Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1921, Page 20

SPORTS Robinson Ignores Plan to Squelch Holdouts : Indications Against Pasadena Contestin 1922 ' BROOKLYN PILOT SIGNS NEW EAGUE AMBTOUS| et the Uee? ~ UP HIS ENTIRE INFIELD - Action May Be at Variance With Magnates’ Pur- ; pose to Temper Greed of Athletes—Babe Ruth Flivvers at Basket Ball. BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, January 5—With the air filled with rumors that the N major league authorities, at their coming meeting in Chicago, in- tend to invent new methods of dealing with ball players, that cer- tain important changes in contracts which the players would be asked to sign would be made, and all that sort of thing, here Uncle Wilbert Robinson goes and signs up his entire infield from soup to nuts, or, rather, irom Konetchy to Johnston. It was making a lot of talk among the fans today, for they had all been set to see how the clubs were go- ing to make gaod in letting the players know that hercafter they are participants in a business enterprise 1f the action of Koney, Kilduft, Ol- son and Johnston is to be taken as an indication, the wholesale bunch of holdouts which had been predicted for various clubs probably won't hap- pen. But may we take it as an in- dication? Maybe not. As a matter of fact a Brooklynite said today that & couple of Dodger pitchers and at least one valuable outfielder are mak- ing noises which in a psycopathic ward would be diagnosed as some gnawing. internal grievance against the world in general and certain per- sons in particular. That Chicage Meeting. Anyway. at this coming Chicago meeting the idea was, and is, that the club owners were going to be kindly, but severe, with regard to holdouts. It is recognized that' these annual spring manifestations of . greed, temperament and like, make good reading and gets the fans as every one else all het up, but that it hardly is good business. So, as the understanding was, plans weré to be considered, perfected and otherwise arranged whereby the players each spring would report to work with the and not a charity. Tops National League With .370 Average, Gets Most Hits and Greatest Total of Bases. Official batting averages of the Na- tional League, made public, indicate, as had already been surmised, that John J. McGraw was fishing for a pretty good walloper when he baited a hook with $200,000 and four base ball players a few days ago and cast in the direction of Rogers Hornsby, the second baseman of Breadon's ag- gregation of Cardinals. Hornsby rolled up in the season of 1920 the remarkable batting average of .370, which has been excelled in the old major league only three times in the present century. Jess Burkett hit for -382 in 1901, Cy Seymour for .377 in 1905 and Heinie Zimmerman for .372 in 1912. The greatest mark ever reached in the annals of the league was Hugh Duffy’s .438 in 1894. Fred Nicholson of the Pirates took same automatic alacrity manifested | second place with .360, but played in by a gang of section hands on a well- @onducted railroad. And now Brook- only 99 games, as against Hornsby's 149 and as opposed to 153 games for lyn has gone ahead in the same old | Ross Young, outfielder for the Giants, way. Does it mean that Uncle Wil- bert has works? ignoring Brooklyn. the first time that the Squire of Filat- bush has been ignored. the reason. Babe Ruth Basket Ball. Babe Ruth is a popular idol, y it strained the loyalty of his admirers to the utmost when they saw him try- ing to play basket ball at the 7ist Regiment Armory the other night. As a basket baller the bimbo looked like a cross between a Herring safe and a Every one -was stalled locomotive. glad when they oo game and let & real player go in his Place. Money makes promoters do lots of silly things. Why should any one pay to see Babe Ruth play basket bal It's 2 game which h overlooked in {nis youth, apparently, i ! fans are even more * fans are. Next, perhaps. we'll haar of 7im staged as a star in a billiard natch. It seem trange to hear the 3abe hooted he was the other right. It shows how quick’the mud \alls fly at an idol when his clay feet show. T developed three idols in heh.woyfl?'d