Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1922, Page 25

S PORTS. GAME, ONCE ONLY FILLAN, NOW IS A LEADING SPORT Gets on Equal Footing With Play in Other Parts of Country—Twenty-five or Thirty Teams to: Compete in Atlanta Tourney. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. NE of the marvels of the pres O ent epoch of intercollegiate sport has been the growth of basket ball throughout the south. A few years ago the game was played, to be sure, but not in a very scientific manner, and interest in the sport was by no means deep. It was looked upon as a mere exoedient to keep ti he undergraduate mind and body oc- cupied between the end of the foot ball season and the time when athletes could go out on the diamond. Now, it is anything but a stop-gap. It is a sovereign game in the south, as el Indeed, basket ball experts from Whatever sectjon are likely enough to be greatly impressed by the character of play in the southern tournament. involving some twenty-five or thirty college and club fives, which begins at Atlanta on February 25 and con- tinues five days. Already through- out the south much of that interest which is shown in the events of a foot bail season is being manifes ¢ 1 in_the tournament. Whatever may be the opinions as to basket ball. no critic of the game can deny its claims to rating as an cxact sport. It is a game in which the elements of skill and of system far outwelgh the factor of luck. In the early days of basket ball this was not the case, but now the team that expects to win its fair share of vic- tories must recognize formula and adhere to method. = Proponents of physical exercise in the oudoors hold a brief against bas- ket ball inasmuch as it calls for work under high pressure in gymnasiums. steam-heated and dusty and crowded with spectators. There is ground for argument of the sort. Undoubtedly the game would be more beneficidl for those who play it could it be held in the open. The difficuity is that the sport was devised for the very pur- pose of providing outlet for the com- petitive spirit in the inclement months of winter season. And it is now serving this purpose in scope and manner far beyond the dreams of those who were pioneers in the sport not €0 many years ago. ICETITLETO M'GOWAN; RECORD SET BY STAFF SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., February 17.—Everett McGowan of St. Paul, won the American professional out- door skating championship title from Arthur ff of Chicago yesterday. MoGowan scored 170 points in the three-day meet and Staff scored 160. Edmund Lamy of Saranac_Lake, fin- ished third with 100, and Bobby Mec- Lean of Chicago., scored fifty. Tn winning the three-quarter mile race in 2 minutes 2 1-5 seconds Staff established a new world record, clip- ping off two seconds from the time made by Lamy at Cleveland in 1910, when the Saranac Lake veteran w: an amateur. Staff won the 220- with McGowan second and Lamy third. McGowan won the five-mile race, with Lamy second, while McLean was nharldlfflng Staff's hopes by taking thi; GRIDMAN BADLY INJURED * INAUBURN CLASS GAME MONTGOMERY, Ala., February 17. ~—Ralph Boyd, twenty years old. st dent at the Alabama Polytechnic In- stitute, sustained dangerous internal injuries in a class game of foot ball at Auburn. He was brought to a hospital here. Little hope is held eut for his recovery. . 621 Pa. Ave. = Steres ia Washington . sewhere throughout the country. COACH HARVARD CREWS BY MECHANICAL DEVICE CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 17. ~—Mechanical coaching has been augurated for Harvard oarsmen, The device is composed of several bars operating an oar blade, ar- ranged to show proper and improp- er methods of rowing. Coach Haines said that he believed the ,-erl-.ll- would correct many de- ects. ISCHOOL QUINTS AGTIVE; VA. FROSH AT CENTRAL Scholastic floor quints are to be unusually active this week end, three games being scheduled for them to- day and four tomorrow. Thig after- noon Central High School, which was defeated, 35 to 21, by the Princeton University freshmen last night, will meet the University of Virginia freshmen in the Mount Pleasant gym nasium, opening play at 3:15 o'cloc Western will tackle the Georgetown University Preps and St. John's ex- gecls to encounter the Blue Ridge ve. Tech’'s engagement with Charlotte Hall is the omly one billed for a local floor tomorrow. These teams are to meet at the Central Y. M. C. A. at ¢ o'clock. Army and Navy Preps are to go to Port Deposit,” Md., for a match with Tome. St. and Gonzaga have games in Baltimore, the former with Calvert Hall and the I streeters with Loyola. Central was rather easy for the Tiger Cubs. The Blue and White led at the end of the first quarter, but period and never were in the running thereafter. Jimmy Lemon, former Central athletic star, played an ex- cellent game at forward for the Princeton team. Birthright and Buckley did well for the losers, COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Georgetown—Georgetown, 28; Bucknell, 23. At _Brookland—Catholie Untversity, 32; Marietta, 18, At_Greenville, S. C.