Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 71

BOTH MEET STRONG FOES IN HOME-COMING CLASHES 01d Liners Entertain Virginia on November 2 and | Hoyas Meet West Virginia Two Weeks Later—Other Attractive Frays. BY H. C. BYRD., HE two biggest foot ball gam games toward which al are Virginia and Marylan and Georgetown, November Geol schedules, and, inasmuch as both rally will be high tractive not erable rivalry has been developed Beth local elevens are to ginia and West against which they will pit their full strength before their bi Virginia, of course, is the better crowds. eneral foll ints of the season. only Fo‘: excellent play, but mainly because a consid- es to be Ylayed here this year, the owers of the sport look, on November 2 and West Virginia 16. These are regarded by both etown and Maryland as the most important of their home will be homecoming games, natu- Both games should be at- between the contestants. lay strong teams in addition to Vir- Virginia, but it will be Virginia and West Virginia home nown school locally, the pulation of the District of Columbia having in it a good deal of irginia blood, but as far as foot ball is concerned, West Virginia is ain to bring here an eleven fully as Record-breaking crowds probably will attend both contests. It is not only a good foot ball game that people like to watch, but they delight in those side issues which are a part of every game between great rivals. As a general thing, the Army-Navy game is seldom as good from a straight technical foot ball viewpoint as many other games, but its sidelights make it. ‘The Army and Navy with third-rate teams might play in an Arizona desert, yet everybody would want to go. It is just that glamor that makes games such as those between Virginia and Maryland and Georgetown and West Virginia more attractive than any others they play. Georgetown has a game in New York on November 2 with New York Univer- sity, which should be even harder fought than the West Virginia game, but it will not have the same glamor and the same spirit for alumni, stu- dents and faculty, nor will the same reparation be made for it. The New ork University game simply will not have the same attractiveness for the average person that will the one to be played with West Virginia. The same thing holds good for Mary- land’s battle with Virginia. North Car- olina comes here October 5 for & game with Maryland, and anybody who knows something of North Carolina’s pros- ects for this Fall knows that Mary- and on October 5 should be againsi a more difficult proposition than when it faces Virginia November 2. However, the North Carolina game, despite the fact that it may show better foot ball, is not going to be the same kind of a game that the one with Virginia is. It is peculiar, this difference in foot ball games, and sometimes this diffcr- ence is hard to define; but the differ- ence exists, just the same. It is just this difference that will make the Maryland - Virginia and Georgetown-West Virginia games stand ;ut this Fall above all others scheduled ere. In speaking of foot ball games in which local people will be interested might be mentioned the Navy-Notre Dame game in Baltimore, October 12. Navy, of course, has many followers here and many others more or less in- terested in its gridiron accomplish- ments. Notre Dame is interesting where- ever foot ball is known, and when two elevens of general interest come -to- gether in a territory unaccustomed to seeing one of them, there is only one result. Navy is banking a lot this year on that Notre Dame game. It believes it has material for a team to give Rockne’s men a real battle, and when Navy believes that it always is eager and anxious to meet the test. Two other games are to be played close by here this Fall that a great many local people will journey to watch. A foot ball exodus is likely to take place when Georgetown goes to Annapolis to meet Navy. The number of persons who leave here for Annapolis that day will be limited only by the number of seats that can be procured. No such sowd as that will go to Baltimore | Thanksgiving day to watch Maryland play Hopkins, but it is a fact that the demand for tickets from Washington people for the Maryland-Hopkins tilt has grown tremendously in the last few years. Incidentally, the total size of the erowds that watch the Maryland- Hopkins games in Baltimore are about the largest of the whole section, with the exception of the contests in which Navy has met Michigan and Notre Dame. After several days of practice with his Catholic University squad, Coach Jack McAuliffe seems to be acquiring Some optimism over the outlook for his schedule. McAuliffe said yesterday that he believes he will have a good team, a much better team than last year and a much better team than he himself expected. And, one thing about McAuliffe, he | states things just as he sees them, and makes little effort to camaflouge his opinions. 