Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1927, Page 26

SPORTS. THE EVENING RTAR. WASHINGTO D. C. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1927 Georgetown’s Foot Ball Chances Hard Hit by Failure of Th THOMPSON, TEAM’S FLEET |ARMYHOLOSFIRST | Memory of “Black” Thursday “ CAPTAIN, IS AMONG TRIQ GRID WORK INDOORS Spurs U. S. Tennis Veterans o the Amsociated Prem. | - WEST POINT, N. Y.. September Army’s foot hall training season | hegan vesterday indoors. Capt. L. M. (Biff) Jones, head coach, | had to call off the outdoor session, | | which had heen planned. because of | wree Stars to Return almost entirely into the quarter finals. | “seeded” list, as they did a year ago. It is likely to be repeated in the 1927 Tt will b ’a col- tournament, starting September 12 at | o 5o ¢ Another of tke years Sok [ore: i orful tests vhie - rotra and Henri Cochet. [t was a | Forest Hill | ort s In which the old theorie: debacle that came with little warning | The French threat, including Brug “'f age and vouth will be tested.. Head- and lefi Vincent Richards alone of the | non, with the other tiree, is the same. |ed by the imperturbable Rene Lacoste. “big four” at that time in the run-{lnless some nger figure, such as|who broke through at the age of 22 ning. Vinny passed out of the picture | George Lott or Johnny Doeg, breaks |last vear to be the first foreigner to of |at the hands of Borotra the next day | through. the American defense still|win the American crown since 1903, and France enjoyed the sensation of | will consist chiefly of ihe ihree vet-|the French will have a big edge in on, one |a baitle between two of its sons for |erans, Tilden, Johnston and Williams, | vears. Borotra, the oldest, is 29, but inter- | the premier tennis crown of Amer with Frank Hunter filling in the va- | the average Is around 26 for the vivid. | The drama of last year's national | cancy left by Richards French quartet. Tilden, Johnston, single sing) championship was ked Al of thess stars Williams and Hunter average 34 afternoon of Dick Willlams; Bill Johnston and Bill Tilden before the racquets of Rene Lacoste, Jean Bo-| By the Associated Prem. i NEW YORK, Septemher — America’s fennis veterans, girding themselves for come-backs {his year, |of the darkest in the country's hope to avoid anything like th slack | national (ennis annals, is still Th ay that mavked th down It witne: de t in a fall in 1926 before the Krance's three muskeieers. The memory of that occ ‘Attack of Pneumonia Has Left Him in Weakened ', Condition—Donovan. Another Halfback. and will head the Maroney, End, Also Decide to Quit School. 11,PWOOD. N. .. Sepiember 2 Tt is becoming increas apparent that (‘oach Louis Little has an excep. tionally hig job on his hands if he i to place a Georgetown T'niversity eleven an the field this Fall that will match the combinations he has turned out in the past few vears. Hard hit by graduations. the Bine and Grav has just suffered the additional loss of three stellar performers and Yittle's worri have become serious tndeed, as he is up against it for heavy and experienced materi Capt. Jerey Thompson, fleet. half hack Vinecent Maronev, end and George Donovan, backfield performer all will he t to +he squad, it is an nounced their places in ad dition to left by the loss through uation of Harry (Babe) Connaug All-Amer n guard Bob Gormley. quarterback. and Waite and Frank MeGrath, ends, is sure 1o prove a hig joh Capt. Thompson. it has an nounced. will not return to the squad because attack of pneumonia which him in weakened con ition. Neither Maroney married soon, nor Donovan will return tn college, it was said here. Sp aggressivness Thompson's principal assets, Ma of the largest members #quad, was believed to o gide track for a_regular Fall. Ha showed well in most of the 1926 games displaying particular abil- fty in_ both hurling and receiving . Donovan, who is the 1l captain at the Hilltop, string reserve. He was a the pony backfield last heen of an 1as 1eft were onex., of the the in- end joh this one realizing that much work Is in order o whip a formida into shape for the opening _game, September 24, with Lenoir-Rhyne, in Clark Griffith Sta- dinm, Washington, planned to put his proteges through their paces with a will today following a brisk day yes- terday A scrimmage that lasted nearly an hour, and was concentrated on perfec- tion of the tackle play was the climax of the drill. Every member of squad took part. George Winn, uel Cordovano and Weldon Mun showed impressively during this test Thev all are candidates for line post Prior to the scrimmage there was meveral hours work consisting drills in fundamentals, instruction of linesmen in charging and leaving the line as interference for'the. different plays and dummy scrimmage by the line during which the backs gave at- tention to their hidden ball plays and their passing and kicking. Setting-up C. U. MAY HAVE G0OD BACKS, A WEAK LINE Little, nec v bie combination Catholic University’s foot ball out- | ok now is for a good backfield, but ® weak line, according to Coach Jack McAuliffe. Practice will begin at the Brookland Stadium, September Loss of Connors, *Shields and Capt. | Emil Mayver, all ends. who have heen graduated. will he keenly felt, the Cardinal mentor said, and in addition Jack McGovern, star tackle last Fall may not return. He feels these gaps will be hard to fill. Capt. Ray Foley, quarterback, is the man around whom McAuliffe plans to bulld his backfield. Other: who will be at hand for posts behind the line are Schmidt, Harvey and Smythe of the 1926 combinajion and Murphy. Champa and Malevich, all varsity timber. Credit Plan Don’t Labor onLaborDay Don’t let blow-outs spoil the last holiday of the Summer. Re- place suspicious looking tires with new ones at any of our