Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1926, Page 28

SPORTS, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1926. SPORTS. Catholic U. Figures It Has About an Even Chance to Defeat Marines Saturday BROOKLANDERS SHOWING GOOD FORM IN PRACTICE Team Doubtless Will Be Able to Play Best Game of Season Against Devil Dogs—G. W. to Face Tough Foe in William and Mary. BY H. C. BYRD. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY meets the Quantico Marines Saturday in the biggest game of its home schedule. The Brooklanders expect to place against their opponents a team that is coming along at a good gait and which should be at its best. The Marines are to bring here a veteran aggregation, but the Brooklanders are banking on enter g the contest on about even terms. The Marines have won both games they have played at C. U. Two years ago they got the long end of the count by more than 30 points, but last Fall won in a hard, well played contest, 13 to 0. Right now Coach McAuliffe feels that his team will go into tha geme with almost an even chance to win, and if that is true, then the game ought to be one well worth seeing. ot “Qur team got going fairly well against 3t. Yohn's at Brooklyn last week, and if we improve this week as we did last, then we shall give the Marines a tough battle,” was the way stronger that it has seemed in two of its games. rapidly now and ought to get along w Our reserve strength does not measur avoid injuries we may make out much Athletic Director Charley Moran usually is about as communicative as a clam when his opinion is' asked about games. Here is Moran's way of looking at it “There will be two teams on the field of eleven men each. The kick- off 1s sure to take place from the 40-yard line, and thereafter there will be punting, throwing and running of the ball. Eoth teams will go into the game expecting to win, but the one that scores most points is going to. 1f you don't believe that come out and see for yourself. If the wind blows it will be a windy day and punts will be hard to judge. If rain falls the field will be muddy and players consequently may find it difil- cult to stand up. This is my predic- tion for the game. It may not be much of a prediction, but is just about s accurate and valuable as some I've made of some other games.” Have Team of Veterans. The Marines plan to come here Sat- morning in time for lunch, o to Brookland for the game, which is to begin at 2:30 o'clock. The Marines will present against the Brooklanders a team of veterans, with several former college stars in sts line-up. Three men certain to start the game are McQuade, Pugh and Bailey, former local high school and Maryland stars, and probably Hough @l wili be in the contest. It seems to be the opinion at Cath- olic University that all necessary to es is to take care of Pugh McQuade. One Brook- lander stated yesterday that “Pugh and McQuade form all the offense the Marines have, and we are going to concentrate on stopping them, and we'll come close to doing it too, and if we do we win." Just what the Marines may havé to think about that is another mat- ter. Certainly if Rykeman has not lost a good deal of his cunning of three years ago, then the Marines have another back besides Pugh and AMcQuade. Incidentally, the Marines ave two good tackles, both Wigmore and Hunt being veteran and brilliant players. But Catholic U. undoubtedly has scouted the Marines and knows prétty well what they have, and if, knowing that, it still feels it has practically an even chance, then the only conclusion to draw is that the Brooklanders will have on the field Saturday a team capable of doing better than it has done in any previous contest this year. Gallaudet has no this week. The Kend: taking a lay-off following their trip to Reading lust week. Georgo Washington goes to Wil- liemsburg to play William and Mary. The Hatchetites are sure of a hard game, though they are strong them- William and Mary apparently s as it was this time vear ago. but even at that it prob- ably is good enough to give any eleven in its class a real battle. George Washington should not make the trip figuring on_anything* other than the hardest kind of a game. Georgetown plays Elon College of North Carolina and the game will be nothing more nor less than a rest period for the Blue and Gray -egu- lars. Elon never has done anything 1n foot ball to give the slightest indi- cation that it has the ghost of a chance agalnst the kind of a team that represents Georgetown. Maryland, in preparation for its game with North Carolina Saturday, ut College Park, is to stage a long scrimmage with the Marines this aft- ernoon. The Marines plan to use the scrimmage to get them in shape to meet C. U. Last year Maryland lost to North Carolina by a score of 18 to 0, and this Fall the Tarheels beat South Carolina 7 to 0, a team which beat Maryland. The game between the two schools usually is nip and tuck. The contest is looked upon as one of the biz games of the season {n the South Atlantic section. AT THE SIGN OF THE MOON Big Saving In Our o~ ~ Established 1853 Special Six-Day SALE the best values of the n custom tailoring Suits or Topcoats Tailored to Meet Your Individual Requirements 25 Mertz & Mertz Co. 1342 G St. | McAuliffe put it. “Our team is much i We are coming along well for the remainder of the season. e up to what it should, but if better than anybody expects. CARNE WILL PILOT ST. MARY'S TOSSERS ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 20.