Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 77

BOXING VOTED GREATEST OF THEM ALL FOR BOTH Heavyweight Championship Battle Held to Excel Base Ball, Rowing, Auto Racing or Any Other Sport in Providing Tense Moments. BY WALTER W TRUMBULL. HICH games hold the biggest thrill? y The answer to that question depends upon many things. First, it would depend upon whether it was answered from the viewpoint of the player, or the spectator. Secendly, it THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 2. T1929-PART 5. Thrills Abound in Every Variety of Game for Players as Well as Spectators | IN FOR BIG SABBATH HYATTSVILLE. Md.. June 1.—Prince Georges County sandlot ball teams are all set for a big day tomorrow. Action | i8 carded in many sections of the ¢oun- | ; ] ty, and the program embraces several an engagement with Jimmy games of more than usual interest. | B A Hiser's Hyattsville All-Stars, gotngl Boston, in a 10-round contest in great guns this season, will entertain ' the Phillies’ ball park tomorrow night. the Banton Community Club nine of | Jules Aronson offered the Godfrey Baltimore at Riverdale Park in a dou- | match to several top-flight heavies, but ble-header, starting at 1:30 o'clock. Ed-|the answer was a polite but firm “no.” die Marosy. former Business High pitch- | So Jimmy Byrne, whose forte is bang- er, ace of the All-Stars staff, is hurling | ing big fellows around without regard unusually well this season. to their feelings, was nominated. s Godfrey may take the smaller Byrne At Mount Rainier the team represent- | acn warm-up to a later engagement BY JOHN J. ROMANO. 1G George Godfrey is due to keep would dcpend upon whether a game in general was meant, or just ing that place will clash with Addison pe has with Tom Heeney in Montreal, one high spot in particular. The player usually rets the g which he is the most proficient. Cleveland Alexander, must remember with a little extra warmth that | Autumn day when he strolled to reatest thrill out of the game at Even that placid veteran, Grover the mound to stop the heaviest hitter of the Yankees and win a world series for St. Louis. There must be some particular home run, made at an inten moment, which Babe Ruth remembers better than all the others h Perhaps it is that sixtieth homer he clouted in 1927, break- has hit. ing the record of 59, which he had se e made in 1921. Perhaps it is some other circuit clout, which nobody except the Babe clearly remembers. I know thinks of the time when he came | back through the twilight to stop | the charge of the New York Giants in the world series of 1924. Herzog must still get a kick out of looking back to the series of 1912; Gowdy out of recollections of the series of 1914. There certainly are gallops down the fleld the memory of which must still bring a thrill to such foot ball stars as Thorpe, Mahan, Grange. Thorne, Oli- phant, 'Slagel, Heston and Eckersall. | There isn't a man who ever played the gridiron game who cannot remember | one minute upon which he likes to | reflect. i Devereaux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney, Louis Stoddard, every great | player who ever raced for a polo ball | in an international match, must have | some picture of the past in his mind | which is clearer than all the rest. The | same thing applies to great oarsmen | and trackmen, great tennis players and | golfers. Bobby Jones couldn’t forget | the famous iron shot he played against | Cruickshank, nor Walter Hagen the final putt that won him a British open—neither could forget those, if | they tried. | ‘Tunney, Dempsey, Leonard, Corbett, Jeffries, Britton, Ryan, Muldoon, Lewis, Stecher, every boxer or wrestler who | was a champlon, remembers one mo- | ment of effort, or one contest, better than all the rest. Ring Sport a Thriller. I think that probably the average spectator is likely to get more thrill out of a championship boxing contest than out of any other demonstration of physical prowess. One reason is the size of the crowd. There always is tension at the start | of a world series. Throngs will cheer | themselves hoarse over a home run or a deciding hit. They will go wild over a long run or pass in foot ball. Some | tennis matches and some golf matches | DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEZHAN. Brutality in arrajgnment of the methods of the universit it is my notion college, foot ball coach are of such a