Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1924, Page 11

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1924. SPORT S. 1 Tremendous Crowds Will Witness Big College Foot Ball Games This Afternoon THREE CONTESTS STAND -OUT ON EA Dartmouth-Yale and Arm STERN FIELDS y-Notre Dame Battles Each Will Draw 60,000 Fans—Navy-Princeton - Clash Also to Be Seen by Throng. By the Associated Press. EW YORIZ, Cstober 18.—For N gins today aiter a season's in polo, track, tenn sensational world serics. lovers of foot ball the big show be- prelude of international competition , golf and racing, and the final appetizer of a Wherever his eje may roam on the Eastern stage today the grid enthusiasts will hear the booming ¢ all of the ball, see the startling dash of an open-field run, the moving picture of a polished team, the colorful riot of people and incident, and sens At New Haven 60000 people w to Yale prestige, an unusual situation at such an early date. ton another 40,000 will pack the gr: Tigers struggle back to a place in last week. Beneath Coogan's Bluff. so recently the scene of base ball's greatest drama, the classic intersectional serial between Notre Dame and Army will enter its eleventh chapter. Among the 60,000 expected to crowd the Polo Grounds will be, 1,400 cadets and a representation of military offi- clals, Cornell, whose royal purple was muddied by William last week, will fall to the task of removing the smear by attempting to use as a polish a veteran Rutgers team, cer- tain to object. The contest will be the second played in the new Cornell stadium. At Cambridge, Harvard will meet its near-nemesis, Holy Cross, which annually almost defeats the crimson, Boston College will travel to Syra- cuse to challenge the Orange in one of the toughest engagements of the day. Columbia moves to Penn with Walter Koppisch geared high. W. d J. will meet the tartar of the Pittsburgh district in Carnegie Tech. The day is pregnant with possibil- ities. Dartmouth, a slight favorite, may score its initial point and victory against Yale in the first contest be- tween the schools since 1900. Co- lumbia, with Haughton’s system bud- ding, may defeat Penn for the first time since 1903. Army, which has not scored upon Knute Rockne's fiyers since 1920 and which has not reversed the course of the Blue Comet since 1916, may over- come the speed of the fast backfield— Miller, Layden, Crowley and Stuhl- dreher, the later “the best bow- legged quarterback in the country. Holy Cross may materialize its threat and shatter Harvard's dream of returning gridiron supremacy after a period of lean years. Rutgers may elevate its position by repeating the Williams triumph over Cornell. Individual fortunes will rise and fall. _Oberlander, of Dartmouth, Pond and Bench of Yale, Wilson and Gar- bisch of Army, Hazel and Benkert of Rutgers, Slagle of Princeton, Mec- Bride of Syracuse, Gehrke of Harvard or anyone of the Notre Dame back- field may flash across the sky with the unquestonable brilliance some- times achieved in a single game of importance. The number of undefeat- ed teams will dwindle and the path to the mythical championship will narrow. g HARVARD RUNNERS WIN. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 18.— Harvard defeated Holy Cross at cross- country running here, 23 to 33. Leo Larrivee, Holy Cross, finished firet, cov- ering the 5-mile course in 27 minutes 33 Beconds, and outdistancing Byron Cut- cheon of Harvard by 2 yards. e GRID STAR RECOVERS CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 18— H. T. Dunker of Davenport, lowa, who has been lost to the Harvard foot ball team to date because of the diphtheria, has been released from the infirmary. Coaches said they did not know whether Dunker was §trong enough to undertake training for the big games. COAST DUE TOLAND A. A. U. TITLE GAMES The Amateur Athletic Union's na- tional junior and senior outdoor track and fleld championships and re- lay title races will be held in Cali- fornia next Summer, if precedent is followed and the custom of awarding this athletic carnival to different sec- tions of the country each succeeding vear is observed. Athletic authorties of both San Francisco and Los Angeles are reported desirous of ob- taining