Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 47

SPORTS. Big Ten Base Ball Is Falling Flat : Hoff Explains New PLAYERS ARE ONLY ONES TO SHOW ANY INTEREST Mere Handful of Fans Witne Gridiron Practice and Pro Diamond Play Declared 1o Be Reasor ing Contests—Spring BY LAWRENCE PERRY. HERE sems ta be a curious flatness about the hase ball season in the Western Conference. No one scems to be taking any real interest in the game: that is. outside of the players and a comparative hand- ful of college fans to whom all sports affecting their alma maters are worth while. But in the main, instead of showing any improvement in respect to popular attention, the game is showing a greater tendency to sag. FRENCH TO COMPETE IN U. S. TITLE MEET By the Associated Pre PHILADELPHIA, April 30.—San tion for the participation of leading French athletex in the Natlonal A. A. 1as been in progress in the West and | 1" championships in this city in July interest in the doings of the foot ball- | has heen given hy the French Athletic ers has worked to the injury of base | federation. Pall. A letter to this effect eceived by the authoritles Sesquicentennial Exposition. lewden, the high jumper, who re of course, mayhe found in the ever-increasing popul v of he professional game. Most college en are =o situated that they can at tend big league games, or ames played by strong minor league organi- 7ations, and very laraely the desire t ,| see hase ball plaved as well as it ('fl!\l The answer he played prevails over the normal interest of a college alumnus in teams representing his college. Again, Spring p! at ball has been = of They say that certain scenario writ ers are tearing their hair and grind ng their teeth in an effort to devise | cantly cleared 6 feet 415 inches, Andre some suitable vehicie for the screen | Ajourion, 100 and 200 meters cham appearance of Mlle. Lenzien pion of France, and Guillemot, inter. Her type is somewhat new national distance champion, are ex romance. Gracefy pected to compete French gzirl, however, Inch el moy atone for POMPEY DISPLAYS SPEED. ther respects those qual lack of histrionic ability. v YORK, April 30 (®).—Pom to film n, the < in certain | ~< that so | the | 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1926. |TRACK AND ROWING ~ GETTING ATTENTION IBy the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 30.—Eastern lcollege track teams and oarsmen plunge into the season in earnest to- morrow. Pennsylvania, Yale and Dartmouth meet in track and field competition at Philadelphia. Columbia encounte: the Army at West Point and Har Massachusetts Institute v at Cambridge. crews of Pennsylvania will | row against Navy eights on the Sev- ern at Annapolis and the Yale 150- pounders will race Massachusetts Tech on the Housatonic, at Derby. Conn. | Niiness of several of Pennsyivania's | star track men seems to give the edge |to vale. (EIGHT CONFERENCE | NINES PLAY TODAY | | CHICAGO, April 30 (®.—All but |(wn of the Western Conference base ball teams have games today. Chicago will make its first appear- Wisconsin: Ohio State over of ance against | ana Iinois, and lowa, respectively, earlier week, will meet at Urbana: sota will he in n at lowa. try its luck vietors in the Minne. and will at | Northwestern Indiana The Ohio State-Tllini clash may | interesting, impressive showings in | ames. he < hoth nines have made their earlier GOLF STARS GET SCARE. LONDON, April 30 (#).—Abe Mitch | el and George Duncan, the British | golfing stars, bavely scraped through the qualifying round of the Southern Michigan | I | and | doing this ¥ often in the worls - Opinions as to feminine beauty Aif- | pay "W, R, Coe's candidate for the | Division of the D fail annual er very radically. None the less. there | Kentucky Derby and & favorite since | £1,200 competition at Coombe Hill are probably few who would be will- | ha withdrawal of the imported Car-|Both turned in cards of 78 but were Ebz@hni;tg Saai: BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN BY PAUL PREHN, | stling Coach, University of Tllinois. W | difficult tered. | the floor beyond y head. This is a ck, but should be mas- tering it the muscles of flexible. Do it five times in quick succession, RESTLERS must have [the hody are strengthened and made strong arms and shoulders and a strong neck, too. Here's how to get them: To develop the shoulders and arms lie flat on your stomach, keep lht‘ heels and toes together, body "'fi'f hands lying close to sides, and raise | yourself with your hands at least 10 times without bending the body. | Then gradually increase the number | as your muscles become stronger and more accustomed to this hard trick. | The exercise for the neck is the fol lowing: Lie flat on your back, place vour fest back as far as you can and bridge up on your neck and feet. Bridging means the raising of your | f o the neek | Juscies @t the two ends. In | iging exercise move your | head backward and forward and to the | right and left This same exercise may he followed when you are flat on | your stomach. The burden of the | Weight on the neck and the shifting of the head hackward and forward, to the right and left, will toughen it and make it stronger in resisting the wear of holds on it and the many unbal GOLDEN RULES. A good sportsman doesn't hit a man when he's down. (Capyricht. 