startling to change the conditions alleged there will be at least one of the well known abandon intercolleglate foot ball in the very near future. From personal observation it is my notion that the average foot ball coach is human and humane and fully conscious of his responsibilities to the fine universities which will young men who put themselves wholly more to develop the character of his cha: in the university. The vast majority of But there are a few bad ones and, it before me, there are some bad ones and one ticular coach under arraignment, according to the report, has limit in devising methods to break and to make foot ball something e charged against it a few g years ago. ‘There is one specific instance of subtle and this coach. In his squad he had a junior for one g‘ me at least before he was the coach, telling him that he camp in an effort to harden he s culated to make the candidate the butt was a case of studied cruelty that wo sergeant of the oid Regular Army. Going into generalities, the arraij around against Harvard by Owen. | their hoped for destination. | tor the tensest moments. HERE has been passed on to me for consideration and comment the | of a certain foot ball coach by an alumnus | y with which this coach still is associated. Ordinarily, | that the foot ball system of a college is the business of the | But some of the accusations made in this document against the | graduated. During his vacation he wrote to | was spending his spare time working in a lumber himself so that he could make the team. " In the first practice after his return this candidate did something that dis- | {ensed the coach. After rebuking him savagely the coaeh pulled the letter of tudent from his pocket and read it to the entire squad with comments cal- uld give pause to the most brutal recruiting the foot ball squad is worse than the conditions complained of All of the zest and joy that should be in the that Walter Johnson have been so generous in the matter of | Hyattsville will travel to Baltimore to must feel a certain glow when he |suspense that I have seen spectators|stack up against the Keyser A. C. nine. as worn out as the players after the game; but here the crowds are smaller. There isn’t the opportunity for mass psychology. At a foot ball game between Chicago and Princeton at Chicago I saw old grads stricken by yelling. crving hysteria, as the tide of battle ebbed and flowed. Those who root their favorite home at a race track certainly display loud enthusiasm. 1 have seen boat races so close that onlookers almost jumped out of observation cars. But the closest I ever saw_ thousands of persons come to mass apoplexy was at the Dempsey-Firpo fight. When the speak of any one going “crazy with ex- citement,” I always think of that bout. The police detall which got Dempse; back to his dressing room, arrived with coats torn off. And Auto Races, Too. Bicycle races produce plenty of ex- citement and so do automobile races. And there is lots of room for excite-| ment among the riders and drivers. On the other hand, I doubt whether any of those who have piloted airplanes safely on long, desperately dangerous journeys got their thrill out of the flying itself. Their big moment must have come when they finally arrived at What I mean is that, at any altitude, there is no feeling of forward speed in a cabin airplane. I thought of this when fiying, the other day, from New York to Wash- | ington with Clarence Chamberlain. The plane seems to be suspended by A wire in the air. Once in a while something jogs the wire. But there is | no sensation of speed or even of prog- ress. Over the ocean, where the whole scene looks the same, this must be truer than over land. No, the thrill must be E the completion of the feat, in landing. 