Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1926, Page 38

SPORTS. - Driver Has Done HAS BROUGHT ATHLETICS |} Gridiron FROM PIT TO HIGH PLANE Sports There Now Are Not Only on a Firm Financial Basis, But Teams Are: Successful—G. U. Has Easy Game for Saturday. BY H. . BYRD. IMMIE DRIVER, athletic direc tor at the University of South Caro- lina, has done about as good a piece of work in charge of sports as any man in the entire South. Driver took charge of athletics, and all other student activities as wel I, at South Carolina three years ago, and what he has accomp’ished in that time is amazing to anybody who is not familiar wi Jimmie's personality and way of getting things done. When Driver went to South Carolina at the request of the late Dr. ent of th Melton, at that time pres at university. the athletic association was in a deep financial hole, having notes in the bank amounting to about SR000 and other debts, which brought the liabilities up to $13.000. The athletic teams were noted mainly by their failures to do anything wonder- ful. and usually it was an exceptional occasion when South Carolina was able to hold its o*vn in a foot ball game with another State university. Right now, aftet three.vears under Driver. the athletée assaclation is not only eut of debt, but h2s money in the bark. And not only that, but Driver has built a new athletic field costing just a littie more than $30.000 and now is engaged in eohstructing a field house for hasket ball games and for general housing of athletic teams. The field house is to cost around $60,000. Raises the Money. Of course, all the money necessary to do these things, especially the con- struction, did not coms from athletic sou . but it was Driver who In- spived those to provide money who did provide it and it was under his direction that money was raised and expended. Driver formerly allronnd coach himself. but has not had time to do that at South Carolina. | It was at Willlam and Mary that Driver hegan his coaching career. He tcok charge of athletics at that school shortly after he camd out of the Army, in which hs was a com- missioned officer. and began to de- velop fine teams. He remained at William and Mary for several vears, then decided to get out of athletic work. He did for one vear, hut went back into it with South Carolina, with excellent rosuite for thet university. Tt is understood that William' and Mary is very anxious to get Driver back there Few athletes win such distinctions as were won hy Driver while in col- lege. As a student at William and Mary during hissenior year he was captain of four teams, base ball, foot Dball, basket bail and track. Later when he went to the University of' Virginia he won letters in four sports in one vear, the same four in which he captained teams at Willlam and Mary. A star in foot ball, basket ball and base ball, Driver also was far Letter than the average in the dashes and in the quarter mile as a member of the track team. Is a Modest Fellow. With all that he has accomplished A< an athlete and in charge of ath- letics, Driver is a modest kind of a fellow. perhaps toc modest for ‘his own good. e told the writer recent- Iv. when queried as to how™he had managed to finance the situation at South Carolina, that he had done nothing more than to suggest things thers had done the actual work. sident Melton,” said Jimmie, the keystone to the whole worl here before his death. He wanted bufld up student life at the univer. sity, and he did. He got me here to heip him do it, and I did to the best of my abilit ‘The President Melton of whom Driv- er speaks died last Spring and the new athletic fleld was named for him at the recent dedication exercises. Not much more need be said of Driver. Everybody knows him to be a gentleman clear through. knows him to be honest and courteous in every- thing he does, knows him to be a man of real worth to any university with an after thought, if the University of Virginia is looking for a real man to make 3 capaci as director of athletics, then, it necd look no further than Jimmile Driver, one of its own alumni. West Vir inia’s foot ball team made ion here last week in ita Georgetown. Splendid <manship, perfect poise and ness to take penalties without whimper - caused the team to he placed in.a class by itself in the esti- mation of many of those that watched it play. West Virginia took many penalties, and # the last quarter, when it was behind and it did pot have much longer in which to get the touchdown it needed to win, it still did not show any signs of breaking. Twice it put the ball on forward passes within the danger zone. only to have it brought back for & penalty 1t may be that, with West Virgir style of plar, it "expected a certain number of penalties, hut be that as it may. by accepting them without a word West Virginla made its3if a lot of friends. Another remarkable incident in the game plaved by West Virginia was that it never took out time. showing an attention to detalls of play that did not require numerous conferences, out of which nothing ever comes any way, and also indicating a physical condition on the part