Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 46

TECH, LOOP LEADER, 1N FINAL CONTEST Motory Over Business Will Mean Tie With Western in Set at Least. USINESS and Tech and Eastern and Western quints will meet tomorrow in the Tech gym, at 3:15 o'clock, in ort thfl‘!e ‘nhll" h'lohlnhw; ward determining the public high school basket ball champlonship, if they do not actually do so. - Several other attractive school games also are listed tomorrow. +_In schoolboy floor games yesterday Devitt defe:i-d St. John's, 23 to 16, iq a prep school league match in the Boys' ' Club gym; Central routed Silver Spring, Méd., High, 31 to 17, in the Central gym: Catholic University Freshmen downed Gonzags, 42 to 25, in the I street school's court; Business trimmed Hyattsville High, 20 to_ 13, at Hyattsville, Md.; . Georgetown Prep took the measure of ‘Mount St. Mary's Prep, 26 to 17, at | Emmitsburg, Md., and Georgetown Prep Juniors were 28-22 victors over Gonzaga en. Strayers defeated Leonard Hall, 21 to ®, in the St. Martin's gym. In other encounters tomorrow, aside from the public high games, Gonzaga and Leonard Hall will meet, St. John's will travel to Cumberland, Md., to Le Salle Institute and Silver Spring HOOSIERS’ BRIGHT STARS ON BASKET BALL COURT Any school in Indiana is, com- ratively , strong in basket 11, regardiess of calamities in other sports. They tell a story of a fine, looking, 6 foot 4 inch Hercules, appearing on the Illinois us. Jimmie Ashmore, when coaching & college foot ball team in Indiana, says he had to forbid basket ball as a topic of conversation in the locker room of his eleven. SECOND RACE MEETING ANNOUNCED FOR FLORIDA ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, January 31 (#)—Opening of a 16-day meeting at Keeney Park on March 13, four days after the closing’ of the Hialeah rac- ing plant of the Miami Jockey Club, was announced yesterday. . Patterned after the Deauville course in Prance, the Keeney Park plant is owned and operated by Frank A. Keeney, president of the Florida Jockey CALIFORNIA U. AWARDS PRICE NEW CONTRACTS BERKELEY, Calif., January 31 (#).— Clarence M. “Nibs” Price, head foot ball and basket ball coach at the Uni- versity of California, was awarded two new three-year contracts to direct these sports at & meeting of the Associated stugents' executive committee last night. ‘grhe new contracts take effect April 1, when Price’s present contract ex- pires. Salary terms were not made and St. Alban's tossers will clash in the , atter's gym. Central will ennfi Catholic Univer- Freshmen tonight and Geetgetown 2 and nockvlur High were to meet ille this afternoon. Tech, which is heading the public high basket ball title race with five | wins against two defeats, will be play- ing its last scheduled series game to- ! morrow and a victory over Business will -assure the McKinley team of at least a tie for first place with Western, which 'has won- four and lost two games. , Business and Central are out tenogs p . game without the services of Capt. Jakie Lewis and certainly vfl'g’wut Ex ‘Three t .|are Howard Florence, ‘Young and 'Swilson Hissey, Florence nl‘:hmhn':d as the gridiron team and .t: also will continue as treasurer of lnurhfi Athletic Association, a which he has long held. Alvin Miller, principal of Central, id Kimble was transferred because his in the academic department !.hln' in the physical training depart- |ment. Malcolm M. Edwards was transferred to Tech from Gordon Junior High and 'will coach the base ball team at Mc- Kinley. Edwards, a graduate of Wabash :College, in Indiana, has had experience "n coaching not only base ball but bas- ket ball and track. He will tudor only |éhe diamonders at Tech, however. Stan- 15y M. Collins, who was originally slated ito coach base ball at Tech, was trans- |ferred to the physical training staff at Junior High. Collins has been tamed to succeed Paul Doerr at Hine. |'The latter is to take up teaching in the I™ “Bdwards' place at Gordon has been by Harold Blackman, who has been ferred from Columbia Junior High. Columbia physical training post will not be filled at this time, Schoolboy quints of the District of Columbia, Vi , Maryland and West L ia and North Carolina have been | nvited to take part in the sixth annual public. EVENING STAR, ..WASHINGTON, . School Basketers in Big Games Tomorrow : Fumble Rule Change Is Not Needed PRESENT CRIDIRON Bt - Tirs iDEA OF GomG SouTh T PLAY GoLPR 43 AL ROT [ HER® ST oW District Collegiate Athletes Face Many Week-End Contests Col basketers of the District group are faci action tomorrow night, a gameé with Virginia at College. Park at 8 o'clock, but Old Liners, as well as Catholic University, American Uni- versity, George Washington and Gal: Jaudet, are to show their wares Satur- Maryland and C. U. Freshm day. en fll’(’! are to meet, and Catholic U. ‘swimmers have an engagement Satur- day. In the only contest involving a Capi- te combination yesterday, ‘ashington basketers bowed to Denmark, George Navy, 20 to 40, at Annapolis. - | nis on May 9 at Bethlehem, Pa. American_University, which e vy bt 390 o ok, e avy at 2:30 o'c nmthe District u:nyu scheduled for action Saturday will be seen on home courts. 