Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 27

" District Stars to Comp RACQUET CLUB PROVIDES FOUR FINE SWORDSMEN Records of Honeycutt, Breckinridge, Rayner and Sears Most Brilliant of Those Competing Against British Team This Week. HE record of the fencers of the Racquet Club in the try-outs for the - Aldrich of Yale Retains . | Lead as Gridiron Scorer NEW YORK, November 14— t. Malcolm Aldrich of Yale, whose two feld goals helped to defent Princeton at New Haven on Satarda , still is the leadh point acorer of major foot ball teams of the east. He has made nine touchdowns, . meventee touchdowns _and four goals from the field, for a total of-S3 points. Ca lm Robertson of Dartmouth ond with 75 point {TRUXTON BARELY BEATS QUINCY FOR GRID TITLE EVERAi District sectional foot ball Ch_afmpinnshipjs have been de- S cided by spirited games this season, but yestqrday 7-to-6 clash be- Bloomingdale was about the most bitterly contested 'of the titular tilts. The contending teams battled ‘furiously from whistle to whistle, with Truxton grabbing the game when Probey failed to,vnegotiate_ a goal after touchdown. The engagement was witnessed by one of ghc greatest tween the Truxton and Quincy elevens for the prémier honors of |- American team which is to meet the British in this city. November 18-19 is the most brilliant of all the organizations contributing men to the team. When the Racquet Club was organized the old Wash- ington Fencers’ Club, formed years ago by Count Cassini, then the Rus- sian ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, was incorporated into the new club. The history of the goes back a number of years, and containe the story of many triumphs. Fight of the leading athletic clubs in the country sent competitors to the recent tryouts where ten men and two alternates were selected for the American team. Of these, four, in- cluding the team captain, are mem- bers of the Racquet Club. All four of the Racquet Club mem- bers were on the 1920 Olympic team and there crossed swords with most f the fencers who will represent ircat Britain next®week. Experience 5 one of the greatest assets of these Washington swordsmen. Records of Local Clubmen. Maj. Francis W. Honeycutt, team captain, began his fencing career in West Point, in 1906, winning the in- tercolleglate foils championship that vear. The following vear he was iunner-up for the national open foils «hampionship. He is the presen title- holder in the foils, and was runner: . up for the national Epee champion- *hip this year. He was ptain -of the 1320 American Olympic fencing - as the first American fencing team ever to place in an ympiad. Maj. Honeycutt is one of the real comebacks of sport. After winning his laurels in 1907 he retired completely from the game and did not return to it until 1920. immediately won his wa captaincy of the Olympic team and this year placed first in the foils championships. Licut. Col. Henry Breckinridge cap- tained the Princeton team in 190 07. He was a menber of the foils championship team in 1914-15-21. He 50 1S a member of the present Epee hampiouship team. aecretary of war, 1914-15, he was one of the principal sponsors of the sport in Washington. As a member of the Olympic team he won the deCiding bouts in both foils and dueling sword from the British representatives, Which gave America place over the glishmen in these two weapons. Maj. Harold Rayner. one of Presi- dent Harding's military aldes, is one ©f the best all-round athletes in this country, having placed sixth in the modern pentathlon. He was one of the American fencers at the Olympic games in Stoekholm in 1912, and again at Antwerp last vear. He is & member of both the folls and Epee championship teams and silver med- alist in _the foils this year. Maj. Robert Sears is another all- round athlete, having taken seventh in the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. He was also amateur middleweight boxing champlon of the Pacific coast a few years ago and a member of the Olympic fencing team of 1921. Other U. S. Team Members. In_addition_to these members of the Racquet Club the American team will contain the names of Sherman Hall, individual foil champion, 1912 1917-1918-1920; individual saber cham. pion, 1915-1916-1920; runner-up for Epee title in 1913 Hall was elected to the Olympic fencing team last year, but business prevented his going abroad. After a retirement of several years he has come back to len@ his sword and arm to Keeping the Robert M. Thompson trophy