Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 13

SPORTS. | Ea_tholic University and Gallaudet Open Their Basket Ball Seasons Tonigh BROOKLANDERS ARE HOST TO WASHINGTON AND LEE Meet Team That Put Up a Fine Losing Battle With Maryland—Arnold College Five, Victor Over Loyola, Visits Kendall Green. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and Gallaudet basket ball teams will open their campaigns in thefr home gymnasiums to night by meeting strong op- position Catholic University will entertain at Rrookland Washington and Lee, that last night put up a fine, but losing. fight against Maryland at College Park. the Old Liners winning, 44 to 32 Gallaudet will play to Arnold College. that t timore last v a 33-to-31 count. audet will be the “‘underdog” in , while Catholic University, eteran _array of talent, il over Washington and However. having played one game helps a whole lot, and the Gen- erais, who were at the disadvantage of figuring in their inaugural against Maryland, will be the better for their experien. Much Tmproved Team. difference one actual make was illustrated by Marviand last night. laying raggedly uncertain “ashlon in Just combat to v on Thursday in | oir opener. the Old Liners appeared a different team against the g teamwor and conspicuous by its absence against the thodists the night before. While Maryland defeated Washing- ton and Lee by the comfortable mar- &in of 12 points, the Generals showed a flashy lot of talent, and once they got going played the Old Liners to a standoff. Led by Jack Faber, who caged the ball from all angles and distances, the Maryland tossers ran into a 17-to-§ 'ead in the t 10 minutes of pla; After that the Generals got their bea ings. and it was a nipand-tuck battle fo the finish. Washington and Lee presented two exceptional plavers in lbert, who cot six goals from the eld, and Spotts, tall and agile center, ssed atotal of 9 points. Faber, who piled up 16 points e stellar light for viand kous and Snuyder did much around work, while Crosthwait alarly effective on defense. am_sent nine players into all they had available. \who n While was t Bo; Four of the men whom Coach Fred i University will start ngton and Lee tonight last vear. and the fift experienc . center, regulars on last season's successful ‘ombination. Keale, who will be at the other forward berth also saw much action a year ago. Rice has 10 cthers on his squad, and if the going not too close he will test out much f his reserve talent. While Arnold College, having de- feated Loyola last night and at the same time got in fine preparation for the clash tonight, will be the favorite over Gallaudet, the Kendall Greeners 1re by no means conceding the invad 'rs the edge. In fact, it Is sald that Coach Teddy Hughes has the best material he has had in years. Gallaudet will have Nokanson and Cosgrove, forwards; Cain, center, and Bilger and Miller, guards, All are newcomers to the team, except Capt. Miller. Ridings, Wright, Lan_ and Reins, 19 veterans, and Dyer. Zeiske, Yoder and Marshall, members of the Freshman ¢! also are on the squad. Byouk, allaround athlete, is out with a broken finger, but will be back after the holidays. Fifteen members of the University of Maryland varsity foot ball team to day are sporting brandmew M's and players of the Freshmen eleven are showing numerals. The awards were mude at a_dinner-banquet held last night at College Park. Myron B. (Mike) Stevens, retiring captain, was signally honored. He wag presented a special trophy “in honor of his fine personal attitude on and off the fleld and to commemorate and perpetuate the ideals he has set for athletics of this university. In addition to Stevens the varsity letter was awarded these gridmen: Arthur Wondrack, Donald Adams jordon Kessler, Lewls Thomas and John Parsons, all former Washington High School students, and Capt.-elect Harold Bafford, Gilbert Dent, Earl “Zulick. Omar Crothers, John Leather- man, Fred Linkous, Gerald Snyder, John Keenan and Fioyd Schrader. President Raymond Allen Pearson »f the university, United States Sefi- ator Millard Tydings and Prof. Charles 3. Richardson were principal speak- Prof. F. B. Bomberger was toast master. Awards were made by Prof. L. B. Broughton and Prot. J. V. Metz. ger. Teams of the local college group booked by the University of Pennsyl vania for base ball games this Spring are Georgetown to be met here April 120 and University of Maryland to be encountered at «ollege Park on April 23. SPEEDY FIVES TO CLASH IN CITY BASKET LEAGUE Four Washington Basket Ball League teams tomorrow will inaugu- rate another busy week in the senfor 1oop, with Arrows and Auths meeting at 2 o'clock in the Congress Heights auditorium and Park Views and Kanawhas clashing «t 7:30 at the Arcadta. Several other games are scheduled for the week Epiphany Re Tow basketers