Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 53

Fastern High Foot Ball Outlook Is Bright GUYON NOT PESSIMISTIC OVER ELEVENS CHANCES pparently Has Material for Good Line, But Backs Will Be Light—McNamara, New Devitt Coach, Has Task to Build Winner. HARLIE GUYON, Kastern High foot ball coach, is not =0 pessimistic over the out- look for the Lincoln Parkers, despite heavy backkfield losses through graduation, and the fact that material for the posts behind the line is comparatively light. With most of the linemen who were green last Fall having had a season’s ex perience, a reasonably good forward expected. A number of de- pendable players are not likely to re- Port until school opens Monday. Judy Reeves is being counted upon to plug the gap at quarterbick cre- ated by the loss of Burton Lang henry and Wilson Zambreny. Ches. ter Pyles appears a good fullback prospect to fill the shoes of Buck O'Brien, now at St. Bonaventure's’ College, and others who loom as prom ising backfield timber include Healey, Anderson, Fry, Faber, McCarthy and Hooff. Guyon also has the job of Tounding up a kicker. Among those being given the once over with the hope of them developing_ booting abil- ity are Lynch, Chalkley, Faber, Woods and Pyles. Forty-one are in the bunch that so far is drilling at Eastern. They are: Linemen—Tom Nalley. Pyles, Court Mey Havden, John Nalley, Chamber- Hn, Montague, Taylor, Proctor, Miller, Shoemaker. Martin, Wade, Heale: Chalkley, Nordstrom, Waikert, O'Brien, Woods, Lawson, Barnes, Calevas, Witherite, Whitney and Munro. Backs — Blumberg Fry, Lynch, Cole, Faber. Reeves, Carthy, Edwards, Schackelford Teeple. Other aspirants include Murtaugh, Duvall, Jim Hayden, Evers and man. Hooff, Me- and With but two regulars left from | st season’s strong team. Jim Me- Namara, former Georgetown grid star, now director of the Jewish Com- munity Center. who has just been ap- pointed Devitt School's foot ball coach, has a real job to develop a combination to match the sturdy 1926 eleven. McNamara’s job is made especially at the Jewish Community Center. He NABILITY 'of Watts Gunn and Roland B, MacKenzie, winner and runner-up in the intercol- legiate golf championship to | compete in the Banfockburn tournament today was a disappoint- ment to many who had hoped to see the brilliant pair of college youths Qqualify, be paired in opnosite halves of the diaw and possibly hook up in the final round. Gunn and Mac-| Kenzie had hoped to be able to pla: but an engagement for a match to- morrow at Baltimore will keep them | from competing. | Scores made'yesterday in the medal | round at Bannotkburn indicate how | much more difficult the course is than the old layout of the past two years. | Scores well below 70, such as were | recorded with apparent ease last year, come infrequently and the course has been improved so that it rates today as one of the hardest around the Capital, \ & | b | Mrs. E. R. Tilley was paired against Mrs. L. L. Steele, while Mrs. W. L. Heap opposed Mrs. J. B. Gross i the semi-final round of the Indian Spring Club’s women’s championship today. Mrs. Tilley easily won her first match | yesterday from Mrs. Penelope Wood, 4 and 3. Mrs. Steele defeated Mrs. C. I. Putpam, 5 and 4, and Mrs. Gross drew a bye. Mrs. Heap won from Mrs. Hoover on the nineteenth hole, when the latter pushed her tee shot into a | clump of tres at the right of the fair- | way. The final round is scheduled for tomorrow. . Most of the golf professionals | around Washington are in_ Baltimore | today practicing over the Five Farms | course of the Baltimore, County Club | in preparation for the qualifying round for the Professional Golfers' As- sociation championship, to be played tomorrow. The qualifying round is a 36-hole affair, with but two men out of the two score or more entrants to | 7 qualify. Tommy Armour, the national | open champion, must qualify if he in- tends to play in the professional match play titular event. The Middle Atlan- tic section gets but two places in the qualifying round because of the rela- tively small numerical representation | in the P. G. A. from this section. Four Columbia Country Club junior golfers are competing today in the semi-final round of the club’s junior champlonship. E. §. Hartshorn is op- posed to Thomas P. Bones, jr., while rORTY=FOUR Distri Hortstall. | | will