Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 13

SPORTS. BROADENING INFLUENCES MAIN VALUE OF SESSIONS Few of Delegates, Many of Whom Make Long Trips, Figure in Proceedings, Which Are Fully Controlled by Old Guard. BY H.C. BYRD. N EW YORK, December 31.—With the annual meetings of the Ameri- can Foot Ball Coaches’ Association and National Collegiate Ath- letic Association a part of the past, one naturally begins to take stock of just what was accomplished. And after trying to unwind the string of talk and attempting to deduce to concrete facts whatever of value came from the meetings, one wonders if they actually are sufficiently productive to warrant the time and money expended on them. Usdoubtdly certain broadening influences are connected with any athering of the kind completed here last night, but for most of the gclega(ea that was about all the value attached to their trips. Many delegates from all sections of the country were present at the meetin: of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, but if many of them think they actually had influence in its actions or that their presence was of any weight they never were more mistaken in their lives. As a matter of fact, everybody might as well have remained at home, with the exception of a very few, and the coming. same results would have been forth- In the Association fort, and National Collegiate Athletic the old guard holds the is so strongly Intrenched hat it will take an attack to dis- lodge them beside which, in com- parison, Pickett's charge would be an afternoon’s stroll. Purely Edaecational. The N. C. A. A. is purely an edu- eational organization and whatever 1t does has no weight except for the influence it exerts over its members. In other words, the assoclation ac- complishes something worth while from a practical viewpoint by in- fluencing its members to do what is considered to be the right thing, and there is no doubt that the influenge wielded In an educational way is tremendous. It has accomplished much that is good and should con- tinue to do so. Therefore, whatever action it takes is of interest in the colleges and universitles, notwith- standing that It controls not a single activity in any institution. The report of the committee which investigated the use 6f motion pic- tures and -still photographs in foot ball scouting did not find the wide- spread use of these that had been ex- pected, but passed a resolution that condemned such practice. A committee was appointed to in- vestigate the Summer base ball ques- tion, and rules committees for next Year were appointed. About the only rules committees for which. there are real aspirations and on which positions are very much desired is that of foot ball. The only man on this committee who will not serve during the coming year is Capt. J. McEwan of West Point. Mc- an will not be available for meet- as he has been assigned' to serv- ice in Porto Rico. Littie in the nature of new busi- ness was attempted, practically all sessions being taken up with reports and addresses of a sat nature. All the 0la oficers were re-elected. 2 Interesting Paper Read. 1 the writer had to pick just one thing from the whole of the proceed- ings of the three sessions which were held yesterday that really was worth would take the paper read Kennedy of Princeton on nistration of College Athletics” send it to “every man in the United States who has anything to do with sports. Much in that paper was worth while. It was about the most practicable and sensible discussion of pre s related to college sports that has been given in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in years Most of the time spent by the foot ball coaches in thelr meetings Mon- day was given over to a discussion of changes they should recommend in the foot ball rules. One or two per- sons offcred some rather radical ideas, but practically the whole trend of the meetings was conservative. Two recommended changes which seemed to arouse unanimous consent were those that involved taking the ball back to the 40-yard line for the kick-off and eliminating the award of a first down to the offensive team, as well as five yards in distance when a five-yard penalty is meted out against the defensive eleven. 1t ms to be the feeling that these are the only changes that have o chance to get by the rules com- mittee. Bob Zuppke of Tilinois, who was elected president of the coaches’ as- tation, after he had presided at the meetings, gets off a lot of dry humor that sometimes closely approaches sarcasm, and this probably will prevent many people from appreciating him @t his true worth, and CARRY DUCKPINNERS BEAT BALTIMOREANS The second block of three games een the duckpin teams of the Ice Cream Co. of this city and Hendler Ice Cream Co. of Balti- miore was rolled last night at the Recreation alleys and resulted in a victory for the locals by 17 pins. The totals” were: Carry, 1,605; Hendler, 1,588, The first block was rolled in Balti- more December 16 and the Carrys won by 95 pins. The third block prob- ably will be rolled in Baltimore, al- though the local quint has the right - to name the alleys. Previous to last night's match the teams and several guests were banqueted. The high set went to the Hendlers, 579, and the best game rolled was that of Peters, who smashed the maples for 137. The scores CARRYS. 