Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. JULY 16. '1929. SPORTS ]-‘ i 28 4 SPORTS. ; Influence of Heredity Greater in Rowing Than in Any Other College Sport ‘MAJORITY OF ELI SWEEPS || SOMETHING IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS PRECEDED BY THEIR DADS| Hoover Honorary Referee |WILLIAMS DISPELS Of BritishAmerican Meet| )| DOUBT OF ABILITY NEW YORK, July 16.—President | py the Associated Precs. Hoover has consented to serve as There was distinct disposition on the honorary referee of the international | part of many American observers last track and field meet between the |Jear fo regard Percy Willlams. th THE START- AND APPRECIATION oF TONSORIAL EFFECT. - THE HOT JAM AT STATION (] Tue HOT TUSSLE WITH THE CAR WINDOW 1N THE HUT CAR Sons of Varsity Foot Ball Players Seldom Make the Big Grade—Grid and Diamond Stars Have Innate Skill. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, July 16.—Of the 32 oarsmen and 4 coxswains who N made up the Yale crews this year, 20 sons of Eli varsity swung sweeps in the various shells, Six sons of Yale sweep and this was one of the best crews 2 steered and 2 were substitutes. swingers sat in the varsity shell that Yale ever turned out. For years, ever since intercollegiate sport was sufficiently old to warrant compilation of statistics and collection of data, sporting philosophers have been interested in studying the influence of hered- ity in the various sports. Out of it all has been evolved the fact that of all sport rowing is the cnly one in which heritage plays a very significant part. It has, for instance, been proved beyond debate that your out- standing foot baller of the 90s is more likely than not to send sons to college who either do not play the game at all or are not especially good at it. And so with base ball and track. The other day the writer was at the there were 22 sons of Yale oarsmen home of a Harvard man, one of the rowing in the four crews as against 20 greatest base ball players that Harvard | this year. And Harvard reports a pre- or any other college ever produced. He | ponderance of oarsmen whose fathers y was a great player, but a de- [ rowed before them. Toted over o (e &pors, But s don of 13—he shows splendid promise in gOIf, by the way—has been unable to make even the second team in base | ball at his preparatory school. i There Are Exceptions. | Of course, ‘exceptions occur as ex-| eeptions always will. Princeton two or | three years ago had three sons of former foot ball men on her eleven, | but this was so unusual as to excite | comment. None of the younger genera- | tion of Poes at Princeton—and there | have been a lot of them—have shown anything approaching the proficiency of their siras. Occasionaliv the son of a varsity foot ball man makes the Yale varsity, but not a one has matched the outstand- ing ability of his sire and as a rule they ! fail to make the varsity. But rewing—why. at Yale last year Job for Carnegie Experts. No one has attempted to explain this Interesting situation. Is it that the chief essential of winning a varsity berth is an enthusiasm for the sport, a willingness to undergo all the grinding work and attention to detail for which rowing calls? In other words, less in- nate skill is required of a varsity sweep swinger than of a foot ball or base ball player in whom some such quality as inborn ability. in addition to enthu- siasm, is required. Probably so, for any conch {n foot ball or base ball will tell you that players are born and that the best the coach does is to shape, to point, to sharpen natural ability. Or, again, is there something in aquatics which may’ more easily be handed down from generation to gen- eration? Let us leave it to the Car- negie Foundation to determine. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. keep for one pachyderm. M. Curley estimates that one wrestier can outeat That Wrestling Racket. an _entire base ball squad and then | make the night hideous as he moans of wrestling. Only the other night Gus Sonnenberg, the Dartmouth| T do not know what became of M. foot ball player. and the venerable Strangler Lewis drew $90,000 worth |Curley's herd when the slump in pachy- THE higher education has come to the rescue of the moss-covered racket | for his natural nutriment. of customers for a wrestling bout, which was won by Dartmounth, two | derms came. But I always suspect falls to one. The collegian was the drawing card, as the boys say, be- | that the less sald about the method of cause customers of wrestling, through force of habit, go to sleep the moment Lewis steps into the ring. Nebraska University also contribute d a pacyhderm to the sport some time back in Big Wayne Munn, who created some little excitement for those who can get excited over professional wrestling. had for his vietim the same subject upsn which Mr. Sonnenbdrg demonstrated | 1t s & atrange coincidence that Munn the superiority of the gridiron over the mat. Mr. Munn. in unorthodox fashion, tossed Mr. Lewis into the rafters of the hall and caught him on the rebound. Mr. Lewis fell on his head and hurt his toot. The achievements of Mr. Munn and Mr. Sonnenberg demonstrate that intercollegiate foot ball is a much rougher