Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1926, Page 37

SPORTS G. W. U.PLAYS DELAWARE \ SE e ek sk ke gk e sk gk e sk e ekt ek ke e sk sk ke sk sk ke e sk st ke sk e st ke e sk sk sk ke ke ek sk ok kokeok - onto the running kick remarkably | IN BASKET BALL OPENER "Clash Tonight Will Be Colonials’ Only Encounter Prior to Holidays—Bridgewater Tossers to Visit for Pair of Contests. EORGE WASHINGTON'S | vel basket ball team will show [to lose its wares for the first time | Bridgewater € this season tonight, when it entertains the fast Uni- |n wersity of Delaware quint in the G [Rridgewater handily on street gym, starting at 9 o'clock. [floor in American’s opening game, but The Colonials are expected to take |expect stouter opposition this time. the floor with Carey and Bland, for-[A win for the Methodists will hoost wards; Viethmeyer, center. and Wal-! their straight victos to six lace and Sapp, guards. houss, Perry, Evans, M will have and Bdnton are reserv _guest on the mction for G. W. ursday night ‘After tonight the Colonials will not g play again until January 8, when they [Ing in will play host to Gallaudet. | starts. C — {1ooked pret Following a brisk drill with & ;iph-'(' any Roses last night, American Uni-| ope that all has set avenue gym tomorrow The Methodists the ping e win_in men ng Arnoid nn., in their aturday for 1t invades the conquered latter’s . DHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO | WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER HARPSHOOTERS Washington University drop- | intercollegiate series include ped but one point in their tele- | Omwake, Jean Jackson, Alys Ewers, graphic rifle encounter with | Grace Young and Leah Cute of the of West Vir-|'25 varsity: Julia Denning. Helen Results from | Clarke, Llizabeth Armentraut, Alice E not been re-| Massey, Evelyn Churchill, 'ceived yet, but the Colonials have | Crumley, Ldith Sowers, Merla Ma- | every reason to feel optimistic, as|thews, Ermyntrude Vaiden, A. Moty | nothing short of a possible score can | ka, Eva Pope, Elizabeth Brandenburs, feat them. West Virginia is one of | Elizabeth - Hastings, Nina _ Miller, snest contenders for range | Odella Dick, Jean Sime and Miss Mil- s on the collegiate circuit, how- ' holland. ginia last their opponents |ever. e Ermyntrude Vaiden, Helen Taylor, | Helen Prentiss and Mae Huntzberger |each contributed perfect scores to the | team total. Susan Aud registered a which, added to the four centuries, | made the count 499. A tentative varsity basket ball squad has been announced by Virginia coach, and the ~members called to practice this evening in the street gymnasium, following the ff of the senior-freshman tie for i s cqurt honors. The game is | scheduled for 7:30. ! Tossers who have been Park View, Section A cf | the Columbia Heights Division, mentary School Basket Ball League, will meet E. V. Brown, Section B titleholders, this afternoon for the di- vislon crown, according to an_an- nouncement made vesterday from playground headquarters. This is the only division title which remains to be decided in the elementary school loop. Capital Athletic Club girls will en- gage in a practice tlit tonight at lhe Columbia. Heights Community Center picked 10 | gymnasium in Wilson Normal School, My 25 Years on the Gridiron BY WILLIAM A. ROPER, HEAD COACH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY XXIV—My First Year as Princeton Head Coach 1 look back on my first year as head ceach at Princeton, in the Fall of 1905, with mingled feelings of pleasure and disappointment. 1t was a_wonderful year, except for the final game, - against Yale which ohocd ' & €| possible 10 lessen or divert these cur’ ~ = R he finest | OU8 natural antagonisms which link e e e & and schools airs. Yale yeoord of any team in the East. We | COleEet ,flu; . | confidence in it when it faces its next opponent. } While this Prines wonderful record ie dimmed its v team had a Fall, the Yale ter and midseason were forgotten. It im. is defeated the Army and N: Cornell, | coached by Glenn Warne: and swamped Dartmouth, 42 to 0. The | Princeton team was at top form against Dartmouth. 