Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 28

SPORTS. i 28 SPORTS. e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 28 1929. Cronin Assured of Job With Nationals : Mehlhorn Marvel on Texas Golf Links BRIFF LIKES SPIRIT OF INFIELD ROOKIE Latest Player to Sign to Fill Utility Role—Camp Site Held Ideal. Special Dispateh to The Star. AMPA, Fla., January 28.—If de- termin , enthusiasm and self-confidence have any bearing upon & ball player's making good, then Josepa Cronin, Wash- ngton inflelder, whose signed contract was recelved today by Clark Griffith at the training headquarters here, already | is assured of a permanent place under the big tent of base ball. Cronin Is the | sixteenth of the 32 Nationals in reserve to sign. In a letter to his boss, which accom- panied the contract, Joe gives assurance that he will give his utmost the coming season toward advancing the Nationals in the pennant race. But, what is more to the point in the player's favor, his employer has unbounded faith in both his ability and his spirit. “There is a ball player you iust cannot keep from making good,” said Griffith here this morning. “He Is young yet— just past 21—and he may require a bit more seasoning before he attains his proper place in his chosen profession, but he will be accorded every opportun- ity to attain that proficiency right here with the Washington club, for it is my intention to see that he is retained by the Nationals, and, while he may have to fAll a utility role for a while, a ball player with Joe's slant on the gameisa ‘sure thing' to break into the line-up as & regular at an early date.” Eynon Backs Boss. Griffith's opinion of Cronin was shared with equal enthusiasm by Ed Eynon, the club's secretary, “There is a ball player 23 clean as they make 'em,” says Eynon. “He ranks right near the top where men of high standards or morals and charac- ter are concerned, and with the ability he has shown, he will surely make the grade. He has a fine arm, throws true, 8nd his hitting should improve over his .243 average compiled last year with our team. I predict that Cronin will i time become one of the prime fa- vorites of the Washiugion fans.” This appraisal of Crenin's worth as- sures him a steady job With the Nation- als, but it does not mesn that he will be assigned an infield position at the season’s start. On the contrary, it is now about definitely decided that the infield combination for the approaching season will be Judge at first, Hayes at second, Bluege shortstop and Myer at third. This was the tentative line-up as conceived by Walter Johnson when he lent his offices = toward securing Buddy lflg from the Red 80x, and this combina will be thoroughly tested before there is any thought of a change. Joe will have to get his imme- diate seasoning from the training games ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 28 (). —It’s the Michigan spirit, says the campus, It's the Michigan habit of winning, says the conference as a whole. ‘Whatever the reason, Michigan is out in front in another Big Ten race. And it had to climb from the depths to get there. All the preseason basket ball dope favored Purd Indiana, Towa, Northwestern—anybody but Mic! igan. Eddle Mather, “father” of Mich- igan's indoor syetem, was dead. Ooster- baan and" Harrigan, stars, were gone. There was a new coach, new system and a green team. Now the Wolverines, undefeated, are on top of the Western Conference. They have won all of their conference games, stopping Northwestern, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. Preseason victories over Penn, Penn State and Cornell came in_decisive fashion. It was more than a feeble fight that has carried the Ann Arbor squad to its peak position, because its first game of the year resulted in a loss to Michigan and in filling such utility jobs as are | g .o resented, but the fact that he stands E\ such high esteem with his employer and manager and that he is destined to become a fixture with the Washington club will mean much to the spirit of the youngster while he is awaiting his chance to earn a regular place on the team. Looms as Favorite. Cronin was purchased from Kansas City last June on the recommendation of Joe Engle. ‘The San Francisco youth was a member of the Pittsburgh team the last time the Pirates won pen- nant, being then but 18 years old, but he spent most of the time on the bench. He was sold the next Spring to Kansas City and played with that club until he was purchased by Washington at a price said to be $7,500. In the 63 games he played last year with the Nationals Cronin batted .243, being at the bat 227 times and making 55 hits, 10 of which were doubles and four triples. Cronin walked 22 times and struck out 27 times. He drove in 25 