Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 39

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D . C., WEDN LSJ)AY DECEMBER 16, 1925. SPORTS. H Grange Proves Bane to Pro Foot Ball : Michigan Has Made Great Grid Record Golf Strategies That Won Some Important Struggles STAR’S FAILURE TO SHINE HURT PAID GAME'S C AUSE, PERMIT FOR STADIUM Fans Disgruntled When That Characterized Red Rated as a Fine Fellow. BY LAWR EW YORK. 16. N ioot ball has injured rather iron game When the Nlinoi< Rears those were alarmed They belicved to get over in any first great upward impulse. Such an impulse from an outs December fla-h leit who wish 1o preserve and quite significant way. foot ball in itseli lacks that zest and thrill which make the college game | Without these elements wide public interest in the mercenary | what it is. game would have to depend could cstablish Seventy thousund to the Polo Grounds to Grange play with the Chic ainst the New Yorl lure. of course. wa of seeinz Grange crow:hopplng runs of downs pon t came Red pectators ng touch make hi Fans Are not exzzzer: 55000 or perh. Felo Grounds throns \fter—or before—the pretty completely dis z<me redeemed fin; Af pro foot ball at the that had not beén too opulent returns But as propaganda’ it s vhat is picturesquely known irg circles as a “‘bust.” In other ¢ s where Grange and his team have pleyed the effect been the same Grange is a fine fc both 1o amateur sport. His carcer, the Rear: broken ch: of Jim Thorpe, the star of great luster, who preceded Grange by some years as & recruit to the pro same more pathetic. Disappointed 60,000, of 1eft the me wi asioned a It s that that arena s over in its How and and a credit professional from the time he joined until now, is almost an un- The story Incentive is Lacking. Self-sacrifice amounting practically tn complete abnegation. a vast ideal fsm born of love for alma mater and an indomitable spirit similarly de- rived—these are the primary qualities to be found in the college foot ball player. They cannot exist in the pro. because the incentive is wholly lack ing. Professional foot ball has a plice, & pretty definite place. in centers where these who love and undersiand foot ball are unable to see high-class col- lege teams in action either undergraduates, alumni and exhaust the supply of seats. But conditions essential' fp its es- tablishment as a formidable rival to the college game do not exist and. it would seem, cannot be made to exist. A word about Georgé Thayer, the captain-elect of the Pennsylvania foot hall eleven. Thayer comes of one of | the oldest Philadelphia families. His father was captain of the, Penn eleven in 1881, Thayer attended St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and lett his friends, all of whom follawed the usual ~ourse to Yale, Harvard and Prince ton. hecause of the Penn tradition in the Thaver family. He came because of tradition and he nroved himself a regular from ~vord go. sonality has been fine and inspiring. He played brilliant and. just as a Thaver shouid come 1o Penn, 0, too, it wAs a part of that tradition that he should be a Penn foot ball captain. So now he is cap tain and Penn is to be congratulated upen having a leader of his type. WOULD LEGALIZE BOXING. Chicago's first definite step to legal- ize boxing since the Illinois Legisla- ture passed a law recently governing the sport, will he made when Alder- man Joseph McDonough asks the City Council to put the proposition as to whather the city the ballot for next election TILDEN WILL BE ACTOR. NEW YORK, December 15 (#). Willam Tiiden. 2d. the tennis cham- pion. who has already acted in motion pictures, is shortly to be sean on the <peaking stage. Tilden. whose sec- ondary interest has lonz been theater. will be foatured in a play entitled “The Kid Himself, Rernard T. Shubert Don’t let Christmas Shop- ping be a nightmare to you —Tlet our salesmen help you in selecting gifts for the men on your list. There's all sorts of ties in all sorts of patterns. Shirts with collars and shirts without—just a matter of preference, and our sales- men know just what par- ticular style appeals to the person you have in mind. Come in and tell us about the recipient and see if we- don’t pick out a gift that will prove first rate. SOLE AGENTS ROGERS YER 1331 F ME ENCE PERRY. “Red” his ghtly—that ii professional foot ball were |desired cta nuu‘ has | because | their is none in the vicinity or because | triends | the | A thorough mixer. his per- | foot ball all year | hall have boxing on | the | written by | n NORTHWESTERN GETS ted Press. December 16.