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SPORTS Return of Stars Buoys PRINCETON’S HOPES RISE WITH SLAGLE AVAILABLE Davis Also Will Be Ready to Face Lehigh—Webster Back in Yale Squad and Wascalonis Is Fit to Perform for Pennsylvania. B the Associated Press ' EW YORK. October 20.—Returning regulars lightened the hearts of coaches as preparations for midscason games gathered mo- mentum yesterday in the Eastern foot ball sector. Jake open-field brilliance against Lehigh Saturday. hospital squad, is back at guard in the dumr Lias made his first appearance at quarterbac weeks ago. The return of Webster to his station after four wecks of enforced fdleness has helped the Yale line in preparation for Brown. The Pennsyivania squad, taking it easy while awaiting Williams, has twelcomed Al Wascolonis, smashing back, into the fold. Harvard and Dartmouth have scout- | engazement foregast Boston ®d each other. Harvz m of | University, already are pointing to Lfll”mhles and substitutes which has |the Yale conflict next week. Navy een drilling for two weeks in Dart. | fears the overhead game Colgate will ation plays | have to offer Saturday rd last vear and | Reynolds faces a_discourag- ik ago couldh| ing task in patching together for the the Crim- | Penn State game. a Syracuse eleven that suffered heavy damage in the iors have worked Army game. rvard formations on the hlac Columbia is developing substitutes ard and infleld drill. Long inv for distant games by replacing regu- #d passes have been abandoned in [lars with new men in the workout Favor of simpler forwards. | for Duke. The service elevens are drillinz to | Pittsburgh is priming for Carnegie break up forward passing attacks | Tech. that so far have proves the greate The battle of State rivals, West nenace to the Army ard Navy goal | Virginia and West Virginia Wesleyan, es. The Cadets, with a rather easy | prompts both teawms to lengthy drills. | MODERN FOOT BALL BY BENNY FRIEDMAN, 1 Captain and Quarterback Coaches’ 1925 All-American Eleven. ‘ THE EXECUTION OF PLAYS. HE team with the most plays in foot ball does not always win. A large repertoire of plays is more often a handicap than an ad- vantage. i Sugcess does not depend upon numbers, but upon the execu- Yion of the plays you use. A play is of no value if it does not work smoothly, and when too many plays are attempted, as they often are, nonc ©i them is thoroughly mastered. Teams must first be schooled in the fundamenta! harging, blocking and tackling--before they can expect to execute plays successfully, Some years ago Minnesota had the | reason for the late Percy ynost complex shift plays eve used | ton S at in foot ball. Minuesota was a losing | Haughton the pla team. While the Minnes suft the phy ¥ of the man could engage in many and i {and the relative abilities of the men: ®hifts, the plavers were dficie i he never tried to make the man fit the charging. biocking and | play. were beaten consistently. Change Play to Fit Team. S s L LG You may see a major team use a they had mno time to master the | certain style of offense for two or three S ! | years und then change. The coach is One of the hig Eastern elevens|oompelled to change because the play- went through a season using onlyiers that carrled on that particular six different plays in each game. It [gtyle of play for two or three years was a winning team. have been graduated and the men that No eleven should use more than 30 eded them are different types = and 20 will often suflice. | physically. He has to change his wenty plays thoroughly le e to suit them. Wil be of more value to any Teams have often tried to use the than 198 only partly learned. | exact style of another team with dis All great coaches vealized this long | astrous results, The coach discovered ®go. What plays they give a team | that while the other team had men are held out of games until the ited to the particular methods em ers have been drilled in them to per-| ployed, his own players were not fection suited to it Plays about the same Here 1 am referring to detailed the country —i ¥ i style. The general style of offense dle West, and defense is the same all over the South {country. Foot ball is similar every- There is no such thing as strictly | where. Eastern, Midwestern, Far Western | ®r Southern foot ball. ! Scouts Pass Plays Along. i A mew foot ball play travels m'or‘ Capt. Davis, lately of the scrimmage, and Williams since injuries laid him low with Blmost defeated Miake no headway against Iy in h: team | e all over the Mid Tt West and the The Genjus of Bonehead. GERMAN RUNNER SPURNS $50,000 U. S. PRO OFFER ‘tober 20 (#).