Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1925, Page 30

SPORTS. ‘THE EVENING S TAR, W WEDNESDAY DECEM Notre Dame Loses Its Hoodoo Eleven : Gunn Now Is Golf Star in His Own Right 'GALLAUDET TOSSERS - PLAY GAME TONIGHT Gallavdet's five holds the center of he local basket ball stage tonight when the Kendall Greeners meet the Maryland Law School quint in the second game of their schedule. snt the team through vesterday and de 7 ble perfod to skull practice in preparation for tonight's clash, which should afford the Buff and Blue an opportunity to brealk into the win column after its yecent defear 2 BREAK WITH NEBRASKA REMOVES OLD NEMES Hoosiers Have Lost Five Contests Since 1919, und; Three Have Been to Cornhuskers—Foot Ball Is to Be Subject of Debate. it a BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK. December 23-—Most gr < _ : g 5 Gallaudet will present = some jinx that they privately dread because it arises at NOPPOT- I yinaup from that which togk tune times to overturn their well-laid plans and set their projects |the opening game Saturday. : back at his old pe at naught = | Reneau has been It looks as though i relations between Nebraska and | to the right forwar Notre Dame, Knute Rockne. a truly great man in his sphere, will be rid of | Gapype Marst { mile champion One was jand now hoodoos men have their changed 't in Byouk is center and 7 ed vegularly the break of erth . intercollegiate hulf while al Georgetown | sporting the colors of the New York Athletic Club, scored the | niost impressive victory in the Christ- | mas tund meat at New York last night {by taking the mile handicap event over u field of stars in 4 minutes 35 seconds after starting from teh. { Franklin McLain of Georgetown, run- | ning with a bandicap of 4 yvards, won the 440-yard run. while Johnny Holden, | formerly of Georgetown and now with the New York Athletic Club, captured the half-mile while running from scratch. Jimmy Burgess of George fown was second in the 440 TWO SUNDAY SCHOOL serious hoodoo. : Since 1919 the South Bend university has lost five games dropped to Towa; one went to the Army, and three to Nebraska In 1922 it was the Cornhuskers who spoiled Notre Dame's unbeaten record and a chance of debating with Princeton for national honors Nebraska did the same thing in | 1823. In the late season the south | | BASKET BALL SECRETS Renders. after were go By Sol. Metzger ng great guns and had a chance to rank w up in the West, when again Nebraska applied the punch soporific ‘The teams first met in 1915, and each | eam has won five games: the contest of 1918 was a scoreless tie. Foot Ball to Be Debated. ppears that the flames of vesent ment over too great emphasis upun a vel a poor start When Jumping. ) fi | he immediate close of the season, are not going to be per to die out. Usually by the time the holidays ar rive there is not even an after-glow 1o remind one of the annual post-s e created by those who viev with alarm But now the Kastern Intercollegiate Debating League rises to announce the first triangular debate on 16 the subject will be as fol- | gridiron itted / { | ntercollegiate foot ball, which marked | ‘ Deadlocks for all positions exist | the Sunday School basket ball league } |at the end of the first six weeks of play First honors arve shared by Calvary and Union Methodist teams, neither of which has vet been defeated. Friends and Epiphany are together in the fight, each having won two starts in three, while Emory and Peck fives each have scoved one win in three attempts. Columbia_ Heights Christian ‘larendon Baptist quints have to_break into the win column No league games are scheduled for urday or for the following week Play will be resumed on Jan Resolved, Thut this house deplores he condition of intercollegiate ath | intics in the Eastern colleges.’” The contestants will be Princeton Dartmouth and Williams. Princeton vill take the affirmative again Dartmouth at Hanover, while <ame time another Princeton ill take the negative against ams at Princetor Will Try for Positions. Trials for positions on the teams will begin as soon as the colleges in volved open after the holiday While foot ball men as a rule orn the rostrum and leave every hing relating to the great subject « polemics to the grinds and the hi irows, the acute interest of the topics vay incline more than ome gridiron star to try to make the affirmative cam If they do they will find a pleus rable freedom from some of the re. strictions which the more physically it