having won a Two contesis Ington Ba Calvary and Ar- tied for the lead, their ue games, es, st night at Wash- s found the Washing- ton Collexiates trouncing the Colum- bia tossers, 14 to 11, and the Calvary Sentors trinuming the Boys Club Cel- ties, 26 to 1. General Tire Co. team walked away from the Woodlothians, winning 37 to 7. Red Shields annexed a pair of games. downing Falls Church, 54 to 89, and trimming the Orioles, to 19. Army Medical Center floormen de- + feated the Wal Reed basketers in a game at Walter Reed Hospital, 39 to St. Martin’s floormen, victors over Parkway Motor Co. by a 44-to29 count, will engage St. Stephen's to- night in the St. Martin’s gym. Emanon Juniors trounced the Oak- land High School of Vienna, Va., 38 to 8. Courtmen of Epiphany Chapel beat Washington Barracks, 22 to 14. B'nai B'rith floormen will practice tonight at 9 o'clock at the Jewish Community Center. De Molay tossers will engage the Palace quint at 8:45 tonight at East- ern High gym. St. Peter’s Preps were to meet the Emerson Prep five this afternoon on the K. of C. court. Calvary M. E. Reds trimmed the Carltons in the church gym, 24 to 17. Comets will engage the Old Domin- jon Boat Club five of Alexandria to- night at Eastern High gym. Brookland Juniors will open their season against the Tech Streaks Tues- Pullman basketers nosed out Na- tivity cagemen, 32 to 31, in a game at the Terminal Raflroad Y gym. day night in the latter's gym. The Brooklanders are composed of former players of the Hilltop Club. WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER ND attempt will be made 1o the interclass basket upionship at George shington University Tues- day night, December 21, when S| and senior sextets meet Wlting from their 4 night, which should lLave settled the Senfor t: < had been favored to handily, but the freshmen put i an unexpectedly stiff defense when they met Thursday and the Seniors failed to show the brand of play expected of them, due partly to the fact that several of their best players were out of the line-up. The play-off will be staged in the university gymnasium, Twentieth and 1 streets northwe 7:15. , at 7 Capitol Athletic Club tossers have made arrangements to play the Ar- cadian quintet tomorrow night at the Arcadia in an exhibition game, th first half of h will be ved under boys' rules and the sec- d half under girls’. The Arcadlans are the lone group of local girls who have adopted the men’s standards of play. The game tomorrow night will be the first they have pluyed against a team of their own sex. Jack Martin, manager of the Arcad- ians, expects to have her passers lined up as follows: Helen Schultz and Clara Alderton in the forward field; Char- lotte Hatton and Gertrude Ochs, cen- ters; Lucille Limbach and Leah Shot- nos, guards, Capitolites who will start off the game are Francise Major and Marie Siebold, forwards: “Pat” Trap, center; Florence Skadding, side center; 8. Waller and Julia Aman, guards. Edith McCulloch and Kathleen Johnson, winner and runner-up, re- spectively, of the Central High School girls' tennis championship, were awarded major letters yesterday in an athletic award assembly in recognition of their performance at the nets. Elizabeth White, vice president of the athletic assoclation, presented the awards. The Girls’ “C’ Club presented a two- act play, the first act entitled *Foot Ball as Boys Play It,” and the second act, “Foot Ball as Girls Play It,”” as a special feature of the assembly which was for the purpose of honoring the foot ball squad as well as the tennis champions. GETS HARVARD LETTER FOR OPPOSING TIGERS By the Associated Press. Isadore Zarakov, Harvard backfield substitute, has the distinction of be- ing the only Crimson player ever to receive his letter by participating only in a Princeton game. The Tiger-Crimson game last Novem- ber, preceding the break in relation: was the first designated at Cambrid as a “letter game” and Zarakov. another oddity, was the only Har performer in that game who did not also play against Yale. CANNOT PLAY SUZANNE, HELEN WILLS ASSERTS CHICAGO, December 18 (®).— Helen Wills, en route East today for some Christmas York with her mother, repeated her declarations that a tennis match with Suzanne Lenglen seemed impossible, lhecause “the rules of the Tennis As- sociation will not permit it.” Announcement was made in New york last night that Miss Wills would join the stafl of the New York World. 