Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1922, Page 26

Collegiate Body Tightens Grip : Spread of Freshman Rule Seen as Big Advance STUDENTS MAY LOSE ALL PART IN SPORT CONTROL Question Whether It Is Wise to Rob Underg‘l'a(iuales of Benefits Derived From Administration and Organization of Athletics. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N EW YORK, December 27.—Coaches in the various branches of inter- collegiate sport, physical directors and faculty men who are in- terested in athletics are arriving in this city today from all parts of the country to attend the National Collegiate Athletic Association conves- tion and various conferences associated therewith. Since the greatest of all college games is foot ball, a great deal of interest naturally centers upon what those who see bencath the surface of will be said about the game. But to things foot ball and every other sub- ject will be subordinated to a study of just what progress the N. C. A. A. has made in the past twelve months in the direction of gaining control of intercollegiate sport. This is the aim of the organization and probably it is its destiny. Every sign seems to indicate that eventually college sport will be con- trolled in all its ramifications by this body. The prevailing opinion will be that a development of the sort is highly - desirable. But there is thoughtful minority -ho are wonder ing whether or not in the end the complete elimination of student con- trol in intercollegiate sport will pe found to have justified the aims of those who brought it about. May Not Be Wine Course. In institutions devoted to education of youth is it logical to withhold from students these opportunities for administration. for organization and for broad contacts that intercollegiate athletic relations offer so abundant- 1y? This, at least. is one of the questions ced by the thoughtful few who have marked with regret that ever-increasing tendency to eliminate undergraduates from all save active participation in the great college sports. As the situation now respect to the N. C. A. A. it has no executive function. It ‘may merely discuss. récommend and criticise. A fine influence, beyond doubt, and per- somally the writer is not convinced that its attainment of some measure of authority would serve any end other than a beneflcial one. So far as foot ball rules are con- cerned. it will be grasped that the National Association has no authority to change them. And neither have the foot ball coaches, whosSe meeting at the Hotel Astor will be held as a sort of adjunct to the convention. The right to alter the playing code of the gridiron game is vested in the rules committee, which will meet in February. None the less. it is lkely that there will be forwarded | to this committee various sugges- tions in the way of changes—few, if any, of which will be acted upon. Belleve Game In Standardized. The rules committee takes thel stand that foot ball at the present time is approaching _standardized form, that the flavor of sectionalism has been pretty completely elim- inated, thereby making of the grid- iron sport a game that is plaved along national lines. One suggestion that probably will be forwarded from this week's con- vention to the rules committee re- lates to the relegation of coaches from the side lines to the siands. What will come of it no one knows; probably nothing. Then there wiii "o representations from .those who oppose rules which make of fumbling such a calamity to the butter-fingered team. Nothing is likely to be done about this, either. it might be suggested in this con- nection that the way to reduce {um-' stands with bling to an approximate minimum is to have a less highly polished and slippery foot ball How far a college might go in| employing its foot ball eleven as a producer of funds for needs of the institution is given some point by the present enterprise of the Pennsyl- vania State team ‘The Nittany outfit, as all know, will meet the versity of Southern Cali- fornia eleven on New Year day in the annual gridiron feature of the tournament of roses at Pasadena. It is estimated that state will re- celve some $20,000 for playing. This sum will be turned into the fund now | process of collection which will be used for the construction of greatly needed college buildings. Specifical the money earned at he applied to the building of a new | training house. ‘Any one who has visited Pennsyl- vania State realizes the inadequacy the. inconveniences of the presen frame track houses whero athletes make their headquarters. Modern intercollegiate foot ball has come to be an enormous earner. The big three universities now talk in terms of half a million dollars as the gross earnings for a season and everywhere throughout the country proceeds from the autumn sport have fattened beyond dreams. ‘What shail be done about it? Shall the earning capacity of the gridiron game be openly accepted by our seats of learning and the sports definitely applied to economic problems? Or shall it be so conducted as to remain merely a sport with no significance other than the diversion and benefit it ylelds to those who play and watch it? A serious question. (Copyright, 1922.) NAVY, DESPE LOSSES, EXPELTSCLEVERCREW ‘There are some twenty young men in the rowing squad at the Naval Academy. much of the same general type of those who made up the