8. I still think that boxing, especially a good heavyweight championship fl.ym, gives both the principal and the specta- (Coprright, 1929, by North American Ne Paper Alliance.) Coaching. nature that unless something is done in his charge. A good coach can do rges than any head of any department the foot ball coaches are good coaches. , if one is to credit this report which very bad one. This par- gone the | the spirit of the men under him ven worse than Owen of Harvard | savage cruelty charged against | whose ambition was to make the team | of the squad. It strikes me that this gnment insists that the atmosphere C. of Washington, starting at 3 o'clock. Mount Rainier. which was re- garded as the class of the county last year, is again showing strength. The Brentwood Hawks and Dixie Pigs will hook up in a Capital City League unlimited section game on the Brent- wood fleld at 3 o'clock, in a contest that is of more than usual importance to county fans. Bill Walton's Plerce A. C. team of but if big Gawge is wise he will try hard. or Mr. Byrne is apt to cause one of the biggest fistic upsets of the year. Not that Byrne is a champlon. It is true, neverthel that Jimmy has a | champlon's heart and runs second to no one in the game for willingness to mix up and fight as long as there is a breath left in his body. Laurel will play host to Bill Fleister's | Hartfords of Washington ‘The game | will get started at 3 o'clock. Manager Culbertson’s Berwyn A. C. will have as its guests on the Berwyn diamond the Washington Railway & Electric Co. tossers. This match also will start at 3 o'clock. Junior Order of Capitol Heights will encounter its first real test of the cam- | paign when it journeys to Eastport. Md., to try conclusions with the fast aggre- gation there. Seat Pleasant A. C. tossers will play host to Ted Otte's Kennedy A. C. nine of Washington at 3 o'clock on the Seat | Pleasant field. LEXANDRIA, Va. June 1.—Bill Jenkins' Washington Red Sox will meet the St. Mary's Celtics here tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in Baggett's Park. mark. As many seasons. le"‘l'r;:!e ul‘ud Sox shut out the Celtics last vear, and this year have run up & | string_of eight consecutive triumphs, | including one over the Georgetown A. C. champions of Washington last sea- son. The contast scheduled here today be- tween the Celtics and the Bollin Washington Red Sox, Celtics Top Alexandria Sandlot Bill ing the second clash between the two | Field | gh B¢ 'y ine of Washington was canceled by Hyattsville High School's base ball /D \team, which wn:cthe trhl%lol;}:e,p ‘?.: the Aviators at l:‘: hour. es_County. y :::?c;-g:ofi the tournament for the| Virginia A C. will tackle the newly State title Monday in Baltimore. Just ' organized Georgetown Blues of Wash- what team Hyatisville will meet has ington tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock the ar leld. i s e | rhe Virginia tossers have signed | Larry Kersey, former St. Mary's Celtics Straight OFf Tee | |35 Sae i Fs speissncs Somor- D will make his first ap) 3 - h'lllg it e = Kersey catches and plays first base. NE of those curlous h’pp",““?: Seat Pleasant Triangles of Seat i that occur every once in &/ pleasant, Md., have canceled thelr i while on, the golf course befell | game with the Columbia Englne Co. e D | which was to have been played fomoi- arthelow row on Haydon Fileld af o'cl . |last Thursdey. From the twelfth tee | ply Padgett, manager of the Colum- Wheeler pulled his ball into the woods | pia nine, is anxious to fill the date on | at the 1ett of the fairway. Barthelow | pi¢ genedule, and any unlimited team Went on ahead after Wheeler found | yiching to meet the Firemen is asked his ball lndh!'f’od Hhout lrzgmfl{g: to call Padgett at Alexandria 1774. | away as Wheeler play | —— Woods. His head was turned away| Del Ray Clubmen and the Savage A while Wheeler Pllyeflbhfis S{'m k“’:t "E C. are scheduled for a game tomorrow | the green. and the ball, struci | thary ‘angle fo the right, found its billet in Barthelow’s shirt pocket. | One day Jack Hoffman was playing | at Washington, and playing badly. He | stood on the first tee and apparently | tried to drive the green. But he heeled the ball badly and it came to rest in the cuff of his trousers. President H. A. Mihills has called a | special meeting of the membership of | the Indian Spring Golf Club to se- cure additional subseriptions to the building fund, for construction of ad- ditions and improvements to the Indian Spring clubhouse. | For two or three yvears J. Monro Hunter, the far-ranging hitter of In- dian Spring, has been concerned lbflutv g a good shaft for the wooden tuan tee shots, given up hope of ever getting & wooden club shaft which has sufficient stiff-| ness to stop excessive torsion or turn- | ing of the clubhead and at the same | time not be too unwiedy to use. | In his extremity he has taken to steel shafts, and has found them none too well suited to his mighty swing. calls them “tin shafts,” and say y twist in his hands he goes into the | ball. To the