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SP ORTS.’ NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. c., UNUSUAL NUMBER OF BIG GAMES ON Pennsylvania Is Underdog in Intersectional Fray With California—Yale Being Watched as to Double-wing Back Decision. By the Associated Press. N could hear by radio. Pennsylvania was the underd Golden Bear upon Franklin Field. The Army deployed wily Cadet Cagle and others against mighty John Harvard at the Harvard Stadium. Enthusiasts at New Haven wondered whether Yale would discard the double-wing back offense affec and the Brown Bear hoped to find Despite Princeton’s defeat by Brown last week, Bill Roper marched | confidently into Ithaca, bent upon forces commanded by dour Gil Dobie, Cornell coach. In New York Dartmouth unleashed Al Marsters at the flanks of Columbia, but Columbia had Wabbles Hewitt to spin into the big Green line. Among the newer foot ball powers, New York University entertained Hugo Bezdek's Penn State forces at the Yan- kee Stadium. Holy Cross comes to play Fordham at the Polo Grounds. Bucknell moved upon Easton, Pa., with high hopes of avenging a 0-0 tie of 1928, and Washington and Jefferson in- vaded Pittsburgh bent upon stopping a Carnegie Tech eleven which triumphed by 19 to 0 last year. Dozens of other games were big mag- nets. Penn Holds Spotlight. PHILADELPHIA, October 19 (#).— ‘The foot ball spotlight was focused on Franklin Fleld today, battle ground for the intersectional game between Uni- versity of California and University of Pennsylvania. Heralded as one of the wonder teams of the West, the Golden Bears, led by Capt. Roy Reigels, ruled 2-to-1 savorites over their opponents, despite the fact that Penn has pointed for this game. ‘The intersectional struggie packs a punch for fandom and long before game time today a capacity crowd of ap- proximately 70,000 was assured. Both_coaches, “Nibs” Price of the 14- karat Bears and Lou Young of the Quakers, have announced that they ‘were prepared “to shost the works” in today's battle. The Bears have twice beaten Pennsylvania in post-season games on the Western Coast, but this is the Californians’ first trip here. Much was expected of Benny Lom, left halfback, California’s own galloping ghost, possessed of speed, snaky hits and foot ball brains. He is a constant triple- threat player who either runs, passes or kicks as the occasion demands. Eisan, Barr, Griffiths, Rice and Hickingboth- am are other Californians who can pound out yardage or step along on passing plays, but Lom Las carried the ball on nearly half the California plays this year. Pennsylvania 1s not lacking in speed merchants, especially in the backfield, where Masters, Gentle, Wilner and Carlsten will be counted upon to carry the ball for the Red and Blue. Harvard Is Confident. ‘BOSTON, October 19 (#).—Despite the presence of two substitutes in the starting line-up, one of them playing his first varsity game, Harvard's foot ball followers were confident of a vic- tory over Army today in the second game of their current series. Jim Douglas, left end, and Wallace , fullback, were on the injured list. Army is headed by the brilliant Keener Cagle and a strong supporting cast in the backfield, but the Cadet jine has shown several weak spots and the whole team is not considered equal to last year’s great aggregation. Badgers Seek Revenge. CHICAGO, October 19 (#).—Yearn- ing to avenge last year's 22-to-6 beat- ing by Wisconsin, Notre Dame today faced in the Badgers at Soldier Field the third obstacle in their drive for national championship honors. ‘The contest was Notre Dame’s first “home” game of the season and nearly 100,000 persons had tickets for the con- test. Coach Knute Rockne, disabled by a bloodclot on his leg, was to be examined by specialists before the game, to de- termine if he would be able to super- vise the work of his team. If the doc- tors decided his appearance on the field inadvisable, Tom Lieb, who success- fully directed the team against Navy mmk, again was to carry Rockne's 87,000 to See Game. ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 19 (). ~Ohlo State University and University of Michigan foot ball teams will meet in the Michigan stadium this afternoon |t before 87,000 spectators, 22,000 of whom DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. Bring on the Upsets. 8 the foot ball season swings the attitude of the various Gildobean, which is to say everything. A first showing of Notre Dame for thi: had much reason for optimism. In place of the “Four Horsemen” of colorful memory he has turned loose five or six horsemen, or perhaps it would be better to call them whippet tanks. Perhaps the most startling occur- rence in the nature of an upset last Saturday was the defeat of New York University by Fordham. 