Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1926, Page 33

SPORT S. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1926. Tunney Inaugurates New Era in Boxing : Revision of Base NO CHANGES CONSIDERED NEW CHAMP T O ATTRACT HIGHER CLASS CUSTOMERS Gene Is Not Due to Be P Ring Worms, But He Arenas as Full as An, opular With the Regular Is Likely to Pack the y Other Titleholder. BY SPARROW McGANN. crowds is due as a result of t! heavyweight throne. Tunne is any other champion when he fight leather-lunged gentry would term a elebrated int who ever has fought EW YORK. November 1.—A big change in the personnel of fight he accession of Gene Tunney to the . this writer is confident, will pack the arenas as full ts. but it wi'l be what some of the "high-hat” crowd. Tunney of the Tect will attract a higher class of customers than any man With the regular fi~ht fans Tunney is not going to be so very popular. It already has been demonstrated tha can any one figure it, dope it or other When Gene entered the ring at \fadison Square Garden recently and zot his razzing, while Jack Dempsey letested and scorned as champion. ot all the verbal bouquets, a curious expression crept into Gene's eves. It still is there. He took it like the an he is, though. With a little ile he remarked, “The boos seem to ave it."” Let us_go b history. Not hefore Wills Cheered; Dempsey Booed. Jack Dempsey sat in at a show held in Madison Square Garden. Just hefore the main event, Harrv Wi cned in, led by that impulsive and X irio, Lew Raymond. ck a little way into relv a few weeks ht ever pro- sed out of New York Tmond. Wow! The crowd rose in its might and zave one of those TNT vells for the dusky walloper. And Dempsev— | the least he got was the stentorian in- | formation that he was a low-life bum. | Then last week when the fans of New Yor got their first chance to e the new champion, a man who | “tood face to face with the most cared champion the ring has ev Lnown—John L. Sullivan not except- cd—nnd gave him the finest osrt of 18, they handed him the 1 hy? It is impossible to fathom mental workings of the gents ake up the sreat majority of crowd. Yet a few things an be fizured, from Tunnex's angle at le He Is so urlike fighters who have preceded him to the throne that as not got beneath the thick of the low-brow fight fans. What the Promoters K The fair, just-minded fan Is fied to pav his good money to new chempion perform, and a fighter's hox office att tiveness is what counts after all. The wise promoter knows this. Tunney has made a thorough study of the champions in all sports before | him 1le knows that too many have | » down to defeat hefore their time. | was chiefly they did not h adulation of lifted above the rules tet down for an athlete and their fall as a mere matter of time. Tunney knows that the athlete wh pects to maintain his place always | t be fit and ready when called| »n without the necessi going ough v stroving sfege of tra that perfection whic areless living and idlen Tunney Ts of New Era. The average fight fan loves to wade 1n blood ot understand nor | nssimilate ¢ methods tha Giene cmploys to s victories. Tunney nts the idea of a man- Viller uncalled-for punishment of an opponent, according to his| does not 1 ng in the prize v more than it does in any 5 This can keep thei their adn The i of the new era of boxing. him ha employed 1t similar, but the has perfected a more nd more decisive his battles. By the man iims brutality he is scorned as one who does not belong. | Rut to the lov of »od sport he | 11 pifies all that is fine and ennobling. day of the pjugugly, the fighter of brute strength and no brains, is nassing. (Copyrizht. 1926.) ST MARY’S CELTICS 70 PLAY WOODSIDE ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 1. St. Mary's Celtics, boasting the city amateur unlimited vh'\m;\hmflnp,v will wpen their basket ball season with a practice ame at the Lyceum Hall hiere_tomor: night at 7:30, play! the Wood E. team. The lo will have | Pierpo Larry Ker- R Lar Brenner, 1 Cronin, ack Allen. Eddie Gorman, Buddy fmmerman and Arthur Wingfield available for action. On Friday night play the Peer] A, practice tilt. M the Celtics will C. in another Alexandria High School will play Warrenton High at foot ball hera on Raturday afternoon if negotiations under way are completed. The be staged at Dreadnaught Episcopal High tain _Virzinia_ Epi Lynchburg, Va. noon at Hoxton F! George Mason and Culpeper will appose in a ‘second athletic_district foot ball championship me here next riday at the Dreadnaught Park. ng at 3 o'clock. RAIN HALTS SOCCERISTS. Rain is playing bhavoc with the schedule of the Washington Soccer League. It was found play any games veste one was staged The six contes(s booked yesterday will be staged at the end of the sea- son. pl ~PART MART $3.95 IMPORTED DOMESTIC Values to $10 j Only 130 Pairs Camel H Homespuns Tweeds Golr Hose, $2.95 Values to $6 SportMark 914 F—1303 F—1410 N. Y. Ave. t the roaring acclaim of the crowd— wise explain it?