Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 34

SPORTS. fi South This Season 1 games pending with Western High and | Busin High: 19—Fredericksbu: | | Ganzago, also of the Capital City, and | High at Fredericksburg; 26—Alexanc with Suffolk, Va. High the schedule | High. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1928. P 34 SPORTS? Florida U. Eleven Expecting to Present Grealest Ends in VAN SICKLE BEST | Aggies and Mustangs Likely to Again Top Field NAVY S DEBATING s UF A CLEVER -I-Rm In Battle for Southwest Circuit Grid Laurels | e o e capisin: Aot | | BALLSTON, Va, September 21— AMEN. e oo ot 0| kDo St S s o | o . v st | | team will meet Business High School of |~ The schedule 3 ber 21.—The Potomac River was cle } e hington. here October 12, and has October 5—George Mason High: 12— ' and Shenandoah was very muddy todas Alligators Also Possess Fine| 7 e T Backs, but Line Offers Problem. . BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR. Associated Press Staff Writer. DALLAS, September 21.—Unless one of the seven metors in the group | does something startling. the fight | for 1928 honors in the Southwest | Conference will be another duel be- tween Southern Methodist and Texas A. & M. Despite the loss of their princi- pal players—Joel Hunt, quarterback, | and “Siki" Sikes, end—the Aggies. | 1927 champions, appear to have an- other great machine. | And the Mustangs, although lack- | ing Gerald Mann, one of the great- est field generals ever seen on a jMidshipmen, Too, Fear Davis | | and Elkins, Initial of 1928 Season. % A New Custom Tailoring Store Opens Tomorrow at 806 F Street N. W. | SO R | | NNAPOLIS, September 21— Much uncertainty exists as to | the line-up of the Naval Acad- emy varsity foot ball team in spite of the fact that the open- ing game against Davis and EIkins is | on_September 29. | BY H. C. BYRD. NIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ex- pects to have this Fall the greatest pair of ends in the 777707 7 ot I Dale Van Sickle and | Southwest Gonference. gridiron, are | | Dutch Stanley, who held down | expected to compare favorably with | Coach Ingram expects to try several | players in every position during the| N BIBIE —coAcH course of the game. | . Under the Management of N\ TEXAS AGGIES last year's outfit. Modeling a_ line to replace the heavy forward wall that paved the way to the 1927 title, is Coach Dana Bible's most difficult task at the wing positions last season, helped by Willle De Hoff, a high-class second- string player who may give both the regulars real battles to hold their jobs. those responsible for athletics in” the However, the game with Davis and Elkins is expected to be a real tussle. Reports have been received to the effect that the visitors have the best material in_their history. CHARLES C. MARTIN Alligator Str“lhave subslkl‘!n‘tlal ;casnns Texas A. & M. Of the nine men for their optimism over their end pros- | who lettered on the line last Fall, cts. iy t % 1] ' Not only did Davis and Elkins start . This chap Van Sickle is a great I o R e practicing two weeks earlier than the | Formerly with the W. M. Freeny Co., Inc. \ player, one of the most intelligent on | enced combination of Burgess, Davis, midshipmen, but they have had the \ the gridiron. Van Sickle really did not | Mills and Dorsey. beinefit for a time of the coaching of M . . \ get near the credit in 1927 that was his Coach Ray Morrison at Southern | Dr. Spears, Minnesota’s noted coach. any years of experience in the care- \\\ due. Cresson of Vanderbilt wassupposed | Methodist has Sammy Reed, who 3pr?;gngf’g:Cyftrggulfn:h&;\cgesgegmeftgg ful buying of woolens and the tailoring E § | ey nitey Lioyd. big and fast, would of finer clothing for men in Washington XTRA § to be a fine player, but did not measure up to Van Sickle, and many who saw tie great pair of wingmen at Georgia | were of the opinion that neither sur- passed the Florida star. | i Is Unusual Performer. | | In Florida’s game with Washington | and Lee last Thanksgiving day Van Sickle made all three of his team's touchdowns, twice by catching passes and once in one of the most peculiar g}ays ever seen on foot ball, field. ashington and Lee was attempting a forward pass, and the Washington and Lee back held the ball aloft a little too long in attempting his throw, long enough for Van Sickle to dash behind the ‘Generals’ line, grab the ball from the hand of his opponent and dash un- hindered for a score. The writer never heard of any other end capable enough or smart enough to make a play like that, Stanley and DeHoff are very little behind Van Sickle in general ability, though they do not measure up to him in intelligent performance. Incidentally, Florida will be strong not only in its end positions, but also in its backfield. It lost Middlekauff, 190- pound fullback, but kept its other three regulars and in addition gets from the understudied the missing Mann for two seasons to direct the Mustang'’s attack. Graduation of “Doug” Wat- son and Alex Hooks, ends, left big holes to fill in_the forward wall, but Morrison, in “Redman” Hume, has a halfback, whom many