Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1926, Page 20

WILL SEEK THIRD PLACE IN 21 CONTESTS ON ROAD Champions Engage in Two Exhibition Games Be- fore Starting Final Western Invasion Satur- |KENNEDYS MAY TIE IN PETWORTH LOOP i | SRR | KeMnedy pastimers, who gained | second place in the Petworth Senior | Base Fall League yesterday by down- |ing the lowly Takoma Tigers. 3 to I. while the Cardinals were howing to | |the Tremonts, 6 to 5, have a chance | to move to a firat place tie with the | |1atter cluh early today when thev| on Sllver Spring ittle,_. C. Man, Ranks H. igh as Coach No. 9—Penn. Gridiron Leaders of 1926 TInteresting Facts About Foot Ball Coaches and ptains of Big College Elevens for This Season meet the Arrows | diamond. Cardinals and Takoma Tigers fur- nish the other game on the Labor lday card, meeting on Handley field |at 3 o'clack. The Arrows nosed out the Yorkes ) to 8. day Against Indians at Cleveland. BY JOHN B. KELLER. FTER disposing of a double bill with the Red Sox this afternoon. should weather permit; the Nationals will have a breathing spell of | 4 four days. in eo far as league champlonship games are concerned, |If the thind mateh vesterda before jumping into a 21-game schedule that will complete their |01 1eAMC GAR0 A< ; 1926 campaign {iomonte. 5 b P AT But before encountering the Indians in a dual sketch atiClevelarid | Kennedss - 873 280 Jorkego .. . Saturday, on the firet day of their firal chot of the year at the members of | - S the Western half of the Johnsonian circuit, Bucky Harris and his band of diamond athletes will get some dnilling in cxhibition games with clubs in VlRGINlA WHlTE sox cauple of Ohio stowns, according to present plane. Leaving tomorrow | night, the holdover Champs will arrive in Massillon \Wednesday, ahout | UPSET cHERRYDALEs noop. and will tackle the Agantha outfit of that city. They will depart for | * ¢}mm after the game. and on Thursday will hook up with the General | AN Pl Qubber C | o ’Ih;nr;;u- '\{a(n?m':I:“;\ill go to Cleveland for a day of rest on Friday | Virginia White = 8ox . tossers 1 % . & 1 - |scrambled the race for Northern Vir- before bucking the West in an effort to assure themselves of third place | PR 06106 hase ball honors vester- in a race which they cet the pace for all others in the two'previous seasons. | Ga¢ 1,¢" handing Cherrydale's nine its The personnel of tha club will he | | first setback of the series while Fort BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS htly changed for this last fling | | Myer wag taking both ends of a dou- LEAGUE. f the vear at the four Western rep. | | bla-header with Hume Spring. Tasentatices, Brandon, & eatcher pur- | [ As'a result the Soldier club is run- chased last week from the Portsmouth | | ning neck and neck with the Cherries, Club of Virginia League, reported yes. | AMERICAN |each team having scored 9 victories terdav and will accompany the Na- | TRATERDAY'S RESUL tienals on the trip, while Jimmy | Smith. a voungster drawn from the Andlotz af Salem. Ohi8, goes back {in 10 &arts. Addison is holding third to his home released ontright. Be- aco with 6 wins in 10 strats. fore the serfes starts in Cleveland urler Rrown of the White Sox put a stop to Cherrydale’s winning streak Jne Carroll. pitcher hought from Lit tle Rock, {8 due to join the Harrismen the second game of a twin bill at To get him this early, Jimmy Uchrin | Lyon, Village after the Cherries had =ko has been sent to the Arkansas taken the opener, 8 to 5. Heshut out his opponents; 2 to 0, allowing them Travelers. Several other pitching re. | cruits are to be added. R0 Detroit. nd_game 5 innings by agreement to let Cleveland cateh train). STANDING OF THE CLUB! ¢ two hi ort Myer heat |5 and 15 to o, | from Addison, & to 5, Iyn took the measure LALES 'HOME-RUN HITTERS TAKING VACATIONS September 6.