Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1921, Page 24

- 4u1 24 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1921 SPORTS. s s ey 1 HICAGO, January 6—A code place of the old national ba: C meets with Judge Kenesaw Mountai ball. The National League delegates are August Herrmann, Cincinnati; Charles H. Ebbets, Brooklyn, and American League delegates are James Dunn, Cleveland; Frank Navin, Detroit, and Thomas Shibe, Philadelphia. { Judge Landis is expected to sug- gest certain provisions he believes necessary in order to empower him to deal properly with the national pastime. The major league agree- ment drawn up at Philadelphia, which has not been signed by the American League magnates, will be brought by George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia. A. L. to Insist on Changes. It now seems certain some modi- fication must first take place in the agreement between the major leagues before the American League club owners will attach their signatures to the document. The National League already has ratified and signed the agreement, but the mem- Bers of the Ban Johnson circuit have fefused to do that because the com- as drawn up is not entirely sat- fsfactory to the owners of the young- er circuit. The American League at its meet- g in New York a few weeks ago atified the agreement, but did not sign it because there were dissent- ing voices in its gatherings. < Objects to Long Ter ?_ President Johnson was asked today ‘what his organization intended to do with the agreement, and he said it AMERICAN LEAGUE ME TO INSIST ON CHANGES President Johnson Objects to Long Life of| Agreement, 25 Years—Attitude May Pre- cipitate Row With Heydler’s Circuit. of rules and regulations to take the se ball agreement will be drawn up here Saturday when a committee of major league club owners | n Landis, high commissioner of base Barney Dreyfus, Pittsburgh. The League men expected the American Leaguers to do the same. Judge Landis is not objected to by the president of the American League or by any of its club owners. John- son thinks so much of the new com- missioner, it Is sald, that he believes he ought to be invested with more power than the agreement as drawn gives him. —_— RICKEY SCHEDULES 21- EXHIBITIONS FOR CARDS ORANGE, Tex., January 6.—Branch | Rickey, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who will train here, has announced exhibition games for his team, as follows: Philadelphia_Athletics, at Orange, | Tex.. March 5, 8 10 and 20; Ath- letics, at Lake Charles, La., March 6, 9, 11, 13, 17 and 19; Athletics, at Beaumont, March 7; Beaumont Texas League club, at Beaumont, March 12 and 13; Beaumont, at Orange, March | 18, 22, 23 and 24; Houston, Texas League, at Orange, March 15, 16 and 17, and Houston, at Houston, March | 26. would go through with it, but not until it has been modified.” Johnson objects to the long life of the agree- ment—twenty-five years. He de- ilm. it is folly to draw up a set of laws to be obeyed that long. He re- ferred to the last national commis- on. that was supposed to have b‘:.v%dg twenty years, but was declared : a “scrap of paper” b; in both lelg-\res. o i i “I do not think a long-term agree- ment means anything in base ball,” said President Johnson. “Five years is enough for the life of any com- pact. Seven years would be all right for this onme, since Judge Landis has been elected for that period. But I am opposed to making it more than that. We had an agreement to run for twenty years, but it was broken because the magnates refused to live up to the laws that were made for them and which they adopted. The same would happen to another long- term compact.” May Refuse to Change. ‘The attitude of the American Leogue concerning the agreement may cause a little discussion in the Joint session to be held January 12 at the Congress Hotel. The National League already has signed the docu- ment and may refuse a change, which would stir up another row between the major organizations. Members .of the latter organization unanimous- Jy approved the twenty-five-year life Slugger Konnick Quits Ints. READING, Pa.. January 6.—Catcher Michael U. Konnick has notified the Reading International club manage- ment that he will nat play with the ! “Marines” the coming season, as he will manage the Adirondack Stars, an independent team, at Harrisville, N. Y. Konnick finished third in the International League batting av- erages last season and registered twenty-one home runs. e Unsung Heroes. 40n' Burke Signs Contract. BOSTON, January 6.