Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 59

- Gridiron Meniors Fail to Change Rules : Ma COACHES’ ORGANIZATIO CONSIDERS SUGGESTIONS Debates for Long Time on Four Recommendations by Rules Committee—Athletics Are Entolled by Two Leaders in‘Sport. By the Assoclated Press. tonight without formal action on TLAN December 29.—The convention of the Foot Ball Coaches’ i Association adjourned here the recommendations made during the day regarding proposed changes in the foot ball rules suggested during today's sessions. The mentors deliberated a long time on the recommendations of their rules comnfittee that the jump shift be eliminated; that the rules now governing the flying tackle and tackling below the knees be repealed; that the onside kick be abolished, and that the offensive team be allowed to complete its downs before the half period is called when it has the ball within the opponent’s 10-yard line. Officers for the coming year were announced as follows: J. W. Helsman of Washington and Jefferson, presi- dent; Robert Zuppke of the Univer- #ity ‘of Illinois, first vice president: Gus Henderson' of Los Angeles, sec- ond vice president, and Dr. J. W. Wilce, Ohio State University, secre- tary-treasurer. The following were named as trustees: Gil Doble of Cor- nell, Knute Rockne of Norte Dame. D. X. Bible of Texas Agriculturai and W. H. Cowell of the' Uhiversity of New Hampshire. During the afternoon session ath- letics were extolled by noted figures in the collegiate sport realm. Yost Pratxes Athletica. Nations have succeeded in demo- eratic government in almost exact proportion to their participation in “competitive games and athletics,” and for this reason, if no other, ath- Jatics deserve an important place in “our program of education.” Fielding 1. Yost, director of athletics for the University of Michigan, said. “'As ancient Greece was supreme in democracy, so she was supreme In Eames,” he sald. “Today, Great Brit- ain and America lead the world in athletics, as they point the way to democracy. “There ‘is no synonym for sports- manship.” Yost said, “but_the word that comes nearest to it is ‘respect.’ “The good sportsman has respect for his opponent,” he set forth, “he respects the rules of the game and’| seeks no unfair sportsman like advantage. The player the good sportsman re- spects the- game he is playing and conducts himself at all times in such manner as never to bring criticism or_discredit upon its name. Sportsmanship does a0t end with the players, he said, but alsc braces the spectators. He added that “the students and other spectators at college contests are on trial fust as surely as are memvers of the team.” “Foot ball's value,” he said, “to the men who play it and the men and women who watch it piayed depends upon the degree to which it fulflls certaln requirements which have nothing whatever to do with the tachnicalities of the game ftyslf. Jt must foster a spirit of fair plav and good sportsmanship in both player and spectator, and it must impress upon participants and audlence alike that it 1s a means to an end and not an end in itself. It must furnish to the thoughtful observer some grounds for believing that It is an integral part of the educational sys- tem and not merely an athletic spec- Grifith Lauds Foot Ball. 1f the purpose of education is to improve the human race as “educa- tional psychologists tell us,” then it must be agreed that the foot ball coach has an important place in_the educational system, said Maj. John L. Griffith, commissioner of athletics the western conference. “I would not have the temerity to attempt to suggest the purpose of the college,” Maj. Griffith continued, “but any one who has followed the discgssions of educators In recent vea must have noted that it i3 now being more frequently insisted that the purpose of the college is to train for life while a decade ago the ad- vancement of intellectualism _was more often announced as the func- tion of the institutions of higher learnin Approximately 1,000,000 boys played foot ball last fall, he said, under the tutelage of about 15,000 coaches. ches,” he added, “had it . er to affect tremend- 1y for good or bad this army of American boys. Any one who cares to go into the subject will_fing Griffith _de- clared, that ho “the thing that ften overlooked however, is the act that the team is a stimulus to others and that more boys engage in athletics because of the example set by the good performers than would do ®o if we did not have our inter- collegiate contests . he real purpose of foot b however,” Maj. Grifith declared, “is that of making a better race hysically, important as that may be. oot ball is