82 105 122 100 12 107 5461 06 Seyfred ... Polpinale . . Alsop Baird Brewr Robinsa Freidman Freeze Peters Kline ...0 Krause . Nelson Totals... The big blind pig tournament, which has been running at the Coliseum, closes tonight and the drawing of the lucky teams will take place Friday mnight. Fifty-eight teams took part in the tourney. Basket Ball Yesterday At Chicago—Navy, 20; Chicage, 21. At Greencastle—Depauw, 25; Van- derbilt, 20, At South Bend—Notre Dame, Northwestern, 15. At Indianapolis—Butler, 24; Illinois, 3. At Plétsburgh—Dugquesne, 37; Ad- rian Cellege of Michigan, 9. At Toronte—Chicago V. M. C. A. Cellegs, 854 Toronto -West End Y. M C. Ao 3% . SOl 679—1,688 CLUB JOHNSON SEEKS NO LONGER FOR SALE Unless J. Cal Ewing, principal owner of the Oakland Pacific Coast League base ball club, is doing a d~al of meaningless sputtering, Walter Johnson probably will be back with the world champion Nationals next Spring. There may be something to that rumor from Ann Arbor of an offer of financial aid to the extent of $400,000 for Johnson, who aspires to be a minor league magnate, but Ewing says his club, which Johnson once dickered for, is no longer on the market. According to reports from Oakland, Ewing sald yesterday: *“We have made all of our plans for next season and are golng ahead with them. We have not heard from any Ann Arbor men, nor any one else, since the deal with Johnson was called off. The club is not for sale. Johnson, at his home in Reno, has admitted that through Derrill Pratt he had been negotiating with an Ann Arbor capltalist hoping to reopen the Oakland deal. The Ann Arbor man is said to be P. T. Dobson, former owner of the Akron, Ohio, New FAST QUINTS CLASH IN TWIN-BILL SUNDAY Four of the fastest basket ball teams in this section of the country are due to appear at the Arcade Auditorium Sunday night. Aloysius Club, rated as one of the best amateur organizations in the District, meets the Newark Club of Baltimore, Md., Monumental City champion. In an- other engagement the Palace Club meets the Hagerstown Elks tea Washington floor fans are familiar with the phenomonal record of the Aloysius Big Five. In the past five vears the I street players have lost perhaps a half-dozen engagments. The value of the visiting Newark team may be calculated from the fact that it beat the City Club team 69 to 9 recently. The Hagerstown Elks team posed of Wallower, Bariow, ( Wallace and Lerian, is a combination. ALOYSIUS ROAD RACE DRAWS 50 RUNNERS In @ field of 50 harrlers that will face the starter in the Aloysius 7- mile modified marathon at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, the local athletic club has collected one of the greatest aggregations of long-distance run- ners that has ever performed in the Capital Aloysius Club of Washington, Emorywood Club, Hilton Club, Ster- ling Club, Y. M. H. A., all of Balti- more, and the Nativity Club of Phila- delphia, have entered capable dis- tance men. Numerous college stars and several well known unattached runners of this section also will be seen in action. Entries already received follow: 1, Dan Healy; 2, L. S. Hammond; 3, Mike Lymech; 4, Carrol Brooks; & James Montague; 6, Grattan W. Mon- tague; 7, Joseph Stanley; 8, Jeremiah Looneys 9, Alo sius Seiple; 10, Gerard Augustine, Aloysius, Washington. 11, Hamilton Bruenfer; 12, Robert Peters; 13, Nick Snair; 14, Harold Peters; 15, Vernon Glendening; 16, ¥Frank Nash; 17, Raymond Rider; 18, Emil Hergenroeder; 19, Oliver Beall; 20, William E. Peters; 21, Milton Sher- man; 22, John J. Peters, Emorywood Club, Baltimore, 23, Richard Olwin; 24, Albert Ham- mersley; 25, Carl Clary; 26, Tilden MacCublin; 27, Hubert Flynn; 28, Wil- liam Sherwood: 28, Morton Sacks; 30, Edward Rosenfeld; 31, Thomas Diffey; 32, Henry Miller, Hilton Club, Balti- more. & 33, Ted Loewenson; 33, Maurice Klein; 34, Leon Levy; 35, Emil Hafi- ner; 36, Sol Koplod, Y. M. H. A., Bal- timore, Md. Edwin H. Shaw, jr.; Louis Shaw; 38, Raymond Dorscy, Sterilng Club, Bultimore. 40, ¥rank Blum, Cross-Country Club, Baltimore, Md. 41, James Morris, Philadelphia, Pa. 42, Willlam Agee, unattached, Bal- timore, Md. 43, Samuel H. College. 44, John S. McKee, Cornell Univer- sity. 45, Henry D. Mirick, Princeton Uni- versity. 47, Ellis H. Canoe Club, 48, Bdwin S. Academy. 49, William C. Nicholson, De Molay Club, Washington. 50, Karl Gottschalk, unattached, Re- 2 Md. K. 0.’S “JACK DEMPSEY.” HAMMOND, Ind, December 31— Jack Dempsey was knocked out yes- terday—a pasteboard Jack Dempsev. com- coe, powerful Nativity Club, Martin, Dartmonth ‘Washington Naval Martin, Mclkee, U. S. A full-sized picture of the heavy- weight champion in fighting attitude in an East Chicago drug store win- dow so irritated Charles Logan as he passed it that he let fly with a hay- maker through the plate glass. Bleeding from cut wrist and face, Lo- gan stlll was swinging when ar- rested. TRADE RUMOR IS DENIED. CINCINNATI, Ohlo, December 31.