Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 37

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. SPORTS.’ 37 Drastic Grid Rule Changes Unlikely : Hudkins and DeVos to Fight Tomorrow PLAN TO END TIES APPEARS DOOMED Warner’s Suggestion to Let First Downs Tell Meets With Little Favor. By the Associated Precs. EW ORLEANS, La. December 27.—Foot ball coaches repre- senting almost every erican university and college were in New Orleans today to attend the twenty-third annual convention of the National Association of Foot Ball Coaches, and many proposed changes in the rules will be debated during the meenng. which extends through Satur- y. Among the later arrivals were 70 Eastern coaches, headed by Glenn (Chick) Meehan of the New York Uni- versity, who .came to New Orleans on & special train. Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Lou Little of Georgetown, reached New Orleans yesterday. Executive sessions were on today's program and it is thought that many of the proposed changes in the rules, including “Pop” Warner's plan to elimi- nate tie games by awarding victory to the team making the most number of first downs in cases where actual scor- ing is tied, will be presented. The coaches will hold an open meet- ing tomorrow, but the final day will be devoted to executive discussion and adoption of the rules for 1929. Warner's plan to end tle games has not a strong following, apparertly, many leading coaches expressing oppo- sition to the plan. Coach Stagg, was one of the more outspoken, declaring the foot ball public seems to be satisfied with the present luck element in the game and he saw no reason for adopting the Warner proposal. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. As lightning on a Summer night plays about the edges of clouds, so the quips, the subtle humor, the barbed thrusts of the coaches will enliven the solemn proceedings of the week end in New Orleans, where the National Asso- ciation of Foot Ball Coaches and the National Collegiate Athletic Association will be in session. Relieving the serious political ma- neuverings of the N. C. A, the ingen- ious report of the foot ball rules com- mittee that everything is well with the game and the grave technical discus- sions of the coaches will be the antics of the humorists, unconscious and oth- erwise, who annually disport themselves at the coaches’ meetings and make them celightful. Bob Zuppke will appear with a new point on the lance which he reserves for Knute Rockne and Knute, as usual, will meet him without a shield, but with a perfectly good lance of his own. Both laugh at their wounds in the sheer Joy of giving them. But Zupp will have more than Rockne on his hands this year. Meeting Bob Spears of Minnesota, he will have to laugh off his recent juggling of the sou- briquet, “Thundering Herd,” by which the Gophers are fondly known, into “Der Blundering Herd.” And he will have to explain to Pop Warner what he meant when he said, bétween the halves of the Army-Stan- ford game, that he could throw a mon- key wrench into the mechanism of the Warner offense, And don't think he won't explain. YALE-CHICAGO GAME IN 1931 RUMORED CHICAGO, December 27 (#).—The Chicago Tribune today said it has learned from reliable sources that Yale's foot ball team will invade Stagg Field for a game with the University of Chicago in 1931. If the game is played, it will be Yale's first Western gridiron invasion unless another is unexpectedly scheduled in the meantime. Announcement of the game, the Tribune said, will be made at. luncheon here ¥ the Yale Club’s annual father-and-son NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, December 27 (#)—No comment from Yale Univer- sity authorities was available on a re- port from Chicago that Yale's foot ball team would play the University of Chi- cago at Stagg Field, Chicago, in 1931, By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Tuffy Griffiths, Sioux City, outpointed Garfield John- son, Pittsburgh (10). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Johnny Simpson, San Antonio, stopped Spike Kelly, Chicago (5). YANKS RELEASE REESE TO OAKLAND ON OPTION NEW YORK, December 27 (4#).