Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1929, Page 29

t i , : Sports News ’ @hfi éggllimng %t ASHINGTON, D. © MONDAY DECEMBER 9, 1929. Features and Classified i PAGE 29 Harmony Foreseen at Dixie Sport Parley : East Goes After Lost Grid Laurel IGNORE CARNEGIE REPORT APPEARS TO BE ATTITUDE Conference Leaders and Coaches Meet This Week at Baton Rouge—Two Mistakes Cost Maryland Dearly in Battle With Green Terrors, BY H. C. BYRD. E sity, at Baton Rouge. HE annual meeting of the Southern Conference is to be held this week, Friday and Saturday, at the Louisiana State Univer- Preceding the annual conference meet- ings wiil take place Thursday evening the annual meeting of the Southern Conference Foot Ball Coaches Association. Delegates and coaches from the South Atl antic section have made arrange- ments to make the trip in a body, on the train that leaves Washington at 10:35 Tuesday night. Whether or not the regular conference meetings will be in the nature of routine affairs is not known, although about the only thing that could come up to disturb what promises to be a very harmonious gathering would be a discussion of However, that is unlikely, as it is said that it is the intention of the conference simply to ignore it. Whether or not all the institutions will adopt that attitude is a ques- tion, and it may be that one or more of them will precipitate a discussion of some phases of that report. Otherwise, the conference seems des- tined to hold about as tranquil a gathering as is possible for any organ- ization. The customary bids for games, especially in foot ball, and new al- liances in other branches of sport are certain to take place. In fact, for the last few years the chief business of the conference has been in arranging schedules and taking care of routine matters that pertained to general in- stitutional athletic policies. University made two fatal mistakes in its game with Woat- en Maryland last week and thereby hangs the tale of its defeat, if all con- sideration of a bad ficld be eliminated. ‘The field was in bad shape, which made handling of the ball precarious and crippled Maryland's main form of attack. forward passing. But even with that if the Old Liners had taken ad- vantage of their twa big coportunitics they probably would have won. Near the end of the second half, they car- ried the ball from midfield to the 2- yard line. At that peint the ball was forward passed across the goal line on second down, a violation of a primary principle of offense. The pass was incomblete and re- sulted in a touchback. Western Mary- land got the ball on the 20-yard line and that was the last real opportunity Maryland hed to score. The other mis- take was made right at the beginning of the second half. Western Maryiand ran the kickoff back to midfield where it was held and when it attempted to punt the pass was bad and Maryland recovered. Maryland, was outkicking Western Maryland and it should have booted the ball back down into Western the recent Carnegie report. the burden of mistakes would then have | fallen on Western Maryland for the remainder of the half. However, that | of course is the second guess and | actually the Western Maryland quarter- back might have caught the ball and run it back for a touchdown. Actually Western Maryland had a good foot ball team, one that was made up of a lot of good players, who were well coached. They, as individuals and | as a team, deserve all the laurels they have won by going through their sea- son undefeated, one of the few times in the history of Maryland in which | any eleven has accomplished that. All is sunlight and sunshine around | Athens, Ga., today. The University of | Georgia took the measure of Georgia | Tech, and speaking purely from a foot ball view., nothing else matters much to that State university. Georgia thus finishes up what it undoubtedly will look back upon as its most successful year on the gridiron, numbering as it does victories over both Yale and Georgla Tech, Florida had little difficulty beating the University of Oregon eleven at Miami. The men from the West Coast apparently did not play anything like as good foot ball as the men from Gainesville. South Carolina took a real beating | from Tennessee, the score being 54 to 0. That was just about the worst beating [ any South Carolina eleven has taken in years. Grorgetown lost the opening game of its basket ball season Saturday night, falling before Gettysburg by 33 to 26. The Blue