Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1923, Page 23

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C, TUESDAY, NOVE) 09 20, [BER 20, 19 SPORTS. 2 Sturdy Tulsa Gridmen Here Saturday : Navy Is Banking Heavily Upon Teamwork GEORGETOWN’S NEXT FOE HAS MADE GREAT RECORD Oklahomans, Defeated But Three Times Since 1916, Southwest Champions Last Year—Mary- land Host to C. U. at College Park. ALF of the four important contests remaining on the college and service gridiron schedule here are to be played Saturday aiternoon when Georgetown will be host to Tulsa University at Griffith Stadium and the University of Maryland will entertain Catholic Univer- sity at College Park. The other engagements are for next week, George Washington and Catholic University being slated for a tilt Thanksgiving lay, while the Marines and 3d Army Corps will clash December 1. Although onl pair of battles will be held locally, all of the Wash- ington varsity group go into action the coming week end. George Wash- ington is due to invade Baltimore to tackle the Johns Hopkins cleven and Gallaudet will journey to Pennsylvania to encounter Gettysburg. The Georgetown-Tulsa game will provide Washington with lts (.m_\l real fnterscctienal clash of the sea- son, and uniess the Hilltoppers show marked improvement they may be in 'r a rough afternoon with the Okla- omans. It seems that this Tulsa n is regarded rather highly in the uthwest, although reports concern- ng its performances have been som meazer dur the season. However, the Oklahon have not tted to speak well of themsely publicity ag Tt app: sin Tost but ur ) was the acknowled<ed champlon ¢ sout . comi th an unmarr triumph Vietory over th Axgics, ¢ of Bo M tean Dallas State £ th season w Msa's biggest registered nauerors | L at the Tulxa Sw , Tast fall Tuls ausas Aggies, Sonthwestern, Awgies, Baptist 1 Tuiversity of Texas Chris- tian, Southeastern, and Centra! lege. The Tulsa coacied b M. Acher, an easter uct. assisted £ Yale, one of Can selections; Dinsno and Princeton { Field in 1922, won the the xas riversity, the Arkans ican iraska formerly a star, forward This year's Tulsa team Is captained Janies (Chief) Herndon, a Choc- 3 i is a guard and gen- the best Another Bat_ Shunatona, Pawnee. He with his spee- 1thwest has startled « tacular br. Al told, it town is in for 1teresting S day afternoon. r. the toppers are 1 by unprecedented defeats, are working dilig r the last | home contes beaten, | Georgetown gave ut of | itself aga 1 last week and may b put up another | 200d the Tulsans orge- tur- Hill- their expected to battle against While Maryland on past perform- . ances rates much stronger than Cath- | olfe University. their battle Saturday | is likely to be something of a real | contest. The Br however inferi ¥ rige to Parkers times Maryland nual onlv hag ente whelming favorite, nst i stern foe peing carcfully Although th as given a get into har- Some strenu- | it & trio of reg- Aitton physically, of the injured rapid Top- groomed ar at rest ne ous dr ulars are in good co; and the understudic first-string men are ing varsity form day, nd it Te wil ling. e s to have ation of the year Northrop, Eberts 0 have been ailing, while several ready fc and Vosanger, are again in conditio g second-string me o ha been in- capacitated hav Oversd playing form. A stiff y us h"'v“ pre- pared for th 4 Black this week and it be thoroughly primed for Satu s match In addition to th be much festivit the lust day of the weck Byrd athletic studium i ated and a thr of alumni are expected to b Letter men will be ente luncheon and a university at night rere will Park be dedi- ryland ent at a| held ed danc Gallaudét, with four wins ir back of it will tack stronger than otl this_season, t the Marines, when it g burg. The Battlefiell eleven has been stepping along at a lively rate this season. It has developed a strong offensive that last week bowled over Lebanon Valley by a tremendous score. The Kendall Greeners, however, are @ plucky 1..