Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1927, Page 27

NEW V. M. I. GRID COACH TO TUTOR STRONG SQUAD Raftery, Successor to Clarkson, Has Many Veteran Candidates for Varsity Eleven—Cadets With Hard Schedule BY H. C. BYRD. TRGINIA MILITARY INSTI- TUTE is the only institution in the South Atlantic section to make radical changes in its coaching tem for foot ball this Fall. Blandy Clarkson, who for several years has been head coach and graduate manager, has retired as head coach to give all his time to the work of graduate manager, and Bill Raftery, who was assistant to Clarkson, be- comes head coach. Clarkson also is an instructor in mathematics and that work, in addition to coaching and the graduate managership, gave him more work than he cared to continue. Raftery is a good coach and has had long experience. He was at Washington and Lee before going to V. M. L. and at_that institution turned out some good teams. He brought the Washington and Lee eleven here four years ago and trimmed George- town. Raftery and Clarkson are close friends and Raftery probably will earry out in general the same policies that for a long while have . 1. feared and respected foot ball. . plays a 10-game schedule meets some of the strongest teams in the South. Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia Polytechnic Institute are its most difficult con- tests. The whole list of games fol- lows: September 17—Wofford at Lex- Ington. September 24—Richmond at Lex- ington. 1—Georgia Tech at At- 8—Roanoke at Lexing- 15—Virginia at Char- 22—Maryland at Rich- and lottesville. October mond. October son, November 5—North Carolina at Lexington, November at Cl(nrlestu':u. November 24 — Virginia - technic at Roanoke. 8 il 29—Davidson at David- 12 — Kentueky It will be noted from the above that M. I has the honor. of prying the lid off the South Atlantic sea. Zon. It is the only college in the sec- tion that plays on September 17, And, incidentaily, the Cadets may not have such easy picking in that con- test, as Tommy Scaffe, former Navy coach, is head coach at Wofford, and knows how to turn out a team. It is dollars against the hole in a dough- nut that V.M. 1. will face in Wofford the fastest and hardest charging line that it has ever been against in an opening game, which is disconcerting, to say the least, in any game, and especially in an opening game. An arrangement has been ef ‘Whereby the game with Norlhflf‘;':: lina will be played at 11 o’clock. Vir- ginia and Washington and Lee play at Lexington on the same date, and ".M', I very courteously agreed to shift its game to the morning so that all the people who will be in Lexing- ton that day can take in both contests, Many Regulars Return. Shep Mondy and Ken Rugh whom won their letters nxyéab:t:s?)r will be back to play center. And Crow and Chadwick, freshmen of last ear, also are good in that position. O'Berry, Hewlett and Smith won let. ters in'the guard positions in 1926 and probably two of them are going to be regulars when the team finally Is lined up for the opening game. Ful. ton, Willard, Straughn, C. Haase, W. Haase and A. Crow are the guard and tackle material from the freshman squad. Possibly Smith, who has had PALMER’S in delicious combination EALLY, its amaz- ing the number of dainty combinations the up-to-date home- keeper can make with our bottled carbonated beverages. Not only sparkling, cool punches, and other drinks with that piquant tangy taste, but perfectly wonderful salads and frozen desserts as well. It's quite the thing now-a-days to order bottled carbonated heverages by the case, just as’ regularly as vou buy groceries. Keep a few bottles al- ways on ice. 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Coach Raftery is of the opinion a better eleven will be turn- ed out. V. M. I. may not win all its games, according to Raftery, but will have an eleven good enough to face THE EVENING S7 on even terms the best of its oppo- nents. Every person interested in Gal- iaudet College will hail with pleasure the announcement that Teddy Hughes again is to coach foot ball. After Hughes announced he would be un- able to handle the squad this vear because of ill health, Manager Peikoff made great efforts to get the type of man he thought could turn out » good eleven. However, he did not meet with much success and it seemec that the Kendall Greeners were goini to find it nearly impossible to fil Hughes' shoes. But now comes the man who has been so successful witt Gallaudet athletics with the statement that he will boss things. Gallaudet should consider itself fortunate, whilc Hughes deserves the gratitude of every loyal Gallaudet adherent. With George Washington and Cath olic University scheduled to get on the field today, four college squads will be running full blast, Georgetown having had little more than a week of practice and Maryland two day All four universities have tough sched ules, and all have their work cut out for them if they are to make credit able showings. TAYLOR'S BOUT POS;PONED. LOS ANGELES, September 7 (#).