Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 44

semanene vy sIRErRINANSIOIETL Y Jrvane SP BALTIMORE U. FIVE MEETS CARDINALS Four Veteran Basketers on Brookland Team—Faces W. & L. Friday. rward on holic University freshman team, probably will hold forth at a siml when the Cardinal v opers its season tonight in the big gvm at Brookland .against University of Baltimore. Pla o'clock. Ogden_will shoes of Bddie Keale, the onl! ber of the fast (-‘ whe has graduated. : }rl:u Long is expected to be at the other forward post; Capt. Jim Car- wey at center and Ray Foley and Bill Harvey at guar There 15 a chance that Harvey might be used on part of the game, as their legs so strong s they ht be, fol grueling C. U. foot ball campaign. Other promising aspirants who n see on for the Cardinals durin the evening include Joe Bell, J. L Amanns and Joe Champa, forwards and Sigmund _ Sadlowski, James Schmidt and Bill Linskey, guards. While Catholic University is pected to win over the Baltimore team newcomer to Maryland collegiate ranks, is reported to be sturdy and may offer the Brooklanders an interesting evening. The visitors are expected to start with Jules Diehl and Nate Klein, for- wards; Bousman, center, and Totts Morris and Charley Volz, guards. All are experienced players. Diehl and Morris_formerly starred with Calvert Hall: Volz is a Forrest Park High product, Bousman got his training McDonough School and Klein has shown his wares in Baltimore league ranks. Prior to the varsity game University’s freshman team tertain Devitt Tonight's game will be the first of two in which the Cardinal varsity engage this week. Friday night Wash ington and Lee’s tossers will appear at Brookland, ATS OGDE Winter's te lling the mem- quint ex holie will en American Universi 1928 foot ball team will be led by ald S. Bit- tinger, a graduate of Tech High. tinger, right end, has held forth three years on the Methodist eleven, and has been an outstanding performer. He never played the grid game in high school. He will be the first grid cap- tain to have spent four years at Amer- ican U., as the College of Liberal Arts in which he is enrolled, will enter its fourth year next Fall. Bittinger, weighs ‘about 157 pounds, is the son of Mr. and Mrs, H. E. Bittinger of 3910 Livingston street, Chevy Fifteen players were awarded lett ORTS. FORREST BURGESS- Forward following Bittinger's election. In cor nection with the presentation there were short talks by Chancellor Lucius C. Clark, Coach G. B. Springston, Dean George B. Woods, Dr. William B. Holton, chairman of the athletic committee; who awarded the insignia; William Caples, retiring captain, and Capt.-elect Bittinger. Letters went to: Bittinger, Caples, Arthur Gerth, Warner Frazer, Hugh W. Speer, James Birthright, Carl Levin, Donald Olmstead, William Wolowitz, Leon Shloss, Jame: van, Charles Lowe, Jack Lafavre, Mil- | ton Crist and Leland Field. Catholic University has scheduled a game with Virginia Medical College for tomortow night in the Brooklandsg Phisiisghe third"home tilt arranged fOf the weéek for the Cardi- nals, who open tonight with Univ sity of Baltimore and entertain Wil- liam and Mary Friday. With Ham Adams, stalwart center on the job, Coach Burton Shipley's University of Maryland squad now totals 12, which is the number he will carry through the season. Adams wap Iste in joining the squad as he took short rest following the close of the foot ball season. Two rezulars fror last Winter's quint are on hand in addition to Adams. They ar Fred Linkous, forward, and Thurston Dean, guard. Del Zahn, guard, and Walker Hale, forward, reserve r ago, are others who remain from the 1926 squad. tounding out the varsity aggrega-| tion are George Madigan, Bill Evans | and Mel Koons, forwards; Fred Hetzel, center; Albert Heagy and Julie Radic guards, all from last vear's freshman squad, and Jeff Dix, who played as a ing two seasons back. | Gordon Kesler has quit the squad, | deciding to put in all his time on his studie ach Shipley is not expected to name his starting line-up for the Olq | Liners' opening game against Wash- | ington and Lee at College Park next Monday night until after Saturday workeut, - Meanwhile the varsity toss- | ers will scrimmage among themselves and may have severa| settos with Jack Faber’s freshmen aspirants. Maryland, in addition to being hanc capped - by mot having Adams and | Linkdus on the job early, will have five or ‘slx more of the Old Liners not in the best shape for the ( This bunch will be on duty Saturday andMornday jumping on and off majl trucks helpinz Uncle Sam hasdle his Chrismas mail University will meet in foot ball next Fall on N vember 3 at New Brunswick, act ing to the nine-game Rutgers sched- ule announced yest Catholie Rutg: | New York Univer: asket ball | schedt inced yester an engagement with the Hilltop on J Y. U. boxing team b Catholic University ¥ebruary 11 ay, shows | Georgetown at 14. The N.