Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 30

r 30 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924, SPORTS. Local Colleges Turn to Basket Ball : Foot Ball Crown Belongs to Notre Dame 3D CORPS WORKING HARD MARYLAND-VIRGINIA TILT THURSDAY OPENS SEASON Old Liners to Meet Other Formidable Quints This Month—Few Veterans Report to Coaches at Georgetown and Catholic University r C BY JOHN paigns. practicing before the weck ends. played until the Christmas holiday are over. B. KELLER. OLLEGES hercabout are heeding the call of basket ball, the main sport that fills the gap between the gridiron and diamond cam- Three of the local group of five var: squads at work and the others arc expe ities have their floor ted to have quint candidates However, there will be few games Most of the coaches prefer to give their charges plenty of conditioning work before sending themn into actual competition. Burton Shipley, Maryland, is an exception. putting them into games as quickly as possible. will go the honor of inaugurating t to play hosts to the five of the Uni t College Park, Thursday night. nasium, Catholic University enter a few days, but teams. ( also p to games before the they will be with rze Washington sity and -Gallaudet, if they custom, also will meet some portant quints this month. George- town, however, has definitely an- nounced it will not cngage in competi tion until the second week in Jan uary. & With the exception of the Univer- sity of Maryland, the local varsities have little material remaining from last Winter to use in building teams. Maryland s pecially fortunate that it has practically all of 19 squad at hand. The Old Line suming basket ball last season after & lapse of several years, developed capable outfit, and are expected cut quite a swath in collegiate floor ranks this season s minor Univer- follow Abont 25 candidates have reported to Coach Fred Rice at Catholic Un versity and from now until the oh. days will go through daily workouts. The Brooklanders suffered quitc i loss when Lynch, star in three sports, but perhaps most proficient at bas- ket ball, graduated in June. Rice, though, has several second stringers of the 1923-24 squad from whom he hopes to develop a plaver that may 1il1 Lynch’s shoe Of last W hand Capt center; M Donohoe and O'Connor. augmented by graduates 1923-24 freshman squad others reporting for the the first time. The Brooklanders expect to tack Blue Ridge College in their opening game in the big C. U. gymnasium on December 13. The City Club quint will be engaged at the City Club four nights later and the management is endeavoring to arrange a third game for December 20. The regular varsity season will get under way January 10, according to present plans. William and Mary may visit the Brooklanders then. Num- erous attractive home games have Leen arranged, among the more prominent being those with Penn State, Duquesne, Princeton, City Col- lege of New York, Bucknell and South Carolina. s squad, there are Fitzgerald, a capable tyre, Garvin, Larkin, at from the and many game for More and more each s George- town is subordinating basket ball to sndoor track work. The Hilltoppers have established a considerable rep- utation on the boards and aim to up- hold it this Winter, but they plan not to abandon the floor sport alto- gether. They intend to send 2 team through a 14-game basket ball sched- holi- | unim- | to! These are | though, who tutors the basketers at University of He believes in getting his men out early and So to the Old Liners he local collegiate season. They are ersity of Virginia in Ritchie Gym- Jule during the months of January and February, probably beginning their | season January 9. | Georgetown has five of last sea- n's varsity squad to draw upo al- though really only two of them weve | regulars on the team. They are Act- |ing Capt, Grogan and Sweeney | Others remaining from the varsity quad are Farley and McNaney, local who used to star with the vsius quint, and Ryan. O'Keefe, | who played « brilliant game last Win- [ ter and was elected captain of this | Winter’s team, left college in the Spring because of his father's illness i |and is not expected to return | Johm O'Reilly, who has handled { basket ball teams at the Hilltop for ¥ s, again is in charge of the squad. fe had the candidates at work ye terday and will keep them busy until holiday time arrives. Quite a number of men who were with the varsity foot ball squad are expected to come out for basket ball, but they will not { Join the or outfit until after the first of the year. Maryland's