1 never will} forget the game. KEverything seemed to work. When we tried a forward pass there always was a Princeton end in the proper position to gobble up the ball. It did not matter what play the quarterback called—they all | seemed to work. | That season we had splendid ma- terial—I think the best I ever coached. Thanks to our Summer meeting at the Princeton Preparatory School, our plans were all laid before the opening of the season. All the plays were se- lected and we did not have to waste any time experimenting. So we got away to a very good start. It makes a big difference if a foot ball cam- | paign is worked out ahead of time. Harlan First Triple Threater. There was a real feeling of uncer tainty in every game we played owing | to the change in rules. We did not | know what our opponents would spring. Most of the teams we met played along very conservative lines and seemed content to stick to the running game. 1 think we developed at Princeton that year the first triple- | threat man, Ned Harlan. He could | run, kick and pass. Harlan caught well. By the middle of the season it | ‘Was our strongest play. { ‘The result of the Yale game was a tremendous disappointment. T ex- pected to see our team win handily and a tie game was in some sense ‘worse than a defeat. Up to our game Yale had a very mediocre season. But they outdid themselves that day. ! That game taught me, to my sor-| row, the error of feeling pleased over early season scores and, just as it is | hard for the coach, so it is hard for the players. The team I have learned to fear is the one which has just been GARRY COCHRAN, Former End Coach at Princeton. having for thelr opponents the Para- mount sextet, a new aggregation in the independent club circle. The game is slated for 7 o'clock, and will be a part of the Capitolites’ regular weekly practice program. 'PETERSEN AMUSES " KING PIN CUE FANS PRO COURT LEAGUE ing Managers Bill Wood and ns to open formally Meyer | Davis' ne King Pin billiard estal- | lishment, in upper Fourteenth street, | last night, Charles Peterson, St. Louis | cue wizard, entertained in amazing | manner a throng of admirers of the | green cloth game. Peterson. generally acclaimed the greatest of trick shot artists, offered a program that included remarkable draw and follow shots, brilliant masses and freak cushion plays in ad- | dition to fancy strokes that jumped | the cue ball into a hat and over a | bridge to complete points. And with |it all, the cue marvel delivered an amusing but enlightening lecture. Prior to his exhibition, Peterson engaged in a three-cushion match with John Dodge, 4 Washington ama- | teur. Petersen won, 25 to 21, but { Dodge gave a pleasing exhibition, three times negotiating runs of 4. Teams. Cleveland Baltimore Detroit . LAST NIGHT'S RES Fort Wayne, 20; New York, TONIGHT'S GAMES. Washington at Detroit. Baltimore at Philadelphia. New York at Fort Wayne TOMORROW'S GAMES, Washington at Detroi New Ve Rochester at New Yoi ’ strong Princeton aggregation on the last two Saturdays of the season. In the same way, Princeton memories will laep to recall the 1919 or 19256 teams rather than those of 1896 and 1903 simply because they came back after midseason catastrophies and finished stronger than they began. It is not snobbery or exclusivene: which makes Lafayette and Lehigh so closely identified as rivals that one inevitably thinks of them as coupled. Lehigh men will tell you their seagon | is a success if Lafayette is defeated | and a failure if she is not. Nor is it {anything except an ineradicable bond | of friendly enmity which links Wil- | liams and Amherst, Vanderbilt and Sewanee, Missouri and Kansas, Michi- gan and Minnesota, Cornell and Pennsylvania and Andover and Ex- eter. Case of W. and L. and V. M. L There are amusing converse Con- firmations. In Lexington, Va., the campus of Washington and Lee is bounded on one side by Virginia Mil dtary Institute; and by and large th each produce a foot ball team able 10 play the other a very close game, but they are not natural rivals in this queer sense of which I am speakini. They actually cannot play even a practice game without the probability of its becoming too bitter to be gocd fun; and after proving this by experi- ment they have very wisely agreed not_to play. i These natural bonds of private vi- valry are, properly considered, the finest thing imaginable. They are beaten rather than the one which has | run wild against a supposedly strong opponent. And when I now send an eleven of my own into a hard game after one of those romps I am gener- cause each of those two teams, after ally nervous and prepared for trouble. | being knocked about in midseason by learned mine has run into unexpected defeat | enough in those misfortunes to tie a On the other hand, when a team of | smaller college elevens, in a midseason game I have an added | strong Harvard team and beat a b LR 2 00000 ¢ 2.0.0.8.02.¢.