average individual steel shafts have practically no torsion, and will not twist in the club head it meets the ball. But Hunter striki the ball such a hard blow that even steel shafts twist from the impact. So he decided to find a steel shaft that would not twist. | He took an extra long steel shaft of the lap-joint construction type, cut | off several inches from its bottom. thereby inereasing its stiffness, and stuck it in a favorite wooden club- head. And now he finds that he at last has a shaft that will not give. In fact he complains the shaft is a little THE SPO By GRANTLAND RICE How Much Proselyting or Paying? OLLEGE athletics today are far from being perfect, but there are few perfect things. All that one can say is that con- ditions are much better thai they were a few years ago. The Tow: case in the Western Conference has stirred up an endless amount of argu- ment as to how many universities and colleges are either proselyting ath- letic talent or paying certaln stars in one fashion or another, is something beyond proof. Quite a little of it is going on around the country. But conditions in the leading universities are so much better than they were some years ago that no reason exists for any pessimestic outery. From time to time one gets fairly direct evidence that certain col- legiate spots are going out after their talent and paying for it, either directly or indirectly But there is always some kink in any form of direct proof. Conditions will al- ways be something like this as long as so many take their collegs sport with such feverish intensity—es- pecially where foot ball is concerned. Few get steamed up over a track meet, or & base ball game, lacrosse and other intercollegiate efforts, but foot ball is another matter. 1f you happen to mention the names of three or four good halfbacks in the per a dozen or so letters arrive at once from indignant old grads who want to know why you left out Whozis of Whatzis, who always has those men- COUNTY BALL CLUBS | Godfrey May Need Full Steam | To Avoid Upset by Jim Byrne Byrne has been fighting better than | ever in Boston. The reason for this is | his manager, Julie Rosengard. Rosen- | gard, & young lawyer, plays with prize fighting as a pastime. He does not care for the money in the game, hence the | unusual contract he has with his one and only fighter, Jimmy Byrne. The latter draws down $200 a week whether | he fights or not, and all Jimmy has to 1do to earn this money is to keep in condition and be ready when called | upon to enter the hempen square. | VA close friendship has sprung up be- | tween manager and fighter, and it is | for this reason that Byrne will be in| shape and give his best for the ma | who is giving him a square deal. Godfrey is too big and strong for Byrne and figures to win, but big Gawge will know he has been in a fight before many minutes have passed after the opening bell. afternoon at 3 o'clock on Edward Dun- can Field in Potomac. | | The contest between George Mason | | High School and Charlotte Hall | School at Charlotte Hall, Md. was called by agreement yesterday at the end of the fourth inning to permit the George Mason tossers to return for the Letter Club banquet, held at the school last night. Charlotte Hall was leading 3 to 0 at the time. Athletic Director W. A. Richardson served as toastmaster, while talks were made by A. J. Davis, of the Arlington County Public School Board, Principal W. H. Thomas, Jack Tulloch, sports editor of the Alexandria Gazette, and Richardson. The speakers congratulated the ath- letes on winning three Arlington County champlonships from Washington-Lee High School of Balston, and the cap- tains and managers of ‘each team re- sponded with short addresses. Teams of the Tri-State Golf Associ- ation will play here in their second tournament of the current campaign next Saturday on the Belle Haven Country Club links. Colonial A. C. won a double-header | from the De Luxe clubmen here today, winning 9 to 4 and 9 to 5. No. 5 Engine Co of the Alexandria | Fire Department, will play the Naval | Hospital nine on Monument lot, dia- mond 7, tomorrow afternoon at 3/ o'clock. No. 5 players are asked to report to the engine house at 1 o'clock | | to make the trip. RTLIGHT ter, and the quarter has been run around 47 seconds. It will call for a combination of speed and endurance hooked together, the development of a sprinter into a middle distance