— August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Nationals, has denied a re- port that Shortstop Jimmy Caveney is to be traded by the Reds to the Phila- delphia. Nationals for Outflelder Cy < THE BALTIMOREAN WINS BOYS’ TENNIS TITLE NEW YORK, December 31.—Ed- ward Jucobs, ld-year-old Balti- more youth, today won the nation- al boys' indoor tennis champlon~ ship by defeating Frank Shields, Siver Beach, N. Y., 6—2, 6—4, in the final. A sensational upset marked the play for the jumior singles title when Kenneth Appel of East Orange, N. J. and Mercersburg Acndemy, the defending champion, was eliminated in the semi-final round by H. L. Johnson of Newton Academy, Waban, Mass., 8—8, 6—1. Joknson’s opponent in the junior finul tomorrow will be Horace Or- ser, New York schoolboy, who de- feated Malcolmn T. Hill of New- ton Acadenm:y, 6—3, 6—2, in the other semi-final contest. “CHARGING BUFFALO” WILL JOIN YANKEES NEW YORK, December Levi, the “charging buffalo” of the Haskell Indian foot ball team, is coming to New York to play profes- sional base ball as an outfielder. He has signed a contract with the Yankees. Levi's coming recalls other days to New York fans. Years ago Harry Sockalexis, an Indian, advanced to the plate for his first apperance in major league company, with a group of fellow tribesmen from a little island in the Penobscot River above Bangor, Me., in the stands clad in tribal and feathers. There was a crack of bat meeting ball and Harry Sockalexis was seated on the bench before the din died. His hit had gone over the fence. Then, a little more than 10 years ago, the great Jim Thorpe of Car- lisle came to the Gilants, fresh from numerous national and international conquests. He soon left the major loagues, however, and journeyed about, playing in the Pacific Coast League and later in tho Eastern League. At last reports he was ap- pearing with Twilight Leagure clubs around Boston. Six feet, one inch tall, Levi, a full blooded Arapahoe, who can hurl a forward pass 70 yards, is declared to be an excellent fielder and superb hitter. He welghs 190 pounds and is years old. Thorpe described Levi as the great- est foot ball player he had over seen. The newcomer bats and throws right-handed and s said to approx- imate the style of Bob Meusel, the Yankees' left flelder. TECH-CENTRAL ALUMNI QUINTS BATTLE TODAY Quints composed of former basket ball stars of Central and Tech High Schools expected to clash at 2 o'clock today in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Four University of Maryland play- ers, Boyd, Supplee, Burger and Wood- ward, were to have places In the Tech line-up, with Shanks and House of Penn State also being available for duty. vby, Dick Newby and Foster, > Washington ath- letes; Doy, McFadden and Walker of Dartmouth, and Childress of Wesleyan expected to play for Central, CENTRAL FIVE PLAYS ALUMNI TOMORROW With the exception of the annual Central Alumni-Central game in the Central High gymnasium tomorrow afternoon, local scholastic basketers will get little action on their home courts before the opening of the championship series on January 10. However, Gonzaga has scheduled contests with two_of the high school teams, meeting Western in the I street gymnasium on January 5 and Central on January 8. Western also meets Cathollc University freshmen on the latter date. At least two Washington schools will enter the University of Pennsyl- vania tournament, in which Central made such a good showing a year ago. Eastern, Western and Central have received Invitations to enter the annual .competition, but Coach Ahearn, at Western, does not intend to accept unless his team makes a creditable showing fn the coming titular series, Eastern’s five expected tough op- today against the strong s (Pa.) High team in the steel t Readlng. Bennie and Radice, forwards; Heeke, center, and Scruggs and Kessler, guards, probably will start the game for the Washing- tonians. Gonzaga High School's quintet was defeated last night by St. Joseph's of Philadelphia, 37 to 17, in a game in which the visitors led from the start. The Philadelphians scored 14 field goals to four for the local team. 31.—John SHORTSTOPS EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., WEDNESDAY, DE PROMINENT CEMBER 31, 1924, STANFORD TO COUNT SPORTS.’ PICKED 13 Big Athletic Meetings Accomplish Little : California and Notre Dame Favored TO DEFEAT PENN IN BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES)| ON SEVERE PLUNGING] AN STANFORD ELEVENS By the Associated Press. N EW YORK, December 31—~Two names stand out markedly in the official averages of the National League. Glenn Wright of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Travis Jackson of the New York Giants, recruits, shortstopped for more than 150 con- tests in a season which produced only five men in the National League who accamplished the feat. Wright held his position throughout 153 games. Jackson performed 151 times. b Apparently it was a great year for shortstops, Everett Scott contin- uing his long service in consecutive games for the Yankees in the Ameri- can League and Rabbit Maranville, formerly a star in that position, ap- pearing in 152 battles for Pittsburgh. Roger