Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1923, Page 59

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, DECEM BER 23, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. . e Fohl Faces Test of Genius in Boston : Maryland Fills Three More Schedules FOOT BALL, BASKET BALL, LACROSSE DATES NAMED With Base Ball List Previously Announced, Contests REHABILITATING WRECKED RED SOX HIS ASSIGNMENT Work of “Base Ball’s Doctor of Hopeless Teams”! With the Indians and Browns, Augurs Well for Manager’s Success, However. * (Editor's Note: E: This is the third of a series of weekly articles on new big league managers and their problems. e fourth, dealing with Dave Bancroft and the Boston Braves of 1924, will appear next Sunday.) f & HEY ought to call him “Old Doc” Fohl. : Or, “Grand Exalted Reviver of Sick Ball Clubs.” Mr. Lee Fohl of the Boston Red Sox, called to the Hub by Robert Quinn, the new president of the American League tailenders, to be the manager and rebuilder of one of the most complete wrecks of all base ball history ball. certainly qualifies as the heap big medicine man of base Lee can take an eighth-place club. jab a needle in here and there, prescribe and make the patients take and like a dose of his hustle tonic and in a month or so the sick one is on his feet. vell. In two or three scasons Doc Fohl will be the league, fighting with the best clubs in it, He did this with the Cleveland club. well found up near the top of That organization was base s sick man of Ohio when Fohl, a minor league manager who had won success by mak ¢ Indians in 191 Thers was a change finished seventh I 15 Epring the tr . In the next de which gave Tris Speaker the Tribe, and that year brought them home’ sixth. In ! Jump to third and in ason of 1918 he was to the Red So: the which he will now take Indians wer fighting for 1619 when, after events sewhere in' this article, and went to St. Louis, Repented in St. Louls, accomplished almost % in the Mound city ‘The finished fifth n 1919 Fohl ught them home fourth in 1920, : 1921 and second in 1922, only of the champion- Leaguc anager who can show such re- these, with different teams, nt types of teams and different of players, surely deserves master builder in se ball. It s recogni ohl 10 be the “Old Doc¢” who ive the patient that Quinn » hm the job with the Sick 1 of Fenway Park “ohl never was a great base ball ver even rated a good big ver. Almost all of the men are leading the big teams of to- were stars or players. raw, _Robinson Cobb, lor, € Bancroft, i Killefer—all were stars, Moran, and Bill McKechnie and Rranch Rickey were good players of smart” type, But Fohl wasn't n a good catcher. He played only five games in the bigx league. He caught one game for the Pittsburgh Tirates in 1902. With catchers like “Chief” Zimmer around there wasn't chance for a voungster. Fohl vas with the Cincinnati Reds in 1903 and worked in four games. After that he struggled with various clubs in the minors, always showing an apti- tude at building up and reviving the lame and the halt till he got his op- jortunity in the big show again as a sader Tenaclty” His Middle Name. ¢ Fohl had a middle name—which Yia hasn't—it would without doubt be enacity. That's the outstanding fea- ure of his record—a stick-to-it-ive- nese, a never-say-die spirit that de- fies all obstacles and overcomes all satbacks. Truth crushed to earth ces again, and so does Lee Fohl. mly brushing off his clothes, he £oes back at the business of produc- ag a winning ball club. Some time ago, as stated, he was the manager of the Cleveland Indians. It was his first big league job. He was trying his level best to build up the Indians, and after obtaining Speaker and developing several others ow stars on the Claveland layout he was slowly working the team into a commanding position in the race. The Boston Red Sox cams to town ona day—they seem to work into his career. The game was close. Con- <lderable depended on games just at that time—it was in mid-July—and thers was a lot of excitement. The indians were ahead when the Sox started a rally late in the game, and Babe Ruth was put in to bat for some weak sister. “ohl had to make a quick decision, and he yanked out his pitcher and sent in _another. This one was Coumba—Fred Coumbe—a left-hander. The bases were full, and pitching selection of Fohl's sped one hall over the plate. Ruth socked it out of the park and the Sox won. That cost Fohl his job as manager of the Indians and Speaker succeeded Then He Bullt Up Browns. The next year he went to St. Louis, ook over the Browns and proceeded build them up, Slowly and care- v he went, gaining a little each r, till in the fall of 1922 he was 1 game behind the Yankees, who ad to finish away from home, while th, owns practically had the month f September on their home lot. 1t looked like a soft place for the t. Louis team to work through for < first pennant in man \iong ame Ya They ere to play three games, and