— ve can Dick Carne will lead his St. Mary’s | Seniors on the basket ball court of the Lyceum Club tonight at 7:30 for the first drill of the year. member of last year’s squad, with the exceptior of Earl Cronin, is back and prospects are bright. Cronin has jolned the St. Mary's Celtics, unlimited champions of Alex- andria, but Capt. Willie Nugent, Willle Travers, Russell Kidwell, Chick Meades, Robert Brenner, W. Morgan, Joe Hamilton and Louis Latham re- main on the job. George Magner, Warren Zimmer- man, sr.; Robert Brenner, sr.; Edward Harlowe and H. Latham are advisers on the board controlling the seniors. Alexandria High School and George limited foot bail team went through a long drill last night in preparation for Sunday’s game with the Stanton A. C. of Washington, which will be played at the Dreadnaught Park. Another driil will be held here to- morrow night at the new municipal swimming pool, at 7 o'clock, under the huge arc lights. Pirate Midgets have signed the fol- lowing players for their foot ball team: Clarke, Jones, Carver, Potter, Padgett, Foltz, Cooke, C. Nixon, Moore, Pharr, Harrover, Hanz, An- derson, Dodd, Perkins, Emerson and CIliff. ..Alexandria High School and George Mason High elevens, which will meet here Friday, went through stiff scrim- mage sessions yesterday. Only light workouts will be held tomorrow. Episcopal High School goes to Staunton, Va., on Saturday to play the Staunton Military Academy in their annual game. Frank Summers, a graduate of Alexandria High School and Virginia Military Institute, where he earned sixteen major sports let- ters in foot ball, basket ball, base ball and track, is coaching the Staun- ton gridders. St. Mary’s Celtics basket ball team worked out last night, with Earl Cronin, Buddy Zimmerman, Jack Al- len, Eddie Gorman, John Pierpont, Larry Brenner and Larry Kersey in uniform. Those seven players will de- fend the city unlimited amateur title. Jack Allen is booking games at 215 North Columbus street. e, In addition to meeting William and Mary foot ball team at Willlamsburg on Saturday, the Hatchetite cross- country team will race the Indians. SAFETY <>RAZOR Every | Pair of Tarheels Above is Nolan Faulkner and below is Bud Shuler. They are slated to lay the guard positions when the orth Carolina eleven tackles Mary- land at College Park Saturday after- noon, in a Southern Conference con- test. It is Maryland’s first big home game of the campaign. ARMY AND NAVY SIGN 4-YEAR AGREEMENT ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 20 (s —Lieut. Comdr. Jonas H. Ingram, athletic director at the Naval Acad- emy, has announced that West Point had joined Annapolis in prohibiting the participating of first-year men in sports, beginning July 1, 1927, Comdr. Ingram also said that the cadets had chosen New York City as the scene of the 1927 Army-Navy foot ball game, with the Polo Grounds the likely battle ground. Navy has chosen Philadelphia for the 1928 service classic, the director sald, with the Sesqui Stadium and Franklin Fleld under consideration. The agreement between the acad- emles covers a_four-vear perfod and provides that all gridiron contests be declded on the Atlantic seaboard, Comdr. Ingram said. YALE LISTS .MARYLAND FOR 1927 GRID CLASH NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 20.— Yale, which plays Maryland here on November 6, has carded the Old Liners for November 5, 1927. This contest has almost become an annual fixture. Other Yale dates for 1927 are: October 1, Bowdoin; 8, Georgia; 15, Brown; 22, Army; 29, Dartmouth; November 12, Princeton; 19, Harvard at Cambridge. BLADES with the finest edge that steel can take SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THE WORLD OVER EASTERN WIN INDICATES HOT SCHOOL GRID SERIES HAT the showing of Eastern High’s foot ball team in games pre- ceding the annual interhigh title series cannot be used as a gauge to predict how the Light Blue and White will perform in the championship affairs, was forcibly brought home yesterday when Guyon’s boys scored an impressive 12-to-0 victory over Central, last sea- son’s title holders. The Lincoln Parkers in ames prior to that of yes- terday, their first in the annual schoolboy classic, looked anything but formidable. Short forward passes, smartly exe- cuted, from Burton Langhenry to Capt. “Buck’ O'Brien, were respon- sible for both touchdowns. The first tally came in the third period and from that stage the Light Blue and | White_held the whiphand, being able to push forward both by the air and ground route much oftener than its rival. Overzealousness hurt the Blue and White cause. Before each touchdown Central was penalized 15 yards for tackling a rival player before he re- | f Baum of Central, in|0'Brien. ceived the ball. the second instance, recovered the ball and ran 50 yards only to have it |Ce brought back. Capt. O'Brien, Langhenry and James (Sap) Allman all played strong of- fensive games for Eastern, whose line gave its best exhibition of the season. Sproul's punting and defensive work at tackle were features of Central's play. “Tubby” Ault, playing fullback for the Mount Pleasant combination in place of Woodson Birthright, who recently was injured, made several substantial gains. Although the showing of the Blue and White team unquestionably was disappointing to its followers it must be borne in