l’.flp.vh.: Babe Ruth, fack Dem n o ‘War. Now . here perhaps we'll next hear of ;‘n‘zl:vbmv::r taking Q;rvo s place i put on at ‘the Hippodromg as a trick re. § The Mitchell Beys. . New York fight fans concede that Pinkey .day t, but they can’t see Ri A Benny Leonard. This is not 5o much because of iocal pride “the belief is that they never come back ‘more than once in a blue moon. Sports *figure that Benny's snowing against Joe ‘Talking about comebacks, we are re- “minded that Eddie McGooriy, the Osh. §kosh veteran, is again in the ring gnawing his way upward to a position | Where he'll be able to meet the leading amen of his class. The other night at ‘ Grand Rapids Eddie fought a rattling draw with Chuck Wiggins of Indianapo- lis. Eddie’s old looping left to the jaw ‘was workinfg, but somehow it seemed 20 lack steam. rts that Harry Greb had agreed -,‘0 take on Tom Gibbons, the St. Paul | Central and r at the Garden on January 17, red to be a miscue. The match was et the Ing Pittsbus the linnrfi‘:;zmm (Copyright. 1921.) BOWLING LEAD 15 STAKE r balked at thrown a spike into the|average of .35]1. Or will the rest go ahesd,|the Reds and Cards It wouldn't be|the next two pe; e aybe that's c‘hza'mpian Robins got sixth p! But [8nd In total bases with 329, nd basket ball | other Pirate, George Cutshaw, cting in their | lo: | demands upon players than base ball | formes Business Five Plays Ingram; Mitchell has & chance to hold | staged as a preliminar; ‘his own with Willie Jackson next c!;l{; game at the Coliseum Greb and Gibbons was willing, | schedule. ‘boxe who landed in third position with an Roush and Smith of ectively, took wit -339 and .332, and Zack Hornsby led likewise in tfe num- ber of hits made with 218 safe blows, National League to pass 200 in the iina of hits, He mad’ 204 of them. corge Burns, the tried and true sun gardener of McGraw’'s team, top- ped the circuit in_scoring. crossing he esteemed platter with 115 of those | Kk him out of the | highly important tallies in the course of the season. It is nine vy since as high. In 1911 James Schecka of the Cubs compiled 121 runs. Max 17| Carey was the chief pliferer of bases, with a total of 52 such thefts. ading sacrifice hitter, having pe; thus altruistically 37 times. HORNSBY TRIPLE LEADER |ana anybody reached a mark higher, or]Dumber of 100 have reported to Coach d Continental Plans to Have Clubs in Seven States and May Invade Canada. BOSTON, January 5—The Conti- nental League, the newest thing in base ball, certainly is ambitious. Its promoters declare that several major league cities will be invaded and that teams will be placed in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Indjana and, possibly, the province of Ontario, with a club in Horonto Andrew I*. Lawson of this ¢ was elected pres says it had been agreed to h salary limit. and that “in the event of th d SoX not accepting an offer to sell. a park would be built in Boston.” The local franchise for the team was awarded to Fred Lundy, as agent for certain interests. The Indiana franchise was awarded to Donald Jones of Indianapol Charles H. Mack of Philadelph { iven the franchise for New Jerse to Clans C. SBORO, N. C., January 5.— mont League, at its meeting cided to ask for a class C rating, an advancement of one notch. A schedule, drawn by Miss Eliza- ' Picdmont Aspire beth Taylor, daughter of Dr. J. E. Taylor, president of the Danville club, was adopted. The list provides for games. the season opening April 27 and closing September 13. CINCINNATI, January 5.—The Cin- cinnati Reds will play fifteen exhi- j bition games during their spring training trip. according to a list an- nounced by Secretary Frank Ban- croft. Cleveland and Detroit will be among the teams met. Morris Rath, second baseman of the Redw. will be sent to Seattle. His transfer will be part of the deal which brought Pitcher Herb Brentom and Inflelder Sam Bohne to the Cin- cinnati club, «0ld Pitcher Crumpler, a to San Francisco. Detroit b left-hander, The St. Louis Cardinals have given ithree rookies for Pitcher Bill Pertica of the Los Angeles Club. Pitcher Harry Harper (not the for- | mer National “southpaw) has been sold by the Akron