Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1929, Page 33

Sports News Features and Classified The Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY; DECEMBER 10, 1929, PAGE 33 perfectly carried out, a touchdown will N result. That this does not happen on | n every play is due solely to the fact that | A all assignments on a play are rsrelylu . taken. An individual falis down, be- | cause of his own fault or that of the | defense, and the whole team suffers in | CENTRAL, DEVITT ONE MAN'S FAILURE ACTNE IN WATER Public High Team to Open Season Friday—St. John’s’ Has Tank Squad. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr. CDME on in fellows, the water's fine. That's the way the school- boys here feel about it. They are taking to swimming with & will. Central again is active in the water sport. Devitt is to take it up after a season’s lay-off and St. John's plans to put a team in the tank. Other schools &lso may fall in line. Central will open its season Friday afternoon against Baltimore City Col- lege in the Monumental City. Devitt wiil not become active until after the holidays. St. John's has been delayed somewhat because of mechanical im- provements to its pool. i Last Winter Central had a strong team and if it is not too hard hit through losses by scholastic ineligibi- lity the Blue and White expects to again be represented by a formidable combination. F. J. Brunner, veteran coach, who has developed many fine swimmers since he began tutoring tankmen, is still on the job at Central. Devitt has fine swimming material, according to Leighton Cornwell, pop- ular athletic head at the Upton street school. Devitt used to turn out sturdy swimming teams. Henry Anding of the school's faculty, will coach the Devitt natators. He formerly was captain of the swimming team at Wisconsin of which he is a graduate. St. Alban’s School basketers, who will open their campaign Thursday, enter- taining Woodward’s quint in the gym at the Cathedral school, also will take part in 14 other games, according to the plans of their manager, Joshua Evans, 3d. Another contest has b2en booked with ‘Woodward and home-and-home series have been arranged with Friends, Landon, Silver Spring High and Georgetown Prep. Shenandoah Valley Academy to be met at St. Alban Janu- ary 20, Leonard Hall to be enter- tained January 24. Shenandoah Val- ley Academy and Leonard Hall to be met at St. Alban January 20 and 24, yespectively, and Donaldson to be en- gaged February 17 on the Donaldson court at Baltimore are among other opponents listed for the Cathedral school tossers. Manager Evans is after two games with Hyattsville High and one with Forest Park High of Baltimore 1o complete his schedule. Thursday’s game with Woodward will be the only contest in which the St. Alban’s boys will engage prior to the holidays. ‘The St. Alban's schedule: ‘Thursday—Woodward. January 10—Woodward at Woodward. January 13—Silver Spring High at Silver Spring. January 17—Georgetown Prep at Gar- Tett Park, January Academy. January 22—Friends. January 24—Leonard Hall. January 28—Landon at Epiphany 20 — Shenandoah ~ Valley sym. . February 4—Silver Spring. February 7—Open. February 11—Open. February 14—Open. February 17—Donaldson at Donald- son. . February 21—Georgetown Prep. February 25—Landon. February 27—Friends at Friends. Devitt's foot ball schedule for 1930 will contain as many District teams as possible. Business may be a newcomer on the card and it is hoped to line up other elevens hereabout. Central High basketers were to enter- tain Potomac Boat Club this afternoon in a basket ball game in the Central gvm. Emerson’s quint will invade the Y. M. C. A. gym tonight for an encouater with the newly organized Y. M. C. A. college five, A game between Western High and \ Bi. Mary’s Celtics scheduled tonight in ' Alexandria_has been canceled, because ‘Western players are now engaged in scholastic examinations. ‘There seems to be nb_question that Business, if it does not lose too many layers through scholastic ineligibility — hurdle which has invariably proved a tough one for Stenog players—will put up a great serap for the public high school champlonship series. Coach Lynn Woodworth's boys yes- terday polished off the Strayer five, 50 to 14, for their fourth win. With their trio of sharpshooters, Capt. Artie New- man snd_ Bob Lucas, forwards, and Spencer Chase, center, dropped 'em in with almost monotonous regularity. From the outset it was all Business. Gaining an early lead the Stenogs were out in front at half time, 26 to 6. Newman found the cords for 14 points, Lucas for 13 and Chase for 12. Pete Loftus and Singman, Business guards, exhibited fine teamplay in feed- ing the ball to their mates. Chase’s height enabled him to get the tap on the opposing center time and again. Barnsley, with five points, was most consistent on attack for Straver, getting two of the floor goals credited to his team. The score: q' F.Pts. Strayer. cufl, 1 Barnsle Dix. c. Hook. Ward. Nichols, G.FPts 147 Bk 22 7. Kessler. 