Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 43

SPORTS. — Stern Opposition Likely for Cards in 1927 : Man FOUR BIG GRID GAMES ON CORNELL SCHEDULE I THACA, N. Y., December 14— Cornell University’s foot ball schedule for 1927 has been announced. The major contests are with Columbla, Princeton, Dartmouth and Pennsyl- var PIRATES AND CUBS TOBECHEF FOES Reds Not So Highly Rated. |ua Fans of St. Louis Split Over Hornshy Case. of Princeton, the third Sat- been advanced additic to the ¥ 12. Dart- 1BY JOHN B. FO : & Ssivania b v YORK. D 14, — | : The National Le operted § 2 s i v AMERICAN U. QUINT dent that by anothe n i e L UL SEEKS FIFTH VICTORY | majors. One of t is ¢ the other ix Pittsburzh mes | and the i ters will | out how t r secutiv Cards when ‘ Onc club is w | they cng on the it stand Pennsyl The Methodist { starting s will be the first of the local roup to pla week, but will get act 1 ing the the St burgh needs American 3 »f Maryland in ti ht do t { b > th pitch campaign. The ers who are more 1 good ! than otherwise in These two teuans picked ve the ¢ i tle of the coming y hope placed on Cincinnati than in | 1926, for some reason. But no East- el ¢ e. | wnd Gallaudet ern team is given second The West still rides in the The difference of opinion in the S Louis club involves not only a lo term contract for Rogers Hornsby, who is being coached to get it by a personal friend in St. Louis, regard- less of what may happen to the Cards, but it embraces the old disagreement between Hornsby and Branch Rickey. However, the fans of St. Louis are seemingly as much Rickey fans as they are Hornsby fans. It is an un- usual division of base ball sentiment for a big league city to have. There is great credit given to Hornsby for what he has done as a player and manager, but there is a very strong opinion among business men of St. Louis that Rickey is re- sponsible for obtaining the players of the St. Louis team. If Hornsby drove the champions, Rickey matched up the team, the way they put it out on, the Mississippi. Caught in this extreme division of opinion, Sam Breadon, president of the club, is trying to make the best of a situation which will be satisfac- tory to everybody and not put the St. Louis club in a condition where win- ning the pennant will virtually choke its earning power. . Another matter that gives St. Louis some cause for concern is the wide- spreading alliance that it has made with clubs in minor leagues. There are men in the National League who are very much exercised over this ex- pansion of business, for which Rickey is held largely responsible. It is con- trary to the sentiment of base ball and almost in violation of the letter of law of base ball, whatever that law may purport to be. There are many minor league entrances by which players may get into the St. Louis web, but the only exit is through the St. Louis club, and every club in the National League, which has but one minor league affiliation, or none, is opposed to the St. Louis government. (Covyright. 1926.) 1turday night i Brookland- and_Lee College of New Haven, Conn. Leading American University on the gridiron next Fall will be Verdon A. (Tom) Sawyer of Malone, N. Y., who was only recently elected captain of the basket ball combination that has won all its three starts. Sawyer, whose work on the eleven was of high caliber last Fall, was chosen to pilot the 1927 gridders at a meeting of the 1926 letter men held last night fol- lowing a banquet of the squad. Dr. Paul Kaufman, chairman of the fac- ulty committee on athletics, presided at the festive board, and addresses were made by Chancellor Lucius C. Clark, Dean George B. Woods of the College of Liberal Arts and Coach G. B. Springston. Letter men who elected Sawyer in- sluded Birthright, Begg, Bittinger, Caples, Christie, Crawford, Crist, Dare, Gerth, Vance, La Frenz, Mellon Sawyer, Silverstone, Sullivan, Wolo- witz and Manager Gray. Playing fullback last Fall Sawyer made a number of long runs and sounted six touchdowns. In the three basket ball games played so far by the Methodists the versatile athlete has run up 44 points. CROSS-COUNTRY RUN ENTRY LIST GROWING Harriers of three colleges and as many more amateur athletic clubs will compete in the South Atlantic A. A. U. cross-country run to be held under the auspices of George Wash- ington University in Rock Creek Park next Saturday at 3 o'clock. Willlam Agee of Baltimore, who won the title last year and in 1924, will defend.’ | George Washington will enter a team composed of Hurd Willett, Wil- llam Baker, Floyd Pomeroy, Ralph Brown and Sherman Johnson. Agee will head a team from the Emorywood Club, composed of James Sternsdorff, Nelson Plerce and John Davison. Johns Hopkins will be represented by a team led by G. R. Gwynn, while Dartmouth will be represented by Sam Martin, who ran for Western High three years ago. Winners of the places will be given regulation gold, silver and bronze medals. TWIN BASKET BALL BILL ARRANGED AS A BENEFIT For the benefit of Epiphany Roses, one of the sturdiest fives in local senior basket ball circles, a double- header has been arranged tonight for Epiphany gym. Roses will battle “Speed” Walter's ‘Washington Collegiates following a preliminary contest starting at 7:30 o'clock between Epiphany Chapel Midgets and Calvary Red: BY SOL METZGER. + In most every sport there is such a thing as legal-llegal moves. The rule makers of both foot ball and basket ball have tried for many to prevent, in the one case, screening of an eligible man on a forward pass, and, in the other case, any blocking of an opponent s0 he cannot move freely. Every basket ball coach has outwitted the rule makers every year. Jourdet did it at Penn when he turned out a national intercollegiate five, but had nothing on Meanwell at Wis- * consin, who was ably first *to work the legal blocking of a center on the tip-off Kll,v. A legal block play, as used by Michigan last season on the jump ball at center, is shown in the dia- gram. Michigan had a tall team, and in a whirlwind finish tied for the conference title. They could control the tip-off in many games. When that was so they worked a play like the above, the Wolverine right forward (No. 3) rushing to a place right back of the opponent’s center. This move caused his op- ponent guard to follow him. That neatly boxed center and per- mitted the Michigan center (No. 1) to break out of the circle to his right and rush up the floor into un- covered territory. He would first tip the ball to his left forward (No. 2), who passed to him in turn. Easy buskets were thus scored. The upper drawing shows how the play started. 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' 43 TUESDAY, agers fo Be Chary With Waivers GH HIGH GRIDDERS | COURTESY ACT FALLING TECH HIGH GRIDDERS WILL BE BANQUETED Tech High's doughty gridiron war- riors, who, despite they formed the youngest and greepest combination in the recent public high series, fought Western to a tie for the crown, will be the guests of honor at a banquet { Thursday night at the schos | —By RIPLEY New American League Pilots Are Expected to Adopt Wary Course in an Effort to Fortify Their Play ing Forces for 1927. Strayer's Business College tossers, | | following their first victory of the campaign, scored vesterday over Gon zaga, 26 to 20, this afternoon were to ity Club. Cen- HILE the St. Louis Browns have settled upon the fact They want the sar Schalk wishes to keep players whom entertain Tech at the Cif fral's first.stringers and “lights” were that Y eIl | retain| Hunnefield and Morehart will have £0/§0It0 BItimors to eugogs e ree manager, at first base, r:(!::::- ‘.’u‘ruy‘m.‘\ryn‘-']\-' ‘;\'l ulars and reserves of Forest Park High School. there are other positions upon which they are far from settled. There is just trading this weel as yet which the two will play second base, or which will play short- 1 chance that in the | It might be that Chicago will 11 of the Western in the In yesterday's encounter, its first of the cz Gonzags y combination, made up of b o ""“‘f"' some players around with @ | Yankees, it su » ' arrangements Rave. Just been hrongh. o pracling | VIeW, toward better combinations on |cam he wmade. “Fut If anyihing takes i PAS s ex . - - E place between Ne n Chi- e AP T Re tcars I TN The infield of the Browns will get | Cago it will invalve some of those prove rapidly. The I Streeters will hie themselves to Baltimore Thursday to encounter Baltimore Poly. as much consideration as t Boston Americans. is one of | 5o proud. the reasons why the Boston manage- (Copyright ment will not go through the jm'f:l' - ~ . 