runs. % His fielding average of .953 put him third on the list of shortstops, bein; top) only by Joe Sewell of Clevela: with .963, and Hayes of Washington, who fielded 055 in the 15 games he &hyed at short. Cronin is 5 feet 11 ches tall and weighs 170 pounds. Secretary on spent yesterday motoring to g and other Florida towns in and sbout that section and visited several of the places to be used later by other ball clubs as training headquarters. “The more one sees of other places where the clubs get into condition for the season’s play, the more Tampa asserts its right to be classed superior to them all,” declares on. “I say this advisedly, and with all things faken into consideration. “The hotel, with its spacious porches for recreational facilities for the play- ers, the proximity of the park itself, Just a few minutes walk from the hotel; the opportunities for amusement afford- ed by the city proper and its immediate frnvh'anu u:eu (:c}on ux:: I:xo make 'ampa & great spot for training pure poses. And the weather, with its record of but a single game postponed because of rain in the nine years Washington has trained here, should be the deciding factor in uumpm the present spot as very close to ideal.” City Welcomes Club. Another angle of the attractiveness of Tamps, and & point not raised by the club's secretary, is the attitude of the city officials and its residents gen- erally toward the Nationals. From mayor down to the lowliest fan, the members of the Washington club are made to feel they are in truth guests of the city, and there is never an oppor- tunity missed to extend courtesies of every concelvable nature to the club. Tampa probably will be the training camp of the Nationals for a long time | to come. And that the city is always 80 anxious to the @ub return here | each year also speaks Wery well for the Perhaps the surprising showing of the Wolverines should be credited to George Veenker, varsity coach, whose experi- ence before he came to Michigan as as- sistant coach last year was confined to i‘;igt':asf!;l,ool l;baSkst ball. eenker is the spark plug behin the Michigan nunm-rol‘l’er. B ’ The Ann Arbor quintet in its first four conference games averaged 30 points per game and held the opposition to 203 points a game, the best defensive record in the conference. Bob Chapman, center: Bill Orwig, for- ward, and Joe Truskowski, guard, com- g{xse the big three of the Wojverine oul Wisconsin, | The consensus | A new coach, new system and a green squad. Big Ten. Above is the Wolverine coac h and three of his stars. JOE TRUSKOWSKI That's what Michigan had to start the season. Now it leads the Big Ten Basket Quints Likely To Be Hit by Midwinter Exams By the Associated Press. HICAGO, January up behind the smoke screen of semester examinations, old man ineligibility threatens to cast his shadow across the cham- pionship hopes of Big Ten basket ball teams this week. So busy were the hoop artists in at- tempting to repel his attack that only three teams in the cosference had games scheduled. They were Chicago and Towa, which meet at Chicago, and Ohio State, which invades the Army in an intersectional combat. Both games were programmed for Saturday. It was the third successive week of comparative dullness in the campaign, which breaks out again February 9 With a three-game card. Each team in the race was understood to have at least one star dangerously near the ineligibility line, and when the results of the examinations are known the three foremost contenders, Michigan, Wisconsin and Purdue, may be stripped of much of their power. Michigan Gets Lead. Michigan was idle again last week, but bounded into undisputed leadership in the champlonship scramble when Wisconsin upset Purdue, 31 to 26. The Wolverines have won four straight games and have not been defeated, vhile Purdue and Wisconsin are dead- “logkesk for second. place with five vie- 28.—Moving | tories and one defeat each. It was Michigan that spoiled Wisconsin's rec- ord. —Therefore, Michigan had both moral and percentage leadership. Ohio State went into fourth place by defeating Chicago, 40 to 30, in an ex- erimental matinee show at Columbus aturday. While no definite announce- ment has been made relative to the ex- periment, it is known the matinee was not,_overly successful and that Big Ten basket ball, for the most part, will be confined to nighttime for some time to come, at least. Northwestern. Anl*n-. Northwestern, which dropped out of the championship race with three straight defeats, seems to have found its pace again. The Wildcats huna.up their third straight triumph Saturday night by edging out Notre Dame, 27 to 24, in a non-conference game at Evanston. played a great of the victorious attack with five -fleld goals and two free throws. Towa handed Creighton College of Omaha its first defeat of the season in another nqn-conference battle Saturday night. The score was 28 to 26. The Hawkeyes, fifth in the Big Ten race, showed good form, but were a fertile field for free throws. The game was the roughest ever played on the Iowa field- house court. MURPHY AND PURDUE" SCORE HIGH IN-BiG 10 By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 28.