Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 30

30 SP High School Grid Series Opens Tomorrow TECH AND EASTERN MEET IN FIRST OF TITLE GAMES Capitol Hill Team Apparently Stronger Than Last Year, But Manual Trainers Weaker Than in 1923, When They Won Championship. BY ARGYLE FINNEY. MS of Tech and Eastern w foot hall championship series t Stadium, with brothers as rival T direct Tech’s play, while Hardell clevens. The Manual Trainers will Jast year. An carnest struggle is ant best chance they ever had of topplin Probable line-ups of the two t of Tows: Tech—Moreland Rice or Pugh, center: Dulin, right gu right end; Kessler, quarterback; halfback: Wondrack, fullback Eastern—Howard. left end: Rad Hughes, center: Schae Watson, right end: Kessler, quarterh back; Sutton or Gibson, right halfbac 1 practice ot forward counts for anything. quite the overhead heaves ouxht to be in| evidence tomorrow. Ioth Tech ani| Tiastern have been instructed to em- Jloy an aerial attack when the oc- | ion warrants. Sastern probabl: | is much stronger than it was last year and may make matters inter- csting for the Manual Trainers. who ppear to be considerably weaker than the 1923 champion combination The rivals have not met the same tedms in preliminary matches: cons - ntly no accurzte comparison mav made. Baltimore City Colleze an-l I'piscopal High triumphed over the Manual Trainers. while Eastern Lumbled the Apaches. but dropped closely contested tilt to the University ‘land freshmen astern showed real power against the Mary Jngs. but it will not present the same | feam against the Manual Trainers tomorrow Tech and passing a few of stern will be carefully groomed today and should take the field tomorrow well conditioned anad ready to put forth their best efforts. | Paul Magoffin of Michigan will| ld Towers of George Wash- | will umpire and William | »f Pennsylvania will be head inesman | Swavely Prep postponed its match esterday with Central High until to- | 3:15 o'clock in Central stadium Biue and White combination robably will be composed of Wii- liams and Engle. halfbacks; Wilner, quatterback: Gordon, fullback: Van Meter and Fishback, tackles; Ather- ton and Mnrphy, guards: Loftus and Byns, ends. and Hale, center. Gordz:., wcnsidered one of the fast- est baul carriers in the high schools, | is being counted upon heavily by ©ach Mike Kelly of Contral. In Bob Williams the Blue and White mentor | has another speedy back, who can al- most out-run Gordon | Wentern High displaved fensive power against the University of Maryland Freshmen in a scrim- mage vesterday at Cellege Park. The Maryland Cubs will open their regu- | lar schedule against Baltimore Poly tomorrow at College Park zo0a A weakened Devit Prep team re ing from several injured player: planned to visit St. Alban today. lLee Wilkins, Grah Bergstrom and Sheppard are reposted to be suffering | from minor ailments and it is doubt- | ful whether they will perform today. | WEST VIRGINIA STAR | DIES OF PNEUMONIA| MORGANTOWN, 16.—The student body of West Vir- minia University today mourned the passing of one of its leading athletes, Gordon McMil of Minneapolis, Minn., who died in the University ho pital at 1:30 am. McMillan, quar- terback and star punter on the Mountaineer foot ball team, and cap- tain of the track squad. was stricken with pneumonia a week ago. His parents. 3%~ and Mrs. G. W. McMillan of Minneapolis, were at the bedside when death claimed the young student. Arrangements were made to send the body to Minneapolis, with fra- ternity brothers of hte Sigma Chi as| an escort, after brief funeral services | in the fraternity house this after- | noon. Burial will be at Minneapolis Saturday. Three univer: W. Va. October| sicians, includ- ing Dr. C. W. head foot ball coach, attended McMillan from the moment of his illness, but complica- tion followed complication, and the patient's condition steadily grew worse eptic sore throat was fol- lowed by quinsy, acute nephritis and pneumonia. A specialist s sum- moned from Pittsburgh yesterday | An hour before death came, the at- | tending physicians announced that | the patient’s condition slightly improved. McMillan, aged 21 vears, had been a member of the Mountaineer foot ball team for three years. In 1923 he broke his shoulder in practice and was unable to play. His punting ability assured him a positon on the varsity eleven this season, but he was taken ill two days before the annual clash with Pittsburgh. S was BACHE WRESTLES TURNER. Al Bache, Hebrew wrestler, with a large number of victories to his credit, will meet Joe Turner tonight at the Mutual Theater. USED CAR SALE * On the White Lot 1706 14th St Studebaker, 1922 Spec. 6 Tour. Studebaker Light Six Star Sedan, 1923... Dodge, in great shape........ Buick, runs like new Fordat.........$175 Overland at. . ...$350 Oakland *20 Sedan. .