Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 31

SPORTS. ‘ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923. SPORTS. — 31 South Atlantic I. A. A. Appears Dead : Ballou Urges More School Sport Facilities THE STAR’S PANORAMA OF BASE BALL A Pictorial Highlight History of the National Game (Copyright, 1923, in U. S. and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) No. 38 (The Last)=*“CASEY AT THE BAT.” TRACK MEET NOT LIKELY TO BE STAGED THIS YEAR Six Institutions That Also Belong to Southern Con- ference Look Upon Organization in This Section as Thing of Past. BY H. C. BYRD. ROM statements made by scveral members of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the recent Southern Cox~ ! ference mecting here, it scems that the organization, which for a dong while has staged an annual track and field meet on the second and third Saturdays in May, is a dead letter. It was the opinion of representatives of many South Atlantic insti- tutions that there would not be a meet next spring, and that the associa- ‘tion had seen its best days. The Southern Conference has scheduled its | annual championships on the same dates on which the South Atlantic meet formerly was held. C. P. Miles of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, last spring elected president of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association, gave it as his opinion that the association does not liege teams, It is unfortunate that the condition’ of the association is what it is. Especlally is this true when it s considered that the cost of South Atlantic members of the South- His reply when asked about |vrn Conference. in sending thelr men c meet next spring Alahama to compete in the South pprised of the fact that |ern Conference champlonships will be the Southern Conference was schedul- | almost prohibitive. A ing its games on the same dates as ‘the organization of which he was clected presidont was, “The South At- | lantic Intercolleglate Athletic Asso- cliation is a dead body and we've even buried the corpse.” Others Feel Same Way. From inquiries it developed Washington and Lee, University of North Carolina, Virginia Military In Connatderable eriticlam has been heard in several quirters because the University of Pennsvlvania dropped the Un'versity of Maryland from its | foot ball schedule, when, as a matter of fact, there is little ground for {harsh words. In the making of foot | ball schedules each university strives | |to effect an arrangement of cam - | that will be to conserve its own In stitute. North Carolina State College | JSTLU, ARGS Ihore I8 conslderable s Tnd Lniversity of Virsinia resarded | feels it impossible to continue to the stoumtion fn the same fie :( Marys | meet an institution that it has piayed. P e ih he \University of Mary- | 'This was the situation with Penn- Jand, constitute the comrer e oy | SYIvania. It felt that | s next year's foot 2 e o e gantic Eroul-!hall schedule would le better. with fewer *(ieorgeiown, Hopkins, George Wash-| qimiciit games. enns-quently’Pittsburgh ington. Catholic Univers ty. Univer- | g Mafyland will not be mer s reh sity of Richm 1as a perfect rieht to take this view lhv\ 4 schedule and to take the | - A Pittsburgh and Mary. ved declined to that If the assocfation it seems that these ave to do the saving act »uth Atiantic Intercollegia.e Association came into bel % | twelve years ago _mainly the efforts of Joe England 1 0f Hopkins arack and fle'd been kept ulive throush intervening years mainly through 1d éfforts of the Univer- a town, An | made to revive it in 1919 | in a meeting at Richmond and some | £uccess attended the effort. Since that time, notably year before last at | be afraid of Maryland, but any agere. the University of Virginia, many rec- | gation of foot ball players that has ords were broken. Last vears meet |ever stood on Franklin Field againat at Richmond also was productive of |a Penn eleven will know that Penn Drilliant competition. | teams are not afraid of anything and In this section, where track and |fight “tooth and nail® for every inch field competition is rather limited for | of ground they yleld -G U. TOSSERS POINTING FOR CONTESTS IN NORTH OLLOWING Catholic University's ‘game with the City Club quint F on the floor at Brook'and tonight, basket ball teams of the colleges in the Washington area will not be seen in competition locally until next month. The squads will by no means be idle, however. The Brook- landers are meeting the clubmen to gain more polish before embarking upon a three-game northern trip next Tuesday. Whi'e on the road Catho- lic University will encounter Fordham, Crescent Athletic Club and St. Francis of Brooklyn. The other varsity squads will be well drilled by the