critics ex- pect to gain All-America consid- eration this year. While the Mustangs and the Ag- gles are girding for another strug- gle. five other teams are preparing to wage what portends to be a los- ing fight against the two Goliaths. The Texas Longhorns will be dan- gerous, as usual, so will the Arkansas Razorbacks. But Texas Christian, Rice and Baylor are dealing princi- pally in futures. Clyde Littlefield has 16 lettered Longhorns. Rufus King, captain, who was kept on the sideline last season because of an injury, is to be the backbone of the Steers’ offense. The Baylor Bears, after hibernat- ing with an abundance of material from the freshman squad, hope to ,%?:RTLETT —CENTER TEXAS AGGIES 1t looks like another two-tcam battle for the championship in the Southwest Conference. Southern Methodist and Texas A. & M., are the pre-season favorites. Coach Bible has Capt. Bartlett, center, back with three other lettermen in the Aggies' line. Quarterback Sammy Reed is the Mustang's field general. get out of the cellar this year. They were demoralized last season by a grade crossing accident which cost the lives of 10 Baylor athletes in January, 1927. Twelve letter men returned to Rice to encourage Claude Rothgeb, the ELEVENS GET READY T0 PLAY IN LEAGUE mage with Brookland Boys Club eleven on Brookland fleld Sunday at 2 o'clock. Johnny Holden has been selected to captain the team. He is booking games also at North 5632-J. be just as sure of his nlace in the back- | fleld, but he has had some stomach | trouble and is likely to play only a short time. His place will be taken by Harold Bauer. | The backfield is likely to be com-| pleted by placing Whelchel at quarter- | back and either Gannon or Toth at the other wing. Both Whelchel and Gan- non have been doing good work at‘ quarter. The most certain line players are Capt. Burke at guard and Hardin at center. Giese is the other player who was a regular last year on the line, but is being given a hard fight this season by Crinkley, one of the big plebe tackles of 1927, while Gray, the other plebe tackle, seems to be in the lead for the other position. Chapple was in the lead for the extra guard when he strained his knee, and Swan and Westofen are having & nice fight for the place. Two sets of ends, Beans and Moret and Ricketts and Byng, are being used alternately. | GEORGETOWN RINGMEN. | ON NAVAL ACADEMY CARD ANNAPOLIS, September 21.—George- town University to be met here Febru- v R T N have enabled us to open this new store with a large assortment of foreign and domestic woolens, thereby assuring you the opportunity of making an easy selection. A staff of expert designers and tailors will give you perfect fit and unexcellcd \\orl:manship on each individual gar- ment. All work done on premises (Free valet service on all garments bearing our label) PAIR | TROUSERS | FREE | a week offer with every ‘ $15.00 blue serge suit. special opening High-Grade Custom Tailoring At Pop'ular Prices, $35.50 to $65 B. L. GERSHANICK \ Frfshgan.squgd e]sgfllcflflfiv "fi:’fl:k‘; new coach. e Columbians are to drill Sunday at field talent. In Clyde Crabtree i 3 o o ary 9 is listed on the Naval Academy’s T scason one of the cleverest broken | o PTOSPects at fexas Christian are | prookland A. C. and Columbia foot | 10:30 ‘olclock CnEMnIMEALE BIOSEE Boxing. schedule. s 806 F Street N. W, \ feld runners in the South and fev | fi) ball teams are planning to Coden ateshin niliesiito Neh Sew | me camplstaicard: N sumes were played In which ke 44 bol | an interegting sidelight n e | Frenon's 135-pound league this Ful | T ooy aienm i vort | Rt s W Wind B it | N N A uthwest circu s scason Wi & new foot ball team will be organized & 2 Z A 77 \ Both teams are making preparations | & ReW 1007 PR JER WU o CORCUnth | poMarch 2, Pemnsyliania; o. Spracuses 16 7 77777 777 7 7 ran 95 yards against, Alabama for the winning touchdown. Ernest Bowyer is captain of the Gator team and should be a mighty good half- back and in addition to the two men already mentioned there are Tommy Owens, Rainey Cawthon and Carl Brumbaugh who played in every game in 1927 and played very creditably. 1t generally is expected that Cawthon will be a far better fullback than Mid- dlekauff ‘ever was, and the latter was hailed as one of the two best fullbacks in the South last season. It was Mid- dlekauff who made the touchdown for the all-Southern team against the all- Western eleven at Los Angeles. The best of the backs from the Fresh- man team is “Red” Bethea, who can run, pass and pound a line with the best of them. Besides several other good backs from the Freshman squad, there is eligible Elmer Ihrig, one of the full- ‘backs of two years ago. Line-up. If Florida can build up a fairly good line from tackle to tackle it ought to have a great team. It lost its varsity center of last year thro scholastic ineligibility, but gets a brilliant player in that position in Ben Clemons from the Freshman squad. Alex Reeves, one of the regular guards, and James Clem- ons, a tackle, are back, so that the only real problem is to find a man to play tackle and cne to hold down a guard