Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 33

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHI THURSDAY, DECEMBER 90 20, 1926 Locke, Leading Sprinter of All Time, Due to Display His Speed on Eastern Tracks My 25 Years on the Gridiron GREAT NEBRASKA RUNNER PLANNING TO MAKE TRIP Cornhusker, Who Is Expected to Establish Himself as Speediest Man of All Time, Is Finest Type of College Athlete. FY LAWRENCE PERRY. present plans as outlined by chulte, the University of a_track coach, material- East next month will have the privilege of viewlng a young man who is about due to es tablish himself as the greatest sprint- er of all time. The yYoung man in question is Roland Locke. who starred in the sprints in intercollegiate com- petition and plaved in_the backfield of the 1924 and 1 Cornhusker elevens. He will appear in exhibition events in the East. Locke. it wiil be recallgd, ran the 220 dash in 20.5 seconds at the Mis- i-Nebraska dual meet last Sum- and the record was accepted by the A. A. U. He did the hundred last Summer in 9.5 sew and those who saw the feat at an effort should have been made to obtain ac- ceptance for this record burst of speed. But Schulte was not particularly eager to do so hecause of his cer- tainty that his charge will startle the world this Spring. Out of College Athletics. Locke of course is through with intercollegiate competition, having been graduated with the class of 1925, but he is still carrying the Corn- husker colors as a member of the Nebraska “N" club, a post-graduate athletic organization. Just now he appears to be in ex- cellent condition and if he maintains his form. Eastern enthusiasts may ex- ect plenty of thrills. Frederick Ware, the keen sports expert of Omaha, advises the writer that he has been present at practice dashes when experienced timers have caught Locke in 9.4 for the hundred and 20.4 for the furlong. Running anchor in the relay at the Missouri Valley track meet lest Spring, Locke did the 220 with a little running start in 19.6. High Type of Athlete. Locke is one of the finest college athletic types that has been produced since the war. And it is a curious fact that he never has received the credit due him for splendid achieve- ments athletically and for his stand- ing as a gentleman and scholar. F | relationship, Notre Dame. In all his career at college he never was scholastically ineligible and in this, his fifth year of a six-vear law course, he stands, at the very top of his class. On trips of the football and track teams he has always studied and the click, click of his portable pewriter is recalled by his fellows a familiar sound in the Pullman. Professional sports have no attrac. ion for him at all, and after the 19°8 Olympies he does not believe he will ever run again in competition, it be. ing his idea that his legal work will claim him utterly. Nebraska and Notre Dase likely ‘o play foot ball tn 19 Nebraska emissary pnid an unofficial but commissioned visit to Knute Rockne in New York when the Hooslers played the Army. and Rockne expressed a_desire to resume relations with the Lincoln team. The one hitch to be overcome is | the opening of formal advances. It is felt that these logically should come from the institution which broke the s | They are investigating the causes of injuries to so many Yale players in the late foot ball season. The sit- uation was extraordinary in that most of the damage was done to knees and that in hard scrimmages and in games there were hardly any casualties of serious nature. Most of the injuries came in dummy practice, a fact altogether puzzling and unusual. It may have been due to an unconscious letting down on the part of the play As George Conners, the trainer, says, you can not put alarm clocks on athletes to tell them when it is time to wake up. The fact remains, whatever the cause, that knee injuries practically wrecked the varsity this season, while the hard working scrubs came through unscathed. To every one of his varsity men Tad Jones presented gold cuff links in the form of a halved foot ball when the season ended. The links were inscribed “to the team that never gave up.” The meaning is evi- dently figurative and relates to the unfailing morale of the outfit in the face of sequential disaster. BRIDGEWATER BASKETERS PLAY GALLAUDET TONIGHTF RIDGEWATER COLLEGE pas- sers, beaten last night 34 to 13 by American University, tonight at 8 o'clock will engage Coach Teddy Hughes’ Gallaudet tossers on the Kendall Green floor. The Buff and Blue was impressive in its opening game against Arnold College of New Haven Saturday night, when the New Englanders were van- quished 40 to 25, and the invaders from the Old Dominion are apt to have their hands full tonight to keep