Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 30

SPORTS Grid Date Clash Bothers West NEW YEAR DAY BATTLES t AROUSING MUCH INTEREST Stanford-Notre Dame Game Is Expected to Attract $400,000 Gate—Ardent Fans Are Praying for Rain to Delay Quaker-Bear Fray. FROM WASHINGTON U. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Decemher 15.—Pos: sibility that Willlam Roper, - former coach of Princeton, might become head mentor of Washington University’'s foat ball team was indicdted when it be- came known he was here jn. confer- ence with officlais of that institution. A handsome monetary offer was sald to have been made to the former Prince. ton mentor, but a Missouri Valley Con- VERSITY OF MARYLAND'S ‘foot ball teim may not have at- critics selecting all-Maryland teams have been very partial toward the ' ON ALL-MARYLAND SQUAD tracted country-wide attention this, year, but it certainly must aggregation representing the State institution, The Baltimore Sun ‘expert U have outcladsed the other elevens in its own State. Gridiron has picked seven Old Liners for his all-Maryland squad, placing three on BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N rain on New Year day—that in Pasadena. If it rains there is a chance that the Cal EW YORK, December 15—Foot ball devotees of the West Coast are praying peculiar prayers these days. They are praying for is, rain in Berkeley, but fair weather ornia-Pennsylvania game ference rule providing coaches must have no other business or profession and must devote their entire time to {developing a team . was understood to be hindering the negotiations. Roper has left for Philadelphia after a conference -with Chancellor Herbert §. Hadley and the athletic council. The Those considered worthy of first team jobs were Supplee, left end; Hough, right guard, and Besley, left halfback. The second team selections from Maryland were Beatty, left end; Bromley, left tackle; Burger, right tackle, and Pugh, left halfback. It is interesting to note that four of the first team and four on the second. ; Griffith Stadium October 31. The Hill- toppers now have omly September 26 to fill to complete their 10-game list. Georgetown has' played Detroit but once. It went to the Michigan city several years ago and was beaten by the Titans. Lebanon Valley and King College will Mot be strangers here, the wwill be put over until the following Saturday, and that enthusiasts who ‘wish to sec both the Stanford-Notre Dame and the California-Pennsyl- vania contests will thus have an opportunity of doing so. _Andy Smith, the coach of the Bears, has already expressed himself as favoring a change in the date of the Berkeley game. He, of course, wants to see Rockne’s team, and if his own Golden Bears have to play on the same day that the teams.of Rockne and Glenn Warner ‘meet he will be out of Juck. Suppose, however, the Pasadena, would have been Notre Dame's oppo: game is staged as scheduled on New |nent at Pasadena. But by tying Cali- Tear day and the Quaker-Bear battle | fornia Stanford split the Pacific Coast »n_January In such event Andy |championship with the Bears and Smith, and some 0,000 fans, could run|thereby made of itself a post-season down to Pasadena and see the Kour |attraction. f{orsemen try their E In dollars and cents it means not Warner's outfit, returning in plenty |less than $200,000 added to the Palo of time to see how the Gold Diggers |Altons' athletic fund, which, by the sare against the powerful Red and Blue [ way, showed a great deal of red ink team. this' year, because of the canceling Incidentally just about $200,000 [of the contest with Southern Cali- Ninged on the accuracy of Cudde- |fornia. hack’'s toe when he kicked the goal, The ~vhich tled the score for Stanford in [dled entirely by Stanford. It will rent 1he California game. the Tournament of Roses Stadium Had Cuddeback’s kick failed the|and the receipts at the high prices to 'Uniyersity of Southern California, or|be charged are not expected to fall possibly the Washington huskies, | below $400,000. MERCURY ELEVEN GAINS SANDLOT GRIDIRON CROWN WITH the Mercury gridmen crowned the unlimited sandlot cham- Pasadena contest will be han- pions of the District as a result of their 25-to-10 victory over the Geokunicks, only one more important game will be offered khis season, that between the 150-pound Waverly Athletic Club and the Apaches next Sunday, Griffith Stadiwm. Braving severe cold weather, nearly | Southern Preps were forced to bat- 5,000 fans turned out in Grifith|te all the way to down the Apache Stadium yvesterday to watch the|FPreps, 7 to 0, in the deciding game winged-foot athletes overcome their|of the 135-pound foot ball race, After foes after trailing 10-to-0 at the end| Kyle's Kick was blocked by Kelliher ©f the first period. lon the Apaches’ yard line, G. De Led by the diminutive Fee Colliere, ard, Sue and rk rushed the ball the youngest gridman on the field,| Within two yards of goal, the last- Mercury unleashed its attack in the | mentioned player carrying it acros: mscond quarter, scored three touch- | The Southerns made 17 first downs, downs to advance to a 19-to-10 count.