in the United States, which will be his sWa nsong as a competitor in this sport. Arthur S. Lyon. saber champion, 1917-1918-1919. member of the .Olym- pic team of 1920, is regarded as the Irading _three-weapon. femcer of the Tnited States. The other members of the Ameri- can team are: Chauncey McPherson, national saber champion 1921. « _Sergt John W. Dimond, member of the 1920 Olvmplc team, who has com- peted several times under the colors of the Washington Fencers' Club. y W. Dutcher, winner of junior cup, 1916; third in national individual Epee championship, 1919: national in. dividual Epee champion, 1920: mem- ber of Olympic_team, 1930. Willlam H. Ruseell—Captain Har- vard fencing team, 1916-191 New Englang/ foils champion. 1916, 1917 and 1 runner-up for Epee { tle When assistant { disposal | ‘ashington Fencers’ Club is one that§ | Harvard Defeat of Yale | Would Tie Up “Big Three” CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Novem- ber 14.—Should Harvard trinmph over Yale on the gridiro the , prece- in “Big Three” foot ball history will be brokes. The tri- angular series has ed in a triple tle, such he the case were Harvard, gone into its last | match undefented for the wea- i son has beem beatem by Har- vard. in 1916 and 1919; member of Epee: champlonship team, 1920. i Ensign E. G. Fullenwelder, U. S. 1 intercclleglate saber cham- r of Navy fencing member of Olympic team, Nominations for Competition. ‘The nominations for the different weapons_follo: Foils—Breckinridge, Hall cutt, Lyon, Rayner and Sears. Epee — Breckinridge., Honeycutt, Lyon, Rayner, Sears, Russell. Reserve —Dimond and Dutcher. Sabers—Hall, Lyon, McPherson, Par- ker. Fullenweider. Reserve—Dimond. Admissicn to the matches is by in. vitation. One hundred and fifty tick- ets for each night were placed at the of the Racquet Club and have been given out. e same number of tickets have been distributed to official Washing- ton and the diplomatic corps. The matches in two weapons will be fought in Washington and those in the third weapon will be fought in the grand ballroom of the Astor Ho- tel, New York, Monday, November 2 The foils competitions will be held at the Racquet Club in this city on the 18tn and the dueling sword on the 19th. The British team, consisting of most of the strong fencers in England, sail- ed November 5 on the Baltic and will arrive in New York November 15. They will work out at the New York Ahtietic Club until they: arrive in Washington for the matches. HOPPE AND SIX OTHER STARS IN CUE EVENT CHICAGO, November 14.—Balk line billiard players and fans from all parts of the country interested in the 18.2 cue game are here for the opening today of the first world championship tournament eld in sixteen years. ‘Willie Hoppe, champion since 1908, and challengers, representing thiree nations, will play.. Welker Coch- rane of San Francisco and Roger Conti of France will meet in the opening contest. Hoppe will come into action for the first time tomor- row, when he meets the loser of the Cochrane-Conti match. ‘Three matches are scheduled for each day after the opening event. Edouard Horemans, the Belgian and champion of Europe, will meet Or: Morningstar of San Diego, Calif., to- morrow, -and two Chicago entrants, Jake Schaefer, jr., and George Sut ton, will follow. After the Hoppe: Conti match tomorrow night, draw- ings for future contests will be made according to the results of play. —_——————— During the past hundred years, ever since the substitution of the cué for Honey- (fimmd’ Trip, Including War Tax). NEW YORK Army-Navy Game Saturday, November 26 the mace, the game of billiards has been played much in the same way as it is today, the chlef alterations being made in respect to the size of the balle and table. for -team weoring, points; with 351 Lafayetie . econd, 246 and Pean State third Truxton scored early. when Heard broke through the Quincy line for a 60-yard run to goal. He 'also boot- ed for the extra point. ¥rom then on, Quincy continually threatened . to score and.finally achleved a touch- down in the fourth period on & series of line plunges which ended with P: rella carrying the ball across., Probey missed the kick for a tie. Heard and Parella were the stars of the engagement. ‘They did the bulk of the ground-gaining for their ele ens and were exceptionally: strong 8 fenalvely. Sowers of Truxton and Probey also performed well for their eams. v | e L S Ty TURF STARS T0 RACE AT THE BOWIE TRACK Bon Homme, hero of the recent re- newal of the