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'C, MONDAY, . WASHINGTON, 'SPORTS "'’ Many Flaws ' OCTOBER 8, “1923. ¢ Princeton Eleven Displays D Three Local Grid Squa G.U., MARYLAND AND G. W. 'PLAYERS GET LIGHT WORK Defeat of Hilltoppers Saturday Due to Marines’ Strategy—Maryland Outgamed Penn to Win. Hatchetites Were Overpowered. OLD NASSAU COMBINATION HAS LOTS OF WEAK SPOTS Fortunaté to Fare as Well as It Did in Contest with 5 l-fopkins.—Baltimore Team Content to Play Powerful Defensive Game. BY H. C, BYRD. RACTICE for foot ball squads here today and tomorrow undoubted- P Iy will lighten considerably. Following grueling contests through which Georgetown, George Washington and University of Mary- fand played Saturday it is certain that one or two days of light' work will do more good than any other kind. No doubt players of all three teams, though they escaped real injuries, are stiff, bruised and sore from their experiences and need rest. ; Georgetown lost its game with the Marines, rather unexpectedly to those in close touch with the eleven on the Hilltop. The Blue and Gray iooked for and prepared for a hard struggle, but did not look for such an exhibition as the Marines gave. 3 It secms that the Hilltoppers lost because the Marines outgeneraled them in the type of game played, and, of course, because of the remark- able abilities of Goettge, Marine fullback. Gaining rather easily in the first two quarters; Georgetown wore itself down against a veteran or- ganization, so that when it came time in the second haif for the Marines to rush in their ace and deliver the telling punch there was not the strength in the Blue and Gray lines to withstand the assault. The game showed just how valuable f Washington and Lee's failure to one man can be to a foot ball team.|definitely determine the status of the Without Goettge the Quantico men |situation before leaving Lexington night have won in that second half, | probably cost it three or four thou- but they would have a hard time con- | sand dollars and placed it in r'.\lher' vincing most people that such would |an embarrassing situation. Deen the case. en in poor| ical condition, Goettge was a brilliant pe Two days be- fore the game he could not stand straight, because of unhealed broken cibs, and he played that game Satur- rt of it, with heavy band- sing his body. sod generalship to allow an team to rush itself out in part of # &ame, and if the | tually went into the con- at intention, as seems cer- were their{ ty of Maryvland defeated, 10 to 7, 60 per cent’ better Virginia Poly- chnic Institute eleven by just such BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ’ EW YORK, October 8—Upsets, wherein some relatively humble cleven topples over a big fellow, and surprises in which important teams are compelled to fight tooth and nail for their prestige, con- stitute the thrilling and spectacular elements of early season foot ball. t Saturday’s contests were replete with shocks of the sort. So were those of the preceding Saturday; all of which goes to show how wide- | spread has become the art of foot ball, haw broad the distribution of accomplished gridiron performers. Pennsylvania met a strong defensive outfit in Maryland. Unsble to score herself, she found herself unable upon one occasion to kzep the College Park collegians out of drop-kicking distance from her goal. Re- sult, an ineradicable blot upon the escutcheon of a team whose material promised prodigious exploits. Maybe that promise will later be redeemed, but the blot will remain. CHEWING TOBACCO WHILE {PLAYING FOOT BALL FATAL By the Associated Press. ULEVELAND, October 8. —Chew- ing tobacco while playing fogt ball cont the life of Chester Mares, aged twenty-three years, a Cleve- | oD CoLLing PLAYED A STAR GAME INS WORLD SERIES WS PERFORMANCE IN 1305 15 THE SHINING LIGHT OF “WORLD SERIES PLAY. He shutoul the Afhleties 3 fimes in one Geek |, Had Johns Hopkins, another Mary- |land institution, had an attack com- mensurate with her fiery defense, Princeton might have shared with the Quakers the bitterness of a beating. As it was, the Baltimoreans contented | themselves with utilizing Turnbull's | gifted toe upon most occasions, their object being to keep the ball down in | Tiger territory as much as possible and thus hold down the score. In { this design Wolbert, a nifty guard, assisted materially 'by his general | play in the line and open field, while {Perndt and Schacht, the ends, did some fine blocking of low punts. Three punts blocked in a_ single game is samething of an