Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1923, Page 27

SPORTS. OLD LINE AND HATCHETITE TEAMS IN CONTESTS HERE Md.-V. P. I. Game Should Be Thriller—George Washington Meets Drexel—Georgetown Has Formidable Fight Ahead at Atlanta. BY H. C, EORGETOWN and Univers all, perhaps more than, they can chew tomorrow Gray goes to Atla fifth BYRD. of Maryland foot bail teams have The Blue and consecutive G nta to try for the humble Georgia Tech on its own lot, while Maryland is to entertain here | at’ Clark € capable an eleven as one could find in a month of travel Georgia Tech seemis to be somewhat below its usual strength, but still is an extrem difficu't team to beat ¢ ne field. The Blue and Gray cleven has stormed the A 4 en enough to know just how hard it is to take, and probably thi Georgetown's record so far possibly is not up to the standard of some of its recent scasons, but more than one Georgetown team has risen to heights way above itself, and it in which that will be accomplished Virginia Polytechnic Institute brin to Washington a fine foot ball te With an aggregation of substi just about as ble as the iffith Stadium the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, about as the of the game were out Olio State juries und t showing it sity | makes wiil depend on whether they men. It is physically powerful and tare in tri > two bucks are clever and has in its backfield two of {in good s eleven will get the fastest ks in the south. Ruther-!one of the few v gl foot ball games *ord und are brilliant in every- it has seheduled. * to m brifliant BT S HIGH SCHOOL GRID the ball in ma st quarter m st w goes both reyin high game hetw hax been men Bad [ rain, I may be as the | It lost | ‘enty College nd in th P “ran all over Cen 8 ssion of one of t : Leen the school foot ball ntral and Eastern becaune of laved Mondny. i players with ath- Tl move their d ommitte an’unswer vers are al- Aclent marks. probably will today ame i1 Wit Old Line a- And E ¢ prac- wit Maryland comple Eregation tically the same & the exception that the men of _Coach ¥iaj < mor ell of Tech announ: at his squad will pras iffith St No team the Maryl: nerson Institute 1w + by Tech's 135-pound team yrd, quarterback individual for held to a th got his aw fons now ar vhat they were wk battle in th series, Burger at t ter, Lanig: rtainly ough played here in recent P. nd DL t American ago, which was just about of foot ball a two vears | 10 to 7. | bition two other s good an e one might care and tomorrow’'s game will find better teams opposed to cach than took the fleld in 1921 While Marvland {8 strivin ts own_against Virgini George Washingtou cleven holding forth in Central against Drexel Institute of phia. Last season the K took the measura of tha phians and expect to turu the trick again. P Catholie University mitsburg to face Mo and Gallaud the second ontly are Gallaudet, during the wee dick, one of its second-s ould broke a leg during uld end-over-cnd. pass? Answered & ANDY SMITH Coach of foot ball, University of Cali- { fornta; hix teams undefeated during three years past. Former all-Amerie can fallback. . use a spiral i Many big games are s heduled to i morrow in vario tions of t 1 country. Out in the r st th Oregon Aggles > the fump dow! ‘the coast to California = Swill give the Californians more of a Strug than they are ox- pecting. The spiral is_ by far the swifter a ore easily controlled . Good centers can learn topass »all as well in the mud as on a field. The end-over-end pass takes longer, and is more uncertain the spiral pa Accuracy in ing the ball counts a great deal the perfection of the backfield and the spiral pass is the more & the strongest in handled, so use ois by whipping Ne- (Capsright. 1 braska so d ¢ proved its worth = COMBED, GLOSS its teams of pa Millions Use It — Few Cents Buys Jar at Drugstore * yracuse ve. Pittsburgh York should furnish plenty ball thrille. The former is hi the coming eleven of ti vear, and the latter never is easv heat anytime or anywhere. burgh has one ~game Virginia. but Syracusc has vet defeated. Tilinois and To; may he the decisivi ern Conferer said to be middle w to be a All eastern foot ball on the N State took Pennsylva but the la than an cv defeat Coll the ma 4 two er think they en chance to > better venge that Auburn goes to West Point again. | Last year Alabama men battled Army to a standstil for about three periods, but ened then and lost. y 19 to 6. Th son it does not appear that they are so strong and probably the Soldiers will win by | rather