every me knew that the pennant probably ended on the result h Yankees won the first game, Browns the second. and the third me down to the ninth inning with the Trowns one run ahead. Dixle had been going smoothly for rowns and it looked like the leadership of the league for the Mound city, A hit and a couple of errors put a conple of Yankees on base in the ninth nd_ Fohl yanked Davis out. He put uett, a voung left-hander ‘Who had pitched creditably the day before, but who cannot stand any great amount of hard work. Pruett was wild, passed a man, committed some more blunders, and Urban hocker came In just In time for Whit ‘Witt to spin out the 1t that gave the Yankees victory and, «s it turned out, won them the penuant. That second case of bad guessing on pltchers cost Fohl his job as manager Louts. When Quinn, his firm ., _who had_ been business man- ger of the St. Louis club, left there come to Boston as president, there was no hope for Fohl in_ St. Louis. He was dropped by Phil Ball in Ay- gust, dusted oft his clothes, signed a ntract with Quinn and will stact ail ver again as He's good at hat, but a bad guesser on pitchers. Hard Task With The Red Sox. It's just such a man of dogged de- termination, refusing to be catt down hy defeat arid disappointment, who is useded to work on.the Boston Red Sox only a mere shadow of the team which won an American League pen- nant in i913 and three others, with three other world championships in the stx years before that, It will be no easy task rebuilding the wreck left by the Frazee adminigtra- tion_in Boston. There isn't a man of the 1918 champlonahip team left. There isn't an Infleld star, an outfleld star, or a catching star to bulld around. There is_just one pitching star, Ehmke, the farmer_Detroiter, who was allowed to 0 to Boston, bécause Ty Cobb didn't happen to Ifke him. Flagstead. is the best outflelder; Geprge Burns, cast-off of three clubs, the best inflelder and hitter Fohl will have to begin closer to the ground than he began in Cleve- land and far closer than in St. Loui 1n one he had Speaker and Coveleskie, in the other Sisler, Severeld and Shocker. In Boston he must begin from the ground up. It will be a tough fight, and.the Boston fan who cxpects a winning team inside of two years or perhaps three is foolish. The day of base ball miracles 'is over, even with a genius like Fohl. In the first place he will have a harfar time than in eifher Cleveland got good, developed ht‘ll playess neow the same Browns | be- | the peculiar fit- | the new | | 1g_good teams out of bad ones, went to the rescue The club had finished cighth in 1914. The Indians than it was flve vears ago. can’t be had nowadays, for the de- mand far exceeds the supply. Few clubs will take money for a player. They all ask playing strength in re- turn and when a man has nothing to offer, as now seems to be the case with Fohl, the chances of getting any ready-made stars fit to jump on the fleld the first day of the training season next spring and il the Boston sporting ‘pages full of big headlines are small. Toughent of All Jobs Now. t almost keems as though fate has acked the cards against Fohl this time with that persistency for which fate is noted. Having seen him get out of the tangle in Cleveland and work his way to the top, watched him overcome all obstacles In St. Louis. it would appear as though the idea is to put him into a third most Lopeless and sickening combination of Gordian knots and say: here now! Let's see you get out of that one!" (Copyright, 1923.) G. U. GRID TEAM LISTS NEW ORLEANS GAME NEW ORLEANS, December 22— Georgetown University of Washing- ton, D. C., appears on the 1924 foot ball schedule of Lovola University for a game here on November 22 The complete schedule follows: September 27, Furman, at New Orleans. University of - 'y They [JUNIOR A.‘A. U. MEET SET FOR FEBRUARY 9 NEW YORK, December —The Nlagara Association of the Amateur Athletic Union has selected February 9 as the date for the 1924 national junfor indoor A. A. U. track and field championships at Buffalo. Louisville and New York are bid- ding for the senior championships, selection of the Kentucky city de- pending upon whether it can offer an early March date for the meet. Among other championshlp awards by the A. A. U, the senior volley ball champlonship goes to Pittsburgh, while the junior volley ball title event and welght-lifting champlon- ship go to Los Angeles. ‘The tug-of-war championship awarded to the Irish-American A. of Detroit. is POLO GAINS IN FAVOR - AMONG MINOR SPORTS S Polo here was controlled by ‘the War Department, and that branch of the government certainly popularized the game locally. Two tournaments were conducted’ in Potomac Park, a spring affair for local fours and a fall event that included several out- of-town entries. High _handicap players composed the teams in_the Department Greens. In the fall, teams representing_the War Department, Fort Myer, Fort Humphreys, 3rd