Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 27

SPORTS ¥ South Atlantic FIVE OF THEM TO FACE Teant! " NORTHERN FOES OF NOTE Maryland, Which Is to Meet Penn, Is Among Quintet. V. M. L. Will Go to Atlanta to Play Georgia. Tech in Big Southern Clash. TR ARG T "BY H. C. BYRD. long trips for foot ball games the other four north. & IVE schools in the South Atlantic section will send their teams on this week. One goes farther south, Virginia Military Institute makes the journey | to Atlanta to meet Georgia Tech, University of North Carolina appears-at New Haven in Yale's first game, Washington and Lee is to play Wash- ington and Jefferson at Washington, Pa.; North Carolina State College travels to Penn State and William University. North Carolina State did not'make much of a showing in its opening xame with Roanoke, unless, of course, the latter is myuch stronger than it had any right to expect to be. That it should wroomplish much to its credit against the powerful Penn State organization is_not to be se- riously ‘considered. North Carolina is said to have just about as capable eleven us represented it a Year ago, and if #t has it should make Yale hump® as it has been through one contest and Yale will be in its first, Did Well Last Year. Last year North Carolina made a great rhowing at New Haven, cross- ing the goal line once or twice, only to have the touchdowns called off because of penalties. However, it is the writer's opinion that the Tar- heels are going to miss the offensive capabilities of “Reds’ than they seem to think. Washington and_Lee has a good cleven and it may be that it w against Washington and Jeffe just as great heights as it did a v ago againxt West Virginia. It is not likely, though, that the future part of the Generals' season will be risked by trying to develop the team to a point where it could make such a showing as it did in that 0-to-0 game at Charleston. Judged on its showing against Oglethorpe, Georgia Teeh probably is just what its coaches have state - not as strong as last vear. From that it would seem that Virginia Mili- tary Institute has a fairly even hance for a victory. Georgia Tech is exceptionally hard to beat on its own field, but if any t m can do it that team is V. M. 1. because no mat- ter where it plays it never lacks for and willingness to play the of foot ball. south Atiant institu- are sending their teams on long . the University of Maryland short jump to Philadelphia another go with the University of sylvania. TLast year Penn was somewhat taken back because it did *mot fun g1l over the old line players, nd this year has confidently express- ed its tentions as to what it ex- pects, especiully as it is claimed by Penn itself that its team is the strongest in the whole history of at the university. obably fx blue Monday at s of Virginia. Last __writer predicted that, if University possessed a team & s it turned out a year ago, had taken about as big a could chew. However, even feat Virginia may take conso- from the fact that it showed offense. It seems to have mado the mistake of developing i cifense at the expense of its defense, “urham had little difficulty mak- s00d an opportunity to score it got the ball in the second h But that_is something that may ea be remedied, and Vi wimia's defeat, rather than indicat- ing weakness, really holds in it fac- tors which presage considerable suc- cess before the season is over. in when _Georgetown and . University of Maryland won their games just as every one expected. The Blue and Gray was not hard pushed to beat George Washington and the Black and Old Gold actually found less op- position than it looked for. (Georgetown outweighed - George Washington, had faster gand ‘Setror backs and stronger and more experi- cnced linemen. “With that combina- tion it really ‘'did not have to work to win. And, while the Hilltoppe have come in for ho small amount of criticism because they did not run feore. It might as well b ed that Georsetown had nothing to gain 1| ng any l’“‘l‘:\] oints than it did. enty to noth- was just as zood, from a George- town point of vi as a million to :‘n(hlng’. Any one ho doubts that the Georgetown squad could not have been pepped up and scored many more points than it did does not know foot ball. Univeraity of Maryland could have scored more points than it did against Randolph-Macon had it so desired. but more were scored as it was than really should have been. And in 10 same way Pennsylvania prob- E could have whipped Franklin Marshall far worse if its coaches had been of that nesion. Maryland's gant? against Randolph- . Macon was nothing of which 1o feel wrticularly proud. The Virginians liad