Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 26

SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D O, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 19 D. C. College Athletes Having Busy Day : Lomski Hard Pressed in Detroit Figh -TWO COURT FRAYS - ONTONIGHT'S LIST G..U. Teams in Three Events, With Basketers Playing This Afternoon. OLLEGE athletes of the Capital area to be busy tonight. Action also was listed this afternoon. ‘Two basket ball games are e carded here tonight, both starting at 8 o'clock. American Uni- Jversity is to entertaln Virginia Medical -+ 'College and Gallaudet has an engage- ment with Juniata. ne Qleorgetown was to entertain West % Virginia’s quint this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the American U. gym in the | ! biggest game on the program and one of the most important of the season in this section. ‘«’ Georgetown boxers were at Yale for s match with the Old El leather push- ~ ers and the Blue and Gray’s 1-mile re- .‘lay team is in New York to compete in the Crescent A. C. games tonight. | ‘Quints of the District group all were | successful in matches last night. Amer- | ", dcan University defeated Juniata, 39 to aneB5-on-the A. U. floor, George Washing- _‘ton took the measure of Virginia Med- 1cai-College, 45 to 21, in the Colonials’ <~ gym, and Maryland was a 32-to-17 - vicw;:kaer Western Maryland at Col- In a preliminary to the @@eorge ‘Washington-Virginia Medicos’ , game, Georgetown's freshmen _scoréf ~ over George Washington's yearlings. 34 to 20. American University is expected to add another victory to its string at the expense of Virginia Medical College tonight. The Richmond team showed little last night in losing to George | - Washington. It will be the next to +*the last home appearance of the Metho- ‘o.gists. A, U. defeated the Virginia -Medicos carly in the season at Rich- ““mond, 36 to 30. . Gallaudet will be winding up its home _season against Juniata tonight. The -Kendall Greeners hope to win but prob- ..'ably will have a fight as Juniata showed -declded strength in its match with, American University last night. - Georgetown and West Virginia were expected to put on a stirring game. “The Hoyas have won 12 of their 15 *,-contests this season and West Virginia -has captured 11 out of 13, counting among its victims Pittsburgh, 1928 East- ‘ern collegiate champion, and Army. Georgetown was depending on Jack - ‘Tierney, middleweight; Joe Davis, ban- - tam; Emmett Hagerty, 125-pounder; Joe Madden, in the 135-pound division; ** Henry Murphy at 145, and Mario Pozzo -8t 175 in the boxing encounter with «~-Yale. Tierney was to take the place of Jim Greeves, injured in the Navy -imatch last Saturday, and Davis was to - ;ey:lct Saur. It was to be Davis' first ght. . John Cranley, Capt. Eddie O'Shea, ~- JErwin Cosh and Eddie Hoctor will make “up the mile relay team that will repre- sosent Georgetown in the Sammy Reid “Memorial race tonight in the Crescent .i-A. C. games, Cosh has just returned "~ to the team following an injury suf- 2 fered while pole vaulting about three ‘weeks ago. He is expected to strength- “ en the quartet. - With New York University, Syracuse and Colgate arrayed against it, George- town expects its most difficult test of the season. New York U, with Phil +-Edwards, Canadian Olympic star, and #neFreddy Veit on its team, is most feared by the Hoyas. A determined rally in the closing minutes swept American University to its victory over Juniata last night. With .the visitors leading, 22 to 16, and only ‘s few minutes to play, the Methodists w..came through with a flurry of baskets +s %o gain the edge at 24 to 22, and there- after were always ahead. It was a keen-fought match all the ‘way. After A. U. had achieved a 9-4 _ Jead in the first half Juniata loosed an attack which enabled it to overcome the Methodists and get out in front, 14 to 11, at the half. A. U. early in the second half again ulled to even terms with the visitors gy solving the latter's zone defense, but later the visitors once more swept ahead ~ionly to be overcome by the late victory- producing rally put on by the home club. Burgess and _Lichliter for A. U. and I*Berry for Jurilata were leading scorers. Score: «~.American Uni. Bursess, 1. LaFavre, 1. Lichiiter, ¢. ihioss. . Kessier, oanaQ’ 939 Totals.....16 335 Referee—Mr. Jack Dally (Georse Wash- Angton University). * George Washington gained the lead .. At the start in their game with Vir- -, ginia Medical College and held it. It was the Colonials’ first victory in eight this season. .u]:e“d by Irving Fine, little guard, who registered 19 points, the Colonials for the first time this season looked like a really capable quint. Bill Snow, cen- ter, who came through with 12 points, was another G. W. player to show well. Johnny Thacker, former Central High player, who stamd“ at forward for the ners, got 8 points. “'6, W.sl'l& l‘l:othc van, 23 to 12, and its lead was not thereafter seriously threatened. [, Score: George Wash ine, f.... ** Randall, Thacker; 1. Totals. Va. Medical (3! “45) B ¥ Helseback, &- Todd. &. Goodside, Totals. .. cosormcuwseld cacsoocne~. G. 1 0 1 [ 2 o 0 0 1 o 5 2l omorouoront! 