Internationals to Galveston. Joe Ward, coach of the Martinsbiurg Blue Ridge base ball club, has signed thirty-two players for next season. ‘This constitute record for the league, Ward say All the National League clubs have Young { waived on Nick Allen. Cincinnati Na- Wwas the only other batsman of thel tional catcher, who was dis ned last season for failure to keep in con- dition. Harvard Track Men Report. Aspirants for the Harvard varsity freshman track teams to the *“Pooch™ Donovan. Riflemen at Carnegie Tech. added aunother ts list with the | Tech’s Contest Is Postponed BRING ME A GLASS OF BUTTERMWLK - To GEORGE, | VE BEEN TELLING WE HAVE AND NOW M GOING To PRDVE VT TO.YOU BAKED HAM LTHiINK A SMALL DISH OF | RKE PUDDING WOuLD Do Me NO. HARM USINESS, which, with Tech, was the only scholastic league quint not to get into action yesterday, will play the Ingram team today in-the latter's gym. Tech wa: s to have played the George Wash- ington Freshmen this afternoon, but the' contest was put off to be tiday night. Chester Pjerce, captain of the Wil- as because | liam and Mary quint, played on the already has stopped Richie, and | Western High team two years 0. His home is in Alexandria, Va. Western was the only one of the trio of regular scholastic outfits in sction here yosterday t| won. - The boys from across the creek easily de- feated ‘8t. John's, 59 to 18, but Cen- tral fell before Baltimore Poly, 22 to 12, and Gonsags rmod too much for Eastern, 33 to 22. “Tech reserves §ave way to the Steward's quint, 22 to 13, The Central-Poly game wi played, byt the B‘lllmnnl‘n dis- played a great brand of guarding, and always held the upper hand, leading 10 to 6 at half time. Earl B. Fuller and Carl Nugent will handle the opening games in the scholastic championship series Friday, when Business will play Western and Hastern will hook up. cials will be chosen several days in advance of the games during the The first game of the double-he: in the high school series will start at 3:10 It robable that Everett, forward on the Western team, will be unable to appear in the opener. He is limp- ing around with a boil on his knee. G. W. FIVE LISTS NAVY. well HHerald and Star Teams Meet To- |will Go to Annapolis for Contest . might—Times Beaten by Post - Pinspillers. The Herald and The Star bowlers on February 22. George Washington University's basket ball team has added a game with Navy to its schedule. The il baitle for the lead in the News:|Hatchetites will go to Annapolis Feb- Daper tion it 3:30. The fE oo e s Herald 6 lost. ‘beaten in two of three games night by The Post rollers, The duckpin quint held on to’ third The winners set a hig for the cireuit of 557, Post, with an average of 111 leading contributor. He had ‘The scores: . was a 123 Lawrence ..o 108 123 102 Wudhcs” "2 104 111 Totals.. 406 537 404 Totals.. 518 447 468 ®McAlivee for Burke in third game. Bowlers in the R. R. ¥, M. C. A Morning League have two more matches Sreeshops Ve Eacesse and Seturday. VA 4 & M 8 ve. Coach Yard WAR DEPARTMENT WOMEN'S LEAGTE. Plassce Bends. Staphens, k) - 80 *Won roll-off. CAPITOL CITY LEAGUE. 8, W, Btu. Potomacks. @oF. ‘vue. &3 90 113 E. Fr'mag 106 88 110 1YY conee O1 98 89 Loury. . 102 98112 . ™ 110 9 a8 92 80 98 . e 129 111 115 Totals. . 433 508 440 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS LEAGUE. League in a match at the Recre- FU3ry s It ‘will be the Midshipmen's last ive in Annapolis February 26. won and | §ume before they clash with the Army 8. With D. C. Basketers [ Epiphany basket ball teams scored again last night. The Tigers won their eleventh straight by defeating the Rosedales, 35 to 12, and the Comets swamped the Y. M. C. A. Ar- rows, 51 to 19. Boyd of the Comets shot ten goals from the floor. Py Pyme basketed the ball twen. ty-one tim rom the floor while the Quincy A. C. was defedting the Busi- nees High senior five vesterday, 77 to 7. The District record is twenty- seven, held by Ingley. The House pages won over their old rivals, the Henste pages, yester- day. 13 to 10. The meered their fifth ans consecutive win of the season, when they beat the Sherwoods, 36 to 17. ‘The Silent Five went to Alexandria I3| 188t night