Pimlico autumn handi- cap, in which he defeated Copper Demon, the Maryland handicap win- ner, and Polly Ann: Exterminator, the long-distance champion. of the last three or four vears: racing; Boniface, winner of the Bowic cup, and Yellow. Hand, winner of the Scarsdale, York- town, Empire City and Saratoga han- dicaps~and the four-vear-old sensa- tlon of the current season'd sport, all are potential starters in the impend- ing inaugural of the $5,000 Thanks- giving handicap at Bowie. The Thanksgiving handicap, a race of a mile and titree-sixteenths for three- year-olds and over, will boone of the outstanding features of the November meeting at Bowle. which begins to- MOrrow to run through the 26th. The Bowie meeting will be the getaway session of tho eastern season cf 1 . Ron Homme will find himself on fa- miliar ground. At Bowle last fall the son of Sweep and Sue Smith bounced into racing spotlizht by winning in first-class company gt three-quarters of a mile and one Milc. His Bowie form of November was €0 impressive that he was talked of throughout the winter past as a Kentucky derby and Preakness stakes prospect. He fliv- vered badly in the &pring, but found his racing legs in October and won sprint_ races at Jamaica and finished second to Yellow Hand in the York-|2 14 to 0 clash. The losers negotiated town Bt Yonker only three first downs and never were Bon Homme appears 1o ‘be a genuine | dangerous. routé travelor. He revels in Bowle — ol Boyle! Brookiand Athletie Club nosed out Eolng whether it be wet or dry. Bon|x,val Hospital in a hotly contested Homme is tho most distinguished member of the powerful stable of Ed- BANNOCKBURN PUTTING TITLE TO J. T. HARRIS ward F. Simms, ‘which will race at The annual putting champlonship of Bowie under the management of James W. McClelland before going the Bannockburn Golf Club was won yesterday hy John T. Harris, who de- into winter . quartérs at Havre de Grace. The two-year-olds, Missionary, winner of the Manor handicap. at Laurel Park; Lucky Hours, the con- tender in the Maryland Futurity, and Prelude. will go to Prince Georges!feated E.-J. Doyle in the final round Park with Bon Homme. So will Light{by 1 up. Harris won his way to the unal round by defeating Capt. L. L. Steele, 3 and 2, while oyle reached that stage -through his defe: of H. Stonier, 4 and 3. Doyle won the quali- Rose and Vista. tying round with a score of 36. ~ Southwest Washington also had its introsectional struggle vesterday be- twéen the Southern Athletic Club and the Palace Athletic Club and the for- mer triumphed easlly, 41 to 0. Palace was completely outclagsed;, making only ‘three first downs and two of these were the results of forward passes. The losers never got within Southern's 25-vard line. The South- erns made thelr first touchdown b fore the game was thase minutes old and had their avnonen‘ on the go at all times thereafter. “Mercury Athletie Club was rudely surprised by the Virginfa Athletic Club in a 7-t0-0 engagewent. ‘The Al. exandrians shoved a touchdown across in the firet period, Chauncer carrying the ball. and held the Mercuries safe during the remainder of the fray. Arlington Athjetic Club was an easy proposition for the Dreadnaughts, who won, 49 to 0. The Big D's scored wlmost at will. Alexander and Ha son played brilliantly for the winners, Roamer Athletic Club completely outclassed the Seat Pleasant eleven in ellow Hand, like Bon Homme. “ln! & star of Bowie racing last fall. He is.in grand condition. Muddy track conditions prevented his_starting in the Pimlico cup renewal. Extecmi- nator and Boniface have yet to race at Prince Georges Park. Both are #ood mudders; hence they should like the going. RECEIPTS AT PIMLICO TODAY GO TO CHARITY November 14.—Pim- lico’s racing season. which ended last Saturday, was extended a.day for charity's sake 3 The net receipts this afternoon, in- cluding the track’s percentage in the betting, will be glven to the. Chil- dren's Aid Society of Baltimore county. BUSY FIGHT REFEREE. Joe Wallis of Sydney. New South Wales, has refereed nearly 4,000 con- tests, about 700 of which were of twenty rounds. Wallis is thirty-six vears of age and is a former pugi- list. He has been the third man in the ring for the last five years, of- ficiating two and three times a week. Sam Crawford’s heavy hitting and the fine pitchyng of Lo Tom Hughes were the outstanding fe: tures of the Los Angeles victory in the Pacific Coast League pennant - crowds of the season at Catholic University Ficld. 