| date v | in New Yo Wasl George annual foot 1 ember 16 in n; n. In add school Maud Colonial eleven, w 9 members of th nd Richard Nev es: Paul wen scouts; Paul igton 1 hop will the Uni versity's be held ty gvm ials of the coach of the tend alonz with ad: Tub Griffin ssistant coach Paul Rutheiser. Keough, n and Roaul Anton i, anager. The >shmen grid squad also has | been invited | and t one e T of which rk, ha the University of | basket. ball team. | wed by d for Maryland freshmen the limit al r Curley Byrd under direction of J who also coaches the y lacrosse and foot ball. Forest Park h of Baltimore, to be met January 10 at College Park, is the first game for the Maryland youngsters. land Freshmen schedule v 10=—Forest Park B Business Hizh, 18—Western High. Tech High Baltimore Poly. Smerson, Inatitiite. Y T6—Tome Institute at Port De time sdrow Wilson High of Portamoith February Fe y High RICHMOND, Va., December 14.— Moe Levy of Norfolk, a member of the bar of that city, has bought the Mayo 1sland ball park of this city for $17,500. The owner of the local bail club has lease for another year on the property. | court officials, Athletic | The Old Line | ters have been drilling for some | hurdler, {a bunch of youngster av | THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1927. Photos By CVY PerKiNS - DEVITT SCHOOL PLANNING TO STAGE A TRACK MEET F a plan to be presented at a othel fine forward pass receiver. This banquet of the alumni and ath-|player caught one of the passes in the letic associations of Devitt School at the City Club, December 28, is approved the institution will a big track and field meet on Geo) town University field the latter part of April. Schools from various sec tions of the countr to compete in the affair which it planned to make an annual event. The proposition will be laid before the meeting by J. L. (Count) Cornwell president of the alumni association is |and faculty advi: Letters will be awarded members of Devitt’s crack 1927 foot ball team in connection with -the banquet. Lou Little, Georgetown University tor of athletics, and other notables in the local sports world are expected to attend. Devitt’s outlook for a track season is unusually brigh juad will begin t g rection of Coach after the Christmas holidays. successful ate Sauber and Colliflower, v will high basket ball series starting J uary 6 it has been announced b: G. Harris White, director of for the hi schools. Hugh Sauber will alternate as referee umpire and Colliflower will when either Hughes or Sauber unable to be on hand This Winter a valve 1 lace will be used in the seri of the old lace ball. The ' keeps its shape better, high officials point out. Coach Gordon B. R: is Eastern High track wn to hard training followi the Christmas holidays. Beaten by just two points for the title in the public high meet last Spring by Hap Har lell's Tech team, the Lincoln Parkers ! ring to put forth a mighty effort next S g 1d the crown Such crack performers as Henry Ihert, sprinter; Buck O'Brien, miler nd half-miler, and McGlathery have been lost, but Rath I Ernest Dr. and I with a , instead alve ball th plans to get and field squad s 2 lot, are decidedly promising It is probable that Lastern’s on this Winter will be in the sity of Richmond games in Feb- The Light Blue and White ath ill appear in a dual meet |with the Navy Plebes, and likely will | encounter Episcopal High in addition {to taking part in the C Club games and the public high meet. ruar | letes als A graduate of Central High School Kenneth Haycraft, was named on | Water Eckewsall's 1927 all-Western Conference first foot ball team as a running m on virtually every secon craft has been playing a great game |at left end for Minnesota for the past two seasons. In picking him for his team, Eckersall said: “The other end position is given to Kenneth Haycraft of Minnesota, an- team. Hay would be invited | direc- | The | | has one year more at Minnesota, and | sive pl thletics | are | |A. school | | 1 > for Oosterbaan, and was | | Alton Buscher | son wer Michigan game for a Gopher