—Dr. Otto erman middle-distance has turned down offers total- 00 for an American tour to in an am nd i going to work at @ a month as \d gymnasium in_the public schools of | Wickersdorf, Thuringia. Dr. Peltzer, who obtained his de- gree as an engineer, holds world run- ning records for the half mile and 1,500 meters, defeating the famous Scandinavians, Paavo Nurmi and Ed- win Wide. Next. the country faster than a new joke. Toot ball scouts are largely re. wponsitle for this. The scout sees a disgrams It and passes it along. > he is seeing and while he is unming and deseribing the play wzen scouts will be doing the Within a few week the count the “secrets” mstructor systems. You : ? read about the “secrets™ of what newspapers refer to as the Yaughton system, the Yost system, the Warner system and any number of other systems, but what is there mecret ahout them? If a play is a secret it cannot help the teamn that has it. As soon as it.is | used the play no longer is a secret. At least 40,000 people can see it at ny big game. It hecomes every- property as soon as a team Don't Buy Your Radiator Shutter or Heater —for your automobile until you ses ARMENTROUT’S 1710 14th St. or 10th and Eye Sts. uses it. ‘oaches develop players each year and many of them go out as coaches. They will, of course, use the system that they learned under | Most of our leading coaches teach sehools. These schools ted to develop coaches. instructors teach is the evsteni they use. Instead of trying 10 keep it a secret, they spend their Summers telling those who care to listen all about it. Many of the colleges send ant games. The scouts are instructed to look for new angles of It lew ideas. In these w foot bhall become pretty much the came in all sections of the country. What one team intr teams will soon be The human equation course, lways be considered. It this human equation that prevents the style of two foot ball teams being | exactly alike. The style cannot be exan 1like, because no two teams are exactly alike. The players differ | physically and temperamentally. One wnother man cannot do and he, turn, cannot do certain things that the other man does. A play is good <o far as it Is fitted to the pla and that, incidentally = SPORT MART SWEATERS The Popular Crew Neck All Colors All Sizes - (All Wool) Featured scouts HEMPSTEAD A NEW STYLE in - COLLAR A TRIUMPH OF THE COLLAR MAKER'S ART. IT 15 THE BEST LOOKING, BEST WEARING STARCHED COLLAR EVER MADE ¢ 356 each 3[ag$[oo ¥ cLusTT, FRABODY & CO. TNC.” MATERD agle, Princeton triple-threat, is ready to flash his| THE EVENING [PLANS FOR OLYMPICS | | WILL BE MADE HERE| | sl | By the Ascociated Press | NEW YORK, October 20. | chinery for this country’s participa | tion in the ninth Olympic games at | Holland, in 1928, will be | | Amsterdam, set up in Washington, November 17 and 18, at the quadrennial meeting of the American Olympic Association. Permanent organization, according to announcement the secretary. Fred W. Rubien, will appoint an Olympic committee to take active harge of plans for the American rep- resentation at the games. Action also probably will be taken in the selection of coaches for the athletic teams. The meeting in W.shington will fol- low the national convention of the Amateur Athletic Union at Baltimore, November 14 to 16. SUNDAY SCHOOL LOOP Play in the Sunday School basket ball loop will open October 30, it ha: been announced. Three games will be played every Saturday night. Teams entered are Calvary M. Columbia Heights Christian, Claren- | don Baptist, Church of the Covenant, Mount Vernon M. F South, Peck Memorial., North arolina Avi Methodist Protestant and Baptist. The openmg lows: Baptist, Church of the Covenant vs. Calvary M. E., and Calvary Baptist ve. Columbia Heights Christian Church. Calvary M. E. | son won the Sunday School League | title, will drill tonight at 8 o'clock at the church. |last year is available, including | Scrivener, Merle Dunn, V. Brown, E. Broadbent, P. Gottwals, H. Bartlett, | E. Brumbaugh, R. Linke and D. Dil- |lon. Paul Frisby, former Western | High and University of Maryland star, is coaching. SHARKEY IS THE FIRST | TO CHALLENGE TUNNEY NEW YORK, October 20 (#).