—Home and far hetween in the major leagues the past week. { the four-hase drives losing only 10 | of the American League's official pel- lets, while the National League's heavy hitters deposited 17 of the spheres outside park fences. Rabe Ruth waited until Friday to vegister a four-ply swat that hrought his American League total to 41. Hack Wilson, the Chicago out- fielder. -{ his Nafional leadership with 20. In their drive for the National | League pennant Bell and Hornsby of St. Louis accounted for five of the senior organizations’ homers. The records of hitters whose totals 5 | require double figures: American Teague Ruth, New 41: Simmons, Philadelphia, 18: ifime, St Louis, and Lazzeri, New i7: Goslin, Washington, 16: | Manush, ‘Detroft. 13: Gehrig, New 12; Meusel, New York, gnd ann, Detroit, 10, ational T : Bell, 8t Southworth, St Philadelphia, | Kelly, New ouis, 11; H EDERLE-CORSON RACE "IN CHANNEL 1S LIKELY NEAL. England. September 6 (2) cross.channel match between Ger. I trude Ederle and Mrs. Clemington Corson moved a step nearer realiza- tion when the latter through Trainer Rilly Temingslev, announced accept ance of a challenge for the match Mre, Corson informed Hemingsely of her decislon hefore leaving London yesterday for the United States. and resarved his services and those of Capt. Harry Pearson, who skippered her boat in the recent Channel swim, for the forthcoming race. It is expected tn be held next Sum- mer, over a course from England to France. : CHIP OFF OLD BLOCK. By tha Associated Preas. Maost followers of golf probahly are Aot aware of the fact that Michael WScott, British Walker Cup plaver and former holder of the Aw n and French amateur cham- pionships, owes much of his love for iningdn the game to his fathe o ar) of Eldon, who, at the age of S0, dropped dead in T.ondon, | * BLACK SOX PLAY AGAIN. Rlack Sox tossers, hooked to meat the Hartfard All-Stare today at 2:30 in Union League Park. split a double- header vesterday. The Sox won from the Stonewalls. 4 to 2, but succumbed to the LeDroit Tigers, 6 to 4. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Asfociated Pross. AMERICAN LEAGU Batting—Fothergill, T¥gers, Hits—Burns, Indians, 18 Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 1 Doubles—Burns, Indians, 60. Triples—Gelrig, Yankees, 20. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 41. Stolen hases—Mostil, White Sox, Pit¢hing—Uhle, Indians, won NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Hargrave, Reds, Hits—Brown, Braves, 134, Runs—Cuyler, Pirates, 91 Doubles—Bottomley, Cardinals, 36. Triples—Walker, Reds, 20 Homers—Wilson, Cubs, Stolen Wases—Cuyler, Pirates, 29. itching—Jones, Cubs, won lost 3. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTING. Hume Spring, 8 to The Hartfords won and Glenn Car- of Ballston, Catcher Brandon Reports. Brandon arrived In Washington early yosterday and induiged in a workout hefore the S#hbath engage- | ment. He §s_not a big fellow as catchers go. He is not much taller than Benny Tate, erstwhila second- string receiver, who has been doing much goad work for the Nationals re- cently, and not quite as heavy. RBut Rrandon has been doing well for Portsmonth this year and last season ha ranked as one of the best catchers | in the Virginia lnop. He hit the ball hard, too, his batting average in 108 | games being The addition others will ralse number of hurlers the ) call into action in competition. Since Dutch Ruether was waived to the’ Yankees, the Nationals have had to get along with six. for Uchrinsko has ween considered too inexperienced t sk using fn a game 10 more than | threa occasions. Nine hurlers would ha rione oo many for the heavy sched- ule the Natlonals have after they 1eave home. | Five double-headers are listed for tha remainder of the camprign. Four games in three days are to Le plaved with Indians in Cleveland tilts in five days with the Ty on the Detroit book In the Rrowns will he encountered four tImes in threa davs hen will a bit of relief, for ptemhber 2 ha an off day. Three games in many vays with the White Sox followw in’ Chicago. then there will three games in twn dava with the Athletics {n Philadelphla. This lay out will mean plenty of work for the National fiingers Take Ninth in Row. The Natlonals will leave for the Iast Western four in fourth