early program is a most ambitious one. Following Thursday's Igame with Virginia ollege Park, he team will scamper to New York |to play Columbia Friday night, then jmove to Hoboken Saturday night for a game with Stevens Institute. That's a formidable schedule for any college basket ball team. But the Marylanders are to even farther. They will invade Annapolis, December 10, for a struggle with Navy. After that they probably will | wait until next month before going into competition again. Coach Shipley, though, appears to have the makin's of a fine quint at College Park. Of last Winter's po- tentially strong team, only Groves was lost by graduation. Those re- maining are Supplee, Troxell, Burger, Beatty, Hull, Parker, Peebles, Faber nd Ensor. out of foot ball last Thursd basket ball last night. The freshman team of last Winter has sent seven players to Shipley's |squad. Boyd, Cardwell, Compton, De | Maria, Gary, Crosthwait and Waiker, | who did well with the cubs last sea- |son, are striving for varsity recogni- | tion. | Eight of the players in the Mary- land squad are Washingtonians, and several of them products of local high schools. Supplee, Burger, Parker and Boyd played good basket ball at "l'ech, Cardwell and Faber starred in the game at Eastern and Walker was one of Busines: best performers. Hall, another Washingtonian, went to Blair Academy in New Jersey. Crosthwait is a Hyattsville resident, and was one of the leading athletes of the high hool there. into EASTERN HIGH TO STRIVE TO KEEP COURT HONORS ambition to place th¢ Light C major sport rule, the Eastern mentor was forced to place three of his star gridmen either in the basket the limelight again this season. OACH CHARLEY GUYON of Eastern High is possessed of the Blue and White basket ball team in Under the provisions of the two- ball competition or diamond sport. Guyon has decided in favor of the court game, so Hook, Bruce Kessler and Heeks will not be seen on the d Eastern's chances to successfully defend the court title it won last year are extremely bright now that Guyon has declded that this trio of athletes will play basket ball. With Bennie, Madigan, Lowden and Scruggs also in the basket ball squad the Light Blue and White should cut «quite a swath in the high school champlonship court series that will get under way January 10, when Eastern tackles Central. Although Hook, Kessler and Heeke mre among the most talented base ball performers at Eastern, there are meveral likely looking youngsters who are adept on the diamond. White, Madigan znd Burdine, out- flelde: Hog, catcher; Haas, Scruggs, Bennie, Hogarth, 3 and White, inflelders, have a fine op portunity to make the ball team. Eastern planned to tackle the Stan- ton Juniors today in the Light Blue and White gymnasium, starting at 3:15 o'clock. Tomorrow a picked ilastern combination will oppose the YLangley Junior High School team at the same place. Kessler, Heeke and Radice received several minor in- juries in the 1924 €oot ball campaign and they are not quite ready for the Btrenuous part of the court training. High school officials have only a few details to complete before they obtain use of the new George Washington gymnasium for the ‘basket ball series. The school heads were consldering the new Washing- ton Auditorium for the titular games, ‘but the court there has concrete floor. Eastern znd Contral basket ball teams offered a puzzle to the court followers last year. Charley Guyon's youngsters copped the local high #chool title, but they falled to set the pace established by the Columbia Helghts combination in the Uni- Sersity of Pennsylvania champlonship high school tournament. Central in- tends to make a determined bid for the court laurels this season. Coach Cogsgins has his boys well in hand, and expects the team to win over the Catholic University freshmen on De- cember 13, in the opening game of the season. Four of Western High's athletes are acheduled to enter big Eastern col- leges next Fall. Henry Lamar plans to attend Dartmouth, while Ray Gar- ber expects to matriculate at Cor- mell. Roland Dulin is slated for Co- Jumbia and Charley Hageage intends ko enter Georgetown. ' Oapt. Furman and Laefsky of Busi- iness High are being counted upon to place the Ninth Streeters on the bas- et ball map this season. These boys were mentioned in the all-high se- Jections last year and should impress fn this season’s campaign. —_ Boxing has become 2 popular sport fmong the Brazilians. In Rio de Ja- neliro every section of the city has its athletic club, which is actively promot- ing the game