Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1923, Page 23

v SPORTS. Tutors Accompan GRIDMEN MUST TOE MARK TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PLAY Required to Average 70 Pér Cent, and Examinations Are Held Twice Monthly~——Rockne a Wizard > Coach, It Is Admitted in We: BY LAWRENCE PERRY. OUTH BEND, 1nd., October 23.—Notre Dame professors accompanied the foot ball eleven to Princeton and conducted recitations through- out the trip. 1 the usual practice here, and results have al- ways been worth wt One wonders if in this fact there does not lie at least part of the explanation of the success which athletes of this in- stitution enjoy upon the foot ball field. In other words Notre Dame athlete undergrad To be cligible to play must pass 70 per cent are held twice monthly It is ‘a pleasant p tre Dame. Situated_in beautifu! rolling country outside of S South Bend, it has the rural environment that makes Princeton so delightiul. FootBallFacts OFFENSIVE LINE CHARGING b is i le. are no less students than other : )] foot ball or other games they tests, and it is interesting to know that these tests ates, Students live | whiel | and ea In seven dormitories at Notre Dame called halls hall has an athletic system | separate from the university. Teams are developed in all sports and the intramural contests gheld throughout | the year excite Interést no less keen jthan the intercolleglate Rames, { Tor the varsity teams eligibility re very striet. The western ence code is employed together restrictions in use among the idealistic sterninstitutions, much as Notre Dame's prepara- chool i ted at the university tockne foot ball system is applied » Which means for one thing that vear boys thoroughly imbued Wwith the system that Knute Rockne ches are coming up to the hall al“d Uhhll to the varsity. > _atmosphere is verly broad, al- gh Notre | e i r't‘rhll\' a Ro- man Catholle fnstitution. | The priests 4 Who teach there are committed to FOverty vows and accept no pay for ¥|~h Services. This "ar there are about 30 per cent of the 1,500 students Who are Protestants and about 9 per cent Jews. Knute Re SenEdeve Rockne himself 1s Working Rockne, hold every way, magni adoptin, 0 in confunction & up his hands in Naire Dame has done a Work in the west, in sid code of athietic cing them upon other the west. Rockne's was to make of Notre € an exemplar of athletlc stand- that would bear comparison with oo obtaining at the best univer- sitics e country, s 2 accomplisheg CUntry: and this he has Is n Great Thinker. for the success of her foot ball instructors ont at Rockne ahead of A CLOSE LINE IS ESSENTIAL What vesition fo the best offensive player? charging a5 BILL ROPER Coach of foct ball, Pr neeton Univer- | sity. In eated team was | | victor over ¥ Harvard and Chi- cago. s wered b, ot ball mind, Is and a profound time he has t has been through- is the first Iot to Glenn ser degree to other and west. But with n a case of selection 5 own ideas, which are varied and consistently A damental po: It _is impossible ith the defer out to War him s to fill out man nd sou losc line is the > that h r and in le autocrat at Notre law in athietics, ¥ a rule of love nd respect. He is a self-made man, nE to Notre Dame without 4 And at the start paying his way the performance of janitor He {s magnetic, and in per- ¥ thoroughly delightful. His 1 on the practice field Is decisive, ¥s quiet, alw dignified t part of his great success ity to impart to his men : Just what he wants them to how and w! together around the at- his foot ball men for call, and des upon a practice game ore Christmas all he has to do is to press a button and give orders. Until last year he varied h athletic duties by teaching chem- but he has to give that up of press of coaching work. des foot ball, e ball and hockey. (Copyright, 1923.) BUTZ’S INTERIOR TEAM IS JUST RARIN’ TO GO disposed of the Mo- unday and with the rs already dated and ¥s declining to meet them ater In the season, Doc Butz's erfor Department m this eek in the position of the chap who all dressed up and no place to go. Cle action this week don’t care where they have g0 to et it—Baltimore, Phila- iphia, Richmond, Cumberland—any- wher. team bankering to min- gle with the Interfors Saturday or Sunday can be accommodated by commun! ting with Manager Butz at 428 Sth street southeast. His phone number is Lincoln 2252. BUSY MAKING SADDLES ON HiS 103D BIRTHDAY His word his rule i tributed high, nor s § an use their hands, fensive line must be in a position to | jump by starting a trifle] HAITIAN SHOTS MAY ENTER THE OLYMPICS Octo- esent- | for tha! iistory was practi- | Haiti, be rep 19 ded at the conclusion of a two-day national rifle