Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 23

. SPORTS- - THE' E ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1921. SPORTS. 23 West Point Athletic System May Be Changed : Leonard and Britton Soon to Be Matched FOOT BALL COACHING DUE FOR SHAKE-UP, IT IS SAID| Daly to Go, Says One Report; Another States He Will Be Given Aid-Atlanta Paper Apologizes to G. U.—Bréwer Praised BY LAWRENCE PERRY. BEG.YA.PAROONM , BuT ARE YA WARM EMOUGH Tm‘s ENEMINT, MRS FLink? VLt YA WANT T, KimOA CHILLY I THS HALL ANt THOUGRT MmeEeeE YA — GIVE YA SOME MORE HEAT IF Our Janitor Rehearsing for the Annual Performance. YA Al T SWEET EnoucH, GUS ! MDW, DO (T AGAIM AN MAKE \T SOUND LIKE YA MEANT 1T ! YA GoTTa BE GOOO \F YA WANMT THEM HARD BolltED FOLKS T LOOSEM uP ot CHRISTMAS —By WEBSTER. janxms AND WRESTLING LEADERS FORM ALLIANCE NEW YORK, December 12.—Boxing managers and sport promoters of New York state have formed the Natiohal Sports Alliance, an organization de- signed to protect participants in, and further the growth of professional sports, especially boxing and wres- tling, and eventually to acquire juris- diction over all professional sports. Willlam _Gibson, manager of light- welght champion Benny Leonard, was elected president. “This organization,” Gibson _ex- plained, “is not to be a small clique, BOUT FOR WELTERWEIGHT: ‘CROWN NOW IN PROSPECT Politics in Gotham District Costing Promoters Money and Depriving Fans of Entertain- ment as Fighters Are Kept Idle. BY FAIR PLAY. R - i . E\WW Y E 271 V. v v - = e EW YORK, December 12.—Rumors are abroad today of impending but a representative body composed EW YORK, December 12—There was cvery indication today that 1 changes in the athletic management at West Point. One story U L P Billy Gibson and Dan Morgan, managers of Benny Leonard and indicates a general rearrangement, while another relates to the Charles Harvey, Edward Meade, Jack Brittton, respectively, wiil soon get together and sign up Daniel Morgan, Jack Curley, Leo|their meal tickets for a welterweight champicnship battle. The objec- foot ball coaching system. One report has it that Maj. Charles Daly will not be in charge of foot ball at the academy next season, but on the (acemn, Flynn, Daniel McKetrick and William Wellman, boxing magnates and pro- ey moters, and Benny Leonard were tions &f the Jersey authorities to this bout have simmered down to a mere matter of police arrangements. Chairman Doherty and his commission- other hand, it is rumored that he will remain at West Point, but will have the assistance of a field coach who has not heretofore been asso- | ciated with Army gridiron affairs. Harvard, with a smaller s‘adi\ll\:!.\lnr)‘ nd. The inclement conditions than Yale or Princeton, and vet i |prevailing over most sections of the larger demand for tickets than éither, | €ast on Thanksgiving day will be % in a bad way. This fall she was|recalled. Yet in Baltimore! on that; ble to minodate only 28,000 Har- | day two drop kicks of Brewens elected to the board of governors. The organization announced it would lay plans for its operations at a_meeting next week. Charles A. White, former secretary of the box- e i N e—— ers now say that if the promoter who runs tite fight can promise adequate police protection, they will sanction the bout, and not otherwise. I3 Fme X e box-| The whole thing has a political McKay and Black will adjust their ng commission, who was name: ~ | smell. ver in New e cKay o vi i retary, said the constitution had been 7 BmO:;; SR f‘:“:”}‘d Dave McKay, differences with the police magnates drawn with the idea of its being ac-, = 'I'“ k, who holds the armory |of Newark. There is a possibility of ceptable to the American Federation |privilege in that city. can’t put on|this. of Labor if the alliance ever decided |the championship welter vard undergraduates. umni and |served to tie up the North Carolina c 1 < bout be-| Leonard’s manager says that all their families. Yale's allotment was|game, 6 to 6. North Carolina had) . to affiliate with the union. | cause, according to reports. they are that stands in the way of Leonard's 23,000. When it is realized that Har- | scored a