2l cacmoasuoa™ 19 745 Reteree—Mr. Julie Radice, whose work recently has compared favorably to his high-class efforts of a season ago, again last night starred for Maryland as the Old Liners drubbed Western Maryland. Radice came through with four goals from scrimmage and two foul shots for a total of i0 points. Burt McGann, Evans and Hetzel were others to find the scoring range consistently for Mary- * land. ‘Taking the lead in the early minutes, the Old Liners were never headed, though their edge was cut to 20-17 .about midway of the second half. How- ever, at this stage Maryland, led by Radice, put on a rally that put the game beyond the reach of the visitors. It was the second win in three starts over State vivals scored by the Old Liners, who will end their season next Saturday in Baltimore against Hopkins. Marskind (32). Western Md. (17) [ 0 0 4 2 2 0 6 3 0 0 | @ero o o) 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 ° 4 ] Totals ¥ Totals ... Referee—Mr. Menton (Baltimore). In defeating George Washington Treshmen last night Georgetown's year- ‘ngs hung up their eleventh win in as many starts this scason. The losers led in the early stages and again were dan- c~rous in the third period. Bozek and alonahan led the winners' attack. 4 3 | tion of local bowlers tonight. The more | MEETING TO ORGANIZE BASKET LOOP DELAYED RICHMOND, Va, February 16 (#)~R. A. Smith, graduate manager at Washington and Lee University, has announced that Southern Con- ference Schools in the South Atlantic section would send representatives to Roanoke on March 4 to discuss plans for a new basket ball league. The meeting originally listed for tonight has been called off owing to the in- ability of two Carolina institutions to send representatives there. The league, tentatively planned, is expected o embrace eight schools. The colleges interested are Mary- land, Virginia, Washington and Lee, V. M. L, V. P. I, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Duke. Smith, who was instrumental in forming a base ball league among South Atlantic conference schools, is an outstanding advocate for the pro- posed organization. TWO QUINTS SEEKING RIVALS FOR TONIGHT Peerless unlimited and Corinthian 130-pound basket ball teams are seek- ing foes for tonight. The former quint has Noel House gym available and will card a fast rival at Lincoln 6838. Co- rinthians are seeking a team having a gym. Call Columbia 7504. With Ham Adams getting a half dozen baskets last night, University A. C. five surprised with a 34-t0-26 win over Anacostia Eagles. Results of other games played last night follow: National Circles, 20; Renrocs, 18. National Circles, 53; Coast Artillery, 19. French A. C., 42; Woodside A. C., 20. B. C. Standards, 27; Good Shepherds, Moseans, 23; Cogs A. C., 17. Wallace Memorial, 21; Clarendon, 20. ‘Wallace Memorial, 31; Northwest- erns, 14. Arcadian-Frenchy, 45; Pontiacs, 11. F Troop, 51; Medical Department, 22. Terrors, 9; St. Martin’s, 7. Petworth Mets, 56; Trinity M. E., 28. Petworth Mets, 38; Tremonts, 30. BAN ON BOXER LIFTED. A suspension from amateur standing held by the A. A. U. against Hugo Stellabotta, City Club bantam boxer, has been lifted, according to Erfiest J. Spitzer, commissioner for the District. C BIG TEN QUINTETS BATILE FOR LEAD Three Teams That Are Tied for Top Berth Figure in Games Tonight. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, Yebruary 16.—The scramble for the Big Ten bas- ket ball charapionship lunges back into its full, dizzy stride again tonight with a five-game program that may jar the present stand- ings from roof to basement, The battlefront: Purdue at North- western, Wisconsin at Indiana, Ohlo State at Illinois, Chicago at Iowa, and Michigan at Minnesota. Michigan, which is tied with Wiscon- sin and Purdue for first place, was the only team among the leaders to be rea- sonably certain of victory. Minnesota has lost six straight games and appar- ently wil be unable to stop the ma- chine-liRe offense of Coach George Veenker's men. The Northwestern-Purdue clash stood out as the banner event on the busy card. While Purdue has been idle since January 21, Northwestern has developed into the most sensational team in the race. After dropping their first three games, the Wildcats have come back with such a rush that they have won four straight conference games, includ- ing that with Michigan last Monday night. Tonight, the Wildcats will have their star center, “Rut” Walter, who has been out for several weeks with an injured knee, and if “Stretch” Murphy and his mates win they will be forced to_the limit. Wisconsin, too, faces a dangerous opponent in Indiana. The Hoosiers have lost five games out of seven during the campaign and are definitely out of the race, but have been considerably strengthened by the return of Dale Wells at forward, and threaten to cause the Badgers plenty trouble. Wisconsin defeated them, 24 to 20, in their first engagement, but has been idle since January 21 and may be stale. For the first time in weeks, Iowa had its entire squad off the sick list and seemed certain of defeating Chicago, 'which has dropped seven straight games. Iowa, however, had to work at full steam to defeat the Maroons, 23 to 21, here February 2. ‘The Ohio State-Illinois game will have no direct bearing on the cham-l Stellabotta was charged with unfavor- able conduct in the ring. plonship, as each team has lost three | games. ODAY was a lean day for scholas- tic athletes hereabout. In th lone contest scheduled Hyatts- ville High and Georgetown Prep basket ball teams were to meet in American University gym this after- noon in the preliminary to the G. U.