Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 30

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HATCHETITES BROOKLAND Downtowners Will Use Same Players Who Opposed Maryland—Kinally Is Lost to Georgetown Track Team for a While. BY JOHN B. KELLER. GL‘ORGE WASHINGTON UNT will encounter Catholic Unive the local collegiate round-robin basket ball series, without auny sreat hope of success. The Hatchetit season, will send against the Brooklandéfs practically the same, if not the identical, combination that lost to University of Maryland last Satur- day night at College Park. While the Hatchetite team was good in spots, it certainly did not appear strong enough to have much- of a chance WILL VISIT FOR CONTEST [VERSITY'S team tomorrow night rsity’s quint, its second opponent in es, who have yet to win a game this against the veteran Catholic University organization. m The game tomorrow night will be played in the gymnasium on the Brookland campus, and is due to sf University freshmen had expected to tart at 8:30 o'clock. The Catholic play a George Washington Univer- sity cub quint in a preliminary engagement, but discovered that the down- town institution had no freshman outfit. ranged for the Red and Black young! It appears that the only George YWashington basket ball team can- didates at present eligible to repre- sent their Institution are Newby, Wagner, Brown, Dowd, Reynolds, | ‘Woerner, Klopsch, Goldberg and Nev- easer.” All were used against Mary- #land. Of these, Acting Capt. Klopsch and Woerner, a former Western High School boy, and Dowd are about the best and may - start tomorrow, the 1irst two mentloned at forwards and Dowd at guard. Brown probably will be in center and Reynolds in the re- maining guard position. Coach Jack Daily has been handi- capped to 4 great extent In devel oping a team by the ineligibility of several players he had expected to fll regular berths. Chief among these are Capt. Gosnell and Chesney, forwards. Gosnell's loss is felt par- 1] uh}‘l)‘. for the one-time Tech High School star basketer last season was rated among the best players in the south Atlantic section. Dalily hopes to- have these men on the squad again after the last of the month. The team at Catholic University is quite fit for the fray and Coach Fred Rice Intends to start his regular line- up—Breslin and Eberts, forwards; Fitagerald, center, and Lawlor and Lynch, guards. Lawlor suffered a siighit injury in the Washington Col- lege engagement, but he has fully re- | covered. Georgetown's track team will be minus the services of George Kinally, one of its stellar quarter-milers, at the Fordham games in New York Saturday night Kinally yesterday was called to his home in Rochester, Mass., by a message telling of his Zather’s -death. Kinally, who starred on the track for the Hilltoppers last year, was expected to make a bid for the mile relay in ihe trials held this afternoon. Those who are to run against the watch this afternoon are: Herlihy, Haas, Gegan, Holden, Swinburne, Burgess, McClain, Plansky, Lastment, Gafrey and Murray. Rifie of Georgetown and Jaryland are-among -the college or- Zanizations that started firing today h the national competitions for the Iearst trophies. Nearly 100 univer- | sity and - college aggregations are' striving for laurels in the shoot. It is estimated that a thousand riflemen will represent them. ‘Washington - University rifilemen have been notified that they won ‘the_telegraphic shoot with Co- lumbla University, 855 to 922. In ad- dition to Columbla, the Hatchetites this season have defeated Boston Uni- | versity, Johns Hopkins and the Na-| tional Capital Rifie Club on the range. The Hatchetites' team will go to New York Saturday to compete in the {ntercollegiate tournament to be| DELTA-YOSEMITE BATTLE BEARS ON COURT HONORS| encounters the Yosemites to; - court. This game will have A However, a game may be ar- sters. held under the auspices of Columbla. | Princeton has been added to_the basket ball schedule of Catholic Uni- versity. The Tigers are to face ti Red.and Black inthe Brookland gym- nasfum February 18. Princeton has an engagement with Georgetown at Ryan gymnasium the night before. The management of the freshman i team at Cathollc University has add- ed games to the clubs’ list as follow: 17, Tech Kigh; 26, Maryland Fresh. February 4, Central High; 7, Western at Western; 19, Muryland Froshmen, &t loge Parl Schednles for foot ball and swim- ming teams at Catholic University have been filled. The gridiron list was raised to ten games by the book- ing of a_contest with Lynchburg Col lege on November 6. The contests ar- ranged for the Red and Black rata- tors follow brua tns Hopkina st Baltimore; 16 Bmartumere, 4t Swarihors; Maroh 1. Lenigh 15, intercollegiate cham! SCHOOL FIVES PLAY TWO SERIES GAMES Business