Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 37

o - g i It » SPORTS Big Ten Gridmen SQUADS ARE ON FIELDS . SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK lintensive Practice, Though, Will Not Start Until| April—Coaches in That Section See Great Possibilities in Lateral Pass. | | nearly all e been de- As to basket ball, pretty sectional championships ha cided. They ara as follows nderbiit. Pacific Coast—Californ Missouri Valley—Kansas University. Western Conference—Michigan. The Eastern Intercolleglate issue, which lies between Princeton and Dartmouth, will be decided this week and today at Colorado Springs will be- gin a three-game mplonship series between Colorado College, winner of the title in the Eastern divisién of the Roc] Mountain Conference and Mon- tana State, which has clinched honors {IH the Western division. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. NEW YORK, March 10.—Some of the Western Conference coaches have taken advantage of the fine weather have had their foot ball squads ot in the open several times a week. Heavy intensive work, will not start until April. _Wisconsin | however, the first part of | 1 s been doing some effective Winter practice in the big stock pavilion under the direc tion of Tom Lieb, and Glenn Th tlewaite is due soon to work with the backfield. ‘Western coaches from whom the writer has heard believe that the lateral pass is going to put a new it 3 element In foot ball, opening up op- | Pacific Coast officials who have | : for all the ingenuity they | Worked games for Montana State, say portuniti possess. They feel, too, that the shift for which in the conference a 2-second pause is prescribed, against the ssecond pause demanded by the les committee, will require a lot of cdreful practic Middle Western opinion seems to approve heart of all the change; An interesting intersectional foot ball agreement is cooking. When Chick Meehan, the New York Uni- wversity coach, wag in Atlanta attend- ing the Southern Conference basket that the Bozeman quintet is stronger than any of the Pacific Coast teams. Rocky Mountain opinion would heavily favor Montana State were not the team playing upon Colorado College's home floor, There is one set of intersectional games among college outfits whose significance is out of all proportion to the scant attention it attracts. The games result from the annual Spring trips of the Middle Western varsity base ball squads. Practically all of the Western Con- ball meet, he looked up Wallace | ference universities now send their Wade, the Alabama gridiron coach, | baseball teams for a two weeks' jaunt and invited the Crimson tide to come |among the Southern colleges and a to New York in 1928, New York|wholesome intersectional rivalry has| going to Birmingham the following | grown up, which has helped the cause seagon. of intercollegiate sport in Dixie. There would be great interest| In an era when college baseball is in most respects dying on the vine, this pleasant and constructive rivalry, which Southern and midland nines have established, is noteworthy. among Northern foot ball enthusiasts n a New York visit by Alabama and it is hoped the Tuscaloosa authorities will arrange to send their team here. CENTRAL FIVE MAY PLAY NEWPORT, R. 1., BASKETERS OACH BERT COGGINS’ sensa- tional little Central High basket ball team may play one more game before calling it a season. A Newport, R. L, high school wants the Blue and White tossers to come there for an exhibi- tion on March 19, and it may be that the jaunt can be arranged. Unless this contest is played Central has end- ed jts court activities for the season. The Blue and White tossers were gather this afternoon to. name a captain for next Winter's team. will be organized by the bookkeepers and preparation. will begin within a few days. Basketers who held forth this sea- son with Western High and aré now. banded as the Scholastic All-Stars will visit Alexandria tonight for an |engagement with the Old inion Boat Club team, starting at 8 o'clock. The local squad will assemble at Thirteenth and H' streets promptly at 7:15 o'clock. It comprises Warren Rabbitt, Bob Wilson, Don Garber, Sam Coombs, Alvin Buscher and Walker. The Scholastics will face Comets in the new Eastern gym Sat- urday night and will take on Bonds' Whirlwinds Sunday afternoon at Con- gress Heights Audétorium, ‘Western High’s tennis squad has begun drilling for the season under direction of Capt. Dooley Mitchell, In addition to Mitchell, formidable net men. at hand include Don Garber, party that will invade | James Lowe, Milton Baker and Robert pital: -Meyna, Ken- | Kirchney. sides the public high Bas- | title contests a number of engage- y ments will be carded. Boxers of Western High will play hosts to Stuyvesant Prep School glovemen of Warrenton, Va., tomor- row night at either the Washington Auditorium or Western gym, starting at 8 o'clock. : HARVARD T0 ROW NAVY. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 10 (#). —The Harvard rowing team -has ac- cepted an invitation to race the Navy on the Severn on May 7. There will be contests for first and second crews. Joe nifty shooting forward of mm&nool guint, ywho watch- od the recent game with Strayer's from the sidelines because of a char- orse, will be back in action to- H night, when the local school- take the floor at 7:30 o'clock the crack Tome Institute five in the opening round of tournament at St. , @t Ant Aside w the.following will be i =3 "‘_i- i £ : & E 3 Capelli Freed doing most scoring, Strayer's Business tossers closed their season last 33-27 victory Fo. §gE s n the SAFETY -@RAZOR way to the 'ofaf¥ce remember to get De , AP Fackage Gillette BLADES with the finest edge that steel can take SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THE WORLD OVER The De Luxe Package laurels at Fast- orn High School went to the Senfor team yesterday when it. won the final game of the interclass merfes over the Juniors, 33 to 13, The champlons Ald not lose w game this season and were closely pressed only once-——in e Sophomore conflict, which they won by a single point. Superior passwork, particularly under the basket and well organized tenm play accounted for the Senlor's supremacy over their opponents yes- terday. In the firdt half, Zemma 1 ins and Marfon Gardner out- sed Junior guards to find the cage a 19-to-4 lead and in the last Helen Seitz and Miss Haw- ASKET BAL = half, | kins put up a beautiful exhibition of short, quick passwork, which com- pletely baffied the opposing defense, adding 14 points to the winners’ count. Mary Kelso, Jean Thompson and Thelma Courtney, the latter sharing left guard position with Miss Kelson, Junior forward fleld that the scorers their opportunities, Beryle Edminston and Teresa Breen gave splendid sup- half, Helen Seitz and Miss Haw- protected the basket so well in the were unable to capitalized many of port to the Seniors at center. Junior passers who figured in the final game include Lucille Bixler, Virginia Daiker, forwards; Alice Law, c¢enter; Helen Hughes, side cen- ter; Bill Newman, Helen Manning and Ruth Greenwood, guards. 1 Sophomores earned second place in the series, with only- one defeat chalked up against them. Juniors were winners of third honors. Ithough Sixth Semester tossers have won the title in the intersection basket -ball series af Business High School, the loop is not yet completed. Second and third places still are to be decided and the squads from the other semesters are vying for place in the remaining games on the card. Following the baske! practice will begin for base ball, the major Spring sport at Business, ac- cording to Arbutus Sanders, coach. At a special assembly to be attended by playground basketers from all of the sectional sextets competing in the 1926 interplayground series, the Towa avenue squad, city champions, will re- ceive silver basket balls in recognition of their victery. The assembly will be held on the playground. + Maude N. Parker, director of girls’ activities, will make the awards, as: sisted by Mildred Bailey, director of Towa and coach of the title team. The basket balls are awarded by the play- ground department. Those who will receive the awards are Virginiaz Monk, captain and as sistant coach; Anna Tucker, forwards; Katherine Jones, center; Harriett Behrend, side center; Iras Burroughs and Katherine Doomis, guards, Jewish Community. Center Juniors were blanked last night by the Strayer Senior ~ sextet in an intermediate division Recreation League. match, played on the former's home court. The visitors rolled up a 39-0 count against the hostess squad. Strayer Seniors were represented by R. Treanor, B. Goodwin, forwardsy R. -Mothershead, center; E. Jones. side. center; B. Torre and M. Faul ‘coner, guards. i Jewish Community Center Juniors were L. w, R, Street, for- wards; B. Greenbeérg, center; F. ner, side center; L. May and 8. Silver: man, guards. Turning their scheduled contest into a practice game when ‘one playef failed to appear last night, the Eagles of Business Night High School de: feated the Jewish Community Center | Seniors, 23 to 7. One member of the Center team was absent, and by mu-. tual consent the scheduled encounter was postponed and the practice game substituted. “The New Physical Education” will be the central theme of the eastern Physical Education Association, which will meet in Washington March 30 to April 2, inclusive. WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER t ball series, | district convention of the American Physical training directors from all of the Eastern States will attend the wessions, to be held in the Washing- ton Hotel. An Interesting and con- structive ‘program 18 belng outlined by the two committees in charge of that end of the affair, on one of which the local arrangements committee Dr. Rebecca Stoneroad 1s serving as chair- man. Personally-conducted visits to the local schools will be one of the