Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 33

P BACKFIELD AMONG DIXE'S STRONGEST Maryland Defense Will Have to Be Strong to Hold Invaders in Check. BY H. C. BYRD. ASHINGTON AND LEE UNI- | VERSITY, whieh meets Maryland ‘Saturday at Clark Griffith Stadium, is said to have one of the best back- fields in the South —a backfield but little if any inferior to the quartets back ‘of Georgia Tech's and Tennessee's lines. White is a brilliant fullback and has in his three years with the Gen- crals gained as much ground as any other back in the South, in all prob- ability. Lott, Eberhardt, Barnett and Thibodeau are other men on whom the Go]ner;ls depend most to advance the ball. Last year two of these backs did bril- liant work against Maryland. White went into the game in the second quar- ter, after being held out of the first. and plunged his way down the fleld for a touchdown, carrying the ball every time. Lott made a play that took Mary- land by surprise and was directly re- sponsible for the second Washington and Lee score. Maryland had kept the Lexingtonians backed up against thelr‘ goal line for mearly a whole period. | and about all that they were doing was | punting from around their own 10- vard line. Lott, however. decided that ought to stop, so he dropped back on his own | goal line and started a run around end. | The play so surprised the Maryland ends and secondary defense that Lott | carried the ball past the middle of the field before he was pulled down., Good Ground Gainers. Eberhardt and Thibodeau also are brilliant ground gainers. the latter es- pecially being fine in a broken field. Thibodeau was star of last year's fresh- | man team and before entering Washing- | ton and Lee had exceptional high and preparatory school foot ball experience. Washington and Lee has lost more games than it has won. but has played good foot ball in every one. For in- stance. against Princeton, the Generals Jost by 25 to 13, gaining ground freely and giving Princeton a real scare, but could not hold Princeton’s offense. Two touchdowns against Princeton is a real accomplishment, when it is considered that Yale’s, Ohio State's and Cornell's combined scoring efforts against the Tigers resulted in a total of 9 points. Washington and Lee plays about the same kigd of a schedule that Maryland does, both schools going through hard | ¢! games every week from the beginning | O of the season on. This year neither has had a letup since their first South- dav in October. | Washington and Lee has met Wesi Virginia, Princeton. Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic _Institute, North | & TANKERS ARE SURE Fort Leonard Wood Tankers at Union League Park. ern Conference contest the first Satur- | recently won the 3d Corps Area cham- | pionship. DRTS. GUS CROTHERS, 014 Liners’ guard is certain to be con- spicuous in game to be played at Ameri- can League Park Saturday. He has heen all-State selection for the past {wo sea- sons and this year writers in Richmond and Norfolk called him all-America. cali- ber after seeing him in action against V. M. 1. and Virginia Poly, respectively. He also is a fine student and is promi- nent in campus affairs at Marsiand. be- ing president of Omicron Delia Kappa ranking honorary fraternity, a member of the interfraternity council and treas- urer of Rosshourg Club. 'THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER TO EXTEND APACHES Apaches, District unlimited foot ball hampions. will face the toughest foe f the season Sunday. when they meet The Maryland soldiers Matt Heard is busy trying to perfect n effective offense for the Northerns Caroline State and Kentucky and has|t0 use against Mohawks Sunday. A given every one of its opponents a real battle. Its best games have been played against Princeton and against North Caroline State. which it defeated by 38 10 6. The worst game it has played was against Virginia. to which it lost 13 to 20. Washington and Lee, despite | its defeats, has one of the best scoring | clevens in the South. | Must Look Ahead. _ Both the Generals and Old Liners have games Thanksgiving day, the former heing listed to go to Jacksonville to meet Florida and the latter to Balti- more to play Hopkins, and neither, after going through a hard season, is likely to get as much rest in four days as it needs. Both