and Gray fell behind so far in the first part of the contest that it | simply could not catch up, despite heroic | efforts on the part of some of its stars. | Gettysburg rang up almost every shot it tried early in the game, and within a brief time had the Blue and Gray trailing on the short end of a 17-to-3 count. Which means that in the clos- ing stages of the game the local school outplayed its opponent by a wide margin, Maryland goal line territory, so that * Brentwoed 7Hawks and Co. F Quints Fight for League Lead 1 ¥ ] YATTSVILLE, Md., December 9. —Company F, National Guard quint and Brentwood Hawks will clash tonight in a Prince Georges County Basket Ball League game on the National Guard Ar- ‘mory floor here in a game the outcome of which is expected to go far toward de- ciding first half honors in the loop. The game will be the final of a league double-header, Dixie Pig A. C. and Maryland Collegians being listed to clash in the opener at 7:30 o'clock. Company F and the Hawks are tied for the league lead, each having won three games in as many starts. Each has defeated Dixie Pig A. C., winner of the league pennant last Winter, and regarded as the chief contender, aside from Company F and the Hawks, for the flag this season. Dor-A quint today is in third place in the league as the result of a 27-11 win yesterday over Mount Rainier A.C. on the armory floor here. This game was a preliminary to a battle between Company F and the Tank Corps quint from Fort George C. Meade, which was won by Company F, 22 to 18. A. Bellman, center, scored every one of Mount Rainier’s points in its game | with Dor-A. The latter team gained an early lead and was always well ahead, holding a 9-1 edge at the half. Fiddles Holland, with 10 points. and Stanley Lewls, with 6, were high scorers for Dor-A. Company F's win over the Tank Corps ‘was its second over this team recentl: It was a red-hot battle all the w: After gaining a 13-6 lead at the half Company F inserted its second team. However, the Meade boys stepped out in the second half to crawl within a aolnt ogmcom;élnny F at ll'l to 12 at one me. en mpany again put in its first-stringers and managed to win out after a hard fight. John Costinett and Rufus Vincent, ‘wlth 9 and 7 points, respectively, were the big guns in Company F's attack, while Mills, with 8 points, was the most | consistent scorer for the losers. | The league team standing: \ W. L. P | company ... ¥ & Toon Brentwood Haw 3 0 1000 | Dor-A"..... 3 3 W Hyattsville' Methodists. 1 1 ‘500 Dixie Pig A. C. 3.2 Sy | Mount Rainier 74 i3 Sy Berwyn A. o 2 000 Maryland Coliegian; o 3 000 Dor-A and Brentwood Hawk elevens fought to a 7-to-7 tie in a foot ball game yesterday at Riverdale billed for the 135-pound class champlonship of il’rlnce Georges County. The Hawks scored in the second quarter and Dor-A | tied the count in the last five minutes on a pass from Bill Walton to Joe Ke gin over the Hawk goal line. Shaggy | Rushe kicked the extra point. next Sunday and Manager Bill Walton itlll him at Hyattsville 775 between 6 and 7 p.m. A meeting of the Pierce A. C., mem- | bers of which play under the Dor-A | colors, will be held Friday night at 8 | p.m. at the home of Bob Mingee. Offi- | cers for the ensuing year will be elected. at Apaches’ Foot Ball Title Next Sunday Celtics Get Shot PACHES, recently crowned Dis- trict independent sandlot foot ball champions, will engage the crack St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria in Griffith Stadium next Sunda Celtics yesterday realized & dream of years by vanquishing Mohawks, 3 to 0, in a red-hot battle in the Georgia avenue stadium. Year after year the Celts had striven to down a front-rank District eleven. A week ago yesterday they lost to the Hawks in a 7-6 battle. It was as a result of their victory over the Hawks whom the Apaches de- frated recently, 8 to 0, for the city title, that Apaches agreed to meet the Celtics. Mohawks, who have been using Griffith Stadium for home games, are expected 1o engage the Irvingtons next Sunday in Baltimore. Celtics deserved their victory over the Mohawks, Play was in the Indians territory virtually _throughout. Bill Thomas, Celtic fullback, whose drop- kick gave his team its 3 points, played an outstanding game in every way. He was supported ably by Dick Allen, hard- running quarterback. Thomas booted his field goal in the third period. failed Thomas dropped back to the 25- stripe and despite a difficult angle and muddy field