touch- down. He stopped Wolverine players sent at him, and was a strong defen- yer throughout the season. He makes ideal running mate for r sports writer, in describing yeraft’s playing in the Michigan game said in the Minneapolis Journal: “Haycraft has been coming like & cvelone of Jate. He was more the tor- nado than at any time. He made a great catch of the pass which he grab bed behind the goal line. He played excellently in the defense and manhan- dled Gable, the big Michigan tackle, uch an extent that this biggest Michigan team was n out of the game.” raft was too light to make the irst eleven when he was at Central, but played a few games on the basket am during his senior year. He eat things are expected of him next eason. Everctt F. Haycraft, one of the members of the Board of Review of the Federal Trade Commission here, brother of the Minnesota player. Schoolboy basketers will appear in thr games tomorrow. Business is carded to take on the allstar quint made up of former scholastic tossers which it drugged recently, in the Ste- nog gym; Eastern will entertain Sioux on the stern floor, and Tech will meet a Manual Training five made up of ineligibles at the Boys Club, _St. John’s was to engage American University Freshmen in the lone court contest listed today. the second time this season, I Lynn Woodworth's Business xh quint vanquished Emerson Insti- tute yesterday, 30 to 24, Business got away to an v lead only to be over- hauled in the late moments by Emer- son. The Stenogs, however. had the punch to come back and win. Keefer and Revelle J@nes for Business and nd Clifford for Emer > top scorers. Busini reserves, however, were ailable who, @8 | beaten, howing to Jewish Community Center Juniors, 24 to 42. With Pat Rooney, husky forward, alone accounting for 30 points, Tech sers routed Woodward School, he Manual Trainers, who also were aided by heaving scoring on the part of Louis Berger and Torney, held the whip hand from the outset. Woodward got but one goal from scrimmage. SWIM i&IEET FRIDAY. are on the program of | the swimming meet to be held Friday night by the Washington Swimming | Club and Washington Canoe Club at the Y. M. C. A. Individual winners will be assigned places on the Wash- | Eight even ingtom all-star swimming team. ‘. { basketers of Ire Despite the loss of four regulars of last Winter's combination, Central's entry in the public hlfl basket ball title series, which starts next month, probably will just about as formidable, if not more so, than that of any rival. Coach Bert Coggins, who has been turning out crack Central court teams consistently, believes that, given reasonable time, his Blue and White quint will be one to seriously reckon with, though it is somewhat younger and less experienced than most Centr: squads. This also is the view of others who have seen the Columbia eights boys in action. In fact, Central right now appears strong enough to give any. schoolboy team hereabout all the trouble it seeke. Capt. Forrest Burgess, forward, is the lone regular left from last season’s team, but Coggins has sturdy performers in Woodward, forward; Ben Burch, center, and Dick Castell, Duvall Lemon, Nelson CoII%. Ken Fisher and Bill Simmons, guards. iller, forward; Nichols, center, and De Liso, guard, are among other aspirants who show promise. Regulars from the last campaign who are missing include Pete ‘arren Swift, Bill Crouch and Sam Tash. Everett Dahl is manager of the Central team and Otis Wingo and Thomas Schaffer are assistants. WARWICK QUINT ON HUNT FOR BASKET BALL GAMES Warwick Collegians, leaders in the Washington Independent League and one of the best basket ball teams in the city last- Winter, are after games for Thursday and Saturday nights. Call Lincoln 2580. Warwick dependables include Crosn, Capelli, Scruggs, Hanbach, Lyles, Krumm, Dezendorf and Freed. Bond's Whirlwind tossers routed Army Medical Center team, 56 to 18. Nee, ith teams having gyms are sought. Call Adams 1989 after 8 p.m. Action is wanted by Hadleys, 115 pound court team. Call Adams 228. Lightning A. C. basketers trimmed Oakton High tossers on the Virginians’ floor, 25 to 20. Northerns, nosed out tossers, 23 to 115-pound basketers, Washington Barracks Carolina basketers wish to notify Berwyns that they will be unable to keep their engagement with the Mary- landers tomorrow night. F. H. Smith Co. basketers disposed of Petworth, 23 to 14. Southern A. C. courtmen make their debut tonight against Washington Barracks five in the Barracks gym at 8 o'clock. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Northwestern, 53; Marquette, 22. DePauw, 43; Indiana Central, 41. Purdue, 49; Terre Haute Normal, 24. Princeton, 35; Muhlenberg, 25. Western Maryland, 30; Lafayette, 17. St. John’s of Brooklyn, 43; Colum- bia, 14. Star tossers routed Speedwell, 35 to 15. Washington Boys' Club Basket Ball League will open play in its league, comprising three divisions, the first week in January. Teams not affiliated with the club are invited to compete. The junior division will take in play- ers 10 to 12 years of age and the| senior, class B division, the oldest| boys, those from 17 to 18. Woltz A. C. 35 to 15. . PROFESSION Canadiens, AL HOCKEY. 6; Detroit 8 2 downed Live Wires,| Montreal Cougers, 1 York Bruins, 2. New York Americans, Senators, 1. ers, Bost: S‘loux A. C. bowed to Crescents, 12 | Sy 3 to 21. Sioux will meet Yosemites to- night at Hine Junior High at 8:30 | o’clock. | Ottawa Army War College defeated St. At the Sign of the Moon Martin’s unlimited team, 42 to 36, and Red Star Rangers downed the Saint's Junior five, 21 to 19. A Cllzlvlry Reds trounced Triangle, 30 012, Woodside A. C. defeated Calvary Notice Reserves, 28 to 24, for the victor's fourth straight. Calvary M. E. tossers showed the | Eetablished 1893 W,Ry l; Silver Spring, Md., courtmen, 42 to 31. Orders Placed By December 20 Basketers of Howitzer Company, Na- tional Guard, nosed out the Naval Ho: pital five, 16 to 14, in the victor's armory at Kensington, Md. Cresap's _ Rifies Delivered By December 24 prey to the Wi team in a game last night in the Mary- land city, The score was 51 to 35. Company E, District National Guard basketers, will be unable to meet Com- pany F Regulars at Hyattsville tomor- row night because of a schedule mix up. The Company J2 team has the use of the Coast Guard Armor day nights and wants action with un limited teams. Call Adems 1107-W. Trinity Methodlsts went down be- fore Marine Barracks five, 12 to 26. Rusty Saunders quint, 110-pound comblnation, has been formed. Games Suit or Qvercoat Made to Crder as You Want It | i $40 VALUES Full Dress Suits, $40 S TO ORDER--SILK LINED | S | ALLTREADS ||\ Moty & Mertz 923 H St. N.W. Main 464 ANNAPOLIS FACING L0SS OF PRESTIGE May Be Unable to Maintain Strength for Contests With Big Foes. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 14— Studying the three-year eligi- bility rule which the Nav: has passed—and wants West Point to adopt—the question arises as to how long the Naval Academy will be able to weather a self-imposed condition and maintain her status In intercollegiate spor With the limit of entering age lying between 16 and 20 and with the years which a midshipman has played on a college eleven counting in the total of the time he may play in varsity teams at Annapolis, it would seem as though the Naval Academy has taken steps to remove itself from on with Michigan, Notre Dame, Princeton, and, of course, the Army, unless the Militar emy authoritles follow the ple in adopting this rule. In such event both service institu- tions in all probability seem to have eliminated themselves from the top flight of foot ball playing institutions. If the Navy alone observes the three-year rule, she will most cer- tainly be handicapping herself not only in the case of her West Point rival but in the case of all her strong college opponents. A conrse of action in which the Navy foot ball schedule would involve only elevens of what may be termed minor rating would, it strikes the writer, be the only course that would prevent a sharp cry from Navy folk for a readjust- ment of the rule within a short period of time. Conditions Are Harsh. Quite frankly there was a time when the writer looked askance of the practice of playing college men at the service academies and expres- sed himself quite definitely on th score. In the course of time his at- titude changed for several reason: First, it became clear that at both West Point and Annapolis conditions exist t are not present in civilian instructions. For one thing, the es- sential aim is the development of offi- cers for the two arms of the service. This requires, above everything, in tensive study and rigid discipline which no other institutions—unless it be Virginia Military Institute—know. | Whether a boy be a college product, Here’s how to buy him qood cigars for the Holidays | LEHMAN'S TIRE SHOP 1342 G Street - 602 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washingt: SPORTS. EIGHT VARSITY SPORTS DROPPED BY SYRACUSE SYRACUSE, N. Y., Deaember 14 (®).