1t was the first real shrinkage of Violet prestige for some little time, and the result of the inquest is not yet completed. It never is completed in the case of one of these foot nall upsets, It seems that at the same time Princeton _was more or less upset by Brown. On the same day Yale went to Athens to pay a courtesy call on the University of Georgla and the Yale team was upset. On the day before Georgia Tech was upset by the Uni- versity of North Carolina. It would seem that this advance foot ball dope is quite as unreliable as the stories from the Spring train- ing camps of the base ball tcams or as the accounts which come from the training camps of the prizefight- ers. They do not work quite as well in practice as they do in theory. ‘There is one game on the schedule today which should give scme line on EW YORK, October 19.—The greatest October Saturday that foot ball ever knew had storm signals in the air for major elevens all along the Atlantic seaboard. Some.half a million persons were afforded visible entertainment, countless others There were a number of those-upsets last Satur- day, and the chances are very good that there will be more upsets today—if anybody can figure out just what an upset really is. | Of all the coaches only Mr. Knute Rockne turned optimist before the season opened and announced that he had a very good team. The TODAY’S LIST og in the charge of California’s ted by Yale in its first few games, a disorganized opponent. surrounding and decimating the have journeyed here from Ohio for the game, which will be the twenty-sixth | {neeunx of the two schools on the grid- | ron, | Ohio has won only four of the pre-| vious 25 encounters, but is a slight| favorite to repeat last year's triumph today. Michigan was overwhelmed, 30 to 16, by Purdue last week, while the | Buckeyes were nosing out Iowa by 7 to 6. Last week's disaster and numerous injuries have resulted in drastic changes in the Wolverine line-up. Coach Sam Willaman of Ohio State has announced he will start the same team that defeat- ed Iowa. Tllinois Visits Towa. IOWA CITY, Iowa, October 19 (#).— Illinois' Big Ten champions invaded Towa’s brand-new $600,000 stadium to- day for their first assignment in pursuit of & third consecutive title. Although they have encountered no really trying competition this season, the Illini were favored to win, and at the same time spoil the stadium dedi- cation celebration for Towa alumni and supporters. Coach Bob Zuppke brought a big, experienced squad to lowa City to shoot against Burt Ingwerson's al- ready once-beaten team. Ingwerson, & pupil of Zuppke, was not certain of having his best line-up avail- able for his attempt to upset his tutor. Capt. Willis Glassgow, Towa’s backfield ace, was not fully recovered from in- juries sustained in an early-season game, and his appearance in the Hawk- eye backfield was problematical. Gophers Aim to Get Even. EVANSTON, IlL, October 19 (#).— Another step toward the Western Con- ference foot ball title was the prize dangled before the bone-crushing herd from Minnesota and Northwestern's wildcats in their battle at Dyche Stadium today. Outside of grabbing & scalp in the title war the Gophers also had a little matter of a 1-point defeat suffered at the hands of Northwestern ‘last year to square up. The defeat, a 10-to-9 decision, was as stunning as it was sur- prising and Minnesota was out to hum- ble Northwestern for the special bene- fit of 6,000 rooters who followed them to Chicago. Although overshadowed as a spec- tacle by the Notre Dame-Wisconsin game at Soldier the contest ranked as the most important on the Big Ten schedule and a crowd of 45,000 was anticipated. Lighter Pitt Favored. LINCOLN, Nebr., October 19 (P).— A slight drizzle early today promised a wet gridiron for the University of Pittsburgh-Nebraska__game, W s crowd of between 33,000 and 35,000 persons to se it, rain or shine. Nebraska had a slight weight ad- vantage, but Pittsburgh was picked by the master minds to win, on the basis of its season’s showing. The Pitt squad bivouacked at Omaha last night and was not expected here until just before game time. Yale Is Determined. NEW HAVEN, Conn, October 19 (®)—Foot ball rivals since 1880, Yale and Brown meet in the Yale Bowl today for their thirty-fifth clash. Yale is determined to show that its defeat at the hands of Georgia last Sat- urday was just one of those things that happen to the best of teams, while Brown will attempt to demonstrate that its victory over Princeton was some- thing more than a stroke of luck. ‘The Elis have won 29 of their games with Brown and have lost but three. ‘Two games resulted in tles, Ithacans. ITHACA, N. Y., October 19 (#).