—The signed contract of Jimmie Burke, former manager of the St. Louis Americans and now coach of the Red Sox, has been received by the Boston club. it was announced today. It is the first signed contract for the 1921 season to arrive. Bogalusa, La., for Browns. ST. LOUIS, January 6—The St. Loufs Americans will train at Bogalu- sa, La., this year. The announcement was made in a telegram from Busi- ness Manager Quinn, who has been in the south for several days looking over prospective camps. — e Babe Ruth Now Totes Gun. NEW YORK, January 6.—Babe Ruth has been granted a permit by of the agreement and adopted it in Foto. It Is thought that the National volver during th “crime wave.’ Minors Will Refuse to Have : Pagt:“Forced Down Throats k2] ETROIT, January 6.—A majority of the representatives of minor base ball leagues, who are members of the committee that draited the proposed major-minor agreement, are ready to report un-|erature which papers the district. }vorably to the minors at the meeting in Chicago next Monday, accord- ing to George H. Maines, president of @ member of the drafting committee. ‘Maines has taken exception since th isfavor among the smaller leagues’ = Maines' assertion was contained in & statement last night in which he | riticises the position taken by f the Michigan-Ontario League, and The proposed agreement, to which e New York meeting, is growing in leaders, he declared. & “Should the minors accept the pro- posed agreement. they would give the big fellows all the machinery they want for settling any matter they WE SHALL SEE WHO N IS HOUSE!!l IVE LeT You HAVE Y6UR OwWN WAY LONG IF L FEEL uUke 7 So M NOT GOING 1S ENOUGH !! GOING QU7 T GO COME HOME WHE PLEASE ! 0 4777 out?!! Boss AN' T N I V' UNNERSTAND ? | terda; Wisconsin Foot Ball Mentor Says “No Team I Coach Will Ever Play Ohio State.” MADISON, Wis, January 6.—The break in Big Ten foot ball relations bln. tween Wisconsin and Ohio State univer- sities became more acute today with a statement from Coach John R. Rich- ards of Wisconsin intimating that he would resign if Ohio State is ever again put on the Wisconsin foot ball schedule. Richards’ statement expressed his “personal disappointment” over failure to arrange a game with Ohio State for 11921, declaring “other Wisconsin men | agrée with me that we did not get fair! | Gealing.” Other Big Ten universities | rearranged their schedules to obtain | games with Wisconsin, Richards’ state- {ment says, “in striking contrast to | Wilce’s (Ohio State coach) considera- {tion for Wisconsin, his alma mater."” | Thinly veiled charges of unsportsman- like tactics at the Wisconsin-Ohio State | game last fall constitute the main rea- {son for Richards’ declaration that ‘No | team 1 coach will ever play Ohio State.” “Foot ball only is worth while,” Rich- ards' statement 2dds, *as an intercoi- {leglate sport, when mutual regard and | sportsmanship prevail. There has often been discernable in the middle west a disposition on the part of institutions Just arriving athletically to consider ath- letics a standard of excellence in the whole gamit of university duties.” P S - C. U. CINDER-PATHERS i HOLD FIRST PRACTICE Coach Bill Foley put the Catholic University cinder-patkers through their first workout of the season yes- Thirty men took part in the practice. The Brooklanders are going after ithe south Atlantic intercolleglate title. will arrance seves dnal meets with institutions of this section in addition to competing in the games held hereabouts. KNICKERBOCKER CLUB IS HOST TO ATHLETES Knickerbocker Club was host to its athletes last night, members of the foot ball and base ball squads being feted. Gold foot balls were given to Coach ‘Jack Hegarty and Manager Joe Car- ney. Central Honors Athlete. Jimmy Lemon, all-round Central athlete, has been elected president of the 1921 class. Lemon has earned elght letters in sports. Base Ball Moguls Meet Saturday to Frame New Code : Numbering of Athletes Spreads i IN HOC —By Coltierl I [T ) B TEN ACUTE|GRID PLAN IS ADOPTED KEY AND BOXING Public Demand for Method of Distinguishing Contestants Being big colleges to accede to the I numbered has now extended {public really wants it usually gets, who was making the amateur boxers %ulsh by the numbers on their backs play in foot ba thought by sctting a ten-dollar limit for seats, with an extra $5 in ¢ the contest is for a title. Those old | days of big prices for ringside seats are gone, and it will take a good dea of pencil and paper figuring for the promoter before he makes the ven- ture into big fields. Perbaps it is as well to have this come now, for a cer- tain limitation like this will surely