Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1923, Page 20

SPORTS. Floyd Johnson TRIUMPH OVER BRENNAN “DECISIVE AND IMPRESSIVE In Winning 15-Round Decision From Veteran, Young lowan Looms as Best Heavyweight Pros. pect, But Is Not Yet Ready for Dempsey. BY FAIR PLAY. W YORK, January 13—Floyd Johnson of fowa is today the best | avyweight possibility—yes, probability—in this or any other But he still is only a probability. His victory over the | an at Madison Square Garden last night was decisive | Up to a few minutes before the first round started Bren- : favorite. Why the odds suddenly shifted no one Johnson's unusual popularity had the entire crowd i, there were 14248 who figured Brennan would win. the ier two. tr Bren ive s an eight-to-fi for, although f 14.250 fans with hi ichmson and his manager wer THREE EX-TITLEHOLDERS |® WITNESS GARDEN SCRAP VEW YORK, Januars 13—~Three former holders of the world heavy - tle were among the crowd ed Wil Bren and ir battle Jast has a great deal to learn could hope to last wvery nds against Jack Dempsey. rite his Innate fighting knowl- a rare alertness and remark- speed for a 194 pounder, it is the writer's opinion that Tom Gibbons at | his best could at least have outpointed Johnson last night. But—and say it with firmness—the Floyd Johnson that wiil be, say in ten months or a | year from now, sh be crowding jDempsey hard and w 1 very good | chance “of shoving the king of all 0dily off the throne seal. Experience Saved Brennan. was only the great experience of n that saved the veteran from kout. Twice he was almost In the twelfth, visibly worn by terrific pounding on the Brennan took a jolting left H the pi of his stomach and a |etraight overhand punch flush on the |3 He bbled. covared nicely, hung on for a moment and, re zing that the round was nearly over, came - SAYSAK, DN STAN i Johnsor uely boil on LO: | | le | Tess Willard, tor who held the title four veurs until Jack Demp- cved him of the crown in 1019, was & ringside spectator, as were Juck Johnxon, the big Gai- yeston mezro from whom Willard n the title in 1915 in Huvana, prhett. Tommy Gibbonx, challenger for Dempsey's titler Hnrry Greb, American Hight- heavywelzht champlon, and Harry Wills, Demnsey's negro challenger, were other fistic notables in the sreat crowd. jteft arm, wad been i earlier i ening. Unque ably it affected his hitting { That, together with the fact t cpeed all the way had been excep- {tlonally fast for heavvwelghts, thus aRGE nuary 13— | 1e&VIng both men a little we is 2 LES, . January no doubt the real reason why Bren- the {nan was not put to sleep then and | Bartlett, | there. ' her o ion on which Bren- as in trouble was in the §f- 1 round. Johnson feinted Bren- old fox that he is, into un open- ing, and again nt thar ft to the belt and right to the chin. But the power wasn't behind either punch| yainting the new Dempsey {and Bill naged to recover suffi- s brother | ciently to stand up and swap toe-to- toe wallops as the final bell rang. Johnson Wins Every Round. t Johnson easlly took every round He weighed 4 and Brennan £00% Besides a terrific beating Brennan got $14.790.20 and Johnson $9,869. it figured that odd 20 cents was ran ourt here, declared he was 10t | taan of the world,” | n the world.” 1 h Demp- t r his cut ey of 2, Kate which $2,50 Corbetl, Jack g Wiilard and Tom Gibhons were amo < at the ringside. azing what a ption the £ he had | 5 part- Tuly KANSAS CITY BUYS SITE FOR A NEW BALL PARK ! Willard. 1TY, 33—} t of land here | P47 OPEN G0LFDATE SHIT ~ 7 CONSDERED UNLKELY PITTSBURGH, Pa., January by the Professional Golfers' As tion for a change In the daté of the open tourney from Jul¥ to June | | was expected to be the feature of the | | closiug sesston of the United Sta Golf Association meeting here today. | The customary July dates .were| named yesterday. H THIS LOOKS ENCOURAGING. | rThose in close touch with amairs| Rated according to the lowest bat- | were of the opinion that the associa- | PR e J';"\!