—The athletic governing board of Syracuse University has voted to drop boxing, golfing, hockey, rifle, tennis, wrestling, soccer and fencing as intercollegiate sports. This sweeping change in the con- duct of athletics was made in favor of a_system of intermural athleti “Too small a proportion of the men students of the university en- joy the benefits of organized sports under skilled coaching,” said a resolution adopted by the board. or whatever he may be, is immaterial at the two academies. Of sole sig- nificance are his scholastic capacity and his reactions to the spirit of the service. If a boy who has played foot ball in college is willing to enter West Point or Annapolis and submit to the rigors not only of the curriculum but the p restraint placed upon his personal liberty and the numerou exactions of iron discipline, and at the same time go out on the foot ball field and accept all the hard knocks and the battering incident to this rugged game, then more power to_him—and more honor. Civilian institutions understand this and it is certain no demand for the three-year rule at Annapolis or West Point came from them. Real Work for Cadets. Now take West Point (and it is assumed that Annapolis would show nothing different). Any one who spent one week at the United States Military Academy following the sys- tem there, getting up with the cadets in the morning, going to classes, to drills, to athletic practice, then in turn to studies, would get a very graphic impression of the sac- rifices the varsity men make probably is no school in the coun- —at least not outside of Annapolis —where the athlete does one-third of the work of the cadet varsity men. Compared to other institutions, in- deed, the United States Military Academy, in its inexorable rules, its multiform restrictions, is less a seat of learning in the accepted sense of the term than an educational prison. Undoubtedly this is no less the case at Annapolis. This being so, it may well be wondered whether the Navy fully realizes all that this three-year rule may mean to Annapolis, by which token, also, arises the extreme improbability that the Army would ever be willing to place herself in this position. (Copyrizht, BREAKS EVEN WITH CUE. F. E. Lewis broke even yesterday in matches in the three-cushion billiard tournament in progress at Elmer's Academy. After being defeated, 35 to 23, by R. A. Reel, Lewis won from n, 35 to 28 1927.) FINE AS ANY IMPORTED CIGAR butors on, D. 0. There | SANDLOTTERS STICK TO FOOT BALL PLAY | Although foot ball is through for | the year so far as the colleges here. about are concerned. the sandlotters | still are sticking to the game. Three {inter-city matches calculated to prove intereating have been arranged | " Chiet among them is that which v | bring into opposition the Distriet champion Apaches and the Home | steads, champions of Baltimore ang | vieinity, at Union Park next Sunday | Another Baltimore champlon, the [ Powhatan eleven, which holds the title in the 115-pound class, will come here Sunday for a tilt with the Co) | leglans on the Mounment Lot | ‘The Northerns, who stubbornly re. fuse to recognize the Apaches as cham plons, will go to Lansdowne, Md., Sun |day for a scrap with the eleven of that place, an eleven that played the | Baltimore Homesteads to a tie. | " Chevy Chase Athletic Club and st | Stephen’s elevens of this city can't |see the season ended without anothe | battle. These 150-pound teams wij| sh Sunday on Friendship field. 1,000 SEE PALACE QUINT TAKE FREDERICK GAME "REDERICK, Md.., December 13.— | About 1,000 persons, the largest crowd | ever to witness a basket ball game saw the Washington Pros defeat aps Rifle quint on the Army floor ast night, 51 to 35. The local team made a better showing than was expected. Ripley and Conaty led the pros in scoring. Austin Esworthy, former local high school star, went through the Palace defense for 7 gc ack Smith and Larry Boerner, shington boys, also played well for the home team. TEAM STANDING. Eastern Section. w. Rochester .. - New York hiladelphia B L Washington . 4 1 ‘Western Section. h w. Cleveland 8 Fort Wayne 6 | Chicago | Detroit | L. i Games Tonight. i New York at Chicago. | Rochester at Cleveland. | Its Yesterday. | New York, 33; Fort Wayne, ! Philadelphia, 12; Detroit, 34. Give him-DUTCH MASTERS Attractively wrapped for Gifts -at any good cigar counter DUTCH MASTERS REQ. U. & PAT. OFF. 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