—Despite their setback by Wisconsin last week, “Stretch” Murphy and his Purdue mates still are far in front in the Big Ten basket ball races for individual and team scoring honors, Purdue has piled up 236 points, or 57 points more than its closest rival, Wis- consin. Murphy has averaged better than 12 points a game and has scored 80 points. His closest rival isa Badger, Bud Foster, star guard. Follownig Murphy and Foster, the leading scorers are Strickland, Indiana, 49; Harmeson, Purdue, and Tenhopen, Wisconsin, 48; Van Heyde, Ohlo State, 45; Wilcox, Iowa, 42; Ervin, Ohio State, 40, and Otterness, Minnesota, and Gleichmann, Northwestern, 36. Statistics reveal that personal fouls are more numerous. During the 25 games played thus far 528 have been called, an average of 21 a game. Minne- sota has compiled the largest number— 66 in five games. conduct of the players. They have, spparently, never wor@ out their wel-! come. i The South Florida State fair opens| here tomorrow, and the first real test of the new grandstands will be a! The automobile races en: other attractions draw a large crowd to the park, and the increased seating' space will be welcomed. | The usual diving tank hole, which in the past has been dug in the base ball diamond has not been sunk this year, | ‘This will be good news to Mike Marti Mike always regards the fair as a di-| rect personal affront, as anything tend- ing to mar the diamond on which his athletes train rubs him the wrong wa: The Nationals' ner is due here t latter part of the week, and he can do his own “stewing” from that point on. DUGAN SPURNS BONUS BRAVES ARE OFFERING NEW YORK, January 28 (P)— President-Manager Emil Fuchs of the Boston Braves still is trying to iron out contract differences with Joe Dugan, | who the judge hopes, will play third base for him this Summer. 3 Joe and the judge talked over the sit- uation here yesterday. Joe left the con ference in a good humor, but still w signed. Fuchs offered “Jumping Joe" a salary somewhat below what he received from the New York Yankees, but took care of at least a part of the difference by adding 8 bonus clause. That's what Dugan is kicking about. He wants a flat salary contract calling for @ little more salary and no bonus, | | Jwho Averaging almost 40 points a game, | g HE’S No. 16 ON LIST OF GRIFFS TO SI JOE CRONIN, RECEPTION IS PLANNED ..EQR GEORGE A. SIMPSON “In~ honor of George A. Simpson, sports writer of the Washington Times, t0be married early next month, J. Leighton (Count) Cornwell, active and popular figure in sports circles here and an official of Devitt School, will entertain at a reception next Saturday night, at 3701 Porter street, the home of Mrs. Charles Lincoln. Coaches at all the District colleges, high schools and prep schools and rts writers of all papers here are in- ted to attend. DUKE MERMEN TO VISIT C. U. HERE ON MARCH 4 DURHAM, N. C, January 28.—Duke University swimmers will visit Wash- ington, D. C., to engage Catholic Uni- versity mermen March 2. It will be the final meet of the season for the Blue Devils, and they have been grant- ed permission to stay over in the Capi- tal City for the inaugural ceremonies March 4. Duke has a clever veteran g_oup of awford Gibson, natators, including Capt. ‘Westbrooke, Derrickson and Glassle. Earnhardt, crack dash man; HIGH SCHOOL QUINTS RESUME TOMORROW Business and Eastern and Central and Tech will meet in that order tomorrow afternoon in the Tech gym in public high school basket ball championship matches, starting at 3:15 o'clock. Tech, which is heading the flag race with five wins ‘against just one defeat, is favored to down its old rival, Central, which has lost all five of its series starts, while Eastern is given the edge by most critics over Business, having trimmed t! Stenogs, 30-22, in their first-round battle, Eastern, third in the pennant scramble, has won three games and lost two, and Business, which is fourth, has captured two and dr~pped three. In other matches tomorrow, St. Alban's will engage Georgetown Prep at Garrett Park and Benjamin Franklin tossers will entertain George Mason High of Alexandria here. A trio of scholastic floor encounters were listed here today. Gonzaga and Eastern were to meet at Eastern, West- ern and Catholic University Freshmen at Brookland and Silver Spring High and Hyattsville High at