runner. Low Scoring. EAR Sir: How does Glenna Col- | lett's 34 for the first nine holes of her match with Joyce Wethered at St. Andrew’s compare with other low scores made by woman stars? Was it ever bettered, even by Miss Wethered? I recall the English girl's having shot a low round against Glenna at Troon a few years ago, but do not remember the exact score—K. M. O. In Speaker’s Shoes. EAR Sir: With the base ball sea- son starting on its second month, it appears the prize rookie of the year is Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians. He is one of the leading home run hitters of the American League, one of the leading base stealers, and according to some capable judges, the best center fielder in base ball in go- ing after fly balls. ‘When the Yankees played Cleve- land recently Averill made catches that not even Tris Speaker in his best days could have bettered. Averill hits right and left handers alike and hits the ball with great power. | "He's only 24 and should be good for 10 years, for he's a youngster who fol- | lows the best rules of training. BUCKEYE BELL, C | Farmer Joe Cooper, Tommy White and, 5 PAYAN AND RAMIES BATTLE FOR WEST Indian and Mexican lnvade: East in Quest of Welter Ring Scalps. BY FIARPLAY. HIEF MIKE PAYAN, an In- dian junior welter-weight, and Dick Ramies, a full fledged welter, under the direction of Jack Steele have opened headquarters in the East with a view of tackling the top flight men in their respective di- visions and so bring Westerners into the limelight. Raimes boasts a good record, listing Mushy Callahan, junior welterweight | o'cl Jackie | 3 title ohider, Baby Joe Gans, Fields, Larry Brignolia and Al Wolgast. Thirty knockouts out of a total of 60 engagements speaks well for the power of Dick’s leathern fists. Ramies, a Mexican, carries on the tradition of his race in that he has| a terrific wallop. Checking back over | Mexican fighters, one finds that that race has produced some of the most | terrific punchers in the game. Who will soon forget Auriela Herrerra, Mex- | ican Joe Rivers, or Mexican Pete Ever- ett, punchers every one of them. Contiog down to’ the present day, we have Colima, who may not be a champles, but atiil carries a threat in his right hand. Baby Sorio, who was defeated on points by Junior Light- weight Champion Tod Morgan r is also a boy who boasts a knockout streak. Sorio chalked up knockout victories in three-fourths of the contests he has taken part in. ..Chief Mike Payan is not far behind his stable mate, Dick Ramies, when it comes to scoring over nationally known scrappers. Listed in the Indian’s record are the names of Baby Joe Gans, Sam Bruce, of course, Jackie Fields. Jackie, who fights Joe Dundee for the unquestioned right to the world's welterweight crown in July, has had his finger in the 147-pound pie on the Coast throughout the past two years. Every time a fighter shows promise he is thrown in with Fields and the result of the con- test establishes his right to be reckoned with the leading boys throughout the country. Steele has an_able pair of battlers in Payan and Ramies and the fact that they are punchers will work in with the plans of the promotors who | seek to satisfy their customers’ de- | mands for contests teeming with action, INFIELDER AND FLYHAWK | Victory Post team, which meets Eight and Forty nine today on Fairlawn dia- mond No. 2 at 1 o'clock, in an Ameri- can Legion series tilt, is after an in-| flelder and an outflelder. Applicants are asked to report to Manager Klein- dienst at Fairlawn diamond today. The team has lost the services for a time at least of Arthur Taylor, crack second baseman, who has an ankle injury. — -— i COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Baton Rouge. 4: El Dorado. 3. Vicksburg. aurel, € Meridian. 7. 12; Alexandria Monroe. ks0} |2 19 GAMES ARE LISTED IN CAPITAL CITY LOOP With 19 games carded in five di- visions there will be plenty of activit: today in the Capital City League. Auths and Dixie Pigs, each of whom has won two games in as many starts. will hook up with Capitols and Brentwood Hawks on the Bladensburg and Brentwood diamonds, respectively, in the unlimited section. Three other contests are slated among the uniimitsds. Five encounters are booked in the senjor section in which a tight race for the flag looms. Five matches also are listed in the junior group, with three in the American Legion series and two in the midget class proper. The day's card: UNLIMITED. Auths vs. Capit Edmonds s o'clock Breniwood Hawks vs. Dixie Pigs. Brent- wood. 3 o clock National P. B. Cards vs. Brown's Oorner, West Ellipse. 