Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 36

SPORTS.,” NG STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928 Catholic U. Faces Base Ball Problem : Western High Riflemen Hope to Repeat MORAN OF HIS COACHING CAREER Facing Difficulties in Every Department Save Catch- ing—Court Stars Also Lost—Finely Balanced Grid List Arranged. BY H. C. BYRD. HARLEY MORAN, director of athletics and base ball coach at Catholic University, appar- | ently faces the most difficult | task this Spring that has been | his lot in all the yea tutored diamond teams at Bn‘«\klandw Without infielders of real merit, a more | or less unstable pitching staff, and con- | fronted with the proposition of taking his best outfielders to make infielders, and that out other outfielders to | put in their places, the outlook for Moran is not particularly encouraging. | Two of the hardest problems facing | Moran is the finding of players to fil t base and shortstop, to take places by Keale and Hartage, both | t on last vears nine. It is| ful if Moran really expects to find | a men,’ or any man, as capable as/| either of these was, but it seems that about the best bet he has is to take Ray Foley from the outfield and use him at shortstop. It has often been| waid of college base ball that a good | shortstop. & good pitcher and a good | catcher are a team, and it may be that ley. versatile athlete that he is, may | develop rapidly enough and sufficienlty f hortstop's position very sat- But if he does, then Moran d somebody to take care of his atfielder's job, and that i not goigg to be done, because few men ge base ball are as capable as in a garden position. { { Has Good Backstops. It is only in the catching department | that Moran seems fairly well fixed, as| he has back the same three men who | did his backstopping last Spring. Tier-| ner, Grogan and Flanagan should be| able to hold down-the place back of | the plate very capably, and it may be that Moran will pick one of them to t. must rphy, who pitched on the rrosh-’ man team and from whom Moran e: pected a good deal, probably will not be available, as he has been operated on for appendicitis and Is not strong enough to stand violent turns such as & pitcher must go through. Jiofre, | another freshman hurler, is practicing, | and so are Conlon. Ryan, Bonomo and | Sheffield. all hurlers on the 1927 squad. | O'Connell, third baseman on the 1927/ ks team, is a likely looking pros- | pect for the hot corner on the varsity. | Moran_unquestionably is one of the | two or three best base ball coaches in| the country, and if anybody can get a | team out of the material at C. U. he| can. And it is doubtful if, year in and year out for the many years Moran has been coaching at Brookland, any other mentor has a better record of victorics. Moran has been to base ball what Fred | Rice has to basket ball, and both have | about the same kind of records—that | kind of a record involved in an apparent ability to turn out a good team, a8 win- ning team, year in and year out no matter what kind of material is avail- | able. Lose Basket Ball Stars. Incidentally, in talking over base ball ts with Moran, was brouxm‘ out that the Brooklanders lose four | out of the five members of the basket 11 team that has gone through a | brilliant season and two of the four| sre, perhaps, the best all-around ath- letes that haye ever worn C. U. colors. ‘The four men who have played their last basket ball for the Brookland school are Carmey, Foley, Long and Harvey. ‘Two most brilliant performers are Foley, and Harvey, and it would not be amiss to make that three and add Long. Foley has starred for Catholic Uni- ‘versity in foot ball, base ball and basket | ball, and has been one of the most bril- Lant men in the saction in each sport.