Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1928, Page 27

SPORTS. Schools Busy With Diamond Work : Missouri Valley Colleges Re SIX STATE UNIVERSITIES THE E THOMORE SQUADS || WOMEN IN SPORT -~ GETINTO ACTION Business and Western Are to Start—Central May Play in Tourney. Candidates for battery positions with the Business and Western High base ba]l teams are holding their first drill 1his afternoon. and now diamond prep- eration is under way for all the public high schools. Tech. Eastern and Cen- tral already are at work. Both Business and Western have lost veteran pitchers, though each has re- tained its first-string 1927 catcher. The Stenogs are- without Ed Marosy and Randy Shreve. their leading fiingers last Spring, and Western must get along minus the services of Larry Schneider, generally looked upon as the most con- sistent pitcher in the public high serie: in 1927. Jakie Lewis. stocky and clev: er little catcher, is again on the job for Business. while Bob Wilson, crack all-around athlete, is once more being counted on for the backstopping job at Western. Coach Lynn without much of a line en his Busi- mess pitching prospects. but there are understood to be 1 voungsters at the school with h g ability. Eddic Bates and Fletcher right now loom as the best bets in the piiching department at_Western. Tech, Central and Eastern catcher and pitcher aspirants have b2en loosen- ing in the school gyms for some time. If the weather permits, it would not surprise if all three squads got out- doors this week. Coach Bert Cogzings mav keep his Central High basketers, public high champions, in action a bit longer. A trip to Hagerstown to meet the high school team there is being considered. Members of the quint wish to keep in shape, as most of them will play with the unofficial Central team that will participate in the South Atlantic bas- ket ball championship tournamen What little formal competition is scheduled for scholastic athletes this week is set for Saturday, when several Central swimmers are to take part in the South Atlantic scholastic champion- ships, in Baltimore, and Devitt's bas ket ballers and natators see action, the former against St. Mary's Celtics, at Alexandria. at night, and the latter against the Navy Plebes, at Annapolis. SOCCERISTS T0 HOLD CLOSING GATHERIN ‘The 1927-28 soccer season Will be of- ficially closed for the District on Thurs- fl”:{ night, when all teams in the ting in room 2 of the District Building at 8 o'clock. William G. Birch. president of the Washington and Southeastern Distric Soccer - Association. who called the meeting, said that all matters per- taining to the clesing season will be disposed of andplans made for next year. g In an all-star soccer game yesterday the Blues,” with P. Faulds, McLean. Bryden and other crack booters. de. feated the Reds, including Burdette. D. Knight. Gallagly, Smith and others ‘The count was 6 to 3. Faulds led the scorers with three goals. HUNTER IS SU! IN TWO TENNIS FINALS ‘MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 5 (® —| Prancis T. Hunter, second ranking United States tennis player, defeated Johnny Hennessey, No. 5 ranking play- Woodworth so far is| | IST ‘BALL and badminton will | be the features of the sport program for the recreation hour | at the regular monthly meeting | of the Washington Branch of the National Amateur Athletic Federa- tion to be held Wednesday evening at 8 oclock at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets. | Preceding the games Miss Augusta | Kreiner will comment upon Wood & | Cassidy's book, “Physical Education.” | Her remarks will be followed by open discussion, according to Mrs. Annie G. Trents, chairman of the publicity com- mittee. Any girls or women desiring to foin Ithe group are advised to get in touch with Elsie Sanders, general chairman, |at Central High School. for full in- formation as to membership, or to re- port to Miss Sanders on Wednesday | evening at the Y. W. before the meet- ing begins. | Basketeers of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church will play hostesses | tonight to the Eagles of Business Night | High School in a senior division Wash- | ington Recreation League basket ball | Eagles are leading the field for senior | 1aurels, having lost but one game. (to | the Washington Athletic Club). =~ In- | cluding tonight's ~contest, they have | three more meetings in defense of their title won last season. A second meeting with the Wash- Athletic Club, scheduled for March 14, will be the most critical encounter. Their final argument will | be with Strayer's sextet on March 19. | ington Company F and Strayer sextets are | running a close race in the first sec- | tion of the Intermediate division, with the former slightly in the lead. Stray- er will play the Capital Athletic Club | tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at Central | High School |™'In the second section of the Inter- | mediate: _ division, ~Security Athletic | Club holds the lead. They are carded to play two more games before the schedule closes, meeting ~the Eaglets at 7 o'clock and the Gypsies on March 15 at Eastern High School. Victories in either of these two encounters would | fnsure them the title. (CAPITAL IN SECTION FOR DIAMOND PLAY By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 5.