Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 13

SPORTS. Cobb and Speaker Fight for Exoneration : Basket Ball to Have DEPOSED PLAYERS ASKING CHANCE TO FACE ACCUSER While Leonard Leaves Matter to Base Ball Heads, Friends of Former Pilots Continue Attack Upon Officials of Big Leagues. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 24.—The fire of base ball's Christmas scandaksmoldered today. Base ball'’s masters are content tb let ft go out. The fire vic. Hms—Ty Cobb and Tris Spéaker- also want the blaze extinguished, but complete exoneration is the only ex tinguisher they want used. Both Cobb and Speaker, generally rated as the two greatest plavers of modern base ball, continue their pleas for a chance to face the man who started the fire—H. B. (Dutch) Leonard, former Tiger pitcher. Teonard, the recipient of letters from Cobb and Joe Woobd, once a Cleveland pitcher, continues non- committal regarding the charges link- ing the names of Cobb and Speaker with a game between Cleveland and Detroit, September 25, 1919, which he said was fixed for Detroit to win. “Let hage ball authorities do the talking.” T.eonard said. at his ranch. near Fresno, Calif. “When the time comes, I'll issue a statement.” League Officials Attacked. Meanwhile, there are rumblings that presage counter-charges from (obh's friends. Cobb, home in Augusta, Ga., sald American League officials were “equally guilty” with Teonard in thix “rotten business.” because “thev paid $20.000 to keep the details of his story from leaking out.” The reference is to the price reported to have been paid Leonard for letters written by Cobh and Wood which form the basia of the charges on which Cobb and Speaker ere linked with the questioned game. Departure of Cobb from base ball under a cloud after 22 years, during which he established more records than any other player, has revealed the existence as long as a year ago of & rupture between Cobb and Frank Navin, president of the Detroit Tigers. Cobb, it now is revealed, was slated for removal as manager of the Tigers at the end of the 1925 season. The blow was checked, however, by a great civic testimonial hanquet Independent basket ball will have & temporary lull for two days over Christmas, but will burst forth again Sunday, when three important games are carded. Tonight's weekly twin bill in the ‘Washington Basket Ball League has been postponed. The banner clash Sunday will find the Anacostia Eagles and the Wash- ington Wonder Five opposing at Con- gress Heights. This game will start at 3 o'clock and will be ushered in by A contest between Park Views and In- dependents, Arrows and Washington Colleglates will clash in an encounter preliminary to the Washington-Celtic fray at the Arcadia. Aces rang up their sixth straight win last t-at the expense of the Sherwood Presbytérian Church court- men, 36 to 26. American Railway Express tossers trounced the Y. M. H. A. quint last ;I;lh! at the Terminal “Y” gym, 33 to Epiphany Roses defeated The Eve- ning Star quint last night, 25 to 13. 8t. Stephen's nosed out the War- renton basket ball team last night at Warrenton, 30 to 27. Comets whi travel to Warrenton for a game ‘Wednesday night. Company F tossers of Hyattsville dropped a game last night in the Hyattsville Armory to Columbia Heights tossers of the Sunday School League, 26 to 25. Reserve Guardsmen trimmed the Mount Rainier team, 26 to 22. Y. M. C. A. tossers beat the Walter Reed quint last night in the “Y" gym, 27 to 12. Montrose Seniors trounced the Vir- ginia A. C. in Alexandria last night, 37 to 24. A meeting of the newly. organized Junior Basket Ball League was sched- tled for 4 jock today at the Jewish Community Center. De M floormen trimmed the Pals last night in the Eastern High gym, 22 to 14, Church of the Covenand courtmen won from Fort Mver, 36 to 27. GRANGE INJURES KNEE. WACO, Tex., December 24 ().—An fnjury to Red Grange's knee has «caused the postponement of a Christ- mas day foot hall game here hetween Grange's Yankees and George Wil- son's Wildcats. It {s believed, how- ever, that Grange will be in condition to play at San Antonio Sunday. The two teams left for San Antonio last night. CHISOX BLEACHERS BURN. Part of the right-field bleachers in the base ball park of the Chicago White Sox were destroved by fire ves- terday. A heater used in drying the concrete work, which will increase the seating capacity to 60.000, set fire to the wooden forms. The damage was small. PLANS 1829 YACHT RACES. LONDON, December 24 UP).