Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1924, Page 30

;;'HE EVENING STAR, WASHING’I’_ON, D. €, 'THURSDAY, JANUARY.. 10, ,1924. ugh Game Tomorrow Night : Dates for Big Rowing Events Clash | \LI’GH T INFANTRY SUPREME OLYMPIC TESTS TOO NEAR IN EARLY BASKET LEAGUE ANNUAL COLLEGE CLASSIC Corps Team .Champion for Five Successive Years Tryouts Set for June 11-12, Just Six Days Prior 10/ After Columbia A. C. Won Title in 1894, When Poughkeepsie Regatta, Making It Unlikely District Circuit Was Formed. Any Will Compete in Both. . SPORTS. BASKET BALL RESULTS, MONUMENT BILL BRINGS B. B.. JOHNSON.TO TOWN Byron Bancroft Johnson, presi- dent of the American League, ar- rived {n Washington today from Chieago to complete arrangements for introduction in the House of the bill authorizing erection in Potomac Park of a monument to base ball, for which the eircuit han appropriated $100,000. This . measure, which was passed by the Senate late In the last sessle after being (ntroduced by Senator George ‘Wharton Pepper of Penmsylvania, Pprobably will be introduced in the lower branch of Congreas by Re| resentative James Gallivan of Bos- on, A site for the memorial already has been approved by the Fime Arta Commission, but mno an- nouncerent of its exact loeation BT Actalls of ttn design wre = pected until the bill is approved Consress. The names of George Sisler and Babe Ruth already have been selected to appear on the shaft as the most valuable play- €rs in .the American League in 'Locals Will Strive to Get Revenge for Beating Suf- - fered Last Year—Ineligibility of Star Players Hurts George WnsMngdnn. | . (This is the second of a series: of articles.on basket ball in Washington, in which its development from mere indoor foot ball to a widely played sport emphasizing team work will be outlined). ' £ g ARTICLE 11—Early League Basket Ball in District. * ¢ AMERICANS have a passion for organization in athletics.” A sport test for championships. Foot ball apparently is the only pastin:le not affected by this organization urge, although some of our purists in is barely born before teams of its devotees form leagues and con- the colleges maintain that even it has not escaped. - So it was but natural BY JOHN B. KELLER. IFE ior Catholic University’s basket ball team. iz just onc :ou.gh L game after another these days. Not yet rested after overcoming Duguesne University, one of the strongest quints of western Penn- sylvania, the Brooklanders tomorrow night must face the redoubtable Washington College outfit oi Chestertown, Md. { Time was when meeting any athietic teams of Washington College ! nieant a set-up for an aggregation of some strength, but those days are gone. The Eastern Sho' men now are right smart at almost all sports, BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, January 10—Rowing men are interested in « ciash dates between the Poughkeepsie regatta on June 17 and the (. pic trials. The try-outs for international honors have been <et for June 11-12. It is obvious that the crews that intend to row at Poughke could not subject themselves to grueling competition five and six before the regatta on the Hudson. In writing of the prospects of the Navy and Washington entering both events, the writer overlooked the closeness of the two dates. "SPORTS. BROOKLANDERS TO TAKE | ,PASKET BALL RESULTs, ..ON WASHINGTON COLLEGE f_‘;" Bl SNy, . Davnene, At Columbla—Georgia, 3S; South TIME FOR DOG SHOW ENTRY IS EXTENDED C. U. QuintHas Té . U.Quinias 1o 265 V. M, T 1 At West Potnt— Army, 42; Dela- Carol At Cambridge—Harvard, 26; M. L imont, 10, At Brooklyn—Crescent A. C. Fordham, 23. R | | “Because of the last-minute rush of . entries, the bench show committee particularly bas| ball. They romped through their last court campaign without losing to a college opponent, grabbing the Maryland champion- ship and beating, among others, Catholic University in Brookland gym- nasium. “Catholic Urni and will be tomorrow ni; Waehington veritahle ba season. Probabi €rsity is more than anxious to turnthe tables this time, en the opening whistle sownds at 7:15 o'clock i was a)schedules belng arranged for inter-} | class, iIntersorority nd {nterdormi- | tory” teams. Fourieen candidates for the south | varfous teams reported at the first u number | drill vesterday. Those out were Min- t agide. | nie Hill, Mary Harbaugh, Ffances and g here | Peggy Wolfe, Frances Russell, Vir- ginlo Brewer, Lllzabeth Prentice, Betty Amos, Roberta Orton, Sarah Morris, Dale Simmonda, Elizabeth Du- vall, Dorgthy Murray end Maxine Helss. More are expected to join the squad before next week. | Atlantic section, in which of formidable foes were swe it was the only team playi ast winter that succeseful oloyed a system to cope with a five- man defense. The Chestertown men, weil o {stance shooting, vould work 21l along the side- rt ‘until pposition's defense o the goak with the : George Washington 1 be forced nd against Maryland in the game hie Gymnasium ot Collegs aturday night practically the same team that was beaten by the City Club and lost to.the Y. M. IL A. Balt That included acting n Klopseh and Woerner at for- Brown at center and Dowd 10lds at guards.. Of