Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1929, Page 34

a O < 4 S PORTS, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, - 1929. SPORTS. Suburban Bowling Circuit Ties Masonic Association for Membership Record: ! NORTH WASHINGYON LOOP, HAS THIRTY-SIX TEAMS Fraternalists Are Criticized for Not Splitting League | Into Sections—Girl Stars Wed—King Pins Set Sartorial Pace. BY R. D. THOMAS. O longer is the Masonic Bowling Association the largest duck- pin league in the country. That long-held distinction is shared now by the North of Washington League, with head- quarters at the Silver Spring alleys. For several seasons the Masons had 40 teams to start with, but | N they never were able to carry that At least two would fail to finish the schedule, though they never were dropped officially. Merely their gas The North of Washington League, organized last Fall, doubled its membership between seasons. enough in the beginning to form two ordinary sized circuits, and it is believed to have established a record for sudden growth. It brought a bowling boom to been added to the layout there, with the new drives to be christened next Friday night. There has been criticism from time to time of the Masonic Asso- ciation’s method of determining : champion. It operates under a handicap system, to which few ob- Ject, but it has been held that the league would be better off from the standpoint of interesting com- petition if it were divided into sev- eral sections, with a championship play-off among sectional winners. It would be no mean distinction to be a section title winner, if that meant the scalps of 11 teams, As matters now stand there is only one objective for 36 teams where there might be at least three. It is said that some teams carry on | in the Masonic Association out of loy- alty to lodge, having little or no interest | in the disposition of pennant or prizes, | albeit six prizes are awarded teams vinning the most games in the last 10 ks of the season. The extra prizes were thought of as a means to keep up interest of teams far in the ruck. How- ever, when one is fifteenth or twentieth, not to speak of thirty-sixth, in any sort of race it ceases to be sport and rather becomes a matter of fini cut a string. Many a loyal Masonic team has done this, finishing far down the list year after year. This is the icazue‘s h:!teenm :;‘ason, lnd"oxaley'p !I“t: lodges ve won e the handicap system. Reppas The North of Washington League is divided into two sections, with a cham- plonship play-off to wind ign. In each section several teams are fighting for the lead, and probably with little thought at this time of the main title. They have before them an immediate objective and one plenty important to summon all their com- petitive spirit. ‘Then there’s the Odd Fellows' League, with 24 teams, divided into two sec- tions. After the first two series, the six leading teams of each section will be thrown into a separate league to play for the pennant, and the second six in each will battle for consolation honors. One seldom hears of a forfeiture or a dummy in the Odd Fellows' League. ‘The Amity team is in a fair way to establish_an Odd Fellows' record in Section B, having won 17 games and lost only 1. The regulars are Jack Each has 36 teams. many through a whole campaign mes were forfeited. With 18 teams, it had more than | Silver Spring. Twelve alleys have | with none other than Arthur Logan, still one of the great bowlers, despite his 50-oci years, as president. The Indepencent Ladies’ League will shoot at the King Pin No. 2, where grand ol’ Arthur hclds forth as amember of the staff. There are six teams. In another season—perhaps during this—the Public Debt League hopes to | place another girl star in Washington's glowing constellation. Eva Griffis of the Accounts team is turning out 300 sets. A year back she was averaging under 90. v Another noteworthy member of the Public Debt League, Rose Mulroe, may ankle right out of the spotlight, doubt- ful of running again for president of the Washington Women's Duckpin As- sociation, after a tranquil reign of sev- | eral years. She has called a meeting of the association for next Saturday | night at the Lucky Strike at 8 o'clock, | in which officers will be elected. ‘Those girls who walk off the alley| with embarrassment after