¢.088.0088¢ C game. carrying on. He tells of them all. Collins has woven men are prouder of their teams of 1897 and 1910 than of the more impres- sive elevens of other years simply be- A Biography of BaseBall Eddie Collins has written twenty -one great articles, twenty years’ career in Base Ball. are full of interest to the writes of the genera- tion which is passing —of such Speaker and Cobb, who And of Johnson, Alexander, Hornsby who are still Collins has played with Waddell, Bender, Baker, Plank, Walsh, Lajoie and other stars—champions like himself. There has been nothing written of more human interest than to his “Biography of Base Ball.” The series of 21 articles will be published in Washington exclusively in he Star, —Beginning January 3rd ********************;k***************; never founded on enmity in the sense of hate. TInstitutions between which there {s anything like bitterness or misrtust are incapable of forming one of these attachments and only those which respect and really admire each other can preserve the rivalry un- changed through the years. (Copyright, 1926.) Fededededdokdok dokokok overing his His experiences fans — for he men as have left the Stanley H. MO NN N XY O XK WHEN e rom George | represent G. W. in the forthcoming Louise | Naomi | puer @ald- 1015-1017 14th St. Fletcher Motor Co. Alexandria, Va. Bury Motor Co., Anacostia, D. C. BETTER a9 ISDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1926 INDEPENDENT BASKETERS - TUNING FOR BRISK SEASON end- | the Battery B tossers of Fort Myer by | a 38-to-21 count. Tos: s of Washington's inde ent basket ball teams will tempe halt their floor activities toward the | close of the week | again next week in prep ! season bille * tossers won from by a 34t018 Junior High gym. Indepedent Jun the Jefferson P count in the Hine Utah five wants games with 1 pound teams having gyms. asCEEyHCRE OOl (01 120 scheduled tonight at Call man- |} K ghts gym, with an 1 | other double-he offered tomorroy night in the Washington Barr: gyvm between teams in the senior loop. Jovs' Club Celtics and Epiphany Roses will play in one game, while Arrow will meet the Clover to n another | ¢ f the games tonight. Auth nd Celtics will ¢k row night in the openi the double bill, and Epiphany | will take on the Washington legiates an hour’ later Conf Two games in the Petworth League will be staged tomorrow night in the Wilson Normal School gym. Tremonts nanons will open the double bil! o'cloc 1d an hour later Park nd Nativity fives will clash. | s h tomor- | contest of | . WINTONS PLANNING INTERCITY CONTEST Sandlot foot ball dies hard. Win-| tons, holders of the Dist 150-pound | sandlot title, victors over the Claren- | don Lyons, claimants of the northern Virginia champlonship, gazing around for more worlds to conquer. Their glance tur toward Balti more, where gestures have heen made by the 1i0-pound c mpions of the! Monumental Cit nd a game may be played at Union League Park on Sun- day between the two @ gations. Thi, with other matters, will be discussed meeting of the Winton A. C. tonigh Twelfth and E streets southeast. Man: ldberg expects all Winton player tend the meet- as plans for a banquet and et ball team will Anacostia Eagle tossers will meet a severe test next when the entertain the Washington Wonder | five in the Congress Heights gym veral of the leading amateur pk s in _the city are in the Wonder fi An added attraction will be a_ game | between two teams in the Washington | Basket Ball Led&uc. Elliots annexed a victory {over the Emanons, with Underwood {and Ward starring for the victors. F Regulars of Hyattsville -to-17 defeat on the Ana last year's unlimited a game at the Hyatts: are mpions, in ville armory. Aces swamped Snowbi four pl three-gus the Central High | nning 45 to 14, with only on the floor for the first ters of the game. t V. s f ormen of the Army Medical Cen- | jo discussed. ter annexed a brace of contests, the senior five winning from Woodside, 3% and the Yellow rkets, the trimming ~ St. P — i Pébrless A. €. gridmen are looking | for a game on Sunday to decide the Distrig 115-pound championship. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. { Notre Dame, 19; Towa, 18. Wineis, 3% Drake, 26 (overtime). whattan, 28; Dartmouth, t A. C ; Un 1 High School tomorrow night at | o'clock. Clarendon Bap ive fell he Sweetest get quickly Passing to the waist wonit go wrong often aw is absolutely wrong. keep it close to your bod not be knocked from you nent. SPORTS. ?fl-ibe Coening ét BOYS CLUB BY ROBERT BURGITT ket Ball Coach, Grinnell, To is easier to make accur: ers wear wide with dark sul with light-c eye will and he High) e passes nd light . or wide lored s will aim for it. Many 100 y before they catch the ball. This Keep vour eve 8ALL HITS FINGERS on the ball until you have made the cateh. vou soon and you will. on the ball and Look away too Keep your won’t tfumble. In holding the ball before passing so0 it can- ¥ an oppo- Always remember when catching a ball not to “fight” it—that is, hurry your ha vour fing catching it flat on your hand. into it and thereby stick r into the ball rather than The Hook Pa: big college teams use the a lot. 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