—A spe- clal British-American cup committee, after correspondence with the SBeawan- | hake-Corinthian Yacht Club, has agreed to a series of team races for & new cup on lines similar to those of the previous contest. The committee dectded to undertake the responsibility for holding these races in 1928, SPEARS IS RECOVERING. INNEAPOLIS Minn., December u‘{m.-nr, Clarence Spears, Univer- sity of Minnesota foot hall coach, who is recovering from an operation at Rochester, Minn., was able' to sit up fn & wheel chalr today. Mrs, Spears, at their home here, talked over long distance telephone with her hushand and said he plans to come home next ‘week. mmfimz BOXER SCORES. BUENOS AIRES, December 24 (#). —Louls Rayo, Argentine lightweight, defeated Lucien Vinez of France, lightweight champion of Furope, on points in a 12-round contest here to- night. The bout was turiously fought. 2 - = STOCKHOLM, Sweden, December 24 (®).—Sweden’s running champion, Fdvin Wide, will Jeave Stockholm on Sunday to board the Berengaria, at Southampton, December 2. He ex- pacts to arrive in New York on Jan- upry 4. dered Cobb in recognition of the part he played in spreading the name of Detrolt throughout the land, The affair was sponsored by A | Iohn W. Smith, who also presen Cobb as a gift from the city a $1,000 hall clock. Navi the American President Ban Johnson of League and Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, were high figures of the game who attended, and it was at this event that Navin presented Cohb with a check for $10,000, which he said was in recognition of Cobh's contribution to the success of the Detroit base ball club. Cobb, now that hix integrity has been questioned, has charged that the $10,000 was not a gift, but actually & part of his salary. The financial success of the Detroit ball club has been marked during Navin's regime as president and Cobb's years as plaver. Navin in past years has let it be understood that he attributed much of the popularity of hase hall in Detroit to Ty Cobb, and that Cobh, therefofe, could stay |on the Tiger pay roll as long as he | wished. Deposed Stars Indorsed. Expressions of confidence in Cobb and Speaker continued to come from many sources. Among the latest was a resolution passed by the Philadelphia Sport Writers' Association. At Augusta, Ga. citizens went ahead with plans for a testimonial banquet for their fellow townsman. Joe Wood told his story yesterday to Burnside Winslow, chairman of the base ball committee of the Yale Ath- letic Association, by whom Wood is employed as coach. But no statement of the university's attitude was made known. Wood told Winslow he had never bet on a “fixed” ball game in his life, Ban Johnson said he did not think “this unfortunate affair” would have any effect on the American League fortunes next year, when new man- agers will pilot the teams Cobb and Speaker led during 192 Barry’s Fumbling Cure Is Simple ‘BASKET BALL BY SOL METZGER. Until a team is proficient in handling the ball it cannot perfect its attack in basket ball. Fumbling is an upsetting error that has to be eradi- cated. Tt is invariably due to the failure of a player about to receive a pass to keep hia eves on the ball. Sam Barry, Jowa's great coach, says that when one of his veterans begins fumbling that is usually the cause. It is pretty difficult for a boy to keep his eyes on the ball and, at the same time, note the position of his team- mates. Yet he has to do just that. There is one way and only one to catch a pass to the body. First, the player must keep his eyes on the ball. Just as important is the way he holds his hands to receive the ball. Note the iltustrations. In each case the ball is going to be caught by the tips of the fingers. That gives the re- celver the “feel” of the ball. True, as the ball comes with force he can- not catch it with only the finger tips. Instinctively, he will break its force with the heel of his hands and by pulling his arms slightly toward him. But he will control the ball all the time with his fingers. The pull of his arms slightly toward him is also a preparatory movement for the next pass, Never fight the ball when receiving a pass and always use the catch as a preparatory movement for the next pass in order to speed up your pass- ing attack. 