the medium through which we as a people are learning things that are vital in deloping bet- ter manners and betters morals. Maj. Griffith said he did not share the opinion of the man who believes that the majority of college athletics was subsidized. A survey was made on this subject in the western con- forence the past season, he said, and “the result of the investigation indi- cated we were not anywhere nearly so bad as we are charged with b ing. f\s’sarunz that the “betting fra- ternity” has at some time or other “befouled every professional sport that we have” and that as a result the public ge:s the impression that the player is not doing his best, al- though “professional games are for the most part honestly comducted and the contestants do their best.” Maj. Griffith recommended educa- tional campaigns among college foot ball men for the purpose of reducing betting to the minimum. FRENCH WOULD INVITE GERMANS FOR CONTESTS MAYENCE, December 29.—The success of the Franco-German As- sociation foot ball matches in~ augurated here om December 9 and since contimued at ms, Wies aden and other Rhimeland citles, has been such that the Fremch tcums Rave decided to invite the Gurmans to meet them elther im Mets or Strasbourg, provided the French foot ball federation co! ments. All the matches played Rave betn outside the jurl of the federation, which erating before It takes final de- ecision concerning the holding of BUILDING A STADIUM By the Associated Press. . VERDUN, December 29.—A standard athletic stadium, with regulation rugby and association foot ball flelds, running tracks, velodrome, grand- stands and clubhouse, being erected on the edge of this battered eity, simultaneously with the work of re- constructing homes to provide shelter for the war victims, is evidence of the place which outdoor sports and ath- letics now occupy in French life. “London Park,” as the new grounds will be known, in grateful apprecia- tion of the fact that 350,000 francs of the amount necessary for the expense involved were subscribed in London, is to be oMcially inaugurated by Pre- mier Poincare next summer. Invita- tions will be sent to celebrated for- elgn athletes, and their participation is expected greatly to enhance the ceremony from an athletic point of view. A straightway cinder path chute of 200 meters is now completed and the plans call for a circular cinder track of 500 meters. Seating accommoda- tions will be provided for 10,000 spec- tators, with additional room for 20,000 standees. The work commenced last summer has been somewhat delayed owing to the fact that the site of the stadium is between the Tour des Champs and the Porte Chaussee, in the center of the worst shell-torn area surrounding the town, and workmen had to pro- ceed very carefully, as their picks on many occasions turned up duds which exploded with belated fury. POLO TO FLOURISH ON PACIFIC COAST BY LAWRENCE PERRY. NEW YORK, December 29.—Harry East, the polo player who has been In Spain with an American four, starts for California today, heading a migration of crack eastern polo play- ers. Every prospect s that polo on the Pacific coast this winter will be conducted upon a broader scale than ever before. - East, who will be located at Coro- nado, says he expects many of the highest goal players in the country to be at Coronado, Del Monte and oth- er California polo centers in the course of the winter season. Chlefly interesting Is the possibility that the Duke of Paranamba will come to California with a Spanish team. This is the outfit upon which the KIng of Spain plays, but, of course, he will not make the trip. East, how- ever, says that the combination will take a lot of beating from the best fours that can be knocked together on the west coast. So far as indoor polo is concerned, the American indoor association has just” received word from England that no team will be sent over the Atlantic this year to play for the Townsend cup. But there is every hope that a number of middle western teams will be seen in action at the national tourney in Squadron A arm- mory later this winter. MILAN AMONG PLAYERS MINNEAPOLIS RELEASES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, December Mike Kelley, manager of the Minneapolis American Assoclation team, began plans for reorganisi the Millers for 1924, hén he ask ivers on fifteen players, including Clyde Milan, Bill Morrisette, Roy Mas- sey, Yingling and Rube Shauer. is leaves twelve players on the Minneapolis list for next season. SHELL-TORN VERDUN TILDEN AGAIN PROVES SUPREMACY IN TENNIS N tenni l any other player+we have. men’s doubles, and in the Davis cup William T. Tilden won the national again, 