Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1927, Page 72

THE SUNDAY 'STAR, WASHINGTO D. C., JANUARY 23 1927—-SPORTS SECTION. - Burgess Tops School Tossers in Scoring : Two North Carolina Quints Stand Out CENTRAL HIGH BASKETER HAS COMPILED 50 POINTS Hogarth of Eastern Is Next in Line With 44—Many Attractive Games Carded During Week—Grid Players at Business Get Letters. ‘ ORRBST BURGESS, eagle- eved little forward of Cen- tral, led in individual scoring ‘ during the first round of the pubic high school basket ball championship series completed on Friday. In the four games, Burgess counted 21 goals from scrimmage and made good § foul tries of 12 for a fotal of 50 points. Capt. Cy Hogarth, Jone survivor of the crack E team last Winter, stands second to Burgess. His total is 34, as the result of 18 court goals and § baskets fn 16 attempts from the free line Roh Wilson, Western guard, has found the cords 15 times from the floor and sank 4 foul shots in 7 chances. to total 34 points and earn| third positibn in the standing. Pete Nee and Alten Buscher, central and Wasterh torwards, are tied for fourth place with 20 points each. Bernard Jones. next on the list, heads | the Business team with points, and hard on his heels (Bosic) Berger, Tech center and for- ward, who thered 27 points in only three games, to lead his com- bination s Burgess, Central.. Hogarth, Eastern . Wilson, Western .. Nee. Central . P juscher, Western . Business Tech ..... Garber, Western .. Walker. Western Keefer. Business .. Stewart, Business Weigel. Tech. Tash, Central . McAllister, Easte: May. Business . Coombs, Western . Swift, Central Crouch, Central Essex, Eastern Depro, Eastern Hoffman. Bastern usiness . . Tech . Bushong, Eastern Terneak. Tech Teiss, Tech P A RIS N NP AP L O RP Y Rooney, Tech . R. Jones, Business. , Leyking. Tech Smith, Tech ... Doerr, Eastern Lemon, Central Thacker, Central Faber, Eastern . Oehmann, Eastern .. At an “award assembly” Friday in the school auditorium “members of last season's Business High foot ball team teceived “B's” as follows: Charles May, Albert Gelfeld. Blair Mullican. Bernard Jones, Revelle Jones, Henley Galotta, Charles Silver. . Randolph Shreve, Perry Early, Fdward Morosy, Anthony Stewart, Al- hert Harrington, Frank Davis and Paul Dobrolowski. This will be another exceedingly busy week for scholastic basketers. The usual biweekly double-headers in the public high scheol champienship serips headline the program. The clash between Central and Western on Tuesday is of particular interest, as it likely will go a long way toward determining ‘the champion. Central handily vanquished Dan Ahearn's proteges in their L X I PPN PP e e O O B i (IS 90 W B 03 e e BT T 1D OB i a3 ot i CosunBuALNNN naD | game pre | the day's meeting _a few | &t has apparently improved markedly, and Tuesday's test s expected to prove a real struggle. Business and Tech will face in the other game on Tuesday. The Stenographers will be striving _desperately to down the doughty little Manual “Trainers, as a defeat for Goach Jack Colling’ charges following their setback on Friday at the hands of Western will effectually kill any Business titular aspirations. Tech, although it is out of the run- ning for the title, can be depended upon to flash a pluckysfight, and the babty will be interesting. Frid contest will bring together Eastern, that has shown to much bet- ter advantage in recent games, and Business, and Central and Tech. The card for the early part of the week is rather slim, but a flock of tilts are listed beginning Thursday. Eastern and Catholic University Freshmen Are to meet tomorrow in lone game, and only the public high titular tests are listed for Tuesdayv@ Wedngsday will find Eastern en- gaging Episcopal High at Alexandria and Western Midgets mixing with Woodward School's little fellows. The heavy part of the program will JOE JUDGE IN BUSINESS AS AUTO TIRE PURVEYOR Signing_a contract for another season of service with the Na- tionals isn't the mthI' of activity Indulged in since: the close of the 1926 umrl(n by 4. Ignatius Judge, better known as Joe to the habitues of the diamond bailiwick at Seventh and Florida avenue, Judge is real honest-to-good- ness business man mow. In part nership with Frank Fickling, who in his _leisure hours is a base ball fan of high ree, the first baseman of the DEFEAT MEANS DADDY WILL BE HOME SOON By the Associated Press GLASGOW, Sootland, January 22.— Elky Clark’s wife sat up all last night to hear about his fight with Fidel La Barba in New York, and received word soon after daylight that he had lost. When it came she called her four children for breakfast and told them with smiling face that daddy would soon be home again. But after their tea, oatmeal and cakes—the cakes belng ordered in an- ticipation of Elky’s victory—she went to her room and had a good cry. Iifter she told the neighbors she knew Elky had done his best and that there was still a lot of fight trict and adjacent territory. start Thursday, when six engage- ments are carded. Devitt, that re- cently routed Leonard Hall High of Leonardtown, Md. on the Devitt court, will strive to’ repeat the per- formance at Leonardtown, Business will take on the American University Reserves on the latter's court, Cen- tral will trek