of its plavers way above the ordinary. Georgetown meets Elon College this week, and after its strenuous game with West Virginia the contest should scem a regular “pink tea." Elon has not a team capable of doing anyvthing more than taking a_decisive whipping at the hands of the Blue and Gray. and Coach Lou Little probably will give his second string players a chance to show what they can do. Washington either will not support in a big way foot ball games or it Inoks for something else besides good foot ball to make it do so. If the public desires to watch good foot ball. then it would have turned out to a much greater extent for the George- tawn-\West Virginia contest last week. » hetter display of foot ball could have heen desired. But the public did not support that game as it should. That contest, strictly on the relative merits of a foot ball contest, as compared with some of the other contests that draw 60,000 persons, should have heen attended by at least a crowd of 35,000, vet hardly more than a third of that many were preser About the only conclusion that o “HAWKINS was an | | MMY_DRIVER. can draw is that there must be some- thing back of foot ball besides a good game. ’ In other words, the mere fact that a gamd is going to be a good one is not sufficient to bring forth the genegal public. To have a great crowd at_a foot ball game there must be behind the contest the traditions of years and natural rivairy between the competitors, such traditions and such rivairies as exist between Yale and Princeton. And this is just what makes the games between ghe *“Big Three” the biggest games the year, with the possible exception of that between the Army and Navy. And as far as fooi ball is concerned the *“Big Three” stiil is the “Big Three,” and always will remain so. Without doubt, except- ing possible the Army and Navy tiit, greater general interes: attaches to contests between Yale and Princeton. Yale and Harvard, and Harvard and Princeton than to any other foot ball games. And it was that interest, that glamour which ‘comes from tradition and long-standing rivalry that did not exist in the game between Georgetown and West Virginia, and this probably was the reason why the game falled to attract as big & crowd as it de- served to attract. VIRGINIA PREPARING FORV. P. 1. CONTEST UNIVERSITY, Va., October 19.— powerful team of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and will be played next Sat- Interesting Facts About Captains of Big College No. 44—Indiana. Foot Ball Coaches and Elevens for This Season CAPTAIN. FROM laborer in the Gary steel mills to captain of the Indiana University foot ball team is the record of Frank Sibley, pilot of the Hoosiers. Several months each year Sibley works in the mills and he declares that steel carrying has it all over/the ice game as a conditioner for foot ball. carrie that has made him an outstanding wingman in the Western Conference. Sbley 18 a graduate of Emerson High,'at Gary, where he starred as a prep player béfore entering Indiana, three vears ago. This is his last year in collegiate foot ball. The same grip he uses to pack iron beams is used to nab opposing ball and it is his ability to stop plays and break up ironclad interference In 1925 he earned his first “L” in spite of injuries which kept him on the sidelnesg.the bigger half of the 1924 campaign. He is 22 ‘vears of age and weighs 16: unds. Sibley is algo a star at basket ball. heing one of the high-ranking scorers of the conference last year. He is studying commerce at Indiana and has ambitions of trading overalls for a bigger job in the GBry steel mills’ next COACH. T BALL followers the country over are looking forward to the near future when Indiana University is expected to spring to the front in Western Conference foot ball. They make that prediction because of the new coach. H. O. (Pat) Page. who needs no introduction to grid fans. For 10 vears he was assistant to Coach Stagg at Chicago University, June. where he featured as a three sport star. From Chicago he went to Butler as athletic director and coach. Butler is a small college in Indianapolis but under Page succeeded in smothering Zuppke's Illinois eleven, 10 to 7. Pat also tutored basket ball and subdued several | conference teams, while at Kansas City his basketers swept to the National A. A. U. championship. Page has never- produced a losing team in any sport and for that reason alone Indiana grid fans can lay confidence in the new mentor. base ball and foot ball teams have ranked high each year. The new Crimson coach has not found this season's material so brilliant but within two years’ time Indiana University can look for things to happen. The schedule for Indiana for this season follows: October 2—Indiana, 31; DePauw, 7. QOctober 9—Indiana, 14; Kentucky. 