—The nineteenth century on the foot ball field of Cornell and Princeton today found the Ithacans slight favorites to win de- spite the fact that they've succeeded in : lmn; the Tigers’ tail only thrice since McGEEHAN. to the third Saturday in October, coaches becomes more and more that they are very gloomy about s season indicated that Mr. Rockne has developed. They are expressing some trepidation at Cambridge, and at West Point chey appear to feel the same way. Dartmouth comes down from the New Hampshire hills to meet Columbia at Baker Fleld. Some experts rate the better than Columbia, but Columbia does not agree with this estimate. Princeton moves up to Ithaca, where Gil Doble and his men await them with an ominous foreboding. In New York, Fordham meets Holy Cross in a private war. The chastened New York Univer- sity team awaits the game with Penn State in New York. If half of these few games run true to advance form, then the experts who are picking them should be declared dead at the point wherz they recovered their predictions, CHAREST DINNER LIST intersectional strength. The team of the University of California journcys east to meet Pennsylvania at Phila- delphia. Yast year when two Pacific Coast teams rattled ,East on the Pull- they must have left all their foot on_the railroad ties. But the Oregon Aggles beat the Uni- wversity of New York, showing no signe of train weariness, and Stanford cer- tainly beat the Army team in a very thorough fashicn. There, might have been a disposition to call those games upsets, but when tcoms are upset 1o the extent. that ‘e Army was Stanford it looks as though there ought to be a better word. Army goes to Harvard today, and have & . Hol will Thahes 10 sec.Just. Bw 185 Bis 168 WILL CLOSE MONDAY Big Green team as several touchdowns | ELMER P. (HAP) HARDELL. pionship Series ECH’'S foot hall team glories vanquished Eastern, 14 to 2, 1 his life, Elmer Hardell, coach. the bag. to appear sluggish. The favorites enemy ball carriers so efficiently. invariably at the point of contact. This by a team nearly every member of which was making his début in champlonship competi- tion. Therein lay the glory of Hardell. He lost almost an entire team by graduation, but made an- other one so quickly and so well that the noble efforts of the boys themselves are almost lost sight of as the town focuses on the chap whose wizardry made their suc- cess possible. Inasmuch as Eastern was an out- standing favorite, Tech must be re- garded now as a favorite to keep the title. The Manual Trainers next Friday will_meet_one of their principal rivals in Central. 2 One of the many qualities of Hardell's new team is alertness. ‘This helped mightily in the scoring of its first points sgainst Eastern. The battle was four minutes old when Sid Kolker, right tackle, blocked a punt by Charley Mil- lar, scooped it up and ankled 40 yards for a touchdown, first clearing & small roup of the enemy. ErHardell teams ever have been skilled in the forward pass and it was thought the Manual Trainers would use this weapon extensively yesterday, but they employed less than half & dozen passes. Two of them were instrumental in scoring & touchdown. Near the end of the third period, Quarterback Aubrey Spencer tossed one to Capt. Willis Benner which gained 15 yards and put the ball on Easterns 10-yard line. With the reseumption of action in the fourth quarter the play wes duplicated, this time for a 9-yard gain by air and one stride by Benner for the touchdown, Benner kicked both exira points. The ball was in Eastern territory three-fourths of the game. The Lincoln Parkers scored their two points by means of an automatic safety, which was allowed when Nelson of Tech stepped out of bounds behind the end zone in the first period. This occurred after Eastern had punted over the goal ine. ‘While Eastern and Tech were having it out another hot contest was in progress among schoolboys that won't soon be forgotten. In this Devitt School defeated Washington and Lee High at Ballston, 12 to 0, and the battle was so warm that even the spectators caught the fighting fever. Some of the home_team supporters wanted to scrap with Devitt players. County police saw to it that warfare was confined to the gridiron. Business High went over to Annapolis and scored a hard-earned victory over the St. John's junlor varsity, 6 to 0. The Stenogs made & touchdown in the final quarter fhen Reichstardt took a long pass from Duryee and ran 35 yards across the goal. ‘The St. John’s Preps of Washington made