Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1925, Page 31

Four Big Indoor Meets for S. A. CHARLOTTESVILLE GAMES FEBRUARY 12 OPEN SERIES Vi rginia Contests May Be Open Only to Southern Conference Members—Richmond, Georgetown and Hopkins to Conduct Events. BY OUR i since the war, are scheduled in r and w fer colleges and The first is to take place at th next at Richmond, the following night, a . when Georgetown hold 1 Johns Hopkins stage H. C. BYRD. door track and field meets, instead of the two held each year the South Atlantic section this Win- schools much greater opportunities their wares on board tracks ¢ University of Virginia on Friday, under the auspices of the University nd the next two almost as close in s its meet at Convention Hall, Satur- its games at Fifth Regiment imore, the following Monday night. ts are open to all robably the be open to South of the Southern Georgetown and s are making strenuous led up for their meets and field athle enthusiastically t of the country e competition , and probably n ient good competition interest in the sport to be held that the ort the Spring to that will be One or two more open buth Atlantic section help track and field sports con- rably urse various but enty of meets are up North for ajority of colle cient funds to s these games and prac- of the high and prep to take in more than eld en to none ols is Penn r ally ‘ollege basket ball here gets under again tonight, when Davis Elk silego appears inst George Wash- ton on the latter's new court, and to- row night, when Gallaudet hooks up th Blue Ridge College at Kendall Both local institutions may have rder fights than they might Iy expect from colleges ose that are to be their opponents. ht Davis-Elkins will in- i for a game n Cath- wi Wagner, who did some excellent k in the backfield for George Wash- on last Fall, seems to be coming in great shape on the basket ball Coach Dailey expects him to be of his most dependable players. University of Maryland freshman hasket ball squad is one of the huskiest | gations that have ever worn first- uniforms at the Old Line institu- Ten or twelve men will be carried on the freshman squad, and about eight ve six feet or more tall, and eeveral of | 1 go over 190 pou Form | gh school players in the pe stve Whelchel of Western, Ja ¢ Eastern and Adams and Woodward | Tech seem certaln of more or less | gular places. Maryland freshman five not be as finished a product, pos- s first-year quint of a tainly seems to be an - local ons of | mith but 1t h for future varsities. PASSAIC HIGH QUINT SPURNS TWO DEFIES uary ket ball itive vietort i for a gam erce High School of New Yerk is regarded as one of the East's | tea from the Stivers | Ohio, and the Pa., have been Two offers, o h School of Dayt her from Uniontown, deelined The Stivers home-and-b High School proposed me series, and Union- ad to play at Pitts- rteed $1,500. Stiver champion five, hav- and lost 32 % sts in | Arnold West said that would take thefr stud propositions we SIZE OF GOLF BALL MAIN U.S. G. A. TOPIC, K TS, Januar Yo nd sport- | and those who | er 100 bu gathered here day and tom section of Association 1 will take place to- | meetings t greens quoru tourna £ spher: will undergo hers who have ) forecast. tested the pro- declare that, although the er to hit.” it fails to bore nd and hold its line somewhat larger than 1w used heretofore, lonal association has invited interested in golf links to the specifically t the meeting is in the g session annu rs onl e a greater in- meetings ial effort has to align every player in for better courses, and all | nnected with buildings and z will be discussed. Experts ment of holes, greens and e will speak that the assoecfation | carrying the a nier meetings to warmer clime gathering of & quorum of mem- ers has always proved difficult. Many | interested in the develop- | golf are in_the Southland, | as heen suggested that the be held in Florida or some r Southern State another year as | wn experiment ens sectio r before. A spe rest matter shuildi rran ds and their is possible . consider w it FIVE SCORES. | VANDERBILT NASHVILLE, Tenn, January anderbilt defeated Mississippi U. thrilling basket = me HOCKEY GAME IS CLOSE. | BOS