Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1922, Page 31

SPORTS. California Suprem BEARS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPERIOR IN FAR WEST Kicking Game Basis of Coach Andy Smith’s Terrific Offensive—Graduate Coaching Systems Prove Flat Failure in Other Colleges. ORTLAND, Ore., November 30—Foot ball on the Pacific coast this season was notable chiefly for the overwhelming superiority of the University of California machine under the tutoring of Coach Andy Smith. Now that the gridiron season virtually is completed it is appar- :nt that no other cleven west oi Chicago is in the same class with the California Bears, who from beginning to end of the season have scored *asy victories over all opponents, finishing with a 28-t0-0 win over Stan- ord. The so-called “wonder team” of the Bears started the season with an 30-to-0 victory over the United States Marines of Mare Island, and con- sistently thereafter rolled up big scores over all opponents. Foot ball critics are unanimous that the California team is far superior and more inished in both attack and defense than last season, when practically the same team played Washington and Jefferson a scoreless tie. s BEZDFK DUF T0 REPLY | TOPHLS TOMORROW ’all - the Pacific northwest, defeating BY JOHN B. FOSTER. daho, Washington State College and he Oregon Agricultural Coliege by fairly NEW YORK, November 30.—Hugh Bezdek, when he went to Penn State tecisive scores, was humbled in easy as an athletic director, sald he was ashion by California, 45 to 7. The orthern huskies were wholly unable to through with professional base ball for geod. But tomorrow, when he olve the varied system of “screen” will h finished steering the Penn ilays which the Bears used. State’s eleven through the last game of a strenusus season, he will give the offer to become the manager of . timed to such a that It takes the Philadelphia Nationals his “un- ust 21-5 seconds by stop watch to get i divided attention.” Us kicks away from 12 yards behind i It is report o line of scrimmage. Nisbet can do | 1° 18 reported that Penn State has ot o botter mot ancs in el M ¢ | Shown such affection for Bezdek that ry time. He is a thoroughly con- |he would feel far more at home tent punter. From exhaustive ex- [amidst the growls of the Nittany 3iimenting Andy xnows the chance fOr {jion than amidst the roars of the qen an unimpeded Mneman to 2 4rough arnd block the kick are prac- | [ delphia ball fans. Many be- licve therefore that Bezdek will not €ally nil. In three ye Nisbet has Aly had three kicks blocked. Two of [go back to professional base ball in tose were in the opening practice game | which he was far less successful than 3 the recent seaso! he been in college sports. Knowing Nisbet's swiftness and ac-| His record as a coach for Penn sracy. Coach Smith instructs his te has given him a high rating fiesmen not to hold the opposingjamong college directors of sport, for ! fesmen, but to go right through and | he dled many other kinds of ath- dwn the field with the ends. The re- n foot ball, although his ~it Is that when Nisbet's punt comes reputation is based on_his iwn not only the ends but the two ‘ornia_this fall it is interesting to nof that Coach Andy Smith has his Bears Jlaying what he calls “percentage foot all On a rece! Jlained this by saving that tanding feature of the sches >t the opposing team carry tie S _own territory or in midfield. ifornia plays safe, presse game and waits fo Kickn Seldom Blocked. cking of his star punt- ith the sridiron game. Dur- ing the time he was with Pittsburgh {as manager of the Pirates he had only ordinary success and was cheer- ful rather than otherwise when he departed from that position. The offer made him by Philadelphia i> to iis without doubt flattering to Bezde ramain on the offersive and make jability, friends who have ble at alliwatched his work the other "he ends do not hava to do it alon: nd the receiver is tackled as often ¥y_the linesmen as by the ends. Some coaches teach their t ceep the ball as long as poss with Penn State with pleasure and appreciation inti- mate that in their belief college THE EVENING £ g NaTIORAL PrOTO * CARLT.THONER JACK ELavin ~ Halfback. MANY FOOT BALL GAMES | OF NOTE ON CARD TODAY C clashes with Pennsylvania The Ithacans, strong defensively and with a formidable running at- tack, led by Capt. Eddie Kaw, will enter the contest decided favorites, but the Quakers have had a habit of doing the unexpected this year. In other outstanding holiday games Virginia