| While their opponents registered but With Sullivan and Turner tearing|One. Silverman played well for the great holes in the Geoknick forward | Vvicters. .wall, Cronin, Levyy and Colliere gave a sparkling demonstration of ad- vancing. After the second period the 1ssue never was in doubt. The Mercurys got a fourth touch- down In the final period to add six unneeded points. -Most of the work was done in the third quarter, %hough, as the ball was on the 1. yard line when the last period opened. The eleven from Georgetown drew first blood when Oldfield recovered a fumble on the Mercury 1-yard line and Cashell lunged through for a touchdown. O'Connell drop-kicked the extra point, and later got a fleld goal to boost the Geoknick score to 10 to o. Anmnacostia Eagles are casting about for a game with the Geoknicks, to be played next Sunday. Mount Rainier Emblems took the in a hard-fought 9-to-7 engagement. Kiatti and Watkins were in the lime- light for the winners. Challenges to the Emblems are being received by Manager Flester at Main 1197. Creacent Athletic Club closed its 1924 season by trouncing the Rovers, 22 to 0. Sam Perkins of the Crescents was the outstanding player. 5 GEORGE LOW TELLS: A Horrible Golfing Disease. MOST interesting psychological phase of golf is the effect produced in one’s mind, and, consequently, in one’s game, by abserving an- 1 ‘ other person’s error. In the 1915 national open at Baltusrol I was going along very smooth- 1y until I reached the h hole of the final round. After a satisfactory drive, I could not make my next play, a mashie pitch, because the green ‘was occupied. . 8 T didn't want to hang over my ball while I waited for the pair ahead to finish-their putting, so I walked to one side and watched the players on the fifteenth hole, which paralleled the fifth, as they came down the Inside Golf One ‘ot them was Ben Sayers of North_Berwick, Scotland, a very well By Chester Horton e known ‘contestant in Great Britain, who was in this country trying for our title. His pitch to the green called for a shot exactly like mine. He hit his ball with the heel of his club and put it out of bounds . Every. professional knows the hor- rible disease which springs from such a situation. 1 stepped up to take my stance with the picture of what/| Sayers had done in my mind and| promptly put my own ball out of bounds. From that time on my mashie was ‘useless to me, I had to call into play an old-fashioned, long-headed iron and hold it so as to slope back the blade on every mashie shot that de- veloped. 1 did not go to pieces, but my win- ning psychology was gone. 1 finished In sixth place, five strokes behind the leader, Jerry Travers. My previ- ous galt, if maintained, could have brought me the title. BRITISH GOLFING STARS BEAT HAGEN-SARAZEN ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, December | 15.—George Duncan and Abe Mitchell | of Great Britain yesterday defeated Waelter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, American professional, 4 and 3, in a match ¢f 36 holes. Duncan and Mitchell, ‘were inside the Americans on thalr approach shots virtually throughéut the match. Duncan was in raré; form in the morning, when he had. 4 score of 69, and his team was three up. Hagen and Sarazen played 'hard-ih the aft- ernoon, but could Bot preak through Begause of'fub brilfiph eam work of the foreig! - Cards of the métel™foTl e task in golf instruction that ix %0 dificult I sometimes almost give up in despair is that of correcting players in their idea of the pivot. The player told) he must pivet, im- mediately under- stands this as turning his body around to the right. Unfortu- nately he is sel- dom corrected, The pivot in not a matter of turming the body. The pivot takes place in the shoulders. They turn comsid- erably 1o the right. near the top of the back swing. The hips turn practically none at all. At the start of the back swing the right hip moves out straight te the right. Fro the piayer's po! action in the back swing stops right there. In fact, the hip does turm ome to the right, but the player need sive this no thought. The hip line would be an ellipse—straight away from the bail te the right, then a slight turn backward, t reversed direetly through the ball. The point ix, you can hardly be in position to throw the hips into the ball whem bitting unless you first draw the right hip back. (Copyright, 1924.) GOLF SEEN AS BEST CURE FOR BIG WARS CHICAGO, December 15.