Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1929, Page 69

Iy Foot Ball, Bowling 1! MOHAWKS ENGAGE BALTIMORE TEAM Meet Lansdowne, Winner of Loop Title—Four Other Games Carded. i A ] NDEPENDENT foot ball hereabout is slated to end its 1929 season this afternoon. The campaign will go out with a flourish, several bright games being listed in the city and environs. Headlining the card will be the bat- tle between the Mohawks and the cham- pion Lansdowne eleven of the Baltimore League in Griffith Stadium at 2:30 o'clock. In other games, Palace A. C., claim- ant of the 135-pound class title, will engage National Press Building Cardi- nals at Silver Spring at 2:30 o’clock, * Arlington Preps and the Navajoe eleven « of Alexandria will face on the Arling- ton field at 2:30 o'clock, Dor-A and Wol- verines will mix at Riverdale at 3 o'clock and Shamrock and Friendship 115-pound elevens will have it out on Fairlawn field at 2:30 o'clock. ning their season this year. Mo- hawks defeated the Lansdowne eleven, 13 to 0, at Baltimore, but the Oriole City outfit has improved notably since, as attested by its victory in the Balti- more League flag race, and is figured to give the Indians a stern battle today. A luminary of the Lansdowne team “ s Nate Weinstock, former Western » Maryland tackle, line coach at George * Washington last season and head mentor this year e the University of Baltimore. Wets plays a tackle for + the Baltimore clubmen. Hawks, keen to end their season with # victory and regain some of the pres- tige they lost through their recent de- feat by the Apaches for the city title, have been drilling hard during the ‘week. They will have their full strength at hand today. >0 Lansdowne is all set for a deter- . Mined effort to conquer the Indians to I even scores for the defeat in Baltimore. = Many rooters are expected to accom- 4 Ppany the visitors here. 4 _ Should Palace A. C. take the Press !} Bullding Cardinals they figure they will | /% have an indisputable claim to the city | @ 135-pound crown. won the title & in the Capital City League i35-pound 5 1loop and have been undefeated this sea- ™ son. They have played 15 games, taking b in 3 in one week. .y plan to close their season today, . and if they do it will be the last ap- I funnu of the combination in the 4 135-pound class, as ce figures to play 150-pound ranks next year. The team has been outstanding among the s 135-pound elevens here for the past ( three seasons. . John Smith has been coaching & Palace boys during these three years, « with Joe Perrone as manager. % _ M~Clure, Edwards and Wondrack are “ muucunced as the officlals for today's game. : Arl Preps, who have put in a r energetic managemen Charlie /4 Deuterman, are hopeful of scoring over |4 the Navajoes. ~ u ~ elevens will meet when ‘Wolverine teams clash. Bill wu&n have a ‘Two hustling the Dor-A and Bob lecided improvement in recent O W olverines have shown cafeiderable : power. Shamrock and Priendships are a cou- Pple of hustling elevens who figure to put ' On an interesting battle. : QUINTS OF NEARBY SCHOOLS GET REST ALEXANDRIA, Va, December 21.— Alexandria and Episcopal High Schools, each of which has completed its pre- holiday schedule of two basket ball # games, will idle until January 11. iscopal’s contests were of a practice fl?\l’fe, E which it showed strongly inst Emerson Institute and Eastern High, vl)'lflet Alexandria Jooked good in ion against Western edsn‘:m College of Rich- George Mason High, the only local 4 school which has not .opened its cage 1. schedule yet, will get going early next | ~ month. » . The George Mason schedule has not been completed, but the Alexandria and Episcopal cards follow: ALEXANDRIA. January—11. Woodward School: 14, Pred- ericksburg Coilegians at Fredericksburs; 17, Warrenton Hish School at Warrenton. Va.: 18, Knight's Store Piv George Mason : 31, Washingto igh. February—1, Swavely School: 13. son Institute:'19. Central High at Washing- ton: 21, Leesburz High: 27. Knight's Store 73 Five: 235, Swavely School at Manassas, Va. March 1—Central High. EPISCOPAL. pen: 11. Swavely School: 15, = Eastern High: 18, Gilman Country School " 22. open: 24. St Christopher's School at | @ Richmond: 29, Central High | + _ Pebruary—1. Virginia Episcopal School: 5. @ Eastern High at Washington: 8. Augusta © Military Academy at Charlottesville; 12, | 4 Bwavely School at Manassas: 15. Shens " doah Valley Academy at_Winchester. Va. | o 19. Western High: 22. Staunton Military | ademy; 26, Emerson Institute | March—1, Woodberry Forest School. Alta Delta Omega Fraternity cagers | @ are seeking senfor class basket ball o opposition. Manager William Farr may | ~ be telephoned at Alexandria 940 be- | - " h et Emer- » bl January—6. of LEAN SPORTS WEEK |lean_week among ‘schoolboy athletes of | | will engage its alumni in the Vermont ! | Avenue school gym and Business a Shires Signs for Bout That Will Have Color ST. PAUL, Minn, December 21 (®)—Arthur (The Great) Shires, manager tamer and fighting ball g:yer of the Chicago White Sox, been signed for a 10-round bout here January 7, Promoter Jerk Do- ran announced tonight. ‘The Txefit one’s opponent has not been selected, but he will be chosen more for color than for class, Do- ran said, preferably an athlete who has won a name in some other sport than boxing and who stands about even with Arthur in ring expe- rience. Doran said he would consider challenges from foot ball players, hockey players, umpires and other base ball players. Shires, who will fight in Madison Square Garden in New York January 3, before making his bow in St. Paul, indicated in a letter to Doran that he expected to continue in the Ting. “What if I do get a few lumps ant bumps while I'm learning this busi- ness,” he wrote the promoter in re- !llldrnln' his akl"I:ed mnmcta ‘;“Tg‘lt ol checl pretty good pl T to dfl‘ out the soreness, and I'll beat more guys than will beat me.” BASS' NEW CROWN MAY BE ABOLISHED Junior Lightweight Class Menaced by Questioned Morgan Battle. BY EDWARD J. NE! Assoclated Press Sports Writer. NEW RK, December 2 YORK, ~The Junior lightweight class, youth- ful hybrid among divisions that the eight old have existed since boxing was orgal seems Bbout to die a sudden and nat- SPORTS SECTION The Swndwy Share WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1929, AQIndepehdent- Grid Play Here Ends Today : Capital Enjoys Big Year in Sports NOTABLE AMONG WASHINGTON PERFORMERS IN MANY LINES OF COMPETITION nized, ural death in New York State, land of its birth. ‘The death blow, experts believe, was struck last night in Madison Square Garden, where Benny, Bass, Philadel phia veteran, knocked out the defend- ing champion, Tod Morgan, in two rounds of a title test that aroused defi- nite suspicions in the minds of the faithful and the critics alike. Shortly after the raising of Bass’ hand as the new ' 130-pound title- holder, Chairman- James A. Farley of the State Athletic Commission an- nounced that neither boxer would be paid until a thorough investigation into every phase of the match had been made. May Abolish Class. ‘Today, although no official statement could be obtained, itwas generally un- derstood that the commission will abolish the class at its meeting Tues- f:hym‘(‘ tg‘: :lnl'e“u( ts ‘m flirreln_ icipants- for any - hflmi::&hnm:ymnpmnuedlnme A dearth of direct evidence that things were not “on the up and up” is admittedly the bar to more drastic ac- tion. Chairman Farley ordered the sending of the fighters’ checks to the commission after it was discovered that gamblers in the lobby of the Garden Wwere offering as high as 6 to 1 that Bass would knock out the defending champion. Re) circulated’ before the fight that Morgan had been guaranteed $35,000 by Phil Glassman,.manager of Bass, in event that the title changed hands, caused Farley to instruct Referee Jimmy Crowley to be on the watch dur- ing the action. Glassman said today that stories of the excessive guarantee were only “pub- lcity,” issued in an effort to stir up in- terest in the match. Entire receipts totaled only $28,000. There appeared no hint today that Morgan, who held the upper hand dur- ing the first round, was not completely knocked out in the second round. He was felled for a count of nine by one right-hand punch, and finished by an- other that landed squarely on his chin. Frank Bruen, vice president of the Garden, suggested today that the 130- pound division, several times in ques- tionable repute since its inauguration here seven years ago, be abolished im- 'mediately. He said also that in the event the commission took action against Morgan and Bass they, too, along with any other boxers of the managers in- volved, Glassman and Frank Churchill, would also be “abolished” as far as the Garden is concerned. FOR SCHOOL TEAMS With the holidays on this will be a the District group so far patiticn is concerned. Three basket ball games are the only! contests scheduled. Two of these will be | played Friday and the other Saturday. In Friday's engagements St. John's | as formal co: Hyattsville High will clash on the N tlglnll Guard Armory floor at Hyatts- ville. Central's quint is slated