- ‘West Virginia varsity game. In floor games yesterday afternoon and last night Eastern closed its season with a 43-26_victory over St. John s, in the St. John’s gym; St. Alban’s bowed to Donaldson School of Baltimore in a 35-18 match on the St. Alban’s floor; Central fell before Atlantic City, 28 to 38, at the New Jersey resort, and Tech nosed out Emerson, 26 to 25, in & practice game in the Tech gym. In other tilts Gonzaga Juniors de- feated St. John's Juniors, 17 to 12, in the Gonzaga gym. and First Year B team downed the First Year C five, 19 to 15, in a St. John's interclass game, played as a preliminary to the Eastern- St. John'’s match. Coach Ty Rauber is lining up his Central foot ball candidates preliminary to the start of Spring practice, Febru- ary 25. More than 100 are expected to report. Capt. George Brandt, end; Hinkle, Shriver, Lamond, Cross, St. Johns, Ro- senthal, Beazley, Zimmisch and Dodson are candidates of some experience ex- pected to report. Rosenthal will be groomed for a tackle berth. Because he was unable to play in Only One Scholastic Contest Will Be Decided Here Today several basket ball games toward the end of the season because of scholastic ineligibility. Jakie Lewis, clever Busi- ness High guard, will not receive his letter, it has been announced. For the same reason Morris Denniberg, also a guard, will not get a “B.” Lester Sing- man, who did not play in the last games because he was graduated, nevertheless, will receive his letter along with Mel- vin Payne, Hugh Mahoney, Bob Lucas, Nathan Newman, Fred Finley, Linwood Jones and Manager Harry Hopkins. Jimmy Ryan, with 12 points, led St. John's attack last night against St. John'’s., Overcoming an early lead, Eastern was in the van the remainder of the way. Crouch, with 8 points, was the only St. Alban’s player able to score with appreciable consistency against Donald- son. Kronberger and Hastings topped the winners’ offense. Atlantic City held the whiphand most of the way over Central. At the halt the home team was ahead, 19 to 10. Capt. Ken Fisher and Lampson, with 12 and 8 points, respectively, did most of Central's scoring. Farhood and Buscher, for Tech and Emerson, respectively, were leading scorers in the game between their teams yesterday. Buscher hit the basket for 14 points and Farhood got 11. Capt. Jake Goldblatt was absent from the Tech line-up. FULL BOWLING CARD SCHEDULED TONIGHT Speclal matches will hold the atten- important events follow: ‘Women's doubles challenge match— Mischou and Gulli vs. Frere and Bradt, King Pin No. 1, 8 o'clock. Greek All-Stars vs. Italian-Americans, Coliseum, 8 o'clock. Richmond Western Union man and woman teams vs. Washington Western Union teams, Convention Hall, 8 o'clock. ‘Washington and Baltimore American Ice Co. ten-pin teams, three-game open- ing block, Arcadia, 8 o'clock. Father-and-son tournament closes, Mount Rainier. Federal and District Government sweepstakes open, Arcadia, 8 o'clock. Clarence W. Taft, Bradley Mandley, Howard Campbell and Clem Weidman will meet Baltimore rivals at Baltimore Bowling Center tonight in initial five- game blocks of special matches, which will be completed here next Saturday night. Taft, The Evening Star tourna- ment champlon, will meet Bob Meyers, the Baltimore Sun tourney titlist; Mand- ley will meet Gordon Scibel and Camp- bell and Weidman will team against George Lang and Ray Von Dreeble, two of Baltimore's best. Gathering 2,924 pins in the second block of their match with Recreations of Baltimore to gain an easy decision, Convention Hall's pinmen believe they recorded a new 10-game set record by bringing their total for the match to 5,940. They piled up 3,016 at Baltimore two weeks ago to establish a new Mary- land record. Megaw's 142 game and 639 set featured a good team exhibition. YALE SWIMMERS SCORE. NEW YORK, February 16 (#).—Yale's swimmers took a firmer grip on the top rung in the Intercollegiate Swimming Association League race by defeating City College of New York, 45 to 17. George Washington, 45; Medical Col- lege of Virginia, 21. Maryland, 32; Western Maryland, 17. American’ University, 39; Juniata, 35. Georgetown Freshmen. 34; George Washington Freshmen, 20. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. |52 WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Aside from the Holton Arms-Gunston Hall court game which was scheduled to be played today on the Y. W. C. A. court, only two scholastic teams will get into action over the week end. Ameri- can University will be entertained by Gallaudet at Kendall Green at 3:30 o'clock in the lone contest. Gallaudet starts the argument a favorite by reason of three victories registered this season. Basketeers scored over the Company F Auxiliary sextet, 27 to 17, last night in an intermediate division Washington Recreation League game on the Calvary M. E. Church floor. This marked the third consecutive win for Basketeers. coocoooual » PRAIN iy ocoocon~y 8l oos000055" ixd: & ol coscooousy <l wl 51 Aspirants to the South Atlantic A. A. U. basket ball title are advised that but two weeks remain for the posting of en- tries. Teams desiring to play in either class of the event (unlimited or junior) should file entries with the Washington Post before March 1. Any independent team in the city is eligible. Those whose players are 18 or over should enter the unlimited class, while squads composed of girls under 18 will compete for the junior title. An entrance fee of $3.50 per team is charged. This covers all expenses, in- cluding the referee. Gypsies of the Washington Recreation League are reported to have signified their intention of entering, as will the Als, a new combination of players se- lected from the ranks of several club squads in the city. The Loudoun team jof Leesburg, Va., are expected also to compete. The winning six in each class will go to Baltimore to compete in the inter-city als. FOUR BIG TEN TEAMS TO CONTEST IN MEET Susquehanna, 15; Delaware, 15. St. John’s of Annapolis, 35; Swarth- | more, 24. Virginia, 36; Davidson, 27. Virginia Freshmen, 27; Freshmen, 22, Clemson, 17; South Carolina, 12, Yale, 37; Columbia, 23. 