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s ORTS. ‘THE . EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1928. Return of Cross Bar to Goal Line Urged MOST OF COACHES IN FAVOR OF STEP Fading of Drop-Kicking and Extra-Point Failures Are Cited. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. OST coackes to whom the writer has tai:1 in the recent foot ball season nd he has talked to pretty ncarly all of them—fecl that the cross-bar of the goal posts should be returned to_the goal line. Drop-kicking has become practically a lost art and the percentage of fail- ures to kick goals after touchdowns this season has been shockingly great. Rules committeemen with whom the writer has talked about this dodge the issue. They say, “Oh, you are one of those chaps want the goal posts in the middle of the field.” ‘When pinned down to the fact that it is not advocated that the goal up- rights be on the goal line, merely the cross-bar, they say that with the up- rights 10 yards back it would be an engineering impossibility to have the cross-bar strutted forward so that it would be where it should be, at the immediate end of the playing area. Not a Difficult Matter. Any undergraduate taking an engi- neering course could answer this state- ment practically in half an hour, given the tools and materials. ¢ Probably no forceful representation concerning the restoration of the cross- bar will be made by any coach or group of coaches, if only because they realize that it is wasted effort. Rule changes originate among the rules committee- men; outside suggestions are heard with a kindly, if somewhat bored, tol- erance and then very often ignored. It is merely with this idea—rather hopeless, it must be confessed—that the writer again exhorts the rules commit- tee to take thought that its attitude about the goal bar is huring the game very seriously. And while on the subject of the rules it should be said that the off- side penalty by which punts are re- called is a decided detriment to the game inasmuch as it breaks the con- tinuity of a contest. Nothing is so irritating to the spec- tators and so discouraging to players as a beautiful booming punt which goes for naught because of offside. The issue of many an important contest has been affected by this ridiculous rule. What the rules committee should do is to change the offside rule so that the penalty for offside on a punt would be exacted at the point where the punt lands. A penalty of 15 yards against the offending team would be entirely adequate and the game could proceed without material interruption. Then the wording of rule ten should be ed; for as it stands at present such an action as that made against Marquette in the Holy Cross game seems justified. It will be recalled that the referee deprived Marquette of a chance to try for point after touchdown because of delay in getting the kick launched. Another Change Needed. Rule ten says: “If a foul is com- mitted by the side making the try (for goal) it shall forfeit its opportunity to score the additional point.” Now a foul, technically, “is any violation of a rule.” Rule 14, section 3, holds that “a delay of more than 30 seconds in putting the ball in play after it is ready for play,” is a violation of the rule. Marquette delayed more than 30 seconds, hence, under strict interpre- tation, committed a foul. Yet it was not a foul of a sort meriting a penalty 80 extreme as was imposed upon Mar- quefte. The referee had to build his decision, as it were, synthetically. and it violated the spirit while it strictly observed the letter of the rule. This should be fixed. el g = Swimmers making up the regular Centra! High team will face a combina- tion comprising alumni of the Colum- bia Heights' school tomorrow night in the Central pool. The meet, which will start at 7 o'clock, will be one of the features in connection with the meet- 4ngs of the Central Alumni Association and the Alumni Club of that school. Eastern High basketers will journey to_Leesburg, Va., tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock, to engage the Leesburg Independents. Central and Tech quints are to get action Friday, the former against Hoff- man Clothiers in a night game at Alexandria and the latter against the ‘Tech alumni in a morning match in the Boys' Club gymnasium. In preparation for the battle with the alumni, Coach Artie Boyd has called practice for the Tech squad for Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the BO&S' Club. aking up the alumni team will be players who have starred for Tech on the court for the past several seasons, and who are home for the holidays from college. ‘The group includes Bill Werber, Chalkley Councilor and Joe Croson, all now playing th Dyke University; Louis Berger and Paj Rooney, fresh- gmen at the University »f Maryland, and "Melvin Koons, an upper classman at the Old Line school. In games Friday St. John's will meet 4ts alumni in the S¢. John's gym and Eastern will travel ¢o Reading, Pa., to tackle the high schnol team there. Central will enfertain Gettysburg, Pa., High tossers in ¢he Central gym on Saturday. % ALUMNI TEAMS OF OLD RIVALS TO BATTLE MONTGOMERY¥. .la, December 25 (#)—Athletic gelations between Ala- bama’s two latgest colleges, broken 21 ears ago because of intense rivalry tween the student bodies, will be partially resumed New Year day, when slumni foot ball teams of Alabama University and Alabama Polytechnic Institute meet here. ‘The game will be for charity and its gponsors, the Junior Chamber of Com- merce of Montgomery, have expressed the hope that it may lead to resump- tion of athletic relations between under- graduate teams. Gov. Graves, himself a former Ala- bama foot ball player, will attend, as will officials of the two institutions. The alumni teams will include many stars of former years from each insti- tution. The last foot ball game between the gegular teams of the two schools ended In 2 6-to-6 tie. FORM SOCCE NEW YORK, December 25 (#).—Fol- Jowing their plan of organizing on a national scale the clubs of the Ameri- can Soccer League and the Southern New York State Foot Ball Association, which were suspended by the United States Foot Ball Association, have formed an independent association known as the American League, ! HERE'S what sports celebrities might have written to their Santa Claus—. . “I've been on my good:behavior for the last four months, so please may I have my reinstatement to amateur standing from the United States Lawn Tennis Association?” BIG BILL TILDEN. S “All that I want in this wide sport world is the old Dempsey, or a second Dempsey—the old Tun- ney, or a second Tunney. Please bring me something to bolster up the fight industry.” ‘TEX RICKARD. . e “I want but girls to conquer.” % HELEN WILLS. B “I'll take a book.” GENE TUNNEY. . e “Just for the sake of the record, I'd like the women's national golf championship for the fourth time, and please have the sport writers stop referring to me as the Bobby Jones of women’s golf.” GLENNA COLLETT. e e one thing—new “Give me another season like the last one—only let me have a pen- nant this time.” (ZONNIE MACK. “All that I want is another round just like the past season.” i ?OBBY JONES. . “You can drop in my Sock a little better financial luck with my bunion derby next Spring.” 3 C. C. PYLE. “Please just give me time to figure it out and in the meantime let's keep them guessing.” o JA.CK‘ DEMPSEY. “Just give the Bambino the chance to do some good hitting and all ’round fine playing so that the next year the newspaper boys will talk about my exhibition as being the outstanding feature of the base ball season.” Aot BABE RUTH. . “Please bring me, for the next 12 months, plenty of sport thrills. I wnn'E r;u; ;.lr:au'zlhcmve excite- ment. T’ e ave Dempse; back in the old time style aga{,n—y Just so we could enjoy another good argument in the headlines—the long count and the foul were great. “Also, after seeing Tunney, Earl Sande, Ty Cobb, Devereux Milburn, Paavo Nurmi, Lloyd Hahn and oth- ers quit this year, please do not leave me any more retirements for the coming spell.” ANY OLD FAN. John Merrick Kelly, captain of the Chicago foot ball team next season, was “mascot” of the Maroons 10 years ago. A AV AN AR NRNE Hanging Up the Sport Sock GEE WHILIKENS/ I'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND GET ANOTHER. BAG FULL ’////////4@ : NO HOLIDAY REST FOR BIG TEN FIVES Long and Intensive Drills Planned for Squads in Vacation Period. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 25.—Long hours of intensive drill are in prospect for virtually all basket ball teams of Big Ten schools during Christmas vacation. Two practice sessions dally for the University of Chicago quint has been prescribed by Coach Nels Norgen so the team will be ready for its three remain- ing practice games before the opening of the Big Ten season, January 8. At Northwestern, a spirited fight for positions has developed with three reg- ulars facing the loss of their jobs. Capt. Hal Fleichmann and Rut ‘Walter, forward and center, and al- most certain to retain their posts, but Haas, Marshall and Mundy, who start- ed the season as the other regulars, are facing stiff competition. Haas, forward, and Mundy, guard, were stricken with influenza. Berg- herm and Schultz won the commenda- tion of Coach Arthur Lonberg. The Wildcats open their season & from Saturday at Michigan. g The Maroons open their season Jan- uary 8 by engaging Purdue here. Four days after the game with Purdue, fav- orite to cop the Big Ten title, the Midway tossers will tackle Dr. Mean- well's Wisconsin five. Plenty of work for their men dur- ing the holiday period has been mapped out by coaches of other Big Ten schools. ALEXANDRIA .HIGH JOINS ATHLETIC ORGANIZATION ‘Through the efforts of its athletic di- rector, Willis H. Edmund, Alexandria High School has obtained a charter in the National Athletic Scholarship So- clety of America and.a chapter of that organization will be organized when échml reopens after the Chirstmas holi- ays. Applicants for membership must: be lettermen and are required to have . made passing grades in their studies for the three semesters preceding the filing of their application. Fleury Foster, Dave Henderson, Paul Travers, Charles Williams, Rector Green and Charles Violett, foot ball stars, are eligible to become charter members the local chapter. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND. DAVID TO JOIN G. W. U. FIVE AFTER HOLIDAYS George Washington University's bas- ket ball squad will gain a valuable ad- dition after the holidays in Tommy David, captain and forward of the ‘Colonial yearling quint last Winter. David will report for practice imme- diately after the holidays, but will not be_eligible for r&hy until February 1. Before entering George Washington David starred on the court for Strayers Business College and played gquarter- back on the Washington and Jefferson College freshmen eleven. He attended Western High. School here, performing for that school on the diamond and gfldlron. He did not play basket ball for Western because ‘of the two-sport rule then in effect. GRIDMEN PLAY TIE IN TITLE CONTEST ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 25— ‘The junior foot ball championship of Alexandria will remain unsettled this season, the Virginia Juniors and the tml bud A. C. having battled to a 6-6 e. ° The game scheduled between the Hoffman Clothiers and Central High School at Armory Hall Thursday night 'n‘t lélo is attracting- considerable in- rest. Columbia Engine Co.s newly organ- ized basket ball team is seeking games with ‘unlimited class quints, having Wum. ‘Telephone Meanager Billy tt at Alexandria, 1774 between 6 and 7 p.m. St. Mary’s basket ball teams will stage two court attractions at the Ar- mory Hall Saturday night. The pre- liminary at 7:30 will be between_ the St. Mary’'s Celtic Juniors and the Peck Memorial Juniors of Washington and the main go will be played by the St. Mary's Celtics and the American Rail- way Express of Washington at 8:30. Jack Howard has been elected pres- ident of .the Old Dominion Boat Club’s Duckpin’ League, with Dr. Nevelle J. Roberts as vice president and Robert G. Whitton as treasurer. Sylvester A. Breen, president of the Cardinal A. C., has.received an auto- graphed picture from E. S. Barnard, president of the American League. 