——North has obtained per- | canston city coun £1,000.000 He Fails to Make Dashe His College Career. on from the K to erect its proposed dium, but the iple-declked |that had heen planned. The university had asked for per mission to erect the 126-foot-hizh stadium. which would have been the highest in the country. But the city | | council, instead, passed amendments to | the building code permitting a start | on the preliminary work on the stands | h an 80-foot limit. So instead of a | | 75,000-capacity _oval the, concrete stands will seat 50,000 in double decks. | Work on tearing down the wooden | stands will start at once. As soon | therearter as possible the erection of | the stadlum will be started, since it is | to have -the structure com |pleted in time for formal delication November 13. structure Grange's than he'ped the commercialized grid- dip into proiessional the Chicago foot ball as a distinct college sport university and joined Grange was the man to apply the wnding star was needed, because pro | |CENTRAL LEAGUE, WITH FOUR CLUBS, IS REVIVED MUSKEGON, Mich., December 16 | . —Revival of the Old Central Base Ball League with four clubs, Muske- gon, Ludington, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Is announced by Russell H. Gallagher, Chicago real estate dealer. who will operate the Mus- kegon club. | Emerson W. Dickerson, sports edi- tor of the Grand Rapids Herald, will be president of the league. JOHNSON GIV.ES A TROPHY| FOR MEXICAN BASE BALL President Ban Johnson of the Amer- fcan League has agreed to donate a | bronze trophy to stimulate interest in base ball in Mexico. lists | he following which stellar spec |GETTING COAST GAME IS TASK, PYLE FINDS Wothe A LOS e hall Decemhear Drummi ional fo team play Red Grange and his| | Chicago Bears and convincing a pro- | moter ihat such a contest hers on |Jan 16 is a money-making possi hility ‘are_the two main jobs fac-| ing C. C. Pyle, manager for Grange, | wha is here conducting negotiations. There are plenty of foot ball play- ars here. but professionals are scarce.| The trophy will be sought next sea- Also. there are promoters galore. but | son by some 20 amateur teams, first o rur none seems to have bid hign | organized two vears ago. when John- | enough to satisfy Pyle. | son presented a similar cup to F AIl of the would-be foot ball im-' dent Obregon presarios of this section cannot fig- | ure a mid-January attraction with- | out counting in the New Year dav| same at Pasadena between Wash- ington and Alabama Pvle, however, continues his nego- OGLETHORPE éIGNS COACH. ATLANTA December 16 (). Harry Robertson. former university director of Ogletorpe. He is a brother tiations and flatly declarex that the | of “Blg Jim" Robertson of Dartmouth Bears will play somebody here on|fame and has been foot ball coach at January 16 | the university for the past two vears. | ships were won by conservativ (CRESCENTS DISPUTE ' D. C. RECORD IS MADE | 1 GRID TITLECLAIMS BY WOMAN ROI.LERS‘ Members of tire Crescent Athletic | | Club foot ball team. who have been meeting &ll comers in the 135-pound class. do not accept the title claims {being made by the Wintons, North- |erns, Stantons and Knickerbocker | A new all-time record for woman bowlers was set last the Coliseum when of the Washington gue rolled a team set of 1 fle trimming the Washingtons mark. made with zames of 314, | nd 501, betters by 3 points the | cord hung up by the Washingtons a week ago | Lorraine Gulli. holder of individnal ame and sei records for the cit | came within two pins of raising the record | Jadies’ league season mark for high speak for itself. Five victories have |gzame by foppiing the maples for been registered in seven starts. the | count of 136. Her set of 363 was Chevy Chase and Mardfeldt teams be \\'||I\(n 3 points of the league's season | |ing the only combinations to nuse out | record for high individual set | -the Crescent. These games ended in 14-to-12 and 10-to-9 scs s, respective- LEAGUE MARKS ROLLED BY RAILWAY MAIL TEAM| District night at the Beeque five Ladies’ Duckpin | | According to K. O. Speiss, coach of the Crescent eleven. three of these teams have refused reasonable terms for games with his team and have no right to consider themeslves the sole | claimants for the championship. Speiss lets the Crescent ly. The Lotus, Mount Rainier Em- blems. Kenilworth and Federal teams | were blanked and the Pastime Club | defexted. 14 to HERMAN MAKES WEIGHT. Babe Herman. challenger has | trained himself down to 127 pounds | and expects to have little trouble reg- istering the featherweight limit in | his championship 15-round clash in New York, Friday night with Louis | 1d) Kaplan. tailway Mail Service duckpinners | hung up a new game and set records | in the Post Office League last night| by rolling games of 590. 