'touchdown was made in '8~ “'The ' 'Brooklanders' the first period by Stimpton, who intercepted a forward pass and ran 20 yards to goal.’ Cirele Athletic Club pointed the way to the Park View eleven in.a 7-to-0 ame. Hance, ‘'who “made (he-much-x own, and R. Bean played well for the winners, while Clark and Hamil- ton were best.of the losers. §t. Thereaa Preps and Naval Air Station fought to 8 0-0 score. but.the latter several tifmes threatened to croes the Prep goal. The defénsive work of Capper and Baxter held the Aviators at bay. % =z Trinity deteated Kamawha, 13 to 0, in' a_game that lasted only two periods. The Kanawhas did not take the fleld for the second half. A 90:yard rum to a touchdewn by Lerch four minutes before the final wlhilstle gave Liberty Athletic Club a 13-t0-6 victory over New York Ave- nue Athletic Club. Each eléven had scored in the first quarter. - Quentin Athletlc Club handed Stan- ton Athletic Club a 19-to-13 defeat on the Congress Heights gridiron. The Quentins made their ‘wianing score in the final period. Virginia Junlor eleven vanquished the Roscbuds, 20 to 6. The Virginians held their opponents scoreless until the last quarter. Eagle Athletic handed the,Lex- ingtons their first defeat of the sea- son in a 6-t0-0 game. The Lagles made their touchdown early. 0-0 match: b Athletle Club swamped Com- medce Athletic Club in a 33-to-1% mateh, Mohawk Juniors took the measure of the Leviathans in a 20-to-0 game. The sturdy play of the line and the geod running of Smithson featured the work of the Little Indians. NEW VORK, November 14—A mew American record for the 1 fiftee: ki I Plant Sets Walking Mark in Capturing “Met” Title | | e terday by William ingatde. Athletic: Club who megotiated the distance in 2.02.57 3-3, winuing the Metro- champion, fim , more than 400 yards behind Plant. | | | FoOT BALL FOR GIRLS RESULTS IN BROKEN LEG ST. CHARLES, Mo., November 14— A fracture of the left lez suffered by Miss Thelma Tobin of Texarkana, Ark., during foot ball practice at Lindenwocd ' College, a_school girls located near this city, has dis- closed that the gridiron game has been made part of the school's ath letic program since the beginning of the present term. - T, ‘ Uwifleitberfihfl‘?;odu&;alototyouw;n't- like it at all—that’s straight. El Producto sn’t “just a pretty d was never meant to be. It’s got ’s got a real Havana character that is distinctive. It’s for | 1 Ty Cobb Says Bonus Plan Will Help Cosst League SAN ' FRANCISCO, {BABE IS NOT 'y Oobb, Detroit manager, as a result of the declslon of the nwin winter league, “The agaresaive apirit is what. makes base ball and you will nee plenty of it om the coast next year,” Cobb declared. “Ball layers need am imcentive am new they have it here” GREB HAS"NO CHANCE 'T0 SIGN GIBBONS NOW BY TARBVAY: Each year the subject of 2 ball club NEW TORK, November 14.-—Harry | being lnmfid ln’th'e( Bmlg—«r-x borouné Greb, whose victory over Billy Snade| {1 GOt S% T < Re Come o be | was 165t in' the rush of an athletic{a city of magnitude—has been discussed | week end, intends to go hard after |by thoss who are anxious to become i olders of e sums whicl he-| e ' x e Rt t fifty there I o doubt that Greb deserves | Dasea ™ COFPOFations for the last ftteen years. the match and that if a fight were|" - held it would be one of the greatest Fleaty of Would-Be Moguls. this country evér saw, no one can| There are three men in the Bronx blame the St. Paul acrapper for held- | Who have dabbled In athletics of the ing ‘off untll after he meets the |professional kind who would like to get | Frenchman. into bess ball, They have two reasons Greb's only chance is to make such | for it. One of them Is to get patronage a campaign that the public would de- | Which they appear to think falls like mand a'Greb-Gibbons fight and would |apples from the trees in autumn, and be so peeved if it didn't get it that it |the other is to add to their personal wonuld not support a Gibbons-Car. |Popularity. They may eeck to become pentier battle. It would be a dim-|CONSTessmen or something egually con- cult thing to do, however, for Gih.