Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 32

SP ive-Southern Conference Schoo THOSE T0 CHANGE ARE IN FAR SOUTH McGugin of Vandy Is Oidest in Service. With Byrd of Maryland Next. i has retired resigned ty of Fic hman, an experiences L Billy" Laval t South Caro- v had charge } h A reality- the only newd > 11 ofethe others ssistants or schools ahd the condf=" b ed on All-Ame the Worjg. War ch at-Northwestern - University Kansas Aggies in at Au s coach at five years. es to oppo- reollegiate Centenary a and Fur he S. 1. A championship < a graduste of Washington red in base and rowing his connec- and basket Bohler ren- ates great service. ntry officer and ence service. He several decorations for . se's successor at the was highly recommend- als by Wallace Wade nom he assisted in pro- consecutive conference teams, and by Coach of Vanderbiit. He cap- eleven in 1916 and after following vear joined erved in France. his discharge from the the freshman University of Georgia one he following season tutored r University. going from Mer- | Alabama. He is 32 years old ve of Georgia Enis to Aid Cohen. has selected as his assistant former Alabama star and ear coach of the Tuscaloosa, Ala.. School team. Harry Rabenhorst been retained. fraduating the Mehre as head ith the gen- alumni and man and at ] to ——"n a wonderful personality. Mehre be assisted by Jimmy Crowley, for- ame backfield star, and er, one of the star ends en 1 to South Carolina from rman College. where he developed strong teams and the State onship team for past three He i noted for speed and mdness of his attack . exceptional a_ gridiron he never played a game except a2 a small boy in c home town. He ved base ball g his college days jrman. after which he became base and basket ball coach at Erskin North 9769 for your own idea of the best tire service in town and the quickest. H. C. Richter, Inc. 1407 V 5t. N.W. Ul g e A S rm e ORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. SPORTS. TSR OERTRL 20 O TSR | College before returning to Furman as head coach. | Newcomers | mentors aze Jexs Neely and Jimmy Hay- | . good, who will help Coach Wade at | i Kiabama. . Haygood served 17 years | Ill tl](‘, Fll‘st at Henderson-Brown and three years | at- Southern College. Neely 1s also | RV S, a former Commodore star. —He| is said to know the game from A to Z and his record as coach at Southwest- crn Presbyterian University of Memphis for tite past four vears speaks for itself Burnham Lee, four-letter- | man and Bohler's Choctaw eleven last Fall. has been signed by Bohler as his assistants at Auburn Seventeen Schools Stand Pat. Except for these changes, though, the other 17 teams will go to the barrier among the assistant FOOT BALL IN THE They get a bladder and blowe it great With m 1t ratleth While it Eche one contendeth With f and with h 1t it fanl This wise to labour they count it for no Ren And sturdy plowmen lustie, stronge and s throwen and"cast nds the biadder at of barracks y The first foot ball society of the United States was organized by Gernt Smith Miller at Epes Sargent Dixwell's School in Boston, the Drake professor discovered. The first intercollegiate game on rec- ord was held between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869. There, the value of rules was demonstrated, for each school on its own field. Call Potomac 3501 FOR PROMPT with the same coaches as last year in command e nonder whether the general un. | Forgetting labour and many a grievous derstanding that a coach must always A in to hold his job is not a public il- 2 H. C Byrd at Maryland, Dan McGugin tenth B i at Vanderbilt, W. A. Alexander at e \f;xy:‘gm"qi\p \‘I‘rrn:llilsmu; Georma Tech, Mike Bennett at Sewanee vanquished Engiishmen, play- setbacks and have heard the | foot ball ed alumni. but the ' S0 says Charlton G. Laird . are still in charge sor of journalism at Drake u“.f'mv.