Military Institute and Pittsburgh is favored to take the|Virginia Polytechnic Institute at measure of Penn State; West Vir-| Roanoke will stage their annual con- ginia’s unbeaten cleven is conceded | test, with the latter the favorite. n even chance of victory against| Aiabama and Mississippi A. and M., Washington and Jefferson, while Col- | which tied last year, will play in gate hopes to score over Columbia. | Birmingham with prospects for the Vermont's strong eleven will figure | former to add another victory to its| ORNELL'S claim to eastern foot ball championship will undergo But Smith goes on just the | work is esgentially his forte as against ‘pposite tack—let the other feliow [the task of trying to handle a pro- 1ave the ball and tire himself out)fessional base ball team which must Tying to advance it in his own terri- |be rebuilt from the ground up. ory or near midfield and make it As an organizer, Bezdek has shown asy for him to get the ball by [ability on the same lines’ as Bill| mnting It to him on first or second { Roper. coach of the Princeton eleven. | Dwns. The Penn State mentor has not been “The kicking game isn't a defensive |50 _succe. X measure in my tem, but part of the!1921, but he had not the high qual ffense,” says Andy. “Fifteen yards|of foot ball material this fall rained’ on an hanse of puntsiwhich he was blessed a year ago. this year as he was in v th neans just as much to me as 15 yards alvance from scrimmage. In fact, 1; . mefer it, because every time thel oher other fellow tries to advance in in an intersectional struggle with De- | string. Kentucky, one of the few troit University. teams that have downed the Alabama Sy will go into its SAN FRANCISCO, November 30.— | g lle with an edge over Foot ball games in Seattle and Pasa- | Tennessee, which tied the Kentuck- dena today bring the Pacific coast|ians last year. conterence 1922 gridiron season to a| Centre's supporters look to-a com- close, | paratively easy triumph over Southl| The Seattle contest will decide the | Carolina. Maryland and North Caro- northwest conference title, with|line State, battling at Ralelgh, tied Oregon and Washington teams con-|last year and would appear evenly testing, while in the south the Uni- | matched again, while Tulane would versity of Southern Califopnia will seem to have the edge on Louisian play Washington State State. Callfornia closed its season last| ashington and Lee plays Johns Saturday, bringing to a close three|Hopkins in Baltimore. years of foot ball in which the Bears STAR, WASHINGTON, D. e on Coast Gridirons : Foot Ball Is Good Training for Youth 28 own territory he Is tiring himself a:d tiping off his best plays. Let him wwk. The more yvardage he can m.ke a safe distance away from my own goal lines the better I like it, be- caise every one of his drives is tak ing something out of him. Let Other Fellow Work. *31d you ever realize that the ratio of jenalties against the offense and defmse is about 15 to 1 in favor of ‘hedefense? And when a team has heball there always is that danger >f umbling, and one fumble on one olar may be the break of the entire zapne. Moreover, no team can scrim- -nage, scrimmage, scrimmage, without wering iiself out and gi 3 ts plays. The perce is all aguinst the team that plays a con “imal scrimmaging game. On dope. 20team can hope to advance the ball nere than 35 to 40 yards from icimmage. It gets about that far ml runs {nto a penalty that sets t back, or it fumbles, or the other m solves its attack and siops it so t it has to kick anyway. “I would rather let the other fellow take all those risks and wear himself wut while we are kicking and plaving afe and waiting for the breaks. Then 7hen we do get a breakdown in the emy’s territory we are fresh. our are still a secret and the ccess of our drive Graduate Coaching a Failure. Pacifio coast foot ball ever since the war has not shown the high standard thit marked the play of the coast tesms before that time. California’s elowen is the only team which has shwn real class. and critics almost umnimously ascribe this to poor qual- ity of coaching staffs. Prior to the -we the University of Oregon. under Cach Hugo Bezdek, now with Penn Stte; Washington, under Gilmour Do- b, now at Cornell, and Washington Sate College, under Dietz, turned out | 'sbvens rated as first-class. Today nne of the coast teams, outside of Qlifornia, possesses a coach of out- jmanding ability. Most of the schools % the Paclfic northwest have attempt- < the graduate-coaching system, with snsequent failure to put forth first- Ate teams. ‘There is talk now of returning to %e old system of obtaining coaches #om outside.. The chief fault of the duate-coaching system as seen on coast is that the men chosen have icked ablility to turn out teams rsed in all the finer points of the The teams lack finish, and the seemingly ntent to drill their charges in the rotyped plays which any good team n solve. Play this season has been ly lacking In variety and the es have usually been mediocre. “DONAHUE WILL REMAIN AS COACH AT AUBURN 'TLANTA, Ga., November 30.