Corps, Governors Is- land and Fcrl-Brl{g competed. The tournament was held under the Army handicap system. ~After a keen struggle, the Fort Myer four emerged victor. The War Department team went to Philadelphfa for tournaments in May and June, winning the Wootton chal- lenge cup, Bryn Mawr Polo Club cup and President’s cup, and losing in the tourney for the Morrell fund ocup. Eight of nine games were won by ‘War Department In this serfes. Maj. J. K. Herr of War Depart- ment's firat team was a member of the four that won the Army junlor championghip and later played with the United States team that defeated the British in the international army tourney. Lieut. C. C. Jadwin, another War Department player, became & member of the National Army twelve- goal team that played so_ well at Narragansett in August. The four in the finals of two tournaments reached the asemi-final in an- Pigeon Racing Increasing. Pigeon racing in the greatly Increased during the year. Not only were several new clul formed, but the older clubs thut have been in existence fer many years, had many additions to thelr membership. Owing to the good weather during tlie Spring and fall racing seasons the ciubs enlarged their schedules over previous years and in several instances records for long-dftance fiying, as well as speeds for the ;nn;'ler races, were made by local irds The clubs that took an active in- terest in the sport during the year were the Washington Raclng Pigeon Club, Aero Club, District of Columbia Raoing Pigeon Club, Bast End Club and Bouth Washington Club. Bleyclists, motorcyclists and auto- moblle racérs had their innings. For the¥first mentioned, two mests were held on the Potomac Park course. One District championship event was conducted, with August Nogara, for- mer Olympie eyclist, winning the fi: mile title. Motorcycle races were held in conjunction with automobile racing on thé Arlington track. The motoreycle champlonships of the Dis- trict were won by Frank Fetteti and James Hunter in solo and. sidecar competitions, respectively. Roque enthusiasts, who had plan- ned a great year, were disappointed -as the courts provided for them were ;l:‘! constructed well enough to oflmu Ir fagilities. eVer, AT e iRea n Tamiaine X - A N 5 . In a year he is doing CHAPTER 13, How the Umpire Looks to a Player. BY HANS WAGNER. MPIRING is a feature in base ball - that never has been given as much attention as it de- served. To answer all questions on umpires in one lump I can truthfully say thatsl never yet have seen an umpire who did not try to be right-and give the plays as he saw them. Oh, T've seen some pretty rough ones, make no mistake about that. But all these boys were trying. I oncetwas fined $25 by a new umpire when 1 wasn’t even on the field. I had got a day off to go fishing. This young umpire had a sort of half-baked idea of what the duties of an umpire should be. The older fellows had tald him that an umpire must first impress the players with his authority—show them that he was not afraid of them. Well, this one started badly, and, I might add, finished quickly. The players started riding him from the bench. To show au- thority he ordered two or three of them off, _ I was getting a Jittie prominent in base ball then, and this bird figured it out that he would fix himself solid by going after one of the stars, so he said later. “That's going to cost Wagner $25,” he yelled over to the Pitts- burgh bench. He never did undérstand why he got such a laugh. He hadn’t been in the league long enough to know the players by sight. But sure enough, he reported to the league president by telegraph that night that he had fined Wagner $25. I got back from the fishing trip and was so noti- fied by the office. To my mind, that is the longest-range punish- ment I ever have had. The poor fellow lasted just a week. And He Asked Wilson. Personally I always have thought the umpires gave me a square deal. Players all want the close ones their way—no excep- tions. At heart, though, they know that umpires do not pur- posely rub it into them. I remember one time the Pitts- burgh club was playing Chicago. A long fly hit toward Outfielder Wilson. It struck close to the foul line, and the umpire called it fair. There was a terrible row about that. We naturally said it was a foul. We surged around the umpire, trying to make him change his decision, but there was nothing doing. “Ask Wilson," begged. “Just ask him. tell you. Leave it to him.” “Well, I be doggoned ii 1 don't do it,” the umpire surprised us by agreeing. “Hey, Wilson,” we yelled as the outfielder came in. “The umps says he'll leave it to you—was that ball foul or fair?” “It was fair,” declared Wilson. “Fair by a foot.” If you ever saw a gang slink we He'tl PORTS not generally patronized in the District are grouped as minor activities, but this year several of this class attracted much atten- tion and were vastly entertaining. This was especially true of polo, that drew thousands