2 (Copyright, 1926.) COLLEGE BASKETERS NOW TAKING A REST Basket ball plavers of the District college teams are resting right now, but within a few days will begin energetic preparation for the hardest tests on their schedules. University of Maryland tossers will be the first to get in action follow- ing Christmas, being carded to begin preparation on Monday for an in- vasion week after next of the Mid- west to encounter a group of formid- able opponents. The other combina- tions of the District collegiate circle soon will follow Maryland in resum- ing training, as all face engagements early in January. The first tilt for & local floor of the New Year will bring together Gallaudet and Catholic University on the court at Brookland on January 6. Georgetown, the only college five yet to displ its wares, will open its cam- paign January 12, entertaining Lynch- burg College at the Hilltop, and by this date all teams of the college circle will have seen post-holiday action. . Coach Teddy Hughes probably will see to it that the Kendall Greeners get plenty of drilling before engaging the Cardinals. The Buff and Blue showed plenty of fight and felt the absenca of Capt. Miller, sturdy guard, when they succumbed to Bridgewater last night on the Kendall Green court in the final college game hereabouts of 1925. Tralling Bridgewater from the first Gallaudet kept hard on the heels of the invaders all the w A brave bid for victory was made by Hughes' proteges in the dying moments. Need. ing just one court goal to tie the connt. Dyer, Buff and Blue forward, “blew” two shots at the netting by the narrowest margins. Marcll, Leavell and Payne flashed bang-up, allaround _exhibitions for Bridgewater. Dyer. Bliger and Hok- anson were Gallaudet's most consist. ent performers. gt MONROE QUINT AHEAD. Monroe five squeezed out a 48-to47 win over Mount Pleasant tossers in & midget class game last night on the |Tecl latter's floor. THE EVENING LANDIS’ OPINION ASKED "ON COBB AND SPEAKER DETROIT, December 24 (#).— Fans here wish Commissioner Lan- dis to say whether he believes Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker ‘nm{. After an impromptu meeting of friends of .Cobb last night a tele- gram was dispatched to the com- missioner by Joseph Benjamin, a merchant, criticising his failure to make known his views. The message concludes: ““You conducted this investigation, and the public is entitled to know your opinion. If you have suffi- clent proof that Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are guilt~ of the charges, then please let the world know. If you are of the opinfon that Leon- ard, In a spirit of revenge, sold out his former leader by reading into a letter id that were not therein contained, then in justice to the men who have given their all to base ball, please tell the base Il fans and the people of Americ Are these men guilty, or do you believe them to bhe innocent of the charges?"” WITH COLLINS BACK, MACK SEES PENNANT By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— Edward Trowbridge Collins, star sec- ond baseman in the American League for nearly two decad has returned to the scene of his early triumphs— the Philadelphia Athletics. Connie Mack, leader of six pen- nant-winning and three world cham. pionship teams, said he was glad to get Collins, and with another good outflelder he would be ready to cap- ture his seventh American League flag. = Collins, deposed recently by the Chicago Whits Sox as manager, will play second base, as usual. BREADON DEFENDS TRADE OF HORNSBY By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, December 24.—Defend- ing his trade of Manager Rogers Hornshy to the New York Giants, Sam Breadon, president of the worl champion 8t. Louls Cardinals, said he would have been gambling with the club’s financial future if he had ac- ceded to Hornsby's demands for a three-year contract at $50,000 a vear. “'Hornsby had a bad playing season last vear' he said. “We were will- ing to pay him $50,000 for mext sea- son. Our winning the championship will guarantes us good crowds in 1927. We could afford to take a year to look Hornsby over and see if he was worth $30,000 as a playver and $20.000 additional as & manager. “But_ what ahout 1928 and 19297 Could I pledge our 400 stockholders to sn:y $60,000 each of these two years to, Hornsby, when he might be finish- ed as a play manager? “If things went wrong I'd have to pay the checks. I own 65 per cent of the stock and T would be ex- pected to meet deficits in order to save my investment. I couldn’t see myself taking such a gamble for three vears. “A great deal has been sald about my watching the nickels, but what about Hornsby? Since 1922 he *has been the highest salaried player in the Natlonal League. With the ex- ception of Babe Ruth, I would say he was the higheat priced man In the big leagies. When he made demands for sala; increases in the past I'd tell him, ‘Rog. be reasonable. We're nat making money. It's all coming And he'd reply, T can get it some place If it was strictly business with me, it was the same with Hornsby,” FRISCH SEES ST. LOUIS r and a faflure as a AS CHANCE TO MANAGE AN;I’liw YO‘RK, December 24 (#).