-)mn would refuse to vote for the} e . '" | change. This, it was sald, was in! ¢ R stands seventh | geference to Great Britaim, the | five or more innings in | Gate for the British open champion- | A Sto it s ship already had been set for June,| S s and that a number of American pro- | E i fessicnals were to take part In the! vla i Washington figured in the award-! | ing of tourneys yesterday, getting the public links event, to be decided late | KANSAS Mo i leback, r tator: win e | social MISKE STOPS FOLEY." OMANA, N January 13— Billy 3 finn., won on u te Harry Foley of Hot the first round n ANOTHER MEUSAL ARRIVES. LOS ANGELES, Calif., January 13 Meusel, outtislier for the Ne American League base ball ¢ hrating birth of usel, forme ml the for the three big national tournaments were the national open | |to ba held at the Inwood Club, on Long Island, July 9 to 13, inclusive;| | the national amateur at the Floss- moor Club, near Chicago September 10 to_15, and the women's | { national at the Westchester-Biltmore | Club, near New York, October 1 to 6. i MAKES HOLE IN ONE. CAMDEN, §. C., January 13.—W. & Skelly_of the Hoermitage Count Club,” Richmond, Va. made the yard cighteenth’ hole on the Camden Country Club golf course in one. SIKI LOSES ALL TITLES. PARIS, January 13.—The disquali- fication of Battiing Stkl _and the > S | withdrawal of his title of middle- In the Knights of Columbus League | weight champion of France was held the Columbias won the odd game from | py the international boxing union to alboas with the scores 462. 527 | jnvalidate also the other titles the and 465, McCarth the best work, | Senegalese boxer won from Georges | having the high 483 and game |Carpentier. Thess were middleweight ! of 146. and heavyweight champlon of Europe, and light heavywelght champion of the world. B CANADIAN CURLERS WIN. MONTREAL, January 13.—Canadian curlers won back the Gordon inter- = inational medal here yesterday, after in the Bankers’ League, Hibbs won | playing twenty-one ~matches with » from the Washington Loan and | rinks from the United States. The rust Company. with scores of 464,|final score gave Canada 424 points 109 and Honze of the winners|to the United States, 297. uptured 1 the honors with a set of 328 and a game of 121, Country 1 the Ra d Y. M. C. all three games from L fer team last night with 55y and 416. In the puth Southern o ot of le's Drug team of the Com won two of three Company. ‘The o 495, 483 and 487, the Driggists had high tiller of the losers, the Senecas of the Mount l,eague won two out of three from she Columbias, rolling all games over “he 500 mark. Fristoe of the winners nad the high game and set, 145 and . v , respectively, AR A CUSTOMER D FINES T'bL OO m™ AND corsacT THe FARE! Annex, from Annex, 2, Revenue League, with the scores 479, 546 and 457. Campbell of the victors had the high set, 323, and Power the high game, 115, War Department of the Washing- ton Ladies’ League swept the boards with the Internal Revenue quint with the scores 409, 427 and 406. Norma Kilmartin of the winners had the kigh game, 96. 1, took two out of three 2, of the Internal Tount Pleasant also won all three the Independents with the scores , 466 and 471. Jennie Malcom of he Mount Pleasants carried off the ynors with the high 311 and cet game of 124, Height prevailed jn the match last the King Pin alleys when Ed six feet four inches tall, defeated Victor Ott, a five-foeter, three games out of flve~=142 to 120, 115 to 95, 93 to 97, 111 to 120 and 104 %o 100, the totals being 565 to 532, GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn., Jam 18- 3Maid's Bogene, setter, owned by G. %. Carter, Philadelphia, which week won the all- American amateuy ship hers, yesterday was the Mo o arsociesed amateur shampice, \ N ! te te MAY BE NEXT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD PERRY PREP BASKETERS HAVE TITLE ASPIRATIONS ERRY PREP: P nexed about ali of the the city, are pointing They have disposed of a number of crave more action. The Preps do 1 be. They would tackle the Par Mount unior tion of may { Manhattan Juniors and any other 110-pound class aggregations. the Preps the ms desire to anker, at Columbia The Perrys have m R seven for . V, betwee games their t the and 1 ph row w trive ighth 31 Mondag Dominican Lyceums will he Leglon St 1 American [n a game and ¥ to begin at Otis Athletie Club s 10 v costin tomorrow afternoon for st_with the Collex the