Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1929, Page 31

SPORTS. - Roper Sees Big Grid Year in East : Tilden Pl GAP IN TIGER BACKFIELD LEFT BY LOSS OF MILES Harvard’s Prospects Above Average—Many Other : Teams Have Plenty of Seasoned Material. Booth Looms as Star at Yale. BY W. W. ROPER, . Princeton Foot Ball Coach. Any number of teams start with plenty of seasoned material. I am sorry to say graduation made pretty large gaps at PROSPECTS for a big year in foot ball in the East are bright. Princeton. Howe, captain and center; Stinson, Lawler, Mor- rison and Benedict, ends; Norman Miles and Requardt, backs, have all gone. Our problem is to get a cen and a.new backfleld. % In the backfield, I am glad to say, another year, and Trix Bennett, wh back. Bennett probably will be tr ter to fill Howe's shoes, some ends Eddie Wittmer comes back for 0 alternated with Requardt, also is ied at quarter. It looks as if the hardest place in the backfield to fill would be the fullback position. Miles, veteran of three years, T have no idea who will play the ends, will be definitely decided until well into October. is very difficult to replace. and I doubt if these places We have always been able to develop fairly good ends at Princeton. I think our sys- tem of play is sound, so I do not expect as much difficulty with center and fullback positions. It looks as if the guards and tackles would be fairly well taken care of. Here we have: Capt. Whyte, Barfield, Bill Moore, Mes- tres and Hockenberry, all veterans. Graduation also hit Yale pretty hard, particularly in the backfield. Most of the veteran backs have gone—Garvey, Hoban, Decker and Loud. I was im- pressed last season with the playing of Booth, captain and quarter of the Yale freshmen. He has poise, and is a fine broken-field runner, He should be heard from. Eddy, last year’s captain, will be missed. I liked the play of Firpo Green, captain of this year's team, at guard last season, very much indeed. He was one of the best line- men in the East last Fall, and should be & tower of strength .this year. Walsh Successful. Adam Walsh, captain of the famous 1924 Notre Dame team, has charge of the line at New Haven this year. Walsh has been coaching at St. Mary’s College in California since his graduation, and had remarkable success. As & player he stood out as one of the best centers in the game, I know he will do well at Yale. Harvard has lost Capt. French and Guarnaccia, very good backs. This pair did more with the lateral pass than any other backs in the East. Harvard still has a wealth of backfield material, including Puturem, Wetmore, Gilligan and Harper. The freshman team at Cambridge was particularly strong last Fall. So, all and all, prospects for a good eleven are ahove average at Har- vard. The Army has Cagle back. 6 This means a strong backfield. Prospects for the Navy are bright. Bill ingram is back as head coach. He and his brother, Comdr. Ingram, director of athletics, are a hard pair to beat. They ::l" lots of enthusiasm and know foot I look for Brown to have a powerful team. “Tuss” McLaughry is an excep- tional coach. Last Fall he developed a lot of material. Brown had three com- plete teams, one almost as good as the other. The line material is above aver- age. Edwards and Fogarty, backs from last year, will be heard from. Dartmouth loses Jess Hawley, but Jack Carmell knows Hawley's system thor- oughly and should do well. The line is| almost intact, and Marsters is a great running back. I understand he will be | shifted to quarter. New York U. Hard Hit. N. Y. U. faces a heavy schedule. The losses by graduation were heavy. Capt. Alfred Lassman, who played a great game at tackle, and Ken Strong, all- American triple threat back, are partic- ularly hard to replace. But Meehan is a fine coach, and I have no doubt he will develop another strong team. Carnegie Tech will miss Howard ‘Harpster and other fine backs, including Moorehead and Stauffer. Penn is badly | hit in the backfield by the graduation of Scull and Shober. Bert Be]l, who has had charge of the Quaker backfleld a number of years, did not return to coach this Fall. His place is taken by Al Kreuz. Prospects at Columbia are better than last year. Syracuse has a good outlook. Dr. Sutherland should have another strong® team at Pittsburgh. Dimeslo, captain and guard, is particularly good. Pitt is eager to wipe out the Carnegie ‘Tech defeat of last year, ° i From all accounts prospects at Cor- mell are none too bright, but Dobie is never overenthusiastic. Penn State is on the up grade. Lou Little should have another strong team at George- town. ‘Temple, whose rapid rise in foot ball has been remarkable, started practice at Atlantic City September. 