Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 28

28 ' SPORTS Code Established for Maryland Interscholastic : Hoff Gets i!tbe &fiem’fig Star TRANSFERS WITHIN YEAR INELIGIBLE TO COMPETE Entrants Cannot Be Participa ig in More Than Fourth Year in Athletics and Must Not Be Over 21 Years of Age. BY H. C. N v code has been est land mterscholastic track anc in conjunction a dual mee meet must 1 \re up to i or s schools fron has hesitated in gh schools, inas to hold its furthermore 1 athlete aduated Maryland v desires A righ scho bheen articulate consequent t the s¢ stude t the atl ing a bi ing part Any average lete who h! ) oenter tic athle land weet entry blunk = of his hizh K printed on eligibility requirements No student shall be compete if he has been a stud in any other school during the ¢ rent year. No student compete if he schol: must by the and _the follow be eligil competed pars, exclusiv any branch ~hall has No student he has been gradu a high or a prep No student shall be el - unless his scholastic is satistactory to his No student shall compete if he is more erimit puratory sch but are ex oided rules thut will nearly eompe all competitors ame b < possibl County ules limited M ents Bxcepted. Pl iv ity nditic in so nearly make th ive the county alike that n them county open to o vould from te vill 1 code, hi inter npi v new vill e well wih € shoro Wd team: h and prep be repre: the ro- wve uten Iy ever section ni schoo sented Besides the tield 1 ot are scheduled for the Maryland fre meets Baltimors freshman track ginia freshman hour. At 1 oclock 1 sity tennis team met the varsity lac Pennsylvania. At 2 y track team en, with niz, the cor with cont; Incidentally the Alumni for May 1 pected to return. I the day will centered banquet and in a nasium at 8 o'cloc in tic &k and athl competitions Ma, At 10 o'clock nan base ball tean Jllege. and the the Vir- me nterschol R Hopkins: twelve face 0 o'clock the var es in a dual meet ents to be the interscholas al meeting of is scheduled mni are ex socfal part of i lumni the Assoc and ma 1t n n nee CREWikACES ARRANGED. TTLE. Wash.. April ®). hington and neeton” Univer. varsity and junior varsiey e 1 meet Lake Carnesie. N sey Sk over tors course onstitute the on between 3 tirst Washington competi The Evening Star Boys Club Pledge WANT to be a member of The Evening Star Boys Club, and if accepted to membership I pledge myself to: Keep myself always in good physical con- dition. Play fair. Be a modest winner and an uncomplaining loser. Abide by the rules of all sports I engage in and respect officials. Follow the activities The Evening Star. classes. I am- [ would like to have a which 1 will wear. meet » | POLO OPENING DELAYED | Prince- | Never neglect either home duties or school —years old; attend— and The Evening Star Boy —_ BYRD. ablished for the University oi Mary- field meet, to be held Saturday, May 1, t between Virginia and the Old Liners. involves certain standards which all scholastic athietes who enter Certification by the which athletes come will be'required. 1 holding that its main function is to much as it is a State institution, and, pr ily for the benefit of high the general feeling everywhere as little chance in competition with from high school and who 1s attend- der to compete. it prep school, and one of the rules will prevent such athletes tak- DEVITT RELAY TEAM | AT SCENE OF EVENT By the Associated Press. MOT the will parti relay carnival here have avrived here. ies’ track directly m the Kans held at Lawrence, last Satu The Devitt Preparatory Scl { Washington, D. C. Western and Far Kastern repre- s| | | April came [ morrow. € BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN WSTCEHTBCRRJ HIS is the fiith of a series of pictures of big league base ball I stars in their street clothes. Of course, you would know them in recognize them in their street attire. The last of this series will be run to- The corect names will be published on Thursday. Then can check up. sentatives thus were the first to lim- be the new Bulldog bowl. | of three “Big Ten™ scho nounced