was to oppose Eastern, while Central was booked to meet Tech in the high school champion- ship series double-header today at the Central Coliseum. The first game was listed at 3 o'clock, With the sec- ond due to start about an hour later. Western also will be seen in action today, meeting the Georgetown Prep tossers at Garrett Park, Md., in prep- aration for its game with Eastern Saturday. Western also will encoun- ter University of Maryland frosh Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at College Park. | Gal Devitt Prey was forced to cancel its game with Gonzaga today. The former five will be sent through the | paces by Coach Hap Farley to prepare | for Business Thursday at the Coli=| seum. | For the second time this season, Eastern has fallen before a prep school five. After losing to Gonzaga, the Light Blue and White met defeat at the hands of St. John's yesterday, 30 to 28. Coach Guyon used his re- | serve players in the first half, the! score ending-at half time, 14 to 14. Eastern's first team falled to make an impressive showing in the final half. A basket from inid-court by Johnny Morris decided the issue. i REAL battle is expected to take place when the Delta Athletic Club night at 8:30 o’clock on the Ingram considerable bearing on the senior basket ball championship race. Should the Deltas show the way to the Yosemites they will strive to book a game with the Immaculate Concep- | tion, a team that has been. setting a fast pace in the senior ranks. Ray Nash of the central board will officiate tonight. " Two former high school basketers will figure in tonight's game. Hall, last year's luminary of the Central aunint, and Woodward of the 1923 Tech five, are to display their wares for the Deltas and Yosemites, re- spectively. ‘These teams have met twice {n prac- tice games, both ending in a dead- laek.~ Both have met and defeated the Apaches A victory for the Deltas apparently would give them an even chance with (mmaculate Conception, as the latter showed the way to the Yosemites. ‘A severe test awaits the Palace Laundry five in its game with the Rochester Centrals tomorrow night atthe Coliseum. The Rochester quint is one of the strongest In the east, and If the locals are to win tiey will heve to play great basket ball. . In a preliminary tilt, girl tossers ‘of the Fifth Baptist Church will meet the Walter Reed sextet. Dominican Lyeeum tossers will make their 1924 debut in & game with the “Arlington Athletic Club tomor- row night at the St. Dominic's Hall, 6th and F streets southwest. Action will start at § o'clock. Walter Lloyd, Joe Marsden, Joe Gerardi, Fitzgerald, Htokey, Kaufman, Adonis and Brown are playing with the Dominican team this year. “Manager Gerardi is book- ing games at Franklin 6475. Ome of the best games of the sea: ®on is anticipated in the Mount Ver- non-Knights of Columbus match to be played tonlght at 8 oclock on the latter’s floor. Challenges to the Méunt Vernon tossers are belng re- celved by the manager at Franklin! g 1§ 1h<wA 5 res other games will be played by Mount Vernon this weekp(i)t;v- Pullman Athletic Club on the Terminal Y floor. A game Wwith the Apache Preps will be played Saturday night. MacDonald, E. Theis, Schloss, Mc- Gann, Ourand, Shelld and G. Kessler of_the St. Andrew Juniors are to practice tonight at 8:30 o'clock on the Epiphany court. ° Manhattan tossers have booked a tough foe in the Terminal ¥. M. C. A. quing tonight at 8 o'clock on the lat- ter’s” floor. -Members of Southern Preps are to hold- & meeting tonight at 8 o'clock 2t.1218. 435 -street southwest. Haviag showed the way to a pair of foém yesterday, the Peck Memorial Club. tossers are copfiden: they can take tLe measure of the Mcbab Big ¥ive of Baltimore Saturda: night in the Peck gymmasium. Johnny Gol- lan and Daniels were big factors in their team's wins over Mount Pleas- ant, 48 to 11, and the Leighton Ath- leflc Club, 64 to 8. Liberty Athletie Club fell before the Circles, 18 to 13. Clever work by ppe. id Bsker aided the winners. Lyles played best for Liberty. A gpirited match was waged be- tween the Premier Athletic Club and the Columbis Midgets, the former nosing out, 24 to 22. De Boskey caged seven baskets for the winners. J. Carroll of the losers also starre ." & yally late tn the game enabled ihe Bt. Patrick quint to overcome the | Heart was leading, 7 to 4, at the end of the third period, when the St. Pat- rick tossers came to life. O'Keefe's | floor goal decided. Mildred Harris of the Capital sex- tet tossed thirteen baskets against the Princess Athletic Club, her team winning, 31 to 27. Miss Totten, who registered seven court goals, also played creditably. Some lively doings are booked for the National Guard gymnasium Thursday night, when tossers repre- senting Company C, 121st Engineers, encounter the Milan Athletic