3 most of G. W.'s players were used by Geo: . (20), rge Wuho' R)P Alishouse, 1. 2 Fine, 1. oormoR | ourousoonsoncon NS | owmosauoanovomes ] -3 & Totals. feree—Mr. Voith . Umplre— 2P e Guaatsane T U Because of an infection of the ear, Leo Sexton, crack all-around George- town athlete will be lost to the track team for a week or so. Sexton will be unable to compete in the Boston Ath- letic Association games Saturday night in which Karl Wildermuth and a mile relay team have been entered by the feather permitting, O'Reilly was to decide today in time trials the personnel of the relay team to represent the Blue and Gray in the Hub games. - Two Xruhwu;tzhl’;u:h wtgz ‘;fl. Georgetown e BL. Josep! ’s Catholic Club’s meet in Newark, N. J. Arthur Briggs will compete in the spe- I May Head Ball Club I cial 600-yard event and Jim Kennedy in the 1,000-yard test. Georgetown, Syracuse and Colgate Universities will compete in the Sammy Reid Memorial one-mile college relay at the Crescent Athletic Club meet to be held February 16 in New York. George town by its victory over New York Uni- versity last year took the original cup out of competition. Jack Stark, former Catholic Univer- sity foot ball, basket ball and boxing 1 , has been appointed assistant commissioner to 1l meet Lehigh at ten- ing to Lehigh's schedule, which has just been anounced. Minnesota Attack After the Rebound * intervals between them will be about the same. - If you have ever studied foot ball will note- & similarity between advance and the down-the-fleld the first four linemen when ir eleven punts. In foot ball the down on the outside, two tackles or a tackle down the middle. ta look When one gets it ts, if way is clear. Likely it is not, for de- fensive players are too smart to be — | - outwitted by such tactics. Ha nobsuwlaokw“nrt.heyomh‘::: their efforts to outsprinting the four (Copyright, 1929.) HOWARD U. FIVE WINS OVER VIRGINIA UNION ‘Wood and Simpson led Howard Uni- ht 8YI. | goes to the man catching the heaviest fish of the trip. he two insti- H. Williams of the visiting qulng:" was' the outsanding star of the Women in 1 WO Washington Recreation League games, one in the Senlor and one in the Junlor division, are scheduled for to- night. Washington Pleld Hockey'| Gud. Club and Jewish Community Center passers will meet in a postponed con- test at 9 o'clock at the Jewish Com- munity Center. St. Paul's Academy and Columbis A. C. will figure in the Junior division contest. Since the Esglet-Roxie game of last Mondsy was called off, the game to- wfi between Columbis and lkm‘l open ths Junior division it. 3 7“!‘0“ layed on the academy court :30 o' ying game of the In- Pla a mfl termediate di , Company P Aux- iliary nosed out Calvery M. E. Church basketers last nignt by a single point, at 21 to 20, in the Hyattsville Armory, Basketers started off with Ju lead, which A LOTTA PEP- I Like T S AT MIGHT Do US SOME GooD- \'ve GoT A BIT OF A CoLD ANYWAY ~ LETS HAVE A HOOPER DoOPER, AROUND < THE LOCKER, Room A WHILE - perore we LTTLE Dice BEFORE WE DOWN THE LINE With W. O. McGEEHAN. Eliminating the Raspberry, HE University of Pennsylvania athletic authorities are making a laudable effort to eliminate the raspberry from the game of basket ball. If they can do this they will make the watchers at a basket ball game the best rofessional. Incidentally they will have succeeded where the officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association failed rather dismally. According to the Associated Press, each patron of basket ball as he enters the Palestra, where the games. are held, is handed a card bearing this legend: “You are asked to refrain from comment in any form on the work of the players o;;muu, except as good play on either side draws forth applause or organized cheering.” This is a beautiful gesture, but I hardly think that it will get any- where. It I recall correctly, it was either Harvard or Yale that tried to eliminate the raspberry from intercollegiate base ball. Now base ball is on the tradition that it is permissible, if