eilll.nudet from chalking up angthe n. ‘The tilt tonight will be the last for teams of the local college group until January 5, when Gallaudet and Catholic University will meet on the floor at Brookland. University of Maryland's squad will be the first to begin practice after Christmas. The Old Liners will start pointing Monday for their trip to the Midwest to encounter Michigan, Michigan State, Kentucky and pos- sibly another opponent. Georgetown, the only collegiate five hereabout yet to show its wares, is to open its campaign January 12, when Lynchburg College visits the Hilltop. ~ Right now it looks as though the Blue and Gray probably will depend principally on” Nork and Donovan, forwards; Tomaini, center, and Hickey and Flavin, guards. ‘What promises to 'be a lively tilt is slated for the George Washington gym January 11, when American University will strive to add the Co- lonials to its fast swelling list of victims. In repulsing Delaware Col- lege Tuesday night, G. W., making its season’s bow, showed a hardy com- bination that probably will furnish the Methodists an interesting evening. In scoring their seventh win in seven starts this season, C'oach Baillie Springston's _American dribblers last night were offered lttle opposition by the Bridgewater collegians. The Methodists early gained i .command- ing lead and after the first half it became a question only of how large MONTROSE PASSERS INVADE ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 23. —Virginia_ Athletic Club, opening its 1926 basket hall season, will encoun- ter the Montrose Club team here to- night at the Armory Hall, starting at 8:30 o'clock. The clash will bring back in action six members of the old Virginia. Oriole quint, which at ore time dominated all junior class oppv sition in Alexandria and northern Vir- ginia. Alexandria High School will play the alumni five on December 31 at the Armory Hall. Harmon Francis has been elected captain of the George Mason High School basket ball team. Al Waters will manage the Alexan- dria All-Star bowling team during the current season. Lefty Allen, sturdy end of the Pi- rates, will lead a 135-pound allstar eleven, composed of Alexandria Fire, Department, Prep and Pirate players to Clarendon Christmas day to play the Clarerdon Lyons, 150-pound cham- | pions of northern Virginia. Pirate A. C. basket bal! team trounced the Oakton High five here, to 6. 01d Dominion Boat Club will play Montrose A. C. of Washington De- cember 29. Episcopal High School basketers will open their season January 12, when they play hosts to Tech High ef Washington. St. Mary’s Celtics will entertain Business High of Washington here on January 5 in the locals’ next court game. a score the locals would total in their second start of the campaign over the Virginians. Capt. Tom Sawyer, forward; Jim Birthright, center, and Bill Banta, ®uard, proved the best sharpshooters in American’s drive on the iron hoops. Sawyer and Birthright accounted for eight points each. The long-range sniping of Banta supplied a spectacu- lar touch to the pastiming. All but one of Bridgewater's points were registered by Bill Payne, center, &nd Bovd Glick, guard, each of whom accounted for three goals from court. Oklahoma’s Fake Attack a Winner BASKET BALL. BY SOL METZGER. Fakes—feints to throw. an op- ponent off guard—are a most im- portant part of the game of basket ball. In fuct, this contribution to’ the game has done more than any other to popularize it. After all is said and done, skill in faking is the outstanding factor in the game. Ralph, the great scoping forward on Phillips University, Oklahoma intercollegiate champions last sea- son, was a master of faking as well as scoring. His team employed a five-man offensive that stressed a short passing game. It was a whirlwind on attack and passed its way to the basket by a series of lightninglike maneuvers on the part of its Individual players that were made possible by reason of the well conceived fakes in the attack. One such fake is shown in the illustration. In the upper draw- ing the player having the ball ‘would fake a short pass to a team- mate running past him who was apparently covered by his oppo- nent. Like a flash, he would jerk the ball away from his teammate and pass it to another on the side opposite. This fake invariably up- set the defense and permitted the team to continue its passing attack up to the basket. ‘There are many fakes of this nature that can be woven into a short passing attack in order to make it airtight. (Copyright, 1926.) COMPLETE LINE GOODSYEAR “MID-WASHINGTON” With TIRES Service North 366 1602 14th St. N.W. " RADIATORS, FENDERS withsHARHs R R s, 819 13th N.W. 23 P. REAR. * Fora ¥ TEE UNIVABSAL GAD SALES & SERVICE HANDLEY 