexandria at the annual meeting held yesterday. Othep officers n were Vice Presi- dent’W. L. Shafer and Secretary-Treas- urer Joseph_E. Owens. g Harvey C. Crump was appointed manager and M. A. Howard assistant manager of base ball. The nine will be captained by W. F. Hodges. Minneapolis in Hockey League. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., January 3. The Minneapolis hockey team, recen 1y organized, has been given a mem- bership in the United States Associa- tion, and will take the place -vacated by Pittsburgh. 1t is expected*Min- i schedule. Harvard Banks on Foot Ball to Carry All Its Athletics HAT Harvard needs shown by what Fred Moore, BY H. C. BYRD. all the money it can make out oi foot ball is | graduate manager of Crimson ath- Ietics, told the writer during the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation meeting in Chicago, in talking over methods of financing collegiate sports. Moore said Harvard started last fall with a deficit of approxi- mately $20,000, and has probably not arvard not only supports been able to cut that down much. intercollegiate athletics from funds it derives from foot ball, but carries on its intramural system as well. “There is an Impression that Hsr- vard's Athletic Assoctation is rolling in wealth, but in fact we have a hnrd ends meet and usu- -time making both ally do not do that well,” said Moore. A singular condition has arisen in the collegiate association in that the organization does not control the se- lection of its owa rules for sporta ‘The o] for of the . “now: the assockn- tion, could not publish ita own foot rules without n_of the tempt made to copyright of the foot ball code and rules for other sports. ‘The question of gambling on col- lege games, especially foot ball, was gone into rather generally at Chi- cago and some astonishing facts were Dresented. ‘While many favorable comments have been written in regard to the procurement of “Fats” Speers of Dart- mouth to coach West Virginia, eom- petent foot ball men believe that he may not do anything more with the Mountaineers than “Tubby” Mclntyre. University of Georgia has negotia- tions under way for a big mnorthern institution to visit Atlanta next fall e s met "% ROVERS AREUNDAUNTED 1 Defeat at Hands of Baltimore Soc- :, cerites Spurs District Team to Prime for Revenge. | A little thing like a 3-to-2 defeat isn't golng te sap the apirlt of the Washingten Rovers, whe are work- ing earnestly te develen seceep ip the The loeal eleven teak the short end @f the count in their game with the Baltimere Cross-Country Clup team on the Monument grounds fleld yesterday, put already the Rovers are secking anoiher engage- ment with tke Marylanders aind pe- fore long expact ta be up and at ‘em | agal he pas: ol | . ;lu ve- | he B, Oveizealausness o Gaalkeeper Connars versal yesterday. battled ‘desperaiely part of the game. [ 4 two gwals whem Baitimore laua: an attack. Chick Bauman, outside left for the visiters, dribbicd the ball down the left wing, evading two of the Rovers on the way. Connors, determined to smash tne offensive, rushed into the play snd momentarily left the goal unguarded. Bauman quickly looped ths- re over Con- nors’ head Into the neiting for the decintve point, The Haltimoreans, * more experienced as @ team than the Rovers, really outplayed their opponents all the way. They were more adept at dribbling ths ball and theilr short passes had the District men ocon- tinualty on the defensive, Gowriey #cored the first gonl for Raltimore before the game was thres minutes old, but Boyd soon ed the count. Early in the se half Gowrley #eored, and Boye ain ‘deadlocked the game. = for a post-season foot ball game. The contest probably will materialize. University of Washington of Seattle is looking for a man to head its athletics. Graduate Manager Meisnest made an eastern man an offer of $7.000 a year but has turned it down. Other far western universities are anxious to get eastern men tv head their ath- letics, and are willing, as one of their representatives said at Chicago, to pay any salary within reason. 3 4500 AT COST GAME |Ohio State and California Elevens Drew $100,000 Gate—Profits Go"Toward Stadium. PASADENA, Calif., January 2.— The tournament of roses committee has a mounced the attendance at the Ohio State-California foot ball game on New Year day at a little more than 45,000 and the receipts about $100.000. After all expenses are paid the profits will 8o toward a fund for the erection of stadium whigh. will be ready for the 1922 game. This structure will seat 63,000. California’s victory showed beyond all doubt that Pacific coast elevens play a caliber of foot: ball that equals the brand displayed in Other sections of the coun- ‘While the Buckeyes did not show the dash and speed which characterized their conference sesgjon, plays which gained ground against big ten elevens were checked before they reached the scrimmage line. The forwards did not match up with the Golden State-line for the simple reason that Ohio was slow on its feet. The infleld fly rule causes many ner. on first went to third, ‘on the arguments on the' ball fleld.