Peckinpaugh saw service 155 times with the Washington club. The Pirates’ inner defense truly held together, with Maranville and Wright playing almost every game ot the schedule and First Baseman Charley Grimm donning a uniform for 151 struggles. Ple Traynor, the third baseman, had about 10 days’ leave during the year, but partici- pated in 142 tilts, Close behind came the infleld of the Giants, led by Jackson. The New York quartet averaged 146 games, Bill Terry assisting at first base dur- ing George Kelly's journeys to cen- ter fleld. The veteran Helne Groh gathered his record fielding average in 145 contests. The only other National Leaguer to pass the long-distance mark was Jacques Fournier, Brooklyn first basemian, who appeared on 154 occa- sions and led the league In this respect. In the American League three play- ers played through every contest on the schedule and they were veterans all. Tyrus Cobb appeared in 165 con- tests for his Detroit club, Bill Wambsganss did as much for the Red Sox and Peckinpaugh carried on for the Senators. Others in the American League who served through 150 games or more were: Babe Ruth, Yankees; Eddle Collins, White Sox; Harry Hellmann, Tygers; Goose Goslin, Senators; Sam Rice, Senators; Bill Jacobson, Browns. Joe Sewell, Indians; Al Simmons, Athletics; George Sisler, Browns; Wally Pipp, Yankees, and Everett Scott, Yankees. CORBY BASKETERS PLAY FIVE JACKS TOMORROW C ORBY BAKERY five makes its first appearance under the manage- ment of Eddie Bratburd when it meets the Five Jacks, a team of college and school boys home on vacation, on the Congress Heights court tomorrow afternoon. A preliminary is being arranged between two other local quints, starting at 2:30 o’clock. Chet Webster, formerly of Business High School, is handling the Jacks and has under him a number of clever tossers. Jack Smith, who made a name for himself at Eastern High last year and is now a member of the freshmen squad at Maryland Univer- sity, will start the game at center; Stevens and Faber, also former East- ern stars and now sporting Mary- 1land’s colors, and Artie Boyd, a Tech grad, now at Maryland, will take turns at forward; while Joe O'Dea and Pat O'Connor of Catholic University will fill the guard positions. The Jacks have been practicing dally against Coach Charley Guyon's fast Eastern High five and are ex- pecting to make trouble for the Corby outfit, Argyle Athletic Club will play the first of & series of games with out-of- town teams tomorrow night, when it tackles the strong Western Presby- terian team of Baltimore in the Wil- son Normal gymnasium. The Balti- more team is among the leading con- tenders for the 133-pound title of the Monumental City Washington Barracks Flyweights fell before the Anacostia Midgats, 68 to 10. Rankin and Gibbons were the outstanding players for the victors, while Rehkrof scored four goals for the losers. Sherwood 110-pound two games for Friday. 10083. team wants Call North Schwarts and Wiltshire starred for the Freer Preps when the Eastern Preps ere downed, 30 to Klondyke Athletic Club defeated the Cleveland Park five, 64 to 16. The victors will meet the Chevy Chass quint on the latter’s court Saturday night. A 44-10-23 defeat was handed tha Takoma Tigers by the Thomson Cel- tios. The game was the first of the season for the winners. Olympic tossers are anxious to book games with teams averaging 115 to 120 pounds. The manager may be reached at West 1567, Lexington Midgets over the fast In Athletic Club Midgets in a 32-to-18 match. Gold- steln and McNally scored five baskets each. Manager McNally will book games at North 3672-J. were victors Mount Rainjer Juniors won their second game of the season in defeat- ing the Cuthbert Juniors, 20 to 18. Pop Kremb, manmager of the Lib- erty Athletic Club, needs the services of meveral tossers to replace plavers who have been forced out of the game by injuries. He is seeking new talent at 718 Taylor street, or Columbia 4163, after 5 o'clock. \ Ottawa Club 100-pound team de- feated the Hanovers, 31 to 18, and Hilltops, 52 to 14. Games may be ar- ranged by calling Manager Buscher, at West 2528. Schafer of the Red Shield tossers scored 66 points against the North- ern Midgets, his team winning, 91 MURCHISON TO GIVE UP SPRINT TITLE BY TRIP A NEW indoor sprint king will be crowned this season. Loren Murchi- son, Newark A. C. flier, who burned up the boards with his speed last season, leaves soon with Charley Paddock on a world tour. His only appearance indoors will be at the Finnish-American games, Jan- uary 6. Candidates for the title he will vacate include Jackson Scholz, Olympic 200-meter champion; Alf Leconey, Frank Hussey and Louis Clarke, all members of the American 400-meter relay team, which broke the world record at Paris. The Boston Braves finished last in the National League pennant race, but led the league in fielding with a mark of .973. One point behind them were tho Phillles, who were seventh in the pennant dash. Down at the bottom of the National League list is a small gathering of names, the players who participated in less than 10 games during the season of 1924. These include two classes, the