among its constantly Frowing membership. amond this Spring. ATHLETE QUITS.BUSINESS TO TRAIN FOR U. S. MEET NEW YORK, December 2—Ugo Frigerlo, two-time Olympic cham- plon walker, has deserted business to traln for the Millrose A. A. games January 27 and 28, accord- fug to word received from Europe by officials of the association. Frigerio is a photographer in Milan. Emilio Lunghi, regarded Italy's greatest coach, has wurned Frigerio that competition in the United States will be even keener than that he faced In the last Olympics, as William Plant of America, who was unable to par- ticipate in the Paris games, will oppose him. SERIOUS HURT FAILS TO CHECK GRID STAR PORTLAND, Oreg., December 2 Vernon Stivers, quarterback on this season’s University of Idaho foot ball team, and regarded by many as the best quarterback in the Pacific Coast Conference, played through the en- tire_season after two vertebrae in his neck had been dislocated became known here today. In one of the first practice scrim- mages of the season Stivers, carry- ing the ball, jammed between linemen with head down, so that his head was {forced violently against his chest. He fell unconscious and when taken to the hospital it was discovered that two of the vertebrae in his neck had been forced apart and shoved out of place. An X-ray photograph showed that one of the vertebrae was tauching the | spinal cord. For two days Stivers lay paralyzed in the hospital and then physiclans succeeded in snapping the two dislocated vertebrae batk into place. Following this Stivers recovered from the paralysis. Stivers' injury was kept secret by Coach Robert Mathews of the Idaho team and in every game the player's neck was tightly bandeged with tape to prevent a recurrence of the injury. —_— WHIPP WILL GIVE TALK ON BOXING AND JIUJITSU R. W. Whipp, local boxing pro- fessor, will give a talk and demon- stration on the art of boxing and Jiujitsu in the gymnasium of the Hine Junior High School, 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Thursday night, starting at 8:45 o'clock. The affair will be given under the auspices of the Southeast Community Center, Most of these men jumped | TWO RULE CHANGES FAVORED BY ROCKNE NEW YORK, December 2.—Knute Rockne, referred to as the “Henry Ford of foot ball,” and Harry Stuhl- dreher, his “chief engineer,” left for South’ Bend, Ind.. today with the plaudits of Notre Dame alumni ring- ing in their ears. The coach and the quarterback were the guests last night at a dinner given by Angus McDonald, controller of the Union Pacific Railroad, a Notre Dame alumnus and himself a foot ball player @ quarter of a century ago. McDonald, referring to Rockne as the “Henry Ford of foot ball” ex- plained that the coach had more than 400 students playing foot ball on the various teams and varsity squads out of a total student body of_2,000. Rockne said he never had a team in which the spirit of co-operation and team play was as well developed as in this year's varsity. While praising the present rules, he suggested two changes. “A great many coaches with whom I have talked,” he said, “agree that moving the point of kick-off back 10 yards would be a good thing because it would do away with so many kick- offs going over the goal line. T would like to see the present rules changed £0 that when the defansive team is offside the penalty be inflicted with- out giving the opponents first down.” On Monday Rockne and his team will begin work for the Stanford game. He made it clear that Notre Dame would make no claims to any championship. “Let the critics award the honors,” he said. “Our job is to play foot ball and when the schedule is com- pleted our work s done.” Rockne put to rest rumors that he would be coaching in the East next year. He sald he would remain with Notre Dame and that he already had started to lay out plans for next season. Notre Dame will meet two Eastern teams next season, Army and Penn State. PENN STATE ARRANGES INTERSECTIONAL GAMES TATE _ COLLEGE, FPa., December Intersectional games at home ith Notre Dame and Michigan A |ricultural College feature the 1925 foot ball schedule of the Pennsylva- nia State College. The list includes Georgia Tech, in Yankee Stadium, New York, October 10; Marietta, at home, October 17: Notre Dame. & home, October 24; Miclugan Axri- cultural Coliege, at home, November 7, and_ West Virginia, at Morgan- town, W. Va., November 14 . ILLINI TO HAVE TWO GRANGES NEXT FALL ed Press. CHICAGO, December 2—A pair of “Red” Granges as halfbacks in the University of Illinois line-up is a possibility for the 1925 gridiron sea- son. Garland Grange, younger brother of the famous Harold, the most sat- isfactory producer of foot ball thrills the Nation has known for yvears, will be eligible for the varsity eleven next year. Young Grange, or “Pinkey,” as he is known to distinguish him from the original “Red,” played halfback on the freshman team during the 1924 season and did a great deal of pass- ing for the yearlings. Grange, the vounger, stands 5 feet 11 inches, is 18 years old and weighs. 