shooting a| 60 game might find comfort in the average of & maid in the Eastern Star League—her gait is 49. In this league there are 162 bowlers, and only one has an average written in three figures. Lucy Owen of Washington Centennial, the leading team, is geared up to 101. Marjorie Bradt, a star of the Meyer Davis team last season and national all-events champion, s now Mrs. George Smith. Marie Frere, who shared honors with her in many a doubles victory, is Mrs. Jack Whalen. ‘The King Piris not only are leading the District League in percentage of games won but are setting the pace sartorially—blue sweaters with gold trimmings. National Duckpin Bowling Congress champlonship medals were presented members of the Washington King Pin girls before they defeated the Bill Has- kins girls of Richmond in an exhibi- tion at Charlotte, N. C., the other night. The Northeast Temple team, which has floundered in the District League, despite a line-up of stars, showed a reversal of form by setting a five-game record for Baltimore last Saturday night in defeating the Happy Five with Rodgers, Bd and Frank Donaldson, Jim Ellett and his famous son, Perce. Y A new league of girls makes its bow a mark of 3,071, 55 pins short of the world rwflflrd. Next Saturday night the boefl‘:ms Il visit thé Temple, vengeance nt. AUl Ye Modern: Bowler Loses Are His Wagers—and Temper BY JOHN A. FERRALL. HE Kid looked and then bent and pmd under the bench. “What's the matter—lost a cent?” asked the Old Timer. “I can't find my hat,” confessed the Kid. “Did you see where I put it when I came in?” “Sure,” sald the Old Timer. “You gul it just where it is now—on that 00k by the window. You're a great a couple of accidental ou.” one—Ilettiny wins upset: “Accidentall We can repeat the dose any time, any place and under any conditions. And if you'll look at the scorebook,” added the Kid, sig- nificantly, “you will see that some- body else was a little upset this eve- ning—you bowled that 80; I didn't. Yes, sir, it was my hat I lost—not my head.” Anybody See the Kellys? “Speaking of lost kellys,” said the Old Timer, “you duck eggs don't appreciate the service and protection you get at these modern alleys. In the old days a guy not only had to watch his step—but keep an eye on his hat and coat. I remember once :}hxz 11 of us came away without our ats—" “That was before prohibition?"” asked the Kid, “Prohibition had nothing to do with it.” denied the Old Timer, in- dignantly. “It was this way: I came into the alleys a trifle late and met a brunette man coming out with his . ‘Starting a store?” man of ready wit. sald. “I'm jes’ takin’ ‘That's service,” declared the Kid. “It looked pretty good to me. too,” admitted the Old Timer, “and so 1 said, ‘You might as well take my hat along. It's in pretty good shape, as T just bought it Saturday. but it will ~INGRID TITLE PATH | ter—Iowa OWA TEAM STANDS | Menace to Both Minnesota and Purdue, Unbeaten in Big Ten Race. BY WILLIAM WEEKES, | Associated Press Sports Writer. CHICAGO. November 5.—Minne- sota and Purdue, racing step and step toward Western Con- ference foot ball honors, both | are haunted by the same spec- The Iowa menace is Minnesota’s con- cern this week, for they will meet at Jowa City Saturday. With Northwest- ern and Indiana out of the way, Coach Spears started yesterday to elaborate on his offense in preparation for the game that may make or break the Gopher season. The situation caused by the schedule may work to the advantage of Purdue, which will meet Towa after Minneso takes its crack at Burt Ingwerson’s team. The contest is almost certain to be a test of physical endurance, and the Hawkeyes may be softened up for Purdue by their experience with Min- nesota. Ohio State's prospects of a victory over Northwestern Saturday were halt- ed yesterday when Coach Sam Willa- man of the Buckeyes suspended Charlie Coffee, one ot his star halfbacks, for the remainder of the season for infrac- tion of training rules while the team was in Pittsburgh last week end. Coffee was the most consistent ground gainer for Ohio State in the Pittsburgh game, and Willaman had expected to start him against the Wildecats. Illinois started drilling for its inter- sectional clash with Army Baturday, after Coach Zuppke finished telling the varsity how bad it looked against North- western last