one touchdown in each period to defeat Gordon Kessler's new Landon eleven, 26 to 6. Fullback Morris count- ton | eq twice for the winners, Monday morning, according to John i Ladd, chairman of the committee. So great has been the demand for seats for the affair, to be given at Co- lumbia Country Club Tuesday night, that the committee has found it neces. sary to set this time limit on the reser- vations, it was stated last night. No reservations will be accepted after the first ma¥ Mond-y.' Curley Casassa of Washington, the regular quarterback of St. John's of Annapolis, is done for a spell. Curley's shoulder was broken in the Gallaudet game last Saturday, an X-ray reveals. BETHESDA BOWLERS MEET. A meeting of the Bethesda Business Men's League will be held at the Boulevard Bowling Alleys, Wisconsin TECH KIDS’ GLORY HIDDEN AS FANS FOCUS ON COACH Hardell’s Genius Stands Out When Green Eleven Outclasses Seasoned Eastern Team in Cham- Opener, 14-2. today in the outstanding victory of many years in the high school championship series, having , but the largest branch of laurel goes to a little fellow who never played a game of foot ball in When Tech and Eastern lined up in Central Stadium for the series opener before 8,000 people, who expected to see the downfall of a champion—Tech won the title last year—the question in most minds was how big the score would be in Eastern’s favor. Ten minutes after the opening whistle folk who know their foot ball were convinced that Tech, or rather Hardell, had the game in Eastern_obviously was outclassed. Before the unexpectedly strong charge of a green Tech line the Lincoln Parkers were made were outrushed, outgeneraled and outkicked, but perhaps the strongest part of Tech's game was its tackling. Not in recent years has a high school team laid low its A tackled Easterner stayed put California Pass Penn Must Stop BY SOL METZGER. Coach “Nibs” Price will be on his toes today, now that his California team meets Penn in Philadelphia. “Nibs” wants to prove two things. First, he desires to show the Red and Blue that his eleven can make it three straight, California having twice beaten Penn in the West. Sec- ond, it wouldn't make ‘‘Nibs” mad if his team showed up in the East as well or even better than did “Pop” Warner's Stanford aggrega- tion against West Point in New York at the close of the 1928 sea- son. Price knows his foot ball. He has some fine pass plays and a great kicking game. One of the former that Penn will have to be on edge for is the pass shown here. No. 3 gets the ball from center and is pro- tected from charging linemen by backs Nos. 2 and 7 criss-crossing to block. The ends go down past the defensive backs. Back No. 1 slips down a bit on the outside and either he or end No. 5 takes the pass from No. 3. (Copyright, 1929.) TORONTO AND DETROIT START HOCKEY SEASON ‘The International Hockey League son will open at Toronto and Detroit on November 15, it was revealed with pub- lication of the schedule, ‘Windsor, league champions, will play at Toronto and Niagara Falls will meet Detroit. On November 16 Cleveland will open its season at London, Ontario, and Buffalo will journey to Hamilton. Windsor's _first home date will November 17, when Detroit is the at- traction. Cleveland o] at_home averue and Leland street, Monday at attend must mail thef than a “Doubles League. joining the league are pens against London on November 18. Ni- wlr- Falls' home opening will come on lovember 19 and alo’s on Novem- WINDSOR, Ontario, October 19 ().— | * be | el ST. JOHN'S ADOPTS FRESHMEN RULING First-Year Men Will Be Off Varsity Team Starting With 1930 Season. ANNAPOLIS, October 19.—The adop- tion of the freshman rule at St. John's College, which will bar members of the first-year class from participation in varsity athletics, has been announced and will go into effect July 1, 1930. ‘The athletic authorities at St. John's have been considering such a move for some time, but the announcement following & meeting of the athletic (‘;gléncfl was a surprise to the student ly. ‘This change was brought about by the use of the rule by colleges appear- ing on St. John's schedule. The present list of opponents and the plans for future schedules show many colleges that require that no freshmen shall be allowed to play in varsity games. ‘The first change in the eligibility rules at St. John’s was made last year, when it was voted to bar the use of transfer students for a period of one year. Although St. John’s does not contem- plate immediately entering any foot ball conference, the Tules under which the Johnnies will play beginning next Sep- tember are practically the same as those rules laid down