49; Penn State, 38. Wofterd, Charleston, 19. Creighton, 31; Syracuse, 25. Notre Dame, 24; Butler, 21. Fairmount Normal, 35; Centre, 33. . Va.), 31; Uni- Davidson MADISON, Wis,, February 16 (#).— Track and fleld stars from Chicago, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Ohio State doffed their “sneakers” to match speed and prowess at the sixth annual quadrangular meet on Wisconsin’s in- door track today. Chicago’s fast team, which has con- quered Minnesota and Purdue in dual meets this season, ranked as a slight favorite in the event, which is indoor track’s major prelude to the annual Big Ten indoor championships in | March. Several conference marks, espectafly in the short distances and in the shot- Guliford, 24; Roanoke, 23, put. were threatened by the ¢ in the 10 events. g | Judges Rulers in Sportdom; Landis Topping the “Big Four” o, 4‘ =\ courts by vocation and a judge of foot ball talent by avocation, is a member of the Superior Court bench of Chicago. The brilliant Carnegie Tech team, undefeated during the 1928 season until it met New York University in its closing game of the year, attests to the Chicago jurist's power and influence in the game of foot ball. Judge Steffens, while offi- cially designated as “advisory coach” at Carnegle, is recognized as the man behind the gun when it comes to foot ball at the Pittsburgh insti- tution. ‘Three of the judges hold power over national base ball, the Boston Braves or the Carnegie Tech grid- iron terrors, but Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney wields the gavel on legal subjects affecting the Amateur Ath- letic Union. As chairman of the judicial committee he is chief ad- viser. He was active in the days of the late J. E. Sullivan and now is one of the trustees of the J. E. Sul- livan Fund, established to further the cause cf amateur athletics. He receives the greeting, “Good morn- ing, judge,” when he occupies the berch in a New York magistrate's court. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. Canada’s Caulifiower Question. ANADA is about to embark in caulifiower culture in a big way. A Montreal promoter announces that he is about to stage a tournament to develop a heavyweight champion for Canada. His schedule is to get in touch with all the lumberjacks and river men of the Dominion Who think that they can fight. It will be something of an undertaking, for nearly all the lumberjacks and river men of Canada think they can fight, and not a few of them know that they can fight. Come to think of it, Canada once did have a heavyweight champion of the world in the person of Tommy Burns (Noah Brusso), who knocked out Bill Squires, the heavyweight champion of Australia, in one round at San Francisco. Subsequently Burns was knocked out by Jack Johnson. Joe Page, the sporting authority of Canada, tells me that Burns is now running his own pub at Calgary. While the men of the North Woods are earnest fighters, the trouble is that the cauliffower etiquette of the lumber camps is a trifle loose, as com- pared to the various American boxing commissions’ notions of the Marquis of Queensberry rules. The lumber camp rules are a combination of the old London prize-ring rules, the Chelsea dock rules and the backroom rules. It remains to be seen just how a lumberjack champion would go if he were hampered by the Marquis of Queensberry rules, where biting, gouging, strangling and other effective methods of the North Woods would be . The only blow barred in a regulation lumber camp battle is the right swing with an ax. That always is regarded as being in the nature of a foul. Mose Allen of the Clan Allen, a guide, of the Province of New Brunswick, described a historic battle between lumber camp champions. “One of them was champion of the Cains River,” began Mose. “Naturally I was backing him. The other was champion of the Miramichi. They decided to fight 1t out on the little island there, where the Cains River runs into the Miramichi. It was to be a 10-day fight, with the understanding that if both men were on their feet at the end of 10 days they would fight for 10 days more. “In these lumberjack fights they are allowed 10 hours to get mp after they are hit. You can see for yourself that this is reasonable, because the lumberjacks hit when they hit, and nobody could get up in 10 seconds after taking one of those blows. This fight went on for 10 days, each man hav- ing been down twice for counts of seven or eight hours. But they were both on their feet at the end of the 10 days, so they kept on fighting. +‘Of course, the crowd started to dwindle toward the last, and most of us could only look in on the battle for a few hours a day, or in the evening, because there’ was a big log drive on, and the men had to keep working. It was suggested several times that the thing be called a draw along about the fifteenth day, but neither man would agree. So it went on. “On the seventeenth night someth! happened. The Cains River man was down with a cut in his skull. Nobody had seen just exactly what had hap- pened, but the referee ruled that he had been hit on the head with an ax by the Miramichi man. Of course, this disqualified the Miramichi man, and our man was given the decision on a foul. He won the fight all right, but the ax cut was pretty deep, and when we tried to bring him to to tell him that he had won, he was as dead as a mackerel, so the championship did him no good what- ever. All bets were declared off, and nobody made a dime out of the bout.” The Canvas Test. A FEW years ago a syndicate of millionaire American sportsmen conceived the quaint idea that somewhere in England there must be a_ vertical heavy- weight, and that if this rare specimen of the caulifiower could be found they might