these ere | five Klop! Brown are the only 901 | renl var: d they are not iug Wash- | ygcigned to positions originally in- nd the fifth | tanded for them. However, Coach | the follow- | Dafly believes this aggregation has | Improved o rubly since the Bal- | timore fraj ill give 2 good ac- | count of fteel aturda: Capt, Gosnell and Sawyer, regulars | inellgible because of scholastic | 1ties, expected to remove | their conditions lats this month into the remzining games of the A couple of other stronz b elizible to compete | Real Yankee Teaw. 2 couple of men players fill- arted stars Odaly, it the _colo | Dixon lne, - and Be g from O smembers of the te four of thém ingto pre hough player: lcided to add three }The r has voted to accept all entries until 10 o'clock Saturday night,” sald Sec- retary Charles A. Watson of the Washington Kennel Club and chair- man of the tenth annuel show, booked for the Coliseum Jenuary 25 and -26. “It will take us the rest of the week |to classify the entrles and arrange for thelr proper benching.” George Blakely of Philadelphia, as- sistant superintendent of the show, is over his head in work. He has called upon the members of the show committee to ald him in classitying the great number of dogs to be shown here. All past records for the Washington club will go by the boards when the final tabulation is made. 7 It is a habit of local eshibitors\to delay sending in thelr entries until the last minute. Entries from out-of- town arrl lfer, but owners in Maryland and Virginia walt il the iast minute. So great was this final rush_this year that the committee de- re days in the hopes of having evervthing arranged satisfactorily before sending the list t0 the vrlpter’s PRINCETON LOSES ROPER AFTER NEXT GRID SEASON PRINCETO! J. 10.— % (Bl Prince- teum, ef- 1824 sea~ January Iam W. Roper head coach of th ton University foot ball fectlve at the end of the , has i announced that when basket ball spread like wildfire over Washington in 'the early 90's, means were taken to establish a.circuit to compete for city laurels. The game was only two seasons old here when the first effort at organ- ization was made and so successful was the District Basket Ball League started in 1894 that it flourished under. generous patronage -for more ) { ball in Washington. than a decade. When it finally disin dasis here and there were several ci that more than supplanted it. Early {n 1894 representatives of Carroll Institute, which had put the city’s first team on. the floor; th. Washington Light Infantry Corp: that had its armory under Albaugh’ Grand Opera House, now Poli's Theater; Columbla Athfetic Ciub, that was housed in the bullding at. pres- ent occupled by the boys’ department of the Y. M. C. A, and Washington Athletic Club, a southwest associa- tion, met in the Columbia Athletic Club quarters and launched the first league. Tt elected, as officers, president, Os car V. Schmidt; vice president, H. J. secretary, John A. Heydler, now president of the National Base Ball League, and treasurer, James A, | | Martin. Joseph Burkhart and Ernest | Schafhirt” with Beall were on_the schedule committee that arranged for three games a week, while to M. A. Joyce of Carroll Institute and H. S. lynn of Columbia was assigned the task of formulating playing rules. Nine men played on the team in | those days and the game was some- what helter-skelter, 5o it was up to the league to make its own laws for | competition. Add to this llst of! | names that of Sam Shreve and one | has mentioned the fathers of basket | | Infantry Team Powerf! i It was these league contests that attracted the attention of the tegrated, basket ball was on a firm rcuits composed ‘of reputable teams Decoctions now without the law’ pale were considered training essen- tials in these days; some of the “old- tlmers” declare, and they were used whea thought advisable, ' Programs of “early: contests -brasenly . flaunted advertisements of St. Julien—rafresh- ing * for the athlete—$2.75° a dozen quurts—and gauterness—smentioned as equally @60d for the same athlete —at $3 for a similar quantity. But that's taboo for athietes—and others —now. Whatever Ltse Infantry teams trained upon served them well. In their first two winning seasons they lost but fow games and in their last three mnever suifered defeat. When the war with Spain came along in the spring of 1898, many of the In- fantrymen got Into the scrimmage and it was thought that the basket ball ~team the following winter would be weakened. Strangely, the 1899 outfit was about the best that gver represented the Washington Light Infantry, but the strain was bound to tell ‘and in 1900 the title passed to Eastern Athletlo Club. This was a blow to the Infantrymen. Thelr athieties began to decline and within a few years the greatest of | the District's “ploneer basket ball | teams had passed (Tomorrow: Decline of the Dis- into hietory. 