— mbitious to become a manager, Frankie Frisch observes that A Louls loks like a good spot.” President Sam Breadon faces the necessity of signing the former Giant to a new contract. His_agreement last year with the New York team called for an annuai salary of $18,500, g RO 16 GET FOOT BALL LETTER AT WESTERN Fifteen foot ball players of West- ern High 8chool who' have been awarded the insignia will gather Wwithin a.few days to elect a captain for the 1927 team. Those who o received the “W" are Capt. Fred Owens, Roger Thornett, Melville Cox, Lawrence Schneider, Edward Fletch- er, Norman Hilleary, Charles Walk- er, Sam Coorabs, Pdward Brownfleld, Bobby Stevens, _Dooley Mitchell, Quincey Brown, Bob Wilson, War- ren Rabbitt and Willilam Parks. The annual C Club track and field meet sponsored by the Central High 8chool organization next Spring will be one of the biggest scholastic car- nivals hereabouts if plans discussed last night at the annual club banquet materialize. Sylvan King, former Central star gridman, was elected president of the club for 1927. Other officers chosen are Edward Jones, vice president; Ed- mund Rheem, permanent secretary Robert Newby, recording secretary, and Fugene Casey, treasurer. The principal speaker was Capt. Lawrence (Biff) Jones, Weat Point grid coach, and erstwhile Blue and White foot ball luminary, who told of the great work of the Army second- atringers in the recent gridiron clash with ‘Navy; Robert A. Maurer, for- mer principal of Central; Paul Ma- goffin, well know foot ball official, and Paul Losh, & former president of the club. THREE GRID GAMES LISTED FOR SUNDAY Thres foot ball games, two of them involving flywelght teams, will plaved on Washingten gridirons Sun- day afternoon. The Winton A. C. gridmen, mon- archs of the 150-pound Washington outfits, will olash with the Raltimore Yellow Jackets, champions of the Monumental City, at Union League Park at 3 o'clock, while games which will have p bearing on the District 115-pound championship will find the Northern Juniors clashing with the Peerless A. C. cleven on the Tidal Rasin gridiron and the Mohawk Preps meeting the Monroe team at Union Park in a preliminary to the Winton- Baltimore engagement. 2 T COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Bridgewater College, 20; Gallau- det, 18. hl;l.vmc College, 38; Georgia Darthmouth, 42; Brooklyn Poly, 26. be A, STAR. WASHINGTON, Believe It or Not. SAMPSON ~the grey f mihe an'a 18 [0 YEARS oLD “‘ J fuMiko TerRAG RAN 100 METERS (109-vanos) \ § NI0% seconps Tokyo, w26 PRO COURT LEAGUE. STANDING OF TEAMS. Clevel ochester” altimore . LAST NIGHT'S R lew York, 40 Baltimore. iphia, 30 Wayne. 25. Bk o YT e GAME TOMORROW. ‘Washington at Rochester. GAME SUNDAY. New York at Washington. SULTS. PALACE FIVE HOME FOR SUNDAY CLASH ‘Washington’s Palace Club, in sec- ond place in the American Basket Ball League, moved from Chicago to Roohester todaey for a game with the Centrals tomorrow night. Victors over Chicago, 28 to 17, last night, the Palace tossers hope to trim Rochester on_Christmas night and then will come back to Washington, where they will engage the only team that has trounced them this season—the fa- mous New York Celtics. Anticipating a reeord crowd to see the rival clash, the Arcadia manage. ment has put up more than a thou- sand extra seats. SOCCER TO CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER MONTH It is probable that victors in both sections 1 and 2 of the Washington Soccer League will be determined as the result of Sunday's tilts, the last on the schedile. Competition, how- ever, will continue at least another month, in order to play off postponed matches and complete cup-tie play. ‘The Walford Club, defending cham- plon, that appears an odds-on favorite to again triumph, will encounter the youthful but doughty Monroe eleven Sunday at 2:30 o'ctock en the Monu- ment lot, - In section 2 Concord and Rosedale kiokers will come to grips also at 2:30 on .the Rosedale playground. Supporters of the Marlboro team are pulling for a Rosedale triumph, as this would just