today. Minnesota men, Indiana with 16 and with lead TECH HIGH NETMEN | PLAY MATCH TODAY AL, High ANDRIA, Va. April school tennis is the only Dbeing offered here to Washington meeting High The loc 20, port Tech | iscopa 1 racketers ik well up 1mong the fast teams of this vicinity. In their two encounters playved thi son they have emerged victoriou defecting Devitt Washington and nan of Baltimore. Tech’s court howed to Central in their first en-| ent Base ball t ind Episcopal prevaring ! faci them stitute of here for a Gonzaga cl White niv Alexandria High | he busy today ennous gumes ext Saturday. Tome In-| Deposit. Md., comes | ch with Episcopal, while | hies with the Maroon and on the locals’ diamond. idward Allen, manager of thel Dreadnanght base ball club. is ne-| gotiating with several fust semi-pro| teams of the District for a‘game here | Sunday. : i For the fourth time unfavorable | weather conditions forced a postpone. | ment of the base hall game scheduled | between Episcopal and George Mason | H Schools vesterday. Doubtless | the game will be dropped | PRl | BY THE COLD'BREEZES drop in temper: als of the \ The unexpected ture has caused offi | Department Polo Association to pe |pone the opening of their Spr hedule until April 27. The first practice match was to | have been plaved today at the Poto- mac Park field. Third Cavalry and | 16th Field Artillery teams from Fort Myer are scheduled to make their first apDy wce here on Saturday, May 1. ng BILL McBRIDE BURIED. Bill McBride, | all player, | held toda Funeral services for { sandlot foot ball and base who died Saturday, were | at St. Aloysius Church. of the Club through chool. Membership Certificate s Club button, S There are 12 letters representing two initials each of the stars you guess correctly, you'll hav letters checked off tomorrow night Saturday’s Decathlon. A few days ago we had an artic on the decathlon and suggested that vou get acqualnted with the decathlon program, so you could have a cham- plonship event later. The s no time like the present. Stage it on Saturday. You know what the decathlon is d no doubt you've been trying out in the various events for the last week, The next thiug to do is to round up your crowd. petition. Have the crowd YOUNG MARATHON WINNER TO GET GREAT RECEPTION By the Associated Pr YDNEY MINES, Nova other runners Whistles were blown and flags un rled when the news came. From Halifax J. C. Dougl ney general for Nova Scotia, a telegram saying all as proud. fu sent sa Nov: BOSTON, April 18, running his fi set u new world record John C. Miles of Sydney Mines, N otia, was first home in the thirtieth Boston A. A. event, in a field of 88 runners, which included Albin Sten roos of Finland, Olympic champion, and Clarence De Mar of Melrose, four times winner. The winner's time of 2 hours seconds was nearly 4 under the world record set De Mar over the same course in . De ) 's record was 5 It was a two-man contest from the start. Miles drew away from the field at Natick, 5 miles from the starting line, pounded along on the heels of the Olympic champion to Lake street, 5 miles from home, and in the final stretch sprinted away to fin- ish 400 yards in the lead. The Nova Scotia youth set that forced Stenroos himself to clip ne-fifth of a second off the old world record. The veteran De Mar was third. His time wx . De Mar started the favorite and was cheered by thousands along the route, but the pace was too fast for the Mel- orse printer. 5 _William Kennedy of Port Chester, N. Y., the only other former winner entered in the race, finished in eighth place in 2:44:01. The leaders: 1—Jghn C. Miles, Syduey Mines 2—Albin_ Stenroos anc 3—Clarence De 5—Wallie Carlso 6—Karl Koski. New 7—Nestor Erickso S—will X minutes by York : New York y. Port C kos, Oster- 53:49 Young Miles was fresh at the finish, He said later that he never before had entered in a race over a course of - A. C. Moses, Pres. B. Holland, Sec’y J. L. Vassar, Mgr. a pace | vou | u name. 1f | street northeast; l'aul Bevkeley, all 12| Roc Je | William O, Buckingham, 374 | | ward You need com- | Ketchum, on