Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 12

SPORTS. THE TEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928. ree Games Here Tonight : School Title Between Old Foes ALL BUT 15 NATIONALS SPORTS. 12 College Fives in Th 'CENTRALTECH STRUGGLE "BASKET BALL. LLEGE FORDHAM “HEAVY” BOXES HERE MONDAY CATHOLIC L. FACE STRONG OPPONENTS Virginia Invades Brookland. While Mount St. Mary’s Will Be Guest of Hilltoppers—G. W. Host to Balimore U.—Mazy land Beats Cavaliers, RY N ¢ BYRD . GEORGETOWN ©° GAMES HERE TONIGHT. Catholic _University vs. Virginia, Brookland, 8:30. Georgetown vs. Mount St. Mary's, Baltimore . gym, 8:30. Washington, Chester- town, Md. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS. Alabama, 18. Annapolis, inia, 29. Woflord, Oglethorpe, | E | | Johu's Coliege of Viry Newberry, 2 Citadel, '3 GOPHER QUINT GETS CHANCE TO ADVANCE By the A (e P CHICAGO, January 28.--Minnesota's basket ball team will have a Medical st night but ¢ Within ia was in a spurt by pulled the Maryland 1 to 20, Virginia lost to 6. 10 that advantage in the visitors co it to climb into third place | the Big Ten race when it plays with o on the latter's home floor. The Gophers, with one game won and lost, are the mystery of the Con- 1f they lose tonight they will into sixth place, a notch below 0. W o far has won a single losing three. The invaders mect Northwestern at Evanston > two s for victory tonight . with Capt. Chuck apt to be out of the ected arm. DISTRICT SWIMMERS BEAT VIRGINIA TEAM | Mark Coles, Washing- wimming Club iversity of Virginia nata last night in the Central on the 50 and 100 yard free Maurey, who copped the st and was second in tyle event, was Vir- est perforger. jashington has sev- in its ba U to be met ead of Jan- shington (. Y and 3 37 % sncon i I Smith 4 First, F. Cond.F G Wolmses Vard free style i Vi 150vard hack nEton v $10ard fr ARMOUR SHOOTS 77 IN PRACTICE ROUND Fights Last Night 25,000 ATLANTA OFFER v Pass of Columbia’s Speeds Up Contest BY SOL METZC i il i 5 INDIANANS ARE HELPING “OUTSIDE” TEAMS TO WIN By the Assoriated P CHICAGO. January 28.—If Indiana kept its college basket ball players at home Purdue and the University of Indiana probably would have the Big Ten title to fight over between them- selves this season. Her some of the Hooslers who are starring on rival Big Ten teams papman _at Michigan, Walters at orthwestern, Plunkitt at Iowa and How at Tllinois A Hoosler enthusiast, in giving this information, asks how Minnesota. Chi- | cago, Ohio State and Wisconsin can expect talent? And Floats Them ()wrl BY SOL METZGER. One of the most perplexing shots n golf s played from just off the cen _over a hazard—bunker or —to the pin. Most of us get them over, but they run and run he job is to “float” the ball 50 it will stop. We usually find the pin, 'n playing this shot, at the near edge of the green we are pitching to Johnny with a niblic gether, stanc to ball with arm sides of ce court ng down for getting clear 50 1926 title Farrell plays it usually with feet close t open, standing close tucked in at his ndy shot to work it el Stroke (HIP OVER BUNKER - FACE OPEN=-BALL OFF LEFY FOOT PLAN 1T LIKE A LONG PUTT J Q/’ NED BY COBB | et by RICE TAKES GOLF FINAL. PALM BEACH, Fli Gr Rice ik Jant the with the back, taking club as you would for a putt, face of the niblic well laid the club back slowly Hit through smoothly with the right hand and rather sharply at the moment of contact. Don't try o loft the club, the Joft of its face will do the job. The shot s really ai el d putt and as the bull ul ost fluats over the hazard it will do precious Bittle rolling after tuk- Ui green men, as @ rength of wrist Lands to get distance. Glens I wer w o tne need weakness in GAME IN ALEXANDRIA NDRIA rule, lack forearms the and Col- of his this MUTT AND JEFE —Well, That’s Some Improve