and took u defeat at the Dreadnaughts, 29 to 12. ress Heights Yankees, smarting under the only reverse of the scason last week at the hends of expense of the Keyser Collegians Sat- | urday. The Keysers claim the cham- ’l:nl;lilp of Maryland and West Vir- &inia. ‘The Carrell Council five will try to put a crimp in the Potomac’s unbeat- en strin 'whgn the teams meet in hands of the The e Coumefl, K of C. sue, will practice in the Cathollc Univer- city gym tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Princeton Five Rallies To Win. BEAVER FALLS, Pa., January b— Princeton’s basket ball team JI-M eneva a s 3 outplayed the Tigers in the rly stages, leading 20 to 14 at the nd of the first haif. . to the Hatchetites’ Varsity-William$ and Mary —_— e e lm-smbafi| Pettingill, a thir- a girl | | | GOLF BOARD IS COMING numerous swimming Britons to Visit American Courses Before Discussions With Of- ficials of U. §. @. A, NEW YORK, January §5.—A com- mittee of five English golfers, repre- senting the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrew's, will come to this country next summer to return a s} flar visit to England last year of a committee of the United States Golf Association, it was learned today. ‘The British golfers, whose names were not made public, will visit most of the leading links in this country to study conditions peculiar to the sport in America. After their tour the visitors will confer with officlals of the United States Golf Assoclati regarding proposed changes in rul, permitting cleaning of muddy balls and their removal by hand when im- bedded in putting greens. Proponents of the changes claim that soil condi- tions in this country do not obtain on most links in England. Asay Defeats Parson. Walter Asay tled William Parson for second place in the District title pocket billjard tourney by winning in their last night's match at the Grand Central, 100 to 87. Asay lost 18 points through scratches. Each has won 4 of 7 contests. George Wheatley leads with 5 and 1. John Tolson and William Kimball play tonight. Basketer Seriously Injured. WV"{':}SHIS']QTON. r.('_"l JnnI!:lnryP 5.— am Blayney o sville, Pa., a fres] " Wa on and Joffor: son, ital here, suffering from internal {njuries received in a practice basket ball game. His con- dition is serious. 1897 1), Off Sale ailored to Order who has in the yearly prizes contests held by the Public letie League Athl of that eity, has issued a challenge to f: fn the 100 Per Cent All Wool Dene in Our Ows Shey. UZZIE By By Lvans With a runner on second base, the batsman hits a ground ball toward the shortstop. Two men are out and the runner on second dashes for third. shortstop gets all set for the ball, and then as it nears him, he decides if he takes one step backward he will be in & better position to throw to firet. The runnre coming up from second is direct- ly behind him when he so decides. In taking the step backward he ocollides with the runner. Both men fall and the ball goes into left infleld. The runner gets to his feet and scores ahead of the throw to the plate by the left flelder. There was ne intent on the part of the runner to interfere. It was admitted by both sides that the flelder was really at fault for the mixup. What is the proper ruling on such a play? Answer to Yesterday’s Play. ‘When the ball was thrown to the third baseman, who touched that bag, and then thrown to the second baseman, who in turn touched that base, a double play was made which retired the side. The rupner on _mecond was to sdvance to third on the hif the ball was thrown to that bass, while he was stil] standing on second, the play simply resolved itself into a simple force-out. When the ball was thrown to second base ahead of the runner who ‘was standing on first with the batsman, it- was simply a case of another force-out. Although the runner on third had scored bef the play was made at third, making the second out of the inning, the run does not score. The rules say a run cannot score on a play in which the third out is a force, as was the case here. > Toronto Hockeyites Repeat. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 5.