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SP ORTS: THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C oy l'I‘UESDAY. FEB RUARY 24, 1925. SPORTS. ) Nurmi’s Baltimore Record Is Doubtful : Cornell Likes Four-Mile Rowing Roule B MADE BETTER TIME HERE THAN AT HOPKINS GAMES Finn Faster by 8 1-5 Seconds for 3,000 Yards at Georgetown Meet—Georgetown and Tech High Athletes Shine in Maryland City. hand T meet. ” York BY JOHN B. KELLER. HAT a record what Washington indoor Hopkins-5th Regiment gar striving to learn Paavo Nurm constitutes greatest attractio 3000 yards at the Georgetown carnival in Convention nightin 7 carnival minutes 46 2-5 second: the 5th Regimer , in the course of a 2-mil 1t in 7 minutes 54 3-5 nds. A No world record, said o amateur track athletics? That's meet fans who attended the Johns mes in Baltimore last night now are in years on the boa all last Saturday fficials of the in Baltimore, last night the ce, was clocked at the 3,000-yard A world record, said Baltimore meet mo Why rob Nurmi of the 8 1-5 seconds he picked up here? Two Atlantic world world A. A. T mark were Georgetown games. well known in amate « fied to the accura measurem and the tin Hahn's 1,500-meter r nd_Helt- | frich’s 800-meter race ¥ did the | same for Jim Burgess' 400- Andy Gaffey's 150-yard event Papers concerning t have been forwarded to A. A. U. headquarters. Yet Nurmi's time here was not con- | sidered record and nothing wa done about his ra Itimore though ists th effort of the Finn ir last night ought to | ed world come records, a new South and an equalled claimed for the Meet officials | athletics duly me £ in Llovd | as a District Washingt were well er for the B saw a G of p vic Athletes rons of g They team rs romp ts and a easily out- | squads in their boy to step out getown University actically nge 10 tory in the open Tech High School team point other scholasti division of the meet The Finn, althoug an as impressively Saturday, a trifle slower, | as he did here overcoming a| field that started on even terms Wwith him in the two-mile jaunt. Of the six men who began the race with Paavo, all were lapped or dropped out -\ulv t Verne voth illrose A. A. midc d Ilma who has opponent of his | brother Finn in a number of races in this country. Jack Ilbery, Washington Canoe Club runner, who started not until the fourteentk of the six teen-lap grind began. Booth ran a good race and finished the two miles b-u(\\vwn 1 40 ards behind Nurmi. Prim narrow scaped being lapped, less than a yard ahead of | the Abo Antelope, with another round of the track to make | Clocked rmi was clocked 9:18 4-5, having o seconds sensational world-record race in New York week last. Paavo was timed at various stages cf his jour- ney last night. He tu ed the half- mile in 2.14, the mile in 4.33, the mile and three-quarters i 4- the 3,000 meters in 8.40 3-5 and the mile and seven-eighths in $.44 | Georgetown men performed bril- | liantly in the track events. In the | open century, MeHugh won and Mel- | ton, a former Central High boy, fin- ished third Hilltoppers grabbed everything in sight in the quarter mile, Estevez winning with Eastment running second and Kinally third Swinburne and Baron were one, two in the S00-meter open. Tech High boys scored two first and two seconds in the scholastic division of the meet. Quinn was winner of the ard dash, with Kennedy second. | McGhan won t high jump and Bob Pugh was given second place in the quarter-m when Hipp of Baltimore City College, first to finish, was dis- qualified | Eastern and Western picked up)| points in the scholastic Greg ry of the former sch was third in the 600-yard championship race, and | Elliott of the Red and White team s third in the high jump. | Chaconas Runx Well. | Central rur last fair istance been an did retire lap Nurmi Often. at the done the slower finish in | two miles | than in_his befo | | events h scored in the §00-yard | Chaconas, after running well | back in the field the ter part of | the way, with B rst of speed | dashed to the ffont in the backstretch | the last turn around the track and 10 a victory in the good time Friedman, another Cen fourth place Several boys who got their