sanction to hold the gam The meet will be held in Pasaden: if it is awarded to Los Angeles, while if San Francisco is successful in obtaining the title games, they will be held in the Golden Gate city. ‘A national track and fleld cham- pionship meet has not been held in Californla since 1921, when_the title games were conducted at Pasadena. The last meet in San Francisco was held back in 1915. Father Knicker- bocker played host to the country's athletic stars in 1922, and in 1923 the title games were held in Chicago. Last Summer the meet was held in the New York district, when the Newark A. C. conducted the games at West Orange on the occasion of the dedication of Colgate Field. The award of these games, distribu- tion of other champlonship fixtures, election of officers, gdoption of amend- ments to rules and regulations for competitive sport under its jurisdic- tion, and approval or rejection of rec- ords made or claimed during the past fiscal year, will be the chief business at the annual Amateur Athletic Union convention to be held in Atlantic City on November 16, 17 and 18. With respect to other championship awards, it is reported that the A."A. U. officials are looking with favor upon the plan inanagurated last year by the Tlinois A. C. of Chicago of hold- ing the men's national indoor swim- ning champlonships in one combined meot extended over a period of three days, 88 in the case with the track ond feld champlonships. When the aquatic champlonships were con- Qucted under these circumstances for the first time last year they resulted in @ huge success and for that reason a plan to make this arrangement per- Panent is advocated by many ath- letic officials through the country, it is said. e POURNIER IS INJURED. GREAT FALLS, Mont., October 18.— Jacques Fournier, first baseman for the Brooklyn Nationals, was taken to a hos- pital here yesterday with a slight con- ZEen it the h Y a pitcl . The 3 g5 club has been playing exhibi- ) tion games in the Northwest. TENNER WHIPS WOODS. PAYETTEVILLE, N. C., October 18.— Jake Tenner, claimant of the feather- Weight championship of the South, won * decision over Phil Woods, Army, Navy ang Marine Corps feather champlop, {n bout at Fort Brags: s e the gripping tension of indecision. ill measure the threat of Dartmouth At Prince- ay cement stadium as Navy and the the gridiron picture which both lost FOOT BALL YESTERDAY Oglethorpe, 27; Wofford, 0. South Carolina, 30; Presbyteriam, 0. Quachita, 29; Little Rock, 0. Mbmixaippl College, 3 Milsaps, 0. Austin, 20; Henderson-Brown, 1% Loyoal, 32; Misslaslppl State Teach- erw’ College, 7. Hemdrix, 13; Arkansas, 9. Went Tennessre State Normal, 33; Jonewboro Agxiem, College of 1daho, 49; Montana Scheol of Minew, 7. ILLINOIS-MICHIGAN GAME IS TOPLINER CHICAGO, Ooctober 18.—Champlon- ship aspirations of eight Western Conference foot ball teams furnish- ed the gage of battle today as the struggle for the Big Ten title assumed major proportions. The acid test of the season was faced by Illinois and Michigan at Urbana in the new $1,700,000 Illini Stadium, with 67.000 seats sold. The tie of the teams for the titla last year furnished another incentive for vigorous efforts and the result was expected to settle, in the minds of fans at least, the question of superior- ity for two years, Three other conference champlion- ship games and two in which non- conference opponents were faced filled out today's Blg Ten bill. Chicago had an advantage over In- diana in pre-season performances, but the Hoosiers came to Stagg Field de- termined to reverse last year's 24-to-0 Maroon victory. Northwestern, which toyed with its pre-season foes, met Purdue, which last year ruined the Purples’ last chance to tally a single conference victory, Wisconsin was an unknown quan- tity in its engagement with Minne- sota at Madison. The invaders had a number of outstanding players who showed up well against the Haskell Indians last week. Ohio State and Iowa, which previ- ously appeared this season in con- ference games, entertained the non- conference squads, respectively, of Ohio Wesleyan at Columbus and Law- rence College at Iowa City. CLOSE GAMES DUE ON DIXIE GRIDIRONS By the Asmociated Press. ATLANTA, October 15.