—Coach ke Donahue has withdrawn his resig- ‘ation as coach of the Auburn foot ball am and announced his intention of re- *‘l]l:n! with that institution. . = withdrawal was presented to dent Spright Dowell at a banquet n in honor of the Auburn squad by 1 of that institution here iast night. e FAIL TO FIND CHANCE. 10S ANGELES, Calif., November 30. —Frank Leroy Chance, formerly man- r of the Chicago Nationals and York Americans, could not be reached to confirm a report that he will be back in the big leagues next rear, when local sport writers credit Xdim with saying he will assume man- agement of the Boston American. STARTS RACING TODAY. 'NEW ORLEANS, November 30.—The ‘winter horse racing season will be in- augurated today at Shrewsbury, near New_ Orleans, under the auspices of the Jefferson Parish Fair Association. e races will continue at Shrews- until December 31, when they be transferred to the New Or- fair grounds, operated by the iess Men’s Racing Assoclation, "1’}. close Mardi G: ras day, Fel v | ! VANREES T TRY UT B LOT OF RECRUTS W YORK, November 30.—Fol- lowing the lead of the world's cham pions, the owners of the New York ican Leacue team have announced the namey of the new plavers who will go south in_the uniforms of the Yankees next spring. These are: Pitchers—Bill Dearman, left-hand- er. White Plains, N. Y.; Oscar oo tteer, Sioux Western' League, right-hander (drafted). Outfielders— Bernic F. Acton. Wilsen, N. C. {mont League): Elton Langford, Lub- !bock, West Texas League; | La Vallie, Worcestér (Aratted). —Ben_ Bendough, Buftalo. John Wigh:. Chattanooga. The recailed men are Neusel, from { Albany: Hinkey Haines, from Read- {ing, and C. D. Tucker, from New |leans. _all outfielders:” Gormley ison, SI vy, left-hand pitcher . Buffalo, right-hand pitcher, and Glenn Killinger, Jersey City, second baseman. i i Catcher Or- Wi y | the Auburn plainsmen Inflelder— | i ville, and Vanderbilt takes on Sewanee | Were not defeated. An Oregon vic- tory today would give the Eugene team a tie for first place in the con- ! ference race with the Bears. | East-west p eason games re- Imain on the western schedule. one Stanford plays Pittsburgh at Stanford December 30, and | State will meet a team to be named y the conference, at Pasadena New Year day. i By the Assoclated Press. ! ATLANTA, November 30, 11 right, ilet's go, the battle cry of the gridiron, will be heard for the last time this season today. Capt. “Red” Tech, one of the game's most spec- tacular halfbacks, will lead his team {into action for the last time agalnst in Atlanta. | North Carolina, one of &n unbeaten quartet, meets Virginia at Charlottes- in jashville. Vanderbilt on the strength of season performances should emerge victors over Sewanee land retain its place among the un- defeated, but the Tar Heels, although {Yavorites, are prorhised a more difi- cult task in subduing the sons of the ©Old Dominion. Penr: | Barron of Georgla bury b- ! in and MAJOR LEAGUE SEASON MAY OPEN ON APRIL 11 CHICAGO, November 30.—Opening of the major league base ball season will be definitely decided at the joint meeting of the American and National Leagues in New York next month, |President Johnson of the American {League, said last night. i Johnson said that he thought the {1923 season would open about the same time as a year ago—probably Wednesday, April 11. NEXT YEAR | N ing up to the Harvard and Y: more, if as much, against strong op 1t looks as though Princeton would WESTERN A. C. QUINT Western Athletic Club promises to|mouth and Harvard have not yet go far this season In basket ball. |hooked up for a late October engage- Playing as Peck Athletic Club last|ment the chances are favorable that winter, it ranked well up among the|they will. Or Cornell would be a | junior quints and this season aspires | valued opponent for Princeton at this to the title in that class. From what|time. The Ithacans, however, would {1t has shown so far, Western has an|probably demand a home-and-home { excellent chance to attain the goal.