0ld Dominion Boat:Club has sched- uled a game with the Petworth Mets for January 4, in the Macfarland Junior High Sthool gymnasium at Washington. St. Mary's Lyceum A. C. is making plans to stage a banquet in. honor of the St. Mary's Celtics, unlimited foot in | ball champions of Northern Virginia and Alexandria. N /4 \) L7/ S SRS S BTSN > S5 7/, b7 7 ‘,.,//%,? e 3r WHITE AT CONSOLE IN ORGAN RECITAL Eveready Hour to Be Main Attraction of WRC’s Pro- gram Tonight. The Eveready Hour, presenting an or- gan recital with a program arranged to take full advantage of the varied possibilities of the modern pipe organ, will be the out- | standing feature of WRC's Christmas night program. Lew: White, fa- mous American or- ganist, will be at the console. Two soloists will assist him—Janet Dard- jer and Justin Bu- chard. White has selected familiar and tuneful num- bers for the pro- gram, including a musical novelty, “Musical Snuff Box.” Lew White, New Attraction Listed. WRC also will introduce a new at- traction tonight to be known as the Prophylactic Program. The initial pres- entation will feature Lilllan Taiz, pop- ular musical comedy and radio soprano; a novelty orchestra and a male quartet. Miss Taiz will sing Moret’s “Chloe,” and “Love Me or Leave Me,” from “Whoopee.” The quartet’s contributions | will be “Old Man Sunshine,” “Lindy Lou” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” The Morley Singers, the Mediterra- neans and the Clicquot Eskimos will provide WRC’s other main attractions. John Morley, cellist, will be the star of the broadcast of the singers, while the Mediterraneans will play as their special feature a new arrangement of Tschai- kowsky's piano concerto in flat minor. The program of the Eskimos will be composed entirely of dance se- lections. Novelty to Be Presented. Aside from two Columbia Broadcast- ing System attractions, WMAL's Christ- msa program will be made up entirely of local features. A 20-minute pro- gram by the Washingtonians, a new mixed quartet, will be the specialty. A Christmas novelty will be presented, however, by Violet Warren Pierson and Dorothy Sherman Pierson. BOXING CARD ARRANGED. In the boxing program to be staged by the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. in that city January 12 four representatives of the City Club of Washington will ap- pear. They are Stewart Ball, lights weight; Leighton Minor, light heavy- weight, and Bill Stanley and Kenneth Bryan, middleweights. Jones’ Conception Of Long-Short Pass € et A8 BY SOL METZGER. Ralph Jones’ conception of the combination long and short pass at- tack in basket ball at Purdue some years back was to have one of the players on attack lay back and move about to the rear of the advance. He is No. 5 in the diagram. 5's duty was to annoy his opponent and to keep well to his rear. Then, when his teammate No. 1 was able to regain the rebound from an op- ponent’s failure to shoot a goal, No. 1 knew that No. 5 was free. Xe would hook pass to him. The other feature of the play that demanded alert work was for No. 2 and No. 3, the forwards, leaders on the attack, to break free of their guards in a driving rush, each down his own side of the court toward the basket. As Nos. 2 and 3 broke by No. 5 his job was to turn the pass to one or the other. Unlike the play of this type used by Texas, described yesterday, No. 2 and No. 3 did not drive straight down the sidelines. (Copyright. 1928.) —BY BRIGGS 7 A /272 77547, 7, 7 7/ 7 % ALY . i . Today on » PROGRAM FOR TUESD. otherwise 434.5—NAA—690. (Washington Navy Yard.) 3:45—Weather Bureau reports. 9:55—Arlington time signals. 10:05—Weather Bureau reports. | 228.9—WOL—1,310. [ (American Broadcasting Co.) | 12:00 to 1:00—Organ recital by Paul De Long Gabel from First Congregational Chureh. 10:00 to 12:00—Dance music. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:30a—Musical clock. a—Stock market letter. ‘chat 0a—Adyertisers’ period. 475.9—WMAL—630... - (Washington Radio Forumi)* 6:00—"Pointers for Taking “Oare of That”Auto Santa Claus Left in Your Btoeking,” by George E. Kenelpp,-A. A. A. 6:20—“Central High School’s Alumni Reunien,” by Sylvan N. King. B8:30—Gude’s flover girl. 00— Thirty Club. 7:15—"“The Farmer’s Santa Claus,” by M. D. Bowers, University of Maryland. 7:30—Correct_time. 1—Radio Joe and his Budget Boys. 8:00—The Washingtonians, a mixed quartet. 0—Chevrolet presentation. :25—*"Christmas in Story and Song,” { by Violet Warren Pierson, read- er, and Dorothy Sherman Pier- son, soprano. 8:45—New Columbia feature. 9:00—Hank Simmons’ Show Boat (C. B. 8.). 10:00—"“H. M. S. Pinafore,” by United Light Opera Co. (C. B. S.). 