Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 54

4 E’o# and Tennis Gradually Un Central Grid Team Will Play Attractive “Outside” Contests| LACROSSE GAINING COLLEGIATE FAVOR Diamond Game Now Merely on Trial at Gallaudet After Year’s Layoff. BY R. D. THOMAS. ASE BALL may be the great American sport, but in Wash- ington colleges its popularity barely exceeds that of ping pong At Georgetown, Catholic University and Gallaudet only the players appear to be interested. The students plainly are apathetic. . No great fuss is being made at George Washington over the Colonials’ new team. Maryland, with the makings of & good club. is not greatly enthused. John D. O'Reilly of Georgetown, famed for years as a college base ball coach, sees golf and tennis as the un- derminers of base ball. “They're not only killing off base ball, but golf and tennis are detracting from the interest in track,” said O'Reilly, who is occupled now only with the spiked shod athletes. At Maryland the spectacular game of lacrosse is pushing base ball into the background. This sport seems to find instant favor wherever introduced. A representative of a leading Southern in- stitution recently spent 10 days at Mary- land getting a line on lacrosse. A Featureful Game. The old Indian game combines some of the principal features of base ball, foct ball, basket ball, track and soccer. The team play closely resembles basket ball. “In the next five years” said Jack Faber, Maryland coach, today, “lacrosse will sweep the country.” A number of colleges already are stressing lacrosse, foot ball and basket ball and letting base ball and track take care of themselves. Base ball is almost a dead loss financially as a college game. Holy Cross is distinguished as the only insti- tution in the East to make the game pay a worthwhile profit. The death by slow degrees of college base ball is & matter of utmost concern to major league magnates. Of late years the big time rosters have been recruited largely from the campus. Half a dozen or more Washington play- ers learned & lot of their base ball at college, including notably Hadley, Hop- kins, Burke, Barnes, Ruel, Myer and Weaver. Scout Engel Sees Decline. Joe Engel, the Washington scout, dis- cussing the future of base ball recently, said he had noticed a falling off of sand lot ball throughout the country. “We're getting more and more play- ers from the colleges,” he said. “and if the game loses out there it will be just too bad for us.” ‘The view is taken by some observers that the growing number of collegiate recruits is due not to the decrease of sandlotters, but to the greater desirabil- ity of the rah rah boys. Many of them 20 to the big show fairly well polished, having been taught by former major leaguers the smart tricks of the game that the sandlotter must learn on his own or pick up after reaching profes- sional ranks. Base ball is on trial at Gallaudet, which had no team last vear. For years the diamond game has found an arch | Ande; track. rival at Kendall Green in 3 It is understood that Gallaudet will abolish the base ball team unless it goes a long way toward paying expenses or bringing prestige to the institution. The coach, Wally Krub, is toiling like a beaver to make the thing go. Material Not Strong. Ra His material is not particularly good, but the Kendall Greeners’ :plrllj‘ gives dist! basket ball. The captain, Lou Dyer, is a "v!:mwg lad, small, but smart and swift. Paul Zieske, a gridironer, is out for base ball for the first time and ap- pears to be a comer. Konrad Hokanson and his brother Leonard learned some base ball from the famous Dummy Taylor, former New York Giant flinger, who coaches now at the Towa School for the Deaf. Del Casgrove, who was Washington's leading point scorer in college basket ball this Winter, figures to make the base bass team. The first baseman, Al Marshall, is a brother of Charlie Marshall, who years 2go was a crack end at Gallaudet. ‘The Kendall Greeners will play most of their games at home, meeting 8id Lodge's Maryland All. Briarly STORTS. E‘HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 19%9.° S. A. FLOOR TOURNEY Last Night's Results. Unlimited _class—United Typewriter Grays, 39; Jewish Community Center, 4. 130-pound _ class—Curtin Wonders, 34; Astecs, 13 Peter's, 23; French A. C., 20. Girly’ senior class—Eagles, 30; Jewish Community Center, 14. . The Tournament Champions. 