comfortable margin. | Probably one of the biggest crowds | that have ever watched a foot ban‘ fame at Princeton, outside the games With Harvard and Yale, will see Notre Dame snd Princeton battle in a game which has almost every so-called foot Dall expert gueseing. Notre Dame heat the Army last week and every- body is wondering if it will turn the trick with the Tigers. Princeton usually does what it has to and is likely to give tho middle westerners more of a battle than did the West Point eleven. Princoton has a good scouting system and nine chances out of ten knows about 50 per cent nere about the otre Dame eleven thun aid the Army. | Yale will defeat Bucknell, althoush | it, is going to get a much tougher game than either of those it has had the previous two Saturdays with North Carolina and Georgia. Harvard seems to have its hands full with Holy Cross. Unless the Crimson shows more than it did agalinst little Middlebury a week ago, it will be up against a much more dificult Saturday afternoon than it has any reason for wanting. Virginin and Virginia Military In- stitute will stage a game at Charlottesville that is likely to have all the carmarks of a championship contest. Unless Virginia shows greater | strength than it has in any game it| has played so far, the Lexin n men ! Yo stubbord Csaly e Wil Dcome close to repeating their | L*vn stubbora, unruly shampooed hair performance of last season, when j*tays combed all day in any style you like. they won by two touchdowns. ;"llulr om’” 15 a dignified combing cream . - ot plaved up asMUCh IS tat satural glow asa well nother game mot plav d 4 effect to your bLair—tbat foel touch y e & championship contest, | 500 : Syt ke 'S ohamIPIOnESID DORL AL o (pet dress both in busizess and on social struggle unless all signs fall, is that | occasions. “Hair-Groom™ is greascless; also Scheduled at Ithaca, between Colgate | beips grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair. Be- and Cornell. Colgaté's two.star backs | ware of greasy, harmful imitations, year 1o will not be an exception. | 1y be that this will be one of the games | ok with in- | dk ) YOST PLANS T0 QUIT | AS MICHIGAN COACH | ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 19.— | Fielding H. Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, probably Will net coach Michigan's foot ball | elevens after the close of the present | season |8 |, Yost made this tntimation last night !in an address before the University Press Club of Michigan, when, with tears in his eyes and overcome with emotion. he lauded the spirit Michigan's foot ball twenty-three years of his connection { with its gridiron representatives. The burden of developing Michigan's | foot ball elevens, Yost intimated, will | fall upon George Little, for two years |an assistant coach. jto his four assistants, to whom he ! elegated a large part of the, work jof developing the foot ball clevens. During his talk. Yost pointed out that his contract with the university | contained concerning the development of foot ball elevens, nor placed upon him the dutles of coach. He added, however, that he had de- i vised the major part of the technical work luig out for the foot ball teums. Although he probably will surrender niuch of this work at the end of_the | pre N1t scason, those close to Yost say it will be impossible for him to {surrender his interest In Michigan's gridiron squuds and many of them I predict that he will take an active part in their development, = even { though he turns over to Little the al tunctions of coach. ot was appointed dircetor of ath- letics three years ago. In this capa- h of all a e unive A ording to Dr. rion L. . sident of the un reity, Yost will » | Femain in this capuclty 88 long as he choose no clause WILL BOOST FOOT BALL. CINCINNATIL_ Ohio, October 19— The Greater Cincinnatl Civie Clubs are making efforts to popularize foot ball in Cincinnati. “Better support by the general public” Is the slogan of the foot ball enthuslasts, who say | attendance at games played by ‘s two major teams, the of Cincinnati * and St Xavier College, are mot what they | should be. 