of spectators to tournaments in Potomac Park. Dog fanciers, too, fostered field trials that were well filled and arranged several exhibitions that commanded public attention. of the horse also enjoyed a wonderful year. | bers of the board of governors. spring toyrney that went to the War | District | back to the bench it was us. It | never had occurred to us that ! Lovers ed organized and expects to have bet- | ter courts next vear. Officers of the club are: C. M. Bryant, president; C. O. Sherrill, W. H. Overhua and M. O. Chance,’ vice presidents; Charles G. Wililams, southern champlon and | ex-national champion, secretary, and B. A. Bean, Clifford Howard, An- drew Kramer and W, S. Sprags, mem- This hes been the best year ever for the horse around the District. The annual show and race meet con- ducted by the National Capital Horse Show Association at its grounds, near Arlington, attracted a greater at- tendance ‘and more and better en- tries than any previous show. The Indoor shows, too, were ex- ceptional, but most interest was manifested in the revival of bunting. A. Wagner, (brother of Hans) is on the left, next is Harry Smith and then Hans Himself. They played together on the old Warren, Pa., team and also were together on the Pirates. Wilson might agree with the um- pire. We thought he'd be fight- ing, too. Never again did we ask for a gllyer to give his honest opinion. We didn't want justice, you see. ‘We wanted that ball called foul. Everybody is against the um- pire. Fans and players ride him when he makes a decision against us. If he makes a close one in our favor we figure it was com- ing to us because he made a bad one against us last year. I have noticed that some um- pires seem to give decisions in favor of the home club. Then I have seen others who appeared always to give the close ones to the visitors. But taking it all in all, my experience has shown that the dicisions about break even in the long run. An umpire cannot please everybody, so if he figures it out and pleases himself he knows he has done the right thing. What the Umpire Has To Do. A good umpire must be fear less, confident and have good judgment. He must follow the ball closely and place himself at the best angle to see the pla: The most ° important qual though, is to be a good judge of ‘human nature. He must not see nor hear a lot of little things that go on arouad him. After a little experience he knows the difference between natural kicks due to impulse and those that are deliberately intended to show him up. No umpire will ever stand for being shown up. That’s why they will throw you out of a game for tossing up your glove and will not bother you for calling them names. A good umpire forgets that a PRINCETON BASKETERS WILL PLAY AT HILLTOP| game with Princeton has been Ryan gymaassium February 12. Princeton long has been strong at the floor game, and its quint this winter is expected to be about stardy as the Tiger team that w. the intercollegiate title two sea. sons age. 2 {litop basket ball manage- ng for en- sagements, eral other formf be booked. b held for pocket billiardists, but none of especial {mportance. Squash racquets was fostered by the Racquet Club, which held tournaments for senior and junior classes. A club team was sent .to other cities for matches. Fencers here were In few competitions. _ Cricket yers, horse- shoe pitchers and hand ball players did little during the year. MEXICAN BASKETERS COME HERE ON TOUR MEXICO CITY, December 22—A Mexican invasidn of the United States The Rock Creek Hunt Club held twice each week in n, drew scores of riders—men and women— to the fleld. Several hunters have come into prominence, particularly Melvin Hazen's Margaret. The ranks of horse enthuslasts have grown considerably during the vear. housands not the clubs here have taken to the sport, untll now the parks and byways are well filled with riders on holidays. Great improvement in the bridle paths of the city may account for much of this. Washington now can one ‘of the longest paths in the coun- try, one extending from Haines point, at’ the lower extremity of Potomao Park uninterruptedly to the northern- most point of the District. Capital City Chess Club has been un- usually active during the year in up- holding' its reputation of being one of the strongest chess clubs in the coun- try. * Formidable teams resenting Philadelphia were encountered twice in matches by telephone. The local club drew the first match, 66, and with its three strongest players out of the line. up succeeded in holding the Pennsyl jer and Fle vanians to a 73-12% score In the|ys.a g basket ball team that craves | While Stantons _dis second mateh. It redeem: itself, however, by completely annihilating the powerful Baltimore Chess Asso. clation, 14 to 2, with but one game drawn. N. T. Whitaker, local master, tied with Stasch Mlotkowski for premler honors in the tournament at San Francleco to determine the holder of the title of western champion. An- other club member, F. M. Currier, fin- ished sixth in the final standing. V. Seurnin, club champion, made a creditable showing in the eastern master tournament held at Lake Hop- atcong, N. J., while W. H. Mutchler, a strong local amateur, won two sec- ond prizes in the minok tournament held in conjunction with that of the masters. Billiardists were ente: ed by Willie Hoppe .and his partner,/ Tadao Suga- numa, who visited here in January. The King of the cue gave several spec- tacular exhibitions at Sherman’s just Dafors that piace closed. 