5 by d shopping in New | 577 COUNT IS BOWLED, BUT BY MEN OF G. A. 0. Fair duckpinners of Washington still have 559 to fire at as a team- game record for this city. That 577 count broadcast as a new high score for & women's team should cause no commotion. It was made by the Post Office quint of the General Accounting Office at Con- vention Hall last night, but it was made in the men’'s and not the women’s G. A. 0. ci 3 The game of 135 that was regis- tered while Post Office was taking two of three from Claims should be credited to Mr. Seyforth instead of Miss Seyforth. YALE WILL PRACTICE HOCKEY AT PRINCETON PRINCETON, N. J., December 18 (). —Yale is taking her hockey trou- bles to Princeton during the Christ- mas vacation. Because Yale's skaters have no rink of their own, Princeton invited them to use the Hobey Baker Memorlal rink for aractice. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926. wore THAN 30 RUNNERS | NEW WESTERN HIGH FIVE TO HAVE ACTIVE SEASON IN CROSS-COUNTRY RACE More than 30 Jong-distance run- ners from Washington educational institutions and athletic clubs from out of town were to meet the test of speed and endurance this after- noon in the annual champlonship cross-country run of the South At- |ll‘=:ll‘c A. A. U. in Rock Creek The race is over a 2-mile course, to be run three times, a total dis* tance of 6 miles, starting under the Million-dollar Bridge to the wolf dens in the Zoological Park; then across the bridge and down the south side of Rock ina westerly direction to a point near Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, re- turning on the same route as far as the footpath near the Connec- ticut Avenue Bridge, across the stream and to the starting point. 18 GRIDMEN PICKED FOR EASTERN TEA’] By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 18.— Eighteen stars of the 1926 collegiate gridiron will compose the all-Eastern foot ball squad, which will gather in Chicago next Monday and then jour- ney to San Francisco, where the all- Western team will be met on New Year day. Lieut. John Beckett, assistant coach of the Naval Academy team, ssembled the team and 12 colleges re_represented. ] Eight of the players chosen ‘are backs. The players making the trip are: Backe—Kirkleski, Lafayette: Neal. West. Ver d: G d ~ Prichard. Penn e Gandwin, Carnegie Tech: Diehl. Buck- nell; Ratuber. Washington and Lee: Amos, Vashington and Jefferson. o Ends—Flora, “Micnigan: Weston. Tenn '"(":-lmn—?uuebel. Wisconsin: Desmond, o %\flg"fi‘é’fi" Penn, State: Yoder. Car- h: . Northweatern, e i Wilke, " Wisconsin: McHenry. West Virgini; Tawkins. Michigan, any place on line. The players are scheduled to ar- rive in San Francisco December 23 and a week of practice will follow, it is planned. “Navy Bill" Ingram, midshipman coach, will assist in whipping the Easterners into a combination. The Huddle system will be employe GRANGE NOT PLANP]ING TO DESERT FOOT BALL BEAUMONT, Tex., December 18 (). —Harold (Red) Grange will return to the movles, but only for the Winter, he said here today in commenting on reports intimating he might desert the gridiron to devote all his time to the silver screen. He said he intended to continue his tour with the New York Yankee pro- fessional foot bull team, which is scheduled to end in January. He then expects to appear in perhaps two pic- tures filmed at Hollywood. He intends to join his team again next Fall. TWO CUE TOURNAMENTS PLANNED BY CONCANNON Competitions for the pocket billlard championship of the District and at three-cushion billlards soon will get under way at the Arcadia billlard hall, according to Manager Joe Con cannon. The three-cushion event contem- plated will be open . .ly to class B amateurs, but if enough class A ama- teurs can be mustered, there also will he a tournament for them. All information regarding these competitions may be had of Manager Concannon. B By the Associated Press. ‘The foot ball used in the Army-Navy game at Chicago will go to some foot ball fan tomorrow, during a contest being played to swell Christmas charity funds. The foot ball received from the Navy Academy and autographed by 21 Middies will be given to the holder of an admission ticket to the contest, the number of which will be deter- mined later. LANDIS IS CONGRATULATED. CHICAGO, December 18 (P).— Telegrams of congratulation were piled a foot deep on the desk of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis, base ball's highest priced star, when he returned to his office after the annual base ball meetings. B aba LEWIS WINS ROUGH BOUT. PHILADELPHIA, December 18 UP).