Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 43

YHE EVENT NG_STAR, W/ SHINGTON, D C , THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 19%9. SPORTS. " Schoolboy Foot Ball Teams to Provide Many Attractive Games During Season CAMPAIGN TO OPEN ON SEPTEMBER 27 Array of Battles to Follow in Close Order Until Thanksgiving. CHOOLBOY foot ball teams of the District group will engage in many highly attractive games during the impending campaign. Not only will the public high schools play hard schedules, including championship games and interesting outside engagements, but the elevens of the private institutions have arranged attractive cards. Starting September 27, when Eastern | and Tech will play their opening games | against Baltimore teams, the District | scholastic gridironers will be busy through Thar ing. Though a really definite line cannot he had until after practice has started, right now it appears that Tech, 1928 champion; Eastern and Central again will be the main contenders for public high honors. ranks Gonzaga, st. John's all will ed. Landon School, a new institution, also will have an eleven in the fie It was learned today that hope has by no means been abandoned of continuing the anaual Devitt-Gonzaga game, which has been & feature of the scholastic grid season here for several years and which was called off some time ago because Devitt could not meet_eligibility requirements of Gonzaga. Officials of the two schools may yet get together, it was said. Emerson, under the direction of Harley P. Sanborn. is looking to the most suc- cessful campaign in its history. Play in the public high school series opens October 18, when Tech and East- ern will meet. Much interest will center | in this battle, bringing together as it will two of the outstanding teams for the S for a new American record Travers’ old mark of 4. The big chance will come in on will take place next Wednesday. Jones, McCarthy and Rae Gorton al! week, even more dangerous, if the 18-hole clip. dizzy pace when they are right. Doc Willing, Johnny McHu%h, Don from the Far West coast line hav to beat any one who isn’t sticking Von Elm, the second best amateur, 50 far as recent playing records go, has | suffered two 18-hole defeats in his last two champlonship starts, and that | alone proves how rocky the short | route is. In the case of Jones it will be a different story, once he has scrambled through into the 36-hole clearing, where he has an all-day battle to look after. The odds then are against one taking his measure, unless Von Elm or Sweetser are at their best. And these at their best are good enough to go after Jones, Hagen or any one else, The best chance any one will have to beat Jones in one of the shorter hauls will come from some golfer not so well known who happens to be un- xpectedly good. Some one of this type may toss a grenade into the works before the champion gets keyed up and under way. Under such conditions it is never an easy job to pick up speed in a hurry, as golf isn't that type of competition. Mental Attitude. ONES hasn't yet been able to work | himself into_ his best mental atti- tude for his 18-hole matches. As far back as 1920, in England, against a golfer named Hamlet, he was some- THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RICE. The Chance to Beat Jones. OME one brought up the point in a train discussion on the way to Pebble Beach as to how many championship entries actually had a fair chance of beating Bobby Jones in his shot | the open and amateur champion, and there are any number of younger players and veterans who will be just as dangerous next California alone has four or five youngsters who can travel at a And such better known golfers as that would lift him above Jerry e of the two 18-hole matches that In other 18-hole matches Dick 1 came within a putt of displacing crown wearer doesn’t hit a faster | Moe, Jack Neville, Bon Stein, etc., e better than an outside chance close to the boundary line of par. Sweetser is & greii nignter, and it is merely a question as to how his rather long tournament lay-off will affect the steadiness of his play. He was the old | Sweetser in his last start in the Victory tournament, where his closing rounds of | 70-68 were good enough to hoid any one. EMERSON ELEVEN DUE TOBE STRONG Material Presages Best Grid Record in History of Institution. ITH much experienced mate- rial at hand, along with a group of newcomers of more than usual promise, Emer- son Institute expects its MEXICAN GRIDDERS GET IS BACKING President Is Pleased Over Introduction of Game Under Yale Man. By the Associated Press. EXICO CITY, August 29.