mind that it was playing without the services of Capt. Black- istone as well as those of Birthright. With these men back in the game the Mount Pleasant school’'s combination that is decidedly green may look more formidable before the series is over. The line-up and summary: Position. Dinkin for Trod- Substitutions— (Central) den. for Ambrogl, for Rhodes, Parks Sargent. Touch- Points after touch- downs_missed—Allman_(2). Referea—Mr. Magoffin _(Michizan). (Maryland). Linesman—Mr. any). Time of periods—10-4 Friday Tech, the only eleven that has not shown its wares in the series, will appear against Western in Wil- son Stadfum. The Georgetowners won their first game and are regarded as having the edge. Hap Hardell, Mc- Kinley mentor, says his squad is light, but he is trying to offset this as far as possible by developing a fighting spirit. 2), e Umpire—Mr. Brewer Harmon (Beth- ninute quarters. BRIEF ITEMS OF SPORT By the Associated Press. RIDAY will be a busy night for Gene Tunney. Greenwich Village, “the champion’s very own,” will welcome him home, and after the celebration he will leave for Pittsburgh to receive the keys of that city and attend Saturday’s foot ball game between Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech. Alderman Mdward J. Sulllvan, who, with Sheriff C. W. Culkin, is in charge of the Greenwich Village affair, is au- thority for the statement that it will be “such a night as only the village can give.” William Tilden, former national sin- gles tennis champlon, has donated a cup and promises to play left-handed in a tennis tournament among theat- rical stars. Although some of the en- trants have expressed thelr suspicions, Bill is not left-handed naturally: Sport gossip is already linking the name of Dave Bancroft, manager of the Boston Braves, with the vacancy created at the helm of the Pittsburgh Pirates by the release of Bill McKechnie. Banny is said to de- sire a change of scenery, but is want- ed at the roins of the Braves, who spurted amazingly at the close of the Natfonal League season. Probably tho most peculiar play in all Saturday’s spectacular foot ball was the scoring of a touchdown by a Princeton player who had seemingly been eliminated from the play. Ba- ruch threw a pass that Schuber, Navy back, batted down, only to see it fail into the arms of Stinson, Tiger half- back, who was sitting over the goal line_after having been knocked down by Hamllton, another Middle back. Among the leading college elovens of the Nation there are 26 that thus far have not lost a game, but only one TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F The De Luxe Package of these—Northwestern of Evanston, IlL.—has kept its goal line inviolate. Coach Chick Meehan has wrought the miracle New York University has been seeking from foot ball gods for years. Heretofore N. Y. U. elevens have been, more or less, shrinking Autumn violets to be trampled under- foot. Now, as a result of the victory over Tulane, it is the “big violet ma- chine,” and its fame as such that the game Saturday with Rutgers has been transferred from a smaller field to Yankee Stadium to accommodate the thousands applying for tickets. Nick Altrock and Al Schacht, base ball comedy team of Washington, have shifted their antics to other sports. They put on a comedy tennis skit at Mlle. Lenglen's professional debut, and Sunday appeared in eut- landish foot ball outfits to entertain the crowd at a professional game in New York. - Benny Bengough, peppery young catcher of the New York Yankees, who was unable to take his place behind the plate in the world series because of a broken arm, has entered the_political lists at Niagara Falls, N. Y., where he lives when away from the Yankee fold. He is a Democratic candidate for the State Assembly. Y Visual Foot Ball||LITTLE HAS DONE GREAT BY SOL METZGER. Reverse plays are only success- ful when the backs learn to pass the ball to each other when run- ning at top speed so cleanly that a fumble is impossible. Pop War- ner was the first coach to produce a good reverse play. It was a masterplece and is diagrammed above. The Indians first used it. Pop still uses it just as effectively at Stanford, and so do many others. The success of the play depends on Back No. 1 passing the ball to Back No. 2 as they pass. In {llustrating how the pass is made, I have purposely shown the play it would be seen from the defensive line of scrimmage. No. 1 back gets the ball direct from center and runs to his right, be- tween Back No. 4, coming toward him, and his line of scrimmage. As he approaches No. 4, he takes the ball in his right hand and slaps it right at the belt of No. 4, holding his hand on it as they pass each other (Fig. 2). No. 4 takes both hands to hold the ball in place as they pass in order to pre- vent a fumble. In making this pass players should be careful to use but one hand, the one nearest the receiver. If both are used in slapping the ball into place, there is great dan- ger of a fumble, because the arm farthest from the receiver is bound to strike the nearest arm of the receiver. (Copyright. 