\u be for vears to come. tory of the game down throu 1 1 Sy 8 gh t is the oldest of them all in | gim ages of antiquity and he «m“s l{‘l; He begins his {wenty- | research showed that hard fighting Byrd. who < his sixteenth vear at | (oes around in the world's firs R B | oo aruniin ithe world's first known Bennett and Neale are beginning to be |~ Later on, pumpkins and gourds were :‘E’fidro a‘:n:fi!alr;'a’x“nn He has been in | Th 'rar(r:rd the garden truck through harce since 1822. i a line of opposing players in a game While not long in scrvice at their | much similar to the present grigiron have ‘been retained for 1928 “Chuck” | Laird devoted long and carnost v 1 3 aird d g nest effort Collins at North Carolina, Gus K. Tebell | 5 rounding up his history of foot ball at th Carolina State. Homer Hazel | and ran across facts never collected Tennessee, V Rafferty at V.| " Capt. John Smith of the Vin h - a ginia L 1. Gustafson at V. P. L. J. P Herron | colony. he says. made the first known at Washington and Lee. Josh Cady at | reference to foot ball in America. The sioni A" and M. and Bernie Bierman &t |t as “one of those sports in which Tulane. English dudes indulge,” related Henry . Spiilman. a historian U. S. OLYMPIC ATHLETES | toot ball and the first Monday gof the vear was known as “bloody Monday” at Harvard when a game was indulged in LONDON. August 14 (/) —The Amer- | the faculty ruled the game too brutal can Olympic track and fleld athletes. | ang abolished it, Lnfl-dgfl‘d who competed at Stamford Bridge on Gen. Philip H. Sheridan of Civil War marning for Southampton to embark | at the West Point Military Academy on the steamship President Roosevelt. | Maj. P. J. Walsh, who was in charge highly delighted with the visit to Eng- land and all hoped to entertain the British team at the Olympic games in Br the Associated Press tennis player, is “undoubtedly a com- ing world’s champion,” in the opinion of Jean Borotra. French Davis Cup star. | recently Borotra won one and Crawford | the other “Nowhere in the world.” said the veon s young Piaer of such great anity ROAD SERVICE and wondertul promise.” PIRATE A. C. SEEKS FOE. to card Falls Church or any other un- | i il liiited nine for a game Sunday on | A‘l';’""' “"’:”"b“‘ ';"”. be Washington and Lee High giamong. ([§j made for your doubtful tires. PR don“1337-We1 | . 5 [IMARTIN J. BARRY soking over the list of them, one on in spots. Take the cases of (—) N the plains of England, in the nd Earle Neale at Virginia. All have ed the first known game of w stand probably will | Des Moines. He has traced the hi Vanderbilt this -season. | Danes tossed the grisly battle memen- time-honored fixtures, and so is Wallace 1 by ners of the British Isles respective institutions. the following ' gpo R. R. Neyland at | pefore. he says Clemson, John W. Hancock at Mis: captain and other settlers frowned upon By 1829, the colleges had taken up IN BRITAIN START HOME as the annua! class scrap. By 1860 Saturday, left Waterloo Station this | fame appeared on the delinquency list of the Americans, said the party was Los Angeles in 1932 Jack Crawford, Sydney's 19-year-old | won the at-home game, but Rutgers, In two matches between the two here | Bounding Basque afterward. “have 1 HOOD TIRES| Pirate A. C. of Cherrydale would like Arrangements can be made at Claren- | 1636 Connecticut Ave. Upward of $00.000 are undergoing | compulsory sport training in Hungary. 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The list includes Ted Sloane. an end | Paul Woerner, a guard, and Elliott Par- ish, captain of the lacrosse team, who is an excellent foot ball back Sloane, who played at Drake, and was picked for an all-Western end, piayed |two years at that institution. He has | played but one year on the varsity at the Naval Academy and has two more vears as a student, but cannot partici- pate in varsity foot ball any more Woerner played for year at Swarth- mor:, and has played two years at the Naval Academy. He has one more year = at Annapolis as a student. Woerner with its own rules and on its own field, | was considered one of the best guards reversed the process the next time. |of last season, and will be missed The first Yale-Princeton game in | Parish is a clever back 1873 was held up for an hour and a |good chance of landing half while players scoured the country- | quarterback berth side for a ball in one or two games at Geors ch . and has had two years on the varsity EIGHT CONTESTS LISTED squad at the Naval Academy. He must FOR LYNCHBURG ELEVEN| e most powerful backs in the college game LYNCHBURG, Va., August 14 (P).