— University of Toronto's hockey team for the second time in a row defeated the Quaker City players last night, 3 to 2. Will Number Hockey Players. Hockey plavers avill be numbered at all games held in the new Boston arena. This will be a departure for & majority of college,teams, including arvard, which announced that its players would not be numbered. Penn Hockeyites Delayed PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-~Penn. sylvania’s ice hockey team will be unable to open its season Saturday night with 2 game ainst Yale, but & satisfactory date for both tWams next week is expected to be arranged. “THE ROAST PoRK WITH APPLESANCE You WHAT A WONDERFUL Coor YOu'RE GoiMG OUT WITH ME To-NIGHT AND NAVE THE BEST VERY GoOOD -DAY, SIR GEORGE, | WANT You “To COME OuT FOR DINMER- | ) s\ ciy sepey TO-MIGHT. WE'RE GOING- o Y To HAVE PoRw. CHOPS ANFTH NICE, RICH GRAVY No! ~o! BuT '™ on ADIEY! ND HoT BISCUITS, Aow's AT SoumO'? I'D LIKE To CALL YouR ATTENTION TO A NCE TRIM FIGURE ! NOTHE PARTICULARLY THE LOOSE NEST THAT USED To BE Too TiEHT Maryland to Play Nebraska and Georgia Elevens in 1922 BY H. C. BYRD. U NIVERSITY of Nebraska and University of Georgia will appear on the University of Maryland’s foot ball sche@ule in 1922, and both contests are to take place either in Washington or Balti- more. Negotiations were begun for the two games about a month ago, and it seemed sure from the first that the Georgia contest would be listed, but the one with Nebraska was held up, owing to Nebraska’s desire to begin the arrangement next fall with a contest at Lincoln. An attempt was made to rearran invitation to Nebraska in I | Harvard Asks Syracuse For Race on the Water CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January S5~—Harvard has ipvited Syra- cuse University to row on the Charles river here mext wpring. Should the invitatfen be acoept- ¢4 it would be the firat time rd and Syracuse crews The race with Yale this year will be on June 24. Dates for the races with Cormell, Prince- ton and the Navy have mot yet 1,100 IN 1923 FUTURITY Kentucky Race, Sure to Be Richest Two-Year-0ld Classic, May Have 1,400 Entries. NEW YORK, January 5—Nearly 1,100 entries have been made for the Futurity race in Kentucky for the 1923 seawon, it has Leen announced by A. Mcl. Earlocker, secretary of the Westchester Racing Assoclation, who has just returned from.a canvass of the Blue Grass country. This, he, declared, means the richest two-year-. old colt classic ever contested. Many prominent breeders who have not yet been heard from, he sald, would swell the entry list to well over 1,400. Harry Payne Whitney is the larg- est contributor to date, having en- tered eighty-nine dames from his New Jersey and Kentucky stallions. Setter Wins Big Stake. MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 5.— Riley ¥rush, a setter, owned by Dr. P. K. Phillips of Cincinnati, won tHe all-American amateur field . trigls championship stake here. Fifteen dogs competed. A 20% differenca in price —But no Difference in' the Character of We've reduced the the Clothes rice of every yard of woolens in the house—Suitings and Coatings. But in the making up we shall not vary an iota from the J. M. Stein standard—a standard that is con- ceded supreme. . So save the money—and enjoy the distinc- tiveness that goes with it, . "We've some made-up in price, too. Overcoats—they’re cut J. M. Stein & Co. 523 Thirteenth. Street Tallors to the Fastidious | | | | ge the Maryland schedule in order to accept the ;lay at Nebraska, but® without success. 22 will involve a return game in 1923. The game with Games with Georgia and Nebraska complete the kind of arrangement for its schedule the University of Maryland has sought for some time. The Marylanders have been trying to line up two games with representa~ tive state universities in the south, one or two with the big universities in the north, one with a representa- tive middle western institution, with the remainder of the usual schedule of nine or ten games to be filled in Wwith colleges in this immediate sec- tion. This arrangement now has been effected, and no other jnstitution will play a more representative list of games, Allegheny’s Gridiron Dates. MEADVILLE, Pa., January 5.