place, re- gardless of the nutcome of the double. header schedulsd for today. They made certain of that by lLeating the Red Sox veste: It was the sixth straight ver the Fohlmen for the Champs and increased the saacon consecutive vietory record to nine games ¥ 3 Stan Coveleskio did the fiinging for the homa crowd. He gave up eight hits And never was in trouble except in tha fourth inning. Then the Red Sox bunched two*hits. one of the Mows, a single by Haney, coming when thera were two on and two out. New York | Cleveland | Phil'phia_| CHICAGO, runs were few Boston at Washi Thiladelphia at Cleveland at St. Detro of Carroll and some | 9 and 10 the ationals may to ~ Chicago, 7: agreement) . STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Cineinng 1. Pittabureh. = = Chicae. == Chicago. 111 New Yord 8l Brooklyn th Ison. Chic Rottomley wuis, 14; Williams, wnier, Rrooklyn York, and Hornsby, S heote, Chicago, 10, host .. (5638 as will | he ! That accounted for the visitors'| tallies. Opposing Covey was the youthful Jack Russell. He yielded 10 safeties and was beaten before the fifth frame ended. A ecouple of hits followed hy Shaner's poor peg to the plate from left was good for a marker ‘in the fourth. In the fifth Ruel's pass, Reeves' triple. Covey's sacrifice and singles hy McNeely and Goslin were | good for three runs. Rucky Harris’ single and theft and | Ruel's one-baser accounted for a tally in the sixth *and in the seventh Reeves' walk and his theft of third after Covey singled produced a_ scoré as MeNeely drilled into a double | p A FOUR SLABMEN TO JOIN GRIFFMEN ON TRIP WEST RESIDENT GRIFFITH has announced that four pitchers, instead of b 1 he added ta the Natio staff during the Western d been stated loe Carroll. hought from Little Rock. i be the aniv recruit to report hefore the season*clased. He is he club in Cleveland the latter part of this week. But Griff has v 2 of 1%fty Thomas, Rochester southpaw, who the Ch % time in the Spring: Bump Hadley, who was the Nationals to Rirmingham for scasoning, and Loftus from New Haven ‘ iattoubenor iy | one, wil < § the addition a the club at turday. Loftus will fain Hadley has been or t0 be at hand when the Champs Louts. i | Tobl was the fif. | Rigne - STILL SOCKING 50X AB. That licking yesterday straight for Fohimen.. Al| or ¥ were | hoping to make ft 1 ¢ this aft- | arnoon 5 has had s0on may reported 1o be when ! the Nationa's. Lately. the n has been smacking harder and gheuld drive it tn eafe mare o wh itter he w ed b Alleg Reeves, hie at copalderable L develop Into 60, MeNewly, i Rice. rf 2 e. 1h arris, After slumping fearfully for a time, | Kyt Tudge apparently swinging inte a fair g stride. He has pick. | abar of points ar tha | ox pitchere o Y narted the Red Sox ves | Washingt he Apped off so0- | Twa-hase from Tiicher Russall. | Ree instead of tryving 1o statton, set gail for | o well ahead of Rig- | Reeves ont terday. when And b The regain third a neyv's hit—Judge. sex—dacobaon 12 the m St elay o5 '8 Washington. ‘off Russell. trivek T AT | wan an o Tim ame— <o Goslin | hour and 20 minntes. RN AL left hand | t was good | had to take | { the In the fourth round G almest knacked Russell's off with a terrific drive for & &in, "he pitcher time out until his paw came to life. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS. | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUFE. Rochesrer. 3 ewark < Oiner Eames < AMFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 5 Minne i 2 1, Indianapolis 0 ado. tolumbue. 12 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Orleans, 0 ock. 1 RECORD FOR PAST WEEK | IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES | The past week's major league rec. ord of games won and lost, runs, hits, errors and opponent’s runs, fn-/ | cluding games of Saturday, follows: AMERICAN LEAGUE. w. 2 B 80 1 3. 383 duige | Tate 4. Harris i bt B e coo-BuorailS eh 33 Mnrr-lr R Coveleskie Sonnion 67 Washingtor ashington 8 land Cow 8o hi hiladelphis | Detroit Louis . Boston S ATI0 2 Tt 1 o auauswosy 2wl A 26 14 16 INAL LEAGU 1t T 175! Chattanoora. 