Hyattsville, Emerson’s strong quint, which has just returned from a highly successful foray into Virginia, will enter the Washington and Lee University tourna- ment at Lexi n, Va., early in March and if successful there mdy participate in either the Chicago or Pennsylvania tournament. . Coach Banfi¢ld is highly pleased at the showing of his team, which num- bers among its victims Navy Plebes. Stalwarts of the Emerson team in- clude Alton Buscher, Nelson Colley, Dan Gallotta, Sam Gordon, Ray David- m Bert Kennedy, Joe Trilling and er. BROTHER TEAM ISSUES DEFL Alfred B. Hurley, 1818 Bay street southeast, and his four brothers have issued a challenge to any other bowling | team composed of five brothers to either a 3 or 5 game set at Convention Hall. Arrangements for a date and other de- tails may be made through Raymond C. Hurley, 218 Fourteenth street north- ;g;i or by calling him at Lincoln 3-W. GUSTAFSON, V. P. |. COACH, TO WED MISS LANGHORNE | AURORA, Ill, January 28.—Miss Emily Addison Langhorne, said to be a cousin of Lady Nancy Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, is en- gaged to the son of an Aurora black- smith. The daughter of the Lang- horne family of Virginia is to wed Andrew Frederick Gustafson some time in the Spring. Gustafson, who was a foot ball star at Pittsburgh University, is coach at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Miss Langhorne is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Gray Langhorne of Pulaski, Va. HEAVY CARD LISTED | FOR COUNTY QUINTS HYATTSVILLE, Md, January 28.— Two games are listed in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League to- morrow night at Laurel, when Brentwood Hawks, which are second in the flag| race, will meet Headquarters Company, and Berwyn, which is fourth, will face the fifth-place Comets. No league games are scheduled tonight or Wed- nesday. Second place will be at stake Thurs- day when Brentwood Hawks and Com- pany F Reserve team No. 1 will face in ‘the armory here. Two league matches are carded Friday at Laurel, a highly important clash between the league-leading Dixle Pigs and Berwyn teams, which will take the floor after Mount Rainier A. C. and Headquarters Company clash. Team Standing. Dixie Pigs Brentwood, Company Berwyn A. Comets . Headauarters " Co. Company F No. 2. Mount Rainier Hawks; P No. i ;- C. rr—_ Regular basketers of Company F, Na- tional Guard, of this place, who yester- day defeated Cresap's Rifles, represent- ing the National Guard Company of Frederick, 36 to 22, in the armory here, tonight will entertain Jewish Commun- ity Center unlimited class team of Washington in the armory, There will be a preliminary between the Frenchy Midgets and the Arcadians of Washington, starting at 7:15 o'clock. Frenchys also were carded for action in the armory this afternoon, being listed to entertain the lightweight quint of Catonsville High. Hyattsville High was to entertain Silver Spring in another game this afternoon in the armory. In scoring over Cresap's Rifles the Company F regulars showed general superiority. With Wilbur Wright and Rufus Vincent doing most of their scor- ing, the host team was in the van most of the way. At the half, Company F held a 16-9 advantage. Shipley and ‘Ssunders were high scorers for the vis- tors. Company F Reserves, No. 1, gained third place in the County League flag chase as the result of their win over Company F Reserves, No. 2. The losers, strengthened by the addition of Jack Williams, former Hyattsville High star, put up a much better fight than expect- ed and were within striking distance of their opponents all the way. Ruche and Spencer Chase, each with eight points, were leaders on attack for the visitors with Willlams, who garnered three two-pointers, heading the losers’ assault, A fund is being raised for Robert Shanklin, member of the Company F regular basket ball team, who suffered a broken leg January 18 in a game against the Original Anacostia Eagles In the Congress Heights auditorium, Wuhtg\d'wn. Contributions are being solieff by members of Company F and a benefit dance will be staged in the rmory here Saturday night following s nm; between the Eagles and Com- pany F. GREAT ARRAY OF DOGS IN PINEHURST TRIALS PINEHURST, N. C,, January 38 (). ~—More than a score of dogs take part today in the opening event of the twelfth annual field of the Pine- hurst PFleld Trial Club and an even larger number are expected to be en- tered in the three following events scheduled for this week. The Members' he | event is the opening run on the game reserve adjol Pinehurst, where the ls of the national fleld trial body were held last month. Harry D, Kirkover, Buffalo, N. Y., is in general charge of the frials and Dr. F. D. Shaw of Booneville, 8. C., is one of the judges. CONCORD SOCCER TEAM IN DRAW WITH BRITISH British United and Concord soccer teams battled for two hours yesterday on the Monument grounds in a 1-all deadlock. Throughout the nfiln ime time and two extra 15-minute periods, neither was able to gain an in the Washington and Southeastern Dis- trict Soccer Assoclation’s cup-tie- tour- nament now in progress. Silver Spring booters made a gme stand, but bowed to Rockville, 1 4, in the only league contest scheduled yesterday. Both games were played on muddy fields. HYATT, PITT BASKETER, EAST’S LEADING SCORER NEW YORK, January 28 (A).