Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1925, Page 30

SPORTS." Nurmi Finds Skii SKATING IS HARMFUL T0 RUNNER, HE SAYS Paavo Deceptive Slim Limbs, But Muscles Are Strong and Elastic. PAAVO NURMI’S STORY As Told by Him to Charles E. Parker. is ix the sixth of a of age he ra breaking w eral T his most impressive stride forward 1,500 meters in 7 A ax the gre x like n romance. Chapter 6—What He Thinks of Ski Training. HERE had been a steady improvement in Paavo Nurmi from June, 1907, when as a skinny-legged 10-year-old he covered the 1,500-meter course in 5 minutes and 2 His training had become more sy that an athlete, to do his best, must remain cver in the best of physical Those who argued on occasional relaxation, or occasional in- ainly. Paavo believed good physical condition should be the normal condition of every one and that periods of relaxation or condition. duigences, argued vainly self-indulgence were too costly Americans and others who have seen Nurn in action have comment- on his lack of muscular develop- ment in the arms and should They say he has neglected all-around development. This, however, is far from the case. The Nurmis do not run to bulging muscles. No athlete has used legs more than Paavo Nurmi, but when one compares those limbs with the underpinning of many Am stars the mere pipe stems. The especially small- icarcely greater in circumfer- ence than the calves. Paavo is not & meaty individual, and the slender arms simply conform to the general plan on which he is built. The arms, like the legs, are slim, but the museles which lack bulk do not lack strength and elasticity They are the muscles of the greyhound that he is The training scheme of P’aavo fol- lowed prior to the Finnish national championships of 1919 was one that took care of his all-around develop- ment All Finland is on skiis or skates during the Winter months, and Paavo found in those sports—at least in skiing—the opportunity to keep himself constantly fit. He liked skating the better of the two, but experience showed him that skiing ‘was the better exercise for a runner. Skaters Slow Runners, He Says. “In skiing,” says Paavo, “‘the same muscles that are used in running are employed, and in much t%e same man- ner. The ski harn by means of which the skis are attached to the shoes permit a free play of the muscles of the foot and ankle, ‘whereas no such pla s possible when steel skates are attached to the shoes. In skating you employ a gliding mo- tion, accelerating your speed by ap- plying pressure from the the foot, while Tn skiing the pressure is applied from the toe, just as in running. 1 found some of the best skaters were our slowest runners, while our best skiers were almost invariably speedy trackmen. Conse- quently I selected skiing as the best Winter sport to follow.” Skiing, however, was not Paavo's only exercise during the snowy sea- son. His brother Martti had devel- oped considerable skill in boxing and wrestling, and Paavo, not to be out- done by the youngster, took up those sports also and became so proficient in them that he was urged to seek national championships in the ring and on the mat. There was plenty of power in those skinny arms of his—there is still—as several ambi- ous boxers and wrestlers in Abo and Helsingfors will testify. But chasing over the roads and fields during the Spring and early Summer proved his best conditioner. He was hard at it for a half hour and often a full hour each day. How many hundreds of miles he covered in those months he does not know, nor the number of pairs of running shoes he wore to shreds. It seemed to him he always was in need of a new pair and that sports goods mer- chants got all his spare cash. Had Ambitious Program. When the national championships came, however, Paavo was ready for them. His was an ambitious pro- gram. He had in mind the duplica- tion of Hannes Kohlemainen’'s achieve- ment of 1912 in winning the 5,000~ meter, 10,000-meter and the cross- country runs in the Stockholm Olym- pio games, and the Finnish national championships were to determine wvhether he was ready attempt such a taxing feat. Paavo entered for those three races in the Finnish championships—the .000-meter run the morning of the first day, the 10,000-meter the after- noon of the same day-and the cross- country run the day following. His friends marveled at his self-imposed task. Xohlemainen was in at the time, but there were many capable athletes entered in the cham- yionship and, with one or two ex- ception: each was concentrating on one event There was a big contingent from Abo on hand Selsingfors might doubt Paavo's ability for so difficult ® program, but not the folk of Abo. Hadn't Paavo run the 1,500 meters in & minutes and 2 seconds when he was but a 10-year-old? Hadn't he set a new junior record for the 3,000 mmeters when he was scarcely 17 Hadn’t he set other records in win- ning senior s when only a year older? Pooh! What were three races in two days to Paavo Nurmi? And how that Abo contingent did erow when the three races were done. 0 new records came, as many pre- dicted, but each was completed in olose to record time, and without ex- ception it was the blond, curly- headed chap in the faded uniform of the Abo Urheiluliitto, who split the tape at the finish mark. The Antwerp Olympic games were then only one year away and Paavo Nurm with 12 months to prepare, believed he could face the greatest runners of the outside world and still duplicate the three-ply victory scored by Kolehmainen in the last previous Olympics. (Copyright, 1 n Great Britain by Nort Alliance. Copyright (N York World) Press Publishing Company All rights reserved.) Tomorrow——Setting the Pace with American Photographs. ST BIALIS LEADS SKATERS. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., February 6. ~—Valentine Bialis of Lake Placid, win- ning the 2-mile event and placing sec- ond in the three-quarter mile, took the lead in the contest for the international amateur outdoor speed-skating cham- pionship with 70 points here. Francis Allen of Chicago is second with 60. to U. ., Canada and American_Newspaper Jimmy Johnston, infielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will be able to take his accustomed position when the pennant race starts, Presldent lbbets says. Johnston has had his jnjured knee under the X-ray, and, in the opinion of experts, will be fit to play. xeriex of ar athletic carcer of Paave Nurmi, the marvel of Finland. minutes and 1d records about every text runner of all time, the story of his conds. his | | remarkable inside of | America | in Physique—Has remarkable At 10 years 2 seconds, and now is he faces the xtarte: ien- es on the time But it was in 1919 that he made tematic that year. He had decided NURMI'S FEATS DUE TO LIFE FINNS LEAD HELSINGFORS, Finland, February 6.—The recent exploits of Paavo| Nurmi the United States and the| success of the Finnish| athletes at the Olym games in| Paris have led sportsmen of many countries to see the secret of the| Finlander’s prowess. | According to government authorities, it lles largely in the healthy, spartan diet of the people and the essential virility of a race to in health whom hard bodily exercise is as much | § a necessity as food and sleep. The famous “Skyddskarer”—the Finnish volunteers, who fought to the death against Russia—liked to de- scribe themselves as “patriotic sports- | men in arms.” The staple food of the country, out- side the towns, is a kind of porridge, bran forms an important| Finnish bread is coarse and | hard, and it is to this that medical | authorities attribute the strong, beau- tiful teeth possessed by every Fin- lander. The chief beverage of the country is milk, which is taken with all mea by persons of every Nurmi's diet while in said to consist largely of porridge, coarse bread and milk, and it is to this diet that he attributes his ath- letic success. training ATHLETES T0 STRIVE FOR 11 NEW RECORDS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 6—Eleven track records form the goal which a | noted gathering of athletes will strive for at the annual games of the Wilco Athletic Association in Brooklyn to- morrow night, and four of them are sought by Paavo Nurmi He expects to conquer world marks for 2 miles, 1% miles, 3,000 meters and 1% miles in the most daring pro- gram he has laid out since coming to America. The record for the dis tance, now held by Joie Ray of Chi- cago, is 9 minutes 8§ 2-5 seconds. Willie Ritola, a native of Finland, who makes his home in America, will oppose Nurmi. Having created a dozen records of his own in the past two weeks, Ritola believes that at last he has reached a form good enough to defeat the invader. An American_who be able to force Nurmi is Eddie Kirby of Cornell, who also is entered in the event. Willie Plant, American walking champion, intends to erase the 3,000- meter and two-mile figures. George Goulding of Canada, who recently announced his retirement, holds the record. Alan Helffrich of Penn State, who has won the Millrose “600" for three successive ycars, will face George Marsters, Georgetown star, and Fran- cisco McKillop of Boston College at his favorite distance. Jackson Scholz, Olympic 200-meter champion, and Louis Clarke, indoor record holder for 100 yards, will meet in a 125-yard sprint. The 13th Regi- ment Armory in Brooklyn has the only stralghtaway of this length in New York State. Loren Murchisor, Harold (Boots) Lever and George Mitteladorf of Colby College will compete in the 50-yard dash. Joie Ray will seek to redeem his records for the mile and for 1,500 meters, taken away by the Finn. PAAVO MAY DISPLAY HIS ART AT OPERA IN PARIS PARIS., February 6.—FPaavo Nurmi, world champion runner, may be a headliner at the Opera if negotiations now under way between the Sporting Club of France and the ministry of public instruction, which controls the theater, prove successful. The fieet Finn, however, would not be called upon to fill the place vacated by Caruso, but the Opera would be transformed for the occasion into a| running arena, with a 200-meter track for the flying feet of the champion. The Sporting Club, which is com- posed of personalities in the worlds of art, politics and sport, has pointed out to the ministry the fact that moving pictures and private balls are per- mitted in the Opera and that a run- ning exhibition by such a great artist as Nurmi would not be a desecration of France's temple of art. The exhibition would be for the ben- efit of war orphans, and, should the government approve, Paavo will be immediately invited to participate. FLOWERS WINS EASILY. DAYTON, Ohio, February 6—Tiger Flowers, Atlanta negro middleweight, last night scored a technical knock- out over Jamaica Kid in the tenth round of a scheduled 12-round con- test. Flowers carried every round by a wide margin. LEADS NOTRE DAME. SOUTH BEND, Ind., February 6.— Clem Crowe of Lafayette, Ind., junior in. the College of Agriculture at Notre Dame, has been elected captain of the 19256 foot ball squad. Crowe played left end regularly in 1923 an performed with the “shock troop: that started every game in 1924, SEE S |18 Plans for enlarging the Summer camp of the Colonial Canoe Club were made last night at a meeting of the organization held at the City Club. A dance will be given at the Potomac Boat Club tomorrow night, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, HIGH SCHOOL QUINTS (EXPRESS-EASTERN CLASH TOPS BASKET BALL CARD)| OF CLUBRING CLASH PLAY DOUBLE-HEADER Tomorrow's schecule for the high school basket ball games has been changed from a morning-and-after- noon arrangement to an afternoon double-header, starting at 2:30 o'clock. Western and Business will furnish the opener, with Central and Tech taking the floor later. Play will be in the George Washington Univer- sity gymnasium, on H street near Twentieth. Eastern High tossers, leaders in the scholastic race, were to go to Brook- land this afternoon for a game with the Catholic University freshmen, who beat Western, 50 to 15, in a return match yesterday.. Neither Western regulars nor subs were able to check the Brookland cubs. Central's five was to go to Hyatts- ville this afternoon to engage the Hyattsville High quintet that has de- feated three of Washington's prep school teams. Devitt, one of Hyatts- ville'’s victims, was barely nosed out by Central yesterday, 10 to 9. VARSITY BASKETERS ARE HAVING A REST Washington will be without college basket ball tomorrow night, unless hasty arrangements for contests are made. But one engagement was scheduled, that between Albright and George- town, and it was erased from the books when Albright suddenly de- cided to abandon its Southern trip. Albright's action also canceled the game due at Gallaudet tonight Catholic University basketers were to return to Washington today from their Northern tour that resulted in three defeats on consecutlve days for them. The last trouncing was ad- ministered vesterday by Crescent Athletic Club in Brooklyn. The Red and E was easy for the clubmen, taking a 38-to-12 beating. George Washington University swimmers are at Swarthmore today for a meet with the Little Quakers. Tomorrow the Hatchetites will swim tank team of Lehigh at Bethlehem Seven boxers of Catholic University are to meet the team of Virginia Military Institute in a serles of matches at Lexington tomorrow. The Brookland squad, piloted by Coach Ted Mitchell, includes: Capt. La Fond, pounds; Conveigh, 135 pounds Moore, 175 pounds; Mayer, 185 pounds; Laigay, 115 pounds; Torrelden, 125 pounds; Adams, 160 pounds. VIRGINIA IS LAYING FOR MARYLAND FIVE UNIVERSITY, Va., February 6.— Virginia's basket ball team, with a record of eight victories in a row since the holidays, is primed for the hard game with Washington and Lee tomorrow night, which may settle the State championship. After playing Washington and Lee the Virginians have another crack at Maryland. In a game before Christmas the Old Liners took Vir- ginia in, 24 to 18. Maryland comes here to play later in the month, and the charges of oach Lannigan will be prepared to v to make up for the loss. Virginla's season will end with a trip to Atlanta for the Southern Con- ference tournament. This will be the first jaunt of the Orange and Blue to the annual meet. . SWIMMER BEATS MARK IN EXHIBITION EVENT CHICAGO, February 6.—The Illi- nois Athletic Club swimmers defeat- ed the Indiana A. C. in a dual meet here, 51 to 28. The two A. A. U. championships, in water polo and the senior 440- yard relay, went to the Illinois team by defauit, the Hoosiers having no entries. Conrad Mila, Illinois, in an exhibi- tion swim, lowered the record for the 220-yard backstroke in 60-foot pools from 2.52 2-5 to 2.50 1-5. The former record was held by Perry McGillivray of the Illinois A. C. established in 1915, NURMI WOULD MEET RAY IN MILE EVENT EW YORK, February 6.—Paavo Nurmi of Finland, Olympic middle- distance champion, has informed track officials that he is willing to meet Joe Ray of Chicago, or any one else who would dispute his su- premacy, at the mile or any other distance, but that he is unable to change his plans for his attempt to break four world records in a 2- mile race at the Wilco A. A. meet tomorrow night. After the Wilco meet the Finn will be ready to meet Ray, Hugo Quist, who is acting ‘as Nurmi’'s American manager, told officials of the contests. The Chicagoan’s challenge was con- tained in a letter to Hugh Hirshon, chairman of the Wilco A. A. gamei in which Ray withdrew from the race in which Nurmi was entered. - MUNN ARRANGES BOUT. CHICAGO, February 6.—Mike Ro- mano, Italian heavyweight wrestling champion, has been matched to meet Wayne Munn, former Nebraska foot ball player. who now claims the world heavyweight championship as a re sult of having tossed Ed “Strangler” Lewis from the ring. The match will be staged here February 16. MOLLA IN SEMI-FINAL. NEW YORK, February 6.—Mrs. Motla Mallory, former national tennis champion, has advanced to the semi- final of the invitation tournament at the Heights Casino, in Brooklyn, by defeating Helen Hooker of New York, 6—1, 6—0. Her opponent in the semi- final will be Miss Anna Fuller of Boston. BASKET BALL RESULTS At Aloysius—Aloysius, 44; Roa- noke College, 27. At Brooklyn—Crescent A. C., 383 Catholte U., 12. At Lexington, Va—North Caro- lina, 81; V. M. L, 19. At_Williamaburg, Va—William and Mary, 23; Duke, 15. At Richmond — Guliford, 423 Medical College of Virginia, 31. At Tuscaloosa—Alkbama, 243 Kentucky, 15. At Clemson—Fort Benning, 35; Clemson College, 23. At Savannah—Coral Gables of Miami, 41; Jewish Educational Al- liance, 31. At Baltimore—Loyala, 18; Y. M. H. A, 13, E ASTERN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION and American Railway Ex- press basketers are to furnish an attractive contest on tonight’s basket ball card. In past years both teams have made enviable rec- ords under different names, the Easterners being known as the Comets and the Expressmen as Washington Terminal R. R. Y. M. C. A. The clash that starts at 8:30 tonight should have some bearing on the un- limited leadership of the District for the present season. As the Expressmen were victors in a three-game series played at the close of the 1924 schedule, the East- erns are out for revenge and the game may develop into a grudge fight. In 14 games played during the present’ season the Easterns have been victorious in 12, the two defeats being administered by out-of-town teams. The Express team has lost three games, one to Corby, one to ¥ort Humphreys, and one to Cal- vary M. E., but the latter two have also been defeated. A 44-t0-27 victory over Roanok: College brought the stralght wins of the Aloysius Big Five up to 7. TEe collegians offered thg I Streeters some stiff competition on the Gonzaga court, but never were able to take the lead, the Aloys being ahead 17 to 12 at the intermission. Ryan, Ford and O'Dea accounted for most of the home team's baskets, while Ruther- ford played best for the losers. Palace Laundry tossers took a close game in Clarksburg, W. Va., from the Christian Basket Ball Club, 43 to 31. George Marshall's players were ahead by only 2 points at the half. In n hard fought game on the Central High School court, Mount Vernon M. E. five nosed out the Yosemites, 31 to 29. McCartee brought in the winning basket when" the score was deadlocked at 29-all. As the Fort Humphreys five has canceled its game schedule for the Congress Heights gymnasium tonight, Corby Bakery is without an oppon- ent. Smooth team work carried Mount Vernon Athletic Association to a 33-to-24 victory over Jynx Athletic Club on the Immaculate Conception court, Dalglish was high score, with eight fleld goals. General Accounting basketers were downed by the Company F five on the Hyattsville court, while the Liberty tosgers won from the Guardsmen's Reserve, 31 to 25 Immaculate Conception Juniors broke the winning streak of the Columbias last night, with a 27-to-25 defeat, in Wilson Normal gymnasium. The Immaculates will meet the junior champions of Baltimore in the Arcade Sunday. Walter Reed and Palace Athletic Club fives took defeat from the Fort Myer quint, the scores being 33 to 25 and 33 to 24 Argyles had little to offer in a meeting with the Stantons in the pre- Mminary to the Aloysius-Roanoke game, the Northeast five holding a 39-to-14 margin at the finish. Sweeney and Tripp with five baskets each were best for the winners. Sherwood passers took both halves of a double bill, downing Wingfoot Athletic Club five, 20 to 16, and then defeating Mount Rainier Juniors, 27 to 19. Camp Meade tankmen will appear in the 3rd Corps elimination games at Carlisle Barracks tomorrow night. Culo, Hodson, Newsome, Epperson, Casey, Braughton, Mrous, Guy and Close will represent the Tank Corps. FRIGERIO IS UNABLE TO GET RACE SHIFT NEW YORK, February 6—Ugo Frigerio, little Italian walker, who kept his heels in the faces of all opponents at the Olympic games in Paris, but has taken only dust from the American, Willie Plant, since com- ing to the United States for a brief visit, now has turned to naming con- ditions for races. But, unlike Paavo Nurmi, the vis- itor from Finland, he has failed to impress officials of the Wilco A. A. meet. Frigerio had planned to start against Plant and Phil Granville of Canada In the Wilco 3,000-meter test in Brooklyn tomorrow night, but al- most at the last moment changed his mind and requested that the distance be stretched to four miles or more. The Itallan was permitted to with- draw from the 3,000, a fixture at these annual games, and is expected to ap- pear in an exhibition race against any who desire to oppose him. GENTRAL’S RIFLEMEN TO START CAMPAIGN A smali-bore telegraph match with Columbia University freshmen, start- ing on Monday and lasting through the week, will open the season for members of the Central