contest hers in which forty-three picked shots of th Gendarm a'H skill jth Borno, . Russell, | Having handily 'haws last T [ Knickerboc! is | the Mercurys rie Amer sione Maj. C the the matter and if the ranged substitute Blue flag of Haitl to pete in both the t rifle matches sch and J s This vear i president’s m d, again mpion 1 com Douglas C. MeDouglas, ehief gendar of with two red antl | d com- | nd individual between will car the ale 18 the the darm- fe, a for 400 Haitians officer- ed by both American marte officers and Haitian licutenants. Rollnd of Ast mer Sere ved his shot of pr 23— with | if| he coaches | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON y Notre Dame Team on Trips D.. C., HERE ARE LEADERS OF “WONDER TEAM OF THE WEST” and Princeton. How Foot Ball Is Played By SOL METZGER- O records are available giving this information. At best, every team and coach has to find this out for himself, and then it will be quite apparent that the percentage of suc- cessful passes varies according to the strength of every opponent met in the matter of breaking up the overhead attack. Wo had some interesting recoras) NOTRE DAME IS SOUGHT e watng FOR CONTEST ON COAST ward pass with Washington and Jef- | forson one season. A few will suffice| o\ b NISe0 Dotober 23K to show the impossibility of iguring | forts to bring the Notre Dame foot out a general average. In an early|pall team to Callfornia for a game game with West Virginla Wesleyan | with the winner of the Callfornia- eleven out of seventeen forward|sStanford contest of November 24 have vasses were completed for an average | heen started by Colbert Coldwell, gain of something liko 8 yards for| presicent of the San Francisco Cham the seventeen attempts. 1In one of |per of Commerce, and Eustace Cull the big games later on three out of inan, a San Francisco attorney. 2 fo | MOHAWK BALL PLAYERS TO BE GUESTS TONIGHT sorts of conflicting statistics on the Mohawks' champion 1923 base ball forward paxs. West Virginia com- pleted every one tried against Princeton in the first five minutes of team will be honored at a smoker of the club tonight at 516 &th street southeast. Boxing and musical en- thelr game In 1919, scoring three | touchdowns. . Thereafter this method tertainment are included in the pro- gram. of attack was a failure. The great handicap the Torward| pass has faced is that few coaches | Iravé used it except as a lakt resort.| A championship trophy will be awarded to the club by members of the District sandlot commission. —_— Harvard did so against Princeton a fow years back and tied the score in| the closing minutes of play. On the| attempting it i ‘WILDCATS ARE READY. Until the pass is used as a weapon| DAVIDSON, N. C., October 23.—The of attack just as is the line plunge | wildcat aggregation. of Daviduon THE QUESTION. What percentage éf for- ward passes are successful in foot ball? dence that a similar last-minute re-| ather hand, there is abundant evi-| sort to passing has defeated the team | or end run it will suffer in com Coach Knute Rockne (left) and Capt. Brown are mainsprings in the direction of the Notre Dame team, which is rated at the top of the foot ball heap just now, due to its impressive victories on succeeding Saturdays over West Point 'ATTENDANCE MARKS DUE IN FOOT BALL { NEW YORK, October | tendance records for foot ball {likely to be set this season, if |esrl_ ason rush for the turns |at gridiron battles throughout the | country may be taken as a criterion. | The total attendance in flve of the |leading gridiron engage: | week approached 200,000. | other college foot ball contests | played that afternoon, each attract- | ing additiona thousands, | the tremendous popularity spor Never, so early In the season, has | the college pastime galned so great |a hold upon the public. At Cambridge the wooden stands, formerly required { only for the Harvard-Princeton, Har- vard-Yale and Harvard-Dartmouth games, were always filled, notwith- | standing the fact both Boston College jand Tufte staged contests nearby. The Harvard-Dartmouth game riext aturday will find the stadium packed with a capacity throng, with thou- | sands forced to follow newspaper scoreboards to obtain early knowl- edge of the progress of play. | - A gathering of world series propor- { tions is expected at the Yankee sta- | dium, ‘whers West Virginia meets | Penn State in a foot ball battle on which the so-called tern cham- | pionship may hinge. West Virginia {already has conquered Pittsburgh, and Penn State has downed Annap- { olis. | __The first vislt of Center College to | Philadelphia, ~the Princeton-Navy ew at- of the clash at Baltimore, the first eastern | | visit of Marquette, two years, which