coaches, although brief lay-offs may be permitted during the holi- days Basket Ball Tips PICK AN EASY TEAM FOR THE FIRST PRACTKE GAME/, year ) s declined a |game with Princeton after twice ap. pearing on the Tiger's lis Pitta- burkh also is easing its schedule for next year. Marylanders and s interested in the Univer- sity of Maryland certainly should not criticize Penn_ for exercising the same prerogative. One paper indicated that Penn might |, Tonight's game between the Brook- landers and City Club will get under- way about o'clock. Coach Rice pects to begin play with the same line-up that started acainst Loyota Wednesday. He aiso intends to make use of his reserve material as he did in that fray. Dasket ball will be played by a great number at Maryland this win- ter. Practically every one not on the varsity or freshman squads will get into the game in the newly or- ganized fraternity league. The cir- cuit includes Sigma Phi Sigma, Sigma Nu, Kappa Alpha. Phi Sigme Kappa, Nu Stgma Omicron, Delta Mu, Sigma Tau Alpha and Delta Phi Omega. The league season will extend from Jan- inary 10 to February 25. Doub headers will be played on Mond: | and Thursdays. Varsity and freshman plavers were sent into a brisk scrimmage in Rit- chle Gymnasium yesteraay against the Central High School aquad, and the Marylanders got much from the workout. Georgetown’s management {s en- deavoring to schedule a game for January 11, the day before tha St. Joseph’s_game originally announced as the Hilltoppers' opening ‘conflict. But few engagements have been made for the Blue and Gray and more would be acceptable. The squad has not been pruned, but all candidates are getting much attention in -the drills, and Coach O'Reilly soon will have 'a line on the more promising material. INTFRIOR GRID TEAM FACES A HARD TASK Tnterfor Department's 1923 Distrlct ~hamplonship foot ball eleven awaits a severe test In a game with the Bal- timore All-Stars Sunday, at 2:30 o'clock, In the Clark Griffith Stadlum. The Baltimore eleven is counting upon Bacharach to outkick Keynon. Much interest is being manifested in the comparative kicking prowess of these gridders. Bhould'an easy or a havd el « Jirst practice game? swered by EARL WRIGHT ! Coach University of California, the | Gnloge gun” of wost const baiket hail. Originator of many new pliys and formations which tenms throughout the country have adopted. | * Kk ok % "An easy team should be scheduled for the first practice game. It is in- advisable to lose this game, because + of the effect upon team confidence. It should be possible at this time for a coach to try a number of new men without jeopardizing the outcome of the game. After a team spirit and morale have been established hard games which may be lost should not affect team play. Sometimes a defeat is a valuable thing if it comes under the right conditions. \ " (Copyright, 1928, Associated Editors.) MONROE AND PIERCE SOCCERISTS IN FINAL; Soccer teams of Monroe and Plerce schools are to meet In a three-game serles mext week for the city play- ground title as a result of the lat- ter's victory ovér Brent School yes- terday, 2 to 0. Apache gridironers will be the op- After battling furiously In the sec- | ponents of the Seat Pleasant :team \ ond period, Plerce made its first'Sunday at 2:30 o'clock on-the-datters marker agalnat Brent. Goddard re- ! fneld- The Apaches have downed all Ceived the ball in Brent territory,' bIOMinent contenders. Jn@the 150« booting it between the posts. Clever - playing by Hook and Cicala enabled | Argyle Athletic Club will end its Plerce to score its second point. 1923 schedule in 8 game with the St, Lilly played a stellar game for the, Stephen Juniors Sunday - at - 8:30 losers, while Long and Mamakos also | g'clock the Naval - Hospital performed well. grounds. Superior teamwork and the bril- , lant performance of Cicala were| Mnardfeldt Athl Chab will strive to take the measure of the champion Two teams fn Hre . the Ofl- s and the Rlack Spots, will battle the championship of their section the Brookland fleld Sunday at 3 o'clock. Southern Preps are training hard for Sunday's game with the Masked Marvels of Annapolis. De Ogard. Snow, Barry. Clark, Gartrell, Bealt and ‘Schellenburg, Hickey, Urban, { Speakman, Crowder, Frye, Payne P{p'd Maggio will display their wares’for the local team. — e One of the best games of the season is expected in the Waverly Athletic Club-Broadway Athletic Club gameto be played on the Knickerbocker field | Sunday at 2:30 o'clock. The' Broad- way gridders claim. the 150-pound] champlonship of Baltimore, at The Mudville nine is one of the mileposts in base ball history. Crowds have breathlessly fol- lowed its carcer, wept over its defeats and exalted its hero at the