— A Dboil on Bud Taylor's left shoulde: blade caused the Terre Haute, Ind boxer’s 10-round bout here with Joey | Sangor, Milwaukee bantamweight, | billed for September 13, fo be post ! poned for one week. A K T HE RoLX DEVITT GRID SQUAD TRAINING DELAYED Devitt School foot ball team candi- lates will not begin training for a ouple of weeks. It originally was Jlanned to go to Annapolis today for two-week training period, but be- ause so many of the candidates are till out of the city the start has been ‘eferred. Once practice is under w ver, it will be vigorous, as the ‘evitt squad will have but a short me in which to prepare for its open- 1g game October 1 with Episcopal igh at Alexandria. A coach for the oys soo1 will be chosen. ow material coming in from various cctions of the country to replace play- e bright. how- West End school- With much rs lost, Devitt's prospect Candidates for Gonzaga’s foot ball team were to gather this afternoon at the school at 1:30 o'clock to start prep- aration for the season. Later when the new field is in shape near Thirty- fourth street and Benning road, Coach Kenneth Simondinger will take his hopefuls out there jonzaga must pr leven, having lost serformers from 1 ‘ombination. Sl Eighty-nine per cent. of the gasoline receipts in the United used for rural roads and highw ically rebuild its \SITINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ' LAST PRATICE TILTS FOR RIVAL POLOISTS By the Associated Press. W YORK, September 7.—Final ctice matches were scheduled to. day by the American and British Army-in-India polo teams, prepara- tory to the first match of the inter- national series, starting Saturday. Last-minute preparations by _the American defense committee includ- ed the replacement of Tommy Hitch- cock by Winston Guest ‘in today’s practice. Hitchcock is now at the top of his game and will conserve his strength and avoid the pos: of becoming stale. Gues the Yale team this year, was chosen to play No. 1, international cup defenders, but later was recalled i and supy The B four today will meet a picked team composed of Stephen Sanford, E. W. Hopping, J. Cheever Cowdin and Lieut. H. P. Guinness. The match will be played at Cochrane Field. Oppositione for the American big four will be provided by Cs Wilkinson, Capt. John : Richard George and Robert whridge, jr. The practice will be held at Meadow Brook Field. — . Great Britain now ha ional foot balle 18, pra s over 7,000 and 750,000 1929’ OFFICERS TO BE CHOSEN BY SOCCERISTS TONIGHT Officers of the Washington and | Southeastern District Soccer Associa- tion will be elected at a meeting to- night in room 2, District Building, at 30 o’clock. Immediately following choosing of association officers Washington Soccer League will name the men to guide its affairs the ensuing year. Each team of the league is urged to send two representatives to the meeting. |WAVERLY GRIDDERS WILL MEET TONIGHT Aspirants for Waverly A. C. foot ball team, which early last season staged a big surprise by drubbing the crack Mohawk eleven, will meet to- night at the McGill Building at 8 o'clock. Manager Coe of the Friendship eleven wants to get in touch with Matt Hurd, Tom Dalglish, Dick Jones and Buck Kilroy. Call Lincoln J. Northerns, who will be hot after the scalp of Wintons, by whom they were heaten last Fall for District 150-pound honors, are to hold their first drill Sunday morning on Park View play- grounds. . nozmcz'zzg A new series of Packard Cars —both sixes and e{yéls JONES TO QUIT YALE AFTER THIS SEASON By the Aesociated Press. W HAVEN, Conn., September 7.— T. A. D. Jones, head football coach at Yale since 1920, will retire at the end of the coming season. A statement by Prof. George H. Nettleton. chairman of the Yale Uni- versity Athletic Association, revealed the resignation and fts acceptance. Jones will devote all his time to his coal business. No action will be taken toward choosing a successor until the resigna- tion hos become effective, it is an- nounced. After graduation in 1908 from the Sheffield Scientific School. Jones spent one vear at Yale as assistant backfield coach and then went to Syracuse for a vear as head coach. The next five years he spent coach- ing foot ball at Pawling School and Exeter, then returned to his alma mater in 1916 as head coach. turning out a_“Big Three” championship team. He did_no_more coachinz until he returned to Yale in 1920 as head coach INSECTS WANT GAMES. George Burns Insects are seeking games with fast nines in their class. Call Manager Balenger at Cleveland 5835-J between 7 and 8 p.m. OU are cordially invited to visit us and see the new series of Packard cars now on display. The improved Packard Six and Packard Eight are available in a wide variety of open and closed models, the Six priced from *2275 to *2785 and the Eight from #3975 to *5250 at the factory. You will find these the finest cars and greatest values Packard has ever offered. We will appraise your present car at its highest market price and apply its value against the down and monthly payments required on any new Packard you may select PACKARD M AN W H O O WNS Packard Washington Motor Car Co. Connecticut at S 0. Coolican, President Adams 6130 ON 27 DISTRICT BOWLERS MAKE NO CHANGES District Duckpin League the com- ing season will have the same teams and the same officers as during the last campaign, it was decided at a meeting of the league's board of directors last night. Quints that will again compete in the circuit are Convention Hall, which won the title last season; King Pin, Meyer Davis, Arcadia, Northeast Temple, Petworth, Stanford Paper Co., Cornell's Lunch, Government Printing Office and Curb Cafe. These officers will again serve: John S. Blick, president; Charles Ben- son, vice president, and W. Charles Quant, secretary-treasurer and official scorer. September 26 was set for the league opening between Convention Hall and Northeast Temple on the former's drives. A new set of bylaws was adopted. Use of the playing rules governing the duckpin game as authorized by the Washington City Duckpin Association was decided upon. Prince Georges County Duckpin ociation will hold a meeting to- rrow night at 8 o'clock at the Arcade alleys, Hyattsville, to com- plete organization. Division of the league into two 10-team circuits is planned.