'al 02500-mouas; 3| woaomamo! Totals. i1 Time of pértods—10 minutes. A captain for the 1930 Business High foot ball eleven was to be elected today. An attempt was made to choose a Jeader yesterday, but the vote was so close among Sam Levy, Jack Reich- hardt and Bill Duryee that it was de- cided to hold another election today. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and attention will be given to the organization of Central alumni teams in various sports to engage under- graduate combinations at the Christ- mas meeting of the graduate “C” club of Central High School, to be held De- cember 23 at 8 pm., at the Racquet Club. CAPTAINS ARE ELECTED FOR FOOT BALL TEAMS DANVILLE, Ky., December 10 (#).— ‘Walter Grabruck, 21, of Stauaton, IIL, halfback, has besn elected captain of the Centre College foot ball team, HICKORY, N. C., December 10 (#).— Lester Jones, Georgetown, Ill, fullback, today has been elected eaptain of the Lenoir-Rhyne foot ball team for 1930, °| class eleven, Guard |CELTICS CONFIDENT OF BEATING APACHE St. Mary’s Celtics of Alexan whose foot ball eleven last Sunday vanquished Mohawks, 3 to 0, not only have agreed to meet Apaches, recently crowned District independent grid champions, here Sunday, using only players who performed against the Mohawks, but have let it be known that they intend to defeat the Apaches. This agreement as to what players might be used by the Celtics was reached last night at a conference be- tween Mangger Hall of the Apaches and Corbett of the Celtics. At the same ‘time it was announced that the Mo- hawks had relinquished their right to the use of Griffith Stadium Sunday, re- moving the last barrier to the Apache- Celtic—clash, which will start at 2:30 o'clock. Mohawks have arranged a game for Sunday with the Irvington eleven at Baltimore. In view of the fact that both the Apaches and Celtics have conquered the Mohawks, much interest 1s being manifested in Sunday’s clash. Northern Preps, strong 135-pound will meet Palace A. C., winner of the Capital City League 135- pound title, Sunday at Seat Pleasant at 2:30 o'clock. WOMEN’S BASKET BALL OFFICIALS TO GATHER A meeting of the Washington Board of Women's Basket Ball officials will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the ¥. W. C. A,, Seventeenth and K streets. Al ‘members are asked to attend along with those wishing to take the examination to become members and coaches at all girls' schools in the city and vicinity. Candidates for membership unable to be present are asked to communicate with the president of the board, Mrs. Lawrence Haugens, Boulevard apart- ments. D. C. SCRAPPER BEATEN. BALTIMORE, December 10.—K. O. Riley, Washington boxer, bowed to Joey Raymond of Baltimore, in a spirited six-round match last night at the 104th Medical Regiment Armory. LTON SINGMAN- BiLL DurYEE- Center Sy " PeTE LorFTus Guard Mike Palm Will Coach Hoyas, “Downtown” Coaches Intimate ITH Columbia getting Lou Little, Georgetown Univer- sity is expected to announce shortly after the first of next month its new foot ball coach, and, according to gossip circu- lating last night at the annual dinner of the Downtown Coaches’' Association, held at the Bannockburn Club, Mike Palm, assistant to Little at the Hilltop for several seasons, will be the man named. Palm, of course, had nothing to say about the matter at the dinner, but sev- eral close to Georgetown affairs in at- tendance declared he would be given first consideration by the authorities at the Hilltop. Little was the master of ceremonies for the coaches present and neatly turned the table on the officers of the association of those professing to direct games from the stands better than the men actually in charge of athletic teams of colleges and schools hereabout. Kip Edwards and George Sharp were the association officials who attempted to tell the assembled coaches their “stuff.” Prominent among those attending the dinner, other than Little and Palm, were: John O'Reilly, Georgetown track coach; Dick Harlow, coach of the ex- ceptional foot ball team at Western Maryland College; Ray Van Orman, Johns Hopkins foot ball coach; Walter Young, director of athletics at Ameri- can University; Jack McAuliffe, foot ball coach at Catholic University; Maj. known as the Anacostia Eagles, independent basket ball cham- plons of the District for the past five seasons, will defend their title this season. The Birds will open their campaign next Tuesday, meeting the newly organized