Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1925, Page 30

S PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1925. SPORTS. Many Traditional Grid Clashes This Week : Tiger and Gopher Patience Tells HYATTSVILLE GUARDS |CENTRAL MEETS GONZAGA IN SCHOOL GRID CLASSIC ALL SECTIONS WILL HAVE THEIR TOP-LINE CONTESTS Meeting of Yale and Harvard Holds a High Place Despite Their Reverses—Princeton Eleven Is Really a G BY H. C. BYRD. ORE foot histories ball games between lete with great previous Saturday pages will be the meeting of Yale a on any of reat Machine. traditional rivals-—contests that have exploits—are listed this week than the Headlining the sports nd Harvard, season. but in other sections of the country contests are to he staged that to followers of the particular teams engaged Harvard has been unmercifully mouth, the sccond by Princeton; Yale has fallen before Pennsylvania and Princeton. is the Yale-Harvard game, Notwithstanding these de and to th mean more tham all the others combined beaten twice, the first time by Dart- | fects, though, the Yale-Harvard game ose who wear the Blue and to those who carry the Crimson nothing clsc takes the place of the annual meeting on the last Saturday in November. Tt will be a great game, with a wonderful sctting on one of the most beautiful athletic fields in the country, and to those who sit in the stands, packed 50.000 strong, the foot ball season will be before them. While several games will command respect from the press and eive much wider publicity, is doubtful if any contest of the day will exceed in fierceness of play and bitter. ness of rivalry the one (o be played Bloomington, Ind.. between Uni versity of Indiana and Purdue. These two universities ought to pick out the two most deadly enemies to be found in the animal Kingdom. then each take one for a mascot. Indiuna looks upon Purdue as an aggregation of boilermakers that have not yet “ar- rived.” and Purdue turns a scornful eve toward Indiuna as having a little o much of that effeteness which the average Westerner ix supposed (o scorn it Lafayette and Lehigh bave been meeting for many yvears. This season Lafayette seems to have a gre: &in in its favor, but that matters little to Lehigh, it considers the game entirely different from the other part of its season. No matter what the sult of previous games, either of these teams that happens to be the under dog considers that from some- where is due to come inspiration that produces almost an even chance Rivalry between Swarthmore and Haverford has its original setting in a disagreement over religious mat- ters and extends back vears and vea And they play foot ball with a zeal that is more characteistic.of the Irish than the Quakers. Anyway, Haverford would consider any season 1 great success were it wound up with 4 victory over Swarthmore. And Swarthmore, even if it had previously won from Pennsylvania, would think dire disaster had befallen it were it to score fewer points than Haverford. And so it might be written of many other games. ke the Leland ford-California_zame. to be played this week at Palo Alto, which, by the way, it seems Stanford is favored to win, will be the fall thereof for the team that loses. Out in the Western Conference some great games are to be played. Michigan and Minnesota and Hlinois and Ohio State are to face in their gnal con- test. And for many reasons the Mich- igan-Minnesotu game means eve thing. Not only great rivals for vears, this week they face in a battle that probably will determine the best claim to the conference title. Bucknell and Dickson are rivals of long standing and when they face at Lewisbyrg memories of many such such chhtests will thrill thousands in the stands. Georgetown goes to New York to meet Fordham, and not only have they been playing for vears, but the contest is likely to be one of the best of the season. as both teams are strons. Only one game of any importance is scheduled in the South Atlantic sec- tion this week, but that is between two schools that have been meeting for many years., Washington and Lee and North Carolina State. All other schools are taking an off day in prey aration for their final tests Thanl giving day. Much will be written about the up- set in which Princeton figured in a decisive victory over Yafe. News- paper reports had it last week that Yate was a 2-to-1 favorite, vet on sober second thought, how such odds could have been figured is a mystery. Princeon beat Harvard by a bigger socre than Harvard was beaten by Dartmouth, yet in the one case it seemed to be thought that the Green victory was due to Dartmouth strength, and the Princeton triumph 10 Harvard weakness. Princeton beat