—- The effort to introduce the into Mexico has another en- thusiastic supporter, President Portes Gil. The President ted half an hour yesterday to a discussion of the game With Reginald Root, Yale line coach, who is now serving for three months as mentor of the University of Mexico eleven, and ended by promis- ing to attend the unversity's next game ere. Portes Gil, a sports enthusiast, said he was highly pleased that Mexican University boys have taken up inters collegiate foot ball and expressed grat- ification to the Yale authorities for al- lowing Root to come to Mexico. The President said he hoped the time would come when the University of Mexico American brand of foot ball | team would be able to play American college teams. Intercollegiate foot ball is a compara- tively new game in Mexico. Until re- ceatly the only kind of foot ball played here ‘was soccer. A group of American residents, including Ambassador Dwight Morrow, became interested in the ef- forts of the university boys to build up a team to play American foot ball and contributed to & fund that brought Root here to take charge of the squad. He arrived early this month. Root called on the President in Cha- pultepec Castle, accompanied by a del- egation of the university players. He was presented to Portes Gil by Roberto Noriega, quarterback, who represented the university at the legiate Athletic Associatipn Conference at New Orleans last Winter. After a chat at Chapultepec, the President took Root to inspect th workers' sports field being built at Val- buena, just outside of Mexico City, by the government for the free use of worker-athletes. The field. which will| be inaugurated next month, will ac-| commodate 50,000 workers. PRESS BUILDING CARDS TO PLAN FOR TEAMS ‘To organize for foot ball, basket ball and bowling, National Press Building Cardinals will meet tonight in suite 1175 of the National Press Building at 8:15 o'clock. Coach Herb Hoover will announce the date for the start of foot ball| National Col- | PIXLEE TO HANDLE GRIDDERS ATG. W. Athletic Director to Have| Connaughton and Walsh as His Helpers. J the Colonial gridiron team the coming season and will have as| two of his assistants, Harry (Babe) Connaughton, former Georgetown All- America guard, and Leonard Walsl erstwhile crack end of the Univer: of Minnesota. AMES E. PIXLEE, George Wash- jngton University director of ath- letics, will act as head coach of | ty terday by Pixlee, who said that Con- | and Walsh as tutor of the varsity ends | and backs. As Max Farrington and Dean Sexton | were some time ago appointed as fresh- | men and assistant varsity coaches the coaching staff at G. W. now numbers five. A coach to take charge of physical | education and varsi practice. Any new gridiron aspirants will be especially welcome. | to be named by Pixlee. | This announcement was made yes- | | Connaughton, who is practicing law, | alded Coach Lou Little at Georgetown | last year while completing his studies here. He plans to continue in his law practice this Fall, though he will spend most of his time with the Colonial grid- men. Connaughton’s third and last | year at Georgetown, 1926, was his best | on the gridiron. It was then that his| fine work earned him All-America rec- | ognition. b Walsh also has an outstanding grid- iron record. In 1925 he gained a place | on Walter Eckersall’s All-America team | and also on a mythical All-Western | eleven as the result of his stellar work as a running guard. | Candidates for the G. W. varsity | eleven wil report at the school Septem- | ber 9 or 11, with the freshmen aspirants reporting September 23. PAIRINGS ANNOUNCED | FOR EAST-WEST TENNIS NEW YORK, August 29 (#).