first| track training under Bill Foley at| ntral did well. In addition to Mel- ton of Georgetown, Eckel of Lafay- ette was a point scorer. The former Blue and White half-miler took third place in the S00-meter run, Kern, erstwhile Centralite, now at Navy, did some good running in the sprints, but was defeated University of Maryland High runners performed the relays. College Pa and varsity teams won fours of Navy. Ed Pugh, Roger Whiteford, Sheriff and Endslow trounced the regular Annapolis team, the Marylanders winning with 40 vards to spare in 3:32 the best mile made by a relay team in the Burleigh, Middleton, Thomas and Matthews, Old Line cubs, beat the Navy plebes in Tech’s flashy mile the front in the achool championship. Kessler, Horton and Moreland run- ning in_the order mentioned, Ford Tnion Military Academy’s _quartet was well beaten. Catonsville High School's team finished third. The Manual Trainer half-mile team bowed to Baltimore Poly's boys in a half- mile relay, but ran fast enough to head Episcopal High School's four across the final line. Special Races Interesting. Three special races provided the best contests of the m In a 100- ard invitation, Jackson Scholz, New A. C. star, wongin 10 seconds over Cummings of Virginia and Bartholomew of Penn State. Ziegler, former Central High School boy, was fourth, Charlie Pugh of Maryland fitth and Bill Dowding of George- town last Sid Leslie of New Yerk A. C. came from nowhere to the front in the last lap of an S00-meter invitation and won over Ray Watson, Ray Dodge and Jimmy Connolly in order. A medley distance race for the col- leglate indoor championship _of America was won by the Boston Col- lege team. Welch’s fine half mile and Cavanaugh's good mile for the victors were the high spots of the contest. Penn State was second, Pennsylvania third and Lafayette last. Some excellent races were offered at the meet, but it lacked the class of the Georgetown carnival here. However, the games in Convention Hall were exceptional both for the umber of ranking stars of the track World present and the Keenness of competition in the races. But in general the Baltimore meet was well handled, Hopkins and 5th Regiment men have been conducting their mamea for so many years that they work smoothly and efficiently. nt on 1 5. and Tech valiantly in rk freshman handily over stepped to race for a high With Garrett, | sw | willie All worked hard, but probably none toiled harder than did Googy Day, former Central High boy, nmow a stu dent at Hopkins. He was especially elpful to Washington contingent t the nes. And_ the other Hop- kins men and the Maryland guards- men were quite attentive, too. PR RITOLA IS ACCUSED OF BREAKING FAITH| BOSTON, t Willle February 24.—Declaring Ritola of the Finnish- American A. C. accepted $40.40 of e: pense money advanced. and. through his manager, Hugo Quist, had verbal- 1y agreed to run in the feature mile of the Afherican Legion meet here last night, Charles F. Gorham, chair- man of the meet committee, has tele- d a request for suspension of to President Murray Hulbert the A. U. The distance star ed to appear last night. Officials of the B, A. A.. the club of Lloyd Hahn, who dropped out of the mile, last night decfared that he had never been entered for that event They said ghat he had been induced at the last moment to appear in it to please a friend, but that he was con- serving his strength for the 1,000- vard distance which followed almost immediately, and which his manager had designed as his event. Hahn pt into first place easily in the 1,000. Md., 24— BALTIMORE, Ritola February failure to appear in the American Legion track meet at Boston was due failure to notify the Finnish-American distance star in sufficient time, according to a- state- ment here last night by Hugo Quist, track adviser of both Ritola and Paavo Nurmi Ritola was not advised gagement in Boston until yesterday morning, Quist explained, as a result of a misunderstanding, and then did not have time to arrange the trip. Ritola had not filed a formal entry. however, according to Quist, who said he had merely promised verbally have the runner compete. He de knowledge of any expense money being