| BSometimes a great foot ball player| makes a fairly good base ball man or a| great basket ball player, is better uunI‘ the average on the gridiron, but it is| seidom indeed that any man is brilliant | 'C. in all, and Foley is. Nearly everybody knows how capable he fs in foot ball |and basket ball, but only a few know |that Coach Moran said of him last Spring. “He is the one college out- fielder I have seen this year who has a good chance to make good in big league ) n which he has | 890 Harvey, as was sald sometime ago, is the type of man who is so consistently good that no one, not even his own coaches, ever realizes how valuable he is until after he is gone. Harvey was just about the same in foot ball last Fall that he was in basket ball. No school in the section next year is going to miss two athletes as much as Catholic Uni- versity will miss Foley and Harvey. Incidentally, Long and Carney both played foot ball. The absence of these four men is not going to make for easy tasks next vear on the part of Catholic University coaches, because no men are in sight anywhere near as capable, as 's freshman teams this year are thing but brilliant. Has Good Grid List. Catholic U. has for next Fall sbout the best balanced foot ball schedule it has ever played. Hard contests are listed, but as a whole the arrangement much better than usual. The season is to open September 29 with Boston Coliege, but the team should get some- of a letdown the following Satur- ay against American University. Villa- nova plays at Brookland, October 13, and tha hould be the best home con- any thi | test of the year, excepting the one with | George Washington, Then on consecutive Saturdays come games with Willlam and Mary at Wil- liamsburg, Mount St. Mary's at Em- mittsburg, Rutgers at New Brunswick, Loyola of Baltimore at Brookland, St. John's of Brooklyn at Brooklyn and on Thanksgiving day George Washingt It is possible that the Thankset day contest with the Buff and Blue will take place at American League Park. Coach Crum of George Washiugton is very desirous of playing the game t*-ere, and, inasmuch as he has been at Cath- olic University for three consecutive years, Catholic U. will not have much option other than to agree to his re- quest if he insists cn moving the con- test to Griffith's ball yard, | holes are in contemplation. HAS BIGGEST TASK |INDIANA FIVE SURE " OF g E AT LEAST By the Assaciated Press, CHICAGO, March 7.—A half share at least in the Western Conference bas- ket ball championship for 1928 was the happy possession today of the Indlana University team. The Hooslers closed their season last night with a 27-23 overtime victory over Illinols to gain a season record of 10 victorfes and 2 defeats, averaging 39.5 points per game. Branch McCracken, the Indiana sophomore center who led the confer- ence in scoring from the opening game the finish to regain the lead as high behind Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan’s great all-around athlete, the Illinols guards ‘holding him down to one lone free throw. Dale Wells was the Hoosler hero. He dropped in a long shot from the side- lines to tie the score at 22-22 just be- for the game ended. In the extra pe- riod he caged two more fleld goals to make victory sure. Bill Dorn and Drew were the Ilini who made most of the trouble for In- diana. They led the Illinois stalling game, which had the Hooslers puzzled, and Drew, Illinols'’ new-found center, blanketed McCracken effectively. The other game bearing on the title takes place at Minneapolis Saturday when Purdue engages Minnesota. If Purdue wins, the Bollermakers will get 4 half share in the championship. Pur- due and Indiana were tied for second p‘lace last year, Michigan winning the e. XTENSIVE improvements are planned for the Bannockburn Golf Club during the season of 1928. Wishing to eliminate as many climbs as possible on the golf course, two major changes involv- {ing the second and tenth and eleventh In addi- tion, extensive changes in the clubhouse | are planned to bring the entire struc- ture up to the standard of the new part of the house completed a year and 8 half ago. Meanwhile the golf shop, over which Tony Sylvester now pre- sides, with every assurance of a suc- cessful season, has been considerably enlarged and rearranged, and is being painted and cleaned up in preparation for the opening of the season. Under plans being considered by the e Indian Leading Grind as Field In Contest Dwindles Steadily By the Associated Press. ICTORVILLE, Calif., March 7.