business than wrestling. Also, it solves the problem as to what to do with ex-foot ball heroes. It is plain that Mr, C. C. Pyle cannot use them all, and from all accounts the bond selling profession already is so crowded that ex-foot ball stars are cluttering the entrance and exits of bond prospects’ houses. Mr. Sonnenberg, after being graduated from Dartmouth, was in some- thing of a quandary as te what to do was very dull, indeed, and young Mr. about the future. The bond business Sonnenberg was graduated from the Big Green Team with one great talent, a flying tackle that would stop a charging rhinoceros. But how to use financial way! . Mr. Sonnenberg was meditating on | the cbldness of the world in ‘en"!ll to a young man equipped with an inter- collegiate foot ball education, and had | about reached the conclusion that it | was not, rifht. when he was taken to his | first wrest] of the professional pachyderms Yolltm;; around the ring and at intervals, as, though by natural consent, lying down | beside each other and resting while the | customers did likewise. P Mo Sonnenberg, rousing himself | from the state of somnolence which | overtakes the spectator at a wrestling | | bout, asked his companion, “Do they | Iget paid for it>" il The companion, being versed in | sports finance, reportsd that | Strangler Lewis gathered an income | bigger than Babe Ruth for that sort | of thing, and that Monte Munn, who wrestled only for a short period, | had $300,000 in the bank by the | time repentance overtook him and | he decided to turn square. | Mr. Sonnenberg made up his mind | quickly. He saw a chance 10 npgly the | fiying tackle, which made him the ter- | ror of the opponents of Dartmouth | when he was tackling for the Big Green team. It was not long before | the flying tackle of Dartmouth became | 2 bigger money getter than the toe- hold of Frank Gotch It was very gratifying to Mr. Son- nenberg. Instead of having to tackle any one of eleven at any uncertain time, and sometimes having to_tackle three or four at th> same time. he had 1o tackle only one picked subject in the course of the evening. Fresh from his experiences on the gridiron, Mr. Sonnenberg must have #2id to himself, “Just imagine being | peid for this!” ! Upsetting the Almanac. UT the advent of Mr. Sonnenberg into the moss-covered racket has | upset the balance of the thing. There was a time when those interested— if any—knew just whose turn it was to | be heavyweight wrestling champlon. | That title used to rotate regularly and you could tell the season of the year, if you had any particular curi- osity as to what season it might be, by | merely remembering who was heavy- | weight wrestling champion. There were | Jjust four names, which made it easv. one for cach scason of the year. Old | season _experts recall that these were | Strangler Lewis, Joe Stecher and the two venerable Zbyszko boys, Wiadek and Stanislaus. Of course, the name Zbyszko was not quite to easy to remember or pronounce. You could pronounce it easily enough, though, if you took the tip of Joe Humphries and whistled it. Mr. Humphries got a citation from the directors of Madi- son Square Garden for learning to whistle it without taking a single lesson. But now Gus Sonnenberg has de- stroyed one of the elementary means of measuring the passage of the season by not only spoiling the combination, but by holding the title all the year round. It makes it very difficult for one to keep his almanac adjusted. For all | those who measured time by the pro- gress of the pachyderms it still might be_Winter. I regret to'say that the finger of | suspicion still: points to the racket. Even though the bout at Boston was peered at by experts. and subsequemlyi ratified, those who have followed th2 game still think it must be queer that | 2s many as three falls_could be scored | in a single cvening. It is against &1l traditions. | The Finger Points. | ERHAPS the main reason why the | finger of suspicion pointed to the | last demonstration of pachydermy in | Boston is that the falls were accom- | plished with such dispatch. There was | a time when it took at least eight hours for a fall. In those days, the chroniclers insist, the wrestling game ‘was strictly on the level. ‘Then & wave of modernization. It was that if a fall could not be achieved in time for the morn- ing papers, there was a falling off of Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders it where it would do some good in a interest in the bout, always assuming that any interest existed in the first place. So for a period of years the fall in the main event always came in time to make the first editions. Sometimes it was a tight squeeze, which may or ing match. He saw a couple ( may not have been due to the wrestlers | getting their signals crossed. With these improvements under control, M. Jacques Curley, the pachyderm collector, imported a large herd of wrestlers, combing all the countries of Europe. Some he gathered in the Black Forest, some from the fjords of Norway and Sweden. Not a few were captured on the steppes of Siberia, and his hunters invaded the Ural Mountains with.much success. But all is not profit in th= exploiting of the pachyderms. Unless you have seen them in the dining halls you can have no appreciation of the cost of up- Har: Radiators and Cores ‘Wittstatts, 1809 14th Nortl 319 13th. % Dlock Below Repaired; also New R“zfi}’ | their disposal the more leased the | importer would be. I think that they | were driven to the boneyard, where | industry took its course. (Copyright, 1920.) 