—Of the six foot ball games this afternoon be- tween members of the Southern Con- ference five were close under the same circumstances last year. V. M. L more or less ran away from Vir- ginia, the score being 35 to 0, but there was little to choose between the others. Alabama was able to score only one touchdown at the expense of Suwanee, the score being 7 to 0. Washington and Lee and Kentucky State ran a dead heat, 6 to 6, and V. P. 1. won from Maryland, 16 to 7. Mississippi A. and M. defeated the University of Mississippl, 13 to 6. Vanderblt's winning score over Tu- lane was 17 to 0. Penn State was able to down Georgia Tech last season, 7 to 0, in a terrific battle. Florida gained a decision over Wake Forest by a score of 16 to 7. Mercer stopped Chatta- nooga, 18 to 3. Auburn ran up a score of 23 to 0 against Howard and William and Mary won from Randolph-Macon, 27 to 0. Emory and Henry downed East Tennessce Normal, 47 to 0. Hampden-Sidney lost last year to EJon in a 12-to-7 game, but Bernier's men have been busily engaged this year in wiping out some old scores. e 300 MEN ENROLLED FOR ROWING AT YALE NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 18— Yale's swoeping rowing victories in this country and Europe last season, including the capture of the Olympic title in Paris by Capt. James Still- man Rockefeller's eight, has resulted in the greatest impetus ever given to the sport at the university. A total of 300 candidates has been enrolled by Head Coach Ed Leader, his lieutenant, George Murphy, fresh- man coach, and Don Grant, captain of last year's University of Wash- ington crew, who has been selected to handle the class crews and the freshman 150-pound crew candidates. Leader has thirty varsity candidates at work on the Housatonic and the other coaches expect 350 at the Adee boathouse on New Haven Harbor by next week. A change in the Yale system has been made In separating the 150-pound rowing squad from the other candidates. Either Don Grant or L. C. Moore, a former Washington oarsman, will direct the lightweight squad.” Two 150-pound eights have been .organized. Assisting Grant “in handling the small army of freshman candidates are Fred Sheffield, a member of the varsity eight last year, and Newton Ryerson, a former substitute. Laat season’s stroke, Al Lindley, is playing foot ball, and John Hay Whitney, son of Payne Whitney, the captain in 1898, has been selected to stroke the varsity this Fall. Henry Codman Potter of New York City, nephew and namesake of Bishop Potter, is stroking the second eight, and Thomas Laughlin, freshman stroke last year, the third octet. The Blue crew, or first eight, is rowing as follows: Bow, Peterson; 2, Lambert; 3, Captain Wilson; 4, Quar- rier; 5, Sweet; 6, Kingsbury; 7, Spock; stroke, Whitne¥; coxswain, White. The Whites, or second eight—Bow, Robinson; 2, Shew; 3, Clarke; 4, Rule; 5, Bunce; 6, Hudson; 7, Wardwell; stroke, Potter; coxxawain, Wells. The third eight— Bow, Isham; 2, Goodwi! 3, Ives; 4, Callendar; §, Warren; . 6, Wicks; 7, Kilbourne; - stroke; Laughiln; Tuxswiin, Reath. { BELIEVE IT OR NOT. [S%) A GALYESTON DOG FOUGHT 61 TURNED WHITE FROM FRIGHT HITTING IS NOT DECISIVE FACTOR IN WORLD SERIES HARRIS’ WORK AHEAD, GRIFFITH TELLS “Y” “Bucky Harris' work has just begun,” said Clark Griffith, president of the world champion Nationals, addressing guests of the Terminal R R Y. M. C. A. Base Ball League at a banquet in Union Station last night. “Winning the great- est title in base ball is not everything.” Griffith continued. “Bucky must prepare for next year, not only materially, but spiritually. He must have the best men available for the several positions on the team and must have every man of the squad properly keyed up for another championship fight. And that's not so easy as many persons may think.” Griffith was the principal speaker at the dinner sponsored by the Railroad Y League, being honored as president of the world champions as well as donor of the trophy &t stake in the organiza- tion's league during the past eeason. Others addressing the gathering were G. M. Tomlin, president of the league, and B. R Tolson, chairman of the board of managers of the Terminal R R Y. M C. A ‘There was plenty of entertainment for the guests at the