Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 23

SPORTS. THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924. SPORTS. 23 Tygers Said to Have Landed College Phenom : Grid Scoring Changes Advocated REPORTED THAT CARROLL WILL JOIN DETROIT CLUB Holy Cross Hurler, Besieged by Big League Teams, Is Declared to Be Best Twirling Prospect Ever Turned Out by Colleges. BY JOI December 26, EW YORK have fallen the juiciest pitchi N College men who have played ag: ) B. FOSTER. To the Detroit Tygers is reported to ng plum on the college tree. He is Owen Carroll of Holy Cross, a right-hander, with speed and a drop 1 that have been the admiration of every scout who has seen his work. ainst him say there is no pitcher like im and some of them expect to see him develop into the best hurler who ever left college to enter professional base ball Two years ago every effort was big league contract. the offers. sign dow repe and to c« rivalry for beg appear Carroll ally intend enter the wod, but did nothing to prevent rt from circulating, because zed it 1 head off the im- es ¢ & league scouts, ng with vear, he will th 15 services interf Next were pursuits, is his last certain that such | < have a pitcher| any col- r been a mem- fcan League His porters envisage him rcond Mathewsor should 1 able start in if he really has is good enough and coached not He ne al it let re work a4 ng tryout Det m nted Bert Cole go to Vernon was disap- in his hande 1924, sure that Cole would come rough with the best season he ever 1ad, and with both Cole and White- ured that had a chance to the American gue Wi il was more ntal of the two, but he piteher, while e ex adiness her There a Detro et out, ick staff two or three veterans aff who will have g early next Spring as the Tigers are looking from their pitch- t half | t experim on to results and will TITLE CONTENDERS to | proved | f ana did not | with enough | o him as @ great | | made by scouts to induce Carroll to He did not wish to leave college and turned of which was said to be as high as $10,000. ted then that Carroll had decided to give up base ball after he left itinue his studies for the priesthood. It was That report ended IN FIGHTS TONIGHT W YORK. December 26.—Several anding title contenders will be seen in action tonight in the feature events of the boxing card at Madison Square Garden Paul Berlenbach, light-heavyweight knock-out artist. who is seeking a title match with Mike McTigue, faces a formidable foe in Larry Estridge, hard-hitting negro, while De- laney, conqueror of Berlenbach and a contender for Harry Greb's middle- weight crown, will oppose Pal Reed of lioston. Both matches are slated YANKEES SELL HORAN TO LOS ANGELES CLUB NEW YORK., December Horan, Yankee utility man, has been released outright by the New Y. club to the igeles club of the st League. Inflelder Hillis, who came to the Yankees from the At- lanta, Ga.. club, was released under option to Toledo, outs ‘Stag” LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dacember 26, —Acquisition of “Shag” Horan by Los Angeles adds a powerful punch to the Angels’ bid for the 1925 pennant, and is hailed by fans here as an appropri- ate Christmas gift from President Joe Patrick to the base ball enthus of this city His Choices CHAPT BY H. G. SALSING ORNELIUS ~ McGILLICUD- | DY'S Philadelphia Ameri- | C cans of 1910 and 1911 for: \l.‘ the opinion of Cobb, the greatest | he ever saw. They appealed | 1 mostly because they were in- gent. On that team was, what lied in those days, “the $100, 000 ‘infield.” This sounds funny in the light of recent base ball history. “The Philadelphla infeld of 1910 and coming » the top ten years would have been called ‘the million-dollar infleld.” agine four 1 ‘Stuffy” Meln Eddie Jack Barry and Frank Baker or §100, a time when one | nfielder, Willic ho had neve 1d, broug am 1 Kamm played on $104 1 the Philadelphia had the smartest second base ination the game ever produced. were better, in my opinion, than inker and Johnny Evers, and ile the ‘Tinker to Evans to Chance’ o received much publicity, I be- Jeve that Barry to Collins to McInnis, wwhile the line did not suit the pur- pose of rhyming, was a combination uch more valuable to base ball. “The Athletics were not alone a creat defensive team, but they had rkable power on attack. They re intelligent at both ends of the more so than any team I have Before the Athletics developed to | their top form a simple signal system | was used by pitchers and catchers. The catcher would point one- finger in his zlove and the pitcher would throw a fast ball. He would point two fingers and that meant a curve ball. But the Athletics made that {is by ystem obsolete and compelled teams o adopt combination signals he Athletics ‘stole” signals. This was not done illegally, but in a legiti- | mate manner. They would get a man | t nd he would watch | » batter would make a few bails. The runner would get the signals. Then he tipped off the batter. “Then the Athletics, and knowing the signals, would get n position where they could watch cateher signal hey would tip off the hatter to what the pltcher in- tended throwing, Long Time Solving. ‘It took teams quite awhile to dis- cover why the Athletics were hitting <o well. When it became known, all teams were compelled to change their systems.