Washington and Lee and Mary- land are likely to play open games Sat~- urday. Both have good running at- tacks and both are willing to shoot the ball through the air at any time, and do. Also Maryland, as well as Wash- ington 2nd Lee. has in its backfield one or two men who can go once they get started. In all probability the game will be just about as free a ground- gaining exhibition as has been here in a long while. Other Teams to Play. Georgetown and Gallaudet are the enly other local elevens scheduled to play Saturday. the former against Ford- ham at New York and the latter against | Bridgewater College here. and Gray expects to win from the Gothamites, but not without a real fight. They realize that Fordham will put forth every possible effort to get the long end of the score because of the prestige such a victory would give them. Little is working his men this week with the. idea of getting them back in shape physically, and his task is not lering the difficult games gone. The Blue Gallaudet ought to win its final con- | test. The Kendall Greeners have done well this vear, considering their limited material. and to wind up their season with a victory would be a fitting clima. for their efforts and something of a reward for the hard efforts put forth by Coach Hughes. OLD RIVALS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL BATTLE Br the Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.. November 21.—Conservatism is still the watch- word in the foot ball camp of the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia as the squad prepares for its ancient foe. North Carolina. here on Thanks- giving day t Light drills and workouts are being used as various members of the squad who have been in the casualty ranks nurse their injuries in hope and ex-| pectation of gzetting a trial against | North Carolina It now appears that several letter men who have been forced out of recent games may he in condition for | the Tar Heels. CHAPEL HILL. N. C.. November 21 (/). —A cooler wave lent zest and snap o the Tar Heel foot ball squad vester- day as it began its campaign of pre- raredness for the annual Thanksgiving day battle with the Virginia Cavaliers. Carolina coaches topped yesterday's vacation with a light conditioning work- today and the pep in signal drill indicated that the Tar Heels have profited by their rest. The entire squad was in uniform with the exception of Fenner, reserve end. He will be in shape for work by the latter part of the week. His return will wipe away the last of the midseason hospital list. CALIFORNIA-PENN GAME IN EAST NEXT SEASON PHILADELPHIA, November 21 (#).— The Golden Bears of California will come to Philadelphia next season for time to play the University of vania at foot ball October 13., They have beaten Penn in post-season zames on the Pacific Coast Harvard and Chicago are from the 1929 schedule. the two-year contract with the heing concluded this season For 1930 Pennsylvania is negotiating for games with Notre Dame and Wis- ‘ consin, missing latter’s | Crimson seen | through which his men have | good offensive might have enabled the Red Birds to have trounced the big Hawk machine last week. Inability to gain any ground against Craig Wil- ton's club left the ball in possession of the Hawks most of the time and the break which finally won for the Hawks was to be expected. Satisfied that his defense is near perfect. Coach Matt is centering all attention on develop- ing offensive strength. Shamrocks, recently reorganized. will drill tonight at 7 o'clock on Virginia avenue playgrounds. Arrangements are being made to meet either St. Mary's Celtics or Virginia A. C. this Sunday. A drill for Pennant A. C. players is scheduied tonight at 7:30 o'clock on Iowa avenue playgrounds. Coach Bob Sheedy is working on some new plays, which will be used tonight for the first, time. Practice sessions afe listed tonight and Friday at 7 o'clock at Sixth amd B streets southwest. Brookland Boys’ Club will be met Sunday. Pierce A. C. players meet tonight at the home of Bob Minee at 7:30 o'clock. A game is sought for Sunday with a 135-pound team. Call Hyattsville 775. Shabby Players will practice tomor- row night at 7:30 o'clock at Fifteenth {and H streets northeast. Bezdek Develops Real Pass Attack | BY SOL METZGER. ‘When it comes down