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20 SPORTS. ‘'THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929. SPORTS. Lacrosse Praised by Little, G. U. Athletic Head, Though Hoyas Do Not Play It - | " NAVAL ACADENY —BY FEG MURRAY WILL NOT COACH AGAIN, YOST OF MICHIGAN SAYS HANDY / RATES IT NEXT TO GRID GAME AS COLLEGE SPORT Sees It As Successor io Base Ball in Popular Favor. s Planning 1o Install Flashy Indian Pastime at Hilltop. OU LITTLE, sultan of spe a ond to fcot ball as a desirab! cluded the curriculum of A lities will be introduced ¢ wn. now to mmodate it and base Little read with keen int t rd, hletic director at Maryla 1 7 me at the at Co wd of t e from the Jehnnies 5 By “The the public Iacrosse, and ma from ngs continued Little’s fut but this game of b favor of s mad where many glo Maryland's varsity Ter as much as u Only I3 this year. to the foot in ba il be lost one goe who tu Maryland's freshma ave the hor athletic contest at year. It will pl Baltimore Saturda Maryland’s fresh eight of its nine games tl and Arthur Hauver, Middleton youth, pitched all of them In.the game he lost he pitched hitles ball until the last inning when his wildness caused him to suffer a 3-to-2 defeat, although he yielded two hits. SOUTH ATLANTIC MEET HAS TWO NEW EVENTS Color is expected to be added to the South tlantic genior championship track and field meet to be held in Central High Stadium Saturday, Junc as the result of the listing of a three-mile walk and a hop, step and jump event. Additicn of these aftrac- tions brings the list of events to 16. | Earl Reigle, national junior and South Atlantic champion® three-mile walker, already has enteved the hike and Reigle has expressed the opinion that some half a dozen others from around Baltimore will also compete, an ball t pring, Md GOPHER GOLFERS AHEAD IN CONFERENCE EVENT MINNEAPOLIS, May 20 (#)—Two Minnezota golfers, Capt. Lester Bolstad | and Ben Burris, leaders in the first | reund of the Western Conference golf | championship tournament, held the £potlight in the final round of 36 holes | for "the feet that by | objective for C. C. Pyle's bunion boys | for first t Georgetown, places lacrosse sec- le college game though it isn't in- the Blue and Gray. available,” he said today, “lacrosse We haven't sufficient field space ball too.” he information given out by Curley nd, that the Terrapin-St. John’ ate than all the base ball games | ilege Park he college Spring season saw the the feryland defeat of their PACIFIC ATHLETES IN EAST FOR MEET Three California Teams in Intercollegiate Games. Stanford Choice. ILADELPHIA May 29.—The Pacific Coa cemplete dele- gation to the annual track and onships of the L. A was here today. The University of California’s contin- gent of six has been here since Monday. They were joined yesterday by the| Southern California’s squad of 13 and of Stanford University’s championship team, numbering 14 The meet is Friday and Saturday. “oach “Dink” Templeton's Stanford squad, titleholder for the last two years is the outstanding favorite for the 192¢ crown. Templeton looks for Eric Krenz, present champion in the shotput and discus throw; Harlow Rothers, in the shotput; Capt. Ross Nichols, 120-yard high hurdles, titlcholder, and Ward Ed- mond in the pole vault, to gather many points for Stanford. The Stanford mentor did not bring his famous starting bloc for the hands of his runners. He said that he would try to convince I.A.A.A. A. of- ficials, who have banned these and other starting blocks, that they should be permitted as are the starting blocks have been approved the N. C. A. A. Coach Cromwell of Southern Cali- | fornia said he expected his team to | score between 15 and 20 points, which may be sufficient to win second place. | A great deal, he said, depended on the condition of Charley Borah. Appar- | ently Borah is in good shape. But he | has been troubled with weak tr‘ndnn:i | for a year and Cromwell was by no means certain that he would win the 220-yard dash, the only event in which he will compete. SALO, GAVUZZI, RICHMAN | TIED IN BUNION JAUNT LAS CRUCES, N. Mex., May 29 (#).