3_o'clock Miller Astéc-8t. Joseph. game postponed. SENIOR. Montrose vs. Kaufmans, No. 9. 1 o'clock, Bostonians vi. Try-Me Aces. No. 5, 3 ‘clock. Hartiords vs. Miller Purniture Co., No. 4, o'clock. . Brookland Boys Club, Brook- k. JUNIOR. Vie's Sport Shop, Plaza, Murphy-Ames vs. : Corinthians, No. 4, o'clock Ty Cobbs vs. Calhouns. No. 3. 11 o'clock. Mardfeldts vs. O'Briens, West Ellipse, o'clock. Potomacs vs. Lionels, No. 3. 3 o'elock. AMERICAN LEGION. George Washington vs. Lincoln. No. o'clock. hi and Forty vs. Vietory, Fairlawn, No. 1 a'cloc Spengler vs. Delano, Fairlawn, No. 2. 3 o'elock. MIDGETS. Corinthians, Ne. 4, 11 Iroquois, West Bllipss. 11 INSECTS. Georgetown vs. Sam Wests, No. 9, cloek. ls. Bladensburg. 3 o'clock emonts, College Park. Roamers land, 3 o'cloc! Langleys vs. 3 o'clock. 1 1 B a Meridians vs. o'cloci Keniiworths o'clock. 1n o In free-hitting games in the insect division of the Capital City League yes- terday Brookland Boys Club won its second game in as many starts by de- feating tern All-Stars, 11 to 8, and Gallagher A. C. handed Clyde Milans its second defeat, 13 to 7. DR. R. P. ELMER WINNER IN ARCHERY EVENTS HERE Dr. R. P. Elmer of Wayne, Pa., sev- eral times national archery champion, won both the Double York round and Double American round in the tourn: ment ended yesterday by the Potom: Archers in Potomac Park. Hugh Mof. fett of Warrenton, Va.,, was second in both competitions. Miss Martha Wilson of Newton, Mass., with a score of 667, won Columbia round. Mis: Betty Greer was second with 501. Scores in the Double York and Dou- ble American contests: DOUBLE YORK. 6 of putting up PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham. 5-2; Salisbury. 4-13. High Point, §-1: Winston Saiem, 4-0, Hendersonvill Gr ro. 13 v y Base Ball | B LOUGHRAN PLANS THOTILE BOUTS |Light Heavy Weight Cham- pion May Take on Griffiths After Braddazk - BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN, Lightweight Champion of the World. ECAUSE there have been so many conflicting reports about my future actions I want to go definitely on | record as saying that I will not |resign my light heavyweight championship after fighting James J. Braddock, July 18. I intend to make at least one more defense of my crown—aside from the Braddock bout—and that will prob- ably be_in Chi- cago. If Tuffy Griffiths con- tinues his win- ning streak he may be my op- ponent there. I not, the _out- standing figure in the class at that time will be selected. Eventuelly, of course, I'll have to give up the cham- plonship, because I am finding it harder all the time to get down to weight. But my retirement will not come until I have fought two more title matches at the light heavyweight limit. This statement should squelch any further reports about my quitting the division in which I have fought so long. The Braddock match, and probably an- | other one in Chicago in September, are | my. [)l’e&lfl. program. | Of course, I expect to box some of | the bigger fellows through the Summer, | too, but I beat heavy weights long be- !fore T won the 175-pound crown. So | that will have no effect on the program. I scaled more than 185 when I boxed Ernie Schaaf in Boston last week. The time is coming when I will be a nat- | ural 190-pounder. Gene Tunney went | through the same experience. But that time hasn't come vet. I am still ready and willing to take on the light heavy- | weights. | Thinks Braddock Dangerous. This Braddock match is a_big shot. | It will draw a fine gate, and I am cer- | tain it will be a grand battle. It can't | miss being that. James J. is the most | dangerous man T have met since I won the title from Mike McTigue. Braddock is a tremendous hitter. | There are few full-fledged heavyweights | who can put a right-hand punch over | the way he can. He knocked out Jimmy Tommy Loushran. s | Slattery and Tuffy Griffith, feats no one else was able to accomplish. He is taller than I am and has a longer reach. He is young and ambitious and game. Yes, sir, I can imagine no one more capable rousing fight. I think every one who sees the 2 | Loughran-Braddock fight will remember it a long time. And when it's over I'll |be tackling any outstanding heavy- | weights willing to meet me. There has been one policy in my career as a light | heavyweight—"take ~them as they | come.” This continues to be my licy. (Copyright, 1929, L5 News) by the North Ameries er Aliance) 74 PEERLESS @rfo/éswfio |SIMPSON WILL RUN IN CAPITAL JUNE 15 game or in any sport is taken out of it by the attif some of the allegations made in this report mfié“.