—The national junior base ball competition. to be held during the coming s»ason | under the sponsorship of the American Legion and with the support of the tional and American Leagues. will be |PENNSYLVANIA QUINT ' NEAR CHAMPIONSHIP By the Associated Press NEW YORK. March 5.—Led by the dazz |the University of Pennsylvania quintet continued its triumphant march toward {the Intercollegiate Basket Ball League {bunting with Princeton virtually the only threatening contender remaining !m the race. which concludes Saturda; | tomorrow night ‘at Central High School | ing performances of Joey Schaaf. | s Schaaf, Penn’s star sophomore guard, plaved off in 12 regions, instead of 10, %00 0" over the top of the high scor- b as tentatively planned. Dan Sowers. the |ing standard for the league attained by Legion's national director of American-| Sammy Pite of Yale in 1924. Sixteen ism. announced today. 3 points scored by Schaaf in Saturday The State champlonship boys' teams night's victory of 34 to 28 over Colum- of each of the 12 regions will meet in | pia boosted his total to 104 markers | regional tournaments, six in the East/against 99, which was the high total and six in the West, according to the gt by Pite. announcement. The winners will com-| " A victory for the Quakers on Wed- Ipete in two sectional tournaments 10|nesday night against Yale would clinch | |decide the champions of the East and the championship for Penn in the | | West. who will battle for honors in & event the Tiger met defeat at the junior world series. "hands of Columbia on the same eve- |” The ragional divisions are: ning. Triumphs for both Penn end ; Princeton on_Wednesday or a defeat Western Section. for Penn and a victory for the Tiger would send the teams Into a battle | for the title against each other on Sat- urday at Philadelphia - | Region 1—Washington, Oregon, Mon- | itana and Idaho. | Region 2—California, Nevada and Arizona. Region 3—Utah, Wyoming, Colorado | and New Mexico. | Reglon 4—North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. | Region 5—Ncbraska, Kansas, Iowa ~ and Missouri. fon_6—Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- { g |sas and Louisiana. | Eastern Section. | Region 7—Illinols, Indiana, Ohio and | Michigan. | Region 8—Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir- |ginia and North Carolina. | Region 9 — Mississippi, _Alabama, | Georgla, Florida and South Carolina. Region 10—Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware and District of Columbia. | “Region 11—New York. New Jersey, | Connecticut and Rhode Island. Region 12—Maine, ‘New Hampshire, | Vermont and Massachusetts. YANKEE GIRL TRIES FOR SKATING TITLE LONDON, March 5 (#).—With Mari- | bel Winson, 16-year-old Boston girl, | competing for the United States, the | women's figure skating championship of | the world opened today at London’s new ice club. ‘The other competitors were from Norway, Sweden, Austria, England and | Canada. They included Sonja Henie | of Oslo, Norway, who won the Olympic Pre Op P i 3 3 The leading individual s Schaaf. gnard. Penn Lanwlell t Fi | Heen. center” zu an Nassan. forwani 8 80 'WOULD ABOLISH JUMP OF CENTER ON COURT: [ Bs the Assaciated Prees. " CHICAGO, March 5.—Abolition of | t>centlv by Sam Barry, has bained another advocate tn Coach Herold G. Olson of Ohio State These two are agreed that it would make for better team play to have the center jump only at the start of the first and second halves. | the team scored upon would be given | the ball out of bounds. Barry and Olson charge that the team | with the tallest center nearly always | ¥ins, and the supply of 6-footers-plus | is growing scarce. {PERU WINS AT SOCCER AS MANY FIGHTS OCCUR agreements over the decisions of the soccer game here yesterday, won by At each score, MEXICO CITY, March 5 (#).