—Jack | Sharkey, another ““Boston strong boy | who defeated Harry Wills, has placed | bimself on record with the New York | State Athletic Commission as a ch | lenger of Gene Tunney, world heavy- weight boxing champion. The commission received the chal- | lenge as information and placed it on [ file, where it will receive considera- | tion, §t was iIntimated, when, and if, | challenges are in order. night's schedule fol- PRINTERS ARE PRAISED. Unfon Printer tossers, who have won five stralght national base ball tournaments, have just been present- ed copies of engraved resolutions commending their feat by Columbia Typographical Unlon. ARGYLES T0 PRACTICE. Argyle A. C. foot ballers, who will | practice tonight, Thursday and Friday | 0 o'clock, are after games. Cail North 874 The team is planning a benefit dance. | e = i BASKETERS TO DRILL. Palace Peewee basketers will drill tonight at 7 o'clock in Epiphany gym. M. and T. Lucas, Breen, Weidman, Berkley and Polley are asked to re- port. PARK A C. TO MEET. Park A. C. gridders are to meet to- night at 7 o'clock at Tenth street and Virginia avenue. BROOKLAND A. Brookland A. C. foot ballers will drill tonight at 7 o'clock at Twelfth and Irving streets. They will hold |a business meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Joe Lynch, 1027 Irving streef E. Popper & Ci STAR. WASHING ~The ma- | Peck Memorial vs. Clarendon | tossers, who last sea- A formidable squad from | {it. Inc., Manufacturers TON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, Gridiron}[.eadére of 1926 Interesting Facts About Foot Ball Coaches and Captains of Big College Elevens for This Season No. 45—Southern California. CAPTAIN. EWELL (JEFF) CRAVATH, captain of the Trojans for this season, holds a singular honor. In all the games that he has played, he has yet to face an opponent who has not outweighed| him by several pounds. This, however, seems to be to his advan- tage, judging from his gridiron performances. He plays at center, | being considered one of the most aggressive men ever to play that position on the Western Coast. His passing, which is of a very fine quality, a ved an important part in their success last ports activity, he being a firm bellever in the | axiom, “Do one thing well.” He was a popular choice last season for the {all-Pacific Coast team and received national mention. TO OPEN OCTOBER 30| Cravath prepared for college at Santa Ana, Calif., High School, where he makes his home. COACH. H()\\'Alll’) JOX coach of the Trojans for the past season, has the un- usual distinction of having coached his way across the continent, start- ing at Syracuse University in 1908, and then taking the reins at Yale, Ohio State, Towa, in succession, where he was 1ead coach for eight years, and finally | winding up here. One year after he was graduated from Yale, where he had played at end for three years, he accepted the position of head coach at his alma mater, a wonderful example of the confidence that was placed in his knowledge of the He is well remembered at Yale for the licking that he gave them a ears back with his Towa star team. onsidered to have effected one of the best forward-passing attacks seen fn years on the coast. He has developed such stars as Aubrey Devine and Gordon Locke, both all-American, at Towa; Adams, Cravath and Kaer. Locke is his assistant at Southern California. The schedule for Southern California for this season follows: September 25—Southern California, 74; Whittier, 0. October 2—Southern California, 42; Santa Clara, 0. October 9—Southern California, 16; Washington State, 7 October 16—Southern CaJifornia, 28; Occldental, 6 October 23—California at Berkeley October 30—Stanford at Los Angeles, November 6—Oregon Aggies at Portland, Oreg. 13—Idaho at Los Angeles. Montana at Los Angele: Notre Dame at Los Angel The