100-pound class—Jewish Community Center Arrows. 115-pound class—Boys' Club Opti- mists. 130-pound class—Curtin Wonders. 145-pound class—St. Peter’s. Unlimited class—United Typewriter rays. Girls’ junior class—Hyattsville High. Girls' senior class—Eagles. G TITLE BASKET BALL DATES WILL BE SET South Atlantic officials today were to decide which games would be played here and which in Baltimore in the champlonship basket ball series between the winners in the Washington and Bal- timore elimination tournaments. Four District titles were decided last night as the tournament here ended. United Typewriter Grays, in the un- limited class; St. Peter's, in the 145- pound group; Curtin Wonders, in the 130-pound division, and Eagles, in_the girls' senior class, were teams which gained crowns. Previously championships had been won by Jewish Community Center Ar- rows in the 100-pound class, Boys' Club Optimists in the 115-pound group and Hyattsville High in the girls' junior class, There was plenty of lively competi- tion last night, though two of the games were decided by healthy margins. As was expected, Ul.ted Typewriter Grays were given a stern battle by Jew- ish Community Center before the latter succumbed in a 39-to-34 match in the unlimited class. St. Peter's also was pressed to triumph over French A. C., 23 to 20, in the 145-pound group, but Curtin Wonders easily defeated Aztecs, 34 to 13, in the 130-poundclass, and Eagles drubbed Jewish Community Cen- ters, 30 to 14, to take the girls’ senior title. 'SCORES LAST NIGHT IN BASKET TOURNEY ITED CLASS. ST DeKoskey, Wallenst Levi Eu sumooood Abramson, Goldblatt, 1§ Totals Totals . Referee—Joe Mitchell. 130-POUND CLASS, 2] arosccoen 2| mooBoocs™ Fisher, 1 Shapiro, 1%.. Totals ....13 8 34 Referee—O. Mitchell. 145-POUND CLASS. wl mpooso Totals .ouue § French A, C. Keppel, 1 Barry, 11 ¥ 1 H Gubisch, ¢ 1 1 0 e We : Mailinoft, " rs. Totals .. Refefee—Tom Ford. GIRLS’ SENIOR CLASS. G.F.P. 3] | ovwowan® ol voonmest 3 P sococouot! Totals ... 5 414 Referee—Whiting. . ‘WO00D LEADS GENERALS. LEXINGTON, Va., March 29 (#).— Ernest M. Wood, ir., of Lynchburg, y has been elected captain of the 1930 Washington and Lee basket ball team. sity, Aprit 10; Fort Leonard, April 17, and Briarly Hall. April 2¢. A game with George Washington for May 1 is pending. Georgetown meets Penn State today in the Hilitoppers’ opening game, and tomorrow the Hoyas will face Vermont. -Stars April 3; |Maryland will open next Wedn: Hall, April 6; Catholic Univer- ! with Penn. e The Experience of Users SAY MORE MILEAGE FEDERAL, from the lowest Thousands of car owners here in town have been rely- ing on FEDERALS for years. They have learned from ex- perience that FEDERALS can be relied on to deliver MORE MILEAGE for the money. FEBERALS are made by one of the largest tire manu- facturers in the world; a com- any -that will equip A MIL- ION NEW CARS with their product during 1929. Every riced to the TRIPLE SERV- ICE DOUBLE BLUE PENNANT BALLOON has behind it FEDERAL assurance of MORE MILEAGE for your money. Special 5-Day Sale on Fully Guaranteed FEDERAL MADE TIRES 30x335 as low a 31x4 S. 32x4 S. S 33x4 S. S. 32x4%; S. S. as low 33x41; as low a 29x4.40 as low 30x4.50 as low 28x4.75 as low Our gquantity. buying for our four stor: nables your tires and tubes. 29x4.75 as low as. 29x5.00 30x5.00 31x5.00 30x5.25 31x5.28 31x6.00 32x6.00 33x6.00 as as as as as v00.12.95 ct from the factory in car-load lots to save you from 25% to 35% on Standard Tire & Battery Co. 906 Penna. Ave. N.W. | 1340 14th St. N.W. Corner R. 1. Ave. 10th & H Sts. N 14th & Monroe Sts. N.W. | Bl avmsanas? GRID RULES TEST COMES T00 LATE Game Listed Tuesday Might| Have Proved Valuable Prior to Changes. I before & select crowd of officials, rules committeemen and coaches is designed to demonstrate practically how the changes in the rules are going to work out. So far as is known, no newspaper critics have been invited, and, indeed, if the policy observed by the rules com- mittee in formulating the changes in a secluded spot on the Jersey coast is carried out, the press will not be present. | It occurs that the most fitting time | to have demonstrated the practical ef- | fects of rules changes upon the game | would have been before the changes were made—that is to say, while they were under consideration. For no matter how the test works out | now, nothing can be done about it.