IN, Mass, January @ Boston A. A. defeated Harvard at hockey last | wixbt, 6 to 5. C | Paul Basket Ball What do you consider the most im- portant single point about basket ballf BY JOHN SCHOMMER, Basket Ball Coach, Armour Institute, Former U. of C. Star. Unquestionably, shooting baskets. No coach, no team, no player ever won a game In any other way. Any team ix sure to get smome shots at the basket against the best team in the world, and if they make those shots they score points and have an excellent chance of winning. I do not care how tight a defense may be that defense cannot score pointx. It may reduce the number of points scored, but in the final analysis the entire game basxket b resolves ftself around getting the ball to pass through the hoop. A team of players which can make a better percentage of ahots go through the hoop than the opposing team is a team which indeed must be feared. (Copyright, 19 INGRAM MAY COACH NAVY GRIDIRONERS NAPOLIS, Md., January ¢ e in Annapolis of William (Bill) Ingram, AN Preser A star halfback of the foot ball team and varsity oarsman at the Naval Academy a few years back gave rise to much speculation that he is being considered as head coach of the Middy eleven for the 1925 season, to succed “Bob” Folwell Athletic authorities of the Academy. would neither affirm or deny that In- m is in the running. It was learned from authoritative sources, however, that the executive committee of the Navy Athletic Asso- ciation, which has been handling the ach situation, that a definite an- nouncement will be forthcoming in | & day or two. 'HE EVENING ST CLARENDON FEASTS FOOT BALL HEROES CLARENDON, Va., January 9.— Twenty-seven athletes were the cen- ter of attraction at Clarendon at a banquet given by the citizens of Clar- «endon to its heroes of the gridiron, the Clarendon Lyons, an aggregation that brought glory to the town by winning the foot ball champlonship of northern Virginia. To whom goes the credit for the great record made by, the club is a hard thing to determine. It is as- sumed that combined efforts and never-say-die spirit turned the trick, but it will have to remain a surmise, as all efforts of the toastmaster to get at the truth of the matter turned up a number of credit-shirk- ers and resulted in a lot of “buc passing.” When called upon to place the credit, A. Frank Snyder, manager, passed it on to the coaches and the team. The coaches, C. 1. Cason and Maj. F. M. Goff, would have nothing to do with it and passed it on to the manager and the team, and the team being expert in passes, especially for- ward ones, shot It back to the man- ager and the coaches. At any rate, It w a very success- ful celebration and everything was done by the citizens, the woman folks included, to show the whole outfit that their achievement was a thing of which the whole town was justly proud. Addresses were made by C. R. Tay- lor, who served as toastmaster; Frank Lyon, “the lion of the occasion,” who provided a playing field in the town for the team; J, Thomas Manning, president of the Clarendon Citizens' Association; Head Coach Cason, As- sistant Coach Goff, Homer Thomas, captain-elect of next year's team, and Mrs. N. Rex Hunt, president of the Clarendon Woman's Club. Those who had a hand in bringing the champlonship to Clarendon are Home Thomas, R. B. Snyder, Charl Grady, Ollie William: Heinie Adel- man, ' Fred Bryan, Will Lindsay. Charles Blue, Jack Remsen, Johnny Winters, A. Frank Snyder, Maurice Coberth, Elmer Potterton, Robert Cameron, Bert Sasher, Dave Lockling, Henry Woods, Charles Pflager, Henry Hust, B. De Lashmutt, James Sim- mons, George Taylor, Joe Baile Ralph Dean, Harry Hammond, C. Cason and Maj. F. M. Goff. The Woman's Civic Club served the banquet Invocation and benediction were pronounced by Rev. C. 1. Flory, pas- tor of the Clarendon Methodist Church. Later entertainment and dance was held to which the public was invited. Lyon offered a prize of best code of ethics by whicn the boys wiil be governed. Spanish _ plano selactions were given by Mrs. Heinen, recitations by Miss Grace Smith, soprand solos by Miss Marion Snyder, accompanicl on the piano by Mr. Pendleton; bass solos by Willlam Robey and dance music by the Kola Mist Jazz Boys. CLOVER A. C. PLANNING FOR DIAMOND CAMPAIGN Members of the Clover Athletic Club are making plans for the coming base ball season, and have already begun signing up the members of the 1 diamond squad. James Cowhig been chosen to manage the team, and Roland Adkins is captain-elect. Officers of the club recently were elected as follows: Earnest Cleary, president; Robert Dillon, vice presi- dent; James White, secretary and business manager, and Roland Adklns, treasurer. The new clubbouse is located at 198 F street southeast. PIRATE PLAYER QUITS. PITTSBURGH, January 9.—Retire- ment from base ball of Walter “Henie” Mueller, utility outfielder of the Pittsburgh Nationals, has been announced. Mueller has entered busi- ness near St. Louis. He had been a member of the Pirate squad for three years. STRICTNESS IN ATHLETICS IS URGED BY COMMISSiON HICAGO, January 9—Coaches should not receive salaries greatly in excess of teachers of similar grade, all athletic funds should pass through the college treasury, student gambling should be sup- pressed and the migrant and freshman rules enforced, it was recommended today to the Association of American Colleges by its commission on ath- | letics. Entire faculty control of inter- te athletics, with advisory bodies of alumni or students, and ap- pointment of coaches for at least a sar instead of seasonal tenure wers ivocated in _the report, made by Dea rank W. Nicolson, We n University. The report condemned acceptance of from alumni and others for ath- letic purposes, if any attached con- ditions limited the freedom of the faculty in the matter of athletic per- sonnel or policy; solicitation of stu- dents by members of physical educa- tion staffs and “athletic scholarships Colleges were urged to pass strict conference rules and enforce them ind individually to refuse to schedule games with opponents whose athletic s were not up to a proper standard The commission held that even an expensive stadium was not an ex- travagance if the receipts were used for the general purpose of improve- ment of the physical condition of the ident body as a whole. MERSEREAU TO HEAD TENNIS ASSOCIATION W YORK, January W. Wightman of Boston, of the United States Lawn Tennis Association for the past year, has declined renomination for another term and will be succeeded by Jones W. Mersereau of New York Besides Mersereau, who is now vice president, the other officers named by the nominating committee and slated for election at the annual meeting on February 7 are: V. ident, R. Clifford Black, New ecretary, Harry 8. Knox of Chicago, to succeed Williams of Utica, N. Y. and treasurer, Loufs B. Dalley, New York, to be re-elected. Nominations for delegate at large include Samuel H. Collom and R. Nor- ris Williams, Philadelphia, and Walter L. Pate, New York. Che 1926 nominating committee will be composed of Charles S. Garland, chairman, New York; Walter T. Hayes, Chicago, and Alfred H. Chapin, NE 9.—George president | sr., Springfield, Mass. QUITS GOLF BERTH. PHILADELPHIA, January 9.—Rob- ert W. Leslie, donor of the famous CAMP ASSERTS GRID PLAY STANDARDIZED NEW HAVEN, Conn, January %— Foot ball as played in the East, Mid- dle West and on the Pacific coast is all practically the same, according to Walter Camp, well known authority on the game, in an interview pub- lished in the Yale News The intersectional matches account for this condition, he say: Camp commended the playing of the Yale team of this year, declaring that it was “marked by a gradual co- ordination into team play and effec- tiveness without stars, which to my mind is the highest credit’to the coach and coaching staf.” “Notre Dame was like Yale,” he quoted as saying, well ordi- nated team and dependent upon team play more than upon stars Camp 1s quoted favoring the change in rules proposed by Head Coach T. A. D. Jones of Yale which would not permit a player to return to the game. is WYOMING U. GRID STAR SOUGHT CENTENARY MEN SHREVEPORT, La. January 9.— The Shreveport Journal has printed a story declaring the invitation to five Centenary foot ball players to enter the University of Wyoming was not extended by William Dietz, coach of ‘Wyoming, as previously reported. Dick Denman, star back of Wyo- ming, wired it was he who invited the players. vr:n:n]iv ‘WINS AT 7TBA1’S, PINEHURST, N. C. January 9.— Isaac Andrews of Spartanburg, S. veteran of many trapshoots through- out the country, won the 100-target preliminary ha cap. He broke 94 out of 100 targets TROUSERS To wmatch your odd coats, $4.65 and wup. Leslie golf trophy, has de ned re. nomination s president of the Phila- delphia Golf Association, an office he has held for EISEMAN’S 7th & F Sts. | thre | rocking | gam AR, W ASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDA FORT WASHINGTON TEAM FACES CORBY BASKETERS HEIGHTS GYMNASIUM wili be the scene of a trio of basket ball tilts tonight. Fort Washington, one of the strong- est teams in the District Service League, is scheduled to meet the Corby five in the main go, with two junior teams furnishing the pre- liminary entertainment. St. Mary's Junlors, of Alenandria, ill be the guests of the Boys' Club Superiors, and the Live Wires will take on the Stanton Junfors, from north- east. The opener will be at 7:30 o'clock. Clover Athletic Club quint, which has yet to be defeated by a junior five, scored a victory over the Kanawha Juniors. Columbia Midgets took a win from the Holmead five, 28 to 13, on the Wilson Normal court. Carroll and Ellis accounted for four and five goals, respectively. Walter Reed Nurses went down to defeat before the Capitol Athletic Club in a game that ended 16 to 8. Miss Trice of the winners and Miss Johnson of the losers were high scorers. In the second game of the Women's Basket Ball League series, Marjorie Webster tossers defeated Strayer's Business College, 50 to § it five Central ated Epiphany Junlors made straight when they downed Athletic Club, 45 to 4, and de the Boys' Club Superiors, 34 to 7 Tremont Juniors defeated the Para- mount five, 25 to 15, after leading from the start Washington Athletic Club t invaded Hyattsville, but took 23 beating from the Company tional Guard, on the armory Aeccurate shooting by Price carried the Mount Vernon senior basketers to a 36-t0-20 vietory over the Northern Athletic Club. McCartee and Wesson, star guard of the Roves five, scored 6 Is from serimmasge when his team defeated the Crescents, to 14 Warlow Juniors triumphed over the Sherwood Juniors Washington Orinoco baskaters were nosed out by the Alexandria Iroquols, the final score being 21 to 20. Newly organized took a 24-to-12 Immaculate Cubs. Sigma Phi Sigma won from Dhi Sigma Kappa, 17 to 12, and Delta Mu defeated Nu Sigma Omicron, 13 to 12, in the opening games of the inter- fraternity series at the University of Maryland. Stanton Midgets drubbing from the Athletic Cinh has organized and uling court games with 120-pound teams at Columbia 9914. Adams, Brown, Gill, Holton, Martin, McNeil, Walker and Yeaman make up the squad. Sherman Aadition of is Saul's sched- Ottawa Midgets defeated the War- wick Midgets, 21 to 20. Manuger Buscher, at West 2828, is scheduling games for the winners. Manager Wise of the St. Dominic’ basketers is scheduling games with 130-pound teams at Franklin 5383, Friends Chureh basketers defeated the Sherwood Presbyterian courtmen, 49 to 1, and Calvary Baptist tossers triumphed over the five representing First Presbyterian, 35 to 8, in the opening games of the Christian En- deavor League series. Edgington and Kline of the Baptists accounted for eight and seven goals, respectively, | while Woodward, a forward of the | Friends combination, scored seven two-counters from serimmage. The next game of the league will be played Wednesday night Dbetween | pist and Sherwood Pres- byterian, Friends and Eastern Pres- byterfan, Luther place and First | Presbyterian. Mount Raimier Junfors expect {0 g0 out of their class tomorrow night to meet the Argyle quint in the Wilson Normal gymnasium. MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT BY BILL PHELON Veteran Sports Writer cidents of 35 y m I ars eration, as s lives are coun upon more than 5000 big league bal series battles I'S hard for me to choose my greatest thrill among the scenes and in- That’s a long time in the sporting game—a gen- ted—and in that time I have looked | games, more than a hundred world and more than 2000 boxing fray Few there were among