- The catcher would use three or four signals. Only one would mean anything. It might be the first, second or third signal. The others would be used to confuse the opposing team. And then the catch- er could call oft whatever signal he had given by tossing dirt in front of him or behind him and switch the als. Besldes a great infield, the Ath- letics had a splendid pitching staft with Coombs, Bender and Plank lead- ing. They had a good outfield and a fairly good catching staff. They were a balanced team; a smooth-working machine, highly intelligent, highly yowered, mechanically skilled.” The greatest pitcher? . Cobb believes Ed. Walsh of the Chicago White Sox was the great- est the league produced. He gives ¥ddle Plank a place close up. He also names Denton T. (Cy) Young. Thess three—Walsh, Plank and Young, in order named—are his <hoice. He never names Carl Weilman, who had more success against him than any pitcher Cobb ever faced. Although Weilman was Cobb's mas- ter, he never considered him a great pitcher, and Cobb is correct in that. base ateher. Th catcher was coming to bat The Greatest Team— Greatest Pitcher— * Praise for Plank. IR LIV, few have used with anywhere the success that Plank achieved. had everything. “Plank had a left-hander,” near He marvelous control for says Cobb. “He had |a fine drop ball and a deceptive curve and he delivered from almost any an- gle, making it extremely difficult to judge his delivery. He nearly always had the batter in a hole. And after he lost his fast ball he still stayed in the big leagues. That is a feat, since a left-hander ‘must’ have a fast ball to be successful. But Plank worked until he developed a good slow ball to take the place of the fast one he lost, and T want to say I never saw a better slow ball. “Cy Young has a record that will probably not be touched unless it Walter Johnson. But I don't consider Young greater than Walsh | or Plank, because Young pitched for @ team that fielded well and that nearly always made a lot of runs for He won more often when he s hit hard than any pitcher I know of.” Cobb’s mind is set on teams and pitchers, but on other players he has shifted his opinion frequently. Cobb's judgment is a matter of llkes and dislikes, rather than abllity. His ranking of players is ruled by senti- ment chiefly and Is open to reversal. (Tomorrow: Chapter LV.—In His Wake. Fifty Years National League, ING KEL” to his cronies lived. time he was one of the g Clarkson also was transferred for the sume amount, but Clarkson never was so widely known as a “$10,000 beauty.” Occasionally some one would remind him of the fact that he was valued highly on the hoof, but Kelly Was never permitted to forget it. “Kell” had the rare knack of “sass- ing” the crowd in a good-natured manner. He never felt that he was thoroughly at home until he had an audience listening to him instead of spectators watching him. Kelly was not a high-class fielder— he was a good flelder. He caught and played the outfleld, and he caught better than he played the out- field. Hits over his head bothered him. He could throw fairly well, although he could not compare with Ewing as a thrower. Kelly's arm was not as strong as that of Ewing’s. As a batter Kelly was one of the best. He could hit to both flelds—a fine accomplishment for a right-hand batter, which the modern ball player knows too little about. As a base runner, despite the fact that he was tall and heavy and that he was not as fast as scores of his rivals, he was surpassed by none. He never slid into a base twice the same way. A baseman who tried to touch him-usu- ally found nothing to touch but his feet. He twisted and turned his body as he aimed for the bag, and s all basemen knew that he would come feet foremost they were on the defensive beforo he started. He could dodge with the agility of a boy, In spite of his avoirdupois. He got a lot of reputation out of the Plank was intelligent. He knew how te pitch. He had a crossfire that phrase, “Slide, Kelly, slide,” and liked to hear the fans sing it to him. He “VETS” LEAD MINORS AS WELL AS MAJORS The veterans still reign in base ball. At the top of the American League pitching averages are the names of Walter Johnson and Herb Pennock. Hugh McQuillan, Grover Aleyander and Carl Mays are among the leaders in the National. | Now comes the Eastern League figures with the story that Gary | Fortune and Fleet Mavberry of the | Springfield team outdld the young- | sters in their department. Both have heen pitching for yeurs and Fortune has been with the Boston Red Sox |and Tnternational League teams. Left-handers carried off the bat- ting honors in the Eastern with such | performers as Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, then playing with Hart- ford, and Jack Roser and Wade Lefler of the Worcester Club shitting high up in the .300 circle. Lefler reached the Washington Senators in time to insert some welcome hits in Stanley