Baltimore pro out- fit_in the 104th Regiment armory at Baltimore. The Eagles have been drilling two nights a week for several weeks. Joe Sweeney, Jack Faber, Morrls Clark, Bert Thompson and Ralph Bennie, mainstays of the champions in other_years, are again at hand, while Jim Birthright, former American Uni- versity center, and Alton Buscher, who played with the Washington Grays a campaign 2go, are newcomers to the squad. Loss of the Congress Heights court has left the Eagles without a home floor, but Manager Bernie Peacock hopes to secure one within a few days. SKINKER EAGLES, more familiarly Walter's Whirlwinds won their sixth straight game last night, downing the Kandall School five, 44 to 22. Plans for the basket ball season will be discussed at a meeting of the Centennial Club tonight at 8 o'clock at the home of Bill Smith, 34 Rhode Island avenue northeast. McLean tossers who have gathered a formidable bunch of basketers want to list games with leading unlimited class teams in the Washington area. They have a court available Thursday and - Skinker Eagles Will Defend District Basket Ball Title Saturday nights. Call 6612 between 5 and 6 p.m. Players who will hold forth in the various loops of the Boys’ Club Basket Ball League are to weigh-in tonight and tomorrow night at the club, Third and C streets, starting at 7:15 o'clock. Boys in the 130, 115, 100 and 85- pound classes will go on the scales to- night and those in the 145-pound group will weigh-in tomorrow night. Boys may be off two or three pounds. A meeting of managers of teams in the 145-pound and unlimited loops will be held tomorrow night. League play will open next week. De Luxe quint and Stewart Bros. five will clash tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Central High gym. A game for Thurs- ?nybnlzgl: 11‘.'3 50\15‘1:‘1!"\'{'1';}1 a 145-pound oe by uxe. Call Manager M at Lincoln 8333-W. o e Southern Preps wallo) Hess tossers in a court game in the Hine Junior High gym, 48 to 22. Southerns, how- ever, bowed to Southeast All-Stars, 4 to 30. Games with 115-pound combi- nations having gyms are wanted by the Hess team. Manager Dean may be reached at Lincoln 7941. Baltimore Palace Ramblers, 145-pound basketers of Baltimore, are after Sat- urday night games during January or February _ with Washington quints. Leonard E. Young, 612 North Milton Metropolitan avenue, Baltimore, is booking for the | Ramblers. Hamline_tossers downed Washington Ramblers, 33 to 20, in the Hamline gym. D. L. Brewster, athletic officer of the Marine Corps; Charles Guyon, athletic director of Eastern High Schosl; Elmer Hardell, athletic director of McKinley High School; Mike Kelley, foot ball coach at Eastern High School; Jim McNamara, director of athletics at the Jewish Community Center and foot ball coach at Devitt School; Ty Rauber, foot ball coach at Central High School; Paul Byrne, foot ball coach at St. John's; Chick Semler, foot ball coach at Hagerstown High School; George Hoban, foot ball coach at Baltimore Poly, and Zube Sullivan, director of athletics of the Washington Knights of Columbus. . George Washington has signed Joe Mitchell, well known basket ball official in the South Atlantic section, as coach of its quint. Mitchell is well versed in the game and has had considerable ex- perinece as a teacher of the floor sport. His acquisition will relieve James E. Pixlee, director of athletics of the Colo- nials, of the extra task of coaching the quint. Jim Mooney, captain and tackle of the Georgetown eleven, and Al Heagy, end with the Maryland elever, are to play on sectional teams in post-season games. Mooney will be a member of the all-East eleven to play an all-West combination in San Francisco in a charity benefit game on Christmas, while Heagy will play with an all- Northern division team of the Southern Conference that will encounter an all- Southern division team at Atlanta on New Year day. Gallaudet basketers are to open their season Saturday, playing Ben Franklin quint in the Kendall Green court. Georgetown is to play Baltimore U. and American U. will meet Maryland State Normal the same night. Georgetown is to play at Tech High School and will use that court instead of the American U. court for all its home games there- after. George Washington foot ball players, varsity and freshmen, are to be honor guests tonight at a banquet tendered by the university. Letters are to be awarded the follow- ing foot ball players at Georgetown: Johnny Scalzi, quarterback; Leary, Bfll Maczees and Johnny Bozek, half- backs; Leroy Bordeau, fullback; Bob Brennan, end; Gene Driscoll, guard, and Bill Morris, center. The others, all of whom are due to graduate in June, are Capt. Jim Mooney, Paul Liston and John Eckert, tackles; Sam Cordovano, Joe Murphy, Ken Baldwin, Charley Walsh and Dave Mulr, guards; Harold Wynkoop and Bill Zimowski, centers; Ken Provincial, Bill Mooney, Ben Schmid, Bob Gehringer, Harold Mee- | nan_and Gabriel Murphy, ends; Joe Gardner, quarterback; Phil Mooney, Johnny Hannigan and Johnny Hudak, halfbacks, and Steve Barabas, fullback. Jack Scalzl, Georgetown quarterback, is in Georgetown Hospital recovering from an attack of appendicitis. He was rushed to the hospital Sunday night for an operation. CELTICS OUT OF LOOP. NEW YORK, December 10 (#).