plate as they today exalt Babe Ruth. Its great hitter has awed us, and has been the sub- ject of one of the most moving modern ballads ever written about the national game. Thou- sands have held their breath and loved this hero as “he rubbed his hands wtih dirt” him more as he “wiped, them on his shirt.” They have Wwanted to mob the umpire in his They have done everythi remember who it talized his name in poetry! Our hero is Casey. Our ballad i sey at the Bat” DeWolf Hopper has really made the poem famous. Audicnces beg him for it whenever he makes an appear- ance before the curtain. It is hi established encore. And this hac been going on for several genera tions—ever since Archibald Clav- ring Gunter, familiar author of Mr. Barnes of New York,” first called his attention to it in the newspapers. Who did write “Casey at the Bat”? In various mutilated forms the verses caught fire in the press of the late 80's, and there were many who were only too ready to lay claim to what Prof. W. L. Phelps of Ya'e has onl recently called an “Americ classic” But the real creator of “Casey at the Bat” was Ernest L. Thayer, a Harvard graduate of the class of 1885, and ane of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon. ‘Thayer went to San Francisco, where he was given a job as reporter on a morning newspaper. And it was in that paper “Casey at the Bat” was first published on June 3, 1888 There was a popular ball player on the Pacific coast at that time. His name was John Patrick Par- nell Cahill. “We'll call him Casey, for short,” decided Mr. Thayer. But Thayer was almost forgot- ten, drowned by the dulcet notes of DeWolf Hopper, who has not only held to the ballad as his chiefest curtain speech, but who is caught for the days to come in a phonograph record. It's Inside Golf __By CHESTER HOR™. ON n While we are talking about the | experimenta in golt would be a | Rood time to remind golfers of a few fundamentalx always to keep in mind. In fact, they should be kept uppermost in mind at all timen fix regards golf. First, nee the ball. Remember Give the eye time to focus on it. The way that works out i thix: While you are focus ing the eyes the mind will concen- trate, and that's what you want. Once the focus ix centered and th mind concentrated, see the buil, demonstrate to yournelf by focusing your eye on some fixed object near yom and then demonstrating how long you ean look fixedly right at it. It won't be for long. . “WILD BHL.L” DONOVAN BURIED IN' PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, December 14 Funeral services for William (“Wild ‘Bill”) Donovan, killed in the wreck at Forsyth, N. Y., last Sunday, were held at the home of his father, Jeremiah Donovan, here yesterday. A large number of relatives and friends were present, as well as a group of present and former major 1 league base ball players residing in rvices were S8, this vicinity. Religious = held at the Cathedral o and Pa Peter tAUTO GLASS FOR WINDSHIELDS OR BODIES. Installed While You Wait. Taranto & Wasman 1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W. O installed in An% make ‘ll'lg':"‘\'ll"'l"fl R. and WORKS 319 18th, F.'6410. - 1435 B 7443, = H -='_= No. 1 Boys® Tricycle, 3 price, $14.00 £ ~—our price, 8!0.5'0 . No. 2 .Boys Tricycle, regular price, $16.00 —our price, $12.50. >No. 3' Boys’ Tricycle, regular ' price, $18.00 .—our price, $15.50; | the Here’s a nomination for the Hall of Fame. It's Ernest L. Thayer, who wrote what is perhaps the best known piece of American verse that ever saw light. not excepting “The Before Christmas.” Thayer produced “Casey at the Bat™ in 1888. only lately that Thayer has been generally acknow.edged as the author of this exciting ballad. There could be nothing more appropriate with which to end a history of base ball than theése verses. Millions of newspaper pages have been filled with base ball, but no one ever got the spirit of the game more com- pletely than did Thayer more than a third of a century ago in this classic. CASEY AT THE BAT (A Ballad of the Republic. in the Year 1888) By Ernest L. Thayer Sung The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, w but one inning more to play TRAPSHOTS SELECTED FOR OLYMPIC TEAM CHIC December 14-—A tive American trapshooting team for Olympic games at Paris next year was announced today by the zone chairmen of the Amateur Trap- shooting Assoctation. It is made up shooter from each of the five the United Stat s chosen at large, as follows: Pacific coast zone, Frank M. Troeh of Porland. Oreg: prairie Frank Hughes of Mobridge, S. great lakes zone, W. H. Fawcett of Robbinsdale, Minn.; southern zone, Paul Earle ‘of Starr, S. C.; zone, George S. MeCarty Fred R. Etchen of Cc S H_S tenta- lection; the rination race