1n the year a of " Poullefr, ltated with any of | i, will start at Houston, Tex., January 1, and end at Jacksonville, ia., Febru- ary 6, when the Young Men's Chris- tian Association basket ball team of Mexico the border to en- gage leading a ur teams of the neighbor country. The itinerary Includes Lexington, ; Cincinnati, Columbus, Pitts- burgh, Baltimore, New York, Bohenec- tady, ' Pittafleld, gfleld, Maas, New Haven and WashingtoR. lve men constitute the squad, captained by Ramiro Arechi and aged by E. C. Aguirre, physical director, which averages 147 pounds in weight, 5 £ 7 inches In height and 31 years of age. All are univer- sity student PREMIER'S TOSSERS SEEK FLOOR GAMES Premier Athletic Club has organ- action in the 105-pound class. The squad includes Gordonm, Keren, Du- Boskey, Jacobs, Weinstein, Allex, Katsman, Acher and Glager. Con- téu‘tg are wanted ':Ith th'o" mg.m::» ul Corini nton! o fantios mha Mount: Yornona rels phone emlon%:- to Manager Glaser, at Maln 2226, between 6 and 8 p.m. Boys' Club Insects yesterday de- feated the National basketers, 20 to. 10. For games with the win; are of the 85-90-pound class, n.n’one Manager Rothery, at Fi 1s2. Les Amis Cli the 120-125-pou! fioors. desires games in class with teams ‘havin Challenges will be re- e.l\xfl' by Manager Samuel! Giml at 731 4th street, or over telephone Frankiin 9558, 3 | crowd is present. The whole af- | fair is between him and the play- ers. The minute anybody tries to get the crowd in—well, that fellow is in bad with the um- pires. He should be. An umpire has a lot of work to do. He must keep the game moving rapidly o as to please the crowd. He is what you might call a stage manager. It is up to him to stage the show badly or enjoyably. In addition an um- pire must know the rules from A to Z and must be so familiar with their application that he can make a decision on the instant and be right. A big majority of players do not know the real fine points of the rules. A whole lot of them have never read the rule book in their lives. It has just struck me that it might be a good idéa to select an all-American team of umpires, just as we do ball players. Later on I'm going to name the best ones during my time, and explain why. But te answer an inquiry—the worst decision I ever saw was made by Umpire Byron, and he made it on me. Pittsburgh and New York were playing at Pittsburgh. 1 was stealing third, and the catcher threw the ball into my feet, mak- ing it impossible for Devlin—I think it was Devlin—to pick it up. We both got in a tangle as 1 slid through a cloud of dust. The ball was bound under my arm where nobody could find it. With the ball still caught urder my arm I started for the plate while the New York infielder was looking for it. No one seemed to Enow what had be- come of it. About ten feet from home the ball dropped on the base line. Now here’s where McGraw got in his fine work. He rushed up to Umpire Byron, who had run down to third base to make the decision,- and told him I had car- ried the ball to the bench in my hand. “If you don't believe it, go te the bench and make them give it to yor he urged Byron. About this time McGraw's at- tention was. called to the ball lving. in the base path. Up to that time his back had been turned. 4 “That proves it” he said to Byron.> “See! Wagner~ just rolled it out.” Byron knew that something unusual had happened. He scratched his head, not knowing what to do. “You're out!" he finally called out to me, “for carrying the ball to the bench in_your hand.” Well, you can imagine the new row that started! We milled all over the place. But Byron stuck to his decision. The game went into extra innings and we lost. Pittsburgh protested the game, but the president of the league decided against us on Byron's written statement that I had car- ried the ball to the bench in my hand and rolled it out again. I never did get over that de- cision, it was so unfair. The umpire, you see, never did ask me where the ball had come from. He simply took McGraw's word for it because he didn't know what else to do. McGraw started the argument as a bluff and went through with it. He always thought it a good joke. That's where he won by out-talking me. Tomorrow: An All-American Selection of Umpires, INDEPENDENT STRONG THLETICS among the independents have flourished during the - INSEVERAL BRANCHES year now drawing to a close. More and better