—Ed_(Strangler) Lewls, former heavyweight wrestling champlon, last night defeated Mike Romano, Chi- cago, In 1 hour and 25 minutes. The contest was marked by its roughness, both men taking severe punishment. Loeb’s Feint Stops Dribble BASKET BALL y. =3) é“hr M ¥ BY SOL METZGER. A great basket ball guard meets the acid test when two opponents get free and he alone has to stop them. Carl Loeb, Princeton’s out- standing guard last Winter, could and did handle this situation to a nicety. In u contest against Dart- mouth last Winter a dribbler came down the right side of the court with a teammate on the other. Loeb retreated cautiously with both men in view. Just before the drib- bler got within shooting distance Loeb feinted as though he intended charging - him, as shown in the upper {llustration. This bluff was so well carried out that the drib- bler immediately stopped to pass to his teammate. Loeb was already breaking for the teammate, who was so closely guarded by him that the dribbler, changing his mind, de- cided to shoot for the basket. This neat bit of feiuting by Loeb so delayed the attack that his teammates were on hand in time to block the dribbler’s attempt for a basket. The lower fillustration shows Loeb covering the teammate of the dribbler after his feint had forced the latter to stop his dribble. (Covyright. 10%6.) spleadid cont Coach Dan Ahearn's Western High tossers, who showed impressively in their first game yesterday afternoon when vanquishing Woodward School, 38 to 28, tonight are to invade Armory Hall at Alexandria for a crack at St. Mary’s Celtics. In_drubbing Woodward yesterday the West End schoolboys exhibited smart team play and appeared formi- dable generally. Indications are they will have to be reckoned with in the coming publie high school title series. After meeting the Celtics tonight Ahearn’s boys will rest until after the holidays. Then they will get plenty of action. In addition to dates with virtually every scholastic combination | in this city, engagements have been made on a home-and-home basis with | Mount St. Joseph's of Baltimore and | Staunton Military Academy. The schedule follows: Tonight, St. Mary's Celtics. Alexandria. | January b, Strayer's. home: 7. C Arcadia: 10. Mount St Joseph's, T Maryland Freshmen, College Park: 16, East | ern,” Arcadia; Tech, Arcadi nesn, Arcadia: 25. Central, Arcadi ohri's, away: 20. Mount St. Joseph's, niore Febr 1, Ei . Arcadia: 4. Tech, Arcedia T Bininesn. Arcatiar 10. Gonuasn; home: " '12; Military ' Academy Staunton. John's, home. 16, vitt Prep, Georgetown Fresh- men, home. Central High dribblers will go after another victory this n over St. John's Preps on Mond After win- ning their first four games the Blue and White tossers have dropped their last two after the sharpest sort of battling. They fell before Baltimore City College yesterday in the Mary land metropolis, 24 to 29. Staunton : 16, § 8 home: 21, Business High dropped a 4I-to-25 decision yesterday to Devitt Prep, as the latter opened its campaign aus- | ¥ brilliant foot ball player, Is an even | which so far he has been unable to piciously, but Coach Jack Collins of the Stenographers is not at all down- cast, as he was able to give a couple of boys a chance to show thelr wares under fire and they looked mighty sweet, The Stenographers set the pace the early part of the game, but Devitt came along fast to gain the upper hand after the first quarter. Eastern High basketers are today on even terms with St. John's toss- ers. The Lincoln Parkers yesterday staged a strong finish to squeeze out a 33-t0-32 victory over the Cadets, be- fore whom Guyon's proteges fell a couple of weeks ago. Capt. Cy Ho- garth was the outstanding here in Sastern’s triumph. ¢ Bobby Stevens, sensational West- | ern High athlete, who, although athlete, may have suffered an injury to his throwing arm in a recent gridiron game. Ste- vens was injured in the right shoul- der in which a “kink" has developed, better diamond remove. A trip to Pennsylvania during the Christmas_ holid is planned by Fastern High kete teading gh, that has been met by the Light White the lust three sea again been booked for De xugements are pend- | cember Allentown and | ing with Norristown Pottsville, Beside Western High-St. P2 Ma tilt, the only game carded today involving quints of the locul schoolboy group was that bring- ing together St. John's and Hyatts- ville High this afternoon on the Marylanders' floor. the My 25 Years on the Gridiron BY WILLIAM A. ROPER HEAD COACH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY XI—How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Foot Ball My first coaching at Princeton wus in [l’i’!‘ Fall of 19 “Doc” Hildebrand was head coach, and T had charge the ends. M pefutes on \hn. 03 ing squad were “Dig Bill" Bdwards and Jesse Riggs, who helped l,(lhh-‘ brand with the line, and ‘.\(1 Kelly, | one of the greatest plunging bucks the game ever known, with Johnny Paird in cha of the kicl and assisting Kelly w ith all the other | backs. That Fall was even The game was then, trial of speed and stre ngth and cournge, which und ut a prel rn(‘h(*!