4. Heine Miller has much good material. ‘The ‘Temple-Villanova game should be worth going a long way to see. Lafayette doesn't look .as strong as usu Lehigh has better prospects than last year. Charley Caldwell should de- velop ‘another good team at Williams. From all accounts Amherst will be un- I hear Grosskloss is a fine back. I hear Swarthmore will have a strong line. . Suavely starts his second .season at Bucknell with good prospects. So, all in all, it should be a big year for foot ball in the East, with plenty of surprises before the season is. many ‘weeks old. (Copyright, 19 by North American News- Alliance.) Georgia, with a hard grid schedule; looks to the sophomore: Royal Tire Stores 624 Penna:. Ave. S.E. 123¢ 14th St. N.W. 2250 Sherman: Ave, 3238 Gold Belt Is Awarded To Tommy Loughran WILKES-BARRE, September 16 (#)—Tommy Loughran, retired light- heavyweight champion, training at Harvey's Lake, near here, for his bout. with Jack Sharkey,. has received a gold belt, offered by Ring, a maga- zine, annually to the boxer voted the most butstanding and reflecting the most credit on- the sport. The belt last year was awarded to Gene Tunney, whose crowa Loughran hopes to n, In pre- senting the belt, Nat Fleischer, editor_of the publication, announcd that Loughran had received 23 of the 24 votes from the jury, headed by Mayor Walker of New York and including newspaper writers and offi- cials in all parts of the country. ‘The vote for Tunney last year was 21 out of 24. THE ' _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C. MONDAY,. SEPTEMBER 16, 1929. Non-Overlap Grip For Short Fingers BY SOL METZGER. - ‘To complete his non-overlap finger grip Tolley places his.right hand in the same position on the leathe: he ':ld hlzhlefl‘.\n ‘That ?u. 't.he ;h’!‘) res| on e h‘x:'h ] 2 gers of his right e makes no attempt to over- lap, because of his short fingers, he is careful to push the little finger of his right hand against the first finger of the left. Then, as he closes on the club with his right hand the hams of his right completely cover the left thumb and hide it from view. ‘This right thumb passes a bit over the shaft and exerts its pressure on the left side, same as does the left thumb on the right side. This pres- sure of the right-hand hams against the left thumb gives a feeling of snugness to Tolley and enables him to make the two hands work as one. The difference between this grip and the overlap is that in the latter the little finger of the right fits over the joint of the first-finger of the left hand. Tolley likes it better than the overlap, as he claims it gives him a 5“““ feeling of security and free- iom. Cure that hook or slice. Straighten out your drive by writing Sol Metz- ger, care of this paper, for free leafiet on “Driving.” Inclose stamped, ad- dressed envelope. (Copyright, 1929.) Goldie Crist and Esther Jolley Seek Girls’ Junior Doubles Title OLDIE CRIST and Esther Jol- ley will battle for the District of Columbia girls' junior dou- bles net crown tomorrow, fac- ing the winners of the Butler- Fishburn . vs. Adkins-Burnham match scheduled today at Edgemoor Club. The Crist-Jolley team earned place in the title round yesterday, when they downed Helen Philpitt and Peggy Keyser, 11—, 8—6, on Mrs. Fred Keplinger's court. Thrills a-plenty were crowded into those two sets. The losers held set point in each brace at one time, and the ulti- mate winners gained the same edge at least six times before claiming the vic- tory. Three straight games went to Helen Philpitt and her 12-year-old partner in the opening set. Misses Crist and Jolley took the next three with equal decisive- ness. Then began a marathon which saw Philpitt and Keyser on top at 5—4, set point, and leading once more at 6—>5, and again at 7—®6, only to have their advantage wiped out on each ac- casion by skillful placements from the rackets opposite .the net, most of the shots coming from the forecourt,. where both .Miss Crist and Miss Jolley got in some neat work. Finally capturing this set, the winners found themselves facing even tougher resistance in the second. The Keyser- Philpitt pair rolled up a 4—2 lead be- fore the winners got set for the final spurt which was to give them the vic- tory. Even then it was tight pulling. Trailing at 5—4, Keyser and Philpitt climbed up even once more and forced games ‘{0 deuce twice and points to deuce innumerable times before yield- ing. ‘ Through it all the youngster from Mount Pleasant, who was making her first appearance on any competitive court this year, kept her head and ' The CLINTON is always good- looking . . . . a fortable shoe for the more “ particular dresser. The . conservative rounded played consistently. Few, if any, dou- bles faults fell from her racket, and having decided upon a lobbing attack to rout the net-playing enemy, she lobbed with a vengeance. A change in the singles schedule brings both semi- final matches to the Keplinger court late this afternoon. Goldie Crist is facing Loveye Adkins in the first tilt, and, following this, Helen Philpitt is carded to battle with Esthem Jolley. ‘Title play in the singles will precede the doubles tomorrow, probably at Edge- moor Club. TRY-ME ACES AGAIN WILL TRY FOR TITLE Try-Me Aces and Miller - Furniture "Co. nines will clash next Sunday and if the former wins it will gain the sec- ond-round title in the senior section of the Capital City Base Ball League and the right to meet Montrose, first-half standard bearer, for the league-crown. Should - the furniture company team triumph, however, a four-way tie for the lead in the second-half race will be created among the Aces, Miller, Mont- rose and Hartford nines. Aces had the second-half title in their | - grasp yesterday. After taking the measure of Brookland Boys' Club, 