22 PACERS ARE LISTED TO START IN BIG RACE KALAMAZOO, Mich,, July 16 (#).—A fleld of 22 starters, the largest ever to | compete in the event, has been named | for the $25.000 Reno Pacing Derby, feature of today's grand circuit eard. Sir Walter has drawn the pole posi- | tion, with Black Scott and Counterpart lin second and third places. Falr weather and a fast track were in prospect. The 2:18 pace, 2:11 trot and a claim- ing race were other events on today's card. 14 ENTRIES ARE MADE FOR TRI-CITY REGATTA Fourteen entries so far have been made for the Tri-City regatta to be | held at Herald Harbor, Md. July 27 | and 28. The citizeris’ committee of | Herald Harbor is arranging the pro- | gram for the two days which will in- clude various other features in addition to the regatta. Detalls of the regatta will be handled by the Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat Association. of | which Conrad C. Smith is commodore. | " Entry blanks mav be secured from 1. G. 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McGovern, chairman of the committee in charge of the meet, the President said “I shall be pleased to be recited as an honorary referee to the fi-ld games between the visiting teams of Oxford and Cambridge and the American teams from Princeton and Cornell, and only regret that my duties here will not permit me to be present and witness them in person. “The character-building influence of clean sports is such that they de- Eerve every encouragement and, be- sides that, I should have been glad of the opportunity to welcome these fine young men visiting our shores.” Sir Esme Howard, British Am- bassador, replied in a similar vein. \WYKOFF BEATS BRACEY IN 100 IN 8.7 SECONDS, SEATTLE., July 16 (®.— Frank Wykoff, California high school sprinter, Olympic sprint champion, as *“Lucky in spite of the brilliant manner in which the slim Canadian greyhound raced the world's best sprinters into the ground at Amsterdam. Much of this was due to a naturai feeling of disappointment over the showing of the Americans in the Olympics. plus the feeling that Wykoff, Russell, Bracey and the other young stars were not in the best of condition over there after sensational per- formances at home. It was pointed out that Williams never had such remark- | able times as did Wykoff in the final Olympic trials at Boston. Whatever doubt, however, may have | lingered about the class of Williams, after his fine indoor performances in New York and elsewhere last Winter, was entirely dissipated when the Ci adian outran Wykoff, Bracey and Eddie Tolan, the new national champion. at Vancouver last Friday and Saturday. It was unfortunate that George Simp- son of 925 fame. could not also match strides with Williams, but for the time there is no question of the Canadian's claim to the title of world champion. CONTRIBUTIONS SOUBHT TO SEND GOLF PLAYERS Believing that the golfing public will captured the honors in a 100-yard (make up the smount of $270 needed dash event here last night from & field | to send two players from Washington of classy performers in 9.7 seconds, or one-teuth of a second slower than the official world record. Claude Bracey, the Texas flyer, was hot on Wykoff's heels to finish second | and Wesley Foster, Negro ace of Wash= | | to the national public links tourney in | St. Louis next month. James D. Preston, | public Mnks commitieeman for Wash- ington, has caused contribution boxes to | be placed at East Potomac and Rock Creek parks. in which contributions mav be placed to help defray the expenses ington State College, was third. The |of two competitors. track meet was rtaged by the Commu- | The expenses of two of the men have nity Athletic Association. Percy Willlams, Olympic sprint cham- plon, was unable to compete, because of | leg injury, while Eddie Tolan. Negro ! specd star of Michigan, rushed oft to | been guaranteed by S. G. Leoffler, public links ~eoncessionnaire. Preston has posted a notice with the boxes that even contributions as small as 10 cents will be welcome. He adds New York to start on a tour of Sweden. | that 800 persons used the Rock Creek In a mixed 440-yard relay last night Wykoff was unable to overcome a 15- course last Sunday and that a contri- bution of & dime from each would gn yard handicap and lcst to Myrtle Cook, | far toward delrlyin, the expenses of Olympic world champion. Bracey gave | the two men. “My idea is to split up Miss Cook a 15-yard advantage and Wykofl, running anchor, failed to catch her. She wen by four Milliong of men called White Owl, at 10¢, a fine, mild, speet-tasting digar. Then,|as h k uge sales lowed i, we lowered |the price to B for 20c, without reducinf quality...the 10c White Pwl tered byt a third White Owl is given{..i taste is unal- t is your the cost among a number of persont, rather than soliciting eontributions of large sums from a few,” Preston sald.