'demonstu!ing even more conclusively than in former years his distinct superiority over Moreover, Tilden and Norton won the matches the American team defeated the Australians, the visitors winning only one match—namely, that be- tween Johnston and Anderson, the latter playing superb tennis, and the former not being up to standard physically, and quite decidedly not in his usually determined winning frame of mind. p The old contention between Mile. Suzanne Lenglen and Mrs. Molla Mal- lory was sSo_effectually led favor of the former as probably to_arise again. In the women's national Miss Helert Wills defeated Mrs. Mallory, and while every one was Sorry to see the Jatter, who had been our standby in the courts, go down to defeat, all equally realized that it made’ our tennis prospects far more promising to have the younger girl vome through and display such superb stroking and court generalship as she @id in this contest. Marred by an Argument. The tennis season has béen marred in not recently by a rather heated discussion between William T. Tilden, the world champlon, and undoubtedly the man ‘who has done the most to win victo- ries for us onthe courts, and a mem- ‘ber of the Davis cup committee, H;I‘Y far this divergence of opinion I carry the parties and aflect our ! octing chances of victory is & question for later consideration. ‘The main point is that it brings to the front in the most emphatic man- ner the weakness of our governing authoritles in developing doubles ten- nis. It brings out the point that ?n a game which is essentially a team game, where there must be the closest 0 ration 'and development of the ighest grade of nding as to the dfities of each player of the team on the court, we have simply taken at the last moment any “;2 stars and ail the year. But as ‘that, the Ereatest thing that could b for the development of throughout this country {: :‘ Davia cup matches, | Sas Bepontes vy could happen Goubles piay: wou the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. .0, DECEMBER 30, 1923—SPORTS SECTIO! la UT rc Tea HANS WAGNER’; CHAPTER 20. Why Base Ball Has Developed in Thirty Years. 'BY HANS WAGNER. ICE the first chapter of base ball! reminiscences began to appear I have received hundreds of letters asking if I think the game has improved since [ started in some thirty years ago. A lot of these questions, especially those from old-timers, are asked in an argumentative way. Certainly base ball {:s im- proved. ‘o one who has any powers of observation at all the development of base ball has been remarkable. Those old- timers who have failed to see improvement either are preju- diced or have not kept their eyes open. For example, when I first broke in, the bunt, the sacrifice and the swinging bunt were looked upon as a novelty and given the razz by most of the fans and specta- tors. In 1897 the catcher stood far back, allowing the ball to hit the grandstand until there were run- ners on base. A foul ball was out on the first bounce then. It seems funny now when I re- member how the catcher used to stand waiting for the ball to bounce. In those days the game was much rougher. The umpires could not and did not enforce discipline as they do now. It was not uncommon then for the spectators to get out on the field and mix up in the arguments. In most of the cities there was no such thing as fairness. Ball players took every advantage they could, and the worse they got the more the fans urged them on. The gloves we wore were not much p i catchers had no protection at all for their legs. In those days the basemen should have had their legs protected. Runners thought nothing -of stepping on the base- men or bumping them off the base. Everything went that a fellow could fiet away with. Sev- eral of the first basemen had a trick of sticking pins into a run- ner so as to make him turn the ‘Wrong way or run out of line. Discipline Is Tightened. The biggest and most important development in base ball, to my mind, was moving the grand- stands farther back, so that the spectators would not be right on top of the players. Then players were taught not to talk back to spectators. As things went along the necessity of discipline be- came more apparent, even to the players, and the umpires were given more power. They de- manded and got more respect. The improvement was gradual, but certain, in every direction. Back in 1897 there was no rule calling a foul a strike. A player could stand up and foul them off as long as he wanted to. Occa- sionally an umpire with unusual nerve would call a strike on a batter for delaying the game, but they would never call a third one. OLD MARKS BROKEN IN TRACK ATHLETICS (Continued from Second Page.) cialists, captured the I C. A. A. A. A. meet held at Franklin Field, Phila- delphia, rolling up 395 points. Princeton was second, with 33 points. Michigan trlumphed over the Uni- versity of Illinols In the .Western Conference meet, held at Ann Arbor, by half a point, and the Wolverines aiso won the National Collegiate A. A. meet at Stagg Field with 31 points. Leland Stanford was second, with 143% points. This meet was featured by the performance of Charley Brook- ins of Jowa in breaking the world low hurdle record. He did the route around one turn in 0.23 9-10; this In & trial heat. In the final he did the distance in 0.23 6-10, but ‘the record was not allowed to stand because he knocked down one hurdle. In the Drake relay games Milton Angler established a new American record for the javelin throw,sendin the spear 203 feet 93 inches, thereby bettering his 1922 record of 202 feet 93 inches. . Oxford Quartet-Defeated. Oxford sent a two-mile relay team to the University of Pennsylvania relays to try for the two-mile relay But this fast quartet thirty yards by the Penn State four, who as well set a new mark for the distance, 7.48 4-5. Harold Lever of the University of Pennsylvania broke the world 65 and 5 yal records on Franklin Fileld in the Alumni day meet, doing the sixty-five in 0.6 8-10 and the sev- enty-five in 0.7 5-10. The Southern Intercollegiate meet held at Atlanta was won by the Mis- sissippi A. and M. The Missifsippians won also the haif-mile, the one-mile and the four-mile relay eventa (Ror- gia Tech won the half-mile relay for treshmen. Boston College -won the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet and Bowdoin won the New Eng- land College meet. Pennsylvania won the Eastern In- tercollegiate indoor meet and Michi- gan captured the Western Conference indoor meet. DISBURSERS SURPRISE IN VETERANS’ CIRCUIT There were no sweeps in the Vet- erans' Bureau Duckpin League last week. The: was one upset, whe: re n Disbursing Diviston, which previous- | stitut 1y had Jost six stral mes to Accounting Division, took two out of three from this team, chiefly through the good 1 ug! blatt, who -turned in & game of i S Georke Lok tain of the In o ges, captain of the In- surance Division, was in his old-time form, for the first time this season, 2nd helped his toam take two games from Fourth District by bow] - et of 321. /i Although Nolan of Chief Cilerk’ bowled himself into the lead by apll- ling the maples for & 339 count, the the Sup- Insurancs NER'S STORY WAGNER’S WIFE AND YOUNGEST DAUGHTER. | — Mrs. John H. Wagner and baby Virginia. The Wagners have another daughter a few years older than the baby. McGraw was an artist at foul- ing balls off. So was Roy Thomas. Those fellows could foul the ball all day if they wanted to. This wore down the pitchers and got on the crowd’s nerves. The games were much longer and more tiresome. The adoption of the foul strike rule and the shortening of the games was a_ big step forward. A foul tip, though, was always a strike. That gave the chance for another trick—that of the catcher tipping the bat. Often they wore a rubber band around the palm of their hands and would snap it so as to make the umpire think the ball had tipped the bat. He would call a strike. Now all that has been done away with. 4t is foolish to say that base ball has not improved. It developed right along with the development of the players’ brains. As soon as they began to realize that it was a business and that they would not last long they started to think. That thinking competition built up the fame more than any other one actor. The introduction of the bunt, the sacrifice and so on were the direct result of the old rule al- lowing the catcher to stand back. The old Baltimore Orioles de- veloped those plays first. At any rate, they were the first I ever saw pull them. They discovered that with the catcher back a ball dropped in front of the plate would be safe because nobody could field it. When they first started doing that the result was really funny. You modern-day fans probably never saw a big catcher running fully twenty feet to the plate trying to field a bunt, and the pitcher running in from the other direction. That play naturally brought on the sacrifice hit. Then the swinging bunt. When this idea began to take hold the catchers saw that the only way to offset it was to come up when they saw a foxy batter coming to the plate. In turn, that brought about a change in the rule where the catcher must stay up all the time. That, naturally, shortened the game. There, I have given you an illustration of how the game has developed. When the players gradually