— Deming, 60 miles from here, was the tode Yesterday's lap from El Paso, Tex., | ended in the first three-cornered tie place since the long race ctarted. Johnny Salo, Passaic, N. J.; Pete Gavuzzi of England and Sam | Richman cof New York ran the 44 miles in 5:59:10. At today's start Salo's lead in elapsed time over Gavuzzi wes | 42 minutes and 30 seconds, STevVeE AWDIERSON. UNIVERSITY oF WASHINGTON, WINNER OF SECOND PLACE IN THE OLYMPIC HIGH HURDLES, AND NATIONAL AAU. CHAMPON, -~ 5 ’ OF e — F s o CORNELL, THe Discus 157 FT WHO HAS THROWN 524 N, AND 1S THe INDOOR ICAA SHQT PUT CHAMPIOV. Metropolitan Newspaper Service ing that famous name who have reached the top in golf, tennis, track and other sports is mute ev dence of this success. Right now three Andersons are starring in track and field sports. Keep your eye on anybody named | Anderson, especially if that “Andy” decides to go out for honors in sports. For the clan of Anderson (call 'em the Clandersons, if you will) invariably succeeds in ath- letics, and a long list of those bear- | “Steve” Anderson of the University CALIFORNIA FEARS |WILL RACE AGAN, COLUMBIYS EGHT - PADDOCK DEGIDES Sees It as Only Real Rival in Poughkeepsie Race Next Month. Relay at Denver for Los Angeles A. C. EST COAST crews may expect | spirited opposition at Pough- | Kkeepsie mnext month. 80 much, at least, has been gathered from preliminary regattas among Eastern crews to date. Ky Ebright, the California coach, | seems to think Columbia will be the | Bears’ only rival. But there may be | By the Associated Press. the last of Charles Paddock, for more than a decade the 'king tire, Paddock has decided to take a turn as a sprint relay runner. Promises to Run in Sprint| The leaders: Passaic nd at Interlachen Country Club today. Both golfers turned in cards of 158 | in the opening round of 36 holes yes- terday. 380:38:2: 3812052 | 3951008 | 409:14:57 | 414159333 N. J. Tales of a Wayside Tee By GRANTLAND RICE be effectively taught g has t o presented or | course, before it can be made a habit, will be the best habit the golfer in ter that pr true can work out for his game. He or she picture. For example, we might | can forget all about looking at the ball| take two of the oldest \ln:ans‘:R long as neck and body tightness are in ths game, “Look at the ," “Keep | removed and the chin is held in place your head down,” which is the equiva- |until after the ball is hit. Watch any| ! fent of “Don’t lift your head” or “Don’t |good golfer at hand and you will see look up.” The trouble is that such a|that his chin is still pointing back of vice brings on an incorrect pattern nr‘(“hrrr' the ball was after the ball is on picture that can do a lot of harm. In|its way. The main point to remem- the intensity of thought and concentra- | ber is this—no one can keep the head tion along these lines the golfer is al- down when the neck is fixed and rigia most sure to lock his head and neck, to|and'is therefore directed by the turn turn them into one setpicee. This one |of the body. Any detail that will help setpiece in turn becomes locked to the 'break up tension is worth working over. others. The way Ebright puts it, Cali- | ornia and Columbia have been fight- | ing out between them for three years. They are practically the same eights that met as freshmen four years ago, Columbia Cubs taking that race. The Berkeley galley slaves are working out twice daily now. They will leave June 7, arriving on the Hudson June 11. Columbia is certain to take a lot of | beating anywhere, any time, Those who | doubt that form in sprinting aces will apply to form in events over longer routes are merely unfamiliar with aqua tic history, in which it is shown ver plainly that the eight which can show | a wake to rivals over distances ranging from 1.5 miles to 2 miles has the powe the skill and the endurance to duplicate its performance over a course of 4 miles. For all that is required, once a erew | has been synchronized and is winning sprints in handy fashion, is a process of conditioning through which a_com- bination will keep its form under stress And Dick Glendon, jr., may be relied upon to attend to this part of his re- l 08 ANGELES, Calif., May 29. pin of the sprinters. Despite Paddock, veteran of some 15 years on The cinderpath has not yet seen his announcement. that he would re- the cinderpath, promised officials of | the Los Angelés Athletic Club that he would run on_ the club's sprint relay teams in the National A. A. U. cham- pionships at Denver, Colo., July 3 to %. | " “I've still got some races left in me,” the famous racer said to the club | othcials, “I won't enter the open | dashes in the senfor meet, but you can | put me down as a member of the ! Spring relay team. | “"Paddock announced shortly after the 1928 Olympic games that he was defi- | nitely retiring from the track. He re- | iterated that declaration recently in the East, but the years he spent in run- | ning_ left their imprint upom him, He | has been” working out in Pasadena, and ihns found that his legs are not en- | tirely without their old-time dash and | power. | "It was said the return to the cinder- | path of Jackson Scholz, like Paddock, | a member of three Olympic teams, had much to do with Paddock's emergence | from his supposed retirement. Learn- | ing that Scholz would run at Denver as A member of the New York Athletic Club's