advanced to Ritola, as reported in Boston Quist expressed regret over the mix- up, and said that he could explain the incident to the satisfaction of A. A. U. officials. Ritola is in N of his en- RAY WINS MILE RACE, FEATURE AT BOSTON BOSTON, Febru star Chicago miler, the “legion mile, the American Legion games yester- day. Willie Ritola, Finland's Olym- pic distance champion, failed to ap- pear, and Lloyd Hahn, A., pres- ent world indoor mile recordholder, withdrew after covering three-quar- ters of the distance. Willard Tib- betts, Harvard miler, came out of the ruck with a rush to win second place from Leo Larrivee of Holy Cross The time was 4 minutes 31 3-5 sec- 24.—Joie Ray, sily captured feature event of previously had won the New 1,000-yard title event in 5, defeating Claussen of Bc A. and Joyce of Boston Col- ahn ton A. lege. Ugo Frigerio, Italian Olympic walk- ing champion, set a new indoor rec- ord in winning the 4,000-meter handi- cap walk. Frigerio quickly made up the liberal handicaps allowed his local opponents, and succeeded in lapping the field, covering the distance in 18 minute: seconds. Frank Hussey, former schoolboy champion, sprinted away from the field in the 50-yard handicap dash in 5 3-5 seconds. Hussey caught Ernest Morrill, with a five-foot handicap, and George Mittlesdorf ran from scratch Walter Mulveyhill, Holy Cross, cap- tured his second leg of the Col. Gas ton 600-yard trophy, staving off th: rush of Pat, Mahoney of Boston Col- lege in the last few yards. G. J. Lenes, M. L. T. was third. The time was 1 minute 18 3-5 second Four New England A. A. U. pionship events brought new titlists in the 2-mile, 1,000-yard and 600-yard events. Jimmy Henigan, Dorchester Club, lapped his field in the distance run, and Lloyd Hahn, B. A. A, cap- tured the 1,000-yard run by a wide margin. Edward Higgins, Holy Cross, won & close victory in the 600-yard run, WINS TITLE TENTH TIME. NEW YORK, February 24.— Clar- ence C. Pell of New York, defending champion, won the national amateur racquets singles championship for the tenth time, when he defeated Stanley G. Mortimer of New York, 15—T, 15—7, 15—12, in the final round of the tournament. ALDRIDGE IS HOLDOUT. PITTSBURGH, February 24—Vic Aldridge, a pitcher obtained by the Pittsburgh Nationals in the deal with the Chicago Cubs, is a holdout, and will not leave for the training camp at Paso Robles, Calif.,, with the main squad. NEW YORK, February 24—Her- bert H. Hammer, youthful billiardist from Newark, N. J. furnished the surprise of the opening play in the national amateur 18.2 balkline play in New York yesterday when he de- feated John A. Clinton, jr., of Pitts- burgh, 300 to 298, in a brilliant match. BASKET BALL RESULTS At Princeton—Prineeton, 20; Yale, 21. At New "ork—rnlfl‘mvutl. 21; Co- lumbia, 15. At Philadelphia—Penn, cuse, 18, At West Point—Army, 42; Muhlen- berg, 18. At Madison—Purdue, sin, 22. At Chicago—Ohio State, 34; North- wvestern, 23, 21; Syra- 30; Wiscon- COURT TITLE GOES TO ALEXANDRIA HIGH Coach Joyce Levy's Alexandria High School basket ball five holds a clear title to the championship of the econd athletic district of Virginia s a result of its 57-to-16 victory over the George Mason quint of Po- tomac, Va., on the Alexandria Armory court last night. While several defeats were regis- tered against the Alexandrians by outside teams, they went through the season with a clean record in the sec- ond district loop. George Mason and Alexandria High girls' teams battled to an 18-to-18 draw in the preliminary to the holi- day clash between the boys' teams. A trip to Baltimore this afternoon | to meet the*Mount St. Joseph's quint, a clash with Swavely Prep at Manas- sas on Saturday, and three tilts with local prep schools next Week will close the season for the Tech High basket ball squad. St. John's College will be met In the National Guard Armory on March 2. Devitt will be entertained on the same court the following day, and St. Alban's will be encountered on March 6, probably at Epiphany gymnasium. Central High's speedy basket ball combination is entertaining the quint from the Virginia School for the Deat at the Mount Pleasant Institution this afternoon. Hyattsville