— The great American desert which in days of old proved the courage of many a pioneer to- day was the testing ground of the stamina of a new type of trail blazer. More than 150 foot racers, survivors of the first three days of C. C. Pyle's transcontinental marathon, today faced the fourth lap—37 miles of trail that twists and turns across the Mojave Desert from Victorville to Barstow. The 199 seekers of fame and fortune who left the starting line in Los Angeles Sunday lured into the race by promises of $48500 in cash prizes which await the winner in Yankee Stadium, New York, has dwindled steadily. A dozen succumbed before ascending the upgrade over Chjon Pass in yes- terday's Bloomington to Victorville course, and several others failed in the | closing stretches of that 45.4-mile grind. Although a fleet Pinn, Nester Erick- sen of New York City led the army of plodders into Victorville, it was a Hopl Indian from Oraibi, Ariz, Nicholas Quamawahu, who held the advantage of total elapsed time thus far. The time of Quamawahu was 13 hours 35 minutes 15 seconds for the 97.1 miles. Ericksen had a total of 13 hours 39 minutes and 20 seconds. Arthur Newton of London, & 44-year- old entrant, showed the youngsters their place by coming in third in yes- terday's run and fifth in point of total eml):‘ed time, coming up from sixteenth position. “Charles Hart, 63-year-old runner from Southampton, England, jog-trotted yesterday's lap in 10 hours 1 minute and 30 seconds. A strained tendon slowed Willle Kolehmainen, Finnish star, down to a walk after the first few miles of yester- day’s race. ‘The Finn, who led the pack on the first two days, walked the last few miles and came in thirty-ninth. It placed against him a handicap of nearly | an hour and a half behind the leaders. | He. now is fifteenth in elapsed time. COLLEGE BASKET BALL, Southern California, 27; Washing- | ton, 26, Indiana, 27; Hlinols, 23 (overtime). Muskingum, 47; Duquesne, 21. Pittsburgh, 33; Washington and Jef- ferson, 32. down until the last two weeks, failed at [ 1oy scorer of the Big Ten. He was 8 points | E SIX CONTESTS TO START BASKET TOURNEY FRIDAY HE first 6 of 65 games necessary to determine the local con- tenders for the South Atlantic amateur basket ball titles will be played Friday at the Arcadia, Drawings for these games made last night are as follows: 100-pound _class—Fort Myer Midgets ve. St. Martin’s Rovers, 4 o'clock, 115 -pound class-—Northwestern v, Boys Do Cluh Standards, 5 o'elock 130- lass—Original Reds v .iip—nunm- High ve. Stan- : Calvary M. A—Lontr: . Woits A C."vs, Ahms Treat: It is expected that at least two weeks will be required to determine the cham- plonship team of each class. The win- ners will then play champlon teams from Baltimore and vicinity for the S. A. A. U. titles. Bond's Whirlwinds face probable elimination from the independent court title race tonight when they meet Ana- costia Eagles at the Arcadia at 8:30 o'clock. Manager Stanton of the Knights of Columbus quint is seeking a return game with the Eagles. Manager Pea- cock is asked to call Franklin 2792. Caseys lost to the Eagles on the Con- gress Heights gym floor in their first encounter. . Bannockburn Club Is Planning Extensive Changes in Course Commercial National Bank cagers took a firmer hold on first place in greens committee, a slight change would be made in the first hole by re- moving the tee from the woods opposite the golf shop to the old tee within 20 yards of the shop, slightly cutting down the length of the hole, but removing the necessity of walking 100 yards from the shop to the tee. In addition, the need for caddies to cross the fairway weculd be removed. The decision to change the second green has not been definitely settled, but the plan is to build a new green about 90 yards below the present green, making the hole a lengthy two-shot affair, and ecliminating some of the climb which now faces the player to the hilltop green. A path would be cut through the woods to a new third tee, which would lengthen that hole a few yards. The tenth hole, which now ranges over two hills to another hilltop green, would be shortened and the climb to the green lessened by construction