banquet In addi- tion to the eparkling talks, much music was dispensed by a capable orchestra, and Ed Callow's Capital Male Quar- tet warbled sweetly. After hearing Clark Griffith extol the virtues of the Nationals and their man- ager, members of the Pullman Co. niue. winner of the Terminal R. R Y. M. C. A League championship, and of the South- ern Raflroad team, runner-up in the cir- cuit, were given medals as tokens of the league's appreciation of their splendid efforts during the asason. BY JOHN EW YORK, October 18—It's base hits that wins a world less strongly batting nine, p N —By RIPLEY HAS MADE MORE THAN " 5000 HITS. GEO. KiTsoN TIMES B. FOSTER. not always the team with the most series. There is always hope for the rovided its pitchers work effectively. That means, of course, that the fielders have to be working efficiently, too. A study of the batting records of the last four world series, in which the Giants have been contestants, brings o.. some interesting data along this line. In those four series the Giants made a total of 234 hits. Their oppo- nents made a total of 213. Yet the Giants won only two out of four world titles. The hits, by follows: 1921—Giants, kees, 60. 1922—Giants, 1923—Giants, years, have been as 71; New York Yan- 50: Yankees, 32. 47; Yankees, 60, 1924—0Mants, 66; Washington, 61. In the last two series, which the Giants lost, they did not bat as well as in the first two, although their work this year was better than that of the victorious Nationals, so far as hitting totals was concernell. Once the Giants were outbatted, when they faced superior Yankee pitching, in 1923, and that was one of the two occasions when they lost. That they could not beat Washing- ton, even though outbatting them, was due, in part, to the Nationals in- domitable fighting spirit; in part, to the fact that the Washington hits were bunched better, and, in part, to the fact that the Giant pitchers al- lowed more hits when hits meant runs. DR. O. F. WILLING TELLS Best Shot I Ever Made. HE best shot I ever made was at St. Andrew’s, Scotland, during the Walker cup matches of 1922. You will remember that on the first day of this event the Brit- ishers had all the better of our team. There were four Scotch foursome matches and they won three of them. At the end of the next morning's singles competition we appeared to be no better off. Of the eight matches the Americans were five, whlie we were only halved in the three others. During the afternoon, though, we took a wonderful brace. Most of our fellows overcame their opponents’ lead and won out. Francls Ouimet played his famous tie with the British champlon, Roger Wethered, and, through the agency of some wonder- ful putting, prevented Roger from galning a score for his team. It final- ly came down to the point where, if I could win my match with W. A. Murray, who, by the way, came to this country this year with the British Walker cup team, we would be vic- torius. All other matches were con- cluded. Faces Big Responsibility. Jack Neville brought me this news as we came to the seventeenth tee, and, believe me, although I was 1 up at the time, it was somewhat of a shock to learn that such a respon- sibility was mine. Our gallery grew to tremendous proportions, too, fully 10,000 people ranging themselves along the fairway. This increased the tense- ness of the situation. The seventeenth at St. Andrew's is 470 yards long. It is one of the most difficult holes in the world. To begin with, on your tee shot, if you want to play straight to the flag, you must hit your ball over some big sheds that poke into the course from the right. Failure to carry means lots of trouble, and the safer course is to play to the left of the shed: It is practically impossible, unless you are an exceptionally long driver to make the green in two. It is set rather obliquely into the fairway and the side near to you is guarded by a formidable bunker dipping into @ deep pit. To play directly to the greent means that you must shoot right over this pit. If you get into it, look out But even a second shot that would carry over the pit and the bunker wouid be valueless in most cases. The green is very narrow and slopes downward beyond to a road, which makes the nastiest