—Dis- | NING STAR, WASHI FINE FIELDS TO COMPETE EVENTY-ONE of the best basket ball teams in the District will compete in the South Atlantic | tournament, which opens at the Arcadia Friday. When entries closed Saturday practically every team of prominence had flled an entry. Twenty-five are unlimited teams, in- cluding Central High School’s title team, the 1926-27 winners, Bond's Whirlwinds, the Quantico Marines and Company F of Hyattsville, The entry. list follows: | Unlimited—Woodside, Woodlothians, | Central High, Bond's, Bliss, Fort Wash- | ington, F. H. Smith, Quantico Marines, Washington Grove, Army, Medico, Com- pany F, Woltz, American Rallway Ex- | pross, Sioux, Mount Vernon Methodist | Episcopal, Y. M. C. A., Calvary Meth- | odist Episcopal, Knights of Columbus, Dixie Pig, Takoma Athletic Club, Co- |lumbia Heights, Cardinal Yearlings, Mc- Lean Athletic Club, Southern Athletic | Club and Jewish Community Center. 145-pound--Fussell-Young, Fort Myer Juniors, Central Reserves, Woodside, Crescent Athletic Club, Aces, Tremonts, H. A. French, Ben Franklin, Woltz, Montrose, St. Peter's Seniors, Business High, Stanley, Alexandria Roses and Knights of Columbus Senfors. 130-pound—Corinthians, Star A. C., Epiphany, Mount Vernon, St. Martin's, | 9. €. C. ‘Original Reds. St. Paul's, De | Luxe, W. B. Hibbs,- Aztecs, Alexandria | Celtic Brookland Boys Club — Northwestern, 8. D. | J. C. C.. Nationals and B. C.| Standards. | 100-pound — Fort _ Myer Midgets, | Gonzaga Preps, St. John Victors, St. | Martin Rovers, Aztecs, Cleveland Park Flashes. Senator, Whirlwinds, Hyatts- ville Preps. Arcadlans, R. C. Elks and | White Eagies. | Amcrican Railway Expressmen are scheculed to entertain Woltz A. C. FOR BASKET BALL TITLES cagers at Terminal Y tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Crescent A. C. players, who meet Pontiacs tonight at 7 o'clock In Central Hl’h vm, are asked to report at 6:45 o'clocl Pete Clango's Tremonts face a sturdy foe tonight when Company F Reserves entertain the local team at the Hyatts- ville Armory at 7:30 o'clock. Bond’s Whirlwin iave booked a re- turn engagement with Anacostia Eagles at the Arcadia Wednesday night. Ben- nle, Sweeney, Faber, Clarke and the re- mainder of the Eagles triumphed in their clash yesterday. 27 to 21. After trouncing Old Dominion Boat- men of Alexandria yesterday, 33 to 17, the Knights of Columbus tossers feei primed for the Woodlothians, who will | be met tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at Central High gym. Jewish Community Center teams scored three wins yesterday. Junlors humbled Senecas, 29 to 19, and Sena- tors, 42 to 30. Nationals fell before the 115-pounders, 16 to 29. Clovers handed French A. C. a jolt yesterday in the form of a 15-25 set- back. Timmons, Canavin and Barry led the scorers. Small registered 17 points for Nativ- ity Preps yesterday and Emmanuel tossers lost, *7 to 34. St. Martin Seniors and other teams in their class are challenged by Stan- leys. Call Manager Clark at Adams 3098. F. H. Smith Co. and Calvary M. E. basketers will clash tomorrow night SPORTS. vive BIG TEN TOSSERS NEARING CLIMAX | Three Teams Still in Thick of! Race, but Break Is \ Likely to Occur. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. (NEW YORK. March ms.;wx’mdme B State univi S wi rew T G Lo B | from. the ‘Missouri Valley Conference CHICAGO, March 5.—The Western declding to revive base ball as a major Conference basket ball season rushes | intercollegiate sport the case of the to a climax this week, with three teams | Amateur side of the national game may ake on new life. fighting for the title held by Michigan — Meanwhile, testimony as to the dis- |last vear. . |favor into which intercollegiate base | "Flve of the six games on the week's ball has fallen in the Middle West has program have a bearing on the title. | | | !by no means failed, as for instance Indiana, the leader today, and Purdue |the statement of Rev. Willlam M. and Wisconsin, the runners-up, have | Magee, S. J., the new president of Mar- been beaten only twice, and all Lhrre‘queue University, that he does not be- are off to the wars again this week to |lieve in the game as a college sport, at protect their chances for the champion- | least in the Middle West. ship. Coming from the head of a great Indiana turned back Michigan Sat-|Roman Catholic institution. an opinion urday night, 36-34, and Wisconsin_kept | ot the sort may be r>garded as extraor- right in step by polishing off Iowa, | dinary, for of all places base ball has 20-17. Chicago wound up fts season |found its stronghold in the Catholic with a 19-18 victory over Illinois. Michigan and Illinois are the stum- | bling blocks in the paths of the lead- ers. Wisconsin must beat both to win through Indiana’s single remaining game is with Illinois. Purdue has com- P a and Minnesota. | There is an outside possibility that | the sixth game of the week may figure |in the champlonship. Northwestern en- | tertains Ohio State tonight, hopeful of | victory. 