Harvard by a bigger score than did Dartmouth and actually showed great- er superiority. Yet if Yale had been meeting Dartmouth the Green would have been the favorite. About the only thing that need be written of Princeton’s triumph over Yale is the fact that the Tigers have a wonderful foot ball team, one that, on the last two Saturdays at least, was as good as any in the country. And, after all, the real criterion by Which an eleven must be judged is what it accomplishes on the day or days when it desires to be at the zen- ith of its power. Princeton against the because Princeton pecially being impressive that day and Jater pay for too early development. And then after Navy, following the tie with Princeton, went to Michigan and took whipping t 54 to 0, natu- rally everybody ussumed that if Princeton could only tie Navy, then Princeton was not so much. And like a lot of other assumptions, noth- ing could have been further from the truth. Princeton spent its season building and working with a definite alm—to beat Harvard and Yale. That alw 1s Princeton’s aim—tie or beat Har- vard and then beat Yale. Princeton accomplished what it desired, way above its own expectant dreams. And it is only the due of the Tiger that all pay their respects to the high estate he has attained. not impressive ;, in all probability did not care es a Yale and Army and Pennsylvania are paying the penalty of too much accent on the October part of their schedule Undoubtedly both and Penn prepared for their own games with too much care and laid too much stress on it. That have had something to do with Yale's yather mediocre offensive showing against Princeton. It may have had something to do with Penn's defeat: by Tllinois and Pittsburgh. And fu thermore, it may be that Army’'s great effort and consequent accom- plishment against Notre Dame may be responsible for its decisive defeat by Columbia Saturday in New York. About twice during a season can & team be brought up to its high- water mark, that is, brought to a point where it really can play beyond | itself. And if stress is laid on Octo- ber games, the November record suf- fers. There are exceptions to this, but usually it is true. Georgetown had practically no trou- ble beating Centre College. The Blue and Gray ran up and down the field and had things its own way at all times. The visitors never had much mmore than outside fighting chance %] The Washington Canoe may’ | anyway and they did not do as well it was thought they might. How ever, the g was another demor stration of Georgetown’s power and versatility. The Blue and Gray h: foot ball machine that stands out with the best. Probably one of the greatest games of foot ball played here in years was the result of the meeting between Washington and Lee and Maryland. | Both teams gained ground through- out the contest, but neither was able to put over a score until the final quarter. It was a game in which the experience and seasoned ability of shington and Lee finally triumphed | @4 narrow margin over inexper ence backed by grit, aggressivenes: and a real fighting spirit Georgia lost to Georgia Tech by a margin of 0 to 3, a defeat that will rankle with until avenged | next vear, or the vear after, or the| vear after that. And when avenged, will rankle in Georgia Tech until it wins again. And so on through the whole course of foot ball relationships between those two institutions. VIRGINIA IS LOOKING TO TARHEEL BATTLE UNIVERSITY, Va After the strenuous game with Vir. ginia Poly, the Virginia eleven will have but little time for rest before it is called on to play the second game in four days with Randolph- Macon College here tomorrow. Virginfa’s game with Randolph- Macon was to have been played on October 31, but the afternoon before Lambeth Field was covered under a blanket of six inches of snow and the contest was postponed by mutual agreement. Last Fall Randolph-Macon sented a light but py team which fought the Vir ns hard and was able to push over a touchdown in the final period Coach Neale real November 15 pre - is looking ahead to the North Carolina game in Chapel Hill, which cloges the season Thanks- giving day. P opening session of the annual conven ship meets to the Quaker city. A delegation of 12 men irom the c from Philadelphia and headed by Lawson Robertson, coach of the United States Olympic team, stormed the convention yesterday and came out mittees of the American with practically everything they had The flower of the championships, the national senior outdoor champion- ships in track and fleld, will be held at the Centennial Stadium the last week in June and just prior to that the junior honors in the same events vill ‘be