sort of a hasard To hold a long ball on it is impos- sible 99 times out of 100. The best way to play the sscond shot, therefore, is to shoot to the right, along the fairway. If you get the right distance and direction your ball will end up at the entrance to the green, which, becauss of its ob- lique position, is at the left. Murray elected to shoot over the sheds on his drive and made good. "1 dowp in played safely to the left. On his sec- ond, an iron, he placed his ball at the entrance to the green, with an easy run-up to the pin—really very fine work. My second was again to his left. ‘When 1 eame up to my ball I found a very difficult shot facing me. It was nceessary to play along a well defined ridge which skirted the left side of the green. One side sloped into the green, the other ran down into the deep pit at the left. My problem was to hold my ball on this ridge until it reached the highest point of ‘elevation above the green and then let it fade down the inside slope toward the pin. And when Mur- ray ran his third to within six feet of the <cup the play became critically important. To place myself on an even foot- ing with Murray required a stroke of exact firmness. It could not be too strong or too weak. Also the ball must be perfectly placed. T looked the ground over very care- fully and picked the line for & runm- up shot. But after I took my stance I decided to take extra precautions and play a foot to the right of the line I had first selected. It was well that I did. Using a straight-face mashie iron, with the toe turned out, I managed to hold that ridge to a point hole high. Then the ball faded down the slope to a point six feet from the cup. I sank my putt for a birdie four. Murray missed his for a five: Our match was over, 2 up and 1 to go, and the Walker cup was ours. That certainly was the bést play I ever made in a pinch. _—— TROTTER BRINGS $10,000. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 18— Ed Stout of Pontiac, Mich., has pur- chased Mary Watts (2:143%), sens: tional trotter, from W. G. Douglas, Lexington, Ky., for a price reported to be near $10,000. The mare has won ten consecutive races. She will be placed in the stable of Will Miloy, Detroit horseman. GRID TILT AT BARRACKS. Tank Cerps eleven and Fort Hum- phreys were to supply the action to- day at 2:30 o'clock at the Washing- ton' Barracks. No admission price will be charged, 2 Inside Golf y Chester Horton. One of the great advantages of “hit- | ting with the hips only” is that it | gives the player, perhapw for the first time, a correct wense of how the body pivots above the waist only. Instructors tell golters to pivot only from the waist up, but my experience with human nature is such that I mever would attempt to teil & goiter to do one thing with one part of kis 7 body while con- siously trying to WEIGHT AY TOP| do something else OF BACWSWING. With another part. A 6 Whien the inyes - draws the oclub apparently straight back with the right hin, then shoots it straight for- ward with the left hip, he will at {the time rotate his whoulders, but he {will mot realize he is doing it. Not realizsing it and thus not doing any- thing to interfere with the shoulders, they will act maturally to do their part of the work—and the player will aceomplish his rotation of the should- ers, the pivot above the waist, if you please, without ever suspecting he Is doing it. In trying this “hitting with the hips” take the club back slowly, at the start at least, and be careful that the right shoulder doesn’t dip when the clubhead mears the bail. (Copyright, Joun F. Dille Co.) M'TIGUE-BERLENBACH BOUT IS SANCTIONED NEW YORK, October 18.