* At one | £round rule that when the ball went time each major league had a differ- ent interpretation of the play and this was very confusing. Here is an in- field play that came up in the Ameri- can Lea, players ai l into the dugout all buse runners were entitled to advance two bases. What do you suppose the umpire ruled? Answer to Saturday’s Play. The pitcher, if he has made no pre- last summer, and had {liminary motion to pitch, has a right fans guessing as to what |10 Step off the rubber-and deliver the actually happened. There were run- |ball to the catcher for a play at the neps ‘on first and second and one man out. The batter hit a rather high fly in the direction-of third. A stiff wind ‘was blowing that caused the ball,to take puzzling twists. The umpire, as soon as the ball was hit, decided it could be handled by the third base- man, and he declared it an infleld fly which automatically retired the bats- man. The wind cauged the third base- man to misjudge the fly, and it struck the ground without being touched, about a foot inside the foul line d about ten feet in front of third base. It then bounded into foul territory. and, before it could be fielded, bounded into the dugout. The runpner on sec- ond scored on the play, and the run- ' PRE i /purchasing; or. not 1 | ':, i with the men. Rig] fer the tailoring treat-of the year: IT.or OVER( Fo Measure, 335 Valye, u_'iu'we offer a wonderfut lot of fash- grade fabrics. v L7 .. X6u have'them as you want them; not as they. i here and compare’ them with high- MhWeryon wnh?:!phfie youyr:i ion'is invited and youn Dlute. Since there was one man out at the time, the action of the batter in hitting at the ball constituted an interference, for which the runner trying to score from third should be declared out. The batter who had hit safely to left should have been called | back and mide 1o hit over. CENTRAL TO PLAY B. P. I Central High School entertain the basketers will Baltimore Polytechnic in the Central gym. tomorrow afternoon. [Lemon, . Dey, Duffy and Zalezae prob- ably will start for the Blue and White. Play will begin at 3:30 ; Institute quint ium Tailoring ity Tailoring at a popular price is responsible for Mertz's standing t now we.are prepared to-of- to-your own in- fit and . are. Stere Closes Daily at 6 P. M., Saturday at 9 P. M. WONDER WHAT MERTZ WILL SAY TODAY? - Announcing the Season’s Greatest }Record Entry List Indicated i | | N 1 up during his absence. The Futurit: Proctor Knott, ountry. : Tt has been the best sort of a stimu- lant for the breeding industry and has u far-reaching appeal to every brged- er of the blood horse in the United with a nomination for the race has a much greater value than one with- out it. 5 The Futurity of 1923 will have an ad- ditional appeal for the blood stock breeders of the country because of the fact that the nominators of the dams of the first three placed horses will_be rewarded. —These premiums are $2,500, $1,250 and $500 respective- ly, and constitute a greater reward turf prize in the United States. Of the nominations tabulated up to today the largest number came from Maj. August Belmont, who is repre- | sented by forty-nine. virtually every ! mare at his Nursery stud. Johnson N. Camden is second on thelist with forty-three, and Xalapa farm, which is the name under which Edward F. Simms and H. F. Sinclair race and breed, is next with thirty-one. Then comes P. T. Chinn with thirty, Capt. P. M. Walker is represented by twenty-nine, Joseph E. Widener has named twenty-seven and Willis Sharpe Kilmer. twenty-six. Miss Klizabéth | Daingerfield and the Eellair stud are tied at twenty-three each, while R. T. Wilson, whose stud for its size i one | of the most successtul in this country, | has named twenty-one. | George D. Widener has nominated | eighteen of his best mares, one less { than Walter M, Jeffords. The name of | 8. C. Hildreth appears for the first ime as a breeder. He has named fit- teen, which is aleo the number to the credit of E. R. Bradley. John Sanford and J. O. Keene. The Foreign stable, | the name under which Mrs. Viau races, hak nained twelve, and then comes the ever popular Greentree stable of Mrs, | Payne Whitney with fen, which is ono less than the number to the credit of Samuel Rogs of Washington. 5 e Value 0AT NOWw == I than that accompanying any other| . for Futurity Stakes of 1923 EW YORK, January 3—Indications are that the Futurity of 1923 will receive the largest list of nominations in its history. The entries closed today with Secretary Earlocker, who has been in Kentucky for the past ten days in consultation with the breeders of that region. He returned today with the nominations of the biggest of the Blue Grass horsemen to augment the handsome total which has been piled y has been in existence since 1888, when it was won by and it has meant more to racing and its development in | Players as Zimmer, Jimmy McAleer, the United States since that time than any other turf feature in this Admiral Cary T. Grayson. who join- ed the ranks of American breeders during the past summer, has named some fine dams bred to the best horses. States and Canada, Because a yearling | Several of these mares are of the best English blood. It is thought that the nbminations from the Hancock, Madden and Harry Paynz Whitney studs will each run near the hundred mari, and that the total will surpass any previous figures for the classic. GREB MEETS GIBBONS WEINERT FACES MISKE | Winners-of January 29 Bouts to Be Matched and Survivor Pitted Against Brennan—Doubt Whether Yanks Bested Red Sox in Deal. 1 | | v BY FAIRPLAY. ‘ EW YORK, Jaunuary 3—Most interesting of the day's grist o1 fight N news is the announcement of a plan of campaign which will aim to weed out a lot of the heavyweight fighters—or near fighters— {who now are before the public. First of all, Harry Greb, the Smoky cit pillow