‘Pso that Kipling erence to the muddied oafs at the goal was not far off the mark. the period w was a T tful for foot ball first and last, 4 and weight uestionably | en the en »und the tack, with awn out of the line into the backfield and placed | At the head of the procession. Some- | fimes the ball would be given to the tackle, in which case the four backs iha two ends would fall in behind, all pushing and pulling. The tackle wa expected to keep his feet and let his teammates do the rest. In such play the tackle would vesemble giant oar in @ storm. first beat one way and then the other, but ne¥er | breaking. | Little Need for Brains. When the tackle did not carry the bl himself he was used to batter the way through the line, the back with the ball following in his wake. In such style of play there was very little need for brains, mere brute) strength being the primary requisis ttack only planned to gain 2 or | the rules s in three s o] stop tuch an off when properly | concentrated in short distanc: There was only one thing for the fensive line to do to meet the attack, and that was to meet it head first. It the line attempted to stop the attack standing up, it was bowled ovgr in short order. The whols strategy of the attack in those old days was to wear out the defense. Play after play would be hurled at the same spot until the de- fensive guard or tackle was forced to zive up through sheer exhaustion. 1 often wonder how the spectators sat through the games. There were intervals when they never v ball at all, but just a drab m: players pushing and tugging other. End running became an al- most forgotten art, while the light, shifty back had little chance to shine. Yale Stopped End Runs. Garrett Cochran’s 1896 team was the only one at Princeton ever to master the push-and-pull attack. For the next 10 years the only way we seemed able to win against Yale was | by picking up a loose ball and con verting it into a touchdown. Our strongest running plays in those days were outside tackle. They worked in the small games, but somehow an cnd run would not go against Yale. After the season I sat down and tried to analyze why our offensive | plays did not go against Yale. 1 came the conclusion that the Yale coaches realized our strength and weakness In attack. Knowing we had no strong pull-and-push plays in- side tackle and that our fast backs were hard to stop on the flanks, they played their tackles wide. My job that year was to teach the ends how to box an opposing tackle, and I was very much disappointed at the way they did it. My work that season taught me the impossibility of trying to teach a man to take an opponent in when his initial position is outside the man who is trying to take him. Yet a great many coachos | waste a good deal of time trying to teach their charges how to do this very thing. Several Fatal Accidents. There were some unfortunate ac- cldents on the gridiron the Fall of 1804-05. Several players on big col- lege teams were killed and a great hue and cry was raised against the game. The legislatures of some of the Western States passed laws mak- ing it a penal offense to play foot ball, and altogether t':\e future of the game looked very dark. i One Wednesday in October Presi- dent Roosevelt sent a telesram to J. B. Fine, director of athletics, and Doc Hildebrand, our head coach, in- viting them to the White House to discuss with him the future of foot ball. We learned that he sent similar telegrams to Walter Camp and George Chadwick of Yale and Edward Wrightington, head coach at Har- vard, This excited us tremendousl: and we awaited the return of Hild brand with much interest. When he got back he reported to us that Mr. Roosevelt had greeted them with the following statement: “This game of foot ball is a good game for young men and boys to play, but unless the rules are changed it will have to be stopped, as it is be- coming too dangerous. I want you all to go back and use vour influence to have the rules changed.” Mr. Roosevelt certainl utiowr to the a big at each mafle a e in t their Christmas fund battle in Jer. | 11c0 ! ciation composed of colleges in Vir- | AD KELLY, An assistant coach when Roper started coaching at Princeton. throwing his own tremendous influ- ence on the side of foot ball. After that session at the White House lit- tle more was heard of abolishing it. This meeting, in addition, gave need- ed impetus to the claims of those who said the rules should be changed. In those days Harvard, Princeton and Yale played a much more im- portant part in foot ball than they do today. They were then a Big Three in reality. ‘The rules committee was an unofficial body more or less self-ap- pointed and entirely dominated by Eastern ideas. had become also a bit too conservative. Today, 1 am glad to say, foot ball is national, and no section of the country is able to control its development. (Covsrizht. 