| The changes will stand. Even so, the | demonstration would be of some value either in settling the minds of the rule | makers as to the soundness of the| changes or giving them a hint that fur- ther changes will have to be super- imposed upon changes already made. Just how the game looks when a fumble occurs and the lucky retriever of the ball is not permitted to scamper at large, the practical working of the additional restrictions upon the screen forward pass and other new elements will come under consideration at Cam- bridge. One interesting thing that might be done would be to have one half played with the crossbar of the goal posts— the posts, of course, being back of the line—over the goal line and the other half with the crossbar 10 yards back. The comparative number of field goals attempted in each half as well as the comparative number of successful at- tempts could be tabulated. ‘This being done, the writer predicts that the rules committee and others in- terested in the game will be in posses- sion of informatizn of very real value. But of course s will not be done. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. HAT foot ball game which will be played by two Harvard elev- ens at Cambridge next Tuesday The purpose of the occasion will be to 2 BIG STORE | 1706 SEVENTH o et ”STORE HOURS: R R RO, Bk breceremmmes nasoss AR RS CEl St e B b Not Only Will You Always Find the Best Merchandise Here, But Consistently the Lowest Prices Free Goodrich Tube- | 0 Patching R e Outfit To Customers at 14th St Branch Only For All the Popular Make Cars, Easily installed and held fast by Coaches, Sedans, etc. a new patent fastener. SPARK PLUGS e o B0C B N gk bl cars, i .‘ c all cars..... MOBILOILS troduction. 3;% Moblloll | tic in 1-gal. Genuine Model AC, lGell;l“ineBo 'm- plon lue x, for 59 Genuine Express, for all cars....... 69c These oils need no in- Genuine A, E, or Arc- % sealed cans. same Sealed Cans $3'99 New Standard OILS i cr ey ers 19€ s = medium or heavy 1 gal. New 89 c 89c Standard Gear Oil 19c § @ 5 Ibs. New Stand- Champion % Electric Cigar Lighter ard Cup or Gear The Grease 1 Ib. New Stand- ard Cup or Gear fow v To Customers at the New 14th St.Store Only Red Line Timer you have ¥ ing at prices higher than those we auoie below— Midret $1.95 We carry a full line of RADIATOR LOCK CAPS anteed for one year. Com- by our This item ENTRAL HIGH'S 1929 foot ball schedule, one of the most at- tractive ever arranged for a Blue and White gridiron team, virtually has been completed. Nine games will make up the card and seven have been arranged. An opening contest September 28 and an intersectional match with Tech High of Atlanta, Ga. Southern schoolboy titleholders, for November 27 are planned. The encounter with the At- lanta team, which will be the annual grid game under auspices of the Alumni Ciub, is virtually certain to be played. Other attractive engagements, aside from the public high school champion- ship games, will be against Mount Ver- non, N. Y., High at Mount Vernon October 12 and against York, Pa., High at York October 19. Central, in its first championship match will engage Tech, its time-honored foe, October 25. Ty Rauber, popular and hustling Central coach, now is busy with a large | squad of candidates at Spring practice | in the Central stadium. The Central foot ball schedule: September 28—Open. October 4—Forest Park High at Bal- timore. October 12—Mount Vernon High at Mount_Vernon, . £ October 19—York High at York, Pa. October 25—Tech. November 1—Business. November 12—Western. November 19—Eastern. November 27—Atlanta Tech High (pending). Bill Foley, Central's veteran and genial track coach, right now is striving to prepare a team to represent the school in the 440-yard national scholas- tic relay champlonship in the annual Unives of Pennsylvania relay car- nival April 27 in Philadelphia. Leading aspirants for the team are | Zuke Plumley, Max Feldman, Grover | Naylor, Paul D. Hinkel, Jim Reilly and | Bill Ditzler. Central has hopes of turning out a formidable track team. Letter winners at hand are Capt. Calvin Milans, high jumper; Jim Proctor, pole vaulter; Paul Hinkel, high jumper; Lambert Crymes and Ed Milans, broad jumpers. Other promising aspirants include e plate amid the classic shades of Cam- bridge the materialization of all the constructive thought they have be- stowed upon the great Autumn game since the last pigskin of 1928 was pur- ed over the embattled turf. TAN S 3033-35 FOURTEENTH N.W. 8 A. M.