decided. Gets Other Events. Rounding off this stellar event is the national senior outdoor swimming championships for both men and wom- en, the junior cross. countr pionships and the junior boxing cham- pionships. Just to fall in line, representatives, of the largest railroads in the coun- try conferred with President Murray Hulbert and agreed to form a national anization to include the athletic ciations of the railroads. A meet will be held similar to that of the A. A. U. and will be under the juris- | diction of the amateur body. | The association selected Philadel- phia as the place for its first track and field meet. It, too, will be held in_connection with the exposition. The ional Marathon will be in Boston. ax will also the national se- nlor boxing championshiy The hoxers this vear, officials say, will have an opportunity to visit South America. The winners will be sent to | Buenos Aires to compete against the best of that country. This is in return | for the visit from the Argentiniar last ye ikewise there is an inv tation extended by the athletic go: erning bodies of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England to have four amateur boxers it th countries and box ‘the best in Europe. In awarding the men’s national senior indoor champinoships in both track and field and swimming, the Amateur Athletic Union did much to breach a gap that has existed be- tween the Illinols Athletic Club and the Chicago Athletic Association for the past 10 vears. Officials of the two clubs stated they have buried i the hatchet and will join in the | andling of the games. The swimming events four evenings and will be evenly divided between the two clubs. { W. C. C. Request Tabled. Club had made a request to have permanently warded them the President's cup | swimming meet. The Metropolitan | delegates objected on the ground the | A. A. U. should not grant permanent- ly any event to any city. The mat- ter_was tabled. The 15-mile went to St. senfor_cro New York | Florida came in for its share of honors and the national senior in- { door ing champlonships for { women will be held at St. Augustine, {where it was staged last year. New York will entertain the woman athletes at the national senior in- door women's championships. The proposed changes in the swi | ming rules are meeting with oppos | tion_fi sreat many delegates. RADIATORS, FENDERS will take i national championship Louis and the national -country championship to n- | believes he was the fi ITTSBURGH, Pa., November 16.—Athletically speaking. the sesqui- centennial of Philadelphia is a success, thanks to the executive com- Amateur Athletic Association, which in the BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT'SR. & F. WKS. r TO HAVE GOOD QUINT HYATTSVILE, Md., November 16. —Although they have lost the serv- ices of Tommy Ford, who this year will play with the Yankee quint in Washington, and Jeff Dix, who will strive for a berth on the University of Maryland freshmen, the outlook for strong regular and reserve basket ball teams for Company , 1st In- antry, Maryland National Guard, of Hyattsville, is by no means discourag- ing. The soldiers have picked up a pair of highly promising prospects in Conyston, formerly with the Mar: land freshmen, and Costinette, Hyatts- ville High lumina Costinette, who is well over 6 feet, and weighs around 165 pounds, is re. zarded as one of the best prospects the soldiers ever have landed. 'HEISMAN SUPPORTS LIMITED PLAY PLA BY J. W. HEISMAN. Foot Ball Director, Rice Institute. HOUSTON, November 16 —Several | games are likely soon to be played down this way with the length of the quarters determined by a set number f plays rather than by the l3-minute time limit. The writer strongly to do away with the 1 and limit the game given number of starts from serim- mage. If I do not overstep the bounds of modesty 1 would like to point out that for I have advocated. at the annu s of the American ‘oot Ball Association and elsewhere, that this would be a better and more falr method of determining the length of a game than by the present rule of minutes. The writer t ever to make he thinks that vors the plun minute periods rather by a this suggestion, and it will gain headway While forward pas: impressive form Southwest th Stegeman has re- ported from Georgia that there fis less passing than usual in the South- east. It is my opinion that in the South- east there are more superior ball carrying backs than in the Southwest. There, very naturally. they dislike to risk losing the ball by passes when they seem to have fast, reliable, hard. running, rip-snorting halfbacks and plungers. In the Southwest, on the other hand, T observe few backs of real