booted it over and squarely between the uprights. In the dying moments the Mohawks failed in a dramatic effort to score. After Bottle Cox, veteran, had recovered a blocked Celtic punt on the Virginians’ 15-yard line, the Hawks crashed the Celt, line. but failed to gain a first down. Then Colliere shot a pass to a Mohawk But the Hawk ball slip through his fin- It was the last play of the game. player on the goal line, player let the gers. Joe Sweeney, who scored the lone touchodwn for the Apaches when the Little Indians defeated the Mohawks & Jere yesterday & week ago, After the Celtics had | make a first down on the again yester- day scored the only touchdown for Apaches when they defeated the strong Irvington eleven at Baltimore. Sweeney ran back a punt 55 yards to cross the Irvington goal line in the third period. Irvingtons are the Baltimore city in- dependent champlons, Coming through with a last-quarter attack, Sam Ormes’ Northern Red Birds handed Mohawk Preps a 12-0 defeat at Silver Spring. Fox and A. Gass scored the North- erns’ touchdowns. Palace A. C. eleven, champion of the | 135-pound section of the Capital City | League, and Centennials, whose game yesterday was halted when police ap- peared on the scene to break up a near small sized riot, will meet again, but have not named the date or place. | games vesterday follow: |~ Wolverines, 0; Kennedys, 0. | Marions, 33; Yorks, 7. Arlington Preps, 6; Battery A. 6 (tie) pSeamen Gunners, 58; Fort Myer ost, 0. Five College Basket Games on This Week Maryland, Gallaudet and Ameri- can University will open their basket ball seasons this week. On Priday Maryland will play William and Mary and Gallaudet will oppose Benjamin Franklin. Saturday American University will face Maryland State Normal, Georgetown, which lost its opener to Gettysburg, will play St. John's of Annapolis Wednesday and on Satur- day will a&pmz Baltimore University. All of these games will be played on the home courts of the local in- stitutions, - Dor-A's are after a_game with the | Wolverine eleven of Washington for | ts the pilot of the latter eleven to | | Results of other independent foot ball | Corch PauLBYRN g- BorQUIGLEY- Guard LAST GAME SPURT PUTS WEVER OVER| By the Associated Press. Saving his biggest scoring splurge for the last game of the season, Gene | McEver, flashy Tennessee halfback, has | won the national foot ball individual scoring race. McEver tallied five touchdowns and | three points after touchdown against | South Carolina Saturday to run his | season’s total to 130 points, just two | more than Clark Hinkle, Bucknell full- back, the previous leader. - The leader in each of the eight major | groups or conferences, as compiled by | the Associated Press, follows: | Fid._TI Pos. G.TdPatG.Pis.| 9 21 4 0 130 21 128 Player—College. South’ Tennessee.. HB. o~ Schwartz, Was. State FB. Rocky Mouniains— Clarke, Colo. e QB. ouri Valley— Drak . @B. Ten King, Bi Bergherm, Northw Pharmer, ' Minnesota Big Six— Young, Nebra: . FB. HB. o an o m o . cwsomooo . HB. 30 WESTERN HIGH QUINT WILL MEET CELTICS ALEXANDRIA, Va. December 9. St. Mary's Celtics will take on their second opponent of the new basket ball campaign tomorrow night when they oppose the Western High School quint | of Washington in the Armory Hall at 9 o'clock. Western is expected to have one of the best high school teams in the Wash- ington public high school series this year, and the Celtics are expecting a stiff Aight. The locals, incidentally, will be after a second triumph, having wal- loped Fort Humphreys' Engineers in their opening game last week. Knight's Store Buddies will encounter | the Epiphany A. C. in the Epiphany gymnasium tomorrow night at Wash- ington and will seek their second con- secutive victory of the cage season, hav- ma downed George Mason High School Girls, 22 to 1, here Saturday night. John Plerpoint, former Alexandria High School, Old Dominion Boat Club and St. Mary's Celtics’ basket ball star, | has been signed by the Knight's Store five. He was captain of the Old Dominion quint, which won the city un- limited title here last season. Del Ray A. C. will practice at Lee- Jackson High School tonight, meeting the Lee-Jackson five in a scrimmage battle at 7 o'clock. A motor bus is operated by Rollins | College in Florida to transport its ath- | letic teams to games away from home. Ilini Master One- Hand Short Shot BY SOL METZGER. Often the dribbler has a clear cut for the basket. In that case, instead of