fea- tures of the opening day of the con- vention. A banquet will be the prin- cipal social event, to be héld Thurs- day evening, March 31, at the Wash- ington Hotel. Dr. Willlam Mather Lewis will be the principal speaker, according to the preliminary program announced by the committee. # Delegates will meet President Cool- ldge at the White: House at noon on April 1, and on Saturday afternoon the entire convening body will be guests at Fort Myer, where the sol- diers will give an exhibition of the famous monkey drill, featured at the Sesquicentennial Exposition. QUINTS WILL BATTLE FOR LEAGUE HONORS ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 10— Championship of the Nautical Basket Ball League will be determined here Saturday night when the Washington Canoe Club and the Old Dominion Boat Club meet on the Armory Hall floor. Play will start at 8:30, preceded by a | preliminary game, which will begin an hour earlier, & The locals and Canoeists are tied for first place and as Saturday is the last game scheduled the silver loving cup, emblematic of the league cham- pionship, will be awarded the winning team. t Members of the Cardinal A. C., can- didates for the team and fans interest- ed in the welfare of the club, are re- quested to attend the meeting tonight at the home of the president, Sylves- ter A. Breen, 1332 King street, this city. Dreaidnaught Athletic Association base ball team will hold its first work- out Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Dreadnaught Park. All players are requested to report. s L Rosemont Athletic Club, midget champions of this city last year, w base ball season tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Rosemont diamond. ' U. S. LEADS AT CHECKERS. sweeping victories in both rounds of international checker play with the English-Scotch team yesterday gave the United States a record of vie- tories, 16 defeats and 315 draw: tournament that closes today. | hold its first workout for the coming( NEW YORK, March 10 (®).—Two and a pipe ~ ~thats my dish/ I COULDN'T ask for more, Pringe Albert gives me everything smoke. It is fragrant, delightfully fra. as I smoke it in my old jimmy-pipe. It is cool and sweet as an orange just off the ice. Refreshing! . /K ‘there’s one thing more than any other which I like about this grand old tobacco, it that is balanced, however, by a full, rich body that satisfies my smoke-taste all the way down. It was this rare combination of mildness and tobacco-body that won me to P. A. right off thebat, BEST AMERICAN PLAYERS WILL NOT ENTER TOURNEY and Kleinschroth of Germany to Play—King, . No. 10, Leading U. S. Contender. By the Associated Press. musketeers; Manuel Alonso, former EW YORK, March 10.—America | Spanish Davis Cup player, ranked No. has been able to muster only |2 in the American list this year, and one of her first 10 players to | Heinrich Kleinschroth, ranking No. 8 | confront another formidable |in the German standing, make up the | band of foreign stars seeking |foreign entry. to carry back across the Atlantic the | Borotra and Brugnon arrived ves- national indoor tennis champlonship |térday from “France to take part in for the third successive year. Play |team matches here against Francis T. | begins March 19 at the Seventh Regi- | Hunter and Manuel Alonso prior to | ment Armory. “ |play in the indoor championships. . | The lone top-flight entry from this| Hurdling over the rail of the liner country will be Dr. George King, who | France, Borotra smashed his way gained No. 10 in the national list this | through the customs and put over his year when Vincent Richards received | first ace with the taxi drivers. Would | o ranking because of professionalism. | he turn professional? ~“No, No and | Several outstanding metropolitan [ No,” he replie players, including Francis T. Hunter, | ““There are only two of the four former Olympic doubles champjon | musketeers here “so far,” he said. | with Richards; Herbert L. Bowman |“Rene Lacoste, American tennis cham- and Percy Kynaston, are numbered | pion—put that in—still is a soldier of in the field of 50 Americahs scheduled | France and could not get away from to second Dr. King's efforts. .| military - duties.” Indications point strongly, however,| Lacoste will be released from mili- to another trip overseas for the cham- | tary duty in May. The French Davis pionship bowl. Four European stars, | Cup team, Borotra said, will be com- Jean Borotra, dashing basque; Jac- | plete as soon as Lacoste breaks away ques Brugnon,. another .of Krance's [from “driving the general's car.” PALACE WOULD END PRO COURT LEAGUE. . Lost. 1 | 8| | | \ | ITS LOSING STREAK iz leveland CHICAGO, March 10.