will be met for the second time this season tomorrow afterpoon on the home floor, and Briarly Hall is encountered at Central on Thursday. Gonzagn High basieters, Who took a pair of defeats on their week end trip to New York, are hoping to en- tertain Central at Gonzaga on Friday Regis High downed the I street schoolboys, 33 to 20, and the §t. Fran- cis Xavier quint took the long end of a.30-to-18 count. PALACE TOSSERS PLAY IN CHICAGO TOMORROW George Marshall's Palace Laundry basket ball professionals are taking another jaunt to the Midwest, and are scheduled to meet the Chicago Bruins in the Windy City tomorrow night. With Red Conaty having fully re- covered from his recent illness, the | Washington professionals are up to im“ strength once more. TIGERS AND DARTMOUTH WILL BATTLE FOR LEAD By the Assoclated Press. | Dartmouth and Princeton, by vie- tories over Columbia and Yale last night, have set the stage for the most important college basket ball battle | of the season when they meet at Hanover Saturday night | The Tigers have developed a power- | ful scoring machine with Cleaves carrying the burden at center. FINN SEEKS MARKS IN CHURCH GAMES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. February 24.—Paavo Nurmi comes to his beloved track at Madison Square Garden tonight, when he will seek records for two miles to 5,000 meters, in a set of games ar- | ranged by the Amateur Athletic Union to aid in raising a fund for the build- ing of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Nurmi appears to have forgotten the art of e blishing marks since he departed from the New York A. C. games a week ago with the two-mile figures safely stowed away. That night he selected for his oft-promised nder 9 minutes,” and he finished in Other stars will assist him 58 1-5. meet tonight. in the Ugo Frigerio of Italy, who appears to be regaining some of the prestige he lost in contests ! with the American champion walker, Willie Plant, will walk in a mile-and- one-half special, but not against Plant. The American will appear in another event. Willie Ritola, Carl _Christiernson, Alan Helffrich, Herb Meyer, George Marsters, Willie Goodwin and Fddie Kirby are entered for various con- tests. 'HOPPE WIN S OPENING 18.2 TOURNEY MATCH CHICAGO, February 24—The vet- eran Willie Hoppe, defending his 18.2 balkline billiards title, eliminated Kamakichi Suzuki, the Japanese champlon, in the opening match of the International title tournament here last night Suzuki, plaving in his first inter- national meet, led the champlon for 14 innings, until Hoppe struck his stride and Tinished in 15 innings, 400 points @ 316, The veteran's high run was 121, and his average 2610-15, Su- zuki's best was 73 and his average 211-16. uzuki ran 64 in the twelfth for a 303 to 189 lead. Hoppe made 39 and 52 and, before his final and high run | was trailing, 279 to 316. He used a series of three cushion shots with the balls rolling from the open spaces and | after he struck the seventies, counted with great speed at close quarters, nursing the balls on a line. Walker Cochran of Hollywood, Calif., meets Eric Hagenlacher, Ger- man champion and Jake Schaefer, who once defeated Hoppe for the championship, engages Edouard Hore- mans, Belgian titlist, all at 400 points, in today's matches. IT COMES OUT CLEAN That is sure, when you let our auto laundry do the washing and cleaning of your car. It will not look that way if you try to keep it clean yourself. Better pay us our small fee and have it done right. Also have it PROPERLY simonized. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A. A. Service Station 2516 Q Street N.W. (Q Street Bridge) Telephone West 2443 | torter Juniors 4 Ryan H elimination series. in the clashes yesterday at Gonzaga In the senior tourney the Anacostia Eagles swamped the Quincy Athletic Club, 43 to 7; Kanawhas nosed out Calvary M. E, 16 to 15; Boys' Club Coaches defeated Kinnear Athletic Club, 37 to 19; Woodside sprang an upset by downing Washington Ath- letic Association, 23 to 20, and the Youngbloods handed the Printers a 22-t0-20 setback. Live Wires lost to the Boys' Club Superiors, 10 to 24, in the junior sec- tion; Wintons defeated