Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 23

SPORTS ° ‘BASKET ‘BALL SCANDALS - RESULT OF MONEY LURE BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ! EW YORK., April 8—Those who hold a brici for professional foot ball, arguing that its effect upon the college game would be negli- gible, might change their views were they to consider some of the findings concerning the relation between professional and amateur * basket ball in Wisconsin, which were placed in the writer’s hands today. In the past season, it is charged, the distinction between the amateur ‘lared Into games by offers of from five to a hundred dollars a game. ! Members of minor college and normal school teams have plaved on fives which were amateur in name only, y ) ! World Champion Sculler Given Mean®ell, the basket ball coach, are TRmS. Title- | §aid to nave had a great difeully in Gold Cup—Abrams, French keeping prominent varsity players from selling their services. holder, Challenges. Paid to Keep Team Intact. PHILADELPHIA, April §.—Jack Kelly was presented with the Phila- section which had a strong basket ball team had to decido whether to meet |ship amateur sculls in Belium ! the financial terms offered some of st Tt its star players or let them go to the |AUEUSt. at a dinmer here last professional bidder. The story is that | Kelly and the members of the per and Pennsylvania Barge O who competed in the Olymp. and professional game has grievously been broken down. and at the University of Wisconsin, It is freely stated in the middle delphia gold challenge eup in honor the college paid the neeessary monev Schoolboys and collegians were | r ‘Tom Jomes, the athletic director, and west that one of the colleges of that of his winning the world cham and kept the team intact. As a result the basket ball scason showed a great |4t Brussels were the financial profit. How about the moral | honor. Paul V. Costelio, « profit? As for that usual corollary of | ©f Kelly, who, paired with the chs pion, won the Olympic doubles ti also was an honor guest A challenge from Abrams champion of France, for presented to Kelly, was read |thur H. Clevenger, the toastn The challenge was received by c In addition to the cup. K e professional competitiol the betting evil, it may be said that it is growing 10 an extent which frightens lovers of purse sport in Wisconsin. Now there is mothing objectionable against professional basket ball, per se, just as there is no reason to frame indictment ag2inst mercenary foot ball in its essential aspects. The evil th , . ors seek to capitalize the ""“““""’imymm.» oarsmen and their coaches of school and collcge players, when through deceit. chicanery and down- right crookedness they make of the t amateur spirit a hollow, and unmeaning thing. Golfers Eager to Go Abroad. How potent. indeed is the lure of International sport. Player after play- er who hold prominent positions among our first flight of amateur 8olfers had pleaded pressure of busi-| alding. were given bronze medallions. 1 ridiculous uting for a total of twenty h American National Bank nin opened its season with a 15-t0-3 vi tory over the Filipino Athletic Club. Commercial 2nd banking '! With Sandlot Nines fl | The winners also did some excellent | , Mess when asked to enlist in the W. C. Fownes expedition in quest of the ; British amateur championship. Chick Evans was too busy. could not leave : his desk in the oifice of Hoagland King & Co. But that little matter was arranged. Francis Ouimet was tied down by his duties as a cotton broker { and eould not possibly go. But now ke houses desiring games with the Amer- ican Nationals should address Arthur J. Linn, American National Bank, or| telephone Main 256. Swift Progress Club of Swift & Co. blanked the Cudahy Packing Com- pany nine, 8-to-0. Hodges, pitching for Swift, allowed but two infield hits, only one man reaching second off him. finds that he can go. Davy Herron had just entered upon & pasition of importance in Pitts! and did not see his way clear o g abroad. But his employers have shown him the way, apparently. §o now the roster reads: Evans, Ouimet, Jonus, : Herron. Fownes, Wright and lewis. Can England beat this band of sure shots? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Patriotic interest in bringing the Brit- ; ish championship here, coupled with the| Camdldates for the base ball team of sheer sporting flavor of the enterprise, | the Loyal Order of Moose are to meet are responsible for the high-grade per- | in the clubroom, at 7th and G streets, sonnel of our company.of invaders. Ap- | tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Practice :.l:w s man who happens to have in | Will be held Sunday afterncon. employ a star goifer realizes that he| Mount Raimler Yankees, claimants is paying wages to mo ordinary of the thirteen-year-old title last year, and accepts some such necessity a: want engagements with fourteen- trip ta Engiand to beat the Britishers|year-old teams. Send challenges to in the proper spirit of sporting enthu- [ Earl Bauman, Mount Rainier, Md. siasm and national pride. Peerless Midgets are prepared to First Organized Effert. book contests wwa lhll:(ean to ligmu-- This is our first organized effort to|teen year nines. Write Manager Fran- T it e T the gls Baker, 435 Q street. or telephone various amateurs have gons abroad on| Emsmom Athletic Club will play their own hook and have fared none too | Brightwood Athletic Club a2t 10:30 weil. -Jerry Travers, Ouimet and Chick [o’eiock Sunday morning, of theifiejd Fvans have tried without success. Wal-!at 1§th and Kennedy streets. Emanon ter Travis turned the trick seventsen |players are to report to Capt. Dbdge years ago, and the British have not yet|on the grounds at 9:30. Tecovered from sheck. Hersy Cluh, greatly strengthened by They had never even heard of Travis | the acquisition of several former high and had not side: him as &|school players, will engage Saranac strong factor u he began to come | Athletic Club Sunday merning on through. When he won they hit upon | Monument lot diamond No. 3. Play will the old man's putter as the cause and | hegin at 11 o'clock. thereafter barred the Schenectady va- | poeriens Athletie Clu riety. This reminds me that Chick keen eempetition : when i Evans will have to change his crutch | coof, | empetion &~ whem . b en; Jrtide hen e slsysiabroad o'clock Sunday aftaghoon, on one of But his time should an American |y, "Yonument lot diamonds. Roy win they will not be so surprised. In O e oongs, oy fact. when Vardon returnea |Beall. who pitched a no-hit ean from his American trip last year he predicted that some Yankee star| Independent Athletic Club, sched- ‘would prevail in the British amateur|uled to meet Randle Athletio Club tourney this yvear. Since then Brit-|at Twining City Sunday afternoon at ishers have been doing eyerything in|2:30, expects the following players to their power to insure the presentation | report ~for the —game: Creagan. ©of a strong front to the invaders. O'Keefe, Fitzgerald, Gharrity, Donlin, (Copyriaht. 19m 3 Hartline, Lind, Powrrs. Hottel, Meany, Meyers Ervin, Gallagher, Reidy and GOPHER RELAY TO RACE FOR MILE TITLE AT PENN |l diamond o = sundar. asuine PHILADELPHIA, April 8.—The Uni-| the foliowing squad: B. Fells, Wilson, versity of Minnesota, rum up to|R. Fells, lohnson, Montgomery, Pennsylvania for the one-mile relay|Lewis, Punch, Slade, Dean, Edmonds, champlonship at the relay carmival| Naylor, lIee and King. Colored last year, has entered a team i{n this|teams desiring games with the Wash- event again this season. =3 in.l[ou' should communicate with Business bers of last years team. Inclu Prospect gwenue. GRAVE ELECTED CAPTAIN OF PENNSYLVANIA QUINT The one-mile race is one of the-fas-| tures of this years” meet. In addition PHILADELPHIA, April 8.—Willlam C. Grave of Springfield, Mass, has to Pensylvania and Minnesota the :ntflu include the French team, Iyracuse, Illinois, Michigan, Missou: Notre Dame and Cornell - Minnesota also wil compete in the - sprint medley relay and the four-|been elected eaptaln of the Univarsity of Pennsylvania basket ball tsaam for next year. Grave, a membar o? the class ‘of 1922, also plays on .he bive ball and foot ball teams, It was also announced today that mile relay race. Eddie M and Joe Fozarty would he retained as coaches nf the| Pennsylvania quintet next sexson. A dinner was held last night te celes brate the winning of the Intercol- leglate title for tha third consecutive ason by the Pennsylvanians, Padgett of Cudahy was hit for five hi2afeties and four runs in the first inning. Canterbury Athletie Club will meet tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at 2107 {1st street. The club wants with teams in the fourteen-year-old class. Teams interested should com- municate with Manager J. O. Riley, 40 Seaton place. Casper. Washington Athletic Club, which will open its seacon on Monument lot diamond No. & Sunday. againsi Lynch Boxes Montreal Toli‘it. CLEVELAND, April 5.