by the major corps. ‘Today Riggs, foot ball and basket ball coach, thinks that the adoption of the new rule is a step forward for St. John's. He said: “It seems to me that it is just & mat- ter of one or two more years before prac- tically all colleges will be forced to adopt these rules or be left out in the cold when it comes to arranging satis- factory schedules.” This year the Johnnies will have played against three teams that have the freshman rule. The Crabtown col- lege was not allowed to use first-year men in the Willlam and Mary tilt, and can not play them in the games with Virginia and Washington and Lee. Such a change will probably mean that St. John's will have freshman teams in the future. FINE FRESHMAN SQUAD AT ST. MARY’S COLLEGE By the Associated Press. Regardless of the showing the 1929 St. Mary's College foot ball varsity, an imposing lot of freshman candidates promise “heavy gridiron business” as first stringers next year. Twenty of the fifty-nine yearlings are 6 feet tall or better and a team could be picked averaging 196 pounds. Twen- ty-three of them were team captains in high school. ‘Transylvania, 33; Union (Ky.), 6. Maryland Freshmen, 12; W. and L. Freshmen, 7. V. P. I Freshmen, 20; Roanoke Freshmen, 7. Millsaps, 7; Mississippi College, 0. Bowling Green, 23; Findlay, 0. Emporia, 6; Washburn, 0. Bethany, 13; Baker, 0. Guilford, 7; Atlantic Christian, 0. Henderson Teachers’, 26, Arkansas Tech, 7. McPherson, 21; Ottaws, 0. Brigham Young, 7; Utah Aggies, 6. Phillips, Oklahoma Baptist of Shawnee, 3. Milton, 0. Elmhurst, Carthage, 12; Parsons, 0. Chadron Teachers’, 14; Mount St. Charles, 6. Alabamg Freshmen, 28; Birmingham- Southern ¥reshmen, 6. Kansas Wesleyan, 0; St. Mary's (Kan- sas), 0. 3c')kl-xwmn A. and M, 32; Creighton, Alfred, 21; Juniata, 0. Marquette, 14; Iowa State, 6. Simpson, 21; Cornell, 12. Penn, 17; Upper Iowa, 7. Indiana Central, 25; Evansville, 7 (night game). Mississippi, 26; Loyola, 24. New Mexico A. and M. 0; Monte- zuma, 0. M.l;yvllle, 7; Middle Tennessee Teach- % U, of California, at Los Angeles, 31; California_Institute of Technology, 0 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1999. SPORTS. TWOTILTS ON TAP FOR CAPITAL FANS 'Hoyas Play- West Virginia Wesleyan and Terrapins Meet Gallaudet. O town entertaining West Vir- ginia Wesleyan at Griffith Stadium and Maryland playing host at College Park to Gallaudet. George Washington plays Dickinson at Carlisle, Pa, American University meets Baltimore University in Balti- more and Catholic University tackles Villanova in Philadelphia. Both local games start at 2:30 o'clock. Georgetown was expected to defeat ‘Wesleyan, which it vanquished last year by 34 to 7, but the Hoyas are taking the game seriously. The Bobcats have lost three games, but in each their performance was creditable. They have hopes of taking Georgetown's measure. The Hilltoppers are minus three reg- ulars, with Ken Provincial and Bob Brennan, and John Hudak, fullback, out with injuries. Maryland anticipated a struggle ‘with Gallaudet and the Terrapins were keyed up for today. The Kendall Greeners have their strongest team in years. George Washington figures to take a licking from Dickinson, but American University's well coached eleven would surprise nobody by beating Balti- more U, Villanova, one of last year's unbeaten and untled teams, expected to find Catholic University plenty tough. NLY two of Washington's five college foot ball teams are playing at home today, George- BOYS’ CLUB QUINTETS PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN With plans laid for the inauguration of their court schedule on December 16, the Boys' Club Basket Ball League quintets are lining up rapidly at the C street gymnasium. Five teams already have turned out for early practice, cluding the Aztecs, Spengler Post, American Legion; Tivoli, Whirlwinds and De Luxe. A number of new squads are being formed that have not yet selected names, All teams of boys wishing to form squads in the league between the ages of 13 and 17 are advised to get in touch with Mr. Fyfe at the Boys’ Club, 230 C street. Phone Main 2394. Classification of teams within the league will be governed by weight in order that all teams at the expiration of the club league series will be within the weight limits to enter the A. A. U. Gold basket balls will be awarded the winning team in the league and the name of the championship ad will be engraved upon the silver loving cup on display at the clubhouse. REDS WAIT ON HOWLEY. CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 19 (#). —Sidney Weil, new president of the Cincinnati Reds, said yesterday there would be no further negotiations