1022 and 1023, respectively. Johnson expects to_leave town this evening for New York to com plete work on the 1924 schednl with President John A. Heydler of the National League. ve at least a fair chanc naturally pass up the i of the Olympic trials. The fact.is that there promises to be a serious division in Poughkeepsie situation. Those crews that t of winning the right to be sent abroad will Hudson_river race in favor M’INNIS LOSES CLAIM back salary claim filed by “Stuff: MeInnts, first baseman of the Boston Nationals, against the Boston Amer. icans has been denied by Commis sloner Landis. Landis ruled that Mc. Innis has been declared a free agen by the Cleveland club, which had as. sumed the three-year contract of th Boston Red Sox and which contrac specified that the player could be re. leased on ten days’ notice. McInnis was under a §9,000 a contract with the Red Sox Owner Frazee traded him to Cleve. land. McInnis objected to the assig ment to & club “away from home |based on the fac i | Boston. increase of three-year p, Cleveland yea erfod. assumed . the contrac and paid Mclnnis his salary of 314,00 for the 1921 season. At the close o the season he w: He then signed tionals. agreement FOR $10,000 SALARY CHICAGO, January 10.—A $10,000 t that he lived in McInnis was to be given an $5.000 stretching over a (monix. France, beginning the last of | as released outright. With the Boston Na- McInnis claimed he had an with Frazee for $5,000 a RELAY 'RACE FOR WOMEN I LISTED FOR WILCO MEET NEW YORK, January 10—A speeial relay race for women ath- letew will be a novel feature of the annual fndeor track and field &ames of the Wilco A. A., on Feb- ruary 16. Invitations to compete in this event have been sent to mine east- ern clubs, including the Meadow- brook Club, Philadelphin, whose girla’ relay team st a world ree- ord lart summer. U. S. PLAYS BELGIUM IN HOCKEY OPENER ———— NEW YORK, January 10.—Amer- ica’s Olymplc hockey team, which sailed yesterday to compete in the winter sports competition at Cha-| t e t | | : | g | this month, has been drawn for play in the group which also includes Bel- glum, France, Austria and Great Brit- ain. In the second group are Can- ada, Sweden, Switzerland and Czecho- t 0 rs If, for example, Washingto: over California this spring sk undoubtedly come east with amb tlons to represent American aquati in France. The Navy has p decided to build an eight Olympics in mind. Syracu now 1s dall Pennsylvanfa works out well in ear season regattas there is & goo chance the Quakers will also take shy at the Olymplc tes With Washington Navy and perhaps Pe: of the Hudson river af nual regatta would he indeed. “Cornell and Co! be the oniy eights to row thin eves mbia woulr There is « | chance Wisconsin may come on; To: Jones, the athletic director at. Wie consin, says a Badger crew will L sent to Poughkeepsie if a worth while eight is developed this sprinz and Princeton will receive o speci. invitation. But there is not ev small chance that the Tigers will ac cept, since Princeton is committed rowing distances not longer than two | miles. ‘The Olympic trials wil the Henley course o river, at Philadelphi fair to be noteworthy in every way (Copyright, 19:3.) HIGGINS TO BE MEMBER slovakia The group winners meet in the championship round. | The sextets representing Canada. | |the 1920 Olymple champlon. and the ’L‘nlud States are looked upon as the| ctrongest entered and favored to meet for the title. Play opens on January 2§ when the | ':l"ll!e‘(‘ll Sutesu will OD‘P‘OSQ Belgium, NEW YORK, January 10.—Frankle | s by Wiliam 6 Hotdeei ot s " g > 3 lic by Willlam 8. Haddock of Pitts- Erisch, the second baseman, valued by | burgh, prasident of the Cnited States expects to sénd | giter the azats tertown outfit the | opens. same tears thut played it last year—, Breslin and: Eberts, fory Fitz- | center, und Liynch and Law Zuare ombination, somew Jluggisy darly thls season, came to lite agalnst Duquesne Tuesday, and Coach Fred Rice expects it to dem- onstrate its real Wworth tomorrow ersity’s gecond semaster %;:rr.eml public to the game. Contests | trict Basket Ball League.) i o e sirensous zeaset | BIG LEAGUE CAREER OF BAKER IS ENDED the cf championship was In the hands Columbia Ataletic Club. But NEW YORK, January 10.—Announce- = ment by the Yankee: _ | Manager McGraw of the N S e meroondl- | GIAntS ‘us & reater plaver \han Mg | Amateur Hockey"Amociation, before the did not take so well at Columbla and the next year—1835—~It tlo: release of Frank Baker marks|crs H. : i le orn the final chapter in the big league base | » nsby of St. Louis, has been was not represented {n the league. Royce Hough, now prominent in the automobile business here, and Jim offered a two-year contract at $18,000 ball carcer of a player who, for more | & 52501, 35,500 more than he received than a decade, earnea dlamond fame | O 145t Y€ar, it was understood today. as a slugger and third baseman, frst e ittan potce; 17 T SE ST EATE OF JACK SCOTT PUZZLES BASE BALL you please-——along with some other Baker, who has not played regularly year while “playing away from home” and sought to collect for the seasons {0 1822 and 1923, 1$36,000 WAGE OFFERED FRISCH FOR TWO YEARS OF N. Y. A. C. RELAY TEAWM NEW YORK, January 10.