Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 46

46 SPORTS. MATERIAL MEAGER, LOOKS T0 FUTURE New Coach Is Starting From Scratch to Build Up Foot Ball Team. J and may be wondering if that weren't extravagance. Anyway, it is observed that about 15 of them are in regular use. When Pixlee came to George Wash- ington after a markedly successful career at Westminster College in Mis- souri it was with the understanding that he'd have little to work with at the start. He got it. Even with the help of a Knute Rockne, a Pop Warner or a Lou Little George Washington hardly could pro- duce a winning foot ball team with the material on tap. It is fair to expect Pixlee to do little more than muddle through, salvaging a part here and there to fit into next year's machine. The Colonials’ new head man of ath- letics, allotted three years to do the Moses act, will get his real start in foot ball in 1930, it seems. Chance to Get Going. By that time he will have finished the groundwork of an intramural system, culled perhaps something worth while from this year's freshman crop and stirred the athletic spirit of the student body in general through the newly in- stituted compulsory physical education program He will have had opportunity (o alle- viate the problem of many would-be foot ball players who, working their way through college, find it inconvenient to attend practice. To some of these an adjustment of class hours would be of great hh?ln reat help. s An lss%t of the future will be the physical education department, to be inauguarted this term. This should at- tract youngsters athletically inclined, many of them looking forward to jobs as coaches and naturally keen for ex- perience as performers. The fleld for coaches is ever broadening. From the new department it is not at all fm- probable that Pixlee eventually will re- ceive more gridiron material than usually has come from the entire stu- dent body. A Spiked Rumor. The incoming class next year will bring_several foot ball prospects from the South and Middle West, drawn largely by Pixlee. He was highly re- spected and well thought of personally out there, from all accounts. It is understood that about 15 lads are com- ing on from the Missouri Valley, most of them to study physical education. ‘There was a flurry in scme quarters the other day when it was reported that| Pixlee had “been ocut West rounding| up foot ball players.” The rumor was revealed as hokum It has been learned that the boys are ordinary students, with perhaps two or three likely looking gridironers among them. It has been made quite clear by Pixlee and the higher-ups at George ‘Washington that when the Colonials do have a foot ball team of class it will be above reproach in every respect. In the meantime, Pixlee, with an eye to the future, has gone quietly to work —obviously @ man who knows his task is difficult but is willing and confident. BY R. D. THOMAS. AMES E. PIXLEE, new coach of George Washington's foot ball team, has issued 32 ‘uniforms, EAGLES HUNTING GAME. Anacostia Eagles are after a base ball | game for Sunday with an unlimited | class nine to be played on Congress Heights diamond at 2 o'clock. Call At- | Jantic 3794 between 5 and 7 p.m. | " the exceptions of Page and Error-Repeating Gridmen Sent to “Awkward” Squad CHICAGO, September 20 (#).— The “awkward” squad will receive any of Coach Pat Page's Indiana foot ball candidates who make the same mistake more than once. Page started the system in yester- day’s practice, when & numi of aspirants for the Hoosler wvarsity showed deficiences in fundamentals. He assigned one of his assistants to give special instruction. Handicapped by lack of time, Coach Jimmy Phelan, at Purdue, has ordered floodlights for the Boiler- maker practice field, so that drills may be held at night. Phelan is giving most of his time to seeking out line material from which gradu- ation took a heavy toll. Every coach in the Big Ten, with Phelan, has rounded up a tentative regular team, and scrimmage games with freshmen or reserve teams are on the bill for Saturday in virtually every camp. FOOT BALL BATTLES CARDED TOMORRO East. Clarkson vs. Alfred at Potsdam. Drexel vs. West Chester at Phila- delphia. Duquesne vs. Edinboro at Pittsburgh. Rhode Isl: nd vs. Arnold at Kingston. West Virginia Wesleyan vs. West Virginia at Morgantown. South. Baylor vs. 8. F. Austin at Waco. Clemson vs. Newberry at Clemson. Dan;;ém“ vs. St. Mary at Brown- wood. Davidson vs. Elon at Davidson. Hampden-Sidney vs. V. M. I Blacksburg. Emory-Henry vs. Rutherford at Emory. Furman vs. Erskine at Greenville. Louisiana Tech vs. Monticello at Ruston. Loyola vs. St. Edward at New Orleans. Southern Methodist vs. Denton at Dallas. Wake Forest -s. Catawba at Wake Forest. Midwest. Adrian vs, Detroit Tech at Adrian. Bluffton vs. Ohlo Northern at Bluffton. Gustavus Adolphus vs. St. Paul at St. Peter. - Stout vs. Winona at