1f all three leaders take a | tumble. Northwestern has a chance to n | go into a four-way tie. ively easy sailing in sight against | | colleges. Not only has this been mani- | fested in the enthusiasm of students and alumni for the game, but in the proficiency of teams and of players in- | dividually. i Inclines to Track. Fath-r Magee Inclines much more srongly to track. The short season, | the uncertainty of the weather and ths | |Iate start all mitigate. he says, against | the playing of base ball as it should | | 02 played, whereas track and fleld are much more practicable for Springtime activity. | | Foot ball, he recognizes, is the finan- Base Ball GIVE PASTIME NEW LIFE Marquette, On Other Hand, Takes Stand Against Diamond Sport—Navy Grid Team Is Held Likely to Play Stanford. the Bears are nlmnfly hoping to come to Pranklin Field 1920 and repsy Pennsylvania’'s 1924 and 1928 visits. The sticking point at present is a dis~ couraging attitude on the part of Presi- dent Campbell, who, whiie uung the lead 1n encouraging a 17-day trip of the glee club throughout the country !in the course of the regular coll term. thinks that the g .diron herces would waste too much class work by being absent for 10 days. Perhaps his idea is that the singers are more in- tellectual than the foot ballers. Some interesting research might be made in this matter. If California did come to Phila- delphia it would mark the first time that the West Coast team ever played in the Far East. The Oregon State team went to Marquette, in Milwaukes, last Fall, 1daho traveled to Creighton |at Omaha and the University of South- ern California played Notre Dame in Chicago. That is what might be terme ed a definite tendency. Certainly a California-Pennsylvanis ‘game would attract national attention even though it would have to be Cail- fornfa’s third or fourth game of the season, a post-season contest being out of the question. There is a close feeling between the Bears and the Quakers, due to the as- sociation of the latd Andy Smith. & Pennsylvania slumnus, with foot ball a% Berkeley, and due also to the fine, the Central High gym, starting at 8:30 | o'clock. A real battle is expected. Both teams a e entered in the South Atlantic | tournament. i COLLEGE BASE BALL SQUADS TAKE FIELD. | Candidates for the Georgetown, Calh-! iohc University and University of Mary- land base ball teams were expected | to get action outdoors this afternoon. Larry Kopf, Georgetown's new coach. | must develop 'a shortstop and a couple | more pitchers. | " Charley Moran, C. U. mentor. how- {ever, 1s not nearly so well off. He Imust find a capable first baseman, dig |up a couple more hurlers to aid Byrne, | last season's lone leftover, and fill sev- | eral places in the infield and outfield. Marvland has lost many highly capa- Ible players and the Old Liners are starting with only two letter men left from 1927. | Georgetown's erack track team today {began a well earned respite of three weeks, The Hoyas closed their indoor | campalgn Saturday night. when they | were nosed out by only half a point |for top honors in the intercollegiate | championships in New York. | When the Blue and Gray trackmen | resume training they will point for the Penn relay carnival, April 27 and 28, the first engagement on the locals’ out- door card | Had Georgetown Saturday chosen to {enter Adelman and Wildermuth in the | 35-pound shotput and the broad jump, | respectively, the locals might have won the event. It was thought wise, though, |to save the palr. They did more than Itheir bit, Adelman winning the 16- pound shotput with a heave of 48 feet |8 inches that set a new meet record |and Wildermuth getting second in the | 70-yard dash. Oosterbaan. LINDSEY TRACK HEAD ';2cic. Yseorin. iy AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH - ALEXANDRIA, Va. March 5.—Kirk | 3 Lindsey, sprinter, has brought about the | shattering of an athletic tradition at of Teams. Branch McCracken of Indiana. who cial provider and he would use t took the lead in points scored in his funds derived very first game, had leaped back into |creased expansion of track, notably the the lead today. just five points ahead of lean games the two elevens have therefrom for the in- | played. }rrec(inn of a field house, rather than spend any aporeciable amount of money Tonight's games bring together Iowa |upon base ball at Purdu~, Wisconsin at Michigan and Marauette's attitude on base ball may | find echo in the colleges of the MiddI /ALL BIG TEN TEAMS Wost, but certainly there will be n:) ENTER T'TLE GAMES ton Cr)l]cér‘. hl’]‘nr(gmlm, ‘Georweto:n. | By the Assoriated Press. illanova. Catholic University and other ITY. —The Eastern Catholic seats of learning. nel‘(»)wégdchouu' ’3,“,',,,“?,";}’.,,‘.