3730 Georgia OFFICIAL AUTO-LITE SERVICE GENUINE PARTS CREEL BROS. 181117 14th St. N.W. Potomac 473 "TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats | field BY WILLIAM A. ROPER, HEAD COACH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY XXVI: The Yale-Princeton game in Fall of 1907 teemed with thrilis sensational play. Yale had a remarkable team. Their line was composed of veterans and was much more powerful than ours. Ted Coy and Tad Jomes were the mainstays in the backfield T decided to go up to New Hayen the week hefore our game and 'see Yale play Brown. They performed with a lot of spirit and dash, and im- pressed me as a very Strong aggrega- tion. 1 was astonished at the Yale defense. Between the two 2i-yard lines they kept only four men on the line of scrimmage. The two ends, the center and the four backs played be- hind the line. When Brown got to Yale's 23-yard line the ends and the center came up in the line. With a scven-man line their defense was about . stout and strong as any I had seen and Brown had great diffi- culty gaining at all It was evident, with seven men in the backfield, open play was fmpos- sible, as the Yale defensive men cov- ered every possible position on the In playing this defense it was easy to see the Yale coaches were tearful of our cpen play and did not consider our close running attack Changed Defensive Plans. Before seeing Yale play I felt our strategy should be a wide-open game. But the Yale defense against Brown changed our plans. It was evident we could not depend on the forward pass and onside kick in midfield. But 1 was not convinced we could not gain through the Yale line if they played a four-man line defense against us. 1 felt sure two tackles and two guards could not stop our 11 men. That week we changed' our style of game entirely. We concentrated on our close attack, working very hard on four or five line plays. We planned to hit the center and inside and out side of tackle. We were fortunate in having a very accurate dropkicker in Harlan. I felt cortain the Yale line would close in inside of their 25.yard line, so I instructed our quarterback to be on a lookout for a change of defensive tactics and not to be afrald to try a dropkick as soon as we got within kicking distance. We thus hoped our play would be just the op- posite from what Yale expected it to be. The element of surprise plays a very important part in foot bali. 1 felt if we crossed the Yale defense we might get the jump on them and pos- sibly get a commanding lead. Final I gave the quarterback positive in- structions to hold the ball and not kick until fourth down. Yale a Heavy Favorite. On the day of the game Yale was a heavy favorite, not even our own most sanguine supporters expecting us to win. I was very anxlous to have the game start, as I wanted to see if 1 had guessed right about the Yale- defense. They kicked off to us, and the whole Yale team was down the fleld like a flash. And, surely enough, when they lined up for the first play they filled the backfield and only left the two guards and tackles in the line. On the first play Jim McCormick went through right tackle for 12 yards; and in a comparatively few plays we had the ball out of our terri- tory and well up the fleld. We managed to take the ball without much diffi- culty up to Yale's 25-yard line. Here the situation changed very quickly. The Yale center came up in the line and the two ends took their regular positions on the wings. We then tried a play and the man with the ball bounced back. The Yale defense was now adamant and we could not gain an inch. After a play or two Dillon called Harlan’s signal for a drop kick and he sent a neat one over from the 85-yard line. So far our plans had worked perfectly. Yale then elected to receive the kick-off and on the sec- ond play some one in their backfleld made a fumble. Bill Booth, our left tackle, picked up the ball and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. We now had a 10-point lead. Harlan Misses Two Goals. Yale kicked off to us and we again started at their line. We had little dificulty in gaining ground all the rest. of the half, except when we got within striking distance of the Yale goal and their defense closed up. Then we could not gain a yard. Har- lan missed two more goal attempts from the field by inthes and the first half ended 10 to 0 in our favor. I was by no means sure of the game even at the end of the first half. I knew Yale had a stronger team and felt confident they would change their open defense in the second half. 1f we could only get another score I felt we would have the game in, hand. Late in the season an old Princeton man had written me about a short kick-off he had seen worked very