to win games without Indiana | | } | | B ¢ ’T‘E'Afis MUST PLAY G TO QUALIFY FOR TOURNEY | EAMS planning South Atlantic A. A. U ball tournament here next | month which have not yet played a game must do so by February 1 if they are to be eligible In addition, the score of the game must be published in the Post, under whose | auspices the tournament is being con- ducted A. U. Application blanks may be had at the Post sports department. to enter the vasket so Giants, newly organized quint | made up of | this city, make their debut tonight, engaging Kappa Alpha Fraternity at | College Park. The Red Shields Monday night in the Sal- ‘ vation Army gym. With Scruggs heading their atiack, | West Co. tossers defeated Roamer A. C. 115 o 19. Richmond, Va., Knights of Columbu: basketers, who meet the local Casey five in Carroll Hall here tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, bowed to St. Mary's Celtics in a 37-to-18 game in Alexandria. Woltz Photographers downed Y M. C. A. tossers, 54 to 34, In a City League game. Stewart and Barnard topped the winners' offensive, In Boys' Club League, Senior Division B games, Optimists defeated Epiphany Chapels, 32 to 17. Hartfords nosed out De 32 gnd Centennials took Nativitys meet Montrose basketers to- night in Eastern High gym at 8 o'clock ¥. M. C. A. downed Calvary, 23 to 13 Gunton Temple routed Western Pres- byterian, 26 to 7. and Mount Vernon overcame Metropolitan Baptists, 19 to 10, in Boys' Interchurch League games. Drubbing Columbia quint, 23 to 15 Mount Vernon basketers won the senlor section title of the Columbia Helghts Community Loop. Regular _and reserve basketers of Company F. National Guard, of Hyatts- ville, added two more wins last night | in games at the Silver Spring, Md., Nationsl Guard Armory. The first- stringers défeated the Bervice Co., of Silver Spring. 54 to 31, and the Re- serves took Woodside A. C. over the bumps, 33 W 16 Peck Memorlal basketers won games, scoring over Naval Reserves, nd Samoset A C., 45 to 190 two young quint rallied briskly out Marine Barracks tossers, 65 feating Troop C of Fort Mye s to 1 Army War College scored fifteenth stralght win MecLean A, C. Colleglany and Won- { ders registered vietories, the former ov Hadleys, 23 to 12, and the latter over Five Roses, 34 10 10, E, 1218t Engineers, rang aries, routing Company Company up @ palr of Vi O ACT SN He CouBs 1k Y e iy FAULTS T ot ‘4 o RECTED ALL THE LOHAL 1N 19210 Tl GET PO CALLY AMD FLASH LOME LAk RZEH) LTURE 6r) WA L M i Movent = =] SRt ARE UL . 0 P (el HAGER WANDERS of RECOYERY A LA Bobbr Jore > | | LM THE RoUGH B FARWAYL Mow Eofe A U even © THe ™e PIN ouT Cup! I'M SINKING THese SHotS FRoM THe TRAPS THIS YEAR! TorAMy ARMOLR HASN'T A PATEAT ON - " S StOFEd Each player must join the A | tandard Oil employes of | Glants will play | ATTA BoY, CADDY, TAKE SIGNED, SAYS GRIFFITH TAMPA. Fla., January 28 (P).— Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash- ington Nationals, announced that 21 of the 36 players on the 1927 roster had_tendered their signed contract for the 1928 season and that he ex- pected to recelve contracts from the others before the time expires, Feb- ruary 1. Those who have not yet submitted their con Griflith said, are Braxton, Lisenbee, Jones. Marberry, Roy Wells and Van Alstyne, pitchers; Ruel, e and McMullin, catchers; Judg- and Sisler, infielders, and Goslin aud Taylor, outficlders, None of the unsigned players is A holdout, the club owner said. SWEEPSTAKES FINAL ON ALLEYS TONIGHT Griffin, Twenty-three bowlers are to take the King Pin drives at 7 o'cloc for the final fi me block of the 15-game Howard Campbell Sweepstakes, but only three of the lot trailing the leading Walter Megaw are thought to have any chance of overhauling him in the concluding games of the city's richest duckpin_singles contest Megaw with 1274 