165 pounds. While he did not make an outstand- ing showing against the varsity this year, young Grange was handicapped by being ill and being 20 pounds un- derwelght most of the season. Coach Robert Zuppke said youngster runs in the same manner as Red, taking long, easy, ground- eating strides. Grange played four years at Whea- ton High School, starting at the end of his first year. His second year he was shifted to halfback, where he stayed the rest of his high schoc career. During his sophomore vear he co-starred in the backfield with his - brother and Gustavson, now a freshmen at Northwestern. While at Wheaton, young Grange was a star on both offensive and de- fensive and often got away for five or six touchdowns during a game. He is exceptionally fast, being credited with several 10-second per- formances in the 100-yard dash and is an all-around athlete, £ MIDWEST SETS PACE IN GRIDIRON CIRCLES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 2—Inter- sectional gridiron supremacy has passed from the East to the Middle West for the first time in foot ball history. Three outstanding Intersectional battles remain to be played on the Pacific coast, but these cannot affect the final standings. Figures show that the Middle West, with Notre Dame's famous unbeaten and untled eleven setting the pace, captured 12 out of 21 intersectional games, for a percentage of .571, as compared with the East's record of 15 victories and 12 defeats, for a mark of .555. The intersectional standing in de- tall follows: E. M.-W. So. F.W. Won. Loat. Pct. Mid-West.. 9 .. 2 1 13 9 .571 East . 8 9 o0 15 12 (638 South. .. 0 '8 11 (38 s T Far West.. 0 0 .. 0 ‘1 00 o VANDY’S GRID LIST CONFINED TO SOUTH NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 2.— For the first time in many years, Vanderbilt’s gridiron schedule fails to list a Northern foe. Only two games are scheduled away from home, with a late October engagement still pending. The incomplete card follows: September 26, Birmingham-Southern. October 3, Henderson-Brown; 10, Texas; 17, Tennessee; 24, Georgla, at Athens; 31, pending. November 7, Georgia Tech; 14, Au- burn, at Birmingham; 26, Sewanee. s WESTERN GRID GAMES ATTRACT HUGE CROWDS By the Associated Pres SAN FRANCISCO, December 2.— The constantly growing interest in college foot ball was manifested in the Far West this season by increased attendance everywhere and by sev- eral unprecedented crowds. It is estimated more than 800,000 fans saw games in the territory from the Rocky Mountains westward. The greatest single attraction was the coast conference title game be- tween Stanford and California, old- time rivals. A throng estimated at 90,000 overflowed the Californis Stadlum”at Berkeley, By the Ass the | FOR GAME WITH MARINES UANTICO'S powerful Marine team will enter the annual foot ball conflict with the Third Corps eleven in Baltimore Saturday a heavy favorite over the Soldiers, but the latter are apt to show considerable strength. brilliant scason, they revealed in t While the Soldiers have not had a particularly heir game against Georgetown that they have made rapid progress in development since starting their cam- paign so inauspiciously, and a strenuous program mapped for this week ought to send the team into Venable Stadium Saturday in its best form of the ycar. The hard drilling by the Soldlers began at Camp Meade vesterday and will continue £ =h Thursday Capt. Vernon II. F 1, head coach, sent the men (hrough an hour of brisk scrimmage, while the usual kicking, passing and signal drilling were on the program. The session today was to be of a similar nature, as will practices tomorrow and Thurs- day. All this scason it has been recog- nized as a fact that the Third Corps eleven is pointing for one game only, that with the Marines. All the strategy, conditioning and drilling have tended toward the one end of stopping ank Goettge and his mates. The morale of the team is high, de- spite its many defcats by collegiate elevens, for players realize that a victory over the Marines will em- blazon the word “successful” upon thelr 1924 season. At