(| that should make Gettysburg fight for every point any ith George Washington Is to devote the time before the Hopkins engage- ment to ironing out defects in de- fense that proved so costly against Delaware last week. The perform- ance of the Hatchetites was most unsatisfactory, according to Coach Quigley, who felt that his team might have won had it played the game it s capable of producing. So brisk drills will be given through Friday that George Washington may be pre- pared to show its wares to greater) advantage t Baltimore, “BETTER TEAMWORK” IS DELTA’S SLOGAN! With “better teamwork” as Its slogan, the Delta Athletic Club basket ball team expects a successful eam- palgn. A number of former college and high school stars are due fo re- port for practice tonight at the In- gram gym, 10th and Massachusetts avenue northeast. Milton Mills, for- mer Central High School and Navy court performer, and Jack Williams, who starred for Clemson College, are to display their wares for the Deltas this year. After Manager Jack Brinkman gets a line on the most promising candi- dates he will issue orders for uni- forms. At a mecting last night it was decided to give n smoker and dinner Monday, December 3, at the home of | ANOTHER BOUQUET but | | { reached peak form. FOR CURLEY BYRD . Byid, director of athletics, me into his own for public recognition on Saturday, when the uew stadium will be dedicated in College Park, Md., in his name. Byrd, who ix known to thousands f followers of athletics, was a former Maryland athlete when the nstitution was known ax Mary- land Agriculture College. “Ten yenrs nzo Hyrd started in at College Park, Md. Through con- sistent, consclentlous effort, fair play for all and a thoroughly re- ciprocated feeling from those who came In contact with him, Byrd hax built upon n wolid founda for u succeas not measured In termn of an athietic field and a rete stadlum. - Through Byrd's Influence nnd tireless energy, Maryland has ne forward most rapidly in ten it hos de~ t where it In The athletic fleld, the new gy naslum and the reputation are not the only signs of Byrd's suc- cexs, nx he hax developed n wpirit in the institution most wholexome far renching in Its effect upon the student body. Maryland feelx proud, and justly so. to have n man of Byrd's type at the hend of its athleticn.” The foregoing appeared this morn- the signature of Bryan porting editor, in the Wash- ington Herald. It is’ with pleasure that this evidence of recognition of the sterling qualitlas of Byrd is printed here, for he has been a mem- ber of the sports staff of this paper continuous for fthirteen years since 1810—and The Star feels a justi fable pride in having a mat. of Byrd" liber in its emplo TWO GRID STARS END |CAREERS BY OPPOSING ANN ARBOR, Mich, November 20 —Harry Kipke and Earl captains, respectively, of the gan and Minnesota foot ball teams and halfbacks extraorddpary, close their college gridiron careers here Saturday when their teams, both un- beaten, clash feld. Martineau star of losing team came 2 pl hes known has been victorious a played tie games. Kipke has becn the star of a win- ning team. Only once since he be- came a member of the Wolverine squad has he known defeat. Nine Michigan teams on ed have won. One game was a tle, will lead a team that, by injuries at the start of the ason, has gradually come back and Kipke a team shattered In Its last three games and minus the services of two of its greatest stars—Uteritz, quarterback, and Blott, center. It will be a “soph- e team,” as one coach callad it, t five of the players belng sec: r men. _— CHARITY GRID CONTEST. PRINCETON, N. J., November 20.— A foot ball team composed of Prince- ton coaches and former stars will op- pose the Vanderbllt University varsity team in an exhibition game in Nash- ville, Tenn., on December 8, it is an- nounced. The proceeds of the game will go to the Nashville Children's Home. Michi- Seven times s ph times his te d twice it has ond-y Martineau, | which he | {NEALE IS RETAINED AS VIRGINIA COACH RICHMOND, Va., Noyember 20.