—The New York Yankees have announced re- lease of James Reese on option to Oak- land of the Pacific Coast League, the club he now is with. Reese, the young second baseman who was purchased a year ago with Lynford Lary, shortstop, for 1929 delivery, was sick most of last season and did not have a good year. ¢ OVER NOwW So FoR GET GOLF AND PUT THING ELSE- Go AND TUNE IN ON Tu& RADIO~- LET'S HAVE SOME MUSIC AND CHEER UP THE GoLE SEASOM IS ' GOODNESS SAKE FOR- YOoUR MIND ON SOME- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN \ AM NOW To HAVE THE GREAT PLEASURE OF INTRODUCING T You MR. GENE SARAZEN \WHO WILL TALK o You ©N THE USE OF IRONS T HE REALLY NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION ~— = MR. SARAZ EN~ TS FOR THE GOLF NEXT MONTH- GANG Central High School's crack swim- ming team has lost two of its most de- pendable members and several other clever performers through failure to make the scholastic grade, it became known today. Of 50 members on Coach F. J. Brun- ner’s squad 25 are now ineligible at least until February, when the next advisory marks go in. Mayhew, breast-stroke stalwart, and Berezoski, 220-yard performer, are the tl;;t; outstanding natators who have been Central's next meet will be Baltimore City College on January 11 in the new pool at the Baltimore school. Central drubbed Baltimore City, 42 to 27, in the Central pool early this month. Three basket ball games involving schoolboy teams of the District group are carded tomorrow. In matches here Tech will meet the alumni team in the Boys Club gym at 10:30 o'clock and St. John's College tossers have an engagement with their alumni in the Saints’ gym. Eastern High will travel to Reading, Pa.,, to meet the high school team there. It had been thought that this game would not be played, but it has been decided to go through with it. The Eastern squad will leave here tomorrow morning. Central High will engage Hoffman Clothiers in Alexandria tonight in the only contest of the day in which a ‘Washington schoolboy team will figure. Alumni swimmers of Central High School triumphed over the regular Blue and White team, 32 to 30, last night in the Central pool. ‘It was the first defeat of the campaign for the Central team. Nine points scored in fancy diving and eight in the relay hel, the HELLo - THis You FRANK? IS RAY MCSCARTHY - HOW ABOUT GOING SOUTH AND YoU ASK ME To FORGET TOURNAMENT! 2 A BIG IS GOING - GET OUT YOUR.GOLE THING S 4 Y ©1088 NV TRIBUNE iNC. i CENTRAL SWIMMING TEAM HAS LOST SEVERAL STARS ex-Centralites and Capt. King for the undergraduate team were outstanding. Summaries: 200-yard _rel by Alumni (Bates, 220-yard dash—Won by ¥, Gordon (C. cond, Peters (A.); third, Wyvill (A.). -yard dash. Won s (C); third. Saunders ( 100-yard backsiroke—Won by Varella (C.); ; third, Squire (C.) 00-yard free style—Won by King second, Leverton (C.); third, Bonnet (A. Fancy diving—Won by Glasscock (A ond, Sanford (A.); third, Lyman (C.). The Christmas meeting of the Alumni C Club of Central, slated to have been held last night, was postponed until a night next week to be announced. Election of officers and other business are to come before the meeting. Eastern High basketers journeyed to Leesburg, Va., last night and hung a 43-23 pastipg on the Leesburg !ndi- pendents. It was the first dafeat sul- fered by Leesburg in a season and a half, during which the Virginians had registered 18 victories. Eastern led all the way, but it was not until the final half that the District scholastics gained a sizable margin Robey, with 14 points was -Eastern's high scorer. Weber and Noonan also starred for the Light Blue and White. Announcement has been made that Morton Wilner, son of Joseph A. Wil- ner of this city, has been awarded the $250 prize offered by Phi S8igma Delta national fraternity for his outstanding work as a student and athlete and for His campus activities, . ‘Wilner, former Central High School foot ball and base ball star, and now a third-year student at the University of Pennsylvania, has earned his varsity letter both in foot ball and,base ball. He will captain the base ball team next alumni cause materially. Bates for the To Directing grand old man of the Big Ten athletcs,” Amos Alonzo Finding his duties as athletic direct- or and foot ball coach bearing heavily his protege, Ned Merri- am, one of the greatest runners ever mediately. Stagg coached his first Chicago track America. His teams won the Big Ten outdoor title four times and the indoor been a leader in the movement to pro- mote amateur track competition. ference 440-yard run all three years and the 220-yard low hurdles in 1907 A sum reported to be nearly $100,000 was paid for the two youngsters. By the Associated Press. CHICAOO, December 27.