iditoriu 1t will start Midgets, has ting Dixie from i all for ased to suitable Washington are to go to to play the Pa the Fourth Baltimore J mount Club iment ar Armory. Section 231 of Business High School has organized a team that wants games in the 105-110-pound class Telephone challenges to Manager G Yeatma anklin 5395, after ¢ pan. Moline Athletfe Clabh feated the Pyramids, 39 o 6, casily de- Abra | son and Tash starred for the v Sparkplug Athletie Club will the Hyatisville Five in the 1 gymnasium tonight. The match will begin at §:30 o'c! Epiphany boys vanquished the All Souls quintet, 58 to 16, in the Junior Sunday School League. Collins of Epiphan; was the leading scorer of the fray. Epiphany Midgets took the measure of the Columbias in a 22-to-15 game al andria. It was the sixteenth i scventeen starts for the d their twelfth straight. Epiphanys Mackin Athletie Club beat the Rose Aales, 26 to 14, in Noel House gym- nasium. Honner and Watt were the outstanding players of the winning combination. Milo Athletic Club of Baltimore, in- €tead of the Hagerstown Alsatians, will oppose the Aloy tomorrow in Gonzaga gymnasium. Play will start at 3:30 o'clock. Epiphany Juniors nosed out the Linworths in a 17-to-15 encounter. The Linworths went into the lead in the first half, but could not withstand a late Epiphany rally. Argsle Preps downed the Pow- hatans, 29 to 18. All of the Argyle players contributed to their team's Point total. Comets of the Y. M. C. A. opened their season with a 62-to-2 victory over the Naval Reserves. The latter falled to score from scrimmage. Western Athletic Club and Yose- mites 1 be opponents tonight in Peck gymnasium. They will swing into action at 8 o'clock. Pleasant, v with thirteen fleld goals, | s Big Five| ho for vera athletic championships in their sec- for basket ball laurels’ this winter. formidable quints in their class and ot care how sturdy their opponents k View Juniors, fes, Boys' Club, If these may telephone Manager n 0 and 7 pn 8 WILLARD AND" JOHNSON MEET AGAIN—IN CAF AEW YORK, January fi.—Jess Willard and Jack Johnson met in cafe ut Madixon Square Garden just before Bill Hreanan and Floyd Johnson entered the. ring last night. Willard advaneed, hand cxtended, and saf ello, Jack, how are yout™ nson beamed nnd sald: “Oh, t Tovely, Mister Willard, v of the winners made elghteen 1age goals. Wilxon Normals defeated the Carroll played an ex victors. tncos, lent the latter want -pound_class. s to Lelan Knapp, more g th Telephone challer jLincoln 3011 TRID OF TEAMS TIED FOR LEAD AT HOCKEY DULUTH, Minn, January 18.—By virtue of its 4-to-3 vietory over Du- luth here last night, the Cleveland jhockey team went into a triple tie with St. Paul and Duluth for leader- ship of the United States Amateur Hockey League. i It required four overtime periods for the Cleveland sextet to obtain an even split in the two-game series, Duluth having won thd first game, 4 to 0, Thursday MILWAUK January t of the t series in the Western-group of the United { Association will be plaved here te. night when the Pittshurgh Hockey lub meets the Milwaukee team. ennsylvania club defeated the locals last night, 4 10 2, in a contest fea- tured by many thrilling plays. NEW HAVEN, Conn., January 13.— The Westminster Hockey Club of this city defeated the Boston Hockey Club, 2 to 0, in a United Stites Amatenr Hockey League game. GAME TO DARTMOUTH. CLINTON, N. Y., January 18.—Dart- mouth won from Hamiiton College at hockey last night, 6 to 2 BIG TEN QUINTS BUSY. CHICAGO January 13.—FEight West- ern Conference basket ball teams will be in action tonight—Chicago at Wis- consin, Northwestern at Ohio, Mich- 13— game chedule Kanawha Cubs overwhelmed theligan at Minnesota and Indiana at Trentons in a 94-to-12 engagement. llinols, rreasant| MUTT AND JEFF—The Sap Street Car Has a Passenger at Last. FARE, PLEASE, LADY- H‘mk{ Boy Scout Troop 58 drubbed the | tates Amateur Hockey | The | 13, '1923. “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BALL” BY JOHN J. McGRAW, Managér New York Giants, Three Times World Champions. 5 (Released Exclusively Through the North American Newspaper Alliasos.