—Waltc Higgins, former intercollegiate di- tance champlon and cross-co: title holder, will make his pearance in 1924 track competit! January 16, when he will repres the New York A. C. as = member © its four-mile relay team a: A A games. {BUCKNELL GETS MORAN AS FOOT BALL COA | _LEWISBURG, January 1 | Charles Moran, foot ball coach | Centre College, has signed a thra- | Year contract as the mentor of t Bucknell squad. | Moran will ‘succeed Peter | nolds, who resizned at the c the present season. WILL SPART GRID WORK. {BUSINESS T0 TUNE UP FOR CENTRAL CLASH Catholic University now has but e date in its foot bail schedule to November S. A ninth en- added yestarday, the being closed with land for a game at | Hanover, Pa. | Brookland gridders have elect- es B. Connell of Philadelphi: ! captain for the !SZA‘EXQ\':n, rH]L‘dh.\x; \e history of the insti- | played in_the varsity backfield af Bl I rame. for the coseds will | Gatholle University in three seasons be strictly however, | and welghs 135 pounds. HENDLER FIVE NO SET-UP FOR PALACE BASKETERS HOULD Palace Laundry tossers show the way to the Hendler Ice Cream team oi Baltimore tomorrow night at Central Coliseum Kelly of Business ap- ves his basket ball team is in dire need of improvement be- fore it makes its debut in the cham- pionship series against Cefitral Sat- urday at the Central Coliseum. With !a hara-fought game with the Cath- olic University ireshman team lost by a single point, the Stenographers ; were to encounter the Mount St. Jo- seph tossers of Baltimore today at the Central Coliseum. Although Central failed to show the way to Western, it probadly will offer the Stenographers the keenest sort of competition. | o | Basket ball for wirly oted at Maryland this Skiers Start East Tonight. i MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., January 10.— | The United States Olympic ski team, | accompanied by Mayor George L. Leach as manager, will leave Minne- | apolis tonight on the first leg of its trip to the Olympic games at Cha- monix, France. Eight men—Anders Haugen and Hans Hansen of Minneapolis, Sigurd Overby of St. Paul. Ragnar Omtvedt of Grand Beach, Mich; Harry Liehn, | Chicago; Julius Blegen, Minneapolis: Barney Riley, Coloraine, Minn., and CH. Pa., 0 With tite advent of the season of 1895 things began to hum In_the league. A few more teams were added to its roster and the game was reduced to a more scientific basis. But none of the other teams coul cope with the redoubtable Light In- fantry that breezed to the circuit champlonship. Nor did the Infantry- men stop with that season. So much men who had been prominent factors | for several sensons, due to trouble with in Columbla’s success enlisted in the Washington Light Infantry, the elite | his legs, last saw active o8, service wi the Yaniceea {n 1922, but he 1o expeston | of the District soldiery in those davs, to continue hig connectlon with the 1 ané became members of & team that Soared to great heights in the court game, possibly as manager of an in- dependent team near his home, at sport. Re Trappe, rnh Stufty Jack NEW YORK, January 10—Base ball Buker, followers were puzzled today by the M it fcInnis, S I cause other quints seeking tlie District basket ball title to do a deal of worrying. The Oriole city basketers bozst one of the best c section and are coming here fully confident i in the south At ! A 9giits & Tt will be the toughest game they can beat the Palace combination. 1 : _ scheduled thus far by the local five. One year ago the Hendler periorm- ers, then known as St. Andrews’ five, defeated the famous o al Celtics of New York, a team that routed the Yankees, as Palace then was called. Dean and Harper are the young- sters that Business must watch, for it was mainly through their efforts that Western was forced to battle &1l the wa. Furma; Watt are® bein Business followers. be given a chance. Koontg, Clark, Mudd and g courted upon by Libbey also m better were they than the other ag- gregations in the league that they continued to lead the procession un- til 1900, capturing five titles in as| many years. 0Old Game Was Rugged. They were a husky lot, those In- fantrymen. The squad at different times included such sterling athletes | years after Eddie Collins, was a mem- ber of Conmle Mack's $100,000 infleld and went to' the Yankees in 1916, two Mack broke up his famous For five years in a row Baker drove In more runs than any other American League player and earned his monicker of *Home Run” Baker by batting feats which gave the Ath- letics two world series victories over machine. wafvers granted by all otler fiftee ing sensation of the series. Not only did.all the major: pass up the Tar Heel soupboner, bu! major league base ball clubs on Jack IScott of the New York Giants, pitch- 1922 world the. Louisville Amerfcan Association La Moyne Batson, Eau Claire, Wis. will make up the party, which will arrive in New York Saturday morn- ng. There they will give an exhibition Sunday, leaving for France the fol- lowing Wednesday. Mayor Leach will return to Minne- apolis, but will follow the team abroad on January 2: | n s t Ann Arbor. Mich, Janua 1 Michigan's 1924 foot ball preparatio will start next Monday night whe: Coach Little and his assistants v commence Instructing a class of in the fundamentals. A list of 1 possibilities has been compliled frc the candidates for