—“The Stagg of the University of Chi- cago, has retired as track coach. him and requiring all his time, has turned the track coaching to burn up a cinder track for the Maroons. The change is effective im- team in 1896 and in point of service was the oldest active college track coach in championship three times. For more than a quarter of a century he has Merriam competed on Chicago’s team from 1906 to 1908, winning the con- and 1908. He has been Coach Stagg's assistant during the past year. WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. ILLIAN RIXEY, well known Washington sportswoman, has just added another victory to her tennis laurels, according to reports received from Port-au- Prince, Haiti, where she captured the service women’s net championship re- cently in a brilliant display of skill Miss Rixey 1s one of the most color- ful racketers of her sex who has ever performed on District courts, and de- spite her lack of height is exceptional- ly good at overhead net play. She is a former champion of Western High School and of the Connecticut Wom- an’s College, as well as being ranked among the first 16 women in the senior class here in Washington when she oempeted here two years ago. She is expected .to return to Wash- ington next year, and doubtless will resume her activities on local courts. Her father, Col. Presley M. Rixey, jr., of the Marine Corps, is stationed now at Port-au-Prince. Tennis is not the only sport at which Lillian Rixey excelled during her school days in Washington. She was voted the ouistanding all-around sportswoman at Western her senior year. She was one of the crack basket ball and hockey players of the school, and was known 85 a skilled horsewoman. Hine Junior High School athletes, having completed their annual inter- class block ball series and also their picked team championship, expect to turn their attention to an intersem- ter t ball loop as soon practice - has bep! Wut MII‘.M;".M i i a e e Dt} W RS S Just before the holidays the block ball enthusiasts staged the “picked-team championship,” a serles of two-out-of three games between teams picked by officers of the athletic association from the ranks of the semester squads and comprising the strongest players in school. Mary Agnes Williamson, presi- dent of the association during the Fall term, selected one squad while Bertha Wilkinson, vice president, chose the other. Miss Williamson's team was called the Peanuts and Miss Wilkin- son’s the Doughnuts. The Peanuts won the series in two stsaight games, scor- ing a 6-5 victory in the first and tri- umphing by a 5-1 count in the second. Members of the winning squad were Bertha Wilkinson, captain; Agnes, Wil- liamson, Helen Southall, Elizabeth Whit- ney, Frieda Ricketts, Mae Chamberlin, Isabel Lowery, Gertrude Tew, Margaret, Cosimano, Betty Arth, Ruth Kalden- back, Lou Bryde and Helena Kelly. Ramsay Nevitt, physical training di- rector, was the official referee. Following the resignation of Miss ‘Williamson as president, Miss Wilkin- son was elected to that office at the final meeting of the assocaition before | the holidays. Margaret Hayden was selected vice president, Lou Bryde sec- retary and Ruth Kaldenback treasurer. Capitol Athletic Club swimmers will not meet tonight for their weekly prac- tice, but will hold a tank session next Thursday evening as usual in the Jew- ish Community Center Spring. Stagg to Give All His Time and Grid Team NEW ORLEANS, December 27 (#).— Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg of the Uni- versity of Chicago has reached New Orleans to attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Foot Ball Coaches, with the opinion that lection of an all-America team is an ‘absurdity.” “How can any one do it?” he asked. “Why, it takes a foot ball coach in in- timate contact with his men two or three weeks and sometimes longer to know which is the best player on his own team for a certain position. “So how can a so-called foot ball expert, who has to pick from the entire United States, know which man in the country is the best for a particular position? It can’t be done. “There is no measuring rod for an all-America eleven. Some players may be brilliant in running with the ball and very poor at defense, but they are placed on the championship team. I never would pick a man unless he was an all-round player. But, then, I couldn’t pick an all-America team.’ ‘There was a time, perhaps, when the coach was in sympathy with the annual custom. That was back in 1889 when Walter Camp picked the first all-America team, with Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yale end, on the eleven. “In those days it was recognized that Yale, Harvard and Princeton had the best foot ball teams in the country, and it was easy to pick an all-America team,” he said. “But in a few years players from other colleges were in- cluded, and it soon became an im- possibility to select the best players.” Asked his opinion of the proposals to begin the second half of a foot ball game where the first half left off, and, in the case of a tie, to declare the team victorious which had the most first downs, he said the fans seemed satisfied with the present rules, “It does seem unjust,” he added, “to let one team make a touchdown by driving the ball down the fleld and then let the other tie the score by a lucky fumble, but that is a thrill the foot ball fans enjoy. This keeps the element of luck in the games and nearly every- body has some gambling instinct.” He sald both proposals, the first by Coach Rodgers of West Virginia Univer- sity and the second by ‘Warner of Stanford, ha but added that foot ball fans might be less sati it the present rules were changed. Failure of foot ball teams to attempt more field goals puzzled the coach. “I suppose it is the old gambling in- stinct,” he said. “The quarterback fig- ures that three points from a fleld goal would not do much good, while six or seven points from a touchdown would help a lot. So he tries for a touch- down instead of a field goal. “But I believe that more points would be made by trying for every field goal within reach instead of taking a chance on a touchdown. But better foot ball is played now than in the good old days. “Why, they start. | pl‘yix’u_ noy when kins You EXPECT ME Te YouRE WANTED oN"THE TELE~ PHOME FRANK= CHEER UP = SMILE CAN'T You. T I FORGETTING GOLF. —BY BRIGGSI LADIES ARD GENTLEMEN The USE of IRONS IN - THE GREAT GAME OF GOLF ¥ » FORGET ~- \'LL FORGET {F THE REST OF THOSE BIRDS WILL~-~ WHY PICK ON ME - ('M JUST LIKE AnNY OTHER HUMAN BEING— SHARKEY-STRIBLING GO REGARDED AS CERTAIN NEW YORK, December 27 (#).— The New York Times says today that Tex Rickard will announce to- morrow from Miami, Fla., that he has signed Jack Sharkey to fight Yolll;g Stribling at Miami on Febru- ary 26. The Times says it learns that the differences between the promoter and Sharkey have been patched up and the boxer’s financial demands met by a compromise, and that the only thing that remains is for Rick- ard to make certain of his guarantee to Sharkey of a disinterested out-of- town referee. A condition .of the agreement is that Sharkey must defeat K. P. Christner, Akron, Ohio, heavyweight, in their bout here January 25. In the event Sharkey is defeated, Paulino Uzcudun probably will re- place him. BEARS NOW READY FOR GEORGIA TECH So Far Advanced for Clash on New Year Day That Practice Reduced. By the Assoclated Press. PASADENA, Calif.,, December 27.— Ten workouts in six days have put the University of California Bears into such shape that beginning today they will undergo but one practice session daily until their meeting in the Rose Bowl on New Year day with the Golden Tornado of Georgila Tech. “Nibs” Price, Bear coach, announced his satisfaction with workout progress by telling his charges that their load had been thus lightened. Coach Bill Alexander encountered some adversity yesterday when the Georgia _Tornados’ regular guard, Raleigh Drennon and his understudy, Jim Brooke, were sent to camp to re- cover from fevers. The day was not a total wreck for Alexander," however, because he is said to have witnessed .1 highly satisfactory ecrimmage ses- sion. It was Tech’s first heavy scrimmage since arriving here. The Yellow Jack- ets, who worked behind locked gates, showed that California would have no easy task in upholding Western foot ball prestige. The workout was in the form of a long drill against California formations. From the ticket offices today came the announcement that 8,500 tickets still remained unsold, but that the 8. R. O. sign probably would be hung out before New Year day. The bowl 1150 (%10‘58 made ready to seat more than G. U. BEGINS SERIES IN NORTH TONIGHT Opening a five-game stand in and around New York, Georgetown Uni- versity basketers tonight will engage Columbus Council, Knights of Columbus, tossers in Brooklyn. Saturday night the Hoyas will face the strong Crescent A. C. quint at Brooklyn and on January 2 will take the floor against Yale in part of a double-header in the Yale tournament at New Haven. New York University will meet Holy Cross in the other