men coming in and those going out. Among those at the end of their major league journeys are Eddie Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League, Next Season. to Be Celebrated Lt i 4ol XXVIIL GREATEST PLAYERS—SAM THOMPSON. A better than 400. There are few players who have lived to do that sort of thing in base ball in the National League he batted years that he served he was almost Sam Thompson's career began in a rather homely sort of fashion. The start was much like Sam’s position at bat where he violated all the rules that are presumed to be set down for proper placing of the feet, and a proper stance, and stood any old way that he felt like standing. Usually he was half slouched down, permit- ting all of his welght to rest on one leg, but when he stood up and let drive, he could hit the ball so hard that infielders used to blow on their fingers when they tried to stop ground balls that he batted, and many outfielders raced half way across the town to catch up with hits that got beyond them. . One day Sam was putting a roof on a house out in Indiana where he lived. The town team was to play Detroit and one of the town players was unable to report. The head of the club hitched up his trotter and hurried to Thompson’s home. They. told the base ball man there that Sam was shingling a house in the nelgh- borhood and to thr Louse the man- ager went. After a little negotiation he suc- ceeded in getting Sam to play that afternoon for his team. It Is said that the price was $2.50, which correspond- ed to a day's wages, and Thompson thought hé was driving a good bar- gain to get a full day's pay for a half day's work because he also had his time coming on the shingling job. ‘Thompson. was picked it off. the Toof as he stood.and went over to the BIG, ungainly ball player was Sam Thompson, but what a batter, and what a player for the National League to possess. with Detroit and Philadelphia and twice in his career he batted He played Nine of the years in which he was an outficlder better than .300 and in the other -300. ball ground. Almost the first thing that he did was to knock the ball into the hereafter and he continued to keep knocking. He was the ‘knockingest knocker” that the vis- ting club had ever seen and there it was that fate changed the cut for Sam Thompson. He bade farewell to the hammer and the shingle nail to take up the bat and make himself famous all over the eastern part of the United States as one of the great sluggers of the big league. Thompson’s stance at the plate had every evidence that the batter was the laziest man salive. He hung o on one'foot and leg that it almost seemed as If he were going to nod shortly, and forget that base ball was being played, but if the pitcher threw one where Sam Thompson wished to swing at the ball, his bat suddenly sprang iInto action like a rapier in play in a duel, and the ball, if it was hit on the center, where Sam aimed it should be, would almost surely pass out of the game. He was not a clever outflelder like some ball players, because he did not have a pair of heels that could run like the hoofs of a deer, but he was death to what he could get his hands on and if all of the Philadelphia club bad played ball as he did, Harry Wright would have died with a cham- plonship “Philly” team, which was the old manager’'s greatest ambition and one never realized. (Next—Jimmy Coliins.) Ainsmith, battery mate of Walter Johnson for several years; Ivy Olson, long a shortstop in Brooklyn; Walton Cruise, outfielder of the Cardinals and Braves; Johnny Lavan, once noted physiclan-shortstop of the Cardinals, and Johnny Rawlings, whose mar- velous play In the world series of 1921 was the final blow to the Yankees. Harold E. (Boots) Lever, former University of Pennsylvania track star, who won the Intercollegiate 100-yard championship of the annual Wilco A. A games last year in 9 4-5 seconds, has entered for this Winter's contest on February 7 and expects to face Loufs Clark, Chet Bowman, Alfred Leconey and Frank Hussey. In the two East-West foot ball games in California tomorrow three members of Walter Camp's first all- American eleven will appear. At Berkeley, Capt. Horrell, the Cali- fornia center, whom Camp placed as a guard, will buck the Pennsylvania line, in which McGinley, one of the Camp tackles, is a powerful link. At Pasadena, Stuhldreher, first choice for quarterback, will lead the attack against Stanford. Camp’s second team will be repre- sented by Lawson, Stanford captain and end, and Crowley, Notre Dame fullback, one of the four horsemen. The third all-star mythical eleven will contribute Walsh, the Notre Dame captain and center, and Imlay, a California halfback. ORIOLES BUY QUTFIELD: NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 31. —John Roser, outfielder of the Wor- cester Eastern League, who hit .330 last season, including 38 home runs, has been sold to the Baltimore Inter- nationals. He led the Eastern League in batting during 1924. TR L S PR LEADS NAVY SOCCERISTS. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 31.