Menomonie. Superior vs. Hibbing at Superior. Transylvania vs. Cedarville Lexington. at at West. Oregon State vs. Corvallis. Nonhgnkou vs. St. Mary at Grand Forks. Stanford vs. West Coast Army at Palo Alto. ‘Whitman vs. Cheney at Walla Walla. it HEALY, BACKFIELD STAR, IS LOST TO C. U. SQUAD Jerry Healy, clever back, has been lost to Catholic University varsity eleven. University officials yesterday announced that Healy would not be permitted to play because of scholastic difficulties. It was Healy who reeled off a 65- yard dash to carry the Cardinals to their 20-13 victory over Loyola last Fall. CENTRAL SEEKS CLASH WITH WINCHESTER HIGH Following_cancellation of the game between Central and St. John's, scheduled for September 27, the Blue and White now .is negotiating with Winchester, Va., High to fill the date. Capt. George Brandt, Central end, who was cut over the eye in practice yesterday, is expected to bs on the job again in a few days. Willamette at \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929. IFEW GRID CLASHES | LISTED TOMORROW Mountaineers’ Game With West Virginia Wesleyan Heads Contests in East: By the Associated Press, Coleges the col foot ball season in the East will . Bix games, ed by the annual clash at Morgantown between West Virginia and West Virginia Wesleyan, are on the card. Duquesne, coached by the former Notre Dame star, Elmer Layden, nhlg: Edinboro ‘ Normal at Pittsburgh; Drexel, one of the best of the smaller college teams last season, meets West Chester Normal at Phila- dam, N. Y, and Arnold will meet at Kingston, R. I. Most of the other colleges will wait until September 28 to begin their sea- sons. In the meantime much remains to be done in the way of conditioning, training in fundamentals, shifts in the line-ups to gain a maximum of strength in every position, and in all other de- partments of the game. Yesterday’'s New York University workout at Farmingdale, Long Island, saw Herman La Mark, former Corao- polis, Pa., high school youth, take the spotlight from older heads. La Mark, occupying Ken Strong's former post at fullback, crashed through the scrub line for long gains. ‘While Yale's varsity was having something of an off day against the scrubs, four Harvard squads went through the first Crimson scrimmage of the season. At Princeton, Bill Roper sent Jerry Van Schaick, a sophomore, to Bruce Levine's varsity guard post and Paul Carey replaced Trix Bennett at_quarterback. Joe Olexy, an experienced end, was the subject of an interesting experi- ment by Lou Young, coach at Penn- sylvania, Olexy was shifted to center and performed in creditable fashion. AL Penn State, Coach Hugo Bezdek sent Capt. Jack Martin, a guard, to the backfield, where the Lions seem & bit weak. ‘The Columbia varsity trounced the scrubs by four touchdowns in the Blue and White's hardest scrimmage of the year. Ralph Hewitten, sensational sophomore back, scored two of the touchdowns. New line combinations occupled most of Biff Jones' time at Army's regular practice session. JANNEY A. C. GRID SQUAD WILL GATHER ON SUNDAY | rumo Candidates for Janney A. C. foot ball team will hold their first drill Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock, at Wisconsin and Nebraska avenues, and the follow- | ing are asked to report: Pearson, H. Flejcher, Gould, Collins, Burdette, R. Burrows, J. Burrows, C. Burrows, H. Burrows, Cross, Morris, Kerans, Sherwin, Wells, D. Bird, Hagan, Palmer, Davids, Saulsbury, Mackey, Styles, McCray, Kirchmyer, Higgins, D. Donaldson, M. Donaldson, J. Donaldson, Dinkius, McDonald, Waters, Glaser, Chamberlain, J. Bird and Hageage. GUNNERS AFTER GAME. Seamen Gunners School foot ballers are after Saturday or Sunday games with unlimited class elevens to be layed either at home or away. Call eut. Ford at Lincoln 1360, exten- sion 233. 3 ‘Play Glenn Warner May Use Tomorrow 3 BY SOL METZGER. ‘When Stanford opens its foot ball Sedson . tomorrow with the West Coast Army Wi 'd:{cu&udfiz m’"fiu. can his team at thflpl:-r.“’ ing. You see scored twice on Warner's outfit in the opening tilt of last year, im- mediately atter which the Olympic two forward, backs up and slips & forward pass over the line to No. 2. It the play works as planned to- morrow you'll hear the Stanford stands farther than you can see them. Pop has another fine runniny g:ss that West Coast Army ve difficulty in stopping. (Copyright, 1929.) o WILCE’S VISIT TO YALE HEIGHTENS JOB RUMOR MILWAUKEE, Wis, September 20 (#)—The statement by Dr. John W. Wilce, former head foot ball coach at Ohio State University, that he was ing to New Haven, Conn, later t week and would probably see Yale ath- letic heads there, gave impctus to the rs that he might become asso- ciated with the Yale coaching staff. Dr. Wilce refused to deny or confirm that he is to become «onsulting coach at Yale. “I am primarily interested in pl’ladc!ldn medicine at Columbus,” he