not absolutely essential, rass every member of the visiting team in every manner. way even the stands and the bleachers can take a positive part. the notion of not criticizing the umpire when he pulls a bone, say, like the one perpetrated by Umpire Willlam Klem when he Gabby Hartnett to tackle a base runner, is too far fetched seriously. I do not know whether or not the officials at a basket to err in the opinion of the gallery, but it is highly probable s freedom of criticism of the umpire, his rulings and all his works base ball a t.rul{e American game. true American makes his hen complains bitterly when they are enforced. - Witness prohibition, behave. How a tennis gallery is sportsmanlike, but I recall fashion when the French team was winning the Davis behaved sgechtou at any sport, amateur or g & EE g =§Eg E eer] 3 e negative way of v] ble to use such slang in connection with tennis. gallery with a half-pained, half. mgm : ery a -} b -conf us e to rise and u&dn;ouhh the mx;lutude. hlndly TS, e gallery compl y refraining ’from uding bers of the American team. * 93 interesting to follow through the gesture of the Penn- authorities and learn whether or not the boys in the nlnmf. comment in any form on the work of the 1t is fairly hard to check a habit once formed, éspecially bit of giving the raspberry. of it, I know of only one instance where an edict or request ed. This was at a boxing tournament for. the fleet held ‘The master of announced, “During no remarks.’ looking on must have been in of aj wmmm emotions, but there were nommfi'h 'm In the Manly Art, CODEHELD SOUD Mechanized Foot Ball Apt to Result From Changes in Game’s Laws. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. TTHIN the next few weeks the foot ball rules committee will select its playing field and hold its annual huddle. To be accurate, the gridiron so- Ions never pick a fleld for their confer- ence. They prefer a golf course with its adjacent clubhouse. It does not appear likely that many rules will be changed, even if the coaches who sit with the committee de- sire it. There is a feeling that foot ball is now an old enough game to become standardized. ‘This business of having a new set of rules each season is becom- ing a bit ridiculous. Any change which reduced injuries naturally would be welcomed, but the game seems to have been made about as safe for the contestants as is possible in any strenuous sport. Occaslonally a man is badly hurt, but the great ma- Jority of foot ball injuries today are of a minor nature. Many of these injuries cannot be laid to the rules. They are rather the result of a coach or a trainer permitting a boy to play when the safe and conservative thing to do is to keep him on the bench until he has completely recovered from some bruise or strain. Often the boy either is afraid to say that he still feeis out of shape for fear of being thought without courage, or he is so eager to win and hold his place on the team that he conceals his real condition. Price Is Too Great. And to the coach whose job depends upon winning, or to one who has a tem- perament which 11l brooks defeat, it is & great temptation to take a chance on a star player or one who may make the difference between defeat and victory. 1 have heard coaches say: *“I hated to send him out there on a bad ankle, but I had to use him. I hadn't anybody else.” In that case it would be considerably better to unwrap the coonskin coat from some ablebodied undergraduate in the stand, thus giving & sound man a chance to die for his alma mater. nac & third of his than & of travel the other two-thirds on a bad ankle or weak knee is too much to pay | tpe for one foot ball game. But this reform the rule book. victory more secure for But many believe that which has made foot bal the past few years is that a weake has a chance to win. In the old days of close formations| g 0 fl;’"‘ a small eleven had ;nhnea = v":m Bl:lmueml used :g it ity. col b ugh ee’e-lve umg ‘without he score. The opening up of the little fellows a chance. Make foot. ball too mathematical and s behind. . 75 | > NOVEL RACE ARRANGED FOR GRIDIRON PLAYERS A novel relay race will keep some speedy foot ball players in training until February 11, when Manhattan College of New York holds its an- nual Indoor track meet. A race is planned for foot ball players, who will use a foot ball in- stead of the regulation relay baton. Entries will be limited to teams made of letter men from college foot ball teams. The race will be run in shuttle , four 100-yard laps across the armory. At each end cf the lanes a 15-yard marked off and the ball to his successor in these sones. JUNE 24 DATE SET FOR POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK, January 31 (#).