undefeated for Field: the Yale- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1923. indicates | is_to play Boston | Donoghue Sails, But Will ENGLISH RIDER GETS BIDS FRCM U. S. TURF OWNERS Plans to Attend Winter Meeting in Cuba—Say Archer of England Was Greatest of All Jockeys, But Gives Credit to Sloan. re rider, 1 E s b to e been a for | op- contests, received here sidering repiac- New York World. * N yesterday on the eve of my departure jor England I was up on “I'll guarantee you a winner,” Maj. Belmont told m Maj. Belmont did his best to fulfill his promise ieature card. It turn by Bracadale and the horse, H. T. Waters, We fin- T was up Americ 1 t rac but because he It was disappointing. T had ho; sol Your jocke: Tod Sloan, was erous to me ven having Ameri- | Jt wa who brought the saddle had ill fate still rid with me in the|of the stiff seat for the forward Inia t will not feel that 1 am|land, and our jockeys copied him. not, then for a visit. Already' 1 have| I am known as one of the oldest make this impos- | care of himself, and live a normal middle of November. {pect to go on riding win s—and I should like noth | the opening of the winter saddle still. say they hope to make the racing at | aily Express in Great Britain agd Continental a few days in Cuba at the opening of not reac int where it has In the few days I have been here I how to become jocke and asking| will not play next year. The ga ters. Otherwise my correspondence | pleted the two-year contract batween | them through The Star. posed to intersectional | jockey, think well on it. It is no life Vande the Wolverine {also to be the best ckey apprentic DURHAM, N. October 23. the your desire lasts over a long period| and there are tho. among be isficd_vou should never have|due for another defeat. Trinity has tavedn the Bfoon WAKE FOREST, October 23 fon, was the greatest jockey of all| Saturday will travel to Tampa and. BY STEVE DONOGHUE, EW YORK, October 23.—I'm getting a bit used to losing on your two other losers. It's just not my turn. Certainly your people have been at the Empire City racetrack. You ought to have the pleasure of being own horse, Ladkin, to ride in the Autumn Day stakes, the e were a little pinched at the ran nicely until the run home, when he didn't answer as I asked horse in the ace. He was| ally imitted to have been the win just onc for th it of | great jockey. He did more » revol n horses under me for the first time | forward over the horse’s withers. 1t saddle. rouch over the horse's necks, He sayink good-bye to your country. I!|Every jockey patterns himself after a score of requests to fide for Ameri- | jockeys in the saddle There is no winter racing in!life. I'm thirty-nine. I'm married May Ride in Cuba Thix Winter, | l0%6Ts—for many years g racing |to die as I h lived th there. Your beople over here ar right, by New York Wi Cuba a much larger thing this vear.| Europe.) the season there this winter. I willl been decided r whose colors I| ANN ) ch. 23— iave received a great many letters s ANDON, iloh, 2 my advice. 1 have h to make a|played October 1 when Michigan | would get far beyond my capacity to| the two schools i word has been for a sluggard. You must have am- | castern team } vear pass. If then you stiil want tcf You'll But jocke¥s must | fty College is preparing to face before you join a stable you may be| Carolina’s foot ball enthusiasts w ibeen one. Good jockevs couldn’t be | been golng strong thls season. Fred Archer Greatest Jockey. | _Having successfully disposed of time. 1 answer, unhesitatingly, Fred | according to North Carolina foot bali % England'’s Greatest Jockey, as Told to Oliver H. P. Garrett of the American tracks. Papyrus and I lost on Saturday to your Zev and most generous. up on a winner before leaving America.” He was a nice horse, but it wasn’t our day. W The latter won. Ladkin ished third to show. Dominique. Again I finished third.| Lest any tracks have ever known sur_public, wh 0 very | tlonize race riding than any one els h uld not shake me from losing. I|was he who abandoned the old method But when 1 go aboard the Aqu!ta-|brought these innovations into Eng- shall be back-—I hope to race, but if | Tod Sloan to engagements in|old for a jockey if he takes proper nd my seuson ends in the {and have three children. But I ex- s S think of retiremen Y | ments of my life—at the very anxious to have me do £o. They | lishing Company, (Copyright by Loudon I have tentatively agreed to r for | be riding American horses, but it has VANDERNLT-M‘CH'GAN will race from young American boys asking| Vanderbilt and Michigan probably practice of never answering such let- | defeated the Commodores 3-0, com- {keep up. But I should like to advise{ Yost hus expresed himself | Lads, if you think you want to be a| that Vanderbilt is cq | bition not enly to be a jockey, ) be a jock our family approv AFTER VIRGINIA'S SCALP. be born; cannot be maude If| University of Virginia next Satur a born jockey If it doesn’t, you may | feel that the Old Dominion team is stopped from being jockeys, It seems . I have been asked who, in my opin- | Davidson, the Wake Forest eleven Archer, not because he was England’s ' critics, Into the jaws of the 'Gators. SPORTS. me his 1 don't like | 23 1 Eeturri | BASKET BALL TEAMS | ARE LOSING NO TIME 1o tination is the thief of is an old adage that must be |fresh in the minds of the les trict b t ball team: performers already gaged are in preparing for a successtul Practrally every club in the 1ty now is making plans. Some have en held their initial work-outs | Independent Athletic Club success- | fully openea agalnst th | Kendall Gre d has hurled a | defi to teams in the 110-pound class. “he Abernethy, Lincoln 2401-J, s E for the Independents. season. n toys ing games Liberty Athletic Club will elect a basket hall captain at a meeting to- | night at 7:30 o'clock. at 411 R street. The Libertles have held several pra {tice sessions and are confident of de- veloping a first-rate team. Clarendon basket ball teum 0 hold its first practice Thursday night fat 6:30 o'clock, in the Peck gym. {King. McKinley, Tudker, Caldwel i Phillips, Sebastian, Sasher, Payn Root and Roach are expected to r port. ot Athletic Club nosed out the team, 9 to 5. Challenges to erties ure being received by G Anderson, 1431 G street northeast. Live Wite teum Is seeking games {with 110-130-pound n Knapp, Main But I am not ! f§ —Wrong Again —What Then? —Just the Crowds Trying to See the i New Things at the I i Fourth Annual Fall | Closed Car Show Convention Hall Fifth and L N.W. 10:30 a.m to 10:30 p.m. —Mausic? —The Best! Every convenience for the comfort of visitors Under the auspices of The Washington Automotive Trade | Association North | o Pennsylvania Avenue Seventh Street ~ | College 15 in trim for the game with | College at Braves VANCOUVER, October parison with other plays. No team| Fyrman, which will be played at Co- | Bi scored 234 points out of a possible| VANC “Dad” Quick, maker of racing saddles, celebrated his 103d birthday yesterdav, Ordinarily he works ‘only elevan hours a dnay. 250, averaging 47 points at each nge, as against 7. 'In the nat 2 nal team match, in which the south: . central, northern can employ any style of attack suc- cessfully unless it uses it all the| time. Haughton's idea of foot ball, and Lou Young {s using it at Penn. lumbia, 8. C., tomorrow. Davidson College has defeated Citadel and Presbyterian College rown annual game at New Haven | and the meeting of Pittsburgh and its {near neighbor, Carnegie Tech, seem certain to attract capaclty crowds. Yesterday he put in thirteen. People are better working than he declared. = “Work gives one an appetite for food and sleep. Staying up late at night is no_ good.” “Dag¢” took n course of dancing lessons several months ago, but | Liin love for work has 5o far pre= vented him from practicing his 1y acquired G99 e B prosperity’s Symbol HEN people say pros- perity puts its badge of re- sponsibility on a man's shoulders, they might well refer to his TOL- MANIZED starched collar. ia to have few plays, but to drill the men in them until they use them per- fectly. Unless that is done with the overhead game, the overhead attack { will never get a fair trial. (Copyright, 1923.) and Port-au-P peted with same range with a tol possible .3 compared points in 19 In this match Rolland was second high gun with _a score of 229, the high n belng Private Pierr. Viciere « Jacmel with The second team, the Port-au e department with its score of 1,709, averaged 213} nd in the la: stages the central de- partment overhauled the norther and finished with a margin of & points Jead, although the anchor man of the central departme rivate Fanfax, scored a perfect last string. Gridironers representing the third- year class of Gonzaga High School downed the fourth-vear class, 19 to 0. Henlack registered two touch- downs and Costello made the other. Garner drop-kicked the extra point. lepartments com- an teams at the again won out of a 2014 point ge of 217 veragin, to an ave | Amherst College will not graduate - |a student unable to swim 200 yards or mor Something to talk about!! 2 ) “The Renfrew” H. R. H. Incognito gave recognition to this new strictly English modeled Suit. The Coat has an easy hang—that drapes gracefully. The Trousers are of generous cut —with plain bottoms—features that are dis- tinctive. 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