Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 37

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. SPORTS J)THE EVENING S SPORTS.’ FTEBRUARY 29 TAR., WASHINGTON, D. .. WEDNESDAY, College Court Season Iere Ends Tt onight : Business High Nine Needs Pitchers CATHOLIC 0. VSIS 6. W, FOR CONTEST Brooklanders Won Earlier in Season and Appear Like- ly to Repeat. GAME tonight between Cath University and George W ngton teams in the Colonial gym, starting at 8:30 o'clock, will mark the close of the basket ball season for teams of the local col- °RC IO Catholic U. tossers hn\dfl\ f’r(u'\ud G. W. earl land and a big ight, but the ned to offer the ich they game. Walker Zahn, guard uard, & soph this son, : the next cam- of its nine con- uthern Cvnr«"('n{‘i' rivals ing the recent cal ton and Lee and V were defeated twice: K North Carolina St: foul line. for 119 poir the leading scorer. Oth follows: Adams. 83 73; Dean. 61: Evans. 49; Madigan, Heagy, 28, and Hale, 10 Impressed by the victory town over Syracuse recent boxers are preppine dili clash with t ! napolis Saturday night be the of the evening, fol- ous, 43; Hetzel, 37; 0' Grorgv~ zen lowing a s bill in the afternoon. ‘There w scraps. Celebrating Navy's basket ball vic-| 3 a banquet rday. Capt le. Md. who graduates in praised and Clair Miller, captain-elect. was ac- claimed as a wor SUCCEsSor. Comédr. Jonas H. Ingram, director of sthietics, and other officers of the Academy’s athletic department, were guests of honor. Letters were awarded. with stars also going to the players who took part in the game against Army. WILL STAGE SPORTS FOR OLYMPIC FUND " expens United States Olympic team at sterdam games. Gen. Anton chairman of the local committee, appoin fund com- will meet y Club at 2 o'clock for benefit ever Monday at m! T*v‘ committee announced ELBOWS A PROBLEM FOR TRACK STARS ter YALE’S GRID MENTOR WAS DAZZLING BACK it Frere ¥nows oW 10 ten 00 fame. 10 wiieudy VA Ve Kt Ay, Chick tf New Yore University Marry A Horween of ihldreier ot nii Lhas £ (U anyles) lawis W w1 Pieavy weight wieetlng coown Juln 8 i B0 meteh here Lonight with Joe Malee Wics ot U v i pe rs Link-| COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Southern Conference final: Mississip- pi Ul 31: Auburn, 30. John's of Annapolis, Hopkins, 20. Western Maryland, 35: Washington College, 40: Delaware, 21, nrlhuo tern, 39: Chi 18, stitute, 20. PRO BASKET BALL. Cleveland, 23, Rochester, 22, PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Montreal Canadiens, 2: Ottawa Sen- ators, 0. ('hir;lmv Toronto Ma- \an Rangers, 13 pleleafs, 0. Boston Bruins, Montreal Ma- roons, 1. COLLEGE HOCKEY. 3. Wisconsin, 0. Michigan, WOMEN 1 BY CORINN N Hall basket ball t from behind in the third d of a fast game I to half time of the s was exceptionally good d_period, Hyme. they were’ unable to check the with the l‘“( ¥ forward wter, proved an stman’s center of the forwards side © Avis, intaining their record of straight ies, University of Maryland co-ed S red another decisive tri- umph this week. defeating the Keene State Normal School sq 70, ect targets. Mildred Hislop got 99 Elizabeth Garber and Alice Orton 98 each n-d the Unive All are telegrapt Washington Athletic Club tosser. were forced to concede the superior court work of the Vagabon o imore in a specia High School Is latter outplaying them 36 to | The Orioles wese tvo qui for the local squad. their ¥ consistently to #dv | mini i thre FEATED in District and inia court cireles, the Ana- costia Eaglds tonight will meet Mary’s Celties of Alexan- in Congress Hegihts gym Alexandrians rate the | trific higher than the Old Do- | 1 Boat Club five which came with- ¢ points of defeating the Eagles last Sunday. Bernie Peacock’s Birds appear