Quantico, Hugo Bezdek, Penn State's famous foot ball mentor, Is putting the final touch to the play of the Marines. No scrimmages are to be held during the week, but the squad will be given several driving practices. Leatherncck coaches are satisfled the players have had enough serimmaging in the long and success- ful campaign the team is preparing to wind up. As far as physical shape s con- cerned, the team is nearly perfect. Of the first squad, Brunelle, a back who has shown great promise this ¥all, is the only one on the injured list. Goettge, who has been a terror to other Third Corps elevens, is sald to have made a complete recovery from injuries fncurred in the Vander- bilt and Detroft games The best of care has been given the Marines' greatest weapon, who s expected to be tearing, smashing and ramming his way at his best Saturday. LESS GRID SCORING DONE THIS YEAR By the Assoclated Press EW YORK, December 2 THAN IN 1923 ~—Ninety-five representative college foot ball elevens amassed 11,368 points in the season which closed Sat- urd ing considered A year an average for each team of 119, scores of 780 games be- go the team average was approximately 127, and in 1922 it was 134, indicating a fall in scoring power over a three-vear period. No t Alabama’s 290 being the highest. W A yvear ago Cornell led the national records with and West Virginia gathered 296. In 1922 Callifornia had a total of 398 and Corneil 330. The standing of the high scorers this year tollows: Alabama, Notre Dame, Rutgers, 24 mouth shire, 290; West Virginia, 258; Middlcbury, 25 Muhlenberg, 243; Dar Colgate, 218 w Hamp- Columbia, Cornell, 4; Penn, and Penn 28; N 10; Among the low scorers, Stevens of Hoboken scored only 9 points; Boston University, 13; Washington State (four games), 20; Trinity, 24, and Colby, 2. The Connecticut Aggies permitted only 13 points to be scored by op- ponents; Pennsylvania, which led the East in victories and was undefeated, allowed only 17 opposition points Virginia Polytechnic. 18; Center, 20; Alabama, 24; Johns Hopkins, 29; Vir- ginia Milita Institute, 29, and Dartmouth, Some elevens saw touchdown after touchdown drive across their lines and the heaviest sufferer was the Unlversity of Vermont, burfed under GRANGE RATED BY “ 1m among the larger institutions scored 300 or more points, est Visginia scored 282. | 237 points. Susquehanna yielded 222, Hamilton 184 and Trinity 165 Cornell_defeated Susquehanna, 91 to 0, almost repeating its 1923 score against the same team of §7 to 0. Johns Hopking scored, 87 to 0, over Loyola, and Lebanon Vailey smothered Schuy Kill College, 77 to 0. Other high scores w Middlebury 74, Trinity West Virginia 71, Bethany 6; Muhlenberg 67, Stroudsburg 0; Indiana 65, Rose Poly 0. There were 44 tie contests in the | group of games considered, 18 of them scoreless, the featuras being the Chicago- Ilinois 21-21 deadlock and the Cali- fornia-Stanford 20-20 upset. Eight games were decided by a lone point, the goal after touchdown account- ing for seven victories, while Delaware overcame this advantage against Haver- by scoring a safety and won, § Springfield Coliege defeated St. John's of Brooklyn by 2 to 0, the margin of a safet arbisch of the Army kicked four goals, the Cadets' only scores against the Navy, and McBride of racuse defeated Columbia _almost | single-handed with three drop-kicks. % ABOVE ALL-TIME STARS C Cornell and Arm: OACH BOB ZUPPKE, guiding genius of Illinois University’s foot ball squad, a visitor in Washington after attending the Penn- Navy games, dispensed some interesting and authoritative dope on “Red” Grange, unanimously acknowledged to be the greatest player of the 1924 grid “Zup,” whose trip East was made primarily for the purpose of getting some first-hand data on the playir style of Penn. which Is to meet the Fighting Illini next year, was shown clippings fro Eastern papers which referred to Harold Grange, the Illi- nols ace, as a “giant.” a “190-pound back,” a “replica of Heston of Mich- igan,” et “Bunk,” he replied is a little over 5 feet and weighs 169 pounds. Heston, or even the Coy, type. His speed and dodging ability are his great assets and I would not want to see him put on any weight at all. He suits me.as he is. He is not in any sense a_ defense-smasher, a Heston, Weckes of Columbia, Coy and Brickley, all of whom could break away from two or three tacklers after the latter had wrapped their arms around them. When a defender tackles Grange properly, getting both arms around both legs, he is stopped and stopped short. But in many his long runs not a tackler lays a hand on him.” “Do you think he is the greatest halfback that ever played?’ Zuppe was asked. “I won't say that” was hte reply, “but I certainly think he is in ex- actly the same class as Heston and Weekes, chosen by Walter Camp for his all-time all-America team, and 1, personally, would rather have him, great as those two former stars were." “Harold Gran 10 inches tall He is not the MARYLAND U. MARKSMEN DEFEAT RUTGERS TEAM University of Maryland marks- men opened their 1924-25 season by winning _over the Rutgers College team, 497 to 492, in a telegraphic match. Gene King, L. R. Schreiner and Tom Lyons of theyOld Liners each| H. White | registered a 100, while M. and E. S. De Atley turned in scores of 99 and 98, respectivel: As EBONITE "'Strings"" te a Stick, So It Winds Around the Bears BEWARE REAR END TROUBLE ‘The rear end is known as the “backbone” of your car. The Transmission and Differential Gears (rear axles (must perform a service more severe than “that which falls upon any other part. of the car. They carry the whole driving load. To withstand the strain use BdBONl';E. The y:tut (R, aid to the proper perform- el ance of an automobile. At dealers’ in five-pound cans and at service sta- tions from ti Checker- board pump, only. EBONITE (1T's SHREDDED OIL} FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND DIFFFRENTIALS were | EMBLEMS MAY GIVE STANTONS A BATTLE Mount Rainier Emblems will boost their stock considerably if they point the way to the Stantons, last year's 135-pound champions, Sunday on the Mount Rainier feld. If the Maryland combination pro- duces the same brand of ball that crushed the Fort Washington team last Sunday the Stantons will have to hustle. Ollie Smith; Tom and Hank Sulli- van, Sherwood, Rabbitt, Jacobs, Caw- thorne, W. Smith, Gaither, French, Dulin, Hays, Pierden, Reisinger and Slouffer are playing for the Emblems. Seat Pleanant foot ball players will hold a meeting tonight at $ o'clock at the office of Louis F. Litz. Mercury Junlors are anxious to meet the Rover Juniors, according to the former’s manager, at Franklin 3639-J. ‘With F. McCann and J. Smallwood leading the way, the Eckington Ath- letic Club blanked the Bloomingdale eleven in a 14-to-0 match. Northern Athletic Club expects to have its hgnds full when it faces the Apache Preps Sunday at 2:30 o’clock on the Tidal Basin field. Both teams ‘alrel leaders in the 135-pound compe- tition. COMMODORES PICK REESE. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 2.— | Gil Reese of Tupelo, Miss., star half- back known here as the Tupelo flash, has been elected captain of the Van- {derbilt foot ball team for 1925. |California, will be important factors City Club, but it was heaten on two We Are Now Prepared to Render SERVICE ALL MAKES OF AUTOMOBILES You will find our convenient location with plenty of space for parking or turning on our 'own property a joy as compared with the congested downtown area, yet we are right near the two street «car lines or within easy walking distance of the business section. You will like our flat rate prices. They are low and we.suggest you make comparisons. 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In the standpoint of physique the, Notre Dame line is none too heavy and the pounding with a powerful welghty backficid that Stanford will give it may possibly give Rockne's | inesmen more to do than they can stand. The writer expects to see Notre Dame's defense against forward pass. ing cope hetter with Stanford' throwing of the bail than did Cali- fornja, but stil! come of these long, clever passes of Warner's men may get through. There is not much to choose be- tween the two teams in the kicking game. Notre Dame's ends, however, are particularly el er in interfer- ence on running p'ays and will give Stanford’s ends and tackles som thing to think about Should Notre Dame strike warm weather in Pasadena the writers opinion is that a good deal of their pep and ginger will disappear. NOTRE DAME PERFORMED BEFORE 269,000 PERSONS SOUTH BEND, Ind., December Two hundred and_sixty-nine thou- sand persons saw Notre Dame's foot ball eleven in action during the sea- son. The Notre Dame-Army game at the Polo Grounds, in New York, drew the largest crowd—55,000. PECK HAS VETERAN BASKET BALL TEAM Peck Memorial has a veteran basket ball &quad to uphold the prestige it gained last year. The combination is captained by Jolnny Bromley. The only team to lower the colors of the Peck five last vear was the f occasions by the Peckmen Maury Kramer, 3110 N street, hopes to arrange an unusually attractive