High School rifle squad. Ten men from each school will par- ticipate In the indoor shoot, each fir- ing one target of 10 shots in the prone position, the 5 highest scores counting in the final tally. The dis- tance is 50 feet. After the Columbia match the team will not enter competition again until March, unless a return match with the New Yorkers can be arranged in the meantime. During the first three weeks of March the Astor Cup and national interscholastic matches take place, and Central hopes to enter two teams in each. Both shoots will in- clude four positions, prone, standing, kneeling and offhand. Nearly a hun- dred school teams are expected to compete in each. Central's team for the opening match with Columbia has not yet been picked, but the 10 men will be se- lected from the following, who have made excellent showings In practice sessions: Campbell, R. Radue, man- ager; F. Radue, Bowman, Fisher, Marquis, Boudinet, Meeds, Reese, Grimes, Sehorn, Kasehagen and Yoe- mans. NORTHERNS TO PLAN. Members of the Northern Senior bage ball nine will make plans for a Spring campaign at a meeting to be held on Tuesday night at 3004 Park place. TURNER WINS ON MAT. Joe Turner defeated Zeke Smith in two straight falls in their wrestling match at the Mutual Theater last night. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F Basket Ball FORWARDS MUST HAVE: ‘?\ SPEED What is the most conspicuous fault of forwards in floor work? BY JOHN SCHOMMER, Basket Ball Coach, Armour Insti- tute, Former U. of C. Star. * ok ok % There are two faults which I find to be equally conspicuous and equally disaxtrous to basket ball efiiciency. The first ix the Inck of pure speed. No forward can really be successful unlesx he has thix quality of speed. The second great fault is that many forwards, though possessing speed, do not have the agllity, the flexibility and the memxe of handling the ball which they should h Thewe quulities may be largely developed and brought out through practice, but unless a man has some of them before coming to college, it will be very dificult for any coach to de- velop him into a really great basket ball player. (Copyright, 1925.) TERRIS AND MANDELL WILL TRADE PUNCHES By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 6.—Unoffi- cially the elimination of lightwelght championship contenders starts to- night when Sid Terris of New York and Sammy Mandell of Rockford, IIL, meet at Madison Square Garden in a 12-round bout. Terris, a veritable whirlwind with- in the ropes, will face a rough at- tack which includes hard jolts in both hands. The East Side man, who came out of the amateurs a few years ago to lay clalm to the honors of his welght, has been climbing steadily since ~encountering defeat at the hands of Eddie (Kid) Wagner of Phil- adelphia. Since that time he has con- quered Wagner, Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo, Luis Vicentini of Chile and Whitey Fitzgerald. In November, 1923, Mandell scored a decision over Babe Herman, and a month later was awarded a draw in a bout with Terris at Madison Square Garden. He received a draw with Jeck Bernstein, former American junior lightweight champion, on Jan- uary 11, 1924. He gained a decision over Bernstein in the same ring No- vember 7 and last month scored a technical knockout in a bout with Charles Feraci at New Orleans. The New York State Athletic Com- mission, which is sponsoring a tour- nament to provide a successor to the crown recently laid down by Benny Leonard, has decreed that any entrant who meets defeat during the time the tournament s in progress will be ousted automatically. Harold Smith, a clever Chicago ban- tamweight, will fight the semi-final of 12 rounds with Charley Goodman. KAPLAN AND MASCART MAY. FIGHT MARCH 20 By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, February 6.—Louis (Kid) Kaplin of Meriden, Conn., and Edouard Mascart of France are ex- pected to provide one of the first championship bouts of 1925 on March 20, at Madison Square Garden. The Meriden midget won his world featherweight title in a tournament conducted recently by the New York State Athletic Commission. Eugene Criqui came from France to win the same crown from Johnny Kil- bane in 1923, only to lose it to Johnny Dundee. oo TIPLITZ JUMPS BOUT. BOSTON, February 6—Joe Tiplitz, Philadelphia lightweight, left the hall last night before his scheduled 10-round bout with Jack Zivic of Pittsburgh. The boxer said that the house was too small to make the bout profitable on the arranged percentage. NURMI MAY RUN IN SOUTH. ATLANTA, Ga., February 6.—Paavo Nurmi, Finland’s greatest runner, has accepted an invitation to run in the Georgia Tech relays April 18, if he does not return to his home before this date, the Atlanta Journal sald in a story published yesterday. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1925.° WALKER IS REFEREE Ailing tonsils kept Mickey Walker, welter champlion of the world, out of fighting togs last nignt, but did not keep him out of the ring at Congres- slonal Country Club. The stocky fighter, at present a guest of the club, who was to have engaged in a boxing exhibition, in- stead acted as referee of an_eight- round bout between Jimmy Water- man, Mayflower sailor, and Joe Cum- miskey, Mohawk Athletic Club mid- dleweight. More than 700 spectators, almost half of the number women, crowded the club gymnasium in which the contest was held. What the bout lacked In quality was somewhat off- set by the earnest manner in which both " principals went about thelr work. Large gloves were used, soft- ening the blows, but Waterman was able to get enough into his punches to floor his opponent twice for coupts of six. Walker, addressing the crowd be- fore the fight, expressed regret that doctor’s orders forbade his participa- tion in an exhibition, but promised to stop in Washington on his return from the West and do some boxing at Congresslonal. The champlon called on President Coolidge yesterday and presented him with a pair of autographed five-ounce boxing gloves. The President wanted to know what he should do with them. “Use 'em on your next Con- gress,” Mickey sald he told the Presi- dent. Walker was to appear before the disabled veterans at Walter Reed Hospital today before leaving for Los Angeles. FOUR 10-ROUND BOUTS ON CLUB FIGHT CARD Forty rounds of boxing are ar- ranged for in the program of the fistic show the National Capital Sporting Club proposes to offer at the Washington Auditorium February 17. For the main bout of the scheduled four of 10 rounds each Sully Mont- gomery, former Center College foot ball player, and Martin Burke, South- ern heavyweight champion, have been matched. Another bout has been between Goldie Ahearn, featherweight champion, Guglielmini. Both are scrappers. In other fights Wolf Larsen is slated to meet Charlie Potash and Young Dencio is booked to face Harry Farren. WATROUS TAKES SOUTH CENTRAL GOLF TOURNEY HOT SPRINGS, Ark., February 6.— Al Watrous of Grand Rapids, Mich., won the South Central open golf tournament here with a score of 284 for the 72 holes of play. MacDonald Smith of San Francisco, with a score of 286, was second and Harry Cooper, Dallas, Tex., finished third with 292 All are professionals. PR S NAVY BOXING BOUTS START TOMORROW ANNAPOLIS, February 6.—The Naval Academy, starting tomorrow, will be the scene of a series of intercollegiate box- ing matches of unprecedented interest, nearly every meeting having some point of unusual interest. Intercollegiate boxing seems to be firmly on its feet, and more colleges than ever are including it in their list of regular sports. Under Splke Webb, coach of two champion Olympic teams of United States boxers, the Naval Academy has never lost a dual match, but its work is cut out for it if it is to retain its place. In fact, there is hardly a match this season which the Midshipmen can re- gard lightly. The list: February Dame; 21, dians. March 7. Catholic University; 14, Yale; 21, Pennsylvania; 27-28, intercol- legiates. Penn State will be met at State, and Pennsylvania will be hosts to the inter- collegiates. All other matches will take place at Annapolis. ——— OUIMET TOPS GOLFERS IN EVENT IN BERMUDA HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 6.— Francis Ouimet, with a card of 74, was low man in the qualifying round of 18 holes in the annual Bermuda amateur golf championship. Richard A. Jones, jr, with 78; W. W. Pell, with 87; Albert W. Biggs, jr., and Don Parker, each with 86; R. L. Tickner, with 94, and Stanley Hall, with 93, were the only other members of the American team to qualify. e GRANGE ILL OF MUMPS. RICHMOND, Mich., February 6.— Harold “Red” Grange has the mumps. The great Illinois gridiron star suc- cumbed to the childhood ailment here, where he was to have been the speaker at a high school foot ball banquet, and under orders of a phy- sician he went to bed. TEX PROMOTES HOCKEY. NEW YORK, February 6.— Tex Rickard, sports promoter, who will erect a new Madlson Square Garden this year, has come to terms with Tommy Duggan of Montreal for the use of the proposed structure by a 10-club hockey league next Winter. planned Southern and Louis ‘Washington Syracuse; Penn State; 28, 14, Notre all-Cana- —to match your odd coats. Hundreds and hundreds of all-wool Trousers in many patterns,.colors and shades. We carry the largest assortment of trousers in Washing- ton. The pair you need to match your odd coat can surely be found in our immense stock. ~Priced very low—$4.65 and up. EISEMAN’S 7th & F Sts. SPORTS. ng Valuable in Training : Demand for New Ranking Likel RATING OF TENNIS STARS N row, a It appears that certain flaws in by J. C. Stewart, the president of the M’LEOD AND BARNES | LOSE LEAGUE MATCH TAMPA, Fla, February 6—Jim Barnes and Freddie McLeod of Temple Terrace rost a Florida Winter golf league match yesterday to Bill Mehlhorn and Tommy Armour of Miaml by the margin of 2 and 1. As a result Barnes and McLeod are tjed for the lead with Sazazen and Diegel. Armour was playing well with a card of 37, 33—70 for the 18 holes. Mehlhorn helped him at only one hole, the fourth The best ball cards: Out— Miam! . 54435 Temple Terrace. 443 In— Miami Temple 24 3436 53343335368 14325353571 Mehlhorn and Armour will meet Cyril Walker, open champion, and Eddie Loos of Winterhaven-Lakeland at Lakeland today in another league match, The 7 3 rrace. 5 league standing: Lost. Barnes-MecLeod, Temple Terrace razen-Diegel, Hollywood. . Walker-Loos, Lakeland. Winterhaven. Farrell-Cruickshank, Mehlhorn-Armour, 3! 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EW YORK, February 6.—Just when everything seemed set f smooth sailing, a veritable feast of concord, at the annual mee| ing of the National Lawn Tennis Association in this city tomo storm cloud develops upon the Western horizon. the procedure of ranking America tennis players—alleged flaws, that is to say—as well as charges of di crepancies and errors in the rating of Western play ire of the Western Lawn Tennis Association, and resolutions setti forth this feeling will be presented at the meeting of the national bo ers, has excited tf Western organization. S0 far as the writer can learn, t Western Association will raise ty following points: e ranking as sent out the national body is not official, cause it was made by a subcommit of the ranking committee 2. The members of the subcomm tee are all Easterners, viz., R. Nori Williams, Julian Myrick and Natha fel Niles. 3. George Lott, jr., and Marl Leighton of Chicago did not rece adequate recognition by the subco mittee 4. Norris Willlams was beaten } Lott in the national tourney and f although he was a Davis cup plas his name was not listed because “insufficient data.” Watson W burn, whose record is regarded by t Westerners as much the same as W liams’ record, was ranked 5. That players rated above others in their district r ceived lower district ranking than others rated not so high nationally 6. Specifically, as regards point N 5 it is set forth that Mrs. Rut Riese of Saginaw, Mich., received higher rating in the women's West ern honors than Marion Leighton who won most of the Midwestern tournaments. And, again, that Lu cien Williams of Chicago was placed ahead of Kirk Reld of Cincinnati i the Western list and behind him the national list. nationa May Demand Reranking. i It is likely that a demand will Le de for a reranking. n all other respects nothing is 1i able to mar the serenity of the con vention. 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