out to St. Alban’s School to engage the tossers of that institution, Western will face St John's on the Saints’ floor, Strayer's will match baskets with Woodward School at the City Club and Eastern and Western lightweights will have it out at Western. Besides the championship games at the Arcadia, Friday will offer a clash between Gonzaga and Western, lively rivals, on the I street court, and Devitt is listed to show its wares on an out-of-town court for the second time during the week, meeting Mount St. Joseph's at Bal- timore. Another ‘Washington five wifl go after Mount St. Joseph's scalp in the Monumental City on Saturday, when Coach Dan Ahearn's Wegtern quint visits. Two other schoolboy combinations of the local group are sarded for trips Saturday. nzaga is to tackle St. Mary's Celtics at Alexandria and Strayer's -has an engagement with St. John's Insti- tute at Frederick, Md. Georgetown vearling tossers are to agpear at ‘Annapolis against the Navy Plebes, who vesterday turned back the strong Maryland Cubs, 27 to 24, Devitt's 135-pound team is going great guns in the Junior Prep School League. It has won both its games thus far in easy fashion. routing Episcopal High, 35 to 13, and Friends School, 55 to 19. The league card for this week calls for games between Episcopal and Friends on the latter's court on Tuesday and encounters on Friday bringing together Episcopal and Devitt at Devitt and Woodward and Friends in the latter's gym. The teams now stand as follows: |SANCTION 0 in_him. But, ifs worse came to worst, she said, Elky could go back to his job as a riveter or play the accordion, as he did five years ago before he entered the ring. WASHINGTON SQUASH TEAM DROPS MATCH Squash racqueters of Green Spring Valley Hunt Club of Baltimore yes- terday defeated Racquet Club players of thic city on the courts of the Monu- mental City club, 5 matches to 3. Results of the matches: Walter Green, Racquet Club, de. feated W. D. Master, Green Spring Valley. B. H. feated E. 8. ley. John B. Gordon, Racquet Club, de- feated T. J. S. Waster, Green Spring Valley. E. B. Whitman, Green Spring Val- ley, defeated 'C. P. Stone, Racquet Club. J. €arey, Green Spring Valley, de- feated Henri de Sibour, Racquet Club. J. B. Ramsey, Green Spring Valley, defeated H. G. Moulton, Racquet Club, P. Goldsborough, Green Spring Val- ley, defeated J. M., Cabot, Racquet Club. R. C. Goodenow. Green Spring Val- ley, defeated A. W. Howard, Racquet FA.A.U. 1S GIVEN ALOY RACE Dan Hassett, in charge of the sec- ond annual Aloysius Club distance run on Washington's birthday, an- npunces that the race has been sanc- Woods, Racquet Club, de- Page, Green Springs Val- L. Pet, Devitt 1 000 weeks ago, and since then Western WOMEN I 0" 1.000 I B0 1 000 N SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER EORGE WASHINGTON UNI- VERSITY'S fair sharpshoot- ers, who so far this season have been undefeated on the range, received an invi- tation .this week 1o compete in the annual match of the Dot and Circle Club, the national rifi= fraternity. This is the first time the Coloniale have been included in this invitation affair, which is fired each year among the leading women's college teams of the country, and if they display thé same brand of marksmanship in it that they ‘have in their first three in- tercollegiate encounters, they stand a good chapce of carrying off high honors. o In the firrt match of the season the G. W. squad was tied by the University of Maine, 498 to 438, This match will be refired on March .4, according to Ermyntrude Vaiden, manager of the Buff and Blue team. University of West Virginia was completely outclassed by them in their second_encounter, the count be- ing 499 to 476. Adding another point 10 their total to give them a perfect score in the third match, George Washington’s firing saquad registered 500 against the University of Michi- Ban, ¥ to have the match conceded 1o them by default, Iniversity of California _marks-. women will test their skill against the Colonials February ° in the fourth match. Following t G. W. will journey to Drexel for a shoulder-to- shoulder match. University 6f Maryland’s champion- ship co-ed rifle squad scored another victory last week, outshooting the West Virginja squad, 498 to 485. Perfect scores were made by Julia Behring, Alma Kssex and Anita Peters of the Terrapin squad. Helen Beyerle, Mildred Hislop, Elizabeth Corkings and Hazel Kreider each hit the bull's eve for a 99 count. The high five scores counted, Miss Beyerle's and Miss Hislop's 49s were rated slightly better than the next two named. A wartial list of qualified hgsket ball officials has Dheen announced by the Washington Board of Women's Basket Ball Officials, with the statement from Hazel Sayre, chairman, that other names will be added when the group now taking the examination have com. pleted their practical tests. mes of those who already .have received thelr ratings are: Alice Nicoll of Holtori Arms, Kthel Swanson of the Y. W. C. A., Frances #ngel of the National Catholic-Service School. Ramsa Nevitt of Hine Junior High School, Mrs, Mary Hensen and Eliza- beth Tew. According to the committee conduct- ing the examinations, as soon as the list of officials is completed copies will be mailed out to each school and club; together