said. Dr. Wilce resigned at Ohio State last year after having served as head foot ball coach since 1912, His teams won the Western Conference championsLip in 1916, 1917 and 1920, largely through forward passing plays and he is given much of the credit for developing this type of play to the point of popularity that it now occuples in foot ball. Severe criticism by Ohio State alum- ni because of the showings made by the teams after the successful 1921 season was believed instrumental in causing his resignation. — NINE IN DOUBLE BILL. Hartford All-Stars and Washing Black Sox will hook up in a double- header Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Union Park. % ...in bridge it B'DDIN/ ...in a cigarette i OLD BIRDS are not caught with new nets.” ‘What smokers want is not novelty, but guality; not new taste, but good taste. > ‘To millions of smokers, Chesterfield taste is an old story— but it’s one they never tire of! For what they want most is exactly what Chesterfield puts first: - “TASTE above everything ~ hesterfield FINE TURKISH and DOMESTIC tobaccos, not only BLENDED but CROSS-BLENDED COACH DE HART IS HIGHLY PLEASED OVER OUTLOOK Admits Material Is Good and Intelligeni—North Carolina State, on Other Hund, Is Facing Task to Turn Out a Winner. BY H. C. BYRD. UKE UNIVERSITY believes its foot ball sun is shining iis brightest. Not only that, but Head Coach Jimmie De Hart has the same feeling. Reports from Durham have it that De Hart thinks the eleven should be strong and does not hesitate to say so. Duke has a difficult schedule, but to meet it possesses what De Hart claims is the best material in the history of the school. “I am not a believer In dispensing pessimistic reports at the start of a foot ball season or before an important “and there is certainly no reason for us to We have very good material from which an aggressive, intelli- team can be molded. We expect to make a good record and on the fact that we have the best material in the The schedule is hard, but we shall face it with year. gent base that hope history of the school. e the determination to win. Probably the biggest game of the year is the one Duke is to play at Durham with the University of Pittsburgh to dedicate its new stadium. Duke also has constructed a new foot ball plant, and the fact that Pitt is to play there is in- dication that one of the biggest crowds of the year in North Carolina will gather. Pitt always is an attractive team, and playing in North Carolina, where it has never played before, should make it exceptionally so. Looking to Pitt Game. Duke plays its first game with Mercer at Macon, Ga., and will put forth every possible effort to get a gcod result.out of that contest in order to make its con- test at home with Pitt the following Saturday even more attractive. Mercer, though, probably will have a fairly strong team, and may give the Durham eleven more of a battle than it expects. However, Duke will give its real atten- tion to the game with Pitt, and its whole reliminary practice and first week of fhz season is being devoted to build- ing up the strongest offense and defense for that game. Duke got a somewhat later start than most of the Southern elevens, but it had & good Spring practice, and was able to begin its workouts this Fall with a full gnowledge of what it had in the way of material and how to make the best use of it. After meeting Mercer and Pitts- ourgh in its two opening contests Duke lays Navy, Villanova and Boston Col- lege away, and after that confines its efforts to Southern teams, the remain- der of its season being taken up with Louisiana State, North Carolina State, Wake Forest, Davidson and North Caro- lina University. All these games with Southern elevens will be played in the new Duke Stadium except Davidson. N. C. State Big Rival. One of Duke’s main games is with North Carolina State College, and that school is not giving out such optimistic THE PIiON game,” says De Hart, feel downhearted this reports as is Duke. On the contrary, the Raleigh*squad is said to have been so hard hit last season by graduation and other defections that it is not nearly as strong as it was then. One of those in charge of athletics there has this to say concerning the outlook: ‘We were seriously hurt by gradua- tion and other losses and veteran ma- terial will be sorely lacking in both the line and backfield. The freshman crop coming up 1s not especially brilliant and holdovers from last year's squad are for the most part inexperienced under fire. | 4 Pre-season indications seem to point to the fact that the team will bc green. (V! Gus Tebell, our coach, will be able to muster a fairly good starting line-up, barring injuries, but the squad will be lacking in needed reserve strength. Our coaches do not have an easy job this | season, not by any means.” North Carolina State’s biggest game is with University of North Carolina, but this