—Pair- ings for the opening day of the East- West tennis matches at Forest Hills Saturday announced just brings together | George King, veteran New York r, and Bradshaw Harrison of Cali- pl | naughtca will serve as varsity line coach | fornia’ in the opening match. | The second match places R. Norris | Williams of Philadelphia against Berk- | ley Bell of Texas, while Prank Shields | of New York and Wilbur Coen of Kan- | matches. | The only doubles match of the day | rison and Phil Neer of San Francisco. | LINKOUS TO COACH AT SEVERN SCHOOL Fred Linkous, three-sport star while at the University of Maryland, has ac- cepted a teaching position at Severn School. near Annapolis, in conjunction with which he will assist in coaching foot ball and tutor the lacrosse team. Linkous was a versatile athlete while attending Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1928. He was fullback on the foot ball eleven, playing a fine de- fensive as well as capable attack game, played at cvery position on the basket ball quint. acting as captain of the five during last season, and he starred at in- home on the lacross> twelve, a position in which his prowess was recognized with selection for the all-America team. Snitz Snyder, another Maryland ath- lete, who was all-Southern fullback last season, will play pro foot ball this Fall. He has been signed by the New York Giants. Snyder was slated for a commission in the Marine Corps. but failed in the physical test, one of his eyes being poor. PORTLAND, Oreg., August 29 (#).— Officials of an exhibition swimming meet, here were seeking recognition to- |sas City conclude the day's singles' | day for a mark of 7 minutes 26 seconds made by Agnes Geraghty in the 440-yard breast-stroke event, unofficially better- v basket ball is yet | pairs Willlams and Shields against Har- | ing the world's record for women by 64-5 seconds. VEEDOL WINS! where around 90. On two or three oc- | coming foot ball season to be the most title, The annual Tech-Central game, | successful in the annals of the institu- always a blue-ribbon event, will be | played October 25 and promises to | prove much more interesting than last | year, when the McKinley eleven rolled | up an easy 48-0 victory. Central's | prospects appear much better this year, while Tech has only a few of its last season’s regulars 2t hand. SEPTEMBER 27. Tech vs. Baltimore City College, at | Baltimore. Calvert Hall vs. Eastern, at Eastern. SEPTEMBER 28. Emerson vs. Woodberry at Orange, Va. Forest, OCTOBER 1. Emerson vs. Business. OCTOBER 4. Central vs, Forest Park High, at Baltimore. Baltimore Loyola High vs. Eastern, at Eastern Emerson *». Woodward. OCTOBER 5. Tech vs. £piscopal, at Alexandria, OCTOBER 11. Tech wvs. St. John's. Devitt vs. Eastern, at Eastern. OCTOBER 12. Central vs. Mount Vernon High, at Mount Vernon, N. Y. OCTOBER 15. Emerson vs. George Freshmen, Washington OCTOBER 18, Tech vs. Eastern. OCTOBER 19. Central vs. York High, at York, Pa, OCTOBER 22, Business vs. Western, OCTOBER 23. Bt. John's vs. Eastern, at Eastern. OCTOBER 25, Central vs. Tech. Emerson vs. Episcopal High. OCTOBER 29. Eastern vs. Western. NOVEMBER 1. Business vs. Central. . NOVEMBER 2. Emerson _vs. Massanutten Academy, at Woodstock, Va. NOVEMBER 5. Tech vs. Western. S NOVEMBER 8. Business vs. Eastern. Emerson vs. St. John's, NOVEMBER 132. Oentral vs. Western. NOVEMEER 18. Emerson vs. Eastern, at Eastern. NOVEMBER 15, ‘Tech vs. Business. NOVEMBER 19. Central vs. Eastern. NOVEMBER 23. Gonzaga vs. Eastern, at Eastern. NOVEMBER 27. Devitt vs. Central, at Central. NOVEMBER 28 (THANKSGIVING). s. York High, at York, Pa. s. Wenonah, N. J., Military Academy, at Wenonah. Military | GRID GAMES SOUGHT BY SEAMEN GUNNERS Seamen Gunners, who this year expect to have an unusuaily strong foot ball team, are now scheduling opponents through Coach F. G. Michels at the Deep Diving School at the Navy Yard. Unlike other teams, it has been casions in the last two or three years he has been out in 41 or 42, where in his 36-hole matches he was out in something between 31 and 35. In most of his 36-hole matches he has had the battle about won at the | | ninth green. In his 18-hole matches | | he has often been 1 or 2 down to a | 139 or a 40. If he carries the same mental at- titude into action at Pebble Beach he is quite likely to get hooked, just as Von Elm did at Minikahda and at Braeburn. After all, 18 holes is a round of golf, just &s nine innings is a ball game. Both Jones and Von Elm must | make up their minds to sprint as | well as they take care of the longer Toutes. The amateur golf championship of | the United States demands more qual- | ities than any other championship | played. It calls first for a medal test. After that it demands quick action, the ability to start fast and hold the pace at 2 13-hole maiches. Then comes the final three-day test at 36 hole, where stamina and skill are in demand. The | queer part is that while the Georgia star has played his worst golf in the 18-hole matches, he has never lost one. His one defeat in the last five years | has been over the