coach the Devitt squad only in | the afternoons. Hooper and Kennedy, the only reg- ulars of a season ago at hand, are both backs, and, as a result, Mc- Namara will have to completely re- build_his forward wall. Return of Pug Shrugue, lineman of ability, how- {ever, has cheered the coach consider- ably. " MeNamara's job is madecspecially difficalt by the fact that the West | 1End _schoolboys face the toughest | schedule in their history. Devitt's | opening game is with Episcopal High t Alexandria October 1 and other teams to he met include Gonzaga. Tome, Mount St. Joseph's and Massa- nutten Military Academy, at Wood- tock, Va. | Thougn completed { zo0d gridders registration has not been and a number of other may be in the fold Iby the time studies are actually under way, McNamara is going ahead with the material at hand in the hope |of developing a reasonably strong | combination before the first game. idates to report thus far are: and Fletcher, formerly of Mullen and Forrest, Tech | products: Brady of Central, Thomp- son of Mount St. Joseph's, Darby, New Mexico boy who, though he has | never seen a foot ball uniform, ap- pears promising; Shapiro of Alex- ia, lineman of proved worth, and | Merton English, who was a substi- | “Cand Walker | Western; n. . schedule, as announced by Ha King. follows: | Ma er | 1—Episcopal High, October | Alexandria. October ~ 8—Catholic University Freshmen, at C. U. Stadium. October 14—Eastern High, at East- ern Stadium. Ociober 22—Tome, at Port Deposit. October vert Hall, at Balti- | more. November 2—George Washington Freshmen, at Monument Grounds. November Shenandoah College, at_Dayton, V November 19—Mount St. Joseph's High, at Baltimore. November 24—Massanutten Mili- tary Academy, at Woodstock, Va. December 3—Gonzaga, at Ameri- can League Park. at Ted O'Connell meets William Braw- ner, in the first flight, as a result of first-round clashes yesterday after- noon, John Owens won the qualifying round, with a card of 80 in the morn- ing and then lost to Hartshorn, 5 and 3. in the first match round. Other re- sults follow: Thomas P. - - ner defeated G. T. Sharp, jr., 7 and 5; Ted O’Connell defeated Hugh Reilly, Jr., 1 up in 19 hole: ., Second flight—W. G. Galliher de- feated Bradford Swope, 1 up; A. S. Gardiner, jr., defeated Richard Walsh, 9 and 7; G. T. Bell, jr., defeated Allen Robinson, 2 and 1; W, C. Barr., jr., de- feated John Holzberg, 9 and 8. Junior public links golfers of the city moved into the second round of competition today for the municipal title, with Don Wrenpn, the medalist, and Danny Burton, another favorite for the title, scoring relatively easy victories in the first round. Today’s irings follow: Don Wrenn vs. Tom Webb, Francis Horton vs. Sam You- well, Melvin Luttrell vs. George Mol- loy, F. R. Kadie vs. Willlam Rutley, | Dan Burton vs. M. Oliveri, Ernest Luzi vs. Grayson Carter; Jack Biggs vs. James Morelle, W. Rice vs. Arthur Lyons, FRENCHWOMAN GOLF . STAR GETS 80 SCORE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Prac- ticing for the national woman’s'golf ehampionship, which starts next Monday, Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, youthful star of France, has Jjust played the Cherry Valley course. sarden City, where the title is to ided, in 39—41—30. She made two birdies. At the 425- vard sixth hole she reached the green with a drive and a No. 2 iron and sank a 6-foot putt for a 3. Mlle. Chaume played from the back tees of the course, measuring 6,500 vards, and was seven strokes over men’s par of 73. She has played the | course twice since her arrival from France last Monday. Marion Turpie, Southern champion, covered the first nine holes yesterday in 41, but did not finish her round. be hutors Capital Cigar and Tobacco Co. THE. EVEN GTON, D. C. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER NTEREST in the faminine en- tries for the President’s Cup regatta, to be held on the Poto- mac River off Hains Point to- morrow and Saturday, will be doubled by the fact that a “mystery driver” of the fair sex is entered in two of the feature events. C. Roy Keys' Curtiss Wilgold II will be entered in the Secretary of Navy's cup race (won last vear by Mrs. W. J. Connors of Buffalo, driv- ing Okeechobee to an epoch-making finish) and will be driven by an un- known driver, said to be a woman. “Madame X" also will pilot the Keys boat in the ladies’ event, which will be one of the features Saturday aft- rnoon “"Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell of New York and Mrs. Connors, the pioneer women drivers in the Presi- dent's cup event last year, who made yachting history by their perform- ance in a classic of this magnitude, will both compete this season, the latter in Okeechobee, the boat which won both races in which she was entered last vear. Mrs. Cromwell will d the Horace Dodge entris FARRELL IS WINNER OF ILLINOIS EVENT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 15.— The eighth open championship title to be won by Johnny Farrell of the Quaker Ridge Country Club, New York, was the Chicago open tournament, in which his 285 for the 72 holes carried off the $1,000 first prize yesterday. The closeness of the tournament put Farrell in the position of needing even 4s for the last nine holes to win, and he ran off that very string to wind up with a birdie 3 on the eighteenth by virtue of a 20-foot downhill put. As soon as the ball dropped into the cup, Farrell and Mike Brady dashed for a New York train to participate in the qualifying rounds for the n: tional professional championship at Salisbury, today. . Five of the leaders were within four strokes at the 54-hole stage, with indi- cations of a battle royal for the title. All but Al Espinosa blew their chances, and he scored a 70, 1 under par, to make 287. Farrell cut this score by two strokes, Espinosa tak- ing second place. The leading five were: Jdohn Farrell, New York, 285. Al Espinosa, Chicago, 287. MacDonald Smith, New York, 290. Tommy Armour, Washington, 293. Harry Cooper, Los Angeles, 293. Jock Hutchinson, Chicago, 295. HOT WEATHER HITS BIG TEN GRIDDERS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 15.—In the hottest practice weather the Big Ten has ever experienced, the Westrn Con- frence foot ball season opened officially today under the rule permitting only one of probably e two weeks’ preparation for opening| games October 1. Some of the coaches have arranged two practice periods per day, morn- ing and afternoon, as classwork at most of the schools does not begin until after October 1, Most of the regulars and promising candidates were expected to report in good condition for the Fall program, hardened by outdoor work during the Summer. Several members of the Chicago and Northwestern squads shoveled cement on their enlarged stadia this Summer, 0 are prepared for heavy work in the heat. Preliminary work, such as throw- ing and catching forward passes, fall- ing on the ball and drills with the tackling dummy will fill the first few days, while coaches check over the eligibility of their men. Each candidate this year is required to sign a new pledge of sportsmanship. vouching for his amateur status and scholastic eligibility. RALEKGH WINS A GAME. SALISBURY, N. C., September 15 (#P).—Raleigh yesterday won its first zame of the Piedmont post series from Salisbury, 9 to 2. Salisbury previ- ously had won two games. e NAVY AND G. P. 0. PLAY. Navy and Government Printing Of- fice teams were to meet this after- noon on the Terminal Y diamond at 4:30 o'clock, in a week-day league championship game. Wonder What Merts Will Say Today At the Sign of the Moon - Prior to Our Fall Opening Established 1893 ADVANCE SHOWING of FALL STYLES Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc. 1342 G ST. N.W. via Radio Radio owners will loll back in their easy chairs next Thursday ‘evening and listen to the blow- by-blow broadcast of the Dempsey-Tunney bout. Crosley Radios. ...$55 up Atwater Kent......$65 up R.C. A, Sets....369.50 up Bold on the Budget Plan THE HECHT CO. Music Store 618 F St. N.W. the one which she planned to drive last year, but which was forced out of the race at the last moment by engine trouble. Eleanor Corby, daughter of /\W. §. Corby of Chevy Chase, Md., will be the fourth of the quartet of feminine drivers. She is scheduled to pilot her father's Jayce II in both the Secre- tary of the Navy's Cup race and the woman's event. But a few short years ago it would have been considered sheer madness for a woman to ride even as a passen- ger in a shallow shell of a boat which skimmed across the water at a pre- carious rate of speed, standing almost on its side from time to time. The idea of one of the