to a real nifty forward passing attack you have to hand it to Papa Bezdek's Penn State foot ball team. Hugo had a green bunch to work with this Fall, but 1s gradually getting them into shape for the big test Thankegiv- ing day with Pitf. That will be a game worth miles of travel to_see. State uncorked one against Penn that cost it the game, as its passer threw to the wrong eligible man. Captain Scull of Penn picked the ball out of the air and galloped near 70 yards for a touchdown. But, State had a man free and an inter- ferer to lead to Penn's line, Pitt will have to watch this one closely. From its semi-punt formation the ball is passed to No. 1, who starts as though on a wide end run, Backs No. 2 and No. 6 apparent- 1y lead him but turn wide down field. No. 3 beats it far to the the left down field area. The two ends wait about two seconds. boxing tackles, then break as diagrammed. The passer, No. 1. turns quickly and shoots a to No. 5, No. 4 leading him. a peach of a play. If you wish fo receive Metzger's 32 foot ball secrets, illustrated and printed ‘nln vlmphle'to form, bsteud 10 cents postage etorer, in caze of this rapes, Y . pa. I Tech High School's foot ball team, District public high champion, with a big send-off by fellow students, left. this afternoon for Tuscaloosa, Ala.. to meet the crack high school team there Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Central standard time. In the Tech party were 19 players, Principal Frank Daniels, Coach Hap Hardell and a newspaper man. The party is scheduled to arrive . in Tuscaloosa tomorrow at 5:50 p.m. and is due back in Washington early Sunday morning. The game will be plaved on Denny Field, the University of Alabama gridiron. Coach Hardell today expressed him- | self as optimistic over the chances of | his team for victory over the Dixie | eleven, despite that the latter has not been beaten in four years. Tech will be staking up against a team. the average age of whose players is 18 years and weight 166. The line averages 170 pounds, and backfield. 157. Averige age of Tech players is 18Y5, but, the line averages only 155 and the backfield 150. which is decidedly lighter than its opponents. Weight and Age of Rivals. Weight and age of the probable starting players of each team follows: Tuscaloosa—Echols, left end, 140 pounds, 18 years; Beard, left tackle, ; Coley, left guard, Clements, center, . Lazz Tood, right guard, 150 pounds, 19 years: Wright, right tackle, 185 pounds, 20 years; Swaim, right end. 160 pounds, 17 years: Holley, quarterback, 150 pounds, 17 years; Campbell, left halfback, 150 pounds, 18 yeas Hughes, right half- back, 150 pouns 18 years, and Coch- rane, fullback, 158 pounds, 17 years. ‘Tech—Benner, left end, 150 pounds, 17 years; Cole, left tackle, 150 pounds, 18 years; Oyster, left guard, 155 pounds, 17 years; Leo Winston, center, 150 pounds, 18 years; Oehmann, right guard, 160 pounds, 18 years; Edwards, right tackle, 170 pounds, 19 years; Edel- blut, right end, 150 pounds, 17 years; Drissel, quarterback, 150 pounds, 17 Fountain, left halfback, 130 pounds, 19 years: Florance, right half- | back, 135 pounds, 189 years, and Goss, 140 pounds, 18 years. Tech Gridders Off to Battle Tuscaloosa, Ala., High Team Other Tech players making the trip will be Hissey, Hoy. Stutz, Nebel, Gelg- er, Mayo, Norwood and Spencer. Tuscaldosa’'s Great Record. Scoring 35 victories and engaging in one tie since 1925, the Tuscaloosa eleven has played havoc in Alabama prep school circles. The team ‘n the four seasons has scored 1,535 points to 92 for opponents, and this Fall has piled up 341 points. against just 6 for op- ponents. Last season in a post-season game the Bears defeated Senn High of | Chicago. Western champion, 41 to 0./ and last Fall downed Lakeland High. Florida titleholder, 33 to 0. This year's team has never been extended and is thought to be the best of the four sea- sons. Paul Burnum, University of Alabama graduate, has tutored the Bears the past four seasons. During his career he has coached three high school teams for 56 victories, 2 ties and 1 defeat in seven years. A meeting to push plans for the or- ganization of a prep school basket, ball league will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Gonzaga College. Aside from Gonzaga, teams expected to enter the loop are