class this season. Hence the fre- quent necessity for resorting to for- ward passing to make first downs. TIGER COACH DISLIKES SCOUTING IN GRID GAME Coach Bill Roper of Princeton Tigers routed Harvard and opposed to scouting. “I don’t know of any way to keep a man from looking on and telling what he sees, but I'd like to see scout- ing sent to the ash heap just the same,” he says CUBS TO START EARLY. The Chicago Cubs will leave for their Spring training camp on Catalina Island February 11, with a squad of Training will start February 1. Zn route home exhibition games will be played at Kansas City. sing is the most of offense in the whose e, is PHILADELPHIA AWARDED CLASSIC MEET OF A. A, U tion awarded six national champion- Middle Atlantic Association, chiefly requested. who deem it unwise to change the code at this time. The records committee at the last minute met with some opposition, the Illinois Athletic Club protesting the record claims by the Yale Univer- sity relay team for the 200 and 500 vard events. Charles Diehm, a past president of the A. A. U, and assoclated with the Illinois Athletic Club, stated that no affidavits were forthcoming from the touch-off judges and that flying tarts were permitted. An Illinois Athletic Club_relay team holds the records that Yale reports it broke. NOTRE DAME STYLE SUCCESS AT GEORGI BY H. J. STEGEMAN Director of Athletics at the University of Georgia. Copyright, 1025, by the Consolidated Press ‘Association. ATHENS, November 16.—One of the much mooted questions in foot ball technique is being settled to a_great degree of satisfaction at the Univer- sity of Georgia this vear—that of transplanting a definite system of coaching from one section of the coun- try to another. Georgia last year adopted the Notre Dame system of play and was unde- feated in the Southern Conference un- tl the final championship game with Atlanta. This year, though defeated three times, Georgia has presented one of the most skillful teams that has played in the South recently. The team is light, but has had ex- ceptional scoring power. Deception in handling the ball by the quarter- back, the wide sweeping end runs, the use of fast guards as interference and excellent feinting of line plays with forward passes developing made the | present Georgia team resemble Notre Dame teams strikingly. Head Coach Woodruff is assisted by two Notre Dame men—>Mehre, a line- man, and Crowley of last year's Notre Dame backfield. {WALFORD CLUB ELEVEN WINS SOCCER TILT, 3-0 More than 1,000 fans were present at the Monument grounds yesterday to witness the soccer tilt between the Walford and German-American clubs. The Walford booters earned the de- cision in a spirited contest, 3 to 0. McLean, Walford center, accounted for each of the goals and stood out among the leading defense men of his_eleven. NASH Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service 1337 14th St. Main 5780 . W | gridr St. Alban's years last Frida The big game of the week is the Gonzaga-Central clash listed for Fri- [day afternoon at Wilson Memorial | Stadium. With Central in possession | of the league c | zaga recognized as the clas | independent schools of the ci fight will be for the District & combination, which crown, and neither eleven intends to | relinquish the honor without a stiff battle. Central to Continue Work. Mike Kelly’s team will continue | practice next week also in_prepara- tion for its Thanksgiving day clash with Wilmington High in the Del wareans' stronghold. In thes games the Blue and White gridders have an admirable record to sustain. The team went through the scholastic series without being scored on, and Las won each of its outside conte with only one team—Newport High—being able to cross its goal line Tech and Eastern clash tomorrow in the final of the title race. At present the two schools are sharing second honors, each having a record of one victory, one tie game and one defeat. Barring a deadlock, the battle will decide the runner-up to Central Coach Guyon of Eastern will call in his equipment after the Tuesday game and start at once on the job of round. ing his basket ball squad into shape. foot ball teams in vesterda S Playing on a dry field for the first time this season, the Mohawk backs were afforded an opportunity to show their speed. The touchdown came in the second period, Dufour ing the line after a long forward pass, Dufour to Childress, had | started the team on a march toward the goal. Dreifus, Cronin and South- ern were consistent ground gainers for the Hawks. Dufour kicked the goal Mercury foot ballers were hard pushed to stave off the attack of the Fort Humphreys team led by Lieut. Ed Garbisch. The invaders