Coening Star BOYS CLUB — HE backfield man stands about four yards back of the scrimmage line. For young teams they need not stand over three yards back. The back must not give away the play by unconscious glances, movements of the body and legs. or leaning toward the play. Keep in a relaxed state until the instant before the ball is snapped, then be up on toes with muscles tense, ready to spring. The back who is leading the inter-|when you hit y: ference should run -low. hitting the [may hit a hole, and if vour opponent with his shoulder and turn- | closed. you'll simply fall flat. 1f your ing him away from the play—not in|eyes are open, yvou'll see the hole and Keep vour feet as long as pos- [ make a good gain. sible. If you can take one man out| Strike the line at your greatest and then continue to be of assistance | speed, running with short steps. to the runner, be ready to do so. Next—More about the backs. The back carrying the ball should ConeeiEtt. 1005 run u little ways back of the inter: o s iy ferer, but not too far back. If you GRID STAR AT ILLINOIS NOW IS TOWN FIREMAN run ‘too close, your interferer may bleck his man, both fall, and you fail CHAMPAIGN, i, October 20 (). ~—Frosty Peters, the 1926 model of over them. See where the blocked man {s going and take instant advan- “Red” Grange on the Illinols eleven, has heen commissioned a fireman in tage of it. \ the Champaign ire Department. Peters will be on night duty until the end of the gridiron season. The Billings, Mont., youth made his home with the firemen this Fall because he was unable to dig up sufficient funds to pay for a room. He is working his way_tfirough the university and has bunked at the fire station since school opened. Peters, a running and drop kicking star, has refused all overtures to join fraternities. ur opponent Face forward when you're tackled, always. 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EVENTS TO BE HELD ¥ the Associated Press. | DEL MONTE, Calif., October 20.— | | A serles of professional open golf tournaments, beginning at Del Monte December 10 and winding up at Hot Springs, Ark., in February, with a combined financlal inducement of more than $50,000, has been an- nounced today by J. C. Hartnett, who took the first American golf team to| Scotland a few years ago. | Del Monte has hung up a $5,000 prize as an attraction to the country’s best golfers. This tournament, which will be played on the Pebble Beach course, will be an amateur-pro affair opening Friday, December 10, with 2 holes of medal play on the follow- ng_Saturday and Sunday. Four other California tournaments follow the Del Monte championship at Sacramento December 17-19, $2,500; at Fresno, December 2426, $2,500: at Long Beach, January 1-3, §2,500, and at Los Angeles, January 5-9, $10,000. ! SPORTS. 29 FEastern Elevens : Illinois Will Test Michigan’s Power SERIES OF PRO GOLF | GAME TO GIVE TRUE LINE ON BIG TEN TITLE HOLDERS Zuppke Team Is Main Contender for Honors Now in Hands of Wolverines—Purdue-Chicago Clash Is Attracting M By the Assoctated Press. HICAGO, October 20.—Michigan's chances oi re uch Attention. ning the Big Ten title it won last year are at stake in Saturday’'s game with 1linois, 1925 runner-up and leading challenger this I 11, but almost as much interest has been attracted toward the Chicago-Purdue clash, in which two dark horses will show their conference speed. The 1926 model of the Maroon machine which claimed the champion ship two years ago, battered and shaken by last Saturday's decisive de feat at Pennsylvania's hands, faces.sthe test of the year in Purdue, never a strong contender for the gridiron honors, but since its holding of Wis- consin to a scoreless tie now rated the title fight. LAY for the 150-pound sandl under auspices of Capital Ci will mark the first effort to determine not get action Sunday. Every section of the city 4s repre- sented in the league. A list of the 80 piayers allowed each team must be submitted by the secretary by 10 o'clock tomorrow night. Officials for the games have been secured and other detalls completed. Games scheduled besides those Sun- day, follow: November Southern Preps. vs.