—~Washington" basket ball team will have its hands| | full in winning a game on this West- | ern tour, judging from the opposition | afforded by the rejuvenated Chicago Bruins last night when the Schmeelk- coached team defeated the Palace Quint, 37 to 20. Tt was the third; straight reverse for the Capital tos- sers. | The same_rivals meet tonight and it will be Washington's last chance | to take the long end of the score.: But | | for Rusty Saunder’s flashy shooting |- | the Kennedymen would have lost by | {a wider margin than. they did. | | Homer Stonebreaker and Honey | | Russell, the two stars bought last | | month by ‘owners Halas and Walquist, | put the pep in the Bruins and led them } to vietory. | Stonebreaker scored 10 points, while | the former Cleveland guard accounted | or seven. e ———— ! Chicago did not use the long shoot- | |ing game throughout as had been ex- | SCORES IN DOG RACE. | pected, but mixed up its attack and| PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan, many of the winners’ points came on | March 10 (#)—Harry Clensky of| £ P Shos, | Prince Albert won yesterday's leg of | | a | the 160-mile dog derby, completing| Charles / , Chicago White | the 40-mile grind in 4 hours, 1 mipute | 37: Baltimore, TONIGHT'S GAMES Washington at €hicago. New York at Baltimore. GAMES TOMORROW None echeduled: GAMES SATURDAY | Baltimore at Cleveland, Philadelphia at Rochester GAMES S AT Baltimore at Clevel New York at Washi a ink tou. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. | Columbia, 36; Princeton, 22. \\'menbzrl.. 32 0»501- { 2 | i | Comiskey | n the | rox magnate, was a train “butcher” in | and 44 seconds, Emile St. Goddard nfj through a last quarter rally that net- carly career. the Pas, Manitoba, was second. ing I want in a enced. 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I started | playing ball at ten and played every but I could'nt make the high ool team during the four years | And I did'nt make the am until my last year. How ever, I stuck to it and I'm glad I did { It takes a lot of fight to get anywhere |in baseball. | And when 1 started to play I had a | borrowed glove, a quarter bat and a | baseball T made myself. | a lot and hit every time you | get a chance. | 71 would like to see you fellows pay some attention to base running, too Tt is almost a lost art and its up to | boys of today to revive it. | The boy I admire is the aggressive | fighting type. The one who is always striving to win, cultivates a love for ame and without that love you go far in basetall—or anything Texas, but right now famous as the spring training camp of the Detroit Tigers, George Moriarity, manager. One of the famous Tigers is Har Hellman who has something to about hitting: By Harry Heilman 4 First I hold my bat near the end and take a good swing. Hit often and hard. Learn free swinging while t's something to think over we're taking another long jump Shreveport to see what Ray Ik’s White Sox have to tell us. (Copyright. 1027.) | while you're voung and keep at it if mu[ want to be a hard hitter. And I imag BROOKLYN SEMI-PRO FIVE WILL PLAY EAGLES HERE NOTHER semi-professional out- Mount Vernon Midgets trounced fit will appear here - mext Mintwood Midgets last night, 31 to 16 week in a- game against the| ~—— present District unlimited | 'Trinity five won a 34-to-22 game om the Boys’ Club Optimists last title holders, Anacostia Eagles. v night at-the Bo Brooklyn Visitation, a strong team | from New York City will appear at { the Arcadla, March 16 against the tossers from Anacostin. Several for mer members of the Washington pro- fessional club will appear with the | New York outfit. ys' Club gym. Y. M. C. A. floormen will stack u ¥ P against the strong Calvary M. E team in the Y gym tonight at o'clock. s ount Vernon tossers annexed o 45-t0-28 game from_ the Nativity five last night on the Nativity floor. Stanton, smarting under the defeat handed them by W. H. West Co. tos- sers, are looking for a return game Bonds Whirlwinds will meet Fort Humphreys tossers at the Fort to night. All Bond players are to re port at § o'clock. Royals annexed a 22-to-9 game from Congress Heights last night at the Hine Junior High gym. Centennials will meet Standards and Hartfords will clash with Tech Light- welghts, Monday night in Boys’ Club | league games that have been post | poned from tonight. | Second National Bank tossers | downed the Union Trust Co. team last | night, 46 to 33. Reurocs, having won seven of their last eight games, are looking for more strong opponents in the senior and unlimited classes. Call Chalkey at Lincoln 6156, ‘between 6 and 7 p.m. The Renroc team has recently been strengthened by the addition of new | players. | Irving Sanborn’s Strayer Business | College quint, strayed down to War- renton last night and beat the high | 'ghovl basketers of that place, 33 to 7. | ) Calvary Baptist romped to an easy victory over Seneca Juniors last night in the Y. gym, winning, 34 to 10. Falls Church quint downed the ‘Woodlothians, 26 to 19, last night ed 13 points. that you will P. A, is sold everywhere in tidy red dors, and pound crystal-glass humidors with sponge-moistener top. And always with every bit of bite and perch 1e- moved by the Prince Albert process. .