hand | Mey about 10 o'clock Saturday morning for | liara Leffe; otia, April of the Boston marathon, comes home two bands will meet him at the | station and there will be a torchlight procession. It was on the cinder streets of this colliery town that Miles, 18 years | old. developed the sinew that brought him from obscurity and enabled him to set a world record and beat "Albin Stenroos, Clarence de Mar and 85| attor- | his life in Sydney Mines, N. S., where their base ball uniforms, but can you | Rock the start. Run off these events in the | morning: i 50-yard dash, running broad, shot put, high jump, 100-yard dash. That'll provide plenty of excitement for the morning. The winner in each event gets one point, second place two points, third place three and so on | up to 50 if thut many boys compete. The boy holding low score at the finish of the day is the champlon. Afternoon program—50-yard hurdles, hop. step and jump, pole vault, run- ning high jump, 200-yard dash. Send in the results of your decith- lon to the editor of The Evening Star Boys' Club, (Copyright. 1926.) Elsewhere on this page will be found an application for membership. Fill it in today and mail it addressed: hief, Boys Club, The Evening Star, Washington, D. A list of new appl bership follows: Alder Carl Dehn, Brentwood, Md.; William Cabielle, 3411 R street; Rob- | ert Hogun, 1923 Thirty-fifth street; Ibert Norfolk, FalrfaX, Va.; Daniel Cox. jr., 1423 Shepherd stree man Zabrek, 1400 B street northeast; llace Bone, Arlington, V nbaum, 3618 Connecticut avenue; Rosenthal, Massachusetts avenue northeast yle M. Sole, 3| Creek Church road: Robert | sett, 1603 Thirtieth street: Llovd Mitchell, 111 Nineteenth street south- east; Richurd Kreckel, 21 Seaton strect northeast; William Bol 3! Spa street, Cottuge City, Md. | Donald McMahon, 2839 Mills ave nue northeast; Waites Johnson, Jr. Sugene K. Barnvs, 4 Kearney nts for wem- ad: Robert Lee | Chester 1%, ‘Thomas Md. Thir Creek Church » Poole, Damascus, Md.: Bernard, 1608 Seventh stret Wat Washington Grove, tleth street northeust Willlain_Boger, 1217 Mc N 09 421 Fifteenth street neis Belalr, 1235 reet northeast: John V. Wurdeman, 717 Upshur street; Howard Voorhees, 1014 Kearney strect northeast: Joseph Yanick Holmead bl Paul 102 Hammond _court; Ritner, 1404 Park road; Wil- 2027 Rosemont avenue. | 1, street; Clifton Ed. street: eorge outheust: Z ~—When Johnny Miles, winner | Although born in ‘ardiff, Wales, he has spent most of more than 10 miles. He was father, was a he drives a grocery wagon. trained for the race by his John W. Miles, who formerly boxer. FAN, 80, HAS SEEN BUCS IN ALL OPENING GAMES | PITTSBURGH, Pa.. April 20 (P). Charles E. Hutchison, 80, who has witnessed every opening home game a Pittsburgh team has played since fts | entry into the major leagues in 1887, will be on hand when the Pirates open | their 1926 home season at Forbes Field on Thursday. “Going to the old ball game as often as possible” is one of Hutchinson's ex- planations for his longevity. He sald he expects to see opening games until he s 100. RADIATORS, FENDERS | BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED H NEW_RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. 3 P, REAR MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 BALDNESS e Gl up. your i ir. ean up scalp and prvrmm it b-ldnul’wnh qg::pro?Her icld Quality Halr'Tanic® Hudson Super Six Essex Six TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926. 52, who has later run it in 1: and the Dutchman Paulen Tide of Popularity Turn I was fourth after these three, ex- actly as far behind in the finish as the start. I really did not take this race seriously, as T knew I had no chance | to win it and I lost enormously at the | start. But my time was 1:359-10, | which was a néw Norweglan record. he next day I beat Ingdahl once ore, making a new Norweglan record of 0:49 25, which still is my best official time on that distance. In { the Olympic in Parls I made 0:48 4.5, |but the time taker was not offictal so {it has not been recognized as a record BY CHARLES