—Permission for a light-heavywelght match for the championship of the world on Novem- ber 14 between the titleholder, Mike McTigue, and Paul Berlenbach, knock- out sensation, has been granted by the State Athletic Commission, which pre- viously had ruled that Gene Tunney be given the first opportunity to meet Mc- Tigue. Tunney’s interests were safeguarded by the commission in a plan by which the winner of the bout will meet Tun- ney, the American champion, desig- nated by the commission as the logical challenger. The commission also recommended to Promoter Tex Rickard that he discon- tinue plans for a bout. between Luis Firpo and either Fred Fulton or Bartley Madden, because neither man was ad- judged to be a worthy, foe of the Ar- gentine. Rickard suggested George Godfrey, Philadelphia negro, as a possible op- ponent for the South American, but Godfrey, a member of the stable of Jiimmy Daugherty of Lieperville, Pa., is now under suspension which was placed upon the entire stable after Bobby Barrett, one of Daugherty's box- ers, fought Mickey Walker, who is un- der suspension in this State. Daugh- erty visited the commission today, but his plea for modification of the edict was refused. Steps to curtail gambling at Madison Square Garden during the progress of bouts were also announced by the com- mission, McKECHNIE IS RETAINED. PITTSBURGH, Pa, October 18.— Willlam B. McKechnie, manager of the Pittsburgh National League ‘club, has signed a contract to.manage the Pirates for another year. The contract was for 1925 only, and its terms were not dis- closed by Barney Drpyfuss, owner. of the club, - 3 EPINARD AMONG TEN IN BIG LAUREL RACE LAUREL, Md., Ootober 18.—Epinard, first bearer of the tri-color ever to appear on a Maryland track, will make his fourth American start to- day In the $10,000 Laurel stakes, the fifth event on the card. Nine thoroughbreds, including sev- eral which have made recent turf his- tory, are scheduled to fight for the wlory of leading the French cham- plon across the finish line. Wise unsellor, with one such achieve- ment to his credit, is considered by far the most formidable obstacle in the way of Epinard’s first Yankee victory, but In view of the weights assigned the Werthelmer colt is a heavy favorite. E. F. Simms' My Play, Initiate, property of Harry Payne Whitney: A. H. Morris’ Rustic, Sun Flag, owned by G. A, Cochran, and the Woodlawn stable’s Hurry Inn, are considefed fairly certain starters. Blg Blaze, owned by Samuel D. Riddle; J. W. Bean's Donaghee, and J. E. Griffith's Singlefoot are also entered but it is doubtful if these will go to the post. Epinard will be in No. 8 position Big Blazo drew the rail position, while Sun Glag and Dongahee are on the outside of Epinard. My Play will carry top weight, with 121 pounds; Wise Counsellor, 120; Epinard, 116, Hurry Inn will be most light)y burdened, with but 87 poun; BOUTS WILL DECIDE RIVAL FOR LEONARD BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, October 18.—A series of bouts will start next month to determine what opponent is going to rescue Benny leonard, the light- weight champion, from the fascina- tion of the Kileg lights of the movies and the footlights of the stage and force him to sniff again the powdered resin of the ring and mayhap the revivifying ammonia bottle. The first of these bouts will be between Jack Bernstein of Yonkers and Sammy Mandell, the speedy boy from Illinois. Sammy is a smart boxer with a grand defense, but he met his match in coolness and quick-wittednes: when he faced Joey Sanger of Mil- waukee recently. In the seventh round of that battle Mandell stopped one with his chin and went to the canvass for the count of nine. He took all the time he ecould but it was not sufficient to allow him to recover and, while he arose, he drop- ped again as Sanger started another sock. The referes started a new count but Joey touched him on the should- er and said: “Save your voice. The fight's over. He went down without being hit.” The referee gasped but admitted Sanger was right and the fight went into the records as a 7-round knockout for Sanger. If Sanger or some one equally quick- witted had been behind Firpo when the South American clashed with Dempsey there might have been a new heavyweight champion in the pictures by now. PITCHER YDE’S DENIAL ACCEPTED BY LANDIS CHICAGO, October 15.