of an- other new green some 100 yards below the present green, making that hole also a two-shotter of medium length. A new tee would be constructed in the woods alongside the tenth fairway and | the fairway cut through the woods, keeping the eleventh hole a short affair requiring a mashie or mashie niblick shot, but removing the climb to the tenth green amd the necessity for going down the hill again to the eleventh green, ‘Work 1s now going on in front of the clubhouse to convert the area immedi- ately in front of the structure into a parking space to care for 100 or more | automobtles. The old parking space in | the rear of the clubhouse is too small, | it is felt. Sylvester, between intervals of giving lessons, is supervising repairs to the golf shop, pleased as a kid with a new toy with his job and anxious to succeed in his first professional berth He is already signed up for a group of lessons and is looking forward to a big season with Bannockburn, Chevy Chase members will play on & new tenth tee during the season due to start in a few days. The greens force, under the direction of Chair- man Thompson of the golf committee, has constructed a new tee, running back some 15 yards, lengthening the hole to about*160 yards. The bunker- ing features of the hole have not been changed. Bankers® League last night by defeating Wuhlngwnlfiln & Trust Co. tossers, 35 to 23. Mount Vernon Cardinals trounced St. Martin Juniors last night, 23 to 14. Chapple and Ward each scored 13 points last night as Elllotts defeated Natfonal Circles, 27 to 17. Kensington Hoboes annexed a pair of victories last night, defeating Ken- nedys, 20 to 18, and Athletics, 28 to 22. Lightning A. C. courtmen dropped a hard-fought game to Atlas A. C. last night, 27 to 28. Eastern Preps displayed good team- work last night to defeat Aces, 20 to 15, in Eastern High gym. Chatlen’s field goal in the second ex- tra period enabled Aztecs to defeat Boys’ Club Elks last night, 21 to 20. Chevy Chase Celtics took a reverse last night at the hands of Original Reds, 28 to 32 Baldwin’s heavy scoring aided Cal- vary Eagles in running up a 56-17 score on White Eagles five last night. Wintons, with Gill starring, defeated Corinthians last night in Peck Me- morial gym, 14 to 13. Nativity Senlors and Mount Rainier Senlors are scheduled to clash tomor- row night, at 8 o'clock, at Trinity Church. Call Atlantic 4236 for games with Nativities. Southern A. C. cagers will hold an important meeting tonight, at 8 o'clock, at the home of their manager. ALEXANDRIA HIGH QUINT PLAYS FOR STATE TITLE ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 7.—Alex- andria High School's crack basket ball team won the class B Virginia school- boy championship by routing Rocky Mount High School, 38 to 14, in the Armory here. Class B embraces institutions with 500 or less students. Friday night Alexandria High will go to Portsmouth, Va., to battle Woodrow \;"Hson High for the State champion- ship. Woodrow Wilson defeated Jefferson High of Roanoke last night to gain class A honors. —— . ALEXANDRIA TOSSERS IN CONTEST TONIGHT ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 7.— Alexandria fans will witness a game of note tonight with the Old Dominion Boat Club and the Alexandria Whirl- winds, an all-star team, mixing it in the feature game of a twin bill at the Armory, at 8:30, preceded by a clash | In which the St. Mary's Celtic Juniors will appear against some strong team. St. Mary's Celtics have billed an in- teresting card for tomorrow night in the Armory hall with three games listed. the first to start at 7 o'clock. St. Mary's girls will meet the Jewish Community girls, St. Mary's Celtic Juniors will oppose the Jewish Com- munity Center Juniors. while the St. Mary's Celtics will tackle the Jewish Community Center tcam in the final. Devitt School of Washington will | meet the St. Mary's Celties in the Alexandria Armory, Saturday night at 7:30. NAVY NINE APPEARS ON ARMY SCHEDULE By the Associated Press. ‘WEST POINT, N. Y., March 7.— While the Army-Navy football classic is off the current athletic card, the two Government institutions wiil clash on 3!