Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1927, Page 32

Virginia Strong on Track : Wi CUMMINGS HEADS GREAT CHARLOTTESVILLE SQUAD Team Being Developed by Pop Lanigan Lacks Only| Hurdlers—Two College Basket Ball Games on District Schedule Tomorrow. BY H. C. BYRD. NIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA expects to have this year ohe of the best track teams in its long and briliant career in that sport. Not only 1a the squad going to be &trong in the ruuning events, but also in the-field. According to those who know how capnable the Virginia athletes are, the Cavallers ought to be in the torefront in practically all their dual meets and show excep- tionally well in the other competi- | tlons in which they enter. About the only events for which Virginia does not seem to have good performers are the hurdles In neither the high nor the low hurdles hag any man shown up who bids fair 10 measure anywhere near up to the standard of the men who are to carry the brunt in other events. Cummings, perhaps, will be the star of the squad, and he should win the two dashes in practically every dual meet on the calendar. With two certain first places in most of its meets, very good field men, men who will do well over 130 feet with the us, 44 feet with the shot, nearly T ve feet in the pole vault and correspondingly well in other compe« titlons, and with excellent distance and middle-distance runners, it does not appear that the Orange and Blue people ought to worry much. Incidentally, it is worth mention: ing that Cummings, who has stood out the last two years as the South's ‘star Sprinter, is being groomed as a member of what Virginia expects to Le one of the fastest relay teams in the East. Pop Lanigan seldom sends ® relay team to Northern meets un- less It is fast, and this Winter he is putting his quartet against the best competition he can find. Virginia ought to have one of its best years on the track, especially if the veteran coach, Lanigan, keeps his health so that he can give his real efforts to the development of the squad. For the last two seasons, es- pecially last Winter, Lanigan was in very poor shape. Two basket ball games are sched- uled in local gyms here tomorrow night. Gallaudet meets Maryland and George Washington plays Randolph: Macon. Neither of the three local quints has done much this week in the way of practice, examinations having held almost entire attention of members of the squads. The games tomorrow night will wind up what probably is the most desolate week of the college athletic year. And this question of examinations has some of the athletes on the anx- fous seat. For the last three weeks, aince the Christmas holidays, ath. Jetes good, athletes mediocre and athletes poor have been doing some real “boning” on the books in order to get under the wire and not have it dropped In their faces. Probably nearly all of them will make the grade, but it is seldom, indeed, that some unhappy star, who finds that the “Prof” who yelled for him to get @nother yard last Fall has suddenly developed a heart hard as, flint, @oes not find the barrier too high for him to clear. Another angle which will be mé¥ by the four-year plan of scheduling foot ball games in the Western Confer- ence, but which has not been men- tloned, is that of enabling the West. usetts Avenue & 96th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Florida & New Jersey Am‘-,NN.W. lair Road, N.W. ia Avenue & Bl = £ Sygth Strect & 8¢h & M Sersets, Avenue & Kenyon Street, N.W. m"&"umufi.u W ern Conference colleges to take care of their conference interests and y at the ramo time enable them to see | far enough ahead to arrange allia with non-conference institutions ball ule making has reached a point where teams are looking two years ahead for their important games, and conference colleges have found it impossible to Jook ahead to | that extent without the risk of not getting the conference games they desired. Now, if Wisconsin wills to schedule a game with Cornell in 1928 it can do so, or if Illinois wants to consider a contest with Harvard in 1920 it is easy for it to look over its conference echedule and ascertain what dates are available, Charley Moran, director of ath- letics and base ball coach at (atholic Universit; is pessimistic again ovs the chances of his nine. Pro v C. U. will have one of its greatest nines. That is about the way it usually turns out when Charley is an object lesson in pessimism. In all probability the Maryland re- lay team will run against Harvard and Virginia in the Milltose games in New York next Wednesday night. Just what four will inake up the team has not yet been decided. Thomas, Matthews, Sheriff, Pugh and White- ford are the men still in the running for the berths. In all probability the final selections will be made on a I of the workouts today and temorrow. " Georgetown’s fist_ boxing will be with the Naval Acadel match vy week fi;rr next. The Blue and Gray cer- nly is not