12 to 4, and gaining the lead over Miller Furniture Co. in their second game of the afternoon, Aces were held to a dead- lock by the Miller team, which scored | three runs-in the seventh to even the count at 7 all, which was the final score. ik Pl Sl Detroit's grid losses were heavy, but Lloyd Brazil is still there. smart, com- ance. Fits 10 — To be had in choi leathers, tan or black. NEBRASKA MENTOR STRONG FOR FROSH Intramural League Will Be Grid School—Varsity Faces Hard Year. BY J. H. ANDERSON. Associated Press Spoits Writer. INCOLN, Neb., September 16— Nebraska freshman gridironers— the boys who will uphold Corn- husker foot ball prestige in the next four years—will mnot be slighted in a program_outlined by the new head coach, Dana X. Bible. There will be a regular freshman squad, and in addition an intramural league for the others. As a player in the league shows ability he will be transferred to. the regular yearling squad; if & squad member needs more experience or falls to play up to stand- ard, he will be “farmed out” to the league. Two games are down for the freshmen this year under a new Big Six ruling. Missouri will be played at Lincoln and Oklahoma at Norman. But while the " freshman coaching staff is drilling husker foot ball into the high school stars, Bible and his assist- ants have a more vital task. They must mold a Cornhusker team to defend the Big Six title and maintain Nebraska's ;]::cellcnt record in intersectional con- ots. The first three games on the schedule bring the Cornhuskers against three strong teams from other sections— Southern . Methodist, Syracuse and Pitt. Then the Big Six schedule begins with | Doeg Missouri, Husker nemesis for the three seasons preceding 1928, and continues straight through against Kansas, Okla- homa, Kansas Aggies and Iowa State, with only one open date. Nebraska this year hasn't “Blue’ Howell, All-Conference fullback whom many critics thought deserved All- America rating. It will miss the en- tire center of the line—Ted James, center, and Elmer Holm and Dan Mc- Mullen, guards. Three tackles, another guard, a reserve center, an end and a quarterback of last year's team slso were lost by graduation or ineligibility. Capt. George Farley and the triple threat back, Clair Sloan, head an im- posing group of ball luggers, which also includes Willard (Dutch) Witte, Clark (Bud) McBride, Harold Frahm, Claude Rowley, Robert Young and Harold Peaker. Morris Fisher, Adolph Lewan- dowski and Clifford Morgan are avail- able as ends and Marion Broadstone and Raymond Richards loom as the most likely looking tackles. But neitner the closest followers of Nebraska foot ball nor the coaches want to hazard a guess as to who will be at center and guards for the 1929 Scarlet and Cream machine. Coach Bible, an exponent of the open game, does not plan to do away with the favorite Cornhusker plays of the past seasons—plays which pounded at the opposing line until it was shattered wide open. He will use both styles and a team from the State he left to direct Nebraska foot ball—Southern Methodist at Dallas, Tex—will be the first to test out the results of his teaching. TWO REDS’ OUTFIELDERS T0 PLAY PRO FOOT BALL CINCINNATI, September 16 (#).— Evar Swanson and Pid Purdy, two Cin- cinnati National League outfielders, have signed to play professional foot ball this Fall with the Ohio National Guard squad, a local organization. Both outfielders practiced with the professional eleven yesterday. Swanson is an end and Purdy is making a bid for TODAY BASE BALL %)~ AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Detroit TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 toe gives ample room and sfill retains the custom appear- the ankle snugly. e “Man’s Shop” 14th at G Tth & K . ' 3212 14th BIG BILL HAD THE CROWN WHEN HE GOT PAST DOEG Might Have Been Different Story in Final Tilt if California Lad’s Service Had Held Out. Decks Cleared for Pro Tournament. BY VINCENT RICHARDS, Professional Tennis Champlon of the World 'HE final round match of the national singles championship of the United States on the turf courts of the West Side Tennis Club between William T. Tilden and Frank Hunter will go down in tennis history as the most uninteresting singles final in the game. There are many reasons why this match was lacking in the usual dramatic situations that attend the final round of a national cham- pionship tournament. Perhaps the most important reason of all is that the outcome was never in doubt. Even the tennis fans without intimate knowledge of the game could see that Tilden was playing with Hunter, in much the same fashion that a cat plays with a mouse, and that when the mood struck him he would turn loose those stinging forehand drives to gain his seventh national singles championship. Hunter fought with bulldog de- termination throughout the entire five sets, but he never was within striking distance of the title at any time during the match. It is my opinion that had Tilden really wanted to take the match in three straight sets he could easily have done so. However, it must be remembered that “Big Bill* did not have a very easy path to the final round. He was forced to four sets by Frank Shields and John Van Ryn, and his match with Johnny