the two-hand chest shot, he drib- bles right up to the backboard and scores his basket with the one-hand short shot, a shot that Craig Ruby's Tllinois fives have always mastered. ‘The shot is so accurate that almost one-fifth of all baskets scored in games are obtained in this way. The execution consists of taking DON'T SHO0T BALL DWRELTLY INTO BASKET ! off with the left foot when some seven or eight feet from the basket. As the player leaps he aids himself in gaining greater height by kicking up with his right leg, much as does a high jumper. By this time he has | transferred the ball to his right hand. As he reaches his highest point he extends his right arm and shoots the ball. Instead of shooting it over the rim of the basket he directs the bail | to & point on the backboard about | a foot above the near rim and | caroms it off this spot with english into the basket, the body following through. Let us look at the other WESTERN MARYLAND GRID RECORD IS BEST By the Associated Press. Aside from a few games in the Far West that cannot affect the standing, foot ball has closed its slate for the scason with little Western Maryland leading all the rest in victories. Dick Harlow's charges from West- minster, Md., closed a great season on Saturday with a 12-0 victory over Maryland. It was Western Maryland's eleventh suceessive victory with neither tie nor defeat. Thirteen other unbeaten teams trailed the Harlow eleven. Among the unbeaten teams Tennessee was the heaviest scorer with 330 points. St. Mary's of California led on the de- fense with only 6 points chalked up against it. The list of major unbeaten teams: Pts. Pts. Western Maryland TR estern Maryland. . on s o 308 13 o Dniversity s 0 g8 1 800 I 8 8 0 fis 38 800 Im ah . 70 200 23 Dltesne . s 1 16 3 |8 8 1 1w 8 Bordh $ 48 B outhern 6 4 112 36 GREENBAY PACKERS WIN PRO GRID TITLE/ CHICAGO, December 9.—The Green- bay Packers today hold their first na- tional professional foot ball champion- ship, obtained by virtue of defeating the Chicago Bears in their final tiit of the season, 25-0. In 13 games the only team to check them was Frank- ford, which achieved a tie. The standing of the clubs and re- sults of yesterday’'s games follow: Club. W Lo Tied Peto Greenbay New York Frankford ways used of scoring baskets in the fi‘;}f;;“ Cards :% next artiele. | 85ieton i | Orani 429 (Copyright, 1929.) | or: SERVICE ELEVENS PLAY | TWO CONSECUTIVE TIES, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 9‘ ().—Even their warmest partisans ad- mitted today that the 23d Infantry of Fort Sam Houston and the fiyers from | the Alr Corps training center of Kelly Field have fairly evenly matched foot ball teams. They played their second match yes- terday for the Army League champion- ship. The first game was a 6-t0-6 tle The second ended with the count 0-0. Fort Crockett of Galveston and Fort Warren of Russell, Wyo., are scheduled | to play here December 15, and the wln-‘ ner of this tilt was to play yesterday's winner for the 8th Corps Area title. Now the schedule’s all upset. Date for the third meeting of the hboys and the Fiyers has not béen,selected. 12 2 ] ] 4 3 3 4 4 1 1 avamasssnans] PrISTee eI, Sunday's 26; Orang; York, 31 New York, 12 urday). NATIONAL CIRCLES SEEK BASKET CLASH TONIGHT National Circles are after a basket ball game for tonight. Call Willle An- drews at Lincoln 9892. Putting on a strong rally in the late tages, District De Molay basketers de- feated Belvedere Chapter quint of Bal- timore, 23 to 19. O'Brien A. C. drubbed Jordan Preps 42 to 20, in a court game on the Di: trict National Guard armory floor. Buopy GALLAGHER ST. JOHN’S TUTOR AND SOME OF HIS PROMISING COURT CANDIDATES [orward CARNEGIE, PITT AND ARMY DRIVE ON WESTERN FRONT Skibos Next Saturday May Soften Trojan Eleven for Unbeaten Panthers New Year—Cadets Hope to Gain Revenge on Stanford. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. N EW YORK, December 9.