—is not for him. Visual Foot Ball BY SOL METZGER. Hurdling feet first 15 panned in foot ball. Hurdling head first is not. The first hurdle play was most spectacular. Weeks, Colum- great halfback, in a game against Penn at Polo Grounds in 1901, leaped over both lines of scrimmage at midfield, dodged the man and scored. He dupli- cated the feat later in the game. To make this amazing leap Weeks lined up 5 yards back of his line, was thrown the ball by his quar- terback, who then got down on his hands and knees back of the line, the two other backs standing slightly to the rear of the quarter and_on either side of him. Weeks ran at full speed, used the back of the quarter as a take- off and leaped as high as he could. The other two backs tossed him into the air as he went up so_that his fegt actually cleared the Penn linemén jumping up to tackle him. Next seagon a defense was work- ed out for the play that stopped Weeks and also Dick Smith, Ore- gon’s coach last year, knocking the latter unconscious. In 1904 Stevenson, Penn's_ all- American quarter, defeated Har- vard, 11-0, by his marvelous hur- dling in the open field. He thus eluded tackler after tackler. These plays proved so dangerous they were banned. How different Is foot ball today! The only trace of hurdling remaining is the headfirst dive over the line for the goal line by a back striving to score when his course is blocked. All three plays are pletured. GRID ROW FATAL TO ONE. COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Novem- ber 1 (#).—Injuries suffered in a clash between rival .foot ball sup- porters between halves of the Texas Aggie-Baylor game here Saturday caused the death of Charles M. Ses- sums, 24. Sessums was a senior at Texas A. and M. College. T. O. Wal- ton, president of the college, has started an investigation. BOUTS TO BE STAGED. Under direction of John E. Zetts, eight fiveround bouts will be staged tomorrow night at the Noel House, Seventeenth and Rosedale streets northeast. The program will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Greatest Play I Ever Saw VI—FOOLING VANDERBILT. BY DR. M. S. BENNETT, PENNSYLVANIA, Head Coach. University of the South. 1 or Sewanee, as the latter is HERE is no question in my mind but that the most spectacular play of my entire experience on the gridiron came in the 1924 ‘Thanks- giving game between Vanderbilt and the University of the South, more popularly known. It changed what locked like a defeat into a smashing victory. In 1924 Red Grange and the Illinois team were making foot ball history in the West and looked to be cham- plons until they ran up against Minne- sota. The latter team licked the TIi- nois crew 21 to 0, shocking the en- tire country by a reversal. A week later a greater shock was given the foot ball fans when Vanderbilt, coached by Dan McGugin, went to Minneapolis and downed the con- querors of Illinois in a spectacular game by a score of 20 to 7. Van- derbilt showed a brilllant team, the like of which had seldom been seen in the Middle West, and completely smothered Minnesota though out- weighed many pounds to the man. The Thursday following this defeat of Minnesota, Vanderbilt was, called {upon to go against Sewanes, which I coached. It was the climax of the season., The Sewanee Tigers had made a favorable record, but Vander- bilt was a decided favorite. This is one of those old-time rivalry contests where a. spirit of “do or die” prevalls. If Sewanee could win it meant a completely successful season, and SG the boys went into the fight with a rare spirit of determination. Early in the game Sewanee scored a touchdown through its famous triple pass, a play about which much has been written. The goal was kicked and ths score stood 7 to 0 ir our favor. Vanderbilt was heavier than Sewanee and kept fighting like demons, pushing the lighter team back until in the third quarter it be- gan to appear that she would win. Sewanee, holding the lead well into the fourth quarter, played a defensive game by kicking on first or secol down. . Finally, in the fourth quarter, Vanderbiit was forced to kick. Ryan punted over the'goal line and the ball was Sewanee's on her 20-yard line. Sewanee lined up in punt formation. but this time Barker, the quarter- back, crossed Vanderbilt with a thrust at the line. It did not do much. On the second down Barker received the ball from the center and apparently pased it to Harris, a_ halfback, for a smash-off tackle. McKibbon, the Vanderbilt tackle, saw Harris coming and made a beautiful tackle. But Harris did not have the ball. Instead of passing it to the back Barker held it and when McKibbon jumped forward to tackle Harris he shot through the hole left by McKib bon, dodged the secondary support and started down the field for a touchdown. Every Sewanee player got into the play, doing just what he had been coached to do, with the re sult that every Vanderbilt defender was put out of commission and tw interferers were left to aid Barker It looked like a sure touchdown and should have been. But McKibbon, when he realized he had been fooled, jumped to his feet and with a great burst of speed caught Barker, tackling him from be- hind when he had gained 45 yards McKibbon simply flew on this run anc his tackle was as spectacular as was the play, which fooled him. The run of Bark@r had taken the ball out of Sewanee territory into that of Vander- bilt and