the Pars mounts, 27 to 12; Peerless Preps eliminated the Eastern Lightweights, 19 to 18; Tremonts downed the Easi ern Preps, 22 to 20, and Darkhorse Juniors, running true to their title, shut out the Trinity Juniors, 23 to 9. The first round of the tournament will be resumed tomorrow evening at 6:30, when Mount Vernons and Com- battle. Argyles vs. Waverlys, Aloysius Juniors vs. Hot- tentots and Senecas vs. Epiphany Seniors are the remaining tilts on the Wednesday program. the second round of the 1 championship series, played at gymnasium, Anacostia Eagle Juniors downed the Nationals, 26 to 25; Tremonts bested the Corinthians, 24'to 19; Cardinals defeated the Cuth- 17 tp 14; Stanton Juniors rout- e Army Boys' Club, 23 to 13, and the Ralnbows triumphed over the Renrocs, 24 to 19. In pound After winning their tournament ame with the Quincys, the Ana- costia Eagles journeyed to the armory at Hyattsville and ran a 39-to-19 score on the Company F regulars. Jack Smith, former Eastern High and Maryland University freshman performer, starred for the Eagle five. Harvey Ingley scored heavily for the guardsmen. PACIFIC COAST TRIP By the Assoclated Press BALTIMORE, Md., February 24.— | Paavo Nurmf's rapidly growing | American itinerary is ‘“practically certain” to include a trip to the Pa- cific Coast the last week according to Hugo Quist, tom Finn's trainer and adviser. In- dications also are that the famous invader will remain for an extensive outdoor campalgn, according to Quist, although this has not yet been settled definitely. Nurmi has been deluged with inv tations for both indoor and outdoor meets in the next few months, but he will accept only a small percent age of them. They have come from Washington and California in the far West, Texas and Georgia in the South, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio in the Middle West, as well as nearly every State in the Northeast- ern sector. Among his engagements for the rest of the indoor season, it is likely that Cleveland and Pittsburgh will be added to the list, the former on March 10 and the latter late in March or early in April. Baltimore also has a tentative agreement with the run- ner for a return exhibition next month, according to local officials According to Quist, however, he has has canceled denitely any appearance of Nurmi in connection with the n tional senior A. A. U. championships at Louisville this week end, in order to give Nurmi a much-needed rest. . POLO EVENTS DRAW WEALTH OF ENTRIES NEW YORK, February 24.—The na- tional intercollegiate indoor polo cham- Polo ly with the eleventh annual pionship of the International Association at the Squadron mory, beginning March §. Nine college teams will compete for the Intercollegiate title, while more than 60 teams have been entered in the open event. Owing to the large number of en- tries, play will be divided between the Squadron A Armory and the 101st Cavalry Armory, in Brooklyn. The college fours will pla: flat without handicaps. Yale Univer- sity, 1924 champlon, will defend its laurels against Norwlich, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, United States Military Academy, Pegnsylvania Military Academy and Virginia Military Institute. The leading indoor polo combina- tions in the East and a unmber from the Middle West will play in the open events, which will be divided into four divisions. The teams will be rated according to their rating under the handicap system. Teams of 16 goals and over will be class A teams. Class B will consist of teams from 11 to 15 goals; class C from 6 to 10 goals, and class D, 0 to 5 goals, o GREB BOUT IS STOPPED. SCRANTON, Pa., February 24— The bout between Harry Greb, world middleweight champion, and Young Fisher of Syracuse, N. Y., last night, was stopped in the sixth round by the referee. He said Fisher had failed to make any attempt to fight. MORE GAMES TOMORROW IN ALOY BASKET TOURNEY AVING disposed of their opponents in the first Aloysius city basket ball championship tournament, members of five senior teams are resting easy awaiting the second week of the A like number of junior quints were returned victors | nignt round of the gymnasium. A seriex being played