—Re- tention of Karle Neale for another year as base ball and foot ball coach at the University of Virginia was an- graduate manager. Neale will gulde the base ball team during the com- ing season and will coach the foot ball squad next fall. The contract also gives the university an option of e's sorvices for the two years be- sinning December, 1924. The showing of the foot ball team at Virginia this season has not been all that the alumni and student body have desired, but it is believed ale, & former big league base ball player and ex-mentor at Washington 1 Jefferson, has made the best of mater! The success of the :shman_eleven is pointed to as vin- ating Neale's system and, it w ted, followers of the Orange and are anxious that he be given ¥ chance of turning out a varsity m that will be a credit to the uni- versity SYRACUSE CONFIDENT OF BEATING NEBRASKA SYRACU N. Y., November 20.— | Still_smarting from the unexpected defeat inflicted by Colgate, 16 to but none the less confident In its |own great power, “Chick” Meehan's Syracuse eleven leaves for Lincoln, ©b., early this week to close .t son on Saturday with Fred Daws great Nebraska team. Costly errors and unfavorable breaks in fortune were held chiefly responsible for the | poor showing of the Orange against Colgate, and with such errors “out {of their system” the Syracuse play- ers_expect to show a return to the form which held their goal line in- violite against the attacks of Pltts- burgh, Penn State, Alabama and four | other ‘powerful foes, while Syracuse | was rolling up a total of more than 200 points. It was a fumble by Bowman in the ! first minute of last Saturda | that swung the play into | territory and enabled Colgrte to gain s fir Thereafter, except for |one brief period, nothing Syracuse attempted scemed to go right. Syracuse will show the middie west an array of stars. in Bowman, one of the high-scoring backs of the year; { MeBride, a powerful line plunger, who alse oan boot field goals with regu- larity; McRae, one of the greatest ends in the east, and in the ponderous and able athletes who compose its line. Tie fact that Nebraska™cored a vie- {'tory over Notre Dume has not affected | the confidence of the Orange cleven, for Nebraska had achieved similar fame last year when Syracuse set down Dawson's team with a 9-to-6 defeat. MEYERS ON MAT HERE. Johnny Meyers, middlewelght wres- tler, will display his wares at the Coliseum Tuesday, December 4, against an opponent to be selected later, according to Joe Freeman, who is promoting the affalr. Peter Sturgis, | Bobby Malinfort or Pinkey Gardner may be matched agairst Meyers | RICHMOND IN CUE MATCH. Roland Davis will be the opponent of Clive Richmond in a match of the ! District pocket billlard tournament { tonight at 5 o'clock at Grand Cen- {tral Academ: Charles Bartelmes {took the measure of Thomas Hewitt, 100 to 69, last nir™t. GERBER TO TURN PRO. CHICAGO, November 20—E. C. Gerber, Wisconsin tackle, who was ruled ineligible to play college foot ball because he conducted Y. M. C. A. sea- n's }hlfl college work, will play here Sun- lday as a professtonal. Save money and get a better smoke. Cinco smokers say ‘Cinco is better than the average ten-cent cigar—and I save 25 percent.” Allle Johnson. ‘Washington Preps and Manhattan's unlimited five are to meet tonlght in the Congress Heights gym. In a pre- liminary tilt Washington Prep Juniors will oppost: Calvary Independents at 7:45 o'clock. Games with the Man- hattans -an be arranged by communi- cating_with Manager Chris Hutchin- son, 1705 Rosedale street. Two rivals fer the 125-pound award wim meet Friday night in the Peck gym, when the Riverside Athletic Club tossers face the Paramounts. Manager J. Duvall, West 2813, ig booking games for the Riverside five, Alexandrin Athletic quint opened its season with a bang when it took the measure of the Washington Bar- racks five in a hard-fought 29-to-26 Viotory, Both teams were deadlocked, 14 to 14, at half thue, but with Dudek and Dreyfus opcning several drives the Virginians galaed the lead. st. Alban’s five, averaging 120 to 135 pounds, 1s seeking games, through Manager Grifiin, at Cleveland 294. L %rme British A. A. A. has