with the addresses of those qualified, in order to facilitate the matter of locating referees and umpires for games on short notice. Sophomore, Junior and Senlor bas- ket ball enthusiasts of Tech High School will compete in the annual court series for inter-class honors be- ginning February 3 with a game be- tween the Sophomores and the Juniors. The series will be brief, each team meeting #ach other sextet one time in the preliminary round. The two teams coming out on top will meet in February 3, Sophomores vs. Juniors, February 7, Sophomores vs. Seniors. February 9, Juniors vs. Senfors. February 10, winning teams, Members of the Senlor squad include Glenda Hough, captain, forward; Grace Moomaw, manager, guard, and Lilly Lou Gilbert, Ev: eline Para- vano, Julia Fletcher, forwards; Esther Eshelman, Elnora Knee, Alice Mayo and Ruth Saltzman, centers; Hazel Boyce, Helen Daniel and La Verne Miller, guards. The first two girls named for each positidn are the reg- ulars and the last two are reserves: Junior representatives are: Catherine English, captain, forward: I/?ulle Pres- cott, manager? guard, and 'Catherine Higdon, Helene Smarthout, Dorothy Robb, forwards; Eloise Sargent, Elea- nor Webb and Sally Hinman, centers, and Mary Guill, Ellen Fenwick and Helen Ramisch, guards. 7 Sophomore tossers who made the ¢lass squad are Janet MacDonald, captain, and Katherine Wassman, manager, both guards; Marie Frede, Dorothy -Lane, May Ciely and Mildred Koons, forwards: Amelia. Hoeke, Helen Notter, Deborah Danig¢l and Glenna Crowder, centers, and Theo Levey, reserve guards. - FEWSSTAR GOLFERS INVADING FLORIDA An unusunal fact about, the golf sea- son of 1927 to date is the compara- tively little attention that has been paid to Florida by both amateurs and professionals. In other years Florida has been the rallying point for golfers of high and low degree from a few days after Christmas until the birds began to chirp in the North. This year Florida has been deserted by all but a few of the top notchers in the professional ranks; and the am- ateurs have heen conspicuous by their absence, Dr. W. C. Barr, secretary of the District of Columbia Golf Association, has announced the annual meeting of the organization for Monday night, March 7, at 8 o'clock at the Racquet Club. Tournament and championship dates will be assigned and an_effort made not only to cut the number of events about Washington, but to re- duce the entry lists. The Middle Atlantic Golf Associ- ation will hold its annual meeting on March 5 at the New Willard Hotel at 8 o'clock. [ All the local golf courses were thronged yesterday with _players, drawn out to play over y falr- ways by one of the first ly warm days of the Winter. The waiting line at East Potomac Park bled that on a Summer day, while the private clubs also attracted hundreds players. ————— | - WOFFORD GETS SCAFFE. SPARTANBURG, 8. C., Jaduary 22 | (®.—Wofford College has announced tioned by the A. A. U. Kid Gleason One of Most Loveable Figures in Game; Jimmy Austin Also Lauded TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BASE BALL. BY EDDIE COLLINS. VIII—Some Original Characters. If 1T were asked to name the best liked individual in the American League, T wouldn't be far wrong if 1 said “Kid" Gleason. Bill Gleason was a pitcher on the famous RBaltimore Orioles, a team- mate of John McGraw, Wilbert Rob- inson. Hugh Jennings, Joe Kelly and Jack Doyle. Later on he was a sec- ond baseman, a good one, too, and while bhis skill afield made him a worthy associate of the remarkable group I have named above, it was his remarkable personality that made the “Kid" stand out. Bill occupies the same position among the good fellows of base ball that Ruth does among the sluggers or Speaker among the outfielders. A square shooter and true friend is Bill the “Kid.” When during the serjes with Cincin- nati in 1919, we began to suspect that all was not right, we had at first to dismiss those thoughts, for it was im- possible to bdlieve that any member of the team or of any other team that he might be managing could throw him down. Bill would have given his right arm to help any one of them, and they knew it, and he would have made the sacrifice with a smile, Big Shock to the “Kid.” That episode was a frightful shock to the “Kid’ and nearly wrecked him physicdlly, though he did not break down’for a year or more after the expose. But, boys, he’s back. That man cannot be kept down. I was only one of thousands who rejoiced to see him actively in the game again, and may his shadow be a long time growing less. While I have a good opinion of almost all the young fellows 1 meet in our trade, I must say that T am surprised that more of them do not take to heart several prominent and pertinent object lessons and profit thereby. One of the best of these is Jimmy Austin. Unbounded enthusiasm for his job and loyalty to his club have distin- guished Austin for 20 years. Only a fair mechanic in his best days, Aus- tin's spirit made it absolutely neces- sary for St. Louis to retain him. Jimmy's was the kind you couldn't buy with money. If you had it, nat- urally you were going to keep it. Austin Never Gives Up. With the Browns in the trough of despair, a half dozen rund behind and only two or three innings to go, Jimmy will