to go over to Alexandria Saturday night to engage the Knight's Store five. By no means, though, will the scho- lastic basketers loaf during the week. Most of the squads will get plenty of hard practice. After the first of the year athletics i tween 6 and 7 p.m. 2 ‘Whitestone’s Store five will battle the | & Tremont A. C. of Washingion here on | Z Friday at 8 o'clock in the Armory Hall. | N Knight's Store five will go into action « 2gainst a speedy team next Saturday | T night. entertaining the Central High @ Bchool five of Washington on the ' Armory Hall court at 8:30. Manager and Capt. Robert Foote of | i the Clover A. C. is anxious to arrange ' junior class games. Foote's telephone # is Alexandria 2027-J. and he may be | f» telephoned between 5:30 and 7 pm. | % St. Mary's Celtics are in the field for » Rames with unlimited and semiepro- ¥ fessional clubs. Manager Robert Mc- = Donald may be reached at Alexandria w 516, branch 4, between 8 am. and 4 om. GOODHART TAKES JOB WITH BALTIMORE A. C. Harry Goodhart has resigned his post as assistant to Otto Glockler, squash 53g- =353 ¥ become mentor of this sport at the w Baltimore Athletic Club. Goodhart will assume his new post a | # week from tomorrow. & Gleskler will name a new assistant at « the Racquet Club soon. |ton vanquished the Maryland Club of 3 rackets coach at the Racquet Club, to among the schoolboys will be resumed with a will and the basketers, track- sters, swimmers, boxers and wrestlers will get to work in earnest. RACQUET CLUB BEATS 'BALTIMORE IN SQUASH Opening its seascn, the squash rackets team of the Racquet Club of Washing- Baltimore in a briskly contested en- gagement, 6 matches to 4, on the Wash- ington club's courts yesterday after- noon. In the best match, Allen C. Minnix, | Racquet Club champion, col :iuzred Charles Symington of Baltimore, 3 to 2. January 18 has been set for a return engagement between the teams in Bal- ore, | " Otto Glockler is again coaching the | Racquet Club team. Summaries of yesterday's matches: Al Minnix (W.) defeated C. lymh“wn. -2: P. P. 8 gton (B.) defeated H. L. W R 3-17 PRl Lee Goltsohorath U5.)" deteaied T. L. Block. 3:3; Dr H. G ulton (W) “deféated W. D. Stanley Carr (W.) def (B.) defeated W. L. Good JAKE GOLDBLATT- LORRAINE GuLLl- BIG CROWD 70 SEE DIXIE GRID CLASSIC 20,000 Expected at New Year Southern Conference Game at Atlanta. BY DILLON L. GRAHAM, Associated Press Sports Writer. TLANTA, Ga., December 21.— Officials in charge of the Shrine-all-star Southern Con- ference charity foot ball game for New Year day forecast the blvzs', crowd of the season for the holiday battle. Basing their estimate on the number of tickets already sold and the daily increasing demand for the pasteboards, the authorities expect upward of 20,000 persons to jam their way into the great field stadium to see the grand finale of the current season in Dixie. Coach Bob Neyland of the University of Tennessee is to coach the team rep- resenting the upper half of the con- lerence, while Charles Bachman, the University of Florida mentor, will guide the Southern eleven. The players are to report here December 27 for prac- tice. Several of the original 50 players invited have reported that 42y would be unable to play and the game com- mittee is busy negotiating with other gridiron stars to fill those places. The complete list probably will be announced early next week. Lopo, North Carolina State lineman, and Nutter, Virginia Poly end, yes- terday wired their acceptance and will report to the Northern team. Officials for the contest, selected on the basis of their senlority in con- ference service, were announced today by Arthur Hutchens, Lake Wales, Fla., president of the Southern officials as- sociation. They are Norris Moriarity (8t. Mary's), Birmingham, umpire; C. W. Streit (Auburn), Birmingham, field judge; “Rip” Majors (Auburn), Ander- son, 8. C., head linesman. Hutchens, a graduate of Purdue, will be the referee. Gus Tebell's North Carolina State Wolt Pack, Southern Conference basket ball champions last year, have started their offensive in quest of another crown. The Raleigh five trampled Atlantic Christian Coliege, 48-11, in the opening game several nights ago. Two letter men from the titular squad form the nucleus of the 1930 team, and ‘Tebell has uncovered several promising basketers from among the newcomers to_round out the quintet. The Wolf Pack will play 17 games this season, including 11 conference battles. The conference tournament, at which the championship is decided, will be held in Atlants starting February 28. “Battle of the Palms” Is Slated February 27 NEW YORK, December 21 (#).