less vocally—strenuous gridiron zame involves. For instance, if it be found that one »¢ two, or more. members of the win ning team earned Summer money by speaking on the chautauqua circuit . spelibinding in the interest u Indian herb remedies. or any old thins vou plense, they will lose no credit. And the university they represent will not be compelled to hand over its iaurels to its chief rival They will find. too. that they may work day and far into the night. in act all night, practicing, without iny one rising to assert that intercol legiate debating is being overempha sized . -l kg - In spite of a great deal of coaching many players when called on 1o jump after a held bail use their left to push the opponent out of the way. They should remember that basket ball i¢ a game of skill and that trickery and unfair tactics of this sort are not a part of it The way to jump ix shown in the illustration on the left he unfai way {s shown in the one on the right squad Wil ¢ Episcopal Methodist. .3 Bavtist Helghts SOCCERISTS MEET. 1y organized L e will settle usiness tonight ut District Building Members the Washington Soccer several items of v'clock in room ne Tameharu Meenakato, Japanese has just been elected captain of the w | tling team at Lafayette Colloge. CENTRAL AND EASTERN BASKETERS SCORE AGAIN C tak ENTRAL terday. champions on the latter's court by the count of a hard battle with Gonzaga. 38 to 30. After trimming the I street schoolboys in the a five attempted to take the measure of the Anacostia Ea team, but failed by a slight margin, the aund continued to win basket ball the astern games yes- Hyattsville High the Easterners completely outclass i0on the Eastern gles, an independ- ng a 24-to-20 ver- dic Publicity Not Spurned. During the And if the subject accomplishes its purpose of stimulating public interest =0 that the newspapers print several columns about the debate, no one will be anything but pleased So with the gate—or rather the bos oftice receipts. The money that s made the greater will be the satis action on every hand One thing is ce acted will do much in the way of bringing the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League before the public Ordinarily the subj-cis selected those in which the average citizen has no zreat amount of interest. such as “Resolved. That the Le: should. in the int appoint tirst half of 1t Hyattsville the home team appearved to be a match for the Washington! titleholders, but in the (hird pericd the superiority of the Blue and White begun to assert itself and Hyatisville wilted. Barl Cent rd through for # quart T court g and contributed the sume number of 1 the foul line. Bill Banta | erle Dunn each registered four | in l€ frowm scrimmage. in. onzaga gave Bastern a stiff fight | \an and although laboring under a “0-to-14 handicap at the half, came within! thres points of tying the count dur ing the third se Accurate shoot- ing by Hogarth. Heeke and Scrug; the gamne enab out in front Hogarth and collect and Bozek and imate ain Heeke to pull zgerald ributed Sect baslet Junior H the 9-B-2 t High gymnasium. The w des Capt. Lewis, Seidman, Chase, ¢ Der Cook and Ma sectional f Columbia nosing out in Business wming squad ngstrum, Kot- nady. Engle, wger Lacey. - Moser al b Is rday by the topic se IR Devitt ps tackle an alumni team today at o'clock on the National Guard Armory court, at Fifth and L. sireets. egulars ere to Ban Jobn supervising But no: the del ng for public inter nanner no =s8s guileful than the most resource. ul graduate manazer of athletics. and ‘he public . he sure not neg e radio the n this par ating leazu All Cinco tobacco is “claret- cured”— everyleaf made mel- low by real old wine! Hence that famous Cinco flavor. g\ i . the Ala Tema eleven 15 now due to dip into he equable cimate of the Southwest Phe genial temperatures of s hould wppeal ball when th: e 808 Sea Vinter rains and the handi ch this applies to the Husky lers. When the; ner of sol uve compl 1,500 miles asaden will temperature ifect them considera veriod of thne spent sufficient for acclima ns at Marquette, in )il e that Bob Demoling, the Avalanche out- | is in the | avy at Aunapolis ! all may still be go ted the jour o Seattle perience a h s likely v—unless 1 Pasadena zation e samne against t rctober 10. The A famons chef ence devised & delicions wilad and found ihat oniy gn. wine dressing wowld give it the Aovor be wanivd. Just as the makers of Cimce folt that only real wime wonid do! Favored by a I nile