| agreement, and there are other diffi- It has been playing consistently good | culties in’ the way of an arrange- basket ball, }&!bnlght registering 11:; ment. fourth win in 'a row in & 0~ Other possibilities for the Tigers' game with Otis Athletic Club. fourth game are Penn State, Notre J. Gollan and Chaconas were heavy|Dame, Georgia Tech or some’ strong scorers for Western in the rout of the | gloven from another section. There Otis quint. The former counted 8ev- | is said to be & chance that Centre enteen times from the open court and | wil) come north to play Princeton Chaconas tossed twelve fleld goals |gome Saturday next fall, this en- Welliver played a good all-around|gaccrent taking the place of the an- game for the losers, but was not well | Ruet"er, “or 81" Rentuckians | to supported. Cambridge. Moline Athletic Club has canceled| yale comching (his season was its engagement-with the Rosedales|agequate, The team had enough and will tackle the Aloysius 110-| ;1355 ang facility in launching them pound team tomorrow night in Gon. Zaga gymnasium. Play will start at| 0, nave beaten Harvard by two 7:30 o'clock. Liberty Club has an engagement tonight in Ingram gymnasium with the Eastern Presbyterian five. Play Is to get under way promptly at i3 0, ge they had no outstanding star, 3 m;ehw 0;?\1 of :hr;lhnd, lex‘zfllhs Hilltop_basketers ran roughshod|o e oint and other gridiron over th?WenL ‘Washington quint in a|8eniuses who possess the ability to 39-to-7 game at Peck gymnasium.|Swing contests through their own Dornin _and O'Dea played stellar|efforts. Perhaps so. {games for the winners. Davis did coach can do much with an some valiant work for the defeated |eleven, but no mentor has the power quint. to teach a man to catch a punt and — wend his way through an entire Columbia tossers overcame the Cal-{ eleven, or to teach him to gain after vary Methodists, 31 to 6. The losers | his interference has diaintegrated. were outclassed in every department| And ability of that sort is born in a of the fray. In a preliminary match|boy, and happy—and usually vi the Columbia Reserves beat the Mar- | torfous—is the outfit that possesses delles,*32 to 11. an athlete thus favored by the gods. Yankee basketers, District cham-| Geergia Tech is golng to journey to plons, will open their season Satur-|the west next fall. She has clinched day against the Senecas of-Harris-|a date with Notre Dame at South Heddens, I‘:a.nzlley. S‘:lul:::.“ C'u- B-&a for Octah-rn:"l "";nfin:‘:"" .: ,= - Goet: bly will- or | rettirn engageme: Bk % Knute Rockne, “that the Yellow- closely for the past twenty years. What was lacking? Some say the divine spark. Others, more practical, say that the Elis fell down simply the Yankees. PRINCETON-CENTRE GAME BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, November 30.—Princeton, in looking forward to her 1923 schedule, will seek to arrange at least two hard games lead- “Have you noticed,” said William Roper, Princeton’s coach, “that in recent years when Princeton has been most successful her seasons have been extremely rigorous? The way to develop an eleven is to put it through the fire. In this way the men are hardened, and collective and in- dividual flaws are revealed. And I cannot see that players suffer an; KANSAS CITY, Mo., November 30.— Nebraska, undisputed Missouri valley champlon, plays Notre Dame at Lin- coln today. and, at Columbia, Missourl and Kansas meet in their thirty-first annual gam ' Notre Dame 1s conceded a slight edge over Nebraska. Both are pow- | erful scoring machines. Notre Dame; has tallled 217 points against 13 by | opponents. Nebraska has scored 262 against 22 by opposing teams. The Missouri-Kansas game has! back of it a traditional rivalry hardly | less noteworthy than have the Yale- | Harvard or Army-Navy classics. Since | 1891 the Jay Hawkers have defeated the Tigers seventeen times, lost to them nine times and tied four times. In_the thirty games Kansas scored 367 points and Missouri 181. This year Kansas is favored to wi; i One other conference game 1is| scheduled — Washington _ University | plays the Unlversity of Oklahoma at!