des- tined to retain their independent title of the District. Having disposed of all loc: s to date, his charges cpargd to meet the usual chal- lenges that' are being hurled by some of the strongest rivals. st night the Southeasters demon- strated that they have a powerful de- fense by holding the F. 1. Smith team | s from the floor while running | 28-to-1 score. up a arded at | Three attractive games are tral High gym tonight. Bond's| < will ‘battle Tech High Cos- | at 9 oclock. W. H. West | N SPORT I FRAZIER Most of the visitors' scoring was done in the first haif, for the W. defense ti i 1he final holding v, howeve ened v them Capitol Athletic Club scored over |lh‘ th 11 an Church passers . t night on the of the Wask ton d on the Mount reation 1 | Comm\ml(\ Ce T court. Tonight's Recre tion League card | togeth and the eld Club inthe senlor cireutt at s gymna- sium at 8:15 and the Southern A. C. and American Security & Trust Co. H'gh School b ; v‘rdn'r division. the basket BOATMEN WILL PLAY YORK QUINT TONIGHT {ANDRIA, Va, February 20 n Boat Club and the St Club of York meet at tonight at the Armory Hall at 8:30 The visiting aggregation defeated the Old Dominion team in an carly season | game at York. but the locals are con- fident of upsetting the invaders. ion probably will play the m at Quantico, Va., Satur- igh School is expecting | ther Covington, High or Oceania High here Friday night in onc mi-final games for the State ¢ high school gonfalon Alexandria T Columbia }n:lne Company boxing 1 dted to take part in on March 26, hike to Lees- game with the ny b book Columbia Engine Com| cdabasket ball tilts to be pla rd in the th the Duponts on March 10 o Glants for March 14. Both from Wazh HELEN WILLS SHOWS AMAZING NET SKILL returns from the | no soothing note als of Helen Wi the queen of the little Bill Johnson a smashing exhibi- | ores of 13--11, 68, ven 1o thowe remarkable de power in the ” “The pe rformance of holding in s in terms ratch at ning the stroking er put it, “one exhibitior af ever seen in Johnston wa BEARCATS T0 SEEK HONORS ON DIAMOND eek honor 1l conch g mo: uniform are ox Lenins ach in L players 5 om colle They are Henry Gichner "r'w Bert Adeln ‘ more and Jack Fatson William Neitoey wis chosen pr of Willtop A. C. base b nout nre Other ave. Frunk president. Amon 1 arer, Fudy Patton, ser o, tield es hing cuk Fegiiesten o 1201 busine et Alsop, thora et nor hieas A0, il Collegiun vonight treet porthieast will b elected ana Arthur Johs, formiey and Warren Adams Benators, linve Dun Grist will ineet | contyaet Cornthi o Taurler with Atarmonders Mini Wt are At at the dion Vet sthicast Lidhdat will wethier r Fowell, ) oelock wrked Lo pluyes e HUNTER WINS AT TENN I SALAIAL BEACH, Fla, February 29 (An | Prancls . Hunter, No Taniking {Amcrican tennls player, Turnished U eature of second-iound Play i the an Eouthern Florids !hump‘luh:nl[‘ i trom Victor Ponce de Leon Mealco City, Yucsten champon A De Jeon Jast week added Lixie chamgionsig r‘,‘ [ i | |+ | . z | | r | | ‘ mr uovs, Government navigation lizhts, ete. The fourth class will be held | March 19, Special instruetion el [ will_be held March at Corinthian | Yacht Club for the benefit of those | who have missed previous classes or | want tion on any of the | YACHTSMEN I.