suc- cessfully in a high school game early the and IEISEMAN'S, 7th & F > Strategy (;f the 1907 Yale Game. TAD JON Who Helped Defeat Princeton in 1907. |in the year. He had been so enthusi- astic about the play that I had Har- lan try it several times in practice. The trick was to have the team line up as if for a kick-off down field and have the ball kicked over to the side of the field by a man who was placed so he could slide over in front of the regular kicker as he was run- ning to kick the ball. When we got out on the field at the end of the intermission the Yale team had not put in its appearance. When they turned up I could see they meant business. As luck would have it, we had the kick-off. McCormick placed the ball in position and fell back to kick. Just as he was coming up Ned Harlan slid in front of him and made a beautiful short kick to Eddie Dillon, who had been placed on the end of the line. He ran to Yale's 25-yard line and here was our chance. Harlan just missed a goal from the field and Yale had the ball. Yale Alters Its Style. In an instant a tremendous change came over the game. One could tell in- stantly that Yale's style of play had changed. They started out to score and never gave up possession of the ball until they did. Our team could not stop Coy, the blond Yale fullback. He ran as a man inspired. Again and again he romped through our line, often with half of the Princeton team on his back. Twice in that inspiring march up the field Yale had fourth down, and on both oc- casions Coy gained the necessary ground. Yale scored in about 12 minutes after the second half started. The score was then 10 to 6 and it became a run against time. We managed to hold them twice for downs and Har. lan punted down field. Coy would not be denied and again carried the ball the entire length of the fleld for the mecond and winning touchdown. I was tremendously disappointed at the result, but I question if there was a team in the country that could have stopped Ted Coy on that damp, gray November day (Copyright. 1926.) ANACOSTIA EAGLES’ MEET - BOLSTERED WONDER FIVE A real test faces the Anacostia Eagle floormen, unlimited champions of last year, when they meet the strengthened Washington Wonder Five on the court of the Congress Helghts gym Sunday afterncon at 3 o'clock Always bitter rivals, who have nlayed close games in other vears, tha Eagles will find a revamped quint opposing them, strengthened by the \dition of Bill Werber, who now is attending Duke University. Eagles however, have been bolstered by Jack Smith, who will again play at center. A preliminary clash will bring to- gether the Park Views and Independ. ents of the Washington Basket Ball League. A junior basket ball loop is being organized by Jim McNamara, ath- letic director of the Jewish Commun- ity Center, with four young teams aiready entered in the circuit. A meeting will be held at the Center al 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon to per- fect the organization. The teams al- ready listed are Kanawha Juniors, Iroquois, Eclipse and John Marshall Auths nosed out the Boys' Club Celtics 27 to 24, while Epiphany Roses garnered a 37 to 22 verdict over the Washington Colleglate five in two Washington Basket Ball League con- tests played at the Washington Bar- racks gym. Epiphany Roses were handed a jolt by the determined op- position of the Collegiates, who knot- ted the count at 20-20 at the close of the third quarter. Over the final stretch, however, the Roses ran away from their hard-fighting opponents. Wiltshire and Hickey shot enough baskets from the foul line to give the Auths a victory over the Celtics. WINTONS TO TACKLE BALTIMORE ELEVEN Stepping outside their own baili- wick, Winton A. C. gridmen, 150- pound District champlons, have booked a game for Sunday at Union League Park with the Baltimore Yel- lowjackets. champions of the Monu- mental City. Wintons will practice at Twelfth and L streets southeast at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Johnny Myers, who plays at end, was elected to captain the Kenilworth A. C. foot ball team at a_meeting of the club last night. The Kenilworths will move from the 150-pound class into the unlimited division next Fall. Charles Gordon was elected president of the club. PALACE PREPS ACTIVE. Palace Preps, 115-pound basketers, will face Washington Barracks five tonight on the Barracks' floor. The Preps, who have a gym, are after more games. Call Manager Kilroy at Franklin 4978. ENTERS COAST SWIM. HOLYOKE, Mass., December 23 (#).