clubs were organ- A ized for sandlot foot ball, while base ball and basket: ball fared particularly well. In all, games were better conducted and a greater number of boys, girls, men and women were in the field and the courts. Foot ball has been especially interesting, the more so because of a surprising upset in the struggle for unlimited class honors. Early in the fall there appeared a team known as the Interiors, directed by Dr. A. D. Butz and Jack Sullivan, former North Carolina State star, that soon be- came a contender for laurels. It swept to victory over Mohawks and Mercurys, between which it was thought the title battle would be fought, and achieved a clear claim to the championship. The Interiors downed the Mohawks, | ships. -Nace McCormack of the senior 19 to 13, early in the campaign, then |Nine was mainly responsibie for his team! 3 took the measure of the 1932 cham- | ho led his nine to vietedy PhiLeROY: plon Mercurys In a 13-to-0 engage- | Linworth Athletic Club for the title. ment. Jack Williams, Bill Kenyon| Waverly Junors beat their greatest and Zube Sullivan were the matn | TIVal, Mount Pleasant, 10 to 4, for the tactors in the Interlors’ succe laurels. Southends Top Mid The -most. spectacular battle wi Two svenly matoned nines. South- waged between Mohawks and Mer- Surye: with the former winning, 10 io | ends and Emblems, held a three-game 8 By’ ¢ grea railv in (o latter part | series for the midget champlonship, of the fray. Dinty Hughes and Josh | the former winning the title when Licarions of the Indians and Brooke [mayior hurled is team to.an 8.to.s Brewer of the Winged-foot combina- victory in the deciding fray. Promi- ton will be remembered as shining | ¥ictory in the deciding fra oot lights in this contest. - un- | Killarne: rave Hearts, Powhatans, Two other clubs figured in the un Cirol! merson and the Natlonsl Iimited title running at the atart of i3 Knickerbocker and | Although small, the wn~ Athietia Assoctation | these nines often played ball of the appeared to be formidable, | first order. r title hopes were blasted by | Several stirring base ball matches Auidi were waged in the interleague seris Hasourriand the Ml in which General Accounting O ”.::‘"';:; Foir n"_‘: e 2 Hom over the Union Printers. The - nf owever, went to Waverly Athletic Club for the award | and successtully ' defands in the 150-pound class. Thess two!they won in 1932 in the elevens battled (o a scoreless tie, and ! oot Union Base Ball Asso the Apaches still claim the title they | optain a_clear claim to B won ln 1922 ~The Apaches most:rels the Mohawks, independent cham- S el the | plons, twice vanquished General Ac- nie 2 Competitien was keen for the 185- ound laurels; but the Navajos seem %o have the best claim to the title. {Southern Preps, a_strong foe, made an enviable record. A spirited ra Tesulted in the 126-pound class, Stanton Juniors and the Mardfeldts defeating numerous rivals. The Mard feldts showed the way to the Rovers, Wintons, Argyles, Eckington, Mount Rain! over minal R. R. ¥. M. C. A., Quartermas- ter of the War Depariment, Amnex No. 1 of the Treasu,y, Generdl Ac- counting of the Government, Western Unfon of the Commercial aad Mail Equipment of the Post Office. Yndopendent basket ball was en livened by the entranee of an Ameris can Legion team into the champlon- ship fight that formerly was between Aloysius and the Yankees. The Legionnaires had a formidsble team that gave the long-time champion Yan| a brisk but neither t! ‘etarans nor Yanks could ‘with Aloysius. The Aloysians 5:%« but one loss In the oham- plorship tour: and clearly demo! strated thelr ht to the title. ‘There was much activity amoag the smaller teams. City titles in their dr'.l wers not defnitely deter- ained Park Athletic Club, Mackins, Alexan Wdria Roseb: and Wintons. There wers two sturdy eélevens in the 115-120 pound class. The Kana- whas trounced Mercury Juniors, 14 to 18, for the tf B’:'l‘.rzl ‘nl‘l‘:v‘rr.::ll toam [y o 138 pound i ip Midgets claim the as they sho the way to the hitherto undefeated Corinth- 1an p Base ball jore was supplied this OAr. hm‘:‘f the unlimited, senior, Lnlor and midget classes competed in the city sandlot title series. Consi erable interest was manifested in tl ) uniimited, division, in_which the Mol hawk: mericen Legion, orth 7 b and the Phils si al teams, tal ‘Athletic Club and the :t.hlcau"(il.n for top honor-.“‘A'!