picking a ‘eripple for ite initial bow in the realm of fistic com- petition, for Navy usually has been among the very best of teams. Catholic University’s plan to sell an associate membership in its athletic assoclation, so that the holders of these membership cards may attend the boxing matches, is interesting to local colleges. It is nothing more nor less than an attempt to legally charge admission to its boxing matches with other universities. The law which forbids charging admission to boxing matches does not forbid clubs or as- soclations holding boxing matches for the benefit of its members. This method has been employed before in holding boxing matches, but it seems that the police have used their dis- cretion in judging whether the boxing match was a boxing match or a prize fight. These college boxers do not box, they fight, and it is a matter of conjecture what the police would have termed a match inh which a member of one team knocked a member of an- other team so cold that he was out for some time after the crowd left. That has happened. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Wake Forest, 30; North Carolina, Penn State, 30; Princeton, 23. «‘E..‘:.f‘fi.,..' Mary's, 9; St. Francis Mercer, 53; Milligan, 30. LEAGUE HOCKEY, Pittsburgh Pirates, 4; Chicage Black cfi:w'finrk Rangers, 3; Montreal Ottawa Sematirs, 3; Detroit Cou- gars, 1 }usn it sparingly. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO The Ehening Star BO e L. ZORN. Vaite (Toleds, Ohio) Use the long pass in basket ball but The long pass is to BY W. Basket Ball Coach of Righ be used only in getting the ball out of the danger zone of your opponents’ Dbasket ball territory. The sketch shows you when to make that paks, When the ball 1s down the floor under the basket your opponents are playing for get It away as quickly as possible. Use the long pass But in general team play the long pass Is dangerous. The Dasees are CLUB easily Intercepted. They cannot be thrown with the speed and accuracy of the short pass, either. The short pass is the pass for hoys’ basket ball teams. Short, quick pass- ing is hard to stop. The receiver of the short pass should “go in” to | meet the ball. This speeds up the me and lessens the danger of inter- stion or bloc - your opponents The short-pussing game IS much ster, too, t n the long- ssing {game. A good short-passing team i something pretty to behold. But with the short-passing game, as with all sports the team | must be very proficient. And it be- comes proficient only by constant practice Don't fool yourself by thinking you ara good enough to be & star without |@ lot of practice. No one is in baske {ball. The five greatest players in the game, ineeting for the first time, would be easy victims for a hundred teams In the country because these hundred teams are teams that hav trained and practiced together unti: teamwork ls the best part of their play. (Covyright, 1927.) Nekxt—Arch Shot COLUMBIA HE IGHTS FIVE TO OPEN LEAGUE TONIGHT OLUMBIA HEIGHTS SENIOR LEAGUE will be opened to- night with a game between Olympic Seniors and Colum- bia A. C., at the Wilson Nor- mal School gymnasium, at 7 o'clock. Several tossers who have starred on other teams will play with the Olym- pic_floormen. The following Olympic players are to report at 6:45 o'clock: Shaffert, Shaeffer, Burnett, F'reeman, Lombard, Galotta, Coulter and Belt. Y. M. C. A. basketers, winners over 8t. Stephen’s last night, 29 to 17, will travel to Baltimore tonight to meet the Y team of the Monumental City. The local players will meet at Union Station at 6:45. Hyattsville's National Guard teams annexed a brace of games last night at Hyattsville from Park View toss- ers. The Company F Regulars beat Park View Regulars, 35 to 16, while the Guardsmen Reserves trimmed Park View Reserves, 52 to 13. De Molays won from the Inde- pendents by 81 to 21 at Eastern High School gym last night. Gaffield star- red for the vietors. Brandt threw a long looper that won a 17-to16_victory for Pennant over Hamline, in the Wilson Normal gym last night. Potomac Boat Club registered a 29- t0-23 win over the Commercial quint last night at Central High School. Calvary Baptist Drakes beat the Hyattsville Y. M. C. A, tossers yester- day, at Hyattsville, by a 24-t0-19 score. Hartfords nosed out the Nonpareils, 16 to 15, and Shamrocks beat Nowh- erns, 19 to 14, in the Boys' Club Senior League last night. Optimists won from Arrows, 21 to 18, while the 100-pound Optimists beat the Black Hawks, 37 to 26 Warwick Collegians journeyed to victory. Warwick Preps moved into a threecornered tie for first place in the East Washington Community Cen- ter League last night by a 25-to-20 victory over Auroras. Samoset tossers downed the Cres- cents, 20 to 10, last night. Emerald floormen swamped the Ta- koma Remsens, 28 to 12. A brace of fast games will be played in the senior loop tonight at Washing- ton Barracks, with Auths scheduled to meet Collegiates in the opener and Calvary