‘h’. m:‘:nm:cphfis:r: system there would be an immediate investigation and swift reforms. The fact that this report is in the hands of the athletic authorities of the ersity in question rather leads one to belleve that it must be exaggerated. |dOn't hit the ball quite as hard as too stiff. But when he meets the ball properly with this stiff steel shaft, how it does ride! Fred McLeod and Sandy Armour tioned outclassed. Most of the proselyting is done by individual alumni, who in vari- ous places keep an observing eye want fo .rta] Yyoung univ Certainly, it does not seem that young resembling spirit would stand these con dinned into them to not only die for dea: and insult without complaint or resentment. I hope that the report finds it way into the hands of the Carnegie Founda- tion for the Investigation of Teaching. | If only half of it is true there is some- | thing for that institution to work on, | something that strikes at the Toot of all the evils charged against intercol- legiate foot ball and all college athletic | systems. The Wrong Methods. HE report is weakened to some ex- | tent by harping on the fact that| this particular coach has been notably | unsuccessful. Naturally, no coach using such methods could hope to develop astrong teams. In a game where initiative and spirit are essential you cannot hope to do anything with material from which the spirit and the initiative have been extracted by arrogance and butal- ity. But this has nothing to do with the main point. The arraignment, if there is any truth whatever in it, indicates that this coach is tempermentally unfit to handle the job he holds. It would not matter if he had been turning in enough victories to satisfy the most in- | satiate of the old grads. If foot ball victtories could be had at that price they would not be worth it | The tactics would not be permitted even in professional sports. The prac- tice of hazing the bushers in profes- sional base ball long since has been abolished. 1 recall traveling one year with the Giants when McGraw lost a promising recruit because some of his assistants took it upon themselves to initiate him into the big leagues. He! was a sewsitive youngster and he left the camp of the Giants flat. McGraw was furious when he heard the reason. | Of course, there is no probability of | the tactics of this coach being adopted | generally, even in a modified way. They have failed dismally at this particular university. In the end they will be dropped at this university, but the pity | of it is that they will be dro?ped not | because they are barbarous, but because | they have been unsuccessful. | Foot Ball for Fun. ] QOME time ago I wrote somethiing ' of the Indian seriousness and ruth- lessness finding expression in American sport, particularly in intercollegiate foot ball. I find a chance to score a point against myself In the old days when the Carlisle Indians took to the gridiron in force and Glenn Warner was coach, foot | ball was taken with the same serio ness. One day Mr. Warner's Indian foot ball squad seemed to do everything , wrong and the veteran coach lost his patience with his men. He gave them what might be called a good bawling eut and put them through some stiff r old Whatsis, but to suffer humiliation x‘::y :;;;1 EHATRat gl i he o and unnecessary exercises by way of Dave Tomson of Washington, But Mc- punishment. Y Of Leod is almost completely discouraged The next day Mr. Warner went to | 8bout the wooden club shaft situation. Iook over his squad. There was ng |He wanis to get a wooden club with a squad. 