11:00—Wrigley hour featuring Wendall Hall and Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (C. B. 8.). 12:00 to 12:15a—News flashes. 454.3—WEAF New York—660 4:30—Auction bridge. 6:00—Dinner music. 7:00—Morley Singers. 7:30—Sketches. 8:00—Mediterraneans. 8:30—To be announced. 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Eskimos. 10:30—Cassinelli and Sevillanos. 11:00—Dance hour. !94.5;-WJZ New York—760 6:00—Dance hour. 7:00—Smalle and Robertson. 7:30—In Memory’s Garden. 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9:00—Christmas readings. 9:30—Minstrels. 10:00—Great composers, 11:00—Slumber hour. 422.3—WOR Newark—710 4:00—Orchestra; organist. 6:00—Carillon; Song of Twilight. | 7:30—Organ music. | 8:00—Main street. | 9:00—"Tolerance” (2 hours). 348.6-—WABC New York—860 2:00—Special Christmas program. 6:00—Feature program. 7:15—Songs. 7:30—Rock Boys. 8:00—Tucker's Orchestra. 0—At the switch tower. 0—Showboat. 0— Voice of Columbia. :00—Dance music (2 hours). 272.6—WLWL New York—1,100 Silent. 272.6—WPG Atlantic City—1,100 Silent. 282.8—WBAL Baltimore—1,060. 11:00a—Christmas service. 0—Christmas recital. 5—Christmas address. 6:00—Sandman. 6:30—Artist recital. 7:00—Motorists. | 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9:00—Christmas carols. 9:30—Minstrels. | 10:00—The Pattersons. 256.3—WCAU Philadelphia—1,170 6:30—Specials; finance program. 7:30—Instrumental. 9:00—Blue room; Coeds..__ 10:00—Hawalians; orchestra. 11:00—News; dance music. 305.9—KDKA Pittsburgh—980 6:00—Concert. . 6:30—Charles W. Hamp. 7:15—Sacred songs. 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9:00—Feature. 9:30—Minstrels. 10:00—Happiness program 10:30—Orchestra. 260.7—WHAM Rochester—1,150 0—Dinner music. 7:00—Newscasting; feature. 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9 : 10:05—Musical; news. 379.5—WGY Schenectady—790 6:30—Dinner music. 7:30—Sketches. 8:00—Journeys around the world. 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Eskimos. . 10:30—Dance program. 11:30—Television transmission. AY, DECEMBER 23, 1928 (Meters on left of call letters, kilocycles on right. All time p.m. unless the Radio indicated.) 315.6—WRC—950. (National Broadcasting Co.) 1:30—Mayflower Orchestra. 2:00—Orpheus Trio (N. B. C). 3:00—;}!? evolution of Christmas (N. €. 4:00—Fifth Avenue Knights (N. B. C.). NETWORKS OFFER EAPANDEDSERVICE | Nationak" Chains “t6 Give Nightly Treats to Entire Country. 4:30—Auction bridge game (N. B. C.). —Twilight in Dixie (N. B. C.). :55—Motion picture guide. GIOD—\galgarr-Aswnn Orchestra ) 5 | 8 (N. 6:30—Capitol Fur String Ensemble. 7:00—The Morley Singers (N. B. C.). 7:30—Lotus Orchestra. 8:30—Prophylactic program (N.B.C.). 9:00—Eveready hour (N. B. C.). 10:00—Clicquot Takimos (N. B. C.). 10:30—Correct {fme (N. B. C.). 10:31—Weather_forecast. 10:32—Work of great composers (N. B. C). 11:00 '.ocl%,ODASlumber music (N. B. Early Program Tomorrow. 6M5a—Tower health exercises (N. B. C. 8:00a—Federation morning devotions (N. B. C). 8:15a—Parnassus Trio (N. B. C.). 8:30a—Cheerio (N. B. C.). 8:50a—Parnassus Trio (N. B. C.). 9:00a—Studio program (N. B. C.). 9:15a—Harry Merker and his orches- tra (N. B. C.). 10:00a—National home hour (N.B.C.). 11:00a—Parnassus Trio (N. B. C.). 11:15a—Radio Household Institute (N. B. C). 11:30a—Charles Premmac and Kennedy Freeman (N. B. C.). 11:45a—"Outdoor Winter Gardening,” by Leonard Barron (N. B. C.). 12:00 noon—Farm flashes. 12:10—Organ recital by Mrs. Amstutz Roberts. 1:15—“Farm and Home Facts,” by the Department of Agriculture. 1:30—Mayflower Orchestra. 2:00—Billy Rhodes, baritone (N.B.C.). 2:15—Orpheus Trio (N. B. C.). 3:15—"Shakespeare Songs,” by Mme. Eyer Rothwell (N. B. C.). 3:30—Studio program (N. B. C.). Fanny OUT-OF-TOWN STATIONS Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern standard time. 302.8—WBZ Springfield—990 6:00—Orchestra and features. 7:00—Spotlight review. 7:05—Orchestra. 7:30—WJZ_ program. 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9:00—Musical program. 9:30—Minstrels. 10:00—WBZA Ensemble. 10:30—Sports: orchestra. SOUTHERN. 405.2—WSB Atlanta—740 7:00—Orchestras; question box. 8:00—Feature; Neighborhood program 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Eskimos. 11:45—Orchestra. 