made possible another attack, which netted another touchdown, which, with a goal from field, gave the game to_Sewanee, Next—Tieing a Giant. P handicaps to apply between players. Pairings are as follows: F. W. McReynolds (18) vs. H. M. Southgate (16). W. G. Peter (11) vs. E. M. Talcott (10). C. A. Fuller 3) vs. C G Treat (9). L. B. Platt (12) vs. C. V. Wheeler an C. D. Drayton (14) drew a bye. Gen. Harry Taylor (11) vs. Dr. W. B. Mason (9). H. B. Davidson (18) vs. W. R. Tuck- side (9). David G. Morris won the champion- ship of the Beaver Dam Club yester- day afternoon, defeating Luther Flor- ine in the 36-hole final by 6 and 6. Morris was 3 up at the turn, and add- ed to his lead over the second 18 holes to win the match on the thirteenth green. The new champion has been a member of the Beaver Dam team and played in the series of team matches between Beaver Dam, Argyle and Manor. ‘Walter B. Vogel, a former public links star, won the President's Cup at the Indian Spring Club yesterday with a net score of 296 for the 72-hole medal play handicap competition. The tourney has been in progress for a month at the Four Corners Club. Vogel played with a handicap of 14 strokes., Jules Henderson. with a handicap of 19, and G. Maxfleld, play- ing with a 20 handicap, tied for_ dec- ond place, with 298, while Sam Rice, outfiejder for the Washington base ball club, was third, with 299. ‘While the President’s Cup contest was going on during October, a ringer contest was also held, with prizes for winners in each class. Rice won in class A, with a ringer score of 67. G. Lea Stabler won in class B, with Natural tobacco taste scores again and again! CHEVY CHASE LINKSMEN PAIRED FOR CUP TOURNEY AIRINGS for the match-p'ay round in the competition for the Siamese cup_at the Chevy Chase Club on Wednesday find Dr. W. B. Mason, winner of the Liberty cup a few days ago, and Walter R. Tuckerman, winner of the original Siamese trophy. in the same | half of the draw. The tourney, which will conclude with the final round next Saturday, is a handicap affair, with seven-eighths of the difference in a card of 77, and Michael A. O'Brien won in class C, with 87. Fred Walen won in class A in the sweepstakes event, played yesterday at Indian Spring, with a net card of 67. First place in _class B went to Stabler, with a net and Dr. D. W Manners won in class C, with 86, Leo F. Pass, the Bannockburn Club champlon, added another title to his collection yesterday when he paired with Jesse E. White to win the two- man team championship of the Glen Echo organization. Pass and White defeated W. L. Pendergast and W. F. Byrne by 3 and 2, overcoming a 6-hole handicap granted their opponents. John C. Shorey of the Argyle Club won the play-off of the Fall inter- scholastic golf tourney yesterday at Columbla with a card of 84, against 91 for his opponent, John Owens. The two had tied in th% tourney on Sat. urday with cards of 7. PERRSON GETS TEST IN FIGHTING GORMAN NEW YORK, November 1 (®.— Harry Perrson, Swedish star, tonight faces his most serious opposition to date when he clashes with Bud Gor- man, Wisconsin sparring parsner of Gene Tunney, in a Tex Rickard heavy- weight elimination tournament. Three 10-round matches are on the program. Yale Okun of New York, who whipped Bob Lawson, Alabata negro, recently, meets Larl Blue of Fargo, N. Dak. George Godfrey, = Chicago, heavyweight, fights Bill Galveston. negro Goethe of coerr & Mryers Toracco Co. BY GOVERNORS OF GAME Talk of Altering the Intentional Pass and Resin Bag Rules of the National Pastime for 1927 Dis- missed by Chadwick as Being Silly. BY GEORGE OME sil'y talk has been heard rule and the resin bag rule The silly notion that Babe Ruth the game itself will cause many a person to wonder why this agitation exists for an individual when it is not likely there will be another home- run batter of his prowess in the next century. . No game has any right to give an umpire jurisdiction over the intent of a player, whether pitcher or otherwise, and it has no right to give a player any result except that which he earns in actual competition. If the numbers of runs should be increased because added bases could be given on called balls, there would come times when the scoring would be farcial. Also, pitchers of the type that give bases on balls freely and yet are clever enough to keep the score down would he ruined completely. The art of working the corner would soon be forgotten and the science of pitching vould be knocked for a row of double- 'istilled curves. There are changes in the rules that might be made to make them less mystifying to some persons, and yet it is not possible to make them much clearer unless they are completely re-written. Re-Writing Rules Is Big Job. The task of re-writing the rules is prodigious. The only person who is known to have re-written the base ball rules is John B. Foster, who did it to formulate what the “base ball guide” called the “simplified rules of base ball That was a long time ago. The “guide” carried the simpli- fled rules for many vears and then gave them up when the amendments were made to the playing rules in 1920, and explanations of the rules were added to their general publicg- tion