about enable the southern Marylanders to win sectional honors, Soccer elevens of Clan MacLennan of the Washington League and Clan MacKenzie.of Baltimore will not clash tomorrow. The Baltimore team has notified the local club that the Foot Ball Association of Baltimore, a branch of the United States Foot Ball Assoclation, -controlling national soc- cer body, has refused to permit it to play the local eleven, as the latter is not a member of the national or- ganization. Washington league offi- clals applied for a charter in the na- tional body more than a year ago, but when informed that they would have to operate as a branch of the Balti- more organization decided to with. draw the application. WOULD PROTECT YOUTHS, LONDON, December 24 (#).—Com- plaints regarding the ways in which professional boxing in England per- mits youths of 15 and 16 fo take part in long contests are pouring in upon the authorities. Youn‘ professional boxers are allowed to fight 10 or 15 rounds, as this has been the custom for many yea YANKEES DEFEAT ALCOS, Alco A, C. five, District colored champlon’s, last night bowed to the reorganized Yankee A. C. team in a 23-to-21 encounter at the Lincoln colonnade. Yankees were trailing 10 to 5 at the half but came with a rush in the final session. Community . C., scored over Acme basketers, 34 to 8,'in a preliminary. WRESTLE TONIGHT. Bobby Mainfort will come to grips with Jack Collins of Norfolk in the feature bout of the regular Friday night wrestling program tonight at the Mutual Theater. “Dutch” Green of Mohawk Club and George Kiatta of Waverly Club will grapple in the preliminary. By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—Rosie Stoy, Lancaster, Pa., fought a draw with Jimmy Mendo, Cleveland (12). CULVER CITY, Calif.—Ad Cadema, Navy welterweight, scored a technical knockout over Roberto Rision of Panama (6). Ay D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926. Tae MERMOMITER REGISTERED 90 BELOW W NORTMERN SIBERIA TS WiNTER. SPORYY: 18" Biggest Season By RIPLEY \INTEREST IN COURT GAME NOW RIVALS FOOT BALL Contests Draw Huge Crewds, Especially in Midwest and Rocky Mountain Sections—Pastime Also Is Growing in Favor in South. WORE A MONOCLE INHIS EYE CONTINUOUSLY FOR ONE YEAR (io13) He did ol vemove it day or MEht —— Linz, Auswein THe 7-MoNHs LT R WRISTLES, IMSELF B SLEG) WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER SPECIAL award assembly and a basket ball game between the varsity and the alumnae squads of Friends School fea- tured the pre-holiday celebra- tion, Fair hockey stars received their ma- jor emblems at the assembly. Miss Hilda Molesworth, physical training director, presented letters to Elizabeth du Boire, Elizabeth Bryan, Marie For- mad, Eloise Hopkins, Jeanne Rich- ards, Polly Foote, Elizabeth Hoover, e Hoover, Louis~ Hoover, El- Ruth Rogers, Setsuko Matsudaira, Helen Ann Selecman, Meargaret Goodwin, Josephine Lee, Ida Clagett, FElizabeth Cates and Mar- Jorie Prevost. The varsity basket ball squad, which has just been selected, overwhelmed the alumnae, 31 to 15, in the tradi- tional clash which is staged each year at this time. Members of the winning squad, who will represent Friends in its brief interscholastic schedule after the New Year, are Margaret Berry, Betty Tressler, Mildred Burnham, Ida Clag- ett, Josephine Lee, Louise Hoover, Mildred Clarke and Jeanne Richards. Capitol Athletic Club mermalids plan an intensive practice schedule after the holidays in anticipation of their program of indoor meets, which will include competition with the Dolphin Club of Richmond, the Maryland Swimming Club and the Bayshore Swimming Club, in addition to the an- nual indoor south Atlantio meet. Dates have not heen set yet, nor the place announced for the south Atlan- tic affair, Coach McNamara - of the Jewish Community Center has announced that several players are needed for his junior and senior girls’ basket ball squads, which will be entered in the ‘Washington Recreation League loop. BY W. L. ZORN, Coach of Waite High School of Toledo, Ohfo. The short pass s better than the long pass for any team, and especially for boys' teams. The Iong pass should be used only in getting the ball out of the danger zone, your opponents’ bas- ket territory. Short, quick passing is hard to stop. The receiver of a short pass should £0 In to meet the ball and’ not wait for it. Long passes are dangerous because, OUR TEAM wmrrg| ENTS BLACK HANSEN OR BERLENBACH WILL BATTLE MALONEY NEW YORK, December 24 (#).