| Knick Preps, rtherns vs. Wintons; 14, Northerns vs. Knick Preps, Brook- land vs. Wintons: 21, Southern Preps | vs. Brookland, Knick Preps vs Win- tons. In preparation for their clash with Southern Preps on Marine Barracks Field Sunday, in the first game of the city 150-pound title series, Northern gridmen will drill tomorrow night and Saturday at 7:30 o'clock on Park View playground. Last Sunday Northerns downed Brookland, also entered in the serfes, while Southern Preps and Knick Preps, another team that will appear in the gonfallon hunt, were battling to a scoreless tie. Mohawks face the strong Fort | Humphrey _eleven at American League Park Sunday, at 3 o'clock. | The Humpnrey boys won over the Camp Meade Tank School team last Sunday. Apaches are after a_game for Sun- | day at Union League Park, following cancellation by Reina Mercedes of the | engagement slated with that team. Call Manager Seymour Hall at Lin: coln 10086, night by Palace A. C. foot ballers at their clubhouse. Boxing bouts will feature. Palacemen, following their win over Marine Barracks Sunday in the former’s debut in the unlimited class, are now seeking games in this group for Sunday and succeeding Sabbaths. Call Franklin 5804 between 7 and 8 p.m. Stanton gridders will visit Alexan- dria Sunday to meet the strong Fire Department eleven at Dreadnaught 1150-POUND TEAMS OPEN " TITLE SERIES ON SUNDAY Northerns meet Southern Preps on Marine Barracks field and Brookland engages Knick Preps on Brookland’s gridiron. The series Wintons will be the only team of the five entered in the series that will Park. Stantons, who trounced Kenil- worths in the former’'s bow as an un limited team, have added several new player: = a2 Balloon tives and snubbers pave rough roads for motor travelers. And the springy layer of lambs- wool ina Dr. Reed Cushion Sole carpets the way for foot travel- ers. 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C. squad that will drill tonight at 6:30 o'clock at Sixth and N streets expresses a desire to meet Northerns. Aztecs want to meet teams. Call West 2958-J. ANOTHER NAVY BOXER NOW IN LIMELIGHT Another Navy lad is making a_bid for puglslistic honors. Little Don Davis, the flashy featherweight who has been just discharged from the fleet, put over a great win when he triumphed over hard-hitting Eddie Shea. Shea has been having things pretty much his own way with the boys of his class in the Middle West and was looked upon as a real contender for the title until he ran afoul of Davis. Now Davis disagrees with the boy who think he was lucky to win over the walloping Wop. He is willing to meet Shea in a return bout just to prove that winning over Shea is a natural thing for a_boy of his ability. | In the meantime Don Is going after | Mike Dundee and Joey Sangor, or any sther boy who disputes his right to 90-pound oe classed with the leading feather- weights in the Mid mysterious stranger in the Autumn’s Purdue, swinging from a strong stand against Navy to the holding of the Badgers last week, appears in the midst of a climb that makes Phelan’s fighting squad a favorite down Stagg in the 35th consecutive year or his coaching. The Bollermakers hava everything to gain and Chicago mueh to_lose. Having downed lowa last week which they were unable to do a year ago, the Illini invade Ann Arbor The absence of De Ambrosio at end and Timm at half for Illinols, from injuries, is a factor in the rating of Michigan as favorite. Northwestern tests its chances in the conference race in Saturday" non-conference it with Rockne's Notre Dame eleven, annually a Big Ten stumbling block, and already thix Fall conqueror of Minnesota. The Purple smothered Indiana at the latest move in a Fall campaign so far notably successful. Minnesota views the game with Wabash, Saturday's other non-con ference affair, with optimism. Spears encouraged by the Gophers' showing in Michigan's victory, thinks the con test will further temper his varsity for the remainder of the Big Ten games, Wisconsin is working to develop for Indiana the offense which fatled to materialize against Purdue, while Pat Page sees in his second conference game a chance for Indiana’s first Blx Ten conquest in more than three sea sons. 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