splen- did crews of the last three years, who are determined that the standards of that period shall not be lowered. They insist that they will confound those who think that the golden era of Navy rowing is over. » Only one of these, Harry Bolles, the ‘vaptain, has rowed on the varsity be- fore, as seven of the regulars were taken by the graduation of last year’'s class, but there is a wealth of fine ma- terial in the junior crews, and there will be no_difficulty in assembling a crew which will be as heavy and strong as that of last year. The oars- manship of the next Navy crew is, of course, a different matter., but the material is not inexperienced. A few have rowed for three seasons, and all have had either one or two years previous experience. It is believed that Coach Richard Glendon, jr., has much of the knack of his father in plckin“ | GIANTS SELECT MARLIN parsman and in placing them in the boat. Glendon will have two crews from which to draw. He will have all of his second and plebe crews of last year. The second crew lost only to the Princeton varsity, which it met in the Henleys, while the plebés went through thé season without defeat. Thelsecond crew men available sre: Kirkpatrick, Dahlgren, Walsh, Stro- hecker, Kendall, Davidson, Clexton and ‘Washburn. The plebes ar Clyde, Compton, Zuber, King, Chillingworth, Powell, Bell and Mitchell. Welker and De Wolf are two unusually powerful men on the third crew who may find places in the varsity this year, while Labert has been picked fro. class as a most promi: oars; These twenty, including Bolles, man. for the coming . ‘The raval crew will row neither in the Henleys nor at Poughkeepsie this seagon, but will row Harvard Princeton on Lake Carnegie on May 5. Its he will University of Pennsy! , April 21; Massachusetts Tech., April 33; Syracuse, May 19. Columbia may Also row at Annapolis on May 12, Fe— the fourth | INEW ROWING STROKE BEING USED AT YALE An entirely different system of ropr- ing, with a new stroke, is being in- stalled at Yale by Edward Leader, the new coach, and the Elis' rowing au- thorities are watching the work with great interest. Leader, a suyccessful coach at the University of Washing- ton before he went to New Haven, is running things with a free hand. He has discarded the old modified Engilsh stroke, has substituted one of his own, and, in short, is building from the bottom up. Yale’s new stroke has a great deal more leg drive in it, something on the order of the strictly American stroke which Jim Rice teaches at Columbia. This makes necessary a longer slide, the power is applied more steadily and the catch is sharp and firm. It is a long stroke, and, ac- cording tn‘c(xn(‘rls who have watched it, not as Wearing on the oarsmen as the old Yale style was. 2 The work of changing Yale's system inside out began at Derby and in New Haven harbor this fall, and it has been progressing slowly but steadily ever since. According to the Yale News the moit important feature of the rowing re- vival is the fact that full powers have been granted to Leader. The feeling among the athletic authorities is that the old division of authority must go and that the differences which once existed among the assistant coaches must be forgotten. From now on the freshman crew and all the varsity eights will be grounded in the same stroke, and Yale expects thareby to save much time and energy and also test out its wealth of matarial in a more thorough fashion. Leader was the coach of the Wash- ington crew which created such a sen- sation at Poughkeensie last June, giv- ing the powerful Navy eight a terrific battle for first place. His theories of oarsmanship differ, of course, from the general technique followed In the east and differ even more from what Yale has been accustomed to, but the Elis have told him to take plenty of time for his work, and there is an abundance of confidence in him at New Haven. Down the Alleys ‘Washington Ladies’ League is one of the few organizatiens bowling this week and last night pulled a double- header on account of a postponement. Billie’s team won the odd game from the Post Office Department with scores 463, 441 and 454. High game went to Eula White of the depart- ment, who toppled over 110 pins, and the high set was registered by Pauline Thomas of the winners, her thrée games totaling 288. ¢ The second match was rolled by the Columbians and Sales Tax, the former winning two out of three with the scores, 412, 438 and 436. Esther Honkala won all the honors with high set of 295 and high game, 108. ot the Terminal “¥” Car Baul League, had an casy time grabbing|s three games as the Baggagemen NEW YANKEE-RED SOX | BO TRADE NOW IS BREWING; NEW YORK, December 37.—A trade Wi by Norman' McMillan, youthful th baseman for the New York ees, would be sent to the Boston L e for Shano Col- foe or Herb ,Pennock, was sald to have been the subject of » conference erday between Ed Barrow, busin manager for the Yankees, and Harry Frasee, owner of the Red Sox. The two were unable to reach an agreement, but may get toy hexla later on the proposition, it wi E Yankees have released, under op- tiondl agreement, Glenn -Killinger, infleldtr, to the Atlanta club of the Southern Association, and Gormer Wilson, southpaw pitcher, to 'the Bridgeport club of the Eastern League. Killinger, former gridiron star at Penn_State College and an all-Amer- ican ‘backfleld choice in 1921, was re- called by -the Yankees at the end of last season from the Jersey Clty club of the International League. WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT OF CLUB, McGRAW SAYS NEW YORK, December 27.