— The annual “Battle of the Palms,” featuring Jack Sharkev, ‘Boston heavyweight, against some contender | not yet chosen, will be waged in Miami, Fla, February 27, 1030, Madison Square Garden announced today. The same date has been chosen as last season, when the Garden car- ried out the last plans of the late Tex Rickard and staged a bout in the Winter rendezvous between Sharkey and Young Stribling of Macon, Ga. Since that time a permanent outdoor arena seating ,000 has been constructed at Miami, where the Garden plans to stage one major contest in each of the coming six years. An opponent will be named for Sharkey on or before January 15, the Garden announced. Definite decision will be made following upon the arrival here of Victorio Campolo, the Argentine giant, and the results of heavyweight tilts scheduled in the Garden between Tuffy Griffiths and Johnny Risko and Otto Von Porat and Paulino Uzcudun. CADETS WORK 0UT ONARIZONA DESERT One Indian and Jackrabbits Watch Army Team Drill for Coast Game. | By the Associated Press. | LAGSTAFF, Ariz., December 21.— | With a lone Indian and several | jack rabbits as spectators, the Army foot ball squad indulged in a 20-minute workout this | afternoon on the Arizona desert at | Canyon Diablo, between Flagstaff and | Winslow, where its special train was stopped on the main line. Under a cloudless sky and in the bracing air, Frank Wandle put the squad through a series of exercises, and Coach BIff Jones lined up three teams for signal practice. As the train stopped, the hundred cadets piled off in sweat shirts, eager team and scout teams chased rabbits and investigated ruined adobe huts, while Maj. Gen. W. R. Smith, super- intendent of the West Point Military Academy, looked on with a smile. He ventured the remark that the workout was the most unusual an Army gridiron team ever had. While all the players are in excellent condition, Capt. Jones is concerned over their lack of practice, and on arrival at {g:;n Alto he will hold two sessions a. to stretch their legs. Cadets on the | | | | d | brand of foot ball, is scheduled for Tues- | TROJANS' LINEMEN PRIMING FOR PITT Jones Is Paying Particular| Attention to Forwards for Big Game. By the Assoclated Press. ASADENA, Calif., December 21— Coach Howard Jones sent his University of Southern Califor- nia gridsters through a strenu- ous dummy scrimmage today, placing special emphasis on the play of the line, which he said would have to click on New Year day if the Pittsburgh Panthers are to b> turned back at the Pasadena rose bowl. Jones placed Captain Nathan Bar- ragar at the running guard pasition, from which he had been crowded in midseason by a sophomore, John Baker. Barragar apparently has regained his early season form. Jones indicated he was far from pleased with the functioning of the Trojan line in the Carnegle Tech game, | which saw the Tartans outrush the Tro- | jans in the first half, before they wilted and took the short end of the 45 to 13 score. Pittsburgh, the Eastern repre- sentative in the annual intersectional classic, has a line touted highly along | the Atlantic Coast. | The first scrimmage against the Spar- tans, the cannon fodder against which the U. 8. C. first string brushes up its lefense against opponents’ particular day. Christmas day will be a holiday in Trojan foot ball circles. But Thursday the squad will be cut to 35 men and moved to a Pssadena hotel. Practice will be shifted the day after Christmas | from Bovard Fisld on the campus, to | the rose bowl turf. | The Trojan coach sald he was satis- fied with the team'’s backfield strength, augmented this week by the return of | the fleet-footed Jesse Hill to, the full- back berth. Hill, one of the most clusive runners on the Pacific seaboard and a track man of note, had been out | with a twisted knee. Don Moses, half- back, and Joncs were at Bovard Field today, still evidencing effects of bad colds which confined them to their homes yesterday. WALES PLAYS IN RAIN AND FINISHES SECOND LONDON, December 21 (#).—Heedless | of a steady rain and chilly winds, the | Prince of Wales competed for the Sir | Arthur Paget golf cup at Coombe Hill | Golf Club today, finishing one stroke behind the winner. The prince pleysd hatless and coat- less and when his round was ended he was drenched to the skin: t MiLLER B. STEVINSON- BOLDEN, MEHLHORN LEAD AT PASADENA Paterson, N. J., Pro Shoots 67 to Break Record for Course. BY PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. PASADENA, Calif, December 21.