be out there in the third base coaching box, yelling: “Come on, boys; we'll get ‘em’ yet,” and it s no idle, time-filling gesture, either. He wants them to come, and makes himseif believe that maybe they will. 1t'€ hard to figure how many games a chap like that is worth in a season, especially when he is a “right guy,” as Jim is. but he will win a number. The Austins are a vast help to man- agers, particularly playing managers. They relieve theth of responsibility in various ways, while their good humor, tact and everlasting ‘‘pepper” keep the team moving and reasonably well satisfied. By the way a relief pitcher 18 handled an Austin can sometimes win a game for his team in the bull pen. At other times he wink ofe or maves, it by his coaching. Only experi- enced players can be employved in these capacities. Nick and Al Valuable. Sometimes a club finds it advan tageous to_have two coaches, as, for example, Washington. Altrock and Schacht are valuable, of course, as comedians. They help to draw the crowd to Washington games wherever aore the Senators play. but that is only a | part of their stuff. They are clever out there. We don’t know how often some ab- “Schaefer appeared — wearing high rubber boots.” . surd antic means to the runner, “Start now. I'll watch ‘em,” or to the batter, ““This pitch is a straight one, take a cut at it,” but we know that the base runners get around. With all their hippodreming, Nick and Al never lose sight for & moment of the main point, which Is to help win that game. “Herman (Germany) Schaefer was the best of all base ball comedians. He and Nick worked to perfection. ichaefer was a great wit and a good actor. In his day he was a mighty good inflelder and a dangerous hitter. More than once I have seen him, even with men on bases, take two strikes, halt the game, turn around to the stand, take off his cap and address the crowd thus: “You have waited. Now ‘watch Schaef single to left.” And he :bulz:l;‘nely came through with the hit o left. Once when “Silk” O'Laughlin was umpiring it started to rain pretty hard while Detroit was in the lead. The Tigers wanted “Silk’" to call the game and he refused. So presently Schaefer appeared #& third to coach., wearing high rubber boots and carrying an umbrella. Tomorrow—Freak Plays I Have Seen. (Copyright. 1927.) LAWTON NAMED HEAD Many attractive prizes will be of- fered. A solid gold medal will he awarded .the winner, with a gold medal going to the r@nner-up. Silver medals will be the reward of those finishing third, fourth and fifth and bronze medals will be awarded the next five. There also will be a gold medal for the first and a silver medal for the second novice to complete the grind. Legs on the Aloysius Club and the Washington Post cups will go to the victor, and a cup offered by A. G. Spalding & Bro. will be awarded as a t trophy. * Willlam Agee, crack performer of the . Emorywood Athletic Club of Bal- timore, won the run last year. The events are being fostered by the Aloysius Club, says Dan Hassett, in an effort to keep aiive interest here- abouts in distance running. AMATEUR NET RULES DECLARED T0O RIGID By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 22.—The pres ent amateur rules of the National Lawn Tennis Association are in need of extensive revision, the delegates to the annual meeting of the Western Lawn Tennis’ Assoclation declared to- day, especially as to expense accounts for players. i Only a small’ number of hona fide amateurs would be left to compete in the principal tournaments if the pre: ent rules on expense money were ri idly enforced, James C. Stewart, newly elected president, said. The rule which bars from tennis athletic instructors in other sports should be eliminated, the delegates said, in selecting Mr. Stewart as their representative on the national execu- tive committee. Expense accounts at tourna- ments have gPown to s ortions that many players are “living off the game,” and still are classed as ama- teurs. Mr. Stewart said. “We feel that tournament expense accounts should be held to legitimate expenses,!’ he continued “and ‘private’ expense accounts forbidden. “As far as the admitted tennis pro- fessionals are concerned (those in Mr. Pyle’'s troupe, for instance) we feel that they have made their own post- tion clear. There was some talk at the meeting of their status and ‘whether it would ever be permissible for amateurs to play them but I my- self do not think tennis is ready yet for amateur-professional contests. “But the present amateur provisions are so full of loopholes that they are almost subject to individual interpre- tation, as regards players,who virtu- ally make their living off the game, through tournament expense ac- counts. That must be stopped, if we are to keep our amateur game going.” IN SOCCER LEAGUE Only two games are carded today in Washington Soccer. League. Wal- ford Club, champion of the league last season, and winner of section 1 honors this campaign, faces Monroe in a sectfon 1 tilt at the Monument Grounds, starting at 2:30 o'clock, and German-American and n-Amert- can Reserve elevens clash in a section 8 test at Washington Barracks. The Walford-Monroe clash is es. fally attractive, as it is the Monroe ters that have proved most trouble- some for Walford this campaign. A