| St. Louis. The Kansas Aggles have a non- conference game scheduled with Texas Christian University at Man- battan. Drake, Ames and Grinnell have onded their seasons. IS PROBABLE ale contests. position as against sloppy playing.” jackets will enjoy their visit to our town as much as we enjoyed our visit In Atlanta. We found the Georgians clean and game players of the sort that it is an honor to meet, and their treatment of us off the fleld was hos- vitality itselt.” In making up an all-American team this season the critic faces an un- precedented array of backfield ma- terial. Seldom in the history of the gridiron_ have there been S0 many stellar backs whose prowess clam- ored for recognition. It is pleasant to see the Virginia Military Institute following North Carolina from the southern seaboard to the far south. The Cadets will play Georgia Tech at Atlanta on October 8 next year, and all the dope is that they will present a 1923 aggregation hardly, if any, below the standard of the great 1920 team. (Copyright, 1922.) ROCK CREEK HUNT CLUB FOLLOWS HOUNDS TODAY More than two-score riders were ready to participate In the firat drag of the newly organized Rock Creek [ Hunt Club held this morning over the American University grounds. Willlam Downey was master of the hunt, and George Mullen, jr., and Ro- land Dawson, whips. Officers -of the club are Rodney L. Lyan, treasurer, and Dawson, sec tary. The ‘board of governors i cludes Thomas Bones, William Dor- d . Haszen, Joseph Henry, James D. Hobbs, Dawson and Mullen. A president will be chosen at a meet- ing to be held December 18. EMERSON ELEVEN BUSY. Emerson Institute's eleven is at Charlotte Hall, Md.,, today for a foot ball game with Charlotte Hall Acad- ‘'emy. The match will end the season for the locals. e ager Fair. C., THURSDAY CARL WIRTS - Center: MARINE ELEVEN COACH ADMAITS POWER OF FOE QUANTICO, Va., November 30.— Lieut J. W. Beckett, captain and coach of the Marine foot ball team, is one of the few men in the Quantico barracks who are not sure that his proteges will carry off the victory in Saturday's contest in Baltimore with the 3d Corps aggregation. “We have a fighting chance of tak- ing the game” s the strongest state. ment the coach of the so far unde- feated team will make with refercnce to the battle with the Doughhoys. “There’s no use in being optimistic when we know the Army has a bunch of former West Point stars in its line- up and we haven't a man who comes up‘dlo them as individual players,” he sald. He admitted that the smooth team lay his men have developed by play hg together for two seasons will par: tially offset the work of the Individ- ual stars on the Army eleven. He expressed the bellef, however, that such men as the 34 Corps backs can pile up considerable yardage without much team play. Other handicaps his aggregation is up against, he pointed out, are the extraordinary weight of the Army liné and the fact that Sergt. C. B. Kyle, his left end. has a sore ankle and may not be able fi) stand the strain long in the bat- o. Sure, the men around here are will- ing to put up money on the team, but they would do that if they knew it was going_ to lose just to show they were behind it,.Coach Beckett said. Wheather this statement will dampen the enthusiasm of the men to stake their money on their grid- iron representatives is a question which will only be decided after they are pald tomorrow. FOOT BALL W’S GIVEN SEVENTEEN AT WESTERN Sixteen players and the manager of the Western High School foot: ball team yesterday were give: hool letters. Those honored were Mitch- ell, Jeftress, Hannegan, M. Lamar, Welchel, David, Hageage, Dulin, Rob. inson, Stevens, De ‘W. Foley Thos utts, Capper, Cox, Hawkins and Man. The Westerners are end. Ing their season today with a game against Shepherd Normal College at Shepherdstown, W. Va. Lightwelght te players award- ed insignia yesterday were J. McKee, Beall, Cunningham, Carmich 3 McKee, Payne, Mitchell, Carr, Gich- ner, Martin, Simmonds and Stephene. Manager Frisby also was honored. G. U. CLASSES ON GRID. Elevens of the freshmen and sopho- more classes of Georgetown Univer- sity will meet in their annual foot ball game at American League Park, December 9. The freshmen have made quite & record for themselves this season, their most important triumph having been scored over Staunton Military Academy. 3D CORPS GRIDIRONERS REHEARSE THEIR PLAYS BALTIMORE, Md., November 30.