(]OKING TO AN ACTIVE SEASON With Spring only a few weeks in the | offing yachtsme! local group are tive in prepa- . pices of the Corinthian Yacht Club, will 1 be discussed at a meeting of the club tomorrow night. C. E. Yingling, chair- man of the committee in charge, is making elaborate preparations for the club smoker to be held March 10. Washington Yacht Club will hold its next regular meeting March 12, Capital Yacht Club will gather March 13, and Eastern_Power Boat Club will hold a sesslon March 14 Hare has placed an order with Works, 714 K street, bout to be n standard twin even jobs now un- | plant are prac- ching ered with a motor. Two der constru read; Standard Automotive Supply Co Fourteenth street, has ales representative for ngines, 1800 been appointed Palmer marine Potomac Squ Power Squad, will hold the q)hlw classes at George Washington ersity Medical School, March 12 cts will be aids Lo navigation, d States third of its ron, Unii The classes are free and | interested in boating are ivited to attend, | SCOTTISH SOCCER TEAM MAY PLAY GAME HERE w Rangers one of the e world, 1 here points covered | all | persons cordtaily soceer team of Seot- most famous clevens meet the champlon May Loreh of the Scots here if he 15 the 85,000 guar- hooking in Joseph bring the per will 4 n way to local Wonder What Mertz: Wil Say Today? At the Sign of the Moon N Big ‘Q Tailoring A 1 alues Established 1898 Room-Making ALLE T wecded for Spring stoch dinm wnd heaty-weight woolen all me- must go Suil or Overcoal Tailored Mect Padicidual Kequivenents %2729 Values up oy Proportionate Reductions tn Other Grades Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc. o Your NACOSTIA FIVE TO FACE FAST \LEXANDRIA CELTS Nativity Senjors at McLean tonight af | sarics. v | renton, Va., to engage the W 9 o'clock. Kendall School will oppose s Swiftly Do O EIE s W""‘"L‘P‘L,"‘:r‘g; A. C. quinf and Devitt and 8 Nativities tomorrow night i Gallaudet | o 4y housands gathered at | plavers as Charlie May, the Babe Ruth| kranklin University were to incet | College gym Dl il Spmine: American U. gym. | combinations by serves of Hyattsville. 1 | : |over St. Albail's yesterday in Peck gym. | | Kensington National Guards yesterday, | { foul goals for a total of 64 poin! {leave here tomorrow afternoon for!is chairman of the committee arrang- asscock and Chapple shone as Aces | Akin of Auburn was next in scoring | Philad av its third game in | ing for the meet | defeated Elliotts last night at Eastern [honors with 24 field goals and 5 foul the Penn tournament tomorrow night.| Plans for the meet were advanced at| High, 33 to 20. goals for 53 points. | The ~loca who 1 the |a meeting of the executive committee a ipp! A. and N scho title In ent, | h sterday in the City Club. Thomas Brookland Boys' Club added (w0 Wins | freys of Kentucky. Selby of Ole have won both ir ate. | C. Bradley. visitor and governor of yesterday. Holbrook A. C. lost a 31-41 | Harris of Missiesippi A. and M. and |Just whom the Blue and White will Devitt, is chairman of the committee decision and Brookland Juniors fell, 20| Combs of Kentucky were other rapid | face tomorrow has not been announced. | His associates are Louis Little, George- to 31. | scorers but it is apt to be the strong West |town ector of athle e 1 ults of Ole Mt our P es Catholic h 'c ene GitoaryiEasiesidereted Nationals last | Tesuils Of Ole Missiitournainenceames | Gatiolic THaR five f‘, oy o ok night, 25 to 20. Murray led the scorers. | * gje Miss, 40: North Carolina Capt. Forrest Bu Ji director of athletics! Churchman and Entwhistle starred [35. Ole Miss, 55; Louistana State | forward, who has been s Watson Crum, George Washington as Speedwell tossers won over Ajax last | Ole Miss, 41; Kentucky, 28. Ole M on his arms, but, ty director of athletics: G. Bail- hight, 24 to 23. 