found it to their advantage to think out new offensive and de- fensive plays the development of their thinking capacity made them see how foolish it was to always quarrel wtih umpires and spectators. They could much bet- ter spend their time in improving their game. After all, it was the base ball playing that counted. The newspapers joined in the SCHOOL QUINTS TO PRIME FOR TITLES SERIES GAMES H . will get under way Tuesday, Practice to iron out the rough spots evident in recent games will be ! IGH school basket ball teams, now functioning effectively, should produce competition of the keenest sort in the title series that January 8, at the Central Coliseum. the order for Central, Western, Business, Tech and Eastern tossers this week. The coaches will help keep their squads on the move. All of the school teams will be seen in action this week. Central High will oppose the Blue and White Alumni team on the former's floor tomorrow, while Eastern will encounter its alumni toss- ers in the Light Blue and White gym- nasium. Tech, unsuccessful in its first effort, will tackle the Y. M. C. A. Alumni team in a second meeting Friday on the Boys Y court. Anacostia Eagles will be the opponents of Business at the Central Coliseum, while Tech plays § |the Y team. Central also is scheduled to entertain- Charlotte Hall Saturday. Western has several games pending with local teams. Coach Guyon of Eastern saw some defects in his team's play against the Y alumni. - In the game with the alumni tomorrow he will strive to remedy them. Joe O'Day, Curdwell, Faber, Boyd and Boetler will compose .the alumni line- up. Eastern would have shown to bet- ter advantage had it had the services of Kessler and Hook against the Y tossers. The former is suffering from a sore foot. Hook has been alling with a severe cold. Coach Sotsin of Tech is not satis- fied with the team play of his quint, although the Manual Trainers displayed considerable improvement in the game with the Y. C. A. Alumni. and Adams have done good work and appear to ‘be the mainstays of the team. Central, Business and Western are progressing. The Stenographers will bend every effort to trounce the Ana- costia Eagles Friday. When' the last met Business was glven a rude Jolt, Moser, Watt, Clark and Furman are being counted upon heavily by Coach Kelly. Western seems to have developed & sturdy defense, but its ng and shooting has not been so commenda- dble. The same could be said of Cen- tral, although Comch Coggins has insisting on & short-passing game. Frank Hartlg, former Georxis Tech basketer, will coach the Emerson In- team. An attractive schedule has been arranged for Emerson. Fol- lowing are the teams to be met: « Al {a High; 8, Upiversity of ; March rgetown freshmen; 11, igh; 13, St Alban's; 5, Gon- 29, Peck Memorial. 3 Eastern High's basketers will prac- tice at the trat Cnu.nun lo‘:nor- row morning at 10 o'clock. e court | at 1 is being KENNEL AND FIELD |_BY GEO. H. KERNODL A review of dog activities for the past year must answer the question— which of the local dogs developed during the year stands out most prominently? An answer to this question must resolve itself into a discussion of the relative value of the fleld and the show dog. In our opinfon the brilliant fleld dog must score over an equally brilliant show dog, and for this reason first mention is given to FrankeBurrows' setter, Master Ben B. This dog started in ten open fleld trials and was returned winner In six, while he drew a sec- ond and @ third in the remaining, starts. Considering the varying conditions which the fleld dog must work under, this is a remarkable record. Second place must go to the show dog. Champlon _Artesian Ensign, from Frank P. Leach's Newcoin kennels. This dog went to his championship in eastern competition and at the age of seven years, when most dogs have already retired from the ring. Third honors go to Thomas P. Baldwin's great pointer bitch, Nell's 7 Lady, who gave good exhibitions of fleld running in all of her starts, but was not so fortunate in finding birds as Master Ben. Fourth place is a tie ong _terriers, which will un- doubtedly complete their cham- plonships early in_1924. These are the bullterriers, Victoria Patricia, owned by Mrs. Inez Hyler, and New- ocoin Tempest, owned by Frank P. Leach, and the Boston terrier, Aspin Hill Flapper, owned by Mrs. R. C. Birney. lists are out for the com- ing_Washington show, and Charles A. Watson, chairman of the commit- tee, gives out the information that many of the speclal prizes offered have been omitted from the lists. A corrected list may be had by apply- ing to the office of the committee, at 2130 P street. Frank P. Leach