longer 36-hole route, | and before that he was beaten at 36 | holes, by Bob Gardner in 1916, by Dave Herron in 1919, by Francis Ouimet in 1920, by Willie Hunter in 1921, by Jess | Sweetser in 1922 and by Max Marston in 1923. But the Jones of today is a very different golfer from the younger and more impetuous player of several years ago. | Von Elm’s Chance. EORGE VON ELM will have to key | himself into a different mental at- titude for these shorter marches. Au- gustus almost stopped him at Baltusrol in 1926, where Von Elm had to hole a 20-foot putt near the finish to keep the match_alive. After that he was beaten by Legg and Yates. Once past the 18-hole affair, Von Elm should be a hard man to take over Pebble Beach, where his good driving and his fine iron play to well trapped greens will make | him more {han normally formidable. Yet with such golfers in the field | as Sweetser, Voigt, Willing, Ouimet, | McHugh, Neville, Moe Tollcy, Storey and others, the scrapping will be hard enough all day along the route. Sweetser is not to be overlooked. He is the hardest of al goifers to dis- courage, and if he is near his game he has the rest of it to work with—steel- shod determination and the fear of no opponent. No man will ever beat him on the first tee. He is more likely to play his best golf against Jones or Von | Alexandria High, | complete the card. | MOHAWKS TO START | season_considered. | tion. Practice will begin September 16 |av the Tidal Basin under direction of | Harley P. Sanborn, director of athletics and head foot bail coach. Seasoned players available include Trilling, center and back; Davidson, end; Kilroy, back; Williams, end; Sut- ton 'and_Cabell, backs, and Travers, all former Alexandria High gridmen; Jakie Lewis, former Business High star, back; Forney, erstwhile Tech athlete, tackle, and Kelso, an Eastern High product. Hoffman, May, Walker, Nazzeo and Longest are others Sanborn will watch. The Emerson coach expects other grid- men in the class who will enroll next | month and figures to have a squad of | approximately 30 when drills get under way. Nine games so far have been arranged for the Emerson eleven and four more are to be listed. Dates are to be closed with Gonzaga, Catholic University Freshmen and Fredericksburg High to The schedule as it now stands: September 28—Woodbury Forest at Orange, Va. October 1—Business October 4—Woodward School. October 15-—George Washington Uni- versity Freshmen. October 25-—Episcopal High at Alex- andria. November 2—Massanutten Military Academy at Woodstock, Va. November 8—St. John's, November 13—Eastern at Eastern. November 28 (Thanksgiving day) ‘Wenonah Military Academy at W nonah, N. J. GRID PLANS TONIGHT Mohawk Athletic Club's foot ball team, District sandlot title holder, is making plans for the coming ¢ampaign At a meeting of club directors tonight will be named and other plans for the Candidates for the team will start pracf started, and the eleven will play its rpening game Sunday, October 13, at Clark Griffith Stadium. An attractive ten-game schedtle is planned. All wishing to try for the team are asked to send their names and addresses to Manager Patsy Donovan at the Mo- hawk clubhouse, A smashing 21-0 victory over the Apaches enabled the Hawks to regain Elm than any one -eise. ROS AND = 4 HIS week end and over Labor day early morning anglers will be favored with the proper tide. High tide and the incoming tide will meet anglers in Chesapeake Bay, the Patuxent and Potomac. The cool nights have lowered the tempera- ture of the water a little and conse- quently better fishing may be expected. Fairly good reports have reached this column from the various salt water fishing grounds. At Solomons Island the fish were biting in the Patuxent River and out in the bay, and the ang- ler had his choice. On a recent visit to Solomons, the writer was fishing in the Patuxent River and having very littley luck. When he returned to the wharf he was informed that the fish were biting in great shape in the bay. From the Herring Bay district and off Chesapeake Beach a large number ! of fish have been caught. One angler informed us that he saw large schools ! of taylors or blues breaking water, and that “still fishing” he caught about 10 large ones. Others visiting the bay re- ported the catch of some trout weighing By Perry Miller- the city title ast season. STREAM ki ing trip to some farther point will be glad to learn that Washapreague, V: is again coming to