\: dl;mond this year at Annapolis on une 2. ‘The baseball schedule made public today, calls for Army to tussle with the New York Glants"here on April 9, Inaugurating the opening of -the list. Army has games hooked with the Yankees, Harvard, Georgetown and Fordham also, buv the biggest contest Is the Navy game which will see two of the cadet varsity gridiron squad in base ball togs, namely, Quarterback Nave and Fullback Odom. In a series of base ball struggles with the Navy since 1901, the Army has been victor 15 times against 9 triumphs for the Middies. THREE MAT BOUTS CARDED. ‘Three mat bouts promising brisk ac- tion are carded tomorrow night at the Arcadia. In the main tussle Joe Turn- er will engage Charlie Metro, husky Greek, in a best two of three falls match. Pete Dallas and George Ro- monoff will come to grips and Dutch Green will take on Teddy Betz in the other encounters. and sophomore classes will open their annual tri-class series for the school court crown tomorrow afternoon with a meeting between the senior and sopho- more squads. Freshmen are not included in the basket ball program at Central. Two squads have been selected from the recruits trying out in each class group. The second teams will play a miniature series between halves of the championship tilts, but this second series will not count in the title race. Personnel of the squads has been an- nounced by the respective instructors Ada Moody has named the following on the senior teams: First _team—Ione Whaler, Jones, Ruth Shaughnessy, ENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL bas- keters from the senior, junior Helen centers: Jane Burke (captain) and Katharine Pagan, side centers; Jacque- line Edes and Prutia Plerce, guards. Second team—Jean Reynolds (cap- loch, forwards: Lilllan Breckinridge and Marion Eadle, centers; Lily Mc- Naughton and Hilda Haves, side cen- Michaeles, guards. Junjors named by Augusta Kreiner for the first team are Marjorie Tolbert and Helen Humphries, forwards: Iras Burroughs, center; Helen Nordlinger, side center; Elsie Keiner and Helen Farhood, guards; Frances Sangster, Virginia Crump and Helen Yeamans, Teserves, Second team juniors include Lilllan Aed and Betty Smaltz, forwards; Marion Ostermoyer, center: Grace Hazard, side center; Betty Brundage and Lucy Ross, guards; Marjoric Hertzberg, Elizabeth Taylor and Louise McClosky, reserve Mrs. Marguerite Holzbauer St named the following on the sop! teams: Nell Griffith (captain), Oberlin, Elizabeth Suter, forwards: Amy Veerhcop, center: Helen Smith, side centers; Miriam | Auerbach, Sylvia Straus and Audrey ! Trumer, guards. WESTENDERS HAVE A FINE TEAM AGAIN THIS SEASON Already Has Scored Four Victories in Outside Cone tests—Devitt School Has Visions of Success- ful Diamond Campaign. STERN High School's rifle men, 905. Western also has finished its team, which last season van- |end of a shoot with the Pasadena High quished Central High, which | School team with the good total of had for years reigned su-|1,296, but the returns from the Call= preme on the range among fornia school have not been received. the public high schools, has high hopes | Pasadena High won the national public of blazing its way to another triumph in | high title last season. Perhaps the the indoor title series next month. most notable win for the local boys, Dates for the matchcs are expected | though, was that in the matches cone soon to be arranged. | ducted by the Junior lmfle &;rfi gl &hs That the West End schoolboys again | National Rifle Assoclation, which be= have a bang-up team is indicated by |3an in September and continued through the fact that they have thus far this|December. Western was pitted against season outchot all rivals in impressive |Some 60 teams in these matches. s style. Victories have been scored o Between now and the local pul such formidable rivals as the Navy|high championship next month the Plebes, University of Cincinnati Varsity, Western Rangers will spend all their University of Maryland Freshmen and | time in competition in the national Carnegie Tech Freshmen. The scores | Public high team matches. '_h were: Western, 1,389; Navy Plebes, | David S. McDougal, who won the 1,344; Western, 1,389: University of | national junior rifie corps champion= Cincinnati Varsity. 