—Emil Yde, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, re- iterated his denial of having granted a newspaper interview pertaining to the recent attempts at bribery in the Na- tional League, before Kenesaw M. Lan- dis, base ball commissioner, here yes- terday Landis, following the conference with Yde, expreseed himself as satisfied with the player's statements, and wired the Rockford, 1IL, newspaper in which the original story appeared, asking for cor- rections of it and for equal publicity to Yde's statements of denial. RED SOX MAY QUIT TEXAS FOR FLORIDA The Boston Americans may desert Texas for training quarters next season. They are vacillating between San An- tonio and Sanford, Fla. If they go to Florida they expect to get better results from exhibition games without being so far away from home when the season begina If the Red Sox do change, 11 of the major league teams will be seen in Florida next Spring, and that will give the Sunshine State all the Spring base ball that it can assimilate. The Florida delegation will be made up of the Philadelphia Athletics, at Fort Myer; the world champion Wash- ingtons, at Tampa ; the Phillies, at Bra- dentown; the Boston Braves and the New York Yankees, at St. Petersburg; Brooklyn, at Clearwater: the St. Louis Americans, at Tarpon Springs; Cleve- land, at Lakeland; Cincinnati, at Or- lando, and the New York Giants pos- sibly at Sarasota. The Chicago Americans are going to Shreveport, La. There will be three teams on the Pacific coast, all of them National League. The St. Louis Car- dinals will train at Stockton, Calif., while the Pittsburgh Pirates will be con- ditioned again at Paso Robles, and the Chicago Cubs will have their annual jaunt to Catalina Island. Detroit, pre- sumably, will go back to Augusta, al- though Ty Cobb may also decide to trx his hand in Florida. MRS. SMITH VICTOR IN CHEVY CHASE GOLF Mrs. Emory Smith won the woman's golf chempionship of the Chevy Ch Club vesterday, defeating Miss Susan Hacker in the final round, 6 and 5. Mrs. Smith, who recently won the District woman's title, was 6 up at the turn, outplaying Miss Hacker all the way. Roland R. MacKensie and Robert Hanna, who are the finalists in the junior championship of Columbia Country Club, will play their final match next week, as MacKensle is playing in the District amateur cham- pionship. Small Payment Down Balance Monthly T. O. Probey Co. 2104 Pa. Ave. N.W. |TECH ELEVEN CRUSHES EASTERN IN GRID START BY ARGYLE FINNEY. HOSE who mourned the loss of T day when Gordon Kessler and ers ran wild against the Eastern High School gridmen, 19 to 0, in the first game of the 1924 series yesterday in Central Stadium. Guyon'’s Capitol Hill aggregation tha pling the doughty Techites. ALL-AMERICAN Foot Ball FORWARD PASS In general, when is the correct time for a team to use c forward pass? Answered by A. ALONZO STAGG “The Grand Old Man” of foot ball, who has couched many championship teams at Chicago for more than a rter of a century. * ¥ % x The old, orthodox rule concerning the use of passes was, never to pass until within the opponents’ 40-yard line. This is still a good general rule if the quarterback is brainy enough to know when to make an exception. A pass is a good play’ whenever the quarterback thinks he can put some element of surprise into its execution or when the pass has better than an even chance for success. If the ends and backs of a | defensive team are drawn in closely by a repeated series of bucks, then | is the time for a pass to be executed. | (Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors, Inc.) | X $35,000 RACE LISTED AT LATONIA COURSE| . LATONIA, Ky., October 18.—Au- tumn racing at Latonia closes today with a program featured by the $15,. 000 Latonia Champion stakes, which | carries a gross value of $35,000. The | event is for 3-year-olds, over the | exacting distance of one mile and | three-quarters, Overnight entries include Chilhowee, Galleher Brothers' Latonia Derby | winner and holder of the world's rec- ord for a mile and a furlong; Belair Stud's Aga Khan, Priscilla Ruley and Flames, a trio of successful Eastern | thoroughbreds; Rancocas stable's Mad Play, which finished third in the | third international special last Satur- day, and Graeme, which has displayed ability as a distance runner, under the colors of J. N. Camden. All have been carefully prepared and appear evenly matched at the weights. Priscilla Ruley, the only filly in the field, will carry 123 pounds, while the others pick up 126 pounds each. Despite the small field, the winner will earn more than $25.000. Last year the Latonia champion- ship brought together Zev and My Own to decide the 3-year-old fitle, but the race resulted in_eir upset when In Memoriam ur=ffed out in front and defeated both Easterners. LA COSTE IS TO GET HIGH TENNIS RATING PARIS, October 18.