|Spicueys through base ball affiliat bons' long knockout record of the) It 18 from this source that stomies| past vear has made a great impres- have been circulated about o_ppomllanl sion on the fans. Even if he has met) !0 the major leagues if Ruth is placed set-ups, he has knocked every one|iR chancery for his deliberate violation cold, and quickly at that: And every | Of Dase ball ruies this fall. follower of fighting knows thar aften |, TBt Ruth would draw in the Bronx a good fighters hardest ion. is o8 certain. He would draw anywhere tackle some rugged dub who ean take|in New York on Saturdays, Sundays a beating and has a wallos ¢ his|and holidays. It is doubtful whether | own. . the Bronx would bo worth anything undoubtedly w ; & on other days. It is a section of | B iomony beuld, Sive | Sreb (32| homes too far removed from the city chance and-there is no douot the ut.|48d Without spending money except traction would be cme nf_the at the end of the week. Base ball Rickard eould offer. has too many cities on its hands now (Covyeisnt, 1961 where spending money is confined to the end of the week. The other days = are a frost. Herman Whips Roy Moore. NEW YORK, November 14.—Pete Babe Ruth, was revived here first appearance on Broadway N There is not the slightest reason The talk coming out of Pittsburgh SPORTS. ete in International Fencing : Ruth Center of Third League Talk: TO BE PARTY TO PLAN Gossip of Another Big Circuit Revived With His Appearance on Broadway in Vaudeville. Idea Merely Annual Affair. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, November 14.—Talk of a new major league. built around; old story that crops up every year like a hardy annual, with the variations this year that base bail's greatest drawing ca¥d is made the central figure. BELIEVED today coincident with the slugger's? in his vaudeville act. It is the same to believe that the Babe has an idea, of flirting with a new lcague or that he would jump his present assign- ment _in event another circuit should be formed. But there are men in New York who would like to create that impression. 3 about a rival club probably is based on the old Bronx rumor. It has been up 50 often in New York that few pay any attentfon to it. When the Yankees get their park built and be- come established in the Bronx there may be an end to it. The chances are that it would be cheaper to buy out a New York base ball club than it would 1o start a new one in the Bronx, but there still are those who believe that a new league can be started. : Grounds can be obtained in Greater New York elsewhere than in the Bronx and the growth of the city's population in certain directions s be- ing watched very closely by those re figuring on the future of athletics here. en the fuct that the Giants won the championship last season, and that the Yankees were the runner o particular effect on promo- c they think there is room for another club. (Copyright, 1921.) MACKS SEEKING CAMP. MONTGOMERY. Ala, November 1: —The Montgomery Chamber of Coni: merce has an offer from a represent- ative of the Philadeiphia Americans to train here next spring. prop- osition will be given confideratiop ut an carly meeting. - Herman, New Orleans, former world bantamweight champion, received the judges' decision over Roy Moore of St. Paul in a fifteen-round bout here Satyrday night. It was Herman' first appearance since he lost his title to, Johnny Puft last September. DAY OF. FREDERICK BEST BATSMAN IN BLUE RIDGE Officlal Blue Ridge League base ball averages show Day of Frederick bat- ting .399 in forty-six games for the best mark among President Jamison's players. However, Goff of Hanover and Kimmick of Waynesboro played in double the number of contests en- gaged In by the Frederick slugger and batted for .384 and .381, re- spectively. King of Frederick showed the way to the other pitchers of the organiza- tion with twenty-three games won, eix lost and one tied. He was close- 1y pursued ‘for stellar honors by Clarke of Waynesboro, who wad right at his heels.” with twenty-five won, | seven lost and one tte contest. - Martinsburg led in club batting and Hanover in fielding, Frederick and ! Chambersburg being the runners-up. | ——— Ameriean bowling cony is to start at Toledo, Satisfactiorn or Money toyrney ‘ebruary 7. i i i | | \ good sort of u':.:oke" (Copy-ig] For Over 40 Ycars Guaranteed Refunded ht. 1921, House of Euppcuheiner.) got a real Havana bouquet that you can smell. All don’t like real Havana. Most do, but not all. But ithth;:erf&uymhhn,fied El l’roduc:fo':elend' army of El P?yu:hn%fl~"fl that isn’t just “I h* to Polo Grounds. 13th Tickets good going an all afternoon and night trains Friday, November 25, all morning trains Saturday, November 26. Good returning leaving New York on all trains fronr noon Saturday to gnd including 1:00 A.M. Monday, November 28. 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