match. The winners will face for the title the following night, with the losers clashing for runner-up honors. New York A. C. tossers will offer the Blue and Gray its last opposition be- fore the Georgetown tossers come home. The game will be played in New York January 5. Following that clash the Hoyas will return to Washington to prepare for a home match here with Duke University January 8 and other rivals to be met on floors here. Candidates for George Washingten University ’s freshman basket ball team are drilling daily during the holidays under direction of Coach Rusty Thomp- son. As their home floor is being re- surfaced the yearlings are working in the Y. M. C. A, gym. Leading candidates include Jeweler, Hoover, Castell, Perry and Leverton. Games for the Colonial freshmen are being scheduled as preliminaries to the G. W. varsity matches. BIDDLE HAS ARRANGED RECEPTION AFTER BOUT NEW YORK, December 27 (#).—An- thony J. Drexel Biddle, jr., manager of Rene Devos, Belgian middleweight, has arranged an informal reception to be held at the St. Regis Hotel tomorrow night after Devos’ battle with Ace Hud- in Madison Square Garden. hisAinyitatjons Canadiens BLE WILL COACH NEBRASKA ELEVE Leaves Southern Methodist to Take Gridiron Berth Vacated by Bearg. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo, December 27.— Coaching of the Dixie brand of foot ball, inaugurated in the Big Six Con- ference in the first year of its existence this year by Bo McMillin, will be con- ducted at a second conference school next Fall by Dana X. Bible, newly named head foot ball coach at the Uni- versity of Nebraska. Coach Bible, who goes to the Corn- husker institution to succeed Coach Ernest E. Bearg, will meet Coach Mc- Millin, the famous all-American Centre College star of 1921, in a new role when Nebraska engages the Kansas Aggies in foot ball at Manhattan next Fall, the role of Coach vs. Coach. Their last meeting was as Coach vs. Player during McMillin’s student days, and Bible, who ranks with McMillin as-| among the greatest athletes the tiny college at Danville, Ky., ever produced, held the upper hand in his capacity as coach of Texas A. & M. That meeting was at College Station at the end of an all-victorious season for Centre's Praying Colopels. Follow- ing their startling 6-to-0 victory over Hurvard and other upsetting decisions Centre headed West for a_post-season game on the Pacific Coast. The Colonels stopped over for a practice game with the Texas Aggies, and Coach Bible’s powerful team knocked Centre's aspira- ;lons by administering a 21-to-14 de- eat. Bible was born in Tennessee, attend- ed Centre and the University of North Carolina, then came to Texas to ac- quire foot ball fame. Since becoming head coach at Texas A. & M. in 1917 he has won five Southwestern Confer- ence championships. McMillin is a native of Texas, and went over into the old South to prove his mastery on the gridiron. As quar- terback of the famous Praying Colonel team he twice was chosen all-American quarterback, and has been called the all-time all-American quarterback. He came to the Kansas State Agri- cultural College this year, but, due to lack of material, had an unsuccessful season. : Former coaches in the Kansas Con- ference hold down three of the other four coaching berths of the Big Six. CHANGE IN HOCKEY STANDINGS CERTAIN By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—Every night of play in the National Hockey League offers a few points of interest in the standings as well as the games. The three contests on the schedule to- night are not exceptions to this rule, for they bring up at least three inter- esting questions of what may happen. The game in Madison Square Garden brings up the problem of whether Chi- cago’s lowly Blackhawks, who came to life Christmas night long enough to trounce the Boston Brumns, can keep up the pace against the league-leading New York Americans. After looking very bad all season, Chicago suddenly put on a good display while the Ameri- cans were doing at least as well in beating the Rangers. of 'znlght'n three games, this is the only one that can bring no change in the standings. Chicago, last in the American group, is three points behind Pittsburgh, while the Americans are a. game ahead of the Montreal Maroons, second in the International, who are idle. Pittsburgh, entertaining at Toronto, has before it the possibility of tying Boston for the third place in the Amer- ican group after a long climb. With victories in their last two