'POLY SQUAD ON WAY FOR BIG CLASH HERE BLACKSRBURG. Va., October The Virginia Tech foot ball team is on s way to \Washington, where it ity of Maryland eleven turd. at American League Park. The Techs were given a royal send-off by the corps of cadets, who are confident their team will register a win against the conquerors of Penn Coach (‘ubbage, before leaving, ex- pressed himself as well satisfied with the condition of his men. The mentor he would not be satisfied anything exeept victory. bbage's team is well fortified in every way. There are almost three men for each backficld position and ample reserve strength for the line Tech will present to Washingto- nlans onc of the most polished backs in the south in Don Rutherford, the gobbler ace. It was Rutherford who turred against the 3d Corps, and he is expected 1o use his scholarly toe agat: Maryland. The Techs' “purple theate iz in the best of shape, Capt. Sutton sal f my men will show the dash and speed exhibited lust week in Baltimore, 1 have no fear of them not coming out with the long end of the score.” Other members of the squad were equally optimistic. Twenty-three men are in the squad, three sets of backfield men and nu- merous heavyweights for bolstering up the line NORTH CAROLINA U. WINS. RALEIGH. N. C.. October 19 owa of 12,500 persons defeated Universit yesterday, 14 to 0. Carolina, 19— offensive work. The winners used the forward pass to good effect HOWARD ELEVEN MEETS - or| LIVINGSTONE TOMORROW Howard University's foot ball_eleven will o e 4 rugged foe in the Living- stone College of Salisbury, N. C., to- morrow afternoon on_the local campus. The visitors held Morehouse College of Atlanta to a 6-to-6 tie last week, showing one of the strongest combina- tions seen thus far among colored col- leges of the south. Arrangements have been made to geat 2,000 persons at tomorrow’s fray. —to the best tailoring—a: money—hundreds of W: —An L. HAAS—FA! TRY ON . g on'in The basts, 000000000000 000°600:00000000000000000060000¢ HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, All D. C. College Elevens Busy Tomorrow : Stagg of teams during the Yost paid tribute ; 3“0“0“““00“000“000“000"‘ ] Get Next advantage of this offer— Tailored-to-Measure ALL-WOOL3-Pe. SUIT —the fi stocks have beem ready-tailored for you by READY-TO-WEAR. Merchant Tailors AAS & HE’S A BIG HELP TO MARYLAND ELEVEN JOE BURG] Former Tech High School star, who plays right tackle for the College Parkers. He is a tower of strength on both the offense and defense and uses his “noodle as well as his physical power. He should do some con:picuous work in the | big game with Virginia Poly at American League park tomorrow afternoon. Joe also is regular on the Maryland lacrosse team and while at Tech was an allhigh basket ball player. He may figure in the floor sport at College Park when the pastime is inaugurated this winter in the new gym. IMANY BIG GRID CONTESTS ON SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE N moving today toward the scenes of conflict. Notre Dame arrives today at Princeton, where some 30,000 people ex- pect to be thrilled by the Hoosiers' f nd “‘shell game,” ‘hich Notre Dame followers belicve three champion of last season. The Tiger is saving 1g about the result, but some of his followers in Wall street have asked odds of two to one. PRINCETON DISPLAYS & sl i LITTLE BETTER FORM adium tomorrow, where two of the outstanding backs of the vear will perform—Flanagan of | Pittsburgh, PRINCETON. N. Bill Roper sent th through a long, star triple threat mun, and Bown ddraady the driving rain vesterday. the ball making little progress in either diree- | Wi ieh has charge of ro tion on the muddy fleld [ mbia's Nll\ll:f‘ For almost an hour the regulars for ey tussled with the “Omelettes,” who ex- EharEes. Colunibin ecuted Notre Dame plays as best they han & good chance i bl iR Bhaleda conatty rhe | University of Pennsylvania. coyld in thelr sokked condition. 7 Tucknell hag practico today at_the varsity seemed to show a lttle bet- |y 10 howl. O Hearn and Neale. Yale ter defense than Wednesday. but this fiold stars. who have beed lald was perhaps due to the weather. Dick | UD. will be baclk in the game. Yale Newby made the only score when he | fXPOcts wiotory, huto‘v‘)-,::l\"hs‘nh :"” broke through near the end and ran | hate more stern opposition than to a twenty-five yard touchdown hither seas y uckne! s Bruno Hills, the giant m thrower, was shifted from heavier. ¢ Holy Cross is hopeful guard, and probably position on Saturday | game’ with Harvard, especially be- cause of the Crimson's record so far. well, the regular center, will not be able to play, nd Bob Penn State is gloomy *about its chances ~ with Nuvy, as Johnston, Beattic, star of last vear's Yale con- | test, will also be out alfback, is on th jured list. The Army, defeated last Saturday The probable line-up for Prin: Inds, Stout and Drews: v Notre Daime, has another hard op- Emmery and Kutan; guards EW YORK, October 19.