for trades or purchase of other players until the new manager, Dan Howley, ;n-lves here, probably Monday or Tues- ay. THE SPO or so who look on. Harvard-Army—At Cambridge. A game that may have a distinct bearing on Eastern rankings. Harvard has much the better line—Army the more dangerous backfield, with Cagle, Murrel and others. Cagle is half a team when given anything like a chance. He may have his trouble today if the Army line doesn’t improve, for the Crimson for- wards are good enough to bother any offense. Harvard has a good back- field, but not a great one. If her de- fense can surround Cagle the Crimson side should win, Dartmouth-Columbia—At New York. A meeting of two leading backfield stars will take place when Hewitt of Colum- bia and Marsters of Dartmouth get into action. Dartmouth looks to have more all-round stre: and should win, but not by any decisive score. When Marsters Is right there is no better back in the country. Notre Dame-Wisconsin—At. Chicago. ‘Wisconsin will need every angle of her defense working to block the path of Rockne’s fast, hlrd-mnnln%“ backs. ‘Wisconsin is good this season, but Notre Dame is better and should win. The conference team will find it hard to gain ground against Notre Dame's first squad, for the line is almost as good as the backfleld: N. Y. U-Penn State—At New York. N. Y. U. is well below last season's standard, with so many missing, and Penn State has not been tested suf- ficiently to furnish any accurate line on its real strength, Bezdek, however, expected to have a better team than he had last season. If he has, the Nittany Lions should have the edge, but there won't be much to spare. Fordham-Holy Cross—At New York. One of the hardest battles in the East. Frank Cavanaugh has a team worth looking at this season, an aggressive outfit, with a first-class passing game, Holy Cross is always well up, but on m{? occasion Fordham should have the call. Northwestern-Minnesota — At Evans- ton. This will bring about a clash be- tween two of the strongest teams in the Western Conference—both unbeaten, both out after the championship. Min- nesota has a big, fast outfit, but North- western has the same. is another one of those contests that will be close :a‘jflh to have the breaks decide the e. ‘Tennessee-Alabama — At Knoxville. Two_of the strongest teams in the South will meet to drop at least one likely contender from the race. Ten- nessee has the edge, with more backfield stars. Alabama looks to have one of the edge. Georgia Tech-Florida—At Atlanta. A interest. Georgla Tech has eased off from last season and Florida looks to be fully as strong as she was a year ago. The beating Georgia Tech took from North Carolina will be a help. Not much to choose from in a meeting of two good backfields, Michigan-Ohio State—At Ann Arbor. ‘The trimming that Michigan took from Purdue should give the Wolverines a better chance. Purdue is strong, but Michigan is stronger than the Maize stuff, McEver being one of the season’s ¢l Outside Influence Tends BY WALTER to hint that he is the President to say: “Naughty boys! NAVY TWICE ASKED FOR ARMY BATILE No Reference as to Eligibility " Made in Either Letter, It Is Said. By the Associated Prest NNAPOLIS, Md.,, October 19.— Two proposals were made by * Naval Academy officials for a foot ball game this year be- tween the Navy and Army, the first as long as a month ago and the second two weeks ago, it was said at the Naval Academy by Lieut. Comdr. Daniel E. Barbee, aide to Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robison. Comdr, Barbee, reiterating the state- ment of Comdr. A. H. Rooks, another of Robison’s aides, who told of the sec- ond letter, said both letters written by the Navy chief offered to play the serv- ice game this year without reference to eligibility conditions and proposed later conferences to map out rules for subsequent meetings. Naval Academy officials refused to comment on a letter written to Admiral Robison by Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, the Military Academy head, in reply to the Navy's second letter, which was re- ceived almost simultaneously with a telegram from Gen. Smith, the latter having been made public yesterday by the Army chief. Comdr. Barbee said that Admiral Robison took the stand that the telegram, sent subsequent to the letter, superseded it. Comdr. Barbee said that a letter written by Admiral Robison carries a welcome for a conference between heads of the Army and Navy schools, but did not go into any details as to the basis for the conference. He added that though the admiral would report any action to the Secretary of the Navy, Charles Francis Adams, he had been given