Devitt, Emerson, St. John's and Georgetown Prep. Central and Western High lightweight elevens were to clash this afternoor in Central High Stadium. Emerson and Gonzaga will get in | their final stiff drill today in preparation | for their battle Friday afternoon in [ Clark Griffith Stadium at 2:45 o'clock which is expected to have much bear- ing on settling the prep school gridiron championship. Emerson will be seeking | revenge for the 6-0 defeat handed it last Fall by Gonzaga. Both Emerson and Gonzaga have shown strength this Fall and aside from Devitt are the only elevens in the run- ning for the prep school crown. Devitt will meet Gonzaga in their annual game December 8 at Griffith Stadium. Emer- son and Gonzaga appear to have some- thing of an edge over Devitt, however, as the first two trimmed Eastern which took the measure of Devitt |BASKET LOOP OPENS WITH GOOD BATTLES Fifth Baptist, First Baptist and East Washington basket ball teams scored wins last night as B. Y. P. U. League opened its season. East Washington downed Centennial, 28 to 15; Fifth Baptist scored over Fountain Memorial, | 14 to 11, and First Baptists triumphed | over Hyattsville, 19 to 12. Peck Juniors open their campaign to- morrow night, meeting Corinthians < 8:15 o'clock in Peck gym. Peck Insects want to card a preliminary game. Peck { Seniors have scheduled National Pub- lishers for Priday night. Games with | Peck teams can be arranged with Man- | ager Tucker at Potomac 4270 after 6 ‘ o'clock. | Hecht Rovers are secking games with | unlimited_teams. Call Manager Prow- inski at Main 5100, Branch 431. St. | tin’s Seniors want a practice game | for tonight. Call Main 10000, Branch Clark Griffiths, 100-pounders. has | scheduled St. John's five for Friday | night at Macfarland gym. Griffs want a game Monday in Hamline gym. Call Columbia 1458. | Colonials, with Mahoney, Stewart and Ticer starring, defeated Calvary Eagles | 1ast night, 27 to 13. B. Jones shone | for the losers | five, which defeated St. | Andrew's last night. 44 to 20, wants | games with 135-pound teams. Call North 8731 after 7 o'clock. o— TURKEYS TO BE PRIZES FOR GUNNERS SATURDAY Four events are scheduled for Wash- ington Gun Club members on the Ben- ning range Saturday. Turkeys are to be awarded to the two high guns in each event. Events scheduled follow: 25 targets, seratch: 25 targets, added handicaps, based on 1928 averages; 25 targets, dis- tance handicap, and 24 targets, 12 pairs of doubles. As an entrance fee of 81 iz to be charged for each event, winners in |any event will be eligible for prizes in | other events. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Novem- ber 21.—The Potomac River clear and | Shenandosh very cloudy this moraing. ALEXANDRIA ELEVEN LEAVES TOMORROW ALEXANDRIA. Va., November 21— | Alexandria High School's foot ball team will leave here tomorrow at 3:45 o'clock for Clifton Forge, Va, where on Fri- day the Maroon and White gridders will tackle Clifton Forge High School in one of the semi-final games for the Class B championship of the State. The winner of Priday's contest at Clifton Forge will meet the winner of | the South Boston-Big Gap game. Alexandria Fire Department eleven will carry a huge delegation of support- | ers to College Park. Md., Tnankszlvlnl; day. where the Seat Pleasant Fire De- partment will be played in Byrd Stadium. Mary's Celtic basket ball candi- s will take part in their first work- out of the season tonight in Armory | Hall at 8 o'clock. arc light at King and Lee streets to- night at 7 o'clock. | Episcopal High Scheol is preparing ! for the major game of its schedule Sat- | urday afternoon, when the Woodberry | Forest School eleven 15 played at Orange, Va., closing the locals’ season. Hoffman Buddies have the use of | Armory Hall on November 30, D!‘(‘?m-i ber 6, 13 and 22; January 5, 10, 16, 26 | and 30: February 7. 16 and 28, and | March 9, 21 and 27 for games. Phone | Martha Baggett at Alexandria 1255 or write her at 613 South Lee street, Alex- andria. PLAN BASKET BALL LOOP IN ADJOINING MARYLAND HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 21. —Preliminary steps toward organiza- tion of a Prince Georges County basket ball league were taken at a_meeting in | the armory of Company F, National | Guard, here last night. | Teams represented were Company F | Reserves, Headquarters Company, Na- tional Guard of Laurel; Dixie Pig A. C.. Berwyn A. C., Brentwood Hawks and Mount Rainier. Jessup A. C. also is ex- pected to join the league, making it an eight-team circuit. A meeting to perfect organization of, the loop will be heldin the Company armory tomorrow night at 8 o » NURMI TO COMPETE FOR CLUB OVER HERE STOCKHOLM, November 21 (#).