$250 31 Others to Choose From. Such Values “’e:reechcr Offered Before STUDEBAKER “Just Drive It—That’s All” Bruce will be the Eastern general. Tech and Guyon of Eastern will trot out practically new leit end; Young, left tackle Parsons, er. right guard; Sheehy, right | from the quarterbac ORTS. ill inaugurate the 1924 high school omorrow, at 3:15 o'clock, in Central | quarterbacks. Gordon Kessler will Coaches be defenders of the title they won icipated, as the Easterners have the g the doughty Techites. eams have been announced as fol- | THE = EVENING STAR, WASH AROUSED YALE TEAM T0 FACE DARTMOUTH By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 16.—Sensing another upset, interest in the week end gridiron contests has veered sharply to New Haven, where Yale and Dartmouth will clash. The Green swept through its pre- liminary games with a majesty that has fathered confidence in &n ability to “go out and clean up” this season. Yale, standing in the path, must be estroyed. - d(\'nllg with its great squad of 1923 disrupted by graduation and ineligi- bility rules. has not been impressiye in its reconstruction. The stage was set for a Dartmouth victory But preparations in Hanover were a bit too feverish, and the confidence avarflowod the campus and found its way into print and into New Haven. Yale was warned, and a team with a foot ball tradition, regardless of its physical make-up, will be hard to de- feat after it has been warned of im- pending disaster. Now, both elevens will trot on the field in a big-game atmosphere. The McDonald, leit guard: ard: Minnicks, right tackle: Turner, leit ha'fback; Jones, right ice, leit tackle; O'Brien, left guard: tackle; Hecke or hack; Gregory or Crump, leit hali- ; Hook, fullback | mouth, huve now been de spiritual element will be added to the physical, and Yale has so much confi- dence in its own fighting qualities that odds, once leaning toward Dart- red even. big punch of the Green and one of the first candidates for “all honors” to arise this year is “Swede" Oberlander, a linesman reformed into a halfback. He is a 200-pound triple- threat player, with 10 touchdowns already attesting his prowess. 1In ad- The ALL-AMERICAN Foot Ball Sl PARTICULARLY IMPORT/ IN FALLING ON THE BALL. What do you comsider the miost im- portant single point about foot ball? Answered by dition to the ordinary qualifications, the Nordic menace to Eli is credited with a hamlike hand, a stiff arm like a board and interfering ability of a high order. So, Yale prepares for “Swede” If he passes the Blue test he will be en- titled to further consideration as one of the great backfield men of the year. Dartmouth will meet Pond and Cot- tie, who ran through the Eli scrubs for touchdowns yesterday, and Eddie Bench, converted into a quarterback and picked as the possible successor to Bill Mallory in the Yale scheme for the season Other camps be; “out for the s in to announce the on,” which oppos- ing coaches read and sometimes sniff at. Army reports Baxter out of the Notre Dame contest, and Quarter- back Terrill of Rutgers will be out of the Cornell game. Aulich, a sub- stitute linesman, had a bone ankle broken at Columbia. Percy Haughton, football coach at Columbia University, predicts a vie- tory for his team in the game Satur- day with Pennsylvania GILMOUR DOBIE Foot Lail conch. Cornell University. | Hix teams undefcated for past three years. During nine years at Uni-| versity of Wanhington, his teams | Were never defeated. | * x* “Keep your eye on the ball” is| The Badger outfit might lose and yet might profit b important | way of learning lessons under fire and bein. It is the | that eventually out of disaster might come much good. This has hap- my mind the most gle puint in foot ball violation of this rule which brings | on much of the disaster. The player | attenipting to recover a fumble who takes his eye off the ball just as it | is about to come into his possession | often misses it. receiving the ball from the center, | or a player receiving the ball on a direct pass from center, or a pass | who takes his | eye off the ball before it is com-| pletely in his hands, is likely to | fumble it. The receiver of a for- vard pass, or the receiver of a punt often makes the mistake of taking his eye off the ball just before it is | caught and muffs it. Every man on | the defensive side should also keep | his eve riveted on the ball from the | moment it is put in play until the ball is dead. The tendency is often- | times to follow the interference ex- pecting the man with the ball to be with it. Consequently they are not able to see fake plays and split plays at the moment of their incep- tion and ‘severe consequences are the result. (Copyright. ALL OF GOBBLERS FIT FOR MARYLAND GAME BLACKSBURG, Va., October 16.— Virginia Poly gridmen were to put in their last hard licks today for the game with Maryland in Central High Stadium, in Washington, Saturday afternoon. Light work will be held tomorrow and the men will entrain later that day for the Capital City All of the Gobblers are in good trim for the Marylanders and are extreme- ly confident of winning for the third straight time. In fact, the team will g0 into the game with more confi- dence than in any of the five which ave preceded, and in which Poly has heen successful three times. Poly will depend greatly on Rob- erts, its fleet-footed back, and Ruth- erford’s dropkicking, although the latter has not made a three-pointer in the trio of games in which the Gobblers: have figured this year. 1924, Associated Editors, Inc.) McKEE TO HELP COACH. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 16.—En- sign Ira C. McKee. who graduated from the Naval Academy last June, has been appointed chief assistant to Licut. J. Ross Allen, head coach of the Navy basket ball team. McKee was a star all-around athlete. He will re- port November 1. ..$700 ..$595 ..$475 Durant at.......$450 Chevrolet at. . . . .$400 Stutz at........$750 M team next Saturda Of course, either oi these two pened more than once. And on the other hand, Wisconsin might de in his | BELIEVE IT OR NOT. INGTON,.'D.. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, “Big Three” Elevens Face Tests THE TIGAR KING” @F COLUMBIA, Mo . SMOKES 30 CIGARS REV. JOHN P. FouNTAIN ORDAINED MINISTER OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL. CHURCH AT LITTLE RCK, Ar. 1S 11 YEARS OLD WISCONSIN TO GET TEST- IN MINNESOTA CONTEST BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ADISON. Wis., October 16.—Wisconsin is a team that has vet to find itseli mentally and physically. will make or break itself against a really formidable Minnesota The feeling is that the eleven things need not necessarily follow. the beating in the g mentally stung by defeat, so feat the Gophers and find her success a bad preparation for other important contests lying in the future. This Just the same, knowing all this, The quarterback ; Wisconsin's athletic authorities feel | that the eleven at this time is in a position where the sanction of victory Over a strong opponent means more than it ordinarily would. The Badgers came a dreadful cropper against Coe, and when they face Minnesota thi week it will be seen how gamely and manfully they have reacted from the jolt of that tie game—that moral de- feat—last Saturday. Team Lacks Confidence. Frankly, it would seem from impres- ons gained through a visit to Camp Randall today that Wisconsin has been better condition and better mood for the important Minnesota game than at the present time. What marily needed is a snapping together physically and mentally. The mate- rial is there, and it has received the highest type of manual instruction and the inspiration of a magnetic coach. It remains to be seen what the men make of it all. The problem which Jack Ryan and his assistant coaches have had to meet has involved a green line and a back fleld in need of a lot of devel- oping. In the forward wall, only two men, Bieberstein and Leckmeyer, at ruard and center, are playing the po- sitions they regularly occupied in 1923. And neither of them has yet attained. the standard set last year. Nelson, who played end last season, is now in at left tackle, and most of the other line positions are in pretty much of an experimental state. The backfield which will start against Minnesota will consist of Capt. Harris, Leo Harmon, Doyle Harmon and Larson. who will play quarter. Doyle Harmon has been playing quarter, and Larson, who gets his place next Saturday. is a 185 pounder who was located at one of the wings on last vear's freshman team. So it will be seen that all has not been plain salling in organizing a backfield .of the accepted conference type. Brothers Not Real Stars. As to the Harmon boys, a great deal of nonsense has been broadcast. They are backs of natural ability, be- yond question, but both have a great deal to learn about varsity foot ball, and upon the quickness with which they grasp the devious mental and physical requirements expected of big is pri- | t0o, has been known to happen team backs depends their real value to the 1924 eleven. Taking the line as a whole, on¢ may say that it is plaving a fair game. There is no fault at all to be found with the center trio, but the tackles, upor whom so much depend: in the modern game, are now at th stage where excellent things may b hoped rather than expected of them. No more than this may honestly be saild of the ends, Blackman and Polaski When Burris. a most promising end, recovers from injuries received in the Coe game: when Slannard and Leitl, tackles, are removed from the hos- pital list, and Kreuz, a rugged half- back, gets over his sprained ankle, tyan and his assistant coaches will have more tools to work with. Rut even then the number of players of the approved varsity and substitute type is unusually small HOOSIERS S START EAST. SOUTH BEND, Ind., October 16.— A squad of 35 Notre Dame foot ball players accompanied by coaches and trainers left here today for New York, where Saturday the team meets Army in one of the most important con- tests of the gridiron season. The team was sent through a stiff work- out here yesterday. 