threat- ened to score on three occasions, but each time lacked the punch neces- sary to carry the ball over. Gar- bisch attempted two drop-kicks in the third period. Mike Kelly, referee of the Apache- Palace game at Washington Bar- racks, was forced to end the fray be- fore regulation time w up because of the actions of the rooters. who in- sisted on crowding the playing field The Apaches, who had their opponents consistently, had the ball on the Palace team’s 12-yard line at the cessation of hostilities. Mercury Juniors and National Preps took the lead in the play-off for the 125-pound title by winning thelr games yvesterday while the Cardinals and Aetnas were playing to a 6-all d The Renrocs bowed to the Mercurys, 12 to 0, while the Iroquois were the victims of the Nationals by the count of 20 to 0. outrushed | Crossing the Lyons' goal line in the opening quarter, Barracks gridders won Clarendon team, 6 to 0. for the Leatherneck from the Pylan scored Anacostia Eagles took the measure of the Fort Humphreys Engineers, 6 to 0, on the soldiers' field. Bush counted for the Eagles in the opening quarter. Crescent foot ballers triumphed over the Lotus Club eleven, 20 to 0, at the Monument grounds. Kenilworth gridmen scored their first victory yesterday by trimming the Pastime eleven, 14 to 0. Both Kenilworth goals were scored by Augustine, the touchdowns coming in the third and fourth periods. Southern Preps and Wintons bat- tled to a scoreless tie. Neither team has vet been scored on. Waverly and Virginia Athletic Club ms played a scoreless tie at Alex- andria. Friendship gridders kept their goal line inviolate by defeating the Ana- costia Athletic Club, 7 to 0. Scoring in each period but the third, Mardfeldt booters won from the De Molay eleven, 19 to 0. Hess foot ballers took a crushing defeat from the Northerns by the score of 29 to 0. The Northerns scored in every quarter. Federal Juniors and Yorke Preps played a scoreless game. ’l.')rlnltys won from the Ottawas, 15 to 0. Marion foot ballers scored in the last few minutes of their game with the Mohawk Midgets to make the count 6 to 6. Apache Preps and Alexandria Tigers failed to come to a decision, the count in their game standing 6 to 6. PRO FOOT BALL SCORES At Philadelphia — Frankford, 20; Pottsville, 0. (Game played Saturday.) At Chicago—Cardinals, 23; Buffalo, 6. At Rock Island—Rock Island, 35; Kansas City, 12. "?t :lochester—Rochesler. 6; Potts- ville, 0. . Ato Greenbay—Greenbay, on, 0. Cleveland-Philadelphia and Akron- Canton, postponed, rain. At ew York—Giants, 13; Provi- dence Steam Rollers, 12. James Hume, section hand on a rail- road in Kansas, is an expert golf play- er. He attributes his adroitness on the links to skill gained with pick and Keeps the cold — out ‘Your motor will start run better. Su“'e:dle:ymd N(ONTERERORT PINES AUTOMATIC RADIATOR SHUTTEW L. S. JULLIEN 1443 P St. Main 7841 ° Washington Marine | 'WASHINGTON QUINT ITH the exception of the championship Central High eleven, all of the teams in the scholastic foot ball league will have ended their campaigns before another week rolls around. men also are preparing for their final contests, but aside from the ended play wili not be discontinued until after Thanksgiving. Prep school its most successful season in Tech appears in its last encounter Friday at Newport News in the first game of a home-and-home serles with the Virginians. Business players al- ready have turned in their foot ball togs, the Western game last Friday being their final stand of the season. Two Games for Western. Western is booked for two hard assignments during the week. Gon- zaga was to be encountered toda; at Georgtown Varsity field. Saturday the Westend gridders journey over to Baltimore to take on the strong Mount St. Joseph's Prep team that is rated as one of the leading contenders for the Baltimore Catholic champion- ship and the city title. In addition to games with Western and Central, Gonzaga is booked to play Loyola High of Baltimore at Hilltop field Thanksgiving morning. Devitt Prep also is slated to play on Turkey day, but the tilt will take place at Woodstock, Va., the Devitt booters tackling Massanution Acad- em) Although finished with the regular schedule, St. John's foot ballers will continue operations throughout the re- mainder of the month. Tentative games have been listed with fresh- men teams of Catholic University and Georgetown and several games may be arranged with other prep elevens. RED-HOT GAMES STAGED BY SAND}OT GRID TEAMS CORELESS ties were the result of the efforts of Mercury and Apache sandlot contests, while the Mohawks managed to cross the enemy goal line once to win from the Quan- tico Marine reserves