relay teams, Paddock said: y spine, governing the action of the body. | As a result as the body comes around | on the forward swing it is physically | apossible to keep the head fixed, to | keep from lifting it toward the left or the line of flight Ther y that will prevent.head lifting. Jooking at the ball is no help if hea neck and body are locked in one section. | The turn dy will also turn the | head. in you have golfers say, * ] the last thing I ever do.” Where on the down sw he chin swings to g6 S6n schedue, o player coul without crz breaking a the top of in his neck. Jim Barnes calls the chor of the ewing.” and is. Let this anchor the swing lands on the re is. how can one best keep the chor in place? It is conceded when the ‘head anchor lifted the ecked alme y time a first sugges- H to first to 1 tension nd boc ien ha son has br keep it there o one pointing back of the hec neck and b solid The first golfer T ever saw to work this n the chin to Trave sed y als would loc times a round nt Th [ lift the head t jority of all majc N Tip on Keeping Straight Left NARROW STANCE. GIVES HIM THIS BODY PIVOT AND ENABLES HIM 10 KEEP HI4 LEFT ARM STRAIGHT i | i METZGER. | tion but one must into a tee shot in order ¢ ance. The ave golfer | When he first witnesses a I tournament the point_that impresses him s the ¢ the ers get their welght into ; shot. The hips seemingly \ back of the club and asure of punch to the BY SOL r no qu get his hoc tw gaiu 1065 nof his weizht info his fee | fe claims the L 48 hi free body turn or pivot. His narrow stance enables him to turn free and permi {5, arm straight, but not rigid a vast difference between nt and a rigid left arm Jones at the top of his for the drive and you'll notice the heels of his hands are seemingly pushed forward. Here is a worth-while tip. If you experimeat in doing (his, even though you apply | a finger grip, you will find it tends to keep the left arm straight and the right elbow in close to the right sid nd pointing vn to the d. That will insure keeping e left arm much straighter than usually do. But avold a rigid t_arm Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders ed; also New Radiators Radiators awd Cores in Stock the hollow of his oar bladé. | stirring | plished all that has been as i body | to | athlete sponsibility. There is plenty of brawn in the Morningside shell and, above all, there is a stroke who hol his shipmates in of me.” 'MOTOR CYCLE NOTABLES = IN RACES AT ROCKVILLE rievements that have marke RO LE, May 29.—Twel Cornell’s course thus far, but this may | CKVILLE, Md, May 29.—Twelve be because of lack of opportun: Cer- ] of the leading motor cycle racers in tainly the Ithacas to date have accom- | the country, headed by the champion, d of them | preq Barney, will compete in a pro- and if they get by Yale and Princeton ..:;dcflu‘aa Takc‘yn!-x( Saturday they | 8ram of six races témorrow on. the t balf-mile dirt track on the fair will at once assume status as a crew to be recizoned with on the Hudson. grounds here, Preddy Fretwell, Ed T Rowley and Dudy Adams, promoter, ania’s poor race at Princeton | will represent Washington in the test; was rather surprising. The varsity | - Otier competitors will include Andy carsmen did not seem to be together, | Little, Springfield, Ohio; Prenchy De- were, in fact, not together and the form | Pollier, Brooklyn, N. Y., Charlie of one or two men was so irregular as | Busch, Newark, N. J.; Bernard Than- to suggest to the critical eye that the ! ner, Baltimore; Joe Petrali, Los Ange- slump was due more to ineptness than iles; Bob Sarkegian, San Diego, and to any compensations in the matter of | Walt Stoddard, Hagerstown, Md. blade work which the coach | P T might have permitted in the interest | of adjusting his eight. ] ROYAL GOLF BALLS GUARANTEED for LIFE Any *U. S.” Royal Golf Ball will be replaced at any time by your Golf Professional or dealer: If the cover cuts through If paint flakes or chips off Cornell is at least in a hopeful con- dition. She has not turned in the Penn: whether or not there i spirit_at Pennsylvania thal in in the days of If there is Rusty Callow may i relief 1o work something respectable out | of the present mess Syracuse sesm be @ recedent figure against tb aguatic horizon, | Leader will probably bring Yale along | Pt d Harvard; sults ot and ginee the Elis were ! beaten by Columbia may show in the Carnegie Cup Regatta at Ithaca on | turda Princeton displays nothing ! but a_medicocrity which has endured | stnce Dr. Spaeth retired. { The Navy 15 but the shadow of a typ- ical Annapolis combination H ACORN GIVES VTRO;'HY. Robert E. Acorn again will present ' cup to the Central High School| who is adjudged the best. | If the ball goes out of shape