keep the piker out, and the contests must be assuredly on the level to draw the rank and file, from which the guarantees must now be made up. Harvard Regains Prestige. Prior to the eighties Harvard had been quite the recognized leader in American college athletics. _ Then came that long list of triumphs fo Yale, never equaled by any other col- lege. For more than twenty years Yale won so consistently, especially in foot ball, as not only to shake but to quite overthrow Harvard's prestige. But in the last decade Yale, pursuing jan erratic course, with no guiding | spirit or consistency of system and purpose, has permitted Harvard to climb back steadily into the rider's seat and once more resume that po- sition of being able to pick and choose r opponents. he.\n;vone to whom Harvard throw the handkerchief will feel flattered at the compliment. This year she has se- lected Syracuse and has offered her a place on the Crimson rowing schedule, and it is more than likely that the | New York state imstitution will ac | cept. Syracuse has had some won- | dertul crews, and, if she has an eight Brennan Is a Riot as Hero of Burlesque Gallery Gods . BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, January 6.—The lure of sport leads a chronicler there- of into devious by-ways and strange places, particularly at this drab season of the year when the winter stove leagues are in full N blast, and he who would deal in news that is fresh must first let it be , whispered, gé out and find it, and, if not, make it. It was thus that the resent scribe, bearing more or less blindly through New York’s lower st Side, where many of New York’s sons who fight for purses with theatrical star. “Knockout Bill Brennan, who out- classed Jack Dempsey at the Madison Square Garden.” So read the illumi- nated posters announcing the Chicago pugilist's: association with Minsky's Stock Burlesque, which occupy most of the billboard spaces east of Broad- way to the East river and from 14th to Rivington streets. The faci ready historical—that having classed” the heavyweight champion, Mr. Brennan caarelessly permitted himself to be knocked cold, is point- edly ignored in the eight-sheet lit- Se far as that is concerned, any ad writer will tell you that the surest way to_ kill your stuff is to say more than is necessary. In this respect those posters are models. ‘Whole Play Hinges on Bremnan. The house where the show is held s the usmal sort of burlesque theater. After some preliminaries the way eventually is paved for the appear- ance of Knockout Bill. There is going August Herrmann, chairman of the, care to bring up, while the minors|to be a prize fight and it is plain to efunct national committee, who, he | never would be able to accomplish a |8ee that the whole play depends upon ®aid, apparently wishes to “force’ the new base ball agreement down | Ahe throats of the minor leagues.” | % “The minors are stronger today than | ver,” Maines continued. “They are| a position to get a proper voice 7and vote in the councils of organized base ball, and all they ask is an | tions of the pact, and ex ‘agreement fair to them, to the majors sad to the public. thing through their own vote. The compact gives the minors a compli- mentary vote, without powei Herrmann, according to Maines, has written minor league officials. advis- ing them that they have placed the wrong interpretation on certain sec- pressing the the Chicago meeting tisfactory agreement. beliet _that ‘would bring a Answer to Yesterday’s Play. * The moment the runner going from second_to third came info contact With the shortstop about to make a play on the ball, he committed an interference and should have been called out, retiring the side. It mat- fers not whether there was any intent on his part. Neither does the fact that the shortstop was really re- sponsible for the collision enter into the case. The fielder always has the right of way. and the base runner must avoid him, regardless of how Wide of the beaten path he must| Tun to do so. The run does not count, of course, because the interference retired the side and runners cannot advance on such an interference play. Eddie Collins Propounds Onme. Rddte Coilins of the Chicago White Sox is one of the brainiest players | in base ball. He never overlooks a debatable point. Here is a rather | e herting play he slipped me for my opinion last summer: There are runners on first d one out. It is late in the game and the team at bat is five runs behind. Only a big inning will glve them a chance. The hit-and-run is put on and the batter hits a low liner to conter