— Charley Hyatt, of the University of Pittsburgh’s basket ball team, has ped into the lead for individual scoring honors in the East. In 11 games Hyatt has tallied 65 field goals and 29 fouls for a grand total of 159 points. Two points back of him comes Joey Schaaf, Pennsylvania's cap- tain. Jimmy Collins of St. John' of Brooklyn is third with 145 nts and Ed Wineapple of Providence fourth with 134. I ATHOLIC University and Amer- fcan University basket ball teams will face tonight at 8 o'clock in the C. U. gym, at Brookland, and a large crowd is expected to turn out to see these lively rivals come to grips. Because of their much more impres- sive record the Methodists are favorites to score over the Cardinals, and they are eager to do just this in order to get back at C. U. for defeats handed them in other campaigns. A. U. has won in flve of six starts, while C. U. has lost all six of its games. Coach Fred Rice’s boys are ready to make a determined fight this time, though. Duke McCabe, center; Larry Martin, guard, and Bill Fitzgerald, for- ward or guard, are virtually certain to start for the Cardinals, and Tut Amann, Hal Ogden, Joe Champa, Mullaney, {Walsh, Hanley and Papalia all have about an even chance to begin at the | other forward and guard posts. It is expected that A. U. will start the same combination which has Its contests, This includes Forrest Bur-1 Quaker City alzyon Saturday. Methodists, Cardinals Primed For Warm Court Tilt Tonight gess and Capt. Jack LaFavre, forwards; | Dave Lichliter, center, and Bruce Kess- ler and Dutch Schloss, guards. Lou Little, director of athletics and head foot ball coach; Jerry Carroll, captain of the 1928 Jim Mooney, star tackle, will represent Georgetown University at the banquet of the Veteran Athletes Association of Philadelphia to be held in the Hotel idiron team and | Marool 1t y DENMAN HE expressed dissatisfac- tion with the salary terms offered them of such prominent figures in the base ball world as the Waner brothers of Pittsburgh and Mickey Cochrane of the Ath- letics, to say nothing of our own Buddy Myer, Goose Goslin and Jack Hayes, is getting some of the fans all hopped up. But it needn’t. Having closely followed “hold- out” cases during off-seasons for a number of years, we long since reached the conclusion that it is a game of bluff 99 times out of 100, and for that reason we just can't get wildly excited when some athlete broadcasts the information that the owners will have to meet his wage demands or he’ll quit. A player has an unusually good year in hitting, is purchased for an announced high figure or is cast for the position’ formerly occupled by a star, and he immediately conceives the idea he is entitled to more jack. Which Is perfectly jper and un- derstandable. A man is worth what- ever he can get, in base ball or out. But the club president has his side +0f the argument, too. He is con- ducting a business, usually with a bunch_of stockholders to answer to, and, like any other business man, strives to conduct it on the most profitable basis sible. If he agreed to all the demands made by his hired hands he wouldn’t be in business very long, Some of the athletes with inflated ideas of their worth have them re- duced in short order, and if they are not absolutely indispensable to the club sign up with no loss of time. The more valuable ones are harder ‘to swing into line, and in some in- stances have remained firm to the point of missing the opening of the season, but these instances are rare. In a great majority of the dis- agreements anent money matters be- tween player and owner Old Man Compromise fi is called on to act as chairman of the board of mediation and everything is ironed out to the apparent satisfaction of both sides. We have no way of knowing what Goslin or Myer or Hayes is demand- ing in the way of salary over and above the figures written in the ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor THOMPSON could do to earn as much—or half thalt amount—aside from playing But we do feel confident that whatever difficulties exist will be smoothed out in due time, and in the meanwhile are not disposed to be- come perturbed—not