® Early Experiences in| ER Cedar Rapide—The WHEN FIRST A MANAG! Half-Wit Who Emptied | Grandstand—Strang Was First Pinch Hitter. How Giants Came to Get Otis Crandall. JUMPED from Olean to the Wellsville club of the Western New York League. Again I be- came a pitcher, but it wasn't to last lohg. Every manager, it séemed, s def i il on wheth was determined to make an infielder = { L wheine out of me. & | cusnes: - : Th il e et- % & i With a smile and a yawn he would tng 0:::‘&’;;||mg‘;;,{,:,.fl.‘:' :,;:,7).‘ 1 plek up a bat, walk up to the plate 3 2 and lazily slam the ball out of the Jot. also was beginning to get some inter- T decided to keep him as utility esting ideas of the viewpoint of tho ver and_pinch-hitter, giving him public toward the game. It was diways | Before that the difficult to make base ball managers and hitter was not owners in those days understand that known. Sammy lived up to all my ex- the public was really a part of the pectations. He hung up a hitting rec- game. ord which, T believe, will stand for a In one of those towns, or small cities, long time to come. I put him up nine our ball park was lccated on an island, times as a pinch hitter and he hit To get to the grandsiand the spectators safely nine times in succession. You had o cross a nurrow bridge &t the end can well imagine what that meant to of a side street. The maln street was 2 ball elub That was in 1905, and, If up on a hiil. Tou will remember, we almost walked & ay with the pennant that year, us haM-witted young fellow who alway! MES Mooy & M I hung around the park, taking & per- But, gotting back to Cedar Rapids sonal interest in everything connccted —Henry Fabian tells me that when I with the team. At times he was a nui- showed up in April, 1891, T was the Ireshest and cockiest kid that ever broke into a ball game. I massed everybody. 1 thought 1 was just as £ood @ bail player as any big lcaguer in_the busines To tell the truth, T've alwayvs thought that those fresh, cocky youngsters, who think they know o - lall, are the best prospects. They have At the regular time, though, the young | _“Oh, all right” said old Doc Cran-|to bo taken down occasional | fellow ghowed up at the gate. 1 the bovs called him, “let’s |course, but If they ean keep “Nothing doing today,” the gateman | & {eocky 'spirlt they will be gond bull told Bim. “You can't come in. That's hout a flinch or quiver he start- | pluvars nine timas out of ten. They all thers is to {t—orders from tha hing and retired the side with- | have confidence in their own ability, boss—thers's nothing doing, I teil|out a run. Crandall was a mighty |and that is a wonderful thing. you valusbl I plaver. He could also| Beilove me, I have had some fresh Blecied e Fass Away. play the outfield. ones. . In this connection it wa a | (Copyright, loNot for & moment did the Poor fel- | great while before Crandalls time | ‘C°"TiE, flow imagine that they were barring|ihat we hegan to use pinch hitters— | ;\ll’-: !lrlvhm rthfiflmrk- ”llh fa!(’ badly | that is, keep & man on the bench for u aré being nothing doing, =0 | 4yas purpose alone. | neries will app tomorrow in | he jet, about to save other people| T yay be mistaken. but T think | pink sports section of The Sunday tholie Sammy Strang was one of the first| Star.) he street leading to the bridge. As WESTERN QUINT LEADING SCHOOL BASKET LEAGUE lthe regular, everyday fans came |along, whether walking or in bug- Hliseum. ones ever engaged. In the cld days | we eouldn't afford to have utility men sitting around the bench except when needed in a pinch. Our utility men or substitutes were mostly tho extra pitchers, Strang was always a good hitter and very fast. He also was a goc third baseman, a good second bas man and a good outfielder. Ths trou ble was that.he never cared about one position very long. He would go in and play second or third like a house afire for a few weeks and then lose He would get tired of t [é his pep. job. He liked new semsations him any new job and he wus su naturally good ball player that would g0 great guns. A s00n as th novelty wore off he would get laz. Sammy Never Got Excited. Strang never got excited about any- thing {n his 1ife. Whether there wers one or three men on bases and wheth- er the orld champlonship depended he hit or meant