all these events that did not have a distinct may be that tc ive thrill, a special “kick,” qnd it well yday the older memories, the scenes of long ago, are dulled by the happenings of more recent years. I have se en glorious foot ball runs. I have gazed upon terrific fights, where every round was a red ferment of action and excitement. I have seen ball games where a pennant hung upon a dying effort at the bat or a desperate catch, amid the shadows of the falling dusk. Out of all my mem- ories, perhaps, BILL PHELON. me to the last Fourth of July in Chl- Baltimore matched am; bases full of people packed and massed and perched on benches set before the stands. A foul fly went up, looping downward near the stand McGraw started, stumbled, lost his bearings. was the 1894, with Anson's t runners; It cag against Chicago past Me- owd, and bench set Jennings dashed across, Graw, on and into the c hurled himself against & beside the stand, toppling over flashing as he fell headlong sod—but holding to the ball! That catch was the greatest play 1 ever saw a shortstop make, and one of the greatest ever seen on any field to Two years later; Boston playing at the same Chicago park; bases packed with Boston runaers. A murderous drive went over center field Bill Lange went on and on; crash wgainst the center wall; the planks ng with the shock, but Lange, hands above his head, clung to the T high ball. I never saw a center fielder equal that one till-— Nineteen hundred and “the tainted series.” 1 making one grand effort n though convicted by Black Sox confessions later on, lashed into a fast ball and sent it far down Redland Field. A triple: ves, a home run on that deep field if the man had speed Roush surged onward and right in the shadow of the fence leaped, clutched and came down with the ball—a catch never matched on that arena before or afterward nineteen— ppy Felsch, ¢s were the Those three flelding p i thirty years, gr thrills for me in until— Nineteen hundred and twenty-four; ames to three: asl with frenzied Walkter Johnson pitching of his life: the to stay the uel on second, Johnson first, MoNeely at the bat figure had McNeely been the outstanding stars. 1 a fatal lability and not an the gre tide: Muddy perched on A minor not one of one game demonlike the | 4 | Giants battling four base ball scenes retain the clear- # est light, and these four scenes, I think, will be with |_ Crash! The ball went at young Lindstrom like a bullet, but, all set | and slanted for a certain killing, the Swede stepped eagerly in Even as he bent low with deadly | grasp the ball leaped high and fell Lehind him! Madly Meusel galloped ,in; no chance; no show to save the dark disaster! Ruel, on the move as McNeely struck, turned third and hurtled home. The game, the honors |of the world were won—and all | through a hard spot in the infield where that ball had leaped! I am growing old. Perhaps I for- get the things of long #go; perhaps newer scenes dim the memories of the past; but it seems to me today | as if that last scene in the final game of 1924 was the great thrill of my life, the one thing I shall carry with me to the end. Tomorrow—nill Tilden. (Copyright by Public Ledger Co.) ARLINGTON A. C. ELECTS JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT idney Johnson has been elected ent of the Arlington Athletic Club. Other officers are: Nelson SKin- | ner, vice president; William Beau- champ, secretary, and Boardman Munson, treasurer. A board of directors to act during the coming season has also been chosen. John Clarkson, J. Hammond Brewer, jr.; J. H. Beauchamp, sr., and R. E. Johnson are its mem e i» | = A WRAY DECLINES OFFZR. PHILADELPHIA, January 9.—Lud Wray, who coached the line pf the Pennsylvania foot ball team during | the past season, has declined an offer to become head coach at Washington | University, St. Louis. POINTER WINS DERBY. GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn., January 9.