between the Peck quint and the St. Stephen’s Ath- letic Club five for the championship of Georgetown is deadlocked at 1- all as a result of the Peck team's 25-t0-19 win, over the Saints. City Club basxketers will attempt to get revenge when they meet the Mount Vernon M. E. quint in a re- turn game on the G street court to- morrow night. In a former meeting the church team got the decision, 30-to 28. ' towsers, vie- chapter, 24 Frederick de High School Washington de Mol tors over the Richmond to 20, will meet the Molay five at Bastern tomorrow night. Club handed a 25- the Petworth Re- Petworth Boyx to-22 setback to serves. Troop 85 took a 24t from the Hurgn tossers. 5 drubbing Boyx' Club Rangers increased their wins by downing the Catholic Boys' Club Arrows, 30 to 24 Rover Rexerves fE1l before the at- tack of the Rover Juniors, 40 to 32 Brookland Athletic Club defeated Tiger Athl keters ic Club, 41 to 37 A midget tournament will be ar- ranged at a meeting of flyweight teams at Calvary M. Church to- at 7 o'clock. Boys' Club Celties and Columb Juniors, scheduled to c'ash in the Saturday program of the Aloysius junior championship tourney, have been switched to the schedule for to- morrow night. Play of the two in April, | the Phan- | tournament will be held simultaneous- | AAr | teams are to report to Gonzaga gym- nasium at 7:30 o'clock. NURMI 1S PLANNING |U. OF M. GIRL SHOTS DEFEAT CHAMPIONS | COLLEG Continuing th e ARK, February 23— | winning st k which | abled them to defeat the local Re- erve Officers’ Training Co team and the De Pauw University coeds, Maryland University girl riflers have won over feminine teams at Wash- | ington University, Utah University and the University of West Virginia, according to word received by tele- graph from the other institutions. | A 498-t0-494 victéry over the Wash- ington team is hailed as the most important of the season, the Pacific coast squad having won first place in the national intercollegiate com- petition last year, while Maryland ranked third Three members of the Terrapin team, Julia Louise Behring of Wash- ington, D. C.;: Anna Dorsey of Balti- more and Rebecca Willis of Hyatts- ville, made perfect scores, while Helen Byerle of Baltimore and Eliza- beth Flenner of Pennsylvania turned in counts of 99. West Virginia also w: 498 to 494, Julia Louise B becca Wills and Alma E: perfect scores for the C team Against TUtah four Marylanders | drilled the targets for scores of 100, the total being 499 to 496. Mary Har- baugh of Washington, Jul Behring, Betty Amos and ¢ were the high shots. The Maryland sharpshooters will enter the National Rifle Association intercollegiate competition next week and have a formidable list of matches for the remainder of the season. Chi- cago Unlversity, Drexel, Delaware, Syracuse, Michigan Agricultural Col- | lege, Illinois, Vermont and Arizona | appear on Manager Mary Harbaugh's schedule. | With a team of 10 girls shooting | in' each match, the Universit of | Maryland coeds have an individual average of 99 for the present season. defeated, ring, Re- ex making sllege Park | Louise | BREAKS AUTO RECORD. PARIS, February 24.—The racing automobllist Segrave, yesterday broke | two world speed records, with a car | of two litres capacity on the Mont- lhery speedway. He covered 50 miles | in 29 minutes 32 47-100 seconds, and 0 kilometers (310.68 miles) in 3 hours 2 minutes, 28 seconds, . YANKEES GIVEN FIELD. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, February 24.—The base ball field built here for Spring training use of the New York Yankees was officially presented to the Yankees, represented by Miller Huggins, manager, vyesterday. A crowd estimated at 5,000 witnessed the ceremony. MUNN TO KEEP BUSY. KANSAS CITY, Mo., February 24.