—The 1921 foot ball schedule of Allegheny College, made publio here today, Yol- lows: October 1, Colgate at Hamilton; 8, Alfred; 18, Grove City; 23, Westminster at New Castle, Pa; 29, Carnegie Tech at_Pittsburgh. November 5, Buffalo at Erie, Pa.; 13, Dickinson at Carlisle, Pa.; 19, Geneva College. Wood May Go to West Point, “Bill” Wood, star end of the Johns Hopkins' eleven last fall and all- Maryland selection, has been offered #n appointment to West Point. Evolves New Coaching System. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 5.—A new system for training track ath. letes at the University of Pennsyl- vania was announced today by Coach Robertson. The veteran coach will have classes each day for students in- terested in this branch of sport, and will place each class in charge of an expe- rienced man from last years team. ' have reported, and lahe coach said that he_expected about 400, —By Weht‘er OHIO’S DEFEAT HURTS INTERSECTIONAL GAME Trip and Radical Climate Change Deplored by - Friends of Foot Ball in East—Navy’s Attitude on Eligibility. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, January 5—New York is always crowded with foot ball N men representing various colleges and universities at this season of the vear; any one, thus, who is interested may obtain a wide variety of opinions concerning gridiron affairs. In the past few days the California-Ohio State game at Pasadena has been on the tapis. Unle words mean nothing and all signs fail, the intersectiona!l idea, as far \ it relates to games which involve a radical change of climate and rigors incidental to transcontinental travel, has lost a lot of friends here in the cast. The thing, it is now believed, can’t be done satisfactorily. Some One hundred and twenty-five athictes |, few, it is true, have last November, ton players, big points of foot ball. CUTSH. C.OFN. Y. BOUTS Commission’s Action Means Demp- sey-Carpentier Bout Will Not Be Held in Empire State. NEW YORK, January 5.—Some- thing exploded yesterday-——and the high cost of jabs. swings and upper- cuts came tumbling down like the high cost of gox, shirts and suspend- ers. The state boxing commission rose in its might and put a limit on admis- sion fees to bouts, which will put box- ng in reach of all. and bring some of the gallery gods clambering down from the rafters to seats on the foor ;leramtnre sacred to the moneyed ans. Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpen- tier must go afield to find a place to settle their fistic extravaganza for that paitry purse of $500,000. For, lo! The maximum price for championship bouts has been placed at $15, while the top, the outside limit for bouts in which mo title fs at stake, has tbee'ux ornthlufly. yet cheerfully, cut o $10. FOUR BOUTS TO PRECEDE PAPIN-CHANEY MAIN GO Four bouts, in which Washington and Bailtimore boxers will mix it, will precede the twelve-round main go be- tween Geor{el Papin, lightweight pion of France, and George Chapey, the “K. O. king,” in the bth Regiment Armory, in the Mopumental city, tomorrow mnight. The prelim- inaries, all of which will be at six nds, follow: John L. Smith, Washington, vs. Young Herman Miller; 145 pounds. George Myers, Washington, vs. Joe Price; 124 pounds. Young Bowen, Washington, vs. Joe Chamey: 133 pounds. George Sirey, Washington, vs. Chick Kansas, Camp Holabird; 122 pounds. —— RICKARD LOSES SUIT. Promoter Ordered to Pay Writer $500 on Slander Charge. PHILADELPHIA, January 5.—Aft- er about an hour's deliberation, the Jury in the action for slander brought by Willlam H. Rocap, editor for the Public Ledger and referee, inst Promoter George L. (“Tex") Rickard returned a verdiot for Ro- clf in the sum of $500. t was complained that Riclkard, taking offense at an article wristen by Rocap regarding the bout be. tween Jack Dempsey and Jess Wil- lard in Toledo on July 4, 1919, which severely criticised the match and > gested that it should be investigsted by the proper authorities, declared to two newspaper men in the lobby of a Toledo hotel where he was stopping that Rocap was a blackmailer and tried to hold him up for $1,000. | ——— ill Examine Fighters. The New Jersey