the front with big catches of trout, sea bass, flounders, croakers, king fish and others to be found at this place. A. H. G. Mears in a telegram says: “Excellent fishing last 10 days. Catches as follows: Trout, 40 to 60 per boat, some weighing 7 pounds; sea bass, 40 to 50, weighing from 1 to 3 pounds: flounders very numerous, weighing from 2 to 10 pounds; large croakers, king fish, etc.” Dr. Philip G. Affleck writes in: “Dr. John R. Beeler, H. Stanowsky and my- self spent last Thursday and Friday fishing in Deep Cove and landed 53 fish. The catch consisted of trout, taylors, hardheads and large spot. We fished in 35 feet of water. The fish seemed to bite better at this depth than closer to shore. Some time when you are trolling at Herring Bay come up our R I believe you will make a good cateh.” The angler can almost flip & coin to at the clubhouse at 7:30 o'clock, a coach | Sunday. 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VEEDOL Yirce ‘A & Btk Su8 Sour pounts | select his fishing grounds this week end pointed out, the Seamen Gunners never retain their players more than one year and consequently the work of "the eleven the previous season can never form a basis for figuring future per- formances. The classes at the Navy Yard come here for only six months. This year, however, the Seamen Gun- ners will have the use of a group of players who have had foot ball experi- ence and therefore are optimistic. Candidates for the Friendship grid team, which will play in the 150-pound ranks, are asked to attend a meeting to be held tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock at ‘he home of Capt. Padgett, 819 L street southeast. COLORED HORSE SHOW LISTED AT MANASSAS MANASSAS, Va, August 29.— The annual horse show and racing meet, under auspices of the Manassas Colored Horse Show Association, will be held Labor day and the following day. Entries are expected from Washing- ton among other places. BOXING TO BE FEATURE OF CARNIVAL OPENING Charley Marcellino of this city will meet Jack Ross of Boston in the fea- ture bout of a boxing card that will mark the opening of a carnival for the benefit of the A, B. & W. Bus Co. base ball team tonight on the Arling- ton, Va, diamond. From the lower Potomac River good reports have also reached us about large rock and trout being caught. One angler brought a picture to show the result of his catch at Tall Timbers, located about two and one-half miles 1his side of Piney Point. We, of course, did not see the fish, but from the pic- tures he certainly landed some beautiful rock, the largest weighing eight pounds. Another friend of ours reports that last Sunday he fished at Occoquan Creek and landed four big-mouth bass, and still another angler said he had wonderful sport with the bass in Gun- ston Cove. A good many bass weighing from one and a half to two pounds were caught in the Tidal Basin last week, so it would seem that things piscatorial are‘ picking up both in fresh and salt water. This week end anglers are advised to engage their boats in advance, if pos- sible. There is no doubt that a great many week end parties are being made up, and if they do not have their boats engaged they may be disappointed. And while the bay and rivers seem to be alive with crabs, the supply of peelers is more or less limited. It would be best to secure peelers before you start, or be sure to take along a good supply of bloodworms and some- shrimp. If the trout do not take either of these baits cut up a s‘ggt and put a big piece on your hook. e trout like this kind of bait and spots are very numerous, especially the smaller ones that can be used for bait. 1and be assured of a reasonable catch. i He can go to one of the many fishing grounds in Chesapeake Bay, or can select the Patuxent or the Potomac { River. He can fish either in salt water ;or fresh water. Fish have commenced to bite more briskly than at any time Islnce the start of the fishing season. And we earnestly request that all anglers use discretion in their move- |ments aboard boats, especially those who use row boats. Several fatalities have resulted this Summer through carelessness, A misstep is enough to plunge one overboard. |JUNIOR RIFLE EXPERTS REGISTER HIGH SCORES CAMP PERRY, Ohio, August 29 (#). —Firing under perfect weather condi- tions, entrants in the prone-sitting, small-bore matches of the Junior Rifle dCorps registered excellent scores yester- lay. 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