make him the heavyweight champion of the world. Money was no object at all. The head of the syndicate simply wanted to prove that there was at least one British heavyweight who was not altogether horizontal. ‘They hired Mr. Tex O'Rourke for the work. Mr. O’Rourke laid claim to having discovered Jess Willard, which was no great achievement. Still, it was something. They gave Mr. O'Rourke a long bank roll, and they told him to take his time about it and to test every British heavyweight he could find. Mr. O'Rourke’s methods were simple. Whenever a British heavyweight was brought before him, Mr. O’'Rourke would spread a bit of canvas and then ring a bell. If the heavyweight immediately folded up and stretched himself upon the canvas for 10 seconds or longer Mr. O’Rourke naturally would come to the conclusion that he would not do. For months he traveled about England. He found many likely looking heavyweights, but none of them seemed able to pass the canvas test. Finally, he found four of them who seemed able to stay on their feet for three minutes at a time. The search took about a year or more, but Mr. O'Rourke was ready to report to his backers that he had done his level best for them. There was no little excitement when the announcement was made that four non-horizontal British heavyweights had arrived in New York. But it was over in a week. All four were knocked out, rolled up flat on canvas and shipped back to England. Already Discovered. IT IS quite likely that there are no undiscovered heavyweight championship possibilities anywhere in this world, excepting, perhaps, in the African jungles, and there is no particular percentage in discovering a Negro heavy- weight championship possibility. It seems that the Nordics and the near- Nordics do not relish the notion of a Negro heavyweight champion, therefore lhe"efl’x;mng capacity of a colored heavyweight championship possibility is negligible. ‘The case of Schmeling, the Prussian heavyweight, indicates that there are few undiscovered cauliflower possibilities anywhere. It develops now that Jack Dempsey saw Schmeling years ago, and told him that he probably would become heavyweight champion some day. The last hearing of the Schmeling case showed that a dozen others had not only discovered him, but had filed their percentage claims on him long ago. The list reveals that Schmeling seems to have acquired a man- ager in every country in Europe, including the Scandinavian, and the line of managers has not yet been counted with any degree of accuracy. When other heavyweight championship possibilities come to these shores BY JAY R. VESSELS. Associated Press Sports Editor. HEY'RE laying down the law of athletics, are these judges of sportdom—Landis, Stef- fen, Fuchs and Mahoney. For a long time the first named of the Big Four was the judge of sport, but the others have now attracted the public eye. Doubtless the best known of the jurists associated with sports is the dynamic Judge Landis, high commis- sioner of base ball. Retained to help safeguard the game which at the time was staggering from the “Black Sox” scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, formerly of the Federal bench in Chicago, is still a judge, a mighty judge, of things concerning professional base ball. Another base ball figure with the word judge prefixing his name is Emil Fuchs, owner of the Boston Braves. His courage in accepting the managership of his own team, base ball men say, merits ranking with the most fearless of jurists. Judge Fuchs formerly presided as a Boston magistrate. Walter P. Steffens, a judge of the it probably wil be found that Uncle Joe Jacobs, the pugilistic pawnbroker, and James J. Johnston, the boy bandit, have been holding first and second mortgages on them for years. Not a Chance. IOMEBODY has come out with the theory that if Schmeling should become heavyweight champion Gene Tunney will return to the ring to bring the mlmpl&lgshlp back to the United States. Tunney has not been consulted in e matter. I can assure all those that are interested that Mr. Tunney has no notion of returning to the ring, and would not be greatly distressed if the heavy- weight champlonship went to Senegambia or any other spot on the map that ¥ou cere @ zame, S el (Coprright, 1929.) FELDSLAGKSK 0 PUNEH N VITORY Qutpoints Gans Decisively, but Passes Up Chances for Early Win. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, February 16.—Jackie Fields, a fisticuffer’s idea of perpetual motion, has begun an Eastern invasion with another victory over Baby Joe Gans, negro battler from Fields' own home town of Los Angeles. Boring in with both fists flying at all times, Fields battered out a decisive triumph on points over Gans in a 10- round match in Madison Square Gar- den last night. The official verdict gave Fields the 147-pound championship of Los Angeles, but it did nothing much in the way of strengthening his position as the leading contender for Joe Dundee's welter- weight crown and toga. | Outweighing the negro by 5, pounds, Fields appeared certain to win on a knockout as early as the second round. He had Gans stunned and reeling mid- way through this session, but apparent- ly didn’t know what to do with him now that he had him. It was the same story in the third round when a looping overhand right followed by a left hook, Fields’ best weapon, had Gans holding on desperately. Try as he might, Fields could not finish his man. After that, Jackie had no more of the well known golden opportunities to send the crowd of some 15,000,home early. Gans Flashes Little. Gans, apparently more concerned with staying the limit than with any- thing else, showed a momentary flash