—The franchise of the New York Celtics in the American Professional Basket Ball League has been declared forfeited by officials of the circuit. L TR I HOCKEY DRAWING THRONGS. NEW YORK, December 10 (#).— Professional hockey, both in the na. tional league and in the minor circuits, seems due to break all attendance | records this season. The new style of ! play has become so popular with the | fans that new record crowds are being | reported from every direction. me complete MAKESALL SUFFER Critic Also Would Have Ball Downed When Pass Is Intercepted. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. HE list of important games this Fall shows a striking percentage decided by failure to convert the extra point after touch- down.® The Notre Dame South- ern California game was a case in point. It is not the first in this inter- sectional series to be so detided. Other important games have been won and lost this way this season. Brown defeated Princeton, 13 to 12; Fordham defeated Boston College, 7 to 6; Detroit won from Georgetown, 14 to 13; Harvard lost to Michigan, 12'to 14; Ohio State won from Iowa, 7 to 6; Michigan was the victor over Minne- sota, 7 to 6, while the loser in that bat- tle won from Wisconsin, 13 to 12. In every one of these games, success or failure in converting the extra point was the margin between victory and defeat. One of the best illustrations of the hardships .of this system is to found in the Princeton-Brown contest. Princeton scored four touchdowns, two of which were taken away by officials who detected Princeton in violations of the rules. On the remaining two she failed to convert the extra point. Brown scored two touchdowns and con- verted one extra point. She was thereby the winner of the game. Tie Was Justified. In sharp contradistinction to this was a game played last year in which Princeton figured. When the Tigers met Ohio State, two very powerful teams, evenly matched, fought each other all over the field. Each scored a touchdown and no extra points were made. The game was a tie, and there can be no doubt that it was the fairest result. A .victory for either eleven by conversion of the extra point would have been a flagrant injustice to the defeated team. This being the case, it seems that the rules committee, which has so solici- tously shielded a tecam from the mis- takes of an individual in the case of the fumble—when it strikes the ground —should, to be consistent, amend the rules to the extent of abolishing the try-for-point after touchdown, not to mention making a forward pass dead at the point of interception. Touchdowns Should Decide. After all, the purpose of a foot ball game is to decide which of two teams is the best over four periods of play. And if twe'teams have scored an equal number of touchdowns, it seems only fair to rule that they have earned a tie, and not a victory or defeat by the fail- ure of one man to kick a goal, or of a team to score a second touchdown from the 2-yard line. Unfortunately, it will prove very diffi- cult to nullify the mistakes of the in- dividuals in foot ball. The great per- centage of plays are so designed that, This voluntary statement b Mr. JAMES G. McCALLISTER, well-known athletic promoter and sporting-goods dealer, 124 W.Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md., is in line with the opinion & miins satiiions of other WHITE OWL smokers. T last I can enjoy a good cigar and save money at the same time. I. smoke WHITE OWL instead of astraight 10¢ cigar and save a dime on every three I buy. WHITE OWL is so mild and smooth and sweet-tasting, it gives smoking satisfaction.” THE THIRD WHITE OWL IS YOUR VELVET | Lo lost yardage, actual or potential. HYATTSVILLE ELEVEN TO MAKE ITS DEBUT HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 10. | —Hyattsville High School's foot ball team, the first gridiron eleven in the | school’s history, has booked a game for tomorrow afternoon with the Devitt School lightweights of Washington, to be played at Riverdale at 3:15 o'clock. It will be the first and only game of the season for the Hyattsville scholas- tics, who organized only recently. It was with a view to obtaining a line on material available for next Fall's eleven