achievement against a big eleven—or a little one, either. Hopkins Eleven Promising. This Johns Hopkins outfit is prom- ising. ‘On defense it is poised and rugged, and with this asset. coupled with superfine punting. the team should hold its own at least with op- ponents in its own class while de- veloping a real offense for the games t is seriously bent upon winning Carelessness .in down-fleld tackling must be corrected and the center ter- ritory in forward passing by oppo- nents should be watched ;. As for Princeton, the writer has fiot Princeton’s anguish over its green material and poor outlook are almost as convincing as they were last year, when, to judgo by the prass reports, the situation was so gloomy that’ everybody was about ready“to creep Into a hole and call it quits. Saturday’ 16-to-7 victory in the opening game with Johns Hop- kins, according to Princeton's ap- parent feeling, just about made the situation -even worse, if possible. Perhaps, if the Tygers beat George- | “own -this week, somebody wall have | to coin new words to express the| pessimism. ! But wouldn't it be one on the Tygers if Georgetown was to-win?__ hospital at Paimesviile. Marcs, playing fullback Satur- y at Willoughby, east of d just thrown a forward when he was thrown from his feet. In falling, a wad of tobacco be- zed in his throat. Efforts ans at the fleld to pre- failed. vent deat! {MANAGER OF M'TIGUE DOESN'T LIKE DEAL| BY FAIR PLAY. 1est with in, they CARH IN (912 WAS TE GREATES! in Georpe ROKE AN UNKNOWN SUBSTIWTE — WAS TE BIGGEST SURPRISE BAKER, WON HIS NAME IN 1911 s wallops. were the tec Incidentally, the game seems to show that the Marines are stronger than they have been rated. The addi- tion of Hunt, former V. M. L tackle, It Nebraska ix anywhere near as strong as it was a year ago, Illinois is out with another great eleven, At and Beckett, former Oregon star, to least that seems to be indicated by | O ARY SERIES would hawe won theseres, their line-up seems to ha most a different eleven. e Many were made al- won. the one-sided score by which Illinois {or the Gunts . most Sensafional ever mede, NEW YORK, October 8.—To hear Joe Jacobs talk, he had more adven comments after the defeat by M. I. and the comparatively poor inst Washington College arines had shot their bolt | ind would get whipped badly by the id Army Corps team. = Somebody seems to have been mistaken. The one big upset of games of Sat- urday was the downfall of Pennsyl- vania at_ the hands of Maryland. There is little need for comment on | the game. The result tells the story, but if There was one feature of the | game deserving of spegial mention it what _actually was the deciding | factor. No two foot ball teams ever fought through a first half more evenly than did Penn and Maryla; Marylapd made three first “do and Penn' twe, but so evenly were team ched that practically all | play was near the center of the field. | | he third quarter was almost the|Lapinski got off a beautiful dropkick from the thirty-yard line. me and it became evident that ity Mohawks made several wild efforts to crash through for a touchdown, | | but their offense crumbled under the force of the Reina Merecedes team'’s driving power. Even Josh Licarone, hefty back of the Indians, failed to | Bottle Cox, with his ability to hit the line, faltered: when there were no openings for him to pass. both teams could hold themselves to- gether as they had been doing there would be no scoring. In other words it simply was a case of two Eroups of men fighting it out without qua ter; if both could hold out neither could win, but if one failed to hold' B MOHAWKS’ LOSS STARTLES here. minated in a stinging disaster for th held the city championship title, Victory for the Reina grid gain consistently. A fast, clever eleven faced the Mo- | SANDLOT GRIDIRON FANS ATTERING down the Mohawks’ defense by terrific line plunges and sweeping end runs, the Reina Mercedes” foot ball eleven scalped the Indians, 3 to 0, and took home a bunch of money yes | terday aiternoon after one of the greatest sandlot conflicts ever staged ‘What the some 2,000 fans called a “set-up” for the Indians ter- e eleven that for nearly ten years has lironers came in the’ third period, when The | trim the Waverly eleven, 6 to 2. Man- [Foot Ball Facts | | NO REAL LINE A not proved sufficient to determi not a bright outlook for success in the fore it. | at Pasadena. No team of the year ha hoping to be ready for_each part of it. by 18 to 7. Against the former it was m possible to try out many substitutes, | si but