the freshmen t the reserves and the varsity s of last year. club refused to accept him as part of o deal for Dean. Scott is the second pitcher of note to leave New York for puzzling rea- sons _this winter, his predecessor be- g Carl Mays, who was grabbed by Cineinnati. The Mays case was not . so mysterious as Scott's, however, as | several clubs dickered to buy him. while Scott, who won more gams: last year than the submarine twirler, | was completely refused. It wae suggested today that Man- |ager McGraw might be getting under Scott's hide to force him to keep better discipline this year than he did last, and really intends to retain him, although McGraw himself gave no such indication. He said he hoped Long John would be more “grateful” the Giants. Until Babe” Ruth collected jfour home runs ugainst McGraw's pitchers lust year Baker's total of three stood as the record for circuit clouts In one world series. as Percy Kendall, one-time star base ball player at Georgetown; Arthur Devlin, later third sacker for the Glants; 1. A. (Lanky)_Burnett, Sheri- dan Lee, Harry Lee, Ernle Schafhirt, Jesse Schafhirt Harry McCabe, Sam Shreve, Jim McQuade, Tom Hughes, Royce Hough, Claude Given, Rob Roy Mackey, Brigham Waters, Shorty | Dore, Al Rouse, Join Heydler, Harry { Bevans, Wally McCathran, Jimmte | | Lotus, Bill Iiolmead, Buck Taylor | and Burgess, Basket ball was a rugged game when the Infantry was in its heyday, according to Jim Baker, who was one of the District League's early officlal Scorers. He finds scoring & woman duckpin league much easier now. Baker's opinion of the early game is supported by the following cotem- Three other nchool games are booked today. Emerson Institute was | to appear against University of Maryland freshman quint tonight at 18 o'clock at the Ritchie gymnasium 2t College Park. Eastern and Gon- 2 ere to mept tais afternoon at on the latters floor. was scheduled to open DUCKPINNERS SCORE HIGH - IN MANY LEAGUE GAMES OWLERS were in rare form last night in the many ducki about the city and numerous big games were recorded. The notable of these high counts. were achieved by La Fayette of th Masonic League and Hecht Company of the Commercial League. La Fayette had a set of 615, winning all three games from the Leb { quint, with scores of 557, 551 and 507. Megaw had top set of 349 Urban the best game, 138, Dutch Lentz, Scott, Waxman,| Basket Ball Tips Votth, Burng and Red \lcC.L:.";Y i‘r:: SHORT PASSING OR “CRISS-CROSS GAME Wendler tes The Palace quint will | | { TRAP STAR DIES SUDDENLY. AUGUSTA, Ga., January $.—James 3 Barrett, prominent sportsman, and for three years champlon trap shoot- jer of Georgia, died suddenly 'onuu theater here. Ll BILLY SMITH IS GIVEN PROMOTION WITH CLUB Billy Smith, for years com- be without the services of Tommy | 3 herton and Heddoms, but it o netored sueh stars a¥ Gititz, | y last year; ? California, | ons. Manager Thomas| ¢ the local quint is counting upon thess performers. | Atkletic Club at 7:20 o'clock on tl National Guard armory oourt. Dr. Frank W. Ballem, superintend- ent of public schools, was to receive & silver trophy from.a committee of ! the Washington Harvard Club this | afternoon at-3:20 o'clock at Franklin School. The trophy will be held from year year by the winner of the high school basket ball series and | Manhattan toswers are to meet the Naval Receiving Station five tonlght on the Congress Helghts court. The former team will visit Fort Hum-| phreys Saturday for a game. X ame? of the sea- is expected when the Peck Re- ounter Trinity Athletic in a tilt starting at 7:30 . Both teams Georgetown Ove of the best o'clock on ti are bitier laurels. rivals iputed in the v tonight Congress Heights. Tha Silent Five a reported to have an array of clever tossers. Preprred by a series of hard pre- inary games, the Epiphany team ill take on the Mount Vernon five tomorrow In the Sunday School Loague at the Y. M. C. A. Shloss, Thels, Sheild, Hayes, McGann, Hirst, Pyles, Boerrer, Collins, G. Kesler, ibnitzki and Elliott composs the Tpiphany squad. Tremont Junlors will strive to ow down the Elllott Juniors in the iret game of a double-header to be staged tonight at Immaculate ,Con- ception gymnacium. In the ' final ay the former team will meét the Park. View Juniors. The Tremonts have won six games in a row and are ant to make theegoing rough for! thelr foes. Tomsers representing Company C, 1:1st Engineers, have booked Lex- - ington Athletic 'Club tonight. Play will open at 8 o'clock on the National Guard floor. Cirele Athletic Club, that was whip- by the Epiphany Eagles, will try eome back in a fray with the tomorrow night at Con- ess Hedghts.” Haturday tho Circles )ul meet the Argyies at the same place. Soldier teums of Fort Myer and the Washington barracks are expected to supply much entertainment in one of ihe Army Service League games to- morrow ifight on the jatter's court, Avon tonsers had to battle every iach of the way to Gown the Congress tieights flve, 15 to 13. Clever gugrd- ing by both quints enlivened the fray. Lotus starred for the winners. St. Paul tossers tooi. the measure of the Potomac Tigers in a 31-to-15 game. Barber and Kottner plaved well for the winhing quint. Accurate sheoting by Ford —and Hutchinson enabled the Manhattans o down the Old Dominion Boat Club, 38 to 25. Beeton played best for the lozers. Cross of the Corinthian vegistered eight baskets aga! Sy Scout Troop 2 tossers, his team winning, 85 to 5. Harrison, Cohen, Lucas and Vandercoop also perform- #d creditably for the Corinthians. What is thomght to’ be a season record was made last night by the “sanawha Junlors when they took the soalps of Montour, 32 to 6; Trinity. 