—The pointer Undaunted Rap, own- ed by Doyle Henderson of Alamo, Tenn., won the derby champlonship of the all-American field trials here. JANUARY 9, 1925. SCHOOL FIVES START IN HATCHETITE GYM High school basketers will open their annual championship series to- morrow afternoon in the new gym- nasium of George Washington Uni- versity, but the remaining games of the series may be played elsewhere High school taculty athletic advisers, at a meeting this morning, decided to find, If possible, a court capable of accommodating more spectators than the Hatchetite hall for other contests, The high school games in past seasons have been generously pat- ronized, not only by students of the contending teams' schools, but by those of other institutions, alumni and the public generally. The Hatch- etite gymnasium to be used to- morrow is entirely too small to take care of those eager to witness the engagements. Teams of four schools are scheduled to swing Into action tomorrow in the inaugural double-header of the cham- pionship series. Bastern, winner of the title for the past two seasons, is to encounter a supposedly rejuve- nated Central quint, while Tech and Business will be opponents. The first engagement will get under headway at 3 o'clock. Western, a quint considered one of the most formidable in the high schools this year, will make its cham- pionhsip tournament debut gext Tues- day. Alexandrin High School will tackle Manassas High School tonight in a game of the second Virginiu distric basket ball title tourney. The contes will be preceded by one between the girls' teams of the schools. The re- mainder of the Alexandria High schedule follows January 13, George Mason: 16, Gonzaga, at Gonraga: 19, Emerson; 23, Swavely, at Mana sa3; 21, Dovitt, at Deviit; 30, Cential, at Ce 6, Emer- 13, Devitt Scrubs; 16, Devit 20, Leesburg, at Leesburg; 23, George Mason. Business High School reserves took the measure of the Ploneer Juniors in a 39-t0-36 game. Evans, Business forward, negotiated 10 fleld goals In the second half. 13 WORLD RECORDS ARE HELD BY NURMI By the Associated Press Paavo Nurmi increased to 13 the world records to his credit when he outfooted Jole Ray and Willle Ritola at the Finnish-American games. He holds more world's marks for inter- nationally recognized distances than any other competitor. His outdoor records are for 1500, 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters and 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 miles. His new in- door marks, the first he has ever hung up, are for 1,500, 5,000 meters and one mile. Nurmi's onyl rival record books show, is G. E. Larner, famous British walker, who estab- lished 10 world marks, from 1904 to 1908, that still are standards in_this respect, The New York Athletic Club five- man bowling team came close to top- pling a world record this week when it spilled the ten pins for a three- game goal of 3,346, or an average of 1,122 per game. The world record of 3,497 pins is credited to the Rochester team in the old New York State League, made in 1913. The American Bowling Congress record was hung up last year at Milwaukee by the Nel- son-Mitchell five with a total of 3,139. Charlie Hoff, Norwegian pole vault- er, who holds the world record, will be unable to compete in the Millros games at New York the latter part of this month. Hc®, a newspaper man, was unable to obtain permission from his athletic organization to cross the Aflantic, nts for the Matron Stakes of the Westchester Racing Assoclation, for 2-vear-old fillies, closed recently with 286 entries, 43 more than a There is an added value of §5, Maurice Broces, six-day bieyele race star, will get $1,000 a day for riding in the Chicago race next month His transportation from Italy would be paid, along with training and ali other expenses while he Is in Amer- ica. Erocco's compensation is the highest ever pald a rider in Chicago Brocco already is a man of wealth, Joe Riggert, veteran outfielder for St. Paul of the American Association, has been sold outright to Tulsa of the ‘Western League. Riggert may become manager of the Tulsa Club, although Marty Berghammer, St. Paul's second baseman, also is angling for the po- sition. SPORTS. 31 Athletes : Nurmi’s Persistency Brings Laurels RECORD SPEED ATTAINED BY FINN’S HARD TRAINING Perfect Condition and Running Motion, Unswerving Determination and Unflagging Concentration Prime Factors in His Success. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 9—Paavo Nurmi, Mercury-footed son of Fine land, has a personality all his own, as distinctive as the matchlesq running style that has carried him to Such heights Nurmi's track performances, which this year reached unprecedented peaks at the Olympics and again a few days ago in Madison Square Gare den, grow from no mysterious ability, no unfathomable source. To those who know him intimately three factors stand out as the roots of hig success—perfect condition and running motion, unswerving determinae tion and unflagging concentration on his chief goal. The speed and stam= ina which put him in a class by himself as a distance runner are the result. Nurmi is reticent to the point of shyness when it comes to being inter- viewed. Any comment drawn from | him through an interpreter is laconle and concise. He prefers to let his| performances stand for themselves He has no secrets to reveal in ex-|at Paris plaining his remarkable form. T In the light of the han him it all seems the result of his long faced in his first indoor test preparation and devotion to the goal &chievem all the more re- he set for himself when he began|markable. other: invaders:hag running—an_ambition to make the(found the obstacles to triumph too greatest mark of any distance run-|Ereat to overcome, Nurmi hur ner in track history. The record |the barriers, mot oniy to victory, but books give silent testimony to theto World record time fact that the Phantom Finn has hit his mark No Dried Fish Diet. Nurmi does not diet on dried fish, he has been pictured as doing, but he does live simply and Spartan-like, | denying himself all indulgences and such ordinary luxuries of living as would in the slightest degree affect | his general physical condition In appearance, the Finn does look the perfect athlete that pears to be on the track. Of medi bulld, he weighs about 145 pounds but physicians who hav examined him s he has perfect mu velopment. The European mary straight as an arrow when he and his strides, he says, when me ured in Finland, varied only by fraction of an inch, a near appro to the perfect runner. According to his friends, something which the care to discuss, every mus body is exercised when action, hips and shoulders moving perfect rhythm. Therefore he has a remarkable chest and well developed arms, months after he had reached top con= dition for the Olympics, where he won four races, was able the other night to display the stamina, spesd nd zest that proved him to be, if any« thing, in even finer form than he wag Where CHICAGOANS SMASH THREE TANK MARKS CHICAGO, 5 Weissmueller, tional ming broke two of exhibition ma Illinois Athlet He swam event in 224- with his He made event in 58 January holder of many na- titles, last night n records in an inst time at the Johnny 100-meter compared seconds Mi C. also ard back he negotiated in as against the record of made Dby Robert Hosep at und in M fa record for stroke and Ethel to break her recc | free-style event orthwestern starred in the n records were sm; the 1-5 to the | ™ Conrad lipped time stroke event for this is| ], his in i in does of is he uer University swimmers events, but no Walker Am Much has that amazed Nurmi the only smile noted upon face in his first fub broke forth while he watel ville, the Canadian walker, at e before the meet. The Finn, had been testing the corners, 1 seconds and stared le set out upon a jaunt Nurmi has made foot-ru ‘h, devoted his whol with the single-mindedness pose characteristic of his rac and his habit of always ke condition explain why THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President, lzaak Walton League of America. wed Finn. said of the in America, his stc things but | id S The three-mile walk will features of the Millr ack and field meet at uare Garden January 28, with Ugo Frigerio, Italian, and George Goulding of Canada, prepared for a strenuous evening. Willie Plant, who two-m ent at the Fin- will compete, mplc fame, the world best in been ed Gran- prac- who stopped when th Madison his attentio of pur- This ping in | cham Nurmi, six | America. HE recent drought in Louisiana resulted in the death of thousands of wild duc No. it wasn't because of the lack of water. 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