a lot of big men. but were woe- lly weak in foot-ball he College Park school put on the fleld a team that differed very little | from that which year ago, with the exception that ihere it not now present as much backfield meterial. For the first ten minutes Maryland played good first- zame foot ball, but after that it let up. represented it a ieorge Washington should not have been expected to do any better agalnst Georgetown than it did, and it should not let the loss of that con- 10t make it feel pessimistic over the cutlook for the season. The Hatchet- ites evidently Mave the strongest cleven that has represented them nce they resumed foot ball three vears ago, and should make good in the rematnder of their games. George Washington probably will wind up its season With a gbod record. Georgetawn begins today to prepare for the game with Marines Saturday American League Park. The whole week undoubtedly will be devoted to development of the forward pass and the bullding up of greater cohesion betwaen the line and backfield. The Hilltoppers expect to avenge their last year's defeat by taking the meas- ure of the Quantico men. Without Goettge In the line-up gainst Washington College in a ame at Winchester the Marines were lot very Impressive, according to a man who watched the game. There was nothing about their play, ac- rding to this spectator, ‘which would Indicate that they stand much chdnce of averting a defeat at the hands of Georgetown. Univeraity of Tennessee took the fieating that it must have expected cven Defore it took the field against the Army, With Army practicing since the latter part of August and cnnesses since the tenth of Sep- tember, evén if the teams were well the former would have had vantage. It's dollars against the holé Ia a doughnut that it cost the Army emc big guarantee to get Tennesdee scheduled for that game. X did about what it should have done against Willlam and Mar; The former has the coaching organi zation 1o beat the Willlamsburg eloyen, o matter what kind of ma terial might represent the latter. The adoption of a one-year rule does not seem to have affected the scoring prowess of the Sallors, as 59 points ogaingt a heavy team is a very re- "F!Cl.}!‘ record. Radiators and Fenders Johnson more | knowledge. | and Mary is scheduled at Syracuse oot Ball Fact What type of interference is best in the case of an end run? Answered by J. W. HEISMAN Conch of foot ball, Jeflerson University. University of Pennsylvy The 191 Georgin Tech team, which he conched, wes unanimously chosen as the best team in the countr, * x % Washington and Former coach, ) Assuming that, by one method or another, the opposing tackle has lbz_-tn successfully “boxed,” the next {biz thing is to dispose of his ad- jacent end. If he is a GOOD end he cannot be “put out” by mere shoulder interference—and nearly always two interferers must be put on Dim. Ii the end comes in hard and fast, his legs should be cut out from under him—the blockers leay ing their feet and threwing their hips into his knees as they dive. I however, the end plays “waifing game—holds his ground or slowly retreats while fending off the block- ers with his hande—the - blockers should not leave their feet,. but should run full tilt into him, bury- ing their heads in his stomach, and ‘ride him out” of the play. (Copyright, 1023.) FOR DISTRICT TITLE While numerous sandlot nines closed their 1923 base ball campaigns in stirring contests vesterday, there is one remaining game that looms important before the season formally terminates. Corinthians and the Elks, two of Washington's smallest outfits, are to stage their deciding fray for the insect championship of the District to- day at 4 o'clock on the Union Station plaza. These two teams won the right to play in the final game when they dis- played their superlority over twen rival nines. Bach grabbed the title in their respective divisions by straight victories. Some of the city's leading sandlot rmb» staged fare well contests yes- terday, Dominican Lyceum, Petworth Athletic Club, Handley tossers, Mo- hawks and O'Donnell's were seen in action for the last time this season. With the exceptlon of Handley, all these teams turned in final victories. |There was but one title at stake— | Petworth downed the Handley bunch, 4 to 3, for the title in the Suburban League. . A great crowd watched Petworth trim Handley. Nace McCormick, on the mound for Petworth vielded but A trio of bingles. His team came to life in the second scoring a pair of runs after Handley had shoved across a marker in the initial frame. Dominican Lyceum humbled the Ri- alto tossers, 3 to 0. with Sticks G {radi as the individual