Dickinson gave the midshipmen | After opposing West Virginia Wesleyan next team meets Pennsylvania State, Princeton and Colgate in a row, to be followed by the Military Academy in three weeks, and then a jump of five weeks and the final match against the champions of the Pacific slope ON NAVY GIVEN IN TWO CONTESTS NNAPOLIS, October 8—The two games already played by the Naval | /Academy eleven, against William and Mary and Dickinson, have ne whether that team has or has string of big games which is be- Saturday, the Naval s a harder ‘task, but the Navy is The Nayy won from Willlam and|is felt in the backfleld more than any- Mary by 39 to 10 and from Dickinson | where else, and every cffort is being ade to develop all the strength pos- ble in this department. Flippin and Shapley have done the | tures down in Columbus, Ga. than Stanley had in Africa. The way he tells it the Dixie fans had a shapely McTigue, his meal ticket, to swing upon provided they did not keep their engagement to meet William Law- rence Striblinf in the ring. Not only did they have the tree piewed out, but they showed it to Jacobs and McTigue, dilating upon peculiar merits of the tree as a place from which to hang. This broken thumb stuff, which is always swallowed by the supposedly wise eastern fans, was altogether too big a mouthful for the southerners. They did not realize that it was part of the game for a fighter to do some- thing to his hand if & contract sud- denly began to look less desirable than it did when the document was signed. No, down there the customers hold to the theory that when a fighter has signed for a battle it is his busines: to keep the date, and that likewis a manager has some responsibility in the matter of producing his prin- tree all picked out for him and Mike | in years seen a big team that needs greater attention. Flaws begin with the center. No eleven will ever get anywhere without accurate passing from the pivot man. It is the main- {spring of every p! The problem in {developing a center these days is two- fold. There must be 2 mechanical ex- cellence in passing and at the same time the pivot player must, when his team is on defense, be a gifted diag- nostician and tackler. You cannot {have a man good in one thing and {poor in another. Princeton’s snapping back of ‘the ball was dreadful to watch on Satur no matter who played the positio: _There were more than mere indica- tions that the d_positions will eventually be wel ed for, and one man who played . Hills, the weight thrower, show undoubted promise. line from end to er on offense, and r line and sweep ik on the part of scrved to hide the Tiger's real shortcomings on defense. It's a big. “frong ag, ation—lots of weight and brawn and speed every- where. But incxperienced. Roper's 923 task is not envied. Navy Not Going Strong. Nor_is the Navy going any | t H perhaps an and overhead Johns Hopkin i { too hawks. = Badders, sailor fullback, |ager F. R. Kersey, Franklin §126, is a nard contest Jast Saturday and the | most encouragtng work of all the | Gol StrAnEe MW ben e O | oo e MW me liddics e out the other would win. It was Penn | that broke T Quakers crumbled inder Maryland attack and were beaten to their own goal line, where kicked over the win- ning poi 3 1 none too polite words, | but in the parlance of the athletic | tield, Maryland won because its pla «rs had the “guts” to win. i | George Washington could not be | expected to win from Western Mary- | land. Coach Quigley does not have | a third the material from which to mold machine Hatchetit is pos Western ryland. Quigl was inst a big and pow phy R team far more experi-| enced than that which wears the Buff and. Blue ! Georgia Tech won from stitute by the margin ch existed in thes alertness of a yer who intercepted a Tech’s own | Virginia by his team. hat an’unco s just about as down in the oppo: ry as it is any Incidentally all press reports contest indicate that the game must have been just about as | Lrilliant even Atlanta’s foot ball | mad population seems to be. where. of that University of Richmond probably | pave Virgi of another | are such a ¥ The | team from Richmond kept the Char- | Iottesville eleven from ecrossing its | £ ] line, and lost only because Bk'lln\'i nold als from t 1a, Richmond plays the University Maryland at College Park this | week, North _Carolina State's show AEainst Penn State was so0 unexpect- | vdly gocd that it seems to be bear- | ing out what its people Iave claim- ed—thpt it will have an excellent| team. © Sixteen points is not many | points for that Penn State team that| appeared at American League Park Jast son. an eleven considerably rolnforced, in fact, to score against _a South Atlantic eieven. met its undoing through | d passes that was intercepted, so Virginia -Poly- technle Institute get victory in fts ne with Davidson. An intercepted s was converted into a touch- uwn and the subsequent goal after touchdown. - > 1 A firt look at the score by which | yale beat North Carolina indicated | that the Tarheel¢ vaunted strength | A not materialized and that it was| ruch weaker than anticipated. No- | body ever dreamed that Yale would beat the Tarheels by such a count.! but another and_ later look at the press reports showed - the reason, Why. Without excepticn, not a name | 1 As V. M. L one of its forwa ? a man on whom Coach Bill Fetzer epends to round up a good machine ppears in the line-un. Fetzer prob- Ably decided to send in a second- Yiring outft and let Yale win as:it} Vleased, so he could conserve bis bost material for games which really | mean something to him. Tt I8 inderstood that North Carolina in-| tends to come nn farther north than Washington for gamex after .thisi ear, and prebably Fetzer did mot o’ whether the score against Yale was five or Afty. knowing as he did that he had little chance to win. For the second comsocutive week i played creditably for the struck terror in the hearts of his op- ponents. Time and time again he cut through the line for long gains. Reina Mercedes threatened several times, Mohawk line kept it from grabbing any extra points. Prior to this battle, the Lexina- tons and the Arabs staged a thrilling game in which the former won, 6 to 0. Both elevens seemed equal in strength | until the second half, ingtons came to life. when the Lex Bus Mulvaney vinners. Since the Mohawks' defeat, there is much _interest being manifested in next Sunday’s game at Union Park ! The Indians will tackle the Apaches who came into limelight yesterday when they downed the = Irequois eleven of Del Ray, Va., 56 to 0. Cor- nell, Sweeney 'and Smithson each scored a pair of touchdowns in this fray. Several other big sandlot elevens were in action yesterday. The Knick- bockers presented a formidable cleven that routed the Naval Receiv- ing Station team, to 0. A for- ward pass, Southern to Daily, ac- counted for, the Knicks' first score. Powers, Hiifeary, Kerr and’ Donohue were consistent ground gainers. Club looms as a dangerous contender for the city in- dependent championship as a result of Its victory over the Anacostia Eagles, 14 to 0. Silverman, Snow, Litkus and Adams played the back-: field in rare style for the Southern | team. Coach Charley Guyon of the Southerns wants all players to re- port for practice tomorrow and Wed- nesday., The Southerns are casting about for a game Sunday with some eleven averaging 150 pounds. Man- ager E. T. Childress may be reached t 1110 4% street southwest. Interior Department eleven made its debut, downing the Navy Yard Ma- rines, 9 to 0. Quinn tackled Baart for a safety, while Wheelock went over for a touchdown. St. Stephen’s gridmen ran roughshod over the Clover Athletic Club, win- ning, 38 to 0. In the last half St. Stephen’s put in its reserve players, who copped a pair of six-pointers. Corlnthians swamped the Elk In. sects, 55 to 0, with Laifsky, Lucas, Cook, Cohn and Clark playing in fine form. Naval Afr Station eleven and the Quincy gridironers seemed destined to.battle to a scoreless tie, until Fields of the former outfit grabbed a forward pass in the final period and dashzr.l goalward, his team winning, 610 0. Parks and Roamers staged a spir- ited battle, the fray ending in a score- less tie. Galleher, of the Parks and Mellington of the Roamers were the individual stars. Although the §tanton Juniors hum- bled the Roseb@ids of Alexandria, 13 to 6, it was the first time they were scored upon in the past two years. The Stantons drew first blood when Ray Holman intercepted a forward pass and raced ninety-five yards for a touchdown. Greater weight enabled the Pierce Athletic Club of Hyattsville, Md., to RIOT AT GRID GAME; Hook and Jones | {booking games far Waverly. A varled tTle of attack, including end runs by Johnny Robey and for- but penalties and a steadier , ward passing to Joe Perrone, gave! yen a victory of 12 to! the Navajo ele 0 over the Havocs. Games with the | winners ‘can be arranged by calling iM:mazl*r Jack Mattingly, Lincoln 9556. The Navajos average 135 pounds. Seats Plensant gridmen routed the ! Yosemites, 12 to 0, with Roberts and ! Brown supplying spectacular playing. | The latter youngster intercepted a | forward pass in the second period and | made . a thrilling 50-yard run to a | touchdown. Clever playmg by Damma, Cha- | conas and Deambrosi enabled the | Yorke Preps to defeat the Corinthian Athletic' Club, 12 to 0. The Yorks scored In the first and third pertods. A chnllenge how been issued by th Roamer Preps to teams averaging pounds. Manager C. Dulin reached at 1222 D street northeast. Trinity Juniors are anxious to book games with teams in the 125-pound class. Challenges are being recelved at the Trinity Church Club, 36th and O streets. 