— Tex Rickard has given his heavy- welght fistic deck another shuffle, bringing to the top Knute Hansen of Racine, Wis., and Paul Berlenbach, former light heavyweight champion, as prospective opponents for Jimmy Maloney of Boston. After signing the conqueror of Harry Persson to a contract for three fights, Rickard announced that either Hansen or Berlenbach would be the next to meet the Hub contender, Ber- lenbach’s chances hinge on the out- come of his bout with Mike McTigue next month. There looms a subsequent fight for Maloney with the winner of a battle between Jack Sharkey and Paolino Uzcudun. The. Spanish contende: only remaining European entry in the tournament, will meet his Boston foe early next year, WALES TO HAVE COURT. LONDON, December 24 (#).—The Prince of Wales is having a squash racquets court built at Marll h House in order to play his favorite in- door game as often as possible. Any player desiring to try out for one of these positions should get in touch with Mr. McNamare at the center, Sixteenth and Q streets northwest. Marjorie Webster School tossers have booked games with Gallaudet and Fredricksburg Normal School on their varsity court schedule and ex- pect to ocomplete arrangements for one or two additional games. Indie Sinclair, coach, has decided to allow this brief Interscholastic sched- ule at the conclusion of the class games, although it was rumored earlier in the vear that Marjorie Web- ster would not compete in any out- side games. The Junior-Senior series will be a lengthy one this year, as each class has about five teams, ac- cording to Miss Sinclair, and for this reason only a very brief outside se- ries could be contemplated. A var- sity team will be selected from the ranks of the class performers. Metropolitan Athletic Club bas- keters expect to have a fast-moving sextet on the floor when the Recrea- tion League teams swing into action next month. According to Gladys Mills, manager, Mary Reed, Dora Tappe and Ruth Bierchert have de- veloped into geod players. Miss Mills herself, who has undertaken the coaching of the squad, is recognized as one of the best side centers who ever has performed on a local court. The Metropolitans are observing the holiday season during the next-10 days, but plan to resume practice im- mediately after the first of the year in St. Paul's Church gymnasium at Fif- teenth and V streets. The Girls’ “C” Club of Central High School entertained at a tea dance ‘Wednesday afternoen in the scheol armory. The three faculty advisors, Charlotte Galpin, Louise Hart and Kfl-t’hedna Kanebel, chaperoned the affair. in the first place, they are easily in- tercepted, and a long pass cannot be thrown with the speed and accuracy of a short pass. The first practice for shert passing should be taken with all men station- ary. Suppose there are six men on the floor for practice. Let three line up on a line, about 3 yards apart, and the other three on a line just op- posite, about 4 yards from the first line. Pass from one side to the other, up and down the two lines and back again until tired. Then try the same thing in a_slow Jog, gradually speeding it up. When a ball is missed the two lines should form agalin and start the drill all over. When you are able to make every pass on. the run, then you can prac- tice something else. But as long as you miss, keep at this one drill. In the short-passing game there is much to learn besides passing and catching the ball. There is the stop- ping and turning, for instance. But they are lessons that will require a ‘whole day or so. Next—Shooting Baskets. (Copyright. 1926.) UZCUDUN DRAWS LINE ‘| would have been badly beaten. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. VERY indication points to the conclusion that basket ball is in for its greatest season. In- terest in the game in several mections will rival that en- thusinsm which foot ball evokes and the fipancial returns will make the aport {pereasingly significant in those collegiate centers where adequate fa- cllities for meating spectators exist. Ind the game has reached a stage wi the attendance is Nmited only by ghe seating capacity. The Middle and Rocky Mountain sections afp far beyond the East in this res; Huge field houses with accommodations for spectators rang- ing in numbers from five to ten thou- sand have been erected and more are projected. Growing In East. Economicallyy so far as the East is concerned, the will show an upward impuise\ of the opening on January 1 of the new million-dollar indoor