stores. , BRAND-NEW U. S. TIRES On Easy Payments No interest charges—no red tape—just a small cash payment and ride away with 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 new U. S. Royal Cords or USCO Tires, fully warranted by the U. S. Rubber Company. ROYAL TIRE SYSTEM Open Evenings—and Sundays Until Three who is to be | the | of | | exercises were given to start the pro- | gram | Though their boot averaged perhaps | not more than 40 yards, Bob Nork and | John Hannigan got most distance | among the punters vesterday. | James Mooney, 195-pound Chicago | hoy, who is being counted upon to fill | | Babe Connaughton’s post at guard, | was expected (o arrive at camp today. | The squad went on another fishing | trip vest TOO EARLY A | nasium for a blackboard Jecture, heavy rains, The squad was taken to the gym Tiny Hewitt, Harding, Trapnell, Dahl and Gilbert, backs; Daily, cen- ter, and Schmidt, guarq, are among the losses the squad suffered during | the vear. Veteran players available for this year's squad include Wilson, this sea- son’s captain: Murrill, Cagle, Born, Harhold. Sprague, Saunders and Ham- mack. The first game is to be played here on September 24 with Boston Uni versity. GRID START EEN AS HAVING FAULTS BY LAWRENCE PERRY. | OW about the foot ball teams that have already begun prac tice for the approaching sea son? There is a theory preliminary practice is not so good. It is based on two counts--first the aca-! demie contention that the foregather-! ing of the foot ball clan before Sum- mer has ended is iniquitous in that it unduly emphasizes the great inter-| collegiate sport, and second. the claims of physiciste that too much foot ball | imposes a dangerous strain upon the voung human animal, husky and en during though he be. 1t is the first, however, which in the erstwhile Big wree and in all great | sectional conferences, was effective in | eliminating the Summer foot ball camps and later defining September 15. as the date upon which preliminary foot ball work might begin. Prominent exceptions to this pre vailing rule are found in the two serv- lice institutions at West Point and An- | | napolis. at Dartmouth. Pennsylvania | New York University, Pittsburgh and Jeorgetown. May Bring Disaster. There e been cases of late sea- son di ter to teams which have be. | gun their gridiron play_in August or early September in sufficient number | to have established the impression | | that* untimely chasing of the pigskin | defeats itself. | But it is by no means sure that this | necessarily follows. Last season, for | instance, the Army and the Navy in | their final classic put up a finished ar- | ticle of foot ball and carried it on at |a gruelling pace throughout. And | heaven knows the cadets and the mid- | dies began practice early enough The Navy men, in fact, are commonly sup- | posed to be together throughout the August cruise and they start work nnually the latter part of that month. The Army is on the field each ear the first week in September. True, the players of these institu- tions, especially the Army, have been hardened by serviee of from one to three years on college and university elevens, but even so it would seem | that if an August or early Septem- that early { | ber getaway were bad in physical ef- | would show it | practiced | { | | fects, these cadel New York University practically throughout the collegiate | | vear of 1926 and had a fine season. {losing but one game. that to Nebras- ca—to which any eléven might lose without arousing the suspicion it was | over-foot balled--and heating among | other fine elevens, Carnegie Tech. Tt | lane and Davis and Elkins. | Pennsylvania blazed along until she |ran against Tlinois, but the 3-to-0 de |feat by Zuppke's men, narrow vic- tories over Penn State and Columbia |and a tie with Cornell could, it must be admitted, stand as the basis of |argument supporting trainers who hold against too much foot ball. Irrespective of late season effects, it is not even certai ms | Store No 1 3303 Conn. Ave. Store No. 2 2250 Sherman Ave. Store No. 3 3539 Ga. Ave. Store No. 4 634 Pa. Ave. S.E. Store No. 5 3009 14th St. N.W. Store No. 6 912 H St. N.E. which bar preliminary practice be- | fore the middle of September ave at a | disadvaniage physically and in point | of proficiency in details of the game | when they enconnter n mid-season | opponents not so restricted | Last year. to be sure, West Point | swamped Yale, hut the record of vic torfes in games as between the Cadets and the Elis is heavily in favor of Yale. And it is only at rare intervals (hat the Army defeats Notre Dame which abides by the rules of the Western Conference. So with Prince ton and the Navy And certainly the of Tllinois against Pennsyl- vania is no argument for early prac tice. Washington and success Jefferson alwavs | seems (o end the season with a bang provided her material is good and so with Pittsburgh. Probably when all is said and done a great deal depends upon the man power. If a team has the material it will come through, given. of course, a good coach. | whether it starts practice on or before | September 15, and if the stuff is not there it makes no difference when | practice begins RENROCS WILL COMPETE IN HIGHER GRID CLASS Renvoc foot ball team, which shone 135-pound ranks last season, will this in compete in 135-150-pound class season. Candidates will nesday at the Trotter, 328 K 20 o'clock. meet next Wed- | home of Manager | street northeast, at Candidates to report include: Aflen McAlwee, .Joe Healy, Stew” Cross, “Pepec” Barry. Jumbo” Giradl. Frank Holland, Tom | Brew, Al Farrell, “Tuck” Dalglish. Eton Chalkley, Tom Farrell. Irving Wade. Clinton Tucker, Russell Fai banks, George Fifer, Mike McCarthy, Kenny Cloro, “Sap” Allman. “Red Billy"Wood. 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