579 and 533 | for a total of 1,702. The 1,702 an all-time mark, while the ses the record for the season. FOOT BALLERS TO DRILL. - . == National Athletic Club foot ballers NOTRE DAME LISTS DRAKE. | will drill tonizht at 7 o'clock on SOUTH BEND, Tnf., Dicamber 18 | J2108 Sittion Fhap for thelr.Sunday | O E NG DT (AN Drarelihaye)|r0e Wit the Wakerlis. entered into a two-vear foot ball) Schedule agreement. Drake will play at South Bend November 20, 1926, and | Notre Dame will go to Drake in 1927 BASKETERS TO GATHER. Members of the Independent basket ball five will gather at Washington Barracks tomorrow night at 7 o'clock | for a game with the War College five. CUEISTS PLAY TONIGHT. Clive Richmond and Joseph Crowley furnish tonight's match in the Dis.| irict pocket billiard tourney at Grand | | Central Parlors. W. L. Hampton won| occer eleven and all candidates for | trom John Jackson, 100 to 73 e L e et | a O A { tomorrow night at § o'clock at 1301 TIGERT GRID STAR. Nineteenth street. John James Tigert, Commis- |sioner of ucation of the United States, was considered one of the greatest foot ball players \'andnrhnl‘ ever had. After graduation he was| foot ball coach | SOCCERISTS TO MEET. Members of the British embassy | | Dr PEET CLOTHING 'S SHOP Street t .| fore | Turnesa’s p | eighteenth tee I could take a four | grand rush and beat me out | tonie, will wonder 3 for a four instead of par three | TURNESA'S HEADY PLAY IN TEXAS OPEN LENGTH OF HOLE - 160 YARDS « sTRokes TO GET OUT AND N 0N eReen IGHT up I '\ two of the and the Texas open. important Turnesa, a tall youth, with the greatest mechanical skill at his service, This temperament is of the playing safe” contemptuously, also has brains and a splendid tempe sort that does not look upon what is called the front rank of young homebreds today is Joe of New York, who beat out large ficlds of prominent professionals fixtures of 1925—the Pennsylvania open ament. nor does it regard the cool, careiui study of each play as unnecessary. “This s something the duffer should consider. How many would-be golfers £o at their plays without studying all | the attending circumstanges. The | same inefficlency in business would | soon make them bankru Both of Turnesa’s 1925 mpion Pplay ing at critical times. e nsed tacties | of a high order and was repaid Turnesa Led Field. In the Pennsylvania open at Mer ion, Joe turned in a nifty % on the third round and let.the field by six strokes, apparently a wide margin. | In the perveracking final round of npionship it is easy to drop | strokes while an opponent is them up: witness the 1925 | open at Worcester, where Macfarlane lost so much on the last 15 holes that Jones climbed to a tie that| him. So Joe at Merion cannily de cided to try only for par golf com ing down the home stretch | On several occasions he had a chance for a birdie. But he reso lutely plaved safe. The result was| that he did 10 straight holes of the| last 18 in fours and held his lead of six strokes at the end, his 204 being first to J. Wood Platt’s In the Texas open at San Antonio, the bigzest event of the midwinter | season. Turnesa scored his victory through a more siriking strategy When Joe played off the eighteenth or seventy-second tee, the which knew he had a grea to win the tournament, was 1o see his tee-shot pass clear over the green of the 160-yard hole and come to a stop in a road at the rear. ~ Looked e Mistake. John Golden was in with a 286, the lowest score.to date. and Joe needed only a five on a par three hole 1o beat him. Nevertheless, the specia tors thought this shot might be the mner of other mistakes Again, the great Macdonald Smith had not vet finished and he was still in the running. It is true that going out in the final round he had taken 1 40, but at the turn he braced. When “Ma Smith braces, anyvthing may happen. Despite any play which Turnesa should make after his tee shot he might still win the champion ing national Willle ground Bobby | ship. But the gallery was wrons about | and had no right to garding his succeeding He was not a youngster up | In the air.” MHis tee shot had been carefully considered and executed ac cording to his desires Here was the situation.” plains, “When 1 came up be doubtful r plays. e ex- e wnd | 284 for the still finish with a total of | 72 holes. | Had F 1a Smith might come in with a In my | mind 1 allowed him a 34 for the last | nine holes. This would place him in tie with me. But anything else than that would take him out of the run- ning, provided 1 could get a four on the eighteenth “The average persons, not havin seen that eighteenth hole at San An- why I should tr ured Play. Well, let me say that the eighteenth | is