—For the first time in the history of lawn tennis France expects to be able to boast during the coming season of a player ranked among the first five in the world. Rene La Coste ,is not only the unanimous choice’ of the sporting writers for the position of ranking No. 1 player of France for the year 1924, but the scribes all agree that he should come immediately after William Tilden, Vincent Riéhards and Willlam Johnston of America and J. 0. Anderson of Australia in the world tennis ranking. ! The French Tennis Federation will announce its rankings about Novem- ber 1 and is expected to place La Coste first, Jean Borotra second and Henri Cochet third. This will break the triple tie which has existed in France during the present year, Bo- rotra, Cochet and La Coste having been placed even in the 1923 ranking as No. 1 players. —_— DEVITT PREPS SCORE. Devitt Prep gridmen scored an im- pressive 28-to-7 victory over St. Al- bars yesterday. Wight and Twoomey carried the ball well for Devitt. Charley Pugh and Milly Price from Tech High's backfield this season were greatly heartened yester- John Parsons of the. Manual Train who were downen. high school foot ball championship It was quite 2 jolt for Charley t entered the fray confident of top- In Kessler Elmer Hardell ball carriers every whit as e as Pugh and P of last year championship Tech combination These youngsters revealed great apti- tude in finding holes, and they fol- lowed their interference ness and dispatch. In Wwas far superior, both offensiv and defensively, notwithstandin that most of its plavers had never plaved in a high school titular match before. Kastern failed o show #ingle sign of strength that would indicate it will figure in much less in the Brothers were Gordon Kessle and Parsons, Coach presented a pair o fact, T quarterh cted Tech's ¥, while Bruce K ler was at the helm for the Light Biue and Whita clan The Tech player, who w @ continu. menace with b off tack sprints, als 4 ment 1d g siderably larger n the diminutiv. Bruce, and perhaps that why he held the limelight, while his brother failed to gain much distinetion. A fumble by Thom Hook of Gordon Kessler's punt near the close of the opening period paved the way for = Tech touchdown at the beginning of the second quarter. The Eastern full- ck misjudged the p n on his rd line, and Richard Turner of Tech recovered the oval. Parsons and Kessler then advanced the ball within 2 yards of t goal before the period ended. A wide gap was wait- ing for Wondrack, who scored the first touchdown after the second period was under way. From then on the Manual Trainers played decp o territory. The X(x;'llelr a[n.- n;nl-d an aerial attack in o last half, but the alert Techite: held their foe at bay. “Heeke seared several of the overhead heaves, but one of them was grabbed by Wond- rack of the Maroon and Gray in the third period, thereby halting East- ern’s drive. Just before the fourth quarter G don Kessler skirted left end for vards, advancing the ball deep in Eastern territory. It was his brother. Bruce, who brouzht him down. A well executed pass, Kessler to Par- sOns, nett a aroon and Gray tall at the opening of the fourth. other heave, to Jone counted for the final six poi Line-up and Summary. Right guard .Right tackle. Right end Quarterback . - Left halfback. . [ Right halfback Fullback ... Crump Sutton Hook 060 1319 a1 000 o0 stitutions: Tech—McDonald for Goettle. 74, Bioo for Pugh Duain for Wordr or Zahn, = i for McDonald. Easter o Gregory for sons, Jomes. Point after touchdown—Kessler. Umpire—Mr. Magoftn (Michigan), X Towers. (Coluiaia) MOCHELD). ~ Referso— WHITMORE BIRD FIRST IN 290-MILE CONTEST A 290-mile race of the Aero Racing Pizgeon Club was flown from Akron Ohi, Forty-six birds, representing 11 lofts, competed. The winning bird was to the loft of E. C. Whitmore Following are the resul speed in vards per minute: E. C. Whitmore, 1,132.36; E. C. Whit- more, 1,131.76; C. & W. R. Pennington, 1.130.61: R. A. Huntt, 1,128.92 B. Gosnell, 1.127.28; Greenyard Loft, 1,002.30, and G. J. 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