— Two golf exponents from the Atlantic seaboard, Johnny Golden and Bill Mehlhorn, today stroked their way to|field. the lead of a fleld of more than 100 players in the Pasadena $4,000 open tournament, with cards of 140. ‘Within' a stroke of this pair trooped George von Elm, Detroit amateur, who yesterday headed the list with his fellow townsman, Walter Hagen; Craig Wood, defending title holder from Bloomfield, N. J.; Horton Smith, Joplin, Mo.; Joe Kirkwood, Philadelphia, and Densmore Shute, Columbus, Ohio. Golden, who hails from Paterson, N. J., shot 67 on today’s 18, 1 under the course record held by Wood. This was | by a stroke the best card of the proceed- ings. Mehlhorn and Kirkwood had 68s for the next best count. On the basis of scores of 151 or bet- ter, 64 qualified to compete for the ;‘mlmey in tomorrow's concluding 36 0les. Stubborn greens, which saw him three-putt a number of holes, were responsible for Hagen's 74. This, coupled with his leading card of 69, yesterday gave Him 143. Golden collected five birdies in his round today, shooting both the out- going and incoming nines two under par. Mehlhorn's outgoing card in- cluded four birdies which enabled him to finish with 33, three under ect s. He came home in par 35. PSS WEST VIRGINIA QUINTET WILL PLAY G. U. TWICE MORGANTOWN, W. Va. December 21.—Twenty games, including 6 on an invasion of the East and 11 here on the home court, will constitute the basket ball schedule of Virginia during the 1930 season. Two games, home-and-home, will be layed with Georgetown. January 2—University_of Nebraska. January 4—Carnegie Tech. January 10—Georgetown. January 14—West Virginia Wesleyan. January 18—Penn State. January 25—West Virginia Wesleyan, at Buckhannon. January 29—Salem Collexe. ebruary Weshington and Lee, Huntington, a. February 3—Georgetown, at Washington. Febrnary 4—Temple University, at Phila- delphia. Febrtiary 5—U. 8. Military Academy, at West _Point. February 7—Rider Collere at Trenton, ‘Tebruary 8—New York University, at New York. February 12—Duquesne. February 15_Geneva College. ynesburg College. yP‘e__th;‘l:ll'y 22—University of Pittsburgh, at February 26—Washington and_Jefferson. Murch —Washington and " JeMerson, at Washingten, Pa Mareh 8—University of Pittsburgh. PEERLESS TOSSERS WIN, Peerless A. C. quint defeated Spengler Post five in a 145-pound class Boys' Club Basket Ball League game last night in the club gym. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Pennsylvania, 26; Indiana, 21. Columbia, 44; Harvard, 17. City College of New York, 33; Dart- mouth, 21 ;Inwl), 15. at L Minnesota, 46; Cornell Oberlin, 18; Chicago, 15. Marquette, 29; Iowa, 19. PRO HOCKEY RESULTS. Boston Bruins, 4: Chicago, 1. ‘Toronto, 2; Pittsburgh, 1 5: Philadelphi COLLEGE HOCKEY. Yale, 3; Wth. 2. ( ‘ Golf and General GREAT year, this, for sport in the District of Columbia. Not only has interest in competition here in 1929 been high, but the caliber of competition also has been notable. There has been remark- able expansion in several branches of athletic endeavor and altogther a healthy growth in recreative pursuit. Men and women, boys and girls of the District have achieved national recognition during the year. Several national titles have been garnered by them, and in instances where perform- ances were not quite good enough for championships, they nevertheless were s\lmcfinuy impressive to earn the per- formers rank among the foremost of the country in their particular lines of en- deavor. At duckpin bowling, sons and daug- ters of the District proved themselves virtually supreme. During the annual championships of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress held in Richmond, Va., they gathered seven of the eight major championships at stake. The woman bowlers of the District swept their section of the tourncy. while the man bowlers were high in three events. _Margaret Miltner was returned all- events champion, Marjorie Brzdt Smith won the singles title and shared with Marie Frere Whalen in the doubles vic- tory, and the King Pin girls won the team laurels. In the men’s section of the tournament Howard Campbell was singles victor, Red Morgan and Georgde Friend the doubles winners and Sam Benson was high for all-events laurels. Clarence Charest, representing the District, walked away with the sham- pionship of the national veterans’ ten- nis tournament held at Forest Hills, and Bob Considine, a Washington 3 shared with George Jennings of Chi- cago the doubles title in the boys' na- tional park tennis tournament. Rifle shots of this area scored heav- ily in national