Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1926, Page 21

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESi)AY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1926. SPORTS. 207 Virginia Military Institute Must Develop Backs to Make Good Grid Showing LONE 1925 VETERAN LEFT GRIDMEN TAKE FIELD Must Stand Adversity to Be - AS NUCLEUS FOR QUARTET| AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH Situation Is Just Opposite That of Last Season, When Line Had to Be Made—Coach Clarkson, Though, Has Much Clever Material. BY H. C. BYRD. i the six men depended on in the backficld last Fall by the rginia Military Institute were lost by graduation and the Cadets are faced with the problem of not only rebuilding their regular backfield, but finding substitutes as well. White, Caldwell, Hermeling, Willis and Deitrich wound up their careers on college gridirons. All were capable and at least two of them, White and Caldwell, were among the best backs in the South. Last Fall V. M. I. began its practice with brilliant prospects for its backfield and poor outlook for a line; now the squad is working out under exactly opposite conditions. Coach Clarkson is banking on Joe Farley, who play on the 1924 freshmen eleven, to run the team. g S ley passed well, could punt and did good work a_dropkicker; it is believed that he will be able to do the same things for the varsity Al Barnes, a_triple lhre.xt man on the freshman team all, is to be groomed to fill as nearly as is pnmhlc the shoes of “Windy” White. Of course, filling “Windy” White's shoes is not the easiest task in the world a young man, but around Lexington there is a good deal of confidence in the ability of young Mr. Barnes to do just that. who held down a line posi- rear ago, is to be developed into ck, and probably will ke signed the job of backing up the 1 which was one of \Whitejs strong point t the coinbination Coach Clarkson aims is Farley at quarter, Wi at full, Barnes at one half and Gfroerer at the other The last mentioned was a star hack on the freshman team in 1924 and won his letter last Fall on the var- sity despite the fact that the bacl fleld array was so brilliant. Other men who may come throuyh, or. in any event, are expected to fill in, are Nabers, Chapman, Minter, West, Harner, Bishop and Moore. About the best these arg Nabers and v v of ALEXANDRIA, Va.. Seplember 8. —Alexandria High School's 1926 foot ball squad reported here yesterday for its first workout. Six veterans of last year's team, together with the substitutes from last season, furnish a fairly good nucleus for the new eleven, although nothing brilliant in the way of gridiron accomplishments is expected this Fall. In point of service, Capt. Harry Barnett is the leading player on the squad. Me has played at guard for two seasons and in 1925 was selected for the all-second District team. Other letter men returning are Julian White- stone, center; “Bottles” West, guard; Martin Cohen, quarterback; Travers, halfback, and Lester| Mc- Menamin, fullback. Episcopal squad, drilled in foot ball funda- mentals for two months at the end of | last term, will report to C‘oach Thomp- kins a week from today. George Mason will be the first local | scholastic foot ball team to swing into | action. Th Mount St. J September 25, Eddie Allen, manager of the Dread- naught A. A., is anxious to book the Herndon base ball team for a game here Sunday as the second of a three- set series. ‘The Dreadnaughts lost the first, 8 to 2, but now in their stride are confident of retaining their northern \;mzlnm semi-professional champion- ship. Masonites will play seph’s in Baltimore on The Virginia Grays and St. Mary clubs are to hoop np on Haydon Field re Sunday. Ashby Wood, former . will be on the hill for the St. Mary nine and will be op posed by Budk Minter, who divided pitching assignments with him last season. Tom Peyton, former Dreadnaught and Independent foot ball star, is in- terested in the reorganization of the Biily | High School's gridiron | well then ‘Oh, ence. other will Their | their i club. game | then see w | the over the groiv longs to overcome Among the junior players of every club there are usuaily one or two who are affiicted |tennis temperament. I've seen them on the courts, comes an argument shots!” Then there's an- the game. They are the pandemonium, and | sation clamations out over the whole {backward over the net, and who can knock I know Net Star, Says Helen Wills BY HELEN WILLS. — Lesson VIIl.—Temperament and Tennis. HERE are ‘many things which go to make tennis a more difficult game to lcarn than it should be. An unfoltunate temperament is one thing which stands in the way of some beginner: T say “stands in the way” because it actuaily does. It sometimes even brings to a dead stop the progress of a game which has every promise of becoming really good. perament at all, others go foward to a stand still, they don’t get any fun from their play, and they might just as Some yourg players are not hindered by tem- certain point, and then their games put their racquets away unless they make some sort of an effort it. tiful game naturally and could, with a little practice, rank with the very hest players of the country, but he is stopped by this unnecessary handicap. THere is another kind of unfor unate tennis temperament Joesn't quite belong to the4wo classes I've already mentioned. «There are wome very good players who are af- fected by it. It usually shows itself n match play and has its origin in the nervousness brought on by strain of competition. A player makes a poor shot, becomes angry with himself and can't do his game justice for the rest of the match, just ecause of irritation. This can be svercome, T know, for one of my rennis acquaintances has so con _rolled it that it hardly ever appears any more. ¢ Conceit can with an unfortunate First over a point, slammed balls, an attitude of 1 don’t care about your old and then haughty indiffer- These are the “arguers.” who learn sort, never “‘foolers. court is loud conve and e ring A flighty or two and they try to ho can make ball bounce also be ranked as a bad temperament. It {s a distaste- ful subject. But, happlly, almost always, defeat kills conceit. The traits that make arguers, foolers, the worriers, and the conceit- ~d are all cnemies of good tennis. 1 *hink that every one has felt at least one of these unfortunate qualities, or trees which will some time or other, in his own behind the hackstop game. But 1t is good to know that one young player who be- | they are certainly not unconquerable. ife plays a beau- | [n a later article T will speak of the his _ ball the tops of gELEN WILLS. , to this class. | haifi that | the | | ican derby won by Boot to Boot of the | the | GRANGE GETS MANY | NEW MEN FOR TEAM| g fol | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, September $.—Red | Grange and members of the c which will support his gallops ove the gridiron this Fall, as backfield ace of C. C. Pyle's New York Yankee [ professional foot ball eleven, have left for Aurora, IiL, to begin practice for the campaign. i In addition to Eddie Tryon. the ‘ol gate flash, Grange also will have with him in the backfield, George Pease, brilliant 1925 Columbia - quarterback Pooley Hubert, halfback; Bullei Bake! dlifornia Al Penn- sylvania’ Fry, Tows fuilback. Pyle also announced he hadgigned the following linemen: Steve Schimi- | tisch, Columbia: Paul Goebel, Tom BEdwards and August Goertz, Michi- gan; Lowell Otte and Howa Towa: R. L. Hall, [linois: Searney, Cornell, and Don Wisconsin. $89,000 CHECK IS SENT. CHICAGO, September 8 (#).—A cer tified check for $89,050, the winner's prize of the first renewal gf ths Amer st and Wesley E. R. Bradley to him by the Illinofs Jockey Club. previous check sent Bradley for amount was returned marked SR stables, has been sent | A th “Ideal Temperament for Tenni gathering the good points from ma different players, because it is impos- sible for any one person to be ab- solutely perfect. I shall mention the name of one whom I think to be the most nearly perfect in temperament | of all the players whom I have ever seen in action. town ’rnlmuu SIYI4| en ': it here lmlm for W d~hmgnm in L‘\arge GEORGETOWN FRESHMEN COMING HOME TO TRAIN SBURY PARK, > Scptember 8.—A contingent of 13 George- ready to give the \.{r\fl\ the proper kind u!.p\'d\lh(‘ it neuL mlmvun: {its return to the home gridiron. In the frosh group are Elmer C. | Eohner, D. P. Camilletti, Robert Ger- hinger, E. Paul Jones Liston, J. D. Maloy, John McGrath, Joe Kennetly Provine Charles Raymond Harold D. Wyn' koop, Robert Car ton, ahill and Murray, sity preparation is going vard _satisfactorily, and the schedule comprises plenty of maging and experimenting in ays, with special emphasis e runs and forw Later Hagerty and Murtaugh foot ball this season with w York Cilants of the Foot Bail L will the ssis, who was in the Hilltop this Fall in his iron instruction Heinte Jawisi, last yes d forth Hilltoppe ha | Brooklyn eleven of ; league ';:CANADIAN SCHOOLGIRL for daily | serim new reported uard for the he Red ( is golng to give Claude lar 1923 center, a hard fight for the pivot position. Clark has, in fact, | heen used regularly so far at the posi- | BREAKS lUMP MARK tion. | Others who have been holding forth with varsi MeGrath and Walte, ¢ tackle . regu Associated Press skatchewan the R Septem- Saskatoo! provinetal son, guard quarter; Thompson and NGO backs, and Nork, fullbac - | ‘ Hoved thst MUERY < | schoulgirl, competing in a aspirant, who has been performing | championship field meet here, scored with the second combination, will|over the bar at 5 feet 2 7-16 inches to soon get opportunity to show his|peier by more than a full inch the old wares Jvith the varsity, as he appears | worid record for women in the rum- to have all the requisites. e L Jack Hager George Murt lian mark by almost 3 inches. and Bolle Degasis, former Blue Gray grid stars, left camp today afte a visit of several days. Hagerty, cup- | for tain and stellar haltback last vear, | Miss D. A. 3 and Murtaugh, sturdy guard, will as-| 1% inches, at London, sume parts In the cast of “The Quar- | Previously the best mark terback,” Richard DIx's latest s 4 feet 107 inches, by which 18 heing “shot” at Long Is of Chicago, in 19 accepted Katherine Harner. Nine of the letter men were linemen and all of members of the present sq Johnny Fain will be at one Rugh and Mondy alternati ter. J. Smith a for the gu man and Kulp for other ends are \I and Crockett pects from the 192 are \Ivn‘l ]If'\\.!(\ l{ is ber. ves ‘kfield cox Bianity Giinricaon baginthis seventh | Lol ooyoackiicld col ear in charge of V. M. 1. teams, and, <Mm Ak ncidentally, one of many more veurs Caldwell BOD0AL V. M. T ek s fo0timall catcr | freshman .\l[llv,ul. Frank Gortor; who but in e other ph his rela & . i tionship to the Institution s 2 is an alumnus and knows well S varied conditions that surround | quad. in a school of ths kind. Also, N that few, in big] V.MI teaching | It opens in the mathe- | schools. | Incidentally | at Lexington a fellow a8 | from the coming gives Clarkson only ik '“'“m\ men in shape oftest The hig va games are with | Atlant I October ington tober | Chapel Hvll‘ November 6 | P g g Institute at ving day. complete list of zames ptember 18—Wofford at Lexing- Ind(‘pendent club and is getting his team lined up for the coming season. — SWIMMING MEET LIST WILL BE CLOSED TODAY - Entries close today at 6 o'clock for Saturday's’ swimming -meet, which C s ends the season at Wardman Park Swimming Club pool. The program includes four events for men and the same number for women. South Atlantic champion- h' SMo ed a montn! B0 yard fred stsle’ Women will com_ —natural tobacco taste has breast stroke swims and a fam‘y d!\e A S ’ - the “call” these days! enced hackfield, and it is the problem- : b ) 2l € c t ese ays. atic scoring power of this backfleld that is the unknown factor in con- ship meda will be awarded in the 220-yapd breast stroke event for men jecturing about the team's possibiii- tes. a year ago them are Capt. with end, COACH BLANDY CLARKSON. Smith, Beatty serving his fifth *h: Kent Lam- Collegze play Alabs ; and the 220-yard free style swim for women, Other events for vard relay, 60-vard 90-yard free sty e, men are a 240- free style and » of W omen will com. nd wrestling coach, to have cha of training the vs Hard Schedule. hard schedule, than other Wofford plays a long. weelk earlier listed to meet sptember 18, a week Saturday. That two weeks to get for the opening W spots on the list Tech at ing matics Clarkson i one might cave Clarkson will a as fine to know. L Four-more men reported to the Uni- ave versity of Maryland squad yesterday- two members of the 1925 freshman team and a pair of second-string vers of the varsity. Epple, line- 16: N « 1 on the freshman outfit; Schenck, one of the yearling backs; therman, tackle, and Rothgeb. rd and end, drew suits and worked is helieved some School in that Maryland material from the Law Baltimore. For the first time the Law School is giving day rses, and those students taking work have their last classes be- fore 1 o'clock, which gives pienty of time for them to go out for foot hall. For two or three positions in which the squad is noticeably weak It is hoped that a canvass of Law School students in the second, third and fourth vear classes will produce sev- eral prospects. may at Lex- Atlanta. R at Lexingt 16—Virginia at vorth Carolina State .ll \omnmr SNorth ¢ | Chapel Hill. November 13—Kentucky at Lexing- | ton. November 25—V, | V.M. 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