on American League Park gridiron, 7 to 0. FOOT BALL SECRETS By Sol Metzger. When Bucking the Line. DO NOT THIS THIS "= Each one_of the backs above is running lows with his eyves up so he can pick his opening or avoid 4 tackler after he gets through the line. Each Is in a strong pc sition to drive ahead when a tack- ler approaches or when the line has not been ripped apart for him. But the runner on the left, as you will note, ix striking straight ahead. Obviously, he can get through a smaller opening than the runner on the right who is coming to the line at an angle. The latter also is easier to tackle and to throw for a loss as his force is at an angle to the line of scrimmage. The tackler can strike him from the side and throw him backward, whereas, the runner coming straight ahead has his full force directed in that way and can frequently drive the tackler backward and gain a few additional, precious yards in that way. TO PLAN CAMPAIGN Washington Athletic Association members will discuss basket ball to- morrow night at 8 o'clock at the home of Manager Charlie Hartley, 907 E street southeast. The Washington five, which has played in junior, senior and unlimited ranks during the past three seasons, plans to start on its second campalgn for unjimited honors within a few weeks. All players from last year's squad are expected to be back in uniform again. The roster includes MacCath- ran, Johnston, Sothern, Mudd. Mec- Glue, R. de Marco, A. de Marco, Scruggs and Shield Hartford Collegians get action for the first time tomorrow night against the Washington Barracks five on the Soldiers’ court. Liberty and Celtic fives open their schedules together tonight at Alex- andria. Royal and St. Martin’s quints will play off a tie game Wednesday night at 8 oclock in St. Martin's gym- nasium. They fought to a 28-t0-28 deadlock Saturday. Lieut. H. T. McClay is in charge of the schedule for the Hyattsville Guards. He may be reached at Hyattsville 378 between 7 and 10 o'clock. LITTLE BROWN JUG IS GOAL OF GOPHERS CHICAGO, November 16 (P).—A little brown jug, subject of a dispute between Michigan and Minnesota since 1903, is the gage of battle in this week's meeting of the teams, which ends the Western Conference campaign and may decide the title holder. Originally only a lowly water con tainer, the little brown jug is a symbol of victory for the Wolverines and Gophers. On its sides, painted in the colors of the schools, are the records of elght games, seven of them Wol- verine victories. In 1903 Coach Fielding H. Yost took a Michigan team to Minnesota to end a most successful season. The game vas a 6-10-6 tie. After it was over Michigan missed one of its water jugs. It was found broken. “Doc” Williams, then Gopher coach, agreed to replace it, but re- quired that Michigan prove its owner- ship by downing his team. Not until 1909 did the teams meet. Then Michigan won, 15 to 6, and the Jug went 'k to Ann Arbor. It has been there since, except in 1919, when Minnesota, 34-to-7 score, acquired it ck to Minneapolis. Greater interest attaches to the little brown jug this year, for fate and cir- cumstance has made it virtually sym- bolic of the Big Ten championship. Minnesota is undefeated in the con- ference and leads the race for the title, with Michigan second wit* one defeat and four victorfes. The game is the sixteenth meeting of the teams since 18! TWO ARE SUSPENDED FOR DECISION IN BOUT NEW YORK, November 16 (#).— Andy Griffin, veteran boxing referee, and Al Commachio, a licensed judge, have been disqualified for an indefinite period as officials by the New York Boxing Commission as the result of a decision which they turned in last week at a bout between Lucien Vinez of France and Charley Rosen of this city. Both voted the fight to Rosen on points although newspaper men at ringside held that the foreign light- weight won the contest. The commission announced its de- cision after an investigation which disclosed the fact that the verdict of the officials had met with general dis- satisfaction. TURNER MEETS PASCHAS. Jack Garrison, manager of the Mu- tual Theater, has obtained Pete Paschas to go on with Joe Turner in the weekly wrestling match Thurs- day night. SOCIETY'S APPROVAL ELEVATES FOOT BALL By the Associated Press Popularity of foot ball is due largely to its hi wding with society, in aj. John L. Griffith, Big Ten athletic commissione As a “gentleman’s game, it pays no heed to the fact that its popular idol of the moment may be a bona fide iceman in his Summer vaca- tions, or the scion of a millionaire family. The foot ball hero is a pure amateur, and hence soclety definitely approves him. A questionnaire sent by Griffith to 10,000 school