5 Teams in_the 155-pound class desir- ing games should get in touch with Manager Ellis of the Naval Air Sta- tion elevér, Lincoln 4963, EASTERN WILL PLAY * GONZAGA GRIDDERS Eastern High's gridiron warriors are In for a tough conflict when they hook up with Gonzaga High School eleven " tomorrow afternoon on the tidgl basin grounds. Charley Guyon's youngsters have not yet shown any .real prowess in ts battles with the University of ‘Maryland freshmen and Episcopal's eleven, The Eastern line was unable to withstand a continued attack. | a‘spirited battle, although it will be outweighed considerably. Coach Sullivan is counting heavily upon Colliere, O'Caliaghan, Genau and Mitchell to make matters hot for Eastern. These four youngsters played cleverly Emerson Instftute, ning, 13 to 6. Guyon will send his squad through & brisk work-out to- day on the Rosedale playgrounds in preparation for tomorrow’s game. their team win- Business High's eleven 'will open the season Wednesday against the Alexandria. High's speedy’ team that downed Central Saturday, 7 to 0, in one of the biggest upsets of the sea- son. _ A battle from. start to finish is expeeted, 3 p Coach Kelly 6t Business is worry- ing about his backfield, but seems to be well satfsfied with the line. | Those. who see_the fray Wednesday {will find in Watt one of the best | punters in the high schools. ! NN A {DISTANCE RACE TO NURMI can be ! Gonziga probably will give Eastern in the clash with| | | essary to play end? Answered by PADDY DRISCOLL i i All-Conference and All- 1918, ern Universtty. All-Western halfhack, 1915-16. American Service quarterback, * ok ok ok An end’s chief duty is to see_that a play never gets outside and to turn all plays in on the tackle. He should never be knocked off his feet. He must think fast'and try to break up plays before they have been formed. He should take about three steps behind the line of scrim- mage and then hesitate until he finds the ball, so that he will-not overrun the play and be fooled on a double pass. On punts he should be the first one down the field. (Copyright, 1923.) TUCKY U. GRIDMAN SUCCUMBS TO INJURY LEXINGTON, Ky., October 8.—In- jurles to Price McLean, center on the University of Kentucky foat ball feam, recelved in the game with the University of Cincinnati at Carson Field Saturday afternoon proved fatal here last night. McLean, twenty years old, and a Junior in the engineering college, re- turned from.Cincinnati with the team Saturday night and apparently was not serfously hurt Yesterday he was | found unconscious in his room and immediately rushed fo a hospital. He | gled without having regained con- sciousness. ! i i |KEN 'GRID COACHES’-FIRST | YEAR IS TOUGH ONE } NEW YORK, Ooctober 8.—A review !of Saturday's-college foot bail games brings the observation that the way i bri of the incoming heed coach ls mnot edged with roses. Last week end feat of o whilea. amall college held hie! { university eleven to a.scoreless tie, {and several others observing. thoir jcharges outplayed at times by foes which had been thought to; possess little strength. = The two whose elevens met defeat are Lou_ Young. who this fall suc- ceeded John -Heisman at Pennsyl- Vania, and Jack Maloney, who re- | cently supplanted Exendine as head coach at Geergetown. Young's eleven l]ost. 3 to 0, to Maryland, and Ma- {loney’s team- was defeated, 14 to 3. by the Quantico Marines. The coach whose team was played to a score-. i +him by telephone. only changes during the game were | Navy backs up to this point. for the purpose of bolstering ocal eleven. . Lacking in Reserves. 