boXing commis- sion has adopted rules n:umnl an examination of all contestants by physicians prior to bouts, and for the men to weigh l:Lbc!lgfl xn o'clock the ay of the fig eports must be made to_the.board . - - . ~ Billy Miske and Eddie McGoorty, light heavyweights, have been match- :d (oll; a bout at Grand Rapids, Janu- ry 13. ~ Made to - Measure In wholesale quotations. = Alnolfitely Nothing Reserved—! and our entire stock is embraced without any regard to cost or profit. Remember-»this is 2 genuine and bona fide offering—backed by our reputation—and not a 23 years’ “catch” event. Don’t wait—make your selections The best, woolens al- tomorrow. ways go first. ur Annual January Clean-up Sale! A Let-Go of Our Entire Stock ~ Suitings and Overcoatings nearly every instance these splendid fine quality woolens are offered at even lower than present Newcorn & Green 1002 F St. N.W. pointed to Dartmouth’s successful invasion of Seatile but Seattle is up north, 'way up, and again, the Washing- and husky as they were, knew little about the finer The impression may be all wrong, but, Just the same, the thought persists that the tournament committee at Pamdena is going to have a hard time getting any outstanding -morthern team to ge to the west coast next year. The Californis Game. When it is known that Ohio Stats Was completely fooled by the old for ward pass statue trick, first used by Dartmouth and later by Harvard. in which the alleged thrower stands poised for a heave and a back or an end takes the ball out of his hand from behind, the idea that the Buckeyes were affected by the or mom will be strengthened. Again. my advices are - to the effect that California had Ohie running blind trying to stop such an- clent devices as the criss-cross and de- layed plunges. Once more, was it the weather, or does it confirm the old charge that the mjddle west lags sadly in the matter of defense” We'll know more about that when Princeton plays Chicago next year. And when California hitched onto her regular offense a few features taken over from the old rugby game they used to play at Berkeley, Ohio developed blind staggers and palsy. For instance, California bhad the ball on her 20-yvard line. She rij off 35-yards around right end. ith the ball on Ohio's 45- yard mark, Sprott took the bail on direct pass. He sprinted toward Ohio’ lett end. Brick Muller, California’ end, we ‘ollowing a few steps Sprott _.s Sprott was about to , b issed the ball back to Muller who u. once heaved the ball 40-0dd yards down the fieild s Stephens, who stood waiting for it be- hind the Ohio goal line. Well, that play might well score against any team, weather or no Sprott and Toomey worked the same trick a bit later, landing the ball on Ohio’s 4-yard mark, whence it was pushed over. The fact that the Blue and Gold forwards ripped the Ohio line was natural en h. Cali- fornia was coached by ly Smith, who was at Pennsylvania in the days when the Red and Blue lines were the terror of the intercollegiate ‘world. The Navy’s Stand. Rear Admiral Scales, superintendent of the Naval Academy, in an official announcement has stated, among other things, “that the wel- comes and promotes athletic relations ik Theso ‘relations may be at relations may s tained on l!n. Iunql:fl!::nlhule UMA uity and fair play, the Nawvi cal ay‘{l dodrou'- of observing all the of ity Wi are essential to good sportsmanship and which sre recognised the repres sentative educational institutions of the country.” This may not have been intended for consumption of the foot ball thorities at West Paint, but it is to be hoped that they read it and that its lofty tone impressed them and filled them with a desire to adhere to prin- ciples no less exalted. —_— New Pittsburgh Fight Club. Pmncnfu. Pa., b:n:urydfi.b—'ll'hq fo! ion of & new boxing olub for fi fans has bee: iced Pitt by J. m; { ' under 2ame of the ingham Athlstic Club, and will stage rst show at Exposition Hall next Mon- day. The main bout for the initial show will bring together Bob Fitz- simmons, jr, and Jack Burke, for- mer amateur titleholder, in the light-heavyweight division. ) Values to $45 292 Values to $60 39 Values to $80 Established 1898