—John J. McGraw, manager of the world champion New York Giants, asserts there is no truth in reports that he is considering accepting the presi- dency of the club-and retiring from the active management. McGraw admitted President Charles A. Stoneham recently had asked him whether he would be willlng to ac- cept the presiddncy, but he sald he had not taken the question seriously and that he did not believe Mr. Stone- ham had put it seriously. HAVANA, December 27.—Charles A. Stoneham denied that he is consid- ering or had considered resigning from the presidency of the National Exhibition Company. owners of the New York Giants, in favor of John J. McGraw. WESTERN OVERWHELMS HYATTSVILLE HIGH FIVE Western High School's basket ball team, which is to play the High School quint at Annapolis Saturday, got in some good practice for that match yesterday In game at Hy- attsville. The High School tossers of the Mayland suburb were completely outclassed and defeated, 35 to 4. Coach Green used ten Western boys in the fray. Dulin, at forward, starred. Hannegan, a guard, played a good floor game. B circles here. The Birdmen aspirations a rude jolt recently, and LLING FIELD QUINTET 'SURPRISES COLLEGIANS OLLING FIELD AVIATORS, given scant consideration prior to the start of the basket ball season, now are flying high in court game gave the Mohawks’ championship last night they took the measure of the highly-touted Washington Collegians. After that, the Birdmen believe they can trim ’em all and are ready to attempt it. They are anxious to arrange Monday, Friday and Saturday games after January 3 with teams possessing courts. All challenges will be reccived by Irwin G. Shetsline at Bollin, before 3. 1923 ARMY-NAVY GAME SOUGHT BY BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, December 27— Mayor Willlam F. Broening hea ed a delegation of Baltimore busi- mess men which left for Philadel- phia this moraing to advance the efforts toward bringing the Army- Navy foot ball game to this city mext fall. 3 The delegation will attend the conferemce between representa- tives of the West Point Military Academy d Naval Academy at letic associations, this afternoo: The laying agreement for the annual interservice ga: and the place and date for the 1923 com- test are to be comsidered at the conference. OFFICIALS ARE CHOSEN FOR EAST-WEST CLASH PASADENA, Calif., December 27.— Officials who will handle the tourna- ment of roses east vs. west foot ball contest between Penn State and the University Southern California ave been approved by the coaches | of both elevens, it became known to- day. ‘They are: Vardnell of Spokane. Wash., formerly a foot ball player at Chicago University: Tom Thorp of New York, formerly at Columbia; Jack Wells of Los Angeles, formerly an Occident College plaver, and C. J. ~“cCarthy, whose college affiliations were not stated in the announcement. Both the Penn State and U. S. C. teams are here and practice will be held by each every day at the Rose bowl. Field, Anacostia, or over telephone, Lincoln 5887, branch 21, p.m. or branch 37‘thereafter. | The Birdmen beat the Collegians, 37 | to 24, with good floor play and much {accurate pussing and shooting by |the left forward, Hunsicker. This | 115-pounder was all about the court, {and broke through the Collegian de- {fense often enough to count twelve goals from scrimmage. He also made good with three of four tosses from the foul line. Fort Humphreys basketers over- came the District National Guards- men, 27 to 10. Shaffer of the winners and Howard of the vanquished each tossed five goals from the open court. [ Federal Athletic Club wants games |in the 95-100-pound class. All chal- | | | | lenges may be telephoned to Colum- bia 5950 after 6 p.m. Quiney Athictie Club, which has won | five games in a row, goes to Alexan- | dria tonight to face the Light Infan- | try quint. The match will take place !in’ the Royal street armory. Epiphany Eagles downed the Semi- | noles in a 31-to-20 engagement. The | Eagles surpassed the Seminoles in ! team play, but Hendryx, a member of | the latter’ team, was the star of the | fray. A meeting of ther American Legion basket ball team will be held tonight at Bpalding’s store, 613 14th street. All candidates for the quint are to report at 7:30 o'clock. | Alossinn Club's Big Five will en- {counter the New York Tourists, a | speedy professional guintet, Saturday night, at Central Coliseum. * | Kanawha tossers are to report at | Central Coliseum tomorrow night at 7 o'clock for a practice session. Peck Athletic Club basketers de- feated the Argyles, 26 to 7. Frenzell and Robinson of the winners each | made four field goals. Mardelle Athletic Club’s 110-pound | te: wants action with teams pos- sessing gymnasiums. Send challenges | to Manager Hermann Witt, 1503 Sth \;(reel, or telephone North 2441 after p.m. ISSIS D T | BY “BIG THREE” PACT CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December 27. —Harvard is at a disadvantage to Yale and Princeton by the terms of their “big three” agreement regulat- ing participation® in sport, says the unnamed Harvard alumnus who con- duots the column “From a Graduate' Window” In the current issue of the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine. The rule prohibiting a transfer stu- dent from particlpating in a sport in which he has represented another col lege handicaps Harvard, he says, a serting that “there is no doubt that more students transfer each year from other colleges to Harvard than to either Yale or Princeton. “Governmental inquisition, regula- tion and prohibition are getting to be the bane of American life,” he add: “Are they to become the bane of <ol- lege life also? If it is necessary to resort to such m:thods in order to insure the absolute purity of inter- collegiate sport, one may ask whether the absolute purity of intercollegiate sport is an end so important of at- tainment.” ——— RED CROSS LIFE-SAVING STANDARDS ARE ADOPTED NEW YORK, December 27.—Life- saving standards recommended by the American Red Cross yesterday were adopted by the American Swim- ming Assoclation at its annual meet- ng. Edgar S. Martin, representing the Boy Scouts of America,, was elected president of the swimming associa- tion for 1923. Other officers’ names included: Vice president, Capt. Fred C. Mills of the Red Cross; secretary, Willlam H. Ball of the New York Y. M. C. A.. and treasurer, Andrew Wil- son of the National Collegiate A. A. The association named a committee to study swimming pools for the pur- pose of establishing standardized and improved conditions for tank aquat- ics. This committee is composed of Willlam H. Ball of New York, chair- man; Commodore W. E. Longfellow of Washington, F. W. Luehring of Minneapolis and Dr, George J. Fisher of New York, —_— Anacestia Eagles hope to run their | consecutive victory streak to eight games tonight, when they encouater the Yankee Reserves. Friday the Eagles will go to Indlan Head to play the Lackey High School quint. Teams | desiring matches with the Anacostia |n:grz(nt\on may telephone Manager Charles Hopkins at Lincoln 4552 be- tween 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. GRIDIRON COACHES AGREE IT IS FEATURE OF YEAR Indiana Conference Among Latest to Adopt Ruling and Many “Outlaw Schools” Get in Line—Grid Stars Collegiate Leaders. BY WALTER CAMP. N EW YORK, December 27.—As the coun;ry's most noted mentors gathered today to attend the annual meeting of the American Foot Ball Coaches’ Association here this afternoon and evening, they were practically gnanimous in saying that the most important feature of progress in the year’s intercollegiate athletic circles has been the spread of the freshmen one-year eligibility regulation. The Indiana conference as adopted this rule, and many former “out- law schools” have also come into the fold. The latest addition is the University of Detroit. U S. WILL SEND TEAM T0 GAMES IN SWEDEN NEW YORK, December 27.—An American track and fleld team will compete in the Swedish international athletic games at Gothenburg next summer. Considerable importance attaches to the date finally selected for the meet. The United States would be able to send a larger team If the Swedish A. A. could shift the date from July 1 to 8 to the following week sug- gested by the A. A. U. 1f this concession were made the TUnited States would send an athletic team of about twelve, in addition to at least three of the country’s lead- ing swimmers. The American team then would be augmented by some members of the combined Harvard- Yale team which will meet the Ox ford-Cambridge squad in an interna- tional intercollegiate track meet at .lyhe Queen’s Club, London, early in uly. The schedule follows: Lawn tennis, covered courts, May 8-18; golf, June, 13-17; track athletics, July 1-8; motorings, July, 1-15; swim- ming, July 5-8; lawn tennis, open courts, July 5-1 wrestling, July 6-8; bicycling, July 8; foot ball, July 9-15; yachting, canoeing and rowing, July 11-16. WAHOO SAM field fences with more peppe F done to the modern “Jackrabbit” pretty. Old Pop Time is having a diffi Samuel to the barber chair. legs were havin, climate did for, them out for Los Angeles. In 1921 Angels and finished with a rating Sam was a conspicuous member of one of the most biffing outflelds which ever assembled—Bobbie Veae Ty Cohb and Sam Crawford ‘of Detroit Tigers. Those las could kick up quite a bit of disturbance during an_after- noon. Before Veach came to Detroit Cobb and Crawford had a pretty good act of their own. Ty would get on the base and Sam would knock him home. On July 8, 1899, Crawford broke In with the Columbus club of the Western League, the forerunner of the American League, with which league Sam played his greatest base ball. He then was only nineteen. Two months later he got his real big league start with the Cincinnati Red= and immediately pro- ceeded to let the old twelve-club Na- tional League know that he was in the circuit. He broke in with the Reds on September 10, 1899, and gathered in flve hits_during the course of a double- header. To show this was no mistake, Sam hit safely in his first eleven Na. ional League games before he was a lot of difficulty stopped, i *'Sam stuck with the Reds until the end % slugging tonsorial artist from Nebraska. ever, that Sam didn’t come up a decade later. baseball would have been something E i Sam left the American League i knocking around major league diamonds for nineteen years. CRAWFORD COULD PASTE THAT PILL EW batsmen who ever lived ‘could “paste” a ball against the right r than Wahoo Sam Crawford, the It was too bad, how- What he would have cult time of it in returning Wahoo 1917, after The old in standing up, but what California am is a story in itself. At forty-two he still is slapping he took part in 175 games for. the of .318. | with the American League. jumping to | Detroit. He remained in Henry Ford's | balliwick for fifteen years. Crawford never led the American or National League, but he hit over .300 in eleven big league seasons out of nine- teen. Thrice in his career he scored over 100 runs. and jn 1911 he cracked out | over 200 hi When playing cegularly | Crawford seldom was out of the line-up | with an injury in fifteen successive | years, from 1901 to 1915, inclusive, \he Wwas at bat 523 or more times. | e ranks fifth among the players who | took part in the greatest number of suc- . ceselve games, as he played in 472 | successive games from April 10, 1913. to | April 18, 1916. Only_Scott, Pinckne: Luderus and Eddie Collins had longi | records. | Crawford ranks third among the bats- : men who have hit for over 4.000 bases during their major league careers. The first flve plavers in this department | rank as follows: =Wagner, Cobb, Craw- | ford. Lajoie, Beckley. “Cap” Anson also would be in this class but for the fact that total base records were not failed to show up and forfeited theh‘ygt the 1902 season, when he cast his lot | kept in the early years of the league. match. City Post Office and Internal Rev- enue take the alleys tonight. Three matches were pulled off in the Veterans’ Bureau League, on the Recreation alleys last night. Aoc- counting Division won two out of three from Fourth District; District Office swept the decks, taking all three games, as the gagemen Divislon, each of their trio of totals being close to the 500 mark, and In- surance Division grabbed the odd game from the Supplies. > A handicap mateh is being arranged for tomorrow night a week at the King Pin alleys, between the home team and the Hilltoppers, of the ‘Washington Ladies’ League. "0~ moters of the match, are trying to figure out a plan that will put the quints on an equal basis. Estate Tax of the Internal Revenue League, did the clean-up act last night, Prohibition being the victim. Scores of victors were 434, 525 and 506. Drake of the winners had the high set, 338. —_— CONSOLIDATION OF TWO LEAGUES IS PROPOSED FLINT, Mich., December 27.—Con- solidation of the Michigan-Ontario and Central base ball leagues was under discussion at a meeting here to- day of club owners and directors of both circuits. The Central League operated as a purely Michigan - circuit during- the past season, while the Michigan-On tarlo League includes four cities in Canada. One or more cities in each league are reported to have finished the season In financial difficulties. Should the proposed merger fail, the Central League may be reorgan- ized to include several Ohio or In- diana cities. Two Canadian cities are said to wish t6 dispose of their Michigan-Ontario franchises. ~ AS CAMP FOR BOXMEN NEW_ YORK. December 27.—The New York Giants’ entire pitching squad will report February 22 at lin, Tex., for training preliminary a | to establishment of the regular camp thel first week in March at San An- tonio. The squad, consisting of about six- 3“" hurlers, will be in charge n{lA. : 80 will accompany the squad, e of whom, McGraw said, will o probably be J. F. Casey, former member of the nan. | Detroft and Washington American be the hope of Naval Academy rowln‘l season. ! ) gue Clubs, who now is living at Wakefleld, Mass. \ GUN CLUB DINES. " ‘Washington Gun Club members wili enjoy a wild duck dinner this even- ing at the City Club. They- are to gather at the board ‘at 6: lock. The club’s annual meeting will fol- Tow. SAMUEL E. CRAWFORD'S MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. Year. Club. £ G. A.B. R. H. T.B. S.B. Pet. 1898 Columbus-Grand Raplds American. 60 261 468 87 139 3 .334 1899 Cimcinnati 31 127 25 39 57 3 308 1900 Cimcinnati 96 385 67 104 173 15 .270 1901 Cimeinnati 124 523 89 173 277 12 334 1902 Cimcinnati S 140 555 84 183 256 15 .333 1903 Detroit 187 545 93 181 266 23 .332 1904 180 571 46 141 192 20 247 1905 Detreit 154 575 73 171 259 22 3297 . 1906 Dotroit 143 563 63 168 227 24 .295 | 1907 Detroit 144 582 102 188 208 18 .323 1908 Detroit 183 691 102 184 270 13 311 1t 156 56S9 83 185 266 30 314 154 588 S$3 170 249 20 289 146 574 109 217 302 37 378 149 581 81 189 273 41 323 153 616 78 193 288 13 .316 157 582 74 183 281 23 314 156 613 81 183 264 24 299 100 322 41 92 129 10 .258 61 104 6 18 =® 0 .a73 teeaenes.. 2,565 9,840 1,425 3,051 4,473 370 .310 t, 1922.) | - Correct Rule - BY ED UMPING.—The principal ele- ments in the jump are a com- bination of starting at the right time and an ability to spring from a'position with the bent knees. The first is a matter of judgment and experience, the second of much practice. Some officials throw the ball up- very quickly, others are deliberate and slow. Study:of the referee will' aid in outjumping an opponent. Being ready when the jump is to be made will help much. A fraction of a second-in timing may give a decided advantage. It his opponent has any peculiarities of style or any weakness, a 'player should -try to find them. If he is slow he can be caught napping on his - preparation. - Many _players croucl Itookmuch 1;:@ unkmgt the jump. .It takes too,long: get_up ,andv!he sacrifice judgment of time to height of spring. .Others jump from g position in.which the knees are ng bent enough. Try out dif- ferentSpositions, find the one from which - you can_ best jump. Then keep-practicing from that. See that the:arm add hand are styaxsm,,when you tap-the ball. Tap it, don’t try to slap. it. e TS ——— Puieh o b speuins game 6 open here ':flho'wnuu S'l'-'tq. 