1f he thinks he should have a good team he will say so frankly, and he is just as frank when it comes to making it known when he does not expect his eleven to be strong. Very little has come direct from Coach Lou Little of Georgetown since he began practice at Ocean City, N. J. Little stated before he left that he ex- pected to develop a stronger eleven than represented Georgetown last sea- son, although he might not win as many games. From reports it seems that Barrabas may be having trouble with a knee which has been injured before, and an injury to a back on whom Little depends so much might affect the team considerably, unless there is a more plentiful supply of re- serve material than has been indicated. George Washington is to get its squad under way this week under more or less disadvantageous conditions. It has no training quarters near a field and no fleld of its own. That kind of a situ- ation is hardly encouraging to any coach or squad and it is exceedingly diffi- cult to build up athletics unless there | is something of a material nature around which to center interest. George Washington is the only local school that is in this position. Georgetown plays its games at Clark Griffith’s ball park, but it has a gymnasium with adjacent for practice. Catholic Uni- versity, Gallaudet, American University | and Maryland have the same ad- vantages. Coach Pixlee is accepting the situ- ation, though, with a calm philosophy that seems to be a part of his nature. He says that no matter how poor the team may turn out it cannot make any worse record than the one of last Yeargthe 1928 eleven ha every game it played. Pixlee, however, looks to the future with confidence, even though he does realize he may have gkl%culzy building up a situation to his 8. St. John's College of Annapolis b- ably will have a much stronger emzn after the middle of the season than in the first half. It started practice last week, with 23 members of its 1928 squad on the ineligible list, and among them are several of its stellar per- formers. The college authorities have not allowed these men to. return for pre-season practice, and it is -;!u that vhey cannot ly get rid their scholastic difficulties in less than four to six weeks. Nothing wi'l prevent these men working out with the remainder good | dressing rooms and an excellent field strong. Maryland has spent a week in prac- tice without doing much to solve its very real backfield problem. The Old Liners u‘rpurenuy have enough material on hand for a line that should give a good account of itself, but, unless some- body shows unexpected ability, the backfleld may not measure up. For the last three years Maryland has had Kessler, a fine forward passer and fast in running with the ball, and Snyder, & brilliant line breaker, who could also go in an open fleld once he broke through. To replace such players is far from easy. They were the backbone of Mary- land's attack last year and for two years before that, and Maryland's measure of success this year depends largely on the extent to which it can develop men to fill these needs. Certainly no other school in the section, with the excep- tion of Virginia Military Institute, faces as difficult a schedule as the Old Liners with such a scarcity of experienced ball carriers, With the exception of the George- town-West Virginia and Maryland-Vir- | ginia games, it is likely that the George Washington-Catholic University game Thanksgiving day will be the best of the local schedule. The Brooklanders and Colonials have been playing on Turkey day for several years and a good deal of rivalry has been developed. If both have good elevens, their game should be exceptionally attractive, especially as it is the only one here that day; and b2 it known that Thanksgiving day here is one of the best dates of the foot ball season. Not much has been heard from Mount St. Mary’s, Washington College and Boston College, the schools with which Georgetown, Maryland and Cath- olic University open their seascns. Usually Georgetown and Maryland can get away with their opening contests without much difficulty, but once in a while the teams they meet come out with what for them are exceptional combinations. It will be remembered that two or three years ago Mount St. Mary's came down here and gave Georgetown the scare of its life. So badly was George- town scared that it still has the jumps whenever Mount St. Mary's is men- tioned. The Blue and Gray barely won that game and in the closing part of the contest was fighting desperately to stave off defeat. Washington College three or four years ago came over with a strong outfit and Maryland had its hands tull. Catholic University has something of & different proposition. While it knows very little of what Boston College will ‘have, it knows that it is in a veal game and that it must fight for everything it . The Brooklanders probably face their hardest game right at the beginning of the yea JUBILEE IS PLANNED BY OLD DOMINIONS ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 7.