Sportsmanship snd loyalty will be iven weight in the selection as well as | 1 the ball fails 1o putt true hletic_ability. i As for distance, testing ma- i HAWKINS LT the ot shet the NASH “U. S.” Royal consistently out- “Coneniently Located op 1ith Sireet” [} th used Ward, onders te i | a ball. 75c each. United States Rubber Company Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Also 319’ 13th, ' Block Below Ave. drives any other make of golf 1529 14th St. NNW. Dec. 3320 “I can't let that old boy get ahead | of Washington will be hopping a rattler for Chicago soon to take part in the annual national col- legiate meet. “Steve” is one of the country’s best hurdlers; in fact, he was the count rery best high hurdler at the final Olympic try- outs in Boston last year, and at the games in Amsterdam, where he placed sccond to Atkinson of South Alrica. This Spring he beat Ross Nichols, the I. C. A. A. A. A. cham- plon, in an 80-yard indoor race, in Seattle, and ‘also won the low hurdles. John F. Anderson of Cornell, who placed fifth in the Olympic discus throw and won the indoor intercol- legiate shot-put crown in March, is throwing the discus far enough’ to scare Eric Krenz, outdoor 1. C. A. A. A. A. champion and unoflicial worlds record-holder. “Andy” threw 150 feet 3 inches at the Penn relays, and at the Ohlo relays threw the Greek ple-plate 157 feet 5% inches, just 8 inches short of Bud Houser's ac- cepted world mark. Another Anderson, Ovie, of Fin- land, who placed third in the Olym- pic 3,000-meter steeplechase race, won the Metropolitan A. A. U. ten- mile championship on May 12. MARYLAND HITING | Tops With Bat, but Finishes Next to Last in Loop of Dixie Teams. INLEAGUE WASTED ARYLAND UNIVERSITY had the hardest hitting team in the tristate league of the ished next to last, with only victories in 11 games The Terranins averaged .290, over, they led in_double plays with nine and stole the most bases, 24. Ineffective pitching was their undoing. 4 More- the loss of only one game, this | Carolina State which finishe Larry Allgood, North Carclina cap- tain, Jed the pitchers with four vie- tories and a clean slate, but Murden of V. P. 1. won more fame by flinging a no-hit game against North Carolina State. Bob Harper of Richmond, the league's stalistician, presents the fcl- lowing figures FINAL TEAM STANDIN w. U. of Ne Carolina University of Virginia Virginia M. I..... s Maryland Washington-Loe Oy G Maryland Vo i T V. M. il Car: N. C. State Virginia .. W. and L. V. M. T Carolina P 1 Marviand . Virginia . C. State W, and L....... Wiiliams ‘was_the g, whiffing 61 men. PITCHING RECORDS. L. | winiams, v. M. T. Gillesple, V. M. 1. Milburn,” Maryiand. . De_Maico, Marvian Hess. Maryland | Phipps,” Mary Allgood. N, C. Averette. N, Left out ki Mapp. V. B. 1. Dozier, V. P. 1. Ball, U. North Carolina ning, U. N. Carolina hi, U, N. Carolina.. 2 . Virginia, . Virginta. . all. Virginia . W, and L Ranier, W. and L.. b - £ B P IR RS Georgetown's ball tsam continues on |its weary way, the -Hilltoppers falling | easy victims to Harvard, 11 to 3. White, | Pool and Dudak pitched for Georgetown. | | A Crimson sophomore making his | first appearance with the varsity, War- | ren Page, held the Blue and Gray to | six hits. | Catholic University will lose only two | base ball regulars through graduation. | They are Capt. Bo Mansfield and Gene | Murphy. “The ~Cardinals have just | finished the poorest season in their dia- mond history. |JAPAN TO HAVE CRACK TEAM OF EQUESTRIANS Japan plans to have a strong eques- trian team in the Olympic games in 1932. wenty prospective participants will be selected from all parts of the coun- try and from these the nine best hnrx?-‘ men in the empire will b= chosen for the competitions Southern Conference, yet fin- | North Carolina won the pennant with | to | second. | & RETURNTOBIG TEN | wired Prof. G. A. Goodenough of the | | University of Llinois, chairman of the | ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 29 (#) —Fielding H. Yost, director of ath- letics at the University of Michigan, who on several occasions has an- nounced his retirement as foot ball coach only to take up leadership with the opening of the gridiron season, has permanently retired, he said today. | I will_never again coach under any condition; I have permanently | retired,” he said. The statement was made after Yost had admitted that Elton E. (Tad) Wieman would not be a mem- ber of the foot ball coaching staff next Fall. L Asked who would coach the team, Yost said: “Our coaching plans for foot ball have not been completed; I expect to complete them soon.” He volunteered no comment when the name of Dr. John W. Wilce. re- | tired foot ball coach of Ohlo State, was mentioned. It is said that Yost now is deter- mined to put through his plan of having a staff of coaches without a commanding chief on the field. It is certain that Veenker. Ooster: baan, Blott and Cappon will be re- talned on the coaching staff. and | that one or more additions will be made. IOWAU. WILL SEEK Decides to Take Such Step After Lengthy Confab With Griffith. By the Associated Press. 