weaker sex attempting to pilot such a craft would have been laughed to scorn. Today, it is no uncommon thing for a woman to skim across the water with a clear eye and steady hand on the wheel of a speedhoat, and already one of the sex has proved herself the equal of her masculine opponents in a river classic of national importance. When Mrs. Connors upset the “dope’ by leading the field in the Secretary of the Navy’s Cup race last year, she went down in history as the first woman to win a national open speed- boat event of that class. Will she retain her laurels this sea- son? She will be running against formidable fleld, including two Horace Dodge boats, noted for their perfor- mance in the leading regattas of the country; the “mystery” boat, and two Chris craft boats, entered by the Chris Smith Boat Co. Should she win it would be a note- worthy triumph indeed for women in sport. Virginia Moore won the Plaza play- ground quoits tournament, defeating Virginia Pemberton in the titla match, 2 to 1. Miss Moore won the opening game, but her opponent tied the score, taking the second. In the third, how- ever, Miss Moore proved superior. Previously she had downed Rebec Goldstein, 2 to 1, in the semi-finals while Miss Pemberton had scored over Alice Zegowitz. the highest sym- bol of ciency possible . to earn on the local playgrounds, were awarded this week to Ell Regis Per and Elizabeth Bowie of the Plaza play ground. BIG TEN TO ASK ACTION BY NATIONAL COMMITTEE Thistlethwaite of Wisconsin Had Devised Change to Prevent Touchdowns and Long Gains on Ball That Is Batted Forward. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. HAT supplementary foot ball rule which the Western con- ference has adopted applies to a_ball which is batted by a player or is deflected from his hands or body in such manner that it falls to the ground in advance of the spot where it was first touched. As set down in the foot ball guide— rule XVII, section B—the rule reads as follows: “On any such pass (that is, lateral or b third down, when the ball strikes the ground or goes out of bounds hefore passing into possession or control of a player, the ball is dead and shall belong to the passing side at point where it struck the ground or went out of bounds and the play shall count as a down. On the fourth down the ball shall belong to the opponents at said point unless the required dis: tance for first down has been gained.” Change Meets Approval. Glenn Thistlethwaite of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin did some think- ing on this rule and found that if a player batted a ball forward it would become dead where grounded. Touch- downs and long gains, he decided, could be registered merely by hitting the ball across the line of scrimmage. So he devised a change in this rule and had it adopted by the Western Conference, which will ask the na- tional rules committee to meet the change. The text of this change fol- Tows: “In without p r it and the ball then ckward pass is touched aining control of ikes the ground lor goes out of bounds, in advance of the spot at which it was touched, it shall belpng to the team that made the | pass at the spot at which it was first touched. This provision shall apply whether the ball strikes the ground ackward) on the first, second or | the | on the field of play or behind the de- fensive goal line.” Whether or not the rules com- mittee will meet the change remains to be seen, As far as the batting of a ball for- ward is concerned it should be noted that this point has long been covered under rule XV, section 7, which reads: “A player m. t any time bat the ball in any direction except toward his_opponents’ goal.” The penalty is the loss of the ball to the offended side at the spot where the foul occurred. But one exception rule. It foll e of a ball in the air from any eligible player of either ide may bat the ball in any direc- | tion to prevent an opponent from se- curing ft.” Rule Not Specific. Now the rules committee has held and many Eastern officials maintain that section of the rules absolutely covers the point which Thistle- thwaite made. But does it? It is quite clear that if a player deliberately a ball forward and the action is so recognized by the officials, a penalty may be imposed. But in the exception to this rule, set down in italics in the foot ball