—The drive of the Eastern foot ball forces upon the Far Western front, comprising the last major maneuvers of the gridiron season, begins this week. Carnegie and Pittsburgh join the Army in an attack that has for its objective the recovery of laurels lost last year, when the hordes from the Pacific Coast over-ran everything in sight. Carnegie plays Southern California Saturday at Los Angeles in a skirmish that will furnish a more definite basis than is usually avail- able in figuring the New Year day classic in the Rose Bowl. Carnegie was soundly trounced by Pittsburgh, the unbeaten clan that has drawn the invitation to meet Southern California in the big holiday engage- ment. Tech may “soften up” the Tro- jans or they may be able to give an eye-witness account of just what Pitt will be up against. Within the next fortnight Pitt's| Panthers, as well as West Point’s Cadets, will be on the march West, by easy stages. The soldiers are assigned to the Palo Alto sector, determined on a final drive to break their “jinx™ of 1929, win a major battle and at the same time obtain revenge for the walloping administered by Stanford at the Yan- kee Stadium last year. On the basis of the form Red Cagle and his mates displayed against Notre Dame, their chances of overthrowing the Car- dinals appear worth some bally hoo. ‘This 1929 Army team has the stuff and Palo Alto may be the spot they have been looking for to exhibit it. far the West Coast has tumbled considerably below its 1928 standard of intersectional play. Gators Help a Lot. California beat Pennsylvania and Oregon State surprised Detroit, but three defeats offset these victories. Southern California dropped the de- cision to Notre Dame. Washington was trounced by Chicago and in the latest, longest-range intersectional tilt Oregon fell before Florida's fast array. Florida's 20-to-6 victory over the ‘Web Foots Miami helped bring the Southern season to a particularly im- pressive climax, like the 12-6 triumph of Georgla over Georgia Tech in the battle of old rivals at Athens. The victory enabled the Gators to register a rousing finish to & somewhat erratic ason. Florida and Georgia, at the end, were not in position to dispute Tu- lane’s claim to the Southern Confer- ence championship, but each rated high. Florida, by a strange twist, was the only major victim of Georgia Tech, which lost six of its nine games after | being on top of the gridiron world u | year ago. Otherwise the Gators cleaned up in the South and balanced their Harvard defeat by the Oregon triumph. Bulldogs Come Back. Georgia was among Florida’s victims, but the Bulldogs had plenty to cheer about in their major conquests over Yale, North Carolina and Georgia Tech. Georgia “‘peaked” in October and did not regain top form until last week. The week after being held to a tie by Kentucky, Tennessee closed with a burst of scoring power that was just as im- pressive ag anything Tulane, Colgate. Pittsburgh and Stanford registered in their climax games. The Volunteers, who ran wild against South Carolina’s Game Cocks to the tune of 54 to 0, looked as powerful as any team in the country. Gene McEver's scoring Spree, involv- ing 33 points, put the Volunteer line- buster at the top of the national list with 130 points. For those, at least, who had not been advised in advance of the strength of Oklahoma City University, the victory of the “Gold Bugs” over Davis and Elk- ins was a sensational upset. The West Virginians had won 10 games and been held to a tie only by Fordham's un- beaten team. At the same time Dick Harlow’s West- ern Maryland aggregation closed an unbeaten season by taking the strong Maryland team into camp, 12 to 0. ‘Western Maryland will not dispute the title claims of Pittsburgh, Purdue or Notre Dame, but Harlow’s outfit, in winning all games in a row, turned in en unsurpassed record for consistently good performance. Triumphs over Georgetown and Maryland, two major foes as well as a_smashing 23-0 victory over the strong Temple eleven, testified to Western Maryland’s class. When the long O, where is the poet left A song of dream in the Sings its song at the When the dim world A Weak Spot. NE of the weakest spots in foot ball | as a game is that the team taking a daring offensive and trying to score in a close game is also taking the ma- Jjor risk and is likely at any spot to run into serious trouble. If both teams played for safety there would be no action and little interest. Yet any team that takes a scoring chance also takes a chance of blowing the ball game then and there. There are certain times, of course, when no such chances would be tried —but there are many other times when they must be tried if one is to score. Often under such conditions the defensive team will pick up a touchdown it has hardly earned by its play. The element of chance and luck in modern foot ball is terrific. The better team doesn't always v.n by a long shot. The better team can often be rather decisively beaten. The Winner's Chance. THE best tip now is that