field. It doesn't look as if tnere is a chance for the catch to be made. The runners are of that opinion and dash madly for the plate. The center fielder makes a diving cateh of the drive. When he does A0 the runner originally on second is if way between home and third, While the runner originally on first is almost to third. The fielder throws the ball to the second baseman, who touches that base. The runner orig inally on first was the left fielder, and when the fielder touched second base with the ball he started for his position, figuring that act had re- tired both runners and the side. What about it? Was Not a Triple Play. PLAYS THAT PUZZL By Billy Evans and second and no held by a flelder on the base occupied by the base runner when the ball was batted, or he be touched with the ball. Therefore, the ball should have been thrown to first base to properly retire that runmer, as that was the base he occupied when the ball was hit. TIE FOR BOWLING LEAD |Herald Team Takes Two Out of | Three Games From Star in Newspaper League. The Herald and The Star pin spill- ers are deadlocked for the lead in the Newspaper Duckpin League. This was brought about last night when the | former won two out of three games. | | Each has won eleven and lost seven: All three of last night's games were close, The Star players having one point on their ravils in total pins. The scores: Star. | DMCty. 108 100 108 97 128 TD.MCy 91 100 108 3 102 Holbrook. 86 78 102 : 90 102 Ferbar... 91 98 99 B.Clouser 92 80 84| Whitford. 98 0 W.Clouser 95 89 100 Totals. .. 473 446 520 The Mount Pleasant team rolled a | record ‘game of 657 in the Masonic League last night, but lost two out of three to Hiram, which showed a more onsistent performance. Evans and Brandt each had & 145 count In the big game, the lowest score in which was 118, MASONIC LEAGUE. Takoma Pentalpha. J.. 1056111 89 Taylor... 88 85 92 71 97 Tru . 105 88 95 104 98 110 While the mere touching of second base apparently created a triple play, #uch was not actuaily the case. When the center fielder caught the fly ball that made the first out. When it was thrown to second and held on that base it retired the runner who had Jeft the base before the catch and was almost home: that was the sec- ond out. The other runner was on first base when the ball was hit. He left it before the catch, and had ad- vanced almost to third when the ball was held on second. It is perfectly obvious that it would be practically impossible for a_runner to get back to first safely, with the fielder stand- ing on second with the ball, vet that act_did_ not retire him. The rule #uYH "that in such a case to retire -e ball must be legally 1is 1t 122 Handic Totals.... 37 400 405 Mt. Plessant. Krauss. 111 134 118 £ Mo 7% 91 145 1 9 8 126 Cramptos 88 101 118 lg ‘gg B vton Handieap. 18 18 18 - Totals...508 543 540 Totals... 487 522 667 DISTRICT LEAGUE. Rathakeller. Pontiae. Burtner.. 108 115 117 Burroughs 88 95 89 Armiger.. 108 136 112 C.Kellogg 82 88 &3 Pratt. 95 131 115 Little. 85 81 87 ville 92 o8 111 Stewart... 101 135 100 Weish 97 108 94 L.Kellogs. 100 115 113 Totals. Totals...465 514 471 Mr. Brennan. Clad in purple trunks and jersey and green doublet, Bren- nan finally makes his appearance amid thunderous applause. He is skip- ping a a rope, training for the big fight in the last act. He is a big, fine-looking Irish boy, with level gray eyes and a smiling face. He én- Joys tripping two comedians with his rope as much as the audience does. ‘Then, growing serious, he approaches a punching bag and belabors it scien- tifically. The villain, who has bet on the rival fighter, appears holding a bottle of whisky in his hand. He hopes that Knockout Bill will ask for the bottle. If he does, blooey! But Bill is above temptation. No, he will not drink. He has his friends, hie public and his old mother to consider. The villain slinks away, foiled. For a moment—whisky being scarce on East Houston street—it looked as though he might fall. Cheers reward his strength of principle. The scene changes. We are now in a restaurant. A party of high-life ladies and gents enter. One of them is very, oh very, beautiful. As the waiter advances to take orders the girl blinks and registers keen inter- est. And small wonder. For the wait- er is none other than Knockout Bill Brennan. Orders are forgotten while the two converse in pantomime. The monkeyshines of the comedians are forgotten by the audience, who see love at first sight brewing before their very eyes. The Villian Enters. As the waiter turns away enters the villain. He has something on that girl; just what is not clear. But something he has got, beyond a doubt. The girl cringes. “If you're & true gentlema pleads, “you will go away. “Hurrah!” The villain seizes her and hauls her from her chair. Things look badly, indeed. But wait. Who is this that approaches with a tray of nkers? By heaven! 