Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1929, Page 35

D. C. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1929 ' 35 p— — ./ - McAuliffe of Catholic U. Faces Most Difficult Task of Capital Grid Mentors SPORTS. SPORTS ot MUST GET TEAM READY FOR BIG GAME AT START Brooklanders, Who Begin Practice Tomorrow, Play Boston College in Opener—30 Report at Maryand—G. U. Takes Camp Today. BY H. C. BYRD. OACH JACK McAULIFFE, whose Catholic University squad gets out tomorrow for its first prac- tice, faces a much more difi- cult task than any of the other Jocal college gridiron coaches, as far as the month of September is concerned at least. McAuliffe must not only develop a strong eleven, but must do so within the next three weeks. The Brookland- ers, in company with Georgetown and Maryland, open their season September 28, but, unlike Georgetown and Mary- land, will face the hardest kind of op- position. Catholic University plays Boston Col- lege and consequently s going to be up against an entirely different proposition from Georgetown and Marvland. Cath- olic University must not only have a good team, but a team good enough to go through just about as hard a game as it is likely to have during the entire year, and furthermore, a game that | means just about as much to it as any | other, especially if a victory could be | achieved. McAuliffe’s squad last season was hit by graduations and he does not get any too much good material from the fresh- man squad, which facts -do not com- bine to make his task any easier. And, as a plain statement of fact, McAuliffe’s job is just about as hard as any coach should have. No doubt, though, the Brookland chief will get as much out of his squad as any man could, and if it 18 in the squad to play good foot ball it will do just that. One foot ball coach who attended the Harvard Sum- mer School for Coaches and listened to lectures by McAuliffe, who was one of the instructors, has a very high opinion of McAuliffe’s ability, expressing it: “You need have no doubt about Mc- Auliffe’s ability as a coach. He knows his stuff and can put it across. I never listened to a man lecture who had any better grasp of the fundamentals and finer points of the game, If Catholic University does not have good teams it ;fll not be because of inferior coach- 8" Capital Leads in Teams. With Maryland on the field yester- day, Georgetown due to take its first workout tkis afternoon at Ocean City, | N. J, and American University to be- gin practice here this afternoon on its own field, it only remains for George ‘Washington and Gallaudet to put uni- forms on their squads to make the local list complete. Incidentally, with six college gridiron squads working out every day and playing regular sched- ules, Washington has a distinction pe- culiarly its own. Many other cities have two or three college foot ball squads about which to grow enthused, but no other has six. Coach Lou Little will take out abcut 45 men today for their first amble around a gridiron. And Lou does not mind letting them knqw that he ex- pects to have a stronger” team than wore Georgetown colors a year ago, although he qualifies that by saying the record at the end of the year may not be so good on account of the stronger oppo- sition. Little has a good backfield to gin with, Scalzi, Bozek, Hudak and Barabas all having had at least one| year of varsity experience. He also has | back Wynkcop at center, Liston and| Mooney at tackles, Cordovamo at guard and Provincial at end. While he lost two so-called regular backs in Duplin and Dwyer, he replaces them with Scalzi and Bozek, both of whom played almost as much as the men lost, so that virtually Little begins his practice with nine men from his 1928 team back. He therefore has some room to feel opti- mistic. Little will not encounter much diffi- culty in his opening game, but in his second may run into all kinds of trou- ble. The Blue and Gray begins its sea- son with Mount St. Mary's and then meets Western Maryland College. Building at American University. American University is saying little about its prospects. Coach Young, tak- ing charge of the squad for the first time, realizes that he must build from the ground up and that he cannot hope for too much. If he succeeds in laying a good foundation for future seasons, he should be fairly well