noth- He was devoid of nerv- JOHN J. McGRAW. This picture was taken two decades ago, when he was in his cecond year as pilot of the Giants, e, but it was difficult to get rid of him, He ran errands for the players and took general supervision of ev thing. One day the business manager, gef- ting peeved at this fellow, ordered the gateman not to let him in the park any mare, snying that he had beoome too 1 ich of a nuitance. One day we rushed him fn from the bullpen "to take another pitcher's place. “Huh,” he said, tellows come from The hases were fu nobody out. ‘where'd all those and there was = 1925, United States and Cunads, by the Christy Walsh Syudicate.) (The next article of the McGraw gies, the half-wit ran out and stop- them. use of going down there. he would tell them, “there's | nothing doing today, The boss just lett word for me at {he gate. There's | | no game —nothirg doing.” I In the kindness of his heart the| { poor fellow turned them back as fast | &8 they came. As a result we played the game to a&n absolutely empty | grandstand, Outside of the players und attendants there were not six people to see the game. Manager Had to Dig. | To make matters worse, it was pav- | day and there were no gate receipts | to nelp along. The manager had to| | dig down in his pocket. 2 | _After my season with Wellsville 11 became a rover. I joined Al Law- | 8on's All-Americans on a trip to | Cube. That gave me my first idea { of the rest of my own country and of | foreigners. Landing at Key West on our way | back, | got a job with the Galnes- ville, Fla, team and pleyed there during the early spring. Our team| played against major ledgue clubs; then training in Florida and that { helped me wonderfully. ¢ The papers gate me quite a Int of publicity on actount of the Cuban | trip, This, added to my work with | Gathesville against the big clubs, | brought me to the attention of many | managers. Got Twenty-Eight Offers of Jobs. For the season of 1891 I had oftars from twenty-eight clubs. One of these |was from my old friend Kenney at { Olean, That, of course, 1 turned down, I didr't know exactly what to do and I had no older man to advise me. I looked over il the offers cars- fully and then dectded to grab the job that paid the most money, no matter where I had to go. This hap- pened to be Cedar Rapids. They of- tered me §125 a month, advance oney anu transportation. I got the 75 by wirs and started. All my life I have « decp sentiment for that Cedar Rapids club. For in- stance., the right flelder on it was Henry Fablan, now tho groundkeéper ! at the Polo Grounds. I was signed s a shortstop. Other members of the club were John Godar, third base Jake Drauby, first base; Wally Tay lor, wecond base; Bill McGee, cenfer fleidi Delos Woods, 1éft fleid; Kid willlams, catcher; Bflly Hofer, pitch- er. TE presentative in the high school basket ball league now is leading the iour other teams in that circuit, as a result of a 32-to-12 victory scored over Tech yesterday at Central The red-suited team from Georgetown ran rings around the inexperienced Manual Trainers in making its league record two victories in as many starts. After Western's excellent exhibition, the sccond match of the double-header that ended with Business beating Eastern 21 to 20, was drab and uninteresting despite the closeness of the score, because of the mediocre piay of the contenders. Western presented a well-drilled team that played & brand of basket- ball greatly superior to any sho the opening games of the ser Tuesday. Each member of th ingoes, as the Westerns h. dubbed, seemingly knew do, and did it. The Qu as dy, and Garber. La and | Capt sby wero not wan shooting ability. Garber also made himself conspicuous in other depari ments of the game, and was easi the outstanding player of the match. From the outset, Tech seemed at sea. 1t was baffled continually by the Wes- tarn defenee and was unable to take advantage of most of its few scoring opportunities. Harwood, sent in the game latd in the first half, mav aged to liven the play of the Man Trainers for awhile, but apparently he was not in condition and was of little value to his team in the last period, when it fafled to register a oint. PBastern jumped into the lead in the first quarter of its game with Busi- ness, but was headed in the second guarter and was unable to check the Stenographers until 1a _the match. In the fourth period, Hook's shooting from the 15-foot line gave Eastern a 20 to 19 advantage, but just before the final whistle Walker scored a fleld ‘hasket for Business. Walker and Greenwood did the best work for the winners. Hook, Herrmann and Kessler were the B The scores: Western (33). Y. M. C. A. Day School’s team top- pled the Swavely School Reserv yesterday in a 35 encounter. The Swavely~ tossers their from the foul line ners tossed ten Aloystus Midgets vanqui onzaga Sophomores, 24 to day. The Gonzaga McGowan and_ Bre sharpshooters. 5, yeste of check the Al- could han, Swavely School is at Garrett Park | this afternoon for a tilt with the | Georgetown Preps, while Gonzaga has gone’ o Baltimore to play Cal all. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Washington College, Catholie University, 25. At Gettrsimrg, Pa—Gettysburg, 421 St. John's of Annupolis, 16. At Lafayette, Ind—Butler, 43; Pur- due, 20. At New Haven—Yale, 451 Trinity, 16. At New York—New York University 315 St. John's of Brooklvn, 26. At Brooklyn—Manhattan, 3 Institute, 30. JEWTRAW LEADS SKATERS. BINGHAMTON, N. Y.. January 15— Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid, took the leag at the first d: s race of the Adirondack Skating Association's gold cup events here. Jewtraw scored H9 out of a possible 60 points, Pract T Stars. Positions. Left forward, Why He Got Otis Crandall. To fllustrate what I mean by sentl- !ment, I was looking over the names of some players that the Giants had a chance to get in the draft a few years ago. I knew mothing about any of them. But I saw that one of them | | was with Cedar Rapids. . | ““That's the fellow I'll take I satd| | to: the secretary of the club, “and I'm | Z taking him simply because he comes ifrom Cedar Rapids. That's where I | got my first start. This new fellow, | Tl bet, is good. An@_we signed him. That fellow | was Otie Crandall, the pitcher. 1 was right, too. Otie stepped right in and made good. Not only was he a good pitcher, but he could #ock the bail. New York fans know mighty well how we used him successfully as both a pinch hitter and a pinch pltcher. Crandall Cool in Pinchés. In a close, tight, place—the bases full, for instance—Crandall was one i of the coolest pitchers 1 ever saw. | He had no fear, no nerves. Correct Rule BY ED FFENSE. Center play num O ber two. Center tries to “tap” ball about three feet forward and three feet to the left. The left forward comes in fast and Kessler | Passes to the right guard, who is RIS | now up one of two steps beyond the St 8 421 | center circle. The right forward in Ecstern oo 9. 8-20) the meantime has manouvered over Bt aston " Dieas 1ot | to the left side of court, getting in a right guard. This is a very fine play. | As the season progresses you will Substitutions—We: Phillips for Dulin, Al Harwood for Scrivener, Thi for ’fl\!tlevx?ne:h'hnn}‘lur Lamar (4), ll{ Rhees. Harwood . Free goals— n 13; Rheos, 8 in 4 Referse—Mr. Mr. Hughes. Time of e Business (21) Positions. astern (20) irees Imft forwaed e ight Forward Right .tulrd, eeres Hel a Jer (). Free gouls_ Connor, © in 41, Keatler, in 10, Fuiler. Hook, Tmpire—Mr, minntes. Referee—Mr. Hughes. Time of Teriod§—1 Oopyright, 1028, by H. 0. Fischer, Trade YouR BuSINESS. I'vé Been Muklt'l? ONLY EouR YEARS! | the | t) SPORTS. Demonstrates Real Class : Local College Tossers Busy Tonight TRID OF CONTESTS BOOKED FOR HERE iGeorgetown Meets Marines i and G. W. Plays Yankees ASKET BALL teams of t District vai group ard | in Main Battles. B to be busy tonight. George its season with game against the Quantico Marines m Ryan gymna George Wash! n he Yankecs ! city independent champions, at Cern {tral Coliseum, and the Galiaudet Re iserves will be hosts to the West Virginia School for the Deat at Ken i dall Green. rgetown and to begin at 2t o'cloce teams of George Wshingto ire to Weet at ry to the Hateh / gement Nosed Out. Univeraity, which nosed out in 5 game Washington Colieg Brooklan last night. also has a date tonig! but on a foreign floor. The Maro and Black