for his 10 games appears to be well on the way to vic- The trio nearest him includes Henry Hiser with 1.213, Howard bell with 1.185 and Jack W! 1182, Arthur Logan, in fif is 106 pins back of the leader The winner of the Sweepstakes will bag the capital prize of $325 and a | diamond-studded gold ~medal. The bowler finishing second will get $150 and the third man $100 Fredericksburg, . bowlers ended a home-and-home six-game match with the Times-Herald team on the Conven- tion Hall all last night victors by 133 pins. The Virginians came to Washington with a 51-pin advaniage gained in the opening block of the con- test on their drives and outbowled the newspaper men in three games here, 1,605 to 1,523. A select team of the Washington Post League is arranging a home-and- home encounter with Fredericksburg. RALPH HUTCHINGS, who will enter ring against Tiger Dig- gins of Catholic iversity in un- limited class of intercollegiate box- ing exhibition at the Brookland gym Monday evening. place, Hyattsville Juniors will come to town tonight to tackle a Central High School duckpin team at King Pin in the con- cluding blocks of team and doubles engagements. Rolling on their home alleys last week. the Hyattsville boys won in both sections. ARIE TAKES TRAPSHOT. PINEHURST. N. C.. 28 (o Mark Arie, Olympic champ | the Midwinter handicap. prem {of the Midwinter trapshootin pionship here. Arie broke 96 out 100 from the ard mark. RED SOX RELEASE TOBIN. BOSTON »m AME G January 28 outfielder and pinch club since the middle of the 1926 se son. D, Engineers, 73 to 12, and Clarendon | Presbyterians, 62 to 9 Chevy Chase Bearcats eked out a 23- | 22 win over St. Mary's Seniors in Alex- | andria. American Railway Express basketers | metn $1:20) ViloDs OYT BRIACREA .G OCAL tossers will watch with keen interest the contest between the Baltimore Swimming Club sextet, holders of the South Atlantic court title. and the Basketeers of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church which will be played on Saturday night Pebruary 4, in the Calvary Church gym- nastum. Members of all Washington Recrea- tion League teams are invited to attend the game and it has been reported that several practice tilts in the league cir- “ults scheduled for that evening have been canceled or postponed in_ orde that the players might take advantace of the opportunity to see the Bali- moreans in action Capitol Athletic Club and St Lutheran Church passers will oppose each other tonight in a pras e to be played at the Columbia Heights Jewish Community Center juniors scored their seventeenth straight, rout- | ing Palace Preps. 71 t0 13. After losing to Petworth Mets, 25 to | 30, Army Medical Center tossers won | over Fort Myer, Battery C, 51 to 24. Silent A. C. conguered Dixie Pig A. C courtmen, 28 to 25. St. Martin’s quint bowed to Brook- land A. C. in an 18-6 game. Downing Seneca A. C., 26 to 20, Cen- | tral Reds won their sixth straight | Noel House Seniors are after a game | tonight in their gym. Call Lincoln| | 2001, Paul’s | Northwestern five meets St. Martin's Juniors tonight at 8 o'clock TOM ARMOUR TO REMAIN . AT CONGRESSIONAL CLUB i s OM ARMOUR will be back with the open champion. will not r the Congressional Country Club | his honors without a real struggle during the season of 1928 The new professional at Indian Club officials today set at!Spring, according to Perry B. Hoover. rest all rumors that the na-'also is a golfer of considerable note open champion would not com- | and may be a contender for the cham pete in tournaments throughout the | plonship. The name of the new m broad land under the Congressional! has not been made pubdlic colors by declaring that a satisfactory | Public cour scheduled to be arrangement has been reached with | closed January 31, have been effectuall Armour regarding his 1928 contract and | closed