1t looks as if the Navy's first-string | used to a large degree {material is at least as good &s last | son. good substitute, par- | 1y for the backfield. are lack- |lege last It has been the policy of the | pounds and is fast. Hc has developed | year's though ticul ing. Navy coaches three complete backflelds, fact barred by a recently to develop at men. Barchet, Navy's best back, has not play Weslevan game and should prime condition for the string and that first-year mcn are now | the Navy people to believe that he has | | adopted rule | real ability as | makes this difficult, as well as cutting | weighing 175 pounds, is even faster {dewn the string of line second-call | than Flippin and is a very aggressive up the least the generally considered the|and amenable to coaching. ed this Star and former coach at Northwest-| vear, but it is belleved that he will| {be in a part of the West Virginia | be of in contests that follow. He is the near- est approach to a real backfiel which the Navy has this season an 1d st i3 undoubtedly one of the most reli- able of the college backs of the year. |Plenty of work, and should be of In spite of the fact that McK. the responsibility of runnin; ce has g the team this year, he is carrying the ball al the defense. Cullen, playing hl ond year, is also improving well as usual and doing well on is sec- in his | running and punting. He is of stocky ! build and weighs a little over «170 { pounds. Shortage of Backfield Men. Of the other backs, Flippin, ley and Ballinger have show: greatest ability, with Devens, Shap- n_ the Fors- berg, Harvey, McLean and Ward next in order.-The shortage of candidates How Foot Ball Is Played | By SOL METZGER. VERY foot ball fan natural sires a side-line seat at lly de- a foot ball contest. Something of the spirit of the team . penetrates him there, and he is elated far when more than when viewing the game from the stands. For the actual p of watching a foot stitutes. they cannot see more t you that when an end of the field from where slipped tip on his job. T As a result. those universitie: elaborate coaching systems cdaches in the stands. Smitl California mentor, keeps his chi ball contest the The former are on t 3 s n half of what is going on. v t n_sweeps around the end on the opposite side he is stationed he rarely kilows which player has | he intervening players obstruct his view. urpose s with place h, the iet as- sistant in the press stand during a game and is in conlé‘nl touch with e assistant is able to see every player in every play and can detect faults ‘These are. phone side line, All scouts prel immediately. the coach on the,py W "R Pennington of Congress who acts accordingly. fer the stands to the side lines. ‘The higher up they get, the better they like it. Only in that way can they note the entire move- ment of the eleven men they are watching and thus obtain thessystem of play’ they are on the looko Fans havé a great advantage stands over those closest to the though they litle realize it. ut for. in the game. The { cholcest-seats are those highest. up.' | For example, the best foot bal for a game in this country is in the R. A, H 11 seat press stand of the Harvard stadium. e rise of the stands at Cambridge In consequence & ar | Of the first-year rule at 4 | Academ fan has the edge on coaches he same level as the contesting teams, and They |are both big, fast and hard working. | | Flippin has a regular place almost to | a certainty, while Shapley, who is un- | derstudy to Barchet, Is sure of being | uring the sea- | Plippin, who came from Centre Col- | year, welghs about 180 | {a knack for picking his way through | | opposing plavers, which encourages | a runner. Shapley, player. Both are extremely willing \ i Stars on Plebe Team. There are a number of players on the plebe squad who would fit in big | the varsity team or list of substitutes | Pen] { taking both games of a double-header | finely just now, so that the adoptli the Naval is proving a real sacrifice. | | However, the plebes are getting }great value next season. Wickhorst, a powerful and aggres- | sive youth of 200 pounds, would cer- tainly almost make the tackle posi- tion on the varsity if eligible, while Kampine is as good as either of the | varsity ends. Paige, guard, and Hard- | wick, end, are other good linemen in | the class,” while Hamilton, Campbell |and Eck 'would prove useful on the string of backs. Hamilton, a seven- teen-year-old youth, is a befter punter | than ‘any varsity squad man and can pass or run with the ball. He Is a big fellow and another year should make him highly valuable. | ¥ THE QUESTION. ‘What seats are the choicest for a foot ball game? and sub- Any coach will tell PENNINGTON'S PIGEON 'WINS 200-MILE RACE| Cumtumee,. a young pigeon owned Helghts, won the 200-mile race of the Aero Homing Pigeon Club from Pitts- § burgh, Pa., to this city. The winner made the route at an average of fifty miles an hour. One ‘hundred and forty-eight birds from twelve lofts competed. The average speed per minute, in vards, of the first return to cach loft, is as follows: E. ©. Koch.. V. F. Burgess 1 J. Kreahiing. | Ransas City are in some places. Here in the north one never hears of the customers— save when the turnstiles are clicking. If a fighter welches on an engage- ment the only thing that happens is a summons to appear before the box- ing board, where his actions are duly investigated in accordance with legal procedure. ¢ Copyright, 1923. KANSAS CITY TAKES A. A. CHAMPIONSHIP + TOLEDO, Ohio, October 8.