position. Charley Bachman, who was at Kansas Aggies for several years, is in charge of the coaching system, succeeding Tom Sebring, who handled the squad for three seasons. Bachman undoubtedly was one of the best men in the Middle ‘West and ought to succeed at Florida if anybody can. Last year Florida won 7 games and lost three. This year the team meets representative elevens of ail sections of the conference, having Auburn, North Carolina State, Sewanee, Georgia, Clem- son, Washington and Lee and Tennessce as its opponents. Outside the confer- ence it plays Southern and Mercer. Tomorrow the first foot ball games of the year are to be played. Virginia Military Institute and Davidson are the South Atlantic schools that have games listed, the former meeting Hampden- Sidney and the latter Guilford. Down in South Carolina the University of South Carolina has a contest with Erskine and Clemson meets Newberry. Texas A. and M. and Southern Metho- dist University down in Texas are the biggest of the other Southern schools that have contests. Out in California Pop Warner’s Stan- ford eleven hooks up with a minor op- ponent and Washington State and Mon- tana also have skirmishes, Only two games are listed in the so-called North, Temple meeting Juniata and Rhode Island State the Coast Guard. The hardest fought game of all is likely to be that at Morgantown be- tween West Virginia and Davis-Elkins. Marines and University of Maryland engaged yesterday for about an hour in their first scrimmage. Both squads were ragged, the first string players of each showing far better than the sec- ond string men, especially on the of- fense. As far as carrying the ball was concerned, neither of the second-string outfits did anything much, their de- fensive work being much better than their offensive. tar better foot ball mainly because much more time has been put on their de- velopment. Three or four more scrimmages will be held before the Marine squad goes to Philadelphia the last of next week. ‘The Marines are due to spend their Fall at League Island because of the construction work now going on at Quantico involving the use of the ath- letic field. ook, CLUB-WAY Card— y —— | RAY BOWEN WINS BOUT. | FLY-SOLO-AT Get ‘YOHI‘ Par. king i s s sz || §5.50 per Hour . Space ! tinues to turn back all opposition in this Write at Once i section. Last night he defeated Roger O'Brien, local scrapper, in six rounds, as a preliminary to the Shea-Ruth feather- weight battle. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F R 1 S S ST T BACKFIELD stage of the season has a Minnesota The varsities played | = be the attempt of Centenary Col- lege of Shreveport. La. to win its way to membership. Last year the Gentlemen, as they are called, de- feated four Southwest teams, in- cluding Southern Methodist, and their admittance to the conference practically is contingent on their showing this year against the Texas Aggies. | WORRIES MINNESOTA MENTOR CHICAGO, September 21 (/).—Where is there a Joesting or an Almquist to | gladden the hearts of the old grads of Minnesota and remind them of olden days? Not only are Minnesota fans wondering, but Coach Spears is doing some thinking along the same line. Never before in recent years at this backfield been so uncertain. Just two men, Barnhart, whose best role fis blocking, and Fred Hovde, may be counted as regulars. There is Ed West- phal, whose work in Spring practice classed him as a second Joesting, and a host of other promising sophomores In front of the new backfield, how- ever, will be a veteran line from end| to end, including Nagurski and Givson, whom Knute Rockne has described as two of the greatest forward wall men in the country. Nagurski, however, is to be given a trial at fullback. At Tllinols, Coach Zuppke has seen his squad in scrimmage and found only the ends and centers wanting. After two hours of stiff scrimmaging yes- terday the Illini mentor said he was well pleased with the work of the backs. Fielding Yost has announced his in- tention of trimming the Michigan squad from 80 to 60 men tomorrow. He has named a tentative varsity squad, con- sisting of six ends, 12 linemen and two sets of backs, The hopes of Purdue have risen with the improvement of ‘“Pest” Welch's knee. Despite his much discussed in- jury, Welch was kicking the ball from 50,t0 60 yards yesterday and scampered abbut the field as though his knee had never been strained. DIFFERENT LEADER EACH CONTEST, EMERSON PLAN Emerson Institute’s foot ball team will not have a regular captain this sea- son, but the players will select their leader before each game. | It is believed Emerson is the first | prep school at least in this section, to adopt such a plan, the object of which | is to stimulate the spirit of the play- ers. A boy probably will work harder if he realizes that the team captaincy probably will go to the one who shows the most pep, it is believed by L. P. Banfield, Emerson coach, who is intro- ducing the plan. CARDINALS SEEK GAME. Indian Head Cardinals are seeking a base ball game for Sunday. Call Indian Head 101-K-3. ! 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