— Running in the homestretch, the 3d Corps Area players at Fort Howard worked under the eyes of Coaches Whitehurst, Meacham and Harlan yesterday without being called on for the final spurt which will be asked of them Saturday at Venable Stadium, when they oppose the Marine phalanx. Scrimmaging is a thing of the past, for the tutors will take no chances of injuries to any member the squad, and a few of the veterans are in need of a little rest to put them on edge. Plays and formations now held alone for the Leathernecks were re- hearsed in detail and the backs had a long session handling the ball after passes and kicks. On the whole the work was good, but toward the end affairs began to drag. Quarterback Mack was absent on official business and Noyes and Vidal for a while ran the big eleven. Minor injuries are still keeping back lufle of the regulars from flashing complete efficlency, and as the day of the game approaches the coaches are wishing that they could report the squad as being in the best physical shape, instead of hoping that some star will be able to do his best in the tug-of-war. It is quite probable that Van de Graaff, the vengatile tackle, may put is some licks on the attack. He is a consistent carrier of the oval, can heave forward passes and kick with the best exponents of the boot. Opposing the husky Liversedge for the Marines, he may be kept quite = sy, but he reported in far better shape than the coaches had dared expect, and from the first day showed that he possessed plenty of reserve strength. —_— Royal Athletic Club_soccerists, who defeated the E'ir‘lllnl,‘“cilt! team 6 to 1, want games e junior class. enges to Manager H. 602 M street, NOVEMBER 30, 1922. 3D CORPS. No. Name. 32—Wicks ... 36—Ignico 30—Dillen ..... 19—Peck .........180 10—Mack ........178. 6—Schabacker ...170. 33—French .......150 37—Vidal . 5 Average weight of Army 206 3-5 pounds. pounds. How Marines and 3d Corps Will Line Up on Saturday field, 167 pounds; line, 198 Average weight of Marine team, 175 pounds; backfield, 167Y; pounds; line 1792-7 pounds; tackle-to-tackle, 188 3-5 Place of game—Venable stadium, Baltimore. N i One great element of success for a | foot ball team lies in the ability of {the players to assimilate the foot ball |instinct and knowledge. This leads to self-reliance and independence of | thought in critical and unexpected |events. A team must be trained to !think of foot ball situations with the same quickness and accuracy as are | called for in critical circumstanc which arise in after life. | Each player must be taught to make his decision and act in a cri cal moment without hesitation even though he may never have been call- led on to face that speclal crisis be- ifore. Ability so to think and act |cannot but be a tremendous asset in business success. Plenty of Liviag Examples. | The thought which occurred to the { writer, however, was not so much the arguments that might be advanced in support of the gridiron game as the living proofs of the good in it as demonstrated at the recent dinner at- tended by the twelve men who play- ed through the season of 1892 under the banner of Yale. It was on the I MARINES. .21—Oien .. .. 7—Payne . .23—McHenry .. .16—Beckett, Capt . 9—Skinner .... .. 8—McMains .. .. 5—Sanderson . .. 2—Palmer .... ..24—Geottge .... team, 1869-11 pounds; back- 2-7 pounds; tackle-to-tackle, SPORTS. Time of contest—2:30. Officials: Referee, Mike J. Thompson, Georgetown; umpire, Ed Thorpe, De La Salle Institute; head linesman, F. A. Godcharles, Lafayette; field judge, George Hoban, Dartmouth. ED THORP MAY REFEREE MOHAWK-MERCURY GAME W ITH their argument concerning a playing field ended by the se- lection of American League Park, Mohawks and Mercuries, who are to clash Sunday for the District independent foot ball cham- ionship, now are casting about for officials. Four are to be used for the ray and two of them probably will be Jack Nugent of Holy Cross and Tom Kirby, gridiron mentor of the champion Central High School eleven this year. In all likelihood Nugent will be umpire and Kirby linesman. More than half a dozen others are-being considered for the jobs of referee and field judge. Ed Thorp of New York may be procured as referee. He will be in this neighborhood Sunday, as he is to officiate at the Quan- tico Marines-3d Army Corps battle at Baltimore the preceding da: ‘The titular engagement promises much action. The Mohawks, present champions, have not been any too impressive in their recent contests, but the bellef prevails that they did not do any more than they had to against their opponents. s The challenging Mercuries hav been traveling at a speedy clip, but they have not encountered any team really in a class with the Indians. Those who have followed carefuily the playing of both elevens, however, consider them evenly matched and expect the ‘breaks” of the game to decide the issue. Members of the Washington Amerl- can Legion foot ball team will report to Manager Charles Swan tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock at Bpalding’s store, 613 14th street, ready to leave once for Atlanta. The locals will face a team of Georgia leglonaires in Atlanta Saturda: Royal Athletic Club, which tied the Yales, 6-6, is to play the Eagles Sunday. Other midget elevens desi ing games with th¢ Royals may write ut:n.:" Dave Silverman at 1206 6th stree sandlot tilts were afternoon, that be- tween the Roamers and the Mohawk Preps for the District 145-pound title heading the list. They were to clash at Union Park at 2:30 o'clock. At the same hour. 8t. Teresa Preps and the Quentins were to meet at Can- gress Heigh Southerns and Plerce at Washington barracks and Stantons and Seat Pleasant at Seat Pleasant. RICKARD OFFERS PLAN T0 DEVELOP FIGHTERS NEW YORK, November 30.—A box- ing innovation through which it is hoped to bring out hidden ability in the younger and lesser known pugl- 1lists is being. advocated by Tex Rick- ard, Madis Square Garden pro- moter. promoter has announced that jeeking the permission of the hletic commission to conduct series of eight five-round bouts be- tween aspiring boxers whose qual itles are not generally known b cause of their fallure to seture bouts at local clubs. Special permission is necessary, as the commission limits a club to one show a week. If the innovation is BSend | made, Rickard said, it would help to break up “the same old ring” eof ‘boxers. EACH PERSON AT GAME IS INSURED FOR $10,000 TOLEDO, Okio, November 30— An imsurance policy for §200,000~ | 000 to cover the erowd at the an- mual foot ball game betweea Scott and Waite High Schools here to- day was takem out by the faculty - managers of the two teami today. ‘The policy covers the life of ench spectator, 26,000 having purchased tickets for the game. Each is in- sured for $10,000. WEINERT IS FINISHED BY HANDS OF TUNNEY BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK. November 30.—Exit Charley Weinert ot Newark. The pul- chritudinous one from the far shores of Jersey has a long way to go be- fore he can again be seriously con- sidered in the light heavyweight di- vision. And its too bad, for Weinert has class, wnich he showed for about a round and a half at Madison Square Garden last night, when Gene Tunney, who 1 most as handsome as Char- ley, stopped the .latter short after 24 seconds of fighting in the fourth nd of what had been scheduled a fiff und go. It was a case of a clever man with prospects depending solely on those two things. Weinert had not trained conscientiously and for sufficient time to get out of his system the flabbiness and weakness of wind that come to the man whp burns the can- die at both ‘ends. Tunney, peering wisely ahead into the future, which showed him what would be in line for him In the event of a win over Weinert and a vietory from Harry Greb later next month, showed the, effects of the serious working outl he has been doing for many weeks. He was in grand physical shape. It| might hive been a real battle had ‘Weinert's condition been at top notch. | ‘The loseflr fl-;h‘ud showlily dtur;n‘ the first round and for a part of the sec- ond. Toward the end of the second and arly fn the third, however, he puff- ed lustily and winced noticeably every tjme Tunney socked him, which was very frequent. Tunney looks mighty good. His vic- tory was impressive. He was as busi- nesslike as a real estate agent work- ing his prospect up to the point of signing the contract. | SELF-RELIANCE IS AMONG ASSETS TAUGHT BY GAME Ability to Think Quickly Under Fire Is Another Les- son Learned That Should Prove Big Help in Business Career. BY WALTER CAMP. EW YORK, November 30.—The question as to how much gooa tne college man who plays foot ball gets out of the game as a founda- tion for his future career in the business world is always keealy | debated toward the end of a season. It is perfectly true that some few | —but very few—college foot ball stars have been badly spoiled by the adulation heaped on them by their admirers and by the great amount o: national publicity given them. But these cases have not been typical. The writer is inclined to the belief, after many years of close ot | servance of the game and of the young men who play it and have playec 1it in the past, that the good that comes from foot ball training far out- | balances whatever might be the bad features. eve of the Harvard-Yale game that these men got together. Every man who played on that fa- mous eleven which scored 413 points in thirteen games without being scored on by its opponents, including