satisfled. Very little material from former elevens is avajlable and the coach probably will depend largely on the incoming class. Maryland had out 30 men for its first practice yesterday. Virtually all the freshmen of last year were present, but several members of the 1928 varsity ap- parently indicated by their absence that they feel it is not necessary for them to put forth their best efforts. The old liners had from the fresh- man squad a fair array, the best of whom are Hayden, Norris, Wilson, Berger and Rooney in the line, and May, Miller, Cronin and Settino in the backfield. At least in the backfield Maryland is likely to be compelled to depend in no small measure on the men who come from the 1928 freshman elevent, The main task will be to find two men ca- pable of filling Kessler's shoes at quar- ter and Snyder's at full, and to find a good running mate for Augie Roberts at one of the halfback positions. Evans, who played quarter, with Kessler, Radice, Roberts and Warcholy, who was used in the same position with Snyder, are the backs on hand with varsity ex- perience. While there is no telling what a foot ball season may bring forth, it now seems that at least four of the local colleges ought to have elevens just about as good as last season’s. This apparently is true of Georgetown and Catholic_University and will be true of George Washington and Maryland, if the latter can find men to fill Kessler's and Snyder’s shoes. NAVY TO BEG:IN GRIDIRON PRACTICE ON THURSDAY ANNAPOLIS, September 3.—Navy will start varsity foot ball practice Thursday, according to an announce- ment made by Comdr. Jones H. Ingram, director of athletics. However, the squad will not get down to serious work until next Monday, originally named as the day for the formal beginning of preliminary work. The decision to start on Thursday came as a result of the decision made by a number of the candidates volun- tarily to shorten their vacation period in order to begin practice. Tody Riggs has asked his St. John's College candidates to report tomorrow. 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The Fighting Irish go farther with it than most of their imitators. But that is due to their mastery of fundamentals. Each man huw-ojob cut out for him. He does 1t,_too. Let us look into one of Rockne's pet :l-ya today, & play with tre- mendous ?ower and quite enough deception in it to fool the smartest of defensive teams. First note the line-up. A balanced line with the ends a yard each from their tackles. Back No. 3 is 31 yards and back No. 4, 4 yards back of the line. ‘The ball is snapped to No. 1 back. No. 1-turns his back to the defense and makes a fake of handing the ball to No. 8. No. 3 fakes hitting the line inside the defensive left tackle. ‘That invariably draws the defensive fullback to him. Nothing is easier in foot ball than to dispose of a defensive player who is after you. So, No. 3 takes out the defensive full after crossing the line. Meantime No. 1, still hiding the ball, takes a step to the side and passes it to No. 4, who tears through the line inside end and then swerves to the left as shown. The reason for this qut-in is apparent when you note that linemen Nos. 5, 6 and 7 have gone through and cut down the opposing backs. M'LARNIN TO FIGHT BAKER. NEW YORK, September 3 (#)— Jimmy McLarnin, Seattle, welterweight contender, will meet Sergt. Sammy Baker of Mitchell Field at the New York Coliseum on October 4. Most of Southern Conference Grid Squads Get Down to Work BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer, TLANTA, Ga., September 3.— ‘The first call 1%\‘ foot ball sounded in Dixie yesterday, with decks cleared for action in a dozen or more Southern nference training camps. cnsome of the lcll‘::oh delayed rehears- als until after the Labor day holiday, but most of the coaches took advantage of the weather to get right down to business. Coach Wallace Wade, whose Alabama Crimson Tide is expected to be an out- standing conference contender, anx- iously awaited & report on how well “Flash” Suther’s broken collarbone has suuurfiml to the d. The first dress rehearsal saw 19 let- ter men doing their stuff at Tuscaloosa and the Wflfi ‘Wade smiled & wise and knowing smile. s he “fiying squadron of V. M. I gathered at Lexington, Va., Coach Bili [P Raftery-found he had a letter man for every