—9 P. M. Daily To 11 P. M. Saturday M. Sundays and Holl Free Flush 3 1. Standard Top Dressing To Customers at 14th 8t Branch Only Square cut and beauti- fully designed. A real distinc- tive vase guar- anteed not to splash. e & s Triplewear Trans- mission Lining For all Model Com- e with split rivets. Special, 81,49 Bell Complete Timers with Roller | complete 38c | %218 Milwaukee Timer, compl Square Cushions Genuine “Boyce” Motormeters Genuine, nationally advertised Motormeters. Boyece h meters been Pol bay- $1.00 Pint Size 9¢ Simoniz Kleener $3.95 Polish, 39¢ B. F. Goodrich den Hose B . el Dlete " with ‘eou- plings. Your ehoic~ Do not judge this black or red cor- $1.95| $2.75 perfect iron, guar- with cord ~ and rice. t SPORT S dermining Varsity Base Ball and Track Hereabout Howard Canham, Bob_Boucher, Joe! Reamy, Forrest Sheedy, Bowie Johnson, Haskell Milestone and Bob Coffman. Frank Kocsis, 15-year-old, 162-pound javelin thrower, is an interesting mem- ber of the squad. This husky, good- looking freshman is described by Foley as being one of the most promising boys eves to try for his track team. Kocsis cagly to Central from the Ross School. In addition to base ball, St. John's students are going in for golf and | tennis. The golf team will meet other | schoolboy combinations here and the tennis team will compete in the prep school series. NELSON’S ROUGH WORK ON MAT COSTS HIM $5 Rough House Nelson, who heaved a chair at his opponent, Joe Turmer, to end last night’s match at the Strand Theater, today paid $5 for his bit of truculent sport. After the chair episode, which followed a lunge by Nelson into the orchestra pit, Sergt. J. E. Kane of No. 1 hiked Rough House to the hoose- gow. He was charged with disorderly con- duct. He forfeited a five-spot of col- lateral. Turner won the first fall with a flying tackle in 2475 minutes. The second fall had progressed 10 minutes when Nelson lunged at Turner who sidestepped and watched his foeman catapult through the ropes and into the music pit. e LONG YACHT RACE LISTED. LOS ANGELES, March 29 (#).—The | Civie Regatta Association announced | here today that a power boat race from San Pedro, Calif, to San Francisco, about 450 miles, for a trophy offered by | Sir Thomas Lipton, English sportsman, ‘will start April 25. The race will be run in three laps over a period of three ATHLETES SWARMING WEST POINT FIELDS By the Associated Press. WEST POINT, N. Y, March 29.— Any timid robin who wonders if Spring really has come may find that he is unduly conservative by ’D'Yh)x a visit to_the United States Military Academy. With a whoop of enthusiasm, hun- dreds of devotees of half a dozen sports have rushed from indoor practice places to the wide open spaces of the big res- ervation. Scorning chill March winds, sprint- ers, hurdles and weight men have start- ed work in earnest. With a record of unbroken meet successes for two years, Coach Leo Novak and his associates are believed to be looking with some apprehension at the shadows cast be- fore by New York University athletes. With a new coach in charge, a big lacrosse squad is preparing for a 10- game schedule. F. Morris Touchstone, formerly at Yale and Johns Hopinks, is coaching lacrosse, a game which has the indorsement of Biff Jones, the foot ball coach, who says that if a foot ball player has to play some game other than the game of games, lacrosse is as good as any. The Army tennis team for the first time has a coach, George S. Ward, and a 12-game schedule will be played, many of the matches on new courts. There is no waste space at West Point, so tennis is played in the Spring and. Sum- mer at the place where hockey is king in Winter—when there is enough ice. “Moose” McCormick, former New York Giant, after an indoor siege, has led his base ball players out of doors and will be ready to open the season with Vermont April 10. The great pinch-hitters’ base ball aima mater, the Giants, will invade the Army strong- hold_April 15, as a curtain raiser to :’h(' National League opening the next ay Only the golf team is still held to| indoor practice, as the miniature course | at West Point is not yet open for play. | The polo team has made up its mind that it cannot plav on the new fleld | before October, if then. J. J. Braddock is only 23 