1 HICAGO, May 29 from its most painful during its long existence today was in sight for the Big Ten | Conference. The athletic_council of the Univer- | sity of Iowa, expelled from the organi- | zation for violation of rules concerning | the subsidizing of athletes, last night | faculty committee, that it had requested | President Walter Jessup to ask recon- sideration of the drastic ruling. The resolution to request the presi- | dent to ask a hearing followed a lengthy | conference with Maj. John L. Griffith, | Big Ten athletic commissioner, who | went to Iowa City to aid in unraveling | the tangled situation here. Griffith in- | dicated that the basis of the chflrgei upon which Jowa was expelled was the existence of a slush fund for the main- 0 LOSE KESSING Popular Graduate Manager of Athletics to Give Way to Reinicke.. NNAPOLIS, 20, — Lic! Comdr. Oliver O. Kessing, gra uate manager of the Naval Academy one of the me: | popular of the office | in Annapolis, will leave the | the near future. | The Navy Department has announced at Comdr. Kessing will be s | by Lieut. Comdr. Frederick G. Re |a graduate of the Naval Academy 1910. | Comdr. Kessing was the first officer | to serve ger of aik letics at the Naval Academy. He came | here three ye ago when Comdr | Jonas H. Ingram was named athl director. | When Comdr. Ingram { Annapolis three years ago athletics at the academy were at a low ebb, and Comdr. Kessing proved to be his great- | est aide in building up the athletic or- | ganization that now exists at the school Comdr. Kessing made cnviable rec ords in the war with Mexico and in the World War. He is an_expert avi- ator and it is understood that he w |80 to the dirigible balloon school Lakehurst, N. J., when he leaves Ar napolis. It has not been announced just when he will leave for his ne duties. His home is in Indianapolis, Ind. MICHIGAN-WISCONSIN CGNTEST MAY DECIDE returned to | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 29.—With the big ten base ball championship virtually depending on the dutcome, Michigan and Wisconsin will battle at'Ann Arbor tomorrow. In second place following successive defeats by Illinois and Wisconsin, the Wolverines had an _opportunity of climbing to the top by dropping the Badgers tomorrow. Wisconsin has but two games re- maining, with Michigan and with Min- nesota next week. Michigan has one with Ohio State Saturday unless it is decided to make a double-header out | of the affair, the teams having been rained out of their first game. Ohio State left Chicago in the cellar yesterday by scoring an 8-to-3 win over the Maroons at Columbus. Minnesota tenance of athletes, and not a question cf recruiting. Prof. Goodenough said he could not | call & meeting of his committee until | he had received a formal request from President Jessup, and until he bad sounded out his colleagues, but indi- cated the latter would be favorable and that such a meeting would be held soon. Goodenough said he would com- | municate with cther members of the committee today and would call a spe- clal session if instructed by them. | | The Tllinols 1epresentative on the commiltee also declared that a spec committee appointed to investigate evi | dence of violations on ‘the part of other | Big Ten schools had no specific c on hand, but was looking into the af- | fairs of ‘each school generally, INSE(‘?‘TS’ TO OPPOSE. Eastern All-Star Insects play the Live Wire Insects of Twining City cn | Rosedale diamond Friday evening at |5 o'clock. All players are requested to report promptl. and Towa, the latter with a mathemati- | cal chance of winning the title also, will meet tomorrow. Towa will cl its schedule with Indiana Saturday CROWTHER TO CAPTAIN VIRGINIA’S LACROSSERS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 29 At a meeting of the letier men of th vear's varsity lacrosse team at_Vir- ginia, G. Kenneth Crowther of Balti- more. Md., was elected as captain of stickmen for next season. be playing. his last sea- son of lacdosse next year, having played regularly for the varsity the past two scasons and also on the first-year team. He plays out home and was one of ths mainstays of the varsity in all its games during the past season. Only four Horses—Man o War, Ex- | terminator, Zey and Sarazan—have | mon $200.000 ‘or more in the history of American horse racing. 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