HOFF. ‘lor me. | T ought to have been satisfied with VIIL—THE HOFF-ENGDAHL FEUD. these results, but instead I once more f | went to Central Europe, where I had HE Swedes would not recognize the result I had obtained against |, wonderful time. 1 was tired, after | Nisse Engdahl. They insisted he would have beaten me much more | my Dany s, zlnlnil :xst th(;:ztg:m:"fi decisively if he had not been in bad form that day. I decided to | e, r 934" ey . . ns, did not expect any extra- give him a chance—really I was the one who got the chance. Two weeks | ordinary results, but 1 surprised c:;n later T went to Stockholm again, this time neither as a broad jumper nor |IMyself. But after theso Successes TV as a pole vaulter, but simply to run against gdahl, and I had decided tide turned, and the next year I was ) more the favorite of the Norweglan T was going to win, even if I fainted at the finish, as I had done before.” athletic publ The trip to’Stockholm from Oslo is very short and simple, but still something happened to me. After the conductor had called me in the morning [ went off to sleep again, and slept on till the train had been run away from the station to a side trac There was a washroom only in every | cu: sccond car and T had to leave my car [ The to get to it for my morning toilet. |actly While I was washing my own car was |a new uncoupled and 1 had to run atter it in | scconds. my pajamas only, accompanied by the | But it euthusiastic applause of the attend-|Engdahl wanted his revenge, whici ants, who all knew me, and asked if 1|got two later. In the m hadn't picked the wrong track for|I had been stupid enough, training, | to the experts, to start in an 800-meter This time I was rather handicapped {race against the best runners in|fast unlimited nines of the city SETS NORWEGIAN RECORD | IN QUARTER-MILE EVENT Does Distance in 0:49 7-10—Rival, However, Gains Revenge by Taking 880, in Which Charles Finishes in Fourth Place. a Berlin taxi all | (Next Hoff ride night before setting a world record.) KENILWORTHS TO PRIME FOR NATIONAL CIRCLES Members of the Kenilworth Athletic | Club base ball team will meet tomor- | row for a special workout designed to | ir big game Sun- omed to the lurge light projectors. ult was that I beat him ex s he had beaten me, and 1 made orweglan record of 0| was not over with | day with the Natio! T Kennys have several dat nd_would like to hear open from | Write | Kenil- because the meet was held in the | Europe; the wede Lundgren, who to Manager Tom Gibson at evening, and T was absolutely unac-|could do 1 the German Peltzer, | worth, D. « (. .TIME CANNOT WITHER .... SPORTS. Even With Engdahl D. C. COLLEGE NINES TO GET BUSY AGAIN College base ball was to be resume. here today, with Georgetown playinz Wake Forest at the Hilltop. The North Carolinians, as usual, have strong team. There will be ¢wo diamond clashe tomorrow, the Wake Forest nine mo: ing over to Brookland for a gain with Catholic University, while G: laudet will go out to College } for a contest with Maryland. There was only one collegiate <. test here yesterday, the Maryland | cresse team scoring an easy 8 victory over Lafayette's inexperience ! combination. The clash was played in freezing weather and in flurries of snow and was not the kind of an exhibition that could warm up the spectators Maryland used its entire squad ir the game and at no time were the Old Liners called upon to show thei: real skill. In fact, the regaars while they were in the game, merel: Joafed, being content to socre now u { then. mdl gt s HOBART BEATS BRITONS. GENEVA, N. Y., April 20.—Ti Hobart lacrosse team turned back ti.c Oxford-Cambridge twelve yesterday to 1. Opening up with a flashy 5 tack which seemed to bewild, RBritishers, the locals scored their firs: unter within two minutes of pla At half time Hobart had scored goals, while the Eng failed to register nor custom stale .. . .. her infinite quality appeal. » - - For HELMAR is that kind of a cigarette. » » - Many brands have come and gone these last twenty years. 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