Saturday. “Frosty” Peters was in uniform yesterday, but will not know if he will be able to play against the cadets until he is given an X-ray examination Wednesday. Although battered in its defeat by Purdue, Wisconsin received no day of rest yesterday. Coach Thistlethwaite immediately went back to work to try to develop an offense which will func- tion enough at least to score on Chi- cago Saturday. The Badgers have yet to score a_point in Conference com- petition. The Marcans got off easy, following their triumpPhant return from Princeton, but were to begin vigorous preparation today for the Badgers. Michigan is working busily to prepare a surprise for Harvard, which will make its first Middlewestern appear- ance Saturday at Ann Arbor. The Wolverines -are in shape and Kipke hopes to unearth the missing scoring punch. Indiana has an open date this week and faces little work. New Wrinkle Added | To Man in Motion { BY SOL METZGER. When Fordham knocked the cock- eyed foot ball world silly a few weeks ago by upsetting Chick Mee- han's strong N. Y. U. team'26 to 0, one of its touchdown passes came about in an unusual way. The man in motion before the ball, No. 2 in__ this case, s0_often ran behind his line to his left and then came back to his right, much as his course is pictured the diagram, that Ford- ham’s backs evextually sto} cov- ering him as he swung wide to the right, thinking he was merely a de- . coy. Eventually he made himself known stand a brushing’ And so I forced him to take mine. too.” “Yes,” sald the Kid. 1 didn't think anything more about it until we started to go home and none of us could find our Kellys —the supposed porter had lifted them all, you see.” “And you forced him to take yours!” commented the Kid. “You are an important part of your fam- ily tree, all right—the sap.” Judged by His Company. “I don't blame you—about the sap idea,” conceded the Old Timer. “A man is judged by the company he keeps—and I've been running around with you too much. But come on— I'll take another chance of being seen with you. If we don't hustle we'll meet the theater crowds'and never get a seat in the street cars.” “I never have any trouble finding k‘uts in the street cars,” boasted the Kid. “You don't! old ‘Timer, amazed. ‘No,” replied the Kid. solemnly, “but ‘most of the time they are oc- cupied.” exclaimed the BASKET BALL GAME IS CARDED TONIGHT | ‘Washington Grays basket ball team, which last season played under the name of the United Typewriter Grays, will open their floor season tonight, en- gaging the Company I quint of the 12th Infantry of Fort Washington in Cen- tral High gym at 9 o'clock. Manager Fones wants the following players to be on hand in uniform at 8:30 o'clock: Macdonald, Banta, Buscher, Peck, Fones, Wright, Swift, Harrington. Scruggs, Currey, Sanborn, Harwood, | Scheckles and Freeman. First Brethren Church basketers are after a game for Thursday night at 7 o'clock in preparation for the opening of the Sunday School League Satur- day night. Call Atlantic 2761-J. Man- ager Munch wants candidates for the team to get in touch with him in re- gard to getting uniforms. Thinks Gloves Are Sack Baserunner Is Put Out By the Associated Press® Fred Merkle, Roy Riegels et al. have a new recruit for their exclusive club of the sports world. He is Homer Taylor of the Grays Harbor team of the Timber League in Washington State. ‘Taylor was ensconced on first when a teammate rapped out a single. He scooted to second p{;lled up apparently safe on the "bag.” He was somewhat bewildered when the second baseman of the Tacoma nine signaled for the ball and tagged him and grew inarticulate when the umpire semaphored he was “out.” Then his eye fell on a regulation sack some feet away. He had mis- !ak;n two fielders” mitts for the sack. ainey Cawthon, Florida's foot ball captain and fullback, has been ap- student colonel of the univer- ’ | since he Began his work at the Brook- C. U. WILL TAKE PART iN X TRACK MEETS Four dual meets have been listed for the Catholic University track t-am for the coming season, and the Cardinals also will compete in a six-team affair at Brookland and in the Penn relays. In the six-team meet to be held May 14, the George Washington and Gallau- det teams will compete alorg with Johns Hopkins and Loyola of Baltimcre and 8t. John's of Annapolis. Coach Dorsey Griffith, former Geo town track stalwart, who has don land school, is hopeful of turning out a good C. U. team. The schedule: April 5—Maryland. at Maryland April 12— Wake Forest. at Brookland April 25, 26—Penn Relays at Philadelphia ay 3—Gallaudet, at Brookiand May 14—8ix-team meet at Brookland. May 17—Delaware, at Newark | COURTNEY AND LOMSKI TO FIGHT NOVEMBER 15 CHICAGO, November 5 (#).