6. October 16—Northwestern, 20; ln(%am 0. October 23—Wisconsin, at Madisoh. October 30—Northwestern, at Bloomington. November 6—Notre Dame, it South Bend. November 13—Mississippi A. and M., at Bloomington. % November 20—Purdue, at Lafayette. KING WAS HEAVY SCORER IN “OLD” FOOT BALL DAYS TATISTICIANS already have started their records with a view to- ward establishing this Fall's high-point scorer of the country, and of this. that and the other sections. His In this connection it is inter- esting 1o note what some of the old-timers accomplished. The im- pressiveness of their individual scores must, of course, be somewhat dis- counted by the fact that good teams were few; that most of the ball- carrying was done by three men and that no athlete was restricted to three years’ playing, as is the fact today. With all these “whereases,” however, some of the old boys rolled up astounding totals. Take, for example, Phil King of Princeton, who played when the Big Three was indeed the Big Three. King’s record undoubtedly must have been surpassed by certain cotrmpo- rary Yale stars like McClung, Butter- worth and others: nevertheless it is likely to surpass today’s followers of the game. During his four vears of varsity foot ball he played both at halfback and at quarterback, and in the latter position had little chance at hall-carrying. Yet in those four sea. sons he scored an even 30 touch. downs and kicked 36 goals after touchdowns. He never made a goal from the field. so far as the records disclose. but he gave his team 312 points_ in all, or according to modern scoring, 356. King's outstanding achievements in the scoring line were the Columbia game in 1890, his first season, when he scored 11 touchdowns at 4 points pet touchdown, and of the Wesleyan &ame of 1893, his last season, when he made the same number of goals fol- lowipg touchdowns, or 22 points, In the ®olumbla game nine of his touch- Virginla's next game is with the|d0oWns were followed by goals by E® gar Allan Poe, '91. In the Cornell game of 1893, playing at quarter, he made mo touchdowns, urday in Blacksburg in connection | but kicked 7 goals for 14 points. His which he may be connected. And, as | With the dedication of Miles Field and |44 points against Columbia made his the Memorial Athletic House. This contest will be the eleventh eleven since the first gridiron game in 1899. irginia has been in eight meetings apd Virginia Pol technic Institute in (Wo. but in almost every instance the battle has been | hard-fought and the score close. Victory went to Virginia in the 1924 and 1925 contests, and for thia reason the team at Blacksburg ia all the more anxious to win the next zame. In former aeasons the Tech line has outweighed that of the Virginiane, but it seems likely that the reverse will be true thie vear. Friedburg, 140 pounds. and Abner, 165 pounds, are i%o very light ends, but the weight of the other linemen should be above 180. Phillips, center, is 185; of the guards, Capt. Mackall is 185 and Finck, 181. and of the tackles, Card- well weighs 191 and Luke 190, Behind the line the Virginians will be light, but Coach Neale is trying to develop speed and a versatility of aitack to compensate for the lack of welght. The weights of the four veteran backs are: Hushion, 153: Cuddy, 150; Laird, 165, and Hutter, 185. — S S CARR, SYRACUSE STAR, IS LOST FOR SEASON SYRACUSE, N. Y., October 19 (4, —Harlan “Whippet” Carr, Syracuse crack triple-threat fullback, will be lost to the Orange for the remainder of the season. Carr suffered torn ligaments in the knee in the Army game at West Point Saturday. Carr Eastern foot ball. crutches and several other regulars carried bruises as souvenirs of the flerce battle at West Point RACES TOMORROW Laurel, Maryland October 5th to October 30th, inclusive Seven Races Daily Special Baltimore & Ohio NAS @ MOTOR CO. Cu;-n-‘ad: Located o 1333-37 14th St. . Main 5100 R. R. Trains [eave Falen Siation & 12 25 P.M. 140 PM. last race Geaeral . 31,65, inelndin vernment Tax - First Race at 1:45 P.M. led the scorers in Bus Friedman, Orange center. is on | member of its faculty in a|between the Virginians and the Tech |28ainst Virginia in 1890; best scoring record for one day. How- ever, he made 30 points all alone 22 against Rutgers in 1892 and 18 against the srong Crescent Atheletic Club and 22 against the New York Athletic Club the same year. On two occasions King strutted his college satuff in his home fown. In 1890 the regular Princeton varsity, with Phil at halfback, took the old Columbia Athletic Club outfit of this | eity into camp to the tune of £0 to 0, the game beinz shortened on account | of darkness. King made two of the touchdowns. In 1892, playing the same position. he made a touchdown and a goal here against the same club, the score being 42 to 0. The local club was by no means a weak one. possessing such stars as Welch, Weaver, Church, Pat Wells and Johnny Shields. . MOLENDA TOP SCORER. CHICAGO, October 19 (#).