touchdown on a forward ° _— {not on good terms with the police | fighting fifteen rounds to a decision Sard more than 6000 students|pass in the first quarter. Maryland, | commissioner of the Jersey metrop- in New York is Tex Rickard. If any and 70,000 alumni the intricacies of | in the second perlod, after a fine |olis. This means no police, protec- |one will open a rival club, says Gib- the problem with which the athletic |advance to the Tarheels' 35-yard | tion for the fight, and without the as- son, Leonard will defend his tite 1SS0 ion_has to deal is apparent. | mark, the gridiron a sea of mud and | sistance of the police any promoter against any one at a month’s notice. This year 5000 Harvard men had to | water, sent young Brewer to the 12- would be foolish to risk his money Gibson's grudge against Rickard is H vard line. spot on which he stood was normally second base of! De content with one ticket Denied Lot of Enjoyment. on a battle of the sort. Ma some | costing Tex money, as Leonard ranks other Jersey promoters will fa with Dempsey as the biggest draw- |ter. In fact, there is reason to be-|ing card in pugilism. But it is cost- -_——m—m M e T s ; the Baltimore Orioles’ ball grounds. | et ith e “bi% Vovember | The mud was two inches deep; thel {lieve that they will. Either that or{ing the champion money, t0o. s was denied hem. - in fact, the | PIESKIR 0S4 O heaver PITTSBURGH. December 12.—The into a pool of water. Yet a heavy, mud-coated ball went over the bar from that 42-yard mark with the speed and accuracy of a bullet. Send Apology to G. U. United States Amateur Hockey Asso-! clation expects to get its season un- der way the second week fn January. it was said here by William S. Hay dock, president of the organization. Ti. A, A. recognized this in its offer to buy back that one ticket in case the Lolder did not wish to go to the game lone. And after all, what is the big me to the average g or under- Their Qua'ity has w:peJ out ad Without the thrills that attach| The story sent out from Atlanta Three groups are provided for in the the ~1xg*hszul and l:i‘\dm'zm;l cere-|{that H. C. Byrd had made charges | present Dlz;ns. T;:vu le;nnsk(r(m:’ Bos- e B - 4 2 5 mony o orting to the stadium in |against the eligibility of certain ton. one from New York and one p. brown fall the one and only | Georgetown University players has from Philadelphia will make up "ce |s | on ln re BEY. e P .| been finally and definitely refuted. sroup one. One solution would be for the big| Bqwin Camp, managing editor of the Four teams from Boston have been three elevens to play two games with | Atlanta Georgian, in which Byrd's entered in_ the elimination series. A.. Westminster, ose and P’ere Marquette K. of C. These are the B. A. Me wne another in the course of Novem- | : Chg fre s alleged charges first_appeared. has ber—the Yale game at Harvard to be | \oritten a letter to Vincent §. Moo I oI O amuand) the | Donough, director of athletics at Group “two will ‘be composed of | enara Same Al N enaven to be|Georgetown, repudiating and disa- | Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St. Paul and S S : W | Yowing the article which one of his Duluth. g Sl reporters wrote. The article had _Group three will made up of Eveleth, Houghton, Sault Ste Marie, Mich., and possibly Calumet. It is intended to finish all group se- ries by March 1 in order to allow group winners to play off and deter- mine the, organization's champion- 1 ship team.’ Efforts will also be made, it was said, to play a series with the Canadian champions at the close of the American season. [ — CITY SOCCERISTS DEFEAT BRITISH EMBASSY TEAM Washington Soccer Club's eleven did not vary from its habit of trouncing the British embassy team vesterday in the soccer game played lon the Potomac Park field. defeating . {the overseas kickers, 3 goals to 1. Brewer of Maryland Praised. been declared utterly false in a resi- My friend Parke Davis. in setting |lution pased by the southern inter- forth the extraordinary plays of the | collegiate conference, during whose ioot ball scascn, s overlooked | sessions the charges were alleged to Brooks Brewer of ‘the University of ' have been made. BOYNTON’S 45-YARD PASS BEATS THORPE’S ELEVEN INNY BOYNTON, member of Walter Camp’s all-American squad last vear, yesterday demonstrated to more than 5.000 foot ball devotees gathered at American League Park just why he was so honored BEECH NUT CIGARETTES | 4{ T i " Copmieht. 