three “days before the form that he will be back about April 4 to | closing by the heavy fall of snow. They | handle the professional job. The ar- | were scheduled to close next Tuesday Angements were concluded yesterday by | for the annual process of rehabilita- W long-distance telephone conversation | tion, but in common with other cou club officers had with Armour. bout Washington, are unplayable now Rumors have been prevalent for sev- | The courses Will reopen about M eral months that Armour was dickering | 15 | with a club on the Pacific Coast and | one or two others in the East for the | 1 season, and that he probably | is visiting the United States comes th would not be demonstrating his style at | announcement from the United State: Congressional during the coming golf | Golf Association of the open champion- year. ship of Ireland, to be plaved the last |7 J. Raymond McCarl, chairman of | two days of May for the title now held the golf and grounds committee, whose | by George Duncan. The cash - term expired on January 20, has been | of $750 s to be put up for the winner 1 negotiation with Armour for several | with 17 other prizes offered | weeks, and yesterday the arrangements | were concluded In addition, Alex A (Sandy) Armour, brother of the open title holder, prob- ably will be nt Congressional again, to | be in complete charge of the shop and | the teaching stafr. | the final “This announcement means that again | champlonship at Palm Beach | washington Wil be represented by i3 golfer rated high in the nati [ professional who 1s certain to be in|list, and although Volgts marsin was | the thick of the open champlonshig {ouly ofie hale, he won, and thats wi fight at Olympia Fields next June. For counts. He alio won th | Armour. having once tasted the joys of | round tiona Just at the time the Irish P George Voigt has again established himself as a golfer of near top rank in the national lists Yesterday Votst | trounced Arthur Yates of Rocl New York State amateur champion round of the L m NoTICE ANY IMPROVEMENT SINCE LAST YEAR, BOY ? — YES, THINK ¥ bo, MisTER MoTT! : of e —cgl® i SEEMS SURE TO DECIDE ! Battle Is Slated for February 10—Business Upsets | Eastern and Manual Trainers Win Over West- | ern—No Games Next Week, | | ing way for Western, while little Latona and Wilson played staiwart games. JLLOWERS of the public high szhool basket ball chan series will have to February 7 before seving ancther | title game. Bees Arcadia | auditorium is nceded next rk for a | fashion show it has been nece suspend play With the resumption of competit one of the most spirited struggies 1o be waged for the crown looms able between Central and Tech | tional rivals, which will m cams Now & with four w tonight | | Business ref the series b in a stirrin a result jolted and is 1 ern four one triump Tech held the ern all the wa is gainst fiy hip hand o Coach Dan It 4 t provided ted stron at the e third quarte ; T loosed a dete = E 5. 5 T " NEAT GAMES, FEBRUARY 7. them to witk . Wests at the end of Then ensued minutes of baske by local scho clash. Battling point score was 21 to 21 wher of the Stenogs registered a pot and set the Business fa May followed w tosses from the foul I about all over for East than a minute one RESULTS OF PAST GAMES, the kets to aga at all. in the winning ba a smart toss from side c It was a tumulluou numerous fouls x with th» mming team Calvert Hall tators of Baltimore tonight tn al City. _ WRIGHT PLAYS GOLF ON 81ST BIRTHDAY Co! Norma Classes in limbering and stretching en o 1 bers of 3 at urday 3 Center gvmna: Jewish Commu listment for the C¥ in Tremont Terx House, northwe: purpose 0! fund, as th ricts is te The be one of th to which all ited. LOTT PLAYS SHIELDS IN FINAL AT TENNIS \ n players, George and F ireal W. 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