shooting up t the Olympic matches. The bers probably will have to own expenses, it was stated. or ime of mem- y their BLUES TO TRAIN ON COAST. LOS ANGEL Calif., 14—The Kansas City Blues champlons of the American As tion, will train at the Maler Ball received here. A’ tentative schedule n arranged. $1.25 . Give a Box of 100 Greetings o Base Park, Vernon, according to word | Alovsius | { and three | Wertheimer, 1 also | quarter an And then, when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A A straggling few got up to go, in deep despair. The rest Clung to that hope which “springs eternal in the human breast”; They thought, if only Casey coul but get a whack at that, We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat. But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake; 3o, upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, For there seemed but little chance of Casey’s getting to the bat. 'n let drive a single, to the wonderment of all, d buake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball, 1d when the dust had lifted and men saw what had occurred, There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-huggin’ third. Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell; It rumbled through the valley; it rattied in the dell; It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey’s man- ner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey’s bear- ing and a smile on Casey's face, And when, responding to the ;hrcrs. he lightly doffed his at, No stranger in_the crowd could doubt ‘twas Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt; Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt. Then, while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, Denance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip. EPINARD WILL RACE INU. S. NEXT SEASON SW YORK, December 1924 3 14.—The best Epinard, champion three-year-old of France, In open competition in the United States next summer, M. Plerre his owner, announced last night at the close of a series of conferences with American turfmen. At least three sweepstakes have been planned in which Epinard will be entered, he sald, and racing bodles will be invited to bid for the privi- lege of holding one of the series. Epinard will be brought here prob- ably in July, it was said. The races will be at a mile and a a mile and a half, with a possibly a six-furlong race as _— ALOYSIUS CLUB RUNNERS IN CROSS-COUNTRY RACE Aloysius Athletic Club will four of its long-distance runners to compete In the South Atlantic cross- send December | country run_to be held in Baltimore tomorrow. Mike Lynch, Dan Heale James Montague and Wesley Monta. gue are expected to represent Heale: March § from Laurel to Baltimore. oA GREETINGS BOX of one bhundred Herbert Tareytons seasonable token of good will,a tan- gible evidence of good taste, and 2 V four-year-old American | horses will have a chance to meet | y and Lynch also may enter for exhibition games in March has'the Olympic marathon trial to be held | And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air, . And Casey. stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped— ‘That ain't my style,” said Casey “Strike one,” the umpire said. From the benches, black with people, there went up a muf- fied roar Like the beating of the storm- waves on a stern and distant shore. . “Kill him; ki!l the umpire!” shouted some one from the stand— . And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone; | He stilled- the rising tumult; he bade the game go on; He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew; But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, “Strike two!” “Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered “Fraud!” But_ one scornful look from Casey, and the multitude was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold; they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone from Casey’s lips; his teeth are clinched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go. And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere men are laugh- ing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville— mighty Casey has struck out. (THE END) GIRL BASKETERS TO MEET. Final plans for the organization of a girls’ basket ball league are to be acted upon at & meeting of team representatives tonight in the Y. W. C.” A. bullding. Rules and regul are to be submitted for ap- 7 x1 Gifts 72 W % % Z A sturdy winter shoe in ruddy tan or black veloug calf............ D. C. SCHOOL HEAD LAUDS PLAY IN GRIDIRON SERIES Declares Fostering of Clean Sportsmanship Is One of His Aims in Address at Banquet to Tech’s Championship Eleven. RGENT need of greater facilities for athletic activities schools was stressed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super schools, at a banquet given the championship Tech foot ball team at Tech last night. It was mainly through Dr efforts that provisions were included in the | dget, submitted to Con by President Coolidge, for the erection of athletic ficld at We i High, costing $125000. Plans and specifications for a new T building also were included in the budget, and they provide fo gymnasium and athletic field, ONE-SIDED BATTLES IN DUCKPIN LEAGUES In the nineteen duckpin leagues bowling last night fourteen clean- ups were recorded. Four battles were carded in the Public Debt League and three of them resulted in sweeps. Register easily snowed under the { Claims quint with neither side having an individual reaching the century mark. Administrative team won all | three games from Securities and Ac- counts found the Registered Accounts cafy; picking. basketers gave an In the Annex No. 1 League Special |clever passing. ~o Search trimmed Section B, Welssman | W€re attempted from iof the victors having high game at| Wentern High was sch 121, [ meet Hynttsville Hi | morrow,” but the lat game because of th tain a gymnasium. voungsters are proe | under the direction of (. |and they intend ke rough for th plonship series Competition w in the foot ball se Dr. Ballou. ‘Jf & | had better athi would be much k Dr. Ballou said « to foster clean s school athl | the champlonship manner in which title s of the first o this year, high sch ' = University of Mar |ute to Coach I : ! “Tech this | best drilled te: | schools In years, : practice session, surprise in the ¥ plonship series. The ¥ Walkers of the Kresge Company | League won three hard-fought games from The Talkers, Kelrn's game of 110 being the best. Columbla 26 of the Knights of | Pythias League grabbed all the games | Conch Mike Kell from the Mount Vernon quint, Girardi [ Juint was to mal having the top game of 112. n A game with the A = ehis afternonn at 2:0 Central Collsa In the Commercial League, Carry| s Ice Cream shot games of 510, 530 and | Mentor probably will u 530 and smothered Raleigh Haber- dashery. Wolfes of the winners had 2 nice set of 368. Tine of the pla use in the series. lon sons have been held, witt that many performers dropped from the squads Berberich won all three games from the Schwarz quint in the Business Men's League, Minco getting a set of 321. In this league Woodward & Lothrop won two games from the Herzog quint by a single pio in each battle, Grasso helping out with a set of 344. Wolf of Mount Pleasant of the league of the same name smashed the best single game of the evening, | 168, his team taking two games from the Firestones after losing the first battle by one pin. In the 0dd Fellows League another Mount Pleasant team won a clean-up battle from the Amity quint, Horn- ing’s set of 333 being the best. Federal-American Bank swept the decks In_the Financial League, the M. B. and T. Company being the vic- tims. Saylor, anchorman of the win- ners, had the top game, 113. Two wvreeps developed in the South- ern Rallway League, Construction vanquishing Freight Traffic and_the Operations quint smothering the Pur- big scores. Mul- of one may be letic committee days. approved in the next Gonzagn High's foot ball that made such a record in th school ranks t banquet 'ist = awarded 1 Capt. Sullivan. Daly. Bently, O'Callaghan. Mitche O'Donoghue. Colliere. Genau, O'l Kearns. Fillius, _O'Connell, Burrows, Farrell, Flaniga: and Manager Kare. Pat O was elected captain of the 1924 eleven BRITONS' DEFI ACCEPTED. 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The lattery have battled for the city champion- | is regarded as mae tron ombina- ship. tion In the 126-1: welcome supply_ of good “5"‘,'“‘“‘ 414 9¢h St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave. SE. “City Club Shog” 1318 G St. Our 9th St. and Pa. Ave, Stores Open Late Saturday Evenings —_—— PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 14— Players of the United States Ama- «‘teur Hockey Association who have been selected to accompany the American Olympic hockey team abroad, and who refuse to make the trip, may be barred from participat- NEW YORK, December 14~~The X~ coutive commlites of the United States | Golf Association is confronted with a conflict in requests of man.and woman., golfers of the country for tWo big tour- nament dates next “% <05 The women applied for ‘the second ing in league hockey during the com-; week in September for their national ing season, President W. H. Haddock | champlonship play at Providence, R. I of the association announced. - The men already had planned to Only “legitimate” excuses will be | hold their national amateur tourna evnlli!l‘.d.“ ‘ ment at Philadelphia the same week. ./