planned to hold its amsusl champlonships June bt A : lohr Process, perfected during .3 years’ leadership in cigar manufacturing. W. H. WARNER 504 ELEVENTH ST., N. W. Exclusive Washington Distributor J. S.. BLACKWELL & SON ALEXANDRIA, VA, Northern Virginia Distributors rounced here today by D. Ellis Brown, | swimming classes to earn money for | for a winning score. WILL LEAD C. U. ELEVEN AGAINST MARYLAND SATURDAY ED. LYNCH. He is the most important cog in the Brookland machine. As fullback, he is a ball carrier, punter and the bulwark of the secondary defense. He should be a conspicuous figure in the clash at College Park. GRID TEAMS ARE PRIMING EW YORK, November 20.—Army and Navy, Harvard and Yale, old foes for old championships, continued today their preparations for battle Saturday, eastern foot ball's big day. Yale, with its great backfield, faces an opportunity to win its first Big Three title in seven years. The Army-Navy outcome, as the dope- sters see it a toss-up. . Despite the fact that every one of the experts has predicted a vic- tory for the Bulldog in_the Harvard Stadium, a sturdy defense is being built by Harvard, and Tad Jones' all-star backfield may find stopping blocks against the Crimson where they found holes last Saturday against Princeton. The Army's hopes are bullt around and Stevens, backfield stars, out of Smythe, quarterback flash, whose | the game during the first half. work in the game agalnst the Mid-| “Neldlinger and Stevens are high dies at Philadelphia last November strung bovs" he sald, -Jones keeps brought a 17 to 11 victory for the them on the bench until they are most army. Smythe ran the team yester- ready to throw him off the field unless "~ | he sends them in to the game. They day, when work was continued until | slide up and down the bench during after dark, with are lights {lluminat- | the first half, developing a store of ing the field at West Point. Knute | Nervous energy and then when they Rockne, the Notre Dame wlizard, is| et into the game they tear things expected at West Point to help the | sidewise and crooked.” Rl (Guacren toiny DESSR Hugo Bezdik, the Penn State coach, = nacoased. in New York on a visit, took the oc. Navy. casion to nominate Harry Wilson, his The Navy coaches are trying to de- star back, and Bed\!nk,fl his glant termine upon thelr line-up. Folwell's guard, for the all-American. Bez- .5 | dek sald he thought his eleven had star ends are suffering from injurles | % 04 hance to defeat Pittsburgh and it is doubtful if they Will be in their Thanksgiving day game. He ablo to play. Barchet, whose work | added that Penn State ‘would not Js play West Virginia again next year. carrled the Navy to glory in 1921/ 0 " ims piayed & 13-13 tio in may be replaced In the backfield bY | New York several weeks ago. Shapley.. | Cornell, facing pm\mblly ‘S han{- In Boston old Harvard men are is- | €St game of the season in Pennsyl- suing warnings to Yale admlirers that | vania on Thanksgiving day, will it 13 best to be conservativa In pre- have all of its regulars in the line-up. dicting what the bulldog will do to | Frank Sundstrom, right tackle, re- the Crimson Saturday. Tack Hard- |turned to the line-up today. wick warns Yale men not to mort- gage their homes to wager on their team. Ed Robinson, coach at Brown, RICE FOULS GARCIA. whose eleven won from the Crimson BALTIMORE, Md. November 20— last Saturday, expressed the helicf Robby Garcla of Camp Holabird was that Harvard could not be relegated awarded the decislon on a foul over to the background as a competitor | Frankie Rice of Baltimore in the ninth round of a scheduled twelve- “Chet” La Roche, former Yale star, round bout last night. The referee says that Jones uses a little psycho- |stopped the fight after warning Rice logical stuff in keeping Neldlinger numerous times against low punches. HERBERT TAREYTON LONDON ISCHOOL GAME TODAY DECIDES RUNNER.