1926.) EIGHT NATIONALITIES ON SOCCER TEAM HERE British United eleven that meets the champion Walford team to- morrow afternoon on Monument Lot No. 1 in a Washington Soccer League game, embraces players of eight nationalities, despite that its name indicates it is made up alto- gether of Britans. On _the roster are players of American, English, Scotch, Welsh, German, French and Chinese ex- traction, and there is one ;who comes from the far coast of Africa. hree members of the team are attaches of the British embassy and another of the Chinese legation. The eleven is nsored by the British United Athletic Club, which plans to sponsor all sorts of sports. The club now is making a drive for both active and honorary members. William F. Rogge, 2131 Massa- chusetts avenue, will give further infoi lon. FOR JACK, SAYS GENE By the Associated Prees. NEWARK, N. J., December 18.— All Jack Dempsey has to do is to hit Juck Delaney once. if the former heavyweight champion and the pres- ent light-heavyweight titleholder ever meet in the ring, and Delaney will bo ready for addition to the Manassa | mauler’s knockout list, Gene Tunney | believes | Dempsey would hit him once :lnd‘! —I wonder i Delancy's press agent | aver read the list of knockouts com piled by that fellow Dempsey,” Tunney asked. *“Boy and man, that Dempsey can_ hit.’ Tunney told the Newark Evening News that he would drop Dempsey it they ever fought again. “Dempsey never had the sturdy jaws he was credited with,” said Tunney. “Jack can hit if he gets to vou. He did not get to Tommy Gibbons and he did not get to me. lut a man with a punch who gets to Jack right can knock htm down. If T ever get in the ring with him again I believe I'll prove that theory.” The heavyweight champfon sald he would certainly beat Delaney {f they were ever matched. The Bridge port, Conn.. warrfor had been report- ed on the trail of a Dempsey match overcome Bud in | he should Gorman., Wisconsin heavyweight, City Monday night. —— LLEGES PLANNING TO FORM SPORT BODY By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, €., December 18. ormation of a new athletic asso- ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina is contemplated in invita- tions sent out from here to 11 col- leges in the three States. The meeting 1o be held here would be on January 15 or, in the event that date might satisfactory to some colleges, at a later time. The colleges invited are Furman, Preshyterian College. the Citadel and Wofford, in South Carolina; Hamp- den Sidney. University of Richmond. Willam and Ma wnd Roanoke, in Virginia. and Duke, on, in North Carolina. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. ot be | in both base ball and track. | ‘Wake Forest SPORTS. JOINT MAJOR MEETING CALLED BEST EVER HELD BY JOHN B. FOSTER. HICAGO, December 18.—Now that the tumult and the shouting in the realm of base ball have turned into psalm singing and the soft cooing of peace doves, the major league own ers have left the joint session here and gone their respective ways, all vowing that they have ended prob- ably the best session of organized | base ball in the last seven years. | Commissioner Landis is a surprised man. The flery judge looked for a rough and tumble fight over his re | election to a seven-year term as the | czar of base ball, and he was quite taken aback when the big league | owners not only re-clected him unani mously but increased his salary from $50,000 to $65,000 annually. i All in all, the joint session was pretty much a triumph for the com- | missioner. He simply outgeneraled | the club owners who sought to curb | his powers, and with the National | League backing him and Charles A. | Comiskey of the Chicago Americans | strongly on his side, the American | Leaguers had to fall into line. ! What of the “steering committees’ appointed by each league? If they | were created in an effort to hobbk: *he Commissioner they very appar-! ently will fail in that mission, sinc they did not begin to function befur: the re-election of Judge Landis. Sam_ Breadon, owner Louls Nation the owner can have his <. troubles, in fact, bega upon him almost as soon as his tea had in the final game played in New York Realizing then that Rogers Horns by was in a stubborn mood, Breadon took the train back to St. Louis with anxlety for the future taking awas some of the pleasure of winning About that time he was approached by Bill Killefer, coach of the Cards who wanted to know how he stood foi 1927. Well pleased over Killefer" work, Breadon told him he stood ace high and that if St. Louls ever changed managers he would get the job. Knowing all this, elected to go with Browns as coach. “I told him to go if he could bet ter his position,” i fully. “I thought he 1 chance to get the managership But I did not think he would le me to take the position of coach fo the opposition club in my city.” of Killefer the St has Loui- GOLF FINE PREPPER | FOR OTHER SPORTS W YORK, December 18 (®).