1,363; Western, 495; | ship of the N. R. A. last season, is cap= WOMEN IN SPORT forwards; | Lucine Strocker and Eugenie Horn,| tain), Grace Goding and Edith McCul- | ters: Elizabeth Franzoni and Virginia | s | rolled in ten baskets for her team. | Mary Solomon and | University of Maryland Freshmen, 486 | tain of the Western team. Other lead Western,” 965; Carnegle Tech Fresh- |ing shots on the squad are R. L. Hul burt, manager; B. W. Davis, sergeant at-arms; Perry Rutherford, Gus Wede derburn, Page Worthington, Robert Kearney, Walter Glass, Louis Scheibla and Van Smith. Western lost three stellar riflemen in Prescott Blount, Frank Wedderburn and Douglas McDougal, but the present outfit boasts shots expected to fill the gaps in a highly acceptable manner. Several outdoor matches are planned by Western, inciuding public high en- | gagements and a contest with the Navy | Plebes at Annapolis. Second team—Edna Neville and Marle Rosinskl, forwards; Virginia Jordan, center; Harrlet Behrend, side center; Doris Eihel and Edris Dodge, guards. Complete records of the preliminary trials in the Washington free-throw Devitt School expects a successful tournament will be announced tomor- | base ball season. Bastable, pitcher, and row, according to Dorothy Greene, | Porter and Trux, inflelders, are the chairman of the committee. More than | only regulars of the 1927 nine available, 80 organizations competed in the team | but Coach Jim McNemara has reveral and individual events and the task of | pewcomers of tried worth, including assembling their records to determine | Garvin, versatile former Gonzaga tosser; first, second and third place winners | Moore, erstwhile luminary of Donaldson in each of the classes included has been | School, Baltimore; Engle, catcher, and no small one. | Brady, pitcher, formerly of Central Leaders in the respective classes are | High; Larson, hurling prospect from as follows: Senior team class—Eagles, | Georgia, and Forrest, who performed Gypsles and American University. In- | cleverly on the mound for Tech High termediate team class—George Wagh- | here a season ago. ington University and Western High = School. Junior team class—Western Abramson and Jenkins led Emerson High School, Macfarland Junior High | Institute basketers as they drubbed and Holton Arms School. | Swavely, 35 to 20, yesterday at Manas- Senior division, individual class—Alice | sas, Va. The locals held the whip hand Ewers, Eagles: Josephine Dunham, all the way and at the half had Basketeers; Rowannetta Allen, Ameri- | achiéved an 18-10 edge. can University, and Frances Galatzo of | the Gypsies. | Devitt turned back Hyattsville High Intermediate division, individual class | tossers, 36 to 26, in American Univer= —Jean MacGregor, George Washington ty gym. Though the winners were in University; Sally Abell, Western High |the van all the way, the Maryland School: Lucy Munson, Washington and | schoolboys kept within striking distance Lee High School and Grace O'Lone, | yntil late in the game, when Devitt step- | Golumbia A. C. | ped out to gain a comfortable lead. Vine | yJunior division, individual class— | cent. Bastable and Gleeson were the Qgfigfl;f%mag N esiern High School: | big guns in the Devitt offensive. Balley A re ook and Martha Bennenson, T Hyat! George Washington _ University, and | a0, 11Unt Were chief scorers for Hyatts- | Catherine Donis of MacFarland Junior pr— High School. | Benjamin Franklin University | tossers routed St. Andrew’s Church quint, 35 to 14. Rusk and Hoddinott were leaders in Strayer Athletic Club passers triumph- | ed over the Capitol Athletic Club, 26 to h ictors’ basks T |12 last night in an intermediate division | ¢ " COFS’ basket barrage. | Washington Recreation League contest | played on the Central High School floor. | Miss Goodwin, Strayer, left forward, PRO BASKET BALL. Philadelphia, 40; Fort Wayme, 31 | _The winners’ line-up included Misses | oo - v o - o Goodwin, Treanor Mothershead, Potter,| Auto Bodies, Radiators and | Faulconer and Parre. 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