1926.) 13 AUTO SPEEDSTERS IN 300-MILE CONTEST By the Associated Press. SPEEDWAY, N. J.. April 30.—Thir- teen automobile speed kings have qualified for a 300-mile race on the new Atlantic City speedway tomorrow. The hoard oval measures a mile and a half. The requirements call for at least 130 miles an hour, but qualifying times have run as high as 142.9 miles. The qualifiers so far are: Rennett Hill, Harry Hartz, Peter Kreis, Bob McDonogh, Peter de Paolo, Frank El- liott, former University of Missour{ backfield foot ball star; Ralph Hep- burn, Norman Batten, Fred Comer, Fddie Hearn, Dr. W. E. Shattuck, Ben Jons and Cliff Woedbury: Six other drivers had the task of qualifying to- day. - NIOR NINES TO MAKE LEAGUE PLANS TONIGHT| RGANIZATION of the senior division of the new Capital City Base Ball League for the sandlot title races, place tonight at 7:30 at the Boys' Club, Third and C strets. Managers of junior nines held their meeting last night and were in- | forméd as to the playing rules by officers of the loop. As the insects and | O midgets already have formed their sections, tonight's gathering will bring to a close the preliminaries to the opening of the schedule. Teams have until May 8 to submit their franchise money and receive contract hlanks. Heinie Webb's Union Printers, De. partmental League champs when they take on Knickerbockers in Georgetown Hol low. The Printers have switched on Sunday last sea- | va son, make their first how to the fans|(ha Palals Royal nine. the | Athletic Club furnishes the opposition | No game has| missed the boat the team put up a sorry exhibition. With their big team playing at Arlington, the Mount Rainier Seniors | will use Mount Rainfer field Sunday |for a double-header. the Senfors entertain | In the initial , at 12:30, The Wesley in the second clash. yet been arranged for tomorrow. Hess starting on May 16, takes | ever been able to jump higher than their league affiliation this season to| and Rerwyn teams have been listed| of his body would High Jumping Method | HOLDS OSBORNE'S STYLE K IS WITHOUT ANY FLAWS Famous Norwegian Athlete Asserts California System ? Is Scientifically Sound and Predicts Its Ultimate General Use. BY CHARLES HOFF. - XVIL.—THE HIGH JUMP—CALIFORNIA STYLE. " 4 HEN Oshorne began to surprise the world with his phenomenil results in the high jump, and the first photographs of his style. were shown, the experts immediately began to argue whether that style could be allowed or not. There are tws ways to dn a high jumn, . either as a regular jump, straight forward, or as a dive. During the Olympics in Paris, in 1924, Osborne had to make an ex- | hibition of his stvle so that the French experts could decide on its legalit They found the style correct, and that settled the so-called “California style.” It is not hard to understand that Oshorne's style is absolutely superior to any other; it is worked out scientifically and is absolutely with- out any flaws, but it is just on the border line of the unallowed. As far as 1 know, no one using him to get as high as the bar, but other than the California style hak|also to pass it. ‘ Method Oshorne Uses. Osborne takes off on the inside foot He runs toward the bar at a 45-degree {angle, throws his outside leg up, and |at the same time lets his upper hody fall hackward. ilis head really is not lifted more than a foot., The outside leg and the inside arm. first pass the bar, and the twisting of the hody is continued, so that the back is turned against the bar also when he comes down % It i& very difficult to come down with the feet first. as the rule requires when using this style, because it is #0 hard to turn the body into an upright "’ ’ | position again while falling, hut 1f Horlzontal on Passing Bar. | one can master this rhmculg- no one 1f. instemd, he should jump 3can say that the style is unfair feet from the floor, the lowest point | The California style is gaining mere 3|and more ground among athletes. and 2 meters, about 6.6 feet. What is it that makes fornia style so good? We find it through analyzing the idea of the high jump. | Let us imagine the jumper to be | 6 feet tall. When he stands upright | on the floor the center of gravity of his body is _almost exactly 3 feet ahove the floor. If he could turn around this center to put his body in a horizontal position h would lfe horizontally 3 feet ahove | the floor without having jumped at| all. the Cali still be only the Commercial circuit and will play in the opening game Monday against for a double attraction on May 9. Berwyn tossers are hooked to tackle feet from the floor. the main point