'Tis Knockout she Bill Brennan. “So,” cried Bill, setting down the tray. The villain faces him wickedly. But it isn't much of a fight. two blows are struck. Brennan strikes the villain and the villain strikes the Y Established 1897 1, Off Sale = ‘Tailored to, Order Formerly Now $30.00 e Only | ESTABLISHED 1803 the police department to carry a re- | their fists have habitat, chanced to discover the appearanc: of a new floor. He offers the girl his arm. The two stroll out. Curtain. Riotous and prolonged applause. The Grand Finale. In the last act the fight is on. The villain, has hired the heavyweight champion of Newark, or somewhere, to give Brennan the trimming of his life. Does he do it? You have guessed it, he doesn’t. The things that happened to that misguided, mercenary champ in four reunds are too awful to tell. The curtain falls upon his mangled form. More cheers. The orchestra plays “Wearin' of the Green,” and every one plunges out into East Houston street, well satis- fled. (Copyright, 1921.) Papin-Chaney Bout Tonight. « Georges Papin, lightweight cham- pion of France, and K. 0. George Chaney, will meet in a_twelve-round main bout before the National Ath- letic Club in the 5th Regiment Ar- mory in Baltimore tonight. There will” be four preliminaries of six rounds each, in which Washington boxers will meet Baltimoreans. The show will begin at 8:30 o'clock. WASHINGTON AND LEE LISTS RUTGERS ELEVEN ‘Washington and Lee has booked a foot ball game with Rutgers for Oc- tober 15 at New Brunswick. Rutgers also has arranged for a clash with Notre Dame at the Polo Grounds election day. —_— Dartmouth, Books Tennessee. HANOVER, N. H., January 6.— Tennessee appears on the Dartmouth foot ball schedule, which calls for eight games, as follows: September 24, Norwich October 1, Middlebury; October 8, New Hamp- shire; October 15, Tennessee; Octo- ber 22, Columbia; October 29, Cor- nell, at Ithaca; November 12, Penn., at New York; November 19, Syracuse, at New York. Bethany College may be played November 5. Suspended Athletes Make Plea, CHICAGO, January 6.—Members of the Hyde Park High School foot ball team, who were suspended from ath- letics for allowing a “ringer” to play with them against Lansing, (Mich.) High School last fall, have applied for reinstatement, placing the blame on Coach Al Pressler, who was dis- charged. Swimming Instructor Die PHILADELPHIA, January 6.—Ja H. Sterrett, widely known );as a u:v’l“me!-( ming instructor, is dead at his home here. He was sixty-four years old. | Champicn Wilson “Ready” For All Middleweights NEW YORK, January u,..' Johnny Wiisen, who wen the leweight boxing champion- | ship from Mike O’Dowd last May, is now “ready and willing” to grant him a return bout, or to meet “any other 158-pound boxer the public demands,” hix mnanager, Marty Killiles, has an- nounced. Wilson has been under a phy- wiclans e five of the seven months he has held the title, Killiles safd. | RAILRGAD FIVES T0 PLAY Six Clubs in R. R. Y. M. C. A. Cir- cuit—Terminals and Engineer Quints Meet Tonight. Play in the R. R. Y. M. C. A. Basket Ball League will open tonight, with the Terminal and Engineer quints op- posing. There are six teams in the circuit, the others being Freight, Passenger, Auditors and Coach Yard. A thirty-game schedule has been ar- ranged, contests to be staged Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights of each week. “Ernie” Colliflower will ref- eree. In a practice game last night the Freigint team defeated the Mount Pleasait Stars, 17 to 14. Freight uscd . effreis, Pinkstaff, Rogers, Hovt and Calvert, while Jarrell, Langford, Johnson. White, “Bock and Thertell played for the losers. . Potomne Council kept on the un- beaten trail in the K. of C. League by routing the Carrolls last night, 65 to 15. Bob O'Lone and Duffy, the win- ners’ forwards, shot ten and eight goals from the floor, respectively. The Greyhounds have leaped to the front in the Burrall Sunday School Class League. They defeated the Peaches last night, 19 to 1, but were aided in their jump to the front when the Ironclads downed the Dread- naughts, The Greyhounds have won seven of nine games and the Dread- naughts six of a like number. Just to show their old rivals that a previous victory was not a fluke, the House Pages defeated the Senate Pages for