games, the Pirates are only two points behind the Bruins, who have lost five of their last six, t-nd Boston is not scheduled to- ‘The Detroit Cougars are second by three points to the New York Rangers in the American group and can cut the margin to a point by beating Les Canadiens at Montreal. The last con- test between these teams brought a 5-to-1 victory for Detroit, which prob- ably will not be repeated. The Canadian contestants in these two games are staging a close race for third place in_ their group. The Ca- nadiens lead by one point and are three behind the Maroons. By a victory or a tie tonight, the French- men could hold their position in the standing, while the Maple Leafs could move up a notch by winning if the lose. mcordxn of unexpected l AN e gy All-the-Year-Around Foot Ball OOT BALL in California is far from being a Fall sport. It comes close to F being an all-the-year-around competition, wherein play and practice cover a big part of the circling seasons. A section of the California schedule runs to January 1, where the Tournament of Roses, at Pasadena, either closes out the old season or opens the new, whichever you care to call it. On this next occasion California faces Georgia Tech. Stanford was the cholce in 1926 and 1927 against Alabama and Pittsburgh. Within a short spell after this next game is played there will be from 70 to 100 foot ball players back at practice and play in more than one fleld— | U. 8. C., Stanford, California and others. | These big squads, playing through fine weather, will continue to plsl" receive, kick, block, tackle and run through plays until late May. This is no imposed drudgery. They like the game and they like to play any part of it— most of them—just as Tack Hardwick did at Harvard a few years ago. Tack Hardwick would have enjoyed nothing more than 12 months of foot ball each season—taking any part of it for any length of time. There is no such fun in | the East, with snow-clad or muddy fields, rain or snow or winds blown from the barren lands of the North. There will be little foot ball weather worth while or any pleasant playing conditions in the North, East or Midwest until April. Handling a foot ball is a big part of the present game. And no one picks this knack, art or science up in a few weeks out of the year. The Harpsters and Sculls get that way—expert passers and kickers and ball handlers— because, like Hardwick, they like the game well enough to break down the barrier of weather—because they find as much fun in practice as they find | in play. They're Off! Dear Sir: This department is officially acknowledging the first 1929 foot ball rumor. It emanates from a follower of the Michigan team and cheerfully warns the world to beware. The 1928 edition of freshmen was probably the fanciest thing in the garb of yearlings that ever man-handled a varsity. At the end of the first half of the Navy game a Michigan coach was overheard to murmur to a brother coach: “Praise heaven the Navy can't work her plays the : way the Freshmen did.” | Just before the Michigan State game the varsity took the ball on the 6-yard | line, to work out some scoring plays against the “B” team. Great was the success | and the coaches timidy brought the Freshmen over to supplant the “B” team. Eight minutes later the ball was in midfield, the yearlings having held the Big Boys for downs right off the bat and then marched complacently 35 yards down the fleld themselves on straight foot ball. The individual star, says Dame Rumor, is a wee lad named Morrison, who plays fullback with all the commanding energy of his 210 pounds. Morrison’s happlest week was the period preceding the Iowa game, when he was dubbed McLain, and told to concentrate on line plunging. What Morrison did that week is still a coaches’ nightmare and after his devastating work the real Indian was a mighty relief. It is a long journey from Freshman stardom to varsity eligibility, but the Wolverines apparently are well intrenched for the opening of | the 1929 season. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. Speed and Action. Dear Sir: For sustained effort over any stipulated period, basket ball, which | now comes into its own, ranks well toward the front. The proximity of the | seats to the court and the compact playing area lend a personal touch that is i mijssing from the bigger foot ball spectacles. The last half of a tight basket ball game between two evenly matched teams is 20 minutes of a lasting frenzy that foot ball never knows. The entire period can be one continuous whoop from | the spectators, with new thrills every 7 seconds. C.B.D. Two Survivors. A few brief years ago there were five light heavyweights who were absorbing most of the light heavyweight limelight, whatever wing spread such limelight may have had. ‘They were Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney, Jimmy Slattery, Young Stribling | and Tommy Loughran. The same average class among the heavyweight list of today would have Rickard and Fugazy turning hand springs. Also four or five other promoters. | | Berlenbach has passed out of the picture. Delaney was a heavyweight flop. | Slattery remained content with his own division. But no one has proved yet that any surviving heavyweight from any of the tournaments can whip either Stribling or Loughran. And what is more to the point, almost none of the surviving heavyweights since Tunney retired, care to walk into the same pit with either Loughran or Stribling. Jack Sharkey, the leading heavyweight of the old order, seems to have been quite explicit on this point. ‘And none of the others has been detected practicing quick starts to get a shot at these two ex-light heavies, who can now send 185 pounds of flesh into action. It would be one of the season’s lightest surprises if either Loughran or Stribling finally took over the Tunney mantle. They will be ranked in the lead until some heavier heavyweight proves that he can drive one or both back to the lighter division. And the heavyweight shouts of “Let me get at 'em” are | about as noisy as a sparrow’s feather falling on a plush carpet. | | One reason why Tex Rickard likes golf so well is that even the deepest | heel print in the deepest bunker around Miami is a pipe to play from compared to the traps and hazards of the heavyweight smear. © (Copyright, 1928.) Three Quints Tied for Lead BOUT SEENS SURE T0 OFFER THRILLS Belgian Has Impressed, but He Will Find American Real Wildcat. BY ALAN J. GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, December 27.—One of the most important social events of the boxing season involves Ace Hudkins, of the Hudkinses of Nebraska, and | Rene Devos, the Belgian middleweight, who is now connected with the Bid- dles of Philadelphia. They will fight it out tomorrow night, with the pros- pect that most, if iot all, of the - white shirt fronts of the famous “600 millionaires” will be in evidence. Devos, fast and a good hitter, has impressed critics as the best foreign 160-pounder to come to these shores since Tommy Milligan. He will find Hudkins the most willing and per- sistent opponent he has yet met. There is no doubt whatever about it being a scrap when Ace crawls through the ropes. ‘The lean, fair-haired puncher from the corn country prefers the going when it is rough. The more punishment he absorbes the more will- ing he seems. Like the wildcat for whom he is named, Hudkins crouches in his corner, ready for the spring at the tap of the bell for every round. Hudkins likes t ht.. The records bear this out and testify he has over- looked few prospective opponents of his class, as a welter or middle weight. Hudkins took on Ruby Goldstein and knocked out the Pride of the Ghetto a few years ago, when Ruby was the sensation of New York. The Ace had three torrid scraps with Sammy Baker, the socking sergeant, coming back to win the last two after being stopped by the soldier at the Polo Grounds in 1927. Last June, in a spectacular fight that ended in a downpour of rain, Hudkins lost a terrific’ battle with Mickey Walker for the world middleweight title at Chicago. It seemed to not a few of the drenched experts that Ace had the edge, but the award went to Walker. Whether he stakes his crown next against either Hudkins.. or Devos, Walker may as well start preparing for a busy evening. With the actual departure: of Tex Rickard for Miami Beach, announce- ment impends of definite- arrangements for Young Stribling and Jack Sharkey to fight the most important heavy- weight elimination bout of the Winter in Florida. Tex seems to think that a change of scenery from the more or less smoke- filled indoor arenas to the invigorating outdoors will stimulate the heavyweight activity. At any rate, there is no doubt of the attractive possibilities of bally- hooing a bout between the South's fore- most contender for Gene ° Tunney’s crown and the Boston sailor, who is good when he has it, but hot so good otherwise. - Stribling and Sharkey are two of the fastest heavyweights in the game. Both