pair of exhibition tilts also are listed today. Marlboro, section 2 vic- that Tommy O. Scaffe, former assist- the title game on February 10. Gy basket ball, has announced the entire schedule as follows; | " oomaw. general manager of J,Au.m.riu tackle, hay ant foot ball coach at An and ned for two years director of etics. He succacds Dis do £a 2 tors this season, who are soon fo meet Walford for the league title, face British United Club at Ro and Rosedale and Concord mix at the Mopument Crounda 3 OF POWER SQUADRON J. Edwin Lawton of the Corinthian Yacht Club has been elected com- mander| for the coming season of the Potomac River Power Squadron of the United States Power Squadron, Inc. These other officers have been chosen: Conrad C. Smith, Corinthian lieutenant commander; Dr. D. Main, Washington, -first lieutenant; Emil G. Kaiser, not attached, second lieutenant; Arthur Middleton, Corin- thian, third lieutenant; J. Nelson Ne- vius, Capital, fourth lieutenant; Dr. Danfel L. Borden, Corinthian, fifth lieutenant; Joe Apolonio, Fastern Power Boat, sixth lieutenant, and J. T. Bresnahan, Corinthian, secre- tary-treasurer. At the national meeting of the United Stages Power Boat Squadrons, Inc., held yesterday in New York, Po- tomac Power Poat Squadron, made up of residents of Washington and vicin ity, was represented by J. H. Galliher, Arthur Middleton. C. A. Snow, jr.; Dr. Daniel L. Borden, J. Edwin Lawton and J. Nelson Nevius. R. 8. Doyle has been elected com- modore of the Capital Yacht Club for the coming season. Other officers chosen are Charles F. Danley, vice commodore; Collingwood Sanborn, sec- -treasurer, and Lyman F. He- wins, treasurer. NAVY WILL CHANGE BASKET BALL COURT ANNAPOLIS, January 22.—Play- ing against - Georgetown her mext Saturday the Navy Academy will have the basket ball court _ar- ranged parallel to the length of Dahigren Hall, the armory, instead of across it, as has been done ever since the sport was begun here. This arrangement will not only per- mit of greater seating capacity, but it will t the spectators to have a better vieWw of the game, as a greater number can be at or near the front. The gallery seats will also be very good ones. , . All later games this season will be played with the court arranged in this way, including that with the Military Academy on Kebruary 19. ‘The agnouncement that Georgetown has taken up boxing, was received with much pleasure here. ‘With Catholic and Georgetown in- terested in this sport, together with the Navy, which was one of the prime movers in introducing it into col- lege competition, it is felt that this section will he the center of collegiate boxing. U. S. SQUASH RACKETERS RETAIN CANADIAN TITLE MONTREAL, Quebec, January 22 (P).—G. C. Pell and A. L. Cogey, New York, successfully defended their Canadian doubles squash rackets championship A. S. Cassills and A. R. Chipman, Montreal, 15—3, 15—4 and 156—11. In the singles semi-finala.C. C. Pell, New York, ousted C. J. Coulter, New York, in the upper half of the semi. final, 16—9, 15—6, 15—8. A. 8. Cassllls, Montreal, won from A. L. Corey, New York, 10~15, 15—S8, 15—12 and 16~11. REYNOLDS GOLF WINNER. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., January 22 (#).—Marion Reynolds, Jacksonville, won the annual Florida East Coast amateur lI-all champlonship, defeating Donald McKay, Sarnia, Ontarlg, Can- ndz in the final round of 36 to today by defeating | EPISCOPAL TOSSERS TO HAVE BUSY WEEK ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 22— Episcopal High School, with three basket ball games, will feature the coming week in Alexandria sports. The Maroon and Black will play one hcme game, meeting Eastern Wed- resday, and will make its annual trip to Charlottesville and Lynchburg. The Episcopal team will leave here Friday morning, and will meet Augus- ta Military Academy of Fort Deflance, Va., in the University of Virginia gymnasium, at Charlottesville, that day. On Saturday Episcopal goes to Lynchburg, whare the Virginia Epis- copal School five will be played. Alexandria High School’s teams are due for two basket ball engagements Friday night. The boys' quint takes on Washington and Lee High at Clar- endon fn the third athletic district, division A, game, while the girls' sex- tet will play George Mason High's combination at the Alexandria Ar- mory. George Mason’s boys’ team will en- tertain Fredericksburg High at the Armory next Friday night in a third athletic district, division A, game. ‘Warrenton High and Manassas High meet at Manassas Friday night in the only third athletic district, division B, game. St. Mary's Ueltics make tI last appearance at the Armory hall Satur- day night before swinging on the an- nual tour of Virginia and West Virginia, Monday, January 31. Sat- urday the local amateur champions are booked to play the Fitten Athletic Club team of Boston at the Armory hall, Last season the Fittens played as the Boston Whirlwinds in the American League. Some of the play- ers the Fittens e graduated to o ganized professional ranks are “Soup’ Camgbell. Harry Kiley and Snooks wd. . A preliminary game will be played with the Virginia Athletic Club facing the St. Mary’s Seniors. The tour schedule of the Celtics is as_follows: January 31, Augusta Military Acad- emy at Fort