Club. Two preliminary games will be play- ed, the De Molay team meeting the Liberty Athletic Club and the Devitt Prep quint facing an opponent to be selected later. Mushake, Howard, Coanshock, Goetz and Conlyn com- pose the probable line-up for the soldler five, With Maxwell garmering eight the Calvary Midgets easily posed of the Olympic Midgets in a 29 to 28 engagement. Members of the Mackin Athletic Club and the Park View Juniors, who will combine and form an athletic organization tonight, plan to place a fast junior quint on the floor this sesson. a the home of Sam Hessler, 3004 Park place. A new name will be selected for-the club, -followed by the election of officers. A field goal by Panella of the Trin- ity Tigers gave his team a 20-to-18 victory over the Boys' Club Celtics. urnell and Cerceo of Trinity, and | Walsh and Shaw of the lossers, were the outstanding players. Metropolitan Athletle Club sextet flashed into the limelight when they swamped the Walter Reed nurses, 40 to 6. . Pauline Thomas and Adelaide Boyd were the high scorers, as they connected for nine and seven goals, ruspectively. Miss O'Hara played well defensively. Exkibiting a fine defensive game, Trinity tossers vanquished the Pet- ‘worth Juniors, 10 to 5. . Bervinsky starred for the winners. It was the third consecutive victory for the Trinity quint. Live Wires shocked the King Pins, winaing, 19 to 11. Aloysius five will be the opponent of the Naval Air Receiving Station basketeers Thursday night at. § o'clock, ‘in the former’'s hall. Plerce Insects humbled the All-Star | 1nsects, 12 to 4. Company F quint of the Hyattaville National Gu-.r! beat the Quincy Ath- letic- Club, 30 to 22, while the Guard reserves showed the way to the Quincy reserves, 24 to 7. Superior teamwork told. + Marines’ Reserves are casting about for 68, according to Lieut. Ronald A. Boone, post athletic director, who can be reached Quantico, Va. Mauager J. Farram of the Apollo Juniors is seeking games at Lincoln 7853, after 5:30 o'clock. Chillanigen to' the mewly organized Metropolitan Memorial quint are b ing received by Manager Wynkoop, Lincoln 4178, atter 7 o'clock. T Metzopolitans-average 150 pounds, .Believe It or Not. PaT FLynN HAS WORN THE SAME HAT FOR |7 YEARS OLIPHANT fomeus Ay sl K\CKED 16 GOALS AFTER TOUCHDOWNS IN SUCCESSION IN Wheghn Skl 8 Indiana . __.-“'. Do U.BranchDema. THRILLING RACE DUE IN COLLEGE LEAGUE By the Auul‘?, . NEW YORK, January 15.—The In- tercollegiate Basket Ball League, which i3 staging ‘its fourteenth campaign, promises to add this y to its rec- ord for closely contested titie race Revlew of the orgarization's ‘| tory since it started in 1910-11 re- 3 an unusual.number of stirring battles for court supremacy. But one team in the annals of the league has ever finfshed the n with a clean slate, that deing Pennsylvania, which captured the title in 1913-20 with a record of ten victories and no defeat Quakers have won flve cham- plonships, four of them In one stretch, and lead all of their flve rivals.” Yale, the 1932-23 titleholder, has furnished three champion teams, Columbia two and Princeton and Cornell, one each. Corneli and Columbia shared titular honors one season. Basket Ball Tips PLAYS FROM OUT The PASSAIC HIGH ScHooL BASKETBALL TEAM HAS WON 24 SRuGUT (| GAMES To DA - ALEXANDER - fRom 1915 —1920 Ve PITCHED 208 GAMES 4D L ALLOWED BUT 1.65 EARNED GIRL BASKETERS CAUSED FLURRY OF EXCITEMENT Contest Here in 1895 “Tumultuous Entanglement of Arms and Legs”’—W omen of District Have Made Great Progress in Sport. ARTICLE VIL—Women's Basket Ball in Washingtou. ODERN weoman has attempte man favors except foot ball. but she has not fought shy of basket ball d about every athletic pastime that That has been too much for her, In the same year the "The Imecting will be held at @ dash for it,"the one securing its | men began the court game, the fair sex adopted it, and has made great | progress since. Basket ball had been known to Washington less than ithree years when girls of this city became interested and formed teams. i Spirited games were staged and within a few seasons many church o ganizations were promoting the sport. Then the seminaries here took i up the court game and a few years later the co-educational colleges were bitten my the basket ball bug. Following the war with the ceatral Eu- ropean nations, numerous clubs were formed, and for the past several | years girls’ team, as well as men’s quints, have been p!aym‘ for city titles. After seelng a_few of the early attire themselves in' leg coverings contests here, athletic girls of the|similar to those worn by men bas- city “fell” for basket ball with a|keters and close-fitting blouses that thud, Athletics for girls were some- | allow perfect freedom of action. what novel three decades ago and| And with the improvement in c