the second successive time yesterday, 27 to 18. Brooked caged the ball eight times for the victors. The Navy Yard tossers scored al- most at will in 8 game with the White Owls, winning, 80 to 10. O'Neill of the winners shot fifteen floor goals, The Marine Preps were entirely too much for the Gibraltar quint, defeat- ing the Alexandrians, 61 to 16. Hutch- inson of the Preps sent the ball through the netting fifteen times. Lafayette A. C. disposed of the Au- burn A. C. to the tune of 26 to 11. Epiphany quints keep on the move. Tomorrow night the Tigers will en- tertain the Grace A. C. and Saturday the Comets will go to Peck Chapel for a game. Quincy A. C. would games tomorrow and Saturday. North 2741.° like to play Cail College Basket Ball. West Point, 42; Stevens, 28. Fordham, 29: Yale, 27. Lehigh, 35; Muhl West Virginia, 51; Davis: 1kins, 21. Kimball Wins Cue Match. William Kimball defeated John Tol- son in the District pocket billiard tourney at the Grand Central last night, 100 to 73. Clyde Richmond and Daniel Freeland play tonight. Close Dafly av 6 P.M. At the Sign of the Moon Men who know style, know quality and know value will appreciate that this is the biggest Tailor- ing value that has been of- fered in several years. Every garment made by our own experts and guar- anteed. Saturday, 8 P.M. A Tailoring Value That Is Remarkable Suit or Qvercoat To Measure—$35 Value $” 2.50 Full Dress Sults to Measure, $50 MERTZ and MERTZ, Inc., 906 F Street . & week end, all District ins scheduled to play. C Three College Basket Games Here During Week End BY H. C. BYRD. . OLLEGE basket ball gets under way again on local courts this Ball titutions except Georgetown being Tomorrow night George Washington opens its season with William and Mary, with a preliminary game between the freshman quint and Technical High. Saturday evening Catholic University's team gets together for the first time since the holidays to play St. John’s of Annapolis at Bro Valley as its opponent at Kendall Green. George Washington's games are to be played at the Coliseum. Plenty of seating capacity is available at the Coliseum, and it is believed that the new quarters will completely take ‘|eare of the crowds sure to attend some of the games to be played with other local universities. Catholic University does not expect to have much difficulty defeating St. John’s, as the Annapolis school has not been up to its usual standard this year in sports. Gallaudet does not know what kind of a team it will hit when Lebanon Valley appears at Ken- dall Green. Georgetown's basketers are sched- uled to get to work Monday night in a contest with Bridgewater College. Georgetown, though, will play its first big game next Thursday with Car- negie Tech on the Hilltop. May Not Play Lacrosse. University of Maryland probably will not have a lacrosse team this year. It does not have facilities for practice and will not until the new field which it is building is com- pleted. With the completion of the new fleld, which should be by next fall, there will be plenty of room for lacrosse, track, freshman and var- sity base ball teams to practice with- out hindering one another. ‘Third Indoor Meet Possible. Two sets of indoor games are to be held in this immediate section this winter. The annual Johns Hopkins meet at the 5th Regiment Armory is to take place February 26 and Catho- lic University will hold one either the week before or the Saturday after that. Another big meet to be held Jointly by two local universities is possible. Efforts are being made to get things in shape to stage it. YOU CAN ALWAYS SAVE MONEY BY WEARING okland, while Gallaudet has Lebanon TECH QUINT TO BE BUSY Has 19 Games Listed Up to March 5—Scholastic Title Series Starts Tomorrow Afternoon. Tech High's basket ball team will be kept on the jump from the time it encounters_the George Washington | Freshmen Friday night until March 5. During this period the Manual Train- ers will play nineteen games, the listi including the best local, Maryland and Virginia quints. The bookings as an- {nounced by W. M. Apple, physical di- rector, follow. January 7, G. W. Freshmen at Coli- seum: 11. Western at Coliseum; 14, Central at_ Coliseum; 18, Episcopal High at Episcopal; 21, Eastern at Coliseum: 24, Army and Navy Preps: 28, Business at Coliseum. February 3, Staunton at “Y”: 8, Georgetown Preps at G. U.; 11, West- ern at Coliseum; 15, Central at Coli- seum: 17, Johns Hopkins Freshmen in Baltimore (pending); 18, Gilman Country School in Baltimore (pend- ing); 19, Tome at Port Deposit; 22, Eastern at Coliseum; 25, Business at Coliseum; 