'Mq League; defeating Clevelahd, 4 t0-0. Tips on Playing Basket Ball; Interpretations THORP. Q. If the manager of a team coaches from the side lines during the prog- ress of a game, who is charged with the foul? ; A. In amateur rules the captain of offending _team is charged with a technical foul. Q. If a player kicks ball what is the penalty? opponent out of bounds. In profes- sional rules it is a fonl. Q. Under the new amateur rules if & player is'fouled within the 17-foot goal zone without ball, is the penalty one or two foul tries? 5 A. If the offend player is on the offensive team the\ pemalty is two tries; if on the defensive team, one try. ! Q. In amateur game can either cen- ter catch the ball after it has been Ne changes in this year's this piay. +Q. Is time taken out in amateur rules when a personal foul calls for two free tries? E A. Ne. 11 there are any of basket ’]-2 or hk‘: Sm. you, write Bd Thorp, care o{ the Bport- ing l’duorx’.uhduh' atam; k"mnd on- velope. give a o L T e e . TWO GAMES FOR LEWIS. ‘Willie Lewls, Philadelphia pocket billiardist appearing. in 'exhibitions the Pickwick Academy, will play against L. A.: Dickerson and Frank Kelleher In ‘matches last night Lew), at W, M. Smale, 100 to 54, and James Caras, 100 to 75, 5 5*“ about tlls’ game s rules ] 75 MILES AN HOUR MADE BY MISS AMERICA IN TEST Ci if.. December ‘world cham- peed siven its first trial spin off Los Angeles harbor yesterdny by its owner, Garfleld A. Wood of Detroit. Mich., ts here December 28, 29 It wns unofficially timed at sev- enty-fve miles an hour for a di tance of thirty miles. This is saf 10 be fuster than any boat has ever traveled on the Pacific ocean. Ralph de Palma, automobile race driver, rode with Commodore Wood during the speed trials. Todny the Mins Detroit VI, an- other of Wood's boats, will be given 1tx first dip In the water. LITTLE LESSONS FOR THE GOLFER By George O’Neil. How wonderfully the mind con- trols the golt shot mever cam be understood by the golfer until he tries this experiment: Address your Get set for the shot, say a Fix_your eye on one spot on the back of the hall. Say to Yourself that right there is where you are to hit it. Then rehearse your mind that you are to hold your head still. “You are mot to press. You are to atiffen the left leg_as you come down. You are to follow through before you lift eyes. Now, having fixed these positive and definite things for the mind to do, let it g0 at that —and pi th your shot. Remember, if you _introduce another thing fanto the mind except those definite commands to your- aelf, all may go blooey. But if you keep the mind free from confusion and your eye on that ome spot on the ball, your shot probably, will amaze you. We picture today a player wi needs’ mo_introduction to golfers. Every player knows what the in- door school looks like, and we all know tha. it is an institution in which all of us are right now developing a keen interest. The indoor golf court gives the golfer in the winter what he gets out in the opem air and the sunshine in the summer, This is Waverly Horton, Chicago, one of the real clentists of goif instruction. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) NORWICH HAS POLO. Norwich University, at Northfleld, has started the construction of a polo field on & tract of ground 225 by 900 feet. It is a military college among the Green mountains, and plays the game in 2 big riding hall on the college grounds. ROCKNE ELEVENS ANNEX 43 OUT OF 47 CONTESTS Kuute Rockne, coach of the Notre Dame foot ball team, has es- Lish¢ record that eother ed & will find hard to beat. In untve £ gm lary as & e -fln tor han persistently re- fused to leave his alma mater. 100 to 14. . TO TACKLE ]WALKER IS NOT' LIKELY SHADE SOON BY FAIR PLAY. N a little bit. long way off from today. What probably will happen is that Mickey will meet some ham welters and syme good midlewelghts where, even If he loses, his little will remain intact. There is a straight tip that Benny Leonard’s first fight will be against Charley White and that then he and Walker will mix it up. The | whole idea 18 that what Walker needs | most is experience. | The time will come when his man- |ager will decide that his meal ticket is ripe to go against Dave Shade. But for fome months to come the ‘Walker forces will let Shade have hi ew York title and bide their time. {, Joknny Dundee will begin his win- ter fighting campaign Friday night when he goes against Tommy O'Brien lout in Milwaukee. Johnny says that {among_his New Year resolves is to jforce Benny Leonard into the ring| with him. He does not seem to con- | ]uider what resolutions Benny may have formed with respect to Dundee. | 1f Tom O'Rourke's plans go through | ! Dundee_ will get some action to his liking next summer. He says after the Kilbane-Criqui battle he will be willing and eager to match Dundee against the winner. Kilbane, by the way, has not yet, named