—Full- backs of the Western Conference still lead in the scoring records, with Bo Molenda of Michigan holding a scant margin over Capt. Marty Karow of ;))1!04 Molenda has 38 points; Karow 6. fort. vice, the right shoe. N. Hess Sons, Why It Pays to Buy HESS SHOES “WE MAKE THE SHOES WE SELL” You are guaranteed a perfect fit, which means absolute foot com- The shoes you buy are of a qual- ity that assures lasting service. You get the benefit of our ad- ice, which means you always get Visual Foot Ball = PN g - WT— In the opefifng game this Bea- son, Wascolonis, Penn's fullback, ran 56 yards through the Fran lin and Marshall eleven for a touchdown. Just as he passed the line of scrimmage an opponent drove at him from his right. It looked as though he would make a the tackle, but Wascolonls something to say. This was that moment “Wasey” had the ball under his left arm (Fig. 1). When the tackler came from his right he raised his rvight arm im- mediately (Fig. 2) and just as the tretched arms of the tackler were about to grasp him he smash- ed down with his right arm, strik- ing the right arm of the tackler across the wrist (Fig. 3) with such a powerful blow that it actually turned the tackler to his rear. At the sams time “@ascy” swung his lega well out to the opposite side. The runner lost“no time or speed in this maneuver and was off at top speed (Fig. 4) for the goal. This slaparm guard was first used hy the great Harvard team of 1901 to ward off ends when the backs were returning punts. } At | Na was defeated, 7 to 0. first victory at Princeton. 607 14th St. s victory over Princeton Sat- urday was the first Middie conquest away from home since 1921, when the It was TUESDAY,” OCTOBER 19, 1926. uch for South Carolina : Foot BallBecomin Leaders of 1926 | GRIDIRON SPORT LIKELY TO OUTRIVAL BASE BALL Now So Big and Gréwing So Swiftly That Progress Might Alarm Were Not Colleges Keeping Pace With Upward Trend of Pastime. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. which the writer*has just completed. into facts. of the v itor wherever he fares. the upward trend. They are growi sponsible. - . There ie no denying that a whole- some foot ball atmosphere in a col- lege is a tonic which beneficially in- fluences all departments and. in fact, exerts an effect outside the 'college walls. Tastitutions. which, as a mat- ter of policy, make little of the game suggest human beings through whose veins blood flows sluggishly. Adds to School Spirit. Where foot ball is accepted and underatood and fostered there is a tang, a zing and,a zip that is about as apparent in the, classrooms and assembly halls, in the fraternities and out upon the campus as it is upon the foor ball fleld. Wise educators know this and instead of combating the game they shape it to their uses. Foot hall throughout the country il! being conducted by men of rugged ¢harater, big men who recognize their respcnsibilities not only to the to_the plaver, hut to the game itself. Foot ball is never going to get out of hand while these men are in charge. There are a few athletic di- rectors and a few coaches. it is true, who will sell, or trade, almost any- thing for foot ball success. But these are in a great minority. . ‘A Means to an End. Foot ball to most of the directors is a means to an end, and that end is sturdy manhood and a spirit of sportsmanship that is not confined to the gridiron, but extends throughout the institutions to which they are at- Chester Brewer at Mi: at Chicago, George Little at Wiscon- fornia, southern branch; holls at California, Belting at Iowa, Meisnest Eight thousand miles of foot ball are not easil But the present status of the take hold of it and | college where they are emploved and’| sin, Fred Luehring at Minnesota, George Huff at Illinois, Steve Cun- ningham at the University of Cali-| EW YORK, October 19.—The hold which intercollegiate foot ball has upon every section of the country is amazing. It now stands as rival to base ball as the national game. In a few years base ball will not be in the class of the gridiron popularity and the number of those who play This is one of the strong impressions of a tour of the gridiron world game in point of,general it. £ digested and assorted game fairly leaps into the eyes 1 It is so big. it is growing 5o swiftly that the progress might be alarm- ing to educators were not the institutions themselves keeping pace with ng, too, and foot ball is largely re- | personality and character stand out in_the writer's memory. Foot hall in the Western country {i= played under varying physical con- ditions. The visitor returning from him a medley of pictures ranging from gridirons among the lovable hills of the Missourl Valley, the giant. stadia on the/rich black loam of the corn helt, flelds nestling in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains or surrounded by the palms of California, or veiled in the Autumn rains of the far North- west . Enthusiasm Keen. | But whatever the environment and whatever the location, the spirit of the | game is the same and the enthusiasm is equally keen. There may be undue exultation over victory and too pro- found depression over defeat. But this is usually registered in chambers of commerce, boards of trade and the tike. and the influence of these civie rooters upon college sport is by no means as widespread as'it used to be in the West. But the alumni continue to he a source-of trial and tribulation. | ot too much to that_there is not |an important foot ball eleven in the West, or anywhere else., which not contain players who are in a par- ticular univi not through natural choice, but hecause of the activities of graduates. Where players of this sort work faithfully. doing honest or, aside | from gridiron labor, in return for the v they receive, it is difficult to here any harm is done. In fact, would be far better, the writer it | thinks, were this practice to he sanc- tioned. It exists, it always wjll exist and honest toleration is better than | deceit. Paying Practice Poor. But the practice of a graduate de- fraying an athlete's expenses through a sojourn in this region carries with | It is | does | SPORTS. “National Game” is living a lie and existing on the basis of false standards. If the game of foot ball ever has a big crimp put into it, the trouble will lie in this recrulting situation. As for the brand of foot ball played in the West, there is nothing much to say other than that the game {s a national possession. You will find on the West coast, for instance, coaches from New England, from the Middle Atlantic States, from the Mid- dle West, just as you will find home. bred products there. The Middle, West is getting to depend upon itself for coaching material. but even so there is a goodly heritage of ideas | and methods transplanted matnly | from the Atlantic Seaboard, just as in the East there are Western teach- ers. All Using Pass. No one has run hog-wild with the forward pass out West: its place as | a play to be launched under the cover | of a strohg running attack is recog- nized there as thoroughly as in the | East. The tendency té employ shifts before the ball is snapped is wide- spread both in the Middle and Far West, due chiefly to the coaches that Notre Dame has been sending out in the past decade. Very often the players are beating the gun and this should be watched by all who are in- terested in the game. For if it is not stopped all teams are going to shoot the works on this moving shift idea and the game of foot ball will become ridiculous. As to the sectional strength of foot ball, superiority Is no longer a matter of location. A great eleven in the East will be_a match for a great eleven on the West coast, or the Mid- dle West or the South, and a poor Western team will be beaten by a better Eastern team, and vice versa. (Covyright. 1926.) TARHEELS PREPPING FOR THE OLD LINERS Br the Associated Pre CHAPEL HIL] —University of North Carolina coaches are preparing the Tarheel foot ball squad for the engagement with Maryland at College Park next Saturday. The Tarheels came through .the Duke game last Saturday without seri- ous injuries. The first eleven was not permitted to engage In rough practice yesterday. but the second varsity team serim- maged a_ freshman eleven for more than an hour. Led by Foard and Shuford, the sec- ond ‘team scored several touchdowns on long drives over and *around the first year men. Presson, end, had the muscles of his shoulders torn loose during the scrim- mage and may not make the Maryland trip. October 19. Episcopal High School plays Staun- CENTRAL IS PICKED TO DEFEAT EASTERN Central and Eastern High gridiron warriors were to clash this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock in Wilson Stadium in the first game for both in the annual interhigh series and the second con test of the schoolboy elassic. The Blue and White were to pre- sent a much less experienced machine than that which last season a the series title, and Eastern a a green eleven. A stout battle that would provide spectators with plenty of enjoyment was thought not unlikely, as the teams appeared rather well matched. The large number of players of limited experience, however, was not expec. ted to make for a particularly good exhibition. On the basis of their showing in pre-series tilts, the Mount Pleasant team seemed to have the edge. Coach Charlie Guyon's boys, however, as a rule, make no particular effort to win such games and show to better advantage In the title encounters, Another series battle Friday will bring together Tech and Western. Coach Hap Hardell is putting the Manual Trainers, who will be making their serfes bow, through stiff prepa ration and they can by ne means he counted out of the reckoning. The Techmen are light. but Tardell is see ing to it that they are a fighting bunch. Western, that defeated Busi ness, 7 to 0, in the classic opener, also is working energetically and will be primed for the fray. A number of other zames involving local _schoolboy combinations are carded for Friday. Gonzaga, District scholastic champion, will g to Baltimors meet Loyola High: Eastern will en gage Catholic Univer: vearlings in the C. U. stadium: S ‘s will have as its guest Dunham Sche Baltimore, and Business will Manassas, Va., to tackle Swavely Prep pigskinners. Word has been received here of the death Friday in Arizona of Theadore (Fats) Howard, former Western High foot ball and base ball star. Ruck Howard, who also was a Western ath lete, and Austin Howard. who once had a trial with the Washington hase ball team. are brothers. - . George von Elm, aged 25, the new American amateur golf champion, started as a caddy at 9 at the Salt Lake City Country Club. 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