— |is eligible for the present Eight foot ball games have so far been |Will Jose the following season, which & defnttely ha O |his final year at the Naval Acadel y arranged for the 1928 sy o his collegiate playing has been at schedule of Lynchburg College. |th» Naval Academy. Two other dates are open, while still | The rule is not likely to affect another game is pending arrangements. | sports but foot ball to any The schedule though Jimmy Kiernan, one of September 22—William and Mary at Wil |defense players on the lacrosse linmsburg. September Lexington ber 6 Bridgewater College Randolph-Macon at Guilford College. for to smite payne, bolde. fall. texander Barclay, a monk-poet, in 1509 the regular ating vear any ent 10 t team gers before entering the Navs cademy Ashiand * SHOCKER IS IMPROVED. DENVER. August 14 () :OFH\ iversity of Richmond at Hampden-8idney at Hamp- November ember ember 2 Open. Roanoke College at Salem Pending. TRAPSHOOTERS IN TIE. KENTON. Ohio, August 14 (#).—C A. Brogart of Sandusky, Ohio. and E F. Woodward. Houston, Tex., tied for first place in the annual baby grand trapshoot at the Glenwood Gun Club with 197 hits out of 200 shots. 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The luminous prospect is that child of international destiny, Eddic Hamm of Georgia Tech, who literally as well as figuratively sprang into fame by win- ning the Olympic broad jump for the United States at Amsterdam. Hamm will enter the Atlanta Tech- nological Institution next Fall for his Jast year. In all his career at Tech he never has participated in a scrim- mage or Kicked a foot ball in a game. But this does not mean that he can- not play the game. When he was in preparatory school—at Lonoke, Arkan- sas. High—he was one of the flashiest swiftest and hardest running ball car. riers in the interscholastic ranks and when he entered Georgia Tech, Bill Alexander, the foot ball coach, fasten- Russell Lloyd, one of the fastesi and | nq upon him a penstrating. greedy, pos- sessive pair of eyes. But—and mark this to the credit of Alexander—he recognized the bo: great promise as a jumper, and wher he found that the freshman'’s great aim CHARLESTON HELPS ATHLETIC TRAINING The Charleston is a benefit rather than a handicap to athletes in train- ing. according to nine replies of prom- jnent French sportsmen to 10 queries sent out by a Paris paper Mourlon, the sprinter; Baraton, mid- dist runner, and Lewden, the red the Charles- ton lly was of the opinion th great training for umpers, providing one kept away from 1e surroundings, cigarettes and cham- pagne.” Several soccer and rugby play- one man in the world who has influ- | ence over the star jumper it is the same { Alex | “Eddie is splendidly bult for foot hall, a man of brawn, stamina and endur- | ance. ' Besides, he can do the hundred | in not much over 10 seconds in foot ball fogs. He has often run under 10 flat, on the track 'Add to this speed project himself nearly 26 feet throuch the air and you find in him qualitics likely to prove most perplesing to any e ler of group of tcklers. Georgis, | ers were of the same mind HNotre Dame, Alabama, et al.. beware ooty S i e, R . nav" 1 adore the Charleston. but 1 shouldn't prescribe it during the Ameri- FIELD HOCKEY GROWS. ican tennis championships.” Field hockey has become the most| Rene Lacoste, American tennis cham popular sport at the leafling girls' col-| ion, replied “What s the Charleston?” lege throughout the country. Intersec- tional tournaments and the selection of an All-America team are planned by Nearly every town in_the Unfon « South Africa has at_least one gol the United States Field Hockey Asso- |rmmn dle high the ability course, There are 12 clubs in and around Johannesburg. Direct FroM HAvANA . .. b, Come Admiration’s | choice Tobaccos in life was to win a place on the Olym- | of 1928, win international e and incidentally see the world Alex relinquished his own ambitions concerning him and furthered in every way his development as a field star It meant a sacrifice to the coach, be- cause rookie backfield men of Eddie's promise do not come to Tech every season But in the end Alexander's attitude justified when Hamm this vear broke the world record and later brought fame to his alma mater, to all Dixie. by capturing one of the U. S first places at Amsterdam. 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