of his usual form in the fourth round, which he took by a wide margin. Stop- ping Fields’ headlong rushes with a left jab, Gans shot over jolting right hand punches to his white rival’s jaw, but Fields took them all and came back for more. Both were tired under the fierce pace and there was little action in the next five rounds. Fields never quit trying but his busy fists mauled the Negro around rather than hurt him particularly. At that, Jackie took the fifth, seventh and eighth rounds with the sixth and ninth even. stanza. Apparently the fresher of the two, he side-stepped all of Jackie's wild charges and clipped the white boy on the chin with right hooks as he went sailing by. The round was Gans’ beyond a doubt, but it could not make up for the overwhelming lead Fields had piled up in the first nine rounds. Five Rounds to Fields. Although a small chorus of booes went up when the official verdict was an- nounced, there seemed no question but that Fields had won by a wide margin The Associated Press score sheet gave Fields five rounds, Gans two, with three even, Fields' showing was a disappointment to some Eastern observers. His failure to knock out a man he outweighed by almost half a dozen pounds when the time seemed ripe was not calculated to boost his stock in the welterweight market. ALEXANDRIA BOWLERS ENTER TITLE TOURNEY ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 16— Alexandria Health Center Bowling Al- leys’ team has been entered in the championship tournament to be held March 26 to April 4 in Richmond, Va, Manager Stanley Dreifus decided to enter his pinspillers and submitted his entries to the tourney officials. Health Center bowlers will entertain the Washington All Stars of Washing- ton, D. C., tonight at 8 o'clock in the first of two matches. A home-and-home series is pending with Oscar Hiser's Hyattsville team. Three attractive games comprise the basket ball card at Armory Hall tonight, with the Hoffman Clothiers meeting Alexu;flru High in the feature game | at 8:45. Alexandria High girls and Hoffman Buddies will play at 5 and Jefferson | School and the Fussell A. C. of Wash- ington will oppose at 5. BETHES_DA, SILVER SPRING WILL CLASH ON DRIVES A picked bowling team composed of Adams, McAuliffe, Lindstrom, Harrison, Harris, Irey and Henry Hiser will repre- sent Bethesda alleys in a match with a similar team representing Silver Spring drives at the latter place tonight. Hyattsville All-Stars are also slated to meet Recreation League All-Stars in the second block of a 10-game match at Hyattsville Arcade. MORE RECORDS SMASHED IN BAIT-CASTING MEET ORLANDO, Fla., February 16 (#).— Continued assaults upon records marked the fourth annual Southern States cast- ing tournament here yesterday. Eddie Braddon, Cleveland, set a na- tional record in the quarter-ounce dis- tance event, casting the weight 263 feet. ‘William Stanley, Chicago, captured the half-ounce distance event, his average being 312 feet. W. J. Buckwalter, Cleveland, broke the Southern and national record for the five-eighth-ounce distance event, with an average of 247 feet. HAMM TO BE OPERATED UPON FOR APPENDICITIS ATLANTA, February 16 (#).—Coach Hal Barron, trainer of the Georgia Tech track squad, announced yesterday that Ed Hamm, holder of the world broad jump record and a sprint star, would enter a hospital here Tuesday to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Coach Barron said this would pre- clude Hamm's participating in track events for a year at least. Hamm was a member of the United States Olympic team and established his world record for the broad jump in the games this past year. ELDER WILL ASSAULT 60-YARD DASH MARK SOUTH BEND, Ind, February 16 (#)—The world indoor record for the| 60-yard dash will be under fire again tonight from Jack Elder, Notre Dame star, who has equaled the mark eight times during his college career. Elder will lead his mates against Illi- | nois i a dual track and field meet with hopes set on shattering the mark Gans did his best fighting in the tenth | in, Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. DETROIT.—Leo Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash,, outpointed Tuffy Griffith, Sioux City, Iowa (10). Eddie Shea, Chicago, stopped Billy Shaw, Detroit (5). Henry Goruberu. Brooklyn, knocked out Jimmy Smith, Detroit (2). NEW YORK.—Jackle Fields, Los An- geles, outpointed Baby Joe Gans, New York (10). MILWAUKEE. — Armando Santiago, Cuba, outpointed Herman Perlick, Kala- mazoo, Mich. (8). BOSTON.—Con O'Kelly, Ireland, won on foul over Ernie Schaaf, Germany (6). Jack Gross, Philadelphia, out- pointed Jaks Warren, Chicago (10). HOT SPRINGS, Ark—Kid Adams, San Antonio, outpointed Irish Mickey Glll, Chicago (10). OMAHA, Nebr—Tommy Grogan, Omaha, knocked out Nat Kawler, New York (7). Harold Mathews, Lincoln, outpointed Genaro Pino, Cuba (10). KEWANEE, Ill.—Lew Denny, Chicago, stopped Eddie Chander, Kewanee (9). ST. PAUL, Minn—My Sullivan, St. Paul, outpointed Billy Light, St. Paul (10). Spud Murphy, Moorhead, Minn., outpointed Morrie Gransberg, Chicago (). Joe Gordan, Minneapolis, out- pointed Joe Thomas, Des Moines (6). ST. LOUIS.—Johnny “Peewee” Kaiser, St. Louls, knocked out Lou Spencer, Cleveland (1). Red Roland, St. Louls, knocked out Eddie Mahoney, Terre Haute (1). ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Mickey Durane, Omaha, outpointed Hall McWilliams, Joplin, Mo. (8). HOLLYWOOD, Calif —Chet Shandell, San Francisco, stopped Tony Stabenau, Buffalo, N. Y. (5). REFEREE PICK LEFT T0 BAY STATE BOARD By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., February 16.— The Massachusetts Boxing Commission today was considering a list of several referees from which the members will choose the third man in the ring for the Sharkey-Stribling heavyweight box- ing match in Flamingo Park here Feb- ruary 27. The selection, however, must receive the final approval of managers of the principals in the Miami Beach battle. This plan was suggested by Stribling at yesterday’s conference on a referee. The selection must be made by Feb- ruary 20. Otherwise, Dempsey said, he will do the picking himself. It also was decided at yesterday’s meeting that the fighters should do a little more training for the forthcom- g bout. Dempsey had a busy day yesterday checking up on ticket sales and order- ing all soft drinks be sold in paper con- tainers at the fight to eliminate the possibility of bottle tossing. PIERCE BASKETERS PLAY MATCH AT HYATTSVILLE HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 16.— In the only basket ball game sched- | uled hereabout tonight Pierce A. C. will entertain National Press Building Cardi- nals of Washington in the Hyattsville High School gymnasium at 8:30 o’clock. A game scheduled between Frenchy's quint and Alexandria Lightweights to- night in Alexandria has been cancelled. Hyattsville High girls’ basket ball team and Annapolis High lassies battled to an 8-8 tie yesterday afternoon onm the National Guard Armory floor here. No extra period was played. It was the second hard fought game between these teams this season, Annapolis having conquered Hyattsville by a narrow mar- gin recently in the Maryland capital. Prince Georges County League All- Stars will meet Recreation League All- Stars of Wuhin&bun tonight in a bowl- ing match on the Arcade alleys here. Sloux bowlers will go to Annapolis to meet the Standard Oil team there. DECISION AGAINST GRIFFITH 1S BOOED lowan Apparently Entitled to a Draw at Least in Light-Heavy Bout. | Jerr: BY CHARLES W. DUNKLEY, | Assoctated Press Sports Writer. | ETROIT, February 1 D (Tufty) Griffith, the | holds & popular if not an offi- cial decision over Leo Lomski, acknowledged as the leading challenger for the world light heavyweight cham- plonship, as a result of their close 10- round battle in the Olympia arena last night. The verdict of Elmer (Slim) McClel- land, the referee, went to Lomski, but the cheers of 14,000 spectators went to Griffith. The decision, proclaiming Lomski the winner, was loudly and per- sistently booed. Besides the tumult of jeers, there was a shower of papers and programs from the gallery. A ma- jority of the spectators thought Grif- fith was entitled to the decision and they gave him one by acclamation. The spectators hooted McClelland from the ring in expressing their disapproval. Unbiased ring observers agreed today that the battle was so close that it could hardly have been awarded to either man. McClelland figured that Lomski, the “assassin” from Aberdeen, Wash., won the last three rounds by a conclusive margin and therefore was en- titled to the verdict. Griffith Fast at Start. At times Griffith outboxed the con- tender from the Pacific Coast. He dis- played surprising speed with the left hand that he repeatedly jabbed to Lomski's face. Several times he forced Lomski to retreat from the force of rights to the head and he continually jumped forward with left hooks to the body. He made his greater strength and long reach count in his bid for victory. Lomski began to cut down Griffith's lead in the seventh round, although his margin was slender. He began to move out in front in the eighth, his best round, when he outboxed and out- speeded his Iowa opponent. Continuing his aggressive attack in the ninth and tenth, Lomski’s left hand shot out fast and he brought blood from Tuffy's nose. ‘The Washington boxer continually slipped inside of Griffith’s right crosses, causing him to miss frequently. Neu- tral observers figure that each boxer won four rounds and that two, per- haps, were even and that Lomski de- served to on points as long as Mc- Clelland is determined there is no such thing as a draw. Both Lomski and Griffith weighed in under the light heavyweight lmit of 175 pounde. B TORONTO, February 16 (#).—For | the first time in the history of the Royal Canadian Golf Association a Western man will preside over its destinies for the next 12 months. The report of the nominating com- mittee to be presented at the annual meeting today recommended C. E. Harvey of Winnipeg for the presidency. The recommendation is equivalent to election. WOMAN TO PILOT BOXERS. LANSING, Mich., February 16 (#).— A woman has applied to the State boxe ing commission for a license to mane age fighters, the first of her sex to request the privilege in Michigan. She is Edna Gremer of Detroit. ROD AND STREAM By Perry Miller_ ENATOR Millard E. Tydings of Maryland recently asked unani- mous consent to have printed in the Congressional Record the radio speech of Senator Harry Hawes of Missouri on the duty of Congress to conserve wild life. There being no objection the speech was or- dered to be printed. Senator Hawes, in his speech, called attention to the fact that the most ef- fective conservation must come from the State, but that there is a supple- mental work to be carried on by the Federal Government which presents a large and inviting field for congres- sional action. “Fortunately,” he said, “public senti- ment has developed to a very high de- gree in favor of wild-life conservation. Propaganda, therefore, is not as neces- sary as formerly, but there is a demand for concentrating national thought on this subject and reducing it to express terms of State and national legislation enactments. “We have been draining our swamp lands and destroying natural sanctu- aries; cutting