gale-Denoling stood on his own 20-vard line and punted to the ! Middies' 15-yard mark. The punt’ sailed over the Nave's efety man. struck the ground. and arreid on at high speed by the wind hounded beyond the goal post The gale swept it out of the bound -ry of Farragut Field 75 yards into the Severn River, into which it rounced like a high diver. When last | it was headed down the river for hesapeake Bay and 5o on to the At lantic Ocean. China-bound vessels ave been asked to keap their eyves wen for the oval fugitive. | ‘BEAT ERNIE NEVERS,’ MOTHER WIRES SON ind—it was a! SONVILLE. Fla.. December cat Ernie Nevers or ['ll have was the message sent Dr. A. D. Lorshaw, trainer of the Chicago Bears, professional foot ball Vo old mother, liv " lif., home of the 1mous Leland Stanford all-American | ullback, who is to make his profes | sional debut in a game here Janu ary -2, his was disclosed last night when Dr. Lorshaw passed through Jackson- | ville with “Red” Grange and the oth- | e members of the Bears' squad. Dr. Lorshaw said that his mother | has seen Nevers develop from a child | into one of the greatest players in | zrid history. The Bears were en route to Miamj, where, at Coral Gables, thev are to 'y Christmas day. WM. H. WARNER. BEAGEVELL & Sfona, lexnmdris, Va. Distributors 3 L. FIVES TIED FOR LEAD| in | Golf Strategies That Won Some Important Struggles HAGEN’S HEADY PLAY AT FOX HILLS FOURTH FAIRWAY 3 s ¥ seconn rairway TEE @i OLAUGHLIN — LENGTH OF HOLE - 390 YARDS LS T goes without saying that Walter Hagen is one of the most resource- ful of goliers He could not have compiled his wonderiul record on the links were he not possessed oi a high-powered brain. Whenever everything else fails him, the Hage puts on full mental steam and extricates himseli irom his difficulties. While his mechanical | skill may desert him at times, nobody ever heard of the professional | champion’s head ever weakening . Marty O'Laughlin, former Metro politan” open champion and long formidable contender in the Dbig events of the golfing world, who is| himseelf an exceedingly brainy per- former, tells me of u remarkable in- stance of Hagen's power i t, although in this ¢ analyze a play corrvectly was s that was concerned, Walter not bei called upon for any demounstrat in psvchology that might rout opponent. This, of course, aside trom the proper physical execution of the play. | rection and, incidentally, the proper The test canie up iu the Metropoli- | elevation 1o get his ball over the | tan open championship of 1915, played | fourth tee, which was right on the! over the Fos Hills course on Stalen | line of the second green, past a little | Islund knoll and a stretch of rough grass| It was during the thi round. and up through a hollow to the v | Marty and Walter were paired, and edge of the green. cach of them was engaged in a dou-| “His chip shot third carried him ble battle. Bach had a chance to|4 le feet past the cup—itwas vin the championship: alko they were | Hagen, after coming out of | nning neck and neck in the scor- | @ mess of trouble, to try to hole| | mg: consequently, they were strug-|his third for & birdie—but he wasn't ng hard to see’ which one should | to be denied at that stage. ie sank | {finish whead of the other his ball for par 4, remained in the| At the second tee. Walier running and was still abreast of me. | ad breuk ‘A sensutional round by Gil Nich-| “I was fortunate in making a good | olls gave him the championship, but e down the cenier,” says Murty,| Hagen was right at his heels at the lHagen tore off a lerrific finish, indeed. I was, too. But if| understand the nature Walter lost one battle, he won the| I give vou the layont other. He beat me out by u single lar purt of the Fox s | stroke, taking third money with < while 1 won fourth with 300 | “But what that was the second ho the third round! CROSS COUNTRY MEN WILL MEET TONIGHT| Cross-country runners of the District and neighboring territory will gather at the Aloysius Club tonight at $:30) lock to discuss plans for the 10-| mile run to he staged at Baltimore on New Year d by the Emorywood | Club and the South Atlantics cham- | pionship race listed by the same or-| ganization for January 9. | hese two events open 4 busy season | for the harriers of the I street club | and other lotal bodies fostering the | long-distance running game. | “The high spot of the campaigr be the National A. A. U. champion ship marathon over the Laurel-to- timore course. The title event was | rded to Baltimore this vear in pref erence to Boston, and probably will be held late in Marc |between the pickets as it was for it | to hit a board. But Hagen's mind made up to go after all he could et in the circumstances. i ‘Well, boy.” he sald to me, ‘here’s | where I o in or out of this tourna- ment.’ | “He picked out the picket which | would give his ball the proper carom n the direction of the green. which y pretty well to his right at a distance of perhaps 140 yards, and, using his iron. played a full shot. “He obtained exactly the right di |t 4 just like got af when rtic e e secoud hole was on 1y, with no unusial relleling it on irth fairway, and o the far side of this was a tall bou fence. herond which was the city | Staten Island and out-of-bhounds ter { ritory v long. stratghia complications; left was the f ' hook w ball went fz o vay, crossing fourth fairway completely and ending up close to the board fence I have Just mentioned % such 2 big one the Lie Seemed Discouraging. “I went over with him to see the lie of his ball. If it had been mine 1 would have con ed the situation more than discouraging. The ball was within or 3 feet of the fence. t was impossible for Walter to stangd between his ball and the fence and swing. The obvious play seemed to be a chip shot into a better lie. fol- lowed by a pitch (o the green. But it would take something extraordi- nary to prevent the loss of a stroke Not one player in 2 hundred would have attempted any other procedure But Walter suddenly began to study ' the fence. “It was bui each measuring 5 evenmile street rsius Club. scheduled for | been postponed because ith the Emorywood New | . The distance for next Sun-| 1e Plaza truc the fifth of the series of preliminaries to the 7-mile affair, will be decided on at tonight's gathering. wright pickets in width inches apart. of Hagen's e to try in all such | difficulties the play that will get him | closest to the green, with chance that a short pitch or long chip shot | will save him a putt. Nevertheless |the construction of that fence would Ihave stopped most men from trying | what he now attempted—a | shot “It was practically as easy ball 1o go through one of tI " RADIATORS, FENDERS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. 319 13th ST. N.W. 1423 P. REAR TROUSERS | comgmienty Lecees To Match Your Odd Coats Hawkins Nash Motor Co. NS A E 1 1337 lsqzlb”s:“ S",j’,"‘; 5780 LSRR SR SR S S S S S S SR 2 Becoming the Season’s ! Happiness of contlict Yeu ¢ Qay's g TENNIS STARS WARNED. Tennis stars who par ated in a | benefit exhibition in New York Satur day have been warned to play only under sanction of the United States Lawn Tennis ociation hereafter | The situation, it is explained, arose ! trom misunderstanding. NASH Conveniently Located for &&Wflq ~ (-] Up and be dressed for the holidays: Give your feet fit cause for joyous celebration. You can't do it mr—.lk '::;o th“-‘mm treating your pocketbool e utmost of saving consideration—than by buying a pair of Buperior SELZ Shoes. 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Until f the Caseys had held the championship of the Middle Western States for five consecutive vears. Cleveland gained the honors during the 1924-25 campaign in a three-game serfes with Fort Wayne. Sunday's line-up will include prac- tically the mame players who started with the team when it began its win- ning streak. Tickets for the game are on sale at Spalding’s and at the New Willard. PAIR OF CORINTHIAN QUINTS SCORE WINS| | Corinthian Junior and Midget fives added to thel victories last might with wins over the Cleveland ‘P_Hl‘k Juniors and the Young Friends quints | red their eighth | The Juniors registe: trimming the consecutive triumph 1 i Cleveland Parkers, 36 to 15. By wamping the Friends. 41 to 6. the Midgets rang up their sixth straight. ts to the | e Mard. | ¢ ilne | stered | third Adair contributed 26 poi Independents’ total when felts were swamped, 70 to 16 Junior High gym. Lvles 14 counters. while King with 12. Epiphany Big Five tossers tackle the DeMolay Seniovs tonight at %:15 in Eastern High gymnasium. Pete litz of Georgetown is directing the DeMolay Capelli reg wias | led the attack the when over the Monroe basketers for to-16 viet Arrow tossers were ha back, 20 to 12, five. Southside Midgets took the measure of the Trinity five, 23 to 13, Ace tossers have the use of the Al C. A. court during the holidays wish to book fast junior and mid- | teams. Castell and Gr have | added to the Ace roster ¥ and get heen LIBERTY IDLE TONIGHT. Liberty Athletic Club basketers expected to see action tonight will be forced to idle. as the Naval Receiving Station quint will be un able to take part in the scheduled game. Liberty's next clash is Mon- day night at 7:30 with the Kastern Preps, at Seventh and C southeast. American Basket Ball League. Standing of Teams. W.L. Pet. Team 006 Rocheste Buffalo Boston Ft. Wagne 1 Wash'gton Cleveland Detroi Brooklsu 1 4 4z 3 Last Cleveland. 