Harris' chase for the pen- nant. Panve Nurmi's figure will always be remembered by first prize iwir |ners in the annual track and field | competition of the Finnish-Amer- ican A. C., in Madison Square Garden, | January 6 for the officials of the club have arranged to award showing the noted running marvel from Finland in action. The back- ground has the shields of Finland and the United States surrounded by laurels. Anticipating exceptional performances, the committtee also has arranged for a special world record medal. “The indoor mile running record of | 4:14 3-5, made by Jole Ray at Chi- | cago in 1919, will be under heavy at- |tack when Nurmi makes his Amerl- |can debut in a special mile race against a picked fleld at the | Finnish-American games. Ray him- {self will be on hand to uphold |his indoor laurels, while Willle Ritola, Finnish-American star, and Lloyd Hahn are other outstanding lentrants. Nurmi holds the outdoor record of 4:10 2- | Mickey Wilker, world welterweight title holder has one of the ring's most unusual opportunities when he {fights Mike McTigue, light heavy- | welght king, in Newark on January Should Walker knock out Mc- Tigue or win on a foul, thus taking the 175-pound title, he would be the | first boxer to hold two crowns sep- arated by another division—in this case the middleweight class. Few welterweights in history have gone so far out of their class for opponents, although in this case there is not so wide a division as appears on the surface, since Me- Tigue is closer to being a middle- welght than a light heavyweight. Joe Walcott, the famous “Barbados Demon” and welterweight champion a score of years ago, once went out of his class to fight Joe Choynski, the heavaweight who fought Jim Jefferies to a 20-round draw Steve O’Neill, veteran catcher, who has become assistant to Wallie Schang of the Yankees after service with Cleveland and Boston, was at the helght of his career in 1920 when Cleveland conquered Brooklyn In the world series. In a discussion of catchers re- cently a former major league mana- ger who handled an ecastern team during the 1920 season, declared that O’Neill was what is known In in- side base ball as a “telegrapher.” “Anybody could tell what was go- ing to happen in a game hy watching O'Nelll's right foot,” sald this man. Nevertheless, Cleveland won the American League pennant and the world title and O'Nellll caught bulk of the contests. et |CHANGE IS DECLARED AID TO BASKET BALL By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, December 26.—General speeding up of play and a more keen- 1y contested title race in the Inter- collegiate Basket Ball League, which opens {ts season January 3, are pre- dicted by Joe Deering, coach of the Columbia, as a result of the abolish- ment of the zoning rule. Deering believes the league's deci- sion to abolish the zoning rule, which inflicted various penalties for fouls | committed within certain areas, will eliminate constant whistle blowing. speed up the game and make the pla more attractive to the spectator. Deering, whose veteran team Is ex- pected to be one of the strongest con- tenders for the championship now held by Cornell, regards Princeton and Dartmouth as espectally formidable rivals in the 1925 race. He was reti- cent in discussing Columbia’s chances, but experts predict the Blue and White quintet will be around the top from start to finish. of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the to Be Celebrated Next Season. XXIIL GREATEST PLAYERS—MICHAEL J. KELLY. was the best ball player who ever To the colder-blooded analysts of the national pas- reatest, but not the best. Kelly was the player who was transferred to Boston from Chicago for the sum of $10.000 and from that time on was popularly known as the “$10,000 beauty.” was not malicious with his spikes, but he would not keep them out of the way, and the baseman was forced to guard himself against them, One of the plays that made Kelly famous was in the post-season series hetween Boston and Cleveland in 1892. The first game went 11 innings and neither team scored. With two out and Cleveland fighting for only a run in the last inning, Burkett was on third base. The batter hit to Herman Long, the Boston shortstop. Long was slow in getting the ball to Tucker at first base and the batter was safe, with Burkett tearing for home with theswinning run. Kelly would not trust his glove to make the catch of Tucker’s throw, but threw it to one side with Burkett dashing for the plate. The odds were with the runner, who was very fast and who had the advantage of the throw first going to first base. Kelly never gave Burkett a chance to get in. He stepped In front of the home plate, caught the ball with his bare hand, held Burkett pinned by his legs, and all in one sweeping motion of catch and touch retired the run- mner, who would have won the first e and perhaps changed all the history of the serie: Cleveland fans roared, but Kelly got the play and Boston. That was typis of playing baseball. (Copyright, 1924.) of his way Next—The grand little ball player who invented the phrase, “Hit 'em where | they