for many ‘weeks, at any rate. All players have until the date set for them to report for Spring training to sign contracts. If they refuse by that time they be- come holdouts, but not until then. * ok % % Advices from Detroit indicate Bucky Harris is having some diffi- culty finding a suitable home, due to the fact that the realtors in the Michigan metropolis can’t think in terms of less than $50,000. P Honus Wagner, undoubtedly the greatest combination hitter and flelder that ever mlayed shortstop, attributes the current era of slug- ing to the “rabbit” ball, poorer pitch- ing and shorter felds—which just about makes it unanimous. * ok ok K Anent the famous reverse run of Roy Riegels in the New Year day grid game at Pasadena, Frank Powers presents this question propounded by Don Miller, backfield coach of the Georgila Tech team, who is slated to toill at Ohio State next Fall: Suppose that during his run Riegels had realized his error and flipped the ball backward to Benny Lom or some other teammate? Mil- ler contends it would have been an illegal pass by the defensive team. Other authorities on the game differ with him. * ok k% And speaking of the rules, at least one famous foot ball man believes Jumbled balls should be dead at the point of recovery by the de- fending team. He admits it favors the offense and contends that is advisable. Says Harry Stuhldreher, the celebrated product of Notre Dame. “It is just too bad when a team with a well planned and powerful attack advances a ball almost the length of the gridiron, then fumbles, and a defensive player picks up the ball and runs 90 yards or so for what may be the only touchdown of the game. That punishment is too severe for what I consider a minor sin—a fumble.” In_ other words, Miller’s fellow member of the Four Horsemen con- siders that the defending team is re- contracts originally submited to them, nor do we know what they warded sufficiently lo’:‘ltl alertness by obtaining possession of the ball. Miamians, Winners Over Silver Spring, Meet Skinker Eagles : KINKER EAGLES basket ball five will attempt to halt the Miami, Fla., quint which yester- day trimmed Brook Grubb's Sil- ver Sp! Service Co. team, e ights. gy ¢ 3.30" o clock e} al i ' wn‘fiet?. ‘These mmm were booked to mee he:o two weeks ago, but post- ement Was necessary. w"l"h& Southerners are winning at will ition and the men were tors. Jack Faber, Joe Sweeney and Ralph Bennie put on a nice demonstration in the closing minutes of the Eagles' $erday. bringin "“"‘s"&fl‘é“m’x‘o}."‘fi& *be- rday, - hlnd{o win & 29-to-20 decision. Community Center Basket Ball League second series games will open Iol:i“(‘;n with Washington Grays and at 8 o'clock. Grays did not lose a e in the first half race and National Publishers failed to gain & win. % Pullman A. C. quint is to face Boys' Club Celtics in Terminal Y gym tonight at 8 o'clock. Pullmans yesterday downed Twin Oaks cagers, 20 to 18, after two extra periods were played. Manager Brewer, at_Lincoln 5856-W, is listing games for ans. Pla; of both Boys' Cluh Standards and Celtics teams are asked to report in their gym tonight at 6:45 o'clock. These teams will meet in a league at 7 o'clock. . ‘With Fifsgerald, Dalglish and Boerner scoring at will, Knights of Columbus in |tossers gained an easy 51-t0-20 victory over Fort Myer yesterday. Caseys have listed Y. M. C. A. for Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the Massachusetts ave- nue gym. Company E Guardsmen made it nine straight yesterday by overwhelming A. C. cagers, 37 to 8. Glass- cock and Roberts led the scorers. cunl:g from behind in the last period. National Circles downed Fort ‘Washington courtmen on their home foor yesterday, 38 to 25. ‘Led by Kramer, Jewish Community Center basketers went on a scoring rampage and defeated Stantons, 83 to 28, yesierday. Stanley’s now have a string of 20 25-to-18 decision over Carolinas at Sil- ver Spring yesterday. With J. Mulhall get a dozen points, Aztecs yesterday downed the newly organized St. Stephen's Boys' Club quint, 37 to 23. There was little scoring yesterday as Passaic tossers defeated Red Shiel courtmen, 16 to 4. Hanley scored 28 points yesterday as Brentwood Hawks turned back Brook- land A. C, 61 to 13. Northwest Cards, who defeated Mc- Lean A. C. yesterday, 21 to 10, are list- ed to battle Crescents tonight in Cen- tral High gym at 7:30 o'clock. YANKS ARE PRESSED IN PRO HOCKEY LOOP By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 28.