26, Staunton at Staunton (pending). March 1, Georgetown Preps at “Y”; 5, Martinsburg High at Martinsburg. Business High took a walloping at its own gym yesterday at the hands of the Ingram quint, the visitors win- ning, 17 to 13, due to superior de- fensive play. Ingram held the lead from the start. - Play in the scholastic title series' gets under way tomorrow afternoon | at 3:10 at_the Coliseum, when Busi- ness and Western will pry open the schedule. Central and Eastern will meet in the second number. Western and Central have shown to better ad- vantage than their rivals in games they have played this seaso -as Smith and which one Jones Makes Fight Promoters Think. The boxing commission certainly has given the promo<ers food for| e | S Met—Cut in Prices Good Thing for Ring Sport. BY WALTER CAMP. HE pressure that has forced the foot ball authorities in almost all public demand that the players be to boxing and hockey. What the and a start has already been made. Within another year or two the poor fellows who formerly had to guess 11 and hockey and which one of the will be able to distin- and get a fair run for their money. erhaps Harvard will wake up and number her players next fall. 1 as 00d as her average, she will make { Harvard row hard to keep up. An Unusual Blayney, a Wash Acciden: t nd Jeffer- 5 ; et with the unusual accldent in hockey of a fra: tured s st bone. Years o Bert a noted back oA » Harvard recei blo t in tackling an his sternum was frzctured. The bond was preseed inwar for a long time “the surgeons were in doubt ad what to 15 the. SO Holden sneezed and the snecze pressed the bLone outwar was just what the surgeon but had been unable to accomplish. Why G. Braden Chose Harvard. ment has been made the® den, the younger brothes Braden’ of Yale, is gomghL‘ ard. This comes as something of a shock to those who know wh a good foot ball player George is, and who had anticipated his following i the footsteps of his ol Lrotne » But in other ouarters not £ much of a surprise. because tid friends of Jim Braden never felt thaa he was fully appreciated at Ne-, Haven. Whatever the merits of flA discussion, this would look as if it wera true. _Jim Braden pulled out a victory fc* Yale in 1916 at Princeton and he maey Yale's score against Harvard in 19 with the longest dropkick of 1t season from more than midfield away from its goal. Those kicks we made possible by the patient, Pers i vering practice of years. When Ji came back from the service he wis pa nd weak, but he kept eve’~ ngly at work. and as a result {he made that astonishinz kick &t !lehnd;:;‘ It his brother has thy same qraiities he will be gres - lset to Harvara P {BUSINESS ALUMNI TAKE | STEPS FOR A “B” CL-* Business High Scheol soon will b a “B” club. About twenty-five alu 5 ini attended the “get-together’ me= { }ing last night and took steps to fo: ian organization which will look jthe betterment of athletics. Mort' mer King of the class of 1916 pre- sided. Complete organization will be & fected at a session to be held Ju e juary 18 at the school. “C” Club Meets Tomorrow. Officers for the ensuing year w elected at a meeting of the * tomorrow night at Central School. SCOTCH PRO ENGAGED BY C. C. OF VIRGINIG Wilfred Thompson, the Scotch ge professional, has accepted the positic as tutor at the Countr Club of Vi ginia at Richmond. He will report April 1. Thompson finished second in the Scotch open tourney last season. He is going to spend the winter in Phila- delphia. i Trapshooters to Meet. CHICAGO, January 6.—Members of the general committee of the Amer- ican Trapshooting Association will meet here tomorrow to award the grand = American handicap tourna- ment, the premier classic of trapdom, and outline plans for the 1921 cam- paign. DESK BARGAINS Special Sale Bargains 2 Oak Desks, 60-in., each each All subject to previous SALE A to Z Business Bureau 514 12th St. N. i) W.L.DOUGLAS W. LDOUGLAS SHOES SOLD DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU AT ONE PROFIT $620 $700 $800 $900 & $1020 SHOES FOR MEN AND WOMEN EVERY PENNY SAVED IN THE A BETTER SHOE FOR THE PRICE LEATHER HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE QUALITY OF W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES. THE PRICE IS W. L. DOUGLAS PERSONAL GUAR- ANTEE THAT THE SHOES ARE ALWAYS WORTH THE PRICE PAID FOR THEM. mthebe.tknowl:.d:ouin_tbetwofld. ks e Erobt ila Oavnage Mow —~ HEREBY AFFIRM THAT W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES GIVE ME THE BEST VALUES | FOR MY MONEY IN STYLE COMFORT AND SERVICE buy. 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