M. E. tossers slated to meet Kanawhas in the nightcap. Clover A. C. tossers, one of the lead- ing court combinations of Washing- ton, won a 30-to-26 game from Old Dominjon Boat Club last night at Alexandria. Washington Yankees are training assiduously for their scheduled clash Sunday with the Fitton A. C. of Bos- ton, a game that will mark one of the high spots of the local basket ball season, General Accounting Office trimmed the First Assistant Secretary's team, 42 to 25, while Second Assistant Secre- tary's trounced the Fourths, 40 to 15, in games in the Post Office League last night. Red Shield tossers are In quest of games with 130-poynd aggregations. Call Manager Shaffer, West 864. St. Stephen’s is booking games with senfor and unlimited teams, Call Manager Weaver, West 1808. Pullman Preps downed the Minsons, 20 to 18, last night. Yosemite cagemen are looking for action from unlimited aggregations. Call Manager Stewart, Woodside 400. 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Crank case, transmission, differential, and spring lubri- cation services will be special features at this new station. N. Be sure to put it down for an immediate stop. “STANDARD" SERVICE STATIONS D. C, FRIDAY, JA NTEREST in high school basket ball now will center in “out- ., following _action s of the five 3 discontinuing the public high cl as a result of the distur followed the Central- at the Arcadia Audito a All the public high teams are expected to book additional games, While, of course, there is no offi- cial vietor Central virtually had clinched the crown with a record of five wins in as many starts, and three more games to play. The Blue and White tossers sc d once over every other rival in the serles and thelr triumph over Western on Tues- day made It two for the series over the West End boys, their chief foe Here is how the teams farod in the series: Standing of Teams. Central Weatern Business Enatern Tech Business, Central, estern, 34 Weatern. 4 Eastern, 32: Tech, 2% Central, Western,~ 34, Tech. 27: Business, 15. Cancellation of the remaining sched- uled games of the series was decided upon by the principals of the five high schools imvolved at a prolonged meet- ing held in the office of Dr. Frank W. Ballou yesterday. The resolution of the board of principals embodying their conclu- sions and signed by Allen Davis, prin- cipal of Business High School and chairman of the board, follows: “We, the principals of the five high schools of division 1.9, depreciate the episode which occurred recently in the basket ball games played at the Arcadia and have taken the following | action: “1. The present interhigh school basket ball series shall be discon- tined, but this action shall not ap- ply to outside games. “2. The above action shall be taken as a precedent, and similar action will be taken in the future whenever unsatisfactory conditions d?\'?lllg. “3. Steps shall be taken at once to build up within the several stu- dent bodies an interschool spirit which will make such occurrences impossible hereafter.” At the outset of the meeting the 1724 14th St. N. W. N it of & new will be A 13-plate Battery $15. ception with clarity. Automatic $1.49 shield wiper that in wet weather. ventory price. new one for §7.96. Head phones that will bring your re- Bxceptional value. Fasily insta'led. Works effl- clently and sllently. A wind- is your greatest assurance of safety Special in- ARY 28, 1927 principals were informed by Dr. Bal lou and Assist. Supt. of Schools Ste- phen E. Kramer that they must take some action to guarantee there would be no recurrence of such bad sports- manship as was evidenced at last Tuesday’'s game between Centrai and Western. They expressed the belief, also, that th principals should take steps to immediately build up a bet- ter spirit of sportsmanship in high school athletics. Aftér making these general statements, the principals were left to take the action they be- lieved the situation merited, resulting in the adoption of the resolution call- ing for the cancellation of the balance of the season's games. The first outstanding outside game s carded for this afternoon between h Dan Ahearn's Western High tossers, easy winners over St. John's vesterday, and the strong Gonzaga team on the I street court, starting at 3:15 o'clock. There is a lively ri- valry between the schools. Gonzaga, that is regarded as just about the peer of the independent high school combinations, has a fine record. A few weeks ago the Purple bested East- ern High, 37 to 23. The Lincoin Park- ers alone of the public high schools have encountered Gonzaga on the court this season. Devitt basketers, who yesterday handily vanquished Leonard Hall High, 33 to 18, at Leonardtown, Md., were to visit Baltimore today to en- gage Mount St. Joseph, who bowed to Western here a couple of weeks ago. In disposing of St. John's yesterday Western held a big edge from the opening whistle, running up a fat lead early in the game &nd always holding