—Kansas City won the American Association ant for the season of 1923 by from Toledo vesterday, the scores be- ing 3 to 1, and 12 to 8. Not in years has there been such a close race in the association, and to capture the pennant Kansas City had only to win one game even though St. Paul took botR games from Louis- ville. St. Paul, however, only got an_even break. It was the first time Kansas City had won a pennant although it was awarded one in 1918, when the gov- ernment put_the ‘work or fight” order into effect and the American Assoclation closed its season in July with the Blues out in front. The final standing: L. Pet. 875 .661 542 a10 ‘452 448 434 1 St. Paul . Iouisville Golumbus Milwaukee Minneapo! Indinnapolis Totals . Final result: Kansas City. 3.12: Toledo. Bt. Paul, 43; Lonisville, 27. apolis, 18-1; Minneapolis, 8.7. Milwas Columbus, 0-1. SILVER SPRING NINE ENDS YEAR WITH WIN Silver Spring Tigers, with Lem Owen and Patterson on the mound, successfully terminated their base ball season by downing the Dread- naughts of Alexandria, 10 to 7. The Marylanders put the game on ice when they shoved across four tallfes in the sixth and five In the seventh session. Watt toed the mound for the Vir- ginians, allowing six wallops. Mount Rainifer and Arlington are deadlocked in their series as a Te- sult of the formiérs victory, 5 to 2, yesterday. Mount _ Rainfer smacked eleven %flwn off the slants of Pfeil and ‘ormsley Bill Loomis, Lyny Loomis #rd Te- trault played brilliantly for tne win- ners. Tn_a slugtest from start to finish, the Rialto tossers took the measure of the Handley nine; 17 to 14. Handley connected for seventeen bingles, while Rialto registered fif- teen wallops. expected to do better against little Dicki feat of Nebraska top heavy and indicates there is a greater distance between gridiron science among leaders in the western conference and. the Missouri ‘valley conference tha ny critics thought As for V. she is likely any season to upon the gridiron | loadea 5 Eam no doubt a s formance. ever, that ¢ did s de- surprisingly | ted did Tech a weel Center a Coe a harc nut . And Colorado the Chicago Uni- versity team just the sort of a tussle a big te is along about now Syracuse swamped William and Ma which made such a good showing against the Minnesota W lucky to cke i few more points than the seventcen scored by Ames ¢ the Missouri v organization. long as the ( keep on scorin more p ts t their rivals it makes no difference what the rivals. do. Which, thouzh optimistic, is not al- ways sound foot ball philgsophy, lead- ing, as it tends io do, to' false hopes. Boozer Pitts secn to be getting the machine rol} at Auburn, and Alabama in her ainst’ Mis sissippi gave Syra some cause for concern. Georgetown fell before the Quantico marines—a real upset, ever thought it happened last year also. (Copyright, 1923.) FOUR BEDWELL HORSES ARE DESTROYED IN FIRE Four race horses and a colt were burned to death when flames de- stroyed the barn of H. Guy Bedwell at Laurel. The horses that perished | were: Foreground, Marjorie A., Noble Bob, Kadin and a colt of Marjorie A. Bedwell, who handled Cudgel and other well known thoroughbreds when he was trainer for J. K. L. Ross, is in Canada with a string of horses TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, October 8—The Potomac and Shenandoah rivers both were clear this morning. ] THE ONLY COLLAR FANS BEAT PLAYERS BOSTON, October §—A foot ball game between ‘the Jeftries A. C. team of East Boston and the St. Ann’s team Qf Neponset at Fields Corner yesterday ended in a riot when 2,000 WHO DEFEATS (iUILLEMOTL”‘s o team was played to & score: LYONS, - France, October 3.