stadium the University of Pennsylvania. ‘FMhis building, which enjoys the name \Palestra, will seat ten thousand and & the twenty eight rows of the seats\nineteen are of concrete and therefqre permanent. But in the West ' the game is strongly ‘established .as a paying #port. A preliminary e at North- western University the other day drew mix thousand specfators, a defi- nits augury of what \may be ex- pected later when the wemtern confer- ence season gets under fway. The quality basket ¢ball in the West is certain to be high. All the Big Ten institutions, with the possi- ble exception of Chicago, 1l present formidable outfits, of ich the leader will probably be Indfana. Indiana Fond of It.. Basket ball is something mo#e than a game in the Hoosler State., It is a passion. They neglect foot Aall at the State University in favor of the court game, a reflaction of tha en- thusiasm throughout this common- wealth for & sport which every jone plays from Sunday school days \up- ward. Material for excellent teams' is never lacking in any school or college in_the state. Purdue, where foot ball also suft fers in comparison to the brand basket ball annually played, also will have a leading five. Iowa, Illinois HEAD COACH PRIN Our record nhr}"rlnheti:‘a‘: tin ;l]l was not cularly brilliant. -Yale again u:::mmk in the .secoad half and defeated us, 11 to 6. After the season I received an in- vitation from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., to pay them a wisit for a period of 10 days and h?* coach the team for the Vander- bilt game. As the season at Prince- ton had been & trying one, I was glad of the opportunity to g6 and accepted with a great deal of pleasure. Sewanee is a beautiful little place on top of a mountain. The people are very cordial and T was treated with real Southern hospitality during my stay. I arrived in the morning and in the afternoon went eut te get my first glimpse of the team. They were a very likely looking lot of boys, very eager and enthusiastic. The coach said he would run the team through signals. It seemed as If after every signal the 11 players ran in 11 dif- ferent directions and head-on collisions happened with amazing regularity. I asked the coach how many plays the team had. He replied: “Between 60 and 70. And then asked me if I thought that was enough. Plays Reduced to Seven. . After the practice the coach asked me to make suggestions. My reply was, that in my opinion, the entire repertory of plays ought to bhe scrap- ped and the signal system with it, and replaced with not more than seven of the most elementary plays imaginable. T suggested. five running plays and two passes. I went on and said the signal practice clearly showed the team did not know many of the sig- nals, and that it was impossible for any team to master 60 different plays and the warious assignments. First, T had quite a time selling this idea to the coach. He tried to argue that what the team really Yneeded was a few more good plays. There were a couple of old Sewanee players assisting the coach and they backed up my side of the argument. We finally won him over to our way of thinking. We then went oved'all the plays and kept just seven, and they were the simplest of the lot, five run- ning plays and two passes. The team seemed to expand in one 11-sided smile as this decision was announced, and for six or sev: they perfected the seven plays as if their lives hung on them. We did not have any more heads cracked at signal practice. By the time of the Vanderbilt game avery player on the squad knew hi ignments perfectly. System Works Well. e Vanderbilt game ended in a tle, 6 to 6. Sewanee gained more ground and made more first downs and certainly did not have the worst of the argument. Had they not dis- carded the unwieldy and varied as- sortment of plays, I am confident they It is most remarkable how many coaches load up their teams with too many plays and then wonder why they do not have successful seasons. IN FIGHTING BULLETS HAVANA, December 24 (#).