it. Sharpshooting of Walter Morris and “Pewee” Walker, 8t. John's and Western's captains, re- spectively, and of Bgb Wilson and Alton Buschér for the Georgetown schoolboys stood out. g Another public high combination that played yesterday dld not have such an easy time. Central's smart five to step fast to triumph over St. Alban’s School, 24 to 18, in Amer- fcan University gym. The Blue and White second-stringers took the floor at the start of the contest, but the Saints offered them such strong op- position that Coach Bert Coggins hur- ried in his regulars, who had all they could do to hold the doughty Wis- consin avenue team at bay. Burgess and Nee on attack and Captain Bwift on defense shone for Central, with Bowles and Weaver flashing fine form for St. Alban’s. Three local schoolboy fives have ourdet Invented Short Pass Gam BASKET BALL BY SOL METZGER. | Back in 1907 and 1908 a player named Keinath was the “Red” Grange of basket ball. He dribbled his way to victory after victory for his team. Dribbling then didn't have .the restrictions placed upon it as Is the case today. As a re. sult individual play predominated in the game, and basket ball did not catch hold with the public. No_one sensed the remedy until 1917. That was the year follow- ing the perfection of the five-man defense by Lon Jourdet, Penn's coach. When the season of 1917 was being planned, Jourdet real- ized all his opponents would use the new defense. Some scheme had to be worked to penetrate it. His conclusion was a passing at- tack, to supplant the dribble. It was based on a simple fact, namely, a passed ball will advance up the court far more rapidly than one that is dribbled. The two illus- trations are offered as proof. Taking this simple principls as a base, Jourdet worked out a short passing attack. The modern sys- tem of set plays was not employed. Instead, Jourdet figured that the individual players would have enough ingenuity to carry the at- tack through. That he guessed right was proved by Penn'’s finish- ing first again in the Eastern League race and then downing Chi- cago, Western champions, for the national intercolleglate title. Thus Jourdet again scored heavily for the advancemént of basket ball, this time developing the whirlwind short passing attack and cut for the basket that has dorie so much to speed up the game and add to its popularity. out-of-town engagements tomorrow. Western is down for a go with Mount St. Joséph's at Baltimore, Gonzaga is to stack up against St. Mary's Celtics in Alexandria and Strayer's is to engage St. John's Institute at Fred- erick, Md. Out at Hyattsville the high #chool team of that town will play host to Hagerstown High, which recently defeated Eastern High of this city for the second time this season. City Club Auditorium was to be the scene this afternoon at 3 o'clock of an encounter between the Strayer's Business College teams of Washington and Baltimore. The game is regarded | court this s | row night, with the St. N as the high spot on the schedule of both_institutions. th Series Off, School Five Stress Ouiside Games CENTRAL VIRTUAL VICTOR, BUT WILL NOT GET TITLE Decision of Principals Is Reached After Prolonged Session—Steps to Be Taken to Build Up Bet- ter Interschool Spirit Among Students. ST. MARY’S CELTICS | WILL PLAY FITTONS NDRIA, Va., January 38.— ond appearance of a profe basket ball team on a local on will be made tomor- s Celtlos, playing of sional local unlimited champions, host to the Fitton Athletlc ¢ oston and_claimants of the chi plonship of New England. o Play will start at §:30, with a preltm« inary between the Virginia A. C. and St. Mary's Senfors slated to start at The visitors have one of the fastest combinations In the Northern States, as their record of 600 victories and 46 defeats in the past six years shows Included in their list of victories are wins over the Cleveland Rosenblums, Rochester Centr , Buffalo Germans and the Detroit five. Harry Kiley, lata of Washington in the American gue, will make his | first start with his old mates, having been released Marshall. lately by Manager Alexandria High School girls' teams will invade tonight for championship g the Washington and Lee team of that The third district, sion A the first will sta 7 Episcopal High lef ing for Charlottesvilie night in the U gymnasium School five of be played. palians will me: School at Lynchbur hove' and Iston, Va., mes with h School games are contests, and 30 p.m t here this morn Va., v morrow Fredericksburg High will be seen in action on the Armory Hall court again tonight, playing George Mason High. Last week Alexandria High beat Fredericksburg, 53 to 26, but as Alex andria_in turn bested George Mascn by a 6b-to-6 count, the visitors a‘e favored. ‘Warrenton plays Manassas High at Manassas tomorrow night in a thizd district, division B, contest. Alexandria Zippers will play Fort Washington Sunday afternoon in the Fort Washington gymnasium. 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