in the semi-finals must have sap- ped a good deal of his reserve strengti. That is probably the reason the final round went to five sets before the final issue was settled. Three Years Beyond Prime. “Tilden is 36 years of age and has been in tournament competition for the last 20 years. According to the usual standards of the game, he is three years beyond his prime. It is a at tribute to his fighting heart that he was able to turn back the threat of youth last week and regain his crown. I make that statement in all sin- cerity, because I really believe that nothing but a fighting heart won the title last week. Naturally Tilden backed it up with all the little tricks that only he can call upon at crucial moments in maich play. But on the whole nis game lacked the sting it had a few years back. In his match with Shields and Van Ryn he was indeed fortunate to settie the outcome in four sets, because had he been pressed to do five sets against those two boys his semi-final round en- counter with Doeg would have been almost an even bet. As it was, had not the California boy’s service cracked wide open in those last two sets, final round of the champion- ship might have been an entirely dif- ferent story. Also had the entry list contained the names of Henri Cochet and Rene LaCoste I believe that Til- den would have needed more than a fighting heart to win the championship. But Lacoste is lost to tournament com- petition because of liness and Cochet, SPORT ayed Cat and Mouse With Hunter; S. along with some other Prench players, is about to start on a world tour. ‘The absence of the French players made the entry list of the National Championship about the same as in any of the local chmplonshlrs. It was simply a question of whether or not “Big Bill” could stand up physically in four or five hard matches and this he fionchulvely proved he was still able to o. Whatever worry the tall Philadel- phian had in the tournament came in the early rounds against the younger players, for I am quite sure that in his own mind he knew that he had cap- tured his seventh national title, when he conquered Doeg in the semi-finals. Pro. Tourrey J: Next. ‘With the amateur tournament tennis history, the deck is being cleared for the National Professional Champion- ship that starts a week from today on the Stadium Courts, The tournament is being run under the auspices of the United States Lawn Tennis Association and the professional body and marks the second annual professional cham- pionship held in this country. With such famous stars on the entry | list as Karel Kozeluh, recognized as the European professional champion; Howard Kinsey, former Davis Cup star; Harvey Snodgrass, former first 10 player; Walter Weslbrook, California star; Charles Wood, well known local pro; George Agutter, dean of the pro- fessionals in this country, and a host | of other well known professionals, I| fully believe that the standard of play will be as fine as has been seen on the stadium courts this year. Kozeluh seems to be playing better tennis than he did here last year, which is saying a good deal for the great Czechoslovakian player. During the | last year he has coached the English and American Davis Cup teams prior to the championship matches in Eu- rope, and it is said that the competi- tion against the various members of each team has improved his game at least 15 per cent. Watching him in practice matches since his arrival in this country, I have seen a marked improvement in his net | piay. He has always been essentially a base-line player, much on the same order as Rene Lacoste. But during the last year he saw the need of a good punching volley, and he went to | work to develop one. That he lcquir!di it in less than a year is an indication of the natural aptitude Kozeluh has for the game. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) What is the style? The “Bostonians” Style Conference attended by 30style experts—atwhich the Seven Smartest Styles for Fall and Winter were selected. PRESENTING A new and authoritative Style Service in Footwear for Men YOUNGSTERS STAR FACNG NET AP Show Enough Class to Give “0ld Man” Gloomy Outlook for Next Season. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 16.—Big Bill Tilden, at 36, has won his, seventh national singles tennis crown, but only after the hard-_ est fight of his career. = A glance over the tall Philadelphian’s,,, six matches in the championship would , .. indicate that several of the youngsters ... whom Tilden defeated shouid gain:az enough in experience to be able to turn the tables on the old master should he. . elect to try for the title again next year. Except for his final round rival, [, Frank Hunter. 35 years old, Tilden's op- " nents were drawn strictly from among the “younger set” of American tennis. « .- Against_Hunter, John Doeg of Santa.,v. Monica, Calif.; John Van Ryn of East; Orange, N J.: Henry Culley of Har-. vard, Frank Shields of New York and?, Donald Strachan of Philadelphia, Til-, ".* den won 18 sets and lost six; won 150 gemes and lost 102. e Two of his opvonents, Hunter and Doeg, carried Big Bill to five sets.”"* Against Van Ryn and Shields Tilden was . forced to play four sets. 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