—Golf was SHOWING WP ACTION ALONG STRAIGHT LINE AND TURNING OF [SHOULDERS N CORRECT PIVOT+ Dusca: itchell Sarasen measure of the Argyle Athletic Club| chancellor fnjected a new sngle when he suggested that Roper was qualified to teach in the law college. This proposal was said to have im- pressed Roper. The -chancellor said he was “very optimistic’’ over the pros- pects of obtaining Roper's services. ‘The salary ofter for coaching ‘and teaching was not made public, although one unofficial report placed the amount as high as $20,000 a year. It was known previously the athlétic board was pra- pared to pay $10,000 or $12,000 a year for a good foot ball coach. Despite an enrollment of 4,000, Wash- ington University has long been weak in foot ball. BOSTON, December 15.—Charles BE. (Chuck) Darling, Boston College base ball and foot ball hero, is also & star in the classroom, it was re- vealed when Rev. Patrick J. McHugh, dean of the college, publicly com- mended the athlete for his scholarly standing. Commendation forwarded to Dean McHugh from Darling's five pro- fessors resulted in the announcement that the foot bail star had a general standing of §9, the maximum grade being 100. His marks were the high- est in the senior class of 175 men. LOUISIANA STATE NAMES GRID BATTLES FOR 1925 BATON ROUGE, December 15—The 1925 foot ball schedule of the Lou- islana State University is. practically complete, only two dates remaining {open. The list: Rice lustitute; Tulage, at New Orleans. AGRICULTURAL INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. . Loat. 13 14 3 15 18 FUR T.Pins. Pet. 606 16,810 Bureau of Soils Economit 35 455 424 Plant Public Roads. Bolicitors . 19 Interbureaus 20 . High team 1,623 1,603; Interbureaus. 1,358. High team games—Solicitors, Property, 538, igh *individual sets—Gowas 375: Kettler, 373. High tndividus 142 lantz, 141 Public. -Roads, getting into its stride, took three games from the Property five, shoving the latter team down to fourth place. Gingell rolled best for Roads, while DeGlantz kept up his good work for Property, count- ing 318. v Capt. Barber, with games of 113, 110 and 112, played the leading role in helping Economics to take two ot three from Plant Bureau and slip into second place. Economics appears to have shaken off the total pins jinx that followed it for years and is mak- ing its totals count, standing second in the league with a total pinfall of 274 less than the last-place Interbu- reaus—which is certainly getting them when they count. In previous years the Economics five-always has stood high in total pinfall, but not so high In team standing. Plant Bureau rolled steadily, not a man’counting less than 290, but could mot overcome Barber's stellar pin spilling. Ferrall of Plant Bureau had 100 in the eighth frame of the third game, spared in the ninth, and, with & 130 game in sight, nailed gne pin on the spare break and picked up two pins each with the next two baljs, count- ing 115 for the game. And-yét there are people who commit sufcide from sheer enpui! = Solicitors continued their good work In taking two games from the Interbureaus. They had to beat 500 twice to do it, however. Capt. Murphy of the Solicitors set a splendid ex- ample, with a set of 323, and was well supported by his teammates. Mec- Carthy was hitting ‘em on the nose and counted 325 for the Interbureaus, while his teammate, Lindstzom, has 126 for high game. The consistent work of the Solicitors was too much to overcome, however. Accounts helped tighten the race by taking two games from the lead- ing Solls outfit. Stork had games of 112, 123 and 105, and was ably, sup- ported by Terwisse, who totaled 313 for the evening. . Hall, a new . miifi. for Solicitors, looks very promfing.: He counted better than 300 ‘for hig first league set. vl 560; Solls- 879; Adams, mes—Adams, 145; Gowan, National Bank of Wash. Washington Loan No. 1. American Security. Second . Washington' Loan Ng. 2. Lincoln® oo ‘689 630 Kt 1606 515 85 4 9 ‘381 District Park ., Perpetual : Merchants’ ‘194 Washington Loan No. 2 fafled to pull National Bank of Washington out' of first *place, though it -did manage to take one game out of three from ' the leaders. Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey took the 0dd game from Park Savings. American ‘Security cleaned up Dis: ftrigt, pulling up a couple of notche: WITH DUCKPIN SHOOTERS 453553 WALSH MAY NOT PLAY. STILLWATER,” Okld., December 15. —Adam Walsh, captain and center of the Notre Dame foot ball team, prob- ably will be unable to particpate in the game with Leland Stanford, New Year day, because of, an injury to his feot. Walsh, who i3 visiting here, 13 under the care of a physicia: pointed out as more potent than any| - Second National pushed Merchants formal alliance of nations to: prevent|a.little farther down in the cellar by wars by former Judge Cbarles S.|taking allthree, whila!Pérpetual was Cutting In speaking at the installa- | whitewashing Riggs No. 2. tion of his'son, Robert M. Cutting,| Marlow of Second.Natlonal wa: as secretary of the Western Golfjhigh for the week for game and set Association, prizes, with 137 and 246. “Golf, as the only truly widespread|: international sport,” said Cutting, ‘WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. Standiag of Teams. “by bringing about = international good understanding, may eventudlly|f ' . be the power that will stop armed'| Commercials . conflict between countries. No-othe? M.':‘mn sport, except tennis, is played ®enef-| Coiumbians ally all over the world under’; the|Bilties same rules and conditions, and'temnis [Capitol Hillers. ]1s not plaved to any extent by :in-|Eiterstate Commercer tional leaders, as'is golf. Post Office Department. 3 “We hear every day of the’fmaeting | Metropolitan A C.. - 087 of etatesmen and diplomats ‘g ‘the | . Judging by the present:staiding of golf links, and we golfers know]the quints the race for tifular honors what this means in establishing|has resolved itself into a &lrirggle be- good accord, for there is ‘&gmetHing|tween the Commercials -and “Mount in the game that inspires 'miutual]Pleasants. A confidence and gemerous fellow-] Mount Pleasants.gave theColum- feeling.” bians a serious setback Thursday by these athletes are Washingtonians. Supplee, Hough, Burger and Pugh all learned the rudiments of the gridiron while attending Tech High School, and all were chosen for all-high school teams. Hilltoppers having met both of these teams in the Georgia avenue park. Catholle University will not have much opportunity to rest after its stirring game with Blue Ridge Col- lege at Brookland Saturday night. The Red ‘and Black basket ball team is to be sent Into a contest Wednes- day night at the City Club against the representative quint 'of that organiza- tion. Little i® known of the City Club aggregation this season, but last Win- ter it was a very capable floor outfit. of FOOT BALL a scout (The authorship of this authentic series is withheld for obvious reasons.) M uate managers and alumni centers around the backdoor colleges. When it is impossible to get a foot ball player into college in any other way, there always is the old standby of some small, easy-going col- lege. The boy is jimmied into the smaller school, which is, perhaps, on the advanced standing list of the big school, and, after a year or two of obscurity, he suddenly appears at a larger university. This, going on for years, has bullt) terlous transference of players is up an amazing network of under-|going to spill over. I have in mind ground politics. If you follow foot|a dozen players on small colleges who ball closely in the newspapers, you| have suddenly bobbed up at larger will continually see boys from the|institutions. When a smaller college smaller schools in the personnel of | beats any of the big schools you are the big college teams. It was this|certain to see the pick of the small that led to the adoption of the one-|college team transferred to some year rule in various universitles, re-|larger college the next year. One quiring & year of attendance before|coach I know well—he is with an old admissfon to foot ball. But this by|New England college which has done no means solved, the problem. It|wonders in foot ball—has a way of merely means that the boy is kept in!developing players out of “apple training during his year of waiting|knockers” to whom no other coach and s so much more valuable as a|would give any consideration. -Year [foot