schedule this season. He can be tele- phoned at West 221. A game is want- ed especially for December 13, in the Peck Memorial gymnasium The Firestone Service Company five of Silver Spring will play host to the Peckmen tonight in a game starting at § o'clock. Shad Gross, Johnny and Willie Gol- lan, Horse Kramer and Sam Danlels of the Peckmen are expected to give good accounts of themselves. Durgee and Atherton were mainly responsible for the Chevy Chase Ath- letic Club's 33-to-8 victory over the Idlehour five. Allen played well for the losers. Kanawha basketers should report tonight at 7 o'clock in the National Gua¥d Armory, at 5th and L streets, Joe Kennedy, A. Johnson, R. Palmer, B. Laefsky, Goldberg, A. Povich and H. Shalin are among the good prospects. Ellis Goodman will coach the team Epiphany Juniors will entertain the Paramount Athletic Club tonight in their gymn: starting at 7:15 o'clock. Hayes, Shloss, Shield, Me- Gann and Braddock will play for the Epiphanys. Trailing, 11 to 9, at half time, the Northerns opened several drives later to overcome the 29 to 16. Dieste, Langford and Jermane of the victors were in the limelight. Games with the Live Wire tossers can be arranged by calling Manager John Knapp at Main 9960, branch 19, between 9 and 5:30 o'clock. Dinny Koons will captain the team this sea- son. Candidates are expected to re- port in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium Monday night. With prospects for a formidable five this season, the Mount Vernon tossers are casting about for games. Pilots of teams averaging 115 pounds are urged to get in touch with Manager Warren Swift @& Franklin 8067 be- tween 6 and 7 o'clock. Peck Memorial Reserves and the Chevy Chase five will be opponents on the former’s court tonight. The Peck manager is seeking games at West 1497 after 7 o'clock. A double attraction will be offered in the Lyceum Hall tomorrow night. St. Mary's Preps and the Comforter quint will meet in a preliminary tilt, while the St. Mary's Juniors will op- pose the Liberty team in the main event. Basket ball of the first order is ex- pected in the Trinity M. E. Petworth | Athletic Club game tonight in the| Hine School gymnasium. Play will start at 7 o'clock. Teams desiring games with the Trinity five should telephone Lincoln 1081-W between 6 and 7 o'clock. Knights of Columbus five fell before the St. Patrick’s quint in a 62-t0-22 | match. It was the fourth straight win for the victors. Phone Col. 5050 ONLY TEAM IN COUNTRY THAT HAS A CLEAN SLATE Entitled to Honors, No Matter What May Happen on Jaunt to Coast—Yale, Partmouth and Penn Are Bracketed in Ea BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 2 N lous situation. Notre Dame continued to stand out as the one important foot ball eleven in the country that had neither been defeated nor tied when the scason ended. So far as the writer kno: This is an anoma it has never existed beiore The South Bend eleven, as a consequence, must be rated at the top of the national list. The outfit won all its games in more than one se tion of the country, and the last thing that may be said is that her oppo- nents offered simple’ problems. What happens when Notre Dame goes to California late this month or, for that matter, what happens to Pennsylvania, will not stand in the writer's mind as material v _ The foot ball season of 1924 is ended and |transcontinental barnstorming journcys, while they make for sporting crest, do not appeal to the writer as proving much, if anything. In the East Yale went through her second undefeated season, but was tled by Dartmouth and the Army. Pennsylvania defeated Cornell, but was tied by Penn State. Dartmouth was tled by Yale and defeated Cornell. Nothing can be done but to bracket the three teams as Eastern leaders and entitled to rank among the stronger teams of the country. Yale, of course, gained the honor for which she really prepared herself, victorious over Harvard and Prince- ton. She is the big three champion. In the Middle West Chicago, al- though tied by Ohlo State, Illinois and Wisconsin, was not defeated, and her victories over other conference opponents entitle her to top ranking. although it is doubtful if ever a big ten team won the championship with so slender warrant. Illinois was tied by Chicago and beaten by Minnesota; she defeated Michigan and Ohio State and Iowa among other teams. lowa beat Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi- gan. A fair thing to do would be to bracket Illinois and Towa in second place and Michigan third On the Pacific Coast California and Stanford must