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Penn won last vear, 17 to 7 The Navy-Princeton game will be one of the big contests of the year. Neither team is any better or any worse than last scason, when their | game resulted in a 3-to-3 tie. The | issue, therefore, is a double one to settle—for this year and last There is little to choose between the two, but Princeton must have a| care about how far she pushes her| men in this contest in view of the fact that she has a big game and one of vital importance the following Saturday against Notre Dame, while | Navy can throw in her men des- | perately, hecause the following week | . SPORTS. LISTED WITH DARTMOUTH Meeting Saturday Will Be First Between Biue and Green in Some Years—Harvard Will Be Host to Holy Cross—Navy at Princeton. BY H. C. Y in the beginning of what may be a Harvard and Dartmouth, Princeton entertain Harvard faces Holy Cross. Yale, despite its brilliant record of a year ago, has not done any of special worth so far this Fall, while it appears that Dartmouth i ALE, Harvard and Princeton begin the difficult part of th ball schedules Saturday, two of the contests being among the most important scheduled in the FEast. I BYRD. cir foot The Bulldog mects Dartmo New England triumvirate of Yal s the Navy at Princeton a thing s out with one of its strongest teams. And, as a matter of fact, it will not be a great surprise if the Green flaunts triumphant over the Blue at clusion of the afternoon’s festivitics. Considerable importance attaches to the Yale-Dartmouth cause it is the first time the two have met in years and beca: be the beginning of an arrangement vard may co-operate in dominating New England athletics. Princeton has its game with the | Navy as one of its objectives, and | hopes to make up for its rather poor | showing against the Midshipmen a year ago. In Baltimore last season, Princeton and Navy engaged in a| rather medioore contest, but this year the Tigers believe they are much more versatile and strong and ready to give the Navy the short end of the count. Harvard nearly always beats Ho Cross, but hardly ever without a real struggle. If memory serves right the score last season was 6 to 0, and the Worcester collegians are banking on Dutting up just as good a game this week, if not better than a year ago. Probably the game in the South to- ward which most eyes will be turned is the Georgia-Penn State affair at Atlanta. The Atlanta eleven is one of the hardest in the country to heat in its own back yard, and has Tost few games at home. However, Penn State seems to be out with a power- ful squad this season, and it will be pretty much of a surprise if it fails to win. Mike Donakue did mot accomplish much at Louisiana State his first year, but he certainly has started the | present season rather auspiciously. | His first big game. one with the Uni- | versity of Indiana. at Indianapolis, | resulted in a victory by such a de- | cisive score that indications are | Louislana State this year is strong cnough to give any of the teams it meets a real gridiron battle Notre Dame comes east Saturday to | meet the Army again in New York So popular has the game between | Notre Dame and the Army become in | | the last few vears that it is dwarf- | 15 | Rivers ing somewhat the one between Navy nd Princeton. Notre Dame always plays an open style of game that is very attractive, and it is a team the general foot ball public likes to watch. Especially is the game attrac- tive this year. as it appears that the Army- is stronger than usual. And also the Army has one back now who matches well any of the sterling speed artists behind the Notre Dame line. That back is Harry Wilson, star at Penn State a year ago and picked as one of the four or five greatest backs in the country. | It was he who beat Navy last vear almost single handed. and his actions Saturday against Notre Dame will be | watched by no keener eyes than those that look out from under the brims | of naval caps. Percy Haughton's system ax de- vised for Columbia teams will get another tryout against Pennsylvania | this week. A year ago Haughton | was not able to accomplish much against the Quakers, but it seems to be generally thought in Columbia circles that the present team will be far superior to the one of 1923. At least, that is the opinion that has been they have a comparatively easy con- test with West Virginia Wesleyan. | tion. E offered by men close to Columbia ath- letic: EPEAT business is the true criterion of satisfac | the | eran of the the con- game be use it may whereby Yale, Dartmouth and Ha Out in the Widdle West the biggest games of year are to be played. University of Illino opens its new memorial stadium with University of higan as opponent and Minnesota goes Madison for its tilt with Wisconsin Perhaps more interest attaches to the Illinois-Michigan game than tc other in the Western Conference Michigan has loomed up as one of the most powerful combinations in the cor ference, while lllinois has felt that th would be a season in which it have of its best teams. one e Ea e e HOPPE WILLING TO PLAY. NEW YORK, October 16.—Wiliie Hoppe will aceept the challenge of Young Jake Schaefer to a apec bal match upon conditions These are that they play two block- of 3,200 points each, instead of of 4,000, as Schaefer proposed, a that the match take place during the last two weeks of November. Hopy is willing to go to the coast f. test "HENECTADY. N. Y Henry S. Quackenbush the world record and the cup in shooting compe: rifle range at Creemdoor, 1883, died yesterday. 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