principals, playground leaders and others engaged in super- vision of boys disclosed that there are scores of hopeful ““Charley Brickleys” or “Red Granges" to one “Ty Cobb' aspirant. Most of these sources re- plied that the glory of the game ap pealed more to the youths than the pecuniary rewards of a sporting pro- fession. “This enthuslasm for fame without other reward, coupled with the super- vision and management of the game by those interested solely in the educa. tion of the boys—their school authori- ties—have placed foot ball on a high plane which appeals to busines social leaders,” said Maj. Griffith, such as no other general sport except tennis and golf. And the latter are far behind foot ball in popularity.” Some of the game's popularity, it is admitted, also is due to the improve- ment in coaching and technique. The roughness, personal clash and fight” spirit of the game has been intensified, Maj. Griffith says, but its reaction to that elemental human trait is rather secondar: Boxing, wrestling and basket ball all have more of the vigor of brawn against brawn, but soclety has largely passed them up, the first two because there are usually unsavory elements in con- trol. The brute force has been more highly trained in foot ball, so that purely as an exhibition it is almost un- excelled. Two decades ago one coach struggled with a score of players, scrimmaging from the end of class periods until dark. Now a number of coaches, each with two or three players, practice by the hour on each fundamental. One eve- ning’s scrimmage is spread over the week, but in the game each man is near expert at his individual task. Years ago some coaches used to send out dlagrams of as many as 75 plays to their prospective players just befare school opened. Now the best coaches go through the season with 10 to 15 plays. he sa The Largest—Most Economical—Most Reliable Tatloring Shop Wonder What Merts Will Say Today!—Close Daily at 6 P. M., Sat. 8 P. M. Mertz’s Annual Thanksgiving At the Sign of the Moon Established 1898 Special SUIT OR OVERCOAT MADE TO MEASURE AS YOU WANT THEM A Tailoring Event of Remarkable Importance —We offer you choice of the largest stock of fabrics shown by any shop in Washington. $ 2 2.50 Can't Be Duplicated Under $35 Twil Dress Suits to order, silk lined, $45 Place Your Order Now and Get It When You Want It. CONSCIENTIOUS COACHING FINALLY GETS REWARDS Princeton and Minnesota Both Began Season With Raw Material Endowed With Possibiliti Praise Due Roper and Spears. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N possibilitics. Upon the occasion of September EW YORK, November 16—Two big foot ball clevens exempl most signally what skilled and conscientious and patient coact ing can do for raw material when that material is endowed with The teams are Princeton and Minnesota. visits to Princeton and Minneapol the writer found conditions that were abont as discouraging as could be imagined so far as the outlook for was concerned. winning important foot ball games Players for the most part were inexperienced, and at Minnesota was the additional handicap of a downright lack of militant spirit. ’ n going about his work of development in a quiet coming this as well a painstaking and absolutely thorough ; ] stormed through as a possible conference champion, Dr. Spears h So have his playe mighty fine thing. Dr. Spears has a definite and very interesting theory of foot ball offen: he has a personal magnetism which makes men willing to give him of their best, . finally, his knowledge of all branches of the gridiron sport is deep. The game which Minnesota plays against Michigan at Ann Arbor next Saturday will be one of the sea- son’s crucial tests, and your corre- spondent finds it a contest essential to attend Tigers Take Their Time. Princeton’s course through the son culminated in that for which the season began, victories over Harvard and Yale. Not as permitted to hurry the Tigers out of their even progress of development. As is al- ways the case at Princeton, the great November objectives were primary. Out of each game came lesson® that were valuable. Material had to be tried out under all sorts of test and it was not until a week before the Harvard game that the coaches knew the strength and weaknesses of all the men and were in a position to pick the team upon which their faith would rest. William _Roper will receive much credit for his qualities of organization and inspiration, and he richly de it, but he will be the last to with! the utmost praise from Stan Keck, Wittmer and Jack Winn for their work in turning out as sturdy and co ordinated a line as can anywhere be sea- found, a line in which each individual was