pusher, will step fiiteen rounds to a decision with Tom Gibbons at Madison Square Garden on January 29, and it is expected that on the same night Charley Weincrt of Newark will give further evidence of a real comeback against Billy Miske. The winvers of these two bouts will be matched, according to the plan, and the man who survives will be pitted against “Twelve-round” Brennan. neapolis will take over Pittsburgh's)Ebbets, jr., casts bunches of aspa: Among the raft of Sghters mow in New York is Johuny Wilson, the mid- Qleweight champion, who 1S spending New Year week with his parents on | the Eust Side. Wilson is not the cham- | pion’s real name, by the way. The genuine moniker sounds like a skein | { of spaghetti, Wilson being an Italian. |3ie may mot be a champion in all that !the title means, but he at least has tho record of being the ouly fighter of 1 | {his race who chose an Anglo-Saxon jrather than an Irish name. Some he got it off an old whisky bott) others afflirm he stole it from the| President of the United States. Did Hug Best Red Sox? Time will tell whether Miller Hug- gins of the Yankees got the best of | the Red Sox in his recent swap, or vice i versa. Some years ago, when Hug- gins S running the Cardinals, he put over a deal with the Pirates which turned out so well that they called him the three-card sharp of base ball. Since then he has been {called a lot of things except that. So far as Muddy Ruel, who is one of the men that Huggins turned over to the Reg Sox, is concerned, looks to us as if he had the makings of one of the greatest backstops in base ball. Commenting upou the project to; launch a new base ball league, Charl gus upon two cities named in the cir- cuit, namely Camden, N. J., and In- dianapolis. Camden, says Mr. Ebbetts, makes one regard the circuit as some- thing of a joke. Well, maybe. But {Camden is ‘only a ferryboat ride across the river from Philadelphia— not too far from Philadelphia fans to ! £0 to see topnotch base ball. We said topnotch. Once Boasted ot Stars. H Speaking of Indianapolie, Prince Charles says, “it will be recalled that this city was a pennant winner one year in” the old Federal League and |it had Ed Roush and Benny Kauft |and some other players who later | came ‘into the major leagues” Yes, and others may recall the days of which Mr. Ebbetts appears never to have heard, when Indianapolis was a National club in good stand- ing back {n 1890 and before, with suc Amos Rusie, Jack Glasscock and Jerry Denny, among others. The Mitchells Arrive. The Mitchell clan arrived in New York yesterday and now are Instailed in a Lenox avenue gymnasium pro- ceeding with their training for two star bouts to which fans of Gotham are looking forward. Pinkey Mitchell, the lightweight, tackles Willie Jack- son in the Madison Square en Friday night and a week later brother Richie goes inst Benny Leonard. The two pugilistic brothers were ac- companied by a third brother, Willie Mitchell. who acts as manager of the | two boys. Final Reductions on' Tailored-to-Measure Clothes Prices Slashed to Cost and Less $50 and $55 Suitings and Overcoatings @ Mitchell is « fine-looking boy th a square fighting face, sturdy bulld 30 4 fine pair of hands. Brother Pinky, on the other, hand, is a s Jooking lad for a'lightweight, being two inches short of six feet in height and fighting anywhere from 135 to 140 pounds. He will have to weigh 135 pounds on the afternoon of the day he fights Jackson. PARN KEEN FOR AT French Boxer to Meet G. Chaney in Baltimore Thursday—D. C. Men in Four Bouts. ¥rench scrappers of late have he- come quite the rage in Americin rings, and the National Athletic Club of Baltimore has spared no e its cndeavors to present the buing Gauls to fight fans of this sodtion Last month Charlie Ledoux, who holas the bantamweight champi ot iiurope, showed agalinst Kid Wi one-time , world title holder, n Mm;yland metropolis and on Thureday night Georges Papin. lightweight champion of France, will strive to overcome George Chaney, Baltimore s sturdy knock-out king, in a twelve- round decision bout in the 5th Regi- ment Armory. Like Ledoux. Papin is under the management of Francois Deschamps. the French promoter, who developed :’}e:)!"eu ?l‘p.nl ;inr. Papin has been olng a deal of scrapping since he came to America. He was shaded by Lew Tendler, the sensational Phil- adelphia mitman, in his first bout on this side, but since Papin has been sending his opponents to dreamland. Papin thought a draw decision should have followed his engagement with Tendler, and is keen to demon- strate his ability before Washington and Baltimore fight followers. Four intercity bouts will constitute te remainder of the National Ath- letic Club program. Young Bowen, Young Jack Dempsey. George Myers and George Sirey, Washington repre- sentatives, will oppose, respectively: Joe Chaney, a_brother of George: Charlie Baum, Bennie Franklin, jr. and Chick Kansas, Army feather- ‘weight champion. Sirey and Kansas were matched yesterday for an eight-round semi- wind-up. Sirey has done considerable boxing' in this locality since coming to Washington from New Orieans. and generally terminates his bouts with knock-outs. Many District fans Saw in action at Fort Myer on New Year day and believe the Camp Holubird soldier will give Sirey plenty of trouble. Merchant ilors This ‘means the best made-to-order clothes from the finestab- ricssshown this season- at sensational bargain prices. 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