ball asset, when he is finally after year, these boys are kidnaped used. by the big outfits. Some day this whole story of mys-| I know another coach, who, remov- ing from a Pennsylvania to a New York college was followed by five of the best players from his old school. A big controversy resulted in which the coach contended that the players had followed him voluntarily. As a matter of fact some alumni of the New York school had done the job. The foregoing shows that trans- ference of athletes from one college to another involves two systems—the back door college, or prep school, and ralding. The back door evil is to be laid, for: the most part, at the door of the big colleges, who will bring n thelr man by any circuitous or underground. route. more of a free-for-all, with no holds barred. When two big institutions start a drive for a man, or when one big university starts ralding another, old people and cripples had begger keep out of the way. Honors Thrust Upon Him. I remember one instanee Involving the *kidnaping of a player from Yale. I would tell this story in detall, as I know the facts, but it would hurt one of my close friends, and further- more, T have reason to believe it will be told before long anyway. An- other blg eastern school coveted ome of Yale's star backfield men. This 1ad was one of the fastest and clever- est men who ever played foot ball in America. -The rival school made one drive after another to get this player, but failed. Then, out of & clear sky, the.player who was but an_ indifferent student, was informed thit he had been awarded an im- portant seholarship at the competing college. ~As the scholarship carried a considerabls sum of money, and the boy needed money, he transferred. He is today one of the star men fn the natlonal foot ball line-up. I do not believe the president or any member of his faculty knew what took place. Here is how it all came about. Georgetown has flled three more dates in its 1925 foot.ball schedule. Lebanon Valley will be played here Ootober 10, University of Detrolt at Detroit a week later, and King Col- lege will be encountered in Clark VIL.—HOW THE BOYS MOVE UP., UCH of the wire-pulling and political activity of coaches, grad- copping all three games. ‘At the same time Commercials lost one to Interstate Commerce. This brought a deadlock once more-for first place. Metropolitans threw a scare into the Billies team. Getting a good lead in the first game, they had it on ice before Capt. Quaites could get her bunch to hit it up, with the result that the Mets won handily. They dropped the next two games. Eula White, newly made captain of the Mets, was directly responsible for that one victory. Her count of 110 was enough to put her team In the lead by seven pins. Bronson Quaites of Billies had high set, rolling 96, 95 and 97. Lorraine Gulli's good rolling was again the eutstanding featurs of the week, turning in a nifty set of 329 and adding a few pins to hér average. Mount Pleasants came within seven pins of setting a season's record for team set Thursday night in their match with the Columbians. They totaled 1,419. Jennle Malcolm with 299, Gladys Lowd with 288, and Annie Anderson with 282, did the best work. MT. PLEASANT DUCKPIN LEAGUE. Standiag of Teams. Won. Lost. Pct. 21 3 900 19 },I‘ Hilito - Shipplog Board. Firestones . Comets [ LEADING PERFORMERS. High team game—Mt. Pleasants, 611.° High team set—Hilitops, 1,’ High team average—Hilitops, 528.29. High individual aversge—Metrakos, Hill- ‘OH 110-5. .. . fgh individual game—Lehman, Hiliteps, High individual set—Lebman, Hilltaps, 400. 4 Gnlz‘nt oumber of strikes—Lebm: - Greatest number'of spares—Riggles, Hill- tops, 71. " ATELETIC Fixed Up at the Club. The coach of the ralding school, considered by many persons to be the best foot ball'coach in_America, took a trip to New York. He rounded up thres wealthy members of the class of 1903, of the college he was work- ing for. They sat down together in & quiet little session in an exclusive New_York ' elub, “We've got to have a nice, brand- new scholarship which will blast this man loose from Yale,” sald the coach. The alumni-reached for their check books. One of them was a_corpora- tion lawyer. He rigged terms and conditions of administration which actually, but not patently, left the seloction of the beneficlary In the . hands of the donors. It would be interesting to examine the whole list of American college scholarships and find out why and by whom and to whom they were awarded. (Copyright, 1924.) Tomorrow: How the Scout Works. OLUB LEAGUE. Stern les 0'Dunneiis Corl Soma ton Orloles BR4. igh 1,586. High 1adividual average—Tom Beas, Corb, Btrikes—Jtm Clark, 0'Donnelis, 14. Spares—O Flaishman, 0'Donnells, 49. e igh IlI‘llvl‘nlI game—John Laycock, Ar- mfiun' individual set—Jim Clark, O'Donnells, EVENING STAR LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Won. Lost. Pet. o e e 867 536 444 333 The Larg -l At the Sign of the Moon game on- the leading Bucks when the former frimmed the badly crippled Yanks i three straight. The best the Bucks could do with the Dodgers was to take two. Reds picked up a game on Whit- ford’s Giants, taking the odd game in thelf match. Arthur Baur, who Is showing re- markable " {mprovement this season, continued. his consistent rolling with a set of 336. Dave McCarty, captain of the Reds, rolled the best game and set last week—140 and 343. . Last wéek's winners-of prizes were: Class A, McCarty, 140; Class B, Ise- man, 105; Class C. Little, 116, and Class D, Haarer, 124. Hendley rcontinues .to lead the.in- dividuale, but by & very small mar- &in, s Reds hid the best game last week, 541, and~the Pirates rolled ths top sef; 1,601. . Haarer had a game of 124. This week’'s ‘schedule: Reds vs. Pirates, Giants vs.. Bucks and. Yanks vs.. Dodgers. % E .. HILLS GETS LE A ‘Ralph' Hills, -Washingtonian = at- tl;sn‘ Princeton, has rawarged @ Zetter for-his work with the Tiger. foot ball team this fall.” ‘Hills was a regular in the lve and plaved & 004 game all seasom; 2 DELTA SIGMA SEXTET-WINS. 3 2 Gir1 tossers of the Delta Stigma| . Full Dress Suits, team who triumphed over the ‘Calvéry P2 g Baptist sextet in- a 33-tolé match présented a.star.in. Phoehe. Broaduss, who acoounted-for thirteen baskels, ’ 478 thip high cost with . See our;slimwing of fabrics. sppreciate fhe valies. the values. ACTIVE THIS WEEK Three of the high- school basket ball teams will meet rugged oppo- nents this week in preparation for the championship titular series that will get under way January 10. Business will tackle two quints ‘Wednesday when the reserve encoun- ter the Stantons in the Ninth street gymnastum and the first team'invades Catholic University for a match with the freshmen. Central will entertain Gallaudet Col- lege Wednesday, and Saturday journey to York, Pa., for a game with the Col~ legiate Institute for Deaf. Eastern will play host to the Catho- lic University yearlings Thursday aft- ernoon. Furman, May, Steward, Brist and Laefsky of the Ninth Streets will play against the Brookland first-yearescom- bination that took the measure of Cen- tral Saturday. Coach Woodworth of the Stenographers probably will use Rivers, Cooperman, Artis, Barnard and Thels against the Stanton: team that lowered the colors of Tech. Dean, Hale, Dezendotf and Moser are likely to start against the Gallaudet five on the Central court. Charley Guyon, court mentor at Eastern, has a bunch of material. Bennle, Hook, Radice, Scruggs, Eiliott, McAllister, Kessler, Lowden, Hogarth. Madigan, Heeke, Burch, Silverman and Burdine of the Light Blue and White tossers are expected to get in action against the Brookland yearlings. EPISCOPAL HIGH QUINT SCHEDULES 16 GAMES Episcopal High Scheol has sched- uled 16 basket ball games. Tech and Devitt are the only Washington quints on the list. The schedule: 20, Augusta M 81, Virginia Ep February 4. open: 7, Tome, at Port Deposit; 11, Baltimore City 'College; 14, Fishburne Academy; 18, Tech High; 21, Balitmore Poly; 25, Devitt; 33, Woodberry Korest, at Orange, v t Fans : Bennett Hill Sets New Auto Record ROPER GETS AN OFFER|SEVEN OLD LINE GRIDMEN |HIGH SCHOOL FIVES - (WENS 250-MILE CONTEST AT 126.9 MILES PER HOUR Ralph de Palma Also Makes Mark in Stirring Drive at Culver City—Six Contestants Do Better Than Two Miles Per Minute. ULVER CITY, Ca December 15—Speed records that eonce startled the sporting world today lay in the wake of Bennett Hill's smashing non-stop drive to victory in the closing 250-mile race of the American Automobile Association’s 1924 scason here yester- day. Records broken were: 1—Harry Hartz’s former world record of 1199 miles per hour, sus- tained for a distance of 50 miles, at Charlotte, N. C., last October, replaced yesterday by Ralph de Palma, veteran Italian driver, whose average for the first half hundred miles was 128, .6 miles per hour. 2—Hart’s_Charlotte record for 100 miles of 1194 miles per hour, smashed by Hill's average of 128 Culver City Bowl. 3—Hartz's 200-mile record of miles per hour in the speedy new 1194, also established at Charlotte Speedway, outclassed by Hill's speed of 1269. . 