—The working agreement between the New York hockey teams, leaders of their re- spective muu in the National Hockey League, suffered a severe setback. All this season the Rangers have helped out the Americans by defeating an in- ternational group team when a defeat meant a lot to the leaders of that divi- sion, and the Americans performed the same service for the Rangers. Last night the Americans did their share, beating the Detroit Cougars, third in the American section, 2 to 1, but it was of more assistance to the second-place Boston Bruins, who kept the Rangers from doing their part of the job by winning, 2 to 1. The result leaves the standings unchln,ed. ‘The Rangers had run up a lead of 6 points with_victories over Toronto and Pitts- burgh earlier in the week. They get another chance tonight to run it up when they play off the game with Les Canadienes of Montreal, postponed from January 8 on account of the funeral of Tex Rickard. ‘Tonight's contest also gives the Canucks another shot at the Americans’ lead. The flying Frenchmen, second in the International group, cut the margin to one point Saturday by turning in a 2-to-1 victory over Ottawa, but the Americans made it three points again last night. Earller in the week the race remained even. Les Canadiens gained two points, with ties with Boston and Toronto, while the Americans beat the Maroons Thursday. The standings: INTERNATIONAL GROUP. Wen. Lost. Tie. Americi William Penn in the Quaker City next | goston Saturday night. Det: Georgetown has been invited to be | it represented because it has heen selected by the Veteran Athletes as one of the leading teams in the East. Each year the association selects what it considers the best grid eleven in the East. cause several teams were closely bunched last Fall it has divided lhei honor_among Georgetown, Boston Col: OLD DOMINIONS TO TRAVEL. special’ Dispateh to The Star. ,_Va., January 28.—Man- LEESBURG, ager Willlam F. Peach has scheduled @ contest for his Leesburg Independents lege, Penn, New York University and Carnegle Tech. Mooney has been in- vited as the leading player of his team. Little, Carroll and Mooney are to be entertained at a luncheon in the Syl- vania Hotel in Philadelphia by the all | Georgeto wn University alumni of the . | playground players and is one of the ‘FATHER’ WAS RIGHT, SO LUMPKIN PLAYS By the Associated Press. Alva “Kid” Clay, freshman foot ball coach of Georgia Tech, admits that “father was right.” Roy “Father” Lumpkin of Dallas, ‘Tex., fullback stalwart of the Golden ‘Tornado, forbears to say “I told you 80, but he often grins when he sees Clay. ‘When Lumpkin reported for foot ball practice as a freshman, Clay had been wearled by the number of embryo back- field men who asked for uniforms. “I suppose you're a quarterback?” he snap at the powerfully built youth. “No; I'm the fullback,” Lumpkin an- swered calmly. “You're going to be a tackle for the rest of your days. I've got six full- backs now,” Clay exploded. “You've got one fullback. I'm he,” Lumpkin shot back. For the good of his soul, Lg:n kin played a week at tackle but tger" was right. Clay had one fullback and Lumpkin was that man. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. AGLET and Roxy Athletic Club basket ball squads will open the junior division schedule of the ‘Washington Recreation League tonight with their meeting on the Business High School court at 8 o'clock. Eaglets competed in the league last season, but the Roxy aggre- gation will be performing for the first time in an official match. The latter team was this Fall by former t teams in the league in point of years as well as experience. Eaglets are the junior team of the Business Night High School group. Five other contests are scheduled by the W. R. L. this week, including: Senior division—Eagles vs. Washing- ton Athletic Club, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at Business High School: Washington Field Hockey Club vs. for Wednesday night. Jlnuna 0, when e Old Dominion Boat Club, Alex- andria champions, come here for a game, CANADIAN-AMERICAN HOCKEY Philadelphia, 2; New Haven, 3 (tle), Pt Jewish Community Center, Wednesday evening, 8:30, at the Holton Arms consecutive wins as the result of their | ol SHOOTS 4 RECORDS IN TOURNEY SWEEP Wild Bill Sets State Open and Course Marks as He Wins $1,500 Purse. By the Assoclated Press. AN ANTONIO, Tex., January 28.