position and three extra mono- gram backs, but he refused to pick his squad on the basis of past perform- ances. Alexander Is Pessimistic. After looking over a Georgia Tech squad of such bell ringers as “Father” Lumpkin, demon fullback; Pete Pund, all-American center; Bob Durant, fleld general, and Frank Speer and Raleigh Drennon, line stars, Coach Bill Alexan- der mournfully announced that the Golden Tornado would be outweighed in every game it plays this year. Night rehearsals under large arc lights were ordered for the Tulane Green Wave by Coach Bernie Blerman, who said Banker and company would Jdo very little daylight prepping be- cause of the heat. ‘The grizzled Dan McGugin welcomed a Vanderbilt squad for the twenty-sixth consecutive year at Nashville with the announcement that with mostly raw material to work with, mostly lectures on fundamentals and less rough work will be the order of the day. Coach H. C. (Curly) Byrd found three regulars and seven reserves miss- ing from the 1928 varsity as the Mary- land hopefuls assembled at College Park. Byrd sdld his problems are to find a successor to Snitz Snyder in the back- field and develop reserve material. Sixteen North Carolina letter men and a number of frisky sophomores were scampe about the lot at Chapel Hill, N. C, but unfortunately Coach Chuck Collins’ roving eye !Iflez to light on a badly needed tackie or two. The barrel-chested Josh Cody had more experienced men than he could conveniently count in the squad of 82 which turned out at Clemson and 10 ‘'C” men were in the big assortment of talent which greeted Earl Abell, the coach of the Virginia cav-llei'a. i . Tennessee Has Veterans. spite the pre-season groans of Maj. Bob Neyland, practically the same lqulfl which carried Tennessee through the 1928 season undefeated, showed up at back, was |Enoxville, Nineteen letter men included Hackman and McEver, the twin terrors of last year. ‘The foot ball field at Auburn looked like a mobilization camp during the war with 100 gandidates of every size and description out hustling to }mt Auburn back in the Southern Con- erence. If there is strength in num- b?::lycol:h George Bohler is sitting At North Carolina State more than a dozen regulars failed to answer when the roll was called, so Coach Gus Tebell called it a second time just to be sure and then called his sophomores to the other end of the field. The lean and astute Billy Laval wore 8 poker face as he watched his South Carolina Gamecocks go through their paces at Columbia without Beall, Wolfe and other 1928 headliriers. He may not have 50 much material, but he will have the usual bag of tricks, LA BARBA MAKES START FOR EUROPEAN BATTLES LOS ANGELES, September 3 (#)— Fidel La Barba, former world flyweight boxing champion, today was on his way to New York on the first lap of a trip to Europe, where he is scheduled to fill several boxing engagements. La Barba said if any good offers for bouts were forthcoming in the East he would remain in New York, otherwise he will sall Saturday on the Homeric. His wife and his manager, George Blake, accompanied him. B A lack of interest displayed by stu- dents of the University of Pennsylvania in the sport has caused tne abolishment of gymnastics as a competitive sport. NIGHT FOOT BALL 1S GAINING FAVOR Drake Will Play Five Games by Lights—Many Others Also Book Them. ' BY LAWRENCE PERRY. RAKE UNIVERSITY at Des Moines will play five games at night this . As showing how the trend toward tite noc- turnal game is it ht be said that i addition to Drake, Okl A. and M., , Wash- ton_University at St. , University of Cincinnati, Occidental, Los Anegles, Detrolt University, Haskel, Oklahoma City University, 3 Nebraska, University of North Dakota fo and Loyola at New Orleans, in addi- | 6—4, tion to several Midwestern high schools, :umk play more than one game after 7] Justifications for the change are many, but it all comes down in the final analy- sis 1 the desire to draw more specta- tors to the games. The fact that so many institutions are to play under the electric light gl"vmwrs indicates that gate receipts have shown an in- crease at night games. Whether this is because of novelly, or is due, as claimed, to the fact that many who love foot ball and are obliged to work on Saturday afternoons eagerly avail themselves of the opportunity to go to