277.6—~WBT Charlotte—1,080 7:30—Studio program. 10:00—Eskimos. 365.6—~WHAS Louisville—820 7:30—Studio concert. 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Eskimos. 10:30—Liberty program. 11:00—Studio concert. 11:15—Hotel orchestra. 461.3—WSM Nashville—650 7:30—3tudio ensemble; newscasting. 8:00—Orchestra. 8:30—Studio. 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Eskimos. 10:30—Musical programs. 270.1—WRVA Richmond—1,110 6:00—Christmas carols; trio. 9: 9: 10:00—Christmas cantata. 11:00—Virginia Troubadours. 12:00—Carry Me Back. 258.5—~WWVA Wheeling—1,160 6:00—Farm flashes. 6:05—Outdoors; feature. CENTRAL. A 293.9—KYW Chicago—1,020 11:00a—Christmas_services. i ; Eskimos. 10:30—Orchestra. 11:00—News; slumber music. 12:00—Orchestra; Insomnia Club. 416.4—WGN-WLIB Chicago—720 8:00—Radio Floorwalker. 9:00—Diversified hour. 10:00—Christmas show. 11:00—Features; popular (21 hours). 447.5—WMAQ Chicago—670 10:30—Christmas program. 11:00—Amos-Andy; orchestra, 11:25—DX Club; orchestra. 12:00—Dance music (3 hours). 428.3—WLW Cincinnati—700 6:30—Diners. 7:00—Orchestra. 7:30—Sohio program. 8:00—Symphony orchestra. 9:00—Musical program. 10:00—Cossacks. 11:00—Singing school. 11:30—Trio. 12:00—Dance hour. 280.2—WTAM-WEAR Cleveland—1,070 6:00—Piano; orchestra. 7:00—Christmas music. 8:00—The Mediterraneans (N.B.C.). | BY MARTIN CODEL. The season’s greetings from the great broadeasting chains come in the form of expanded service. National networks, hitherto joined only occasionally on ac- count of the prohibitive costs of the coast-to-coast telephone links, will now |offer nightly treats to the radio audi- ence of the whole country. Talent from the studios of New York and Chicago will be heard regularly in i every nook and cranny of the land. The network set-ups are flexible enough to enable the audiences east of the Rockies to receive programs originating in Pa- | cific Coast studios also, a feature of | Nation-wide broadcasting in which the chain organizations seem to have been ! strangely remiss. The Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast areas will gain most from the new alighments of stations, for they will get choice offerings from the East every night. The South benefits by the extension of one of the chains into that section. The National Broadcasting Co. per- manently linked its Nation-wide net- work on Christmas Eve. It will serve its stellar programs to the whole hook- up for one, two or three hours every I night. The Columbia Broadcasting Sys- | tem, scheduled to add 22 new stations Christmas night, has deferred until Tuesday, January 8, the inauguration of its service to a 49-station chain. The new National Broadcasting Co. telephone circuits west of Denver and Salt Lake City will enable the follow- ing stations to obtain its Eastern pro- grams at will: KPO, San Francisco; KGO, Oakland; KFI, Los Angeles: KGW, Portland; KOMO, Seattle, and KHQ, Spokane. The new Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem’s extensions mean the offering of its New York and Chicago programs regularly to the following stations: WRVA, Richmond; WTAR, Norfolk; WWNC, Asheville; WLAC, Nashville; ‘WDOD, Chattanooga; WBRC, Birming- ham; WREC, Memphis; WCCO. Minne- apolis; WISN, Milwaukee; WWL, New Orleans; KFJF, Oklahoma City; KFH, Wichita; WRLD, Dallas; KTSA, San Antonio; KTHS, Hot Springs; KLZ, Denver; KDYL, Salt Lake City; KYA, San Francisco; KMTR, Los Angeles; KTR, Scattle;. KEX, Portland, and KGA, Spokene. The National Broadcasting Co. has announced that the new telephone cir- cuits specially installed for carrying musical tcnes will cost it about $225,000 a year. Columbia’s land line installa- tion to the Pacific Coast, already in use cn Sunday nights only, will probably | cost as much, while its new lines into the South represent a big outlay. The Columbia Broadcasting System’s expan= sion program contemplates an expendi- ture of $2,500,000, according to Dr. Leon Levy, vice president. (Copyright, 1926, by North Newspaper Alliance. \BEAR AND TORNADO PRIME FOR BATTLE By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., December 25.