‘nr &urrlclnu, compe! for a District g the title in section B of the Dl@ll’l“’. that went to the 7-"1" e Mohawks trounced Ameri- . ils for the Dis-§ Little in the way of track and fleld =l=t -w::&“d bl e . {athletios was attempted by the clubs. Bouthern and Finney Kelley [Aloysius Club was not so ably rep- the Hfl:"kf to victory over|ressanted in llm:c. running as ‘but sectional laurels were ined in many instances. Girls, too, thronged the courts and two for All Major Teams-Are Booked—Difficult and Attractive Games Arranged. BY W. H. NIVERSITY OF MARY varsity basket ball, lacrosse the base ball list was recent HOTTEL. ND has completed schedules for the and foot ball teams for 1924, and as ly announced, with the exception of a possible northern trip for three games or more, all now that remains that will be met in these four sport Burton Shipley is in charge of the major portion of the coaching under the direction of Athletic Director H. C. Byrd is tutoring the freshmen basketers and doubtless the diamond artists. be on the job in full force in foot b SCHEDULES ANNOUNEEb FOR MARYLAND TEAMS FOOT BALL. September 27—Washington College at Co ’s to produce teams that will be able ‘Washingto October 11—University of Richmond at College Pn ington. October Chapel HilL November 1—Catholic University at Washington. November S8—Yale at New Haven. 25—North Carolina at at College Park. November 27 (Thanksgiving day)— Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Standium. BASKET BALL. January 12—George Washington at College Park. January 23—Gallaudet Park. Jnnuary 26—Catholic University at Brookland. February 5—Nerth Carolina at Col- lege Park. February 8—Virginia lottesville (ponding). February S—University of Rich- mond at Riehmond. February 18—Catholic at College Park. February 16—George ~Washington at Washington. February 19—Washington and Lee at Lexington. Z February 20—Virginia Military In- stitute at Lexington. LACROSSE. March 22—Baltimore COity College at College Park. March Z0—Baltimore Poly at Col- lege Park. April 5—University of Pennsylvania ollege Park. April 12—Navy at Washington, A 1 18 or 17—Stevens College at College at ' Char- University April 10—Army at Weat Point. April 26—Lehigh at South Bethle- Z—Johns Hopkins at Balti- more. May 8—Penn State at College Park. 87 TITLE SWIMMING EVENTS ARE CARDED NEW YORK, December The award of eighty-seven national swim- ming champlonship events for 1924 to sixteen distriot associations was an- nounced today by the Amateur Athletic Union. The program covers junior and senfor title contests, indoors and out- doors, for both men and women. The Central Aesociation, with head- quarters at Chlcago, heads the list with fifteen championships, all but two of which are senior men's indoor title events. The Metropolitan Assoclation, New York, is next, with fourteen cham. pionehips, ‘and the' Southern Pacific As- eociation, Los Angeles, is third, with ten awards. Other events on next vear's program were apportioned as follows: Niagara Association, Buffalo, and Pacific Asso- Ciation, San Francisco, seven each; Mid- dle Atlantic Association, Philadélphia, Michigan _Association, Detroit. ve; 'Allegheny Mountain Association, Pittsburgh, and New Eugland Assocla’ tion, Boston, four each; Southeastern Association, ‘Atlanta, three; Ohio Asso- clation, Cincinnati; South Atlantié As- sociation, Baitimore; Midwestern Asso- ciation, Omaha, and Connecticut . Asso- ciation, New Haven, two each; Western Assoctation, St. Louis, and Indiana- Kentucky Association, one each Dates and places for these events will be fixed by the district associations COLUMBIA QUINTET DOWNS NAVY, 34-23 NEW YORK, December 22 —Colum- bia defeated Navy. 3¢ to 23, tonight in the first basket ball game the Midshipmen ever played here. The game was more closely contest- napolis quintet forcing the Blue and White to fight for every point. On the other hand. Columbia’s defense was superb and most of the Navy baskets were made on long shots. half, 17 to 11. Harrjs and Craig were the Navy's best soorers, and Strom, Mannheim and Sarer were Columbia's leaders. Positlons, Nevy (23). torwara. T G voungsters of | ' APACHES AND WAVERLYS IN TITLE GRID CONTEST ‘Washington's 1t -pound foot ball title will t stuke this afternoon in th o between the Apaches and Waverly Athlstic Club at Union Park. The contest is e Apaches, known iast year us the Mohawk Preps, have been un- ‘:h juccessful this on, while s flg as averlys have disposed of a number of formidable teams. Match Your Odd Coats TROUSERS Y P :auy sizes, 1t is hoped that Prof. upon to continue to direct the lacrosse activities. October 18—Virginia Poly at Wash- | November 15—North Carolina State | ed than the score indicates, the An- | Columbla led at the end of the first | to b-flh‘ promptly aty. to combat the formidable opponents s. the basket ball squad and may do of the base ball team in the spring Country Morris will assist in handling ruitt can be prevailed Byrd, of course, wiil R. V. all. |, Nine games are on each of the bas | ket ball, lacrosse and foot bail sche ules, - with the possibility that, tenth game may be added 1o the lis Two of the en stickmen, of court contests gagements for the ever, are regarded as only practice affairs. -None of the basket ball games nor any of the gridiron b ties can be regarded asy ng." | Basket Ball Getting Start. Maryland's comparatively brie | schedule for basket ball Is due the tered seriously the university. developed by the College Parkers several bygone Beasons. there