— The golfing records of Texas went with Wild Bill Mehlhorn today as he moved on to Hot Springs, Ark., for the $5,000 South Central open tournament, starting there Jan- uary 31. The crafty Fennimore pro, complete master of the Lone Star State’s Winter open tournaments, carried with him a new world record, a new Texas open record, two course records and two first prizes totaling $2,000. Mehlhorn collected the major purse, $1,500, in successfully defending his title in the Texas open here yesterday with 277 strokes, a new tournament record. His 66 on the third round set a new course record for Breckenridge Park. His total was seven strokes below par for the course, and was four strokes under young Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., who took second money of $800 with his 281, a masterful score of itself. Mehlhorn's victory was his second in | Texas in a week, he having collected $500 as first prize in the low-moneyed | El Paso open last Sunday when he clipped 17 strokes from par to establish a new world tournament record of 271 for 72 holes. Great After First Round. Except for one bad round last Friday the New York star might have equalled or eclipsed his El Paso performance here, for after getting away to a bad 75 on the opening day, he came back to whittle strokes from par in every successive round. He was 2 under par, with a 69 Saturday and yesterday morn- ing he set the new record. He went around in the afternoon in 67, the old course record. Mehlhorn's 548 strokes for the two successive 72-hole tournaments were 24 strokes under par, and probably entitle him to another world record for low strokes in successive tourneys. Smith never had a bad round in the local $6.500 event, but his scores hovered around par, and he was wholly unable to match Mehlhorn's scorching rounds. His total of 69—72—70—70—281 showed only the second round over par figures, and was good enough to win in most tournaments. Falls to Third Place. ‘Willard Hutchison of Pasadena, Calif., threatened for a time to crowd Mehl- horn out of the picture by shooting a 69 Saturday and coming back yesterday morning with a 67 to tie Mehlhorn at :l}; .'»2-hm:1 mark. He lmd,mhthe rnoon, however, taking a 72 whe: he needed he ml::ezu and collected $500 for third Frank Walsh, Appleton, Wis, won $400 a 284; Danny Willlams, Shacka- maxon, N. J., $300 with a 285, and Joe Kirkwood, Albany, Ga., and Al Watrous, De_"..rholk 317‘5n f;c‘l;oflhfil 287, e rema. h pros split the remainder of the money. Most r?l them reoj:lve\lidtsg cold, brisk wind which swept the course during most of the play incon- venienced the players, who are returning to the East after two months of com- petition in California and Hawaii, e ST. VALENTINE GOLF OPENS AT PINEHURST By the Associated Press. PIN] T, N. C., January 28.—The St. Valentine's golf tournament of Pine- hurst Country Club, with a number of nationally known golfers entered, starts today with a .qualifying round of 18 oles. William C. Fownes, jr, Pittsburgh, former national champion, and Halbert J. Blue of Aberdeen, N. C., winner in a number of Southern tournaments, paired for the qualifier. Among the other entrants are C. B. L. Marr, Carnousti, Scotland, and R. Hewitt Swoope of Philadelphia. | The tournament is played with the entrants divided into classes, and in- teresting competition is expected to de- velop in the match play starting tomor- row and running through the week. LITTLE IS SATISFIED T0 STAY WITH G. U. Lou Little, Georgetown University di- rector of athletics and head foot ball coach, who it had been rumored would return to his alma mater, the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, as foot ball coach in 1930, has let it be known that right now at least he would not consider leav- |ing Georgetown. Little, who has an- nounced that he is very well satisfied at the Hoya School, has revealed that he has turned down several offers to coach foot ball elsewhere, one of the offers coming from an institution larger than Georgetown. It is Little's aim to put Georgetown on top in the athletic world in keeping with its high scholastic standing. He believes that much has been done to- ward this end. but that his work has not been completed. PERU FOOT BALL WINNER. CARACAS, Venezuela, January 28 (#).—Peru’s international foot ball team won the cup presented by the Alcade of Lima yesterday when Venezuela was defeated, 7 ls to 1, in the final game of the international serfes. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE. New York, 2; Detroit 1. Boston, 2; New York Rangers, 1, WOMEN IN SPORT Junior division—St. Paul's Acndemy vs. Columbia A. C. Thursda; 7:30 at St. Paul's Academy. e Gallaudet co-eds have ann th remainder of the lnwnchml:ag“mkt: ball schedule, which will continue through the first week in March and includes games with Western Maryland Sonl]l::res,l t !‘uln;nont School, American y and a ret Nlélonlldl::t:‘semln u"r;; meeting with allaug scored one victory and Suffered one defeat to date, wlnn.l:‘l( {b?:l,n ‘h:om;:.‘n School;‘?; its opener and The schedule: o February—3, Sestern urvh'n.d':u;? tossers have not yet completed arrangements for some of their games, but have one date lum. te di Intermediat ivision—Basketeers vs. Elhl’"c"h tonight l_l 7:30 at Calvary e set for February and three for March. On February 25 they will play Holton Arms, on March 2 they meet Gallsu a 66 to tie. As a result he 1\