28 to 8 and the Aurora, 16 to 2. Gamess with the winners can be ar- rauged by ocalling the manager at North 5115, between 0§ and 6:30 o'¢lock. Anacost R thran e, Eagles scored their sev. o . .&éfi" 240 T M (gd. oals for the n a “HIt the | the criss-crous =ttack and the How can the short passing, or criss- cross game be developed? Answered by W. E. MEANWELL, Comch, University of Wisconsin, in- ventor of the short passing game, ve monn defense. Always has a danger. ous and leading team in the confer- ence. 7 The criss-cross pass attack is de- veloped by first playing two offen- sive men against one guard, then three against two guards, then four against three and so on until full teams are in operation. ' Frequent practice and constant repetition of attempts to penetrate the defense are essential, When the man with thée ball is blocked or guarded so that further advance is impossible, or so that his opponent is directly in front and so able to intercept the pass, it is abso- lutely fundamental that the man in possession of the ball shall pivot be- fore making; or while ‘making, the pass. ‘When advancing on attack, the forwards and center must cross the fioor from side to side, obliquely forward, - The criss-cross must be operated with the pivot and back pass and is not sufficient in itself to insure a successful attack. D ——— Eagle Preps showed the way to the Boys' Club Yankees. 14 to 6. Quincy Athletic Club basketers needed an extra perlod to nose out the Rallroad Y. M. C. A, 27 to 25, Baskets by Halley and Pyne decided the issue. | Teams in the 125-130-pound class with courts are warnted:as opponerts by the Navajos. Manager Jack Mat- ;lnrégly may be telephoned &t Lincoln Manager Corby, North 1770, wants to book a game tomorrow - night for the Columbla Junlors, to be played at ‘Wilson Normal School gymnasium. Zeverly, Cerono, Vita, Panella, Holl and McAndrews of the Trinity Tigers are showing up ~well' this season. Challeriges . are -being - recelved by Manager: Ceroso at Iin 1665-F between 5 gad 7 o'clock. ‘ A will become the permanent posses- sion of the &chool first capturing the title three consecutive times. Chief Justice of the District Supreme Court Walter I McCoy was to make the presentation. Diseussion of the two-major-sports rule recommended by the bLoard of education to the five high schools was postponed vesterday, as only two of the chool heads wera present. A meeting will be held next Wednes- day, however, and it is understood that the two-major-sports ruling will be thoroughly aired. —_— Golden Torna quint is seeking zames in the 90-95-pound class, 2o- cording to Manager O'Donnelly, at West 1232, pOrary newspaper account of one of the oid District League contests: “Short arm Joits and uppercuts were almost as frequent as goals from the field in the basket ball game at Washington Light Infantry armory {last night. Six hundred enthusiastic {supporters of the team saw the Wash- lington Light Infantry defeat the Eastern Athletic Club in & game re- plete with impromptu fighting. ® © ¢ Slugging was o regular feature, and | on one occasion Joseph Mangan, one ! of the umpires, was knocked to the floor by & blow on the point of the jaw as he rushed in between a couple of belligerent players who were landing corkscrew punches apon one another.” They trained hard and they played hard, although neitlter training nor playing rules wers so striot then. e nected with the Washington base bail club in the capacity of xcout, will no Yonger comb the minor leagnew in search of talent for the Natfomals, iness manager of the club, succeeding “Tim” Jor- dan, who held that position watil Re_resigned last fall. Smith, a genial and sstute base ball man of the old school, whe for many years formerly was man- ager of the Atlanta club of the Southern Association and the Shreveport team of the Texas League, will be in charge of the concesaionn at the ball park and also be the official pinch hitter as road necretary of the Griffmen, Hereafter all scouting duties will be taken care of by President Giifith and Joe Engel. HANS WAGNER'S - CHAPTER 31 The All-Star National League Team For 30 Years. BY HANS WAGNER. FTER going over them all, A studying their hitting and Tielding ability, their aggres- siveness, love of the game and team- work, here is my selection for the all-star National League team of the past thirty years: Manager—Fred Clarke. Ca::fn—-flnxhey Jennings. First Base—Jake Daubert. Second Base—Napoleon Lajoie. Shortstop—Hughey Jennings. Third Base—Ji Collins. Left Fleld—Fred Clarke. Center Field—Jesse Burkett. Right Field—Willie Keeler. Extra Outfielder—Joe Kelley. Extra Infinlder—-llufizn Homsby. Catchers—Johnny