in the “guide by Mr. Foster.” So thoroughly were the rules re- vised in 1926 that many things were accomplished that had been overlook- ed for more than a quarter of a cen- tury. There was a fairly good clear- ing up of verbiage and enough split infinitives were united to have caused the late Charles A. Dana to turn first one way and then the other in his tomb. . This was accomplished thanks to the tip-top manner in which the clearing of the rules was handled by Commissfoner Landis Careless phrasing of rules has been thelr bugaboo. The code was badly handled in 1920 and the faults were quickly in evidence when the rules were about to go to print, but it was then too late to get the rules commit- tee to act. Most arguments in 1926 were over the resin bag. The resin bag went but league headquarters for any re: and there is not likely to be any. Much criticism is directed at the intentional pass rule. would involve a basic principle of base ball. It is simply advocating a pref- erence for Babe Ruth to make records, for if it were not for Ruth and the home-run records he has made there would pe no demand for a change. CHADWICK. about changing the intentional pass ere has been no demand at maior ion of the base ball rules in 1927, Changing it should be established as bigger than through the 1926 campaign and the world serfes without bringing out any heart-burnings, much to_the satisfac- tion of the National League Club owners, who made so much fuss about iit. No home run was spoiled by the resin bag o far as known. Babe Ruth didn’t hit against resin bag pitching except in the world serles, and as he made four home runs in those seven SPORTS. s ® Ball Code Unlikely WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER T. PETER'S and St. Paul's basket ball sextets are heading their re- spective divisions in the Catholic Review Girls' Basket Ba | League, neither having lost a game so far in the series. According to point - scores (10 points are given for each victory), St. Martin's is tied with St. Cecelia’s for first place in the Southern division, but St. Mar:in's team has lost one game, so the undefeated squad is conceded first place despite the tie. Five sames are carded for this week. This afternoon St. Cecelia and St. Patrick squads are scheduled to clash on St. Peter’s court in a north- ern division contest. St. Patrick’s will play St. Martin’s tomorrow in the southern division; St. Paul's and Im- maculate Conception Academy toss- ers will meet Wednesday afternoon at St. Paul's in another northern divi- slon tilt; Immaculata Seminary and St. Vincent's teams will face each other Thursday, with St. Vincent's playing hostess, while St.Peter’s will oppose St. Joseph's on the latter’s floor Friday in a third game on the Southern division schedule. The Immaculata-St. Vincent clash was scheduled originally for this after- noon, but has been postponed until Thursday, according to Mary Murphy, director of the league. Team standings follow: NORTHERN DIVISION. games the American League should certainly favor the resin bag when National League pitchers oppose its basters. (Copsright. 1926.) St._Paul's.. Immaculata Immaculate, St. Vincent The Evening Star 'BOYS CLUB Coach of Flut (Mich. non-grip pass. The first is m 3—Underhand pass: the arm and the body, the Y thrown end over end. Tt is used only for short passes and is All passes should be thrown so they will lead the recelver, in other words make the receiver run to catchithem. The ball should leave the passer's hands as high as possible and should reach the receiver’s hands as high as possible. This cuts down the danger uar = . teicy, The ball is he thrown like an indoor base ball, largely for lateral passes. ). { of the BY CHARLES BASSETT, .) High Schoo! Team. ESTERDAY 1 to'd you about the grip pass and the flat-hand or used. We also have: held in the hand between laces resting on the fingers. It is It can be 0st commonlfv d 4—Basket ball pass: This is merely pushing the ball with both hands. not used much. of interception. The pass may be thrown while the passer is standing still, or while he is on the run. The running pass is the more #naccurate and it can be thrown only in one direction—the direction the passer is running. 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The fair sharpshooters from G street w! oppose the leading collegiate squads in the country, including the Un! versities of Michigan, Maine, Wes Virginia, California and Iilinois, Penn State, Drexel and Cornell. The Drex el encounter, slated to take place a‘ Drexel, is the only shoulder-to-shou der encounter listed. This probah will be a triangular affair, with the University of Marvland, national champlons, as the third party. Al though no definite announcement to this effect has been made yet, it has been the custem in recent years for these three schools to stage a trian gular match as one of the feature of their schedule. Of the 60 girls who have reported for rifle at George Washington this year, Miss Vaiden rep 10 with excep’ tional ability, 4 of whom are members of last year’s squad, which took sec ond honors in the R. A. int leglate championships. 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