—Paavo ard instructor, now head coach Nurmi, the Swedish runner, yesterday 'g‘r‘éo]umhlm . Amherst made . the won & 5,000-meter race from Josef | trouble for Haughton's men. Guillemot, the Olympie champlon dis-, "Recently appointed coaches whose tance runner, thereby obtaining re- | teams were at times outplayed by venge for the defedt administered to ! small college opponents are Jess him by Guillemot at the Antwerp|Jjawley of Dartmouth, whose eleven Olympic games. Nurmi won by & fur- | was held scoreless for thres perfods Th is very .abrupt. ectator in the press stand can look directly down upon the game and see every move as clearly as though watching: a game of checkers. As a result, one gets a far better idea of the various duties of the various players in a given play. Such a seat enables the spectator to actually see the reason why a play goes or fails. Pittsburgh has wen beceuse of ex- pert use of the forward pass. . Tt Jdefeated Bucknell in its opening zame last Saturday and took the measure of Lafavette because it could pass the ball where there was » man to receive it. Ineidentally, if Tafayette is a¥ strong this year as Jast Pittsburgh’s ccmparative show- ing s such as to indicate that Glen le. H, Darr. F. M. Frasier Thomas. . Fitzgeral Kelly.... » Ferguson withapiqué waille woven right into a semi-soft fab- ric! Smarter than any col- lar youhave yetseen. Two heights: CUTSHAW TO GET FULL SHARE IN TYGER SPLIT DETROIT, Mich., October 8— George “Cuttie” Cutshaw, veteran bage ball player, now on the roster W. L BURKE’S Bi2D IS FIRST of Maine; John Warner is_going to wind up his career at Pittsburgh with a success- ful season. Warner is due to go to Stanford in the fall of 1924. Washineton and Lee's arrangements with Washington and Jefferson seem to hive been noorly managed. It wost assuredly knew that W. and J. ad in its hackfield a cplored hthlete! nd if it 41d not care to play against W. and J. with him in_ the line-up he fact shonld have been settled Athout doubt hefore the team left Tevington. Some southern schools a1 e uoriiiern universities. spectators, incensed at the action of players in’leaving the fleld to punish heckling :onlookers, &treamed from the grandstands and administered a beating to the players. The twenty-two:players were sub- jected to a sévere beating, although they were able to retaliate to a cer- tain extent with spiked shoes and fists. i ¢ A passing_patrolman turned in'a riot call .and when a detachment of officers arrived the combatants made a rush for shelter. One man was ar- rested and when the cruwd tried to réscue him the policemen were foresd black cyes, ong_in 14 minutes 42 seconds. AMERICAN HORSE WINS. , PARIS, October '8.—A, K. M3acCo; ber's ‘Parth, with Frank O'Neill rid- ing, won the Arc de Triomphe stakes, 3,000 francs added, the last big flat racing feature for 1923. The race was vigorously contestéd, the first four horses finishing -heads apart. Filil de Savoie, winner of the grand prix arth paid de Paris, finished t&l’ri P AR i8to1 ¢ firetie Enldcn g Franoe The A . tludes. 30,000 Cross-CowaL. ¥s FUTNERS. Unlyersi! b | Mmoo, Weet Potnt, whose team was held scoreless for 'two periods by, Florida; W, H. Spaulding, Minnesota, whose team. barely nosed out Ames College, 20 to .17, and Jack Ryan, Wisconstn, whose team was held to a 7-to-3 victory by Coe Colleg® Pennsylvania’s opponent this week will be sv-nhmogé Gao;rwwn will engage PrlmntT: olumbia has Wes- {leyan as its sveek end rival; = {mouth is to meet BHoston University: lwut Point . iv to. olgsh with Notre Dame. and the two Western -confer- “ences mertioned have . re~utedly o GTConents inen G s “ hatusditys ) Always buy seats high up in the stands. Those down front give the poorest View. R Copyright, 1028. +~ (86l Metager, our foot ball gere, and ons of the forémost coaches in Toaksait oot Wi, l ex- Joot the country; il ions about ploying im, of our sport editor, if g return, mpd, envelope ix inclosed.) Former: A¥gens country aro offeting i 1 ers T W by b B po. e residents in this # prize of $300 to e IN DISTANCE CONTEST A bird from the loft of H. C. Burke won the 200-mile race of the Capi- tal City Racing Pigeon Club, from Danville, Va., to this/city. - The average speed r minute, in yards, of the first return. to each loft is as follows H. C. Burke: C. Kibbey {Balr Loft - Ssith (S o of the Detroit Tygers, has been voted a full portion of the world series prize money which the Tygers will get for finishing in second place in the Amer- ican League race. Cutshaw was stricken with appen- dicitis toward the middle of the sea- son just closed, and for a time hie life was despaired of. When he finally recovdred he was sent to the coast, where he i now recuperating. Cut- shaw will retury to the Tygers next spring in the capacity of a coach. — 2 mwk in bose ball wes STARLAWN BARLAWN