— | Paavo Nurmi, according to Helsingford advices, has received official permission from the Finnish athletic authorities to represent the Finnish-American Ath- letic Club of New York, thereby indi- cating that the famous runner intends to remain an amateur in any compefi- tion he undertakes while visiting the United States. This confirms the statement made to the Associated Press by Hugo Quist, Nurmi's erstwhile adviser, who believes the Olympic star has no intention of turning professional. It is Quist’s opinion. instead, that Nurmi will run a few times indoors in this country this Winter and then con- centrate on a record-breaking outdoor campaign, possibly as a farewell gesture to the track. 21, 1928 CENTRAL GRIDDERS NIP WESTERN, 74 Late Rally Enables Blue and White to Land Third Place in Race. ITH the championship foot ball series becoming history as Central defeated Western, 7 to 6, yesterday in Central Stadium, athletes of the public high group today are turning their attention to preparation for the basket ball season. Though court practice will not get under way at top speed for a week or so, when the schools will have completed the grid- iron schedules, there will be a notice- able acceleration in basket ball train- ing, starting today. Court squads at most of the schools have been going through preliminary work for several weeks and now are ready to begin serious work. Business and Emerson will meet De- cember 12 in the first game of the schoolboy court season and all the schools are scheduled for considerable competition before the holidays. The public high title series will not start until after the New Year. Central came through with a last- period punch to triumph over Western yesterday. The victory gave the Blue and White third place in the series standing, at two wins and two defeats, to put them one game behind the sec- ond-place Eastern team, which finished one game in the wake of Tech, the title winner. As the result of the de- feat, Western slipped to fourth place, with one triumph against three de- feats. Business was last, with four losses in as many starts. Victory came to Central in dramatic style. With the score standing 6-0 against his team, Capt. Gene Stevens of Central swept left, end at the start of the final session to score a touchdown, and when Sanford Ross drop-kicked the extra point Central gained the point margin which gave the Columbia Heights team victory. A fumbie by Capt. Dick Park of Western. which was recovered by Lewis Beazley, Central tac- kle set the stage for Stevens' run. Western’s touchdown came as the re- sult of a passing offensive engineered by Hunt and Cox and consisting of two | Wi successive heaves. The first netted 30 yards and brought the ball to Central's 7-yard line and the other netted the | Ross Hunt’s drop-kick for the extra B tally. point lacked height. In the late stages Western turned to the air in a desperate attempt to score, but Ross twice intercepted passes to hold the Red and White at bay. Until the third period Central’s attack was virtually nil. In this session Law- rence Plumley, right halfback, alone ac- counted for the Blue and White's initial first down of the game, through succes- sive line thrusts. Western contrived to repulse the foe at this stage, however. Stevens, Ross, Plumley and Mehler were outstanding in Central's win. Mehler played a fine game, especially on defense, in which department he has shone throughout the series. It was Mehler who took out Cox, who was all set to down Stevens as he neared the Western goal to count Central's touch- down. Quincy Owens, center, played his usual bang-up defensive game for West- ern, while the work of Hunt and Cox, other Westerners, also was noteworthy Eddie Brownfleld, dashing little West- | ern back, was literally forced from the | SPORT “SCOTCH LINE WOULDN'T GIVE” TO NOTRE DAME CHICAGO, November 21 (#).