year it aiso expects to lay em- phasis on the one with Duke. And probably the North Carolina struggle will overshadow the one with Duke very little. However, other games cn the schedule are likely to be just as difficuit as these two. It opens with Washing- ton and Lee on October 5 and after taat meets consecutively Clemson, Wake Forest, Michigan State, North Carolin: Davidson, Duke, Villanova, South Caro lina and Mississippi A. und M. The Villanov: delphia and the Mississippi A. and M. at Starkville. With the present outlook for tcams at North Carolina State, Duke and North Carolina University a merry three- nered foot ball war is likely. Th e schools are located almost within a | stone's throw of one another and rivalry between them is intense. Nothing short of death and taxes is more serious to any one of them than defeat by one of the other two. loses to both the others simply is in game is to played at Phila- | d the school that | SPORTS. gloom until 2nother foot ball season gives it an opportunity to redeem itself. Of the three schools, it seems that this year North Carolina and Duke have the best prospects, with North Carolina leading Duke somewhat. It is said of the Tarheels that they have the best material that bas been on a gridiroa in this section In many a day and that they should blossom forth with an ex- ceptional eleven. Duke’s own coach is authority for the statement that the material there is the best in the schooi’s history, and if North Carolina State is not as optimistic as the other two it may come along much better than seems to be indicated by its own ap- praisal. 65 GRIDMEN REPORT AT EPISCOPAL HIGH Sixty-five candidates have turned out for the Episcopal High School foot ball | team, and one of the snappiest elevens that has represented the Maroon and Black in recent years is expected by Coach C. ‘Tompkins and his“assist- ants, “Bick” Caldwell and “Slick” Har- ner. Episcopal has suffered a great loss by the failure of Capt.-elect Wardlaw Witherspoon to return to school, how- ever. Witherspoon played center last year, and was a world of strength in the line. Another captain will be elected by the seven letter men who survived graduation within the next few days. Episcopal will play nine games this Fall as follows: September 28, Alexandria High. ber 4. lev T Aneusta 12, Militar; hool. i er 2. Gilman Country School: 9. piscopal School, at Lynchburg. Vi berry pe: Alexandria _ High School’s substitute center, is sufferin; with a very severe case of charley horse and probably will be out all season, a cording to Coach W. L. Reynolds. Spear sustained the in scrimmage against the varsity yesterdey. - Spear’s injury leaves Alexandria with only one center, Acting Capt. Carlin | Peyton. | “Bud” Fisher, official scorer of the Alexandria City Duck Pin Bowling League, will submit a schedule which he | has designed for the league at a meet- ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Health Center Bowling Alleys. Virginia A. C. gridders will work out tonight at 7:30 at the intersection cf | King and Lee streets. BASE BAL LADIES' DAY American League Park Washington vs. St. Louis Tickets on Sale at Park ll‘ 9:00 AM. | TODAY 3P.M. ALEXANDRIA, Va, September 20.— | G. W. Problems Fail to Discourage Pixlee : Duke Expects Powerful Grid Team 125-POUND GRIDMEN WILL FORM LEAGUE A meeting will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at French's Sport 1 Store to organize a 125-pound class foot ball league. All teams wishing to enter the league should be represented. Apache A. C. gridders will drill to- night at Union Park at 7:30 o'clock. Jerry Carroll and George McCabe, former Georgetown University players, | are expected to be in the squad which is to report to Coach Lytell. A blackboard drill is scheduled for Triendship gridders tonight at the home | of Capt. Padgette, 819 L street south- | cast, at 8:15 o'clock. Aspirants for the Brookland A. C. | 130-pound class eleven are to hold their first serfous drill Sunday afternoon at |2 oclock on the Brookiand field, at | Michigan avenue and Perry street. ‘The following players and all mew candidates are asked to report: Gardner, Brown, Wood, Smith, Gi McNally, Harwood. Holden, the S brothers, Weir, Warren, Libert and ‘Woodruff. Gardner and any new aspirants are asked to call Capt. Johnnie Holden at North 5632-J before Sunday. 200 HORSES IN SHOW. BALTIMORE, September 20.—A check |of delayed entries for the Baltimore | Horse Show at the stadium tomorrow shows more than 200 horses and ponles | registered in the 20 classes that have | been arranged. il TIRES AND TUBES H l ITH Fall here, and Winter just ahead, the most timely rdvice is to look to your tires. Of course, if they are . stones you need not worry, bacause “FIRESTONES” are really BUILT for miles of sati faction, and afford tor of safety for Winter driving. 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