—George Courtney, Oklahoma light-heavyweight, and Leo Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash,, puncher, have been matched for a 10- round bout at Olympia Arena, Detroit, November 15. ‘The bout will be an elimination af- fair, and Dick Dunn, Olympia pro- moter, and Scotty Monteith, matchmak- er, hope to match the winner with the victor of the Yale Okun-Maxie Rosen- bloom fight in New York, in Detroit December 20. FIVE ARMY GRIDIRONERS TO PLAY ON HOME SOIL WEST POINT, N. Y., November 5 (/) —Several Army players will get a trip home with their journey to reet Tllinois. Five cadet players come from Illi- nols—Gunnar Carlson and Carl Carl- [MISSISSIPPI GRID TEAM M. in a most unkind way. As he tore widely to the right on the particular play shown here, the ball was snapped to No. 1, who started to his left behind No. 4. No. 4 partially hides No. 1 in such a play. That permitted No. 1 to circle to his rear and shoot a pass to No. 2. No. 2, being uncovered, breezed along easily for a touchdown. West Virginia will have to cover this man in their game with Ford- ham today else the Mountaineers will get one tremendous walloping. Let’s see next how the Navy uses the man in molg;n play. WILL PLAY IN MEXICO| MEXICO CITY, November 5 (#).— Mississippi College of Clinton, Miss., | will oppose the University of Mexico | here November 20 in the second game of intercollegiate foot ball to be played in Mexico. The game will be the fea- sure event of the opening of the million- | dollar_athletic field just outside the | | capital. | " Arrangements with. Mississippi Col- | |lege were completed by telephone last nigl University of Mexico played its first foot ball game October 5 against Louisi- | ana College, losing by a score of 59 t0 0. Mississippi College is & member of the | same conference, the Southern Intercol- legiate Athletic Association. It has failed to win a conference game, having only a 20-0 victory over the Hatties- burg (Miss.) Normal School and a scoreless tie with Howard to its credt. |TWO COAST BALL CLUBS | SET NEW MARK AT GATE| Hollywood and Los Angeles ball clubs | of the Pacific Coast League played to a | record crowd of 747,807 fans during the | 1929 season. This does not include the 43,161 per- sons who saw exhibition games of the two teams during the Spring training season, and the approximately 15,000 who witnessed the play-off for the champlonship which Hollywood won from the Missions of San Francisco. SEATTLE, November 5 (#)—Charlie Hansen of Omaha was added to the long list of victims of Gus Sonnen- berg’s flying tackle today. Sonnenberg retained his heavyweight wrestling crown here last night by slas Hansen to the mat late in the sixth SONNENBERG TOSSES HANSEN. | mming | Turns Down Philosopher To Practice Basket Ball MADISON, Wis., November 5 ().— Dr. Walter Meanwell, the “little fant” of Wisconsin basket ball. ikes philosophy, but not when it interferes with his favorite sport. The university auditorium com- mittee refused use of the gymnasium to Bertrand Russell, noted English philosopher, for November 20 because Dr. Meanwell said it would disrupt basket ball practice. The campus philosophers have ap- pealed to President Glenn Frank. MARSTERS PRAISED | IN DEATHBED NOTE By the Associated Press. NEW YOREK, November 5.