for a to place himself in a horizontal po. This proves that | I am sure that within 10 years 90 per high jumper is | cent of all use it the world ‘athletes will anced positions in which it will be in | the scuffling on the mat. | There are four exercises to toughen the body in general: First—Lie flat_on vour hack vour hands clasped in back of your head. Raise to a sitting position” and then gradually fall backward into the ing to place Suzanne in a gallery |jaris, worked a mile at Belmont Park | forced to play off nine holes with six &dorned by portraits of the outatand: | yesterday in 1.40 25, then galloped | other contestants at the ' bottom of reauties of the cinema. |out to a mile and a furlong in 1.55. |the list. Strenuous athletic competition tends to harden the lines of a woman's | and the beautiful young girl who de velops proficiency in a game such as tennis should realize that the price the Fashion Shop nine. | the Cardinals Sunday on the Berwyn | dlamond. The Senate Pages wish to hook ms averaging hetween | years. Call Lincoln 6838 and sitton when passing the har, and 5 Who will be the next world that the sitting position is by no| means the hest one When a high jumper whose centes of gravity is 3 feet above {he floor jumps 3 feet, and at the same time turns his body inte a horizontal po. sition, he will be almost feet (Next: atar?) (Conyrizht Great Britain th American rights reserved.) Manager John Lamb of the Fashion hop is calling his players out today | - their first workout on East Ellipse | games with t 14 and 15 = ! bet 5 ydale base hallers open: their, "t " oo" 1926 and Ne'aspaper fn Tnited States and all othar eountrics, b Alhance ™ A% o fo diamond at Ch 5 o'clock times of attaining greatness is very liable | to be the sacrifice of zood looks. Practice rows of the W s varsity eight on Lake Mendota hate snggzested the fear Radger row- Ing experts that the crew will not he up to the mark set hy the fine outfits of 1924 and 1925 Recause of one of the longest Winters in yvears the Madison oars- men have only recently heen able | ‘o get on the waters: to complic matters, most of the material reen Dad Vail iz famous for nexperienced men into # he succeeds in landin sight amone the leaders at Po ceepsie—n= he may do—it will me of the most signal achievements e has performed approach their final stages. In S | meet either Alice Davis or Marion | pionship. Colahan triumphed decisively Singleton in her semi-final scoring in Miss over Susie encount vester ght sets. 6 The final match is scheduled Monday afternoon on the M | setts avenue courts. Alice Nicoll, | phvsical director, will referee. Other | officials have not yvet heen announced | Class tournaments at Central High the | School are drawing to a close. Yester tide of aff: to |day the junior event re “hange for the hetre hat | when Elizabeth Clary aave happened in the conrse of the | Walker won the deciding match from Winter and Sprin led, | Mary Detwiler and Grace Hurd, 6—4. very justly. Which | 6--3. The match was featured hy long way the win: | rallies and some clever headwork. The First, the 1lavys winners scored largely through their won over Yale and \hitity to outplace their rivals. Many narily. that i I\ contested points were won of Perey H he Cliry-Walker team decisive this would n. Fipple. | placement shots. Rut_now no mi-finals were decided a4 man = \ln this vietor . ith McCulloch and than | yeste . A 4 2 portent. scored over Then. the e ond nlace in the inte ing champlons g eollezes in this cor n. an which take fencir o ihan Harvard. Harvard. so to fences with her left h. her team landed se Then Tibbetis. the Alstance runner. wor leglate cross-conntrs hall team b t v nd heating Vale now much more of an ex than heai- ing Yale at foot ball in the days of Mahan, F kley., Hardw nd the rest. hut the defeat of the (reen was not a4 small achievement The 1 team won the intercol- legiate indoor meet for the first tim in history and won a ngular mee: »~ inst Cornell and tmouth. The hockey team heat all the b nte sinte outfits st and won A iear title to championship Of course, every Harv 1 man is looki toward the foot ball season, success in which, for some reason or other. serves variously to wipe out the sting of defeats in all other sports, or to make success in those sports appear cheap comparison with gridiron trinmphs. whippir shape. b st r 345 hu- < ¥ that due Harvard ) nd Margaret by el Sarah 62 herine ained nd Virginia he upper hracket, 1 Helen ( »n over the Alexander team after two hard-fonght 4, 7- 5. The Sophmore final plaved tomorrow morning, Cary meeting McCulloch for the crown in a gruel vesterday, combination team in a > were man of maore Sy Gets, & will be Jones and and Hardesty racketers figur three-set marathon when the Ganoe-Bates met the Carsons-Huyatt <emi-final encounter. Constance Ganoe, through steady service and deep court | and Janet Rates, contributing some | clever net work, finally gained the de- <ion after dropping the opening he final count was 3—6, 6—3, 6—3 % o 3 ““e Ganoe-Bates team in the semi-finals. < nat her Swimming leaders at Central cc peted in the preliminavies of the ond tank meet for this season ves- terday afternoon, and those who | qualified will participate in the finals today. Results of the form swimming, the finals of which were staged ves terday. will be announced thix after- noon at the conclusion of the meet. Those who qualified for the finals are: 100-yard side underarm—Virginia Rigglee Puckett. Mildred Kretching and Ketroke—Claudia Krle. Barba Jane. Helen Lowise Duckett Tassey CHICAGO, April 30 (®).—The Louis- ville Colonels. champions of the Amer- | B fean Association the loving cupr | Stevens Claudia, Kvle and Corells, Morris, | presentod vearly by P'resident Thomas | . Head tow—Helen Louia Duckett, Mildre B i e clis reing ne | SrisndilsSTEERhfa M (kv largest opening dav atiendance. when | John Burroughs schlag ball team ac- 14:420 fans ciicked through the turn- | complished the “impossfple” yeste: stiles, day afternoon when they defeated the + style—Virginia Rigeles. Ivy Free Mounting Complete Tire 4 Service ~ Time to Think About GOODYEAR TIRES Let us put you on the road to true tire economy with GOODYEAR tires—when all is said and donme, they're cheapest in the end. $18.50 32x4 Goodyear Pathfinder Oversize Cord “MID-WASHINGTON” 1602 14th St. N.W. Phone North 366 ched a climax | play. | - | 1 point and Ruth | BY CORINNE FRAZIER EVERAL scholastic net crowns are hanging in the balance as tourneys the Holton Arms event, Eleanor Cola- han already has battled her way into the concluding round and will Wells Monday to decide the cham Miss Davis and Miss Wells are scheduled to play in the meantime. 14 10 8, on Langdon had team for four Lansdon de'e: | Bloomirgzdale court not succumbed to any lizabeth Beard aesies. Irene Rollins tion don is led by Celeste Rubin, assisted by Ruth Sartain as manager, Although Van Ness scored six runs t was unable to lead established arly in | i the fifth Inning, overcome the lon: by Wallach-Tower game staged at Garfield vesterday afternoon. The latter emerged aic- torious by a 2-point margin, 14 12 Morgan romped on to Cooke he tune of 103 at Happy lollow in a Co- | lumbia Heights division fracas. Car berry and Arthur hattled for breaks in the tight battle waged at ¥ . Carberry run in the fina fa 6-5 win. F ained the winne | led the Arthaviies In the Georgetown | Adams walloped Grant, Rrent-Dent won, 16 to 8, shanan on the Virginia field, and_Pierce outplayed Wehh, to 2, at Rosedale wera much smaller than their oppo- nents, but put up a game fight despite their handicap One game was reported in the cnl- ored league. (ordoza claimed the victory over Ambush by a 8-to-14 count <ion, giving them izabeth Biwie cap- Annie Berardiro " loop. 26 over P'u venue 18 dge ball tossers on Hayes and Hilton staged an exciting battle Plaza ‘playground yesterday | noon. in which Hayes triumphel hy The score w back. 703 North Capitol St. Phone the aptains the the | the | g9 ored the winnirg | o | The Wehh girls | | guson, 2,011 ginal position. Do this 15 and then increase t umber as the t. | se_your feet to a height | of 2 feet above the mat from the same | flat posi In raising the feet keep them rigid, the knees straight and the [ schedule last Sunday at Then sway | ington. uts a figure | All this time keep the | [ upper part of the body stiff in it< flat | heels and toes together. feet in a course that the air. position. Third—Swing the feet forward until they pass on over your head and touch 'PRATHER BIRD WINS | RACE IN FAST TIME| Exceptionally fast time was made by Birds taking part in the first old bhird race held this season over the Western course by the National Capi- tal Concourse Association. The winner. a homer from the loft of Harry Prather, made the 113 line miles from Cumberland, Md., in minutes for an average speed of more than 2.000 vards per minute. The Prather bird w by a fiyer belonging to Bosw lers, total ace. The Flake., hree lofts with a engaged in the Twenty 226 pigeo birds were liherated hy A Results of the flight with average | speed in yards per minute of the first return to each loft follow: H. Pra 2.015: Boswell Rros.. 2.014: W Boswell Bros. Dismer, 1998.2; C. H. Darr. 1. M. J. Fitzgerald. 1.991: R. A 1.987; J. B. Heath, 1986; E. J 1,982. C. & W. R. 96+ Navy, 1930: G. J. Thomas, 1.899: R. Sammons, 1,853: W. H. Co C. Whitmore, 1,832; D. R. Mathews, 766 F. H. Crown, 1,762: L. Hofer, .660: 1. P. Butler, 1,550: B. F. Miller, ,418; D. C. Hartley, 1,817, alr. | of | Huntt, | Krah: | 9 T‘enn\n:lnn,i A. B. Moore, 1.933: United States | 1.844; | UILD up your health and strength with this wonderful, appetizing’ bréw. Full old time strength and flavor guaran- teed. Sold in hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, drug stores, etc. Order a bottle at your next meal. Or have a case sent home. 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