those early court battles probably |tume has come a notable improve- would seem strange to the observer iment in play. College co-eds here now. One is led to belleve this by now are capable of giving an even the following account printed here battle to the strongest of eastern the day after a match staged March |rivals, while the seminaries and those 22, 1895: of the high schools that foster the “A general flutter of excitement gport are turning out sextets quite now passed over the ~gymnasium, |well drilled. The clubs, too, are num- which heralded the fact that basket|erous and their games are becoming ball was at last on the tapis; the|very popular with the public. Woman teams retired to adjust their caps, |algo {¢ making a good name for her- and Prof. Joyce explained the obfect (galf in’coaching and oficlafing. ?f thie Eams and (Hsirulen which were | "In all likelihood, basket ball 1s o, govern It. destined to become the most import- o D o e ha ¥ aiisg |2Rt of the strenuous sports pursued were as follows: . Red Caps—Misses DY the falr sex. Hendley, Polk, Schott, Baker, Rit- chie, Parks and Miller; Blue Caps— Misses Plke, Kenne, Baker, Heinrich, Milliken, Schott and Lee. You Knew Them By Their Caps. “The /opposing teams, marshaled by their captains, took their places and waited eagerly for the professor They were (Tomorrow: Modern Basket Ball in the District.) to put the ball in play. distinguished by their. caps. The colors were red and blue. One side wore red and white striped caps and the other blue and white, while the captains had their caps of solid black. “The game was started by Prof. Joyce tossing the ball into the air and immediately the two teams made possession trylng to pass it along from hand to hand to gain a goal But now one of the rival upon it in an Instant, and by a de: terous bat of the hand sends it sall- ing high above their heads to be lost to sight completely the next moment ,amid a tumultuous entanglement of jarms and legs. i “Suddenly, It reappears and s | tossed backward and forward until it reaches one of the ‘home’ girls, who tries to toss it into the basket. It is captured and recaptured until one skiliful throw lands it firmly in the basket and scores a goal.” Game Pleased Girls, Thus an idea may be had of the way the girls of the nineties played | the game. ‘Such & scene now doubtiess Wwould attract a full house. Evidently they pl ged 1t as quaintly as it was deseribed. However, they liked it, for another newspaper account of that time declared that “basket ball was becoming very popular with the sirlsewho were not slow to realize the truth of the adage, aitered to suft themselves, ‘What's good for the gan- der is good for the goos Even at that time critics considered basket ball & good game for girls. One of them said that “it seems to solve the problem which has so long been unsolved—to find an indoor ath- letic game which would equal the ex- cltement of most outdoor recreation for girls. Formerly when the outdoor season closed there was nothing to take the place of the games of the, beautiful summer, and most of the | benefits derived from them were lost. ! Now there is the gymnasium for work end the basket ball for play. The game requ skill and ability, -but strength is not necessary, and there- fore girls of all physical conditions can take part in ft. Costume Styles Changed. Times have changed and so | styles in girls’ basket ball costum In the ninedes they may have worn ! jaunty vari-col cape. but they also wore cumbersome skirts that lay a ' "Th the hlcemfl? :l.{ the old, Now it {s; teams to fortune. cling days was adopted. e faghion for many girlg 1 | | arronged plays from out of bounds, how are the signals given for such o play? ‘ Answered by EARL WIGHT, Coseh, University of California; the sciege gun” of west comst basket ball. Originator of many mew plays 4 formations which teams through- out the country have adopted. * k% % Plays from out of bounds are much more valuable to a team than plays from the center position and should therefore receive relatively more attention from the coach and players. Prearranged plays from out of bounds are more apt to be successful, because the opposing FRENCH TRACK TEAM WILL COMPRISE 156 s e team }ms less time to arrange a sys- PARIS, January 15.—One hundred | tematic defense. . and fitty-six athletes wil represent dgafflsk’gy“'gemgzi:zflcfiy 'g: France 1n the track and fleld events | LEIETTNASE BY Fe Posion of the July b to 13, the blg week of the 1924 | p) . 