— Judge Walter P. Steffen, the com: muting coach of C: Tech, ex- plained lodni why Carnegie Scotchmen defeated Notre Dame last Saturday, and in so doing he coined a new Scotch joke. “That Scotch line,” sald the judge, “just wouldn’t give.” For 15 years Judge Steffen has been week ending in Pittsburgh, coaching the Carnegie foot ball teams. TUSCALOOSA CLASH ONLY ONE FOR TECH | ‘Tuscaloosa, Ala., High School foot ball eleven, which will entertain Tech High's team tomorrow in the Southern town, is not the only strong intersec- tional eleven which would like to meet t:\e crack - Capital schoolboy combina- tion. This morning Elmer P. (Hap) Har- dell, Tech athletic director, received a telegram from Tilden High School, Chi- cago, requesting that Tech meet its eleven on December 1, either here or in the Windy City. The Chicago overture came after a request yesterday for a contest from the Mount Vernon, N. Y., high school team. Hardell announced today, however, that_one intersectional game was all the Tech eleven could undertake that the game with Tuscaloosa would close the McKinley team’s schedule. HAGEN-FARRELL BEATEN. EUGENE, Oreg., November 21 (#).— Johnny Farrell and Walter Hagen were defeated in an exhibition golr match here yesterday by Vincent Dolp and S W. &L GRID SQUAD' HOLDS LONG DRILL Generals Are Tuning Up for Game With Maryland at Griffith Stadium. EXINGTON, Va.. November 2, —Washingion_and Lee opened its three-day preparation for the annual Maryland game in Clark Griffith stadium in Washington Saturday with a two-hour signal drill on Wilson Field yesterday. Overcast skies made visibility bad, and fumbles became quite frequent in the coldest weather of the year before darkness made it impossible to see the ball and Coach Pat Herron sent his men to the field house. Lott and Thibodeau, backs, who have started practically every game this seae .;,on‘. were l-b'dsml::l suffering from ine uries receive the Virginia Tech battle. Faulkner returned to the quarterback post, filled by Lott last week, while Eberhardt ran at one half and Jones, who replaced Thibodeau when the latter was removed from tha and | Gobbler fracas, was in the other flank back position. Gene White held down his fullback job. Jacobs, who played quite & while Saturday, hurling passes as the end of the game neared, was running the second eleven. Towel, who saw his first service in five weeks when he replaced Day ad end last week, was running regularly at the flank post, and appears to be one of the starters against the Old Don Moe, young University of Oregon students. The match was the best ball foursome, for which Dolp and Moe turned in a medal score of 66, » 34 and a 32. Hagen and Farrell totaled 69 with 34 and 35. game with a broken shoulder after the first period. He suffered the injury during the initial period. but continued until the end of the quarter and pleaded to be allowed to be kept in the game. but instead was removed to Garfield Hos- pital, where it was disclosed his shoulder had been broken., Line-up zad summary: (7. Position, Western (6) <.i..Left end Hanles Hochbaum tner Eichoitz ight suar ight tackle. Touchdowns—Cox. Stevens. Point after. touchdown—Ross_(drop-kick). Substitutions (Western)- -Eby for Brownfield. Shinkle for Seeds. H. Thempson for Worthington: (Cen- tral)—Shriver for Olsen, Milimit for Hanley, Cross for Stevens. Stevens for Cross. Ref- erce—Mr. Magofin (Michigan). _Umpire— Mr. Towers (Columbia). Head linesman— Mr. Daniels (Georgetown). FINAL SERIES STATISTICS. Team Standing. Tech Central . Western Business .. SCORES OF THE GAMES, Eastern. 6: Central. 0. Tech. 1: Business. 0 (forfeit). : Western. 0. Business. 0. ‘ec! gem; Central. 7: Western. 8. Liners, especially in view of his fine work in stopping Peake and Mattox in their attempts to circle his end for Virginia Tech. The remainder of the line ran as i} started against the Gobblers, with Sproul on the other end, Capt. Fitze patrick and Hawkins at tackles, Henry Groop and Taylor flanking center, and Snodgrass at the pivot post. — URGES SPORT HEADS TO CANCEL AIR TRIP HANOVER, N. November 21 () —President Ernest M. Hopkins of Darte x | mouth has appealed to Jess Hawley, foot ball coach, and Harry R. Heneage, s | athletic director, to cancel their plans to fly to Chicago for Saturday's footy ball game with Northwestern. 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