-UP With the undefeated Techites prac- tically certain of a victory over Busi- ness tomorrow, high school elevens of Western and Central weré to meet in Wilson Stadtum today at 3:15 o'clock for the runner-up position in the annual champlonship. The teams appear to be evenly matched and a battle from start to finish is expected. Central will enter the fray with this probable line-up: Wilner, left end; Van Meter, left tackle; Bergstrom, left guard; Gonzales, center; Warner, right guard; Cranford, right tackle; Chase, right end: Harper, quarter- back; Johnson, left halfback; Relss, right halfback; Gordon, fullback. ‘Western is expected to line up as follows: Sulllvan, left end: McLamar, left tackle; T. Stevens, left wuard: Capper, center: Morgan, right guard; Hawken, right tackie; Dulin, end; Sandoza, quarterback; C. age, left halfback; Whelchel, halfback, and Gormley, fullback. Hage- right Tech and Western have tough op- ponents over the week end. Western will mix it with Swavely Prep Fri- day afternoon on the Knickerbockers' field. ~ Maryland University fresh men will be the opponents of the Manual Tralners Saturday morning af 10:30 o'clock at College Park, Md. PLAY THREE 18.2 MATCHES. DETROIT, November 20.—Albert Cutler of New York defcated Al Tay- lor of Ann Arbor, Mich., 300 to 2x6; David_MeAndless' of Chicago won from Tadeo Suganuma of Japan, 300 to 212, and Jean Bruno of Aust defeated Kinsey Matsuyama of San Franelsco, 300" to 260, in the 18.2 balkline junior billiard champlion ship play here. MUMMA, NOT C down in its game with Wisc in a letter to the Chicago Tribune decision. The referee, after consulting Col. Mumma, ruled that Rockwell had not been legally tackled and was not in the grasp of a Wisconsin player while on the ground, hence was not down. Col. Mumma’s letter follows: “Départing from a fixed rule I have observed during more than twenty years as a foot ball official, T desire to mal a statement concerning the decision in the Michigan-Wisconsin game Saturday. The referce, Walter Eckersall, has been sub ted to un- just criticism and even mob violence for & decision for which ¥ alone am responsibule. He only gave finality to the decision upon my statement to him at the time the play occurred. “In arriving at my judgment of what actually took place I had to use | my own eyes and decide according to | the dictates of my own conscience, and, having done so, 1 assume full re: sponsibility for what proved to be an unfortunate defeat. The only Ques- tion that ever entered my mind with reference to the play was, ‘Did the referee blow his whistle? ' Not hav- ing heard one blown and being dis- right | GAVE DISPUTED RULING HICAGO, November 20—Declaring that Walter Eckersall, referee, who rendered the decision giving Michigan the winning touch- “been subjected to unjust criticism and even mob violence cision, Col. Morton C. Mumma of West Point, field judge of the game, | The disputed decision came ne Rockwell, Michigan quarterback, ran 55 yvards for a touchdown after Wisconsin players thought he had been downed. COHESIVE PLAY EXPECTED i TO BAFFLE ARMY’S STARS . Midshipmen Will Be Outweighed in Backfield and at Tackles, But Hopes to Profit by Better In- struction and Generalship. , November 20—During the next three days the Naval Academy coaches will try to perfect in the team not only the varied asortment of offensive plays which will be used against the Military Academy next Saturday, but a strong and elastic defense which will be ready to meet any attack which the Army has to offer. | The Navy is not_thecrizing as to exactly the form in which th | Army’s main attack will come. It is expecting to meet fast end running, | terrific line driving and varied and daring forward passing. It is realized | that the Navy defense must be able to take care of any attack known to modern foot bail. If all the Army backs are in condition, it will be able to deliver : | attack which will be difficult to stop. | the fastest and most dangerous end runners in the east, while Hewitt ‘whxle at the University of Pittsburgh, made the reputation of being the | hardest line-hitter of the college. In addition, there are Wood, Gilmore. | Ives and others, all considered backs of more than ordinary strength Navy will be great outwelghed in There is much speculation here a the backfield and al in the (n(‘k!e‘(n the exact status of both Smythe positions. The first backfield { and Hewitt Smythe was hurt dur combination is up of McKee, ng the Arkansas game a week ago | quarterback, 162 pounds; Devens. 