—Paolino Uzcudun, “Tiger of the Pyrenees,” is willing to fight with any man with his fists, he says, but he draws the line when it comes to gloves against bullets. Pepe Conte, a Havana sperts writer, and the Tiger were taken to a pélice station last night after an argument which began while Paolino was work- Ang out before a large crowd of fight fans. Conte, the fighter said, com- mented caustically or_his ability as a boxer, and, when Paolino jumped across the ring to remonstrate, dréw a pistol. A policeman then interfered. Both men were ordered to appear in court. "TROUSERS o Match Your 0dd Coats EIS| , 7th & F = Plays can only be learned by patient repetition until each man's place and part in each play ia intuitive with him and _thoroughly famillar to_eve: RADIATORS, FENDERS witTSTATRE R B s, __319 13th N. +_ 1423 P. REAR. HAWKINS MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 and Michigan will be strong, Minne- sota is expected to make a show- ing and Wiscensin, which one of the best coaches in the country, will be at least fair. to show prowess. OCelumbia, which some years ago was & leader in the sport, slumped for a time, but in 1925 entered the lists with a champlonship combination, and much 1s the Y in recent years: seems to have lost her touch in the cage game, but Dartmouth now is in possession of a system which produces worthy if not championship fives. Dartmouth d'i;r'.d the Army five Wednesday night. Popular in Dixle. In the South the great event of the basket ball season is a week of . Conference participate. - It is a verl- table carnival and the interest and enthusiasm which it arouses'are comparable to the annual foot ball furore. The University of North Carelina for three successive years has cap- tured the conference championship. This season the Tar Heels will show strength, but a mers even distribu- tion of this attribute among sister colleges of Dixie this winter indi- cates that North Carolina will not have easy going in her quest for a fourth title. In the Western Conference one never hears of {ll feeling over the basket ball schedule such as follows every annual foot ball meeting of Big Ten coaches and athletis diree- tors. This is becauss the round- robin system of arranging contests for several reasons, an point being that it produces a cham- pion each year or, if not that, a group of teams involved in a cham- plonship tle. Of course thers are more games each season in basket ball than in foot ball, thus simplifying the ar- rangement of schedules; none the less the round-robin plan did away with bargaining for games and cre- ated an amiable spirit which cannot exist in foot ball so long as contests are arranged with a view to gate ecelpts. My 25 Years on the Gridiron BY WILLIAM CETO! A. ROPER, N XXVII—Experiences at Sew.;lee, Tenn. other member of the team. Nothing has ever been gained by trying to teach more than one play at once, and it is time wasted to overload any team with too many plays. This process begins the actual ere- ation of team attack and is the first real manifestation of that all-essential quality of winning foet bail, team play. ‘To bulld this peculiar unanimity and simultaneity of action on the part ef 11 men is one of the hardest and most important individual parts of fleld coaching. The spirit behind the team is perhaps more effective in uni- fying it into this amooth, correlated machine than even drfll itself. There is nothing so curiously contagious as the spirit of the mass, which makes the good soldier and the ‘good foot ball player. But it is drill and more drill, in scrimmage and out, which perfects the thing and applies it. Tigers Use Few Plays. It Is impossible to get the required team work if the entire season is spent learning signals and plays. 1 have kept a pretty accurate record and I doubt if we have ever used more than 10 plays in our big games. For the past two years I have been teaching foot ball at Springfield Col- lege. The course is mostly attended by high school coac! It is astonish- ing how many of them think it neces- sary to give their charges a great many plays. And I am firmly con- vinced of the futility of such a course, I spend considerable time trying to demonstrate my position. Each Fall I have received several letters from coaches who attended the class stating they had better results than ever, and they framkly attribute their success to having reduced their plays to a minimum. (Copyrieht. 1926.) e g WRITERS ORGANIZE. ‘Writers of basket ball on the Wash- ington dally papers effected an organi. zation last night and elected Willlam Coyle of the Herald president. Gene Kessler of the News was elected secre- tary-treasurer, I.l;d a board ;fhnvafll- ars of Denman Thompson of 'lhmlrk Miller of the Times and Frank H. Young of the Post was New and Used Cars 1709 L Street N.W. Jqu\-d_ Ave. “MAIN 7612 Hudson-Essex ‘. Please Note Our New ° Service Station Capacity 90 Cars In Rear 1121 19th St. N.W. Pot. 860 HOLLAND MOTOR (0. Showroom 1636 Conn. Ave.