— Christmas was just another training day for the Golden Bear of California and the Golden Tornado of Georgia, which teams will represent the West and East her New Year day in the rose tourna- ment grid classic. Coach Bill Alexander sent his Geo: Tech engineers through a set of g exercises for the pleasure of the camera- men yesterday, and was prepared today to lock the gates on occidental college’s gridiron and begin real work. ‘The University of California team, under the tutelage of Coach Clarence M. (Nibs) Price, planned to maintain its strenuous - program of morning and afternoon practices behind the bolted gates of the tournament stadium. ‘When the players hung their foot ball socks last night on the mantels of Pasa- dena’s two finest hostelries, their pleas to Santa Claus were more for a few touchdowns on January 1 than a re- quest for striped neckties today. Georgia Tech’s aggregation of pigskin jugglers unlimbered nicely after its cross-country jaunt, and was ready fo» the process of acclimation. The fact that the climate here is not so different from that of the home of the yellow zephyr was counted as an item in favor of their conditioning up to the point of withstanding the balmy weather. CONGRESSIONAL OPENS ITS NEW RANGE TODAY Congressional Country Club’s new American Itrnpshooung range is to be opened to- day at 2:30 o'clock, whén members and guests will engage in a turkey shoot. One trap has been completed and two others are being installed. RADIO’S MAJOR FEATURES 'TONIGHT. 7:30—Sketches: “A 8:00—Musical feature. 10 . 10:30—Musical. 11:00—Dance music (2 hours). 398.8—WCX-WJR Detroit—750 6:00—Baritone; dinner music. 7:00—Orchestra. 7:30—Industrial Detroit; financlers. 8:00—Air Weavers. 8:30—Tiremen. 9:00—Cigar Girls. 9:30—Minstrels. 10:00—Red Apple Club (2 hours). STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE Tommy Armour won the Sacramento oren when he had fully decided not to play in the event. Tommy, it seems, had been engaged by a wealthy Californian to play golf with him for a week, for which he was to recelve guite a worth while piece of change. But the Cali- fornian was suddenly called to New York and had to cancel the engage- ment with Armour. So Tommy moved up to Sacramento. And he won the tour- | ‘ney with strokes to spare. Just what Armour intends to do about the post at Congresional may not be known until March, for the understand- ing at Congressional is that the club is still in negotiation with the crack pro- fesional, hose contract does not expire until March 31. Tommy is negotiating with the Tam O'Shanter Club of De-| troit, but to date no agreement has been reached. Meanwhile the Congressional golf committee is in receipt of several ap- plications for the post which Armour them are from out of town professionals and at least one from a well known tenth green until Spring. He has prac- tically completed the new second green, but with the ground virtually unwork- able during the Winter, he will post- pone construction work on the new tenth until frost leaves the ground. In the meantime, he is satisfied with the way the creek has been moved at the twelfth hole, where the fairway has been' widen- ed about 20 yards by moving the creek over toward the fourteenth fairway. Dr. Brown ‘Ylans to undertake an ex- tensive fertilizing program during the Winter, which he hopes will clothe the Bannockburn hills and putting surfaces in heavy grass next Summer. | Alex A. Armour of Congressional will probably not be in charge of the golf shop in New York at which he was head instructor last year. The school has been moved and Armour plans to remain in Washington during the Win- T The new organization of green keep- may vacate in the Spring. Some of| ers o { the mid-Atlantic section is ex- pectéd by O. P. Fitts, president of the association, to go far toward a system local pro. But nothing will be done| of mutual aid in coping with grass and local pro. But nothing will be done wefl)‘:fl cmdmompmgmu section of about the post until negotiations with | the country. Armour are broken off, and it is defi- nitely settled one way or ington next year. All the rumors that fly around in &5 nce of any definite information about Ar-|the Capital have been invited. mour may be put down as so much hot air. Meanwhile Congressional has noth- ing official to say about the matter. Dr. T. J. W. 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