to understand that any recom- mendations he made in regard to the game would be supported by the Navy Department.. RTILIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. Today’s Round-Up. PENNSYLVANIA-CALIFORNIA—At Philadelphia. traveling on record for a regular season intersectional game. A con- test that looks close and interesting, although so far neither team has shown much offensive power. Pennsylvania will have to show more than the Red and Blue has turned on so far, although Penn has two good backs to match Lom and others who will work for the Golden Bears. There should be good open play worth watching by the 75,000 ‘The longest Cornell-Princeton—At Ithaca. Prince- ton fell before Brown, but, for all that, Bill Roper’s Tiger outfit has first-class possibilities. It should be strong enough to beat Cornell, although Dobie has a better team than he had last Fall Yale-Brown—At New Haven. Having beaten Princeton, Brown will now at- teémpt to hook another member of the old Triumvirate within a week. Brown has been erratic and Yale is below last year's stuff, with only fair backfield material—nothing to rave about. Brown has at least an even chance, possibly Towa-Illinois—At Iowa City. A hard game for Zuppke's team, but one he should win. is looks to be among the strongest four or five teams in the country, with another shot at the ‘Western Conference cl ipionship. Texas-Oklahoma—At Dallas. One of the feature turns of the Southwest. Both teams have been well up, but in meeting Texas should have the edge. North Carolina-Georgia—At Chapel Hill. Georgia beat Yale, but the Red and Black invaders from Athens will have a harder job to face in overpower- ing North Carolina, the team that trimmed Georgia Tech. North Carolina has one of the best teams in the South and should be good enough to win, after a hard afternoon. ‘Vanderbilt should win from Auburn, and Virginia has a shade on V. M. I. Nebraska-Pittsburgh — At Lincoln. Nebraska was good enough to crowd her way by Syracuse, but Pittsburgh is another. The Panthers have one of the best teams in any section you can think about, off hand or on hand, here or there, upside or down. MATHEWS BIRD IS FIRST IN PIGEON RACE AGAIN D. Roy Mathews again won the Washington racing pigeon race from | Pulaski yesterday, his winner fiying the | 245 miles in just under 4% hours. A| total of 214 birds from 21 lofts were released at 5, the winner homing at 11:29. The average speed of the first return to each loft was as follows . Roy_ Mathew: . P. Burgess SERVICE SCHOOLS ABLE TO SETTLE DIFFERENCE to Over-emphasize Sport in Nation’s Institutions—Time for Upsets at Hand as Big Elevens Struggle. TRUMBULL. ! HE first thing Representative Britten knows somebody is going putting a little over-emphasis on foot ball, When a member of the House seeks to drag the President of the United States into a discussion whether Middies and Cadets, certainly amateurs until graduation, shall play games together, it is just a wee bit on the emphatic side. Mr. Britten apparently wishes Stop this squabbling and go right out and play together where nice Mr. Brittens constituents can see you take a few socks at each other in a true spirit of brotherly love. whether you prefer to play with other boys or not. What are your | feelings compared to those of all the spectators who would buy tickets, |or get them from their Representatives. I don’t care “This nonsense about following your own desires regarding eligi- bility rules and opponents is hurt- ing politics and business. It is all right to play for love of the game, but love this particular game and dudlt before somebody gets slap- ped.” Now nobody likes to see an Army- Navy foot ball game better than the writer. It always is a thrilling, highly colorful affair, but I do not believe that it is of such importance that President Hoover will devote much time to t. The President is a fairly busy man, Then, too, there are other ways in which a Congressman could secure.s desirable booking for any large stadium. Let him, for example, persuade the President to order Jack Dempsey to return to the ring and box Sharkey or Schmeling. Dempsey scarcely could igaore or refuse such command, and such an event would pack any park. Or why not command Harvard to play Princeton or Illinois to schedule Notre Dame? These would be interesting games, Army and Navy almost certainly will get together again some time in the future; but when they do, it seems likely that it will be of their own free will and not because anybody ordered them to deploy in foot bail formation. There were plenty of foot ball upsets last Saturday, but it looks as if there might be even more