82 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Sacramentq 18.4 Portiand. 6.3 { 8. San Franclee, [E.3 . 4 ngeles, 3 Yt et b COTTON STATFS LEAQGUE. a. 5. Monroe. 1 14 Gulfport. 8. S eenadny SOUTHEASTERN. Angustine, 1.2 onanuS? cecsam—s Gimes o Started. Lost. ~ Wean. 203~ Be OIS WS 220840020 Sw0Ne Roston .. *Pittshurgh *One game. tied. 10108 e e i So¥8nnw | . ! A unique golf course found in Tehikapa, in the ° Belgian Congo, where nude dusky caddies carry the clubs and old beef tins are uzed as holes. \ £ EEF PR 29~Caus! South Africa supports 200 golf ciuhe, of which more than 30 are in got one yesterday. and kept | | s to tle in the Hon. | 22. | ‘Inosed olit the Cupital 4 CAPTAIN. - ; HE destinies of Pennsylvania will be guided over this Fall by a member of Grantland Rice's all-America foot ball eleven, George C. Thayer.. He was the choice of a majority of the critics in the country for the post of end, where he has done yoeman duty for the past’two years. It was at St. Paul's School, tn Concord, Mass., that the work of Thayer first attracted attention, and it has merited praise ever since. He is a bril- liant end, probably the best developed at Penn in the last 10 vears. His re- markable play in the major struggles in which Penn par- ticipated last Fall was outstanding, especially in the Yale and Brown games, where his work was the feature of the games. L Lou, is entering his fifth year in the capacity of coach at Penn. During his first year he was coach of the yearling eleven, but was shifted ® to head coach the next. after Bob Fol- well left to assume,a similar position the United States*Naval Academy. Young, who was a great end and halfback in his undergraduate days at Penn, has amassed a formidable rec- ord in his career at the Quaker City, his 1024 aggregation- being ranked with ‘the best elevens in the country. ki Always a close student of the game, George C. Thayer Young is a specialist in intricate plays, Captain triple pass being one of the most s Pennsylvania cessful in his large assortment. s Young heen blessed with some fine performers in the persons of Kreutz, Thaver, McGinley and many { others which classes him among those coaches who are adept_in developing star perfromers, When the. foot ball season is over Coach Young goes back to his home town of Noybeth, Pa., where he pre- sides over the distinies of the Cambria Clay Products Co., being its president. He is also in great demand as an after-dinner speaker, especially on the subject of foot ball. The schedule of Pennsylvania for this season follows: September 25—Franklin and Marshall. . October 2—Johns Hopking. ! Octoher 9—Swarthmore. October 16—Chicago. October 23— Williams. October 30—Illinois at Urbana, Il ovember 6—Penn State. ovember 13—Golumbia. November 25 (Thanksgiving day)—Cornell. | COACH. OUIS ALONZO YOUNG, more popularly known as Lou Young Coach Pennsylvania - CARDS NOW LEAD IN HOT ° - RACE FOR N. L. PENNANT By the Associated Pross. | day over Cincirnati, with Pittsburgh hanging on in third place. Pittshurgh has a chance in the series opening at home with the Ca’rds today. Cincinnati, meanwhile, is host to the fourth-place Chicago Cubs. % Grover Cleveland Alexander rushed | Pirates tied twice in the standing. to the aid of the Cardinals vesterd: Cleveland lost a lone point to the after two stralght defeats from Cin-| Yankees in the American by winning {cinnati had cost St. Louis the lead.|and losing in a double-header with De | The Chicago t-off humbled the troit. The first game went to the |Reds, 7 to 3. The Cardinals clouted Indians, 8 to 7, in 12 innings, but in | everything Tuque and Lucas had 10| the second Gibton hurled Detroit to offer. The old master, pitching ont of turn, allowed but two hitg in the first five innings and nursed his lead | thereafter. over the Indians when rain broke up Six innings were onough for the'a double-header wwith Philadelphia. |Cubs to dump the Pirates for the| Washington picked on the Red Sox, hird time in the fourgame series.| @ to 2. | The 7t0-f vietory ended the season | Tha {on the Chicage lot, with the l‘irHlP!ilnng. game from St. | leaving early to catch a train. g “ | RUTH AND KOENIG CLASH. The Pirates rallied with four runs| BALTIMORE, Md., Séptember § (#). land had a train to catet New York kept a six-game Laouis, 9 to &, the sixth. Chicago pinch hitters pushed nover the winning | counter in their own half. No other game. vove plaved in the league. | Sinc 2 August 20. when St. Louis | New York Yankees, 18 to 9, yesterday, | went intn a tle with Pittsburgh for | witnessed Babe Ruth and Shortstop | first place, the league leadership has |Koenig come to grips. Fans within changed 9 times in 17 plaving dayvs. | "Roth_Pittshurgh and St. Louls have | ging Koenig for | spent 7 of the 17 days at the top of | eighth inning. | the heap, with Cincinnati there for {one short day and the Cardinals and Li(N'I'(:Ks DEFEAT BEARCATS | TO INCREASE SERIES LEAD asing up” in the players separated them. | vestetday, with a 3-ta-1 victory over the Chevy Chase Rearcats. Lefty Flynn had the honor of hurling the Knicks to their tenth | was at the helm of He held.the slugging, Rearcats to a pair of | the street in| hingles while the Georgetowners were getting 10 safeties at the expense | | straight win in the series. of Trving Clande. . | The Shamrock nine, runners-up to | the Knicks in the race for top honors | lin the loop. alsa turned fn a win by | | dint of some heavy slugging. An 18- | {hit attack earvied them to a 9403 | triumph over Arlington and gave them their seventh victory in nine Moran and Smithson led the each getting three bldws in | s to the plate. ! The Harps go to Apnapolis today to tackle the Eastport nine, which | vesterday heat out sSevern for the | championship of the Maryland capi- Ital. Mount Rainier and Marlhoro | nines are furnishing the only other |league game on the Lahor day card. They play at Mount Rainier field. The District Line team forfeited yes-! Jterday to Maryland Athletic Club. | No changes were brought about in ! !the standings of sections R and C of | [ the Capital City League as a result of vesterday's games. The Rialtos added | to their lead in saction B by swamp-| ing the Capitals, 8 to 1, while thej | Stephen nine held to the runner-up position in the R group with & 13-to-7 | [win over the Modoes. Gilly Otten-| I herg twirled the Rialtos to their sixth | | win in seven atarts. i BASE BALL SECRETS By Sol Metzger Run Out Fouls on Windy Day NOT_THIS The wind plays odd pranks with base halls, and when 4t is blowing strong a_batter who hits what is apparently a foul fly should run it out at top spesd. Frequently such a ball is shlown fair. and if he stands at the plate when this hap-- pens he will feel like a dunce Run it 6ut, a8 the player on the left in the {llustration is doing. Don't stand still and look foolith should it atrike fair, like the plaver on the right. FREYBERG STOPPED BY ENGLISH CHANNEL By the Associa’ed Press. DOVER, England, September 6.— Col. Bernard C. Freyberg, a Victoria Cross man of the British Army, failed again yesterday to swim the English Channel. He started from Cape Gris Nez at 7:22 o'¢lock in the morning and made good progress until noon, when 4 strong wind kicked up a heavy sea. After swimming a little more than six hours, it was figured he was 10 miles off Dover, a similar position to Moose Juniors, champlons of the | Sport Mart League, will go into the | second game of their xeriea with tha | Freers next Sunday holding the upper hand. Yesterday the Moose tossers City League | junior title winners, 8 to &, in a 10 mning game. O'Connor and Hutchin- son shared mound duty for (he| winners. Dreadnaught pastimers registered hits vesterday while defeating the Fort Humphreys nine, 12 to 3. National Circles, who play at Hern- don today, defeated Walter Reed yes- terday, 9 to 6. Red Sox diamonders showed the way to Seabrook, 6 to 4. Ku Klux Klansmen play the He- brew All-Stars today at Arlington horse show grounds, wWhere they de- feated Takoma Park yesterday, 12 to 5. Pop Kremb's Liberty nine defeated | () 0, and one hait hours out. i <anawhas, 6 to 3. | the Kanawhas, 6 to 3 The heavv winds and seas con- Comet Juniors trimmed Mount Rai. | tinued, however, and at times both [ nier, 11 to 2. | swimmer and conveying tug were lost trém sight. Robin Juniors outclassed the Rialto Juniors, 8 to 2. Coca Cola Midgets Apollos, 17 to 5. Southern Juniors took the S&mith- fielde to camp, 8 to 4. {4 olclock in the afternoon. Gk dtial e Despite the fact that Helen Wills is a wonderful woman tennis player, she does not rank with the first 25 men of the country. trimmed the a 2.to-0 shutout in five innings. Cleve- | lead | Chicago White Sox avon a| | hearing said the Babe had been rag- | Ruth held Koenig's | arms helpless at his sides until other | that of Gertrude Ederle when she Freyberg abandonsd hir attempt at | TARTING the final three weeks of the ever-shifting struggle for the | National League flag. the St. Louis Cardinals had a 3-point lead to- | —Fans who saw Baltimore defeat the | | | | | | | NICKERBOCKER base ballers, hooked to entertain the Arlington ’,'M nine today at 3 a'clack in Georgetown Hollow, continued to add [rondueted Dartmeuth's gridiron to.their lead in séction A of the Capital City unlimited divicion | tinje | Slagle, I 1 | ang 4 | MACKENZIE SEVENTH IN CUP GOLF EVENT| NEWPORT, R.: I.. September & (®).—Francle Ouimet of Boston, last year's winner, led Max Marston of Philadelphia by one stroke in the second 18 holes of play for the gold mashie offered by T. Suffern Taller of Newport and New York in the tourna- ment on his ocean links -courss here. A light rain during most of the day with a cold southeast wind, bothered the players and made the course slow Ouimet and Jesse Guilford of Boston each had car 3, while M took 74. The 36-hole total, however, gave Marston a one-stroke lead over Ouimet’s 148, while Guilford’s 80 yes- terday kept him back in a tie for fifth place. Today the 36-hole play will conclude the 72 holes of medal play. The cards: Mux Marston, Phila. Francix Ouimet. Riehard A, Joned, ir. ."d. Dunphy, W D. Clarke Corkran, Phila. Jease Gullford, Hoston. - 38 A6land MacKenzie, Wash. 11 30—81—155 GOLFERS ARE BUSY IN HOLIDAY EVENTS| With nearly every club ahout the | city holding a golf affair of some description, the local golf courses to- day were crowded, as those club members who remained in Washing- ton for the last holiday of the golf season competed in varied tourn ments. Club's 10-t def of the Res atter's course Country zolf team | t to the | ver Dam vesterday. Argyle tered i ted W, P M corge Gi DI Este, Argyle H. White. itmuilor, Ar: vie, Wefeate Reaver Dam, | 7 and 6. Best hall 3 JE. Graf, Reaver D defeated Dr’ D. ¢ Besi hall—Wo Tonald Jones, Reave Henry Peacock. Curtiss, Beaver Dam k. Argyle, 4 and Richard Peacock. Reeler, R Ve Argyle. défeated Robe Rest ball—All e Argyle. defeated 3 and 2GS . defeated €. W “Wim by A G H r arl Hend Proctor. Notzell, Argyle, and 3. Howard Nordliuger led field of Town and Country Club golfers in | the annual handicap tourney of the club vesterday. with a gross score of 83. Daniel Sherhy, with 94—30. 64, had low net. “Pairings for the first round of match play today follow: Leopold V. Howard Nordlinge: 2081, ve . Marx Kauf Baer. 98 oldbers, . 100—: Mrs, G. L. Stabler and Dr. 1 Tilley won the mixed-Scotch fou | some event at the Indian Spring Cluh vesterday with a ca of 94—19—75, | Mrs. K. R. Tilley and Homer . Pope | finished In second place with 84—8— | A1, Rig game s said to he increasing in the national forests of the I'nited WISCONSIN U. ATHLETIC HEAD HAS GREAT RECORD Met With Success at Cincinnati, Miami and Michigan Before Going With Badgers—Expected to Have Fine Eleven at Madison. BY H. C. BYRD. ANY men who have been successful in the varied forms of ath- letics have made the Capital City their home, most of them well known, but probably few persons are familiar with the fact that one of the best coafhes in the big universities is a Washing- tonian. When the University of Wisconsin ioot ball squad takes the field the middle of this month for its first practice it will he under the direction of George Little. who ac es the dual position of director of athletics and head gridiron coach. and whn kes his home Little was identified with athletics at Michigan just prior to taking charge at W consin Michigan in the last three or four vears has had remarkable success, in comparison to what it did for several vears prior, and much of the credit for the revival belongs ta Little. ( tainly foot hall plavers at Michigan thought he was a_great coach and all of them were of the opinion that he was about the finest fellow in the world. Since he has heen 3 consin he has found the same place in the hearts of students there Little not a graduate of a b universi having had his duate career at Ohio Wesleyan There he played regularly at guard for three years and took pa-t in field events as a4 member of the track team. RBesides he was a member of the basket ball squad, and made the team his last vear as a regular That, Little then had the ability to tead and to organize, as he has since shown in his work, was evinced by the positions he held as a memher of the general student hody, being presi dent of the student body and president of the senior class Inside Golf| Little went By Chester Horton. here Waosleyan, b whera he in agrienlture nd was assistant foot hall eoach inder Jack Wilce and assistant track oach under Castleman Little's first head coaching foh 1t the University of Cincinnati an-| There he directed foot | and hag other mental a f golf that, as a [ ket hall and in track. At habit, keeps many strugsling players [ Cineinnati Little in twe years turn in the duffer class | ed out foot hail that won witheut their ever|the Ohin Intercollegiate Conference knowing whAt | championship causes them many upsets Thinking ahead of | things is this: | Unive When you pre-|v won pare to execute a | Conference shot, vou f | first ti make a quick | ver mental gurvey of | season what you to! In 10 do in the matter |t Jpa where of projecting the Leaptain until 1919, when he returned ball. - Usually this o Miam1 for three vears. At Miami implie i% | the second time snecess followed him to be n. Fine teams won Ohio Confer e ence champlonship « Puring noint the three-yes ittle’s foot v shot and | pall teams at won per okt ke of 9 hall teams a Visualize a rhythm easy ze of and track teams of the club through the hall and | a percentage of During his last 11l the time in the terms of the | two years at M Littie was direc If. while preparing for the|tor of athletic of and making' it, vou are think- | foot hall, hasket | ing of the profection of the ball and | During Little's fir what it is going to do, you are t |gan he was in cha finishinz at to Ohin anrses Ohio took special 1 | | | | Thinking ahead of the swing is assisted teams FORGET THE roves Ability. nati Little went to ity and in his first Ohin Intereollegiate championship for the history of the uni- ame was lost that Agal om Cine mi t war called Little he served as n 1 ami had centage percent Michi ge of minor sports foot ball and States, ing ahead of things, * nd helped with (Copvright. 19726.) director of athleties GRIDIRON STARS SELDOM BECOME GREAT COACHES BY LAWRENCE PERRY. I'TH Chuch_Collins of the stalled as field coach at the coming season the thought vear by year to thrill gridiron_enthusiasts, star coaches do not. Many an outstanding exponent of since the war, but the fame that w them in their capacity as instructors. Of ‘the elevens that stood out n coached by a man who starred on the Michigan was guided by Yost. who cet back in the early nineties: s Hawley, a comparative old tim the 1s, ad a i ¥ product of E nineteen hundr Princeton ones was ont of Vale hefore 1910 vew Haven: Wallace Wade was more {than vears out of Brown, at Ala. bama; Rockne at re Dame. plaved more than a decade ago. The late Andy Smith at California, Glenn War- | ner at Stanford. Dick Harlow of Col gate and Enoch Bagshaw at Wash ington were all veterans Zuppke Never Won Letter, Again, of all these coaches one was a star in college of the | usness of such recent player Grange, Nevers, Wilson, T Oberlander. Osterbaan Millan, Carey and the rest. Most of them. 'in_truth, were mediocre per- formers. For that matter, Bobh Zuppke of lllinois never won a varsity letter, | never plaved varsity foot hall, in fact. | There is, in sooth, no marked re lation hetween a man's ability to play ' foot ball and his ability to teach the ame. A star player is not the pos tulate of A star coach; never has heen. Once at Princeton, Hector Cowan one of the great tackles of all fime was induced 10 come to Nassau and take charge 'of the tackla candidates for a few days. His method of in struction was simple. He wonld tak a tackle candidate, shake his finger at'| him and say: 1 “Now as soon as the hall is snapped. you dive into your op- ponent, knock him down, push over the defending back if he tries to hlvu-!& 1 and then grab the run- ner. Cowan never understood that what he could do, the yvoungsters whom he was tryving to teach had not strength and lancing drive to do. his work was futila, At West Point some yeers ego a | graduate star, a great running fall- | back, was showing a backfield man | how to avoid a tackler. ‘Just stick out your right arm." RADIATORS, FENDERS "\!n.lwflg AT WITTSTATT 319 13th N FOOTBALL! Our new Fall line is now ready for your inspection ninetie | Representative will he pleased to attend meetings with prices and samples. Speeial Diseount to Teams ATLAS 927 D St N.W, Phone Fr. 2108 OPEN EVENINGS ~pla | making the tota undefeated and ern (‘onference ear Little and was in foot hall tiod for the “hig n 1924 1. ze of the M Yost working sory capaelty four games finished third in ball team wa for the W championship had added resp practieally fi The eleven r ten” championshi was in complete ¢l i team. Fieldir {with him in an | That vear Michizan ;. , fand tied twe and famous 1924 Notre Dame cleven in- [the Conference. During the three Corth Carolina for the [vears at Michizan Cittle's team University of arises that while star players appear | won 12 Conference games and lost 2 Goes to Wisconsin. Last Fall when Wisconsin was lnak ing for the hest available man to take charge of its athi ind to coach foot ball It seemed for It to turn to Little. It did and its cholce h: wed wise. In his first effort t Wisconsin, last season, Little won six games and lost v tied ane which, when ene considers the kind of competition there the that your right | sehaols in the Western i splendid record. right arm in the world.”. was sides heing n Precept. in foot, ball, in maost | other things, comes of concentrated | 1 exceptionally good coach and organizer. Little f= thought, specialized knowledge thought Is translated into terms of |7 £reat demand as a teacher in Sum Action. Great. players are so hoeause | Mer schools where athletic fea of instinet: great coaches what | tured. *He has served in this capacity they are heacuse they can think |2t Miami University. at George Pea Imaginatively and fn an orderly man. | Py School for Teachers Mich ner. Besides, they are endowed \ith | /€20, At Wisconsin. | personal magnetism, a sheer nece Those who know G | glad he is enjoving nnusual in an instruétor In faot hall, but : essential to the player Among coaches and athletic directors Home tima g lie w e [he fe liked hy all. amonz students Siaglo of PHnoeton it heicouls | he holds their highest admiration and he process of his great respect. In fact, George Littie i< i not only capahle and successful. but O | i one of the rare humans who have p o ke e "l the good wishes of everyhody o e A)"‘\"\‘”'nmh‘mj gap andlis a splendid fellow and deserves all when T saw two men put Bunnell, the | (€ _success he has had and his . friends here mayv well feel proud of man, out, 1 said to myself: | (Hiends here may well f {051 HAd a: famiotin runjj N0 TeoorE Heilas uad ahead of me." " gridiron play has gone into coaching s theirs as players does not cling to 4 fos atio ast season not one was natu field in the previous dec “let the man have it and pt. Joe RBeee e ch, “don’t you know is ame confy are le are wze sty bz not od Toe naivze run against Y “hecanse there AUTO CLASSIC DELAYED. ALTOONA, Pa.. 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