—Jae Lynch, ehampion bantamweight boxer, and Young Montreal of Providence, R. I, : meet here tonight in a ten-round no- : decision bout. Under the agreement j Montreal in required to weigh in at 1118 pounds or less ringside. Lynch * expects to weigh about 119 i Low Shoes achieve the highest pinnacle of perfection in elegance of design and finish and are recog- nized as the criterion of of correct style in fashionable foot- wear circles, Quality censidered—the most mod- erately priced footwear of teday. N. Hess’ Sons 931 Pa. Ave, games | Managee-C. R. Parrott, 3209 Al THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, APRIL_8, T97%. - Professionalism Mars Western College Athletics —How to Torture Your HEY, MA € . Qo ““’;.“f? FIRST MEDAL TO CAHOON IN PAPER PIN TOURNEY Bowlers of four newspapers shared in the prize awards in the newspaper individual duckpin championship tournament concluded yesterday at the Recreation drives, when Elwood F. Cahoon of the Times earned the title by increasing his pin total te Z315, against 2,209 rolled by David McCarty of The Star, in twenty-one | games. 1In the final set of thr games Cahoon toppled 331 duckpins, while McCarty scored 258. The champion received a diamond- studded gold medal, and McCarty a gold medal as Tunner-up. Roy Kiuge of The Star earned the third-place trophy. having totaled 1,919 in elght- een games. Walter Collier of the Bulletin obtained the high-set prize with a count ef 372. _High-gpame medal went to Jimmy Boyd of tha Times, who recorded a score of 139. R. T. Britt, a Post bow! received 3 hat for his high flat game of 95, Cutting to Oppose Govld. BOSTON, April_§—C. Suydam Cut- ting of New York yesterday won the | right to oppose Jay Gould of New York in the challenge round Satur- day for the national amateur couyrt tennis champlonship, when he 2- feated his brother, Fulton Cutting, 6—5, 6—3, 7—b5 e Cleveland Gets Hockey Title. PITTSBPRGH, April 8.—The Cleve- land club won the champlonship of the United States Amateur Hockey ociation last night by running Its total goal score for the four-game geries up to 14, against 12 for the Evel Minn., team. FEveleth won tonight's game, 4 to 2. Fourteenth at /"I/lm? 2 eee }«JnTm?Lvmwi : |the alleged breaking of MEN'S WEAR It Would > Appear Odd GOLF SUIT and Accessories @ AND it’s inconvenient, too, because civilian elothes weve mever intended for sports, Your comfort has besn-thought of in the designing of our gelf suits. —Starting at $32 SIDNEY WEST, Inc. Wife. ) uu( " Copmnlght. 1931, . V. Wederen. N.Y.U. ENDS ATHLETIC TIES WITH STEVENS INSTITUTE NEW YORK, April 8.—Athletic re- lations between New York Universi and Stevens Institute have bheen se ered, it was announced teday by Capt. R. C. Hathaway, the New York Uni versjty ctor of athletica. This uc- tion, he resulted from a long line of disagreementa petween the inatitutions. It was prac:pitated by two-year | basket ball agreement by the Stevens athletic authorities. MEADOWBROOK TANKMEN TO MEET BALTIMOREANS BALTIMORE, April 8—Lovers of aquatic sports here.are looking for Rew recerds to be hung-up tomarrow night, when the Meadowdrook Club of Philadelphis, present middle states champiaons, meet the team of the Bal- timore Athletic Club, who are the present South Atlantic Association champlons, in the intercity races in the latter's paal, Letrobe Cogswell, president of the Seuth Atlantic Associatioh, will be in charge of the matches' and has provided a capable set of officials for the event. Navy Stars Are Buddi Eddie Ewen, captain of the Naval Acsdemy foet b eam for two sea- ns, snd Hal Watters, who led the ot ball five for a like have been roammates during bo! ears. More Athletios at St. John’s. A .y athletic program adopted by 8t John's Co calls for the promotion of b bdll, foot ball, track and other sports. @IF a basehall team should enter the fleld ta play dressed in civilian clothes, But there 13 no difference when you play golf without a g1ow SHoul © § Krow YO WANT ME.To DROP, ENERY THING AND HUNT, P THOSE Foot. FisH HOOKS G . THEY ARE T | S'RosE 3 ATMOUGHT 1 URS To 3 4" '3 '///w H Moore Gets Decision. ENOSHA, Wis,, April 8. —Pal Moore of Memphis was given the newspaper decision at the end of his ten-round bout with Jimmy Kelly of Chicago last nigat. Although Kelly was the aggressor throughout the contest, Moore proved too clever for him. 