— Old Dominion Boat Club decided to stage a golden jubilee celebration on July 15, 1930, and a committee will be mamed by President Harry F. Kennedy to arrange a program. A_committee composed of Magnus 'W. Bales, Robert G. Whitton and Rus- sell P. Nicholson was named to con- sider the advisability of adopting & new uniform for the crews. Another com- mittee was appointed to arrange for ob- taining additional docking facilities. Jack Howard, chairman of the ath- letic committee, announced that the ©Old Dominion Bowling League will get under way this month and that a meet- ing will be held on September 12 to prepare plans for the duckpin season. He also said that basket ball candidates will be called out next month. Judg: William 8. Snow of this city and John S. Donnellan of Washington were elected to membership. California Pass Nets Long Gain BY SOL METZGER. ‘When Georgia Tech and California met in their memorable battle at Pasadena last New Yea! game which gave Tech the national grid- iron title, this forward pass of the Golden Bears all but upset the result. It gave the Tech trouble all after- noon and probably turned a few auburn_hairs gray in the locks of Coach Bill Alexander. “Nibs” Price, California coach, is a wise foot ball mentor. He changes his passes for each game, altering a detail here and there to make them best fit the next occasion. This one s treated for the edification of ‘ech. ‘When the ball was snapped to, back No. 4, back No. 1 and the Cali- fornia left end boxed the Tech right tackle, They did a gréat job of it, too. That permit guard, GRIDIRON GENEM SCHOOL GRIDDERS GETTING 0 WORK Several Squads Are Out and Others to Take Field in Short Time. the District area will get down to earnest preparation for the season this week, though it will not be until around the middle of the month that the squads of all the schools will be at work. Central, Eastern and Tech gridmen started training last week and this week will enter upon serious work. The Blue and White is establishing at its training camp at St. Jehn's College, Annapolis; Eastern is drilling in its own stadium and the McKinley squad is being put through its paces @&t the University of Maryland, :Park. Business and Western will not in preparation until school opens. Devitt and Gonzaga foot ballers are (at work. St. John's will start this week and Emerson September 16. Lan- don School, the newest private school here, also soon will have its squad busy. Though it is too early to get a very definite line on the rrobnble strength of teams, it seems likely that the Wash- ington area will be represented by sev- eral elevens of more than average ability as scholastic foot ball combina- tions go. Eastern, because of its generous sup- ply of seasoned material, looms now as the best bet.in the public high group and as the likely choice to win the public high title. Tech, which won the crown last Fall, is woefully shy of experienced -material, while Central is Just about as bad Off in"this respect. ‘To form an idea as to how the prep school teams will fare is somewhat more difficult this year than is ordi- narily the case, as three of the schools, Emerson, Gonzaga and St. John's, will have new coaches, and another, the Landon School, will be represented on the gridiron for the first time. Nat- urally Harley Sanborn, Orrel Mitchell and Paulie Byrne, the new mentors at Emerson, Gonzaga and St. John's, re- spectively, will be at somewhat of a handicap at least for the first part of the campaign or until they get used to their surroundings. Gordon Kessler, ‘who will tutor the Landon School team, will be coaching for the first time and his friends will be watching with in- terest the work of the former Univer- sity of Maryland athlete. As the Lan- don School is & new institution and naturally will not have such a big en- rollment Kessler is not expected to do a whole lot, however. ‘Though Orrel Mitchell will have to develop a 1u-rurh|ck at Gonzaga to take the place of Charley McVean, crack triple threater, and a couple of other 1928 regulars are missing, he has a group of seasoned players on hand and is likely to turn out a quite credit- able team. Mitchell, incidentally, has had little coaching experience. Devitt has lost some valuable play- ers, but also has some highly capable material and probably will have a first- rate eleven. Jim McNamara again will tutor the Devitt eleven. How Paulie Byrne will fare at St. John's is hard to predict. The Cade seldom have a great deal of material and the chances are that Byrne have to hustle to put an eleven on the field much better than the creditable teams which usually represent 8t. John's. Sanborn has been at Emerson before 80 the post will not be so new to him. He has had much coaching ce and with more seasoned maf 1 than usual is hopeful of turning out the best eleven in Emerson’s history. {71 GRID GAMES LISTED FOR MARYLAND FIELDS BALTIMORE, Md., September 7.