31; Auburn, 30. s the hero of Central's win |lie Springston. American University di- = Auburn’s tourney record: Auburn, 27; fover L: tourna- | rector of athletics; Dr. George F. G"em $1. John's Insects, who defeated Blue- | Clemson. Auburn, 30; Georgia Tech, |ment game, recovering and | former schoolboy coach here and yesterday, 21 to 8, want games. Auburn, 42; Mississippt A. and M., pected to be in much better shape | director of Mishawake Camp for boye 30: Ole Miss, 31 ow. Harry Helme, Devitt track coach: C¥ HURLERS MAIN PROBLEM FOR COACH WOODWORTH Stenographers Appear to Be Pretty Well Fixed in | “MILEOF CENTURY 10 BE RUN TONIGH Other Departments—Central to Play Third Hahn-Conger-Peltzer Eve: | Tourney Game Tomorrow. | Expected to Result in 3 New World Mark. MISSISSPPIL.FVE WINS DIXIE GROWN Makes Great Finish to Nose Out Auburn in Tourney Final by 31 to 30. tossers will_oppose Jewish Community Center at 7 o'clock, and_Woodlothian Girls' sextet will play First Baptist Church girls at 8 o'clock. Marine and Woltz_ Photographer teams of Washington City Basket Ball League are scheduled to meet tonight at Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock. March 3 has been set as the latest USINESS High School fs in the) Players who will make the trip with date_that entries can be filed for the ke same | 5 Central as to base| Central tomorrow include Burgess, | |South Atlantic basket ball tournament, | - ball, as each n;\:‘%n;r-mlfldfl::g Woodward, Burch, Lemon, Castell, Col-' ji; 11e A which opens at the Arcadia March 9. yatlio) Assatinied Erores pitching _stafl. arosy ley, Cross, Fisher, Levell and Romig. | et : gt ATLANTA, Ga., February 29.-—-Uni- Randy Shreve, leading Stenog Likt ¥ 29.—Llo, DeMolay members and Eastern Alumni | versity of Mississippi today held the| flingers last season, both have been| Georgetown Prep and Gonzag: Ray Conger and Dr. Otto Pel will be on hand in numbers tomorrow | vantage point in the realm of Southern | graduated. Coach Lynn Woodworth has | 27 vicior over Alexandria High yest fe Garde night at Eastern High School, when |Conference basket ball, the never little line so far on his mound candi- are carded to meet in the latter's 7 - the newly organized Alumni five will | die lads from Oxford having battled an | dates, nor does he expect to have much | gym tomorrow. The Purple beat the mile of the century. meet the Robert Lee Bruce Chapter |uphill fight to the championship by funtil he embles the aspirants some | Garrett Parkers, 27 to 23, recently, but . hest of nt Ameri quint. whipping Auburn’s Plainsmen last night, | time next week, Phillips, a product of | the latter is a combination of urdoibted 1 to 30 Columbia_Junior High, s reported @l strength and i apt to give the I Streets Warwick Collegians are schediiled 10 P i 6000 fans watched Auburn by, though only | ety of fght. Devitt will, entereatn engage Community A. C. at LINColn |y, pq the jead, hold it almost to time for t and welghs| ¢, Mary's Celtics of Alexandria in an Two teams from Colonnade tonight. C. A. will clash Phyllis Wheatley in the preliminar, McLean A. C. cag id to have hurl- | other game tomorr ing Y. He already has shown|® ' Bame omorro worth as a basket bail center. | i e Considerable veteran material will be| ,,,;:‘;‘é‘;fifi:fi';;’:”;’;"“!r’;‘;,,;".r;,’lu.a,_ available for the jobs nf]u-r than pitch-| = i« - the final gun, \\l(ldl‘nl” Ole Miss' sharp- shooting trio, Cary Phillips, Sclby and Lee, gave a revelation in hitting the basket to spell defeat for their adver- emen will entertain nie | Dick Keefer, Revelle Jones and| . i Irving Lash. ax Schw: and Max| Gonzaga showed a Ryan are other diamonders in school Subduing = Alexandria harges of Coach Homer Hazel started |who may be on the job. | Purple was trafling at the quart the fireworks that within three minutes| Coach Woodworth will - be 1di-| 8. but then cut loose to gain |and less had turned defeat into victory. | capped in that he will not be able to lcad at t 1d there In the tournaments of the past, Nortn | get @ playing field until Mareh 15. gh‘wm | Carolina lias_won four of ‘the seven — ) | Gonz | tournaments, while the others havebeen | Before starting his battery aspirants | Travers Corinthian 95-pounders arc secking | GalN L ion three institutions. 