—College elevens that will figure tomorrow i [ touchdown runs of & Muciae of Syr lives burgh. which give 1 un added in- . McIniosh of is chair- mmittee,” ng. strong— la for the aton's s it stober 19 ton vars tmma; in Pitts- hard about the ponent tomorrow in Alabama Poly. Howard; center, Bergen;, qu Dinsmore;_halves. €nively and Croft; fullback, Vanderblg. TOURNEY FOR BASKETERS. ATLANTA. October 1%.—The Southern Intercolleglate Conference basket ball tournament will be held here February 29-March 4. under the | ¢ ausplices of the Atlanta Athletic Club, | and only conference teams will par- ticipate. If the members of the South- ern Intercollegiate Athletic Associa- tion hold a tournament it will be sep- arate and distinct from the confer- ence meet. PITT TO HAVE STADIUM. A new athletic stadium, seat more than 60,000 persons, is to be erected by the University of Pitts-| burgh. It will be in the heart of the | city of Pittgburgh. STAR RULED OFF TEAM. Va. October 19 Virginia Weeleyan foot 11 be without the services chella, star fullback, du the remainder of the season. h “Bob” Higgins ordered Rasch- to turn in _his uniform. The ch said he had failed to adhere to ning rules. SEMI SOFT I L4 in them. 1 nd workmanship for your | ashingtonians have taken 1 LL AND WINTER— Iver Johnson 12, 16, 20 gauge. Wond st of Woolens from our our experts — they're A complete line of T Cleaning Outfits, etc. § z i : : § ‘ | 424 4 e 9th i feread |clash at to win from the) and Harrington Richardson shotguns, all gauges.... Al cevncdscscsencossocad Iver Johnson double-barrel ham- merless 12, 16, 20 gauge.......... FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923. Seeks Quarterback at Chicago —— North Carolina, 14; State, 0. Presbyterian, 38; Erskine, 0. Denver University, 7 Montana State, . BIG GAMES OFFERED | SANDLOT GRID FANS Sandlot foot ball fans are to be of- much entertainment Sunday, when six formidable elevens will take the fleld In a trio of contests. The Mohawk-Interlor Department Unlon Park is attracting {much attention, while the Mercury- Reina Mercedes fray, in the Griffith Stadium, probably will provide lots of action. Knickerbockers have booked a tough {foe in the Anacostia Eagles, on the | fleld at 37th and Reservolr streets. The victors of the Mercury-Reina Mercedes and the Mohawk-Interfor contests will be watched particular- |1y, for this quartet of ciubs are sald to possess the strongest combinations in this section. Mercury has worked hard in prep- aration for Sunduy’s game, under the direction of Brooke Brewer, former University of Maryland star. The Mohawks and Interior teams have Leen sent through the paces this week. The Anacostla Eagles showed an improved eleven last night in a stren- ous practice and they probably will make the Knicks step lively Sunday. Seat Pleasant Athletle Assocfation eleven will make final preparations tonight for its game with the Park Athletic Club Sunday, on the the former's grounds. Apache Preps will oppose the Corin- thians Sunday at 11 o'clock on the Monument lot. Triangle eleven will strive to make it three In & row against the Iroguols team, tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock at Union station pl; Elevens of t h Engineers of the Waehington barracks and the Army War College are to meet in a second contest Sunday, at 10 o'clock on the latter's fleld. The Engineers downed the War Coliege in a hard fought gume yesterday. Ilenge has been issued by the Athletic Club for a game y with some team averaging to 140 pounds. Get In touch with nager Carr, Columbia 1231-J, after 0 o'clock. mex with the Park eleven, which ges 130 pounds, can be arranged calling the manager at Franklin 6 after 6 o'clock. VIRGINIA PREPARED FORV. M. 1. BATTLE NIVE October 19.— Coach Greasy Neale will be sble to put Virginia's best foot foremost in the contest with Virginia Military In- stitute tomorrow afternoon, for he will start his veteran backfield, which includes Benny Arnold, quarterback; Sam Maphls and Paul Walp, half- , and Mait Wilson, fullback. The line, with one exception, will te the same that which started against St. John's last week. Thes- mar and Walker still are out of the game and Capt. Staige Blackford will be forced to start in center again. Two brothers, Jim and Buck Wea- ver, will have places in line. Jim who was captain of freshmen in 1922 has been playing right guard on the varsity since the opening kame of this season. Buck has served as substitute lineman for two yvears and will fill in Capt. Blackford's