wer no real facilities for the game until | this winter, and the quints suppor: ed by the Black and Gold in past ‘were not really representative of the institution : Four of the games booked whw played in Ritchie gymnasium at o lege Park, while two more will be staged in the Capital City, under home™ arrangements with Catholic University and George Washington University of Richmond, V. M. 1. and Washington and Lee will be met o foreign floors, as will_Vieginia the game with the Old Dominfonites materializes. Stickmen Will Face Teost. Maryland faces a strenuous la crosse schedule, meeting seven teams of formidable caliber. Five contests are booked with teams In the Inter collegiate League, to which Maryland was recently admitted, and in addi- tion Army and Navy, which annually produce powerful twélves. will be en- gaged. Maryland's leading engage- ments, from the standpoint of rival- ry. will be played with Navy in Washington on April_12 and wits Johns Hopkins in the Baltimore sta- dlum on May Washington will have its first op- portunity of seeing two of the lead- ing lacrosse teams of the country in action when the Midshipmen and the | OM1 Liners clash. Na 'y has not been beaten in six years, and Maryland last spring gave the Midshipmen their hardest battle, the Annapolis clan winning. 4 te by getting = goal in the last minute of each half Other teams of note that will be met are Penn State, Penn and Ste vens, which will visit College Park. and Lehigh, Baltimore City College and Baltimore Poly also will b. tackled at College Park., but the schoolboy combination can not & expected to give their older oppo- nents more than a work-ou Changes in Gridiron List. There are only three changes the foot ball schedule from that of last year. Washington College has been given the opening game, on September instead of Randolph Macon: Washington and Lee makex up for the Penn contest that was lost through the decision of the Quaker authorities to lighten their schedule, and Catholic University hes been shoved back fo November 1, the place held by St John's last year. Mary- land will play no game the Saturday prior to the annual Thanksgiving day combat with Hopkins. Three of the grid games will be played at College Park, a trio in Washington and, with Hopkins being met in Balti- more, cnly two trips of any consequence will be taken These will be the pil- grimages to New Haven to meet Yaie and to Chapel Hill to face North Caro- lina, A game that has been compara- tively easy for the past two seasons wil! come in between these travels. Two Teams Well Fortified. Maryland doubtless will be well- pre to meet powerful opposftion in and foot ball. but, while there & good material on hand for the basket ball team, not a great deal can be ex. pected to be accomplished in this sport the first season out. | Only one of the regulars of last sea- lacrosse team will be missing when about the first of Febru while the grid squad of next fall lose only four regulars and two Groves, Branner, Brewer and Pollock will be regular gridders to com- plete their college careers, while Young and Latham, players of marked ability, also will be lost. Ed Pugh, Washington boy, recently elected captain of ‘the eleven, however, should lead one of the best teams ever to represent the university. ~Several | clever men will come up from the fresh men team, and Beatty, a capable line man, who was ineligible during the paign, is certain to make a hid th. Toswers to Resume Ji ary 3. Basket ball practice, which was halt ed after last Wednesday's session ’ | the holiday season, will be resum by the varsity equad January 3, four days prior to the reopeming of the uni versity. Coach Shipley is anxlous to have his team in readiness to gi' | George Washington a battle in the opes ing game that will be played January 12 at College Park. It will he the first time Ritchie gsmnastum has been used for a regularly echeduled contest. Inciuding Joe Burger, who may or ! may not play, the varsity squad that | has enjoved a couple weeks of practice in the fundamentals has been made up of an even dozen. Bill Supplee and Kirk Besley of the varsity grid team Will be added when the grind {s re- Isumed. Supples was one of the best | players in the Washington high schools while at Tech, and Besley played fo! Friends' School of Baltimore before becoming & collegian. 3 Besley has earned his letter in fool !ball and base bail, two aports that he inever played before coming 1o Mary {land. Now it remains to be seen whai 1 he will do in the'one game in which had previous expericnce. 1t would the irony, of fate if he shouid fail make the quint A New I ,Invention Automobile Signal An illuminated hand dper- ated by your hecl on a pedal that swings on the clutch pedal. Very simple and easy to operate. Will sel] 50 sets at $3.90_ each, which is 74 price, to introduce. Order now. Terri- tory open for agents. J. L. Drohen 211, tanet Courts Art. Jie Fammems e how soft plek | |