be bracketed in the position of leadership. The two played to a tie in the final game at Berkeley, and whereas the Bears were tied by Washington, Stanford OAKLAND DEAL IS OFF, GEORGE WEISS ASSERTS NEW HAVEN, Conn., December George M. Weiss, president and own- er of the New Haven club of the stern League, arriving here from Chicago, after conferences on the Pacific Coast where negotiations were made for the purchasg of the Oakland base ball club, said that far as 1 am concerned the deal off." Weiss said he would make ne further effort to reach an agreement Wilhh the owner of the Pacific Coast club. Walter Johnson, pitching ace of the Washington club, had been mention- ed as a partner of Weiss in the deal. READING GETS PITCHER. PORTLAND, Oreg., December Clude Schroeder, left-handed Port- land pitcher, hag been traded to the Reading club of the International League for the southpaw pitcher, Patrick Martin, formerly in the Eastern and International Leagues. RALEIGH DEAL IS DEAD. ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., December 2. —The deal by which Frank Walker, principal owner of the Rocky Mount club of the Virginia League, and several others of Rocky Mount would draft the Raleigh club of the Pied- mont League into the rginia League has been dropped. — COLUMBIA IN S. A. L.vAGAIN. COLUMBIA, S. C., December 2.—Co- lumbia will re-enter a club in the South Atlantic Base Ball Association next season, according to L. L. Probst, president of the Base Ball Corporation, which was or- zanized recently and which will con- trol this city’s franchise. i GOLF STARS IN MATCH. ATLANTA, Ga., December 2.—Bob- by Jones and Francis Ouimet, crack amateurs of the United States, will play a best ball golf match in Ashe- ville, N. C., tomorrow against Abe Mitchell and George Duncan, .star British professionals. | © | co. (Cadillac): | | | with clubs | | Hurley Motor Co 4 oniy vy California. But the 110 Altons did not meet the powe: Huskies. Southern (ratings by Zipp |of the Birmingham News-Southern |Conference): 1, Alabama; 2, Wash- ington and Le Tulane and Flori- da, bracketed; 4. Georgia, Vanderhilt and Georgia Tech, bracketsi: All- Southern championship, Centre Col- lege; Southern Intercolle, At letic Association championship, Ogle thorpe. Centre, a member of the L A A, played only one game that loop.) Southwestern Conference Sam Pace of Fort Worth Star- egram): 1, Baylor; 2, Southern Methodist, which, although undefeat- ed, was tied in four games; 3, Texas A’ & M; 4 Rice; 5, Oklahoma A. & M.; 6, Texas University; 7, Ar- kansas: §, Texas Christian, Missour! Valley (ratings by Fred- erick T. Ware, Omaha, Neb., World- {Herald): Nebraska, Missouri, Drake. {Grinnell, Jowa State, Kansas, Kansas ate, Oklahoma, Washington Rocky Mountain Conference (rated by Les Coates, Salt Lake City Desert News): Colorado University, Colo- |rado Aggies, Utah University, Utah Aggies, Denver Universit Colorado |College, Montana State, Young Uni- | versity, Cororado Mines, Wyoming ltn Newman iate in (ratings b, = | Ter | AUTOMOTIVE LEAGUE JOINS DUCKPIN FIELD A new duckpin clrcuit, the Automo- tive League, is in the field. It is com- posed of eight teams, representing gas buggy concerns. Here they are: Washington Cadillac arry-Pate (Chevrolet) District Oakland Co. (Oakland): Dick Murphy, Inc. (Oldsmobfle): Emerson Orme (Buick): Semmes Motor Co (Dodge); Hurley Motor Co. (Nash), and Sterrett & Fleming (Hupmobile) Brook B. Nice, sales manager of Dick Murphy, Inc., is the president: Cv Hawkins, sales manager of the vice president, and William H. Emerson, member of the firm of Emerson & Orme, is the secretary-treasury and scorer. The league will shoot once a week at the Arcade, with all teams fr action. {W. & L.-FLORIDA CONTEST MAY SPOIL GRID RECORD By the Associated Press ATLANTA, December 2. —— Unless Washington and Lee and Florida play to a dead heat in their game at Jacksonville Saturday, a record o two vears' standing will be broken Neither the Generals nor the Alli- gators have lost a game in the South ern Conference in 1923 or 1924. Ther. have been drawn contests, but no feats. Of the 22 members of the Southern Conference only Washington and Le. |and Florida have been able to escape | defeat in two seasons. Columbia | MISSOURI U. GRID TEAM WILL PLAY COAST GAME LOS ANGELES, Calif., December 2 —University of Missouri will play Southern California in an intersec tional foot ball game at the Los Angeles Coliseum Christmas day, has been announced by Gwynn Wil son, graduate manager of the Tio jans. 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