down and wiping out our forests, destroying wild-life refuges. “We have been polluting our streams and destroying in this way, thought- lessly, but ruthlessly, fish, animal and bird life, and we are at the same time destroying human life and shortening our years of usefulness.” Holds Congress Can Help. Continuing, Senator Hawes said: “Congress can stop the pollution of all navigable streams. It can purchase now, at a small price, while lands are cheap, and especially during its na- tional work of reclamation and flood control, swaLip lands and other areas. All navigable streams are under Federal jurisdiction. Their pollution can stopped, fish traps destroyed, spillways built, trapping and seining of certain species prohibited. “Scientists have told us that the yearly toll of black bass is so great com- pared with the yearly hatch that this greatest of American fishes is certain to become extinct within 10 years un- less the States and the Nation pre- serve it. “The bass is undoubtedly the great American game fish and the favorite fish of millions of the rank and file of American anglers. It is strange, but true, that the building of our great highways has been a new contributing cause of the extermination of fish and wild life. It has brought the fisherman and hunter in closer contact with his game. Formerly it required a whole day for a fishing trip. Now, in the au- tomobile a few hours bridge the dis- tance.” < Senator Hawes states that each year over 7,000,000 hunting licenses and over 15,000,000 fishing licenses are issued; { that nearly twice as many men take out hunting licenses as were in the Amer- ican Army in the World War, and over three times as many men and women take out fishing licenses. “It becomes necessary, therefore,” Mr. Hawes declared, “to bring an un- his that has foiled him so often. Tlinois was a slight favorite to win the meet because of its great supply of long-distance stars. GIRL STILL '(.!NCONSCIOUS. CHARLOTTE, N. C, February 16 (#.—Nell Fincher, 17-year-old Derita High School basket ball captain, today entered her ninth day in a state of coma. The girl struck her head on a | hardwood floor in basket ball practice here and has been in a hospjtal since. derstanding to our citizenship which will cause it to consider it a crime to rob America of its outdoor lands, and that our Nation's welfare and health depend upon the conservation of our woods, water and wild life.” For “Pep,” Go Fishing. In conclusion, Senator Hawes said: “When we lose our ‘pep,’ when good food tastes bad, when friends do not satisfy, when life becomes a bore, when music seems out of tune, when the old dog annoys, when the doctor fails and be | Several years ago t the good wife irritates, there is but one remedy for the run-down, and it is found in the forest and on the streams in the big outdoors. If you need a fresh start and want to lose the run-down feeling and get back your ‘pep,’ go fishing.” Senator Hawes' remarks were heard by hundreds of thousands of people over the radio and he is to be congratulated on his presentation of this all-important subject, but Senator Tydings also dc- serves great credit for his keen insight in having Senator Hawes' specch printed in the Congressional Record, especially when Maryland is going to place before its Legislature two im- portant bills to protect fish life, namely, the purse net bill and the black bass bill, the former abolishing the use of the nets in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and the latter prohibiting the sale and shipment of bass. There are a few encoura; signs for the rod and reel angle!g‘nregnchfn‘ this column from points in the Lower Potomac. One fish dealer resports that he has received a shipment of rock fish taken from the river in the vicinity of Leonardtovn. This dealer says that the larger of the rock fish were shipped to New York, only the smaller ones reaching our markets. This, however, Is conclusive proof that the fish even at this early date are on the move and that an early Spring may be expected. Another sign of the approach of Spring may be seen in the activities of Lpr;rllgwe{hrger mer; preparing and re- g their ne un o'Ashad, ts for the annual run nd still another sign of the a ro; of the fishing season was nutedpgy !.2:12 ©lumn when permission was asked by 4 certain man to be allowed to try his luck in the Tidal Basin with the carp. ;fl l;élsuficessrul at- rid the Bas carp, once with a large I.SOB-IQB:I, g;h":: and the second time with gill nets, he man making the third try for Carp explains to this column that the two previous attempts were made at the wrong time of the year. He says that when the ice commences to break :ll')e ir’nfi:; time, landhhc is sure if there y carp in the 3 Lh:fll‘r_mjorilty |$l them. § o ey is column knows th: carp in the Tidal Basin fls‘l’:d ul.‘ll:o! l;‘u:i the carp is a member of the sucker family with a very smal mouth, in- capable of destroying fish except very small minnows, but very destructive to the spawn of bass. The spawning sea- son for bass is during the months of April. May and sometimes during June, the later month depending uvon tae temperature of the watay. Therefore, it would be ve; to those interested in the (to see a lai taken from of the kass tempts were made | Ty gratifying Tidal Basin TgC majority of the carp its waters beforc the siart spawning season. 4-TEAM HOCKEY LEAGUE FORMED BY BOYS’ CLUB A four-team hockey league has been organized at the Washington Boys’ i(élenb. 1t has all the features except the There are six players on a team, which are equipped with regulation gockey sfic?s ‘The game is proving cores in stock 14t North 7177 ¢ Block Below Ave. 3