ling, Roger Bresnahan, George Gibson. Pitchers — Christy Mathewson, Mordecai Brown, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Deacon Phillippi, Babe Adams. The players 1 have given here were masters of every trick in the game, fair and unfair = They knew how to make- them and how to break them up. I don't know of anything that could be put over on these boys. - 1 have considered :the question’ of right and left handed hitters. I also realize that my club is short of Jeft- handed pitchers, but with that outfit I wouldn't need southpawa Jake Daubert Fred Clarke, Jesse Burkett and Wil jer could hit left-handed pitching just as well as t-handed pitching. I would cer- 1y feel sorry for any pitcher who B i sl Gl T 0 i and-run play would bcu;a.l.t- - those FECERR birds. The lively ball would rarely ever get stopped in the infleld. They would run the bases almost as they | pleased. i~ Before anybody starts in to criti- cise my celection I wish they would sit down and compare the brains of | those pleyers withi others they have | in mind.” Every one of them was noted for aggressivensss and o desire to win that kept them fighting until the ' last man was out in the ninth. Every Man a Master. Every man on that club was a master in his position. A manager would have a soft fob. You would &eldom hear anybody ask “Who won?" | It would be “What's the score?" The length of service, to my way of thinking, always must be consld- ered in selecting & ball club, That !eo\(mr.s extea big, because it ensbles & team ‘to keep on winning pennants | without making changes | 1 picked Hornsby as my extra in- ! fielder, not because everybody else picked him, but for a definite purpose. Aside from his heavy hitting he can {play any position In the infield and could go in at any minute as a pinch hitter. The same thing goes for Joe Kelley in the outfleld. It is pretty hard to leave Joe oft. any regular. all-star team. He was a marvelous outflelder, a great thrower, a sure hitter and a fighting Irishman. , Roger Bresnahan also couid be used anywhere on the club. He has played evéry position, having started out as & pitcher and finished as a catcher. Each one of those players knows how to 'get I conditfon und keep in condition. They would traln to be in perfect shape, ‘not becduse it was the rule, but because they would know what ‘'was best for them. We would seldom need the utility men. I _bhave not named a big pitching stafk. Those I hava selected swould be ample. All of them would be better off with a lot of work to do. Some of thi players, you will no- tice, also are my all-America team fl‘;‘l all, time, Let us ‘consider. the others: g ) George Glbsonm, .as.a third catcher, was & fair-hitter and an iron man for, T work. ‘He was a good man for pitch- ers. They all liked to work with him. When a teamf’ was in a rut I never knew a better man for getting it out than Gibson. He knew the weakness of every hitter In the league and was cléver at outguessing base runners. Another big thing In his favor was the way ire got along with the um- pires. The catcher, you know, can save many a bad situation by taiking quietly with the umpire, who stands near him. Wilbert Robinson also was great at that. Miner Brown is one pitcher I'd cer- tainly have to u He knew all the tricks of the trade. He had terrific speed for a man his size and had big, , quick - breaking outcurve - that was & puzaler. That od curve, I b ljeve, was due to his having but three fingers., The curve _was dl: from that of anybody. He was a won- derful fielder also, and a good hitter and base runner. Brown was very tricky and kept his opponents guess- ‘ing all the time. He was willing to pitch any time and particularly liked to be stacked against the star pitcher of the opposition. He was very ag- gressive.. It was Miner Brown who was called to the rescue and saved that play-off game between the Glants -and Cubs-for.the pennant in 1908. Charles ¢Deacon) Phillippl was an- other great pitcher who always ‘wanted to be sent in against the star of the opposing team. He reveled in a hard fight His greatest quality was that he never in his life com- plained about errors being made back of him. He took it all as part of the me. He was ready to pitch in any ind _of weather and always was x{ous to be selected. . Phillippl had everything that a pitcher ought to have and he used the Mathewson sys- tem of pitching to his flelders—that is, he would figure to make a batter hit in a certain direction and let the outfield do the big share of the work until he got into ght pinch. He was a star in the world series be- tween the Pirates and the Boston Red . Babe Adams was the it . pitcher 53 {ue:?uw-to bring x.-.'fi"» out_of a'losing rut, ‘He had" speed, & to_the next club which hired him. Scott’s_case, like Mays', was mor. a case of inability to get along wit his manager than anything clse. After a poor start last season, Ipitched good ball, but later broke bone in his hand when struck by batted ball and was not effective thereafter. He was a complete fail ure in the world serics. MEXICAN FIVE ON TOUR. NEW YORK, January 10.