have shown they can hit; but it will take a decisive victory- for either one to give the 1929 quest for Tunney's suc- cessor a good start. . i HOFFMAN TOSSERS ENTERTAIN CENTRAL ALEXANDRIA, Va.. December 27. Central High of Washington, conquer- ors of Alexandria High, plays the Hoff- man Clothiers in the Armory Hall at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Central will be the third contender for the Washington high school cham- pionship that the Clothiers have play- ed this season. Eastern. nosed out the Clothiers, 24 to 22, while the locals trimmed Western, 27 to-12. Chap Marable, manager of _the Clarksburg (W. Va.) Club of the Middle Atlantic League, has offered 'the Raleigh (N. C.) team of the Piedmont League three players for Leon Riley, local youth who pitched for Raleigh last season. In Community Center League ITH three teams, Mount Ver-)meet Washington Grays tomorrow non, Potomacs and Woltz | night at Wilson Normal School. | Photographers, tied for the 1 lead, the race for the flag in Boys’ Club Whirlwinds took the the unlimited division of the | measure of a Y. M. C. A. team m | Community Center Basket Ball League | their class, 41 to 28, last night. " Is a stirring one. Hoffman Buddies want games with girls’ basket ball teams. Phone Martha Baggett at Alexandria 1255 between 5 and 7 p.m. 3 SANGOR GETTING READY Mount Vernon brought about the triple tie last night through a dramatic rally which enabled it to triumph over Potomac Boat Club, 25-21. It was the twelfth victory in 13 starts this season for Mount Vernon. Superb basket-sniping by Melton, Mount Vernon’s left forward, carried his team to victory. He came through with a pair of goals from the floor in the last two minutes to put the game in the bag. It also was Melton who led the attack that enabled his team to draw to a 16-16 tie with Potomacs at Y. M. C. A. and Quantico Marines | will meet in the “Y" gym tonight at 8 o'clock. A preliminary between the “Y" Independents and. an opponent to be announced will be staged. Fort Myer 115-pound basketers want to meet Aztecs or Crescents tonight. Call Clarendon 1334-J-2. Tremont 140-pound tossers will re- ceive medals in recognition of their victories last season at a special meet- the third quarter after the Boatmen |JOND Sheele. had enjoyed a 14-9 lead at the half. Skinker Bros. Eagles will engage Hoffman Clothiers of Alexandria Sun- day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the main game of the regular Sunday afternoon court bill in Congress Heights' Audi- torium. French tossers will meet an opponent to be announced in the pre- liminary starting at 2 o'clock. French basketers will meet Pontiacs in an unlimited class basket ball game tonight at 7 o'clock in Eastern Hign gym. French players are to report at Eighth and H streets at 6:15 o’clock. Led by Tate Corinthians downed Good Shepherd tossers, 18 to 10, in a 135-pound class Boys' Club League game last night. Speedwell A, C. tossers want to book a game for Saturday night with a 125- vound division team having a gym. Call zlz;xsugver Churchman at Shepherd Three games are carded for Peck Memorial gym tonight. Peck Insects will meet Crescent Insects, Peck Juniors will clash Columbia Baptist Juniors of Falls Church and Peck Seniors will hook up with Yellowjacket Seniors. The first game will begin at 6:45 o'clock. Clark Griffith tossers suffered their first defeat of the season last night, bowing to Aztec midget class, tossers in a 24-11 game. ‘Woltz. Photographers are seeking games with teams each night the re- mainder of the week, except Saturday, with fives having gyms. The Woltz quint has a gym for Saturday night and would like to hook an opponent. Call National 5783 during the day and Cleveland 838 at night. Tremont Athletic Club tossers are gunning for contests with teams in the unlimited and senior classes. Call Co- lumbia 9214-W after 5 p.m. Tremonts TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats ‘EIS 'S, 7th & F = . | ing tonight at the home of Manuer: al DANIEL LOUGHRAN CO., INC. Washington, D. C. Distributors FOR BOUT WITH MORGAN | CHICAGO, December 27 (#).—Dis- couraged, but still ambitious, Joey San- gor, the Milwaukee featherweight, who threatened to retire from the ring-fol- lowing his knockout by Armando San- tiago, Cuba, recently, has settled down to a week of intensive training here for his 10-round championship bout with Rod Morgan, junior lightweight title holder. The championship match will be held t Milwaukee New Year afternoon. N