today. California expects to beat Penn, Princeton will be favorite over Cornell, Minnesota looks stronger than Northwestern, and most of the experts figure that Dartmouth will win from Columbia, Harvard from Army, Yale from Brown, Michigan from Ohio State, Penn State from New York University, Alabama from Tennessee, North Carolina from Georgia, Fordham from Holy Cross, Lafayette from Bucke nell, Carnegie from Washington-Jeffer- son, Notre Dame from Wi o gate from Indiana, Georgia Tech from Florida, Illinois from Iowa, Stanford from Oregon State and Navy from Duke. Of all these, it looks as if the Navy to win from Duke was the one-sure bet. Most of the other games could go either way without causing overwhelming sur- prise, although Illinois, Stanford and Notre Dame look like pretty sure win- ners. If all the Princeton men who are re- ported injured really are on the hospital list, Cornell should have a chance 2gainst a Tiger team which has shown little indication of having struck . its stride. Brown may give the Yale Bull- dog plenty to chew on, and Wisconsin may make Notre Dame show all of its stuff. Nor do I believe that Pennsylva=- nia is going to prove any setup for Cali~ fornia, Lou Young's teams have a way of rising to the occasion. Columbia has higher hopes than it has had in several years when facing an eleven of the caliber of Dartmouth. This Efir;mohtth zlet:en is’reported strong in all departments. Today may sho how good that dope 18 > STOW e A Harvard-Army contest always thrilling. Chris Cagle should be the b!: back on the field, but even Cagle cannot gnnop far unless his teammates can old the big Crimson forwards. Noth- ing is more discouraging to the best of backs than a large, eager lineman bear- ing down on him before he reaches the line of scrimmage. They seem to think ;2.,?“%’:?‘5, at this is a Harvard 3 eory” wi test this lflerno?l"l. G e Michigan and New are two teams which rrove that looked last (Copyright, 1929, by North American aver Alfance ookl SAILING CLUB HOLDS REGATTA TOMORROW ——— The Sailing Club, for the promotion o{'?l‘em-.nd 3“ canoe sailing, will hold its first annual cham- {lltx):;ztll‘!‘punm ;:rll the Potomac off the lemor orrow, starting “F:{)m‘ tomorrow, s at m 10 to 12 entries a: - pated in the class A and fi‘een 3::’-‘:‘11 events, while i class B event 6 to 8 canoes will face the line. Given fair weather and sufficient breeze, the sailing canoes make m pretty race, a race not without its thrills for sailors and spectators alike, In the last races off Washington Canoe Club, in the rather sheltered 4 towr: Channel, three upsets marked ‘the racing, as well as a number of near !w';"t?pmg ;Ed cgll'ijslom. e officials: Judges and race com- mittee—Chairman, W. A. Rogers; Con- rad C. Smith, commodore, Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat Association; C. W. Butler, Colonial Canoe Club.. Clerk—Henry M. Fowl e tor. Cance Club, s Official boats—Crusader, Viking and Duncan. HEIDELBACH AND LAND ARE SOLD BY GRIFFITH The Nationals’ already small reserve list has been further reduced by the outright sale of two players to the York club of the New York-Pennsylvania League. Those disposed of are Harold Heidelbach, a right-hand pitcher, and William Land, an outfielder. Both were bought late in the recent season from the Gadsden club of the Georgia-Alabama League and reported here for trial. Heidelbach never broke York University will be burning to they are better than they week. Fall her best teams since the Crimson Tide | &, was running high, but Tennessee has o game Harvard scouts will watch with | H. SEVEN ITALIAN CYCLISTS TO ENTER U. S. CONTESTS MILAN, Italy, October 19 (#).—Seven lulllnda:;dlmlhe m‘un‘e h\;VXm an- Tnounoes y er- ican races this !\l!‘l‘:::yv‘llnler. ‘The riders: Georgetti, Zucchettl, Negrini, Plano and Belloni are entered in the Chicago race in November and az&l"muu looked to be tl:ll'tndly was good enoi edge Towa, but in this eh‘& Michigan & thin jump, : B t | Alfredo B Pletro Linari’ will the New York grind in December. inda, champion of Italy, and race only in New PO into a contest, but Land icipated mtbenuuufluu(theclpl:?dlg.‘ JOCKEY KLEEGER DIES FROM SPILL IN RACE By the Associated Press. J::L’l;glofl!.,}ld., October 19— ey Kleeger of Jamaica, Long Island, died in a Baltimore hospital from injuries received when In the second race at Laurel, & steeple- chase, bolted at the fourth jump and plunged into a wing. Jetfeott Cut, about the face snd badly shaken up when the same race. CHESS MASTERS IN DRAW. BERLIN, October 19 -(#).—The fif- teenth of the match for the world o S A Alex. moves. was finished & draw after 45 and & was cul Jockey Ball thrown in