1t |at work Woodworth will close intercla a game for their gym Saturday night. | arked the first victory for Ole Missjand cadet basket ball series he is now Call Columbla |and was won without a single substitu- |conducting at Business. _Eight semester | {for ‘a return meetvith Calvert B 12 | |teams started in that series, a down- | School natators of Baltimore e ity p‘;gtz‘n cfi“‘,"“,""‘.‘f [ | and-out affair, in which several quints! Central pool Friday ™* Call Hyatts 934. LAuhmn led in counters for the game | already have been eliminated. — The | Blue and White fish Wwith seven goals from the field and one ! cadet teams will play a best two-of-|timoreans in the Monum rds dropped a 22- { foul toss. In the four games his team |three series. The winning five in each | cently. Devitt swimmers [ played they fought a bitter, lasting fight. | competition will meet for school honors. | strokes with Staunton Milit | beating both Georgia Tech ‘and Clemson | Tossers who were on the regular school | emy fish at Staunton also !by a single point and having little less | squad during the season ju mwd‘ = trouble with Mississippt A. and M. are not being allowed to play in the| Devitt School's big track meet to b Perhaps the most courageous player | semester series and only one Who was | held on Georgetown Field Apri lof the tournament. however, was little |on the squad s holding forth with a |21 will be divided into James, Plainsmen guard, who | cadet team. He is Henry Galotta. The | school divisions, assurin od through the entire tourney sick. |object of the series s to give boys who | ceveral of the local publ ards led the winning scorers. 1no had to retire several times, becoming | were unable to make the school team | There will be 17 events on the p — too weak to continue play, but when he |a chance to play the court game.!gram which will draw schoolboy a Mount Rainier _cagers took @& 20-50 | was in the game he was clearly an in-| Woodworth says that this intramural | fetes here from far-flung sections defeat from the Dixic A. C. tossers at gpiration to his teammat |competition ot infrequently brings 1o | schools dhe o alstatie abead Hyattsville High School last night. } ST A ek e promising candidates for the | entered, and Inquiries are bel ular squad. bl THoriasiacien tional Publishing Co. five won over | s B ilioe, S Rl sentee ot i i a ceived in increasing numbers Leighton (Count) Cornwell, with 28 fieM goals and 8 | of the Devitt Alumni A: the court had come to the point of tak- as_inevitable; \d followers were then the ing a Plainsmen victory | Jones, | the Peerless Seniors will meet Columbia | C. tomorrow night, Kensington Militiamen on Friday night and St. Martin’s Senlors on Saturday night. Manager Drake of Takoma A. C. has eanceled the game scheduled with | Duponts for tonight 1 Central High swimmers are prepai Hzl u- n at 3 o'clock. conquered the Bal- City re- match Acad- “Jelly" Akin, high-scoring forward of 1y 11 Laurel National G 39 decision to Red Shiclds tossers last night at Laurel. HOCKEY LEAéUE SLUMP ENDED BY CANADIENS accounted for a 41-39 win Peck A. C. Homos scored a \wll carned 38 37 win over Gonzaga Preps yestere Rich- | g re by J presiden sociation, w Central High's basket ball team will | ‘lead Barker and Bland starred. | tournamen If you smoke for pleasure a —then Camels are made for you. Mild, mellow, fragrant— there’s a world of en- 'manrflzs joyment in smoklng Camels Today, as for many years, Camels lead by billions, and they continue to grow 1342 G St. N.W.

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