ain't—'"Wee Willle” 'Keeler. medals | the | | | | copped the title | basket ball to start the game Sunday | againet | weeks and should have little | championship By the Associated Press. RICHMom Va.. December 26— scheduled for Virginia elevens, and th the season arrives. Intersectional tilts of more than year and, with the exception of Rand all institutions will meet new foes an old schedules. NEW PALACE TEAM WILL FACE CELTICS Ttoddy Cooney, former basket ball player of the Brooklyn Visitation five, who is generally considered one of the most talented tossers in the East, | will display his wares for the Palace | Laundry quint that will tackle the world champlon Celtics Sunday at the Arcade When the Brooklyn Visitation five in the Metropolitan League last year Cooney was one of the outstanding guards. In 33 games the player has tallied 44 times from the field and pocketed 51 points from the foul line. George Marshall, director of the Palace team, will present practically a new team Sunday, Ed Lynch, for mer Catholic University star, belng the only player who has performed in_local game Bucky Har world “champion ball club, will manager of Washington throw out the the base new night —e ALOYSIUS QUINTET T0 PLAY TRUXTONS | ball tossers tomorrow five basket debut Aloysius make their will night | the Truxton on Gon-| High's court, in a game that| ought to show just how the 1 Street- ers and In this year's unlimited title race. Play will start at 8:30 o'clock Il The Purple quint has been prac-| tistng diligently for the past two trouble | with the Truxton combination, a team | that was trounced severely by the| Corby basketers. Coach George Colliflower of Aloy- | sius is expected to pick his first team | from Fitzgerald, Collins, Frank Duffy, D'Augustine, Connors, Folliard, Laucks, O'Dea, ranlan, McNulty, Pepper, Mills, Fogarty, McDonald, Tabor, Sullivan and Cav: ugh. Games with Aloystus may be ar- | ranged by calling Man George | A. Simpson, at Frankli zaga Corby's Five and the Washington Athletic Association are expected to produce some basket ball of the first order tonight in the Congress Heights Gymnasium. The Rosedale and Co- lumbia quints will clash in a pre- liminary engageme 1 | Many of the loeal basket ball teams | will remai nidla over the week end, due to the Christmas holidays. They will resume activities next*weck, howev Alexandrin fans are ed to turn out for the i E. Kni & Son’ aval Receiving night on the forme CRESCENT-MERCURY GRID TILT LIKELY TO BE WARM What promises to be one of the best | junior foot ball games of the season is expected when the Mercury light- | weights and Crescent Athletic Club clash Sunday at Union Park in a game for the benefit of George McBride, former sandlot star. Crescent gridmen are to hold a| meeting tonight at 3608 New Hamp- | shire avenue, starting at 7:30 o'clock Coach McDonald of Mercury will send his team through a drill tonight at Sth and C streets southwest. The| players are to report not later 7:30 o'clock expec ial game of the s quint with the tation tomorrow | s court 'SEVEN BILLIARDISTS IN 18.2 TITLE EVENT| CHICAGO, December 26.—Seven players, three American and four for- elgn, will compete in a tournament here for the world 15.2 balk line bil- lard championship Febuary 23 to March 4. The Americans will be Willie Hoppe, the champlon; Jake Schaefer, former champion, and Welkek Cochran of Los Angeles. The forelgners will be Srich Hagenlacher. champion of Ger- many; Edouard Horemans, Belgian champion; Roger Conti, champion of ¥rance, or Derbier or Grange of France, and either Suganuma or Su- zuku of Japan. The matches will be the first of their kind to be held here since 1921, when Jake Schaefer defeated Hoppe in a play-off for the championship and later successfully defended the title in a challenge match here. During| that tournament Schaefer made the | record high average for a single champlonship game by running out 400 points in two Innings for a mark of an even 200, and Cochran set what was a world record high run for competition, a cluster of 384 The mark was passed by Cont{ when he ran 477 to win the French title. 1 Since 1921 the tournaments have | been held in New York SOCCER GAMETS‘EOSE. Walter Reed soccer players held the formidable German-American Soc- cer Club to a 2-to-1 count vesterday. Eisler of the victors and Clemens of Walter Reed were the outstanding YOUNG NET PLAYERS OPEN TITLE EVENTS NEW YORK, December 26—The national boys' and junior indoor ten- nis championship starts today on the courts of the 7th Regiment Armory with most of the East's leading talent in the classes competing. Malcolm T. Hill of Waban, Mass., will defend the bovs' singles crown, but a new junior titleholder will suc- ceed ‘Kenneth Appel of East Orange, N. J, who has passed the age limit of 19 for the event. Among _the outstanding contenders are expected to be: Horace Orser, New York schoolboy, and Willlam H. Summerson of Cornell, a protege of Bdgar Dawson, Cornell coach, who held the junior title in 1921, B HONOLULU, Hawaii, December 26— Unlversity of Colorado defeated the! Navy Service team at foot ball here