the winner of theVon Porat-Scott meeting will get a shot at Sharkey this Winter at Miami. The survivor here will then be all set to take a running jump at Max Schmeling for the title. The German is in a peculiar spot. He hasn't done any fighting for many months, he has been completely out of the picture and yet he is still something to be con- sidered before they figure up the final returns. There is a chance that Tuffy Griffiths will also slip into the meeting | by taking on the next winner early in January, thereby providing a double elimination before the Florida party breaks. Some one' is sure to be fitted out for the crown this year unless they all break a neck or a back. Over-Swinging. "THESE golfers who bother consider- ably at one time or another about over-swinging are merely chasing a shadow. The big trouble is under- swinging—or rather in taking a full swing where the clubhead clips down below the horizontal, N A swing of this sort indicates wrist and arm action that isn't locked up through stiffness. One trouble with the three-quarter swing 1s that it is too often accol panied by stiff wrists and an over-ten- sloned body. It usually means restricted action where ease and freedom are destroyed. When it comes to a matter of sched- ules Carnegie Tech did no piking in picking Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Southern California. The latter game that when you think the foot ball sea- son is over, you are all wrong. The foot ball season is apparently never over. If you think it will be over after December passes, t with a set | of Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Purdue |camp followers and then wire your answer, It used to be possible to stop a foot ball fan by tossing a golf nut at him. }]Buc even that drastic remedy is no | longer who suddenly whirls and attempts break away. | @' (Copyright, 1929 is still to be played, which proves again | THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RIC The Winning Combination. When a touch of frost creeps in the air And the morthwind’s roaring bugles blare, gray evenings gather dow: From the hills that shadow the When the dripping eaves in a bleak refrain Chant the wail of a Winter's rain, to sing land of spring? A song of dream that may compare To a pipe—a book—and an easy chair? And the gray ghosts shriek in t O, where is the poet lejt to praise The gleam and dream of the Summer days? The gleam and dream that may compare To a pipe—a book—and an easy chair? use. It is now that golf nut | t to | of any such waste products.” n walled in town, When the wild blasts howl and the shadows flit Over the wall where the fire is lit, When the snow drifts deep and the driving rain window pane, lies in the pit of night mad gale’s flight, MONTREAL TEAM CLIMBS IN HOCKEY COMPETITION NEW YORK, December 9 (#).—The Montreal Maroons battled their wav into second place in the international group of the National Hockey League last week. In the American group the leader, Boston, had a perfect week, winning three games. The standings, including last night's games: . M s ahn IO I ::'ug;g FLEET TITLE TO SUBS. SAN DIEGO, Calif,, December 9 (#). —The San Diego submarine division’s team won the Pacific Fleet foot ball championship for the fifth straight sea- son by defeating the U. S. S. Mississ] 20 to 8, before 15,000 fans. ippi, HE District of Columbia Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America has joined its neighbors in Baltimore, Frederick, Hagers- town and other places in a bitter fight on pollution of the Potomac River. A new publication just issued by the conservation department of Maryland, entitled Maryland Fisheries, a semi- monthly magazine, has the following to say about the pollution of the Potomac: “Restoring the Potomac to its former pristine glory, as it was in the days when Grover Cleveland fished in it, is the fond aim of the Izaak Walton League. And with the aid of the Mary- land_State Conservation Commission, the United States Bureau of Fisheries and the Board of Health it is hopeful of accomplishing this ambition. “Back in those dear, dead days, the Potomac River, in the neighborhood of Big Pool and the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club preserve, was a veritable fisherman’s Utopia. Bass, both big and small mouthed, lurked in the pellucid depths of the river and gamey trout were to be had for the mere casting in the smaller tributary streams. The stretch of river from Hancock to Cum- berland