— Foot ball teams, representing colleges located in Maryland will play 71 games this season. .The games be played in Baltimore!' College Park, and Westminster. old engagements, such as Maryiand and ‘Hopkins, 8t. John's and Hopkins, Mary- land and Yale, besides the usual meet~ bers :SCHOOLBOY foot ball warriors of bet em- u'&m Maryland and other m STAGG’S ONLY VETERAN BACK RULED INELIGIBLE CHICAGO, Septem! (#P).—Coach Amos Alonzo W-m ‘of rebuild- ing his University of Chicago foot team have reulva & body blow. -~ Hugh Me, the sole remain. ing W has been de- Mendenhall, one of DEPENDABLES PREPPING URPHY- Quarterback | Joe CHAMPA- | Packfield - P b NAVY’S GRID SQUADS IN LONG WORKOUTS 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 7.— Both the varsity and plebe foot ball squads engaged in long practices at the Naval Academy this afternoon. At first the heat was severe, but a cooling breeze sprung up and improved condi- tions, and the practice was prolonged. ‘The varsity squad engaged largely in individual work, though the period closed with a snappy formation drill. during which Dave Bauer, Spring, bled this season. good chance for the guard position | the arrivals today. ‘The squad is approaching its full strength, the only -absentees Bowstrom, _tackl e, end, and Gannon, halfback. These players live at a distance, and did & lot of work during the Summer, so that they will be in fine shape when they report Monday. The plebes, who got the jump on the varsity by starting practice two weeks in advance, engaged in a lively scrim- mage. ‘There is every indication that there will be one of the strongest plebe teams the Academy has ever had. Dave Welchel, quarterback of last season’s varsity, joined the staff of the plebe coaches this afternoon. GRID WORK TO BEGIN AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 7.— Alexandria High School foot ball candi- dates will stage their first drill Mon- day in preparation for the impending season. W. L. Reynolds, new athletic director, will send his porteges through light workouts throughout the week. Alexandria High's first game is but two weeks distant, the locals being listed to play Newport News High at Newport News, Va., on ber 21. The game is the second between the two schools, who have entered into a five-year agree- ment. Newport News captured the first game. Following the Newport News contest will | Alexandria will encounter Episcopal High School on Hoxton Field, Septem- ber 28. Capt. Sidney Hancock, fullback, heads returning veterans of last year's p , other regulars available are Carlin Pey- ton, center; Jimmy Luckett, end, and Dave Henderson, guard. Seven are lost by _graduation. “Hugh Travers, substitute halfback last Fall, is regarded as the brightest tutes. Others as being of varsity timber are Parke Bell, halfback; Elmore Mudd and Jake Sperling, guards; Gorman Ridgely and James Garvey, ends; Malcolm Carr, tackle; “Ducky” Spear and “Whitey” Horne, centers, ‘With the exception of Rector Green, halfback, and Garland Sisk, tackle, all graduated will be SCOREBOARDS REPLACE PROGRAMS AT MINNESOTA University of Minnesota will t’thll!illl.nt.lun‘ntu’fiv{r.;’! informed Kohlhas and Clifton formed’ the first | varsity backfield that has been assem- | Moret, a regular end of last season, | and Johnson, a big fellow who has a | vacated by Eddie Burke, were among | being | among the holdover substi- | o § brere AT BROOKLAND FOR COMING SEASON “Tom MECABE- Center: CarT JAack, /‘/\F:}L_EVICH - o 0N ullback_ Yankee Stadium Is Chosen For Army-Notre Dame Fray NEW YORK, September 7 (#)— For the fifth successive year the Army and Notre Dame will play their annual foot ball game at the Yankee Stadium. ‘The date, November 30, and place, New York, had been agreed upon, but not until today was the an- nouncement made that the contest would be staged at the home of the ‘Yankees. DUKE HAS NEW TRAINER. DURHAM, N. C. September 7.— Along with a new stadium, new stars and new uniforms, Duke University has a new trainer for its athletic teams in the person of Lenox D. Baker, for the teams at the University of Tennessee. I'HE few IN SMOKING Catehy Like a new song on the radld, the Burns Panatela comes to a tired tobacco taste. - Its long, graceful shape pleases—it: mild, ingratiating flavor of clear Havana filler wins you. Thousands who never before smoked cigars are smoking the genteel Burns Panatela. The New Idea in BY WILLIAM H. WRANEK, Jr. HARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Sep- tember 7.—These eight mem- bers of the Southern Confer- ence in the South Atlantic States—Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina—are going to mix it up among themselves very generally during the foot ball season that is just ahead. Each team does not play all the others. ble with a schedule of 9 or 10 games. But each will manage to cross the trail of ‘the others frequently enough to en- able the interested observer to form a clear-cut opinion by the end of the Fall as to just which one is the best. In addition, every one of them will reach beyond mere local boundaries to exchange cross-bucks with eigh more of the somewhat distant members of the large S. C. family. Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Ken- tucky, South Carolina and Tennessee will all be played, several of them by more than -one team. South Carolina, indeed, is something of a general favor- ite with this group, and been scheduled by four of them. Seven Teams Not Listed. But there are seven of the confer- ence teams that none of them will play this Fall—Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi | A. and M, Old Miss, Sewanee, Tulane and Vanderbilt. That's not too good for either end of the conference, but it is one of the difficulties that goes with| far-flung boundaries. These South Atlantic schools as a whole seem to have a great deal in common, certainly more than in some of the other geographical groupings within the South. This was clearly| shown by the second successful season | of the Tri-State Base Ball League of | conference met TS. North Carolimk manages to find room on a 10-game card for eight confer- ence rivals, six within the home terri- tory, so to speak, and the two Georgia members in addition. Virginia, V. M. I. and Washington and Lee will play six; Maryland, North Carolina State ‘That would be almost impossi- |y, S. A. Group Conference Teams ‘To Do Much Mixing This Fall sive Saturdays. The only home Con- ference game of the Generals is with the Cavallers. They will also meet {:‘iec. su"lt}:“lgl ‘rvl.d .'1. and-will close year wi orida, on Thanksgiving, in_Jacksonville, ! N .m * Virginfa Tech's only Conference con- test at home is with W. and L. The Gobblers have also scheduled Carolina in Chapel Hill, Virginia in Charlottes- ville, Maryland in Norfolk and V. M. I. Roanoke for Thanksgiving. Maryland will be at home to her two State university rivals, Carolina in October and Virginia in November. The Gamecocks from South Carolina also come to College Park on October 13. Curly Byrd will take his men to Rich- mond to meet V. M. I. and to Norfolk to play V. P. I. N. C. State opens October at home against W. and L. Otherwise the Wolfpack- will lean toward Conference teams in the Carolinas, for Clemson will be played the week after the game with the Generals and during November North Carolina, Duke and South Caro- lina are to be met. Two of Duke's three Southern Con- ference games are with North Carolina and N. C. State. The other is with Louisiana State University on Novem- ber 9. All these contests will be played in the new stadium in Durham, which will be dedicated bv the University of Pittsburgh on October 5. NAVY ATHLETIC HEADS SELECTED FOR YEAR Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 7.— The selection of officers who will serve as representatives of the Navy Athletic Association in connection with the daif- ferent sports at the Naval Academy has been completed and was an- nounced today. These officers, most of whom were and V. P. I meet five; Duke, with a schedule made out before joining the | conference, will play only three. | The Tarheels, after a non-Confer- | ence opener, get going against Maryland | in Coliege Park on October 5. Georgia | Tech will be played in Atlanta one | | week end, and the Georgia Bulldogs, | | recovering from the excitement of en- | | tertaining * Yale, on_ the next. | | follows, Virginia Tech and N. C. State | at home,” South Carolina in Columbta, | | virginia at home and Duke in Durham | | for;a- closing December game. | Virginia starts her Conference card | against - South Carolina in Columbia | on the first October Saturday. V. M. L | |and V. P. I both come to Lambeth | i!xeld and_ the Cavaliers go away to | play Maryland in College Park, Wash- | | ington and Lee in Lexington and to| lend the season in Chapel Hill on| Thanksgiving _afternoon. | | “'Swapping the long standing Georgia | Tech game for Florida, the V. M. I Cadets will go down to Jacksonville on October 5. Bill Rafferty's boys will also play Clemson and Kentucky | well as Virginia, Maryland and V. P. | * Washington and Lee will have | and Tennessee in Roanoke on succes- participants in the particular sport while midshipmen, perform in a large measurs the duties generally performed by graduate managers at other col- es. The list of representatives for the different sports follows: Base ball, Lieut. Comdr. E. B. Dixon: basket ball, Lieut. Comdr, Laurence : bowling Prof. Paul A. Lajoye: George C. Calna Jonas H. Ingram; gol Pollard, Medical Comdr. Bolivar V. Mead: ing, Lieut. James P. Cl C: Roland W. Schumann; socoer, Prof. Willlam E. Parrell: swimming and water polo, Comdr. Pranklin P, Conger tennis, Lieut. Comdr. Norman Scott. track, Comdr. Willlam 8. Farber wrestling, Lieut. Comdr. Horace D. Clarke. PROCTOR MEETING MATOSEA. Joe Proctor, Washington heavyweight boxer. will meet Bill Matoska of Balti- more tomorrow night in the Monu- mental City in a six-round semi-windup last four years trainer of =all athletic | tough time with Kentucky in Lexington to the Louis (Kid) Kaplan-Henrl De ‘Wancker bat Robt. Burrem [N STATION WMAL , . , The Burns ‘Passtefs Cowstry Club invites ypu te its dsgce next Mo ‘. ' -