the sum he would aocept for risking his title against the French | fighter. Probably it will be a barrel | of iron men, since the best opinion is that Criqui is likely to deprive the Cleveland man of his crown. Criqui has been fighting right along and Kilbane has been completely inactive. Even if that were the only edge the French boy possessed over the feath- er champion, it would be sufficiently impressive to influence the betting. Now that Harry Greb has called off his January 8 date with Jimmy D laney of St. Paul because of Harry's' bad eyes, it looks as though Gene : Tunney will take Greb's place. Tun- ney has an engagement for January 8 with Harry Foley at Omaha, but it seems that Tunney’s manager feels that a match against Delaney at Okla- homa City would mean bigger money. SEESBARNVARD GILF ISHEATHPRODIER ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., December 27.—Keep appendicitis.away by pitch- ing & game of horseshoes every da is the advice offered by John Mille: eighty-two years old, of Rock Val ley, Iowa, one of the expert barn yard golfers now in training here for the fifth annual slipper slammer tournament for the United States champlonship to be heil in the Sun- shine city late in February. Miller has been ‘pitching hors shoes for thirty-two years and ttributes his good health to the old- 'fashioned game. He said he suffered severe intestinal disorders shortly after he celebrated his fiftieth birth- d‘{f_.nd then he took up “barnyard golt.” Since hé has been twirling the equestrian foctwear, Miller says he has not been bothered with any ail- ment_since. S T like the game so well,” he said, “that 1 hops -to die with my shoes in my hands. “I am going to live to be 100 or more,” prophesied the Iowa hog raiser, “and horseshoes is going to help me get there. According to Miller the game of - pitching keeps _every muscle of the body {n a man of sixty and over well exercised. He figures that ten miles are covered by him- self daily in walking from one end of the pitching lanes to the other, stooping to pick up his shoes at the end of each forty-foot hike. CONCANNON BUSY CUEIST. Joseph Concannon, ‘New York cue expert, who was to pla: i1- liard match with Geory Simonds at the New England Academy this a: noon, won two exhibition matches last _night. He . defeated Charlés Prinke, 100 to 20, and Lewis Loomil 25, o EW YORK, December 27—Will Mickey Walker allow his.welter title to go by default in New York state? ‘When Dave Shade challenged the present champion just after the Britton-Walker fight, Chairman Muldoon decreed that Walker would have to give the Californian a crack at the title within six months or else forfeit it. This dictum has not seemed to worry Walker or his manager This is the same as saying that a Walker-Shade fight is a ONLY ONE 1922 PLAYER ON ALL-PITT GRID TEAM Jack Sack, the the Pittsburgh ele present-day player chowen all-Pitt team recently selee! sraduates of that unmiversity. the second team leran, this years qu ‘Tom Davies, 1921 star, is halfback on the first aggregation. One of the surprises in the selection the maming of Bowser, present center, akead of Stein, last year's great pivet man, for the second el ", Following is the all-Pitt selection: End, Wagner, 1913; tackle, Thorn. Mill, 1914-15-16; guard, Sutherl: 1914-15-16-17; center, Peck, 14-15-16; guard, 1920-21-22; kie, Hi 1918-19-20-21; end, 1 4-15-16; gquarter, ‘Willlamson, 1913-14-15; halfback, Hi 1914-15-16-17; halfback, §-19-20-21; fullback, 5-16-17-18. 5 AL PRINCETON ELEVEN DID WAS T0 CLEAN UP PRINCETON, X. Coach Bill Roper of the Tigers re- cently received a unique opinion on his foot ball team from a western fan who saw the Orange and Black beat Chicago last fall, 21 to 18. “That Princeton foot ball team.” he December 27.— | were days when it was not necessary One may appreciate much of the value placed upon the character of the foot ball players of a college from the manner in which their com- rades promote them (o positions of honor and trust in college affair: Williams, for instance, has just ghosen its officers for class day Boynton of the foot ball team has been elected president of his class, 4~ well as a marshal, while five of the marshals are gridiron products. Athletics Power for Good. Truly, college athletics and sports are a real power for good in their in- culcation of ideas of discipline, self- sacrifice and hard work. The Michi- gan basket ball players have cut their Christmas holidays In half, sacrificiug this mid-year vacation for the sake of their college, to engage in needed additional practice. The student of social science recognizes the value of such forces as these working among the youth of the country. How it began, and what it ing to, is the question that cising the minds of mar alumni of the older college contemplate the wholesale identifica- tion of athletic mentors from outsids their own ranks. In rowing the shift has become most marked. Yale has turned over her entire outfit to Un:- versity of Washington instructors. Penn'’s coach is from Canada; Prince ton's from Pennsylvania and Har- vard's from the outside, as well as Columbia’s. . Ocean Race Is Interesting. International amateur sport has hatl nothing in prospect for a long tim: which is jore interesting than t agreement betwecn the Duke of Tein- ster and Commodore William Wasl: burn Nutting to race across the