—Mrs. Delia Sullivan, a municipal swimming instructor, will leave Sun- day for California to compete in the $60,000 prize swim to Catalina Island on January 15. Mrs, Sullivan won the 30-mile swim across the St. Lawrence River at Montreal on Labor day. FIRST HERE New York's Celtics are coming to town. For several years that line has lured men and women into basket ball halls here. These original Celtics are still a headliner of the game, though they have rivals at present for the world championship. One of thelr foremost rivals is Washington's own Palace five. So this game at Arcadia Hall next Sunday evening will be more than an exhibitlon of the great Celtic stars, as has been the case in other yearse It will be a battle. In fact, Palace is an even choice to beat Celtics here. It will be a league game, these New Yorkers having taken over Brook- Iyn’s franchise in the American loop. Palace's only defeat of the year was at the hands of the Celtics in Brook- lyn—the Celtics’ home court for league battles. It was a close, harass- ing scrap, in which Celtics were out- played generally by Palace. Since then the New Yorkers have dropped two games, each by a single point margin. They Iost in Rochester and they lost in Fort Wayne. The last time Celtics played here, A'LAST MINUTE THOUGHT In the hurry and rush of last minute i remember to0 buy your cih;;mokin‘ friends man w] of Tenn ill look the 3i Teal judbe of cibars, for Tennyson's qushity. i H sy Bg oo o enmrysons. Specially packed in attractive Christmas packspes. Tennysons. Ev HAND MADE IMPORTED SUMATRA WRAPPER INVINCIBLE SHAPE 53¢ INCHES LONG STANDARD CIGAR & TOBACCO CO. Distributors 635 Louisiana Ave. N. CELTICS’ VISIT ON SUNDAY AS LEAGUERS Palace had them whipped until the last five minutes, when Beckman broke loose and dribbled down the floor twice in succession for goals which won the match. That was in the early part of last vear. Imme- diately after, the American Basket Ball League prohibited exhibitisns in league cities, barring the Celtics from other appearances in the loop. Then the Shamrocks discovered there was nothing to gain outside the big league of the pro-court—not even a-world champlonship, which they had always won. So they came in to take the honors away from the league's best. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. American University, 31; Bridge- water College, 13. Navy, 41; Loyola (Baltimore), 26. Colgate, 33; Cornell, 13. Jowa State, 24; Simpson, 19. Wisconsin, '29; Marquette, 26. Dartmouth, 28; Army, 16. Cregcent A. C., 44; Washington and Lee, 22, Columbia, 32; Alumni, 27. receives s box nnyson’s quality i Skl gy 56 piky LONG FILLER Washington, D. C. MAZER-CRESSMAN CLEAR CO, INC Detroit, Walare R R R R R R R R R R R e N R B R R R R R R R R R R R O I R o R A T R IR IR IR IR IR IR IZNTNT Old Dominion Boat Club tossers of | Alexandria just beat the Park &ym, was in the lead throughout. Northern Juniors passed and tossed | Colony Church gym Drissel, goals. Tremont Senior passers will go to Alexandria Mary’s Seniors in the armory gvm. Mohawk Prep five is games with junior teams after several weeks FFersten is anxious to hear from other | junior teams. 315 Normal gym. _Epiphany gym will be the scene to night Epiphany Roses and Woodside quint Epiphany 7:15 o'clock for the game, that will rt at 8 the:@hming Star BOYS CLUB BY P. C. BECHTEL, Basket Ball Coach, West Liberty (Ohio) High, The crowd frequently gets er's goat and he does eve wrong thereafter. Keep yvour View team at the Wilson Normal N Don't give to the re 16 to 14. The boat club team bk pectators. They may sa Or the: in their praise that “tjf| You're too good. Concentrate your | thoughts on the game you are play FOWRGELG Do star | von ors ok v tinaty 't Tieks In the first e. be a good sport | what is going on outside the playing Be a good loser and a modest | area . Do all those sportsmanlike | If you let these remarks upset you, you have learned to do in The | then you will begin to regard your- self as inferior or superior to your teammates. Efther is very dangerous to vour game. Ahead or behind, always play with and for the interest of the entire team and not for individual glory. The player who is a good loser and a modest winner, who plays his game clean at all times, will have the crowd with him and will gain the g miration of his opponents. A plarer is not likely to do his best if the spectators have it in for him. Don't let them “boo” you out of doing the best that is in vou. Be a good little sportsman and reap all the rewards that the game of basket ball has to offer. ay an 80-to-16 victory over the floormen in the Hamline Threw, center. and guard, each scored 12 field tonight to oppose St. ready for of practice. Manager Mc. He may be reached at Eleventh street southeast. ernon Seniors in the Wilson Star Boys Club. The good little sportsman is liked by the spectators | at_the game. 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