1901, M. 7. Wobws. B by the sage of the gridiron. Playing with the Senators against Jimi e i hErddaoEnt Shut 3 n Thorpe’s Cleveland Tigers, erstwhile Williams College quarterback = : : Eo 3 Y t l.‘ I bul I ke u‘e ' ran ll;rm;\g:'l:l and about H;c op{)u]sitiou. !passed and punted in pleasing style |COLLEGES MAY REVOLT \'r\gume l‘)‘:cs':“i:f"?”'y-mm“. Bffnihnl)f::mficc ?t (:“V:‘(M LCalilly was the star of the cit ou can e P | mi ar CK E saults of the westerners. N . TR ya 1 s i —1The am, b o i 5 AGAINST ONE-YEAR RULE Kumagae, 2 member of the Japanese Aero Club has definitely decided that|gave the locals their third point. Then came the decisive 30-yard mark. forward pass. Jim Thorpe, considered one of the |1 s n and the | greatest of foot ball players of all time, latter continue h vards 10| got into the game—broken ribs and all— nd goal. Boynton made it|j, the fourth period, but his injuries ay by booting the point that|forced him to perform carefully. The professionals a 7 to 0! Tiger leader attempted a placement kick from the 46-yard line, but the ball iled low and wide. Pete Calac, ex~ Carlisle gridman, put up a stellar game X to a_day of great just two minutes before . shot a_forward pass running \ hi As a fitting clim i Bovd scored for the Eritons. PR Bob Higgins. all-American end sev- el eral yvears ago. will return as coach | place probably at the begiuning of of the West Virginia Wesleyan foot October. ball team next fall. CHATTA.{O0GA, Tenn. December |Davis cup team, will sail today for| Geneva shall be the starting place for The faculty of the University of | home, after three years in this coun- | the 1922 balloon race for the Gordon Chattanooga will meet today to decide | T¥: Hg eXpects to return mext sum- | Bennett trophy. The event will take whether or not it can stay in the S. I. ! would challenge for the Davis cup in A. A: under the anti-freshman rule |19: adopted at Birmingham. It is believed | that the University would probably secede. Bl rillondts (o \ Benny 1 20 for I5¢ vards to_th Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today? ngton was outplayed by Cleve- and had it not been for Boynton's i-around performance and Walson's | for the Tigers, as did Whelan, end. s 1 . - Cloxe Daily 6 P.M, Open Saturday Until 9 P.M. generally dashing play it is doubtful [wag of all-Amesican caliber while: ay| 1t was turther indicated that this | y if_a home victory would have been|Georgetown. Jack Sullivan played a | Movement would be joined by other scored. The Tigers outrushed the Sen-|slashing game for the Senators. until fcolleges in this territory and that a -~ You Ca.'l ators, making ten first downs to the locals’ four, all of the latter being the sult of overhead attack. The visitors excelled at punting. Joe Guyon, ormer Georgia Tech star.’ mastering Boynton in that department of the game. Cleveland made several long drives, but seriously threatened the Senators® once. That was near the end cond quarter, when a mixed and_overheard offensive ad- Tigers to the 6-yard line. ut pe cost them 2 yards and on the next play a forward pass was zrounded for a touchback. Washing- as the half-time whistle new athletic association would be compelled to retire in the third period formed independent of the S. I ‘A. A. with a bad v injured jaw. Dress Smartly For the Holidays At Small Cost \A Established 1893 At the Sign of the Moon A Sales Offering %, FOR WOMEN FASHIONED | | OVERCOAT ' ton punted jus shrilled Play was spirited at all times. but ngton generally was on the de- - Late in the fourth quarter, the a sprint_off le for 20 yards. In the next play, the Tigers ~recovered a Washington fumble and began an ad- vanes. They, too, were butter-fingered and Washinzton regained the ball on its CORNELL AND G. U. NINES | TO PLAY HERE APRIL 10 ITHACA, N. 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