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Boxers well known on the Pacific Coast appeared in the other bouts. Old time boxers, managers and pro- moters rubbed elbows at the show for the first time in years. They predominated among the large audi- ence. GEORGES POSTS FORFEI Frenchman Will Come to U. S.| Next Month to Train for Title Bout With Dempsey. NEW YORK, April 8.—Georges Car- pentier’s $50,000 forfeit money, guaran- teeing his appearance in a ring with Jack Dempsey on Juiy 2, has been de- posited in a local trust company vault, it was announced here today by Tex Rickard, promoter of the bout. Rickard added that he had been in- formed by Carpentier’s manager that the French heavyweight would arrive in this country the first week in May to begin training. SPEEDY BANTAMS READY FOR CLASH AT TOLEDO TOLEDO, Chio, April 8.—Joe Bur- SPYRTS. NEW DATE SET FOR BOUT WITH FRANKIE SCHOELL BY FAIl W April 8 —Benny 1 W ye YORK, only e Today the new rd And ¥ tonight's AL C ream between ! e, Irish Patsy’ C! and Pinky Mitchell ought al%0 to be a hummer. Pinky {has not gratificd the public he earned a draw with Will - son the Madison Square Garden, but he has been keeping himself in £ood condition and expects to show that he is eligible to carry that stand- ard of the Mitchell cinn which Richie appears to have dropped. Would Benefit Boxing. Chicago’s new boxing organizations are moving in the it 100ks as though they were going to accomplish a lot of good. First of all, the Association of Boxing Managers has taken steps which will prevent more than one boxer using the same Dame. For instance. when a fizhter limelight there is al- a raft of unger fighters who take the same name, such P Kid Wallop, Irish Battling Stein an 20 on. The other night a report came that Joe Welling had been_defeated in a fight in Philadciphia. Now Joe Well- ing, the Chicago lightweight, had not fought in a month. Investigation showed that in the Philadelphia in- stance the fighter was a boy calling himself “Young Joe Welling.” The managers’ association in Chicago is going to put through a rule which will stamp out this practice so far, at least, as Chicago fighters are con- well back the Chicagoans in this mat- ter. Whitney Turf Kings to Run. The chances are that the Havre de Grace stake—the Harford handicap— which will be run on the opening day of the Maryland track, April 16, will tponed, a fact whi late | pair of th {in the zht direction, and | cerned. ' Boxing commissioners might | Leonard Will Risk Lightweight Title i i RPLAY. -eonard’s fight with Frankie Schoell i the writer failed to announce or the mect, which will be held at the Queensbury A. C, in Buffalo, was fixed—April 18, By that time Benuy's d thumb will be all right. and he will have had the advan- tage of delibera cparation for what looks to be a hard battle. be marked by the presence in the J three-quarter mile cvent of H. Pi J Whitney's Tryster and Prudery. Aty least, th is the present intention and will rricd through if the ear-olds breeze along matier of condition as they have throughout the winter. And on April 23, not only the two horses named, but Exodus will be entered in the Chesapeake stakes for three- year-olds. It is this trio which will bear the Whitney hopes in the Ken- tucky derby on May 7. Seck Complete Ring Comtral | The fist we have heard of the as- sociation formed by boxing commis rs of various states where pro- nal boxing is legal is the effort ich is being made to compel New ork to enter the organization. This leffort is being made throush appeal | to legislators, who are going to put | through a new boxing bill in New . alled that New i | York. Tt will be re | York and Massachusetts remained out of the as: {ation and have been do- | | ing very well, in spite of this action. As for the association. as said, the ! first we have heard of it was via the! |Bibanyzoiteitoss (Co 1921) Chess Masters Postpone Match. HAVANA, April 8 —The tenth game ' in the match for the world's chess | championship between Dr. Emanuel | Lasker and Jose Cavablanca was | pcstponed last night owing to @& slight affection of the eve from which Capablanca was suffering. The game will probubly be played tomorrow., . night. i man of New York and Roy Moore of Chicago and St. Paul are here, ready for their tweive-round no-decision bout at the Coliseum tonight. Both arrived yesterday and worked out in a public gymnasium. They are to weigh 119 pounds at 3 o'clock this afternoon. 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