175 last Saturday, and left the field loolk | pounds, and Cullen, 166 pounds, half- | ing as if his shoulder was badly backs, and Barchet, 154 pounds, full- hurt, or, perhaws, his collarbon | back. This gives an average of 1643 | hroken, No defini news of pounds. been received here, and Na hope that he will be able to play the wish to meet the An J strength Hewitt, when University « was rat Smythe, it is admitted, is one of Army Backs Heavier. The weights of the chief hacks are: Hewitt, 210: Smythe, Wood, 175; Gilmore, 180, and 170. The four men are alm; tain to be picked from these fiv €ast to stop when carrying the ba With Hewitt, the average is far be- + line pla He has been used t vond that of the Nav nd without | Yery little at West Point, and 2 rumor 2 him it is considerably greater. {has reached here that he does not ECKERSALL, b chitci bt o ful Army 165; Ives, he played with the Pittswurgh Jast seasor d as the hardest man in the in &pite of reput: 1. However 1t 1s believed here that he wiil be used: for a portion of the game at least and that while he is playing, the N. line will be given a terrific bom ment. Went Folnt Tackle Huge. The odds are with the Armsj Mulliga: ighing and man, weighing 210 pounds, places on the Ar eleven ed to them are Shewell, 187 pounds, and Clyde, about 180 pounds. ‘Thi would indicate that the tackles would Army s playing a line-driving game 1 Navy players are good s substitutes Bra Walker ar the close of the first half when | Sitiutes In Brant. W Indications point to a whicl both sides will score the game, Ilke that of L year, likely to develop a varied and darir attack on the part hoth, E teams will fight sperately, but with intelligent discipline, and both been equipped with with any situation In McKee, Devens, chet the Navy has and efficlent quart brilliant as t have had more 7 toget should ork like a machin perjod of the game, are Shapley, Flip- pin and Ballinger 14 th Oppos- - onsin at Madison last Saturday, had * for the de- assumed full responsibility for the and game W tant from the referee at the time, I asked him as soon as he arrived at the spot if he had blown his whistle. Upon receiving a negative reply gave him the facts on which ruled.” he FIGHTS GRID GAMBLING. MINNEAPOLIS, November 20.—Or- to wipe out foot ball pool gambling in Minneapolls have been ssued by Chief of Police Frank W. Brunskill following reports that| gamblers had done a rushing busi- ness Saturday on college foot ball games, principally the lowa-Minne- sota contest. Other Navy Has Plays. The Navy team will be ready with a fine liat of plays, acquired to an ex- act degree of precision. and the pul |may be sure it will fight to the la ditch The Army team, it is ad —_— NO GREEN-TIGER GAME. HANOVER., N. H., November 20.— To ailay campus excitement due to t reports that Dartmouth was to be ad- | the odds this year so far a mitted next year to a foot ball “big |Wweight and exper players four” with Harvard, Yale and Prince- (g0, and, probably individual ton, the athletic council has an-|brilllancy of sever its backs. The . nounced that thera would be no|Navy hopes to offset these advantages game with Princeton on the Green’s by a better instructed team and be “hedule. ter generalship ¢ Pennsylvania Avenue i S /) Seventh Street aks & (Jompany A Special Sale of English and American Golf Suits Regularly $35 to $47.50 $25.00 The identity of each is clearly expressed—in the character of the patterns and the models. The English Suits are English made of English Woolens—expressly for Saks and Company. The American Suits are of fine Woolens—de- signed, modelled and tailored with Saks-like care and skill. There are something like a dozen different pat- terns—running in sizes that will make fitting easy— if not in one pattern, in another. ——Third Floor—