years old, | days. Ready At Night Two Washington Stores ed, fits any car; com- plete, dy te in- stall 89c 722 14th Street Corner New York Avenue starting his fistic career three yea: ) 7 that's new and smart—and in wonderful assortments, G. U. Nine Greatly Encouraged By Triumph Over Penn State REATLY encouraged by its 7-t0-8 victory over Penn State. Georgetown University's ball team awalts eagerly a clash tomorrow with the University of Vermont, on the Hilltop. Johnny Bozek was the hero of & ninth-inning rally that brought victory | to the Blue and Gray. His single scored | a run and broke up the game. i But for the courtesy of Hugo Bezdek, | Penn State coach, Bozek would have| been retired from the game before he got a chance to deliver the deciding blow. He was beaned in the sixth by | Jack Lockard and Phelan ran for him.| “Let him play,” urged Bezdek when Johnny's injury proved not serious. Georgetown was two runs behind starting the ninth and with Lockard pitching well the situation was depress- ing, but not for long. Donovan got & life on Wolff’s fumble as a starter. O'Toole hit for Poole and whiffed and Wholey lined out. McCarthy singled and the tying runs were on the bags. Dunn walked, filling them. When Scalzi’s roller slipped through French’s legs, Cunningham, running for Donovan, and McCarthy scored, knot- ting the count. Dunn was on third with the big tally when Bozek slammed the apple to Lockard who found it to hot to handle, Dunn racing home with victory. It was Georgetown's opening game. Washington will have a look at Ken Strong, famous New York University gridironer, as a ball player next Mon- day when the Violet meets Georgetown on the Hilltop. It is reported that a New York Yankee contract awaits Strong, who will be graduated in June. Ken is a slugging outfielder. His three bingles, one a triple, contributed much to New York's 16-to-7 slaughter of the Quantico Marines yesterday. Kelson, however, was the batting star. He made four hits, one a homer. Maryland’s track team left today for Lexington, Va., where it will open the season in a meet with Virginia Military when Washington and Lee will be met. On Monday the Terrapin lacrosse team_will open its campaign, facing New York University. Pennsylvania will be entertained at base ball Wednesday. wlppies STANFORD ATHLETE BREAKS SHOT MARK By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, March 28.—One world in- door track record was shattered and two others were established here last night, when Stanford University de- feated University of Washington, 73 to 58, in the first Pacific Coast indoor meet in history. Harold Rother of Stanford set a new world indoor record in the shotput with a toss of 51 feet 33 of an inch. The former record made by Swartz of the New York Athletic Club was 49 feet 67 inches. Eric Krenz, Stanford gilant, estab- lished a new indoor record in the discus event with a heave of 153 feet 113, inches. The event was believed to be the first of its kind ever held indoors. Steve Anderson of Washington won the 80-yard high hurdles in seconds. The time was announced as a new mark for the freak distance, not listed in the record books. {40 QUINTS ARE LISTED FOR CHICAGO TOURNEY CHICAGO, March 29 (#).— Porty teams from 33 States will compete In the University of Chicago's eleventh annual national interscholastic basket ball tournament, which opens next Tuesday and ends Saturday night. Of these teams, 29 are State cham- plons, four are interstate title holders and seven are State runners-up. It was the most representative entry in the Institute, remaining over until Monday tournament’s history. ER == FOR EASTER—FOR SPRING~=FIELDS are showing everything Garments that were designed by the highest priced stylists—and hand-tailored in our own shops by expert tailors. Choicest all-wool fabrics in color- ings and patterns that are exclusive and individual. INTO FIELDS CLOTHES at $22.50 goes everything found in clothes costing $40 and more, We'll take pleasure in showing you all the new things. SUITS The NEW Fabrics The NEW Colors Two Washington Stores. TUXEDOS No Charge for Alter Sizes 32 to 52 featuring . TOPCOATS The NEW Patterns The NEW Styles ations Strictly Handmade NECKWEAR Of Beautiful Heavy-weight Imported and Domestic Silks—many are silk lined. No More—No Less Both Stores Open Saturday Nights Till 10 o’Clock 508 9th Street Opposite Gayety Theater