14, 405 fast and situations are Olympic games, according to the pro- | 2¥ 90 B0 ShC SHAZTNS £O0 gram of elimination and selection tween ye: i me. trials announced by the French Ath- w,,';&,’,,,”,,;f [ Sisype of game RUNS PER GAME |letic Federation. - All the clubs affiliated with- the fed- |eration have been asked to desig- nate men to compete in the general elimination trials which will take place in every city of any importance in France during the first fortnight in April. From these will be selected ! What is the cdvantage of using pre-| SPORTS (COAST BODY Paddock’s Reinstatement' ASKS ACTION ‘WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY’ Says Matter Should Have Been Settled Long Ago by Parent Organization—Asserts Athletes . Have Right to Criticise. OS ANGELES, January 15—The Southern Pacinc A the Amateur Athletic Union last night adopted resolutions derma ing that the special committee of the A. A. U. delay,” reinstate Charles Paddock, sprinter, to amateur standing Declaring that-the A. A. U University of Southern California effect that it was a closed intercolle, teur federation promptly reinstate “Furthermore, the Southern Pacific | Association calls the attention of the national officers to the fact that Charles Paddock was suspended for competition in the Paris meet and not forjrregularities in his 1920 ex- pense “accounts, nor for things he had sald, or is alleged to have s: concerning the A. A. U. organizaticn; that therefore the committee should base its action at this time solely on the charge upon which the ath- lete wae suspended,” says the reso- lution. The resolution, Southern _Pactfic nounced, A. A U. speclal committee, together with the report of Robert S. Weaver, president of the Southern Pacific As- soclation, and Paddock’s own version of the various angles of the con- troversy in which he has been in- volved. RAY MAY RUN LONG RACE IN OLYMPICS NEW YORK, January iRay, veteran Chicago distance run- ning star, who starts his eastern in- door campalgn here this week, prob jably will be urged to center his |Olympic efforts for America in 5.000 meter race at Paris instead of the 1,500 run, which, as the neare to the mile on the Olymplc progran: lordinarily ‘would be” Ray's logic ever Observers believe that Ra: ot victory at 5,000 meters, a distance for which he set a new American in- door record a year ago. would be officials of Assoclation the an- will be forwarded to the | 15.—Jote | should have settled the Paddock c troversy long ago, and that it “deserves more censure than the a for not having done so,” the resolution states pointedly that “any amate athlete has the right to criticise the A. A. U. without being suspended.” The resolution recites that the faculty athletic commissi I on of t sanctioned Paddock’s entry in tl.c University of Paris intercollegiate track meet on written certification s | proper officials of the National Collegiate Association of America to the iate affair and that the French ama- all French athletes who were su pended for competing in the same meet. | AR STAYS . CONBED, CLSY- Millions Use It — Few Cen:$ Buys Jar at Drugstore ~ chance | much better than in the shorter race, | where he would encounter two of Europe's best runners, Nurm, of Fin- land and Wide of Sweden. Both ithe latter during the past vear ha ‘hung up marks consistently faster Ithan America's best, while Nurmi is icredited with a world mile run of 4:70 2 5. There also would be added incen- tive for Ray to run the longer event because his principal rival probably would be Willle Ritola, cross-country and ten-mile champion, who recently returned to represent his native country, Finland, in the Olympics. The pair have had several |sensational duels here, Ray's 5000 imeter record being set in a race in which he defeated the Finn. American | provinclal teams to participate in th final elimination and selection events to be held In Paris: Colombes Stad. H fum, April 20; Pershing Stadium, Hly' 4 and 18. | The athletes chosen for the games | will be placed under the fmmediate | supervision of trainers, who will put them througn a special training course until early July. | There is some talk of assembling ' the men selected at the Joinville; School for Physical Culture—some . five miles from - Paris—and keeping, them there from. June 15 until the first starting pistol is fired on July 5 at the Colombes Stadlum. BASKET BALL RESULTS. Less 30 Caton: i 4 . Aahingten At Chariottesville — Virginia, 413 Randolph-Macon, 14 At Richmend—Richmead U., 313 Wake Forest, 33 i At Anm Arbor—Michigas, 24; IUS- nols, 38. At Lexington—Mississippt Aggies, 17; Kentueky U, 16. At Madisen—Wisconsin, 28; Ia. dians, 37. Jokin-D. Rockejel- ler, the wealthiest man in the world, recognizes the appear- ance value. of the starched collar. OHN D. ROCKEFELLER made a name and a fortune through his business ability. TOLMANIZED starched collars bring comfort to the many men on the way to A fresh, TOL- MANIZED collar adds a feeling of " confidence and ability to the wearer. . THE TOLMAN LAu F. W. MacKenzie, Mgr. RY - 6thand CSts. 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