yesterday, 43 to 0. | |v. & | Sary’ at 100 GRID GAMES LISTED BY VIRGINIA COLLEGES It will be a sumptuous menu oi foot ball that will be served to the fans of Virginia when the table of 1925 contests is ready for the call. One hundred games are already here may be others promoted before the usual interest will feature the {olph-Macon and Emory and Henry, d have made many departures from However, the old and ancient rivals have been retained in every instance, the new blood being added to fill the Eaps between what have always been the traditional and outstanding frays. For the most part the elevens will play nine-game schedules. Virginla Military Institute will continue her ten-game card, while her rival, Vir- ginia Polytechnic, has added & con- test to bring her total to ten also. Emory and Henry will play only cight games, the shortest schedule of any team in the State, Mave Hard Schedules. It is generally conceded by the fans that Washington and Lee and W liam and Mary have arranged the hardest scheduics of any in the State. The Generals drop Wake Forest and two other small teams to encounter big clevens in Princeton and Pitts- burgh and to receive a visit from Furman The two oldest colleges in America will play for the first time on the gridiron when the anclent College of Willilam and Mary lines up against Harvard at Soldiers’ Field The Willlamsburg eleven will also play the Haskell Indians in an en- The Navy and Syra- to be met again, both hav- played this year Virginia Makes Changes. For the first time in Virginia has not booked a single in- tersectional clash. The policy of re- trenchment has come in the face of what fans declare will be the Orange and Blue's brightest season in years. Maryland, however, new oppo- nent and Richmond College will oc- cupy the date on the schedule that d had this year. ney relinquishes her M. 1. card to Lynch- College, and Roanoke and will new games for Gobblers have one date that on October 31 of Richmond finds new Virginia and North Carolina gagement here | euse re ing many vears H burg Lynchburg P. I ‘The Unive foes in State. Here ginia e is the list of games for Vir- vens 10 P. SEPTEMI hburg College at V 1 T Wofford at VO SEPTEMEER 28 ors and Henry at V. M ¥, 1.; Washin a0d e mpden-Siduey Virg orth Car, lam and Ma dolph-Macen. Mary Emory and Henry at Teun OCTOBER 10. ML V. P 1 Tew af Prin am and M rze Wa iburg. 1 Washington v at Syracuse at Virginia den-Rldney 1-Macon at Lyn OCTORE nia: v Washington ut Johns Hopkins aw and Mary: ord State at Roa: Lenotr-Rhyme, ky: Richmon Ran < at Ly tmory aud Henry at OCTORE: wod at Virg mand; William folk: Roanoke rg ut Emory and Henry $CTOBER 81 ssburg at V. M. L: V. P. gton and Lee vx. West W. Va.: Randoiph-Ma tiehmond at Trinity: William and Hurvard; Elon at Hampden-Siduey; Lenoir at Roa ¥ b Lynchi Wa Ch NOVEMBER 7 North Carolina_at Richmond Carolina State at V. P. L; Virginia shington and Lee: Roanoke at Rich. mond: Albright at Willlam and Mary: Hamp. den-Sidney at Davidson: Randolph-Macon at Jolins Hopkins; Lynehburg and Henrs vs. Kentucky Stone Gap! v N at W 1 NOVEMBER Kentucky 1 and Mary ve. Haskeil mond: Gettyshurg at Roanoke Tusculum at Ewory and Maryland itich it NOVEMBER 21 State at Washing; Mary at Roanoke: o and Emory North Carolina Lee: William and and Henry at Elon NOVEMBER on Hampden Si Randolph-Mi v Richmond NOVEMBER 26, V. M. I vs. V. P. L at Roanoke: ington and Lee vs. Florida ut Jacksonville: Viginta at North Carolina; Willlam and Mary at’ Richmond. NOVEMBER 2 Roanoke at Lynchburg. "BUhK." SAYS McGRAW. NEW YORK, December 26.—John J McGraw, vice president and manager of the Giants, today denied a pub- !lished report that he had sold his in- terest in the New York club and had purchased the Boston Braves. 'he whole story is the bunk,” he said. — TURNER MAT WINNER. Joe Turner, local wrestler, who took the measure of Jack Ryan last night, will oppose Eddie Pope next Thursday night at the Mutual Thea- ter. Turner scored two falls over Ryan in less than 50 minutes FRENCHMEN UNRULY AFTER GRID DEFEAT PARIS, December 26—Southern France's warm-blooded inhabitants take their foot ball serlously, not to say passionately, but none more so than the ardent fans of the Lezignan Club. Recently, after a defeat Inflicted upon their team by the Perpignan Arlequins, according to L'Auto’s Per- pignan correspondent, they became so enraged that they besieged the referee in his dressing room for more than an hour. A few {mpartial sportsmen who tried to settle the dispute were badly mauled, one having two ribs broken. The referee was released only after he had signed a statement recording the match as a draw. Upon the referee’s complaint, the Languedoe Foot Ball League commit- tee suspended the Lezignan Club for three years, banned the president of the club from foot ball for life and severely disciplined several .of the official players. ;3 Your Old Hat J Mm!f_‘E‘GWAnin g‘;‘ I‘b‘!z and Vienna Hat Co, 409 11th Street Humpden- | COASTMEN'S PASSES BEAT MISSOURI, 20-7 e 1OS ANGELES, December 26.—Uni- versity of Southern California’s foot ball team yesterday defeated the Uni- versity of Missourl, champion of the Missourl Valley conference, 20 to 7, in the first of a series of Intersec- tional contests marking the year-end holidays. A combination of a close and open attack in the third period, when they scored all their points, gave the Cali- fornia men victory after they had been outplayed by the Middle West- |en team throughout the first two | periods. Forward passes gave the Trojans two of the three touchdowns. The lone Missouri touchdown came the last 30 seconds of play and from a fumble by Riddle, which Walsh picked up and ran 20 yards. It saved the Tigers from a blank score, The Tigers fought a brave fight and played a daring attack untll the; wiited in the third period and fell prey to the long distance passes of Newman. They came within scoring distance twice duripg the first two periods. The remainder of the game saw them making desperate attempts to stop the charging Trojans, in resulted 'PENN’S GRID SQUAD | STARTS WEST TODAY | PHILADELPHIA, December 26— Undefeated and tied but once during its | regular season, the University of Penn- sylvania foot hall team leaves today to { match its strength against the Univer- | sity of California eleven, aleo undefeat- , in_the Berkeley Memorial Bowl on ew Year day. With threfof their star players onut of the game because of in- | uries and fliness, the Quakers admit- tedly are not as optimistic of the result as they were a few weeks ago. Two of the injured players, Clark Craig and Joe Willson, will accompany the team, but neither will get in the | Kame. Tea Fairchild is recovering from appendicitis in Johnstown, Pa., and will | not be able to go. Definite selactions to fill their places probably «will not be | d until the arrival on the Pa- cific Coast, Coach Lou Young said. | " Accompanied by the entire coaching | staff and a small band of rooters the squad of 33 players will leave here at 3:10 o'clock this afternoon in a special | train over the Pennsylvania Railroad. | The train will include a baggage car | fitted as a gymnasium and equipped with shower baths, Training table meals will be served the players throughout the journey. Fourteen hours will be epent in Chi- cago, where the party will be guests of | the Chicago Athletic Club. Arrangements | had been made for an outdoor workout there, but because of the cold weather | the team ‘will practice indoors. The parts will leave Chicago at 11 p.m. aturday and is due in Berkeley at p.m. Tuesday. Brief stops for workouts also will be made at Omaha, Neb., and Ogden, Utah. tead of a signal drill on Franklin Field, which has been planned for to- day, Coach Young said he would lead the players a three-mile alk | through the country before they board- ed the train. Inside Golf By Chester Horton. There ix all the difference i the | | world between swingfg the golf| club and lifting it. When you swing it your blow axaiust the ball in ef- fective, even with A poor ~wing. When you lift the club you merely chep at the ball,| and only through the peculiarities | of accident could you thus hit the | ball for any dis- tance. I mean by “lifting"” the club | the habit a great many golfers have of making the lub elevate di- rectly upward. This comes from | an umnatural haste with the swing. It ix com- monly noted among good golfers that they always take sufiicient time fo make the club describe its complete | swing. Dub golfers do not take this | time. You hear the remark that “all pros teach you to swing slowly, but they awing fast themwelves.” They | do not swing xo fast; their swings ap- vear fast because of the great me- celeration they attain with the club- head, The par player starts his club alowly away from the ball, then de- liberately he goes on with it, letting it accelerate naturally. But you must give the club time to swing. De mot 1ift it, which indieates haste and re- sults in chopping. |decided to take a chance with me, WOULD DECREASE VALUE OF OVERHEAD OFFENSIVE Elimination of Try-for-Point After Touchdown Is Sought—Present Tally System With Slight Changes Has S By the Associated Press. NE\V YORK, December 26—S Already it has been suggested eliminated and that the touchdown tood for Years. coring will be among the problem facing the American foot ball coaches when they gather for their annual meeting here next week. that the point after touchdown be scored from reception of a forward pass count only three points, the same as a goal from the field, a schem. designed to eliminate the deluge of losing team makes a last effort to recover. with slight changes, has stood for m Another proposal, which has b past, has had to do with eliminati; passes at_the end of a game wher The present scoring systen nany years. een’ made annually for several year ng tic games by providing an ex period of play or deciding the winner by giving an extra point for th team which made the greatest number of first downs or gained the most yards during the regular playing period. In the early days of the present century weight counted more than speed, for the rules provided that an eleven might gain a first down by ad- vancing only 5 yards In three at- tempts, where