a very dangerous hole. From the | tee vou play over a gully, with a ditch | the bottom and a thick growth of | briars. A very steep bank, 25 feet high, leads up 1o the green | very | if the lat “If your the way Juck. Y down the briars, “On this occasion 1 had happened 1o . hole in the 1924 Texas open over the gully patch 1o get down. Recalls Kirkwood's Error. tee shot doesn't carry al to the green, bank the into tangle recalled wha final round of It so hapened that at the time he led the field by a big margin and his But would | mistake did not lose him the title race had been close it have been costly. W “lt was good strategy shoot over the green. Kirkwood struggling out of brambles was clearly before for 1 had watched him in his dilemma. So; instead of using a spude mashie, as on ordinary occasions, for those ov 20 into the road beyond I went into the road, chipped back to the short, o as not 1o go the hill. Two putts g sired four and total of Smith, despite a great effort, could ge no better than a 36, tying with Golden at all right een, s and dowr, If 1 had played as did Kirkwood in | sixth | 1924 1 would have finished in place and received $200 prize money. But t place gave me $1.500 p money ) 1 regard my tee worth exactly $1,300 to me, mention the championship.’ (Copyright. 18:5.1 EUROPEAN LINKSMEN ne GET FLORIDA BERTH By the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 16 Compston, British professional gol champion. and Arnaud Massey, oper kins of France, will play their firs American contest on New Y Augustine, Fla e two six-footers, regarded the most colorful team ever sent ou of Enrope, will leave and Decem ber 2 Compston structo and Massey in St will he Augustine, and in wil represent the oldest city of the United | Then the States in the Winter tournaments iling for itish open in June, pected to tour the they country NEW TRA.CK FORVFLORIDA. December 16 (M are ex Florida’s acing course, with an inaugural pre starting Thanksgiving day. Ta |ern Racing 4 Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service 1337 14th St. Special Motor Fuel~ think what that %c AMERVICAN N OIL COMPANY -m-.-rm.-—m FETROLON CORPORADON urnesa you're out of ball is sure to roll back | of | e Kirkwood on this the Joe failed to carry . his ball found the briar and he finally required a seven me to The picture of [he accepted terms me, I pulled out mashie and made sure that 1 was v the green, even though I should |%id again to have but playing ve me my de- | 284~ Mac | shot as o ~Archie | ar day as home in time for | Main 5780 3 jROCKNE TIRED OUT December OUTH BEND, rired by vear of strenuous uninterrupted work, Knute ockne. ball « 1is going to take a long rest wce hig arrival here fr | Rockne the pren ure Tumbia Universi foot ball there. However, Rockne unhurdened him | self to the ‘extent of making plans for | his immediate future. ny. 1 haven't had a rest in I don’t know how long,™” he said, “and I'm all in." | He plans to spend the Winter either {on a Kansas ranch with Jess Harper | former Notre Dame coach, or in | rope, or both. During the last vear, he said. he had gone through a particularly strenuous Spring coaching season, attempting to rebulld an eleven from the remnants of his famous “four horsemen” ag gregation; had conducted seven Sum coaching schools, written two gone through the »n he has encountered nd nearly out a Notre Dame foot m the nent ld cor announe ¢ that he tator. Rockne looked 1| was listless. He fatigued. The Columbia Indicated, had served | fashion (o delay the vacation he had | planned. 1le appeared to be princi ¢ | pally concerned over what local people are thinking. especially the N Dame faculty and alumni. tired and hi admitted he was incident, he i irritating voice IOWA CITY. low Knute Rockne, famous . December 16 (#) Notre Dame agreements to become coach at University of Towa, but each failed to carry out his pledze. Dr. Belting. director of losed. No contract however. Rockne's first agreement with lowa |officers was made in March, 1921, when Dr. Belting said ment, and the uni tion Jessup. too cf | negotiations, the director In a later conference, with President Jessup the time Paul athletics here, was signed, ‘ He broke this agres | versity administr dent W. A arge of the sl in Chic Rockne was eed 1o come to few days later. Inside Golf By Chester Horton— | Towa, only 1o decline n | Gt n | So often is the golfer adm. follow through with the clubhez {many players, seeking to accomplish | the follow through, br about in the hottom are of the swing tiffenin exertion has the effect deadening read just time when should have _its ringiest punch hey accomplish a follow throu us it were, me r m-shoving bhead 1o some point well in advance of the ball. This on zives the feeling of the clubhead hitt straight which is not quite You should hed to 1 that the it ~ the t | =~ 5 x | fosveiorE | |a naTimaL | |-t iow THrRouGH = * | through the ball, the feeling it should have have a sense of hitting down on the 1{ ball as the clubhead takes the ball follow through and automatically (Copsright. 19 naturally st Coast will have a new . under the auspices of the South- TO TAKE LONG REST Su- | most | |down on the record as cause oi the | nas had | games played with Ilinois, foot ball coach, entered into two verbal | | nents have made 27 through Presi. | | fared even worse 1 | win will come | BEATEN BUT F OUR TIMES DURING LAST FIVE YEARS Wolverines Have Gone Three of These Camp: Without Being Defeated—California Only Team to Dispute Top Honors. TCHIGAN'S f i the comparisons bhall areatest ot record over the past five vears is M one possible not ever made by major university with the records of other universities shows claimant fo During the past qual honors with the Wolverines.- five years Michigan has< lost only four gam tied two. and during this period has had only 103 points scored her. It is true that California lost only opponents tied her four times, and t 71 more than Michigan's opfonents The views oi foot ball cxperts are that Michigan's record «ho»\mg one more game lost, excels California’s record. since the lat was tied twice as many times by opponents and had so many more poin stored against her Furthermore, Michigan’s one additional California_was the result of a 3-2 score. this single extra point extra loss, IVE-YEAR RECORD OF SOME | MAJOR UNIVERSITIES University three, but at the same tim ey rolled up 174 points could register Tllino| leader in surprising arded popularly re 1 eire reveals weaknes< in the five-vear | tabulation. 1llinois has lost 13 games luring the period. has tied one ind 261 points made against her. | ' has won three out of four and each INinois | Loet Michi of these three were shut-outs. Notre Dame, another team regarded by many fans as invincible, lost five zames and tied two, while her op ponents scorea 223 points. 120 more than combined opposition could regis. ter against the Yostmen. Dartmouth, 1925 Eastern leader. has lost six, tigd two and her oppo- 2 counter points. lowa has lost seven games in five , has heen tied once and her I8 have made 243 points. anford has been defeated an even zen times in only five years and has been tied three times more. Her opponents have rolled up 389 tallies Vi ories over Auving Michizan hs tied 1 pponents N.C.A. A.TO COMBAT EVILS IN FOOT BALL By the Associated Prese NEW YORK. December National Collegiate Athletic tion, meeting in Ne Deceriher 30, plans a concerted attack on over emphasis of college foot ball and pro fessional foot ball A resolution for considera urzes that educa stitutions be asked to combat 1o overemphasize and foot ball. The resolution would eliminate n training, the number of inter collegiate contests and the ni games played in other than stadia. It would abolish ships and improper encourage intramural foot " ball. Colleges are urged in the resolution to refuse hereafter to emplov an: coach, officials or others that aid the promotion of professional f hall East 1s Trailing. Harvard's record is even ) acu 16.—The spe Assoria rin comparizon with Michigan's. During the past five vears while Michigan lost only four, Harvard went down in defeat 14 times, her | opponents tied her three times and made points azainst her. Ohio State, a conference rival of Michigan, ames, U 270 points. e and had ion of the nal ing five and : Cornell lost six points scored against her. _Chicago Jost seven zames in the past five vears, tied five and had 158 points rung up | by opponents. Yale lost six zames, Fad three tied and the opposition made 207 points. Princeton, the re naining member of the three lost nine, tied three and gave 241 points to opponents. Out of the past five vears Michigan has gone three straight calendar vears without a single defeat—from time of the Ohio State game in to the Tllinois zame of 1924., This incidentally. is the first’ five - stretch of Yost's allyvear guid- £ Michizan athletics. E critics who have followed the Wolverines in action declare that no team in the history of the game show: more vear-in and year-out consistency than the Wolverines. coll athletic scholar proselytinz and and interclass Lawn fumous ments du sses wnis Club of Nice its internation ing the winter se 21 excellent courts. [Bwners of othermakes! | - teade quichlyfor Studebaker! chwer Durability Finish ‘WOULD STOP FRENCHMAN. William T. 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