27 RHODES SCHOLARS at of the | Chicago pitchers of whom Schalk is 1926.) omorrow Central on the Mount In other games will process of making any more courtesy meet Strayer's Pleasant floor, and Business, who lost | Walvers for s in to Woodward, 20 to 25, will invade|POth major leagues there again has T atowh M. L A Ge| begun to_exist a feeling that it is Leonard Hall courtmen. Hyattsville | Petter to be successtul than polite, | GET 0XFORD |NSIGN|A W s, season entertaining Wood-| .\t 18 oni¥ In reeen fhe rule | @ ; v “ her than the e t Managers robabl X € sday probably will be an “off | 1,ve” noteq that it has been the |y A--ociated Pre % & as far as games are concerned, | 2Ve Tolec, (RAL Gt o haEL ¢ although Western may wet its first | (S which asked e England. 1» ' competition against Woodward Cha b O s b B ‘n RI scholars won Deviet: vilr: miteh ; with| Of the courtesy seekers will get a e O S iiiNE o e Ltiae Yn | chilly reception for a year or two, ‘;”l‘_r | Central will travel to Baltimore to|©" €ven more. son. Of these 12 were Americans, |battle Baltimore City in Tri McManus Valued Highly. some of whom competed in more than G T L There isn't a chance that Mc. |one sport. The American “blue” win- “_ho]'nm lqflfi contest among the | Manus of the Browns can be cou ners are: 3 g S crine v = St. Ji sied out of the American League. Rughy foot ball— A. C. Valentine High "“’h“ \?, with | Too many clubs would like to have Pennsylvania | Hishron: the: Marylanders . him. At the minor leagues’ meetin; 'I‘){:\r‘l} sheville, W] 2 any oth vania; Prep, who are| 0 Asheville, whenever any other | vania b a cley v | slated to et thelr first competition | Manaser met Dan Howley, the new b bl G | manager of the Browns, the first [ Rosenbraugh. gn Triday with Business, have elected | ping Dan heard was a question as| Relay race Pennsylvania; At o mARA gUArd es | voq whethech e might notitaka 1 | TR MRS Cleckin Hyatt, Ar > : | little_ of this or that for McManus. |kansas. and R. Lawn tenn B | But McManus hasn’t gone yet. HOPPE PLAYING WELL. What worries Howley more than |fornia ; z anything else is the general health| Lacrosse Willie Hoppe is grooming himself | of Melillo. That young player, who |J. for a come-back to world champion- | \ent to St. Louis from Milwaukee, ship heights. The veteran billlard | played ball so fast that he was burn- star, on recent exhibited balkline|ing up all the dry grass on St. Louis | form, may }l';(' ox;:th‘llxhod a favorite | Jawns until he became ill. 1f he! s S over Erich Hegenlacher, present hold- | jsn’t ba condition in the Spring er of the world's 18.2 crown, in their th’:al l;;:oku:\nw wn‘lumxlye scrum‘l’yung DECLINES GRID DATE. match at New York January 5, 6|around trying to get some tonic for | LINCOLN, Nebr. December 14 (#). and 7. the infield. | Lincoin High School has declined the Pitchers also worry St. Louis. In that respect St. Louis is quite like all of the clubs. Pitchers worry Miller Huggins of the Yanks. The: worry Bill Carrigan of the Red Sox. Schalk Plans Improvements. Ray Schalk of the Chicago White Sox would like to have pitchers, despite the fact that some of the managers think he has pitchers who good as any that grow. Schalk wants one or two other little improvements to his team, and he itation to meet Tuscaloosa, Ala. a foot ball game at Los Angeles The school board de- »ided that post-season games tended to overemphasize foot ball. Tex Rickard has promoted nearl: every heavyweight championship match since the Johnson-Jeffries fight Ren. in 191 RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED BIKE WINNERS GET $12,000. NEW_YORK, December 14 (R).— Reggie McNamara, “Iron Man" of the professionat bicycle riders, and his Ttalian partner, Pietro Linari, split $12,000 as the winner's share of the 00 in prize money and bonuses awarded to the competitors in the six- day race that finished at Madison Square Garden Saturday night. in Christmas da; SR a week, covering 390 miles. Rich- ard Lajole walked on stilts 275 miles in 70 hour: Jacob Wainwright cycled back- ward a half mile in 51 3 Francois Suisons rolled from Paris to Melun, 54 miles, in 24 hours. 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