—The Poughkeepsie regatta, blue ribbon event of college rowing, will return to its place as the final race of the season this year. The date set by the stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Asocia- tion is June 24, three days after the Yale-Harvard races at. New London. Last year the Poughkeepsie regatta was held before the Yale-Harvard event. A newcomer in the regatta this year will be Wisconsin, which has competed on several previous occasions, but was missing in 1928. California, Washing- ton and Navy also have been invited to compete with the four members of the association. Races will be held for varsity, junior varsity and freshman crews. WANTS BRITISH POLO TEAM TO INVADE U. S. At the instance of Secretaty Dwight F. Davis, the military attache at Lon- don has conveyed to the British mili- tary authorities the hope of the War Department that a British Army team will be permitted to visit the United States in 1929 for a series of polo matches with an American Army team, to be held under the auspices of the United States Polo Association. Secretary Davis feels that “the re- sumption-of such matches would again bring the two military services together on a basis of good sportsmanship and mutual - understanding beneficial to th. Such matches were inaugurated in 1923, when a British Army team visited United States, and continued in 1925, when an American Army team visited England. - Both matches were won by the American teams and no games have been played since. NEW BERTH FOR CHAMBERS. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 31 (#).— Mike Chambers, who has trained Ohio State’s athletic teams during the last years, will become varsity trainer and boxing coach at Georgia Tech Uni- versity, Atlanta, on April 1. certain, take from it the element of |. and are taking a step back- S Nor will It ever, while human emotions exist, be a popular move to muzzle the underdog. =~ Moreover, it F course, it would be impossible to eliminate the raspberry from the prize- | ball. fight. ' It is essential to the enjoyment of the -ebm manly drt. " the It he could not yell, “Knock the bum out,” or “Kill the pleasure of the sportsman who mm an exhibition of thnl‘mnly art of mocllze‘d ':mnler would be tT‘:rred kaltgt:;mr.m commenting on work of the officials at some of the prizefights held hereabouts, the customers hardly could be blamed for expressing ' their disapproval. The gladiators are hardened to the TTy. Mr. Josef Paul cukwchnyhexpreued their attitude when he sald: “Let them boo, I've got their dou I am what would happen if Mr. Joseph Humphreys one stang in the center of the ring and say: “Ladies and gentle- men, you are asked to refrain from thany!wmnmw'o’rnkd commen the boxers or officials.” He "l{m get that far and still have time to duck under the ring, but I doubt Similarly, Mr. John Jc McGraw might cause to have handed outlittle cards bearing a legend methemo’gnonzhacudsmdedoutntme Pennsylvania Palestra. 1 say he might, but it would seem rather incongruous e SO ot reting e TR X ts of his venting pl get goats of adversaries, as the boys put it, and who was the bane of all the offic o thorities with whom he came into cont:cg. GON RN N it elimin out in basket ball or. Whether ation of the berry is carried not, it seems a trifle useless even to nr':-?pt it in any of“the professional sports. more seriously, or at least more vociferously, than the ts. Ther¢ is no ferocity like that of the non-combatant. ys when McGraw used to razz the foe and bait the umpires compared to some of the Giant fans. If you want to con- vince yourself that the elimination of the raspberry in the national pastime is impossible, take a trip to Sportsman’s Park, at St. Louis, during a crucial series. I do not know just how or when it sta: but the to have become a tradition in the it S T , or af least shortly frmly ostablished. And, of course, in the days of the London prise rinig rules the customers availed themselves of the privilege of making arks appropriat priate to the situation, L 5 o b e Not on the Level. DD sports which are not on the level; cod fishing in competition. Our Mr. Fletcher, rum and I mean rod and ers. creant on one of fishing boats Wwhich he had just caught. His object was to win the pool which throat of & cod uare Garden are wondering this opportunity was open, and are regret! that they did not mm,::? 