was Cleveland’s prize fishing grounds, and the late President spent many happy hours fishing from a great rock near the Woodmont preserve. The rock to this day is known as Cleveland's Rock,’ and there is also a chair in_the clubhouse in which he and other Presidents sat. “Today this same stretch of river is virtually devoid of finny life and en- tire barren of bass. Where once these great gamefish disported now only a few despised rough fish swim. Pollu- tion from the great factories lining the banks of the Potomac at Cumberland and Luke, and the creosote plant at Greensburg, is slowly but surely getting in its deadly work. Gradually even the rough fish are being exterminated and if some action is not taken soon the Potomac River, from Cumberland to ‘Washington, will be as barren of life as the Dead Sea.” ‘The local “ITkes” are up in arms against the condition of the waters of the Potomac and Rock Creek, both streams_being highly polluted and pro- nounced so by the local Health Depart- ment and the Public Health Bureau. Section 901 of the code of laws for the District of Columbia says: “No person shall allow any tar, ofl, ammoniacal liquor or other waste prod- ucts of any gas works or works engaged in using such products, or any waste product whatever of any mechanical, chemical manufacturing or refining es- tablishment to flow into or be deposited in Rock Creek or the Potomac River or any of its tributaries within the Dis- trict of Columbia or into any pipe or conduit leading to the same, “The prohibition of this section is ‘general and unqualified,’ and applies 1 alike, and prevents the discharge ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. of the above quoted law and yet many violations are taking place. The District government violated the law last Summer when it allowed sew- age to flow into the Eastern Branch, when making a connection between an old and new sewer, killing thousands of bass, perch, catfish and ur& ‘The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is violating the law in al- lowing the ofl, grease and tar from the roadway around the Tidal Basin to empty into that body of water follow- ing each heavy rain, and one outlet for some kind of waste now is under con- struction just west of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. ‘This column claims the law is not being enforced; that little or no at- tempt is being made to enforce it. And yet, through the public press the children of the city are warned not to swim in Rock Creek. Why? Simply because it is polluted. When the bath- ing beach was in operation at the Tidal Basin every day a boat was seen making a wide circle putting chlorine into the water. Why? Because cials knew the water was polluted. Several local head specialists of Wash- ington will testify, if called on, to the number of cases of infected eyes and ears they have treated as a result of bathing in the Potomac. Why? Pollu- tion, and it is getting worse each year. Many local anglers remember the large schools of perch, herring and striped bass or rockfish that paid a yearly visit to the swift waters of the Potomac to deposit their spawn. Can these same anglers honestly say they have the same sport today? No, they cannot. And why? Poliution is the answer, The fish do not have to be told the water is polluted. Nature warns them they are in “danger zones,” and so each year the number of Spring visitors of the finny tribe is decreasing. ‘This column several years ago asked the Health Department to get some samples of water from the Georgetown Channel and have it analyzed. The re- port that reached us was that the water of the Georgetown Channel was so polluted as to be a menace to the bottom of boats. Pollution is one of the greatest prob- lems facing. the country today. This condition is not local but extends from coast to coast. It is & national problem of great importanee. The City of Wash- ington does not want to be placed in the same situation as Chicago, where the problem of obtaining reasonably pure water is daily growing more acute. ‘The committee on pollution of the District of Columbia Chapter of the Isaak Walton League is on the warpath to remedy local conditions, backed by the entire membership of the league throughout the length and breadth of the United States. et PRGN ‘William Muldoon, member of the New There can be no misypderstanding o York State Boxing Commissior. recent- ly celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday.