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SPORTS. CHAPTER 13—HOW TO BE A CHAMPION. P AAVO Sci URMI'S four-ply triumph in the Colombes games—un- paralleled, unapproached in all Olympic history—brought him great joy and also endless annoyances. ce became deeply interested in this wonder runner of Finland. Physiologists wished to make an extensive study of his anatomy—his heart, his lungs, his muscular development. e into the mind that controlled and ordered him in his training and q Psychologists wished to in- competing cfforts—wished to learn of the spirit that drove him on and on while rivals floundered exhausted and dispirited in his wake. Art also asserted its claims. Paint- ers and sculptors sought to catch his figure in action or in repose And, quite naturally, the athletic world de- sired to gain all possidle knowledge of the secret or secrets of his phe- nominal ability. Had ¥ vo re-acted as would most athletes to this besieging army he would have had to sacrifice his con- dition and possibly retire from com- petition. But Paavo had no idea of doing. He sees no mystery in his form, no superhuman accom- plishments in his great record. “My people were very human peo- ple” he declares, “and 1 simply have de use of what nature has given 1 think if vou had seen me when I was a oungster—for in- stance on the day when as a 10-vear- old, T ran my first race against time— ou would have agreed that I was not formed for great athletic achleve- ments. But I did have, as many other boys had and many others will have, some natural speed, and I chose to develop that natural asset. Hard Work the Secret. “The developing of it was not fun at all times. It involved forsaking hany of the pleasures which others might regard as essential When my school friends were attending shows or parties I was home in bed. That was a rule I followed most strictly when T was a boy. Early to bed was the order of the day with me, and de- voting a portion of each day to run- ning was another regulation. And when T learned by this training that T could outdo my assoclates I galned 2 pleasure that lasted longer than what might have come from my at- tendance at theaters or parties. “I think much of my success has come through my very early interest in running. As a boy in my teens I really laid the foundation, and by so doing have found it much easier to build up. Had I relled on Intermit- tent periods of training I do not be- lieve it would have been possible. This ldea of breaking training after an aotive season, remafning idle for 2 period, and then starting sudden and intensive preparation for the next season, is not a sound one. It means sacrificing much that you have attained and then straining yourself 1o rogain it. And the limited time in athletics that some really great men have had is chargable, I belisve, to that faulty system. “The physical condition is all im- portant to the athlete. Form un- doubtedly plays a considerable part. But natural ability and good physical condition will beat form and poor Physical condition every time. Was Vegetarian As Boy. - “As a boy a vegetable diet was or- dered for me, and I was not permit- ted to drink tea, coffee or intoxicat- ing liquors. That was the work of my parents, and although I since have become a meat eater and have developed a fondness for coffee, I that period as a vegetarian ed its part in my development. T dld not change from the vege- table diet simply because I was re- leased from family restraint. Be- fore I did so I had learned the funda- mentals of anatomy and the func- tions of the organs, and, had my arly experiences on a meat diet pro- duced any harmful effect, I most cer- tainly would have returned to the fare of my boyhood. So, too, in’ my experiments with coffee—I did not drink coffee until I 20. T learned it had no serious effect on my condition. So it is you find me enjoying the everyday food of the everyday man and at the same time continuing at my best in ath- letics, “Thus you sees there is no mystery about my physical condition—no startling facts to learn from my diet. And, as 1 have said, I merely culti- vated my natural ability as a run- mer. so there is no mystery there. “Keeping constantly fit is or should bo the big thing in athletics. It should be a big thing in the life of every one.” Tt is because Paavo does'not view his carcer with the awe and wonder of others that he falls to react as would the majority to the demands of science and art. His attitude in this respect has proved especially disconcerting to the scientists, ar- tists and others since he arrived in America. Spurnx AIL Money Offers. Not a day has passed but there has come a delegation to his doorway or to the home of his American sponsor, Hugo Quist. Leading physicians and surgeons, artists and sculptors, mo- tlon picture and theatrical folk, not to speak of the representatives of manufacturing concerns who wish to secure his indorsement of soap, shoes, coffee, shaving cream and every imaginable article of food, clothing, et certera. Paavo could have made a fortune during his first week in this land by the many monetary offers for his signature or a portion of his time. He could have made soveral fortunes since. Instead of doing so, the Phantom ¥inn has endeavored to make his se- usion all the more secluded. He lias twice shifted his New York ad- dress to put his besiegers oft the track and, in a city of many millions, Paavo ha led the life of a veritable liermit. His physical condition is everything to Paavo. He cannot af- ford to bother with the claims of others. Their proffers of money do not _interest him. Amateur athletics is Finland’s national sport and Paavo is a son of Finland. (Copyright, 1925, in United States, Canada and Great Britain’ by North Americen News: paper Alliance. Copyright (New York World) ress Publishing Co. All rights reserved.) Tomorrow—Five Records in an Afternoon. i HOCKEY GAMES At Duluth—Duluth, 3; Pittsburgh, 0. At Eveleth—Minneapolis Reckets, 2; Eveleth, 1. At Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh Hormets, 3; Boston H. C., 1. NURMI IS DEFEATED; RUNS AGAIN TONIGHT v the Associated Pyess. NEW YORK, February 14.—Madi- son Square Garden's board track is ready for Paavo Nurmi's greatest of all tests tonight, when he runs two miles in the New York A. C. games. Nurmi, after a week’s journey which has taken him to Portland, Me.: Buf- falo and Syracuse, will enter his fourth race In six days with the rec- ord for the distance cut almost to nine minutes by Willle Ritola. Ritola’s accomplishment in racing to victory in 9 minutes 3 3-5 seconds at Buffalo almost overshadowed the breaking of three records by Nurmi himself, and the mark that Ritola made was 42-5 seconds better than the best time the Olympic champion has attained. The long train journeys may be telling on the Finnish sensation, for last night he ran second to Gottlieb of Syracuse University in a mile race, in which the collegian was given a 65-yard advantage. Nurmi’s race tonight will be a spe- cial event against Verne Booth and Harry Helme, and possibly the great Yale runner, MacAulay Smith. Ritola, Plant, Frigerio, Scholz and a host of college athletes will com- pete in these games. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., February 14.— Paavo Nurmi was beaten for the sec- ond time in his American invasion when he trailed Al Gottlleb, Syracuse star, to the tape by 10 yards In a handicap mile race. Gottlieb started with a 65-yard allowance. Nurmi, apparently believing he had shaken off all pursuit, seemed to slow up about 100 yards from the finish, but the Orange star put on a spurt that carried him to the front again. Despite his defeat, Nurmi was credited with lowering the track rec- ord for the Syracuse gymnasium. His time of 4:272-5 olipped three-fifths of a second off the former mark set by Joie Ray of Chicago last year. Gottlieb, a 21-year-old junior and captain of the Syracuse cross-coun- try team, ran the greatest mile race of his career against the most famous opposition he has ever faced. Among the most noteworthy per- formances was the victory of Chester Bowman, track captain and member of the American Olympic team last year, in a 40-yard dash. Bowman raced the distance in 4 3-5 seconds. SCHOOL SOCCERISTS FACE AGAIN MONDAY Graded school socoer players of Park View of the Blow School elevens will make another effort to decide the title on Monday afternoon on the Union Station Plaza playground. It will be their sixth clash in what was originally intended to be a three- game series. Blow defeated the Park View kick- ers, 1 to 0, yesterday to tie up the series. Park View won the opening con- test, Z to 1, but three other battles ended In 1-to-1 deadlocks. The teams lined up as follows: Positions. ® TWO DODGERS SIGN. NEW YORK, February 14.—Jacques F. Fournier, first baseman, and Charles P. Hargraves, catcher, have signed their contracts with the Brooklyn Nationals. I el HOLYOKE, Mass, February 14. —Jole Celmers of Hoboken, N. J., won a foul from Bobby Garcia, Balti- more featherweight, in the seventh round last night. —_ Armstrong High tossers have hopes of arranging a return game with the ‘Wendell Phillips High School of Chi- cago, which defeated them, 25 to 15, on their trip to the Midwest, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. EATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925. Nurmi Attributes Success to Rigid Training : Lots of Basket Ball Here Tonight KEEPING CONSTANTLY FIT IS ONLY SECRET Paavo Rates Form Subordinate to Good Physical Condition Com- bined With Natural Ability. 4 PAAVO NURMI'S STORY As Told by Him to Charles E. Parker BASKET BALL RESULTS At Georgetown—Fordham, 322 Georgetown, 15. At Collego Park—Maryland, 23; Olty College of New York, 16. At Raleigh—South Carolima, North Carolina State, 23. At New Haven—Yale, 20; Brown, 15. At Cambridge—Harvard, 32; Spring. feld, 30. At Morgantown—We: Virginf Wesleyan, 25; West Virginia, 23. At Pittsburgh—Carnegic Tech, 37; Pittsburgh, 19. U. M. AND TECH SEEK MORE TRACK HONORS University of Maryvland and Tech High School athletes, who distin- guished themselves by their excel- lent work in the University of Vir- ginia invitation track and fleld games at Charlottesville last night, are to compete tonight in the Uni- versity of Richmond indoor meet in Richmond. Nineteen events featuring dashes, middle-distance runs, hurdles, high jump and special team relays will be contested by 300 athletes. Maryland’s varsity four captured the feature event of the Virginia meet last night, beating the team of the ‘host in the collegiate mile relay in 3:44:6. Endslow, Maryland anchor, finished 10 vards ahead of Irvine. North Carolina's team ran third. Maryland runners preceding Endslow were Pugh, Whiteford and Sheriff. Maryland’s freshman relay team was defeated by the Virginia fresh- men at a mile. The Tech relay, composed of Kessler, Garrett, Horton and More- land, won the prep school mile race, beating Fork Union and Augusta in 3:59. Pugh won the freshman 50- yard dash in 54-5 seconds and Gar- rett took the prep school half-cen- tury in the same time. Pugh was second and Garrett third to Cum- mings of Virginia in the speclal 50- yard race. The winner covered the route in 5 3-5. Maryland freshmen scored first places in the mile and half-mile events in their class. Middleton won the former in 5:12:4 and Newnam the latter in 2:13:4. The performances were good, con- sidering the small track. RED SHIELD QUINTET TO PLAY IN PHILLY Oapt. Hal Hughes’ Red Shield toss- ers, with a record of 32 wias In 35 starts, travel to Philadelphia today to meet the Red Shield quint of that city. St. Stephen's basketers took the first of a three-game series from the Peck reserves, 22 to 18. Lydon gave a good exhibition of floor work for the winning quint. Palace Laundry Insects trounced Northern Insects, 14 to 8. Overcoming a 22-to-20 lead at half time, the Clovers won from the El- liots, 57 to 46. Camp Meade tankmem met the St. Mary's College five this afternoon. Meade defeated Fort Howard, 25 to 12, in the second round of the 3d Corps area series. Apaches and Washington Athletic Association clash in Eastern High School gymnasium at 7:30 tonight. Kemndall School tosszrs and the Ren- rocs are the latest to fall before the attack of the Boys' Club Celtics. The scores were 27 to 14 and 66 to 10. 24 St. Mary's Juniorw of Alexandria added the Boys' Club Yankees to their list of victims in a 46-to-13 game. 2,000 TICKETS ON SALE FOR McBRIDE BENEFIT Two thousand tickets have been placed on sale for the Bill McBride benefit dance at the Elks' Club, on Tuesday night. Entertainment by the Mohawk Quartet s the latest attraction to be added to the program. G. U. MEET TO CARE FOR YOUNG TALENT Youthful athletic talent will have considerable opportunity to show its worth in the Georgetown University track and fleld meet to be held in Convention Hall next Saturday night. Although there will be a number of races and fleld events devoted to stars of the first magnitude, there will be many contests for scholastics and minor clubmen. Years ago when the annual George- town meet was instituted, the man- agement made it a policy to oater especially to local athletes and this policy 1s not to be done away with, despite the tendency of many modern athletic meet managers to glve over their programs solely to the big fellows. Georgetown wants to develop athletic talent as much as exhibit the finished product, according to those in charge of its games. Relay races are to be a big feature of the meet next Saturday. Ten of such contests bringing together prominent college, school and club teams are to be held. e CHAPEL HILL, N. C, February 14. —Virginia matmen defeated North Carolina wrestlers last night, 12 points to 11. FRED BARONI TELLS: * How Jones Almost Lost 1923 Open Title AD Bobby Jones not won the 1923 open championship at Inwood, Long Island, he surely would have gotten one of the toughest breaks on record. This with all due credit to Bobby Cruickshank. . For some reason only a comparative handful of people seem to have heard the true story of why Jones failed to win the title in the regular play and so had to go into a play-off with Cruickshank. The golf re- porters missed one very important incident. About all that most followers of the game know Is that Jones took a 6 on the par 4 final hole, while Cruickshank, by virtue of a wonder- ful No. 1 iron shot, lald his ball five feet from the cup and got down in a birdle 3 for a tie. Cruickshank's finish was wonder- ful—nothing more thrilling could be imagined—and he is entitled to ail uralse. Nevertheless, Jones had some pretty hard luck. To begin with, if he could have done the last hole in par he would have had a total of 294 and no one could possibly have caught him. But after a good drive he hooked his sec- ond shot into a crowd at the left of the green. His ball came to a stop directly underneath a chaln which had been strung around three sides of an adjolning tee to keep spectators back while the competing At Boston—Boston A. A., 3; Besten |players were driving. Paples, = 2 Ehere was guite & dlscusslon-as to what should be done about that chain, which had been installed mere- ly during the tournament, officials finally concluding that it should be cut. This used up more time. Mean- while Bobby was cooling off and thinking more and more about the short pitch shot to the green which now confronted him. It wasn't a very hard shot, although the green was well guarded, but there ‘was plenty of room in which to drop his ball and he had a good lle. IHow- ever, the long wait had unsettled Jones and his effort was a weak one which landed him in a trap. He needed another stroke to get out and two putts to get down for & 6. A 5 would have settled the cham- pionship then and there. Even as it was, Cruickshank tied him only by a superhuman play. But in the end Jones shook his jinx and conquered in the play-pfty EASTERN A. A. TOSSERS NOW TITLE B CONTENDERS ASKETERS of Eastern Athletic Association, who have been set- ting a fast pace the past few weeks, will attempt to run their string of victories to 16 tonight when they clash with the spec- tacular Stanton Athletic Club five in Eastern High School gymnasium at 8:30. The Stantons, while unbeaten dur- ing the first half of the season, have 'lost in their last two starts. Slowly but surely the Eastern team has been forging to the front as a contender for the championship of the city, and a win tonight will boost its stock considerably and practically leave only the Corby Bakery quint and the Aloysius Big Five as ob- stacles in the march to a title. Berman, Nash, Woodward, O'Nell, Sumner, Cincy and Spiess are avall- able for the Eastern line-up, while O. Mitchell, Sweeny, Tripp, Handback, Gooch and J. Mitchell are expected to perform for the Stantons. As thirty teams were represented at the first meeting called by Alo- yslus Club to consider plans for a city tournament, the idea of an elimi- nation serles for the District cham- plonships seems to be going over big. Another meeting will be held at 47 I street Monday night to make final arrangements for series in senior and jumior classes. Teams that wish to enter must have delegates at hand. Joe Fitzgerald, J. H. Hagan, L B. ‘Thompson, David Keppel, V. Leater and T. W. Helnrich are the committee in charge. Aloysiaw cagers will oppose” City Club tonight at 8:30 in Gonzaga gym- nasium. Earller in the season the downtown clubmen were trounced by the Aloys. Gonzaga Reserves and Aloysius Midgets appear in the pre- lminary battle. HKenllworth tossers added a pair of wins to their list by downing the , 30 to 6, and the Lafayettes, Tremonts and Warwick Preps were outclassed by the Epliphany Juniors, the churchmen taking the long end of 48 to 22 and 32 to 22 scores. O’Keefe starred for the reorganized Owls, when the Corinthians were beaten, 25 to 23. Columbia Juniers took both halves of a double-header with Petworth Boys' Club and Olympia Juniors by scores of 41 to 28 and 55 to 12, MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT BY JAMES J. CORBETT Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion ELIEVE me, it Is not easy to pick my greatest thrill in sport, but, after thinking things over, I am sure I never had a bigger kick than one 1 got some seven or eight years ago. The dates and names are a bit hazy, but I shall never forget that mo- ment. About eight years ago I was lucky enough to wit- mess the inter- national polo match betwee: America and England, which took place ot - wo very fa from my home JAMES 1. CORBETT. on Long Isla: Before the game I had been talking to one of the officials, who told me that the English sportsmen had searched all England and her col- onles for the fastest thoroughbred polo ponies to be had. Of course, America had done likewise. The Eng- lish club, through a long process of elimination, had sent to our shores the pick of her “polo circle.” Their names I cannot recall, but suffice to say they were splendid specimens of athletic horsemen. The American team I had been watching with a sort of subdued pa. CENTRAL IS PLAYING TWO GAMES IN DAY Central High School basketers, beaten, 29 to 24, In Lancaster last night, have two games scheduled for today. This afternoon the Washing- ton champlons are meeting Tome In- stitute at Port Deposit, Md., and later will clash with Loyola High at Bal- timore. Having defeated the Pennsylvania team last year, Central was favored to win on the Lancaster court, but while outplaying their opponents in the final-half, were unable to over- come the early lead piled up by the Red Tornadoes. Gonsaga and Western were to clash this afternoon on the George Wash- ington University court. As Gonzaga recently downed Tech, one of the teams that conquered Western in the high school championship serles, a real battle is looked for. Freshmen basketers at Georgetown had little to offer against the whirl- wind attack of the Western High quint last night, and took the small end of a 28-to-7 count. Garber and Lamar accounted for a trio of fleld goals each, and the former made good on five out of six free tosses. Eastern lightweights are clalming the 130-pound title of the high schools and are willing to defend it against all comers. The Western five was defeated yesterday, 21 to 17. Burnett and Abramson led the Cen- tral Cubs to victory against the Dev- itt Prep Reserves, the score being 28 to 22. Devitt Prep basketers are planning an extensive trip next week, and hope to meet freshmen fives at Virginja Military Institute, Washington and Lee and University of Virginia. St. Alban's was defeated yestérday, 13 to 11, AMATEUR BASE BALL TEAMS TO GATHER Plans intended to place amateur base ball on a sound financial basis will be formulated quring the week by the Washington Base Ball and Amateur Athletic Assoclation. The date of the get-together of the offi- cers and team managers has not been set, but definite announcement will be made in time for all teams to ap- point representatives. Delegates from a dozen unlimited clubs met with James F. O'Malley, the District representative to the Na- tional Base Ball - Federation last night and heard a general outline of the proposed work of the Washington association for the coming season. An attempt will be made to organ- ize a league of eight strong teams, playing twice a week, and probably on every other Sunday. If necessary eight-team leagues playing, playing strictly Sunday ball or performing on week days only, also will be arranged for, but the big proposition {s to form the best talént of the city Into one league, thereby insuring good com- petition, and making it possible to pick a champlon nine to take part in the national tourney at Clevelana at the close of the season. A project for financing this league, while still keeping the sport on a strictly amateur basis, will be un- folded at the big meeting next week. JOIN HOT SPRINGS GANG. By the Associated Press. Everett Scott and Wally Schang of the New York Americans have added to the "base ball colony at Hot Springs, Ark. They immediately took 1 the golf coursg triotic pride. It consisted of such marvelous players as the Waterbury brothers, Harry Payne Whitney, Mr. Milburn and others. As the fleld was cleared the crowds rose and in one thunder- ous volce yelled, “Here they come!” My first thrill came as I gaszed upon the finest polo players and the fastest polo ponies in the world, prancing down the fleld. The game was full of thrills. One especlally stands out in my mind at present, that of an Englishman and an American racing the length of the field neck and neck to end by the American just nosing the Englishman out and cracking the ball for a goal. Another thrill came when I wanted to eall a friend’s attention te a play and found that I had lost my voice entirely. * I remember the feeling that gripped me as I watched those daring play- ers and thelr wonderful little ponfes match their wits, horsemanship and stamina against each other with never a thought of commercialism entering their minds. All was in the name of honor and sportsmanship. The biggest and fiaal thrill came when the American team shot the winning goal and won the game. Belleve me, 1 was weak from excitement! Tomorrow—Gertrude Artelt. (Copyright, 1925, by Public Ledger Co. Basket Ball THE TWO MAIN THINGS = What diet precautions should be taken by a basket ball player? BY JOHN SCHOMMER, Basket Ball Coach, Armour Institute, Former U. of C. Star. * % %k ¥ Tt in my bellef that the diet pre- cautions which should be taken by a basket ball player or by a man e saged In any other form of athletics ahould resolve themselves imto two main polnts—temperance and moder- ation. I believe that for many men a break im their regular scheme of living when they “go into training” is injurious to the player and fatal to achleving the best results. Natur- ally a man engaged in a form of athletics as fast and as violent an basket ball cannot overeat.. Neither can he try to be a Thomas Edison and exist on three or four hours’ sleep each night. (Copyright, 1925.) ALOYSIUS’ RACE IS OPEN TO ALL LOCAL RUNNERS A seven-mile event, open to local runners, will be staged by the Aloysius Club at the Georgetown Uni- 'versity track tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Twenty-eight laps around the track will be necessary to complete the distance. Eighteen hill and dale men are to represent the host organization, and it is expected that at least 40 will face the starter. COLLEGE POLO LOOP NOW BEING PLANNED NEW YORK, February 14.—First steps in the formation of an intercol- leglate polo assoclation were taken today when Alvin Devereux, presi- dent of the Princeton Polo Associa- tion, sent out a call to nine universi- ties asking thejr representatives to attend a meeting in New York, with the objective the formation of a col- lege organization and the promotion of intercollegiate polo. ‘The colleges which have been asked to attend the meeting, the date of which has beén tentatively set for February 20, are Harvard, Norwich, Princeton, Pennsylvania Military Col- lege, the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Military Institute, West Point, Yale and Cornell. All of these universities have sup- ported polo teams in the past, and all have taken part in the intercolle. glate champlonship event, Yale win- ning In the tournament of 1923, and Princeton carrying off the title last 803308, FOUR SWIM RECORDS GO IN TITLE MEET ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 14. —Two world and two national swim- ming records were shattered yester- day in the Alcazar pocl, the fourth day of the flve-day national cham- plonship aquatic ‘carnival. One of the new marks was estab- lished in one of the women's cham- plonship events when Agnes Geraghty of the New York Women's Swimming Assoclation twice bettered her own national figures In retaining her title as 220-yard breast-stroke cham- plon. The three other records—all made in special events—fell to the lot of Arne Borg of Sweden, Ethel Lackie of the Iliinols A. C. and Gertrude Ederle of New York. One other championship in addi- tion to the breast-stroke . event was decided yesterday, and this was the 500-yard free style swim, which was won by Martha Norellus of New York. Mies Norellus defeated among others Helen Wainwright, the defending champlon. Miss Geraghty's performance In twice bettering her own national record of 3:30 2-5 for the 220-yard breast stroke was the most brililant individual performance of the day. In her heat the New York girl did 8:28 3-5, while in the final she was timed dn 3:27 4-5. It was Miss Carin Nillson, another New Yorker, who forced Miss Geraghty to record figures. Miss Nillson was also under the record in_the final, being timed in 3:28 4-5. Miss Doris Dunham of Detroit was third. ‘Miss Norelius won the 6500-yard title with speed in reserve, finishing a length and a half in front of Miss Ethel McGary of New York. Miss Wainwright was a like distance be- hind Miss McGary. Borg showed he was in wonderful form by clipping 35 1-5 seconds from his own world’s record in an exhibi- tion at 1,000 yards. Sweden's Olym- plc hero swam unpaced and completed the distance in 12:12 3-5, as agalnst his old mark of 12:47 4-5, made in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1923. A world record also fell to Mlss Lackle In a special 100-meter test, ‘which she negotiated in 1:12. The old figures were 1:12 1-5. Miss Gertrude Ederle showed her best form of the meet to date when she broke the national record for 75 yards In a race in which she de- feated Adelaide Lambert and Doris O'Mara. Miss Ederle’s time was 0:45 1-5, as agalnst the previous record of 0:46 3-5, made by herself in Miami last year. Miss Ederle, who is the recordholder at 500 yards, did not start In the champlonship test. She decided to withdraw in order to try for the 75-yard record. RING TITLE TOURNEY PAIRINGS ARE MADE NEW YORK, February 14.—George Chaney of Baltimore will meet Tom- my O'Brien of Milwaukes, and Jim- my Goodrich of Buffalo will face Ed- die (Kid) Wagner of Philadelphia, at Madison Square Garden, February 23, in the opening matches of the light- weight elimination tournament. This was determined by the State Athletic Commission, which an- nounced the pairings for the first round. All first-round matches will be 10-round affairs. Other matches arranged, and the dates, follow: K. O. Clyde Jeakle of Columbus, Ohio, versus Rocky Kansas of Buffalo, at the Pioneer Club, February 24; Charley O'Connell of Cleveland vs. Joe Dundes of Baltimore, at the Man- hattan Club, February 25; Benny Valgar of New York vs. Alex Hart of Philadelphia and Archie Walker of Brooklyn vs. Solly Seaman of New York, at the Rink S. C., February 27; Jack Bernstein of Yonkers vs. Basil Galiano of New Orleans, at the Com- monwealth S. C., February 28. MATMEN MUST SWEAR TO GIVE BEST EFFORTS ST. LOUIS, February 14.—Declaring “the game is thoroughly crooked,” Prosecuting Attorney Albert Schweitzer has announced that wrestling com- petitors here in the future would be required to sign affidavits in ad- vance pledging themselves to give their best efforts and swear that the match is to be bona fide. S. A. BOXING TOURNEY ENTRIES BEING RECEIVED Charles L. Ornstein, 233 Equitable Bullding, Baltimore, is receiving en- tries for the amateur boxing cham- plonships of th§ South Atlantic A. A. U. to be held in the Monumental City on March 11 and 12. The competition {s open to all ama- teur athletes registered with the A. A. U. who have not won champion- ships in junior, senfor or Olympic events, and will include all classes from the flyweight to the unlimited. TITLE FIGHT BOOKED. By the Assoclated Press. Arrangements for the bantam- welght champlonship bout between Eddie (Cannofi Ball) Martin of Brook- lyn and Charley (Phil) Rosenberg of New York have been completed, the date to be February 20 and Madison Square Garden the scene. SPORTS. GIRLS SHARE IN VARSITY CARD WITH MAN PLAYERS Triple-Header Listed for George Washington Gym. City College of New York at Brookland—Mary- 3 land Five Wins—G. U. Beaten. C O-EDS as well as mere males will take part in basket ball con tests to be offered by District varsities tonight. Girls of George Washington University will clash with the girls of Gallaudet in the Hatchetite gymnasium, on H street near Twenticth, before the uni- versity’s masculine court performers encounter the five of Johns Hopkins All told, three games will be played on the Hatchetite floor. At 7 o’clock Epiphany Juniors and Boys’ Club Celtics will meet, at 8 o’clock the girls’ game will get under way and at 9 o’clock the men’s varsity tilt will begin. Another varsity match, starting at 8 o'clock, is to be staged ir Brookland. Catholic University will be host to City College of New York, beaten, 22 to 16, in Ritchic the University of Maryland. Inside Golf y Chester Horto: Because the fron clubkead is mot forced in the down swing is why the solfer must forever be cautious about Soing back siowly. After all, the Freat curse of golters is the quick, jerky back swing. Many a player fs 100 per ocent guilty of this tault and mever even suspects fit. The club is mot drawn back o slowly that memse of balance is lost, but it i taken back at an even, flowing pace ~—a pace that lets the player feel the club to be under his com- mand all the time. When the club is whipped or jerked back all command of it s immediately lost. natarally The down swing of the iron iy quick and speedy —snappy is & good term. It smaps because the hands, working on the clublead, speed it up greatly. A good idea is this: Feel that in the back sSwing you are sneaking back behind the ball—then hit fit. (Copyright, 1925.) SLATTERY HAS EDGE IN GO WITH DELANEY NEW YORK, February 14.—Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn., one of the East's leading aspirants to the middleweight championship, now held by Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, once again has been stopped in his upward climb by the 20-vear-old pugilist trom Buftalo, Jimmy Slattery. Delaney has conquered Paul Ber- lenbach and Tiger Flowers through knockouts, yet last night, in Madison Square Garden, the dangerous right hand was powerless against an all- sweeping attack, and Slattery won the decision on points. Newspaper men figured that only one round of the six should go to Delaney. Slat- tery met Delaney some months ago in the same ring and gained the verdict by a much larger margin than he had last night. In this second meeting Delaney ap- peared to recover himself and battled flercely in the final round, aiming at a knockout to sweep away the im- mense lead that his opponent had piled up. He won the round easily. and on two occasions had Slattery in trouble against the ropes. His show- ing indicated that he might be a far different antagonist for the Buffalo man in a 10 or 12 round encounter. Slattery is not permitted now to box more than 6 rounds. When he be- comes of age in August of this year this handicap will be lifted. KAPLAN'S PILOT PUNISHED. SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 14.— Scotty Monteith of New York, man- ager of Kid Kaplan, featherweight boxing champion, and Jackle Snyder and Joe Ryder, lost his California license after a long discussion last night' over the amount of bandages to be allowed Snyder for his 10-round bout with Frankie Garcia, Hollywood featherweight. — ALLEN LEADS SKATERS. LAKE ‘PLACID, N. Y., February 14. —Francis Allen, Chicago skater, who wears the international amateur out- door speed skating crown, won both events on the Awmerican dlamond trophy program, the 220-yard and one- mile races, here yesterday. He now leads in points for the trophy. 21 RED SOX ENROLLED. BOSTON, February 14—The 1925 contracts of John A. Heving, a catcher of Covington, Ky., and Louis Temple, pitcher of Franklin, Pa., have been received by the Boston Americans. Twenty-one men have now signed. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President 1zaak Walton League of America. The bulletin on coyotes I find I idea of coyotes in this country. “At present coyotes, which in the aggregate in the United States must number several million animals, are unquestionably the most destructive predatory animals in this country. One of the most difficult problems of predatory animal control is raised by them. They are widely distributed and well endowed by their mental qualifications to protect themselves and secure food under a great variety of conditions. To insure their per- petuation they are prolific breeders, sometimes having 14 in a litter. Con- trary to their habits, coyotes may now be found throughout high and rugged mountain ranges and in dense forests. “Not only have they occupied prac- tically all the available territory in the Western States, but they have successfully maintained themselves in such States as Illinols, Indiana and Michigan, and continually invade new territory. “Coyotes persistently follow live stock and game In their seasonal movements between Summer and Winter ranges, constantly’ preying upon the young and even adult cat- tle, sheep, goats and swine and deer and antelope. Coyotes are also no- torious destroyers of the eggs and young of ground-nesting b fn- -eluding auch lmportant specles as THINK I'll et the Biological Survey write most of my column today. very interesting, and I believe you would rather read part of it than to listen to me. This gives a good sage hens, prairie chickens, quail, grouse and many kinds of ducks. They also destroy great numbers of full-grown birds and .are probably the most destructive enemy of our &ame resources. Because pf their fox- like skill in concealing themselves and in escaping pursuit, they often ccessfully locate their dens and rear their young in close proximity to ranches and farms.” Coyotes are controlled by the “poison squad” .of the survey. Some of the work engaged in by the pris- oners has come in for