—~Furman, 30; Citadel, 20. At Newberry, 8. C~=Newberry, 34; | South Carolina, 17, At Lansing—Michigan Aggies, 30; Notre Dame, 24." At Clinton, S. C.—Presbyterian, 32; | Charleston, 10, ; AT Atfnth, Gar—Xtlahta A, €., 86: Trinity, 19. :.-——c-- Benning, At Colus 32; Oglethorpe, 1 At Richmond, Va—~Richmond U., 243 | Lynchburg Coliege, 19. - At _Emmittal M | Marys, 38; S¢. Johm's, 1 At New Brunswick, ) field, 43; Rutgers, * Every good style included in patterns that are the season’s newest weave. Many of the suits are correct weight for spring wear—all sizes. Our Greatest Sale—Your Greatest Opportunity—DON’T MISS IT!1? WONDE “Who Do As They lost their advantage in the second _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. / (., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1922. Basket Ball Has Boomed in South : Dempsey Likely to Fight at Benton Harbor in Spring CANOE RACING REPLACES BASE BALL IN OLYMPICS By the Assoclated Press. mational ‘base ball connection with APProV the ‘would be ed. PLAY ST. TERESA streets south at 7:30 o'clock. Dominicans, playing_on th rows, 23 to 165. Baltimere Y. W. C. A. and Webster School sextets will night in the Palace court. start at 9:30 o'clock. Athleti Palace. be held. St. Pauls, 20 to 12. goals for the winners. Eastern Preps defeated grams, 43 to ed a good pa: ng game. Epiphany Juniors won their twen- ght game in & 16-t tilt with the Warwicks. Two bas! by McDonald decided the issue. ty-sixth stra Emerald AthieticClub Navy Yard Marines, 16 to 12. starred for th nners. Stlents were val c 137 was best of the victors. Park View Roamer Reserves, 30 to 20. ners were strong at floor play. Baltimore De Molays defeated the hat order, 26 to A last-minute basket accounted Washington team of 24. for the triumph. Terminal R. R. Y. M. C. A. feated for the first time thi in a 23-to-19 game with the Faber played brilliantly for the vic- tors. Grace Athletic Club surprised the -to-18 Aloysius quint in & The contest was hard-fought all the way. Rosedale easily triumphed the winners was a feature. Apaches mosed omt the Navy Yard Alma Newman scored to 20. girls, for the Indians. 2 heavily Grace Reserves added to their vic- tory string at the expense of the Washington Arrows in a 34-to-31 en- gagement. WASHINGTON DOGS AT WESTMINSTER f the four Washingtonians ho had. in_the forty-sixth an- ‘who had entri nual dog sho Kennel Club at of the New York three Airedales, Berks Boun low, Botrks Buckshot. class, fourth in the puppy (bitch) S. J. Held, 1439 T streef Boston terrier, District winner of his breed in dogs, District Queen was second American bred bitches. HALF PRICE For Final Closing Out Tomorrow We Place On Sale This Special Lot of "SUITS AND " OVERCOATS That Sold to $45.00 N.W. Corner 14th & N. Y. Ave. DOMINICAN BASKETERS Dominican Lyceum basketers visit St, Teresa. ‘lzllll lhll l:!h and V onight for game with St Teresa Athletia Club fives The big team match will follow that| ¢ between the ressrve quints -;:nlns n floor, defeated the Washington Ar- Palace Club will play . Grace Athletic Club Sunday A preliminary betw Langdon Cubs and the Warwi Premier Athletie Club downed the Sklar made five The Easterne! tal o 34, by the Arlingtons. Clar! overcame the Emagons, 23 to 15. The pa ‘estminster éhll Wnal ibited prize winners. eorge 8. :Jxlillohll.. l!lnfi M street, exhibited his Berks Billy the Bounder and ‘The first-named won fourth prize in the puppy (dog) while the second-named was Clothes Shops N Francisco, FVE will in the early BShade has the eir home Marjorie t to- Play will st the the will Green, Catholic University, over Marietta last night, will enter- tain Bucknell, beginning play at 7 Kendall gton and Gallaudet are to clash second time this winter, They will start at 8. ed its home season last night by beat- ing Bucknell, 28 to 22. eleventh straight victory for the Hill- In- o'clock. At Washi for th ots beat the Walker | '2RPer Jack met David in Portland, Ore., about a year ago and he remembers the occasion. but arose to fight his way ‘through the remainder of the ten rounds. the