Deflagce, Va. February 1, | | Shenandoah College, at Dayton, Va. 3, Darbrook Athletic Club at Coving- ton, Va.. 4, Greenbrier Military School, at Lewisbury, W. Va.; § Greenbrier High School, at Ronce- verte, W. Va.; 7, Richwood High School at Richwood, W. V , Mea- dow Brook Athletic Club at Quin- wood, W. Va. (pending). FIGHT FILMS MAY NOW BE SHOWN IN ILLINOIS CHICAGO, January (). —~The law which prohibited the showing of motion plctures of boxing matches was suspended by the recently en- acted State law permitting boxing in Illinois, the police department was informed today in a ruling by ¥Fran- cis X. Busch, corporation counsel. The ruling removed the possibility ot police interference from the show- ing of pictures of the Dempsey- Tunney fight. PLAY IN DISTRICT CUE EVENT TO BE SPEEDED Play in the District pocket billiard championship tournament at the Ar- hy w“vl.ehb. v:m be lt::':fl each atehes atternoon at 230 o'clock in: addition to the usual contests at '8 o'clock at night. Tomorrow's tests “will bring together Dent and Tindel in the after- noon‘-nd Bartelmes and Ruarke at el in the tour- ST it n s § 5 22 sk | &nd & ind teammate WEIDMAN HITS 644 IN PRIZE BOWLING Clem Weidman, with a total of 6§44, led the field of 28 duckpin stars of the District after the first five-game block of the 15-game sweepstakes was bowl- ed last night on the Klngln darives. Second to Waidman wis Joe Mul- ros with a total of 639, just one pin ahead of Fred Moore and Perce El- lett, tied in third place. Hiser was the only other entrant to get into the 600-class in the first block and he just got there. ~ In his second effort Moore rolled a remarkable game of 185 that included five strikes and three spares. It will not stand as a District competitive record, however, as the sweepstakes event is not sanctioned by the Wash- ington City Duckpin Association, and several “pot”’ games bettering Moore’s figures have been noted in District bowling annals. The second five-game block of the sweepstakes will be rolled next Satur day night at the Coliseum, with the concluding block being -scheduled for the Convention Hall alleys on Febru- ary 5. Last night's scores follow: s 1l 138 el % 2 ise Weidman uirpe 2583358 s b et A SR e e SERE AR SR et o S 9 D D IS ot i 0 3 233853 E2R3R55535% S OSSPt e ot 5t e - £ 32930250803 233 3835235285183532 FEh B33! 333! et St ¥ g PHILLY TEAM BEATS D. C. GIRL BOWLERS Washington girl bowlers met their match yesterday fn an intercity duck- pin contest, something rare in the his- tory of the sport here. Bowling on the Terminal Railroad Y. M. C. A. drives. a representative team of the Washington Terminal Co. was de- feated. 1443 to 1.322, by a squad of girls from the Philadelphia office of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Washington team was decisively beaten in all three games and came out of the engagement with only one consolation, one of its members hav- ing hif the best game of the set. Bronson Quaites, who bowled at an- chor for the lvcals, did that when she totaled 123 in her first effort. Bronson also hit high set for the Washington crowd with 292. The best bowling of the match was done by Miss Scott of the visitors, who had a set of 322, including two games of 113. Three of the four Philadelphians who rolled complete sets totaled better than 290. The Philadelphia girls, are to visit Washington again February 19 to compete with an all-star team of the Washington Ladies’ League at the Coliseum. The scores of yesterday's match follow: 51 136 aas—iaae Pennarivania Railroad (Philadeiphin). Mecouch &1 Gaul ot e 6= a8t HE B01—1.443 BENNY LEONARD SHOWS LOCAL FANS RING FORM Benny Leonard is in town. The re- tired and undefeated lightweight champion of the ring, who turned Thespian when he gave up leather pushing as a business, is strutting his stuff all this woek at the Gayety Theater as “Battling Butler” in the musical comedy of that name. Leonard’s part -alls for some fancy stepping in ring attire, and fans who wish-to do so may form their own conclusions as to his condition for his projected return to the box-fighting game as a middleweight. . LA BARBA GETS $21,000 FOR WHIPPING CLARK NEW YORK, January 22 @).— Fidel La Barba, Los Angeles fighting youth, is approximately $21,000 richer as a result of his decisive victory over Elky Clark of Scotland"for the world flyweight championship last night. e This represented 37'4 per cent of the receipts and is the largest purse La Barba ever received Clark received 12 about $6,000. iie 25 o Warner ' Schevenman i Totals e L3 per cent or Rilpper Master . at Guard Play Good guarding is important in basket ball. Strong defensive teams have won championships. A splen- did guard happens to be Rupper, Oklahoma. He has broken up many an attack by h‘lflinfi oft a dribbler leading it, rushing right up behind him when he pivots to pass to a teammate following, and, by reason of the guarding of his team- ‘mates cover the approaching op- ponents, as shown the has secured man: held ball. spreads 1), around him, L :Q‘hn-n the ball and the whom the man with the pass to. Occasionally ho 1 ‘able to bat the ball to the fioo great while he_gains po s : like Rupper, able to stop attack. this und G a d BY H. C. BYRD. NIVERSITY of North Caro- lina and North Carolina State