4—Tommy Milton’s 250-mile record of 118.17 miles an hour, estab- lished in the October Charlotte race, and bettered by more than 8 miles an hour when Hill finished yesterd: 18 3-5 seconds, or an average speed COLLEGE BODY ADOPTS A PLAYER-WRITER RULE PORTLAND, Oreg., December 15. —Ay player-writer rule has been adobted by the Pacific Coast In- tercollegiate Comference. It will make ineligible for com- petiton any foot ball player who writes an article concerning the sridiron game for p y journal except paper. He may write on base ball or track, providing he does not participate in them. Equally, the track or base write about foot ball, t mot touch on his own sport, except in the student p: ltcations of his own institution. WEGNER CHdSEN LEADER OF ST. JOHN’S GRIDMEN ANNAPOLIS, December 15.—Henry F. (Heinie) Wégner of Baltimore will lead St. John's College on the grid- iron next Fall. His election was made by the players who were award- ed the college insignia for their work Guring the season just closed. Wegner is a halfback. He is a good hurler of the forward pass, also capa- ble as a punter and drop-kicker. He weighs 170 pounds. The plavers awarded letters were Barger, Jarvis, Noble, Moore, Cun- ningham, Gessner, Rice, Lynn, Wil- liams, Callahan, Dell, Humphries, Webb, Wegner, Desanties, Dugan, ¢ Lutz, Merrick, Roseberry and W. Roe. PETWORTH TOSSERS PLAY. CAPITAL A. C. Petworth Boys' Club tossers, eager The raiding iMle; oyt o swath in this season’s race, hope to prove their worth in a game with the Capital “Athletic Club to- night in their home gymnasium, starting at 8 o'clock Fones, Connors and Minnick of Pet- worth are expected to give good ac- counts of themselves. Teams desiring games in the 135-pound class are urged to get in touch with Manager Rice of Petworth, at Columbia 6257. Irequois Athletic Club of Alexan- dria has issued first call for practice tonight in the Armory Hall Manager Jack Allen of the Colum- bia Athletic Club of Alexandria 1s seeking a game next Saturday night. He can be reached at 215 North Co- lumbia street, Alexandria. Harvey Ingley of the Corby five reg- istered seven goals when his team beat the Company C quint of the 16th Tank Battalion of Camp Meade, 44 to 22. In a preliminary game the Wash- ington Athletic Association trounced the Truxtons, 46 to 10. Robert John- son of the winners got nine court goals. Fort Humphries' basketers ran roughshod over the Yosemites, win- ning, 46 to 15. McBride and Dyson of the soldier team impressed. Stanton tossers added another vic- tim to their list by pointing the way to the Express team, 42 to 25. Sweeney and O. Mitchell of the Stan- tons were the leading performers. WILCE, BUCKEYE COACH, GETS UNUSUAL DEGREES ‘While known to the general public as coach of Ohio State gridiron teams for the past dozen vears and remem- bered as a former star of Wisconsin foot ball and basket ball teams and stroke of the crew, Dr. John W. Wilce has been hailed in a novel way by 175 of his colleagues on the Ohio State faculty. He recently was laud. ed as a “great teacher,” and the fol- lowing degrees were conferred upon him: “C. E.” meaning “Conscientious Educator”; “M. E.,” meaning “Master of Emergencies “Excellent Man"; “E. “Every Man's Friend,” an t—Mout Ecomemical—Most Reli: Wender What Merts Will Say Today?—Clese Daily at 6 P. 81, Sat, S P. M Entire Stock at which means “Atta -Boy. Talloring Shop Big Reductions - Suit or Qvercoat e ~,PricedasLow.as*SZOV,"-_-'f.. 1t the igh quality is’a feature -It.is_the. only Way you can ; Xv;;r,su&quvercoat will be made for)you as you want them, silk linlold, $50 up Mertz.& Mertz Co., Tnc,, 906 F'St. NURMI HAS PLENTY OF RIVALS FOR RACE CHICAGO, December 15.—Desire of additional runners to participate in the proposed three-cornered race be- tween Paavo Nurmi and Willle Ritola, Finnish distance stars, and Jole Ray, American runner, at the Chicago Coliseum on January 16, has caused officlals to decide to enlarge that event, Charles A. Dean, chair- man of the athletic committee of the L A. C, has announced. Frey Liewendhal, a Findlander, who qualified for the final of the 5,000 meter run in the Olympic games la Summer and who now is in Chicago, will represent the Finnish-American A. C. Dean said. Filus Doolittls of Butler College, American Olympic runner, also has been accepted by Dean, who may enlarge the fleld even more. Chairman Dean also announced that in case Nurmi. who will be permitted