'lgfig ;‘fi: tel‘:nlnm :/:5 there. The man using the sinkers is suspected of being a prize- Some of the racketeers,of Madison INJURED BIRDS RESTORED TO HEALTH AT HOSPITAL A hospital is operated by Frank L. Bramble, a bird lover of Watertown, 8. Dak,, for wounded game birds which hunters are unable to recover. ‘Through careful feeding and protec- tion he brings most of these birds back to_health. Farmers often bring in wounded heasants, wild: ducks and geese which ey pick up. & $|500-MILE AUTO EVENT e e aniuletes no¥| BECOMES GRAND PRIZE are preliminary plans for their annual lnwruhnlu& meet| mng gnnyal 500-mile Memorial day mnummmotmapmm“m is way, LT s group. Track and| which since 1011 has most colorful event in the world of automo- bile , will henceforth be titied re | the Grand Prize of Americs. QUIGLEY TEACHES JAPS. Ernest Quigley, well known National the smooth passing of the winners being um:r noteworthy. ing directors are turning their attention to details of the events to Lea et ol el aierclass erie s most o e school *=C] ir lished a coaching school for base ball 0 syter-sectional gerles in the thiee | umpires and basket ball referces in voxw{‘hul and Japan, iy foent the| University of Washington’ foot ball easy who drill their elevens to the point where they function as highly skillful machines are impatient of the personal equation, which means the slipping of a cog. But, while the lesson of team- work is important, any sport is useless which does not also develop individual initiative and excellence. 8o it will be well for any rules com- mittee to set its face against too much legislation; to refuse to mechanize foot ball to the robot stage, and to prevent its being wired and refined so that it will come to resemble one of those ships run by radio from the shore. Foot ball is a good game right now. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- Daper Alliance.) MICHIGAN IRON MEN SHARE IN BIG TEN By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 31.—When it comes to “iron men,” Michigan’s pace- *rtting basket ball players are the class of the Big Ten. In the four conference games they have played and won the Wolverines have used only six players, while in a majority of them the five regulars have started and finished. Other teams in the race have used from 9 to 13 . ‘The Wolverine Hose snd Capt. Berie ‘McCos. gusres ant apt. Y, 3 and Bob Chapman, center. Tharel Kanitz, a clever guard, is the only sec- ond-string man to break into a confer- ence clash. Purdue, tied with Wisconsin for sec- | ond place in the championship race, has used the most players—13 in 6 con- ftests. Minnesota has used 12, Indiana, ‘Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois have used 10 each, while Ohio State, Northwestern and Chicago have played 9 each. CANADIAN-AMERICAN HOCKEY Philadelphia, 1. ‘Windsor, 2; Kitchener, 1. NEW YORK TEAM NEAR HOCKEY LEAGUE LEAD By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 31.—The lead. ership of the National Hockey League seems to become more uncertain as the season progresses. Les Canadliens of Montreal, who won the top rung in the International group, taking two strenuous games on successive nighls, get a well eared rest tonight, but tifat rest may cost them first place. While the flying Frenchmen are idle the New York Americans, who dropped into second place by a 1-point mar- gin, clash with the Rangers in the last of their intracity battles. A victory would put them ahead again and would give them their first champlonship of the city. Unless President Frank Calder heeds the American request, to suspend judgment on Capt. Bill Cook of the Rangers, who is due for a mspemlfin as the result of his third major penaky of the season, the prospects look par- ticularly bright for the Rangers. In three games the Star-Spangled créw has gained a victory and two ties evén when the Rangers' star wingman was on the job. & . Another threat to the leadership lies in the meeting between Bostor: and To- ronto. As the result of their long win- ing srteak, extending to 12 games with- out a defeat, the Bruins are only -2 points behind the Rangers in the Amer- ican group standing. 1 NURMI MUST PASS 50 . RUNNERS TO WIN RACE NEW YORK, January 31 (#).—Fin- land's speed king, Paavo Nurmi, hi shown that he can beat America’s best distance runners from scratch, it whether he can thread his way throu 2 big fleld and overcome long handical is another matter. His first test in traffic Jams of a big fleld comes tonight in the St. Joseph’s Catholic Club meédt at Newark, when he starts from scraf in the 2-mile handicap event.. The to the handicaps the flying Pinn has glve has been placed at 170 yards. 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