— The essentials of good golf—steady nerves, keen eyesight and co-ordina- tion of mind and muscle—are begin- ning to gain recognition as important factors in the development of college athletes in other branches of sport. ‘The latest exhibit in behalf of golf as a preparation for foot ball, hockey, basket ball, base ball and track is Arthur Brodbeck, freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. Brodbeck, who halls from Mount Vernon, N. Y., won the New York State golf champlonship as a school- | boy last year. He was a smashing back on’ the freshman foot ball eleven at Pennsylvania this Fall and is un outstanding contender for a for ward position on the basket ball team. | He has better than average ability | A few vears ago, Ted Learned, who | had won the Massachusetts State Junior golf title, turned to hockey, and though tiny in size, became one of the greatest of all Dartmouth goal tenders. Last year, Fred Lamprecht, twice | winner of the intercollegiate golf | championship, turned his golf-develop- ed talents at foot ball at Tulane Uni. | versity and became a star on the | eleven that topped the Southern pig- | skin heap. i Emerson Carey, W champion in 162 and playing such a smashing tac position for Cornell that he was| named on many allEastern elevents. | HAGEN IN LOSING MATCH LOS A LES, December 18 () —Walter Hagen, paired with Willie Hunter. Los Angeles professional was given the worst defeat of his Western exhibition tour here, losing to George Von i amateur ¥ YORK.—Tony Canzoneri, ork, beat Bushy Graham, Utica, N. Y. (10). Pete Sarmiento, Philip- pines, fought draw with Dominick Petrone, New York (10). Carl Tre- main Cleveland, drew with Andy Martin, Boston (10). New York, beat Vic Burrone, New York (10). KANSAS CITY.—Glenn Lage, Mar- shalltown, Towa, fought draw with Mike Rozgall, Sioux City, Iowa (10). Johnny Harris, Des Moines, beat Jack Bar Kansas City. CHICAGO.—Ruby Stein, New York, beat Mike Dundee, Rock Island, I, on foul (4). DALLAS.—Bobby Cox, Chicagn, beat Leonard Pate, Mobile (10). TAMA.—Julian Moran, Havana, beat Alvan Ryan. St. Paul (10). WORTH, Fla.—Jimmy Ca- Paul, beat Johnay Cobel, St. LA hill, St. Fla., technical knockout Petersburg, “). HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Bobby Eber, Toronto, fought draw with Georgie Rivers, Mexico (10). SAN FRANCISCO.—Billy Adams, New Orleans, drew with Freddie Hoppe, San Francisco (6. Sammy Compagno, San Francisco, beat Frankie Laguna, New York (5). Lefty Cooper, Minneapolis, technically knocked out Mickey Marks, Lon- don (1). 7@!]2 @héninfi jéa:tat: i BOYS CLUB BY CLARENCE ABRAMS, Coach of Withrow High School. Cineinnati. The backguard must be a gladiator of strength—always back and alert, | with a feeling that he is master of | the situation and fully protecting the scoring area. Never let a man get between you and the basket. Always go back far enough even though you must eta- tion yourself directly under the basket. { Be shifty, going to the side of the | floor the ball is on and up and down | the floor, depositing on the movi ment of the ball. On a medium-sized | floor never go farther down than the center and on a large floor never go past_the foul line. WRONG BACK GUARD HAS LET MAN GET BETWE| THE BASKE'\" Hitt AND In guarding always play the ball rather than the man and you will commit fewer fouls. Always play a clean, sportsnfanlike game. Squat a trifle when gharding a man with the ball in order to maintain your equilibrium and move both feet together in small jumps. Relax your mind and body when your team is moving down the floor, as you then have nothing to do but await the re- turn of your opponents. Relaxing will help you to be fresh when the new attack comes. Master these first lessons In the work of the backguard and you will] have made a fine start toward be- coming a good defender of your goal. There are other things to learn, but they will come later. (Covyright. 1926.) TILDEN WILL MAKE TWO TRIPS ABROAD PHILADELPHIA, December 18 (®).—Willlam T. Tilden, former na- tional tennis champion, has rear- ranged his playing dates abroad. Instead of taking part in all the Riviera tournaments. he will return to this country for a month before start- ing on his second trip at the end of May, with the Wimbledon champion- ships as his objective. He also has changed the date of his departure for Europe from January 20 to Janu- ary 29. He is entered in the invitation in- door tournament of the Penn Athletic Club, starting today. both singles and doubles in the two- day tournament, being paired with :{hic Warren F. Coen, Kansas City, na- tional boy champion, in the doubles. Tilden has arranged to play in ex- hibition matches in Baltimore on De- cember 27 in connection with the open- ing of the national indoor champion- ships. ALTROCK AND SCHACHT TO DO A SKATING STUNT ‘W YORK, December 18 (®).— Nick Altrock and Al Schacht, dia- mond comedians of Washington, have signed to appear in a skating act between periods of New York Natfonal League hockey games at Madison Square Garden. f. Johnny Green, | He will play in | champion, and funter, 5 | and 3, in'a 36-hole match. 