grounded to the very roots in the technique of his position. Makes Good His Promise. The night before the Harvard game Roper definitely promised Princeton students in mass meeting assembled that the Crimson would be soundly beaten and that on the following Sat- urday “this Princeton team is going to New Haven and push the overrated Yale bunch off the map.” Princeton won where ¥ to win—on the basis ¢ cation of rigorous pressure. cracked ut inopportune times; fumbles, few as they were, were tended by heartbreaking consequenc and equally disastrous were lapse: judgment and physical letdowns. The Tigers throughout were poised, cool, resourceful. They made no er- rors and such exploits _Slagle’s extraordinary 82-vard run through the Yale team from scrimmage and Dig- nan’s judgment in punting the ball at any angle so that the wind would take it out of bounds deep in Yale's territory, were noteworthy incidents in a whole catalogue of events that served all afternoon to confound the Elis. The brilliancy of Princeton’s backs, Slagle, Dignan and Prendergrast, has been widely heralded, but so far a the writer knows Gilligan, the full- back, who did more tackling all aft- ernoon than any two mew on either eleven and was the spearhead of Princeton’s interference, has re- mained unnoticed. This sturdy youth le expected steady appli- Yaule her no doubt has received compensation in the form of praise and thanks from his fellow players and his coaches. So probably have the forwards for their hard-hitting inter: ference. At Peak Too Early. Yale brought herself up to a peak for Pennsylvania and later for the Army. There were evidences at the Yale Bowl on Saturday that excellent trainer though George Connors is. he could not quite lift his men up for the sort of test to which Princeton was prepared to subject them. The Yale line was constantly outcharged, both ends consistently outplayed. In terference was thus thrust apart be- fore it was formed Yale was really beaten in the first half, when the team learned that sim- ply by giving the ball to one or other of her giant backs was not—as had evidently been _expected—enough to insure gains. Yale is an instance of a fine eleven that needed a jolt, and it surely got on ‘When on the West coast the writer was enabled to observe both Wash- ington and California elevens under the most favorable circumstances. The impression was then received that the Huskies in size and resourcefulness In over- the Gophers have s done a manner until rs. were likely to win their way top of the Pacific Conference. This they have done, defeat ing the Bears at Berkeley on Satur day. Enoch Bagshaw, a Washington product, has met Andy Smith ar Glenn Warner, two brilliant products of Eastern foot ball, and gone them one better, Which must cause more than a small amount of satisfaction up Seattle way. And a salute i hereby wafted to Long and Spellmar who have been at Bagshaw's el all season. to the Tulane marched onward over prone Sewanee, and Alabama's brilliant at tack smothered Florida. Georgia Tech vanquished gallant Georgia in a great defensive battle. Dartmouth, in beating Chicago, con- firmed all impressions of the New Hampshire outfit, and the Army, let ting down after the Yale game, was soft for Columbia. In the Rockies Utah snowed Colo rado College under and maintained her lead in that region West Virginia played up to her new stadium and snowed Penn State unde North Carolina went triumphantl onward, at the expense of Davidson and Texas A. and M. smothered Joh: Heisman's Rice Institute team. Colgate ended an undefeated sea with a defeat of Syracuse of the season’s classic game: RUSSIAN IS LEADING IN CHESS TOURNEY ¥ the Assoriated Press. MOSCOW, November jubow, Russlan champion, as: the lead in the international chess tournament by defeating his fellow man, Genewsky, in the fft son a one Rubenstein of Mexican, and Austria, drew th United States, had a bye Tne summary of the fifth round Spielman, Austria, beat Reti, Czecho slovakia; Bogoljubow, Russia, beat Genewsky, Russia; _ Rabinowitsch Russia, beat Gotthilf, Russia; Lasker, Germany, beat Yates, England: the games between Tartkaower, Austria and Torre, Mexico; Saemisch, Ger. many, and Bogatyrtschuk, Russia, and Capablanca, Cuba, and Rubinstein, Poland, were drawn. Those between and_Dus-Chotf Subarew, Russia, and ia, and Romanows Russia, and Gruenfeld, Austria, were adjourned. The standing: Players Yubow Ruhenstein . Tartkower Marshall Bogarty Capablanca Torre Rabinowitsch Genewiky Werlinsks Lasker Romanowsk Spielmann Seamisch Yates = Loewenfizch . Reti Poland. Dr. Tartakowe ir game. Marshall Gotthilf subarow .. 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