reports the breed- ing of his_crack young show dog, Newcoln Comixit,” to Fieldstone Countess, owned by M. L. Garvey of ‘Winons, W. Va. Miss Sarak L. MeQuee: g‘l:‘k:'vron Rittersturs-Sch, has bee; mlt‘ld to the Hersland kennels’ Alf v. d. Lindentuft. m_announces —_— MORAN TO BOX SHUGRUE. NEW YORK, December 23 —Pal Moran, New Orleans lightweight, and Johnny Shugrue of Waterbury, Conn., ‘who recently checked the sensational advance of Luis Vicentini by~ out- pofin.lilnt the %‘lfl in a. twelve- niaht in s Lier development by printing fairer stories of the games. Instead of being rabid fans the reporters got to where they looked on it as a scientific contest. They told of the new plays and praised the smart work of the players. That made the glayeu wapt to be smarter. The spectators, in this way, gradually were educated into appreciating the game for its science rather than as a bat- tle where everybody could take 2 hand. In other words, base ball de- veloped by educating itself. It developed just like young coun- tries. do—by instruction and a matching of brains. As base ball got to be more of a serious profession to the play- ers than a scrap they were not so excited in their efforts. The spectators also took it more calmly and were more critical, even of their own team. More Appreciation Today. I can well remember the time when such a-thing as a home crowd applauding a visiting play- er for a great play was unheard of. In some cities a man who did that would have been consid- ered disloyal to his home town. The sportsmanship of it never occurred to anybody. They didn’t want to see a good balil game. No, they wanted to see the -home club win, and at any cost. The first two cities where the crowds were inclined to show fairness toward the visiting play- ers were New York and Boston. To this day there are some cities where the crowd will not give a visiting player credit for fine work. In New York they seem to look on a ball game just as they would an outdoor theatrical perform- ance. They =fiplaud everything that is good, whether it be a play by the home club or the visitors. Boston is a little more reserved and digni€ed, but the fans there always ..ve the visiting player the credit that is due him. I always liked to play before crowds in those two cities. I always was treated royally and good naturedly. They might josh me, but it was done in good humor. Another development was in the umpires. At first they under- stood their. business to be mere- Iy the deciding of plays. They had to show great nerve at times, especially when there was a close one at the plate against the home club. T?Aey did not have protection from the police and you couldn’t blame them for looking out for themselves. Gradually it dawned upon these umpires that they were masters of the field and that a most im- portant part of their duty was to have the game run off snappily and orderly. They were respon- sible to the public for the game being presented properly. Their duties developed into a sort of stage direction. They had to put on a ball game just like a stage director does a show. They rep- resented the' dignity of the league. They know that now. Has it improved? Well, I should say so! Tomorrow: There Was Team- work in Those Days. AGGIE PINSPILLERS STAGING CLOSE RACE TEAM STANDING. Soils-Chemistry Farm ‘250 198 After taking a short holiday vaca- tion, the Agriculture Duckpin League will’ resume bowling Wednesday. The race has proved surprisingly close, contrary to expectation, and the teams are approaching the half- way mark closely bunched. There are but four games, difference between the first and fifth place teams, and only two games between Soils-Chem- istry at the top and Plant Bureau in the fourth. Hevener of the Economics team rolled a 343 set last week, helping his team take two out of three from the Solls-Chemistry leaders. Interbureaus opened a little wider p between last place and themselves 3 taking two out of three from For- est Service, the tailenders. Gowan still is leading the indi- h 103, b is_ closely pressed by Tucker of the Properly team, who has gone & trifle beyond the 102 mark. Capt. Locknane of Secretary's Office | brought out an extremely promising bowler last week in the person of Swenson. The latter looked pretty good, with a better than 300 set for his first night's work. Ready, the young anchor man of the Interbureaus, looks to be & “comer.” This is his first season as a regular, and he is leading his team ‘with an average of 97. R rE 9, Bowsrs, 95. Tucker, go.,.&“a,“ Harris, y t—Miller, 100; Cooper, 99; Mairs, 90; Wumphries, 86 Scott, 98; Jimle- *Forest ‘SorviceKattler, 96; " s o erbureaus — Ready, 97; 5 ke 91, MoONTiRyy 88 Holmes, 887 PRI WEATHER IS “T00 GOOD™ FOR WINTER OLYMPICS CHAMONIX, France, December 20~The weather man responded s0 graciously to the French Olym- ple officials’ prayers for snew that this mountain town, where tl ‘winter events of the 1024 imported shepherd bitch, |- - fim colored basket ball cham- El‘:u of District, will encounter is quint cfi' Pjttsburgh, na- tomorrow it g m to Keep Busy COLLEGE PARK ATHLETES . WILL ENTER MANY MEETS Preparing to Take Part in Indoor and Outdoox" Games—Collegiate Basket Ball Squads Re- sume Activities This Week. U NIVERSITY OF MARYLAND track athletes will take an active part in the coming indoor meets hereabouts and in the outdoor events in this section in the spring. Maryland also doubtless will be represented in the Penn relay carnival in Philadelphia late in April and, in all likelihood, will send its best men to the southern conference meet at Birmingham in the middle of May. . Coach Bill Gates, former Georgetown luminary, has a promising squad in hand, and expects his charges to make a better showing than during the 1922-23 season, his first at the helm. Already Maryland runners have scored in two competitions. The, won the team trophy in the modified marathon that was held in Bahf‘r more on Thanksgiving day morning and also took the cup in the south Atlantic championship race that was decided in the Monumental city on December 15, RATHSKELLER QUINT SETS BOWLING PACE Bowling consistently, the Rath- skeller team {s setting the pace in the National Capital League, having a four-game margin on the Linwood quint, which is second in line. Bel- monts are close up. Six of the ten teams are under the .500 mark. BTANDING OF TEAMS, 6. W. Ave. T80 % 9 AVERAGES. 8 H wes8RR88 k [ PR 5 e B e g £ 5 i a8 -ote oo} Eas 83538 3 g§§ sre gpure LEE whul! - i BSEZERE BYSSREBRUREE QMSSE BE o BE T 203 9711 95-1 23 PENN-CORNELL “WAR” TO BEGIN ON COAST With the passing of Glenn Warner from Pittsburgh to Leland Stanford, one of the most successful veteran foot ball coaches of the east is thrown out to the Pacific coast section. It also brings Warner, a Cornell man, In direct opposition to Andy Smith, a Penn man, who has wrought such won- ders at the University of California. ‘Warner's coming wiil arouse & new hope at Stanford, where, for too many seasons, their teams have gone up agajnst great—almost insuperable—odds. He comes at a time when Stanford's material looks far more promising than of late i and when California's supermen have graduate Altogether this new rivalry will add immensely to the interest in foot ball on the coast. NEW GAME FATAL TO ONE wabrEBl8e AND MAKES FIFTEEN ILL| By the Assoclated Press. AACHEN, December game which has become popular in Bl\’ium recently result trous- ly for the Dienst Gymnast Club. One member died and seventeen others narrowly escaped the same fate. Participants in the game are locked in & motor truck and taken for a long ride. Then they are released and the first to reach a designated place is declared the winne: When the chauffeur was about to lease the Dienst club members he 'ound one of them dead, fifteen un- conscious and two bordering on that condition. Escaping gas had entered the closed ear. B e ey DUNDEE T0 FIGHT MANDELL. NEW YORK, December 29.—Johnny Dundee's first battle In defonse of the junior lightweight chumplonship, which he regained recently from Jac tein of Yonkers, may be st B nmflall 3’ Ro’ollfo uua-‘l arrived in to open negotiations match. 12| ber of freshmen trackmen. 29—A new| All of the members of the squad. except those who played foot ball have been training since early in the fall and most of them are in trim now for competition. Gates, however. has not rushed his charges and doubt- less will have them at thelr best for the Georgetown games Feb: 21 and for the Fifth Regiment meet, in Baltimore, two days later. Relay Team Should Be Strong. Maryland will have a relay team and a number of individual entries in both of these meets Its relay team has not been matched for the Blue and Gray games, but the Old Line varsity four is certain to contest against its old rival, Johns Hopkins, in the meet in Baltimore. This, too, will be the race the Black and Gold will strive hardest to win. Prospects are exceptionally bright (for an excellent relay team. Thres of the members of last year's quartet are available and two speedsters from last season's freshmen outfit are trying for places. Capt Dave Endslow, Pugh and Latham are left- overs. Jjoe Endslow, brother of the leader, and “Ham" Whiteford, former Baltimore City College star, are the other leading candidates for the quartet. Dave Endslow, Pugh and White- ford