contest wap adjudged a draw. transferred his punching activities rom the west coast to His aggressiveness has carried him to victory in & majority of his bouts. Britton_has't been very active in the last yuar, excepting in a serfe COLLEGE TOSSERS END WEEK'S GAMES TONIGHT College basket ball will have final inning here this week in engag: ments tonight at Brookland and Ken- of bouts with He was floored once sessions of that scrap, | ing hide and been had succees since he w. X the east. ks, ago Just turning its Three of .Americi letes will compef In the former 2-t0-15 victor and 29. Greén George Le Gendre and Georgetown conclu & victory. It was the gram. lesser lights. say he hasn’t the punch nor the shiftiness that marked his bouts of several years ago, when he was play- ek for the champion- ship with Ted “Kid” Le Tonight's bout, in one respect, has likened to the Zbyzsko-Cad- dock wrestling match Stanislzus, plon, nearing the fifty mark in years defended his title against Caddock, twenty-eight. dock was good and aggressive, but Stanislaus still has the LEGENDRE T0 COMPETE. IN PENTATHTLON EVENT PHILADELPHL court | tathlen championship &t the the title. February Y in the coll SHADE WILL BEAT BRITTON |?0 IF YOUTH IS TO BE SERVED EW YORK, February 17.—Jack Britton, who was whipping first-rate pugilists before’Dave Shade of California ever heard of a boxing glove, will defend his world welterweight title against the young- ster in a fifteen-round decision match here tonight. It is said that the champion, because of his age—he is thirty-seven— has started to slip, and that he will not be able to withstand the assaults of the nincteen-year-old lad from the family of fighting Shades of San They of several Cad- lege pen- University of Pennsylvania relay earnival April 28 . They are Le Gendre of George- town University, -Hamilton, University of Missouri and Reinartz, Muhlenberg. Hamilton have met twice in this event, each having scored A new selay class for technical col- leges has been added to this year's pro- Carnegie Tech, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic and Brooklyn {the Royals a decisive defeat LLS 1,771 AT TENPINS IN 7 GAMES, A RECORD CLEVELAND, Ohio, Kebruary A werla bowling rec- ord s believed to have been ex- tablished here last night, when Marien McDowell rolled a total of 1771 for seven games in & wpe- elal ‘match with Billy Hess, an average of §3 pimx. He rolled 370 in the last game. WASHINGTON BOWLERS WILL INVADE ROANOKE Led by Majordomoé Henry Tait Ro- dier and Capt. Pop Halley. the Royal bowling team will leave Washington in the wee sma’ hours tomorrow morn- ing Roanoke bound. In' the Virginia cily tomorrow afternoon it will take the drives against the Palace rollers in the Aifth annual duckpin match be- tween repregentatives of the District and the Old Dominion. The contest will be thé rubber one, fach team hav- ing two series victoriés to its credit. The al line-up will inciude Al Works, Andy Goddard, Hal Supplee, Glen Wolstenholme and Harry Krauss. Roanoke probably will depend upon +McLain, Cather, Brown, Stonebreaker fand Hi arris, the combination that gave last winter. Among the rooters who will accom- pany the Royals will be Dr. E. Clyde Shade, Dr. Thomas Rice, Dr. Thomas Utz, Dr. Weakley, Curtis Lamson, Sal- vador Oliveri, Anthony Schuman and John FI: e quint will visit Wash- ington March 6. Twe importamt matches are to be bowled tonight at the Sherman alleys. Harmony and Washington Centennial quints of the Masonic league and Royals and Blicks of the District League are to dispose ‘of postponed engagements. They will take the drives at 10 o'clock. If arrangements can be perfected, a JACK WILLING TO BATTLE , BEFORE GOING TO EUROPE ' o SPORTS N Michigan Governor Is Agreeable If Promoter Fitf- simmons Picks Suitable Foe for Champion— Brennan BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, February 17—Out of the middle west today there came a bird song, and its refrain was all about Floyd Fitzsimmons and Benton Harbor, Mich. Floyd, that wily and indomitable promoter of near-championship battles, according to rumor, is going to hook up Dempsey for a fight, before Jack’s departure for Europe, which iz now scheduled for early in May. Jack and Floyd are great pals. champion has never shown the slighte he could to put money into the promoter’s pocket. So now, it appears, Jack has slipped word to Fitz that he will fight for him if a bout can be staged just as soon s it is warm enough to exercise out | of doors. Fitzsimmons already has | gone to Gov. Grosbeck of Michigan | and it