that a team was organized by Hyattsville so late in the season. and tomorrow’s game is expected to furnish such a line. Hyattsville’s starting line-up will in- clude: Fred Cole, Green, ends; Willilam Mor- ris, Eddle Bartoo, tackles; Elmer Mos- tow, John Ellis, guards; Warren Evans, center; Curley Byrd, jr., quarterback; Frank Hawkins, acting captain; Donnic Bartoo, halfbacks, and John Haney, fullback. Others who may see action are Douglas McChesney, back; Brice Duckett and Michaelson, ends, and pe | Newall, tackle. McChesney, Haney and Hawkins are the only players who are scheduled to graduate, A captain and a manager or next season’s eleven will be elected at a meeting of the “H” Club Thurs- day afternoon. Seat Pleasant Firemen and Brent- wood Hawk elevens will meet in a foot ball game at Seat Pleasant December 22, the proceeds of which will go to the Prince Georges County Vclunteer Firemen's Association. For the past few years an annual gridiron game for the benefit of the firemen has been staged. Tickets for the game are now being distributed. Brentwood Hawks today are heading the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League as the result of their 17-10 vic- tory over Company F, National Guard. basketers last night in the National Guard Armory here. Prior to last night the teams had been tied for first place, each with three wins and no de- feats. Dixie Pig A. C., which won the league flag last Winter, drubbed Maryland Collegians, 47 to 24, in another league cngagement last night. For the first half the Hawk-Company F game was a great battle, the score standing 10-10 at the intermission. | However, plainly handicapped by the loss of Rufus Vincent, sharpshooting center, who, with Bob Lilly of the Hawks, was banished for rough play in the second quarter, the Guards’ at- tack flivvered in the final healf, during which they were unable to score a single point while the Hawks were chalking u 1. Scoring gmnors for the Hawks were divided among Hessler, Harris, Wanley | and Wiley. Fine battling also marked the first half in the Ditie Pig-Maryland Col- legians game, the count at the half being 16 to 15 in favor of the Pigs. WIITE PROBE 15 SOUGHT | Former Head of Alumni Body Asks Board of Education to Investigate. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 10.—The Western Conference faculty committee on athletics has de- cided Towa is athletically out of the Big Ten January 1, but the controversy has not died. Towa, seeking ‘to establish athletic re- Jations with schools outside the Big Ten, faces the possibility of an alumni revolt against the administration of the schoal Superior Court Judge M. L. McKinley of Ghicago, a former head of the Iowa Alumni Ascociation, has asked that the Towa State Board of Education investi- gate not only the department of ath- Jetics, but causes of “dissension and dis- cord that has existed in departments of | the university other than athletic.” Judge McKinley's charges were aimed at President Walter Jessup of the Uni- versity of Iowa, who, he said, had worked against the alumni, whose oniy desire, he said, was to offer assistance in Towa’s athletic troubles. The question of a desire “for larger gate receipts” as a factor in serving athletic relations with Iowa was denied by two Western Conference athletic men. Fielding H. Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, said the loss of Towa from the Michigan foot bali schedule next season would mean finan- cial loss. He said the game to have been played at Towa City would have outdrawn anything Michigan will be able to arrange for the open date. Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite of Wis- consin told a group at Toledo that he was sorry to lose Iowa from his sched- ule. He said he had always enjoyed competition with Iowa, and lauded Burt Ingwersen, Towa's foot ball coach. 1t is possible that Towa may regain its standing in the Big Ten before the 1930 foot ball season arrives. The conference committee invited Iowa to return as soon as certain questions could satisfactorily be answered. In its resolution denying the Iowa peti- tion the committee stated: “It is the earnest hope of the conference that Towa may find itself in a position in the near future to renew its petition. Iowa officials were to meet today to determine its policy—whether it shall strike out as a free lance, with- out intention of seeking reinstatement, {or if it shall plan to renew its petition | as invited by the conference com- | mittee. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Miehigan, 53; Ohio Wesleyan, 16. Iowa, 58; Duquesne, 26. HOCKEY RESULTS. | St. Paul, -2; Duluth, 2. (Overtime). Niagra Falls, 2; Torcnto, 2. (Ove rere “(Overtime). | | time). i Tulsa; Kansas City. 1 o