also will compete in the indi- vidual events, Endslow {s running the half mile as well as the quarter, while Pugh and Whiteford are prim- ing for the hurdles. Compher and Bickman are two other athletes who are trying their skill in different competitions. Both are preparing for the half mile and mile. Lanigan and Hough, foot ball linemen, also are out for the half mile, while Wooten, captain of the cross-country team, is among the milers Wooten ran third in the modified marathon in Baltimore, while Compher finished in the same pos tion in the_South Atlantic A A title run. Wooten has been ill. b is expected to be fuily recovered by the time the holidays are ended. Beers Is Expect=d to Score. Big Bill Beers doubtless will score a number of points for Maryland in the shotput in the indoor meets. and also will be counted upon to add some more with the javelin in the outdoor affairs. Bill_ Supplee, the noted end of the foot ball team, will play basket ball during the winter months, but is expected to join the track team In time to register some points during the outdoor campaign. Supplee did well as a member of the freshmen track team last season. Gates also 19 looking after a num- Among the leading ones are Roger White- ford and Tenney, stars of the fresh- men foot ball team. Whiteford is no relation to the athlete of the same name on the varsity squad. In fast, they are alike physically in only one respect. and that is that both can ke their iegs travel . M practice will be resumed on Jan- uary 8 and Gates intends to give his men a full measure of werk from then until the end of the seasom. Immediately after the holldays. college basket ball teams hereabout will resume activities. Three of them are due to take the courts in compe- tition this week, two quints playing for the first time this season. At the City Club Wednesday night George Washington is scheduled to trot out its quintet for a match with the Quantico Marines, while at Kendall 12| Green Saturday Gallaudet will be host to the Fort Humphreys tossers. Catholic University, which saw some action before the holidays, also has a week end engagement. It will g0 to Baltimore for a return game with Loyola, which was vanquished here. Georgetown and Maryland are to get under way later in January. The Hilitoppers’ initial tilt is listed with St. Joseph’s of Philadelphia, at Ryan Gymnasium, for January 12. On the same day Maryland expects to be host to George Washington in ‘he new Ritchie Gymnasium, at College Park. Catholle University is preparing & schedule for its swimming team, and hopes to hold at Brookland dual meets with several eastern colleges fostering the sport, among them Rut- gers and John Hopkins. Possessing a sizeable tank in their spacious gymnasium, the Brooklanders intend: to develop swimming consliderably from now on. The other colleges of the local group, lacking facilities, de not patronize natatorial sports. Rumor that will not be downed re- leves Jackie Maloney of the foot baik coaching job at Georgetown, al- though no_ statement is forthcoming from the Hilltop authorities. Several possible successors to the former Blue and Gray gridiron star, who has held the position for but one season, have been mentioned, notably Urbar: ex-Boston College luminary, and O'Connor, Georgetown player, who has at times assisted in tutoring teams at his alma mater and Centre. College. According to Boston papers, the big Georgetown Alumni Associa- tion branch in the Hub is insisting upon a betterment of athletic condi- tions in the university, et some are against putting out Maloney. Un- doubtedly the Georgetown athletic board will get to the root of the trouble at its meeting January 14. There has been too much public dis. cussion for the matter to be slighted, CITY POST OFFICE FIVE IS GIVEN A RUDE JOLT The holiday season upset matters in the Washington Ladles' Duckpin League. There not only were several matches postponed, but the bowlers were way off form and the scores in the contests rolled were below the average. This was particularly true of the City Post Office quint in its match with the Independents, when they dropped thres games, after a winning spurt that brought them from the ruck to a tie with Hill- toppers and Mount Pleasants for first place. The Independents have shown great improvement recently, coming with a rush from a lowly position to strik+ ng distance of the leaders. This auint has taken a new lease on life pince Captain Ilda Helm has been in_c z Recent winners_of movie tickets were Elizabeth Rawlings, Pauline Thomas, Emily Nell, Elizabeth Ack- man, Ann Newman and Catherine Quigley, Standing of Teams. Won. Tost. 28 10 13 13 1 PN S 1314