tackie. Hall will play left guard and Win- ston right tackle. Brown, who iz 2 fast defensive end. will sgart in the left wing po- sition, with Diffey on right end. Dif- {fev is a fast man, who received his first varsity experience in the game last Saturday, when he showed great promise. § Officlals for the day will be Strelt of Georgia Tech, referee; Magoffin of Michigan, umpire, and Harrison of i Wushingfon and Lee, head linesman. as ARATEX COLLARS Do not wrinkle, shrink, change color or wilt— there’s not a'weak spot NOW FOR THE HUNTING SEASON Supply Your Fall Needs at Our Reduced Prices SPECIALS $12.50 Le Fever Nitro Special Hammerless Shotgun, erful value $29.50 $29.00 Hunting Coats, Leggins, A Small Deposit Wikl Reserve Any Artiole WESTERN FIELD, RECORD AND SUPER X SHOTGUN SHELLS HOWARD A. FRENCH 424 9th SPORIS. 21 MAROON WELL EQUIPPED, ~wwwm EXCEPT IN DIRECTING JOB Similar Flaw Existed Last Year, But Coach Hopes to Remedy It This Season—Discovery of Good Field General Would Add Much Strength. U BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ploy the proper strategy at all times. In calling attention to this flaw a year ago, the writer stated that with an extraordinary line and splendid back the less fall short mind at the helm As it turned out, Alonzo Stagg never did find the right man, flaws in generalship will be accepted generally by close students of con ference foot ball as reasons for the loss of the Princeton ga of its high possibi tie with Wisconsin in 1922. But with the qu 1 solved—and Stagg is very hopeful of solving it—there which the Midway outfit should not attatn. In the backfleld there Is Capt. Pyott, a formidable tripl Thomas, as fine a line bucker as e ists in the country; Zorn, rugged on attack and strong and, finally, In addition, such defonse, Carthy, Kernwein Hagey and Benton are showing great promise. uarterback problem | Thus ssic with the Stagg's men through a state | will now really may wi champi opening of | are no helghts to |y oy on e great 1l be that > will the new e threat man; John d discerning on Harry Thomas. recruits fc- , Carugo, Schalbach, | Taatane fr ne of Indiana the will 1 son_ November Tries Several Generals. In the proc perimentation Pyott to call quency with S ham, indicates mind s, Otherwis Which means so backfleld, In spee, power and resourcefuln. with any backfiel or out of ft. As for the line, see how upon it If he had forwards in the Pondeltk _at leave nothing as the veteran Sophomore. and Hobscied and Strau: Ralph King, the great center. is bacl and on the ends Dick are supremely g pertaining to thel Stagg would be there for these stars, develop the sam Is a noticeable gap between the fwo regular wingmen relied upon to relieve them in emer- gency. Every foot bal lem. of course. foot ball. his substitute mood and on end he expe. acteristicall 5 to sort out of him signals, which his captain of this duty, such men as Hefle, La the coach the to neither do the tac! several high-grade s 1 coach has his prob- | uation has p: lv"bl’(v wtio robably never been en- | Joyed by any coach in the hist nd so Alonzo wrestling with his qu.n’l«-‘rl task in a phllosopl e gathers t wild horses could not drax a statement of this optimistic | of quart agg rback ex- s employed but the fre- he has relieved calling upon and Cunning- unsettled his t for this one flaw much, the Maroon d, stamina, driving| CHICAGO. October conference foot bal day in preparation tomorrow, which will ot enjoyed T d in th . | the writer does not | could {mprov called upon all the land. Rohrke and guards certainly be desired, and | kle candidates, such | Gowdy, Hibben. | squads ir of them trains en grounds Chica to n and Lamps ifted in all duties r specialt better ple State igan sed were bstitutes d he is working But just now t Dakota both teams The | 1a the squad, e will have the Wisconsin, -cn ory of | 10N r.Vf’]‘.:{ to win, b Stagg is | 2 K latter being i and those who are nig pper-riveted sit- The o in Ingram lef Eloomington ased with the s that But in win out char- | a Hax Well Planned Surely no Big Ten co ETeater opportunit ously and withou! 800 Jolts in the so lems as exist. 1 two easy aroon met no Northwestern, ,wh Fleld this week, opponent which ¢, normal stride o Purdue. The come up to this necessity of or burried in Men’s Shoes Specializing in $6 Shoes for Young Men Black Eric calf—blucher oxford—col- lege last—full grain—welt-sewed outer and inner soles—rubber heels. prelimina ! development. 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