guide, | it is stated any player of either side may bat the ball in any direction to prevent an opponent from securing suppose Team A makes a pass In the melce a man either of Team A or Team B bats the ball over the goal line. Under rule XVII this most certainly is a touchdown. equally certain that the rules com- mittee intended no such thing to hap- pen. this seem certain. So the best thing for the committee to do would be to adopt the Western Conference cha Team B breaks through. | And it is Common sense, at least, makes | SPORTS." exception noted to section 7, rule XV, so that it reads “forward pass” fn- stead of just “pass.” This would, however, be merely a half-way meas- ure. The best thing to be done | would be to give Thistlethwaite's | change in the rule official sanction. | |MATCH FOR CHESS TITLE WILL START TOMORROW| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sep- | tember 15 (#).—Ceremonies inaugu- | rating the world's championship chess | match between Jose R. Capablanca | {of Cuba, the title holder, and Alex- der.Alekhine, the Russian challenger, | will be held tonight. Actual play for | the championship will begin tomorrow | night. | : Lateral Pass Rule Needs Revision GRID CALL IS MADE BY CHEVY CHASE A. C. First call for foot ball candidates | has been sounded by Chevy Chase A. Initial practice will be held Sun- day, starting at 1:30 o'clock, on Friend- ship Field. All of last year's players are asked to attend and new candidates are also requested to report ready for practice. A coach is being sought. Games are wanted with Wintons, Northerns, Clarendon Lions, Knick Preps and Virginia A. C. Write Man- uve; J. W. Hammond, 4324 River road. Brookland Juniors, who have signed |G. U. WILL PLAY TWO | | GAMES AT HILLTOP | | | Georgetown University will play its opening foot ball games with Lenoir- Rhyne, September 24, and hanna, October 1, on the Hilltop in- 1 of at Clark Griffith Stadium, as had been planned. | " The fact that the Washington nine | will be using the stadium these dates | has necessitated the shift. | While Maryland probably has lost the services of John varsity right-end last season, it has ained a player who was not expected to be available this Fall in Georze Matheke, a guard on the 1926 Fresh- man team. Letherman has about decided not to play foot ball this season. | Matheke, who broke Spring practice, was not ex be in shape this Fall. He has shown promise of developing into varsity caliber. Two practice sessions daily are still the order at the Old Line school. H. Watson (Maud) Crum, George Washington director of athleties, made the best of his Summer by attending the Rockne-Meanwell coaching school | 1 foot ball and basket ball, which |was held at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. —_— | Lou Gehrigs challenge Russels and insect nines. Call Franklin Susque- arm nge, or else amend the | Leatherman, | ected to | Puggy Du Four, former Catholic Uni- | versity star, as coach, will practice on | Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock on Brookland Field. Two full teams are | expected to report. A game is wanted for October 2 with a 135-pound team. all Manager Duncan at Potomac s or the Northern A. C. eleven are asked to meet at 3509 New Hampshire avenue tonight at 730 o'clock. Officers will be elected and uniforms distributed. Fiest scrim- | mage will be held Sunday morning. Mohawks, District champs last sea. son. will gather for practice fonight at 7 o'clock at the clubhouse. New candidates are asked to report. ANl candidates | Northern Juniors will get intn ac- | tion on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock |on Park View Playground. et | HARRISBURG WINS SERIES. NORFOLK, Va., September 15 (#). —By capturing yesterday's game, 7 to 2, the Harrisburg Senators, pen- nant winners of the New York-Penn- | sylvania League, took a three-game series from the Portsmouth club, | champions of the Virginia League. | . | McFARLAND QUITS RACES. | CHICAGO, September 15 (#).— Packey McFarland, Joilet financier, |and once famous in the ring for his skill with the padded.mittens, has de- cided to quit horse racing as an owner. He announced today he had sold his string of horses for $25,000 and was { through. Distributors : OTTO_EISEN BRI $., Inc. 935 H Street N.W. 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