—A Mexi can basket ball team, university = students the namre of the Mexico Red Tri i will play the Brookl$n Universit five January .15. to play Syracuse, Union, Tulane an Georgia, among oth Copyeight, 1880, in Usited States and Great Britain, Oubs, T ASee mowepere: Nazcs. ATl Fighta reserved. jump on his fast one, good curves— everything. There is no doubt about Adams being one of the greatest pitch. ers in the world. ' He won thre games in the world serles betwee ittsburgh and Detroit, Daubert Never Get His Due. Jake Daiibert, my first basenfan, i & better man than he ever got credi for being. He is a wonder on shifting his feet when forced to catch wik throws. Handling the feet is more im. portant in a first baseman than his "Most anybody can catch the ball. The feet must put him in posi- tion to'do 'so and also to get him out of the way of the base runner. Jake is hands. very good on low-throws. Hughey Jennings was one of, th He always wi nd was- the first shortstop to tak a throw from the catcher and tag th base runner while on the run, At th fng hit with o game. greatest in control of buntin, the catcher used to ¥ ‘would make the bal than a foot.in front of the plate. H was so tricky at this that all th catchers in the league had to tal every ball off the bat when he wi whe: lay back, Jess talked base bail. eam ever picked. He was simpl: :nlle. vmr%{ Poor littie xu&y gone now! I take my hat off to hi There was never another iike him. invented most of-the battin field tricks ‘that other ball: playe; still are trying to learn. — Tomorrewt Pam: Ball History, e 1 composed of playing under angles, which will tour sixteen states, The Mexicans plan shutting them out 8 to 0 In the deciding game. smartest shortstops that ever lived. Inventing new plays bat he was & good hitter and was very smart in getting on base by be- e pitched ball if it was necessary. Hughey was a wonderful flelder and a great student of the Jesse Burkett was a great hitter, fielder and base runner. He was the stop not' more up. The third baseman played in half way, Burkett liked to play; lived and ‘There is no use for me to speak of Willie Keeler. He has been on nearly every All-American and All-Natfonal | {4 /had & gam ¢ 136 Section A é’ Son 4 i}. oad %o.gnm Bpecial Search T Ty 7 i and out- | Takoma won the odd from Stans- ibury, M. M. Parker turned the same trick_on the George C. Whiting quint and Federal swept the boards, New | Jerusalem being the victim. Federal's | 580 was the best game of the Masonic { sertes. ! e h e 2 a e In the Commercial League, the Hecht quint smashed the maples for games of 550, 512 and 031, a set of 11,593, winning all the battles from the Times-Herald team. Shook of the Siktors had a game of 138 and set of 50. Triumph Cafe of the Mount Pleas- ant League took three games from the Castles with scores of 519, 525 and 627, for 1,571. Pantos of the win- ners was the best man, with a set of 340 and game of 124. National Bank of Washington, in the Bankers' League, pulled the clean- up act on Metropolitan, having scores of 518, 508 and 546. Cosmano of the winners hit a set of 336 and Gefer a game of 136. Hibbs & Co. won.two of three from Second National boys, Hall of the victors toppling a.set of 340. In the Red Men’s League Red Wing won three games from the Haymak- rs, Cator of the victors having the best set at 325 and Holland the high game, 115. Y d ! e n Voryage Aceounts of the Shipping Board captured. the 0dd game from Legal Claims, while Strunk was pil- ing up the high game of 120. e Brandies of War Department Leaguo won two of three from Air Service. Covert of the former grabbed.the! honors with a set of $46 and game Of | 135. Hobbies found the Auditors quite | easy and ran away with all three| games, Shaw of the winners making the high game, 121, and best set, 324. Post Ofice quint, in the Nationg! Capital League, captured the odd game from the Nationals, Friend, of | the losers, getting the high set of | 344 and the best game, 139. t | Safety ' Girls, of the Interstats| Commerce Ladles'. League, won tw! of three from Valuation, Miss Dmge ‘turning {n the best set, 346. Calanthe, of the Knights of Pyt League, po{nted, the way to the Syra- cusians in tlree games. Bénedette of the victors had the top game of 113, and the best-set of 317. In ‘ Namtieal League, sunset | uma‘xg oad .over Colonial, Meany | of the winners garnering honors With, = eet of 322 and:game of 124. In the Bureau of Standards League the-l!nlqmu won all three games from the Sharpshooters, Hill of the win- ners smashing the best game, 121. 8ol were stepping on tho gas ln‘flg Internal Revenus League and &.@ result grabbed three games from Accounts and Collections. . Charest of the winners hit.a set of 367, while s t d o e e n 3 s { e e s [ N ANY team high PARIS, January Olympie commi ganize a photographic ply all demands frof forelgn dally o- periodic pictures of the events at th games this 10—The Open Daily Until 6 P.M, “Wonder What Mertz Wil S At the Bign of the Moon Today® Established 1893 Extraordinary Reductions —An unprecedented value-giving . tailoring. You have choice of ou~ magnificent stock of fabrics and the services of our talloring experts. 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