to name the stance, elects a route shorter than a mile, Ray will not run Ray Watson or Ray Dodge of therl A.'C. would be substituted in that case,” he said. The race in which Nurmi will par- ticipate is to be the featurs of a program of relay and handicap events. ay’s whirl in 1 hour, 58 r~-utes and of 1269 miles an hour. Martz had a hand in the smashing of his and Milton's records, finishing second after a phenomenal spurt in the final 20 miles, in 1 hour 58 minutes513-5 seconds, or an average of 126.2 miles an hour. In finishing third, 53-5 sec- onds behind Hartz, with an average of 126.1, Milton also shared in the honors of record-smashing, as did Fred Comer, W. E. Shattuck and J. §. Wilkinson, who finished fourth, fifth and sixth, re- spectively. Comer’s average was 125.7, Shattuck’s 1242 and Wilson's 121 flat. The aver- age of Pletro Bordino, who took seventh honors, fell below Milton’s October mark, being 114.7. Phil Shafer, finish- ing eighth, also averaged 114.7. Eddie Hearne, the only other driver of the 16 starters in the contest at the finish, was flagged down with two laps still to go The seven who dropped out of the race in the order named were Earl Cooper, Antoine Mourre, Jerry Wonder- lich, Wade Morton, Peter de Paolo Ralph de Palma and Robert McDonough. Cooper was the only contestant wh. had enough national championship points to win the American Automobile | Association 1924 title by taking first |place in yesterday’'s race, so when broken piston focred him from the tra before he had gone 25 miles the 19 | champfonship went automatically, to the late Jimmy Murphy, who was killed in a race at Syracuse, N. Y., last October Murphy had earned 1,595 polnts toward the title. Cooper today still stood second with 1,240, Hill third with 1,214, Milton fourth with 1,101 and Comer fifth with 725. Yesterday's race, the opening event of the newly constructed Culver Bowl, was witnessed by more t 50,900 spectators. HOCKEY TORO: PLAYER SOLD. Ontario, De William “Red” Stuart, team that won the champlonship for Toro has been sold to the an unstated amour or 13 roft hock er = em world — INDIANS PICK LAKELAND. CLEVELAND, Decembe The Cleveland American League team wi'l train at Lakeland, Fla, next Spring. The veteran nitchers wiil ar- rive at Hot Springs February 14-1 two weeks' conditioning. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, Precident Izaak Walton League of America. W. the Wyoming lowlands by heavy s numbers there, Mr. Finley said. The Yellowstone elk are ordinarily able to remain in the preserve, where they are protected by the Govern- ment, but conditions have made them an easy prey this year, he declared. Secretary Hoover told the United States Fisheries Association that Great Lakes sturgeon have decreased 98 per cent In 40 years. And that shad have decreased per cent in 30 years. And that salmon have decreased 50 per cent on the Pacific Coast and have entirely disappared on the At- lantic. & 70 Louimana's whistling frog, which sings-like a bird, is one of the seven species of tree frogs that live in Tamany Parish. Its notes cannot be distinguished from:one of the calls of the red-bellied woodpecker. Con- sidering the frog family as a whole it is doubtful if any area its size in the world has a greater frog popula- tion than Honey Island, near Boga- lusa. Already: there have been re- corded 20 distinct species of frogs and toads, the voices of nearly all of which are sometimes audible during a single Summer night, according to Sim Wels. L. FINLEY, Oregon naturalist, has asked the Governor of Wyoming to declare a closed season on elk this year. The tame elk of Yellowstone Park are being driven to nows, and are being killed in large These notes range in tone from the pleasant cricket-like caw of the spade-foot toads, to the deep bass bull-like bellow of the giant Louis- iana bullfrog—bandmaster “par ex- cellence.” There is a mood of one of these frogs that brings forth a note which trills for barely a minute, vet entrances the listener with the sweetness and volume of its tones. The commercial frogs of Louisiana are quite important. In fact, there i a statute on its books that begins thus: “The ownership and title of all frogs found in the State of Louisiana is hereby declared to be in the State.” This distinction is not due to their voices, but to their hind legs, so ccle- brated as a delicacy that Japan has imported Louisiana bullfrogs to stock frog farme in that farawa country. 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