— Members of the midshipmen’s soccer team have elected John E. Fradd of Manchester, N. H., as captain of the eleven for the 1925 season. His posi- tion is center forward. HEADS JOCKEY CLUB. NEW YORK, December 39.—Frank K. Sturgis of New York, was elected chairman of the Jockey Club, to suc- ceed the late Maj. August Belmont, by the club stewards. NO SUNDAY BALL SUIT. BOSTON, December 31.—Attorney General Jay R. Benton has announced, after an investigation, that mo legal action would be taken as a result of a news story published recently that Judge Emil S. Fuchs of the Boston Nationals had been asked to contrib- ute to a “slush” fund to be used to bribe legislators to pass & law mak- Ang legal Sunday base ball in Massa- BY WALTER CAMP, NEW YORK, December 31.—Glenn Warner and his Stanford team will 80 at Notre Dame at Los Angeles to- morrow with some severs line plung- ing on the part of Hey and Bogue, two stalwart line drivers. The writer does not expect to see them give Rockne’s line a great deal of trouble at first, but the cumulative effect of their plunging will tend to wear down the line. They will not drive at the middle, but on and off guard and tac- kle, just as Hey did against Cali- fornia. To Warner’'s aerial game, while he will use a few short ones, his main reliance will be the long passes, the ball being handled twice behind the line before it {s passed. Warner has no great speed men behind his line, although he has one or two that he may slip in for that purpose. He has na really extraordi- narily long punter, but his punters get good height and his ends cover the kick well. On the defense he is tight and pow- erful enough in the line, but against Notre Dame he will have to bolster up his line behind tackle and end with his secondary, spreading them out a little more than usual, €0 as to take care of the end and tackle running of the “four horsemen.” This is likely to leave his defen: vulnerable to an ir‘ermediate for- ward pass, which Rockne's team work with great precision. Notre Dame will go in for speed. Rockne may put in some second- string men for a time, as he has done in other important games, but when he does make his strike it will be fast and furious, with a mixture of shifts and passes. Moreover, if Stanford takes care of the wings or drops a man out of the line as & roving cen. ter, Stuhldreher will make a cross- fire back for the middle of the line, a play that hurt West Polnt very seri- ously last year, NAVY FIVE WOULD ADD MICHIGAN TO VICTIMS CHICAGO, December 31—"On to Michigan” is the cry of the Naval Acad- emy basketers, who won their second straight game on the Western invasion. Chicago was the victim last night, 29 to 21. After Navy took the lead there was little doubt of the outcome, but it was a long while before the Kasterners could stop the Big Ten champions. Chicago opened a whirlwihd attack in the first 10 minutes and ran up a 10-to-2 score. The home five sank clean shots from all angles and distances of the floor. Navy was slow to start, particu- larly in view of the bewlldering early speed of Chicago. Finally Parrish and Jones worked themselves in for three baskets, and after that the Mid- dies gradually crept up until the score was in thelr favor, 15 to 12, at half time. The Navy squad leaves for Ann Arbor, where the third game will be played on Friday with Michigan. TURNER AND BASHARA PRIMED FOR BATTLE Jack ‘Turner and Joe Bashara are reported to be in fine condition for their New, Year bout, which heads the fight card .at Fort Myer tomorrow night. Both fighters have enthusiastio fol- lowings among the local fans and should draw a crowd. Matchmaker Frankis Mann has ar- ranged three preliminary bouts, which promise some lively doings. Kid Nakel and Black Pearl, two col- ored featherweights, will meet In the opener, while Billy Foreman of Fort Myer, will tackle Billy Miske. Midget Carbon, the 3d Cavalry's “Little Corporal,” and Eddie Leonard, the Baltimore bantamweight, who holds the scalps of Frankie Neill and Jack Cafoni, will mix it up in the semi-final. SHOOT TOMORROW OPEN TO ALL D. C. AMATEURS Washington Gun Club members will compete in a shoot, open to all amateurs, starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, over the Benning traps. Two events of 15 targets each, one of 20 targets and 12 pairs of doubles are the leading numbers on the program. Sweepstakes will be run jack rabbit style, which returns to the shooter a portion of his entrance fee for every target broken. Tomorrow's shoot is in the nature of a practice match In preparation for the third registered tournament with the Oriole Club of Baltimore on the home grounds Saturday, January 17. BROOKLYN IS DICKERING FOR PORTLAND PLAYERS CLEARWATER, Fla, December 31. —Charles H. Ebbetts, president of the Brooklyn club, questioned regard- ing rumors that Emmett McCann, second baseman, and Jim Poole, first baseman of the Portland club, would be members of the Dodgers’ team next year, said that he discussed such a deal. He declined to make a statement regarding the result of the confer- ence further than to say that Johnny Jones, infielder, would be released to Portland and that there would be other changes. Making Bears Choice Over Quakers Appears to Be Justifiable, But Hoosiers Seen by Critic as Having Only Even Chance. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N the game between the Quakers and EW YORK, December 31.—California is a 7-to-5 favorite among West Coast bettors over Pennsylvania. Notre Dame rules at 10 to 8 over Stantord. The odds would seem to be fair as regards the Bears, but even money would seem a better figure so far as the struggle at Pasadena is concerned. As to the Stanford-Notre Dame me, the writer already has set forth his %opinion at length, and now it is timely to speak of the contest at Berkeley. And; have a Smith himself has writte: n that California, his team, should rder struggle against Pennsylvania than Stanford will have against the South Bend outfit. Maybe this will prove to be the case, but on form, at least, this seems doubtful. Inside Golf y Chester dress position, with the feet so placed, with regard for correct distance from Hill ki it dlo in this position, leaves th close to the side, near the s but otherwise free for th -.xl—-m action with the shaft. %00d idea Im xo ad to the left elbow l-mu‘.’?"“m lhe“u:: of the shaft, slightly just before starting the back swing. (Copyright, 192¢.) GIBBONS-FIRPO BOUT IN LONDON PLANNED ST. PAUL, Minn, December 31.— Tommy Gibbons, 5t Paul light- heavyweight, today awaited word trom his manager, Eddie Kane, who was in Chicago, a8 to acceptance of terms for a bout in London, England, with Luls Angel Firpo, heavywelght, of South America. Gibbons last night received a tele- gram from a New York representa- tive of the National Sporting Club of London, offering a 20-round fight with Firpo next March. A purse of approximately $100,000 would be put up, it was sald, 60 per cent to go to the winner. One thing was certain, Glbbons said, that before he accepted he would make sure that the money would be ready for him. When he visited the British Isles recently to fight Jack Bloomfleld, Tommy received only a small portion of the promised sum. Gibbons took a long run through the snow in a hunt for rabblits yes- terday, and will continue that pas- time in lieu of training stunts. His next fight {s with Jack Burke, at Grand Raplds, Mich.,, January . STOCKHOLM TO HAVE PALACE FOR SPORTS STOCKHOLM, December 31.—An- other result of the great wave of in- terest in Swedish athletics is the de- cision to construct a huge sporting palace at the St. Erik Bridge, in the heart of Stockholm, to be opened for use in 1926. The building will be one of the largest and best equipped of its kind in Europe. It will contain facilities for all sorts of indoor sports and for many games usually played out of doors, such as tennis. There will be a special hall for swimming events, with a pool 164 feet in length and a gallery accom- modating 2,500 spectators. FUENTE FIGHTS FRIDAY. CHICAGO, December 31.—Tony Fuente, the Mexican heavywelght, whose quick knockout over Fred Fulton stirred up a boxing scandal in Los Angeles, will make his next start in the City of Mexico Friday. Fuente's opponent” will be Homer Smith, a bulky heavyweight of Kalamazoo, Mich. The contest is scheduled for 10 rounds. CUEISTS TO PLAY AGAIN. Morris Dent, who took the measure of John Sherman, 100 to 72, in one of the District championship pocket billiard tourney matches, will meet Clive Richmond Friday night at the Grand Central. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. A angler was using a set line) and the tail was starting down the bass’ throat, and poked it out his gill. Then in the scramble that resulted, the eel wound its tail over the bass’ mouth into the other gill, and out his mouth again. The bass was literally choked to death and that is the way the fisher- man found them. A Nebraska man has come through with a convincing argument to show why every man should be a bait caster. A Lincoln man was visiting at a Summer resort with his wife and little girl last Summer. The wife and the little girl went out rowing and the boat capsized. The husband heard the cries as he was fooling with his bait-casting rod on the porch. He hurried to the scene, ran out on a dock, but could not plunge into the water because he could not swim. His wife galned the bottom of the overturned craft, but the little girl was having a hard time keeping afloat. But he made a perfect cast over her, caught his hook in her sleeve, and reeled her into the dock unin- jured. R FISHERMAN down in Arkansas caught a black bass and an eel on the same hook recently. The eel was the one that was on the hook, and the bass was enmeshed in the coils of the eel, which had killed it while it was trying to get away with an eel luncheon. The bass had attacked the eel after the eel was on the hook (the eel swung its tail to one side as the Elmer S. Hall, conservation com- missioner of Wisconsin has declared recently that hunting and fishing seasons in Wisconsin will be closed during the periods of forest fire n- ger unless the number of fires set by sportsmen show a marked decrease. On the opening day of the trout season, he said, 50 fires were reported. There had been none previous to that time. Precedent for such a drastic step is found in action of the United States Forest