1In the locker room there |SHfl shaft to play fairway shots with, Wasigildfice. The pikice wasideserthd || And BARTEAQ An order Hn' for Theveent and not a uniform w weeks. But so far he has not been hooks, M. ‘Waorm Was off the |able to get what he wants. He wants horigon, but there was not an Indian | the club particularly to use at Oak- in sight. It was as though the |mont. where he will attempt to qualify members of the foot ball squad had | I he national open a week from to- icked morrow. rmour sticks to wi en e e L B [zhatts_and sn"docs, Thomeon, but Ar- Finall ur B. Thorn of Town and Coun Indians” Tereirng S, found one of the \.es steel, while Bpb Barnett of Chevy | He started to make inquiry. ¥ | Chase is fortunate enough to have sev- | The Indian was abrapt’ and frank, | T8 fine wooden shafts in his distance- “We play foot ball for fun,” he said. |B¢'!ing clubs. | “If 1t 15 going to be har et B not. play Yoot bap ot 1ATd work we will | 4 would you think the odds are Judging from the record of the Car- | A8ainst the rank and file of golfers lisle Indians of that period the Indians feting on the eighteenth greer, .sln‘.:z: T geoermitted to play foot Ball for {10 1"b Colimbia thinks the odds are at un from that time on. But it hardly | um| ni s on'all the young talent POPPING up Only a few days ago I heard one old grad saving biiterly that a certain young star was headed for his univer- sity, but another university had lured him away with a position that paid all expenses and left a few dollars on the side. Whether this was true or not is something else. But he belleved it. With the growth of crowds and gate receipts and publicity there is bound to be a certain amount of collegiate scan- dal, and a lot of it will be true. ‘The Harder Job. HICH is the more difficult human job,” asks L. F. K.. “to run 100 yards in 9§ flat or the mile in 4 minutes flat? In the case of the 100 it would mean a reduction in time of 5!y per cent. In the case of the mile it would mean a reduction of 41-7 per cent from the present record.” The 100 yards in 9 seconds flat would be much the harder job. The time may not be so far ahead when some one will be strong enough and fast enough to run the mile around 4 flat. That means s least 20 to 1, and possibly higher. He W S e ent Benind e Glitaenth geeen ‘the other day laying those odds sgainst | every man who came to the eighteenth, | == iand claims he won & big majority of his | ibets, as he would have to do to split | (Copyright, TREASURY RACKETERS AGAIN SEEK LOOP TITLE Treasury Department’s tennis team, which has won the Departmental League championship seasons, is hopeful of adding other win during the coming campaign. George Clark, one of the team's strong- est players, will not be available for a time at least because of leg injury re- ceived in an automobile accident. Willard E. Buell has just been re- elected president of the Treasury rac eters. He has held the pest since fol mation of the team 15 ago. Other officers chosen ‘are: Clarence M. Charest, viee president: Madison P. Coe, secretary-treasurer; Edwin Dowd, captain, and J. K. Polk, jr., assistant captain, Tuls . Oklahomi Denver, Molnes—Rain § City. 3. Topeka, 3. : Pusblo, 6 TEXAS LEAGUE. Fort Worth, 4-12: Dallas, 7-8. 1o, 7. Waco, Shreveport, ‘Wichita Falls, 4. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Los Angeles. 4-1: Seattle, 3.2, Oakland, 19: Hellywood. 3. Missiol 12. Sacramento. 3. San Prancisco, 9: Portland, 8. EASTERN LEAGUE. New Haven, 7; Hartford, 4 id ingd id, T () L an average of 1 minute for each quaf- even at_those odds. The eighteenth | Real Values in hole at Columbia is 407 yards long, and G O F | I 4 {should be reached by many golfers in SUPPLIES |two shots. But the last few yards of | the distai Beckley Ralston Stroke-Saver Clubs, 3 Matched Woods 5450 5 Matched Stainless | the mentel hazards of the hole. Chairman_Guy Mason of the Con- gressional Country Club tournament | committee has instituted a novel scheme | which has done well toward reducing { course congestion on erowded days. He | has appointed two “course rangers" from the ranks of experienced caddies, given them a note authorizing them to | do the job and sent them out to find | congested spots on the course and straighten out the tangle. He has in- | structed them also to ask players when | | Bkt " hstruet tae piayers e s |l 1 True T i i Instruc layers the — { Thatch ‘benind to drive, ‘and they. may | Sona s yus Lemper | then putt out while the other match Steel Shafts | goes toward the green. The plan is! | working out satisfactorily, according to | 00 Mason and speeds up play considerably. | . | - i LE-HEADER. BOOKS DOUB Eastern A. C., which meets Edmonds | Art Stone Co. nine today at College | Park, has booked the Oriental Tigers | | for a double-header June 9, and games | i with Seat Pleasant. 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