shooting events. The George +Washington University girls’ team shot its way to the national inter- collegiate title, and boys' and girls’ teams of Central High School captured national championships. Mrs. Marga- ret Mitchell Caruthers of the Univer- sity of Maryland again won the na- tional college woman's individs title. Dhl.:h'lctmN'al:lonlllthG'uh‘;dsm wr: Eastern champoinship wi rifle at Seagirt. N. J, and starred in the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, Canoeists of the District finished in the van in many events in regattas in the East, and performed notably in the annual meet of the American Canoe Racing_Association, held on the Poto- mac. Boy and girl swimmers of Wash- ington annexed South Atlantic titles. A noteworthy advance in sports here was made in-the organization- of. the District of Columbia branch of the Amateur Athletic Union. For the first time the District now controls its ama- teur athletics, and the number of clubs already affiliated with the District branch assure its success. Among the big events kere this year bowlers and horeshoe pitchers. The individual championship duckpin tour- nament, in which Clarence Taft was the winner, was the greatest singles bowling event ever held on a Wash- ington drive, while the horshoe tourn in which M. E. Peake triumphed, al- though the first of its kind ever at- tempted here, drew a surprisingly large It was a fine the sandlotters. Base ball leagues filled diamonds daily about the District during the Summer, and interesting races for pennants were conducted before a_well-fought city title series was held. Prominent among the nines here was that of the Washington Printers. It won its league champion- ship, then went to Indianapolis and successfully defended its International Typographical Union League laurels. Foot ball teams galore were on the gridirons, and they were better coached and more able than usual. Basket ball, leld. year for es were those fostered by The Star for| ‘WASHINGTON ATHLETES ATTAIN WIDE RENOWN Men and Women, Boys and Girls of Capital Achieve National Recognition. Several Titles Are Garnered. too, flourished among the clubs and high-grade tournaments were held. Colleges and high and prep schools turned out teams in all major athletic branches. In foot ball par- ticularly their teams gained wide recog- nition. Among the college gridders three were frequently mentioned in all- American selections, those so honored being Jim Mooney and Sam Cordovano ;:1 md town and Bill Evans of Mary- and. Golf, tennis and bowling attracted thousands. Links of clubs in and about the District were more crowded than ever, and the various club tournaments were highly successful. The tennis courts were in use the greater part of the year, and more tourneys were held this year than ever before. There was a marked improvement in bowling, high scores being made frequently. It has been a year in sport of which the District of Columbla may well fell proud. WAGNER IS NAMED PILOT OF RED SOX Carrigan’s Right-hand Man Promoted—MacAllister Chosen Aide. By the Assoclated Press. OSTON, December 21.—Charles (Heinle) Wagner today was ap- pointed to manage the Boston Red Sox by President Bob Quinn, following a meeting of team and league officials in New York. Wagner succeeds “Wild Bill” Carrigan, who announced his retirement yester- day owing to pressure of private busi- ness. Wagner, Carrigan’s right-hand man for three years, also attended the meet- ing and sald he felt he could manage the team “all right.” His name had been prominently mentioned for the berth since word first spread that Car- rigan might retire. Asked if he had some one in mind who might assist him in his new posi- tion, Wagner said he thought Jack MacAllister would make a good aide. MacAllister was reached on the phone and said he would b2 glad to acce) the offer. MacAllister mana; e Cleveland team two years ago and last year was scout for ths Red Sox. He has been associated with the American League for nearly 15 years. [PENN DEFEATS INDIANA ON COUNT BY 24 TO 21 PHILADELPHIA, December 21 (#).— »| University of Pennsylvania defeated Indiana University’s basket ball team tonight, 26 to 21, in a close guarding game, reversing last year's result, when the Hoosiers beat the Red and Blue. Peterson showed big ‘ment at center for Penn and held McCracken, the Hoosiers' ace and one of the flashiest centers in the Western Con- ference, to two fleld goals. CHOCOLATE DROPS LAWSON. NEW YORK, December 21 (#).