the games, the writer does not know. 1t is said that & foot ball field properly {lluminated gives the effect of a huge stage, and a virtue of the departure is sald to lie in the fact that just as a theater audience has its eyes drawn instinctively to the lighted stage while it sits In darkness, so a foot ball crowd’s attention is never distracted from the gridiron Lighting such a field as the Drake Stadium is accomplished in this way: A string of 50-foot light poles are set 20 feet from the side lines on- either side of the gridiron. Ten huge projectors are placed on each side, ew: one guxlrwd with two 1,000-watt. ps. 40,000 watts of electricity pla; over the fleld from these 20 it pro- Jectors. Any filt& is prevented by the scientific crossing of the light rays, whose scientific blending _ prevents shadows. Players profess to notice no difference between night and day foot ball so far as vision is concerned, while the South, the cooler tures S s CONSIDINE IS BEATEN IN JERSEY NET FINAL BEACH HAVEN, N. J., September 3.— Bob Considine, Wasbingion net ace, was FERGUSON’S PIGEON WINS 100-MILE RACE Dynamic, from the loft of W. E. Per- guson, won the first race of the young bird series held under the auspices of the Aero Racing Pigeon Club from Charlottesville, Va., a distancz of 100 miles airline. The winner was timed tain of4at 10:48 a.m. and beat a flock of 200 downed , capt the Swarthmore University tennis team, in the title match of the 'h Haven, N..J., tennis tournamtent yesterday in four sets, 6—8, 6—0, 6—0, 6—4. In the opener Considine rallied when the champion had a 5—2 lead to take the set, but failed to score in the next 12 1"1‘:““, After a re';'. Considine staged anpther come-back to go into the lead at 4—2 in the fourth set. Hammill ulled out the set by smashing through for four nulfiht at this point. Bob Col e _and Dolly Mitchell, erroneously reported to have lost to Ed Byrne and Bill Seidel of Washing- ton in an early round, won the doubles title by walloping Hammill and Hugh McDiamard in three hard-fought sets, , 6—4, 8—6. The Considine- Mitchell team, playing together for the first time, co-ordinated perfectly, TWO TEAMS “PICKED” IN POLO TITLE PLAY By the Associated Press. WESTBURY, N. Y., September 3.— The first two matches in the national open polo championship have served only to confirm pretournament fore- casts, which established Tommy Hitch- cock’s Sands Point four and Winston Guest's Greentree quartet as outstand- ing favorites for the title. Sands Point opened the champion- ship competition with & triumph over the Eastcotts on Saturday, and Green- tree swamped Old Aiken, national Jjunior title holders, 19—10, in a first- round match on International Field yesterday. The other two contestants in the titular tournament — the Anglo-Ameri- can Hurricanes and Harold E. ‘Talbott's Roslyn four—will clash tomorrow, with the Hurricanes favored to win. Greentree played an excellent all- around game to down the youngster Old Aiken combination yesterday. Guest, Elmer J. Boeseke of California, and John Hay (Jock) Whitney, each scored five goals, while Eric Pedley, another Californian, contented himself with four while feeding the ball to his team- young birds, representing 21 fanciers. An entry from the Whitmore-Hayes loft came in second and an entry from the Goddard loft was a close third. The lberation was made at 8 a.m. in good weather. ‘The owners of the first five birds in the race will receive merit diplomas from the national organization, American Racing Pigeon Union. ‘The resu!‘ Lhtea the me.p&lvh( & sum- mary of average s in yards per minute of the first return to each loft, follows: W. E. Ferguson, 1036; Whitmore- Hayes loft, 1,031; J. E. Goddard, 1,031; F. L. Reinhardt, 1,029; Boswell Broth- omas, 1026;, W. R. 3 1,019; W. V. Holmes, 1,018; H. Elms, 1,018; G. J. Paduda, 1,017; C. H. Darr, 1015; J. A. Flaherty, 1,011; W. F. Reagan, 1,008; G. J. Gateau, 1,002; D. C. Hartley, 985; M. J. Fitzgerald, 979; J. R. Dougherty, 978; F. H. Riley, g;g E. J. Krahling, 971; G. O. Brown, local MEYER WINS AUTO RACE AND U. S. CHAMPIONSHIP ALTOONA, Pa., September 3 (F)— Lou Meyer, 34-year-old ace of the speedways, yesterday drove to his sec- ond consecutive national A. A. A. rac- ing champions} the 200- mile Labor day event here. 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