Harvard, Princeton and Pennsyivania, was present. There were representa- tives also of the wonderful 1891 Yals machine that rolled up 490 points anc blanked every opposing aggregation. and there was one member of the Elue eleven of 1588, which compiled the grand total of €98 po!nts and whitewashed every opponent. Those men were living examples of Wwhat a solid basis foot ball can give for the stern fights of the business anc professional world. There was Vance McCormick, captain of the 1892 team, whose success in business life and prominence In national politics is well known. Sitting next to him was Capt. Willlam H. Corbin of the 1888 eleven. The old captain of the 1891 eleven later became treasurer of the United States; McCormick was one of the most trusted members of the War Industries Board during the grea: war. The leader of the 1888 team later was tax commissioner ard the man_ who directed the 1909 eleven, which also went through the seasor. without being scored on, while fiselz scoring 209 points. is today the di- recting head of cne of the largest coal companies in the country. SECTIONAL SOCCER TITLE CONTEST CARDED MONDAY Pierce School of the Rosedale division and Brent School of the Garfield Park division will meet Monday in a game to decide the soccer championship of the Eastern division of the City Pub- lic Scholastic League. The winner then will encounter Monroe School, Western division leader, in a three- game series for city laurals. Pierce went to the final of the East- ern division yesterday by defeating Buchanan School of the Virginia Ave- nue division, 5 to 1. The losers never were dangerous after they had scored in the first minute of play. HARNESS HORSES BRING HIGH PRICES AT AUCTION NEW YORK. November 30.—A total of eighteen colts, most of them by Belwin, the premier 2:10 trotting sire of the year, brought the exceptional average of $1,743 at the second day of the old glory sale of light harness horses. The top price for the day was $7.000, paid by Thomas W. Murphy for Con- clave, a two-year-old son of Belwin Palmetto, two-year-old, with a pacing record of 2.07%, brought the secomé beat price. He went to Brook farm of Chester, N. Y., for $4,500. CONTI BEATS HOREMANS IN CUE PLAY, 1,800-1,489 NEW YORK, November 30.—Playing the last block of a series of six 300- point billiard matches, Roger Cont! of France last night won from Edouard Horemans of Belgium, 1,800 to 1,489, Coi grand average was €2 2-3¢ s was 5110-29. NAVY AND YALE TIE. ANNAPOLIS, November 30.—Navy and Yale soccer teams tied at twe points each yesterday in a game marked by good team work and the hardest kind of playing. Each scoreé a point in each half and darknese made a continuation of the contest impossible. THOMPSON WINS WITH CUE. Drew Thompson was credited witi 2 win In the pocket bliliard tourna- ment at Grand Central Academy laet night when Ralph Henshaw, his scheduled opponent, failed to appear for the match. In an exhibition con- test Thompson defeated Redmond Guy, 100 to 70. CUE STAR WINS EASILY. Clive Richmond and George Kelly were easily defeated by Joseph Con- cannon, New York state pocket bii- liard ' champion, in exhibition cue matches last night at the Palaoe Academy Richmond was downed 125 to 20, and Kelly, 100 to ¢1. —_— ROSENBERG VS. 0'DOWD. NEW YORK, November 30.—Dave Rosenberg of Brooklyn, designated by the New York state athletic com. mission as world’s middieweigh champion, will box Mike O'Dowad of St. Paul this afternoon in a fifteen- round contest in Brooklyn. O'Dowé formerly held the world's middle- weight title. —_— BOUT TO PAL MOORE. CHICAGO, November 30.—Pal i Horeman'| Moore of Memphis, Tenn., had a shade the better of Harold Smith, Chicago bantamwelght, in their ten-round xing match before an American Legion post last night. Moore weighed 116 pounds and Smith entered the ring at 117 pounds. ‘WILL HOLD CARNIVAL. CHAMPAIGN, Ill, November 30. Over 250 formal invitations to the sixth annual Illinois indoor relay car- nival to be held here Saturday, March 3, have been malled to all of the largest universities, colleges and prep schools in the country. LYNCH TO FIGHT SMITH. NEW YORK, November 30.—Joe Lynch, holder of the bantamweight title, will meet Midget Smith of New York in a champlionship match here on December 23, ———— Radiators and Fenders 10 DIFFERENT MAKES TORS. WITTSTATT'S R. and F, WORKS 319 13th. F. 6410. 1435 P’ M. 7443, BOWIE RACES November 18th to 30th SPECIAL TRAINS leave ‘White House station at 11:40, $165 Including Government Tax First Race 1:15 P.M.