—Kid Chocolate, Cuban Negro featherweight, knocked out Johnny Lawson in the second round of their 10-round bout at the Olympia A. C. tonight. HIS year the Washington Base Ball Club was more of a disap- pointment than in many years past. Hailed as a pennant con- tender when it came out of the South in the Spring, not only by local sports writers who had watched it in training, but also base ball authorities throughout the country, the club proved a failure from the start of the cham- pionship campaign and barely man- aged to finish at the head of the sec- ond division of the American League. Teh Nationals played 153 games. ‘They won 71 and lost 81. One tie game | was played and two scheduled contests | were washed out by rain. Fifth place was the poorest finish for a Washing- ton club since 1922, when the National wound up their campaign in sixth posi- tion. An unpleasant year, too, for Walter Johnson, handling a big league club for the first time in his long base ball career. Like others, Johnson regarded the club he brought up from the South as a good one, but he was unable to make it go once the flag race started. The Nationals went through their season never reaching the .500 mark in winning percentage. They started poorly, ' steadily grew worse and for months were all but helpless. ‘Then, suddenly, they braced and went through the last two months of their campalgn at a clip better than .600. It was this brace that enabled them to beat out for fifth place the Detroit Tigers, managed by their former pilot, Bucky Harris. Two Glaring \Weaknesses, ‘The Washington clud k- two glar- ing weaknesses this year. It lacked good pitching and it lacked pqwer at bat. Fred Marberry was t onx' pitcher to finish with a good recor Three others managed to break the .500 mark. but this trio was too spotty in its work to be of much ald. ‘The Washington attack was weak the greater part of the year, Wi ‘mc punch of the club, Goose Goslin, ing from the mhu of a league bat- ting championship won last year to below the .300 mark, there was little left in the line-up to produce the hits that meant runs. But for the efforts of the veterans Sam Rice and Joe Judge and the youngster, Buddy Myer, the Nationals would have had virtually no_offensive. When the club cracked suddenly after coming up from the South, Johnson felt compelled to of experimenting with his line-up, and this d its {ll effects. It was soon learned that Myer would not do as a third baseman, and it was some time before he could be made into a fairly efficient second beseman. Jack Hayes, who staried at secon GRIFFMEN’S 1929 PACE FAILS TO CHEER FANS between the bench and the QOssie Bluege, until laid low injury in July, was jumped post to another in quently. Judge Alone Plays Through. Judge at first base was the only ine fielder to hold his position all the way. With these many changes, the infield was unsteady most of the 3 ‘The experimenting extended to the outfield, too. Red Barnes was tried as a right gardener, but was lifted ly in the campaign. Sam West, never able to get going at bat, was relieved of his garden post at times. Two major league castoffs, Spencer Harris and Ira Flagstead, were tested and found want- ing. His weakness at bat worrying him constantly, Goslin did not perform in left as well as formerly, Rice slowed greatly in his right-field work. All ‘was not gloomy, though. During the season Washington developed such worth-while infielders as Hayes, Myer and Joe Cronin. And some of the young pitchers showed sufficlent at times to indicate !heLmly blossom into regular big leaguers before long. BUCS TO VISIT SOUTH ON TRAINING JAUNT By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 21.—The Pittsburgh National League base ball club today announced its training plans for 1930, after r‘ullmlnnry work at . The Pirates will !Le;d. -lnd from ol the infleld fre- Paso Robles, Cal start their first exhibition trip. St. Patrick’s day, going first to San Fran- clsco for a series with the Mission Club of the Pacific Coast League, starting March 18, Manager | visit of the Pirates to the Alal was chifted often | Before leaving San Francisco Bay, the Buccaneers will play the San hlnchcotnig' 0:::“ cf:lu and then move on to les for games with the Chicago Cubs, March 27, 28, 29, 30. Starting East, a stop will be made at ., for games with guers play bile, April 9, 10, this markin, . a city. An engagement will be filled with the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association April 11, 12 and 13. Pitts- burg has not played in New Orleans since 1917, From the Crescent City on the Mis- sissippl, Manager Jewel Fn: leads his players home witiiout a ct=p.