a good deal of criticism, especially their warfare on small birds. Here's how they enter the trenches against coyote: “Extended lines of feeding stations are often established and maintained until the coyotes become accustomed to feeding at them, and then small, specially prepared poison baits are placed, and a short, intensive cam- palgn carried on, often resulting in the destruction of practically all the coyotes in the territory. Any poisoned material left uneaten is then picked up and destroyed or used elsewhere. “During the year more than 3,567,- 00 especially prepared poisoned baits ‘Wwere methodically put out in ac- cordance with definite plans, and these polsoning operations covered an area of\about 284,400 square miles.” Gymnasium at College Park last night by George Washington's team probably is about as good now as it will be at any time this Winter, and seemingly well prepared to give the Hopkins bunch & good battle. Coach Dally has been drilling his Hatchetites strenuously the past week, perfecting seyeral plays expected to be uncoy- ered tonight. The Hopkins team visiting Washington is not & strictly representative team of the Baltimore university, but a combination of meu playing the game for the game's sake. Hopkins officially no longe: fosters basket ball. Catholic University, stung by nu merous defeats, undoubtedly wil make a valiant effort to redeem itsel” at the expense of the New Yorkers But doing so may prove a difficul matter. The Gotham quint is fast and well versed in its game, and will take a deal of beating. Maryland certalnly syrprised ardent supporters, as well as Tit College of New York, when it bowled over the latter. The Gothamites came here with & splendid record, and their play last night demonstrated theyv had rightly earned it. But the Old Liners went about their work so methodically that the sharp thrusts of the -visitors were withstood re- peatedly, and kept enough in reserve to put over a winning punch in the late stages of the fray. Both teams devoted so much atten- tion to defense in the first half tha at its expiration the count stood only 5 to 4 in Maryland's favor. More was given to attack In the second session but the teams fought evenly to 15-15 Then Beatty put the Marylanders ahead with a successful free toss, and Ensor followed with a trio of scrim- mage throws to clinch the argument Maryland might have been on the short end of the count had it not been for a scoring spurt by Faber at the outset of the second half. He counted nine points in three minutes on a trio of field goals and as many from the foul line. After winning five games, George town last night suffered its firs basket ball defeat of the Wintc bowing to Fordham in a 22-to-15 engagement in Ryan gymnasium. It was the eleventh stralght win for the Maroon, which outplayed the Blue and Gray all the way. . The first half ended with the visitors leading, 14 to 8. Georgetown spurted in the second half, but again was unable to match Fordham's count. Frank Frisch, stellar inflelder of the National League champlon Glants, and Fordham alumnus, was one of the officials of the game. Swimmers of Catholic Universit: failed to make much of a splash ir the pool at Bethlehem, Pa., last night being defeated, 57 to 14, by Lehig! Not a Brookland entrant scored first place. Pilot of Lehigh esta lished a pool record in the breast stroke swim. Only two Washington teams w; compete at Annapolis today. George town freshmen basketers are to meet the Navy plebes and George Wash- ington swimmers will encounter the Midshipman tank team. Catholic University's boxing team will appear at Annapolls March 7 instead of to- day as was originally announced. ESPINOSA IN FRONT IN BIG GOLF EVENT SAN ANTONIO, Tex., February 14 —Abe Espinosa, San Francisco pro- fessional, led the fleld in the first day of medal play for the Texas open golf champlonship, turning In a card of 139 for the two rounds. Espinosa had a 68 for the morning round and 71 for the afternoon, one stroke under MacDonald Smith, also of San Francisco, who scored a pair of 70s. Jack Burke of Houston, Tex, was third with 142. Other scores follow: John Rodgers, Darton, Ohio. Joe Turnesa, Elmsford, N. Y Fred Baronia, Pittsburgh Jack Gordon, ‘Buffalo, N Y. Joho Golden. Paterson, N. ‘Abe Mitchel George Du Bill Leach. Overbrool George Christ, Rochester, N_ Al Watrous, Grand Rapids, Mich. 71—77—145 — =« GIANTS GET IN LINE. NEW YORK, February 14.—Tho Giant management has announced re- celpt of signed contracts from Out- flelder Billy Southworth and Pitcher John Wisner, the latter a Rochester recruit. —_—— YANKS RELEASE HAINES. NEW YORK, February 14.—Th New York Yankees have announce the release of Outfielder Henr (“"Hinkey”) Haines to the Rochester club of the International League Haines was a former foot ball a base ball star at Penn State. GOLF EVENT TO DUNPHY. PALM BEACH, Fla, February 14 —<C. J. Dunphy of Washington, D. C., won the South Florida golf cham pionship here by defeating Donald ‘Woodward, also of Washington, * Gonvenient to, but sway from, Congestion 2-CAR WASH RACK Tz Mooemn Dowerown Srat STAR SERYICE STATION 12th and C Sts. N.W.