College seem to have two of the _strongest basket ball teams in the South. Both have not only been winning consist- ently from quints in this section, but no five from another section has been able to dent their excellent records. Farther South it seems that Missis- sippi A. and M. and Georgia are among the leaders, but the latter fell before North Carolina the other night. Last year North Carolina won the Southern Conference championship in the tournament at Atlanta, while North Carolina State came with a rush toward the end of the season. In fact, in the closing days of the regular schedule North Carolina State walloped North Carolina decisively. North Carolina lost several good men from the 1926 team by graduation, but these losses seem to have been replaced. Coach Stegeman of Georgia says that North Carolina is fully as good as it was a year ago, if not better. Coach Tebell of North Carolina State said during the foot ball season: “We expect to have the best basket ball team in our history this season." In the tournament at Atlanta last year the Mississippi A. and M. five went through to the final contest and then met its Waterloo at the hands of North Carolina. Mississippi A. and M. seems always to have a strong five and probably wilil be battling down to the last ditch in the tourna- ment to be heid the latter part of February. Washington and Lee and V. M. 1. do not seem to be as strong as a year ago and certainly Virginia and Maryland are not. At least, they have not been winning so consistently. Virginia Polytechnic Institute seems to have about the same kind of a team. The Southern Conference tourna- ment. according to Coach Stegeman of Georgia, who, by the way, is chair- man of the committee which has the tournament in charge, will be even more successful than it .was a year ago. It is expected that practically uil teams of any strength at all will take part and there always has been considerable public interest displayed. North Carolina has won the cham- pionship for thrée consecutive years and the far Southern schools, accord- ing to Stegeman, are going to make a regular onslaught on the Tarheels in an effort to take the title for the Guif States. It would be something of a joke on the Far Southern teams, though, if North Carolina were to be beaten and North Carolina State fin- ish in the van. And that is not un- likely by any means. Midyear examinations will knock the spots off the basket ball schedules for local colleges this week. There is g0ing to be littie time for anything other than to pass the tests, and espe- cially is this true of the athletes who give a good deal of time to sports, George Washington has a home game Tuesday night with Western Maryland, and Georgetown and Mary- land meet opponents Saturday night. That is the week’s bill, which is ex- ceedingly scant in comparison to that of the week just closed. The number UNIVERSITY AND STATE COLLEGE SET FAST PACE : ) Appear to Have Strongest Teams in South, Although Mississippi Aggies Are Formidable—Court Games Scarce Here This Week. SR 1y Friday and lagt night, almost com- pare to the last rush of card parties and other social activities just before Lent. Western Maryland will bring here A& team that should give George Wash- ington a fight. Maryland is to enter tain Gallaudet at College Park and Georgetown goes to Annapolis to meet the Navy. “Lack of facilities for holding indoor track meets is one of the big handi- caps to the development of track ath- Jetics in the South,” says Coach Stege- man of Georgia's basket ball team. “Facilities in the vicinity of Washink- » ton are poor, I understand, but when you get down below Richmond there Is not a bullding big enough to stags a set of indoor: contests, Consequently the men who go out for athletics do not feel that the four or five meats held in the Spring justify training for the whole year. The only way to de. velop track athletics i to placs the sport on the same basis that they have in the Northern and Weatern conference colleges and universities- make it & whole-year proposition. In my opinion, no sport requires the amount of real development of the in- dividual that does track, and it takes time to do that. Several months ean profitably be spent—should be spent, I might say—in development of track { men before they are allowed to com- pete in a meet. And the objectives will not be sufficient to draw men to give this much time to the sport, not- withstanding the fine physical train- ing they get., until they are abie tn participate in five or six meets uring the Winter. In building armories and other big structurss this is a proposi- tion that might well be given constd sration.” The eutlook for Indoor track meets here is not very bright. Opportuni- tles for local athletes to compete are few, though not far between, and they will be better than was axpeoted earlier in the year. The 5th Regiment of the Maryland National Guard in to hold a meet in Baltimore in its armory and University of Richmond will hold one in Richmond February 12. Aside from these competitions, about the only meets in which loeal schools will take part are those in which Georgetown and Maryland enter, with their relay teams and a few individuals. Maryland, incidentally, will not take part in the Boston A. A. games’ It was invited to compete with Massa- chusetts Instituts of Technology and Harvard, but one of these schools re- fused to run a threecornered race. Inasmuch as these institutions are “home” schools, aMryland was eut of a race. The Boston A. A. meet man- agement was unable to find another race for the Old Liners. It is pos- sible that Maryland may not take part { in the Millrose games, although it has been matched with two other schools. Much has been said of younx Geraitus, newcomer, who is playing kuard on the Washington College quint, Against - Maryland Friday night, despite the fact that the Ol4 Liners had heard much of his scoring ability, he registered 14 of his team’s 22 points. His coach, Tom Kibier, { of contests played last week, especial- The last rattle of musketry had hardly died away after the Civil War before the rule makers of base ball began, in 1865 to reconstruct the regu- lations of the national game, and in the Winter of 1866 they brought forth what then was deemed to be an ideal code of rules to govern the sport on the fleld. Here are some of them of interest to the enthusiast of today who has little conception of the way they played base ball in the past! The umpire was told that “balls bounding to the bat, going over the batsman's head. or to the =ide he does not strike from, are ‘unfair balls and must be called before warning.’" A “jerked ball" was one delivered by touching the side of the body with the arm. A “thrown ball" was one sent with the elbow bent. A ¥pitched ball” could only be sent in with a straight arma,. swinging perpendicular. “Called” Balls Were Dead. A'balked or called ball"—note the word “called”—was dead and no player could be put out ap it. No strike at such a ball was to be counted, not even a strike made intentionally to strike out. They were wont to play so long then that they sometimes pur- posely tried to strike out to get home to dinner. No batsman could be put out on three strikes if the third ball he struck was a balked or called ball. The batsman was not allowed to take a step either backward or for- ward when he swung at the ball. Think what would happen to the bunt these days if that rule were in effect. The rule about a block ball, cu ously enough, was much the same as thinks he will be one of the greatest players in collegs ranks. When Base Ball Was Young BY JOHN B. FOSTER Some Ancient Base Ball Ruling; ;r:fhms :v:y to th‘e ferries was lined | vi pool rooms in which gambii on base ball was as common as Ilnlt today on horse racing, two teams took the fleld for their first inning. Immediately the captain of one team insisted upon the removal of a ‘professional player” from the other team. The captain of the second team wanted a professional player put out of the first team. The umpire called for evidence. The arguments became warmer and warmer. They lasted long and the crowd got interested. By and by, as the sun was sinking behind the ranges the plavers, the umpire., and the crowd moved en- masse in a running fight toward the ferry returning to New York. It was one thing to order a professional { playver removed from the game, and an;ther to get him out. 'omorrow—"Pop Corkhill’ corom p Corkhill's Frock (Covsright. 1927.) —— SHARKEY TO FIGHT FOR TEX MARCH 3 NEW YORK, January 22 (P).—Jack Sharkey.'tho Boston conqueror of ' Harry Wills, is slated for his first fight in Tex Rickard's heavyweight elimination tournament on March 3 at Madison Square Garden. In disclosing this today Jess Mo- Mahon, Rickard’s matchmaker, said that his opponent would be either Paul Berlenbach or the winner of the bout between Paolino and Knute Hansen at the Garden February 7. it is now, and yet between 4867 and a later period, the rule was modified, but eventually was changed back to make the block complete. Crowds around the playing fields made the block ball rule absolutely necessary, because partisans would help the home team and hide the ball the visiting team. Umpire Called Everything. The umpire was compelled not only to call all foul balls, which seems? quite essential, but he also called out how and by whom a pl Thus, if a runner were thrown out between bases, the umpire an- nounced, “‘Smith out at second by Morgan, Jones, Green, Montgome: and Ward.” That would jar the mod ern umpire, if he were asked to do it, and it might help lazy scorers who are too ifidolent to keep their eves on a running play and watch it through. All persons who played for money were called professional players. As such they could not play any ball game with the reat association clube. Any umplre who learned that there was such a player in a nine in a game in which the umpire was officlating, was at once to call time mw: 13 o nine, or, n oyt And what times th, M RADIATORS, FENDERS yer was put | The final indoor hea: ht card is slated for Mareh 28, bm: pacings will depend on the outcome of bouts scheduled in the meantime. SEVEREID AND CARLYLE “ARE LET OUT BY YANKS NEW YORK, January 22 UP).— Hank Severeid, veteran American e_catcher obtained last season the Yankees from Washington, to- v was unconditionally rele: The club also released Roy Carlyle outright to the Newark International League team. In Washington and Vicinity for 1926 the total Rt 8 T THINK IT OVER Wallace Motor Co: Distridbutor /