Service in closing some of the national forests to hunting and fishing according to Mr. Hall. Of course, Hall does not mean to say “sportsmen.” Sportsmen don't set fires. Those who do belong to another class of campers and outers. Only when the sportsmen have com- pletely ostracised or won over the other element, will they cease to suf- fer for thelr sins. Smith sees California’s greatest danger from the Penn forward pass- ing game and any coach does well to fear the overhead menace when it is well employed. Yet California herself is not inept at throwing and receiving the ball. In the California-Stanford struggle, the Golden Bears completed nine passes in 14 trials, which is & pretty high average. Penn s credited with having com- pleted three passes of six tried against Cornell. In the game at Berkeley. Stanford threw 16 passes and com- pleted seven of them. Smith ~ states that Pennsylvania has the best attack and defense of any team in the East, and is underrated, while Notre Dame hes been overrated. Of oourse, the wise follower of foot ball will discount some of Smith's pessimism on the ground that he is trying to subdue a not unnatural feel« ing of overconfidence on the part of his team and its supporters, but at the same time it should not be overlooked that the Quakers will presenta formid- able outfit against California’s com- bination. Smith knows this and so may be credited with sincerity in much of what he has said. And certainly any undus feeling of overconfidence on the part of the Californians might well lead to their undoing. But in consideration of the fact that the Red and Blue has had to travel across the continent to play this game, conducting their practice under difficulties more or less great in consideration of the fact, also, that the Westerner's have proved them- selves to be a more consistent scoring outfit than thelr rivals, the odds as named above would seem to be justi- ed. Against His Old Team. PASADENA, Calif., December 31.- Seventeen days en route from South Bend, Ind., the Notre Dame foot ball team timed its arrival here for to- day, just in time to permit one work- out in the Rose Bowl, scene of to morrow's game with Stanford Uni- versity. Kunte Rockne, Notre Dame coach, said he feared the effect of California sunshine on his boys. The workout was planned as little more than leg-stretching exercises. The Stanford team, which has been here training since Monday, will fin- 1sh practice today with light exer- clses. Coach Warner sent the Cardi- nals through a snappy workout yes- terday and apparently was well satis- fied. He sald he would be able to throw full playing strength against Notre Dame. Hoosiers Reach Pasadena. BERKELEY, Calif., December 31.— Andy Smith, once one of the best full- backs {n the history of foot ball at the University of Pennsylvania, tomorrow will do his utmost to see a Penn eleven trounced by leading the Uni- versity of California eleven to its fifth defcatless season. On the op- posing board of strategy Smith will find “Brodie” Stephens, line coach at Pennsylvania, who a few years ago Smith, as California coach, pulled off the “scrubs” and placed as a regular end. The Pennsylvanians arrived yester- day, a party of 125, including the campus band and some ardent rooters. The band escorted the team to a Berkeley hotel, while 500 California students and a large sprinkling of the populace wers on hand to cheer. Later Lou Young, head coach, put his puplls through a light work-out in the California stadium. The field Wwas €0BgY from rain. The rain held Off yesterday, but the skies were threatening. The temperaturs was warm, The California Bears had their final practice yesterday and were ordered to rest today. The squad was in the best physical conditlon of the season, trainers reported. The Quakers planned to have signal practice and light exercise today. SCHOLZ TO RUN IN EAST. NEW YORK, December 31.—Jac! son V. Scholz, Olymplc 200-met: champion and the only American to capture first place in the flat-running events at the Paris games last July, will open his Indoor campaign this season at the Millrose A. A. games at Madison Square Garden, January 27 and 28. Scholz has just arrived in San Francisco from the Orient, where he appeared in exhibitions. STONEHAM FACES SUIT. NEW YORK, December 31.—Charles A. Stoneham, owner of the New York Giants and former broker, must de- fend the suit brought against hine by creditors of the brokerage firms of Charles A. Stoneham & Co. and E. H. Clarke & Co. for losses sustained through the failure of the latter firm, on April 8 1922, Federal Judge Francis A. Winslow has decided. s g g SO P S FLOWERS T0 BOX DELANEY. NEW YORK, December 31—Frank Miller, manager of Tiger Flowers, Atlanta negro middleweight, who knocked out Johnny Wilson, former champlon, in Madison Square Gar- den recently, has announced that Flowers had contracted to meet Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn, on January 16. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & T Your Old Hat Made New Again Cleaning. Blockis nd Remodeling by Experia: Vienna Hat Co. 409 11th Street “Gardner” “Outperforms Any Car in Its Class” 2 2T