21: Fort Wayne, 1S Tonight's Game Cleveland at Chicage Grve MANUELS N by the Question Mark |, eets | PAL OF JONES ACCORDED A t Teacher, Amatear Champion, tlanta Boy, Finalist at Oakmont I Play With Hi in International Contest. BY THE SPORTSMAN. EAW YORK, December 23—The sensational periormance of e N Watts Gunn in the national amateur golf championship at Oakmont last September was recalled recently as a sequel to the announce- ment that Gunn znd Bobby Jones, America’s greatest golfer, would oppose the European invaders, Archic Compson and Arnaud Massy, in their open ing match at St. Augustine, Fla., January 3 The story oi how Bobby Jones brought the Georgia Teck student to his first national championship mect is one that should go down in th history of American goli Last Spring Gunn and Jones played together irequently on the | Lake course at Atlanta. They played individual matches and they played as a team, meeting and defeating some of the best oppositior country, including Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkiood. In these matches young sunn “I'll look out for him learned a lot by watching Bobby, and |adding that Watts would mab taking a fancy to him, coached | So the pair went to Oak n the fine points of the game. as pleased and nervous us a s J one day in the Summer, Bobby During the rounds on Mo suggested that Watts accompany hin |Tuesday of that first of the tou in_ the national championship. The [nament Bobby had uld do g youngster was dumbfounded qualify. On the 1 v Bobby d, “I couldn't |Bobby finished h 3 than young Gunn. said ing luncheon with th sort of [denly jumped from the he “must go on ummer, to vou he ¢ secor round much v he sud and said the kid Bobby, “ a game you're playing now.’ Jones then went to Jud Gunn, |is making out father of Watts, and asked permis | Gunn settled ion of the pater for the youngster to |qualifving easily apede 1o accompany him to Pittsburgh the final round, where he met his pal “What would Watts be doing try-|and golf guardian ter of ing to compete with all of those stars, | history. Bobby?” the genial judge asked | b is now “« 1 GIANTS PLAN LONE SHIFT TO OPEN 1926 CAMPAIGN By the Associated P EW YORK. December the motto of John McGraw But 23—Youth will be ed,” appe preparing his Giants base ball campaign the in the presence of the lit e stance and “trick” k iants probably will field with much the same line-up as 1t of a year ago, except that Kelly will play first base regularly and Al Tyson, from Louisville, will start in center field The Giants had been offered k Kelly, s will be ar rd bas exception, Hein an Gr e of the tuke the pla price Myles shortstop only 1 dollars A d u few ntc investment Of the cruits 13 be pitchers and 4 catcher only newcomer in t t is Rube Zoe . from Atlanta PRO FOOT BALL SCORED BY NEBRASKA OFFICIAL LINCOLN. Nebr ) Foot ball sh L sport for as un am opinion of Chance Avery of the University c He sees in professional f opportunity for 0 easy the cullege sta “Quick fortui You he said. I sible for any one to in such a short time a method as professional foc sport should be reserve colleges and univers, ateur undertaking.” Lizerre | More than 50 new golf ciubs have in the |come into existence in Canada in the ke to'last two or three vears did e claimed the anks admitted he i Roush of vouthful ( but said that the age of the offered him had caused the player deals to | fade. Decembe “I like Roush but he has had b three vears, ix mor seen his best d is just breakin; ed Lindstrom will start Vase. according 10 the Inan: Groh has reported himself in « condition this Winter and m: to his old position. Rebuilding the Yankees his torn several leaves fron the check book of Col. Jacob Ruppert. 10 having been bought in st deals. Altogether there cruits on the roster Tony Lazerre, Lizerri (the spelling of his name palance). comes from Salt 0 years old while Fitzsimmons third bt eturn s_have is / SrChristmas | Packed in 5's, 25’s and 50’s, and priced from 10c to 15c. 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