star of the da Sticks saved the game for the Domin- {icans when he made a brillfant catch {in the fifth session, with bases load- ed. Had he missed the apple, Rialto would have won. Mohawks took both ends of a twin bill from the Knickerbockers. win- ning, 12 to 3, and 1 to 0. Finney Kelley of the Indlans had an easy time of it in the first game. but in the second competition 'was _keen. Walter Beall, the Rochester hurling . hooked up in & pitcher's duel With Ross Fisher. The former bo man allowed but one lone bingle. }while his mound opponent was nick= jed for four swats. | Timely clouting by Bleir, Barber and Owen enabled the Silver Spring [Tigers to defeat the Boyds nine. 6 to 2. "Johnny Bleir hurled masterfully for the Tigers. Purdy’s catch in the third frame was clever. A ninth-Inning_ rally gave _the O'Donnell's Drug Store team a § to . B, ory over the Irving Athletic Club. The winner's record for the sea- ison boasts of nineteen wins and nine 1 defeats. Dreadnaughts of Alexandria swamp- ed the Rockville team. 16 to 1, after amming thirteen bingles off ‘Grubb and Clarke. Walter Watt was in rare form for the Virginians. He was found for only six safeties. ty Athletie Club will close its e Tmorrow in & twin bill at the \merican League Park. meeting the Elliotts and the Shamrock Juniors. The first game will get under way at 1 o'clock. Liberty pushed its win Tecord to thirty-five victories when it % both ends of a double-header Vesterday. It downed the Western Athletic Club, 25 to 9, and the Elliots, 2 to 0. {NAVY PLEBES TO TACKLE G. U. AND MARYLAND CUBS ANNAPOLIS. Md., October hman teams of Georgetown and Maryland are to be encountered by the new plebe eleven of the .Naval Academy. The Marylanders will be played October 13 and the Hilltoppers ovember 10. Other games scheduled for the plebes are: October 20, Virginia fresh- men; November 3, Loyola College; 10, Staunton Military Academy. 1— I SANDLOT GRIDDERS PLAY | - ANDLOT foot bali competition scrimmages FIRST GAMES OF SEASON| got under way yesterday. everal teams staged their inaugural contests and others indulged in brisk] While squads irom the big four—Mercury, George- town Athletic Club, Knickerbockers and the Mohawks—were sent through brisk workouts, teams of lighter poundage were in earnest combat. Some real battles were supplicd. Nearly 2,000 fans watched the Vir- ginia Athletic Club and the Apache eleven wage a 6-to-6 deadlock. Pay- ton scored the Virginians' first touch- down when he raced forty yards in the third period on an end play. Apache made fits marker when Cornell gathered in a pass and dashed goalward. It was a bitterly-fought game. White was @ consistent [round gainer for the Apaches, while payton was adept in line plunging for the Virginia! Lexington Athletie Club's chances | to trim the Arabs Sunday at 2 o'clock were increased yesterday when it swamped the Southern Preps, 13 to 0. cach side was unable to score in the first half. but in the third period Reds Mangum carried the ball over. | Allen “réceived a pass in_ the finai | session, scoring another six-pointer | for the winners. Mulvaney, Frizzell | and Parker performed well. Yorke Preps ram rouzh |the Lotus Athletic - Club, 120 to 0. Demma, M. Lepre, |and Nevaiser uncorked some fla hod over winning, cuzzi hy Club and the Trinity scrimmaged vesterday, the former winning, 2 to 0, when it r:xlslerod a safety in the final ses- sion. Conch McCarthy of the Knicker- bockers sent his squad through & stiff practice yesterday. Havoe Athletic C is castin about for a game Sun s v with some Match Your Odd Coats With OQur Special | TROUSERS Save the price of entire new suit. All colors, sizes, patterns. . AN First Race, 1:45 PM. Special tralns will leave Onto 1 R Tkizs, 15133, 1248 P, M. each day, returning im- after the races. 3 team averaging 135 pound: Chal- lenges are being received by Manager Harrington, North 433-J. . A —— Quincy Midgets will hold practice tomorrow at 3. o'clock on the Em School gronnds. These players are requested to report: Bell, Stormont, J. Foley, C. Foley, Albaugh, Wler, King, ittleton, Finnecon, Walters, Bryne, Van Gates, Gravats and Hayes. Arab_Midgets swamped the Lin- colng, 26 to 0, in their initial of the season. Long and Wood played well. Games with thé-winning outfit can be arranged by cglling Manager Jack O'Connell, Lincold 3246, WESTERN HIGH BOdKS GAME WITH C. U. FROSH Western High's foot ball eleven will clash with the Catholic University freshman eleven Friday, October 12, on the latter's field. Last year the Georgetown team fell before the C. U. frosh Forty candidates out for the fresh- man team are expected to report for practice this afternoon. EARL & WILSO LONGWOOD (MEDIUM) . Better Collars with roll front and lock BRUCEWOOD (LOWER) ’INSEGT NINES MEET l How Foot B By SOL METZGE! 'UDGING from the success of this method of attack, the shift prin- ciple is an accepted one in foot ball. Heisman_ won fame with it at Georgia Tech, where Alexander still follows his methods with success. Bankhart followed this principle on- ly in backfield play at Colgate just previous to the war and defeated | ginia, under Spears, defeated Pitt w The principle of the shift, first ball world at Minnesota by Harry to outflank the defensive lin I both. It is effective when wi who have not been coached to meet Some coaches claim that agalnst well coached teams it is less effective than a system of attack used from formations which do no shift before the snap of the ball. Thelr argument is that when linemen shift rapidly and the ball is snapped the instant they alight in their new positions these linemen cannot be as cer- tain to work In co-ordination with cach other as when standing (n_the Same position without shifting. They eay that the offensive linemen tak- ing out opponents. can do so far better when the position of the op- ponent is known in advance of the snap of the ball. On shift plays this is not possible, because all good teams shift with the offense, so it is impossible for a lineman on at- tack to tell where the man he is to take is going to be when the play starts. Shift plays have only worked when the movement of the men has been so perfected by practice that all shift together and strike together. Endless practice is needed to perfect such perfect timing. High school teams rarely use a shift attack effec- tively because experienced players are needed to play this offense per- fectly. (Sol Metsger, out foot bull ezpert. ard_one of the foremost foot ball coaches in the country, will answer any questions about playing foot dall sent Aim, carc of the sport depart- ment, if @ return, stamped, envelope is inclosed.) both Yale and Princeton. West Vir- ‘Williams and_then copied by Yale, is e by a quick jump of either line or backs, or orked rapidly and when used against players ”fiISPLAYS GREAT POWER | IN ROUTING TENNESSEE: __~ How TOMORROWS GAME, AQAINST' THE SAME TEAM, CAN BE WON FETCH \T BACK WITHOUT HIM EVER KNOWIN'IT 0 TR all Is Played( THE QUESTION Is there any advantage to be gained in using the shift type of plays? ith a shift last fall. brought to the attention of the foot it. SIXTY-YARD PUNTER MAY NOT MAKE TEAM Possessing_an _educated toe that can consistently drive whirling spiral punts down the field for sixty yards or more, Larry Falkner promises to be a hard man to keep off the Penn State varsity eleven this fall. Yet, because he is an end, the coaches have not been able to find room for him up to the present time. Falkner played end on the yearling eleven last fall and did some 0O punting at that time. His kicking this fall, however, has steadily im- |proved and he now is by far the best | punter developed at Pénn State for |a number of vears. He is a mighty | promising end also, but with Han |Frank at one flank and Ted Artelt| |at_the other, the Nittany cumc have a pair of experienced terminal |that will hold their own with any rival eleven. Were it not for the fact that Coach Bezdek_has two other average kick- ers in Mike Palm and Chbarley Light, it is likely that a place would have 1o be made for Falkner. KEven o, he is apt to get into a number of games this season and, being only = Sophomore, he has two more years of varsity play coming to him. Falkner entered Penn State from the Potomas State School, West Virginia. [a] |CAPITAL CRAFT BEATEN IN MODEL YACHT RACE Diana, a forty-eight-inch sloop from Norfolk, Va., took first honors in a series of races staged by the Norfolk Model Yacht Club and the ‘Washington Model Yacht Club, Diana easily won over Prima, the largest Washington boat. Three Norfolk boats competed. Diana is owned by J. G. Miller. Joe Concannon, Empire state pocket billlard expert, will oppose Earl Thomas tonight .at the Capital Hill Blillard Parlors. 208 Pennsylvania avénue southeast. He will take on Thomas and Jack Clements tomorrow night. | | type. E] Is Declared to Possess All Essentiils of Winning Combination—Has Backfield That Is Great In Every Angle of Offense. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N tained, however, several very fine i EW YORK, October 1.—Tennessce was hardly prepared for the sort of foot ball team she encountered at West Point on Saturday. Coming out of the south with rather a sketchy machine—it con- ndividual performers, particularly in the line—it ran bang up against onc of the most powerful Army elevens that the writer ever has seen. Moreover it was an outfit which is being hurried along considerably faster than normal in order that the Notre Dame team may find itself faced with rugged opposition on O the hopes of the Army coaches wi South . over the Cadets two weeks hence it diers are unprepared. This Army team is physically pow erful, mentally alert and technically admirable, In Smythe, hero of year's Navy game; Wood, another veteran, and Tiny Hewitt,' late of h, it has a backfield combi- le of anything in:the way of finesse and of physical power. And rarely is any team blessed at the out- set of ghe season with two tackies =0 fine 'as Capt. Mulligan and Good- man. Has Twe Great Tackles. This man Goodman. never played foot ball before he came to. West Point. His speclalty upon arrival was swimming. Not many days elapsed, however, before he demonstrated that he is a natural tackle, a great brawny fellow, who is as shifty on his feet as a lightweight and endowed with vast strength. As for Mulligan, his of stand-up-and-look-it-over tackle play, is familiar with all fol- lowers of the game. Using Hewitt as a line butker, the Army team, working from a quick backfleld shift which did not - im- press the writer as at all illegal, the Fadets played havoc with the Volun- teers’ line defense, and the beauty of the short sharp forward pass Over | center or a wide pass in flat territory Was brought home to the Tennessee defense in a most convincing maner. Smythe, the spectacular No. 1 back, contented himself for the most part With running the team and throwing forward pasees.— Upon only one oc- casion did he take the ball, and then his nimble feet traversed some twenty rds before he was stopped. It is a great temptation for a’running quarterback to do a lot of the ball- carrying, and the manner in which he resisted the temptation in favor of giving all his teammates a thor- ough try-out was most commendable. Harvard System in Vogue. Capt. John McEwan, the coach, himself a product of Ma. Graves system of line play—which in turn is the Harvard system—has favored this scheme of play pretty completely in carrying the Ci along thus far, and suoh manifesta- tions of the Cambridge school of thaught as the loose center on de- fense, the rather wide and upright stance of the linemen and the man- ner of pinching in the attack were in_evidence. If_there was any flaw in the play of the Cadets it lay in the downfield work of the ends, which, however. end aggregation will be realized. ctober 13. All the chances are that ith respect to the always proficient If Knute Rockne's men win will not be because the embryo sol- -was not sufficiently poor to warrant criticism. Tennessee, as said, has a number of qualified players, and the team within a fortnight will be able to play much bettee foot ball than it | showed on the plains. It was her misfortune to mget an eleven that was at least two weeks farther ad- vareed than any big team has been! within the ‘memory of the writer. The southerners have a nifty forward | pass attack. Beyond this nothing can { be sald for the team except in terms | of the future. {MARYLAND U. GIRLS | ~LIST UNIQUE MATCH | —e Such sharpshooters are the girls of the University of Maryland that they have scored a hit in the far-off con- tinent of Africa. 4 The girls’ rifie team has received a | challenge to a match to be shot with the girls of St. Ann's Diocesan Col- | lege of Natal, British South Africa.’ | A shoot has been arranged with the | foreign college for January 19. The National Rifle Assoclation standard ! fifty-foot target will be used and the { resulting scores exchanged between the two teams. It probably will be a month after the match is shot be- fore the teams learn of their op- | ponents’ score. | The Maryland girls have requested that pictures of the teams be ex- changed, as they are anxious to have a more personal assoclation with their rivals. Betty Amos will captain the Ma land girls' rifle team this year. Ma Massicott, Eugenia Clement, Thelm Winkjer, Elizabeth Flenner, Anm Dorsey and Dorothy Anderson er the remaining members of last year team. Twen five new girls are t. ing out for '@ itions now, and of this number eight will be chosen to com- plete the membership of the team which is limited to fifteen. The Maryland girls fired seventeen matches last vear. and won thirteen of them. Sergt. W. H, Simmons again will coach the team. coat, somewhat short'; straight trousers. A Great Variety of Society Brand-Models “The Boulevard” A New Society Brand A smartly eut English:type for the man who likes loose lines. 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