is said has word that if a prop- er opponent for Dempsey can be named why there will be no objection | to a bout. is city from Chicago to prepare for his coming bout against Willie Jackson. Out in Chicago the fans believe that| White has it in him to take on Benny Leonard and they would dig deep to Since the governor sanctioned ™illy Miske as an opponent for Dempsey a couple of years ago, there seems no | good reason why he should balk over | some such a nominee as Bill Brennan. | 1n fact, rumors indicate that Brennan the man Floyd is after. Charley Wi ite has arrived Is Probable Choice. in fact, the hesitation in doiug everything 'PONY AiDS CUBAN FOUR TO DEFEAT AMERICANS MIAMI Fla, February 17—A drive that glameed from o peny’s hoof registered the wi in the wecond of the i polo matches yesterday, Army four defeating Club of Miami Be: he game went the freak score the tenth. Miami Beach won fhe tennis | doubles match from Havana, when Calder and Adams defeated Villol- ba and Zayas, 6—3, 6—4t and 6—4. The Cuban track team defeated the Miami Beach aggregation. | weriods, | made tn | in this see the two lightwelghts in action. As | good enough to extend any of them fo this easterns will have a better and the boy that beats him decisively line after the Jackson fight. is not a champion, but he is plenty Willie | is automatically in line for a crack at he title. nquished, %la dash and Ohioans, bl;l ‘!hr.s latter fought gamely, their Lynch and Fasce led the attack of the home team in brilllant man Be. tween them they contributed six fleld goals to the Brookland total. liminary between the Catholic Univer- freshmen and Eastern High School ended with the former win- ning, 28 to 186. At Ryan gymnasium Bucknell gave the Hilltoppers a good battle. George- town quickly went to the fore at the outset, but the Pennsylvanians rallied and at half time held a 14-to-13 ad- Georgetown, however, came into its own in the second session, making six scrimmage ¢ the visitors. Flavin and Schmitt, Hill- top forwards, played well. and Dayhoff were best of the Buck- despite ‘The win- sity was de- ason Roamers. vantage. ame. over the | nell squad. ing of 9, 10 and 11, will compete. SCORE SHOW chair and h: ding Bil- class. with his ors, Wa while hi: among 1 13 e —_—,—,— e A tta’s basketers, weakened by a succession of were no match for the Brooklanders. Catholic University opened play with ATTRACTS TITLE QUINTS. INDIANAPOLIS, February 17.—Ar- rangements making the first national intercollegiate basket tournament, to be played here March been completed. Championship teags from six sections of the United States Cripples in Bowling Match. . CHICAGO, Fel pled men were to meet a chauffeurs' team in & bowling match tonight. One | Appleby of New York, natiopal cham- om a wheel | pion, defeated his broth Applyby, 300 to 208. a high run of 96. of the cripples bowls fr - trenuous road games, spirit that dazed the|and 45 grammar institutions. physical weariness. of Toledo. A pre- timore, s to one by Bunting DISTRICT CUEISTS PLAY AT BALTIMORE TONIGHT ‘Washington and Baltimore cuelsts will meet at Klein's Academy, in Bal tonight In the second 400 point block of their 1,200-point inter- city 18.2 balkline billiard match. The Baltimoreans will open play with a 400 to 380 advantage gained over the Washington_team in the matua in- augural at Sherman’s last Monday. In tonight's engagement Howard Crook of Baltimore will shoot a Allen Thurman. and C. H, Polytechnic alressly have entered teams. and others are expected. Entries to date include 81 colloges, 102 high schools, 44 preparatory schools schools, a total of 272 Among the high schools is the Scott k of the Marylanders -will encounter Ralph Rowles, nual ball an assured event have ranking member of the ‘Washington team. ———— COLLINS AND E. APPLEBY SCORE IN BILLIARD PLAY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., February17. —Percy N. Collins of Chicago ll.!t, night won his second match in the | international amateur class balk-line billiard tournament, defeat- ing J. E. Cope Morton of Philadelphia Five crip- 1300 to 185. averaged 150 in several | Every Mdde Street Suit and Overcoat None reserved—every single, solitary one remaining ?f the Fall and Winter stock is subject to your selection at this A ‘The 18-2 In the afternoon game Edgar T. ncis S. inner had Last Call for Clearance ‘Of course, we have marked prices lower than ever before to bring this clearance to a conclusion—but we’re getting there. Everybody knows Mode qualities—and appreciates them. 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