—A death- bed letter from “Beau” Olcott, who was ‘all-America ¢:ator on Gordon Brown's foot ball team at Yale in 1900, to Alton Marsters, star of this {ur'a Dartmouth eleven, was published by the New York Times today. It pl‘lly!z the Dartmouth team fcr its sportsmanship. Olcott died at his home in Wallingford, Conn.. Sunday night. A copy of the letter was sent to the Times by George St. John, Mead- master of the Choate School. It fol- lows ar Alton Marsters: “I am so much of an invalid that I cannot write myself, but, as an old Yale center and a coach of many years, wish to give my admiring homage to such a sterling exhibition of good sportsman- ship and good foot ball as Dartmouth showed on November 2. “I saw you play two years ago—that was the last time that . was able to see any game—and I tacn picked jou for one of the best backs ihat I have ever seen. “I can't tell you how glad I am that you h: so superbly justified that opin- fon and how sorry I was to see a gal- lant team meet defeat in the way it did after so great a battle. “I send my best wishes to vou and the Dartmouth team for the 1est of the season and through life. “Sincerely yours, “H. P. OLCOTT, Yale, 1901.” FRIENDSHIP A. C. TO MEET. A meeting of the Friendship Athletic Club foot ball eleven is to be held to- night at 7:30 o'clock at the clubhouse. VIRGINIA TOILING FORV. P. . CLASH Coach Abell Sends Players Through Fundamentals in Long Drill. NIVERSITY, Va., November 5.— Virginia's varsity foot ball squad has gone back to a drill in fundamentals in preparation for the game with Virginia Polytechnic Institute next Saturday on | Lambeth Field. Earl Abell, head coach, is far from pleased with the performance of his charges against Maryland and he has given them to understand that they are ;umg to have to do better against V. T Practice started yesterday with a long drill n the dummies in both tackling and blocking. There was no rest for the men who played last Saturday. As the routine of plays were run off the coaches gave special attention to the blocking in the line. This is where Virginia appeared very weak against Maryland and the coaches know that they cannot expect to defeat V. P. I. unless play in this department is a great deal better. Faulconer started out as varsity field general, but he soon turned over the position to Capt. Sloan, who was in uniform for the first time since he was hurt playing Swarthmore. It is ex- pected that the Cavalier captain will be ablehm start the game against Virginia Tech. ‘Today, tomorrow and Thursday prob- ably will find the varsity squad going at top speed through a long practice period. On Priday the Virginia first- year eleven plays the freshmen from | V. P. 1. and the varsity will not have a long dzill with this game on the card. Defensive scrimmage against the scrub eleven drilled in Gobbler plays probably will be on the program for this afternoon. The men aren't mind- ing being worked overtime, for they are alll anxious to upset the Virginia Poly eleven. BY GRANTL leading intersec on Michigan an that surround Bob Zuppke's good stuff playing under the always Cagle to reckon with. Zu ability to rig up a defense that will | Murrel and others. | vantage is always a large one. Tilinofs is one of the strong teams of the conference—while Michigan has yet to hit its expected pace. It will be in- teresting to see what young Willie Hes- ton can do in his first intersectional shot. Old Willie would have given one of his arms to carry the ball against Harvard, Yale or Princeton 25 years ago, but he was never given the chance. The Michigan coaching staff will have had two weeks in which to oil the ma- chinery and get in spinning, while Harvard will face its fourth hard battle | in & row—Army, Dartmouth, Florida— and then Michigan. On the same Saturday Minnesota gets its hardest test against Iowa, the team that is now waiting to spill both Minnesota and Purdue, who have been leading the conference march most of the year. The best that Illinois could get in Jowa City was a draw—and Min- nesota's big team will need everything it has to do any better. “Heston, Heston!” EAR SIR: The Old Trapper re- | ‘moved his pipe. | "He was suggestively Coleridge—the “long, gray beard and glittering eye” type. P Listen, stranger,” quoth he. “Thar | was a heap o' raw, naked drammer | a-packed rnto that Michigan-Ohio skirmish.” And he sketched it roughly | | for me as follows: Michigan was trailing, 7 to 0, with two minutes of the first half left. A quick, high-strung, slender youngster | raced onto the fleld, and promptly the | Michigan Stadium, jammed with its| 90,000 spectators, roared its first official | welcome to Willle Heston, jr. Willle had ! gotten into earlier games for a few This coluntary statement by Hon. PAUL BERMAN, of 217 Court House, Baltimore, Md., prominent attorney and mem- ber of the Maryland Legislature, is in line with the opin- ion of many millions of other WHITE OWL smokers. THEY say that the