now the distance is 10 yards in four. Those were the days of shinguards and noseguards, accoutrements unknown to modern gridirons. Injuries Forced Open Play. Hurdling and fiying tackles had not been banned, 8o players went into a contest protected from head to foot, with thick pads on shoulders and e bows. Injuries were numerous and deaths from foot ball injurfes came too often to suit the American sport loving public. Then came the forward pass and the longer distance to make, with more downs in which to accomplish the task. Pads and guards were hurl- ed to the sldelines as speed became one of the necessary elements. The average line weight dropped about 10 pounds, for where formerly the ef- fort had been to obtain a “stonewall” to hurl back the heaviest fullback, the coaches developed a group of chargers to worry kickers and pass- ers. The game had opened up. Foot ball gained a tremendous fol- lowing, with small universities plac- ing light, but clever passing teams in the field and soon the squads mount- ed into the thirties and the “artists” Larry Nab |took their place in the game. The were the experts at drop-kicking punting and passing who were rushe into the contest when an opportunit: | for field goal or touchdown loomed With the new open game, the fleld were crowded and foot ball becam financially profitable and able to ca for the increasing number of part! cipants, 01d Scores Were Low. In the old days a touchdown mean 5 points, the following goal 1. And the goal posts. This proved to be to kicked from the angle of the field yards from the point where t} went over the line unless punted out safely to some more vantageous position. Later it was decreed that the extra | point must be made from a positio | 15 vards from and directly in front thegoal posts. Thls proved to be too easy, and thers were toe men Whe scored immense totals of consecutiv goals. Now any kind of play is per missible with the ball put in serir mage 3 yards from and in front c the goal posts. A touchdown has com to count 6 points in order that th combination of a fleld goal and safety may not equal the fruits | gruelling advance. But the sur ing score for a forfeited game remains 1 to 0, although in base holtz Tells: ¥y Greatest Golfing Tragedy. GUESS that every caddie who I days dreams of the time when h tournament or the final of the P: was my hope at French Lick, Ind, I had conquered Gene Sarazen, the takes up goli as a profession these e will beat Walter Hagen in an ope: rofessional Golfers’ Association. Tha this year, and my hope grew after 1922 and 1923 champion, in an early round, and ultimately fought my way to the semi-finals. I believed I could win from Jim thus get into the final agai over Ray Derr, the fourth semi-fi ment, this Golf has been 4 part of my life ever since I can remember. When I was four or five years of age, parents lived in a house on a road leading to the country club at Sharon, Pa. The first link that bound me to the game was forged when caddies who passed by our home on their way to the course saw me play- ing in a sandpile and tossed me an old, badly cut ball. I played a lot with that ball, and when it was lost the boys wave me others. Then one day a member of the country club, Seeing that I had no club, presented me with one of his old ones, a brassie. From then on I was a golfer—at least a would-be one. When I was six vears old I gravitated toward the links as naturally as water goes over a dam. I had ambitions to be a caddie. T had a rough fnitiation, but I stayed around, and after the other boys left I took my old club and did a bit of playing. I had a desire to do more than caddie. Anyway, T was o little that I seldom got chances to_work. One of these fow chances came on an_evening when every other boy had departed, and a woman member 1 1 would I only, my was so small that try couldn’t keep her bag from dragsing on the ground. When we reached the first green she sent me back. She thought it cruel to employ me. I was going to school and was gaining in strength. For the next ten years I caddied at Sharon, play- ing golf at every opportunity. For seven years I had but one club, the brassie I have mentioned. Kventu- ally I added others, mostly broken- down sticks which had been discard- THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS | BY WILL ‘A | | about the German carp. Two, other is from Virginia. these first. One is from Green Ba carp to such an extent that all game their rot,” says E. E. Spalding of Jan He also points out the havoc | wrought in the Rock River. Here is | what he s | “Not many years ago there were miles and miles of bass water in the Rock River Valley; deep-water bars covered with wall-eyed pike; rush- grown shores pestered with pickerel and larger great pike. But they have been rotted out and we are cleaned today. “Carp have destroyed the plant life that protects young fish of other species and attracts ducks; they have ripped up spawning beds and made the water untenable for native fishes; and so long as the carp re- {main native fish will not propagate land increase. If the waters can be | rid of carp and restocked with native fish the valley will return to fits former status as a wild game and fish refuge. The other clipping has to do with Lake Koshkonong. Carp have de- stroyed the vegetation in this lake. Just read this: “Carp_have destroyed the vegeta- tion in Lake Koshkonong. This lake was once naturally famous for its fishing and duck hunting; that it formerly consiated of 25,000 acres of marsh, with a_ solid mass of wild celery and pond grass, and thus be- came a refuge for countless schools of game fishes and thousands of water fowl. In 1906 A. B. Strout and H. L. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S,7th & F S T write I have before me three newspaper clippings. H. DILG, President, Izaak Walton League of America. Each one is it happens, are from Wisconsin, the Since the carp has a strong foothold in Wisconsin, let us look at “Horicon Marsh is infested with fish have died and the lak¢ smells of eeville, Skavlem analyzed and named 150 water plants, including those used for feed by the deep-diving ducks, canvas backs, red heads and blue bills, in Lake Koshkonong. They also found 50 varleties of shore plants that marsh ducks, mallard and teal, delight in. In those days a ton of plant life grew to the acre, but in 1923 C. B. Terrell, an expert, called the bed of Lake Koshkonong ‘as bare of vegetation as a_ballroom floor,” while in 1923 D. B. Hylan found one plant, a bull rush.” The third clipping states that the Norfolk, Va., sportsmen are demand- ing that the State spend $8,000 an- nually to carry on war against the carp in Back Bay. Every duck hunter knows of or has heard about Back Bay. It is nationally famous. But the carp are destroying it. They are ripping out the wild celery and other ;r‘e[etlbla growth on which the ducks ve. Sportsmen of Norfolk have a plan for carp eradication which they will present to the conservation commis- sion. WHIL it succeed? I fear it will not, much as I wish it would. The carp is spreading to every ocorner of America. He constitutes a national problem among sportsmen. He can- not be eradicated. Perhaps he can be_controlled. T hope so. Anything is worth try- Ing. e 70T “Gardner” “Outperforms Any Car in Its Class” 2 R 72 7 S, Barnes, my semi-finals opponent, a nst Hagen, who seemed likely to be a nalist. Unknown beiore the tour: would be a triumph, indeed. ed by their owners. I deter be a professional Dave Robertson came to Sharo professional. He was a fine gol and I modeled my game after his Later in 1918 he went to a Pitts burgh club and hired me as his sistant. He taught me to discard the interlocking grip which I then used and to shorten my swing. I mad use of his advice as a professional s Lima, Ohio, my present location. I guess it was this which brought my game to the point where I was first able to fight my Wway to the sem! finals of the 1924 national professio: al_champlonship. Beating ne Sarazen gave a lot of confidence, and this was inforced by my victory over Henr: Clucl the next day. Against J Barnes I had no fears, for my ga was my normal one. At the end c the morning round of our match, had him one up. was a bitter one, the stretch I was two holes to go. seemed, was to halve the 35th 36th and I would have my grea opportunity to clash with Hagen- while still in early twenties. Barnes made a wonderful seconc shot on the 35th hole and square the match. We both got good dri on the 3Gth, but mine was lor His second left him short of the pir There was a chance for me to ge! inside him and take a three to hi four. T played a high ball boldl: for the flag. Unfortunately, it was too far past the cup. It bounced over a bank at the rear of the green I took a five and Jim a four. He and not I played Hagen on Satur day. That second shot on the 36th green was the most tragic 1 ever made Had the ball been two feet short of where it dropped it would have bees safely on. As a matter of fact, th rear of the green was elevated and there was a distinct slope toward the cup. I played to hit this slope in the hope my ball would roll bac) toward the pin. I didn’t succeed, and my ambition to battle the gr. Hagen was thwarted. = STAR RUNNERS ENTER ALOY DISTANCE RACE Entry blanks for the seven-miil marathon to be given under the aus pices of the Aloysius Club New Ycar day may be had at Spalding’s or fron Thomas Smith, 47 I street. Some of the leading runners in thi section are due to compete. Williar: Agee of Baltimore, who won the re- cent South Atlantic championship event at the University of Maryland will compete, as will James Morris veteran campaigner of the Nativity Club of Philadelphia, who capture first place in the Washington Pos race early this year. Next Thursday’s run has been sanc- tioned by the A. A. U. A silver ¢ will be awarded the victor, while the first ten men to finish will receive prizes. The team of five men scoring the lowest number of points will w the team trophy. Guaranteed Automobile Repairing and Overhauling A. A. A. Service Station NEVER Closed Always Available Sheridan Garage, Inc. 2516 Q Street N.W. «Q Bridge) The afterncon fight but coming dow one up with o All I had te do.