‘“, of 3 Not Due to Weather. |Towa will be host this week to the 4 One fancies that 1t is not so much | eighteenth annual Western Conference 0 | bacause of better weaiher conditions in | indoor track meet, held for the first | Catholic University has arranged a | track meet with William and Mary here on May 2. TWO QUINTS STAND OUT. 1 UNIVERSITY, Va., March 5.—Jeffer- son Senior High School of Roanoke and Alexandria High School. He failed to win his “A" last season, but has been elected captain of the track team, al- though there are seven letter men at hand. Lindsey's willingness to work hard earned him the captaincy when the an- nual election took place. St. Mary's Celtics have billed two hard basket ball games for this week. Jewish Community Center will be met here Thursday night and Devitt School Saturday. 0Old Dominion Boat Club, challenged by the Alexandria Whirlwinds for a game Wednesday night in the armory, has listed a contest with the American Railway Express, to be played in the ‘Terminal Railroad Y. M. C. A. March 12. Sylvester A. Breen has been elected president of the Cardinal A. C. for the nineteenth consecutive year. Other | officers named are Walter S. Disbrow, coach: Joseph Owens, secretary and treasurer, and Samuel De Vaughan, business manager. The Cardinal nine expects to carry 15 men and play home games on the Pentagon diamond this Summer. Columbia Engine Company will prac- tice tomorrow night in preparation for Kid and the Flying Parson have a lot | are respectiv | its basket ball contest Saturday with 0Old Dominion Boat Club. 5 3 Minnesots is1 \FOUR TRACKMEN SET PACE ON THE BOARDS By the Associated Press The big four of the Eastern indoor track season have been Phil Edwards. New York University negro flash, in the middle distances: Lloyd Hahn, at the half-mile and mile; Sabin Carr of Yale, in the pole vault, and Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania freshman, as {an all-around star. Ray Conger. for his victories in the Middle West over Dr. Otto Peltzer and Hahn, deserves a place well up around the top of the list. All will be outstanding candidates for {the American_Olympic team with the exception of Edwards, who s a Brit- {ish citizen and expected to represent Canada in the games at Amsterdam. It has been a bad season for the | Minois Park | come-backs, so far, especially those of |of course, somewhat douttful that the | Joie Ray and Harold Cutbill. two Just These of groundi4o cover bef with. the guard. they are back | the East. If the average Spring in the neighborhood of Milwaukee is any more | capricious than in New York or New | England it must be discouraging in- {deed. Basket ball enthusiasm and | growing interest in track and in golf will no doubt explain the conditions of affairs with respect to the diamond sport in the midlands. | What the Big Six will be able to ac- complish out in the Missouri Valley re- mains to be seen. They may go in for the game in perfunctory fashion and | thus get nowhere. Or they may suc- ceed through wholehearted effort in whioping up a new enthusiasm for the ost graceful and engaging of all sports. Navy May Take Jaunt. |, It would not be at all surprising were the Navy to mcet Stanford next New Year's day at Palo Alta in a game which will pe a rival attraction to the tournament or rose feature at Pasa- dena on that day 1 That Stanford will play some good | northern eleven at Palo Alta on this holiday seems to be It is. | | midshipmen will be the opponent. al president o Stanford | and Secretary of the Navy. tanfortl’s neighbor. California, | time in history away from Northweste ern’s ki More than 300 athletes, com; full teams from each Big Ten are entered. Six of the nine individual winners of last year have passed on, and the al- around star who carried off the victery for Wisconsin in 1927, Chuck McGin- nis, is among them. He won the pole vault. high jump and hurdles last year. Daugan of Wisconsin, the sprint cham. pion, has also graduated. Illinois and Iowa are the orites. with Micl Pre] will be held Priday and liminaries Saturday evening. STADIUM T0 BE DOUBLED. By the Associated Press. not be counted out altogsther | though in this conection it might be | Interest in foot ball at the Univer. but the erstwhile Kankakee mentioned that the Wilbur brothers |sity of Oklahoma has grown ) that the stadium at Owen Field is to be doubled in séal capacity next mwmmfl'i‘sz.m. ey er, after five thrilling sets in finals of | championship recentlv at St. Moritz, | the South Florids *¢hampionship, 6—2. | and Miss Constance Wilson of Toronto, 8—6, 7—5. 6—3 and 7T—5. Canada. In the doubles Hunter and Lawrence | Most of the day was devoted to the Rice, New England champion, defeated ' execution of compulsory figures. The Hennessey and Frank X. 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