third WHITE OWL is velvet, and For I used to pay so it is. 10 cents for cigars, but now I get three fine, mild WHITE owLs for 20 cents. The third is velvet, as far as price goes, but all WHITE OWLS are velvet in taste.” and early in the seventh rounds. The mark from Moline, Joe Golden from Peoria,” Clarka Piper from Paris aud ‘:lnud ty R.O,.T G Aaron Lazar tfom Chicago. match was under the ustralian wrestling system of eight -minute roun THE SPORTLIGHT H 't set the West on fire this season, but there is still ST IR L Maize and Blue that might hit its stride at any moment. Illinois looks stronger than the Army, but there is AND RICE The East Moves West. ARVARD and the Army move West this week in one of the tional excursions of the year. d the Army unfolds its tents upon the plains Harvard moves stronghold at Illinois. pke has prided himself upon his stop any star, and it will be inter- esting to see what he can do against this elusive back, aided by The Illinois jump comes in the line, where the Orange and Blue should have a decided advantage—and a line ad- minutes, but now the full-throated ac- claim of the big mob greeted him, and greeted him royally. Wasn't he the Old Man's son? On the first play Willie was given the ball, and he whirled, sidestepped, twisted and slashed his way forward 12 yards—the longest gain his team had made from scrimmage. Now the 90,000 arose to their feet in a flash and across a Michigan gridiron for the first time in 25 years came the once familiar cry of “Heston, Hes- ton!” reverberating again and again. This was the real thing, & spontane= ous tribute to an old name, but a new bearer. When the second half began Willie was “in there,” and he gained more ground in the next 30 minutes than the entire Ohio squad had done in the full 60. Would any fiction writer dare to aspire to such heights for his heroes? Young Heston ducked and dodged his way around left end and through the line time and again for substantial yardage. Only Fesler, Ohjo’s grim All- American at right end, stopped him consistently. Once Willie was almost loose, and as he sped over 25 yards of turf ' “Heston, Heston!” bcame the chant and war cry of the prescnt ge eration, just as it had served 25 ye: before. Another time Willie gathered in a pass and raced onward for a 40- | yard aerial gain as the throng again screamed “Heston, Heston!” Willie Heston, jr., son of the only and incomparable Willie Heston, one of foot ball's all-time three or four greatest stars, had found a friendly welcome and had delivered the goods. How the heart of that Great Warrior spectator, must have gone out to the high-strung, nervous, colorful boy down there who was %m position, 1. h., for the Wi Right now young Heston looks like best ball opposition. This foot ball situation can change in a hurry. Four weeks ago Princeton and Michigan were rated up with the best. Then in six games, between them, they got one tie and five defeats. Both Princeton and Harvard were rated big favorites over Yale in early October, but n{'lg‘ November has brought on & new setting. After a breathing spell against Drake next Saturday Notre Dame then moves against Southern Californis, North- western and the Army for a drive down the stretch, where the far-away West- erners look to be the tallest barrier lefe in the road. . FORDHAM WOULD EVEN WITH WEST VIRGINIANS NEW YORK, November 5 (#).—Ford- ham's undefeated foot ball team meets West Virginia University at the Polo Grounds today and hoped to avenge the 18—0 beating it absorbed at the Moun- taineers’ hands last year. Fordham has only a tle with Davis and Elkins to mar its record this sea- son, only six points having been scored on the Maroons this season. West Vir- ginia, after taking beatings by Davis and Ekins and Pittsburgh earlier in the season, has been coming along steadily. TO WRESTLE THURSDAY. Dan Koloft will come to grips with Bull Martin in the main bout of the wrestling card Thursday night at the Strand Theater. Joe Turner, veteran | District middleweight wrestler, will en~ gage Billy Wolf of Knoxville, Tenn., in another encounter. Pimlico Autumn Meeting November 1 to 13, inc. | First Race, 1:15 p.m. Admissien, $1.50 B. & 0. 2 0. R R Spectal Ly, Union Sta. | Stae (Baktimore) ‘12130 PAL. . b re) 3 Trains ina. R. 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