Atlant. next summer in small vachts. Tho final conditions of therace have not up to today, been agreed upon. but it is safe to say that they will provid- for & real sporting contest. The stand- ing of each of the two men in tho world of amateur sports amply guartn tees that it will be a true test of ekill and courage. Few persons rcalize what a back- ground such a contest has. It is an in- teresting thing to trace the deveion- ment of the sporting spirit and in the search of sporting events none could have been picked who is better fitted historically than this same Duke of Leinster. The very first mention that we are able to find of events among the Anglo- Saxon and Celtic races which took « the character of the later day Olymp contests is in “the book of Leinster. In that chronicle is decorated the great. cenech or fair which was held at Tailti in County Meath,, Ireland, on the first day in August, in certain years. The Lugnasard, which later was known more familiarly as the Tailtlan games was celebrated as long ago as 1828 B. According to other historians and Eng- ilsh authorities, these games continued to be held as late #s 550 A. D. Marks Return to Old Things. The contest between the British peer and Commodore Nutting marks in unusual ways the return to the old British sporting spirit which prevail- ed in the early days. Some of those events between gern- tlemen of old were extremely u usual in _thelr provisions. In the coaching days large sums were bet as to how many wheels of passing vehi- cles a driver could graze on a journ to London. Gentlemen in those da did not disdain boxing contests eithe Short-distance and long-distance run- ning and walking contests were fre- quent. /" Perhaps a picture early-day contests wil a-better idea of the £pi ated Leinster tod of the oldest of contest sailed on the it is recorded that the owner blew overboard. A gule was blowing, but the owncr ordered his sailing master to lower a boat and recover the cap. % “No boat could live in this sea, sir.” the sailing master replied. Where- upon the owner leaped overboard to swim for his cap. The sailing master finally got a boat overboard and res- cued the owner, well nigh exhausted, but firmly clutching the cap. Thess in onc to prepare or consuit the public as to details of a contest or to specify as to relative standing and eligibility of the contestants. (Copyright, 1922.) writes, “is sure one bunch of rough- | WIFE OF MAT CHAMPION necks. win a game they steps in and takes Every time their opponents | it away from them. They won't play | according to no rules at all. They OPERAYES ON HIS WRIST SAN JOSE, Calif., December 27.—Ed score when thc): haven't any sign or| (Strangler) Lewis. world champion right to it, an’ when it come the| heavy-weight wrestler, has been op- other side’s turn to score they wWon't| erated on by his wife, Dr. Ada Mor- let 'em. They do all sorts of things that everybody knows is boneheaded and against the rules, such as runnin’ with the ball in your own, territory and crossing the opponent’s goal line against his will. “They ain’t got no line at all and hold the world record for first downs but when they come rd line and there ain’t in the world can stop the nothing other side from scoring they gets to- gether and stops it. win playing that way. do it ain’t foot ball. “This team hasn't hardly won a me all season. Everybody knows ‘hicago beat them at least two touch- downs absolutely every. way except on the scoreboard. And when they played Yale they were beat before the game started. The worst of it Yale was beat when the game ended. ‘There ought to be something done about it. We've got to have a cen- sorship an’ a commission and & cou- ple of coroners. This Princeton bunch is too hard boiled for cotemporary TUnited States.” JUNIOR ELEVENS CLASH IN TWO GAMES SUNDAY Two games will .be played Sunday at Union Park -by teams contending for the 125-pound foot ball cham- pionship of the District. The M hawk Juniors and Arabs will take the fleld at 10 o'clock, while the Stanton Jurfors and Mackins will meet in a K:umln-.ry to thé Stanton-Mohawk p match for the District 146-pound champlonship. The 125-pound victors will clash for the title in their cla: New Year day. ‘The Waverlys and St. Teresa Freps ‘were not admitted to the 125-pound series by the four teams in the strug- gle. The latter claimed the Waver- 1ys played all season in the 135-pouad No team can't And if they | class, while the Saints had been elimi- nated as a title contender during the regular campaign. ————— STEGER IS IMPROVING. CHICAGO, 27.—Herb December r- | Steger, halfback on this year's Mich- rted im- igan foot ball team, i: | ! ton Lewis, for a gathering on the wrist. Lewls is believed to have in- fected the wrist when he rubbed it against a ring post during a match in Kansas City. He came 1o his home here to spend the holidays and the operation was deemed necessary. FLORIDA LISTS ALABAMA. GAINESVILLE, Fla., December 27. —Florida's Thanksgiving foot ball game in 1923 will be played with Ala- bama at Birmingham. Two other games have been scheduled by Florida. one with Army at West Point on October 6 and the other with Georgia Tech. DULUTH WINS AT HOCKEY. ST. PAUL. Minn, December 27. Duluth defeated St. Paul, 2 to 0, In a United States Amateur Hockey League game last night. 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