— Gabriel Kaufman, manager of Wayne (“Big”) Munn, heavyweight wrestling champion, has agreed to sign a con- tract with a Chicago syndicate chat Munn will wrestle any five men it may choose. WILL RIDE IN GERMANY. PARIS, February 24. — Everett Haynes, the American jockey, inter- nationally known through his riding of the French champion, Epinard, will ride in Germany during the com- ing flat racing season. | th |NEWSPAPER | to C. U. AND MARYLAND DELAY COURT TILTS University of Maryland and Catho- lic University basket ball teams will not meet in their second double bill of the season until late next week at the earliest. They originally were scheduled to clash " at Collegs Park ~tomorrow | night, but owing to ‘the fact that Maryland must be in Atlanta Thurs- | day to make its start in the Southern | Conference tourney the games had | to be delayed. At first it was planned to play them tonight, but thé Brooklanders could | not muster their. combinations and | it was agreed to postpone the tilts | until the Marylanders return from Dixieé. Maryland probably will be in At- lanta for only one game or will stay quite a while. All scems to depend on ‘the first game. The Old Liners are to mect Alabama Thursday night in the opening day's feature. Ala- | bama was rurdner-up to North Caro- | lina for the title last year, and has strengthened, while the Tarheels have been weakened somewhat. The | team from Tuscaloosa is regarded as best outfit in the conference. It is a tough assignment for the Old Liners under any conditions, and & tougher one after an all-night travel. Coach Shipley will take nine pla ers with him, including Faber, Ensor, Supplee, Cardwell and Beatty, the regular starting line-up, and Troxell, Stevens, Boyd and Burger. The team will leave tomorrow afternoon, arriving in Atlanta the next mornirg. SWEEP FOR HARVARD IN SQUASH TOURNEY N. Y. February sity, making its debut racket competi- | sweep of the and team | | | | | | | BUFFALO, Harvard Univ national squash tion clean United States individual amateur championships Both victories were decisive and both were at the expense of Boston. Palmer Dixon, Harvard's racket leader, won the individual champion- ship in a four<gamé match against C. C. Peabody of Boston, former na- tional titleholder. The score was 10 15—8, 15—9, 15— The Crimson’s five-man team dealt a —0 defeat to Boston, two-time title' holder. The Harvard captain’s game 24— in made a —15, in the | singles was much steadler than Pea- | body's and he gradually Boston man down. wore the GOLF CLUB MAKES PLANS TONIGHT Members of the Washington News- paper Golf Club will meet at the Na- tional Press Club tonight at § o'clock talk over the coming season’s events, A program for the Spring tourna- ment will be drawn up, officers elect- ed for 1925, and reports submitted by the retiring officers. Robert T. Berry of the Philadel- phia Public Ledger is the president. MAT BOUT TO STECHER. By the Associated Press. Joe Stecher threw Wladek Zbyszko in 39 minutes 13 seconds in a bout in New York last night which was adve) d as a test to see which man would challenge Wayne (Big) Munn, the former collegian who re- cently captured the title from Ed (Strangler) Lewi Stecher used a bond scissors to accomplish the Pole's | for 3 miles. | sylvania, LONGER COURSE FAVORED BY OLD ITHACA OARSMEN Voted for Three-Mile Race in Deference to Views of Late Charles Courtney—Crew of 1901 Made Record for Original Distance. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. W YORK, February 24—While Cornell's representative N ,board of Poughkeepsie stewards voted against the return of the 4-mile route on the Hudson River, it now develops that there is very general satisfaction throughout the university and among ranks of alumni over the change from 3 miles. ‘It appears that Cornell's attitude in standing by the shorter distance was dictated not at all by conviction, but in deference to the views of the late Charles E. Courtney, who felt that too much time was required for the proper development of 4-mile crews and that the effort in- volved was asking too much of the oarsmen. Cornell feels that the E-n\flv‘sllllu ient to keep him out of the fac- donrse bashadis fake trial ulty toils,” and other pharasaical re- 1920 that the stewards vote L distance, but that year the race went very to Cayuga Lake, and was decided that 2 miles were long enough But in 1921-22-23-24 the race It is recalled at that Cornell’s greatest rowing tories are associated with the 4-mile route. Some of the greatest Courtney | crews established their supremacy | over this course, including the 1901 | eight, which still holds the world) record for 4 miles I8 minutes 53 1-5 | 3 % Y. seconds. T. Tilden Nor is the fact ignored that Cor-|wor!d tennis champion, defeated Law- nell has not won a varsity race since | rence Rice of Boston, 6 6—4, 6 the 3-mile course was established, her | to win »nd leg on the Buffalo last victory being in 1915 at Pough- | Te and Squash Club Midwinter keepsie. indoor invitation tournament trophy. The scales to the longer route seem Watson M. Washburn and E. T to have been inclined when Pennsyl- | Herndon of New York defeated James vania abandoned an attitude long | Davies of California ai Rice in the maintained. In this the influence of | doubles and finals, 6- 3 6—1, Jim Rice, now working with Joseph | 6—38, 6-—1 Wright at the University of Penn- Rice's game lacked is apparent. Rice has al- | brillian wh 1 he dis s believed in the 4-mile race, and |inating Manuel Alonso, Columbia, where he formerly coached last year dep! has been strong for it final honors The doubles match tuck until at two games showed s of tiring A ar as the mainstay for the winning pair. He drov brilliantly down the center of the court to score | and displayed a magnificent defensive game CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL MEET ATHENS, Ga., February 24 Sanford, president of the S nference, governing athletic body »2 Southern universities and col- issued a call for a meeting tive committee to be held in Atlanta February 28 President Sanford ness relating to base ball season, some from the last foot ba business in connection ecutive angle of the c to be considered RING VETERAN DIES. SAN FRANCISCO, February 24.- m Berger, San Francisco merchant, former heavywelght boxer and mana- ger of Jim Jeffries at the time he lost his world heavyweight title to Jack Johnson, in 1910, died yesterday on the It was in for this is but one rt and comment colloquial to make. a sh one TILDEN FINDS RICE EASY IN NET FINAL February 24 Philadelp of his s e drive and 1 lim- who of New of out dropping of the Y scholastic _d. So much has come Haven concerning the Capt.-elect Bingham foot ball team for clency that a word or two in Bing- | ham'’s behalf cannot be out of plac First of all, the Yale alumni weck 1y reproach fully states that the marks_after last foot ball season showed that the young man was in danger of being dropped from co lege after the midyear tests. “There was time enough to get up on his work so that he could pass the midyear examinations.” Yes, there was time enough. But how about other elements involved?| How about the boy's mental and phys- ical condition. Throughout the son he had been one of the most| important members of a team fighting to g0 through an undefeated season, a team that fipally succeeded in this and in the course of the effort netted $214,946.05 in financial returns. The money thus earned makes pos- sible the conduct without parsimony of an exte and complex intra- mural system of student exercise and the support of non-productive inter- collegiate sports. Had he sat on the bleachers and cheered with the other students and alumni. Bingham prob. would be in Yale today, doing well indeed. But in serving his versity on the athletic fleld he his very best and. in all prob- ability not being a brilliant scholar, he could not be a good student and athlete engaged in providing for h college the sinews of war. So out he goes with remarks trail- ing after him that he “failed to preciate his opportuniti that Dr. S suthern the id t appre matters busi- aching left season and th the ex- rence a E PENN STOPS SYRACUSE. PHILADELPHIA, February 24— Syracuse's basket ball team yester- day suffered its first defeat of this son at the hands of Pennsylvania, | 21 to 18. Syracuse previo had won defeat i yalty I was not'9 straight F-30-30A you see Buick pull away in front when the traffic starts is the extra power in the Buick Valve-in-Head engine. Buick’s get-away and Buick’s mechani- cal 4-Wheel Brakes take care of any traffic emergency. Buick Motor Company Division of General Motors Corporation Fourteenth and L WASHINGTON BRANCH Streets N.W. Telephone Franklin 4066 L WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM _—