Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1925, Page 31

SPORTS: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, MARCH SPORTS. Navy Athletic Teams to Have Busy Month : Court Tourney Making Good Progress EACH WEEK WILL PROVIDE BIG EVENT AT ANNAPOLIS Meeting With Penn State Matmen Features Card of Next Saturday—Clash With Yale Boxers on March 14 to Be Notable Affair. ? NNAPOLIS, March A this month The list of home events is diminished by the ending of the basket ball season and the gradual tapering off of the other Winter branches, and by the further fact that the academy teams take a number of trips. Each Saturday during the month has its outstanding event, ho e other dual rents of different athletic bodies to ma ever, and there are enough tour: The the big event for next Saturday is wrestling match between the teams of the Naval Academy and Penn State. These teams shared the high- intercollegiate honors last year, and will make a great battle for the «leadership this time. Title Is at Stake, 5—A program somewhat smailer than that of February, but full of events of great significance in the field of Winter collegiate sport, will be presented at the Naval Academy | Roth have been sweeping aside all | opposition, and there is hardly a that the wiancr of next Satur- day’s mateh will be the unquestioned intercollegiate champion on the mat there is a rivalry of long between the schools. turday, the 14th, the val ademy and Yale bofing teams will here in what is probably the notable college match ever held in that line of sport. In five years of oxi neither has lost a dual match, th they tied last year at New Haven On the 21st the swimming and water polo teams of Yale will be here for tilts with the Navy. The Navy had high hopes of winning the first event, but there is a chance that Rule, he star of the team, may be kept out by scholastic conditions. Star May be Lost. Should Rule be ineligible, the Navy will have a very slight chance of win- ning Rule holds intercollegiate rec- ords at both the back stroke and free in achievement not reached b: swimmer, and al- the point winner of any which he participates the 28th, will have but ent, a gymnastic match en the teams of the Naval Acad- University Chicago. but ave special interest as a con- betwecn the best college teams the two sections There will also be an opportunity of showing appreciation of the great work done by the Navy in this branch, n ymnastics at the Naval Academy has Jbeen Louis H. Mang for the past 14 years, and his teams have <t but three matches in that time. )r 7 years they have been unbeaten and they have won, With ease, the champlonship of the Intercollegiate astic Association since the Naval emy has been a member doubt tesides standin A meet most h coached by Aca Schedule for Month. This the March unless complete events being otherwise noted Saturday, March 7 — Wrestling, Pennsyivania State; boxing., Cath- elic University; swimming and water nolo. Prineeton, at Princ fencing, New York Uni- schedule for in Annapolis. Saturday, March 14 — Boxing, Yale; fencing, Columbla; swim. ming, Rutgers; Kyntnastics, Prince- ton; hoxing, Plebes va. Franklin and Marshall Academy; swimming, Plebes vx. Catholic University Freshmen; wrestling, Univeraity of Wext Virginia. at Morgantown. Saturday, March 2I—Swimming and water polo, Yale; .boxing, Uni- veraity of Penassivania; fencing. University of Pennsylvania; swim- ming. Plebos vs. Central High Schoel of Washington: gymnasties, Intercollegintes, at Hanover, N. H. Saturday, March 28—Gympastics, THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. | ross the Western prairies. ! LONG about 1849, long trains of covered wagons moved slowly search of new lands. The These carly voyagers en route saw vast herds of antelope, bison, elk and other animals When they got to what is now Green River, Wyo., the trall split and and west, the other to Cali- northwest. to Oregon, went southwest fornia Two vears ago this morthern trail, just above Green River, was the scene of another migration, another move- ment from confinement to freedom. | tank | of Sweden lowered One went | read the rock formation, and would A band of some $00 elk, inding their | ranges usurped by cattle starvation, left the Jackson Hole ountry, came through the Gros Ven- e Mountains, and made a bold dash uthward. They leaped over and smashed through fences. They passed They crossed the railroad people who saw them in time, many of them. took a shot at them, they passed. From time to time <mall bunches of them dropped out, afraid, and ran back into the moun- tains. But the main herd kept on. It was estimated that about 300 reached towns. Those Colorado, and went into the moun- | large gallery at the women's annual there. e the similarity betwsen this mi- gration and that of our own race in 1549, The details, even, are similar. The turning back of the faint-hearted, the deaths along the way, the reason for the move, all are parallel To me something noble, ‘in that band of elk making that break across through perils and unknown dangers beside which those of our ancestors were meager Know Your Country. I said something about the tains N Recently mdvantage of knowing the geological |{ictory, winning from the Thompson history of the region in which You | five, Lhave | Apaches, 29 to 25. travel or spend your vacation. yointed out that real appreciation of 1he country demanded such a knowl- edge—demanded the “ability to read the rocks, the hills and the valleys. But I Jeft out an important reason Tor this. It is hard to get lost when inderstand something of the prin- ciples of geology. Of course, this doesn’t he'v any when you are lost in a blizzard, or lost on the prairies. But in many cases it works ne. For instance, it Is impossible for @y person who uses his head to get Jost in the Jackson Hole country. This region, bounded on the east b the continental divide and on the w by the Teton Mountains, is really the basin of the Snake River. The re- Fion resembles the leaf of a tree, with the various streams representing the veins, which all converge into the stem. You can't go very far in this fegion without encountering a stream ~—perhaps a good sized brook, perhaps e mere trickle. But all you have to do Is to follow the water down hill, and you can't bheip but end up in the hill itself, where there are plenty of ranches and whare the town of Jackson is. Likewise, T can well believe that & person who kmows something of the and facing | | | i there was something fine, | i 3 S ket country | feated Mr: | will meet Mrs. Molla Mallory | & thrill when Isabella Lee Mumford matches and participations in ke up a long and notable list. GOLF IS MADE COURSE AT CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL CHICAGO, March 5.—Golf han Aan éxtra course in Lake View High School with a class of 70 puj under the tutelage of a prof ~iomal the plan may apre: to all the high schools in Chicage, It wans said today by the principal, Charles H. Perrine, who has advo- cated golf ax an exercise in schools in place the usual gymnasties. It ix only a few years since-golf bggan to take hold in universities, and mow it I a major sport in many celleges, with intercolleginte contests reguiarly played. The same growth in high schools Ix predicted. Amber Andrews, = Scotch pro- fessional, hasx been assigned to teach the Lake View golf class. Regular grades will be given. CANOE CLUB MERMEN 'BEST VIRGINIA TEAM| Winning“the relay and taking first place in all but two events, Wash- ington Chnoe Club swimmers won the honors in a dual meet with Uni- versity of Virginia at Charlottesville yesterday, 37 to 25 The was the first the Memorial ’ to hela | gymnasium in new Summaries 50-yard free sty Cirb:” seeond. Hall, Virginia. 100-yard free style— Club; “second, Shear, ¢ fress, Virginia. Time, 1 minute 4 1.5 seconds. 200-vard free style—Won by Jeffress, Vir ginia: second, Fisher, Virginia; third, Eilason, Canoe Club. ' Time. 2 minutes 54 4-3 seconds. Fancy diving—Won by Shear, Canoe Clu second, Stewart, Virginia; third, Ansley, ¢ noe Club. 50-yard back stroke—Won by Pinckney. gina; second, Baugh, Virginia; third, El Canoe Club. Time. 36 33 seconds. 50-yard breast stroke—Won by Winkjer, Ca noe Club: second, Carlson, Virginia: third, An erson, Virginia.' Time. 371-5 seconds. Canoe third, Won by Canoe 5 seconds Won by Winkjer, Canoe noe Club: (hird, Jef Shear. Club; | Goldberg and Waskow, outfielders 74 relay—Won by Canos Club (Wink- McMulien, Ansley, Shear): second. V zinin (Hall, Jeffress. Jones, Pincknes). Tim 1 minute 55 23 seconds. PALACE TOSSERS BEAT GOODYEAR RUBBER FIVE CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 5.—Pal-| ace Laundry tossers of Washington | defeated the Goodyear basket ball| team of Akron here last night, 24, in an extra-period game. The Palace club is scheduled play in Erle, Pa., tonight. BORG BEATS SWIMTWNG MARK OF WEISMULLER Fla., to March 5.—Arne Borg the world record | for the 490-yard swim here when he | swam the distance in 4 minutes 35 2-5 seconds. | The former record was held by Johnny Weismuller, 4:40, made in Honolulu in May, 1 MIAMI, They were going to the West in ast was beginning to get crowded. principles of geology would easily | be able to tell where he was. Know- ing, for instance, just in what kind of a valley or draw his camp was located, he could find it by looking at the formations around him, thus knowing about where such a place would be in relation to the general geological layout. Finding out the direction of the pre- ailing winds, a man with a knowl- edge of geology could always Keep his directions even on a cloudy night by observing the larger formations, such as dirt drifts that cover half a mountain. MISS MUNFORD SPRINGS UPSET IN TENNIS PLAY PALM BEACH, Fla, March 5.—A Florida tennis championship received of Boston defeated Clare Cassel of New York, §—10, 10—8, 6—2. Miss Mumford will meet Mrs. Ber- nard F. Stenz today, the winner to go Penelope Anderson of Richmond de- Forest Candee, New York, in the third round, and in the 6—3, 6— semi-finals today. Olympic basketers scored a double 21 to 8, and defeating the BASKET BALL RESULTS At Minneapolis—M ene 38; Chi- eago, 17, Princeton—Princeton, 36; Dick! Cambridge—Harvard; < necticut Aggies, 28, At Willlamstown—Amherst, Willlams, 31. FISHER IS RETAINED AS HARVARD COACH 34 CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 5.—For the seventh successive season Robert T. Fisher will be head coach of Har- vard's foot ball team. His appoint- ment for this year, just announced, ends long-drawn-out deliberations. Recently he had announced that he would retire from coaching. Maj. Charles D, Daly, U. 8. A., and Leo H. Leary were named as his as- sistants. Daly, former Harvard quar- terback and coach of foot ball at West Point, will come to Harvard as head of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit this Summer. He had been prominently mentioned s a possible successor to Fisher. Leary is expected to haye charge of the ends and Daly of the backfield this season. Fisher, twice named as all-Ameri- can guard by Walter Camp, Was cap- tain of the 1911 team. After takisg charge in 1919 he had four years of almost unbroken successes. Two years ago a turn in the tide of for- tune of Harvard set in which brought two successive defeats at the hands of Yale RIALTO NINE STARTS DRILLS FOR SEASON With numerous veterans of 1924 and three newcomers in the line-up. the Rialto base ball team has started practice for the coming season. Ben Cohen and Ben Mensh, out- fielder and shortstop, formerly with the Kanawhas, recently have signed with the Rialtos, and Guterson, = pitcher from the Cleveland Abels, is expected to do a major share of the hurling this Spring Wolf and Franklin are catchers of | last year's squad, and Ottenberg is a veteran méundsman. Other players who performed last season and are back with the team are Rosenblatt, Sauber. Goldstein, Povich and Gens- barg. in flelders, and Malkin, Jaffe BRITISH GOLF STARS END AMERICAN TOUR NEW YORK, March 5.—Abe Mitchell and George Duncan, notable’ British golf professionals, have done with American competition for this tour and will sail for home March 13, after | visiting Toronto. where they will in-| struct for a week in an indoor school. | During their 10,000-mile journey in | the United States, which took them | havond the Rockies for the first time the British team captured 23 matches, | halved 3 and lost 10, establishing a | best-ball average of 67 6-10 in 30| matches over strange courses in Cali- | fornia { Duncan had praise for George von | Elm, who finished second to Bobby | Jones last Fall, saying that the Pa- | cific Coast star had improved Im- mensely, and will bear watching In any tournament he.enters. Tommy Armour, just out of the amateurs, is another who can be depended upow to make trouble in any competition, he added. Reports that both Duncan and Mitchell will become professionals in | America undoubtedly were “inspired.” During their tour, the team found that many Americans were planning to invade the British tournaments this vear. Cyril Walker, American open champion: MacDonald Smith, | Leo Diegel, Johnny Farrell, Alf Watrous, Al Espinosa and Joe | Turnesa ars reported certain to go, | while Walter Hagen, Joe Kirkwood. | Gene Sarazen and Jim Barnes are anxious to compete. KINGSTON, Jamalca, March 5.—Via- cent Richards once more won the Ja- maica lawn tennis cup by defeating Takeo Harada in the final of the sin- gles matches, 6—3, 6—2, 4—6, 6— The tournament will conclude day. Inside Golf By Chester Horton el to- Since the golfer who is often off the falrway ia very likely te continue for some time with that kind of a Same, and aince even the best of golf- ers find the roush mow and then, one of the best rules the player ecan adopt for all time M golf is this: When off the fair- way let your first concern be to get back to the fair- way, regardless of the distance taken with the shot that sets you back, I reckon the oldest mistake in golf, and ecertainly one of the mont ob- GET ON THE stinate es to FAIRWAY- correct, is the tendency of th average golfer to try for a lot of dis. tance when he is in the rough. The simplest of reasoning would show him that he Is not going to reach the green with the shot from the roush anyhow, that #t makes little dif- ference whether he ix 75 yards from the green or 150 yards with the shot, another ahot will be required to take him up. He tries for distance from the rough with the resalt that fre- quently two more shots are meeded to reach the green, if not two more to et ont of the rough. When you are fn the rough—get out. Make sure only of getting back to the falrway. DON'T TRY FOR DISTANCE WHEN N THE ROUGH. Overhauling e ‘Willys-Knight and Nash Cars 1423-25-27 L St. N.W. General Auto Facilities that assure you real service—prices and work you'll approve. job. R. McReynolds & Son - 60 Years’ Satisfactory Service in Washington. &Repairing We’re ready-for your Main 7228-29. TWO OF HIS MARKS SMASHED BY NURMI NEW YORK, March 5.—Paavo Nur- mi struck his best stride again last night and broke two more world rec- ords. This time it was his own marke that were sent into the discard. Running_in the fifty-Afth indoor games of the 106th Infantry in Its armory at Atlantic and Bedford ave- nues, Brooklyn, the Finnish wonder man af the track won the mile-and- an-eighth race in 4:44 4-5 and, con- tinuing on to 2,000 yards, was clocked at that distance in 4:59 3-5 His time for a mile and an eighth Dbettered his own record of 4:58, made in the Fordham meet, and his 4:59 3-5 for 2,000 yards bettered his old mark of 5:00 4-5, made In the Brooklyn Col- | lege games, by 1 1-5 seconds. Nurmi dld better than 5:00 4-5 at Buffalo, but the time was not allowed. ‘Willte Plant of the Morningside A C. America's premier heel and toe arust, and who lowered the colors of Ugo Frigerio of Italy, Olympic cham- plon, on the latter's debut in this country, knew the ignominy of de- feat himself last night. from scratch in the mile and a haif handicap walk, Plant_was forced to take second place to Charles Euchen- bach of the Pastime A. C., who had an allowance of 36 seconds. Trailing by 10 yards at the end of the eleventh lap, Eachenbach amazed the 4,000 spectators present by spurt- ing ahead in the last 100 yards to beat Plant to the tape by inches. The winning time was 10:11. Phil Gran- ville of Canada was third. Jackson V. Scholz of the New York A C. Olympic 200-meter champlon, captured the 100-yard invitation dash, Jeading Gwynn Schoonmaker of New York Unliversity to the tape by a nar- row margin. Scholz’s times was 0:10 2-5. Kenneth Wibecan of the Robert Ogzden A. A. was third. Willie Ritola of the Finnish-Amer- ican A. C. raced away from hix field at 21 miles, finishing in 11:45, only a second behind his record. He covered Competing | miles in 9:29, defeating his club- mate, Ilmar Primm, and Joe Costello | of the Millrose A. A, Carl Christiernson, Newark A. C. | tasted defeat in an $0-yard even:, Herb Meyers and Tom Farrell of his own club leading him to the tape Willie Goodwin of the New York A €., Andy Crawford, unattached, and limar Primm of the Finnish-Ameri- can A. C. were selected to furnish the opposition to Nurmi in the mile-and- an-eighth Nurmi special. They fin- ished in the order named. As on the previous occasion, Good- win hung closely to the heels of Nur- mi for the greater part of the race, only to fall behind as the Finn in- creased his pace and-opened a gap that became wider as the finish line |Grew nearer. INGTON QUINTS | SEEK S. A. LAURELS| WASH Stanton and Mount Vernon bas-| keters are booked for the opening | games of the South Atlantic A. A. U.| basket. ball tournament, that starts| aturday night in the 5th Regiment | Armory, at Baltimore. At 8 o'clock | the_church team encounters the quint | representing the St. Joseph's Com-| munity Club of Baltimere, and an hour Jater the Stantons tackle the Baltimore Athletic Club five. Company F of Hyattsville also is entered and will play the 5th Regi ment quint Saturday. Senior and junior teams of KEpiphany Athletic| Club drew byes in the first round | pairings, but will get into action next | week Metropolitans and Washington At letic Club are entered in the women's division of the championship tour ney. Metropolitans drew a bye in| the first round, but are booked tor | A meeting with the Baltimore Y. W C. A. in the second. The Washing-| tons meet the champion Bryn Mawr six Saturday at the Baltimore Y. W starting at 8:15. o —p—— eI i AT | longtime riv. | water HATCHETITE SEXTET DOWNS WILSON TEAM. In defeating the Wilson Normal sex- tet, 49 to 23, George Washington Uni- versity girl basketers definitely de- | cided who's who between these two Last night's game was decidedly | keener than that staged by the two | teams on Saturday night, when a con- | fusion in scores caused the referee | to order a replay. The college girls had the edge on their opponents in every position, especially at center, where Miss Omwake and Miss Cate kept their forwards busy and provid- ed ample opportunity for Miss Ewers to roll up 27 points while Miss Young was bringing in 22 Only In the final period. when Miss Heese went to forward and registered 12 points, did the Normal team show any burst of speed. Miss Stockett of Eastern and Miss Moody of Central | officiated S | ‘The Wilson Normal six gets action again this week, meeting the Gallau- det team on the home floor Saturday night The George Washington Nex~i tet meets Willlam and Mary in a re-| turn game on Monday night on the | Hatchetite court. In a former meet- | ing the Virginian girls were returned | the victors by a score of 27 to 22 | Capitel Athletiec Club and Wash- ington Athletic Club sextets are| scheduled to meet at the Calvary M. i E. gymnasium, Fifteenth street and| Columbia road, tomorrow night at 7| o'clock. e : | BREAKS SWIMMING MARK. NEW HAVEN, Conn. March 5. | Yale's swimming teat defeated Brown University, 34 to 28, in a serles of| sports last night. The Yale| relay team surpassed its| record for the mile. 1923, covering the -5. varsity former relay tablished in tance in 17.11 dis- —coast to coast! ARUDE work-camp in the wil- derness, a man alone in a city flat,a group by the farm-house lamp —these, and a million other listen- ers, held spell-bound by the far-flung woice of Radio. Amazing.tbe way Radio is sweep- A FOUR OF SENIOR QUINTS NOW ARE IN THIRD ROUND tournament for 25-t0-19 victory over the Epiphany Big Five last night qualified the Pullman basket ball quint for the third round of the Aloysius the senior championship of the District and brought the number of senior teams that have come through the second round successfully up to four. Anacostia Eagles, Woodside M. E. and the Stantons defeated their opponents earlier in the week. ¥our lightweight quints have thus far kept their records clean in the race for the junior champlonship Aloysius Juniors eliminated the Car- dinals with a score of 27 to 15 after the Cardinals had defeated the Balto Athletic Club five, 22 to 15. Boys' Club Superiors received little opposition from the Wintons and ran up a 20-to- 10 score. Comforter Juniors and Boy#' Club Celtics already have quali- fied for the third round of the junior tournament. Eastern Athletic Association basket- ers, who nosed out the fast R. E. Knight quint by a count of 26 to 24, h with the Mount Vernon M. E. five on the Central High Court to- night at 8 o'clock. Both teams have been setting a fast pace in local bas- ket ball ranks in thd past two months The Easterns have met defeat only once and their victory over the Alex- andria champions speaks well of their ability on the court. Mount Vernon has been considerably strengthened by the addition of numerous high &chool stars. Both teams are protest- ing the claims of the managers of the Corby and Aloysius teams in their series for the so-called District ama- teur title, Anacostin Eagles have a heavy schedule for the remainder of the week. Tomorrow night at the Wilson Normal School gymnasium. they bat- tie the Argyle five, on Saturday night the Eastern Athletic Association quint will be met at Eastern High School, and on Sunday the Southeasterners ing the country. Almost without parallel — yet not entirely. For Chesterfield, matching Radio’s swift rise, continues to win smokers by thousands in every section of the country. Chesterfield, too, “coast-to-coast reception.” enjoys hesterfield CIGARBTIES clash with the Stantons in the pre liminary to the second game of the Corby-Aloysius series. Argyles are scheduled tc meet the Peck Memorial tossers at the Peck gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock Mount Vernen Athletic Association and National Athletic Club, St. Pat- rick's and_Army Boys' Club, Kana- whas and Rainbows are paired for to- morrow night in the opening games of the second round of the 125-pound championship tourney being staged at the Georgetown University gymna. sium. The first contest is scheduled for 7 o'clock. Boys' Club and Tre- monts, Epiphany Juniors and Car- dinals will play Saturday night. After two weeks of inactivity. tha Elliot Juniors get into action again tonight against the Columbia Juniors on the Wilson Normal court. Basketers of Company C, 12]st Dis- trict Engineers, entertain the Domin- ican Lyceum quint at the armory to- night and on Saturday will clash with the Palace Athletic Club five. Thompson Tigers and Nationals rs. ceived setbacks from the Mount Ver- non Midgets by scores of 31 to 1% and 40 to 8. National Athletioc Clah fossers scored 2 win ovar the Weodside M. E. courtmen with & count of 37 to 2. Chevy Chase Semiors defeated the Oxfords and the Metropolitans by scores of 38 1o 16 and 33 to 22.