1926.) —— — TARHEELS ARE FIT TO FACE MARYLAND CHAPEL HILL, N. C., October 20. —North Carolina U’s grid squad was to put in another hard session this afternoon in preparing for the annual clash with Maryland at College Park Saturday. Yesterday the varsity scrimmaged the Freshmen team for more than an hour, the big team scoring two touchdowns. One of the scores came on a 60-yard run following a forward pass. Furches and Hackney alternated at quarterback and it is not certain which will start against the Ola Liners. North Carolina’s squad is in good trim physically and will be able to do its best on Saturday. - .. Larry Boerner, Washington boy, will get a tryout as center on the RBalti- more professional basket ball team. He hurled for Frederick of the Blue Ridge League last season. THINGS AT BY LAWRENCE PERRY. WISCONSIN ISCONSIN has a strong foot ball eleven this season. It may no win the Big Ten Conference championship, but if it doesn't it will rate among the leaders. The excellence of the team is a reflection of the new spirit and methods of George Little, native of Washington, D. from Michigan last year as athletic director and foot bal ,» who went there coach. The calling of any coach is justified and his salary, however large, is earned, when, in addition merely to teaching teams to play foot ball, base ball or basket ball, he stands sponsor for clean, strong manhood and for standards of conduct that will carry with the men out into the world. That is the sort of man George Little is. What he has done and is doing at Wisconsin is a subject for conversation throughout the Middle West. ‘When the writer was here two years ago he reported a sagging spirit among the athletes and the students generally. This has all been changed. Nowhere in the conference is there to be found a zing and zip pervading the campus as at Madison. It means that Little has sold himself and his methods to the student body. Sells a New Spirit. ! But he has done much more than that. He has sold the new spirit of Wisconsin to the State. This is a great feat. When he came here there was a satirical, eve-lifting attitude on the part of the alumni gnd_citizens generally toward athletics at Madison, and this affected loyalty to the fnsti- tution in every respect. Glenn Frank, president of the uni- versity, has been working on_ this with conspicuous success and Little has done remarkable work also. His tireless campaign throughout the State, in which he has met alumni groups night after night, telling what was being attempted at the university and pointing out the duty of grad- uates and citizens, has borne fruit. He holds athletic clinics for high school and club coaches throughout the State. His activities are mani- fold. Today the State is right back of this institution. High school boys, athletes as well as non-athletes, are coming here and the surge to insti- tutions of sister States has been pretty completely checked. The buoyant personality of the man is everywhere apparent through- out the university. You find him stopping his car on the way to foot ball practice to encqurage students engaged in intramural diversions, such as foot ball, tennis and the like. You find him in the boathouse, pat- ting the crew candidates on the back. Every one seems to know him. Ot course, under these conditions, the brand of foot ball has been fm- proved. From a lowly standing in the Big Ten, the Badgers In Little's first vear, 1925, finished the season in a tie for second place. Backfield Is Only Worry. This year, with so many conference teams of strength, there is no telling what Wisconsin will 8o. It s suffi- cient for the present that the Wis- consin team is accounted everywhere as formidable, and that this reputa- tion is justified by the showing in the early season games. The line, a veteran one in nearly every po- sition, should stand up with any in the conference, and just how far a promising backfield develops will tell the tale of th As chief Tom Lieb, formerly Rockne's right- RECORDS = like truth = are stranger than fiction. The enormous sales of White Owls would seem unbelievable did not the cigar, itself, prove the reason for this overwhelming popularity. The demand for White Owls is now the greatest in the history of the brand — a record that justifies our belief that there are enough smokers secking the best for their money to warrant the use of sweeter-tasting, mel- lower tobacco —from the finest crop in years. v hand man at Notre Dame. Earl Blalk, end of the West Point 1920 eleven, is coaching the wingmen; Irwin Uteritz, former Michigan quarter, and Butch Slaughter, Michigan for- ward, are coaching the backs and line, respectively, and Guy Sundt of Wisconsin is dolng general utility work. Of all the conference schedules. that of Wisconsin looks as though it has been devised with {ntelligent regard for the players and the de- velopment of the team, The first big game does not come until October 80, when Minnesota is played. Then come, in order, Michigan, Iowa and Chicago The Badgers will be a real foot ball team by the last of this month, and the spirit of the men already i< a compelling thing. A. A. U. AND COLLEGE LINK MAY BE FORMED By the Associated Prees. An_fnnovation in college athletics, which its sponsors hope will form the proper connecting link between the Amateur Athletic Union and colleges, has been started at the University of Nebraska. The University “N" Club, composed of all wearers of the athletic “N,” and which has hertofore been concerned wholly with college athletic develop ment, now has decided to arrange for graduate members to compete in amateur events as members of the “N" Club. The club will apply for membership in the A. A. U. 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