1 The amateurs led morning round, 2 up. | the effective work of Dr. Hunter, who holed three shots from off the greens. | |Von Eim with a 71 led Hagen five strokes at the halfway wmark. | Al four golfers finished under par | {for the first nine holes of the second | round, Von Elm getting a 33, Dr.| Hunter a 34, and .he two profes- slonals each a 35. Von Elm shot par golf throughout the day's play. ‘ CARRIGAN HAS CHANCE TO UPSET PRECEDENT By the Associated Prese. | Bill Carrigan, famous old Red Sox | manager, will shatter precedent if he succeeds’ in an attempted come-back at the helm of the Boston club next season after being 10 years out of the game. Fielder Jores, who won a world| championship with the White Sox in 1906, tried a come-back with the St. Louis Browns 10 years later without much success. The late Frank Chance, old peerless leader of the Chicago Cubs, failed later to rejuvenate either the Yankees or the Red So» g . HAVRE DE GRACE WINNER. CHESTERTOWN, Md., December 18.—Havre de Grace High School's soccer team, that defeated Hyatts- ville High, 4 to 3, to win the West- ern Shore champlonship, yesterday downed Federalsburg High, the East- ern Shore's best, 10 to 3, to win the State crown. 1 of the CHAMPIONS MAY QUIT. GREENSBORO, N. C., December 18 (#)—Greensboro Patriots, 1926 Piedmont League base ball champions, probably will not be represented in the league next year. Inability to raise funds to make the franchise de- posit was given as the reason. ! MAINFORT WINS ON MAT. ’ Bobby Mainfort, local middleweight wrestler, took 52 minutes to defeat Zeke Smith last night at the Mutual Theater. Billy West and Joe Wil liams wrestled 30 minutes to a draw. WHITE SOX PICK CAMP. CHICAGO, December 18 (#).—The Chicago White Sox have selected Shreveport, La., as the Spring train- | ing camp. The club trained there | last Spring. Practice will be started March 1. PRO COURT LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. W Cleveland | Washingtos | Fort Wayn | Philadelphia’ " Chicago . ork | Baltimore | Rochester Detroit sZeonmemol Last Night's Results. Cleveland, 45: Rochester. 30. New York, 60: Detroit. 16. Game Tonight. New York at Rochester. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Maryland, 44; Washington and Lee, 82, | Arnold College, 33; Loyola, 31. Harvard, 43; Boston University, 20. 2 AS VON ELM SETS PACE |- TURNESA AND L00S LEADING GOLF FIELD By the Asso iated Prese CRAMENTO, Calif, Decembe 1 "he second 1% holes of play in the £2500 Del Paso open golf tournament faced the entrants today in their efforts to be among th 44 who wil fight it out tomorrow for the priz money. Despite a downpour of rain that fel throughout the day yesterday some £00d scores were d up. Jo- Turnesa, Ne nd Eddie Loos ch turning in The course record is 10 and these s were considered good in view of 18. vo leaders we and: “Wild Bil Mehlhorn, ind George H ard, Canton, Following ti the field stru Ohio, ut in close order. The largest and most distinguisie group of golfers ever assembled ir rthern California makes up the sec ond lap of t Tomorros the highest 64, with all tie for last place, will p 36 holes to o ter the prize winners. BARNYARD GOLFERS PLAY FOR CHARITY By the Associated Prees CHICAGO, card game who will defend b nan, his challens corn belt products held the champion The Jackson fam represented in matches in which ord Jackson, s will pitch shoes wit Schultz, the 14-year- of Illinofs, and her sist also will prelimin, roll and Hans el n , the first man win title. William Hale Chicago mayor 5 match, wili referce. g0 to a Christi TWINS TEAM UP, WIN BOUT, BUT GET CAUGHT NEWARK, N. J., December (P).—A set of red-headed, freckle faced twins last night walked out of the Newark Athletic Club witl amateur boxing champiol | tween them. Walking out together proved the undoing and their taint trophy n from them by indi nant officials, who caught the pair ju as they passed out of the door. The twins were Joe and Tom Rizzo abeth. Joe, who weighed 114 pounds, outpointed John McCann i one of the first bouts of the tourna thus becoming eligible for t Joe had brother T his dressing room, weighing five m in hiding ir and the latter. pounds more than duplicate. felt so fresh he bounced b opponent all over the ring befor: knocking him out in the third round o McTIGUE GETS ANOTHER CRACK AT BERLENBACH NEW YORK, December 18 (#)- Two former heavyweight cham plons, Mike McTigue and Paul Ber lenbach, who once faced each other in the title tilt wherein “Oom” Fau! won the diadem, ar ttle all over Madison e G RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE_AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATORS. FOR AUTOS R & F. 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