went to E itsburg, M this afternoon. wh counter the quintet Mary's College. ‘The Brooklanders had a gnod fiv man defense in last night it did not mean s Sho' team When piayers, after wor the side court, were unabhle trate the Catholic University they would shoot for despite the distance. the mark. They were not pot sho: either. It was evident that the Wash ington College men had been carp ful trained in distance shooting a-~ a means to overcome a tight defense. The game as hard fought all the way, with the visitors generaily hold ing the better end of the eoove Eberts, Bresiin, Fitzzerald and Cap* Lawler carried Cathollo Univer sity attack well, and Lynch proved & zood floor man, a8 usu but the! ombined efforts could not check the of rroll. Gordy's Flare's dribblin Collega were. spects Afth successive win College its tour. R Gallaud | games are | Gi and o'ele Catholic » pene eordon for Washingt v mirls overca Colie William and > Swarthmor. | 26, yestarday in i asinm. F few minutes the | iam and Mart team held a lons {1ead, but Swarthm-re scored heavil: half, and frov was a nip-and-tu v in the then on tha g affair ONLY THREE SPORTS PAY. PRINCETON. N. J. January onty iris were self-suppori ing at Princeton Unfversity last v the Athletle Association &nnouncer ‘oday. Thesa were foot ball, b sket ball, The lur econd thres RUMBAUGH WINS AT TRAPS PINEHURST. N. C., Janvary 15/ John B. Rumbauch of Ash N« won the mid-winter ha leading trapshooting even a field of sixty-three cor of one targe 20-yard iin TIGERS' TRAINER HONORED. I ry 1 itzpat inceton ath! ivisor in uthi 3 the university, This appoln rles with it membership on the committee on outdoor sport, TO STAY AT NOTRE DAME. CHICAGO, January 13 — K Rockne, noted foot bail coach, may sort to Wi i is hac ! reading: “T've got because the numerous reports that he plans tc leave Notre Dame. “I am under eon {tract to Notre Dame and intend t ;my there,” Rockne said. YALE SCORES IN WATER. NEW YORK, January 13 —Yule opened the intercollegiate swimmine | season in defense of its titie by defeat {ing Columbia last night, 51 to 11. The | Blue also was victorious in water pol ‘:( ring 35 to Columbi i —_— | w1 ALEM, N. C., January 1 —In a wrestling match here last nigh | Joe Turner of Washington, D. C., d feated Henry Irslinger, British middic weight champion, in two out of thres appointe | Tips on Playing Basket Ball; Interpretations THORP-. find that the left forward will be able to go up in the air and tap the, | ball to right guard. The center, af ter putting the ball in play, cut through the left, getting down in position to receive a pass or to fol fow up a missed shot. The leit for ward, after passing to the righ guard, goes through to the bach court, so that right guard can con tinue toward basket after making his pass. This gives vou three mer going through—the right forward right guard and center. Q. How are players numbered? Players 1l be mumbered with plain numbers at least six inches high and one inch wide. Fastened securely on the backs of their shirts. Q. Whose fault is it if the timers are not supplied with a whistle? A. The timekeepers should see that they have o whistle, gong beil, or pistol before the game starts, 1t Bave not, they should call it to the attention of the referee. He will sec that they are provided with some wort of an implement to be used by them. Q. When, where, and by whom was the game originated? A. Back in (he Winter of 1501 at the Springfield, Masw. Y. M. C. A., Dr. James Nalsmith, them a physical)| director at that institution and mow head of the physical imstruction de- partment of a western unlversity. Q. Can I interfere with a player who Is returning the ball into the court from out of bounds? A. No part of your perkon shall be | outxide of the Eourt und you are met | allowed to touch the bail until it hos | eroused the line. | Q. When is a ball in play at center | A, After it renches its higliest point, he referee shall blow his.whistie and it s in play. (If thers are any points about the | game of baskct vall or its rules whi puzzle you, write Ld Thorp, care of & Sporting Editor, inclosing stamped re turn envelope. 'He'll give you « quick and_correot_desision ) Radiators and Fenders